We're continuing our Movie Monday here at The Second Disc with more great film score news! From high atop the mountain comes Intrada's newest release--an incredibly ambitious and definitive box set edition of Elmer Bernstein's score to the Hollywood epic The Ten Commandments. The final film of Cecil B. DeMille, based in part on his silent adaptation of the film from 1923, The Ten Commandments dramatizes the Biblical tale of Moses (Charlton Heston), the adopted Egyptian prince whose divine
For Now, For Always: A Second Disc Interview! Bruce Kimmel Announces "Unsung Sherman Brothers"
"In every job that must be done/There is an element of fun/You find the fun and snap!/The job's a game!" For more than fifty years, the tuneful team of Richard M. Sherman and Robert B. Sherman found the fun in their own job: songwriting. Together, "The Boys" penned memorable hits by Annette Funicello and Ringo Starr, defined the sound of Disneyland with unforgettable songs like "There's a Great Big Beautiful Tomorrow" and "It's a Small World," and made timeless movie magic with Mary Poppins,
WE HAVE OUR WINNERS: "FOUL PLAY" GIVEAWAY!
Congratulations!! The following 10 entrants have won a copy of Varese Vintage's brand-new edition of Charles Fox's Foul Play soundtrack, featuring Barry Manilow, on CD! If you entered our contest via Facebook 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 with your name and mailing address! If you entered via email, you don't have to do anything - your CD will be in the mail soon! Watch this space soon for more
The Second Disc's Week In Review
For today's special feature, we're taking a look back at the big stories we shared with you over the past week at The Second Disc, just in case you missed 'em the first time around! Review: Fleetwood Mac, Mirage: Deluxe Edition Joe takes a look at Rhino's 4-CD/1-LP/1-DVD Deluxe Edition of the Mac's 1982 pop gem! This Could Be the Night: Shout! Factory to Release T.A.M.I. Show and The Big T.N.T. Show on Blu-ray Two classic concert films - featuring a galaxy of stars including The
Review: Fleetwood Mac, "Mirage: Deluxe Edition"
When Fleetwood Mac entered the Château d'Hérouville studio outside Paris at the dawn of the 1980s, the band had one goal in mind: to create a commercial pop success in the mold of their record-breaking Rumours. Not everyone in the quintet was sold on this goal, necessarily, especially after the quantum leap forward from Rumours into the beautiful madness that was Tusk. But while Tusk sold four million copies, it couldn't help but be viewed as a disappointment after the world domination of its
This Could Be The Night: Shout! Factory To Release "T.A.M.I. Show" and "The Big T.N.T. Show" on Blu-ray
While we normally concentrate on CD reissues here at The Second Disc, we do occasionally like to highlight other titles which we think may be of interest to our readers. One such project, just announced from Shout! Factory, certainly qualifies: a 2-disc Blu-ray set entitled the T.A.M.I. Show/The Big T.N.T. Show Collector's Edition due out on December 2. Directed by Steve Binder, T.A.M.I. Show (meaning either "Teenage Awards Music International" or "Teen Age Music International") was filmed
Release Round-Up: Week of September 23
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, packed with heavy hitters! David Bowie, Who Can I Be Now (1974-1976) (Parlophone) 12-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 13-LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada David Bowie - Who Can I Be Now? (1974-1976), the second in the late artist's series of deluxe albums box sets, will contain the following albums plus a 128-page booklet in the CD edition (or 84 pages in the vinyl edition. You'll find more details here, and watch
Behind The Wall of Sleep: Rhino Expands Black Sabbath's "Paranoid" To Four Discs
Upon its release in September 1970, Black Sabbath's sophomore album Paranoid helped make clear the transition from "hard rock" to "heavy metal" and remains one of the most essential albums of the metal canon. On November 11, Rhino will revisit Paranoid in a 4-CD Super Deluxe box set edition. Ozzy Osbourne, Tony Iommi, Geezer Butler and Bill Ward followed up their self-titled debut album of early 1970 with Paranoid, recording it in London in June. Whereas Black Sabbath placed impressively at
A Summer Song: RPM Collects Chad and Jeremy's Complete Early Years On "Yesterday's Gone"
In the halcyon days of the British Invasion, Chad Stuart and Jeremy Clyde notched an impressive eleven Hot 100 singles and six Top 100 albums in the United States. Their appealing blend of folk and pop, with soft, often hushed vocals and tight harmonies, earned them the attention of Columbia Records, where they recorded five albums before disbanding. Cherry Red's RPM imprint has recently released a 2-CD, 57-track collection bringing together Chad and Jeremy's early recordings for Ember (in the
