Billy J Kramer & The Dakotas - At Abbey Road 1963-1966 (1998) [Lossless FLAC]

This is the same torrent that was uploaded to Demonoid in June 2008. Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas - At Abbey Road 1963-1966 (1998) http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/41K928NCHEL._SL500_AA240_.jpg 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 16 page booklet.) AMG Bio.txt AMG Review.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 All Music Album Review: Amazing as it may seem, until the release of this CD, there had never been a proper British or European anthology on Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas, apart from one stripped-down budget release (Story) issued by way of Holland. This 28-song CD doesn't have everything that was on that disc, but it does have most of it, and features excellent sound. Much more important, it draws from well beyond Kramer's official British releases -- his chart successes, along with his recording history in America, extended longer than they did in England. The producers of this disc have reached out to encompass the better songs from among his U.S. releases and outtakes, including those unearthed on EMI-America's 1991-vintage Best of Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas; not even everything from that release (deleted as of 2003) is present here, but most of the best rarities and outtakes from it are -- including some superb late-era songs featuring guitarist Mick Green in excellent form -- and the rest is made up of what are arguably the best songs from Kramer's official U.K./U.S. catalog, off of the Listen album and his various singles, B-sides, and EPs. The sheer diversity of sounds and songs may surprise those who only think of Kramer as a second- or third-tier Liverpool act -- he ultimately proved to be a better-than-decent singer despite producer George Martin's initial doubts, and when he and the Dakotas (especially with Green in the lineup) did click, they made very good, if not necessarily very important records. The only flaw is the absence of any of the handful of instrumental tracks recorded by the Dakotas separate from Kramer. The sound is state-of-the-art, early-21st century digital audio, and the annotation is very thorough. Track List: 01. Do You Want to Know a Secret? 02. I'll Be On My Way 03. Bad To Me 04. I Call Your Name 05. Dance With Me 06. Sugar Babe 07. I Know 08. I'll Keep You Satisfied 09. Little Children 10. They Remind Me Of You 11. Second To None 12. From A Window 13. Every Time You Walk In The Room 14. It's A Mad, Mad World 15. To Take Her Place 16. Under The Boardwalk 17. It's Gotta Last Forever 18. Sneakin' Around 19. Trains And Boats And Planes 20. I Love To Love You 21. Neon City 22. That Ain't Good For Me 23. I'll Be Doggone 24. Down In The Boondocks 25. We're Doing Fine 26. Forgive Me 27. Listen 28. Take My Hand More album detail at: http://www.allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=10:jpfwxq90ldhe

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