Little Children/Da Doo Ron Ron/Dance With Me/Pride/I Know/They Remind Me Of You/Do You Want To Know A Secret/Bad To Me/Great Balls Of Fire/Its Up To You/Tell Me Girl
Merseybeat leading light Billy J Kramer's only US album chart placing came with the US only release Little Children. Contains the UK chart topping title track and the No. 2 Do You Want To Know A Secret. (US:48)
"This album shows Billy J. Kramer and The Dakotas at their very best, with really good versions of all time standards. A must for all fans of the Liverpool sound."
"Billy J. Kramer became part of the British Invasion because he had the same manager as The Beatles, Brian Epstein. Consequently, Kramer got the chance to record several Lennon & McCartney compositions. The result was a short-lived music career of a singer who was an enjoyable example of the Merseybeat sound."
"There is something rather enjoyable about Kramer's singing. He was a lightweight pop singer to be sure, but that is what the Merseybeat sound was all about and he is certainly representative of the genre."
"Billy J. Kramer with The Dakotas did not have a distinguished recording career, but they did have a handful of very enjoyable hits."
"This was an underrated group that because they only had two hits in America they were written off as wimps. Not true at all. This was actually an album of some well hidden rockers. They do a few covers here, but a couple were rather good sounding. So I can dispel the notion that Little Children was the be all end all of this group, and say that they're pretty good."
"For all intent and purpose, lacking a steady enough supplier of even decent enough original material, Billy J. Kramer and The Dakotas' career dried up when their access to The Beatles' throwaway songs ended."
"Billy and the boys got their US props for awhile, thanks to a pair of Beatle throwaways and perhaps the single dopiest song legendary writer Doc Pomus composed, Little Children, which they actually took to number one."
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