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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

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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

Together In Perfect Harmony: Paul McCartney's "Tug of War" and "Pipes Of Peace" Join Archive Collection

July 30, 2015 By Joe Marchese 33 Comments

Tug of War Deluxe

At last, we can say, say, say it's true: the next two volumes of the Paul McCartney Archive Collection are on their way for October 2 release in a variety of formats.  Macca's second and third albums of the 1980s, the platinum sellers Tug of War and Pipes of Peace, will arrive from Concord Records and MPL with the expected array of bonus material, highlighted by a complete 2015 remix of Tug of War. 1982's Tug of War marked McCartney's first album following the breakup of Wings.  It followed

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Michael Jackson, Paul McCartney, Stevie Wonder

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

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

Let's Hang On! Real Gone Has Four Seasons, Texas Tornados, More in September

July 21, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Four Seasons Sherry

We've already told you about the two September releases from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music - Wilson Pickett's The Complete RCA Studio Recordings and an expanded edition of Ricci Martin's all-star California rock classic Beached - but we know that you're going to be just as excited about the entire action-packed Real Gone slate! For starters, it's a line-up that's always in season - with new deluxe mono mini-sleeve editions of The 4 Seasons' first two albums for the first time ever

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Everything Else, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Doug Sahm, Eydie Gorme, Flaco Jiménez, The Four Seasons, The Texas Tornados

Mr. Magic Man: The Complete RCA Studio Recordings

July 21, 2015 By

Wilson Pickett Mr. Magic Man

Beginning with 1973's Mr. Magic Man, The "Wicked" Wilson Pickett recorded four soulful studio albums and one live set for RCA Records, where, in an extremely productive two years, he notched his final Hot 100 hits as well as a string of R&B chart successes. Mr. Magic Man: The Complete RCA Studio Recordings brings all four of Pickett's RCA studio platters to CD for the very first time: Mr. Magic Man (1973), Miz Lena's Boy (1973), Pickett in the Pocket(1974) and Join Me and Let's Be Free

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Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul

Something Wicked This Way Comes: Second Disc Records Presents Complete Wilson Pickett On RCA

July 21, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Wilson Pickett Mr. Magic Man

You don't have to wait for the midnight hour - Second Disc Records, in conjunction with Real Gone Music, is ready now to announce its latest release!  We're thrilled to welcome to our label one of the true legends of rhythm and blues, The "Wicked" Wilson Pickett, with the world premiere CD release of Mr. Magic Man: The Complete RCA Studio Recordings.  This new 2-CD set is due in stores on September 4. Between 1964 and 1972, Pickett established himself as one of the greatest soul men of all

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Wilson Pickett

Review: "The Sound of Music: Original Soundtrack Recording" on SACD

July 20, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Sound of Music Original

RCA Victor expected the soundtrack album to 1965's big-screen musical The Sound of Music to be a juggernaut.  The label backed the release with a $100,000.00 promotional campaign, and arranged for tie-ins at locales including the New York World's Fair.  The release was joined on the label's roster by other albums of the already-famous Rodgers and Hammerstein score in styles from jazz (Gary Burton's The Groovy Sound of Music) to "easy listening" (The Living Strings' Music from The Sound of

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Categories: News Formats: CD, SACD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Julie Andrews, Rodgers and Hammerstein

Satisfy Your Soul: RPM Collects Rare Rock and Soul from Larry's Rebels and Ronnie Jones

July 16, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Larrys Rebels

RPM Records, an imprint of the Cherry Red Group, continues to delve deep into the vaults for another pair of rare rock-and-roll releases. Larry's Rebels has long been a beloved band to fans in the group's native New Zealand; with RPM's release of I Feel Good: The Essential Purple Flashes of Larry's Rebels 1965-1969, the rest of the world can get hip to the Rebels, too!  Active for a rough five-year period during which time the band, like so many others, endured personnel changes, Larry's

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Larry's Rebels, Ronnie Jones

Bookends: Simon and Garfunkel Reissue "The Concert in Central Park" On CD/DVD, Collect Studio Albums on Vinyl

July 15, 2015 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Simon and Garfunkel Concert in Central Park

Legacy Recordings is seeing that the only sound isn't silence with the release this summer of two new projects from Simon and Garfunkel.   In less than a month, on August 7, the label will issue Simon & Garfunkel - The Complete Columbia Albums Collection, a six-album, newly-remastered set featuring each one of the duo's studio albums plus Greatest Hits, all pressed on 180-gram vinyl.  The box will be joined by a new, remastered CD/DVD reissue of The Concert in Central Park, as

