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OUT TOMORROW! Second Disc, Real Gone Celebrate Spinners, Thom Bell's "Complete Atlantic Singles 1972-1979"

August 3, 2023 By The Second Disc 15 Comments

Spinners Complete Atlantic Singles

Could it be you're falling in love? Tomorrow, just three months before their long-awaited induction into the 2023 class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the world-renowned Spinners will be celebrated by Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records with The Complete Atlantic Singles: The Thom Bell Productions 1972-1979. This definitive 2-CD anthology presents every one of the quintet's beloved A- and B-sides helmed by Thom Bell on Atlantic Records during that halcyon period-with each and every

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: The Spinners, Thom Bell

Do It Right: Edsel Reissues, Expands Kiki Dee's "I've Got the Music in Me"

August 1, 2023 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Kiki Dee I've Got the Music in Me Deluxe

Edsel has long been championing the recordings of Kiki Dee, including two definitive box sets chronicling The Fontana and Motown Years and The Rocket Years.  It's the latter chapter to which the label has recently returned on a reissue of the British singer's second album, I've Got the Music in Me.  Originally released on Elton John's Rocket Records in 1974, the LP yielded a top twenty pop hit on both sides of the Atlantic.  What sets this 2-CD expanded edition apart is both the content - it

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Elton John, Kiki Dee

'The Joker' is Wild: Steve Miller Plans 50th Anniversary 'Evolution' of Classic Album

July 28, 2023 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Steve Miller Joker 50

No matter what you call him - the Space Cowboy, the Gangster of Love, Maurice, the Pompatus of Love, et al - you'll have something new to listen to while you think of your answer. The Steve Miller Band's classic The Joker is getting an expanded reissue for its 50th anniversary this fall. Due September 15, J50: Evolution of The Joker eschews the typical album plus outtakes format for a mostly chronological journey through the album, track-by-track. Over two CDs or three LPs and a 7" single,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Steve Miller, Steve Miller Band

Any Major Dude Will Tell You: Steely Dan's "Pretzel Logic" Set for Reissue

July 26, 2023 By Joe Marchese 11 Comments

Steely Dan Pretzel Logic

The Steely Dan reissue campaign rolls on with the July 28 reissue of the band's third album, 1974's Pretzel Logic.  The release follows the recent reissues of both Can't Buy a Thrill and Countdown to Ecstasy; like those titles, it will be remastered by Bernie Grundman from the original analog masters and reissued on standard 180-gram black vinyl, Ultra High-Quality (UHQR) premium vinyl cut at 45 RPM, and hybrid stereo SACD (playable on all CD players).  Donald Fagen has overseen the audio for

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

From This Moment On: Original Jazz Classics Series Rolls On with Bill Evans, Mal Waldron, Yusef Lateef

July 24, 2023 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Bill Evans Village Vanguard OJC

Following its relaunch with vintage titles from Miles Davis and the duo of Thelonious Monk and John Coltrane, Craft Recordings' Original Jazz Classics series will continue with upcoming releases from The Mal Waldron Sextet, The Bill Evans Trio, and Yusef Lateef.  These titles began rolling out on June 30. Drawing on the vast catalogues of the Fantasy, Prestige, Milestone, Riverside, Contemporary, Pablo, Galaxy, Debut, and Jazzland labels, OJC reissues promise the highest standard in vinyl

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Jazz Tags: Bill Evans, Mal Waldron, Yusef Lateef

I'm Digging You, Digging Me: 7a Reissues Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart's "I Wonder What She's Doing Tonite"

July 20, 2023 By Joe Marchese 15 Comments

Boyce and Hart I Wonder What She's Doing Tonite

When Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart made their long-playing debut as a recording duo with the 1967 release on A&M Records of Test Patterns, it was clear that the duo had the goods.  They were singers, writers, producers, and musicians, and showcased all of those talents on the album.  It was the culmination of a relatively short but prolific period of time that saw them - individually and collectively - behind some of the most enduring hits of that era or any other: "Last Train to Clarksville,"

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Bobby Hart, Boyce and Hart, Tommy Boyce

Children of the Revolution: New "Produced by Tony Visconti" Box Features David Bowie, T. Rex, U2, Badfinger, More

July 19, 2023 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Produced by Tony Visconti 4CD

