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January 24, 2020 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

SG Live from Carnegie Hall scaled

On November 28, 1969, The New York Times headline trumpeted "Simon and Garfunkel Perform to Full House at Carnegie Hall." Paul Simon described the concert as a "true test of faith" as The Rolling Stones were playing downtown at Madison Square Garden, but the duo's faithful certainly rewarded them (and were rewarded themselves) as both the November 27 concert and the second date that evening of November 28 were sold out. Despite dealing with the tensions that would drive them apart (and would

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, Rock Tags: Art Garfunkel, Paul Simon, Simon and Garfunkel

June 8, 2018 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Johnny Mathis Youve Got a Friend

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Johnny Mathis, Close to You/Love Story: Expanded Edition (Second Disc/Real Gone)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music continue their journey through Johnny Mathis' seventies catalogue with this expanded, remastered two-fer of Mathis' 1970 and 1971 albums.  Close to You finds the singer reinterpreting hits by Bacharach and David, Antonio Carlos Jobim, The Beatles, and even Santana, while Love Story

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Black Sabbath, David Bowie, Davy Jones, Dennis Coffey, Eric Clapton, Johnny Mathis, Keely Smith, Mick Ronson, Paul Simon, Simon and Garfunkel, The Beach Boys, Violent Femmes

May 18, 2018 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Springsteen Album Collection 2 Cover

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Bruce Springsteen, The Album Collection Vol. 2, 1987-1996 (Columbia/Legacy)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Bruce Springsteen boxes up the second set of his albums in chronological order, remastered by Bob Ludwig and Toby Scott using the Plangent Process.  The collection is only available on vinyl, although a limited edition CD version is being released in Japan only.  The CD version is now available for pre-order at Amazon U.S. /

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bruce Springsteen, Eddie Harris, John Wesley Harding, Otis Redding, Paul McCartney, Pink Floyd, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Simon and Garfunkel, Stephen Bishop, Steve Miller Band, Supertramp, Various Artists

February 15, 2018 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Art Garfunkel Angel Clare SACD

The U.K. Vocalion label has become a reliable source for SACD reissues of classic quadraphonic surround albums from pop, country, and jazz artists as diverse as Chet Atkins, Lynn Anderson, Percy Faith, Ray Conniff, Perry Como, Return to Forever, Eumir Deodato, and Henry Mancini.  A new addition to Vocalion's quad library is legendary singer Art Garfunkel.  His first two solo albums, 1973's Angel Clare and 1975's Breakaway, have just been reissued by Vocalion on hybrid SACD.  The discs' stereo

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Categories: News Formats: CD, SACD Genre: Pop Tags: Art Garfunkel, Simon and Garfunkel

September 27, 2017 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Clive Davis Soundtrack of Our Lives

This past April, New York's Radio City Music Hall hosted a prestigious premiere.  The film was Clive Davis: The Soundtrack of Our Lives, and the screening was accompanied by an all-star concert featuring Barry Manilow, Dionne Warwick, Aretha Franklin, Carly Simon, and others celebrating the life of the music legend.  Beginning on October 3, Apple Music will exclusively stream the Chris Perkel-directed documentary, and today, September 27, Legacy Recordings has digitally released an exclusive

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Categories: News Formats: Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Everything Else, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Ace of Base, Alan Jackson, Alicia Keys, Annie Lennox, Aretha Franklin, Barry Manilow, Billy Joel, Blood Sweat & Tears, Brooks & Dunn, Bruce Springsteen, Carly Simon, Chicago, Dionne Warwick, Earth Wind and Fire, Elton John, Eric Carmen, Gladys Knight, Grateful Dead, Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes, Janis Joplin, Kelly Clarkson, Kenny G, Luther Vandross, Melissa Manchester, Natalie Cole, Patti Smith, Rod Stewart, Santana, Simon and Garfunkel, Stevie Wonder, Taylor Dayne, Teddy Pendergrass, The Alan Parsons Project, The Kinks, Whitney Houston

August 7, 2015 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Simon and Garfunkel Complete Columbia Vinyl Box

When Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel took the stage on April 24, 2010 at the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival, it's doubtful that many in the audience knew they were witnessing the end of one chapter in the story of Simon & Garfunkel.  That concert marked the final time that the famous duo have performed together to date, but over five years later, the specter of Simon & Garfunkel still looms large over both men.  It's no surprise; the question of a reunion cropped up almost

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Art Garfunkel, Paul Simon, Simon and Garfunkel

August 7, 2015 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Dusty Come for a Dream

Welcome to another New Release Friday, and today's Release Round-Up! Dusty Springfield, Come for a Dream: The U.K. Sessions 1970-1971  (Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) Earlier this year, Real Gone released Faithful - a collection of Dusty Springfield's complete sessions with producer-songwriter Jeff Barry, compiled for the first time as originally envisioned on one disc.  Now, the label has turned its attention to Dusty's 1970-1971 London sessions intended for the album See All

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Alex North, Ben E. King, Dusty Springfield, Elvis Presley, Georgie Fame, Mike Bloomfield, Robbie Robertson, Simon and Garfunkel, Tom Rush

July 15, 2015 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Simon and Garfunkel Concert in Central Park

Legacy Recordings is seeing that the only sound isn't silence with the release this summer of two new projects from Simon and Garfunkel.   In less than a month, on August 7, the label will issue Simon & Garfunkel - The Complete Columbia Albums Collection, a six-album, newly-remastered set featuring each one of the duo's studio albums plus Greatest Hits, all pressed on 180-gram vinyl.  The box will be joined by a new, remastered CD/DVD reissue of The Concert in Central Park, as

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Pop Tags: Art Garfunkel, Paul Simon, Simon and Garfunkel

May 27, 2015 By Joe Marchese 9 Comments

Dylan Cash and Nashville Cats

Two legendary artists headline a new anthology arriving on June 16, 2015 from Legacy Recordings.  Dylan, Cash and the Nashville Cats: A New Music City, a 2-CD, 36-track compilation, serves as an audio companion and soundtrack to the exhibit of the same name currently on display at Nashville's Country Music Hall of Fame through December 31, 2016.  Like the exhibit, this new release explores the timeless sounds created at the intersection of country, folk and rock in Nashville between, roughly

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk Tags: Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Johnny Cash, Linda Ronstadt, Neil Young, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Simon and Garfunkel, Various Artists

April 17, 2015 By Joe Marchese 23 Comments

Sly Fillmore East

Tomorrow, Saturday, April 18, music fans and collectors will flock to their local independent record stores to celebrate both the sounds on those familiar round black platters and the cherished opportunity to shop for music in a physical retail environment. To many of us, both are a way of life.   Each year around this time, we here at Second Disc HQ take a few moments to count down the titles to which we're most looking forward to picking up! Our friend and founder, Mike Duquette, returns to

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Funk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: a-ha, Billie Holiday, Brian Wilson, Bruce Springsteen, Dionne Warwick, Elvis Presley, Metallica, Record Store Day, Simon and Garfunkel, The Bee Gees

March 10, 2015 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

Simon and Garfunkel Homeward

Today was the big announcement day for Record Store Day 2015, scheduled for Saturday, April 15 at the finest independent retailers across the U.S. and beyond! A press conference was held at Brooklyn’s outpost of Rough Trade giving the details on the many titles to expect next month. We’re kicking off our coverage with a look at the releases due from Legacy Recordings; watch this space for more news as it comes! Legacy’s eclectic line-up has some of the label’s heaviest hitters – Bruce

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Categories: News Formats: Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Jazz, Pop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Billie Holiday, Bruce Springsteen, Jimi Hendrix, Johnny Cash, Manic Street Preachers, Record Store Day, Simon and Garfunkel

December 17, 2014 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

simon and garfunkel albums cover

Queens Boys Make Good, a headline might have read of young Paul Simon and Art Garfunkel when “The Sound of Silence,” a bleakly beautiful, acoustic snapshot of disillusionment and isolation, sat atop the Billboard Hot 100 on New Year’s Day 1966. Simon and Garfunkel were unlikely candidates for pop stardom. Neither English major Simon nor fine arts (later architecture) major Garfunkel hid their cerebral, intellectual tendencies. As the era of the singer-songwriter blossomed in the wake of Bob

