How could anyone dislike pretty ballerina?!!or too much to dream? Why would anyone ever try to top backstreet girl when the stones did it so perfectly?
Pretty Ballerina and Walk Away Renee were such beautiful songs, The Left Banke were great. I remember seeing Carl Wayne on tv in the 70s , he had got quite cabaret/ MOR by then.
@@YesterdaysPapers Didn't he go into cabaret or lounge singing after quitting The Move/ELO after clashing with Jeff Lynne? I know he became the lead singer of The Hollies after Alan Clarke retired. Don't want to be too tough on Carl Wayne. He's the only one of the original five Move members to die (so far)- too young, of cancer, in 2004. And Chris "Ace" Kefford was always grateful to Carl for coming to visit him in hospital after Chris's nervous breakdown, spring '68, resulting in Chris's leaving The Move (and the beginning of the end of the old Move, IMHO; it was all sort of downhill for them after Chris's departure; without him they moved away from the eccentricity that made them so interesting). None of the other members did so- not even Trevor Burton, who was Chris's old friend from way back before Move days, joined in with Chris in heavy psychedelic experimentation, and took over on bass when The Move decided to continue as a quartet without Chris.
@@YesterdaysPapers He was taking what up to then had been a well-trodden path: start out with whatever musical craze was currently in vogue, and from there take a kind of back-door route into showbiz proper. Elsewhere on UA-cam you can find examples dating from the 1955-65 era of the latest pop acts turning up on comedy or variety shows - even the Stones did it for a wee while. The big cliche answer nearly every pop singer gave to questions about their future was to say "I want to become an all-round entertainer". Tommy Steele had done it in the 50s; his very short rock 'n' roll career (if you can call it that) got him noticed, after which his outsize personality and abundance of song-and-dance talent did the rest. Cliff Richard had shown signs of going the same way, until the example of the Beatles (who were about his age) demonstrated that it was possible to remain and develop within the pop/rock idiom. Carl may have been among the last to do it. From about 1967, the edgier end of the pop/rock spectrum somehow became divorced from mainstream showbiz, and new up-and-comers had to find another way in.
Ah Pretty Ballerina! I've loved that song ever since hearing it in the movie "Not Fade Away" (a movie that seems right up the alley of a lot folks who follow this series). Lydian mode always adds a nice pizzaz to songs. "Blue Jay Way" is another good example. EDIT: Looks like Carl doesn't agree haha.
That song is so ahead of its time. When I first heard it and learned it was made in the 1960s I couldn't believe it. It sounds almost like a Crowded House song.
@@harvey1954 Sorry, but my English ears agree with Carl Wayne. 'Renee' was terrific (although in the UK it was the Four Tops who had the hit with their cover), but 'Pretty Ballerina' just isn't memorable - pleasant enough but bland. Not sure if it was released in the UK but definitely not a hit here.
I love the way the chart rundown goes really slowly and you go, "great song, great song..." and then up pops "Drink up thy Zider." (A different kind of great song! ) There were a lot of fun songs in the charts in the 60s and I enjoyed hearing them as a kid and do now. Carl Wayne's vocals with The Move were brilliant.
Just below "Drink up thy Zider" were the Barron Knights, the exemplars of "parody pop", a genre which I was surprised to see, extended to the end of the 20th century.
@@SuperNevile :-D Yes, they were on telly a lot...Just when you were innocently watching a "variety special" or a kids' tv show, they'd be there! And you couldn't defend yourself in time due to lack of remote control invention! Corniness snipers supreme! :)
Depende de la persona, hay unos que eran suaves o que les tocaba temazos, en este Carl les tiró bastante duro😅 sobretodo a the left banke. De algún modo tiene razón porque no fueron muy conocidos pero esa canción es maravillosa. Carl Wayne era todo un personaje, me gusta su voz
Songs by The Electric Prunes, Left Banke and The Spencer Davis Group, Sonny and Cher all hit the top 11 in the U.S. P.J. Proby's hit scored in the top 30 in the States. I liked the follow up to Prunes' "Dream", which is Get Me To The World On Time because of the sound effects at the end. I do prefer Left Banke's current hit over their previous one. I recognized the song at the end ...Ruby Tuesday😊
Really insane to think that some of the most gorgeous baroque pop ever recorded was done by a group of high-schoolers. And that their 2nd album was even better than this!
I saw Carl in November 2003 at Wolverhampton's Grand Theatre when he fronted the Hollies. A great night. 10 months later, he had ceased to walk amongst us. RIP sir.
Ironically this reminded me what a wonderful group the Left Banke was a d how much I love 'Pretty Ballerina '. Michael Brown was only 17 when he wrote it and other beautiful songs like 'walk away renee'.
I’m disappointed that Carl didn’t like “Pretty Ballerina”. I thought he would’ve thought differently about it. Probably my favourite Left Banke tune, and better than “Walk Away Renee” in my opinion.
