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JEANNIE REYNOLDS Cherries, Bananas & Other Fine Things 1. The Fruit Song 2. Hit And Run 3. Unyielding 4. The Feeling Ain’t There 5. I’ve Still Got My Pride 6. You Want To Get Your Hands On A Woman 7. Look What Your Love Has Done To Me Ma 8. I’m Lonely 9. I Come Here To Party BONUS TRACKS: 10. The Phone’s Been Jumping All Day 11. Unwanted Company 12. Lay Some Lovin’ On Me 13. Love ’t Come Easy For Me Now FIRST TIME ON CD FOR THIS 1970s SOUL CLASSIC!!!

The legacy of Jeannie Reynolds is more than just her Chicago steppers classic “The Fruit Song”. With a voice that could heat ice and melt hearts, Jeannie Reynolds pulled from the KEY SELLING POINTS: depths of her soul and infused her songs with a hard-won • First time on CD truth. Her 1976 debut album showcased the capricious quality of her voice and how effortlessly she adapted it to • Four bonus tracks including each song's theme (usually, heartbreak or loneliness). At the the #10 R&B hit “The Phone’s turn of a phrase, her voice's jagged edges could connote Been Jumping All Day” vulnerability and then morph into a combustible ball of funk. • Full length version of the Steppers’ “The Phone’s Been Jumping All Day” was her biggest hit and classic “The Fruit Song” was surprisingly left off original album release. That situation • 16-page color booklet with is rectified here with its inclusion and the addition of three super rare photos more bonus tracks. • Major new essay draws on recent Deep soul lovers will have a field day with tracks such as “The interview with Jeannie’s brother Feeling Ain’t There” and “I’ve Still Got My Pride” whilst funksters will appreciate the solid “I Come Here To Party”. A L.J. Reynolds (of The Dramatics) classic slice of ‘70s soul.

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Format: CD Cat. No: PCD 72003 Label: P&C Records / Reel Available: DECEMBER 7th CD

P&C Records 55 Elm Avenue, Hyannis, MA 02601 • www.myreelmusic.com BILL WITHERS Making Music

1. I Wish You Well 2. The Best You Can 3. Make Love To Your Mind 4. I Love You Dawn 5. She's Lonely 6. Sometimes A Song 7. Paint Your Pretty Picture 8. Family Table 9. Don't You Want To Stay? 10. Hello Like Before Produced by Bill Withers & Larry Nash BILL’S FIRST COLUMBIA ALBUM MAKES ITS CD DEBUT

After the demise of Sussex Records, Bill Withers jumped ship to the behemoth that was Columbia Records. KEY SELLING POINTS: On Making Music, the sound is a little more smoothed • Worldwide CD debut out, yet still retains that warm soul feeling for which he is best known. The album Includes the hit singles “I Wish • CD packaged in an old-style 5” You Well” and “Make Love To Your Mind”. paste-on gatefold sleeve jacket with OBI

Other than the two singles, “Hello Like Before” is • Special Japanese style packaging probably the most well known track, but there are many other gems within this ten tracker which benefits • Remastered in 24 bit from the original from string and horn arrangements by Motown legend Columbia analog masters Paul Riser. • Includes the hit singles “I Wish You The album features a who’s who of great musicians and Well” and “Make Love To Your Mind” singers including David Walker, Ray Parker Jr., Melvin “Wah Wah” Ragin, bassist James Jamerson, Ernie Watts • Made the Top 10 R&B charts in 1976 and Ralph MacDonald.

