I was lucky enough to meet him whan I was a teen in the 70's and he was booked as an act at Romeo and Juliets nightclub in Liverpool when they had a series of 60's nights,I told him I had loved him when I was a kid and I particularly loved You were made for me,I asked him would he be singing it and he said he didn't think so,I was a bit sad by that but then half way through his show he announced he had a special song for a special girl...then raced towards me,went down on one knee and held my hand and sang it while gazing at me...I was red with embarassment as the whole club were clapping,he came and sat with my best mate Carol and I at our table when his act was over and we spent a lovely evening chatting and laughing,we were sad when it was time for him to go!Such a lovely man...thanks for the precious memory Freddie...RIP xxxx
I was so sad when they cancelled at short notice at New Ollerton Miners' Welfare in the sixties, a venue which hosted many top acts at the time. I do still have a signed promo photo which they gave out for us.
@@heatherwilkinson5136 Wow Heather, I saw Freddie with Dana in Panto 'in Wolverhampton 1972. Momentous group then and a Fab time to grow up and luvly memories of my parents too. At our civic hall in the 70s we had The searches and The Fortunes plus Ken Dodd.... if only we could turn time back to this era. Kind regards Glynn n greetings from Stourbridge West Midlands🕊🕊🕊
BITSY BROWN - what a wonderful moment in your life when you met Freddy back then - tell me more please - thank you - Joe Nania also known as Hollywood Joe
Thanks for posting! Just fantastic... perfect performance and entertainment for all ages! I wish I had been born in the 1940's... almost 80 years laterand we still love to see and sing with them! Not like modern music at all.
You’ve clearly not heard good hip-hop or rap or don’t understand the cultural and artistic value of it. The funny thing is, folks in this era were saying the same thing about this music.
As a child (probably about 10 years old), I was looking forward to seeing Freddie and the Dreamers at The Miners' Welfare in New Ollerton in Nottinghamshire, where they hosted many top performers including Shirley Bassey, Adam Faith, Charlie Rich and many others. I was so sad when it was cancelled at the last moment but I have a signed photo tucked away in my bureau. I do so wish that I had seen them.
I knew Bernie Dwyer after the band days. He told me some storys about his music days that i never really listened to. Now i realise they were probably all true. He was a lovely man.
I LOL'd when Peter Noone leaped onstage to Do The Freddie. Freddie looks like he's trying to outdo everyone else as though its a competition. What a great, enthusiastic guy Freddie was. We need his energy in todays bands. RIP Freddie.
This is sensational and life back in the 1960s was great and Freddie and his Dreamers were a really fun english rock group with nice songs that were very catchy!!!!!
On this day in 1965 {January 27th} Freddie and the Dreamers performed "You Were Made for Me" on the ABC-TV weekly program 'Shindig!'... A little under three months later on April 25th the song entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #66; five weeks later on May 30th it would peak at #21 {for 1 week} and it stayed on the chart for 7 weeks... In December of 1963, in the United Kingdom it reached #3 {for 4 weeks}; the last three weeks it was at #3, the #1 record was "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and #2 was "She Loves You" for those three weeks... R.I.P. Freddie Garrity {1936 - 2006} and Jimmy O'Neill {Shindig's host; 1940 - 2013}...
We are in an age of cynicism and anger, the early 60's was a time of growth and simple fun. These guys were never serious, this was their act, their shtict! Not the most popular group ever but they were well liked by most people. A fun group like the Monkee's. You have to have lived through this time to get their music. Let's put this into perspective before you criticize it. This song was popular almost 50 years ago, that's half a century ago.
I look at videos from the time and I know people were dirt-poor as my mother grew up in a house with no television but there seemed to be a sense of pride and optimism, unlike today where western man has it drilled into his head from cradle to grave to feel guilty and ashamed.
Indeed. As the sixties grew angrier, much like our own time, this would be considered tragically unhip. I remember seeing these guys when I was a boy on television, and considered it silly fun of the Disco Duck variety, which it was and didn't pretend to be otherwise. Moral of the story- its okay to laugh, be silly, and enjoy life sometimes.
