Dickie Rock and The Miamis – ‘I’m Yours’

29 May 1964

Here’s the other half of Ireland’s only joint number one single, along with Eileen Reid and The Cadets’ ‘Fallen Star’. I see Dickie Rock’s group have here dropped the word ‘Showband’ from their name and are going by The Miamis, perhaps to seem like a proper ’60s outfit.

The only version of ‘I’m Yours’ I’ve been able to find, and which appears on all the Dickie Rock and showband compilations, is the one below, whose synths and production clearly make it a ’70s or ’80s re-recording. Dickie Rock singing the first verse in Spanish is certainly unexpected, and makes the thing sound like cut-price Julio Iglesias. I can’t say I’m too bothered about finding the 1964 original, but for the sake of completeness this is a placeholder until I do.