Real Gone Music US Vinyl & CDs

Review: She is a famous voice of pop greatness around the world but there was also real tragedy and trouble throughout the life of Dusty Springfield. Her own personal demons blighted her life but maybe they are what helped infuse her songs with such potent emotion. The heyday years of the 60s and 70s gave rise to some of pop's best ever tunes and they are all captured here on this essential retrospective across two slabs of vinyl. Form the opener 'Son-Of-A Preacher Man' and on through 'In The Land Of Make Believe' and many others, this will swell your heart.

Review: Never Gonna Leave You is a rarity from the esteemed Brunswick label, credited to the sevensome US disco-soul-funk band active throughout the 1970s and beyond. With production by disco maestro Tony Valor, arrangements by Chi-Soul legend Eugene Record, and a new mix by the great Tom Moulton - not to mention an instrumental accompaniment from Valor's highly esteemed Tony Valor Sounds Orchestra - this 1976 classic is a cornerstone of stone-cold proto-disco, having already been reissued on CD in Japan multiple times since its creation. For its very first vinyl reissue, Never Gonna Leave You is lent the Real Gone treatment, delivering a newly r-rubbed version of the Chi-Lites' 'Stoned Out of My Mind' and delivering instant soul salvation.

Review: Formerly known as the Yum-Yums, the Philadelphia soul vocal quartet - made up of Jean Davis, Gwen Oliver, Nadine Felder and Cassandra Wooten - changed their name to Honey And The Bees to match the sweet, nigh-sickly femininity found in their sound. Replete with both covers and originals, 'Love Addict' is our favourite in the latter camp, channelling a boxy, bodyish sound and impassioned woohoos between the beats and brass.