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My Favorite Things: 60th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

April 4, 2022 By

Coltrane Favorite Things packshot

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Rhino is reissuing John Coltrane's 1961 classic My Favorite Things in a new, remastered edition to (slightly belatedly) mark its 60th anniversary. While the 2CD or 2LP set will feature no bonus tracks, it will notably feature the album in both its original stereo and mono mixes. (Tapes of the latter were recently rediscovered after many years of presuming it to be lost.) The package will also

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Jazz

The Doris Day Centennial: Celebration of the Late Superstar Begins This Weekend!

April 2, 2022 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Doris Day Centennial

Tomorrow, April 3, 2022, marks the 100th anniversary of Doris Day's birth.  Yesterday, Real Gone Music kicked off the festivities with two releases celebrating the singer-actress-activist's extraordinary musical legacy.  Early Day: Rare Songs from the Radio 1939-1950 features two dozen rarities from the dawn of Day's career (as well as a booklet with period photographs and a new essay by TSD's Joe Marchese) on one CD, while Day's final album, 2011's My Heart, premieres on vinyl.  (Read more

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Categories: News Formats: Books, CD, Vinyl Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Doris Day

Having the Time of Your Life: ABBA to Release New Box Set of Complete Albums

April 1, 2022 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

ABBA Albums Box

Perhaps the biggest musical surprise of 2021 was the release of a brand-new ABBA album - 40 years after they took their final bow with The Visitors. A chart-topper in many countries around the world (it "only" hit No. 2 in America), Voyage hardly sounded as if four decades had passed thanks to dramatic tracks like "I Still Have Faith in You" (a Grammy nominee for Record of the Year this weekend, the band's first-ever nod from the Recording Academy), "Don't Shut Me Down" and "Just a Notion." The

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop Tags: ABBA

Release Round-Up: Week of April 1

April 1, 2022 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Doris Day Early Day Rare Songs from the Radio

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles arriving in stores today! Daryl Hall, BeforeAfter (RCA/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Daryl Hall is looking back with his first-ever solo anthology.  BeforeAfter, curated by the artist, draws on all five of his acclaimed solo albums: the Robert Fripp-produced cult classic Sacred Songs (1980), Three Hearts in the Happy Ending Machine (1986, including the top five hit "Dreamtime" and top

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Gospel, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Daryl Hall, Doris Day, Graham Parker, Kenny Rogers, Lorna Dallas, Lynn Ahrens, Marvin Gaye, Scott McCarl, Stephen Flaherty, The Raspberries, Todd Rundgren, Tom Jones

And Then I Don't Feel So Bad: Coltrane's 'Favorite Things' Reissued in Stereo and Mono

March 31, 2022 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Coltrane Favorite Things packshot

One of John Coltrane's most popular albums is getting reissued for its 60th anniversary. My Favorite Things was the jazz legend's fourth record for the Atlantic label, and one of the bestselling works of the genre. Its title track, a dazzling cover of Rodgers and Hammerstein's song from The Sound of Music, became a jazz radio staple and helped the album sell more than a half-million copies in the ensuing decades.The other three songs on the album come from the rich tradition of Great American

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz Tags: John Coltrane, McCoy Tyner

How Does It Feel to Be Back: An Interview with Jeremy Holiday of Iconoclassic Records

March 31, 2022 By Mike Duquette 7 Comments

JH Banner

Jeremy Holiday remembers it well: at four years old, he got his first "pop" record, Daryl Hall & John Oates' 1980 blockbuster Voices. That record set him on an incredible path that readers of The Second Disc will no doubt recognize: the journey to a fruitful career in catalogue music. For nearly 25 years, Holiday maintained an incredible tenure in the major label reissue business, working at BMG's Buddha and Heritage imprints, surviving a 2005 merger with Sony Music (and BMG's divestment

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Categories: Features, Interviews Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: B.T. Express, Daryl Hall, Daryl Hall and John Oates, Graham Parker, The Fall

Let Your Love Shine: Darlene Love's RSD Release "The Many Sides of Love" Coming to CD in May

