Friday Music returns Bobby Darin’s heartfelt 1960 Christmas album The 25th Day of December, originally issued on the Atco label, to vinyl in this deluxe 180-gram edition remastered from the original tapes. Features “Go Tell It on the Mountain,” “Silent Night,” “O Come All Ye Faithful,” “Ave Maria” and more, all rendered in Darin’s most tender style.
JUDAS! Dylan’s Electrifying 1966 Concerts Coming On Massive 36-CD Box Set
On the heels of last year’s groundbreaking 18-CD box set The Cutting Edge 1965-1966: The Bootleg Series Vol. 12, Legacy Recordings and Columbia Records are returning to that golden period of Bob Dylan’s storied discography with an even more massive set. Due on November 11, Bob Dylan: The 1966 Live Recordings is a staggering 36-CD box featuring every known recording from the troubadour’s 1966 concert tours of the U.S., U.K., Europe and Australia. This follows the digital-only release last year of his 1965 live recordings, distributed as a bonus gift to purchasers…
The Second Disc’s Week In Review
For today’s special feature, we’re taking a look back at the big stories we shared with you over the past week at The Second Disc, just in case you missed ’em the first time around! Review: Fleetwood Mac, Mirage: Deluxe Edition Joe takes a look at Rhino’s 4-CD/1-LP/1-DVD Deluxe Edition of the Mac’s 1982 pop gem! This Could Be the Night: Shout! Factory to Release T.A.M.I. Show and The Big T.N.T. Show on Blu-ray Two classic concert films – featuring a galaxy of stars including The Beach Boys, The Rolling Stones, The…
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Review: Fleetwood Mac, “Mirage: Deluxe Edition”
When Fleetwood Mac entered the Château d’Hérouville studio outside Paris at the dawn of the 1980s, the band had one goal in mind: to create a commercial pop success in the mold of their record-breaking Rumours. Not everyone in the quintet was sold on this goal, necessarily, especially after the quantum leap forward from Rumours into the beautiful madness that was Tusk. But while Tusk sold four million copies, it couldn’t help but be viewed as a disappointment after the world domination of its ten million-selling predecessor. Mirage, released in June 1982,…
Release Round-Up: Week of September 23
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, packed with heavy hitters! David Bowie, Who Can I Be Now (1974-1976) (Parlophone) 12-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 13-LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada David Bowie – Who Can I Be Now? (1974-1976), the second in the late artist’s series of deluxe albums box sets, will contain the following albums plus a 128-page booklet in the CD edition (or 84 pages in the vinyl edition. You’ll find more details here, and watch for Joe’s review soon! Diamond Dogs (Remastered) 1-CD…
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57th and 9th
Sting returns to the rock/pop world with 57th and 9th, a collection of all-new songs featuring his longtime collaborators Dominic Miller (guitar) and Vinnie Colaiuta (drums) plus drummer Josh Freese (Nine Inch Nails, Guns n Roses), guitarist Lyle Workman and the San Antonio-based Tex-Mex band The Last Bandoleros. Available on deluxe and standard CD, DD and LP. Links to the deluxe CD edition can be found below!
The Atlantic Years in Mono
Rhino collects Ray Charles’ classic solo Atlantic output as a 7-LP box set, which each remastered title pressed on 180-gram vinyl. It’s packaged in a hardbound box also containing a 12×12, 29-page booklet featuring liner notes by David Ritz and photos by Lee Friedlander.
A Capitol Christmas
A Capitol Christmas, available on CD and vinyl, presents 24 swinging holiday tracks from the label’s golden era including selections from Frank Sinatra, Nat “King” Cole, Bing Crosby, Ella Fitzgerald, Peggy Lee, Margaret Whiting, Lou Rawls, and others! It’s bookended by “The Christmas Song” – first in Nat’s solo version and then in duet form with Nat and Natalie!
