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Unfinished Music No. 1: Two Virgins

November 5, 2016 By

Yoko and John Unfinished Music No. 1

The Yoko Ono reissue program kicks off on November 11 with three titles.  John and Yoko's avant-garde debut from 1968 is remastered and expanded, gaining one bonus track: the B-side of "Give Peace a Chance," "Remember Love."  Available on CD, LP, and DD.

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

Everybody Say Yeah! New Box Set Marks 50 Years of NRBQ

November 4, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

NRBQ High Noon

The New Rhythm and Blues Quartet (NRBQ) is turning 50 this year, and Omnivore Recordings is throwing the party! High Noon: A 50-Year Retrospective features 106 eclectic songs over 5 CDs including fan favorites such as the 1974 hit "Get That Gasoline Blues," plus rarities, concert tracks, and previously unreleased recordings from the band's varied line-ups over the years! Since its founding in Louisville, Kentucky in 1966, NRBQ has touched on rock, jazz, blues, pop, and Americana. The band has

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download Genre: Everything Else, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: NRBQ

Release Round-Up: Week of November 4

November 4, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Stevie Nicks Bella Donna

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a host of holiday offerings (including three new titles from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music!) and much, much more! Jack Jones, The Jack Jones Christmas Album (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music proudly bring Jack Jones' 1964 Kapp Records classic to CD for the very first time!  The Jack Jones Christmas Album features lush renditions of "White

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Gospel, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bing Crosby, Eddy Arnold, Frank Zappa, Jack Jones, Mantovani, Margaret Whiting, Mitch Miller and the Gang, Mother Love Bone, Queen, Ray Conniff, Sammy Kaye, Stevie Nicks, The Blind Boys of Alabama, The Living Strings, The Norman Luboff Choir, The Robert Shaw Chorale, The Ventures

Now We're Getting Somewhere: An Interview with Neil Finn of Crowded House

November 3, 2016 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Neil Finn 1

Hey now, hey now...Here at Second Disc HQ, we're bursting with pride to share with you this very special interview conducted by our very own Mike Duquette! Crowded House founder Neil Finn reflected at length with Mike about his band, his career, legacy, and the series of truly lavish Crowded House reissues hitting stores on November 11.  We know you'll enjoy this one!  Take it away, Mike... There are certain songwriters who've mastered certain places in their compositions. Think of, say, Lou

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Categories: Features, Interviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Crowded House, Neil Finn

Do You Hear What I Hear? Jack Jones, Eddy Arnold, Mitch Miller Coming TOMORROW From Second Disc Records!

November 3, 2016 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

RGM 0531 Eddy Arnold Christmas Cover

With Halloween now in the rearview window, decorations springing up everywhere and yuletide tunes on the radio, it's beginning to look a lot like Christmas everywhere you go.  Here at Second Disc HQ, we're no exception.  Tomorrow, November 4, we're thrilled to spread some holiday cheer with three Second Disc Records releases as part of Real Gone Music's amazing 10-strong (yes, 10 titles!) Christmas line-up!  All three titles feature new-to-CD tracks, copious liner notes, original album and label

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Eddy Arnold, Jack Jones, Mitch Miller and the Gang

You Bet Your Love: Robinsongs Reissues Funky Sets From Herbie Hancock, Zapp

November 3, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Herbie Hancock Sunlight and Feets

Today, we're spotlighting a pair of funk-drenched new releases from Cherry Red's Robinsongs imprint! When Herbie Hancock's The Joni Letters received an Album of the Year Grammy Award in 2008, it became the first jazz album to take the trophy since 1965 - underscoring the legendary pianist's enduring relevance in his fifth decade as a recording artist.  Since Takin' Off in 1962 with his Blue Note debut of the same name, Hancock had pushed the envelope of jazz, including a period in the late

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Funk, Jazz, R&B/Soul Tags: Herbie Hancock, Zapp

EXCLUSIVE! Merry Christmas, Darling: Carpenters Public TV Special and DVD Coming Soon

November 2, 2016 By Joe Marchese 21 Comments

Carpenters Christmas Memories DVD

It's that time of year again!  There's a crisp chill in the air, Christmas decorations are finding their way to storefronts and malls everywhere, and the sounds of the season are beginning to hit the airwaves.  Among the most beloved classic holiday songs heard on radios and playlists each winter are those by Karen and Richard Carpenter.  The brother and sister duo proved to be the most successful American popular music act of the 1970s (20 Billboard Top 40 hits including three #1s and five #2s,

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Categories: News Formats: DVD Genre: Holiday, Pop Tags: Carpenters

So Good It's Scary! Varese Plans "Little Box of Horrors"

November 1, 2016 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Little Box of Horrors Varese

