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The Weekend Stream: May 17, 2025

May 17, 2025 by The Second Disc | 4 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. A positively packed volume offers legends of pop, rock and country revisiting and interpreting some classic tracks; catalogue favorites from Britney to Sheena and Connie to Katrina; intriguing film scores and show tunes; and remembrances of a few legends we lost this week. Steve Perry & Willie Nelson, “Faithfully” (Dark Horse) (Apple / Amazon) One of rock’s most recognizable voices joins forces with country’s most enduring living icon! Former Journey…

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The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Blues, CCM, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Latin, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

Release Round-Up: Week of January 21

January 21, 2022 by The Second Disc | No Comments

John Williams and The Boston Pops Complete Philips Recordings

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! John Williams and The Boston Pops, The Complete Philips Recordings (Decca) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Decca will celebrate John Williams’ 90th by turning the clock back to 1980 when the famed composer-conductor took the baton from the legendary Arthur Fiedler to lead The Boston Pops Orchestra into a new era. John Williams and The Boston Pops: The Complete Philips Recordings boasts 21 CDs and 22 albums originally released on Philips between 1980 and 1990, at which point the Pops switched affiliations to Sony Classical. (The Sony Classical era…

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Release Round-Up

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks

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Billy Stritch, Charles Strouse, Harry Connick Jr., Janis Ian, Jim Caruso, John Mellencamp, John Williams, Julie Christensen, Keb' Mo', Night Crickets, Peter Cetera

Release Round-Up: Week of May 15

May 15, 2020 by The Second Disc | 6 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Frank Sinatra, Nice ‘n’ Easy: 60th Anniversary Expanded Edition (Capitol/UMe) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP (Remixed Album Only): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Capitol Records, Frank Sinatra Enterprises, and UMe have a 60th anniversary edition of Frank Sinatra’s classic 1960 album arranged and conducted by Nelson Riddle. For the occasion, the album has been completely remixed and features three bonus tracks: the outtake “The Nearness of You,” plus the previously unreleased session takes for “Nice ‘n’ Easy” and…

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Release Round-Up

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

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Jazz, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Charles Strouse, David Bowie, Erroll Garner, Frank Sinatra, Marshall Chapman, Miles Davis, Ruthie Foster, Stephen Schwartz, Willie Nile

Release Round-Up: Week of February 28

February 28, 2020 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! The Allman Brothers Band, Trouble No More: 50th Anniversary Collection (Mercury/UMe) 5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 10LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada UMe is marking The Allman Brothers Band’s 50th anniversary with a new 5-CD or 10-LP box set boasting 61 newly remastered tracks including classics, rarities, and seven previously unreleased tracks. Trouble No More is bookended with the band’s never-before-heard 1969 demo of that song, and their final performance of it at their last show in October 2014. …

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Release Round-Up

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Bruce Springsteen, Charles Strouse, Charlie Parker, Dionne Warwick, Dom Flemons, Don Flemons, Eileen Farrell, Harry Chapin, Horace Tapscott, James Taylor, Sergio Mendes, The Allman Brothers Band

Short Takes, Broadway Edition: London “Annie” Comes to CD, Kritzerland Continues “Revisited,” and Mondo Has “Bathtubs”

February 27, 2020 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

The sun will come out tomorrow…because that’s the release date for Stage Door Records’ world premiere CD release of the Original London Cast Recording of Thomas Meehan, Charles Strouse, and Martin Charnin’s beloved musical Annie. A little over a year after its smash, Tony Award-winning debut on Broadway, Annie opened in the West End at the Victoria Palace Theatre (today the home of Hamilton). While original star Andrea McArdle repeated her performance for the first 40 performances, the role of Annie was assumed by Ann-Marie Gwatkin who got the opportunity to preserve…

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News

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CD, Vinyl

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Cast Recordings

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Charles Strouse, DeSylva Brown and Henderson, Martin Charnin

Release Round-Up: Weeks of December 23 and December 30

December 23, 2014 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Well, these are incredibly light weeks for new releases! Thankfully, the Kritzerland and Audio Fidelity labels have stepped up with a quartet of titles to close out 2014 on a high note! Cy Coleman, John Kander, Harvey Schmidt and Charles Strouse, Classical Broadway (Kritzerland) (available for pre-order now) Kritzerland remasters this 1992 album (originally released on the Bay Cities label) featuring classical compositions from four of Broadway’s most legendary composers including Cy Coleman (Sweet Charity, Barnum), John Kander (Cabaret, Chicago), Harvey Schmidt (The Fantasticks, 110 in the Shade) and Charles Strouse (Annie, Bye…

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News, Release Round-Up

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CD, SACD

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, Soundtracks

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Blood Sweat & Tears, Charles Strouse, Cy Coleman, Harvey Schmidt, John Kander, Patrick Williams, The Guess Who