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August 6, 2019 By Sam Stone 3 Comments

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Our friends at Real Gone Music have some sweet news to share.  The label continues its color vinyl soundtrack reissue series with Cher and Christina Aguilera's Burlesque pressed on hot pink and the soundtrack to Martin Scorsese's The Departed on green wax.  Fans of sixties pop will delight in the upcoming opaque blue vinyl celebration of The Archies.  All the titles will be pressed in limited quantities and are set to arrive on September 13. In 2010, two of the biggest divas in music joined

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, Soundtracks Tags: Badfinger, Cher, Christina Aguilera, LaVern Baker, Patsy Cline, Roger Waters, Roy Buchanan, The Allman Brothers Band, The Archies, The Band, The Rolling Stones, Van Morrison

March 11, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Such a Much

Since its inception in 2013, Cherry Red’s Croydon Municipal label has reliably shed light on some of the least illuminated corners of the pre-Beatles pop world.  Two recent releases - Such a Much: R&B Girls of the ‘50s and ‘60s and TV is the Thing: Fifties and Sixties Television Themes – continue in this tradition. Like many of Croydon’s releases, Such a Much features a blend of names both familiar (LaVern Baker, Little Esther, Etta James, Ruth Brown) and less familiar (Paula Grimes,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Doris Troy, LaVern Baker, Ruth Brown, Various Artists

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