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April 22, 2022 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

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After a series of smaller "Drops" over the past two years, Record Store Day is (mostly) back to a one-day event, and the big day is tomorrow: Saturday, April 23.  Over 250 titles will be available at independent stores everywhere - including some CD releases, too!  That's plenty of albums in almost every genre imaginable, so visit RecordStoreDay.com in the U.S., RecordStoreDay.co.uk in the U.K., and RecordStoreDayCanada.ca in Canada for the complete list, and sound off below as to which titles

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Latin, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: America, Art Pepper, Belinda Carlisle, Blondie, Darlene Love, David Bowie, Del Shannon, Donna Summer, Elton John, Esther Marrow, Frankie Goes to Hollywood, Laura Nyro, Lou Reed, Madonna, Nick Lowe, Patti Smith, Ramones, Record Store Day, Santana, Scott Walker, Simple Minds

September 10, 2021 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Chicago at Carnegie Hall

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Chicago, Chicago at Carnegie Hall: Complete (Rhino) (Rhino.com) For the first time, Rhino brings together all eight of Chicago's concerts between April 5-10, 1971 at New York's Carnegie Hall in one deluxe, 16-CD box set.  The original 4-LP box Chicago at Carnegie Hall was a commercial smash, reaching No. 3 on the Billboard 200.  This set features every note played by the band as newly restored by the band's Lee Loughnane and engineer Tim

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Aaliyah, Andrea Bocelli, Chicago, Chris Jagger, Donny Osmond, Elvis Costello, Laura Nyro, Marillion, Metallica, Ray Charles, Rufus Wainwright, Suede

July 16, 2021 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Laura Nyro Trees of the Ages

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Tina Turner, Foreign Affair [Various Formats] (Parlophone/Rhino) 4CD/1DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Official Store (white variant) Rhino and Parlophone revisit Tina Turner's 1989 album featuring "The Best" in a variety of formats including a 4CD/DVD Super Deluxe Edition and 2CD and 2LP Deluxe Editions.  The Super Deluxe Edition

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Billy Paul, Boyz II Men, Brian Wilson, Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes, Il Divo, John Mayer, Laura Nyro, Lou Rawls, Smokey Robinson, Teddy Pendergrass, The Allman Brothers Band, The Flaming Lips, The Intruders, The O'Jays, The Tedeschi Trucks Band, Tina Turner, Vince Guaraldi

May 24, 2021 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Laura Nyro Trees of the Ages

55 years ago, Laura Nyro released her first album on Verve Folkways.  It lived up to its hyperbolic title, for the Bronx-born singer-songwriter was, indeed, More Than a New Discovery.  The Second Disc celebrated Laura's legacy with a vinyl reissue of that album's original mono mix as well as with A Little Magic, A Little Kindness: The Complete Mono Albums Collection on CD.  Earlier this year, the U.K.'s Madfish label announced American Dreamer, a vinyl box bringing together her 1966-1978 LPs

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Laura Nyro

April 27, 2021 By Joe Marchese 15 Comments

Laura Nyro American Dreamer Packshot

We've long championed the extraordinary legacy of Laura Nyro here at The Second Disc, including with our own releases with Real Gone Music of A Little Magic, A Little Kindness: The Complete Mono Albums Collection and the first mono vinyl reissue of the singer-songwriter's debut More Than a New Discovery.  Now, the U.K.'s Madfish label is returning her 1967-1978 catalogue for Verve and Columbia to vinyl in a new box set. The 8-LP box set American Dreamer is due on July 30.  The slipcased

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Laura Nyro

January 10, 2020 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Laura Nyro More Than a New Discovery

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Laura Nyro, More Than a New Discovery [Limited Violet Vinyl Mono Edition] (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Today's the day!  We're so proud to reissue, for the first time ever on vinyl (and in homage to the artist's favorite color), Laura Nyro's 1967 debut More Than a New Discovery in a violet vinyl limited edition of 1,250 copies.  This edition features the original, long out-of-print (and

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Ben E. King, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Glen Campbell, Laura Nyro, Mister Rogers, The Drifters

January 2, 2020 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Laura Nyro More Than a New Discovery

UPDATE 1/2/20: Over two years ago, Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music released A Little Magic, A Little Kindness: The Complete Mono Albums Collection from the late Laura Nyro. The centerpiece of that two-disc anthology was the world premiere CD release of the original mono version of Nyro's Verve Folkways debut, More Than a New Discovery. Now, that rare and superior mix is making its way to limited edition vinyl as our first release of 2020. Seldom has the title of a debut album been

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Laura Nyro

November 26, 2019 By The Second Disc 5 Comments

Laura Nyro More Than a New Discovery

Over two years ago, Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music released A Little Magic, A Little Kindness: The Complete Mono Albums Collection from the late Laura Nyro. The centerpiece of that two-disc anthology was the world premiere CD release of the original mono version of Nyro's Verve Folkways debut, More Than a New Discovery. Now, that rare and superior mix is making its way to limited edition vinyl as our first release of 2020. Seldom has the title of a debut album been more apt than the

