Dickey Lee - I Saw Linda Yesterday

[starrfisher]

my dads first love linda died last year.

[catman5169]

I, too, was in love with a girl named Linda...we've known each other since forever. We went together back in the early 70s...drifted apart...married others...but are still friends today!!!

[willeveloce1]

Wasn't that song recorded by Stevue Wonder too?

[1ancienttraveler]

It must have something to do with the Name. I was involved with a girl named Linda in High School. I mistreated her, I was mean as hell to her and she was always there when ever I was on the skids from another relationship. I enlisted in the Marines in 68 and she always wrote to me. I realized my mistatke and gave her a ring, I planned to spend the rest of my life with her. When I got out she flew out to AZ. and we went back East together. When we got home she paid me back, she dumped me.

[takkunelwood]

Anyone else notice the similarity to the hook in "Runaround Sue"?

[smokingolejerry]

No, you never forget that first kiss and it remains as fresh as yesterday.

[sunlol93]

a funny thing is that i love i girl named linda, and i met her yesterday :) and when i kissed her, my friend played this song :) i love it :)

[jmujicam]

@sunlol93

now, that's two funny things in a row... i just dropped off my girlfriend Linda at the airport yesterday. I wish I had told her I love her, but I'm sending her this song tonight!

[JerryBen]

This sounds like the Everly Bros together with Dion and the early Simon & Garfunkel singing all together...

[frankothemountain]

@JerryBen I agree except for Simon&Garf.

[larry11098]

DRSUPERDOOPER, If your not pulling my leg, have your aunt come to this page and post a comment. Don't remember any of her siblings names and I doubt they remember me. In fact Linda may not remember me. But I would like to say hi if she does. Thanks

[VinDcator]

The love is never lost, is it?

[duesenbergmj]

my G. I forgot I'd ever heard this song.....don't think it got lots of air play in Canada.

[ThePeterwaltzer]

linda will be for me as love her and will allways do

[softie461]

I like his songs - and him, too!

[ppk62fla]

dickey lee is one talented guy tracy byrd's award winning the keeper of the stars was co-written by dickey !

[LindaDanielle1]

my song......................xo

[desert3347]

Next To Conway Twitty, I couldn't believe that

A Song Was Named After Me.......I didn't Like My Name Until Then!!

[Banderuola66]

OMG !!! Love it, Love it, Love it !!!!

[efrokos]

Keep it real, listen to the things you like and try some silence now and then - it really helps to clear the head. Then write some music of your own.

[paulpovesis]

lets see if a lot of todays songs last 50 years

[cupidmist]

I love listening to these "oldies" from when I was a teen. I loved them then and I love them now.

[VinDcator]

WE are in the information age. Check her out, and see how she's doing. Maybe you could reunite. I hope so.

[mouse12345ify]

love it thnx for memories keep the 60s alive let s reunion:) happy 2011

[VinDcator]

It's harder to get over someone you think about, esp when you think about that person every day

[Mogelgaard]

I was a 17 year old sailor in Hawaii, at Sailor Jerrys, a famous tatoo place on Hotel Street. As i was getting my tatoo this was playing.....resonates on so many levels, I was a sailor and of course my girlfriend was going to end it, and this is of course how I would feel when I went home on leave.....

[YoImLinda]

i wish music nowadays wasnt al abou sex and doing girls and all that crap about real things..i crave for real! 

[lac9252]

This is my name, but spelled different. It is Lynda instead of the original Linda.

[VinDcator]

Everyone wants to think that they recover, but then REALITY!!!  Thanks for this great post!!!!

[movingon4ever]

Does Dickey Lee share writing credit with Alan Reynolds, on this song? Alan wrote the Vogues hit, "Five O'clock World".

[Spinifexman]

up and down love it

please take me back to when it was all in perspective

[comanchegirl1]

My favorite Dickey Lee song!... Sure wish I could turn back the hands of time....Thanks for sharing.

[Wolfsky9]

Spring, '62, I loved this song--I was 15 y/o A sophomore in high school, & I knew--KNEW--I'd always be young, handsome, & invincible--forever. Wolfsky9

[Acezizi]

really beautiful music....nice songs...

[VinDcator]

I just turned 15 again!  Thanks for this!

