TOMMY ROE Dizzy Music Reaction - One of the grooviest songs out of the 60s!

[@turnerdan53]

Pure bubblegum music and I loved it.

[@judypritchard4670]

I see Tommy Roe and Dizzy and I hit Like. One of the songs of my youth

[@sarahzentexas]

Oh, same! The skating rink! 6th grade!

[@Pait728]

I was a 70's kid but when I got my first little record player my folks gave me their collection of 45's and this was one of them. I'm sure they were sorry for doing that as I played this over and over and over. hahaha

[@rhiahlMT]

Wow, check out that Sizzler dress. 😂 They came with matching bottoms for under the skirt. Those things were everywhere in the late 60s early 70s.

[@judypritchard4670]

We called them Hot Pants and we all wore them

[@rhiahlMT]

@@judypritchard4670 Nah, hot pants were shorts that were really short. Those dresses were called sizzlers. www.google.com/search?sxsrf=APwXEdefTmo1iUPEvLTOOITem4zyVXysaQ:1685573064045&q=sizzler+dresses+with+matching+panties&tbm=isch&source=univ&fir=OdS5zIVrTiRKVM%252CcVen-dYgKKYpKM%252C_%253BmYe498CyEgvyyM%252CUOsDZwz3RhkYYM%252C_%253BLg4JnEpJaoAGWM%252CPC8equfam5RfyM%252C_%253BDjMXvkgBu0XryM%252CLSUs1PetY9KUjM%252C_%253Bf9VhfCx3Ja0WcM%252CcVen-dYgKKYpKM%252C_%253BRPObmB-PCc7IKM%252CX86Um1bY-M5kQM%252C_%253BBRnCTA4_6PggkM%252CYAk-0v1LkQ4znM%252C_%253BkTkN9IUZn0eHkM%252CCsf5kYMmeWAIEM%252C_%253BsKr6hbVkel2EFM%252C3L1folRtlLBCwM%252C_%253BefOYKwoIzvskKM%252C3JgfLQFuFnnVoM%252C_&usg=AI4_-kTl8Z_Tq90qJ5HCu4Z0a53p8vWQIw&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwiLsub90KD_AhWKCTQIHaZZDgEQjJkEegQIDRAC&biw=1009&bih=474&dpr=1.88

[@apriljohnson1514]

My Mom had Tommy Roe's Great Hits record when I was growing up. I've always liked Jam Up and Jelly Tight. My brother or sister might have Mom's record. I'll have to check.

[@StevenW1958]

Dizzy was released November 13, 1968. The Wrecking Crew, from Los Angeles, with the great Hal Blaine on drums, were the session musicians.

[@user-ie6dz4ib3b]

I've always thought Hal was the star of the show in this song.

[@themusicboxx8419]

Great groove! One of my favorites as a kid I still turn into a human bobble head when I hear it. Thanks for the flashback!✌

[@jam6242]

Aww, I had this 45 when I was a kid.

[@doplinger1]

Pure bubblegum music! Used to be a standard song played at the skating rink.

[@dianesinnett4391]

I was a teenager when this song came out. Not a Cover song that I know of Harri

[@hhollyd66]

OMG!!! My Aunt Martha had this on 45. I was 3 in 69. Me and my older sisters would dance and dance to this!

[@diannthomas5653]

I was a junior in High School when this came out. Ah sweet memories.

[@wallacecallow2255]

This is so 60s! Like watching American Bandstand. So groovy! Go go dancers really added to the music.

[@marybaillie8907]

From the 1969 album, Dizzy, this was Tommy Roe's biggest hit selling 6 million copies. A rare pop song with strings, other than The Beatles with Yesterday, in the 60's, the exceptional instrumental backing was provided by The Wrecking Crew. Such a groovy tune. Made Number 1 in the US, UK and Canada. The mini skirt came from England, made popular by Mary Quant I believe Harri. Great reaction Harri. Thanks Harri. 👏👏 Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦

[@OddBall1958]

If my memory isn't failing me, HA! HA! HA!, The Monkeys out sold The Beatles and The Rolling Stones in '67. I can't remember which song it was. If it comes to me I'll post it.

[@sourisvoleur4854]

@@OddBall1958 1967 was the year of the Monkee, at least on the album chart. The Monkees had 4 albums hit #1 in 1967, and topped the Billboard Top 200 album chart for a total of 29 weeks. They also were on top the last 8 weeks of 1966.

[@agnetesorensenelbom5085]

❤❤🎉🥰🤗😀

[@alanmusicman3385]

I can't speak for the US scene but in UK terms strings on hit pop records was a very well established thing by 1969 when this was a hit. Take a listen to "No Milk Today" by Herman's Hermits (1966) or "Out of Time" by Chris Farlowe (1966) or "King Midas in Reverse" by the Hollies (1967) or "Time Seller" by Spencer Davis Group (1967) or "Everlasting Love" (1968) by the Love Affair for just a few examples.

