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    known professionally as Billy J. Kramer, is an English pop singer. With The Dakotas, Kramer was managed by Brian Epstein during the 1960s and scored hits...
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  • made the Dakotas an offer to become Kramer's backing band, which they accepted. Epstein insisted the name was "Billy J Kramer with the Dakotas", not "...
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  • This is the discography of English singer Billy J. Kramer, including his releases with the Dakotas. This is a list of EPs released in the UK. Various...
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  • for Billy J. Kramer with The Dakotas while on holiday in Spain. However, in a 1964 interview he said that he and Paul McCartney wrote it in the back...
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  • Little Children (song) (category Billy J. Kramer songs)
    Children" is a song written by J. Leslie McFarland and Mort Shuman, and was recorded by Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas. The lyric concerns a man's entreaties...
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  • Hullaballoos The Ivy League Tom Jones Jonathan King The Kinks Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas Lulu Manfred Mann The Merseybeats The Moody Blues The Nashville...
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  • Little Children is the second album by the English rock band Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas. It was released by Imperial Records in the United States in...
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  • During the British Invasion, Liberty (whose recordings were distributed by EMI in the UK) licensed the Hollies, Billy J. Kramer, the Dakotas, and the Swinging...
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    The Crystals, Gerry and the Pacemakers, Kenny Lynch, Paul & Paula, The Searchers, The Springfields and The Tremeloes. Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas,...
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    100 songs of 1964. The Top 100, as revealed in the edition of Billboard dated January 2, 1965, is based on Hot 100 charts from the issue dates of January...
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  • Columbia, The Electrifying Aretha Franklin. McFarland co-wrote the song "Little Children" with Mort Shuman for Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas. The song reached...
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  • ginger-baker.com/ look under Section Singles "Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas". 45-rpm.org.uk. Retrieved 13 August 2011. "The Who Official Band Website – Roger Daltrey...
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    Cilla Black (category Officers of the Order of the British Empire)
    Gerry and the Pacemakers and Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas). Black's second single, released at the beginning of 1964, was a cover of the Burt Bacharach–Hal...
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  • recipient of the Victoria Cross Matt Simpson, writer and literary critic Stephen Walters, actor Barrie Wells, businessman* "Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas". www...
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  • intended for Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas, but the group declined. John Lennon reportedly exclaimed during the recording of the demo, "Billy J. will be done...
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    Breakaways) and Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas eclipsed her recording. She had four subsequent releases on Pye, including the only evident recording of the Burt Bacharach/Hal...
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  • the U.S. R&B chart. Carla Thomas released a version of the song on her 1961 album Gee Whiz. Billy J. Kramer and The Dakotas released a version of the...
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  • Lennon–McCartney. The 1963 version by Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas (a UK No. 2) credited the composition to "McCartney–Lennon". The song was inspired...
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  • The Honeycombs The Ikettes The Isley Brothers Davy Jones Gloria Jones The Kingsmen The Kinks Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas Bettye LaVette Major Lance...
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  • Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas as the B-side of their hit debut single "Do You Want to Know a Secret", a song also written by Lennon–McCartney. The...
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  • the Beatles held a residency in Bournemouth, England with Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas and Tommy Quickly. Feeling sick one day, George Harrison was prescribed...
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    Brown, Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas, Marvin Gaye, the Supremes, Lesley Gore, Smokey Robinson & the Miracles and the Beach Boys. Also in 1964, the duo performed...
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  • I'll Keep You Satisfied (category Billy J. Kramer songs)
    to the Lennon-McCartney partnership. It was released as a single by Billy J. Kramer with the Dakotas on 1 November 1963, and released on Kramer's album...
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  • From a Window (category Billy J. Kramer songs)
    recorded by Billy J. Kramer with The Dakotas. It was the last of six Lennon–McCartney compositions recorded by Kramer. Kramer recorded the song on 29 May...
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    February 1963. The following week The Beatles claimed the number-one spot outright. The Beatles' "From Me to You" and Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas' "Do You...
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    by 'vile' joke at expense of his dead mum". Liverpool Echo. "Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas". www.45-rpm.org.uk. Retrieved 17 January 2008. "08 City signs...
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  • Produced by George Martin (category Documentary films about the Beatles)
    Satisfied" – Billy J. Kramer with The Dakotas 1963 "A Little Lovin'" – The Fourmost 1964 "Little Children" – Billy J. Kramer with The Dakotas 1964 "You're...
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  • un Jour (Things We Said Today)" Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas, "Bad to Me" Cilla Black, "It's for You" Part 3 The George Martin Orchestra, "Ringo's Theme...
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  • Stardust (1974 film) (category Films shot in the province of Granada)
    Larry" The Zombies – "She's Not There" Bobby Darin – "Dream Lover" Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas – "Do You Want To Know A Secret" Dave Edmunds & The Electricians...
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  • cover version of Brent Edwards' 1963 song (also covered by Billy J. Kramer & the Dakotas on their album, Listen [1963]). Overall it reached No. 3 nationally...
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