Tiffany and Debbie Gibson were the teen-aged pop princesses of the late 1980s. They were 16 or so when their first albums hit. They were the Britney and Christina of their time, just a bit more wholesome. Tiffany was a one album wonder with 3 big hits, although two of those were covers. Debbie had a bit more longevity because she also wrote her own songs and arranged the music compositions. She's also worth a listen. Debbie's best known songs are Foolish Beat and Lost In Your Eyes, ballads that both charted at #1, and Electric Youth, Only In My Dreams and Shake Your Love if you're looking for a faster pace.
I think Debbie Gibson still holds the Guinness World record for youngest female artist to write, produce and perform a number one single (at the age of 17). Foolish beat topped the billboard hot 100 chart in 1988.
I was obsessed with both of them. Sometimes more Tiffany cause she was kinda local from Norwalk Ca and i loved her hair. Loved Debbie for writing her own songs I had Electric Youth perfume in that cool bottle
My mom was best friends with Simon Kirk ( drummer’s wife) lived in N San Fran. Simon and band would come over to our house a lot in late 70s and early 80s when they around area. Simon got a brother named Miles, who stayed over a few weeks and had about 20 speeding tickets haha kept saying Americans,drive to,slow. Best memory was going to Bad Co concert in Oakland and being 11 hr old and in front row of concert then back stage in bands dressing room, while everyone getting plastered. Not to mention arriving at the concert in a lemo in the back where the band arrived, good memories.
@@philburton2223 that’s because I’ve always been a massive geek and I’m in my 50s and I was already well into my late teens by the time that song was released and I was already a huge fan from the moment that he started his career
"I Think We're Alone Now" is a song written and composed by Ritchie Cordell that was first recorded by Tommy James and the Shondells. It was a major hit for the group, reaching number 4 on the US Hot 100 in April 1967. It finished at No. 12 on Billboard magazine's year-end singles chart for 1967.
This is a cover of a song by Tommy James and the Shondells, and it went to number one. The song that replaced it was "Mony Mony" by Billy Idol, which was a cover of a song by Tommy James and the Shondells.
Tiffany had two number 1's on the Billboard Hot 100 chart! This dance track "I Think We're Alone Now" and the ballad "Could've Been"! She also charted on the Hot 100 with the songs "I Saw Him Standing There" "All This Time" "Feelings Of Forever" & "Radio Romance" She was great back in the day! I saw her in concert at Busch Gardens in Williamsburg, VA in 1988!
This is a cover of a song from 1967 and got re-popularized when Tiffany was all the rage in the 80s. This was a very unique time in fashion and music history. As others have said, Tiffany and Debbie Gibson popularized the "Mall" concert. My brother got to see Whitney Houston in a mall in Ohio in the late 80's (lucky bastard). This is where the "Robin Sparkles" skit from How I Met Your Mother came from.
Tiffany and Debbie Gibson have songs you crank up and sing on a road trip when you by yourself.........make sure to turn it down at the traffic lights. Debbie Gibson's Only in my dreams is my guilty pleasure lol
She was around 16 at the time. The mall tour was in 87-88. I was 10 years old and got to see Tiffany play at my local mall. Had a huge crush on her at that time. The song is a cover of Tommy James and the Shondells 1967 hit.
That’s how Tiffany got famous, playing for the kids in the malls. She got so famous that people started making fun of her. But she’s still doing performances.
I am the same age as Tiffany. I remember these days fondly. I was so in love with this girl. Then 15 years later at 30 I was so surprised when I get a copy of Playboy with a Tiffany shoot and then realize that the song "Centerfold" by J. Giles Band was about me
I had the biggest crush on her when I was younger. I was able to see her in concert. It was my first concert and New Kids on the Block was the opening act. Great show.
As a much older daddy to 2 daughters, think the worst and you won't be dissapointed. I'm in my 70's. My daughters are in their 40's. I've known a lot. But they absolutely trashed my thoughts by what the year revealed. Of course, I think we have both acted this way. You speak of daughters - a consequence of what we did. I saw it differently. When asked if I was disappointed that I never had a son, I responded, "I am not so old that I have forgotten about the hell I put my parents through. I'm OK with daughters." Maybe I hadn't understood what daughters can put a daddy through. BTW, both of my daughters are AWESOME! Both are successful and have great families.
Man, I had such a crush on her and Debbie Gibson. Was 15 and though a headbanger and extremely attracted to red heads, I drooled over Tiff😂😂😂....now at 49, yeah the songs are corny but such a part of what made 80s music as a whole, LENGENDARY.
Number one for 2 weeks in 1987, originally by Tommy James and the Shondells. Kicked out of the top spot by Billy Idol performing another Tommy James song, Mony Mony.
Tiffany was mass marketed by doing hundreds of Malls, usually on a Saturday morning and then afternoon, when massive number of kids were there. She would hit 2 or 3 Malls in a city and the of course the masses would run to the record store and... It was a genius move to sell the 16 year old artist.
