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September 29, 2020 By Sam Stone 7 Comments

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On November 6, Real Gone Music will release what's sure to be the most definitive collection of The Jones Girls' most beloved hits. remixes, and sought-after rarities.  We're A Melody: The Essential Jones Girls brings together all of the sisters' most successful singles for Philadelphia International Records and RCA. Though these weren't the trio's first recordings - they'd cut sides for GM, Music Merchant, Paramount, and Curtom dating back to 1970 - the songs from this period saw Brenda,

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Dexter Wansel, The Jones Girls

December 3, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Beachwood Sparks, Desert Skies (Alive Records) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) We missed this one last week - and didn't want you to miss it, too!  The previously unreleased debut album from California psychedelic country-rockers Beachwood Sparks arrives on CD with bonus material, all circa the late 1990s.  For fans of The Flying Burrito Brothers, Buffalo Springfield, The Byrds, and the West Coast pop-rock sound. The Jones Girls, Coming Back (Expansion) (Amazon U.K.) The Jones Girls, best-known

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Tags: Poco, Roy Orbison, The Jones Girls, The Supremes

April 9, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Welcome to our second feature today spotlighting artists of the Philadelphia International label!  First we looked at The O'Jays' pre-PIR period!  Now it's time to look at a lost post-PIR album from Dexter Wansel! Philadelphia-born Dexter Wansel made quite an impression in the City of Brotherly Love, becoming one of the leading lights of the Gamble and Huff organization's "second golden age" of 1976-1983 and playing a key role in shaping the latter-day Sound of Philadelphia.  A keyboard

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Dexter Wansel, The Jones Girls

August 16, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Breaking Benjamin, Shallow Bay: The Best of Breaking Benjamin (Hollywood) A decade of Breaking Benjamin is collected on this new compilation, available in both standard and deluxe editions.  The deluxe edition offers an additional disc of rare and unreleased bonus material. (Amazon) Dazz Band, Hot Spot: Expanded Edition (Funkytowngrooves) The Dazz Band's 1985 swan song on Motown Records is expanded with five remixes. (Amazon) Nick Heyward, Tangled and The Apple Bed (Cherry Red) Heyward's

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Tags: Louis Armstrong, Nick Heyward, The Jones Girls

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