A Mind-Blowing Tribute to the Unsung Studio Musicians Who

Recorded the Soundtrack of a Generation                                  

THE WRECKING CREW

The Inside Story of Rock and Roll’s Best-Kept Secret

Kent Hartman

“… A commendable, long-overdue tribute to the legendary Wrecking Crew—the ridiculously talented, go-to guys behind so many hits. This book will make your head spin.”

—Shirley Manson, lead singer, Garbage

Music Composed by Paul McCartney
The George Martin Orchestra
Arranged and Produced by George Martin

Release Date: 7/26/11

The Family Way is the 1967 soundtrack composed by Paul McCartney, and performed by The George Martin Orchestra. This recording is sometimes considered to be the first Beatles solo album. The Family Way is a 1966 British comedy-drama film staring John Mills and Hayley Mills.

The original 1967 soundtrack recording to The Family Way begins with McCartney’s theme, “Love in the Open Air,” and contains twelve more (untitled) score cues suited to the onscreen action.  For his composition, McCartney was initially inspired by the sound of brass bands, familiar to his childhood in the North of England.

The very rare original recording of Paul McCartney’s first solo venture, The Family Way sound track was composed in 1966 and performed by The George Martin Orchestra.

 The soundtrack is mastered from the original first generation stereo master tapes, and features a special bonus track “Theme From The Family Way,” in stereo for the first time ever! It was issued as a single under the name The Tudor Minstrels.

Under George Martin’s direction, the score was recorded at CTS Studios in November 1966.

This is the first time this Paul McCartney soundtrack will be officially released on CD.

Track List:
Includes all 13 tracks from the original album release plus a bonus track, the previously unreleased stereo mix of Theme From The Family Way credited to The Tudor Minstrels. Originally issued as London [US] single 45-1012, Decca [UK] single F.12536, 1967

The Complete liner notes by Chip Madinger

A dry and dramatic comedy of errors, The Family Way is the saga of a young couple (newlyweds Jenny Piper {Hayley Mills} and Arthur Fitton {Hywell Bennett} seemingly unable to formally accomplish their marital duties.  Directed by Roy Boulting and produced by his twin brother John, production began in 1966 under the possible working titles, “Wedlocked” and “All In Good Time,” the name of Bill Naughton’s play on which the film was based.

In the U.K., the film earned an X-certificate (intended for those over 16 years of age) from the British Board of Film Censors, for a combination of the film’s subject matter, heavily-cloaked innuendo and extended views of a former Disney child-star’s fundament.  However, viewers of the film not only witnessed Hayley Mills’ cinematic coming of age, but also heard the first tangible evidence of Paul McCartney’s independence from The Beatles.

Paul spoke of his initial foray into composing for film to the NME: “It was most unglamorous really.  I rang our NEMS office and said I would like to write a film theme, not a score, just a theme.  John was away filming [How I Won The War] so I had time to do it.”  The Beatles’ producer, George Martin, was key to the project and assumed a familiar role, as Paul told the Sunday Times: “He is the interpreter I play themes and chords on piano or guitar, he gets it down on paper.  I talk about the idea I have for instrumentation.  Then he works out the arrangement.  I tried to learn music once with a fellow who’s a great teacher.  But it got too much like homework.  I have some block about seeing it in little black dots on paper.  It’s like Braille to me.”  To begin, Paul composed 15 seconds of the opening theme and played it on piano to Martin, who transcribed the notes and arranged the melody, merging a church organ, brass band, string quartet and percussion.

It was more than a fortnight later (with Martin back from a cruise to New York aboard the Queen Mary, and McCartney having returned from an extended holiday through France, Spain and Africa) that the duo regrouped to complete the requisite love theme for the film, as Martin recounted for the NME: “I told Paul, and he said he’d compose something.  I waited but nothing materialized, and finally I had to go round to Paul’s house and literally stand there until he’d composed something.  John was visiting and advised a bit, but Paul created the tune and played it to me on guitar.”  Again, Martin took away the melody, this time arranging it for woodwind and strings.  Five sessions at CTS Studios followed, spread over the course of three days and nights, all in the midst of recording The Beatles’ “Strawberry Fields Forever.”  In the end, the music was completed only two weeks before the film’s Sunday night premiere in London’s Warner Theatre on December 18th, leaving the editors little time to complete the soundtrack.  The Daily Mirror reported Martin as having told the Boulting brothers: “If it sounds as if it was done in a hurry, it’s because it was done in a hurry.”

Decca Records (U.K.) purchased the musical rights to the film, and although George Martin had been led to believe that only a soundtrack album would be issued, a single by “The Tudor Minstrels” (the soundtrack’s session musicians, so named after the Boulting brothers’ production company, Tudor Films) was scheduled for release on December 15th to tie in with the film’s premiere.  This would seem to have been of little consequence, except that Martin had plans to issue his own single on the E.M.I.-affiliated United Artists label.

