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Release Round-Up: Week of September 23

September 23, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Bruce Springsteen Chapter and Verse

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, packed with heavy hitters! David Bowie, Who Can I Be Now (1974-1976) (Parlophone) 12-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 13-LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada David Bowie - Who Can I Be Now? (1974-1976), the second in the late artist's series of deluxe albums box sets, will contain the following albums plus a 128-page booklet in the CD edition (or 84 pages in the vinyl edition.  You'll find more details here, and watch

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, Fleetwood Mac, Frank Zappa, My Chemical Romance, Pink Floyd, Randy Newman, Ray Charles, The Beach Boys, The Searchers, The Verve, Various Artists

Behind The Wall of Sleep: Rhino Expands Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" To Four Discs

September 22, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Black Sabbath Paranoid 1

Upon its release in September 1970, Black Sabbath's sophomore album Paranoid helped make clear the transition from "hard rock" to "heavy metal" and remains one of the most essential albums of the metal canon.  On November 11, Rhino will revisit Paranoid in a 4-CD Super Deluxe box set edition. Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward followed up their self-titled debut album of early 1970 with Paranoid, recording it in London in June.  Whereas Black Sabbath placed impressively at

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Black Sabbath

A Summer Song: RPM Collects Chad and Jeremy's Complete Early Years On "Yesterday's Gone"

September 22, 2016 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Chad and Jeremy Yesterdays Gone 1

In the halcyon days of the British Invasion, Chad Stuart and Jeremy Clyde notched an impressive eleven Hot 100 singles and six Top 100 albums in the United States.  Their appealing blend of folk and pop, with soft, often hushed vocals and tight harmonies, earned them the attention of Columbia Records, where they recorded five albums before disbanding.  Cherry Red's RPM imprint has recently released a 2-CD, 57-track collection bringing together Chad and Jeremy's early recordings for Ember (in the

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Chad and Jeremy, John Barry

57th and 9th

September 22, 2016 By

Sting 57th and 9th

Sting returns to the rock/pop world with 57th and 9th, a collection of all-new songs featuring his longtime collaborators Dominic Miller (guitar) and Vinnie Colaiuta (drums) plus drummer Josh Freese (Nine Inch Nails, Guns n Roses), guitarist Lyle Workman and the San Antonio-based Tex-Mex band The Last Bandoleros.  Available on deluxe and standard CD, DD and LP.  Links to the deluxe CD edition can be found below!

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Rock

Here We Come A-Caroling: Real Gone's November Christmas Slate Features Ray Conniff, The Ventures, Robert Shaw and Norman Luboff

September 21, 2016 By Randy Fairman 9 Comments

The Ventures Christmas Album

As we are still over a month away from Halloween, it may seem a bit early to be thinking about Christmas.  But stores have already bringing out small bits of Christmas merchandise and the merriest season seems to start a little earlier each year.  Real Gone Music is ready to get in the holiday mood with the announcement of their Christmas-related November 4 line-up, which has become a yearly tradition for the label! We've already told you about the three Second Disc Records releases:  Jack

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Eddy Arnold, Jack Jones, Living Guitars, Living Strings, Mantovani, Mitch Miller, Ray Conniff, Sammy Kaye, The Norman Luboff Choir, The Robert Shaw Chorale, The Ventures, Tom Tom Club

Oh By Gosh, By Golly: Second Disc Records Celebrates Christmas with Jack Jones, Eddy Arnold and Mitch Miller

September 21, 2016 By Joe Marchese 10 Comments

Jack Jones Christmas Album

The most wonderful time of the year is upon us once again, and as longtime readers know, The Second Disc is always excited to spread the holiday spirit!  This year is a particularly special year for us, as we're thrilled to bring not one, not two, but three new releases to CD on November 4 via Second Disc Records in association with the premier label for holiday tunes, Real Gone Music! First up is the CD debut one of the most-demanded holiday albums of all time.  For more than six

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country, Holiday, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Eddy Arnold, Jack Jones, Mitch Miller and the Gang

Daybreak For Dolenz: Micky's "MGM Singles" Expanded For CD Premiere

September 21, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Micky Dolenz MGM

Last July, the 7a Records label debuted with a limited edition vinyl release of Micky Dolenz's The MGM Singles Collection.  Since that auspicious release, the all-things-Monkees label founded by Iain Lee and Glenn Gretlund has enriched Micky, Peter, Michael and Davy's discography with numerous other releases on both vinyl and compact disc.  On October 7, the label will be going full circle with the first-time CD release of The MGM Singles Collection in a lavishly expanded edition featuring the

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Pop Tags: Christian Nesmith, Circe Link, Micky Dolenz, The Monkees

Zappatite: Frank Zappa's Tastiest Tracks

September 20, 2016 By

Frank Zappa Zappatite

Zappa Records and UMe offer up a serving of Zappa's "tastiest tracks"  from "Trouble Every Day" off the 1966 Freak Out! album to 1987's "Strictly Genteel" featuring The London Symphony Orchestra.  This sampler platter includes "Valley Girl," "Peaches en Regalia," "Don't Eat the Yellow Snow" and more from the late musical iconoclast.

