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March 24, 2025 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

PP Arnold Soul Survivor

One of P.P. Arnold's early sides for Immediate Records was titled "Am I Still Dreaming?"  The song, which the artist born Patricia Ann Cole in Los Angeles wrote at the encouragement of none other than Mick Jagger, is one of the 57 songs on 3 CDs assembled by Edsel Records on the dream of a box set appropriately entitled Soul Survivor: A Life in Song.  The collection, compiled by the singer and Michael Mulligan, traces the onetime Ikette's career from her signing to Andrew Loog Oldham's label

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Andy Gibb, Barry Gibb, Eric Clapton, Ocean Colour Scene, P.P. Arnold, Paul Weller, Rod Stewart, Roger Waters, Steve Howe

August 9, 2024 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Elvis Memphis box 2024

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.   Also, don't miss out on today's eclectic slate of releases from Real Gone Music; click here to find out what's new from Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Firehouse, Azar Lawrence, Charlie Nothing, and 3 Inches of Blood! Elvis Presley, Memphis (RCA/Legacy) 5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Funk, Jazz, Latin, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Al Stewart, Bill Wyman, Dean Martin, Dickey Betts, Elvis Presley, Esperanza Spalding, Frank Sinatra, Jim Peterik, Judy Garland, Little Big Town, Milton Nascimento, Paul Weller, The Soul Searchers, Vera Lynn

July 22, 2024 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Paul Weller Fly on the Wall

Paul Weller, late of The Jam and The Style Council, began his solo career in 1991 with a self-titled album on the Go! Discs label.  He remained on the label for three albums, before moving to Island Records for 1997's Heavy Soul and 2000's Heliocentric.  Weller would return to Island in 2008, but five years earlier, in 2003, Universal Music drew upon both his Go! Discs period and two Island albums to compile Fly on the Wall: B Sides and Rarities.  The 3CD iteration presented 39 tracks, while the

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Rock Tags: Paul Weller

April 23, 2021 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Amy Winehouse at the BBC

Late last year, Island and Universal released a pair of box sets celebrating the life and legacy of the late Amy Winehouse (1983-2011).  12 x 7: The Singles Collection and The Collection respectively compiled all of the late British singer's A- and B-sides on 12 pieces of vinyl and her three studio albums on CD alongside a live concert and remix collection previously unreleased in the format.  Now, on May 7, her posthumous live release Amy Winehouse at the BBC, first issued in 2012, will return

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Amy Winehouse, Jools Holland, Paul Weller

September 11, 2020 By Mike Duquette 8 Comments

The Style Council Long Hot Summers

Ahead of a forthcoming documentary on the second famed band of Paul Weller's career, the revered British rocker has co-compiled a new collection devoted to The Style Council. Long Hot Summers: The Story of The Style Council provides an extensive overview of Weller's work through the '80s after the dissolution of The Jam.The 37-track collection, available across 2 CDs or 3 LPs, includes a healthy mix of the group's biggest singles, album cuts, B-sides and two unreleased tracks: an extended

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Pop, Rock Tags: Paul Weller, The Style Council

September 5, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

tracie young no smoke without fire

Back in 2010, Cherry Red Records rescued Tracie Young’s 1984 debut Far from the Hurting Kind from obscurity. Four years later, the label has returned to the British pop singer’s discography for the first-time release of No Smoke Without Fire. Intended as the follow-up to Hurting Kind, No Smoke was slated to be issued in 1985, only to be consigned to the vaults. Cherry Red’s new edition includes ten songs from the original album plus seven rare bonus tracks from Young’s catalogue. Tracie Young

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Paul Weller, Tracie Young

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