Masterworks Broadway expands the classic Original Broadway Cast Recording of Marvin Hamlisch, Ed Kleban, Nicholas Dante and James Kirkwood's A Chorus Line with eight never-before-released work tape demos of Hamlisch and Kleban presenting the score (including cut songs) to director/choreographer Michael Bennett. A 180-gram vinyl reissue of the original album will also be available from Analog Spark (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.).
A Voice On Air (1935-1955)
This new 4-CD box set celebrates the Frank Sinatra centennial with over 100 rare and previously unreleased songs drawn from the future Chairman of the Board's legendary radio career - many of which he never otherwise recorded - in newly restored and remastered sound!
Anthony Phillips' "Private Parts and Pieces" Revealed On New Box Set
The Genesis celebration at Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings imprint continues with the release of Anthony Phillips' Private Parts and Pieces I - IV, a new 5-CD box set collecting and expanding his four albums of the same name released between 1978 and 1984. Private Parts follows Esoteric's recent deluxe expansion of Phillips' The Geese and the Ghost as well as a number of other projects from members of his famous band including a reissue of the 1986 album by Steve Hackett's band GTR and Tony
Release Round-Up: Week of October 2
Welcome to our new Release Round-Up! Paul McCartney, The Paul McCartney Archive Collection: Tug of War (MPL/Concord) The Paul McCartney Archive Collection continues with 1982's Tug of War, featuring "Ebony and Ivory" and "Here Today." The release is available in various formats: 3-CD/1-DVD Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 2-CD Special Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 2-LP Vinyl Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Check out our full feature for information on what
Paul McCartney Archive Collection "Tug of War" and "Pipes of Peace" ARRIVE TOMORROW!
REMINDER! Tomorrow, October 2, will finally see the release of the next two installments in Paul McCartney's Archive Collection: Tug of War and Pipes of Peace! At last, we can say, say, say it's true: the next two volumes of the Paul McCartney Archive Collection are almost here in a variety of formats. Macca's second and third albums of the 1980s, the platinum sellers Tug of War and Pipes of Peace, will arrive from Concord Records and MPL with the expected array of bonus material,
Man, We Had a Party: Ace Collects Sequel Songs On "Second Helpings"
Numerous collections have compiled famous "answer songs." Ace Records' 2007 anthology The Answer to Everything had many of the best, like Jody Miller's "Queen of the House," Esther Phillips' "When a Woman Loves a Man" and Marilyn Michaels' "Tell Tommy I Miss Him." Early in the summer, Ace took a look not at answer songs, per se, but at sequel songs, on the compilation of Second Helpings: Sequels to the Songs That Left 'Em Hungry for More! The 24 tracks on this collection all hail from the
Perfectly Frank: "A Voice On Air" Box Set Collects Rare, Unreleased Sinatra Recordings
The Sinatra centennial celebration is picking up steam this fall with the release of a new 4-CD box set from Legacy Recordings. On November 20, the label will release Frank Sinatra: A Voice on Air (1935-1955), the first comprehensive, fully authorized collection of Sinatra's historic radio performances. Over 100 tracks have been meticulously restored from the original recording masters for what's being billed as "unprecedented high fidelity sound." A Voice on Air captures Sinatra during the
Long Time Comin': Next Bruce Springsteen Live Archive Release Highlights 2005 "Devils & Dust" Tour
The next installment in Bruce Springsteen's live archive series has been revealed: Schottenstein Center, Columbus, Ohio 2005. The show for this release is from July 31, 2005 and falls in the middle of Springsteen's Devils & Dust Tour. Devils & Dust was released in April of that year, debuting at Number 1 on the Billboard 200 chart. It was his first album following 2002's The Rising which had reunited Springsteen with the E Street Band for the first time on a new studio record in
Review: Tennessee Ernie Ford, "Portrait of an American Singer"
With three stars on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, a Presidential Medal of Freedom, and inductions into the Country Music and Gospel Music Halls of Fame to his name, there were few heights that Ernest Jennings Ford - a.k.a. Tennessee Ernie Ford - didn't scale. A mainstay of radio and television, Ford's decades-long association with Capitol Records yielded a rich catalogue filled with country, proto rock-and-roll boogie-woogie, western swing, pop and folk ballads, gospel, novelty records, blues and
Release Round-Up: Week of September 25
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up - maybe the biggest and most diverse yet of 2015! David Bowie, Five Years (Parlophone) 12 CD Box Set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 13 LP Box Set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. New remasters of David Bowie (a.k.a. Space Oddity), The Man Who Sold the World, Hunky Dory and Pin Ups are collected in a new box set along with existing versions of Ziggy Stardust (in both the original and 2003 mixes), Aladdin Sane, Live Santa Monica '72, the Ziggy Stardust
One Singular Sensation: "A Chorus Line" Returns In 40th Anniversary Expanded Edition
Of a remarkable and indeed, singular, career that crowned him as an EGOT - winner of Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony Awards - and one of only two EGOTs with a Pulitzer Prize (the other is Richard Rodgers), Marvin Hamlisch's most lasting musical accomplishment might well be his score to A Chorus Line. Working with lyricist Ed Kleban, director/choreographer Michael Bennett, co-choreographer Bob Avian, and writers James Kirkwood and Nicholas Dante, composer Hamlisch struck a universal chord with the
Heaven: Iconoclassic Reissues Carl Wilson's Solo Debut, Analogue Continues Beach Boys On SACD
