R.E.M. are to reissue three early albums on vinyl in July…

The albums in question are B-sides/rarities compilation Dead Letter Office, the last studio album issued on I.R.S. Records, Lifes Rich Pageant and the ‘greatest hits’ I.R.S. put out just before the band released Green for Warners, Eponymous.

The albums will maintain original artwork and will be issued via Capitol Records/Universal Music Enterprises on 29 July 2016

[Edited 6/5/16 18:32pm]

u mean 26????

Back in print and available to pre-order for a July 1st release is the original 1987 WENDY & LISA album containing the singles ‘Waterfall’, ‘Sideshow’ and ‘Honeymoon Express’!

Wendy Melvoin and Lisa Coleman brought their esoteric funk leanings to Prince & The Revolution through their purple reign in the early 80s, and split to pursue their own maverick musical path in 1986.

http://www.cherryred.co.u...-and-lisa/

Culture Club‘s 1982 debut album, Kissing To Be Clever will be reissued on limited edition yellow vinyl next month.

The Music On Vinyl yellow vinyl edition is limited to 1000 copies and can be ordered online from JPC.de. A non-limited black version will be widely available. Both are released on 22 July 2016.

Little Richard The Complete Specialty And Vee-Jay Albums on Limited Edition Mono 5LP Box Set
Release: July 15, 2016

When Little Richard recorded "Tutti Frutti" in 1955 at Cosimo's Studio in New Orleans with A&R man Bumps Blackwell, rock 'n' roll was taken to a thrilling new level. The pounding piano, the high voice and trills, and the sexually suggestive lyrics catapulted the former Richard Penniman to the top of the charts and to legendary status. And the pioneering hits just kept on coming with "Long Tall Sally," "Rip It Up," "Ready Teddy," "Lucille," "Send Me Some Lovin'," "Good Golly Miss Molly," "Jenny Jenny" and "Keep A-Knockin'.

This deluxe 5LP slipcase box set includes the entire output of studio albums recorded by Little Richard for the Specialty and Vee-Jay labels, each in their original mono mixes. The essential recordings represented here are: Here's Little Richard (1957), Little Richard (1958), The Fabulous Little Richard (1959), Little Richard Is Back (1964) and His Greatest Hits (1965). Each LP is housed in a sleeve jacket and the set comes complete with a 16-page booklet featuring new liner notes by journalist Bill Dahl, plus a treasure trove of photos.

Features:
• Limited Edition Mono 5LP Box Set
• Entire output of studio albums recorded by Little Richard for Specialty & Vee-Jay labels
• Featuring Here's Little Richard (1957), Little Richard (1958), The Fabulous Little Richard (1959), Little Richard Is Back (1964) & His Greatest Hits (1965)
• Each LP in a sleeve jacket
• 16-page booklet w/ new liner notes by journalist Bill Dahl plus a treasure trove of photos.
• Housed in a slip-case box

The Hangman’s Blues: Prison Songs In Country Music (1956-1972)
release: August 5, 2016

Limited Edition Deluxe Gatefold LP with exclusive scholarly liner notes by Alvin Lucia!
Full dynamic range 2016 remasters direct from the first generation analogue master tapes!

From the people who brought you ‘Hillbillies In Hell’… Grim tales of jailbirds, cutthroats, cuckolds, executioners, murderers and popcorn-dusted escapees. Prison ballads form part of the historic lifeblood of Country music and saw a distinct resurgence after the May 1960 execution of controversial convict Caryl Chessman.

Here Iron Mountain Analog Research presents 16 of the very best, many seldom heard since their original release (often on obscure, microscopic or private-press labels). Running the gamut from smooth balladeers of woe to ramshackle and plaintive backyard rockabillies, The Hangman’s Blues features fevered declarations of innocence, profound diatribes on capital punishment and mournful odes to that Last Mile.

Years in the making – The Hangman’s Blues will chill, thrill and bedevil the dreams of all who hear it. Originally issued on forgotten 45s, some of these sides are indescribably rare and are reissued here for the very first time. All in one handy LP package.

