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November 6, 2020 By The Second Disc 4 Comments

Elvis Costello Armed Forces

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Elvis Costello and The Attractions, Armed Forces: Super Deluxe Edition (UMe) uDiscoverMusic Store: black / color Elvis Costello is revisiting his 1979 album in super-sized format.  Armed Forces arrives today as a deluxe, slipcased 9-disc vinyl set with three 12-inch LPs, three 10-inch LPs, and three 7-inch singles including 23 previously unreleased live tracks and the complete contents of the previous Rhino/Edsel deluxe edition (with many

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Charlie Parker, Dave Brubeck, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, Ennio Morricone, Felix Slatkin, Harvey Schmidt, Kylie Minogue, Neil Young, Paul McCartney, Petula Clark, Pylon, Shirley Bassey, SVT, The Uptones, Whitesnake, Wilco

September 28, 2020 By The Second Disc 15 Comments

Best of Bond 2020

With a new James Bond film set to shake (not stir) audiences in November, a longtime compilation of the super-spy's famed film themes is getting a new iteration on November 20. The Best of Bond...James Bond offers a stellar 25-track overview of the pop themes that scored nearly all of the films based on Ian Fleming's famed British secret agent. There are 14 U.K. Top 10 hits and two Academy Award winners herein - altogether, a formidable, half-century-plus musical portrait of one of cinema's

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: a-ha, Adele, Alicia Keys, Billie Eilish, Carly Simon, Carole Bayer Sager, Chris Cornell, David Arnold, Duran Duran, Garbage, Gladys Knight, Jack White, John Barry, Louis Armstrong, Lulu, Madonna, Marvin Hamlisch, Matt Monro, Monty Norman, Nancy Sinatra, Paul McCartney, Rita Coolidge, Sam Smith, Sheena Easton, Sheryl Crow, Shirley Bassey, Tina Turner, Tom Jones, U2, Wings

March 1, 2017 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Consider Yourself The Highs of Lionel Bart

With Oliver!, Lionel Bart created one of the most enduring musicals of all time.  Yet there was more to Bart than just the one show - though it was the only international hit he would ever write.  In between palling around with The Rolling Stones and Andrew Loog Oldham at the height of Swingin' London, Bart dominated the pop charts and the musical theatre stage.  Now, Cherry Red's el label has celebrated this quintessential British songwriter on a new 5-CD box set.  Consider Yourself! The Highs

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Pop Tags: Cliff Richard, Lionel Bart, Shirley Bassey, Steve Marriott, Tommy Steele

July 10, 2015 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Chicago Box Set 2

Welcome to today's Release Round-Up for the first international Friday release date!   Like you, we're still adjusting to the switch from Monday in the U.K./Tuesday in the U.S. to a worldwide Friday date.  Please sound off in the comments below on whether you would like to see us run this longtime feature each Friday, or earlier in the week (so that you may plan ahead for Release Day)! The Hollies, Changin' Times: The Complete Hollies, January '69 - March '73 (Parlophone) (Amazon U.S. /

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Soundtracks Tags: Chicago, Jane Morgan, New Riders of the Purple Sage, Randy Newman, Shirley Bassey, Tennessee Ernie Ford, The Hollies, The King Brothers, The Rolling Stones, Van Halen

July 2, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

come spy with us

For many, the sound of John Barry epitomizes the sound of the spy thriller. It’s no surprise – with 12 James Bond films under his belt, the late, great British composer imbued his melodies with the right amount of adventure, humor, tension, sophistication, and well, sex. It’s fitting that Barry opens Ace Records’ superlatively entertaining new anthology Come Spy with Me: The Secret Agent Songbook, collecting 25 samples of swinging music from spies and secret agents (and even a handful of

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Categories: News, Reviews Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Nancy Sinatra, Shirley Bassey, Smokey Robinson, The Supremes, The Ventures, The Walker Brothers, Vikki Carr

May 7, 2013 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

hearsay

TABU Reborn, Wave 3: The S.O.S. Band, S.O.S. / Cherrelle, High Priority / Alexander O'Neal, Hearsay / Kathy Mathis, Katt Walk (Tabu/Edsel) The latest wave of Tabu reissues available from the U.K.: all have bonus tracks, with Cherrelle and Alexander O'Neal's sets presented as two-disc packages. Amazon U.K. links are above; here are U.S. links for The S.O.S. Band, Cherrelle, Alexander O'Neal and Kathy Mathis. Burt Bacharach, Anyone Who Had a Heart: My Life and Music (Harper) One of the

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Burt Bacharach, Shirley Bassey, Small Faces, The S.O.S. Band

September 27, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

best of bond james bond

When Sean Connery first uttered the immortal words “Bond…James Bond” fifty years ago in the film Dr. No, the template for the long-running movie series was already set.  That soon-to-be-signature phrase was joined in the film by a piece of music that would quickly rival those three words for familiarity.  John Barry’s arrangement of “The James Bond Theme” not only helped cement the silver screen icon of 007 but virtually became a genre unto itself, that of spy music.  The spy film craze may have

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Categories: News Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Madonna, Marvin Hamlisch, Paul McCartney, Shirley Bassey, Tom Jones

April 20, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

bassey two fer

Dame Shirley Bassey first blazed into the American consciousness in 1964 singing the immortal theme to Goldfinger. Bassey's full-throttle take on the John Barry/Anthony Newley/Leslie Bricusse song became her first and only American Top 10 single, and helped the film’s soundtrack recording climb all the way to the top spot. Bassey returned to both John Barry and James Bond with the themes to Diamonds are Forever (1971) and Moonraker (1979), but she never again scaled the heights of commercial

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