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April 16, 2020 By Joe Marchese 7 Comments

Sister Sledge Thinking of You

While 1979's anthemic "We Are Family" broke Sister Sledge into the mainstream, Kathy Sledge and her older sisters Debbie, Joni, and Kim were hardly overnight sensations. They paid their dues, and had been recording for Atco Records since 1973 when all four members were still teenagers. Now, Cherry Red's SoulMusic Records imprint has compiled all of the Sledges' recordings for Atco, its parent Atlantic, and sister imprint Cotillion into one tidy 6-CD box set. Thinking of You: The

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Disco/Dance, R&B/Soul Tags: Sister Sledge

March 13, 2020 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

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Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! ABBA, Live at Wembley Arena (Polar/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) ABBA brings its 2014 release of Live at Wembley Arena - preserving the group's November 10, 1979 performance at the storied venue - back to vinyl.  This edition on 3 LPs has been half-speed mastered by Miles Showell at Abbey Road Studios. Ella Fitzgerald, The Complete Piano Duets (Verve/UMe) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: ABBA, Al Di Meola, Ella Fitzgerald, Maria McKee, Matt Monro, Sister Sledge, The Idle Race

September 19, 2018 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

The CHIC Organization 1977 1979

Good times are on the way from the tight-knit musical unit that made everybody dance.  On November 23, Atlantic Records and Rhino will celebrate the 40th anniversary of CHIC's chart-topping, record-breaking "Le Freak" with a new box set.  The CHIC Organization 1977-1979 will arrive in 5-CD and 6-LP formats, bringing together new Nile Rodgers Signature Edition remasters of CHIC's first three albums plus Sister Sledge's CHIC-produced We Are Family and a bonus disc of period single edits and

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop Tags: CHIC, Nile Rodgers, Sister Sledge

August 20, 2018 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Le Chic Remix

In 2010, Dimitri from Paris was invited to remix a number of tracks from the venerable CHIC catalogue for The CHIC Organization Box Set. Vol. 1: Savoir Faire.  The Turkish-born, French music producer and DJ's remixed takes on classics like "I Want Your Love," "I Feel Your Love Comin' On," Sister Sledge's "Thinking of You" and "Lost in Music," and Norma Jean Wright's "Saturday" were all released as digital singles.  Now, those remixes and more have just been collected on a new set available on 2

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming Genre: Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: CHIC, Nile Rodgers, Sister Sledge

February 16, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Sister Sledge Circle of Love

"We Are Family" catapulted Sister Sledge to stardom in 1979, but while the uplifting anthem was a breakthrough, it wasn't a beginning.  Philadelphia-based Kathy Sledge and her three older sisters Debbie, Joni and Kim had been recording for Atlantic Records since 1973 when all four members were still teenagers.  In 1975, Sister Sledge's first album, Circle of Love, was released.  This lost gem has been previously released on CD in a bare-bones version, but Cherry Red's Big Break Records label has

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Disco/Dance, R&B/Soul Tags: Sister Sledge

January 29, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Phil Collins Face Value 2015

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up featuring a host of deluxe reissues, box sets, and more! Phil Collins, Face Value: Deluxe Edition (Atlantic/Rhino) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Phil Collins' 1981 classic featuring "In the Air Tonight" gets expanded to two CDs or DD with the addition of eight live tracks and four demos (plus a new, modern cover photograph echoing the original).  Ten of the twelve bonuses are new

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Ashford and Simpson, Bill Evans, Cilla Black, Esther Phillips, Harpers Bizarre, Julia Fordham, Lee Hazlewood, Phil Collins, Sister Sledge, The Hollies, The Miamis, The Paris Sisters

October 21, 2013 By Mike Duquette 6 Comments

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Rhino U.K. is bringing disco back with a new triple-disc compilation of dance classics, and an updated reissue of a successful compilation released earlier this year. First up, Rhino's reissuing the new Nile Rodgers/CHIC compilation Up All Night. The double-disc set, originally compiled by Wayne A. Dickson of Big Break Records and mastered by Dickson and BBR engineer Nick Robbins, with liner notes from Christian John Wikane, was released in July to capitalize on Rodgers' highly enjoyable wave

