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Blowin' Away: Second Disc Records, Real Gone Music Bring Laura Nyro's Debut To Vinyl in January

November 26, 2019 By The Second Disc 5 Comments

Laura Nyro More Than a New Discovery

Over two years ago, Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music released A Little Magic, A Little Kindness: The Complete Mono Albums Collection from the late Laura Nyro. The centerpiece of that two-disc anthology was the world premiere CD release of the original mono version of Nyro's Verve Folkways debut, More Than a New Discovery. Now, that rare and superior mix is making its way to limited edition vinyl as our first release of 2020. Seldom has the title of a debut album been more apt than the

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Laura Nyro

There and Back Again: Marshall Crenshaw Revisits, Revises "Miracle of Science" for New CD, LP Reissue

November 26, 2019 By Joe Marchese 13 Comments

Marshall Crenshaw Miracle of Science 2020

Between 1994 and 2003, Marshall Crenshaw recorded five albums for the Razor and Tie label. Now, the singer-songwriter is returning to those acclaimed works with revised editions coming on CD, vinyl LP, and all digital platforms. The campaign will begin on January 17, 2020 with a reissue of the 1996 release Miracle of Science. All of the upcoming titles will arrive on Crenshaw's own Shiny-Tone label as a result of the artist regaining ownership of his Razor and Tie masters. All told, the new

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Marshall Crenshaw

OUT TOMORROW! "Great Songs of Christmas: Classic Carols and Pop Favorites" Arrives From Second Disc, Real Gone

November 21, 2019 By The Second Disc 9 Comments

Great Songs of Christmas

Between 1961 and 1970, households across America delighted in an annual series of Christmas releases available exclusively through Goodyear locations. 900,000 copies of the first volume of The Great Songs of Christmas were pressed - and proved so successful that, by December 1, 1961, Goodyear ordered all advertising to stop as the album had already sold out. The following year's order was for 1.5 million albums, and 2 million for 1962. By 1966, the series' astounding order was for 3 million LPs.

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Holiday, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Gary Puckett, Johnny Mathis, Mark Lindsay, Percy Faith, Ray Conniff, Robert Goulet, Various Artists

Nothing Sweeter: Rocksteady Royalty Alton Ellis' "Greatest Hits" Gets Expanded Reissue from Cherry Red

November 21, 2019 By Sam Stone 1 Comment

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Cherry Red Records' Doctor Bird imprint is committed to uncovering and reappraising the early years of reggae, ska, Calypso, rocksteady, and mento music, and few figures are as instrumental in the development of those genres as Alton Ellis. Starting with his first recordings in 1960, the gifted songwriter, singer, and performer quickly garnered a reputation as one of Jamaica's greatest musical exports. Moving on from the American R&B style that inflected his earliest recordings, Ellis

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul, Reggae Tags: Alton Ellis

Birds A-Plenty: Bert Jansch's "Avocet" To Receive Expanded 40th Anniversary Vinyl Reissue

November 18, 2019 By Sam Stone Leave a Comment

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Few figures have been as influential in the development of the acoustic guitar as British folk revival hero Bert Jansch.  His 1965 self-titled debut brought him instant renown among other guitarists, including Jimmy Page, Neil Young, Paul Simon and more.  He continued on as one-fifth of Pentangle and released a litany of stunning albums, both solo and with the likes of John Renbourn.  But when the boundary-pushing guitarist recorded his 1979 album Avocet, he was creating something decidedly

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Folk Tags: Bert Jansch

Revolution Rock: The Clash Celebrate Landmark Anniversary With "London Calling Scrapbook" and Vinyl Reissue

November 14, 2019 By Sam Stone 2 Comments

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When The Clash released their third studio effort, London Calling in December 1979, they unleashed an instant classic. The double album -- with its diverse blend of punk, reggae, rockabilly, ska, R&B and jazz -- was quickly heralded as a high-water mark for the band and for punk music. John Rockwell of The New York Times wrote in 1980 that London Calling "reveals depths of invention and creativity barely suggested by the band's previous work." The same yearm Down Beat 's Michael Goldberg

