JOE MARCHESE (Editor) joined The Second Disc shortly after its launch in early 2010, and has since penned daily news and reviews about classic music of all genres. In 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song and beyond, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with labels including Real Gone Music and Cherry Red Records, has released newly-curated collections produced and annotated by Joe from iconic artists such as Dionne Warwick, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Smokey Robinson and The Miracles, The Spinners, Johnny Mathis, Bobby Darin, Meat Loaf, Laura Nyro, Melissa Manchester, Liza Minnelli, Darlene Love, Al Stewart, Michael Nesmith, and many others.
Joe has written liner notes, produced, or contributed to over 200 reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them America, JD Souther, Nat "King" Cole, Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, BJ Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Rod McKuen, Doris Day, Jackie DeShannon, Petula Clark, Robert Goulet, and Andy Williams.
Over the past two decades, Joe has also worked in a variety of capacities on and off Broadway as well as at some of the premier theatres in the U.S., including Lincoln Center Theater, George Street Playhouse, Paper Mill Playhouse, Long Wharf Theatre, and the York Theatre Company. He has felt privileged to work on productions alongside artists such as the late Jack Klugman, Eli Wallach, Arthur Laurents, Betty Comden and Adolph Green. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and in 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray.
Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.
coming thursday i’m going to the steve miller concert in Groningen.
can’t wait
I’ve been waiting for the first five Steve Miller Band albums on cd for years !!!!! Now we need the Quicksilver Messenger Service , The Amboy Dukes and The Bob Seger System catalogs !!!
These albums are brilliant, and I hereby enter this awesome competition!
I’d lovee to win these. Great stuff and should have been out a loooong time ago.
Great to see good music being re-issued. Steve Miller Band’s had great pop tunes. It is good to see them available again. Looking forward to hearing them.
These first 5 are the best of the lot. Long overdue.
As part of my 10 year old son Sam’s musical education, I played him Fly like an eagle and Book of dreams, which he loved. It would be great to play him some Pre-joker SMB as well!
One of my first 45s was a Steve Miller tune. Would live to win!
Great seeing these albums on CD, I’d love to win them! Great site I read it every day.