I watch all of these and this is one of the better ones. This guy Carl Wayne is a real cool cat. He lays it down honestly and critically without coming across as affected really as Ginger Baker or Pete Townsend might. And he seems pretty spot on anyway as it is. Equally as entertaining is the list of top charting singles at the end of video. Wow! If you are looking for a crystalline moment when music was progressing forward rapidly in literal leaps and bounds, perhaps now in a dead heat with that old guard, you’d be hard pressed to find a moment in time more so in this regard than we have here in late 1966. You have seminal songs like Hey Joe, Good Vibrations, Matthew And Son, I’m A Believer, Happy Jack, Sunshine Superman, I Feel Free, Let’s Spend The Night Together, (I Know) I’m Losing You, You Keep Me Hanging On, I’m A Man, Last Train To Clarksville, Dead End Street, Mustang Sally. All alongside the typical 60s schlock that was prevalent at the time. Hell you even have Friday On My Mind, by the Easybeats for good measure. Easywho you say? Well this band of course being the Aussie pop band that featured Harry Vanda, and George Young. You think so what? That is until you realize that George has two ridiculously talented and insanely famous younger brothers named Angus and Malcolm, whose band he (and Harry) would go on to produce and even occasionally play on six of their albums. And help sell tens of millions of albums over a close to 50 year career - and still going strong today. So yeah quite the list there in 1966!
That’s a murderous rendition of “backstreet girl” by the stones. I agree with him on that. Good time period for singles as seen at the end of the video.
“There’s no swing to it whatsoever, and the woody thump of Keith Richard’s fingerpicking is sorely missed here… That saccharine vocal delivery is putting me off as well… Should have left the snare drum in the van. No. I don’t think it will move at all… the musical equivalent of bronzed baby shoes. Take it off please.”
Can you imagine today's pop stars attempting this sort of banter using numerous diverse genres? The internet would melt down with any sort of mild criticism these days.
Good review here. I like his humor about Sonny & Cher and Julie Felix. I love the Spencer Davis Group. Fun fact: in January 1967 the very first Super Bowl was played in Los Angeles. Final score Green Bay Packers 35, Kansas City Chiefs 10. Just thought I'd throw that in to make it interesting.
Great fact Chrisbacos about Super Bowl One and on a sad note later that month was the flash fire that killed Grissom Chaffee and White in a pre flight test weeks before the first Apollo flight was to take place.
Whatever musicians can say in these blindtests, ok it's interesting but anyway it's always great fun to listen to these songs. I wish I could have been old enough in jan 67 to discover all these records. Great again.
He's right about I'm a Man. The main riff comes from "Comin' Home Baby" by Ben Tucker (1961) recorded by the Dave Bailey Quintet, and then by Mel Tormé as a vocal version, which became a US Top 40 hit
Yet, despite some familiarity, Steve smashed the sound into the stratosphere, breaking out of Spencer Davis sound an set the way for traffic. By far the best Spencer Davis recording.
I wanted to thank you for all these interesting, informative videos YP. I’m finally able to enjoy them again, after experiencing an internet glitch over the past couple of weeks that meant I wasn’t able to view a thing. Keep up the excellent work.
@@YesterdaysPapers .....oh, it was so disappointing, I had the audio but couldn’t see a thing (including the relevant chart placings etc.), something I enjoy checking out. Your videos are really well made and provide some fascinating insight for countless music-lovers. I’m constantly surprised at how much music from this time went under the radar (for me) and I savoured and explored as much of it as I possibly could. Thanks again for the great work.
Ouch! Carl really didn't like The Left Banke did he? One of my favourites! I liked the connection he made between I had Too Much To Dream Last Night and Johnny Remember Me.
I never would have even thought to compare Leyton and the Prunes before, but I can't unhear it now! Dream really does sound like a grittier Joe Meek production with that echo and almost other-worldly/dreamlike quality to the vocals and guitar. Shame Joe went off the deep end and killed himself and his landlady. Would have been fascinating to see him produce in the psychedelic age. And the Left Banke were so good, too. I play their 2nd album all the time. Kinda surprised the singer of a psych pop band that dabbled in baroque arrangements would be so against it.
Thanks YP for another great video. Love your original music in the Video Outro that has a nod to Ruby Tuesday and Sound of Music no 1 in the Progressive 😉 album charts.
Quite like the first two songs. Too Much to Dream is the kind of awesome 45 I wish I owned so I could blast it at lease breaking levels. The stunning crash sound at 39 seconds of the song I've just read is from a Superreverb Amp box getting wacked hard enough to rattle the spring unit against the metal sides of the box. Does that make sense to any of you musicians out there? Anyway, The Sound of Music is back at #1 on the album chart and all's right with the world.
You mean, when it appeared on the later album Mellow Yellow? Brave for Julie to cover this song. I doubt the BBC would have been willing to play a song that touches on (but not too much!) masturbation.
@@BigSky1 In Australia we got both Sunshine Superman and Mellow Yellow in their proper and intended form. I bought both albums in 1967 and played the spots off them.
Julie was a big deal at the time because she had a regular spot on The Frost Report TV show. (But I got severely fed up with hearing Going To The Zoo nearly every week on Junior Choice.)
love the little dig at the monkees without naming them so many artists were pissed that the monkees gained "instant" fame without putting in the work....but in fact they all did...just not as a band
“…Is it American? Paul Revere? They can do a good 30 minute variety show on Saturday morning, that’s all.” A bit dismissive there, Carl. I guess he wasn’t that far off, though… Paul Revere and the Raiders were the house band for the Dick Clark produced weekday show Where The Action Is? (65-66). Freddy ‘Boom Boom’ Cannon had a big hit with its theme song. I’m not agreeing with Carl that Paul Revere and the Raiders should be relegated to a variety show. I thought they were very talented lot and deserving to be in the rock Hall of Fame.
