BMG reissues the original Golden Records release of Bing Crosby's A Christmas Story. Bing sings and narrates "An Axe, An Apple and a Buckskin Jacket," a musical-in-miniature by composer Alec Wilder and lyricist-librettist Arnold Sundgaard.
Mitch Miller Presents Christmas Songs and Carols
Here's a coincidental complement to Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music's first-time-on-CD complete, expanded edition of Mitch Miller and The Gang's Christmas Sing-Along with Mitch. BMG Rights Management brings back to CD this Golden Records holiday set aimed at children and overseen by Miller. It features unique material to that of his Columbia Christmas recordings.
Legacy
2-CD Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 1-CD Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. This new 2-CD retrospective dedicated to the late David Bowie features forty classic tracks from "Space Oddity" through the final song on Blackstar, "I Can't Give Everything Away." A single-CD, 20-track iteration will also be released. The 2-CD version is sequenced chronologically, while the single-disc version is not. Both editions feature one previously unreleased track: a 2016 remix of 1971's "Life on Mars?"
Atom Bomb: Expanded Edition
Omnivore continues its deluxe series dedicated to The Blind Boys of Alabama with an expanded edition of 2005's Atom Bomb, featuring traditional gospel melodies along with surprises such as Eric Clapton's "Presence of the Lord" and Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky," all rendered in the group's stirring style incorporating flourishes of R&B, jazz and even rap and rock. Billy Preston and David Hidalgo are among the guests on this sublime record, newly expanded with seven previously
Go Tell It On The Mountain: Expanded Edition
Omnivore expands Go Tell It on the Mountain, the 2003 Christmas album from gospel greats The Blind Boys of Alabama. The all-star LP blended the spiritual and the secular, featuring turns from Tom Waits, Mavis Staples, Aaron Neville, George Clinton, Shelby Lynne, Les McCann (one of the album's inspirations) and Solomon Burke, gains three additional tracks: "My Lord What a Morning" (first issued in 2004) and previously unreleased 2003 live recordings of "Go Tell It on the Mountain" and "Amazing
Kritzerland Solves The Swingin' Riddle with Nelson's "Paris When It Sizzles"
Kritzerland is taking listeners to the City of Light with a new 2-CD soundtrack release composed by the legendary Nelson Riddle. The label is accepting pre-orders now for the world premiere complete release of Riddle's score to Paris When It Sizzles, the 1964 Paramount romantic comedy starring Audrey Hepburn, William Holden, Tony Curtis and Noel Coward. A send-up of moviemaking with a glamorous backdrop, Paris starred Holden as a playboy screenwriter and his real-life old flame Hepburn as
The Ventures' Christmas Album [Mono/Stereo Edition]
Founded in 1958, The Ventures have released over 200 albums and still tour today. The group had their biggest single in 1960 with "Walk Don't Run" and their biggest album in 1963 with The Ventures Play Telstar and The Lonely Bull. In 1965, they recorded The Ventures' Christmas Album, featuring some pop instrumental hits melded to Christmas tunes. Real Gone's CD reissue features both the stereo and mono editions of the album.
Christmas Carols
Mantovani's 1958 stereo re-recording of Christmas Carols has been on CD before from Collectors' Choice, but it is long out of print and commanding high prices on the secondary market. Real Gone is putting this Christmas classic back in print with photos and notes by Kim Cooper.
Songs of Christmas/Christmas with The Norman Luboff Choir
Norman Luboff was a prolific composer for film and television and began recording with his own Choir as backing for other artists in the early 1950s for Columbia. The popular group eventually moved to releasing their own albums. On this new two-fer are two beloved holiday classics: the mono 1956 Songs of Christmas and the stereo 1964 Christmas with the Norman Luboff Choir. The Norman Luboff Choir recorded over 75 albums and toured up until Luboff's death in 1987.
Christmas Hymns and Carols Vol. 1: Expanded Edition
The Robert Shaw Chorale's Christmas Hymns and Carols Vol. 1 got its first release in 1949, just one year after Shaw formed the Chorale. It was re-released in 1957 and then re-recorded in stereo in 1958, which is the version Real Gone is presenting in expanded form. Two tracks have been added from the original mono version (one actually in stereo) which were excluded from the re-recording. The Chorale, while having an intermittent existence, finally disbanded permanently in 1965 when Shaw
The Joy of Christmas/The Sound of Christmas
Joe has contributed the liner notes to a twofer featuring vintage Christmas music from The Living Guitars and The Living Strings. Last year, Real Gone released a compilation featuring two holiday albums by The Living Voices and the label continues this year with this CD including The Living Guitars' The Joy of Christmas from 1969 and The Living Strings' The Sound of Christmas from 1970. The "Living" series of albums, the brainchild of RCA Camden producer Ethel Gabriel, consisted of
I Want to Wish You a Merry Christmas
Bandleader Sammy Kaye got his start in the 1930s and he became popular for his "Swing and Sway" style of music. This 1957 Christmas classic presents him at three different times during his 1950s Columbia tenure, as it was assembled from several releases and sessions throughout the decade. Kaye would leave Columbia for Decca where he would record another Christmas album in 1960: Christmas Day with Sammy Kaye. Joe has written the new liner notes for this first-time-on-CD reissue!
