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An Ennio Morricone Score Expansion Worth 'A Few Dollars More'

November 11, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Few Dollars More packshot

The Man with No Name is back! Following a recent deluxe expansion of Ennio Morricone's unforgettable score to Sergio Leone's The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, the Italian label Beat Records will follow suit with a generous CD and vinyl expansion of its predecessor and the second film in the "Dollars Trilogy": 1965's For a Few Dollars More. This hour-plus presentation offers both the original eight-cue soundtrack program issued by RCA Records in Europe on a double bill with selections from

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Ennio Morricone

Welcome to Shepherd's Bush

November 10, 2024 By

Rolling Stones Welcome to Shepherd's Bush

The Rolling Stones have long been famed for their "secret shows."  One of those intimate gigs took place on June 8, 1999 when Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood, Charlie Watts, and company took the stage at the Shepherd's Bush Empire, a 1903 music hall in the West London suburb.  In front of an 1,800-capacity crowd including such luminaries as Anita Pallenberg, Pete Townshend, Jerry Hall, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, and Bob Geldof, the World's Greatest Rock and Roll Band strutted their stuff

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Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock

On Air

November 10, 2024 By

Tommy Steele On Air

Stage Door Records' Pop imprint celebrates The Happiest Millionaire and Half a Sixpence star Tommy Steele with On Air, a collection of 31 tracks culled from his 1964 U.K. radio series The Tommy Steele Show.  None of these tracks have been released since their original broadcast sixty years ago.  Tommy was joined on these recordings by The Johnnie Spence Orchestra and vocal group The Raindrops (featuring Irish singer and Northern Soul favorite Jackie Lee).  The repertoire is a happily mixed bag

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal

Release Round-Up: Week of November 8

November 8, 2024 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Whitney South Africa

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Whitney Houston, The Concert for a New South Africa (Durban) (Arista/Legacy) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Legacy Recordings, in collaboration with Whitney Houston's estate, will release the late artist's The Concert for a New South Africa (Durban).  The CD and

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Al Jarreau, Albert Hammond, Art Garfunkel, Art Garfunkel Jr, Judy Collins, Melanie, Miles Davis, Paul Carrack, Pete Townshend, Rachel Fuller, Steve Perry, Talking Heads, The Cowsills, Whitney Houston

Country Sunshine: Morello Reissues Four Albums from Late Country Queen Dottie West

November 7, 2024 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Dottie West Country Sunshine Four Fer

After nearly a decade, Cherry Red's Morello imprint has returned to the discography of late country songstress Dottie West with a new 4-albums-on-2-CDs release. After pairing West's first two RCA albums on CD (1965's Here Comes My Baby and Dottie West Sings) in 2016, Morello has jumped ahead to 1971-1972 for a collection featuring Careless Hands, Have You Heard...Dottie West, I'm Only a Woman, and Country Sunshine. After penning Jim Reeves' 1963 hit "Is This Me," Dottie auditioned and signed

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country Tags: Dottie West

Sugar Town: Light in the Attic Reissues, Expands Nancy Sinatra's "Sugar" and "Country, My Way"

November 6, 2024 By The Second Disc 5 Comments

Nancy Sinatra Sugar

Light in the Attic is accelerating its Nancy Sinatra Archival Series with the November 29 reissue of the singer's fourth and fifth studio albums, both from 1967: Sugar and Country, My Way.  Both of these expanded editions will be available on CD, LP, and digitally. Sugar capped off an incredibly prolific year for Sinatra.  The fourth album she recorded in 1966, Sugar was nominally named for the sweet and seductive, Lee Hazlewood-penned "Sugar Town," a top 5 Pop/No. 1 AC hit.  Though album

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Country, Pop Tags: Lee Hazlewood, Nancy Sinatra

Fortuosity: Stage Door Pop Brings Rare Tommy Steele Recordings to CD in November

November 5, 2024 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Tommy Steele On Air

Tommy Steele may be best remembered today for his starring role on both sides of the Atlantic as Arthur Kipps in the 1963 musical Half a Sixpence - one which he repeated for its film adaptation - or for such motion pictures as Finian's Rainbow and Walt Disney's The Happiest Millionaire.  Considered to be Britain's first teen idol, the London native with the toothy grin and big talents scored such early rock-and-roll hits as "Rock with the Caveman," "Butterfingers," "Water, Water," "Nairobi,"

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Tommy Steele

Super Sequel Soundtracks Are La-La Land's Black Friday Focus for 2024

November 4, 2024 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

The Godfather Part II LLL

Before announcing their typically grandiose year-end slate of archival soundtrack titles, there were rumblings in the film score fan community that La-La Land - whose release schedule offered everything from Star Trek to James Bond to the first Steven Spielberg-John Williams collaboration in 2024 - might do things a little differently. It turns out those rumors were correct: ahead of their usual Black Friday blowout, the label has instead announced three titles approved for license from major

