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The Kingbees

April 21, 2015 By

The Kingbees

Omnivore remasters and expands The Kingbees' 1980 roots-rock gem with eight previously unissued demos and live recordings on CD and DD.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Rock

When Buck Came Back: Live San Francisco 1989

April 20, 2015 By

When Buck Came Back

This 2-CD set features the Country Music Hall of Famer and his Buckaroos in a previously unreleased complete live concert recorded at the Victoria Theater in San Francisco on January 15, 1989.  The set features Owens backed by Doyle Curtsinger on bass/vocals, Jim McCarty on drums, Jim Shaw on keyboards/accordion and Terry Kristofferson on steel guitar.

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Formats: CD Genre: Country

The Super Doo Wop Box

April 20, 2015 By

Super Doo Wop Box

Rockbeat Records has a new 5-CD box set which the label bills as "From the team that brought you [Rhino's] original three Doo Wop Boxes comes this one, chock full of the rarest and greatest vocal group recordings from 1951-63, the golden years of Doo Wop. We present, not only some of the greatest names the Moonglows, the Flamingos, the Heartbeats but their hardest to find recordings too. Compiled and annotated by Grammy winner Billy Vera, this may be our most fabulous set yet. If you were to buy

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

Review: Perry Como, "Live on Tour"

April 20, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Perry Como Live on Tour

"I was a barber.  Since then, I've been a singer.  That's it." So reflected Perry Como on an astounding career in which the onetime haircutter from Canonsburg, Pennsylvania sold more than 100 million records, charted 131 singles in the United States, fourteen No. 1s, and seventeen Gold records - including the very first single to receive that certification, 1958's "Catch a Falling Star."  He hosted more than 1,000 television programs, earned five Emmys, a Grammy, and a Kennedy Center Honor. 

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Perry Como

Review: Six By Booker T. and the MG's

April 20, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Booker T Green Onions two fer

"Soul Dressing," "Jelly Bread," "Red Beans and Rice," "My Sweet Potato," "One Mint Julep," and of course, "Green Onions" and "Mo' Onions" - Edsel has served up a veritable feast with its recent reissues of the complete 1962-1968 recordings of Booker T. and the MG's [sic] originally issued on the Stax label during its affiliation with Atlantic Records.  The new reissues pair two albums per package: Green Onions and Soul Dressing plus bonus tracks on one CD; And Now and In the Christmas Spirit

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Booker T. and the MG's

In the Beginning

April 19, 2015 By

Wes In the Beginning

Resonance follows 2012's Echoes of Indiana Avenue with this collection of 26 newly-discovered live and studio recordings from the jazz guitar virtuoso - including a Quincy Jones-produced session for Epic Records from 1955 previewed last year on Record Store Day.  The deluxe 2-CD set includes a 56-page booklet with liner notes by Quincy Jones, Pete Townshend, Ashley Kahn and others.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Jazz

The Complete Raunch 'N' Roll Live

April 19, 2015 By

Black Oak Arkansas Raunch

This onetime limited edition 2-CD release from the southern rock/boogie heroes, drawn from a 12/1/72 show at the Paramount Theater in Portland and a 12/2/72 show at Seattle's like-named Paramount Theater, returns from Real Gone Music!

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

Ball: Expanded Edition

April 19, 2015 By

Iron Butterfly Ball

Iron Butterfly's Top 5 sophomore album spawned hit singles "Soul Experience" and "In the Time of Our Lives." Real Gone expands it with two bonus tracks previously included on a long out-of-print 1999 reissue ("I Can't Help But Deceive You Little Girl" and "To Be Alone") but gives the whole set a fresh remastering and new liner notes.

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

Dames at Sea: Original London Cast Recording

April 19, 2015 By

Dames at Sea London

The 1969 London Cast Recording of George Haimsohn, Robin Miller and Jim Wise's 1968 musical features an all-British cast performing the musical comedy with orchestrations that vary considerably for those created for the original off-Broadway album.  Available since April 14 on CD-R from Masterworks Broadway's website, it will be made available as a digital download through all service providers and a CD-R exclusively through Arkiv Music on May 4.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Cast Recordings

Amused to Death (Remixed Editions)

April 19, 2015 By

Roger Waters Amused

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. CD CD / Blu-ray SACD Hi-res digital download 2LP 200 gram vinyl (pressed at Quality Record Pressings) Limited edition, numbered 2LP picture disc vinyl

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Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, CD, Digital Download, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Rock

Saved By the Bell: The Collected Works of Robin Gibb 1969-1970

April 19, 2015 By

Saved by the Bell

Reprise/Rhino has a real treat for Bee Gees fans in the form of this 3-CD box set featuring 63 rare tracks from Robin Gibb - a staggering 47 of which have never been released!  This set includes the full Robin's Reign album, the reconstructed Sing Slowly Sisters, and a bonus disc with live recordings, demos, foreign language tracks and more!

