The music of Van Morrison is returning to CD - and about to make a splash on digital platforms, as well. Rolling Stone broke the news today that Sony Music's Legacy Recordings has recently acquired the rights to 50 albums, videos and compilations from the venerable Northern Irish troubadour. The vast majority of Morrison's albums have been out-of-print on CD since the plug was abruptly pulled on a U.K. series of remastered and expanded editions. Legacy's very welcome campaign kicks off this
You Oughta Know: Rhino Celebrates 20th Anniversary of Alanis Morissette's "Jagged Little Pill" with 4-CD Box
This October, Rhino is celebrating one of the biggest albums of the 1990s: Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill. To commemorate the album's 20th anniversary, a newly remastered 4-CD Collector's Edition and 2-CD Deluxe edition will be released on October 30. Alanis Morissette's first two albums did not indicate the direction her music would take for her biggest smash record. Released on MCA in her native Canada, 1991's Alanis and 1992's Now is the Time had critics comparing her to Debbie
EXCLUSIVE! It's Yesterday Once More: Carpenters "Complete Singles" Released For Public Television
On November 5, 1969, the very first single by Carpenters was released on A&M Records. "Ticket to Ride" b/w "Your Wonderful Parade" announced the fresh talents of Richard Carpenter, 23, and Karen Carpenter, 19. The dramatically reinterpreted Beatles song introduced radio to Karen's richly intimate voice, and the bitingly ironic flipside heralded the songwriting team of Richard Carpenter and John Bettis - while both sides revealed Richard's prodigious gifts for arrangement
The Essential Van Morrison
Fresh off his RCA Duets album, Van Morrison comes to RCA sister imprint Legacy Recordings for a volume of the label's Essential series. The Essential Van Morrison features 37 songs from the troubadour including favorites like "Moondance," "Brown Eyed Girl," "Jackie Wilson Said," and many tracks currently out-of-print: CD 1 1. Gloria - Them 2. Here Comes The Night - Them 3. Spanish Rose 4. Brown Eyed Girl 5. Astral Weeks 6. The Way Young Lovers Do 7. Moondance 8. Crazy Love 9. And
Lotta Love: Varese Collects "The Very Best of Nicolette Larson" - AND YOU CAN WIN!
Today, Varese Vintage releases Lotta Love: The Very Best of Nicolette Larson, celebrating the life and career of the silken-voiced pop singer who died at the tragically young age of 45 in 1997. This 16-track anthology, culled from her years with Warner Bros. Records and featuring duets with Emmylou Harris, Steve Goodman and Michael McDonald, is a welcome reminder of Larson's versatile gifts in the genres of pop, country and folk - and we would like to give you a chance to WIN ONE OF TEN COPIES
Release Round-Up: Week of August 21
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, packed with box sets, reissues, special collections, and more! The Isley Brothers, The RCA Victor and T-Neck Album Masters (Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Legacy has boxed up 23 discs of The Isley Brothers - featuring every one of the group's RCA and T-Neck albums released between 1959 and 1983, including one previously unreleased album and a total of 84 previously unissued or new-to-CD bonus tracks! Every track has been newly-remastered
Now That Everything's Been Said
The classic album from Carole King's band The City returns in a newly-remastered edition to CD and vinyl. Features "Now That Everything's Been Said," "Snow Queen," "Wasn't Born to Follow," "A Man Without a Dream," "That Old Sweet Roll" and many other King classics.
