Thank you for this documentary, I knew him briefly and I knew his widow as well. Rest in peace, Freddy
@Nina51442 ай бұрын
I hadn’t realised how handsome Freddie was. Always loved his songs
@punkyspray26 күн бұрын
Agreed ❤
@Woodman-Spare-that-tree Жыл бұрын
I remember watching them on TV. They were great. I still like their music.
@juansarroca8 ай бұрын
So sorry to find out about Freddy & The Dreamers' great talent and his music it makes me so happy in my teenage time love his music forever . R.I.P.
@doddanderoth7203 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for posting this! I loved those guys!
@whathappenedtothem_ Жыл бұрын
No problem!
@chrisfleming8908 Жыл бұрын
What a shame they were a fun band especially Freddie RIP 🙏 to Freddie and other members that have gone 😢🎉long live the 60ts
@steveramsey84156 ай бұрын
Freddie and my dad used to work together for a while before Freddie became famous. He was a lovely man according to my mum and dad and they would have went to his concerts in Manchester.
@duncan90587 ай бұрын
The group’s act may have been goofy, but Freddie’s voice was stellar.
@MILD-BILL7 ай бұрын
AWESOME.......I LIKED THIS BAND
@whathappenedtothem_7 ай бұрын
Me too!
@LeslieBacon-r1i Жыл бұрын
They made it look very easy, it wasn't, but this group COULD play their instruments and Freddy had a great voice!
@Digmen1 Жыл бұрын
I used to watch them on tv I liked their antics
@TooLooze Жыл бұрын
I recall people doing the Freddie when their song was played. I was 13 or so (USA).
@daweshorizon8 ай бұрын
There are so many harsh comments about this vid. Freddie did what he did and probably had a lot of fun doing it! I'm no great fan of Freddie and the Dreamers from a musical point of view, but he had a great sense of fun! When one of their songs comes on the radio, I have great images in my mind of Freddie leaping about like a lunatic. To use an old word, 'fab'! Freddie and the Dreamers were part of the Sixties musical landscape. Some bands of that era went on to ultra-stardom and some didn't. But Freddie was still gigging to the very end. That's dedication and that's the mark of a true musician. Love and peace.
@urgonnaluvit5 ай бұрын
they were shite😂
@joekavanagh71713 ай бұрын
@@urgonnaluvitso where does that leave the likes of Take That, Boyzone, Westlife and One Direction?
@billmorris835811 ай бұрын
I knew Bernie Dwyer in the mid to late 70s and early 80s when we were both regulars at The Friendship in Fallowfield in Manchester. He was always a loyal friend to those who knew him. A real genuine guy. And l know that from those who knew him, he’s sadly missed.
@traceybinks6302Ай бұрын
He was a lovely kind man, he was my step uncle x
@TREV61711 ай бұрын
My parents took us to see Freddy and the dreamers in Blackpool in the mid 60s ,Peter gordeno and his dancers were on the same bill,they sang I’m telling you now as he ran across the stage oh happy days,better times altogether.
@markjulianoriginalhooli2217 Жыл бұрын
When music was fun and enjoyable
@frazdunc3 ай бұрын
Awwww
@johngarnet282610 ай бұрын
Update:- Roy Crewdson (Dreamers original guitarist) is still fit and very much alive (December 2023) and is the owner of a cabaret bar run by his family in Los Cristianos - called Dreamers - which is very well known for being the place to go for a good night out. Andy, the resident compere, is most entertaining. Roy also has a Karaoke bar round the corner from Dreamers called Churchills, and for the past 13 years my family and I have been entertained at either venue. Michelle Minty, the resident vocalist and compere at Churchills, has become a family friend over the years. Roy is one of the nicest chaps you could wish to meet, and still has a very good singing voice, with which he occasionally entertains Churchills clientele - and very professionally I might add.
@elmolewis9123 Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the memories.
@vetvetdoug7 ай бұрын
Early in 1962-3 Freddy and The Dreamers shared billings with the Beatles, opening for them or the Beatles opening for them.
@BillboBaggins-j5w5 ай бұрын
Can't understand the haters. This band's music still makes me happy, I often sing their songs. The can't be anything wrong with making people smile surely? Like so many other bands then and still now, a few people have made fortunes of their talent. And yes you need talent to convince people to listen. People have had great sing and failed because they have no talent - some become session people or songwriters. You can have a bad song but as long as you have talent people will listen - this era is filled with them. FTD had enough talent and that's why we are still interest 50-60 years later. Can't say the same about others.
