Growing up in Lodi, NJ I was 10 years old and living in downtown Lodi where urban renewal was taking place in the sixties. Most of the stores on Main St. were empty and directly across the street, there was what we called The Candy Store. So one day for about a week, The Young Rascals, later just THE RASCALS, rented that store to rehearse for their appearance on THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW maybe 10 miles across the Hudson in NYC. I used to sit in the doorwell and listen for hours. After that, not far away, in Garfied, NJ they performed many shows at a place next to the ERIE RR called THE CHOOCHOO CLUB, where we would sit outside and listen. Good times for us young kids. Another group that played gigs in Lodi were Frankie Vali and The Four Seasons at a club I cant remember the name of. We would hang outside by the dumpsters and listen. The greatest free entertainment ever.
Great story and free music is a gift for sure. I saw Jimi Hendrix at the Orange Show in Southern California in April 1970; he died in Sept of that same year. So right place, right time for both of us. I'm surprised that It's a Beautiful Morning wasn't a part of the repertoire for this video. I listen to it regularly to start my day, especially in the winter when I get the blues. It helps me reset my thinking about the weather and be glad I'm alive.
I lived in Pelham Manor, not far from Felix's parents home. The buzz spread about them before any records were released and the town was buzzing with kids singing "Good Lovin". Fun and innocent memories! And another gift: living close to someone who was influential gave one the sense that anyone could realize their dreams and that anything was possible!.
Hi Bob sometimes age mixes up our memories it sure does with me. I worked with the Rascals for 3 years from 1966-69. The first place they ever played was Choo Choo club and that's the city Eddie grew up in and they did that before they even had a record contract probably a year before they ever did the Ed Sullivan show. I'm sure they never rented a store to rehearse in Garfield for the Ed Sullivan show because by that time in 1966 they had already been a recording group at Atlantic Records, Good Loving had been number 1 in the country and wouldn't be rehearsing in a storefront in Garfield. Before they played the Cho Cho club the only rehearsal they had was when they first formed I guess a couple of weeks before that in Felix's parent's basement for two nights in Phelem where they put together 24 songs. Gene bought a group of his friends from Rochester maybe in 1967 and got them a gig at the Cho Cho club for a week and I was taking "care" of them and would drive from my parents house in Queens to the Cho Cho club for that every night. I think the Cho Cho was in a small shopping center but that's a foggy memory. Anyway we're both lucky to have experienced the Rascals up close.
I first saw these guys in 1966 when they were touring with Dick Clark's "Where the Action is", along with a bunch of other acts. The Young Rascals (as they were first named) were by far, the best of them all. I saw them several more times afterwards and their live shows were fantastic. I still own all the vinyl records that I bought new. Their generous spirits were real. At their show in Miami Beach in 1970 where they were raising funds for Danny Thomas' St. Jude's Children's Hospital, Danny told the audience that The Rascals (new name) had paid all of their own expenses and donated their pay to St. Jude's. They "walked the talk". Wonderful in every way.
@@beaucharles9934 The Knickerbockers were fantastic! I watched Dick Clark's show, "Where the Action Is" every afternoon after school. When I found all the groups were touring, I was able to see them live! Those were the days when all the kids appreciated ALL music, regardless of the groups' backgrounds and the music had positive messages. All love and no hate. Simple times. I still smile when I remember them.
Your comment on their generosity to St. Jude's Children’s Hospital makes me love the Rascals and the Knickerbockers all the more. Thank you for sharing that bit of information with us. ❤🙏🎸🎹🎼🌟
The sad thing is, the newspapers did not mention this good deed the next day which was the "big" Sunday paper. However, the following week Led Zeppelin played in the same building (Convention Center in Miami Beach) and the crowd destroyed the place at the end of the concert. That made the newspapers. So sad. I remember wanting to see them but I was afraid to, for this very reason. It looked like I made the right call. @@esthergarcia1373
I loved the Rascals back in the day. They never had a bad song, and most of their songs were the best! And Felix has maybe the best blue-eyed soul voice ever!
That's Eddie Brigati. Felix (Cavaliere) tells the story that Eddie would sneak into clubs as a kid and sing onstage with local bands with that amazing voice. Felix told him "one day you're going to be in a band with me".
Going back, i can't believe how spot on Felix is with his singing. especially live. I think he is very underrated. The guy is one of the best vocalists from that era.
There’s a circle of bands I always come back to. The Rascals, as known now, is high on the list. The Young Rascals were dare I say, better than a lot of groups coming out of Europe, at the time. So bad ass.
Without question. Also, as a black guy in his 60's, I can vouch for the idea that these were the "blackest" white group ever! In a time when a lot of music was stratified racially (especially in the South), The Rascals were played on black radio along with Motown, Stax and other label artists. Other like artists of the day were the Okaysions ("Im a Girl Watcher"), the Soul Survivors ("Expressway to Your Heart") and others. In fact they were the Average White Band of their day. Main songs? Groovin', It's a Beautiful Morning, Good Loving, How Can I Be Sure and others. In the long summers back then, these songs would blare over the loudspeakers at the city park where we played Little League and Pony League baseball. Listening to the music takes me back to then. What a talented group of fellows.
