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Release Round-Up: Week of February 13

February 13, 2026 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

It may be Friday the 13th, but this week’s releases are hardly a scary lot! Here’s a selection of some of the new titles available today. As an Amazon affiliate, we earn from qualifying purchases. The Beach Boys, We Gotta Groove: The Brother Studio Years (Capitol/UMe) 3CD/3LP: Official Store / uDiscoverMusic 3 SHM-CD: CDJapan Over three years after the release of Sail On Sailor: 1972, The Beach Boys’ long-running archival series is back in full force with a new box set available today (with new orders scheduled to ship on March 20). We Gotta Groove: The…

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Bat for Lashes, Jeff Buckley, Paul Anka, Seal, The Beach Boys

Release Round-Up: Week of July 1

July 1, 2022 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up featuring a selection of the new titles in stores today! Liza Minnelli, Live in New York 1979 (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music 3CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music Liza Minnelli’s remarkable album of her record-breaking 1979 Carnegie Hall stand receives its first-ever release to wide retail in two distinctive editions from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music, both of which are adorned with Andy Warhol’s suitable-for-framing portrait of the artist. Live in New York 1979: The Ultimate Edition will be available…

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

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Burt Bacharach, Diana Ross, Elvis Costello, Faster Pussycat, Liza Minnelli, Melvin Van Peebles, Motley Crue, Paul Anka, Rusty, The Fall, The Judds, Three Man Army

The Weekend Stream: June 4, 2022

June 4, 2022 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there’s plenty of great new/old music to discover! This week is packed with a few digital-led campaigns for Leonard Cohen, Bob Marley and Avril Lavigne, plus batches of releases for fans of Gloria Estefan and country singer Gene Watson! Leonard Cohen, Hallelujah & Songs from His Albums (Columbia/Legacy) (iTunes / Amazon) It’s getting to the point where Weekend Stream concerns are leaders for bigger catalogue news out there. This week,…

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Country, Disco/Dance, Everything Else, Folk, Jazz, Latin, Pop, Reggae, Rock

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Al Cohn, Avril Lavigne, Bill Perkins, Bob Marley, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Gene Watson, Gloria Estefan, Kenny Rogers, Leonard Cohen, MUNA, Maria McKee, Paul Anka, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Richie Kamuka

Release Round-Up: Week of August 13

August 13, 2021 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Various Artists, Rip It Up: The Best of Specialty Records (Craft Recordings) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Craft Recordings’ 75th anniversary campaign for groundbreaking R&B label Specialty Records kicks off with Rip It Up: The Best of Specialty Records on CD, LP, and digital platforms. The 18 tracks on Rip It Up spotlight the incendiary R&B and, later, rock-and-roll that put Specialty on the map. (Perhaps Specialty’s gospel offerings will be recognized on a future release.) Little Richard, Sam Cooke, Lloyd Price, Larry Williams,…

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Cast Recordings, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Aretha Franklin, Cruzados, Explorer Tapes, Jennifer Hudson, Joan Armatrading, Little Richard, Olivia Newton-John, Paul Anka, Randy Edelman, Sheryl Crow, Willie Nile

Presley, Darin, Orbison, Sinatra, Beach Boys Featured On Ace’s New “State of the Union”

December 19, 2018 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Elvis and Dino took on hypocrisy. Dion lamented the senseless deaths of Abraham, Martin, and John. Johnny “Poetry in Motion” Tillotson cast a spotlight on the poor treatment of veterans returned home from war. Bing Crosby wondered “What Do We Do with the World” and Paul Anka observed that “This crazy world has come undone.” Such are the moments captured on Ace’s thoroughly captivating new collection Bob Stanley and Pete Wiggs Present State of the Union: The American Dream in Crisis 1967-1973. This 24-track set chronicles the tumult and upheaval of Vietnam-era…

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Bobby Darin, Dean Martin, Elvis Presley, Frank Sinatra, Paul Anka, Roy Orbison, The Beach Boys, The Everly Brothers, Various Artists

Release Round-Up: Week of September 16

September 16, 2014 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Jimi Hendrix, The Cry of Love and Rainbow Bridge: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Experience Hendrix/Legacy) Legacy and Experience Hendrix have reissues of Jimi Hendrix’s first two posthumously-released albums, both from 1971; The Cry of Love is long out-of-print on CD, while Rainbow Bridge makes its first authorized appearance in the CD format. Both titles have been freshly remastered by Bernie Grundman from the original analog masters. The Cry of Love: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Rainbow Bridge: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack : Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Charles Lloyd, Manhattan Stories (Resonance) (Amazon U.S….

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Barbra Streisand, Charles Lloyd, Elmer Bernstein, James Galway, Jimi Hendrix, Neil Sedaka, Paul Anka, Ray Price, Salsoul Orchestra, Scruffy the Cat

Of Mamas, Papas, Raiders and Soundtracks: Real Gone’s February Slate Revealed

December 18, 2013 by Mike Duquette | 6 Comments

The announcement of Real Gone Music’s release schedule for February 2014 would be cause for celebration any day of the week. But this particular day is special, as you’re about to find out. In addition to an ironclad lineup that includes A Gathering of Flowers, the long out-of-print 1970 collection from The Mamas & The Papas; The Complete Recordings by Brotherhood, an unfairly obscure psych-rock band comprised of Phil Volk, Drake Levin and Mike “Smitty” Smith of Paul Revere & The Raiders that cut three LPs for RCA; a twofer by Smith (A Band Called Smith/Minus-Plus),…

