Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today including a Christmas classic from Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music and a whole bunch of massive box sets!  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.

Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Sings Christmas Carols (Expanded Edition) (Second Disc/Real Gone)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music)

Over the past decade, we here at TSD have happily partnered with Real Gone Music on an array of Christmas releases from such evergreen artists as Johnny Mathis, The Supremes, Chet Atkins, Connie Smith, and Robert Goulet. But our newest yuletide title is from our biggest ever group - bigger than Mitch Miller and His Gang or Eugene Ormandy and The Philadelphia Orchestra! Now, we're proud to reissue the very first Christmas album from a group numbering 360 members: The Mormon Tabernacle Choir. The original mono version of The Mormon Tabernacle Choir Sings Christmas Carols has been expanded with four rare period bonus tracks originally released between 1957 and 1959 (in stereo). Everything has been newly remastered from the original Columbia Masterworks tapes by Mike Milchner at SonicVision, and a 12-page booklet contains new liner notes from TSD's Joe Marchese which explore The Mormon Tabernacle Choir's history of Christmas music. The most wonderful time of the year has just gotten a bit more wonderful with the authorized CD premiere of this lost classic from "America's Choir" that's sure to enliven your Christmas morning. Read more here!

The Beatles, 1964 U.S. Albums in Mono (Capitol/Apple/UMe)

1964 U.S. Albums in Mono (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
Meet The Beatles! (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
The Beatles' Second Album (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
A Hard Day's Night (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
Something New (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
Beatles '65 (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)
The Early Beatles (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

1964 U.S. Albums in Mono includes new vinyl remasters of six albums distributed by Capitol Records within the first year of the Fab Four's arrival in New York City. Uniquely drawn from the first four Beatles albums in the U.K. and other single and EP material, these albums will be pressed on 180-gram vinyl and housed in faithful reproductions of their original jackets and inner sleeves, with the addition of a four-panel insert featuring an in-depth essay on each record by historian Bruce Spizer. While all six albums will be available individually, the box set includes a further exclusive: a re-pressing of that year's double-album audio documentary The Beatles' Story, which included snippets of interviews, press conferences and songs with voiceover narration.  Kevin Reeves has cut the lacquers in an all-analog chain from the original master tapes at East Iris Studios in Nashville. Get more details here!

U2, How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb (20th Anniversary Edition) (Island/UMR)

5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
8LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

Hello, hello: U2 are revisiting their 11th album - and, depending on where you stand, the end of one era and the start of another - with a deluxe box set edition of How to Dismantle An Atomic Bomb. The set, available exactly 20 years to the day of its original release, features five CDs or eight LPs of music: the original album, a "shadow album" of outtakes under the name How to Re-Assemble an Atomic Bomb, vintage remixes of singles like "Vertigo," "Sometimes You Can't Make It on Your Own" and "City of Blinding Lights," and the debut audio release of Vertigo 2005 - Live from Chicago, released on DVD in 2005 in the wake of the album. Each format includes a book of photographs from the era by Anton Corbijn. New double vinyl and CD pressings of the original album (with ex-U.S. bonus track "Fast Cars") will be made, and a "Re-Assemble Edition" - combining Dismantle and Re-Assemble - will be available digitally. Read more here!

Chicago & Friends, Live at 55 (Mercury Studios)

4K UHD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Mercury Studios
2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
2CD/BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Mercury Studios
2CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

On November 17 and 18, 2023, Chicago celebrated the 55th anniversary of debut album Chicago Transit Authority at Atlantic City's Ovation Hall (within the massive Ocean Casino Resort) with two marathon concerts touching on every facet of the band's long career. Now, the film of those concerts - featuring a number of special guests including Steve Vai, Robert Randolph, and Judith Hill - is coming to a variety of formats almost one year to the day, on November 22. Mercury Studios will release Chicago & Friends' Live at 55 on DVD+2CD, Blu-ray+2CD, 4K UHD, 2CD, 3LP, digital audio, and digital video. The 2 1/2-hour film (which previously was screened in theatres for a limited engagement and also seen on public television in an abridged version) preserves almost all of the original concert setlist, save a couple of Christmas songs and a cover of The Beatles' "Magical Mystery Tour." Get the track listing and more here!

New Order, Brotherhood (Definitive Edition) (Warner/Rhino U.K.)

Brotherhood (Definitive Edition): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
State of the Nation b/w Shame of the Nation 12" (2024 Remaster): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Bizarre Love Triangle b/w Bizarre Dub Triangle 12" (2024 Remaster): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Touched by the Hand of God b/w Touched by the Hand of Dub 12" (2024 Remaster): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

New Order adds their fourth album, 1986's Brotherhood, to their Definitive Edition series of album reissues. Brotherhood (Definitive Edition) will follow the previous three release formats, offering the remastered album on CD and vinyl along with a bonus disc of material (including nine previously unreleased tracks) and two DVDs of unseen video footage, including live concerts and TV appearances. As with previous releases, the Definitive Edition will not port over all the extra material from bonus discs in the 2008 reissue of the same album, but many of those remixes and B-sides will come back into print with reissues of the original 12" singles related to Brotherhood - in this case, non-album singles "State of the Nation" and "Touched by the Hand of God" (the former of which was included on CD copies of Brotherhood, and the latter appearing on the soundtrack to the televangelist black comedy Salvation!) and the band's U.S. breakthrough "Bizarre Love Triangle." Get the track listings and more here!

