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Coming in February, Alan Hull: Singing A Song In The Morning Light: The Legendary Demo Tapes 1967-1970. A 4CD set, the first-ever release of legendary late 60s demos from one of the finest British songwriters of all time. Includes early versions of classic Lindisfarne songs ‘Lady Eleanor’, ‘Winter Song’ and ‘Clear White Light – Part 2’. 👉 cherryred.co/AlanHull
Coming in February, Patterns On The Window: The British Progressive Pop Sounds of 1974. A 3CD set featuring big hits, intriguing misses and key album tracks from 1974 as well as a clutch of alternative versions and unissued-at-the-time gems. The latest instalment of Grapefruit’s popular year-by-year overview of the British rock/pop scenes of the 70s. 👉 cherryred.co/ProgPop1974
Introducing 60s & 70 Folk Treasures on Spotify!🍃
Featuring tracks from our esteemed Grapefruit Records compilations and beyond. New songs added every two weeks.
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/4SIOA8g3sr8AJmAZtPjTu6?si=b646f57322d24d1c&nd=1&dlsi=c735046ea8734b30
Out Now! Looking For The Magic: American Power Pop In The Seventies. A comprehensive 3CD overview of the American power pop scene’s evolution throughout the 70s, featuring the genre’s major bands, cult names, hits, rarities, and several previously unissued tracks. 👉 cherryred.co/LookingForTheMagic
Coming in January on our sister label Strawberry, Les Cousins: The Soundtrack Of Soho’s Legendary Folk & Blues Club. A 3CD compilation focussing on the mid-60s haunt of the emergent folk and blues scene in London. Featuring a host of big names who visited the venue many of whom went on to national success. 👉 cherryred.co/LesCousins
Coming in January, You Can Walk Across It On The Grass – The Boutique Sounds Of Swinging London. A 3CD celebration of the mid-60s Swinging London scene at its brash, colourful zenith. A cornucopia of club-friendly mod R&B/soul, era-defining pop hits and cult TV/film themes as England swung like a pendulum do. 👉 cherryred.co/AcrossTheGrass
Coming in January, West Coast Consortium: All The Love In The World, Complete Recordings 1964-1972. A 3CD anthology from harmony pop band who had a Top 30 UK single in 1969 with ‘All The Love In The World’. Features all of their singles as well as a huge number of demo recordings, including 20 tracks now gaining a first-ever issue. 👉 cherryred.co/WestCoastConsortium
Coming in January, Pushin’ Too Hard American Garage Punk 1964-1967. A 3CD, 94-track celebration of 1960s garage punk, a retrospectively named genre first compiled on Lenny Kaye’s seminal 1972 collection ‘Nuggets’. This is raw, exciting music with tons of attitude – fuzz guitars, swirling organs, wailing harmonicas, thumping drums and tough vocals are plentiful. 👉 cherryred.co/GaragePunk3CD
Out Now on our Strawberry sister-label. Shake! Sixties Brit Mod Nuggets. 2LP, essential mix of 34 mod favourites and rarities from 1964-1967. Including rarities from The Trendbender Band and The Union (featuring Elmer Gantry) which appear on vinyl for the first time. 👉cherryred.co/ShakeModNuggets
Out Now! When The Alarm Clock Rings: A Compendium Of British Psychedelia 1966-1969. A 2LP, Various Artists compilation of original artefacts from the first British psychedelic era. 30 essential 1966-1969 nuggets from major names and cult acts alike 👉 cherryred.co/AlarmClockLP
Out Now! David McWilliams - Reaching For The Sun: The Major Minor Anthology 1967-1969. A 2CD release, the complete anthology of late 60s recordings by highly-regarded Irish singer/ songwriter. Includes his best-known song, the huge European hit ‘Days Of Pearly Spencer’, as well as more than a dozen tracks making their CD debut. 👉 https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/david-mcwilliams-reaching-for-the-sun-the-major-minor-anthology-1967-1969-2cd-digipak/
OUt Now on Cherry Red Records; Shake That Thing: The Blues in Britain 1963-1973. A 3CD compilation that focuses on all facets of the blues in the UK during the genre’s most popular era. Key British artists run the stylistic gamut of R&B, electric blues, country blues, folk blues, blues rock, jug band music, Gospel, hokum, and ragtime. 👉 https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/shake-that-thing-the-blues-in-britain/