Freddie Hart - The Wall
Jim Carter - Jailer Jailer
Lonesome Johnny - Death Row
Jaycee Hill - Crash Out
Bill Carter with The Cooper Brothers - Jailer Man
Dee Mullins - Prison Grey
Country Johnny Mathis - Caryl Chessman
Ronnie Hawkins - The Ballad Of Caryl Chessman
Marty Robbins - The Chair
Stonewall Jackson - Run
Jimmy Minor - Death Row
Al Dean - Hangman
Bobby Sykes - The Guard On The North Wall
Hoyle Miller - Twelve Years On Death Row
Jimmy Van - The Ballad Of Caryl Chessman
Porter Wagoner - (I Heard That) Lonesome Whistle

Brook Benton: Rainy Night in Georgia—The Complete Reprise & Cotillion Singles A’s & B’s (2-CD Set)
Release - July 1, 2016

He’s one of the all-time great soul balladeers, with 58 pop and 38 R&B hits to his credit, and his beautiful baritone is one of the most recognizable voices in all of pop and soul music, but Brook Benton has never had any kind of collection devoted to his last great body of work, the Jimmy Bowen-produced sides he recorded for Reprise and the Arif Mardin-produced material he recorded for Cotillion during the late ‘60s and early ‘70s. Now, in true Real Gone fashion, we’ve put together a two-CD package that includes the A and B-side of every single side Benton recorded for the two labels, all but one (see below) in their original mono single mixes and, after an exhaustive vault search, all but three from original tape sources. These 31 sides display a staggering stylistic versatility ranging from R&B takes on pop standards like “My Way” (yes, that song can be funky, and it’s here in a rare stereo single mix!), “I Gotta Be Me,” and “The Glory of Love,” to gospel songs like “If You Think God Is Dead,” topical tunes like “Heaven Help Us All” and “A Black Child Can’t Smile,” and, of course, some Southern-dipped soul like the #1 R&B hit “Rainy Night in Georgia” and the seven single sides he recorded with the Dixie Flyers, including the hits “Shoes” and “Don’t It Make You Want to Go Home.” Remastered by Mike Milchner at SonicVision and annotated by Gene Sculatti, Rainy Night in Georgia—The Complete Reprise & Cotillion Singles A’s & B’s is a major soul find and deserves a place on the shelf right next to Brook’s classic Mercury material.


Disc 1
1. Laura (What's He Got That I Ain't Got)

2. You're the Reason I'm Living

3. Weakness in a Man

4. The Glory of Love

5. Lonely Street

6. Instead (Of Loving You)

7. Do Your Own Thing

8. I Just Know What to Do with Myself

9. Touch 'Em with Love

10. She Knows What to Do for Me

11. Nothing Can Take the Place of You

12. Woman Without Love

13. Rainy Night in Georgia

14. Where Do I Go from Here

15. My Way

16. A Little Bit of Soap


Disc 2
1. Don't It Make You Want to Go Home

2. I've Gotta Be Me

3. Shoes

4. Let Me Fix It

5. Heaven Help Us All

6. Whoever Finds This (I Love You)

7. Take a Look at Your Hands

8. If You Think God Is Dead

9. Please Send Me Someone to Love

10. She Even Woke Me Up to Say Goodbye

11. A Black Child Can't Smile

12. Soul Santa

13. Let Us All Get Together with the Lord

14. Movin' Day

15. Poor Make Believer

Tiny Tim - The Complete Singles Collection 1966-1970

• EVERY “A” & “B” SIDE RELEASED DURING HIS GLORY ERA!
• FIRST TIME EVER COMPILED ON CD!
• SOURCED FROM THE ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES!
• INCLUDES MANY RARE/ALTERNATE MIXES!