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop

Iron Butterfly, Black Oak Arkansas Join Paul Williams On Real Gone's June Slate

April 16, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Iron Butterfly Ball

Well, April 15 has come and gone.  Did the taxman get you down?  If so, Real Gone Music is ready to brighten your day with news of its June 2 slate of releases!  This line-up is headlined by none other than legendary songwriter Paul Williams with his only album for Portrait Records, newly expanded by Real Gone and our very own Second Disc Records imprint with never-before-heard bonus tracks! And Real Gone has only just begun.  The line-up also features heavy rock from Black Oak Arkansas and Iron

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Black Oak Arkansas, Iron Butterfly, Paul Williams, The Grateful Dead

A Lost Paul Williams Classic Coming Soon From Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music

April 16, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Paul Williams Windy Side

Come June 2, Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music are living life a little on the windy side.  That's the date for our remastered and expanded reissue of Paul Williams' 1979 album for Portrait Records, A Little on the Windy Side! In a Grammy, Oscar and Golden Globe-winning career that's taken him from Tiny Tim to Daft Punk, Paul Williams has seen his songs recorded by Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Elvis Presley, David Bowie, The Carpenters, and of course, Kermit the Frog. During his

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Jeff Barry, Mentor Williams, Paul Williams

Perfect Sense: Legacy to Revisit Roger Waters’ "Amused to Death" with New Stereo and 5.1 Remixes

April 16, 2015 By Randy Fairman 3 Comments

Roger Waters Amused

While there has been no Pink Floyd reissue news for nearly a year now since the release of a deluxe edition of The Division Bell, fans can look forward to revisiting one of Rogers Waters’ solo projects with the newly announced reissue of Amused to Death. Death was released in 1992 and was Waters’ third solo outing after 1984’s The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking and 1987’s Radio K.A.O.S.  As is common for Waters’ LPs, it is a concept album.  The songwriter based it upon ideas from Neil

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, CD, Digital Download, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Pink Floyd, Roger Waters

WE HAVE OUR WINNERS: "CHUCK" SOUNDTRACK CONTEST!

April 16, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Chuck Soundtrack

CONGRATULATIONS! The following 10 entrants have won an autographed edition of the CHUCK television soundtrack!  If you entered our contest and your name is on the list below, please drop us a line at theseconddisc-at-gmail-dot-com or a Private Message on Facebook: Marshall Brownstein Scott Crawford Michael Duffy Jason Fiske Peter Gladue John Knight Ron Lavery Mitch Moskal Mike Perciaccante Jeffrey Rosen

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Categories: Giveaways! Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Tim Jones

A Little on the Windy Side: Expanded Edition

April 16, 2015 By

Paul Williams Windy Side

In a Grammy, Oscar and Golden Globe-winning career that's taken him from Tiny Tim to Daft Punk, Paul Williams has seen his songs recorded by Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Elvis Presley, David Bowie, The Carpenters, and of course, Kermit the Frog. During his reign as perhaps the Seventies' most in-demand songwriter, Williams also kept busy as an actor, television personality and recording artist. He came into his own as a vocalist at Reprise and A&M Records on albums such as Someday Man

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop

Give Me a Smile: Reprise to Release Long-Lost Robin Gibb Recordings

April 15, 2015 By Randy Fairman 8 Comments

Saved by the Bell

A few weeks ago, Rhino released Bee Gees: 1974-1979 which followed from last year’s Bee Gees: The Warner Bros. Years 1987-1991.  Both boxes contained the complete studio albums from those periods plus some bonus material.  Now, fans of the Bee Gees and the Gibb brothers should have more to look forward to as Rhino’s sister label Reprise has just announced a new set chronicling the recordings of one of the band’s members during a two year period: Saved By the Bell: The Collected Works of Robin

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop Tags: Robin Gibb, The Bee Gees

Turn Them Loose On Broadway: Masterworks Reissues Bette Davis Musical and More

April 15, 2015 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Dames at Sea London

Sony’s Masterworks Broadway division is once again opening the vaults to rescue more vintage recordings from obscurity.  Over the next three months, the label will release in its made-on-demand CD-R and digital programs three Broadway related recordings: the 1969 London Cast of Off-Broadway’s Dames at Sea (making its CD premiere), 1952’s Broadway revue Two’s Company starring Bette Davis (making its U.S. CD debut) and the original recording of Sir John Gielgud’s 1958 Broadway solo Shakespeare