March 30, 2022 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Darlene Love TSD RSD

From the moment she stepped out of the background to sing the commanding leads on such classic songs as "Christmas (Baby Please Come Home)" and "He's a Rebel," Darlene Love's voice has been recognized as one of the most powerful in rock and R&B.  On Record Store Day, April 23, Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music will celebrate Love's extraordinary legacy of song with a new retrospective featuring fifteen of her most criminally overlooked recordings.  The Many Sides of Love: The Complete

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Bette Midler, Darlene Love, The Blossoms

Sky's the Limit: The Notorious B.I.G.'s 'Life After Death' Gets Hypnotizing Deluxe Vinyl Reissue

March 30, 2022 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Notorious BIG Life After Death

The Notorious B.I.G. - born Christopher Wallace on May 21, 1972 - would have celebrated his 50th birthday this year.  Though the groundbreaking rapper was murdered at the age of 24 in March 1997, his estate is teaming with Bad Boy, Rhino, and Atlantic Records to remember him with a yearlong campaign known as Sky's The Limit: A Year Celebrating the Legacy of the Notorious B.I.G. launching on March 25.  While the campaign will encompass digital releases, 4K upgrades of his music videos on YouTube,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Rap/Hip-Hop Tags: Puff Daddy, The Notorious B.I.G.

Take Me with U: 'Prince and The Revolution Live' Gets Remixed, Physical Release

March 30, 2022 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Prince and The Revolution Live packshot

It looks like a physical reissue of The Gold Experience isn't the only Prince release due from Legacy Recordings in June: the label will also premiere a physical audio release of Prince and The Revolution Live, a 1985 concert feature that offered one of the first glimmers of posthumous archival material from the legendary artist. As the first official release of a Prince show some 35 years ago, this set, recorded at The Carrier Dome in Syracuse, NY on March 30, 1985 - toward the end of the

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Prince

Live at the El Mocambo

March 29, 2022 By

Rolling Stones El Mocambo

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP Black Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP Neon Vinyl: Rolling Stones Online Shop The Rolling Stones are bringing their March, 1977 secret shows at Toronto's tiny El Mocambo club to 2-CD, 4-LP black vinyl, 4-LP neon vinyl, and digital formats. Live at the El Mocambo features the Stones' full set from March 5 (the second and final show), plus three bonus tracks from March 4, all newly mixed by Bob Clearmountain. Four of the

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

Satisfy My Soul: Bob Marley Goes Orchestral on Upcoming Release

March 29, 2022 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Bob Marley and Chineke Orchestra

Following in the footsteps of other late legends including Elvis Presley and Buddy Holly, Bob Marley will be next to receive the orchestral treatment.  Bob Marley & The Chineke! Orchestra is due on May 27 from Island Records/UMe.  The 10-song set, recorded at Abbey Road Studios under the aegis of producer Nick Patrick, merges Marley's original vocal tracks with new orchestrations.  The album features many of the reggae pioneer's most beloved compositions including "Get Up, Stand Up," "Is

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Everything Else, Reggae Tags: Bob Marley, The Chineke! Orchestra

Always on My Mind: Vinyl Me, Please Announces "VMP Anthology: The Story of Willie Nelson"

March 28, 2022 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

VMP The Story of Willie Nelson

On April 29, Willie Nelson will turn 89 years old.  The rare artist for whom "legend" isn't just mere hyperbole, Nelson's extraordinary career has spanned eight decades, over 70 studio albums, dozens of singles, film soundtracks, live releases, and more. The Vinyl Me, Please record club has just announced VMP Anthology: The Story of Willie Nelson to mark 60 years since his first studio LP, 1962's ...And Then I Wrote.  Its title reflected the fact that the album would feature a number of hits

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Country Tags: Willie Nelson

Rip This Joint: The Rolling Stones' 1977 Secret Show Released on "Live at the El Mocambo"

March 28, 2022 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Rolling Stones El Mocambo

