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The Best of Everything

October 11, 2018 By

Tom Petty The Best of Everything

On the heels of the release of the acclaimed rarities box set An American Treasure, a new career-spanning anthology arrives from the late Tom Petty.  The Best of Everything is subtitled The Definitive Career-Spanning Hits Collection 1976-2016 and features 38 tracks from the soulful rock-and-roller, including two previously unreleased cuts (an alternate of "The Best of Everything" and the outtake "For Real.")  Petty's solo work is heard alongside his recordings with both The Heartbreakers and

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

Southern Accents: Tom Petty's "The Best of Everything" Retrospective Premieres Two Unheard Tracks

October 8, 2018 By Joe Marchese 11 Comments

Tom Petty The Best of Everything

On the heels of the release of the acclaimed rarities box set An American Treasure, a new career-spanning anthology will arrive in CD, vinyl, and digital formats on November 16 from the late Tom Petty.  The Best of Everything, on the Geffen/UMe label, is subtitled The Definitive Career-Spanning Hits Collection 1976-2016 and features 38 tracks from the soulful rock-and-roller, including two previously unreleased cuts.  Petty's solo work is heard alongside his recordings with both The

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Tom Petty, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

Everything Your Heart Desires: Legacy Unleashes Rare Hall & Oates Mixes To Digital Channels

October 8, 2018 By Joe Marchese 31 Comments

Hall and Oates Single Mixes

Whoa-oh, here they come!  On Friday, Legacy Recordings reissued a treasure trove of rare remixes from the enduring rock 'n' soul duo of Daryl Hall and John Oates onto all digital platforms, including two new collections and three EPs. Single Mixes scoops up 16 alternate versions of some of Hall and Oates' greatest hits, including the U.K.-only mix of the 1981 chart-topper "Private Eyes," the seven-inch remixes of "I Can't Go for That (No Can Do)" (No. 1, 1981) and "One on One" (No. 7, 1983),

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Daryl Hall and John Oates

Stronger Every Day: Chicago Releases New Live Album, "Isle of Wight" on Vinyl in October

September 25, 2018 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Chicago Live and Isle of Wight

Last evening, September 23, Chicago wrapped up its current tour celebrating the band's landmark sophomore LP Chicago II in Staten Island.  But the music plays on, and on October 26, Rhino will release two live sets from the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductees. Greatest Hits Live, coming in CD and CD/DVD iterations, is a companion to the release earlier this year of Chicago II: Live on Soundstage.  At every one of this tour's stops, the band played the original album and then launched into a

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Categories: News Formats: CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Chicago

The First, The Last, My Everything: UMe Boxes Barry White's Complete 20th Century Albums

September 10, 2018 By Joe Marchese 10 Comments

Barry White 20th Century Albums

UMe's ongoing reissue campaign for the music of Barry White -which has, so far, included singles collections for White, the girl group Love Unlimited, and The Love Unlimited Orchestra - will expand next month for its most extensive entry: a 9-CD or 9-LP box set collecting White's complete 20th Century Records albums. The 20th Century Records Albums (1973-1979) will arrive on the same day as nine individual, 180-gram LP issues of each title.  These records represent the most beloved period of

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Barry White

Say What You Will...Everything Can Happen: Expanded Edition

July 3, 2018 By

Soul Asylum Say What You Will

Omnivore is expanding Soul Asylum's 1984 Twin/Tone debut.  The reissue of Say What You Will includes the original album plus fourteen bonuses including outtakes, demos (one previously unreleased), and tracks recorded under the names of Loud Fast Rules and Proud Crass Fools.  The five songs appended to the album for the 1988 reissue entitled Say What You Will, Clarence...Karl Sold the Truck are all included.  The booklet promises to include a new essay by Robert Vodicka plus photos, artwork,

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Formats: CD Genre: Rock

Sign of the Times: Cherry Red Collects "The Very Best of Tappan Zee Records"

April 6, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Tappan Zee Records

The story of Tappan Zee Records is very much the story of Bob James.  The versatile keyboardist, arranger and producer established the Tappan Zee label in 1977 to maximize the crossover success he had already experienced at Creed Taylor's CTI label.  Cherry Red and Robinsongs' new 2-CD, non-chronologically arranged collection The Very Best of Tappan Zee Records presents an appealing cross-section of Tappan Zee's finest work from artists like James, Richard Tee, Earl Klugh, and Steve Khan. The

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Jazz Tags: Bob James, Mongo Santamaria, Richard Tee, Steve Khan

Everything's Coming Up Posies: Power Pop Group Work with Omnivore, PledgeMusic on Expanded Reissues (UPDATED 3/30)

March 30, 2018 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Posies Amazing Disgrace

UPDATE (3/30): These three previously reported expansions are now available to pre-order directly from Omnivore, with Amazon links coming soon! ORIGINAL POST (1/3/2018): Power pop masterminds The Posies will celebrate their 30th anniversary this year by teaming up with Omnivore Recordings and PledgeMusic for reissues of three albums recorded for DGC Records in the mid-'90s. Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow, the core members of the group, released the first Posies album, Failure, in 1988.

