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The California duo, Dick and Dee Dee, first met in junior high school in the Los Angeles area in the late fifties.

Richard Gosting, as Dick was known, loaned Dee Dee (Mary Sperling) 45-rpm records from his rock and roll collection. When Mary took them home and practiced singing for hours in front of the mirror, she never imagined she would someday sing in front of television cameras. Dick and Dee Dee's mutual love of music eventually joined them together for a nine year recording career.

The duo lost track of each other until Mary's first year at college, when Dick and Mary began working together at the same See's Candies Store. On their lunch breaks, they discovered a mutual love of song writing and ended up collaborating on a song called, "I Want Someone."

In the summer of 1961, their new record producers, The Wilder Brothers and Don Ralke, area tested the Dick and Dee Dee record in San Francisco. When "I Want Someone" was accidentally turned over, and the other side, "The Mountain's High" played instead, it became an immediate hit.

Liberty Records, based in Los Angeles, signed the duo for national distribution and "The Mountain's High" rapidly climbed the Billboard charts, reaching the number two position in the United States. Dick and Dee Dee left school, started touring, and never looked back.

Throughout the Sixties, Dick and Dee Dee recorded a total of eight chart singles, five of which made the top 30 nationally, and five albums (see Billboard Magazine Discography). Touring with most of the popular recording artists of the era, they traveled throughout the United States, Europe and Japan.

Dick and Dee Dee performed as semi-regulars on the hit television show, "Shindig" and in the original pilot for the television show, "Where the Action Is." The duo appeared numerous times on American Bandstand and in the movie, "Wild, Wild, Winter." They made one Scopitone (similar to a music video), shot at the Santa Monica pier.

In 1969 the duo dissolved the act. Dick wrote songs and performed with his wife Sandy, until he passed away in 2003. Dee Dee subsequently moved to Big Sur to write and record an album with her husband, Kane. In the Eighties they moved back to the Los Angeles area. Dee Dee worked in the fashion industry, fund raising and ran her own property management company.

In 1992 she started writing full time. In late January 2006, Dee Dee released her first narrative non fiction memoir, "Vinyl Highway."

Billboard Magazine Discography