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May 6, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

First Blood Intrada 2025

The month ahead brings even more soundtrack news than the big John Williams box set! New archival reissues from La-La Land Records, Varese Sarabande and Intrada are all on the calendar. First up, after expansions of Rain Man, A League of Their Own and Gladiator in recent months, La-La Land will give the expanded treatment to Hans Zimmer's score to the 1991 hit Thelma & Louise. Directed by Ridley Scott from a screenplay by writer-director Callie Khouri (her first credit!), Thelma &

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Hans Zimmer, Henry Mancini, Jerry Goldsmith, Patrick Doyle

April 10, 2025 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Gladiator LLL

After a recent new edition of his breakthrough soundtrack work, composer Hans Zimmer is the subject of not one but two film score reissues released this month. La-La Land Records announced for April a dramatic expansion of Zimmer's score for Gladiator. A modern take on sword-and-sandal epics released in 2000, Gladiator told the story of Maximus Decimus Meridius, a dedicated Roman general whose world is turned upside down by the murder of emperor Marcus Aurelius at the hands of his son, who

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Hans Zimmer

February 19, 2025 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

The English Patient

A breakthrough for one of Hollywood's biggest composers, a cult classic Western and an Oscar-winning '90s film are among the film scores being revisited by some of our favorite reissue labels this month. La-La Land has released a new presentation of Hans Zimmer's score to 1988's Rain Man. The Barry Levinson comedy-drama (a four-time Oscar winner, including Best Picture and Best Director) stars Tom Cruise as a brash young man who discovers that his late father's estate was bequeathed to an

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Basil Poledouris, Gabriel Yared, Hans Zimmer

July 12, 2024 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Last Action Hero

Leave it to Intrada and La-La Land to cook up some appropriately blazing soundtrack reissues in recent weeks! Intrada has expanded an early classic by Hans Zimmer, bowed a selection of re-recordings of TV work by Jerry Goldsmith, and is prepping another re-recording project to crowdfund; meanwhile, La-La Land (in addition to releasing the only John Williams score to a Steven Spielberg film without a soundtrack) has expansions of works by Elmer Bernstein and Michael Kamen. Quite the selection of

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Elmer Bernstein, Hans Zimmer, Jerry Goldsmith, Michael Kamen

April 27, 2024 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Stream 2024

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. More late period Prince is released from The Vault, plus a new Barbra Streisand single, future Bandcamp Friday favorites, cuts from new Broadway cast recordings and more! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Prince, "Magnificent" (NPG/Legacy) (iTunes / Amazon) The Musicology 20th anniversary celebration continues with

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Barbra Streisand, Hans Zimmer, Hatchie, INXS, Mark Mulcahy, Matt Dennis, Prince, Stephen Sondheim, Tim Dillinger

November 8, 2023 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Solo Deluxe Intrada

With only weeks to go before La-La Land's typically huge Black Friday announcement, it's worth noting an incredible clutch of archival score reissues and premieres that have been released over the last two months. Here's a look at some recent releases - including one on vinyl - coming from La-La Land Records and Intrada. La-La Land Records: Trek, Scarface and Jason Some box set breakouts and a rare foray into vinyl have lit up LLL's release slate this fall. First up, second and third

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Alexander Courage, Giorgio Moroder, Hans Zimmer, Harry Manfredini, James Horner, John Powell, John Williams

July 7, 2023 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Owsley Owsley

In addition to Real Gone's Music and Second Disc Records' reissue of the soundtrack to The Flasher by Pool-Pah and songwriter-arranger Rupert Holmes, Real Gone also has three other titles hitting store shelves today.  All three hail from the 1990s or 2000s and all are making their vinyl debuts. First up is the only album from hip-hop group Ill Biskits: 1995's Chronicle of Two Losers.  The German-born, Virginia-based duo of Deeda (M. Warrens) and Kleph Dollaz (Darrel Durant) released their

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Hans Zimmer, Ill Biskits, Owsley

July 7, 2023 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

janet deluxe

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today! Pool-Pah, The Flasher: Original Soundtrack Recording (Real Gone/Second Disc) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music celebrate 50 years of the best album you've never heard: Pool-Pah's The Flasher.  In 1973, the sexual revolution was on, streaking was taking college campuses by storm, and Deep Throat was edging pornography ever

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Billy Burnette, Flamin' Groovies, Hans Zimmer, Ill Biskits, Janet Jackson, Owsley, Pool-Pah, Rory Gallagher, Rupert Holmes, Suede, Taylor Swift, Wham!

July 12, 2021 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

Chicago OST

We are continuing our coverage of Real Gone's July slate of releases with info on some titles coming out at the end of this month on July 30.  These four titles are all represses, now coming out in new color variants. First up is the soundtrack to 2002's Chicago.  The musical originally opened on Broadway on June 3, 1975 and is based upon the 1926 play of the same name written by reporter Maurine Dallas Watkins.  It revolves around Roxie Hart, on trial for murdering her lover in

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Poetry, Soundtracks Tags: Bob Fosse, Charles Bukowski, Fred Ebb, Hans Zimmer, John Kander

February 12, 2019 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

American Tail header

Almost halfway through February, three soundtracks from titans of film composing have been released by the fine folks at Intrada and La- La Land Records. On Monday, Intrada's latest archival soundtrack was announced: an expansion of James Horner's score to the hit An American Tail. Directed by Don Bluth (The Secret of NIMH, All Dogs Go To Heaven) and produced by Steven Spielberg, this movie--one of the few mainstream animated films of the '80s not produced by Disney--tells the story of Fievel

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Hans Zimmer, James Horner, James Ingram, Linda Ronstadt, Michel Legrand

July 14, 2016 By Randy Fairman Leave a Comment

The Music of DC Comics Vol 2

Superheroes and comic book characters have become a larger force in pop culture over recent years with many comic-book based properties racing to the top of list box-office winners each year, and over ten comic book-related television shows scheduled to air this fall on various networks.  DC Comics, home to Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman and dozens of others, has been a big part of that.  Next week also sees the annual San Diego Comic Con taking place, the largest comic and pop culture gathering

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Hans Zimmer, John Williams, Neal Hefti, Shirley Walker, Sun Ra, The Blues Project, Various Artists

May 6, 2014 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

the lion king legacy collection

With Walt Disney Records’ juggernaut soundtrack to Frozen preparing to enjoy its thirteenth week at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 – becoming one of only 39 albums in the history of the chart to have spent at least 13 weeks at pole position – the time has never been better for the record label to revisit the studio’s classic animated film library. Today, Walt Disney Records announced what’s arguably its most ambitious reissue program ever. The Legacy Collection will mark the anniversaries of

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Elton John, Hans Zimmer, Tim Rice

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