@plasticweapon5 ай бұрын
i love listening to them, i hate watching them. it's a shame about them because they had talent, but they ruined it with that "act".
@orlandosoto60803 ай бұрын
Nothing wrong with their music it was their stupid antics during their performances, totally unnecessary 🤷
@joekavanagh71713 ай бұрын
@@orlandosoto6080a lot of acts used gimmicks to draw attention. The Beatles with their mop top haircuts, Bowie with his different personas, and all those acts like Wizzard who wore makeup and hair extensions. It's part of the industry.
@geowynleda46415 ай бұрын
I remember seeing them in pantomime in the 60's with Anita Harris, Babes In The Wood.
@tomwinter2906 Жыл бұрын
😃 great little docu THANKSAMIO :-)
@whathappenedtothem_ Жыл бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it
@rickgajewski5297 Жыл бұрын
Freddy lived near me in a village called Gatley he was a lovely fellow his wife was nice to.
@mariospacagna213211 ай бұрын
I knew Freddie for a while when he was appearing in a show called Little Big time for a local TV station
@sebastianbattaglia63306 ай бұрын
the funny thing is Freddie has a brillant voice and the guys were TOP musicians... they could jump up and down and kept the tempo!
@paultaylor7082 Жыл бұрын
Freddie and his band were from Manchester, at one point he was delivering milk when one of their songs entered the Top Ten selling singles, so he had a change of career. They got to No 2 in 1963 with 'I'm Telling You Now, which went to No 1 in the US two years later, he died around 2010. It was said of Freddie he was the only person that could sing, dance and drop his trousers simultaneously. The songwriters Mitch Murray and Peter Callender wrote a few of Freddie & the Dreamers' hits.
@lin9821 Жыл бұрын
Oh the simple life ❤️😢❤️. I was a 60’s baby so just before my time but I knew their songs ❤️❤️
@paulbrandrick8074 ай бұрын
Freddie appeared in a kids TV show as part of a musical series called Oliver in the underworld seem to remember there were a few cachy songs such as the undercog and the Hungary drain😊😊
@moonbear1st5 ай бұрын
loved freddy and the dreamers their wacky antics made them stand out and the songs always catchy..
@GenialHarryGrout Жыл бұрын
I saw Freddie & The Dreamers live in about 1969 in Blackpool
@garydunn303711 ай бұрын
We saw them in 1977 as a support act for Jim Davidson at Great Yarmouth. He looked, back then, pretty much as he did back in the 60's with his trademark black glasses. He kept coming in to the audience and getting people to sing along with him. The last time I saw him on tv Freddie had lost his trademark black hair.
@jasperdemann Жыл бұрын
Pretty sure they had their own show on British TV in the mid-60s. I remember watching it as a kid on the smallest screen ever!
@davidhamm7909 Жыл бұрын
It was called Little Big Time and was on Children’s TV. It featured a serial called Oliver in The Overworld. Sadly, I don’t think there are any surviving episodes.
@pacogomez1707 Жыл бұрын
@@davidhamm7909 The lyrics to the intro to the show were "I want to go to the Overworld - do you want to go to the overworld with me - off to the land of machinery" Other lyrics were - "don't underestimate the under cog" and "Beware the hungry drains." BTW Thanks for providing the title of the show. I'd been scratching my brains trying to remember it.
@mattiasandersson23155 ай бұрын
Freddie looked like Patrick Dempsey in the 80's movie can't buy me love
@FiveLiver Жыл бұрын
You forgot 'Little Big Time', Freddie and Pete Birrell starred in a British TV kids' show from 1968 - 73. This is my main memory of him.
@JackJonner11 ай бұрын
I was playing ten pin bowls in Blackpool back in 1965 when the Dreamers came in for a game. Freddie wasn’t with them. The daft things your memory stores is crazy.
@royjudson4380 Жыл бұрын
Freddie Garrity was born on 14 November 1936 in Manchester, Lancashire, England, UK.He died at Bangor in North Wales, at the age of 69, after being taken ill while on holiday. Garrity was cremated at the Carmountside Crematorium in Abbey Hulton, Stoke-on-Trent, where his ashes are interred.
@steve8380311 ай бұрын
My late Father met Freddie and the Dreamers at their show when he worked at the Granada Cinema, Mansfield UK in the early 1960s
@SamBroadway Жыл бұрын
I still do the Freddy to encourage my exercising routine🎉
@markjulianoriginalhooli2217 Жыл бұрын
If only my knees would work like that again😄
@normanpearson875311 ай бұрын
Shake 'n Vac man myself .
