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August 17, 2018 By The Second Disc 45 Comments

Dionne Hits and Rarities

From the moment she burst onto the music scene in 1962 exhorting "Don't Make Me Over," Dionne Warwick has been a musical force with which to be reckoned.  The legendary singer blended elegant pop and deeply-felt soul in a fashion which remains unrivaled today for its sophistication and polish; her signature songs like "Walk On By," "I Say a Little Prayer," "Alfie," and "I'll Never Love This Way Again" have all become cornerstones of the new American songbook.   Dionne's remarkable life and

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Categories: News Formats: CD, DVD Genre: Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: Barry Manilow, Burt Bacharach, Dionne Warwick, Hal David, Johnny Mathis

July 27, 2018 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

California Groove 4

Warner Music France is providing a breezy soundtrack for summer with the fourth installment of California Groove.  Arriving seven years after Volume 3, this impressive 6-CD box set is a little bit country, a little bit-rock-and-roll - not to mention filled with pop, lounge, jazz, dance, R&B, soul, and beyond.  It's too eclectic to be filed under "yacht rock," though many of that so-called genre's bright lights are here, including Christopher Cross and Steely Dan.  What it is, however, is a

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop Tags: America, Burt Bacharach, Christopher Cross, James Taylor, Jeff Larson, Nicolette Larson, Steely Dan, Various Artists

May 29, 2018 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Cilla Surround Yourself Two Fer

Surprise, surprise...it's Cilla here!  Cherry Red's Strike Force Entertainment imprint has great news for fans of the late Cilla Black.  On July 27, SFE launches a new reissue campaign dedicated to Cilla's discography with a pair of deluxe, generously expanded 2-CD releases.  These releases coincide with what would have been Cilla's 75th birthday year.  The first set pairs 1969's George Martin-produced Surround Yourself with Cilla with 1976's It Makes Me Feel Good, produced by David Mackay

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Burt Bacharach, Cilla Black, Cliff Richard, The Beatles

March 2, 2018 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Johnny Mathis Bacharach and Kaempfert

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

Johnny Mathis Raindrops

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

Johnny Mathis Bacharach and Kaempfert

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 11, 2017 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Casino Royale 50th

Seven James Bonds at Casino Royale/They came to save the world and win the gal at Casino Royale!  Six of them went to a heavenly spot, the seventh one is going to a place where it's terribly hot... Hal David's lyric captures just a small fraction of the insanity of Charles K. Feldman's 1967 Casino Royale, the big-budget comic extravaganza and cult favorite that was "too much...for one James Bond!"  And so, David Niven as James Bond was joined by 007s of all shapes and sizes (and genders!),

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Categories: Interviews, News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Burt Bacharach, Dusty Springfield, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass

October 25, 2017 By Randy Fairman 9 Comments

Dionne Odds and Ends

We've already told you about Real Gone's reissue of Debby Boone's You Light Up My Life, coming on December 8.  Now, Real Gone has announced two other titles coming soon.  Both feature legendary artists who got their start in the 1960s. First up is Odds & Ends: Scepter Records Rarities, a collection of rarities from Dionne Warwick taken from her time at Scepter Records.  Due on January 12, 2018, it features new liner notes by our very own Joe Marchese based on his brand-new

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Burt Bacharach, Dionne Warwick, Hal David, Jimmy Webb

June 23, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Purple Rain 2017

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Prince, Purple Rain: Music from the Motion Picture (various formats) (Warner Bros.) 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. 3CD/1DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada / Amazon U.K. At long, long last - a deluxe, expanded Purple Rain arrives in various formats, including a 2-CD iteration with 11 previously unreleased outtakes and a 3-CD/1-DVD version adding a third CD of 15 single edits and

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Allen Ginsberg, Burt Bacharach, Elvis Costello, Glenn Morrow, Neil Young, Prince, Radiohead, Willie Nile

May 22, 2017 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Bacharach and Tonio K Demos

On May 12 of this year, Burt Bacharach turned 89 years young.  Since 1952, when he began his career as a professional songwriter with Nat "King" Cole's recording of the instrumental "Once in a Blue Moon," hardly a year has gone by without a new Bacharach song.  Throughout the seven decades in which he's been working, Bacharach has enjoyed fruitful collaborations with not only Hal David, but also Bob Hilliard, Carole Bayer Sager, Elvis Costello, and most recently, Steven Sater.  Now, the

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Bill Champlin, Brian Wilson, Burt Bacharach, Dr. Dre, Tonio K.

