Yessss! Please do more of this type of music. I used to dance around to Runaround Sue as a toddler, mom said it set me off everytime she played it. You will find all these songs are too short 🙏🙃
It's WAAY cool how you wait for the next lyric, then the understanding, followed by the smile! That's what makes music memorable is it's effect on the listener...
😄 So, I'm from that era and want to present the subject (Sue) in a little different light. We (I and my friends) didn't assume that Sue was sleeping around. In fact that would have been considered kind of racy material for a song back then and probably wouldn't have gotten aired. Remember, until the 60's, Britain's BBC forbid Rock n Roll from being broadcast on it's mainland. It was simply to wild and crude for innocent ears. 😊 So radio pirates in ships would anchor far enough off shore to be in international waters and broadcast their stations and those (naughty) Brits would listen to it secretly. I highly recommend the movie "Pirate Radio" to get a feel for the story. Anyway, to me Sue was more like a real FLIRT who would go after a guy until she knew she could have him (maybe a lot of kissing) and then lost interest in him and moved on to the next one. I enjoy your videos, thanks. 🥰
OMG! The way you shake reminds me of my first experience with music at a barn raising in 1960 at age 4. Dion is one of many treasures from the 60's. Peace from Michigan!
Dion married his Sue in 1963, still married! At the age of 19, Dion was part of the January, 1959 Winter Dance Party. He was supposed to be on the plane that crashed killing Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper (the Day the Music Died), but he would not pay the $36, his part of the cost. That was the amount his parents were paying for their apartment, so he could not imagine squandering so much money.
Squeeeeeee!!! Omg! If you had ever been in my music or band class (before I retired) you totally would’ve been my favorite! It’s just so adorable how your whole face lights up hearing new music. ❤️🎵❤️🎶❤️
For the slow guitar intro, Dion brought in Mickey Baker of Mickey & Sylvia ("Love is Strange", 1956). Baker was a prolific session guitarist in New York, who played with the Drifters, Ray Charles, Louis Jordan, Coleman Hawkins, and many others. You've heard him many times without realizing it. He wrote The Complete Course in Jazz Guitar (two volumes), which is still in print 50 years later, and worthy of study by any aspiring guitarist. Baker moved to Toulouse, France, in the mid 1960s. He worked pretty constantly up until his death in 2012, age 87.
Great reaction bro. About the song. Back in those days (1961) you had to be more subtle about these things. Also, the average song in those days was under 3;00mins.
Man, this takes me all the way back to high school gym class. Sometimes rhe gym teacher would let us dance with socks on. We did the twist or just flailed around to the music. She always put this song on first to get us moving. So much fun!
2/25/21 New Orleans The oldies music was and always will be the best! You just want to get up and dance. It was all clean fun. We usetohave a place called Chevy's. They had a red 1957 Chevy inside the place and we jammed to the oldies. Glad you're enjoying it
Dion wrote this song with his Bronx NYC childhood friend Ernie Maresca, about Susan a girl he was dating at the time, met in1957 married in1963, they are still married 2022, just celebrated 59 years of marriage. And still actively performing, touring, and recording new music at 82, years age, and voice is still great.
Now The Wanderer!! Do it! I used to dance around my grandparent’s kitchen with my Nan to this song, it was one of her very favourites. She used to say “God was just showing off when he made this man’s voice.”
Hey Claire! Lol. He actually did the wanderer about 2-3 months ago! I only know because I requested it! 😂 I’m from Belmont Ave in The Bronx, Dion is a Legend! 😎❤️
In the 50s and early 60s rock music was on AM radio that had to sell commercials to operate. If you wanted your song to get air play you had to aim for 3 minutes. Once FM radio became more popular, that started to change.
Dion and the Belmonts made great music. Many many hits by Dion. Try Abraham, Martin and John. See if you can figure out who he’s talking about. Great song. Y the legend. Still going strong in his 80’s. Thx
A lot of songs should have been longer back then. But if they were they wouldn't have gotten radio play and we never would have heard them. Check out Abraham, Martin and John for a more mature, serious Dion.
Great! Back in those days, record companies kept songs at around 3 min to get radio airplay. It was assumed the audience wouldn’t listen to anything much longer than that. Later artists pushed that envelope and proved them wrong, but that’s the reason early pop/rock songs seem to end just as they are picking up steam.
