Cant believe they tried to ban this song! DION The wanderer REACTION
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DION The wanderer REACTION
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My 2 favorite oldies songs are both by Dion - The Wanderer and Runaround Sue
Dion's The Wanderer has always been one of my favorites even to this day. I wonder that if he had been banned back then, would he still have cut his Abraham, Martin, and John and made his mark in our history. Someday I hope you'll do a reaction to that one.
In 1957, I was in High School in Texas. The radio stations refused to play any songs by Elvis, because of the way he danced on the stage. We kids had to either buy his records, or we could tune in after midnight to get a radio station out of Del Rio, Texas, which played all of the Elvis songs. Thanks, Harri, for your reactions.
Loved❤❤ Dion, with or without the Belmonts.
Dion had some great songs and this was one of them. Thanks Harri and JK.
The late great Eddie Rabbit covered this song. He did a great job.
Dion is fabulous. Wonderful analysis Harri
Back in the day my mom and dad used to do the dance The Stroll to this.
I must look this up! I’ve never heard of The Stroll! 😊😊😊🎉
My Mom and Dad jitterbugged to this song along with others😅
@@Dee-JayW WOW .... I'd forgotten about the "stroll".
This guy needs to meet Runaround Sue.
He did ..... they married and they're still married (probably 60 years?)
@@susansapp6136 Congrats on catching, and keeping, The Wanderer, Sue.
I love this song.
This is a cool & great song. 👍👍🎶🎶🎶. Love Dion. Harri 🎸❤️🔥❤️🔥
Dion's got that young, cool, New York swagger going on.
Great song by a great singer. ❤❤❤❤❤ Tellthose who want to cancel to go wander themselves. Now listen to him sing Run Around Sue.
I love it!
I can see being a wander. You have that kind of swagger, even sitting down. You have a smooth way of talking. 😊
Great review Harri, I think you enjoyed it as much as I did when I was 14. One of my favourite singers back then and I might still have the 45 rpm I bought when it came out. It sounds better today with the improved sound equipment we have.
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Loved Dion a long long time ago thanks
Harri, you looked like you had so much fun!!
Thanks Harry for not falling into that uptight whining. This is such a great song with such a cool groove to it. He didn't put any women down, demean them. It's all about him just playing around. Lighten up people, have some fun.
I loved Do Wop in those day too Harri, it still has a good sound to it!
Dion (Dion Dimucci) is one of the few artists from the 1950s who are still vibrant and releasing new material or collaborations. I encourage reading his bio and songlist, which can be found on his website. I have been a follower of Dion on and off throughout his illustrious career. Misogyny is NOT a descriptor that I would agree with when it comes to Dion. Evidently, Dion's charitable work for many causes, including women's rights and poverty, has been overlooked. Like so many artists in the music industry, Dion went off the rails a bit pharmaceutically speaking, but ever since that period, he has been a staunchly religious person.
I have not kept current regarding a musical that was scheduled to open around the start of the pandemic . It tells a story of his transformation and personal redemption."
One of my very fav songs
Seems in todays world people go out of their way to be offended. Give it a break people, lighten up. Life’s too short!
This wasn’t from today’s world. This was from the 50’s or the 60’s. The far right church people have been offended for decades. lol❤️🤗🐝
I couldn’t agree more. 💐
There's a lot of people out there with professional-level offended skills, people who have PhDs in being offended.
And I think people are addicted to being offended. It's how they make themselves feel superior. We need rehab facilities and a ten-step program for the offended addicts out there.
Nice reaction. This was an instant favortie of mine - when I first heard it.
Harri, I bought the album this was on when it first came out. All the radio stations were playing the single and I never heard a word about it being banned anywhere. I watched him play it at the largest amusement park in Massachusetts and more than half the crowd were kids under thirteen years old. In all the newspaper and TV news reviews no mention was ever made of it being banned anywhere or inappropriate. Even Cardinal Cushing, who took out full page newspaper ads trying unsuccessfully to get the Everly Brothers' song "Wake Up Little Suzie" banned in Boston never said anything about this one. I think either someone is misinformed or pulling your leg. It's true that there were record burning rock an roll protests (mostly in the south and midwest) in the 50's but by 1960 they were over, and songs rarely actually got banned. There probably weren't more than 10 songs banned in the ten years of the sixties, if that many, and most of them were only banned by one TV show or a handful of disc jockeys or radio stations.
