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
"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
La-La Means I Love You: Expanded Edition
Funky Town Grooves U.K. expands the classic 1968 debut album by The Delfonics with five bonus singles. La-La Means I Love You features such Thom Bell/William Hart classics as the title track, "I'm Sorry," and "Break Your Promise" plus covers of "Hurt So Bad," "The Look of Love" and "Alfie."
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,
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.
Fresh Cream: Super Deluxe Edition
The super deluxe edition of Cream's debut album Fresh Cream offers three CDs and one Blu-ray Audio disc with a treasure trove of extras. In addition to mono and stereo mixes of the original U.K. album, the set includes a myriad of mono single and EP material (including two ultra-rare French mono EPs), seven brand-new stereo remixes of album tracks and ten unreleased outtakes, and four complete and unedited BBC session appearances in 1966 and 1967. The Blu-ray Audio features 24/96 KHz
Chicago II: Steven Wilson Remix
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 2017.
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
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
Relax Your Mind
Folk bandleader Jim Kweskin led his Jug Band during the 1960s and recorded several albums for Vanguard records during the decade, recording primarily pre-World War II music. For his third album on Vanguard, however, Kweskin decided to record a solo album and only used two members of the Jug Band for backing. Released in 1965, Relax Your Mind features various styles from folk to African music. It makes its U.S. CD debut here from Real Gone.
The Best of the Dualtone Years
Late singer-songwriter Guy Clark (1941-2016) is celebrated on this new 2-CD anthology. The Best of the Dualtone Years chronicles the progressive country hero's 2006-2013 period at the Dualtone label during which time he recorded four well-received albums including the Grammy-winning My Favorite Picture of You. This release premieres three previously unreleased demos, and features new liner notes by Holly Gleason.
Hot Coffey In The D
Resonance Records gives a first-time release to a set of live recordings made by guitarist and Funk Brother Dennis Coffey at Morey Baker's Showplace Lounge in Detroit in 1968. Coffey is joined for this smoking set of instrumental R&B by organist Lyman Woodard (former musical director for Martha Reeves & the Vandellas) and drummer Melvin Davis (Smokey Robinson, Wayne Kramer) on original songs as well as covers of Burt Bacharach, Jimmy Webb, and Herbie Hancock. It's all lavishly packaged
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
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
Motel Shot: Expanded Edition
Motel Shot, released in 1971, was Delaney and Bonnie's fourth studio album and third overall album on Atco. Real Gone has given it an expanded reissue with eight recently discovered tracks from the album's original 1970 sessions. Featuring Leon Russell, Joe Cocker, Duane Allman, Gram Parsons, and Bobby Whitlock, among others, the album has never previously appeared on CD outside of Japan. It has been remastered by Bill Inglot and features liner notes by Pat Thomas with quotes from Bonnie
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
Archive Collection: Flowers in the Dirt
DELUXE EDITION (3CD/1DVD) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada TBD) SPECIAL EDITION (2CD) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada TBD) VINYL (2LP) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada TBD) Paul McCartney reassesses his 1989 album Flowers in the Dirt in a variety of formats. All boast a remastered version of the original 13-track album (including the CD and cassette bonus track "Où est le Soleil?") as the centerpiece, while the 3-CD/1-DVD Deluxe Edition Box Set and 2-CD
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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