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/ Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons

June 2, 2023 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today. Sylvester, Disco Heat: The Fantasy Years 1977-1981 (Second Disc/Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music) Disco Heat: The Fantasy Years 1977-1981 celebrates the late disco/dance music pioneer with 26 tracks on two CDs drawn from all six of his albums for the label, as well as the rare 12-inch Disco Versions that kept the dancefloors burning.  In addition to

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Ben Folds, Bob Dylan, Dr. John, Foo Fighters, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Kenny Rogers, Norah Jones, Roger Waters, Rufus Wainwright, Sylvester, Tanya Tucker, The Hollywood Vampires

April 17, 2023 By Mike Duquette 21 Comments

Four Seasons box

The Four Seasons are one of America's most resonant and enduring pop/rock outfits. Between the group and its distinctive frontman Frankie Valli, they've scored around a dozen Top 10 hits - seven of which went to No. 1. Their early output in the '60s held its own against the British Invasion. They maintained hits into the disco era, and a cover of one of their songs hit the upper reaches of the Billboard Hot 100 in 2021. The original quartet was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bob Gaudio, Frankie Valli, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, The Four Seasons

June 28, 2022 By Mike Duquette 28 Comments

Four Seasons box

The Four Seasons are one of America's most resonant and enduring pop/rock outfits. Between the group and its distinctive frontman Frankie Valli, they've scored around a dozen Top 10 hits - seven of which went to No. 1. Their early output in the '60s held its own against the British Invasion. They maintained hits into the disco era, and a cover of one of their songs hit the upper reaches of the Billboard Hot 100 last year. The original quartet was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Bob Gaudio, Frankie Valli, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, The Four Seasons

October 2, 2021 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Stream

While The Second Disc prides itself on connecting people to reissues and box sets they can keep on their shelves, it's no secret that listening audiences are also digital - catalogue music lovers, too - and our passion is connecting people to music from the past that they might adore. So we've introduced a new feature: The Weekend Stream, which focuses on hidden gems that recently made it to digital channels that might make your playlists a little brighter! Public Enemy, Apocalypse 91: The

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Categories: Features, The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Benny Goodman, Claudine Longet, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Indigo Girls, Lesley Gore, Mark Mulcahy, Material Issue, Public Enemy, Toni Braxton

March 20, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Soul on Fire

Cherry Red's Soul Time imprint is on fire!  The crate-digging team there unearthed two box sets' worth of R&B rarities in the final months of 2017 that we're happy to spotlight now! Mr. M's Northern Soul 1974-1981 is a 3-CD set celebrating the "oldies room" at the Wigan Casino, the late, fondly-remembered club in Wigan, England famous for its northern soul all-nighters held each Saturday from 2 a.m. to 8 a.m. Sunday morning.  Mr. M's was born out of necessity in 1974, a "club within a

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: R&B/Soul Tags: Bunny Sigler, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, Marv Johnson, Ronnie Milsap, The Contours, The Falcons, Tony Joe White, Various Artists

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