14-CD Elektra Records Rarities Series with Participation of Label Founder Jac Holzman Readied by Collectors Choice Music

Series to affection What’s Shakin’ with Lovin’ Spoonful and Eric Clapton, additional Phil Ochs, Roxy, The Wackers, David Frye, Travelers 3, Theodore Bikel and Great Lost Elektra Singles, Vol. 1 with precursors to Byrds, Blue Oyster Cult

LOS ANGELES -- Collectors’ Choice Music, one of the a lot of admired pop music copy labels, will barrage a alternation of 15 CDs from the vaults of Elektra Records on February 21. Carefully curated with the ascribe of Elektra architect Jac Holzman, and accountant from Rhino, anniversary of the reissues will be baffled from the aboriginal tapes with aboriginal album art additional liner addendum featuring quotes from Holzman himself.

The alternation appearance What’s Shakin’, a long-out-of-print 1966 album that featured the Lovin’ Spoonful, Eric Clapton’s Powerhouse (featuring Steve Winwood, Manfred Mann and Paul Jones, produced by Joe Boyd), Al Kooper, Tom Rush and the Butterfield Blues Band.

The alternation aswell includes a two-CD copy of actor David Frye’s I Am The President/Radio Free Nixon, additional individual CD volumes by Phil Ochs (All The News That’s Fit to Sing and I Ain’t Marching Anymore); alt-powerpop precursors Roxy and The Wackers; O.C. singer/songwriter Steve Noonan; The Charles River Valley Boys with a bluegrass Beatles accolade from 1966; additional singer/songwriters Erik Darling, The Travelers 3, Cynthia Gooding and Theodore Bikel.

Elektra and Nonesuch architect Jac Holzman, who alloyed his labels into what what is now Warner Music Group in the aboriginal ‘70s, has remained complex in the music industry both as Sr. VP and Chief Technologist to WMG and as arch of the active Discovery Records characterization in the ‘90s. His acclaimed book on the history of Elektra Records, advantaged Follow The Music, is accessible in hardback and paperback. Presently, Holzman is aback full-time at WMG immersing himself in a advanced ambit of agenda music initiatives, including the conception of the WMG’s afresh appear eLabel, Cordless Recordings.

Collectors’ Choice Music enlisted Holzman’s ability and affection for these recordings, and his articulation is heard throughout the volumes’ liner notes.

A few addendum on the alone CDs:

 

What’s Shakin’ is a attenuate 1966 accumulation featuring The Lovin’ Spoonful, Eric Clapton’s Powerhouse (featuring Steve Winwood, Manfred Mann and Paul Jones, produced by Joe Boyd), Al Kooper, Tom Rush and the Butterfield Blues Band. At the time, the Spoonful were because signing with Elektra. When they went with Kama Sutra Records instead, the band’s John Sebastian gave Elektra the four advance absolute herein. The Butterfield and Rush advance are outtakes from corresponding Elektra albums. And Al Kooper’s clue is a dress call for a later, fuller Blues Project version. A accurate collector’s dream, never ahead accessible on CD.
Great Lost Elektra Singles, Vol. 1 is addition collector’s must-have featuring The Beefeaters (comprised of Roger McGuinn, David Crosby and Gene Clark, precursors to The Byrds), The Stalk-Forrest Group (the casting that mutated into Blue Oyster Cult, and featuring songs bound by Richard Meltzer, Albert Bouchard and Allen Lanier), additional attenuate non-album singles by Judy Collins, David Ackles, Eclection (featuring Sandy Denny’s bedmate Trevor Lucas), Phil Ochs and Judy Collins. Collectors’ Choice is authoritative this aggregate accessible commercially PLUS alms it chargeless to those who acquirement three of the added Elektra collections through its catalog.
 
Phil Ochs’ 1964 All The News That’s Fit To Sing and 1965 I Ain’t Marching Anymore account some of the a lot of amorous and acicular beef songs of the decade. With capacity alignment from noncombatant rights and activity struggles to American militarism and the Vietnam War, the album may complete anachronous . . . or maybe not!
 
Roxy and The Wackers. This is one of Jac’s admired series. Never afore reissued on CD, these are four albums singer-songwriters Bob Segarini and Randy Bishop fabricated for the Elektra characterization — one with the late-’60s casting Roxy and three with The Wackers. These Creem Dreem recordings, hailed on their aboriginal absolution by critics like Lester Bangs and Dave Marsh, are blessing for admirers of early-’70s bands like The Raspberries and Big Star — or, for that matter, British Invasion bands like the Beatles, Kinks and Hollies. The liner addendum accommodate all-encompassing (and entertaining) quotes from Bob Segarini.
David Frye’s I Am The President and Radio Free Nixon: Let us accomplish ourselves altogether bright — both of David Frye’s classic, charting albums of Richard Nixon impersonations are actuality on one bargain 2-CD set. Alongside his astonishing Tricky Dick impressions are appropriately dead-on articulate likenesses of LBJ, Nelson Rockefeller, Wiliam F. Buckley, Spiro Agnew, Billy Graham, Hubert Humphrey, Truman Capote, Jimmy Stewart, Howard Cosell, George C. Scott and added aboriginal ‘70s luminaries. So, no amount which ancillary of the alleyway you sit on politically, you’ll acquisition affluence to cackle at actuality if you lived through those surreal and occasionally asinine times. Nobody anytime did Nixon bigger than this guy. In retrospect, Jac says he would accept adopted the bogus Nixon to the absolute affair — beneath acrimonious abroad at the architecture and far funnier.
There’s all of that, additional affecting recordings by Theodore Bikel, Steve Noonan, The Charles River Boys, The Travelers 3, Erik Darling and Cynthia Gooding.

Commenting on the series, Holzman said:

“For me, the befalling to afresh acquaintance these annal in abounding bloom was like affair above loves and award that they had remained admirable and overflowing with spirit.”

“Collector’s Choice has lavished every accomplishment to ensure a superb, full-throated alteration of the aboriginal analog masters to awe-inspiring CDs. The anxiously anticipation out addendum accord with the music in the ambience in which it came to be. All of us are captivated with the result.”

“My acknowledgment to Gordon and his accomplished agents at CC for rebirthing abounding of my appropriate favorites which accept lain alone far too long. It’s nice to acceptable them aback in these new and accordant editions.”

Gordon Anderson, Senior Vice President and General Manager of Collectors Choice Music, commented: “Growing up, I acclimated to accept to annal on the Elektra label, never absent that, one, I would end up licensing them for our own label, and, two, and even added gratifying, that I would end up alive with the administrator abaft them. You just knew as a music applicant that annihilation with that Elektra logo on it was traveling to be an absorbing record; that, calm with Jac, we at Collectors’ Choice Music accept been able to accomplish some of this basic music accessible afresh is one of the top credibility of my career.”

About Collectors' Choice Music:
Collectors’ Choice Music is the world’s arch antecedent for reissues, with a mail-order catalog, a website, a almanac characterization and a benefactor all committed to bringing consumers music of the past, music that is added underrepresented at retail. The company’s mail adjustment archive circulates about 5 actor copies a year, while the website (www.collectorschoicemusic.com is the alone full-service website committed to oldies. The Collectors’ Choice Music characterization consists of over 600 titles accountant from all the above labels and above all genres. Artists on the characterization cover Sammy Davis Jr., the Electric Prunes, Stonewall Jackson, the Kingston Trio, the Four Freshmen, Dean Martin, Bobby Darin, the dB’s and the Incredible String Band. And, finally, these releases are taken to retail via the company’s Hep Cat administration arm and via Navarre Corporation.

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