"Come on everybody, let's jam with The People's Choice!" goes the lyric to the funky title song which opens 1978's Turn Me Loose, the third album from Frankie Brunson's Philly outfit. People's Choice was a bit different from the other groups populating the roster at Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff's Philadelphia International Records, being a self-contained band rather than a vocal group. (Instant Funk was another such band, though that unit found greater success after migrating to Salsoul
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
Johnny Cash, Eddy Arnold, Glen Campbell Featured On "Chartbusters USA: Special Country Edition"
The latest entry in Ace Records' long-running Chartbusters USA series arrived late in 2016. The Special Country Edition turned its spotlight on Hot 100 hits which had crossed over from the Billboard Country chart. The 24 tracks on Chartbusters USA: Special Country Edition are all from the period of 1963-1969, needless to say a time of seismic change in pop music, and many come from the greatest names in any genre of music. The set, appropriately enough, opens with George Jones' 1964
Time and Love: Analog Spark Reissues Two Laura Nyro Classics On Vinyl
Laura Nyro's 1966 debut album on Verve Records proclaimed the young singer-songwriter to be More Than a New Discovery, and the title wasn't mere hyperbole. After all, the album introduced one chart-topper for The 5th Dimension, a Top 5 smash for Blood, Sweat and Tears, and a Top 10 hit for Barbra Streisand among its twelve songs. How to top New Discovery? Nyro's major-label debut at Columbia Records, 1968's Eli and the Thirteenth Confession, did just that, as one of the most strikingly
Soul and Inspiration: SoulMusic Collects Vivian Reed's "Epic Years"
Singer-actress Vivian Reed boasts an impressive resume: Juilliard training, two Tony Award nominations, a Drama Desk Award, a Theatre World Award, and credits on Broadway, television, film, and beyond. Cherry Red Group's SoulMusic Records imprint has recently taken a deep look at Reed's small but sublime output for Epic Records on a new collection, Yours Until Tomorrow: The Epic Years. At the label, Reed released one album and eight singles between 1968 and 1971 - some 20 songs, all of which
"IPO Volume 19": POP into The New Year!
Today, our very own Ted Frank takes a look at the annual CD series shining a spotlight on the best voices in pop you might not know! Although 2016 may be remembered for a number of losses in the artistic community, it has also been a reinvigorating one for the music industry. With the likes of David Bowie and Leonard Cohen tragically releasing some of their finest work in their final hours, to other legends such as William Bell, Nick Cave, Bob Dylan, Van Morrison, Iggy Pop, The Rolling
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
Don't You Wonder Sometimes: Bowie's "Sound and Vision" Gets Picture Disc In February
On February 10, Rhino Records and Parlophone will continue the long-running series of David Bowie 7" vinyl picture disc singles with the release of "Sound and Vision" in time for the classic song's 40th anniversary. "Sound and Vision" was released almost forty years ago to the day of this reissue - February 11, 1977 - in the United Kingdom from Bowie's Low, the first album in the artist's storied Berlin Trilogy created in collaboration with co-producer Tony Visconti and Brian Eno, among other
Break On Through: The Doors' Debut Expanded For 50th Anniversary
Rhino Records kicked off a 50th anniversary celebration of American psychedelic masters The Doors with the release of an early live set, London Fog 1966, last month--and today, on what the City of Los Angeles proclaims as "The Day of The Doors," Rhino has announced a new deluxe edition of the band's breakthrough debut studio album, to be released this spring. Released exactly 50 years ago on January 4, 1967, The Doors was the record-buying public's introduction to singer Jim Morrison,
Ask Her No Questions: Cherry Red Releases Bridget St. John Anthology
Early in 2015, Cherry Red Records released the 4-CD box set The Dandelion Albums and BBC Collection from Bridget St. John, collecting all three of the singer-songwriter's exquisite albums for John Peel's Dandelion Records label as well as a disc of BBC sessions. Now, the label has returned to St. John's discography for a new career overview. Fly High is a late-2016, 2-CD anthology that paints a full portrait of the artist via album tracks, singles, demos, live recordings, BBC sessions, and
Ain't Too Proud To Beg: New Digital Releases Premiere Unreleased Beach Boys and Motown Featuring Marvin Gaye, Supremes, Temptations and Many More
As has become commonplace over the past several years due to the copyright laws in the U.K. and Europe, a couple of "copyright extension" releases came out at the end of 2016 to come in right at the deadline for 1966 recordings. While sometimes these collections have taken physical form like the two large Bob Dylan box sets that have been released over the past couple of years, they are more often than not digital-only releases. And in keeping with the traditions of the past several years,
Love You 'Til the Day I Die: Crowded House, 2016's Reissues of the Year
Yesterday, we announced the recipients of the Seventh Annual Gold Bonus Disc Awards! Unsurprisingly, the deluxe reissues from Crowded House were among them! Today, Mike takes an in-depth look at these stellar reissues! Depending on how you look at it, there are anywhere from seven (albums) to 14 (discs) to more than 200 (songs) reasons why Universal Music's Crowded House reissues stand tall in this writer's mind as the best catalog music campaign of 2016. But in the end, all it took was
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
In Memoriam: George Michael (1963-2016)
Last night, the shocking news came that George Michael had died at the age of 53. Born Georgios Kyriacos Panayiotou, the artist created music that lived up to the title of WHAM!'s second album Make It Big. Michael's fearlessness was big; his ambition was big; his talent, of course, was big. Whether crafting bright, ebullient and danceable pop, sensual balladry or funky dancefloor jams, the passionate Michael (as writer, producer, musician, and vocalist) wore his heart on his sleeve.
