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You Were Mad For Me / In Disneyland

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Download links and information about You Were Mad For Me / In Disneyland by Freddie & The Dreamers. This album was released in 2003 and it belongs to Rock, Pop genres. It contains 26 tracks with total duration of 01:05:48 minutes.

Artist: Freddie & The Dreamers
Release date: 2003
Genre: Rock, Pop
Tracks: 26
Duration: 01:05:48
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Tracks

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No. Title Length
1. Jailer Bring Me Water (2002 Digital Remaster;Mono) 2:24
2. It Doesn't Matter Anymore (2002 Digital Remaster;Mono) 2:10
3. Tell Me When (2002 Digital Remaster;Mono) 2:09
4. Cut Across Shorty (2002 Digital Remaster;Mono) 2:22
5. I'll Never Dance Again (2002 Digital Remaster;Mono) 2:24
6. What I'd Say (2002 Digital Remaster;Mono) 3:12
7. See You Later Alligator (2002 Digital Remaster;Mono) 2:25
8. Early In the Morning (2002 Digital Remaster;Mono) 2:00
9. I Think of You (2002 Digital Remaster;Mono) 2:17
10. Only You (2002 Digital Remaster;Mono) 2:44
11. Johnny B Goode (2002 Digital Remaster;Mono) 2:57
12. I Don't Love You Anymore (2002 Digital Remaster;Mono) 2:33
13. Say It Isn't True (2002 Digital Remaster;Mono) 1:56
14. Write Me a Letter (2002 Digital Remaster;Mono) 2:05
15. The Ugly Bug Ball (2002 Digital Remaster) 3:07
16. When You Wish Upon a Star (2002 Digital Remaster) 3:40
17. When I See an Elephant Fly (2002 Digital Remaster) 3:01
18. Winnie the Pooh (2002 Digital Remaster) 2:42
19. Chim Chim Cheree (2002 Digital Remaster) 2:47
20. Heigh Ho (2002 Digital Remaster) 2:28
21. The Unbirthday Song (2002 Digital Remaster) 2:13
22. The Siamese Cat Song (2002 Digital Remaster) 2:47
23. Whistle While You Work (2002 Digital Remaster) 2:05
24. Give a Little Whistle (2002 Digital Remaster) 2:51
25. The Ballad of Dick Turpin (2002 Digital Remaster) 2:35
26. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (2002 Digital Remaster) 1:54

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This release combines two British Freddie & the Dreamers' albums, 1964's You Were Mad for Me and 1966's In Disneyland, on one compact disc. You Were Mad for Me was Freddie & the Dreamers' second U.K. LP, and in the British Invasion tradition, it wasn't issued as-was in the U.S., its tracks subsequently scattered across numerous American releases. Nor did it feature any hit singles; though at a glance you might think the album's title is "You Were Made for Me," one of their biggest hits on both sides of the Atlantic, it's actually "You Were Mad for Me," and doesn't include the actual track called "You Were Made for Me." Nor does it contain any original material, instead being split between oldies covers and efforts by writers from the British equivalent of Tin Pan Alley and the Brill Building like Peter Stirling, Geoff Stephens, John Carter, and Ken Lewis. Its oldies covers are uniformly mediocre, and though the recently penned compositions by other British songwriters included a couple that other U.K. groups had made into hits into early 1964 ("I Think of You" and "Tell Me When," popularized by the Merseybeats and the Applejacks respectively), they're emblematic of the British Invasion at its most lightweight and sappy. You do have the novelty of a lead vocal by someone other than Freddie Garrity when bassist Pete Birrell takes over for "Cut Across Shorty." But really, this LP isn't worth trifling with by any but the most completist of British Invasion collectors.

The same and then some could be said of In Disneyland, issued in the U.K. only in late 1966. It's not a live album, but an entire LP of covers of songs associated with Walt Disney films, including "When You Wish Upon a Star," "Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious," "Whistle While You Work," "Chim Chim Cheree," "Hi Ho," and "The Siamese Cat Song." With orchestral arrangements by Johnny Scott that are pretty typical of those applied to scores in children's films, the participation of the Dreamers seems light at most, if they were even involved in the recording at all. True, Freddie Garrity was probably more suited to moving into children's music than any other British Invasion performer due both to his clownish on-stage persona and vaudeville-ish vocals, and he does a decent job with the singing here. But it's very unlikely that the average rock fan — even the overwhelming majority of Freddie & the Dreamers fans — would be interested in this expectedly cutesy album in the least, boasting as it does nary a shred of rock & roll. It can be dismissed as a novelty item that might possibly not even be of any interest to completists, and while You Were Mad for Me isn't as dispensable, the combination of the two records on one CD will test the tolerance even of dedicated British Invasion fans.