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June 28, 2024 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

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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. Two Tons o' Fun, Get the Feeling: The Complete Fantasy/Honey Recordings (Real Gone Music/Second Disc Records) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music celebrate Two Tons o' Fun - a.k.a. Martha Wash and Izora Rhodes Armstead, a.k.a. The Weather Girls - with a complete

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Al Stewart, Cher, Gerry Beckley, Johnny Cash, Melanie, Neil Young, Richard "Dimples" Fields, The Spinners, Todd Rundgren, Two Tons o' Fun, Yes

March 17, 2023 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Songs of Surrender

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! U2, Songs of Surrender (Interscope) 4CD (40 tracks): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP (40 tracks): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Deluxe CD (20 tracks): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada CD (16 tracks): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP (16 tracks): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada U2 is revisiting its discography on the new project Songs of Surrender.  The album takes its name from the

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, Cassette, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Gerry Beckley, Jeff Larson, Leon Russell, Macy Gray, Sara Bareilles, Stephen Sondheim, Ten Years After, U2

April 9, 2022 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

Stream

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to discover! And after a week away, you better believe we're coming in hot! Billy Joel, 50 Years of the Piano Man (Columbia/Legacy) (Apple Music / Amazon) On the surface, this 50-track digital compilation-cum-playlist looks like a typical algorithmic survey of Joel's five-decade career, with all the great radio hits rising to

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Categories: Features, The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: America, Billy Joel, Burt Bacharach, Damon Albarn, David Ruffin, Depeche Mode, Gerry Beckley, Howard Jones, Jerry Goldsmith, Jim Weatherly, Pink Floyd, The Clash, The Format, Trace Adkins

March 26, 2021 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Neil Young, Young Shakespeare (Reprise) [Various Formats] CD/DVD/LP box: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Greedy Hand CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Greedy Hand LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Greedy Hand DVD: Greedy Hand Digital: Neil Young Archives (Streaming) / XStream (Digital Download) / Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Young Shakespeare documents the earliest known filmed live concert footage of

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: 3 Doors Down, Badfinger, Chuck Berry, Elvis Costello, Gerry Beckley, Harpers Bizarre, Joe Strummer, Joey Molland, Jon Anderson, Lynn Ahrens, Neil Young, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Stephen Flaherty, The Jacksons

January 28, 2021 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Gerry Beckley Keeping the Light On

For over fifty years, Gerry Beckley has performed, written, and recorded with the group he co-founded with Dewey Bunnell and Dan Peek, America.  But with his 1995 album Van Go Gan, Beckley began a parallel solo career that also continues to this very day.  On the heels of his sublime 2019 release Five Mile Road, the singer-songwriter is looking back with a new solo retrospective.  Keeping the Light On: The Best of Gerry Beckley will arrive in 2-CD and 2-LP formats via the Blue Élan label on

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: America, Carl Wilson, Gerry Beckley, Robert Lamm

December 24, 2020 By Joe Marchese 17 Comments

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Chris Christian rose to prominence as one-third of the pop trio Cotton, Lloyd and Christian alongside producer Michael Lloyd (The Osmonds, Barry Manilow) and Daryl Cotton (Zoot, Olivia Newton-John).  Before long, Christian's songs were being recorded by the likes of Elvis Presley ("Love Song of the Year"), Dionne Warwick ("When the World Runs Out of Love"), and Carpenters ("(Want You) Back in My Life Again").  Christian also produced and wrote songs for artists including B.J. Thomas, Marilyn

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Gospel, Holiday, Pop Tags: Bob Gaudio, Charlene, Cheryl Ladd, Chris Christian, Christopher Cross, David Foster, Frankie Valli, Gerry Beckley, Kirk Whalum, Nigel Olsson, The Boone Girls

June 26, 2020 By The Second Disc 4 Comments

Johnny Cash Complete Mercury Albums

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Johnny Cash, The Complete Mercury Recordings 1986-1991 (Mercury/UMe) 7CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 7LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Complete Mercury Recordings 1986-1991 will be available on 7CD or 7LP, 180-gram vinyl formats. The box collects all six albums Johnny Cash recorded for Mercury Records during that era: Class Of '55: Memphis Rock & Roll Homecoming with Jerry Lee Lewis, Roy Orbison, and Carl

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Alan Silvestri, Alanis Morissette, America, B.B. King, Bee Gees, Eric Clapton, Eugene McDaniels, Fanny, Flo and Eddie, Frank Zappa, George Formby, Gerry Beckley, Johnny Cash, Judy Garland, Kleeer, The Rolling Stones, The Staple Singers, The Turtles, Them, Thom Bell

