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May 1, 2021 By The Second Disc 2 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 Saturday feature: The Weekend Stream, which focuses on hidden gems that recently made it to digital channels that might make your playlists a little brighter! The Jacksons, Triumph /

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Categories: Features, The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: George Benson, Harpers Bizarre, Robert Palmer, Squeeze, The Jacksons

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

March 23, 2021 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Harpers Bizarre Complete Warner Bros Recordings

When Harpers Bizarre made their debut on Warner Bros. Records in spring 1967, they joined an eclectic roster of pop stars (Petula Clark, The Association), folksingers (Chad Mitchell, Peter Paul and Mary), comedy titans (Bob Newhart, Allan Sherman), MOR artists (The Anita Kerr Singers, Rod McKuen), and one forward-thinking psychedelic rock band (Grateful Dead).  The group defied easy categorization, and over the course of four albums merged pop, MOR, rock, and even dashes of folk and comic whimsy

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop Tags: Harpers Bizarre

March 19, 2021 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Neil Young After the Gold Rush 50

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Neil Young, After the Gold Rush: 50th Anniversary [Vinyl + 7" Box] (Reprise) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This 50th Anniversary remastered edition of Neil Young's classic album was released on CD in December; now the vinyl version arrives.  The set includes two different recordings of the outtake "Wonderin'" on the bonus 45.  The A-side was recorded in March 1970 in Topanga (previously heard on Archives Vol. 1) while the B-side is

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, Cassette, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Gospel, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Chris Cornell, Green Day, Harpers Bizarre, Harry Connick Jr., Hello, Jack Cassidy, John Raitt, Keith Jarrett, Loretta Lynn, Neil Young, Paul Stanley, Ringo Starr, Stephane Grappelli, Steve Earle, Sting, The Black Crowes

June 30, 2017 By Joe Marchese 11 Comments

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As longtime collectors know, great "nuggets" show up in the most unlikely places...and so do Nuggets, naturally.  Warner Music Japan has just issued four volumes of Soft Rock Nuggets, but most of the tracks on these collections are firmly in the harmony-drenched, lushly melodic, sunshine pop genre.  Any fans of Rhino Handmade's Come to the Sunshine: Soft Pop Nuggets from the WEA Vaults (reissued on vinyl this year for Record Store Day) will find much to savor on these latest additions to the

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Dino Desi and Billy, Harpers Bizarre, Jackie Trent, Paul Williams, Roger Nichols, The Association, The Hollies, Tony Hatch, Various Artists

November 30, 2016 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Classical Gassers

Classical music has long been a source of inspiration for pop.  Just ask Barry Manilow ("Could It Be Magic"), Eric Carmen ("All By Myself," "Never Gonna Fall in Love Again"), Billy Joel ("This Night"), or Walter Murphy ("A Fifth of Beethoven").  Ace Records has recently collected 24 of these classical "crossovers" on the aptly-titled Classical Gassers: Pop Gems Inspired by the Great Composers.  These tracks date between 1960 and 1971 and feature such hitmaking artists as Lesley Gore, Jay and the

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classical/Opera, Pop Tags: Allan Sherman, Harpers Bizarre, Jay and the Americans, Lesley Gore, Roy Orbison, Shorty Long, Various Artists

February 4, 2016 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Harpers Bizarre Complete Singles Collection

Now Sounds is back with its first release of 2016, and with it, the label is spreading some California sunshine.  Harpers Bizarre's The Complete Singles Collection 1965-1970 compiles all 26 sides issued on 45 RPM singles by Warner Bros. Records, including tracks from the group's early incarnation as The Tikis and numerous mono mixes never before available on CD.  The resulting release, which follows Now Sounds' reissues of Harpers' Feelin' Groovy and Anything Goes albums, is a refreshing journey

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Harpers Bizarre

January 29, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Phil Collins Face Value 2015

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up featuring a host of deluxe reissues, box sets, and more! Phil Collins, Face Value: Deluxe Edition (Atlantic/Rhino) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Phil Collins' 1981 classic featuring "In the Air Tonight" gets expanded to two CDs or DD with the addition of eight live tracks and four demos (plus a new, modern cover photograph echoing the original).  Ten of the twelve bonuses are new

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Ashford and Simpson, Bill Evans, Cilla Black, Esther Phillips, Harpers Bizarre, Julia Fordham, Lee Hazlewood, Phil Collins, Sister Sledge, The Hollies, The Miamis, The Paris Sisters

February 17, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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In olden days, a glimpse of stocking was looked on as something shocking!  Now heaven knows, anything goes...Good authors, too, who once knew better words now only use four-letter words writing prose!  Anything goes! When Cole Porter wrote "Anything Goes" in 1934, could he have had any idea that his commentary would prove just as relevant more than thirty years later, and indeed, even today?  In 1967, three years after the esteemed songsmith's passing, the members of Harpers Bizarre unleashed

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Harpers Bizarre, Van Dyke Parks

December 6, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Leon Russell might have been reluctant to return to his pop music roots when producer Lenny Waronker invited him to sit in the arranger's chair for Harpers Bizarre's 1967 debut album.  But in retrospect, a Master of Time and Space must have been involved in any LP that listed among its credits Randy Newman, Van Dyke Parks, Paul Simon, Richard Rodgers and Sergei Prokofiev!  The California quintet's Feelin' Groovy long-player is still one of the boldest, most imaginative and most fun debut albums

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Harpers Bizarre, Randy Newman, The Beau Brummels, Van Dyke Parks

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