Back in the ‘80’s and ‘90’s lot of up and coming artists performed at malls and gained their followings there, and from there broke hrough on a bigger scale . Teens hanging out at the mall was huge (the term for is mall rats) so it made sense to do mall concerts. I think even Britney Spears did mall concerts when she was transitioning from Mickey Mouse Club to teen pop star.
When you looked for other songs by Tiffany, you moused over Wilson Philips and Belinda Carlyle, you should really react to those too. Wilson Philips with "Hold on" has become one of my all-time favorites since I first heard it, some 5 years ago. Belinda Carlisle, I've always heard on the radio with "Heaven is a place on earth" and I love it, but when I saw her video for "Circle in the sand" I fell a bit in love with her. Also, check out Paula Abdul !!
This is a cover but i.admit i didn't know that when this song came out when i was in Junior High. I didn't find out until the Internet came along. The Shondells were great but way before my time.
About five or so years ago, there was a movie called 'Mega Python vs Gatoroid' on the Syfy network. It starred Tiffany and Debbie Gibson. In one scene, they were fighting while quoting their hit songs.
She toured with New Kids On The Block. This is her cover of it, it almost killed my husband, he was like No No Noo..... because he did grow up with Tommy James..... aw, BP think about when this was on MTV/radio . we didn't know what she was talking about, it was just a dance song. I didn't even know the lyrics were 'Children Behave' until today I always heard it children beware....no idea why Hubs thinks it's funny he grew up with Afternoon Delight. He really thought it was funny when he played *(Oh What A Night, Late) December '63* , and I was 42 when it dawned on me what the hell he was singing about, aye yi yi.. I guess I got the blessings of songs with double meanings in the 60s, 70s, 80s,90s rock & metal and he got the wholesome sexual songs, ha!
1987 cover of the Tommy James and the Shondells song "I Think We're Alone Now" Tiffany's cover spent two weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. She was 16 when she release this song
I still have the 45 of this downstairs in an old popcorn tin in the basement. It's in a stack with the many others I have from my younger years. I knew the song from my parents playing the Tommy James song over the years.
This is definitely a "teeny bopper" version of this song. But if you want the more popular version, you want to listen to Tommy James and the Shondells. In fact. If you haven't already covered any of their music, here's a short list of their music to cover. Crystal Blue Persuasion Sweet Cherry Wine Crimson and Clover. I Think We're Alone Now These are their most popular.
Tiffany and Debbie Gibson were THE thing in the 1980s teen-scene. Tiffany did do concerts at malls...I believe this was her big hit. It's an OLD song, originally from the 1960s. Don't read too much into all the lyrics - It's just enjoyable fluff. I've mentioned it before, if BP ever heard The Bangles "In Your Room", he'd pass out!🤣 And BP, you're right. You were looking at Boy George thinking it was Madonna!!!🤣
I had a massive crush on Tiffany when she came out. She was 16 when this was released. 15-Years later, my lieutenant and I were comparing notes. We both admitted to crushes. I was 3-years her senior and he was 3-years her junior.
I also had a massive crush on Tiffany back in those days too. I remember being a little bit surprised to find out that she and I were about 3 months apart in age
When this came out I was 12 and I loved this song! I listed to her tape so many times. I also liked her song “I saw him standing there” which is a remake from the Beatles.
Was it a kids song? No, Did kids love listening to this, most definitely! Original is almost 20 years older than this version but Tiffany was in the teeny bopper Top40 era of the 80's, she was young and this version is really catchy. While you and I are about the same age, I might have a couple of years on you, our generation of music was much different, I listened to almost every genre, but this song also came out at a time in the 80s when the John Hughes films were also really big and the coming of age stories were big. Kinda like the saying that we were 30 at age 10 and are still 30 at age 50. Oh, I have 6 children, 3 of them girls, I can't imagine trying to deal with them during the time that we grew up.
This song was one of the biggest hits the year it came out. This song WAS the 80s. She was 16 when the song came out, and it was absolutely HUGE! But Debbie Gibson also came out with a song the same year, and they were both the same age. So it was almost like a battle whose teenage song was going to be bigger. This song was bigger that year, but Debbie Gibson had a longer career. At least that's what I remember. It had been almost 40 years lol
"Go do what you want when your parents are gone" Pretty much sums up life as Gen-X. Nowadays it's considered creepy if you have someone in their 20s or 30s singing about teenagers bootying and otherwise getting up to assorted mischeif but it wasn't back then. They weren't encouraging it so much as acknowledging what we were already doing instead of acting like we were some little precious, naive things that needed protection. We neither needed nor wanted protection. We *wanted* sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll and we *needed* a few more ass whoopins.
Tiffany produced and managed her debut single and is still the first person to do that and all at as a teenager. She now lives in the UK, she is married to a bloke who owns his own business. She is out of the pop world now but doing okay I am sure.
