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February 2, 2023 By The Second Disc 4 Comments

Carole Bayer Sager Sometimes Late at Night

Carole Bayer Sager was still a student at New York's High School of Music and Art when her song "A Groovy Kind of Love," co-written with Toni Wine, topped the U.S. Cash Box and Record World charts and reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1966.  Though some at the time thought it wouldn't last due to its prescient use of the word "groovy," Sager and Wine's youthful tune more than proved its endurance.  22 years later, Phil Collins took it to No. 1 Pop and AC in the U.S. - not to mention No.

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Brooks Arthur, Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager, David Foster, Marvin Hamlisch, Michael Jackson, Neil Diamond, Peter Allen, Richard Page, Toto

November 30, 2022 By The Second Disc 16 Comments

Carole Bayer Sager Sometimes Late at Night

Carole Bayer Sager was still a student at New York's High School of Music and Art when her song "A Groovy Kind of Love," co-written with Toni Wine, topped the U.S. Cash Box and Record World charts and reached No. 2 on the Billboard Hot 100 in 1966.  Though some at the time thought it wouldn't last due to its prescient use of the word "groovy," Sager and Wine's youthful tune more than proved its endurance.  22 years later, Phil Collins took it to No. 1 Pop and AC in the U.S. - not to mention No.

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Brooks Arthur, Burt Bacharach, Carole Bayer Sager, David Foster, Marvin Hamlisch, Michael Jackson, Neil Diamond, Peter Allen, Richard Page, Toto

July 16, 2022 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Stream

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to discover! This week features deep cut jazz, country and soul, plus some remixes of an '80s classic and a new, surprise comedic pop track by one of Hollywood's favorite funnymen. Kitty Wells, Kitty Wells' Country Hit Parade / Lonely Street / After Dark / Dust on the Bible (Decca/MCA Nashville/UMG) Hit Parade: iTunes /

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Categories: Features, The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Comedy, Country, Disco/Dance, Pop, Reggae, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Buddy DeFranco, Canned Heat, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Dave Mason, David Foster, Harvey Fuqua, Jefferson Starship, Kitty Wells, Lee Greenwood, Musical Youth, Steve Martin, The Flying Burrito Brothers

March 1, 2022 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Peter Cetera Love Glory Honor and Heart

UPDATED 3/1/22: As one of the seven members of Chicago as featured on their 1969 debut album Chicago Transit Authority, bassist-singer Peter Cetera's soaring tenor became an integral component of the band's sound on such hits as "25 or 6 to 4," "Feelin' Stronger Every Day," "Just You 'n' Me," and "(I've Been) Searching So Long."  When his own composition "If You Leave Me Now" became Chicago's first-ever No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 - not to mention in international territories such as Canada,

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Amy Grant, David Foster, Peter Cetera

November 16, 2021 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Bonnie Tyler EastWest Years

Back in 2017, Cherry Red's Cherry Pop imprint compiled Bonnie Tyler's Remixes and Rarities, a 2-CD collection drawing on the singer's Columbia/CBS, Epic, RCA, and Hansa recordings originally released between 1979 and 1994.  Now, Cherry Pop is picking up the Bonnie Tyler story with a new 3-CD set.  The EastWest Years 1995-1998 brings together her two albums for the Warner imprint plus a disc of single versions, edits, and remixes. By the time she joined East West, the distinctively

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Bonnie Tyler, David Foster, Harold Faltermeyer, Jim Steinman

December 24, 2020 By Joe Marchese 17 Comments

Chris Christian 1981

Chris Christian rose to prominence as one-third of the pop trio Cotton, Lloyd and Christian alongside producer Michael Lloyd (The Osmonds, Barry Manilow) and Daryl Cotton (Zoot, Olivia Newton-John).  Before long, Christian's songs were being recorded by the likes of Elvis Presley ("Love Song of the Year"), Dionne Warwick ("When the World Runs Out of Love"), and Carpenters ("(Want You) Back in My Life Again").  Christian also produced and wrote songs for artists including B.J. Thomas, Marilyn