[stubblelad]

I love this song so much it should have been a huge Number 1 hit many thanks for posting

[TL250Rider]

PRICELESS 

[fbpros]

yes, it was a great time to grow up...saw the Beatles, Bob Dylan, and the Stones in the same summer of 1965

[KING5YC0]

wow i really wish i was in this era , can some one tell me how was it like in that time wish i can go back in time so i can meet my dad rest in peace daddy

[efrokos]

@KING5YC0

I was 16 in 1960 and the music was simple and real and there were heroes and idealism and hope for a better world. By the end of the decade the music was more complex but still very real. Now the world is in trouble and that's why today's music is mostly vulgar and hopeless. Wish you could have been there, it was good times. Keep listening to oldies and find a few good friends to share them with and maybe they'll invent a time machine some day!

[yolevel1]

@efrokos so back in the 50's and 60's music was positive ?? i wish i was alive in that time i would like to hear the type of music and thats true music now has no meaning i like oldies they the best of all time i have a couple freinds who stays listening to them i also hear them as well but your lucky for being around in that era i heard the 1960's was the best era in the united states

[calihartley2010]

@efrokos I am jealous that you lived through that great era. Wish I lived back then. Too bad the hippes and the librals ruined everything for the US and the world.

[pointpoint10]

@calihartley2010 What are you talking about? Taxes were much higher, nuclear war was a constant threat, children were still getting polio regularly, everything was much more expensive, American manufacturing produced a boom in prosperity because unionized labor was being paid a decent wage, President Kennedy was so liberal he was executed, then MLK, then RFK, blacks were being lynched & were suffering under segregation, there was no Internet, but all you imagine is sock hops & seeing Linda.

[tkemp65]

@pointpoint10 Nothing wrong with that. I guess it all depended on your personal experience. My dad graduated in '56 and says he'd go back in a minute.

[pointpoint10]

@tkemp65 I suppose... But you also have to be aware of how others experience the world. That's what being human is all about. I would love to go back to when I was 18, things were pretty great: no responsibilities, no big let-downs, no awareness of how terrible the world can be. She's blaming "hippies and the liberals" for changing the world since that time. But people change. Non-liberals and non-hippies helped make the world what it is today. You have to recognize material history.

[mysteria31]

Andy warhol played this song eight hours a day at top volume in his little studio. When people came to look at his work one of them asked "why" and he said he was going to play it until he completely understood it. This was before the famous factory days. I looked up the song to try and figure out what there was to understand...

[BobBerkeley]

@mysteria31 Sounds like Andy might have been hitting that speed a little too hard.

[mysteria31]

@BobBerkeley I don't think Andy took drugs.. He was scared of everything, including his own shadow. If you ever actually looked at him close up, anyone can certainly understand how the ghoul could actually frighten himself. Plus, he was from Pittsburgh. Down in the swamp area near the river. he turned really weird after being shot by Valerie Solanas. He turned into teddy kennedy

[rachellovesnatalie]

Airoton...it was great music and still is. There is a huge body of music from Elvis to the present. You can hear it all.

[coolakiIlen007]

perfect music! lol im a -94 and my friends think im weird listening to 50´s 60´s music.. but its my favourite, as 80´s! :)

[mike2310100]

This stuff is MUSIC! i HATE the music of 2010! This music will live on! Yeah 1962!!!!!

[zaaritha]

Great oldie!

[B52sguy]

Jeez, I remember dancing to this with Gail Tomasco at Pennsauken HS in the 10th grade.

This was in NJ. We had a lot of concerts in school sponsored by Bandstand, WIBG from Philly: One concert had Bobby Rydell, Chubby Checker, Dion and the Belmonts, and Kathy Young and the Innocents.

What memories!

Kids today have just no idea what is was like to be innocent and a young teenager at the same time.

Joseph F

[MACJO63]

@B52sguy

Kathy Young, boy that really takes me back! Saw her in Vegas a few years, she looks great! "A Thousand Stars"........Oh, man, between her and Phil Spector, the sound of the early 60's>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

[ljjbloes]

He is palying this now at the SURF - GREAT

[babeaniscool]

just for a peice of history: Andy Warhol used to listen to this song on repeat for days. He said he would listen to it until he understood it.

