[2017-06-02] Rita Coolidge "Full Moon (With Kris Kristofferson)" and "Beautiful Evening" Expanded Editions (Real Gone)

Linda · **Posted:** Thu Feb 09, 2017 5:17 am

Kris Kristofferson And Rita Coolidge
Full Moon

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It is mighty, mighty hard to believe, but this famed duets album—which went to #1 on the country charts and #26 on the pop charts and garnered a Gold Record—has never been issued on CD outside of Japan, and even there only in the late ‘90s on a limited run. This was a love album par excellence, as the two stars had just gotten married weeks prior to the record’s release in 1973; interestingly, though Kris Kristofferson, fresh from recording his country chart-topper “Why Me,” was the bigger star at the time, Full Moon really played to Rita Coolidge’s strengths, as it was produced by her long-time producer David Anderle and set its songs in a higher key more suited to her dreamy vocals. The album scored a huge hit with Kristofferson’s “A Song I’d Like to Sing,” and followed that up with a smash version of Tom Jans’ “Loving Arms;” the duo’s rendition of Kristofferson’s “From the Bottle to the Bottom” also won a Grammy for Best Country Vocal Performance by a Duo or Group. In short, Full Moon was and is a stone-cold classic; and our Real Gone Expanded Edition not only features notes by Joe Marchese featuring quotes from Rita Coolidge herself, but also adds no less than eight unreleased tracks from the A&M vaults, two of them Kris and Rita duets! Cornerstone ‘70s pop-country.

Tracklist
1. Hard to Be Friends
2. It's All Over (All Over Again)
3. I Never Had It So Good
4. From the Bottle to the Bottom
5. Take Time to Love
6. Tennessee Blues
7. Part of Your Life
8. I'm Down (but I Keep Falling)
9. I Heard the Bluebirds Sing
10. After the Fact
11. Loving Arms
12. A Song I'd Like to Sing
13. Cowboys & Indians
14. Hobos
15. Lost in Austin
16. Our Child Will Be Born
17. Man to Be on My Mind
18. Speak Your Mind
19. Someone Loves You Honey
20. Loving You Was Easier

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01N2BIDDJ/?tag=imwan-20

Rita Coolidge
Beautiful Evening: Live In Japan

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Effortlessly blending pop, country, blues, soul, gospel, and rock, Grammy-winning Rita Coolidge is one of the great female singer-songwriters of our time, but crucial parts of her recorded legacy have remained fallow in the CD era. Now, Real Gone Music is releasing Beautiful Evening—Live in Japan, an extremely rare 1980 concert album that was originally released on LP only in Japan, Hong Kong and Australia. This record captures Rita Coolidge at the height of her powers and international popularity, with a crack band featuring Booker T. Jones, Michael Warren, Salvatore Guglielmi, Mike Utley, Richard Adelman, Phyllis Battell and Carlena Williams. The set list is just killer, with big hits from throughout her career, like “(Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher,” “I’d Rather Leave While I’m in Love,” a solo version of her then-current hit duet with Glen Campbell, “Somethin’ ‘Bout You, Baby I Like,” her smash version of the Chiffons’ “One Fine Day,” “Fever,” and “Fool That I Am.” And for an “encore,” we have rounded up four studio tracks issued on various Japanese singles and albums that have never before surfaced in the US: “Sweet Memories,” “The Best of My Love,” “Footprints” and “Don’t Cry Out Loud” (a Japanese hit which Rita also sings during the show) – plus a previously unreleased song, “Beautiful Person.” Worldwide CD debut and first U.S. release of any kind, featuring notes by Joe Marchese with quotes from “The Delta Lady” herself!

Tracklist
1. (Your Love Has Lifted Me) Higher and Higher
2. Cheap Thrills
3. Shoo-Rah, Shoo-Rah
4. Fool That I Am
5. Fever
6. Precious, Precious
7. Footprints
8. Somethin' 'Bout You, Baby I Like
9. I'd Rather Leave While I'm in Love
10. Don't Cry Out Loud
11. One Fine Day
12. The Best of My Love
13. Sweet Memories
14. Beautiful Person
15. Footprints
16. Don't Cry Out Loud

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B01MV3YYYV/?tag=imwan-20

Rick A · 23 Jul 2006

Excellent forthcoming reissues. I'm in for both!

Rick A.

Linda · **Posted:** Fri Feb 10, 2017 6:16 pm

Bump: The pre-order links in the first post are now active.

Rick A · 23 Jul 2006

Linda wrote:

Bump: The pre-order links in the first post are now active.

Pre-ordered! :thumbsup:

Rick A.

Linda · **Posted:** Wed Mar 22, 2017 11:58 pm

Bump: These have been pushed back to June 2nd.

[2017-06-02] Rita Coolidge "Full Moon (With Kris Kristofferson)" and "Beautiful Evening" Expanded Editions (Real Gone)

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