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Release Round-Up: Week of January 20

January 20, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Jellyfish, Bellybutton and Spilt Milk (Omnivore) Bellybutton: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Spilt Milk: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Here are the deluxe editions that fans of the cult '90s pop revivalists have been waiting for!  A total of 51 bonus tracks are spread across these freshly-remastered reissues of Jellyfish's two studio albums.  Look for Joe's review later today! Universal Togetherness Band, Universal Togetherness Band (Numero Group) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) The Numero

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Jellyfish, King Crimson, Red Garland, Tony Bennett, Universal Togetherness Band

All This and World War II

January 19, 2015 By

All this and WWII

Culture Factory presents a limited edition mini-LP replica edition on CD of the soundtrack to the 1976 documentary film featuring an all-star array of musicians performing Beatles songs.  Previously available on CD from Hip-o Select, the double-disc album includes tracks by Elton John, Jeff Lynne, The Bee Gees, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Rod Stewart, Leo Sayer, Peter Gabriel and more!

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Soundtracks

Exposure: Deluxe Edition

January 17, 2015 By

Expose Exposure

1987's Exposure from the Freestyle dance-pop trio Exposé lived up to its title, with a total of seven singles lifted from the album including hits "Point of No Return," (US #5, 1987), "Come Go with Me" (US #5, 1987), "Let Me Be the One" (US # 7, 1987), and "Seasons Change" (US #1, 1987). With these hits, Exposé became the first female group ever to have four Top 10 singles from a debut album make the Billboard Hot 100. This 2-CD edition adds 19 bonus tracks to the original 10-song sequence -

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Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop

Sunshine Special: Now Sounds Collects "The Best of The GoldeBriars"

January 16, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

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Late in 1963, The GoldeBriars recorded “Sunshine Special,” the group’s adaptation of the traditional train song. Curt Boettcher – the male vocalist in the line-up and also its major creative leader – would later make sunshine a specialty; his shimmering California-pop productions for the likes of The Millennium, The Ballroom and Sagittarius have all gone on to attain cult status. There’s not much of that baroque psych-pop sound on Now Sounds’ Walkin’ Down the Line: The Best of The GoldeBriars

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Folk, Pop Tags: Curt Boettcher, The GoldeBriars

Varese Vintage Round-Up: Label Reissues Seals and Crofts, Danny Elfman, Bill Medley, More

January 15, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Seals and Crofts One on One

Today, we’re spotlighting a number of reissues you might have missed from the Varese Sarabande label which arrived in the final weeks of 2014! The 1977 coming-of-age drama One on One starred young Robby Benson as high school basketball star Henry, who must overcome obstacles – both romantic and academic – to get through his freshman year of college.  The score was provided by Charles Fox (“Happy Days,” “Ready to Take a Chance Again”) who also collaborated on a number of songs for the movie

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bill Medley, Brian Wilson, Danny Elfman, Malo, Mark-Almond, Paul Williams, Riot, Seals and Crofts, Shawn Phillips, Trevor Rabin

Real Gone's March Slate Boasts Peggy Lee, Perry Como, Foghat, J. Geils Band - and Second Disc Records, Too!

January 15, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Peggy Lee At Last

We hope that nobody missed yesterday’s big news of The Second Disc’s partnership with Real Gone Music to create Second Disc Records, launching March 10 with a pair of releases from Johnny Mathis and Bob Crewe!  But that’s not all that Real Gone has on tap for March release.   With a total of eight titles ranging from psychedelia to standards, this may be one of the label’s most eclectic release batches yet! Real Gone is kicking off the month on March 3 with two iconic classic rock albums on

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: Bettye LaVette, Bob Crewe, Foghat, Johnny Mathis, Peggy Lee, Perry Como, Shanti, The J. Geils Band

Second Disc Records Label Kicks Off in March with Johnny Mathis' "Complete Thom Bell Sessions," Bob Crewe's "Complete Elektra Recordings"

