1910 Fruitgum Company "Simon Says" 45rpm
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 24 ม.ค. 2010
- Original Buddah Records 45rpm recording.
Song debuted on 1/27/1968 and peaked at #4 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart. It charted for 14 weeks and was the first hit for the Fruitgum Co. My dad was a big "bubblegum" fan when he was growing up in the late 60s and this is a song I grew up listening too as well. - เพลง
I am 58 yrs old. I remember this song when I was growing up. It is a Real Good Feel Good Song. ❤️❤️❤️❤️
I am 65 and still like to listen to this song
Very fun song! Have always enjoyed it!
1968 in Panama Canal Zone in the Navy. There was a bar on Base called the Firecracker where officers and enlisted mixed within walking distance to main Admin building. At 1600 (4pm) the bar filled up and the jukebox blasted. When the crowd got to feeling good I would play this song three times in a row (three plays 25 cents) and the nurses and men would dance like crazy in dress whites. An unforgettable moment in time.
Sixties music alive and well in 2021
2022. Still listening to this gem.
A great peppy song that is great and a joy to listen to.
One of the funniest songs to dance to growing up. Love it.....
We are living in very difficult times in 2022 - energy crisis, war in Ukraine.... it's really good to hear such nice feel-good oldies from years long past. I was born in 1967 and remember that my parents played "Simon Says" by the 1910 Fruitgum Company from a tape reel very often in the early 70s. I still love listening - greetings from Germany.
@Stefan Wöhlke- “different times”? Really? “Times” are always different. What kind of times was it in the early 40’s when Hitler was killing the Jews?
Yes and this is my favorite song..always was and always will be
It’s a great song, but when it came out in 1968, times really weren’t that different. We had riots in cities and the Vietnam War, for starters… the more things change, the more they remain the same.
@@robby062 There was no energy crisis in 1968, but the underlying problem it caused, inflation was definitely also around in 1968, as a result of the 'guns AND butter' high deficit policies from the mid 1960s.' Inflation first crept up in 1966.
Sooner or later, everything will be okay
Had sooo much fun with this song when we were kids..
I love most of their songs. Great memories.
Every Saturday night, the YMCA held a teen dance called the "Hub." This and many other "bubblegum" songs were played over and over. Fantastic time to start your dating life. I met my future wife there.
This song was a staple at the roller rink we frequented in the 70’s, it brings back great memories!😅
I love this song and so did my dad until the day he passed.
That song became a smash in early 1968. Played at dance halls.
I was walking in a mall in Bangkok, Thailand and saw a Thai man who seemed to be playing every bubble-gum song ever recorded. He did a really good version of this song and many others. What a strange place to encounter this kind of music. Very psychedelic in its own way.
I hear this on the Philippine Radio Stations every Sunday Morning, this is really good. I like to thank Google Music Search for finding this Song. 🥰
My oldest sister bought this 45 in 1968. I was in the 1st grade and she was in the 5th grade. It was an AWESOME song and now I reminisce about my idylic baby boomer childhood.
To me this is the best 45rpm record ever made...even the label is cool...love it
Yes! Those labels on the old 45s are very cool. The colors and graphics are so hip.
Recorded by the original 1910FC, with was a really talented group and their debut album is a masterpiece.
@@johnbrowneyes7534 Ironically, Buddah started out with plain red or green labels before issuing Buddah #13, the first Buddah release to use the classic "psychedelic swirl" design from 1968-1972. The last Buddah 45 to have a plain red or green label was Buddah #12, which was Zal Yanovsky's "As Long As You're Here".
really ???
As a child we had neighbors who had a jukebox in their house and this song sounded so sweet on the jukebox.
The base made the whole room vibrate. 😊
I can understand how different people can have different taste but to a certain extend....i can not see how people can not like this song
I was 6 when this came out. I saved my allowance and went to the corner drug store and bought this record .I dug it then and still do today at 56 yrs old.
good song very
what could be more perfect for a bubblegum hit than adding a dance beat to a children's nursery rhyme?
