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April 2, 2025 By The Second Disc 7 Comments

RSD 2025 best of rest

Next Saturday, April 12, is certainly one of the most packed Record Store Days in recent memory. Since the list was announced, we drilled down on titles from Craft Recordings, Legacy Recordings, Rhino Records, Universal Music Group, Real Gone Music, Omnivore Recordings, BMG, Cooking Vinyl and Demon Music Group, as well as some notable titles that were getting later general releases on CD. Well, if you thought that was it, you're wrong! We pored and pored over the list and are here to share

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Folk, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: A Tribe Called Quest, Adam and The Ants, Alex Chilton, Annie Lennox, Ariana Grande, Art Blakey, Beck, Bob Geldof, Boomtown Rats, Brad Fiedel, Brian Wilson, Bryan Adams, Cannonball Adderley, Cat Stevens, Charles Mingus, CHVRCHES, Cissy Houston, Clarence White, Cockney Rebel, Cynthia Erivo, Dave Stewart, Dead or Alive, Dusty Springfield, Elton John, Emmylou Harris, Eric Clapton, Eurythmics, Freddie Hubbard, George Harrison, Gloria Jones, Graham Parker, Gram Parsons, Grant Green, Jeff Bridges, Jerry Garcia, Jerry Garcia Band, Kenny Dorham, Little Richard, Maurice Jarre, Nick Lowe, Ohio Players, Parliament-Funkadelic, Paul Hardcastle, Pete Townshend, Peter Gabriel, Propaganda, Record Store Day, Roger Daltrey, Roger McGuinn, Scott Weiland, Shane MacGowan, Sinead O'Connor, Sly and the Family Stone, Sly Stone, Stephen Schwartz, Steve Harley, Suzi Quatro, Terry Hall, The 13th Floor Elevators, The Art of Noise, The Beach Boys, The Blasters, The Byrds, The Colourfield, The Everly Brothers, The Fall, The Hives, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Meters, The Rolling Stones, The Who, Tina Turner, Tom Waits, Van Morrison, Vince Guaraldi, Wall of Voodoo, Wang Chung, Wayne Shorter, Wes Montgomery, Wynton Kelly, Yusuf

January 10, 2025 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Ringo Starr Look Up

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Rosanne Cash, The Essential Rosanne Cash (Rumble Strip) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) After a website-exclusive release, The Essential Rosanne Cash hits retail today.  This newly-curated set brings together 40 of Cash's most treasured recordings - half from her tenure on Columbia Records and the other from mostly

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Country, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Auli'i Cravalho, Joan Armatrading, Little Richard, Ringo Starr, Rosanne Cash, T Bone Burnett

April 26, 2024 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Tina Turner What's Love Got to Do with It Cover

Welcome to this week's post-Record Store Day Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today!  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Tina Turner, What's Love Got to Do with It: 30th Anniversary Edition (Parlophone) 4CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Just months after the career-spanning compilation The Queen of Rock and Roll,

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Art Tatum, Billy Idol, Bonnie Tyler, Cannonball Adderley, Chet Baker, Def Leppard, Dr. John, Jack Sheldon, Jeff Larson, Laufey, Little Richard, Neil Young, Pet Shop Boys, Sonny Rollins, Tina Turner

February 27, 2024 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Nancy Sinatra How Does That Grab You

Our look at this year's Record Store Day releases continues with a look at the lineups from Omnivore Recordings, Iconoclassic Records, Friday Music, Light in the Attic, and more of our favorite labels!  All titles here are due on April 20, and all descriptions are taken directly from the labels.  If you are interested in any of these titles, they will be available at your local record store on April 20.  Head over to recordstoreday.com for a list of participating retailers.  U.K. readers, please

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Funk, Jazz, Latin, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: 10000 Maniacs, Astrud Gilberto, Carol Douglas, Chet Baker, Dio, Dixie Dregs, Dr. John, Elmer Bernstein, Emerson Lake and Palmer, George Harrison, Jack Sheldon, Jim Croce, Joe Strummer, Little Richard, Nancy Sinatra, Nat King Cole, Record Store Day, The Alan Parsons Project, The Byrds, The Monkees, The Rolling Stones, Todd Rundgren, Vince Guaraldi

July 14, 2023 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

MarshallCrenshaw FieldDay COVER

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today. Marshall Crenshaw, Field Day: 40th Anniversary Expanded Edition (Yep Roc) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Marshall Crenshaw's new reissue campaign continues with his second album, Field Day, as newly remastered by Greg Calbi.  It will be augmented with bonus tracks on all formats: two non-LP B-sides (including a cover of

