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Ann Veronica: Original London Cast Album

August 20, 2015 By

Ann Veronica

Stage Door Records rescues the 1969 London Cast Recording of the short-lived musical Ann Veronica, based on the H.G. Wells novel and featuring a score by Cyril Ornadel (Pickwick) and David Croft.  Recorded at CTS Studios, the cast album (licensed from Sony) features the performances of Mary Millar (in the title role), Hy Hazell, Arthur Lowe, Peter Reeves, Charles West, Ian Lavender and John Inman.

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Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings

Pot Luck

August 20, 2015 By

Spooner Oldham Pot Luck

The great songwriter and pianist Spooner Oldham takes the solo spotlight on LITA's reissue of his 1972 Family Productions LP!  Features "Cry Like a Baby," "Respect," "I Never Loved a Man (The Way I Love You)" and more.

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: R&B/Soul

Now That Everything's Been Said

August 20, 2015 By

The City

The classic album from Carole King's band The City returns in a newly-remastered edition to CD and vinyl. Features "Now That Everything's Been Said," "Snow Queen," "Wasn't Born to Follow," "A Man Without a Dream," "That Old Sweet Roll" and many other King classics.

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop

Otis Blue: Collectors Edition

August 20, 2015 By

Otis Redding Otis Blue

Rhino reissues the 2008 double-disc Collectors Edition of Otis Redding's 1965 classic in time for its 50th anniversary.

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Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul

Bernard Herrmann's "Hangover Square" Soundtrack Expanded On New Two-For-One CD

August 20, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Hangover Square

Fresh off its successful Indiegogo campaign, Kritzerland has returned to the music of Bernard Herrmann (Psycho, Taxi Driver) for its latest soundtrack release.  Two Herrmann scores - 1945's Hangover Square and 1952's 5 Fingers - have been paired on one CD.  Though both have been previously released on CD, they have been newly transferred for Kritzerland by our friend Mike Matessino, and Hangover Square (a favorite score of none other than Stephen Sondheim) has been expanded by sixteen

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Bernard Herrmann

Turn It Up: Cherry Red Reissues Ted Nugent's "Free-For-All" Featuring Meat Loaf

August 20, 2015 By Randy Fairman 1 Comment

Ted Nugent Free For All

Cherry Red imprint Hear No Evil Recordings has recently released a new reissue from a classic 1970's hard-rocker: Ted Nugent's second solo album for Epic Records, Free-For-All.  This also follows in HNE's line of Meat Loaf reissues as the Bat Out of Hell superstar is a prominent guest on the album singing over half of the songs. Ted Nugent, hailing from Detroit, got his start in music at a young age.  After performing in several bands, he formed the Amboy Dukes when his family moved to

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Meat Loaf, Ted Nugent

R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Rhino Reissues Deluxe "Otis Blue", Preps Redding Albums Box

August 19, 2015 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Otis Redding Otis Blue

This September, Otis Redding's album masterwork Otis Blue: Otis Redding Sings Soul celebrates its 50th anniversary.  To mark the occasion, Rhino will reissue its out-of-print 2008 expanded edition on September 18; then, on October 30, the label will compile Redding's original albums into a new box set. A testament to Redding's power to reinvent a song, Otis Blue primarily features his interpretations of familiar melodies - plus three choice originals.  The album, an R&B chart-topper,

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Otis Redding

Sixteen Tons, What Do You Get?: Bear Family Releases Tennessee Ernie Ford 5-CD Box Set

August 17, 2015 By Randy Fairman 3 Comments

For years, Germany's venerable Bear Family label has been curating large box sets focusing on country, pop and early rock-n-roll.  These vast collections offer up a complete look at an artist's recordings during a specific period.  The label is continuing in this tradition by compiling a box set to coincide with the 60th anniversary of this artist's biggest hit.  On September 25, 2015, Tennessee Ernie Ford: Portrait of An American Singer (1949-1960) will be released in the U.S., marking the six

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Country Tags: Tennessee Ernie Ford

Release Round-Up: Week of August 14

August 14, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Lesley Gore Someplace Else Now

Welcome to New Release Friday! Lesley Gore, Someplace Else Now (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Someplace Else Now marked Lesley Gore's first full immersion into the world of the singer-songwriter.  She penned every one of the twelve tracks on this 1972 album for MoWest Records, writing solo and with lyricists Ellen Weston and her brother Michael Gore.  Joe Porter (Gladys Knight and the Pips, Thelma Houston) supplied the passionate production.  Lesley's lost Motown gem - a

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Lesley Gore, Steppenwolf, The Muffs, The Replacements, The Who

Let's Go Disco: Big Break Gets Down With MFSB's "Universal Love"