I can't believe that this song is now 50 years old. It still sounds good here in 2018 just as it did back in '68.
It sounds better in 2018 than it did in 1968
HALF CENTURY(1968-2018)
Still sounding good today 2022
Now 2022
2023 and I still love it!
1968 had the greatest music of all time may I remind you too that was the year I was born Thank Goodness for the sixties
I still like the bubblegum songs
Still going. 2023
We danced to this version in kindergarten. Love this song!
I love this bubblegum song. when it hit #4 on the billboards in 1968. I was 14 years old. I'm now 62 years old.
I was 13 years old and I was in Italy !! (where I still am)
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@@giuliogrifi7739 Hahahaha, my great grandson, 2years, had my phone. Just as I grabbed it he touched the send arrow. Thank you for being humorous in response!
@@zebbiebuzick-anderson472 Don't worry, no problem...both you and your great grandson are welcome !.....It was a joke me and my schoolmates used to play while attending elementary school ( six to eleven years old...ages ago)...I still remember it...I never knew where it came from !...Cheers !
Classic children's game that I remember well when I was in second or third grade
Still listening ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
It's almost 50 years. Zounds, I'm getting old; I remember this.
I can believe the old tricks this group used to get up to...At the end of the day, its all part of the party mood. I played this record often for the family. Those days are long gone, still, vaguely I recall the 'Simon Says'
Yer yahoo to those good days im 69 an love this an can do the actions a bot slow but still gitnthere hahaha 😅😅
This song is great. I just got the 45 record today!🎉🎉 who else hears the scooby door theme song a little? 😊
Glad to know it's not just me
Scooby doo where are you theme song I love also....both songs are awesome
1968 was the year for AM radio 📻 playing all the Bubblegum artists music 🎶🎵.
When I hear this I’m 13 years-old again, although my back and knee joints tell me I’m 65.
i'm 76, remember this well - gets you moving
@@stelladonnelly2832 no how u feel I'm 67 years young oh the poor joints ha ha ha
Same here! I still love the song!
Wow I'm the young one for once..
I had the record of this song when i was like 9 years old... and I'm only 50 years old..
You know i had the same reaction today that i had when i first heard this song....
It still sounds like something out of the original Scooby-Doo cartoon!!!
Lol!!
When I listen to this i realize his much shit music came out I the 60’s. And people complain about the 80’s. WTF!!!
Like Scoob, Zoinks! Super Scooby Doo vibes. Nice groove.
Another iconic masterpiece from a days gone by genre
Simon miss you so much my very best friend in life RIP 15/12/59- 27/11/17 love 💕 always xxxx
Wow, I also just lost a guy named Simon, it’s devastating
Nothing beats the original mono 45 r.p.m. 7" single - thank you for posting this fun dance classic DAVEDJ
I was in seventh grade. Loved this song so much.
On this day in 1968 {March 9th} the 1910 Fruitgum Co.* performed "Simon Says" on the Dick Clark ABC-TV Saturday-afternoon program. 'American Bandstand'...
At the time the song was in it's first of four weeks at #4 on Billboard's Top 100, that would also be it's peak position on the chart, and it spent fourteen weeks on the Top 100...
And on April 28th, 1968 it reached #2 {for 1 week} on the United Kingdom's Single chart, the week it was at #2, the #1 record for that week was "What A Wonderful World" by Louis Armtrong...
Between January 1968 and August 1969 the New Jersey quintet had seven records on the Top 100, three made the Top 100...
Besides "Simon Says", their two other Top 10 records both peaked at #5, "1,2,3, Red Light" for 2 weeks on September 8th, 1968 and "Indian Giver" for 1 week on March 16th, 1969...
