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March 31, 2023 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

I Do I Do OLC

Stage Door Records has said "I Do!" to the classic musical by the team of Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt.  I Do, I Do! opened on November 5, 1966 at Broadway's 46th Street Theatre (today, the home of Hamilton) in producer David Merrick and director-choreographer Gower Champion's production starring Mary Martin and Robert Preston.  The London production made its premiere on May 16, 1968 at the Lyric Theatre, soon to host 2:22: A Ghost Story.  Lucia Victor's recreation of Gower Champion's original

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings Tags: Anne Rogers, Ian Carmichael, Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt

November 18, 2022 By The Second Disc 7 Comments

Thriller 40 real

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a selection of the many titles hitting stores today as the countdown to the holidays continues! Michael Jackson, Thriller 40 (MJJ/Epic/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The best-selling album of all time returns in a 2CD edition for its 40th anniversary.  The second disc features 10 bonus tracks including the previously issued outtake "Sunset Driver," "Got the Hots" (making its U.S. release debut), non-LP B-side

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Disco/Dance, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: APB, David Bowie, Dolly Parton, Jimi Hendrix, KISS, Michael Jackson, Nastyfacts, Neil Young, Peggy Lee, Peter Green, Queen, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, Vince Guaraldi, Willie Nelson

October 26, 2022 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Los Fantastikos

On May 3, 1960, The Fantasticks opened at the tiny Sullivan Street Playhouse in New York's Greenwich Village.  The intimate, eight-actor, two-musician musical by Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt continued to light up the Sullivan Street stage until January 13, 2002 by which time it had earned the moniker "The World's Longest-Running Musical."  Appropriately enough, the Playhouse closed along with the show- its 19th century Greek revival rowhouse home turned into glass-windowed luxury condominiums -

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings Tags: Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt

January 7, 2022 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Alfred the Great OST

Kritzerland has announced its first slate of releases for 2022. Leading off the trio is the latest volume in the label's long-running reissue series from Ben Bagley's Painted Smiles Records. Harold Arlen and Vernon Duke Revisited Vol. 2, first released in 1980 and expanded in 1991, celebrated the two composers' oeuvres with a typically eclectic Bagley cast including jazz singer Blossom Dearie; stage and screen stars Sandy Duncan, Helen Gallagher, Dolores Gray, and Tammy Grimes; and

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Soundtracks Tags: Blossom Dearie, David Garrison, Dolores Gray, Helen Gallagher, Karen Ziemba, Ray Leppard, Sandy Duncan, Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt

April 3, 2020 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

The Monkees Live The Mike and Micky Show

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Andy Williams, Emperor of Easy: Lost Columbia Masters 1962-72 (Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Real Gone Music has the first-ever collection of never-before-heard music from Andy Williams' Columbia Records years. Emperor of Easy: Lost Columbia Masters 1962-72 boasts 20 selections direct from the Columbia vault encompassing 16 previously unreleased studio outtakes and four rare singles. Every track on Emperor of Easy

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Folk, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Andy Williams, Joni Mitchell, Marvin Gaye, Nina Simone, Robbie Basho, Stephen Schwartz, Steve Goodman, The Alan Parsons Project, The Monkees, Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt

June 7, 2019 By The Second Disc Leave a Comment

Bob Dylan Rolling Thunder Revue Cover

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up - a packed one, for sure! Bob Dylan, The Rolling Thunder Revue: The 1975 Live Recordings (Columbia/Legacy) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Just in advance of the June 12 debut of director Martin Scorsese's documentary Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese, Columbia and Legacy unveil a new 14-CD box set that promises to be the ultimate chronicle of the initial leg of Dylan's legendary Rolling Thunder Revue from

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Airto, America, Bob Dylan, Cole Porter, David Yazbek, Eddie Perfect, Elmer Bernstein, Gary Nicholson, Genesis, Grateful Dead, James Taylor, Janet Jackson, Luciano Pavarotti, Miles Davis, Neil Young, Norma Tanega, Peter Frampton, Santana, The Rolling Stones, Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt

June 1, 2018 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Michelle Phillips Victim of Romance

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Michelle Phillips, Victim of Romance: Expanded Edition (Real Gone) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) "Mama" Michelle Phillips' 1977 solo album, produced by Jack Nitzsche, returns to CD in a new expanded edition collecting the artist's complete sessions with Nitzsche.  It adds three outtakes from the album sessions, including a Bee Gees cover ("Had a Lot of Love Last Night"), Dennis Lambert and Fil Spina's "Practice What You Preach,"

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Categories: News, Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Alan Silvestri, Cheap Trick, Cowboy, Def Leppard, Emmylou Harris, Jethro Tull, Keely Smith, Living Colour, Michelle Phillips, Paul Simon, Roger Daltrey, The Mamas and The Papas, The Quick, The Temptations, Tom Jones and Harvey Schmidt, ZZ Top

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