Out Now! All God’s Children: Songs From The British Jesus Rock Revolution 1967-1974. A 3CD box set and the first-ever overview of the UK element of the late 60s/early 70s “Jesus movement”. Incorporating the scene’s gospel beat beginnings, the hippie-era Christian rock/folk groups and the movement’s influence on mainstream secular bands. 👉 cherryred.co/AllGodsChildren
Out now on our sister label Strawberry, Sandy Posey's Born A Woman – The Complete MGM Recordings. A 2CD release containing Sandy's four classic MGM album releases in their entirety. Also includes seven non-album tracks, plus rare Italian language versions of ‘Born A Woman’ and ‘Single Girl’. 👉 cherryred.co/SandyPosey
Out Now! Crabby Appleton: Go Back, The Crabby Appleton Anthology. A 2CD release and the first-ever complete anthology of highly-regarded early 70s American proto-power pop band. Includes both albums, alternative mix/non-LP singles and the restoration of two brief tracks only included on original 8-track release. 👉 cherryred.co/CrabbyAppleton
Coming in November, Looking For The Magic: American Power Pop In The Seventies. A comprehensive 3CD overview of the American power pop scene’s evolution throughout the 70s, featuring the genre’s major bands, cult names, hits, rarities, and several previously unissued tracks. 👉 cherryred.co/LookingForTheMagic
Coming in November, We Can Work It Out – Covers of The Beatles 1962-1966. A Various Artists 3CD compilation that focuses on the massive influence The Beatles had on a multitude of artists in disparate genres throughout numerous countries, right from the very start. Featuring Mary Wells, Count Basie, Cilla Black, Joe Cocker, PJ Proby, Mae West, Jose Feliciano, Jimmy James, Liza Minelli and many more. 👉 cherryred.co/WeCanWorkItOut
Take a trip through the 1960's and 1970's psychedelic rock and pop landscape with our official Grapefruit Records playlist on Spotify! Featuring 100 tracks from our acclaimed CD boxsets.
Dive in 👇💮🍄
https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0rsc4l0D9W4Hgv1VFjqoKi?si=dfa3dc457a554fd0
Out next Friday, March Of The Flower Children: The American Sounds Of 1967. A 3CD boxset featuring four hours of the American music scene in 1967. A dazzling cornucopia of psychedelia, garage punk, folk-rock and sunshine pop that acted as the soundtrack to the Summer of Love (US division). 👉 cherryred.co/FlowerChildren
Coming in September, David McWilliams - Reaching For The Sun: The Major Minor Anthology 1967-1969. A 2CD release, the complete anthology of late 60s recordings by highly-regarded Irish singer/ songwriter. Includes his best-known song, the huge European hit ‘Days Of Pearly Spencer’, as well as more than a dozen tracks making their CD debut. 👉 https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/david-mcwilliams-reaching-for-the-sun-the-major-minor-anthology-1967-1969-2cd-digipak/
Out Now! The Clarion Set. A 3CD, four-hour compilation of the pioneering 60s/early 70s Australian independent Clarion label. A smorgasbord of driving R&B, sunshine pop, studio psychedelia and progressive rock recorded in Perth, Western Australia. 👉 cherryred.co/ClarionSet
Out Now! The first-ever complete anthology of the splinter group from the original Procol Harum line-up. Born Again, The Complete Recordings 1967-72 is a 5CD box that includes all five of the band’s albums plus singles, out-takes and alternative versions. 👉 cherryred.co/FreedomComplete
Announced for October, When The Alarm Clock Rings: A Compendium Of British Psychedelia 1966-1969. A 2LP, Various Artists compilation of original artefacts from the first British psychedelic era. 30 essential 1966-1969 nuggets from major names and cult acts alike 👉 cherryred.co/AlarmClockLP
Announced for September, All God’s Children: Songs From The British Jesus Rock Revolution 1967-1974. A 3CD box set and the first-ever overview of the UK element of the late 60s/early 70s “Jesus movement”. Incorporating the scene’s gospel beat beginnings, the hippie-era Christian rock/folk groups and the movement’s influence on mainstream secular bands. 👉 cherryred.co/AllGodsChildren
