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The Weekend Stream: January 25, 2025

January 25, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 2 Comments

Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc’s review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts! A quiet week previews a new album by The Doobie Brothers, revisits the latest from one of TSD’s favorite indie singer-songwriters, and so much more – plus a reminder of how you can help one of our favorite reissue labels, one that’s been affected by the ongoing fires in California. Doobie Brothers, Walk This Road (Rhino) (iTunes / Amazon) The Doobie Brothers are giving a preview of their…

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The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Classic Rock, Comedy, Country, Disco/Dance, Folk, Latin, Rock

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Ernie Kovacs, Hank Snow, Livingston Taylor, Steve Wariner, The Doobie Brothers

Review: Ernie Kovacs, “The Ernie Kovacs Album: Centennial Edition”

July 25, 2019 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Some 57 years after his tragic death in an automobile accident at the age of 42, Ernie Kovacs remains one of America’s most influential comedians. The pride of Trenton, New Jersey, Kovacs pioneered an experimental, largely improvised, zany style of comedy on television, the ripple effect of which has been felt on programs from Rowan and Martin’s Laugh-In through Saturday Night Live. While far too much of Kovacs’ oeuvre hasn’t survived, a remarkable amount has, thanks to the herculean efforts of his widow, the late Edie Adams, and her family. 2019 marks…

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Ernie Kovacs

Release Round-Up: Week of July 5

July 5, 2019 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Jackson Browne, Running on Empty [Remaster] (Asylum/Rhino) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Jackson Browne’s legendary, seven-times-platinum 1977 album – featuring such classics as “Running On Empty” and “The Load-Out / Stay” – returns to CD, vinyl, and digital formats from Asylum/Rhino, featuring a fresh remaster by Gavin Lurssen of Lurssen Mastering on CD/digital. The vinyl edition, meanwhile, was mastered by Ron McMaster and will be presented on 180-gram vinyl pressed at Pallas. Ernie…

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Release Round-Up

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

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Classic Rock, Comedy, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks

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Ernie Kovacs, Everything But the Girl, Jackson Browne, Sigur Ros, Valerie Carter

The Ernie Kovacs Centennial Comes to Omnivore Recordings with Expanded CD Premiere

May 21, 2019 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

January 23, 2019 would have marked the 100th birthday of comedy legend Ernie Kovacs. While the pioneering comedian, actor, television personality, and writer tragically died at age 42 in 1962, his influential, off-the-wall brand of comedy endures to this day. The Kovacs centennial is hitting record stores this summer with the July 5 reissue on Omnivore Recordings of the Grammy-nominated The Ernie Kovacs Album, originally released in 1976 on Columbia Records. The Ernie Kovacs Album: Centennial Edition captures eleven tracks of comedy gold from the late Kovacs including appearances from memorably zany…

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Comedy

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Ernie Kovacs

Omnivore Unveils Colorful Black Friday Slate with Van Zandt, Clark, Kovacs

October 29, 2013 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Here at Second Disc HQ, we know that we can count on Omnivore Recordings for some of the most colorful and fun releases for Record Store Day’s Back to Black Friday shopping event! On the day after Thanksgiving, you might find yourself at your local indie record store to pick up one of Omnivore’s three Black Friday collectibles. As usual, it’s a diverse trio, with releases from two late troubadours – Townes Van Zandt and Gene Clark – and one legendary late comedian, Ernie Kovacs. This past March, Omnivore unveiled The White…

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News

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Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Comedy, Everything Else, Folk

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Ernie Kovacs, Record Store Day, Townes Van Zandt, Vinyl

Holiday Gift Guide Review: The Comedy and Music of Ernie Kovacs and Edie Adams

November 9, 2012 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Welcome to 2012’s Second Disc Holiday Gift Guide! We’ll use these special reviews to highlight not only seasonally-themed releases, but box sets, deluxe reissues and other special titles that might make the perfect gifts under your tree this holiday season! Groucho Marx once observed that “marriage is a wonderful institution,” before adding, “but who wants to live in an institution?” A few lucky couples have not only thrived in that institution, however, but also in the world of comedy: Gracie Allen and George Burns, Anne Meara and Jerry Stiller, Edie Adams and…

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Holiday Gift Guide, Reviews

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CD, DVD

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Comedy, Holiday

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Edie Adams, Ernie Kovacs

Review: Omnivore’s Legends of Music and Comedy, Buck Owens and Ernie Kovacs

June 20, 2012 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

In the pantheon of American comedy legends, you’d likely find Ernie Kovacs, the gifted, gone-too-soon (1919-1962) personality who carved out a niche in the early days of American television. Joining Ernie in that esteemed company might well also be Buck Owens (1929-2006), the influential guitarist and songwriter who made a second career out of joking, a-pickin’ and a-grinnin’ on the cornpone television variety show Hee Haw. However different these two gentlemen are, however, Omnivore Recordings has celebrated both of them in high style with two recent releases, Buck Owens’ Live at the…

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Country, Everything Else

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Buck Owens, Ernie Kovacs

An Omnivore’s Appetite: Tasty Treats From Jellyfish, The Knack, Buck Owens and Ernie Kovacs Coming Soon

May 2, 2012 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Nobody could accuse the fine folks at Omnivore Recordings of not living up to the label’s name! After all, “omnivore” is derived from the Latin for “all” and “everything.” And Omnivore’s recently announced slate of upcoming releases certainly qualifies as encompassing music from an incredibly wide variety of genres and eras. The label’s packed line-up for May, June and July takes in legends from the world of comedy and country-and-western plus new wave and power pop pioneers! Two releases were previewed on Record Store Day and are now arriving in complete form. …

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Classic Rock, Comedy, Pop, Rock

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Buck Owens, Ernie Kovacs, Jellyfish, The Knack