[peffirot]

Super Song

ich sah Linda zum letzten mal im Februar 1965, danach zog sie wieder nach USA.

Always on my mind.

[68hummingbird]

Come to think of it, even the original sheet music sometimes isn't what they actually sing; it has always been fun to try to decipher lyrics...

[68hummingbird]

Earlier thread... "forest fire" or "falling star"... In the first place, forget what you see published unless it's the original sheet music; LISTEN to the song! "Forest fire" ??? You must be kidding! I can't hear that even if I try! The words are "falling star", tho I will say it's clearer in the second chorus. Anyway, fun song; heard it on the oldies station while driving this evening and had to look it up here on youtube.

[ljjbloes]

Saw him at the Surf in Clear Lake Iowa a few years ago -- still great

[tomkes100]

i Saw Linda Yesterday what a megahit . Dickie lee we who lived thru those years we thank you. im a rocknroll doo wop historian. i know my musuc. this song like countless of others captured the early 60s like none other. ah to be that time again. thanks Dickie Lee. This is your sing for all eternity. TOMK a man who knows his music

[wendydale1]

Wow, thanks for mentioning PalisadesPark by Freddy "boom boom" Cannon. I'm going to look it up!

Love Dickey Lee--man is he ever lots of contagious fun in concert!! If you ever get a chance to see him and his group don't miss him!

[kjelltibrand]

This song was very poular for a long time in Sweden summer 1963. Is it really recoreded 1962?

[RAAdams]

This song reminds me of the Linda I was crazy about in Grade 7. I wonder where you are, LR.

[Gatsby45]

Back when I attended Therrell High in Atlanta we had lots of Linda's. The place was infested with them! The majority were "Linda's with an 'i'" but there were some "Lynda's with a 'y'". We even had one with TWO "n's". Back between 1943 and 1950, "Linda" must have been a popular name in the Atlanta! I've have always been attracted to girls named "Linda" (no matter the spelling) and I have had lot's of trouble with Linda's. Too bad. Why are all girls named "Linda" (w/"y") have to be so HOT!

[thegkk2]

my song and i'm only 17 years old because this song is so good it beats all of the new hip hop trash that we have so this is why i listen to oldies oh and because i love a girl in my drama class and i dont know how to ask her out and i really love i get ontop of my house at midnight and watch the stars and think of her so please messege me for advise

[SuperWopster]

good for you man, glad you know great music

[ausGeoff]

Searching Google for lyrics, half say "forest fire" and the others say "falling star".

Falling star certainly makes much more poetic sense in that a star DOES fall... how exactly does a forest fire fall down, down?

[Gatsby45]

It's "Falling Star" ... I heard it clearly and then played it slow before looking up the lyrics ... it's "FALLING STAR".

[hyoutantugino1]

wonderfull

im sarching number。

[DavidsLostGirl]

I love this song so much! I can relate to it a lot right now (only it's about a guy, haha)

[bobdimucci]

Could swear the line goes" like a falling star,down down", not -"like a forest fire..."Anybody else hear what I hear?

[dkfelix]

I thin it's like a forest fire"!

-and "Runaround Sue" by Dion deMucci.

[gabrielle931]

I think it's like a pony or like s tree

[gabrielle931]

it is like a forest fire down down. Just saw the words a while ago. You are soooo correct!!

[dkfelix]

Thank you - I appreciate the apprecation, but he doesn't sing: "Just saw the words a while ago". He sings: "just when I thought, I was really OK, I saw Linda yesterday."

Your version doesn't rhyme.

[gabrielle931]

YOU ARE CORRECT.

[gabrielle931]

I just listened to this song over and over again , and I think you're right!!

[gabrielle931]

LIKE A FOREST FIRE, DOWN DOWN.  just saw the words

[bobdimucci]

I know all the lyric searches say "forest fire", but for the past forty something years I have been singing "falling star", & until Dickie Lee himself tells me otherwise...falling star it will be...

[judyablake]

Wow--heard this being played on tape at an outdoor event. Had not heard it in years. Forgot who sang it. Thanks for great song. This will get played a lot!

[gabrielle931]

Dicky Lee sings this beautiful song!!!

[l11432]

My FIRST record ever-1962-DAMN!