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

Holly Jolly Christmas: TJL Presents Ultimate Holiday Celebration on Public Television, CD and DVD

November 13, 2019 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

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Have you caught the Christmas spirit yet? If not, things are very likely to change on Saturday, November 16. That's when TJL Productions debuts a new special on PBS that's sure to get you ready for the holiday season. A Classic Christmas, part of T.J. Lubinsky's acclaimed My Music series, presents an array of yuletide favorites from an all-star roster of legendary artists. Hosted by Marion Ross (Happy Days) and Gavin MacLeod (The Mary Tyler Moore Show, The Love Boat), A Classic Christmas is

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Categories: News Formats: CD, DVD Genre: Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Andy Williams, Bing Crosby, Carpenters, Doris Day, Johnny Mathis, Nat King Cole, Perry Como, Rosemary Clooney, The Beach Boys, The Supremes, Various Artists

Shape Of His Heart: Sting To Expand This Year's 'My Songs' With Live Bonus Disc

November 12, 2019 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Sting My Songs Special Edition

Sting spent this year releasing and touring an unconventional collection of his own songs - and now, he's reissuing it with a bonus disc of live material. My Songs found the venerable singer-songwriter revisiting his catalogue - both solo and with The Police - on an album that included revisited versions of his greatest hits. Some were remixed, some were re-recorded, but all showcased the influence of the man born Gordon Sumner for several decades running. Indeed, beyond chart-toppers like

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Sting, The Police

Not Over You: Cherry Red Revisits Lalah Hathaway's Earliest Albums With "It's Somethin': The Virgin Years"

November 11, 2019 By Sam Stone 1 Comment

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Cherry Red's 90/9 imprint celebrates the early works of the multi-Grammy winner soul-jazz singer Lalah Hathaway with a new collection called It's Something: The Virgin Years. Fully approved by Hathaway, the 2-CD set brings together her self-titled debut and her follow-up Virgin album A Moment and is supplemented with a wealth of bonus material, including hard-to-find remixes, single edits, B-sides, and the Japan-exclusive track "Night and Day." Add to it the 20-page booklet of rare photographs,

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Lalah Hathaway

OUT NOW! Second Disc, Real Gone Kick Off Christmas Season with Chet Atkins, Eugene Ormandy

November 8, 2019 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Chet Atkins Complete RCA and Columbia Christmas

The most wonderful time of the year is officially underway at Second Disc HQ as we've just released our first two holiday collections of 2019 with Real Gone Music: Chet Atkins' The Complete RCA Victor and Columbia Christmas Recordings and Eugene Ormandy and The Philadelphia Orchestra's The Complete Columbia Christmas Albums. It's for good reason that Chet Atkins remains one of the most revered names not only in country music but in American music itself. A producer, A&R man, songwriter,

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classical/Opera, Country, Holiday Tags: Chet Atkins, Eugene Ormandy

Home for Christmas: Andy, Perry, Elvis, Doris, Johnny Team with Royal Philharmonic for New Holiday Album

November 8, 2019 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Christmas with the Stars RPO

The busy members of The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra are decking the halls with boughs of holly for their latest, all-star release. Christmas with The Stars and The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, due as a digital-only title in the U.S. on Friday, November 29, brings the acclaimed orchestra together with some of the biggest names in the classic Columbia and RCA Victor constellations for newly-arranged symphonic versions of Christmas favorites. Featured artists include Elvis Presley, Tony Bennett,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Holiday, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Andy Williams, Dean Martin, Doris Day, Elvis Presley, Johnny Mathis, Perry Como, Roy Orbison, Tony Bennett

'Round Midnight: Craft Collects Miles Davis Sessions on "Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions" Vinyl Box

