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Release Round-Up: Week of June 3

June 3, 2022 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, highlighted by our newest Second Disc Records release and featuring a selection of the week’s other new titles! Stoney and Meatloaf, Everything Under the Sun: The Motown Recordings (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music) Stoney and Meatloaf’s Everything Under the Sun: The Motown Recordings from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music is the ultimate celebration of late rock superstar Meat Loaf’s singular collaboration with the extraordinary, Grammy-nominated Shaun Murphy (who went on to sing for more than four decades with Bob Seger…

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Release Round-Up

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

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Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Country, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul

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Al Stewart, Alan Vega, Anne-Sophie Mutter, Bill Evans, Chuck Armstrong, East Coast, Frank Sinatra, George Scott, Grateful Dead, John Williams, Mabu's Madness, Max Roach, Meat Loaf, Michael Nesmith, Prince, Shaun Murphy, Southside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes, Stoney and Meatloaf

COMING TOMORROW! Stoney and Meatloaf’s “Everything Under the Sun: The Motown Recordings” Arrives from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music

June 2, 2022 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

Stoney and Meatloaf Everything Under the Sun The Motown Recordings

Meat Loaf exploded to superstardom like a Bat Out of Hell with his 1977 solo debut. But the roots of his success could be traced to his short but blazing tenure with Motown. In 1970, the young performer with the big frame and even bigger voice was garnering rave reviews in the Detroit company of Hair alongside Shaun Murphy, a.k.a. Stoney, a powerhouse blues singer who stopped the show nightly with her incendiary rendition of “Easy to Be Hard.” Motown quickly saw the potential of this one-of-a-kind duo and signed them to its rock-oriented Rare Earth…

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Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul

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Meat Loaf, Shaun Murphy, Stoney and Meatloaf

What You See Is What You Get: Second Disc Records, Real Gone Music Bring Stoney and Meatloaf to CD with “Everything Under the Sun: The Motown Recordings”

March 18, 2022 by The Second Disc | 7 Comments

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News

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Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul

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Meat Loaf, Shaun Murphy, Stoney and Meatloaf

The Weekend Stream: February 12, 2022

February 12, 2022 by Mike Duquette | 4 Comments

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! Michael Giacchino, Rogue One: A Star Wars Story (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack/Expanded Edition) (Walt Disney Records) (iTunes / Amazon) A genuine, out-of-nowhere surprise: a generous expansion of Oscar-winner Giacchino’s score to the first Disney-era Star Wars spin-off in 2016, about the ragtag group of Rebels who stole the plans for the Death Star right before the original movie. The composer subtly mixes…

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The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Country, Disco/Dance, Folk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Barry White, , David Lasley, Doc Severinsen, Dr. John, Hank Williams, John Williams, Lobo, Meat Loaf, Meco, Michael Giacchino, Otis Redding, Richard Thompson, Roberta Flack, Shaun Murphy, Sting, Stoney and Meatloaf, Suzanne Vega

Contante & Sonante Celebrates Late Warren Wiebe with Rare Demos From Burt Bacharach, David Foster, More

October 24, 2018 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Talk about a well-kept secret… Throughout his too-short life, vocalist Warren Wiebe (1953-1998) never became a household name. Yet he was highly successful. As a background singer, he graced recordings by Johnny Mathis, Paul Anka, Taylor Dayne, and Air Supply. A true songwriter’s singer – able to convey the heart and soul of a song without resorting to self-indulgence – he earned the respect and admiration of a “Who’s Who” of songwriters who enlisted him to introduce their songs on private demonstration recordings. Among Wiebe’s biggest fans were Burt Bacharach, David Foster,…

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Pop

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Burt Bacharach, David Foster, Guy Thomas, Shaun Murphy, Steve Dorff, Tim Feehan, Tom Snow, Tonio K., Warren Wiebe