In order to level the playing field, Decca’s release was put back for a week, while Martin prepared his recording.  And so on December 6th, before a Beatles’ session for another McCartney original, “When I’m Sixty-Four” (which Martin had also scored), George made tape copies of a handful of cues from the just-finished film soundtrack to assist in preparing the arrangements for his own orchestra.  In between Beatles’ sessions for “Strawberry Fields Forever” and “When I’m Sixty-Four,” Martin found time to prepare his score, and in a three-hour session at E.M.I. on the morning of December 15th, recorded, mixed and mastered both sides of the single.  Both discs (each coupling “Love In The Open Air” with “Theme From The Family Way”) were released on December 23rd, and failed to make any impression on the charts in the weeks that followed.

Having witnessed Britain’s lack of response to George Martin’s wistful treatment of “Love In The Open Air,” United Artists in America requested a more up-tempo, beat group sound for their forthcoming single.  Martin dutifully re-arranged the theme, and recorded the re-make at E.M.I. over three days in early February 1967.  Coupled with a new B-Side, “Bahama Sound” (a Martin composition unrelated to the film), the American United Artists single also went unnoticed.  Meanwhile, Decca’s U.S. counterpart, London Records (the American Decca Records having established itself as an independent label in 1942), left The Tudor Minstrels’ disc unchanged, with their efforts mirrored by its lack of chart success.

As for the soundtrack album, Decca issued the disc (in both mono and stereo) on January 6th, 1967, but, despite the prominent position of Paul’s name on the cover, sales of the album fell short, and the disc failed to make an appearance in the British album charts.  When issued in the States by London on June 12th (with revised artwork), the American release followed suit and did not chart.

All 24 of the McCartney/Martin musical cues appearing in the film were bundled into 13 tracks on the soundtrack album, with six of the tracks banding together a number of shorter musical cues.  There is reason behind the cryptic cue IDs, as they roughly correlate to the film reel on which each cue appears, and the sequence of the cue on that reel.  (For those keeping track, there are a few gaps in the sequencing: there is no Cue 2M2 or 2M3, film reels 3 and 9 contained no musical cues, and Cue 6M1 is the brief appearance of the theme music from the television drama, Coronation Street.)

And so, nearly 45 years after the soundtrack was recorded, this is the first compact disc release to feature the original 1/4″ stereo master tapes.  Also included is a previously unreleased stereo mix of ‘Theme From The Family Way,‘ the B-Side to both the British and American singles by The Tudor Minstrels.

Chip Madinger June 2011

Chip Madinger is the co-author of Eight Arms To Hold You, the authoritative guide to the Beatles work as solo artists.  He is also the author of Lennonology, a forthcoming reference series that will extensively detail the life and artistry of John Lennon and Yoko Ono.  For more information regarding these books, please visit www.lennonology.com.

Dwight Twilley best known for hits “I’m on Fire” (1975) and “Girls” (1984), also penned the Ballad “Why You Wanna Break My Heart” featured in the Motion Picture Wayne’s World. Following his current release (available now) Green Blimp (2010) defined by critics as timeless, he has just completed a new studio album titled Soundtrack slated for release this fall on Varèse Vintage Records. The CD will be in advance of a documentary film spanning Twilley’s career.

The Varèse Sarabande Records’ licensing catalog features full red book standard digital recordings of the complete scores from some of the most important films of all time.  In addition, our catalog includes recent releases, original pop and country hits, classical recordings, and original Broadway cast recordings.

Our masters have been licensed for use in a wide variety of trailers, advertisements, television shows and major motion pictures such as “Daddy Day Care,” “Horton Hears A Who”  and “Mr. Magorium’s Wonder Emporium,” as well as nationally broadcast  television commercials for Nike, Mercedes Benz and Visa Card.

All of the titles in the licensing catalog are available for review in their entirety in the Naxos Music Library at www.naxosmusiclibrary.com. Upon request, we will provide you with a password to access the library.

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The Paris Sisters were the first girl group to have a major hit Produced by Phil Spector.  Their ballad, “I Love How You Love Me,” was a top five pop smash during the fall of 1961 and marked the beginning of the girl group era. This CD features the A & B sides of all five singles produced by Phil Spector, and is the first time these songs have appeared together on CD, most for the first time ever.

