Crushed Velvet & the Velveteers - Love & Truth - VINYL LP

Motown producer and songwriter Norman Whitfield assembled The Undisputed Truth to further explore the psychedelic soul he had been developing with the Temptations on songs like 'Cloud Nine' and 'Psychedelic Shack'. Joe Harris, Billie Calvin and Brenda Evans were assembled as the vocal front-line and their first single was 'Save My Love For A Rainy Day'/'Since I've Lost You' that was released on Gordy in February 1971 and got to #43 on the R&B Chart. It was followed by 'Smiling Faces Sometimes'/'You Got The Love I Need' that was a massive hit single getting to #2 R&B and #3 on the Billboard Hot 100. Their debut album InchThe Undisputed TruthInch followed and not only contained all four tracks issued on 7Inch but an almost interstellar version of 'Ball Of Confusion (That's What The World Is Today)', 'I Heard It Through The Grapevine' as well as a very soulful prowl through Bob Dylan's 'Like a Rolling Stone'. Tracks like 'California Soul' and 'Aquarius' also ticked the psychedelic soul box. All told it was a fantastic debut and sold strongly. Amazingly this fantastic album has not been repressed since 1972. Thus Ace are delighted to put it back into the record racks pressed on 180gm black vinyl. With the planet still a 'Ball Of Confusion (That's What The World Is Today)' records like this speak to both an old and new generation. Good music never goes out of fashion.

Isaac Stern - My First 79 Years [COMPACT DISCS] date 10/19/1999

Six CD set. British Beat was the term adopted to describe the exciting new sounds out of Liverpool and other cities in the wake of The Beatles' explosion onto the world stage in 1963/64. Named after the slang term forever associated with The Beatles, this mammoth 6-CD box set offers around 180 tracks in chronological order from the mid-1960s, many of which are new to CD and some of which are previously unissued. Fab Gear includes many of the era's biggest names such as The Kinks, The Moody Blues, The Searchers and The Tremeloes and other hit acts such as The Marmalade, The Alan Price Set, The Rockin' Berries, David & Jonathan, The Ivy League, Twinkle, Peter Jay & The Jaywalkers, Chad & Jeremy, The Tornados, Arthur Brown, Tony Jackson & The Vibrations, The Undertakers, Billie Davis, The Migil 5, The Truth, The Quiet Five and The Sorrows. The hefty booklet boasts band-by-band histories and details of each recording, including early works by David Bowie, Status Quo, Clifford T. Ward, Manfred Mann's Mike d'Abo, Lemmy and future members of Yes, The Move, Mott The Hoople, Jimi Hendrix Experience, Deep Purple, Fleetwood Mac, Traffic, Lindisfarne and Man. The bonus disc six contains recordings which weren't issued at the time, including many tracks which have never been heard before.