Johnny Mathis has recorded many romantic albums over the past seven decades, but none quite like The Island. Recorded in 1989 but unreleased for decades, The Island transported listeners to Brazil, with all of its mystique and magic. On February 7, this lost classic arrives in a new deluxe edition – its first-ever release on standalone CD – from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music. Renowned producer Sergio Mendes of Brasil ’66 fame and arranger-guitarist Dori Caymmi joined Mathis to subtly modernize the classic sounds of bossa nova and samba. He…
Extravagant Gestures: Cherry Red, SoulMusic Box Up Dionne Warwick’s Arista Albums on New 12-CD Set
Over 40 years ago, Dionne Warwick left Warner Bros. Records and signed to Clive Davis’ Arista label to begin a new chapter in her remarkable career – a career which happens to be going as strong as ever today. Now, Cherry Red’s SoulMusic imprint has announced a 12-CD box celebrating Warwick’s Arista period. Due on February 28, 2020, Déjà Vu: The Arista Recordings (1979-1994) collects all of her acclaimed albums for the label and rounds up over two dozen previously released bonus tracks. Encompassing a whopping 159 tracks including 29 bonuses, Déjà…
Release Round-Up: Week of October 18
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Jethro Tull, Stormwatch: 40th Anniversary Edition (Chrysalis) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Jethro Tull continues its long-running box set series with a new 4CD/2DVD expansion of 1979’s Stormwatch, the final Tull album to feature the “classic” line-up of Ian Anderson, Martin Barre, John Glascock, John Evan, David (now Dee) Palmer, and Barriemore Barlow. The new edition features: The original album and associated recordings newly remixed by Steven Wilson; A complete concert from the Netherlands recorded in March 1980; The original album and 13…
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Release Round-Up: Week of May 17
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Here’s what’s in stores today! Paul McCartney, Egypt Station: Explorer’s Edition (MPL/Capitol) 2-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3-LP black vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3-LP color vinyl: MusicVaultz / JPC.de Paul McCartney’s Egypt Station: Explorer’s Edition features the same audio content as the Traveller’s Edition box set minus the swag (postcards, baggage tickets, luggage tags, lithographs, cards, a map, and a jigsaw puzzle!) – meaning that this 2-CD or 3-LP version has the original 2018 album plus all…
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The Story of His Life: Hal David Celebrated on Public Television, Upcoming CD and DVD
“Words by Hal David.” That credit graces many of the most cherished popular songs of the second half of the twentieth century, including “(They Long To Be) Close To You,” “I Say a Little Prayer,” “The Look of Love,” and of course, “What the World Needs Now Is Love.” Beginning this weekend, Public Television stations nationwide will be celebrating the life and legacy of Hal David with a new special. What the World Needs Now: Words by Hal David from John Paulson Productions is hosted by The Divine Miss M, Bette Midler,…
Release Round-Up: Week of December 14
Welcome to another Release Round-Up. Here’s a look at what’s coming out today, December 14! Bruce Springsteen, Springsteen on Broadway [2CD] (Columbia) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Springsteen on Broadway captures songs and selected stories from The Boss’ acclaimed, Tony Award-winning engagement on the Great White Way. Mixed by Bob Clearmountain and mastered by Bob Ludwig, the album arrives one day before the closing show, and also just before it’s broadcast in full on Netflix. The streaming giant will premiere the production at 12:01 a.m. PT/3:01 a.m. ET on…
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Say a Little Prayer: Steve Tyrell Expands “Back to Bacharach” For Tenth Anniversary
Long before he was serenading fans with his expressive, distinctively smoky voice as a modern-day crooner, Steve Tyrell was moving and shaking behind the scenes at Scepter Records. When not producing singles for Maxine Brown, The Shirelles, Chuck Jackson, or B.J. Thomas, he was working in A&R and promotions alongside Scepter’s superstar “triangle marriage” team of Dionne Warwick, Burt Bacharach, and Hal David. In 2008, with six solo albums then under his belt, Tyrell returned to his roots with Back to Bacharach, a 14-song tribute to his old friends and their timeless…
Anyone Who Had a Heart: Dionne Warwick Saluted on Public Television, New Rarities-Packed CDs, More
From the moment she burst onto the music scene in 1962 exhorting “Don’t Make Me Over,” Dionne Warwick has been a musical force with which to be reckoned. The legendary singer blended elegant pop and deeply-felt soul in a fashion which remains unrivaled today for its sophistication and polish; her signature songs like “Walk On By,” “I Say a Little Prayer,” “Alfie,” and “I’ll Never Love This Way Again” have all become cornerstones of the new American songbook. Dionne’s remarkable life and career will be saluted on a new Public Television special…
Release Round-Up: Week of January 12