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Categories: News Tags: Madonna, Patrice Rushen, Sister Sledge, The Trammps

July 2, 2013 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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CHIC and Various Artists, Nile Rodgers Presents The CHIC Organization: Up All Night - The Greatest Hits (Rhino U.K.) This new double-disc compilation, featuring hits from CHIC, Sister Sledge, Debbie Harry and more, might be the best Nile Rodgers-centric compilation in its price range. (Amazon U.K. / Amazon U.S.) Blood Sweat & Tears, Rare, Rarer & Rarest / Joe Farrell Quartet, Joe Farrell Quartet / Herbie Hancock, Treasure Chest / Sha Na Na, The Night is Still Young (Wounded Bird) A

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets Tags: Billy Joel, Bob Dylan, Herbie Hancock, Sister Sledge, The Allman Brothers Band, The Association, The Grateful Dead, Vinyl

June 13, 2013 By Mike Duquette 16 Comments

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With CHIC co-founder/co-producer/guitarist Nile Rodgers back in the musical spotlight where he belongs - his distinctive funk guitar anchors Daft Punk's chart-topping single "Get Lucky," the arguable song of the summer - Rhino's U.K. arm has done well to introduce another CHIC-oriented compilation to stores. Up All Night: The Greatest Hits (cheekily named after a lyric in "Get Lucky") is more than just a set of tracks by the immortal disco band. Sixteen of the album's 25 tracks are classics

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Categories: News Tags: Norma Jean, Sister Sledge

October 18, 2011 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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Ever feel like all the fancy bonus content and packaging on some reissues totally overshadows the music? Rhino's European division must've felt so, too: they released a handful of Original Album Series boxes a few weeks ago, featuring a lot of music with a minimum of frills and a relatively low price. The titles - five albums by one artist, housed in mini-LP cardboard sleeves and put into a box - are the ideal quick, easy discography builder for new fans or collectors with a few notable gaps on

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: Montrose, Pantera, Randy Newman, Sergio Mendes, Sister Sledge, The Doobie Brothers, Tim Buckley

July 20, 2011 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

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It's a crime that when you talk about CHIC, many of the players who made up arguably the greatest band of the disco era aren't alive to hear your words of praise. Bernard Edwards, CHIC's bassist and co-producer, died in 1997; drummer Tony Thompson passed away in 2003. Nile Rodgers, guitarist, co-producer and keeper of the CHIC flame, could easily have met the same early fate had he not been lucky enough to discover the cancer that he's been since late last year. (Rodgers, one of the best users

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Back Tracks, Luther Vandross, Madonna, Sister Sledge

December 31, 2010 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

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Well, another New Year is in sight, the CD still isn't dead (told you so!) and celebration is in the air at The Second Disc. Back on December 23, Mike shared The Year in Reissues both here and over with our pals at Popdose. Do not pass go, do not collect 200 bucks until you read these indispensable columns! Are you back with me? Good. Now, I'd like to take this opportunity to take a fun look back at a few of my favorite things via Joe's Gold Bonus Disc Awards! I'm awarding these to the reissues

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Categories: Reviews Formats: Box Sets Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Bing Crosby, Bob Dylan, Bruce Springsteen, Burt Bacharach, Louis Armstrong, Mr. Mister, Paul McCartney, Perry Como, Ray Charles, Sister Sledge, Tammi Terrell, The Guess Who, The Monkees, Tom Petty and The Heartbreakers

November 18, 2010 By Mike Duquette 4 Comments

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If you love Rhino France's new CHIC box set as much as we do here at The Second Disc HQ (expect a review up in a few days or so), here's another title you'll probably enjoy: the Music Club Deluxe label in the U.K. is releasing a new two-disc compilation for Sister Sledge. Sister Sledge, indeed comprised of Philadelphia-based sisters named Sledge (Kim, Debbi, Joni and Kathy), were a moderately successful R&B/dance group in the Atlantic label group (first signing to Atco, then Cotillion) that

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Categories: News Tags: Sister Sledge

September 17, 2010 By Mike Duquette 11 Comments

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Hot off the presses, folks. Thanks to super-reader RoyalScam for the tip back in this post. Hit the jump for some good times!

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: Sister Sledge

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