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August 7, 2022 By Mike Duquette 2 Comments

Stream

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there's plenty of great new/old music to discover! From new remixes of old favorites and throwback remixes of new hits, to deep dives into '80s alt-rock, mid-century easy listening, '70s live folk and '90s tracks to run on the beach in slow motion to...we're pulling out all this stops this Sunday! Beyoncé & Madonna, Break My Soul (The Queens Remix)

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Categories: The Weekend Stream Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Country, Disco/Dance, Folk, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Beyoncé, Blood Sweat & Tears, Con Funk Shun, David Hasselhoff, Jimi Jamison, Joan Baez, Kris Kristofferson, Laura Branigan, Les Baxter, Madonna, Mickey Gilley, Roger Miller, Tanya Tucker, Teddy Riley, The Beach Boys, The Catherine Wheel, The Jets, The Supremes, The Waitresses, Wham!

May 6, 2022 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

Melissa Manchester Live 77

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles out today including a very special pair from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music! Melissa Manchester, Live '77 (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music proudly present the premiere release of Melissa Manchester's Live '77, recorded by Arista Records in October 1977 at Gainesville, Florida's Great Southern

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Categories: Features, Giveaways!, Holiday Gift Guide, Interviews, News, Reissue Theory, Release Round-Up, Reviews, The Weekend Stream Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Bette Midler, Darlene Love, Dusty Springfield, Graham Nash, John Fred and His Playboy Band, Les Baxter, Melissa Manchester, Neil Young, Ray Charles, Savage Republic, Sheryl Crow, The Blossoms, The Knack, Timothy B. Schmit

May 4, 2022 By Randy Fairman 3 Comments

Savage Republic Tragic Figures

This coming Friday, May 6, sees two releases on Second Disc Records through Real Gone Music: The Complete Reprise Recordings Plus! from Darlene Love and Live 1977 from Melissa Manchester.  But joining those two on Real Gone's slate are another two reissues: a new vinyl version of Les Baxter's Soul of the Drums and, on CD and LP, an expanded version of Savage Republic's 1982 debut album: Tragic Figures. First up is 1963's Soul of the Drums by Les Baxter and his Orchestra.  Along with Martin

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Les Baxter, Savage Republic

May 1, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

unchained melody

It began life as the theme to a 1955 B-movie that asked, “No locks!  No walls!  In the prison without bars!  What keeps men like these from crashing out?”  The film was Unchained, and the song was “Unchained Melody” with music by Alex North (A Streetcar Named Desire, Spartacus) and lyrics by Hy Zaret (“Dedicated to You”).  Though the movie - in which just a brief snippet of the song was sung by Porgy and Bess’ original Porgy, Todd Duncan – is hardly remembered today, the intensely romantic

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Categories: News Tags: Les Baxter, Matt Monro, The Lettermen, The Righteous Brothers, Waylon Jennings

August 15, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

greatest hits from outer space

Ace Records is Going Wild!…not just with a rip-roaring rock-and-roll compilation of that name, but with a journey to the farthest reaches of the galaxy!  Yes, the London-based label is travelling from the Bay Area to the Milky Way with two of its latest releases: Greatest Hits from Outer Space and Going Wild! Music City Rock 'n' Roll. Based on the 24 tracks of Ace’s Greatest Hits from Outer Space, the final frontier engaged a wide variety of artists in every conceivable musical genre.  On this

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Categories: News Tags: Les Baxter, The Byrds, The Ventures, Thelma Houston

October 18, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

geisha boy

Though the 1992 soundtrack to Mick Jackson's film The Bodyguard is the best-selling soundtrack album of all time, its success was largely on the strength of star Whitney Houston's performances of "I Will Always Love You," "I Have Nothing" and "I'm Every Woman."  Featured on just one track was the work of Alan Silvestri, the composer of Back to the Future and Who Framed Roger Rabbit who provided the film's original score.  The under-three minute snippet featured on the Grammy-winning Arista album

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Categories: News Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Les Baxter, Walter Scharf

December 19, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

kl trialcov72

2011 may be coming to a close, but the Kritzerland label still has a couple of surprises up its sleeve.  The label this morning announced its final two releases of the year, and both are offbeat gems: Lex Baxter's scores to two Edgar Allan Poe offerings (Roger Corman's 1963 The Raven and the Vincent Price-starring 1970 television special An Evening with Edgar Allan Poe) and Jean Ledrut's score to Orson Welles' 1962 film The Trial, described by the Citizen Kane director as "the best film I ever

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Categories: News Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Les Baxter

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