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Release Round-Up: Week of February 24

February 24, 2023 by The Second Disc | 4 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today. Various Artists, Soul’d Out: The Complete Wattstax Collection (Stax/Craft Recordings) Soul’d Out: The Complete Wattstax Collection: 12CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Wattstax: The Complete Concert: 6CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 10LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Best of Wattstax (Highlights) 1CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Wattstax: The Living Word 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Wattstax 2: The Living Word 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada One of the greatest music festivals of the ’70s is getting celebrated with an exhaustive array of reissues from…

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Blues, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Booker T. and the MG's, Harem Scarem, John Lee Hooker, Kaye Ballard, The Strokes, The Vogues, Vernon Duke

Release Round-Up: Week of June 10

June 10, 2022 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the titles hitting stores today! Elton John, Madman Across the Water: 50th Anniversary Edition (Rocket/UMe) 3CD/BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 4LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Elton John’s 1971 Madman Across the Water receives a new 50th anniversary reissue. Available in three different formats, its most expansive is a 3CD/Blu-ray collection that’ll offer the original album (remastered by Bob Ludwig in 2016), five rare bonus tracks, a dozen solo piano demos, an unreleased full version of outtake “Rock Me When He’s Gone,” Elton’s…

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Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock

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Alfred Drake, Ben Bagley, Bill Anderson, Blossom Dearie, Cab Calloway, Dolly Parton, Elaine Stritch, Elton John, Judy Garland, KISS, Kaye Ballard, Notorious B.I.G., Rufus Wainwright, The Rolling Stones

Love Makes the World Go ‘Round: Stage Door Reissues, Expands Broadway Cast Recording of “Carnival!”

April 29, 2022 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

The Grand Imperial Cirque de Paris is coming back to town! Stage Door Records has announced the latest in its series of Deluxe Edition cast recordings with a 2-CD expanded edition of the original 1961 Broadway Cast Recording of Michael Stewart and Bob Merrill’s Carnival! due on May 27. The David Merrick production opened at Broadway’s Imperial Theatre in April 1961, playing for 719 performances including a transfer to the Winter Garden. Carnival! was based on the 1953 MGM film Lili which starred Leslie Caron as the title character who strikes up…

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Anna Maria Alberghetti, Bob Merrill, Jerry Orbach, Kaye Ballard

I’m Back in Circulation: Kritzerland Reissues First Two Volumes of Ben Bagley’s “Cole Porter Revisited”

March 1, 2021 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

Over the weekend, Kritzerland announced the latest two titles in its ongoing reissue campaign of Ben Bagley’s Revisited series: Cole Porter Revisited and The Unpublished Cole Porter Vol. 2. The pride of Peru, Indiana, Porter (1891-1964) remains one of the Great American Songbook’s most renowned exponents. He lived long enough to see his classic songs such as “I’ve Got You Under My Skin,” “Night and Day,” “I Get a Kick Out of You,” “Just One of Those Things,” and “Anything Goes” become standards, and they’re still performed and recorded today. But Ben…

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Cast Recordings, Popular Standards/Vocal

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Alice Playten, Blossom Dearie, Bobby Short, Cole Porter, Karen Morrow, Kaye Ballard

Release Round-Up: Week of September 20

September 20, 2019 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Gerry Rafferty Who Knows What the Day Will Bring

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Judy Collins, The Elektra Albums: Volume Two (1970-1984) (Edsel) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Demon Music Group’s Edsel label is following up its July release of Judy Collins’ The Elektra Albums Volume One (1961-1968) with a second volume out today. The Elektra Albums Volume Two (1970-1984) finishes up the artist’s Elektra Records tenure, comprising these nine releases on CD in their original sequences: Whales and Nightingales (1970), Living (1971), True Stories and Other Dreams (1973), Judith (1975), Bread and Roses (1976), Hard Times…

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

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Classic Rock, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Rock

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