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The Wrecking Crew

April 24, 2015 By

Wrecking Crew BD

Denny Tedesco's acclaimed documentary about the hitmaking L.A. session legends collectively known as The Wrecking Crew arrives on DVD and Blu-ray.  Features contributions from Brian Wilson, Leon Russell, Glen Campbell, Cher, Herb Alpert, Micky Dolenz and more.

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Formats: Blu-Ray, Digital Download, DVD Genre: Pop

Ace Super Soul Round-Up Part One: Put a Little Love in Your Heart With Jimmy Holiday

April 24, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Jimmy Holiday Spread Your Love

Readers around these parts know that Ace Records can be counted on for the finest in rare soul music - and three recent releases prove to be no exception.  We'll cover one of those titles today in our new Super Soul Round-Up, with more to come next week! Spread Your Love collects the complete Minit Records singles recorded between 1966 and 1970 by singer-songwriter Jimmy Holiday, best-known for his co-writing credit with the incomparable Jackie DeShannon and her brother Randy Myers on the

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Clydie King, Jimmy Holiday

Rip It Up! New Box Set Spotlights Little Richard at Specialty and Vee-Jay

April 23, 2015 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

Little Richard Directly

On June 2, 2015, Specialty Records, a unit of Concord Music Group, celebrates one of the founders of rock-and-roll with the release of a new box set from the inimitable Little Richard.  Directly from My Heart: The Best of the Specialty & Vee-Jay Years brings together 64 tracks on three CDs from the piano-pounding legend, including all of Richard's early classics as well as B-sides and rarities.  This deluxe package puts the music in context with a 30+-page booklet containing new liner notes

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Little Richard

Say "Aloha": Fleetwood Mac, David Crosby, Beck Featured On New Cameron Crowe Soundtrack

April 23, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Songs of Aloha

Since making his big-screen debut as a writer with the 1982 comedy Fast Times at Ridgemont High, onetime teenaged Rolling Stone scribe Cameron Crowe has made music an integral part of his films - and we're not just talking about Almost Famous!  Every one of his movies as writer-director, from 1989's Say Anything... to 2011's We Bought a Zoo, has had its share of musical highlights.   His next film, Aloha, should prove to be no exception.  On May 26, Legacy Recordings and Madison Gate Records

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Beck, David Crosby, Fleetwood Mac, Hall and Oates

The Legend of Paul Revere: Now Sounds Reissues, Expands The Raiders' "Revolution!"

April 22, 2015 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Paul Revere Revolution

You say you want a Revolution!?  Now Sounds is ready to take you on a ride suitable for midnight or any time with its new Deluxe Expanded Mono Edition of Paul Revere and the Raiders' Revolution!  (CRNOW 53).  Originally released in August 1967, during the Summer of Love, the album blended pop, rock and R&B, West Coast-style, proving just how far the little band from Boise, Idaho had come. Revolution! followed The Spirit of '67, which had actually been released in late

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Keith Allison, Mark Lindsay, Paul Revere and The Raiders

Songwriter Showcase Series: You Fascinate Me So

April 21, 2015 By

Cy Coleman You Fascinate Me So

Harbinger Records and The Musical Theatre Project celebrate one of the most legendary voices in Broadway and jazz: Cy Coleman.  You Fascinate Me So, a companion to Andy Propst's Coleman biography of the same name, features 28 rare and previously unreleased tracks played and sung by the composer from musicals including Wildcat, Little Me, Sweet Charity, Seesaw and more.  The set also includes rarities like "The Laarge Daark Aardvark Song" co-written with late comedy hero Allan Sherman, and

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Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal

From the Vault: The Marquee Club Live in 1971

April 21, 2015 By

Rolling Stones Marquee Club

The Rolling Stones' eight-song set previewing Sticky Fingers at London's Marquee Club comes to a variety of audio and video formats from Eagle Rock Entertainment, many with bonus features/songs: DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. SD Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. SD Blu-ray + CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. DVD + CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. DVD + LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.

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Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

Live and Sticky: The Rolling Stones' "Marquee Club 1971" Comes To CD, DVD and BD

April 21, 2015 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Rolling Stones Marquee Club

The Rolling Stones whetted some appetites when they announced that two tracks from the band's 1971 Marquee Club gig would be included on the 2-CD/1-DVD and Super Deluxe Editions of that year's Sticky Fingers, now due (after a brief delay was announced) on June 8 in the U.K. and June 9 stateside.  Now, Eagle Rock Entertainment has revealed that the entirety of the concert - filmed for U.S. television - will be released in DVD, Standard Definition Blu-ray and CD formats on June 22 as part of The

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: The Rolling Stones

Wig Wam Bam! 7Ts Expands The Sweet's Debut Album

April 21, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

The Sweet Co Co

Cherry Red's 7Ts label is going back to the glam era with its latest release from The Sweet.  Following previous reissues of Cut Above the Rest, Waters Edge and Identity Crisis, 7Ts has recently turned the clock back to Funny How Sweet Co-Co Can Be, the band's very first full album from 1971, for a 2-CD expanded edition. The expanded Funny How Sweet traces the early bubblegum years of the group as they planted the seeds that would blossom into full-on, flamboyant glam-rock.  Typical of the

