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November 11, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Few Dollars More packshot

The Man with No Name is back! Following a recent deluxe expansion of Ennio Morricone's unforgettable score to Sergio Leone's The Good, The Bad and The Ugly, the Italian label Beat Records will follow suit with a generous CD and vinyl expansion of its predecessor and the second film in the "Dollars Trilogy": 1965's For a Few Dollars More. This hour-plus presentation offers both the original eight-cue soundtrack program issued by RCA Records in Europe on a double bill with selections from

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Ennio Morricone

April 20, 2024 By The Second Disc 18 Comments

record store day logo

Tomorrow, Record Store Day is once again upon us! It's that time of year where music lovers and vinyl flippers get together at their favorite physical music retailers and wait in line to snag some treasured albums - almost all of which are pressed on vinyl instead of CD (or, you know, sold on secondary marketplaces for above their retail value).  This year, the list tops out at over 350 titles, so there's very nearly something for everybody.  It wasn't easy to narrow our choices down to around

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Average White Band, Bernie Taupin, Bill Evans, Chappell Roan, Dr. John, Elton John, Ennio Morricone, Farm Dogs, Fools Garden, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Joe Pesci, John Barry, John Lennon, Lamont Dozier, Linda Ronstadt, Lowell George, Lulu, Marianne Faithfull, Parliament, Record Store Day, Talking Heads, The Who, Todd Rundgren, Wilco, Willie Nelson

February 20, 2024 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Ennio Morricone Orca

Today, we continue our ongoing look at this year's massive Record Store Day list with a spotlight on the releases coming from Craft Recordings.  All descriptions are taken directly from the label.  If you are interested in any of these titles, they will be available at your local record store on April 20.  Head over to recordstoreday.com for a list of participating retailers.  U.K. readers, please visit recordstoreday.co.uk and Canadian readers, please visit recordstoredaycanada.ca.  Craft

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Everything Else, Jazz, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: At The Drive-In, Bill Evans, Collective Soul, Dalai Lama, Ennio Morricone, Filter, Record Store Day

December 15, 2023 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Naked Gun RW

With a few weeks left in the year, film score labels are still working hard to get out some choice archival releases on CD! Here's the latest from Intrada, Quartet Records, Varese Sarabande's CD Club, and a reissue from the folks at Rusted Wave. The estate of James Horner has worked overtime to get a myriad of scores from the late composer out into the market. Two major ones come from Intrada and Quartet, respectively: Intrada delivers a reissue of his third film score, to the sci-fi

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks Tags: David Newman, Ennio Morricone, Ira Newborn, James Horner, John Williams, Michael Kamen, Peter Noone, Randy Newman

June 15, 2023 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Red Sonja OST

A new documentary series, simply entitled Arnold, recently premiered on Netflix.  The three-part film chronicles the life and career of Arnold Schwarzenegger.  If you go back to the earliest part of the bodybuilder-turned-actor-turned-Governor's film career, you will find his two Conan films and the related Red Sonja.  The 1985 movie starred Brigitte Nielsen as the red-headed warrior and composer Ennio Morricone was brought on to provide the score.  That score has been given its very first vinyl

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Ennio Morricone

December 17, 2020 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY

As we approach the end of 2020, soundtrack labels are working overtime to put out some great archival score presentations. Not to be ignored this time of year is an impressive line-up from European label Quartet Records: last week they announced three incredible expanded releases and a new re-recording. Additionally, they recently issued another two expanded releases that are absolutely worth fans' time. Those recent releases are a pair of acclaimed scores from 1990: Jerry Goldsmith's work on

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Bernard Herrmann, Ennio Morricone, Harry Nilsson, Jerry Goldsmith, John Barry, Maurice Jarre

November 6, 2020 By The Second Disc 4 Comments

Elvis Costello Armed Forces

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Elvis Costello and The Attractions, Armed Forces: Super Deluxe Edition (UMe) uDiscoverMusic Store: black / color Elvis Costello is revisiting his 1979 album in super-sized format.  Armed Forces arrives today as a deluxe, slipcased 9-disc vinyl set with three 12-inch LPs, three 10-inch LPs, and three 7-inch singles including 23 previously unreleased live tracks and the complete contents of the previous Rhino/Edsel deluxe edition (with many

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Charlie Parker, Dave Brubeck, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Ennio Morricone, Felix Slatkin, Harvey Schmidt, Kylie Minogue, Neil Young, Paul McCartney, Petula Clark, Pylon, Shirley Bassey, SVT, The Uptones, Whitesnake, Wilco

July 6, 2020 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

good the bad the ugly

In the spring of 2004, my junior year of high school, I enrolled in an elective that was split between Theatre Arts one semester and Analyzing Cinema the next. One of the more polarizing films shown in class was Sergio Leone's epic Western The Good, The Bad and The Ugly - the class of 16 and 17-year-olds didn't entirely jibe with the lengthy takes, surreal logic (complete with characters surprised by events that couldn't be seen within the frame), or the score, which was firmly Western in terms

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classical/Opera, Everything Else, Pop, Soundtracks Tags: Ennio Morricone

June 25, 2020 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

SeaQuest DSV

A new remaster of a classic soundtrack album and two new expansions are on display in our latest soundtrack-round-up. For the first time in nearly 40 years, Quartet Records is remastering Ennio Morricone's score to John Carpenter's sci-fi classic The Thing. An adaptation of the John W. Campbell Jr. short story Who Goes There? (first filmed as 1951's The Thing From Another World), The Thing features an ensemble cast portraying researchers at an Antarctic outpost who encounter an alien creature

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Ennio Morricone, Harold Faltermeyer, John Debney

December 11, 2019 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Santa Claus the Movie OST

Following La-La Land Records' recently-announced mega-slate of Black Friday releases, Spain's Quartet Records label has revealed its own impressive line-up of end-of-the-year reissues. The label has brought out the heavy hitters - including Jerry Goldsmith, Henry Mancini, Ennio Morricone, and Quincy Jones - for an exciting group of limited edition soundtracks. Below, you'll find Quartet's own write-ups for each title, with pre-order links to the label as well as to Screen Archives

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Ennio Morricone, Enrique Iglesias, Henry Mancini, Jerry Goldsmith, Quincy Jones, Ron Goodwin

June 25, 2018 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Colossus The Forbin Project

On Friday, Universal Pictures announced plans to preserve and restore its classic library of movie music as well as the birth of a new imprint to release those scores on compact disc.  The Universal Pictures Film Music Heritage Collection will launch this week as a joint venture with La-La Land Records with the premiere release of Michel Colombier's 1970 score to the sci-fi thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project.  In August, Henry Mancini's score to the 1979 Peter Sellers remake of The Prisoner

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Ennio Morricone, Harold Faltermeyer, Henry Mancini, Lalo Schifrin, Michel Colombier

March 27, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

ennio morricone pops

Cherry Red's Él Records label is going 'round the world with a pair of recent releases.  Morricone Pops focuses on an oft-overlooked part of Italian composer Ennio Morricone's ouevre:  that of his early sixties arrangements not just for film, but also for pop singers.  Él also turns its attention to a favorite country, Brazil, for Sambou, Sambou, a collection of two albums of tunes by composer-pianist Joao Donato. With a staggering body of work including more than 500 films and television

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Jazz, Soundtracks Tags: Ennio Morricone, Joao Donato

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