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May 27, 2022 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

ABBA CD Album Box Set

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of new titles available in stores and online today! ABBA, Album Box Set (Polar/UMe) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Picture Disc Bundle: Official Store To coincide with the arena show ABBA Voyage setting sail in London on May 27, the band's 2021 studio album Voyage will be canonized in a new career-spanning box set featuring every one of the quartet's nine

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, Cassette, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: ABBA, Anna Maria Alberghetti, B.T. Express, Bob Merrill, Def Leppard, Jerry Orbach, Sex Pistols, Sparks, Steve Ellis, Suzi Quatro, Taking Back Sunday

April 29, 2022 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Carnival OBC Reissue

The Grand Imperial Cirque de Paris is coming back to town!  Stage Door Records has announced the latest in its series of Deluxe Edition cast recordings with a 2-CD expanded edition of the original 1961 Broadway Cast Recording of Michael Stewart and Bob Merrill's Carnival!  due on May 27.  The David Merrick production opened at Broadway's Imperial Theatre in April 1961, playing for 719 performances including a transfer to the Winter Garden. Carnival! was based on the 1953 MGM film Lili which

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings Tags: Anna Maria Alberghetti, Bob Merrill, Jerry Orbach, Kaye Ballard

September 25, 2020 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Prince Sign o the Times

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Diana Ross & The Supremes, Sing and Perform Funny Girl (Second Disc/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music) Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records debut Diana Ross & The Supremes Sing and Perform "Funny Girl": The Ultimate Edition, a deluxe 2-CD celebration of the classic 1968 Motown-meets-Broadway gem.  Greatly building upon the digital-only Expanded Edition issued in 2014, The Ultimate Edition

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Big Country, Bob Merrill, Chubby Checker, Coolio, Diana Krall, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Jule Styne, Kellee Patterson, Kevin Rowland, Lou Reed, Peggy Lee, Prince, Raymond Scott, Slade, The Rolling Stones, Todd Rundgren

September 24, 2020 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Diana Ross and The Supremes Funny Girl Ultimate

Tomorrow's the day!  Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music are proud to present the worldwide CD premiere of Diana Ross and The Supremes' Sing and Perform "Funny Girl": The Ultimate Edition. Let us take you back in time to 1968, when nobody - no, nobody was gonna rain on their parade. With new member Cindy Birdsong joining Miss Ross and Mary Wilson, the group released no fewer than five albums that year, all of which showcased their extraordinary versatility.  One of those LPs was to be

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Bob Merrill, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Jule Styne

August 5, 2020 By The Second Disc 28 Comments

Diana Ross and The Supremes Funny Girl Ultimate

Nobody - no, nobody was gonna rain on Diana Ross and The Supremes' parade. With new member Cindy Birdsong joining Miss Ross and Mary Wilson, the group released no fewer than five albums in 1968, all of which showcased their extraordinary versatility.  One of those LPs was to be their only full-length tribute to a classic Broadway score - and what a tribute it was from three of Motown's "greatest stars."  Diana Ross & The Supremes Sing and Perform "Funny Girl" featured the group's dynamic

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Bob Merrill, Diana Ross, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Jule Styne, The Supremes

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