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Make My Wish Come True: Vinyl, Singles, SACD to Commemorate 30 Years of Mariah Carey's 'Merry Christmas'

November 12, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Mariah Carey Merry Christmas 30 packshot

With the run-up to Christmas approaching full speed, the holiday's musical queen is looking to take back her crown. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of Carey's Merry Christmas and its unforgettable, cross-generational hit single "All I Want for Christmas is You," the Elusive Chanteuse will deliver an expanded version of the album on vinyl, featuring material from its most recent reissue and a 24-page booklet in a hardbound package with some holiday surprises. To boost "All I Want for

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Cassette, CD, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Holiday, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Ariana Grande, Jennifer Hudson, Mariah Carey

Got You Where I Want You: Dwight Twilley, Max Werner Reissues Arrive This Friday from Iconoclassic

November 12, 2024 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Dwight Twilley Twilley

This Friday, November 15, Iconoclassic Records will release its two latest titles - the third album in its ongoing Dwight Twilley reissue series and a long-lost gem from Kayak drummer-singer Max Werner. Twilley, the power pop hero's first solo album following two acclaimed albums with The Dwight Twilley Band, originally arrived in 1979 on Arista Records in the United States.  The late singer-songwriter (1951-2023) was joined by a core band including Bill Pitcock IV on lead guitar, Jim Lewis

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Dwight Twilley, Max Werner

Country Sunshine: Morello Reissues Four Albums from Late Country Queen Dottie West

November 7, 2024 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Dottie West Country Sunshine Four Fer

After nearly a decade, Cherry Red's Morello imprint has returned to the discography of late country songstress Dottie West with a new 4-albums-on-2-CDs release. After pairing West's first two RCA albums on CD (1965's Here Comes My Baby and Dottie West Sings) in 2016, Morello has jumped ahead to 1971-1972 for a collection featuring Careless Hands, Have You Heard...Dottie West, I'm Only a Woman, and Country Sunshine. After penning Jim Reeves' 1963 hit "Is This Me," Dottie auditioned and signed

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country Tags: Dottie West

Sugar Town: Light in the Attic Reissues, Expands Nancy Sinatra's "Sugar" and "Country, My Way"

November 6, 2024 By The Second Disc 5 Comments

Nancy Sinatra Sugar

Light in the Attic is accelerating its Nancy Sinatra Archival Series with the November 29 reissue of the singer's fourth and fifth studio albums, both from 1967: Sugar and Country, My Way.  Both of these expanded editions will be available on CD, LP, and digitally. Sugar capped off an incredibly prolific year for Sinatra.  The fourth album she recorded in 1966, Sugar was nominally named for the sweet and seductive, Lee Hazlewood-penned "Sugar Town," a top 5 Pop/No. 1 AC hit.  Though album

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Country, Pop Tags: Lee Hazlewood, Nancy Sinatra

A Cool Yule: Verve Expands Ella Fitzgerald's 'Swinging Christmas' for Vinyl, Plans Gift Set with Louis Armstrong's Christmas Collection

November 1, 2024 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Ella Louis Swinging Holiday box

You've hung up your costumes and sorted through all your Halloween candy - now it's time to get excited for the holiday gift-giving season, packed with great reissues under your tree and spirited carols on the stereo. Two new vinyl products from Verve Records feature both: some of the most beloved holiday hits from two of the label's most iconic voices. Verve will release a special gift set this season: Ella & Louis Wish You a Swinging Holiday - a 2LP set that brings together a bona fide

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Holiday, Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong

Fanny Walked the Earth: Cherry Red's "The Reprise Years 1970-1973" Expands All-Female Band's First Four Albums

October 30, 2024 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Fanny The Reprise Years

When Fanny - a.k.a. June Millington (guitar), Jean Millington (bass), Alice De Buhr (drums), and Nickey Barclay (keyboards) - came to Reprise Records in 1969, the foursome became the first all-female rock band to be signed to a major label.  Championed by Richard Perry, Fanny went on record four albums for Reprise, notch two top 40 singles, open for acts including Humble Pie, Jethro Tull, and Slade, and even back Barbra Streisand on a couple of songs.  Their catalogue has been well-served over

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Fanny, Richard Perry, Todd Rundgren

Alice Cooper's 'Muscle of Love' Has Never Been Sold Before (Like This)

October 29, 2024 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Muscle of Love deluxe packshot