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Aerosmith, Brian May, Cher, Eric Dolphy, George Harrison, John Coltrane, Little Richard, Marshall Crenshaw, Ravi Shankar

July 13, 2023 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Little Richard Complete Atlantic and Reprise Singles

This week Real Gone Music has a couple of titles coming out, both featuring music from the 1960s but in very different styles: The Complete Atlantic & Reprise Singles from Little Richard and Al Oud from Hamza El Din.  The Little Richard title is available tomorrow, July 14, while the Hazma El Din title is available now from Real Gone's website and at other retailers on August 4. First up is The Complete Atlantic & Reprise Singles from Little Richard.  This 15-track compilation gathers

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Everything Else, R&B/Soul Tags: Hamza El Din, Little Richard

April 22, 2023 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Stream 2023

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to usher you into the weekend. Follow up your Record Store Day with a few digital versions of the latest exclusive vinyl releases, plus rare live material from Bruce Springsteen, rare studio material from Little Richard, one of Billy Joel's first bands, a new way to hear an old favorite by The Police and even more! Billy Joel,

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: All Saints, Billy Joel, Bruce Springsteen, Gil Scott-Heron, Jay-Z, Little Richard, Madonna, Miles Davis, Nas, Sting, The Neighbourhood, The Police

January 30, 2023 By The Second Disc 4 Comments

Philip Bailey State of the Heart

Band break-ups can be traumatizing, no matter how they happen. Philip Bailey, whose high falsetto vocals were a key part of Earth, Wind & Fire during their most commercial years in the '70s and '80s, has frequently described the band's (temporary) dissolution, brought up during a 1983 band meeting by founder Maurice White, as one of the lower points of his career. Bailey's next moves could shape his trajectory as an artist for better or worse. Of course, what happened over the rest of the

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Deniece Williams, Earth Wind and Fire, George Duke, Little Richard, Nile Rodgers, Phil Collins, Philip Bailey

August 13, 2021 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Respect OST

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Various Artists, Rip It Up: The Best of Specialty Records (Craft Recordings) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Craft Recordings' 75th anniversary campaign for groundbreaking R&B label Specialty Records kicks off with Rip It Up: The Best of Specialty Records on CD, LP, and digital platforms.  The 18 tracks on Rip It Up spotlight the incendiary R&B and, later, rock-and-roll that

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Aretha Franklin, Cruzados, Explorer Tapes, Jennifer Hudson, Joan Armatrading, Little Richard, Olivia Newton-John, Paul Anka, Randy Edelman, Sheryl Crow, Willie Nile

June 8, 2021 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Rip It Up The Best of Specialty Records

Like so many others, Art Rupe came to California to find fame and fortune.  But in doing so, Rupe broke new ground.  The Pennsylvania native had grown up listening to the music coming from the local, primarily African-American Baptist church.  He'd fallen in love with gospel and studied the adjacent sounds of rhythm and blues which were growing in popularity.  Rather than water down the music in a supposed attempt to reach white audiences, he was determined to release it with all its raw power. 

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Larry Williams, Little Richard, Lloyd Price, Sam Cooke

December 4, 2020 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

CatStevensYusuf TeaForTheTillerman 50thBox pl

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Cat Stevens, Mona Bone Jakon: 50th Anniversary Edition (A&M/UMe) 4-CD/Blu-ray/LP/12″ Box: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Cat Stevens, a.k.a. Yusuf, revisits 1970's Mona Bone Jakon with a new, 50th anniversary edition available in a host of formats.  The 4-CD/Blu-ray/LP 50th anniversary

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Reggae, Rock Tags: Amy Winehouse, Bill Evans, Blackmore's Night, Bob Marley, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Cat Stevens, Dave Brubeck, Little Richard, Monty Alexander, Peter Tork, Sonny Rollins, Spacehog, Steve Forbert, The Bangles, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, The Gun Club, The White Stripes

November 27, 2020 By Sam Stone Leave a Comment

RSDBlackFriday 2020

Today's Black Friday shopping will likely look a little different thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic.  But one thing will remain the same: Record Store Day's yearly event.  It's been a packed year with RSD Drops in the months of August, September, and October.  Now, they're going out with a bang. Labels big and small will release limited-edition vinyl with the collector in mind. Whether you're after new music from legends, reissues of sought-after recordings, or unreleased rarities from the vault,

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Comedy, Folk, Holiday, Jazz, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bill Evans, Blue Oyster Cult, Brian Wilson, Dave Brubeck, Fountains of Wayne, George Harrison, Herbie Hancock, Jewel, Jimi Hendrix, John Prine, Little Richard, Lou Reed, Nancy Sinatra, Record Store Day, Sonny Rollins, The Bangles, The Rolling Stones, U2, Van Dyke Parks, Vince Guaraldi, War

