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The Weekend Stream: November 30, 2024

November 30, 2024 by Mike Duquette | 3 Comments

Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc’s review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. The Christmas season means favorites (quite) old and (sort of) new, plus Wang Chung’s first album and a rock and hip-hop packed slasher film soundtrack. Band Aid, Do They Know It’s Christmas? EP (Band Aid Trading Limited/UMC) EP: iTunes / Amazon Single Version: iTunes / Amazon Extended Version: iTunes / Amazon Just over four decades from its original recording and release, Band Aid’s “Do They Know It’s Christmas” returns for a…

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Country, Disco/Dance, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks

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Band Aid, Bob Wills, INXS, Jody Miller, Raymond Scott, The Flaming Lips, The Olivia Tremor Control, Wang Chung, Yoko Ono

The Year In Review: The 2021 Gold Bonus Disc Awards, From A to Z – Part Two

January 4, 2022 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

Happy 2022! Welcome, friends, to Part Two of The Second Disc’s 12th Annual Gold Bonus Disc Awards! Once again, we’ve all faced unprecedented challenges over the past twelve months. A year that began with hope and promise has ended with further uncertainty for many of us. But music continues to fill a significant role in our lives, providing solace, comfort, and escape in a time unlike any other. With that spirit in mind, The Second Disc wishes to recognize 2021’s cream of the catalogue music crop – those exemplary reissues and box…

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Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Country, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks

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Barbra Streisand, Bill Evans, Bob Dylan, Bob Wills, David Bowie, Eugene Ormandy, Frank Zappa, Henry Mancini, Kim Wilde, Olivia Newton-John, Shep Pettibone, The Beau Brummels, Trini Lopez, Various Artists

Release Round-Up: Week of April 30

April 30, 2021 by The Second Disc | 4 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Michael Nesmith, Different Drum: The Lost RCA Victor Recordings (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music) For our first release of 2021, Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music take a deep dive into the archives for Michael Nesmith’s Different Drum: The Lost RCA Victor Recordings. This compendium features 22 tracks on CD drawn from the RCA Victor vaults, every one of which is previously unreleased in any physical format. These songs were originally released to digital platforms in 2018 as bonus tracks to…

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

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Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Country, Everything Else, Jazz, R&B/Soul

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Beryl Reid, Bob Wills, Bobby Womack, Chester Thompson, Dickey Betts, Howard Jones, Jerry Herman, Joan Turner, Jon Anderson, Leonard Bernstein, Marianne Faithfull, Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Michael Nesmith, Mick Fleetwood, Pink Floyd, Ronnie Milsap, The Jacksons

A Cowboy’s Dream: Real Gone Music Issues Volume Two of Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys’ “Tiffany Transcriptions”

March 15, 2021 by Randy Fairman | 6 Comments

Bob Wills, The King of Western Swing, is back. Almost seven years ago, Real Gone Music issued Riding Your Way: The Lost Transcriptions for Tiffany Music 1946-1947. “Real Gone has given the royal treatment to the King of Western Swing,” we wrote in assessing the landmark set. Now, the label is returning to Wills’ discography for a second volume. Way Out West: The Lost Transcriptions for Tiffany Music 1946-1947 Volume Two is due on April 30, the same date as Real Gone and Second Disc Records’ release of Michael Nesmith’s Different Drum:…

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Review: Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys, “Riding Your Way: The Lost Transcriptions for Tiffany Music 1946-1947”

August 26, 2014 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

“Pull another chair at the table,” comes the invitation that opens Bob Wills and His Texas Playboys’ Riding Your Way, the new deluxe 2-CD set from Real Gone Music (RGM-0244). “Make room in your heart for a friend,” goes the second song on this collection featuring 50 of the never-before-released Lost Transcriptions for Tiffany Music circa 1946-1947. You’ll want to pull up that chair, and make room for Wills, with this remarkable (and remarkably entertaining) historical find filled with good, old-fashioned cowboy music. Real Gone has given the royal treatment to the…

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