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.
@duncan9058Ай бұрын
The group’s act may have been goofy, but Freddie’s voice was stellar.
@Woodman-Spare-that-tree5 ай бұрын
I remember watching them on TV. They were great. I still like their music.
@chrisfleming89085 ай бұрын
What a shame they were a fun band especially Freddie RIP 🙏 to Freddie and other members that have gone 😢🎉long live the 60ts
@markjulianoriginalhooli22175 ай бұрын
When music was fun and enjoyable
@johngarnet28264 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.
@mikestylianou5 ай бұрын
Thank you for this documentary, I knew him briefly and I knew his widow as well. Rest in peace, Freddy
@vetvetdougАй бұрын
Early in 1962-3 Freddy and The Dreamers shared billings with the Beatles, opening for them or the Beatles opening for them.
@gwinniboots5 ай бұрын
This brought back some nice memories. Thank you.
@whathappenedtothem_5 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it
@daweshorizonАй 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.
@user-ri9cc3ge6j5 ай бұрын
They made it look very easy, it wasn't, but this group COULD play their instruments and Freddy had a great voice!
@Digmen15 ай бұрын
I used to watch them on tv I liked their antics
@TooLooze5 ай бұрын
I recall people doing the Freddie when their song was played. I was 13 or so (USA).
@TREV6175 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.
@steveramsey841514 күн 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.
@billmorris83585 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.
@paultaylor70825 ай 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.
@elmolewis91235 ай бұрын
Thanks for the memories.
@rickgajewski52975 ай бұрын
Freddy lived near me in a village called Gatley he was a lovely fellow his wife was nice to.
@doddanderoth72035 ай бұрын
Thanks for posting this! I loved those guys!
@whathappenedtothem_5 ай бұрын
No problem!
@tomwinter29066 ай бұрын
😃 great little docu THANKSAMIO :-)
@whathappenedtothem_5 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it
@mariospacagna21325 ай бұрын
I knew Freddie for a while when he was appearing in a show called Little Big time for a local TV station
@GenialHarryGrout5 ай бұрын
I saw Freddie & The Dreamers live in about 1969 in Blackpool
@royjudson43805 ай 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.
@FiveLiver5 ай 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.
@lin98215 ай бұрын
Oh the simple life ❤️😢❤️. I was a 60’s baby so just before my time but I knew their songs ❤️❤️
@jaxthename5 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.
@stephenhall35975 ай 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.
@garydunn30375 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.
@GlennWW2 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
@jasperdemann59365 ай 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!
@davidhamm79095 ай 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.
@pacogomez17075 ай 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.
@steve838035 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
@kellwng5 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
@sirbarringtonwomblembe40985 ай 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.
@user-qt7nq5xl1m5 ай бұрын
I still do the Freddy to encourage my exercising routine🎉
@markjulianoriginalhooli22175 ай бұрын
If only my knees would work like that again😄
@normanpearson87535 ай бұрын
Shake 'n Vac man myself .
@nigden15 ай 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.
@robjones24085 ай бұрын
The least influential group of all time. Freddie Garrity was closer to Arthur Askey than Mick Jagger. Gone and utterly forgotten, mercifully.
@sebastianbattaglia633018 күн 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!
@josephmalone93865 ай бұрын
I saw Pete birral around about 1975 at the shell club Ellesmere port .they were supporting a band called light fantastic.😃👍
@williamgeorgefraser5 ай 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.
@LisaTwigger5 ай бұрын
Mom met them in the 60s said a lovely man
@davidhamm79095 ай 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.
@allisonlynch88245 ай бұрын
Freddie Garriety hosted a children's show in the 1970's which I watched growing up. Think it was on the BBC?😊
@mariospacagna21325 ай бұрын
Called Little Big Time for my Local ITV station
@ianlee7955 ай бұрын
still doing Warners as the dreamers and did our retirement village at new year.
@philbrown14744 ай бұрын
Explain please.
@philbrown14744 ай бұрын
Nicely done video.
@whathappenedtothem_4 ай бұрын
Thank you very much!
@stevepaul69552 ай бұрын
Freddie looked kind of dippy while the Dreamers looked like thugs.
@brianjones53795 ай 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 .
@Tiger61vision5 ай бұрын
Little big time
@timsmith4286 ай бұрын
..thanks..
@whathappenedtothem_6 ай бұрын
You're welcome
@michaelmcgee85435 ай бұрын
I remember seeing them in the Red Skelton show.
@linkinmark95 ай 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.
@patrickpilkington12415 ай бұрын
memories made We are ALLdreamers Great
@lisaacker592012 күн бұрын
❤❤❤
@malcolmsleight93345 ай бұрын
My grandmother knew Freddie Garrety because she worked in a pub that he frequented.
@accomplice553 ай бұрын
Is this narrator a real person? It sounds like a machine.
@fredhawkins22875 ай бұрын
I'm certain he lived just outside ringwood hants for a while in a caravan in a friend's garden
@retromaven21595 ай бұрын
I remember his appearance on the Dear John episode. He didn't seem to have missed a step!!
@lucaschapman21885 ай бұрын
Dazzling Darren 😂
@koont6665 ай бұрын
They all went garretty 😂
@margaretjiantonio9395 ай бұрын
The Freddie was great exercise. Thats is when we weren't laughing.
@Wizard-uo4wj5 ай бұрын
they were really bad ffs
@delagreenpicti20225 ай бұрын
Freddie looks like Steve Turner from Mudhoney .
