Nobody can do this song like Tommy James & The Shondells. Still jamnin to it in 2023!!😊 Fabulous guitar solo on this performance. And some fancy keyboardin too 😊
Why has he been left in obscurity when he has had several grand hits that were covers of his songs? The guy should be played on classic rock stations as much as his covers are. Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame when he has over 110 million in sales should be a no brainer.
The guy signed with Maurice Levy, à mafia guy who was running a producing/record company as a front for the Genovese family.. It's all docented in his biography and he's done interviews anoit it. He got totally ripped off and didn't get a penny out of al his hits. Only when Levy died did he start getting a tiny amount of back royalties from the company that bought Levy's catalogue.
When you can sound this good,as good as original album tracks,in a venue like this,your at the top of the game, on the absolute A list of performers of all time. Bar none.Waiting for the Rock And Roll Hall Of Fame to get this guy in.
Esto si que es una excelente música tocada y cantada por los mejores canta-autores . Soy de la época de los 50 y como esta música ninguna. Dios bendiga a todo el que lea este comentario. God bless all the ones that read this comment.
The same key after all those years and that is a feat in itself. the songs that outstood the test of time are sounding as good as they did in my time. Thanks for posting.
Tommy was and remains a gen of r and r. Tommy always was decent band God fearing man without any hate of others in his sincere heart and being. His kind do not exist anymore in music. Rap so called artist whacking other rap thugs. Rap is degrading to people especially woman. No talent slugs. God bless you Tommy, fan since 1968.
On this day in 1969 {Jan. 26th} Tommy James & the Shondells performed "Mony Mony" on the CBS-TV program 'The Ed Sullivan Show' Nine months earlier on April 6th, 1968 it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; it peaked at #3 & spent 17 weeks on the Top 100... And on Aug. 3rd, 1968 it reached #1 {for 3 non-consecutive weeks} on the United Kingdom's Singles chart In 1987 Billy Idol covered it; his version peaked at #1 {for 1 week} on Nov. 21st, 1987 on the Top 100 RIP Mr. Sullivan {1901-1974}
I have never forgotten this being top of the UK charts in that summer of 1968, during a boyhood holiday in Dorset and the Isle of Wight. Funny, I don't remember the band ever coming over here, and I also don't think the group are that well remembered over here, yet cover versions of this song, Crimson and Clover and I Think We're All Alone were all transatlantic hits in the 80s, showing how influential they were, and how great the songs were.
Saw him & I believe part of this band in 1988 at the next to last event held at Denver's original Mile High Stadium, before closed>demolition, for new multi named stadium next door of the first KOOL KONCERT '88 ( a year after the then Disney-owned Denver Oldies radio station went on the air at 105.1 FM, before streaming SAT Internet began !!)
True story: I had the track done before I had a title. I wanted something catchy like "Sloopy" or "Bony Maroney," but everything sounded so stupid. So Ritchie Cordell and I were writing it in New York City, and we were about to throw in the towel when I went out onto the terrace, looked up and saw the Mutual of New York building (which has its initials illuminated in red at its top).
True dat, and thanks for sharing it with all~! I've known 3 girls named Mony born right after this song that probably never knew they were named after an insurance company, LOL! No other song in my rock history gets my neck snapping quicker than MONY! Keep on Rockin!! TY-Grrr
So great to dance to when you are drunk. Mutual Of New York ( MONY) high-rise office building was the view from their hotel room when they finished writing this tune. They had the guitar riff and melody, just needed the words.
Billy Idol did a great 80's version of Tommy's "money, money" hit. Billy perfomred this song with a rocke'r beat. A classic is still a classic passing the test of time.
I've seen an interview video on YT, that he & guitar player of original group had trouble coming up with a title in a hotel room, was on balcony, saw the Mutual Bank of NY sign on building..., "yeah, shake it up, MONY, MONY !!"
Idol did a great cover, as good as they get...I think he might have wanted to punk it up a bit but never really succeeded totally if so...I'd love to hear a real punk version of this song...I'm trying to get my son to play Chicago's 25 or 6 to 4 punk. He and his band did part of it in the garage one day but never got back to it...it's pretty awesome punk style. anyway...this is a great song either way
I'm interested in how you turn something like "25 or 6 to 4" into punk. It's a very "jazz-rock" kind of song...unless we're talking "pop-punk" or "bubblegum punk" ala Green Day. I had a roomie in college who was in a punk band and called Green Day pop-punk.
No freaking way. Quality of the video and the way Tommy looks my guess is closer to 1977 Tommy appears to me about 10 years older than when the song broke originally
Tommy unlike Elvis never adapt and reinvent himself. He maintain being an ordinary guy after his "fancy" outlandish dressings and moves in the 60s and 70s.