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Format: CD in a paste-on gatefold Cat. No: PCD 72004 Label: P&C Records / Reel Music Available: DECEMEMBER 7th CD

P&C Records 55 Elm Avenue, Hyannis, MA 02601 • www.myreelmusic.com BILL WITHERS Naked & Warm 1. Close To Me 2. Naked & Warm (Heaven! Oh! Heaven!) 3. Where You Are 4. Dreams 5. If I Didn’t Mean You Well 6. I’ll Be With You 7. City Of The Angels 8. My Imagination FIRST TIME ON CD FOR THIS 1976 FUNK/SOUL CLASSIC

“Warm wonderful soul from Bill - recorded with a bit less of the acoustic folksy sound that graced his KEY SELLING POINTS: Sussex recordings, but still with loads of excellent song writing, and a whole bunch of great piano work • Worldwide CD debut in place of the missing guitar.” (Dusty Groove) • CD packaged in an old-style 5”

Bill’s second album for Columbia was a somewhat paste-on gatefold sleeve jacket with OBI funkier affair than his debut. “Here Withers returns • Special Japanese style packaging to the simple ways of his past, working five or six musicians for the kind of hard groove that doesn’t • Remastered in 24 bit from the original have many parallels in black music these days.” Columbia analog masters (Robert Christgau). • Some of Bill’s best-known songs are

Musicians include Larry “Fatback” Tolbert on drums, “Lean on Me”, “Ain’t No Sunshine”, Dorothy Ashby (harp), Melvin Dunlap (bass), Benorce “Just the Two of Us” and “Lovely Day” Blackmon (guitar) and Jerry Knight (bass).

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Format: CD in a paste-on gatefold Cat. No: PCD 72009 Label: P&C Records / Reel Music Available: DECEMEMBER 7th CD

P&C Records 55 Elm Avenue, Hyannis, MA 02601 • www.myreelmusic.com TITTSWORTH 1) Almond Joy feat. Michelle Belle & Roll Wit Us All Stars (Bit Thief ) 2) WTF feat. Kid Sister & Pase Rock (Deekline & Tim Healey VIP House Remix) 3) 911 feat. Stimulus (Dillon Francis Remix) 4) Tear The Club Up feat. Diamond K. (Steve Starks Remix) 5) WTF feat. Kid Sister & Pase Rock (Nadastrom on Drugs Remix) 6) Almond Joy feat. Michelle Belle & Roll Wit Us All Stars (John Roman Remix) 7) Drunk As Fuck feat. The Federation (Meterhead Dark Mix) 8) Molly’s Party feat. Ninjasonik (DJ Wool Remix) 9) Here He Comes feat. Nina Sky & Natalie Storm (Stretch Armstrong & Jaimie Fanatic Remix) 10) B-Rockin’ feat. Kenny B. (Gavin Holland Remix) 11) WTF feat. Kid Sister & Pase Rock (Crissy Criss Remix)

Following up from his 2008 Twelve Steps album, Washington, Non-Twelve Steps material includes DJ Wool’s mix of DC producer and club DJ Tittsworth is back with a full-length “Molly’s Party” (featuring Ninjasonik) and Plant Music boss CD of remixes from that album and beyond, featuring new Stretch Armstrong & Dutch House guru Jaimie Fanatic come material and selected remixes on CD for the first time. with some big-room house on “Here He Comes” featuring vocals by Nina Sky & Jamaican MC Natalie Storm. Luckily, Tittsworth has plenty of friends from around the world who share his passion, as evidenced on this album. San The CD is closed out with another DC native, Gavin Diego’s Bit Thief gives R&B dance tune “Almond Joy”, a super Holland’s mix of “B-Rockin” and UK Dubstep hero Crissy funky rework to open proceedings and UK’s Deekline & Tim Criss basslines the hell out of a final remix of “WTF.” If this Healey give “WTF” (featuring Kid Sister and Pase Rock) a taste collection of incendiary tracks doesn’t get the party of dancefloor mayhem with their banging House mix. LA’s started, you may as well go home. Dillon Francis (with a forthcoming release on Mad Decent) comes with big room take on “911” and DC’s Steve Starks reworks “Tear The Club Up” into a dance floor pumper. KEY SELLING POINTS: Dubsided’s Nadastrom’s now classic remix of “WTF” is also • Online press campaign by Big Hassle Media featured for the first time on CD due to overwhelming demand. • DJ promo campaign by Plant Music “Almond Joy” gets another dancefloor mix by Canadian • College Radio campaign by Plant Music up-and-comer John 1aRoman and LA’s Meterhead gives us a funk-heavy spin on the self-explanatory “Drunk as Fuck” • Continuing tour dates by Tittsworth (featuring The Federation).

