Release Round-Up: Week of January 12

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Dionne Warwick, Odds and Ends: Scepter Records Rarities (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) From 1962 to 1971, Dionne Warwick, working primarily with songwriters/producers Burt Bacharach and Hal David, notched over twenty Top 40 hits on the Scepter label and garnered two Grammy Awards.  Yet while there have been numerous reissues of Warwick’s work at Scepter, some material has been overlooked.  This new collection rectifies that!  All 27 tracks on this compilation are new to U.S. CD, including 11 previously unreleased tracks.  You’ll…

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Watcha Gonna Do: Real Gone to Release “Papa” Denny Doherty’s Complete Solo Recordings for ABC/Dunhill, Including Unreleased Steely Dan Songs

Back in January 2016, Real Gone collected the complete singles of The Mamas & The Papas onto one 2-CD collection to celebrate the group’s 50th anniversary.  Two years later, on January 12, 2018, the label is turning its attention to a solo member of the band by releasing Of All the Things: The Complete ABC/Dunhill Masters by Denny Doherty, featuring Doherty’s 1971 album Watcha Gonna Do together with other assorted tracks (including four unreleased) and including liner notes written by our very own Joe Marchese. By 1969 /1970, it looked as if The…

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California Dreamin’: Real Gone Collects The Mamas and the Papas’ “Complete Singles” In January

From our vantage point here in Second Disc HQ, all the leaves really are brown and the sky is gray…making it the perfect day for some California dreamin’.  Happily, we won’t have to dream for too long, as on January 8, Real Gone Music has its first release of the year – and the label is making a complete singles collection for the Mamas and the Papas a reality.  The Complete Singles–50th Anniversary Collection boasts 53 tracks and over 150 minutes of pop perfection on two CDs, including for the first time…

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