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Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas
"The Best Of Billy J. Kramer And The Dakotas: The Definite Collection"
© EMI/Imperial Records
Year of Release: 1991
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track listing
Do You Want To Know A Secret
I'll Be On My Way
Bad To Me
I Call Your Name
Pride (Is Such A Little Word)
I Know
Tell Me Girl
I'll Keep You Satisfied
I'm In Love
Little Children
They Remind Me Of You
From A Window
Second To None
Mad, Mad World
It's Gotta Last Forever
Don't You Do It No More
When You Ask About Love
Trains And Boats And Planes
That's The Way I Feel
That Ain't Good For Me
Neon City
I'll Be Doggone
We're Doing Fine
Take My Hand
You Make Me Feel
Like Someone
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Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas
"The Best Of Billy J. Kramer And The Dakotas: The Definite Collection"
Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas may not be a household name, but their music
was compared to The Beatles. In fact, many songs this group recorded were
written by John Lennon and Paul McCartney. Likewise, the band was also managed
by Brian Epstein, who first managed The Beatles.
Of the 25 songs contained in this "Best Of" compilation, seven were
penned by Lennon and McCartney:
LI>Do You Want To Know A Secret
I'll Be On My Way
Bad To Me
I Call Your Name
I'll Keep You Satisfied
I'm In Love
From A Window
Do You Want To Know A Secret was the band's first hit in 1963,
and it's quite certain that The Beatles were just as new as Billy J. Kramer
& The Dakotas back then: Both groups were not as popular, and not household
names in music (well, at least in The Beatles' case). All of the songs
by Kramer & The Dakotas have the early Beatles sound. And Kramer's voice is
similar to John Lennon's than any other vocalist from The Beatles.
Some of the non-Lennon/McCartney compilations:
They Remind Me Of You, and
Don't You Do It No More
are definitive songs that John and Paul could of easily wrote
themselves.
Mad, Mad World has an early country sounding guitar.
That Ain't Good For Me
has harmony vocals compared to John and Paul.
I'll Be Doggone
would be a song that Marvin Gaye would record later on in the Sixties.
Hmmm...does this mean that this was the ORIGINAL version?
One thing to notice about Kramer's later songs, is that they had a more
"adult" sound than The Beatles. The "happy" sound that The Beatles had were
Kramer's sound in the early years, but the later songs had a more British
sound as in groups like Gerry & The Pacemakers and Freddie & The Dreamers, and
maybe even Sixties U.S. acts like Jay & The Americans, The Buckinghams and
The Righteous Brothers.
The British sound is definitively there for Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas.
For those who truly enjoy the early years of The Beatles, this is a nostalgic
look back at another band that may have been as popular as The Beatles (maybe
bigger?). Obviously the early singles of Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas are
the most memorable. Even though they may have been compared in sound to The
Beatles, Billy J. Kramer saw that the light was focused more on their British
competitor, but yet they continued and created their own different sound, just
like The Beatles would, as they changed their music with albums like Revolver
and Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.
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