Here We Come A-Caroling: Real Gone's November Christmas Slate Features Ray Conniff, The Ventures, Robert Shaw and Norman Luboff
As we are still over a month away from Halloween, it may seem a bit early to be thinking about Christmas. But stores have already bringing out small bits of Christmas merchandise and the merriest season seems to start a little earlier each year. Real Gone Music is ready to get in the holiday mood with the announcement of their Christmas-related November 4 line-up, which has become a yearly tradition for the label! We've already told you about the three Second Disc Records releases: Jack
Oh By Gosh, By Golly: Second Disc Records Celebrates Christmas with Jack Jones, Eddy Arnold and Mitch Miller
The most wonderful time of the year is upon us once again, and as longtime readers know, The Second Disc is always excited to spread the holiday spirit! This year is a particularly special year for us, as we're thrilled to bring not one, not two, but three new releases to CD on November 4 via Second Disc Records in association with the premier label for holiday tunes, Real Gone Music! First up is the CD debut one of the most-demanded holiday albums of all time. For more than six
Daybreak For Dolenz: Micky's "MGM Singles" Expanded For CD Premiere
Last July, the 7a Records label debuted with a limited edition vinyl release of Micky Dolenz's The MGM Singles Collection. Since that auspicious release, the all-things-Monkees label founded by Iain Lee and Glenn Gretlund has enriched Micky, Peter, Michael and Davy's discography with numerous other releases on both vinyl and compact disc. On October 7, the label will be going full circle with the first-time CD release of The MGM Singles Collection in a lavishly expanded edition featuring the
Good to Me: Otis Redding's "Dictionary," Complete Whisky A Go Go Recordings Due Next Month
Fans of Otis Redding have twice the reason to celebrate this holiday season with the release of two separate products celebrating The King of Soul's output in 1966. First up, Rhino is reissuing Complete & Unbelievable...The Otis Redding Dictionary of Soul as a double-disc set. Joe filled us in on this release back in August, but here's a refresher: This album, Otis' fifth and final released before his tragic passing the following year, is Memphis soul par excellence, recorded with an
Blue Part of Town: Steve Hackett Revisits, Expands "Blues With A Feeling"
Steve Hackett, the lead guitarist of Genesis between 1970 and 1977, has recently revisited his 1994 solo album Blues with a Feeling for an expanded reissue on Cherry Red's Esoteric Recordings imprint. This release follows up other Genesis-related releases from Esoteric drawing on the catalogues of Hackett (including a reissue of his 1986 supergroup album GTR with Steve Howe), Tony Banks and Anthony Phillips. Hackett's first solo album, Voyage of the Acolyte, arrived in 1975 while he was
Hey Now: Crowded House's Catalogue Expanded for 30th Anniversary
Ahead of their induction to the Australia Recording Industry Association (ARIA) Hall of Fame this fall--and 30 years after the release of their first of many stellar albums--Crowded House have unveiled a spectacular and thorough reissue campaign that sees the reissue of all of their albums as expanded CDs and heavyweight vinyl titles. The project, which covers every one of their studio albums release between 1986 and 2010 (plus 2000's rarities album Afterglow), sees each album digitally
Review: Gerry Beckley, "Carousel"
Gerry Beckley celebrated his 64th birthday earlier this week, on Monday, September 12. We're marking the occasion with a look at his new studio album! One hardly expects the first verse of the first song on a new album from America's resident romantic troubadour, Gerry Beckley, to include the lines "Everything's turned to shit/No matter how I look at it/And I am running out of time..." But while Beckley is happily defying convention on "Tokyo" - the taut, rocking opening cut of his new album
Release Round-Up: Week of September 16
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Led Zeppelin, The Complete BBC Sessions (Atlantic/Swan Song/Rhino) 3 CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5 LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3 CD/5 LP Super Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Digital Download: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. This new collection expands the original double-disc set, from 1997, which was culled from the band's appearances on BBC radio between 1969 and 1971. This updated
