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You Gotta Move: Rolling Stones' "Sticky Fingers" Goes Super Deluxe In May

April 1, 2015 By Joe Marchese 10 Comments

rolling stones sticky fingers2

The Rolling Stones recently announced the 15-city U.S. stadium tour known as The ZIP CODE Tour - both because it plans on visiting relatively unfamiliar zip codes and because of that famous zipper that adorned the original 1971 release of the band's classic Sticky Fingers.  On May 25 June 8 in the U.K. - one day after the tour kicks off at San Diego's Petco Park - the Stones will reissue Sticky Fingers in the now de rigeur multitude of formats.  (May 26 June 9 is the U.S. release

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: The Rolling Stones

Rosemary Clooney, Jim Reeves Rarities Arrive From Mint Audio

March 31, 2015 By Joe Marchese 19 Comments

Rosemary Clooney Rare

Newly-launched label Mint Audio recently made a splash with Operation Santa Claus: Live from Hong Kong 1962, a previously unreleased concert from vocal great Matt Monro. The label’s two other premiere releases salute two other titans of song – Rosemary Clooney and Jim Reeves. Rare and Unreleased features 30 radio performances from Maysville, Kentucky’s favorite daughter, Rosemary Clooney (1928-2002). Most are from the period of 1955-1961, with the earliest tracks dating to a few years

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Country, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Jim Reeves, Rosemary Clooney

WIN! WIN! WIN! New Vinyl From ROGER TAYLOR of Queen and OMNIVORE RECORDINGS!

March 31, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Fun in Space

Omnivore Recordings has recently continued its series dedicated to the solo catalogue of legendary Queen drummer Roger Taylor with definitive new reissues of Taylor’s first two solo records – Fun in Space and Strange Frontier!   We’d like you to have share in some of that fun with this very special giveaway! FIVE LUCKY WINNERS will receive a bundle of the new clear vinyl pressing of Fun in Space and the translucent red vinyl edition of Strange Frontier – and once these limited editions are

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Categories: Giveaways! Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Queen, Roger Taylor

Release Round-Up: Week of March 31

March 31, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Glen Campbell Rhinestone Cowboy

Today's Release Round-Up has everything from classic country and rock to vintage jazz! Glen Campbell, Rhinestone Cowboy: 40th Anniversary Edition (Capitol Nashville) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. ) Capitol Nashville remasters and expands Glen Campbell’s smash 1975 album with five bonus tracks, including the previously unreleased “Quits,” two rare new-to-U.S.-CD single sides and remixes of “Rhinestone Cowboy” and “Country Boy (You Got Your Feet in L.A.).”  Read full details

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Billie Holiday, Fotheringay, Glen Campbell, Hall and Oates, Meat Loaf, Rick Wakeman, Ringo Starr, The Grateful Dead, Translator, Van Halen

Come On: The Complete Ric and Ron Singles of New Orleans' Johnny Adams Are Collected By Ace

March 30, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Johnny Adams I Wont Cry

Of New Orleans’ many musical greats, few embodied the city’s spirited style of rhythm and blues as well as the late Johnny Adams (1932-1998).  Though he charted just six R&B hits in a career spanning 40 years, New Orleans native Adams had one of the city’s most distinctive and dramatic voices.  Ace has recently released the first-ever complete anthology of Adams’ singles for Ric and Ron Records with I Won’t Cry: The Complete Ric and Ron Singles 1959-1964. Ric and its sister label Ron were

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Dr. John, Johnny Adams

Tenderness

March 27, 2015 By

JD

Southern California rock great J.D. Souther returns with a long-awaited new album of all-original material.  Tenderness has been produced by Larry Klein and reportedly features contributions from jazz pianist Billy Childs. However, it does not appear to include any of Souther's recent writing collaborations with Burt Bacharach as was previously indicated.

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop

Sammy Swings/The Sammy Awards

March 27, 2015 By

Sammy Swings

The U.K.'s Sepia label mines the oft-overlooked Decca catalogue of Sammy Davis, Jr. for this two-fer of the late, great entertainer's Sammy Swings (1957) and The Sammy Awards (1959).  (This title is released in accordance with current U.K. public domain laws.)

