The Kingbees - The Second Disc

Release Round-Up: Week of June 17

June 17, 2016 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Chicago, Quadio (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. TBD / Amazon Canada) This week’s biggest and most hotly-anticipated release, Chicago’s Quadio, brings together nine albums from the legendary band in remastered high-resolution 192/24 DTS-HD Master Audio in both their original quadraphonic and stereo mixes on nine Blu-ray discs. This lavish celebration of the Windy City’s favorite band is housed in a rigid two-piece box, with every album presented in a replica sleeve promised to “replicate the original release down to the last detail, including mini-posters, and the iron-on that…

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Release Round-Up

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Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl

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

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Bobby Darin, Chicago, Grace Jones, John Phillips, Keith Emerson, The Kingbees, Toni Braxton

Release Round-Up: Week of April 28

April 28, 2015 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Dusty Springfield, Faithful (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Faithful assembles for the first time on one CD all of the masters produced by Jeff Barry (“Chapel of Love,” “Leader of the Pack,” “Sugar, Sugar”) for Dusty Springfield in 1971. From his home base at New York’s Century Sound, Barry produced thirteen songs for Dusty – twelve intended for album release and one for a non-LP single. Four songs were released on two 45s, but when Dusty departed Atlantic Records, the remaining tracks were left on the shelf, and thought…

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Release Round-Up

Formats:

Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl

Genres:

Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul

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