@@TELFORD96 No, don't take us away, take away the killjoys who demand we do whatever they say because everyone's doomed if we don't get all serious and miserable about (Insert one or more from: global warming / transphobia / the far-right threat / working-class white men / England supporters / anti-vaxxers / carbon footprint / reparations for hurt caused by the Tufty Club to the BAME community / the gender pay gap / Rangers / Jeremy Clarkson / the online threat from people such as Carl Benjamin or the guy with a name that looks like Tony Robinson but isn't...)
If you take away the silly dances which were only done for live performances and tv and listen to thier recordings, you'll find that they were actually a fine bunch of musicians. And were more successful chartwise in England than they were anywhere else. 1963/64 they were big hitmakers
Story time: my mum was working in the cinemas years and years ago. My mum and her friend was dancing like this behind the counter when Freddie himself happened to walk in. They both blushed as Freddie was just stood there chuckling to himself
This reminds me of my mum, we saw Freddie live and it was in a promenade, as he started she said to me you watch he does he's funny dance, as he done it she danced along, alas now she has Dementia, but I put this on the other day and she still remembers the dance and sings away, it breaks my heart that she has this , but it makes me smile that evening in Maldon when she danced and sung with Freddie
Freddy and the Dreamers - - Trini Lopez - - Herman's Hermits - - and The Sir Douglas Quintet - - the Hullabaloo dancers - - all onstage doing the FREDDY - - YES INDEED !
Thanks for posting this. I remember as a young teen seeing Freddie and cracking up at the way he and the band danced while seeing. It was also hilarious to see the other acts come out at the end and do the Freddie with him.
Wow! This is very different than what he would became later known as Freddie Mercury of Queen. The song Dreamers Ball was Freddie Mercury's Tribute to his former band Freddie And The Dreamers when he was formerly known as Freddie Garrity then. He changed his name to Freddie Mercury, which was named after the UK Label Mercury Records, not the Greco/Roman god. Freddie Garrity of Freddie And The Dreamers changed his name to Freddie Mercury in 1970 when formed Queen in the same way David Robert Jones changed his name to David Bowie in September 1965. It was named after a Scottish family, not Jim Bowie of Texas(Battle of Alamo).
Queen referenced the "Ready Freddie" routine in "Crazy Little Thing Called Love". The fact that their lead singer was also Freddie didn't hurt either :-)
According to the IMDb website Trini Lopez was Hullaballoo's host three times in 1965, & Freddie & the Dreamers appeared in two separate episodes that year. The two songs were popular at the same time -- "You Were Made for Me" debuted on Billboard's Hot 100 the week of May 1. "Do the Freddie" entered the chart the week of April 24. So this clip probably aired in May 1965.
How ever they are very cool moves and jumps I like his movements they are cool dancing and jumping and jumping and wiggling that’s a cool dance I bet nobody else couldn’t do it
You had to be there. But compared to the kind of music that preceded it, this was revolutionary. I know, I know, it's hard to believe, but that's what made the 60s the 60s.
Liked Freddie and the Dreamers. The Holly influence is evident. He should have done a Holly song. I'm a die-hard Buddy Holly fan, but I would have liked to have heard it.
It depended on the venue they were playing. Sometimes they had to mime. This, however is live. Ready, Steady, Go had ever act mime their hits. American Bandstand did the same. Solo singers on the Sullivan Show used backing tracks. Later, Ed Sullivan used backing tracks on all singers. They did the songs on Saturday and mimed their voices on Sunday. All acts, singers or not, rehearsed on Saturday. Ed was a perfectionist.
@@wesleycook7687are you sure on that? No mic above the drums, none of the guitars are plugged in, singer hasn’t got a mic, though that one could be explained by an overhead mic operated by the crew. There’s very little here to suggest it’s not lipsynced.
@@mooglancashire424 I'm sure. Overhead mikes. But what show this is I don't know so they could have been miming here. However they were live on the Sullivan Show and sounded the same. Freddie was a heavy smoker which could have been a chore in the leaping and singing live.
