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January 3, 2022 By The Second Disc 2 Comments

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Happy 2022!  Welcome, friends, to The Second Disc's 12th Annual Gold Bonus Disc Awards! Once again, we've all faced unprecedented challenges over the past twelve months.  A year that began with hope and promise has ended with further uncertainty for many of us.  But music continues to fill a significant role in our lives, providing solace, comfort, and escape in a time unlike any other.  With that spirit in mind, The Second Disc wishes to recognize 2021's cream of the catalogue music crop -

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Categories: Features Formats: Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Gospel, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rap/Hip-Hop, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Al Stewart, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Aretha Franklin, Connie Smith, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Deniece Williams, Elton John, Explorer Tapes, Gold Bonus Disc Awards, Ian Gillan, Jerry Bock, John Williams, Joni Mitchell, Metallica, Murray Head, Phyllis Hyman, Sheldon Harnick, The Band, The Beach Boys, Tim Rice, Various Artists, Yvonne Elliman

September 17, 2021 By The Second Disc 3 Comments

Bob Dylan Bootleg 16

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Bob Dylan, Springtime in New York: The Bootleg Series Vol. 16 (1980-1985) (Columbia/Legacy) 5CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The latest volume of Bob Dylan's long-running archival series, Springtime in New York: The Bootleg Series Vol. 16 (1980-1985) covers the period in which Dylan recorded the albums Shot of Love (the final LP in

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Digital Streaming, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Andrew Gold, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Bob Dylan, Erroll Garner, Gleaming Spires, Herb Alpert, Ian Gillan, Jimmie Vaughan, Kasim Sulton, Lindsey Buckingham, Marianne Faithfull, Muddy Waters, Murray Head, Nancy Sinatra, Nick Lowe, Ozzy Osbourne, Rumer, Tim Rice, Vince Guaraldi, Wesley Stace, Yvonne Elliman

August 2, 2021 By The Second Disc 14 Comments

Jesus Christ Superstar 3CD Cover

"Nothing could convince me that any show that has sold two and one-half million copies of its album before the opening night is anything like all bad," wrote The New York Times' Clive Barnes on October 13, 1971 upon the New York debut of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Jesus Christ Superstar.  Indeed, the original Jesus Christ Superstar album was a sensation long before it ever hit Broadway's Mark Hellinger Theatre.  A true hybrid of rock and theater, it was introduced as a record but

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock Tags: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Ian Gillan, Mike D'Abo, Murray Head, Tim Rice, Yvonne Elliman

May 26, 2021 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Riding the Rock Machine

Today, we're looking at three recent releases from Cherry Red's Grapefruit imprint! Grapefruit is continuing its series of 3-CD clamshell cases with two titles spotlighting the 1970s.  Riding the Rock Machine: British Seventies Classic Rock, available now, is certainly one of the broadest such releases in Grapefruit's series.  Compiler David Wells sets out his mission statement in straightforward fashion: "[Such] is the reductive nature of radio station playlists and Spotify recommendations

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Pop, Rock Tags: Argent, Electric Light Orchestra, Hawkwind, Mott the Hoople, Oberon, Roxy Music, Roy Wood, Status Quo, The Moody Blues, Uriah Heep, Various Artists, Yvonne Elliman

January 26, 2018 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Andrew Lloyd Webber Platinum Collection

Since September 25, 1979, there hasn't been a day when an Andrew Lloyd Webber melody hasn't been heard on Broadway.  That was the opening night of Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Evita.  Before it ended its run in June 1983, Lloyd Webber's musical Cats had opened, launching a record-breaking run through September 2000.  But on January 26, 1988, the show opened which would eclipse them all: Phantom of the Opera.  It today celebrates 30 years (marked with a special gala earlier this week) and is

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Cast Recordings, Everything Else, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Barbra Streisand, Beyoncé, Cliff Richard, Deep Purple, Donny Osmond, Elvis Presley, Lana Del Ray, Madonna, Michael Crawford, Sarah Brightman, The Everly Brothers, Tim Rice, Yvonne Elliman

November 8, 2017 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Purple People Volume 1

Cherry Red Records has recently been cherry-picking a number of rare treasures from the archives of Purple Records, the label formed by Deep Purple.  Between 1971 and 1979, Purple Records issued music not just from its namesake band, but by other artists both inside (Elf, Hard Stuff) and outside of the hard rock sphere.  Highlights from these albums have been compiled before on a compilation entitled Purple People.  Now, four of the label's most unexpected offerings have been collected on CD by

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Categories: News Formats: Box Sets, CD Genre: Classic Rock, Folk, Pop, R&B/Soul, Soundtracks Tags: Buddy Bohn, Carol Hunter, Rupert Hine, Yvonne Elliman

September 20, 2017 By Mike Duquette 8 Comments

Capito UMe Saturday Night Fever 40th Anniversary Edition

Get ready to strut into record stores--Saturday Night Fever's immortal soundtrack is being reissued as a super deluxe set alongside the film itself. Based on a New York Magazine article that was later found to be fabricated, Saturday Night Fever ironically solidified the image of disco in popular culture. John Travolta's rough-edged but sympathetic Tony Manero--a Brooklyn bum working in a hardware store by day and tearing up the floor of the 2001 Odyssey by night--established the young TV

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Categories: News Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Disco/Dance, Soundtracks Tags: Bee Gees, David Shire, KC and the Sunshine Band, Kool and the Gang, MFSB, Tavares, The Trammps, Walter Murphy, Yvonne Elliman

February 19, 2016 By Joe Marchese 3 Comments

Yvonne Elliman Night Flight and Yvonne

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up with titles from legends of pop, jazz, country and more! Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto, Getz/Gilberto '76 (Resonance) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) In 1976, Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto reunited at San Francisco's Keystone Korner alongside pianist Joanne Brackeen, bassist Clint Houston and drummer Billy Hart.  Their never-before-released set arrives in lavish fashion from Resonance Records on CD and vinyl.  The deluxe CD includes a

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD Genre: Country, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bruce Broughton, Buck Owens, Fun Lovin' Criminals, Joao Gilberto, Stan Getz, Tammy Wynette, Yvonne Elliman

August 7, 2012 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

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"Nothing could convince me that any show that has sold two and one-half million copies of its album before the opening night is anything like all bad," wrote The New York Times' Clive Barnes on October 13, 1971 upon the Broadway debut of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Jesus Christ Superstar.  Indeed, the original Jesus Christ Superstar was a bit of a revelation, a true hybrid of rock and theater, introduced as a record but destined for the world's stages.  And it's returning in a new,

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Categories: News Formats: CD Genre: Cast Recordings Tags: Andrew Lloyd Webber, Ian Gillan, Murray Head, Tim Rice, Yvonne Elliman

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