A Good Day for Music

After a brief hiatus, we’re back with one of the top songs that made the pop charts for the last part of April, 1969.

Tommy Roe

Dizzy

A song that was considered by most music critics as on of the first bubblegum song of the late 1960’s. As the story is told, Tommy Roe landed a job right out of High School soldering wires together at General Electric. It was during this time that he started thinking about following his passion for music. He eventually got around to making a demo that was picked up by a record label talent scout. that saw Tommy’s talent.

Tommy said in interviews that he was reluctant to give up his secure position with General Electric and would not sign a record contract until the label advanced him $5000.00. We tend to scoff at a figure like that these days, but in 1969, five grand wasn’t anything to sneeze at.

He was introduced to one of the record label’s songwriters, Freddy Weller and together they wrote a song that became a major hit on both sides of the Atlantic. recorded with some of the best studio musicians in Los Angels, The Wrecking Crew. The song reached into the number one spot in the United States for four weeks.