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April 9, 2020 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Change Everything and More

It's been said that the only true constant is change - and that's certainly been borne out by the group bearing that moniker. Between 1980 and 1985, the rotating line-ups collectively known as Change released six albums built around insistent rhythms, catchy hooks, and commanding vocals. Unexpectedly in 2018, Change returned from a three-decade-plus hiatus with a new album that captured the old magic. Late last year, Demon Music Group's Edsel label chronicled Change's discography on CD in a

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, R&B/Soul Tags: Change, Luther Vandross

December 18, 2019 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

Dionne Warwick Deja Vu

Over 40 years ago, Dionne Warwick left Warner Bros. Records and signed to Clive Davis' Arista label to begin a new chapter in her remarkable career - a career which happens to be going as strong as ever today.  Now, Cherry Red's SoulMusic imprint has announced a 12-CD box celebrating Warwick's Arista period.  Due on February 28, 2020, Déjà Vu: The Arista Recordings (1979-1994) collects all of her acclaimed albums for the label and rounds up over two dozen previously released bonus

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Barry Gibb, Barry Manilow, Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager, Dionne Warwick, Luther Vandross

September 27, 2017 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Clive Davis Soundtrack of Our Lives

This past April, New York's Radio City Music Hall hosted a prestigious premiere.  The film was Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives, and the screening was accompanied by an all-star concert featuring Barry Manilow, Dionne Warwick, Aretha Franklin, Carly Simon, and others celebrating the life of the music legend.  Beginning on October 3, Apple Music will exclusively stream the Chris Perkel-directed documentary, and today, September 27, Legacy Recordings has digitally released an exclusive

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Everything Else, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Ace of Base, Alan Jackson, Alicia Keys, Annie Lennox, Aretha Franklin, Barry Manilow, Billy Joel, Blood Sweat & Tears, Brooks & Dunn, Bruce Springsteen, Carly Simon, Chicago, Dionne Warwick, Earth Wind and Fire, Elton John, Eric Carmen, Gladys Knight, Grateful Dead, Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes, Janis Joplin, Kelly Clarkson, Kenny G, Luther Vandross, Melissa Manchester, Natalie Cole, Patti Smith, Rod Stewart, Santana, Simon and Garfunkel, Stevie Wonder, Taylor Dayne, Teddy Pendergrass, The Alan Parsons Project, The Kinks, Whitney Houston

October 3, 2016 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

Elvis Merry Christmas Baby

Looking for some vinyl to place under the tree this season?  Legacy is coming to the rescue with five new Christmas releases from the label's top tier artists including Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Luther Vandross and more! Merry Christmas Baby arrives from Elvis Presley this Friday, October 7.  This new 120-gram vinyl compilation features seventeen of the King's bona fide Christmas Classics, all newly remastered from original sources.  Naturally, "Blue Christmas" is here, as well as "Santa

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Country, Holiday, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Elvis Presley, Johnny Cash, Luther Vandross, Various Artists

January 14, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Change Reach for the Sky

If ever a group lived up to its name, that group was Change.  The brainchild of French-Italian music impresario and producer Jacques Fred Petrus, in collaboration with Italian-based producer/arranger Mauro Malavasi and bassist Davide Romani, Change released six albums between 1980 and 1985.  Built on infectiously danceable rhythms, melodic hooks and sublimely soulful vocals, the sound of Change was primarily created by a rotating cast of Italian-based musicians and America-based vocalists. 

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, R&B/Soul Tags: Change, Fonzi Thornton, Jocelyn Brown, Luther Vandross

September 24, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

dionne no night so long

In 1979, Dionne Warwick was at a crossroads.  Her unprecedented string of pop and R&B hits written and produced by Burt Bacharach and Hal David at Scepter Records were in the rearview mirror.  Bacharach and David had bitterly split after just one album with Warwick at Warner Bros. Records, leaving their muse feeling high and dry. One more dynamic success followed for Dionne in 1974 with the Thom Bell-produced Spinners duet “Then Came You,” unbelievably her first-ever No. 1 Pop single.  But

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Burt Bacharach, Dionne Warwick, Luther Vandross

December 9, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Real Gone Music is ensuring that it’s going to be a merry Christmas, indeed, with a number of holiday-themed releases that practically beg to be enjoyed alongside a glass of egg nog and a warm fireplace. Bobby Darin’s The 25th Day of December, the late singer’s only holiday LP, arrived on the Atco label in 1960.  However, the album wasn’t the work of Bobby Darin, the splish-splashin’ rock-and-roller, or Bobby Darin, the finger-snapping, tuxedoed crooner.  It’s not even the work of Bob Darin,

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Categories: Holiday Gift Guide, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: Bobby Darin, Luther Vandross

October 10, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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The way he wore his hat…the way he sipped his tea (or likely, something stronger)…the memory of all that…no, they can’t take that away from us.  Frank Sinatra’s influence is still felt every day – in style, in attitude, especially in song.  Though 2013 has been a quiet year for the Chairman’s catalogue, that’s about to change on November 19 when Capitol and UMe celebrate the twentieth anniversary of Sinatra’s triple-platinum Duets album with a variety of commemorative reissues including a

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: Barbra Streisand, Linda Ronstadt, Liza Minnelli, Luther Vandross, Neil Diamond, Patrick Williams, Patti Labelle, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme

September 13, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

andy williams complete christmas

It's not too early to start making that Christmas list!  Just ask Real Gone Music.  On October 29, the label will release five deluxe holiday-themed collections from some of the most beloved vocalists of all time, in addition to two other titles reflecting the label's usual eclectic tastes. For those who need a little Christmas right this very minute, now's the time to peruse Real Gone's upcoming offerings.  The crown jewel comes from Andy Williams, already announced as the subject of a 2013

