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Adam & The Ants, Allen Ginsberg, Bob Dylan, Dave Grusin, David Bowie, Eric Clapton, Linda Ronstadt, Marvin Hamlisch, Mudcrutch, The Highwaymen, Willie Nelson

Release Round-Up: Week of May 13

May 13, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Linda Ronstadt, Frenesi (Remastered Edition) (Elektra/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Linda Ronstadt’s 1992 Spanish-language album Frenesi returns to CD in a newly-remastered edition with no additional content. Consider this an appetizer for the upcoming expanded remaster of Trio! Allen Toussaint, The Complete Warner Recordings (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Rhino has a reissue of its 2003 limited edition Rhino Handmade collection featuring the late New Orleans legend’s three 1970s Warner Bros. and Reprise albums (Life, Love and Faith;…

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Classic Rock, Gospel, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks

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Allen Toussaint, Grateful Dead, Henry Mancini, Linda Ronstadt, Miles Davis,

The Electric Horseman: Music from the Motion Picture Soundtrack

May 2, 2016 by Joe Marchese

Varese is returning the soundtrack to Sydney Pollack’s filmThe Electric Horseman to CD in a newly-remastered edition. The Columbia Records album features five songs performed by the movie’s co-star Willie Nelson (including the hit “Mammas, Don’t Let Your Babies Grow Up to Be Cowboys”) as well as six tracks from Dave Grusin’s instrumental score.

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The Champ: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

May 2, 2016 by Joe Marchese

Varese Sarabande has the first-time-on-CD reissue of Dave Grusin’s score to 1979’s The Champ. The original Planet Records soundtrack also features Chris Thompson’s rendition of Marvin Hamlisch and Carole Bayer Sager’s “If You Remember Me,” produced by Richard Perry!

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Oh, Good Grief! “Peanuts Greatest Hits” Gets a Picture Disc with Charlie Brown and Lucy

May 2, 2016 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

How many children over the years had their first introduction to jazz via Vince Guaraldi? The late composer/piano man established the definitive sound of Charlie Brown via his scores to some seventeen of Charles Schulz’s Peanuts television specials (plus a feature film and other projects. When The Peanuts Movie arrived on the big screen in 2015 with songs from contemporary artists like Meghan Trainor and Flo Rida, Vince Guaraldi’s compositions were still front and center. Last year, Concord/Fantasy collected 12 of Guaraldi’s most beloved Peanuts tunes on one CD. Now, Peanuts Greatest…

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Vince Guaraldi

The Second Disc’s 2016 Record Store Day Must-Haves

April 15, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 4 Comments

Tomorrow, Saturday, April 16, music fans and collectors will flock to their local independent record stores worldwide to celebrate both the sounds on those familiar round black platters and the cherished opportunity to shop for music in a physical retail environment. To many of us, both are a way of life. Each year around this time, we here at Second Disc HQ take a few moments to count down the titles to which we’re most looking forward to picking up! Our very own Mike Duquette kicks things off with his list of five,…

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Disco/Dance, Funk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Big Star, David Bowie, Elvis Presley, Fleetwood Mac, James Brown, Madonna, Record Store Day, The Easybeats, The Moody Blues

Saturday On My Mind: Varese Has Easybeats, Moody Blues, “Dark Shadows” and More For Record Store Day

April 12, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

Vampires! Dragons! Keanu Reeves! Plus two revered pop-rock classics: Varese Sarabande has a little bit of everything on its five-title Record Store Day slate arriving this Saturday, April 16, in finer independent stores everywhere. Record Store Day may take place on a Saturday, but thanks to The Easybeats, it’s a Good Friday. Varese has the first-ever U.S. release of the Australian band’s debut U.K. album originally issued on United Artists Records. Good Friday was issued in the U.S. as Friday on My Mind after the album’s hit single, a Top 20 hit…

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John Powell, Record Store Day, Robert Cobert, The Easybeats, The Moody Blues

When You Wish Upon A Star: Walt Disney Records Joins Record Store Day, Offers Online Exclusives