Alice Cooper's final album - well, the final album with Cooper's original band of the same name - is getting a deluxe treatment this year. Available on 2CD/Blu-ray and pink double vinyl exclusively at Rhino.com, 1973's Muscle of Love gets expanded with unreleased alternate versions of every track on the album and lengthy, track-by-track liner notes by writer Jaan Uhelszki, drawing from new interviews with Cooper and his surviving bandmates (rhythm guitarist Michael Bruce, bassist Dennis

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Alice Cooper

Maybe This Year: Steve Perry Plots Third Reissue of Holiday Album 'The Season'

October 28, 2024 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Steve Perry The Season 3

Until a few years ago, fans wondered if Steve Perry - the best known voice of blockbuster rock band Journey - would ever sing again after a lengthy absence from the public eye. After a celebrated comeback album in 2018, Perry ended his shortest gap between solo releases three years later, with the holiday album The Season; this Christmas, it's being reissued a third time on a new label, with even more new material. True to its name, The Season 3 is the third iteration of Perry's holiday

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Holiday Tags: Journey, Steve Perry

Can You Dig It? Yes, I Can: Chicago's "Live at 55" Features Steve Vai, Robert Randolph, Chris Daughtry, Judith Hill, More

October 23, 2024 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Chicago Live at 55

Last November 17 and 18, Chicago celebrated the 55th anniversary of debut album Chicago Transit Authority at Atlantic City's Ovation Hall (within the massive Ocean Casino Resort) with two marathon concerts touching on every facet of the band's long career.  Now, the film of those concerts - featuring a number of special guests including Steve Vai, Robert Randolph, and Judith Hill - is coming to a variety of formats almost one year to the day, on November 22, 2024.  Mercury Studios will release

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Chicago, Chris Daughtry, Christone Kingfish Ingram, Judith Hill, Robert Randolph, Robin Thicke, Steve Vai, Voiceplay

How to Dismantle an Atomic Bomb: 20th Anniversary Edition

October 23, 2024 By

U2 Atomic Bomb box

5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 8LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Hello, hello: U2 are revisiting their 11th album - and, depending on where you stand, the end of one era and the start of another - with a deluxe box set edition of How to Dismantle An Atomic Bomb.  The set, available November 22 - exactly 20 years to the day of its original release - features five CDs or

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock

The Mormon Tabernacle Choir Sings Christmas Carols: Expanded Edition

October 23, 2024 By

Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas Carols

Over the past decade, we here at TSD have happily partnered with Real Gone Music on an array of Christmas releases from such evergreen artists as Johnny Mathis, The Supremes, Chet Atkins, Connie Smith, and Robert Goulet.  But our newest yuletide title is from our biggest ever group - bigger than Mitch Miller and His Gang or Eugene Ormandy and The Philadelphia Orchestra!  Now, we're proud to reissue the very first Christmas album from a group numbering 360 members: The Mormon Tabernacle Choir.

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Formats: CD Genre: Classical/Opera, Holiday

Christmas Once More

October 23, 2024 By

Carpenters Christmas Once More

CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Official Store (Gold Vinyl) Curated and remixed by Richard Carpenter, Christmas Once More presents highlights from both of Carpenters' original Christmas albums as well as "Merry Christmas Darling" from the duo's 2018 album Carpenters with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra.  It offers both secular favorites ("Sleigh Ride," "The First Snowfall/Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!," "(There's No

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal

A Special One for You: 'Christmas Once More' Offers New Mixes of Carpenters Holiday Classics

October 22, 2024 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Carpenters Christmas Once More

Christmas music was a vital part of the Carpenters canon from the very beginning.  In 1970, Richard and Karen contributed their own standard to the yuletide canon with "Merry Christmas Darling," the first of three holiday singles released by the brother-and-sister duo.  Richard set to music the lyric written by Frank Pooler, choir director at the Carpenters' alma mater of California State University - Long Beach (today the home of the Richard and Karen Carpenter Performing Arts Center), and in

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Holiday, Pop Tags: Carpenters

Funny the Way It Is: Dave Matthews Band Celebrate Rock Hall Induction with New Vinyl Compilation

October 21, 2024 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

DMB Singles packshot

Having just earned a place in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Dave Matthews Band will release a new compilation early next year. Where Are You Going: The Singles, available February 7, is a new double-vinyl set collecting 22 of the group's best-known songs over their three decades of studio albums, from major-label breakthrough Under the Table and Dreaming (1994) to last year's Walk Around the Moon. Seven of those 10 albums, from 1998's Before These Crowded Streets to 2018's Come Tomorrow,