That is Doug Sahm from The Sir Douglas Quintet. See his video which was recorded just before this one on the same show. Its called "She Look Like A Mover". Its easy to find cause its in Black and White.
Their Studio Version of "If you got to make a fool of somebody" has such a great and wacky sound. Could have been recorded yesterday with all the freshness.Phil Collins said that Bands like Freddie or the Hollies will be forgotten. He missed the point: music should create fun and joy and business is something else.Maybe Rockmusic has killed that.
I can play this song on a guitar, but I would have hated to run backwards onto those stage plateforms without falling. That isn't as easy as they made it look.
About the 4:10 mark, Garrity breaks through the 'third wall'. Yeah, there's a show going on, but Freddy is a better, or at least more athletic, dancer than the pro dancers who came in behind him. The great Peter Noone gives it a shot and lets Freddy have center stage.
This was my very first Record when I was 15 loved it then love it now.
I was lucky enough to meet him whan I was a teen in the 70's and he was booked as an act at Romeo and Juliets nightclub in Liverpool when they had a series of 60's nights,I told him I had loved him when I was a kid and I particularly loved You were made for me,I asked him would he be singing it and he said he didn't think so,I was a bit sad by that but then half way through his show he announced he had a special song for a special girl...then raced towards me,went down on one knee and held my hand and sang it while gazing at me...I was red with embarassment as the whole club were clapping,he came and sat with my best mate Carol and I at our table when his act was over and we spent a lovely evening chatting and laughing,we were sad when it was time for him to go!Such a lovely man...thanks for the precious memory Freddie...RIP xxxx
I was so sad when they cancelled at short notice at New Ollerton Miners' Welfare in the sixties, a venue which hosted many top acts at the time. I do still have a signed promo photo which they gave out for us.
@@heatherwilkinson5136 Wow Heather, I saw Freddie with Dana in Panto 'in Wolverhampton 1972. Momentous group then and a Fab time to grow up and luvly memories of my parents too. At our civic hall in the 70s we had The searches and The Fortunes plus Ken Dodd.... if only we could turn time back to this era. Kind regards Glynn n greetings from Stourbridge West Midlands🕊🕊🕊
That's a beautiful story, Bitsy - thanks for sharing xx
that's honestly so cute
BITSY BROWN - what a wonderful moment in your life when you met Freddy back then - tell me more please - thank you - Joe Nania also known as Hollywood Joe
Truly Unique. They don't get the credit they deserve. Great voice and humorous too.
Thanks for posting!
Just fantastic... perfect performance and entertainment for all ages!
I wish I had been born in the 1940's... almost 80 years laterand we still love to see and sing with them!
Not like modern music at all.
Few artists could match Freddie's energy.
RIP Freddie. Thanks for the memories.
Bring back this kind of music! We live in the miserable world of hip-hop and rap!
You’ve clearly not heard good hip-hop or rap or don’t understand the cultural and artistic value of it. The funny thing is, folks in this era were saying the same thing about this music.
And death metal.
Fantastic happy music that made everyone smile,, We need much more of this today. Thank you so much
When musicians had real talent. You can't help but smile when you hear "Do The Freddie". RIP Freddie Garrity...Thanks for the memories.
R.I.P Freddie Garrity
R.I.P Bernie Dwyer
R.I.P Derek Quinn
They had a style all of their own. Even watching them now after all these years Freddie had a kind of magic that will never die.
And tho unintentional he did kind of resemble both Buddy Holly AND Elvis Costello! ☺
WytZox1 and Brains from Thunderbirds.
He had a great voice! Good singer!
As a child (probably about 10 years old), I was looking forward to seeing Freddie and the Dreamers at The Miners' Welfare in New Ollerton in Nottinghamshire, where they hosted many top performers including Shirley Bassey, Adam Faith, Charlie Rich and many others. I was so sad when it was cancelled at the last moment but I have a signed photo tucked away in my bureau. I do so wish that I had seen them.
I knew Bernie Dwyer after the band days. He told me some storys about his music days that i never really listened to. Now i realise they were probably all true. He was a lovely man.
