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Release Round-Up: Week of June 8

June 8, 2018 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Johnny Mathis, Close to You/Love Story: Expanded Edition (Second Disc/Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music continue their journey through Johnny Mathis’ seventies catalogue with this expanded, remastered two-fer of Mathis’ 1970 and 1971 albums. Close to You finds the singer reinterpreting hits by Bacharach and David, Antonio Carlos Jobim, The Beatles, and even Santana, while Love Story has songs from Goffin and King, Paul Williams, and Henry Mancini. Three bonus tracks round out this 1-CD…

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Release Round-Up

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Black Sabbath, David Bowie, Davy Jones, Dennis Coffey, Eric Clapton, Johnny Mathis, Keely Smith, Mick Ronson, Paul Simon, Simon and Garfunkel, The Beach Boys, Violent Femmes

Thank You For The ‘Days’: Edsel Preps Kirsty MacColl’s Virgin Years For New Box

June 5, 2018 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

On June 15, Edsel will remember the late singer-songwriter Kirsty MacColl with the release of a new 4CD/1DVD box set. Days (1988-1991) collects her Virgin Records period which yielded two albums and various singles. MacColl’s unique voice was first heard on her single for Stiff Records, the peppy “They Don’t Know.” Despite strong airplay, the single actually never charted on the U.K. charts, the victim of a distributor’s strike keeping the single from experiencing any major sales. (In 1983, a cover by singer/actress Tracey Ullman, featuring MacColl on backing vocals, was a…

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News

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Box Sets, CD, DVD

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Pop, Rock

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Kirsty MacColl

Magic Moments Filled with Love: Perry Como Celebrated On Public Television, New Box Set and More

June 1, 2018 by The Second Disc | 23 Comments

Perry Como Greatest Hits and Magic Moments

May 18, 2018 would have marked Perry Como’s 106th birthday. While the beloved singer didn’t make it to 106, he lived a full 88 years which he packed with magic moments on records, film, television, and the world’s concert stages. All told, the proudly Italian-American crooner notched 131 chart hits in the U.S. alone, over 20 gold records, multiple Emmy and Grammy Awards, a Kennedy Center Honor, and sales of over 100 million records between 1945 and 1970. This weekend, fans are invited to celebrate his remarkable career with a television special…

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News

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CD, DVD

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Popular Standards/Vocal

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Perry Como

Release Round-Up: Week of June 1

June 1, 2018 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Michelle Phillips, Victim of Romance: Expanded Edition (Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) “Mama” Michelle Phillips’ 1977 solo album, produced by Jack Nitzsche, returns to CD in a new expanded edition collecting the artist’s complete sessions with Nitzsche. It adds three outtakes from the album sessions, including a Bee Gees cover (“Had a Lot of Love Last Night”), Dennis Lambert and Fil Spina’s “Practice What You Preach,” and Michelle’s own, tropically-flavored “Guerita.” These three songs were not featured on previous reissues of the album. …

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News, Release Round-Up

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Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

Genres:

Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Alan Silvestri, Cheap Trick, Cowboy, Def Leppard, Emmylou Harris, Jethro Tull, Keely Smith, Living Colour, Michelle Phillips, Paul Simon, Roger Daltrey, The Mamas and The Papas, The Quick, The Temptations, Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, ZZ Top

I’ve Waited Hours For This: The Cure Expand ‘Mixed Up’ With New and Vintage Remixes

May 29, 2018 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

The Cure kicked off the 1990s with the release of Mixed Up, an album collecting the band’s rarer 12-inch mixes. It wasn’t just a straightforward anthology, however, as two songs (“A Forest” and “The Walk”) weren’t just remixed, but re-recorded, and a wholly new track (“Never Enough”) was also recorded. As Robert Smith comments, Brian “Chuck” New’s dub style remix of “Pictures Of You” inspired him: “That mix turned the music on its head, but at the same time left the essential heart of the song intact. As soon as I heard…

