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Spinning the Wheel: George Michael's 'Older' Prepped for Box Set Edition

April 6, 2022 By Mike Duquette 9 Comments

Older deluxe

The album George Michael called his "greatest moment" will get the deluxe treatment this summer: his third album, 1996's Older. Though the record came off a six-year gap between albums, the late British pop star was hardly idle. In the years since 1990's Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1, he'd embarked on a tour comprised of mostly cover songs and had a few major critical and commercial hits with some, too; chiefly, the chart-topping "Don't Let the Sun Go Down on Me" (a duet with its

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop Tags: George Michael

Shoot the Moon: Blue Note Expands Norah Jones' "Come Away with Me" For 20th Anniversary

April 5, 2022 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Norah Jones Come Away with Me 20

Since its release over 20 years ago on February 26, 2002, Norah Jones' Come Away with Me has become one of the biggest-selling albums of all time.  With its fusion of jazz, folk, traditional pop, and blues, Come Away with Me crossed over to multiple audiences.  The Blue Note album peaked at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and received eight Grammy Awards, including Album of the Year and Best Pop Vocal Album, as well as Record of the Year, Song of the Year, and Best Female Pop Vocal Performance (all

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Norah Jones

Prince and The Revolution Live

April 4, 2022 By

Prince and the Revolution Live 1

2CD/BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD/3LP/BD: Official Prince Store NPG and Legacy Recordings premiere a physical audio release of Prince and The Revolution Live, a 1985 concert feature recorded at The Carrier Dome in Syracuse, NY on March 30, 1985, toward the end of the Purple Rain tour and less than a month before the release of follow-up Around The World In a Day.  He's backed by an expanded version of The Revolution;

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Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

Life After Death (25th Anniversary Super Deluxe)

April 4, 2022 By

Notorious BIG Life After Death

Notorious B.I.G.'s 1997 album Life After Death was released on Bad Boy and Arista Records just sixteen days after his death.  The expansive double album debuted at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 and yielded two consecutive chart-topping singles, "Hypnotize" and "Mo Money Mo Problems."  Now, it's being reissued as a vinyl box set that's quadruple the size of the original double-LP, with eight vinyl albums including the remastered Life After Death (now presented on three LPs), and reissues of the

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Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Rap/Hip-Hop

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 Original Recordings

April 4, 2022 By

Sex Pistols Original Recordings

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Original Recordings - categorically unauthorized, per John Lydon, a.k.a. Johnny Rotten - is a simple 20-track summary of the short-lived punk icons' discography, culled mostly from their sole album Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols (1977) and odds-and-ends soundtrack The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle (1979), plus a few non-LP B-sides. The ostensible hook for the disc: the impending

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock

Album Box Set

April 4, 2022 By

ABBA Albums Box

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Picture Disc Bundle: Official Store To coincide with the arena show ABBA Voyage setting sail in London on May 27, the band's 2021 studio album Voyage will be canonized in a new career-spanning box set featuring every one of the quartet's nine studio LPs plus a specially-curated collection of singles and B-sides.  The new box clones the previously released The Vinyl Collection, offering all the

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop

One Step Ahead: Cherry Pop Reissues, Expands Debbie Gibson's "Anything Is Possible"

April 4, 2022 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Debbie Gibson Anything Is Possible Deluxe

Cherry Pop has continued its series of reissues from Debbie Gibson's Atlantic catalogue with a deluxe 2-CD expanded edition of the singer's 1990 album Anything Is Possible.  The original 16-song album has gained 17 bonus tracks in its most comprehensive presentation yet. The singer-songwriter burst onto the scene with 1987's Out of the Blue, yielding a number of worldwide hits including Billboard top 10 entries "Foolish Beat" (No. 1), "Only in My Dreams" (No. 4), "Out of the Blue" (No. 3),

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop Tags: Debbie Gibson, Lamont Dozier

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

Dance a Little Closer: Stage Door Reissues "Rainbows: The Lorna Dallas Album"

April 1, 2022 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Lorna Dallas Rainbows

Over the course of seven decades, Lorna Dallas has forged a remarkable career path all her own.  The Illinois-born vocalist and Indiana University graduate toured with the national company of the Metropolitan Opera and appeared on the WCBS-TV talent program Callback (its musical director: a young Barry Manilow) before making a splash in London as Magnolia in the acclaimed 1971 company of Show Boat starring Cleo Laine, Kenneth Nelson, and Andre Jobin.  Dallas made London her home and soon was

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Lorna Dallas

Holidays in the Sun: New Sex Pistols Collection to Precede Miniseries

April 1, 2022 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Sex Pistols Original Recordings

A new Sex Pistols collection is hitting shops in May - much to the chagrin of the band's former frontman. The Original Recordings is a simple 20-track summary of the short-lived punk icons, culled mostly from their sole album Never Mind The Bollocks Here's The Sex Pistols (1977) and odds-and-ends soundtrack The Great Rock 'N' Roll Swindle (1979), plus a few non-LP B-sides. The ostensible hook for the disc: the impending airing of Pistol, a fictionalized miniseries about the group (based on

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Sex Pistols

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

Sway: The Best of Carla Olson and Mick Taylor

March 30, 2022 By

Sway The Best of Carla Olson and Mick Taylor CD

This new 2-CD collection from singer-songwriter Carla Olson and longtime Rolling Stones guitarist Mick Taylor is brimming with 25 tracks (five of which are previously unreleased) of rootsy Americana, blues, and rock-and-roll.  The set expands Carla and Mick's 1990 Live (at the Roxy) album with additional tracks from the duo drawn from Olson's various studio albums.  Guests include Ian McLagan, Barry Goldberg, and harmonica virtuoso John Luke Logan.  Among the unreleased material is an extended

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Formats: CD Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Rock

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

Official Bootleg Series Vols. 3-5

March 29, 2022 By

Neil Young Royce Hall 1971

OBS 3: Dorothy Chandler Pavilion (Los Angeles: February 1, 1971) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada OBS 4: Royce Hall (Los Angeles: January 30, 1971) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada OBS 5: Citizen Kane Jr. Blues (Live at The Bottom Line) (NYC: May 16, 1974) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Neil Young

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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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Bob Marley and The Chineke! Orchestra

March 29, 2022 By

Bob Marley and Chineke Orchestra

This 10-song set, recorded at Abbey Road Studios under the aegis of producer Nick Patrick, merges Bob Marley's original vocal tracks with new orchestrations played by The Chineke! Orchestra, an adventurous ensemble dedicated to increasing diversity in music.  The album features many of the reggae pioneer's most beloved compositions including "Get Up, Stand Up," "Is This Love," "One Love," and "I Shot the Sheriff."  Available on CD, LP, and digital formats. as well as in a Target-exclusive 2-CD

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Everything Else, Reggae

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

The Weekend Stream: March 26, 2022

March 26, 2022 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

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En Vogue, Funky Divas (Expanded Edition) (Elektra/Rhino) (iTunes / Amazon) The R&B quartet's sophomore album, released in 1992, was their biggest, featuring the Top 10 pop hits "My Lovin' (You're Never Gonna Get It)," "Giving Him Something He Can Feel" (a cover of Aretha Franklin's Curtis Mayfield-penned classic from the film Sparkle) and the rock-oriented "Free Your Mind." This digital expansion offers an additional eight vintage

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Categories: Features, The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Depeche Mode, Ella Fitzgerald, En Vogue, Pantera, Sting

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