* And from the 'For What It's Worth' department, besides the Fruitgum Co. there was one other 'Co.' on the Top 100 in 1968, Cliff Nobles and Co. peaked at #2 {for 3 weeks} with "The Horse", and for all three weeks it was at #2, the #1 record was "This Guy's In Love With You" by Herb Alpert...
I get in to any from ABBA to heavy metal I love this old bubble gum music takes me back to my child hood I'm just a music lover who dosent like to stick to one type of music
Now that was some cool music.
Kindergarten and first grade we heard it in school 1970 &1971
I heard this song in Long Island!
I was 11 when tis song came out almost 12 in 1967 or early 68 .
I was pre school when I use to listen to these on Am radio! 😂🙂
Good Song.
Thank you for posting this ORIGINAL version !! This is the version we heard on Top 40 radio in 1968. Every other version I've found online and on the Buddah Records Anthology has the "bah bah bah bah" chorus on the first verse, right out of the gate. Not sure why some record executive or producer decided to mess up this perfectly excellent original mix.
I think tht the version that has the "bah bah bahs" right from the first verse was the album version - that's how it was recorded. Someone from Buddah thought for the single let's take those out of the first verse and you're right - this sounds better Tommy James an the Shondells did that a lot too.
Like many hit songs from the 1960s, different mixes were done for the mono single version and the stereo album versions. The labels still saw the mono 45 version as more important until maybe about a year after "Simon Says" came out, so they wouldn't mind if the (often younger and less experienced) engineers doing the stereo mixes made some minor changes. In some cases (example: Otis Redding's "Otis Blue" LP, with "I've Been Loving You Too Long" on it) the stereo version is an entirely different recording or an alternate take.
The grand irony, of course, is that nowadays the stereo versions are the only ones compilation producers and often radio stations and TV will play.
I can remember having this record by the pictire
Every Friday on Twitch I do a radio show (actually doing it right now) and we are doing the week of April 20th, 1968 where it landed #36 on the charts. (ChibiJoVT on twitch) absolutely fun song
I was in the middle of 6th grade. Great fun in Gym class.
One fine song.
Awesome!
Esta canción , en una versión al español cantada por Roberto Jordan , estuvo 38 semanas en primer lugar del programa nocturno, en Cuba ,
This song reminds me of the Scooby-Doo theme song.
That shouldn't be too surprising. Considering that the Scooby-Doo soundtrack, especially the chase sequences had bubblegum pop songs playing. Bubblegum pop has become very syonymous with Saturday morning cartoons back in the 1960s and 70s.
So many Hanna Barbera cartoons in the late 60s and early 70s used bubblegum music, including Josie and the Pussycats, Wacky Races, Yogi's Gang, and, of course, Scooby Doo, Where Are You.
I was going to comment that actually because my perfect pitch was telling me that it's the same chord progression, only in 1969, the sd theme song was in Bflat and this song in 68 is in A... but then when the solo kicked in, the first few notes were the same rhythm and melody! Either way, great music and my generation lost the definition of great music!
golden oldies......beautiful....60's song number one in lebanon for about
42 years ago
A certifiable guilty pleasure!
I bet the AM radio 📻 station Personalities had a ball playing bubblegum music 🎶🎵
Wow Am I really 58 years old?
My wife says YEAH. I believe her.
Please ask your wife if I'm 58 too. *wink*
"simon says" put your hand on your heart, and embrace the 99.9% of people who are GOOD!!!!!
Bad idea, they might get the ‘ronavirus
This was the first record I ever bought and I memorized it completely. I even sang it in front of my friends and we did the "Simon Says" together. Probably one of the goofiest things I ever did.
A look back in time to Cousin Bruce Morrow Yearbook shows on the old CBS FM radio
some of the best bubble gum rock ever wow im to old
1st 45 I ever bought!! I was 10 yrs. old...
I used to sing this song in my local pub once upon a time happy daye Richard
Still have the 45 record
I am 76 and counting what a song
Thanks a lot for posting this amusing hit!