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News

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CD, Vinyl

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Disco/Dance, Pop, Rock

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The Cure

Release Round-Up: Week of May 25

May 25, 2018 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Prince, Nothing Compares 2 U (Warner Bros.) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Prince’s original recording of “Nothing Compares 2 U” arrives on vinyl today for wide release. The original Prince studio version was recorded at the Flying Cloud Warehouse in Eden Prairie, Minnesota by engineer Susan Rogers and featured background vocals by Susannah Melvoin and Paul “St. Paul” Peterson as well as saxophone by Eric Leeds. Prince composed, arranged, and otherwise performed the track entirely by himself. This 7-inch vinyl single has an…

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News

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Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock

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Barclay James Harvest, Bow Wow Wow, Jennifer Warnes, Malo, Marvin Hamlisch, Prince, Rodgers and Hammerstein, The Smithereens

BREAKING! Second Disc Records, Real Gone Music Unearth Never-Before-Heard Bobby Darin on “Go Ahead and Back Up: The Lost Motown Masters”

May 22, 2018 by The Second Disc | 6 Comments

Bobby Darin joined Motown Records in 1970, inaugurating the final phase in a remarkable career that saw him transform from a rock-and-roll teen idol to a sophisticated swinger to a socially conscious folkie. Yet before his tragic death at the age of 37 in 1973, Darin only released one album and a handful of singles for Berry Gordy’s legendary label. A few posthumous recordings followed in 1974 and a live album in 1987, but the story stayed the same: that despite the best efforts of all, Darin’s music for Motown never lived…

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Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul

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Ashford and Simpson, Bobby Darin, Smokey Robinson

Baby, They’ve Got It! Ace Raids Motown Vaults for “More Motown Girls”

May 15, 2018 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Back in 2013, Ace Records launched its first collection of Motown Girls, spotlighting previously unreleased tracks from the legendary ladies of Motown Records. A second installment arrived in 2015, and now, we’re finally the recipient of a third volume in the series. The 24-song anthology Baby I’ve Got It! More Motown Girls boasts 16 previously unreleased tracks, with the remaining eight drawn from the Motown Unreleased compilations (all of which have been digital-only except for the one covering 1966). This exciting new collection kicks off with a true landmark: the very first…

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News, Reviews

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Pop, R&B/Soul

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Brenda Holloway, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Kim Weston, Martha and the Vandellas, Mary Wells, The Marvelettes, Various Artists

Release Round-Up: Week of May 4

May 4, 2018 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Frank Sinatra, Standing Room Only (Capitol/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This new 3-CD, book-style box set from Capitol/UMe features three spectacular live concerts from three decades of Frank Sinatra’s storied career, including the January 28. 1966 second show with The Count Basie Orchestra and conductor Quincy Jones at The Sands in Las Vegas, making its CD debut; and two previously unreleased shows: October 7, 1974 at Philadelphia’s Spectrum, and October 24, 1987 at Dallas’ Reunion Arena. Read more here, and watch this space for Joe’s…

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Release Round-Up

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Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Blues, Country, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Barry McGuire, Frank Sinatra, Hoyt Axton, Jan Berry, Liz Phair, Rita Coolidge, Roy Buchanan, The Human League, The Temptations, Tom Verlaine

The Second Disc’s 2018 Record Store Day Must-Haves

April 20, 2018 by The Second Disc | 9 Comments

Welcome to our annual rundown of Must-Haves for this year’s Record Store Day event! Once you’re through reading, let us know what you’re most looking forward to picking up tomorrow at your favorite local independent retailer! Our list features just a sampling of our favorites from our friends at Legacy Recordings, Varese Sarabande, Rhino Records, Real Gone Music, Demon Music Group, Walt Disney Records, Omnivore Recordings, and more! Joe’s kicking things off with five essential picks (in alphabetical order)! The Beau Brummels, Bradley’s Barn [Expanded Edition] (Run Out Groove) Before Abbey Road…

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News, Reviews

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Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Country, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

Release Round-Up: Week of April 20

April 20, 2018 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! The Who, Live at the Fillmore East 1968 (UMe) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Who’s April 6, 1968 concert from New York’s Fillmore East gets its first-ever official release just in time for its 50th anniversary. For the occasion, it’s been restored and fully remixed from the original four-track tapes by longtime Who engineer Bob Pridden, who was responsible for the mix heard that night in the Fillmore East. The 2-CD iteration of…

