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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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😊😊
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.
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.
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.
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.
@@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.
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.
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.
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
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 .
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.
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.
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.
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,
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
I hadn’t realised how handsome Freddie was. Always loved his songs
I remember watching them on TV. They were great. I still like their music.
Thank you for this documentary, I knew him briefly and I knew his widow as well. Rest in peace, Freddy
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.
This brought back some nice memories. Thank you.
Glad you enjoyed it
What a shame they were a fun band especially Freddie RIP 🙏 to Freddie and other members that have gone 😢🎉long live the 60ts
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.
The group’s act may have been goofy, but Freddie’s voice was stellar.
Thanks for posting this! I loved those guys!
No problem!
AWESOME.......I LIKED THIS BAND
Me too!
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.
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.
they were shite😂
@@urgonnaluvitso where does that leave the likes of Take That, Boyzone, Westlife and One Direction?
I recall people doing the Freddie when their song was played. I was 13 or so (USA).
They made it look very easy, it wasn't, but this group COULD play their instruments and Freddy had a great voice!
Thanks for the memories.
I used to watch them on tv I liked their antics
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.
Oh the simple life ❤️😢❤️. I was a 60’s baby so just before my time but I knew their songs ❤️❤️
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.
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".
Nothing wrong with their music it was their stupid antics during their performances, totally unnecessary 🤷
@@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.
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.
When music was fun and enjoyable
Awwww
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.
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!
Early in 1962-3 Freddy and The Dreamers shared billings with the Beatles, opening for them or the Beatles opening for them.
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.
Freddy lived near me in a village called Gatley he was a lovely fellow his wife was nice to.
I remember seeing them in pantomime in the 60's with Anita Harris, Babes In The Wood.
loved freddy and the dreamers their wacky antics made them stand out and the songs always catchy..
😃 great little docu THANKSAMIO :-)
Glad you enjoyed it
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.
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😊😊
I knew Freddie for a while when he was appearing in a show called Little Big time for a local TV station
My late Father met Freddie and the Dreamers at their show when he worked at the Granada Cinema, Mansfield UK in the early 1960s
I saw Freddie & The Dreamers live in about 1969 in Blackpool
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.
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.
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.
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.
That's great to hear. Freddie and the boys deserve to have their legacy kept alive
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.
"What Happened to Freddie & The Dreamers?" They got married, got old maybe one or two is still alive. Time marches on people get old
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!
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.
@@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.
Freddie looked like Patrick Dempsey in the 80's movie can't buy me love
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.
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.
Nicely done video.
Thank you very much!
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
I still do the Freddy to encourage my exercising routine🎉
If only my knees would work like that again😄
Shake 'n Vac man myself .
I always wondered how they were able to do that energetic dân c e while still playing their guitar s!
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 .
Little big time
Freddie Garriety hosted a children's show in the 1970's which I watched growing up. Think it was on the BBC?😊
Called Little Big Time for my Local ITV station
Mom met them in the 60s said a lovely man
I saw Pete birral around about 1975 at the shell club Ellesmere port .they were supporting a band called light fantastic.😃👍
still doing Warners as the dreamers and did our retirement village at new year.
Explain please.
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.
The least influential group of all time. Freddie Garrity was closer to Arthur Askey than Mick Jagger. Gone and utterly forgotten, mercifully.
So all the people who bought their records were idiots?
@@joekavanagh7171 No, to each their own,
but this group would never have been inducted in the Rock and Roll hall of fame.
..thanks..
You're welcome
My grandmother knew Freddie Garrety because she worked in a pub that he frequented.
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.
memories made We are ALLdreamers Great
I remember seeing them in the Red Skelton show.
I remember his appearance on the Dear John episode. He didn't seem to have missed a step!!
Dazzling Darren 😂
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.
The King Bill had a decent darts team at the time from memory!
Yes, it did, I believe. Derek was very much into darts and 'his' darts team.@@stwads
What, no Junior Showtime?
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.
I'm certain he lived just outside ringwood hants for a while in a caravan in a friend's garden
The Freddie was great exercise. Thats is when we weren't laughing.
❤❤❤
@lisaacker5920 Freddie Garrity before he became Freddie Mercury taking the name Mercury from the record company's name.
They all went garretty 😂
What about Freddie’s joke hall of fame on UK kids TV ?
Kill me now😂😂😂😂
Freddie looked kind of dippy while the Dreamers looked like thugs.
Shocking!
They woke up!
Freddie looks like Steve Turner from Mudhoney .
they were really bad ffs
If they were that bad they would have been forgotten by now.
Is this narrator a real person? It sounds like a machine.
AI. catch up, you're lagging behind.
@@plasticweapon I did, shortly after I posted. hate it.
They became The Toy Dolls ?
no, you did.
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.
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,
I'm sure Freddie and Cliff spent many a sleepless night over that.
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
Did he model himself on Buddy Holly?
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.
Other people here have said he was a nice guy.
Freddie lived until he died at 'Dreamers End' at Clayton in Staffordshire
Lived until he died? How unusual!
@@CB-xr1eg OK, you know what i mean!, maybe i should have put "Freddie lived at 'Dreamers End' in Clayton, Staffordshire until he died"
He actually died in Bangor North Wales on holiday .With his family.
Adam Faith died at Clayton.in the Travelodge..by the M6…
@@barbarahalkyard1901 Correct. He lived in Clayton but died in Bangor.
His name lives on to describe someone going mad...going garrity...
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.
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.
Played with them at Botwell Hall Hayes not my sorta band musically though
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.
They recorded a medley of Buddy Holly songs.
Joke band is about right.
No wonder people forgot about 'em.
No they haven't. If they had, how come videos are still being made about them and people are posting their memories?
They were that famous I,ve never heard of them
Your loss
Old age!
They became Oasis !
I never even heard of these guys.
What ever happened to Herman and the Munsters?
I think they became the Her mits…
There never was a Herman and The Munsters. Just Herman's Hermits.
@@CB-xr1eg i do remember the Munster Mosh..
Did you see Her man and Her mits at the Wisconsin state fair last year….? They were jolly good..
@@griswald7156 No you remember The Monster Mash. Why are you so determined to be a fool, or can't you help it?
Somehow I thought them and Gerry and the Pacemakers were the same band.
Now i know they were a different band…i saw GATP…and Freddie wasn’t on stage with them..
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.
Doomed? They had some massive hits
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.
What an atrocious voice over
Because of this, UA-cam developed closed-captioning.
My dad thought Freddie was a c -word
I ate them.
Ahhh.... that's what happened to them, I hope you didn't get indigestion.🤔
So you're a man-eater?
In english please.
What apathetic load of tripe this so-called presentation is...Bloomin terrible too!
Scroll on then.
Terribly commentry. So boring and not very professional.
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.