Track List:
1  Be My Boy
2  I’ll Be Crying Tomorrow
3  I Love How You Love Me
4  All Through The Night
5  He Knows I Love Him Too Much
6  A Lonely Girl’s Prayer
7  Let Me Be The One
8  What Am I to Do?
9  Yes-I Love You
10 Once Upon A While Ago
Bonus Track:
11  I Love How You Love Me
(stereo mix by Tom Moulton)

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Release Date: 03/06/12

Eminent mainstays of New York’s bluegrass and country-rock scene, Elena Skye and Boo Reiners bring their singular Demolition String Band back to their roots in their latest album Gracious Days. The set showcases traditional-styled originals like Skye’s “Misfortune” and Reiners’ “Under The Weather,” along with meaningful covers from Woody Guthrie, Appalachian old-timey singer-songwriter Ola Belle Reed, legendary outsider Blaze Foley and even The Ramones. But whatever the sources, Skye and Reiners–and their gathering of stellar guest musicians–stamp them with their own indelible and instantly recognizable signature.

Comprised of members Elena Skye (vocals) and Boo Reiners (guitar), this Hoboken quartet has strong musical roots in bluegrass traditions, but those roots are shot through with plenty of rock ‘n’ roll electricity. Correlations could be drawn to towering roots/punk bands like Lone Justice and X.

Track List:
1 Jethro’s Lullaby intro
2 Misfortune
3 Under The Weather
4 Questioningly
5 Why You Been Gone So Long
6 Dress of Roses
7 Boojo Breakdown
8 Hard Ain’t It Hard
9 Alibis
10 Williamsville Ramble
11 Old Blue
12 Where The Wild Wild Flowers Grow
13 Jethro’s Lullaby reprise

Official Web Site:
www.elenaandboo.com

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Dwight Twilley
Soundtrack

12 all-new astonishing Dwight Twilley songs

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Dwight Twilley’s new studio album Soundtrack is unique and perhaps the most powerful recording of Twilley’s career. Mr. Twilley signed on to write and produce the disc to accompany a film documentary about his life now in production. “Creating this album was a real challenge for me. Something I’ve never attempted. It’s completely autobiographical. For me these songs are like musical photographs of the people, places and events that tell my story.”

Soundtrack is not an album with all the best cuts jammed at the beginning. The album is a masterful production that plays like a book that urges you to read from start to finish.

The new album marks a bittersweet milestone of the end of a more than 30-year collaboration between Twilley and legendary guitarist Bill Pitcock IV, who made a significant contribution to the album. Pitcock passed away near the completion of the recording.

Special guests on the album include Susan Cowsill (The Cowsills) who contributed her typically amazing harmonies on “Bus Ticket,” “God Didn’t Do It” and “The Cards Will Fall,” and fellow Tulsan Taylor Hanson (Hanson) who adds organ and magical keyboard sprinkles to “The Cards Will Fall” and “The Last Time Around.”

Track List:
1. “You Close Your Eyes”
2. “Bus Ticket”
3. “Tulsa Town”
4. “Skeleton Man”
5. “My Life”
6. “God Didn’t Do It”
7. “Out in the Rain”
8. “Soundtrack”
9. “The Lonely One”
10. “The Cards Will Fall”
11. “Good Things Come Hard”
12. “The Last Time Around”

Words and Music by Dwight Twilley

Dwight Twilley’s Official Website:
www.dwighttwilley.com/

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Are You Ready?
Sweet Live

Available Now!

This is the first live Sweet album to be released in the last 20 years?—It captures the band at its absolute best, and features all their hits including “Ballroom Blitz,” “Fox On The Run,” “Love Is Like Oxygen,” and “Little Willy,” as well as the heavier more powerful numbers like “Set Me Free,” “Sweet F.A.,” “Windy City.”

Are You Ready? Sweet Live was recorded in 2008 in Southern California, and has been featured on radio station KLOS in Los Angeles.

Track List:
1 – Action
2 – Fox On The Run
3 – Hell Raiser
4 – Love Is Like Oxygen
5 – Blockbuster
6 – Windy City
7 – Wig Wam Bam
8 – The Six Teens
9 – Sweet Dream
10 – Sweet F.A.
11 – Turn It Down
12 – Teenage Rampage
13 – Little Willy
14 – A.C.D.C
15 – Set Me Free
16 – Ballroom Blitz
Bonus Studio Recording
17 I Saw Her Standing There

Official Website:
www.thesweetband.com

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Lost Weekend: The Best of Wall Of Voodoo
(The I.R.S Years)

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This is the first complete CD overview of Wall Of Voodoo, the popular Los Angeles artrock- alternative band whose musical legacy extends far beyond their ’80s heyday. The release is the first anthology to showcase both incarnations of the group, featuring both the original “classic” line-up helmed by band founder/singer- songwriter Stan Ridgway (1977-1983), as well as the revamped “2.0” edition fronted by songwriter-pianist Andy Prieboy (1983-1988)

Studio and live tracks from Each of the group’s IRS albums is well represented.