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Dionne Warwick, Odds and Ends: Scepter Records Rarities (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) From 1962 to 1971, Dionne Warwick, working primarily with songwriters/producers Burt Bacharach and Hal David, notched over twenty Top 40 hits on the Scepter label and garnered two Grammy Awards. Yet while there have been numerous reissues of Warwick’s work at Scepter, some material has been overlooked. This new collection rectifies that! All 27 tracks on this compilation are new to U.S. CD, including 11 previously unreleased tracks. You’ll…
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Reservations for Two: SoulMusic Adds Kashif, Tom Browne to “Anthology” Series
Earlier this year, Cherry Red’s SoulMusic Records imprint continued its series of artist anthologies with another two titles in the series, this time spotlighting the late singer-songwriter-musician-producer Kashif, and jazz fusion artist-trumpeter Tom Browne. Help Yourself to My Love: The Arista Anthology collects 30 tracks on 2 CDs from Kashif, the artist born Michael Jones, whose smooth grooves helped define the sound of eighties R&B. A native New Yorker, Kashif first rose to fame as a member of B.T. Express while still a teenager; though he played keyboards and occasionally composed for…
A Dream In Your Heart: Real Gone Announces a Dionne Warwick Rarities Collection and Expanded Jimmy Webb “Angel Heart”
We’ve already told you about Real Gone’s reissue of Debby Boone’s You Light Up My Life, coming on December 8. Now, Real Gone has announced two other titles coming soon. Both feature legendary artists who got their start in the 1960s. First up is Odds & Ends: Scepter Records Rarities, a collection of rarities from Dionne Warwick taken from her time at Scepter Records. Due on January 12, 2018, it features new liner notes by our very own Joe Marchese based on his brand-new interview with the artist. From 1962 to 1971,…
That’s What Friends Are For: Clive Davis Soundtrack Features Barry, Whitney, Dionne, Aretha, More
This past April, New York’s Radio City Music Hall hosted a prestigious premiere. The film was Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives, and the screening was accompanied by an all-star concert featuring Barry Manilow, Dionne Warwick, Aretha Franklin, Carly Simon, and others celebrating the life of the music legend. Beginning on October 3, Apple Music will exclusively stream the Chris Perkel-directed documentary, and today, September 27, Legacy Recordings has digitally released an exclusive 34-track deluxe soundtrack on Apple Music boasting four previously unreleased performances. (A standard 20-track digital soundtrack will be…
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BREAKING! A Song Worth Singing: Johnny Mathis Special Airs This Saturday, New Box Set Arrives
Johnny Mathis is currently touring the U.S. on his Voice of Romance tour – and indeed, for over 60 years, that appellation has been apt. This Saturday evening, June 10, Mathis is coming to your own city, courtesy of Public Television and TJ Lubinsky’s TJL Productions’ popular and long-running My Music series. Yes, this Saturday is Johnny Mathis Night, because that’s when Public Television stations nationwide will air Wonderful! Wonderful!, a concert film featuring all of Mathis’ beloved favorite songs to support your local station’s June pledge drive. But that’s not all….
Feelin’ Groovy: Rhino Plans Vinyl Celebrations for Summer of Love Anniversary
Five decades ago, in the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco, a social movement was growing. Young people, with heads full of progressive ideas and evolving attitudes toward sex, drugs and rock and roll, were converging on the area to celebrate their personal freedom–an extension of that January’s “Human Be-In” in San Francisco’s Golden Gate Park. The “Summer of Love,” as it was called, was the birth of the modern counterculture, and music played an integral role in the shaping, influencing and mainstreaming of these daring new ideas. Rhino Records will celebrate that…
Ace Collects Classic Beatles Covers On “Let It Be: Black America Sings Lennon, McCartney and Harrison”
If there was ever any doubt as to the versatility, adaptability and endurance of the songs of John Lennon, Paul McCartney, and George Harrison, it would certainly be dispelled by Ace’s new release of Let It Be: Black America Sings Lennon, McCartney and Harrison. The latest volume in the label’s Black America Sings series (also encompassing volumes dedicated to Sam Cooke, Bob Dylan, Otis Redding, and the team of Burt Bacharach and Hal David) and the second dedicated to the music of The Beatles, Let It Be features a staggering array of…
Release Round-Up: Week of September 2
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up highlighted by the latest release from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music! The Isley Brothers, Groove with You…Live! (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) We’re incredibly excited and proud to bring this sizzling, swooning and immersive double-album document of The Isley Brothers at the peak of their powers to CD for the very first time! Groove with You…Live! features powerful renditions of classic hits like “Take Me to the Next Phase,” “Summer Breeze” and “Livin’ in the Life,” recorded live-in-the-studio at…