As far as I understood, Robin from "How I met your mother" was based off Tiffany. Teenage Canadian pop Star .I think I was about 10 years old when this song came out, but she was still one of my childhood crushes :P
Well, she's singing that the boy running around with her is saying that refrain to her. You see it correctly when talking about getting it, and remembering your own thoughts when you were a teenager. Don't worry, your kids will get there, and there's really nothing you can or should do about that. They will have a crush at some point, obviously. What parents can and should do, is make sure that the kids are aware, that they feel safe talking to their parents about stuff and that they know they've got someone to rely on in their background. Forbidding teenagers to feel the way they feel? Never a good idea.
Tommy James had a ton of hits in the late 1960's, and then, weirdly enough in the 1980's three separate artists had huge hits covering his songs: Joan Jett went to #7 in 1982 with "Crimson and Clover", Tiffany went to #1 with this song, then was replaced at #1 by Billy Idol's cover of "Mony Mony" in 1987.
'I Think We're Alone Now' was originally sung by Tommy James and the Shondells originally recorded it in 1967.Songwriters: Ritchie Cordell wrote and composed the son. Release: The song was the title track from their third studio album, I Think We're Alone Now. Chart performance: The song reached number 4 on the US Hot 100 and number 12 on Billboard's year-end singles chart for 1967. Recording: James recorded the vocals on Christmas Eve, 1966.. ruclips.net/video/IkMFLUXTEwM/видео.html
classic 80s song! dbl ♥ Was used as part of a great scene in Umbrella Academy Tiffany had an underappreciated voice. Check out her song - Could've Been
In 1987, Tiffany became the youngest female--just 16 years old--to have a number one album. Problems with her mother, from whom she filed legal emancipation in 1988, and a scumbag manager derailed her skyrocketing career, which began in 1985 when she appeared on tv's "Star Search." "Danny" was a terrific original song among covers on Tiffany's first album. And some later tracks to check out would be "Hold an Old Friend's Hand" and "All This Time" fom her second album, "Here in My Heart," from her third album, and the 2007 dance hit "Fly."
Wow. I've heard of her, but didn't really know anything about her. I just looked her up and we lived in the same city growing up. I am 5 years older than her and went to different schools. She reminds me of a girl that my then boyfriend sang with for a wedding.
No, she absolutely was not a one hit wonder. Tiffany's mall tour was ridiculous. She did so many malls in one summer, I don't know how she did it. And they were always packed. She was sixteen, I think, in this video. She had two albums as a teenager. This song is a cover by Tommy James and the Shondells. What Could've Been was a beautiful, sad ballad that, like this song, hit #1 on the Billboards Hot 100 and her third single and one of my absolute favorites was her third single I Saw Him Standing There which was a cover of the Beatles I Saw Him Standing There which hit #7 on the charts. Her first album Tiffany hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart as well. Her second album, while not as successful as the first, still had a top ten single and achieved platinum status. She still sings and put out her latest album in 2022, but she has never had the success again that she had as a teenager. So one could say she was a four hit wonder. The fictional character of Robin Sparkles, the pop star that Robin was as a teenager on the tv show How I Met Your Mother, is based on Tiffany, right down to the type of music of the first two albums and the mall tours. Tiffany even appears in one of the flashback episodes in one of Robin Sparkles' videos.
Back in 1988, Tiffany saw a young boy band at a music fair who were trying to get their name further out there. She suggested they be her opening act for her tour. The boy band was New Kids On The Block. Her, Debbie Gibson, New Kids, other boy bands, pop, and hip-hop musicians from the same time period are all friends and tour together with NKOTB. NK and friends have put out 2 hilarious videos poking fun at themselves and such, called Boys In The Band and Bring Back The Time.
I'm totally with you here. I was 12 when it was released by Tiffany in 1987 and just thought it was some cheesy pop song much like most others of the day. I now have a daughter about to turn 15 and I a gree, It hits so differently now! 🤣🤣
5:07 "I Wonder How Old She Was When She Made This?" Tiffany was about 15 or 16 at the time she'd recorded this video. Thus, the reason why she's performing her shows in shopping malls
Oh man, I had the cassette tape and drove my parents nuts playing this on repeat 😂 I still turn it all the way up when it comes up on the playlist. 🎤 🎶 🔥
I don't understand why people always recommend this song by Tiffany. It's a cover song. It's not even her original hit. Her best original song was Could've Been, which went to #1 and yet, it seems no one remembers it.
11:41 Tiffany actually did have a couple of other hits, but this one is what she's best-known for. The 2 that come to mind for me are "Could've Been" and "All This Time"
We can only do so much to protect or shelter our child(ren), so I strongly suggest we give them the tools and educate them the best we can. Just simply telling them that you forbid them from doing something isn't and has never been enough. Btw, fyi, this song was originally written by Ritchie Cordell and Bo Gentry in 1966 and then released in 1967 by Tommy James and the Shondells. Tiffany covered it 20 years later, in 1987.
I like Tiffany. Performing in shopping malls really boosted her popularity and sales of her album. You should check out her song All This Time. A really good song with a more mature sound.
