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Release Round-Up: Week of May 17

May 17, 2024 by The Second Disc | No Comments

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. Taana Gardner, When You Touch Me: The West End Recordings (SoulMusic/Cherry Red/The Second Disc) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) SoulMusic Records teams with TSD to revisit dance superstar Taana Gardner’s classic West End album as a 2CD set. When You Touch Me: The West End Recordings opens with Taana Gardner in its original form and mix for the very first time on CD including Larry Levan’s 1979 mixes. Producer Kenton Nix’s extended…

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Adam Guettel, Barry Manilow, Davy Jones, Don McLean, Max Bygraves, New Kids on the Block, Pink Floyd, Stephen Sondheim, Taana Gardner

That’s The Word: SoulMusic Teams with TSD for Taana Gardner’s “When You Touch Me: The West End Recordings”

April 22, 2024 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

1979 was a landmark year in disco, with Donna Summer, Gloria Gaynor, Anita Ward, and Sister Sledge all conquering the Billboard charts. But the prominence of the dance genre led to a so-called backlash – and it happened in the blink of an eye. On July 21, 1979 – nine days following the Disco Demolition Night held by controversial Chicago disk jockey Steve Dahl and others – the genre dominated the top 10 of the Billboard Hot 100, with six records. By September 22, there were no disco songs at all in…

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Taana Gardner

Disco Connection: BBR Spins Dance Gold With Latest Reissues

September 3, 2013 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

At Big Break Records, no stone has been left unturned in the label’s quest to reissue the best in soul, R&B, dance and disco, as evidenced by five of the Cherry Red imprint’s latest catalogue expansions. 1971’s “Funky Nassau” by The Beginning of the End established the Bahamas as a fertile ground for musical invention when the single on Henry Stone’s Alston label became a Top 15 Pop/Top 10 R&B hit. His interest in the region’s music piqued, Stone signed the quintet T-Connection to his T.K. Records imprint Dash, and they headed…

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Logg, T-Connection, Taana Gardner