My name is Piero 🇮🇹. I remember in Summer 1968 to have danced in Haggerstone Castle ( a place not far from Berwick upon Tweed) this song on a dance floor crowd. What a night 55 years ago . I still have great memories and Nostalgia of that period. And great music ciao🇮🇹👏👍❤️🎼😍
69 here. Would love to cut loose dancing but afraid I 'd strip a gear or two !lol Parts of the music sounds just like Grooven With Mr Bloe. Love that also.
When your songs are covered by Bill Idol, Joan Jett, and Tiffany, and they have SMASH hits from them, you deserve to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!
@johnnynephrite6147 Covering a song isn't to add to it, it's because the artist likes the song and wanted to put their own spin on it. I find it so bizarre when people get offended at covers like it's a competition when in reality it's a compliment
@@johnnynephrite6147 GET OFF YOUR HIGH HORSE and CHILL out johnny! Music is for EVERYBODY to play and enjoy! RARELY are covers as good as the original, although there are cases where covers are even better. However, in this case the covers of this song that I've heard are NOT as good as TJ's original.
They got lots of play with tons of hits but were boxing with heavyweights. Brian Wilson practically drove himself nuts trying to compete with The Beatles. Look at that Indian suit! What's he trying to do? MMhmm.
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Absolutely...I definitely like this version better than Billy idols. Crystal blue persuasion is my favorite of theirs. It's an absolute travesty they aren't in the H.O.F. yet
I was 16 when this came out in 1968 and it was the disco topper of those days and it still sounds great now and such great times which sadly will never be repeated.
I don't realize just how old I really am until I see the videos like this. This is one of my timeless songs in my head and then I see this and realize "how the hell did I get this old?"
The good times in life go by too fast. I wish there was a real time machine and I knew what I know now. I had plenty of fun, but I could have had A LOT MORE. One summer I was dating 5 different girls, I told them about each other. It was cool because I don't lie to anyone.
These guys dominated the airwaves back in the late '60's and had a series of big hits - as soon as you heard a new song of theirs you could bet it would catch on in a big way. Crimson and Clover has to be one of the all-time classics - fantastic group!!!
Tommy was a great composer - i guess some others in the group were too , their songs are just musical genius level, beatles were awesome so were others, but Tommy's songs were those types that just went to higher levels, 'Crimson and Clover there's nothing else like it , 'Christal blue' is pure beauty
One of the most underrated performers of the 70's. His music was and still is exhilarating and moving. It makes you want to move, grove, and, dig it baby.:)
As a band, they had more impact on popular culture than many bigger bands of the 60s and 70s. Their dress, stage presence was incredible and they got back to prominence in the late 80s.
Maybe the best party motivator song on earth. The instant energy generated in both male and female party goers was phenomenal, witnessed by me at least 50 times Within 3 minutes of this song being played, and played again PLAYED LOUD VERY LOUD AND SANG VERY LOUD we inherited our parents feelings form songs such as IN THE MOOD by Glenn Miller! This is a natural high song, no drugs nor alcohol needed and damn we went happily crazy! billy Idol has a great version but NOTHING on heaven nor earth substitutes the feelings generated by Tommy James and the Shondells! OH YEAH from 50 years ago to present day!
Not true billy idol version is as good or better. Three times I saw billy play it and entire stadium went nuts. The extreme energy was like watching old Beatles footage. But I give tommy James credit . he produced many amazing songs
There is just so much to love about this video. The stiff dance style is gold but really you have to watch every band member in turn as they all bring some excellence to this great song. Rolling MTV decades before MTV>
This is a great group! There story is seldom told but T. James was originally in a local Niles MI band called The Shondells. And all members were high schoolers in there teens. This was 1963! They had one VERY local hit on the VERY small, local, independent "SNAP" record label. By '65 the group had graduated and was history. A couple guys got married after high school & began families. Another got drafted & sent to Vietnam. James alone was left, single, and working on his families farm. SOMEHOW, a single copy of the SNAP recording found it's way into the used record bin of a Pittsburgh, PA record store where it was purchased by a local DJ who hosted a local radio show called something like "rate the "B" side". His show ran late at night, like 12 am to 6 am so he was trying to build/entertain his audience. To do this he shopped the used record bins of area record stores buying anything he hadn't heard of. The Shondells original SNAP records version was in fact the "B" side of the record! The "A" side was an original instramental by the band titled "Thunderbolt". The "B" side (Hanky Panky") was reworked by the group. It was originally a "B" side for the Raindrops hit "That Boy John" released in '63. Once it began to get airplay in Pittsburgh requests for the song to be played again lit up the phone lines. The song was put into HEAVY rotation on the station and got even more requests. Problem was that the radio station had the ONLY copy. Listeners demanded to know where they could buy it. So the radio contracted with a local record company named "FOX" (aka RED FOX as the orig labels were yellow & red