Here at Second Disc HQ, tomorrow is the biggest day of basketball season – because tomorrow is when we’re unveiling Second Disc Records’ first release of the year! Thom Bell’s soulful, all-star soundtrack to The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh – featuring The Spinners, The Four Tops, Loretta Lynn, Phyllis Hyman, Doc Severinsen, Eubie Blake, and more – arrives from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music for the very first time in a newly expanded, freshly remastered edition! Trust us: this is one R&B release primed to get you on the basketball court…or…
Stop The World! Cherry Red’s él Label Reissues Anthony Newley, Peter Sellers, John Barry, José Feliciano, More
Cherry Red’s él imprint had a busy 2016, most recently with a number of titles from Anita Kerr including We Dig Anita! and box sets dedicated to her recordings with The Anita Kerr Singers and The San Sebastian Strings. We’ve already filled you in on most of the imprint’s titles from last year, but here are some nice things you might have missed from the él catalogue, many of which have been drawn from the vaults of Ember Records. John Barry Plays 007 and Other ’60s Themes for Film, Television and Radio (Amazon U.S….
CONTEST EXTENDED! ENTER NOW to WIN Muhammad Ali’s “The Greatest” Featuring George Benson, Michael Masser
When Muhammad Ali died on June 3, 2016 at the age of 74, his immortality had already been long guaranteed. President Barack Obama summed up the feelings of many when he proclaimed, “Muhammad Ali was America. He will always be America. What a man. What a spirit. What a joyous, mighty champion.” It was no accident that history’s only three-time lineal heavyweight champion, the man born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr., was nicknamed “The Greatest.” That moniker also was used for the title of the champ’s 1975 memoir and its 1977 Columbia Pictures…
One Punch at a Time: Mondo Expands “Creed” Score On Vinyl
Venerable vinyl soundtrack label Mondo is preparing a reconfigured release of one of 2015’s best soundtrack efforts: Ludwig Göransson’s score to Creed. Co-written and directed by Ryan Coogler (who wrote and directed the harrowing biopic Fruitvale Station and is working on co-writing and directing Black Panther for Marvel Studios), Creed is a stunning update and continuation of the Rocky series–this time told through the eyes of Adonis Johnson, the out-of-wedlock son of former heavyweight champion Apollo Creed (portrayed by Carl Weathers in the first four Rocky films). Donnie was born after Creed…
Tales From The Crypt Presents Demon Knight
The high-octane soundtrack to 1995’s film Tales from the Crypt Presents: Demon Knight featured heavy metal bands like Pantera and Megadeth. The album was released on CD worldwide, but the vinyl edition only came out in Europe. Real Gone brings it to “demon eye” green vinyl for this new edition, limited to 400 copies.
WIN! WIN! WIN! Muhammad Ali’s “The Greatest” Featuring George Benson, Michael Masser
When Muhammad Ali died on June 3, 2016 at the age of 74, his immortality had already been long guaranteed. President Barack Obama summed up the feelings of many when he proclaimed, “Muhammad Ali was America. He will always be America. What a man. What a spirit. What a joyous, mighty champion.” It was no accident that history’s only three-time lineal heavyweight champion, the man born Cassius Marcellus Clay, Jr., was nicknamed “The Greatest.” That moniker also was used for the title of the champ’s 1975 memoir and its 1977 Columbia Pictures…
Release Round-Up: Week of January 20
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Grateful Dead, The Grateful Dead: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (Rhino) 2-CD (Original Album and Bonus Disc): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Picture Disc (Original Album Only): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. The Grateful Dead: 50th Anniversary Deluxe Edition presents the original 1967 album on Disc 1 and an unreleased concert from July 29, 1966 in Vancouver, Canada on Disc 2. The first disc has been remastered from the original tapes by David Glasser and restored via Plangent Processes (a tape transfer technique which has been used on other…
Groovin’ Down A Crowded Avenue: Real Gone March Slate Features The Rascals, Southside Johnny, Artful Dodger, Ann-Margret
Official word has just come out about Real Gone’s titles for March and, as usual, the line-up boasts an eclectic group of releases including a number of comprehensive double-CD sets! First up is a compilation featuring liner notes from our very own Joe Marchese. The Definitive Collection from Ann-Margret features 30 of the flame-haired singer/actress’s songs from her 1961-1966 tenure on RCA Records and includes standards, pop, soundtrack recordings and collaborations with Al Hirt and Elvis Presley. (This title was previously issued as a digital-only entry in Sony’s Essential series.) Next up are…
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It’s Too Late To Stop Now: Ted’s Year in Review, And A Look Ahead
