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Release Round-Up: Week of August 5

August 5, 2022 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Neil Young Noise And Flowers

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today! Michael Nesmith, Different Drum: The Lost RCA Victor Recordings (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music are bringing Michael Nesmith's Different Drum: The Lost RCA Victor Recordings to vinyl for the first time today!  This 2-LP compendium features 22 tracks on CD drawn from the RCA Victor

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Country, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Alan Silvestri, Andy Bey, Bobbie Gentry, Eugene Ormandy, James Horner, Jerry Lee Lewis, Judy Garland, Mario Lanza, Michael Nesmith, Neil Young, Paul McCartney, Promise of the Real, Sha Na Na, Tintern Abbey

As You Walk on By: New Box Celebrates the Music of John Hughes Films

August 4, 2022 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Hughes box packshot

A wise philosopher...or maybe a punk kid...or maybe an astute screenwriter?...once wrote "Life moves pretty fast - if you don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it." A new box set devoted to that iconic filmmaker - the late John Hughes - will help fans enjoy some of that life a little more through a diverse collection of pop songs he helped bring to the masses. Life Moves Pretty Fast. The John Hughes Mixtapes offers four volumes of songs from the writer/director's popular

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Cassette, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Everything Else, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Big Audio Dynamite, Billy Idol, Boston, Bryan Ferry, Darlene Love, Echo and the Bunnymen, Emmylou Harris, Joe Jackson, Kate Bush, Kirsty MacColl, Lindsey Buckingham, Los Lobos, Marvin Gaye, New Order, Oingo Boingo, Otis Redding, Patti Smith, Perry Como, Ray Charles, Sigue Sigue Sputnik, Spandau Ballet, Steve Earle, Suzanne Vega, The Association, The Beat, The Dream Academy, The English Beat, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Psychedelic Furs, Thompson Twins, Zapp

If You Build It They Will Come: Real Gone's August Vinyl Releases Include "Field of Dreams," "Serendipity," Tintern Abbey, and Andy Bey

August 3, 2022 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Tintern Abbey Beeside Anthology

Real Gone Music has another packed slate coming out this Friday, August 5.  In addition to the Second Disc Records/RGM release of Michael Nesmith's Different Drum: The Lost RCA Victor Recordings as a 2-LP set, Real Gone is releasing another six vinyl titles.  Here is a look at four of them, ranging from British psychedelia to jazz to soundtracks.  We'll have Part Two tomorrow! First up is a vinyl anthology from British psych group Tintern Abbey.  During their existence back in the late 1960s,

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Soundtracks Tags: Alan Silvestri, Andy Bey, James Horner, Tintern Abbey

Celluloid Heroes: The Kinks Combine "Muswell Hillbillies," "Everybody's in Show-Biz" on New Box

July 27, 2022 By Randy Fairman 12 Comments

Kinks Muswell and Show Biz Box

The Kinks are going super deluxe with a joint reissue of two of the band's most significant albums.  On September 9, BMG will issue a combined box celebrating The Kinks' first two albums for the RCA label: 1971's Muswell Hillbillies and 1972's Everybody's in Show-Biz / Everybody's a Star.  The campaign will encompass a variety of formats including the centerpiece 6LP/4CD/1BD box plus 2CD, 1LP, 2LP, 2CD, 1CD, and digital releases. Muswell Hillbillies, the band's ninth studio album, was named

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: The Kinks

One and One Make Love: Godley and Creme's pre-10cc Days Collected on "Frabjous Days"

July 26, 2022 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Godley and Creme Frabjous Days

Kevin Godley and Lol Creme might be best known as founding members of 10cc...or as a pioneering pop duo...or as directors of groundbreaking music videos for such artists as The Police, Duran Duran, Sting, and George Harrison.  But pre-fame, Godley and Creme recorded an unreleased album for impresario Giorgio Gomelsky.  Now, that album - and a clutch of related material - has finally seen the light of day from Cherry Red's Grapefruit imprint as Frabjous Days: The Secret World of Godley and Creme

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: 10cc, Godley and Creme, Graham Gouldman

Loose Salute: Michael Nesmith's "Different Drum: The Lost RCA Victor Recordings" Comes to Vinyl in August

July 19, 2022 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Michael Nesmith Different Drum Vinyl