The album features the original single mix of the Rock of the ’80s classic, “Mexican Radio.”

Track List:
1 Red Light
2 Tsetse Fly
3 Crack The Bell
4 Back In Flesh
5 Lost Weekend
6 Factory
7 Mexican Radio (single version)
8 On Interstate 15
9 Call Of The West
10 Far Side Of Crazy
11 Big City
12 Dark As A Dungeon
13 Do It Again
14 Country Of Man
15 Elvis Bought Dora A Cadillac
16 The Heart Can Never Tell (live)
17 Ring Of Fire (live)

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Sons Of The Pioneers, featuring Roy Rogers
The Centennial Album

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On November 5th of this year, Roy Rogers — “The King of the Cowboys” — would have turned 100 years old. To celebrate this occasion, Varese Sarabande Records is releasing The Centennial Collection, featuring rare recordings from the start of Roy Rogers’ career, when he was a part of the Sons Of The Pioneers.

The album includes a special paragraph about Roy written by his daughter Cheryl Rogers-Barnett.

Most of these recordings have never before appeared on CD

Track List:
1 Cowboy Night Herd Song
2 Jesse James
3 Hadie Brown (My Little Lady)
4 Seein’ Nellie Home (Aunt Dinah’s Quilting Party)
5 Swiss Yodel
6 Goodbye My Lover Goodbye
7 Black Sheep Blues
8 One More River To Cross
9 Sing, Cowboy, Sing
10 When The Work’s All Done This Fall
11 Dear Old Western Skies
12 New River Train
13 Billy The Kid
14 Goodbye Old Paint
15 Memories Of The Range
16 Cool Water
17 The Strawberry Roan
18 When It’s Night Time In Nevada
19 Square Dance
20 That Silver Haired Daddy Of Mine

 Bonus Track:
21 It’s Home Sweet Home to Me • Roy Rogers (Solo)

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Paul McCartney
The Family Way original soundtrack

Music Composed by Paul McCartney
The George Martin Orchestra
Arranged and Produced by George Martin

Available Now!

The Family Way is the 1967 soundtrack composed by Paul McCartney, and performed by The George Martin Orchestra. This recording is sometimes considered to be the first Beatles solo album. The Family Way is a 1966 British comedy-drama film staring John Mills and Hayley Mills.

The original 1967 soundtrack recording to The Family Way begins with McCartney’s theme, “Love in the Open Air,” and contains twelve more (untitled) score cues suited to the onscreen action.  For his composition, McCartney was initially inspired by the sound of brass bands, familiar to his childhood in the North of England.

The very rare original recording of Paul McCartney’s first solo venture, The Family Way sound track was composed in 1966 and performed by The George Martin Orchestra.

 The soundtrack is mastered from the original first generation stereo master tapes, and features a special bonus track “Theme From The Family Way,” in stereo for the first time ever! It was issued as a single under the name The Tudor Minstrels.

Under George Martin’s direction, the score was recorded at CTS Studios in November 1966.

This is the first time this Paul McCartney soundtrack will be officially released on CD.

Track List:
Includes all 13 tracks from the original album release plus a bonus track, the previously unreleased stereo mix of Theme From The Family Way credited to The Tudor Minstrels. Originally issued as London [US] single 45-1012, Decca [UK] single F.12536, 1967

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Dickey Lee
The Classic Songs Of Dickey Lee

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Dickey Lee started his career in the ’60s with pop hits such as the million sellers “Patches” and “I Saw Linda Yesterday,” followed by “Laurie (Strange Things Happen).” Later, he devoted his efforts to country music. As a singer, his ’70s country hits included “Never Ending Song of Love,” “Rocky,” “Angels, Roses, and Rain,” and “9,999,999 Tears.” As a songwriter, he has written or co-written #1 hits for a number of other prominent country artists, including Elvis Presley, George Strait, Charlie Pride, George Jones and Reba McEntire.

This collection contains new recordings of Dickey Lee’s greatest pop and country hits, including “Patches,” “I Saw Linda Yesterday,” “9,999,999 Tears,” and songs he wrote that were #1 hits for other artists, including “She Thinks I Still Care” for Elvis Presley, George Jones and for Anne Murray. “You’re The First Time I’ve Thought About Leaving,” for Reba McEntire. “Let’s Fall To Pieces Together,” for George Strait, “I’ll Be Leaving Alone,” for Charlie Pride, and “The Door Is Always Open,” for Dave And Sugar.

Recently his song “Memphis Beat,” as recorded by Keb Mo, has been heard as the theme to the hit TNT TV series Memphis Beat staring Jason Lee.

This collection features a new 2011 recording of “Memphis Beat.”

