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Slide on Down: Steely Dan's "Gaucho" Returns in December

October 24, 2023 By Joe Marchese 8 Comments

Steely Dan Gaucho

Go back, Jack, do it again: The Steely Dan reissue campaign rolls on with the December 1 return of Gaucho, Donald Fagen and Walter Becker's final album before putting the Dan on a two-decade hiatus.  Gaucho follows the previous vinyl reissues of Can't Buy a Thrill (1972), Countdown to Ecstasy (1973), Pretzel Logic (1974), and, most recently, Aja (1977).  In addition to the 180-gram vinyl series from Geffen/UMe, a concurrent program from Analogue Productions is reissuing each record on SACD and

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Categories: News Formats: SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop Tags: Steely Dan

Christmas Gems

October 23, 2023 By

Bing Crosby Christmas Gems

Primary Wave delivers a new Christmas compilation from the legendary Bing Crosby.  Its 14 tracks encompass a dozen previously unreleased tracks from the Crosby archive plus the David Bowie duet "Little Drummer Boy/Peace on Earth" and more.  The set curated and annotated by Robert S. Bader additionally includes duets with Kathryn Crosby and Ella Fitzgerald.  Available on CD, LP, and digital formats. As an Amazon associate, we earn from qualifying purchases.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Holiday, Popular Standards/Vocal

Totally Hot

October 23, 2023 By

Olivia Newton John Totally Hot

MCA/UMe marks the 45th anniversary of Olivia Newton-John's Totally Hot by returning the Platinum-certified LP to CD, vinyl (black and exclusive red), and digital formats.  Produced by John Farrar, the album features the hits "A Little More Love" and "Deeper Than the Night" as well as covers of The Spencer Davis Group's "Gimme Some Lovin'" and Eric Carmen's "Boats Against the Current." As an Amazon associate, we earn from qualifying purchases.

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

Something Big: Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme Celebrated on Upcoming Public Television Special

October 23, 2023 By The Second Disc 18 Comments

Steve and Eydie 1970s

"Steve and Eydie represent all that is good about performers and the interpretation of a song," Frank Sinatra once observed.  "They're the best."  Without a doubt, anyone who'd had the opportunity to see Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme onstage - or any of their hundreds of television appearances over five decades - would agree with the Chairman of the Board's assessment. Now, the couple's extraordinary career is being celebrated on a remarkable new Public Television special which debuts on

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Categories: News Formats: CD, DVD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Carol Burnett, Eydie Gorme, Michael Feinstein, Sammy Davis Jr., Steve Lawrence, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme

The Weekend Stream: October 21, 2023

October 21, 2023 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Stream 2023

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to float you into the weekend. Adam Ant's first single, Taylor Swift's latest single and Tom Petty's 2010 studio album are all in the mix, plus an unexpected Prince production and a most unusual tribute to The B-52's. Adam & The Ants, Young Parisians/Lady (Decca) (iTunes / Amazon) Yesterday marked 45 years since the debut

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Country, Everything Else, Pop, Rock Tags: Adam and The Ants, Deborah Allen, Prince, Taylor Swift, The B-52's, Tom Petty, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

Joe Jackson Presents Max Champion in "What a Racket!"

October 20, 2023 By

Joe Jackson What a Racket

Joe Jackson has channeled a new persona for What a Racket!  The album celebrates the songs of one Max Champion, a mysterious English music hall star of the early 20th century. "These were wonderful songs in their time, but they're surprisingly modern, too," Jackson comments in the press release. "Sometimes it's almost as if Max is speaking, from his London of the early 20th century, directly to us in the early 21st."  Hmm...What a Racket!, featuring the vocalist accompanied by a 12-piece band,

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

Klark Kent: Deluxe Edition

October 20, 2023 By

Klark Kent

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada As an Amazon associate, we earn from qualifying purchases. From the twisted minds of one of rock's most celebrated drummers came a burst of tongue-in-cheek post-punk by Klark Kent, a mysterious presence who made a brief cameo on the U.K. pop charts. Now, Stewart Copeland's Klark Kent album - out of print for over 25 years - gets a generously expanded double-CD reissue next month with 14

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

The Wheel: 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition

October 20, 2023 By

Rosanne Cash The Wheel

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP (Vinyl Me, Please Exclusive: Clear with Black Swirl): Vinyl Me, Please 2LP Marble Swirl and Other Exclusive/Signed Editions: Rosanne Cash Shop As an Amazon associate, we earn from qualifying purchases. The deluxe anniversary edition of Rosanne Cash's 1993 The Wheel has the remastered original album on the first CD, while the second disc contains Rosanne's performance from Austin City Limits

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Country, Pop

Roses in the Fire: Rosanne Cash's "The Wheel" Turns 30, Gets Expanded and Remastered

October 20, 2023 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Rosanne Cash The Wheel

The daughter of Johnny Cash and his first wife Vivian Liberto, Rosanne Cash carved out a musical path all her own.  She charted twenty-two country singles under her own name while at Columbia Records between 1979 and 1995, embracing contemporary textures while never forgetting her roots and her role in the distinguished lineage of country music.  On December 15, one of her most acclaimed and personal albums, 1993's The Wheel, will return in a remastered deluxe edition from RumbleStrip