In the slang of that time, they probably would say it was a song about a girl who is a flirt, or who is "fast" or "easy" or "loose." The words "slut" and "whore" were considered swear words, not fit for decent people to use, or even to hear. (I miss that, actually.)
This type of music is known as Do-Wop. It was created by black teenagers standing around in the mostly poor areas of NYC. Became hugely popular with both black and white teenagers in the 1950s.
great music from that era, I listened to them when I was a baby because it was music my parents loved. Music of every era is for enjoyment. No age restrictions 😊
Interesting times in the 50s. Runaround Sue was vilified for going out with other guys, while in another Dion song, it was perfectly okay for Dion basically do the same thing in “The Wanderer”.
Give Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers a look, Why do fools fall in love, I'm not a juvenile delinquent, Little itty bitty one. All brilliant 50's tracks. Frankie was 13 when they started out. He passed away of an overdose when he was 25. Thankfully we still have his songs as his legacy.
How you doing my friend? I noticed you were reacting to a Dion dimucci song run around Sue and I thought I'd give you a little tidbit of news here on Dion. About 30 to 40 years after Dion did this song run around Sue in his youth he had another big hit song I mean he had a lot of hits songs in his youth but that's an old man he had another hit song and the name of that song is Abraham Martin and John. It's a very good song about a group of heroes from the '60s. once you listen to it you'll understand what I mean by heroes from the '60s. hope you enjoy it it's one of my favorites I mean I love your songs from in his youth but that song has so much history in it and it's a really really good song.
Runaround Sue is a banger. Dion is still alive and still performing at 81 years old!
"Runaround Sue is a banger" - so is the song! ;)
Well he needs help but still going
Dion is still the voice of Original Rock N Roll attitude! Thanks for picking a Dion song.
My middle name is Sue. My husband would sing this to make me angry. We were married for 54 years before he passed.
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I LOVE this commenter. He looks bored a heck until the music really starts. Then he gets into it. Acting or not, he is COOL!
It’s hard not to dance to this song!!
And that's the hallmark of a truly good song.
"People let me put you wise.." Classic for sure. Great set of vocal pipes...
I know this isn't a "happy" song but it brings me so much joy. 😹 So glad you did this one!
Song is a bop.
I used to dance to this in high school 💃💃🎶
Awesome! Check out “Abraham, Martin And John”, and “I Wonder Why” Classics! ✌️
Ohhh Twon! Dion Dimucci Reppin The Bronx! 💯😂🙌
Music and songs with a message , songs with a story! Dam they don't make music like this no more!!!
Can’t sit still for this one! Adorable! 🙂
Totally cool music from the 50s. I was raised on it. Love it.
Yessss! Please do more of this type of music.
I used to dance around to Runaround Sue as a toddler, mom said it set me off everytime she played it.
You will find all these songs are too short 🙏🙃
It's WAAY cool how you wait for the next lyric, then the understanding, followed by the smile! That's what makes music memorable is it's effect on the listener...
i love seeing the joy an bobbing ppl do to this song once they first hear it. I love it 😊
You hear every word. The guy is telling you a story and telling it straight. Those places where everything comes to a full stop are special.
Love love love this song !
I love that smile!!! 😊. Love your reactions to these oldies!!!
Being a product of the early 60's, Im diggin. Thanx for vid, loved the dance, cant help it can ya, lol Peace
Hey. That's just how I felt when I first heard it once upon a time.
Luv luv luv this song....great dancing song
Fr across the waters
Canada 🇨🇦
🐥🐥🐥hugs etc
Reminds me of school dances and our high crushes. We kept track of who was going steady with who! Great memories! ❤
your face when she ran around with every other guy in town. I'm dying 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I liiiike that song!
Lol!!! You did the right moves!! The twist was the dance at the time! Brooklyn NY in the house! Our boy Dion and the Belmonts!
So much fun dancing to this! My parents danced to this when they just married!
Super cool that you are reacting to 50s/60s music!
Try Abraham, Martin and John. Dion one of the big stars of yesterday....
Yes!!!!
Be prepared to be moved if you listen to Abraham, Martin and John.