The Complete Columbia Christmas Recordings
As a conductor and arranger, Ray Conniff led his orchestra and chorus on dozens of albums from the 1950s into the 1980s on Columbia. While not beginning that way, his albums would eventually come to be known for their covers of contemporary pop and rock hits of day. There were many conductors and artists doing much the same, but Ray Conniff was among the best-selling and certainly longest-lasting of the bunch. He recorded three very popular Christmas albums during his Columbia tenure: 1959's
Chicago '78
This Vaulternative Records concert release premieres Frank Zappa's performance at Chicago's Uptown Theater from September 29, 1978. Of the two shows played that night, the late show is captured here in its entirety including tracks such as "Dancin' Fool," "Magic Fingers," and "Strictly Genteel."
Little Dots
Little Dots follows up 2005's Imaginary Diseases with further selections from Frank Zappa's 10-piece 'Petit Wazoo' tour of late 1972. These tracks feature a horn-driven ensemble and comprise epic improvisations and previously unreleased compositions.
Meat Light: The Uncle Meat Project/Object
Zappa Records continues its series of Project/Object titles presenting rare and unreleased material revolving around one classic Frank Zappa album - in this case, Uncle Meat. Included is the original 1969 vinyl mix (restored, remastered and available digitally for the first time), an original sequence that includes unique source material, and bonus tracks largely compiled from the recording sessions at Apostolic Studios in NYC between 1967 and 1968.
Can We Still Be Friends: Real Gone's Black Friday Titles Feature Paul Butterfield, December Slate Includes Todd Rundgren, Mills Brothers
With Halloween coming on Monday, that means that the Christmas season is almost upon us. Stores have already begun to put out Christmas merchandise and Christmas CDs have begun to hit the shelves. Next week sees the release of Real Gone's mega-Christmas slate, including three Second Disc Records titles featuring Jack Jones, Eddy Arnold and Mitch Miller. In addition, Real Gone has just announced its exclusives for the Black Friday November 25 Record Store Day event which is part of the kickoff
Prince 4Ever
Prince 4Ever is a 40-track summary of The Artist's major works from his first album, 1978's For You, to 1992's The Love Symbol, Prince's last release before he changed his name to the album's title. At least six tracks appear on Prince compilations for the first time, and the set also includes the first posthumous release from Prince's fabled vault: "Moonbeam Levels," a 1999 outtake at one point considered for 1988's Rave Unto the Joy Fantastic, a project scrapped when Prince took on Batman. A
London Fog 1966
The earliest known live recording of The Doors - recorded in 1966 at Sunset Strip's London Fog club - is presented for the first time on a CD/LP box set limited to 18,000 copies.
Release Round-Up: Week of October 28
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Roy Orbison, The Ultimate Collection (Roy's Boys/Legacy) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Legacy Recordings and Roy's Boys, LLC deliver a newly-remastered, career-spanning anthology for the late Roy Orbison. The Ultimate Collection has 26 tracks drawn from The Big O's halcyon years at Monument and MGM as well as his final solo recordings and collaborations with The Traveling
Strange Days: Early Doors Show Arrives In December On "London Fog 1966"
Rhino Records and Bright Midnight Archives are opening new doors onto the early days of The Doors with a CD/LP box set due on December 9. London Fog 1966 captures Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger and John Densmore at The London Fog, a Sunset Strip bar located steps away from the Whisky a Go Go. This live gig, only recently discovered, marks the earliest known live recordings of the band, and kicks off The Doors' 50th anniversary celebration of 2017 - the year of their
Ave Varese: "The Omen," "Scream 2" Expanded For CD
With Halloween just around the corner, Varese Sarabande Records has scared up a pair of fantastic horror soundtrack reissues for its CD Club! One of the label's most famous soundtrack releases comes back for more! Jerry Goldsmith's score to The Omen gets a brand-new overhaul for its 40th anniversary. Richard Donner's classic thriller stars Gregory Peck as an ambassador to England who realizes only too late that his son Damien--an orphan adopted in secret when his own child was stillborn--is
I Can't Give Back the Love: Ace Collects Motown Magic on Syreeta's "Rita Wright Years"
Ace's new release from late Motown chanteuse Syreeta, The Rita Wright Years: Rare Motown 1967-1970, kicks off with "I Can't Give Back the Love I Feel for You." The moody, majestic composition by Brian Holland, Nick Ashford and Valerie Simpson might have been too unorthodox - beginning with its introductory brass call-to-arms - to attain hit status upon its release as the Motown family of labels' first single of 1968. But, backed on 45 with Ashford and Simpson's beautifully yearning "Something
Quark, Strangeness and Charm: Cherry Red Collects Hawkwind Albums On Two New Box Sets
Earlier this year, Cherry Red Records released The Machine Stops, the new studio album from prog-rockers Hawkwind. The Machine Stops continued the label's long association with the band which has also encompassed deluxe remastered editions of albums such as Palace Springs and Warrior on the Edge of Time and expanded live releases like Coded Languages - Live at Hammersmith Odeon November 1982. Now, Cherry Red's Stonehenge imprint (itself an offshoot of Esoteric Recordings) has collected
Let's Go Crazy: NPG/Warner Bros. Announce "Prince 4Ever" Compilation
Readers of The Second Disc have had to cope with some powerful losses in the pantheon of music greats, and few losses were bigger than that of Prince this past spring. His death propelled multiple albums and compilations into the Billboard charts, including the single-disc overview The Very Best of Prince, which topped the charts 15 years after it was released. In time for the holidays, the first posthumous Prince collection, Prince 4Ever, was announced today by NPG Records and Warner Bros.
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