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Release Round-Up: Week of July 30

July 30, 2021 by The Second Disc | 4 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Toomorrow: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) Purple Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Real Gone Music Clear with Copper and Red Swirl Vinyl: Real Gone Music [SOLD OUT] Clear with Red, Blue, and Green “Freak” Swirl Vinyl: Rough Trade [PRE-ORDERS SOLD OUT, MAY BE AVAILABLE AT ROUGH TRADE RETAIL LOCATIONS] Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music are proud to present the first-ever vinyl reissue of the 1970 soundtrack to Toomorrow, the groovy sci-fi musical starring Olivia Newton-John, Ben Thomas, Karl…

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Release Round-Up

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Aretha Franklin, Henry Franklin, Olivia Newton-John, Phyllis Hyman, Prince, The Awakening, Yola

The Ultimate Frontier: Real Gone’s Black Jazz Series Continues With Sophomore Albums From The Awakening and Henry Franklin

July 29, 2021 by Randy Fairman | 1 Comment

Real Gone Music is continuing its series of reissues of the Black Jazz label, founded by Gene Russell and Dick Schory in 1969. The company released twenty albums between 1971 and 1975 and two of them will see new reissues on Real Gone, tomorrow, July 30: 1973’s Mirage by The Awakening and Henry Franklin’s The Skipper At Home from 1974. The Awakening was the lone group on Black Jazz. They only recorded two albums together and both were for the label. The band consisted of Richard “Ari “Brown (saxophone), Ken Chaney (keyboard,…

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News

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CD, Vinyl

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Jazz

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Henry Franklin, The Awakening

Release Round-Up: Week of August 28

August 28, 2020 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! America, Half Century (America Records/Gonzo) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The 50th anniversary celebration of America rolls on with a massive new box set. Half Century is an expansive 7-CD/1-DVD box packed with rare and previously unreleased material from the beloved band featuring Gerry Beckley, Dewey Bunnell, and the late Dan Peek. There’s a slew of unreleased demos circa 1970; a remastered full-length radio session in Bremen from 1973; rehearsals and demos for the Hideaway album; 11 unheard session recordings from 1981; a disc full of rarities…

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Release Round-Up

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Box Sets, CD, DVD, Vinyl

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Blues, Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

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America, Bettye LaVette, Bobby Rush, Dan Penn, Doug Carn, Elliott Smith, Jean Carn, Jean Carne, Joao Gilberto, Louis Armstrong, Metallica, Oscar Peterson, Stan Getz, The Allman Betts Band, The Awakening, Unicorn, Walter Bishop Jr.

Awakening: Real Gone Music Announces Reissues of Rare and Sought-After Titles from Black Jazz Records

July 9, 2020 by Sam Stone | 4 Comments

Today, Real Gone Music announced the reissue of a batch of extremely hard-to-find albums from the legendary Black Jazz Records catalogue, due for release on August 28 on CD and LP. The legendary Black Jazz Records was founded in 1969 in Oakland, California by pianist Gene Russell and percussionist Dick Schory and released its first records in summer of 1971. From then on, it became a home for many emerging African-American jazz performers across a range of styles, including free jazz, soul-jazz, funk, fusion, and spiritual jazz. Though it was only around…

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News

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CD, Vinyl

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Funk, Jazz

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Doug Carn, Gene Russell, Jean Carn, The Awakening, Walter Bishop Jr.