April 11, 2016 by Randy Fairman | No Comments

With this year’s Record Store Day on Saturday, April 16 rapidly approaching, it’s time to highlight the releases from Walt Disney Records. The label is offering up three selections on vinyl for the event and they range from the earliest days of the Walt Disney Company right up to its modern acquisitions. The first up is a new vinyl compilation entitled Disney Favorite Songs. This 8-song LP features songs from the classic and modern Disney repertoire ranging from “When You Wish Upon A Star” from Pinocchio to “Let It Go” from Frozen. The cover artwork…

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Alan Menken, Danny Elfman, John Williams, Record Store Day, The Sherman Brothers

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Miles In The Sky: Davis’ 90th Celebrated With New Film Soundtrack and Glasper Collaboration

March 28, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

May 26, 2016 would have been Miles Davis’ 90th birthday. Though the legendary musician died in 1991 at just 65 years of age, his body of work has hardly left the spotlight. Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings have recently announced two upcoming projects to mark Davis’ landmark birthday. First, on Friday, April 1, the labels will issue the soundtrack to the biopic Miles Ahead, directed, co-written by and starring Don Cheadle. Then on May 27, Everything’s Beautiful arrives. This release, spearheaded by pianist-producer Robert Glasper, is promised to “incorporate Davis’ original recordings…

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Miles Davis, Robert Glasper

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But Never Ever On A Sunday: él Collects Greek Cinema Classics, Early Michel Legrand

March 28, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

For the past seven decades, Michel Legrand has been composing rich melodies for film, stage, television and records. The three-time Academy Award winner and co-writer of such songs as “The Windmills of Your Mind,” “What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life” and “Happy (Love Theme from Lady Sings the Blues)” has been a prolific recording artist since the 1950s, and now Cherry Red’s él label has recently reissued some of his earliest work on Bonjour Paris/Le Joli Mai/Rendez-vous a Paris. The American Columbia Records label took an interest in the French…

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Manos Hadjidakis, Melina Mercouri, Michel Legrand, Mikis Theodorakis, Nana Mouskouri

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Release Round-Up: Week of March 25

March 25, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 6 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Bob Dylan, The Bootleg Series Vol. 6 – Live 1964: Concert at Philharmonic Hall (Audio Fidelity) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Bob Dylan’s The Bootleg Series Vol. 6 – Live 1964: Concert at Philharmonic Hall comes to hybrid 5.0 multichannel SACD for the first time. Audio Fidelity’s release will boast a full booklet (as on the original standard CD release) and is playable in stereo on all CD players. Read more here! Various Artists, Kinked! Kinks Songs and Sessions 1964-1971 (Ace) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon…

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Bob Dylan, Ella Fitzgerald, Kleeer, Mark Murphy, Sarah Vaughan, Stargard, The Kinks, Various Artists, Winfield Parker

Miles Ahead: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

March 24, 2016 by Joe Marchese

The soundtrack to Don Cheadle’s Miles Davis biopic Miles Ahead features eleven original Davis performances culled from his recordings at both Prestige and Columbia spanning 1956-1981 as well as dialogue excerpts from the film and five original compositions by Robert Glasper. His contributions include “What’s Wrong with That?” (a jam that closes the movie imagining Cheadle as Davis playing in the present day with guest performers Glasper, Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, Gary Clark, Jr., Esperanza Spalding and Antonio Sanchez) and “Gone 2015,” an end-credits song with a guest turn from rapper Pharoahe Monch….

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I Saw The Light: Music from the Motion Picture

March 20, 2016 by Joe Marchese

Legacy has a digital download of the soundtrack to the Hank Williams biopic I Saw the Light. The album, co-produced by Rodney Crowell, features Tom Hiddleston as Williams performing six songs including “My Bucket’s Got a Hole in It,” “Hey Good Lookin’,” “Jambalaya” and “Why Don’t You Love Me.” It also features vintage recordings by Eddy Arnold, Eartha Kitt, Jo Stafford, The Delmore Brothers and other artists.

