Richard “Dimples” Fields

Release Round-Up: Week of June 28

June 28, 2024 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Two Tons o’ Fun, Get the Feeling: The Complete Fantasy/Honey Recordings (Real Gone Music/Second Disc Records) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music celebrate Two Tons o’ Fun – a.k.a. Martha Wash and Izora Rhodes Armstead, a.k.a. The Weather Girls – with a complete 2-CD anthology that serves as a companion to last year’s Sylvester release, Disco Heat: The Fantasy Years 1977-1981. Get the…

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Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Al Stewart, Cher, Gerry Beckley, Johnny Cash, Melanie, Neil Young, Richard "Dimples" Fields, The Spinners, Todd Rundgren, Two Tons o' Fun, Yes

Mr. Look-So-Good Is Back! Cherry Red, Robinsongs Collect Richard “Dimples” Fields’ Boardwalk, RCA Albums

June 10, 2024 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Richard Dimples Fields The Albums 1980 1985

Richard “Dimples” Fields was one of the most unusual figures on the soul music landscape: a self-proclaimed feminist who portrayed himself as a two-timing ladies’ man, whose quirky ballads were alternately earnest and humorous – sometimes uncomfortably so. Fields made his gambit for mainstream success under the patronage of Casablanca Records founder Neil Bogart. He brought the soul man onto his eclectic Boardwalk Records roster alongside such artists as Joan Jett, Ringo Starr, Carole Bayer Sager, The Beach Boys’ Mike Love, Ohio Players, Chris Christian, and Harry Chapin. On June 28, Cherry…

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Richard "Dimples" Fields