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Release Round-Up: Week of September 27

September 27, 2024 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Chicago, Chicago at the John. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C. (9/16/1971) (Rhino) 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Chicago at the John. F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Washington D.C. (9/16/1971) arrives on 3 CDs, 4 LPs, and digital formats, preserving the band’s show in the U.S. capital. The concert was recorded just eight days after the opening of the Kennedy Center. …

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Release Round-Up

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Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD

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Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul

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Bob Neuwirth, Chicago, Gavin DeGraw, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Lady Gaga, Melanie, Michael Bublé, Ray Charles, Thin Lizzy, Van Morrison

Release Round-Up: Week of July 22

July 22, 2022 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of new titles available today! Bob Marley and The Chineke! Orchestra (Island/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This 10-song set, recorded at Abbey Road Studios under the aegis of producer Nick Patrick, merges Bob Marley’s original vocal tracks with new orchestrations played by The Chineke! Orchestra, an adventurous ensemble dedicated to increasing diversity in music. The album features many of the reggae pioneer’s most beloved compositions including “Get Up, Stand Up,” “Is This Love,” “One Love,” and “I Shot the Sheriff.” Available on CD,…

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CD, Cassette, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Reggae, Rock, Soundtracks

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Bananarama, Bob Marley, Brian Wilson, Gilbert O'Sullivan, She and Him, The Hagers, Tony Joe White, ZZ Top

Wild Mountain Honey: Ace’s “76 in the Shade” Features Steve Miller Band, Jefferson Starship, Smokey Robinson, Gilbert O’Sullivan, More

October 6, 2020 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Producer-compiler Bob Stanley’s last couple of compilations for Ace have placed him squarely within the 1970s. Earlier this year, Saint Etienne Present Songs for the Fountain Coffee Room (compiled by Stanley, Sarah Cracknell, and Pete Wiggs) conjured “the soundtrack for a bar in mid-’70s Los Angeles,” or a St. Etienne-style spin on “yacht rock” with Stephen Bishop, Ned Doheny, Boz Scaggs, and Seals and Crofts among those featured. Stanley has followed Fountain Coffee Room up with a trip to a more specific time and place. Over 20 songs both familiar and unknown, 76…

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News, Reviews

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CD, Vinyl

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Pop, R&B/Soul

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Barclay James Harvest, Cliff Richard, David Ruffin, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Jefferson Starship, Smokey Robinson, The Emotions, The Steve Miller Band, Various Artists

Release Round-Up: Week of January 10

January 10, 2020 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Laura Nyro, More Than a New Discovery [Limited Violet Vinyl Mono Edition] (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Today’s the day! We’re so proud to reissue, for the first time ever on vinyl (and in homage to the artist’s favorite color), Laura Nyro’s 1967 debut More Than a New Discovery in a violet vinyl limited edition of 1,250 copies. This edition features the original, long out-of-print (and superior) dedicated mono mix which we premiered on CD in 2017 as…

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Release Round-Up

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Country, Pop, R&B/Soul

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Ben E. King, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Glen Campbell, Laura Nyro, Mister Rogers, The Drifters

Got My Mojo Working: Cherry Red, Grapefruit Collects Alexis Korner and Baroque Pop On Two Box Sets

January 24, 2019 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Alexis Korner Every Day I Have the Blues

Periodically this month, we’ll be looking at titles released in the latter part of 2018 that we either didn’t cover, or only covered briefly, the first time around! We hope you enjoy this look at “some nice things we’ve missed”… Cherry Red’s Grapefruit imprint has recently released a pair of 3-CD box sets touching on two very different aspects of the sixties British music scene. One of the fathers of the British blues boom, Alexis Korner (1928-1984) has been celebrated on Every Day I Have the Blues: The Sixties Anthology. This handsome…

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News

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Box Sets, CD

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Blues, Classic Rock, Folk, Pop

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Alexis Korner, Donovan, Genesis, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Procol Harum, The Searchers, The Zombies, Various Artists

Release Round-Up: Week of August 24

August 24, 2018 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Linda Clifford, If My Friends Could See Me Now / Let Me Be Your Woman / Here’s My Love / I’m Yours (Blixa Sounds) If My Friends Could See Me Now: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Let Me Be Your Woman: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Here’s My Love: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada I’m Yours: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Blixa Sounds reissues four albums (three new to CD) from seventies soul/disco songstress Linda…

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Release Round-Up

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

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Cast Recordings, Classical/Opera, Disco/Dance, R&B/Soul, Reggae

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Bob Marley, Donna Summer, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Leonard Bernstein, Linda Clifford

Got Love If You Want It: More Record Store Day 2017 Essentials

March 28, 2017 by Joe Marchese | 6 Comments

Record Store Day’s 10th anniversary couldn’t be anything less than big. And with articles devoted to April 22’s RSD releases from David Bowie, Paul McCartney, Pink Floyd, Omnivore Recordings, Legacy Recordings, Prince, Warner Music Group and Real Gone Music, you might wonder what there’s left to say before the big day. But you’d be wrong! We’ve scoured the list to find another 23 must-have titles hitting the vinyl racks at fine independent music stores next month. Which of these favorites are on your list? The Art of Noise, Moments in Love/Beat Box…

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News

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Box Sets, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Everything Else, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Bill Evans, Def Leppard, Dolly Parton, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Frank Zappa, George Carlin, Gilbert O'Sullivan, John Williams, Randy Newman, Record Store Day, Rush, Sting, The Art of Noise, The Kinks, The Zombies, U2, Vinyl, Wes Montgomery

Release Round-Up: Week of June 10

June 10, 2016 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, with some of the most high-profile releases yet for 2016! The Beach Boys, Pet Sounds 50 (Various Editions) (Capitol/UMe) 4-CD/1-BD Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-CD Deluxe Edition (CD 1 + highlights from 4-CD set): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Mono 180-Gram Vinyl Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Stereo 180-Gram Vinyl Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Beach Boys’ landmark 1966 album Pet Sounds is turning 50, and Capitol/UMe is celebrating…

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Release Round-Up

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Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul

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Allen Toussaint, Charlie Faye and the Fayettes, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Glen Campbell, Jerry Lee Lewis, John Coltrane, Kris Kristofferson, Mitch Ryder and The Detroit Wheels, Paul McCartney, Phil Collins, The Beach Boys, Van Morrison

Gilbert O’Sullivan “Himself” Coming Soon, Naturally

October 26, 2011 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

In a little while from now, if I’m not feeling any less sour, I promise myself to treat myself…and listen to a Gilbert O’Sullivan record. The quirky Irish singer/songwriter topped the charts in 1972 with “Alone Again, Naturally,” proclaimed by American Top 40 as the fifth most popular song of the entire decade. But it’s also one of the most unusual. As the song begins, the narrator is left at the altar and is contemplating “climbing to the top” of a “nearby tower” to throw himself off. He imagines what people are saying about…

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Gilbert O'Sullivan