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Release Round-Up: Week of July 24

July 24, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Doobie Brothers Warner Years

Today's Release Round-Up features an array of high-resolution music, plus box sets, vintage reissues, live albums and more! Roger Waters, Amused to Death (Remixed Editions) (Columbia/Legacy) Roger Waters revisits his 1992 album Amused to Death, featuring contributions from Don Henley, Rita Coolidge, P.P. Arnold, Andy Fairweather Low and Michael Kamen, in a variety of formats featuring new stereo and 5.1 surround mixes.  Read our full coverage here. CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Joe Walsh, Roger Waters, The Doobie Brothers, The Knack, The Rolling Stones, Todd Rundgren, Utopia, Various Artists

Return to "Battersea Power Station": Esoteric Reissues Debut of Junior's Eyes, Onetime Bowie Backing Band

July 23, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Juniors Eyes Battersea

Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings imprint has recently unearthed another rock cult classic.  Battersea Power Station, from Junior's Eyes, was produced by Tony Visconti (David Bowie, T Rex) and appeared in June 1969 on EMI's Regal Zonophone label.  Alas, it was to be the band's only original album release.  Esoteric has dusted off Battersea Power Station and reinvigorated the album as a 2-CD set with a bonus disc of singles, demos and sessions, some previously unreleased. Junior's Eyes was led

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Junior's Eyes

Ooh La La! Rhino Boxes Up Expanded Editions Of Faces Albums

July 22, 2015 By Joe Marchese 16 Comments

Faces You Can Make Me Dance

It's been a long wait, but expanded editions of Faces' four studio albums are finally almost here.  On August 28, Rhino Records will release You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything (1970-1975), a 5-CD box set containing expanded editions of all four LPs by the legendary (and legendarily, happily shambolic) rock-and-roll lineup of Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood, Kenney Jones, Ronnie Lane and Ian McLagan, plus a bonus disc. Expanded versions of the small but seminal Faces catalogue were first mooted

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Faces, Rod Stewart

Let's Hang On! Real Gone Has Four Seasons, Texas Tornados, More in September

July 21, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Four Seasons Sherry

We've already told you about the two September releases from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music - Wilson Pickett's The Complete RCA Studio Recordings and an expanded edition of Ricci Martin's all-star California rock classic Beached - but we know that you're going to be just as excited about the entire action-packed Real Gone slate! For starters, it's a line-up that's always in season - with new deluxe mono mini-sleeve editions of The 4 Seasons' first two albums for the first time ever

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Everything Else, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Doug Sahm, Eydie Gorme, Flaco Jiménez, The Four Seasons, The Texas Tornados

Beached (Expanded Edition)

July 21, 2015 By

Ricci Martin Beached

What if key members of The Beach Boys, Chicago, America, and Wings had teamed up to create one of the greatest California rock albums you've never heard?  Well, they actually did!   Singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, author and director Ricci Martin, the sixth child of legendary "King of Cool" Dean Martin (and younger brother of Dino, Desi and Billy's Dean-Paul Martin!), got a little help from his friends to craft 1977's Epic Records release Beached.   We're bringing Beached, produced by

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop

Catch a Wave! Second Disc Records Expands Ricci Martin's All-Star "Beached" Featuring Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Chicago Horns and More

July 21, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Ricci Martin Beached

What if key members of The Beach Boys, Chicago, America, and Wings had teamed up to create one of the greatest California rock albums you've never heard?  Well, they actually did!  And on September 11, Second Disc Records, in association with Real Gone Music, will be bringing it to CD in the U.S. for the very first time in a newly-remastered and expanded edition! Singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, author and director Ricci Martin, the sixth child of legendary "King of Cool" Dean Martin

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: America, Billy Hinsche, Carl Wilson, Chicago, Dennis Wilson, Ricci Martin, The Beach Boys

Mr. Magic Man: The Complete RCA Studio Recordings

July 21, 2015 By

Wilson Pickett Mr. Magic Man

Beginning with 1973's Mr. Magic Man, The "Wicked" Wilson Pickett recorded four soulful studio albums and one live set for RCA Records, where, in an extremely productive two years, he notched his final Hot 100 hits as well as a string of R&B chart successes. Mr. Magic Man: The Complete RCA Studio Recordings brings all four of Pickett's RCA studio platters to CD for the very first time: Mr. Magic Man (1973), Miz Lena's Boy (1973), Pickett in the Pocket(1974) and Join Me and Let's Be Free

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Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul

Something Wicked This Way Comes: Second Disc Records Presents Complete Wilson Pickett On RCA

July 21, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Wilson Pickett Mr. Magic Man

You don't have to wait for the midnight hour - Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, is ready now to announce its latest release!  We're thrilled to welcome to our label one of the true legends of rhythm and blues, The "Wicked" Wilson Pickett, with the world premiere CD release of Mr. Magic Man: The Complete RCA Studio Recordings.  This new 2-CD set is due in stores on September 4. Between 1964 and 1972, Pickett established himself as one of the greatest soul men of all

