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May 19, 2023 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Paul Simon Seven Psalms

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today! Paul Simon, Seven Psalms (Owl/Legacy) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Amazon-Exclusive Colored Vinyl: Amazon U.S. Paul Simon is ready to unveil Seven Psalms, his fifteenth studio album: a 33-minute suite of music consisting of seven dreamlike, meditative compositions which are meant to be played as one continuous piece (and

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Pop, Soundtracks Tags: Alan Menken, Def Leppard, Galen Paul, Graham Nash, Howard Ashman, Jeanine Tesori, Marty Stuart, Paul Simon, Paul Simonon

September 14, 2022 By Mike Duquette 5 Comments

Aladdin Legacy Collection

Walt Disney Records' still-persisting catalogue product line The Legacy Collection has been mostly dormant since 2015. After two waves of titles throughout two calendar years - each focusing on anniversaries of classic Disney films from multiple generations - the series has been stop-start since 2017, releasing expanded editions of the soundtracks to Robin Hood (1973), Beauty and the Beast (1991) and, most recently, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996). Now, a classic title is added to the Legacy

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Soundtracks Tags: Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, Tim Rice

November 7, 2018 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Disney Sing Your Heart Out

A British compilation series recently released a magical volume for Disney fans - and with a host of rarities for collectors, to boot! Since 2016, Universal Music On Demand's Sing Your Heart Out series has annually issued hits-packed compilations meant for (you guessed it) singing together, at home or in the car. In October, the Sing Your Heart Out series expanded to include a volume of classics from the films of Walt Disney Pictures. A total of 52 tracks are featured across the set's first

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Everything Else, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Soundtracks Tags: Alan Menken, Danny Elfman, Demi Lovato, Disneyland, Elton John, Howard Ashman, Julie Andrews, Kristin Anderson-Lopez, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Louis Prima, Mandy Moore, Miley Cyrus, Phil Harris, Randy Newman, Rascal Flatts, Robert Lopez, The Jonas Brothers, The Muppets, The Sherman Brothers, Tim Rice

February 9, 2018 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

Beauty and the Beast Legacy Collection

After two years of dormancy, Walt Disney Records' archival series, The Legacy Collection, swung back into stores last year with an expanded edition of the music to 1973's Robin Hood. Now, The Legacy Collection is giving the red-carpet treatment to one of the studio's most popular films: 1991's Beauty and the Beast. After initial Amazon solicitations indicated that Beauty would be reissued (this revelation following a separate confirmation by engineer Bruce Botnick of his involvement in a

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, Soundtracks Tags: Alan Menken, Celine Dion, Howard Ashman, Peabo Bryson

October 13, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

little mermaid legacy collection

When God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater opened in May 1979 at New York’s small WPA Theatre on the Bowery, it heralded the birth of a promising new songwriting team: Howard Ashman and Alan Menken. Ten years later, the team would forever alter the course of one of the most venerable institutions in entertainment history: The Walt Disney Company. Their score to The Little Mermaid, which Ashman also produced and contributed to the story of, ushered in a new golden age for a studio which many had written

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Alan Menken, Howard Ashman

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