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Laura Nyro

August 1, 2017 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Milk of the Tree

The new anthology Milk of the Tree, from Cherry Red's Grapefruit label, sets forth its mission statement clearly in its subtitle: An Anthology of Female Vocal Folk and Singer-Songwriters 1966-1973.  Still, how to anthologize such a broad and powerful group of artists during one of the most creatively fertile periods in popular music history?  Grapefruit does a fine job in distilling the essence of the period - and charting the growth of artists from a pure pop framework to one in which they

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Folk, Pop Tags: Jackie DeShannon, Janis Ian, Joan Baez, Laura Nyro, Linda Ronstadt, Marianne Faithfull, Various Artists

July 7, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Laura Nyro A Little Magic A Little Kindness

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up featuring our latest Second Disc Records title and much, much more! Laura Nyro, A Little Magic, A Little Kindness: The Complete Mono Albums Collection (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music are proud to present, for the first time on CD, the ultra-rare, original mono mixes of Laura Nyro's first two albums: More Than a New Discovery (Verve Folkways, 1967) and Eli

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Country, Disco/Dance, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Charley Pride, Chris Bell, Del Shannon, Delegation, Eddy Arnold, Keely Smith, Laura Nyro, Radiohead, Rosanne Cash, Tim Buckley, Weather Report

July 6, 2017 By Joe Marchese 8 Comments

Laura Nyro A Little Magic A Little Kindness

TOMORROW, July 7, Second Disc Records is proud to unveil its fifteenth release in conjunction with Real Gone Music - and quite possibly the title of which we're most proud. We're inviting you to surry to a stoned soul picnic to celebrate the music of visionary singer-songwriter Laura Nyro in the 50th anniversary year of her first release, More Than a New Discovery.  Throughout the course of her life, Nyro wrote and introduced some of the most beloved popular songs of all time with her

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Laura Nyro

May 17, 2017 By Joe Marchese 15 Comments

Laura Nyro A Little Magic A Little Kindness

Can you surry? Can you picnic? Laura Nyro, to use her own fanciful word, surried onto the scene 50 years ago with the release of her debut album More Than a New Discovery. Its title was certainly apt. Throughout the course of her life, Nyro wrote and introduced some of the most beloved popular songs of all time with her singular fusion of pop, jazz, R&B, soul, Broadway, gospel, and folk sounds.  Today, Second Disc Records is proud to join Real Gone Music to celebrate the golden anniversary

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Laura Nyro

January 6, 2017 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Laura Nyro Eli

Laura Nyro's 1966 debut album on Verve Records proclaimed the young singer-songwriter to be More Than a New Discovery, and the title wasn't mere hyperbole.  After all, the album introduced one chart-topper for The 5th Dimension, a Top 5 smash for Blood, Sweat and Tears, and a Top 10 hit for Barbra Streisand among its twelve songs.  How to top New Discovery?  Nyro's major-label debut at Columbia Records, 1968's Eli and the Thirteenth Confession, did just that, as one of the most strikingly

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Laura Nyro

December 9, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Randy Newman, The Randy Newman Songbook (Nonesuch) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The Randy Newman Songbook box set marks the first-ever combined release of all three of the legendary songwriter's piano-and-voice Songbook albums (including the new Vol. 3) recorded in 2003 and 2010 with producers Mitchell Froom and Lenny Waronker.  All songs have been resequenced as one cohesive, thematically-linked listening experience spread over 4

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Buck Owens, Evanescence, Kylie Minogue, Laura Nyro, Meat Loaf, Neil Young, Paul Desmond, Randy Newman, Social Distortion, The Cretones, The Doors

June 24, 2016 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Marvin Gaye Volume 2

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! The Bangles, Ladies and Gentlemen...The Bangles! (Omnivore) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Ladies and Gentlemen...The Bangles!, first released digitally in 2014, features all of the band's pre-Columbia studio material, plus four unreleased demos, two live tracks and other odds and ends!  It arrives in stores from Omnivore just before Susanna Hoffs, Vicki Peterson and Debbi Peterson hit the road again!  Read more here! Laura

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Barbara Cook, Henry Mancini, Jeff Wayne, Laura Nyro, Marvin Gaye, Neil Young, Steve Vai, The Bangles

June 6, 2016 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Laura Nyro Eli SACD

Audio Fidelity has recently become a home for rare quadraphonic recordings on SACD, and among the label's future offerings is a true classic from Laura Nyro in its immersive quad mix: 1968's Eli and the Thirteenth Confession.  Later this month, on June 24, the label will offer Eli on hybrid SACD (playable on all CD players) with the original stereo mix newly remastered by Steve Hoffman in high-resolution stereo and standard CD formats, and the rare 4.0 quad surround mix in high

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Categories: News Formats: SACD Genre: Pop Tags: Laura Nyro

June 1, 2016 By Joe Marchese 8 Comments

Laura Nyro Looms Desire

The venerable Rounder Records label, currently enjoying its 45th anniversary, has long been a leading light in the realm of roots music and Americana.  But those terms need not be applied solely to one type of music.  This month, as part of its ongoing digital catalogue initiative, Rounder is reissuing a number of titles blurring the genre lines of roots-rock and Americana.  Some of the familiar names represented in this go-round include Ann Wilson of Heart, Laura Nyro, David

