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To The Batcave! La-La Land Reissues Nelson Riddle's "Batman" For 50th Anniversary

November 8, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Batman 50th OST

Today, La-La Land announced a new reissue of Nelson Riddle's score to 1966's Batman: The Movie, just in time to celebrate the film's 50th anniversary.  The label premiered its expanded edition of Batman in 2010 (itself an expansion of a prior Film Score Monthly CD) and it proved to be a sold-out success.  Though the same master will be utilized for the upcoming reissue, the 2016 edition features colorful new artwork by Jim Titus, as well as all-new liner notes by John Takis.  The Second Disc

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Neal Hefti, Nelson Riddle

Havana Moon

November 7, 2016 By

Rolling Stones Havana Moon

The Rolling Stones' historic Cuba concert from March 25 earlier this year is released in a variety of formats: Blu-ray/DVD/2 CDs Book-Style Box: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Blu-ray/2-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. DVD/2-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. DVD/3-LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Blu-ray: Amazon U.K. DVD: Amazon U.K.

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Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Rock

Ropin' the Wind: Garth Brooks to Release Target-Exclusive Box

November 7, 2016 By Mike Duquette 14 Comments

Garth Brooks Ultimate Collection and Christmas

Country superstar Garth Brooks is getting into the box set game once more with a 10-disc set exclusively hitting shelves at Target later this month. The Ultimate Collection is a 121-track set that collects Brooks' past and present works across more than 25 years of recording and touring. Seven themed discs feature a plethora of hits, fan favorites and covers (including the unreleased Randy Travis cover "1982"); two live discs feature five unreleased cuts including duets with wife Trisha

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Country Tags: Garth Brooks, Trisha Yearwood

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

Accentuate The Positive: Capitol Records Turns 75, Plans New Vinyl Reissues

November 2, 2016 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

Capitol 75

Capitol Records, the venerable label founded by Johnny Mercer with B.G. DeSylva and Glenn Wallichs and now a unit of Universal Music Group, turns 75 next year.  In celebration of this landmark anniversary, the label has announced three new initiatives. The first of these endeavors is The Capitol Records 75th Anniversary Collection, a series of 75 vinyl reissues from various genres curated by "noted music journalists, authors and other renowned creative figures."  The Beatles are represented

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bobby Darin, Bonnie Raitt, Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Mercer, The Band, The Beach Boys, The Beatles

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

Review: "Unsung Sherman Brothers: Song Scores from Three That Got Away"

November 1, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Unsung Sherman Brothers

How often does one get the opportunity to hear a never-before-released score from one of the most beloved songwriting teams of all time?  How about three unreleased scores, then?  And what if one of those scores featured seven never-before-heard performances from Sammy Davis, Jr.?  Indeed, such opportunities are rare...making Kritzerland's new release of Unsung Sherman Brothers all the more special.  This delectable and tuneful collection premieres rare demo recordings of three unproduced scores

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Sammy Davis Jr., The Sherman Brothers

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

Kritzerland Solves The Swingin' Riddle with Nelson's "Paris When It Sizzles"

October 28, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Paris When It Sizzles OST

Kritzerland is taking listeners to the City of Light with a new 2-CD soundtrack release composed by the legendary Nelson Riddle.  The label is accepting pre-orders now for the world premiere complete release of Riddle's score to Paris When It Sizzles, the 1964 Paramount romantic comedy starring Audrey Hepburn, William Holden, Tony Curtis and Noel Coward. A send-up of moviemaking with a glamorous backdrop, Paris starred Holden as a playboy screenwriter and his real-life old flame Hepburn as

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Nelson Riddle

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

Strange Days: Early Doors Show Arrives In December On "London Fog 1966"

October 27, 2016 By Joe Marchese 12 Comments

The Doors London Fog 1966

Rhino Records and Bright Midnight Archives are opening new doors onto the early days of The Doors with a CD/LP box set due on December 9.  London Fog 1966 captures Jim Morrison, Ray Manzarek, Robby Krieger and John Densmore at The London Fog, a Sunset Strip bar located steps away from the Whisky a Go Go.  This live gig, only recently discovered, marks the earliest known live recordings of the band, and kicks off The Doors' 50th anniversary celebration of 2017 - the year of their

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock Tags: The Doors

Ave Varese: "The Omen," "Scream 2" Expanded For CD

October 27, 2016 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

The Omen 40th OST

With Halloween just around the corner, Varese Sarabande Records has scared up a pair of fantastic horror soundtrack reissues for its CD Club! One of the label's most famous soundtrack releases comes back for more! Jerry Goldsmith's score to The Omen gets a brand-new overhaul for its 40th anniversary. Richard Donner's classic thriller stars Gregory Peck as an ambassador to England who realizes only too late that his son Damien--an orphan adopted in secret when his own child was stillborn--is

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Jerry Goldsmith, Marco Beltrami

The Ballad of the Boy in the Red Box: Elton John Vinyl Set Coming from Burberry

October 27, 2016 By Mike Duquette 8 Comments

Elton John Burberry Box

Elton John is looking back on part of his catalogue on vinyl with a very unusual partner--British luxury fashion house Burberry. Elton's longtime passion for and collaboration with Burberry (he appeared in an ad campaign for the brand in 2015) will be commemorated by a special box of six of his albums on 180-gram vinyl, at a limited run of only 800 copies. Each LP has been remastered from the original tapes by Bob Ludwig and lacquers have been cut at Abbey Road Studios. The gold

