Well, this is it - the final big release week of the year! While next week will see releases slow to a trickle, this week is packed with exciting box sets and much more! Bruce Springsteen, The Ties That Bind: The River Collection (Columbia) 4-CD/3-DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada 4-CD/2-BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada This 4-CD/3-DVD or 4-CD/2-BD set celebrating The Boss' seminal album The River features a treasure trove of previously unreleased material across its 53 audio tracks
Dreaming of a Supremes Christmas: Expanded "Merry Christmas" Available NOW!
Christmas came early in 1965 for fans of The Supremes. In November of that year, Motown released not one, but two albums from the beloved trio of Diana Ross, Mary Wilson and Florence Ballard: The Supremes at the Copa and Merry Christmas. Both of these LPs would not only score on the Billboard charts but become truly sparkling additions to the Supremes' discography. Still perennial favorites, both Copa and Merry Christmas showcase the group's tremendous versatility, vibrancy and dynamism.
The Complete Singles: The 50th Anniversary Collection
Real Gone Music has 53 tracks on 2 CDs of pure pop pleasure from The Mamas and the Papas - as a group and solo - with this first-ever collection of their complete singles, just in time for their 50th anniversary!
Colors of the Day: The Best of Judy Collins (Quadraphonic SACD)
Audio Fidelity brings Judy Collins' 1972 compilation to hybrid SACD (playable on all CD players) including the 4.0 surround presentation of the album. Features "Both Sides Now," "Suzanne," "In My Life," "Amazing Grace" and more.
1 [Remixed/Remastered Vinyl]
The 27 remixed No. 1 hits which recently premiered on The Beatles' 1 and 1+ CD releases have made their way to 180-gram vinyl for this lavish release. The gatefold 2-LP package includes four art cards and a poster of global single sleeves. The poster is printed on 170gsm gloss art paper and measures 33' H x 22' W. The poster comes folded within the LP sleeve. The art cards are printed on 180gsm white board, and each image measures 11' H X 8.5' W.
Once Upon a Time [Super Deluxe Edition]
Simple Minds' 1985 breakthrough album is expanded to six discs (five CDs and a region-free NTSC DVD) on this new super deluxe edition. Containing the hit singles "Alive And Kicking," "All The Things She Said," "Sanctify Yourself" and "Ghostdancing," this chart-topping album built on the success of "(Don't You) Forget About Me." The bonus discs include numerous additional tracks including the original and extended versions of "(Don't You) Forget About Me," single edits, 12-inch mixes, B-sides,
THE SECOND DISC'S 2015 HOLIDAY GIFT GUIDE IS HERE!
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 nearly 75 essential selections for the music enthusiast in your life! We've filled the guide with box sets (such as the popular Bob Dylan title to your left!), archival releases and holiday music favorites. So Just click here to access this year's picks! You'll notice that the Gift Guide is in the same easy-to-use format as our Release Calendar, so you can
Release Round-Up: Week of November 27
To our U.S. readers, today is the day of shopping known as Black Friday - but happily, the diverse slate of releases due in stores today should lift your spirits - no matter where you're located! Love, Reel to Real: Expanded Edition (High Moon Records) (Amazon U.S.) High Moon Records has the premiere reissue of Arthur Lee and Love's 1974 album Reel to Real as a newly-expanded Deluxe Edition boasting a color, 32-page booklet. A vinyl edition will follow early next year. Read more
Say, Say, Say! The Second Disc's Essential RSD Black Friday 2015 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 2015 is just in the latest year in which numerous retailers in the U.S. have made headlines by blackening Thursday, or
A Culture Factory Christmas: Label Reissues Beach Boys, James Brown, "Charlie Brown" and...Wookiees!
