The Monitors - Say You! The Motown Anthology 1963 – 1968
The daffodils are out, the Contours are nearly out, but your Ace/Motown correspondent is still definitely IN - working hard on our next-release-but-two, Say You! The Motown Anthology 1963 – 1968 by the Monitors, due at the end of May.
The CD will kick off with a complete first-time-ever [[legal) digital version of Greetings! We're The Monitors, their classic 1968 LP. Then we'll be slotting in no fewer than 12 previously unreleased tracks, including a smattering from the group's very early days at Motown as the Majestics. Rounding off the set will be the two B sides that didn't make it onto their LP.
As always, this set is compiled with full support and official blessings from Universal Music.
Is this all getting too much for your pockets? Is a Motown CD a month overkill? Shall we stop? Do let me know. If you don't, we're liable to just carry on regardless ...
[[Also let me know if you think you might be able to bring Richard Street to the end of a telephone for interview. Write to keith@dftmc.info.)
Compliments of the springtime season to all,
Keith
Another Great Release From an Incredible Label
Ace is such an incredible label. They have so many interesting releases. In addition to the great Motown releases of late, they've also thoroughly mined the King/Federal/DeLuxe catalog and really done it proud, after hundreds of great unreleased sides just languished under the ownership of Gusto. They've put out a 4-volume series of King and Federal Doo Wop, including the Charms, Five Keys, Platters, and others; fantastic box sets on Hank Ballard and Freddy King [[includes other material besides King and Federal on this one). They have released in their Limited Edition series a great CD of Tiny Topsy and Lula Reed, two nearly forgotten R&B singers from King Records. They have a whole series of "You Heard it Here First" CDs...famous songs but the original version, not the hit version; a series of "answer" song CDs; a fantastic series of CDs which spotlight famous writers such as Goffin-King, Neil Diamond, and others; and a really wonderful series of CDs which highlight those who imitated the Spector Wall of Sound, such as Nino & April, the Righteous Brothers, Sonny and Cher, and others. I own all the CDs I've mentioned with the exception of the Freddy King box and I will definitely be picking up the Monitors set as soon as it is available! Thanks Ace!