Second Discmas 2012: And The Winners Are...

Second Discmas 2012: And The Winners Are…

December 25, 2012 By Joe Marchese — No Comments

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Here at The Second Disc, the holiday season is the perfect time to do what we love to do best: share the gift of music. For the second year in a row, we have we reached out to some of our favorite reissue labels and we’ve teamed with them to play Santa Claus to our awesome and faithful readers. It’s called – what else? – Second Discmas, and it’s just drawn to its close. So, as we wish all of you a safe, healthy, happy and very merry Christmas, we’d like to congratulate the following winners. If you see your name on this list and haven’t yet received an email and/or Facebook message from us, please drop us a line at theseconddisc-at-gmail-dot-com to claim your prize! Without further ado…

Congratulations to;

RANDY OTTO, winner of a set of Steve Miller Band reissues from Edsel Records! (Day 1)

KEVIN BAKER, MARK SCHLESINGER and PHILIP GEHMAN, winners of Bobby Womack’s Pieces from Purpose Music Vaults! (Day 2)

ED SILVERMAN, winner of an Old 97’s prize pack from Omnivore Recordings! (Day 3)

GEORGE KOMAR, winner of a soundtrack reissue pack from La-La Land Records! (Day 4)

RON SPIVAK, winner of a “Produced by Bruce Kimmel” prize pack from Kritzerland! (Day 5)

PHILIP JAEGER, winner of a soundtrack reissue prize pack from Kritzerland! (Day 5)

CHRISTOPHER GODWIN, winner of a Sam Phillips prize pack from Omnivore Recordings! (Day 6)

MICHAEL SUSLOWICZ and PATRICK HNIDKA, winners of Doris Day’s Complete Christmas Collection from Real Gone Music! (Day 7)

and

RYAN BRUSH, winners of our fabulous prize pack from Legacy Recordings! (Day 8)

Happy Holidays, everybody!

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Joe Marchese

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.