TD3 said:

SoulAlive said:

it's gonna be a great summer!

Do you have any more room in your home to buy another CD / DVD anything....

Do you?

But yeah I'm gettin' this.

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I want June 1st to arrive NOW! Can't wait to sample some cuts from the new rarities compilation. All of this is gonna give me life June 28th.

Gonna go ahead and order these on June 1st from the Hip-O-Select website

I was getting ready to order these but they say that the rarities collection is sold out Already??

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[Edited 6/1/11 3:27am]

OK,I went ahead and ordered 'Lady T' and 'Irons In The Fire' direct from the Hip-O-Select website.I'll have to order the rarities 2-disc set from Amazon.It won't be released until June 28th.

I pre-ordered all of them from Amazon.com. I don't buy from Hip-O Select unless a CD is just out-of-print and I can't get it from anywhere but the distributor's site itself.

silverchild said:

I pre-ordered all of them from Amazon.com. I don't buy from Hip-O Select unless a CD is just out-of-print and I can't get it from anywhere but the distributor's site itself.

I just did the same...I am dying to hear these NOW!!! I'm going to go broke with all these CDs I'm buying, lord.

Live versions of Square Biz & Sucker where on the deluxe edition of Street Songs

getxxxx said:

Live versions of Square Biz & Sucker where on the deluxe edition of Street Songs

true,but now you'll have her complete live set,in the order that the songs were performed.

silverchild said:

I pre-ordered all of them from Amazon.com. I don't buy from Hip-O Select unless a CD is just out-of-print and I can't get it from anywhere but the distributor's site itself.

I was gonna buy these from Amazon,but I think it will arrive faster from Hip-O.Their street date is June 14th while Amazon won't get these until June 28th.

I ordered the rarities 2-CD set from CDUniverse,since Hip-O is saying that they're sold out.Got it for a decent price ($19.98).

where both on the remastered edition of It Must Be Magic...

so the only thing making its CD debut is I Need Your Lovin (Live)

getxxxx said:

11. Someday We'll Be Free (Live)
12. Déjà Vu (Live)

where both on the remastered edition of It Must Be Magic...

so the only thing making its CD debut is I Need Your Lovin (Live)

Oh yeah...you're absolutely right! Wow,I guess they couldn't find any previously unreleased outtakes?

MidniteMagnet said:

silverchild said:

I pre-ordered all of them from Amazon.com. I don't buy from Hip-O Select unless a CD is just out-of-print and I can't get it from anywhere but the distributor's site itself.

I just did the same...I am dying to hear these NOW!!! I'm going to go broke with all these CDs I'm buying, lord.

I know what you mean I got about three separate orders on the way,lol.

SoulAlive said:

getxxxx said:

11. Someday We'll Be Free (Live)
12. Déjà Vu (Live)

where both on the remastered edition of It Must Be Magic...

so the only thing making its CD debut is I Need Your Lovin (Live)

Oh yeah...you're absolutely right! Wow,I guess they couldn't find any previously unreleased outtakes?

so you can get that one track from iTunes

[Edited 6/1/11 13:49pm]

Even though I ordered all three, I'm a bit underwhelmed by the tracklists of "Lady T" and "Irons In The Fire". No notable unreleased bonus tracks on IITF and 4 versions of Behind The Groove on Lady T (of which 3 right after another)... I wish John Morales had remixed I Need Your Lovin' as well... Oh well, I'm sure the booklets and remastering of the cds will be very worthwhile!

whitesockedfunk said:

Even though I ordered all three, I'm a bit underwhelmed by the tracklists of "Lady T" and "Irons In The Fire". No notable unreleased bonus tracks on IITF and 4 versions of Behind The Groove on Lady T (of which 3 right after another)... I wish John Morales had remixed I Need Your Lovin' as well... Oh well, I'm sure the booklets and remastering of the cds will be very worthwhile!

the tracklist to the rarities set looks nice ; )

SoulAlive said:

silverchild said:

I pre-ordered all of them from Amazon.com. I don't buy from Hip-O Select unless a CD is just out-of-print and I can't get it from anywhere but the distributor's site itself.

I was gonna buy these from Amazon,but I think it will arrive faster from Hip-O.Their street date is June 14th while Amazon won't get these until June 28th.

Damn, I didn't notice that! Now I have to wait an extra 2 weeks.

MidniteMagnet said:

SoulAlive said:

I was gonna buy these from Amazon,but I think it will arrive faster from Hip-O.Their street date is June 14th while Amazon won't get these until June 28th.

Damn, I didn't notice that! Now I have to wait an extra 2 weeks.

it'll be worth the wait

Teena Marie classic of the day: "You Make Love Like Springtime" (1980)

kitbradley said:

I figured they wouldn't have any previously unreleased songs on "Lady T" and "Irons In the Fire".