[@chrispavlich9656]

@@OddBall1958. Probably I’m a Believer. Written by Neil Diamond.

[@michaeljensen6732]

This was in my parents 45 collection when I was a kid, I haven't heard it in many years. Groovy!

[@steveyaworsky6170]

Oh my God, talk about a flashback to the 6th grade. 😁 While not exactly hard hitting or overly creative, Tommy Roe definitely had his niche back in the day with what we called "bubble gum rock".

[@Hobodeluxe960]

This was the first song I learned to play on drums, I was 9 yrs old and got a drum set for my birthday. 1969 was a great year.

[@coocoocachooglin]

A few years earlier, and a bit younger, my old man bought me a small kids drum set for Christmas. I had no idea what I was doing, and beat holes in the skins and then smashed the whole set after that. I was a punk before punk! If only I could have channeled all that energy I probably could have done a lot with it, but nobody knew what to do with me, looking back sadly, all it did was get me into trouble, and all I can do now is just listen and enjoy and wonder what might have been.

[@HadesMiscreant]

You Rock bro!!

[@chab1rd155]

Dizzy, Sugar Sugar, Chewy Chewy...love ALL the bubble gum songs. Simple and fun and happy!!!

[@MrWrp2408]

Dizzy was the #6 hit of 1969 on The Billboard Hot 100. Sugar,Sugar(The Archies) was #1.

[@j.andrewk.327]

Sugar, Sugar -- my first 45.

[@pamalaalford1081]

Actually, that dress was standard - especially for going out in the evening. Girls then knew how to sit, bend over, etc modestly ... even so, many of them had matching panties for "in case". Parents were not usually fond of them ... my parents made me walk around, sit, and bend over to show them how the dress would look. But they still didn't like it ... lots of arguments and tears over our mini dresses! By the way, the dance was exactly what we were doing then. Such great music. Such fun! Thanks for the memories. God bless you.

[@thomastimlin1724]

Nothing like a prance while showing your underpants, lol. We must be in the same age group, just kidding.

[@pamalaalford1081]

@@thomastimlin1724 Cute!! If you same age group... what fun we had! It was all so innocent (I'm sure there was bad somewhere), great music, great dances, great friends. People were mostly good and kind. Same for you?

[@jameswiglesworth5004]

The girl is Robin Mary Paris, known as the dancing troll, she appeared in many videos performing this trademark dance, often much more entertaining than some of the drab songs she was dancing to

[@thomastimlin1724]

Yes, nothing drab about her lol.

[@dagmar.6954]

This genre of music is called bubblegum pop & was popular in the 60's. "Dizzy" was one of Tommy Roe's biggest hits. He had other great songs such as "Sheila", "Sweet Pea", "Hooray For Hazel", "Everybody", "The Folk Singer", "Jam Up & Jelly Tight" etc.

[@judypritchard4670]

All my favorite’s. Probably cause I knew all the words….LOL

[@gigantor62]

"Heather Honey'" is my favourite.

[@ChuckHackney]

Love, Love, love the strings in this song. Plus the beat is infectious!

[@janabraam7963]

That's how we dressed & danced back then. I still have this 45. Great blast from the past! I can't do that anymore. LOL!

[@gpxo11]

Two other groovy songs Peppermint Rainbow-will You Be Staying After Sunday and-spanky & Our Gang-Lazy Day-Tommy Roe had a long career beginning in 1962 through the 70s. Another song by Tommy-Jack And Jill-sounds similar. FYI-Tommy also appeared on one episode of 60s comedy series of Green Acres!!

[@anneschreck5136]

We used to get sent home from school to change if our skirt didn't reach down to our fingertips.

[@cog4life]

Oh yeah!!! Love it!! Love those drums!!

[@Drumcam]

Hal Blaine really NAILS this one on drums!

[@nobbync]

I am loving your channel, HarriBest. Love your reaction to finding the original after loving a cover.....and yes that dress could not get any shorter and what I find amazing is it seems we have gone backwards in some things. Today we can show almost any type of violence but a beautiful woman (or man) they tend to hide from that. Sexy is great and each generation we all had ours...some generations more than others.... :)

[@HadesMiscreant]

Ahhh man!! I love this song,it is So Good! Came out the year I was born. Great choice my man!

[@wayne_twentyfive]

Tommy Roe had a handful of pretty catchy hits back in the 60s, and the one I have always loved is "Sheila" .. Check it out, Harri .. It's a beauty !

[@JasonHalversonjaydog]

got to see him live about 15 years ago and he was still incredible! he was so much fun to watch with how he joked nd talked to the audience, he was so nice

[@renep2220]

Hey, this is the same girl who dances to "Build me up Buttercup" by the Foundations. Looks like the same dress, gloves and hairdo. Wonder if there is any connection? Thank you Harri. 😊💓

[@mikeywid4954]

"The Dancing Troll" on YT. Lots of songs with her dancing.

