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March 20, 2025 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Sheena Easton Modern Girl

Sheena Easton's latest reissue collaboration with Cherry Red covers familiar ground in a slightly new way. Modern Girl: The Complete EMI Recordings, Vol. 1 is a 5CD set that will cover the bulk of the Scottish singer's first five albums - Take My Time (1981), You Could Have Been with Me (1981), Madness, Money and Music (1982), Best Kept Secret (1983) and the Spanish-language hits album Todo Me Recuerda a Ti (1984) - while also premiering more than two dozen unreleased tracks. The set, available

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop Tags: Al Jarreau, Kenny Rogers, Sheena Easton

February 3, 2025 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Everybody is a Star The Sly Stone Songbook

A timely new collection will pay tribute to the work of Sly & The Family Stone through a diverse group of covers and rarely-heard singles written and produced by the group's iconic frontman for others. Everybody is a Star - The Sly Stone Songbook is the latest entry in Ace Records' Songwriter Series, chronicling some of the greatest modern songwriters of the last century. Naturally, the man born Sylvester Stewart is a prime candidate for such an overview. His mix of R&B, funk, pop and

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Al Jarreau, Diana Ross, Gene Harris, Iggy Pop, Ike Turner, Jeff Buckley, Sly and the Family Stone, Sly Stone, The Five Stairsteps, The Jackson 5, The Three Degrees, Tina Turner

December 6, 2024 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Laura Nyro Hear My Song

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles out today.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Laura Nyro, Hear My Song: The Collection 1966-1995 (Madfish) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Madfish) Over three years after the release of its 8LP vinyl box set American Dreamer 1967-1978, the Madfish label is returning to the discography of late singer-songwriter Laura Nyro for the 19CD box set Hear My Song: The

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Al Jarreau, Bill Evans, Bing Crosby, Christopher Cross, Flamin' Groovies, Henry Mancini, Jesse Malin, Laura Nyro, Lucinda Williams, Melanie, Nancy Wilson, Roxette, The Blasters, The Rolling Stones

November 8, 2024 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Whitney South Africa

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today.  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Whitney Houston, The Concert for a New South Africa (Durban) (Arista/Legacy) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Legacy Recordings, in collaboration with Whitney Houston's estate, will release the late artist's The Concert for a New South Africa (Durban).  The CD and

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Al Jarreau, Albert Hammond, Art Garfunkel, Art Garfunkel Jr, Judy Collins, Melanie, Miles Davis, Paul Carrack, Pete Townshend, Rachel Fuller, Steve Perry, Talking Heads, The Cowsills, Whitney Houston

October 16, 2023 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Sheena Easton Madness Money and Music

Sheena Easton's formidable catalogue has been enjoying an overhaul from Cherry Red's Cherry Pop imprint which has so far encompassed lavish expanded editions of Take My Time and A Private Heaven, the debut of Live at the Palace, Hollywood; an EMI singles collection; and more.  Now, Easton's third album - 1982's Madness, Money, and Music - has received the deluxe CD/DVD treatment, shedding some much-needed light on this often-overlooked LP. Madness, Money, and Music, titled for the edgy lament

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Categories: News Formats: CD, DVD Genre: Pop Tags: Al Jarreau, Kenny Rogers, Sheena Easton

July 29, 2023 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Stream 2023

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to float you into the weekend. Big things happening in this column: two big box sets from a legendary prog-turned-pop outfit, rare mixes from one of pop's most legendary performers, tons of remixes from a soulful producer/performer and 200(!) classical titles from a legendary British label. Whew! Genesis, Archive #1 (1969 - 1975) /

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Everything Else, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: ABC, Al Jarreau, Ashford and Simpson, Babyface, Barry Manilow, Barry White, Bruce Springsteen, Chaka Khan, El DeBarge, Genesis, Gloria Estefan, James Ingram, Madonna, Mike Rutherford, Miles Davis, Mya, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, Pulp, Quincy Jones, Ray Charles, Ronald Isley, Siedah Garrett, Steve Hackett, Stevie Wonder, Tevin Campbell, The Art of Noise, Tony Banks

May 4, 2023 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Arthur Baker CD box

Demon Music Group scored a real coup in 2021 with the release of Dance Masters: Shep Pettibone (The Classic Master Mixes), a box set devoted to the stellar late '80s and early '90s remixer. The branding on the set indicated that Dance Masters was to be a series, presented by another remixing great: American DJ/producer Arthur Baker. Now, two years later, another Dance Masters set is forthcoming, focused on the work of Baker himself. Dance Masters: Arthur Baker (The Classic Dance Remixes), due

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Electronic, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock Tags: Afrika Bambaataa, Al Green, Al Jarreau, Arthur Baker, Atlantic Starr, Bob Dylan, Carly Simon, Cyndi Lauper, Daryl Hall, Daryl Hall and John Oates, Fine Young Cannibals, Fleetwood Mac, General Public, Jeffrey Osborne, Jennifer Holliday, Jermaine Stewart, Junie Morrison, Living in a Box, Neneh Cherry, New Order, Pet Shop Boys, Robbie Nevil, Roberta Flack, Talking Heads, The Cars, Various Artists

December 13, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

City Heat OST

Congratulations!!  The following 10 entrants have won a copy of Varese Vintage's brand-new CD reissue of the City Heat soundtrack 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 giveaways! Our winners

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Categories: Giveaways!, News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Al Jarreau, Eloise Laws, Irene Cara, Joe Williams, Lennie Niehaus

December 2, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

City Heat OST

In recent months, the fine folks at Varese Vintage have been on a roll with a number of soundtrack releases including Foul Play, Roots, The Champ, The Electric Horseman, and most recently for Record Store Day Black Friday, Harry Nilsson's Popeye and Charles Fox and Bob Crewe's Barbarella.  Now, the label has just reissued for the first time on CD the soundtrack to the 1984 crime drama City Heat, featuring music by Lennie Niehaus and performances by Al Jarreau, Eloise Laws, Irene Cara, Joe

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Categories: Giveaways!, News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Al Jarreau, Eloise Laws, Irene Cara, Joe Williams, Lennie Niehaus

January 20, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Al Jarreau Breakin Away

Accompanying the recent releases from The Spinners and Frantique, Big Break Records rounded out its 2015 slate with a pair of titles from Al Jarreau and Rose Royce. Renowned vocalist Al Jarreau made his album debut in 1975 with the Reprise Records release We Got By, a collection of original songs from the jazz-rooted singer.  He followed that effort with Glow, incorporating tracks by a wide range of writers including Elton John, James Taylor and Antonio Carlos Jobim.  Jarreau was slowly but

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Al Jarreau, Rose Royce

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