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Release Round-Up: Week of October 24

October 24, 2025 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles out today. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Bruce Springsteen, Nebraska ’82 (Columbia/Legacy) 4CD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada It’s no surprise that, as Hollywood recounts the story of Bruce Springsteen’s most striking solo release with the film Deliver Me from Nowhere (out today), a box set tells the tale of the (literal) tape. Columbia Records and Legacy Recordings are releasing Nebraska ’82, a new box set showcasing the start-to-finish journey of Bruce’s most…

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America, Bon Jovi, Brandi Carlile, Bruce Springsteen, Carl Perkins, Dion, Elton John, Frank Zappa, Hazell Dean, Horace Silver, Jackdawg, KISS, Little Feat, Neil Young, Pulp, Ray Charles, The Blasters, The Pogues

Release Round-Up: Week of March 8

March 8, 2024 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. The Rolling Stones, Live at The Wiltern (Mercury Studios) 2CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP (Amazon Exclusive Black and Bronze Swirl): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP Black Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Rolling Stones’ 2002-2003 Licks World Tour was one of The World’s Greatest Rock and Roll Band’s most innovative. To celebrate the band’s 40th anniversary (and the release of the career-spanning…

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Alice Cooper, Bananarama, Carmen McRae, Dion, Ella Fitzgerald, Judas Priest, Norah Jones, The Rolling Stones, The Stylistics

Release Round-Up: Week of November 19

November 19, 2021 by The Second Disc | 5 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band, The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts (Columbia/Legacy) 2CD/Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD/DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts features newly remixed and restored audio and video footage from Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band’s sets at Madison Square Garden in New York City in late September 1979. The star-studded “No Nukes” concerts were put on by MUSE (Musicians United for Safe Energy), a coalition of artists and activists (including Jackson Browne,…

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Blues, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul

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Adele, Billy Paul, Bruce Springsteen, Cat Stevens, Colin Blunstone, Dion, Donna Summer, Genesis, Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes, Hasaan Ibn Ali, Jamie Cullum, KISS, Leo Nocentelli, Lucinda Williams, The Intruders, The O'Jays

Release Round-Up: Week of June 5

June 5, 2020 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Frank Sinatra, Nice ‘n’ Easy: 60th Anniversary 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 “I’ve…

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Blues, Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul

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Dion, Dr. John, Frank Sinatra, Keith Relf, Phil Seymour, The Choir, The Staple Singers

In The Tower of Song: Leonard Cohen Covers Collected on “Hallelujah,” New Ace Records Compilation

April 1, 2019 by Sam Stone | 4 Comments

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With his acumen for gripping poetry, inimitable baritone, and trademark Spanish-influenced fingerpicking, Leonard Cohen married his talents for poetry and song-craft to create some of the most enduring music of the singer-songwriter era and beyond. Like every great songwriter, Cohen’s work continues to inspire an array of cover versions. Sure, there’s the million-and-one covers of “Hallelujah,” but even before the 1967 release of his debut Songs of Leonard Cohen, early supporters like Judy Collins and Buffy Sainte-Marie helped propel his words into the public consciousness. Years later, Cohen reflected on the joys…

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Release Round-Up: Week of May 12

May 12, 2017 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Dion, Kickin’ Child: The Lost Album 1965 (Norton) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Norton Records has rounded up 15 songs recorded by Dion DiMucci and his group The Wanderers with producer Tom Wilson over sessions between spring and fall of 1965. It all adds up to a trailblazing folk-rock album featuring original songs and covers of Bob Dylan, Tom Paxton, and Mort Shuman. Also available on vinyl. Read more here! Brinsley Schwarz, It’s All Over Now (Mega Dodo) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon Canada…

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Bette Midler, Brinsley Schwarz, Dan Fogelberg, Dion, Stephen Sondheim, The Allman Brothers Band, Todd Rundgren

Baby, I’m In The Mood For You: Dion’s 1965 Lost Album “Kickin’ Child” Sees Release In May

March 20, 2017 by Joe Marchese | 5 Comments

A never-before-heard album by legendary rock-and-roller Dion DiMucci will see the light of day on May 12 when Norton Records releases Kickin’ Child: The Lost Album 1965. Billboard reports that Kickin’ Child dates back to Dion’s tenure at Columbia Records, featuring 15 songs recorded with his group The Wanderers over sessions between spring and fall of 1965. Dion DiMucci was just 20 years old but already a chart veteran when he went solo at the dawn of the 1960s. Immortal hits like “I Wonder Why” and “A Teenager in Love” had been…

