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Release Round-Up: Week of May 31

May 31, 2024 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

Salsoul Orchestra It's Good for the Soul

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. The Salsoul Orchestra, It’s Good for the Soul: The Vince Montana Years (SoulMusic/Cherry Red/Second Disc) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) It’s Good for the Soul: The Vince Montana Years (1975-1978) is the definitive, first-ever box set collecting The Salsoul Orchestra’s groundbreaking albums produced, arranged, and conducted by Vincent Montana, Jr.! The vibraphonist came into his own when he moved from Philadelphia International Records to the upstart Salsoul label and founded…

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Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl

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Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock

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Black Sabbath, Crowded House, Cyndi Lauper, Howard Jones, Lowell George, Richard Thompson, Ringo Starr, Rodgers and Hammerstein, Silver Convention, The Rascals, The Rolling Stones, The Salsoul Orchestra, Willie Nelson

PRE-ORDER UPDATE: SoulMusic, The Second Disc Team to Celebrate The Salsoul Orchestra on New Box Set

May 16, 2024 by Joe Marchese | No Comments

Last Christmas, The Second Disc teamed with SoulMusic Records and Cherry Red for The Salsoul Orchestra’s Christmas Jollies: The Extra Jolly Edition, celebrating the best-selling album in the entire Salsoul catalogue. On May 31, we’ll follow that set up with It’s Good for the Soul: The Vince Montana Years (1975-1978), the definitive, first-ever box set collecting The Salsoul Orchestra’s groundbreaking albums produced, arranged, and conducted by Vincent Montana, Jr.! U.S. customers: pre-orders directly from SoulMusic Records’ U.S. shop close tomorrow, May 17. Get your pre-orders in now for domestic shipping by the release…

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News

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Box Sets, CD

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Disco/Dance, R&B/Soul

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The Salsoul Orchestra, Vincent Montana Jr.

There’ll Come a Time: SoulMusic, The Second Disc Team for Loleatta Holloway Box Set “We’re Getting Stronger”

May 14, 2024 by The Second Disc | 2 Comments

Loleatta Holloway We're Getting Stronger

Stardom had been predicted for Loleatta Holloway from the time she’d emerged as a solo artist with her 1971 recording of Curtis Mayfield’s “Rainbow.” Her voice, homegrown from singing gospel with her mother’s choir and experience on the road with Albertina Walker’s group The Famous Caravans, easily transitioned to R&B with her no-holds-barred, heart-on-her-sleeve approach. With two albums under her belt and a Top 10 R&B hit with “Cry to Me” in 1975, she was signed to Salsoul Records by way of their imprint, Gold Mind Records. Disco was on the rise…

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News

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Box Sets, CD

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Disco/Dance, R&B/Soul

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Bunny Sigler, Dan Hartman, Loleatta Holloway, The Salsoul Orchestra

Ooh, I Love It: SoulMusic, The Second Disc Team For The Salsoul Orchestra’s “It’s Good for the Soul: The Vince Montana Years (1975-1978)” Box Set

March 27, 2024 by The Second Disc | 4 Comments

Last Christmas, The Second Disc teamed with SoulMusic Records and Cherry Red for The Salsoul Orchestra’s Christmas Jollies: The Extra Jolly Edition, celebrating the best-selling album in the entire Salsoul catalogue. Now, we’re thrilled to announce the May 31 release of It’s Good for the Soul: The Vince Montana Years (1975-1978), the definitive, first-ever box set collecting The Salsoul Orchestra’s groundbreaking albums produced, arranged, and conducted by Vincent Montana, Jr.! The late Montana played his signature vibes on such all-time classic Philadelphia soul records as The Delfonics’ “Didn’t I (Blow Your Mind…

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News

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Box Sets, CD

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Disco/Dance, R&B/Soul

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The Salsoul Orchestra, Vincent Montana Jr.

We Wish You (Another) Merry Discmas!

