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March 2, 2018 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring three new titles from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music, and much, much more! Johnny Mathis, Raindrops Keep Fallin' on My Head: Expanded Edition (Second Disc/Real Gone)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Johnny Mathis' 1970 album - featuring the songs of Bacharach and David, Paul Simon, Jimmy Webb, George Harrison and others - gets its first-ever expanded CD reissue from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music.  And

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Country, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Reggae, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Axe, Bert Kaempfert, Burt Bacharach, Charles Wright, Debbie Reynolds, Jackie DeShannon, Jethro Tull, Johnny Mathis, Ken Boothe, Pet Shop Boys, Phyllis Dillon, The King's Singers, The Oak Ridge Boys, The Sherman Brothers

February 28, 2018 By Joe Marchese 10 Comments

Today, the music of Johnny Mathis is more vibrant than ever.  The eternally youthful "voice of romance" gained a whole new generation of fans in 2017 with an album featuring his recordings of future standards by Adele, Bruno Mars, and Pharrell Williams.  At the dawn of the 1970s, Mathis was celebrating the great songwriters of that day, too.  This Friday, March 2, Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music are proud to kick off a new series celebrating the legendary artist's classic albums of the

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Bert Kaempfert, Burt Bacharach, Johnny Mathis

January 18, 2018 By Joe Marchese 19 Comments

In a career spanning over 60 years, the music of Johnny Mathis is more vibrant than ever.  The eternally youthful "voice of romance" gained a whole new generation of fans in 2017 with a new album featuring his recordings of future standards by Adele, Bruno Mars, and Pharrell Williams.  At the dawn of the 1970s, Mathis was celebrating the great songwriters of that day, too.  On March 2, Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music are proud to kick off a new series celebrating the legendary Johnny

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Bert Kaempfert, Burt Bacharach, Johnny Mathis

December 16, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Earlier this year, Cherry Red's él imprint collected Anita Kerr and Rod McKuen's classic "mood music" trilogy The Sea/The Earth/The Sky in one compact box set.  Now, él has turned its attention to another set of engaging albums from the vast Anita Kerr discography.  The Five Classic Warner Brothers Albums 1966-1968 brings together The Anita Kerr Orchestra's 1966 And Now...The Anita Kerr Orchestra!  and The Anita Kerr Singers' four subsequent Warner LPs in one package. Tennessee-born Anita

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop Tags: Anita Kerr, Bert Kaempfert

September 30, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Cherry Red's El imprint has recently turned its attention to a trio of disparate composer-conductors.  Happy Sounds Forever reissues the 1963 album from James Last, the king of "happy music," and adds selections from the catalogue of Bert Kaempfert ("Strangers in the Night") to round out the disc.  On the other end of the spectrum, the label also has The Fantasy Film World of Bernard Herrmann, a collection dedicated to film score maestro and Alfred Hitchcock's most notable musical

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Soundtracks Tags: Bernard Herrmann, Bert Kaempfert, James Last

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