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Unattended Luggage

June 21, 2018 by Joe Marchese

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Pink Floyd founding member Nick Mason’s three solo albums are rounded up in one CD or vinyl box set as Unattended Luggage. The 3-LP or 3-CD set includes Nick Mason’s Fictitious Sports (1981), Profiles (1985), and White of the Eye (1987), with the latter making its CD debut. All three albums will also be available as digital downloads and for streaming.

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Varese Unveils First CD Club Batch of 40th Anniversary Year with Williams, Goldsmith Expansions

June 19, 2018 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

40 years ago, Varese Sarabande Records launched with the soundtrack to writer-director Bruce Kimmel’s The First Nudie Musical. Today, the label (recently acquired by Concord Music Group) continues to serve the soundtrack community with an impressive array of releases from both past and present. Its limited edition CD club has recently announced its first four titles marking the company’s 40th anniversary. First up is John Williams‘ 1972 score to director Mark Rydell’s The Cowboys. The John Wayne vehicle gave Williams an opportunity to compose a rousing, melodic adventure score including a subsequent…

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David Newman, Georges Delerue, Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams

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I Can’t Give You Anything But Love 1938-1961

June 14, 2018 by Joe Marchese

This new collection from Jasmine presents 24 songs examining love from all angles as only Judy Garland could have performed them. I Can’t Give You Anything But Love has been assembled by Garland scholar Lawrence Schulman, and includes a live rendition of Jerome Kern and Oscar Hammerstein II’s heart-rending “Why Was I Born?” from 1946 which is new to CD.

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In The Pink: Warner to Reissue Nick Mason’s Three Solo Albums in New Box Set

June 12, 2018 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

Nick Mason, drummer and founding member of Pink Floyd, is the only member of that band to have performed on every one of their albums and all of their live concerts. But he’s still found time over the years to release a handful of solo projects. On August 31, his three solo albums – Nick Mason’s Fictitious Sports, Profiles, and White of the Eye – will be reissued in both CD and vinyl boxed sets through Warner Music Group as Unattended Luggage. These limited edition boxes will arrive just before Mason takes…

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Carla Bley, Nick Mason, Pink Floyd, Rick Fenn

Give ‘Em The Old Razzle-Dazzle: Real Gone To Reissue “Chicago” Soundtrack on Vinyl in July

June 11, 2018 by Randy Fairman | 1 Comment

We have told you about the nearly all of Real Gone’s titles for this July, including Second Disc Records’ compilation of Bobby Darin’s unreleased Motown recordings. Now, Real Gone has just announced the final reissue on their July slate: the first-ever vinyl reissue of the original soundtrack to 2002’s Academy Award-winning musical Chicago, due July 13. The musical Chicago originally opened on Broadway on June 3, 1975 and is based upon the 1926 play of the same name written by reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins. It revolves around Roxie Hart, on trial for…

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Catherine Zeta-Jones, Kander and Ebb, Queen Latifah

Release Round-Up: Week of June 8

June 8, 2018 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Johnny Mathis, Close to You/Love Story: Expanded Edition (Second Disc/Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music continue their journey through Johnny Mathis’ seventies catalogue with this expanded, remastered two-fer of Mathis’ 1970 and 1971 albums. Close to You finds the singer reinterpreting hits by Bacharach and David, Antonio Carlos Jobim, The Beatles, and even Santana, while Love Story has songs from Goffin and King, Paul Williams, and Henry Mancini. Three bonus tracks round out this 1-CD…

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Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Black Sabbath, David Bowie, Davy Jones, Dennis Coffey, Eric Clapton, Johnny Mathis, Keely Smith, Mick Ronson, Paul Simon, Simon and Garfunkel, The Beach Boys, Violent Femmes

