Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas - The EP Collection (1995)

This is the same torrent that was uploaded to Demonoid in June 2008.


Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas - The EP Collection (1995)

Includes:
Files by track, ripped at FLAC 8 using Easy CD-DA Extractor (www.poikosoft.com)
Tracks have full tags (including embedded thumbnail).
All artwork in jpgs at 300 d.p.i. Rotated and cropped losslessly using jpegcrop. (Includes 10 page folder.)
AMG Bio.txt
Notes.txt (which is simply these notes included in the torrent)

Bio Excerpt from All Music:

One of the most popular Merseybeat singers, Billy J. Kramer (born Billy Ashton) was one of the most mild-mannered rockers of the entire British Invasion. He wasn't that noteworthy a singer, either, and more likely than not would have never been heard outside of northern England if he hadn't been fortunate enough to become a client of Beatles manager Brian Epstein. Even more crucially, he was gifted with several Lennon-McCartney songs in 1963 and 1964, several of which the Beatles never ended up recording. That gave him his entrance into the charts on both sides of the Atlantic, but Kramer couldn't sustain his success after the supply of Lennon-McCartney tunes dried up. Significant? No. Enjoyable? Yes. Even tossing aside the considerable value of hearing otherwise unavailable Lennon-McCartney compositions, his best singles were enjoyably wimpy, melodic pop-rock, offering a guilty pleasure comparable to taking a break from Faulkner and diving into some superhero comics. ...

To read the entire bio:
http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=11:0ifpxqe5ldde~T1

No review for this CD at AllMusic.com

Track List:

01. I Call Your Name
02. Bad To Me
03. Do You Want To Know A Secret
04. I'll Be On My Way
05. I'll Keep You Satisfied
06. Dance With Me
07. It's Up To You
08. I Know
09. Little Children
10. They Remind Me Of You
11. Beautiful Dreamer
12. From A Window
13. Second To None
14. Twelfth Of Never
15. Trains And Boats And Planes
16. Take My Hand
17. We're Doing Fine
18. The Cruel Sea
19. The Millionaire
20. Magic Carpet
21. Humdinger
22. Sugar Babe
23. Twilight Time
24. Tennessee Waltz
25. Irresistible You

More album detail at: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:kpfuxq9hldfe