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Cast Recordings Tags: Bette Davis, John Gielgud, Sammy Cahn, Vernon Duke

Soul Serenades: RPM Expands Mod Music of "The Mike Cotton Sound"

April 14, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Mike Cotton Sound

The name of The Mike Cotton Sound might be most familiar from the group’s role backing Mary Hopkin on her debut album Post Card, or for supporting The Kinks on Muswell Hillbillies.  But the band, led by trumpeter and multi-instrumentalist Mike Cotton, actually traveled a diverse musical road throughout the 1960s, a trajectory chronicled on RPM Records’ expanded edition of the band’s 1964 long-player, The Mike Cotton Sound. Leader Cotton had scored his first hit in 1963 with “Swing That

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Jazz, R&B/Soul Tags: The Mike Cotton Sound

Release Round-Up: Week of April 14

April 14, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Replacements Complete Studio Albums

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up featuring box sets, deluxe editions, rare albums and more! The Replacements, The Complete Studio Albums 1981-1990 (Sire/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Rhino boxes up the Minnesota rockers’ complete studio output in one tidy package, utilizing the 2008 remasters but sans all bonus material.   Tori Amos, Little Earthquakes and Under the Pink: Deluxe Editions (Rhino) Little Earthquakes: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Under the

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Andy Williams, Kitty Wells, Phil Harris, Randy Bachman, Sammy Davis Jr., The Replacements, Tori Amos

New "Playlist" Wave Features Ben Folds Five, DJ Jazzy Jeff and Fresh Prince, Santana and More

April 13, 2015 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Playlist Ben Folds Five

Legacy’s long-running Playlist series rolls on with another batch of titles to be released tomorrow, April 14.  This wave of titles in the budget line range from rock to R&B to rap, and span from the late 1960s right up to the 2000s.  As per the standard with this series, each entry is fourteen tracks and generally has some harder-to-find edits and track choices than are generally found on budget compilations.  Following a description of each title kindly provided by our friend and founder

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: Ben Folds Five, DJ Jazzy Jeff and the Fresh Prince, Jagged Edge, James Brown, Santana

Review: Todd Rundgren, "Global"

April 10, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Todd Global

Almost two years ago to the day, Todd Rundgren released his 24th studio album, State.  The prolific singer-songwriter-producer hasn’t been resting on his laurels in the period since State.  He’s maintained a busy touring schedule both solo and with Ringo Starr’s All-Starr Band, and has contributed to numerous studio projects this year including the progressive collaboration Runddans with Hans-Peter Lindstrøm and Emil Nikolaisen, and Starr’s Postcards from Paradise (on which he co-wrote

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Todd Rundgren

Review: Dion, "Recorded Live at the Bitter End August 1971"

April 9, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Dion Bitter End

Armed with nothing but his guitar and his familiar, reassuring voice, Dion DiMucci took the stage at the Bitter End, in New York’s Greenwich Village, in August 1971.  The rock and roll survivor had successfully made the transition from teenaged doo-wopper to folk-rock troubadour, moving from independent Laurie Records to New York major Columbia and back again to Laurie, briefly reuniting with his old group The Belmonts at ABC, too.  Then, in 1969, Dion made the shift to the West Coast-based

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Folk, Pop Tags: Dion

Review: Glen Campbell, "Rhinestone Cowboy: 40th Anniversary Edition"

April 8, 2015 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Glen Campbell Rhinestone Cowboy

On April 22, Glen Campbell will turn 79 years old.  The past years haven’t been easy for the artist; his ongoing battle with Alzheimer’s was boldly chronicled in the acclaimed 2014 documentary I’ll Be Me for which he earned an Academy Award nomination.  Though the disease has reportedly robbed Campbell of his ability to communicate verbally, it’s understood that he still finds solace and comfort in the music of his guitar.  It’s a small but important reward for Campbell considering the joy he’s

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Country Tags: Glen Campbell

Be So Lucky: PWL/Cherry Red Reissues Kylie Minogue’s First Four Albums

April 8, 2015 By Randy Fairman 1 Comment

Kylie Enjoy Yourself

When Kylie Minogue stepped onto a stage in August of 1986 to perform “I’ve Got You Babe” and “The Loco-Motion” at a benefit concert, she probably didn’t realize it would help to propel her, within one year, on a path to become one of the biggest pop sensations in the world.  By the end of 1987, her first single was released by PWL and climbed within several weeks to No. 1 in the UK, beginning a long string of hits with the label in the late 1980s and early 1990s.  Cherry Red and PWL have

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Kylie Minogue

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