In those days it was almost impossible to hear bad music. We were wherever we went surrounded by fantastic, exciting, enchanting music. In shops, pubs, clubs and private parties and when visiting friends. Everywhere fantastic music and completely different atmospheres. From folk to jazz, from soul to rock and so on, but always brilliant. It was pure abundance.
This song is almost 60 years old, and it isn't just still good, it is still awesome, if not better every time you hear it. And not just Van Morrison's voice but the guitar, the drums, the harmonica, the whole vibe of that song is simply so great, it makes me wanna get in my car and just drive.
I can agre.too The plint of view its comp.too The stund off poping up as a hit all this 60 years trofé. The fact it makes me happy.thanks for sharing... ❤ 2:47❤ 2:47
This was my introduction to the song back in '64. I was 7 and my older cousin played it. I think I became a bluesman then and there. Still singing with a band but never sounded this good.
Man, just listened to this in Wild At Heart film and didn’t realise it was a Belfast band, or Van Morrison. So much to learn about the 60s. What an era.
I'm so lucky to have lived and enjoyed this era of music, this type of music is still in demand and will be for years to come. People really enjoyed the down to earth musicians, and groups that formed, not only in the UK but right across the world
First time I became aware particularly about this song was in 1975 when I was a 22yr old disc jockey and I put on the first one hour video compilation VHS-tape on our brand new VHS-player (one of the three first VHS-players in discoteque clubs / dance halls in Denmark) ... but it was performed by Gary Glitter! LOL I think it's a great song, still do, and Van Morrison is a great singer
It truly amazes me that so many of those early Brit rockers really “GOT” the blues and gave it their own spin. I can also hear a little surf guitar in there, which is really, really cool.
to be honest the stones, them, the animals, the pretty things played better blues then muddy waters, or any bands from the south of the macon county line.
@@littlebigjohn69 Huh? Have you ever actually listened to Muddy? Not to mention most of the Brit guys couldn't sing the blues for shit or play harmonica well. Van and Steve Marriott were good singers, as was Eric B., but c'mon, Keith Relf? Jagger? Those guys couldn't hold a vocal candle to the Wolf or Slim Harpo or Junior Wells. And here's the thing, they knew it. The only truly decent harp players were Marriott and later Plant. Most of Clapton's guitar riffs in the early days were lifted from Albert King and other black guys. The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, now THAT was a band with three white guys who knew how to play blues -- probably because they learned it from the guys themselves, not by listening to records. Your comment betrays a really deaf ear and a total ignorance of how all this music developed -- go to any black gospel church on a Sunday and you'll hear the better "rock 'n' roll" ever that you will never, ever hear on a K-Tel compilation. No British rocker worth his salt would agree with your comment. You're confusing 60s rock 'n' roll with actual blues, which is a multi-faceted genre that had been around for decades before John Mayall realized it existed. Heck, just google Magic Sam for an education -- his guitar sound blows half the rockers you've heard out of the water.
@@emmetrobert4425 sorry your showing your bias here, i heard and been to some concerts with howling wolf, bb king (he was a good guitar man but boring as hell), back in the late 50s and early 60s and yes they were the originater of the blues but me personally and this my opinion and taste i rather see VAN MORRISON or eve ERIC BURTON OF THE ANIMALS . i have the stones album 12 by 5 and the early stone album i listen to it millions of time and Jagger has it by far better than any original blues guys. Playing the blues and im not a musician but have good hearing is very simple only needs is a good voice and a good harmonica . by the way i respect your opinion and comes down to taste.
Such an outstandingly MARVELLOUS rendering of a GREAT classic song by the BRILLIANT VOCALIST and FOREVER GREAT MUSICIAN, Van Morrison--- LOVE ❤️ Evelyn O'Connor
Got to see Them in concert in 1964 or 65 at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium. Great great show. Then in the late 70s Van Morrison played a little club in Sacramento called Crabshaw Corner. It held maybe 50-60 people tops. Another great show! I feel really lucky.
I have seen Van 8 times from 1974 thru 1982 in Austin TX. Small venues- always superb shows. I am a lucky guy, along with being at the right place at the right time.
Absolute classic ryhthm and blues, by one the great groups and song from the rockin' 60's. Don't underestimate this bands musical ability, they didn't come much better than this ever!