A surprise gig for The Rolling Stones is now yielding a surprise release.  Back in March, 1977, two concerts were announced to take place at the small, roughly 300-capacity Toronto club El Mocambo.  Canadian rock band April Wine was confirmed as the headliner; the support act was an unknown band called The Cockroaches.  Tickets were distributed via a radio contest on CHUM-FM.  It wasn't until the contest winners were being transported to the club on a chartered bus that radio station officials

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: The Rolling Stones

Official Release Series Volume 4

March 25, 2022 By

Neil Young Official Release 4

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Greedy Hand Store A new box set brings together three of Neil Young's '80s albums, along with a rare EP making its widest release yet.  Official Release Series Volume 4 runs the gamut of Young's eclectic output in the '80s - likely because it only covers his releases on his longtime home base of Reprise Records. (From 1982 to 1987, Young signed instead to Geffen Records.) The '80s were a time of transition and experimentation for Young - much

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock

Mingus Three: Deluxe Edition

March 25, 2022 By

Charles Mingus Mingus Three

2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Rhino reissues the bassist-composer's 1957 album for Jubilee Records, Mingus Three, on CD and LP with eight previously unreleased performances.  A rare trio record for Mingus, it welcomed pianist Hampton Hawes and drummer Dannie Richmond and featured renditions of four familiar American Songbook standards ("Yesterdays," "I Can't Get Started," "Summertime," and "Laura") as well as two originals

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz

Release Round-Up: Week of March 25

March 25, 2022 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Hall and Oates Marigold Sky CD Reissue

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of new titles out today! Daryl Hall and John Oates, Marigold Sky: Expanded Edition (BMG) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada BMG's reissue of Daryl Hall and John Oates' 1997 album Marigold Sky - their first away from the major label system - adds three bonus tracks: the radio edit of "Romeo Is Bleeding," the remix of "Hold on to Yourself," and the Hot Mix of "The

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Country, Everything Else, Folk, Gospel, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Beatrice Arthur, Daryl Hall and John Oates, Dorothy Loudon, Karen Dalton, Kraftwerk, Michael Bublé, Ornette Coleman, Reba McEntire, Rodgers and Hart

'Mingus Three' and More: Deluxe Edition of Jazz Bassist's Album Includes Eight Unreleased Tracks

March 24, 2022 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Charles Mingus Mingus Three

Composer/bassist/pianist/leader Charles Mingus would have turned 100 on April 22, 2022.  While the influential artist passed away in 1979 at the age of 56, his music has continued to inspire and influence countless musicians since.  On April 22, Mingus' actual birthday, Rhino will release a deluxe 2CD or 2LP edition of his 1957 album for Jubilee Records, Mingus Three, featuring eight previously unreleased performances.  The release also commemorates Jazz Appreciation Month, held every April in

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz Tags: Charles Mingus

Totally Kool: First Dozen Kool & The Gang Albums Boxed by Edsel

March 22, 2022 By Mike Duquette 8 Comments

Kool Albums V1

For more than a half century, Kool & The Gang have been synonymous with a special, ever-changing kind of soul music - blending rhythm and blues, disco, jazz and funk, with a few decades of hits as a result. Edsel will celebrate Kool's legacy with a series of box sets starting with The Albums Vol. 1, a 13CD set including the group's studio and live output from the majority of their time together during the '70s. Formed by a troupe of high school friends in Jersey City, NJ (including

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Kool and the Gang

This Note's for You: Neil Young's Latest Albums Box Includes Rare 'Eldorado' EP

March 18, 2022 By The Second Disc 8 Comments

Neil Young Official Release 4

A new box set will bring together three of Neil Young's '80s albums, along with a rare EP making its widest release yet. Official Release Series Volume 4, available April 29, runs the gamut of Young's eclectic output in the '80s - likely because it only covers his releases on his longtime home base of Reprise Records. (From 1982 to 1987, Young signed instead to Geffen Records.) The '80s were a time of transition and experimentation for Young - much of it done on Geffen, though sparks of that

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Crazy Horse, Neil Young

Release Round-Up: Week of March 18

March 18, 2022 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Frank Zappa The Mothers 1971