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Gospel, Holiday, Pop Tags: Bob Gaudio, Charlene, Cheryl Ladd, Chris Christian, Christopher Cross, David Foster, Frankie Valli, Gerry Beckley, Kirk Whalum, Nigel Olsson, The Boone Girls

November 3, 2020 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Average White Band On the Strip

The opening track of Average White Band's new/old release On the Strip: The Sunset Sessions couldn't have a more apropos title: "Let's Go Round Again."  Following a successful run of albums with producer-arranger Arif Mardin, the funky big band outfit was re-establishing itself.  1979's Feel No Fret was a self-produced affair on which the band was joined by co-producer Gene Paul; it yielded hit singles in "Atlantic Avenue" and a revival of Burt Bacharach and Hal David's "Walk on By."  For a

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Average White Band, Bill Champlin, David Foster

April 17, 2020 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Peggy Lee Decca Rarities

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Frank Zappa and The Mothers of Invention, Carnegie Hall (Zappa Records/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Zappa Records and UMe repackage this 2011 website-exclusive 4-CD set in more compact 3-CD fashion for general release.  Carnegie Hall chronicles Zappa and the Mothers of Invention's October 11, 1971 shows at the famed New York venue from the original mono tapes.  This version drops the opening set by The Persuasions but

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: David Foster, Erroll Garner, Frank Zappa, Peggy Lee, Stephen Sondheim

October 24, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Warren Wiebe Original Demos

Talk about a well-kept secret... Throughout his too-short life, vocalist Warren Wiebe (1953-1998) never became a household name.  Yet he was highly successful.  As a background singer, he graced recordings by Johnny Mathis, Paul Anka, Taylor Dayne, and Air Supply.  A true songwriter's singer - able to convey the heart and soul of a song without resorting to self-indulgence - he earned the respect and admiration of a "Who's Who" of songwriters who enlisted him to introduce their songs on

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Burt Bacharach, David Foster, Guy Thomas, Shaun Murphy, Steve Dorff, Tim Feehan, Tom Snow, Tonio K., Warren Wiebe

August 8, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Harvey Mason Sho Nuff Groovin You

Harvey Mason may be best known for his session credits on countless classic records by artists from Carole King to Quincy Jones.  But the drummer/percussionist has also led a solo career since 1975, most often fusing his jazz sensibility with R&B textures.  His first stint as a solo artist came at Clive Davis' Arista Records, where he recorded five well-received, self-produced albums between 1975 and 1981.  Big Break's recent anthology Sho Nuff Groovin' You: The Arista Records Anthology

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Jazz, R&B/Soul Tags: Bill Champlin, Dave Grusin, David Foster, George Benson, Harvey Mason, Merry Clayton

December 9, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Lee Ritenour Rit and Rit 2

In a solo career now numbering five decades and counting, California's Lee Ritenour - a.k.a. Captain Fingers - remains one of music's most virtuosic and prolific guitarists.  An in-demand session guitarist who has played for artists including Johnny Mathis, Barbra Streisand, Ray Charles and Aretha Franklin, Ritenour released his first recording as a leader in 1975 with First Course; his most recent, A Twist of Rit, was issued earlier this year.  Now, Cherry Red's Robinsongs imprint has looked

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Jazz, Pop Tags: Bill Champlin, David Foster, Eric Tagg, Lee Ritenour

November 26, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

merry and bright

In a career spanning five decades, producer-musician-songwriter David Foster has virtually become a brand name in himself. After making his name in bands like Skylark and Airplay, the Canadian multi-hyphenate contributed as sideman, writer and arranger to albums by George Harrison, Diana Ross, Donna Summer and Earth Wind and Fire; he won one of his sixteen Grammy Awards for co-writing that band’s “After the Love is Gone.” Beginning in the 1980s, he launched a solo career and also established

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Celine Dion, David Foster, Rod Stewart

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