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Categories: Holiday Gift Guide, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock Tags: Simon and Garfunkel

November 24, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

simon and garfunkel albums cover

Simon and Garfunkel, The Complete Albums Collection (Columbia/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) This 12-CD box includes all five of Simon & Garfunkel's stereo studio albums released between 1964 and 1970, newly remastered from first-generation analog sources plus first-time remasters of The Graduate soundtrack and 1981's The Concert in Central Park; 1972's Greatest Hits album (which contained some unique performances unavailable elsewhere); and the live concert albums from 1967, 1969

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Soundtracks Tags: Bing Crosby, Bryan Adams, Neil Diamond, Simon and Garfunkel, The Velvet Underground

October 2, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

simon and garfunkel albums cover

Paul Simon met Art Garfunkel in the halls of Queens, New York’s P.S. 164 in the sixth grade, with both young men cast in a school production of Alice in Wonderland. They soon bonded over a mutual love of music, and by 1956, Simon and Garfunkel were performing locally as “Tom and Jerry,” modeling themselves on the Everly Brothers, with whom they would later collaborate. Though he and Simon briefly split in the early 1960s, they reunited for 1964’s Wednesday Morning 3 AM, a low-key collection of

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: Paul Simon, Simon and Garfunkel

January 21, 2014 By Mike Duquette 3 Comments

the beatles u s albums box

The Beatles, The U.S. Albums (Apple/Capitol/UMe) The centerpiece product of The Fab Four's 50th anniversary celebration (thus far, anyway) is a 13-disc box featuring the original, unique American releases on Capitol/United Artists from 1964 to 1970 (including six titles from that first year alone). All but the spoken-word documentary album The Beatles' Story will be available individually, and all but that and 1970's stereo-only Hey Jude compilation will be available in mono and stereo on the

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Loleatta Holloway, Mike + The Mechanics, Paul McCartney, Ray Parker Jr., Ronnie Spector, Sarah McLachlan, Simon and Garfunkel, The Beatles

January 17, 2014 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

ronnie spector playlist1

It’s a new year, and that means a new crop of Playlist titles from Legacy Recordings!  As in the past, this crop of releases runs the gamut, with a number of titles including rare or new-to-CD material and others relying on the tried and true.  The artists represented also encompass a wide variety of genres.  Fans of classic rock-and-roll and pop will find plenty to enjoy on a career-spanning disc from Ronnie Spector and a reissue of the vintage Greatest Hits album of Simon and Garfunkel, while

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Categories: News Tags: Ray Parker Jr., Ray Price, Ronnie Spector, Sarah McLachlan, Simon and Garfunkel, The Verve Pipe

October 15, 2013 By Joe Marchese 11 Comments

paul simon complete cover

I. Hello Darkness, My Old FriendMore than 45 years ago, Paul Simon dramatized a journey “to look for America” in the song boldly and simply called “America.”  Over 3-1/2 gorgeously elegiac minutes beginning with hymn-like vocalizing, Simon abandoned conventional song structure and rhyme to portray two young people searching for the heart of this promised land.  The conversational lyric is both deceptively simple and densely packed.  Optimism (“Let us be lovers, we’ll marry our fortunes

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September 24, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

paul simon complete cover

UPDATED 9/24/13 [UPDATES IN BOLD TO ORIGINAL POST OF 8/19]: And here’s to you, Mr. Simon. There isn’t much that Paul Simon hasn’t accomplished in his 50+ years as a professional musician, singer, and songwriter.  Born in Newark, New Jersey and raised in Queens, New York, Simon has racked up 12 Grammy Awards, an Emmy, a Kennedy Center Honor, the first-ever Gershwin Prize for Popular Song, and Academy Award, Golden Globe and Tony nominations.  That’s not to mention being one-half of the most

