Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles.  There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to usher you into the weekend. And we've got a lot to cover today, from a massive Pink Floyd copyright dump to a new Whitney Houston soundtrack and some underrated Motown gold.

Pink Floyd, Live at Southampton Guildhall, UK, 23 January 1972 / Live at Carnegie Hall, New York, 5 Feb 1972 / Live at the Rainbow Theatre, London, 17 Feb 1972 / Live at the Rainbow Theatre, London, 18 Feb 1972 / Live at the Rainbow Theatre, London, 19 Feb 1972 / Live at the Rainbow Theatre, London, 20 Feb 1972 / Live at the Talikukan, Tokyo, Japan, 3 Mar 1972 / Live at Osaka Festival Hall, Japan, 8 Mar 1972 / Live at Nakajima Sports Center, Sapporo, Japan, 13 Mar 1972 / Live at Chicago Auditorium Theatre, USA, 28 April 1972 / Live at the Deutschlandhalle, Berlin, Germany, 18 May 1972 / Live at the Hollywood Bowl, Los Angeles, 22 Sept 1972 / Live at the Empire Pool, Wembley, London, 21 Oct 1972 / Live at Ernst-Merck Halle, Hamburg, Germany, 12 Nov 1972 / Live at the Palais des Sportes, Poitiers, France, 29 Nov 1972 / Live at the Palais des Sportes de L'Ile de la Jete, Saint Ouen, France, 01 Dec 1972 / Live at the Vorst Nationaal, Brussels, Belgium, 5 Dec 1972 / Live at The Hallenstadion, Zurich, Switzerland, 09 December 1972 / Alternative Tracks 1972 (Pink Floyd/Legacy)

Southampton: iTunes / Amazon
Carnegie Hall: iTunes / Amazon
Rainbow 17 Feb: iTunes / Amazon
Rainbow 18 Feb: iTunes / Amazon
Rainbow 19 Feb: iTunes / Amazon
Rainbow 20 Feb: iTunes / Amazon
Tokyo: iTunes / Amazon
Osaka: iTunes / Amazon
Sapporo: iTunes / Amazon
Chicago: iTunes / Amazon
Berlin: iTunes / Amazon
Hollywood Bowl: iTunes / Amazon
Empire Pool: iTunes / Amazon
Hamburg: iTunes / Amazon
Poitiers: iTunes / Amazon
Saint Ouen: iTunes / Amazon
Brussels: iTunes / Amazon
Zurich: iTunes / Amazon
Alternative: iTunes / Amazon

With the end of every year comes 50th anniversary batches of classic rock outtakes and ephemera surreptitiously dumped onto digital music services - all to preserve the copyright to prevent European gray-market from taking advantage of lapsed copyrights. Pink Floyd did this last year, and this weekend saw the release of 19(!) digital titles from 1972, mostly bootleg recordings of live shows performed that year with a few studio outtakes and demos thrown in for good measure. While the quality is dodgy, it's hard to debate the historical value of these shows - they're among the first times the band played what would become 1973's landmark The Dark Side of the Moon. Last year's batch eventually was pulled from distribution, so act on these while you can.

Whitney Houston, I Wanna Dance with Somebody (The Movie: Whitney New, Classic and Reimagined) (RCA) (iTunes / Amazon)

Next week, Sony Pictures releases a narrative film about iconic pop/soul singer Whitney Houston, starring Naomi Ackie as The Voice and featuring a script penned by Anthony McCarten (notable for successful if not entirely accurate rock biopics). This week, a massive digital companion album has been released digitally, featuring a trove of classic hits, rare live tracks, new remixes and the unreleased track "Don't Cry for Me."

Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock, It Takes Two / Joy and Pain (Profile)

Two:: iTunes / Amazon
Joy: iTunes / Amazon

Two of the most blissful hip-hop singles from the genre's golden age are back thanks to a pair of digital EPs featuring rare remixes of the 1988 tracks. Though never major crossover hits, it's hard to argue with the raw power of "It Takes Two" - from the Lyn Collins sample to Rob Base's vocal delivery - and "Joy and Pain" should not be ignored, either.

Peggy Lee, All Aglow Again! (Expanded Edition) (Capitol/UMe) (iTunes / Amazon)

Peggy Lee's classic All Aglow Again! arrives on digital platforms in its 2010 expanded edition originally issued on Real Gone Music predecessor Collectors' Choice. Though it's a remarkably cohesive and strong sequence, All Aglow Again! was assembled in 1960 from existing masters both released and previously unreleased. The collection was stacked with then-recent hit singles (including one of the artist's signature songs, "Fever") as well as the '40s smash "Mañana." Of the previously unreleased tunes, one dated to 1957 ("It Keeps You Young") while four more were plucked from Lee's final Capitol recording session of 1952 prior to her departure for Decca Records (a stint that would last four years and yield more landmark recordings including Black Coffee). Collectors' Choice's expansion adds six songs including the early Burt Bacharach rarity "Uninvited Dream," with lyrics by Sammy Gallop; note, too, that a half dozen tracks, total, are in stereo (including "Fever") whereas the original LP was a mono issue.