In the course of a career spanning seven decades, Tony Visconti has produced seminal albums in the classic rock genre including high profile collaborations with David Bowie, T. Rex, Gentle Giant, Strawbs, and Badfinger.  But Visconti's C.V. runs much deeper, from folk (Ralph McTell, Tom Paxton) to musical theatre (Elaine Paige) and everything in between (Sparks).  On October 20, Edsel will release the first large-scale tribute to Visconti's enormous musical legacy.  Produced by Tony Visconti has

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Pop, Rock Tags: Argent, Badfinger, David Bowie, Elaine Paige, Gentle Giant, Joe Cocker, Manic Street Preachers, Mary Hopkin, Procol Harum, Strawbs, T Rex, The Damned, The Moody Blues, The Move, Tony Visconti, U2, Various Artists

A Man For All Seasons: Real Gone, Second Disc Celebrate Al Stewart on "Songs on the Radio: The Complete U.S. Singles 1974-1981"

July 18, 2023 By The Second Disc 5 Comments

Al Stewart Songs on the Radio

The Vietnamese Lunar New Year identifies 2023 as The Year of the Cat...and the timing couldn't be better! On September 8, Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records will unveil a definitive, first-ever singles collection from legendary singer-songwriter Al Stewart. In 1976, Stewart took the beguiling "Year of the Cat" to the top ten of the Pop and AC charts, inaugurating a run of timeless hits still heard on radio today in formats from classic rock to pop and yacht rock.  Now, for the very first

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Al Stewart, Alan Parsons

Shania Twain Hopes to Impress You Much with 'Come On Over' Expanded Reissue

July 17, 2023 By Mike Duquette 10 Comments

Shania Come On Over Diamond

Let's go, girls! Years after revisiting one of her first major releases, 1995's The Woman in Me, country-pop icon Shania Twain will do the same for her 1997 follow-up Come On Over - the album that made her a pop star. Due in stores August 25, the Diamond Edition of Come On Over will feature a number of formats, including 2CD/2LP standard editions and 3CD/3LP deluxe packages. The 3CD includes both mixes of the acclaimed album - the standard country/pop/rock mix issued in America and a second

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Country, Pop Tags: Shania Twain

Tom Waits' Wild Years on Island Records to Be Remastered and Reissued This Fall

July 14, 2023 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Franks Wild Years

After an already-unorthodox career as one of the most unique singers of the '70s, Tom Waits went on to reinvent his idiosyncratic sound as the '80s dawned. The fruits of that labor - a five-album stint on Island Records - will be revisited this fall in a series of CD and vinyl reissues. The five albums Waits issued for the label between 1983 and 1993 - the loose trilogy Swordfishtrombones (1983), Rain Dogs (1985) and Franks Wild Years (1987), and the follow-ups Bone Machine (1992) and The

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Everything Else, Rock Tags: Tom Waits

Down to the Wire: HAIM Celebrate 10 Years of Debut with Expanded Reissue

July 12, 2023 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

HAIM Days Are Gone 10

A decade after sister pop/rock trio HAIM became darlings of the music world with a lauded debut album, they'll revisit the record with a newly expanded edition in the fall. Days Are Gone - the sleek first volume from the group, will be reissued September 29 with a bonus disc of B-sides and remixes from the period curated by the sisters. The album, featuring the singles "Forever," "Falling," "The Wire," "If I Could Change Your Mind" and more, will be pressed on double green vinyl, with picture

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: HAIM

Got a Hold on Me: Christine McVie's Solo Works Returning to Print

July 12, 2023 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Christine McVie Christine McVie

The loss of longtime Fleetwood Mac keyboardist Christine McVie last year remains deeply felt by fans of the long-running group's unbeatable pop/rock songs. Today, on what would have been her 80th birthday, Rhino Records is releasing unheard music by (and in tribute to) her, with plans to reissue two of her solo albums this fall. On November 3, Rhino will reissue a remastered version of 1984's Christine McVie on CD and vinyl, with a cola-bottle clear color variant of the latter available

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Christine McVie, Fleetwood Mac, Mick Fleetwood

A Thing Called Love: The Darkness Ask for 'Permission to Land...Again' in Deluxe Edition of Debut

July 10, 2023 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Darkness Permission to Land box