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Wilson Pickett

Review: "The Sound of Music: Original Soundtrack Recording" on SACD

July 20, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Sound of Music Original

RCA Victor expected the soundtrack album to 1965's big-screen musical The Sound of Music to be a juggernaut.  The label backed the release with a $100,000.00 promotional campaign, and arranged for tie-ins at locales including the New York World's Fair.  The release was joined on the label's roster by other albums of the already-famous Rodgers and Hammerstein score in styles from jazz (Gary Burton's The Groovy Sound of Music) to "easy listening" (The Living Strings' Music from The Sound of

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Categories: News Formats: CD, SACD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Julie Andrews, Rodgers and Hammerstein

Take On Me: a-ha's "Hunting High and Low" Goes Super Deluxe With New Box Set

July 17, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

a ha hunting2

If you set your Wayback Machine to February 1, 2010, you'll find one of The Second Disc's earliest posts - the inaugural Reissue Theory column, dedicated to imagining a 25th anniversary multi-disc edition of a-ha's 1985 debut studio album Hunting High and Low. Well, good things do come to those who wait, because Warner Bros. and Rhino are finally delivering on such a project with the album's upcoming 30th anniversary box set! With 4 CDs and a DVD, this handily bests the 2010 double-CD edition.

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Pop Tags: a-ha

Release Round-Up: Week of July 17

July 17, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up featuring classic rock, soul and jazz box sets and more! Sly and the Family Stone, Live at the Fillmore East: October 4th and 5th, 1968 (Epic/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Dance to the music!  On October 4th and 5th, 1968, shortly after the release of the band's third album Life, Sly & The Family Stone took the stage for a two-night, four-show engagement at Bill Graham's Fillmore East in New York City.  Epic Records recorded all four of

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, SACD Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: America, B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Miles Davis, Sly and the Family Stone, The Continental Drifters

The Warner Bros. Years 1971-1983

July 16, 2015 By

Doobie Brothers Warner Years

Rhino boxes up 10 seminal albums by The Doobie Brothers, taking the band from southern rock to blue-eyed soul.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock

Happy in the Morning: Sony Masterworks Reissues Lauren Bacall, Mickey Rooney Musicals and More

July 16, 2015 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Woman of the Year

Last week, we told you about Masterworks Broadway's search for suggestions of cast albums to reissue on vinyl.  This week, the label has just announced three new releases in their ongoing download/CD-R program. The first up on July 17 (this Friday) is the 1957 television cast of Pinocchio starring Mickey Rooney.  This is not the Disney musical, but a version of the story featuring music by Alec Wilder and lyrics by William Engvick.  It has only been available on CD before by public domain

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Cast Recordings Tags: Alec Wilder, John Kander and Fred Ebb, Lauren Bacall, Mickey Rooney

Satisfy Your Soul: RPM Collects Rare Rock and Soul from Larry's Rebels and Ronnie Jones

July 16, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Larrys Rebels

RPM Records, an imprint of the Cherry Red Group, continues to delve deep into the vaults for another pair of rare rock-and-roll releases. Larry's Rebels has long been a beloved band to fans in the group's native New Zealand; with RPM's release of I Feel Good: The Essential Purple Flashes of Larry's Rebels 1965-1969, the rest of the world can get hip to the Rebels, too!  Active for a rough five-year period during which time the band, like so many others, endured personnel changes, Larry's

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Larry's Rebels, Ronnie Jones

Bookends: Simon and Garfunkel Reissue "The Concert in Central Park" On CD/DVD, Collect Studio Albums on Vinyl

July 15, 2015 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Simon and Garfunkel Concert in Central Park

Legacy Recordings is seeing that the only sound isn't silence with the release this summer of two new projects from Simon and Garfunkel.   In less than a month, on August 7, the label will issue Simon & Garfunkel - The Complete Columbia Albums Collection, a six-album, newly-remastered set featuring each one of the duo's studio albums plus Greatest Hits, all pressed on 180-gram vinyl.  The box will be joined by a new, remastered CD/DVD reissue of The Concert in Central Park, as

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Art Garfunkel, Paul Simon, Simon and Garfunkel

Fairport Convention, Vashti Bunyan, Bill Fay Featured On New Underground Folk Box "Dust on the Nettles"

July 15, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Dust on the Nettles

In the spirit of past box sets such as Love, Poetry and Revolution which spotlighted the British underground psychedelic scene circa 1966-1972, Cherry Red's Grapefruit label has just released Dust on the Nettles, a new 3-CD compendium of British underground folk in roughly the same time period (1967-1972). This new mini-box set, subtitled A Journey Through the British Underground Folk Scene, boasts 63 tracks and a running time of nearly four hours.  The emphasis is on the genre sometimes

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Folk Tags: Bill Fay, Fairport Convention, Joan Armatrading, The Incredible String Band, Vashti Bunyan

Takin' It To the Streets: Rhino Announces 10-CD Doobie Brothers Box Set Collecting 1971-1983 Albums