Those Old Sweet Rolls: Light In The Attic Reissues Carole King's "The City," Spooner Oldham, Lee Hazlewood's Kitchen Cinq
An upcoming trio of releases from Light in the Attic turns the label's spotlight on two of popular song's most enduring writers and one maverick producer/label impresario (who also happened to be one heckuva songwriter!) - namely Carole King, Spooner Oldham, and Lee Hazlewood. LITA is bringing King's one remarkable album with her band The City back to CD and LP, and premiering on official CD and vinyl a reissue of Oldham's 1972 solo LP Pot Luck. Then the label continues to dig deep into the
Christmas Joy: Real Gone Kicks off the Holidays with Four Seasons and More in October
It may be hard to believe, but the holiday season will be here sooner than we think! To prove that point, Real Gone Music is getting Christmas started early with its October slate of releases featuring five yuletide gems along with three titles good for year-round enjoyment. This batch of Christmas classics kicks off with the 4 Seasons' The 4 Seasons Greetings, continuing Real Gone's series of mono Seasons reissues which began in September. Next, you've got holiday tunes from crooner and
Release Round-Up: Week of August 14
Welcome to New Release Friday! Lesley Gore, Someplace Else Now (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Someplace Else Now marked Lesley Gore's first full immersion into the world of the singer-songwriter. She penned every one of the twelve tracks on this 1972 album for MoWest Records, writing solo and with lyricists Ellen Weston and her brother Michael Gore. Joe Porter (Gladys Knight and the Pips, Thelma Houston) supplied the passionate production. Lesley's lost Motown gem - a
Can't Help Falling In Love: Elvis Goes Orchestral On "If I Can Dream"
In advance of this Friday's Legacy Edition reissue of Elvis Presley's 1975 studio album Today, RCA and Legacy have announced another project to celebrate The King's 80th birthday. If I Can Dream: Elvis Presley with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is a new, 14-song collection due on October 30 featuring the artist's iconic vocal performances accompanied by newly-created orchestral backings. Presley performances between 1956 and 1973 have been melded with new orchestral tracks recorded at
Review: Simon and Garfunkel, "The Complete Columbia Albums Collection" and "The Concert in Central Park"
When Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel took the stage on April 24, 2010 at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, it's doubtful that many in the audience knew they were witnessing the end of one chapter in the story of Simon & Garfunkel. That concert marked the final time that the famous duo have performed together to date, but over five years later, the specter of Simon & Garfunkel still looms large over both men. It's no surprise; the question of a reunion cropped up almost
Release Round-Up: Week of August 7
Welcome to another New Release Friday, and today's Release Round-Up! Dusty Springfield, Come for a Dream: The U.K. Sessions 1970-1971 (Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Earlier this year, Real Gone released Faithful - a collection of Dusty Springfield's complete sessions with producer-songwriter Jeff Barry, compiled for the first time as originally envisioned on one disc. Now, the label has turned its attention to Dusty's 1970-1971 London sessions intended for the album See All
Elvis Today: Legacy Edition
Legacy Recordings and RCA continue their series of Legacy Edition expansions of The King's classic catalogue with this 2-CD remaster of 1975's Today. This 40th anniversary release contains the original album featuring the hit single "T-R-O-U-B-L-E" and 10 undubbed session mixes previously only available via the Follow That Dream collectors' label. Disc 2 features live performances recorded within weeks of the album's release. Previously issued in 1980, this reconstructed concert has been
The Singles
Columbia and Legacy have rounded up Johnny Mathis' non-LP single releases and compilation-exclusive tracks for this new 4-CD box set celebrating the legendary entertainer's 80th birthday. 31 of its 87 tracks are new to CD.
The Complete Columbia Albums Collection
This box set includes freshly remastered 180-gram heavyweight vinyl replica reissues of: Wednesday Morning, 3.A.M. (originally released October 19, 1964, Columbia Records) Sounds Of Silence (originally released January 17, 1966, Columbia Records) Parsley, Sage, Rosemary & Thyme (originally released October 10, 1966, Columbia Records) Bookends (originally released April 3, 1968, Columbia Records) Bridge Over Troubled Water (originally released January 26, 1970, Columbia
The Concert In Central Park
Simon and Garfunkel's now-legendary reunion concert of September 19, 1981 at New York's Central Park has been newly-remastered for release on 180-gram vinyl and as part of a CD/DVD set.
