Peggy March - I Will Follow Him - ZDF Fernsehgarten 24.06.2018

ZDF ^ | 6/24/2018 | Peggy March

[DallasBiff]

Gruß von Matthias aus der Stickteich Siedlung

[DallasBiff]

It just occurred to me, that this song can be interpreted in different ways.

Is it a typical teeny bobber song of the early 60's, or is it evangelical?

Either way the Germans love her and she speaks fluent German.

[Vaquero]

Lip sync. I remember this song

[Fiji Hill]

Here's another version.

I Will Follow Him--Petula Clark (1962)

[Steely Tom]

One of the first pop songs I ever remember hearing as a small child (I would have been six or seven). Another of the earliest rock-and-roll songs I remember was The Dovells - You Can't Sit Down. I thought it was weird and annoying the way they kept repeating the same words over and over.

Also I remember It's My Party by Leslie Gore, and of course Puff The Magic Dragon, by Peter Paul & Mary.

[DIRTYSECRET]

Under My Thumb-more to the point.

[V K Lee]

Age changes all. Growing older caused the same declaration.

This, the more Evangelical version:
André Rieu - I Will Follow Him
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZqN9aS2S3L0

JESUS CHRIST, the reason for this Season.

Merry Christmas to all!

[Getready]

I always thought the Dovell song was about piles and hemorrhoids.

[Getready]

Little Peggy March was 4 ft 10 inches when discovered at age 13. She grew to 5 ft 5. More successful in Europe especially Germany.

[Wuli]

I used to go to a church that every Sunday would use such “popular” songs in a theme for the message about Yeshua and G-d in general.

[kaktuskid]

Nowadays it would be considered a stalker song

[Fiji Hill]

One of the first pop songs I ever remember hearing as a small child (I would have been six or seven). Another of the earliest rock-and-roll songs I remember was The Dovells - You Can't Sit Down. I thought it was weird and annoying the way they kept repeating the same words over and over.

Note the reference in the lyrics to South Street,"where all the hippies meet." South Street in Artesia, Calif. may have been "the hippest street in town" in 1963, but nowadays, you'll see a lot of South Asians but few, if any, hippies.

[Fiji Hill]

I remember It's My Party by Lesley Gore, and of course Puff The Magic Dragon, by Peter Paul & Mary.

I once saw Lesley perform that live.

Several years ago, disc jockey Bob Hudson, the Emperor of the Airways, announced that Puff the Magic Dragon was killed in dragon hunt at Hanalei Bay, Kauai, where he liked to frolic.

[Steely Tom]

I never heard South Street before I moved to Philadelphia in the early '80s.

Since the song was done by a Philadelphia group (The Orlons), I kind of doubt that it was about any South Street other than the one in Philly, which is where the Jim's is located, where you can get the best cheesesteak (or pizza steak) in the world.

Also the TLA (Theater of the Living Arts) is located there, where many national acts have performed. I saw wonderful Kenny Rankin there. He played to an enthusiastic crowd of about 500 people, and thanked the audience for sending his kids to college.

South Street is kind of the most youth-oriented drag in the city.

I suppose there were hippies there "back in the day" (I hate that expression).

Ira Einhorn, creator of Earth Day and murderer of a beautiful young woman named Holly Maddux, lived in Powelton Village, which is near Drexel University in West Philly. He was certainly a hippy and an a-hole.

[Fiji Hill]

If I ever make it to Philly, I'll have to visit Jim's--and try some of South Philly's Italian cuisine.

The hippies that the Orlons and the Dovells were singing about in 1963 were probably young hep cats, digging the hottest tunes of the day and learning the latest dance steps. The "hippie" subculture of the "flower children" would emerge on the other side of the country about four years later.

[Steely Tom]

That never occurred to me! You’re right, the song came out well before the popular concept of “a hippy” even developed!

Although Alan Ginsberg was already a kind of a hippy even in like 1959. But he was a “hep cat” as you said, I’m sure. And he was from NYC, not the west coast.

[Fiji Hill]

Memory Lane--The Hippies (1963)