I LOL'd when Peter Noone leaped onstage to Do The Freddie. Freddie looks like he's trying to outdo everyone else as though its a competition. What a great, enthusiastic guy Freddie was. We need his energy in todays bands. RIP Freddie.
Harmless fun. Catchy tune. And Derek Quinn was a terrific guitarist.
Love this band.
Brilliant to see this again. Freddie was a legend in his own right.
Met Freddie on holiday great guy RIP... Childhood memories... ❤️
Freddie always reminded me of Buddy Holly.. Loved his stuff :-)
Freddie had a great voice...great group with some really good songs.
This is sensational and life back in the 1960s was great and Freddie and his Dreamers were a really fun english rock group with nice songs that were very catchy!!!!!
On this day in 1965 {January 27th} Freddie and the Dreamers performed "You Were Made for Me" on the ABC-TV weekly program 'Shindig!'...
A little under three months later on April 25th the song entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #66; five weeks later on May 30th it would peak at #21 {for 1 week} and it stayed on the chart for 7 weeks...
In December of 1963, in the United Kingdom it reached #3 {for 4 weeks}; the last three weeks it was at #3, the #1 record was "I Want to Hold Your Hand" and #2 was "She Loves You" for those three weeks...
R.I.P. Freddie Garrity {1936 - 2006} and Jimmy O'Neill {Shindig's host; 1940 - 2013}...
That's how I'll dance in front of my boss when I quit my job
Edward, an outstanding statement.
😅😅😅😅😅😅 quality 👌👌
Hahaha
🤣🤣🤣
i’m laughing
I was told as a little girl every time Freddy and The Dreamers played I was up dancing and he still sounds great and makes me smile
A great era. RIP, Freddie. Thanks.
Thanks for bringing back the memories! Freddie , even though you are gone your music and memories live on. We used to watch this program all the time.
Saw Freddie at their last show in the U.S. in 2000 at Foxwoods Casino filming a British Invasion TV Special.
Great fun guy from a time long gone.Good old Freddie RIP :)
Loved this group. They made music fun! Thanks for posting!
their music makes you feel the way you feel when you see your first crush
We are in an age of cynicism and anger, the early 60's was a time of growth and simple fun. These guys were never serious, this was their act, their shtict! Not the most popular group ever but they were well liked by most people. A fun group like the Monkee's. You have to have lived through this time to get their music. Let's put this into perspective before you criticize it. This song was popular almost 50 years ago, that's half a century ago.
Still fun to watch
I look at videos from the time and I know people were dirt-poor as my mother grew up in a house with no television but there seemed to be a sense of pride and optimism, unlike today where western man has it drilled into his head from cradle to grave to feel guilty and ashamed.
Indeed. As the sixties grew angrier, much like our own time, this would be considered tragically unhip. I remember seeing these guys when I was a boy on television, and considered it silly fun of the Disco Duck variety, which it was and didn't pretend to be otherwise. Moral of the story- its okay to laugh, be silly, and enjoy life sometimes.
@@showbizsam4440 So true what you say. Take me back in a time machine away from all this crap of today.
@@TELFORD96 No, don't take us away, take away the killjoys who demand we do whatever they say because everyone's doomed if we don't get all serious and miserable about (Insert one or more from: global warming / transphobia / the far-right threat / working-class white men / England supporters / anti-vaxxers / carbon footprint / reparations for hurt caused by the Tufty Club to the BAME community / the gender pay gap / Rangers / Jeremy Clarkson / the online threat from people such as Carl Benjamin or the guy with a name that looks like Tony Robinson but isn't...)
If you take away the silly dances which were only done for live performances and tv and listen to thier recordings, you'll find that they were actually a fine bunch of musicians.
And were more successful chartwise in England than they were anywhere else.
1963/64 they were big hitmakers
I love them,everytime I see Freddie,I forget all my Heartaches. Thank you for this Music!