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Country, Pop Tags: Rosanne Cash

Release Round-Up: Week of October 20

October 20, 2023 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Nancy Sinatra Keep Walkin'

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the many titles being released today as we inch closer to the holiday shopping season!  As an Amazon associate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Nancy Sinatra, Keep Walkin': Singles, Demos, and Rarities (1965-1978) (Light in the Attic) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Standard Black 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Zodiac Blue 2LP: Nancy's Bootique Highway Song Yellow 2LP: Nancy's

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Books, Box Sets, Cassette, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Gospel, Latin, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Alan Silvestri, Amy Grant, B.J. Thomas, Bob Dylan, Carla Olson, Cher, CHVRCHES, David Bowie, Devo, Goo Goo Dolls, Nancy Sinatra, Richard Hawley, Salt-N-Pepa, The Mojo Men, The Rolling Stones, Tim Easton, Tony Visconti, Vince Guaraldi

Very Necessary (30th Anniversary Edition)

October 19, 2023 By

Salt N Pepa Very Necessary 30

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Urban Legends (blue vinyl) As an Amazon associate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Salt 'N' Pepa's fourth studio album returns for a 30th anniversary edition.  It yielded hit singles including top five hits "Shoop" and "Whatta Man" (featuring En Vogue) and the Grammy-winning "None of Your Business."  A top five album, Very Necessary has been certified 5x Platinum.  This expanded edition adds

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop

You Don't Need a Weatherman: New Bob Dylan Compilation Accompanies New Archival Book

October 19, 2023 By The Second Disc 9 Comments

Bob Dylan Mixing Up the Medicine

Next Tuesday, October 24, publishing house Callaway will release Mixing Up the Medicine, a 600+-page tome promised to be "the most comprehensive book yet published on the work of Nobel Prize-winning singer-songwriter-poet and cultural icon, Bob Dylan."  As entire libraries could be filled with the books written on Dylan, that's no small boast - but this hefty coffee table volume looks like it might live up to the hype.  Written and edited by Mark Davidson and Parker Fishel, the book celebrates

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bob Dylan

A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving

October 18, 2023 By

Vince Guaraldi A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving

A Vince Guaraldi classic premieres on CD and vinyl.  This 50th anniversary of the soundtrack to A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving features the pianist-composer's complete score for teh television special plus bonus material as remixed and remastered from the original, recently-discovered multitrack tapes. Featuring Guaraldi joined by Mike Clark on drums; Seward McCain on electric bass; Tom Harrell on trumpet; and Chuck Bennett on trombone, the soundtrack has been remixed by Terry Carleton, restored

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Holiday, Jazz, Soundtracks

Review: Black Sabbath, Alice Cooper, J. Geils Band, Jefferson Starship In Quad

October 17, 2023 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Alice Cooper Billion Dollar Babies Quadio

With Rhino having just announced a second batch of Quadio releases, we're taking a look at the first four titles in the relaunched series - all of which are now available on Blu-ray Disc with high-resolution presentations of the original 4.0 quadraphonic and 2.0 stereo mixes. Black Sabbath's 1970 LP Paranoid was a landmark record in the transition from "hard rock" to "heavy metal." Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler, and Bill Ward followed up their self-titled debut album of early 1970

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Blu-Ray Audio Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Alice Cooper, Black Sabbath, J. Geils Band, Jefferson Starship

Back to the Future - Original Cast Recording: Deluxe Edition

October 17, 2023 By

BTTF Cast Album Deluxe

Back to the Future, currently filling seats at Broadway's Winter Garden Theatre, is expanding its original London cast recording starring Olly Dobson and Roger Bart (currently reprising his role as Doc Brown in New York) with an entire bonus disc of demos and early versions of the score's songs by Alan Silvestri and Glen Ballard.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Cast Recordings

Hackney Diamonds

October 17, 2023 By

Rolling Stones Hackney Diamonds

Standard CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Standard Black Vinyl LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Amazon-Exclusive Green Vinyl LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Various Vinyl Exclusives (Including MLB): The Rolling Stones Shop CD/Blu-ray Box (contains Atmos and hi-res stereo mixes on Blu-ray): The Rolling Stones Shop B&N Exclusive Variant CD: Barnes & Noble Target-Exclusive Purple Vinyl: Target.com Hackney Diamonds, The Rolling Stones' first

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

The Weekend Stream: October 14, 2023

October 14, 2023 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Stream 2023

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to float you into the weekend. There's a plethora of breakouts from box sets new to streaming, from John Lennon to Prince - plus rare remixes by Cyndi Lauper and a surprise treat from a beloved theme park. John Lennon, Imagine (The Ultimate Mixes / Deluxe) / Imagine (The Elements Mixes) / Imagine (The Evolution Documentary) / Imagine

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Black Sabbath, Cyndi Lauper, Duke Ellington, James, John Lennon, Ozzy Osbourne, Prince