with a fox at the top) to press 5000 copies of the record. This was technically illegal as they had no rights to the song. After the 5000 copies sold out in a single day the record company switched the record label to imitate the original "SNAP" label, but put their name in small print at the bottom of that label (the original "SNAP" labels have no reference to FOX RECORDS printed on them). In Pittsburgh the record began an astonishing climb up the local charts & was picked up for play on other local stations. Some proceeds from the "illegal" sales were set aside for the "unknown group" and a search was begun to find them. As SNAP was, on the label, credited to a Niles, MI company, the search began there. But SNAP had gone out of business! The former owner was tracked down & he related that the groups leader, Tommy James, had lived on his fathers farm just outside the city. A visit to the farm found Tommy James working the fields at his fathers farm! After a discussion with Tommy and his father, Tommy was wisked back to Pittsburgh were he was told he had a hit record .With no orig members of The Shondells besides Tommy available Tommy was, over the next several days, taken to several local bars where he heard several local groups perform HIS song. After hearing several groups Tommy decided that the local group The Raconteurs did the best job (musically) and offered them the job of becoming The (New) Shondells. The group accepted & James fronted the new (performing as The Shondells) band at several local venues over the next several days. James then left for New York City to shop his song (& group) to New York record labels. Roulette records was the most interested and signed James & the group and released "Hanky Panky" nationally. The rest is history! And by the way, the gentleman who bought that obscure 45 was named Bob Mack! However, I beg to differ with your opinion that this song, this group, is "bubblegum" music. Rock/Pop - YES. Garage overtones on some tunes - YES. Later to include "psychedelic" overtones - YES. But to call them a "bubblegum" band is totally unfounded. They did not put out records similar to "Simon Says", "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy", 1 2 3 Red Light, Indian Giver, Down At LuLu's, or anything sounding like that! In fact they were one of the FEW bands, besides The Beatles & Rolling Stones to consistently release QUALITY "B" sides on many of their releases during the mid to late 60's.
I refuse to call him bubblegum just because he produced feel-good music. One of the most underappreciated 60s rockers. Always start my day with a little Tommy James and the Shondells.
i would agree 100%..he's just really good rock and roll..he should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame..w/Johnnie Rivers, jay and the Americans, etc..groups that had big hits in the 60s and really rocked..Saw them and Him in '71..he had mellowed a bit but still rocked out big time..
definitely had more sides to his music than the vibe of "I Think We're Alone Now", "Mirage" & "I Like Way", the chugging little groove that became the staple of the Ohio Express & 1910 FG Co.
I can't believe I found this song. I use to do the pony, jerk, mash potato, and the swim to this song. Is there anyone that remembers these dances? hahahaha
this group made me dance all night & I broke my heels off my brand jet boots the same night I bought them !!! this group just had the adrenaline rushing threw my body when I listed to there tunes awesome GROUP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MEMORIES WILL LIVE ON !!!
A timeless masterpiece for a bygone epoch with rebellion, imagination and fantasy.Nothing can bring back memories better,than a song which he was once connected with.
Years ago I worked in a studio with Eddie Gray. We would hang around after hours with other members and I'd listen to awesome stories of his experiences on tour. He was a good soul and a great guy all of the time. I never saw him lose his "cool".
Que recuerdos!!!! Cuando descubrimos,mis amigos y yo(de Cerdanyola.Barcelona) Este disco,alucinamos. La juventud de hoy no lo entenderán nunca. Con el paso del tiempo,la música de los 60 y 70 será para los jóvenes, su música clásica. jajaja Han pasado 60 años y moriré recordandola.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
A WONDERFUL TIME IN MY LIFE.THIS SONG WAS PLAYING WHEN I WAS RETURNING STATESIDE IN FEB 1968...USN RIVER RAT MY GIRL AND I RESUMED OUR LIVES BE 70 IN DECEMBER 2016..LOVE YA ALL..THIS BECAME OUR SECOND SONG FIRST BEING...I GOT YOU BABE...
@@edway7473 Just how mindless do people have to be to go around blindly thanking people for participation in war that no one in their right mind even attempts to justify. If anything you owe these vets an apology for what our parents allowed our government to do to that generation of young people.
Uuhhhhuuuh, I took this to school in the 3rd grade. For Show & Tell! Still love it & to me it's 1 of the best songs of all time😍✌💕LOVE TOMMY James & The Shondells💝🌼🎵🎼🎶🎤🔊🎹💝💓💋
I just loved this era, the way they dressed with their nehru jackets and love beads! the advent of the miniskirt and white gogo boots! Girls with braided head bands and the little granny glasses! Such an expressive time to be a teenager!
One of the best songs ever made to get you up off your seat and onto your feet. This was always a mainstay of Saturday night crab feeds and the DJ would get numerous requests throughout the night to replay it. I even saw a woman in a cast out there dancing away and another time a guy on two crutches who couldn't keep sitting.
WWChampion16 I know what you're saying. Probably could create similar sounding music but the atmosphere of the times are so different it wouldn't be the same. I could be wrong.
