Billy J. Kramer's first U.S. LP was about par for the course for the British Invasion era, though it actually had a substantially different track listing than his first U.K. long-player, Listen. Listen, like many U.K. LPs, did not include any hit singles. Little Children, in contrast, had three songs that did well as 45s in the U.S. (the title track, "Bad to Me," and "I'll Keep You Satisfied"), as well as one that had been a smash in the U.K. (his cover of the Beatles' "Do You Want to Know a Secret"). Filling out the ...
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Billy J. Kramer's first U.S. LP was about par for the course for the British Invasion era, though it actually had a substantially different track listing than his first U.K. long-player, Listen. Listen, like many U.K. LPs, did not include any hit singles. Little Children, in contrast, had three songs that did well as 45s in the U.S. (the title track, "Bad to Me," and "I'll Keep You Satisfied"), as well as one that had been a smash in the U.K. (his cover of the Beatles' "Do You Want to Know a Secret"). Filling out the running order were "Little Children"'s U.K. B-side, "They Remind Me of You"; a couple of the better Merseybeat-lite cuts from the first British LP ("Tell Me Girl," "Pride," and "I Know"); and a few passable oldies covers ("Da Doo Ron Ron," "Dance with Me," "Great Balls of Fire," and Ricky Nelson's "It's Up to You"). It wasn't a bad record, but it's not really necessary to hunt it down in LP form, since all of the best songs (indeed all of the non-oldies covers) appear on Kramer's best-of CD compilation, The Best of Billy J. Kramer. ~ Richie Unterberger, Rovi
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