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Danny Elfman, Don Davis, John Debney, John Williams, Nino Rota, Randy Newman

Release Round-Up: Week of November 1

November 1, 2024 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

King of America and Other Realms

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles out today.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Elvis Costello, King of America and Other Realms (UMe) 6CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 140-gram Black LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 140-gram Gold Nugget LP: Official Store / uDiscover Music / The Sound of Vinyl Elvis Costello is looking back on his tenth

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Categories: Holiday Gift Guide Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, CD, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Carly Simon, Carpenters, Chicago, Elvis Costello, Kelly Clarkson, Melanie, Ronnie Milsap, Seal, The Flaming Lips, Todd Rundgren, Uncle Walt's Band, Weezer, Willie Nelson

Shattered: The Rolling Stones' 1999 Shepherd Bush Gig Arrives in November from Mercury Studios

October 31, 2024 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Rolling Stones Welcome to Shepherd's Bush

The Rolling Stones have long been famed for their "secret shows."  One of those took place on June 8, 1999 when Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood, Charlie Watts, and company took the stage at the Shepherd's Bush Empire, a 1903 music hall in the West London suburb.  In front of an 1,800-capacity crowd including such luminaries as Anita Pallenberg, Pete Townshend, Jerry Hall, Jimmy Page, Robert Plant, and Bob Geldof, the World's Greatest Rock and Roll Band strutted their stuff just days

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Sheryl Crow, The Rolling Stones

Fanny Walked the Earth: Cherry Red's "The Reprise Years 1970-1973" Expands All-Female Band's First Four Albums

October 30, 2024 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Fanny The Reprise Years

When Fanny - a.k.a. June Millington (guitar), Jean Millington (bass), Alice De Buhr (drums), and Nickey Barclay (keyboards) - came to Reprise Records in 1969, the foursome became the first all-female rock band to be signed to a major label.  Championed by Richard Perry, Fanny went on record four albums for Reprise, notch two top 40 singles, open for acts including Humble Pie, Jethro Tull, and Slade, and even back Barbra Streisand on a couple of songs.  Their catalogue has been well-served over

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Fanny, Richard Perry, Todd Rundgren

Never Too Much: Greatest Hits

October 29, 2024 By

Never Too Much Greatest Hits

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada In conjunction with a new documentary film, Legacy Recordings issues a new double-disc anthology of the late Luther Vandross' work, accompanied by several rare and unreleased tracks. Never Too Much: Greatest Hits offers 20 tracks on two CDs that represent the cream of Vandross' solo career. In addition to unforgettable hits across the three decades he released albums - including "Never Too Much,"

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Alice Cooper's 'Muscle of Love' Has Never Been Sold Before (Like This)

October 29, 2024 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Muscle of Love deluxe packshot

Alice Cooper's final album - well, the final album with Cooper's original band of the same name - is getting a deluxe treatment this year. Available on 2CD/Blu-ray and pink double vinyl exclusively at Rhino.com, 1973's Muscle of Love gets expanded with unreleased alternate versions of every track on the album and lengthy, track-by-track liner notes by writer Jaan Uhelszki, drawing from new interviews with Cooper and his surviving bandmates (rhythm guitarist Michael Bruce, bassist Dennis

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Alice Cooper

The Season 3

October 29, 2024 By

Steve Perry The Season 3

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada True to its name, The Season 3 is the third iteration of Steve Perry's 2018 holiday album, this time from Dark Horse Records.  The original eight tracks are joined by two previously-digital-only bonus tracks ("What Are You Doing New Year's Eve," "Maybe This Year") and another six cuts, from the light holiday fare of "Jingle Bell Rock" and "Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer" to a recitation of "'Twas the

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Maybe This Year: Steve Perry Plots Third Reissue of Holiday Album 'The Season'

October 28, 2024 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Steve Perry The Season 3

Until a few years ago, fans wondered if Steve Perry - the best known voice of blockbuster rock band Journey - would ever sing again after a lengthy absence from the public eye. After a celebrated comeback album in 2018, Perry ended his shortest gap between solo releases three years later, with the holiday album The Season; this Christmas, it's being reissued a third time on a new label, with even more new material. True to its name, The Season 3 is the third iteration of Perry's holiday

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Holiday Tags: Journey, Steve Perry

So Amazing: Companion Album to Luther Vandross Documentary Features Unreleased Songs

October 28, 2024 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Never Too Much Greatest Hits