Summer may now be over, but a number of Beach Boys-related releases aim to keep the summer alive. Our very own Second Disc Records label teamed with Real Gone Music in September for a newly remastered and expanded reissue of Ricci Martin's Beached, the all-star album recorded by Dean Martin's son Ricci with co-producers Carl Wilson and Billy Hinsche. Now, Iconoclassic Records has announced next week's first-ever U.S. CD reissue of Carl's 1981 eponymous solo debut. And if that's not enough,
More Love: High Moon Reissues, Expands Arthur Lee and Love's Rare "Reel to Real"
High Moon Records, the label behind the recent releases of Love's Black Beauty and Gene Clark's Two Sides to Every Story, has announced its next title. On November 27, High Moon will reissue Love's 1974 album Reel to Real as a newly-expanded Deluxe Edition in the following formats: Expanded CD packaged in a deluxe custom digipak with a full-color, 32-page booklet; LP pressed on high-quality RTI vinyl with full-color, 28-page LP-sized booklet; LP includes download card for high-quality
Tell It All: Ashford and Simpson's "Come As You Are" Continues BBR's Reissue Series
The husband-and-wife team of Nickolas Ashford and Valerie Simpson needs no introduction; the classic R&B and pop songbook has been shaped by the duo's compositions including "Ain't No Mountain High Enough," "Ain't Nothing Like the Real Thing," "Reach Out and Touch (Somebody's Hand)," "Let's Go Get Stoned," "California Soul" and "Solid (As a Rock)." Big Break Records has recently been celebrating Ashford (1941-2011) and Simpson (born 1946) in a major way - with a definitive expanded reissue
Acknowledgement: John Coltrane's "A Love Supreme" Goes Super Deluxe With "Complete Masters"
John Coltrane's essential jazz masterpiece, A Love Supreme, is getting the red-carpet treatment for its 50th anniversary, expanded to three discs in A Love Supreme: The Complete Masters. A fusion of Coltrane's early hard bop and later free jazz styles, A Love Supreme is an arresting four-part suite inspired in part by Coltrane's increasing faith, after a near-overdose some years before. Coltrane's tenor saxophone conveys his gratitude to a higher power through a repeating four-note motif
Anton Fig's "Figments" Features Brian Wilson, Blondie Chaplin, Ace Frehley, Al Kooper, More
Between 1986 and spring 2015, Anton Fig could be found on a nightly basis behind the drum kit of The World's Most Dangerous Band and, then, The CBS Orchestra. Part of Paul Shaffer's band for David Letterman's NBC and CBS late-night talk shows, Fig would be glowingly acknowledged by the host as "Buddy Rich, Jr." for his ferocity and prowess with his instrument. In 2002, the South Africa-born music great ventured out on his own to record his first solo album, appropriately entitled Figments.
A Winter Romance
Dean Martin's 1959 Capitol holiday collection returns to vinyl just in time for the Christmas season!
A Man and His Music
Frank Sinatra's 1965 Reprise double-album set arrives on 180-gram vinyl for its 50th anniversary as part of the Sinatra centennial reissue program.
Sinatra '65
Frank Sinatra's 1965 album featuring "Luck Be a Lady," "My Kind of Town" and "Somewhere in Your Heart" gets the 180-gram vinyl treatment as part of the Sinatra centennial celebration.
Judy at Carnegie Hall
Judy Garland's legendary, Grammy Award-winning, chart-topping concert album arrives on two remastered 180-gram vinyl LPs from Capitol Records. Tony Award-winning playwright Terrence McNally provides the new liner notes!
Release Round-Up: Week of September 18
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up including a couple of spectacular new box sets, one acclaimed soundtrack, numerous reissues and anthologies, and the return of a few beloved artists! a-ha, Hunting High and Low: 30th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition (Warner Bros./Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) The 1985 debut from a-ha gets super-sized with Rhino's upcoming 4-CD/1-DVD edition. Disc One has the original, remastered album, while Disc Two boasts 25 demos, Disc Three has 15
Edsel Boxes Singer-Songwriter Eddi Reader's "Blanco y Negro Years"
In recent months, the ever-busy team at Demon Music Group's Edsel label has turned out a number of notable box sets. Today, we'll spotlight the set from Eddi Reader! Glasgow-born singer-songwriter Eddi Reader began her career as a background vocalist, singing with punk outfit Gang of Four as well as the likes of Alison Moyet, The Waterboys, and Eurythmics. In 1987, she was signed with her band Fairground Attraction to RCA, and the major label's gamble on the new act paid off when
Unfaithful Music & Soundtrack Album
Elvis Costello has compiled a 2-CD companion release to his upcoming memoir Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink. Featuring songs that "offer the deepest emotional connection to the themes and stories in his book," Unfaithful Music & Soundtrack Album non-chronologically spans his entire recorded discography, from 1977's My Aim is True to 2013's Wise Up Ghost, his collaboration album with hip-hop group The Roots. In addition, two unreleased tracks premiere here along with three "audio
Beatles 1+ [Various Editions]
The Fab Four turns the best-selling Beatles 1 into an audiovisual extravaganza with new audio mixes and never-before-released video footage, available in a variety of editions and formats: Beatles 1: 1 CD/1 DVD (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Beatles 1: 1 CD/1 BD (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Beatles 1: 1 CD (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Beatles 1: 1 BD (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Beatles 1: 1 DVD (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Beatles 1+: 1 CD/2 BDs (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Beatles 1+:
It's Beginning to Look Like Christmas: Real Gone Unwraps Seven Christmas Titles in November From Johnny Mathis, Glen Campbell and More
Real Gone Music's October slate kicked off the label's yearly celebration of the music of Christmas including classic albums by George Melachrino, The Soulful Strings and The Three Suns - and that continues into November when the label releases a whopping seven titles for the holiday season! We've already told you this morning about our two Second Disc Records releases: Jim Nabors - The Complete Columbia Christmas Recordings and an expanded edition of Lynn Anderson's The Christmas Album.
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