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February 17, 2020 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Bobby Hatfield Stay with Me

During rehearsals for their landmark single "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'," Righteous Brother Bobby Hatfield reportedly asked producer/co-writer Phil Spector just what he was supposed to do while Bill Medley took the lead on the powerful song. Spector's reply? "Go to the bank!" The producer wasn't kidding, as the anthemic ballad became a No. 1 on both sides of the Atlantic, the fifth best-selling song of the U.S. in 1965, and the most-played song on radio and television of the entire 20th

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Al Kooper, Bobby Hatfield, Ringo Starr, The Righteous Brothers

February 14, 2020 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Miss Barbara Eden

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Johnny Mathis, The Island (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The 1989 "lost" album by Johnny Mathis is lost no more! Renowned producer Sergio Mendes of Brasil '66 fame and arranger-guitarist Dori Caymmi joined Mathis on The Island to subtly modernize the classic sounds of bossa nova and samba. He delivered some of his most sensual vocals ever for ten smoldering songs by Caymmi, Mendes, Ivan Lins,

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: Barbara Eden, Barry Manilow, Bobby Hatfield, Cy Coleman, David Bowie, Grateful Dead, Huey Lewis and The News, Johnny Mathis, Lauren Wood

December 16, 2019 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Bobby Hatfield Stay with Me

Omnivore Recordings is getting righteous - make that Righteous - with an upcoming release. In 1971, Bobby Hatfield of The Righteous Brothers was on his own. He and partner Bill Medley had split in 1968, and while Medley quickly struck as a solo artist, Hatfield persevered as a Righteous Brother with the enlistment of The Knickerbockers' Jimmy Walker.   But the new duo's Re-Birth album hadn't achieved much success, and Hatfield decided to go it alone (again; he had previously released a number of

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Bobby Hatfield, The Righteous Brothers

May 19, 2017 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Bobby Hatfield The Other Brother

There's only one word for Ace Records' superlative new collection of the solo recordings of the late Bobby Hatfield: righteous!  The Other Brother: A Solo Anthology 1965-1970 brings together 24 sides from the tenor half of The Righteous Brothers including the entirety of his 1970 MGM Records album Messin' at Muscle Shoals, rare singles, all surviving previously unreleased tracks from both MGM and Verve (seven songs in total), and more. The story of The Righteous Brothers' 1964 hit "You've

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Bobby Hatfield, The Righteous Brothers

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