Paul Jones performs Do Wah Diddy Diddy at Jools' Annual Hootenanny. Watch more Later... with Jools Holland on BBC iPlayer: bbc.co.uk/iplayer. Follow @BBCLater on Twitter or @laterwithjoolsholland on Facebook.
😱 He’s 81?! I keep forgetting how old we all are now. 😂. Gosh, he was so pretty as a young man. With a gorgeous, very sexy smile. He made me perspire a bit.
In 1964 I was a nineteen years old police constable stationed in a seaside resort. In the height of that beautiful summer when patrolling down the promenade this song was all around me from the arcades and I found it difficult not to move in tune (that would not have done at all). Now sixty years later I have no such inhibitions in moving to this song at nearly 79 years of age. Absolute magic.
Nothing but absolute respect for Paul, really enjoyed his night at the Eden Court Theatre in Inverness in 2023. A real encyclopaedia of the blues. Nobody does it better on the harmonica.
This new year this song will celebrate 60 years since it hit No.1 in the UK. I am well over half the way back to that, but it is an achievement to have Paul Jones out here, blowing harmonica, in a setting that suits it.
We used to see Paul Jones when the blues band came around. Great band and that man can really play the harmonica and sing the blues.well done mate 👍👍👍🇬🇧
Yes recently saw the Manfred's in Torquay.Paul Jones Fantastic 😍 still has the spirit he had as a young man.Playing mouth organ what breath.A real showman and great entertainer even at the age of 81.Happy New 🆕 Year 🎊 Paul
I was privileged to be in the audience. Got in courtesy of a friend of a friend of one of the celebrities. Paul is a living legend and given his age it was a great performance even though he wobbled a bit but hey at 81? And he and Rod Stewart and PP Arnold were amazing. Did not like the frantic nobody's Mary and The Wallopers. They were all diddly and outclassed. People were clapping and laughing when they were on but truth be told the Wallopers were being laughed at. Shane MacGowan and the Pogues they will never be. Paul Jones what a absolute star.
Saw Paul and Mike Dar/bo front the Manfred's at the Liverpool Philharmonic last October helped by Tom Mc Guinness. They performed all their top songs from 1964 until 1969. Including this classic from 1964. Vocals almost the same as the original recordings., even when they sang Malt and Barley blues, the hit by Gallagher and Lyle, who Tom Mc Guinness was part of. They were given a standing ovation by the packed out audience at the end. As a 60s teenager it proved this talent is likely never to be seen again. And modern artists will always pinch some stardust from the 60s and 70s greats.
Soul man from darwen I was a young skinhead in knottend end this was playing from a house it was in July hot summer 1970 fantastic still play it now I am 72 this year October 29 up the mods 😊
During his basic training days my USAF son got to call the cadence during marching. You guessed it… Do Wah Diddy Diddy. I think Bill Murray may have influenced him. That was 2002. He is now retired from the Air Force.
I had never heard this song live and Jools Holland and his orchestra are wonderful, it turned out excellent and it sounds great, It's been a long time since I heard it, the great group of that time... Manfred Manns!! Greetings from Mexico City, hug!!!
Fantastic performance Paul Jones @ 81 absolutely fantastic. Love watching Paul Whitehouse wife maybe?? She is loving it lol obviously a big manfreds fan lol
I saw Paul live years ago with The Blues Band. They were great, but they had a song called Diddy Wah Diddy, which I suppose, in some ways, was a parody of this one.
It was the other way around. Diddy Wah Diddy dates from 1956, originally recorded by Bo Diddley ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-soh4CQqSduY.html , but if you want to get really historical there was a song in 1929 from Blind Blake with the same name ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-t7sB8ycdbJo.html The Blues goes back a long way and Mr Jones would have been aware of that.
@@beestonpoet Bruce used to do a really nice version of Pretty Flamingo too. With a great preamble story about a girl who used to walk by his place every day.
@@williamfagan7835 I knew it was an old song. I meant that Paul Jones singing it was kind of a parody of Doo Wah Diddy. Obviously he would have been aware of that, as you probably know, as well as singing and acting, he presented blues radio programmes for years.
@@IanGee-007 Thanks for clarifying what you meant to say. Paul Jones would, of course, have been aware of the earlier song which goes back a long way into the history of the blues.
He was awesome .. odd that I just 4 some reason was playing bet of Manfred man ,4 first time days before this ..cos I remembered hearing fox on the run an thinking awesome that's a band I shud check out more .. an then put jools o🎉🎉 and here he is performing.singing an looking amazing at 81 ..inspiring stuff🎉
jools does not do these icons any favours by exposing their frailty ,very few are able to match our memories of the past and for me it is a real downer
terrible he's lost his melody and is now talk singing.Great singer in his day,pity about the born again b/s. My fav song is son and lovers.(solo career)
Many years ago my cousin went to a recording of this in OCTOBER and it was done in the afternoon. There was free booze and they all got pissed so they would throw themselves into the "party". So I guess you are probably right.
Nope. His harmonica playing was good, but he needs to retire from singing. It wasn't great. He's not the only singer out there that needs to hang up the microphone and just relish in his achievements. I've watched Hootenanny for many years. This wasn't the best by a long way. Even the "guests" were a bit tiresome.
Paul Jones voice may not be all that it once was but his singing is still way, way better than your written English. 'just relish in his achievements' is an example of truly appalling grammar. If I were you I'd hang up your keyboard and quit before you get any worse.
100% accurate. The decline year on year has been shocking. But this year takes the biscuit. Rod Stewart looks and sounds like a freak of nature and as for Paul Jones , words can't describe .