July 13, 2015 By Randy Fairman 8 Comments

Doobie Brothers Warner Years

Rhino Records is continuing to release complete album box sets of artists in their catalog.  We've recently told you about sets for Chicago, Alice Cooper, and America and the label has just announced another similar box for The Doobie Brothers.  The Warner Bros. Years 1971 -1983 features the band's 10 albums recorded during that period, and it's set to be released in under two weeks on July 24. The core of The Doobie Brothers was formed when drummer John Hartman and

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Michael McDonald, The Doobie Brothers

Release Round-Up: Week of July 10

July 10, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Chicago Box Set 2

Welcome to today's Release Round-Up for the first international Friday release date!   Like you, we're still adjusting to the switch from Monday in the U.K./Tuesday in the U.S. to a worldwide Friday date.  Please sound off in the comments below on whether you would like to see us run this longtime feature each Friday, or earlier in the week (so that you may plan ahead for Release Day)! The Hollies, Changin' Times: The Complete Hollies, January '69 - March '73 (Parlophone) (Amazon U.S. /

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Soundtracks Tags: Chicago, Jane Morgan, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Randy Newman, Shirley Bassey, Tennessee Ernie Ford, The Hollies, The King Brothers, The Rolling Stones, Van Halen

Fare Thee Well [Various Editions]

July 9, 2015 By

Grateful Dead Fare Thee Well

The final (?) performances of the Grateful Dead, recorded on July 3-5 at Chicago's Soldier Field, come to CD, DD, DVD and BD in a variety of audio and video formats: FARE THEE WELL - Exclusive Complete Versions (Exclusively for order at dead.net)          •    12-CD/7-Blu-ray Complete Version - Full audio and high-definition video from all three shows on CD and Blu-ray plus exclusive bonus disc of behind-the-scenes footage. Individually numbered, limited edition of 20,000.          •   

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Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD Genre: Rock

Review: Ronny and the Daytonas, "The Complete Recordings"

July 9, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Complete Ronny and the Daytonas

The sound was surf-rock, but the pedigree was pure Nashville.  Ronny and the Daytonas burst onto the scene in 1964 with the rip-roaring California-style car tune "G.T.O.," scoring a Top 5 hit on both the Billboard and Cash Box charts.  The group - in actuality, singer-songwriter John "Buck" Wilkin and a rotating cast of Music City's finest - recorded a couple of albums and notched other hits, most notably 1965's dreamy "Sandy," through 1966 on the Mala label before moving to RCA for a stint

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Bucky Wilkin, Ronny and the Daytonas

A Brilliant Disguise: Springsteen Live Archive Series Spotlights Los Angeles, 1988

July 9, 2015 By Randy Fairman 4 Comments

Springsteen Live LA

The next release in Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band's live archive series has just been announced: LA Sports Arena, California, 1988.  Coming toward the end of the U.S. leg of the Tunnel of Love Express Tour, this concert is from April 23, 1988 - the second night of a five-night stand in Los Angeles.  Performances from other nights in this stand have shown up on Springsteen videos over the years. The Tunnel of Love Express Tour marked several changes for Springsteen.  Most

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Rock Tags: Bruce Springsteen

Making Their Mind Up: Cherry Pop Expands Bucks Fizz's Four RCA Albums

July 8, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Bucks Fizz

Bucks Fizz burst onto the pop scene in 1981, winning the Eurovision Pop Contest for Great Britain with "Making Your Mind Up."  The well, fizzy, infectious track had more than a slight ABBA flavor to it, with the group paying homage to their fellow Eurovision winners.  Between 1981 and 1986, five English-language albums were released by Bucks Fizz, the first four of which featured the original quartet of Bobby G, Jay Aston, Cheryl Baker and Mike Nolan.  Following the 2014 release of the Remixes

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Bucks Fizz

Tomb of Memories: The CBS Years 1982-1994

July 7, 2015 By

Paul Young Tomb of Memories

This new 4-CD, 64-song box set tracks the career of Paul Young at CBS Records including big hits, rarities, and previously unreleased tracks.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download Genre: Pop

The CD Singles 1986-2014

July 7, 2015 By

Belinda Carlisle CD Singles

Edsel's new 29-CD box set collects the songs and edits released in the U.S. and U.K. as CD singles across Belinda Carlisle's entire solo recording career for IRS, Virgin, Chrysalis and, most recently, UMe.

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Get On Up, Get On Down: Roy Ayers' Jazz, Funk and Disco Revisited On "Searching for Sunshine"

July 7, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Roy Ayers Searching for Sunshine

In a career spanning six decades, vibraphonist and composer Roy Ayers has pushed the boundaries of jazz, transitioning from bop to soul-jazz, funk and acid jazz.  Three classic albums from the "Godfather of Neo-Soul" have recently been reissued by Australia's Raven Records label with a handful of bonus selections, as well.  The 2-CD set Searching for Sunshine: 1973-1980 collects Ayers' Polydor albums You Send Me (1978), Fever (1979) and No Stranger to Love (1979) and then dips into other areas

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Funk, Jazz, R&B/Soul Tags: Roy Ayers

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