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Something Beautiful Remains: Tina Turner’s Penultimate Studio Album ‘Wildest Dreams’ Gets Deluxe Reissue

April 20, 2026 by Joe Marchese | 8 Comments

Tina Turner’s long-running series of expanded editions continues on June 26 from Parlophone with a new 30th anniversary 4CD/1Blu-ray edition of the late superstar’s 1996 album – and ninth solo studio release, overall – Wildest Dreams. The stylistically varied LP was helmed by a number of producers including Trevor Horn, Terry Britten, Nellee Hooper, and Pet Shop Boys and Chris Porter. Adorned with a warm cover photo of a beaming Turner, Wildest Dreams included collaborations with Sting and Antonio Banderas; the title track “Wildest Dreams” would later be re-recorded as a duet…

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Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD

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Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Barry White, Tina Turner, U2

Fit for a Queen: Tina Turner’s Singles Feature on New Deluxe Compilation

September 28, 2023 by Mike Duquette | 5 Comments

Even before but especially after her explosive pop comeback in the 1980s, Tina Turner more than earned the mantle of Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll. This fall, a new career-spanning compilation from Rhino will reaffirm that title, with 55 of her singles (and a few rarities) on one album. Queen of Rock ‘n’ Roll, due November 24, spans Tina’s 1975 cover of Led Zeppelin’s “Whole Lotta Love” – issued on Acid Queen, her second solo album (and last before escaping her physically and emotionally abusive relationship with former husband and creative partner…

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Barry White, Bryan Adams, David Bowie, Eric Clapton, Rod Stewart, Tina Turner

The Weekend Stream: July 29, 2023

July 29, 2023 by Mike Duquette | 3 Comments

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) / Archive #2 (1976 – 1992) (Atlantic/Rhino/Craft) Archive #1: iTunes / Amazon…

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The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Everything Else, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock

The Weekend Stream: April 1, 2023

April 1, 2023 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there’s plenty of great new/old music to usher you into the weekend. Our latest round-up may be on April Fool’s Day, but it’s no joke: remixes by Madonna, rarities by Burt Bacharach and Peggy Lee, a White Stripes live set and the first major Barry White production are all here. Happy streaming! Madonna, Nothing Really Matters (Remixes) (Warner/Rhino) (iTunes / Amazon) Madonna closed the Ray of Light album cycle with…

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The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks

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Ashanti, Barry White, Bobby Darin, Burt Bacharach, Carly Simon, Cissy Houston, Debbie Gibson, Jack White, Joel Grey, Lil Wayne, Love Unlimited, Madonna, Nat King Cole, Peggy Lee, Petula Clark, Rupert Holmes, Stephanie Mills, The White Stripes

The Weekend Stream: February 12, 2022

February 12, 2022 by Mike Duquette | 4 Comments

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there’s plenty of great new/old music to discover! Michael Giacchino, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack/Expanded Edition) (Walt Disney Records) (iTunes / Amazon) A genuine, out-of-nowhere surprise: a generous expansion of Oscar-winner Giacchino’s score to the first Disney-era Star Wars spin-off in 2016, about the ragtag group of Rebels who stole the plans for the Death Star right before the original movie. The composer subtly mixes…

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The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Country, Disco/Dance, Folk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Barry White, , David Lasley, Doc Severinsen, Dr. John, Hank Williams, John Williams, Lobo, Meat Loaf, Meco, Michael Giacchino, Otis Redding, Richard Thompson, Roberta Flack, Shaun Murphy, Sting, Stoney and Meatloaf, Suzanne Vega

Na Na Na Na Na: Minky Records Celebrates East L.A. Chicano Soul and More on “Land of 1,000 Dances” Box

October 22, 2019 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

The sound of East Los Angeles is spreading far and wide with the November 29 release of a new 4-CD box set. Land of 1,000 Dances: The Rampart Records Complete Singles Collection, which arrives on Black Friday’s Record Store Day, offers a comprehensive overview of the groundbreaking Mexican-American rock coming out of East L.A. between 1961 and 1991 on Eddie Davis’ Rampart label. The Minky Records release is limited to 1,000 units. Minky has previously mined the Rampart family of labels via single-CD collections dedicated to a pair of artists that appeared…

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News

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Box Sets, CD

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Disco/Dance, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul

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Barry White, Cannibal and The Headhunters, Eastside Connection, Ron Holden, The Village Callers, Various Artists

Release Round-Up: Week of April 5

April 5, 2019 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! David Bowie, Spying Through a Keyhole: Demos and Unreleased Songs (Parlophone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Spying Through a Keyhole: Demos and Unreleased Songs is the new box set with four seven-inch vinyl singles of some of Bowie’s earliest material. It will feature nine rare, monaural recordings, including mostly solo vocal-and-guitar versions of familiar songs (“Space Oddity” in its earliest known version, “London Bye Ta Ta,” “In The Heat Of The Morning”) as well as the heretofore-unknown “Love All Around,” a lyric of which…

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News

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Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Barry White, David Bowie, Don Felder, Ian Hunter, Love Unlimited Orchestra, Meat Loaf, Mike + the Mechanics, New Order, Reba McEntire, The Searchers, Todd Rundgren, Utopia

Love’s Themes: Barry White’s Love Unlimited Orchestra To Receive New Box Set, Vinyl Reissues

