In one of the great examples of those in charge not hearing something the entire world would soon love, Dave played it for some “famous publishers,” and they didn’t like it. She looked great.Its monumental popularity is ironic given the first response it received from the industry. (The Goodies member I met personally said she wants to take up singing again, and maybe even form a group. Now these gum-smacking bad girls are singing about crushing on a bad boy, as they sing "why do the papers always mention his name?" LOL She actually autographed an original 45 vinyl copy of Dum Dum Ditty for me I bought on Discogs! (Shangri-Las recorded under the Red Bird label, The Goodies recorded under the Blue Cat label. I personally met a member of the '60's girl group The Goodies just a few months ago. Why did the Shangs sing it differently that way? Yet another mystery. Both sound very much alike owing to the same backing tracks (except the surprise ending is different).Īnother difference- The Shangri-Las version has them singing "Run Run Ditty", even though it's spelled out "Dum Dum Ditty" on the album label. So now we have two competing versions of the same obscure song, one by a prominent group (the Shangri-Las) and one by a not so prominent group (The Goodies). The Goodies released it as a single in 1965. (Both versions produced by Shadow Morton, recorded in New York).
Meantime, another girl group recording in the same studios as the Shagri-Las, a group called The Goodies, also recorded Dum Dum Ditty to the exact same backing tracks.
You can still buy rare copies of the first version including this song, if you're lucky. The next year, the Shangs released an album called Shangri-Las-65!, and that album included the Dum Dum Ditty song, initially.that same year (1965) a second version of the same album was released but without "Dum Dum Ditty". Girl group the Shangri-Las had several hits in the 1960's- including their smash #1 hit "Leader Of The Pack" in 1964. It's the rhythm of a heartbeat - when a girl meets a "bad boy", and the title of a song recorded by two different girl groups in 1965.one of which means something personal to me. Dum Dum Ditty- Dum Dum Ditty - Boom Boom, Dum Dum Ditty- Dum Dum Ditty - Boom Boom
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