Teresa Brewer, 'Till I Waltz Again with You (Expanded Edition) / Don Cornell & Teresa Brewer / A Bouquet of Hits from Teresa Brewer (Expanded Edition) / Music, Music, Music (Expanded Edition) / Teresa (Expanded Edition) / For Teenagers in Love (Expanded Edition) / Miss Music (Expanded Edition) / Time for Teresa (Expanded Edition) / Teresa Brewer and the Dixieland Band (Coral/Geffen/UMe)

Waltz: iTunes / Amazon
Cornell &...: iTunes / Amazon
Bouquet: iTunes / Amazon
Music: iTunes / Amazon
Teresa: iTunes / Amazon
Teenagers: iTunes / Amazon
Miss Music: iTunes / Amazon
Time: iTunes / Amazon
Dixieland: iTunes / Amazon

A versatile song interpreter in the pre-rock era, Teresa Brewer enjoyed success with the chart-toppers "Music! Music! Music!" and "'Till I Waltz Again with You." Both of those tracks are represented in this major excavation of her work, comprising nine albums, EPs and compilations she recorded in the '50s for the Coral label and offering heaps of uncompiled single sides as bonus tracks.

Shorty Long, Here Comes the Judge (Expanded Edition) / The Prime of Shorty Long (Motown/UMe)

Judge: iTunes / Amazon
Prime: iTunes / Amazon

As the debut act on Motown's Soul imprint - meant for less pop and more blues-based artists - Frederick Earl "Shorty" Long issued a surefire classic in the R&B canon: "Devil with the Blue Dress On," a rollicking number he co-wrote with Motown songwriter/producer William "Mickey" Stevenson. (Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels made it a Top 5 smash two years later.) No less a Motown artist than Marvin Gaye questioned why Long - one of Motown's only self-produced acts besides Smokey Robinson & The Miracles - wasn't promoted as fiercely as other acts on the roster, and a boat accident in 1969 sadly ended his too-brief life. Now, his two albums, 1968's Here Comes the Judge (featuring the Top 10 title track and here offering two outtakes as bonus cuts) and the posthumous The Prime of Shorty Long (1969) are ripe for rediscovery, a decade after the Kent Soul label released all this material on CD in England.

Floyd Cramer, The Young and the Restless / Class of '74 and '75 (RCA)

Young: iTunes / Amazon
Class: iTunes / Amazon

Nashville's first-call session pianist and pioneer of the "slip note" style, the late Floyd Cramer (1933-1997) was a popular albums artist in his own right, often recording piano-led versions of the day's radio hits. In 1965, he began his Class Of... series, with each volume presenting a bunch of the year's best in Cramer's recognizable style. Perhaps the formula was tiring for Floyd by 1974-1975, as he combined those two years into one edition now making its digital debut. (Oddly, the 1973 volume is still absent from digital release.) Class of '74 and '75 was his final installment in the series and featured such familiar, gentle fare as "Have You Never Been Mellow," "Mandy," "Sunshine on My Shoulders," "Seasons in the Sun," and "Time in a Bottle." It's joined by another Cramer digital premiere: 1974's The Young and the Restless, built around the haunting Barry DeVorzon/Perry Botkin Jr. theme which still opens the CBS soap opera today. The rest of the LP might as well be another Class volume, with Cramer fleetly tickling the ivories on "Top of the World," "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy," "The Most Beautiful Girl," and "Behind Closed Doors." Two music legends, Chet Atkins and Chips Moman, co-produced Class, while Atkins helmed Young and the Restless on his own.

Dazz Band, Joystick / Jukebox (Motown)

Joystick: iTunes / Amazon
Jukebox: iTunes / Amazon

Cleveland-based funk outfit the Dazz Band never matched the success of 1982's dance classic "Let It Whip," a Top 5 pop hit. But "Joystick" and "Let It All Blow," two singles from their fifth and sixth albums for Motown - now available digitally - dented the lower reaches of the Billboard Hot 100 while hitting the Top 10 of the magazine's R&B singles chart.

Musical Youth, The Youth of Today (MCA/Geffen) (iTunes / Amazon)

For many, the story of British reggae band Musical Youth began and ended with "Pass the Dutchie," the catchy worldwide hit that reached the Top 10 in America while topping the charts throughout Europe. But the juvenile ensemble kept the streak going for about another year in their native England with two more Top 20s: "Youth of Today" and "Never Gonna Give You Up" (not that one). After some remix EPs were delivered digitally, their debut LP, featuring all three of those singles and more, is now yours to stream or download.

Various Artists, A Country Christmas, Vol. 5 (RCA) (iTunes / Amazon)

RCA Nashville would collect some stray holiday songs from their roster every few years; 1995 saw the fifth volume in that Country Christmas series. It's got tracks from Alabama, Lonestar, Clint Black and Restless Heart - plus the label's deathless novelty version of "Jingle Bells" as barked by Don Charles' Singing Dogs some 40 years earlier!