Wayne Fontana-Pamela Pamela 1967

[1951janchri]

I remember thjis song so well as i was going out with a girl called Pamela at the tim happy days i was 15 she was 14 ahhh.

[Whytamin007]

Pamela pamela A - started to grooooooooooow!

[lilynick1]

never get tired of this one :)

[imlaurent]

I can't stop literning to this song, sorry if that makes me look sad lool but its fantastic! :) x

[Viewpointreviews]

I was given a copy of this recently on the Fontana label.  The flipside is an absolute cracker. 'Something Keeps Calling Me Back' - It really should get pulled out of the box more!

[spacepatrolman]

@Viewpointreviews They used to play this on the radio on worfm in new york I have this fm tube radio called a high mood when it gets warmed up it sounds like a marshall

[RonaldVaughan]

Heard this song a long time ago on the Hawaii-only "KRUISIN' KLASSICS" show....very rare. You mean,THE Wayne Fontana,formerly of the band The Mindbenders?

Does this song exist in STEREO? And what label is it on? It's one of the mid-60's "vaudeville" type popsongs...sort of reminds me of "Winchester Cathedral". Nice reference to LAUREL AND HARDY.....

[BarsOnDemandUK]

my name is pamela and my aunty bought me this record i was 13 at the time i still know all the words . it desribes me to a tea!!!! well then it did

[Omaha76Steve]

@BarsOnDemandUK Pamela has always been a pretty name but WF makes the hauntingly timeless!

[boldkevin]

Pamela Dawson. Where are you now.

[longboarder771]

Pam...a derivative of Pamela. A name that has almost disappeared, as this present generation seems to have forgotten the name? I met a Pamela recently, sadly I was born too young for her, but she remains.....Unforgettable!

[TheWoodcutter57]

Saw Wayne at Darlington on saturday still got a great voice and the audience loved him

[FERRARIDOUG355]

THANKS FOR POSTING THIS

IF I EVER GO WITH A PAMELA , THIS SONG WILL BE ON MY MIND

[philcomic1]

brilliant

[marathon452]

Those were the days!......

[rorigiles]

This song is timeless.

[forestgumpaed]

nice song to remind you of pamela anderson

[annetgent0509]

Ye gods, all those memories!!!

Bless Wayne Fontana for bringing them back for me-

I adore him!

[psychofred2]

Marlboro Country!

[sinfoxable]

A song of my teens in Australia [still here] love the words as I'm a Pamela also

[spacepatrolman]

@sinfoxable they used to play this on the radio on worfm in new york [before that stations on am and fm were simulcasting the same programs so this was an early fm only hit ]

[bze2nlz4]

garageband66--Just thought I'd let you know that 'pmbloem' has ripped off this video and put it on his channel. A couple of mine got stolen, too....

[thallassocracy]

Um um um um um was one of the great songs of the early '60's (and among the truly great cover versions) - but Wayne also produced minor classics with Stop, Look, Listen; The Game of Love; Come on Home; and this one.

The Mindbenders were anodyne once they lost him.

It is a shame he never recaptured his early success (and that he later became so worryingly eccentric).

[drohegda]

the woman at 1:01 and 2:01 is an Irish beauty.

[8moody1]

I know this song is about a girl but the lines:you were young and everything was new,impatient to do things you that you could,t do. That was me at 14. Peace

[kennnmoran]

SHE is nice but P.A. should not have been the

[mmmmeeeennnnnnnnoooo]

With this great song I'm young again;

and I'm always a child of the sixties !

CW Holland

(Does anybody knows the mailadres from Wayne? thanks)

[richardhanna0]

love this song! the string section sends me!!

[tutankamon995]

Wonderful!

[dusty11111988]

Who was she?

[TheOldhamblue]

origonally from shaw oldham lancashire

[daubervil]

In Memory of my Best School Friend....Pamela....deceased at age 14......Love and not forgotten

[phil1958uk]

The type of song, that improves, with age.