@davidhamm7909 Жыл бұрын
I saw Freddie and the Dreamers in the late 90s as part of a 60s show also featuring Peter Noone among others. None of the Dreamers were originals (apart from Freddie) and looked as if they weren’t even born when Freddie was having his hits. The same band later re-appeared backing Peter Noone - they were Dreamers and Hermits in the same evening. Freddie was on top form in his half hour set. So sad he is no longer with us.
@kellwng11 ай бұрын
"What Happened to Freddie & The Dreamers?" They got married, got old maybe one or two is still alive. Time marches on people get old
@stephenhall3597 Жыл бұрын
The Dreamers are still touring as a band in 2024, featuring Alan Mosca who was a FaTD band member decades ago. Keeping the songs and sounds alive.
@joekavanagh71713 ай бұрын
That's great to hear. Freddie and the boys deserve to have their legacy kept alive
@philbrown147410 ай бұрын
Nicely done video.
@whathappenedtothem_10 ай бұрын
Thank you very much!
@williamgeorgefraser Жыл бұрын
A band called the Zephyrs appeared around the same time and were on TV at least once . I think it was on Ready, Steady, Go. They did a routine like the Freddie but instead of lifting one leg at a time, they jumped from side to side. It was so weird it has stayed with me ever since.
@GlennWW9 ай бұрын
A novelty act perhaps, but not untalented performers.... They were quite popular at the time and made the top ten charts a few times... I liked their tunes, though not my type of group..... Try playing guitar and/or sing while leaping around? Not easy. hahahaha
@LisaTwigger11 ай бұрын
Mom met them in the 60s said a lovely man
@brianjones5379 Жыл бұрын
I remember seeing them in a children's tv show in the black-and-white era. I'm afraid I can't remember its name but it had quite an entertaining, offbeat humour .
@Tiger61vision Жыл бұрын
Little big time
@stoobydootoo4098 Жыл бұрын
For more than 10 yrs (not during Covid) I have holidayed in Tenerife ( Canaries) up to 4 times per year. I regularly go to a bar in Los Cristianos to watch a Bowie Tribute act. It's called 'Dreamers' ; I didnt know until I was told last year that its name was given by the original owner, Roy Crewdson.
@johngarnet2826Ай бұрын
Fun fact:- That Bowie tribute act is a great fella and excellent guitarist called Adrian; he played in a Kendal band called Undercover. and they were so good they were top billing at the Soccer Bar in Barrow-in-Furness - where I imbibed weekly... I go to see his Bowie tribute nights in Dreamers Bar Los Cristianos, every year since 2009, where Roy Crewdson can also be seen occasionally.
@johnrigler88585 ай бұрын
I always wondered how they were able to do that energetic dân c e while still playing their guitar s!
@nigden1 Жыл бұрын
I grew up in 1960's England, and listened to some of the best music ever, this unfunny, talent less simpleton and his crew were an embarrassment.
@robjones240811 ай бұрын
The least influential group of all time. Freddie Garrity was closer to Arthur Askey than Mick Jagger. Gone and utterly forgotten, mercifully.
@joekavanagh71713 ай бұрын
So all the people who bought their records were idiots?
@nigden13 ай бұрын
@@joekavanagh7171 No, to each their own, but this group would never have been inducted in the Rock and Roll hall of fame.
@ianlee79511 ай бұрын
still doing Warners as the dreamers and did our retirement village at new year.
@philbrown147410 ай бұрын
Explain please.
@allisonlynch882411 ай бұрын
Freddie Garriety hosted a children's show in the 1970's which I watched growing up. Think it was on the BBC?😊
@mariospacagna213211 ай бұрын
Called Little Big Time for my Local ITV station
@timsmith428 Жыл бұрын
..thanks..
@whathappenedtothem_ Жыл бұрын
You're welcome
@josephmalone9386 Жыл бұрын
I saw Pete birral around about 1975 at the shell club Ellesmere port .they were supporting a band called light fantastic.😃👍
@michaelmcgee854311 ай бұрын
I remember seeing them in the Red Skelton show.
@patrickpilkington124111 ай бұрын
memories made We are ALLdreamers Great
@linkinmark9 Жыл бұрын
Saw him in a sumner show in Scarborough back in the early '70's.I think Little and Large and Rod Hull were in the same show.
