New York, NY (Top40 Charts) Although every day is a great day to visit your local brick-and-mortar record store, a visit on Record Store Day/Black Friday (November 25th) is essential. Omnivore Recordings has four vinyl titles available that day at record stores only: Big Star's Complete Third, Vol. 1: Demos to Sessions to Roughs; the Beach Boys' Becoming the Beach Boys: Highlights from the Hite & Dorinda
Morgan Sessions; the Bangles' Ladies and Gentlemen … The Bangles!,; and Jaco Pastorius' Jaco: Original Soundtrack.
In
September 1961, Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine, Carl Wilson, and
Dennis Wilson stepped up to a microphone together for the first time at the home of Hite and Dorinda
Morgan to demo The Beach Boys' first three songs, under the Morgans' direction. Between that date and the following March, before signing a seven-year contract with Capitol Records in July 1962, the group committed nine songs to tape. Some of these tunes became iconic, others remained obscure. Omnivore recently released a two-CD set of this material, including various takes. Uncut noted, "This pastiche of past and present contains the seeds of a predominant strain of '60s music." NPR's
Fresh Air spotlighted the package. And now, available for the first time on vinyl will be Highlights From Becoming the Beach Boys: The Complete Hite & Dorinda
Morgan Sessions, a distillation of the initial package. The set comes in blue, red, or yellow vinyl variations.
Ladies and Gentlemen … The Bangles!, featuring 16 tracks hand-selected by the band members from their personal music archives, is a collection of remastered '80s-era rarities, demos, live recordings and more, including the band's debut single and all of the tracks from their self-titled 1982 EP helmed by legendary Ramones/Blondie producer
Craig Leon. The album was previously available as a download and a CD issued earlier this year by Omnivore Recordings. PopMatters said: "This compilation serves as a good introductory tool for new fans, those interested in exploring the group's work, as well as die-hards interested in rarities and outtakes." Due to popular demand, Omnivore is releasing the set again, this time on beautiful red vinyl for Record Store Day/Black Friday.
A special first-time-on-vinyl, limited-edition release of Jaco: Original
Soundtrack features music drawn from the critically acclaimed full-length documentary film chronicling the life, music and ongoing influence of the mythic electric bass pioneer Jaco Pastorius. Produced by
Metallica bassist Robert Trujillo and Jaco's eldest son Johnny Pastorius, Jaco: Original
Soundtrack brings together 16 essential recordings including solo tracks, Weather Report masterpieces and musical collaborations with Joni Mitchell, Ian Hunter, Herbie Hancock, and more. This special one-time vinyl pressing of the soundtrack (previously available on CD and digital) features three brand-new recordings including two riveting interpretations of Jaco classics. Trujillo and album co-producer Chuck Doom penned the liner notes.