May 1, 2020 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Todd Rundgrens Utopia Benefit for Moogy Klingman

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Todd Rundgren's Utopia, Benefit for Moogy Klingman (Purple Pyramid) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Cleopatra Records' Purple Pyramid imprint remembers Utopia's late keyboardist with Benefit for Moogy Klingman. This 4-CD/2-DVD set (originally slated for May 15 but apparently shipping today) includes the band's Highline Ballroom reunion set of January 29, 2011 (featuring Todd Rundgren, Moogy, Ralph Schuckett, John Siegler, Kevin

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: America, Dolly Parton, Georgia Stitt, Gerry Beckley, Porter Wagoner, Todd Rundgren, Utopia

September 25, 2019 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Gerry Beckley Five Mile Road

Gerry Beckley has earned the right to call the opening track of his new solo album "Life Lessons." The singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and America co-founder is understandably in a reflective mood on Five Mile Road, out now from Blue Elan Records.  The artist may be celebrating 50 years with America, but he still has plenty to say. For his first solo album since 2016's Carousel, Beckley has reunited with many of the same collaborators. Jeff Larson not only co-produced with Beckley but

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: America, Gerry Beckley

September 20, 2019 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Gerry Rafferty Who Knows What the Day Will Bring

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Judy Collins, The Elektra Albums: Volume Two (1970-1984) (Edsel) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Demon Music Group's Edsel label is following up its July release of Judy Collins' The Elektra Albums Volume One (1961-1968) with a second volume out today. The Elektra Albums Volume Two (1970-1984) finishes up the artist's Elektra Records tenure, comprising these nine releases on CD in their original sequences: Whales and Nightingales

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Alfred Drake, Allan Clarke, Anthony Perkins, Gerry Beckley, Gerry Rafferty, Herb Alpert, Judy Collins, Kaye Ballard, Margaret Whiting, Robbie Robertson, T.G. Sheppard, The Band, The Hollies

October 30, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Jeff Larson Watercolor Sky

Fans of singer-songwriter Jeff Larson have long known that he's carved out his own niche in the realm of "California music," whether as a solo artist or with collaborators including America's Gerry Beckley and The Beach Boys' Jeffrey Foskett.  Now, Larson is looking back with a 20th anniversary reissue of his proper debut album, Watercolor Sky, available on both vinyl and CD from Feral Cat Records and Vivid Sound Japan, respectively.  With summer in the rearview mirror, now is the perfect time

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Gerry Beckley, Jeff Larson, Jeffrey Foskett

December 19, 2016 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Jeff Larson Heart of the Valley

When singer-songwriter Jeff Larson premiered his album Heart of the Valley in 2009, the album was rightly lauded as an immaculately produced collection of laid-back, polished pop.  It conjured a time when rich emotions and real instruments ruled pop radio.  Today, it's just as relevant, as proven by a newly-expanded reissue on Japan's Vivid Sound label (VSCD 3944, 2016).  The artist indicates in his new liner notes that "the concept for Heart of the Valley was loosely based on the Nilsson Sings

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: America, Gerry Beckley, Jeff Larson

September 24, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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For today's special feature, we're taking a look back at the big stories we shared with you over the past week at The Second Disc, just in case you missed 'em the first time around! Review: Fleetwood Mac, Mirage: Deluxe Edition Joe takes a look at Rhino's 4-CD/1-LP/1-DVD Deluxe Edition of the Mac's 1982 pop gem! This Could Be the Night: Shout! Factory to Release T.A.M.I. Show and The Big T.N.T. Show on Blu-ray Two classic concert films - featuring a galaxy of stars including The

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Black Sabbath, Chad and Jeremy, Crowded House, Eddy Arnold, Elvis Presley, George Michael, Gerry Beckley, Jack Jones, Micky Dolenz, Mitch Miller, Roy Orbison

September 16, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Gerry Beckley Carousel

Gerry Beckley celebrated his 64th birthday earlier this week, on Monday, September 12.  We're marking the occasion with a look at his new studio album! One hardly expects the first verse of the first song on a new album from America's resident romantic troubadour, Gerry Beckley, to include the lines "Everything's turned to shit/No matter how I look at it/And I am running out of time..." But while Beckley is happily defying convention on "Tokyo" - the taut, rocking opening cut of his new album

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: America, Gerry Beckley

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