I agree, I love Paul Revere & The Raiders. It's pretty sad that many people remember them as a kind of a joke because of the costumes. Some of those albums they released between 1966 and 1968 are excellent.
@@YesterdaysPapers Spirit of ‘67 and Revolution being two fine albums. Revere and friends we’re certainly not the first group to play with costume and/or makeup. Can anyone say KISS or my favorite Peter Gabriel when he was w Genesis dressed in his wife’s red dress and a fox head. Why is that artistic expression and Revere is silly gimmickry?
@@YesterdaysPapers An excellent album which had their version of Not Your Stepping Stone. A few years back I saw Mark Lindsay and Micky Dolenz dueling that song ,at all places, the LA County Fair. (A place where aging pop/rock stars fade away). Those two gentlemen knocked it out of the fairgrounds. They would’ve put younger singers to shame.
@@YesterdaysPapers My sister's determinedly hip schoolmates (who she said "couldn't stick the Beatles" - this was before Revolver had come out) were heavily into Paul Revere And The Raiders. They must have had something going for them.
I love Mr Wayne's tell it like it is style but he is a poor judge on what will be popular as many songs on his review like I've Had Too Much To Dream Last Night and the Beat Goes On became huge hits.
What seems to be going over the heads of most people commenting on here is that the Move's brief from their manager at the time, Tony Secunda, was to be as controversial as possible, to live up to the 'bad boy' image he gave them.
Even more bonkers was their 1967 album (November) "Mass In F Minor". The Latin Mass (sung in latin) with a psychedelic rock backing. A critic said: "it sounds like deaf monks were reciting the Gregorian chants". The first "real" rock opera. I have the vinyl....It's Brilliant!
Pretty Ballerina's melody is exquistite, instantly love it never having heard it before. The production was a bit twee and thin, that's all. I'm off to Left Banke my life with an E on the end...
Did you know The Left Banke also wrote and released the beautiful “Walk Away Renee”? The song was later covered by The Four Tops and enjoyed better chart success but the original (The Left Banke) release was still on UA-cam last time I checked.
@@YesterdaysPapers I second that! Another group in the genre of baroque pop is a group called The Merry-Go-Round. Their song You’re A Lovely Woman is beautiful ear candy. It’s a shame their lead vocalist Emmit Rhodes didn’t become a pop phenomenon. He was such a talent.
@@lindadote Thanks. Just read all about them. I still prefer Pretty Ballerina but Walk Away, Renee is pretty good. It reminds me of something else I can't put my finger on...
Who is this guy? He is grumpy and doesn’t know music very well at least at the time. Pretty Ballerina is an absolute gorgeous song! Described by the very musically knowledgeable Leonard Bernstein as a masterpiece of pop music.
Yeah, I'd like to know what Donovan songs they covered as well. They used to play some very interesting and unexpected covers in those days. They covered songs like "Hey Grandma" by Moby Grape, "Why" by the Byrds and even "Sunshine Help Me" by Spooky Tooth.
Hi, does anyone know where the instrumental version of Ruby Tuesday is from that plays at the end of the video on what sounds like a Mellotron. Cannot find it anywhere.
Wow, he grew up a few doors away from me. Colin Tooley. Perhaps he was having an off day. I remember being picked up with my sister in a purple Zephyr, The Move inside. He came to this house. Did he like anything?
That's pretty cool. The Move had a terrible reputation in 1967 because they smashed TV sets and cars on stage and they presented themselves as the sort of enfant terribles of the Brtish scene.. But I've read that they were all incredibly friendly and down to earth.
@@YesterdaysPapers Prime Minister Harold Wilson sued The Move and their manager because of the promotional postcard sent out for "Flowers In The Rain" (1967) which cast aspersions on his character (he was cartooned in bed with his secretary). All money from the record had to go to the charities Stoke Mandeville Hospital, and the S******s Society (now called Scope). Wilson later extended this to the Oxford Operatic Society, Bolton Lads Club and the Jewish National Fund for Israel, and still holds to this day. Millions have been paid out. It was the 60s man!
Wayne, sunk into mediocrity when he sung the theme tune to the original Mr. & Mrs. TV quiz show. Think he was married to Miss Dianne from Crossroads. However, his vox on the Move's early hits shouldn't be underestimated. You gotta love these reviews. PJ went on to record an album with Led Zeppelin, 'The Legendary' Three Week Hero RIP.
Too much to dream was a nearly top 10 for the Prunes. Pretty ballerina was top 20 in the United States, one of only two hits for the left banke. Nikki Hoeky was the ONLY hit in US for PJ Proby
So I love Pretty Ballerina I think it's one of the best (non-Beatles) songs of the 60s, the funny thing is I feel like The Move's Beautiful Daughter from a few years later kind of sounds a little bit like it, Beautiful Daughter is also a wonderful song that I also really like, but it's just funny that he would diss Pretty Ballerina and then make a song that sounded kind of similar
I love this Blind Date series- the singles being reviewed expose a lot of classic music unknown to us Yanks. Unknown to this British Invasion fan anyway. In this case the reviewer's band The Move. Huge in in the UK but for reasons I am unaware of were/are unknown in the US. Simply bad promotion?
Badly managed by Tony Secunda. Too much emphasis on gimmicky publicity stunts (including the fiasco of being sued for libel by the Prime Minister, the stress from which was one factor in Ace Kefford's exit from the band) and not enough attention paid to really building their career.
