New Releases

THE ELECTRIC PRUNES COMPLETE REPRISE SINGLES

AND TIMI YURO COMPLETE LIBERTY SINGLES

HEADLINE JUNE RELEASES FROM REAL GONE MUSIC 

Also due on June 26 are the Tokens, New Christy Minstrels and Rita Pavone. 

LOS ANGELES, Calif. — With its June 26, 2012 releases, Real Gone Music will offer music fans too much to dream. Featured will be three definitive packages — the Electric Prunes’ The Complete Reprise Singles, Timi Yuro’s The Complete Liberty Singles and the New Christy Minstrels’ A Retrospective: 1962-1970 — as well as the Tokens’ It’s a Happening World and Rita Pavone’s The International Teen-Age Sensation, each with bonus tracks.

Though the Electric Prunes were responsible for some of the boldest and most experimental pop of the late ’60s, they always were, more than just about any band of their ilk, a singles-oriented act, at least in their earliest incarnation. In fact, according to vocalist James Lowe

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The Electric Prunes

Available June 26, 2012 Pre-Order Coming Soon.

• First-Ever Legitimate Collection of Their Wondrously Adventuresome Singles

• Presented in Original Mono Mixes, Which Were Markedly Different from Album Versions

• Liner Notes Include Track Commentary by Band Members

• Photos of Band and Singles Included

• Features "I Had Too Much to Dream (Last Night)" and "Get Me to the World on Time"

THE ELECTRIC PRUNES: The Complete Reprise Singles. CD

Though the Electric Prunes were responsible for some of the boldest and most experimental pop of the late ‘60s, they always were, more than just about any band of their ilk, a singles-oriented act, at least in their earliest incarnation. In fact, according to vocalist James Lowe, the engineers at American Recording, where many of their early singles were recorded, used to transmit the single mixes to a radio in a car parked outside the studio to make sure the songs sounded good in the medium through which most people would hear them. As a result, the Prunes singles were punchier than their album counterparts, and were, above all, mono—yet to date, no legitimate collection has ever compiled these singles,

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Timi Yuro

Available June 26, 2012 Pre-Order Coming Soon.

• First Collection of Singles by the Greatest White Soul Singer of the '60s

• All Original Single Mixes

• Remastered by Kevin Bartley at Capitol Studios

• Includes Liner Notes and Photos

• 35 Songs Featuring the hits "Hurt," "What's A Matter Baby," and "Make the World Go Away"

TIMI YURO: The Complete Liberty Singles (2-CD Set)

Before Amy Winehouse, before Adele, there was the Little Girl with the Big Voice, Timi Yuro, the greatest white soul singer of the ‘60s, male or female.  Previous Timi collections have featured after-the-fact stereo remixes or album tracks—no collection has concentrated on the actual recordings that made her famous, the singles that took her to the charts in the ‘60s…till now! Here, for the first time, are the A and B-sides of all of the U.S. singles Timi cut for Liberty Records during her two stints with the label, featuring the original mono single mixes except for two tracks that were issued as 33 1/3 stereo jukebox singles, all fittingly remastered for CD release at Capitol Studios. Among the highlights are, of course, her recording

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The New Christy Minstrels

Available June 26, 2012 Pre-Order Coming Soon.

• First-Ever Comprehensive Single-CD Retrospective of the All-Time Great Folk Group

• Includes the Big Hits "Green Green," "Today" and "Saturday Night"

• Four Tracks Make Their CD Debut

• Features Such Legendary Artists as Barry McGuire, Kenny Rogers and Randy Sparks

• Thorough Notes by NCM Historian Tom Pickles

• Rare Photos

The New Christy Minstrels: A Retrospective 1962-1970. CD

There have been a few Christy hits collections before, but none like this one.  Here, at last, is a comprehensive (75 minutes-plus), single-CD chronicle of the evolution of the New Christy Minstrels – beginning with their earliest recordings with founder Randy Sparks in 1962 through the turbulent ‘Sixties and ending with a sampling of their first recordings in the next decade. 

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The Tokens

Available June 26, 2012 Pre-Order Coming Soon.

• The Tokens' 1967 Sunshine Pop Classic Reissued for the First Time in America

• Includes 11 Bonus Single Sides

• Liner Notes Include Exclusive Quotes from Original Token Phil Margo

• Additional Photos Included

THE TOKENS: It’s A Happening World. CD

One has only to hear the Tokens’ remake of their 1961 hit “The Lion Sleeps Tonight” (here entitled “Wimoweh 5 1⁄2 Years Later”) that leads off this album to appreciate how far this vocal group and pop music in general had come by 1967. A loping bass line, Beatle-esque horn ch

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