October 23, 2020 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Bruce Springsteen, Letter to You (Columbia) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP black with white swirl: Bruce Springsteen Online Store 2-LP grey: Your Local Record Shop The Boss returns with a new, long-awaited album featuring The E Street Band.  Produced by Springsteen and his frequent collaborator Ron Aniello, it features original songs as well as his first recordings of

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classical/Opera, Country, Electronic, Folk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: Alan Menken, Beastie Boys, Bob Mould, Bobby Bare, Bruce Springsteen, Daniel Lacksman, John Prine, Little Richard, Maury Yeston, Menswear, Pearl Jam, Randy Newman, Roland Haynes, Shel Silverstein, Steve Wynn, The Sherman Brothers

October 15, 2020 By Sam Stone 6 Comments

RecordStoreDayBlackFriday RSDF logo square

November 27 is always a special day for vinyl enthusiasts.  Still filled up on last night's Thanksgiving meal, music fans line up at their local shop for a chance at limited-edition vinyl.  While the celebrations may look a little different this year in light of the COVID-19 pandemic (RSD has announced they'll be less stringent about online sales) one thing remains the same:  There are some excellent releases on offer, available exclusively from your local participating record shop!  Here are

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Aimee Mann, Anthrax, Béla Fleck, Best Coast, Bettye LaVette, Big K.R.I.T., Bilal and Nikki Jean, Bill Evans, Billie Holiday, Billy Gibbons, Brian Wilson, Chris Cornell, Crack The Sky, Dave Brubeck, Dio, Doyle Bramhall II, Dr. Demento, Elliott Smith, Fleetwood Mac, Fred Neil, George Harrison, Grover Washington Jr., Hank Williams, Herbie Hancock, Jerry Garcia Band, John Densmore, Jon Batiste, Karen Dalton, Kirk Hammett, Lee Hazlewood, Linkin Park, Little Richard, Mick Fleetwood, Monty Alexander, Morgan Ames, Motörhead, My Chemical Romance, Nancy Sinatra, Nina Simone, Norah Jones, Public Enemy, Record Store Day, Sharon Jones and The Dap-Kings, Snoop Dogg, Sonny Rollins, The Beastie Boys, The Beat Farmers, The Comet Is Coming, The George Coleman Quintet, The George Wallington Quintet, The Rolling Stones, U2, Van Dyke Parks

September 22, 2020 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Buddy Holly Story

September was an unusually bountiful month for archival soundtracks, and we're here to break it all down. Varese Goes West, Revisits Buddy Holly The latest title in Varese Sarabande's CD Club was an expansion of Elmer Bernstein's heroic score to the 1999 blockbuster Wild Wild West. Though the film somewhat infamously broke co-star Will Smith's ironclad grip on the July 4 weekend box office after star turns in Independence Day (1996) and Men In Black (1997), the weird cult charm of this

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Buddy Holly, Elmer Bernstein, James Horner, John Powell, Little Richard, Michael Kamen

September 18, 2020 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

LittleRichard RillThing

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! John Coltrane, Giant Steps: 60th Anniversary Edition (Rhino) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada John Coltrane's 1960 Atlantic debut was entitled Giant Steps, and indeed, that's what the saxophonist took on this groundbreaking album.  Intense, dark, probing: the color of his saxophone was all his own.  Rhino is celebrating 60 years of Giant Steps with a multi-format anniversary edition

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Cat Stevens, Fleetwood Mac, Heatwave, John Coltrane, John Prine, Little Richard, Neil Young, Nick Cordero, Nick Mason, Roy Clark, The New Seekers, Thelonious Monk

September 17, 2020 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Little Richard The Second Coming

This Friday, September 18, Omnivore will release two expanded editions from the one and only Little Richard.  But those reissues of The Rill Thing and The King of Rock and Roll aren't all the label has coming from the piano-pounding pioneer.  On October 23, Omnivore will continue mining Richard's Reprise discography with 1972's The Second Coming and jump ahead to 1986 for the Warner Bros. release Lifetime Friend, both in newly expanded and remastered form. The Second Coming, Little Richard's

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Billy Preston, Little Richard

July 8, 2020 By Joe Marchese 22 Comments

TJ Lubinsky and Jerry Butler

"Be My Baby." "Can't Take My Eyes off You." "Stand by Me." "You Don't Own Me." Songs such as these not only defined the era in which they were first written and performed, but continue to resonate today. They're just four of the classic songs included on an upcoming 7-DVD set from Treasury Collection that serves as a definitive concert anthology of classic American R&B music. Rock, Pop, and Doo Wop has been curated by executive producer and director TJ Lubinsky from his acclaimed onstage

