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Release Round-Up: Week of June 10

June 10, 2022 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the titles hitting stores today! Elton John, Madman Across the Water: 50th Anniversary Edition (Rocket/UMe) 3CD/BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Elton John’s 1971 Madman Across the Water receives a new 50th anniversary reissue. Available in three different formats, its most expansive is a 3CD/Blu-ray collection that’ll offer the original album (remastered by Bob Ludwig in 2016), five rare bonus tracks, a dozen solo piano demos, an unreleased full version of outtake “Rock Me When He’s Gone,” Elton’s…

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Release Round-Up

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Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock

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Alfred Drake, Ben Bagley, Bill Anderson, Blossom Dearie, Cab Calloway, Dolly Parton, Elaine Stritch, Elton John, Judy Garland, KISS, Kaye Ballard, Notorious B.I.G., Rufus Wainwright, The Rolling Stones

Changing My Tune: Kritzerland Reissues, Remasters Classic Gershwin, Coward Tributes

April 30, 2019 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Kritzerland is continuing its long-running series of reissues drawn from Ben Bagley’s Painted Smiles archives. The label has just announced new editions of the long out-of-print George Gershwin Revisited and Noel Coward Revisited. George Gershwin Revisited remains one of the starriest releases in the Revisited series, featuring Barbara Cook, Elaine Stritch, Bobby Short, and Anthony Perkins. Keeping with the focus of the series, producer Bagley and musical director-arranger Norman Paris concentrated solely on lesser-known songs from the legendary composer including songs from largely forgotten shows such as La La Lucille, Sweet Little…

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Cast Recordings, Popular Standards/Vocal

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Anthony Perkins, Barbara Cook, Ben Bagley, Bobby Short, Dorothy Loudon, Elaine Stritch, George Gershwin, Hermione Gingold, Noël Coward