Just One Look: Classic Linda Ronstadt
Rhino collects 30 hits and album tracks from Linda Ronstadt on this newly-remastered 2-CD set.
Get Closer: Two Discs of Linda Ronstadt Collected on "Just One Look"
Roughly one year following the release of Starbucks' Opus Collection anthology, Rhino has announced a new compilation celebrating the resplendent voice of Linda Ronstadt. Just One Look - Classic Linda Ronstadt is due from the label on August 21, featuring 30 newly-remastered tracks on two CDs. The chronologically-assembled collection begins with Michael Nesmith's timeless "Different Drum" as performed by The Stone Poneys featuring Linda, then jumps forward to the 1973 solo album Don't Cry
Review: Various Artists, "Here Today! The Songs of Brian Wilson"
The title of Ace Records' recent collection is Here Today! The Songs of Brian Wilson, after one of those famous Wilson songs off The Beach Boys' 1966 Pet Sounds. But the fact of the matter is - as this enjoyably diverse set proves over the course of its 25 tracks - Brian Wilson's music is not only here today, but will be here for many tomorrows. Unlike Ace's 2003 volume Pet Projects: The Brian Wilson Productions, this anthology concentrates on Brian as songwriter. But there are a couple of
In Memoriam: Cilla Black (1943-2015)
We're deeply saddened at the news of the passing of Cilla Black, 72. Throughout the course of a recording career spanning five decades, the Liverpool-born artist lent her distinctive sound and big voice to songs by The Beatles ("Love of the Loved," "It's for You," Step Inside Love"), Burt Bacharach and Hal David ("Alfie," "Anyone Who Had a Heart"), Randy Newman ("I've Been Wrong Before") and the greatest songwriters of her era. Also beloved in the United Kingdom as a television presenter on
Together In Perfect Harmony: Paul McCartney's "Tug of War" and "Pipes Of Peace" Join Archive Collection
At last, we can say, say, say it's true: the next two volumes of the Paul McCartney Archive Collection are on their way for October 2 release in a variety of formats. Macca's second and third albums of the 1980s, the platinum sellers Tug of War and Pipes of Peace, will arrive from Concord Records and MPL with the expected array of bonus material, highlighted by a complete 2015 remix of Tug of War. 1982's Tug of War marked McCartney's first album following the breakup of Wings. It followed
Cherry Red's él Label Revisits John Wayne Westerns, Brazil's Elis Regina
Cherry Red's él label continues to trawl through the annals of musical nostalgia for a recent pair of releases spotlighting a legendary team of actor and director, and a Brazilian music queen. John Ford/John Wayne: Western Classics celebrates the partnership between director Ford and star Wayne that survived, personally and professionally, for 50 years. Ford was already an established, successful director when he first met USC student Marion Morrison, at the time working a summer job at 20th
Chances Are: Legacy Celebrates Johnny Mathis' 80th With New Singles Box Set
Here at Second Disc HQ, the music of Johnny Mathis is, needless to say, very special to us. Johnny inaugurated our Second Disc Records label with the release of Life is a Song Worth Singing: The Complete Thom Bell Sessions. Now, we're thrilled to announce that our friends at Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings are collecting four discs' worth of Mathis Magic on a new box set. On September 25, Columbia and Legacy will celebrate Mr. Mathis turning 80 years young with the release of Johnny
Omnivore's Got The Knack! Three Reissues, Reviewed
"Pop is dead, bring a shovel!" So proclaimed The Knack in the acerbic lyric to the opening track of 1998's "comeback" album Zoom. Of course, the song proved otherwise, as the years between 1991's Serious Fun and Zoom had been kind to the band, a.k.a. Doug Fieger (lead vocals/rhythm guitar), Prescott Niles (bass) and Berton Averre (lead guitar/keyboards/vocals). Omnivore Recordings has recently reissued Zoom and its follow-up, Normal as the Next Guy, along with 2001's Live from
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