Everytime this song comes on when I'm out....I get up and dance! Love it
😄 So, I'm from that era and want to present the subject (Sue) in a little different light. We (I and my friends) didn't assume that Sue was sleeping around. In fact that would have been considered kind of racy material for a song back then and probably wouldn't have gotten aired. Remember, until the 60's, Britain's BBC forbid Rock n Roll from being broadcast on it's mainland. It was simply to wild and crude for innocent ears. 😊 So radio pirates in ships would anchor far enough off shore to be in international waters and broadcast their stations and those (naughty) Brits would listen to it secretly. I highly recommend the movie "Pirate Radio" to get a feel for the story. Anyway, to me Sue was more like a real FLIRT who would go after a guy until she knew she could have him (maybe a lot of kissing) and then lost interest in him and moved on to the next one. I enjoy your videos, thanks. 🥰
OMG! The way you shake reminds me of my first experience with music at a barn raising in 1960 at age 4. Dion is one of many treasures from the 60's. Peace from Michigan!
Dion married his Sue in 1963, still married! At the age of 19, Dion was part of the January, 1959 Winter Dance Party. He was supposed to be on the plane that crashed killing Buddy Holly, Richie Valens, and the Big Bopper (the Day the Music Died), but he would not pay the $36, his part of the cost. That was the amount his parents were paying for their apartment, so he could not imagine squandering so much money.
What fun! And he’s a nice guy, too. He’s still active and when he’s in town...his church loves his return....rock n roll, rocks!
He had some fun songs...but also had one of the most hauntingly beautiful songs called Abraham, Martin and John. A MUST.
I absolutely love that this young man is "an old soul"
love this song. so fun.
Didn't all of us oldsters have fun!
You look so nice when u start to smile and dance 😍
Squeeeeeee!!! Omg! If you had ever been in my music or band class (before I retired) you totally would’ve been my favorite! It’s just so adorable how your whole face lights up hearing new music. ❤️🎵❤️🎶❤️
Was so fun to dance to back in the day.
For the slow guitar intro, Dion brought in Mickey Baker of Mickey & Sylvia ("Love is Strange", 1956). Baker was a prolific session guitarist in New York, who played with the Drifters, Ray Charles, Louis Jordan, Coleman Hawkins, and many others. You've heard him many times without realizing it.
He wrote The Complete Course in Jazz Guitar (two volumes), which is still in print 50 years later, and worthy of study by any aspiring guitarist.
Baker moved to Toulouse, France, in the mid 1960s. He worked pretty constantly up until his death in 2012, age 87.
Very informative. Didn't know that stuff. Thanks.
Hey. Speaking of Louis Jordan, he should react to "The Friday Night Fish Fry". This is Rock and Roll before there was Rock and Roll.
Great reaction bro. About the song. Back in those days (1961) you had to be more subtle about these things. Also, the average song in those days was under 3;00mins.
Man, this takes me all the way back to high school gym class. Sometimes rhe gym teacher would let us dance with socks on. We did the twist or just flailed around to the music. She always put this song on first to get us moving. So much fun!
Great choice!!
After the last couple of months I thank you
Iwas 11 yrs old and still love it 1111
2/25/21 New Orleans
The oldies music was and always will be the best! You just want to get up and dance. It was all clean fun. We usetohave a place called Chevy's. They had a red 1957 Chevy inside the place and we jammed to the oldies. Glad you're enjoying it
Dion wrote this song with his Bronx NYC childhood friend Ernie Maresca, about Susan a girl he was dating at the time, met in1957 married in1963, they are still married 2022, just celebrated 59 years of marriage. And still actively performing, touring, and recording new music at 82, years age, and voice is still great.
Haven’t heard this in a minute yaw Cheers Bro added this to my Classic R n B Spotify list
Great Song ❤️
Thanks for making me smile today. ❤
You don't know how lucky you are. You have that whole sacred era of music to hear for the first time. And what a time it was.
love how this song makes you smile
Now The Wanderer!! Do it! I used to dance around my grandparent’s kitchen with my Nan to this song, it was one of her very favourites. She used to say “God was just showing off when he made this man’s voice.”
Hey Claire! Lol. He actually did the wanderer about 2-3 months ago! I only know because I requested it! 😂 I’m from Belmont Ave in The Bronx, Dion is a Legend! 😎❤️
Great fun music ❤
No one was cooler than Dion.
Great song and great talent and Dion just put out a blues album. I love seeing you kids discover music without autotune or other gimics.
“Love potion number nine” is a good companion song to this. Loved your reaction,... really. Kinda cool
This is what you can call MUSIC!
Good old dance music. You can't help wanting to get up and dance.