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Big Star, The Posies

Everybody Dance Now! Cherry Red's Soul Time Imprint Collects Northern Soul, Detroit Rarities

March 20, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Soul on Fire

Cherry Red's Soul Time imprint is on fire!  The crate-digging team there unearthed two box sets' worth of R&B rarities in the final months of 2017 that we're happy to spotlight now! Mr. M's Northern Soul 1974-1981 is a 3-CD set celebrating the "oldies room" at the Wigan Casino, the late, fondly-remembered club in Wigan, England famous for its northern soul all-nighters held each Saturday from 2 a.m. to 8 a.m. Sunday morning.  Mr. M's was born out of necessity in 1974, a "club within a

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Bunny Sigler, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Marv Johnson, Ronnie Milsap, The Contours, The Falcons, Tony Joe White, Various Artists

The Very Best of Andy Gibb

March 14, 2018 By

Andy Gibb Very Best Of

As part of its new agreement with The Bee Gees, Capitol has a 15-track sampler from the late Andy Gibb, including his hits and favorites like "Shadow Dancing," "I Just Want to Be Your Everything," "An Everlasting Love," "(Love Is) Thicker Than Water," and "Our Love (Don't Throw It All Away)."  (Alas, his lost duet with Victoria Principal, "All I Have to Do is Dream," is still absent.)

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop

Everybody Plays the Fool: SoulMusic, Cherry Red Collect The Main Ingredient's "Brotherly Love: The RCA Anthology"

February 16, 2018 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Main Ingredient Anthology 1

When Cuba Gooding, Sr. passed away in April 2017, it marked the true end of an era for the venerable soul group The Main Ingredient.  The Harlem-founded group had endured tragedy, personnel shifts, and the changing sound of music to prosper for decades, but the heart of the Main Ingredient remains in the group's RCA recordings.  The recent 2-CD collection from Cherry Red's SoulMusic Records imprint, Brotherly Love: The RCA Anthology, brings together 41 tracks originally issued between 1970 and

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Cuba Gooding Sr., The Main Ingredient

Can't Be Satisfied: The Very Best of Muddy Waters 1948-1975

February 6, 2018 By

Muddy Waters Cant Be Satisfied

Can't Be Satisfied: The Very Best of Muddy Waters 1948-1975 presents 40 classic tracks from across the singer/guitarist's tenure on the Chess label. Featuring both studio highlights and excerpts from live performances including the bluesman's seminal set at the 1960 Newport Jazz Festival, Can't Be Satisfied also promises new liner notes and never-before-published photos from the Chess Records archive. 

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Formats: CD Genre: Blues

Everybody Needs Somebody to Love: Run Out Groove Preps New Solomon Burke Anthology

January 10, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Solomon Burke Best of Atlantic Soul

Run Out Groove is heating up 2018 with its first release of the year.  The label, which allows fans to vote every month on its next audiophile-quality deluxe vinyl title drawn from the Warner Music Group vaults, recently announced the rarities-packed collection Professor Bizarre's Funkology from New Orleans' one and only Dr. John, as well as unsung R&B great Lou Johnson's Sweet Southern Soul, and the first vinyl reissue of Ministry's Greatest Fits from the Industrial band.  Now, ROG will

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Solomon Burke

Everything's Coming Up Posies: Power Pop Group Work with Omnivore, PledgeMusic on Expanded Reissues

January 3, 2018 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

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Power pop masterminds The Posies will celebrate their 30th anniversary this year by teaming up with Omnivore Recordings and PledgeMusic for reissues of three albums recorded for DGC Records in the mid-'90s. Jon Auer and Ken Stringfellow, the core members of the group, released the first Posies album, Failure, in 1988. (That self-released title was reissued by Omnivore in 2014.) Signing to Geffen's rock subsidiary in 1990 (where they'd count Nirvana and Weezer as labelmates), the group's

