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Bidin' My Time

July 25, 2017 By

Chris Hillman Bidin My Time

Chris Hillman (The Byrds, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Manassas, Desert Rose Band) returns with an all-new album produced by Tom Petty and executive produced by Herb Pedersen.  In addition to Petty, guest appearances are made by artists including Hillman's Byrds bandmates David Crosby and Roger McGuinn; The Heartbreakers' Benmont Tench, Mike Campbell, and Steve Ferrone; and Desert Rose Band's John Jorgenson, Pedersen, and Jay Dee Maness.  The strains of Hillman's past run through this

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

Give More Love

July 25, 2017 By

Ringo Give More Love

On Ringo's newest solo album - his nineteenth - the legendary Beatle is joined by Paul McCartney, Joe Walsh, Peter Frampton, Don Was, Steve Lukather, and other pals for a romp through new songs as well as reworkings of "Photograph," "Don't Pass Me By," "You Can't Fight Lightning," and "Back Off Boogaloo."  Available on CD, LP, and DD.  Peace and love!

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock

Give Your Propers: New Aretha Franklin Project Combines Classics with New Orchestral Backing

July 25, 2017 By Randy Fairman 14 Comments

Aretha and the Philharmonic

This year marks the 50th anniversary of Aretha Franklin's arrival at Atlantic Records in 1967 after departing Columbia Records.  Her twelve year-tenure there would produce some of the most iconic soul and R&B recordings of all time.  To celebrate this anniversary, Rhino Records is taking a cue from the Elvis Presley playbook and combining her classic vocals with new orchestral backing tracks.  A Brand New Me: Aretha Franklin with The Royal Philharmonic Orchestra will hit stores on November

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Aretha Franklin

Lost West End Vintage (1948-1962)

July 23, 2017 By

Lost West End Vintage

Stage Door Records' Lost West End series, collecting rare tracks from forgotten U.K. musicals, returns with a third volume.  Lost West End Vintage turns its attention to the period of 1948-1962, presenting 52 songs from 35 musicals (including more than 20 new-to-CD tracks).  Petula Clark, Frankie Howerd, Sally Ann Howes, Tommy Steele, and Cliff Richard are among the stars featured on this 2-CD collection.

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Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings

A New Career in a New Town (1977-1982)

July 21, 2017 By

David Bowie A New Career Cover Only

The third release in Parlophone's series of chronological box sets dedicated to the music of David Bowie, A New Career in a New Town (1977-1982) closes the book on the legendary artist's RCA career.  It follows 2015's Five Years (1969-1973) and 2016's Who Can I Be Now? (1974-1976), offering material from five major studio and live albums: Low (1977), "Heroes" (1977), Stage (1978), Lodger (1979) and Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) (1980). Low, "Heroes" and Lodger are, of course, referred to as

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Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

For Sale: Live at Maxwell's 1986

July 21, 2017 By

Replacements For Sale

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada (TBD) / Amazon U.K. 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada (TBD) / Amazon U.K. For Sale: Live At Maxwell's 1986 captures the Minneapolis legends (lead singer Paul Westerberg, guitarist Bob Stinson, bassist Tommy Stinson and drummer Chris Mars) for a raucous set at the famous Hoboken, New Jersey club in the winter of 1986. The band had signed to Sire Records the previous year and released their fourth album Tim; a good deal of that album features on this release, as

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Formats: CD Genre: Rock

See Clearly Now: SoulMusic Anthologizes Johnny Nash, Labelle, Teena Marie, Angela Bofill

July 21, 2017 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Labelle Anthology

SoulMusic Records, in association with Cherry Red Group, has recently continued its Classic Artist Anthology Series with another round of titles from bona fide R&B legends including Labelle, Angela Bofill, Johnny Nash, and the late Teena Marie. Before reinventing themselves as purveyors of funky cosmic soul, Patti LaBelle, Sarah Dash, and Nona Hendryx had comprised three-fourths of Patti LaBelle and the Bluebelles, alongside future Supreme Cindy Birdsong.  In 1971, the streamlined trio

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Angela Bofill, Johnny Nash, Labelle, Teena Marie

Release Round-Up: Week of July 21

July 21, 2017 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Leave Home

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Ramones, Leave Home: 40th Anniversary Deluxe Edition (Sire/Rhino) 3CD/1LP box set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. 1CD remaster: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K.  A new  3CD/1LP edition of Ramones' 1977 sophomore album boasts the album in original and newly-remixed form, as well as a 33-track disc loaded with previously unreleased session material and a 1977 CBGBs concert recording! In addition to the above material on CD,

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: 10cc, Billy Ocean, Eric Stewart, Johnny Rivers, Marillion, Ramones, The Beach Boys, The Stylistics

I Feel a Song Coming On: Lost Radio Recordings

July 20, 2017 By

Rosemary Clooney I Feel a Song

I Feel A Song Coming On: Lost Radio Recordings features 24 radio performances from the late, great Rosemary Clooney, culled from several radio shows in the 1950s including The Bing Crosby Show for General Electric, The Ford Road Show and The Rosemary Clooney Show.  Her classic performances of standards primarily comprise this release, including Cole Porter's "Anything Goes,"  and "I Get A Kick Out of You," the Gershwins' "But Not For Me" and "Nice Work if You Can Get It,"  and Berlin's "I've Got

