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Release Round-Up: Week of June 10

June 10, 2022 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the titles hitting stores today! Elton John, Madman Across the Water: 50th Anniversary Edition (Rocket/UMe) 3CD/BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Elton John’s 1971 Madman Across the Water receives a new 50th anniversary reissue. Available in three different formats, its most expansive is a 3CD/Blu-ray collection that’ll offer the original album (remastered by Bob Ludwig in 2016), five rare bonus tracks, a dozen solo piano demos, an unreleased full version of outtake “Rock Me When He’s Gone,” Elton’s…

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Release Round-Up

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Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock

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Alfred Drake, Ben Bagley, Bill Anderson, Blossom Dearie, Cab Calloway, Dolly Parton, Elaine Stritch, Elton John, Judy Garland, KISS, Kaye Ballard, Notorious B.I.G., Rufus Wainwright, The Rolling Stones

Who Would Have Dreamed: Kritzerland Reissues More Cole Porter, Maltby and Shire Musical “The Sap of Life”

June 14, 2021 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Today we’re looking at two upcoming releases from the Kritzerland label. Kritzerland is continuing its series of Ben Bagley’s Revisited titles with the third entry dedicated to the music and lyrics of Cole Porter. The Peru, Indiana native was among the most sophisticated tunesmiths of an era brimming with them. The master of wordplay also overflowed with melody, and Ben Bagley dedicated numerous releases to exploring the lesser-known side of his song catalogue from the cast recording of his revue The Decline and Fall of the Entire World as Seen Through the…

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Cast Recordings, Popular Standards/Vocal

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David Shire, Dolores Gray, Elaine Stritch, Georgia Engel, Helen Gallagher, Richard Maltby Jr.

Release Round-Up: Week of April 16

April 16, 2021 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Mary Wilson, Mary Wilson: Expanded Edition (Motown/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Just days before her sudden passing, Mary Wilson promised that her 1979 Motown solo debut would finally see reissue. Universal Music and Wilson’s estate have made good on that promise with this new digital release. Mary Wilson: Expanded Edition will include the original Mary Wilson album produced by Motown great Hal Davis; three single versions of the album’s disco anthem “Red Hot;” the four bonus tracks produced by Gus Dudgeon; and an all-new single streaming now with special relevance…

Phone Rings, Door Chimes, In Comes Company: Vocalion Releases Quad Mixes of “Company” and “A Chorus Line” on SACD

August 4, 2020 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

The U.K.’s Dutton Vocalion label is continuing its ongoing campaign reissuing quadraphonic albums on hybrid SACD (with a stereo layer playable on all CD players) with two classic Broadway cast recordings from the Columbia vaults. Both were choreographed by Michael Bennett, feature the talents of Donna McKechnie, and have orchestrations by Jonathan Tunick. Moreover, both merged classic Broadway with a powerful and contemporary sensibility. Much as Rodgers and Hammerstein had done before him, when they first masterfully integrated songs, dance, and dialogue into a dramatic whole, Stephen Sondheim would inaugurate his own…

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CD, SACD

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Cast Recordings

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Dean Jones, Donna McKechnie, Ed Kleban, Elaine Stritch, Marvin Hamlisch, Priscilla Lopez, Stephen Sondheim

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