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April 9, 2019 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Tommy Hunt The Complete Man

One of the brightest stars in the uptown soul firmament, Tommy Hunt, has just been celebrated by Ace's Kent Records on a new collection filled with rare and previously unheard material.  The Complete Man: 60s NYC Soul Songs follows up the label's The Biggest Man with a second dip into his recordings for New York indie Scepter Records as well as Capitol, Atlantic, and Dynamo. Born in 1933 in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Tommy Hunt's family settled in Chicago during his formative years.  But

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Tommy Hunt

March 1, 2019 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Tom Petty The Best of Everything

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, The Best of Everything (Geffen/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) On the heels of the release of the acclaimed rarities box set An American Treasure, a new career-spanning anthology arrives from the late Tom Petty.  The Best of Everything is subtitled The Definitive Career-Spanning Hits Collection 1976-2016 and features 38 tracks from the soulful rock-and-roller, including two previously unreleased

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Chaka Khan, Dennis Coffey, Gordon Lightfoot, John Hartford, The Gun, The Undisputed Truth, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers, Tommy Hunt

March 30, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Manhattan Soul 3

Over the first two volumes of Manhattan Soul, Ace Records' Kent imprint has dug up some of the finest - and indeed, rarest - soul tracks to come out of the Big Apple in the 1960s.  For the third installment of the series, the label has again tapped the vaults of Florence Greenberg's Scepter and Wand Records, plus rival label Musicor, for a definitive chronicle of some of the most urbane R&B of the decade.  Though these outfits were based in New York, productions sometimes came from other

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Brenton Wood, Melba Moore, The Esquires, The Shirelles, Tommy Hunt, Various Artists

November 14, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Scepter Records Square

Sundazed Music has announced a trio of limited edition releases for Black Friday's Record Store Day event, and they're sure to be a crate-digger's delight. Scepter Records may today be best remembered as the home of Dionne Warwick's classic recordings, but the New York label founded by pioneering executive Florence Greenberg also gave a home to The Shirelles, B.J. Thomas, Chuck Jackson, Maxine Brown, and numerous other stars of soul and pop.  In addition, Greenberg nurtured a stable of some

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: B.J. Thomas, Ronnie Milsap, Sun Ra, The Shirelles, Tommy Hunt, Various Artists

September 15, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Casino Classics

When American soul great Tommy Hunt first approached the Wigan Casino in Wigan, England to celebrate the nightclub's second anniversary on September 27, 1975, his first reaction was decidedly mixed.  He recalled in 2013, "When I got to Wigan, I refused to go in!  It scared me because it looked so rough!  I'd been playing these fabulous clubs.  When I looked at the outside, I said to the driver, 'you must be at the wrong place.'  He said, 'Tommy, wait 'til you get inside.'  When I walked in

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Gloria Jones, Jackie Trent, Len Barry, Reparata and the Delrons, The Ramsey Lewis Trio, Tommy Hunt, Various Artists

January 16, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Trivia: who was the first artist to release Burt Bacharach and Hal David's "I Don't Know What to Do with Myself" in 1962?  Hint: it wasn't Dusty Springfield (1964) or Dionne Warwick (1966).  The answer is Tommy Hunt, onetime member of The Flamingos and a member of the Scepter Records family between 1961 and 1964.  At Scepter, Hunt introduced both that now-classic song and scored hits like "Human" (No. 5 R&B/No. 46 Pop, 1961) and "I Am a Witness" (No. 71 R&B, 1963).  Hunt followed his

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Tommy Hunt

July 6, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

cleethorpes 11

Though we've come to expect delightful and deeply soulful compilations from Ace's Kent label, one of Kent's latest is a particular trip: a trip, in fact, to the Cleethorpes Northern Soul Weekender.  The 6Ts Rhythm and Soul Society has been throwing these bashes on a yearly basis since 1993, offering up plenty of dancing and some of the best names in soul music, among them Doris Troy, Barbara Lewis, Tommy Hunt, Bettye LaVette and Maxine Brown.  Kent's The Cleethorpes Northern Soul Weekender,

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Barbara Lewis, Bettye LaVette, Doris Troy, Maxine Brown, Tommy Hunt, Various Artists

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