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop

It Had to Be You: Lost Radio Recordings

July 20, 2017 By

Jo Stafford It Had to Be You

Jo Stafford's It Had To Be You: Lost Radio Recordings features 24 performances from the legendary vocalist's stint as co-host (with crooner Tony Martin) of The Carnation Contented Hour on CBS Radio from 1950-1951.  With songs by mainstays of the Great American Songbook like Harold Arlen ("I've Got the World on a String"), Rodgers and Hart ("Little Girl Blue"), Irving Berlin ("It's a Lovely Day Today") and Cole Porter ("In The Still of the Night" and others) as well as several songs never

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Formats: CD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal

Interpol 'Admire' Third Album On 10th Anniversary CD/DVD Set

July 20, 2017 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Our Love to Admire

While Interpol have dutifully supported the 15th anniversary of their debut album Turn On the Bright Lights (which was reissued for its 10th anniversary) with a tour, they're also going to revisit their third album and major label debut, Our Love to Admire, with a 10th anniversary package. Released in the summer of 2007, Our Love to Admire found the New York City band moving from Matador to Capitol and expanding their sonic palette. "We had keyboards on from the start which we've never done

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Categories: News Formats: CD, DVD Genre: Rock Tags: Interpol

Disney's Legacy Collection Swings Back to Life with "Robin Hood" (UPDATED 7/18)

July 18, 2017 By Mike Duquette 16 Comments

Robin Hood Legacy Collection

UPDATE (7/18/2017): Attendees of last weekend's D23 Expo at Anaheim got the opportunity to purchase Robin Hood: The Legacy Collection ahead of its August 4 release date! It includes not only the complete songs and score by George Bruns, Roger Miller, Johnny Mercer and others, but five unreleased demos and a complete 1974 album of Robin Hood songs and new material sung by jazz legend Louis Prima, the voice of King Louie in Disney's 1967 feature The Jungle Book! Full track list and pre-order links

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Categories: Features, News Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Soundtracks Tags: George Bruns, Louis Prima

Color Us Impressed: 1986 Replacements Set Makes CD Debut from Rhino

July 18, 2017 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Replacements For Sale

The Replacements may be done as a band (again), but Rhino is giving fans something exciting to remember, with the release of a vintage live show in October. For Sale: Live At Maxwell's 1986 captures the Minneapolis legends (lead singer Paul Westerberg, guitarist Bob Stinson, bassist Tommy Stinson and drummer Chris Mars) for a raucous set at the famous Hoboken, New Jersey club in the winter of 1986. The band had signed to Sire Records the previous year and released their fourth album Tim; a

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: The Replacements

Those Dreamin' Eyes: D'Angelo's Debut to Be Expanded

July 17, 2017 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

brown sugar1

A dip into the Second Disc Archives shows us one of our earliest Reissue Theory posts was a look at D'Angelo's 1995 debut Brown Sugar. A lot has changed since that post was written--not only here at The Second Disc, but with D'Angelo's career. At the tail end of 2015, the man born Michael Archer ended a 15-year silence with the release of Black Messiah, an emotionally charged old-school soul album that earned a rapturous response from critics. And with D'Angelo back in the spotlight, UMe has

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: D'Angelo

Release Round-Up: Week of July 14

July 14, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Dusty Springfield Brand New Me Complete

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Dusty Springfield, A Brand New Me: The Complete Philadelphia Sessions (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Dusty Springfield's 1970 A Brand New Me LP (her follow-up Atlantic effort to the landmark Dusty in Memphis) found Dusty traveling to Sigma Sound in Philadelphia to work with Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff and Thom Bell, architects of the orchestrated soul known as "The Philadelphia Sound."  Springfield would have a #3 AC

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Everything Else, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Dusty Springfield, Eagles, k.d. lang, Lifehouse, Nick Lowe, The Grateful Dead, Yoko Ono

Adventure On Earth: "E.T." Soundtrack Album Remastered In New Blu-ray Box

July 13, 2017 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

E.T. 4K box

Universal Pictures Home Entertainment is celebrating the 35th anniversary of E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial this fall--and fans of the Oscar-winning original soundtrack are in for an unexpected treat tastier than a bag of Reese's Pieces. Steven Spielberg's masterpiece (and the author's unquestionable favorite film) will be released in several new packages on September 12, including a bow on the 4K Ultra HD format and a new deluxe gift set. Included in that set is a soundtrack release, which The

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: John Williams

Intrada Goes to Vietnam for Two Rare Disney Scores

July 12, 2017 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Intrada has released two very different scores to two live action Disney comedies, both based on true events of the Vietnam War--as unbelievable as that may seem. Alex North's score to Good Morning, Vietnam and David Newman's score to Operation Dumbo Drop have been dusted off for a 2-for-1 release on CD. Good Morning, Vietnam featured late funnyman Robin Williams as Adrian Cronauer, a real-life disc jockey on the Armed Forces Radio Service. His irreverent broadcasts confound his superiors but