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: Aretha Franklin, Ben E. King, Four Tops, Frankie Valli, Jerry Lee Lewis, Johnny Maestro, Lesley Gore, Little Anthony and the Imperials, Little Richard, Ronnie Spector, The Isley Brothers, The Miracles, The Righteous Brothers

May 9, 2020 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Heres Little Richard

The stupid but true thing to start off with is there was nothing "little" about him. I was born in 1987, a year after Richard Penniman was officially canonized as one of rock and roll's true pioneers, inducted into the first class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. From that point through the early '90s, he got to enjoy some unlikely fruits of becoming an elder statesman that aren't typically afforded to many at this stage in their careers. In 1986, his song "Great Gosh A'Mighty," from the

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Gospel, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Little Richard

December 21, 2018 By Sam Stone 6 Comments

SesameStreetBornToAdd

Warner Music Group and Sesame Workshop have recently announced a joint effort that marks the relaunch of Sesame Street Records, the label that released over 60 classic originalSesame Street albums from 1970 to 1984.  To celebrate 50 years since the program first aired, the extensive Sesame Street music catalog, including original titles and newer collections from Golden Music, Koch and Sony Wonder, has finally joined the streaming age.  As of this writing, a whopping 119 titles--many previously

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Everything Else, Soundtracks Tags: B.B. King, Carpenters, Celine Dion, Dinah Shore, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Gloria Estefan, Johny Cash, José Feliciano, Kenny Loggins, Ladysmith Black Mambazo, Little Richard, Malo, Patti Labelle, Paul Simon, Pete Seeger, Ray Charles, Robin Gibb, Sesame Street, The Pointer Sisters

November 3, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Bob Dylan Trouble No More Cover

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Supremes, The Ultimate Merry Christmas (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music are joining Motown Records to unwrap a celebration of The Supremes' 1965 perennial Merry Christmas. The Ultimate Merry Christmas features the album in three distinctive versions: the original 1965 mono and stereo mixes, as well as a brand new, never-before-heard 2017 mix premiering

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Andy Williams, Ann-Margret, Bob Dylan, Bryan Adams, Cliff Martinez, Connie Smith, Debbie Gibson, Desmond Dekker, Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians, Josh Groban, Lee Hazlewood, Little Richard, Percy Faith, Roy Orbison, Sepultura, The Ames Brothers, The Robert Shaw Chorale, The Supremes

October 5, 2017 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Heres Little Richard

"A-wop-bop-a-loo-bop-a-wop-bam-boom!" Craft Recordings is reissuing Little Richard's landmark debut album next month in honor of its 60th anniversary. Here's Little Richard will now feature a bonus disc with 22 session outtakes and demos. While most are ostensibly taken from the exhaustive treasury The Specialty Sessions (released in 1989 as a 6CD set by Ace Records and a 3CD cut-down by Specialty shortly thereafter), eight tracks--including alternate versions of "Rip It Up," "Ready Teddy"

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Little Richard

July 15, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Little Richard Mono Box

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up!   Little Richard, Mono Box: The Complete Specialty and Vee-Jay Albums (Concord/Specialty) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This new, 5-LP vinyl box set collects all of the studio albums that Little Richard recorded for both the Specialty and Vee-Jay labels between 1957 and 1965. The mono albums, each replicating the original label and jacket art, have been remastered from analog tapes. A 16-page booklet featuring new liner

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Diana Ross, Frank Zappa, Jeff Beck, Little Richard, Marvin Gaye, Maynard Ferguson, Nina Simone, Sonny and Cher, The Hollywood Brats

June 7, 2016 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Little Richard Mono Box

Here's Little Richard!  Specialty Records is celebrating the career of the rock and roll pioneer with the July 15 release of Mono Box: The Complete Specialty and Vee-Jay Albums.  This new, 5-LP vinyl box set collects all of the studio albums that Little Richard recorded for both the Specialty and Vee-Jay labels between 1957 and 1965. The mono albums, each replicating the original label and jacket art, have been remastered from analog tapes. A 16-page booklet featuring new liner notes by Bill

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June 10, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Little Richard Directly

The annals of rock have been filled with colorful characters, but few can compare to Richard Penniman, a.k.a. Little Richard.  Over the course of just eighteen months beginning in 1955, the man who has called himself The King and Queen of Rock and Roll recorded the songs that laid the foundation of the genre, notching seventeen R&B Top 10s - four of which also made the Pop Top 10.  After that initial burst of fame, however, Richard retreated from the spotlight.  The new box set Directly from

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Little Richard

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