In the early days of the New Year, we’ve announced our annual Gold Bonus Disc Awards, and have also shared Mike’s selections for the Reissues of the Year! Today, Ted takes a turn with a look at his own, wide-ranging personal music diary, or Best of 2016 – plus a look at what he’s most anticipating in the months to come! We hope you’ll discover a favorite of your own! You’ll find selected links below for further reading. 2016 was a richly diverse year for music. But before taking a look at the…
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See You Later: Vangelis to Remaster Polydor Catalogue in New Box
Greek synthesizer legend Vangelis has recently overseen a CD box set of some of his most celebrated albums for release next year. Delectus features 13 Vangelis albums released between 1973 and 1985 for the Vertigo and Polydor labels. This includes studio creations like Earth (1973), China (1979), See You Later (1980), Soil Festivities (1984) and Mask (1985) plus soundtrack albums like the nature documentaries L’Apocalypse des animaux (1975), Opera Sauvage (1979) and Antarctica (1983) and the Oscar-winning dramatic score to 1981’s Chariots of Fire. The box also includes all three albums recorded…
Respect the Wind: La-La Land Reissues Mark Mancina’s Score to “Twister”
After their most successful fourth quarter yet, La-La Land Records storms into 2017 with a belated 20th anniversary expansion of Mark Mancina’s score to the ’90s disaster flick Twister. The second film by Jan De Bont, who parlayed a successful career as cinematographer (Die Hard, The Hunt for Red October, Basic Instinct) into the smash directorial debut Speed in 1994, Twister featured Bill Paxton and Helen Hunt as a separated couple of storm chasers whose paths cross in pursuit of a dangerous set of tornadoes. Together, they endeavor to put their advanced…
The Year In Review – The 2016 Gold Bonus Disc Awards, From A to Z
Happy New Year, and welcome to The Second Disc’s Seventh 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 today’s unpredictable 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 that you can purchase in brick-and-mortar stores. And…
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Never Ending Song of Love: Real Gone’s February Slate Includes Delaney & Bonnie, Lesley Gore, Duke Ellington, Lynn Anderson, More
As Christmas approaches and 2016 winds down, we start looking ahead to 2017 and what will be released. We’ve already told you about the Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music reissue of Thom Bell’s all-star soundtrack to The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh due in February, and now we’re here to tell you about the rest of Real Gone’s killer lineup for that month. First up are two titles with liner notes by our very own Joe Marchese. In 2015, Real Gone reissued Lesley’s Gore’s Someplace Else Now album from MoWest. After leaving that…
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The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh: Expanded Edition
Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music are tipping off 2017 with the first-ever CD release of Thom Bell’s soulful soundtrack to 1979’s The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh, featuring an all-star line-up including The Four Tops, The Spinners, Bell and James, Phyllis Hyman, The Delfonics’ William “Poogie” Hart, and The Sylvers, plus country superstar Loretta Lynn, ragtime legend Eubie Blake, and the one and only Doc Severinsen. This edition, newly remastered by Sean Brennan at Sony’s Battery Studios, features three rare bonus tracks and new liner notes drawn from an extensive interview with…
Varese Offers Krall Good Things with “Star Trek Beyond”
Varese Sarabande has one last Christmas present in their long-running CD Club series: an expanded edition of the most recent soundtrack of the Star Trek series. Star Trek Beyond, this year’s third entry in the “Kelvin timeline” reboot series of films based on Gene Roddenberry’s 50-year-old sci-fi series, finds the crew of the USS Enterprise at various crossroads as they reach the halfway mark of their five-year mission. James Kirk (Christopher Pine) tires of the episodic nature of their work and considers a more commanding position, while Spock (Zachary Quinto) considers his…
WE HAVE OUR WINNERS! “CITY HEAT” SOUNDTRACK GIVEAWAY!
Congratulations!! The following 10 entrants have won a copy of Varese Vintage’s brand-new CD reissue of the City Heat soundtrack on CD! If you entered our contest via Facebook and your name is on the list below, please drop us a line at theseconddisc-at-gmail-dot-com or a Private Message on Facebook with your name and mailing address! If you entered via email, you don’t have to do anything – your CD will be in the mail soon! Watch this space soon for more exciting giveaways! Our winners are: JOSEPH ARELLANO JOHN GUTIERREZ BILL…
BREAKING! Second Disc Records Brings All-Star “Fish That Saved Pittsburgh” To CD in February!
Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records are tipping off 2017 with a slam dunk release! On February 3, we will be bringing Thom Bell’s soulful, all-star soundtrack to The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh – featuring The Spinners, The Four Tops, Loretta Lynn, Phyllis Hyman and more – to CD for the very first time in a newly expanded, remastered edition! The 1979 cult favorite film The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh featured an all-star team from the worlds of basketball and Hollywood – Julius “Dr. J” Erving, Meadowlark Lemon, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Jerry…
Yes, Sir-ee! Kritzerland to Release “The Gang’s All Here” Score Featuring Benny Goodman
By 1943, Busby Berkeley was a Hollywood veteran who had choreographed the dance sequences that would make him famous for decades. He had also directed several classic films such as the Judy Garland/Mickey Rooney vehicles Babes In Arms and Strike Up The Band. However, he had never directed a full motion picture in color, where his choreographed tableaux could be more vividly realized. That all changed with The Gang’s All Here. This famous musical has never had its soundtrack officially released on CD, but Kritzerland is rectifying that with a new edition…
WIN! WIN! WIN! Varese Reissues “City Heat” with Al Jarreau, Irene Cara, Eloise Laws, Joe Williams
In recent months, the fine folks at Varese Vintage have been on a roll with a number of soundtrack releases including Foul Play, Roots, The Champ, The Electric Horseman, and most recently for Record Store Day Black Friday, Harry Nilsson’s Popeye and Charles Fox and Bob Crewe’s Barbarella. Now, the label has just reissued for the first time on CD the soundtrack to the 1984 crime drama City Heat, featuring music by Lennie Niehaus and performances by Al Jarreau, Eloise Laws, Irene Cara, Joe Williams, and the film’s star, Clint Eastwood. Hopes…
Cops! Dinosaurs! Star Trek! La-La Land’s Black Friday Slate Available For Ordering TODAY!
From the deepest reaches of space (the final frontier), to the toughest streets on either side of America, to not one, but two prehistoric adventures on tropical islands, La-La Land Records’ just-announced final five catalogue soundtrack titles of 2016 offer some of the greatest film music around! “He’s been chased, thrown through a window and arrested,” the poster proclaimed. Just another day for a Detroit cop on vacation in Beverly Hills–though Eddie Murphy’s detective Axel Foley wasn’t just any cop! Murphy’s turn as Foley in 1984’s Beverly Hills Cop cemented the rising…
THE SECOND DISC’S 2016 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 more than 50 essential selections for the music enthusiast in your life! We’ve filled the guide with box sets (such as the popular David Bowie title to your left!) as well as archival releases and holiday music favorites that make great stocking stuffers. So Just click here to access this year’s top picks! You’ll notice that the Gift Guide is in the same easy-to-use format as our Release Calendar, so you…
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Good Times! The Second Disc’s Essential RSD Black Friday 2016 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 2016 is just in the latest year in which numerous retailers in the U.S. have made headlines by blackening Thursday, or Thanksgiving Day…
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Release Round-Up: Week of November 25
Happy Thanksgiving! Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Prince, Prince 4Ever (Warner Bros.) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This release actually came out on Tuesday, but it’s worth a reminder here: this first posthumous collection from the late, great artist premieres one previously unreleased track, and includes a number of single versions making their CD debuts. Prince 4Ever is a 40-track summary of The Artist’s major works from his first album, 1978’s For You, to 1992’s The Love Symbol, Prince’s last release before he changed his name to the…
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They’re On Their Way: “Dick Tracy,” “Blue Lagoon” Expansions Due from Intrada
Intrada has added two scores from very popular composers to their Special Collection line: Basil Poledouris’ soundtrack to 1980’s romantic drama The Blue Lagoon, and Danny Elfman’s ambitious score to Disney’s 1990 adaptation of Dick Tracy. Based on the 1908 novel of the same name, The Blue Lagoon starred Brooke Shields and Christopher Atkins as two cousins shipwrecked on a South Pacific island, living (and loving) in a faraway paradise. The R-rated antics of the couple caused a stir, as Shields was only 14 at the time of filming (body doubles were…
To The Batcave! La-La Land Reissues Nelson Riddle’s “Batman” For 50th Anniversary
Today, La-La Land announced a new reissue of Nelson Riddle’s score to 1966’s Batman: The Movie, just in time to celebrate the film’s 50th anniversary. The label premiered its expanded edition of Batman in 2010 (itself an expansion of a prior Film Score Monthly CD) and it proved to be a sold-out success. Though the same master will be utilized for the upcoming reissue, the 2016 edition features colorful new artwork by Jim Titus, as well as all-new liner notes by John Takis. The Second Disc reviewed the original release in 2010, and…