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Format: CD Cat. No: PLNT 1014 Label: Plant Music Available: DECEMBER 7th CD NOTTZ “I Still Love You” FEATURING MAYER HAWTHORNE SIDE A: “I Still Love You” (Vocal)

SIDE B: “I Still Love You” (Instrumental)

“NOTTZ IS THE BEST BEAT-MAKER WALKING ON THE EARTH RIGHT NOW” – 9TH WONDER ALSO AVAILABLE FROM NOTTZ: Raw Koncepts proudly presents the 7” single “I Still Love You,” taken from You Need This Music, the highly anticipated solo debut album from Grammy Award winning producer Nottz.

“I Still Love You” features the retro soul music of Mayer Hawthorne, Stones Throw Records’ multi-talented gem. The pair’s chemistry, forged from their long friendship, clearly shines through.

Together, Nottz and Hawthorne create a track with an airy, upbeat rhythm blended with a touch of nostalgia that comes alive when played on this exclusive 7” record, You Need This Music on CD and 2xLP which includes the instrumental on the B-Side.

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Format: 7” Single Cat. No: RWK 1021 Label: Raw Koncept Available: DECEMBER 7th 7 From the label that brought you PSYCH-FUNK 101 and BRAZILIAN GUITAR FUZZ BANANAS comes

Funky fuzzy psychedelic tracks from 60s and 70s Indian music has become a global musical language but its Also included are off the beaten path Indian experiments in South Asian roots remain strong, diverse and local. As with Psych Funk – for example, two songs from the Simla Beat our introductory anthology of this kind (Psych Funk 101 – garage-psych albums, and an oft-heard Deep Purple cover by WPFC 101) this anthology covers the “golden years” of the the ground-breaking Atomic Forest – and examples of the movement, from approximately 1970 until 1983. Much of the Indian Psych Funk influence on European 70s musicians. music on this compilation springs from the film industry; composers such as R.D. Burman and the brothers Throughout the extensive liner notes, WPFC attempts to known as Kalyanji Anandji, whose work makes up much of broaden the definition of global psychedelia: the early this anthology, recorded and released an inordinate amount researchers who first coarsely defined the genre - and limited of soundtracks. That experiments in the fusion of India’s its subgenres – did so at the same time that these classical traditions of Hindustani and , folk experiments were first issued. That they would obscure these music such as bhangra and dandiya and Western psychedelia contributions to the global psychedelic canon is and funk music would occur at some point is only natural. understandable. But it is time to correct this oversight.

20 Indian Psych-Funk Masterpieces Format: CD with 52-page booklet Cat. No: WPFC-103 Includes deluxe 52-page booklet with Label: World Psychedelic Funk Classics detailed annotation plus never-before-seen Available: December 7th, 2010 photos and ephemera

Rare and previously unreleased tracks restored and remastered – many from the original master tapes