[jerrywnc]

Yes, I saw linda and married her ... thanks for putting it on YouTube. Jerry - Charlotte, NC

[ilcourtlesfilles]

wow this seems like a perfectly combined pastiche of all the other male songs from the early 60s runaway, runaround sue, palisades park

[alexandria3495]

Thanks alot I love this song especially since my name is Linda

[pgh45rpms]

One of the brighter, uptemo hit songs for Richard Lee Lipscomb. He also made the pop charts a couple of years later with the ghostly "Laurie (Strange Things Happen in This World)", then went on to become a major country music performer in the 70's & 80's. Dickie was the one who also wrote the classic "She Thinks I Still Care".

[JohnGee1977]

LINDA was the name of my FIRST girlfriend, and this song came along at about the same time she and I were together and my hormones ALSO arrived - very memorable - THANKS!

[AcidBlueXXX]

Here's a challenge and I hope this can be done before I die of old freakin' age. Somebody....Post a good copy of Dickey Lee "I Go Lonely".

[rainbowsandwar]

My dad had this 45. My mother's name is Linda. They're divorced now, but he still has the 45.

lol, thanks for posting. (:

[garybrown57]

a good second for mr dion sang some good songs i like him had a good voice many thxs!!!!!

[BiscuitsAndCorn]

Cute picture at the end.

[FartingFairy]

Same here!

[Airoton]

I was born '95, so I haven't grown up with this kind of Music, but listening to this makes me wish I WAS born then :3

[oldschool19461]

I wish you were your current age, Airoton when this song came out. '55-'56 thru '63 was a special period of music; those truly were "Happy Days". Check out the Doo-Wop genre and Kid Kyle. It's heartening to know young music lovers such as yourself and Kid Kyle will make our music live on. Enjoy ALL the Youtube oldies.

[68enxy]

@Airoton Don't wish the years away, you'll get older fast enough. This was a great time to be a teenager though. When I hear many of these songs I'm 16 again.

[soisitok]

@Airoton It's too bad, you missed out on some of the greatest music ever.

[The13YearOldArtist]

@Airoton I agree completely, (born same year) XD

[larry11098]

My first kiss was from a girl named Linda Davidson fifty years ago and even though she was going with my best friend Steve it was the sweetest ever. I hope she is alive and doing well. I guess it's true that you never forget your fist kiss, even if it was meant for someone else.

[VinDcator]

@larry11098 We are in the "information age." Check her out, maybe you two could reunite. I hope so.

[1011mn]

@larry11098 Are you sure it was meant for someone else? Do you really think Linda didn't know what she was doing?

[r3v3r3nd2008]

@larry11098 you should try and get ahold of her..see how she's doing

[larry11098]

@r3v3r3nd2008 Only way I would know how to find her would be if she came to this site but here goes. if your name used to be Linda Davidson and you went to McKinley Jr. high in C.R. Iowa get in touch. Oh sorry about the falsie joke.

[DRSUPERDOOPER]

@larry11098 shes my aunt she doin well she lives in kansas city mo now uncle dicky lives in oregan hes doin well to goin up to see him in a couple of days ill tell him you said hi

[jekiwe]

@Airoton Yes Airoton..I was around when these type songs were played daily on the radio. I'm glad I was around then and certainly glad I'm still around today. Music then was fun..dance floors were packed. Yes people actually danced to songs like this. Fun! Fun! Fun! Til' her daddy took her T-Bird away"....(LOL)

[kimsanda]

@Airoton  You have good taste !

[NHSSTubaPlayer]

@Airoton Totally with you. Born in '94. :)

[kfsn1904]

Hi. Fine song from the 60's. Hope you got more of those.

[kfsn1904]

Hej. - Fin sang fra 60'tallet. Haaber, du har flere af dem.

[SelSun83]

tror inte han förstår vad du skriver, tat på engelska :)

[kfsn1904]

Okay, forsøger.

[fgonzalezcuba2008]

This is a good oldie goldie it has been many decades sisnce i heard it...if you have DREAMY NIGHTS BY the same artist please post it thanks...!!!!!!!keep the oldies alive

[bufb]

great song...very catchy. I liked this better than Patches. thought Patches I think was written by the great Barry Mann

[soisitok]

Hi Bufb, I think that you are right.

