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Accept, Billy Squier, CHVRCHES, Dionne Warwick, Dolly Parton, George Michael, Judas Priest, Madonna, Patty Loveless, Rainbow, Ramsey Lewis, Sting, Uriah Heep

Everybody Loves You Now: Legacy’s RSD Slate Includes Billy Joel, Dolly Parton, Miles Davis, Carole King, More

February 20, 2023 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

The Record Store Day list is out, and the announcements are pouring in! This year, Legacy Recordings will mark the April 22, 2023 event at independent record stores everywhere with more than a dozen titles from many of the biggest names in classic pop, rock, jazz, hip-hop, reggae, country, and beyond. (One release, from Pearl Jam, will see a CD release in addition to the expected vinyl.) You’ll find the entire list below, with descriptions provided by the label. Visit RecordStoreDay.com for a full list of participating U.S. stores! Miles Davis, Turnaround:…

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Billy Joel, Carole King, Dolly Parton, Elvis Presley, Joan Jett and The Blackhearts, London Grammar, M.E.B., Miles Davis, Nas, Our Lady Peace, Pearl Jam, Peter Tosh, Prefab Sprout, Raphael Saadiq, Soul Asylum

The Weekend Stream: February 18, 2023

February 18, 2023 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there’s plenty of great new/old music to usher you into the weekend. Today, Joe and Mike are sharing the latest from the Stream: new posthumous singles from Burt Bacharach and Olivia Newton-John, a new song from Ben Folds, a demo from Sting and more – plus a way you can voice your support for members of the LGBTQ+ community who need it. Burt Bacharach & Elvis Costello, “You Can Have…

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2Pac, Ben Folds, Burt Bacharach, Dolly Parton, Elvis Costello, Olivia Newton-John, Sting, The Gap Band

The Weekend Stream: February 4, 2023

February 4, 2023 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there’s plenty of great new/old music to usher you into the weekend. Today sees digital reissues of Raw Power, The Chronic, rare Motown, unreleased music from a Cash family member and more. The Stooges, Raw Power (50th Anniversary Legacy Edition) (Columbia/Legacy) (iTunes / Amazon) Look out honey, ’cause he’s using technology! The Stooges’ seminal proto-punk classic celebrates a half-century with a new digital deluxe edition that bundles up everything from…

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Classic Rock, Comedy, Country, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock

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Bill Summers, Dottie West, Dr. Dre, Ginuwine, Groucho Marx, Iggy Pop, Iggy and the Stooges, Kenny Rogers, Kim Carnes, Sheena Easton, Snoop Dogg, The Stooges, Tommy Cash

Release Round-Up: Week of February 3

February 3, 2023 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today! Carole Bayer Sager, Sometimes Late at Night: Expanded Edition (Iconoclassic) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Iconoclassic Records is bringing Carole Bayer Sager’s star-studded 1981 album Sometimes Late at Night back to CD, for the very first time from the original Boardwalk Records master tapes. Featuring Burt Bacharach, Michael Jackson, Marvin Hamlisch, Neil Diamond, Melissa Manchester, David Foster, and many others, this lush, extraordinary (and extraordinarily personal) set co-produced by Bacharach and Brooks Arthur gets the treatment it deserves. The…

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"Weird Al" Yankovic, Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager, Dorothy Ashby, Eddie "Lockjaw" Davis, Frank Wess, Grateful Dead, Kenny Loggins, Shania Twain, Shirley Scott, The Soul Searchers

The Weekend Stream: January 28, 2023

January 28, 2023 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there’s plenty of great new/old music to usher you into the weekend. Today, there’s some newer KISS, some obscure Duke Ellington, and a few rare cast albums – plus a way you can help out some writers in need. KISS, Sonic Boom (UMe) (iTunes / Amazon) After a mid-’90s reunion of the classic KISS line-up, the band dynamics began to shift again In the early 21st century; by 2004, guitarist…

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Barbara Cook, Claibe Richardson, Cy Coleman, Debbie Allen, Dorothy Fields, Duke Ellington, Jim Weatherly, KISS, Kenward Elmslie, Moose Charlap, Neil Simon, Ram Jam, Susan Johnson, The Grass Roots

