I am going back to 1962 with this choice. I was only 10 years old, but I knew I had to have this record as soon as I heard it on the radio. This was his only major hit, but it was a very big one. Chris Montez changed his style later and became a ballad singer, never achieving the same level of fame again. Now aged 80, he is still working.
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I wish i would be able to dance, Pete! A great song for having fun with this. xx Michael
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Just dance anyway. Nobody is looking! 🙂
Best wishes, Pete.
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Yes!! I’d know that voice anywhere, and the beat! What a great song.
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It certainly made you want to dance, so a very appropriate title. 🙂
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Very much so. Best to you, Pete.
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Does this make him a one hit wonder? Warmest regards, Ed
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Almost. He had a second hit here with the song, ‘The More I See You’, in a very different style.
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Pete, my older brother was in the Coast Guard, and he left me all of his rock albums…I was 10 when I learned about some of the all-time great bands – no Pete, NOT Beatles! John Mayall’s Blues Band, Frank Funk Railroad, Jimi Hendrix, Cream…this young boy’s mind was blown!
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I was a big fan of Cream at one time. And I did own a Grand Funk Railroad album too. 🙂 But I was predominantly a ‘Soul Boy’, something of a cult back then.
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This song creates a party atmosphere whenever it is played!
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It certainly does, Annette!
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It’s the kind of music that makes you want to move. The best sort of exercise, in my view. Those ladies were so slender!
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The song is well-named. It has that effect, undoubtedly.
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It was a big hit here, too. It makes you want to get up and move!
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It certainly does, Maggie.
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I’ve always loved this one! It’s irresistible.
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That’s a good word for it, Liz.
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I remember reading a book by the mother of moors murder victim Lesley Ann Downey. She recalls searching for Lesley at a fairground where her daughter was last seen at. This record was playing as she searched, and now whenever I hear this song I think about that poor desperate mother.
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The Moors Murders were the first big national murders I was very aware of from reading newspapers. Such awful details were widely reported in the press.
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I was living in Spain and this was not big on the radio back then…..like the song chuq
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It was a huge hit in Britain, chuq.
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Yup, we all danced to this one. Great memories.
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It was good for dancing The Twist, as I recall. 🙂
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It was perfect for twisting but we jived to it as well.
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