Good to Me: Otis Redding’s “Dictionary,” Complete Whisky A Go Go Recordings Due Next Month
Fans of Otis Redding have twice the reason to celebrate this holiday season with the release of two separate products celebrating The King of Soul’s output in 1966. First up, Rhino is reissuing Complete & Unbelievable…The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul as a double-disc set. Joe filled us in on this release back in August, but here’s a refresher: This album, Otis’ fifth and final released before his tragic passing the following year, is Memphis soul par excellence, recorded with an all-star lineup of session men that included Booker T. & The…
The Randy Newman Songbook [Box Set]
The Randy Newman Songbook box set marks the first-ever combined release of all three of the legendary songwriter’s piano-and-voice Songbook albums (including the new Vol. 3) recorded in 2003 and 2010 with producers Mitchell Froom and Lenny Waronker. All songs have been resequenced as one cohesive, thematically-linked listening experience spread over 4 CDs. Additionally, the box boasts five exclusive, previously unreleased bonus tracks: the now-standard “Feels Like Home,” “A Wedding in Cherokee County,” “I’m Dreaming,” “Family Album: Homage to Alfred, Emil and Lionel Newman,” and “Wandering Boy” – the latter the debut recording of one…
Hey Now: Crowded House’s Catalogue Expanded for 30th Anniversary
Ahead of their induction to the Australia Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Hall of Fame this fall–and 30 years after the release of their first of many stellar albums–Crowded House have unveiled a spectacular and thorough reissue campaign that sees the reissue of all of their albums as expanded CDs and heavyweight vinyl titles. The project, which covers every one of their studio albums release between 1986 and 2010 (plus 2000’s rarities album Afterglow), sees each album digitally remastered at Abbey Road Studios from the highest-possible resolution transfers of the original tapes. Each…
Out of Time: 25th Anniversary Edition
3-CD/1-BD Box Set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 2-CD Set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 1-CD Remaster: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 3-LP Set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 1-LP Remaster: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. R.E.M.’s 1991 classic is revisited as a 3 CD/1 Blu-ray set, a 2-CD set, a 3-LP set, a single LP of the original album and as a digital download as part of the band’s new deal with Concord Bicycle Music. The box includes the original album on Disc 1 followed by nineteen demo tracks on Disc 2. The third disc contains a…
The Wonder of You: Elvis with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada CD/LP Deluxe Box: Amazon U.K. This new collection follows the pattern of last year’s chart-topping If I Can Dream, grafting vintage Elvis Presley vocals to newly recorded orchestral settings. Produced by the same team of Don Reedman and Nick Patrick, with the Royal Philharmonic recorded at Abbey Road Studios, The Wonder of You features 15 songs from several of Elvis’ preferred genres from country to gospel to rock all in new arrangements. It spans…
The Ultimate Collection
CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada TBD 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 Wilburys. Available on CD, DD and vinyl.
Listen Without Prejudice 25
2-CD (Disc 1 & 2 Only): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3-CD/1-DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Legacy is delivering a deluxe edition of George Michael’s classic 1990 album. Listen Without Prejudice 25 sees release in several formats. The biggest is a 3-CD/1 DVD box set. The first CD contains a remastered version of the original album. The second disc is the CD premiere of Michael’s MTV Unplugged concert from October 1996 at Three Mills Studio in London. …
Lazarus: Original Cast Recording
David Bowie and Enda Walsh’s 2015 musical Lazarus receives an original cast album! This deluxe release showcasing an array of Bowie reinterpretations performed by Michael C. Hall, Cristin Milioti, Sophia Anne Caruso and others will feature a bonus disc with the late artist’s own recordings of the musical’s four new songs: the previously released “Lazarus” (from his final studio LP, Blackstar) as well as the never-before-released “No Plan,” “Killing a Little Time” and “When I Met You” – Bowie’s final studio recordings.