Track List:
1  Patches
2  She Thinks I Still Care
3  I Saw Linda Yesterday
4  Laurie (Strange Things Happen)
5  Never Ending Song Of Love
6  Ashes Of Love
7  Rocky
8  9,999,999 Tears
9 Angels, Roses And Rain
10  The Door Is Always Open
11  You’re The First Time I’ve Thought About Leaving
12  Let’s Fall To Pieces Together
13  I’ve Been Around Enough To Know
14  Everybody’s Reaching Out For Someone
15  I’ll Be Leaving Alone

Special Bonus Track:
16 Memphis Beat (new 2011 recording)

Dickey Lee’s Official Website:
www.dickeyleemusic.com/

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Let’s Have A Party The Very Best Of Wanda Jackson

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Wanda Jackson is known as the Queen of Rockabilly, and is one of the founding figures of rock and roll. This is the first new Wanda Jackson hits collection in over a decade, and features her classic recordings of “Fujiyama Mama,” “Mean Mean Man,” and “I Gotta Know,” along with her original recording of “Let’s Have A Party,“ which is a virtual rock and roll anthem. From her classic rock and roll sides to her country hits “Right Or Wrong” and “In The Middle Of A Heartache,” this collection superbly showcases one of the legendary stars of rock and roll and country.

Track List:
1  I Gotta Know
2  Hot Dog! That Made Him Mad
3  Don’a Wan’a
4  Cool Love
5  Fujiyama Mama
6  Mean Mean Man
7  Rock Your Baby
8  Hard Headed Woman
9  Let’s Have a Party
10  Riot in Cell Block #9
11  Funnel of Love
12  Rip It Up
13  Whole Lot of Shakin’ Goin’ On
14  Right or Wrong
15  Blue Yodel #6
16  In The Middle Of A Heartache

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Ray Price Songs Of Inspiration

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Ray Price has enjoyed one of the longest and most successful careers in all of country music.  Over the course of almost 50 years he has placed over 100 hits on the country music charts, including close to 50 in the top the 10.

The collection features some of the best-known gospel songs ever recorded including “Amazing Grace,” “How Great Thou Art,” “Peace In The Valley.”

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The Very Best Of Susan Raye and Buck Owens

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This is the first ever CD collection of the Very Best Of Buck Owens and Susan Raye. Most of these tracks have never appeared on CD, and have been unavailable for years.

Susan Raye first recorded with Buck Owens in 1970, they charted with “We’re Gonna Get Together,” and “Togetherness” (both Top 15). The duo scored their biggest hit in the summer of that year with the Top 10 hit “The Great White Horse.”

In 1972, Susan teamed up again with Buck for the Top 15 success “Looking Back to See,” and the Top 20 duet with Buck, “Love is Strange” (1975).

Track List:
1  We’re Gonna Get Together
2  Togetherness
3  Together Again
4  Cryin’ Time
5  Love Is Strange
6  The Great White Horse
7  Today I Started Loving You Again
8  I Don’t Care (Just As Long As Long As You Love Me)
9 Think Of Me When You’re Lonely
10  Your Tender Loving Care
11  Looking Back to See
12  The Good Ol’ Days (Are Here Again)
13  Sweethearts In Heaven
14  Love Makes The World Go Around

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The Very Best of Dan Seals

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Spanning the mid-80s to the early 90s, this is the first Dan Seals hits collection to include all 11 of his number one country songs, including “Bop,” “Meet Me In Montana” (with Marie Osmond), “Everything That Glitters (Is Not Gold),” and “Love On Arrival,” in the sequence of their original release.

Sadly Dan Seals passed away March 25, 2009, at the age of 61, leaving behind a legacy of country chart toppers (25 chart hits, including 11 number ones) and lyric-centric recordings that spanned a little under a decade with Liberty Records and Capitol-EMI Nashville.

Track List:
1  Everybody’s Dream Girl
2  After You
3  God Must Be A Cowboy
4  (You Bring Out) The Wild Side Of Me
5  My Baby’s Got Good Timing
6  My Old Yellow Car
7  Meet Me In Montana • Dan Seals with Marie Osmond
8  Bop
9  Everything That Glitters (Is Not Gold)
10  You Still Move Me
11  I Will Be There
12  Three Time Loser
13  One Friend
14  Addicted
15  Big Wheels In The Moonlight
16  They Rage On
17  Love On Arrival
18  Good Times

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The Wilburn Brothers Songs Of Inspiration

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The Wilburn Brothers are hands down one of the greatest male duos country music ever had, ringing up more than 30 Country chart hits over two decades.