Miles Davis, Miles '54: The Prestige Recordings (Prestige/Craft)

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

Craft Recordings will commemorate seven decades since one of Miles Davis' most pivotal early years with a new 2CD or 4LP compilation that brings everything he recorded in that period together. Miles '54: The Prestige Recordings offers 20 tracks from several unforgettable sessions, with luminaries like pianists Horace Silver and Thelonious Monk, drummer Art Blakey, saxophonist Sonny Rollins, and vibraphonist Milt Jackson offering their talents in Davis' ensembles. The package includes a new essay by writer Ashley Kahn and in-depth session notes from Dan Morgenstern. The package commemorates both the anniversary of these sessions as well as the 75th anniversary of Prestige Records, the label that released them. Read more here!

Judas Priest, Rocka Rolla (50th Anniversary Remix) (MNRK/Exciter)

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Black LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Red LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

The British metal icons will reissue 1974's Rocka Rolla - one of the first truly sanctioned releases of the first album by the group - with a brand-new remix from the original multi-track tapes by producer Tom Allom. It's available on CD, LP (black and red pressings), and digitally. Get more details here.

Motley Crue, Dr. Feelgood (Deluxe Edition) (BMG)

3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.  / Amazon Canada
1LP Black Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
1LP Picture Disc: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

Motley Crue's 6x platinum, chart-topping album is celebrating its 35th anniversary with a deluxe 3CD or 3LP set featuring the remastered original album plus demos, live tracks, and assorted swag (a replica tour book, poster, backstage pass, itinerary, handbill, press kit, etc.). Both formats have the same 21 audio tracks. The original remastered album is also out today on vinyl.

Bon Jovi, Bon Jovi (Deluxe Edition) (Island/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Earlier this year, UMe celebrated the 40th anniversary of Bon Jovi's debut album with an extras-packed digital deluxe edition. Just in time for Christmas, that set is getting a physical 2CD release. The self-titled effort from the New Jersey rockers sports nine extra tracks, including previously unreleased early versions of debut single "Runaway" and new mixes of previously released live material from the band's longtime engineer Obie O'Brien. The set is packaged in a standard jewel case. Find out more here!

Don Henley, I Can't Stand Still / Cass County (Rhino)

I Can't Stand Still: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
Cass County: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

Don Henley's first and last (to date) solo albums receive reissues on CD, LP, and digital formats from Rhino today. 1982's I Can't Stand Still yielded the hit "Dirty Laundry" and features appearances by JD Souther, Warren Zevon, Bill Withers, Andrew Gold, Timothy B. Schmit, Louise Goffin, Joe Walsh, Garth Hudson, and other luminaries. 2015's Cass County, Henley's most recent album to date, welcomed Vince Gill, Merle Haggard, Mick Jagger, Alison Krauss, Martina McBride, Dolly Parton, and Trisha Yearwood. The reissue has the original Deluxe Edition's 16 tracks but lacks the two extras which were exclusive to Target.

Olivia Newton-John, Angels in the Snow (Primary Wave) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Primary Wave keeps the memory of Olivia Newton-John alive with this new collection of her Christmas recordings, including a previously unreleased duet with Jane Lynch on "O Come All Ye Faithful." Michael McDonald and John Travolta are also heard.  Available on CD, LP, and digitally.

Thompson Twins, Into the Gap (40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (BMG)

3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

The Thompson Twins' breakthrough fourth album returns to disc in a newly remastered collection that features 30 B-sides, remixes and extra tracks, including four unreleased cuts. Liner notes include new quotes from all three members of the group. A red vinyl pressing is also available. Read all about it here!

Simple Minds, Sparkle in the Rain (40th Anniversary Edition) (A&M/UMR)

4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

Ported over from a 2014 expansion of the Scottish rockers' sixth album, released in 1984, this 4CD set has all the audio of that collection in slightly truncated packaging and without the DVD that accompanied the last pressing. An opaque blue vinyl pressing is also avaiable.

McCoy Tyner and Joe Henderson, Forces of Nature: Live at Slugs' (Blue Note/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

This previously unreleased 1966 live recording features Tyner and Henderson in New York City joined by Jack DeJohnette and Henry Grimes. Jack and Lydia DeJohnette have produced this first-time release with Zev Feldman. Nate Chinen has written the new liner notes. Available on CD, LP, and digitally.

Thomas Z. Shepard, Recording Broadway: A Life in Cast Albums (Applause Books) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada)

Thomas Z. Shepard is among the most celebrated of all classical and show music record producers, counting 12 Grammy Awards to his name (including four for the musicals of Stephen Sondheim). Now, Shepard (with co-author Gayden Wren) is telling his singular story of coming up through the ranks at Columbia and RCA at a most extraordinary time, and peeling the curtain back on how some of the most famous cast albums of all time - including the original Company and Sweeney Todd - were made.

Wicked: The Soundtrack (Interscope)

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Target (with fold-out poster) / Barnes & Noble (alternate cover)
2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Target (split green/pink)

What else can we say? Wicked just might be the most highly-anticipated film of the year, and here's the soundtrack (featuring the songs heard in Act One of the long-running Broadway musical...fans of Act Two will have to wait until the next movie!). Ariana Grande, Cynthia Erivo, Jeff Goldblum, Jonathan Bailey, and Michelle Yeoh are among the stars, along with a few surprise voices that you'll find out if you seek out the track list on the cover - so use caution if you're spoiler-averse! Available on CD, LP, and digital formats, including various retailer exclusives including Target and Barnes & Noble.

Sunset Blvd.: The Album (The Other Songs)

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada
3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada

The celebrated Broadway revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Don Black, and Christopher Hampton's musical can be enjoyed at home with this cast album recorded live at London's Savoy Theatre, the venue in which director Jamie Lloyd's production premiered. Nicole Scherzinger, Tom Francis, Grace Hodgett Young, and David Thaxton (all of whom are reprising their roles on Broadway) are heard on the album. Available today on 2CD and 3LP; the digital release is already available.