Efrata Denny

“We don’t hear Sandy Denny on the radio these days. Her records, few that they are, don’t fit the current formats,don’t send the programmers into paroxysms, don’t have listeners voting in. She couldn’t be considered for sixties, seventies hit nostalgia; she never had hits. Rock album stations? Never sold enough albums. Even Nick Drake sneaks into the odd Easy Listening show, the music lulling and decieving, with its attractive surfaces hiding the pain within, something romantic for a cult to cling to. But where is Sandy’s cult?

Sandy Denny's second solo album, Sandy (1974), has been given the two CD deluxe treatment and now boasts 24 bonus tracks made up of demos and TV and radio performances many of which were previously only available on the now deleted 19-disc box set. The highlight of this CD is a recently unearthed live perfomance recorded at Ebbets Fields, Colorado in 1972 featuring eight previously unreleased tracks. The collection also contains rare photos and sleevenotes by Patrick Humphries.

Aloha, hep cats. A question: what do blockbusting novelist James Michener, Fifties America's most influential newspaper columnist Walter Winchell and John Sturges, director of The Magnificent Seven, have in common?

Twenty-seven 1960s recordings of pre-Fairport Sandy Denny - nearly all making their vinyl debut! Includes two different demos of her classic "Who Knows Where the Time Goes" (and other songs penned by her - some later recorded by Fairport) plus heartfelt cover versions of songs by Jackson C. Frank, Fred Neil, and traditional folk songs. The definitive collection of Denny's home demos and authorized by her estate.

'I’ve Always Kept A Unicorn is the best album that Sandy Denny never made. This 40-Track / 2CD set captures Sandy at her most intimate as she runs through stripped down arrangements of songs with Strawbs, Fairport Convention, Fotheringay, The Bunch and from her 4 solo albums.

Exotica is the first album by Martin Denny, released in 1957. It contained Les Baxter's most famous piece, "Quiet Village", and spawned an entire genre bearing its name. It was recorded December 1956 in Webley Edwards' studio in Waikiki (not, as often reported, the Aluminum Dome at Henry J. Kaiser's Hawaiian Village Complex). The album topped Billboard's charts in 1959.

Almost to the day we released our The Mamas and The Papas: Complete Singles–50th Anniversary Collection back in January 2016, fans of the group (and they are legion!) started asking us about reissuing Papa Denny Doherty's criminally overlooked 1971 solo album on the ABC/Dunhill label, Watcha Gonna Do. This record came out on CD only in Japan back in 2002, and commands hundreds of dollars online, so a straight reissue would have worked just fine. But that's not how we do things at Real Gone Music… and so we aren't stopping with the album. We're adding six bonus tracks, five of 'em previously unreleased, to fashion a brand-new compilation, Of All the Things–The Complete ABC/Dunhill Masters! Arranged by Jimmie Haskell, produced by Bill Szymczyk, and featuring songs written by Denny with his first wife Linda Woodward with such session players as Barry McGuire, Buddy Emmons, Russ Kunkel, "Fast" Eddy Fischer, and Eric "The Doctor" Hord, Watcha Gonna Do is truly a lost gem of early '70s roots rock, sort of The Mamas and Papas meeting The Band and The Eagles (Szymczyk went on to produce all of The Eagles albums). The bonus tracks include the rare single of the non-LP track "To Claudia on Thursday"–with additional vocals supplied by Spanky McFarlane of Spanky & Our Gang–plus five other tracks unearthed from both album session tapes and follow-up recordings left in the vaults. Joe Marchese provides liner notes featuring quotes and reminiscences from Eddy Fischer, Denny's daughters, Bill Szymczyk, Michelle Phillips, and others. Artwork includes previously unpublished period photographs. Remastered by Mike Milchner/Sonic Vision, this release is a must for any fan of The Mamas and The Papas and of that gorgeous Doherty tenor!

True improvisers always seek new avenues and vehicles to inspire themselves in their art. Keyboard master Denny Zeitlin and percussion guru George Marsh have continued to push their musical dialogs to near telepathic levels utilizing their long-honed rapport and technological advancements to propel their music into new, enlivening places. Their new recording, Telepathy, continues their journey into the endless world of improvisation.