Cherry Red’s él imprint has a trio of recent releases continuing its commitment to truly eclectic sounds of the pre-1964 era.  Two of these are musical odes to the big city life of London and New York, from arrangers Wally Stott and Bobby Scott, respectively; the third reissues and expands a compilation from the late Rod McKuen. Singer-songwriter-poet-author-renaissance man McKuen, who died earlier this year, was recently the subject of Varese Vintage’s Reflections: The Greatest Songs of Rod McKuen, an anthology for which I was proud to write the liner notes.  McKuen was an…