Blue Swede
Hooked On A Feeling (LP) [ PLG Sweden / LP - released 5/Apr/2024 ] On the 6th April 1974 Hooked On A Feeling by Blue Swede/Björn Skifs reached the No1 on Billboard Hot 100 - this was the first time a Swedish artist reached No1 in the US. An historic moment for the Swedish Music Industry and it put Sweden on the... |
The Blue Flames
The Blue Flames EP (7") [ BGP / Ace Records 7" / 7in - released 30/Jun/2023 ] Last year, Ace were delighted to include the Blue Flames 'Orange Street' on our "A Snapshot In Time" CD compilation (CDTOP 1623). This track was originally released on the R&B label back in October 1963 as the B-side to JA Blues. In December 1963,... |
Blue Öyster Cult
Tyranny And Mutation (50th Anniversary Edition Coloured Vinyl LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 20/Jan/2023 ] Tyranny and Mutation is the second studio album by American hard rock band Blue Öyster Cult, released on February 11, 1973, by Columbia Records. The album was recorded at the Columbia Studios in New York City during the year before and was produced... |
Wayne Gillespie & Famous Blue Raincoat (With Rob Grosser)
FRAZZ [ Independent / CD - released 9/Dec/2022 ] Early Tom Waits meets late Joe Henry while waiting for Leonard Cohen to show. Kiwi born Sydney resident Wayne Gillespie releases his 6th album with band Famous Blue Raincoat & Rob Grosser. Gillespie cut his teeth playing London Folk Clubs and... |
Blue Mitchell
Bring It Home To Me (Gatefold LP) [ Blue Note / LP - released 2/Dec/2022 ] Trumpeter Blue Mitchell had been a sideman on Blue Note sessions led by Lou Donaldson, Jimmy Smith, Jackie McLean, and appeared on numerous classics as a member of the Horace Silver Quintet before he began recording his own leader albums for the... |
Blue Stingrays
Surf-N-Burn (LP) [ Epitaph / LP - released 12/Nov/2021 ] Surf-N-Burn - the bodacious debut record by the Blue Stingrays - has rocked, rattled, and rolled since its original 1997 release. Twenty-four years later and long out of print, Epitone reissue this classic surf rock album on vinyl. Upon its... |
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes
The Best Of Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes (LP) [ Philadelphia International / LP - released 16/Jul/2021 ] Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes were an American soul and R&B vocal group. One of the most popular Philadelphia soul groups of the 1970s, the group's repertoire included soul, R&B, doo-wop and disco. Founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in the... |
GEORGE GERSHWIN
Gershwin: Porgy and Bess (Highlights) Marin Alsop, Angel Blue, Lester Lynch , Chauncey Packer, Kevin Short, Alexandria Crichlow, Darrin Scott , The Philadelphia Orchestra , Morgan State Un [ Pentatone / CD - released 9/Jul/2021 ] The Philadelphia Orchestra and conductor Marin Alsop present a live recording with highlights of Gershwin's self-proclaimed American "Folk Opera" Porgy and Bess, together with a stellar cast and the Morgan State University Choir. Since its premiere... |
Blue Oyster Cult
Fire Of Unknown Origin (LP) [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 1/Dec/2020 ] Blue Öyster Cult's eighth album Fire of Unknown Origin includes their Top 40 hit "Burnin' for You" (#1 on Billboard's Album Rock Tracks chart). They brought back their successful writers team, including musician Patti Smith and dark-fantasy writer... |
Deacon Blue
Raintown (Limited Edition LP) [ Sony Music Cg / LP - released 9/Oct/2020 ] Raintown is the debut album of Scottish pop band Deacon Blue. The album, written largely by lead singer Ricky Ross, was released in the United Kingdom on 1 May 1987. The album features some of the band's best-known songs in Dignity, Chocolate Girl... |
GEORGE & IRA GERSHWIN
Gershwin: Porgy & Bess (complete opera from the Metropolitan) Eric Owens, Angel Blue, Latonia Moore, Golda Schultz, Denyce Graves, Frederick Ballentine / David Robertson (cond) [ Warner Classics Metropolitan Opera / 3 CD - released 28/Feb/2020 ] "Authoritative and gripping ... The magnificent bass-baritone Eric Owens gives one of the finest performances of his distinguished career … The sumptuously voiced soprano Angel Blue is radiant." New York Times |
Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes
Be For Real: The P.I.R. Recordings (1972-1975) [ Soulmusic Records / 3 CD Box Set - released 1/Jan/2019 ] Harold Melvin & The Blue Notes were one of the very first groups to achieve global success for Philadelphia International Records within its first year as a CBS-distributed label. The 1972 release of two consecutive 'tell-it-like-it-is' ballads - 'I... |
Jonas Blue
Blue [ Universal Music / CD - released 9/Nov/2018 ] |
ANONYMOUS / etc
Music from the Peterhouse Partbooks, Vol. 5 Blue Heron, Scott Metcalfe [ Blue Heron Renaissance choir / CD - released 1/Sep/2018 ] "..try the Mass that forms the centrepiece here...I doubt whether I'll be alone in thinking this one of the discoveries of the year" Gramophone Award WINNER 2018 - Early Music |
Clear Blue Sky
Clear Blue Sky (Remastered Edition) [ Esoteric Records / CD - released 9/Mar/2018 ] Newly re-mastered & fully restored edition of the classic self- titled album by Progressive Power Trio Clear Blue Sky, originally released on the Vertigo label in 1970. |
Blue Iverson
Hotep (12") [ Deviation Music / 12in - released 13/Oct/2017 ] First making waves with the almost cult level 'Hype Williams' project, and then more recently solo and as part of the group Babyfather, this new 8 track sees Dean Blunt step back into the shadowy role of producer for a new project called Blue... |
Jonas Blue
Jonas Blue: Electronic Nature - The Mix [ Universal Music / CD - released 1/Sep/2017 ] |
Look Blue Go Purple
Still Bewitched (Double Gatefold LP) [ Flying Nun LP / 2 LP - released 5/May/2017 ] Look Blue Go Purple were part of Flying Nun's 'second wave' (along with Doublehappys, Straitjacket Fits and the Abel Tasmans). Formed in 1983, they honed their sound in a Dunedin practice room under a record shop, where they developed a distinctive... |
Blue Oyster Cult
Blue Oyster Cult [ Music On Vinyl / LP - released 12/Nov/2015 ] |
Blue Daisy
Darker Than Blue [ R&S / CD - released 9/Oct/2015 ] An unswervingly honest, highly personal album - Blue Daisy distills his personal experiences in to this cinematic meditation on the clash between the forces of dark and light, good and evil. Wrestling with inner and outer demons he leads us on an... |