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January 16, 2024 By The Second Disc 11 Comments

Happy 2024!  Welcome, friends, to Part Two of The Second Disc's 14th Annual Gold Bonus Disc Awards! As we yet again look to a new year with optimism and a hopeful spirit, we recognize the many roles music has played in our lives.  With that spirit in mind, The Second Disc wishes to recognize 2023's cream of the catalogue music crop - those exemplary reissues and box sets, big and small, that proved to be truly outstanding for music lovers worldwide. After much deliberation, we're excited

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Categories: Features Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Arthur Baker, Carly Simon, David Sancious, Gretchen Cryer and Nancy Ford, Huey Lewis and The News, John Luongo, Julie Andrews, Kenny Rogers, Laurie Styvers, Martha Wash, Prince, Rick Springfield, Talking Heads, The Replacements, The Weather Girls, The Who, Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart, Tony Visconti

January 11, 2024 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

The Essential John Luongo

John Luongo is a good liar. Well, maybe he's good at being tongue-in-cheek. "I'm bashful," he says at the start of our interview back in October. "You're gonna have to really drag these things outta me, 'cause I'm a little shy!" What follows is about 100 minutes of captivating stories and thoughtful, enthusiastic lessons from one of the most notable names in dance music. The Boston-born DJ and mix engineer made a name for himself transforming dozens of soul and pop tracks for disco 12"

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Categories: Features, Interviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Barbra Streisand, Blancmange, Cheap Trick, Dan Hartman, Huey Lewis and The News, Jackie Moore, John Luongo, John Waite, Melba Moore, Sly & The Family Stone, The Jacksons

December 23, 2023 By The Second Disc 12 Comments

Tic Tac

The stockings are hung, the presents are wrapped, and the time is now to wish all of our readers at The Second Disc a wonderful holiday season before we enter a brief winter hibernation until the new year! 2023 was our 13th year as (we hope!) one of the more fun destinations for music reissues, box sets and catalogue releases. The business has certainly changed a lot in that time - maybe too much vinyl, maybe not enough CDs? - but labels big and small keep finding new, old and interesting

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Categories: Features Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Everything Else, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Arthur Baker, John Luongo, John Williams, Philip Bailey, Rick Springfield, Rod McKuen, Sylvester, The Beatles, The Replacements, The Salsoul Orchestra, The Spinners

November 17, 2023 By Mike Duquette 10 Comments

Dance Masters John Luongo CD box

Wayne A. Dickson knows a thing or two about timing. The Scottish DJ, manager and compilation producer, perhaps best known for a staggering discography of soul and disco reissues for Cherry Red's Big Break Records label, recalled a passion for getting a proper collection of 12" mixes by CHIC and related artists on CD. "It was greenlit something like four times over six years, and then the project manager who'd greenlit it would get let go, and the project would die with it," Dickson recalled

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Categories: Interviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Arthur Baker, John Luongo, Shep Pettibone

November 17, 2023 By The Second Disc 4 Comments

Frank Zappa Over Nite Sensation

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the many titles available today in the final "big week" of the holiday release season.  We are an Amazon affiliate and earn on qualifying purchases. We're kicking things off with our two Christmas releases from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music!  While Amazon's orders are unfortunately delayed, both of these titles are shipping now from Real Gone's webstore! Arthur Fiedler and The Boston Pops, The Ultimate Pops

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Country, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Folk, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Arthur Fiedler, Blue Angel, Bob Dylan, Cyndi Lauper, Daft Punk, David Sancious, Dolly Parton, Eugene Ormandy, Eydie Gorme, Frank Zappa, Jewel, John Denver, John Luongo, Josh Groban, Judy Garland, Klark Kent, Leonard Bernstein, Milli Vanilli, Olivia Newton-John, Steve Lawrence, The Kinks, The Mormon Tabernacle Choir, Thin Lizzy

September 7, 2023 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

Dance Masters John Luongo CD box

Demon/Edsel's Dance Masters series only just released its second volume this summer - but a third one is on the way this fall, spotlighting the work of acclaimed remixer John Luongo. The Arthur Baker-presented series follows generous box sets on Shep Pettibone and Baker himself with a new overview of John "T.C." Luongo, who parlayed working in and around the Boston club scene into more than a decade of 12" remix work, first for some of the greatest R&B artists crossing over into disco,

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: ABC, Bananarama, Billy Idol, Cher, Dan Hartman, Daryl Hall and John Oates, Fine Young Cannibals, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Huey Lewis and The News, John Luongo, John Waite, Johnny Mathis, KC and the Sunshine Band, Level 42, Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Marlena Shaw, Melba Moore, Patti Labelle, Peter Schilling, Rick Springfield, Shakin' Stevens, Soft Cell, Tina Turner, Visage, Wang Chung, ZZ Top

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