@5:15 interesting..that audio clip is out of phase. I listen in Mono and it totally removes her vocal track. One of the audio channels has been inverted - maybe whoever remastered it.
I couldn't find that song anywhere, I think it's probably never been reissued. So I ended up using a vinyl rip that someone posted on youtube. I guess whoever uploaded it inverted the channels.
How could anyone dislike pretty ballerina?!!or too much to dream? Why would anyone ever try to top backstreet girl when the stones did it so perfectly?
Agreed.
Greenbacks and bluey obviously
Who is Carl Wayne?
@@DrHogfan You putting us on??!
Pretty Ballerina and Walk Away Renee were such beautiful songs, The Left Banke were great.
I remember seeing Carl Wayne on tv in the 70s , he had got quite cabaret/ MOR by then.
He always said his ambition was to be a cabaret singer, even when he was in the Move. Kind of weird but that's what he was really into.
@@YesterdaysPapers I saw Carl Wayne play the Narrator in the London West End musical Blood Brothers in 1992, he was brilliant.
He even ended up in an appearance on The Benny Hill Show in the A-Team parody 'The B-Team'.
@@YesterdaysPapers Didn't he go into cabaret or lounge singing after quitting The Move/ELO after clashing with Jeff Lynne? I know he became the lead singer of The Hollies after Alan Clarke retired.
Don't want to be too tough on Carl Wayne. He's the only one of the original five Move members to die (so far)- too young, of cancer, in 2004. And Chris "Ace" Kefford was always grateful to Carl for coming to visit him in hospital after Chris's nervous breakdown, spring '68, resulting in Chris's leaving The Move (and the beginning of the end of the old Move, IMHO; it was all sort of downhill for them after Chris's departure; without him they moved away from the eccentricity that made them so interesting). None of the other members did so- not even Trevor Burton, who was Chris's old friend from way back before Move days, joined in with Chris in heavy psychedelic experimentation, and took over on bass when The Move decided to continue as a quartet without Chris.
@@YesterdaysPapers He was taking what up to then had been a well-trodden path: start out with whatever musical craze was currently in vogue, and from there take a kind of back-door route into showbiz proper. Elsewhere on UA-cam you can find examples dating from the 1955-65 era of the latest pop acts turning up on comedy or variety shows - even the Stones did it for a wee while. The big cliche answer nearly every pop singer gave to questions about their future was to say "I want to become an all-round entertainer".
Tommy Steele had done it in the 50s; his very short rock 'n' roll career (if you can call it that) got him noticed, after which his outsize personality and abundance of song-and-dance talent did the rest. Cliff Richard had shown signs of going the same way, until the example of the Beatles (who were about his age) demonstrated that it was possible to remain and develop within the pop/rock idiom.
Carl may have been among the last to do it. From about 1967, the edgier end of the pop/rock spectrum somehow became divorced from mainstream showbiz, and new up-and-comers had to find another way in.
Once you go down the Left Banke's rabbithole, you will discover some fantastic music.
Great band, no doubt.
Also: Steven Tyler of Aerosmith sang backup on their second album.
Seriously, what a great band!
Carl's head would explode if he had to listen to the music of today
Loved the Electric Prunes. Some of the best psychedelia.
The Prunes were absolutely astounding. Great Banana Hoax is just incredible! Even the 2 Axelrod-produced albums are gorgeous in their own way.
@@razzledcroaker3678 the Stockholm live album proves outright how good they were. Absolute class.
"It won't be a hit" dead wrong unless he was strictly talking about the UK which he probably was.
Not a great hit predictor for his first few tries (except for Spencer Davis)
I'm just getting my head around the fact that Twiggy released a single at one time!
Love the footage of the artists synced up with the song. Your channel is great.
Thank you!
yep, these videos are well-produced.
This channel is great and addictive...keep them coming!
Ah Pretty Ballerina! I've loved that song ever since hearing it in the movie "Not Fade Away" (a movie that seems right up the alley of a lot folks who follow this series). Lydian mode always adds a nice pizzaz to songs. "Blue Jay Way" is another good example.
EDIT: Looks like Carl doesn't agree haha.
Agreed, great song.
Hard to believe he'd diss such a great tune. About Renee, the girl who walked away.
Walk Away Renee is one of my all-time favorite songs, and Pretty Ballerina is right up there with it. Both are great songs.
That song is so ahead of its time. When I first heard it and learned it was made in the 1960s I couldn't believe it. It sounds almost like a Crowded House song.
@@harvey1954
Sorry, but my English ears agree with Carl Wayne. 'Renee' was terrific (although in the UK it was the Four Tops who had the hit with their cover), but 'Pretty Ballerina' just isn't memorable - pleasant enough but bland. Not sure if it was released in the UK but definitely not a hit here.
Youve turned me ontoo so much good music man
What an amazing list of songs in that top 40 at the end. Mind blowing.
The singles charts were really buzzing at that time. (Compare with the LPs Top Ten ... !)
I love the way the chart rundown goes really slowly and you go, "great song, great song..." and then up pops "Drink up thy Zider." (A different kind of great song! ) There were a lot of fun songs in the charts in the 60s and I enjoyed hearing them as a kid and do now. Carl Wayne's vocals with The Move were brilliant.
Just below "Drink up thy Zider" were the Barron Knights, the exemplars of "parody pop", a genre which I was surprised to see, extended to the end of the 20th century.
