2012. Alan boyd bio alan boyd's lifelong obsession with the music of brian wilson and the beach boys has taken him on a long and slightly off-the-wall journey directly to the group itself. F..
2012. More From the Ellie Greenwich & Jeff Barry Songbook. Ace's popular songwriter series continues apace with "Da Doo Ron Ron", our second volume of numbers penned by the Brill Building-based husband..
2013. Herb Newman's Era label was well established in Los Angeles by the time the soul era (pun intended) came about. With over 150 singles behind him by the time our musical story starts in 1962, Herb was a record ..
2009. W/40 Million LPs sold, Stone Temple Pilots, according to Billboard.com, "were able to make alternative rock into stadium rock," Versailles Records celebrates that catalog with 'Wicked Garden: A Millennium Trib..
2015. The third album from Motown girl group The Marvelettes, 'Playboy', was released in 1962, shortly following the success of the hit title track and the immortal 'Beechwood'. If these two floor filling classics w..
1990. The Crystals' first LP Twist Uptown, originally released in the summer of 1962, occupies an important position in Phil Spector's remarkable body of work. As the first full album produced by Spector and the fir..
2012. Although it was assembled quickly in 1963 to take advantage of the chart success of its eponymous title anthem, the Crystals' second album is a near-perfect summation of this seminal girl group's effortless ap..
2017. 'the british psychedelic sounds of 1968' - 'looking at the pictures in the sky' provides a fascinating overview of the group scene in britain (and ireland!) in 1968, shining a light on unreleased ge..