Penrod's on the Beach, Ft. Lauderdale, FL., 1987 Spring Break. If you ever hit this place back in the day you'd know what the world's greatest party was. So the loudspeakers fired up TJ's Mony Mony and this beautiful girl in a blue dress hopped up on a platform and started dancing. Holy crap she could move and her hips hit the rhythm. The crowd went wild! Hundreds of us. It was like Woodstock. Nearly 40 years ago and she's still seared into my brain whenever this song plays.
@@poom641 Yes they were. Fun fact: Did you know in Fort Lauderdale you can get a DUI on a bicycle? LOL! Not me. I was too fast! Edit: One night I was racing my bike through a back street below the airport and ran upon a bunch of hippies and some dudes with big cameras. We hung out. The dudes with cameras were MTV, and the hippies were Electric Light Orchestra. Nobody else was around.
I love this original version. Like many on here I was around when this came out. I'm on permanent oxygen because of COVID, but if this song comes on my Playlist, I'm up dancing 😅❤🎉
Sara Hendrix Peter, Paul and Mary sang Bob Dylan's Blowin' in the Wind in 1968. A true reflection of what was going on at the time. And a very popular song. I'M not the downer. THE TIMES were.
I can remember riding in my Pontiac Bonneville Convertible with my friends listening t this on the radio just before I went off to Vietnam, when I came back everybody was gone and so was my childhood with it.
On this day in 1969 {January 26th} Tommy James and the Shondells performed "Mony Mony" on the CBS-TV program 'The Ed Sullivan Show'... Six months earlier on July 27th, 1968 it was at #34 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart, and that was also its last day on the chart; it had peaked at #3 {for 1 week} on June 9th, 1968 and it spent 17 weeks on the Top 100... On the same 'Sullivan' show they also performed "Crimson and Clover"; and at the time it was in its first of two weeks at #1 on the Top 100... Between 1966 and 1970 the group had nineteen Top 100 records; seven made the Top 10 with two reaching #1, their other #1 record was "Hanky Panky" for 2 weeks in 1966...
sorry kids of today.....this is musik. A timeless masterpiece for a bygone epoch with rebellion, imagination and fantasy.Nothing can bring back memories better,than a song which he was once connected with.
Everyone seems to know the words and beat to this hit , it’s a feel good record and that ain’t a bad thing. It’s a recipe for success, the sixties and seventies where full of feel good music and I would like to go back PLEASE 👍😊
OMG! I LOVE TJ+S ! LOVE this video and all of oldies. LOVE the clothes too! Either you LIVED through this era or you didn't - there is no comparison to today rap crap music.
This song is still the the best no 1 from the 60's as far as i'm concerned. I remember when I first heard it, I thought to myself , when I get my pocket money on Saturday, I'm going straight to Reidys music on penny st and buying this great song,,,,,,,& I did.
I was 17 when I heard this song passing by a record store at Santa Catarina street in Oporto (Portugal) and till this day each time I walk by I always remember the song.
summer of 68, my friend comes up the street crying and when I asked her what happened she said that our friend broke her mony mony record because she played it so much
I heard this song back in 1968 on the radio and The Shondells had everyone fast dancing. Their hit single Crimson and Clover was their slow dancing song. I knew which type all the songs were and used to dance with all the pretty high school girls. Life had purpose, women! LOL!
My name is Piero 🇮🇹. I remember in Summer 1968 to have danced in Haggerstone Castle ( a place not far from Berwick upon Tweed) this song on a dance floor crowd. What a night 55 years ago . I still have great memories and Nostalgia of that period. And great music ciao🇮🇹👏👍❤️🎼😍
Almost 73 years old now, but when I hear this one I lose total control of myself dancing. It's embarrassing, but I love it !!!
Yes, easy to get of the couch and dance. Then watch a James steward western 😅
What are you going to do, It's a classic.
69 here. Would love to cut loose dancing but afraid I 'd strip a gear or two !lol Parts of the music sounds just like Grooven With Mr Bloe. Love that also.
Me too❤🎸💋
Me too 😂
The best song to get you feeling good no matter what time of day, I love it.
I love how Billy Idol sang it better!
@@shutterbug_713 keepitshutShutterbug...
I love these old songs. Ya cannot beat em. These people arent just "Singers" theyre "Musicians"..... And bloody good ones at that! ❤🎼🎙
It was real talent back then!
Absolutely classic!!! As I have long said, LONG LIVE THE AMAZING 60S!!
RIGHT ON TARGET WITH THIS ONE FOR SURE
At 71 yrs young I crank the radio till its blasting when this comes on and I can't stop dancing. This will be a legend 4ever
At 77, I remember dancing to this song and when i hear it, I just want to shed my clothes and get down. Whooo!
Back in the day we wore ourselves out dancing and loved every minute of it!
When your songs are covered by Bill Idol, Joan Jett, and Tiffany, and they have SMASH hits from them, you deserve to be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!