This is the first gospel collection ever released on CD by the Wilburn Brothers.  The songs for this release were taken from their long out of print Decca albums Livin’ in God’s Country and Take up Thy Cross.  Songs include “Shall We Gather At The River (Beautiful River),” “I’ve Got That Old Time Religion In My Heart,” “Bringing In The Sheaves” and “Steal Away,” which was made famous by Red Foley.  Another stand out track is “Medals For Mothers,” which the Wilburn’s loved to dedicate to their mother on their weekly syndicated TV variety series.

Track List:
1 When The Roll Is Called Up Yonder
2 Angel Band
3 Shall We Gather At The River (Beautiful River)
4 Take Up Thy Cross
5 Bringing In The Sheaves
6 Let The Lower Lights Be Burning
7 Wreck On The Highway
8 I Feel Like Traveling On
9 I’ve Got That Old Time Religion In My Heart10 Throw Out The Life Line
11 Gathering Flowers For The Master’s Bouquet
12 Medals For Mothers
13 Steal Away
14 Go On Home Unsaved

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Buck Owens and His Buckaroos
Songs Of Inspiration

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Honky tonk country gospel done Bakersfield style! This Buck Owens collection gathers six tracks from his critically acclaimed #1 country album, Dust on Mother’s Bible and eight tracks from his 1970 album Your Mothers Prayer. Most of the tracks on this collection have been long out of print and have never been on CD.

Track List:
Pray Every Day
I’ll Go to the Church Again With Momma
Bring It to Jesus
Dust on Mother’s Bible
Where Would I Be Without Jesus
Eternal Vacation
It Was With Love
Your Mother’s Prayer
Old Time Religion
Great Judgment Day
When the Roll Is Called up Yonder
Lonesome Valley
My Saviour Leads the Way
Just a Few More Days

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The Keith Emerson Band featuring Marc Bonilla Moscow

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The Keith Emerson Band Featuring Marc Bonilla. This CD release is the companion to the DVD Moscow issued last year.

Highlights include re-workings of several classic ELP tracks such as a full version of Tarkus, Karn Evil 9, Lucky Man, Bitches Crystal and The Barbarian. What distinguishes these new arrangements has been the addition of wizard, Marc Bonilla, both as singer and co-arranger. When interviewed recently Keith confessed that these new re-constructions with guitar reflected more accurately the way he had originally envisioned them. The CD features two studio bonus tracks.

Track List:
CD One:
1. Karn Evil 9  (5:21)
2. Piano Concerto  (9:01)
3. Bitches Crystal  (5:48)
4. Malambo  (7:46)
5. Touch And Go  (5:13)
6. Lucky Man  (9:26)
7. Miles Away Pt 1  (1:56)
8. Miles Away Pt 2  (2:13)
9. Crusaders Cross  (1:15)
10. Fugue  (0:46)
11. Marche Train  (6:45)
12. Finale  (5:52)

CD Two:
1. The Barbarian  (6:19)
2. Tarkus  (35:40)
3. Nutrocker Suite  (5:15)

Bonus Studio Tracks:
4. Moscow Fantasia  (1:42)
5. Malambo (Orchestral Version)  (4:11)

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Roger Williams
(The Man Called) Mr. Piano:
Plays Romantic Melodies of Our Time

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Roger Williams is undeniably one of the greatest pianists of the 20th Century.  His illustrious career in music is unparalleled. His sparkling arpeggios, showy technique, and gentle easy listening arrangements made him one of the most popular pop instrumentalists of the ’60s.

Continuing the tradition of beautiful music played on piano as only Roger Williams can, this release features 12 hand-picked fan favorites, including such romantic classics as “Unchained Melody,” “The Way We Were,” and “Laura.”

Track List:
1 Clair de Lune/Beauty And The Beast
2 Somewhere Out There
3 My One And Only Love
4 Laura
5 All I Ask Of You
6 Unchained Melody
7 Stairway To The Stars
8 The Way We Were
9 From A Distance
10 Take The “A” Train
11 The Girl From Ipanema
12 Hungarian Dance #5

Roger Williams Official Website:

http://www.mrpianotoday.com/

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The Very Best Of EARL KLUGH
the blue note years

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The Very Best of Earl Klugh is the ultimate overview of his acclaimed Blue Note years, where he earned six Grammy nominations.  Tracks from each of the nominated albums are represented in this collection.

Highlights of the compilation include the tracks “Living Inside your Love,” “Wishful Thinking,” “Night Drive,” and two duets with Keyboardist Bob James, “Wes” and “Sandstorm” from their album Two Of A Kind.

