Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas

Release Round-Up: Week of October 30

October 30, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 2 Comments

Welcome to this week’s Release Round-Up! Packed with over 30 titles including highly-anticipated reissues, a slew of box sets, collections and more, it just may be the mightiest of the year! The Velvet Underground, Loaded: Re-Loaded 45th Anniversary Edition (Rhino) (Amazon U.S. / Amazon U.K.) The Velvet Underground’s 1970 album – and Lou Reed’s swansong with the band – gets the deluxe expanded treatment from Rhino in this new box set featuring the original stereo and mono albums plus a wealth of bonus material, two live concerts and a DVD featuring high…

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Step Inside Love: Varese Compiles Hits of Cilla Black and Billy J. Kramer with The Dakotas

October 27, 2015 by Joe Marchese | 6 Comments

The Varese Vintage label is heading back to the days of Merseybeat and the British Invasion for a pair of new releases due on Friday, October 30. Cilla Black’s The Hit Singles and Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas’ All-Time Greatest Hits both draw on the Parlophone Records catalogue, featuring the Fab songbook of Lennon and McCartney and the production of George Martin. Liverpool coat check girl-turned-pop superstar Cilla Black OBE had one of Britain’s most enduring and diverse entertainment careers right up until her unexpected and untimely passing at age 72…

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