TINY TIM was one of the most outrageous, unique, and beloved sensations ever to emerge during the 1960s. Born of that brief, inspired moment in time when the freaks almost took over, Tiny’s debut LP, April 1968’s God Bless Tiny Tim, is an otherworldly mission statement from the misunderstood pop culture icon who almost singlehandedly invented “other.” Yet despite all this, a complete singles collection, or ever a legitimate “Best of” chronicling his golden years, has never been compiled on CD. UNTIL NOW!

Featuring the Top 20 hit “Tip-Toe Thru’ The Tulips With Me,” The Complete Singles Collection (1966-1970) includes the original single mixes of all of his classic Reprise singles, from this peak era of his career. Also included is his debut 45 on Blue Cat and his post-Reprise era one-off single for Scepter Records, for the first time ever on CD!

This 22-track deluxe edition includes many original mono single mixes, which has been out of circulation since their original release.

The deluxe, full-colour booklet also includes rare photos and extensive and insightful liner notes by KRISTIAN HOFFMAN. Mastered by ALAN BROWNSTEIN from the ORIGINAL MASTER TAPES!
Compiled & Produced by STEVE STANLEY

1. April Showers
2. Little Girl
3. Tip-Toe Thru' the Tulips with Me
4. Fill Your Heart
5. Bring Back Those Rock-A-Bye Baby Days
6. This Is All I Ask
7. Hello, Hello
8. The Other Side
9. Great Balls of Fire
10. As Time Goes By
11. On the Good Ship Lollipop
12. America I Love You
13. Mickey the Monkey
14. Neighborhood Children
15. I'm a Lonesome Little Raindrop
16. What the World Needs Now Is Love
17. Don't Bite the Hand That's Feeding You
18. What Kind of American Are You
19. Why
20. The Spaceship Song
21. Movies
22. Am I Just Another Pretty Face

The Monkees - Complete TV Series Blu-ray
Release: July 8, 2016

1. All 58 episodes, newly remastered in stunning HD from the original negatives for the very first time, plus the 1969 TV Special "33 1/3 Revolutions Per Monkee"

2. Bonus material featuring commentaries from all four Monkees, original Kellogg's Monkees commercials, and more

3. The 1968 Monkees film "HEAD" in HD with never-before-seen outtakes

4. Unique packaging including a 7" featuring "Star Collector" b/w "Goin' Down" in unique TV mono mixes

5. Strictly limited to 10,000 individually numbered sets

6. Only available at Monkees.com

We're excited to reveal the contents of this long-awaited collection. But first, check out the fantastic packaging - a lenticular 3-D cover mount that "moves" as you tilt it!

• All 58 original, uncut episodes of THE MONKEES, remastered in HD from the original film negatives
• Audio commentary from all four Monkees
• NEW audio commentary from Micky Dolenz, Rodney Bingenheimer and "Monkee Girl" Valerie Kairys Venet
• Alternate "Saturday morning rerun" versions of 10 episodes with alternate songs and mixes
• All in the original glorious mono direct from the film audio mags

Disc 8

• The 1968 movie HEAD, in HD
• Optional DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 surround soundtrack
• Audio commentary from all four Monkees

Disc 9

• The 1969 NBC television special 33 1/3 REVOLUTIONS PER MONKEE
restored from newly discovered video elements
• Audio commentary from Micky Dolenz

Disc 10 - BONUS DISC, AVAILABLE IN THIS STRICTLY LIMITED EDITION ONLY!

• Original screen tests
• Original TV commercial spots featuring The Monkees
• Newly discovered outtakes from THE MONKEES TV series
• Newly discovered color promo film for "Randy Scouse Git" created for TOP OF THE POPS and unseen since its original airing
• Never-before-seen backstage footage of The Monkees at the 1967 Emmy Awards
• Newly discovered outtakes from the movie HEAD
• Newly discovered outtakes from the TV special 33 1/3 REVOLUTIONS PER MONKEE
• The Monkees on THE JOHNNY CASH SHOW in 1969, including "Nine Times Blue" and "Everybody Loves A Nut (with Johnny Cash)"
• The Monkees on THE GLEN CAMPBELL GOODTIME HOUR in 1969, including a medley of "Last Train to Clarksville/I'm A Believer/Salesman" and a performance of "Tear Drop City"
• The Monkees on ROWAN & MARTIN'S LAUGH-IN in 1969
• Davy Jones performing "Someday Man" from the 1969 TV special MUSIC BAG, unseen since its original airing
• Newly restored color promo film for "Oh My My"