You were right

Does anyone have the detalis about this "proposed fifth album"? :hmm4:

I know that Teena sued Motown in 1982 and was able to get out of her contract and sign with Epic.But before things went sour,did she start a new album for Motown? A follow-up to 'It Must Be Magic'? Is that where these songs are from?

I also heard about an unreleased album from 1983 titled 'You Got The Love',but I assume that this was just a collection of outtakes that Motown threw together after the lawsuit.Motown has a long history of doing this: when an artist or group leaves the label and signs elsewhere,they throw together a 'new' album,sometimes releasing it around the same time as the artists' new album for another company!

TD3 said:

yeah I'm gettin' this.

Did you order these CDs yet?

is 'Beautiful' the album that she was working on at the time of her passing? I had heard that she was planning to return to Cash Money Records.

allsmutaside said:

Come on, move it up, "move it in, move it out ... Disco Lady." Dang! Happy about these re-issues, but they are delaying the movement of an unreleased album, Beautiful, until the middle of summer.

When I need an I Need Your Lovin' fix anymore I pull up her performance for Sindbad's Summer Jam. She freakin' killed that night. Yo Yo and the Butsin' Out mix - too tight. "Say, L / O / V / I / N!"

I think that the odds (50/50 is my call) are better than you think for inclusion of an instrumental version of INYL. I won't hold my breath, "cuz I just might turn blue," but we will see.

SoulAlive said:

Teena Marie
First Class Love: Rare Tee
Disc One 1. First Class Love 2. More Love 3. Wasn't I Good To You 4. Love Just Wouldn't Be Right 5. You Got Away 6. Oh Love duet with Ronnie McNeir 7. Betcha I’ll Prove duet with Ronnie McNeir 8. My Baby Loves Me Ronnie McNeir with Teena Marie 9. White Soul 10. Can You Do It 11. Why Can't I Get Next To You 12. Co-Pilot To Pilot 13. Hey Boy 14. Don't Turn Your Back On Me 15. Wasn't I Good To You (1983 mix) 16. Love Just Wouldn't Be Right (1983 mix) 17. You Got Away (1983 mix) 18. Oh Love duet with Ronnie McNeir (1983 mix) Disc Two 1. First Class Love (acoustic demo) 2. Don’t Turn Your Back On Me (acoustic demo) 3. God Has Created (acoustic demo) 4. Wasn’t I Good To You (acoustic demo) 5. Why Can't I Get Next To You (acoustic demo) 6. Happiness Is In Your Soul (acoustic demo) 7. Make You Surrey (acoustic demo) 8. The Greatest Love Of All Time (acoustic demo)		SOLD OUT! ARTIST: Teena Marie TITLE: First Class Love: Rare Tee FORMAT: 2CD SITE PRE-SALE DATE: 5/27/2011 SITE SHIP DATE: 6/14/2011 PRICE: $24.98 Teena Marie signed to Motown in 1976 when she was just 20 years old, but didn’t record her first album, co-produced by Rick James, until 1979. What fans had heard, but never confirmed, is that Teena recorded several tracks at Motown from April 1976-May 1977, nearly two years before James “discovered” her. Those rare and precious early recordings, approved for release by Teena, have been collected in this 2-CD set, First Class Love: Rare Tee. First Class Love includes every one of those earliest recordings, produced by fellow Motown artist Ronnie McNeir, staff producer Winston Monseque, and the established hit makers Kenny Kerner and Richie Wise. Among these amazing performances is an early version of “First Class Love,” which was later released on Irons In The Fire; the funky, autobiographical “White Soul”; covers of the Miracles’ “More Love” and Martha & the Vandellas’ “My Baby Loves Me”; and the doo-wop throwback “Hey Boy.” All of those aforementioned tracks are previously unreleased; the soulful Kerner & Wise productions “Co-Pilot To Pilot,” “Why Can’t I Get Next To You” and “Don't Turn Your Back On Me” were previously issued on various compilations. Also included are four overdubbed mixes from 1983 created for a proposed fifth Teena album. Disc 2 features eight performances that are perhaps more extraordinary: Teena Marie with just an acoustic guitar, recording song demos for Motown founder Berry Gordy. Astonishing in their purity and maturity, these “unplugged” performances –among them the original demos for “First Class Love,” “Don’t Turn Your Back On Me” and “God Has Created” (later re-recorded as a duet with Smokey Robinson for her 2006 album Sapphire) are exclusive to the 2-CD Edition. First Class Love: Rare Tee includes a beautiful booklet with previously unpublished photographs and detailed track information, as well as liner notes with commentary from Teena’s producers, as well as her closest friends, Mickey Boyce and Jill Jones. (A digital-only version of this collection was issued earlier in 2011 with 12 songs from Disc 1; for this limited edition physical 2-CD edition, however, six of the12 were given new mixes.) SOLD OUT!

