Monday, January 9, 2012

Real Gone Records Newsletter Number 1

Welcome to our first-ever newsletter! And thanks for signing up with us-we will be bringing you special deals on our new releases and back catalog, deals that you and you alone will enjoy (great prices, too!). So get ready to get Real Gone every month!

And speaking of special offers, we have a couple for you to kick things off-The first 50 customers to order Jody Miller: Complete Epic Hits will receive a booklet signed by Jody herself! And the first 50 customers to order Maggie & Terre Roche: Seductive Reasoning will receive a wallet signed by Maggie Roche herself (both of these releases come in spiffy four-panel wallet packages with booklet enclosed)! Thanks to both of these artists for providing their John Hancocks and for the great photos that adorn both of these packages.

January also sees the second installment in our release of the Grateful Dead: Dick's Picks series. Like the first three volumes we issued in November last year, these two volumes-Vol. 32 8/7/82 Alpine Valley Music Theatre and Vol. 33 10/9 & 10/76 Oakland Coliseum Stadium, Oakland, CA-have never been available in stores. And these two are among the rarest volumes in the whole series!

Glen Campbell has been in the news lately with his great new album and his Farewell Tour. We honor the legacy of one of America's greatest guitarists, sessionmen and song interpreters with a little-known live album taken from his mid-'70s prime: Glen Campbell: Live in Japan. Recorded in Tokyo in 1975, this concert was hitherto ONLY released in Japan, and it appears here in its original gorgeous gatefold packaging with liner notes added.

And our last January 24 release features probably the greatest blue-eyed soul singer ever-in fact, Bill Medley basically invented the genre! We are releasing the two solo albums he recorded for MGM in the late '60s after he left the Righteous Brothers, Bill Medley 100% / Soft and Soulful, on one CD. Absolutely gorgeous production and arrangements, not to mention singing-CD debuts for both albums!

Now that our store is open, we also wanted to remind you about our November releases, starting with our Real Gone "girls"-complete singles collections from Joanie Sommers, Connie Stevens and Shelby Flint, plus The Girls from Petticoat Junction: Sixties Sounds! For vinyl mavens, we have the two ? and the Mysterians albums, 96 Tears and Action!, pressed on to 180-gram vinyl at 45 rpm for maximum fidelity. And we have a few copies left of our Christmas albums from Cameo Parkway Holiday HitsEd Ames and David Rose-don't let the holidays fade away just yet!


Thanks for listening and we will be back to you shortly with more great releases!

Real Gone Gabby and Gordon

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