You asked, we answered!  Since Michael Nesmith's Different Drum: The Lost RCA Victor Recordings premiered on CD in April 2021 from Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records, we've been inundated with requests for a vinyl edition.  In a little over two weeks, on August 5, the 22-track anthology will make its debut in the format as a deluxe gatefold 2-LP set pressed on "blue smoke" vinyl. Let's fill you in with our official press release: Michael Nesmith long travelled to the beat of a "Different

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop Tags: Michael Nesmith, The Monkees

Just in Time: Restored, Complete Presentation of Judy Garland's Final Concert Comes to CD, Digital Formats

July 15, 2022 By Joe Marchese 8 Comments

Judy Garland The Final Concert in Copenhagen

On March 25, 1969, Judy Garland took the stage at Copenhagen's Falkoner Centret for a concert in which she was joined by Johnnie Ray as the opening act and an orchestra under the direction of Tony Osborne.  Garland weighed a mere 90 pounds but her physical frailty was no impediment to her delivering a concert packed with classic songs, newer additions, and an abundance of authenticity, emotion, and heart.  Sadly, the Copenhagen performance was to be Judy's last-ever public concert.  Less than

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Johnnie Ray, Judy Garland

Touch 'Em with Love: Highlights from Bobbie Gentry's "The Girl from Chickasaw County" Coming to CD, LP in August

July 6, 2022 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Bobbie Gentry The Girl from Chickasaw County Highlights

Mississippi-born singer-songwriter Bobbie Gentry reached the pinnacle of success - earning hit singles, winning Grammy Awards, headlining a BBC series of her own, selling out engagements in Las Vegas, and appearing with Johnny Carson - before pulling off music's ultimate disappearing act.  Gentry last performed in public on a television special in 1981 and last appeared in public at the 1982 Academy of Country Music Awards presentation.  She was 39. But the music of Bobbie Gentry has never

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Country, Pop Tags: Bobbie Gentry, Glen Campbell

Liza Minnelli's "Live in New York 1979" Hits Stores TOMORROW from Real Gone Music, Second Disc Records on CD and Vinyl

June 30, 2022 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Liza Live in New York 1979

Tomorrow, July 1, Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records revisit a landmark album recorded in the heart of New York, New York by one of the most extraordinary entertainers of all time.  It's perhaps our most expansive release ever: the very first reissue - not to mention first-ever wide release - of Liza Minnelli's electrifying Live in New York 1979.  This remarkable "lost" concert album will be released as a deluxe vinyl set on 2 LPs and an Ultimate Edition on 3 CDs. When the Oscar, Emmy,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Liza Minnelli

Let's Face the Music and Dance: Ella Fitzgerald's Live Irving Berlin Songbook Arrives Tomorrow

June 23, 2022 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Ella Fitzgerald Hollywood Bowl

When Ella Fitzgerald selected the songs of Irving Berlin for the fourth volume in her acclaimed Songbook series, it turned out to be a match made in heaven.  Ella Fitzgerald Sings the Irving Berlin Songbook, recorded over one week in March 1958, featured more than 30 selections from the legendary songwriter including "Puttin' on the Ritz," "Alexander's Ragtime Band," "Cheek to Cheek," "How Deep Is the Ocean," "Always," and "I've Got My Love to Keep Me Warm."  Berlin's extraordinary body of work

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Ella Fitzgerald, Paul Weston

The Exodus Continues: New Digital Titles Celebrate 45 Years of a Bob Marley Classic

June 15, 2022 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Bob Marley Exodus

Universal Music Enterprises is teaming with the estate of Bob Marley through the whole month of June to release four new digital titles in honor of the 45th anniversary of Exodus, one of his many acclaimed albums with The Wailers. Recorded in London as Marley stayed out of his native Jamaica following a failed assassination attempt, Exodus combined traditional reggae style with blues and soul, spinning a web of politically conscious and uplifting songs along the way. "Jamming," "Waiting in

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: R&B/Soul, Reggae, Rock Tags: Bob Marley, Bob Marley and the Wailers

The Search Is Over: Jimi Jamison's Previously Unreleased Debut Album "Rock Hard" Arrives on Iconoclassic

June 14, 2022 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Jimi Jamison Rock Hard