@@fostermac7170 SPOT On Brother - I wasn't impressed by thier sound at the time but a friend of mine had a ticket to their Once upon a dream tour at one of the casinos in Connecticut many years later - I was blown away by the production and the energy and their talent as musicians - these guys were the Original Jersey Boys in fact it's only in listening to this right now that I can hear Smokey Robinson influences on the song Groove N - I also didn't realize it at that time but what did Sullivan have them on once a week? LMAO
@@fostermac7170 Dear fostermac7170, great to hear your take on Rascals and especially their soul \ r&b worthiness. I get that this is a dashed off note you are making here fueled on particular Musical Memoirs (see Al Young's books of Musical Memoirs from his life too!), but one cannot leave out "People Gotta Be Free" from the FREEDOM SUITE and such a soul stirrer at those ritualistic improv delight gigs of real muses. Check out clips posted to U. of Tube from some of those gigs including the Broadway revival run not that long before Dino Danelli's passing and man he went out grooving in a highly syncopated blaze of intuitive and creative glory.....The relevance of "People Gotta Be Free" as real today and now in Gaza or Sudan, Ukraine or the Normalization of Homelessness on the streets of the wealthiest nation including The Empire State in quantified human his\herstory. That was no sentimental stroll through whatever greatest hits the corporate-captured U.S. of Amnesia broadcast system chooses to milk.... playbill.com/article/broadway-engagement-of-the-rascals-once-upon-a-dream-directed-by-steven-van-zandt-opens-april-16-com-204431 www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-rascals-on-broadway Long live those grooves and may they be a focusing blessing in our over-distracted times! Tio Mitchito Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Sifters, Code Shifters, PsalmSong Chasers Lay-Low Studios, Ore-Wa (Refuge of Atonement Seekers) Media Discussion List\Looksee
Our garage band played that one! Maybe my favorite; My buddy Tony&also a drummer- said Dino was the BEST rock drummer going- took me a few years to realize how true that was! RIP DINO💪👍🙏
America ' s answer to the British invasión along w.The Beach Boys, The Byrds, The Doors etc. But the Rascals stand as my favorite. Dino the most schooled drummer of his generation. RIP.
When I was 13 yo I learned "Good Lovin" on guitar and "I've been Lonely To Long" by the Rascals and started a high school band. It was Beatles and Rascal songs I enjoyed the most.
Each band member is fantastic in his own right. There's no doubt they love playing music. Each man puts everything into the music and it shows. Beautiful!
No, the greatest american band is Santana. And CSN&Y. Rascals were largely Italian. What I should have written is Greatest Italian-American Band including Italia.@@mikedavis4427
Better than the Doors? Gary Puckett and the Union Gap? They were awesome I just wish Eddie Brigati had sang lead on more songs. Like he did on How can I be sure!!!!!!
I'm 59 years old, and grew up with their music. I used to blast their songs in my 1967 Chevy Camaro, while driving it around town where I lived. All of their music gives you a happy feeling listening to it! Younger people need to hear this fantastic music.... Keep the legacy alive! 😎👍🏻
The Rascals were, by far, the best blue-eyed soul group ever...saw Felix a few years back and, I must say, he's still got it...Dino could twirl the sticks better than anybody...RIP Dino.
So sorry to hear of the passing of the Rascals drummer Dino what a great talent and showman as is all the band my twin brother and I favorite band of the 1960s had many of their albums and there music still sounds great today
As a professional woodwind player it blows my mind that the lead singer could play the bass line with one hand, and the rest of the harmony with the other while singing. My brain isn't big enough.
I read that Felix grew up as a classically-trained pianist, he's the real deal. Also, they didn't add a bass guitar player because they wanted to keep it a 4-piece group and Felix could play the bass line on his B-3. Always loved their music and still do.
I was 16 and played the drums when I first saw Dino and the Rascals. I had other friends that played the drums in bands at the time and when we saw Dino with sticks flashing everywhere we knew right away we wanted to copy his style, but that was easier said than done. He was not only a great drummer but a great showman like his teacher Gene Krupa. He had those pink champagne Ludwig's with the 24" bass drum and he sat real low. I final got my prink champagne Ludwigs and sat real low but soon found out it wasn't as easy as Dino made it look. R.I.P Dino!
@@MrWahooknows Yes, he was up there with Carmine! He was incredible with the band Steve Van Zant put together in the 1980s. Check out the videos of him performing with that band.
"Timepeace", their greatest hits album, is one of the most prized possessions of any Boomer! I wore the grooves out of my first copy. Great songwriting, two great voices, a great guitarist, and a superstar dynamic drummer, how can you go wrong? It's so great to see them performing at such a high level so many years later, it's a true testament to their GREATNESS!
I love the Rascals and saw this. I was going to watch just 2 or 3 minutes since it's pretty long, but it just pulled me in and I watched it all the way through. Absolutely great band, and Dino D was a monster!
I’m 69 this is my music.I was 14 when this came out so many good memories.First kiss,I fell in love for the first time.Gosh these song bring back good memories.God bless
Those were some of the best bet rock song of that era. I played over and over in the jukebox nickel of the bar near my street. So the others kids and olders in the 20's.old.
Danelli is hands down the most unsung drummer in rock history! Dino is a one man drumming masterclass. A drummer's drummer. Watch some of 60's live footage to see just what I mean. The Rascals are Jersey's finest, now rightly inducted into the RRHOF.
Never knew much about this band but what was played on the a.m. radio stations. I just watched and immediately thought the same thing. That drummer is killin it.
To me, Dino will always be a latter day Renaissance man. He was a most gifted, accomplished drummer in the stratosphere of Buddy Rich, yet he also was a gifted painter. None of us can live forever, but his passing breaks my heart.
My favorite band-The Rascals! Felix Dino Gene Eddie. So glad I got to see them live at different venues back in the day. My favorite -The Action House on Long Island, NY. Small venue, small crowd, small stage-(about chest level) you were standing right against the stage only few feet away from the band! Dino R.I.P. Condolences to his family and friends.
They were the most notorious American band from the golden era of rock & roll. Great songs, incredible voices, outstanding musicians and the best rock drummer of the day.
