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Release Round-Up: Week of February 5

February 5, 2021 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Dusty Springfield Complete Atlantic Singles

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Dusty Springfield, The Complete Atlantic Singles 1969-1971 (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The Complete Atlantic Singles 1968-1971brings together Dusty Springfield’s 24 U.S. single sides released during her tenure at Atlantic. These tracks have been remastered from the original mono tapes by Mike Milchner at Sonic Vision, and all but the eight sides pulled from Dusty in Memphis have never before appeared on CD in these original mixes. TSD’s Joe Marchese provides the new liner notes based on his interviews with Jeff Barry, Thom Bell, and Kenny Gamble….

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

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Blues, Cast Recordings, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Reggae, Rock, Soundtracks

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A.J. Croce, Bill Loose, Bing Crosby, Bob Marley, Calvin Keys, Dusty Springfield, Fine Young Cannibals, Galt MacDermot, John Mayall, John Williams, Melba Moore, Norma Tanega, Rudolph Johnson, The Andersons, The Weeknd, Uncle Walt's Band

So Much Love: Real Gone Music Collects Dusty Springfield’s “Complete Atlantic Singles,” Expands Norma Tanega’s Debut Album

December 16, 2020 by The Second Disc | 17 Comments

For several years in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Dusty Springfield was romantically linked to singer-songwriter Norma Tanega. On February 5, 2021, the late, talented duo will be linked once more with a pair of new releases from our friends at Real Gone Music. Real Gone has previously surveyed Springfield’s remarkable career on releases including Faithful (premiering her complete, lost album with producer-songwriter Jeff Barry in standalone form), A Brand New Me: The Complete Philadelphia Sessions (collecting in full her work with Kenny Gamble, Leon Huff, and Thom Bell), and Come…

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Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul

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Dusty Springfield, Norma Tanega

Release Round-Up: Week of August 21

August 21, 2020 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Norma Tanega, Walkin’ My Cat Named Dog [Sky Blue Vinyl] (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Norma Tanega’s 1966 folk-pop classic returns to vinyl in a re-pressing from Real Gone Music. This new presentation replicates the original, utilizing the stereo mix and boasting the original artwork (which was replaced on prior CD issues). It’s pressed on sky blue vinyl. Grab it fast, though: Walkin’ My Cat Named Dog is a limited pressing. Charles Bukowski, Reads His Poetry [Vomit Vinyl] (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon…

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Country, Everything Else, Jazz, Pop, Soundtracks

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Charles Bukowski, Cidny Bullens, George Winston, Jefferson Starship, Mandy Barnett, Norma Tanega, The Horace Tapscott Quartet, The Killers, Tom Tom Club, Vince Guaraldi

I’m Dreamin’ A Dream: Real Gone Music Revisits Out-Of-Print Titles From Norma Tanega, Tom Tom Club, Horace Tapscott, and Charles Bukowski

July 24, 2020 by Sam Stone | No Comments

Real Gone Music has announced the re-release of four albums from the label’s vault which are being brought back in print on new vinyl colorways: Charles Bukowski Reads His Poetry, Norma Tanega’s Walking My Cat Named Dog, Horace Tapscott Quintet’s The Giant Is Awakened, and Tom Tom Club’s self-titled album. All these sought-after titles will return to shops on August 21, so whether you like free jazz, profane poetry, singer-songwriters, or funky dance grooves, Real Gone has you covered once again! Charles Bukowski Reads His Poetry: truth in advertising that sums up this 1972…

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Vinyl

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Disco/Dance, Funk, Jazz, Pop

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Charles Bukowski, Horace Tapscott Quintet, Norma Tanega, Tom Tom Club

Review: Norma Tanega, “Walkin’ My Cat Named Dog” [Green Vinyl Reissue]

July 9, 2019 by Sam Stone | 2 Comments

Our friends at Real Gone Music have long been combing the vaults of the major labels in search of overlooked classic albums that deserve another moment in the spotlight. The Second Disc was able to take a listen to one of the label’s newly reissued limited-edition titles – Norma Tanega’s Walkin’ My Cat Named Dog – which returns to vinyl in a special bright-green color variant. Tanega’s folky ’60s pop has found new life on TV shows and compilations, but her debut has never been reissued on vinyl. Now, a new audience…

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Vinyl

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Everything Else, Folk

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Norma Tanega

Release Round-Up: Week of June 7

June 7, 2019 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up – a packed one, for sure! Bob Dylan, The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings (Columbia/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Just in advance of the June 12 debut of director Martin Scorsese’s documentary Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese, Columbia and Legacy unveil a new 14-CD box set that promises to be the ultimate chronicle of the initial leg of Dylan’s legendary Rolling Thunder Revue from the autumn of 1975. The box includes five professionally recorded sets…

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Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, DVD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

What Are We Craving? Real Gone Delivers Folk-Rock from Norma Tanega and Fusion from Airto on Vinyl

May 6, 2019 by Sam Stone | 4 Comments

Real Gone Music seem to be taking a quick break from their soundtrack series to bring two cult classic albums from jazz and folk-rock: Norma Tanega’s 1966 album Walkin’ My Cat Named Dog spotlights quirky, pop-leaning folk music; while Airto’s 1970 effort Natural Feelings presents the percussion maestro’s debut as a bandleader. Both albums will be reissues in limited quantities on June 7! First discovered while singing at a summer camp in the Catskills of New York, Norma Tanega won the attention of Herb Bernstein (later arranger and producer for The Happenings…

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Vinyl

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Folk, Jazz, Pop

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Airto, Norma Tanega