On 6/3/2011 the pre-sale item is not refected as SOLD OUT. What do you all think? Has anyone ordered from HIPO before? And do ya think I'm sexy it is safe to order from them? Teena Marie
First Class Love: Rare Tee
		Price: $24.98 Pre-Sale Item! SITE PRE-SALE DATE: 5/27/2011 SITE SHIP DATE: 6/14/2011

allsmutaside said:

SoulAlive said:

Teena Marie
First Class Love: Rare Tee
Disc One 1. First Class Love 2. More Love 3. Wasn't I Good To You 4. Love Just Wouldn't Be Right 5. You Got Away 6. Oh Love duet with Ronnie McNeir 7. Betcha I’ll Prove duet with Ronnie McNeir 8. My Baby Loves Me Ronnie McNeir with Teena Marie 9. White Soul 10. Can You Do It 11. Why Can't I Get Next To You 12. Co-Pilot To Pilot 13. Hey Boy 14. Don't Turn Your Back On Me 15. Wasn't I Good To You (1983 mix) 16. Love Just Wouldn't Be Right (1983 mix) 17. You Got Away (1983 mix) 18. Oh Love duet with Ronnie McNeir (1983 mix) Disc Two 1. First Class Love (acoustic demo) 2. Don’t Turn Your Back On Me (acoustic demo) 3. God Has Created (acoustic demo) 4. Wasn’t I Good To You (acoustic demo) 5. Why Can't I Get Next To You (acoustic demo) 6. Happiness Is In Your Soul (acoustic demo) 7. Make You Surrey (acoustic demo) 8. The Greatest Love Of All Time (acoustic demo)		SOLD OUT! ARTIST: Teena Marie TITLE: First Class Love: Rare Tee FORMAT: 2CD SITE PRE-SALE DATE: 5/27/2011 SITE SHIP DATE: 6/14/2011 PRICE: $24.98 Teena Marie signed to Motown in 1976 when she was just 20 years old, but didn’t record her first album, co-produced by Rick James, until 1979. What fans had heard, but never confirmed, is that Teena recorded several tracks at Motown from April 1976-May 1977, nearly two years before James “discovered” her. Those rare and precious early recordings, approved for release by Teena, have been collected in this 2-CD set, First Class Love: Rare Tee. First Class Love includes every one of those earliest recordings, produced by fellow Motown artist Ronnie McNeir, staff producer Winston Monseque, and the established hit makers Kenny Kerner and Richie Wise. Among these amazing performances is an early version of “First Class Love,” which was later released on Irons In The Fire; the funky, autobiographical “White Soul”; covers of the Miracles’ “More Love” and Martha & the Vandellas’ “My Baby Loves Me”; and the doo-wop throwback “Hey Boy.” All of those aforementioned tracks are previously unreleased; the soulful Kerner & Wise productions “Co-Pilot To Pilot,” “Why Can’t I Get Next To You” and “Don't Turn Your Back On Me” were previously issued on various compilations. Also included are four overdubbed mixes from 1983 created for a proposed fifth Teena album. Disc 2 features eight performances that are perhaps more extraordinary: Teena Marie with just an acoustic guitar, recording song demos for Motown founder Berry Gordy. Astonishing in their purity and maturity, these “unplugged” performances –among them the original demos for “First Class Love,” “Don’t Turn Your Back On Me” and “God Has Created” (later re-recorded as a duet with Smokey Robinson for her 2006 album Sapphire) are exclusive to the 2-CD Edition. First Class Love: Rare Tee includes a beautiful booklet with previously unpublished photographs and detailed track information, as well as liner notes with commentary from Teena’s producers, as well as her closest friends, Mickey Boyce and Jill Jones. (A digital-only version of this collection was issued earlier in 2011 with 12 songs from Disc 1; for this limited edition physical 2-CD edition, however, six of the12 were given new mixes.) SOLD OUT!

On 6/3/2011 the pre-sale item is not refected as SOLD OUT. What do you all think? Has anyone ordered from HIPO before? And do ya think I'm sexy it is safe to order from them? Teena Marie
First Class Love: Rare Tee
		Price: $24.98 Pre-Sale Item! SITE PRE-SALE DATE: 5/27/2011 SITE SHIP DATE: 6/14/2011

My experience with Hip-O Select when it comes to ordering has been kinda lukewarm in parts. I remember when I purchased one of the last copies of Eddie Kendricks' The Thin Man collection (which is now a collectors item and out of print) last year. I purchased it a day before Thanksgiving and I had it ship fast. I was supposed to get a tracking number, but I didn't get one. I saw my credit card account and of course, the money was taken out for their company. I called consumer service countless times and all they could do was put a confirmation number in their warehouse to notify them to call me back. Unsurprisingly, that never happened. I finally got the CD a month later, a week before Christmas. It took 6 weeks for it to be delivered and it was in stock as well. So, to each their own when it comes to shopping at Hip-O Select. Unless I can't find a CD at other retailers (Amazon, Dusty Groove, CD Universe, etc.) I usually purchase it at Hip-O but that's it. I buy my stuff from other places though, most notably Amazon.com!

[Edited 6/3/11 11:47am]