[@jimmypadgett1106]

One of my favorites songs from the 60's. I was 16 when this was popular. We walked around school singing it between classes

[@niccoarcadia4179]

Being a teenager in the 60s was the greatest gift we ever got.

[@poutine57]

OH!! the memories, thanks Harri. the music was so much fun back then.

[@gioconda43]

You're right , very well known back then! Now I remember it!😊😊

[@larsholzke8475]

This one if the 60s best songs. Makes you feel like dancing around. Thank you for commenting it❤🎉

[@bryanforis1839]

They had tommy roe on the cowsells podcast last week and drummer for the The Beach Boys john cowsell and great music

[@raquelgear-dp2qf]

So much Fun! My older sister dressed like that, and my father had a Cow and two calfs !! ✌️

[@tommytbat]

Hey HarriBest.. Glad you enjoyed my original recording of Dizzy. I wrote Dizzy with my old pal from Atlanta Freddy Weller. Vic Reeves and The Wonder Stuff covered it in the early 90's and was a big hit for them as well. My version was #1 on the Billboard charts for four weeks in 1969, and sold over 10,000,000 records. My biggest hit.. Rock on my friend..

[@debbers]

Hey Tommy, So glad to know you are still around, my sister had all of your records and I am five and a half years younger than she is, but I fell in love with your music when I was seven years old and I'll be 67 in five more days, so that's a long time, thank you for bringing such great music to the world! Deb

[@herbertragan5849]

A really good bubblegum pop song.

[@theresamendoza9143]

Love and the song and the dance.

[@phantomcollector1976]

ONE OF THE GREATEST SONGS OF ALL TIME

[@debbers]

They did make micro-mini's, I made one in home-ec class and was never allowed to wear it! Ha!Ha!Ha! Oh the good old days!

[@beverlybrown2673]

Memories of junior high school, I was 12...

[@elmarkothegreat]

Check out Sweet Pea from Tommy Roe and also Sheila

[@donnadubyak6504]

My favorite song as a kid that was 10.

[@erickent3557]

Can't beat a cute girl grooving to bubblegum. I also like "Sheila" from Tommy Roe; very Buddy Holly-esque.

[@chefteach53]

One of the first 45's I bought with my own money.

[@HeavyMetalBluegrass]

Good choice as usual!

[@Almcingrid3663]

This was my favorite song when I was 5! Still know all the words!😂

[@ChuckHackney]

I am so ecstatic this song appears in your reactions. Auditory gem. Could have easily been done by TJ and Shondells.

[@shallwocharlie]

Great great song

[@Tune-O-matic]

This was a banger back then...Everybody went out and bought the 45 RPM

[@michaellombard894]

Love watching her dance. But are they looping some of her moves? It's still great!

[@alanmusicman3385]

Personally I always preferred "Heather Honey" to this one - but this was a UK number 1. The song was written by Tommy himself and Freddie Weller - who was a member of Paul Revere and the Raiders - a US band who had a ton of top ten hits in the US, but never did anything like as well in the UK. Comedian Vic Reeves and "The Wonder Stuff" did a cover version of this in 1991 which also got to UK #1 spot. Vic's version is almost a note for note remake but with comedic touches right through.

[@bobclarke1815]

The girl is known as the dancing troll, and this same video appears on quite a few songs.

[@cwby2854]

Hal Blaine on drums along with the rest of the Wreaking Crew....

[@annehayes-grillo6600]

The skirt would have been shocking in 1965, but by '69 every girl was trying to see how short they could make their skirts, Our High School band uniform was a blazer and a skirt for the girls. The ideal was to get the hem of the skirt to fall no more than an inch below the bottom of the jacket.

[@wallacecallow2255]

Even by '67 they were quite a bit shorter. The peace and free love movement.

[@hmichaelr1]

Yeah, that skirt made it look like her legs went all the way up to paradise.

[@erickent3557]

And they were just long enough to reach the floor!

[@gigantor62]

Vic Reeves is the one who did the cover.

[@paulrt3]

Bubblegum music...So fun

[@traceycater]

Love it!

[@debbiechang5781]

I remember this very well. Did Tommy Roe ever have another hit or was he a one-hit-wonder? Still, it’s a very catchy song. Harri does a good job connecting the dots. 🌺✌️

[@ivansavoie3190]

I think you would like How do you do by Mouth and McNeil, check it out please

[@TheQuietBrit]

Listen to Vic Reeves version of the song

[@dannymoore6886]

Bubblegum rock.

[@thomastimlin1724]

The key changes in this are ridiculous, you had to be a damn good musician if you had a band, to learn this song.

[@j.andrewk.327]

Where's Tommy Roe?

[@jeffreybooth5129]

Sorry but i always hated this song,not helped by someone at work trying to sing it endlessly.

[@RobertDavisAdman]

You have me until you use the Lord’s name in vain.

[@AlanHenryDeBoerSr]

The dancer is AI - not a real girl.