Decca will celebrate John Williams' 90th by turning the clock back to 1980 when the famed composer-conductor took the baton from the legendary Arthur Fiedler to lead The Boston Pops Orchestra into a new era. John Williams and The Boston Pops: The Complete Philips Recordings boasts 21 CDs and 22 albums originally released on Philips between 1980 and 1990, at which point the Pops switched affiliations to Sony Classical. (The Sony Classical era was addressed in 2018 on the John Williams:
Greatest Hits 2.0
2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Greatest Hits 2.0, out today in 2CD and 2LP formats, brings together 24 tracks on CD and 20 tracks on vinyl from the group which fused funk, jazz, blues, soul, and Latin sounds into a propulsive whole. The slightly expanded CD version spans the period 1970-1994 including two tracks (the U.S. No. 3 hit "Spill the Wine" and a cover of "Tobacco Road") from the original group, Eric Burdon and WAR, and
Life's Work: A Retrospective
Craft Recordings salutes the remarkable legacy of Americana titan Arthel Lane "Doc" Watson (1923-2012) with Life's Work: A Retrospective. The anthology features 101 key tracks from the guitarist's discography including collaborations with Flatt and Scruggs, Chet Atkins, Ricky Skaggs, Alison Krauss, Bill Monroe, The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, and Watson's son Merle. The 4-CD set (also available digitally) features an 88-page book with new liner notes by author and compilation co-producer Ted Olson
The Rare Reprise Singles
Omnivore collects two dozen non-LP sides from Trini Lopez, Texas singer-songwriter of Mexican descent, on a new CD collection, The Rare Reprise Singles. The set includes the studio version of his rousing take on the Bernstein/Sondheim West Side Story classic "America" (stylized by the artist as "A-Mer-I-Ca"), a Bob Gaudio-helmed single of Randy Newman's wry "Love Story," both sides of a Christmas 45 ("El Niño Del Tambor (The Little Drummer Boy)" b/w "Noche de Paz (Silent Night)"/"Let There Be
Holiday Gift Guide Review: Billy Joel, "The Vinyl Collection, Vol. 1"
By his own account, Billy Joel stumbled into the singing part of the singer-songwriter equation. He explained of his 1971 debut Cold Spring Harbor, "I wrote this album not as a singer-songwriter, but as a songwriter. I was thinking of other people doing the material on this album. But the advice I got from people in the music business was, 'Well, if you want people to hear your songs, make an album. And then you go out on the road and you do shows and you promote your album. I thought,
Some Lovers: World Premiere Recording
Burt Bacharach and Steven Sater's intimate 2011 musical has finally received its first-ever recording - and what a recording it is, featuring Jennifer Holliday, Kristin Chenoweth, Jonathan Groff, Lea Michele, Ramin Karimloo, Auli'i Cravalho, and a cast of stage and screen stars. The spellbinding score, orchestrated by the composer's Promises, Promises collaborator Jonathan Tunick, is quintessential Bacharach: classic yet contemporary, it's filled with romance, beauty, and emotion. "This
THE SECOND DISC'S 2021 HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE IS HERE!
Cyber Monday is upon us once again, which means one thing at Second Disc HQ: it's time to launch our annual Holiday Gift Guide, featuring a few of our favorite things for the music enthusiast in your life. Sure, we might not have included raindrops on roses or whiskers on kittens, but we've filled the guide with more than 50 essential selections: box sets (such as the Fab set to your right!) as well as archival releases and even new CDs from favorite artists that just might make great stocking
It's a Good, Good Feeling: The Latin Soul of Fania Records
This 4-CD/1-7" single collection spans the period of 1965-1975 and the groundbreaking Latin soul of such artists as Ray Barretto, Joe Bataan, Larry Harlow. Bobby Valentin, and Willie Colon. The box set contains 89 single sides on four CDs housed in a 60-page hardcover book with liner notes by compilation co-producer Dean Rudland and numerous photos. Also available as a 2-LP highlights edition.
A Love Supreme: Live in Seattle
A newly-excavated live performance of Coltrane's masterpiece comes to CD, LP, and digital download/streaming today. Though the audio is not studio quality, the quality of the performance (featuring Pharoah Sanders in his first official gig with Coltrane) is expectedly transcendent.