February 13, 2019 by The Second Disc | 5 Comments

After an astounding 2018 for Barry White reissues, including a box of remastered albums as well as complete singles sets for not only himself but girl group Love Unlimited and backing group The Love Unlimited Orchestra, UMe is preparing more “White gold” for fans next month. This time, The Love Unlimited Orchestra’s first seven albums will be collected as The 20th Century Records Albums (1973-1979) on March 29. White sumptuous arrangements for the orchestra were readily apparent on his own solo smashes, but it was with the Love Unlimited Orchestra that he…

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News

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Box Sets, CD, Vinyl

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Disco/Dance, Everything Else, Pop, R&B/Soul

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Barry White, Love Unlimited, Love Unlimited Orchestra

Release Round-Up: Week of October 26

October 26, 2018 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! The Kinks, The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society [Various Formats] (BMG) 5CD/3LP/3-7″ Box Set: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Kinks are going back to the Village Green – and it’s grown quite a bit in size! The band’s legendary fifth album, 1968’s The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society, is reissued from BMG Rights Management in a massive new box set produced by Andrew Sandoval. The new box will boast 3 LPs, 5…

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Release Round-Up

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Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Barry White, Chicago, David Crosby, Diana Ross, Gwen Stefani, Mike Love, Pixies, Semisonic, The Beach Boys, The Kinks, William Shatner

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

September 10, 2018 by Joe Marchese | 10 Comments

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 White’s distinguished career, featuring the soulful maestro at his most lush…

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News

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Box Sets, CD, Vinyl

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R&B/Soul

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Barry White

Release Round-Up: Week of June 15

June 15, 2018 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Rolling Stones, The Studio Albums Vinyl Collection 1971-2016 (UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This massive, limited edition vinyl box set collects the legendary band’s 15 studio albums from Sticky Fingers (1971) to Blue and Lonesome (2016) on 20 meticulously-recreated LPs with original art elements, inserts, and more. Each album, pressed on 180-gram vinyl, has been remastered and cut at half-speed at Abbey Road Studios from vinyl-specific tape transfers. In addition, each album will include a download card for HD digital files. The box…

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Release Round-Up

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Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Barry White, Gene Clark, Kirsty MacColl, Love Unlimited, The Allman Brothers Band, The Cure, The Killers, The Rolling Stones, The Rose Garden

Under The Influence of Love: Two Barry White-Associated Groups Get New Compilations

June 11, 2018 by Joe Marchese | 5 Comments

This Friday, Mercury and UMe will unveil the second round of collections this year celebrating the late Barry White. The series kicked off earlier this year with The Complete 20th Century Singles (1973-1979) on CD, The 20th Century Singles (1973-1979) on vinyl, and Love’s Theme: The Best of the 20th Century Singles on CD. Now, the labels are looking to Love Unlimited – the vocal trio and the orchestra – for another pair of releases. Love Unlimited, the vocal group, was formed in 1969 by White’s future wife Glodean James, her sister…

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Box Sets, CD, Vinyl

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Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul

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Barry White

Release Round-Up: Week of April 20

April 20, 2018 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! The Who, Live at the Fillmore East 1968 (UMe) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Who’s April 6, 1968 concert from New York’s Fillmore East gets its first-ever official release just in time for its 50th anniversary. For the occasion, it’s been restored and fully remixed from the original four-track tapes by longtime Who engineer Bob Pridden, who was responsible for the mix heard that night in the Fillmore East. The 2-CD iteration of…

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Release Round-Up

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Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Reggae, Rock, Soundtracks

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Barry White, Cheech and Chong, Donna Summer, Gladiators, Neil Young, Pat Suzuki, Pete Townshend, Shaggy, Sting, The Feelies, The Flaming Lips, The Who, Todd Rundgren, Utopia, Yung Wu

Oh, What a Groove: Barry White’s 20th Century Sides Compiled On New Sets

February 14, 2018 by Mike Duquette | 16 Comments

Barry White’s final album, released in 1999, was fittingly titled Staying Power–and with a career that stretched across three decades and produced some of the most enduring pop-soul of the disco era and beyond, it’s as good as any a description for the late, great White’s discography. Just in time for Valentine’s Day, UMe puts fans in the mood for love with an assortment of new compilations devoted to his tenure on 20th Century Records Born Barry Eugene Carter in Galveston, Texas, the impossibly deep-voiced singer-songwriter-arranger was a teenage gang member jailed…

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News

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Box Sets, CD, Vinyl

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Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul

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Barry White, Love Unlimited Orchestra

Christmas Joy: Real Gone Kicks off the Holidays with Four Seasons and More in October

August 14, 2015 by Randy Fairman | 2 Comments

It may be hard to believe, but the holiday season will be here sooner than we think! To prove that point, Real Gone Music is getting Christmas started early with its October slate of releases featuring five yuletide gems along with three titles good for year-round enjoyment. This batch of Christmas classics kicks off with the 4 Seasons’ The 4 Seasons Greetings, continuing Real Gone’s series of mono Seasons reissues which began in September. Next, you’ve got holiday tunes from crooner and actor John Gary with his lone RCA Christmas LP. Rounding out…

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Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Barry White, Frankie Valli, George Melachrino, Jay Dee, John Gary, The Beckies, The Four Seasons, The Grateful Dead, The Soulful Strings, The Three Suns

Movin’, Kickin’, Groovin’: A Barry White Classic Expanded by Hip-o Select

January 24, 2012 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

Hip-o Select turns its focus away from Motown for some more satin soul from the inimitable Barry White, with a nicely-expanded release of his 1976 LP Let the Music Play. By the time the title track from the album – an underrated plea for music to soothe the pain of a lost love over some of the lushest strings from The Love Unlimited Orchestra – was released as a single in late 1975, White was virtually his own brand. He’d recently come off a triplet of Top 10 singles in 1974…

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