Those soundtrack geniuses at Varese Sarabande have scared up some appropriate soundtrack news for Halloween, announcing a box set next month that will collect a dozen rare, unreleased and out of print horror scores from across five decades! The Little Box of Horrors is a 12CD set featuring spooky soundtracks to films from an Emmy-nominated 1968 adaptation of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde all the way to Wes Craven's Dracula 2000. There's a pair of scores by Jerry Goldsmith for occult pictures (The

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Bob Cobert, Howard Shore, Jerry Goldsmith, Marco Beltrami

Do Your Thing: 20 Record Store Day Black Friday Essentials

November 1, 2016 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Popeye OST

Are you making a list and checking it twice? We are! Record Store Day Black Friday is here in less than a month, and this week we're showcasing all of our favorite titles. We've shown you the goods from Legacy, Real Gone, Rhino and Omnivore; now, here are 20 more titles we think you should absolutely check out. There's soundtrack goodies from Varese Sarabande and Light in the Attic; holiday favorites from Bob & Doug McKenzie, Frank Sinatra and "Dolemite" himself; lost gems from Isaac Hayes,

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Blues, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bob Crewe, Charles Fox, Frank Sinatra, Frank Zappa, Harry Nilsson, Isaac Hayes, Jerry Goldsmith, Muddy Waters, Otis Redding, Record Store Day, Soundgarden, The Runaways

Rhino, Omnivore Plan Black Friday Gold For Record Store Day

October 31, 2016 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Monkees Good Times Plus

That chill in the air and the buzz in your favorite record store can only mean one thing: Record Store Day Black Friday is nearly upon us! On November 25, indie record retailers and labels great and small will partner together to issue dozens of exclusive packages you can't get anywhere else (except maybe eBay, after the fact, though we're not happy about that.) The vinyl boom refuses to end, but owing to the lesser size of the event in general, there don't seem to be as many titles as usual.

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: Big Star, CHIC, Foreigner, Jaco Pastorius, Jethro Tull, Ramones, Record Store Day, The Bangles, The Beach Boys, The Cars, The Monkees

Livin' Proof: Cherry Red Follows Dusty Springfield's "Reputation" with "Very Fine Love" Deluxe Reissue

October 31, 2016 By Randy Fairman 4 Comments

Dusty Springfield A Very Fine Love Expanded

Earlier this year, Cherry Red's Strike Force Entertainment label reissued Dusty Springfield's Reputation, the legendary vocalist's 1990 "comeback" album featuring productions by The Pet Shop Boys, Dan Hartman, and others.  That expanded reissue took the form of a 2-CD/1-DVD set, adding nineteen bonus tracks and five music videos within its slipcase.  More recently, SFE has turned its attention to Dusty's follow-up, A Very Fine Love, as a CD/DVD combo. The 1995 Columbia album, recorded in

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD, DVD Genre: Pop Tags: Dusty Springfield

A Melody Ranch Christmas

October 30, 2016 By

Gene Autry A Melody Ranch Christmas

This new release, culled from Gene Autry's personal archive of radio show transcription lacquers, includes classic and rare Christmas songs performed live on the singing cowboy's popular Melody Ranch radio show between 1942 and 1955.  Performers include not just Gene, but also The Cass County Boys, The Pinafores, The Gene Autry Blue Jeans, Rosemary Clooney, and Carl Cotner's Orchestra.  This CD, sequenced in the style of a vintage radio broadcast, also includes Pat Buttram's comedy routines, and

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Formats: CD Genre: Country, Holiday

A Christmas Story

October 30, 2016 By

Bing Crosby Christmas Story

BMG reissues the original Golden Records release of Bing Crosby's A Christmas Story.  Bing sings and narrates "An Axe, An Apple and a Buckskin Jacket," a musical-in-miniature by composer Alec Wilder and lyricist-librettist Arnold Sundgaard.

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Formats: CD Genre: Holiday

Mitch Miller Presents Christmas Songs and Carols

October 30, 2016 By

Mitch Miller Presents Songs and Carols

Here's a coincidental complement to Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music's first-time-on-CD complete, expanded edition of Mitch Miller and The Gang's Christmas Sing-Along with Mitch.  BMG Rights Management brings back to CD this Golden Records holiday set aimed at children and overseen by Miller.  It features unique material to that of his Columbia Christmas recordings.

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Formats: CD Genre: Holiday

Legacy

October 29, 2016 By

David Bowie Legacy

2-CD Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 1-CD Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. This new 2-CD retrospective dedicated to the late David Bowie features forty classic tracks from "Space Oddity" through the final song on Blackstar, "I Can't Give Everything Away."  A single-CD, 20-track iteration will also be released. The 2-CD version is sequenced chronologically, while the single-disc version is not.  Both editions feature one previously unreleased track: a 2016 remix of 1971's "Life on Mars?"

