1969 Tommy Roe: Dizzy

Like 'Mony Mony' before it, 'Dizzy' is something better known to me via a latter day makeover, in this case one supplied by Vic Reeves and The Wonder Stuff in 1991. And it's a version I've always taken a shine too mainly through Reeves' relish of his new pop star role and the verve in which he goes at the song (with the 'Stuff adding a suitably rock thump). Which is why, on a side by side comparison, Roe's version sags like a wet lettuce sandwich; for a bubble gum star singing a prime bubblegum tune, his 'Dizzy' has little sparkle and less fizz in it's lightweight lumber. "Dizzy, I'm so dizzy my head is spinning like a whirlpool it never ends. And it's You girl makin' it spin" - Roe sounds curiously distracted from his own lyric to the point it becomes debateable whether ANY girl would really make him dizzy, even if she sat on his lap. Naked. The song itself is fine - Vic proved that - but this resides down in deepest Dullsville.