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Big Star, The Posies

Every Time I Dream: Morello Releases More Twofers from Tammy Wynette

November 14, 2017 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Tammy Wynette You and Me Two Fer

For the past couple of years, Cherry Red imprint Morello Records has been releasing twofers from Tammy Wynette's Epic Records catalog ranging from the 1960s to the 1980s.  We've got two more to tell you about now:  Another Lonely Song/Woman to Woman and You and Me/Let's Get Together.  These four albums all hail from the mid-1970s and were produced by Wynette's longtime collaborator Billy Sherrill.  They also chronicle the period before and after her divorce from fellow country superstar George

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Country Tags: Tammy Wynette

WE HAVE OUR WINNERS: "Stories We Could Tell: The Very Best of John Sebastian"

September 17, 2017 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

John Sebastian Stories We Could Tell

CONGRATULATIONS! The following 15 entrants have won a copy of Varese Vintage's brand-new Stories We Could Tell: The Very Best of John Sebastian 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 exciting

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Pop Tags: John Sebastian, The Lovin' Spoonful

WIN! WIN! WIN! Varese Says "Welcome Back" to "The Very Best of John Sebastian"

September 1, 2017 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

John Sebastian Stories We Could Tell

Welcome back!  Today, Varese Vintage celebrates the early solo discography of singer-songwriter, Woodstock folk hero, and Lovin' Spoonful founder John Sebastian with the release of Stories We Could Tell: The Very Best of John Sebastian, a new 16-track anthology drawing on the troubadour's Reprise albums originally released between 1971 and 1976. A New York native and the son of classical harmonica player John Sebastian Sr. and his wife Jane, a writer, young John fused pop and folk when he

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Categories: Giveaways!, News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Pop Tags: John Sebastian, The Lovin' Spoonful

Middle of Everywhere: The Greatest Hits

August 29, 2017 By

Hanson Middle of Everywhere

Middle Of Everywhere - The Greatest Hits features 26 tracks from Hanson's six main studio albums across two discs.

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Genre: Pop

Stories We Could Tell: The Very Best of John Sebastian

August 25, 2017 By

John Sebastian Stories We Could Tell

Varese Vintage collects 16 classic tracks from the singer-songwriter and onetime Lovin' Spoonful leader including "Welcome Back," "She's a Lady," and his solo versions of "Didn't Wanna Have to Do It," "Younger Girl," "Darling Be Home Soon" and more.

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Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop

Everybody Knows

August 9, 2017 By

Stills and Collins Everybody Knows

Stephen Stills teams up with Sweet Judy Blue Eyes herself for their first-ever full-length collaborative album.  Stills and Collins' Everybody Knows features these two titans of song performing such classics as "Who Knows Where the Time Goes," "Reason to Believe," and "Girl from the North Country."

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Formats: CD Genre: Folk, Pop

Everybody Sing! JSP Records Collects Four Discs of Judy Garland's "Classic Duets" on New Box Set

August 7, 2017 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Judy Garland Classic Duets

Throughout her illustrious, if tragically curtailed, career, Judy Garland raised her voice in song with some of the greatest artists of all time, including Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Fred Astaire, Al Jolson, Gene Kelly, Kay Thompson, and many more.  Last Friday, August 4, a new 4-CD set arrived from the U.K.'s JSP Records celebrating Garland's greatest vocal collaborations with these performers and many others.  Judy Garland: Classic Duets features 109 tracks over 4 CDs, including 15 tracks

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal, Soundtracks Tags: Bing Crosby, Frank Sinatra, Judy Garland, Mickey Rooney

The Very Best of The Beau Brummels: The Complete Singles

May 22, 2017 By

Beau Brummels Very Best Of

Varese Vintage rounds up 16 single sides from San Francisco's British Invasion-inspired Beau Brummels including hits like "Laugh, Laugh" and "Just a Little" in their original mono mixes, plus rare solo singles from singer Sal Valentino on this single-disc collection.

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The Very Best of Peter Cetera

April 30, 2017 By

Cetera

The Very Best of Peter Cetera salutes the Chicago balladeer's solo career over 14 tracks.  This special collection rounds up all the hits from his Warner Bros. albums, many of which are presented in their original single edit and mix versions (including Japan-only single "Stay with Me," from the country's fairy-tale film Princess From the Moon), making this a must-own for those who want to remember Cetera's smooth sound as it was heard on radio through the '80s and '90s.

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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

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

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