@@barbarawatson5822 They were the three non african Amerikans who could sing like the ones Van, late Joe Cocker and Eric Bourdon. I'd like to know yours five rock's Gods
I remember buying this epic tune on vinyl back in 77 when i was a punk rocker. It still means more to me than anything I listened to back in the day. Love Van Morrison
Way ahead of the times, still just as cool as back in the old days, And on flipside Gloria, 2 great tracks on a single 7" . Must have been in 60's and yet it still does something inside me.
Brenden Stop picking a fight with me, I agree with you say 99.99.99.99.5,I have said for many years that my almost next-door neighbor MICK and his palls from them Rolling Stone, borrowed, stole, nicked a million music, vocal and songwriting ideas from Van and Them boys and they never paid a red cent. But Van been the very best rocking singer out of Ireland for the past 50 years what about Saint Phil Lynott and the most Holy Rory Gallagher
@adebahn I refuse to disagree with you on this very important world item on brilliant rocking music because you are completely correct in what you said.
I have fond memories of this song due to my mum playing Van’s greatest hits on tape in her car when I was a young lad. I’ve come back to this more than 30 years later because this song SLAPS.
Them were a rock group formed in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in April 1964, most prominently known for the rock standard "Gloria" and launching singer Van Morrison's musical career. The original five-member band consisted of Morrison, Alan Henderson, Ronnie Milling, Billy Harrison and Eric Wrixon. Wikipedia
Oh...simply "fab"!!!...how it takes me back. Such great times,great music and great bands and singers who were all so very different,unique and unforgettable........I own/play so much and so many albums from all the years,this included but somehow,just sharing with like-minded souls on YTube at times means others have similar feelings as to exactly what you like,too,which is just wonderful!
Awesome...never heard this song before...thanks for posting and thanks for You Tube....to me this is as good as it gets...I can see playing this song full blast in an old pickup flying down the backroads at sundown....fantastic..
G-L-O-R-I-A, Mystic Eyes and Baby Please Don't Go - - who knew it was THEM - - they were great and I still have their 78 LP and it may even be on one of my still working 8 tracks
I've heard several versions of the song including one that I really like by Aerosmith but I have to say this one is my all-time favorite. Not only did it have the Great Van Morrison with the band that started his career, the sound was just so unique bluesy and soulful. ❤️
Man Van Morrison was so young. This was one of my all time favorite songs they did. Man I was there was a station that played only these songs. This is when music was still music & meant something, not like so who say their musicians & spew trash . Love my oldies .✌️
I thought it was great when I saw it on Top Of The Pops as a kid way back then, and it stands the test of time. Great driving beat, distinctive vocals and a dramatic lyric, still great!
This song always reminds me of being driven in a car at night in Berlin around 1965 when i was 12. I remember thinking at the time WOW who are these and what a great song....
I remember the first time I heard this, listening to radio Luxembourg in bed back in the sixties. People my age will remember the station used to fade in and out. They played some great music and this one is just awesome, sounds as good now as it did then. I can even remember Luxembourgs jingle. it was the great 208, the ringa ding dinging station of the stars lol. Happy days.
The Royal Ruler and likewise great DJ's from the mid 60's onwards. It is hard to believe that there was only one hour a week of international music on Ireland's only radio station. Commercial radio stations were illegal in the dark ages and "foreign" music was frowned upon by the cultural luddites in charge of the very limited airwaves in those times. Now we have gone full circle, a huge amount of souless foreign music with little or no depth, endurance or singability. Nobody sings songs at work or in their daily lives anymore. They are not encouraged to do so. This is sad. It would be nice to have catchy songs with a singable chorus that last at least a year so that ordinary people can learn them and enjoy them as something to be sung.
Oh the memories come flooding back. Saturday night dance halls, nervous boys and girls, hormones going ballistic, amazing energy in the room and live bands pumping out music raw and loud that said 'go on I dare you not to tap your feet and move'. Maybe not the original version of the song, but definitely the best. Well in my not so humble opinion anyway.
THEM was the hardest rocking band of the mid sixties. Baby Please Don't Go was wild but Mystic Eyes was unique. Check it out if you wanna know just how 'avante garde' this band was.