All to often the death of a musician comes across the news so I search the name and play the songs. I am instantly pulled back to a time I euphorically recall were happier times of my life. First there is a smile on my face remembering the good times then a tear as I realize the person who brought me the joy of their music is gone. Memories of my life are linked to music. I can remember the year , the day , the girl, that a song brings back to life as if it were yesterday. I just finished listening to " The young rascals" because Dino Danelli died and WOW does that hit me hard. I loved that guys music. It is always sad learning of the death of anyone. I find it mystifying the death of a total stranger can affect me so much. How is it possible to hold an emotional attachment to someone I've never meet? Music moves the soul ; Barry Manilow
Very well expressed. Same. Total stranger yet hard to reconcile he is not in the world anymore. Like a family member, it's going to take some time to get used to his not "being in the world" among us. I watch his videos every day since and tear up and I'm an old broad, grandmother aged. He touched a personal "nerve" among us taking with him a part of our youth. Whatever is beyond the veil, I hope he feels the love and admiration from over here, knows that he lived a "life well lived" plus more; a legacy which will live forever. It's ironic that he was the first Rascal to go. Not him. Not Dino. Yet, it's true.
There’s a famous line from a poem that goes something like this, “Any man’s death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind. And, therefore, never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” ❤
Actually, it's Bruce Johnston of the Beach Boys who wrote the Manilow song to which you refer. Not trying to be a dick, just another songwriter, feeling a little unappreciated.
We have to honor all the great music we have and have had in our country and the joy it brings to all- music can heal us and bring us together in these troubled times let us not underestimate its power to do this - what a gift and legacy this band has given us
Whenever the radio rolled out a new Rascals‘ tune everything came to a full stop. Always fabulous material. Holds solid decades later. Terrific memories. XOXOXO.
I was at the Hamptons in 65. The Rascals were playing at the Barge. On celebrities could get in. We had to go to another club that had the Vagrants, featuring a large guitarist named Leslie West!
I was blessed to see Felix Cavalera perform with Ringo’s All Star Band Tour. He still sounded great. ❤️🙏🏻Loved the Rascals from the very beginning. Wonderful memories for sure. 😍
I was a teenage fan back in the early seventies and used to know all the lyrics to the Groovin' album. We would party and all join in and sing along with the record. Those were the days my friend,
The BEST bar band turned national treasure EVER. I remember the first band I was in playin "I ain't gonna eat out my heart any more" 1964-65, on channel 13 outta Newark on the Zackerly horror/comedy show. Love you guys always, thanks for the music and ...
Whoever connected all this film clips together, we young rascals fans are very grateful!!!! I have about 2000 PCs of old long playing albums of the 50s mostly 60s n 70 s and part 80s. The young rascals are among my top ten best group of the sixties! Thier music is mesmerizing you will keep on dancing! Groovin has been used in some hollywood movies!!!! Thank you so much I keep on watching this tribute almost daily during d pandemic when we were not allowed to get out due to our age!!!!! Raffy Villanueva of manila, Philippines.
Glad you enjoyed it ... created for a presentation I put together for the student body at the school where I taught. Eddie was there and spoke afterward.
Dino Danelli was a huge influence on me in my early years of playing the drums. There were others, but Dino was just an awesome player and showman and, his playing was so good along with the fact that his drumming was I/3rd of the band and was not pulled from the drum chair when the Rascals recorded as so many many other musicians were, so that is him on all the Rascals records. I saw him with The Young Rascals at Island Garden Arena, the Singer Bowl, Westbury Music Fair all on Long Island NY and around 1968. Then after the Rascals broke up, I saw him in a local club playing with Bulldog, after 1970. In 1992 I was i South Hampton NY and the New Rascals (Only Dino and Gene) were playing at a local bar in East Hampton with the New Birds with drummer Mike Clarke. Billy Joel who lived out at the Hamptons back then was also in the crowd with his then wife Christy Brinkley.
Going to Jr High with my dad driving me - It's a Beautiful Morning slides onto the AM radio - I'm thinking what the heck am I going to school for? Just let me bask in this song forever! What a great moment - can remember it clear as day over 50 years later.
It's the Summer of '65. I've just graduated from high school and accepted to the college of my choice. Life was good. There was a club in the Hamptons--The Barge--where a hot new band from the City--The Young Rascals--were playing every night. Imagine that? Friday night you'd drive over to the Barge and sit within 10' of these guys??? Amazing. Great Summer. Great memories.
I never knew Van Zandt was that freakin' funny ! He could make a living doing stand up comedy if he didn't have that "other" gig going. Love the Rascals. Wish they could have performed longer as a band together. The music I grew up with. None better.
Thanks John for this awesome video. Always knew how fantastic Dino was. Hendrix wanted him but he turned him down. But I never thought he was the best rock and rock and roll drummer of all time. Till Steve said it and then I thought about it. He's probably right. He played with so much authority, power, skill. A feel that nobody topped. This band could have been called Cream because they were the cream of the crop. They were musically a trio. You never felt a lack in their sound. Carry Me Back is one of my favorite songs of all time. If anyone doesn't know the song, you can hear it from the record and also here at Live on UA-cam. Just fantastic. Whenthe British were kicking our butts back in the sixties, it was Gary Lewis, The Beach Boys, and The Rascals holding the fort. These guys are the old time real deal.
Man, these guys can still play it today.....their instrumentation is the same, they haven't missed a beat, maybe their vocals are a bit weaker but let's face it they're around 70 years old. That Dino can still play those wicked drums, great tempo, hits those skins with authority and still can do those twirls, although a bit slower, but still a great, great drummer.
I remember them well because they were mostly from my town of Garfield NJ and I hung out with and went to HS with EDDIE, so I am very proud to have known them all But Eddie is my Favorite one in the band!
Steven Van Zandt it’s an all-time great. I love that guy good music great actor. And I absolutely love that he dressed up like the rascals in the 1960s. Hilarious.
OMG! Luv this tribute to my favorite group! Wow, they set the bar high in live performances. Their Mickey's Monkey was wild! Luv their music & 4ever a Rascals fan.
