Дик пен Ди Ди: 60-шы жылдардың музыкалық дуэті

Musical duo

Dick and Dee Dee (or Dick and Deedee) are an American singer songwriter duo who reached popularity in the early to mid 1960s. The group was founded by California classmates Richard Gosting and Mary Sperling. They eventually changed their names to Dick St. John and Dee Dee Sperling (currently Dee Dee Phelps). They had their first hit in 1961 when "The Mountain's High" reached No. 2 on the Billboard 100. They toured with the Beach Boys and opened for the Rolling Stones during the Stones's 1964 tour of California. Regulars on the show Shindig!, the duo had multiple hit songs before St. John and Sperling disbanded in 1969. In the 1980s, St. John toured with his wife, Sandy. Dick St. John died on December 27, 2003, after a fall at his home.

Dick St. John and Dee Dee Sperling met while students at Paul Revere Junior High School in Los Angeles, California. They attended different high schools, only to re encounter one another after graduation. At the time Sperling was attending college and working at a See's Candy store, and St. John was looking for a job. They realized they were singer songwriters, and together they began writing songs and singing the vocal parts. The duo were not romantically linked.

The first Dick and Dee Dee 45 rpm release ("I Want Someone" backed by "The Mountain's High") was on Lama Records, a small company started by their record producers, the Wilder brothers and Don Ralke. Their recordings were created with four voice tracks. Each of them sang two separate harmony lines. St. John sang the highest and lowest parts including the falsetto, and Dee Dee sang the middle notes. Without telling the duo, the record producers changed Mary's name to Dee Dee, something the duo did not discover until after the record was released. In the 1980s, St. John revived the Dick and Dee Dee act with his wife, Sandy. The two of them also authored a cookbook in 1993, The Rock and Roll Cookbook, which featured recipes of various rock and roll artists. St. John died on December 27, 2003, after a fall from the roof of his house, at the age of 63. and in 2008 she teamed with actor and singer Michael Dunn to again revive the classic Dick and Dee Dee songs on stage. Dunn was trained at the Juilliard School and had a lengthy theatrical career in his native Chicago. He is also a lyricist, partnering with producer/composer Jim Price for several years in Nashville. He sang the John Lennon lead vocals on Dan Castellaneta’s Beatles tribute, Two Lips: The Lost Album, in 1998. For over a decade he has performed a one man show as Charles Dickens for Los Angeles audiences.

YearAlbumRecord Label 1962 Tell Me – The Mountain's High Liberty Records 1963 Young and in Love Warner Bros. Records 1964 Turn Around 1965 Thou Shalt Not Steal 1966 Songs We've Sung on Shindig 1995 The Best of Dick and Dee Dee Varèse Vintage

YearTitlePeak chart positionsRecord LabelB sideAlbum US AC UK 1961 "The Mountain's High" 2 – 37 Liberty Records "I Want Someone" Tell Me – The Mountain's High "Goodbye to Love" – – – "Swing Low" 1962 "Tell Me" 22 – – "Will You Always Love Me" "Life's Just a Play" – – – "All I Want" "The River Took My Baby" – – – "My Lonely Self" 1963 "Young and in Love" 17 6 – Warner Bros. Records "Say to Me" Young and in Love "Love Is a Once in a Lifetime Thing" 103 – – "Chug A Chug A Choo Choo" "Where Did the Good Times Go" 93 – – "Guess Our Love Must Show" Thou Shalt Not Steal "Turn Around" 27 15 – "Don't Leave Me" Turn Around 1964 "All My Trials" 89 – – "Don't Think Twice, It's All Right" "Not Fade Away" – – – "The Gift" Thou Shalt Not Steal "Remember When" – – – "You Were Mine" "Thou Shalt Not Steal" 13 – – "Just 'Round the River Bend" 1965 "Be My Baby" 87 – – "Room 404" "When Blue Turns to Grey" – – – "Some Things Just Stick in Your Mind" "Use What You've Got" – – – "New Orleans" 1966 "Till" – – – "Sha La" "So Many Things We Don't Know" – – – "She Didn't Even Say Goodbye" "Make Up Before We Break Up" – – – "Can't Get Enough of Your Love" 1967 "I'll Always Be Around" – – – "Long Lonely Nights" "One in a Million" – – – "Baby, I Need You" 1968 "The Escape Suite" – – – Dot Records "I'm Not Gonna Get Hung Up About It" 1969 "In the Season of Our Love" – – – "We'll Sing in the Sunshine" "Do I Love You" – – – "You Come Back to Haunt Me"