And Van Morrison has grown and developed since those days in his solo career a very spiritual talent and a real genius of his kind of music...!! 🕵🏼♀️❤️🎶👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
Just to reiterate what someone already posted, this is the studio version and it is Jimmy Page on guitar. It's estimated that Page played on 60% of the records recorded in Britain in the early 60s. That stat is from pg 19 of "Light & Shade" by Brad Tolinski. Even if he was never in the Yardbirds or Zeppelin, he would be considered one of the most important contributors to the early 60s British pop/rock movement. Just another tidbit on how incredible Page really is. Yes, he's one of my idols, what can I say? Marc
Billy Harrison has said again and again in interviews [ the Them Guitarist] he played lead guitar and Page played Rythym. He would know. The most recent intervew in Ugly Things Magazine a few years ago he says he played on all the Them records lead.
I hear 2 guitars, one is Rythm. Billy harrison says he did it and I In fact a few years ago he used to post on youtube as well as his son. He even said on youtube on a long deleted video of this it was him. He also says Page only played on that recording, and no other Them recording. Some other guitarist played rythm on some of there other records. It is in the Magazine ugly things. Guitar word magazine is like wikipedia it has printed many false facts over the years. I have seen some. Page has even said many things he was supposed to of played on aren't him.
2/6/18: Song originally written by Delta bluesman Big Joe Williams & recorded in 1935. It was the version by John Lee Hooker released in 1949 that influenced a 19-year-old Morrison to take on the song. Them's then-lead guitarist Billy Harrison handles all of the distinctive lead parts while ...JIMMY PAGE holds down the rhythm behind him. ~~~ "Baby, Please Don't Go" was released as a single on Nov 6th, 1964, but was ultimately completely overshadowed by the B-side, "Gloria" which of course became the biggest hit of Them's career. (Info courtesy of Rolling Stone.)
What about lightnin hopkins tho, where does he fit into this? So did he just do a live version in the 60s? Also, thanks for the knowledge fr, I'm looking every version up that I can😅🤘
In those days it was almost impossible to hear bad music. We were wherever we went surrounded by fantastic, exciting, enchanting music. In shops, pubs, clubs and private parties and when visiting friends. Everywhere fantastic music and completely different atmospheres. From folk to jazz, from soul to rock and so on, but always brilliant. It was pure abundance.
Very true
We were the very lucky ones!
Van The Boy!
Green Tambourine by the Strawberry Alarm Clock?
Absolutely, every other week there was a new song or group, really exciting times, we were indeed very lucky!
Van Morrison's voice is remarkable and he's still fantastic. ,🤟🤟
superbe voix de van Morrison et également la musique le jeu de guitare bravo tem Claude progni
Awesome TURTSHELL
His work went in such a different direction . . . .
@@JohnMinehan-lx9ts Different, better and complex. He just keeps improving.
Certainly a legend. But a miserable bastard at times.
This song is almost 60 years old, and it isn't just still good, it is still awesome, if not better every time you hear it. And not just Van Morrison's voice but the guitar, the drums, the harmonica, the whole vibe of that song is simply so great, it makes me wanna get in my car and just drive.
So true. I've seen Van so many times live, so good and so pure.
its almost 80 years. it was composed in 1935
@@vicentepena-villalba6335❤
I’m just listening to some music and daydreaming about you. My physical therapy was good. Hard work out.
I can agre.too The plint of view its comp.too The stund off poping up as a hit all this 60 years trofé. The fact it makes me happy.thanks for sharing... ❤ 2:47❤ 2:47
This was my introduction to the song back in '64. I was 7 and my older cousin played it. I think I became a bluesman then and there. Still singing with a band but never sounded this good.
Man, just listened to this in Wild At Heart film and didn’t realise it was a Belfast band, or Van Morrison. So much to learn about the 60s. What an era.
This band reminds me a lot of The Animals
Nicholas Cage. Laura Dern. Isabella Rosalini. Harry Dean Stanton.
@@omegajrz1269same singer: Van Morrison in both bands. He also sang in Them and w/War.
@@shepmathe No. Eric Burdon sang in The Animals and War. Van Morrison was the vocalist for Them.
@omegajrz1269 I stand corrected. Shoulda had my caffine before posting. Thanks
Sure glad we can hear great music like, Them. Still Rocking at 76yrs old. Never get tired of great music like this.
Keep on ROCKING Charlie.
love ya!
