The Best of Freddie and the Dreamers LP vinyl
This LP has been play tested in it's entirety on a Technics SLQ turntable with a new stylus.
Freddie and the Dreamers scored a number one hit in 1965, “I’m Telling You Now,” and like the panoply of British Invasion groups in 1964 and 1965, performed their big hit on the Ed Sullivan Show. Freddie and the Dreamers were also voted to the 1965 New Musical Express Performance sharing the stage with many now legendary British artists. They performed “I’m Telling You Now,” and also I think a better and outstanding pop song, “A Little You.”
Freddie's ridiculous dance as seen on both Ed Sullivan and American Bandstand, “The Freddie,” was parodied in a Flintstone's episode where Fred Flintstone accidentally dropped his bowling ball on his foot and upon grabbing his foot and bouncing on the other foot, inspired onlooking teenagers to mistake his pain to generate a new dance craze, the “Flintstone Frantic.” This earned Fred an appearance on “Shinrock,” during which he had another accident, the host mistaking it for yet another dance fad invented by Fred, this time the “Flintstone Flop.”
Freddie Garrity for all his unabashed silliness provided a competely innocent and childlike version of the highly popular British Invasion bands. Perhaps all five of their happy-go-lucky chart singles would not have both debuted and ended in 1965 had the American world not been shocked out of it’s innocence by the unthinkable tragedy in November 1963, and a resulting foreign ‘police action’ buildup that inspired more sophisticated songwriting. It was the best of times and the worst of times: Freddie and the Dreamers contributing only to the best of times.
