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March 26, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Barbarella

Varese Sarabande made headlines last month when it was revealed that the venerable label had been acquired by Concord Music.  Today, Varese has announced the opening of a new online vinyl store on March 30.  The Varese Vinyl shop will inaugurate its sales with three limited, numbered, exclusive soundtrack LPs: John Carpenter and Alan Howarth's Christine on "Fury Red" vinyl; Bob Crewe and Charles Fox's Barbarella on 180-gram vinyl; and Dave Grusin's The Goonies on a 2-LP "Willy's Gold" colored

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Alan Howarth, Bob Crewe, Charles Fox, Dave Grusin, John Carpenter

May 9, 2017 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Wonder Woman

Two classic female comic heroes are getting some timely attention on CD, with soundtracks to the sexy sci-fi romp Barbarella and the heroic score to the hit '70s TV series Wonder Woman are bowing on CD this week. One of DC Comics' best-known Justice League charter members (and easily the company's best-known princess of Themyscira!), Charles Moulton's Wonder Woman first appeared on the page in 1941, and after memorable television adaptations of Superman in the 1950s and Batman in the 1960s,

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Angela Morley, Artie Kane, Bob Crewe, Charles Fox, Johnny Harris, Robert Prince

November 24, 2016 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Monkees Good Times Plus

From all of us here at Second Disc HQ to all of you, we hope you're enjoying a wonderful Thanksgiving in the company of family and friends.  Of course, from this day which conjures nostalgic and warm feelings comes a celebration of a different kind with this year's annual Black Friday - the day for consumers to start off the holiday shopping season on a mad, frenetic note. But 2016 is just in the latest year in which numerous retailers in the U.S. have made headlines by blackening Thursday, or

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Amanda Palmer, Ben Folds, Bob Crewe, Bob Dylan, Charles Fox, CHIC, Erykah Badu, Frank Sinatra, Geto Boys, Isaac Hayes, Record Store Day, The Bangles, The Monkees, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, The Sugarhill Gang, The Turtles

November 1, 2016 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Popeye OST

Are you making a list and checking it twice? We are! Record Store Day Black Friday is here in less than a month, and this week we're showcasing all of our favorite titles. We've shown you the goods from Legacy, Real Gone, Rhino and Omnivore; now, here are 20 more titles we think you should absolutely check out. There's soundtrack goodies from Varese Sarabande and Light in the Attic; holiday favorites from Bob & Doug McKenzie, Frank Sinatra and "Dolemite" himself; lost gems from Isaac Hayes,

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Blues, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bob Crewe, Charles Fox, Frank Sinatra, Frank Zappa, Harry Nilsson, Isaac Hayes, Jerry Goldsmith, Muddy Waters, Otis Redding, Record Store Day, Soundgarden, The Runaways

September 25, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Foul Play OST

Congratulations!!  The following 10 entrants have won a copy of Varese Vintage's brand-new edition of Charles Fox's Foul Play soundtrack, featuring Barry Manilow, on CD!  If you entered our contest via Facebook and your name is on the list below, please drop us a line at theseconddisc-at-gmail-dot-com or a Private Message on Facebook with your name and mailing address!  If you entered via email, you don't have to do anything - your CD will be in the mail soon! Watch this space soon for more

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Categories: Giveaways! Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Barry Manilow, Charles Fox

September 12, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Foul Play OST

If, by chance, you don't know the name of Charles Fox, you undoubtedly know his songbook: "Ready to Take a Chance Again."  "Killing Me Softly with His Song."  "I Got a Name."  The themes to The Love Boat, Happy Days, Laverne and Shirley, Love American Style, The Bugaloos, Angie, Wonder Woman, and more.   Varese Vintage has recently celebrated the Emmy and Grammy-winning composer's enormous legacy with two reissues.  The soundtrack to Foul Play returns to CD (having been previously issued as a

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Soundtracks Tags: Barry Manilow, Charles Fox

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