Welcome to Part One of our Big Break Records Big Round-Up! Today, we're looking at a pair of releases from 1979 which have newly received the BBR remastered and expanded treatment! Chameleon was the brainchild of Azar Lawrence, the saxophonist and multi-instrumentalist who had played in the bands of Miles Davis, Gene Harris, Freddie Hubbard, Elvin Jones, and McCoy Tyner. Like so many of his jazz contemporaries, Lawrence began to explore the connections between the various strains of jazz
UPDATE: Vibe On's Deluxe Reissue of Miami Sound Machine's "Primitive Love" Indefinitely Delayed
We're sorry to report that fans waiting for the eagerly-anticipated deluxe reissue of Miami Sound Machine's Primitive Love, from the fine folks at Vibe On Records, will have to wait a bit longer. The label has confirmed the unfortunate news that the title has been indefinitely delayed, as a result of Gloria and Emilio Estefan wishing to concentrate on the recording of a new Gloria Estefan album. Our friends at Vibe On have written, in part: "Until very recently, the Estefans were working with
Look Up Here, I'm In Heaven: David Bowie's Final Recordings Reissued on CD and Vinyl EPs
Last October, the original New York cast recording of David Bowie and Enda Walsh's musical Lazarus arrived on compact disc, vinyl, and digital download, with each format including a bonus EP of Bowie's four new songs from the musical. "Lazarus" was, of course, already familiar from its inclusion on the artist's highly acclaimed final studio album Blackstar. The cast recording premiered three more tracks penned for the show from the Blackstar sessions: "No Plan," "Killing a Little Time," and
Three "Mad Max" Scores Head to Vinyl From Varese
Varese Sarabande is releasing a special limited package collecting the soundtracks to George Miller's original Mad Max trilogy on vinyl. Miller's dystopian sci-fi tales followed the rogue cop Max Rockatansky (Mel Gibson, in his first breakout role) as he navigated the scorching Australian outback after an energy crisis and nuclear war has thrown society into chaos. In 1979's Mad Max, Miller's first film, Max fought a gang of motorbiking thugs led by the vicious Toecutter (Hugh Keays-Byrne) at
Ace In The Hole: Omnivore Reissues Bobby Darin and Johnny Mercer Classic
"'Like peas in a pod and birds of a feather,'" sing Bobby Darin and Johnny Mercer in the album's title song. This self-description has a bull's-eye accuracy; Bobby and Johnny are indeed 'two of a kind.'" So began the original liner notes for 1961's Two of a Kind, the Atco LP that paired one of America's all-time greatest vocalists (and one heck of a songwriter!) with one of its all-time greatest songwriters (and one heck of a performer!). On March 24, Omnivore Recordings will reissue Two of a
Turn The World Around: Legacy Celebrates Harry Belafonte's 90th with New Collection
On March 1, Harry Belafonte will turn 90 years old. To mark the occasion, the acclaimed actor, singer, songwriter, activist, humanitarian and American icon has looked back on his storied career to curate a new collection for Legacy Recordings. When Colors Come Together: The Legacy of Harry Belafonte is a single-disc, 19-track compendium drawing on the venerable entertainer's RCA recordings released between 1956 and 1972, and features one new recording performed by a children's
Release Round-Up: Week of February 3
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring Second Disc Records' first release of the year plus another incredible slate from Real Gone Music, box sets, anthologies, and more! Various Artists, The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh: Music from the Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Expanded Edition) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) 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
Thom Bell! The Spinners! The Four Tops! Loretta Lynn! It's "THE FISH"! Coming TOMORROW!
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
Road To Your Dream: T'Pau Box Set Due in March
Following a lavish reissue of their breakthrough album Bridge of Spies, British rock group T'Pau will release The Virgin Anthology, a four-disc companion piece of sorts to that reissue which chronicles the band's hits and rarities. Produced with the approval of frontwoman Carol Decker, the first disc The Virgin Anthology includes, for the first time in one set, all of the group's single A-sides, including "Heart and Soul," "China in Your Hand," "Valentine," "I Will Be with You" and "Whenever
Message From The Country: Esoteric Collects "Best of The Move" On CD and DVD
Can you hear the grass grow? Continuing its series of reissues dedicated to the Birmingham rockers The Move, Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings imprint has just issued a CD/DVD collection that chronicles the band's many facets and iterations between 1966 and 1972. Magnetic Waves of Sound: The Best of The Move, featuring 21 tracks on CD and a further 21 live performances and promotional films on DVD, is certainly not the group's first anthology, but it's doubtless among the finest. Over the
Beyond The Wheel: Soundgarden to Remix, Reissue "Ultramega OK"
In the past few years--nearly every one that The Second Disc has been around--there's been a flurry of activity around the Soundgarden catalogue. In 2010, shortly after ending a 13-year breakup, the Seattle grunge outfit released Telephantasm, a career-spanning compilation. A year later, Live on I-5 chronicled their last tour from 1996. In 2013 (a year after the release of King Animal, the group's sixth studio album), the band's 1990 compilation Screaming Life/Fopp (comprised of their first
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,
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
