Greetings from beautiful downtown Anaheim! Your catalogue correspondent is reporting from the D23 Expo, or "The Ultimate Disney Fan Event." Every arm of The Walt Disney Company is here on the packed show floor, with special panels, presentations, signings and giveaways pertaining to each aspect of the company: film, television, theme parks, animation, publishing, and […]
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href="https://theseconddisc.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/nat-cole-st-louis-blues.jpg"> Analogue Productions continues its indispensable SACD reissue series of some of Nat King Cole’s finest releases on the Capitol label with the September 13 arrival of Just One of Those Things (1957) and St. Louis Blues (1958). Billy May handles the orchestrations for Just One of Those Things, which is playable as follows: a […]
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If you frequently peruse the magazine racks at your local Barnes and Noble or the soon-to-be-late, lamented Borders, chances are you’re familiar with Mojo. The U.K.-published music magazine leads the vanguard of music publications across the pond along with publications like Uncut, Q, Classic Rock and Word, as high-end, glossy publications tailored for the music-centric […]
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Prepare ye the way of the Lord. Just as the musical gears up for its first-ever Broadway revival, Masterworks Broadway is giving the deluxe treatment to Stephen Schwartz and John-Michael Tebelak's Godspell with a new 2-CD set to celebrate both the new revival and the show's 40th anniversary. Godspell and its score announced a major […]
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With hyperbole the norm, it's questionable just how many buyers took notice of a 1957 album on the Liberty label entitled The Versatile Henry Mancini. Yet fewer record titles have proven as apt. As frequent collaborator Blake Edwards noted, "Whether the situation is romantic, humorous, tragic, ironic or full of action, Mancini creates exactly the […]
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“Ah, I’d love to wear a rainbow every day/And tell the world that everything’s okay. But I’ll try to carry a little darkness on my back/Till things are brighter, I’m the Man in Black.” And though Johnny Cash appeared as that Man in Black, immortalized in his song, he was in reality a man of […]
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Do you wanna rock? Then the latest release from Rhino Handmade might just be for you! Following stellar sets from the 1960s (The Beau Brummels' Bradley's Barn) and the 1970s (Bobby Charles' self-titled album), the label jumps into the glam world of the 1980s with a vengeance! Twisted Sister's Live at the Marquee Club captures […]
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It’s very possible that you might be enjoying Bobby Charles, reviewed yesterday in this very space! But whether you’re grooving to Bobby or not, you might be interested in some more Band-related news! Long before Rick Danko produced Bobby Charles’ Bearsville LP, Danko joined Levon Helm, Robbie Robertson, Richard Manuel and Garth Hudson in supporting […]
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Gumbo’s on the menu, and Rhino Handmade is serving. The self-titled Bearsville debut LP from Bobby Charles is a N’awlins stew of roots music, laid-back country, soul and pure rock-and-roll from the man who gave the world “See You Later, Alligator,” and Rhino Handmade has expanded the original 1972 LP with two discs of delicious […]
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Breaking Benjamin, Shallow Bay: The Best of Breaking Benjamin (Hollywood) A decade of Breaking Benjamin is collected on this new compilation, available in both standard and deluxe editions. The deluxe edition offers an additional disc of rare and unreleased bonus material. (Amazon) Dazz Band, Hot Spot: Expanded Edition (Funkytowngrooves) The Dazz Band's 1985 swan song […]
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