Release Round-Up: Week of May 22

May 22, 2026 by The Second Disc | No Comments
Mungo Jerry Undefinable

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the new titles out today!  As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. The Cranberries, Everybody Else Is Doing It So Why Can’t We? [Deluxe Edition] (Island/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This 2CD Deluxe Edition of The Cranberries’ 1993 album boasts remastered audio overseen by the original producer Stephen Street, plus a new mix of the album made at Abbey Road. The bonus disc then adds outtakes, previously unreleased live tracks from the group’s London Astoria II…

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Rock ‘n’ Roll, Rock ‘n’ Roll: Mungo Jerry’s “Snakebite Revisited” Arrives from 7a Records

September 11, 2025 by The Second Disc | No Comments
Mungo Jerry Snakebite Revisited

Following last year’s expanded edition of Mungo Jerry’s breakthrough album Electronically Tested – featuring the band’s evergreen hit “In the Summertime” – 7a Records has returned to Mungo’s discography with a generously expanded presentation of 1990’s Snakebite. Available now, Snakebite has been reconceived by Ray Dorset, a.k.a. Mungo Jerry, as Snakebite Revisited.  This remastered edition now features 17 songs, including rarities and previously unissued rehearsal takes, on CD, and 13 tracks on vinyl. The original Snakebite was conceived by Dorset as a way to preserve the performances of his then-current live band,…

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Release Round-Up: Week of July 19

July 19, 2024 by The Second Disc | 5 Comments
War The World Is a Ghetto

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. Mungo Jerry, Electronically Tested: Expanded Edition (7a Records) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Mungo Jerry’s eclectic 1971 album Electronically Tested, featuring the global hit “In the Summertime,” returns in a newly remastered and expanded edition from our friends at 7a Records. It adds four bonus tracks including the infectious single “Lady Rose” and its flipside “Little Louis,” the B-side “The Man Behind the Piano,” and…

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When The Weather Is High: Mungo Jerry’s “Electronically Tested” Returns from 7a Records on CD, LP

July 16, 2024 by The Second Disc | No Comments
Mungo Jerry Electronically Tested

The summer of 1970 was the summer of Mungo Jerry.  The British band’s catchy “In the Summertime” began a seven-week stay atop the U.K. Singles Chart, while in the U.S., Mungomania propelled the tune to No. 1 on Record World and No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100.  Now, 7a Records is preparing for another wave of Mungomania with the well-timed release on July 19 of the band’s 1971 album Electronically Tested in newly remastered and expanded editions on both CD and LP. With its mélange of varied musical styles including rock-and-roll,…

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Ace Explores Rock, Jazz Through the Lens of History with “Three Day Week” and “If You’re Not Part of the Solution”

June 5, 2019 by Joe Marchese | No Comments
Three Day Week

Ace Records, as always, has delivered some of 2019’s finest collections including Songwriter Series volumes dedicated to Eddie Hinton, Leonard Cohen and Merle Haggard, and celebrations of producer Mickie Most and musician Reggie Young.  Today, we’re taking a look at a pair of the label’s other recent releases. Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs present Three Day Week: When the Lights Went Out 1972-1975 (Ace CDCHD 1542) is another sublimely curated compilation focusing on a particular period of history following titles such as the acclaimed State of the Union: The American Dream in…

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Joy Ride: Cherry Red Boxes Up Albums From Rick Derringer, Mungo Jerry

December 21, 2017 by Joe Marchese | No Comments
Rick Derringer Joy Ride

Cherry Red has recently collected up the albums of two very different artists from the 1970s as compact clamshell box sets.  The label’s Hear No Evil Recordings imprint is taking listeners on a Joy Ride with four Epic solo albums from guitar great Rick Derringer, while 7Ts Records has expanded editions of five Dawn albums from the group Mungo Jerry as The Dawn Albums Collection. Joy Ride: Solo Albums 1973-1980 follows the release earlier this year of The Blue Sky Albums from Rick’s band Derringer.  But before Derringer the band, Rick Derringer…

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Certified Honey: Donny and Marie, Mungo Jerry Get “Singles Collection” Treatment from 7Ts, Osmonds Go “Around the World”

October 3, 2012 by Joe Marchese | No Comments
donny and marie singles

If you’re looking for a little bit country, a little bit rock-and-roll, Cherry Red’s 7Ts Records has got three new releases just for you!  The seventies preservationists have unleashed two complete singles anthologies: Donny and Marie Osmond’s The Singles Collection, spanning the period 1974-1978, and Mungo Jerry’s The Dawn Singles Collection, drawing on the period spent at Pye Records subsidiary Dawn between 1970 and 1974.  In addition, the Osmonds’ Around the World: Live in Concert (1975) gets a long-awaited reissue! Born into a showbiz family, Donny and Marie Osmond have made their…

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