Robert, you make me LOL when you say 'not MY daughter'. Just wait until that sweet little girl hits puberty ... you will wonder how the monster took over that sweet little girl!!! 😅😂🤣
She was 15 at the time and teens were her target demographic. Bubblegum pop. She was promoted on a mall tour, I actually knee nothing about her and stumbled onto a performance at my local mall that I was a mall rat to. Her and Debbie Gibson were Christina and Brittany before anyone ever heard of them
Took a bunch of kids to see Debbie Gibson. Leave it to Cleveland to have some moron send her a death threat first. Debbie being the strong gal that she is - went on stage anyways and gave one hell of a performance. Tired those little ones out on the way home. It was fun 😊 Also took my daughter to see Aaron Carter when she was in kindergarten. Of all places she ran into a fellow student from her class. We were up front and I turned around and I swear there were easily 50,000 little girls screaming
Oh I was like 10 and so wanted to be like her 😂😂😂😂 she had to divorce her parents after this album because her parents were stealing her money. During that time off grunge hit the charts so she didn’t do much after. But she did have a few more hits. But Debbie Gibson took over.
Tiffany had several hit songs like Radio Romance, Hold and Old Friends Hand, including her best Could've Been, all this time, and it's the lover not the love, Love to see your reaction to these.
This was a song originally down by a male group in the 1960s. Her cover in the 80s is what made the song hit though. I had this 45 and cassette. Yes, Tiffany got famous and built her career from performing at malls around the country. It was a smart business plan because at that time, teens lived at the malls. It's the theme song for hooking up in the woods. She has a few albums and a bunch of singles.
Tommy James and the Shondells. It was released not even 21 years previous. But, to my 13-year-old self, 21 seemed like a lot more years than it does now. Imagine a remake of a so g from 2003? Maybe "Seven Nation Army?"
Of course she's performing at malls. Where do you think most of her fans hung out back then? This was filmed at Ogden City Mall, Utah. The mall had only been open a couple of years, so it was free publicity for the mall.
I had a CD from her in the 80, it was some kind of feel good music, another one, for me, was Debbie Gibson, well, maybe more for little girls, but i had a twin sister, so i listened to her music too. Tiffany had the bether voice and music, thats clear
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Tiffany and Debbie Gibson were the teen-aged pop princesses of the late 1980s. They were 16 or so when their first albums hit. They were the Britney and Christina of their time, just a bit more wholesome. Tiffany was a one album wonder with 3 big hits, although two of those were covers. Debbie had a bit more longevity because she also wrote her own songs and arranged the music compositions. She's also worth a listen. Debbie's best known songs are Foolish Beat and Lost In Your Eyes, ballads that both charted at #1, and Electric Youth, Only In My Dreams and Shake Your Love if you're looking for a faster pace.
I think Debbie Gibson still holds the Guinness World record for youngest female artist to write, produce and perform a number one single (at the age of 17). Foolish beat topped the billboard hot 100 chart in 1988.
I was obsessed with both of them. Sometimes more Tiffany cause she was kinda local from Norwalk Ca and i loved her hair. Loved Debbie for writing her own songs I had Electric Youth perfume in that cool bottle
This reminds me of younger Robin (from how i meet your mother) lol
my very first concert was New Kids on the Block opening for Tiffani. New Kids on the Block hadn't even made it big yet.
Don't forget Robin Sparkles.
Tommy James and the Shondels, did this first and it's great! Good band to dive into. I saw Bad Company play at our local mall.
I saw K.D LANG in mall too !
My mom was best friends with Simon Kirk ( drummer’s wife) lived in N San Fran. Simon and band would come over to our house a lot in late 70s and early 80s when they around area. Simon got a brother named Miles, who stayed over a few weeks and had about 20 speeding tickets haha kept saying Americans,drive to,slow. Best memory was going to Bad Co concert in Oakland and being 11 hr old and in front row of concert then back stage in bands dressing room, while everyone getting plastered. Not to mention arriving at the concert in a lemo in the back where the band arrived, good memories.
Tommy James and the Shondels original was a beautiful ballad and so yummy!! Yayyy 1967!!
Love Prince’s version too
They also did Crimson and Clover that Joan Jett covered later on.
She did a tour of performances in malls, which was an original innovation that targeted her demographic. Malls were the teen habitat of the 80’s
And just so you know, “Weird Al” Yankovic also did a parody of this song called “I think I’m a Clone now “. You need to check it out.
That would be so 😂 . He 💕 Weird Al & I have never heard that Weird Al song.
@@philburton2223 that’s because I’ve always been a massive geek and I’m in my 50s and I was already well into my late teens by the time that song was released and I was already a huge fan from the moment that he started his career
@@PHOENIXDARKFIRE5000 I am 54 but I guess I just missed that one.
@@philburton2223 I literally know every word to every song he’s ever released yes I know that’s sad. You don’t need to tell me lol.
Came to say the same.
"I Think We're Alone Now" is a song written and composed by Ritchie Cordell that was first recorded by Tommy James and the Shondells. It was a major hit for the group, reaching number 4 on the US Hot 100 in April 1967. It finished at No. 12 on Billboard magazine's year-end singles chart for 1967.