👍🏻
I had the 45 on Parrot records n later their 1st lp. Never gets old and neither do I. I hit 70 this past July.
tout a fait d'accord plus que heureux d écouter de la très bonne musique j ai 74 ans et on continue encore et encore merci Charlie
And this is why so many of us became rabid rockers... and still are 50 years later. Love live rock!
correct ! keep rockin'!
This isn't live, it's the recording, remember it well
This is blues
Judi Harbin very well said
Judi Harbin You comment on a lot of the videos I watch.
Isn't this just the best. I miss those days.
✌️
yes, I was right there in 65 and 66 right out of school, jamiing to the groves new guys from england, ireland. wow so cool
I miss those days too.
billswife0426 me too 😎 .great music, great clubs everywhere what great times we had😎
I'm so lucky to have lived and enjoyed this era of music, this type of music is still in demand and will be for years to come. People really enjoyed the down to earth musicians, and groups that formed, not only in the UK but right across the world
Cat was so shy he would sing with his eyes closed and even turn his back on the audience. And yet such a talented singer.
I think you meant Jim Morrison Erg baby, Van wasn't shy.
The eyes closed thing is just an Irish thing.
I saw "Them" perform this live
Cinnamon Cinder, Bellflower Blvd Long Beach, California 1967. WOW!
must have been great
Were they any good without Van?
There are a few songs you throw on the turntable 50 years on and they still do the same..
First time I became aware particularly about this song was in 1975 when I was a 22yr old disc jockey and I put on the first one hour video compilation VHS-tape on our brand new VHS-player (one of the three first VHS-players in discoteque clubs / dance halls in Denmark) ... but it was performed by Gary Glitter! LOL I think it's a great song, still do, and Van Morrison is a great singer
Van has past the test of time....Think Stones and Beatles....
AMEN
It truly amazes me that so many of those early Brit rockers really “GOT” the blues and gave it their own spin. I can also hear a little surf guitar in there, which is really, really cool.
And certainly no surf in Belfast. Brilliant music.
to be honest the stones, them, the animals, the pretty things played better blues then muddy waters, or any bands from the south of the macon county line.
Van Morrison still kickin ass
@@littlebigjohn69 Huh? Have you ever actually listened to Muddy? Not to mention most of the Brit guys couldn't sing the blues for shit or play harmonica well. Van and Steve Marriott were good singers, as was Eric B., but c'mon, Keith Relf? Jagger? Those guys couldn't hold a vocal candle to the Wolf or Slim Harpo or Junior Wells. And here's the thing, they knew it. The only truly decent harp players were Marriott and later Plant. Most of Clapton's guitar riffs in the early days were lifted from Albert King and other black guys. The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, now THAT was a band with three white guys who knew how to play blues -- probably because they learned it from the guys themselves, not by listening to records. Your comment betrays a really deaf ear and a total ignorance of how all this music developed -- go to any black gospel church on a Sunday and you'll hear the better "rock 'n' roll" ever that you will never, ever hear on a K-Tel compilation. No British rocker worth his salt would agree with your comment. You're confusing 60s rock 'n' roll with actual blues, which is a multi-faceted genre that had been around for decades before John Mayall realized it existed. Heck, just google Magic Sam for an education -- his guitar sound blows half the rockers you've heard out of the water.
@@emmetrobert4425 sorry your showing your bias here, i heard and been to some concerts with howling wolf, bb king (he was a good guitar man but boring as hell), back in the late 50s and early 60s and yes they were the originater of the blues but me personally and this my opinion and taste i rather see VAN MORRISON or eve ERIC BURTON OF THE ANIMALS . i have the stones album 12 by 5 and the early stone album i listen to it millions of time and Jagger has it by far better than any original blues guys. Playing the blues and im not a musician but have good hearing is very simple only needs is a good voice and a good harmonica . by the way i respect your opinion and comes down to taste.
The effervescent 60's where musical creativity with excellent quality made a change that endures to this day with a validity aged in pure nostalgia!
Such an outstandingly MARVELLOUS rendering of a GREAT classic song by the BRILLIANT VOCALIST and FOREVER GREAT MUSICIAN, Van Morrison--- LOVE ❤️ Evelyn O'Connor
And lip-synced terribly
Got to see Them in concert in 1964 or 65 at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium. Great great show. Then in the late 70s Van Morrison played a little club in Sacramento called Crabshaw Corner. It held maybe 50-60 people tops. Another great show! I feel really lucky.
