Release Round-Up: Week of June 23

June 23, 2015 By Joe Marchese — No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a vintage live concert from The Rolling Stones in a variety of formats, an all-star salute to the great Carole King, a rare soundtrack from a beloved performer to a classic children’s film, and much, much more!

The Rolling Stones, From the Vault: The Marquee Club Live in 1971 (Eagle Rock)

DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.
SD Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.
SD Blu-ray + CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. TBD
DVD + CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.
DVD + LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.

The Sticky Fingers celebration continues: The Rolling Stones’ eight-song set previewing the classic album at London’s Marquee Club comes to a variety of audio and video formats from Eagle Rock Entertainment, many with bonus features/songs!

Various Artists, A Musicares Tribute to Carole King (Shout! Factory)

Blu-ray: Amazon U.S.
DVD: Amazon U.S.

A host of artists – including Sara Bareilles, Darlene Love, Merry Clayton, Lady Gaga, Alicia Keys, Steven Tyler and James Taylor – are on hand for this tribute to the one and only Carole King (who also performs!). Available on DVD and BD.

Rod McKuen, A Boy Named Charlie Brown (Varese Vintage) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)

Poet/singer/songwriter/renaissance man Rod McKuen may have passed away earlier this year, but his incredible and varied body of work lives on. Varese has the first-ever CD reissue of McKuen’s album of selections from his song score to 1969’s A Boy Named Charlie Brown. The album also contains performances of other McKuen classics from The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Me, Natalie (co-written with Henry Mancini) and Joanna.

Carl Hall, You Don’t Know Nothing About Love: The Loma/Atlantic Recordings 1967-1972 (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)

Actor, singer and all-around soul man Carl Hall released just six scorching single sides produced by the great Jerry Ragovoy for the Loma and Atlantic labels which have become cult favorites of many an R&B collector. Omnivore has brought those sides together on a new anthology that premieres 13 previously unissued tracks from the same period!

The Lover Speaks, The Lover Speaks: Expanded Edition (Cherry Pop) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)

The 1986 eponymous album from The Lover Speaks, a.k.a. vocalist-lyricist David Freeman and composer-arranger Joseph Hughes, returns from Cherry Pop in a definitively expanded edition. Read the full specs right here!

The Royal Jesters, English Oldies (Numero Group) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)

Numero Group has rescued a whopping 28 tracks from The Royal Jesters, teen kings of the San Antonio music scene throughout the 1960s. Doo-wop, R&B, rock and soul – they’re all here on this Tex-Mex time capsule packaged with Numero’s typical attention to detail. Watch for our feature on this release very soon!

The Jerry Garcia Band, On Broadway: Act One – October 28, 1987 (Round) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)

Here’s the very first installment in a new archival series celebrating Jerry Garcia’s 13-night run on Broadway! On Broadway: Act One presents three complete, previously unreleased sets from the October 28, 1987 performances at the Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, today home to the musical Finding Neverland: the early and late Jerry Garcia Acoustic Band sets and the Jerry Garcia Band’s electric evening set.

Original Broadway Cast Recording, Two’s Company (RCA/Masterworks Broadway) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. TBD)

After a period of exclusivity to Masterworks Broadway’s own website and Arkiv Music, Amazon now has available the CD-R of Two’s Company, starring Bette Davis with a score by Vernon Duke, Sammy Cahn and Ogden Nash! This marks the first CD-era release from the original master tapes of this one-of-a-kind cast album. You’ll find more details here about this release!

Rickie Lee Jones, The Other Side of Desire (Thirty Tigers/RED) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.)

Two-time Grammy winner Rickie Lee Jones’ The Other Side of Desire was written and recorded in New Orleans, where Jones lives today. Produced by John Porter (of Roxy Music) and Mark Howard, this is the first new music the great singer-songwriter has written in over a decade.

Categories:

Release Round-Up

Formats:

Blu-Ray, CD, DVD, Digital Download, Vinyl

Genres:

Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks

Tags:

Carl Hall, Carole King, Jerry Garcia, Rickie Lee Jones, Rod McKuen, The Lover Speaks, The Rolling Stones, The Royal Jesters

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.