Micky Dolenz 2 - The Second Disc

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Daybreak For Dolenz: Micky’s “MGM Singles” Expanded For CD Premiere

September 21, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

Last July, the 7a Records label debuted with a limited edition vinyl release of Micky Dolenz’s The MGM Singles Collection. Since that auspicious release, the all-things-Monkees label founded by Iain Lee and Glenn Gretlund has enriched Micky, Peter, Michael and Davy’s discography with numerous other releases on both vinyl and compact disc. On October 7, the label will be going full circle with the first-time CD release of The MGM Singles Collection in a lavishly expanded edition featuring the original ten tracks and twelve bonus cuts! The MGM Singles Collection reissues, for…

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Christian Nesmith, Circe Link, Micky Dolenz, The Monkees

Release Round-Up: Week of July 1

July 1, 2016 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! We’ve got the latest release from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music as well as plenty more that we know you won’t want to miss! Eddy Arnold, Each Road I Take: The Lee Hazlewood and Chet Atkins Sessions 1970 (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Our newest release brings together two seminal, never-before-reissued albums by Eddy Arnold on one CD, both from 1970. Love and Guitars captured Arnold in a raw, acoustic setting with many of Nashville’s greatest pickers including…

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks

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Betty Davis, Brook Benton, Burt Bacharach, Chet Atkins, Davy Jones, Eddy Arnold, Eric Clapton, Harry Nilsson, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Lee Hazlewood, Micky Dolenz, Miles Davis, Quincy Jones, Sea Level, Survivor, The Delfonics

Randy Scouse Git: Micky Dolenz Teams with Christian Nesmith, Circe Link on 7a’s New EP

June 14, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

Is there any doubt that 2016 truly is The Year of The Monkees? Following its acclaimed releases earlier this year of Micky Dolenz’s “Chance of a Lifetime” single and An Evening with Peter Noone and Micky Dolenz, 7a Records is continuing its relationship with Monkee Micky for a new vinyl release. Micky has teamed with his bandmate Michael’s son Christian Nesmith and Christian’s partner in music and life, Circe Link, for a brand-new EP! On June 24, 7a will release a translucent, purple-colored vinyl EP with four tracks recorded by the trio…

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Christian Nesmith, Circe Link, Micky Dolenz, The Monkees

Think About Your Troubles: Micky, Davy and Harry’s “The Point!” Arrives On CD

May 13, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 6 Comments

Let’s get to The Point, shall we? On July 1, Varese Vintage will release for the first time in America – and the first time on CD anywhere in the world – a much-desired addition to the discographies of both Harry Nilsson and The Monkees: The Original London Cast Recording of Nilsson’s The Point (1977), starring Davy Jones and Micky Dolenz, and featuring songs not included on Nilsson’s original RCA solo recording. Inspired by an acid trip (“Everything has a point. And…what would happen if someone were born without one?”) Nilsson devised…

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Chance of a Lifetime: 7a Releases Micky Dolenz’s First Single In 33 Years

March 21, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

Come April, Micky Dolenz will be returning to a place where he hasn’t appeared in 33 years. No, the performing mainstay won’t be discovering some new, far-flung venue. But he will be returning to the single shelves of record store racks with his first 45 RPM release since 1983. 7a Records, the label responsible for Dolenz’s The MGM Singles Collection and the recent An Evening with Peter Noone and Micky Dolenz, will release “Chance of a Lifetime” b/w “Living on Lies” in conjunction with Europe’s Record Store Day festivities on Saturday, April…

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Micky Dolenz, Record Store Day, The Monkees

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Release Round-Up: Week of March 11

March 11, 2016 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

This week’s Release Round-Up is filled with reissues and anthologies from favorite artists on both CD and vinyl! Peter Noone and Micky Dolenz, An Evening with Peter Noone and Micky Dolenz (7a Records) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Today sees the U.S. release of one of the coolest titles so far of 2016! An Evening with Peter Noone and Micky Dolenz captures the candid, intimate conversations between the rock legends recorded earlier this year. The first CD in this deluxe new package presents the conversation from January 7 recorded at Westbury,…

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Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks

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Brenda Russell, Dave Mason, Herbie Mann, Jeff Buckley, Judy Garland, Maynard Ferguson, Mickey Gilley, Micky Dolenz, Peter Noone, Teddy Pendergrass, The Cars, Whitney Houston

