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August 30, 2023 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

We're An American Band

We're An American Band: the new 3-CD collection from Cherry Red's Grapefruit Records is titled after Grand Funk (Railroad)'s 1973 chart-topping anthem.  The song penned by Don Brewer and produced by Todd Rundgren was a semi-autobiographical look at life on the road, complete with parties, groupies, and guest stars.  The story goes that the title phrase developed from a friendly argument between Grand Funk and Humble Pie about British vs. American rock.  Brewer insisted that wasn't the way it

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Grand Funk Railroad, Iron Butterfly, Love, Mountain, Spirit, The Nazz, The Stooges, Todd Rundgren, Vanilla Fudge, Various Artists

March 18, 2020 By Sam Stone 1 Comment

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Sweet news incoming... If you're a connoisseur of all things psychedelic, prepare to feel like a kid in a candy shop.  Mobile Fidelity, the boutique audiophile label, has announced a special reissue of Vanilla Fudge's seminal, self-titled psych-rock debut. Limited to just 3,000 copies, this numbered 2-LP, 45-rpm pressing features Vanilla Fudge in its original mono mix, remastered from the original master tapes with the impeccable attention to detail that's given MoFi their reputation in the

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Categories: News Formats: SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Vanilla Fudge

May 30, 2017 By Mike Duquette 7 Comments

Rhino SOL

Five decades ago, in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, a social movement was growing. Young people, with heads full of progressive ideas and evolving attitudes toward sex, drugs and rock and roll, were converging on the area to celebrate their personal freedom--an extension of that January's "Human Be-In" in San Francisco's Golden Gate Park. The "Summer of Love," as it was called, was the birth of the modern counterculture, and music played an integral role in the shaping,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Aretha Franklin, Booker T. and the MG's, Dionne Warwick, Dusty Springfield, Judy Collins, Love, Peter Paul and Mary, The Association, The Beau Brummels, The Everly Brothers, The Four Seasons, The Grateful Dead, The Hollies, The Monkees, Tim Buckley, Van Morrison, Vanilla Fudge

May 29, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

vanilla fudge atco singles

It’s hard to believe that Real Gone Music’s The Complete Atco Singles (RGM-0239, 2014) is the first such overview for Vanilla Fudge. Between 1966 and 1970, the Long Island quartet delivered heavy riff-rock that bridged the gap between psychedelia and the nascent hard rock form that would come to be known as heavy metal, transforming popular songs with a raw, visceral, punch-in-the-gut sound. This tasty, single-disc collection brings together every one of the 18 sides released on the Atco label

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Categories: Reviews Tags: Vanilla Fudge

April 29, 2014 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

supremes funny girl

Grace Jones, Nightclubbing: Deluxe Edition (Island/UMe) Pull back up to the bumper with a generously expanded version of the almighty Jones' most beloved album. 2CD: Amazon U.K. 1CD: Amazon U.S. 2LP:  Amazon U.K. / Amazon U.S. Blu-Ray Audio: Amazon U.K. / Amazon U.S. Diana Ross & The Supremes, Sing and Perform Funny Girl: Expanded Edition (Motown Select) A digital-only expansion of The Supremes' 1968 album of the Jule Styne-Bob Merrill musical, featuring the original LP alongside a

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Barbra Streisand, Rick Wakeman, Rush, Salsoul Orchestra, Taylor Dayne, The Supremes, Vanilla Fudge, Vinyl

March 12, 2014 By Mike Duquette 9 Comments

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Real Gone Music isn't letting up, with six heavy-hitting reissues announced for an April 29 release, including compilations for Vanilla Fudge and The 5th Dimension, long-lost recordings by Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys and more! We've already told you about RGM's plans to release 10 tracks from the band's famed radio-only "Tiffany Transcriptions" - four of which won't be available on any other release - as a Record Store Day exclusive. A two-disc, 50-track set of those recordings from

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Categories: News Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Rick Wakeman, The 5th Dimension, Vanilla Fudge

October 1, 2013 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

warner sound of bacharach

In his 85th year, Burt Bacharach has kept a pace that would wear out many a younger man.  In addition to performing a number of concert engagements, the Oscar, Grammy and Gershwin Prize-winning composer has released a memoir, continued work on three musical theatre projects, co-written songs with Bernie Taupin and J.D. Souther, and even penned a melody for Japanese singer Ringo Sheena.  Though Bacharach keeps moving forward, numerous releases this year have looked back on his illustrious

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Categories: News Tags: Burt Bacharach, Love, Percy Sledge, Sergio Mendes, Stacy Lattisaw, The Drifters, Vanilla Fudge

September 10, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

shadow morton story

A scrappy street fighter with a knack for teenage melodrama, George “Shadow” Morton lived with a “self-invented mythology,” in the words of Jerry Leiber.  But his work with The Shangri-Las, Janis Ian, The New York Dolls and many more solidified Morton’s place as a real-life “leader of the pack.”  Ace’s new anthology Sophisticated Boom Boom: The Shadow Morton Story (CDTOP 1369) brings the songwriter and producer out of the shadow and into the (spot)light. In a 1968 Time Magazine blurb:, Morton

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Categories: News, Reviews Tags: New York Dolls, Shadow Morton, The Shangri-Las, Vanilla Fudge

April 13, 2010 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

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Their repertoire was pretty standard for the late 1960s: a Lennon/McCartney tune here, a Bacharach and David song there, a Motown cover for good measure, even "The Windmills of Your Mind."  But similarities ended there between Vanilla Fudge and their MOR-covering contemporaries.  Over the course of five albums for the Atco label, the Fudge brought a psychedelic touch to the gestating sound of so-called "heavy rock" with blues-drenched, extended takes on familiar songs. Shadow Morton, famed

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