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October 31, 2019 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Tomorrow, November 1, Cherry Red's Strike Force Entertainment imprint will release the next title in its series of definitive reissues from Cilla Black's considerable catalogue. The 2-CD set Especially for You Revisited/Classics and Collectibles brings together a newly remixed version of Cilla's 1980 album Especially for You with a second disc of rare and previously unreleased tracks. Especially for You marked a turning point in Black's career as it was her first recording project after

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Barry Manilow, Cilla Black, Cliff Richard, Dusty Springfield

May 10, 2019 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Cilla Black, Cilla/In My Life (SFE/Cherry Red) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Cherry Red's Strike Force Entertainment imprint has two more reissues in the ongoing series of definitively remastered and expanded Cilla Black albums. First up is the late vocalist's debut album Cilla (1965) with In My Life (1974), the latter of which is making its premiere on CD in full.  This 2-CD set adds 26 bonus tracks, three of which are new to

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Allen Toussaint, Bonnie Raitt, Cher, Cilla Black, David Newman, Howard Jones, Professor Longhair, Rare Earth, The Neville Brothers, Thomas Newman

April 23, 2019 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Cherry Red's Strike Force Entertainment imprint is continuing its series celebrating the life and legacy of Cilla Black with the May 10 arrival of another pair of remastered and expanded 2-CD, 2-album collections.  First up is her debut album Cilla (1965) with In My Life (1974), the latter of which is making its premiere on CD in full; also released that day is Sher-oo! (1968) with another long-anticipated, new-to-CD title, Modern Priscilla (1978).  All of the previously released digital bonus

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Cilla Black, Paul McCartney

February 21, 2019 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Ace Records has released a number of splendid Motown collections in recent years, but now the label is taking a different approach to the music of Hitsville, USA.  As Motown celebrates its landmark 60th anniversary, On the Detroit Beat: Motor City Soul - U.K. Style 1963-1967 brings together 24 diverse British interpretations of Motown classics, making for a potent reminder that the Sound of Young America was, truly, international. Compiler Tony Rounce helpfully points out in his liner notes

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Cilla Black, Dusty Springfield, Helen Shapiro, Small Faces, The Birds, The Hollies, The Spencer Davis Group, Various Artists

November 16, 2018 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Fleetwood Mac, 50 Years: Don't Stop (Warner Bros./Rhino) 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada  In celebration of its 50 years, Fleetwood Mac is issuing a new career-spanning collection featuring 50 songs on either 3 CDs or 5 LPs.  These include hits, favorites, and a smattering of rarities such as the CD premiere of 2013's "Sad Angel"

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Everything Else, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Buddy Holly, Chris Cornell, Cilla Black, Elvis Presley, Fleetwood Mac, Glen Campbell, John Coltrane, Kate Bush, Lee Dorsey, Lee Michaels, Lulu, Roy Orbison, Rush, The Police, The Posies, The Rolling Stones

September 18, 2018 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Following in the footsteps of Elvis Presley, Roy Orbison, and The Beach Boys, Cilla Black is the next artist to receive the grand orchestral treatment.  On November 16, Warner Music U.K. will release Cilla with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, featuring fourteen classic songs by the late superstar with all-new orchestral backings. Producers James Morgan and Juliette Pochin have selected favorite songs including three top ten hits penned by John Lennon and Paul McCartney ("Step

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Cilla Black, Cliff Richard, Rebecca Ferguson, Sheridan Smith

July 20, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Surprise, surprise...it's Cilla here!  Today's the day on which Cherry Red's Strike Force Entertainment has launched a new series dedicated to remastering and expanding Cilla Black's discography.  These deluxe, lavishly expanded reissues go a long way in upgrading the late superstar's catalogue on CD.  The first 2-CD set pairs 1969's George Martin-produced Surround Yourself with Cilla with 1976's It Makes Me Feel Good, produced by David Mackay (Cliff Richard, Blue Mink, The New Seekers).  The

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Cilla Black

July 20, 2018 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Cilla Black, Surround Yourself with Cilla/It Makes Me Feel Good [Expanded Edition] (Cherry Red/SFE) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Cherry Red celebrates the late, great Cilla Black with a new reissue campaign.   The first 2-CD set pairs 1969's George Martin-produced Surround Yourself with Cilla with 1976's It Makes Me Feel Good, produced by David Mackay (Cliff Richard, Blue Mink, The New Seekers).  22 bonus tracks (13 new to CD) are

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Funk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Cilla Black, John Fogerty, Lalomie Washburn, Marianne Faithfull, Public Image Ltd., Soul Asylum