Please do the original as well. ❤
This is a cover of a song by Tommy James and the Shondells, and it went to number one. The song that replaced it was "Mony Mony" by Billy Idol, which was a cover of a song by Tommy James and the Shondells.
Another cover of this song from 1977….by The Rubinoos……..which is my preferred version
And Weird Al did a parody of Mony Mony called Alimony.
Tiffany during this time was doing some serious hard hustle for her career. She worked hard. Did mall concerts. Hit the charts with 5 singles.
First recorded by Tommy James and the Shondells. Who also did CRIMSON and CLOVER which was covered by Joan Jett.
Also did Mony Mony, later covered by Billy Idol.
Tiffany had two number 1's on the Billboard Hot 100 chart! This dance track "I Think We're Alone Now" and the ballad "Could've Been"! She also charted on the Hot 100 with the songs "I Saw Him Standing There" "All This Time" "Feelings Of Forever" & "Radio Romance" She was great back in the day! I saw her in concert at Busch Gardens in Williamsburg, VA in 1988!
Her voice is so heavenly on "Could've Been." Love that song
Lol, how many new songs are there at a given time to start with, maybe 200, so her songs weren't in the bottom half 😂
This is a cover of a song from 1967 and got re-popularized when Tiffany was all the rage in the 80s. This was a very unique time in fashion and music history. As others have said, Tiffany and Debbie Gibson popularized the "Mall" concert. My brother got to see Whitney Houston in a mall in Ohio in the late 80's (lucky bastard). This is where the "Robin Sparkles" skit from How I Met Your Mother came from.
Tiffany and Debbie Gibson have songs you crank up and sing on a road trip when you by yourself.........make sure to turn it down at the traffic lights. Debbie Gibson's Only in my dreams is my guilty pleasure lol
Tiffany was in her 30s when she did her Playboy spread. She was still a knock-out.
She was around 16 at the time. The mall tour was in 87-88. I was 10 years old and got to see Tiffany play at my local mall. Had a huge crush on her at that time. The song is a cover of Tommy James and the Shondells 1967 hit.
That’s how Tiffany got famous, playing for the kids in the malls. She got so famous that people started making fun of her. But she’s still doing performances.
I am the same age as Tiffany. I remember these days fondly. I was so in love with this girl.
Then 15 years later at 30 I was so surprised when I get a copy of Playboy with a Tiffany shoot and then realize that the song "Centerfold" by J. Giles Band was about me
Those fuzzy sweaters.....
She re-recorded this song back in 2019. Her voice has changed but still sounds great.
Fun fact! This video was filmed at the mall in my home state. Less than 30 minutes from my town. Her songs Could've Been and All This Time are great!
I had the biggest crush on her when I was younger. I was able to see her in concert. It was my first concert and New Kids on the Block was the opening act. Great show.
As a much older daddy to 2 daughters, think the worst and you won't be dissapointed. I'm in my 70's. My daughters are in their 40's. I've known a lot. But they absolutely trashed my thoughts by what the year revealed. Of course, I think we have both acted this way.
You speak of daughters - a consequence of what we did. I saw it differently. When asked if I was disappointed that I never had a son, I responded, "I am not so old that I have forgotten about the hell I put my parents through. I'm OK with daughters." Maybe I hadn't understood what daughters can put a daddy through.
BTW, both of my daughters are AWESOME! Both are successful and have great families.
Man, I had such a crush on her and Debbie Gibson. Was 15 and though a headbanger and extremely attracted to red heads, I drooled over Tiff😂😂😂....now at 49, yeah the songs are corny but such a part of what made 80s music as a whole, LENGENDARY.
I once had this song stuck in my head for 6 months and I wasn't mad about it lol
To many teenage drinking memories unlocked...... we all thought we could hit time high note on her song could've been...... we couldn't 😂
Love the high notes on that song
Number one for 2 weeks in 1987, originally by Tommy James and the Shondells. Kicked out of the top spot by Billy Idol performing another Tommy James song, Mony Mony.
Now, THAT'S irony!
Tiffany was mass marketed by doing hundreds of Malls, usually on a Saturday morning and then afternoon, when massive number of kids were there. She would hit 2 or 3 Malls in a city and the of course the masses would run to the record store and... It was a genius move to sell the 16 year old artist.
She had quite a few hits in the late 1980s and early 1990s. I remember a song called "Could've Been"
Tiffany got her start giving concerts at shopping malls.
Back in the ‘80’s and ‘90’s lot of up and coming artists performed at malls and gained their followings there, and from there broke hrough on a bigger scale . Teens hanging out at the mall was huge (the term for is mall rats) so it made sense to do mall concerts. I think even Britney Spears did mall concerts when she was transitioning from Mickey Mouse Club to teen pop star.
I loved this song when it first came out in the 1960’s, Tiffany did a great job too, although totally teenie bopper🤣❤️✌🏻🎶
When you looked for other songs by Tiffany, you moused over Wilson Philips and Belinda Carlyle, you should really react to those too. Wilson Philips with "Hold on" has become one of my all-time favorites since I first heard it, some 5 years ago. Belinda Carlisle, I've always heard on the radio with "Heaven is a place on earth" and I love it, but when I saw her video for "Circle in the sand" I fell a bit in love with her.
