We wouldn't want you to be left out in the cold for Cyber Monday, so we're proud to present our annual Holiday Gift Guide featuring more than 50 essential selections for the music enthusiast in your life! We've filled the guide with box sets (such as the popular David Bowie title to your left!) as well as archival releases and holiday music favorites that make great stocking stuffers. So Just click here to access this year's top picks! You'll notice that the Gift Guide is in the same
Good Times! The Second Disc's Essential RSD Black Friday 2016 Release Guide
From all of us here at Second Disc HQ to all of you, we hope you're enjoying a wonderful Thanksgiving in the company of 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 - the day for consumers to start off the holiday shopping season on a mad, frenetic note. But 2016 is just in the latest year in which numerous retailers in the U.S. have made headlines by blackening Thursday, or
Kylie Christmas: Snow Queen Edition
Kylie Minogue's 2015 Christmas album, featuring duets with Iggy Pop, James Corden, the late Frank Sinatra and others, is expanded with six new bonus tracks including a cover of Roy Wood's "I Wish It Could Be Christmas Every Day" and a duet with Mika on Paul McCartney's "Wonderful Christmastime."
Release Round-Up: Week of November 18
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up - the last of the major release weeks for 2016! The Beatles, Eight Days a Week (DVD or BD) (Apple/Capitol) 2-Disc Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-Disc DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Standard Edition Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Standard Edition DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Ron Howard's acclaimed 2016 documentary chronicling Beatlemania, Eight Days a Week, hits DVD
Big City Christmas
Bear Family is getting into the holiday spirit with Big City Christmas, a new collection of 30 Christmas favorites in the pop, R&B, doo-wop and rockabilly styles! These rare and previously unreleased tracks from 1948-1968 include performances by Frankie Valli and the Four Lovers, Eartha Kitt, Ricky Nelson, Frankie Lymon, and Bill Haley and His Comets! Familiar favorites are provided by Doris Day, Connie Francis, Dean Martin, Rosemary Clooney, and Chuck Berry, and a 1966 Christmas greeting
Release Round-Up: Week of November 4
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a host of holiday offerings (including three new titles from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music!) and much, much more! Jack Jones, The Jack Jones Christmas Album (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music proudly bring Jack Jones' 1964 Kapp Records classic to CD for the very first time! The Jack Jones Christmas Album features lush renditions of "White
Do You Hear What I Hear? Jack Jones, Eddy Arnold, Mitch Miller Coming TOMORROW From Second Disc Records!
With Halloween now in the rearview window, decorations springing up everywhere and yuletide tunes on the radio, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas everywhere you go. Here at Second Disc HQ, we're no exception. Tomorrow, November 4, we're thrilled to spread some holiday cheer with three Second Disc Records releases as part of Real Gone Music's amazing 10-strong (yes, 10 titles!) Christmas line-up! All three titles feature new-to-CD tracks, copious liner notes, original album and label
EXCLUSIVE! Merry Christmas, Darling: Carpenters Public TV Special and DVD Coming Soon
It's that time of year again! There's a crisp chill in the air, Christmas decorations are finding their way to storefronts and malls everywhere, and the sounds of the season are beginning to hit the airwaves. Among the most beloved classic holiday songs heard on radios and playlists each winter are those by Karen and Richard Carpenter. The brother and sister duo proved to be the most successful American popular music act of the 1970s (20 Billboard Top 40 hits including three #1s and five #2s,
Do Your Thing: 20 Record Store Day Black Friday Essentials
Are you making a list and checking it twice? We are! Record Store Day Black Friday is here in less than a month, and this week we're showcasing all of our favorite titles. We've shown you the goods from Legacy, Real Gone, Rhino and Omnivore; now, here are 20 more titles we think you should absolutely check out. There's soundtrack goodies from Varese Sarabande and Light in the Attic; holiday favorites from Bob & Doug McKenzie, Frank Sinatra and "Dolemite" himself; lost gems from Isaac Hayes,
A Melody Ranch Christmas
This new release, culled from Gene Autry's personal archive of radio show transcription lacquers, includes classic and rare Christmas songs performed live on the singing cowboy's popular Melody Ranch radio show between 1942 and 1955. Performers include not just Gene, but also The Cass County Boys, The Pinafores, The Gene Autry Blue Jeans, Rosemary Clooney, and Carl Cotner's Orchestra. This CD, sequenced in the style of a vintage radio broadcast, also includes Pat Buttram's comedy routines, and
A Christmas Story
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.
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
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
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
Release Round-Up: Week of October 21
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up - one of the year's biggest! Frank Sinatra, World on a String (Capitol/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K./ Amazon Canada) Featuring performances spanning 1953 to 1982, this new live collection boasts more than four hours' worth of rare audio and video from the legendary Chairman of the Board - over 90 tracks on CD alone including such Sinatra favorites as "I Get a Kick Out of You," "I've Got You Under My Skin," "The Lady is a Tramp," "Witchcraft"
Acoustic Christmas
Neil Diamond reunites with producers Don Was and Jacknife Lee (from his 2014 Capitol album Melody Road) for this all-new Christmas collection featuring intimate, stripped-down versions of classic carols including "O Holy Night," "Do You Hear What I Hear," "Go Tell It on the Mountain," and "Silent Night." A vinyl release follows on November 18. Target has an exclusive edition with two extra songs: "We Three Kings" and Diamond's original "# 1 Christmas Record."
Joyful Jazz! Christmas with Verve! The Instrumentals!
Fourteen classic instrumental performances - including a previously unreleased version of Irving Berlin's "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm" by The Oscar Peterson Quartet - are featured on this new holiday compilation! Other artists include John Coltrane, Bill Evans, Jimmy Smith, and The Ramsey Lewis Trio!
Joyful Jazz! Christmas with Verve! The Vocalists!
This new collection offers fourteen tasty tracks from the label's holiday catalogue, including standout tracks by vocalists Peggy Lee, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Norah Jones, Willie Nelson, Diana Krall and Patti Austin!