Like Van Gogh w/his brushes, Dino & HIS brushes/sticks were art implements conveying beautiful music. Thank you Dino, Felix Eddie & Gene for your awesome artistry
I really am not very keen on nostalgia, I hadn't really thought about the "Young Rascals" for some time. In 1960, for my 10th birthday I received a transistor radio. It was effectively glued to my ear for years, morning, noon and night. As I watched this tribute to the "Rascals" I was shocked by my incredible memories of these songs; every note, every word, every vocal nuance are all ingrained in my head forever. That is what great music can do, be burned into your soul, then take you back to the exact time, place, sensation and experience that each song elicits from your associations with it. "Groovin'" will always take me back to Panama City Beach, Florida. Brilliant sun, blindingly white beach sand, and turquoise water, and coming out to my friends. I saw those performances on the Ed Sullivan Show, I bought their albums and played them incessantly. Then over the next decades the memories faded, or so I thought. Just hearing the opening bars of "Good Lovin'" was enough to let me travel in time...Apparently, I never forgot the magic of their music after all...
Thank U for this well deserved tribute to Felix, Eddie, Gene, & Dino! Gifted musicians, vocalists, & song writers. Luv all the comments from truly appreciative fans of gr8 music. Rascals were hard to beat when it came to live performances. Aloha from a 4ever Rascal fan. RIP, Dinoooo.
Wonderful...I didn't realize the sparse instruments they did all that wonderful music with...essentially a guitar and a keyboard way before these instruments became full orchestras in themselves...wonderful...
Growing up in Lodi, NJ I was 10 years old and living in downtown Lodi where urban renewal was taking place in the sixties. Most of the stores on Main St. were empty and directly across the street, there was what we called The Candy Store. So one day for about a week, The Young Rascals, later just THE RASCALS, rented that store to rehearse for their appearance on THE ED SULLIVAN SHOW maybe 10 miles across the Hudson in NYC. I used to sit in the doorwell and listen for hours. After that, not far away, in Garfied, NJ they performed many shows at a place next to the ERIE RR called THE CHOOCHOO CLUB, where we would sit outside and listen. Good times for us young kids. Another group that played gigs in Lodi were Frankie Vali and The Four Seasons at a club I cant remember the name of. We would hang outside by the dumpsters and listen. The greatest free entertainment ever.
Great story and free music is a gift for sure. I saw Jimi Hendrix at the Orange Show in Southern California in April 1970; he died in Sept of that same year. So right place, right time for both of us. I'm surprised that It's a Beautiful Morning wasn't a part of the repertoire for this video. I listen to it regularly to start my day, especially in the winter when I get the blues. It helps me reset my thinking about the weather and be glad I'm alive.
I saw Frankie perform in 2019 and he still sounded great at 84. So much enduring talent came out of those days.
I lived in Pelham Manor, not far from Felix's parents home. The buzz spread about them before any records were released and the town was buzzing with kids singing "Good Lovin". Fun and innocent memories!
And another gift: living close to someone who was influential gave one the sense that anyone could realize their dreams and that anything was possible!.
Hi Bob sometimes age mixes up our memories it sure does with me. I worked with the Rascals for 3 years from 1966-69. The first place they ever played was Choo Choo club and that's the city Eddie grew up in and they did that before they even had a record contract probably a year before they ever did the Ed Sullivan show. I'm sure they never rented a store to rehearse in Garfield for the Ed Sullivan show because by that time in 1966 they had already been a recording group at Atlantic Records, Good Loving had been number 1 in the country and wouldn't be rehearsing in a storefront in Garfield. Before they played the Cho Cho club the only rehearsal they had was when they first formed I guess a couple of weeks before that in Felix's parent's basement for two nights in Phelem where they put together 24 songs. Gene bought a group of his friends from Rochester maybe in 1967 and got them a gig at the Cho Cho club for a week and I was taking "care" of them and would drive from my parents house in Queens to the Cho Cho club for that every night. I think the Cho Cho was in a small shopping center but that's a foggy memory. Anyway we're both lucky to have experienced the Rascals up close.
@@TomGargiuloArtandFilm-fu2hv Is Pelham Manor within the Bronx? Or just somewhere near it?
'How can I be sure'
One of the best ballads ever.
Love it
Eddie ❤️...
My Favorite. Eddie is from here, Garfield. He never forget his roots
@@lindae2524 Very true...
I first saw these guys in 1966 when they were touring with Dick Clark's "Where the Action is", along with a bunch of other acts. The Young Rascals (as they were first named) were by far, the best of them all. I saw them several more times afterwards and their live shows were fantastic. I still own all the vinyl records that I bought new.
Their generous spirits were real. At their show in Miami Beach in 1970 where they were raising funds for Danny Thomas' St. Jude's Children's Hospital, Danny told the audience that The Rascals (new name) had paid all of their own expenses and donated their pay to St. Jude's. They "walked the talk". Wonderful in every way.
My group, the knickerbockers were on that tour too! The Rascals stole the show every night! We dug them, big time! RIP Dino
@@beaucharles9934 The Knickerbockers were fantastic! I watched Dick Clark's show, "Where the Action Is" every afternoon after school. When I found all the groups were touring, I was able to see them live!
Those were the days when all the kids appreciated ALL music, regardless of the groups' backgrounds and the music had positive messages. All love and no hate.
Simple times. I still smile when I remember them.
@@boomerguy9935 thanks for your comment. You’re right, those were good times!
Your comment on their generosity to St. Jude's Children’s Hospital makes me love the Rascals and the Knickerbockers all the more. Thank you for sharing that bit of information with us. ❤🙏🎸🎹🎼🌟
The sad thing is, the newspapers did not mention this good deed the next day which was the "big" Sunday paper.
However, the following week Led Zeppelin played in the same building (Convention Center in Miami Beach) and the crowd destroyed the place at the end of the concert. That made the newspapers. So sad. I remember wanting to see them but I was afraid to, for this very reason. It looked like I made the right call. @@esthergarcia1373
The Rascals tried to bring all people together in peace. God bless them 😃
No lip synching for this band...great arrangements and musicianship...vastly underrated band!
