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Release Round-Up: Week of January 28

January 28, 2022 by The Second Disc | 3 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Various Artists, Summer of Soul (…or When the Revolution Could Not Be Televised): Original Motion Picture Soundtrack (Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Legacy Recordings delivers a soundtrack to Questlove’s acclaimed 2021 documentary Summer of Soul, chronicling the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival. Live recordings are featured from headliners including The 5th Dimension, Nina Simone, David Ruffin, Sly & The Family Stone, Gladys Knight & The Pips, B.B. King, The Chambers Brothers, and more. Available on CD and digital formats, with the digital edition adding one bonus cut…

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Release Round-Up

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, SACD, Vinyl

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Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks

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Barbra Streisand, Bob James, Gladys Knight and the Pips, Harold Rome, John Lodge, Leo Sayer, Lucinda Williams, Nina Simone, Sly and the Family Stone, The 5th Dimension, The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Temptations, The Weeknd

Release Round-Up: Week of February 5

February 5, 2021 by The Second Disc | No Comments

Dusty Springfield Complete Atlantic Singles

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Dusty Springfield, The Complete Atlantic Singles 1969-1971 (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The Complete Atlantic Singles 1968-1971brings together Dusty Springfield’s 24 U.S. single sides released during her tenure at Atlantic. These tracks have been remastered from the original mono tapes by Mike Milchner at Sonic Vision, and all but the eight sides pulled from Dusty in Memphis have never before appeared on CD in these original mixes. TSD’s Joe Marchese provides the new liner notes based on his interviews with Jeff Barry, Thom Bell, and Kenny Gamble….

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Release Round-Up

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

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Blues, Cast Recordings, Folk, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Reggae, Rock, Soundtracks

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A.J. Croce, Bill Loose, Bing Crosby, Bob Marley, Calvin Keys, Dusty Springfield, Fine Young Cannibals, Galt MacDermot, John Mayall, John Williams, Melba Moore, Norma Tanega, Rudolph Johnson, The Andersons, The Weeknd, Uncle Walt's Band

Blinding Lights: The Weeknd Preps Hits Compilation Ahead of Super Bowl Performance

February 3, 2021 by The Second Disc | 1 Comment

In the predominantly digital and streaming world, the humble greatest hits album is scarce for even the biggest artists. Most need either a lot of hits or a newsworthy reason to put one out. For Canadian pop/R&B singer The Weeknd, whose new collection The Highlights hits stores Friday, February 5, both of those conditions handily apply. For one, the man born Abel Tesfaye has notched 35 Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100, including chart-toppers “The Hills,” “Can’t Feel My Face,” “Starboy,” “Heartless” and “Blinding Lights.” The latter is, as of this writing, in its record-shattering…

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News

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CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming

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Pop, R&B/Soul

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Ariana Grande, Daft Punk, Kendrick Lamar, The Weeknd