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The Weekend Stream: March 5, 2022

March 5, 2022 by The Second Disc | 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 discover! This week’s got some choice soundtracks plus rock, hip-hop, country, and classic vocalists. Depeche Mode, Construction Time Again | The 12″ Singles (Warner/Rhino) (iTunes / Amazon) Rhino continues its series of 12″ single releases from the Depeche Mode catalogue. This offering gathers up the extended mixes from the band’s third album, originally released in 1983. David Crosby, Oh Yes I Can (A&M/UMe) (iTunes…

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Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Classic Rock, Country, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks

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Akon, David Crosby, Depeche Mode, Hoyt Axton, James Horner, John Williams, Johnny Rodriguez, The Mills Brothers

Release Round-Up: Week of December 2

December 2, 2016 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Welcome to December, and this week’s Release Round-Up! The Rolling Stones, Blue and Lonesome (Interscope) Standard Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Rolling Stones return with their first studio album since 2005’s A Bigger Bang. Recorded over just three days in London, Blue and Lonesome returns the legendary band to its blues roots. Available on CD, LP and DD, as well as in an SHM-CD Deluxe Edition with postcards,…

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Release Round-Up

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Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, DVD, Digital Download, Vinyl

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Blues, Classic Rock, Gospel, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Archie Bell and the Drells, Deniece Williams, Kate Bush, Mary Martin, The Alan Parsons Project, The Mills Brothers, The Rolling Stones, Todd Rundgren

Can We Still Be Friends: Real Gone’s Black Friday Titles Feature Paul Butterfield, December Slate Includes Todd Rundgren, Mills Brothers

October 28, 2016 by Randy Fairman | 1 Comment

Paul Butterfield Got a Mind to Give Up Living

With Halloween coming on Monday, that means that the Christmas season is almost upon us. Stores have already begun to put out Christmas merchandise and Christmas CDs have begun to hit the shelves. Next week sees the release of Real Gone’s mega-Christmas slate, including three Second Disc Records titles featuring Jack Jones, Eddy Arnold and Mitch Miller. In addition, Real Gone has just announced its exclusives for the Black Friday November 25 Record Store Day event which is part of the kickoff to the holiday shopping season and the label’s December batch of titles….

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CD, Vinyl

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Blues, Classic Rock, Everything Else, Gospel, Pop, R&B/Soul

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Record Store Day, The Mills Brothers, The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, Timothy Leary, Todd Rundgren

It’s Got That Swing: Ellington’s “After Midnight” Recordings Collected By Legacy [UPDATED 6/19]

June 19, 2014 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

When this year’s Tony Award nominations were announced on April 29, After Midnight was among the most-recognized productions of the season with seven nominations including Best Musical. The critically-acclaimed show, which has been running at Broadway’s Brooks Atkinson Theatre since October of last year, picked up one Tony for Warren Carlyle’s vivid choreography. But After Midnight has recently announced a closing date of June 29. With its departure from the Great White Way, prospects for an original cast album seem even dimmer than before. Happily, Legacy Recordings has come along to partially fill in…

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Music, Maestro, Please: The Mills Brothers Embrace The 1960s on “Cab Driver”

March 6, 2014 by Joe Marchese | 4 Comments

By the point The Mills Brothers’ new anthology Cab Driver: The Dot and Paramount Years: 1958-1972 begins in 1958, Herbert, Harry and Donald Mills had already been superstars for nearly thirty years. Known for their tight harmonies and sophisticated scatting as much as for their ability to mimic musical instruments with their voices, The Mills Brothers scored their first U.S. No. 1 hit in 1931 on the Brunswick label with “Tiger Rag,” an oldie from 1917 (!). Hollywood stardom followed at Paramount and Warner Bros., and the brothers broke a barrier for…

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