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Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- United Kingdom
- Active from
- 1943-08-19
britishenglishliverpoolmerseybeatuk
Discography
- I'll Keep You Satisfied1963
- The Billy J. Kramer Hits1963
- Do You Want to Know a Secret / I’ll Be on My Way1963
- Bad to Me / I Call Your Name1963
- Listen…1963
- I’ll Keep You Satisfied1964
- Little Children1964
- Little Children / They Remind Me of You1964
- Little Children / Bad to Me1964
- From a Window / Second to None1964
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- 61,299
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- 330,805
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Billy J. Kramer (born William Howard Ashton, on August 19, 1943, in Bootle, Liverpool, England) was a British Invasion / Merseybeat singer who had a number of hits in the early 1960s as Billy J. Kramer & The Dakotas (aka Billy J. Kramer with The Dakotas). Kramer is known today primarily as the singer of various Lennon-McCartney compositions that The Beatles did not use. Early career The performing name Kramer was chosen at random from a telephone directory. <a href="https://www.last.fm/music/
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Wikidata facts
- Official website
- billyjkramer.com
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- Billy J Kramer - Its Gotta Last Forever 1965.png
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- 1943-08-19
- pseudonym
- Billy J. Kramer
- birth name
- William Howard Ashton
- start of work period
- 1963-00-00
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- Billy J. Kramer
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