Also, check out Paula Abdul !!
I still have those cassettes!
Taking me back to my teenage years 😂
Tiffany was 15 years old when she sang 'I Think We're Alone Now'.
This is a cover but i.admit i didn't know that when this song came out when i was in Junior High. I didn't find out until the Internet came along. The Shondells were great but way before my time.
I'm a rock/new wave fan but this one is a guilty pleasure. Like Mandy Moore's "Candy".
Tiffany my 1980's guilty pleasure 🙂
About five or so years ago, there was a movie called 'Mega Python vs Gatoroid' on the Syfy network. It starred Tiffany and Debbie Gibson. In one scene, they were fighting while quoting their hit songs.
Still not sure how that movie got so snubbed at the Oscars.
She toured with New Kids On The Block. This is her cover of it, it almost killed my husband, he was like No No Noo..... because he did grow up with Tommy James..... aw, BP think about when this was on MTV/radio . we didn't know what she was talking about, it was just a dance song. I didn't even know the lyrics were 'Children Behave' until today I always heard it children beware....no idea why Hubs thinks it's funny he grew up with Afternoon Delight. He really thought it was funny when he played *(Oh What A Night, Late) December '63* , and I was 42 when it dawned on me what the hell he was singing about, aye yi yi.. I guess I got the blessings of songs with double meanings in the 60s, 70s, 80s,90s rock & metal and he got the wholesome sexual songs, ha!
1987 cover of the Tommy James and the Shondells song "I Think We're Alone Now" Tiffany's cover spent two weeks at No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. She was 16 when she release this song
I still have the 45 of this downstairs in an old popcorn tin in the basement. It's in a stack with the many others I have from my younger years. I knew the song from my parents playing the Tommy James song over the years.
Tiffany gives off Robin Sparkles vibes.
This is definitely a "teeny bopper" version of this song. But if you want the more popular version, you want to listen to Tommy James and the Shondells. In fact. If you haven't already covered any of their music, here's a short list of their music to cover.
Crystal Blue Persuasion
Sweet Cherry Wine
Crimson and Clover.
I Think We're Alone Now
These are their most popular.
Tiffany and Debbie Gibson were THE thing in the 1980s teen-scene. Tiffany did do concerts at malls...I believe this was her big hit. It's an OLD song, originally from the 1960s. Don't read too much into all the lyrics - It's just enjoyable fluff.
I've mentioned it before, if BP ever heard The Bangles "In Your Room", he'd pass out!🤣
And BP, you're right. You were looking at Boy George thinking it was Madonna!!!🤣
Now that you say that, I'd love to see him react to "In your room" lol
I had a massive crush on Tiffany when she came out. She was 16 when this was released. 15-Years later, my lieutenant and I were comparing notes. We both admitted to crushes. I was 3-years her senior and he was 3-years her junior.
I also had a massive crush on Tiffany back in those days too.
I remember being a little bit surprised to find out that she and I were about 3 months apart in age
When this came out I was 12 and I loved this song! I listed to her tape so many times.
I also liked her song “I saw him standing there” which is a remake from the Beatles.
Was it a kids song? No, Did kids love listening to this, most definitely! Original is almost 20 years older than this version but Tiffany was in the teeny bopper Top40 era of the 80's, she was young and this version is really catchy. While you and I are about the same age, I might have a couple of years on you, our generation of music was much different, I listened to almost every genre, but this song also came out at a time in the 80s when the John Hughes films were also really big and the coming of age stories were big. Kinda like the saying that we were 30 at age 10 and are still 30 at age 50. Oh, I have 6 children, 3 of them girls, I can't imagine trying to deal with them during the time that we grew up.
She toured with new kids on the block
This song was one of the biggest hits the year it came out. This song WAS the 80s. She was 16 when the song came out, and it was absolutely HUGE! But Debbie Gibson also came out with a song the same year, and they were both the same age. So it was almost like a battle whose teenage song was going to be bigger. This song was bigger that year, but Debbie Gibson had a longer career. At least that's what I remember. It had been almost 40 years lol
Funny that both she and Debbie were in the Sharknado type movie "Mega Python vs. Gateroid" from 2011.
No Tommy James and the Shondels did it first and best.
She was 14 when she sang this not 16
This song lives rent free in my head 😂😂
"Go do what you want when your parents are gone"
Pretty much sums up life as Gen-X.
Nowadays it's considered creepy if you have someone in their 20s or 30s singing about teenagers bootying and otherwise getting up to assorted mischeif but it wasn't back then. They weren't encouraging it so much as acknowledging what we were already doing instead of acting like we were some little precious, naive things that needed protection. We neither needed nor wanted protection. We *wanted* sex, drugs, and rock-n-roll and we *needed* a few more ass whoopins.
This is a cover of the Shondells song. It was really popular and started a trend of young artists performing at malls.