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download Genre: Country, Folk, Pop, Rock Tags: Ann Wilson, David Bromberg, Laura Nyro, Martha Wainwright, NRBQ, Tiny TIm

February 10, 2015 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Analog Spark

With its upcoming roster boasting titles from Kate Bush, Ben Folds Five, The Dave Brubeck Quartet, Laura Nyro and Julie Andrews, the new audiophile label Analog Spark is pulling out all the stops for its debut this spring. Yesterday, Razor & Tie announced the launch of Analog Spark, a new imprint which will focus on reissued releases on both 180-gram vinyl and SACD. Razor & Tie co-owners Cliff Chenfeld and Craig Balsam commented, “We’re very excited about the launch of Analog Spark

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Categories: News Formats: SACD, Vinyl Genre: Jazz, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Ben Folds Five, Julie Andrews, Kate Bush, Laura Nyro, The Dave Brubeck Quartet

October 22, 2013 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

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Tears for Fears, The Hurting: Deluxe Edition (Mercury/UMe) The landmark debut album from the U.K. hitmakers celebrates its 30th anniversary with a new double-disc deluxe edition stocked with rare single-only material and a deluxe box set version with a bonus disc of John Peel sessions and the In My Mind's Eye live concert film on DVD. 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. 3CD/1DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Van Morrison, Moondance: Expanded Edition (Warner Bros./Rhino) Though Van would rather you

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, DVD Tags: Laura Nyro, Matt Monro, Queen, Robin Trower, Spencer Davis Group, Tears for Fears, Ten Years After, The Waterboys, TLC, UFO, Van Morrison

October 21, 2013 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

laura nyro smile

Iconoclassic Records is giving fans of the late Laura Nyro a reason to Smile with tomorrow’s expanded reissue of the singer-songwriter’s 1976 album of the same name.  Smile marked Nyro’s return to music after a four-year hiatus following her Gamble and Huff-produced Philly soul gem Gonna Take a Miracle. This reissue – which appends three bonus tracks receiving their first domestic release – is the latest in Iconoclassic’s impressive series which also includes reissues of Season of Lights (1977),

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Categories: News Tags: Laura Nyro

March 19, 2013 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

skydog duane allman retrospective

“I ain’t wastin’ time no more,” Gregg Allman sang following the death of his brother Duane at the age of 24 in October 1971, “’cause time goes by like pouring rain…and much faster things/You don’t need no gypsy to tell you why/You can’t let one precious day slip by.”  Surveying the remarkable new box set Skydog: The Duane Allman Retrospective (Rounder 11661-9137-2), it’s evident that Duane Allman’s too few days certainly were precious, filled with soulful sounds that transcended genre tags like

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets Tags: Laura Nyro, The Allman Brothers Band

October 22, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

sassafras and moonshine

In Wendy Wasserstein’s play Third, a professor is sitting at her desk, cigarette in hand, listening to “Wedding Bell Blues.”  Her student enters, and recognizes the tune: “Is that the 5th Dimension?”  The professor sharply replies, “Not in my office!”  Beat.  “It’s Laura Nyro.  She wrote it.”  He replies, “Cool.  Does she have anything new out?”  Professor Nancy Gordon answers, “She died of ovarian cancer a few years ago,” and changes the subject.  Cancer would take Wendy Wasserstein, too, like

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Categories: News Tags: Laura Nyro, The 5th Dimension

December 7, 2011 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Paul McCartney is not dead, but he is digital: a new beta version of his website, developed with Hewlett-Packard, brings his solo catalogue to fans through a cloud service, along with a host of interactive features. Fans can stream all of his studio albums (including collaboration projects like The Fireman and Twin Freaks) through a jukebox, and premium members can download that jukebox as a desktop app. Additionally, a new "Rude Studio" section of his site allows fans to play and mix

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: Laura Nyro, Paul McCartney, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Rush, The Beastie Boys, The Cure

September 9, 2010 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Laura Nyro (1947-1997) never became as famous as her songs. In an all-too-short 49 years, Nyro provided major hits for a diverse array of artists from Three Dog Night and Blood, Sweat & Tears to Barbra Streisand and most famously, The Fifth Dimension. Yet her own albums never achieved mainstream success, with audiences largely preferring to hear her compositions performed by others. (In this respect, she could be compared to her contemporary Jimmy Webb.) Perhaps this was just as well for the

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Categories: Features Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Back Tracks, Laura Nyro

May 24, 2010 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

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Yet another sub-genre of the catalogue world is the audiophile reissue. Companies like Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab, Audio Fidelity and Analogue Productions specialize in reissuing classic titles for an audiophile audience, often utilizing the original master tapes for a release on gold CD, hybrid SACD or high-quality LP. With excellent sound quality as the main mandate, bonus tracks and new liner notes are rare on these releases which generally intend to replicate the original artwork and

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Categories: News Tags: Laura Nyro, Stevie Wonder

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