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Release Round-Up: Week of January 13

January 13, 2017 By Joe Marchese 6 Comments

Release Round-Up: Week of January 13

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up - our first of the New Year! Gerry Rafferty, The Very Best of Gerry Rafferty: United Artistry (Varese Vintage) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Varese Vintage goes right down the line with Gerry Rafferty's greatest hits, including "Stuck in the Middle with You" from Stealers Wheel, and the solo "Baker Street," "Get It Right Next Time," "Right Down the Line" and more!  This newly-remastered 16-track compilation has seven U.S. and U.K.

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Dennis Coffey, England Dan and John Ford Coley, Gerry Rafferty, Lee Hazlewood, The Delfonics

Happy Holidays and Release Round-Up: Weeks of December 23 and 30

December 23, 2016 By Joe Marchese 4 Comments

Happy Holidays and Release Round-Up: Weeks of December 23 and 30

Christmas is just around the corner, and here at The Second Disc, we're hoping that you'll join us in celebrating the spirit of the season - heading home for the holidays, spending time with cherished family and friends, enjoying bounties of food, love, and music, and reflecting on the good times you shared in 2016. Our year was, by and large, a wonderful one.  We released six titles on our Second Disc Records imprint of the amazing Real Gone Music label, from a Bobby Darin anthology that

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD Genre: Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: The 5th Dimension

Release Round-Up: Week of December 16

December 16, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Release Round-Up: Week of December 16

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up!  The Kinks, The Mono Collection (Sanctuary/BMG) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The Kinks' The Mono Collection brings together eight of the band's classic albums in their original U.K. Pye Records mono editions on ten LPs, all pressed on 180-gram vinyl.  The set includes 1967's Live at Kelvin Hall and 1970's original 2-LP collection The Kinks (otherwise known as The Black Album.  A hardcover 48-page book including never-before-seen

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Jazz, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, Rock Tags: Rage Against the Machine, Randy Newman, Rush, Social Distortion, The Doors, The Kinks, Tony Bennett

Release Round-Up: Week of December 9

December 9, 2016 By Joe Marchese 1 Comment

Release Round-Up: Week of December 9

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Randy Newman, The Randy Newman Songbook (Nonesuch) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) The Randy Newman Songbook box set marks the first-ever combined release of all three of the legendary songwriter's piano-and-voice Songbook albums (including the new Vol. 3) recorded in 2003 and 2010 with producers Mitchell Froom and Lenny Waronker.  All songs have been resequenced as one cohesive, thematically-linked listening experience spread over 4

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, SACD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, Rock Tags: Buck Owens, Evanescence, Kylie Minogue, Laura Nyro, Meat Loaf, Neil Young, Paul Desmond, Randy Newman, Social Distortion, The Cretones, The Doors

Release Round-Up: Week of December 2

December 2, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Release Round-Up: Week of December 2

Welcome to December, and this week's Release Round-Up! The Rolling Stones, Blue and Lonesome (Interscope) Standard Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Deluxe Edition: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Vinyl: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada The Rolling Stones return with their first studio album since 2005's A Bigger Bang.  Recorded over just three days in London, Blue and Lonesome returns the legendary band to its blues roots.  Available on CD, LP

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Blu-Ray Audio, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Blues, Classic Rock, Gospel, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Archie Bell and the Drells, Deniece Williams, Kate Bush, Mary Martin, The Alan Parsons Project, The Mills Brothers, The Rolling Stones, Todd Rundgren

Release Round-Up: Week of November 25

November 24, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Release Round-Up: Week of November 25

Happy Thanksgiving!  Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Prince, Prince 4Ever (Warner Bros.) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) This release actually came out on Tuesday, but it's worth a reminder here: this first posthumous collection from the late, great artist premieres one previously unreleased track, and includes a number of single versions making their CD debuts.  Prince 4Ever is a 40-track summary of The Artist's major works from his first album, 1978's For You, to

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock, Soundtracks Tags: Burt Bacharach, Elaine Paige, Hal David, Lee Hazlewood, Neil Young, Prince, Ron Dante, Rumer, Santana, Terry Dolan, The Afghan Whigs, Vincent Montana Jr.

Release Round-Up: Week of November 18

November 18, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Release Round-Up: Week of November 18

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up - the last of the major release weeks for 2016! The Beatles, Eight Days a Week (DVD or BD) (Apple/Capitol) 2-Disc Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-Disc DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Standard Edition Blu-ray: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Standard Edition DVD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Ron Howard's acclaimed 2016 documentary chronicling Beatlemania, Eight Days a Week, hits DVD

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Folk, Holiday, Pop, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Donna Summer, Gene Autry, Jethro Tull, R.E.M., Roy Acuff, Soundgarden, The Beatles, The Who, Tim Buckley, Tori Amos

Release Round-Up: Week of November 11

November 11, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Release Round-Up: Week of November 11

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up!  It's another big week for box sets from classic rock's heaviest hitters, and much, much more... Bob Dylan, The 1966 Live Recordings (Columbia/Legacy)  (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) 36 discs of music from Bob Dylan's 1966 world tour - every recording of the tour known to exist - are brought together on this monumental new collection.  Read our full review here! Bob Dylan, The Real Royal Albert Hall

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Blu-Ray, Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Cast Recordings, Classic Rock, Country, Pop, Rock Tags: Black Sabbath, Bob Dylan, David Bowie, Garth Brooks, John Lennon, NRBQ, Pink Floyd, Robbie Robertson, Sting, The Band, Yoko Ono

Release Round-Up: Week of November 4

November 4, 2016 By Joe Marchese 2 Comments

Release Round-Up: Week of November 4

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up, featuring a host of holiday offerings (including three new titles from Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music!) and much, much more! Jack Jones, The Jack Jones Christmas Album (Second Disc Records/Real Gone Music) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada) Second Disc Records and Real Gone Music proudly bring Jack Jones' 1964 Kapp Records classic to CD for the very first time!  The Jack Jones Christmas Album features lush renditions of "White

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Digital Download, DVD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Country, Gospel, Holiday, Pop, Popular Standards/Vocal, R&B/Soul, Rock Tags: Bing Crosby, Eddy Arnold, Frank Zappa, Jack Jones, Mantovani, Margaret Whiting, Mitch Miller and the Gang, Mother Love Bone, Queen, Ray Conniff, Sammy Kaye, Stevie Nicks, The Blind Boys of Alabama, The Living Strings, The Norman Luboff Choir, The Robert Shaw Chorale, The Ventures

Release Round-Up: Week of October 28

October 28, 2016 By Joe Marchese Leave a Comment

Release Round-Up: Week of October 28

Welcome to this week's Release Round-Up! Roy Orbison, The Ultimate Collection (Roy's Boys/Legacy) CD: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada 2-LP: Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K. / Amazon Canada Legacy Recordings and Roy's Boys, LLC deliver a newly-remastered, career-spanning anthology for the late Roy Orbison.  The Ultimate Collection has 26 tracks drawn from The Big O's halcyon years at Monument and MGM as well as his final solo recordings and collaborations with The Traveling

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Categories: Release Round-Up Formats: Box Sets, CD, Vinyl Genre: Classic Rock, Classical/Opera, Funk, Holiday, Jazz, Pop, R&B/Soul Tags: Black Sabbath, Jimmy Buffett, Marc Almond, Mozart, Neil Diamond, Otis Redding, Philip Glass, Roy Orbison, She and Him, The Intruders, The Legal Matters

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