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Release Round-Up

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Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Reggae, Rock, Soundtracks

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Barry White, Cheech and Chong, Donna Summer, Gladiators, Neil Young, Pat Suzuki, Pete Townshend, Shaggy, Sting, The Feelies, The Flaming Lips, The Who, Todd Rundgren, Utopia, Yung Wu

Release Round-Up: Week of April 13

April 13, 2018 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! David Bowie, Changestwobowie (Parlophone) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada David Bowie’s 1981 compilation spanning the period between Hunky Dory and Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) returns to print for the first time in three decades in a newly remastered edition. Its ten tracks include “Starman,” “Oh! You Pretty Things,” single versions of “Fashion,” “Ashes to Ashes,” and “D.J.,” and more. Available on CD, DD, and LP. The first LP run only will be…

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Release Round-Up

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CD, Cassette, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Andy Gibb, David Bowie, John Prine, Juliana Hatfield, Louis Armstrong, Metallica, Nino Tempo, Olivia Newton-John, Tina Turner

Release Round-Up: Week of April 6

April 6, 2018 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, and one of the biggest Release Fridays of the year to date! Chicago, VI Decades Live: This is What We Do (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Chicago celebrates 50 years on the road with this expansive new box set featuring 4 CDs and 1 DVD of previously unreleased live music recorded between 1969 and 2014. This set includes two complete concerts – The Isle of Wight, 1970 on CD and a Rockpalast broadcast from Germany in 1977 on DVD – plus two…

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Release Round-Up

Formats:

Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, DVD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Chicago, Cy Coleman, Debby Boone, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Don Gibson, Ella Fitzgerald, Elton John, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Girlschool, Howard Shore, Jack Kerouac, John Fogerty, Johnny Cash, Louis Armstrong, Love, Mike Ness, Scientist and Prince Jammy, Tiny TIm

Everything’s Coming Up Posies: Power Pop Group Work with Omnivore, PledgeMusic on Expanded Reissues (UPDATED 3/30)

March 30, 2018 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

UPDATE (3/30): These three previously reported expansions are now available to pre-order directly from Omnivore, with Amazon links coming soon! ORIGINAL POST (1/3/2018): Power pop masterminds The Posies will celebrate their 30th anniversary this year by teaming up with Omnivore Recordings and PledgeMusic for reissues of three albums recorded for DGC Records in the mid-’90s. Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow, the core members of the group, released the first Posies album, Failure, in 1988. (That self-released title was reissued by Omnivore in 2014.) Signing to Geffen’s rock subsidiary in 1990 (where they’d count…

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News

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CD, Vinyl

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Pop, Rock

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Big Star, The Posies

Release Round-Up: Week of March 2

March 2, 2018 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring three new titles from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music, and much, much more! Johnny Mathis, Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head: Expanded Edition (Second Disc/Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Johnny Mathis’ 1970 album – featuring the songs of Bacharach and David, Paul Simon, Jimmy Webb, George Harrison and others – gets its first-ever expanded CD reissue from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music. And that’s not all. We’ve added four bonus non-LP singles from Johnny’s return to…

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Release Round-Up

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Box Sets, CD, DVD

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Country, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Reggae, Rock, Soundtracks

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Axe, Bert Kaempfert, Burt Bacharach, Charles Wright, Debbie Reynolds, Jackie DeShannon, Jethro Tull, Johnny Mathis, Ken Boothe, Pet Shop Boys, Phyllis Dillon, The King's Singers, The Oak Ridge Boys, The Sherman Brothers

Welcome to the Blackout: Three David Bowie Titles Announced for Record Store Day

March 1, 2018 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

If you’re saving up for any of the exclusive vinyl titles available at the final David Bowie Is exhibition in Brooklyn announced earlier this week, make a little more space in the budget for the trio of Bowie titles announced for this year’s Record Store Day (April 21, 2018). A host of rare and unreleased material will be made available on these discs, including an unreleased live show and a different version of the first rarity we heard from the Bowie camp this year. First up is Welcome to the Blackout, a…

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News

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Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

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David Bowie, Record Store Day

Waiting in the Wings: Three Vinyl Exclusives Join Final ‘David Bowie Is’ Installation in New York

February 27, 2018 by The Second Disc | No Comments

David Bowie Is, the stellar worldwide exhibition offering an unprecedented deep dive into the world of one of rock’s greatest icons, is making its final bow this year, opening this Friday (March 2) at the Brooklyn Museum in New York and running there through July 15. A trio of exclusive vinyl titles, made available at the exhibition’s shop, were announced today, offering color variants of two rare releases and a live mini-album with several unreleased tracks. First up is a reissue of “Time,” the third single from Bowie’s 1973 masterwork Aladdin Sane….