101. The Black Beats: The Mod Trade 102. X'Lents: Psychedelia 103. Kalyanji Anandji: Somebody to Love - Edit 104. Kalyanji Anandji: Dance Music - Edit 105. R.D. Burman: Dance Music From Hare Rama Hare 106. R.D. Burman feat. and : Lekar Ham Diwana Dil 107. R.D. Burman: Freak Out Music 108. Bappi Lahari: Everybody Dance With Me 109. Kalyanji Anandji: Dharmatma Theme Music 110. Asha Bhosle With R.D. Burman: Dum Maro Dum Live - Edit 111. : Hotel Incidental Music - Edit 112. Klaus Doldinger: Sitar Beat 113. Sapan feat. Mohd. Rafi and Pankaj Mittra: Meri Aakhon Mein Ek Sapna Hai - Edit 114. Keith Kanga: Butterfly (Version Two) - Edit 115. Atomic Forest: Mary Long 116. Usha Khanna: Tera Jasia Pyara Koi Nahin 117. Hemant Bhosle featuring Asha Bhosle: Phir Teri Yaad 118. R.D. Burman featuring Asha Bhosle: Aaj Mera Dil 119. Kalyanji Anandji w/ Manhar & Anand: Hum Tumhe Chate Hain - Edit 120. feat. and Chorus: Thanimayil

From the label that brought you PSYCH-FUNK 101 and BRAZILIAN GUITAR FUZZ BANANAS comes

Funky fuzzy psychedelic tracks from 60s and 70s India Indian music has become a global musical language but its Also included are off the beaten path Indian experiments in South Asian roots remain strong, diverse and local. As with Psych Funk – for example, two songs from the Simla Beat our introductory anthology of this kind (Psych Funk 101 – garage-psych albums, and an oft-heard Deep Purple cover by WPFC 101) this anthology covers the “golden years” of the the ground-breaking Atomic Forest – and examples of the movement, from approximately 1970 until 1983. Much of the Indian Psych Funk influence on European 70s musicians. music on this compilation springs from the Bollywood film industry; composers such as R.D. Burman and the brothers Throughout the extensive liner notes, WPFC attempts to known as Kalyanji Anandji, whose work makes up much of broaden the definition of global psychedelia: the early this anthology, recorded and released an inordinate amount researchers who first coarsely defined the genre - and limited of soundtracks. That experiments in the fusion of India’s its subgenres – did so at the same time that these classical traditions of Hindustani and Carnatic music, folk experiments were first issued. That they would obscure these music such as bhangra and dandiya and Western psychedelia contributions to the global psychedelic canon is and funk music would occur at some point is only natural. understandable. But it is time to correct this oversight.

20 Indian Psych-Funk Masterpieces Format: 2xLP with 20-page booklet Cat. No: WPFC-103 Includes deluxe 20-page booklet with Label: World Psychedelic Funk Classics detailed annotation plus never-before-seen Available: December 7th, 2010 photos and ephemera

Rare and previously unreleased tracks restored and remastered – many from the original master tapes

A1. The Black Beats: The Mod Trade A2. X'Lents: Psychedelia A3. Kalyanji Anandji: Somebody to Love - Edit A4. Kalyanji Anandji: Bairaag Dance Music - Edit A5. R.D. Burman: Dance Music From Hare Rama Hare Krishna B1. R.D. Burman feat. Asha Bhosle and Kishore Kumar: Lekar Ham Diwana Dil B2. R.D. Burman: Freak Out Music B3. Bappi Lahari: Everybody Dance With Me B4. Kalyanji Anandji: Dharmatma Theme Music B5. Asha Bhosle With R.D. Burman: Dum Maro Dum Live - Edit C1. Usha Khanna: Hotel Incidental Music - Edit C2. Klaus Doldinger: Sitar Beat C3. Sapan Jagmohan feat. Mohd. Rafi and Pankaj Mittra: Meri Aakhon Mein Ek Sapna Hai - Edit C4. Keith Kanga: Butterfly (Version Two) - Edit C5. Atomic Forest: Mary Long C6. Usha Khanna: Tera Jasia Pyara Koi Nahin D1. Hemant Bhosle featuring Asha Bhosle: Phir Teri Yaad D2. R.D. Burman featuring Asha Bhosle: Aaj Mera Dil D3. Kalyanji Anandji w/ Manhar & Anand: Hum Tumhe Chate Hain - Edit D4. Ilaiyaraaja feat. Vani Jairam and Chorus: Thanimayil