Wanderer, e-book

Dion Francis DiMucci (18.07.1939, age 82) better known as Dion, american songwriter and singer. His greatest songs are: “Runaround Sue”, “Ruby Baby” and “The Wanderer”. This e-book is about the last one.

The song “The Wanderer” originally written by Ernie Maresca recorded by Dion and relised in 1961. This song received more radio play and climbed swiftly up the charts to reach No. 2 in the U.S. in February 1962, No. 1 in Australia and No. 10 in the UK. The 1976 re-release made the UK Top 20. The song is ranked number 243 on the Rolling Stone magazine’s list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

This song matches several positions from list of our course “What makes the song to be popular”.

The first one is “To perorm in the film”. Dion has sang this song in the film “Twist around the clock” (1961) and in the video bellow we can see the fragment from the moovie where he perfoms his weel known hit.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jP1z0dQVcIQ

Despite the low ratings of the film, no one actually remember it now, the song continues his life and appears in even modern advertisments and films.

It shows us, that even if film is not popular anymore, the song from the film still can move on.

Another point – “Covers”.

“The Wanderer” has been covered by many other popular singers and bands, including Bad Company, Dee Snider, Gary Glitter, The Beach Boys, Leif Garrett (US number 49 in 1978), Bruce Springsteen, Delbert McClinton, Dave Edmunds, Status Quo covered the song twice, once as a complete version, and once again as part of their Anniversary Waltz, Pt. 1.

And as you can see, some of those covers were very popular too. Eddie Rabbits version even reched higher places that Dion’s.

“Status Quo” cover:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cmj9dfYNda0

Not every modern blues song appear in advertisments of any kind, but Dion’s “Wanderer” does. In 2015 his song appeared in trailer of the post apocalypse game named “Fallout 4”. The game has futuristic setting of the 60’s and this song perfectly matches it.

By the way – there are another points from our list “advertising and marketing” and “Go through the time”.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WxYkD7MS4Bs

If we will check this song with every point from our list, we will se that it siuts almost to everyone.

It has story “of the guy who goes around”.

It has dancibility – almost as every other popular blues song.

It has its own “Hook”.

Its has empathy with the words and to the rythm.

And so on and so on….

Because of theese and other resons, which we maybe even didnt mention in the class, views and likes counter on the YouTube of the all covers and videos of this song goes up and up.

And those are the reasons why I choose to write me e-bbok about this song.