Nancy Sinatra's third album brought the hitmaking singer to the Swingin' center of the world. Nancy in London, originally released in 1966, was produced and arranged by her usual team of Lee Hazlewood and Billy Strange, respectively, but the setting was very different than the typical Hollywood environs. Nancy was booked into Pye Studios on Great Cumberland Place near Marble Arch in London, the same studios in which Petula Clark had cut "Downtown" and Nancy's Reprise labelmates The Kinks
The Boys Are Back: Thin Lizzy Gets New Remixes for Box Set Commemorating 1976, Their Breakthrough Year
Guess who just got back today? Well, September 27 is the date, but Thin Lizzy are releasing a box set chronicling one of their most pivotal years. 1976 will, across five CDs and a Blu-ray Disc, retell the story of the two albums the Irish rockers issued that year: Jailbreak and Johnny the Fox. Both albums have been newly remixed in stereo, 5.1 surround and Dolby Atmos by Richard Whittaker, under the supervision of guitarist Scott Gorham. The box also includes selections of unreleased material
St. Jimmy, Re-Canonized: Green Day Prep 20th Anniversary Deluxe Edition of 'American Idiot'
With 20 years' hindsight, Green Day probably meant for their seventh studio album to be big. But nobody could have predicted just how big American Idiot got - and this year's latest addition to the year-end music box set line-up will showcase just how big with a package to match. American Idiot will come back into print with a new box set spanning four CDs (or eight colored LPs) and two Blu-ray Discs. It'll feature the original album, a disc of B-sides and non-LP live tracks, 15 unreleased
Refugee of the Roads: Joni Mitchell's Latest Archives Box Takes Listeners to the End of the '70s
Rhino's Joni Mitchell Archives series has been dependably running since 2020, offering alternating box sets featuring troves of unreleased material from the folk legend and remastered versions of the album eras they cover. With the most recent box collecting her last four albums for the Asylum label - Hejira (1976), Don Juan's Reckless Daughter (1977), Mingus (1979) and the live Shadows and Light (1980) - today's new announcement closes that same chapter, offering hours of unreleased live and
When You're Smiling: Impex Returns to "Sing and Dance with Frank Sinatra" with Lavish 1STEP Box
Roughly four years ago, the Impex label revisited Sing and Dance with Frank Sinatra in both hybrid mono SACD and deluxe LP formats. The 1950 album was a landmark in the legendary vocalist's career. After he released the very first pop long-playing record with Columbia's 1948 reissue of The Voice of Frank Sinatra, he took advantage of the format with Sing and Dance. Initially available as a set of four 10-inch 78s or a single 33-1/3 RPM record, the album saw Sinatra at the dawn of his
Run for Home: Lindisfarne's "Mercury Years" Collected on Box from Cherry Red, Lemon
With a sound melding harmony vocals to soaring folk-rock, Newcastle upon Tyne band Lindisfarne released three studio albums - including the 1972 breakthrough Fog on the Tyne, which spent 56 weeks on the U.K. Albums Chart - before splintering. Two-fifths of the band carried on with new members for a pair of albums in 1973-74, but by '75, the group had called it a day. Then, in 1978, they were back. The album was cheekily entitled Back and Fourth, referring to the fact that the originals had
Release Round-Up: Week of August 2
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Van Morrison, Live at Orangefield (Orangefield Records) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Christmas 1959 saw Van Morrison take the stage of Orangefield Secondary School in Belfast for his very first live performance. Van, on guitar and vocals, joined his fellow students John McCullough on tea-chest bass, Cyril Downey on
Roxy and Elsewhere: Bryan Ferry, Phil Manzanera Plan Career-Spanning Box Sets
What are the odds? Two career-spanning box sets featuring solo material by members of Roxy Music - lead singer Bryan Ferry and guitarist Phil Manzanera - will be available this fall. Ferry's Retrospective: Selected Recordings 1973-2023 will be a 5CD overview divided into thematic collections of his work outside of Roxy Music. The first is a new 20-track collection of his best-loved singles, including the U.K. Top 10s "A Hard Rain's A-Gonna Fall," "Let's Stick Together" and "Slave to Love."
