Sunday, February 24, 2019

Robert Plant and Friends - "Long Time Coming"

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It would have been interesting to be a fly on the wall at Decca Records after The Beatles hit it big on Parlophone. Decca famously turned...
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Sunday, February 17, 2019

Elvis Presley - "Elvis in Nashville"

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In June 1970, Elvis entered RCA's Studio B in Nashville and recorded 34 masters over the course of five days. That's an average o...
Sunday, February 10, 2019

Brenda Holloway - "Hurtin' and Cryin'" and "Spellbound"

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Motown Records scheduled the second album of Brenda Holloway to be released in November 1965 on its Tamla label. Titled Hurtin' and ...
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Sunday, February 3, 2019

The Kinks - "God's Children versus Dreams and the Good Life, Part Two"

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Like last week, here's another lost sequel.  The Kinks' Lola versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One , was released in ...
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Sunday, January 27, 2019

The Clash -- "The Story of the Clash, Volume 2"

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In 1988, Epic Records released a double CD titled The Story of the Clash, Volume 1 . It was a compilation album featuring most of the ba...
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Sunday, January 20, 2019

The Underdogs - S/T

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After three singles on Hideout Records in 1965 and 1966 that went nowhere, Detroit garage rockers The Underdogs probably thought they we...
Sunday, January 13, 2019

The Monkees - "L.A., D.C., Houston and Openshaw"

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There were a lot of outtakes from The Birds, The Bees & The Monkees album, and I guess that shouldn't be surprising. Despite ...