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The Weekend Stream: August 9, 2025

August 9, 2025 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. Jim Reeves isn't the only gentleman on display this week: we've also got Peter Gabriel, Eddy Grant, Ben Folds and a host of film composers - plus many, many more!

Peter Gabriel, Live At WOMAD 1982 (Real World) (Apple / Amazon)

Loosed from the vault is Gabriel's nine-song headlining set at the first World of Music, Art and Dance Festival, held at the Bath & West Showground in Shepton Mallet, England in 1982. Gabriel co-founded WOMAD, which would expand into a series of international concerts that still run today. Highlights include a stunning version of "The Rhythm of the Heat" augmented by percussion from the Ekome Dance Company.

Jim Reeves, Singing Down the Lane (Expanded Edition) (RCA/Legacy) (Apple / Amazon)

Country legend Jim Reeves had already enjoyed a few No. 1 hits on the genre chart when he signed to RCA Victor in 1955. Singing Down the Lane was his first album for the label, released a year later - and Reeves would continue the hot streak not only with classics like "Four Walls" and "He'll Have to Go," but a myriad of material that would reach the upper ranges of the country charts in the decades after his untimely death in a plane crash in 1964. (Read more about this release and the Reeves estate's plans for more digital catalogue happenings in our feature from yesterday.)

Gloria Cheng, Montage: Great Film Composers and the Piano (Tenth Anniversary Edition) (Supertrain) (Apple / Amazon)

A must-listen for film score fans, this soundtrack to the documentary short of the same name (now streaming for free online!) highlighted the connection of composers like John Williams, Randy Newman, Michael Giacchino, Don Davis and Bruce Broughton to the piano with exclusive solo works of theirs not necessarily tied to any movie. The expanded edition includes live performances of several of those compositions by Gloria Cheng, the pianist and creative force behind the film.

Eddy Grant, Walking on Sunshine (Ice) (Apple / Amazon)

The "Electric Avenue" singer's hardline stance against digital availability melts just a little more following last year's streaming and download release of Killer on the Rampage. This time, we've got his solo breakthrough in the U.K., 1979's Walking on Sunshine, which featured the British hit "Living on the Frontline."

Bruce Woolley & The Camera Club, English Garden (Epic/Legacy) (Apple / Amazon)

British songwriter Bruce Woolley left a gestating partnership with Trevor Horn and Geoff Downes known as The Buggles, and his 1979 debut with new band The Camera Club (featuring a then-unknown Thomas Dolby on synthesizers) featured two of the songs he co-wrote with the group: "Clean, Clean" and the anthem "Video Killed the Radio Star." Recently reissued as part of a larger Camera Club box by Cherry Red, this expanded version only features some of the bonus tracks from that release (but not the same repertoire and running order as an earlier CD reissue in 2009).

Ben Folds, "When We Were Light" (WildBrain/Peanuts) (Apple / Amazon)

This week marked the 30th anniversary of Ben Folds Five's debut album - a milestone Ben eloquently wrote about on social media - but his latest output is "When We Were Light," a song he wrote and performed for the latest Peanuts special on AppleTV+, Snoopy Presents: A Summer Musical. (The single also includes the version from the special itself, with Jayd Deroché and Hattie Kragten in character as Charlie Brown and his sister Sally.)

Ronan Keating, The Way You Make Me Feel EP (Polydor/UMC) (Apple / Amazon)

Another single reissue marking the 25th anniversary of Ronan Keating's solo debut. "The Way You Make Me Feel" was a U.K. Top 10 hit co-written by producer Phil Thornalley (former bassist for The Cure and co-writer of Natalie Imbruglia's "Torn") and Bryan Adams (who sings background vocals on the track). Extras include a cover of The Pogues' "Fairytale of New York" with singer Maya Brennan of Clannad.

