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Release Round-Up: Week of August 5

August 5, 2022 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today! Michael Nesmith, Different Drum: The Lost RCA Victor Recordings (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music are bringing Michael Nesmith’s Different Drum: The Lost RCA Victor Recordings to vinyl for the first time today! This 2-LP compendium features 22 tracks on CD drawn from the RCA Victor vaults, most of which are new to vinyl. These songs were originally released to digital platforms in 2018 as bonus tracks…

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Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Country, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks

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Alan Silvestri, Andy Bey, Bobbie Gentry, Eugene Ormandy, James Horner, Jerry Lee Lewis, Judy Garland, Mario Lanza, Michael Nesmith, Neil Young, Paul McCartney, Promise of the Real, Sha Na Na, Tintern Abbey

Release Round-Up: Week of February 7

February 7, 2020 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Bryan Ferry, Live at the Royal Albert Hall 1974 (BMG) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Bryan Ferry’s Live at the Royal Albert Hall 1974 presents 14 selections recorded at the storied London venue in 1974 drawn from his first two solo albums. These range from classic standards (“These Foolish Things,” “Smoke Gets In Your Eyes”) to ’60s pop (“Don’t Worry Baby,” “It’s My Party”), rock (“A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall,” “Sympathy for the…

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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

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Al Jolson, Bobby Patterson, Bryan Ferry, Gil Scott-Heron, Mario Lanza, Paul Carrack, Richard Marx, Stone Temple Pilots, Tommy Sands

Release Round-Up: Week of March 4

March 4, 2016 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a host of titles on CD and vinyl! Fleetwood Mac, In Concert (Warner Bros./Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This 3-LP concert album features 22 live recordings from Fleetwood Mac’s 1979-1980 tour, originally presented in December on the Tusk Deluxe Edition box set, for the very first time on vinyl. The music heard on In Concert was recorded at four stops (Wembley, Tucson, St. Louis, Omaha) during the band’s 111-show world tour promoting Tusk. This release has been pressed on 180-gram vinyl with Tusk-inspired…

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CD, Digital Download, Vinyl

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

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Bing Crosby, Fleetwood Mac, Janis Joplin, Lords of the New Church, Loretta Lynn, Margaret Whiting, Mario Lanza, The O'Jays, The Three Degrees, Vic Dana

Release Round-Up: Week of February 10

February 10, 2015 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Mike + The Mechanics, Living Years: Deluxe Edition (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) This Deluxe Edition of Mike + The Mechanics’ 1988 album arrives in the U.S. with a second disc featuring “The Living Years 2014″ and live tracks culled from the band’s 1989 tour. Read our full coverage here. Paul Revere and the Raiders, The Complete Columbia Singles (Friday Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Friday Music has repackaged Collectors’ Choice Music’s 2010 three-disc collection of the complete Columbia singles output of the legendary band (“Kicks,” “Hungry,” “Just Like Me”)….

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Box Sets, CD, SACD, Vinyl

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Classical/Opera, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks

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Blood Sweat & Tears, Eddie Money, Engelbert Humperdinck, Judy Garland, Kylie Minogue, Mario Lanza, Melissa Manchester, Mike + The Mechanics, Paul Revere and The Raiders, Steve Tyrell

Release Round-Up: Week of August 27

August 27, 2013 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

The Beach Boys, Made in California (Capitol/UMe) Six discs of career-spanning tunes – hits and rarities aplenty – from the best band to come out of Hawthorne, California. (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Bob Dylan, Another Self Portrait (1969-1971): The Bootleg Series Vol. 10 (Columbia) Revisit one of the most polarizing periods of Dylan’s career with the latest Bootleg Series entry, featuring outtakes from Nashville Skyline, Self Portrait and New Morning. A deluxe version includes Dylan and The Band’s complete Isle of Wight performance and a remastered version of Self Portrait, and a vinyl version also exists. 2CD standard edition: Amazon U.S….

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Bob Dylan, Mario Lanza, Naked Eyes, Nina Simone, Robert Palmer, Sly & The Family Stone, The Band, The Beach Boys, Vinyl

Mario Lanza Is “The Toast of Hollywood” On New Set From TCM, Sony

August 26, 2013 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

In the 1950 film of the same name, Mario Lanza was anointed The Toast of New Orleans. According to the fine folks at Turner Classic Movies and Sony Masterworks, however, the Pennsylvania-born, Italian-American tenor is also The Toast of Hollywood. TCM and Masterworks are following up their 2012 release of Doris Day’s With a Smile and a Song with a new, similarly-designed 2-CD set dedicated to the late Hollywood singing star Lanza. The rich-voiced singer may have perished in 1959 at just 38 years of age, but his body of work on…

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