Release Round-Up: Week of September 16
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Led Zeppelin, The Complete BBC Sessions (Atlantic/Swan Song/Rhino) 3 CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5 LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3 CD/5 LP Super Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Digital Download: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. This new collection expands the original double-disc set, from 1997, which was culled from the band’s appearances on BBC radio between 1969 and 1971. This updated version has been fully and newly remastered under the supervision by…
Have Some Faith in The Sound: George Michael’s “Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1” To Be Expanded to a Box Set To Mark Anniversary
Last year marked the 25th anniversary of George Michael’s second solo album Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1. While nothing hit the shelves last year to commemorate the occasion, that is being rectified this year when Legacy Recordings releases Listen Without Prejudice 25 on November 11. After the breakup of Wham! in 1986, George Michael moved quickly to kick his solo career into high gear. The result was the 1987 album Faith, where he wrote (or co-wrote) and produced every track. Buoyed by the hit single “I Want Your Sex,” Faith would become…
Don’t Walk On By: Legacy To Release Single-Disc Roy Orbison Career Retrospective
This last April marks what would have been Roy Orbison’s 80th birthday had he not sadly died in 1988 at the age of 52. As one of the pioneers of rock ‘n’ roll, there have been numerous compilations and reissues devoted to Orbison’s career. Just this last year, Universal released a 13-CD box set chronicling his tenure at MGM Records. But, despite all of the collections over the years, there hasn’t been one that rounded up selections from most stages of his career from his time at Sun Records up through his…
Going On Together: Elvis Joined by Royal Philharmonic for Orchestral Sequel
Despite having passed away nearly 40 years ago, Elvis Presley remains a large presence on the charts and on the shelves of stores. Just this year, Elvis has had a 60-disc box devoted to all of the music he released in his lifetime and a 2-CD set concentrating on his final recordings . And last year’s If I Can Dream: Elvis Presley with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, melding Elvis’ vocals with new orchestral backings, hit the Top 25 in the U.S. but was a larger success in the U.K. – hitting #1…
Sound and Vision: “Lazarus” Cast Recording Premieres David Bowie’s Final Recordings
Thanks to Columbia and ISO Records, there will be a next day for David Bowie’s Lazarus. On October 20, the labels will release the original cast album of the off-Broadway musical, starring Michael C. Hall (Dexter, Cabaret) and Cristin Milioti (How I Met Your Mother, Once). The deluxe release, showcasing an array of Bowie reinterpretations, will feature a bonus disc with Bowie’s own recordings of the musical’s four new songs including the previously released “Lazarus” (from his final studio LP, Blackstar) as well as the never-before-released “No Plan,” “Killing a Little Time”…
Review: The Beatles, “Live at The Hollywood Bowl”
And now…here they are…The Beatles! The summers of 1964 and 1965 are now more than fifty years in the rearview mirror, yet the music made by four lads from Liverpool over three evenings at Los Angeles’ famous Hollywood Bowl now sounds so fresh and so immediate, you could believe it was recorded yesterday. Such is the work of the sonic wizards on Capitol/Apple/UMe’s first-time-on-CD, retitled, remixed and expanded reissue of The Beatles’ Live at the Hollywood Bowl (B0025451-02, 2016). Capitol Records first captured John, Paul, George and Ringo at the venerable Los…
Release Round-Up: Week of September 9
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up…one of the most packed in recent memory! Beatles, Live at the Hollywood Bowl (Apple/Capitol/UMe) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Since the advent of the compact disc era, The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl has been the forgotten stepchild of the Fab Four’s legendary catalogue. That changes today with the first-ever commercial CD/DD release of the 1977 album on September 9 via Apple/UMe. The newly-retitled, remixed, remastered and expanded Live at the Hollywood Bowl will arrive one week in…
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Remember Love: Yoko Ono’s Catalogue to Be Reissued
Since shortly before The Second Disc began in 2010, we’ve seen a swath of major reissues, overhauls and catalog deliveries of the works of both The Beatles, together and separately, too. This fall, it’s time to take a look at the catalogue of one of The Beatles’ most intriguing associates: Yoko Ono. John Lennon’s second wife is not “the woman who broke up The Beatles,” as has been famously charged. But John’s devotion to her as expressed in much of his solo music, as well as her own challenging solo works, has…
Release Round-Up: Week of September 2
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up highlighted by the latest release from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music! The Isley Brothers, Groove with You…Live! (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) We’re incredibly excited and proud to bring this sizzling, swooning and immersive double-album document of The Isley Brothers at the peak of their powers to CD for the very first time! Groove with You…Live! features powerful renditions of classic hits like “Take Me to the Next Phase,” “Summer Breeze” and “Livin’ in the Life,” recorded live-in-the-studio at…
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