[68enxy]

Great song, never heard it before----Pamela Anderson's boobs are silly looking, natural is better!!!

[TheDooleyb]

the most romantic pop song ever uttered

this is as moving as any poem by Keats

pop music at its best

[petermorriscpa]

I saw WF on stage a couple of years ago - he sang a few oldies but not this one. He ate half a sandwich on stage. A bit sad really.

[garageband66]

I had hoped WF was getting better; he has had a rough go of things since the 60's.

[2n918]

Huh! Totally missed this one in the sixties! Was a big fan of WF&theMB. Good song, Thanks for posting.

[garageband66]

He had dropped the mindbenders or they dropped him before this was released.

[doglips1958]

@garageband66 I think I read once that he left them to go out on his own and one of the other Mindbenders said the only thing they lost was a tambourine player.

[bracadale]

Remember this one from schooldays. Haven't heard it since early 67. Brings back memories of first girlfriend and all thr romance...Song sounds just as good now over 40 years later.

[MoorelandSt]

Written by the great Graham Gouldman (For Your Love, Bus Stop, No Milk Today...and many more)

[bhcandaswp]

Great sound this too G66,nice one !.Girl at 0:48 does it for me lol !

[garageband66]

@bhcandaswp She's a Pamela! So she counts!

[pamelaswayze77]

@garageband66 haha my name is pamela teehee

[gailmckennag]

@bhcandaswp i think it's pamela david without the paint and soccerballs.

[JACKANDJAY10]

@gailmckennag ..wow after a year lol..so it is,she's Argentinian..that spices it up a bit too :)..cheers !

[mal334455]

will always remind me of the school holidays back in the late 60s and long hot summers....i remember dreading going back to school after 8 weeks of birdnesting/catapulting/fishin­g/....this was on radio 1 all the time....

[bhcandaswp]

What a great tune,dosnt sound similar to any tunes like a lot did in that era.

[salstream]

WOW... nice one pam .. bet ya went weak at the knees...

[pammyoneto]

I dealt blackjack to Wayne Fontana at a casino I worked...he saw my `name badge` and began to sing Pamela Pamela to me which I thought was lovely

[garageband66]

Hey, I bet that made your day.

[fjbutch]

great 'ol song .......

[royalexchange22]

i wud as a pamela born in 60'sloved a real version.

[garageband66]

Lots of Pamelas have shown up here. You are in a nice crowd I'm sure.

[shaniaisgod]

wish I could see the original recoding of this. Been listening to this for over 40 years

[garageband66]

I am not aware that Wayne ever did a live version of this or anything else as a solo artist. It may exist somewhere.

[m2mot]

Sure does - I have a copy of this record someware in my collection.Actually I think it was 1966 that it was released

[twostroketwins]

Oh yes impatient to do things you couldn't do, or too naive. That was the problem in them years. A cracking song, wonder if this will be heard in another decade or so, cos the old bregade are getting older. These years were SO GOOD.

[glamrockerqueen1]

I played in a support band to Wayne & The Minders at The Floral Hall Ballroom, Morecambe in 1965 in the pre Pamela days. They were, as always a very pro and polished group, great musicians. This song is a favourite of mine; such sweet evocative memories of a simpler time. Great days, great group, great song. Thanks for the posting!

Didn't The Mindbenders have some connection with Neanderthal Man by Hot Legs around 1971?

Jo Waite

[finefleurholland]

A very nice Graham Gouldman (10cc) song! listen to the original on his album The Graham Gouldman thing.

[garageband66]

Yes his is a good version as well.

[woody7075]

garageband66 .......congratulations on a wondefully constructed clip as the words are sung - Laurel & Hardy; lollys on splintery sticks; "our first kiss";

however "crushes on miss"......I never had a school teacher that hot....the girl/teacher in the blue bikini is HOT! HOT! HOT!

[garageband66]

Teachers are very sexy people behind closed doors; I know quite a few.

[1966mybestyear]

This song actually was released in November 1966. I was there and remember it like is was yesterday!

