"I'm Telling You Now" is a 1963 song by

Freddie Garrity Frederick Garrity (14 November 1936 – 19 May 2006) was an English singer and actor. He was best known as the frontman of Freddie and the Dreamers from 1959 until his retirement in 2001. Biography Born in Crumpsall, Manchester, the elde ...

and

Mitch Murray Mitch Murray (born Lionel Michael Stitcher; 30 January 1940) is an English songwriter, record producer and author. He has won two Ivor Novello Awards, including the Jimmy Kennedy Award. Murray has written, or co-written, songs that have produ ...

, originally performed by

Freddie and the Dreamers Freddie and the Dreamers were an English beat band that had a number of hit records between 1962 and 1965. The band's stage act was enlivened by the comic antics of Freddie Garrity, who would bounce around the stage with arms and legs flying ...

, which, in 1965, reached number one on the American ''Billboard'' Hot 100. "I'm Telling You Now" was first released in the United Kingdom in August 1963 on EMI's Columbia label and went to number two in the UK Singles Chart, becoming the band's biggest hit. Two years later, Capitol's subsidiary, Tower Records, re-released the song in the United States, which propelled Freddie and the Dreamers to international stardom. The dancing by Freddie and the band during this song spawned (via video) a minor dance fad, the Freddie.Freddie and the Dreamers- "I'm Telling You Now" live,

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1965

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1963 singles Freddie and the Dreamers songs Billboard Hot 100 number-one singles Cashbox number-one singles RPM Top Singles number-one singles Songs written by Mitch Murray Columbia Graphophone Company singles 1963 songs {{1960s-pop-song-stub Song recordings produced by John Burgess

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