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Art Garfunkel, Paul Simon, Simon and Garfunkel

New "Rare Soul" Collection Features Otis Redding, Percy Sledge, Solomon Burke, Mary Wells and More

July 14, 2015 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Rare Soul

If Rare Soul is what you're looking for, PopMarket has an exclusive release just for you.  The online shop has recently released A Crate Digger's Collection of Rare Soul, a 3-LP set pressed on heavyweight180-gram vinyl presenting 35 tracks culled from the Warner Music Group family of labels including Atlantic, Cotillion, Loma, Atco and Warner Bros. itself.  This handsome package, a limited edition of 1,000 units, features 35 tracks from some of the labels' heaviest hitters as well as names that

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Vinyl Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Ben E. King, Bettye LaVette, Dee Dee Sharp, Mary Wells, Otis Redding, Percy Sledge, Solomon Burke, Various Artists

Making Their Mind Up: Cherry Pop Expands Bucks Fizz's Four RCA Albums

July 8, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Bucks Fizz

Bucks Fizz burst onto the pop scene in 1981, winning the Eurovision Pop Contest for Great Britain with "Making Your Mind Up."  The well, fizzy, infectious track had more than a slight ABBA flavor to it, with the group paying homage to their fellow Eurovision winners.  Between 1981 and 1986, five English-language albums were released by Bucks Fizz, the first four of which featured the original quartet of Bobby G, Jay Aston, Cheryl Baker and Mike Nolan.  Following the 2014 release of the Remixes

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Bucks Fizz

Get On Up, Get On Down: Roy Ayers' Jazz, Funk and Disco Revisited On "Searching for Sunshine"

July 7, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Roy Ayers Searching for Sunshine

In a career spanning six decades, vibraphonist and composer Roy Ayers has pushed the boundaries of jazz, transitioning from bop to soul-jazz, funk and acid jazz.  Three classic albums from the "Godfather of Neo-Soul" have recently been reissued by Australia's Raven Records label with a handful of bonus selections, as well.  The 2-CD set Searching for Sunshine: 1973-1980 collects Ayers' Polydor albums You Send Me (1978), Fever (1979) and No Stranger to Love (1979) and then dips into other areas

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Funk, Jazz, R&B/Soul Tags: Roy Ayers

Heaven Is a Place on Earth: Edsel to Release Belinda Carlisle Singles Box Set

July 3, 2015 By Randy Fairman 2 Comments

Belinda Carlisle CD Singles

Following a series of deluxe reissues and a career-spanning box set, Edsel is once again turning to the catalogue of Belinda Carlisle.  A new 29-CD box set has just been announced which collects the songs and edits released in the U.S. and U.K. across her entire solo recording career for IRS, Virgin, Chrysalis and up to the new song from her UMe Icon entry.  Belinda Carlisle: The CD Singles 1986-2014 is due to be released on August 21, 2015. The California-born Carlisle rose to fame as the

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

I'm A Believer: Micky Dolenz's Rare MGM Singles Arriving On Deluxe Reissue

July 2, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Micky Dolenz MGM

7A Records sure isn't Monkee-ing around with its first release! On July 13, the newly-formed label - a labor of love for BBC radio and television presenter Iain Lee - will release Micky Dolenz's The MGM Singles Collection on vinyl.  This collection reissues for the first time all ten single sides released between 1971 and 1974 by Dolenz on the MGM, Lion and Romar labels.  That Lee and his partner at 7A are Monkees fans is an understatement; even the label's name is derived from the studio

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Micky Dolenz, The Monkees

No Parlez: Four Discs of Paul Young Collected On New Rarities-Packed Box Set "Tomb of Memories"

July 1, 2015 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Paul Young Tomb of Memories

Sony Music U.K. is unearthing a Tomb of Memories - but this isn't a dusty tomb but rather one filled with the vital, vibrant sound of eighties hitmaker Paul Young.  Over 4 CDs and 64 tracks, this new box set subtitled The CBS Years will present an overview of Young's tenure with CBS and Columbia Records including new-to-CD tracks and previously unreleased alternate mixes, outtakes, demos and more. Between 1983 and 1993, Paul Young released five albums on Columbia.  His solo debut (also his

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download Genre: Pop Tags: Paul Young

The Muffs

June 30, 2015 By

The Muffs

Omnivore resurrects the Warner Bros. debut of nineties power-pop/punk favorites The Muffs, produced by David Katznelson and Rob Cavallo.  This expanded reissue contains the original album, and adds 10 bonus tracks: a radio remix of "Lucky Guy," a version of "Everywhere I Go" which was only available on the cassette of The Muffs album, and 8 previously unissued demos from the band's vocalist and lead guitarist Kim Shattuck, who stepped into the shoes of Kim Deal on the Pixies' 2013 tour!