August 13, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

MFSB Universal Love

Big Break Records is letting the love come through - Universal Love, that is! - with its new reissue of the third album from Philadelphia International Records' inimitable house band, MFSB.  The only mystery about the 1975 album is how this No. 2 R&B smash (and respectable No. 44 Pop success, as well) has avoided compact disc release after all these years.  Happily, it follows 1972's MFSB and 1973's Love is the Message into Big Break's catalogue in a newly-expanded and remastered

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: MFSB

Right Place, Right Time: Omnivore Collects Dr. John's Atlantic and Atco Singles In September

August 12, 2015 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Dr. John Singles

The Doctor is in! On September 18, Omnivore Recordings is heading to the bayou with one of New Orleans' favorite sons, Mac Rebennack - a.k.a. Dr. John! The Atco/Atlantic Singles 1968-1974 collects the Good Doctor's A- and B-sides, from both the U.S. and the U.K., as issued on the Atco and Atlantic labels during that prolific period. These 22 tracks take the piano-pounding Night Tripper from his debut album, Gris-Gris, through Desitively Bonnaroo, produced by fellow N'awlins legend Allen

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Allen Toussaint, Dr. John, The Meters

It's Clobberin' Time! Ace Unearths Gems From Motown's Fantastic Four

August 11, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Fantastic Four Lost Album

Last weekend, The Fantastic Four - the super-powered Reed Richards, Susan Storm, Johnny Storm and Ben Grimm - returned to the big screen, ultimately to disappoint fans.  But Ace Records' Kent label has another group of the same name in the spotlight - and this one is bound to thrill! Joe Pruitt, Ralph Pruitt, Toby Childs and James Epps made their debut as The Fantastic Four in 1966 on Detroit's Ric-Tic label, notching a series of R&B and Pop hits (including 1967's No. 6 R&B/No. 63 Pop

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: The Fantastic Four

Can't Help Falling In Love: Elvis Goes Orchestral On "If I Can Dream"

August 10, 2015 By Joe Marchese 11 Comments

Elvis If I Can Dream

In advance of this Friday's Legacy Edition reissue of Elvis Presley's 1975 studio album Today, RCA and Legacy have announced another project to celebrate The King's 80th birthday.  If I Can Dream: Elvis Presley with the Royal Philharmonic Orchestra is a new, 14-song collection due on October 30 featuring the artist's iconic vocal performances accompanied by newly-created orchestral backings. Presley performances between 1956 and 1973 have been melded with new orchestral tracks recorded at

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Duane Eddy, Elvis Presley, Michael Bublé

Release Round-Up: Week of August 7

August 7, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Dusty Come for a Dream

Welcome to another New Release Friday, and today's Release Round-Up! Dusty Springfield, Come for a Dream: The U.K. Sessions 1970-1971  (Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Earlier this year, Real Gone released Faithful - a collection of Dusty Springfield's complete sessions with producer-songwriter Jeff Barry, compiled for the first time as originally envisioned on one disc.  Now, the label has turned its attention to Dusty's 1970-1971 London sessions intended for the album See All

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Alex North, Ben E. King, Dusty Springfield, Elvis Presley, Georgie Fame, Mike Bloomfield, Robbie Robertson, Simon and Garfunkel, Tom Rush

Get Ready to "Groove and Grind" on RockBeat's New "Rare Soul" Box Set

August 5, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Groove and Grind

Hot on the heels of its recent Super Rare Doo Wop Box, RockBeat Records is turning its attention to another corner of the rhythm and blues world and further advancing into the 1960s with a new four-CD box set.  Groove and Grind: Rare Soul 1963-1973, due in stores on Friday, August 18, is packed with 112 songs - the vast majority of which have never been reissued on CD! Groove and Grind, compiled by RockBeat's James Austin and annotated in its hardcover 127-page book by Bill Dahl, has divided

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Various Artists

It Might As Well Be Spring: Esoteric Reissues Cult Favorite By Prog Rock Band

August 5, 2015 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Spring Spring

Esoteric Recordings, an imprint of the Cherry Red Group, continues to mine gold for fans of the more progressive sounds coming out of the fertile, late-1960s/early 1970s British music scene. The self-titled 1971 album by Spring (not to be confused with the group of the same name involving Brian Wilson's first wife Marilyn and sister Diane) was the sixth release by the short-lived RCA Neon label.  RCA had established Neon to compete with other prog-minded imprints like EMI's Harvest, Philips'