November 24, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Rumer This Girls In Love

Happy Thanksgiving!  Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Prince, Prince 4Ever (Warner Bros.) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This release actually came out on Tuesday, but it's worth a reminder here: this first posthumous collection from the late, great artist premieres one previously unreleased track, and includes a number of single versions making their CD debuts.  Prince 4Ever is a 40-track summary of The Artist's major works from his first album, 1978's For You, to

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Burt Bacharach, Elaine Paige, Hal David, Lee Hazlewood, Neil Young, Prince, Ron Dante, Rumer, Santana, Terry Dolan, The Afghan Whigs, Vincent Montana Jr.

August 1, 2016 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Rumer This Girls In Love

I hear the music coming out of your radio... Who's today's foremost young interpreter of the timeless music of Burt Bacharach and Hal David?  Chances are many would answer with one name: Rumer.  On October 21, the singer-songwriter will release her first full-length tribute to the songwriting legends with the debut on Rhino/EastWest of her fourth album, the eagerly-anticipated This Girl's in Love: A Bacharach and David Songbook. In 2010, Rumer released the single Sings Bacharach at

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Burt Bacharach, Hal David, Rumer

July 1, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Delfonics 40 Classic Soul Sides

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up!  We've got the latest release from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music as well as plenty more that we know you won't want to miss! Eddy Arnold, Each Road I Take: The Lee Hazlewood and Chet Atkins Sessions 1970 (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Our newest release brings together two seminal, never-before-reissued albums by Eddy Arnold on one CD, both from 1970. Love and Guitars captured Arnold

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Betty Davis, Brook Benton, Burt Bacharach, Chet Atkins, Davy Jones, Eddy Arnold, Eric Clapton, Harry Nilsson, Kate and Anna McGarrigle, Lee Hazlewood, Micky Dolenz, Miles Davis, Quincy Jones, Sea Level, Survivor, The Delfonics

February 26, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Bowie at the Beeb Vinyl Box

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up filled with deluxe reissues on vinyl and CD, box sets, new releases from veteran artists, and more! Michael Jackson, Off the Wall (Epic/Legacy) CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada CD/BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The King of Pop's 1979 Epic solo debut Off the Wall is revived for 2016 with an additional DVD or BD of Spike Lee's acclaimed new documentary about the making of the album, Michael Jackson's Journey from

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Billy Cobham, Bonnie Raitt, Burt Bacharach, David Bowie, Emmit Rhodes, Herbie Hancock, Michael Jackson, Phil Collins, Stephen Sondheim, Todd Rundgren, Willie Nelson

September 14, 2015 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Elvis Costello Unfaithful Music

"Every day I write the book," sang Elvis Costello on his first U.S. Top 40 hit, and this year he is indeed writing one. The iconoclastic British rocker, who's chased his muse through the most diverse of places, from punk to bluegrass, will let it all out in prose on the hotly anticipated memoir Unfaithful Music & Disappearing Ink. And now, Universal Music Enterprises, the home base for Elvis' catalogue for nearly a decade (following stints at Rykodisc/Demon in the 1990s and Warner

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Allen Toussaint, Burt Bacharach, Elvis Costello, Kris Kristofferson, Rosanne Cash, The Roots

May 1, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Kritzerland 10th1

Happy Birthday, Kritzerland! Ten years ago this month, producer Bruce Kimmel, known for his work at labels including Bay Cities and Varese Sarabande, launched the Kritzerland label.  Since 2005, Kritzerland has released over 150 CDs: classic soundtracks from composers like Burt Bacharach, Henry Mancini, John Barry and John Williams, vintage cast recordings of musicals including stunning remixes of Follies and Promises, Promises, and solo albums by artists such as Sandy Bainum and the elusive

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Soundtracks Tags: Bernard Herrmann, Burt Bacharach, Dimitri Tiomkin, Elmer Bernstein, Henry Mancini, John Barry, John Williams, Marvin Hamlisch, The Sherman Brothers

February 26, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Rumer B Sides

Since making her major label debut in 2010 with Seasons of My Soul, the artist known as Rumer (real name: Sarah Joyce) has made the case that elegantly-crafted adult pop can still be viable in the 21st century. Influenced by Burt Bacharach, Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, Carole King, Stephen Bishop, Jimmy Webb and Paul Williams, Rumer is possessed of a honeyed voice that's most frequently been compared to Karen Carpenter on her three studio albums - Seasons, 2012's Boys Don't Cry (a collection of

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Burt Bacharach, Dionne Warwick, Rumer, Stephen Bishop

January 29, 2015 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

London American 1965

With the recently-released tenth volume of its year-by-year chronicle, Ace’s The London American Label series revisits 1965.  Though America was swept up in the sounds of the British Invasion, Great Britain was still interested in the music from the United States – as evidenced by the 27 selections here drawn from 72 singles.  That said, the tide was turning; London American issued 109 singles in 1964 and 177 in 1963.  Hit-wise, though, the London American label yielded 11 chart records in 1965