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: The Sweet

Release Round-Up: Week of April 21

April 21, 2015 By Joe Marchese 9 Comments

Ultimate Sinatra

Today's Release Round-Up features an array of titles including a box set from the one and only Chairman of the Board, a number of vintage albums in surround sound, a classic reissue from a new Rock and Roll Hall of Famer, and more! Frank Sinatra, Ultimate Sinatra (Capitol/UMe) 4-CD Box:  Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 1-CD Highlights:  Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 2-CD Target Exclusive: Target.com 2-LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Standard Edition DD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. The 100th

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: America, Dick Hyman, Earth Wind and Fire, Frank Sinatra, Jim Peterik, Joan Jett, Labelle, Paul Revere and The Raiders, Rush

The Late Show - Live 1978

April 21, 2015 By

Andrew Gold Late Show

You'll say "thank you for being a friend" to Omnivore Recordings for this first-ever release of Andrew Gold's 1978 concert at West Hollywood's Roxy Theatre.  Songs include "Lonely Boy," "Oh Urania (Take Me Away)," "Doctor Robert," "Roll Over Beethoven," and of course, "Thank You for Being a Friend."

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop

When Buck Came Back: Live San Francisco 1989

April 20, 2015 By

When Buck Came Back

This 2-CD set features the Country Music Hall of Famer and his Buckaroos in a previously unreleased complete live concert recorded at the Victoria Theater in San Francisco on January 15, 1989.  The set features Owens backed by Doyle Curtsinger on bass/vocals, Jim McCarty on drums, Jim Shaw on keyboards/accordion and Terry Kristofferson on steel guitar.

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Formats: CD Genre: Country

Review: Perry Como, "Live on Tour"

April 20, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Perry Como Live on Tour

"I was a barber.  Since then, I've been a singer.  That's it." So reflected Perry Como on an astounding career in which the onetime haircutter from Canonsburg, Pennsylvania sold more than 100 million records, charted 131 singles in the United States, fourteen No. 1s, and seventeen Gold records - including the very first single to receive that certification, 1958's "Catch a Falling Star."  He hosted more than 1,000 television programs, earned five Emmys, a Grammy, and a Kennedy Center Honor. 

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Perry Como

Review: Six By Booker T. and the MG's

April 20, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Booker T Green Onions two fer

"Soul Dressing," "Jelly Bread," "Red Beans and Rice," "My Sweet Potato," "One Mint Julep," and of course, "Green Onions" and "Mo' Onions" - Edsel has served up a veritable feast with its recent reissues of the complete 1962-1968 recordings of Booker T. and the MG's [sic] originally issued on the Stax label during its affiliation with Atlantic Records.  The new reissues pair two albums per package: Green Onions and Soul Dressing plus bonus tracks on one CD; And Now and In the Christmas Spirit

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Booker T. and the MG's

Amused to Death (Remixed Editions)

April 19, 2015 By

Roger Waters Amused

Roger Waters revisits his 1992 album Amused to Death, featuring contributions from Don Henley, Rita Coolidge, P.P. Arnold, Andy Fairweather Low and Michael Kamen, in a variety of formats featuring new stereo and 5.1 surround mixes. CD CD / Blu-ray SACD Hi-res digital download 2LP 200 gram vinyl (pressed at Quality Record Pressings) Limited edition, numbered 2LP picture disc vinyl

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

The Second Disc's 2015 Record Store Day Must-Haves

April 17, 2015 By Joe Marchese 23 Comments

Sly Fillmore East

Tomorrow, Saturday, April 18, music fans and collectors will flock to their local independent record stores to celebrate both the sounds on those familiar round black platters and the cherished opportunity to shop for music in a physical retail environment. To many of us, both are a way of life.   Each year around this time, we here at Second Disc HQ take a few moments to count down the titles to which we're most looking forward to picking up! Our friend and founder, Mike Duquette, returns to

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Funk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: a-ha, Billie Holiday, Brian Wilson, Bruce Springsteen, Dionne Warwick, Elvis Presley, Metallica, Record Store Day, Simon and Garfunkel, The Bee Gees

Iron Butterfly, Black Oak Arkansas Join Paul Williams On Real Gone's June Slate

April 16, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Iron Butterfly Ball

Well, April 15 has come and gone.  Did the taxman get you down?  If so, Real Gone Music is ready to brighten your day with news of its June 2 slate of releases!  This line-up is headlined by none other than legendary songwriter Paul Williams with his only album for Portrait Records, newly expanded by Real Gone and our very own Second Disc Records imprint with never-before-heard bonus tracks! And Real Gone has only just begun.  The line-up also features heavy rock from Black Oak Arkansas and Iron

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Black Oak Arkansas, Iron Butterfly, Paul Williams, The Grateful Dead

A Lost Paul Williams Classic Coming Soon From Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music

April 16, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Paul Williams Windy Side

