The Ultimate Soca Gold Collection Is Available Next Week Sept 13 On VP Records
08 September, 2011
Soca Gold has been the best-selling annual compilation for the hottest soca music coming out of The Caribbean for over a decade. On September 13, VP Records encapsulates the series' most treasured tunes (since its inception in 1997 up until now) into one deluxe package 3-disc set, entitled The Ultimate ...
| Classic Moments In Jubilee Showcase Dvd Presents Landmark Gospel Series
08 September, 2011
Produced and hosted by Sid Ordower, Jubilee Showcase aired on ABC's Chicago affiliate television station, WLS Channel 7, from 1963 to 1984 and won an Emmy Award for a Pioneering Project in television.
The landmark series featured everyone from the youngest church performers to the most famous ...
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VH1 Classic MTV Music Video Artist Michael Sciuto Re-releases '80s Music Album
07 September, 2011
Most people who lived through the 1980s still reminisce about the stars that glittered on the music scene during that decade. While many artists have faded from memory, the genre they left behind is still hugely popular today. '80s music has a perfect blend of anti-establishment rebelliousness woven ...
| Celebrations Of Freddie Mercury's Life And Outstanding Contribution To Music All Set To Continue On The 18th October
06 September, 2011
Paying tribute to Freddie Mercury on what would have been his 65th Birthday, The Asian Awards this morning announced that Freddie's outstanding contribution to music will be honoured on 18th October, at the Grosvenor House, Park Lane, London.
Very few people know that Farrokh Bulsara, known to ...
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Music Legend Pat Boone Lights Up Shipshewana's Blue Gate Theater Stage
05 September, 2011
In a rare performance, iconic crooner Pat Boone brings 50 years of music-making to the stage of the Blue Gate Theater in Shipshewana, IN on Saturday, September 24.
The 77-year-old music legend first appeared at this unique Midwest venue in 2009. As Billboard's # 10 top recording artist of all time, ...
| The Who Announce Full Details And Track-listing For The Release Of 'Quadrophenia: The Director's Cut' Boxset
01 September, 2011
A stunning 'Director's Cut' of the landmark 1973 album produced, authorized and overseen by Pete Townshend.
Considered by Pete Townshend himself to be the Who album that he is most proud of, 'Quadrophenia' is the last album in the Who back catalogue to be given the deluxe treatment and is perhaps ...
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Buddy Holly: 75 And Timeless
31 August, 2011
September 7, 2011, marks the 75th birthday of the great Buddy Holly. In only 18 months, from when Buddy Holly and the Crickets hit the charts with their first release, "That'll Be The Day," to when he died in a tragic plane crash, Holly topped the charts with more than 27 Top 40 hits worldwide, with ...
| Columbia Records Releasing Tony Bennett - The Complete Collection In Honor Of Singer's 85th Birthday
31 August, 2011
In celebration of the artist's 85th birthday, Columbia Records/RPM Records/Legacy Recordings will release Tony Bennett - The Complete Collection, an extraordinary compilation chronicling the entire career of the great American pop vocalist as documented in the albums and singles he's made for Columbia ...
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Remix Jenny O's Cover Of Buddy Holly's 'I'm Gonna Love You Too' For A Chance To Win $1,000
Starting today, August 25, Indaba Music invites musicians to celebrate what would have been Buddy Holly's 75th birthday on September 7th by remixing Jenny O's cover of the classic "I'm Gonna Love You Too� from the best-selling Buddy Holly tribute, �Rave on Buddy Holly� (Fantasy Records/Concord).
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| Aerosmith's Classic Columbia Records Catalog (1973-1987) To Debut On The Itunes Store Tuesday, September 6
26 August, 2011
The classic Columbia Records catalog recordings (1973-1987) of Aerosmith, America's all-time top-selling rock and roll band, will be available for the first time digitally on the iTunes Store beginning Tuesday, September 6. Pre-orders for the full albums begin today on iTunes (www.itunes.com).
