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Release Round-Up: Week of July 24

July 24, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Doobie Brothers Warner Years

Today's Release Round-Up features an array of high-resolution music, plus box sets, vintage reissues, live albums and more! Roger Waters, Amused to Death (Remixed Editions) (Columbia/Legacy) Roger Waters revisits his 1992 album Amused to Death, featuring contributions from Don Henley, Rita Coolidge, P.P. Arnold, Andy Fairweather Low and Michael Kamen, in a variety of formats featuring new stereo and 5.1 surround mixes.  Read our full coverage here. CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Joe Walsh, Roger Waters, The Doobie Brothers, The Knack, The Rolling Stones, Todd Rundgren, Utopia, Various Artists

Let's Hang On! Real Gone Has Four Seasons, Texas Tornados, More in September

July 21, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Four Seasons Sherry

We've already told you about the two September releases from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music - Wilson Pickett's The Complete RCA Studio Recordings and an expanded edition of Ricci Martin's all-star California rock classic Beached - but we know that you're going to be just as excited about the entire action-packed Real Gone slate! For starters, it's a line-up that's always in season - with new deluxe mono mini-sleeve editions of The 4 Seasons' first two albums for the first time ever

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Everything Else, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Doug Sahm, Eydie Gorme, Flaco Jiménez, The Four Seasons, The Texas Tornados

Beached (Expanded Edition)

July 21, 2015 By

Ricci Martin Beached

What if key members of The Beach Boys, Chicago, America, and Wings had teamed up to create one of the greatest California rock albums you've never heard?  Well, they actually did!   Singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, author and director Ricci Martin, the sixth child of legendary "King of Cool" Dean Martin (and younger brother of Dino, Desi and Billy's Dean-Paul Martin!), got a little help from his friends to craft 1977's Epic Records release Beached.   We're bringing Beached, produced by

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop

Catch a Wave! Second Disc Records Expands Ricci Martin's All-Star "Beached" Featuring Carl Wilson, Dennis Wilson, Chicago Horns and More

July 21, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Ricci Martin Beached

What if key members of The Beach Boys, Chicago, America, and Wings had teamed up to create one of the greatest California rock albums you've never heard?  Well, they actually did!  And on September 11, Second Disc Records, in association with Real Gone Music, will be bringing it to CD in the U.S. for the very first time in a newly-remastered and expanded edition! Singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, author and director Ricci Martin, the sixth child of legendary "King of Cool" Dean Martin

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: America, Billy Hinsche, Carl Wilson, Chicago, Dennis Wilson, Ricci Martin, The Beach Boys

Take On Me: a-ha's "Hunting High and Low" Goes Super Deluxe With New Box Set

July 17, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

a ha hunting2

If you set your Wayback Machine to February 1, 2010, you'll find one of The Second Disc's earliest posts - the inaugural Reissue Theory column, dedicated to imagining a 25th anniversary multi-disc edition of a-ha's 1985 debut studio album Hunting High and Low. Well, good things do come to those who wait, because Warner Bros. and Rhino are finally delivering on such a project with the album's upcoming 30th anniversary box set! With 4 CDs and a DVD, this handily bests the 2010 double-CD edition.

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Pop Tags: a-ha

Release Round-Up: Week of July 17

July 17, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up featuring classic rock, soul and jazz box sets and more! Sly and the Family Stone, Live at the Fillmore East: October 4th and 5th, 1968 (Epic/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Dance to the music!  On October 4th and 5th, 1968, shortly after the release of the band's third album Life, Sly & The Family Stone took the stage for a two-night, four-show engagement at Bill Graham's Fillmore East in New York City.  Epic Records recorded all four of

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, SACD Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: America, B.B. King, Eric Clapton, Miles Davis, Sly and the Family Stone, The Continental Drifters

Satisfy Your Soul: RPM Collects Rare Rock and Soul from Larry's Rebels and Ronnie Jones

July 16, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Larrys Rebels

RPM Records, an imprint of the Cherry Red Group, continues to delve deep into the vaults for another pair of rare rock-and-roll releases. Larry's Rebels has long been a beloved band to fans in the group's native New Zealand; with RPM's release of I Feel Good: The Essential Purple Flashes of Larry's Rebels 1965-1969, the rest of the world can get hip to the Rebels, too!  Active for a rough five-year period during which time the band, like so many others, endured personnel changes, Larry's

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Larry's Rebels, Ronnie Jones

Bookends: Simon and Garfunkel Reissue "The Concert in Central Park" On CD/DVD, Collect Studio Albums on Vinyl

July 15, 2015 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Simon and Garfunkel Concert in Central Park

Legacy Recordings is seeing that the only sound isn't silence with the release this summer of two new projects from Simon and Garfunkel.   In less than a month, on August 7, the label will issue Simon & Garfunkel - The Complete Columbia Albums Collection, a six-album, newly-remastered set featuring each one of the duo's studio albums plus Greatest Hits, all pressed on 180-gram vinyl.  The box will be joined by a new, remastered CD/DVD reissue of The Concert in Central Park, as