Tiffany produced and managed her debut single and is still the first person to do that and all at as a teenager. She now lives in the UK, she is married to a bloke who owns his own business. She is out of the pop world now but doing okay I am sure.
she is not one hit, but she is thought of that way by many. She has a much more diverse and sophisticated voice then people realize.
Agreed - not a life-changing talent by any measure, but a bit deeper than folks give her credit for.
Lol spin doctor all you want, she is the very definition of one hit wonder
I agree. I love her song All This Time.
Not a 1-hit wonder but close. She has a platinum album. For the male teens, she probably most remembered for her centerfold.
As far as I understood, Robin from "How I met your mother" was based off Tiffany. Teenage Canadian pop Star .I think I was about 10 years old when this song came out, but she was still one of my childhood crushes :P
The internet says she was 15 when this song came out
She has a great voice. I remember her early albums when I was a kid in the early 80s. She posed for playboy in April 2002
How I Met Your Mother had a running gag where Robin was a Canadian Pop star like Tiffany with a song "lets go to the mall".
Well, she's singing that the boy running around with her is saying that refrain to her. You see it correctly when talking about getting it, and remembering your own thoughts when you were a teenager. Don't worry, your kids will get there, and there's really nothing you can or should do about that. They will have a crush at some point, obviously. What parents can and should do, is make sure that the kids are aware, that they feel safe talking to their parents about stuff and that they know they've got someone to rely on in their background. Forbidding teenagers to feel the way they feel? Never a good idea.
I had such a huge crush on Tiffany when she first started as well as Debbie Gibson
I was only 12 when this song came out and Tiffany was 15
Me too but I was 10.
You need to go down the NKOTB rabbit hole too. Hanging tough is the best starting point.
Tommy James had a ton of hits in the late 1960's, and then, weirdly enough in the 1980's three separate artists had huge hits covering his songs: Joan Jett went to #7 in 1982 with "Crimson and Clover", Tiffany went to #1 with this song, then was replaced at #1 by Billy Idol's cover of "Mony Mony" in 1987.
Tiffany is from my home state of Oklahoma! .This is a cover! She was hot! It was her and Debbie Gibson
'I Think We're Alone Now' was originally sung by Tommy James and the Shondells originally recorded it in 1967.Songwriters: Ritchie Cordell wrote and composed the son. Release: The song was the title track from their third studio album, I Think We're Alone Now. Chart performance: The song reached number 4 on the US Hot 100 and number 12 on Billboard's year-end singles chart for 1967. Recording: James recorded the vocals on Christmas Eve, 1966.. ruclips.net/video/IkMFLUXTEwM/видео.html
They still play this on 80's radio fairly regularly.
This is a cover of a song from 1967 and she also did a Beatles cover "I Saw Him Standing There"
I never knew that. I’m gonna have to look it up now. Thanks for the info ❤
80's suggestion - "No More Words" by Berlin.
She was 14 when she recorded it and 15 when this song was released.
classic 80s song! dbl ♥ Was used as part of a great scene in Umbrella Academy
Tiffany had an underappreciated voice. Check out her song - Could've Been
Actually it's originally a classic 60's song.
In 1987, Tiffany became the youngest female--just 16 years old--to have a number one album. Problems with her mother, from whom she filed legal emancipation in 1988, and a scumbag manager derailed her skyrocketing career, which began in 1985 when she appeared on tv's "Star Search." "Danny" was a terrific original song among covers on Tiffany's first album. And some later tracks to check out would be "Hold an Old Friend's Hand" and "All This Time" fom her second album, "Here in My Heart," from her third album, and the 2007 dance hit "Fly."
She dated Jonathan Knight from New Kids On The Block for a while.
Wow. I've heard of her, but didn't really know anything about her. I just looked her up and we lived in the same city growing up. I am 5 years older than her and went to different schools. She reminds me of a girl that my then boyfriend sang with for a wedding.
No, she absolutely was not a one hit wonder. Tiffany's mall tour was ridiculous. She did so many malls in one summer, I don't know how she did it. And they were always packed. She was sixteen, I think, in this video. She had two albums as a teenager. This song is a cover by Tommy James and the Shondells. What Could've Been was a beautiful, sad ballad that, like this song, hit #1 on the Billboards Hot 100 and her third single and one of my absolute favorites was her third single I Saw Him Standing There which was a cover of the Beatles I Saw Him Standing There which hit #7 on the charts. Her first album Tiffany hit #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart as well. Her second album, while not as successful as the first, still had a top ten single and achieved platinum status. She still sings and put out her latest album in 2022, but she has never had the success again that she had as a teenager. So one could say she was a four hit wonder.
The fictional character of Robin Sparkles, the pop star that Robin was as a teenager on the tv show How I Met Your Mother, is based on Tiffany, right down to the type of music of the first two albums and the mall tours. Tiffany even appears in one of the flashback episodes in one of Robin Sparkles' videos.
Omg, the first time a saw this video all I could think about was Robin Sparkles. I am so glad I got a confirmation on that.