Come June 2, Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music are living life a little on the windy side.  That's the date for our remastered and expanded reissue of Paul Williams' 1979 album for Portrait Records, A Little on the Windy Side! In a Grammy, Oscar and Golden Globe-winning career that's taken him from Tiny Tim to Daft Punk, Paul Williams has seen his songs recorded by Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Elvis Presley, David Bowie, The Carpenters, and of course, Kermit the Frog. During his

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Jeff Barry, Mentor Williams, Paul Williams

Perfect Sense: Legacy to Revisit Roger Waters’ "Amused to Death" with New Stereo and 5.1 Remixes

April 16, 2015 By Randy Fairman 3 Comments

Roger Waters Amused

While there has been no Pink Floyd reissue news for nearly a year now since the release of a deluxe edition of The Division Bell, fans can look forward to revisiting one of Rogers Waters’ solo projects with the newly announced reissue of Amused to Death. Death was released in 1992 and was Waters’ third solo outing after 1984’s The Pros and Cons of Hitch Hiking and 1987’s Radio K.A.O.S.  As is common for Waters’ LPs, it is a concept album.  The songwriter based it upon ideas from Neil

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, CD, Digital Download, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Pink Floyd, Roger Waters

WE HAVE OUR WINNERS: "CHUCK" SOUNDTRACK CONTEST!

April 16, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Chuck Soundtrack

CONGRATULATIONS! The following 10 entrants have won an autographed edition of the CHUCK television soundtrack!  If you entered our contest and your name is on the list below, please drop us a line at theseconddisc-at-gmail-dot-com or a Private Message on Facebook: Marshall Brownstein Scott Crawford Michael Duffy Jason Fiske Peter Gladue John Knight Ron Lavery Mitch Moskal Mike Perciaccante Jeffrey Rosen

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Categories: Giveaways! Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Tim Jones

A Little on the Windy Side: Expanded Edition

April 16, 2015 By

Paul Williams Windy Side

In a Grammy, Oscar and Golden Globe-winning career that's taken him from Tiny Tim to Daft Punk, Paul Williams has seen his songs recorded by Frank Sinatra, Barbra Streisand, Elvis Presley, David Bowie, The Carpenters, and of course, Kermit the Frog. During his reign as perhaps the Seventies' most in-demand songwriter, Williams also kept busy as an actor, television personality and recording artist. He came into his own as a vocalist at Reprise and A&M Records on albums such as Someday Man

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Give Me a Smile: Reprise to Release Long-Lost Robin Gibb Recordings

April 15, 2015 By Randy Fairman 8 Comments

Saved by the Bell

A few weeks ago, Rhino released Bee Gees: 1974-1979 which followed from last year’s Bee Gees: The Warner Bros. Years 1987-1991.  Both boxes contained the complete studio albums from those periods plus some bonus material.  Now, fans of the Bee Gees and the Gibb brothers should have more to look forward to as Rhino’s sister label Reprise has just announced a new set chronicling the recordings of one of the band’s members during a two year period: Saved By the Bell: The Collected Works of Robin

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop Tags: Robin Gibb, The Bee Gees

Turn Them Loose On Broadway: Masterworks Reissues Bette Davis Musical and More

April 15, 2015 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Dames at Sea London

Sony’s Masterworks Broadway division is once again opening the vaults to rescue more vintage recordings from obscurity.  Over the next three months, the label will release in its made-on-demand CD-R and digital programs three Broadway related recordings: the 1969 London Cast of Off-Broadway’s Dames at Sea (making its CD premiere), 1952’s Broadway revue Two’s Company starring Bette Davis (making its U.S. CD debut) and the original recording of Sir John Gielgud’s 1958 Broadway solo Shakespeare

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Cast Recordings Tags: Bette Davis, John Gielgud, Sammy Cahn, Vernon Duke

Soul Serenades: RPM Expands Mod Music of "The Mike Cotton Sound"

April 14, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Mike Cotton Sound

The name of The Mike Cotton Sound might be most familiar from the group’s role backing Mary Hopkin on her debut album Post Card, or for supporting The Kinks on Muswell Hillbillies.  But the band, led by trumpeter and multi-instrumentalist Mike Cotton, actually traveled a diverse musical road throughout the 1960s, a trajectory chronicled on RPM Records’ expanded edition of the band’s 1964 long-player, The Mike Cotton Sound. Leader Cotton had scored his first hit in 1963 with “Swing That

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Jazz, R&B/Soul Tags: The Mike Cotton Sound

Release Round-Up: Week of April 14

April 14, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Replacements Complete Studio Albums

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up featuring box sets, deluxe editions, rare albums and more! The Replacements, The Complete Studio Albums 1981-1990 (Sire/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Rhino boxes up the Minnesota rockers’ complete studio output in one tidy package, utilizing the 2008 remasters but sans all bonus material.   Tori Amos, Little Earthquakes and Under the Pink: Deluxe Editions (Rhino) Little Earthquakes: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Under the

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Andy Williams, Kitty Wells, Phil Harris, Randy Bachman, Sammy Davis Jr., The Replacements, Tori Amos

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