Release Round-Up: Week of January 20

January 20, 2023 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles arriving in stores today. The Rolling Stones, The Rolling Stones in Mono [Limited Color Edition] (ABKCO) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Link TBD / Amazon Canada) ABKCO will revisit 2016’s The Rolling Stones in Mono box set – originally released on 15 CDs or 16 black vinyl LPs – in a limited, new color vinyl version featuring 16 LPs, pressed on 180-gram vinyl in 14 different colors to match the original cover artwork of the albums contained within. Like the original…

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Ella Fitzgerald, Howdy Glenn, The Rolling Stones, Thin Lizzy

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I Don’t Know a Thing About Love

January 17, 2023 by Joe Marchese

The tireless Willie Nelson is back with his latest long-player for Legacy Recordings. I Don’t Know a Thing About Love finds the legendary vocalist paying tribute to an old pal, songwriter Harlan Howard (1927-2002), an inductee into both the Country Music Hall of Fame and Songwriters Hall of Fame. Nelson brings his burnished voice to new renditions of such classic Howard tunes as “The Chokin’ Kind,” “Tiger by the Tail,” and “Busted.” I Don’t Know a Thing About Love has been produced by Buddy Cannon and features Nelson (and Trigger, natch!) accompanied…

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The Weekend Stream: December 18, 2022

December 18, 2022 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there’s plenty of great new/old music to usher you into the weekend. And we’ve got a lot to cover today, from a massive Pink Floyd copyright dump to a new Whitney Houston soundtrack and some underrated Motown gold. Pink Floyd, Live at Southampton Guildhall, UK, 23 January 1972 / Live at Carnegie Hall, New York, 5 Feb 1972 / Live at the Rainbow Theatre, London, 17 Feb 1972 / Live…

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Alabama, Dazz Band, Floyd Cramer, Musical Youth, Peggy Lee, Pink Floyd, Rob Base & DJ E-Z Rock, Shorty Long, Teresa Brewer, Whitney Houston

Elusive Dreams: Morello Continues Tammy Wynette Reissue Series with 2-CD, 4-Album Set Chronicling the Late 1960s & Early 1970s

December 14, 2022 by Randy Fairman | 9 Comments

Tammy Wynette Ways to Love a Man Four Fer

For the past few years, Cherry Red imprint Morello Records has been reissuing the Epic Records catalog of county legend Tammy Wynette on a series of twofers (or more). With its latest release, out now, Morello is taking a look at the late 1960s and early 1970s with a 2-CD set featuring the four albums The Ways To Love a Man, Tammy’s Touch, My Elusive Dreams and Inspiration. By the time she moved to Nashville in 1966, 23-year old Virginia Wynette Pugh had already experienced a lot of living. Raised by her…

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The Weekend Stream: December 3, 2022

December 3, 2022 by The Second Disc | 6 Comments

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there’s plenty of great new/old music to usher you into the weekend. This week, we’ve got a treasure trove from the great ladies of song, a Fab mega-box, and much more! Petula Clark, Blue Lady: The Nashville Sessions (UMe) (iTunes / Amazon) On November 15 of this year, Petula Clark celebrated her milestone 90th birthday. The legendary performer was hardly sitting idle; she’s still performing eight shows a week at London’s…

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Duke Ellington, Elvis Presley, Fela Kuti, Humble Pie, Kitty Kallen, Madonna, Patti Page, Paul McCartney, Petula Clark, The Dells

THE SECOND DISC’S 2022 HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE IS HERE!

November 28, 2022 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Cyber Monday is upon us today, which means one thing at Second Disc HQ: it’s time to launch our annual Holiday Gift Guide, featuring (more than) a few of our favorite things for the music enthusiast in your life. Sure, we might not have included raindrops on roses or whiskers on kittens, but we’ve filled the guide with more than 50 essential selections: sprawling box sets as well as releases from favorite artists that just might make great stocking stuffers. So just click here or visit the handy tab, above, to access…

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The Philosophy of Modern Song

November 28, 2022 by Joe Marchese

Book: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Audiobook: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Bob Dylan examines 66 of his favorite songs through his own, idiosyncratic perspective in this entertaining new tome. Dylan adopts the tone of a pulp writer for many of his most fanciful excursions and extrapolations: discussing the My Fair Lady ballad “On the Street Where You Live,” he imagines that “you’ve got a habit, a bad habit. You fell in love with the hard stuff. You fell for the foxy harlot, the vamp who…