Bette Midler, "I'm Beautiful" (Remixes Parts 1 & 2) (Warner/Rhino) / Jackpot! The Best Bette (Atlantic/Rhino)

I'm Beautiful (Part 1): Apple / Amazon
I'm Beautiful (Part 2)
: Apple / Amazon
Jackpot!: Apple

An interesting digital backfill: in 2008, Rhino released this compilation (meant to coincide with a Las Vegas residency) that remains her only collection to draw from her Warner-era material as well as a few tracks from her mid-'00s tenure on Columbia. (It also featured an unreleased 1984 demo, "Something Your Heart Has Been Telling Me," a rare co-writing credit for the legendary interpreter. Roberta Flack recorded the first commercially released version some seven years later.) A version simply called The Best Bette had already been digitally available; it features three tracks not on this "original release," but this product - unusually only new to Apple Music - does feature a bonus cut from 1998's Bathhouse Betty that was originally only on Amazon's digital version. More significant for fans and collectors are two recently delivered suites of remixes to another Bathhouse Betty cut: Midler's cover of house act Uncanny Alliance's "I'm Beautiful."

Fania All-Stars, Live At Yankee Stadium Vol. 2 (Remastered 2025 ) (Fania/Craft) (Apple / Amazon)

The sequel to last week's remaster of this great Fania All-Stars live volume from 1975. Celia Cruz, Ismael Quintana, Justo Betancourt and more provide lead vocals throughout.

Floyd Collins (Original Broadway Cast Recording) (Center Stage) (Apple / Amazon)

Center Stage has delivered the original Broadway cast album of Adam Guettel and Tina Landau's beautiful and uncompromising musical Floyd Collins, which recently wrapped up a Tony-nominated revival on Broadway at Lincoln Center Theater's Vivian Beaumont Theater. Starring Jeremy Jordan, Jason Gotay, Lizzy McAlpine, Sean Allan Krill, Marc Kudisch, Taylor Trensch, and Jessica Molaskey, Floyd Collins recounts the true-life story of an explorer who gets trapped 200 feet underground - and the effects not just on him, but on his community and the world at large. The CD version of this poignant and devastating production arrives on September 5.

Finally, a note of appreciation for Jane Morgan, the beguiling pop singer known for songs like "Fascination" (a Top 10 hit in America) or "The Day the Rains Came" (a U.K. chart-topper) and an early figure on the Kapp Records roster. Her song interpretations took her everywhere, from The Ed Sullivan Show to Broadway, Nashville oddities like "A Girl Named Johnny Cash," her answer song to "A Boy Named Sue"), and even a sync in the end credits to an episode of AppleTV+'s The Morning Show. The song that was used was "If Only I Could Live My Life Again" - an ironic enough title for a woman who lived to be 101 years old. Our hearts go out to her family and fans.

Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Latin, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Reggae, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Alexandre Desplat, Bette Midler, Bruce Woolley, Bryan Adams, Don Davis, Eddy Grant, Fania All-Stars, Jane Morgan, Jim Reeves, John Williams, Michael Giacchino, Peter Gabriel, Randy Newman, Ronan Keating, The Camera Club

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  1. Harry Cohen says

    August 9, 2025 at 10:16 am

    Thank you for the tribute to Jane Morgan. In addition to her recorded output ( stints on Kapp, Epic, ABC and RCA), Jane toured in many musicals and did a 5 month stint starring in Mame on Broadway in 1969. I saw her in Mame ( I was 16) and was impressed by her voice and beauty.
    After marrying Jerry Weintraub, Jane wound down her career and stopped performing in 1972 in order to raise her family.

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  2. Dana says

    August 9, 2025 at 10:37 am

    Hopefully these reissues are the inauguration of a deeper Bette Midler reissue campaign. Her catalog has long been ready for some updating. Plenty of additional material was recorded for No Frills and Songs For The New Depression, so deluxe editions of these albums in particular would be true gifts. Not to mention, single versions of many of her 70s singles have yet to appear digitally, via streaming or CD. "No Jinx" from Jinxed, which I've always assumed was cancelled as a single release because the film was abyssmally unsuccessful, would be an ideal bonus track, as would "You Do Something To Me" from Scenes From A Mall. Goodness, a complete audio release of Divine Madness--yes, please!

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  3. Punk says

    August 10, 2025 at 8:26 am

    Rhino also released The Doors "Strange Days 1967" - a collection of early versions of the Strange Days album.

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