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The Weekend Stream: March 1, 2025

March 1, 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. This week brings new music from Billy Idol and The Chills, cast albums aplenty and some soulful tributes to artists we lost this week. Billy Idol, “Still Dancing” (Dark Horse) (iTunes / Amazon) The recent Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nominee is going on tour this year with Joan Jett & The Blackhearts, and will release Dream Into It, his first full-length album in more than a decade (and…

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The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Billy Idol, Chris Jasper, Harold Rome, Jerry Butler, Jesse and Joy, The Chills, The Impressions, The Isley Brothers

Release Round-Up: Week of January 28

January 28, 2022 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Various Artists, Summer of Soul (…or When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised): Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Legacy Recordings delivers a soundtrack to Questlove’s acclaimed 2021 documentary Summer of Soul, chronicling the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival. Live recordings are featured from headliners including The 5th Dimension, Nina Simone, David Ruffin, Sly & The Family Stone, Gladys Knight & The Pips, B.B. King, The Chambers Brothers, and more. Available on CD and digital formats, with the digital edition adding one bonus cut…

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Release Round-Up

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, SACD, Vinyl

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Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Barbra Streisand, Bob James, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Harold Rome, John Lodge, Leo Sayer, Lucinda Williams, Nina Simone, Sly and the Family Stone, The 5th Dimension, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Temptations, The Weeknd

Ballad of the Garment Trade: Stage Door Expands Streisand Debut “I Can Get It For You Wholesale”

January 18, 2022 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

Today, Harold Rome and Jerome Weidman’s 1962 Broadway musical I Can Get It for You Wholesale is best-remembered as the debut of Barbra Streisand. The then-teenaged star portrayed secretary Yetta Tessye Marmelstein, best known as “Miss Marmelstein,” and stopped the show nightly with the song of that name. “The evening’s find is Barbra Streisand,” wrote Howard Taubman in The New York Times, “a girl with an oafish expression, a loud, irascible voice, and an arpeggiated laugh. Miss Streisand is a natural comedienne, and Mr. Rome has given her a brash, amusing song,…

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News

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Cast Recordings, Popular Standards/Vocal

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Barbra Streisand, Harold Rome

Release Round-Up: Week of August 27

August 27, 2021 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! The Beach Boys, Feel Flows: The Sunflower and Surf’s Up Sessions 1969-1971 (Capitol/UMe) 5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP Black Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP Translucent Blue & Translucent Gold: The Beach Boys Shop Feel Flows: The Sunflower and Surf’s Up Sessions 1969-1971, a hardcover book-style set to be released in 5-CD, 4-LP (standard black and translucent blue/translucent gold), 2-LP, and 2-CD editions (as well as digitally), explores in depth what’s perhaps the most adventurous and experimental period in the Beach…

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Release Round-Up

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop

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