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Elton John

Feeling This: Classic Blink-182 Albums Collected In Vinyl Box

October 25, 2016 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Blink 182 Box

Looking for the perfect holiday gift for the pop-punk fan in your life? UMe has you covered with a 10LP box set devoted to one of the genre's best bands: Blink-182. The simply titled Blink-182 Box Set features all seven of the group's albums released between 1995 and 2011. This includes the long out-of-print live set The Mark, Tom & Travis Show (which featured the studio single "Man Overboard" and a whole lot of bathroom humor in its onstage banter) and the deluxe edition of Neighborhoods,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Blink-182

Let's Go Crazy: NPG/Warner Bros. Announce "Prince 4Ever" Compilation

October 21, 2016 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Prince 4Ever

Readers of The Second Disc have had to cope with some powerful losses in the pantheon of music greats, and few losses were bigger than that of Prince this past spring. His death propelled multiple albums and compilations into the Billboard charts, including the single-disc overview The Very Best of Prince, which topped the charts 15 years after it was released. In time for the holidays, the first posthumous Prince collection, Prince 4Ever, was announced today by NPG Records and Warner Bros.

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Prince

Release Round-Up: Week of October 21

October 21, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Lazarus OCR

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up - one of the year's biggest! Frank Sinatra, World on a String (Capitol/UMe)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K./ Amazon Canada) Featuring performances spanning 1953 to 1982, this new live collection boasts more than four hours' worth of rare audio and video from the legendary Chairman of the Board - over 90 tracks on CD alone including such Sinatra favorites as "I Get a Kick Out of You," "I've Got You Under My Skin," "The Lady is a Tramp," "Witchcraft"

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bette Midler, David Bowie, David Crosby, Donna Fargo, Dr. John, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Frankie Valli, Leonard Cohen, Miles Davis, The Pretenders, Tony Hadley

Turn Off The Lights: BBR Goes Philly with Teddy Pendergrass, Edwin Birdsong

October 17, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Teddy Pendergrass Teddy

Cherry Red’s Big Break Records imprint has turned back the clock to 1979 for a pair of titles from the legendary roster of Philadelphia International Records. BBR has continued its journey through the catalogue of the late Teddy Pendergrass with an expanded reissue of his third PIR solo platter, simply entitled Teddy.  Overseen by Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff, the 1979 album followed in the footsteps of its predecessor, the previous year’s R&B chart-topper Life Is a Song Worth Singing, in

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Edwin Birdsong, Teddy Pendergrass

Queen On Air: The Complete BBC Sessions

October 15, 2016 By

Queen On Air

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 6CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Queen On Air: The Complete BBC Sessions will be available in a variety of formats (2 CDs, 6 CDs or 3 LPs) collecting just about every note by the band ever transmitted over the airwaves in their native country. Only a small handful of these performances have ever been released, and their place in the band's history is hard to dispute, predating their first studio album.

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

Boys For Pele: 20th Anniversary Edition

October 15, 2016 By

Tori Amos Boys for Pele

2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. This expanded edition of Tori Amos' third album, Boys for Pele, will feature new liner notes penned by Amos and a 21-track bonus disc of demos, B-sides and alternate versions, four of which ("To the Fair Motormaids of Japan," "Sucker," a remix of "Talula" and an alternate take of "In the Springtime of His Voodoo") are previously unreleased. A double vinyl reissue of the original album will also be available.

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Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Rock

Badmotorfinger [Various Editions]

October 15, 2016 By

Soundgarden Badmotorfinger Cover

Super Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. This seven disc set - four CDs, two DVDs and a Blu-ray - expanded the rockers' third album to staggering proportions.  Astoundingly, much of Badmotorfinger's deluxe content has never been released before. You get the remastered album, a disc of studio outtakes (with just one released track, a version of "New Damage" with Queen guitarist Brian May), a

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Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Rock

Acoustic Christmas

October 14, 2016 By

Neil Diamond Acoustic Christmas

Neil Diamond reunites with producers Don Was and Jacknife Lee (from his 2014 Capitol album Melody Road) for this all-new Christmas collection featuring intimate, stripped-down versions of classic carols including "O Holy Night," "Do You Hear What I Hear," "Go Tell It on the Mountain," and "Silent Night."  A vinyl release follows on November 18.  Target has an exclusive edition with two extra songs: "We Three Kings" and Diamond's original "# 1 Christmas Record."

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Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Holiday

A Thousand Years Wide: Soundgarden Expand "Badmotorfinger" in a Big Way

October 14, 2016 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Soundgarden Badmotorfinger Cover

When news first broke that Soundgarden were planning a 25th anniversary edition of their third album, 1991’s Badmotorfinger, it was almost hard to imagine what extra content would be included. After all, 2014’s Echo of Miles: Scattered Tracks Along the Path had compiled just about all of the group’s B-sides across three discs. Well, with the grunge explosion celebrated heavily in the Soundgarden-adjacent camp (box sets devoted to Mother Love Bone and Temple of the Dog are among 2016’s bigger

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Rock Tags: Soundgarden

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