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Release Round-Up: Week of February 23

February 23, 2024 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

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. Davy Jones, The Bell Records Story (7a) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 7a Records reissues and expands the late Davy Jones’ second solo LP, 1971’s Davy Jones as part of the artist’s The Bell Records Story. The album was in a sunshine pop-meets-bubblegum vein, but it carried on the spirit of the early Monkees with strong tunes including some from songwriters who had written for the group (David…

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Release Round-Up

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

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

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Blood Sweat and Tears, Davy Jones, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, Jools Holland, Kim Wilde, Kissing the Pink, Melissa Manchester, Michael Feinstein, Natalie Douglas, Neil Young, Rod Stewart, The Dream Academy, The Waterboys

Something Big: Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme Celebrated on Upcoming Public Television Special

October 23, 2023 by The Second Disc | 18 Comments

“Steve and Eydie represent all that is good about performers and the interpretation of a song,” Frank Sinatra once observed. “They’re the best.” Without a doubt, anyone who’d had the opportunity to see Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme onstage – or any of their hundreds of television appearances over five decades – would agree with the Chairman of the Board’s assessment. Now, the couple’s extraordinary career is being celebrated on a remarkable new Public Television special which debuts on stations nationwide the weekend of December 2, 2023. Steve and Eydie’s composer-musician son…

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News

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CD, DVD

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Popular Standards/Vocal

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Carol Burnett, Eydie Gorme, Michael Feinstein, Sammy Davis Jr., Steve Lawrence, Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme

Anchors Aweigh! “From Hollywood to the World – The Rediscovered Recordings by José Iturbi” Arrives from Sony Classical

May 17, 2023 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Conductor-pianist José Iturbi (1895-1980) broadened the audience for classical music with his appearances in such classic MGM musicals as Thousands Cheer, Anchors Aweigh, Three Daring Daughters, and the Chopin biopic A Song to Remember. Now, Iturbi is the subject of a lavish 16-CD box set from Sony Classical. From Hollywood to the World – The Rediscovered Recordings by José Iturbi features all of the recordings made by Iturbi and his sister Amparo Iturbi (also a pianist) for RCA Victor between 1933 and 1955, including many previously unissued recordings. Born in Valencia, Spain,…

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News

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Box Sets, CD

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Classical/Opera

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José Iturbi, Michael Feinstein

Release Round-Up: Week of March 11

March 11, 2022 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the titles arriving in stores today! Grateful Dead, Road Trips Vol. 1 No. 4: From Egypt with Love (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) A little over a month after playing a concert on the desert grounds surrounding the Great Pyramids of Giza in Egypt, the Grateful Dead returned home to San Francisco for a five-show stint at Winterland. The band brought along a slide show of their Egyptian stand and introduced the audience to the masterful…

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Release Round-Up

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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

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