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The Weekend Stream: December 2, 2023

December 2, 2023 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

Welcome to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc’s review of notable catalogue titles making digital debuts. This week’s latest includes anniversary projects from Alicia Keys, live vault material from Bruce Springsteen, an oddity from The Alan Parsons Project and possibly the only article where Taylor Swift shares space with Minor Threat! Alicia Keys, The Diary of Alicia Keys 20 (RCA/Legacy) (iTunes / Amazon) Legacy Recordings celebrates two decades of R&B pianist/singer Alicia Keys’ sophomore album, featuring the hits “You Don’t Know My Name” and “If I Ain’t Got You.” The album…

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The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Classic Rock, Everything Else, Holiday, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Alicia Keys, Britny Fox, Bruce Springsteen, Keane, Michel Legrand, Minor Threat, Plush, Siedah Garrett, Taylor Swift, The Alan Parsons Project, The Bongos

Ageless and Evergreen: New Barbra Streisand Compilation, ‘Yentl’ Deluxe Reissue Due in October

September 11, 2023 by Joe Marchese | 6 Comments

On November 7, Barbra Streisand will release her long-awaited memoir. My Name Is Barbra shares its name with the superstar’s fifth Columbia Records album, originally released in 1967, and promises to trace her life and career from her Brooklyn roots through her triumphs in Broadway, Hollywood, on the concert stage, and beyond. Before that, though, the EGOT winner and 46-time Grammy nominee (and eight-time winner!) is gifting fans with two new releases. On October 27, Streisand will look back on her remarkable recording career with Evergreens: Celebrating Six Decades on Columbia Records;…

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Barbra Streisand, Michel Legrand

Soundtrack Watch: Intrada Expands ‘An American Tail,’ La-La Land Releases Scores by Zimmer and Legrand

February 12, 2019 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Almost halfway through February, three soundtracks from titans of film composing have been released by the fine folks at Intrada and La- La Land Records. On Monday, Intrada’s latest archival soundtrack was announced: an expansion of James Horner’s score to the hit An American Tail. Directed by Don Bluth (The Secret of NIMH, All Dogs Go To Heaven) and produced by Steven Spielberg, this movie–one of the few mainstream animated films of the ’80s not produced by Disney–tells the story of Fievel Mousekewitz, a Russian Jewish mouse separated from his family while…

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Hans Zimmer, James Horner, James Ingram, Linda Ronstadt, Michel Legrand

Release Round-Up: Week of January 5

January 5, 2018 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

Welcome to the first Release Round-Up of the new year! David Bowie, Beauty and the Beast [7-Inch Vinyl Single] (Parlophone/Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) David Bowie’s series of 40th anniversary series continues with the picture-disc release of “Beauty and the Beast” from Heroes, backed with a live version of “Blackout” from Berlin’s Deutschlandhalle on May 16, 1978. The A-side boasts a photo of Bowie from Japan 1977, while the flip has him in NYC in 1978. Natalie Dessay and Michel Legrand, Between Yesterday and Tomorrow (Sony Classical) CD: Amazon…

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Release Round-Up

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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

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Daryl Hall and John Oates, David Bowie, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Meat Loaf, Michel Legrand, Natalie Dessay

Back To The Tallahatchie Bridge: Kritzerland Reissues Bobbie Gentry, Michel Legrand’s “Ode to Billy Joe”

May 1, 2017 by Joe Marchese | 4 Comments

Billie Joe McAllister jumped off the Tallahatchie Bridge and right into the hearts and minds of listeners as the subject of Bobbie Gentry’s gothic mystery in song, “Ode to Billie Joe.” The 1967 single from the country songstress – recorded far from Chickasaw County, Mississippi, in Hollywood, California – went to No. 1 on the U.S. Hot 100 while also charting on the Easy Listening, Country, and R&B (!) surveys. It topped the charts in Canada, and made an impressive No. 13 showing in the United Kingdom, and picked up four Grammy…

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Bobbie Gentry, Michel Legrand

But Never Ever On A Sunday: él Collects Greek Cinema Classics, Early Michel Legrand

March 28, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

For the past seven decades, Michel Legrand has been composing rich melodies for film, stage, television and records. The three-time Academy Award winner and co-writer of such songs as “The Windmills of Your Mind,” “What Are You Doing the Rest of Your Life” and “Happy (Love Theme from Lady Sings the Blues)” has been a prolific recording artist since the 1950s, and now Cherry Red’s él label has recently reissued some of his earliest work on Bonjour Paris/Le Joli Mai/Rendez-vous a Paris. The American Columbia Records label took an interest in the French…

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Manos Hadjidakis, Melina Mercouri, Michel Legrand, Mikis Theodorakis, Nana Mouskouri

Release Round-Up: Week of October 14

October 14, 2014 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Diana Ross, Why Do Fools Fall in Love / Silk Electric / Ross / Swept Away / Eaten Alive / Red Hot Rhythm and Blues (Expanded Editions) (Funky Town Grooves) Why Do Fools Fall in Love: Expanded Edition (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Silk Electric: Expanded Edition (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Ross: Expanded Edition (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Swept Away: Deluxe Edition (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Eaten Alive: Deluxe Edition (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Red Hot Rhythm and Blues: Deluxe Edition (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Funky Town…

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News, Release Round-Up

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Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, DVD

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Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks

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Billy Strayhorn, Bing Crosby, Bob Seger, Diana Ross, Foreigner, Madeleine Peyroux, Michel Legrand, Miles Davis, Ozzy Osbourne, Swing Out Sister, The Kinks

Release Round-Up: Week of September 2

September 2, 2014 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Willie Hutch, In Tune (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) / Willie Hutch, Midnight Dancer (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) / Esther Phillips, Alone Again, Naturally (Expanded Edition) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. ) /Ullanda McCullough, Ullanda McCullough/Watching You, Watching Me (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) / Ray Griff, The Entertainer – Greatest U.S. & Canadian Hits (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) / Rick Wakeman, Rick Wakeman’s Criminal Record (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) / The Ides of March, Vehicle (Expanded Edition) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) / Grateful Dead, Dick’s Picks Vol….

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News, Release Round-Up

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CD, SACD

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Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks

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Big Star, Michel Legrand, Rick Wakeman, The Grateful Dead, The Ides of March