November 6, 2019 By Sam Stone 2 Comments

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Fans of early Miles Davis ought to clear off some space on the shelf and mark their calendars for December 6.  Craft Recordings continues their celebration of Prestige Records' 70th anniversary that day with a deluxe vinyl reissue of The Legendary Prestige Quintet Sessions. Originally released on CD in 2006, the 6-LP set features every track from the classic albums Miles: The New Miles Davis Quintet (1956), Cookin' (1957), Relaxin' (1958), Workin' (1959), Steamin' (1961), plus "'Round

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Jazz Tags: Miles Davis

A Song For Our Fathers: Explosions in the Sky Reissue Hard-To-Find Albums on Vinyl and Digital Services

November 6, 2019 By Sam Stone Leave a Comment

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The influential post-rock outfit Explosions in the Sky celebrated their 20th anniversary with a pair of reissues of hard-to find recordings on vinyl and digital streaming services through the Temporary Residence label. How Strange, Innocence was the band's debut album. Recorded a year before their landmark Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Die, Those Who Tell The Truth Shall Live Forever, their debut features many of the hallmarks of their work: dynamic shifts, guitar harmonies, lengthy

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: Explosions in the Sky

Keep the Customer Satisfied: Ace Celebrates Paul Simon, Teddy Randazzo, Van McCoy On New Collections

November 5, 2019 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

American Tunes Songs by Paul Simon

Today, we're taking a look at three recent, stellar additions to Ace Records' long-running Songwriter Series! Teddy Randazzo (1935-2003) might have not attained the same "household name" status as some of his peers, but the prodigiously gifted composer-arranger-producer-artist nonetheless left behind a remarkable body of work in a career spanning over five decades. Ace's Yesterday Has Gone: The Songs of Teddy Randazzo is the first-ever anthology of his output, concentrating on the mid-1960s -

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Paul Simon, Teddy Randazzo, Van McCoy, Various Artists

Start Choppin: Cherry Red Expands Dinosaur Jr.'s Major Label Discography

November 4, 2019 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

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The major label works of alt-rock act Dinosaur Jr. have recently been revisited by Cherry Red in a series of expanded reissues. At the beginning of the 1990s, the Amherst, Massachusetts-based trio had issued three records across the prior decade, the latter two on the seminal SST label. 1988's Bug topped the U.K. independent albums chart, after lead single "Freak Scene" reached the Top 5 of the country's indie singles chart. But creative tensions led singer/guitarist J. Mascis to fire bassist

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: Dinosaur Jr.

NOW 100 Hits Christmas

November 2, 2019 By

Now 100 Hits Christmas

The long-running NOW series has a 5-CD, 100-song collection of Christmas classics from an eclectic roster of artists past and present including Bing Crosby, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Elvis Presley, Kacey Musgraves, Kelly Clarkson, Petula Clark, Engelbert Humperdinck, The Jackson 5, The Beach Boys, Sam Smith, Whitney Houston, and more.

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Formats: CD Genre: Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal

Rock and Soul Music: Real Gone Announces Reissues of Country Joe, Mamas and Papas, Klaus Nomi, Tony Joe White Titles

November 1, 2019 By Sam Stone 4 Comments

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On December 6, Real Gone Music will release a quartet of reissues from a diverse lineup of country-rock, jam band, pop, and avant-garde luminaries. First up is a limited-edition, 2-LP issue of Country Joe and the Fish's Live! Fillmore West 1969 which not only featured the legendary Berkeley band (with replacement bassist Jack Casady of Jefferson Airplane), but also their famous friends.  Originally released on Vanguard in 1994, the raucous and ramshackle concert was recorded in January 1969

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Pop Tags: Country Joe and The Fish, Jerry Garcia, Klaus Nomi, Mickey Hart, Steve Miller, The Mamas and The Papas, Tony Joe White

Make Her Wish Come True: Legacy Celebrates 25 Years of Mariah Carey's 'Merry Christmas'

November 1, 2019 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Mariah Carey Merry Christmas Deluxe

One of the best-selling Christmas albums of all time is getting the deluxe treatment today with Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings' 2-CD reissue of Mariah Carey's Merry Christmas in time for its 25th anniversary. Carey's fourth album and first holiday effort (the sequel Merry Christmas II You arrived in 2010) teamed the chanteuse with producer-arranger Walter Afanasieff (Barbra Streisand, Celine Dion, Johnny Mathis), among others, on a sparkling set of original songs and holiday classics.