One of this year's documentary darlings at the Sundance Film Festival, a look at the life and career of Luther Vandross, makes its theatrical debut in select cities this week. Ahead of its wider, planned streaming release in 2025, Legacy Recordings will issue a new double-disc anthology of his work, accompanied by several rare and unreleased tracks. Never Too Much: Greatest Hits, available December 13, offers 20 tracks on two CDs that represent the cream of Vandross' solo career. In addition

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Beyoncé, Luther Vandross, Mariah Carey

Release Round-Up: Week of October 25

October 25, 2024 By The Second Disc 5 Comments

CSNY Live at the Fillmore East

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles out today!  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Blue Magic, Stop to Start: The Atco and WMOT Recordings (SoulMusic/The Second Disc) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Cherry Red) Let the sideshow begin!  SoulMusic Records and TSD are proud to unveil a new 6-CD box set dedicated to the sweet 'n funky soul stylings of Philly quintet Blue Magic ("Sideshow," "Three Ring

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Country, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: ABBA, Andrea Bocelli, Ben Folds, Blue Magic, Bryan Ferry, Charlie Parker, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Duran Duran, Graham Parker, Green Day, Iain Matthews, Melanie, Queen, Tears for Fears, The Oak Ridge Boys

OUT TOMORROW! SoulMusic Records, TSD Collect Blue Magic on "Stop to Start: The Atco and WMOT Recordings"

October 24, 2024 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Blue Magic Stop to Start

Throughout 2024, SoulMusic Records has teamed with The Second Disc to celebrate the sound of Philadelphia with a number of comprehensive box sets: The Salsoul Orchestra's It's Good for the Soul: The Vince Montana Years (1975-1978); Double Exposure's My Love Is Free: The Salsoul Recordings (1976-1979); First Choice's Love Having You Around: The Gold Mind Recordings (1977-1980); Loleatta Holloway's We're Getting Stronger: The Gold Mind/Salsoul Recordings (1976-1982); and Spinners' Keep on Keepin'

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Blue Magic

Soundtrack Watch: James Bond Back in Action At La-La Land, Varese Plots 'Matrix' and 'RoboCop' Vinyl

October 24, 2024 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

The Matrix 25

Following our round-up of soundtrack reissues from September, here's a look at all the great CD and vinyl expansions and re-releases film score fans can expect from this month - and even a few in the next few weeks. From James Bond to RoboCop, there's something here for just about anyone. Everything La-La Land Records touches turns to excitement! After the surprise expansions of Bond flicks Live and Let Die and Octopussy that kicked off the calendar year, the label has stuck again with a

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Anthony Newley, Basil Poledouris, Carter Burwell, Don Davis, John Barry, Laurence Rosenthal, Leslie Bricusse, Shirley Bassey

Live at 55

October 23, 2024 By

Chicago Live at 55

4K UHD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD / Mercury Studios 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD/BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Links TBD / Mercury Studios 2CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Last November 17 and 18, 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

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Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

Can You Dig It? Yes, I Can: Chicago's "Live at 55" Features Steve Vai, Robert Randolph, Chris Daughtry, Judith Hill, More

October 23, 2024 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Chicago Live at 55

Last November 17 and 18, 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, 2024.  Mercury Studios will release

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Chicago, Chris Daughtry, Christone Kingfish Ingram, Judith Hill, Robert Randolph, Robin Thicke, Steve Vai, Voiceplay

How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb: 20th Anniversary Edition

October 23, 2024 By

U2 Atomic Bomb box

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 November 22 - exactly 20 years to the day of its original release - features five CDs or

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock

Steve in a Box: The Warner Years (1977-1981)

October 23, 2024 By

Steve in a Box

4CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Rhino.com Steve in a Box: The Warner Years (1977-1981) brings together all four of Steve Martin's original albums for Warner Bros. Records, which became some of the best-selling comedy albums of all time, as a 4CD set available everywhere and a 4LP set available exclusively at Rhino's web store. Comedy historian Kliph Nesteroff writes liner notes for both sets.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases.​

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Comedy

Hear My Song: The Collection 1966-1995

October 23, 2024 By

Laura Nyro Hear My Song

Over three years after the release of its 8LP vinyl box set American Dreamer 1967-1978, the Madfish label is returning to the discography of late singer-songwriter Laura Nyro for the 19CD box set Hear My Song: The Collection 1966-1995.  This collection includes every one of Nyro's original studio albums, six live albums (two of which are previously unreleased), and a disc of (previously issued) bonus tracks. All albums have been remastered especially for this collection, and all discs (housed in

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir Sings Christmas Carols: Expanded Edition

October 23, 2024 By

Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas Carols

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.

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Formats: CD Genre: Classical/Opera, Holiday

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