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Dave Matthews Band

Listen to the Music: Rhino's New Batch of Quadio Titles Includes Doobie Brothers, Jefferson Starship, J. Geils Band, Foghat

October 18, 2024 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Quadio Bundle 6

Rhino's ongoing series of Quadio four-channel surround releases on Blu-ray Audio Discs has already presented a host of classic albums by the eclectic likes of Joni Mitchell, Bette Midler, Bread, Chicago, Seals and Crofts, Spinners, Randy Newman, and many others.  Today, the label announced a new batch with three returning artists (The Doobie Brothers, Jefferson Starship, J. Geils Band) and one band new to Quadio (Foghat).  Each of the four discs, currently available exclusively from Rhino.com,

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Foghat, J. Geils Band, Jefferson Starship, The Doobie Brothers

Discs for Groovy Children: Hendrix, Whitney Houston, Rage Against the Machine Lead Legacy's Record Store Day Black Friday Slate

October 18, 2024 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Whitney Houston Love Is RSD

Legacy Recordings has prepped an eclectic state of mostly classic rock and hip-hop titles to be released on vinyl for Record Store Day Black Friday. The long-running spinoff event to the big April bonanza takes place November 29 at participating independent outlets - and below is an alphabetical look at what Sony Music's catalog arm will be releasing. More than 50 years after her tragic passing, singer Janis Joplin continues to find new fans - and Legacy's first Black Friday title highlights

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: Big Brother and the Holding Company, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Lamb of God, Lil Wayne, Modest Mouse, Rage Against the Machine, Record Store Day, Sia, Whitney Houston

I Heard the Bells on Christmas Day: Real Gone, Second Disc Premiere Original "The Mormon Tabernacle Choir Sings Christmas Carols" on CD

October 17, 2024 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Mormon Tabernacle Choir Christmas Carols

Over the past decade, we here at TSD have happily partnered with Real Gone Music on an array of Christmas releases from such evergreen artists as Johnny Mathis, The Supremes, Chet Atkins, Connie Smith, and Robert Goulet.  But our newest yuletide title is from our biggest ever group - bigger than Mitch Miller and His Gang or Eugene Ormandy and The Philadelphia Orchestra!  On November 22, we're proud to reissue the very first Christmas album from a group numbering 360 members: The Mormon

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classical/Opera, Holiday Tags: The Mormon Tabernacle Choir

From Scores to Soul: Craft Recordings' RSD Black Friday Slate Includes Curtis Mayfield, Isaac Hayes, More

October 16, 2024 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

RecordStoreDayBlackFriday RSDBF logo

It's that time of year again! With Record Store Day's annual Black Friday event happening just weeks away - on Friday, November 29 - news has arrived of what to expect from each label. Craft Recordings' ever-eclectic slate features classic jazz, rare soundtracks, vintage soul sides, and more from an array of boldfaced names including Max Roach, Curtis Mayfield, Isaac Hayes, Angelo Badalamenti, and others. You'll find the full list below, with descriptions provided by the label for all

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Latin, R&B/Soul, Reggae, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Angelo Badalamenti, Born Jamericans, Curtis Mayfield, Isaac Hayes, Joe Bataan, Max Roach, Norma Jean, Record Store Day

Fairy Tale: Cherry Red, Grapefruit Reissue Rock Cult Classic from Amazing Blondel Predecessor Methuselah

October 16, 2024 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Methuselah

Before founding progressive folk group Amazing Blondel, John Gladwin and Terry Wincott played in various musical units and styles.  After honing their skills in beat, blues, R&B, soul, and even California-inspired psychedelic harmony pop, the British duo turned their sights to harder rock and changed their band's name from The Gospel Garden (inspired by both The 5th Dimension's Jimmy Webb-penned opus The Magic Garden and the 1963 recording of the Langston Hughes stage adaptation Black

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Methuselah

Mama, Cradle Me Again: Madfish Collects Laura Nyro Albums, Rarities on New CD Box