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The Second Disc’s Guide to Black Friday Record Store Day 2022: Our Essential Picks

November 25, 2022 by The Second Disc | 6 Comments

From all of us here at Second Disc HQ to all of you, we hope you’ve enjoyed a wonderful Thanksgiving in the company of beloved family and friends. Of course, from this day which conjures nostalgic and warm feelings comes a celebration of a different kind with this year’s annual Black Friday Record Store Day event. In keeping with tradition, Mike, Randy, and Joe have once again selected some essential picks of the roughly 200 titles being released tomorrow at independent record stores everywhere. With so many shoppers at the mall and…

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The Weekend Stream: November 19, 2022

November 19, 2022 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments

Madonna, You Can Dance (Single Edits) / Rain (Warner/Rhino) Dance: iTunes / Amazon Rain: iTunes / Amazon Rhino keeps digitally uploading intriguing stuff from Madonna’s single and remix catalogue, and this month saw two such releases: first, a bundle of mixes surrounding the Erotica favorite “Rain,” then this week, to celebrate the 35th anniversary of remix album You Can Dance, an upload of the rare promo version that found all the tracks unmixed and edited to single-ready lengths. Roger Waters, Comfortably Numb 2022 (Legacy) (iTunes / Amazon) A new version of the…

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Charlie Parker, Duran Duran, Esther Phillips, Joe Strummer, Madonna, Melissa Manchester, Neil Diamond, Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, The Clash, The Statler Brothers

Release Round-Up: Week of November 18

November 18, 2022 by The Second Disc | 7 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the many titles hitting stores today as the countdown to the holidays continues! Michael Jackson, Thriller 40 (MJJ/Epic/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The best-selling album of all time returns in a 2CD edition for its 40th anniversary. The second disc features 10 bonus tracks including the previously issued outtake “Sunset Driver,” “Got the Hots” (making its U.S. release debut), non-LP B-side “Can’t Get Outta the Rain,” the Michael Sembello-penned “Carousel,” and the previously unreleased “Who Do You Know,” “What a Lovely Way…

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APB, David Bowie, Dolly Parton, Jimi Hendrix, KISS, Michael Jackson, Nastyfacts, Neil Young, Peggy Lee, Peter Green, Queen, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, Vince Guaraldi, Willie Nelson

It’s Only a Paper Moon: Cherry Red’s El Imprint Celebrates Director Peter Bogdanovich on New Anthology

November 7, 2022 by Joe Marchese | 4 Comments

Writer-director Peter Bogdanovich (1939-2022) rose to fame as part of the “New Hollywood” movement of cinematic auteurs. While these maverick filmmakers shattered conventions and reshaped film to modern sensibilities, many had a deep and abiding love of the medium – and perhaps none more so than Bogdanovich. The onetime film critic and Museum of Modern Art programmer wrote extensively about Alfred Hitchcock, Orson Welles, and Howard Hawks; shot The Last Picture Show in black-and-white; and almost singlehandedly resuscitated the screwball comedy genre. One constant in his filmmaking was his inventive use of…

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Bing Crosby, Frankie Laine, Hank Williams, Henry Mancini, Johnnie Ray, Peter Bogdanovich

The Weekend Stream: November 5, 2022

November 5, 2022 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there’s plenty of great new/old music to usher you into the weekend. The latest features new and old soundtracks, EPs and holiday favorites and much more! “Weird Al” Yankovic, Weird: The Al Yankovic Story – Original Soundtrack (Ear Booker/Roku/Legacy) (iTunes / Amazon) This weekend sees the release of “Weird Al” Yankovic’s second foray into feature film: a hilariously-exaggerated biopic co-written by Yankovic and starring Daniel Radcliffe (Harry Potter himself) as…

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"Weird Al" Yankovic, B.J. Thomas, Charlie Parker, Eminem, Johnny Mathis, P.F. Sloan, Squeeze