The Culture Factory label, which reissues classic albums in limited edition mini-LP replica sleeves, has a trio of Christmas titles due this Friday likely to make spirits bright. The label has already released Vince Guaraldi's oft-reissued soundtrack to A Charlie Brown Christmas as an exclusive release for retailer FYE. It's joined this week by straight reissues (no bonus material) of The Beach Boys' Christmas Album and James Brown's Soulful Christmas at general retail, as well as an
It's Beginning to Look A Lot Like Christmas: Legacy Adds Amazon Exclusive 3-CD Set to "Classic Christmas Album" Series
With Thanksgiving this Thursday and Black Friday the day after, the Christmas season is officially upon us (if it hasn't already arrived a couple of weeks ago!). There have been several Christmas reissues we've talked about so far this season, including the four new entries in Legacy's Classic Christmas Album series. And now we've got information on a fifth entry for this year: the simply-titled Classic Christmas Album. And we're also happy to say that this Amazon exclusive, 3-CD, 42-song
Something Bad On Her Mind: Rare and Unreleased Timi Yuro Arrives From Cherry Red
There was only one Timi Yuro. The late, Chicago-born Italian-American vocalist was signed to Liberty Records as a teenager, bringing jazz and R&B influences into her emotional, heart-on-its-sleeve blue-eyed soul style. After having spent the first portion of her career at Liberty, Yuro departed the label in 1963. She was dubbed The Amazing Timi Yuro by Mercury Records for her Quincy Jones-produced LP debut there in 1964, but Mercury never followed it up with another long-player, opting
Release Round-Up: Week of November 20
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up which continues this autumn's tradition of having each week packed with box sets from heavy hitters - in this case, The Rolling Stones, The Velvet Underground, The Who, Queen, Grateful Dead, Frank Sinatra, and they're still not all! Plus: CD and vinyl reissues, anthologies, and much more! The Beach Boys, Beach Boys' Party: Uncovered and Unplugged (Capitol) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) The first disc of this 2-CD, 81-track set features the
Go Crazy: Varese Collects "The Very Best of Paul Davis"
With hits like "Cool Night," "I Go Crazy" and "'65 Love Affair," Paul Davis established himself as one of the most appealing singer-songwriters of the late 1970s and early 1980s. Yet the Mississippi native all but walked away from his solo career at the height of his fame, returning to his roots as a behind-the-scenes songwriter and making cameo appearances on others' hit records. Before his untimely death in 2008 at the age of 60, Davis notched fourteen Hot 100 hits and eight Top 40s. Many
One Less Egg To Fry: Raven Collects Four 5th Dimension Albums On Two CDs
Earlier this year, the Raven label collected The 5th Dimension's first four albums, all originally released on Soul City between 1967 and 1969, as a 2-CD set. Now, Raven is happily continuing the story of Marilyn McCoo, Billy Davis Jr., Florence LaRue, Lamont McLemore and Ron Townson with a second collection of four albums on two CDs. 4 Classic Albums: Portrait/Love's Lines, Angles and Rhymes/Individually and Collectively/Living Together, Growing Together has the group's four Bell Records
A Gift Of Love
A Gift of Love focuses on the romantic side of The Divine Miss M's repertoire, culling eighteen tracks from nine albums originally released on the Atlantic and Warner Bros. labels between 1976 and 2014 including "The Rose," "From a Distance," "Wind Beneath My Wings," "To Deserve You" and more.
Something Bad on My Mind/The Unreleased and Rare Liberty Recordings
The big, blue-eyed soul voice of Timi Yuro returns on this disc featuring Yuro's complete 1968 Liberty album Something Bad on My Mind along with a treasure trove of twelve rare and previously unreleased tracks culled from the Liberty vaults.
