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Release Round-Up: Week of May 3

May 3, 2024 by The Second Disc | 2 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. Belinda Carlisle, Decades Vol. 3: Cornucopia (Edsel) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Edsel continues its chronological collections of Belinda Carlisle’s albums with this Cornucopia. The 4-CD book-style box starts off with two discs of mostly “orphaned” tracks released largely between 1987 and 2021: B-sides, non-album and greatest hits-exclusive cuts, covers of John Lennon (“Jealous Guy”), Carpenters (“Bless the Beasts and the Children”), and the Sex Pistols (“Submission”), and even an…

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Release Round-Up

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

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Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks

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Belinda Carlisle, Elaine Brown, Holland-Dozier-Holland, Indigo Girls, Maurice White, Melanie, The Dixie Cups, Thomas Newman, Tweet

Take Me Higher: Omnivore Preps Maurice White Rarities, Silver Convention Singles

May 1, 2024 by The Second Disc | 6 Comments

Silver Convention Get Up and Boogie The Worldwide Singles

Today, we’re taking a look at two upcoming titles in a soul and R&B vein from Omnivore Recordings! This Friday, May 3, our friends at Omnivore have a treat for fans of Earth, Wind & Fire. The visionary founder and leader of EWF, the late Maurice White (1941-2016), only released one proper solo album in his lifetime (1985’s Maurice White). Working on the R&B and Dance chart-topper “System of Survival” for EWF’s album Touch the World, White inaugurated a friendship and collaboration with producer-songwriter Preston Glass. They continued to work together for…

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News

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Disco/Dance, R&B/Soul

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Maurice White, Preston Glass, Silver Convention

This Is Niecy: Cherry Red, SoulMusic Box Deniece Williams’ Complete Columbia Albums on “Free”

June 25, 2021 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

Let’s hear it for Deniece Williams. Since making her first big splash 45 years ago with debut album This is Niecy, the daughter of Gary, Indiana has scored 27 Billboard R&B hits and 14 Pop successes including two crossover Number Ones, won four Grammy Awards (and amassed another nine nominations), and recorded over fifteen albums blurring the lines between soul, pop, and gospel. Between 1976 and 1988, Williams made Columbia Records her home, both with Maurice White’s ARC imprint and with the label proper. Working with such top-drawer producers as White, Charles…

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News, Reviews

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Box Sets, CD

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Pop, R&B/Soul

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Deniece Williams, George Duke, Johnny Mathis, Maurice White, Thom Bell