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For those of you who aren’t familar with Angie Aparo, let me give you the background. He was signed to Melisma Records, a label formed by famed producer Matt Serletic (Matchbox 20, Rob Thomas, Collective Soul). In 2001 he released his first album “The American” on this label through a joint venture with Arista Records. The album ushered two singles, “Hush” and “Cry” but didn’t gain traction. A year later, his song “Cry” was covered by Faith Hill and became one of the biggest singles of 2002 as it crossed over into Top 40 radio. Although Angie Aparo isn’t a household name, this album is a great work of art with alot of catchy tunes. His songwriting ability is always praised by both Matt Serletic and Rob Thomas. He is currently the opening act for some of Matchbox 20’s “Exhile On Mainstream” Tour. Please take a moment to take a listen to this new addition in our digital catalog.

11 catalog albums by Willie Nelson will make their way to digital music stores tomorrow. Among them are Both Sides Now, Laying My Burdens Down, The Party’s Over and Words Don’t Fit The Picture. If you like country music, these albums are a must own!!

 Also, more Philadelphia International Records (PIR) catalog will be released, 17 in all. The classic motown sounds of the east coast will include 4 catalog albums by Billy Paul and 3 by MFSB among others. Keep checking in for more catalog updates and be on the look out for many previously rare and missing jazz titles to start appearing soon, by Grammy Award winning Winton Marsalis, Miles Davis, Duke Ellington and Louis Armstrong.

 Jamie

After clearing up some confusion, All 3 Savage Garden albums have just become live again at i-Tunes. Please check them out, they had some massive hits including “Truly, Madly, Deeply” and “I Knew I Loved You” among others. If you’re looking for some great electronic sounds and awesome production, this group also for you.

We’re kicking off the new year strong and we’re bringing you more catalog titles from our top artists. We’ve scheduled more Alabama and Melissa Manchester catalog releases for 1/22. On 2/5 more missing albums from UK boy band Westlife will be available. Remember that huge hit “Swear It Again”? Also slated for 2/5 are albums from Poi Dog Pondering, The Fabulous Thunderbirds, Ozzy Osbourne and Face To Face. The music rolls on and so does Legacy Recordings. We continue in our promise to bring you more of the best music.

Additional albums from Expose and Jennifer Lopez are now live.

Just in time for all those holiday get together’s and New Year’s parties, we’re releasing some more albums to fill your music collection. Look for more digital catalog additions from these artists on 12/18 and 1/8:

• Taylor Dayne
• Lisa Stansfield
• Westlife
• Galactic 
• Martina McBride
• The Alan Parson’s Project

Happy Holidays and Enjoy!

For followers of my postings, I apologize for the recent hiatus, but I ve been working feverishly to schedule another 100 albums to go live in time for the holiday season. Noteable releases that are now available include catalog albums by Eric Carmen, The Verve Pipe, The Essential Michael Bolton and The original album of Michael Jackson’s Thriller (only the best selling album in the universe -  ever). Please continue to send me comments and questions. I eventually answer everything that comes in.

Hi Post Followers-

Sorry for the delay in posts. If you’re a regular reader of my blog entries, you’ll be glad to know that my abscence is only because I’m getting more music to you. If you’re a Europe fan, you’ll be excited to hear that 3 catalog albums will be available on 11/6. Also, big albums from Indigo Girls, Gloria Estefan, Jamiroquai, Clint Black and Kenny Chesney are either available or coming in the next 2 weeks. Keep stopping by for more updates, news and rare album cover pics.

Jamie

Scare the crapola out of the kiddies knockin’ on your door with Legacy’s exclusive Halloween compilations. (All the following are available at iTunes and most other digital music providers.)

Halloween Classics: Hellbent For Halloween

(Don’t Fear) The Reaper 5:11 Blue Öyster Cult
Bark At the Moon 4:16 Ozzy Osbourne
Haunted House Blues 3:30 Bessie Smith
Feed My Frankenstein 4:45 Alice Cooper
Superstition 4:18 Beck, Bogert, Appice
Them Bones 2:30 Alice In Chains
Frankenstein 4:46 The Edgar Winter Group
I Ain’t Supertitious 4:04 Willie Dixon
The Number of the Beast 4:52 Iron Maiden
Flying Saucers Rock & Roll 1:51 Robert Gordon
The Devil Went Down to Georgia 3:36 The Charlie Daniels Band
She’s Making Whoopee In Hell Tonight 3:10 Lonnie Johnson
Nature Trail to Hell 5:50 “Weird Al” Yankovic
Season of the Witch 4:55 Donovan