Must Have Been the Roses: Newest Grateful Dead Box Set Covers April 1978, from "Drums" to "Space"
1978: The Grateful Dead was between Terrapin Station and Shakedown Street, and re-setting the rules onstage. The group's 1978 spring tour introduced "Drums" and "Space" as regular live features, and found Jerry Garcia, Phil Lesh, Bob Weir, Bill Kreutzmann, Mickey Hart, and Keith and Donna Jean Godchaux in re-energized, post-hiatus form. Yesterday, Rhino and the band announced the release of Friend of the Devils: April 1978, a massive 19CD box containing eight previously unreleased concerts from
Neil Young's Third 'Archives' Box is His Biggest Yet
Neil Young has announced a big fall release: the third - and biggest - box set in his long-running Archives series. Archives Vol. III (1976-1987), slated for release September 6, will span in its deluxe form a whopping 17 CDs and five Blu-rays boasting a broad array of songs and film footage: 15 unreleased songs, 121 unreleased tracks and 11 full-length films (four of them unreleased). Housed in a box identical to Archives Vol. I (1963-1972) (2009) and Archives Vol. II (1972-1976) (2020), the
Release Round-Up: Week of July 26
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Loleatta Holloway, We're Getting Stronger: The Gold Mind/Salsoul Recordings (1976-1982) (SoulMusic/The Second Disc) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Cherry Red) We're Getting Stronger: The Gold Mind/Salsoul Recordings (1976-1982) presents, on 5 CDs, all of the late, great Loleatta Holloway's albums for Gold Mind and
A New Day: Varese Brings Randy Newman's "Pleasantville" to Vinyl
Writer-director Gary Ross' 1998 fantasy Pleasantville transported modern-day high school students and twin siblings David (Tobey Maguire) and Jennifer (Reese Witherspoon) into the 1950s sitcom of the same name, where the pair proves to be the catalyst for the fictional community's shift from buttoned-up black-and-white to provocative color. To compose the score to his high-concept film, Ross turned to a master of both satire and Americana: acclaimed singer-songwriter Randy Newman. His richly
My Love Is Free: The Salsoul Recordings (1976-1979)
My Love Is Free: The Salsoul Recordings (1976-1979) brings together expanded editions of all three of Philadelphia disco quartet Double Exposure's Salsoul albums plus the newly-curated collection I Got the Hots: Remixes and Rarities, for a total of 46 tracks on 4 CDs including the first-ever commercially-released 12-inch single, "Ten Percent." My Love Is Free: The Salsoul Recordings (1976-1979) has been compiled by Tim Dillinger for God's Music Is My Life, who has co-produced the set with
Love Having You Around: The Gold Mind Recordings (1977-1980)
SoulMusic Records and The Second Disc celebrate Philadelphia girl group First Choice with Love Having You Around: The Gold Mind Recordings (1977-1980). This 4CD collection features expanded editions of the trio's three original albums for Salsoul's Gold Mind imprint, plus a specially-curated bonus disc featuring various remixes and reinventions of their timeless, floor-filling repertoire. This clamshell box set features a 28-page, full-color booklet with photos, memorabilia, and four new essays
Faces At The BBC - Complete BBC Concert & Session Recordings 1970-1973
Faces at The BBC - Complete BBC Concert & Session Recordings 1970-1973 compiles all of the storied group's concerts and surviving studio sessions for the BBC in one 8CD/1BD package approved by Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood, and Kenney Jones. Though many of these recordings have long been considered lost, Rhino has tracked down nearly every song performed by Faces at the BBC from the band members' own archives and private collections. Only one three-song session remains missing. The
Release Round-Up: Week of July 19
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Mungo Jerry, Electronically Tested: Expanded Edition (7a Records) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Mungo Jerry's eclectic 1971 album Electronically Tested, featuring the global hit "In the Summertime," returns in a newly remastered and expanded edition from our friends
Don't Eat the Yellow Snow: Zappa's "Apostrophe (')" Gets 50th Anniversary Expansion
Hot on the heels of the recent box set celebrating Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention's 1968 concert at the Whisky a Go Go, Zappa Records and UMe are turning the clocks forward to revisit the composer-guitarist-bandleader's most commercially successful LP. On September 13, the labels will mark the 50th anniversary of Apostrophe ('), originally released in March 1974, with a 5CD/1Blu-ray Super Deluxe Edition as well as vinyl and digital editions. 1973's Over-Nite Sensation gave Zappa