The Weekend Stream: October 29, 2022

October 30, 2022 by Mike Duquette | 4 Comments

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there’s plenty of great new/old music to usher you into the weekend. This week, it’s a stuffed Halloween sack full of sweet rarities from INXS and Madonna, remixes of Frank Zappa and Bing Crosby, two completely unreleased 50-year-old albums and a brand-new spin on a Stephen Sondheim classic – and that’s only half of it! INXS, Shabooh Shoobah (40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition) (Atlantic/Rhino) (iTunes / Amazon) The INXS catalogue is…

In Memoriam: Jerry Lee Lewis (1935-2022)

October 28, 2022 by Mike Duquette | 9 Comments

To the uninitiated, the biography of Jerry Lee Lewis in 2022 read like a list of rock tropes so basic you can’t believe they all happened to one man. Born to a poor Louisiana family that included a lot of famous Southerners (including cousins Mickey Gilley and Jimmy Swaggart), Jerry Lee’s parents mortgaged their farm to buy him a piano and hoped he would honor the Lord in song. What they got instead was a firebrand, whose boogie-woogie sensibilities galvanized and scandalized the record-buying public. His white-hot success on the pop charts…

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Release Round-Up: Week of October 21

October 21, 2022 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today! Lou Reed, Words and Music – May 1965 (Light in the Attic) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Black Vinyl LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Yellow Vinyl LP: Light in the Attic Store Cassette: Light in the Attic Store CD/2LP/7″ Vinyl Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Light in the Attic Store Light in the Attic launches The Lou Reed Archive Series with Words & Music, May 1965. Available on CD, cassette, and multiple vinyl formats, Words…

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Debbie Gibson, Howard Jones, Jonathan Richman, Lou Reed, Madonna, Norah Jones, Olivia Newton-John, Ray Charles, Simple Minds, Taylor Swift, The Manhattan Transfer, The Modern Lovers

Keep On Sailing: Cherry Red Collects Iain Matthews’ Plainsong on New Box Set

October 20, 2022 by Joe Marchese | 4 Comments

Cherry Red’s Lemon imprint has anthologized the works of singer-songwriter Iain Matthews on previous releases including the 2019 rarities collection Orphans and Outcasts and this year’s I Can’t Fade Away: The Rockburgh Years 1978-1984. Now, Lemon is turning back the clock to Matthews’ time in the band Plainsong with a new 6-CD box set. Following Amelia: The 1972 Recordings and More is, in essence, a generous 50th anniversary expanded edition of the original band’s one and only album to be released contemporaneously with their existence, 1972’s In Search of Amelia Earhart. It’s…

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Greatest Hits

October 19, 2022 by Joe Marchese

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Target Exclusive 2LP: Target.com Japan-Exclusive 2CD: CDJapan Primary Wave revisits and remasters Olivia Newton-John’s 1977 Greatest Hits album in a variety of formats. The new edition will include all 20 tracks released across various international editions of the original album, including every one of Olivia’s U.S. top 40 hits up to the time of its release (twelve of which reached the top ten) including her chart-topping renditions of Jeff Barry and Peter Allen’s “I Honestly Love You” and John Farrar’s “Have You Never Been Mellow.” it…

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Come On Over: Olivia Newton-John’s “Greatest Hits” Reissued, Remastered in Various Formats

October 19, 2022 by Joe Marchese | 11 Comments

Last month, Primary Wave delivered the second title in the label’s ongoing Olivia Newton-John reissue program. The 2-CD edition of the late superstar’s debut If Not for You not only presented a remastered version of the original LP but added a plethora of singles, B-sides, international recordings, outtakes, and the best of Olivia’s performances with the group Toomorrow. This Friday, October 21, the series will continue with the first remaster of Newton-John’s original 1977 Greatest Hits. Greatest Hits succinctly encapsulated the artist’s career to that point, from If Not for You through…

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Release Round-Up: Week of October 14

October 14, 2022 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today! Frank Zappa, Zappa ’75: Zagreb/Ljubljana (Zappa/UMe) (Zappa Official Store / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Zappa ’75: Zagreb/Ljubljana captures The Mothers’ first and only concerts in Yugoslavia. Zappa referred to the dates as “The Mothers of Invention Yugoslavian Extravaganza,” and the performances lived up to that mighty moniker. The shows were staged in Zagreb and Ljubljana, now the capital cities of Croatia and Slovenia, respectively. He was joined by the short-lived line-up of Andre…

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