[garageband66]

Web-sites can be so misleading.

[stigjig]

very well made video, to a good song

[garageband66]

Thanks for such a nice comment.

[salstream]

hiya garage... you know your music mate.. this is brilliant... best wishes... and keep em comin

[garageband66]

Thanks for those comments from across the pond.

[ronfinefleur]

During the march 2009 tour in Holland Graham played his version of pamela live on stage. Very very nice one. For me one of the best songwriters ever.

[garageband66]

Still wish 10cc had stuck around a little longer.

[ronfinefleur]

Yes, i spoke a long time with Graham about it. 10cc for me is still the most inspiring underrated band. in the world  I do e-mail a lot with Graham so if you need to know things i can pass it to him.

[grasspa]

Yes another fine fine band of the 1975 days

[Pamelan88]

I love this song! I was named after it. It used to be my mums favourtie song and now its mine! It just reminds me of the innocence of childhood. As someone has alreadyu said it doesnt involve love or crime! ITs brillant got to be my all time favourite!

[garageband66]

Thanks for the nice comments and the view.

[mal334455]

very nice comment, well said

[acechadwick]

Who is the girl at 1.13? I think she has a very 60's look. I think women looked different then. Much softer. I am female and I have noticed a distinct change in womens looks over the last 30 years. Brigitte Bardot and Pam Anderson have a similar look but Pams has that much harder edge. Not a criticism just an observation.

[garageband66]

I just googled Pam images. Pamela McChado is one of them and is a professional photographer and model.

[Slammerworm1]

Cheers for this. Get the Pamela Anderson jokes, but... While the lyric simply details a narrators entreaties to Pamela to remember more innocent childhood days, as a kid hearing this on the radio I always thought something really terrible had happened to Pamela, and that she was actually dead, an impression formed by the jaunty-yet-melancholy melody and strengthened by Fontanas lonely-dog howling of the titles final syllable at the end. Hoo, thats spooky. What did happen to Pamela?

[garageband66]

That's one story I had not heard. Is that some kind of urban legend?

[Slammerworm1]

Naw, just an over-imaginative kid, I guess. It does have a certain haunting quality, though. It would make a very effective 'Cold Case' song. Alternately, there's a horror/thriller story in there somewhere, with a ready-made title and theme tune. Cheers!

[lrd9999]

@Slammerworm1 I got a similar impression from "Summer Rain" by Johnny Rivers. No mention of any tragic event, but the mood of the music seemed to point in that direction.

[englishrover]

great memories from one of the most treasured times of my life , 66/67 , i was 10 then and much of the things he is singing about in the song was appropriate to me then

[garageband66]

Yes innocence is not over-rated here.

[KevKli3]

I didn't even exist when this song was popular. But, I agree, music then was much better than music today.

It may sound weird, but I think western music died somewhere around 1995-6.

The lyrics are good, too. They're not about love-sex for a change.

[garageband66]

Yes there is a sense of realness to them. I guess it's because these are feelings we have all had at one time or another.

[fjbutch]

I have been looking for this song for years......Thanks GB66

[garageband66]

My pleasure.

[mizkellcat]

I remember seeing Wayne Fontana in some drying out clinic a few year back. = )

[garageband66]

Good, I hope he stays sober.

[mizkellcat]

Well it was around about 20+ years ago....It was my Mum who told me who he was, and I admit I didn't have a clue who he was at the time.

[machiavelli99]

What a fantastic memory of 1967 and being in Grade 4!

When nearly every song on the charts was worth listening to.

[garageband66]

From top to bottom! Music will never be as great or diverse as it was then. You could hear so many different styles.

[sweeney169]

Oh, We were young, weren't we? There is a thief about, he is called "Father time". The bastard! :)

[garageband66]

Someone's gotta' catch that guy someday.

[fjbutch]

Couldn't put it better myself ....but what treasured memories ...