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock

Good to Me: Otis Redding's "Dictionary," Complete Whisky A Go Go Recordings Due Next Month

September 20, 2016 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Otis Redding Live at the Whisky Complete

Fans of Otis Redding have twice the reason to celebrate this holiday season with the release of two separate products celebrating The King of Soul's output in 1966. First up, Rhino is reissuing Complete & Unbelievable...The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul as a double-disc set. Joe filled us in on this release back in August, but here's a refresher: This album, Otis' fifth and final released before his tragic passing the following year, is Memphis soul par excellence, recorded with an

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Otis Redding

Blue Part of Town: Steve Hackett Revisits, Expands "Blues With A Feeling"

September 20, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Steve Hackett Blues with a Feeling

Steve Hackett, the lead guitarist of Genesis between 1970 and 1977, has recently revisited his 1994 solo album Blues with a Feeling for an expanded reissue on Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings imprint.  This release follows up other Genesis-related releases from Esoteric drawing on the catalogues of Hackett (including a reissue of his 1986 supergroup album GTR with Steve Howe), Tony Banks and Anthony Phillips. Hackett's first solo album, Voyage of the Acolyte, arrived in 1975 while he was

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Blues, Rock Tags: Genesis, Steve Hackett

The Randy Newman Songbook [Box Set]

September 19, 2016 By

Randy Newman Songbook 1

The Randy Newman Songbook box set marks the first-ever combined release of all three of the legendary songwriter's piano-and-voice Songbook albums (including the new Vol. 3) recorded in 2003 and 2010 with producers Mitchell Froom and Lenny Waronker.  All songs have been resequenced as one cohesive, thematically-linked listening experience spread over 4 CDs.  Additionally, the box boasts five exclusive, previously unreleased bonus tracks: the now-standard "Feels Like Home," "A Wedding in Cherokee

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop

Out of Time: 25th Anniversary Edition

September 18, 2016 By

REM Out of Time

3-CD/1-BD Box Set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 2-CD Set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 1-CD Remaster: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 3-LP Set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 1-LP Remaster: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. R.E.M.'s 1991 classic is revisited as a 3 CD/1 Blu-ray set, a 2-CD set, a 3-LP set, a single LP of the original album and as a digital download as part of the band's new deal with Concord Bicycle Music.  The box includes the original album on Disc 1 followed by nineteen demo tracks on Disc 2. 

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Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Rock

World On A String

September 18, 2016 By

Frank Sinatra World on a String

Featuring performances spanning 1953 to 1982, this new live collection boasts more than four hours' worth of rare audio and video from the legendary Chairman of the Board - over 90 tracks on CD alone including such Sinatra favorites as "I Get a Kick Out of You," "I've Got You Under My Skin," "The Lady is a Tramp," "Witchcraft" and "Bewitched" right up through "Strangers in the Night," ""My Way" and "(Theme From) New York, New York."  Nelson Riddle, Billy May, Don Costa, Gordon Jenkins and Quincy

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal

Stand Up: The Elevated Edition

September 18, 2016 By

Jethro Tull Stand Up Elevated Edition

For the past several years, Jethro Tull has been releasing expanded editions of their albums featuring new remixes by Steven Wilson.  Coming on November 18, just under a year after the release of the last reissue in the series of 1976's Too Old to Rock 'n' Roll: Too Young to Die!, is a 2CD/1DVD version of 1969'sStand Up, entitled Stand Up: The Elevated Edition.  It includes: Original album and bonus tracks (including the previously unreleased "Bouree") remixed in 5.1 surround and stereo by

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock

The Divine Miss M: Deluxe Edition

September 18, 2016 By

Bette Midler The Divine Miss M Deluxe

Prior to her her Broadway return in a revival of Hello, Dolly!, Bette Midler revisits her roots on a reissue of her debut album The Divine Miss M. The 1972 classic, with production by Joel Dorn, Barry Manilow and Ahmet Ertegun, features the original album remastered on the first disc together with a second disc of nine bonus tracks including five previously unreleased tracks.  The bonus cuts include four single versions, three alternate recordings of songs (the never-before-heard "Superstar" and

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Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Pop

The Wonder of You: Elvis with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra

September 18, 2016 By

Elvis The Wonder of You

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada CD/LP Deluxe Box: Amazon U.K. This new collection follows the pattern of last year's chart-topping If I Can Dream, grafting vintage Elvis Presley vocals to newly recorded orchestral settings.  Produced by the same team of Don Reedman and Nick Patrick, with the Royal Philharmonic recorded at Abbey Road Studios, The Wonder of You features 15 songs from several of Elvis' preferred genres from

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Pop

The New Complete Edition

September 18, 2016 By

Mozart Complete

225 years after the composer's passing, W.A. Mozart: The New Complete Edition chronicles every last note of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's many compositions over a staggering 200 discs. Limited to 15,000 copies worldwide, this box features 240 hours of performance, including five hours of new recordings, some done on instruments the composer personally used.  Eighteen labels, including Decca and Deutsch Grammophon, will be represented, and 70% of the recordings are alternate to Philips Classics'

