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Eidolon: The Allan Holdsworth Collection

March 29, 2017 By

Allan Holdsworth Eidolon

Eidolon distills Manifesto's 12-CD box The Man Who Changed Guitar Forever to 28 key tracks from Allan Holdsworth's solo era, with an unreleased Jack Bruce vocal version of "Road Games" plus "Eidolon," "City Nights," "Sphere of Innocence," "Funnels," "Mental Fatigue," "Tokyo Dream," "Against the Clock" and more favorite selections from his albums, all hand-picked by Allan himself!

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Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Rock

Journey Back to Prydain: Bernstein, Williams, Poledouris Scores Announced by Varese Sarabande

March 14, 2017 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Stanley Iris grande

Varese Sarabande Records has quite the bounty of soundtrack CD club releases this spring, announcing two stellar deluxe editions and reissuing a favorite album on disc. First up, a double-header for John Williams fans: his 1990 score to the romantic drama Stanley & Iris and the premiere release of his score to 1972's Pete 'N' Tillie. Stanley & Iris starred Robert De Niro and Jane Fonda as two struggling coworkers in a baking factory--she struggles to make ends meet with her extended

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Basil Poledouris, Elmer Bernstein, John Williams

It Only Takes a Minute: SoulMusic Collects Tavares Remixes On "Don't Take Away the Music"

February 16, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Tavares Remix Project

To date, Cherry Red's SoulMusic Records imprint has reissued seven of the ten albums recorded by Tavares for Capitol Records between 1974 and 1981.  Late in 2016, the SoulMusic team added an eighth Tavares title to their collection.  Don't Take Away the Music: The Remix Project features eleven floor-filling remixes from the Rhode Island brothers Ralph, Arthur (Pooch), Antone (Chubby), Feliciano (Butch) and Perry (Tiny) of such classic songs as "It Only Takes a Minute" (Pop No. 10/R&B No. 1,

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, R&B/Soul Tags: Tavares

Ya Got Trouble: Stage Door Celebrates "The Music Man" With Rare Albums on CD, Reissues "Drake's Dream"

February 9, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Meredith Willson And Then I Wrote The Music Man

Stage Door Records is kicking off 2017 with two generous helpings of rare show music: a two-fer celebrating the legacy of Meredith Willson's 1957 Broadway classic The Music Man, and the original London cast recording of Drake's Dream, starring Manfred Mann's Paul Jones! In 1957, composer-bandleader Meredith Willson crafted one of the most enduring Broadway musicals of all time when he wrote book, music and lyrics for the nostalgic The Music Man.  To mark the sixtieth anniversary of this Tony

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings Tags: Lynne and Richard Riley, Meredith Willson, Paul Jones

One Punch at a Time: Mondo Expands "Creed" Score On Vinyl

January 30, 2017 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Creed Mondo Vinyl

Venerable vinyl soundtrack label Mondo is preparing a reconfigured release of one of 2015's best soundtrack efforts: Ludwig Göransson's score to Creed. Co-written and directed by Ryan Coogler (who wrote and directed the harrowing biopic Fruitvale Station and is working on co-writing and directing Black Panther for Marvel Studios), Creed is a stunning update and continuation of the Rocky series--this time told through the eyes of Adonis Johnson, the out-of-wedlock son of former heavyweight

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Ludwig Göransson

Do That Conga Beat: Vibe On Expands Miami Sound Machine's "Primitive Love" to 2 CDs

January 23, 2017 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Miami Sound Machine Primitive Love

This March, Vibe On Records will be going Primitive.  The label is following its recent reissue of Cher's I Paralyze with another lavishly expanded Deluxe Edition - this time from Miami Sound Machine featuring the one and only Gloria Estefan.  On March 31, Vibe On will reissue MSM's 1985 breakthrough Primitive Love as a 2-CD edition featuring a full 23 bonus tracks - four of which are previously unreleased, and six of which have never previously appeared on CD. Primitive Love, Miami Sound

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Gloria Estefan, Miami Sound Machine

Groovin' Down A Crowded Avenue: Real Gone March Slate Features The Rascals, Southside Johnny, Artful Dodger, Ann-Margret

January 18, 2017 By Randy Fairman 13 Comments

Ann Margret Definitive Collection

Official word has just come out about Real Gone's titles for March and, as usual, the line-up boasts an eclectic group of releases including a number of comprehensive double-CD sets! First up is a compilation featuring liner notes from our very own Joe Marchese.  The Definitive Collection from Ann-Margret features 30 of the flame-haired singer/actress's songs from her 1961-1966 tenure on RCA Records and includes standards, pop, soundtrack recordings and collaborations with Al Hirt and Elvis

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Gospel, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Soundtracks Tags: Ann-Margret, Artful Dodger, Clint Walker, Jackie Gleason, Question Mark and the Mysterians, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, The Rascals

