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Release Round-Up: Week of January 21

January 21, 2022 by The Second Disc | No Comments

John Williams and The Boston Pops Complete Philips Recordings

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! John Williams and The Boston Pops, The Complete Philips Recordings (Decca) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Decca will celebrate John Williams’ 90th by turning the clock back to 1980 when the famed composer-conductor took the baton from the legendary Arthur Fiedler to lead The Boston Pops Orchestra into a new era. John Williams and The Boston Pops: The Complete Philips Recordings boasts 21 CDs and 22 albums originally released on Philips between 1980 and 1990, at which point the Pops switched affiliations to Sony Classical. (The Sony Classical era…

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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, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks

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Billy Stritch, Charles Strouse, Harry Connick Jr., Janis Ian, Jim Caruso, John Mellencamp, John Williams, Julie Christensen, Keb' Mo', Night Crickets, Peter Cetera

Short Takes: Reissues Due from Janis Ian, CCR’s Tom Fogerty and Doug Clifford, Social Distortion

May 29, 2018 by Joe Marchese | 5 Comments

Five classic albums from singer-songwriter Janis Ian have just been reissued on CD and vinyl from Sony Legacy’s U.K. arm. Stars (1974), Between the Lines (1975), Aftertones (1976), Miracle Row (1977), and Night Rains (1979), all originally released on Columbia Records, represent the peak of Ian’s commercial success. Between the Lines yielded Ian’s most successful single, the touching “At Seventeen,” a No. 3 Pop/No. 1 AC hit. The song netted the artist a Grammy Award and was performed by her on the very first episode of Saturday Night Live. The first three…

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News

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Pop, Rock

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Creedence Clearwater Revival, Doug Clifford, Janis Ian, , Tom Fogerty

DeShannon, Ronstadt, Baez, Nyro Featured on “Milk of the Tree: Anthology of Female Folk and Singer-Songwriters”

August 1, 2017 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

The new anthology Milk of the Tree, from Cherry Red’s Grapefruit label, sets forth its mission statement clearly in its subtitle: An Anthology of Female Vocal Folk and Singer-Songwriters 1966-1973. Still, how to anthologize such a broad and powerful group of artists during one of the most creatively fertile periods in popular music history? Grapefruit does a fine job in distilling the essence of the period – and charting the growth of artists from a pure pop framework to one in which they could address deeper issues on both a personal and…

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News, Reviews

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Box Sets, CD

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Folk, Pop

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Jackie DeShannon, Janis Ian, Joan Baez, Laura Nyro, Linda Ronstadt, Marianne Faithfull, Various Artists

Release Round-Up: Week of June 30

June 30, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 4 Comments

Welcome to our final Tuesday Release Round-Up – and it’s a doozy! As many of you know, the record industry will next week adopt a universal Friday release day. No releases are scheduled for Tuesday, July 7; instead, Friday, July 10 is the date! DVDs and Blu-rays will, for the foreseeable future, remain released on Tuesdays. We’ll resume with a new Release Round-Up on Friday, July 10! Ronny and the Daytonas, The Complete Recordings (2-CD Set) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) / The Viscounts, Harlem Nocturne (Limited Mini LP Sleeve Edition) (Amazon U.S….

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Release Round-Up

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Blu-Ray, CD, DVD, Digital Download, SACD, Vinyl

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

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311, Brian Wilson, Dean Martin, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Fanny, Grateful Dead, Harry Chapin, Janis Ian, KC and the Sunshine Band, Nancy Wilson, Neil Young, Pete Townshend, Ronny and the Daytonas, Tavares, The Fantastic Four, The Lovin' Spoonful, The Who, Tina Turner

Remember When The Music: Bottom Line Presents Unheard Harry Chapin, Reissues Janis Ian and More

June 11, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

The new Bottom Line Archive Series, which launched earlier this year with volumes from The Brecker Brothers, Willie Nile, and Kenny Rankin, continues on June 30 with a new wave of titles all recorded at the late, great New York venue once located on West 4th Street in Greenwich Village. Concerts from Harry Chapin and Janis Ian, plus two various-artists compilations, will be released on Bottom Line Records on that date. Legendary singer-songwriter Harry Chapin’s January 1981 set at The Bottom Line was released as a 2-CD set in 1998 as part…

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Folk, Pop, Rock

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Harry Chapin, Janis Ian, Jimmy Webb, Pete Seeger, Various Artists