@@SuperNevile :-D Yes, they were on telly a lot...Just when you were innocently watching a "variety special" or a kids' tv show, they'd be there! And you couldn't defend yourself in time due to lack of remote control invention! Corniness snipers supreme! :)
It makes me wanna cry and not because it's sad 😄 Eran lapidarios en esa época, no me imagino algo así hoy por hoy.
Depende de la persona, hay unos que eran suaves o que les tocaba temazos, en este Carl les tiró bastante duro😅 sobretodo a the left banke. De algún modo tiene razón porque no fueron muy conocidos pero esa canción es maravillosa. Carl Wayne era todo un personaje, me gusta su voz
I agree, F.W. Carl struck out on his assessment of both Pretty Ballerina and Too Much To Dream, two of the best songs of the Sixties!
Songs by The Electric Prunes, Left Banke and The Spencer Davis Group, Sonny and Cher all hit the top 11 in the U.S. P.J. Proby's hit scored in the top 30 in the States. I liked the follow up to Prunes' "Dream", which is Get Me To The World On Time because of the sound effects at the end. I do prefer Left Banke's current hit over their previous one. I recognized the song at the end ...Ruby Tuesday😊
Great collection of songs I think. Carl took no prisoners though. Goodness.
Oh and nice interpretation of "Ruby Tuesday"!
Thanks, Louis. Glad you liked it.
Funny -- the first few songs, they keep playing him hits, and he keeps saying they won't be hits. Wouldn't trust Carl as my DJ.
😆😅🤣
He may be wrong but his tastes are right!
As far as UK was concerned he was spot on
What the heck with the comments? Pretty ballerina is GREAT
they weren’t hits but they sold well
Love the move but boy was Carl wrong about the left banke!
Really insane to think that some of the most gorgeous baroque pop ever recorded was done by a group of high-schoolers. And that their 2nd album was even better than this!
@@razzledcroaker3678
LEFT BANK TOO is one of my fave albums!
I saw Carl in November 2003 at Wolverhampton's Grand Theatre when he fronted the Hollies. A great night. 10 months later, he had ceased to walk amongst us. RIP sir.
Ironically this reminded me what a wonderful group the Left Banke was a d how much I love 'Pretty Ballerina '. Michael Brown was only 17 when he wrote it and other beautiful songs like 'walk away renee'.
I saw Jimmy James & The Vagabonds at Minehead Butlins about 20 years ago. He still had a great voice and the band was cookin' .
Carl Wayne: not good at recognizing (now) legendary hits!
Hit were made by the radio stations not by Carl
I’m disappointed that Carl didn’t like “Pretty Ballerina”. I thought he would’ve thought differently about it. Probably my favourite Left Banke tune, and better than “Walk Away Renee” in my opinion.
I watch all of these and this is one of the better ones. This guy Carl Wayne is a real cool cat. He lays it down honestly and critically without coming across as affected really as Ginger Baker or Pete Townsend might. And he seems pretty spot on anyway as it is.
Equally as entertaining is the list of top charting singles at the end of video. Wow! If you are looking for a crystalline moment when music was progressing forward rapidly in literal leaps and bounds, perhaps now in a dead heat with that old guard, you’d be hard pressed to find a moment in time more so in this regard than we have here in late 1966.
You have seminal songs like Hey Joe, Good Vibrations, Matthew And Son, I’m A Believer, Happy Jack, Sunshine Superman, I Feel Free, Let’s Spend The Night Together, (I Know) I’m Losing You, You Keep Me Hanging On, I’m A Man, Last Train To Clarksville, Dead End Street, Mustang Sally. All alongside the typical 60s schlock that was prevalent at the time. Hell you even have Friday On My Mind, by the Easybeats for good measure.
Easywho you say? Well this band of course being the Aussie pop band that featured Harry Vanda, and George Young. You think so what? That is until you realize that George has two ridiculously talented and insanely famous younger brothers named Angus and Malcolm, whose band he (and Harry) would go on to produce and even occasionally play on six of their albums. And help sell tens of millions of albums over a close to 50 year career - and still going strong today. So yeah quite the list there in 1966!
Agreed. The Easybeats were great, very underrated band.
Love the Easybeats, I have no interest in AC/DC at all, Happy Jack was a nursery rhymne compared to Too Much To Dream.
That’s a murderous rendition of “backstreet girl” by the stones. I agree with him on that. Good time period for singles as seen at the end of the video.
“There’s no swing to it whatsoever, and the woody thump of Keith Richard’s fingerpicking is sorely missed here… That saccharine vocal delivery is putting me off as well… Should have left the snare drum in the van. No. I don’t think it will move at all… the musical equivalent of bronzed baby shoes. Take it off please.”
Can you imagine today's pop stars attempting this sort of banter using numerous diverse genres? The internet would melt down with any sort of mild criticism these days.
They would just say that all the songs are marvellous and sure hits.
@@YesterdaysPapers any critics today are "haters", irrespective of how germane their points might be! But I shall say no more ;)
2:55 - 😆 Bo Diddley mentioning himself in the song & Carl chirping in with " I know who it is ! "
Hahaha!
He blew the Left Banke. Wonderful song and band
Saw a great duet between Julie and Leonard covering his "That's No Way To Say Goodbye".
Oh, so sad. Carl is wrong about The Left Banke. They're brilliant. They were ahead of their time and Carl was behind his on this one.