January 14, 2015 By Joe Marchese 15 Comments

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As The Second Disc enters its fifth year as your go-to destination for classic music news and reviews, we’re excited to share our biggest news yet: a partnership with one of our favorite labels, Real Gone Music, to create Second Disc Records! Since its founding in 2011, Real Gone has rescued music that might otherwise have languished in a dusty vault or relegated to digital download – music that lives up to the label’s name – in splendidly remastered and generously expanded editions. Real

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: Bob Crewe, Johnny Mathis

Dreams and Images

January 14, 2015 By

Arthur Dreams and Images

Originally issued on musical iconoclast Lee Hazlewood's LHI label in 1968, Dreams and Images is the first of two albums from the Melbourne, Florida-born singer/songwriter. A friend and contemporary of Lindsey Buckingham and Beach Boys collaborator Stephen John Kalinich, Arthur (Lee Harper) entered the studio with Hazlewood, Donnie Owens, Tom Thacker, and arranger/Wrecking Crew vet Don Randi to create this delicate, baroque-pop LP.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Pop

Best of Bread (Quadraphonic)

January 14, 2015 By

Best of Bread

Audio Fidelity continues its quadraphonic series with a 4.0 reissue of Bread's greatest-hits collection Best of Bread, featuring surround-sound versions of "Make It with You," "Everything I Own," "If," "It Don't Matter to Me" and more on hybrid SACD!  Original two-channel stereo mixes are present on the standard CD layer and in SACD stereo!

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Formats: SACD Genre: Pop

Living Years (Deluxe Edition)

January 13, 2015 By

Living Years

This Deluxe Edition of Mike + The Mechanics' 1988 album arrives in the U.S. with a second disc featuring "The Living Years 2014" and live tracks culled from the band's 1989 tour.

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop

Release Round-Up: Week of January 13

January 13, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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The Legacy Collection - Fantasia Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Walt Disney Records) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) This 4-CD presentation of Walt Disney's animated masterwork features both the Leopold Stokowski and Irwin Kostal recordings of the complete score, plus bonus material, in a deluxe hardbound format. Johnny Winter, Remembrance - Volume One (Friday Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. ) Friday Music celebrates the late, great Johnny Winter with this new set licensed from

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Soundtracks Tags: Elvis Costello, Johnny Winter, Neal Hefti, Woody Allen

The Cryan' Shames' "Sugar and Spice" Goes Mono In Now Sounds' Expanded Reissue

January 12, 2015 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

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When the venerable Goddard Lieberson, President of Columbia Records, announced the ascendancy of Clive Davis to a veep position at the label in 1965, the promotion of the younger man heralded for a new sound at Columbia. Lieberson had made Columbia the leader in the fields of classical and Broadway cast recordings, and was looking to position the label at the vanguard of rock, too. A number of new signings followed. Among those acts signed to the industry leader was The Cryan’ Shames, favorites

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: The Cryan' Shames

Blood, Sweat & Tears (Quadraphonic)

January 10, 2015 By

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Following its 5.1 presentation of BS&T's Al Kooper-helmed debut album, Audio Fidelity revisits the kickoff of the horn band's David Clayton-Thomas era!  This original 4.0 quad mix of the 1969 smash features "Spinning Wheel," "And When I Die" and "You've Made Me So Very Happy," all in vivid multichannel on hybrid SACD.

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Formats: SACD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

The Best of The Guess Who (Quadraphonic)

January 10, 2015 By

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Audio Fidelity premieres the 4.0 quadraphonic surround mix of The Guess Who's 1971 compilation album on hybrid SACD (meaning a stereo layer is playable on standard CD players) - featuring such songs as "These Eyes," "Laughing," "No Time," "Undun" and "American Woman."