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Formats: CD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal

Dance to the Music! Sly and the Family Stone Vinyl Box Arrives

March 26, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Sly Original Album Classics

A little more than a week ago, on March 15, Sly Stone turned 72. The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer and multi-hyphenate artist has survived more than his share of ups and downs. But for a staggering period of nearly 50 years, Sly's work as composer, singer, producer and musician has continued to take listeners higher with his groundbreaking blend of funk, rhythm and blues, soul, rock, psychedelia, jazz and pop. Epic Records and Legacy Recordings have recently reissued the first five albums from Sly

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Sly and the Family Stone

Forever Man

March 25, 2015 By

Clapton Forever Man

Eric Clapton's new anthology - released on the occasion of his 70th birthday - features 51 tracks on three CDs, with one disc dedicated to studio tracks, one to live recordings, and one to his explorations of the blues.  Also available in 2-CD and 2-LP highlight forms, and as a digital download.

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

Wonderful Tonight: Eric Clapton Turns 70, Releases New Late-Period Anthology

March 25, 2015 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Clapton Forever Man

On March 30, Eric Clapton turns 70, but the guitar hero isn't about to rest on his considerable laurels. He's marking the occasion with a series of concerts including two at New York's Madison Square Garden and seven at London's Royal Albert Hall. Reprise Records is also celebrating the artist's landmark birthday with the April 28 release of Forever Man, a compilation concentrating on his longtime affiliation with the label and its sister Warner Bros. Records which began in 1983. Featuring 51

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Eric Clapton, J.J. Cale

WE HAVE OUR WINNERS! GAME THEORY “Real Nighttime” Bundle From Omnivore Recordings!

March 24, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Game Theory Real Nighttime

CONGRATULATIONS! The following five entrants have won the brand-new red vinyl LP Real Nighttime, and also an original vintage 1980s flexidisc from GAME THEORY and OMNIVORE RECORDINGS!  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: Jeffrey Rosen Mark Nielsen Cole Smith Tim Vogt Randall Paske If you didn't win, this amazing, extremely limited bundle is still available to purchase

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Categories: Giveaways! Formats: Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: Game Theory

Margaret Whiting and George Shearing's "Lost Jazz Sessions" Found

March 24, 2015 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Whiting Shearing

With her straightforward, emotionally honest and vocally pristine style, it's no wonder why Margaret Whiting became one of the foremost interpreters of the body of work known today as The Great American Songbook. One of the earliest signings to Johnny Mercer's fledgling Capitol label, Whiting scored approximately 50 chart hits in the 1940s and 1950s, popularized now-standard songs including "My Funny Valentine," "It Might as Well Be Spring," "Moonlight in Vermont" and "Baby, It's Cold Outside,"

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Digital Download Genre: Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Margaret Whiting

The Entertainers: Billy Joel, America, Labelle, Earth Wind and Fire Get Surround-Sound Treatment From Audio Fidelity

March 24, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Streetlife Serenade SACD

Audio Fidelity is continuing its well-received series of surround-sound releases on hybrid SACD with a trio of quadraphonic (4.0) titles from 1974 and one classic rock favorite from 1972 in 5.1.  All of these titles feature the surround mix on the high resolution SACD layer with a newly-remastered version of the original stereo mix on both the SACD and standard CD layers. The '72 classic is America's Homecoming.  The second album by the trio of Dewey Bunnell, Gerry Beckley and Dan Peek,

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Categories: News Formats: SACD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: America, Billy Joel, Earth Wind and Fire, Labelle

In Memoriam: Jackie Trent (1940-2015)

March 23, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Jackie Trent Once More

When I think of the songs of Jackie Trent, I think of the big sound, the pulsating brass, the bold vibrancy, the irresistible beat, the drive.  With her first husband Tony Hatch, Trent penned some of the most indelible songs of a golden age of pop music – “I Couldn’t Live Without Your Love,” “Don’t Sleep in the Subway,” “The Other Man’s Grass is Always Greener,” “Joanna” – and saw her work recorded by many of the era’s most remarkable performers, among them Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Scott

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Jackie Trent, Tony Hatch

Release Round-Up: Week of March 23

March 23, 2015 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Bee Gees 1974 1979

It's a Monday release date here in the U.S., so here's your early Release Round-Up! Bee Gees, 1974-1979 (Reprise/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) This box set brings together the band’s Mr. Natural, Main Course, Children of the World and Spirits Having Flown plus a disc of previously issued bonus material.  Full track listing and details here.  Watch on Record Store Day for a companion vinyl release to this set featuring the 12-inch mixes from Saturday Night Fever! Kansas,

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bee Gees, Dean Martin, Hawkwind, James Brown, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, Kansas, Kenny Rankin, Paul McCartney, Phyllis Hyman, Roger Taylor, The Brecker Brothers, Toto, Van Morrison, Willie Nile