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Beatles Tribute Festival Offers Fans The Music, History, And Nostalgia Of The Beatles
26 August, 2011
Just as the crowds gathered in Washington, D.C. in February of 1964 to see The Beatles first live concert performance in America, thousands of people from all over the world will once again flock to Washington, D.C. to be a part of the largest Fab Four tribute festival in America - Abbey Road on the ...
| George Strait: Icon; New Greatest Hits Collection From The Country Superstar!
24 August, 2011
With a career spanning more than three decades, the Grammy�, CMA and ACM award-winning country music artist George Strait has earned the most number one singles of any artist in history including Elvis (57 to date inclusive of all charts). He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2006, ...
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Watch The Elvis '56 Box Set Come To Life
24 August, 2011
RCA/Legacy's new Elvis Presley box set 'Young Man With The Big Beat' (out 9/27) is a rock & roll time capsule. The 5-disc collection includes Elvis Presley's complete 1956 masters and a deluxe, 12"x12", 80-page book with a day-by-day timeline featuring unseen photos, rare memorabilia, and priceless ...
| Buck Owens' Pre-capitol Records Recordings Collected On 'Buck Owens: Bound For Bakersfield 1953-1956'
23 August, 2011
Buck Owens is synonymous with the Bakersfield sound of country music that also gave rise to the Maddox brothers and Rose, Tommy Collins, Ferlin Husky and in later years Merle Haggard.
Owens' earliest recordings for independent labels in Southern California - ahead of his lucrative career on Capitol ...
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Four Seasons' Tribute And Album Release By Lights Out Hosted By Feinstein's At Loews Regency
19 August, 2011
Four Seasons' Tribute and Album Release by Lights Out Hosted by Feinstein's at Loews Regency
The immensely popular Feinstein's club in Manhattan will host the popular vocal group Lights Out on August 31, 2011.
The immensely popular Feinstein's club in Manhattan will host the popular vocal group ...
| On The 34th Anniversary Of Elvis' Death, Is There Anything New To Say About The King?
16 August, 2011
Is there any new way to understand and honor Elvis Presley and his paradoxical life? Probably not—unless the reader stumbles upon an unexpected little book, "My Summer With Elvis: Spiritual Teachings From the King," released on Amazon this summer. The unlikely author is a Madison, Wisconsin-based ...
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The Supremes And The Temptations Celebrate 50th Anniversaries
11 August, 2011
Two of the most popular and socially significant singing groups in music history celebrate their 50th anniversaries in 2011. Both the Supremes and the Temptations signed their recording contracts with Motown in 1961, launching careers that changed not only the sound and style of pop but smashed racial ...
| For The First Time On DVD The Ed Sullivan Show Motown Collections
11 August, 2011
The relationship between Berry Gordy's Motown label and The Ed Sullivan Show made music and television history. Soon after the Supremes' debut on Sullivan (December 1964), it was clear that showcasing the latest Motown releases on CBS on Sunday nights (35 million viewers was average) was a way to ...
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Elvis Week Must-see: New Box Set Revealed Monday, 8/15
10 August, 2011
On Monday, Aug. 15, producer and catalog expert Ernst Jorgensen will reveal the complete packaging of RCA/Legacy's brand-new Elvis Presley 5-CD box set, 'Young Man With The Big Beat,' during Elvis Week at Graceland Plaza (see below for details). Jorgensen, the respected director of RCA's Elvis catalog ...
| ValCom Announces Release Of Rare Tina Turner & The Platters Singles On iTunes Through Universal
09 August, 2011
As part of its ongoing strategy to monetize content from its film and audio library, ValCom, Inc. (VLCO.PK) announced today that, through its distribution agreement, it will be releasing a rare and unreleased single from the forthcoming album "The Early Sessions-Uncovered" by Ike and Tina Turner on ...
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