It might've been the last thing anyone expected to hear on the radio in 2003: a swaggering rock tune with faux-operatic vocals and a guitar tone reminiscent of Queen's Brian May. Was it some lost outtake from the '70s? No: it was the seriously fun "I Believe in a Thing Called Love," which heralded one of the country's most unique bands: The Darkness. Now, 20 years on, the group is revisiting their first recordings with an all-out box set edition of their debut album Permission to

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: The Darkness

The Way of the Sword: Real Gone's July Releases Include Vinyl Debuts of "The Last Samurai," Ill Biskits, and Owsley

July 7, 2023 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Owsley Owsley

In addition to Real Gone's Music and Second Disc Records' reissue of the soundtrack to The Flasher by Pool-Pah and songwriter-arranger Rupert Holmes, Real Gone also has three other titles hitting store shelves today.  All three hail from the 1990s or 2000s and all are making their vinyl debuts. First up is the only album from hip-hop group Ill Biskits: 1995's Chronicle of Two Losers.  The German-born, Virginia-based duo of Deeda (M. Warrens) and Kleph Dollaz (Darrel Durant) released their

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Hans Zimmer, Ill Biskits, Owsley

Tear It Up: Iconoclassic Reissues Two Rock-and-Roll Gems from Billy Burnette

July 6, 2023 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Billy Burnette

Last autumn, Iconoclassic Records brought Rocky Burnette's 1979 solo debut The Son of Rock and Roll to CD.  Tomorrow, July 7, the label is turning its attention to Rocky's cousin Billy Burnette for another pair of CD premieres. The son of Dorsey Burnette - a veteran artist with recording credits at Imperial, Dot, Motown, Reprise, and Capitol - and the nephew of "Dreamin'" and "You're Sixteen" hitmaker Johnny Burnette, Billy made his solo debut in 1972 on the CBS-distributed Entrance label.  He

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Billy Burnette

OUT TOMORROW! Real Gone, Second Disc Expose Pool-Pah and Rupert Holmes' Psych-Rock Rarity "The Flasher"

July 6, 2023 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Pool Pah The Flasher

1973: the sexual revolution was on, streaking was taking college campuses by storm, and Deep Throat was edging pornography ever closer to the mainstream.  Against this backdrop, a talented New York band with the unlikely moniker of Pool-Pah teamed up with up-and-coming singer-songwriter, musician, and arranger Rupert Holmes to write and record an unforgettably far-out soundtrack blending rock, psychedelia, jazz, prog, pop, and electronica.  It had to be heard to be believed...and far too few

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Pool-Pah, Rupert Holmes

Not So 'Last' Splash: The Breeders' Landmark Album Gets Reissued with Two Unheard Tracks

June 28, 2023 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Breeders Last Splash 30

The Breeders' Last Splash - one of the most treasured albums of the '90s alternative rock explosion - will be newly reissued this fall with a small but intriguing selection of bonus material. The 1993 album was given the deluxe treatment for its 20th anniversary in 2013 - but, it turns out, the original analog tapes could not be located to create that set. In the decade since, they've been successfully located, and in addition to newly-remastered favorites like "Cannonball" and "Divine

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Pixies, The Breeders

You Learn: Rhino To Release First Ever Vinyl Reissue of Alanis Morissette's 2005 Compilation "The Collection" in August

June 27, 2023 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Alanis Morissette The Collection

Two weeks ago today, June 13, marked the 28th anniversary of the 1995 release of Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill, the album which catapulted the Canadian singer-songwriter to global stardom.  Rhino has just announced a first-time vinyl reissue of an album that celebrated the 10th anniversary of this breakthrough: Morissette's 2005 greatest hits compilation The Collection.  The release featured 18 tracks drawing on Alanis' four American studio albums to that point and songs from other

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Review: Kenny Rogers, "Life Is Like a Song"

June 26, 2023 By Joe Marchese 9 Comments

Kenny Rogers Life Is Like a Song

In the booklet to his new posthumous release Life Is Like a Song, the late Kenny Rogers is quoted: "Music is the greatest memory-maker you'll ever encounter.  A song can lock you right into a memory for a lifetime."  Rogers' own music, whether "The Gambler," "Through the Years," "Lady," "She Believes in Me," "You Decorated My Life," or "Islands in the Stream," certainly proves that adage.  The Texas-born singer, who passed away in 2020 at the age of 81, blurred the lines between country and pop