Track List:
1 Waltz For Debby
2 Captain Caribe
3 Living Inside Your Love
4 Magic In Your Eyes
5 I’ll See You Again
6 Doc  7 Mona Lisa   8 Balladina
9 Sandstorm • Bob James and Earl Klugh
10 Wes • Bob James and Earl Klugh
11 If You’re Still In Love With Me
12 Night Drive
13 Wishful Thinking
14 All The Time
15 The Look Of Love

The Official Earl Klugh Website:
www.earlklugh.com

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THE ST. PHILIP’S BOYS CHOIR
The Best Of Angel Voices

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Before The St. Philip’s Boys Choir changed its name in the late 90s to Libera, they recorded three very popular albums titled Angel Voices (the third being a Christmas album) that were released only in Europe and the UK.  This collection features the best tracks from the first two albums, which are highly sought after by the group’s fans.

The selections chosen for this collection are from the mid 90’s period before their name change, and are a good example of the roots of their current sound while also showing the diversity in the choir’s repertoire.  Traditional sounding inspirational hymns such as “Be Still My Soul”, “How Can I Keep From Singing” and “Amazing Grace” are paired with more contemporary songs such as “Sailing” (made popular by Rod Stewart), “Evening Falls” (written by Enya), and “Close Every Door to Me” (co-written by Andrew Lloyd Webber).

Track List:
1. For The Beauty Of The Earth
2. O For The Wings Of A Dove
3. How Can I Keep From Singing
4. Pie Jesu (Faure Requiem)
5. Sailing  6. Amazing Grace
7. Evening Falls
8. All Things Bright And Beautiful
9. Be Still My Soul  10. Nunc Dimittis
11. Praise My Soul (The King Of Heaven)
12. Close Every Door To Me
13. Abide With Me  14. Adoramus Te
15. Be Still For The Presence Of The Lord
16. Jerusalem

Official Artists Website:
www.libera.org.uk

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The Wilburn Brothers

The Wilburn Brothers Show

Release Date: 9/6/11

With Loretta Lynn, Harold Morrison, special guest Ernest Tubb

The Wilburn Brothers are hands down one of the greatest male duos country music ever heard, ringing up more than 30 Country chart hits over two decades.
This is the first CD release of the official 1966 soundtrack to the very popular weekly Wilburn Brothers syndicated television show, which ran from 1963-1974.

The album not only features performances by The Wilburn Brothers, but also series regular Loretta Lynn (whose career was launched by the Wilburn Brothers), comedian Harold Morrison and special guest Country Music Hall of Famer Ernest Tubb.

This album features performances not available on any other album.

The long running weekly syndicated Wilburn Brothers Show was one of the very first syndicated country music shows and is presently being re-run on RFD-TV.

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Billy Cobham Fruit From The Loom

Billy Cobham’s follow-up to his 2010 release Palindrome. The compositions on Fruit from the Loom were inspired by his many travels around the globe, including Brazil and Switzerland. The stark contrasts in societies, politics, and everyday life in general had great influence on the compositions by world-renowned drummer Billy Cobham.

Also coming is a new album by The Annie Minogue Band, Suburbia, The Very Best Of Earl Klugh, and a new collection of unreleased masters from John Phillips.

The Derailers Live! From Texas

The Derailers, the Austin Texas band has been wowing audiences and dancers in honky-tonks around the world since 1993.

In a career that has given rise to more than a decade’s worth of fine-tuned, highly anticipated and wonderfully received music, The Derailers continue to build the relationship between song, listener and dance floor.

Live! From Texas is The Derailers first live album, recorded at various clubs in Texas over the last year.

Live! From Texas, includes some of the most popular songs from The Derailers nine studio albums, as well as two songs never before issued. It was recorded at both Gruene Hall – the oldest continually running dance hall in Texas – and Dan’s Silverleaf in Denton, TX – the seat of music education in Texas.

The ÇD features two tracks The Derailers have been performing in concert for years, but have never recorded, The Everly Brothers should have been hit, proto-garage rock classic, “You’re My Girl,” and “Come On” written by Wynn Stewart.

The Derailers music celebrates the legacies of Buck Owens, George Jones, Roy Orbison, Elvis Presley, Charlie Rich and the Beatles, while still being on the edge of today’s country music.

Track List:
1 She Left Me Cold
2 Guaranteed To Satisfy
3 Knee Deep In The Blues
4 Lies, Lies, Lies
5 I See My Baby
6 California Angel
7 Who’s Gonna Mow Your Grass
8 You’re My Girl
9 Just To Spend The Night With You
10 Cold Beer, Hot Women And Cool Country Music
11 I’m Your Man
12 Hey Valerie!
13 Alone With You
14 Come On
15 Scratch My Itch
Digital only bonus track:
16 Burning Love

The Derailers Official Website:

http://derailers.com/

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The Keith Emerson Band  Featuring Marc Bonilla, Moscow

Keith Emerson is hailed as a keyboard legend. He is known as one of the most prominent leaders in the progressive rock movement, fusing rock ‘n’ roll with a myriad of musical styles, such as classical, jazz and world music.