Thank you for this lovely song to remember you.RIP
Story time: my mum was working in the cinemas years and years ago. My mum and her friend was dancing like this behind the counter when Freddie himself happened to walk in. They both blushed as Freddie was just stood there chuckling to himself
This reminds me of my mum, we saw Freddie live and it was in a promenade, as he started she said to me you watch he does he's funny dance, as he done it she danced along, alas now she has Dementia, but I put this on the other day and she still remembers the dance and sings away, it breaks my heart that she has this , but it makes me smile that evening in Maldon when she danced and sung with Freddie
I remember Freddie and the Dreamers... Just!
oh I adore this group when I was 4 or 5 years old lol
one of rocks great showmen.garrity was animated and fun to watch matched with a really fine singing voice.one of the best
A fantastic forgotten group it looked like they kept in great shape
Saw him at Guildford live many years ago...brilliant #
I don’t know how I missed these guys…….. They are my generation but somehow they escaped me. He has a nice voice. 👍
It was a nice touch to see everyone dance at the end.
Freddie Garrity, all 5'3" of him. Died May 19, 2006 aged 69 in Bangor, North Wales.
Legend
What a fantastic voice
+lyndon lyndon-watkins - Goofy as hell, but the man had the pipes.
For a few months in 1965, "The Freddie" was the hottest dance craze in the world.
@Robert Vaughn R U Robert Vaughn from the man from uncle 🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔
@Robert Vaughn Cheers for your reply sir
@Robert Vaughn They weren't a bad band by any means, but they didnt keep with the times
Freddy and the Dreamers - - Trini Lopez - - Herman's Hermits - - and The Sir Douglas Quintet - - the Hullabaloo dancers - - all onstage doing the FREDDY - - YES INDEED !
How can anyone dislike this?
Look at that TV Presenter he's singing a previous song of theirs, quite beautifully,,,,their ACE Freddie And The Dreamers ACE Singer
Thanks for posting this. I remember as a young teen seeing Freddie and cracking up at the way he and the band danced while seeing. It was also hilarious to see the other acts come out at the end and do the Freddie with him.
THE SIXTIES YEARS, GREAT DECADE, THE BEST MUSIC POP FOREVER ¡¡
Wonderful happy-go-lucky music! Freddie and the Dreamers can cheer you up when feeling down. Try it!
The truth is he had a GREAT voice!
Freddie and the Dreamers were my fave group in the early 60s. Even had an autographed photo.
Memories. RIP Freddie.
I loved this group. He was always funny and the whole band danced while singing!🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏🐏
great music from the 1960s i keep telling my wife
loved to watch freddie in the 60`s , part of my childhood RIP Freddie VERY UNDERATED
his music was very light hearted never was meant to be serious thats why he was so popular
very high handed comment their fucking ACE
put down some great tracks and sold records by the bucket load they were unique and brilliant
Wow! This is very different than what he would became later known as Freddie Mercury of Queen. The song Dreamers Ball was Freddie Mercury's Tribute to his former band Freddie And The Dreamers when he was formerly known as Freddie Garrity then. He changed his name to Freddie Mercury, which was named after the UK Label Mercury Records, not the Greco/Roman god. Freddie Garrity of Freddie And The Dreamers changed his name to Freddie Mercury in 1970 when formed Queen in the same way David Robert Jones changed his name to David Bowie in September 1965. It was named after a Scottish family, not Jim Bowie of Texas(Battle of Alamo).
3:30 Guitarist misses his footing on the podium, laughs like a drain and carries on! So funny.
One of a freakin' kind. Freddie makes Herman's Hermits seem like Pink Floyd.
Saw the band at The Aquarius... Brilliant fun
I just loved this group and their songs it was a swell and clean and good time ! None of that kind of thing!
Queen referenced the "Ready Freddie" routine in "Crazy Little Thing Called Love". The fact that their lead singer was also Freddie didn't hurt either :-)
They did but I wonder if that was coincidence and they hadn't seen this clip.
The British Invasion music was considered subversive by many old folk. It’s childlike today.
Freddie and The Dreamers were one of the British invasions best plus freddie is quite the preformer. Do the Freddie and you'll see
According to the IMDb website Trini Lopez was Hullaballoo's host three times in 1965, & Freddie & the Dreamers appeared in two separate episodes that year. The two songs were popular at the same time -- "You Were Made for Me" debuted on Billboard's Hot 100 the week of May 1. "Do the Freddie" entered the chart the week of April 24. So this clip probably aired in May 1965.