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Dan Fogelberg, Johnny Paycheck, Beau Brummels, More Join Bobby Darin On Real Gone’s May Slate

March 17, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 6 Comments

Real Gone Music has just announced its May release slate, and with rock, jazz, gospel, country, pop and beyond, it’s one of the label’s most diverse months yet! Naturally, we’re partial to the May 6 release of Bobby Darin’s Another Song on My Mind: The Motown Years from Real Gone and our own Second Disc Records (get all of the details right here!), but there’s plenty more on offer, too! Bobby Darin was a remarkable singer-songwriter; another beloved titan of popular song is the late Dan Fogelberg. He’s celebrated on the 2-CD,…

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Harry Warren, Mack Gordon, The Glenn Miller Orchestra

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Bobby Darin, Cactus, Cannonball Adderley, Dan Fogelberg, Grateful Dead, Johnny Paycheck, The Beau Brummels, The Staple Singers

Moonlight Serenades: Bruce Kimmel Talks Complete Glenn Miller Soundtracks Coming To CD!

March 14, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 11 Comments

Legendary bandleader Glenn Miller only made two film appearances as an actor. 20th Century Fox’s 1941 musical Sun Valley Serenade introduced two standards into the American Songbook – “Chattanooga Choo Choo” and “At Last” – and earned three Academy Award nominations. Its 1942 follow-up, Orchestra Wives, moved Miller from featured status to above-the-title billing and introduced another Oscar-nominated hit, “I’ve Got a Gal in Kalamazoo.” Yet both films, and their remarkable treasure trove of music, have remained largely unheralded. The Kritzerland label is setting out to change that with the first-ever complete…

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Release Round-Up: Week of March 11

March 11, 2016 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

This week’s Release Round-Up is filled with reissues and anthologies from favorite artists on both CD and vinyl! Peter Noone and Micky Dolenz, An Evening with Peter Noone and Micky Dolenz (7a Records) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Today sees the U.S. release of one of the coolest titles so far of 2016! An Evening with Peter Noone and Micky Dolenz captures the candid, intimate conversations between the rock legends recorded earlier this year. The first CD in this deluxe new package presents the conversation from January 7 recorded at Westbury,…

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Brenda Russell, Dave Mason, Herbie Mann, Jeff Buckley, Judy Garland, Maynard Ferguson, Mickey Gilley, Micky Dolenz, Peter Noone, Teddy Pendergrass, The Cars, Whitney Houston

Intrada Declares War on Records with “Titans,” “Rocky” LPs

February 25, 2016 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

It seems like no one’s safe from the vinyl bug–not even soundtrack giant Intrada, who this week announced vinyl versions of two of their best action scores: Laurence Rosenthal’sClash of the Titans and Vince DiCola’s Rocky IV. Desmond Davis’ Greek myth epic Clash of the Titans was part Hollywood throwback, part modern action film for 1981. Harry Hamlin, as Perseus (the son of the god Zeus, as portrayed by Laurence Olivier), fights a brilliant array of monsters created by stop-motion animation legend Ray Harryhausen (his final film work) to save the beautiful…

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Milan Records Rebuilds “Terminator” for CD and LP

February 12, 2016 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments

He said he’d be back! Milan Records will reissue Brad Fiedel’s long out-of-print score to The Terminator on LP and CD this spring. James Cameron’s 1984 sci-fi/noir film about a cyborg sent back through time to kill the mother of a man who’d save humanity after a nuclear apocalypse and artificial intelligence uprising remains a high watermark of the genre. With a captivating mythology, groundbreaking makeup effects by Stan Winston Studio and command performances by Linda Hamilton, Michael Biehn and bodybuilder Arnold Schwarzenegger (in his breakthrough/signature role as the unstoppable machine), The…

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Brad Fiedel

UPDATE: Lose That Long Face: “Judy Garland Sings Harold Arlen” Premieres New-to-CD Tracks, Unearths Lost Recording

February 10, 2016 by Randy Fairman | 3 Comments

UPDATE 2/10/16: Whether imploring those around her to “Get Happy” or dreaming of a place “Over the Rainbow,” Judy Garland gave some of the most immortal performances of her career (and indeed, of the whole of popular music as well as film) with the songs of Harold Arlen. In Arlen’s sophisticated yet blues-based melodies, Garland found the perfect expressions in which to bare her soul, alternately with vulnerability, tenderness, desperation and joy. Now, JSP Records, the label which has recently released such landmark Garland collections as Lost Tracks (and the new The…