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Art Garfunkel, Paul Simon, Simon and Garfunkel

Release Round-Up: Week of July 10

July 10, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Chicago Box Set 2

Welcome to today's Release Round-Up for the first international Friday release date!   Like you, we're still adjusting to the switch from Monday in the U.K./Tuesday in the U.S. to a worldwide Friday date.  Please sound off in the comments below on whether you would like to see us run this longtime feature each Friday, or earlier in the week (so that you may plan ahead for Release Day)! The Hollies, Changin' Times: The Complete Hollies, January '69 - March '73 (Parlophone) (Amazon U.S. /

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Soundtracks Tags: Chicago, Jane Morgan, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Randy Newman, Shirley Bassey, Tennessee Ernie Ford, The Hollies, The King Brothers, The Rolling Stones, Van Halen

Review: Ronny and the Daytonas, "The Complete Recordings"

July 9, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Complete Ronny and the Daytonas

The sound was surf-rock, but the pedigree was pure Nashville.  Ronny and the Daytonas burst onto the scene in 1964 with the rip-roaring California-style car tune "G.T.O.," scoring a Top 5 hit on both the Billboard and Cash Box charts.  The group - in actuality, singer-songwriter John "Buck" Wilkin and a rotating cast of Music City's finest - recorded a couple of albums and notched other hits, most notably 1965's dreamy "Sandy," through 1966 on the Mala label before moving to RCA for a stint

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Bucky Wilkin, Ronny and the Daytonas

Making Their Mind Up: Cherry Pop Expands Bucks Fizz's Four RCA Albums

July 8, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Bucks Fizz

Bucks Fizz burst onto the pop scene in 1981, winning the Eurovision Pop Contest for Great Britain with "Making Your Mind Up."  The well, fizzy, infectious track had more than a slight ABBA flavor to it, with the group paying homage to their fellow Eurovision winners.  Between 1981 and 1986, five English-language albums were released by Bucks Fizz, the first four of which featured the original quartet of Bobby G, Jay Aston, Cheryl Baker and Mike Nolan.  Following the 2014 release of the Remixes

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Bucks Fizz

Tomb of Memories: The CBS Years 1982-1994

July 7, 2015 By

Paul Young Tomb of Memories

This new 4-CD, 64-song box set tracks the career of Paul Young at CBS Records including big hits, rarities, and previously unreleased tracks.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download Genre: Pop

The CD Singles 1986-2014

July 7, 2015 By

Belinda Carlisle CD Singles

Edsel's new 29-CD box set collects the songs and edits released in the U.S. and U.K. as CD singles across Belinda Carlisle's entire solo recording career for IRS, Virgin, Chrysalis and, most recently, UMe.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop

Can't Get It Out Of My Head: Jeff Lynne and ELO's 2014 Hyde Park Concert Gets Fall Release

July 6, 2015 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

ELO Hyde Park

Last September, 50,000 lucky spectators bore witness to Jeff Lynne's return to the concert stage when the Electric Light Orchestra frontman took the stage at London's Hyde Park for the most eagerly-anticipated performance of BBC Radio 2's Festival in a Day.  Now, Lynne's performance - backed by his band (including ELO's Richard Tandy) and the BBC Concert Orchestra - is coming to DVD, Blu-ray and digital formats.  On September 11, Eagle Rock Entertainment will release Live in Hyde Park preserving

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Digital Download, DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Electric Light Orchestra, Jeff Lynne

Heaven Is a Place on Earth: Edsel to Release Belinda Carlisle Singles Box Set

July 3, 2015 By Randy Fairman 2 Comments

Belinda Carlisle CD Singles

Following a series of deluxe reissues and a career-spanning box set, Edsel is once again turning to the catalogue of Belinda Carlisle.  A new 29-CD box set has just been announced which collects the songs and edits released in the U.S. and U.K. across her entire solo recording career for IRS, Virgin, Chrysalis and up to the new song from her UMe Icon entry.  Belinda Carlisle: The CD Singles 1986-2014 is due to be released on August 21, 2015. The California-born Carlisle rose to fame as the

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop Tags: Belinda Carlisle, The Go-Go's

Live at The Fillmore East: October 4th and 5th, 1968

July 2, 2015 By

Dance to the music!  On October 4th and 5th, 1968, shortly after the release of the band's third album Life, Sly & The Family Stone took the stage for a two-night, four-show engagement at Bill Graham's Fillmore East in New York City.  Epic Records recorded all four of the band's concerts (two shows per night) with plans to release a live album.  This new box includes all four sets with the group at its funkiest and most exciting!