December 23, 2023 by The Second Disc | 12 Comments

The stockings are hung, the presents are wrapped, and the time is now to wish all of our readers at The Second Disc a wonderful holiday season before we enter a brief winter hibernation until the new year! 2023 was our 13th year as (we hope!) one of the more fun destinations for music reissues, box sets and catalogue releases. The business has certainly changed a lot in that time – maybe too much vinyl, maybe not enough CDs? – but labels big and small keep finding new, old and interesting ways…

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

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Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Everything Else, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Arthur Baker, John Luongo, John Williams, Philip Bailey, Rick Springfield, Rod McKuen, Sylvester, The Beatles, The Replacements, The Salsoul Orchestra, The Spinners

Release Round-Up: Week of October 27

October 27, 2023 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the (many, many!) new titles available today! As an Amazon associate, we earn from qualifying purchases. The Salsoul Orchestra, Christmas Jollies I + II: The Extra Jolly Edition (SoulMusic/Cherry Red/Second Disc) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada / Cherry Red) The Second Disc has teamed with SoulMusic Records for the definitive celebration of the Christmas disco/Philly soul classic. The Salsoul Orchestra’s Christmas Jollies I + II: The Extra Jolly Edition brings together Vincent Montana, Jr.’s original Christmas Jollies plus Tom Moulton’s complete 1992 remix and producer Patrick Adams’ rare follow-up, Christmas…

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Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl

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

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Astrud Gilberto, Barbra Streisand, Bing Crosby, Bruce Hornsby, Dinah Washington, Duran Duran, Frank Sinatra, Graham Parker, Kirsty MacColl, Linda Ronstadt, Motley Crue, Nirvana, Prince, Taylor Swift, The Judds, The Nolans, The Salsoul Orchestra

OUT TOMORROW! The Salsoul Orchestra’s “Christmas Jollies I + II: The Extra Jolly Edition” Arrives from SoulMusic Records, The Second Disc

October 26, 2023 by The Second Disc | 8 Comments

Salsoul Orchestra Christmas Jollies I and II Extra Jolly Edition

As a founding member of Philadelphia’s MFSB, vibraphonist Vincent Montana, Jr. played on countless hits by The O’Jays, Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes, The Three Degrees, Billy Paul, and others. But Montana had a bigger vision: a full-fledged disco orchestra combining the soulful Philly sound with the infectious dance rhythms of Latin America. The result was The Salsoul Orchestra, formed for the groundbreaking disco/dance label Salsoul Records by Montana and his MFSB bandmates. Between 1975 and 1978, Montana produced, arranged, and conducted eight albums for The Salsoul Orchestra, including LPs from…

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Disco/Dance, Holiday, Pop, R&B/Soul

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Denise Montana, Jocelyn Brown, Patrick Adams, The Salsoul Orchestra, Vince Montana

Merry Christmas All: SoulMusic Records, The Second Disc Team Up for The Salsoul Orchestra’s Deluxe “Christmas Jollies I + II: The Extra Jolly Edition”

October 10, 2023 by The Second Disc | 8 Comments

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News

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Disco/Dance, Holiday, Pop, R&B/Soul

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Denise Montana, Jocelyn Brown, Patrick Adams, The Salsoul Orchestra, Vince Montana

Dance Out of My Head: Demon Collects Shep Pettibone Mixes from Whitney, Elton, Lionel, More on New Box Set

July 8, 2021 by Joe Marchese | 10 Comments

Arthur Baker Dance Masters Shep Pettibone

Producer-DJ Arthur Baker has brought his magic touch to recordings by everybody from Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen to Tina Turner and Diana Ross, turning pop, rock, and R&B hits into dance floor-fillers. Now, Baker is looking back and taking stock of his fellow Dance Masters with a new series from Demon Music Group. Arthur Baker Presents Dance Masters: The Shep Pettibone Master Mixes is an expansive salute from one legendary remixer to another. Available on 4 CDs (47 songs in one box set) or 2 LPs (32 tracks across two releases),…

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News

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Box Sets, CD, Vinyl

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Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul

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Arthur Baker, Belinda Carlisle, Elton John, George Michael, Gloria Gaynor, Huey Lewis and The News, Lionel Richie, Pet Shop Boys, Shep Pettibone, The Salsoul Orchestra, Various Artists, Whitney Houston

Release Round-Up: Week of October 30

October 30, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Packed with over 30 titles including highly-anticipated reissues, a slew of box sets, collections and more, it just may be the mightiest of the year! The Velvet Underground, Loaded: Re-Loaded 45th Anniversary Edition (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) The Velvet Underground’s 1970 album – and Lou Reed’s swansong with the band – gets the deluxe expanded treatment from Rhino in this new box set featuring the original stereo and mono albums plus a wealth of bonus material, two live concerts and a DVD featuring high…

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Release Round-Up

Formats:

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

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Disco/Dance, Folk, Holiday, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock