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December 17, 2021 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Frank Zappa 200 Motels

Welcome to our final Release Round-Up of 2021!  There are very few new releases scheduled for the next two weeks, but we'll be back in 2022! Frank Zappa, 200 Motels: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack - 50th Anniversary Edition (Zappa Records/UMe) 6CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD (Original Soundtrack Only): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP Black Vinyl (Original Soundtrack Only): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada  2LP Red Vinyl (Original

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Funk, Jazz, Pop, Soundtracks Tags: Brian Wilson, Calvin Keys, Doug Carn, Eddie Hazel, Frank Zappa, Grateful Dead, The Dave Clark Five

December 3, 2021 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

The Doors LA Woman Cover

Welcome to the first Release Round-Up of the last month of 2021! The Doors, L.A. Woman: 50th Anniversary Edition (Elektra/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Rhino.com) The sixth and final studio album from The Doors featuring Jim Morrison gets a 50th anniversary expansion from Rhino on 3 CDs and 1 LP.  The original stereo album (newly remastered by Bruce Botnick) is present on both CD and LP while the bonus discs have more than two hours of previously unreleased

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Country, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Calvin Keys, Carmen McRae, Chris Connor, Depeche Mode, Doc Watson, Doug Carn, Garbage, Nina Simone, The Black Keys, The Doors, Tom Jones, Travis, Trini Lopez

November 30, 2021 By Randy Fairman 1 Comment

Doug Carn Adams Apple

Our friends at Real Gone Music have a few jazz and funk reissues on the way, beginning this Friday, December 3.  The label is concluding its series of Black Jazz album reissues with sets from Calvin Keys and Doug Carn and also bringing back into print the only solo album from Funkadelic's guitarist Eddie Hazel. First up is guitarist Calvin Keys' Proceed with Caution! from 1974.  It was Keys' second album for Black Jazz after 1971's Shawn-Neeq, his debut as a leader.  In the 1960s, Keys backed

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Funk, Jazz Tags: Calvin Keys, Doug Carn, Eddie Hazel

February 5, 2021 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Dusty Springfield Complete Atlantic Singles

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Dusty Springfield, The Complete Atlantic Singles 1969-1971 (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The Complete Atlantic Singles 1968-1971brings together Dusty Springfield's 24 U.S. single sides released during her tenure at Atlantic.  These tracks have been remastered from the original mono tapes by Mike Milchner at Sonic Vision, and all but the eight sides pulled from Dusty in Memphis have never before appeared on CD in

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Cast Recordings, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Reggae, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: A.J. Croce, Bill Loose, Bing Crosby, Bob Marley, Calvin Keys, Dusty Springfield, Fine Young Cannibals, Galt MacDermot, John Mayall, John Williams, Melba Moore, Norma Tanega, Rudolph Johnson, The Andersons, The Weeknd, Uncle Walt's Band

January 7, 2021 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Sleepless in Seattle Vinyl

As the holiday season is over and the new year has just begun, let's look at some of the titles Real Gone Music has coming out in January and February. The label is continuing its Black Jazz reissue series with a trio of releases over next two months.  The first, available tomorrow, January 8, is Cleveland Eaton's 1975 album Plenty Good Eaton.  The double bassist, who passed away in July, played with numerous artists over the years and was a sideman on recordings by Bunky Green, Ramsey Lewis,

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal, Soundtracks Tags: Bill Loose, Calvin Keys, Celine Dion, Cleveland Eaton, Rudolph Johnson

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