There’s a Movie from 1979 called The Wanderers. It’s about gangs in NYC in the 60’s. KILLER SOUNDTRACK
I was going to mention that
I loved that movie.
You have to remember that when Rock & Roll started in America many Christian church groups tried to have that music banned from Radio Stations - like they tried to do to Rap 25 years later
But it sounds like persons wanting this song "cancelled" are not morality police, but those who dislike the (apparent) misogyny of the song.
And the world has gone to hell ever since.
I remember it very well and honestly never thought there was a problem. Casanovas have been around forever and will be around forever. There are girls like that too…
Not in those days. If a girl got into trouble back then, she could be cast off by her whole family. In fact, it was considered the moral thing to do. Think about it - if ONE daughter was in the family-way and unmarried, that meant to everyone that her sisters were 'loose', her brothers were libertines and her parents were pointed out on the street as being Bad and not the kind anyone respectable would want to know. Also, unless the girl went to a new Town and said she was a Widow, most companies/firms would not hire her. The only housing available for 'girls of that sort' were the worst of the worst, and often the child would be removed from them as they 'Were not fit to be a parent.' Hell, even in the early '70's, the oldest girl living next door to my Grandparents 'Got married 'because she HAD to.'
@@lexiburrows8127it happened, in my experience, even into the early 80’s. At least where I live, by then they were building daycares in schools to help keep the parents in school. A guy in grade 10 and a girl in grade 9 HAD to get married., pregnant. My friend in grade 10 (1978 ) HAD to get married in grade 10, pregnant. Very strict Roman Catholic we were. In a small town. A girl in grade. 9 took her own life when she found out she was pregnant. I had friends late in life, my age who were sent to live with a relative far away or were in unwed mother’s homes, and their child was adopted. I got pregnant at 18 and HAD to get married as well. This was 1982.
Casanova was no angel. His autobiography (which I have read) The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt, 1725-1798. Complete, is free to download as an ebook from Project Gutenberg. Do not read if you are easily shocked.
Did they Complained when Ricky Nelson Sang “Traveling Man”? He also went around the World loving the Ladies.
It was a regular thing back then to want to ban a song. It was a different world. All it took was for someone to say it was bad. And one song was banned because people couldn't understand the guy singing it so people said he said bad things so it was banned. Sometimes there was hearings by the government lol
Much like the way they do books now… right?❤️🤗🐝
You mean like Quarter to Three and Louie Louie?
Love the way your enjoying this song. Thank you for sharing.they
Hahaha Harri, so good to see you bouncing around with that ear-to-ear grin .... I hope you are now officially feeling better! Grand reaction, mate! Welcome back again ... don't go wandering!
P.S. Here's a late edition update: Live impromptu Accapella version - 2014 ... th-cam.com/video/1GwRKsOnk84/w-d-xo.html
Because the song is about a cad...moving from one nameless female to the next. Runaround Sue is basically the same song, but since its a female, she's being called something negative.
Dion has always been authentic & admits he has never half stepped on his lifestyle choices ~ He has gone so far as to say he should have died a long time ago ~
You should explore some of his new stuff ~ he performs with a number of great artists
From the 1961 album," Run Around Sue" Dion rose to Number 2 with this fabulous tune.
After appearing on Dick Clark's American Bandstand and then touring with The Coasters, Bobby Darrin and Buddy Holly, Dion quickly rose to fame and fortune.
From the first note, this song is automatically a first rate winner. The early 60's orchestration, 🎷🎷🥁🥁🎹🎹 so jazzy and instantly engraved to your memory and Dion's dusky, sweet vocals delivering a wonderful performance. Unfortunately he got involved with heroin, but later got clean.
