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

Reissues…and Stuff Like That! Classic Quincy Jones Titles Due on Vinyl, SHM-CD This Summer

April 30, 2025 by Mike Duquette | 3 Comments

A cadre of titles from the discography of the late Quincy Jones – spanning nearly 25 years of his storied career – are coming back into print on physical formats thanks to the shared efforts of Universal’ Music Group’s teams in America and Japan. Coming June 6 are new SHM-CD pressings of seven of Jones’ LPs: This is How I Feel About Jazz (1957), The Quintessence (1962), Big Band Bossa Nova (1962), Walking in Space (1969), Body Heat (1974), Mellow Madness (1975), Sounds…and Stuff Like That!! (1978) and The Dude (1981). Each will be packaged in the usual style, as part of UMG’s “All of…

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Jazz, Latin, Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks

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Ashford and Simpson, Chaka Khan, Charles Mingus, Herbie Mann, James Ingram, Lalo Schifrin, Leon Ware, Luther Vandross, Minnie Riperton, Patti Austin, Quincy Jones, Zoot Sims

Soundtrack Watch: Intrada Delivers Two John Barry Classics, La-La Land Lights Fuse on “Mission: Impossible”

September 24, 2019 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Fans of John Barry have double the delight coming their way this week, with two hugely expanded scores from the late British composer. First up is one of the weirdest films Barry’s got his name on: the critically-maligned, George Lucas-produced adaptation of Marvel Comics’ Howard The Duck. The film, co-starring Lea Thompson as Howard’s…uh…human love interest, was scored by Barry and re-scored in part by composer Sylvester LeVay. Part of Barry’s score ended up on the second side of a soundtrack album featuring rock songs written for Thompson’s in-film band, Cherry Bomb,…

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Danny Elfman, John Barry, Lalo Schifrin, Thomas Dolby

Universal Pictures, La-La Land Team For New Soundtrack Imprint

June 25, 2018 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

On Friday, Universal Pictures announced plans to preserve and restore its classic library of movie music as well as the birth of a new imprint to release those scores on compact disc. The Universal Pictures Film Music Heritage Collection will launch this week as a joint venture with La-La Land Records with the premiere release of Michel Colombier’s 1970 score to the sci-fi thriller Colossus: The Forbin Project. In August, Henry Mancini’s score to the 1979 Peter Sellers remake of The Prisoner of Zenda will follow. Titles are expected to be released…

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Ennio Morricone, Harold Faltermeyer, Henry Mancini, Lalo Schifrin, Michel Colombier

Release Round-Up: Week of September 30

September 30, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 7 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! The Rolling Stones, The Rolling Stones in Mono (ABKCO) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Rolling Stones in Mono captures, on 15 CDs or 16 LPs, the original mono albums released on both sides of the Atlantic between 1964 and 1969 including the exceptionally rare mono editions of Their Satanic Majesties Request (1967), Beggars Banquet (1968) and Let It Bleed (1969). Exclusive to the box is Stray Cats, a single-CD/double-LP collection of mono single-only material and odds and ends,…

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

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Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks

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Emerson Lake and Palmer, Eric Clapton, Erroll Garner, Graham Parker, Herb Alpert, Jimi Hendrix, John Prine, Lalo Schifrin, Sting, Syreeta, Temple of the Dog, The Rolling Stones, Van Morrison, Yes

Towering Twosome: Robinsongs Reissues Jazz-Disco Classics From Lalo Schifrin, Brick

July 28, 2016 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

In a career now in its seventh decade, there’s little that Lalo Schifrin hasn’t accomplished. The four-time Grammy-winning Argentinean composer-arranger-conductor created one of the most memorable television themes of all time with his “Mission: Impossible,” worked with Count Basie, Cannonball Adderley and Sarah Vaughan, scored innumerable films (racking up six Oscar nominations in the process) and released a variety of solo albums for labels including Verve, Tabu and CTI. Two of his LPs for the latter label have been reissued on one CD by Cherry Red’s Robinsongs imprint: 1976’s Black Widow and…

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Brick, Lalo Schifrin

Lalo Schifrin Casts a Spell On Two New Reissues From Tabu Label

January 28, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

It’s never been easy to pigeonhole Lalo Schifrin. The four-time Grammy-winning Argentinian composer created one of the most memorable television themes of all time with his “Mission: Impossible,” recorded jazz albums for labels including Verve and Creed Taylor’s CTI, worked with Count Basie, Cannonball Adderley and Sarah Vaughan, and scored innumerable films, racking up six Oscar nominations in the process. Now, Demon Music Group has reissued two lost gems of the Schifrin oeuvre, both originally recorded for Clarence Avant’s Tabu label, for the first time on CD. Gypsies (1978) and No One…

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