As the voice of Survivor between 1984 and 1989, Jimi Jamison (1951-2014) introduced such powerful rock staples as "I Can't Hold Back," "Is This Love," and "The Search is Over."  Formerly of the bands Target and Cobra, Jamison melded a fiery, powerful tone with raw emotion to become one of the defining voices of his generation.  With Survivor having gone on hiatus following the release of 1988's Too Hot to Sleep, Jamison pursued a solo career which bore fruit on the 1991 Scotti Bros. release When

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Rock Tags: Jimi Jamison, Survivor

Words and Music - May 1965

June 13, 2022 By

Lou Reed Words and Music May 1965

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Black Vinyl LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Yellow Vinyl LP: Light in the Attic Store Cassette: Light in the Attic Store CD/2LP/7" Vinyl Deluxe Edition: Light in the Attic Store Light in the Attic launches The Lou Reed Archive Series with Words & Music, May 1965.  Available on CD, cassette, and multiple vinyl formats, Words & Music will collect some of Reed's earliest and most significant recordings.  Produced in

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

The Light User Syndrome [Expanded Edition]

June 13, 2022 By

The Fall The Light User Syndrome

Iconoclassic reissues and expands The Fall's 18th studio album as a 2-CD set.  1996's The Light User Syndrome - the band's first album with Julia Nagle and last with Brix Smith - was previously reissued on CD via the Receiver and Castle Music labels.  But whereas the Castle edition had just two bonus tracks (the single sides "The Chiselers" and "Chilinist"),  Iconoclassic's upcoming expansion boasts those two sides as well as an additional 10 cuts.  The first CD features the original album,

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Formats: CD Genre: Rock

Powder Keg: Iconoclassic Remasters, Expands The Fall's "The Light User Syndrome"

June 10, 2022 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

The Fall The Light User Syndrome

Since relaunching this year, the Iconoclassic label has brought a Graham Parker gem to CD in an expanded edition and delivered a definitive reissue of B.T. Express' debut album.  On July 1, the label will add another feather to its cap with a 2-CD deluxe edition of The Fall's lone album for Jet Records, 1996's The Light User Syndrome. The Light User Syndrome was the 18th studio album from the Manchester band founded by singer-songwriter Mark E. Smith in 1976.  He would be the one constant in

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Rock Tags: The Fall

Not Too Late: LITA Debuts Lou Reed Archive Series with "Words and Music - May 1965"

June 8, 2022 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Lou Reed Words and Music May 1965

"I was working for a record company as a songwriter," Lou Reed remembered in 1972, "where they'd lock me in a room and they'd say, 'Write ten surfing songs,' ya know, and I wrote 'Heroin' and I said, 'Hey, I've got something for ya.'  They said, 'Never gonna happen, never gonna happen.'"  Reed wasn't able to introduce "Heroin" to the world until March 1967 when the Verve label released The Velvet Underground & Nico.  The VU's debut album disappointed commercially but became greatly

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Cassette, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: John Cale, Lou Reed, The Velvet Underground

COMING TOMORROW! Stoney and Meatloaf's "Everything Under the Sun: The Motown Recordings" Arrives from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music

June 2, 2022 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Stoney and Meatloaf Everything Under the Sun The Motown Recordings

Meat Loaf exploded to superstardom like a Bat Out of Hell with his 1977 solo debut.  But the roots of his success could be traced to his short but blazing tenure with Motown.  In 1970, the young performer with the big frame and even bigger voice was garnering rave reviews in the Detroit company of Hair alongside Shaun Murphy, a.k.a. Stoney, a powerhouse blues singer who stopped the show nightly with her incendiary rendition of "Easy to Be Hard."  Motown quickly saw the potential of this

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Meat Loaf, Shaun Murphy, Stoney and Meatloaf

Watermelon Man: Music from the Original Soundtrack

June 2, 2022 By

Watermelon Man OST

Watermelon Skin Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music America Swirl Vinyl: Real Gone Music Color Variant: Barnes & Noble Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records are returning Melvin Van Peebles' score to his groundbreaking 1970 comedy Watermelon Man back into print for the first time in more than five decades.  Watermelon Man shattered conventions with its bitingly satirical story about a white couple, intolerant and obnoxious insurance salesman Jeff Gerber

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: R&B/Soul, Soundtracks

Waiting for Columbus: Super Deluxe Edition

June 1, 2022 By

Little Feat Waiting for Columbus

8CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP (Original Album Only): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada  Rhino celebrates 45 years of the original concerts that formed Little Feat's seminal live album Waiting for Columbus with this new 8-CD presentation.  The Super Deluxe Edition kicks off with a remastered version of the original album (culled from concerts in Washington, DC and London) on two CDs, following that presentation with three never-before-released live performances