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News

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Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

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David Bowie

He’s Ready: Chess and Universal to Release New Muddy Waters Collection

February 5, 2018 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

Universal Music Catalogue will issue a new collection celebrating the work of the bluesman born McKinley Morganfield but known the world over as Muddy Waters. Can’t Be Satisfied: The Very Best of Muddy Waters 1948-1975 presents 40 classic tracks from across the singer/guitarist’s tenure on the Chess label. Waters recorded for Chess for most of his life, after being discovered by Alan Lomax in the early 1940s for his Library of Congress-sanctioned sojourn to discover and record local country and blues musicians. From his birthplace of Mississippi, Waters relocated to Chicago, where,…

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Blues, Classic Rock, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Muddy Waters

Everything’s Coming Up Posies: Power Pop Group Work with Omnivore, PledgeMusic on Expanded Reissues

January 3, 2018 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

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Power pop masterminds The Posies will celebrate their 30th anniversary this year by teaming up with Omnivore Recordings and PledgeMusic for reissues of three albums recorded for DGC Records in the mid-’90s. Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow, the core members of the group, released the first Posies album, Failure, in 1988. (That self-released title was reissued by Omnivore in 2014.) Signing to Geffen’s rock subsidiary in 1990 (where they’d count Nirvana and Weezer as labelmates), the group’s harmony-rich tunes earned critical plaudits and more than a few comparisons to Big Star (a…

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News

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CD, Vinyl

Genres:

Pop, Rock

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Big Star, The Posies

The Year In Review – The 2017 Gold Bonus Disc Awards, From A to Z

January 2, 2018 by The Second Disc | 4 Comments

Happy New Year, and welcome to The Second Disc’s Eighth Annual Gold Bonus Disc Awards! As with every year’s awards, our goals are simple: to recognize as many of the year’s most essential reissues and catalogue titles as possible, and to celebrate as many of those labels, producers and artists who make these releases happen in the current retail landscape. The labels you’ll read about below have, by and large, bucked the trends to prove that there’s still a demand for physical catalogue music that you can purchase in brick-and-mortar stores. And…

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News

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Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Folk, Gospel, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Gold Bonus Disc Awards

Release Round-Up: Week of November 24

November 24, 2017 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! “Weird Al” Yankovic, Squeeze Box: The Complete Works of “Weird Al” Yankovic (Legacy) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The world’s premier parodist celebrates his discography with a box set unlike any other: all 14 of his original albums, newly remastered; Medium Rarities, a bonus album of rare and unreleased material; and a 100+ page book of rare photos and memorabilia–all packaged in a replica of Al’s signature accordion! INXS, Kick 30 (Atlantic/Rhino (U.S.)…

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Release Round-Up

Formats:

Blu-Ray, Box Sets, DVD, Vinyl

Genres:

Classic Rock, Holiday, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

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"Weird Al" Yankovic, Bananarama, Bonnie Tyler, Eagles, Electric Light Orchestra, Elvis Presley, INXS, Phil Collins, Ramones, The Fall, The Scorpions, Wilson Pickett, XTC, Yes

In Memoriam: David Cassidy (1950-2017)

November 22, 2017 by The Second Disc | 9 Comments

Singer, actor and teen idol David Cassidy passed away yesterday at the age of 67. It seems so strange that the eternally youthful presence behind one of the most enduring pop hits of the ’70s, The Partridge Family’s “I Think I Love You,” would not be with us–never mind having recently retired from the road to care for himself following a diagnosis of the dementia that affected his mother and grandfather. In fact, it was only just over a year ago that Cassidy took the stage at the Count Basie Theater in…

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News

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Pop

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David Cassidy, The Partridge Family

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