hwume
03-05-2011, 12:22 AM
As some of you have noticed, there is a 12-track collection of Lady Tee's earliest Motown recordings up on U.S. iTunes and Amazon digital, 'First Class Love: Rare Tee.' This is a "birthday preview" of a fuller, 26-track 2-CD physical version coming in June, which will include more a couple more studio tracks, 1983 overdubbed mixes of four songs, and several acoustic demos. Teena would have been 55 this Saturday, March 5.
Also coming in June are expanded reissues of LADY T and IRONS IN THE FIRE.
Each of these projects were discussed with Teena about two years ago but were respectfully set aside for the release of 'Congo Square,' with the idea that we would be working on the catalog ideas this year. I am deeply sorry she is not around to see and hear them.
More info to come as we get closer.
'First Class Love' on U.S. iTunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/first-class-love-rare-tee/id421182387
on Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/First-Class-Love-Rare-Tee/dp/B004P5SXX2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1299298382&sr=8-1-catcorr
P.S. Additional note: Three of the last four songs were issued before, while "Love Just Wouldn't Be Right" was on a European 'Greatest Hits' in the mid-1980s but in an '80s remix. The mix included here is more true to the original session, thanks to John Morales, as with other tracks on the set. As noted, fans familiar with the 1983 remix will get that one on the 2-CD edition in June.
One more: a couple of tracks were previewed at the Grammy Museum tribute on Feb. 25. http://iluluonline.com/faith-evans-more-pay-tribute-to-teena-marie-the-grammy-museum-video/
Also coming in June are expanded reissues of LADY T and IRONS IN THE FIRE.
Each of these projects were discussed with Teena about two years ago but were respectfully set aside for the release of 'Congo Square,' with the idea that we would be working on the catalog ideas this year. I am deeply sorry she is not around to see and hear them.
More info to come as we get closer.
'First Class Love' on U.S. iTunes:
http://itunes.apple.com/us/album/first-class-love-rare-tee/id421182387
on Amazon.com:
http://www.amazon.com/First-Class-Love-Rare-Tee/dp/B004P5SXX2/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=dmusic&qid=1299298382&sr=8-1-catcorr
P.S. Additional note: Three of the last four songs were issued before, while "Love Just Wouldn't Be Right" was on a European 'Greatest Hits' in the mid-1980s but in an '80s remix. The mix included here is more true to the original session, thanks to John Morales, as with other tracks on the set. As noted, fans familiar with the 1983 remix will get that one on the 2-CD edition in June.
One more: a couple of tracks were previewed at the Grammy Museum tribute on Feb. 25. http://iluluonline.com/faith-evans-more-pay-tribute-to-teena-marie-the-grammy-museum-video/