Yes. The Left Banke were as great as The Zombies with the baroque pop thing.
@@moorlock2003 ...and out of all that, we got groups like Belle and Sebastian 🙂 thx for replying!
Good review here. I like his humor about Sonny & Cher and Julie Felix. I love the Spencer Davis Group. Fun fact: in January 1967 the very first Super Bowl was played in Los Angeles. Final score Green Bay Packers 35, Kansas City Chiefs 10. Just thought I'd throw that in to make it interesting.
Great fact Chrisbacos about Super Bowl One and on a sad note later that month was the flash fire that killed Grissom Chaffee and White in a pre flight test weeks before the first Apollo flight was to take place.
Carl wayne...the great front man from the world's greatest band.
Thanks big time to Yesterday's Papers for these ongoing reviews - brilliantly assembled and totally appreciated!!!
Whatever musicians can say in these blindtests, ok it's interesting but anyway it's always great fun to listen to these songs. I wish I could have been old enough in jan 67 to discover all these records. Great again.
Carl Wayne is honestly my number 1 favourite lead vocalist of all time his Vocals are just amazing and no like no other person !
He was definitely one of the greatest vocalists from the 60s British scene.
He's good but I prefer some of Roy Wood's vocals. They are pretty impressive.
He's right about I'm a Man. The main riff comes from "Comin' Home Baby" by Ben Tucker (1961) recorded by the Dave Bailey Quintet, and then by Mel Tormé as a vocal version, which became a US Top 40 hit
Later Santana used the riff in "Fried neckbones (and some home fries)", in a very nice way.
Yet, despite some familiarity, Steve smashed the sound into the stratosphere, breaking out of Spencer Davis sound an set the way for traffic.
By far the best Spencer Davis recording.
@@puliturchannel7225 It's in Prodigy's "Breathe" also.
@@karlsinclair9918 Totally agree. I'm a Man is the Spencer Davis Group top track. Love it.
Chicago's versions amazing
These are entertaining!
I wanted to thank you for all these interesting, informative videos YP. I’m finally able to enjoy them again, after experiencing an internet glitch over the past couple of weeks that meant I wasn’t able to view a thing. Keep up the excellent work.
Thank you very much, Linda. Glad you enjoy these videos.
@@YesterdaysPapers .....oh, it was so disappointing, I had the audio but couldn’t see a thing (including the relevant chart placings etc.), something I enjoy checking out. Your videos are really well made and provide some fascinating insight for countless music-lovers. I’m constantly surprised at how much music from this time went under the radar (for me) and I savoured and explored as much of it as I possibly could. Thanks again for the great work.
Hi Linda. Nice to have you back. Hope the glitch-fix proves to be lasting this time!
Some really groovy and far out tunes...some real bummer trip tunes as well man. Peace !
Ouch! Carl really didn't like The Left Banke did he? One of my favourites! I liked the connection he made between I had Too Much To Dream Last Night and Johnny Remember Me.
I never would have even thought to compare Leyton and the Prunes before, but I can't unhear it now! Dream really does sound like a grittier Joe Meek production with that echo and almost other-worldly/dreamlike quality to the vocals and guitar.
Shame Joe went off the deep end and killed himself and his landlady. Would have been fascinating to see him produce in the psychedelic age.
And the Left Banke were so good, too. I play their 2nd album all the time. Kinda surprised the singer of a psych pop band that dabbled in baroque arrangements would be so against it.
Wow! No love for the Left Banke? I bet Roy felt/feels different.
Great episode!
Thanks YP for another great video. Love your original music in the Video Outro that has a nod to Ruby Tuesday and Sound of Music no 1 in the Progressive 😉 album charts.
Thank you!
I like the reviews of people who actually seem to love music.
Carl Wayne nails it. His reviews are spot on! Another great clip. Thanks YP
Wow, never ask this guy for a stock pick!
A tough batch for poor Carl. I really liked the music you used over the charts at the end. Sweet and wistful.
Thanks!
Song name? Sounds like Ruby Tuesday
@@manuelmdemarco Yes, it's a cover of Ruby Tuesday.
@@YesterdaysPapers what artist/band?
@@manuelmdemarco I recorded it myself to go along with the last part of the video
Quite like the first two songs. Too Much to Dream is the kind of awesome 45 I wish I owned so I could blast it at lease breaking levels. The stunning crash sound at 39 seconds of the song I've just read is from a Superreverb Amp box getting wacked hard enough to rattle the spring unit against the metal sides of the box. Does that make sense to any of you musicians out there?
Anyway, The Sound of Music is back at #1 on the album chart and all's right with the world.
The Electric Prunes' song is a classic, really love that song. The first couple of Electric Prunes' albums are excellent.
It is an easy seven inch to find. It does sound great on 45
@@mellowvids9637 Yes, I'm sure discogs has a lot of copies for sale. Thanks.
So many " Carl Waynes" in England at the time mates !
‘Saturday Night’ by Julie Felix became ‘Young Girl Blues’ when Donovan released his own version on Sunshine Superman.
You mean, when it appeared on the later album Mellow Yellow? Brave for Julie to cover this song. I doubt the BBC would have been willing to play a song that touches on (but not too much!) masturbation.
@@stevecharman8420 it was on the UK version of Sunshine Superman but on the US album Mellow Yellow.
@@BigSky1 In Australia we got both Sunshine Superman and Mellow Yellow in their proper and intended form. I bought both albums in 1967 and played the spots off them.
