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/ Dimitri Tiomkin

November 30, 2015 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Home Alone 25th

A classic '50s score and four popular '90s soundtracks from three beloved composers make up La-La Land Records' exciting-as-always Black Friday announcements. This year, the label has prepped expanded reissues of Dimitri Tiomkin's Giant (1956), 25th anniversary editions of John Williams' Home Alone and John Barry'sDances with Wolves (both 1990) and two scores by the late James Horner: 1994's The Pagemaster and 1995's Braveheart. All five limited edition CD sets will be available to order on

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Dimitri Tiomkin, James Horner, John Barry, John Williams

May 1, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Happy Birthday, Kritzerland! Ten years ago this month, producer Bruce Kimmel, known for his work at labels including Bay Cities and Varese Sarabande, launched the Kritzerland label.  Since 2005, Kritzerland has released over 150 CDs: classic soundtracks from composers like Burt Bacharach, Henry Mancini, John Barry and John Williams, vintage cast recordings of musicals including stunning remixes of Follies and Promises, Promises, and solo albums by artists such as Sandy Bainum and the elusive

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Soundtracks Tags: Bernard Herrmann, Burt Bacharach, Dimitri Tiomkin, Elmer Bernstein, Henry Mancini, John Barry, John Williams, Marvin Hamlisch, The Sherman Brothers

December 30, 2014 By Joe Marchese 10 Comments

gold cd

Welcome to The Second Disc’s Fifth Annual Gold Bonus Disc Awards! As with every year’s awards, our goals are simple: to recognize as many of the year’s most essential reissues and catalogue titles as possible, and to celebrate as many of those labels, producers and artists who make these releases happen in an increasingly-challenging retail landscape.  The labels you’ll read about below have, by and large, bucked the trends to prove that there’s still a demand for physical catalogue music

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Al Kooper, Billy Joel, Blood Sweat & Tears, Bob Dylan, Chuck Berry, Dimitri Tiomkin, Donna Loren, Frank Sinatra, Pugwash, Salsoul Orchestra, Tony Hatch

June 9, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

its a wonderful life ost

"You see, George, you've really had a wonderful life.  Don't you see what a mistake it would be to throw it away?" Each year, director Frank Capra's 1946 film It's a Wonderful Life continues to lend a note of hope and inspiration to those discovering it for the first time.  The story of suicidal George Bailey (James Stewart) and the guardian angel (Henry Travers) who shows him what life would have been like had he never been born, It's a Wonderful Life has transcended its modest origins to

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Dimitri Tiomkin

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