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14 Sep, 2006
All Cannons Blazing - A Blast From The Past !
I remember seeing one of Freddy Cannon's first UK TV broadcasts. It was on Jack Good's "Boy Meets Girls" hosted by Marty Wilde on ABC television in November 1959. Freddy bounced on the set like he had ants in his pants! A raw no holds barred performance singing his latest release "Way Down Yonder In New Orleans". The early singles had so much bass recorded on them that they use to regularly jump off the turntable when the volume increased!
A lot of Freddy's early releases including his first 4 UK chart hits had place names in their title. "Palisades Park" and some of his subsequent releases seem to have been recorded in a bathroom with an obvious echo overdub; however they remain extremely effective when given an extra volume boost. Freddy 'boom boom' Cannon (b.Freddy Picarielli in Massachusetts 1940) can still be seen doing the rock’n’roll oldies circuit both in the UK and back home.
The EP Collection is well up to the SEE FOR MILES standard, 27 thumping great tracks including all 18 of Freddy's worldwide hits.
Bang on Freddy!
15 Sep, 2006
Billy J.'s Merseybeat Moments
Billy J.Kramer with the Dakotas rode high for a while on the unstoppable merseybeat boom of the early sixties.
Their chart career got off to a flying start with the first Parlophone single release of two Lennon and McCartney songs "I'll Be On My Way" and the 'A' side "Do You Want To Know A Secret" which eventually reached number 2 in the UK charts on the first of June 1963.
The second single with both sides once again composed by John and Paul was "Bad To Me" coupled with the underrated "I Call Your Name" which apparently was Billy's choice for the 'A' side, however EMI's producer George Martin thought otherwise, and "Bad To Me" proved him right by not only topping the UK charts for three weeks in August and September 1963 but eventually selling over a million copies worldwide.
"I'll Keep You Satisfied" was the third 'A' side composed by Lennon and McCartney and issued in time for the 1963 Christmas market with "I Know" a George Martin-Bob Wooller song on the 'b' side. This release however failed to capitalize on the earlier successes and reached number 4 in December 1963.
The fourth single "Little Children" an American song by Mort Shuman and Robin McFarland reversed the trend and put Billy back on top of the UK charts for two further weeks in March 1964 before being toppled by their fellow Liverpudlians with "Can't Buy Me Love". The 'b' side of "Little Children" was a composition by Mike Maxfield and Robin MacDonald two of the Dakotas who were Billy's backing group. The Dakotas also came into there own with a Mike Maxfield composed instrumental titled "The Cruel Sea" which had reached a respectable number eighteen during the previous July.
Billy's fourth single "From A Window" became his penultimate hit in August 1964. He was quoted as saying that this song was the best out of all the Lennon and McCartney songs that he had recorded. Dakota Robin MacDonald's "Second To None" featured on the 'b' side. The final chart entry in June 1965 "Trains and Boats and Planes" was a song by the American composers Burt Bacharach and Hal David. Unfortunately for Billy, Burt Bacharach decided to release his own single of the song which eventually outsold the Kramer version reaching number 4 in the Charts against Billy's entry at number 12.
This SEE FOR MILES collection contains 25 tracks including all the above numbers taken from six EP's plus a bonus track "Take My Hand".
Although not possessing the greatest voice in Pop music Billy J.Kramer (born William Howard Ashton in Bootle 1943) proved that he could record well-crafted songs and build them with the help of George Martin into commercial successes that exemplified the 'Merseybeat' sound during that star-studded era.
An excellent SEE FOR MILES CD release, thoroughly recommended.