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Judy Garland Sings Harold Arlen

February 6, 2016 by Joe Marchese

The 2-CD set Judy Garland Sings Harold Arlen traces the partnership between the singer and composer with 45 recordings made between 1938 and 1968 in the studio, on film, radio and in concert. Four tracks are completely new to CD, including a newly-discovered A Star is Born pre-recording of the complete version of “Lose That Long Face.” Our very own Joe Marchese has contributed an essay to this definitive, first-of-its-kind collection. Joe’s essay joins the sleeve notes and discography by producer Lawrence Schulman as well as an essay by Garland discographer and historian…

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Waiting To Exhale: Original Soundtrack (Purple Vinyl Edition)

February 4, 2016 by Joe Marchese

Real Gone brings to vinyl a two-LP edition of the soundtrack to the 1995 film Waiting to Exhale. Produced (with most of the songs written by) Kenneth “Babyface” Edmonds, the soundtrack was a huge smash in the mid-1990s featuring songs by Whitney Houston, Toni Braxton, Aretha Franklin, Brandy, TLC, Mary J. Blige, Chaka Khan, SWV and Patti LaBelle, among others. The album topped the Billboard charts and was eventually certified 7x platinum. Seven of its sixteen songs were released as singles. It also garnered critical acclaim too as it received 11 Grammy…

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John Travolta, Olivia Newton-John, Phil Harding

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SPECIAL FEATURE! “The Grease Megamix” Is the Word: Inside an Unlikely International Hit

January 29, 2016 by Mike Duquette | 7 Comments

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In the 45 years since Jim Jacobs and Warren Casey premiered their musical Grease in a trolley barn-turned-blues club in Chicago, the show has taken on a life unlike any other theatrical production in America, or even the world. There have been 11 different major productions of the show throughout the U.S. and U.K., including a record-breaking 3,388-performance run on Broadway, five runs on London’s West End between 1979 and 2007 and three national tours; an internationally-acclaimed film adaptation that remains the highest-grossing musical film of all time; and a hotly-anticipated live…

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Ooh Baby: Real Gone’s March Slate Includes Unreleased Herbie Mann Together with Dave Mason and Mickey Gilley Anthologies Plus Limited Vinyl Reissues

January 15, 2016 by Randy Fairman | 1 Comment

Yesterday we brought you the news of the upcoming Second Disc Records title to be released in conjunction with Real Gone Music: Bobby Darin’s Another Song on My Mind: The Motown Years anthology. Now we’ve got the rest of Real Gone’s March slate to tell you about and it’s as excitingly eclectic as ever! Kicking things off is a CD that should be of great interest to jazz enthusiasts. Herbie Mann is considered one of the greatest jazz flautists ever and was an early proponent of world music. His long tenure at Atlantic…

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Bobby Darin, Dave Mason, Herbie Mann, Margaret Whiting, Mickey Gilley, The Lords of the New Church, The O'Jays, Whitney Houston

Kritzerland Brings Herrmann’s “Snows,” Intrada Delivers Goodwin’s Disney “Oddball”

January 12, 2016 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Kritzerland has announced its latest release, and it’s another classic score from the pen of the legendary Bernard Herrmann (Psycho, Vertigo). Twentieth Century Fox’s lavish 1952 film The Snows of Kilimanjaro starred Gregory Peck, Susan Hayward and Ava Gardner under the direction of Henry King and cinematography of the renowned Leon Shamroy. Kilimanjaro, nominated for two Academy Awards, was one of the year’s most successful movies, and yielded more memorable music from the veteran composer Herrmann. Kritzerland promises that “Herrmann captures all moods of the story, from nostalgia to sadness to joy…

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Release Round-Up: Week of January 8

January 8, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

The Mamas and the Papas Complete Singles

Welcome to our first Release Round-Up of 2016! The Mamas and the Papas, The Complete Singles: The 50th Anniversary Collection (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Real Gone Music has 53 tracks on 2 CDs of pure pop pleasure from The Mamas and the Papas – as a group and solo – with this first-ever collection of their complete singles, just in time for their 50th anniversary! Full details here. J.D. Souther, John David Souther (Expanded Edition) (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) J.D….

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