Totally
They certainly added nothing to this song. Who the hell is Tiffany?
@johnnynephrite6147 Covering a song isn't to add to it, it's because the artist likes the song and wanted to put their own spin on it. I find it so bizarre when people get offended at covers like it's a competition when in reality it's a compliment
@@smokesletsgo2374 whats bizarre is that you feel compelled to defend mediocrity.
@@johnnynephrite6147
GET OFF YOUR HIGH HORSE and CHILL out johnny! Music is for EVERYBODY to play and enjoy! RARELY are covers as good as the original, although there are cases where covers are even better. However, in this case the covers of this song that I've heard are NOT as good as TJ's original.
Still the best ever of Mony, Mony. Loved it as a young teenager - and still makes me want to groove . Thanks, JaneR
I like how Billy Idol sang it better!
As a 10y.old boy,someone give me that.I played it for months non stop.Then my mu bought me Suzy Quattro.
When you look back at Tommy James songs now, you realize how good they are and how underrated he was.
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They got lots of play with tons of hits but were boxing with heavyweights. Brian Wilson practically drove himself nuts trying to compete with The Beatles. Look at that Indian suit! What's he trying to do? MMhmm.
Sex, before we even knew what it was...
Totally. I'm adding him to my list of favorite rock musicians.
@@zimports you might want to add Marc Bolan to that list if he's not already sitting there
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This group deserves to be in the Rock Hall of Fame. Their catalog is amazing.
They were from pop all the way to progresive... big influence for many musicians..
I love so many songs by them, Crimson and Clover is so good.
Absolutely...I definitely like this version better than Billy idols. Crystal blue persuasion is my favorite of theirs. It's an absolute travesty they aren't in the H.O.F. yet
Hall of Fame for sure, except now that the Hall is a shadow of itself by filling it with non-rock acts, w
hy would they want to be associated with it?
HOF is crap. They don't need it.
Am 67 now and so grateful I was around to enjoy music like this and when it came out. So many great songs from the 60s.
You know it!
I was 16 when this came out in 1968 and it was the disco topper of those days and it still sounds great now and such great times which sadly will never be repeated.
I was 14
So true
okay boomer
Zelf in het jaar 2024 nog steeds een goed nummer.👍👍
I don't realize just how old I really am until I see the videos like this. This is one of my timeless songs in my head and then I see this and realize "how the hell did I get this old?"
Nothing Wrong with getting old Bettie those were the best times.
The good times in life go by too fast. I wish there was a real time machine and I knew what I know now. I had plenty of fun, but I could have had A LOT MORE.
One summer I was dating 5 different girls, I told them about each other. It was cool because I don't lie to anyone.
Lass, you are not alone!
These guys dominated the airwaves back in the late '60's and had a series of big hits - as soon as you heard a new song of theirs you could bet it would catch on in a big way. Crimson and Clover has to be one of the all-time classics - fantastic group!!!
Tommy was a great composer - i guess some others in the group were too , their songs are just musical genius level,
beatles were awesome so were others, but Tommy's songs were those types that just went to higher levels, 'Crimson and Clover there's nothing else like it , 'Christal blue' is pure beauty
@@poom641Love Crystal Blue Persuasion.
I love the way the singer is dressed and his dance moves. Happy memories ❤
Tommy James is legend! 👍🏴
The great 60s
I'm 73 now n remember ģrowing up with this music, řeal music, real people and bloody good times
The most infectious drum and guitar beat that there has ever been,brilliant so infectious.
DAMN! There was no music like we had in the later 60's and early 70's! I listen to it all the time because it sure beats the garbage out there now.
You're SO right Ruth! 🩷
I agree we had the best, so much talent.
Only Crimson and Clover..🏴
Summertime 67-70, one hit after another. Soundtrack to happy childhood.
I remember dancing to this... still gets me up bouncing around and making the dog think that I've lost my mind LOL
Tommy is as legit as it gets. A pioneer in many respects and a complete genius pop songwriter. Crystal Blue Persuasion... now that's a tune.
Tommy James was a genius. Underrated, absolute, unequivocal, massively talented genius.
agreed. seen video interviews . sweet man .
I know he was working on a movie being made about him and the band, kinda like Jersie Boys was for Franki Valli...
Crimson and Cloverrrr. Over and Overrrr.
and he still is
Yes he was.....awesome in all respects.....
One of the most underrated performers of the 70's. His music was and still is exhilarating and moving. It makes you want to move, grove, and, dig it baby.:)
absolutely. nary a bad song.
He did most his music in the 60s. Check your facts.
I'm still digging it at 65! 😀😀😀
As a band, they had more impact on popular culture than many bigger bands of the 60s and 70s. Their dress, stage presence was incredible and they got back to prominence in the late 80s.
