Release Round-Up: Week of February 24

Led Zeppelin, Physical Graffiti various editions (Atlantic/Swan Song)

2-CD Original Album: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.
3-CD Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.
2-LP Original Album: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.
3-LP Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.
Super Deluxe Edition (3-CD/3-LP): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.
Digital Download: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.

Led Zeppelin’s classic album turns 40 and gets the remastered treatment with never-before-heard content available in a plethora of formats! Read the track listing and full details here.

Lead Belly, The Smithsonian Folkways Collection (Folkways) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)

Folkways’ career-spanning retrospective box set for the folk legend and 1988 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee includes five compact discs with 108 tracks (16 previously unreleased) totaling 5 hours of music plus a 140-page booklet! Read the full track listing and details here.

Camper Van Beethoven, New Roman Times (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)

Camper Van Beethoven’s 2004 reunion release, a “sci-fi alternate-reality rock opera,” gains four previously unissued bonus tracks in this new edition available on CD, DD and LP!

The Manhattans, There’s No Me Without You / That’s How Much I Love You / Too Hot to Stop It / With These Hands & A Million to One (Funky Town Grooves)

There’s No Me Without You: Expanded Edition (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)
That’s How Much I Love You: Expanded Edition (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)
Too Hot to Stop It: Expanded Edition (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)
With These Hands/A Million to One (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)

FTG continues to revisit The Manhattans’ catalogue with four more releases including new-on-CD titles, previously unreleased bonus tracks and more! Full details can be found here.

The Animals, Winds of Change: Mono Edition (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) / The Twain Shall Meet: Stereo Edition (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) (Sundazed)

Two psychedelic rock classics from Eric Burdon and The Animals arrive in remastered editions on CD and vinyl from Sundazed.

Chicago, Live in ’75 (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)

Rescheduled from last week, here’s the live set from the Beachago tour of 1975! Read Joe’s review here.

And don’t forget to visit our Release Calendar often for up-to-the-minute release dates!

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. He has contributed liner notes to reissues from a diverse array of artists, among them Paul Williams, Lesley Gore, Dusty Springfield, B.J. Thomas, The 5th Dimension, Burt Bacharach, The Mamas and the Papas, Carpenters, Perry Como, Peggy Lipton, Doris Day, and Andy Williams, and has compiled releases for talents including Robert Goulet and Keith Allison of Paul Revere and the Raiders. In 2009, Joe began contributing theatre and music reviews to the print publication The Sondheim Review, and his work still appears with frequency in the magazine. In 2012, he joined the staff of The Digital Bits as a regular contributor writing about film and television on DVD and Blu-ray. 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 2015, Joe formed the Second Disc Records label. Celebrating the great songwriters, producers and artists who created the sound of American popular song, Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, has released newly-curated collections produced by Joe from iconic artists such as The Supremes, Melissa Manchester, Laura Nyro, Bobby Darin and Johnny Mathis, legendary producer Bob Crewe, soul legend Wilson Pickett, and many others. Joe currently resides in the suburbs of New York City.

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noyoucmon says

February 25, 2015 at 2:02 pm

Just a piece of feedback about the new site design: Putting all of an article’s text into the headers on the main page really decreases readability. For example, on the main page this article looks like this:

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Led Zeppelin, Physical Graffiti various editions (Atlantic/Swan Song) 2-CD Original Album: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 3-CD Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 2-LP Original Album: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 3-LP Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Super Deluxe Edition (3-CD/3-LP): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Digital Download: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Led Zeppelin’s classic album turns 40
and gets the remastered treatment with never-before-heard content available in a plethora…
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It looks and reads like a real mess. Also, the hyperlinks are deactivated, leaving readers to try to swim through all of that info for relevant information. If you just kept the photo and the “CONTINUE READING” button there, eliminating the lead-in text, it’d make for a much smoother presentation.

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