Ed Sullivan required live performances.
True greats... Dino will be sorely missed. A classy cat from start to finish.... Rest in Peace man.
Keyboard working overtime.
Ridiculous. ..they've never been underrated. They're one of the best.
Overrated
I loved the Rascals back in the day. They never had a bad song, and most of their songs were the best! And Felix has maybe the best blue-eyed soul voice ever!
maybe?
Absolutely. No maybe about it!!
H of a band ,period. All were awesome.
The Rascal who sings "How Can I Be Sure" ballad here had a great voice!
Eddie Brigati. He's a hometown boy here. I love his voice.
That's Eddie Brigati. Felix (Cavaliere) tells the story that Eddie would sneak into clubs as a kid and sing onstage with local bands with that amazing voice. Felix told him "one day you're going to be in a band with me".
Damn it, we were all young, it went too fast! 😪♥️
❤ tell no one sounds like
I miss grooving
But it sure was good!
Definitely!
@@sngwrter49 yes, we all enjoyed our music & dancing to it!👍💜💜💜💜💜☮️
Going back, i can't believe how spot on Felix is with his singing. especially live. I think he is very underrated. The guy is one of the best vocalists from that era.
Spot on... and EFFORTLESS!
Totally agree.
Don't forget Eddie!
Luuuuv the young rascals.....TERRIFIC SONG!
We just saw them a few weeks ago in Greensburg PA and Felix sounded incredible! And he's 80 or 81 years old!!
There’s a circle of bands I always come back to. The Rascals, as known now, is high on the list. The Young Rascals were dare I say, better than a lot of groups coming out of Europe, at the time. So bad ass.
Dino was a monster drummer! He had it all.
Saw them live in 1969. They were so awesome live no doubt one of the best, tightest, talented groups ever!
How can I be sure is one of the most melodious songs ever written. The performance is superb.
Agreed!
Beautiful and mysterious !!
ABSOLUTELY
How can I be sure touches me immensely!
The Rascals, man, the talent, the songs, the musicianship, those vocals, that killer beat. So good, so fine.
Without question. Also, as a black guy in his 60's, I can vouch for the idea that these were the "blackest" white group ever! In a time when a lot of music was stratified racially (especially in the South), The Rascals were played on black radio along with Motown, Stax and other label artists. Other like artists of the day were the Okaysions ("Im a Girl Watcher"), the Soul Survivors ("Expressway to Your Heart") and others.
In fact they were the Average White Band of their day. Main songs? Groovin', It's a Beautiful Morning, Good Loving, How Can I Be Sure and others.
In the long summers back then, these songs would blare over the loudspeakers at the city park where we played Little League and Pony League baseball.
Listening to the music takes me back to then. What a talented group of fellows.
@@fostermac7170
SPOT On Brother -
I wasn't impressed by thier sound at the time but a friend of mine had a ticket to their Once upon a dream tour at one of the casinos in Connecticut many years later - I was blown away by the production and the energy and their talent as musicians - these guys were the Original Jersey Boys in fact it's only in listening to this right now that I can hear Smokey Robinson influences on the song Groove N - I also didn't realize it at that time but what did Sullivan have them on once a week? LMAO
@@sergepetrov7973 Real musicians!
@@fostermac7170 Dear fostermac7170, great to hear your take on Rascals and especially their soul \ r&b worthiness. I get that this is a dashed off note you are making here fueled on particular Musical Memoirs (see Al Young's books of Musical Memoirs from his life too!), but one cannot leave out "People Gotta Be Free" from the FREEDOM SUITE and such a soul stirrer at those ritualistic improv delight gigs of real muses.
Check out clips posted to U. of Tube from some of those gigs including the Broadway revival run not that long before Dino Danelli's passing and man he went out grooving in a highly syncopated blaze of intuitive and creative glory.....The relevance of "People Gotta Be Free" as real today and now in Gaza or Sudan, Ukraine or the Normalization of Homelessness on the streets of the wealthiest nation including The Empire State in quantified human his\herstory. That was no sentimental stroll through whatever greatest hits the corporate-captured U.S. of Amnesia broadcast system chooses to milk....
playbill.com/article/broadway-engagement-of-the-rascals-once-upon-a-dream-directed-by-steven-van-zandt-opens-april-16-com-204431
www.newyorker.com/culture/culture-desk/the-rascals-on-broadway
Long live those grooves and may they be a focusing blessing in our over-distracted times!
Tio Mitchito
Mitch Ritter\Paradigm Sifters, Code Shifters, PsalmSong Chasers
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It's a Beautiful Morning and Groovin' are classics, which means they can fly on their own in any era. Good songs, are immortal.👍
Great memories! So glad I grew up during this era!
@@cherylpetrosino9681 Exactly! 👍
RIP Dino Danelli. So gracious that he thanked his girlfriend Cheryl and told her that his award was hers too. A true gentleman!
"For all your love and loyalty." I think those were some of Dino's words for Cheryl at the R&RHOF induction.
Yes sir
Omg. He died last year? He was the lead singer right?
@@jeannieprincetta5510 No, he was the drummer.
@@jeannieprincetta5510 No, he was the drummer. The other 3 members of the group are all still alive.
Dino's playing on "Come On Up" was SO soulful....it drove the band to heights unknown. RIP Dino Danelli
Our garage band played that one! Maybe my favorite; My buddy Tony&also a drummer- said Dino was the BEST rock drummer going- took me a few years to realize how true that was! RIP DINO💪👍🙏
YES Dino is second to no one R I P Dino.
Dino was an underrated drummer. He was the best of the best. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
@@harperstacey9604 He and they were never underrated.
America ' s answer to the British invasión along w.The Beach Boys, The Byrds, The Doors etc. But the Rascals stand as my favorite.