Great reaction Harri.❤
Great choice JkClark.👏👏 Cheers from Canada ❤❤🇨🇦🇨🇦 6:06
Hi Mary.
Hi Cynthia, end of the C.N.E., ❤
It was actually on the Runaround Sue album released in 1961. The Belmonts were not on that album, it was his first solo album, though the Del-Satins sang the backup vocals on the album, including "The Wanderer".
@@ptournasThanks for the correction. ✌️✌️🇨🇦🇨🇦
Hello Mary. I continue to enjoy your informative posts. I love learning new little bits of backstories. 💐🌸
I do remember this one very well!! It's great! 😊😊
I've heard this song for decades and never heard anything nefarious. Someone must have been hugh on funny mushrooms.
Dion isn't singing about himself. In an interview, he says:
"It was actually written about a guy named Jackie Burns in my neighborhood. He had tattoos all over. He would go out with a girl named Mary or Flo, and then he'd get a tattoo. What was it? He had, "Flo on his left, and then Mary on his right."
"But when he broke up with the girl, he'd get the tattoo covered up with an alligator or something [laughs]. He'd walk down the street with that tank top on. He was in the Navy, and before his time with all of those tattoos. Ernie Maresca, by the way, was a big part of writing that song. We talked about it later, because I had changed that line. He wanted it as, "With my two fists of iron/And my bottle of beer." I said no, we need to make it, "With my two fists of iron/But I'm going nowhere.""
Those lines -- "With my two fists of iron / But 𝐼'𝑚 𝑔𝑜𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑛𝑜𝑤ℎ𝑒𝑟𝑒" -- he describes as the most significant lines of the song: "It's the idea of this macho guy getting some insight into himself for a split second, but then it quickly goes away. In those days, we had to do everything upbeat, but this song is darker if you really listen."
www.forbes.com/sites/jimclash/2023/08/26/dion-dimucci-who-were-runaround-sue-and-the-wanderer/
Anyone who called for this song to be canceled is crazy.
I always am reminded of "Chicken Run" when I hear this!!!!😂😂😂😂😂
I love oldies music. I think this is a great song. Thanks for sharing this song reaction request. Cheers, Harri! ✌️
Love me some Dion!! "I Can't Help but Wonder Where I'm Bound" is my favorite track of his
Is that the Tom Paxton song?
@@tomasbaker1912 I didn't even know it was a cover! Thank you. Yes, Dion's version is beautiful.
@@Jacksswastedlife I will have to listen to Dion's version. Thank you!
Good for you for taking a stand against Democrats CENSORSHIP.
Dion put out solo albums to. Look for King of the NY streets. Great song
The Wanderer and Runaround Sue are two songs that seem to be linked to each other.
The Male and Female versions of each other.
He has explained this song as a joke about a guy in the neighborhood who is a show off and bully. It isn't about Dion. Runaround Sue became his wife. They're still married.
@@susansapp6136 interesting, I didn’t know that.
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This is a favorite of mine. It just conjures warm memories from when I felt safer in this world. Great choice and reaction. Thanks Harri and JK 🌸💐✌️
That was me, in the 70's.
Oh, funny reaction!
Dead on analysis. Great song from a great artist. No one takes seriously the attempts by some to control what you're allowed to think or say. The whole reason cancel culture exists is so that news organizations can fill their ninety minutes of broadcasting each day with A/V clickbait. I can remember this song as a child and throughout my life and I can't even imagine that it was ever intended to glorify this type of behavior or in any way was misogynistic.
I get the feeling that Rosie broke his heart, and while he likes dating girls, he's never going to let himself fall for another woman, lest she hurt him like Rosie did.
Never thought of that, good one!
It was a different time. We weren't offended.
As a women I will say..there r Many of those WANDERER S AROUND..it's a warning!! Lol
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Harri have you ever thought of doing a Livestream like some other channels do ?
YES!!!!
Ironically he's been married to the same woman since 1963 - 61 years with one woman.
