150. Billy J. Kramer

Gilbert Gottfried's Amazing Colossal Podcast

Starburns Audio

Visual Arts, Tv & Film, Comedy, Arts

4.8 • 3.9K Ratings

🗓️ 10 April 2017

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Summary

Liverpool-born rocker Billy J. Kramer, a member of the British Invasion and a friend/collaborator of the Beatles, joins Gilbert and Frank to explain the origin of Skiffle, the unusual appeal of the Cavern Club, the subculture known as "Teddy Boys" and Pete Best's exodus from the Fab Four. Also, Billy signs with Brian Epstein, teams with the Bee Gees, locks horns with George Martin, and covers Neil Diamond and Harry Nilsson. PLUS: "Jukebox Jury"! Billy goes glam! Gilbert salutes Gene Pitney! John Lennon records in the loo! And James Brown upstages the Stones! Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	Hi, I'm Gilbert Gottfried. This is Gilbert Gottfried's amazing colossal podcast. I'm
0:24.5	deaf. I deal with my co-host Frank Santopadre and once again and he's turned off my earphones. No,
0:34.8	no, no, no. Did I turn your earphones off? I do turned off my earphones.
0:41.8	Yes, now I can hear myself. Okay, great. And where was I? Oh, yes, this is Gilbert Gottfried's amazing
0:48.6	colossal podcast until Frank fucked up the earphones. And oh, it's Frank Santopadre who fucked
0:59.6	the earphones. Yeah, that'd be me. And we're once again recording it at Nutmeg with our engineer
1:04.8	Frank Ferdarosa. We lost three of us shows. Oh, cut that out. Okay, our guest this week is a singer,
1:13.2	musician, songwriter and recording artist and one of the most popular performers to emerge from
1:19.7	the pop music period known as the British invasion. At the tender age of 19, he was signed by
1:27.6	legendary manager Brian Epstein and was soon playing to sold out houses and throngs of screaming
1:36.6	teenage girls as the lead singer of Billy Jake Kramer and the Dakotas. Along his six decade
1:45.5	journey, he's recorded hit records such as Bad To Me, Little Children and from a window appeared
1:53.7	on popular shows like Shindig, Hullabaloo, The Ed Sullivan Show, The Tammy Show and worked with
2:01.7	George Martin, The Bee Gees, The Rolling Stones, Bad Finger, Jean Pitney, The Hollies,
2:09.6	Jerry Lee Lewis, Dusty Springfield, The Kings, The Ronets and oh yes, four guys named John,
2:19.5	Paul, George and Ringo. His recent CD of original songs is called I WON THE FIGHT and we're thrilled
2:29.2	to welcome to this show a true rock and roll survivor and the first person to release a linen
2:37.4	and McCartney song even before the Beatles themselves. Billy Jake Kramer. Thank you. Wow.
2:47.1	Well, there's no time for anything else. You can go. I can't believe you've done all that can you, Bill?
2:51.4	No, I can't believe it. There's more. There's more. We could do a seven minute intro if you'd like.
2:58.7	Yeah, there is more. Yeah. That was one of our shoulder ones. We was one of the short. I
3:04.6	never realized it myself. You know, you are the first liver puttly and that I believe I've ever met
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