Back in 1988, Tiffany saw a young boy band at a music fair who were trying to get their name further out there. She suggested they be her opening act for her tour. The boy band was New Kids On The Block. Her, Debbie Gibson, New Kids, other boy bands, pop, and hip-hop musicians from the same time period are all friends and tour together with NKOTB. NK and friends have put out 2 hilarious videos poking fun at themselves and such, called Boys In The Band and Bring Back The Time.
I'm totally with you here. I was 12 when it was released by Tiffany in 1987 and just thought it was some cheesy pop song much like most others of the day. I now have a daughter about to turn 15 and I a gree, It hits so differently now! 🤣🤣
She was big in the 80’s!
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"I Wonder How Old She Was When She Made This?"
Tiffany was about 15 or 16 at the time she'd recorded this video. Thus, the reason why she's performing her shows in shopping malls
Oh man, I had the cassette tape and drove my parents nuts playing this on repeat 😂 I still turn it all the way up when it comes up on the playlist. 🎤 🎶 🔥
Robin Sparkles origin story!
I don't understand why people always recommend this song by Tiffany. It's a cover song. It's not even her original hit. Her best original song was Could've Been, which went to #1 and yet, it seems no one remembers it.
I remember the 1967 original by Tommy James and the Shondells, as well as this one. Tiffany was a teenager at this time around 15-16 years old.
I remember the song and her voice. Guess i never saw her. Didn't know she was a redhead. I was and am too. 60 still no gray😊
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Tiffany actually did have a couple of other hits, but this one is what she's best-known for.
The 2 that come to mind for me are "Could've Been" and "All This Time"
We can only do so much to protect or shelter our child(ren), so I strongly suggest we give them the tools and educate them the best we can. Just simply telling them that you forbid them from doing something isn't and has never been enough.
Btw, fyi, this song was originally written by Ritchie Cordell and Bo Gentry in 1966 and then released in 1967 by Tommy James and the Shondells. Tiffany covered it 20 years later, in 1987.
I like Tiffany. Performing in shopping malls really boosted her popularity and sales of her album. You should check out her song All This Time. A really good song with a more mature sound.
Robert, you make me LOL when you say 'not MY daughter'. Just wait until that sweet little girl hits puberty ... you will wonder how the monster took over that sweet little girl!!! 😅😂🤣
She was 15 at the time and teens were her target demographic. Bubblegum pop. She was promoted on a mall tour, I actually knee nothing about her and stumbled onto a performance at my local mall that I was a mall rat to. Her and Debbie Gibson were Christina and Brittany before anyone ever heard of them
Tiffany, Debbie Gibson, New kids on the block were the biggest pop artist of the late 80s. This song went to #1 in 1987
Took a bunch of kids to see Debbie Gibson. Leave it to Cleveland to have some moron send her a death threat first. Debbie being the strong gal that she is - went on stage anyways and gave one hell of a performance. Tired those little ones out on the way home. It was fun 😊
Also took my daughter to see Aaron Carter when she was in kindergarten. Of all places she ran into a fellow student from her class. We were up front and I turned around and I swear there were easily 50,000 little girls screaming
Haven't heard this in a long while Lol. Good reaction ✅️
Oh I was like 10 and so wanted to be like her 😂😂😂😂 she had to divorce her parents after this album because her parents were stealing her money. During that time off grunge hit the charts so she didn’t do much after. But she did have a few more hits. But Debbie Gibson took over.
Tiffany had several hit songs like Radio Romance, Hold and Old Friends Hand, including her best Could've Been, all this time, and it's the lover not the love, Love to see your reaction to these.
I Think We're Alone Now was originally recorded by Tommy James and the Shondells in 1967
One of my first concerts, Roger and Zapp opened for her in Astrodome!
Carmecameleon is Boy George.
Bubble gum pop. I use to love it. It’s a remake
This was a song originally down by a male group in the 1960s. Her cover in the 80s is what made the song hit though. I had this 45 and cassette. Yes, Tiffany got famous and built her career from performing at malls around the country. It was a smart business plan because at that time, teens lived at the malls. It's the theme song for hooking up in the woods. She has a few albums and a bunch of singles.
Tommy James and the Shondells. It was released not even 21 years previous. But, to my 13-year-old self, 21 seemed like a lot more years than it does now. Imagine a remake of a so g from 2003? Maybe "Seven Nation Army?"
Thanks for the video 🙏
She still performs this song occasionally. When she starts doing that dance with her feet, the audience goes bananas and she starts laughing.
Of course she's performing at malls. Where do you think most of her fans hung out back then?
This was filmed at Ogden City Mall, Utah. The mall had only been open a couple of years, so it was free publicity for the mall.
I had a CD from her in the 80, it was some kind of feel good music, another one, for me, was Debbie Gibson, well, maybe more for little girls, but i had a twin sister, so i listened to her music too. Tiffany had the bether voice and music, thats clear
This was the first tape I owned as a kid. I used to roller skate around the basement to it. Lol.
❤❤❤ Tiffany was 15 when this song was released. The song was released by Tommy James and The Shondells in 1967.