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February 28, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

clive book1

In a year that counts Tommy Mottola, Cissy Houston, Burt Bacharach and Paul Anka among the music biz icons who have published, or will publish, their memoirs, one such figure's autobiography has already made headlines: Clive Davis' The Soundtrack of My Life.  The attorney-turned-music mogul took a no-holds-barred approach to chronicling his history, including his tenures at Columbia, Arista, J and the RCA Label Group.  This should come as no surprise to anybody who's followed his illustrious and

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Categories: News Tags: Barry Manilow, Bruce Springsteen, Patti Smith, Simon and Garfunkel, Sly & The Family Stone

August 28, 2012 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

art garfunkel the singer new

The first-ever 2-CD anthology of the collected works of Arthur Ira Garfunkel is titled The Singer (Columbia/Legacy 88725 45816 2, 2012).  In a life and career that’s also seen Garfunkel as an actor, poet, author, athlete and student, “singer” seems the most apt appellation.  Indeed, he is not just a singer, but The Singer, in longtime service to the art of the song.  Garfunkel was an anomaly in the young world of 1960s rock, leaving the songwriting to his partner Paul Simon while still lending

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Categories: Reviews Tags: Paul Simon, Simon and Garfunkel

August 28, 2012 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

zappa sheik yerbouti

Frank Zappa, Official Reissues #15-26 (Zappa Records/UMe) FZ's 1972-1979 discography, almost entirely sourced from original analog masters. (Joe breaks it all down for you here!) Various Artists, A&M 50: The Anniversary Collection (A&M/UMe) Three discs of hits and favorites from a most eclectic of major labels. Elvis Presley, A Boy from Tupelo: The Complete 1953-1955 Recordings (Follow That Dream) The King's complete Sun tenure, with single masters, alternates, live takes and more -

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets Tags: Quincy Jones, Sheryl Crow, Simon and Garfunkel, Squeeze, The Brecker Brothers, The Grateful Dead, The Police

July 5, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

art garfunkel fate for breakfast1

When the singer’s gone, let the song go on… Jimmy Webb wrote those words for the unlikely rock star by the name of Arthur Garfunkel, a former architecture student endowed with a purity of tone and the ability to pierce the heart. And thankfully, both the singer and the song remain very much alive today.  Garfunkel, of course, was the yin to Paul Simon’s yang, the Tom to his Jerry.  It’s most appropriate, then, that he will bookend his old friend with a new anthology coming on August 28 from

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Categories: News Tags: Paul Simon, Simon and Garfunkel

February 21, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

art garfunkel solo1

UPDATE (2/21): A representative from Legacy has confirmed that this title is currently "on hold." Stay tuned for more information as it develops. When the singer’s gone, let the song go on… How lucky we are that Arthur Garfunkel is still very much with us. Jimmy Webb wrote those words for the unlikely rock star, a former architecture student endowed with a purity of tone and the ability to pierce the heart. Garfunkel, of course, was the yin to Paul Simon’s yang, the Tom to his Jerry. And so,

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Categories: News Tags: Paul Simon, Simon and Garfunkel

December 9, 2011 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

elvis presley 19561

In Part 10 of our TSD Buyers Guide, which counts the reissues of the albums in Rolling Stone‘s 100 greatest albums of all time (as selected in 2003), we pay homage to early rock-and-roll and rhythm-and-blues pioneers, look at two very different albums from 1970, and head down for Memphis for some seductive soul! 55. Elvis Presley, Elvis Presley (RCA Victor, 1956) Well, it’s one for the money, two for the show, three to get ready, now go, cat, go! With such words was a revolution born! Those

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Categories: News Tags: Ray Charles, Simon and Garfunkel, TSD Buyers Guide

October 24, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

It's 1971, and Aretha Franklin has just introduced the world to "Bridge Over Troubled Water," a rousing, spiritual anthem that could have been written decades if not centuries ago.  She takes the song to the top of the charts.  Its notoriety leads to the rise of jobbing songwriter Paul Simon, who no longer needs to kick around the Brill Building in its waning days.  Simon's career kicks off in earnest the following year with the release of his self-titled solo album.  It's a quirky, offbeat

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Categories: News, Reviews Tags: Paul Simon, Simon and Garfunkel

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