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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

January 22, 2021 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

kinks lola

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Kinks, Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One (BMG) 3CD/2 7-inch Box Set (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) 1CD Edition (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) 1LP Edition (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) 2CD Edition (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The Kinks' 1970 classic Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One arrives in a variety of formats including bonus material such as

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Bob Dylan, Brian Eno, Janet Jackson, Nicolas King, Richard Hell, Sam Cooke, The Kinks

January 15, 2021 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Stevie Nicks 24 Karat Gold Tour

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Stevie Nicks, The 24-Karat Gold Tour: Live in Concert (BMG) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Stevie Nicks brings her latest live album, recorded in Indianapolis and Pittsburgh in 2017 and featuring classics and rarities alike, to wide release in the United States.  The 2-CD set was previously released as a Target exclusive,

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: John Fogerty, KT Tunstall, Leslie Odom Jr., Matthew Sweet, Peter Paul and Mary, Pop-O-Pies, Sam Cooke, Stevie Nicks, The Readymades, Wilbert Harrison

January 24, 2020 By The Second Disc 4 Comments

EltonJohnRayCooper LiveFromMoscow1979

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Elton John, Live from Moscow 1979 (Mercury/UMe) 2-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2019 marked the 40th anniversary of Elton John's landmark tour of Russia, where he stunned audiences as the first rocker to perform in the country.  His concerts there were intimate events where he performed alongside percussionist Ray Cooper.  Now, Elton brings his May 28, 1979 concert in Moscow to

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Big Star, Depeche Mode, Elton John, Joni Mitchell, Sam Cooke, Supergrass, The Dave Clark Five, The Honeycombs, The Meters

January 6, 2020 By The Second Disc 14 Comments

Sam Cooke Keen

Sam Cooke would have turned 90 on January 22, 2021, but that's not stopping the party from starting a little early! This month, The King of Soul will be celebrated with a new box set featuring five of his albums for the Keen label. The Complete Keen Years (1957-1960) showcases Cooke's early work as a pop craftsman at the end of the 1950s. At the beginning of the decade, Cooke was a teenage sensation as a member of gospel group The Soul Stirrers. But his interest in R&B and pop could not

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Sam Cooke

December 11, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

satisfaction guaranteed1

When it comes to rare soul, Ace Records never sleeps!  The label has recently released a compilation celebrating the career of Sam Cooke not as a singer but as a songwriter, along with collections dedicated to excavating the vaults of two great Detroit labels: Westbound Records, and of course, Motown! Countless albums have anthologized the short but influential oeuvre of Sam Cooke, but Bring It on Home: Black America Sings Sam Cooke takes a different approach, featuring 24 versions of Cooke

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Sam Cooke, The Four Tops, The Spinners, The Temptations, Various Artists

July 29, 2014 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

dream academy morning lasted

The Allman Brothers Band, The 1971 Fillmore East Recordings (Mercury/UMe) The four shows in March 1971 that made up the band's legendary breakthrough album are presented in full for the first time, along with the group's closing set at the Fillmore East that following June. The Blu-ray version features the material in both stereo and 5.1 surround sound. 6CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 3-BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 4LP Highlights: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Peggy Lipton, The Complete Ode

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Peggy Lipton, Sam Cooke, The Allman Brothers Band, The Dream Academy, The Shirelles, Van Dyke Parks

March 17, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

lou adler a musical history

Songwriter, manager, A&R man, producer, director, impresario, diehard L.A. Lakers fan – in his eighty years, Lou Adler has worn all of those labels proudly.  It’s hard to believe that the same man behind The Rocky Horror Show – both on stage and on screen – and Cheech and Chong’s Up in Smoke also helmed one of the most successful records ever in Carole King’s Tapestry, or that the same man penned a bona fide standard in Sam Cooke’s “Wonderful World.”  But much of Lou Adler’s extraordinary

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Categories: News, Reviews Tags: Lou Adler, Merry Clayton, Sam Cooke, The Everly Brothers, The Mamas and The Papas

July 25, 2011 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

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Sam Cooke fans were really in for a surprise a short time ago, when Legacy released a box set of eight of his original RCA LPs on CD through their PopMarket outlet. Almost as tantalizing - if not for the format or the territorial limits placed upon it - is a new digital box set collecting Cooke's earlier material for Keen Records. Cooke's material for the Keen label - recorded from 1957 (after seven years as lead tenor in the gospel group The Soul Stirrers) to 1960 (the year he signed with RCA

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: Sam Cooke

June 21, 2011 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

night beat sam cooke

In 1963, RCA Victor dubbed its young star Sam Cooke “Mr. Soul” as the title of his latest LP.  Today, few would argue with that appellation as we remember the roof- (and consciousness-) raising “A Change is Gonna Come,” the ultimate festive anthem “Havin’ a Party” or the bluesy R&B “Chain Gang.”  But Mr. Soul, the album, offered a more complex portrait of the artist, offering “These Foolish Things,” “I Wish You Love” and “Cry Me a River” alongside Ahmet Ertegun’s “Chains of Love,” Johnny

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets Tags: Sam Cooke

May 24, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

complete byrds

This morning, Sony’s Legacy division kicked off a new catalogue initiative that’s sure to raise a few eyebrows!  The Complete Album Collection box sets bring together an artist’s entire tenure at a label (in these cases, Columbia and RCA Victor) in one tidy box set, with albums in individual mini-LP sleeves.  The first four artists to receive this treatment are The Byrds, Sam Cooke, Stan Getz and Return to Forever, and the boxes are available for pre-order now exclusively through PopMarket. 

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: Return to Forever, Sam Cooke, Stan Getz, The Byrds

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