The Robert Shaw Chorale - The Second Disc

Release Round-Up: Week of November 3

November 3, 2017 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! The Supremes, The Ultimate Merry Christmas (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music are joining Motown Records to unwrap a celebration of The Supremes’ 1965 perennial Merry Christmas. The Ultimate Merry Christmas features the album in three distinctive versions: the original 1965 mono and stereo mixes, as well as a brand new, never-before-heard 2017 mix premiering previously unheard vocals and instrumentation. And that’s not all! The additional, previously unreleased bonus tracks include a Diana Ross/Florence Ballard duet on “Silent Night,” and a Diana/Mary Wilson duet on…

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Box Sets, CD, DVD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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Classic Rock, Country, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Andy Williams, Ann-Margret, Bob Dylan, Bryan Adams, Cliff Martinez, Connie Smith, Debbie Gibson, Desmond Dekker, Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians, Josh Groban, Lee Hazlewood, Little Richard, Percy Faith, Roy Orbison, Sepultura, The Ames Brothers, The Robert Shaw Chorale, The Supremes

Making a List and Checking It Twice: Real Gone’s Christmas Offerings Revealed, Including Percy Faith, Fred Waring and Robert Shaw

September 22, 2017 by Randy Fairman | 4 Comments

We’ve already told you about the three Christmas offerings coming from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music this year from The Supremes, The Ames Brothers and Connie Smith. Now here’s the rest of Real Gone’s superlative slate of yuletide releases…and one more non-holiday reissue, all due on November 3! First up is an expanded edition of the classic Music of Christmas from Percy Faith and His Orchestra. This was actually the second album to bear this title from the prolific conductor. The first arrived in mono in 1954 on Columbia. That…

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Cliff Martinez, Fred Waring and the Pennsylvanians, Percy Faith, The Robert Shaw Chorale

Release Round-Up: Week of November 4

November 4, 2016 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a host of holiday offerings (including three new titles from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music!) and much, much more! Jack Jones, The Jack Jones Christmas Album (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music proudly bring Jack Jones’ 1964 Kapp Records classic to CD for the very first time! The Jack Jones Christmas Album features lush renditions of “White Christmas,” “I’ll Be Home for Christmas,” and “The Christmas Song (Chestnuts Roasting on…

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Box Sets, CD, DVD, Digital Download, Vinyl

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

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Bing Crosby, Eddy Arnold, Frank Zappa, Jack Jones, Mantovani, Margaret Whiting, Mitch Miller and the Gang, Mother Love Bone, Queen, Ray Conniff, Sammy Kaye, Stevie Nicks, , The Living Strings, The Norman Luboff Choir, The Robert Shaw Chorale, The Ventures

Here We Come A-Caroling: Real Gone’s November Christmas Slate Features Ray Conniff, The Ventures, Robert Shaw and Norman Luboff

September 21, 2016 by Randy Fairman | 9 Comments

As we are still over a month away from Halloween, it may seem a bit early to be thinking about Christmas. But stores have already bringing out small bits of Christmas merchandise and the merriest season seems to start a little earlier each year. Real Gone Music is ready to get in the holiday mood with the announcement of their Christmas-related November 4 line-up, which has become a yearly tradition for the label! We’ve already told you about the three Second Disc Records releases: Jack Jones’ 1964 The Jack Jones Christmas Album,…

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Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal

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Eddy Arnold, Jack Jones, Living Guitars, Living Strings, Mantovani, Mitch Miller, Ray Conniff, Sammy Kaye, The Norman Luboff Choir, The Robert Shaw Chorale, The Ventures, Tom Tom Club