Julie was a big deal at the time because she had a regular spot on The Frost Report TV show. (But I got severely fed up with hearing Going To The Zoo nearly every week on Junior Choice.)
I'm A Man, Steve Winwood and The Spencer Davis Group is the rockingest and grooviest track of that lot.
pfretty ballerina it's a great song!
@0:45 - was a minor hit even in Canada.. . the 'sitar' was backwards guitar.. great track in 2022!!!
Definitely a great track. The first couple of albums by the Electric Prunes are excellent, in my opinion.
love the little dig at the monkees without naming them
so many artists were pissed that the monkees gained "instant" fame without putting in the work....but in fact they all did...just not as a band
Remind me never to take record buying recommendations from Carl Wayne.
Pretty Ballerina isn't that bad
Pretty Ballerina is very good actually
It is, and so are many of the others he panned. It gives you a hint why the Move couldn't crack the North American market.
@@samp.8099 Yeah, he went too hard. No one has to like it, but they can at least recognize it for the qualities and appeal it has
@@samp.8099 'I've got something on my mind' is better though
I love "Pretty Ballerina". Great song.
“…Is it American? Paul Revere? They can do a good 30 minute variety show on Saturday morning, that’s all.” A bit dismissive there, Carl. I guess he wasn’t that far off, though… Paul Revere and the Raiders were the house band for the Dick Clark produced weekday show Where The Action Is? (65-66). Freddy ‘Boom Boom’ Cannon had a big hit with its theme song. I’m not agreeing with Carl that Paul Revere and the Raiders should be relegated to a variety show. I thought they were very talented lot and deserving to be in the rock Hall of Fame.
I agree, I love Paul Revere & The Raiders. It's pretty sad that many people remember them as a kind of a joke because of the costumes. Some of those albums they released between 1966 and 1968 are excellent.
@@YesterdaysPapers Spirit of ‘67 and Revolution being two fine albums. Revere and friends we’re certainly not the first group to play with costume and/or makeup. Can anyone say KISS or my favorite Peter Gabriel when he was w Genesis dressed in his wife’s red dress and a fox head. Why is that artistic expression and Revere is silly gimmickry?
@@boomtownrat5106 Love those two albums. "Midnight Ride" is great as well.
@@YesterdaysPapers An excellent album which had their version of Not Your Stepping Stone. A few years back I saw Mark Lindsay and Micky Dolenz dueling that song ,at all places, the LA County Fair. (A place where aging pop/rock stars fade away). Those two gentlemen knocked it out of the fairgrounds. They would’ve put younger singers to shame.
@@YesterdaysPapers My sister's determinedly hip schoolmates (who she said "couldn't stick the Beatles" - this was before Revolver had come out) were heavily into Paul Revere And The Raiders. They must have had something going for them.
Great chart that week !
Yesterdays Papers sould create Spotify playlists of the ending charts of each vid?
as well as the tunes in the vid, is work though😌
Pretty Ballerina was a hit, at least in the States.
Me encantó lo que dijo sobre Motown y Phil Spector.
Electric Prunes ? Great Song.
Love the Jimmy James track and what can you say about I'm a Man?
Hey Joe at number 8. Love it. Between the Buttons at 8 too in the album chart.
So many great classics in the chart, amazing month from an amazing year.
@@YesterdaysPapers And this is just January. It got even better.
He missed The Beat Go's On & The Spencer Davis Group but he seemed to be right on it in my opinion. Thanks yp always look forward to your latest.
What a dope Carl Wayne was (is)
I love Mr Wayne's tell it like it is style but he is a poor judge on what will be popular as many songs on his review like I've Had Too Much To Dream Last Night and the Beat Goes On became huge hits.
What seems to be going over the heads of most people commenting on here is that the Move's brief from their manager at the time, Tony Secunda, was to be as controversial as possible, to live up to the 'bad boy' image he gave them.
I kind of remember that at least one earlier video had someone talk about Sonny and Cher in that way.
For bonkers group names, The Electric Prunes takes some beating.
Even more bonkers was their 1967 album (November) "Mass In F Minor". The Latin Mass (sung in latin) with a psychedelic rock backing. A critic said: "it sounds like deaf monks were reciting the Gregorian chants". The first "real" rock opera. I have the vinyl....It's Brilliant!
Go straight through me
The Move was later ELO Without Carl nor Ace.
Basically Roy and Bev, with some new recruit called Jeff Lynne.
Nor Trevor Burton, who wrote Down Down Down.
Wow......
Didn't like Pretty Ballarina? Hmmm...
The top 8 songs were also big hits in the states...
this dude was way off !
Pretty Ballerina's melody is exquistite, instantly love it never having heard it before. The production was a bit twee and thin, that's all. I'm off to Left Banke my life with an E on the end...
Did you know The Left Banke also wrote and released the beautiful “Walk Away Renee”? The song was later covered by The Four Tops and enjoyed better chart success but the original (The Left Banke) release was still on UA-cam last time I checked.
The Left Banke were an excellent band, well worth checking out. I'm glad you discovered their music through this video.
@@YesterdaysPapers I second that! Another group in the genre of baroque pop is a group called The Merry-Go-Round. Their song You’re A Lovely Woman is beautiful ear candy. It’s a shame their lead vocalist Emmit Rhodes didn’t become a pop phenomenon. He was such a talent.