I Like It: Croydon Municipal's "Britain's Finest Thespians Sing" and "Doo Wop Soda Shop" Collect Rarities

January 18, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

And This Is Me Thespians Sing

Bob Stanley's Croydon Municipal label closed out 2016 with a pair of releases continuing the Cherry Red imprint's mission of excavating some of the most rare and well-done pop music inside and outside of Great Britain. And This is Me might be thought of as a kind of Golden Throats precursor.  Subtitled Britain's Finest Thespians Sing, this 24-track compendium features a host of the finest actors, comedians, and personalities from pre-Beatles Great Britain's golden age of entertainment across

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Various Artists

Go Down The Line: 30th Anniversary of Roy Orbison's "Black and White Night" Celebrated On Re-Edited Reissue

January 13, 2017 By Randy Fairman 4 Comments

Roy Orbison Black and White Night 30

Over the past several years, Roy's Boys, the company founded by Roy Orbison's sons to administer his catalogue, have put together several reissue projects celebrating the immense legacy of the late artist.  These have included a comprehensive box set of his years on the MGM label for Universal and a one-disc career-spanning greatest hits from Legacy Recordings.  They are teaming up with Legacy again to celebrate one of Orbison's landmark performances with Black &White Night 30, due to be

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Bruce Springsteen, Elvis Costello, Jackson Browne, Roy Orbison, Tom Waits

See You Later: Vangelis to Remaster Polydor Catalogue in New Box

January 9, 2017 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Vangelis Delectus

Greek synthesizer legend Vangelis has recently overseen a CD box set of some of his most celebrated albums for release next year. Delectus features 13 Vangelis albums released between 1973 and 1985 for the Vertigo and Polydor labels. This includes studio creations like Earth (1973), China (1979), See You Later (1980), Soil Festivities (1984) and Mask (1985) plus soundtrack albums like the nature documentaries L'Apocalypse des animaux (1975), Opera Sauvage (1979) and Antarctica (1983) and the

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop, Soundtracks Tags: Vangelis

The Doors: 50th Anniversary Edition

January 4, 2017 By

The Doors 50th

This super deluxe reissue of the 1967 debut from The Doors is similarly formatted to Rhino's 40th anniversary edition of the Ramones' self-titled debut released last year. Across the first two discs, the original stereo and mono mixes will be included (the mono mix is presented here on CD for the first time while the stereo mix makes its first appearance since a new mix was created by engineer Bruce Botnick in 2007).  A third disc includes more vintage live recordings, from San Francisco's

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

Don't You Wonder Sometimes: Bowie's "Sound and Vision" Gets Picture Disc In February

January 4, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Bowie Sound and Vision Single

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

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: David Bowie

Break On Through: The Doors' Debut Expanded For 50th Anniversary

January 4, 2017 By Mike Duquette 7 Comments

The Doors 50th

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,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: The Doors

Morello Country Round-Up Part 1: Marty Robbins, Dottie West, George Jones and Tammy Wynette

December 22, 2016 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Dottie West Here Comes My Baby and Sings

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

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country Tags: Dottie West, George Jones, Marty Robbins, Tammy Wynette

Doin' It: Cherry Red Reissues, Expands Three Fusion Classics From Herbie Hancock

December 21, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Herbie Hancock Thrust Man Child Secrets

Cherry Red's Robinsongs imprint recently paired Herbie Hancock's 1978 and 1979 albums Sunlight and Feets Don't Fail Me Now on one 2-CD set.  Now, Robinsongs has looked back to bring three original Hancock albums for Columbia Records together as one 2-CD package: 1974's Thrust, 1975's Man-Child, and 1976's Secrets.  All three of these albums were Jazz No. 1 records; these reissues sweeten the deal by adding rare single versions to the track line-ups. Thrust was the American follow-up to

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Funk, Jazz, R&B/Soul Tags: Herbie Hancock

Acting Naturally: Omnivore Collects Buck Owens' Capitol Singles, Anthologizes Don Rich

December 8, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Buck Owens Complete Capitol Singles

Buck Owens changed the face of country music, and all he had to do was "Act Naturally."  With his back-to-basics, honky-tonk approach, Alvis Edgar Owens defined the Bakersfield Sound, an antidote to the slick, guitar-and-choir-laden style coming out of Nashville in the 1960s.  Omnivore Recordings, the label home of a number of stellar Owens-related projects, is about to issue a definitive 2-CD collection from his prime era - The Complete Capitol Singles 1957-1966 - as well as a compilation

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Country Tags: Buck Owens, Don Rich

Live at The Old Waldorf

November 22, 2016 By

Todd Rundgren Old Waldorf

Todd Rundgren & Utopia's Live at the Old Waldorf was released on CD last year by Cherry Red as part of Rundgren's ongoing series of concert releases but it makes its vinyl debut here from Real Gone Music.  Recorded on August 5, 1978, this concert was part of the Back to the Bars tour.  Several concerts from that tour have been released and a couple of shows formed the basis of a live album.  This August 5th show features the classic Utopia of Rundgren (guitar/vocals), Willie Wilcox