If you want another banned song, try "Rhapsody in the Rain" by Lou Christie. Great tune but many communities didn't care for the lyrics.
What about Yummy Yummy Yummy by the Ohio Express. I guess no one tried to ban it but it seemed to me there could be a double entendre.
Don't mind the stupid cancel culture and enjoy the music 🤣
If this song was a problem they surely must have treated women as equal people back then
Maybe the Wanderer should have been called The Philanderer, although that does be quite fit the beat. There was a similar themed but slower, more low-key song, Travelin' Man, by Ricky Nelson, which was actually released seven months earlier than The Wanderer and was a number one hit, about a world traveler with a girl in every port, so to speak:
I'm a travelin' man and I've made a lot of stops
All over the world
And in every port I own the heart
Of at least one lovely girl
I wonder if that song influenced the creation of The Wanderer. I see that Lynyrd Skynyrd had a song by the same name, Travelin' Man with a similar theme, but with more of the emphasis on wanting to be free, although I don't think I've ever heard it.
Ban it?? He's putting it out there -"I'm a cad!" - I wish ALL guys came with fair warning like that LOL!!!!
They also wanted to cancel the Christmas song, "Baby, It's Cold Outside."
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This is a great song, great singer. So petty wanting to keep if off the airwaves. Totally absurd.
The 50's were a VERY DIFFERENT TIME! This was blasphemous back then!
Harri that was back in the late 50's.
👍💯 hey and if its true, at least honest & up front abt it😉
Because! It’s about a guy messing w/ so many Girls 😬
Sounds like Al E. Katt to me.
What's different between "The Wanderer" and Lou Vega's "Mambo No. 5"?! No fuss was stirred up by "No. 5." Times change, minds change.
I caught a double entendre I never noticed as a young teen - was it intentional or not? Maybe that's what was found objectionable, altho' it went over the heads of us innocents in 1961.
It's not misogynistic, it's a song about a guy being an unrepentant jerk. Women have lots of songs about men who love 'em and leave 'em.
If you haven't already, could you please review 'It's All Over Now Baby Blue.' by Bob Dylan. It is spectacular.
Great song reaction request. Cheers! ✌️
This was back when America had morals.
This song isn’t a good reference for morals. 😅
@@traceycaterthat's the point bub. Explaining why they wanted to ban it
The brief sax solo was the 'dirtiest' part of the song!
"...I don't even know their names." then immediately begins to rhyme off their names. More of a poser than a wanderer in my opinion. Classic tune.
Was this only banned in the USA?
back in the old days you didn't run around with bunches of girls...that was a big no-no
Great song, but somebody is pulling your leg with the cancel stuff.
I love this song, even though I'm kind of a romantic. I hope the young man in the song falls in true love with one girl and changes his ways. But to each his own. Lol
As for woke people attempting to cancel things they don't agree with, well this isn't really anything new. It made me think of the racists and fundamentalist religious types (a lot were both at the same time) condemning rock and roll and Elvis, who was leading our country's teens to the devil. Lol
I've seen interviews in the 1950s when Elvis was brand new and controversial. One where a pastor was condemning rock and roll as the music of the devil and our country's young teens actually "thrust" their hips while dancing to it. Lol
The other is of a man maybe in his 60s with a southern or rural accent who said "that Elvis Presley is bringing the white man down to the level of the nxxxxr." _I'm so glad I didn't live through that era._
Come on there are so many examples of misogyny in the modern world - does it really make sense to focus on a song like this ? Its a fun/dancing song sure he is a player, does are still around a plenty and will be forever. The song isn't mean spirited at all - you obviously also have to interpret things from the time they come out as well. I love this song but I am also a semi boomer - at least in my music taste. Do the average person even know this song at all now ? :D
Song about Bill Clinton??!
yeah that's dumb, it was a different time and he's not advocating it, it's just a story of a shallow guy who gets around
What are people's problem. Music is music. Take your snowflakes your snowflake attitudes somewhere else.