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classical/Opera

Listen Without Prejudice 25

September 18, 2016 By

George Michael Listen 25

2-CD (Disc 1 & 2 Only): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3-CD/1-DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Legacy is delivering a deluxe edition of George Michael's classic 1990 album.  Listen Without Prejudice 25 sees release in several formats.  The biggest is a 3-CD/1 DVD box set.  The first CD contains a remastered version of the original album.  The second disc is the CD premiere of Michael's MTV Unplugged concert from

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Pop

Release Round-Up: Week of September 16

September 16, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Led Zeppelin Complete BBC Sessions

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Led Zeppelin, The Complete BBC Sessions (Atlantic/Swan Song/Rhino) 3 CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5 LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3 CD/5 LP Super Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Digital Download: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. This new collection expands the original double-disc set, from 1997, which was culled from the band's appearances on BBC radio between 1969 and 1971. This updated

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bobby Rush, Jim Steinman, Led Zeppelin, Meat Loaf, Pete Townshend, Petula Clark, Shirley Horn, Various Artists, Willie Nelson

Have Some Faith in The Sound: George Michael's "Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1" To Be Expanded to a Box Set To Mark Anniversary

September 15, 2016 By Randy Fairman 5 Comments

George Michael Listen 25

Last year marked the 25th anniversary of George Michael's second solo album Listen Without Prejudice Vol. 1.  While nothing hit the shelves last year to commemorate the occasion, that is being rectified this year when Legacy Recordings releases Listen Without Prejudice 25 on November 11. After the breakup of Wham! in 1986, George Michael moved quickly to kick his solo career into high gear.  The result was the 1987 album Faith, where he wrote (or co-wrote) and produced every track.  Buoyed by

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: George Michael

Don't Walk On By: Legacy To Release Single-Disc Roy Orbison Career Retrospective

September 14, 2016 By Randy Fairman 3 Comments

Roy Orbison Ultimate

This last April marks what would have been Roy Orbison's 80th birthday had he not sadly died in 1988 at the age of 52.  As one of the pioneers of rock 'n' roll, there have been numerous compilations and reissues devoted to Orbison's career.  Just this last year, Universal released a 13-CD box set chronicling his tenure at MGM Records.  But, despite all of the collections over the years, there hasn't been one that rounded up selections from most stages of his career from his time at Sun Records 

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Roy Orbison, The Traveling Wilburys

New 200CD Box Set is the Last Word on Mozart

September 13, 2016 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Mozart Complete

How much do you love Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart? A mammoth box set from Decca is celebrating the composer this fall. The Austrian composer lived just 35 years, from 1756 to 1791, but his impact on Western music is hard to deny. An acclaimed keyboardist and a composer from age five, Mozart's body of work--which spanned from symphonies to concertos, chamber and sacred music, and even operas like The Marriage of Figaro and The Magic Flute--remains the most influential of the classic period. It's a

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classical/Opera Tags: Mozart

Going On Together: Elvis Joined by Royal Philharmonic for Orchestral Sequel

September 13, 2016 By Randy Fairman 3 Comments

Elvis The Wonder of You

Despite having passed away nearly 40 years ago, Elvis Presley remains a large presence on the charts and on the shelves of stores.  Just this year, Elvis has had a 60-disc box devoted to all of the music he released in his lifetime and a 2-CD set concentrating on his final recordings .  And last year's If I Can Dream: Elvis Presley with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, melding Elvis' vocals with new orchestral backings, hit the Top 25 in the U.S. but was a larger success in the U.K. - hitting

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Elvis Presley

WIN! WIN! WIN! Ready To Take A Chance: Varese Reissues Charles Fox Soundtrack, Solo LP

September 12, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Foul Play OST

If, by chance, you don't know the name of Charles Fox, you undoubtedly know his songbook: "Ready to Take a Chance Again."  "Killing Me Softly with His Song."  "I Got a Name."  The themes to The Love Boat, Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Love American Style, The Bugaloos, Angie, Wonder Woman, and more.   Varese Vintage has recently celebrated the Emmy and Grammy-winning composer's enormous legacy with two reissues.  The soundtrack to Foul Play returns to CD (having been previously issued as a

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Soundtracks Tags: Barry Manilow, Charles Fox

Review: The Beatles, "Live at The Hollywood Bowl"

September 9, 2016 By Joe Marchese 12 Comments

Beatles Live at the Hollywood Bowl

And now...here they are...The Beatles! The summers of 1964 and 1965 are now more than fifty years in the rearview mirror, yet the music made by four lads from Liverpool over three evenings at Los Angeles' famous Hollywood Bowl now sounds so fresh and so immediate, you could believe it was recorded yesterday.  Such is the work of the sonic wizards on Capitol/Apple/UMe's first-time-on-CD, retitled, remixed and expanded reissue of The Beatles' Live at the Hollywood Bowl (B0025451-02,

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: The Beatles

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