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

Start Down The Golden Road: Rhino Reissues Grateful Dead's Debut to Launch 50th Anniversary Campaign

November 18, 2016 By Randy Fairman 5 Comments

Grateful Dead The Grateful Dead

2015 marked the 50th anniversary of the formation of the Grateful Dead and there were many projects to celebrate the occasion:  concerts, CD anthologies and boxsets, documentaries, DVDs/Blu-rays, and more.  But the Dead did not release their first studio album until 1967 and Rhino is celebrating that anniversary with a new 2-disc version of The Grateful Dead on January 20, 2017.  And Rhino promises that this release is just the start of a massive new reissue campaign focused on the band. The

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Grateful Dead

Double-O-Love: SoulMusic, Cherry Red Reissue Dan Hartman's "Instant Replay"

November 18, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Dan Hartman Instant Replay

It's Instant Replay for Cherry Red's SoulMusic Records imprint with the recent reissue of Dan Hartman's 1978 disco classic of the same name.  The album featuring the Disco chart-topper has been expanded with four bonus singles for this new edition. It's difficult to pigeonhole Dan Hartman.  The late musician-songwriter-producer-artist had begun his musical career as a member of psychedelic rock outfit The Legends before backing Johnny Winter and then, crucially, Johnny's brother Edgar.  As a

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Dan Hartman

David Bowie, Moody Blues, Procol Harum, The Move Featured On "Let's Go Down and Blow Our Minds" Box

November 9, 2016 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Lets Go Down and Blow Our Minds Box

Cherry Red's Grapefruit imprint has continued its series of box sets - including Love, Poetry and Revolution and I'm a Freak Baby - with another musical journey through the world of British psych and rock.  Let's Go Down and Blow Our Minds is a more focused collection than either of those past two releases, concentrating solely on the U.K.'s psychedelic sounds of 1967.  Of course, you won't find selections from two of that year's landmark psych-rock releases, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: David Bowie, Procol Harum, The Moody Blues, The Move, The Searchers, The Spencer Davis Group, Various Artists

Do You Hear What I Hear? Jack Jones, Eddy Arnold, Mitch Miller Coming TOMORROW From Second Disc Records!

November 3, 2016 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

RGM 0531 Eddy Arnold Christmas Cover

With Halloween now in the rearview window, decorations springing up everywhere and yuletide tunes on the radio, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas everywhere you go.  Here at Second Disc HQ, we're no exception.  Tomorrow, November 4, we're thrilled to spread some holiday cheer with three Second Disc Records releases as part of Real Gone Music's amazing 10-strong (yes, 10 titles!) Christmas line-up!  All three titles feature new-to-CD tracks, copious liner notes, original album and label

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

Do Your Thing: 20 Record Store Day Black Friday Essentials

November 1, 2016 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Popeye OST

Are you making a list and checking it twice? We are! Record Store Day Black Friday is here in less than a month, and this week we're showcasing all of our favorite titles. We've shown you the goods from Legacy, Real Gone, Rhino and Omnivore; now, here are 20 more titles we think you should absolutely check out. There's soundtrack goodies from Varese Sarabande and Light in the Attic; holiday favorites from Bob & Doug McKenzie, Frank Sinatra and "Dolemite" himself; lost gems from Isaac Hayes,

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Blues, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bob Crewe, Charles Fox, Frank Sinatra, Frank Zappa, Harry Nilsson, Isaac Hayes, Jerry Goldsmith, Muddy Waters, Otis Redding, Record Store Day, Soundgarden, The Runaways

Little Dots

October 28, 2016 By

Frank Zappa Little Dots

Little Dots follows up 2005's Imaginary Diseases with further selections from Frank Zappa's 10-piece 'Petit Wazoo' tour of late 1972.  These tracks feature a horn-driven ensemble and comprise epic improvisations and previously unreleased compositions.

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

London Fog 1966

October 28, 2016 By

The Doors London Fog 1966

The earliest known live recording of The Doors - recorded in 1966 at Sunset Strip's London Fog club - is presented for the first time on a CD/LP box set limited to 18,000 copies.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock

Strange Days: Early Doors Show Arrives In December On "London Fog 1966"

October 27, 2016 By Joe Marchese 12 Comments

The Doors London Fog 1966

Rhino Records and Bright Midnight Archives are opening new doors onto the early days of The Doors with a CD/LP box set due on December 9.  London Fog 1966 captures Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger and John Densmore at The London Fog, a Sunset Strip bar located steps away from the Whisky a Go Go.  This live gig, only recently discovered, marks the earliest known live recordings of the band, and kicks off The Doors' 50th anniversary celebration of 2017 - the year of their

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock Tags: The Doors

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