Dick and Dee Dee - The Mountain High (1961 version remastered)

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The California duo, Dick and Dee Dee, (Dick St. John and Mary Sperling) first met in junior high school in the late fifties. The duo lost track of each other until Dee Dee's first year at college when they both started working at See's Candies in Los Angeles. On their lunch breaks they discovered a mutual love of song writing and ended up collaborating on a song called, "I Want Someone."

The flip side, The Mountain's High, became their first gold record, storming up the charts in summer of 1961. The song spent two weeks at the #2 position on the Billboard Hot 100. The Mountain's High reached the #37 position in the UK Singles Chart. Dick and Dee Dee played in the Los Angeles area for six months, backed by the new, upcoming surf band, The Beach Boys.

Throughout the Sixties, Dick and Dee Dee recorded a total of eight chart singles, five of which made the top 30 nationally...

Throughout the Sixties, Dick and Dee Dee recorded a total of eight chart singles, five on which made the top 30 nationally, and five albums. Touring with most of the popular recording artists of the era, they traveled throughout the United States, Europe and Japan, singing their biggest hits, The Mountain's High, Tell Me, Turn Around, Young and In Love and Thou Shalt Not Steal.

Dick and Dee Dee performed as semi-regulars on the hit television show, "Shindig" and in the original pilot for the television show, "Where the Action Is." The duo appeared numerous times on American Bandstand and in the movie, "Wild, Wild Winter." They made one Scopitone (similar to today's music videos), shot at Santa Monica pier.

In a London recording session in 1964, produced by Rolling Stones producer Andrew Oldham, the duo added their voices to several tracks with instruments and back up vocals by the Rolling Stones. The songs "Blue Turns to Grey" and "Something's Just Stick in You Mind," penned by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards were Picks of the Week on Shindig, but never climbed the charts nationally.

dick and dee deeThe duo disbanded in 1969. In the Eighties, Dick performed briefly as Dick and Dee Dee with his wife Sandy. He passed away in 2003.

In 2007 Dee Dee Phelps released her memoir, Vinyl Highway, Singing as Dick and Dee Dee. Fans at book signings and talks told her how much the songs of Dick and Dee Dee meant to them and what they wouldn't give to hear those songs sung live again.

With those comments in mind, in 2009 Dee Dee re-created the act Dick and Dee Dee, with her new partner, singing/actor Michael Dunn. They are currently appearing in Doo Wop and Rock and Roll Shows throughout the country.

For more information, please visit: www.dickanddeedee.com

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[starbroadcasting]

The good old days weren't always good.....There was lot's of pressure on teenagers and the suicide rate was quite high. Lot's of repression and sexual frustration. And you were frowned upon if you tried to think out of the box. The biggest problem now is just too many people on the planet with too many needs.

[John1948ThreeC]

@starbroadcasting Do you just make up facts to fit your premise? The suicide rate was NOT high in the 1960s. You can see the trends here - who[DOT]int/mental_health/medi­a/unitstates[DOT}pdf - just replace [DOT] with periods. I was a teenager during the 60s and I didn't feel pressured, repressed or sexually frustrated. Well, not terribly frustrated anyway. LOL

[Workbaka1]

I was raised in the 50s and 60s and never prayed in school ONCE, said the pledge of allegience in pure boredom without thinking what the words meant. History WAS distorted, though...never learned of the Japanese American internment camps, for instance. BUT...this song brings back FABULOUS FABULOUS MEMORIES!

[John1948ThreeC]

@Workbaka1 I don't think jhistory was distorted. They didn't teach everything and kept to things that were positive. Now they go to the other extreme and dwell on the negatives.

[lifelongitch]

What movie is that B7W Dance clip from??

[John1948ThreeC]

@lifelongitch Sorry, I don't know.

[John1948ThreeC]

@jjvoodoo What has happened is they took away prayer and the pledge of allegiance. Then the they unionized the teachers and started ruining our schools. Then they distorted history and values. It goes on and on. But the worst of it is that we kept quiet and let it happen.

[iamtheonlydlogan]

For alot of us Born and raised in the 50's and 60's if we had only known then what we know now we never would have taken this music for granted. We had it every day and every lonely night. We listened and dreamed and never thought that it would someday be gone...Just like our cars, if only we could go back...I do believe that many of us would stay....Take our kids and our grandkids and just go back. IF ONLY.

[cynthia6637]

We did some cha-cha to this great song!

Love the memories!

dancing!

1960-63, jr high, 63-66 high school , teen clubs!

Was I lucky to hit all these songs when I was 13 years old,

Life was so simple in those days!!

Love my life,!

[isabelle29ify]

<3 this song!!!1

[starbroadcasting]

Well There is a web site somewhere that will boost anyone's argument about anything.

I'm merely taking into account the inner cities (high heroin use and yes Gangs!) And per capita kind of stuff. Sure some things were better, and certain things are better now. The music was better then, but most of the parents hated seeing the end of the waltz!

growing up in the country is still the best way to get kids right as it was then.

chickens, horses, ducks, tractors, fishing, family and yes God.

[TheKustom59]

I wish I was born back then. Greatest time ever.

[oldermusiclover]

do you know who played lead and drums on their records?

[oldermusiclover]

@iamtheonlydlogan AMEN I THINK FOLKS WHO WERE MY DAD AND MOMS AGE FEEL THE SAME WAY

[Civitatuccillo]

C'mon girls! which one of us would just love to go to a nite club like this, dress up with our guys dressed in tie and jacket and love to dance like this all nite long!!!??