New Digital Releases — Jan & Dean Original Liberty LPs, 1962-1966

[Mark A. Moore]

Looks like Take Linda Surfin' is scheduled for November 30:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Dean-Linda-Surfin-Digital-Booklet/dp/B004B7LAB6

[Ban n Bean]

Same for USA, along with "Surf City...", "Drag City", "Dead Man's..."  and "Pop Symphony No. 1" (with no booklet).  No indication of CDs yet.  There have been other digital releases recently but no booklet.  256k MP3 (sigh).

[Admin]

Pop Symphony and the few others currently without the PDF notes will have the notes added later.

[11bees]

Bummer to hear only the stereo versions will be available (again), but at least the music will be out there. Seriously though, how hard is it to put out mono versions of these albums, especially if it's only via download? I mean, i'm guessing the market for these releases is us plus about 1,000 other people, all of whom already have the one-way stereo cd's. Just sayin...
Looking forward to your notes, Mark!

[surferbee]

Will the albums and digital liner notes be on ITunes.

[Mark A. Moore]

Will the albums and digital liner notes be on ITunes.

Yes, it's my understanding that they'll be on iTunes.

[Mark A. Moore]

The main post now has a list of links to iTunes and Amazon.

As more of the new releases become available, the list will be updated.

[Admin]

Three short reviews (written for Rhapsody.com), resulting from the recent digital releases.

http://www.justinfarrar.com/2011/01/rhapsody-round-up-no-1/

[Admin]

The folowing original Jan & Dean albums, with new liner notes, will be released by Capitol Records on May 3, 2011:

The Little Old Lady from Pasadena

Folk 'n Roll

Jan & Dean Meet Batman

Filet of Soul

Popsicle

You can pre-order via Amazon . . . and these albums will show up on iTunes on May 3.

Enjoy . . .

[Mark A. Moore]

Okay, all of the original Jan & Dean Liberty albums (1962-1966) are now available in the digital market . . . via iTunes and Amazon (Capitol Records).

Extensive new liner notes have been completed for 10 albums so far.

The remaining five albums for which new liner notes are forthcoming include:

1 - Golden Hits Vol. 1
2 - Ride the Wild Surf
3 - Pop Symphony
4 - Golden Hits Vol. 2
5 - Golden Hits Vol. 3

My schedule is booked through the end of May . . . but I look forward to getting back into the groove for the J&D liners in June.

M.

[AlJolson59]

I just purchased COMMAND PERFORMANCE from Itunes.  No liner notes were included with the download.  Have the liner notes been deleted from these downloads for purchase?  I bought this primarily for the liner notes, so this is a tad bit disappointing.

[Mark A. Moore]

Hmmm . . . The notes were turned in for that album. Not sure why the booklet isn't listed. It's supposed to show up as part of the track list (available for full-album purchases).

You might want to e-mail Capitol and call their attention to it. Tell them you paid, expecting to get the notes.

I don't really have time to investigate it right now, as I'm trying to plug away on the Sessionography stuff.

[AlJolson59]

Thanks.  It was not part of the track list.  I have emailed both Capitol and Itunes.

[AlJolson59]

I got in touch with Itunes regarding the missing Digital booklet liner notes.  This was their response:

"... After a careful review of your purchase, our records show that the album "Command Performance (Live)" you
purchased doesn't have the digital booklet included. My apologies for the
confusion this has caused."

I subsequently checked the downloads at Amazon.  Most of the Jan & Dean downloads released contain the digital booklet.  However, three do not:  COMMAND PERFORMANCE... RIDE THE WILD SURF... and JAN & DEAN'S POP SYMPHONY.  My hope is that Mark will post his new, detailed liner notes for these three albums on this web site, as there seems to be no other way to see them commercially.

[maryw7]

hmmmm...

this situation is interesting...

until it's resolved...

youtube that i put together, i think one summer ago...around fourth of july whenst i was alone and had to think of something fun to do...

includes a very wonderful song from the very LP you've purchased, Al

Jan & Dean's special "Little Honda" ...my montage
This conversation reminded me so of it