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Release Round-Up: Week of August 14

August 14, 2026 by The Second Disc | No 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 Monkees, Made for TV (Rhino) (Amazon U.S.(opens in new tab) / Amazon U.K.(opens in new tab) / Amazon Canada(opens in new tab) / Rhino.com(opens in new tab) / Monkees.com(opens in new tab)) Rhino celebrates Season 1 of The Monkees just in time for its 60th anniversary. This new 2CD/1LP/1Blu-ray multimedia box set brings together all of the music heard on Season 1 of the groundbreaking television series in one deluxe…

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks

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Carly Simon, Claibe Richardson, Dorothy Loudon, Everything But the Girl, Guy Haines, Jethro Tull, John Williams, Leo Sayer, Sparks, Stephen Cole, The Monkees

Release Round-Up: Week of March 25

March 25, 2022 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of new titles out today! Daryl Hall and John Oates, Marigold Sky: Expanded Edition (BMG) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada BMG’s reissue of Daryl Hall and John Oates’ 1997 album Marigold Sky – their first away from the major label system – adds three bonus tracks: the radio edit of “Romeo Is Bleeding,” the remix of “Hold on to Yourself,” and the Hot Mix of “The Sky Is Falling.” Marigold Sky emphasizes the remarkable songwriting, alluring grooves, soulful vocals, impeccable…

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Country, Everything Else, Folk, Gospel, Jazz, Pop, Rock

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Beatrice Arthur, Daryl Hall and John Oates, Dorothy Loudon, Karen Dalton, Kraftwerk, Michael Bublé, Ornette Coleman, Reba McEntire, Rodgers and Hart

Release Round-Up: Week of September 24

September 24, 2021 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Steely Dan, Northeast Corridor: Steely Dan Live (UMe) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The first Steely Dan live album since 1995’s Alive in America, Northeast Corridor was recorded on the group’s last tour at venues including New York’s Beacon Theater, The Met Philadelphia, and others. (The band’s nine-show Beacon residency in 2018 featured themed shows including performances of full albums, a “By Popular Demand” night, and more.) The single-disc set of 12 songs (of course abbreviated from a typical tour setlist) features songs off Can’t Buy…

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul

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Al Green, Anthony Perkins, Blossom Dearie, Cab Calloway, Carrie Underwood, Chick Corea, Donald Fagen, Dorothy Loudon, Edie Adams, Jack Cassidy, Joan Rivers, John Sebastian, Ringo Starr, Sex Pistols, Steely Dan, The Lovin' Spoonful, The Velvet Underground, Vernon Duke, Vincent Youmans

Going, Going, Gone: Kritzerland Premieres John Barry and Alan Jay Lerner’s “Lolita, My Love” on CD, Reissues Ben Bagley’s “Irving Berlin Revisited”

November 4, 2020 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Kritzerland has just announced two new titles today! A musical version of Vladimir Nabokov’s 1955 novel Lolita hardly seemed like typical fare for the Broadway stage. Yet Alan Jay Lerner – lyricist-librettist of My Fair Lady, Camelot, and Paint Your Wagon – envisioned just that. Lolita had already been adapted by Nabokov himself for director Stanley Kubrick’s 1962 film starring Sue Lyon, James Mason, Shelley Winters, and a scene-stealing Peter Sellers, but the author gave his blessing to Lerner’s ambitious undertaking. “Mr. Lerner is most talented, and an excellent classicist,” he commented. …

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Alan Jay Lerner, Blossom Dearie, Bobby Short, Denise Nickerson, Dorothy Loudon, John Barry, Richard Chamberlain

Changing My Tune: Kritzerland Reissues, Remasters Classic Gershwin, Coward Tributes

April 30, 2019 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Kritzerland is continuing its long-running series of reissues drawn from Ben Bagley’s Painted Smiles archives. The label has just announced new editions of the long out-of-print George Gershwin Revisited and Noel Coward Revisited. George Gershwin Revisited remains one of the starriest releases in the Revisited series, featuring Barbara Cook, Elaine Stritch, Bobby Short, and Anthony Perkins. Keeping with the focus of the series, producer Bagley and musical director-arranger Norman Paris concentrated solely on lesser-known songs from the legendary composer including songs from largely forgotten shows such as La La Lucille, Sweet Little…

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Cast Recordings, Popular Standards/Vocal

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Anthony Perkins, Barbara Cook, Ben Bagley, Bobby Short, Dorothy Loudon, Elaine Stritch, George Gershwin, Hermione Gingold, Noël Coward

Release Round-Up: Week of January 15

January 15, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Welcome to our weekly Release Round-Up! Alan Price, Savaloy Dip (Omnivore Recordings) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Alan Price’s 1974 Warner Bros. album Savaloy Dip came and went in the blink of an eye (on a recalled eight-track!) before disappearing for what might have been forever…but Omnivore Recordings has come to the rescue with the first-ever reissue of this 11-song lost record from the Animals founder/keyboardist! Wes Montgomery, One Night in Indy (Resonance Records) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This release presents for the very first…

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Alan Price, Dorothy Loudon, Wes Montgomery