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the titles arriving in stores today! Frank Zappa, The Mothers 1971 / Fillmore East - June 1971: 50th Anniversary Expanded Edition / Rainbow Theatre - December 10, 1971 (Zappa Records/UMe) The Mothers 1971: Official Zappa Store / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Fillmore East - June 1971: 50th Anniversary Expanded Edition: Official Zappa Store / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Rainbow Theatre -

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: April March, Flo and Eddie, Frank Zappa, Howard Jones, Jean-Luc Ponty, Keith Richards, Michael Nesmith, Micky Dolenz, Mountain, Son House, The Flamin' Groovies, Tony Hazzard

Open My Eyes: Ace Celebrates Todd Rundgren and Gus Dudgeon in Label's Producers Series

March 17, 2022 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Studio Wizardry of Todd Rundgren

In recent weeks, Ace Records has made two new additions to its ongoing Producers Series, and both titles spotlight the versatility of the respective talents, Todd Rundgren and Gus Dudgeon. The Studio Wizardry of Todd Rundgren is, in many senses, an update of Rhino's 1992 compilation An Elpee's Worth of Productions.  Like that set, it paints a portrait of the singer-songwriter largely in service of others' songs, though a handful of his own compositions appear, too.  Ace's collection spans

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Cheap Trick, Daryl Hall and John Oates, David Bowie, Elton John, Gus Dudgeon, Joan Armatrading, Patti Smith, Sparks, Strawbs, The Zombies, Todd Rundgren, Utopia, Various Artists, XTC

If It Makes You Happy: Sheryl Crow to Release Documentary, 2CD Companion Album

March 16, 2022 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Sheryl

Alongside a forthcoming documentary on her 30+ year career, Sheryl Crow and UMe will issue a double-disc companion soundtrack that serves as an in-depth overview and the place to hear her newest material. Sheryl, which premiered at South by Southwest this past weekend and will air on Showtime starting May 6, will chronicle Crow's fascinating rise and the trials she endured through every step of her colorful career. A hardworking session vocalist who spent much of 1988 as Michael Jackson's

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Country, Pop, Rock Tags: Sheryl Crow

Trimondo Blondomina: 'The Police Around the World' Set for First Release in 40 Years

March 15, 2022 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Police Around the World

It's not every day you see a big piece of catalogue get loosed from the jaws of rights holding or format availability - which is why we're extremely pleased to pass on the news that, four decades after its original release, The Police's first video album is coming back into print. The Police Around the World, a travelogue/live chronicle showcasing Sting, Stewart Copeland and Andy Summers on their ascent to the mantle of biggest band in the world, will get its first release on DVD and Blu-ray

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Andy Summers, Stewart Copeland, Sting, The Police

Harmony Constant: 7a Records Reissues, Expands Michael Nesmith's "And The Hits Just Keep On Comin'" For Its 50th Anniversary

March 14, 2022 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Michael Nesmith And The Hits Just Keep On Comin 50th

"I realized early on that Red was the magic carpet," the late Michael Nesmith observed to this author in 2020 of his longtime collaborator Orville "Red" Rhodes.  "I began to realize this guy is on another level...He's playing music up at the highest jazz levels, but he's playing all by himself.  I thought it was some of the most inspired and celestial pedal steel guitar music -which was like an impossibility, but it really was."  Perhaps no release better epitomizes the intuitive, almost

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop Tags: Michael Nesmith, Red Rhodes

Release Round-Up: Week of March 11

March 11, 2022 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

KISS Off the Soundboard Virginia Beach

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the titles arriving in stores today! Grateful Dead, Road Trips Vol. 1 No. 4: From Egypt with Love (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) A little over a month after playing a concert on the desert grounds surrounding the Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, the Grateful Dead returned home to San Francisco for a five-show stint at Winterland.  The band brought along a slide show of their Egyptian stand

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Alison Krauss, Amy Grant, Bryan Adams, Carole King, Celine Dion, Dolly Parton, Grateful Dead, Hank Williams, Harry Connick Jr., Irma Thomas, KISS, Liza Minnelli, Michael Feinstein, Ronnie Milsap, Rosanne Cash, Vince Gill

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