Release Round-Up: Week of June 1

June 1, 2018 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Michelle Phillips, Victim of Romance: Expanded Edition (Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) “Mama” Michelle Phillips’ 1977 solo album, produced by Jack Nitzsche, returns to CD in a new expanded edition collecting the artist’s complete sessions with Nitzsche. It adds three outtakes from the album sessions, including a Bee Gees cover (“Had a Lot of Love Last Night”), Dennis Lambert and Fil Spina’s “Practice What You Preach,” and Michelle’s own, tropically-flavored “Guerita.” These three songs were not featured on previous reissues of the album. …

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Alan Silvestri, Cheap Trick, Cowboy, Def Leppard, Emmylou Harris, Jethro Tull, Keely Smith, Living Colour, Michelle Phillips, Paul Simon, Roger Daltrey, The Mamas and The Papas, The Quick, The Temptations, Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, ZZ Top

Stage and Screen Short Takes: Kritzerland Reissues Ann-Margret’s “Dames,” Porter, Monk Revues and More; Stage Door Celebrates “Redhead”

May 10, 2018 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

The Kritzerland label has announced a quartet of new releases, including two cast recordings and one film soundtrack. The 1968 off-Broadway production of George Haimsohn, Robin Miller, and Jim Wise’s Dames at Sea (a major breakthrough for Bernadette Peters) not only spawned countless productions worldwide, but in 1971, was adapted into a television special. The NBC-TV Bell System Family Theatre broadcast on November 15, co-produced and co-directed by Martin Charnin, boasted an all-star cast including Ann-Margret, Ann Miller, Anne Meara, Fred Gwynne (The Munsters), Harvey Evans (Broadway’s Follies) and Dick Shawn (The…

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Ann Miller, Ann-Margret, Anne Meara, Cole Porter, George Duning, Placido Domingo

Soundtrack Watch: La-La Land Debuts ‘Alien 3,’ Breaks Out ‘Superman IV’

May 9, 2018 by Randy Fairman | 3 Comments

Over the past couple of days, La-La Land Records has released a pair of 2-CD soundtrack limited edition sets for two entries in sci-fi/superhero franchises which began in the 1970s: Superman IV: The Quest for Peace and Alien 3. Released in 1987, Superman IV marked the final time Christopher Reeve would step into the Man of Steel’s iconic red and blue costume. Directed by Sidney J. Furie (Lady Sings the Blues, Iron Eagle), the film centered around Superman’s efforts to curtail the nuclear arms races. At the same time, Lex Luthor (portrayed…

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Alexander Courage, Elliot Goldenthal, John Williams

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Not Fading Away: Real Gone Reissuing Allman-Related Cowboy, Live Grateful Dead, and “Predator” in June

April 30, 2018 by Randy Fairman | 1 Comment

We’ve told you about some of Real Gone’s June releases earlier and now we’ve got the news of more items on the slate for that month including CD reissues from Cowboy, the Grateful Dead and a vinyl reissue of the Predator soundtrack, all due June 1. Back in 2014, Real Gone reissued the first two albums by the band Cowboy: 1970’s Reach For The Sky and 1971’s 5’ll Getcha Ten. Now, they are completing the group’s Capricorn output by releasing their final two album for the label: 1974’s Boyer & Talton and…

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Alan Silvestri, Cowboy, Grateful Dead

Since Disney bought Lucasfilm back in 2012, there has been a steady stream of new Star Wars material for fans to explore that galaxy far, far, away. A couple of weeks ago, the animated television series Star Wars: Rebels wrapped up its four-season run. Tomorrow sees the release of The Last Jedi, the latest film in the famous saga, on DVD and Blu-ray. On May 25, the second “anthology film,” Solo: A Star Wars Story will be released. Next year, the Star Wars: Galaxy’s Edge areas are to open at Disneyland and…

