Dick & Deedee - The Mountains High album. 4 songs.

This 1962 Liberty LP is very scarce, and not likely to become available. Selections:
1) The Mountains High - Billboard #2 in 1961.
2) If You Want My Lovin' - a replication of the Mountains High sound, only found on this album.
3) La Ti Ti La
4) Goodbye To Love


Soon after this they switched labels to Warner Brothers and continued with hits like "Young and In Love". Their 3 singles on Liberty were:
Mountains High / I Want Someone
Goodbye To Love / Swing Low (nonhit)
Tell Me (#22) / Will You Always Love Me?

If you can read the cover notes, each of them sang twice in their recording, for a total of four harmony voices. Dick sang the highest and the lowest parts. Arrangements were by Don Ralke.
They were not romantically involved, as much as we insist on presuming that.
Deedee this year has started singing again with a new partner, reviving Dick & Deedee.

Questions about spelling: Tell me Dee Dee, why is your name usually spelled as two words?
Why is the title usually spelled as "Mountain's"? Maybe it means "the mountain is high"?
Tell me that you love me Deedee.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• 1960s
• oldies

[pepsipoptarts]

If You Want My Lovin" sounds so edgy even today. Someone like the Raveonettes should cover it. It could be a smash.

[GeoSilverAway]

Good comment. I was thinking the same about Chubby Checker's "Lovely Lovely". Let me know if something happens, I don't follow current radio.

[bbarbara737]

One of my favorites. Does anyone have or know where to find "The Old Maid's Song" by Dick & DeeDee?

[GeoSilverAway]

That song was on their Turn Around LP. Can you still play vinyl?

[vinylsingleman]

Agreed. Thanks for posting this. Would you also be able to post "Turn Around"?

[GeoSilverAway]

Don't know if I would, at least in the near future. Dee Dee is trying to sell it on the CD. Watch for other posters.

Another good music site with possibilities is imeem.

[blkshepherd]

every saturday wake up to cartoons, midday Werterns and evening..sci fi..dracula, wolfman, later that night..UFO movies..then bed. listening to music played in a bar just below my apartment. drifting off to sleep. If i could be a child again. it would have to be 1960 to 1966. the music was out of this world lol..no pun intended.

[jakjr100]

Incredible down bar cord progression and innovative falsetto. Nothing like it has ever been done before or since. Makes one feel young! Jkjr

[TheJoey1s]

Surprised nobody wrote about this song. Great song!!!

[Khultan]

I faved. Was lucky to hear this in the mid70s on a radio station. Never knew who the artists were. Thanks!

[Defendor1983]

Thank you for making another album scarce to be coveted lol

[starjet338]

That was amazing. I have been trying to find this album, but haven't found a copy yet. I would love to hear the B side! Hint hint.

[mhenrydunn]

Dee Dee sang the middle harmonies. Dick sang falsetto up top and baritone below. Dee Dee sang two middle parts - they were a four-part vocal duet on the records. Live they sang two parts and nobody noticed.

[anotherbaldguy]

I don't understand why some songs such as Moutains High, which were hugely popular, have always been ignored by the "oldie" radio stations.

[yousmackface]

The second song is so good it makes me go all chilly sweaty.

[calicopoet]

Wonderful, thanks for posting.

[GSMovieMoments]

@MPOEye Read the description.

[MPOEye]

Dee Dee didn't really sing these songs on the record albums. Dick sang his own harmony in falsetto!