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.
CONGRATULATIONS!
Facebook isn’t for all of us. I have zero interest in it. I’ve seen enough people get hurt, or become despondent, because of Facebook. Facebook creates false identity, illusions of being liked by people you might never actually meet. My life is my own. I know who my real friends are. I don’t need Facebook for that. I guess, since I’ll never join Facebook, my name will never appear when you’ve got a contest going. That’s the way it goes.
Did you read our original post with the contest rules, Joe? This contest (like many, though not all, of the contests we host here) was open to anybody with an email address, and that was clearly stated back on September 11 when it was announced. In fact, many of the randomly-selected winners were email entrants. We’re very sorry for your disappointment, but this was not a Facebook-only contest. Thanks, as always, for reading. We appreciate your support and hope you enter next time!
Thank you very much for the disc.
I used e-mail to enter the drawing instead of Facebook and appreciated having the option to do so.