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Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Rock

They've Got the Music in Them: Edsel Expands Kiki Dee and Carmelo Luggeri's "A Place" With Unreleased Songs

June 30, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Kiki and Carmelo A Place

If you're a fan of Kiki Dee, rest assured that Edsel won't be breaking your heart any time soon.  The Demon Music Group label has recently followed its series of Kiki's Rocket albums with a deluxe, expanded edition of her most recent release: 2013's collaboration with singer/songwriter/guitarist Carmelo Luggeri, A Place Where I Can Go.  The original 11-track album has been expanded with an entire second disc of previously unreleased bonus material. Kiki Dee first joined in performance with

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Pop Tags: Carmelo Luggeri, Kiki Dee

A Friend In Me: Randy Newman's "Toy Story" Up Next in Disney's Legacy Collection

June 26, 2015 By Randy Fairman 2 Comments

Legacy Collection Toy Story

Walt Disney Records' Legacy Collection marches on.  The next project in the series spotlights a movie of relatively more recent vintage than some of the other releases this year.  Celebrating its 20th anniversary, Toy Story will be the recipient of the 2-CD soundtrack treatment which is due out on July 10. Who would have thought in 1995, just one year after Disney's blockbuster The Lion King that the direction of the animated studio would be forever altered by a computer-animated film

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Randy Newman

Meet Me Down in Soulville: Numero Unearths The Royal Jesters' "English Oldies"

June 26, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Royal Jester English Oldies

To residents of San Antonio, Texas, The Royal Jesters are hometown heroes.  To even the most astute music fans outside of the San Antonio region, the vocal group might be all but unknown.  Thanks to Chicago's Numero Group reissue specialists, however, The Royal Jesters have gotten a big break.  The group founded by high school pals Oscar Lawson, Henry Hernandez, Mike Pedraza and Louis Escalante in 1958 continued to perform and record through 1977, with sporadic reunions after that.  Their sound

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: The Royal Jesters

Long Live Love: RPM Collects Sixties Sound of The Stormsville Shakers

June 25, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Stormsville Shakers

Phillip Goodhand-Tait has had his songs recorded by artists ranging from Gene Pitney to Roger Daltrey and has also fronted a number of bands in his many decades in the music industry.  Cherry Red Group imprint RPM has collected 27 tracks by singer-musician-songwriter Goodhand-Tait, solo and with his bands The Stormsville Shakers and Circus as One and One is Two: Complete Recordings 1965-1967. Born in Hull, East Riding of Yorkshire, England, Goodhand-Tait began his music career while still in

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Phillip Goodhand-Tait, The Stormsville Shakers

Here They Grow Again: Varese Premieres Expanded "Gremlins 2" Soundtrack

June 23, 2015 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Gremlins 2

Varese Sarabande remembered the rules when announcing their latest Soundtrack Club release--a surprise expansion of Jerry Goldsmith's madcap horror-comedy score to Gremlins 2: The New Batch--informing customers Monday morning instead of after midnight, sparing buyers from a horde of anarchic green beasts. Released 25 years ago in 1990, Gremlins 2 may be one of the most brazen sequels ever put forth by a major Hollywood studio. Joe Dante's delicious original film, written by Chris Columbus and

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Jerry Goldsmith

In Memoriam: Back Tracks - James Horner (1953-2015)

June 23, 2015 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

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We're deeply saddened to share the news of the tragic and unexpected death of film composer James Horner whose stirring melodies have thrilled, excited and inspired generations of moviegoers on films like Aliens, Avatar, An American Tail, Honey, I Shrunk the Kids, and of course, Titanic.  Back on March 8, 2010, our own Mike Duquette paid tribute to the Horner legacy with a special installment of Back Tracks.  In memory of Mr. Horner and his immense contributions to cinema and music, we're

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: James Horner

Release Round-Up: Week of June 23

June 23, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Rolling Stones Marquee Club

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a vintage live concert from The Rolling Stones in a variety of formats, an all-star salute to the great Carole King, a rare soundtrack from a beloved performer to a classic children's film, and much, much more! The Rolling Stones, From the Vault: The Marquee Club Live in 1971 (Eagle Rock) DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. SD Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. SD Blu-ray + CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. TBD DVD + CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Carl Hall, Carole King, Jerry Garcia, Rickie Lee Jones, Rod McKuen, The Lover Speaks, The Rolling Stones, The Royal Jesters

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