[PaulGarrack]

Great video I remember the music so well. We used a two track studios above a shop called Nield and Hardy on Underbank in Stockport to record demos and Erroca studios in M/C to press them. Those where the days when it was all brand new and being on tour was going to Liverpool in your old Ford Thames van with your Vox amps we all thought it would be over like a dream who would of thought some of us are still going strong and the sound is still out there thanks to people like garageband66. BRAVO.

[garageband66]

Thanks for the tech information and keep on plugging. There are many of us out here, forgotten by the media monolith known as "radio".

[4472barry]

The first single i ever bought from my local record shop.A lot of water under the bridge since then but it brings back happy memories.

[garageband66]

I hope not "too" much water. Glad for the memories though.

Thanks for the view.

[JanSimmes]

Lovely song, lovely pictures. Thank you!

[garageband66]

Thanks for the view! There's a lot of attractive Pamelas in the world apparently.

[salstream]

nothing weired about that mal... great memories... would love to be doing it now.. and the same age.

[mal334455]

reminds me of my childhood in the 60s,going out in the countryside birdnesting and useing catapults ...weird i know but great memories

[garageband66]

Sounds like fun to me.

[4449ela]

it reminds me too, das war eine schöne Zeit

[mal334455]

glad you agree my friend...

[Pitto51]

wonderful record. The first single I bought in my childhood. Will never forget the romantic feelings connected with this song

[garageband66]

I still have my first 45 I ever bought. Little GTO by Ronnie and the Daytonas. I know what you mean.

[nickrileyvideodiary]

LOVE THIS SONG!!!! pops played me this on vinal, and it made me appreciate how good my childhood was, and how good my life is now, but not forgeting the innocence of times gone1 cheers for this upload. means a lot to me.

[garageband66]

You are welcome and thanks for the view.

[goodlad29]

Top Tune,Great Song

[garageband66]

Gets a lot of play in my car still.

[Pilatead30]

Ramscrota, you are an idiot!

[ramscrota]

A fine song. But as the notes say, Wayne's gone downhill since then. His biggest mistake is in Pamela Pamela: instead of "When Laurel and Hardy were shown at the flicks", he should have sang "When Laurel and Hardy were showing their dicks!"

I suggested that he re-record the song with those words in it, but instead he dismissed my entry (on his website) refering to me as 'another twat'!

Wayne's website has since been shut down by the authorities. A pity.

[spacepatrolman]

they have a cake called dick in england there is a picture of axel rose holding a box between his legs

[58Clams]

I love this song.These are rill songs.

[garageband66]

It is a good song, no doubt about it.

[jennaserra]

ahhh memories......as a Pamela this was my song in 1967 growing up in England.....so glad to have found it again!

...Pamela

[garageband66]

Glad you found it! Thanks for the view! I'm sure you are as lovely as the Pamelas in the video.

[hollies65]

A great one!

[garageband66]

Thanks for the view!

[blueboy680]

One of the most evocative and beautiful songs from my childhood. Love it so much.

[IDLERACER]

Written by Graham Gouldman, who released his own version a few months after this one came out. I'm convinced that Elvis Costello borrowed a bit of the melody for his song, "God's Comic."

[garageband66]

I knew Graham wrote it but never knew he had recorded it. What year was it released 67?

[IDLERACER]

It was on his 1968 album "The Graham Gouldman Thing" which I believe is currently available on CD.

[BrokenMotherTongue]

WOW! i've lost my 45 of this! thanks for the upload... b-side "something keeps calling me back" is good too!

[garageband66]

I'll see about finding that one! Thanks for the view!

[5micky2]

Very romantic tune that brings back all those teenage heartache memories. The images breathe new life into a great song. Well done.

[garageband66]

I have recently gotten into the UK scene of this time period and find the UK music better produced. I still love the rawness of the garage bands here in the US but it is amazing how different the songs are from the same time period, separated by an ocean.

[spacepatrolman]

Beautiful video to a beautiful song.

[garageband66]

Thanks so much!