This collection is strictly limited to 10,000 individually numbered boxes and once those are sold out, this edition and bonus disc will never be available again. Don't miss out - pre-order your copy now!

David Bowie - 1966: The Pye Singles
Release: July 1, 2016 (CD & vinyl)

1. I'm Not Losing Sleep
2. I Dig Everything
3. Can't Help Thinking About Me
4. Do Anything You Say
5. Good Morning Girl
6. And I Say To Myself

Twelve Inch 80's: Let's Groove (3 CDs)
Release: July 1, 2016

Twelve Inch Eighties is the successful 3CD range by Crimson Productions, compiling extended alternate mixes of some of the biggest hit singles of the 80s. Each themed release is housed in a sleek 3CD digipak with abstract imagery representative of early dance label releases. These carefully selected titles across the range will bring together the finest eighties pop, dance and disco, amongst other genres, in all their full 12' single glory.

Let's Groove is the latest title in the range and the first dip into the classics 80s Disco scene. These extended hits will keep you in your platforms all night long.

- 30 Disco smash singles from Earth Wind & Fire, Damian, Milli Vanilli, Lisa Stansfield and more...
- Contains 3x UK number 1s, 7x Top 5 and 8x Top 10 UK Chart Singles.
- Many hit records exclusively licensed from Sony Music Entertainment UK Limited.

CD1
1 This Time I Know It's For Real (12" Extended Remix) 7:24 - Donna Summer
2 Jump (For My Love) 6:24 - The Pointer Sisters
3 Let's Groove (Special Remixed Holiday Version) 6:50 - Earth, Wind & Fire
4 Walk Right Now (12" John Luongo Disco Mix) 7:36 - The Jacksons
5 Party All the Time (Special Version) 5:15 - Eddie Murphy
6 Use It Up and Wear It Out (12" Single Edit) 4:56 - Odyssey
7 Never Too Much 5:40 - Luther Vandross
8 Fake 88 (12" House Mix) 6:59 - Alexander O'neal
9 Love Come Down (12" Version) 6:16 - Evelyn "Champagne" King
10 Take Your Time Do It Right (12' Version) 7:46 - The S.O.S. Band

CD2
1 That's The Way (I Like It) 5:55 - Dead Or Alive
2 Tell It to My Heart (Club Mix) 6:46 - Taylor Dayne
3 It's Raining Men (12" Mix) 5:27 - The Weather Girls
4 So Macho (Extended Club Mix) 6:34 - Sinitta
5 The Time Warp 2 (Brand New Extended Version) 6:18 - Damian
6 Don't Drop Bombs (Remix) 5:55 - Liza Minnelli
7 Hey Music Lover (Spatial Expansion Mix) 8:26 - S'Express
8 Doctorin' The House (Vocal Verse) 5:38 - Coldcut feat. Yazz & The Plastic - Population
9 Baby Don't Forget My Number (Pennsylvania Six-Five-Thousand Heart Line Mix) 7:40 - Milli Vanilli
10 Go Deh Yaka (Club Mix) 6:32 - Monyaka

CD3
1 The Eve of the War (Deep Space Mix) 7:07 - Ben Liebrand
2 All Around the World (Long Version) 7:05 - Lisa Stansfield
3 Tribute (Right On)(The Screaming Cat Mix) 5:11 - The Pasadenas
4 All Fall Down (Full Length Version) 5:30 - Five Star
5 Caribbean Queen (No More Love On The Run) (Extended Mix) 8:20 - Billy Ocean
6 Loco In Acapulco (PH Balance Mix) 6:28 - The Four Tops
7 Conga (Dance Mix) 5:58 - Gloria Estefan & Miami Sound Machine
8 Let's Go Round Again (12" Version) 6:28 - Average White Band
9 Another Night (Dance Mix) 6:40 - Aretha Franklin
10 Move Closer (New Mix) 6:08 - Phyllis Nelson