Dino the most schooled drummer of his generation. RIP.
Groovy one of the most beautiful song I'm 76 it makes me so Happy
When I was 13 yo I learned "Good Lovin" on guitar and "I've been Lonely To Long" by the Rascals and started a high school band. It was Beatles and Rascal songs I enjoyed the most.
Each band member is fantastic in his own right. There's no doubt they love playing music. Each man puts everything into the music and it shows. Beautiful!
yeah, that's about right. Jersey guys never change. Nice
Big shout out to John Lovell for making this excellent tribute.
Greatest Italian rock band ever!
The wall of power that comes from "Good Love" --- amazing.
Hmm, hmm.
I think you meant to say greatest AMERICAN band.
No, the greatest american band is Santana. And CSN&Y. Rascals were largely Italian. What I should have written is Greatest Italian-American Band including Italia.@@mikedavis4427
✨Italian~American Band❗️✨🫶🏼✨
No, greatest Italian rock band in the WORLD. @@ReJoyce456
Italian American Canadian
Best American 60's band ever...they had it all, soul, love, rock, and it all holds up, 40 years later!!!
I agree with you 100%!!
Yep, still !!
Wonderful comment!
Wrong, but of course it’s a fanboy echo chamber on a video like this. Don’t give me wrong they were good, but far from the best.
Better than the Doors? Gary Puckett and the Union Gap? They were awesome I just wish Eddie Brigati had sang lead on more songs. Like he did on How can I be sure!!!!!!
Love the Rascals from the beginning, have all their songs, still play their music today...God bless them 🙏 ❤ 😊
I'm 59 years old, and grew up with their music. I used to blast their songs in my 1967 Chevy Camaro, while driving it around town where I lived. All of their music gives you a happy feeling listening to it!
Younger people need to hear this fantastic music.... Keep the legacy alive! 😎👍🏻
The Rascals were, by far, the best blue-eyed soul group ever...saw Felix a few years back and, I must say, he's still got it...Dino could twirl the sticks better than anybody...RIP Dino.
Rockin' it in the heavenly band!
Dino the Dynamite Drummer was and still is the MAN Love you Dino!!!
How can I be sure holds up to the best of Beatles songs
So sorry to hear of the passing of the Rascals drummer Dino what a great talent and showman as is all the band my twin brother and I favorite band of the 1960s had many of their albums and there music still sounds great today
The Young Rascals were truly love in the black community, blue eyed soul.
Yes, they were!!
As a professional woodwind player it blows my mind that the lead singer could play the bass line with one hand, and the rest of the harmony with the other while singing. My brain isn't big enough.
I read that Felix grew up as a classically-trained pianist, he's the real deal. Also, they didn't add a bass guitar player because they wanted to keep it a 4-piece group and Felix could play the bass line on his B-3. Always loved their music and still do.
I was 16 and played the drums when I first saw Dino and the Rascals. I had other friends that played the drums in bands at the time and when we saw Dino with sticks flashing everywhere we knew right away we wanted to copy his style, but that was easier said than done. He was not only a great drummer but a great showman like his teacher Gene Krupa. He had those pink champagne Ludwig's with the 24" bass drum and he sat real low. I final got my prink champagne Ludwigs and sat real low but soon found out it wasn't as easy as Dino made it look. R.I.P Dino!
Arguably the best rock voice in the 60's.
What aout Vinny and the Corndogs?
Rest in Peace, Dino 🙏🏻 It's a sad day. 😔 The best band ever on so many levels.
what a beat he put down, amazing sound those three instruments made!
Awe Man
Note he was hitting the bell on that cymbal, giving that tune its signature ring. Man, he was such a good drummer. Right up there with Appice, imo.
@@MrWahooknows Yes, he was up there with Carmine! He was incredible with the band Steve Van Zant put together in the 1980s. Check out the videos of him performing with that band.
The best ever… on every level!
1968 working at MacDonalds my own car cruising Hampton beach listening to the rascals the box tops what a hell of a decade
I could watch Dino drum all day long. That cat was the shit!!
"Timepeace", their greatest hits album, is one of the most prized possessions of any Boomer! I wore the grooves out of my first copy. Great songwriting, two great voices, a great guitarist, and a superstar dynamic drummer, how can you go wrong? It's so great to see them performing at such a high level so many years later, it's a true testament to their GREATNESS!
I love the Rascals and saw this. I was going to watch just 2 or 3 minutes since it's pretty long, but it just pulled me in and I watched it all the way through. Absolutely great band, and Dino D was a monster!
When I watch this, I'm still that 10 year old little girl watching Ed Sullivan wanting to scream...."DINO!!" I am 67 years old. 🙏🏻Rest in Peace.💔😔🙏🏻
Heaven is pig rich with outstanding, incredible, legendary, amazing drummers.
I’m 69 this is my music.I was 14 when this came out so many good memories.First kiss,I fell in love for the first time.Gosh these song bring back good memories.God bless
Those were some of the best bet rock song of that era. I played over and over in the jukebox nickel of the bar near my street. So the others kids and olders in the 20's.old.
Yep, Me too. LOVED Dino and Felix!!!
I did not know that there were a band that was about uniting everybody. What a great, great human beings they were.
"People Gotta Be Free" is a worldwide anthem for all time. This is all there is.
Danelli is hands down the most unsung drummer in rock history! Dino is a one man drumming masterclass. A drummer's drummer. Watch some of 60's live footage to see just what I mean. The Rascals are Jersey's finest, now rightly inducted into the RRHOF.
Yes indeed they socked to the British invasion, they are one the 60' finest rock bands .
Carmine Appice gave props to Danelli.
Never knew much about this band but what was played on the a.m. radio stations. I just watched and immediately thought the same thing. That drummer is killin it.
and an influence on keith moon
Agreed! Must give a nod to Mel Taylor of the Ventures as well. Mel had every high school drummer playing Wipeout in the '60's.