Happy Holidays and Release Round-Up: Weeks of December 23 and 30
Christmas is just around the corner, and here at The Second Disc, we're hoping that you'll join us in celebrating the spirit of the season - heading home for the holidays, spending time with cherished family and friends, enjoying bounties of food, love, and music, and reflecting on the good times you shared in 2016. Our year was, by and large, a wonderful one. We released six titles on our Second Disc Records imprint of the amazing Real Gone Music label, from a Bobby Darin anthology that
Rock You All Around the World: Judas Priest Expands "Turbo" With Previously Unreleased Concert
Judas Priest is revisiting its tenth album, 1986's Turbo, in a turbo-charged 30th anniversary edition coming on February 3, 2017 from Legacy Recordings. The original, remastered album will be expanded with two additional discs of bonus material on this upcoming reissue, and the album will also be available sans bonus tracks in a new 150-gram vinyl pressing. Turbo marked a crucial step in the evolution of the band. It began life as one-half of a planned double album entitled Twin Turbos,
Morello Country Round-Up Part 1: Marty Robbins, Dottie West, George Jones and Tammy Wynette
Cherry Red's imprint Morello has been releasing twofers from some of country's biggest artists for several years now. They've had a lot of great recent releases in 2016 and we'd thought we'd highlight some of them for you. All of the following twofers feature eight-page color booklets with two pages of liner notes and reproductions of sleeve notes and/or back covers. They each have notes written by journalist Tony Byworth with the exception of Dottie West CD. All of the reissues are produced
Holiday Gift Guide Review: John Coltrane, "The Atlantic Years in Mono"
John Coltrane's tenure at Atlantic Records was a short one - from January 1959 to May 1961 - yielding just four albums in that period, and then another four through mid-1966. One year later, the saxophone great was gone; in the years since, Atlantic continued to mine his recordings for the label including on two posthumously-issued LPs from 1970 and 1975. Of Trane's original albums for Atlantic, most were first experienced in mono, and it's those releases that form the basis of Rhino's recent
Doin' It: Cherry Red Reissues, Expands Three Fusion Classics From Herbie Hancock
Cherry Red's Robinsongs imprint recently paired Herbie Hancock's 1978 and 1979 albums Sunlight and Feets Don't Fail Me Now on one 2-CD set. Now, Robinsongs has looked back to bring three original Hancock albums for Columbia Records together as one 2-CD package: 1974's Thrust, 1975's Man-Child, and 1976's Secrets. All three of these albums were Jazz No. 1 records; these reissues sweeten the deal by adding rare single versions to the track line-ups. Thrust was the American follow-up to
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
Teenage Revolution: Cherry Red Collects Glam Rock From Hello
Hello! Cherry Red's 7Ts imprint has recently released a new box set for the teenage glam rockers Hello. At 4 CDs and 74 songs, The Albums boasts the group's 1976 debut Keeps Us Off the Streets, the Japan-only Shine On Silver Light album, 1978's farewell Hello Again, and a disc's worth of rare and previously unreleased cuts. The first and third albums were previously issued separately in expanded editions by 7Ts. The quartet of Keith Marshall, Bob Bradbury, Jeff Allen, and Vic Faulkner
Jeff Larson Returns To "Heart of the Valley" On New Reissue
When singer-songwriter Jeff Larson premiered his album Heart of the Valley in 2009, the album was rightly lauded as an immaculately produced collection of laid-back, polished pop. It conjured a time when rich emotions and real instruments ruled pop radio. Today, it's just as relevant, as proven by a newly-expanded reissue on Japan's Vivid Sound label (VSCD 3944, 2016). The artist indicates in his new liner notes that "the concept for Heart of the Valley was loosely based on the Nilsson Sings
Cooking with Gas: Sub Pop Reissues Tad Discography
If you're looking for some reissues for the hardcore Seattle fan in your life, Sub Pop Records has recently released the early discography of the group Tad. Named for singer/guitarist Tad Doyle, Tad were one of Sub Pop's first artists, and while their music sounded less punk and more metal (think Alice in Chains without quite as many hooks), they were a crucial force for the label. They opened for Nirvana on a European tour, and shared many of their studio collaborators (Jack Endino produced
Holiday Gift Guide Review: "This Is Big Audio Dynamite" From Intervention Records
In 1982, The Clash has the biggest success of their career with the album Combat Rock featuring the songs "Rock The Casbah" and "Should I Stay or Should I Go." Of course, that's when things began to go wrong. It's one of the oldest story in rock: a band whose members are split in two directions between being "safe" and "commercial" or being "artistic" and "daring." The two sides of that argument for The Clash were being represented in the early 1980s by Joe Strummer and Mick Jones. Strummer
And Now...The Anita Kerr Orchestra and Singers Celebrated On New Box Set
Earlier this year, Cherry Red's él imprint collected Anita Kerr and Rod McKuen's classic "mood music" trilogy The Sea/The Earth/The Sky in one compact box set. Now, él has turned its attention to another set of engaging albums from the vast Anita Kerr discography. The Five Classic Warner Brothers Albums 1966-1968 brings together The Anita Kerr Orchestra's 1966 And Now...The Anita Kerr Orchestra! and The Anita Kerr Singers' four subsequent Warner LPs in one package. Memphis native Anita
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