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All the Love in the World: Dionne, Aretha Classics Are Remastered by BBR
The eighties aren’t traditionally remembered as a halcyon period for classic soul. R&B eventually took on new meaning as it splintered into hip-hop, rap and urban genres that were as integral to...
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Release Round-Up: Weeks of October 30 and November 6
Election Day is upon us today! But if you’re looking to cast your vote for some music, too, we might be able to help! Though we were able to keep the lights on each day at The Second Disc, Hurricane...
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The Year in Reissues: The 2012 Gold Bonus Disc Awards
Wow! Was it just over a year ago when a rather dubious report began circulating (that, shockingly, was picked up by many otherwise-reputable publications) that proclaimed the death of the CD was...
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He Picks The Songs That Make The Whole World Sing: Clive Davis Curates “The...
In a year that counts Tommy Mottola, Cissy Houston, Burt Bacharach and Paul Anka among the music biz icons who have published, or will publish, their memoirs, one such figure’s autobiography has...
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Don’t Make Him Over: New Box Set Chronicles Burt Bacharach’s “Art of the...
Burt Bacharach has been speaking through his music for the past 60+ years, since his very first recorded composition,“Once in a Blue Moon,“ appeared on Nat “King“ Cole’s Penthouse Serenade in 1952....
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Make Way For Dionne Warwick: 23 Scepter and Warner Bros. Albums To Be...
What it’s all about? According to WEA Japan – the Japanese arm of Warner Music Group – it’s all about Dionne Warwick. The legendary singer has recently celebrated her 50th anniversary in music with...
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What’s It All About: Burt Bacharach Celebrated On PBS, Lost Song Included on...
The first voice you’ll hear on My Music: Burt Bacharach’s Best, now airing on PBS stations nationwide, is that of The Maestro himself. “What’s it all about, Alfie?,” he sings in his familiar,...
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Don’t Walk On By: Dionne Warwick’s “Unissued Warner Bros. Masters” Joins “The...
When Dionne Warwick signed on the dotted line with Warner Bros. Records, the possibilities must have seemed endless. The singer had embraced change, after all. A new decade was in its infancy. She...
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Marilyn McCoo and Billy Davis, Jr., P-Funk Offshoot Parlet and More Join...
The July slate for Real Gone Music has been announced, and things are really heating up! We’ve already filled you in at length about the pair of anthologies coming your way from Dionne Warwick, We...
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Review: Burt Bacharach, “Anyone Who Had a Heart: The Art of the Songwriter”...
Time stands still for Burt Bacharach. Rumer’s 2010 single “Some Lovers,” from Bacharach and Steven Sater’s musical of the same name, is the most recent track on Universal U.K.’s new box set Anyone Who...
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Release Round-Up: Week of July 30
Nilsson, The RCA Albums Collection (RCA/Legacy) Easily one of the box set purchases of the year. Every one of the legendary singer/songwriter’s 14 solo albums for the RCA label, newly remastered and...
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Review: Dionne Warwick, “The Complete Warner Bros. Singles”
Dionne Warwick’s 1972-1977 tenure at Warner Bros. Records has long been a subject of much confusion. Why couldn’t the Burbank giant yield any hit records with the superstar artist after signing her to...
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Review: Dionne Warwick, “We Need to Go Back: The Unissued Warner Bros. Masters”
We need to go back to the songs we used to sing… - Nickolas Ashford and Valarie Simpson, “We Need to Go Back” What’s remarkable about the 19 outtakes on Dionne Warwick’s We Need to Go Back: The...
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Baby, It’s Burt: “The Warner Sound” and “The Atlantic Sound” Compile Rare...
In his 85th year, Burt Bacharach has kept a pace that would wear out many a younger man. In addition to performing a number of concert engagements, the Oscar, Grammy and Gershwin Prize-winning...
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The Year in Reissues: The 2013 Gold Bonus Disc Awards
Welcome to The Second Disc’s Fourth Annual Gold Bonus Disc Awards! Though this is a slow time of year for news, it’s the perfect time to look at the year in review. As with every year’s awards, our...
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Here Where There Is Love: Edsel Repackages Sixteen Dionne Warwick Albums In...
Following last year’s series of 23 expanded reissues of Dionne Warwick’s Scepter and Warner Bros. catalogue from WEA Japan, the U.K.’s Edsel label is revisiting 16 of those very albums on four new,...
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Release Round-Up: Week of January 28
Uncle Tupelo, No Depression: Legacy Edition (Legacy) After at least two teasers in the form of Record Store Day releases, one of the most beloved alt-country albums is greatly expanded as a double-disc...
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Review: Dionne Warwick On Edsel Records
Dionne Warwick’s third album bore the title Make Way for Dionne Warwick. But truth to tell, by the time of its release in September 1964, America had already made way for the New Jersey-born singer....
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Ace’s “Black America Sings Bacharach and David” Features Dionne, Aretha,...
In retrospect, it might be telling that Burt Bacharach’s first recorded song, “Once in a Blue Moon,” was cut in 1952 by Nat “King” Cole. From those earliest days, Bacharach and his lyrical partner Hal...
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