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Release Round-Up: Week of February 12

February 12, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 6 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up featuring the lost songs of a country-pop superstar, two more entries into an underrated SoCal songbook, new music from veteran artists, and much more! Barbara Mandrell, This Time I Almost Made It: The Lost Columbia Masters (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) We all know Barbara Mandrell did make it…as one of the most successful country crossover superstars of all time. Now, Real Gone has rescued the legendary performer’s early, never-on-CD third and final album for Columbia Records. Even better, the…

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Barbara Mandrell, Charles Bukowski, Dion, J.D. Souther, Marty Balin, Maynard Ferguson, Paul Carrack

You’re Welcome: Primal Scream’s Bobby Gillespie Curates Mix Featuring Beach Boys, Byrds, Dion, More

January 21, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

Among Ace Records’ recent releases is a collection that just might make you scream – make that “Primal Scream” – with elation. Bobby Gillespie Presents Sunday Morning Comin’ Down is a mix CD curated by Primal Scream founder/Jesus and Mary Chain drummer. The Glasgow-born singer/songwriter/musician has selected 20 of his favorite tracks for Ace, and the result is a set that not only illuminates Gillespie’s influences as an artist but stands on its own with thematic and sonic coherence. In Gillespie’s remarkable musical world, soundtracks sit alongside haunting psychedelia, California pop, Texas…

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Dion, John Barry, Kris Kristofferson, The Beach Boys, The Byrds, The Monkees, Various Artists

Review: Dion, “Recorded Live at the Bitter End August 1971”

April 9, 2015 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Armed with nothing but his guitar and his familiar, reassuring voice, Dion DiMucci took the stage at the Bitter End, in New York’s Greenwich Village, in August 1971. The rock and roll survivor had successfully made the transition from teenaged doo-wopper to folk-rock troubadour, moving from independent Laurie Records to New York major Columbia and back again to Laurie, briefly reuniting with his old group The Belmonts at ABC, too. Then, in 1969, Dion made the shift to the West Coast-based Warner Bros. label. At Warner Bros., Dion recorded five albums in…

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Release Round-Up: Week of April 7

April 7, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 5 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! The Who, The Brunswick Singles 1965-1966 (UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) The Who box up replicas of seven early 7-inch singles plus an eighth with The High Numbers’ “Zoot Suit” b/w “I’m the Face” on this deluxe vinyl box set. Read more here. Herman’s Hermits, The 50th Anniversary Anthology (Bear Family) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Bear Family gives the “I’m Into Something Good” and “There’s a Kind of Hush” pop stars the deluxe treatment with this new release featuring 66 tracks (spanning hits, B-sides, rarities…

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Art Pepper, Bad Company, Brian Wilson, Cannonball Adderley, Dion, Eddie Bo, Garnet Mimms, Grace Slick, Herman's Hermits, Jackie Wilson, Jesse Winchester, Steve Vai, The Who, Todd Rundgren

From Belmont Ave. To Bleecker St.: Never-Before-Heard Dion Concert Arrives On CD In April

February 23, 2015 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

In a career spanning an astounding seven decades, Dion DiMucci has transitioned from doo wop to rock and roll to pop to folk to blues to contemporary Christian and back again, always bringing his stamp of originality and attitude to each endeavor. In August 1971, The King of the New York Streets took to one street in particular – Bleecker – to perform at the legendary Bitter End, today New York’s oldest rock club. Omnivore Recordings in the U.S. (and Ace Records in the U.K.) has captured Dion at the 230-seat Bitter…

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Reviews: Dion’s “Complete Laurie Singles,” David Cassidy’s “Romance”

November 1, 2012 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Today, we’re taking a look at two recent releases from Real Gone Music! Dion DiMucci greeted the 1960s on his own, just 20 years old but already a chart veteran with soon-to-be-classics like “I Wonder Why” and “A Teenager in Love” under his belt. Those songs, though, were recorded with his friends The Belmonts. When Carlo Mastrangelo, Angelo D’Aleo and Fred Milano wanted to emphasize doo-wop harmonies and Dion wanted to rock and roll, Dion and the Belmonts split. How would the Italian kid from the Bronx follow that amazing first act? …

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