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John Williams

Record Store Day 2018: The Best of the Rest

March 12, 2018 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

We’ve already filled you in on the upcoming Record Store Day releases from Legacy Recordings, Rhino, and Real Gone Music, but there’s still much more on offer from many of our other favorite labels! Here’s a selection of “the best of the rest” to be released in brick-and-mortar independent record stores on Saturday, April 21! ABBA, Summer Night City (Polydor) (2000 copies) (Record Store Day UK) (Quantity TBA) Clear/yellow-splatter 7-inch release of ABBA’s 1978 non-LP single Baby Huey, The Baby Huey Story: The Living Legend (Run Out Groove) (3,350 copies) Run Out…

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Blues, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Everything Else, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks

Mixed Up, Torn Down: Releases from The Cure, Madonna, Miles Davis and More Form Rhino’s Record Store Day 2018 Schedule

March 7, 2018 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

Rhino isn’t holding back this Record Store Day, planning more than 30 special vinyl releases for Saturday, April 21, to be sold at all participating retailers. Interestingly, several releases are companion pieces to recent general reissues, offering bonus content from different re-releases and box sets as standalone vinyl. Several singles and oddities are in the mix, from a 12″ of The Notorious B.I.G.’s “Juicy,” to a rare “short version” of Prince’s 1999, featuring only seven tracks from the album on one LP. Picture discs from Yes, Whitesnake, and Cheech & Chong are…

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Release Round-Up: Week of March 2

March 2, 2018 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring three new titles from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music, and much, much more! Johnny Mathis, Raindrops Keep Fallin’ on My Head: Expanded Edition (Second Disc/Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Johnny Mathis’ 1970 album – featuring the songs of Bacharach and David, Paul Simon, Jimmy Webb, George Harrison and others – gets its first-ever expanded CD reissue from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music. And that’s not all. We’ve added four bonus non-LP singles from Johnny’s return to…

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Country, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Reggae, Rock, Soundtracks

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Axe, Bert Kaempfert, Burt Bacharach, Charles Wright, Debbie Reynolds, Jackie DeShannon, Jethro Tull, Johnny Mathis, Ken Boothe, Pet Shop Boys, Phyllis Dillon, The King's Singers, The Oak Ridge Boys, The Sherman Brothers

The Lord of The Rings: The Fellowship of The Ring – The Complete Recordings

February 23, 2018 by Joe Marchese

3CD/1BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada (TBD) Howard Shore’s Academy Award-winning 2005 soundtrack to The Lord of The Rings – The Fellowship of The Ring is returning to print in two deluxe editions from Rhino. The four-disc The Fellowship of The Ring box set released in 2005 featured a greatly expanded, composer-supervised (not technically complete but certainly definitive) presentation to match the extended edition of the film, with three CDs of music also available in high-resolution stereo and surround sound…

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To Rule Them All: Inaugural ‘Lord of The Rings’ Score Gets Vinyl, Blu-ray Reissue

February 21, 2018 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

From the gentlest ranges of The Shire to the highest point of Mount Doom, Peter Jackson’s epic three-film adaptation of J.R.R. Tolkien’s The Lord of The Rings books is the kind of one-in-a-million success that you couldn’t dare to imagine. Nearly 20 years after the inaugural film in the series, The Fellowship of The Ring, was released to theaters, Rhino Records is bringing back a crucial archival portion of LoTR lore on April 6: a generously expanded edition of Howard Shore’s acclaimed, Oscar-winning soundtrack, out of print for more than a decade….

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Someday, Somehow: Real Gone Readies Limited Vinyl Soundtracks to “Commando,” “Tank Girl,” “Something’s Gotta Give” and “MST3K: The Return” for April

February 20, 2018 by Randy Fairman | No Comments

Real Gone is kicking off its April release slate with a quartet of limited edition soundtrack vinyl releases, and we’ve got the details for you right here. All titles are due on April 6. First up is the score to 1985’s Commando which starred Arnold Schwarzenegger and was directed by Mark Lester. Schwarzenegger plays Special Forces Colonel John Matrix, who is forced into a fight with a South American dictator when his daughter is kidnapped. The actor was cementing his place as one of the biggest action stars in the world at…

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