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Release Round-Up: Week of March 27

March 27, 2026 by The Second Disc | 2 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. Queen, Queen II: Collectors’ Edition (Virgin/EMI/Hollywood) 5CD/2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 1CD: Amazon U.S. Link TBD / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Picture Disc: Official Store Cassette: Official Store Queen have remixed their second album, featuring their first Top 10 hit “Seven Seas of Rhye,” for a new multi-format reissue. The box set edition is the most expansive, of course, packed with rare and unreleased demos and session…

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Charlie Puth, Digital Underground, Heaven and Hell, John Mellencamp, Kenny Loggins, Melissa Etheridge, Michael McDonald, Queen, R.E.M., Stevie Wonder, The Charlie Daniels Band, The Lovin' Spoonful, The Puppini Sisters, Van Halen

Do You Believe in Magic? Cherry Red Collects The Lovin’ Spoonful’s Complete 1960s Recordings on “What a Day for a Daydream”

January 26, 2026 by Joe Marchese | 5 Comments

Lovin' Spoonful What a Day for a Daydream

New York native John Sebastian fused pop and folk when he joined with Zal Yanovsky, Steve Boone and Joe Butler as The Lovin’ Spoonful. Over an eighteen-month period beginning in the summer of 1965, the band notched seven consecutive top ten hits on the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 including two which reached No. 2 (“Daydream” and “Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind” and one which hit the top spot (“Summer in the City”). Though the original group’s time together was short-lived, the music has lived on, and a lineup…

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Release Round-Up: Week of September 24

September 24, 2021 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Steely Dan, Northeast Corridor: Steely Dan Live (UMe) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The first Steely Dan live album since 1995’s Alive in America, Northeast Corridor was recorded on the group’s last tour at venues including New York’s Beacon Theater, The Met Philadelphia, and others. (The band’s nine-show Beacon residency in 2018 featured themed shows including performances of full albums, a “By Popular Demand” night, and more.) The single-disc set of 12 songs (of course abbreviated from a typical tour setlist) features songs off Can’t Buy…

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul

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Al Green, Anthony Perkins, Blossom Dearie, Cab Calloway, Carrie Underwood, Chick Corea, Donald Fagen, Dorothy Loudon, Edie Adams, Jack Cassidy, Joan Rivers, John Sebastian, Ringo Starr, Sex Pistols, Steely Dan, The Lovin' Spoonful, The Velvet Underground, Vernon Duke, Vincent Youmans

WE HAVE OUR WINNERS: “Stories We Could Tell: The Very Best of John Sebastian”

September 17, 2017 by Joe Marchese | 1 Comment

CONGRATULATIONS! The following 15 entrants have won a copy of Varese Vintage’s brand-new Stories We Could Tell: The Very Best of John Sebastian on CD! If you entered our contest via Facebook and your name is on the list below, please drop us a line at theseconddisc-at-gmail-dot-com or a Private Message on Facebook with your name and mailing address! If you entered via email, you don’t have to do anything – your CD will be in the mail soon! Watch this space soon for more exciting giveaways! BILLY AFFLECK PAT CALLAGHAN AL COFRANESCO BOB…

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WIN! WIN! WIN! Varese Says “Welcome Back” to “The Very Best of John Sebastian”

September 1, 2017 by Joe Marchese | 5 Comments

Welcome back! Today, Varese Vintage celebrates the early solo discography of singer-songwriter, Woodstock folk hero, and Lovin’ Spoonful founder John Sebastian with the release of Stories We Could Tell: The Very Best of John Sebastian, a new 16-track anthology drawing on the troubadour’s Reprise albums originally released between 1971 and 1976. A New York native and the son of classical harmonica player John Sebastian Sr. and his wife Jane, a writer, young John fused pop and folk when he joined with Zal Yanovsky, Steve Boone and Joe Butler as The Lovin’ Spoonful. …

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Release Round-Up: Week of June 30

June 30, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 4 Comments

Welcome to our final Tuesday Release Round-Up – and it’s a doozy! As many of you know, the record industry will next week adopt a universal Friday release day. No releases are scheduled for Tuesday, July 7; instead, Friday, July 10 is the date! DVDs and Blu-rays will, for the foreseeable future, remain released on Tuesdays. We’ll resume with a new Release Round-Up on Friday, July 10! Ronny and the Daytonas, The Complete Recordings (2-CD Set) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) / The Viscounts, Harlem Nocturne (Limited Mini LP Sleeve Edition) (Amazon U.S….

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Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock

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311, Brian Wilson, Dean Martin, Emerson Lake and Palmer, Fanny, Grateful Dead, Harry Chapin, Janis Ian, KC and the Sunshine Band, Nancy Wilson, Neil Young, Pete Townshend, Ronny and the Daytonas, Tavares, The Fantastic Four, The Lovin' Spoonful, The Who, Tina Turner

What a Day for a Daydream: The Lovin’ Spoonful Goes Mono From Sundazed

May 18, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Do you believe in magic? Well, Sundazed clearly does, as the label is set to offer the first three albums by The Lovin’ Spoonful in mono editions on both CD and 180-gram vinyl. New York native John Sebastian fused pop and folk when he joined with Zal Yanovsky, Steve Boone and Joe Butler as The Lovin’ Spoonful. The band quickly established a knack for “good time music” with its very first album, November 1965’s Do You Believe in Magic. The Kama Sutra album yielded the hit title track (U.S. No. 9) and…

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Welcome Back: Edsel Reissues John Sebastian’s Reprise Catalogue, Adds Previously Unreleased Live Concert DVD

March 7, 2014 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Edsel is saying “welcome back” to John Sebastian with the recent release of a quartet of albums in one deluxe package: John B. Sebastian, The Four of Us, Tarzana Kid and Welcome Back. Edsel has bundled these releases, representing the Lovin’ Spoonful founder’s complete Reprise studio recordings, with a live concert DVD making its very first appearance anywhere. In Concert: John Sebastian Sings John Sebastian was broadcast by the BBC in October 1970, months following the release of John B. Sebastian. New York native Sebastian fused pop and folk when he joined…

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Release Round-Up: Week of February 8

February 8, 2011 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

The Beatles, Love (iTunes Version) (Apple/EMI) Another Beatles album drops on iTunes: the 2006 soundtrack to the Cirque du Soleil attraction – and this version has two previously unreleased bonus tracks. (iTunes) Miles Davis, Bitches Brew Live (Columbia/Legacy) The jazz great lights up the Newport Jazz and Isle of Wight Festivals in this vintage compilation (Sony) The Stan Getz Quintets, The Clef & Norgran Studio Albums (Verve/Hip-o Select) A three-disc box collating Getz’s early quintet years, much of it unavailable on CD until now. (Hip-o Select)

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Matt Monro, Miles Davis, Stan Getz, Steve Miller Band, The Art of Noise, The Beatles, The Hollies, The Lovin' Spoonful

A Spoonful of Reissues Across the Pond

December 13, 2010 by Mike Duquette | 6 Comments

U.K. label Edsel is prepping a series of expanded two-fer reissues of most of The Lovin’ Spoonful’s catalogue. The original group – singer/songwriter John Sebastian, guitarist Zal Yanovsky, bassist Steve Boone and drummer Joe Butler – emerged from New York City’s Greenwich Village neighborhood in the 1960s. In the middle of the decade, they rode a wave of success thanks to folk-pop tunes like “Do You Believe in Magic,” “Daydream,” “Did You Ever Have to Make Up Your Mind?” and the No. 1 hit “Summer in the City.” Their first seven singles…

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