Maybe the best party motivator song on earth. The instant energy generated in both male and female party goers was phenomenal, witnessed by me at least 50 times Within 3 minutes of this song being played, and played again PLAYED LOUD VERY LOUD AND SANG VERY LOUD we inherited our parents feelings form songs such as IN THE MOOD by Glenn Miller! This is a natural high song, no drugs nor alcohol needed and damn we went happily crazy! billy Idol has a great version but NOTHING on heaven nor earth substitutes the feelings generated by Tommy James and the Shondells! OH YEAH from 50 years ago to present day!
a thumping great record that brings back memories of my first dances - so lucky to have heard this first time round
Not true billy idol version is as good or better. Three times I saw billy play it and entire stadium went nuts. The extreme energy was like watching old Beatles footage. But I give tommy James credit . he produced many amazing songs
+ CRIMSON AND CLOVER COVER BY JOAN JET you know lol!
this and Dave Clark 5 songs like BITS AND PIECES.
Your great words made me feel like I was there dancing the night away at some of those parties that you mentioned!!
The band's, the music, the clothes. What a great time to grow up. Never tire of listening to our era of music.
Sheron , I'm lost in the 60's...just decided I'm never returning to present days !!
Tommy James and the Shondells was one of my fave bands of the 60s!! Their songs are so innocent and yet they kick ass!!!
Truth Indeed AMEN 🙏
Used to play my moms records and this is one that I loved when I was like 4/5 yrs old...I’m 50 now and still listening!!
There is just so much to love about this video. The stiff dance style is gold but really you have to watch every band member in turn as they all bring some excellence to this great song. Rolling MTV decades before MTV>
I have covered this song in many wedding bands, believe it or not. It always and will always get people up on the dance floor.
This is a great group! There story is seldom told but T. James was originally in a local Niles MI band called The Shondells. And all members were high schoolers in there teens. This was 1963! They had one VERY local hit on the VERY small, local, independent "SNAP" record label. By '65 the group had graduated and was history. A couple guys got married after high school & began families. Another got drafted & sent to Vietnam. James alone was left, single, and working on his families farm.
SOMEHOW, a single copy of the SNAP recording found it's way into the used record bin of a Pittsburgh, PA record store where it was purchased by a local DJ who hosted a local radio show called something like "rate the "B" side". His show ran late at night, like 12 am to 6 am so he was trying to build/entertain his audience. To do this he shopped the used record bins of area record stores buying anything he hadn't heard of.
The Shondells original SNAP records version was in fact the "B" side of the record! The "A" side was an original instramental by the band titled "Thunderbolt". The "B" side (Hanky Panky") was reworked by the group. It was originally a "B" side for the Raindrops hit "That Boy John" released in '63.
Once it began to get airplay in Pittsburgh requests for the song to be played again lit up the phone lines. The song was put into HEAVY rotation on the station and got even more requests.
Problem was that the radio station had the ONLY copy. Listeners demanded to know where they could buy it. So the radio contracted with a local record company named "FOX" (aka RED FOX as the orig labels were yellow & red with a fox at the top) to press 5000 copies of the record. This was technically illegal as they had no rights to the song. After the 5000 copies sold out in a single day the record company switched the record label to imitate the original "SNAP" label, but put their name in small print at the bottom of that label (the original "SNAP" labels have no reference to FOX RECORDS printed on them).
In Pittsburgh the record began an astonishing climb up the local charts & was picked up for play on other local stations.
Some proceeds from the "illegal" sales were set aside for the "unknown group" and a search was begun to find them. As SNAP was, on the label, credited to a Niles, MI company, the search began there. But SNAP had gone out of business! The former owner was tracked down & he related that the groups leader, Tommy James, had lived on his fathers farm just outside the city. A visit to the farm found Tommy James working the fields at his fathers farm!
After a discussion with Tommy and his father, Tommy was wisked back to Pittsburgh were he was told he had a hit record .With no orig members of The Shondells besides Tommy available Tommy was, over the next several days, taken to several local bars where he heard several local groups perform HIS song. After hearing several groups Tommy decided that the local group The Raconteurs did the best job (musically) and offered them the job of becoming The (New) Shondells. The group accepted & James fronted the new (performing as The Shondells) band at several local venues over the next several days.
James then left for New York City to shop his song (& group) to New York record labels. Roulette records was the most interested and signed James & the group and released "Hanky Panky" nationally. The rest is history! And by the way, the gentleman who bought that obscure 45 was named Bob Mack!
However, I beg to differ with your opinion that this song, this group, is "bubblegum" music. Rock/Pop - YES. Garage overtones on some tunes - YES. Later to include "psychedelic" overtones - YES. But to call them a "bubblegum" band is totally unfounded.
They did not put out records similar to "Simon Says", "Yummy, Yummy, Yummy", 1 2 3 Red Light, Indian Giver, Down At LuLu's, or anything sounding like that! In fact they were one of the FEW bands, besides The Beatles & Rolling Stones to consistently release QUALITY "B" sides on many of their releases during the mid to late 60's.
