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/ Tom Jones

January 22, 2019 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Last year, the Bella Union label released a collection that fell under the radar.  Happily, we here at Second Disc HQ have discovered Paradise: The Sound of Ivor Raymonde, available in 1-CD, 2-LP, and digital formats.  The name of Raymonde will surely be familiar to fans of Dusty Springfield, Tom Jones, or The Walker Brothers, but those are only three of the artists with whom the late producer-arranger-conductor worked his magic.  Paradise, co-curated by his son Simon Raymonde of Bella Union

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Categories: News Formats: CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Soundtracks Tags: Barbra Streisand, David Bowie, Dusty Springfield, Frank Sinatra, Ivor Raymonde, Los Bravos, Peggy Lee, Scott Walker, The Walker Brothers, Tom Jones, Various Artists

March 7, 2017 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

In the case of Rod McKuen, "prolific" might well have been an understatement.  Before he turned 35, McKuen had already lived many lives - from farm hand, lumberjack, rodeo cowboy, disk jockey, and U.S. Army veteran to singer, songwriter, actor, and the most commercially successful poet of his time - or any other.  Despite an enviable career that saw him receive two Academy Award nominations and Frank Sinatra dedicate an entire album to him, the songs of Rod McKuen frequently haven't received

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Categories: Reviews Formats: CD Genre: Pop Tags: Dusty Springfield, Frank Sinatra, Glen Campbell, Nancy Sinatra, Perry Como, Petula Clark, Rod McKuen, Tom Jones, Various Artists

May 26, 2016 By Mike Duquette 24 Comments

A new box set due this fall celebrates the incredible first chapter in the career of iconic crooner Tom Jones. Sir Tom Jones, who turns 76 this June, has had a career unlike few others in pop music, notching 36 U.K. Top 40 hits (19 here in the States) across five decades and selling more than 100 million albums worldwide. His mammoth voice and striking good looks made him an icon of the swingin' '60s, with tracks like "It's Not Unusual" and "What's New Pussycat?" becoming hits on both

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Pop Tags: Tom Jones

October 9, 2015 By Joe Marchese 5 Comments

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up highlighted by the first course of a Christmas feast, plus a trio of deluxe box sets, new albums from veteran artists, and more! The Three Suns, A Ding Dong Dandy Christmas / George Melachrino and His Orchestra, Christmas Joy / John Gary, The John Gary Christmas Album / The Soulful Strings, The Magic of Christmas (Real Gone Music) The Three Suns: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. George Melachrino: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. John Gary: Amazon U.S. /

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Disco/Dance, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul Tags: Bobby Rydell, Damita Jo, Donna Summer, George Melachrino, John Gary, Lee Hazlewood, Nat King Cole, Raging Fire, The Beckies, The Small Faces, The Soulful Strings, The Three Suns, The Zombies, Tom Jones

September 17, 2013 By Mike Duquette Leave a Comment

To mark their three wild, wonderful decades on the bleeding edge of U.K. pop and rock, ZTT Records will release a new two-disc compilation in October. The Organization of Pop: Music from the First Thirty Years of ZTT Records collects 28 tracks that run the gamut of ZTT's influence, from Frankie Goes to Hollywood to Propaganda, 808 State to The Buggles, Grace Jones to Seal, The Art of Noise to The Frames. The huge hits - Seal's "Kiss from a Rose," Frankie's "Relax," The Art of Noise's "Moments

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Categories: News Tags: Propaganda, Seal, The Art of Noise, The Frames, Tom Jones

April 9, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Whether you prefer your “My Way” by Sinatra or Sid (Vicious, that is), you have Paul Anka to thank.  It was Anka who took the melody to the chanson “Comme d’habitude” and crafted the ultimate anthem of survival and tenacity with his English-language lyrics.  When Sinatra recorded the song, a gift to him from Anka, he was just 53 years of age yet could still ring true when singing of that “final curtain.”  Today, Paul Anka is 71, and his new memoir is entitled, what else, My Way.  Thankfully, the

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Categories: Reviews Tags: Leon Russell, Michael Jackson, Michael McDonald, Patti Labelle, Paul Anka, Tom Jones

March 5, 2013 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Do you remember the times of your life? Paul Anka posed that musical question in 1975, taking Roger Nichols and Bill Lane’s onetime Kodak film jingle all the way to the Top 10 Billboard pop chart and No. 1 Easy Listening.  At that point, Anka could rightfully reflect on the times of his own storied life, nearly two decades in the music business.  But could he have imagined that he would still be going strong almost forty years after “Times of Your Life” hit?  The Canadian-born singer,

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Categories: News Tags: Michael Jackson, Michael McDonald, Paul Anka, Tom Jones

September 27, 2012 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

When Sean Connery first uttered the immortal words “Bond…James Bond” fifty years ago in the film Dr. No, the template for the long-running movie series was already set.  That soon-to-be-signature phrase was joined in the film by a piece of music that would quickly rival those three words for familiarity.  John Barry’s arrangement of “The James Bond Theme” not only helped cement the silver screen icon of 007 but virtually became a genre unto itself, that of spy music.  The spy film craze may have

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Categories: News Genre: Soundtracks Tags: Madonna, Marvin Hamlisch, Paul McCartney, Shirley Bassey, Tom Jones

November 14, 2011 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Long before David Letterman called the former Hammerstein’s Theatre on 50th Street and Broadway in New York City home, the theatre was the showplace of the world, thanks to one Mr. Ed Sullivan.  The former gossip columnist on the Broadway beat might have been an unlikely visitor to American homes each Sunday night between 1949 and 1971, but it was thanks to Sullivan that viewers got their first or most significant taste of such performers across the entire spectrum of entertainment.  On the

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Categories: News Formats: DVD Tags: Louis Armstrong, Petula Clark, The Rolling Stones, Tom Jones

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