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Sundazed Music is an American
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based in
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. It specializes in obscure and rare recordings from the 1950s to the 1970s. In 2000, Sundazed had a staff of 15 and two mixing studios, including a vintage
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collection.


History

Label founders Bob Irwin and his wife Mary started the label in 1989. Irwin's skill at restoring old vinyl records for the (then new) CD format, attracted the attention of
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s, who increasingly solicited him to help them re-issue material from their back catalogs. He helped
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release their archival Legacy Records label. Later, his restoration work included early material by the likes of
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,
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, and
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. Irwin also worked at Arista for a time. The first Sundazed releases were 1960s recordings by the Knickerbockers and the Five Americans, and reflected Irwin's personal preference for
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and
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. Later releases included the albums of
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, the Challengers, Liverpool Five, and
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's long-lost album ''Save for a Rainy Day''. The company reissued the complete catalog of
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by
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funk pioneers the Meters on vinyl and CD. The label later ventured into country music, including extensive reissues of
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albums by
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and other acts including
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. Sundazed also issued vintage jazz guitar albums through their Euphoria label.


Reissues

In 1995, Sundazed released a 20 track CD by The Pyramids, ''Penetration! The Best of the Pyramids''. Bob Irwin worked closely with
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the manager and producer for the Pyramids. Hodge owned the masters for the original recordings which included the unissued music. Hodge also had a strong love of the music. Irwin was also planning a second release of their work. It was to be a "Lost Pyramids" album of unreleased material. He also did the same for The Revels, the Impact Records recording artists who had a hit with " Church Key. Working with The Revels' original
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Tony Hilder and band members, Sam Eddy and
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, he had their work which was recorded years before re-released. They also reissued '' Oar'' by
Skip Spence Alexander Lee "Skip" Spence (April 18, 1946 – April 16, 1999) was a Canadian-born American singer, songwriter, and musician. He was co-founder of Moby Grape, and played guitar with them until 1969. In the same year, he released his only s ...
in 1999. Sundazed also reissued the
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albums, but were immediately forced to withdraw the first three albums due to legal disputes involving the band's ex-manager Matthew Katz. In 2009, they signed
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to reissue '' The Only Truth'' which came out on Sundazed SC 11216. Also that year, they released the long-lost Columbia sessions by the group
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. On June 24, 2018, it was reported that Sundazed Records would be reissuing Mike Nesmith's recordings with
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, originally released after his band
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was canceled in 1969. The band’s three albums, ''Magnetic South'', ''Loose Salute'', and ''Nevada Fighter'', were originally recorded and released between 1970 and 1971. It featured Nesmith on guitar and vocals, with John Ware on drums,
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on bass, and O.J. "Red" Rhodes on
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.


New releases

In 2015, after a conversation with former
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guitarist Greg Martin about Groovy Grubworm, an old instrumental record of which both were fond, Bob Irwin decided to create subsidiary label Sundazed RFD, a label exclusively for instrumental 45 RPM recordings. "Groovy Grubworm" by Harlow Wilcox And The Oakies, "Shark Country" by the SloBeats (a band composed of
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, Dave Roe and Maxwell Schauf) and " The Lonely Bull" by The East Nashville Teens were among the first records to be released by the new label.''
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'', Jun 25, 2015
Instrumental music label Sundazed RFD brings the beat of Music City
Bulls, Sharks and Grubworms, Oh My!
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See also

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References


External links


Official website
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