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Categories: News Tags: Luther Vandross, Patti Page, The New Christy Minstrels

November 28, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

luther vandross classic christmas

If you’re a resident of the storm-ravaged East Coast, you might have recently found yourself singing, “We need a little Christmas, right this very minute! “  I know I have.  As happens every year around this same time, holiday albums have already begun to fill the shelves, with new albums arriving from artists old and new as well as reissues from Christmases past.  In 2011, Legacy Recordings issued The Classic Christmas Album for Tony Bennett, combining tracks from Bennett’s three holiday-themed

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Categories: Holiday Gift Guide, Reviews Tags: Barry Manilow, Luther Vandross

October 22, 2012 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Peter Gabriel, So: 25th Anniversary Edition (3CD Deluxe Edition: U.S./U.K.; 4CD/2DVD/2LP Box Set: U.S./U.K.; Classic Albums: So DVD (U.S./U.K.)/BD (U.S./U.K.)) (Real World) A year late for the actual 25th anniversary (PG never was one for deadlines), So sledgehammers record shops with a variety of expanded formats, including one of many mega box sets released this year. The Beatles, Love Me Do (50th Anniversary Single) (U.S./U.K.) (Capitol/EMI) Originally bungled due to a mispressing, The Fab

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets Genre: Cast Recordings Tags: Luther Vandross, Mike + The Mechanics, Paul Carrack, Peter Gabriel, The Beatles, The Doors, Vinyl

October 2, 2012 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

elvis the classic christmas album

Barry Manilow, Elvis Presley, Kenny G, Willie Nelson, John Denver, Luther Vandross, The Classic Christmas Collection (Legacy) Oh my goodness, it really is almost sort of kind of close to Christmas, yes? Legacy's getting your seasonal fix early with new compilations full of cheer (and, in a few cases, some harder to find Yuletide songs and tracks licensed from non-Legacy albums). Dion, The Complete Laurie Singles / Shoes, 35 Years: The Definitive Shoes Collection / David Cassidy, Romance / The

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Tags: Barry Manilow, Luther Vandross, Shoes, The Grateful Dead

September 13, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

luther vandross classic christmas

Sleigh bells ring – are you listening? Legacy Recordings certainly hopes you are, as a bounty of new holiday-themed collections is coming your way.  The first Classic Christmas Album arrived last year, a compilation of Christmas favorites from Tony Bennett (including a previously-unreleased version of “What Child is This?”).  More titles are on the horizon to make spirits bright this year, and we have details on five of them to share right now, with more news to come!  On October 2, Legacy will

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Categories: News Tags: Luther Vandross

April 17, 2012 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

jump to it remaster

As we welcome the expanded release of Aretha Franklin's Who's Zoomin' Who? from Funky Town Grooves today, it's a thrill to report two more expansions of Aretha's underrepresented Arista material on CD from Big Break Records. The label will release 1982's Jump to It and 1983's Get It Right on May 21 with a total of nine bonus tracks, all single edits, dance mixes and instrumentals. After her first two cover-heavy LPs for Clive Davis' label, the Queen of Soul elected to take things in a more

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Categories: News Tags: Luther Vandross

April 17, 2012 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

whos zoomin who

Janis Joplin, The Pearl Sessions (Columbia/Legacy) Essentially a new double-disc deluxe edition of Joplin's final album, with mono single mixes and a heap of mostly unreleased session outtakes as bonus tracks. Little Richard, 

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Categories: News Tags: Bob Marley, Little Richard, Luther Vandross, Mariah Carey

March 20, 2012 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

luther gems

If you miss the smooth, soulful voice of Luther Vandross - and, perhaps, wish to dig deeper than his greatest hits - a new compilation from Epic Records and Legacy Recordings might have you covered. On April 17, just three days before what would have been the singer's 61st birthday, the label will release Hidden Gems, a compilation of album cuts and non-LP tracks intended to showcase one of the greatest male voices in contemporary R&B history. The 15-track compilation, compiled and

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Categories: News Tags: Luther Vandross

January 2, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

aretha knew you were waiting

On March 25, 2012, Aretha Franklin will turn 70 years old.  That hardly means she's ready to slow down, however.  2011 found the Queen of Soul looking trim and sounding vibrant as she returned to the concert stage and released a new studio album.  Surely her landmark birthday will be celebrated with countless airings of her 1960s golden hits like "Respect," "Natural Woman" and "Chain of Fools."  But Legacy Recordings and Arista Records are seeing to it that a latter-day hitmaking period for the

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Categories: News Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Aretha Franklin, Burt Bacharach, Luther Vandross

July 20, 2011 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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It's a crime that when you talk about CHIC, many of the players who made up arguably the greatest band of the disco era aren't alive to hear your words of praise. Bernard Edwards, CHIC's bassist and co-producer, died in 1997; drummer Tony Thompson passed away in 2003. Nile Rodgers, guitarist, co-producer and keeper of the CHIC flame, could easily have met the same early fate had he not been lucky enough to discover the cancer that he's been since late last year. (Rodgers, one of the best users

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Back Tracks, Luther Vandross, Madonna, Sister Sledge

May 24, 2010 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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If you're itching for some vintage R&B from around the way, a few labels have some new releases to keep you satisfied. One is a classic soul LP making its debut on CD, the other two are some solid disco efforts with some bonus cuts to boot. Iconoclassic Records has planned a June 22 reissue of It's Our Thing by The Isley Brothers. Released on the Isleys' own label after leaving a solid but fleetingly successful tenure at Motown, this disc includes the funky, anthemic "It's Your Thing." This

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Categories: News Tags: Luther Vandross, The Isley Brothers

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