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Burt Bacharach, Lou Johnson, The Righteous Brothers, The Ronettes, The Vogues, Various Artists

October 1, 2014 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

stephanie mills for the first time

Following the commercial failure of the big-budget 1973 movie musical Lost Horizon, Burt Bacharach retreated. Tension over the film had led to a split with his longtime songwriting partner Hal David, and their split had in turn led to a breakup of their “triangle marriage” with singer Dionne Warwick. Lawsuits ensued. Only one new Bacharach song emerged in 1974, Gladys Knight and the Pips’ “Seconds,” co-written with playwright Neil Simon for a proposed movie version of the 1968

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Burt Bacharach, Hal David, Stephanie Mills

September 24, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

dionne no night so long

In 1979, Dionne Warwick was at a crossroads.  Her unprecedented string of pop and R&B hits written and produced by Burt Bacharach and Hal David at Scepter Records were in the rearview mirror.  Bacharach and David had bitterly split after just one album with Warwick at Warner Bros. Records, leaving their muse feeling high and dry. One more dynamic success followed for Dionne in 1974 with the Thom Bell-produced Spinners duet “Then Came You,” unbelievably her first-ever No. 1 Pop single.  But

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Burt Bacharach, Dionne Warwick, Luther Vandross

September 9, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

treat me nice

The Beatles, The Beatles in Mono (Apple/UMe) Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Here it is - a massive white box filled with 14 newly-remastered vinyl LPs from the Fab Four, all in original mono - just the way the boys intended all those years ago! The Midnight Special various editions (StarVista/Time Life) Deluxe 11-DVD Box Set: StarVista 6-DVD Set: Amazon U.S. 1-DVD: Amazon U.S. The groundbreaking late-night music show is celebrated on a variety of releases featuring live

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Burt Bacharach, Queen, The Beatles, The Grateful Dead, The Seeds

April 30, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

black america sings bacharach

In retrospect, it might be telling that Burt Bacharach’s first recorded song, “Once in a Blue Moon,” was cut in 1952 by Nat “King” Cole. From those earliest days, Bacharach and his lyrical partner Hal David saw their songs recorded by a host of African-American artists: Johnny Mathis, Gene McDaniels, Joe Williams, Lena Horne, and Etta James among them. Once the duo began to change the sound of American music with their ultra-cool, sophisticated pop-soul compositions, those songs were most

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Burt Bacharach, Dionne Warwick, Nina Simone, The Drifters

February 20, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

presenting dionne edsel

Dionne Warwick's third album bore the title Make Way for Dionne Warwick.  But truth to tell, by the time of its release in September 1964, America had already made way for the New Jersey-born singer.  She had climbed the charts with the immortal likes of "Don't Make Me Over," "Anyone Who Had a Heart," "Walk on By" and "Reach Out for Me," the latter two of which were included on that LP.  Of course, all of those singles were written and produced by the team of Burt Bacharach and Hal David, who

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Burt Bacharach, Dionne Warwick

February 4, 2014 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

together ost cd2

Burt Bacharach, Together? — Original Soundtrack Recording / Toomorrow: From the Harry Saltzman-Don Kirshner Film “Toomorrow” — Original Soundtrack Recording / The Mamas and the Papas, A Gathering of Flowers / Brotherhood, The Complete Recordings / Smith, A Group Called Smith/Minus-Plus / Troyka, Troyka / Jim Reeves, A Beautiful Life — Songs of Inspiration / The Grateful Dead, Dick’s Picks Vol. 20 — Capital Centre, Landover, MD 9/25/76 — Onondaga County War Memorial, Syracuse, NY 9/28/76 (Real

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets Tags: Bob Dylan, Burt Bacharach, Michael Bloomfield, Otis Redding, Rainbow, Small Faces, The Dream Syndicate, The Grateful Dead, The Mamas and The Papas, Tina Turner, Vinyl

February 3, 2014 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

brill building comp2

Today, 1619 Broadway in the heart of New York City’s theatre district doesn’t particularly stand out. Despite the building’s ornate façade, 1619 appears to be just another office building on a busy thoroughfare populated with every kind of attention-grabbing signage.  But this building – along with its neighbor to the north, 1650 Broadway – is as much a part of rock and roll history as Sun Studios or Abbey Road.  1650 is the one and only Brill Building, incubator to some of the finest songs in

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Categories: News Tags: Burt Bacharach, The Coasters, The Crystals, The Drifters, The Everly Brothers

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