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The Weekend Stream: March 28, 2026

March 28, 2026 by The Second Disc | 5 Comments

Welcome back to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc’s review of notable catalogue titles making digital debuts, plus new works from legacy acts and even some personally curated favorites. This week is delivering the goods: vintage George Michael mixes, Beach Boys rarities, new tracks from some of our favorite elder statesmen of pop and rock, and so much more in so many genres. George Michael, I Want Your Sex EP (Columbia/Legacy) (Apple / Amazon) There’s things that you guess and things that you know – but we honestly weren’t expecting this!…

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Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Electronic, Folk, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Reggae, Rock

The Weekend Stream: February 7, 2026

February 7, 2026 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

Welcome back to another edition of The Weekend Stream, The Second Disc’s review of notable catalogue titles (and some new ones, too!) making digital debuts. New tracks from old favorites, deep cuts, good causes, a fun recent Grammy winner, and the triumphant return of The Muppets? What more could you possibly ask for?! The Muppets, The Muppet Show Theme (2026) (Walt Disney Records) (Apple / Amazon) It’s time to play the music! The Muppet Show made a triumphant return to television this week: a special episode that aired on ABC and Disney+, produced by…

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Classic Rock, Everything Else, Funk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rap/Hip-Hop, Reggae, Rock, Soundtracks

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Aaron Neville, Beck, Blink-182, Brian Blade, Bruce Hornsby, Chuck Negron, Daniel Lanois, Joe Jackson, Koji Kondo, Parliament-Funkadelic, Patti Page, Peter Gabriel, Public Enemy, Television, The Blasters, The Format, The Muppets, Three Dog Night

Songs of Joy and Peace: Real Gone Music Announces 2020 Christmas Titles

October 23, 2020 by Sam Stone | No Comments

Can it be? Christmas season already? It seems like just yesterday it was March! Well, a time-bending pandemic isn’t going to keep holiday cheer away, at least not when it comes to new yuletide reissues! Real Gone Music has a trio of them coming your way in November and December. We told you about Season’s Greetings: The Fantastic Strings of Felix Slatkin back in July when it was issued as an online-only product. If you missed out, fear not! The Vatican-endorsed Christmas classic will become widely available on CD on November 6….

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Brian Setzer, Cee Lo Green, Christina Aguilera, Danny Elfman, Felix Slatkin, Jackie Wilson, Nat King Cole, Rod Stewart, Run-D.M.C., Run-DMC, Straight No Chaser, The Muppets, The Supremes, Trombone Shorty, Tyler The Creator

How Far I’ll Go: England’s ‘Sing Your Heart Out’ Series Releases Disney Volume with Rare Instrumentals

November 7, 2018 by The Second Disc | No Comments

A British compilation series recently released a magical volume for Disney fans – and with a host of rarities for collectors, to boot! Since 2016, Universal Music On Demand’s Sing Your Heart Out series has annually issued hits-packed compilations meant for (you guessed it) singing together, at home or in the car. In October, the Sing Your Heart Out series expanded to include a volume of classics from the films of Walt Disney Pictures. A total of 52 tracks are featured across the set’s first two discs, spanning the full length of…

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The Second Disc’s Record Store Day 2014 Must-Haves

April 18, 2014 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

If you’ve been following these pages for the past few weeks, you’ve likely noticed an awful lot of coverage about Record Store Day! Well, the day is nearly here! Tomorrow, Saturday, April 21, music fans and collectors will flock to their local independent record stores to celebrate both the sounds on those round black platters and the very concept of shopping in a physical retail environment. To many of us, both are a way of life. We’re doubly excited this year because one special title was co-produced by our very own Mike…

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Bruce Springsteen, Paramore, Randy Newman, Ray Parker Jr., Record Store Day, Ronnie Spector, Tears for Fears, The Clash, The Muppets, The Pogues, Van Dyke Parks, Vinyl

Give ‘Em a Spin: The Second Disc’s Essential Back to Black Friday 2013 Release Guide

November 27, 2013 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Another year…another Black Friday. Yes, it’s that time of year again in which consumers start off the holiday shopping season on a mad, frenetic note. This year is another one in which numerous big-box retailers in the U.S. have made headlines by blackening Thursday, or Thanksgiving Day itself, by sales starting on the holiday. So many might give thanks that the folks behind Record Store Day are waiting until the traditional Friday to release their twice-yearly slate of exclusive releases. As usual, many top artists are represented, from Bob Dylan to U2,…

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Roy Orbison, The Doors, The Muppets, Tracey Ullman, Van Dyke Parks, Vinyl

Review: “The Muppet Movie: Original Soundtrack Recording”

August 15, 2013 by Mike Duquette | 4 Comments

I’m a pretty sensitive person, but there are few things that trigger my emotions easier than The Muppets. Searching through Muppet clips yields almost a 100% guarantee on being moved to tears; just finding the link to this ciip from the 1990 special The Muppets Celebrate Jim Henson made me start tearing up, and my last trip to Walt Disney World began with me leaving the plane to Orlando, choking back my emotions over a screening of 2011’s The Muppets. (For the record, this is the scene that made me such a mess.) One…

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All of Us Under Its Spell: Disney Reissues “Muppet Movie” Soundtrack to Coincide with Blu-Ray Release

July 22, 2013 by Mike Duquette | 3 Comments

It begins so simply, as all immortal songs do: a hopeful melody, plucked on a banjo by the versatile flippers of a frog. “Why are there so many songs about rainbows / And what’s on the other side?” sings Kermit the Frog, in one of the unmistakable voices of his creator Jim Henson. If Henson and Sam Pottle’s theme to The Muppet Show is the national anthem of those long-running, lovable fur and felt characters, “The Rainbow Connection” is its “God Bless America.” Kermit’s ode to “the lovers, the dreamers…and me,” as…

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Holiday Tunes Watch, Part 3: John Denver, Muppets Go “Urban” on Vinyl

December 2, 2011 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

Is the outpouring of love for the new Muppets film still not enough for you? Of course not! So you’ll be happy to know that there’s yet another great musical collectible (after Disney’s fun reissue of the 2006 A Green and Red Christmas) that celebrates our fur and felt friends, not to mention one gone-but-not-forgotten pop favorite: a vinyl reissue of the beloved holiday album by John Denver and The Muppets. Maybe it was his just-offbeat-enough sensibilities in public – the onstage good-natured behavior that just barely betrayed a distinctly liberal slant…

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Friday Feature: Muppet Memories

November 25, 2011 by Mike Duquette | No Comments

This month, it’s finally time to play the music and light the lights, with the release of The Muppets, a brand new film featuring Kermit The Frog, Miss Piggy, Fozzie Bear, The Great Gonzo and just about all of Jim Henson’s furry, felt-covered creations in an all-new story co-written by fabulous funnyman and human co-star Jason Segel (star of TV’s How I Met Your Mother and co-writer and star of Forgetting Sarah Marshall). The film, which sees the Muppet gang reunite after years out of the limelight to save their old theatre, is…

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Weekend Wround-Up – Holiday Edition: Dean Martin, Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons, and The Muppets!

November 11, 2011 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Dean Martin only recorded two Christmas albums in his career, one for Capitol (1959’s A Winter Romance) and one for Reprise (1966’s The Dean Martin Christmas Album). Yet every year, Martin’s holiday catalogue from both labels is usually reconfigured for a new release, often with songs added (singles, alternate takes, remixes), dropped or otherwise altered. 2011 is no exception, so completists might want to be on the lookout for this year’s edition of My Kind of Christmas on the Hip-o Records label. This release follows the 2009 collection of the same name…

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