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

Elvis Today: Legacy Edition

August 4, 2015 By

Elvis Today

Legacy Recordings and RCA continue their series of Legacy Edition expansions of The King's classic catalogue with this 2-CD remaster of 1975's Today.    This 40th anniversary release contains the original album featuring the hit single "T-R-O-U-B-L-E" and 10 undubbed session mixes previously only available via the Follow That Dream collectors' label. Disc 2 features live performances recorded within weeks of the album's release. Previously issued in 1980, this reconstructed concert has been

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop

You Can Make Me Dance, Sing or Anything (1970-1975)

August 4, 2015 By

Faces You Can Make Me Dance

This long-awaited 5-CD box set includes Faces' First Step (1970), Long Player (1971), A Nod Is as Good as a Wink...to a Blind Horse (1971), and Ooh La La (1973), and adds never-before-released bonus tracks to each album.  The set is topped off with a bonus disc containing non-LP selections.  In total, 17 bonus tracks are previously unreleased!

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Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock

Freedom: Atlanta Pop Festival

August 4, 2015 By

Hendrix Freedom

Legacy and Experience Hendrix have the first commercial release of The Jimi Hendrix Experience's historic set from the July 4, 1970 Atlanta Pop Festival on 2 CDs or 2 vinyl LPs.

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock

Get Closer: Two Discs of Linda Ronstadt Collected on "Just One Look"

August 4, 2015 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

Linda Ronstadt Just One Look

Roughly one year following the release of Starbucks' Opus Collection anthology, Rhino has announced a new compilation celebrating the resplendent voice of Linda Ronstadt.  Just One Look - Classic Linda Ronstadt is due from the label on August 21, featuring 30 newly-remastered tracks on two CDs. The chronologically-assembled collection begins with Michael Nesmith's timeless "Different Drum" as performed by The Stone Poneys featuring Linda, then jumps forward to the 1973 solo album Don't Cry

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Linda Ronstadt

In Memoriam: Cilla Black (1943-2015)

August 2, 2015 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

completely cilla

We're deeply saddened at the news of the passing of Cilla Black, 72.  Throughout the course of a recording career spanning five decades, the Liverpool-born artist lent her distinctive sound and big voice to songs by The Beatles ("Love of the Loved," "It's for You," Step Inside Love"), Burt Bacharach and Hal David ("Alfie," "Anyone Who Had a Heart"), Randy Newman ("I've Been Wrong Before") and the greatest songwriters of her era. Also beloved in the United Kingdom as a television presenter on

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop Tags: Cilla Black

Release Round-Up: Week of July 31

July 31, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Led Zeppelin Coda SDE

Led Zeppelin, Presence / In Through the Out Door / Coda [Various Editions] (Swan Song/Atlantic) Presence: Super Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Deluxe Edition CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Original Album CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Original Album Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Deluxe Edition Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. In Through the Out Door: Super Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Deluxe Edition CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Original Album

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Alice Cooper, Ashford and Simpson, Led Zeppelin, Ray Parker Jr., The Band, Vince Guaraldi

Celebration Day: Final Led Zeppelin Reissues Arrive TOMORROW, July 31!

July 30, 2015 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Led Zeppelin Presence

REMINDER!  Tomorrow, July 31, marks one month of Friday release days, and it's perhaps the most momentous yet - because tomorrow is when Led Zeppelin will conclude its much-heralded deluxe edition series with a plethora of reissues for its three final studio albums: Presence, In Through the Out Door and Coda.   As with the previous deluxe editions, Presence, In Through The Out Door, and Coda have been newly remastered by Jimmy Page and are accompanied by companion audio

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Led Zeppelin

Cherry Red's él Label Revisits John Wayne Westerns, Brazil's Elis Regina

July 29, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

John Ford John Wayne

Cherry Red's él label continues to trawl through the annals of musical nostalgia for a recent pair of releases spotlighting a legendary team of actor and director, and a Brazilian music queen. John Ford/John Wayne: Western Classics celebrates the partnership between director Ford and star Wayne that survived, personally and professionally, for 50 years.  Ford was already an established, successful director when he first met USC student Marion Morrison, at the time working a summer job at 20th

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Everything Else, Pop, Soundtracks Tags: Debbie Reynolds, Elis Regina, John Wayne

Chances Are: Legacy Celebrates Johnny Mathis' 80th With New Singles Box Set

July 28, 2015 By Joe Marchese 19 Comments

Johnny Mathis Singles

Here at Second Disc HQ, the music of Johnny Mathis is, needless to say, very special to us.  Johnny inaugurated our Second Disc Records label with the release of Life is a Song Worth Singing: The Complete Thom Bell Sessions.  Now, we're thrilled to announce that our friends at Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings are collecting four discs' worth of Mathis Magic on a new box set. On September 25, Columbia and Legacy will celebrate Mr. Mathis turning 80 years young with the release of Johnny

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Johnny Mathis

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