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Release Round-Up: Week of March 13

March 13, 2026 by The Second Disc | 6 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Leon Russell with Mary Russell, The Paradise Years 1976-1981 (Cherry Red/Lemon/Second Disc) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Cherry Red) Second Disc Records teams with Cherry Red’s Lemon Recordings imprint to release the first-ever collection of Leon Russell’s recordings for the Warner-distributed Paradise Records label. The Paradise Years 1976-1981 presents, on four CDs, six full albums plus seven bonus tracks, all of which are new to CD. These encompass the non-LP B-side…

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Release Round-Up

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

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

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Kim Wilde, Leon Russell, Liza Minnelli, Mary Russell, Miles Davis, Peter Gabriel, Rush

The Weekend Stream: November 22, 2025

November 22, 2025 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

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. A real grab bag for you before the Thanksgiving holiday: cut songs from Broadway comedies, rarities from a ’60s soul/rock legend, an inexplicably remastered charity single, rare 12″ mixes and remastered jazz. Have a listen, won’t you?? Various Artists, Monty Python’s Spamalot (Original Broadway Cast Recording/20th Anniversary Edition) (Decca Broadway) (Apple / Amazon) Something to (always) look on the bright side of life over: a new reissue of the music…

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The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

Life and Soul: Cherry Pop Releases Kim Wilde’s New Album “Closer” Following Three Expanded Editions

February 4, 2025 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Kim Wilde’s new album, Closer, has arrived from Cherry Red. It’s followed the release late in 2024 of three generously expanded editions from the singer’s MCA catalogue, all newly remastered by Tom Parker and annotated by Marcel Rijs, the co-compilers of these comprehensive sets. Wilde welcomed the 1990s with Love Moves. Her seventh studio album, it followed a successful tour with Michael Jackson as well as her U.K. Platinum-certified 1988 LP Close. Wilde described the album as a personal one, reflecting on current events in such songs as “Who’s to Blame” (“Just…

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Disco/Dance, Pop

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Kim Wilde

Release Round-Up: Week of February 23

February 23, 2024 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles available today! As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. Davy Jones, The Bell Records Story (7a) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 7a Records reissues and expands the late Davy Jones’ second solo LP, 1971’s Davy Jones as part of the artist’s The Bell Records Story. The album was in a sunshine pop-meets-bubblegum vein, but it carried on the spirit of the early Monkees with strong tunes including some from songwriters who had written for the group (David…

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Release Round-Up

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

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Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Blood Sweat and Tears, Davy Jones, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Jools Holland, Kim Wilde, Kissing the Pink, Melissa Manchester, Michael Feinstein, Natalie Douglas, Neil Young, Rod Stewart, The Dream Academy, The Waterboys

The Year In Review: The 2021 Gold Bonus Disc Awards, From A to Z – Part Two

January 4, 2022 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

Happy 2022! Welcome, friends, to Part Two of The Second Disc’s 12th Annual Gold Bonus Disc Awards! Once again, we’ve all faced unprecedented challenges over the past twelve months. A year that began with hope and promise has ended with further uncertainty for many of us. But music continues to fill a significant role in our lives, providing solace, comfort, and escape in a time unlike any other. With that spirit in mind, The Second Disc wishes to recognize 2021’s cream of the catalogue music crop – those exemplary reissues and box…

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Features

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

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Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Country, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks

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Barbra Streisand, Bill Evans, Bob Dylan, Bob Wills, David Bowie, Eugene Ormandy, Frank Zappa, Henry Mancini, Kim Wilde, Olivia Newton-John, Shep Pettibone, The Beau Brummels, Trini Lopez, Various Artists

Release Round-Up: Week of August 6

August 6, 2021 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! George Harrison, All Things Must Pass: 50th Anniversary [Various Formats] (Capitol/UMe) 5CD/BD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 8LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 5LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3CD (contains CD 1, CD 2 & CD 5, below): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 3LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD (contains CD 1 & CD 2 only): Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Limited Edition 3LP: GeorgeHarrison.com/uDiscoverMusic.com/Sound of Vinyl Uber Box Set: GeorgeHarrison.com/uDiscoverMusic.com/Sound of Vinyl George Harrison’s 1970 triple-album masterwork is celebrated with a variety of formats. The 5CD and 8LP super deluxe iterations are fulsome, boasting 70 tracks including the remixed…

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Release Round-Up

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

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

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Barbra Streisand, Bill Evans, Brian May, Colin Hay, Ellen Foley, George Harrison, Kate Taylor, Kim Wilde

Kids In America: Kim Wilde’s First Three Albums Get Deluxe Treatment From Cherry Red

February 3, 2020 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

We’re all young heroes/We only wanna be free… Kim Wilde’s first three albums, originally released on RAK Records between 1981 and 1983, have returned to CD and vinyl from Cherry Red’s Cherry Pop imprint. Daughter of rock-and-roller Marty Wilde (also the subject of a recent retrospective from Cherry Red), Kim rose to fame on the international success of her debut single “Kids in America” which inaugurated a run of five consecutive top 20 hit singles in the United Kingdom. (“Kids” went top 40 in the U.S. and Canada, went to No. 1…

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News

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CD, DVD

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Pop

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Kim Wilde

Release Round-Up: Week of January 31

January 31, 2020 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Rod McKuen, New Ballads (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Real Gone celebrates the late Rod McKuen with a slate of releases this week. For the 1970 album New Ballads, the singer-songwriter teamed with renowned arranger-conductor Don Costa for this remarkable collection of songs including “As I Love My Own,” the dramatic Jacques Brel collaboration “I’m Not Afraid,” “Thank You for Christmas,” and a composition which could have been McKuen’s credo: “Hit ‘Em in the Head with Love.” New Ballads showcases…

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Release Round-Up

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

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Funk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul

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Burt Bacharach, Charles Wright and the 103rd Street Rhythm Band, Howard Jones, Jacques Brel, Jefferson Airplane, Kim Wilde, Melody Federer, Neneh Cherry, Richard Adler, Rod McKuen, Scott Walker