Yes, this segment was part of the hour-long HULLABALOO broadcast of May 4, 1965. Jerry Lewis' movie "The Sad Sack" aired Wed., May 5, on NBC.
Just wonderful!
Yes
Yes, thanks for the memories dear
What a cool wedding song!
How ever they are very cool moves and jumps I like his movements they are cool dancing and jumping and jumping and wiggling that’s a cool dance I bet nobody else couldn’t do it
Totally brilliant! Everytime I see the band I just can't stop laughing!
I will always remember that maniacal laugh of Freddie's.
Class act! Freddie, was another Jerry Lee Louis! He loved to make folks laugh!lol
This is really good!!!
such a beautiful singer and and his group Freddie & The Dreamers great songs echoes of Buddy Holly
The freddy, dance
You had to be there. But compared to the kind of music that preceded it, this was revolutionary. I know, I know, it's hard to believe, but that's what made the 60s the 60s.
This was a modern day Vaudville entertainment, out dated now but still a "catchy" flapper.
Liked Freddie and the Dreamers. The Holly influence is evident. He should have done a Holly song. I'm a die-hard Buddy Holly fan, but I would have liked to have heard it.
man, they had a stage act at least as tight as the beatles! perfectly synchronized.
They had the same manager as the Beatles did: Brian Epstein. I wouldn't be surprised if Brian Epstein coached them on their stage act.
All of the British invasion bands could really play good live they didn’t have a little lip-synching they were all very very professional
It depended on the venue they were playing. Sometimes they had to mime. This, however is live. Ready, Steady, Go had ever act mime their hits. American Bandstand did the same. Solo singers on the Sullivan Show used backing tracks. Later, Ed Sullivan used backing tracks on all singers. They did the songs on Saturday and mimed their voices on Sunday. All acts, singers or not, rehearsed on Saturday. Ed was a perfectionist.
@@wesleycook7687are you sure on that? No mic above the drums, none of the guitars are plugged in, singer hasn’t got a mic, though that one could be explained by an overhead mic operated by the crew. There’s very little here to suggest it’s not lipsynced.
@@mooglancashire424 I'm sure. Overhead mikes. But what show this is I don't know so they could have been miming here. However they were live on the Sullivan Show and sounded the same. Freddie was a heavy smoker which could have been a chore in the leaping and singing live.
dude get real man i almost fell off the chair listening to this group today and i am 50 years old and never heard of them before
Just found out that Freddy had to lie about his age, born in 1936, he told the media it was 1940 to seem younger
That is Doug Sahm from The Sir Douglas Quintet. See his video which was recorded just before this one on the same show. Its called "She Look Like A Mover". Its easy to find cause its in Black and White.
Beautiful
I love buddy Holly and I didn't know he could dance so well
Their Studio Version of "If you got to make a fool of somebody" has such a great and wacky sound. Could have been recorded yesterday with all the freshness.Phil Collins said that Bands like Freddie or the Hollies will be forgotten. He missed the point: music should create fun and joy and business is something else.Maybe Rockmusic has killed that.
i love this video and the muisc.
I can play this song on a guitar, but I would have hated to run backwards onto those stage plateforms without falling. That isn't as easy as they made it look.
They Are So Original in Their Own Right !
@rod1148 Amen. Freddie was one of a kind - a true original.
Definitely the prototype for Peewee Herman. RIP Freddie!
Tremendous energy! great laughing.
the 60's looked like fun :-)
This is the version I´ve been looking for!
About the 4:10 mark, Garrity breaks through the 'third wall'. Yeah, there's a show going on, but Freddy is a better, or at least more athletic, dancer than the pro dancers who came in behind him. The great Peter Noone gives it a shot and lets Freddy have center stage.
Awesome! To those of us who were there at the time, no further explanation is necessary. To those who weren't, I'm sorry, but none will suffice.
Rip Freddie
Nobody beats THE FREDDIE.
hes got quite a nice voice