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The Weekend Stream: April 25, 2025

April 26, 2025 by The Second Disc | 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. Strap in for a killer line-up of titles this week: two more Record Store Day debuts, an incredible posthumous collaboration between two ’80s icons, the return of one of glam’s most beloved bands, new music by some of our favorite pop girls, a hotly anticipated new take on a Broadway favorite, exciting moments in gospel/soul, an exciting new song from a forthcoming West End musical by one of…

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The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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CCM, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

The Weekend Stream: April 12, 2025

April 12, 2025 by The Second Disc | No 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. By now, you might have hit your participating local shop for Record Store Day – and happily, we’re kicking off this Saturday’s column to share material from five exclusive vinyl titles that are getting a second life in the streaming and download world too. It’s a great way to check out some titles if you missed them, or weren’t sure if you wanted to add them to your…

Release Round-Up: Week of June 30

June 30, 2023 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Frank Zappa, Funky Nothingness (Zappa/UMe) 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Zappa.com / uDiscoverMusic.com 2LP Standard Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Zappa.com / uDiscoverMusic.com 2LP Colored Vinyl with exclusive guitar pick: Zappa.com / uDiscoverMusic.com / SoundofVinyl.com UMe and Zappa Records have taken another deep dive into the vaults for Funky Nothingness. Recorded in the year following the release of Hot Rats and building upon its sound with many of the same musicians including Ian Underwood, violinist Don “Sugarcane” Harris, and Wrecking Crew bassist Max Bennett, the previously unreleased sessions include both compositions and jams. The five-piece group was completed by drummer Aynsley Dunbar whom…

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Release Round-Up

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Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock

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Alan Jay Lerner, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Big Country, Blossom Dearie, Charlie Watts, Frank Zappa, Frederick Loewe, Grateful Dead, Jerry Garcia Band, Johnny Desmond, Jule Styne, Lucinda Williams, The Baseball Project, Vivian Blaine

Dance Only with Me: Stage Door Reissues Styne, Comden, and Green’s “Say, Darling” as Deluxe Edition

June 21, 2023 by Joe Marchese | 3 Comments

Upon its May 13, 1954 opening, The Pajama Game was an instant smash. The Tony Award-winning Best Musical by George Abbott, Richard Bissell, Richard Adler, and Jerry Ross went on to run 1,063 performances and inspire a London production, two Broadway revivals, and countless regional, school, and community theatre productions. But for Bissell, the Iowa-born author of the novel 7-1/2 Cents on which The Pajama Game was based, the road to Broadway was a bumpy one. Bissell put his memories to paper in an amusing, semi-autobiographical 1957 novel entitled Say, Darling which…

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Cast Recordings

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Betty Comden and Adolph Green, Johnny Desmond, Jule Styne, Vivian Blaine

Release Round-Up: Week of September 25

September 25, 2020 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Diana Ross & The Supremes, Sing and Perform Funny Girl (Second Disc/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music) Real Gone Music and Second Disc Records debut Diana Ross & The Supremes Sing and Perform “Funny Girl”: The Ultimate Edition, a deluxe 2-CD celebration of the classic 1968 Motown-meets-Broadway gem. Greatly building upon the digital-only Expanded Edition issued in 2014, The Ultimate Edition boasts the album in its original U.S. stereo mix and rare U.K. mono mix; The Supreme Mixes reinstating Mary Wilson and Cindy Birdsong’s original…

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Release Round-Up

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Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, DVD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks

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Big Country, Bob Merrill, Chubby Checker, Coolio, Diana Krall, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Jule Styne, Kellee Patterson, Kevin Rowland, Lou Reed, Peggy Lee, Prince, Raymond Scott, Slade, The Rolling Stones, Todd Rundgren

OUT TOMORROW! Diana Ross and The Supremes’ “Funny Girl: The Ultimate Edition” Arrives from Second Disc, Real Gone

September 24, 2020 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

Diana Ross and The Supremes Funny Girl Ultimate

Tomorrow’s the day! Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music are proud to present the worldwide CD premiere of Diana Ross and The Supremes’ Sing and Perform “Funny Girl”: The Ultimate Edition. Let us take you back in time to 1968, when nobody – no, nobody was gonna rain on their parade. With new member Cindy Birdsong joining Miss Ross and Mary Wilson, the group released no fewer than five albums that year, all of which showcased their extraordinary versatility. One of those LPs was to be their only full-length tribute to…

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Cast Recordings, Pop, R&B/Soul

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Bob Merrill, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Jule Styne

Don’t Rain on Their Parade: Diana Ross and The Supremes’ “Funny Girl” Comes to Deluxe CD from Second Disc Records, Real Gone Music

August 5, 2020 by The Second Disc | 28 Comments

Nobody – no, nobody was gonna rain on Diana Ross and The Supremes’ parade. With new member Cindy Birdsong joining Miss Ross and Mary Wilson, the group released no fewer than five albums in 1968, all of which showcased their extraordinary versatility. One of those LPs was to be their only full-length tribute to a classic Broadway score – and what a tribute it was from three of Motown’s “greatest stars.” Diana Ross & The Supremes Sing and Perform “Funny Girl” featured the group’s dynamic renditions of Jule Styne and Bob Merrill’s…

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Cast Recordings, Pop, R&B/Soul

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Bob Merrill, Diana Ross, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Jule Styne, The Supremes

Coming Up Roses: Analog Spark Reissues Classic Musicals From Sondheim, Rodgers and Hammerstein, More

April 24, 2017 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Analog Spark kicked off 2016 with a trio of cast recordings – Fiddler on the Roof, My Fair Lady, and West Side Story – on deluxe 180-gram vinyl LPs, and now, the label is welcoming this spring with another three landmark titles from the Sony vaults: Columbia Records’ original Broadway cast recordings of South Pacific (1949), Gypsy (1959), and Company (1970) – each one representing a classic period of American musical theatre. Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II’s South Pacific, the team’s fourth Broadway musical (and fifth overall collaboration, counting the 1945…

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News, Reviews

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Vinyl

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Cast Recordings

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Arthur Laurents, Jule Styne, Oscar Hammerstein II, Richard Rodgers, Stephen Sondheim