Thank you Robert for that info
Mind blown 🤯
Holy Cow Man that was one intense comment. I am not worthy.
@@karaeverman1164 That's what I am saying!!
Wow thank you for the history info!
Born in '84 and still love the 'oldies' as it's put. This type of music is classic.
I was born in 84 too! Yet I like how Billy Idol sang this better!
I refuse to call him bubblegum just because he produced feel-good music. One of the most underappreciated 60s rockers. Always start my day with a little Tommy James and the Shondells.
i would agree 100%..he's just really good rock and roll..he should be in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame..w/Johnnie Rivers, jay and the Americans, etc..groups that had big hits in the 60s and really rocked..Saw them and Him in '71..he had mellowed a bit but still rocked out big time..
definitely had more sides to his music than the vibe of "I Think We're Alone Now", "Mirage" & "I Like Way", the chugging little groove that became the staple of the Ohio Express & 1910 FG Co.
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jeannierae333 Good music but if dressed like that to day in Brighton one could end up with bubble bum.
I loved Tommy James & The Shondells back in the 60's & 70's & I still love their music in 2019. GREAT Group.
These songs are the fabric of my life and bring back great memories.
I can't believe I found this song. I use to do the pony, jerk, mash potato, and the swim to this song. Is there anyone that remembers these dances? hahahaha
I do!
@@jillhoward1879 Me Too
I Do
Yes I remember them and about broke my butt doing them..hahaah. Some great bands back in this era..MIss the good times.
Twelve years old, doing all those dances and The Frug with my friends in the summertime.
this group made me dance all night & I broke my heels off my brand jet boots the same night I bought them !!! this group just had the adrenaline rushing threw my body when I listed to there tunes awesome GROUP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MEMORIES WILL LIVE ON !!!
You cannot sit still to this song , absolutely great song
They were one of the most underrated bands of all time and so many people have done cover songs so what does that tell you.
Hello Amber how are you doing hope you’re having a great time with your family may God bless you and your family
I remember dancing to this when I was only 13. I like it even more now. Great years the 60s and 70s
my era,of music. the sound, the clothes, the bands. still love it. UTube is great for reliving our youth and memories. thanks guys.
It must have been 50 years since I last herd this. So how can it seem like just 50 minutes ago. How can you lose 50 years just like that?
You took a nap 😂
I feel like I'm stood right next to you... asking the same question..
L Fewell
Just working your life away
You must have missed Billy Idol in heavy rotation on MTV in the early 80s.
Absolute power of music, It brings everybody Together no matter where you’re from or what color your skin is, it’s joy this music!!!!
Truth Indeed AMEN 🙏
A timeless masterpiece for a bygone epoch with rebellion, imagination and fantasy.Nothing can bring back memories better,than a song which he was once connected with.
Years ago I worked in a studio with Eddie Gray. We would hang around after hours with other members and I'd listen to awesome stories of his experiences on tour. He was a good soul and a great guy all of the time. I never saw him lose his "cool".
These guys are so underrated. They have so many hits!
CLASSIC ROCK! You can't beat it. It will live on forever.
So rousing... makes me feel like dancing!!! I feel like a teenie in the sixties... let's play it louder!!! 😘❤😘
There was a remake of this by billy Idol in 1981 and it is nearly as good!!! but not quite. OH and Hello Again.
@Mike Stoneking i wasn't even born then... unfortunately... only in my dreams!!! 😁
@Mike Stoneking 😂😂😂 lol
Que recuerdos!!!!
Cuando descubrimos,mis amigos y yo(de Cerdanyola.Barcelona)
Este disco,alucinamos.
La juventud de hoy no lo
entenderán nunca.
Con el paso del tiempo,la música de los 60 y 70 será para los jóvenes, su música clásica. jajaja
Han pasado 60 años y moriré recordandola.❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Yeah!! Love Billy’s version too 🧷🎸
I love his version better!
A WONDERFUL TIME IN MY LIFE.THIS SONG WAS PLAYING WHEN I WAS RETURNING STATESIDE IN FEB 1968...USN RIVER RAT MY GIRL AND I RESUMED OUR LIVES BE 70 IN DECEMBER 2016..LOVE YA ALL..THIS BECAME OUR SECOND SONG FIRST BEING...I GOT YOU BABE...
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Thank you for your service.
god bless you thanks
@@edway7473 Just how mindless do people have to be to go around blindly thanking people for participation in war that no one in their right mind even attempts to justify. If anything you owe these vets an apology for what our parents allowed our government to do to that generation of young people.
Ross Dawson river rat 68. My God you saw the shit! I was under the water at the same time. Tommy James brings back the good memories rock on brother
Uuhhhhuuuh, I took this to school in the 3rd grade. For Show & Tell! Still love it & to me it's 1 of the best songs of all time😍✌💕LOVE TOMMY James & The Shondells💝🌼🎵🎼🎶🎤🔊🎹💝💓💋
You're right...one of the best songs of all time.