Out Now, The Bedlam Anthology. A 6CD anthology of the British hard rock pioneers, an early Cozy Powell venture that ended when he left in 1974 for a solo career. Includes original and new mixes of their highly-regarded 1973 album for the Chrysalis label as well as live recordings and studio out-takes. 👉 cherryred.co/BedlamAnthology
Coming in September on our sister label Strawberry, Sandy Posey's Born A Woman – The Complete MGM Recordings. A 2CD release containing Sandy's four classic MGM album releases in their entirety. Also includes seven non-album tracks, plus rare Italian language versions of ‘Born A Woman’ and ‘Single Girl’. 👉 cherryred.co/SandyPosey
Announced for September, Crabby Appleton: Go Back, The Crabby Appleton Anthology. A 2CD release and the first-ever complete anthology of highly-regarded early 70s American proto-power pop band. Includes both albums, alternative mix/non-LP singles and the restoration of two brief tracks only included on original 8-track release. 👉 cherryred.co/CrabbyAppleton
Out Now! A deluxe 3CD edition of Reg King. The self-titled solo album from 1971 containing all his solo recordings, and featuring musicians from The Action/Mighty Baby and Blossom Toes/B.B. Blunder. Original copies of this cult classic album now fetch three figure sums. 👉 cherryred.co/RegKing
Out next Friday, The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band: A Door Inside Your Mind (The Complete Reprise Recordings 1966-1968). A 4CD set featuring mono and stereo mixes of the three albums The West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band recorded for Reprise Records, marking the first time the mono mixes have been available on CD. Also includes a brace of previously unissued out-takes from ‘Volume 2’, and a complete alternate version of ‘Volume 3, A Child’s Guide To Good And Evil’, all lovingly remastered by Alec Palao. Complete with a 40-page booklet, featuring a detailed history of the WCPAEB by Gray Newell profusely illustrated with rare photos and ephemera. 👉 cherryred.co/WestCoastPopArtEx
Out this Friday, We’re An American Band: A Journey Through The USA Hard Rock Scene 1967-1973. A four-hour 3CD set charting the birth and early development of American hard rock. Including hit singles, key album tracks, and huge rarities from a genre that became a dominant force in US music. 👉 cherryred.co/AmericanBand
Out now on our sister label Strawberry, Let’s Stomp! Merseybeat And Beyond 1962-1969. A 3CD, Various Artists set spotlighting the pioneering movement that brought the world The Beatles but has been overshadowed by their success. This box celebrates the scene on the first two discs, then on disc three presents some of the brilliant mod, freakbeat, psych and Mersey soul music that came from Liverpool when the Merseybeat bubble burst and press and public looked elsewhere. 👉 cherryred.co/LetsStomp
Here's an interview from 2009 with Shindig! Magazine... the latest!'s editor Jon 'Mojo' Mills with curator Tim Forster about the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - A Door Inside Your Mind (The Complete Reprise Recordings 1966-1968) 4CD set is out soon 👉 cherryred.co/WestCoastPopArtEx
Coming in July, the first-ever complete anthology of the splinter group from the original Procol Harum line-up. Born Again, The Complete Recordings 1967-72 is a 5CD box that includes all five of the band’s albums plus singles, out-takes and alternative versions. 👉 cherryred.co/FreedomComplete
Announced for July, The Clarion Set. A 3CD, four-hour compilation of the pioneering 60s/early 70s Australian independent Clarion label. A smorgasbord of driving R&B, sunshine pop, studio psychedelia and progressive rock recorded in Perth, Western Australia. 👉 cherryred.co/ClarionSet
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Here's an interview from 2009 with Shindig! Magazine... the latest!'s editor Jon 'Mojo' Mills with curator Tim Forster about the West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band - A Door Inside Your Mind (The Complete Reprise Recordings 1966-1968) 4CD set is out soon 👉 cherryred.co/WestCoastPopArtEx
🎸 Deviation Street: High Times In Ladbroke Grove – 1967-1975. Out Now! The most comprehensive overview yet of the Ladbroke Grove-based late 60s/early 70s freak scene. A 3CD, four-hour anthology of locally based acts featuring much previously unreleased or rare material. 👉 cherryred.co/DevStreet