@malcolmsleight9334 Жыл бұрын
My grandmother knew Freddie Garrety because she worked in a pub that he frequented.
@retromaven2159 Жыл бұрын
I remember his appearance on the Dear John episode. He didn't seem to have missed a step!!
@lucaschapman2188 Жыл бұрын
Dazzling Darren 😂
@Graham-p9p Жыл бұрын
Derek Quinn ran a pub in Newton, Hyde, Cheshire, called the King William IV, during the mid 70's to the mid 80's. Following a debacle about non-payment of VAT, he lost the pub and I heard that he then became a soft-drink salesman.
@stwads Жыл бұрын
The King Bill had a decent darts team at the time from memory!
@Graham-p9p Жыл бұрын
Yes, it did, I believe. Derek was very much into darts and 'his' darts team.@@stwads
@mistie71011 ай бұрын
What, no Junior Showtime?
@colincarroll795410 ай бұрын
Junior Showtime was a Yorkshire TV show for young talent sort of New Faces / Opportunity Knocks programme. Little Big Time was a BBC programme a children's quiz programme.
@lisaacker59206 ай бұрын
❤❤❤
@johnpolitis79296 ай бұрын
@lisaacker5920 Freddie Garrity before he became Freddie Mercury taking the name Mercury from the record company's name.
@fredhawkins2287 Жыл бұрын
I'm certain he lived just outside ringwood hants for a while in a caravan in a friend's garden
@margaretjiantonio939 Жыл бұрын
The Freddie was great exercise. Thats is when we weren't laughing.
@koont666 Жыл бұрын
They all went garretty 😂
@delagreenpicti2022 Жыл бұрын
Freddie looks like Steve Turner from Mudhoney .
@philipmccann2358 Жыл бұрын
What about Freddie’s joke hall of fame on UK kids TV ?
@plasticman74 Жыл бұрын
They woke up!
@stevepaul69558 ай бұрын
Freddie looked kind of dippy while the Dreamers looked like thugs.
@michaelmcgee854311 ай бұрын
Shocking!
@Wizard-uo4wj Жыл бұрын
they were really bad ffs
@joekavanagh71713 ай бұрын
If they were that bad they would have been forgotten by now.
@deanwheeler5969 Жыл бұрын
Kill me now😂😂😂😂
@accomplice559 ай бұрын
Is this narrator a real person? It sounds like a machine.
@plasticweapon5 ай бұрын
AI. catch up, you're lagging behind.
@accomplice555 ай бұрын
@@plasticweapon I did, shortly after I posted. hate it.
@koleberdinoch9263 ай бұрын
Did he model himself on Buddy Holly?
@bigearedmouse17 Жыл бұрын
They became The Toy Dolls ?
@ChuckoMountain-fv9yj Жыл бұрын
no, you did.
@petejones879 Жыл бұрын
My mom and dad's friends. Had a guest house in Dyfryn north Wales and Freddie stayed there a few times.. There's a useless fact for you lol
@itsamemario8014 Жыл бұрын
What happened to Freddie and the Dreamers? They got caught in a rainstorm and became Freddie and the Wet Dreamers and everyone said we're having none of that.
@nickb5391 Жыл бұрын
Freddie lived until he died at 'Dreamers End' at Clayton in Staffordshire
@CB-xr1eg Жыл бұрын
Lived until he died? How unusual!
@nickb5391 Жыл бұрын
@@CB-xr1eg OK, you know what i mean!, maybe i should have put "Freddie lived at 'Dreamers End' in Clayton, Staffordshire until he died"
@barbarahalkyard1901 Жыл бұрын
He actually died in Bangor North Wales on holiday .With his family.
@griswald7156 Жыл бұрын
Adam Faith died at Clayton.in the Travelodge..by the M6…
@CB-xr1eg Жыл бұрын
@@barbarahalkyard1901 Correct. He lived in Clayton but died in Bangor.
@davidfinley7766 Жыл бұрын
Met him once at some 60's nostalgia show and he was so arrogant and obnoxious which is a joke because I've met some real legends like Bryan Ferry and Ray Davies who couldn't have been more humble.
@joekavanagh71713 ай бұрын
Other people here have said he was a nice guy.
@jeffgraham6387 Жыл бұрын
His name lives on to describe someone going mad...going garrity...
