KATRINA AND THE WAVES
Katrina and the Waves is the third album by new wave band Katrina and the Waves, and the first released on a major label, released in 1985. The majority of tracks were re-mixed and overdubbed versions of songs that had appeared on their first two albums; the tracks “Walking on Sunshine” and “Going Down to Liverpool” were entirely re-recorded versions of songs from their first independently released album. This version of “Walking on Sunshine” became a top-ten pop hit in the United States. (More from Wikipedia)
The album that I have, also called Katrina and the Waves, sure looks like a debut album to me and features “Walking on Sunshine”; Waves appears to have followed as their second album, and both came out in 1985. Actually Allmusic has Waves as being third in the list, and then comes Katrina and the Waves as their major-label debut album. In any case, what the band did for the second Katrina and the Waves album was re-record tracks from their first two albums, and the result was given a 4½ star rating by Allmusic, higher than any of their other albums.
(March 2016)