Original Album Classics

March 20, 2015 By

Tony Bennett Original

Five Tony Bennett albums get boxed in this Original Album Classics volume: I Left My Heart in San Francisco, Perfectly Frank, Steppin' Out, MTV Unplugged and Here's to the Ladies.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal

Original Album Classics

March 20, 2015 By

Paul Simon Original Album

Five assorted albums from Rhymin' Simon are boxed up in this budget-priced Original Album Series set: Paul Simon, There Goes Rhymin' Simon, Hearts and Bones, Songs from the Capeman and You're the One.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop

Original Album Classics

March 20, 2015 By

Janis Box

Janis Joplin gets an entry in Legacy's Original Album Classics series of five albums in one budget-priced slipcased edition: Big Brother and the Holding Company, Cheap Thrills, I Got Dem Ol' Kozmic Blues Again Mama!, Pearl and Live at Winterland '68.

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock

Original Album Classics

March 20, 2015 By

Dean Martin Original Album

Legacy packages five of Dean Martin's original Reprise albums in one budget-priced, slipcased set.  Dino's Original Album Classics features Dream with Dean (1964), Everybody Loves Somebody (1964), The Door is Still Open to My Heart (1964), Houston (1965) and The Dean Martin TV Show (1966), presumably in their remastered editions.  (Martin's entire catalogue was remastered upon its acquisition by Legacy.)

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal

Kansas: Miracles Out of Nowhere

March 20, 2015 By

Kansas

The new documentary film Miracles Out of Nowhere chronicles the band Kansas' journey from obscurity to superstardom. It features the original Kansas lineup, revisiting Topeka together for the first time in more than 30 years.  The film also features interviews with Garth Brooks, Brian May of Queen, producer Brendan O Brien, Rolling Stone journalist David Wild, and more.  Legacy's CD/DVD package includes a soundtrack with greatest hits, album cuts and dialogue from the film serving as a special

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Formats: CD, DVD Genre: Classic Rock

Can't Forget: A Souvenir of the Grand Tour

March 20, 2015 By

Leonard Cohen Cant Forget

Leonard Cohen offers ten selections - including two songs never previously recorded and a pair of covers - from his recent world tour.

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

Nothing But The Truth: RPM Uncovers Complete Recordings of Sixties Mod Duo

March 20, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

The Truth

In keeping with its mission of uncovering some of the best, criminally-unknown pop of the 1960s, RPM has just unveiled Who’s Wrong? Mod Bedlam 1965-1969 from the mod-R&B duo known as The Truth.  Frank Aiello and Steve Jameson issued seven singles between 1965 and 1968 and even notched a minor hit with their recording of The Beatles’ “Girl,” but have gone largely unrecognized in the decades since.  RPM’s compilation rights that wrong, and collects all of the duo’s singles plus a number of

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: The Truth

Light As The Breeze: Leonard Cohen Returns With Live Rarities Set

March 19, 2015 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

Leonard Cohen Cant Forget

Just a few months after the September 2014 release of Leonard Cohen’s new studio album Popular Problems and subsequent concert release Live in Dublin, the troubadour is back with a new offering drawn (like Live in Dublin) from his Old Ideas World Tour. Whereas Dublin presented an overview of Cohen’s extraordinary career, the upcoming Can’t Forget: A Souvenir of the Grand Tour presents rarities performed during the international trek. The May 12 release from Legacy Recordings features a pair of

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Folk, Pop Tags: Leonard Cohen

Rare Bernard Herrmann Score To "12-Mile Reef" Resurfaces On CD

March 19, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Beneath the 12 Mile Reef

Romeo and Juliet at sea? Such was the premise behind 1953’s epic adventure Beneath the 12-Mile Reef. Only the third film shot in the widescreen CinemaScope process, the Twentieth Century Fox film starred Robert Wagner and Terry Moore as the star-crossed lovers from warring families on Florida’s Gulf Coast. Adding luster to the picture was the score by Bernard Herrmann. By 1953, Herrmann was already well-known for his Oscar-winning score to The Devil and Daniel Webster and nominees Citizen Kane

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Bernard Herrmann

Dick's Picks Vol. 8--Harpur College, Binghamton, NY May 2, 1970

March 18, 2015 By

Dicks Picks 8

Real Gone continues reintroducing classic Dick's Picks entries to the catalogue, including this beloved show of May 2, 1970 on three CDs!

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

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