Give It a Whirl: Rubellan Plans CD Debut of Rare U.S. Pressing of Split Enz's 'Frenzy'
Not long after Neil Finn suggested that Split Enz's catalogue affairs could be shaping up in the year to come, a very welcome CD premiere has been announced by Rubellan Remasters. They'll release the U.S. version of the New Zealand group's fourth album, Frenzy. The Enz recorded Frenzy with the core line-up that appeared on 1977's Dizrythmia: founding members Tim Finn on vocals, keyboardist Eddie Rayner and Noel Crombie on percussion, along with bassist Nigel Griggs, drummer Malcolm Green and
Had Me a Real Good Time: Rhino Announces Box of BBC Sessions from Faces
Ooh-la-la! Following a pair of well-received releases for Record Store Day, Rhino is doing a deep-dive into Faces' BBC sessions on an 8-CD/1-Blu-ray box set due September 6. Faces at The BBC - Complete BBC Concert & Session Recordings 1970-1973 compiles all of the storied group's concerts and surviving studio sessions for the BBC in one package approved by Rod Stewart, Ronnie Wood, and Kenney Jones. The set will be available only via Rhino.com and select retailers including
When The Weather Is High: Mungo Jerry's "Electronically Tested" Returns from 7a Records on CD, LP
The summer of 1970 was the summer of Mungo Jerry. The British band's catchy "In the Summertime" began a seven-week stay atop the U.K. Singles Chart, while in the U.S., Mungomania propelled the tune to No. 1 on Record World and No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100. Now, 7a Records is preparing for another wave of Mungomania with the well-timed release on July 19 of the band's 1971 album Electronically Tested in newly remastered and expanded editions on both CD and LP. With its mélange of varied
The Weekend Stream: July 13, 2024
Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc's review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. This week, there's rare jazz, country, pop standards and gospel, plus remixes of a Madonna hit and one of the most unexpected Disney covers you'll ever hear. Madonna, Who's That Girl EP (Warner/Rhino) (iTunes / Amazon) ¿Quién es esa niña? Madonna's international chart-topping 1987 single - the title track to her first soundtrack album from
Soundtrack Watch: Intrada Heats Up 'Backdraft,' Kickstarts 'Abbott and Costello' Recording; La-La Land Expands 'Last Action Hero' and 'Heavy Metal'
Leave it to Intrada and La-La Land to cook up some appropriately blazing soundtrack reissues in recent weeks! Intrada has expanded an early classic by Hans Zimmer, bowed a selection of re-recordings of TV work by Jerry Goldsmith, and is prepping another re-recording project to crowdfund; meanwhile, La-La Land (in addition to releasing the only John Williams score to a Steven Spielberg film without a soundtrack) has expansions of works by Elmer Bernstein and Michael Kamen. Quite the selection of
Review: Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, "Whisky a Go Go 1968"
Frank Zappa didn't open his first set on the evening of July 23, 1968 at Hollywood's Whisky a Go Go with a power chord or a blues beat. Instead, the band - Ray Collins (vocals, percussion), Ian Underwood (alto sax), Bunk Gardner (tenor sax, flute), Don Preston (keyboards, gong), Motorhead Sherwood (baritone sax, percussion), Roy Estrada (bass, vocals), Art Tripp (drum set, percussion), and Jimmy Carl Black (drum set, percussion) - opened with a clattering improvisation that was sure to separate
Release Round-Up: Week of July 12
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. John Lennon, Mind Games: The Ultimate Collection (Capitol/UMe) 6CD/2BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 9LP/6CD/2BD Super Deluxe Box: Official Store 2CD (includes contents of CD 1 and 6, below): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP (includes contents of CD 1 and 6, below): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon
Can We Be In Love: SoulMusic, The Second Disc Collect Double Exposure's Salsoul Albums on "My Love Is Free"
For SoulMusic Records and The Second Disc, this is the Year of Salsoul. The release of The Salsoul Orchestra's 8CD box set It's Good for the Soul: The Vince Montana Years (1975-1978) and the imminent arrival of sets from Loleatta Holloway and First Choice will be followed on September 20 by our latest co-branded title celebrating Philadelphia disco quartet Double Exposure. My Love Is Free: The Salsoul Recordings (1976-1979) brings together expanded editions of all three of the group's Salsoul
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