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Formats: SACD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

Spilt Milk

January 10, 2015 By

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Bellybutton

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The Complete Columbia Singles

January 10, 2015 By

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The Original Albums 1967-1969

January 10, 2015 By

Box Tops Original Albums

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul

In the Wind/Are You Ready for This/New Image/What the World Needs Now is Love

January 10, 2015 By

Jackie In the Wind

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The Complete Elektra Recordings

January 7, 2015 By

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What do "Can't Take My Eyes Off You," "Jenny, Take a Ride" and "Lady Marmalade" all have in common? Each one of those songs came from the pen from Bob Crewe. A songwriter, producer, singer, entrepreneur, artist and candidate for the title of "Fifth Season," Crewe was one of music's true renaissance men. With Bob Gaudio, he co-wrote and produced most of the Four Seasons' greatest hits, and he also guided the careers of Mitch Ryder and the Detroit Wheels, Oliver, and many others. Yet one period of

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop

Reviews: Two From Omnivore - Big Star, "Live in Memphis" and Roger Taylor, "The Best"

January 7, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

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Welcome to Part One of our two-part review round-up featuring some of Omnivore Recordings’ releases from late 2014! Just when one thinks the Big Star well has run dry, Omnivore Recordings surprises with a treat of the magnitude of Live in Memphis (OVCD-107). On October 29, 1994 at Memphis’ New Daisy Theatre, Big Star founding members Alex Chilton and Jody Stephens, were joined by Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow of The Posies for an overflowing set of Big Star classics and covers in front of an

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Big Star, Queen, Roger Taylor

Johnny Mathis' "Magic" Conjured By Funky Town Grooves On New Reissues

January 6, 2015 By Joe Marchese 8 Comments

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Funky Town Grooves is kicking off January with some magic...some Mathis magic, to be precise.  The label is tapping three albums from legendary vocalist Johnny Mathis for CD release, one of which will be making its debut in the format. On January 27, FTG will reissue 1978's You Light Up My Life and 1979's new-to-CD Mathis Magic on one two-for-one disc, while 1979's The Best Days of My Life will receive standalone release as an expanded edition. You Light Up My Life was the prolific artist's

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Johnny Mathis

Just Don't Want To Be Lonely: SoulMusic Reissues, Expands Ronnie Dyson's Debut

January 6, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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SoulMusic Records has certainly shown a lot of love for Ronnie Dyson (1950-1990) this year. Following its U.S. release in conjunction with Real Gone Music of the late soul man's two final albums for Cotillion Records, the label is turning back the clock to Dyson's very first recordings for Columbia Records. Lady In Red: The Columbia Sides Plus, from SoulMusic and the U.K.'s Cherry Red Group, is in actuality an expanded edition of Dyson's 1970 debut album (If You Let Me Make Love to You Then) Why

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Ronnie Dyson

The Year In Reissues: The 2014 Gold Bonus Disc Awards

December 30, 2014 By Joe Marchese 10 Comments

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Welcome to The Second Disc’s Fifth Annual Gold Bonus Disc Awards! As with every year’s awards, our goals are simple: to recognize as many of the year’s most essential reissues and catalogue titles as possible, and to celebrate as many of those labels, producers and artists who make these releases happen in an increasingly-challenging retail landscape.  The labels you’ll read about below have, by and large, bucked the trends to prove that there’s still a demand for physical catalogue music

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Al Kooper, Billy Joel, Blood Sweat & Tears, Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry, Dimitri Tiomkin, Donna Loren, Frank Sinatra, Pugwash, Salsoul Orchestra, Tony Hatch

Release Round-Up: Weeks of December 23 and December 30

December 23, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Well, these are incredibly light weeks for new releases! Thankfully, the Kritzerland and Audio Fidelity labels have stepped up with a quartet of titles to close out 2014 on a high note! Cy Coleman, John Kander, Harvey Schmidt and Charles Strouse, Classical Broadway (Kritzerland) (available for pre-order now) Kritzerland remasters this 1992 album (originally released on the Bay Cities label) featuring classical compositions from four of Broadway's most legendary composers including Cy

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: CD, SACD Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, Soundtracks Tags: Blood Sweat & Tears, Charles Strouse, Cy Coleman, Harvey Schmidt, John Kander, Patrick Williams, The Guess Who

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