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With its June 26, 2012 releases, Real Gone Music will offer music fans too much to dream. Featured will be three definitive packages \u0097 the Electric Prunes\u0092 The Complete Reprise Singles, Timi Yuro\u0092s The Complete Liberty Singles and the New Christy Minstrels\u0092 A Retrospective: 1962-1970 \u0097 as well as the Tokens\u0092 It\u0092s a Happening World and Rita Pavone\u0092s The International Teen-Age Sensation, each with bonus tracks. Before Amy Winehouse, before Adele, there was the Little Girl with the Big Voice, Timi Yuro, the greatest white soul singer of the \u009260s, male or female. Previous Timi collections have featured after-the-fact stereo remixes or album tracks \u0097 no collection has concentrated on the actual recordings that made her famous, the singles that took her to the charts in the \u009260s. Now, Real Gone Music\u0092s The Complete Liberty Singles double-CD collection includes for the first time the A- and B-sides of all of the U.S. singles Timi released on Liberty Records during her two stints with the label, featuring the original mono single mixes, all fittingly remastered for CD release at Capitol Studios. Among the highlights are, of course, her recording of \u0093Hurt\u0094 (also here in an Italian version in homage to Timi\u0092s heritage), a performance so deeply emotional and mature that viewers of her first television performances were shocked to discover that she was (a) white, (b) a female (c) barely five feet tall and (d) a 20-year-old from Chicago; the Phil Spector production of \u0093What\u0092s A Matter Baby (Is It Hurting You),\u0094 in which his studio bombast met its match in Timi\u0092s booming vocal, and the legendary Northern Soul single \u0093It\u0092ll Never Be Over for Me\/As Long as There Is You,\u0094 which in its original 7\u0094 vinyl form trades for princely sums. Co-Producer Ed Osborne pens notes that trace Timi\u0092s journey from Chicago to the charts along with a singles discography and photos. Listeners can find out why everybody from Elvis to Morrissey counted Timi among their favorite singers.<\/p>\n There has been a few New Christy Minstrels hits collections before, but none like The New Christy Minstrels: A Retrospective 1962-1970. Here, at last, is a comprehensive (75 minutes-plus), single-CD chronicle of the evolution of the folk group, beginning with their earliest recordings with founder Randy Sparks in 1962 through the turbulent \u009260s and ending with a sampling of their first recordings in the next decade. Sequenced in chronological order, the 25 tracks have been carefully chosen to include their biggest hits (\u0093Green Green,\u0094 \u0093Today,\u0094 and \u0093Saturday Night\u0094), standout album tracks (\u0093This Land Is Your Land,\u0094 \u0093Preacher and the Bear,\u0094 \u0093Julianne\u0094 and \u0093Blacksmith of Brandywine\u0094), as well as recordings that represent their best efforts to adapt to changing times (\u0093The Girl From Ipanema,\u0094 \u0093Highflyin\u0092 Bird\u0094). Featured are the voices of the key players who defined the early sound \u0097 Randy Sparks, Barry McGuire, Nick Woods, Art Podell and Karen Gunderson \u0097 as well as rare tracks by Bob Buchanan (later a member of the International Submarine Band with Gram Parsons) and a young fellow from Texas by the name of Kenny Rogers. The set also includes four Christy tracks making their CD debut and contains rare photos and behind-the-scenes liner notes by Christy historian Tom Pickles.<\/p>\n One has only to hear The Tokens\u0092 remake of their 1961 hit \u0093The Lion Sleeps Tonight\u0094 (here entitled \u0093Wimoweh 5\u00bd Years Later\u0094) that leads off the album It\u0092s a Happening World to appreciate how far this vocal group and pop music in general had come by 1967. A loping bass line, Beatle-esque horn choruses and a jazzy baritone sax accompany the trademark yodeling melody lines, and that same happy marriage of flawless vocal arrangements with studio experimentation permeates this entire album, which sounds at times like such baroque pop favorites as the Merry-Go-Round, the Left Banke and Pet Sounds. But it wasn\u0092t just the heady times that gave the album its flavor \u0097 legendary engineer Brooks Arthur was behind the board for this one, and the arrangements were by Jimmy Wisner of Kokomo fame. An added bonus is the Tokens\u0092 non-LP Warner Brothers singles, which at times range even farther afield than the album \u0097 \u0093Animal\u0094 in particular could have come fit right into a Flo & Eddie album. Original Token Phil Margo makes sense of it all in Richie Unterberger\u0092s liner notes.