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
Biff, Bang, Pow: Numero Collects Complete Recordings Of U.K. Psych-Rockers The Creation
Numero Group is turning back the clock to the days of The British Invasion. On March 17, the feisty Chicago indie continues its musical archaeology with a 2-CD or 2-LP set dedicated to the studio recordings of The Creation. Action Painting features 46 original tracks recorded between 1965 and 1968, all newly remastered by producer Shel Talmy (The Who, The Kinks) from the original master tapes, and in new stereo mixes where possible. Over the brief period of 1966-1968, The Creation released
Playing with Electric Trains: Squeeze's Chris Difford to Release Solo Box Set
Arguably one of the finest British songwriting duos since Lennon and McCartney, Chris Difford and Glenn Tilbrook have made perfect, powerful pop as leaders of Squeeze since the release of their first material in 1977--all the way up to an out-of-nowhere triumph with 2015's Cradle to the Grave, the band's first album of new material in more than 15 years. Since that initial dissolution of the duo's partnership after 1998's Domino, both Chris and Glenn sought to found their voices as solo
Release Round-Up: Week of January 27
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Chicago, Chicago II: Steven Wilson Remix (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Chicago's second album gets a fully remixed edition from producer Steven Wilson, created from the original 16-track multitrack tapes and sure to highlight previously unheard or overlooked elements of this rock classic! Available on CD, with an LP edition to follow later in the year. Read more here! Cream, Fresh Cream: Super Deluxe Edition
Raining in Memphis: Analog Spark Unearths Southern Soul Classic From Dan Penn
2016 proved a very good year for fans of southern soul songwriter (and sometimes singer) extraordinaire Dan Penn. The U.K.'s Ace Records label released a generous second volume of Penn's rare and previously unreleased recordings for Fame Records as Close to Me: More Fame Recordings, and later in the year, Analog Spark delivered a surprising and very welcome release. Nobody's Fool was recorded by Penn for Bell Records in 1973, and remained his only solo album for more than two decades.
RPM Records Round-Up, Part Two: Spotlight on The Boots and "Svenska Shakers"
Welcome to Part Two of our RPM Records Round-Up! Part One put a spotlight on the Cherry Red imprint's recent releases from Welsh-born vocalist Maureen Evans and the New Zealand pop-psych band, The Avengers. Today, we're looking at Germany's The Boots, and a collection of Sweden's finest rockers circa 1964-1968! Don't miss out on Part One, either. You can read it right here! RPM's international tour continues with a complete release from Germany's The Boots. Beat! The Complete Telefunken
Looking Out For Love: Fleetwood Mac's "Tango in the Night" Due as Deluxe Set
Three decades after it was first released--and following similarly expansive editions for three of the group's earlier albums from this period--Warner Bros. Records and Rhino will expand and reissue Fleetwood Mac's 14th studio album, Tango in the Night. The last studio album from the band's modern classic line-up of Lindsey Buckingham (vocals/guitar), Stevie Nicks (vocals), Christine McVie (vocals/keyboards), John McVie (bass) and Mick Fleetwood (drums), Tango in the Night marked the group's
Ooh Baby You Move Me: Ace Collects Soulful Sounds of Linda Jones
Linda Jones' life was tragically curtailed at the age of 28 in March 1972, felled by a long battle with diabetes. Yet the passionately emotive vocalist left behind a catalogue so rich that it's still cherished by soul connoisseurs. In 2015, Real Gone Music collected Jones' complete sides for Atco, Loma, and Warner Bros. Records, spanning the period of 1964-1969. Now, Ace's Kent imprint has bookended the Linda Jones story with Precious: The Anthology 1963-72, culled from every one of her label
Forever In Blue Jeans: Neil Diamond Preps 3-CD "50th Anniversary Collection" For March
Neil Diamond's debut single for Bang Records, "Solitary Man," hit shelves in April 1966, launching an internationally successful career that continues to this very day. On March 31, Diamond (who turns 76 years young today) will look back on his 50+-years as a recording artist with the Capitol Records/UMe release of a new 3-CD collection. Neil Diamond 50: The 50th Anniversary Collection features 50 songs compiled by Diamond, who has overseen this set for release. The set
Reissue Theory: Danny Wilson
Reissue Theory, where we focus on great albums and the reissues they could someday see, is back! Today, we're proud to welcome Mike as he takes a look at two albums from Gary Clark's underrated pop trio Danny Wilson! If you're a Netflix subscriber and you love old fashioned pop music, you really can't do much better than Sing Street, which was recently added to the service. Set in Ireland in the 1980s, it's a delightful coming-of-age story about a boy who escapes his youthful troubles (and
The Way It Was: SoulMusic Reissues and Expands Gladys Knight, Natalie Cole
We filled you in recently about Cherry Red and SoulMusic Records' recent salute to songstress Vivian Reed, but the label has also offered a pair of titles from two more great ladies of song: Gladys Knight and the late Natalie Cole. Gladys Knight's The Solo Collection collects her first two Pips-less albums, from 1978 and 1979: the Buddah Records release of Miss Gladys Knight, and its Columbia follow-up, Gladys Knight. The second disc features eight bonus tracks associated with the latter
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
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