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Believe it or not, even the 62 songs squeezed onto this two-CD set don't quite cover all the material Freddie & the Dreamers released in the 1960s. But while this might not be the "Ultimate Collection" -- it would be necessary to wait for the unlikely prospect of a Freddie & the Dreamers box set for that to happen -- it is indeed the most comprehensive CD anthology of the British Invasion band. The first disc has the A-sides and B-sides of 16 of their 1963-1969 U.K. singles; the second disc has 30 "album tracks, EPs & rarities" from 1963-1966, though one of these, "Do the Freddie," was actually the group's sole Top 20 hit in the U.S. besides "I'm Telling You Now." Whether you need so much Freddie & the Dreamers, even if you're a die-hard British Invasion fan, is more of an open question. All of their U.K. and U.S. hits, and a good share of their best non-hit sides, are on the 25-song single-disc compilation The Very Best of Freddie & the Dreamers. Sure, this more extensive anthology has a few additional OK B-sides and stray tracks in the quasi-Merseybeat style, à la "Feel So Blue," "Don't Do That to Me," and "How's About Trying Your Luck with Me" (the latter an obscure Gerry Goffin-Carole King tune). But it also has some forgettable 45s (particularly from the latter part of their career, including their final U.K. chart entry, the odd 1965 country-pop detour "Thou Shalt Not Steal") and way too many mediocre rock & roll oldies covers. It's also unfortunate that the liner notes don't detail the exact source of each track, other than giving a date of release. In a strange way, such an extensive collection does reinforce their credentials as a legitimate rock band, rather than a novelty act, as they did write much of their own material, and played it fairly straight (if fairly lame) on the same kind of American rock & roll covers being ground out by more respected British Invasion acts. Most fans, however, will be more than satisfied with a more selective single-disc best-of.
© Richie Unterberger /TiVo
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Rudy Clark, Composer - Ron Furmanek, Engineer, Digital Remasterer - Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist - R Clark, Composer
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1963 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Freddie Garrity, Composer - Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1963 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Roy Bennett, Writer - Sid Tepper, Writer - Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1963 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Les Van Dyke, Composer - Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1963 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Mitch Murray, Composer - Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1963 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Freddie Garrity, Composer - Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1963 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Al Jones, Composer - Derek Quinn, Composer - A Jones, Composer - Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1964 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Duncan, Composer - Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist - Lew Klein, Composer
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1964 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Paul Anka, Composer - Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1964 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Freddie Garrity, Composer - Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1964 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Mitch Murray, Composer - Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1964 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Freddie Garrity, Composer - Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1964 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Pat Best, Composer - Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1964 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Freddie Garrity, Composer - Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1964 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
G. Mills, Composer - Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist - I Mills, Composer
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1965 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
SMITH, Composer - Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1965 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Ivor Raymonde, Conductor, Arranger - Scott, Composer - Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1965 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Freddie Garrity, Composer - Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1965 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Freddie Garrity, Composer - Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1966 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Derek Quinn, Composer - Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist - Bernie Dwyer, Composer - Pete Birrell, Composer - Roy Crewdson, Composer
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1966 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist - Peter Miller, Composer
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1966 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Unknown, Composer - Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1966 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Harry Belafonte, Composer - Malvina Reynolds, Composer - Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist - Alan Greene, Composer
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1966 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Freddie Garrity, Composer - Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1966 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
John Carter, Composer - Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1967 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Freddie Garrity, Composer - Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1967 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
John Carter, Composer - Mike Vickers, Arranger - Geoff Stephens, Composer - Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1967 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Freddie Garrity, Composer - Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1967 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
John Carter, Composer - Freddie Garrity, Composer - Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1968 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Geoff Stephens, Composer - John Paul Jones, Arranger - Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1968 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Roger Cook, Composer - Roger Greenaway, Composer - Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1969 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Freddie Garrity, Composer - Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1969 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
DISC 2
Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist - Pete MacLaine, Composer - Peter Bocking, Composer
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1963 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
STEVENS, Composer - Reed, Composer - Geoff Stephens, Composer - Leslie Reed, Composer - Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1964 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist - Peter Lee Stirling, Composer
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1964 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
John Carter, Composer - Ken Lewis, Composer - Geoff Stephens, Composer - Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1964 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Dennis Lambert, Composer - Courtney, Composer - Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist - Freddie and the Dreamers, Vocals
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1965 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Derek Quinn, Composer - A Jones, Composer - Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist - Arthur Greenslade, Conductor, Arranger
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1965 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
KING, Composer - GOFFIN, Composer - Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1966 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Janie Bradford, Composer - Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist - Berry Jnr Gordy, Composer
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1963 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Allie Wrubel, Composer - Raymond Gilbert, Composer - Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1963 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Jerry Leiber, Writer - Mike Stoller, Writer - Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1966 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Paul Anka, Composer - Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1964 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Chuck Berry, Composer - Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1964 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Robert Byrd, Composer - Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1964 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Jerry Leiber, Writer - Mike Stoller, Writer - Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1966 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Wilkin, Composer - Westberry, Composer - Marijohn Wilkin, Composer - Kent Westberry, Composer - Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1966 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist - Edward G Nelson, Composer
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1965 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Raleigh, Composer - Wayne, Composer - Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1965 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Sloan Barri, Composer - Freddie & The Dreamers, MainArtist
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 1965 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
Album review
Believe it or not, even the 62 songs squeezed onto this two-CD set don't quite cover all the material Freddie & the Dreamers released in the 1960s. But while this might not be the "Ultimate Collection" -- it would be necessary to wait for the unlikely prospect of a Freddie & the Dreamers box set for that to happen -- it is indeed the most comprehensive CD anthology of the British Invasion band. The first disc has the A-sides and B-sides of 16 of their 1963-1969 U.K. singles; the second disc has 30 "album tracks, EPs & rarities" from 1963-1966, though one of these, "Do the Freddie," was actually the group's sole Top 20 hit in the U.S. besides "I'm Telling You Now." Whether you need so much Freddie & the Dreamers, even if you're a die-hard British Invasion fan, is more of an open question. All of their U.K. and U.S. hits, and a good share of their best non-hit sides, are on the 25-song single-disc compilation The Very Best of Freddie & the Dreamers. Sure, this more extensive anthology has a few additional OK B-sides and stray tracks in the quasi-Merseybeat style, à la "Feel So Blue," "Don't Do That to Me," and "How's About Trying Your Luck with Me" (the latter an obscure Gerry Goffin-Carole King tune). But it also has some forgettable 45s (particularly from the latter part of their career, including their final U.K. chart entry, the odd 1965 country-pop detour "Thou Shalt Not Steal") and way too many mediocre rock & roll oldies covers. It's also unfortunate that the liner notes don't detail the exact source of each track, other than giving a date of release. In a strange way, such an extensive collection does reinforce their credentials as a legitimate rock band, rather than a novelty act, as they did write much of their own material, and played it fairly straight (if fairly lame) on the same kind of American rock & roll covers being ground out by more respected British Invasion acts. Most fans, however, will be more than satisfied with a more selective single-disc best-of.
© Richie Unterberger /TiVo
About the album
- 2 disc(s) - 62 track(s)
- Total length: 02:25:16
- Main artists: Freddie & The Dreamers
- Composer: Various Composers
- Label: Parlophone UK
- Genre: Pop/Rock Rock
© 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company ℗ 2006 Parlophone Records Ltd, a Warner Music Group Company
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