How amazing, incredible drummer, superb organ player very good guitar player, and a great singer what more could you want.
Dino Dinelli, one of the ALL TIME GREATS. RIP DEAR DINO
To me, Dino will always be a latter day Renaissance man. He was a most gifted, accomplished drummer in the stratosphere of Buddy Rich, yet he also was a gifted painter. None of us can live forever, but his passing breaks my heart.
Great band - Groovin' and It's a Beautiful Morning still resonate today.
WHY DO WE HAVE TO GROW OLDER its not fair if there is a pause button this is where i would stop it RIP Dino
What a great year for Rock and Roll Hall of Fame entries and presenters! I love every one of them.
My favorite band-The Rascals! Felix Dino Gene Eddie. So glad I got to see them live at different venues back in the day. My favorite -The Action House on Long Island, NY. Small venue, small crowd, small stage-(about chest level) you were standing right against the stage only few feet away from the band! Dino R.I.P. Condolences to his family and friends.
WOW the Action House nothing better with the Rascals. R I P DINO
They were ALL such a treat to watch, but Dino @ THIS performance rocked it for his band mates. What a class act
They were the most notorious American band from the golden era of rock & roll. Great songs, incredible voices, outstanding musicians and the best rock drummer of the day.
All to often the death of a musician comes across the news so I search the name and play the songs. I am instantly pulled back to a time I euphorically recall were happier times of my life. First there is a smile on my face remembering the good times then a tear as I realize the person who brought me the joy of their music is gone. Memories of my life are linked to music. I can remember the year , the day , the girl, that a song brings back to life as if it were yesterday. I just finished listening to " The young rascals" because Dino Danelli died and WOW does that hit me hard. I loved that guys music. It is always sad learning of the death of anyone. I find it mystifying the death of a total stranger can affect me so much. How is it possible to hold an emotional attachment to someone I've never meet? Music moves the soul ; Barry Manilow
Easy Bob, VERY easy. I still choke up every time I see a picture of Franco Harris.
Very true!
Very well expressed. Same. Total stranger yet hard to reconcile he is not in the world anymore. Like a family member, it's going to take some time to get used to his not "being in the world" among us. I watch his videos every day since and tear up and I'm an old broad, grandmother aged. He touched a personal "nerve" among us taking with him a part of our youth. Whatever is beyond the veil, I hope he feels the love and admiration from over here, knows that he lived a "life well lived" plus more; a legacy which will live forever. It's ironic that he was the first Rascal to go. Not him. Not Dino. Yet, it's true.
There’s a famous line from a poem that goes something like this, “Any man’s death diminishes me because I am involved in mankind. And, therefore, never send to know for whom the bell tolls; it tolls for thee.” ❤
Actually, it's Bruce Johnston of the Beach Boys who wrote the Manilow song to which you refer. Not trying to be a dick, just another songwriter, feeling a little unappreciated.
Ah yes I remember when the music was still new and everybody was listening to everybody else and it just got better and better
Great speech by Felix !!!🙏☝️🙏🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸👍👍👍
We have to honor all the great music we have and have had in our country and the joy it brings to all- music can heal us and bring us together in these troubled times let us not underestimate its power to do this - what a gift and legacy this band has given us
Rest in peace, Maestro Dino Dinelli. Observe his amazing skills love on the "Ed Sullivan Show"; especially on "Good Lovin.'"
Unforgettable band with great voices and lyrics you could understand. None better.
Thanks for posting. I knew of the Rascals as a kid but
these guys are better after a 42 year hiatus than most bands at their peak.
Whenever the radio rolled out a new Rascals‘ tune everything came to a full stop. Always fabulous material. Holds solid decades later. Terrific memories. XOXOXO.
These guys were great. Talk about energy. Talk about great songs. Talk about that lead singer. Whewwwwwwwwwwww!!!! I still love em. Marc T.
True genius! Pop music will never be this good again.😊
I was at the Hamptons in 65. The Rascals were playing at the Barge. On celebrities could get in. We had to go to another club that had the Vagrants, featuring a large guitarist named Leslie West!
I was blessed to see Felix Cavalera perform with Ringo’s All Star Band Tour. He still sounded great. ❤️🙏🏻Loved the Rascals from the very beginning. Wonderful memories for sure. 😍
I saw them too here in jersey
They were great and felixs' voice was fantastic!
@@bobcallas31 They also had a heart of gold donating to St Jude’s Children’s Hospital too❣🌟💎👍
I was a teenage fan back in the early seventies and used to know all the lyrics to the Groovin' album. We would party and all join in and sing along with the record. Those were the days my friend,
The BEST bar band turned national treasure EVER. I remember the first band I was in playin "I ain't gonna eat out my heart any more" 1964-65, on channel 13 outta Newark on the Zackerly horror/comedy show. Love you guys always, thanks for the music and ...
That dude is talented- Felix. An all-time great. Brigati is an excellent collaborator.
Brigati - Cavaliere ... Songwriters Hall of Fame. Their five year collaboration was special ... can't be denied.
Always loved to watch Dino twirl those drumsticks!
We can't go on forever but the music and energy and love that came from these guys will live on well beyond our days. Dang I love the Rascals!
They are and we’re so talented, very underrated!
Whoever connected all this film clips together, we young rascals fans are very grateful!!!! I have about 2000 PCs of old long playing albums of the 50s mostly 60s n 70 s and part 80s. The young rascals are among my top ten best group of the sixties! Thier music is mesmerizing you will keep on dancing! Groovin has been used in some hollywood movies!!!! Thank you so much I keep on watching this tribute almost daily during d pandemic when we were not allowed to get out due to our age!!!!! Raffy Villanueva of manila, Philippines.
Glad you enjoyed it ... created for a presentation I put together for the student body at the school where I taught. Eddie was there and spoke afterward.