<\/p>\n Record labels have never been accused of going easy on the hype, but with the title of the 1964 album The International Teen-Age Sensation, RCA was simply stating a fact: Rita Pavone was an international teen-age sensation. After winning a talent contest in 1962 at the age of 16, her first singles shot to the top of the charts in Germany, Argentina, Spain and in her native Italy, where her recording of \u0093Cuore (Heart)\u0094 was #1 for nine full weeks. She then was brought to the biggest market of all, the United States, to record this album with producer Joe Rene in 1964, an album which, while it didn\u0092t duplicate her success abroad, did reach #60 on the charts and spawn a #26 hit, the bitter break-up song \u0093Remember Me.\u0094 But that hit \u0097 which is, we kid you not, almost punk-rock as Pavone spits out the lyrics in her accented English over a spare electric guitar figure \u0097 is not the only reason why early rock \u0092n\u0092 roll aficionados have been craving the reissue of this album for decades. Rita\u0092s version of Chip Taylor\u0092s \u0093Don\u0092t Tell Me Not to Love You\u0094 is definitive, and \u0093Too Many\u0094 and \u0093I Can\u0092t Hold Back the Tears\u0094 are just plain classic girl-group anthems. Added is a bonus track, her 1964 English-language version of \u0093Heart,\u0094 along with liner notes by Bill Dahl and period photos, to complete the first Stateside reissue of Rita Pavone (who, by the way, is still a big star on the Euro continent). <\/p>\n About Real Gone Music Source: <\/span>http:\/\/www.realgonemusic.com\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" With its June 26, 2012 releases, Real Gone Music will offer music fans too much…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-music-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1777"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1777\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/skylight.gr\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
Though the Electric Prunes were responsible for some of the boldest and most experimental pop of the late \u009260s, they always were, more than just about any band of their ilk, a singles-oriented act, at least in their earliest incarnation. In fact, according to vocalist James Lowe, the engineers at American Recording, where many of their early singles were recorded, used to transmit the single mixes to a radio in a car parked outside the studio to make sure the songs sounded good in the medium through which most people would hear them. As a result, the Prunes singles (including the 1967 smash hit \u0093Too Much to Dream [Last Night]\u0094) were punchier than their album counterparts, and were, above all, mono. Yet to date, no legitimate collection has ever compiled these singles, which span several band line-ups and several legendary producers (Dave Hassinger, David Axelrod) with very different visions, yet remain of remarkably consistent high quality. The Complete Reprise Singles features all 23 of their single sides, with notes by Richie Unterberger that include track commentary from the band and shots of the original singles themselves plus photos provided by lead singer James Lowe. <\/p>\n
Real Gone Music, formed and helmed by industry vets Gordon Anderson and Gabby Castellana, aims to establish itself as the most eclectic and prolific catalog and reissue label in the country. The label has announced distribution through by Razor & Tie. Anderson and Castellana each started businesses in 1993 \u0097 Collectors\u0092 Choice Music and Hep Cat Records & Distribution, respectively \u0097 that became two of the most important outlets for buyers and sellers of vintage music recordings. Now, 18 years later, they have joined forces to launch Real Gone Music, a reissue label dedicated to serving both the collector community and the casual music fan with a robust release schedule combining big-name artists with esoteric cult favorites. Real Gone Music is a music company dedicated to combing the vaults for sounds that aren\u0092t just gone \u0097 they\u0092re REAL gone!<\/p>\n