Halloween Classics: Songs That Scared The Bloomers Off Your Great-Grandma

Hush, Hush, Hush (Here Comes the Boogie Man) 2:50 Henry Hall
It Must Be Swell (Remastered) 2:58 Alex Bartha & His Hotel Traymore Orchestra
Mr. Ghost Goes to Town 3:00 The Five Jones Boys
Taint No Sin (To Take Off Your Skin) 3:22 Fred Hall
Ghost In the Graveyard 2:41 Prairie Ramblers
Ol’ Man Mose (78 rpm Version) 2:45 Wingy Mannone & His Orchestra
The Ghost of Smokey Joe 2:44 Cab Calloway
The Skeleton In the Closet 2:33 Putney Dandridge
The Ghost Walk 2:59 Borrah Minevitch & The Harmonica Rascals
The Boogie Man (With Chick Bullock) 3:06 Todd Rollins & His Orchestra
Hell’s Bells 2:51 Art Kassel & His Orchestra
Mysterious Mose 3:18 Rube Bloom
Minnie the Moocher at the Morgue 3:04 Smiley Burnette
With Her Head Tucked Underneath Her Arm 3:11 Rudy Vallee & His Connecticut Yankees

Halloween Classics: The Evil, The Demented, And The Just Plain Weird
I Put a Spell On You 2:29 Screamin’ Jay Hawkins
Ghostbusters 4:08 Ray Parker, Jr.
Halloween Spooks 2:18 Lambert, Hendricks & Ross
My Old Flame 3:31 Spike Jones and His City Slickers
Toccata and Fugue In D Minor, BWV 565 3:07 E. Power Biggs
The Witch Queen of New Orleans 2:45 Redbone
Haunted House of Rock 6:33 Whodini
It’s Halloween 2:22 The Shaggs
O Fortuna 2:49 André Previn & His Orchestra
A Nightmare On My Street 4:54 DJ Jazzy Jeff & The Fresh Prince
Psycho: The Murder (Shower Scene) 1:01 Bernard Hermann
Clap for the Wolfman 4:18 The Guess Who
Funeral March of a Marionette 4:07 Boston Pops Orchestra
The Blob 2:40 The Metrolites
Also Available:

Fright Night: Music that goes Bump in the Night, a multi-hour-long collection of scary classical music for your halloween party. Also includes a bonus digital booklet featuring stencils, frightening recipies, cut-out masks and more!