@sicks6six11 ай бұрын
I grew up during this time and I would be about 5 when these clowns first appeared on TV, I hated them, they made me cringe, even at that age I knew that they were terrible, I was listening to Luxemborgue most nights with my older brother on his transistor radio, the times these came on we would say "battery saving time" Cliff Richard had the same effect on us,
@joekavanagh71713 ай бұрын
I'm sure Freddie and Cliff spent many a sleepless night over that.
@MrTrashcan1 Жыл бұрын
In the US it was a one-hit-wonder, and then gone. "I'm Telling You" played very minimally on oldies stations in the '80s and then largely forgotten.
@davidhamm7909 Жыл бұрын
That was a hit in the UK but his really well known hit here was You Were Made For Me, even though it didn’t get as high in the chart.
@ayrshiretom11 ай бұрын
They were that famous I,ve never heard of them
@joekavanagh71713 ай бұрын
Your loss
@raybrasted548011 ай бұрын
Joke band is about right.
@ianhollandsguitar111 ай бұрын
Played with them at Botwell Hall Hayes not my sorta band musically though
@tommythomason6187 Жыл бұрын
No wonder people forgot about 'em.
@joekavanagh71713 ай бұрын
No they haven't. If they had, how come videos are still being made about them and people are posting their memories?
@Chris1553 Жыл бұрын
They became Oasis !
@geoffmower8729 Жыл бұрын
Old age!
@robertdoherty2001 Жыл бұрын
Somehow I thought them and Gerry and the Pacemakers were the same band.
@griswald7156 Жыл бұрын
Now i know they were a different band…i saw GATP…and Freddie wasn’t on stage with them..
@joegongora2200 Жыл бұрын
Freddy does look a bit like Buddy Holly. If the Crickets were a British Band this what they’d look like. The influence of the Crickets was a part of this band and since Freddy and Buddy Holly wore glasses. The statement they were making that it was Okay to wear glasses especially for performers.
@joekavanagh71713 ай бұрын
They recorded a medley of Buddy Holly songs.
@patrickciacco10836 ай бұрын
This bands name should be Freddie and The Goofballs. What a bunch of Clowning Geeks. Freddie and the Dreamers where doomed from the beginning. Why?… Because there Goofballs in a pod.
@joekavanagh71713 ай бұрын
Doomed? They had some massive hits
@richpaydirt Жыл бұрын
I never even heard of these guys. What ever happened to Herman and the Munsters?
@griswald7156 Жыл бұрын
I think they became the Her mits…
@CB-xr1eg Жыл бұрын
There never was a Herman and The Munsters. Just Herman's Hermits.
@griswald7156 Жыл бұрын
@@CB-xr1eg i do remember the Munster Mosh..
@griswald7156 Жыл бұрын
Did you see Her man and Her mits at the Wisconsin state fair last year….? They were jolly good..
@CB-xr1eg Жыл бұрын
@@griswald7156 No you remember The Monster Mash. Why are you so determined to be a fool, or can't you help it?
@elizabethcanavan3755 Жыл бұрын
Sadly rigor mortis set in before Freddie could be buried.During which time he adopted his trademark ' Spastic Dance'meaning that the undertakers had to bury him in a rather bizarre shaped grave.On the upside his grave has become a tourist attraction.
@anthonysprinks1253 Жыл бұрын
My dad thought Freddie was a c -word
@beverson9311 Жыл бұрын
What an atrocious voice over
@stuartbayens4495 Жыл бұрын
Because of this, KZbin developed closed-captioning.
@piggyroo100 Жыл бұрын
I ate them.
@astrecks11 ай бұрын
Ahhh.... that's what happened to them, I hope you didn't get indigestion.🤔
@joekavanagh71713 ай бұрын
So you're a man-eater?
@richardcummins54659 ай бұрын
Probably the least talented of all the 60s groups. A bit of an embarrassment really. But when there are so many groups, someone has to be the bottom of the pile, i suppose.
@chesterlee650811 ай бұрын
In english please.
@mikebennett381211 ай бұрын
What apathetic load of tripe this so-called presentation is...Bloomin terrible too!
@philbrown147410 ай бұрын
Scroll on then.
@irenemccann703211 ай бұрын
They were crap poor singers that you would hear in a pub.
@NoodlesEaton11 ай бұрын
That must be I like them.
@jomon72311 ай бұрын
Says the expert
@plasticweapon5 ай бұрын
there was only one singer, fogey.
@joekavanagh71713 ай бұрын
How many pub singers do you know that have made Top 5 in the charts?