I have seen Van 8 times from 1974 thru 1982 in Austin TX.
Small venues- always superb shows.
I am a lucky guy, along with being at the right place at the right time.
One of my favourite (live) albums is :’Too Late To Stop Now’. I think it came out in 1974. I am never tired of playing it.
Great to have been a teen in the days of Them magical never to be repeated and I'm 76 now
I got you beat. I loved this song when it came out.
Absolute classic ryhthm and blues, by one the great groups and song from the rockin' 60's. Don't underestimate this bands musical ability, they didn't come much better than this ever!
Just smokin, baby! The guitar, the vocals, the groove, so tight. Amazing!
The beginning of a musical genius for over five decades now.........
A genius.
So very glad he's still rockin'. What a voice....and talent!
Van is one of the God's of Rock and Roll. There are five for me.
@@barbarawatson5822 They were the three non african Amerikans who could sing like the ones Van, late Joe Cocker and Eric Bourdon.
I'd like to know yours five rock's Gods
@@nancyburi893 tout a fait un grand rockeur Superbe voix très grand groupe
Van and Them rocking a classic blues song 😎
Quite possibly the most exciting 2 minutes and 40 seconds ever committed to tape. Brilliant!!
Ready steady go. Loved this track, and Van Morrison is superb. 💎
I remember buying this epic tune on vinyl back in 77 when i was a punk rocker. It still means more to me than anything I listened to back in the day. Love Van Morrison
MY GOD THIS IS VAN MORRISON!!! So young but I recognized him right away. Thank you SO MUCH for posting this.
Outstanding bass playing on this. R.I.P. Alan Henderson.
Yes indeed, didn't know he'd passed, very sad..
Oh, my god! Was he allowed to die?
@@shanahanhenderson7660Aww how wonderful, and cool too!
superbe interprétation de van Morrison me fait penser toute ma jeunesse superbe époque superbe ambiance Claude progni
One of my top ten oldies!!💋💋💋💋
super morceau cela me rappel mon frère Merci pour ce partage 👍👍🎸🎸🎼🎼
Brilliant vocals.
And the Band played awesome 👌 👏
Oneofmy all time favourites . What great days they were 😎
That has got to be amongst the most spine tingling pieces of guitar work ever put down to vinyl ! Gets me every time
Jimmy Page played guitar on this track.
@@muaythaisocial647 Yeah,but I think it's Big Jim Sullivan who plays lead.
Truth!!!!
Way ahead of the times, still just as cool as back in the old days, And on flipside Gloria, 2 great tracks on a single 7" . Must have been in 60's and yet it still does something inside me.
The best rock voice in ireland in the past 50yrs.
Brenden Stop picking a fight with me, I agree with you say 99.99.99.99.5,I have said for many years that my almost next-door neighbor MICK and his palls from them Rolling Stone, borrowed, stole, nicked a million music, vocal and songwriting ideas from Van and Them boys and they never paid a red cent. But Van been the very best rocking singer out of Ireland for the past 50 years what about Saint Phil Lynott and the most Holy Rory Gallagher
@adebahn I refuse to disagree with you on this very important world item on brilliant rocking music because you are completely correct in what you said.
Makes Bono an also ran.
@@russellwhite1581 he was never in the game as far as I’m concerned.
Make that the past 53yrs
I have fond memories of this song due to my mum playing Van’s greatest hits on tape in her car when I was a young lad. I’ve come back to this more than 30 years later because this song SLAPS.
SLAPS - I like it!
Love it! Absolutely love it!
That opening riff......and everything past that.
Wow! Pure magic.
Jimmy Page.
@@iananderson3799 yes indeed. jimmy page when he was session player!
Van Morrison with Them rocking it out!!! WOE!!!!👍🥰
A brilliant arrangement and performance of the song, with Van on top form. And the groovy 60s audience make me so nostalgic ....
This is not live it is lip-syncing
Them were a rock group formed in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in April 1964, most prominently known for the rock standard "Gloria" and launching singer Van Morrison's musical career. The original five-member band consisted of Morrison, Alan Henderson, Ronnie Milling, Billy Harrison and Eric Wrixon. Wikipedia
Fantastic music. What an era for music, nothing better than this.
tout a fait très grande époque il y avait tout pour la musique très grand groupe on peut actuellement trouver mieux bravo them
I saw these playing live twice, a truly magnificent performance each time.