The recording engineers & session players of this era & genre were titan wizards. What you're hearing sounded just as in-your-face nuclear thru mono tv, car or even handheld transistor AM radio speakers.
This is why even modern rec engineers use Auratone cubes to present day ...
Good Vibrations, baby!
Brings back a memory of Proch's Ballroom in Ellsworth, WI, early 1969.
Now this song is just good clean fun. Happier times for sure.
Eine der besten Musicgruppen von damals!
Höre ich noch heute immer wieder gerne.
Love it!
19.März 2022.. ich bin 57 Jahre alt. Und freue mich noch immer über den Song
In this time the world needs a lot more HAPPY MUSIC like this... stay positive and keep smiling everyone!!!
🌞🍀🌈🍀🌞
I was born in 1970. I listened to a lot of 60s music in the 1980s because I didn't like a lot of the hit songs at that time. I've never heard this before. It was featured in a rather creepy scene in the otherwise brilliant 1968 cinema verite documentary simply called "High School."
Of course, there was nothing like the internet of today in the mid 1980s - the internet predated the world wide web- so, a person was restricted to songs on the radio (or on MTV, which wasn't different than the radio), or, if in a big city, the speciality record store, so had a been able to hear more of the British music at that time - The Smiths, The Cure, The Pogues, I probably wouldn't have listened to 60's music.
excellent sound...
Now that's Bubblegum
Great song even for 2020
Bubble Gum Music. luv it
2021. They used to play this at roller rinks when I was a kid.
BLISS!!! The BEST!!! Sadly, this period came and went...
This a original 1st. recording release. The later release have the Ba Ba right in the beginning. I like the later version . But over all this was one of the best songs for the year it was release. In my opinion.
Buddha Records - what a memory jolt I got when I saw this - forgot all about these 45s!
This gives me a great and feeling makes me want to play Simon Says. I first heard Claude Francois sing this song in French titled Jacques a Dit. I thought this might originally be sung in English and sure enough it was.
THANKS for posting this zman !!!
I was only ten when this song first came out.
This debuted, it says, two days before my tenth birthday!
baila conmigo tatiana jamás había oído este tema en inglés de Simon says que bonita música
I was 4!
Nan Fagan n
I was thirteen and I was in Italy !!!
Ten years before I was born but thanks to my parents keeping the old 7" singles I was introduced to a world of great music that is still sounding better than any of the shite churned out these days
Become big hit in the Philippines in 1968 was heard on radio on DZMB 90.7 kHz.
Growing up in the magical 60s was a blissful experience and this music is the icing on the cake!!! Long live the 60s!!!
I WAS 12. 65 NOW ITS STILL GOOD
The first song of what once was Jeckell & the Hydes,named after their former Lead Singer Frank Jeckell..they'd gotten their new name from an old Gum Wrapper,tucked away in a old suit in an attic,according to Mark Gutkowski,the Leadwho took over Jeckell's job.
Fabulous song ..brings back great memories.
I love bubble gum music.
Now my backbone slips and I need, Advil.
I still have this 45.
Me too
with the ICKY STICKY bubble gum and the FLIP yes I do, STICKY STICKY bubble gum.
I like the sugary sound of the late sixties...
The organ part sounds a lot like the Scooby Doo Where Are You theme, which premiered 2 years after this track was released👀
ZOINKS
Ancora super bellissima e piena di ricordi
they used to play this at the skating rink....and wipe out by the sifaris...and who could forget do the hokey pokey and turn yourself around
There was an original EP of this song in the original sleeve for sale at the Lifeline Bookfest in Brisbane in Jan 2020, the cost was $10.00
🕊 They printed so many of these 45's in the U.S. that when they couldn't sell any more , years later (discontinued) , a little hole was puched in them , by the label and put on a 'sale' rack .
I paid ten cents for it along with a few others , like Four Seasons on Phillips label . That was in the very early seventies. 🕊🦅
And I still love this song 49 years later.
Perfect for a dance hall. Love that old style keyboard.