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

Atom Bomb: Expanded Edition

October 29, 2016 By

Blind Boys of Alabama Atom Bomb

Omnivore continues its deluxe series dedicated to The Blind Boys of Alabama with an expanded edition of 2005's Atom Bomb, featuring traditional gospel melodies along with surprises such as Eric Clapton's "Presence of the Lord" and Norman Greenbaum's "Spirit in the Sky," all rendered in the group's stirring style incorporating flourishes of R&B, jazz and even rap and rock.  Billy Preston and David Hidalgo are among the guests on this sublime record, newly expanded with seven previously

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Formats: CD Genre: Gospel

Christmas Carols

October 28, 2016 By

Mantovani Christmas Carols

Mantovani's 1958 stereo re-recording of Christmas Carols has been on CD before from Collectors' Choice, but it is long out of print and commanding high prices on the secondary market.  Real Gone is putting this Christmas classic back in print with photos and notes by Kim Cooper.

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Formats: CD Genre: Holiday, Popular Standards/Vocal

Christmas Hymns and Carols Vol. 1: Expanded Edition

October 28, 2016 By

Robert Shaw Christmas Hymns

The Robert Shaw Chorale's Christmas Hymns and Carols Vol. 1 got its first release in 1949, just one year after Shaw formed the Chorale.  It was re-released in 1957 and then re-recorded in stereo in 1958, which is the version Real Gone is presenting in expanded form.  Two tracks have been added from the original mono version (one actually in stereo) which were excluded from the re-recording.  The Chorale, while having an intermittent existence, finally disbanded permanently in 1965 when Shaw

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Formats: CD Genre: Holiday, Popular Standards/Vocal

I Want to Wish You a Merry Christmas

October 28, 2016 By

Sammy Kaye I Want to Wish You

Bandleader Sammy Kaye got his start in the 1930s and he became popular for his "Swing and Sway" style of music.  This 1957 Christmas classic presents him at three different times during his 1950s Columbia tenure, as it was assembled from several releases and sessions throughout the decade.  Kaye would leave Columbia for Decca where he would record another Christmas album in 1960:  Christmas Day with Sammy Kaye.  Joe has written the new liner notes for this first-time-on-CD reissue!

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Formats: CD Genre: Holiday, Popular Standards/Vocal

Chicago '78

October 28, 2016 By

Frank Zappa Chicago 78

This Vaulternative Records concert release premieres Frank Zappa's performance at Chicago's Uptown Theater from September 29, 1978. Of the two shows played that night, the late show is captured here in its entirety including tracks such as "Dancin' Fool," "Magic Fingers," and "Strictly Genteel."

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

Little Dots

October 28, 2016 By

Frank Zappa Little Dots

Little Dots follows up 2005's Imaginary Diseases with further selections from Frank Zappa's 10-piece 'Petit Wazoo' tour of late 1972.  These tracks feature a horn-driven ensemble and comprise epic improvisations and previously unreleased compositions.

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock

Prince 4Ever

October 28, 2016 By

Prince 4Ever

Prince 4Ever is a 40-track summary of The Artist's major works from his first album, 1978's For You, to 1992's The Love Symbol, Prince's last release before he changed his name to the album's title.  At least six tracks appear on Prince compilations for the first time, and the set also includes the first posthumous release from Prince's fabled vault: "Moonbeam Levels," a 1999 outtake at one point considered for 1988's Rave Unto the Joy Fantastic, a project scrapped when Prince took on Batman. A

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

London Fog 1966

October 28, 2016 By

The Doors London Fog 1966

The earliest known live recording of The Doors - recorded in 1966 at Sunset Strip's London Fog club - is presented for the first time on a CD/LP box set limited to 18,000 copies.

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

You're Gonna Get It! Tom Petty Celebrates 40 Years with Two Vinyl Boxes

October 28, 2016 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Tom Petty Vinyl Volume Two

To commemorate the 40th anniversary of their debut album, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers are collecting all their studio albums into two new vinyl box sets. The Complete Studio Albums Volume 1 (1976-1991) and The Complete Studio Albums Volume 2 (1994-2014) bring together, across 21 pieces of 180-gram vinyl, all 16 studio releases from singer/guitarist Petty, guitarists Mike Campbell and Scott Thurston, keyboardist Benmont Tench, bassists Ron Blair and Howie Epstein and drummers Stan Lynch

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

Release Round-Up: Week of October 28

October 28, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Neil Diamond Acoustic Christmas

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Roy Orbison, The Ultimate Collection (Roy's Boys/Legacy) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Legacy Recordings and Roy's Boys, LLC deliver a newly-remastered, career-spanning anthology for the late Roy Orbison.  The Ultimate Collection has 26 tracks drawn from The Big O's halcyon years at Monument and MGM as well as his final solo recordings and collaborations with The Traveling

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Funk, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Black Sabbath, Jimmy Buffett, Marc Almond, Mozart, Neil Diamond, Otis Redding, Philip Glass, Roy Orbison, She and Him, The Intruders, The Legal Matters

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