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Burt Bacharach, Michael McDonald, Olivia Newton-John, Paul Anka, Paul Revere and The Raiders, The Grateful Dead, The Mamas and The Papas

Review: Paul Anka, “Duets”

April 9, 2013 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Whether you prefer your “My Way” by Sinatra or Sid (Vicious, that is), you have Paul Anka to thank. It was Anka who took the melody to the chanson “Comme d’habitude” and crafted the ultimate anthem of survival and tenacity with his English-language lyrics. When Sinatra recorded the song, a gift to him from Anka, he was just 53 years of age yet could still ring true when singing of that “final curtain.” Today, Paul Anka is 71, and his new memoir is entitled, what else, My Way. Thankfully, the end seems…

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Leon Russell, Michael Jackson, Michael McDonald, Patti Labelle, Paul Anka, Tom Jones

Release Round-Up: Week of April 9

April 9, 2013 by Mike Duquette | 1 Comment

Brainstorm / S.O.S. Band / Cherrelle / Alexander O’Neal, “Tabu Reborn” Expanded CD Editions (Wave 1) (Tabu/Edsel) After a fresh batch of vinyl last week, the Tabu Records reissue campaign (going strong through next year) kicks off with expanded editions of Brainstorm’s Stormin’, The S.O.S. Band’s III, Cherrelle’s Fragile and Alexander O’Neal’s self-titled debut. All feature bonus tracks (Alexander O’Neal has a bonus disc) and fresh deluxe packaging. Stormin‘: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. III: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Fragile: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Alexander O’Neal: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. Morrissey, Kill Uncle: Expanded Edition / The Last of the Famous…

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Morrissey, Paul Anka, Sandie Shaw, The S.O.S. Band, Vinyl

Those Oldies But Goodies: Bear Family Offers Up Vintage Everly Brothers, Paul Anka

March 29, 2013 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Though best known for its definitive box sets spanning careers or large swaths of them, Germany’s historically-minded Bear Family label also keeps busy with a steady flow of single-disc anthologies, all with the label’s hallmarks of quality. Three such anthologies have recently arrived from Bear Family, two focusing on The Everly Brothers and one on Paul Anka. Brothers Don and Phil Everly successfully straddled the line between country and rock-and-roll (with a healthy dollop of R&B in there) beginning with their first hit record, 1957’s “Bye Bye Love.” Still an oldies-radio staple…

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He Did It His Way: Paul Anka Joins Friends For “Duets”, New CD Features Michael Jackson, Frank Sinatra, Leon Russell and More

March 5, 2013 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Do you remember the times of your life? Paul Anka posed that musical question in 1975, taking Roger Nichols and Bill Lane’s onetime Kodak film jingle all the way to the Top 10 Billboard pop chart and No. 1 Easy Listening. At that point, Anka could rightfully reflect on the times of his own storied life, nearly two decades in the music business. But could he have imagined that he would still be going strong almost forty years after “Times of Your Life” hit? The Canadian-born singer, songwriter, producer and manager is…

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Michael Jackson, Michael McDonald, Paul Anka, Tom Jones

Release Round-Up: Week of January 15

January 15, 2013 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

New Order, The Lost Sirens (Rhino) (Amazon U.S./Amazon U.K.) A cadre of outtakes from the Waiting for the Siren’s Call sessions, this marks the last New Order material with original bassist Peter Hook. Johnny Mathis, A Special Part of Me: Expanded Edition (Amazon U.S./Amazon U.K.) (Funkytowngrooves) FTG’s latest R&B expansion has a Michael Jackson connection: the future King of Pop co-wrote for Mathis “Love Never Felt So Good” with Paul Anka! Talk Talk, Natural History: The Very Best of Talk Talk 1982-1988 (Amazon U.S./Amazon U.K.) / Natural Order 1982-1991 (Amazon U.S./Amazon U.K.) (Virgin/EMI) Not only a CD/DVD reissue of Talk Talk’s first compilation, but…

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Michael Jackson, New Order, Paul Anka, Talk Talk, The Jackson 5

Johnny Mathis’ Expanded “Special Part of Me” Highlights Paul Anka and Michael Jackson Collaboration

January 10, 2013 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

It’s been a wonderful, wonderful time to be a fan of Johnny Mathis, with the singer’s long-lost Mercury Records catalogue recently having been upgraded to CD by Real Gone Music. As 2013 opens, another label is turning its attention to the Mathis catalogue. Funky Town Grooves is returning the 1984 album A Special Part of Me to CD in a first-ever expanded edition due on January 15. Mathis’ association with Columbia Records began in 1956 when he was just 21 years of age, and these many years later, he’s still a label…

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Burt Bacharach’s “Together?” Finally Arrives On CD, Features Jackie DeShannon, Michael McDonald

January 7, 2013 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Sexual liberation only goes so far… So went the tagline of director Armenia Balducci’s 1979 film Amo non amo. When the Italian drama starring Jacqueline Bisset, Maximilian Schell and Terence Stamp was slated for U.S. release, though, the decision was made to replace the score by Italian prog/symphonic “horror rock” band Goblin with a new, more accessible soundtrack. Burt Bacharach was tapped, and the Oscar-winning composer went far in lending an American flavor to the film, retitled for the U.S. market as Together? Like the film itself, though, its RCA Victor soundtrack album was seemingly…

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