Major New Box Sets From ABBA, Motown, KISS, Reba & White Zombie Just In Time For The Holidays
SANTA MONICA, CA. (Top40 Charts/ Universal Music Enterprises) - Boxes wrapped in brightly colored paper waiting to be opened is a holiday tradition. Thanks to Universal Music Enterprises (UMe), those gift-wrapped items might contain spectacular new box sets - ranging from a 10-CD collection of classic ...
| 'Warren Zevon' Reissued : Collector's Edition
LOS ANGELES (Top40 Charts/ Rhino Records) - Warren Zevon moved to Spain in the summer of 1975, dropping out of the music business after nearly a decade. During his self-imposed exile, he performed regularly at the Dubliner, a colorful bar owned by a former mercenary who helped Zevon pen the classic ...
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Classic And Rare TV Performances From Motown Greats Four Tops Including 'I Can't Help Myself,' 'Baby I Need Your Loving' & 'Reach Out I'll Be There'
SANTA MONICA, CA. (Top40 Charts/ Universal Music Enterprises) - On record, the Four Tops were oh-so-smooth. On stage, one of "Rolling Stone" magazine's "100 Greatest Groups Of All Time" was downright sensational. Now 22 vintage full-length video performances by the Four Tops - culled from local and ...
| Tommy James & The Shondells' '40 Years: The Complete Singles Collection (1966-2006)' Two-CD Set On Collectors' Choice Music Presents Four Decades Of Hits And Rarities
LOS ANGELES, CA. (Top40 Charts/ Conqueroo) - If you were a rock 'n' roll fan in the '60s and early '70s, you well remember Tommy James & the Shondells having hit after hit on the charts. 40 Years: The Complete Singles Collection (1966-2006) - a two-CD, 48-song set to be to be released on November 25 ...
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Two-CD Deluxe Editions Of Cat Stevens' TEA FOR THE TILLERMAN And TEASER AND THE FIRECAT Feature Added Discs With Previously Unreleased Classic Performances
LOS ANGELES, CA. (Top40 Charts/ Universal Music Enterprises) - Thirty years after his final album as Cat Stevens, the acclaimed singer-songwriter's two most beloved albums will be reissued in two-CD, newly remastered Deluxe Editions supervised by the artist himself. TEA FOR THE TILLERMAN and TEASER ...
| Johnnie Ray - A Live Concert To Be Released On Birdhouse Records
Merion Station, PA. (Top40 Charts/ Birdhouse Records) - Johnnie Ray - A Live Concert from Sciolla's nightclub in Philadelphia, PA on February 10, 1962 is soon to be released on Birdhouse Records. Reel to reel tapes of live concerts made during the early 60's at a Philadelphia nightclub called Sciolla's ...
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All Of Motown's No. 1 Hits In One Box Set For The First Time: Celebrate Motown's 50th Anniversary With The 10-CD MOTOWN: THE COMPLETE NO. 1'S
SANTA MONICA, CA. (Top40 Charts/ Universal Music Enterprises) - On the eve of Motown Records' 50th anniversary comes a spectacular collection: a 10-CD box set containing every Motown No. 1 hit, from every U.S. and International chartand from every genre, adding up to a staggering 191 tracks that hit ...
| Howlin' Wolf's Rockin' The Blues: Live In Germany 1964 To Be Released In The USA
NEW YORK, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Conqueroo Music) - In the pantheon of blues, Howlin' Wolf was in a category of his own. At 6'3' and 275 pounds, he had a voice that resonated with menace - not every bluesman could make a song like 'I Asked Her for Water (She Brought Me Gasoline)' convincing. The Blues ...
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Oldies Hit Parade Vol. 2: A Live Rock & Roll Musical Concert Held At The Strand Theater In Lakewood N.J.
Lakewood, NJ (Top40 Charts/ Nitche Entertainment) - Hey Oldies Lovers, join us at the Strand Theater in Lakewood, N. J. on Saturday, November 15, 2008, at 7:30 PM to see Johnny Maestro & The Brooklyn Bridge, Jay & The Americans, and Charisma. Sponsored by Nitche Entertainment, LLC, ticketing is available ...
| Blue Ash's 1973 Powerpop Masterpiece 'No More, No Less' To Be Reissued On Collectors' Choice Music On October 28, 2008
LOS ANGELES, CA. (Top40 Charts/ Conqueroo) - When England's Guardian newspaper assembled its list of '1,000 Albums to Hear Before You Die,' the 1973 debut album from Blue Ash made the grade alongside all the established classics - pretty remarkable considering the album in question, 1973's No More, ...
