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The Weekend Stream: April 29, 2022

April 29, 2023 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

Welcome to The Weekend Stream, a relaxing weekly review of notable digital-only catalogue titles. There may be no CD or vinyl, but there’s plenty of great new/old music to usher you into the weekend. A short round-up this week, featuring expanded albums from the Godfather of Soul and a late ’90s R&B star, another ZTT rarity, a classic rock remix and an LP from a screen legend. James Brown, Gravity (Expanded Edition) (Volcano/Legacy) (iTunes / Amazon) The success of “Living in America” – the Godfather of Soul’s Top 5 single from 1985’s…

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The Weekend Stream

Formats:

Digital Download, Digital Streaming

Genres:

Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Funk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Heaven 17, James Brown, Mae West, Mya, Propaganda, Steppenwolf, The Lennon Sisters

The Weekend Stream: February 27, 2021

February 27, 2021 by The Second Disc | 6 Comments

While The Second Disc prides itself on connecting people to reissues and box sets they can keep on their shelves, it’s no secret that listening audiences are also digital – catalogue music lovers, too – and our passion is connecting people to music from the past that they might adore. So we’re introducing a new Saturday feature: The Weekend Stream, which focuses on hidden gems that recently made it to digital channels that might make your playlists a little brighter! Cheap Trick, Out to Get You! Live 1977 (Epic/Legacy) (iTunes / Amazon / Spotify) Record Store…

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Features, The Weekend Stream

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

Genres:

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

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Cheap Trick, Donny Hathaway, Ne-Yo, The Lennon Sisters

So Nice: The Lennon Sisters Return This Weekend to Public Television, Issue New Christmas, Broadway, and Standards Collections on CD

November 27, 2020 by Joe Marchese | 9 Comments

65 years ago this coming Christmas Eve, The Lawrence Welk Show welcomed a winsome young quartet for their very first television appearance. The story goes that the host’s teenaged son brought Dianne, Peggy, Kathy, and Janet Lennon home to sing for him; their shimmering vocal harmonies won the elder Welk over and he quickly booked them to appear on his show. The response was so tremendous that The Lennon Sisters continued to appear every Saturday night with the “wunnerful, wunnerful” host until 1968 and began a cherished showbiz career that continues to…

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News

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CD, DVD

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Holiday, Popular Standards/Vocal

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Al Martino, Andy Williams, Jack Jones, Leslie Uggams, Mel Tormé, The Lennon Sisters, The Osmonds