Marc Bonilla has played guitar and toured with Toy Matinee as well as recording two critically acclaimed guitar instrumental albums. For over a decade he has composed and performed for numerous television shows such as Justified, The PJ’s and 90210 as well as major motion pictures including Iron Man 2, The Replacements, Scorpion King, and Falling Down, collaborating with such notables as James Newton Howard, John Debney, Joel McNeely and Snuffy Walden, and receiving an Emmy award nomination in 2001 for his score for David Milch’s Big Apple.

Filmed 2008 in Moscow, Russia with Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound.

Last year marked Keith Emerson’s return as composer and performer with the highly acclaimed CD, The Keith Emerson Band Featuring Marc Bonilla.  This DVD captures the live recordings of six songs from that CD.

Highlights include re-workings of several classic ELP tracks such as a full version of “Tarkus,” “Karn Evil 9,” “Lucky Man,” “Bitches Crystal” and “The Barbarian.”  What distingushes these new arrangements has been the addition of guitar wizard, Marc Bonilla, both as singer and co-arranger.  When interviewed recently Keith confessed that these new re-constructions with guitar reflected more accurately the way he had originally envisioned them.

Besides Emerson and Bonilla, the band members include drummer Tony Pia (who has played with Edgar Winter, Brian Setzer, and is currently with the Doobie Brothers) and multi-faceted newcomer Travis Davis on bass and backing vocals.

Track List:
1.   Karn Evil 9 (1st impression)
2.   Piano Concerto (3rd movement)
3.   Bitches Crystal
4.   Malambo
5.   Touch And Go
6.   Lucky Man
7.   Miles Away (pt.1)
8.   Miles Away (pt. 2)
9.   Crusaders Cross
10.  Fugue
11.  Marche Train
12.  Finale
13.  The Barbarian
14.  Tarkus
15.  Nutrocker

Filmed live in Moscow

Also available:

The Keith Emerson Band featuring Marc Bonilla

Websites:

Keith Emerson
www.keithemerson.com

Marc Bonilla
www.marcbonilla.com

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UB40

Labour Of Love IV

UB40 is one of the most successful reggae groups of all time, with worldwide sales of over 80 million albums.

The new album is a welcome return to their hugely popular Labour Of Love series, from which many of their hit singles originated.

Labour Of Love IV covers classics from reggae legends Delroy Wilson, John Holt, Johnny Nash, and The Melodians, as well as soul favorites Smokey Robinson and Sam Cooke.

Track List
1. Don’t Want To See You Cry
2. Get Along Without You Now
3. Bring It On Home To Me
4. Cream Puff
5. Easy Snappin’
6. Holiday
7. Close To Me
8. Man Next Door
9. Tracks Of My Tears
10. True, True, True
11. Boom Shacka Lacka
12. You’re Gonna Need Me
13. A Love I Can Feel
14. Baby Why

U.S. only CD bonus tracks:
15. Loving Pauper
16. Come On Little Girl

Digital only bonus tracks:
17. Happy Go Lucky Girl
18. Take It Easy

Official Website:

http://www.ub40.co.uk/

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Billy Cobham, Palindrome

Billy Cobham is acclaimed as fusion’s greatest drummer.  His explosive technique powered some of the genre’s most important early recordings — including groundbreaking efforts by Miles Davis and the Mahavishnu Orchestra — before he became an accomplished bandleader in his own right

Palindrome is the second installment in Billy Cobham’s “Fruit From The Loom” series, and his first U.S, release in several years. The album features guest performances by Ernie Watts – Woodwinds, Michael Rodriguez – Trumpet, Marshall Gilkes – Trombone, Jean-Marie Ecay and Dean Brown at Guitars, Philippe Chayeb – Bass, Wilbert ‘Junior Gill Steel Pan and PanKat, Christophe Cravero – Keyboards and Violin and Marco Lobo – Percussion.

The tracks on Palindrome represent Billy’s Cobham’s re-engagement with the music he created as far back as 30 years ago: songs like “Moon Germs,” “A Days Grace,” are presented in updated arrangements along with “Two For Juan,” “Alfa Waves,” and “Mirage.” Rounding out this musical portfolio are never-before-released compositions: “Obliquely Speaking,” “Isle Of Skye,”  “Cancun Market,” “Torpedo Flo” and “Saippuakivikaupias.”

Track List:
1 Moon Germs
2 Two For Juan
3 Obliquely Speaking
4 Isle Of Skye
5 A Day’s Grace
6 Mirage
7 Cancun Market
8 Torpedo Flo
9 Alfa Waves

Billy Cobham’s Official Website:
http://www.billycobham.com/

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