Night On Bald Mountain 11:41 Eugene Ormandy & Philadelphia Orchestra Fright Night - Music That Goes Bump In the Night
Danse Macabre, Op. 40 6:38 L’Orchestre national de France & Lorin Maazel
In the Hall of the Mountain King from Peer Gynt Suite No. 1 2:26 Andrew Davis & The Philharmonia Orchestra
Funeral March of a Marionette, for piano or orchestra in D Minor 4:05 Eugene Ormandy & Philadelphia Orchestra
Sorcerer’s Apprentice 11:35 L’Orchestre national de France & Lorin Maazel Fright Night - Music That Goes Bump In the Night
Toccata from Toccata and Fugue In D Minor, BWV 565 3:06 E. Power Biggs
Witch’s Ride from Hansel & Gretel 4:35 Gürzenich-Orchester Köln & John Pritchard
March to the Scaffold from Symphonie Fantastique 4:06 Cleveland Orchestra & Lorin Maazel
Mars, the Bringer of War from the Planets, Op. 32 7:49 L’Orchestre national de France & Lorin Maazel
Ride of the Valkyries from Die Walkure 5:00 Eugene Ormandy & Philadelphia Orchestra
Halloween 1:59 Gilbert Kalish & New York String Quartet
Mephisto Waltz 11:27 Eugene Ormandy & Philadelphia Orchestra Fright Night - Music That Goes Bump In the Night
Dies Irae from Messa da Requiem 2:16 Eugene Ormandy, George Lynn, Philadelphia Orchestra & Westminster Choir
Trick or Treat (Halloween Fantasy for Pizzicato Strings) 2:09 Andre Kostelanetz & His Orchestra
Die Mittagshexe Op. 108 13:38 Swf Symphony Orchestra & Walter Weller Fright Night - Music That Goes Bump In the Night
Ionisation (for 13 Percussion) 5:39 New York Philharmonic & Pierre Boulez
Theme from “Jaws” 2:57 John Williams & The Boston Pops Orchestra
Funeral March from Incidental Music to Hamlet 1:36 Arthur Fiedler & Boston Pops Orchestra
The Bride of Frankenstein: The Creation of the Female Monster 7:19 Charles Gerhardt & Philharmonic Orchestra
Sacrificial Dance from the Rite of Spring 4:30 Leonard Bernstein & New York Philharmonic
The Dream Sequence, the Mountain Lodge (From “Spellbound”) 5:28 Charles Gerhardt & National Philharmonic Orchestra
Montagues and Capulets 4:42 St. Petersburg Philharmonic Orchestra & Yuri Temirkanov
The Murder from Psycho: A Suite for Strings 1:00 Esa-Pekka Salonen & Los Angeles Philharmonic
Night Music 9:08 Richard Maxfield
Sensemayá 6:00 Leonard Bernstein & New York Philharmonic
Prelude from Vertigo Suite 2:59 Esa-Pekka Salonen & Los Angeles Philharmonic
Worms and Desolation (1983) 7:16 Jeffrey Stolet
Ritual Fire Dance from El Amor Brujo 3:52 Leonard Bernstein & New York Philharmonic
Firebird Suite,Infernal Dance of King Kastchei 4:21 Isao Tomita
Poème électronique (Created directly on magnetic tape by the composer for the Brussels World’s Fair) 8:07 Edgard Varèse
III. Marche Funebre. Lento from Sonata No. 2 In B-flat Minor for Piano, Op. 35 9:34 Cyprien Katsaris
IV. Finale. Presto from Sonata No. 2 in B-flat Minor for Piano, Op. 35 1:20 Cyprien Katsaris
Thou Art the Rock from “Esquisses Byzantines” 3:41 Virgil Fox
Totentanz 15:00 Jeffrey Reid Baker

Legacy is beginning an unprecedented deal with Gamble & Huff, legendary producers of the Philly Soul sound, to bring back into print many of the classic albums of the genre. You can now find the following classic albums at your local digital retailer:

1. Edwin Birdsong: Edwin Birdsong

2. Leon Huff: Here to Create Music

3. Patti Labelle: I’m In Love Again

4. McFadden & Whitehead: McFadden & Whitehead

5. MFSB: MFSB

6. MFSB: Love Is the Message

7. Harold Melvin & the Blue Notes: To Be True

8. The O’Jay’s: The O’Jay’s in Philadelphia

9. The O’Jay’s: Love and More

10. The O’Jay’s: Message in the Music

11. The O’Jay’s: So Full Of Love

12. The O’Jay’s: Travelin’ at the Speed of Thought

13. The O’Jay’s: Identify Yourself

14. Billy Paul: Going East,

15. Billy Paul: Live In Europe

16. Billy Paul: Feelin’ Good at the Cadillac Club

17. Lou Rawls: All Things in Time

18. Bunny Sigler: Keep Smilin’

19. The Jones Girls: The Jones Girls

20. The Three Degrees: The Three Degrees

One of the most exciting things about working with the catalog of SonyBMG is rediscovering entire sections of our catalog that, for one reason or another, have not gotten the love and attention that they deserve. Such was the case with our Spoken Word catalog.

The director of A&R for Masterworks and the host of all of the Masterworks Podcasts David Foil recently introduced me to a list he’d found of all of the spoken word products in our archive. There are such gems! from John Gielgud to Jimmy Stewart to presidential speeches, it’s amazing the kind of things we have.

When we confirmed that we were doing the soundtrack to the Ken Burns film The War , we immediately thought of our spoken word catalog and what might be most relevant and interesting to those millions of people tuning in.

Eight titles were selected that are representative. Have a listen:

Eleanor Roosevelt: My Husband And I: Eleanor Roosevelt Recalls Her Years With FDR

Will Rogers Jr.: Politics U.S.A

Walter Cronkite: Blitzkreig

Edward R. Murrow: I Can Hear It Now (1919-1932)(coming soon)

Edward R. Murrow: I Can Hear It Now, Vol. II (1933-1945)

Edward R. Murrow: I Can Hear It Now, Vol. III (1945-1949)(coming soon)

Edward R. Murrow: A Reporter Remembers, Vol 1: The War Years

Winston Churchill: Winston Churchhill: Authorized Recordings of His Actual Speeches