Review: The Monkees, “Classic Album Collection” and “The Cereal Box Singles”

February 9, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 14 Comments

2016 marks the 50th anniversary of the first time Micky Dolenz, Davy Jones, Michael Nesmith and Peter Tork first hit TV screens and record sleeves as The Monkees, and indeed, it’s shaping up to be an auspicious year. In advance of the restored Blu-ray premiere of The Monkees’ television show, new album Good Times! and a tour featuring Dolenz and Tork, Rhino has released The Monkees 50: Classic Album Collection, a 10-disc box set collecting the original version of every one of the band’s Colgems albums between The Monkees (1966) and Changes…

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Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, Mike Nesmith, Peter Tork, The Monkees

Love to Love: The Monkees Announce New Album “Good Times!” Coming In June

February 5, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 14 Comments

The Monkees turn 50 this year – and the celebration is just getting bigger and bigger! Rhino has already released two titles in conjunction with the label’s Start Your Ear Off Right campaign, The Classic Album Collection and The Cereal Box Singles (watch this space for reviews soon!), and the eagerly-awaited Blu-ray box set of the classic television show is due on April 29. Today, Rhino and Micky Dolenz took to Rolling Stone to confirm more big news: the first new Monkees album in 20 years. June 10 is the date for Good…

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Davy Jones, Micky Dolenz, Mike Nesmith, Peter Tork, The Monkees

A Little Bit Micky, A Little Bit Peter: 7a Presents Dolenz and Noone In Conversation On CD

January 28, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 4 Comments

A Monkee and a Hermit walk into a bar… Well, actually it was a theatre, The Monkee was Micky Dolenz, and the Hermit was none other than Herman himself, Peter Noone. Just last month, sixties survivors and music legends Dolenz and Noone shared a stage together for three intimate evenings of candid conversation. Those lucky enough to attend one of the talks (including yours truly) won’t soon forget the pair’s easy camaraderie and seemingly endless well of riotous and revealing recollections. Now, thanks to 7a Records, those who didn’t make An Evening…

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Herman's Hermits, Micky Dolenz, Peter Noone, The Monkees

Release Round-Up: Week of September 25

September 25, 2015 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up – maybe the biggest and most diverse yet of 2015! David Bowie, Five Years (Parlophone) 12 CD Box Set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 13 LP Box Set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. New remasters of David Bowie (a.k.a. Space Oddity), The Man Who Sold the World, Hunky Dory and Pin Ups are collected in a new box set along with existing versions of Ziggy Stardust (in both the original and 2003 mixes), Aladdin Sane, Live Santa Monica ’72, the Ziggy Stardust motion picture soundtrack and a 2-CD bonus set entitled…

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Ashford and Simpson, Billy Cobham, Bob Marley, David Bowie, Diana Krall, Don Henley, Herb Alpert, Johnny Mathis, Judy Garland, Liza Minnelli, Loggins and Messina, Micky Dolenz, Queen, Sneakers, Tennessee Ernie Ford, Tony Bennett

Release Round-Up: Week of September 4

September 4, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

The fall is almost upon us – which means some of the most exciting release weeks of the year are just around the corner! We hope you’ve checked out Ted’s farewell to the sounds of summer, because we’re kicking off September right here with a new release from Second Disc Records – as well as goodies from The Doors, Eydie Gorme, Micky Dolenz, Peter Frampton, Pugwash, and many more! To our U.S. readers, we wish you a safe and happy Labor Day weekend filled with great new (and old) sounds! Wilson Pickett,…

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Al Kooper, Dean Martin, Eydie Gorme, Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz, Paul Simon, Peter Frampton, Pugwash, Spooner Oldham, The Doors, The Monkees, Wilson Pickett

I’m A Believer: Micky Dolenz’s Rare MGM Singles Arriving On Deluxe Reissue

July 2, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

7A Records sure isn’t Monkee-ing around with its first release! On July 13, the newly-formed label – a labor of love for BBC radio and television presenter Iain Lee – will release Micky Dolenz’s The MGM Singles Collection on vinyl. This collection reissues for the first time all ten single sides released between 1971 and 1974 by Dolenz on the MGM, Lion and Romar labels. That Lee and his partner at 7A are Monkees fans is an understatement; even the label’s name is derived from the studio chatter preceding the band’s recording…

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