Don't Walk On By: Legacy To Release Single-Disc Roy Orbison Career Retrospective
This last April marks what would have been Roy Orbison's 80th birthday had he not sadly died in 1988 at the age of 52. As one of the pioneers of rock 'n' roll, there have been numerous compilations and reissues devoted to Orbison's career. Just this last year, Universal released a 13-CD box set chronicling his tenure at MGM Records. But, despite all of the collections over the years, there hasn't been one that rounded up selections from most stages of his career from his time at Sun Records
Going On Together: Elvis Joined by Royal Philharmonic for Orchestral Sequel
Despite having passed away nearly 40 years ago, Elvis Presley remains a large presence on the charts and on the shelves of stores. Just this year, Elvis has had a 60-disc box devoted to all of the music he released in his lifetime and a 2-CD set concentrating on his final recordings . And last year's If I Can Dream: Elvis Presley with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, melding Elvis' vocals with new orchestral backings, hit the Top 25 in the U.S. but was a larger success in the U.K. - hitting
Sound and Vision: "Lazarus" Cast Recording Premieres David Bowie's Final Recordings
Thanks to Columbia and ISO Records, there will be a next day for David Bowie's Lazarus. On October 20, the labels will release the original cast album of the off-Broadway musical, starring Michael C. Hall (Dexter, Cabaret) and Cristin Milioti (How I Met Your Mother, Once). The deluxe release, showcasing an array of Bowie reinterpretations, will feature a bonus disc with Bowie's own recordings of the musical's four new songs including the previously released "Lazarus" (from his final studio LP,
WIN! WIN! WIN! Ready To Take A Chance: Varese Reissues Charles Fox Soundtrack, Solo LP
If, by chance, you don't know the name of Charles Fox, you undoubtedly know his songbook: "Ready to Take a Chance Again." "Killing Me Softly with His Song." "I Got a Name." The themes to The Love Boat, Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Love American Style, The Bugaloos, Angie, Wonder Woman, and more. Varese Vintage has recently celebrated the Emmy and Grammy-winning composer's enormous legacy with two reissues. The soundtrack to Foul Play returns to CD (having been previously issued as a
Review: The Beatles, "Live at The Hollywood Bowl"
And now...here they are...The Beatles! The summers of 1964 and 1965 are now more than fifty years in the rearview mirror, yet the music made by four lads from Liverpool over three evenings at Los Angeles' famous Hollywood Bowl now sounds so fresh and so immediate, you could believe it was recorded yesterday. Such is the work of the sonic wizards on Capitol/Apple/UMe's first-time-on-CD, retitled, remixed and expanded reissue of The Beatles' Live at the Hollywood Bowl (B0025451-02,
Do You Want To Dance: Bette Midler's Debut "The Divine Miss M" to Be Reissued and Expanded
Bette Midler has been keeping busy recently. Last year, she put on her Divine Intervention Tour for 32 shows across several countries. This year she is scheduled to be a mentor on The Voice and next year she takes on the title role in a revival of Hello, Dolly! on Broadway. On the CD front, she is going to back to look at her debut album with a 2-disc reissue of 1972's The Divine Miss M, due from Rhino Records on October 21. Back in June 2011, Joe wrote a lengthy history here of The Divine
Release Round-Up: Week of September 9
Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up...one of the most packed in recent memory! Beatles, Live at the Hollywood Bowl (Apple/Capitol/UMe) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Since the advent of the compact disc era, The Beatles at the Hollywood Bowl has been the forgotten stepchild of the Fab Four's legendary catalogue. That changes today with the first-ever commercial CD/DD release of the 1977 album on September 9 via
SoulMusic Records Round-Up: Label Reissues Isaac Hayes, Curtis Hairston, Mass Production
A quartet of recent releases from SoulMusic Records in association with Cherry Red turn the spotlight onto overlooked classics of 1980s R&B. Isaac Hayes' Love Attack (1988) put the hot buttered soul man squarely into Big '80s territory with thumping drum machines and gleaming synthesizers. It was the Stax legend's second album for Columbia Records and built on the sound of his label debut U-Turn on which he'd played almost every instrument on the record. For Love Attack, he was joined
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