I'm going to deliver the results of the Best Single Track because we've only received just a few. Some polls go through the roof and others just, well, lanquish. I do realize that I have asked a damn near impossible question. I was moved to this by the fact that I revisit a LOT of singles, and while I appreciate a lot of them, few draw goosebumps. When I bought my Exile on Main Street remaster last Tuesday, "Tumbling Dice" did that to me. It's one of my all-time favourites and a hands-down one at that. I thought that I'd see if you folks had one. But the task ended up being too daunting for all but the most decided. Here they are with commentary if it was included in the email vote:

• Dance on a Volcano - Genesis
  Well the album would have to be Trick of a Tail by Genesis...but too much to choose....
  
• The Roots of Coincidence - Pat Metheny Group
• Just Like Heaven - The Cure
• God Only Knows - The Beach Boys
  Sheer pop confection perfection
• Ticket To Ride - The Beatles
• Tumbling Dice - The Rolling Stones
  This is not only memorable but also contains some classic - and quotable - lines. Lines like "...All you women is low-down gamblers, cheatin' like I don't know how...," "...I'm all sixes and sevens and nines...," " ...y'now, y'know the deuce is still wild," and, of course, "...got to roll me and call me the tumbling dice." Just a perfect tune that never leaves and always entertains me. After hearing this on the radio back in its release, I KNEW the album had to be something special. I was right.
• Marlene - Todd Rundgren
  It didn't take me long to come up with my pick for the Great Single Track. It's a tune that I have championed for a long time, yet it's kind of obscure, even today. My pick is Marlene, a 1972 song by Todd Rundgren. It was from his double album Something/Anything? and was the B-side of his hit single I Saw the Light. I was about 9 years old when I first heard it (I'm now 31, so this was 21 years ago), rummaging through my mother's extensive collection of 45 RPM singles. As much as I liked I Saw the Light, Marlene always struck me as the better song. I call it the perfect pop song. Everything about it is so right- great production, superb multi-instrument and vocal performance by that one man band Rundgren, haunting melody and an infectious sing-along quality to it. I don't know why this song wasn't an A-side.
• Vanilla Fudge - You Keep Me Hangin' On
  From the first time I heard it, and I am referring to the album full length, though some radio stations dared to play it all, I knew it was going to change my musical listening life and it did: the Vanilla Fudge’s version of theSupremes’ You Keep Me Hangin’ On.
• Burn - Deep Purple
• Theme For An Imaginary Western - Mountain
  I don’t need the weekend to cogitate over my “defining” song that “does it right”…"Theme for an Imaginary Western" by Mountain.  I want this song played at whatever type of memorial service they have for me when I pass- even if it’s just my buddies drinking beer around a campfire… And I know you said only one, but ditto for Chestnut Mare by The Byrds.
• My Sharona - The Knack
• Journey To The Center of Your Mind - Ted Nugent & The Amboy Dukes
  This track takes me back to a time when nothing mattered!
• Under Pressure - Queen/David Bowie
• Please Don't Ever Leave Me - The Cyrkle
  Your basic perfect under 2 minute pop single.
• All Along the Watchtower - Jimi Hendrix
  I won't curse you but at the same time I won't spend too much time thinking about it either. It's kind of arbitrary given how many great songs there are. As you said, we could all come up with a list of 100 in under 5 minutes. So, I will just go with Jimi's version of "All Along The Watchtower". I never change the channel or skip to the next song when I hear those first notes and it always takes me to another place.
• Thunderstruck - AC/DC
• Edgar Winter Group - Frankenstein
• Hey Jude - The Beatles
  Released on my birthday in 1968.  This was a beautiful song. My favorite concert moment was when I first saw Paul during his Flowers in the Dirt tour, at Boulder, Colorado, singing with and watching the stadium sing Hey Jude.  This was always my favorite, and the easiest of questions you have asked.  Thanks for the great polls. 
  

Mike Duquette (of Second Disc) has provided his review of the recently released reissue of the Duran Duran S/T Collector's Edition that features 2CD and 1DVD.

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Time/Life have several titles coming, both on July 27. The first is Listening Booth 1970 by Marc Cohn coming on CD. The second is a DVD of The Best of Soul Train with Various Artists.

Warner Nashville has several low-priced series releases coming called Top 10. The artists getting their own collection issue are Clay Walker, Travis Tritt, Randy Travis, and Dwight Yoakam. These four Top 10 releases are expected on July 20.

Roadrunner Records will release Korn III: Remember Who You Are from Korn in both CD and a Deluxe Edition CD/DVD set on July 13.

Photo Finish Records (via WEA) will release Streets of Gold by 3Oh!3 on June 29 at an introductory price-range (less than frontline releases).

Rounder Records will release At Edwards Barn by Chris Hillman and Herb Pederson planning the release for September 21.

Rounder Records also plans Live in Boston 1982 with George Thorogood & The Destroyers scheduling for July 27.

Rounder plans to deliver No Better Than This by John Mellencamp on August 3.

Concord Records will reissue the Grammy-winning September of My Years (1965) by Frank Sinatra on August 31.

MVD Entertainment will release The Rolling Stones 1969-1974: The Mick Taylor Years on DVD scheduling for July 27. This was a peak and very fruitful period of The Rolling Stones and so this DVD should be very, very cool.

Show Dog Universal Music plans to release new Toby Keith tentatively scheduling October 26 as the intended release date.

Downtown Records has vinyl LP coming for the S/T album by The Drums, scheduled for August 10.

Eleven Seven Music will release Tattoos & Tequila by Vince Neil on June 22.

Epic and Legacy will replenish the marketplace with a re-release of the previously released CD/DVD package set of At Budokan by Cheap Trick on July 6.

Shout! Factory will reissue Bloodletting by Concrete Blond on July 13 in a 20th Anniversary CD that will contain six bonus tracks and new remastering using the original master tapes. Also included will be a new 12-page booklet that contains lyrics, a new essay, and photos.

Epic Records will release Stampede by Hellyeah (a side project populated by Vinnie Paul of Pantera/Damageplan, Chad Grey of Mudvayne, Greg Tribbett of Mudvayne, Tom Maxwell of Nothingface, and Bobzilla of Damageplan) in Deluxe CD/DVD (with a lenticular 3D cover) and standard CD in both PA and Edited versions. Stampede will release on July 13.

And for those that remember the star of Yanni back in the early '90s, Red Seal RCA will release The Essential Yanni on July 13.