I just loved this era, the way they dressed with their nehru jackets and love beads! the advent of the miniskirt and white gogo boots! Girls with braided head bands and the little granny glasses! Such an expressive time to be a teenager!
Truth Indeed
One of the best songs ever made to get you up off your seat and onto your feet. This was always a mainstay of Saturday night crab feeds and the DJ would get numerous requests throughout the night to replay it. I even saw a woman in a cast out there dancing away and another time a guy on two crutches who couldn't keep sitting.
I was there in the 60's thank God and I am still here today, thank God ! This is REAL music yeah yeah !!!!!!
A all time classic, wish we could relive those good old days. IM 66 IN 2024 and still love this song.
I wish they could bring this kind of music back.
WWChampion16 I know what you're saying. Probably could create similar sounding music but the atmosphere of the times are so different it wouldn't be the same. I could be wrong.
+Rainbow Dash 4Ever Yeah the new stuff these days is nothing but junk!
You can't. Everything has its time. If you try and recreate you just get disappointment.
makes you want to dance damnit... :-)
Sorry not enough talent anymore !
When I was in my 20's, I loved Billy's version. Now in my 30's I finally found orignal is far more wonderful. This is the masterpiece,
Sorry, who is Billy?
Rob Wenman billy Clinton 42nd president of the United States
Rob Wenman Billy Idol
Thom Clark no billy Clinton
@@normgarrison4077 shut up stupid
Sweet! Loved it back then and love it now. yes you can not sit still when hearing this. memories so sweet. Danced till we couldn't dance anymore. LOL
+parisdoll52 This version definitely has a dancing rhythm and beat to it with the deep drumbs and what not.
+parisdoll52 I'm with you girl. What was good then is still good now.
+parisdoll52 yes, cant sit still to this. I was in my early teens when this was a hit. Brillliant
+parisdoll52 Amen!!!
yes
Penrod's on the Beach, Ft. Lauderdale, FL., 1987 Spring Break. If you ever hit this place back in the day you'd know what the world's greatest party was. So the loudspeakers fired up TJ's Mony Mony and this beautiful girl in a blue dress hopped up on a platform and started dancing. Holy crap she could move and her hips hit the rhythm. The crowd went wild! Hundreds of us. It was like Woodstock. Nearly 40 years ago and she's still seared into my brain whenever this song plays.
man those were the days hahaaa
@@poom641 Yes they were. Fun fact: Did you know in Fort Lauderdale you can get a DUI on a bicycle? LOL! Not me. I was too fast!
Edit: One night I was racing my bike through a back street below the airport and ran upon a bunch of hippies and some dudes with big cameras. We hung out. The dudes with cameras were MTV, and the hippies were Electric Light Orchestra. Nobody else was around.
Great to hear this. My Uncle lived in Ft Lauderdale at that time. Sounds GREAT
Tantas veces la bailé en Valentinos en Mazatlán, México y, lo más extravagante lo que gritabamos...
Great simple rock 'n roll with a ton of energy. A classic
Summer of 68, just left school and started work, first record I ever bought.
yuo mean 69? the summer of '69
@@deadaccount9498 '68
@@deadaccount9498 Crystal Blue Persuasion summer of '69
@@deadaccount9498 Summer of '69 was Bryan Adams.
Still rockin to this tune in 2022!
U can tell they had fun playin this song
I love this original version. Like many on here I was around when this came out. I'm on permanent oxygen because of COVID, but if this song comes on my Playlist, I'm up dancing 😅❤🎉
1968 was brilliant, and this song played its part. ,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,beam me back !!
Absolutely!!!!
Yeah. Nothing bad happening in '68. /eyeroll
My best Memories are from 1968, leading up into 1969...Peace Baby
Sara Hendrix Peter, Paul and Mary sang Bob Dylan's Blowin' in the Wind in 1968. A true reflection of what was going on at the time. And a very popular song. I'M not the downer. THE TIMES were.
What great years of our life ! 68 & 69. Peace out sweetheart ! ROCK ON .
This was long before Billy Idol...the originals are still the greatest! Thanks for posting!
Diane Potter Tommy James is always the best
Diane Potter let me know if you want me ticktock for you saandrakayballardlpvehegod
Funny I have just said that same thing in a comment to some one else.
I can remember riding in my Pontiac Bonneville Convertible with my friends listening t this on the radio just before I went off to Vietnam, when I came back everybody was gone and so was my childhood with it.
Mr. Brown, thank you very much for your service to this country!! God Bless You and your family.
That's nice of you to say, thank you so much.
Paul Brown heu
That's real sad, chalk another wasted childhood up to the stupid politicians, you did what you thought was right, hats off to you for that
Paul Brown yes Our Childhood was ....more importantly so our..Innocence service
" Across The Pond...changed our Lives...FOREVER...✌️Man!!
anyone still listening to this in 2020? they always used to play this at the funfair when i was a teenager late 60's I still love it!
These were the days, when music was truly good music. I miss these days.