October 14, 2024 By Joe Marchese 15 Comments

Laura Nyro Hear My Song

Over three years after the release of its 8LP vinyl box set American Dreamer 1967-1978, the Madfish label is returning to the discography of late singer-songwriter Laura Nyro for the December 6 release of Hear My Song: The Collection 1966-1995.  Whereas American Dreamer chronicled Nyro's first decade of music, the 19CD Hear My Song is a career-spanning appreciation of the artist who influenced such talents as Elton John, Barry Manilow, Todd Rundgren, Stephen Schwartz, Rickie Lee Jones, Melissa

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Laura Nyro

Listen to the Music: Rhino's Rocktober Slate Features Doobie Brothers, Yes, Fleetwood Mac, Monkees, More

October 10, 2024 By The Second Disc 5 Comments

Rhino Rocktober

Rhino's annual Rocktober campaign - this year encompassing 43 limited edition colored vinyl reissues of rockers both classic and contemporary - kicked off on October 4 with titles from Black Sabbath, Bush, Deep Purple, Devo, The Doobie Brothers, Fleetwood Mac, The Monkees, Stone Temple Pilots, and more.  Next, on October 18, the collection will grow to include releases from Ramones and The Velvet Underground.  The slate concludes on October 25 with The Cars, Foghat, Iron Butterfly, and more,

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Black Sabbath, Bush, Deep Purple, Devo, Fleetwood Mac, Foghat, Foreigner, INXS, IOMMI, Iron Butterfly, Jenny Lewis, Ministry, Montrose, Morphine, Porno for Pyros, Ramones, Ron Wood, Stevie Nicks, Stone Temple Pilots, The Cars, The Doobie Brothers, The English Beat, The Monkees, The Stooges, Third Eye Blind, Twisted Sister, Type O Negative, Velvet Underground, Whitesnake, Wilco, Yes

Sing Along With the Mummy: Real Gone's Halloween Line-Up Includes Rare 1959 Album From McFadden and McKuen with Second Disc Records, Rare Soundtracks

October 3, 2024 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Bob McFadden and Dor Songs Our Mummy Taught Us

Real Gone's Halloween line-up began last month and now that October has rolled around, the label is continuing the party with more reissues to play on October 31 filled with material from the 1950s to the 1980s.  All of these titles hit store shelves, tomorrow, October 5. First up is a Real Gone/Second Disc Records vinyl reissue: Songs Our Mummy Taught Us by Bob McFadden and Dor.   This one-of-a-kind LP was the creation of voiceover artist Bob McFadden - best-known as the voice of

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Comedy, Everything Else, Soundtracks Tags: Bob McFadden, Jay Chattaway, Rod McKuen, Sean Bonniwell

Quadio Spotlight: Bette Midler, "The Divine Miss M" and Bread, "Baby I'm a Want-You"

October 2, 2024 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Bette Midler Divine Miss M Quadio

Way back in Ye Olden Days of 2011, The Second Disc advocated for the release of the original quadraphonic mix of Bette Midler's 1973 debut, The Divine Miss M.  Well, lo these many years later, Rhino has granted our wish, and it's been released on Blu-ray as part of the label's still-growing Quadio series of four-channel reissues.  In Craig Anderson's stellar remaster, it's happily as good as we remember it!  The 4.0 mix by Atlantic Records veteran Tom Dowd, a legendary producer in his own right,

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Blu-Ray Audio Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Bette Midler, Bread

Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision

October 1, 2024 By

Hendrix Electric Lady Studios box packshot

3CD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5LP/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Among his final and most enduring acts as a musician, Jimi Hendrix purchased a Greenwich Village nightclub with the intention of transforming it into a recording studio. A new documentary tells that story of its creation, and the accompanying box set highlights an unreleased trove of recordings from his few but pivotal sessions there.  Electric Lady Studios: A Jimi Hendrix Vision,

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Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock

In Memoriam: Kris Kristofferson (1936-2024)

September 30, 2024 By Joe Marchese 9 Comments

Kris Kristofferson Kristofferson

On a Sunday mornin' sidewalk/I'm wishin', Lord, that I was stoned/'Cause there's somethin' in a Sunday/That makes a body feel alone... With songs such as "Sunday Mornin' Comin' Down," Kris Kristofferson expanded the vernacular of country music, bringing realism, gritty authenticity, and a literate sensibility - he was an Oxford-schooled Rhodes Scholar -  to a genre already known for its unvarnished musical stories of pain and heartbreak.  Kristofferson would find himself at the vanguard of

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Categories: News Genre: Country Tags: Kris Kristofferson

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