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January 14, 2021 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Words A Bee Gees Songbook

While The Bee Gees have never truly faded from the popular consciousness, it's fair to say the group founded by Barry Gibb and his late brothers Maurice and Robin is currently experiencing a renaissance.  Director Frank Marshall's documentary How Can You Mend a Broken Heart earned acclaim for its candid chronicle of the group's ups and downs while Barry has reaffirmed his legacy with the new album Greenfields: The Gibb Brothers Songbook Vol. 1.  On the latter, he's joined by an array of country

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Bee Gees, Cilla Black, Jackie Lomax, Johnny Mathis, José Feliciano, Lulu, Nina Simone, The Cyrkle, The Marmalade, The Searchers, The Seekers, Various Artists

April 5, 2019 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Spying Through a Keyhole

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! David Bowie, Spying Through a Keyhole: Demos and Unreleased Songs (Parlophone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Spying Through a Keyhole: Demos and Unreleased Songs is the new box set with four seven-inch vinyl singles of some of Bowie's earliest material.  It will feature nine rare, monaural recordings, including mostly solo vocal-and-guitar versions of familiar songs ("Space Oddity" in its earliest known version, "London Bye Ta Ta,"

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Barry White, David Bowie, Don Felder, Ian Hunter, Love Unlimited Orchestra, Meat Loaf, Mike + the Mechanics, New Order, Reba McEntire, The Searchers, Todd Rundgren, Utopia

March 29, 2019 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

The Searchers Complete Pye

Last year, John McNally and Frank Allen of The Searchers announced that the Merseybeat band would be retiring in 2019, some 60 years after McNally co-founded the group and 55 years after Allen first joined up.  The Searchers will play their final show on Sunday in Milton Keynes, about 50 miles northwest of London.  But the music lives on, and today, Cherry Red's Grapefruit label releases an impressive tribute to the band's body of work with When You Walk in the Room: The Complete Pye Recordings

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop Tags: The Searchers

March 29, 2019 By Sam Stone 1 Comment

ZappaInNewYork box 3

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up. Here's what's due for March 29! John Coltrane, Coltrane '58: The Prestige Recordings [5 CD] (Craft Recordings) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The year 1958 was a breakout one for saxophone legend John Coltrane. It marked the year when Coltrane--already well-established as a talented sideman--began to make a name for himself as a solo musician and developed his signature "sheets of sound" style while exploring many other routes.  To

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Folk, Funk, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Ben Folds, Brandi Carlile, Chaka Khan, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Diana Krall, Donna Summer, Emmylou Harris, Frank Zappa, Glen Hansard, Graham Nash, James Taylor, John Coltrane, Joni Mitchell, Keith Richards, Kiki Dee, KISS, Kris Kristofferson, Los Lobos, Marvin Gaye, Michael Nesmith, Norah Jones, Rufus Wainwright, Seal, Simple Minds, Stevie Nicks, The Searchers, Tina Turner

January 24, 2019 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Alexis Korner Every Day I Have the Blues

Periodically this month, we'll be looking at titles released in the latter part of 2018 that we either didn't cover, or only covered briefly, the first time around! We hope you enjoy this look at "some nice things we've missed"... Cherry Red's Grapefruit imprint has recently released a pair of 3-CD box sets touching on two very different aspects of the sixties British music scene. One of the fathers of the British blues boom, Alexis Korner (1928-1984) has been celebrated on Every Day I

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Folk, Pop Tags: Alexis Korner, Donovan, Genesis, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Procol Harum, The Searchers, The Zombies, Various Artists

January 10, 2019 By Sam Stone 1 Comment

VA HarmonyInMyHead CherryRed

In recent years, Cherry Red Records has made waves with their box set celebrations of music eras gone by.  From late-'70s Scottish independent releases and '60s Baroque pop, to '80s shoegaze and even the avant-garde sound explorations of Edgard Varese and Karlheinz Stockhausen, the label has a reputation for their meticulous deep-dives into music subcultures. In November, Cherry Red put the spotlight on the late-'70s U.K. pop-rock scene with Harmony In My Head:  UK Power Pop & New Wave,

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Rock Tags: Buzzcocks, Eddie and the Hot Rods, Elvis Costello, Nick Lowe, Squeeze, The Searchers, Wreckless Eric

June 26, 2018 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Fab Gear box

"Yesterday's Gone": the song by folk-pop duo Chad and Jeremy opens the first of the six discs comprising Cherry Red and RPM's new box set Fab Gear: The British Beat Explosion and Its Aftershocks 1963-1967.  It's a most appropriate opener, as yesterday really was gone for an entire generation of artists swiftly rendered obsolete by the emergence of The Beatles.  As the box eloquently explains, the Fab Four "in name, song, band structure, image, defined this new Beat music...Until 1967, when The