In the 50s and early 60s rock music was on AM radio that had to sell commercials to operate. If you wanted your song to get air play you had to aim for 3 minutes. Once FM radio became more popular, that started to change.
That's the fact, Jack.
Dion and the Belmonts made great music. Many many hits by Dion. Try Abraham, Martin and John. See if you can figure out who he’s talking about. Great song. Y the legend. Still going strong in his 80’s. Thx
Let's twist!
You look so happy to be jamming to this. Love it! This song is so fun to dance to too.
A lot of songs should have been longer back then. But if they were they wouldn't have gotten radio play and we never would have heard them. Check out Abraham, Martin and John for a more mature, serious Dion.
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Great! Back in those days, record companies kept songs at around 3 min to get radio airplay. It was assumed the audience wouldn’t listen to anything much longer than that. Later artists pushed that envelope and proved them wrong, but that’s the reason early pop/rock songs seem to end just as they are picking up steam.
This was one of my mom's favorites. She'd play it on the turntable while she cleaned house.
love love your reactions and appreciation of the music i grew up with xx
keep going dude, it is great watching you discovering so much music
great old classic
The Vogues...Your The One..a hit
In the slang of that time, they probably would say it was a song about a girl who is a flirt, or who is "fast" or "easy" or "loose." The words "slut" and "whore" were considered swear words, not fit for decent people to use, or even to hear. (I miss that, actually.)
Well said. I miss that, too.
This type of music is known as Do-Wop. It was created by black teenagers standing around in the mostly poor areas of NYC. Became hugely popular with both black and white teenagers in the 1950s.
Your reaction was so entertaining.
great music from that era, I listened to them when I was a baby because it was music my parents loved. Music of every era is for enjoyment. No age restrictions 😊
Interesting times in the 50s. Runaround Sue was vilified for going out with other guys, while in another Dion song, it was perfectly okay for Dion basically do the same thing in “The Wanderer”.
I love watching your reactions....sometimes we seem to have the same....you make it fun...
He is from the Bronx he is one first heavy music even though don’t sound like it
Dude I’ve thought this since I was a teenager! Dion’s voice is effing gnarly
Finally someone reacting to some good old Doo-Wop (that's what they called it in the fifties). More please!
That was the thing back in the 50s/early 60s. Songs were about 2 min. long.
If your song was much longer than 3 minutes, it didn't make it on to the radio back then. So that's why it's cut short.
As a single the flip side of “Runaround Sue”, “The Wanderer”, was the opposite. In this case, Dion is the “runaround”. It too is a “banger”.
You really need to react to
Dion - Abraham, Martin and John!
YOU WILL LOVE IT!!!!
Dion and the Belmonts
no lie: dion marreid sue and they are still together!
A true pioneer of early Rock and Roll, along with Elvis, Chuck Berry, Buddy Holly, and Little Richard. These are the guys that started it all.
Check out Bobby Rydell "We Got Love" and "Volare"; Bobby Darin "Dream Lover". Moving more into the 60's The Byrds "Mr. Tambourine Man"
Give Frankie Lymon and the Teenagers a look, Why do fools fall in love, I'm not a juvenile delinquent, Little itty bitty one. All brilliant 50's tracks. Frankie was 13 when they started out. He passed away of an overdose when he was 25. Thankfully we still have his songs as his legacy.
Have fun brother!
How you doing my friend? I noticed you were reacting to a Dion dimucci song run around Sue and I thought I'd give you a little tidbit of news here on Dion. About 30 to 40 years after Dion did this song run around Sue in his youth he had another big hit song I mean he had a lot of hits songs in his youth but that's an old man he had another hit song and the name of that song is Abraham Martin and John. It's a very good song about a group of heroes from the '60s. once you listen to it you'll understand what I mean by heroes from the '60s. hope you enjoy it it's one of my favorites I mean I love your songs from in his youth but that song has so much history in it and it's a really really good song.
this is taking a dive into the Real , this with the rockers of o
Check out Clarence "Frogman" Henry singing ("I Don't Know Why...)But I Do" - another oldie but goodie!
Sue turned him into the wanderer
There's a great live version of 'I Wonder Why' posted by DoowopRick that's fun to watch.
He wrote this song for his wife. Her name is Sue.😊
Careful - this song can get stuck in your head!!
Diana Ankudinova-Light Princess of the Stage
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Funny how no matter what generation you're born in there's always plenty of those girls with history as we like to say or well-seasoned.