Two from Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas that they recorded after Billy turned down a Lennon-McCartney song called "One And One Is Two." In America "Little Children" was paired with "Bad To Me," another Lennon-McCartney composition. Those songs were separately UK #1's, and both sides of that single made the Top 10 in the States in June '64.
LOVE the histrionic forte drum rolling on the final verse. It effectively and craftily exudes frustration and exasperation.
ReplyDeleteSometimes "histrionic" and "rock music" just go together.
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