Release Round-Up: Week of October 13

October 13, 2023 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Music to Freak Your Friends and Break Your Lease

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today! Johnny Mathis, Christmas Time Is Here (Legacy/Real Gone/Second Disc) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada "Christmas Tree Green" Vinyl LP: RealGoneMusic.com / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada  "Holly Red" Vinyl LP: BarnesandNoble.com Johnny Mathis is back with his first album since 2017 and his first yuletide set in a decade.  Christmas Time Is Here boasts ten

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Agnetha Faltskog, Jim Croce, Johnny Mathis, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Marc Almond, Pink Floyd, Ringo Starr, Rod McKuen, The Cranberries, Whitesnake

OUT TOMORROW: Johnny Mathis' All-New Christmas Album and Rod McKuen's Electronic Freakout!

October 12, 2023 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Johnny Mathis Christmas Time Is Here

Here at Second Disc HQ, tomorrow is all about the holidays!  We've teamed with Real Gone Music for a pair of new releases - one looking forward to Christmas, and another that's ideal for a wild Halloween. First up is the new studio album from the legendary Voice of Romance, Johnny Mathis.  His very first holiday album, 1958's Merry Christmas, sold over five million copies and remains one of the biggest-selling Christmas albums of all time.  Now, he's back with his first album since 2017 and

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Everything Else, Holiday, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Johnny Mathis, Kristin Chenoweth, Rod McKuen

Down the Road Apiece: ABKCO Revisits Rolling Stones' Catalogue on Vinyl as Band Preps "Hackney Diamonds"

October 11, 2023 By The Second Disc 15 Comments

Rolling Stones Hackney Diamonds

Following the vinyl reissues earlier this year of 2016's The Rolling Stones in Mono box set and various classic albums (the U.S. editions of 1966's Aftermath and 1967's Between the Buttons, the U.S. and U.K. iterations of the 1966 compilation Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass), 1967's Flowers, and 1975's Metamorphosis), ABKCO is returning to the Stones' catalogue for a series which will encompass another 15 vinyl reissues.  For the rest of 2023 and into 2024, the label will revisit U.S. and

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: The Rolling Stones

A Matter of Time: 'Back to the Future' Cast Album Brings Unheard Demos from the Past

October 11, 2023 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

BTTF Cast Album Deluxe

A Back to the Future musical sounds like a crazy joke, but Broadway's biggest spectacle is arguably this new spin on the classic sci-fi comedy - and this month, just in time for a one-day theatrical reissue of the 1985 classic, its original cast recording is breaking the space-time continuum with a bonus disc of alternate and early versions of songs from the show. Having spun off two sequels, an animated series, a theme-park ride, comic books, model kits, a fancy pair of futuristic sneakers

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Cast Recordings, Soundtracks Tags: Alan Silvestri

Christmas Jollies I + II: The Extra Jolly Edition

October 11, 2023 By

Salsoul Orchestra Christmas Jollies I and II Extra Jolly Edition

The Second Disc has teamed with SoulMusic Records for the definitive celebration of the Christmas disco/Philly soul classic.  The Salsoul Orchestra's Christmas Jollies I + II: The Extra Jolly Edition brings together Vincent Montana, Jr.'s original Christmas Jollies plus Tom Moulton's complete 1992 remix and producer Patrick Adams' rare follow-up, Christmas Jollies II.  But that's not all.  The Extra Jolly Edition adds nearly a dozen bonus single versions and remixes (most of which are new to CD)

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Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Holiday, R&B/Soul

Greatest Christmas Hits

October 9, 2023 By

Chicago Greatest Christmas Hits

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Barnes & Noble (Exclusive Green Vinyl) O Christmas Three:  Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Chicago's new 13-song compilation Greatest Christmas Hits draws on all four of the band's Christmas releases, blending holiday classics with the band's original compositions including Robert Lamm and the late Billy Hinsche's "(Because It's) Christmastime," Neil Donell and Don Breithaupt's "All

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock

The Yes Album: Super Deluxe Edition

October 9, 2023 By

yes the yes album

Rhino lavishly expands Yes' 1971 third LP, The Yes Album, as a 4CD/1BD/1LP collection with remastered audio, previously unreleased live and studio tracks, and a brand-new Dolby Atmos mix by Steven Wilson. The Super Deluxe Edition of The Yes Album presents the album in various mixes: CD 1 and the vinyl LP both have Steven Wilson's newly-remastered version of the original album; CD 2 has Wilson's 2014 stereo and instrumental remixes of the album; CD 3 has a host of rarities including

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Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock

Spirit: 25th Anniversary Edition

October 9, 2023 By

Jewel Spirit 25

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The 25th anniversary edition of Jewel's sophomore outing Spirit features the original album - including the Top 10 hit "Hands" - plus a raft of bonus material appended to the first disc and spilling over into the second. Extras include original single mixes, rare live B-sides and eight unreleased demos and outtakes. The original album will also be released on double vinyl on the same day.

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Folk, Pop

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