@@boomtownrat5106 Great talent. Very gifted songwriter.
@@lindadote Thanks. Just read all about them. I still prefer Pretty Ballerina but Walk Away, Renee is pretty good. It reminds me of something else I can't put my finger on...
"Goodbye Ruby Tuesday, who could hang a name on you ...." Great cover. Is that a mellotron you're using?
Carl Wayne was the son of American movie star John Wayne. True story..
So his real last name was Morrison? Yeah right ...
Interesting comment from Carl after he listened to The Spencer Davis Group ‘ l’m A Man’ track.
Who is this guy? He is grumpy and doesn’t know music very well at least at the time. Pretty Ballerina is an absolute gorgeous song! Described by the very musically knowledgeable Leonard Bernstein as a masterpiece of pop music.
primary lead singer for the move
Bernstein knew what he was talking about. He even dug Cream.
Damnit, I love that version of "Backstreet Girl". Hey ho. Carl Wayne is entitled to his opinion.
I think 'I'm A Man' really came into it's own when Chicago and Terry Kath got hold of it
The Simon Cowell of his generation!
That was Hughie Green: "Opportunity Knocks".
@@SuperNevile I will have to look him up.
Wow, I really like that Twiggy record.
The Move performed songs by Donovan? I'm a big fan of both and that's news to me. Very curious as to what songs they did
Yeah, I'd like to know what Donovan songs they covered as well. They used to play some very interesting and unexpected covers in those days. They covered songs like "Hey Grandma" by Moby Grape, "Why" by the Byrds and even "Sunshine Help Me" by Spooky Tooth.
Hi, does anyone know where the instrumental version of Ruby Tuesday is from that plays at the end of the video on what sounds like a Mellotron. Cannot find it anywhere.
I recorded that version myself to go along with the last part of the video.
Wow, he grew up a few doors away from me. Colin Tooley. Perhaps he was having an off day. I remember being picked up with my sister in a purple Zephyr, The Move inside. He came to this house.
Did he like anything?
That's pretty cool. The Move had a terrible reputation in 1967 because they smashed TV sets and cars on stage and they presented themselves as the sort of enfant terribles of the Brtish scene.. But I've read that they were all incredibly friendly and down to earth.
@@YesterdaysPapers Prime Minister Harold Wilson sued The Move and their manager because of the promotional postcard sent out for "Flowers In The Rain" (1967) which cast aspersions on his character (he was cartooned in bed with his secretary). All money from the record had to go to the charities Stoke Mandeville Hospital, and the S******s Society (now called Scope). Wilson later extended this to the Oxford Operatic Society, Bolton Lads Club and the Jewish National Fund for Israel, and still holds to this day. Millions have been paid out. It was the 60s man!
@@SuperNevile Yep, I made a video about that story. Check it out: ua-cam.com/video/uMWaQ9Nu1us/v-deo.html
Wayne, sunk into mediocrity when he sung the theme tune to the original Mr. & Mrs. TV quiz show.
Think he was married to Miss Dianne from Crossroads.
However, his vox on the Move's early hits shouldn't be underestimated.
You gotta love these reviews.
PJ went on to record an album with Led Zeppelin, 'The Legendary' Three Week Hero RIP.
I didn't even know that Twiggy was a singer!
Boy was he wrong about the Electric Prunes!
Not really …it barely scraped into the top 50.
@@annoyingbstard9407 in the UK sure, in the US it was top 10!
Too much to dream was a nearly top 10 for the Prunes. Pretty ballerina was top 20 in the United States, one of only two hits for the left banke. Nikki Hoeky was the ONLY hit in US for PJ Proby
I love the three songs.
Niki Hoeky struggled into the 40s in the UK, IIRC.
Because of his future, I was hoping that Carl would review a Hollies single. Pity about that.
So I love Pretty Ballerina I think it's one of the best (non-Beatles) songs of the 60s, the funny thing is I feel like The Move's Beautiful Daughter from a few years later kind of sounds a little bit like it, Beautiful Daughter is also a wonderful song that I also really like, but it's just funny that he would diss Pretty Ballerina and then make a song that sounded kind of similar
Carl seems to have a high opinion of his opinion?
Couldn’t tell you who the commenter or his band was.
I couldn't disagree more regarding Pretty Ballerina....he hated it, but I think it's great
I love this Blind Date series- the singles being reviewed expose a lot of classic music unknown to us Yanks. Unknown to this British Invasion fan anyway. In this case the reviewer's band The Move. Huge in in the UK but for reasons I am unaware of were/are unknown in the US. Simply bad promotion?
Badly managed by Tony Secunda. Too much emphasis on gimmicky publicity stunts (including the fiasco of being sued for libel by the Prime Minister, the stress from which was one factor in Ace Kefford's exit from the band) and not enough attention paid to really building their career.
@5:15 interesting..that audio clip is out of phase. I listen in Mono and it totally removes her vocal track. One of the audio channels has been inverted - maybe whoever remastered it.
I couldn't find that song anywhere, I think it's probably never been reissued. So I ended up using a vinyl rip that someone posted on youtube. I guess whoever uploaded it inverted the channels.
"NO! TURN IT OFF!"
"Makes me want to cry, and not because it's sad." I love musicians. 🤣
Geez, that was harsh on the Left Bank. Uncalled for 'ol chap...
I didn't even know Twiggy had singles
He was hard to please haha.