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul

Live From The Rock 'n' Roll Fun House

July 2, 2015 By

The Knack Rock n Roll Funhouse

Omnivore's latest reissue from power-pop heroes The Knack is the band's first official live album, from 2002. The "soundtrack" to a performance on an imaginary 1960s television special, Live at the Rock 'n' Roll Fun House has been remastered and expanded, and also boasts new artwork and liner notes.  With the addition of two tracks recorded for the original CD/DVD, but never issued until now (Normal As The Next Guy's "It's Not Me" and "Seven Days Of Heaven)," Fun House now represents material

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Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Pop, Rock

The MGM Singles Collection

July 2, 2015 By

Micky Dolenz MGM

U.K. label 7A Records offers the first-ever reissue of Micky Dolenz's complete MGM singles (including "Daybreak," written, arranged and conducted by Harry Nilsson) - now on CD, following a successful vinyl release last year!

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop

I'm A Believer: Micky Dolenz's Rare MGM Singles Arriving On Deluxe Reissue

July 2, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Micky Dolenz MGM

7A Records sure isn't Monkee-ing around with its first release! On July 13, the newly-formed label - a labor of love for BBC radio and television presenter Iain Lee - will release Micky Dolenz's The MGM Singles Collection on vinyl.  This collection reissues for the first time all ten single sides released between 1971 and 1974 by Dolenz on the MGM, Lion and Romar labels.  That Lee and his partner at 7A are Monkees fans is an understatement; even the label's name is derived from the studio

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Micky Dolenz, The Monkees

No Parlez: Four Discs of Paul Young Collected On New Rarities-Packed Box Set "Tomb of Memories"

July 1, 2015 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Paul Young Tomb of Memories

Sony Music U.K. is unearthing a Tomb of Memories - but this isn't a dusty tomb but rather one filled with the vital, vibrant sound of eighties hitmaker Paul Young.  Over 4 CDs and 64 tracks, this new box set subtitled The CBS Years will present an overview of Young's tenure with CBS and Columbia Records including new-to-CD tracks and previously unreleased alternate mixes, outtakes, demos and more. Between 1983 and 1993, Paul Young released five albums on Columbia.  His solo debut (also his

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The Muffs

June 30, 2015 By

The Muffs

Omnivore resurrects the Warner Bros. debut of nineties power-pop/punk favorites The Muffs, produced by David Katznelson and Rob Cavallo.  This expanded reissue contains the original album, and adds 10 bonus tracks: a radio remix of "Lucky Guy," a version of "Everywhere I Go" which was only available on the cassette of The Muffs album, and 8 previously unissued demos from the band's vocalist and lead guitarist Kim Shattuck, who stepped into the shoes of Kim Deal on the Pixies' 2013 tour!

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Rock

They've Got the Music in Them: Edsel Expands Kiki Dee and Carmelo Luggeri's "A Place" With Unreleased Songs

June 30, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Kiki and Carmelo A Place

If you're a fan of Kiki Dee, rest assured that Edsel won't be breaking your heart any time soon.  The Demon Music Group label has recently followed its series of Kiki's Rocket albums with a deluxe, expanded edition of her most recent release: 2013's collaboration with singer/songwriter/guitarist Carmelo Luggeri, A Place Where I Can Go.  The original 11-track album has been expanded with an entire second disc of previously unreleased bonus material. Kiki Dee first joined in performance with

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Pop Tags: Carmelo Luggeri, Kiki Dee

Release Round-Up: Week of June 30

June 30, 2015 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Private Dancer 30th

Welcome to our final Tuesday Release Round-Up - and it's a doozy!  As many of you know, the record industry will next week adopt a universal Friday release day.  No releases are scheduled for Tuesday, July 7; instead, Friday, July 10 is the date!  DVDs and Blu-rays will, for the foreseeable future, remain released on Tuesdays.  We'll resume with a new Release Round-Up on Friday, July 10! Ronny and the Daytonas, The Complete Recordings (2-CD Set) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) / The

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, DVD, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: 311, Brian Wilson, Dean Martin, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Fanny, Grateful Dead, Harry Chapin, Janis Ian, KC and the Sunshine Band, Nancy Wilson, Neil Young, Pete Townshend, Ronny and the Daytonas, Tavares, The Fantastic Four, The Lovin' Spoonful, The Who, Tina Turner

The Pieces Fit: Omnivore Reissues Three From Peter Frampton

June 29, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Peter Frampton Premonition

Following the label's deluxe, expanded box set edition of Humble Pie's legendary Rockin' the Fillmore, Peter Frampton is returning to Omnivore Recordings - this time as a solo artist.  Frampton is coming alive once again via remastered reissues of 1986's Premonition, 1989's When All the Pieces Fit, and 2003's Now.  All three titles are due from Omnivore between August 28 and September 11. Premonition returned Frampton to the Billboard charts and the airwaves after the disappointment of his

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Peter Frampton

Today My Way/Nancy, Naturally

June 26, 2015 By

Nancy Wilson Today My Way and Naturally

SoulMusic.com and its new partner, Caroline Records, present two mono Nancy Wilson LPs on one CD: 1965's Today My Way and 1966's Nancy, Naturally!  Songs include "Reach Out for Me," "You've Lost That Lovin' Feelin'," "Dear Heart," and "Since I Fell for You."

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal

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