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Release Round-Up: Week of February 23

February 23, 2024 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

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. Davy Jones, The Bell Records Story (7a) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 7a Records reissues and expands the late Davy Jones’ second solo LP, 1971’s Davy Jones as part of the artist’s The Bell Records Story. The album was in a sunshine pop-meets-bubblegum vein, but it carried on the spirit of the early Monkees with strong tunes including some from songwriters who had written for the group (David…

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

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

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Blood Sweat and Tears, Davy Jones, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Jools Holland, Kim Wilde, Kissing the Pink, Melissa Manchester, Michael Feinstein, Natalie Douglas, Neil Young, Rod Stewart, The Dream Academy, The Waterboys

Release Round-Up: Week of April 21

April 21, 2023 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today! Philip Bailey, State of the Heart: The Columbia Recordings (1983-1988) (SoulMusic/Cherry Red) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) State of the Heart celebrates the timeless voice of Earth, Wind & Fire’s Philip Bailey with expanded editions of his three solo LPs for Columbia Records in the ’80s: 1983’s Continuation, 1984’s Chinese Wall (including the mega-hit Phil Collins duet “Easy Lover”) and 1986’s Inside Out. The set features eight bonus tracks, including rare dance remixes and a few soundtrack songs…

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

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

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Blood Sweat and Tears, Everything But the Girl, Ian Hunter, Jethro Tull, Phil Collins, Philip Bailey

What Goes Up Must Come Down: New Documentary, Soundtrack Explore Blood, Sweat and Tears’ 1970 Iron Curtain Tour

March 2, 2023 by Joe Marchese | 6 Comments

What the Hell Happened to Blood, Sweat and Tears? That’s the question posed by award-winning filmmaker John Scheinfeld (The U.S. vs. John Lennon, Herb Alpert Is…) in an upcoming documentary film exploring the band’s controversial State Department-sponsored trip behind the Iron Curtain in 1970. On April 21, Omnivore Recordings will release the soundtrack to the film on CD and digital formats as well as a digital-only companion of its instrumental score. Though the horn-rock band founded by Al Kooper, Steve Katz, Bobby Colomby, Jim Fielder, Dick Halligan, Randy Brecker, and Jerry Weiss…

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Classic Rock, Pop, Soundtracks

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Blood Sweat and Tears

We Were Half A Million Strong: Massive Woodstock Collection Arrives in High-Resolution Digital Formats

August 17, 2020 by Sam Stone | 3 Comments

Fifty-one years ago this past weekend, a crowd of half a million converged at Max Yasgur’s Farm in Bethel, New York for the Woodstock Music and Art Fair. The four-day event became a cultural touchstone and mythical ideal, strengthened even more by the Woodstock film and soundtracks that proliferated the marketplace during the early ’70s and beyond. While performers, fans, and countless supposed attendees participated in even more myth-building, a small group of historians and researchers worked to piece together what really happened. Last year, a decade-long dive into Woodstock tape vaults…

Run Back to Mama: Ace’s “Horn Rock” Anthology Features Chase, Blood Sweat and Tears, Delaney and Bonnie, More

August 15, 2019 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

The new collection on Ace Records’ BGP imprint packs a mighty punch. That’s because it’s dedicated to Horn Rock (with the equally-important subtitle And Funky Guitar Grooves), that boldest and brassiest of rock subgenres. The phrase “horn rock” immediately brings to mind the sound popularized by Chicago and Blood, Sweat & Tears (only one of which is represented here) but the added colors afforded by horns were applied to recordings in the baroque-rock, art-rock, psych-rock, and jazz-rock idioms, just to name a few. This 17-track sampler from artists both unfamiliar and unknown…

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News, Reviews

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CD, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul

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Al Kooper, Blood Sweat and Tears, Chase, Delaney and Bonnie, The Electric Flag, The Flock, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, The Sons of Champlin, Tower of Power, Various Artists

Try and Get My Soul Free: Full Sets from Woodstock Festival Emerge on Digital and Streaming Services