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Categories: News Formats: Cassette, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Holiday, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Mariah Carey

Surprise Surprise: Cilla Black's "Especially for You" Comes to CD with "Classics and Collectibles"

October 31, 2019 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Cilla Black Especially for You and Classics

Tomorrow, November 1, Cherry Red's Strike Force Entertainment imprint will release the next title in its series of definitive reissues from Cilla Black's considerable catalogue. The 2-CD set Especially for You Revisited/Classics and Collectibles brings together a newly remixed version of Cilla's 1980 album Especially for You with a second disc of rare and previously unreleased tracks. Especially for You marked a turning point in Black's career as it was her first recording project after

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Barry Manilow, Cilla Black, Cliff Richard, Dusty Springfield

Gotta Groove: Craft's "Soul Explosion" Stax Celebration Continues With 5 New Reissues

October 29, 2019 By Sam Stone 2 Comments

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This fall, Craft Recordings will continue its celebration of the rich and varied sounds of Stax Records with a further batch of reissues in the Soul Explosion series. The year-long campaign puts a spotlight on Stax's years as an independent label following their split from Atlantic fifty years ago. During that period, the label released a staggering 27 albums and 30 singles in just a handful of months. With a host of hits and best-selling albums from evergreen acts and new signers-on alike, Stax

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Booker T. and the MG's, David Porter, Delaney and Bonnie, Johnnie Taylor, The Bar-Kays

Bing at Christmas

October 26, 2019 By

Bing at Christmas

The perennial Christmas music of Bing Crosby gets a makeover with Decca's release of Bing at Christmas, melding the legendary singer's classic vocals with new orchestral backing tracks from The London Symphony Orchestra.  In addition to his classic duets with David Bowie and The Andrews Sisters, the late Crosby gets some new help from The Puppini Sisters, Pentatonix, and The Tenors.  Available in CD and digital formats.

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Merry Christmas...Have a Nice Life!

October 26, 2019 By

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Cyndi Lauper's Merry Christmas... Have A Nice Life! is a fresh spin on the time-honored tradition of the Christmas album. The album was partly inspired by motherhood; in fact, the story goes that Cyndi tracked most of the album at her home while her son slept, including the tribute "New Years's Baby (First Lullaby)."  In addition to traditional fare like "Three Ships" and "Silent Night," and more recent classics like "Rockin' Around the Christmas Tree," Cyndi offers up eight original

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Holiday, Pop

Home Alone Christmas

October 26, 2019 By

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Darlene Love, Southside Johnny, Tom Petty, Mel Tormé, and legendary composer John Williams are among those featured on Home Alone Christmas, the collection of songs drawn from the first two films in the Home Alone series.  Now, Real Gone is re-pressing this joyful LP on Clear with Red and Green Swirl "Christmas Party" Vinyl.

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Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Soundtracks

Christmas Holiday for Romance

October 26, 2019 By

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Real Gone premieres on CD the lone Christmas album from beloved British arranger-conductor Stanley Black.  Christmas Holiday for Romance features his lush renditions of songs both familiar and little-known from both sides of the pond.  TSD's Joe Marchese has penned the new liner notes, and Mike Milchner has remastered at SonicVision.

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Formats: CD Genre: Holiday, Pop

The Complete Christmas Collection

October 26, 2019 By

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Real Gone brings two classic platters from "Sleigh Ride" composer Leroy Anderson to CD. His 1955 album Christmas Carols  was such a hit that he later re-recorded selections for a new album in 1959 entitled A Christmas Festival.  Though the 1959 mono mix of the latter has seen a CD release, The Complete Christmas Collection marks the CD debut for the 1955 mono album and 1959 stereo mix and includes two bonus tracks: mono and stereo versions of "Sleigh Ride," naturally.  Leroy's son Kurt has

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Formats: CD Genre: Holiday, Pop

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