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Release Round-Up: Week of September 20

September 20, 2024 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

Bob Dylan and The Band 1974 Live Recordings

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. Bob Dylan, The 1974 Tour Recordings (Columbia/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) In 1974, Bob Dylan embarked on an extensive tour with his old backing band. Now, they, too, were universally known – as The Band – and the double bill hit indoor arenas across North America for 40 concerts over 30 dates and 21 cities. The tour became one of the largest and highest-profile of the era, in…

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Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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

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Bob Dylan, Cher, Double Exposure, Fleetwood Mac, Grateful Dead, Herb Alpert, Jackson Browne, Peggy Lee, Phil Collins, Sam Phillips, Shirley Horn, The Band

Can We Be In Love: SoulMusic, The Second Disc Collect Double Exposure’s Salsoul Albums on “My Love Is Free”

July 10, 2024 by The Second Disc | No Comments

For SoulMusic Records and The Second Disc, this is the Year of Salsoul. The release of The Salsoul Orchestra’s 8CD box set It’s Good for the Soul: The Vince Montana Years (1975-1978) and the imminent arrival of sets from Loleatta Holloway and First Choice will be followed on September 20 by our latest co-branded title celebrating Philadelphia disco quartet Double Exposure. My Love Is Free: The Salsoul Recordings (1976-1979) brings together expanded editions of all three of the group’s Salsoul albums plus the newly-curated collection I Got the Hots: Remixes and Rarities,…

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Box Sets, CD

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Disco/Dance, R&B/Soul

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Double Exposure

I’m Doin’ Fine Now: “Groove Machine: The Earl Young Drum Sessions” Spotlights Philly Legend

April 15, 2024 by Joe Marchese | 4 Comments

Kenneth Gamble, Leon Huff, and Thom Bell might have been The Mighty Three, but dozens of musicians joined them in shaping The Sound of Philadelphia. That triumvirate’s lush, lithe productions were brought to life by the loose aggregation of players known as MFSB, or the house band at Sigma Sound Studios. These are the same musicians who went on to form The Salsoul Orchestra under the baton of Vincent Montana, Jr., including Norman Harris, Ronnie Baker, Bobby Eli, Ron Kersey, Lenny Pakula, Roland Chambers, Charles Collins, T.J. Tindall, Larry Washington, Zack Zachery,…

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R&B/Soul

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Archie Bell and the Drells, B.B. King, Double Exposure, Dusty Springfield, Earl Young, Eddie Holman, Gamble and Huff, Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes, Loleatta Holloway, New York City, The Delfonics, The O'Jays, The Spinners, Thom Bell, William DeVaughn

Do The (Salsoul) Hustle: Big Break Celebrates Salsoul Records Legacy with Four Reissues

October 15, 2012 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

By 1975, Philadelphia soul had become too big even for the City of Brotherly Love. In the first half of the decade, Kenneth Gamble and Leon Huff had, along with the third member of their Mighty Three, Thom Bell, reinvented the sound of soul music. The Pennsylvania city had become synonymous with sweeping strings, punchy horns and the hi-hat cymbal of drummer Earl Young, offering up music that could be dramatic, sweet and funky, sometimes all within the same three-minute song! Bell had long kept a foot outside the Philadelphia International Records…

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News, Reviews

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Disco/Dance, Funk, R&B/Soul

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Double Exposure, First Choice, Instant Funk, Salsoul Orchestra, Vince Montana