FREDDIE AND THE DREAMERS were one of the many British bands that rode on the popularity wave created by the Beatles. The Manchester quintet had a few hit records and a number of hit singles in the UK in 1963 and 1964, and when their popularity started to fade, they took their act overseas where the British Invasion was just hitting North America.
It has been said that Freddie and the Dreamers are indirectly responsible for all of the songs written by the Beatles. Let me explain:
The band made a hit single out of an arrangement of James Ray's If You Gotta Make A Fool Of Somebody. Back in that day, bands didn't write their own material. Record labels had song writers that supplied all their artists with music. Everyone covered everyone else and it was up to the artist to make the song their own.
But apparently the arrangement of If You Gotta Make A Fool Of Somebody that the Dreamers were performing was arranged by the Beatles who played that particular arrangement at a show in Manchester. The Dreamers released the song as a single, which made the UK Top 5 and didn't give any credit to the Beatles. It was from that moment on that the Beatles decided to write their own music.
How would you like that to be your legacy?
In 1966, the Dreamers released a whole album of Disney covers called, IN DISNEYLAND
. It contains some really swell 60s Brit pop versions of both rare and common Disney songs.
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