@michaelmcgee85435 ай бұрын
Shocking!
@user-yq8pr3qj9m5 ай 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.
@stwads5 ай бұрын
The King Bill had a decent darts team at the time from memory!
@user-yq8pr3qj9m5 ай бұрын
Yes, it did, I believe. Derek was very much into darts and 'his' darts team.@@stwads
@plasticman745 ай бұрын
They woke up!
@philipmccann23585 ай бұрын
What about Freddie’s joke hall of fame on UK kids TV ?
@mistie7105 ай бұрын
What, no Junior Showtime?
@colincarroll79543 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.
@itsamemario80145 ай 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.
@bigearedmouse175 ай бұрын
They became The Toy Dolls ?
@ChuckoMountain-fv9yj5 ай бұрын
no, you did.
@nickb53915 ай бұрын
Freddie lived until he died at 'Dreamers End' at Clayton in Staffordshire
@CB-xr1eg5 ай бұрын
Lived until he died? How unusual!
@nickb53915 ай 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"
@barbarahalkyard19015 ай бұрын
He actually died in Bangor North Wales on holiday .With his family.
@griswald71565 ай бұрын
Adam Faith died at Clayton.in the Travelodge..by the M6…
@CB-xr1eg5 ай бұрын
@@barbarahalkyard1901 Correct. He lived in Clayton but died in Bangor.
@geoffmower87295 ай бұрын
Old age!
@petejones8795 ай 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
@jeffgraham63875 ай бұрын
His name lives on to describe someone going mad...going garrity...
@patrickciacco108316 күн 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.
@deanwheeler59695 ай бұрын
Kill me now😂😂😂😂
@ianhollandsguitar15 ай бұрын
Played with them at Botwell Hall Hayes not my sorta band musically though
@davidfinley77665 ай 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.
@tommythomason61875 ай бұрын
No wonder people forgot about 'em.
@MrTrashcan15 ай 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.
@davidhamm79095 ай 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.
@sicks6six5 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,
@raybrasted54805 ай бұрын
Joke band is about right.
@robertdoherty20015 ай бұрын
Somehow I thought them and Gerry and the Pacemakers were the same band.
@griswald71565 ай бұрын
Now i know they were a different band…i saw GATP…and Freddie wasn’t on stage with them..
@ayrshiretom5 ай бұрын
They were that famous I,ve never heard of them
@richpaydirt5 ай бұрын
I never even heard of these guys. What ever happened to Herman and the Munsters?
@griswald71565 ай бұрын
I think they became the Her mits…
@CB-xr1eg5 ай бұрын
There never was a Herman and The Munsters. Just Herman's Hermits.
@griswald71565 ай бұрын
@@CB-xr1eg i do remember the Munster Mosh..
@griswald71565 ай бұрын
Did you see Her man and Her mits at the Wisconsin state fair last year….? They were jolly good..
@CB-xr1eg5 ай бұрын
@@griswald7156 No you remember The Monster Mash. Why are you so determined to be a fool, or can't you help it?
@Chris15535 ай бұрын
They became Oasis !
@anthonysprinks12535 ай бұрын
My dad thought Freddie was a c -word
@joegongora22005 ай 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.
@chesterlee65085 ай бұрын
In english please.
@piggyroo1005 ай бұрын
I ate them.
@astrecks5 ай бұрын
Ahhh.... that's what happened to them, I hope you didn't get indigestion.🤔
@elizabethcanavan37555 ай 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.
@mikebennett38125 ай бұрын
What apathetic load of tripe this so-called presentation is...Bloomin terrible too!
@philbrown14744 ай бұрын
Scroll on then.
@beverson93115 ай бұрын
What an atrocious voice over
@stuartbayens44955 ай бұрын
Because of this, KZbin developed closed-captioning.
@kenstubbs68785 ай бұрын
Total dross
@irenemccann70325 ай бұрын
They were crap poor singers that you would hear in a pub.
@NoodlesEaton5 ай бұрын
That must be I like them.
@jomon7235 ай бұрын
Says the expert
@hazelswain97685 ай бұрын
always thought he was one of Savilles mob...
@johnandval15 ай бұрын
Terribly commentry. So boring and not very professional.
@richardcummins54652 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.
@jameskinsey41825 ай бұрын
They was crap a gimmick act
@arthurennimore-empties67095 ай бұрын
They was, was they?
@kevinsayce22485 ай бұрын
And you were WHAT exactly?.. 🤔 Oh yeah, nothing
@v1e1r1g1e15 ай бұрын
You should be so lucky. Also, get some lessons in grammar.
@user-oi6ln4eq7b5 ай бұрын
A joke band of the most cringy kind.
@tonystoner93515 ай бұрын
In many ways I agree that they were a joke band but I watched the 1965 New Musical Express music awards and strangely they along with Herman's Hermits, another in my opinion joke band, gave probably most professional performances of the event.
@user-pb8vc8vp8w5 ай бұрын
Did you go through the '60's without a sense of humour ? It must have been a sad time for you. I suppose you didn't like Peter & Gordon either.....
@tonystoner93515 ай бұрын
Obviously you never read my comment through or didn't understand fully what I wrote. I was actually complimenting them on their performance.@@user-pb8vc8vp8w
@michaelhollingworth17665 ай бұрын
Absolutely rubbish 😂
@davidsouthwood98135 ай бұрын
The dreamers now are regular at Warners Holiday Hotels