May 29, 2018 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

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

August 29, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Around this time last summer, we filled you in on two volumes of Ace's Beat Girls series focusing on sixties starlets from the Pye and Decca labels.  Now, Ace has recently released another volume in the series.  Marylebone Beat Girls looks at the big-city acts recording out of London's Marylebone district, home of EMI's headquarters and its labels like Parlophone, His Master's Voice, and Columbia.  This 25-track collection of uptempo nuggets brings the Swingin' London fusion of pop, rock, and

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Alma Cogan, Beryl Marsden, Billie Davis, Cilla Black, Helen Shapiro, Julie Driscoll, Various Artists

January 29, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up featuring a host of deluxe reissues, box sets, and more! Phil Collins, Face Value: Deluxe Edition (Atlantic/Rhino) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Phil Collins' 1981 classic featuring "In the Air Tonight" gets expanded to two CDs or DD with the addition of eight live tracks and four demos (plus a new, modern cover photograph echoing the original).  Ten of the twelve bonuses are new

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Ashford and Simpson, Bill Evans, Cilla Black, Esther Phillips, Harpers Bizarre, Julia Fordham, Lee Hazlewood, Phil Collins, Sister Sledge, The Hollies, The Miamis, The Paris Sisters

November 27, 2015 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

To our U.S. readers, today is the day of shopping known as Black Friday - but happily, the diverse slate of releases due in stores today should lift your spirits - no matter where you're located! Love, Reel to Real: Expanded Edition (High Moon Records) (Amazon U.S.) High Moon Records has the premiere reissue of Arthur Lee and Love's 1974 album Reel to Real as a newly-expanded Deluxe Edition boasting a color, 32-page booklet.  A vinyl edition will follow early next year.  Read more

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD-Audio, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: America, Bob Welch, Bobby Rush, Cilla Black, Hot Tuna, Jack Nitzsche, Jaco Pastorius, Jefferson Airplane, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jethro Tull, John Williams, Love, Quicksilver Messenger Service, Supergrass, The Flaming Lips, The Goo Goo Dolls, The Raspberries

October 30, 2015 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up!  Packed with over 30 titles including highly-anticipated reissues, a slew of box sets, collections and more, it just may be the mightiest of the year!   The Velvet Underground, Loaded: Re-Loaded 45th Anniversary Edition (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) The Velvet Underground's 1970 album - and Lou Reed's swansong with the band - gets the deluxe expanded treatment from Rhino in this new box set featuring the original stereo and mono

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Folk, Holiday, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Alanis Morissette, Amy Winehouse, Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas, Cilla Black, Doc Watson, Elvis Presley, Frank Zappa, Gentle Giant, Joan Osborne, Lou Reed, Otis Redding, Pete Seeger, Roger McGuinn, Sly and the Family Stone, The Rolling Stones, The Salsoul Orchestra, The Velvet Underground, The Who, Tony Orlando, Van Morrison, XTC

October 27, 2015 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

The Varese Vintage label is heading back to the days of Merseybeat and the British Invasion for a pair of new releases due on Friday, October 30.  Cilla Black's The Hit Singles and Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas' All-Time Greatest Hits both draw on the Parlophone Records catalogue, featuring the Fab songbook of Lennon and McCartney and the production of George Martin. Liverpool coat check girl-turned-pop superstar Cilla Black OBE had one of Britain's most enduring and diverse entertainment

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas, Cilla Black

August 2, 2015 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

We're deeply saddened at the news of the passing of Cilla Black, 72.  Throughout the course of a recording career spanning five decades, the Liverpool-born artist lent her distinctive sound and big voice to songs by The Beatles ("Love of the Loved," "It's for You," Step Inside Love"), Burt Bacharach and Hal David ("Alfie," "Anyone Who Had a Heart"), Randy Newman ("I've Been Wrong Before") and the greatest songwriters of her era. Also beloved in the United Kingdom as a television presenter on

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop Tags: Cilla Black

April 23, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

What's it all about, Cilla? Though "Alfie" and "Anyone Who Had a Heart" are very much the property of Ms. Dionne Warwick in the United States, Liverpool's Cilla Black can fairly stake claim to them across the pond.  Born Priscilla Maria Veronica White, the protégé of Brian Epstein and close Beatle pal scored a string of beloved hit singles at the height of Swinging London, though her profile has long remained under the radar in America.  Well, not if The Second Disc has anything to say about

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop Tags: Burt Bacharach, Cilla Black, The Beatles

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