Then never stop listening to it!!!
What a band and TJ up front rockin' that Nehru jacket. I loved that look back then. Still do.
This is a hard rocking song for anyone to have written. Give it up for Mr. Tommy James.
On this day in 1969 {January 26th} Tommy James and the Shondells performed "Mony Mony" on the CBS-TV program 'The Ed Sullivan Show'...
Six months earlier on July 27th, 1968 it was at #34 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart, and that was also its last day on the chart; it had peaked at #3 {for 1 week} on June 9th, 1968 and it spent 17 weeks on the Top 100...
On the same 'Sullivan' show they also performed "Crimson and Clover"; and at the time it was in its first of two weeks at #1 on the Top 100...
Between 1966 and 1970 the group had nineteen Top 100 records; seven made the Top 10 with two reaching #1, their other #1 record was "Hanky Panky" for 2 weeks in 1966...
sorry kids of today.....this is musik. A timeless masterpiece for a bygone epoch with rebellion, imagination and fantasy.Nothing can bring back memories better,than a song which he was once connected with.
1968, great time, wanna go back to this era.
this was the first song played at my daughter's wedding and it got everyone on the dance floor great time.... great song....
I can't sit/stand still when I hear this song!!
+Kathleen Craig who can? if anyone can, must be something wrong ! l0l
+jessie james lol...love this!
Great music to dance to Kathleen, Great Times.
Lol me either, try driving and hearing it.. im sure I was a sight! Lol
I like how Billy Idol sang it better!
I will be seeing him for the third time in April. I can't wait! He sounds as good now as he did then:)
Wundervoll an welch exzellenten Jahrzehnten voll herrlicher Musik wir bisher teilnehmen konnten.....danke.❤❤❤
Everyone seems to know the words and beat to this hit , it’s a feel good record and that ain’t a bad thing. It’s a recipe for success, the sixties and seventies where full of feel good music and I would like to go back PLEASE 👍😊
omg this is the best, could listen over and over again
OMG! I LOVE TJ+S ! LOVE this video and all of oldies. LOVE the clothes too! Either you LIVED through this era or you didn't - there is no comparison to today rap crap music.
some music pieces from today are really good. Some music from that time was shit. There is bad and good music from each genration.
This song is still the the best no 1 from the 60's as far as i'm concerned. I remember when I first heard it, I thought to myself , when I get my pocket money on Saturday, I'm going straight to Reidys music on penny st and buying this great song,,,,,,,& I did.
Loved it as a kid, still love it. Not heard it for decades!! Haven’t got a clue what it’s about. It doesn’t matter!
@Andybetz.99 AVOIDING TROLLS SO JOG ON.
A real classic! Fabulous song and brilliantly sung by Tommy. Iconic!
can some one invent a time machine i want to go back to this era
Me too!
Take me.
And don't forget me!
+Goddess .FourWinds Wow your life must just be total shit.
Naked Acres How'd you get that from what I said? hahaha
I grew up in the 1960s and 1970s.
Thank God.
Me too.
and me
Born in 74'
But I know what you are talking about.
Amen to THAT!! :D
Born in 1945. Still love it !
Love the guy in the background, who's soo into it & Tommy's just so calm!!!
I was 17 when I heard this song passing by a record store at Santa Catarina street in Oporto (Portugal) and till this day each time I walk by I always remember the song.
ビートポップスで、この曲で小山ルミが抜群のセンス良いゴーゴーを踊っていて、真似してテレビの前で踊ってました。懐かしく凄く踊りたくなります
Thanks for posting this past-blast; just upped my mood completely!
loved this style shirts and the beads , Met my best friend that summer, we danced on her back porch.. We still are friends today.
It is a Narru Jacket with love beads
Yeah yeah yeah🤣🤣💗💗💗
Nehru Jacket
Nehru
Niente da dire,cara Luisa,il colletto alla coreana era molto diffuso alla fine degli anni '60,proprio con la dolce vita... Ciao !!!
Happy carefree days amazing music people were kind and neighbours become family enjoyed what we had and music made it happen
I love this song. Sadly I didn't get to experience the 60's but the great music lives on.
ABSOLUTELY FABULOUS,’ who’s still listening here 2023🤩😱🌹❤️🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
I like how Billy Idol sang it better!
Aberdeen here 🏴
Nehru collars and love beads...and Tommy. ..what could be better!
summer of 68, my friend comes up the street crying and when I asked her what happened she said that our friend broke her mony mony record because she played it so much
Debbie, thanks for the great laugh!!
true story lol @@proudhawkeye
Loved this when it was released. Still love it now. Great song for dancing to.
Try sitting still listening to this, ain't gonna happen in this world even 2021 version
I heard this song back in 1968 on the radio and The Shondells had everyone fast dancing. Their hit single Crimson and Clover was their slow dancing song. I knew which type all the songs were and used to dance with all the pretty high school girls. Life had purpose, women! LOL!