Michael Jackson’s Reign as King of Pop Starts Here: RIAA-Certified Nine-Times-Platinum Off the Wall Blends Funk, Disco, Soul, and R&B in Visionary Ways, Features “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough” and “Rock With You”
1979 Landmark Presented in Audiophile Sound: Mobile Fidelity’s Numbered-Edition Hybrid SACD Explodes with Energy, Plays with Tremendous Clarity, Detail, and Dynamics. Mobile Fidelity’s numbered-edition hybrid SACD of Off the Wall is sourced from the original master tapes and housed in mini-LP-style packaging. This reissue is made for everyone who desires to immerse themselves in everything involved with the nine-times-platinum landmark — including the iconic album cover with Jackson dressed in a tuxedo.

Keith Hudson’s Nuh Skin Up Dub is a heavyweight dub album that stands out as one of the most potent statements in the genre’s history. Released in 1979, this sonic masterpiece showcases Hudson’s dark, almost mystical production style, where heavy bass lines, echo-drenched drums, and ghostly fragments of vocals swirl together in a hypnotic haze. It was also the first time Hudson highlighted the significant role played by his favorite studio band, the legendary Soul Syndicate, who he had already been working with for some years. Despite providing backing tracks for many important Jamaican artists and big hits, the band rarely received the recognition due.

Christopher Cross' 1979 Self-Titled Debut Album on 2LP. This Expanded Edition Includes 11 Rare & Previously Unissued Tracks. Mastered & Restored by Bernie Grundman & Michael Graves. In the late 1970s, disco and hard rock ruled the charts and there was seemingly no room for a fresh unique sound. Enter Christopher Cross and his now classic self-titled first album. Originally from San Antonio, TX, and known as an exceptional guitar player besides being a tremendous songwriting talent, Christopher Cross was released in the last month of the 1970s and its first single "Ride Like the Wind," with the ubiquitous Michael McDonald on backing vocals, began a five-plus month run on the Billboard Hot 100 in February, peaking at #2 in April of 1980.

Record Store Day 2025. Live On Tour was recorded at the Agora in Cleveland on December 18, 1978 and published as a promo LP for radio broadcast in 1979. Recorded on the More Songs About Buildings and Food tour, the promo release was never officially released commercially to the public. This is the first official release of the full show, fully remastered from the original analog tapes and features one previously unreleased track. 2LP set cut at 45rpm.

Michael Jackson’s Reign as King of Pop Starts Here: RIAA-Certified Nine-Times-Platinum Off the Wall Blends Funk, Disco, Soul, and R&B in Visionary Ways, Features “Don’t Stop ‘Til You Get Enough” and “Rock With You”
1979 Landmark Presented in Audiophile Sound: Mobile Fidelity’s Numbered-Edition Hybrid SACD Explodes with Energy, Plays with Tremendous Clarity, Detail, and Dynamics. Mobile Fidelity’s numbered-edition hybrid SACD of Off the Wall is sourced from the original master tapes and housed in mini-LP-style packaging. This reissue is made for everyone who desires to immerse themselves in everything involved with the nine-times-platinum landmark — including the iconic album cover with Jackson dressed in a tuxedo.

Capitol Records presents The Shirt's second album, Street Light Shine (1979), recorded at Mediasound Studios in New York City. The resulting sound was much more eclectic than their debut album and the album became a financial and critical success in Europe, with the single "Laugh and Walk Away" again charting high in the Netherlands. However, a breakthrough in the US market continued to elude the band.

Hazel Dorothy Scott (June 11, 1920 – October 2, 1981) was a Trinidad-born American jazz and classical pianist, singer, and actor.

Wave is the fourth studio album by the Patti Smith Group, released May 17, 1979, on Arista Records.

American singer-songwriter and activist born on January 9, 1941 in Staten Island, New York, USA and known for her soprano voice, three-octave range and distinct, rapid vibrato. Originally a folk singer, her music has considerably strayed from folk since the 1960s, encompassing rock, pop, country, and gospel.She was influential in helping Bob Dylan gain greater career success in his early performing days.Inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame on April 7, 2017.
Daughter of Albert Baez and Joan Baez, Sr.; younger sister of Pauline Marden and older sister of Mimi Farina (also a folk musician). She had a romantic relationship with Bob Dylan in the mid-1960s, and later married David Harris (from March 26, 1968 until their divorce on February 15, 1974) with whom she had a son, Gabriel Harris.

First released in 1979. SACD , Print in USA . 2024. Mastered by Rob LoVerde at Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, Sebastopol, CA on the Gain HD System.

Funky-Disco: Cleveland "Cleve" Eaton is a member of the Alabama Music Hall of Fame, right there with Nat Cole, Wilson Pickett, Martha Reeves, Jerry Wexler, The Blind Boys Of Alabama, and a few dozen other notables.

UK - the last of the great British progressive-rock bands of the '70s. Recorded midway through their hugely successful 1979 world tour, Eddie Jobson, John Wetton and Terry Bozzio's now-legendary concerts in Osaka, Nagoya and Tokyo cemented the band's success in Japan and led to one of the classic live albums of the genre.

Während seiner Zeit als Schlagzeuger bei Benny Goodman nahm Krupa leglich zwei Mal unter eigenem Namen (als Gene Krupa and His Chicagoans im November 1935 für Parlophone und im Februar 1936 als Gene Krupa’s Swing Band) eine Reihe von Titeln mit Solisten wie Chu Berry, Vido Musso, Israel Crosby (für den Krupa „Blues for Israel“ schrieb) und Roy Eldridge auf, darunter auch Vokalnummern mit Helen Ward, Irene Daye und Jerry Kruger.

Gary Numan is a pioneer, and his influence on so many artists is unmistakable and grand

Originally released in 1979 on the Orion label 'Music For Complete Jazz Dance Class With Lea Darwin' is an absolute double vinyl treasure vault of tracks composed by percussionist and multi-instrumentalist Rick Panzer. Re-discovered by Klinkhamer Record shop boss Michel Veenstra, it is now being reissued on BBE Music as part of the Klinkhamer series.Michel Veenstra first heard the album in the early 2000s and spent years trawling through German phone directories to find the correct Rick Panzer to get his blessings to once again release the album to a music loving public. The album itself heralded the track 'Pre-Stretch Warm-up' which featured on the Klinkhamer Volume 2' compilation to great acclaim and airplay from broadcasters and DJs.