HISTORICAL / BIOGRAPHICAL

• Tom Simon's Freddie and the Dreamers page. [link verified 06/11/2004]
• Another Freddie Page. [link verified 06/11/2004]
• The Freddie and the Dreamers Page at the official Manchester City Online site. [link added 05/21/00, verified 06/18/01]
• Here's a page all about a film the band appeared in, called, in the U.S., Seaside Swingers (and Every Day's A Holiday in the U.K.). The page proclaims, "Perhaps the highlight of the entire movie. Freddie and the Dreamers big number "What's Cookin'," a magical tour de force of slapstick comedy and cheeky pop. Freddie and the lads actually do a very nice job here." The film is covered on this page, too. [link added 05/22/00]
• The band is listed as appearing in the musical film Cliff Richard: When Cliff Was King, available on video. [link added 05/19/00]
• On this Hollies Biography page, it notes that guitarist Derek Quinn once played in a group called the Fourtones with the Hollies' Allan Clarke and Graham Nash.
• According to the Rock and Roll Movies page, Freddie and the Dreamers appeared in four films in the 60s, What A Crazy World (1963), Every Day's A Holiday (1965), Cuckoo Patrol (1965), and Out Of Sight (1966).
• There's a movie poster for Out of Sight for sale on this page. The poster is pictured at right. [link added 05/21/00]
• There was a series of Coca-Cola commercials from 1965-9 featuring pop artists. Freddie is among them, and the list of them is quite impressive. Here is a review of the Things Go Better With Coke album.
• The Freddie & the Dreamers entry in Delirium's Psychedelic Web.
• This page about the Beatles cartoon series reveals that Freddie and the Dreamers and Herman's Hermits were each considered for their own animated series, too. [link added 05/21/00]
• Ultimate Rock Cyclopedia 's Freddie and the Dreamers entry. It's nothing more than a list of band personnel, though. If that URL fails you, try this one.
• Godley and Creme are recalled working on studio recordings with other bands, including the Dreamers, before forming 10cc in 1972. This is cross-confirmed in the story of Strawberry Studio.
• The band appeared on the 60s pop TV show Hullaballoo, and you can purchase tapes of them, too - check out Volume 4 and Volume 5. [links added 05/21/00]
• The Home Page of the City of Manchester covers Freddie on its musical history page. [link added 05/19/00]
• The band played at least three shows (in Liverpool, Birkenhead, and Sheffield) with The Beatles back in 1962-63 according to this Beatles Live Performances page.
• This page of May 29 birthdays notes band member Roy Crewsdon's 1941 birth. [link added 05/19/00]
• This page of Beatles dates notes that Freddie & The Dreamers were a support act on the bill for The Beatles' 1964-65 Christmas Shows.
• This Paul Revere and the Raiders Page notes that by 1966, most British Invasion bands, including Freddie's, were coming down off their high-water marks. [link added 05/19/00]
• In this biography of the 60s folk group The Seekers, it is noted that a gig opening for Freddie and the Dreamers in Blackpool in 1964 was among their first big breaks.
• The current incarnation of the band. [link added 05/21/00]
• The band appears in the U.K. Chronology Index on the page for 1964. [link added 05/21/00]

RECORDS & SONGS

• Amazon.com stocks a 1999 CD reissue of the band's first album, Freddie and the Dreamers, including both mono and stereo versions of every song.
• Rock.com has the best price on the collection CD, The Very Best of Freddie and the Dreamers.
• Apparently, the best Dreamers reissue CD is the 34-song compilation, Best of the EMI Years, but I can't find it anywhere.
• Tom's Collectible 45s has a top-condition original copy of the You Were Made For Me single for just $5.
• Another Original Hits CD is described here, for sale. [link added 05/21/00]
• The recollection of the band getting a 1965 NME Poll Winners Award (a televised event) is recalled on this page of NME Past Premier Moments. Check for F & D under the May 1, 1964 heading. The event was also recorded (April 11, 1965 at Wembly Stadium) and a CD of it is out (on Vigitone Industries, 1998), and described here, halfway down the page. The CD is pictured to the right. [links added 05/21/00]
• Here is another page describing and showing the 1965 NME Poll Winners event CD. [link added 05/21/00]
• I'm Telling You Now hit Number One on the Billboard singles chart on 4/10/65 as this page of Billboard Top Hits, meaning, #1 hits, attests.
• I'm Telling You Now shows up on this list of the U.S. Top 40 of 1965. [link added 05/21/00]
• On this This Day In History page, I'm Telling You Now is recognized as the #1 song in the U.S. [link added 05/21/00]
• The lyric to I'm Telling You Now . And another copy on a different page.
• Look for original Freddie and the Dreamers LPs and 7"s at Thursday's Golden Goodies | Record Meister | Krohn's Boulevard Records | MusicStack | GEMM | Millennium Records | Old Main Bookshoppe Music.
• The band's I'm a Hog for You appears on Eric Riback's List of Animal Songs.
• Someone says on this Searchers message board that F & D used to do a cover of Lieber & Stoller's Some Other Guy, which The Beatles also did so well. [link added 05/21/00]
• The lyric for I Understand, which F & D covered in 1965. [link added 05/21/00]
• Early F & D single releases are documented in the Sixties Pop Diary for 1963, under "Singles." Perhaps on other years in the diary, too. [link added 05/21/00]

 MISCELLANEOUS:

• Freddie comments on Paul McCartney's elevation to British knighthood.
• Big Jim Sullivan is a session musician who lists Freddie and the Dreamers among those he's played with.
• Freddie and the Dreamers on The Ultimate Band List. [link added 05/19/00]
• About a quarter-way down the page, Peter Noone of Herman's Hermits makes a philosophical argument about why, given the choice, you should listen to Freddie and the Dreamers rather than Chumbawamba. [link added 052100]
• The band is covered in the definition of "British Invasion" in this music dictionary. [link added 05/21 /00]
• Journeyman guitarist, describes his musical career, and mentions once backing up Freddie and the Dreamers.
• Peter Noone's (Herman's Hermits) Biography page notes that his band's first EP contained a cover of I Understand that had most recently been done by Freddie and the Dreamers. [link added 05/19/00]
• The Scottsdale Cards page also has a set of 66 Freddie and the Dreamers trading cards for sale, from 1966.