[Koetje1978]

General scradges,This song fits so much by me,because my name is Linda.

Also there a many look alike the same like me.

I have seen a other Linda in a newspaper with the same clothes and hair like me and also the same tall as me.

Other weird thing is that the girl,because she is 12 years old and i were almost 31 years old at the end of these month.

The girl lives in the same playses as where i were born.

It's weird funny also my brother thought at first that i were standing in the newspaper

[feaferg]

you could make a perfect mod sound song out of the organ riff.

[rdf1947]

A great follow up record to "Patches". You could actually dance to this one.

[Lothoril]

When this came out, my first teenage love called Linda had just gone off with my best friend. This was just one of many records that summed up the anguish!

[Koetje1978]

I saw it in the related video's and i think it's very funny that he put it in the related video's.

I laughing now to hear this strange beautifull lovely sound of the song.

But he saw yesterday a look a like of me Linda,because that's my real name.

Uhmmm yeah it's very funny,but it isn't truth that he have seen me yesterday.

But 'm i have many dubble look alike of me

[deggerbrun]

catchy, I like it.

[brucer12]

A great song--kinda of a Dion-Belmonts sound with a twist--thx Finland

[zaaritha]

Good! From my teens......

[jkbxjnky]

He really liked his girl songs. Not as good as Paula, but better than Patches, or LAurie

[VinDcator]

Everything is all right until you see him/her again. Then you fall apart inside. Thanks for sharing!

[stringalongmike1953]

Yes. Very well said "I Go To Pieces" by Peter and Gordon.

[bufb]

great song

[VinDcator]

Thanks for sharing this!

[tobsilve]

sången är så otroligt fin, omöjligt att inte bli glad och känna lite cruising sug;)

[robertdowneyjrrocks]

this song is dedicated to my tia linda she dances the twist to it every time then she gets cramps its so funny

[LindaLou1234]

nice song, thanks Lou

[bobdimucci]

Love this song...Always been one of my favs...Thanks

[christine0072002]

i love this song

[stringalongmike1953]

Me too!!!

[kevlar82gft]

me too!

[Wolfsky9]

Growing up in the 50's, there were as many Linda's, as there were Johnny's. Although this is from '62, I loved it, and always sang along to it. Irresistable!! What memories! They will live forever. Wolfsky9

[soisitok]

Wolf, thats a very nice way to word it, I too remember.

[isthatmusicicanhear2]

5*****

[annie482000]

I never heard this one until a couple of years ago. My brother bought Doug Sheldon's version in the 1960s and I didn't realise it was a cover. Both versions are good though!

Peace.........

Annie :D

[SirBasildeBrush]

Very nice. I've come to this via the Ria Bartok version.

[68enxy]

You have good taste. Listen to his song "Red, Green, Yellow and Blue" I think you'll like to also!

[soisitok]

68enxy, I'm sorry, but this song is better.

[68enxy]

Yes, your right, this song is better, I just thought Red, Green, Yellow and Blue was worth listening to. Like I said , if you like Linda, you may like this other song of Dicky Lee!

[soisitok]

Hi 68enxy, anything thing Dickey Lee does is worth listening to.

[maid22]

good tipp=)..i just know that song all the years..still love it!!

[bluemax79]

Kiitos!!

[mynameisjokke]

This must be the original meaning of catchy

[bosnianqu33n]

totally!!

[kvssgh]

Thanks!  KVS

[bobbo428]

I listened to this because I saw two Lindas I liked yesterday.

[namvetpoet]

Yeah, this is a good one. You really had to be there - lots of Linda's - a popular name back then. That's how it was seeing "her" again at that age. It's all what formed our ways of being and our futures. No regrets.

[txlinda129]

I'm one of those Linda's. Mom named me after the actress Linda Darnell.

[yobonab]

I once dated a girl named Linda whose mother named her after Linda Darnell. I'd ask if that was you, but after looking at your favorites, I doubt it (she wasn't a big George Harrison/Beatles fan).

[txlinda129]

I suspect that most of us "Linda's" were named after Linda Darnell. And how could your girl NOT like the Beatles!!! Thanks for posting.

[stringalongmike1953]

One of my favorite names - a popular name for girls of my generation.

[DavesCarWash]

Great Song!!!!!!!!  Thanks for posting!!!