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

The Resurrection of Rust

June 1, 2022 By

Rusty The Resurrection of Rust

Elvis Costello has joined his old friend Allan Mayes to reform Rusty, the band in which they played in 1972-1973.  Costello and Mayes were joined by The Imposters and guest keyboardist Bob Andrews of Brinsley Schwarz for this newly-recorded six-song album comprising Rusty originals plus covers of Nick Lowe, Jim Ford, and Neil Young played in the band's original setlists.  The Resurrection of Rust arrives digitally June 10; the U.S. date for the CD release is July 29 (delayed from July 1) while

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

Surrender to the Rhythm: Elvis Costello Reforms His First Band, Rusty, For "The Resurrection of Rust"

May 31, 2022 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Rusty The Resurrection of Rust

In his 2015 memoir Unfaithful Music and Disappearing Ink, Elvis Costello recalled an early gig at the British Legion Hall "on the posh side of Birkenhead Park" in Birkenhead, Merseyside.  "I can't say my set was a triumph," he wrote.  "I went off to a round of feeble applause from a handful of pensioners supping mild beer and a smattering of teenagers in army petticoats drinking cider.  However, once I found a singing partner in Allan Mayes, my performances became a little more controlled and

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Allan Mayes, Elvis Costello, Rusty

Mercenary Territory: Rhino Turn Little Feat's 'Waiting for Columbus' Into Multi-Show Box Set

May 26, 2022 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Little Feat Waiting for Columbus

Last year for Black Friday's Record Store Day event, Rhino premiered Little Feat's Electrif Lycanthrope: Live at Ultra-Sonic Studios 1974, a concert album recorded in front of an intimate studio audience in Hempstead, New York.  The band originally fronted by Lowell George always blossomed in a live setting, with that particular brand of electricity best captured on 1978's Waiting for Columbus.  The double album recorded in 1977 at London's Rainbow Theatre and Washington, DC's Lisner Auditorium

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Little Feat

Liza Minnelli's Landmark "Live in New York 1979" Comes to Ultimate 3-CD Edition, 2-LP Set from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music

May 25, 2022 By The Second Disc 27 Comments

Liza Live in New York 1979

Start spreading the news.  On July 1, Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records will revisit a landmark album recorded in the heart of New York, New York by one of the most extraordinary entertainers of all time.  It's perhaps our most expansive release ever: the very first reissue - not to mention first-ever wide release - of Liza Minnelli's electrifying Live in New York 1979.  This remarkable "lost" concert album will be released as a deluxe vinyl set on 2 LPs and an Ultimate Edition on 3

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Liza Minnelli

Sweet Music Man: Dolly Parton, Chris Stapleton, Oak Ridge Boys, and More Pay Tribute to Kenny Rogers on "All In for the Gambler"

May 19, 2022 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Kenny Rogers All In for the Gambler

On Wednesday, October 25, 2017, Kenny Rogers took the stage at Nashville's Bridgestone Arena for what was billed as a farewell concert celebration.  Rogers' final tour, The Gambler's Last Deal, would encompass further performances (including a run of Christmas shows in December 2017) before a halt was announced, on doctor's orders, of a planned 2018 leg.  But the all-star Nashville show was a symbolic last hurrah for the superstar who died in March 2020 at the age of 81.  The tribute concert,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, DVD Genre: Country Tags: Chris Stapleton, Crystal Gayle, Dolly Parton, Idina Menzel, Kenny Rogers, Lady A, Lee Greenwood, The Oak Ridge Boys, Wynonna Judd

Art Blakey's Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk: Deluxe Edition

May 17, 2022 By

Art Blakeys Jazz Messengers with Thelonious Monk

On May 14 and 15, 1957, piano great Thelonious Monk joined drummer Art Blakey and his loose musical collective known as the Jazz Messengers to record an album for Atlantic Records.  The resulting LP, Monk's lone appearance on the label, remains a high point in both artists' discographies.  Blakey and Monk were joined by Johnny Griffin on tenor saxophone, Bill Hardman on trumpet, and bassist Spanky DeBrest for the session which featured such Monk compositions as "In Walked Bud," "Blue Monk," and

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