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Categories: News, Reviews Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Chad and Jeremy, David Bowie, The Kinks, The Moody Blues, The Searchers, Various Artists

December 8, 2017 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Johnny Mathis Voice of Romance Cover Art

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Debby Boone, You Light Up My Life: 40th Anniversary Expanded Edition (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Finally, the platinum LP containing the biggest hit of the 1970s arrives on CD!  Real Gone's new edition expands Debby Boone's original You Light Up My Life album by a whopping thirteen tracks, tracing Debby's career back to her earliest recordings with her sisters as The Boone Girls.  You'll hear their effervescent

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Barbra Streisand, Bert Berns, Bing Crosby, Chip Taylor, Debby Boone, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Henry Mancini, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Webb, John Fogerty, Johnny Mathis, Julie Andrews, The Searchers, William Tabbert

October 10, 2017 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Searchers Another Night

The Searchers will always be remembered as a leading light of the British Invasion, thanks to such infectious hits as "Needles and Pins," "Don't Throw Our Love Away," "Love Potion No. 9," "When You Walk in the Room," "Sugar and Spice," and "Sweets for My Sweet."  Their Merseybeat reinventions of classic American songs and fresh British originals earned them a deserved following and berth on radio that's lasted to this very day.  All told, the band notched eleven top 40s in the U.K. (including

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: The Searchers

November 9, 2016 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Lets Go Down and Blow Our Minds Box

Cherry Red's Grapefruit imprint has continued its series of box sets - including Love, Poetry and Revolution and I'm a Freak Baby - with another musical journey through the world of British psych and rock.  Let's Go Down and Blow Our Minds is a more focused collection than either of those past two releases, concentrating solely on the U.K.'s psychedelic sounds of 1967.  Of course, you won't find selections from two of that year's landmark psych-rock releases, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop Tags: David Bowie, Procol Harum, The Moody Blues, The Move, The Searchers, The Spencer Davis Group, Various Artists

September 23, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Bruce Springsteen Chapter and Verse

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, packed with heavy hitters! David Bowie, Who Can I Be Now (1974-1976) (Parlophone) 12-CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 13-LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada David Bowie - Who Can I Be Now? (1974-1976), the second in the late artist's series of deluxe albums box sets, will contain the following albums plus a 128-page booklet in the CD edition (or 84 pages in the vinyl edition.  You'll find more details here, and watch

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bruce Springsteen, David Bowie, Fleetwood Mac, Frank Zappa, My Chemical Romance, Pink Floyd, Randy Newman, Ray Charles, The Beach Boys, The Searchers, The Verve, Various Artists

July 3, 2012 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

elton classic album selection

Jellyfish, Live at Bogart's (Omnivore) A fine 1991 gig from the criminally underrated power pop band, captured on CD and three sides of vinyl. Bob Dylan, Bob Dylan's Greatest Hits (Audio Fidelity) The Bard's first compilation gets the 24K gold disc treatment. Elton John, Classic Album Selection (Universal U.K.) Elton fans have a neat little budget compilation of studio albums to look forward to (from 1970's self-titled album to 1973's Don't Shoot Me I'm Only the Piano Player). Small

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets Tags: Bob Dylan, Bronski Beat, Ray Parker Jr., Small Faces, The Searchers

May 15, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

searchers hearts in their eyes

Back on July 26, 2010, we reported on Sweets, Spice, Sugar, Pins and Needles, a 4-CD, 120-track boxed retrospective dedicated to The Searchers, the second-most famous band to emerge from Liverpool during the British Invasion!  We wrote: One of the best and most successful bands to come out of Liverpool, The Searchers may have toiled in the shadow of that other band from Liverpool, but hits like “Sugar and Spice,” “Pins and Needles” and “When You Walk in the Room” remain some of the strongest

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets Tags: The Searchers

July 26, 2010 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

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While the original British Invasion is now just a few years south of 50, its music continues to endure. The Second Disc is pleased to report on a trio of new releases coming our way from two of the U.K.’s seminal artists, The Searchers and Petula Clark. One of the best and most successful bands to come out of Liverpool, The Searchers may have toiled in the shadow of that other band from Liverpool, but hits like “Sugar and Spice,” “Pins and Needles” and “When You Walk in the Room” remain some of

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Categories: News Tags: Petula Clark, The Searchers

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