Twelve Inch 80's: Rhythm Is Gonna Get You (3 CDs)
Release: July 1, 2016

CD1
1 State Of Shock (Dance Mix) 5:40 - The Jacksons
2 Rhythm Is Gonna Get You (Special 12' Dance Mix) 7:04 . Gloria Estefan and Miami Sound Machine
3 Love's About To Change My Heart (Clivillés & Cole 12' Mix) 7:48 - Donna Summer
4 Freeway of Love (Rock Mix) 4:50 - Aretha Franklin
5 Stop To Love (12' Mix) 5:27 - Luther Vandross
6 Hitmix (The Official Bootleg Megamix) 9:38 - Alexander O'Neal
7 Just The Way You Like It (Long Mix) 9:40 - S.O.S. Band
8 Touch Me (I Want Your Body) 5:19 - Samantha Fox
9 Cuddly Toy (Extended Mix) 5:50 - Roachford
10 Dignity (Extended Version) 5:45 - Deacon Blue

CD2
1 Total Eclipse Of The Heart 7:01 - Bonnie Tyler
2 We Built This City (Special Club Mix) 6:57 - Starship
3 Out Of Touch (Club Version) 7:35 - Daryl Hall & John Oates
4 Kyrie 4:13 - Mr. Mister
5 Eye of the Tiger (Special Extended European Version) 5:58 - Survivor
6 Playing With The Boys (12' Version) 6:41 - Kenny Loggins
7 Human Touch (Extended Mix) 7:13 - Rick Springfield
8 Hazy Shade Of Winter (Purple Haze Mix) (Clean Version) 4:59 - The Bangles
9 She Bop (Special Dance Mix) 6:24 - Cyndi Lauper
10 Circle In The Sand (Beach Party Mix) 7:52 - Belinda Carlisle

CD3
1 Go Wild in the Country (12' Version) 5:20 - Bow Wow Wow
2 See Those Eyes (Dance Mix) 5:32 - Altered Images
3 Life in Tokyo (12' Extended Version) 7:09 - Japan
4 Wishing (If I Had A Photograph Of You)(Extended Version) 9:36 - A Flock Of Seagulls
5 We Are Detectives 5:41 - Thompson Twins
6 Alone Without You (Scorcher Mix) 4:29 - King
7 Fight For Ourselves (Extended Remix) 7:30 - Spandau Ballet
8 Medicine Show (12 inch Remix) 7:10 - Big Audio Dynamite
9 Hey Manhattan! (JFK Version) 7:05 - Prefab Sprout
10 Dreamtime (Extended Remix Version) 7:55 - Daryl Hall

Nina Simone The Philips Years on Limited Edition 180g 7LP Box Set
Release: July 15, 2016

Nina Simone's combination of classical training, smokey-alto vocal delivery and the influence of modern jazz made her a novel and inspiring jazz singer and instrumentalist. And her very name is synonymous with the passion, talent and raw emotion that she put into every note she sang and played. The Phillips Years is a fine collection of seven albums released by Simone during her tenure on the label from 1964-1967. Simone's albums covered topics as diverse as romance, politics, Broadway, civil rights and more. The essential recordings included in this package are Nina Simone in Concert (1964), Broadway-Blues-Ballads (1964), I Put a Spell on You (1965), Pastel Blues (1966), Let It All Out (1966), Wild is The Wind (1966) and High Priestess of Soul (1967). All albums comes pressed on 180 gram vinyl and are housed in a limited edition box set.

Features:
• Limited Edition 180g 7LP Box Set
• Collection of & albums released by Nina Simone during her Philips tenure from 1964-1967
• Featuring Nina Simone in Concert (1964), Broadway-Blues-Ballads (1964), I Put a Spell on You (1965), Pastel Blues (1966), Let It All Out (1966), Wild is The Wind (1966) and High Priestess of Soul (1967)

Next month Sony will issue their 2001 compilation, The Very Best of Daryl Hall and John Oates, on vinyl for the first time and it will be a limited edition coloured vinyl set to boot…

The album features 18 tracks from the best selling duo, including their five US number ones, Kiss On My List, Private Eyes, I Can’t Go For That (No Can Do), Maneater, and Out Of Touch.

This double vinyl set is a 150g pressing on grey and blue coloured vinyl, packaged in a gatefold jacket with photos and liner notes.

This vinyl edition of The Very Best of Daryl Hall and John Oates is released on 12 August 2016.

Warners have pushed back some of the Prince vinyl reissues scheduled for this year, with one album disappearing from listings altogether…

Parade is now currently slated for a 26 August release, about a month after Around The World In A Day (originally mis-priced in the UK) is due to be reissued on vinyl. Sign ‘O’ The Times should also be out in August (23rd), although to be honest all of these dates should regarded as provisional. Lovesexy, Graffiti Bridge, Batman and the ‘Symbol’ album, in theory, will be out before the end of the year on vinyl.

Disappointingly, The Black Album is no longer listed for reissue on vinyl and retailers including Amazon have cancelled pre-orders for this title.

Amazon in the USA are still listing cassette reissues of Purple Rain, Dirty Mind and Controversy although these aren’t to be found on any other sites.

Curiously, Warner Bros. Records have made no official mention of any of these vinyl reissues. They have simply appeared without comment or fanfare.

getxxxx said:

Disappointingly, The Black Album is no longer listed for reissue on vinyl

^ damn bad news.

still, I hope we will get

ATWIAD,
Parade,
Sign O' The Times,
Lovesexy.

the deluxe edition of "What You Don't Know", the successful sophomore longplayer by Exposé.

getxxxx said:

the deluxe edition of "What You Don't Know", the successful sophomore longplayer by Exposé.

I'm interested in this.The 2-disc deluxe edition of Exposure is fantastic,so I'm anxious to see what they do with What You Don't Know.

Coming soon on BBR...

The Chimes - The Chimes (2CD Deluxe Edition)

Disc One (Original UK album)
1 Love So Tender, 00:02:59
2 Heaven, 00:03:51
3 True Love, 00:03:48
4 1-2- 3, 00:03:23
5 Underestimate, 00:04:08
6 Love Comes To Mind, 00:04:50
7 Don't Make Me Wait, 00:04:01
8 Stronger Together, 00:03:52
9 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For, 5:27
10 Stay, 00:04:40

Bonus Tracks:
11 Bodyrock (Demo Version), 3:37
12 So Much In Love (Extended Demo Version), 4:38
13 Ready For Love, 4:02
14 No Need To Pretend, 3:19
15 Heaven (The Chimes Remix), 6:38
16 True Love (Extended Version), 5:22
17 Love Comes To Mind (Remix), 4:06
18 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (U.S. Mix), 4:21

Disc Two (Club Mixes)
01 Heaven (Heavy Club Mix), 5:45
02 1-2- 3 (Philly Mix), 8:33
03 Love Comes To Mind (Extended Version), 5:53
04 I Still Haven't Found What I'm Looking For (Street Mix), 6:17
05 True Love (Louie Louie Remix), 5:55
06 Underestimate (Special Extended Version), 5:58
07 Stay (Extended Remix), 6:06
08 Stronger Together (Red Zone Remix), 8:05
09 Heaven (Physical Mix), 8:27
10 1-2- 3 (UK Raw Mix), 6:02
11 Love Comes To Mind (Manasseh Mix), 7:07
12 Heaven (Summer Breeze Mix), 4:19