Time Passages [Various Formats]
2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1978's Time Passages concluded British singer-songwriter Al Stewart's trilogy of albums with producer-engineer Alan Parsons which began with 1975's Modern Times and continued with the following year's Year of the Cat. During this purple patch, Stewart earned his first hit singles in the United States, transitioning from folk troubadour at home to bona fide pop star abroad. And while Year of
A Sentimental Christmas with Nat "King" Cole and Friends: Cole Classics Reimagined
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Red Vinyl LP: Walmart.com Although he's one of the voices most closely associated with Christmas, Nat "King" Cole only recorded one full-length Christmas LP in his lifetime. Now, Capitol Records and UMe are out to change that with a "new" yuletide album from the legendary vocalist who died in 1965 at just 45 years of age. A Sentimental Christmas with Nat "King" Cole and Friends: Cole Classics
Christmas: Deluxe 10th Anniversary Edition
Michael Bublé's 2011's Christmas, his fifth album for Reprise, has become his most successful LP to date, with over 4 million copies sold in the U.S. and 12 million worldwide. It's also had four billion streams (calculated as equivalent to 60 million albums). Warner Records and Reprise will celebrate 10 years of Christmas with a limited Super Deluxe box set. The box contains: The original album on CD and exclusive green vinyl; DVD: The Making of Christmas, a previously released
Cahoots: 50th Anniversary Edition
2CD/LP/BD/7-inch single: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD (Contents of CDs 1 & @ below): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP (2021 Mix of Original Album): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Band and Capitol/UMe are in Cahoots for a deluxe 50th anniversary reissue of the group's fourth studio album. The remixed and remastered Cahoots arrives in various formats including a Super Deluxe 2CD/BD/LP/7-inch vinyl box set, 2CD, 180-gram half-speed-mastered
The Motown Anthology
The Motown Anthology is the ultimate retrospective of Mary Wilson, multi-hyphenate talent: singer, activist, author, fashion icon, actress, mother, grandmother, friend, trailblazer, legend, Supreme. This first-ever comprehensive overview of Wilson's Motown discography presents 38 songs, including a whopping 33 tracks only available physically on this collection including stunning new mixes of Supremes favorites, four Supremes outtakes produced by Deke Richards, the complete 1979 Mary Wilson
Joni Mitchell Archives Vol. 2: The Reprise Years (1968-1971)
5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 10LP: JoniMitchell.com Store Joni Mitchell Archives Vol. 2 follows the format of last year's acclaimed first volume. (See TSD's interview with Archives co-producer Patrick Milligan here.) Over 5 CDs or 10 LPs and nearly six hours of previously unreleased studio, live, and home recordings, it chronologically traces Mitchell's musical journey in the period that yielded her first four albums: Song to a Seagull (1968), Clouds (1969), Ladies of the
Benefit: The 50th Anniversary Enhanced Edition
Parlophone reissues Jethro Tull's 1971 classic Benefit as a 4CD/2DVD set, The 50th Anniversary Enhanced Edition, featuring all of the material from the 2013 expanded 2CD/DVD edition plus: Two previously released Steven Wilson remixes from Aqualung reissue in 2011 ("My God (Early Version)" and "Just Trying to Be"); Five original 1971 stereo remixes not included on the 2013 bonus disc; Two unreleased live concerts - one newly mixed by Wilson (Fillmore at Tanglewood 1970), one in mono
Brilliant Adventure (1992-2001)
11CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 17LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Parlophone continues its career-spanning series of box sets for the late David Bowie. The fifth Era box set, Brilliant Adventure, includes: Five remastered studio albums (Black Tie White Noise (1993), The Buddha of Suburbia (1993), Outside (1995), Earthling (1997), 'hours...' (1999)); A remastered and expanded BBC Radio Theatre show from 2000 (originally released in part on that
Physical: 40th Anniversary Edition
A 40th anniversary 2CD/DVD set of Olivia Newton-John's multi-platinum Physical arrives from Green Hill, the label arm of publishing powerhouse Primary Wave which partnered with Newton-John in 2020 for a deal encompassing both masters and publishing rights. The expanded Physical gains six bonus tracks on the first disc and a further fifteen on the second disc. The bonus tracks (many new to CD) include Olivia's material from the soundtrack of the 1983 film Two of a Kind (including its duet with
The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts
2CD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts, a multi-format set coming October 22, features newly remixed and restored audio and video footage from Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band's sets at Madison Square Garden in New York City in late September 1979. The star-studded "No Nukes" concerts were put on by MUSE (Musicians United for Safe
Teaser and the Firecat: 50th Anniversary Edition
4CD/1BD/2LP/7″ Super Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4CD/1BD Super Deluxe Edition (identical contents sans vinyl LPs and single): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD (Original Album Only): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP (Original Album Only): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD 2CD Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Cat Stevens' 1971 Teaser and the Firecat, his third LP for Island Records in the
Nevermind (30th Anniversary Super Deluxe Edition)
5CD/BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 8LP/7″: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP/7″: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Geffen/UMe reissues Nirvana's Nevermind in a variety of 30th anniversary formats including two editions of a super deluxe box set: an 8-LP version with a bonus 7-inch single, and a 5-CD version with a Blu-ray. All formats of this new Nevermind reissue campaign feature the original album
200 Motels: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - 50th Anniversary Edition
6CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD (Original Soundtrack Only): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP Black Vinyl (Original Soundtrack Only): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP Red Vinyl (Original Soundtrack Only): Zappa.com / UDiscoverMusic.com / TheSoundofVinyl.com The Zappa Family Trust, UMe, and MGM are delivering the ultimate 200 Motels experience: a whopping 6-CD box set celebrating Frank Zappa's cult classic 1971 musical film. The box is loaded
Merry Christmas, Baby
Real Gone Music reissues Merry Christmas, Baby, one of the earliest compilations of Christmas music singles. Originally issued in 1956 and subtitled Intimate Christmas Music for Young Lovers, the R&B album was released on the independent Hollywood Records and takes its name from the 1947 Charles Brown hit which it features. Johnny's Moore's Blazers contribute another four songs to the compilation and the Jackson Trio (brothers Eugene and Freddie Jackson and a rotating third musician) add
At My Piano
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Brian Wilson returns with his first solo album since 2015 - and it's a true solo affair. At My Piano features the Beach Boys' leader at the keys for instrumental renditions from his classic songbook including "God Only Knows," "Wouldn't It Be Nice," "Good Vibrations," "Love and Mercy," and a suite from SMiLE. It hits stores on December 10 from Decca Records in CD and digital formats while the vinyl
Donald Fagen's The Nightfly Live
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Donald Fagen's 1982 solo debut The Nightfly picked up where his work with Steely Dan left off, albeit with a more autobiographical lyrical bent. The recording by producer Gary Katz, engineer Roger Nichols, and mixing engineer Elliot Scheiner took full advantage of early digital capabilities to bring Fagen's sly, jazz-pop compositions to life. The album yielded the hits "I.G.Y." and "New Frontier,"
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