Dino Danelli was a huge influence on me in my early years of playing the drums. There were others, but Dino was just an awesome player and showman and, his playing was so good along with the fact that his drumming was I/3rd of the band and was not pulled from the drum chair when the Rascals recorded as so many many other musicians were, so that is him on all the Rascals records.
I saw him with The Young Rascals at Island Garden Arena, the Singer Bowl, Westbury Music Fair all on Long Island NY and around 1968. Then after the Rascals broke up, I saw him in a local club playing with Bulldog, after 1970. In 1992 I was i South Hampton NY and the New Rascals (Only Dino and Gene) were playing at a local bar in East Hampton with the New Birds with drummer Mike Clarke. Billy Joel who lived out at the Hamptons back then was also in the crowd with his then wife Christy Brinkley.
So cool these guys actually played everything live!
Dino looked a lot like Paul McCartney. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
Talk about an underrated band. So talented! We do a few of their classics.
Rest In Peace Dino! You were the best Drummer!
Going to Jr High with my dad driving me - It's a Beautiful Morning slides onto the AM radio - I'm thinking what the heck am I going to school for? Just let me bask in this song forever! What a great moment - can remember it clear as day over 50 years later.
It's the Summer of '65. I've just graduated from high school and accepted to the college of my choice. Life was good. There was a club in the Hamptons--The Barge--where a hot new band from the City--The Young Rascals--were playing every night. Imagine that? Friday night you'd drive over to the Barge and sit within 10' of these guys??? Amazing. Great Summer. Great memories.
I never knew Van Zandt was that freakin' funny ! He could make a living doing stand up comedy if he didn't have that "other" gig going. Love the Rascals. Wish they could have performed longer as a band together. The music I grew up with. None better.
Thanks John for this awesome video. Always knew how fantastic Dino was.
Hendrix wanted him but he turned him down. But I never thought he was the best rock and rock and roll drummer of all time. Till Steve said it and then I thought about it. He's probably right. He played with so much authority, power, skill. A feel that nobody topped.
This band could have been called Cream because they were the cream of the crop. They were musically a trio.
You never felt a lack in their sound.
Carry Me Back is one of my favorite songs of all time. If anyone doesn't know the song, you can hear it from the record and also here at Live on UA-cam. Just fantastic. Whenthe British were kicking our butts back in the sixties, it was Gary Lewis, The Beach Boys, and The Rascals holding the fort.
These guys are the old time real deal.
My all time favorite band growing up
Man, these guys can still play it today.....their instrumentation is the same, they haven't missed a beat, maybe their vocals are a bit weaker but let's face it they're around 70 years old. That Dino can still play those wicked drums, great tempo, hits those skins with authority and still can do those twirls, although a bit slower, but still a great, great drummer.
I remember them well because they were mostly from my town of Garfield NJ and I hung out with and went to HS with EDDIE, so I am very proud to have known them all But Eddie is my Favorite one in the band!
I wasn't old enough to appreciate the rascals. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
Eddie wrote most of the songs. From Ms. Harper Stacey.
Every Garage Band in 1965 tried to cover The Young Rascals!
Thanks and Blessings John!
Thank you John Lovell this video brought back memories from the old days !!
Nothing but Great 👍🏼 Memories !! 🙏🏼♥️🎶🎶🎶
Steven Van Zandt it’s an all-time great. I love that guy good music great actor. And I absolutely love that he dressed up like the rascals in the 1960s. Hilarious.
Great band! Dino rest in peace!
OMG! Luv this tribute to my favorite group! Wow, they set the bar high in live performances. Their Mickey's Monkey was wild! Luv their music & 4ever a Rascals fan.
Like Van Gogh w/his brushes, Dino & HIS brushes/sticks were art implements conveying beautiful music. Thank you Dino, Felix Eddie & Gene for your awesome artistry
I love you John Lovell, and bow to you for this excellent tribute to one of my favorite bands. Rascals forever!
Glad you enjoyed it.
Loved them. So many songs with the best memories!
I absolutely loved The Rascals, we had the best singers back then…I loved these guys! 👍👏👏👏♥️♥️♥️♥️
Great tribute John, the Rascals are the best, thank you for posting this gem!!
Great band, unforgettable, great,great,great!!
Loved me some Young Rascals back in the day. Listened to them while washed cars at my dad's Sinclair Service Station.
Grew up with the Rascals. I was a vocalist in cover bands back then and we did many Rascal covers. Mickey's Monkey was one of my favorite.
These Cats have Soul!
I really am not very keen on nostalgia, I hadn't really thought about the "Young Rascals" for some time. In 1960, for my 10th birthday I received a transistor radio. It was effectively glued to my ear for years, morning, noon and night. As I watched this tribute to the "Rascals" I was shocked by my incredible memories of these songs; every note, every word, every vocal nuance are all ingrained in my head forever. That is what great music can do, be burned into your soul, then take you back to the exact time, place, sensation and experience that each song elicits from your associations with it. "Groovin'" will always take me back to Panama City Beach, Florida. Brilliant sun, blindingly white beach sand, and turquoise water, and coming out to my friends.
I saw those performances on the Ed Sullivan Show, I bought their albums and played them incessantly. Then over the next decades the memories faded, or so I thought. Just hearing the opening bars of "Good Lovin'" was enough to let me travel in time...Apparently, I never forgot the magic of their music after all...
Thanks for sharing that. Well said.
Luv Ur brilliant comments! Aloha.
Thank U for this well deserved tribute to Felix, Eddie, Gene, & Dino! Gifted musicians, vocalists, & song writers. Luv all the comments from truly appreciative fans of gr8 music. Rascals were hard to beat when it came to live performances. Aloha from a 4ever Rascal fan. RIP, Dinoooo.
Wonderful...I didn't realize the sparse instruments they did all that wonderful music with...essentially a guitar and a keyboard way before these instruments became full orchestras in themselves...wonderful...