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Country, Pop Tags: Dolly Parton, Kenny Rogers, Kim Carnes, Lionel Richie

Hey Little Sister: Billy Idol Expands Debut LP with Unreleased Live Show

June 21, 2023 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Billy Idol expanded

On July 28, it'll be a nice day to start again: Billy Idol's self-titled debut album will be reissued on CD with a bonus live show. Released in 1982, Billy Idol was the first full-length solo effort from the British rocker with the spiky bleached hair and the inimitable sneer. A year before, he'd issued the Don't Stop EP, offering a remix of "Dancing with Myself" - the last major single from his former band Generation X - and a peppy cover of Tommy James and The Shondells' "Mony Mony." (A

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, Rock Tags: Billy Idol

Dance Only with Me: Stage Door Reissues Styne, Comden, and Green's "Say, Darling" as Deluxe Edition

June 21, 2023 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Say Darling OBC

Upon its May 13, 1954 opening, The Pajama Game was an instant smash.  The Tony Award-winning Best Musical by George Abbott, Richard Bissell, Richard Adler, and Jerry Ross went on to run 1,063 performances and inspire a London production, two Broadway revivals, and countless regional, school, and community theatre productions.  But for Bissell, the Iowa-born author of the novel 7-1/2 Cents on which The Pajama Game was based, the road to Broadway was a bumpy one.  Bissell put his memories to paper

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings Tags: Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Johnny Desmond, Jule Styne, Vivian Blaine

Stand Back: Rhino Releases Stevie Nicks' Complete Discography on CD, LP Box

June 14, 2023 By Mike Duquette 8 Comments

StevieN ProductShots BOX CD

If you'll forgive the easy reference, there's no one quite as bewitching as Stevie Nicks. Since she joined Fleetwood Mac in 1975 and helped turn them from British blues-based cult act to blockbuster pop/rock icons, her enrapturing voice and stage presence have influenced generations. In 1981, she began a parallel solo career with hits on her own that helped make her, in 2019, the first woman inducted into the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame twice. It's that solo material that's the subject of a

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bruce Hornsby, Don Henley, Fleetwood Mac, Prince, Stevie Nicks, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

New Direction: Bobby Darin's '60s Label Reactivates in July, Unreleased Music Promised

June 13, 2023 By The Second Disc 12 Comments

Bobby Darin Direction Logo and Covers

At the conclusion of his second Atlantic Records tenure in 1967 - a period which yielded the hit "If I Were a Carpenter" and vivid journeys through contemporary folk, Broadway, and Hollywood songbooks - Bobby Darin struck out on his own to form the Direction Records label.  Devastated by the assassination of his close friend Robert F. Kennedy, shaken by revelations about his family, and stricken by the ongoing turmoil of the day, Bobby sought to shed the showbiz style to which he'd become

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Bobby Darin

One of a Kind: Second Disc, Real Gone Collect Spinners' "Complete Atlantic Singles: The Thom Bell Productions"

June 12, 2023 By The Second Disc 20 Comments

Spinners Complete Atlantic Singles

Could it be you're falling in love? On August 4, just three months before their long-awaited induction into the 2023 class of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, the world-renowned Spinners will be celebrated by Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records with The Complete Atlantic Singles: The Thom Bell Productions 1972-1979. This definitive 2-CD anthology presents every one of the quintet's beloved A- and B-sides helmed by Thom Bell on Atlantic Records during that halcyon period-with each and every

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Dionne Warwick, The Spinners, Thom Bell

Elvis' 'Aloha' Beams Into Box Set for 50th Anniversary

June 9, 2023 By The Second Disc 6 Comments

Elvis Aloha from Hawaii 2023

America said Aloha to Elvis Presley in between a trip to the Dark Side of the Moon and a visit to the Houses of the Holy when the once and future King's Aloha from Hawaii album earned a berth between Pink Floyd and Led Zeppelin atop the Billboard chart.  Presley's Honolulu concert of January 14, 1973, preserved on records by RCA, was monumental in every respect.  The most expensive entertainment broadcast to that point in time, Aloha from Hawaii was viewed by an estimated audience of over one

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Elvis Presley

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