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Laura Nyro's 'Season Of Lights' And 'Nested' Released On CD By Iconoclassic Records
Hyannis Port, MA. (Top40 Charts/ Iconoclassic Records) - Announcing expanded and remastered CD releases of Laura Nyro's Season Of Lights...Laura Nyro In Concert and Nested. These rare and long unavailable classics have never before been widely available on CD. Season Of Lights and Nested are definitively ...
| 50th Anniversary Of 'The Day The Music Died' Inspires Multi-Disc Buddy Holly Packages
SANTA MONICA, CA. (Top40 Charts/ Universal Music Enterprises) - February 3, 2009 will mark the 50th anniversary of "The Day The Music Died," when a plane crash took the lives of rock 'n' roll legends Buddy Holly, Ritchie Valens, and The Big Bopper. In anticipation of that momentous occasion, the vault ...
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Black Top Records Catalog To Be Reissued On Hep Cat Records, A Division Of Collectors' Choice Music
LOS ANGELES, CA. (Top40 Charts/ Conqueroo) - Hep Cat Records, the roots label of the Collectors' Choice Music family, has launched a reissue initiative for Black Top Records, an influential '80s and '90s blues label with New Orleans roots. The project began this past summer with re-releases by Anson ...
| 'The Best Of Jimmy Hughes' Out Oct 28 On Newly Re-Launched Fame Records, Illuminates One Of Soul Music's Great Untold Stories
New York, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Shore Fire Media) - On October 28, FAME Records - the original home of The Muscle Shoals Sound -will relaunch with the release of the eighteen track collection 'The Best of Jimmy Hughes.' It's an appropriate partnership, as Hughes' epic soul classic "Steal Away" was the ...
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Genesis Set For US Release Of 1970-1975 Box Set On November 11, 2008
New York, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Atlantic Records) - Since launching an upgrade of the entire Genesis catalog last year, the comprehensive series of re-releases has followed Genesis' transformation from prog-rock pioneers to a stadium-filling power trio. With the final installment, Atlantic/Rhino ends at ...
| Eagle To Release Tori Amos Live At Montreux 1991/1992
NEW YORK, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Eagle Rock Entertainment) - Tori Amos descended on the scene in the early '90s brimming with newfound creativity, intelligence, sensitivity and an exacting literary bearing. Celebrated by critics and the public alike, that first spotlight was a heady time in the young singer/songwriter's ...
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Never Before Available Jimi Hendrix And The Ghetto Fighters Material To Be Unveiled
NEW YORK, NY. (Top40 Charts/ we-R-you) - After almost four decades away from the public, the never before heard or seen multimedia material produced by Jimi Hendrix and the Ghetto Fighters is being released and licensed through a subsidiary of the we-R-you Corporation (PINKSHEETS: WERU), the technology, ...
| Fame Records, Home Of The Original Muscle Shoals Sound, To Relaunch With Historic Reissues, New Releases And Never Before Heard Tracks From The Vault, Via EMI Distribution
New York, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Shore Fire Media) - Fame Records, the original home of The Muscle Shoals Sound, will release its first catalog collection in over thirty years this fall. The label, sister company to the world famous FAME Recording Studios founded by Rick Hall in 1959, plans to release historic ...
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Legacy Recordings Set To Release The Soul Of Rock And Roll
NEW YORK (Top40 Charts/ Sony Legacy) - Monument/Orbison Records/Legacy Recordings is proud to release The Soul Of Rock And Roll, the long-awaited definitive 4 CD box set of 107 seminal recordings - including demos, live recordings and 12 previously unreleased cuts - spanning the entire career of the ...
| Ike & Tina Turner's Blue Thumb Records Years Collected As Ike & Tina Turner Sing The Blues, Due For Release On Acrobat Music
NEW YORK, NY. (Top40 Charts/ Conqueroo) - Although Ike Turner is often credited with recording the first rock 'n' roll song with 1951's 'Rocket 88,' his career took a leap when he met Anna Mae Bullock and re-named her Tina Turner. Their first collaboration was 'A Fool in Love,' released in 1960 on Sue ...
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