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November 14, 2024 By Mike Duquette 1 Comment

Here There and Everywhere

As fans prepare for the release of the new Disney+ documentary Beatles '64, chronicling The Fab Four's legendary inaugural trip to America, U.K. label Ace Records has an exciting release coming that same weekend, featuring nearly two dozen Black artists paying tribute to a series of songbooks that owed so much to soul music and rhythm and blues traditions. Here, There and Everywhere: Black America Sings Lennon, McCartney and Harrison, available November 29, is the seventh of Ace's "Black

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Billy Paul, Carmen McRae, Donny Hathaway, Esther Phillips, Four Tops, George Harrison, John Lennon, Keb' Mo', Linda McCartney, Margie Joseph, Marvin Gaye, Mary Wells, Natalie Cole, Paul McCartney, Randy Crawford, Sarah Vaughan, Stevie Wonder, Syreeta, The Beatles, The Chiffons, The Drifters, The Supremes, The Three Degrees, Wings

February 4, 2022 By The Second Disc 1 Comment

Natalie Cole Unforgettable with Love

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! B.J. Thomas, In Remembrance: Love Songs and Lost Treasures (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Real Gone Music remembers the late, great B.J. Thomas with this new collection of rare and previously unreleased material drawn from both Thomas' personal archives and the vaults of Reprise and Warner Bros. Records.  In Remembrance: Love Songs and Lost Treasures features 18 tracks, 13 of which are making their debut here,

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: B.J. Thomas, Don Julian and The Larks, Judy Garland, Marshall Crenshaw, Natalie Cole, Paul McCartney, Prince, The 5th Dimension, The Divine Comedy, The Flamingos, The Moving Sidewalks, The Rave-Ups, William S. Fischer, Wings

February 2, 2022 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Natalie Cole Unforgettable with Love

Natalie Cole lost her father, Nat "King" Cole, when she was just fifteen years of age.  But a little more than a quarter-century after his untimely passing, Natalie paid the ultimate tribute to Nat when her studio album Unforgettable...With Love celebrated his rich oeuvre.  Anchored by a virtual duet with him of his classic "Unforgettable," the album was Natalie's first to embrace her legacy.  The 1991 LP and duet went on to earn a collective seven Grammy Awards, reach No. 1 on the Billboard

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Popular Standards/Vocal Tags: Nat King Cole, Natalie Cole

November 8, 2019 By The Second Disc 13 Comments

Gene Clark No Other Cover

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Chet Atkins, The Complete RCA Victor and Columbia Christmas Recordings (Second Disc/Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music are proud to present The Complete RCA Victor and Columbia Christmas Recordings from legendary guitarist-producer Chet Atkins on a deluxe 2-CD, 46-song anthology remastered by Vic Anesini at Sony's Battery Studios and featuring new liner notes by the set's

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Country, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Billy Vera, Chet Atkins, Dino Desi and Billy, Eugene Ormandy, Gene Clark, George Michael, Humble Pie, Jim Reeves, John Fogerty, John Legend, Margaret Whiting, Natalie Cole, Suede, The Nazz, The Police, The Rolling Stones, Wham!

September 27, 2017 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Clive Davis Soundtrack of Our Lives

This past April, New York's Radio City Music Hall hosted a prestigious premiere.  The film was Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives, and the screening was accompanied by an all-star concert featuring Barry Manilow, Dionne Warwick, Aretha Franklin, Carly Simon, and others celebrating the life of the music legend.  Beginning on October 3, Apple Music will exclusively stream the Chris Perkel-directed documentary, and today, September 27, Legacy Recordings has digitally released an exclusive

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Everything Else, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Ace of Base, Alan Jackson, Alicia Keys, Annie Lennox, Aretha Franklin, Barry Manilow, Billy Joel, Blood Sweat & Tears, Brooks & Dunn, Bruce Springsteen, Carly Simon, Chicago, Dionne Warwick, Earth Wind and Fire, Elton John, Eric Carmen, Gladys Knight, Grateful Dead, Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes, Janis Joplin, Kelly Clarkson, Kenny G, Luther Vandross, Melissa Manchester, Natalie Cole, Patti Smith, Rod Stewart, Santana, Simon and Garfunkel, Stevie Wonder, Taylor Dayne, Teddy Pendergrass, The Alan Parsons Project, The Kinks, Whitney Houston

January 24, 2017 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Gladys Knight The Solo Collection

We filled you in recently about Cherry Red and SoulMusic Records' recent salute to songstress Vivian Reed, but the label has also offered a pair of titles from two more great ladies of song: Gladys Knight and the late Natalie Cole. Gladys Knight's The Solo Collection collects her first two Pips-less albums, from 1978 and 1979: the Buddah Records release of Miss Gladys Knight, and its Columbia follow-up, Gladys Knight.  The second disc features eight bonus tracks associated with the latter

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Gladys Knight, Natalie Cole

February 1, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

dionne warwick sings cole porter

Cherry Red's got soul. Mike and I reported last week on the impressive slate planned by Cherry Red's Big Break Records label. A smaller yet equally rich line-up is on the way from another Cherry Red division, Soulmusic.com Records.On February 14 in the U.K. and one week later stateside, the label will reissue five classic albums from a trio of accomplished vocalists: Nancy Wilson, Dionne Warwick and Natalie Cole. Perhaps most exciting is the two-on-one CD release of Wilson's 1974 Capitol

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Dionne Warwick, Nancy Wilson, Natalie Cole, Patti Labelle

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