☀️ What A Groovy Day – The British Sunshine Pop Sound 1967-1972 Out today, a detailed examination of the British Sunshine Pop sound during its late 60s/early 70s heyday. Featuring 87 tracks including hits, misses, rarities and previously unreleased material. 👉 https://cherryred.co/GroovyDay
🫧 Out now! The second volume of early 70s British studio pop hits, misses and oddities. Another opportunity to wallow in the sounds of what one reviewer of the first volume warily described as “dubious pop”. Dubious pop?! Gimme dat ding! 👉 https://www.cherryred.co.uk/label/grapefruit/
✨ Out Tomorrow! Godley & Crème 'Frabjous Days' – watch the trailer now! Click below for more details 👇 https://www.cherryred.co.uk/out-tomorrow-godley-creme-frabjous-days-watch-the-trailer-now/
🦸 🦹 Heroes & Villains – The Sound Of Los Angeles 1965-1968 Out now! A four-hour, 90-track overview of the Los Angeles music scene between 1965 and 1968. Featuring a dazzling combination of major league LA players, enduring cult acts and ultra-rare garage punk 45s. Get yours here 👉 https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/heroes-villains-the-sound-of-los-angeles-1965-1968-3cd-box-set/
Coming in July! 🏄 Miles Out To Sea: The Roots Of British Power Pop 1969-1975 - a four-hour anthology of recordings that anticipated the late 70s Power Pop movement featuring Badfinger, Slade, The Move, Stealers Wheel, Pilot, Dave Edmunds, Brinsley Schwarz, Honeybus, The Kinks, The Who and more. Pre-order now! 👉 https://www.cherryred.co.uk/product/miles-out-to-sea-the-roots-of-british-power-pop-1969-1975-3cd-box-set/
Coming in June, 'Bubblerock Is Here To Stay Volume Two, The British Pop Explosion 1970-73', the second volume of early 70s British studio pop hits, misses and oddities. Another opportunity to wallow in the sounds of what one reviewer of the first volume warily described as “dubious pop”. Dubious pop?! Gimme dat ding! Pre-order now 👉 https://www.cherryred.co.uk/label/grapefruit/
🔥 Coming in June – the first-ever issue of stillborn 1969 studio album from pre- Hotlegs/10cc duo Godley And Creme during their days as Frabjoy And Runcible Spoon. Click below for details 👇 https://www.cherryred.co.uk/label/grapefruit/
🍓 Harry Chapin: Story Book – The Elektra Albums 1972 – 1978 From our label mates at Strawberry comes a 6CD boxset with nine albums from late American singer-songwriter Harry Chapin. The box features 2022 remasters of Chapin’s work for Elektra Records, including the enduring hits ‘Taxi’, ‘WOLD’ and ‘Cat’s In The Cradle.' Beautifully presented with colour reproductions of album sleeves, picture-sleeve singles, ephemera, trade ads and promotional photographs. 👉 https://www.cherryred.co.uk/label/strawberry/
🎸 John Carter - My World Fell Down – The John Carter Story 👉 https://www.cherryred.co.uk/label/grapefruit/ First-ever complete career anthology of one of British pop’s most enduring backroom figures John Carter. A 4CD set containing his biggest hits and some fascinating misses, and also includes a clutch of late ‘60s songwriting demos, several of which now receive their first physical release.
🎸 The Betterdays - Hush Your Mouth – The Betterdays Anthology Coming in March, the first-ever complete anthology of wild mid-‘60s UK garage R&B band The Betterdays who briefly reformed in the early ‘90s. Includes previously-unissued live tracks from a 1964 show in their West Country heartland. Featuring numerous rare photos and a new essay on the band with fresh quotes from leader Mike Weston. 👉 https://www.cherryred.co.uk/label/grapefruit/
🌼 I Love To See You Strut – More ’60s Mod, RNB, Brit Soul and Freakbeat Nuggets Coming in February from our label mates at Cherry Red Records, this 3CD set celebrates Mod-friendly 1960’s beat music with club-based sounds, Mod legends and the groovier, more heavy and psychedelic acts. Pre-order now 👉 http://cherryred.co/ILoveToSeeYouStrut
🍭 Five Day Rain - Good Year, The Anthology Grapefruit present a definitive 2CD edition of the ultra-rare ‘Five Day Rain’ album. The set includes several previously-unissued tracks from those 1970 sessions. Among the rarest vinyl albums of the era, the last original copy to be openly offered (in 2017) sold for £4000. 👉 https://www.cherryred.co.uk/label/grapefruit/
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