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Alex North, David Newman

Omnivore Aim to Please with Expansion of Bash & Pop's Debut

July 12, 2017 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Bash Pop Friday Night is Killing Me

Tommy Stinson kicked off 2017 with a revival of his post-Replacements group Bash & Pop, featuring an all-new lineup and album. This fall, Omnivore will revisit Bash & Pop's first album, Friday Night is Killing Me, in a generously-expanded deluxe edition. From the ashes of the 'Mats (and with a fitting name selected through a radio station contest), Bash & Pop was Stinson (switching from bass to guitar), Replacements drummer Steve Foley, his brother Kevin on bass and second

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Rock Tags: Bash & Pop, The Replacements

Berlin and Beyond: Third Bowie Box Set Announced

July 12, 2017 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Bowie Box 3

The newest career-spanning David Bowie box set chronicles the icon as he ends the '70s with some of his most experimental work yet, adding rarities to spare. A New Career in a New Town (1977-1982) follows 2015's Five Years (1969-1973) and 2016's Who Can I Be Now? (1974-1976), offering material from five major studio and live albums: Low (1977), "Heroes" (1977), Stage (1978), Lodger (1979) and Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps) (1980). Low, "Heroes" and Lodger are, of course, referred to as the

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: David Bowie

Love Never Dies: Belinda Carlisle Plans 'Heaven On Earth' Vinyl Box

July 11, 2017 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Heaven On Earth 30

Vinyl enthusiasts and fans of Belinda Carlisle have quite the package to look forward to this year, when Edsel releases a vinyl box set edition of her second solo album, 1987's Heaven On Earth, for its 30th anniversary. The former Go-Go's frontwoman hit it big with her first solo single, the Top 5 hit "Mad About You," a year prior in 1986. But Heaven On Earth is what established Carlisle as a solo performer for the '80s and '90s, with three Top 10 hits in the U.S. and the U.K. with the

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Belinda Carlisle, The Go-Go's

Say Hello to Yesterday: Mark Wynter Anthology Traces Career From Pop Hits to Rare Showtunes

July 11, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Mark Wynter

Mark Wynter scored his first hit pop single at the age of seventeen in 1960 with "Image of a Girl" on the Decca label, paving the way for future U.K. smashes like "Venus in Blue Jeans" and "Go Away Little Girl."  By the end of the decade, he had taken his first steps towards an enduring theatrical career with a lead role in the musical Phil the Fluter.  Flash-forward to 2016, and after decades onstage in such diverse musicals as Robert and Elizabeth, Cats, On the Twentieth Century, and Phantom

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Soundtracks Tags: Mark Wynter, Tony Hatch

Simple Dreams: 40th Anniversary Edition

July 10, 2017 By

Linda Ronstadt Simple Dreams

Linda Ronstadt's 1977 multi-platinum smash album featuring "Blue Bayou," "It's So Easy" and "Poor, Poor Pitiful Me" is remastered and expanded by Rhino in a new edition featuring three bonus live versions of the above-mentioned songs, first heard in a 1980 HBO television special.  Available on CD, LP, DD and streaming.

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I'm Goin' Back Someday: Linda Ronstadt's "Simple Dreams" Gets Expanded In September

July 10, 2017 By Joe Marchese 20 Comments

Linda Ronstadt Simple Dreams

Trivia: What album replaced Fleetwood Mac's Rumours on top of the Billboard Album Chart after its 29-week stay?  The answer: Linda Ronstadt's Simple Dreams.  Ronstadt's eighth studio album, it became one of her most successful and most beloved.  Now, on the occasion of its 40th anniversary, the Grammy Award-winning Simple Dreams is receiving an expanded edition from Rhino Records.  It's due on CD, vinyl LP, DD, and streaming platforms on September 22. The multi-platinum smash was Ronstadt's

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Dolly Parton, Linda Ronstadt

Really Wanna Make You Mine: Rhino Expands Jet's First Two Albums

July 10, 2017 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Get Born deluxe

This summer has seen a wave of nostalgia for the modern rock boom of the early '00s. Lizzie Goodman's book Meet Me In the Bathroom: Rebirth and Rock and Roll in New York City 2001-2011 has reminded music lovers of the heyday of bands like The Strokes, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, LCD Soundsystem and others. But New Yor, wasn't the only home of rock during this period; Rhino's throwing it back to the Jet age--the Australian rock group, that is. The Melbourne-based quartet courted brief success during the

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Rock Tags: Jet

Release Round-Up: Week of July 7

July 7, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Laura Nyro A Little Magic A Little Kindness

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up featuring our latest Second Disc Records title and much, much more! Laura Nyro, A Little Magic, A Little Kindness: The Complete Mono Albums Collection (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music are proud to present, for the first time on CD, the ultra-rare, original mono mixes of Laura Nyro's first two albums: More Than a New Discovery (Verve Folkways, 1967) and Eli

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Country, Disco/Dance, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Charley Pride, Chris Bell, Del Shannon, Delegation, Eddy Arnold, Keely Smith, Laura Nyro, Radiohead, Rosanne Cash, Tim Buckley, Weather Report

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