In Memoriam: P.F. Sloan (1945-2015)
Take a moment to consider a number of the songs written or co-written by Philip "P.F." Sloan: "Secret Agent Man," "Eve of Destruction," "Let Me Be," "Where Were You When I Needed You," "You Baby," "A Must to Avoid," "Another Day, Another Heartache." Yet the songwriter, who died on November 15 at the age of 70, may be best known for the bittersweet, elegiac ode penned by his colleague and admirer, Jimmy Webb. "I have been seeking P.F. Sloan," Webb's song begins. "But no one knows where he has
Whipped Cream and Other Delights
Following on the heels of the recent Christmas Album reissue, the new Herb Alpert Presents label has a freshly-remastered edition of Alpert and the Tijuana Brass' landmark Whipped Cream and Other Delights (featuring "Whipped Cream," "Love Potion No. 9" and "A Taste of Honey") on CD, DD and 180-gram vinyl LP. More titles are promised for 2016 - hopefully including some of the long out-of-print treasures from the TJB catalogue!
Review: Alanis Morissette, "Jagged Little Pill: Collector's Edition"
As time marches on, nostalgia of course goes along with it. So, with the passage of time, we've arrived at an era of nostalgia for the 1990s. Hard as it may be for some to believe, 20th and 25th anniversaries for major releases in the '90s keep occurring - and items are released in commemoration. Thus, Rhino has recently reissued Alanis Morissette's 1995 smash album Jagged Little Pill in a variety of iterations including a 2-CD version and a 4-CD Collector's Edition. When Morissette traveled
Release Round-Up: Week of November 13
It may be Friday the 13th, but today's choice releases are hardly scary, with box sets, archival releases, new music from veteran artists, and much, much more! Aretha Franklin, The Atlantic Albums Collection (Atlantic/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) This 19-CD box set brings together 16 of the Queen of Soul's Atlantic albums as previously released on CD including the deluxe 2-CD Live at Fillmore East, the 2-CD Rare & Unreleased Recordings From The Golden Reign Of The Queen Of
Hurt So Bad: 7a Records Rescues "The First Bobby Hart Solo Album" With Expanded CD Reissue
The 7a Records label made a big splash earlier this year with its first-ever release. The MGM Singles Collection brought together Micky Dolenz's rare MGM Records sides in a lavishly designed and annotated presentation that was a fan and collector's dream. Now, we're thrilled to report that the Monkees specialists at 7a are turning their attention to another key figure in Monkees lore with the first-ever CD release on December 7 of 1980's aptly-titled The First Bobby Hart Solo Album. There
More Than "Lies": Sundazed Collects The Knickerbockers' "Challenge Recordings" On New Box Set
"Eighty tracks from a band with exactly one hit single?" That's the question Sundazed Records is posing of its soon-to-be-released box set from The Knickerbockers. The hitmakers behind the British Invasion-esque "Lies" will be celebrated by Sundazed with the 4-CD, 80-track box The Challenge Recordings. It's due in stores this Friday, November 13. The Top 20 hit "Lies" - and seminal inclusion in the original Nuggets - is just one of the tracks on this collection. Brothers Beau and John
RPM Reissues Lost Album By David Bowie Favorite Tucker Zimmerman, Collects Australian "Dream Babes"
Today, we're turning the spotlight on two recent releases from Cherry Red's RPM Records imprint! When David Bowie placed Tucker Zimmerman's 1969 album Ten Songs by Tucker Zimmerman on a list of his 25 favorite albums - alongside acknowledged classics by The Velvet Underground, James Brown, Little Richard and even Steve Reich - readers of the 2003 list could have been forgiven for wondering, "Who is Tucker Zimmerman?" It's taken some time, but the RPM label has finally unearthed Ten Songs by
From A Distance: Bette Midler Looks Back With "A Gift of Love"
Fresh from the successes of both her Divine Intervention tour and the release of her fourteenth studio album, It's The Girls!, Bette Midler is back on December 4 with a new compilation from Rhino Records. A Gift of Love focuses on the romantic side of The Divine Miss M's repertoire, culling eighteen tracks from nine albums originally released on the Atlantic and Warner Bros. labels between 1976 and 2014. "Just Let Me Follow Behind," written by Utopia's Moogy Klingman, is the oldest track
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