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They Say It’s Wonderful: Real Gone September Slate Includes Robert Goulet, Porter Wagoner and The Meters
Even though summer has just begun, Real Gone Music is already looking toward the end of the season with its September releases. As per the label’s norm, the artists represented span a wide range of styles and genres. We’ve already told you about the Second Disc Records/Real Gone release of The Isley Brothers’ lost Groove With You…Live! album. Joe has also written the liner notes for another of Real Gone’s September offerings: Robert Goulet’s 2-CD The Definitive Collection. Joe put together and wrote the notes for Goulet’s Complete Columbia Christmas Recordings back in 2014. This…
Finder Of Lost “Love”: Dionne Warwick Releases “Tropical Love” From The Vaults
Dionne Warwick joined Arista Records in 1978, inaugurating a sixteen-year tenure at the label which would see many of her greatest triumphs including the Grammy-winning hits “I’ll Never Love This Way Again,” “Déjà Vu” and “That’s What Friends are For.” At Arista, Dionne teamed with Barry Manilow, Luther Vandross, and Barry Gibb; reunited with Burt Bacharach and Hal David; released one Platinum and two Gold albums; and earned her first No. 1 on the Hot 100 in over a decade. Her final album for Arista, 1994’s Aquarela Do Brasil, paid classy tribute…
It’s Your Thing: The Isley Brothers’ RCA and T-Neck Albums and More Collected On 23-CD Box Set
Get ready for a release that will make you want to shout! Today marks the 74th birthday of Ronald Isley, one-third of the original founding trio of The Isley Brothers. Since bursting onto the scene with 1959’s Shout! on the RCA Victor label, Ronald, Rudolph and O’Kelly Isley – plus Ernie and Marvin Isley and Chris Jasper – the R&B legends have notched four Top 10 Pop singles, sixteen Top 40 albums, thirteen Gold, Platinum or Multi-Platinum albums, and inductions into the Rock and Roll and Vocal Group Halls of Fame. Now,…
Release Round-Up: Week of May 12
Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! We kick off with a quartet of releases drawing on never-before-released live material! Leonard Cohen, Can’t Forget: A Souvenir of The Grand Tour (Columbia/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Leonard Cohen offers ten selections – including two songs never previously recorded and a pair of covers – from his recent world tour. Andrew Gold, The Late Show – Live 1978 (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) You’ll say “thank you for being a friend” to Omnivore Recordings for this first-ever release of Andrew Gold’s 1978 concert at West…
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The Second Disc’s 2015 Record Store Day Must-Haves
Tomorrow, Saturday, April 18, music fans and collectors will flock to their local independent record stores to celebrate both the sounds on those familiar round black platters and the cherished opportunity to shop for music in a physical retail environment. To many of us, both are a way of life. Each year around this time, we here at Second Disc HQ take a few moments to count down the titles to which we’re most looking forward to picking up! Our friend and founder, Mike Duquette, returns to these pages to kick things…
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(Don’t) Walk On By: Rhino’s Record Store Day Lineup Boasts a-ha, Bee Gees, Bowie, Doors, Dionne, More
Rhino isn’t resting on its laurels for Record Store Day! The label has announced its biggest slate ever for Record Store Day, with 30 limited edition 12-inch, 10-inch, and 7-inch vinyl releases due on Saturday, April 18. Full details as provided by the label for all titles can be found below. As always with RSD, these releases will be available exclusively at select independent music retailers on April 18, and you can find the list of participating shops here! a-ha – Take On Me 7-inch picture disc. Limited edition of 6,500 copies, $14.98 Air – Playground Love…
Warmth of the Sun: Rumer Collects “B-Sides and Rarities” On New Release
Since making her major label debut in 2010 with Seasons of My Soul, the artist known as Rumer (real name: Sarah Joyce) has made the case that elegantly-crafted adult pop can still be viable in the 21st century. Influenced by Burt Bacharach, Laura Nyro, Joni Mitchell, Carole King, Stephen Bishop, Jimmy Webb and Paul Williams, Rumer is possessed of a honeyed voice that’s most frequently been compared to Karen Carpenter on her three studio albums – Seasons, 2012’s Boys Don’t Cry (a collection of 1970s songs by Webb, Bishop, Todd Rundgren, Gilbert…
Release Round-Up: Week of December 15
The Kinks, Anthology 1964-1971 (BMG/InGrooves, 2014) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Producer Andrew Sandoval (the recent The Monkees: Super Deluxe Edition) helms this kink-sized 5-CD kollection of hits, demos, interviews, alternate mixes, session outtakes, 25 previously unavailable tracks, an exclusive 7-inch single and copious, new liner notes! Dionne Warwick, Finder of Lost Loves: Expanded Edition (Arista/Funky Town Grooves) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) This 2-CD edition of Warwick’s 1985 album features a bonus disc with 12 additional tracks – three rare single versions and nine previously unreleased recordings, including the Barry Gibb-produced Heartbreaker outtake “Broken…
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