August 5, 2019 by Sam Stone | 7 Comments

For fans of Woodstock, Friday was a big day. For the physical media-minded, the giant 38-CD/1-Blu-ray box began shipping out, and Craft’s standalone Creedence Clearwater Revival Live At Woodstock album was released. Those who may have been unable to purchase the big set have reason to rejoice as several individual acts’ sets from Woodstock have begun to pop up on digital download and streaming services. Last week saw the release of Woodstock recordings from Tim Hardin; Melanie; Mountain; Blood, Sweat & Tears; and Sha Na Na (whose set is missing one unrecorded…

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Classic Rock, Folk, Pop

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Blood Sweat and Tears, Joan Baez, Melanie, Mountain, Sha Na Na, Tim Hardin

Rhino’s 10-CD Woodstock Set “Back To the Garden: The 50th Anniversary Experience” Delivers the Goods

July 31, 2019 by Sam Stone | 7 Comments

Fifty years ago this summer, more than 400,000 fans convened at Max Yasgur’s farm for a music festival that would come to define not only the era, but the entire ethos of music festivals to come. With every passing decade, the magic of Woodstock has been celebrated and, indeed, re-marketed to new generations of music fans. The ’90s saw two new Woodstock-branded festivals and an array of 25th anniversary products, including a compilation called Woodstock Diary and a 4-CD box set. To mark the festival’s 40th anniversary in 2009, yet another box…

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Blues, Classic Rock, Folk, R&B/Soul

The Monkees, Yardbirds, Andy Williams, 5th Dimension Featured On “Songs of Harry Nilsson”

August 11, 2017 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

Randy Newman once observed of his friend Harry Nilsson, “The records Harry made, and the first records I made, it was like The Rolling Stones never existed.” Indeed, before his famously chronicled lifestyle as a Hollywood hellraiser threatened to overshadow his reputation as a talent nonpareil (and left his once-angelic voice in tatters), Nilsson had carved out an artful niche of wit and whimsy. He expressed his musical muse in gentle psychedelia, baroque pop, folk rock, vaudeville pastiche, and bossa nova, and paid beautiful homage to his artistic inspirations including Newman and…

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Al Kooper, Andy Williams, Blood Sweat and Tears, Harry Nilsson, Sandie Shaw, The 5th Dimension, The Monkees, The Yardbirds, Various Artists

Release Round-Up: Week of July 29

July 29, 2016 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! The Archies, Sugar, Sugar: The Complete Albums Collection (Cleopatra) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) At long last! The complete albums of The Archies are being assembled in one 5-CD box set by Cleopatra Records. You’ll find The Archies, Everything’s Archie, Jingle Jangle, Sunshine and This Is Love each in a mini-LP replica sleeve, along with a booklet containing new liner notes. Bubblegum never tasted so good as in these top-notch AM radio productions by Jeff Barry and co., featuring Ron Dante, Toni Wine…

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CD, SACD

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

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Blood Sweat and Tears, David Bowie, Gary Wright, Loggins and Messina, The Archies, The Isley Brothers

Review: Blood, Sweat and Tears, “The Complete Columbia Singles”

February 12, 2014 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Blood, Sweat and Tears has much in common with Rodney Dangerfield – they get no respect. Though the band founded by Al Kooper, Steve Katz, Bobby Colomby, Jim Fielder, Dick Halligan, Randy Brecker and Jerry Weiss produced some of the most enduring pop singles of the late 1960s and early 1970s, the group has long lingered in the shadows of rock’s back pages. Eclipsed in fame by Columbia Records labelmates Chicago, plagued by a series of acrimonious departures from the ranks, and pilloried for perceived pro-Nixon views, BS&T has survived primarily as…

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Classic Rock, Pop

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What Goes Up: Blood, Sweat & Tears’ “Rare, Rarer & Rarest” Tracks Come To CD

June 10, 2013 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

What goes up must come down. So sang David Clayton-Thomas in the opening line of his Grammy-winning song “Spinning Wheel,” which became a No. 2 Pop/No. 1 AC in 1969 for Blood, Sweat & Tears. And so went the fortunes of the jazz-rock band itself. The band’s signature rock-with-horns style was soon eclipsed by that of Chicago (Transit Authority), who shared a producer in James William Guercio. But when BS&T was hot, few bands were hotter. Wounded Bird Records is revisiting the group’s peak era with the July 2 release of Rare,…

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Classic Rock, Soundtracks

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Barbra Streisand, Blood Sweat and Tears