Every thing here is solid gold...
Band
Vibe
Song
Period
Venue
Wish I was there 😎
Even when he's *lip-synching*, Van's got soul. Classic track -- thanks for posting!
What a most brilliant hard rocking song, Van and Them boys produce music that will be remembered forevermore
Oh...simply "fab"!!!...how it takes me back. Such great times,great music and great bands and singers who were all so very different,unique and unforgettable........I own/play so much and so many albums from all the years,this included but somehow,just sharing with like-minded souls on YTube at times means others have similar feelings as to exactly what you like,too,which is just wonderful!
geminiwednesday16 could.not.agree.more.
Mose Allison did it as well
Awesome...never heard this song before...thanks for posting and thanks for You Tube....to me this is as good as it gets...I can see playing this song full blast in an old pickup flying down the backroads at sundown....fantastic..
The guitar play coinciding with Van's vocal inflections is spectacular.
Jimmy Page
@@sandrasheppard3106 let’s not mention his name anymore
My first van morrison 1964,still love all his music! Love the lyrics the most ,thesE days. ...DARING NIGHT one of my favorites,coney eyeland.
G-L-O-R-I-A, Mystic Eyes and Baby Please Don't Go - - who knew it was THEM - - they were great and I still have their 78 LP and it may even be on one of my still working 8 tracks
"Here Comes the Night" another great song!
Here comes the night
in 1968 it was 33 rpm for LP’s. This was my first 45 rpm single. Van when he was at his best. Never improved himself after Them
Loved those days what great memories
I read guitarist Jimmy Page in 1964 participated to Them’s ‘Baby please don’t go’ recording sessions
Smiles, how are you doing?
Stunning. Pure passion - as it should be.
Bravissimi! Tipico sound anni '60.
Li ho vissuti ed apprezzati in tempo reale. Super👍👍
One of the best old stuff I have seen. And heard!
Saw Them live at the Queens at Cleveleys in summer of 1965………brilliant.
I still have several Them albums. Timeless.
Fabuleux! Quelle merveille! On ne s'en lasse pas! Et cette voix.......................................
@@chatssauvages06 On n'en a plus des comme ça hélas.
@@chatssauvages06 Oh oui bien sûr. Comment oublier les fabuleux "Trampled Under Foot" ou "Kashmir"?
@@chatssauvages06 Merci à vous, très bonne soirée 😃
@@chatssauvages06 Non je ne connais pas, j'irai écouter.
@@chatssauvages06 C'est bien Magali :). J'ai écouté, c'est un très bon morceau. Bonne soirée
This is a rocker. Great song. Far out. Groovy. 🤘🃏🎸🍺🥃🤤
I've heard several versions of the song including one that I really like by Aerosmith but I have to say this one is my all-time favorite. Not only did it have the Great Van Morrison with the band that started his career, the sound was just so unique bluesy and soulful. ❤️
Call me a Philistine but my favourite version is by AC/DC
@@ivanleg Interesting. I love AC/DC yet I've never heard their version but still as of yet this is my favorite one.
I agree, different than Yardbirds, or Pretty Things, and pure raw blues. Thanks for sharing this. 💕🎶
Ted Nugent's version for me.
Geordie did a great version also & I wonder if AC/DC were influenced by it ?
My kids Mommy is in that crowd watching Them in N Ireland
Man Van Morrison was so young. This was one of my all time favorite songs they did. Man I was there was a station that played only these songs. This is when music was still music & meant something, not like so who say their musicians & spew trash . Love my oldies .✌️
I first heard this when I was a kid, still love it. It just has an attitude that whips, its so good.
J'avais 10 ans j'ai adoré comme "Gloria" du même disque,
50 ans après .....j'adore toujours !
I used to haunt the 2nd hand shops when I was a kid and this was one of the records I found. I paid about 5p for it. I miss those old junk shops.
they were great.
I'm 26 and love this too and definitly 50 years later also
Such an interesting persona Van has. Not easy, but interesting. Excellent music of course.
a drunk irish .... what else ! If not a singer he could have been a excellent terrorist.
A great tribute to the legendary Muddy Waters
I thought it was great when I saw it on Top Of The Pops as a kid way back then, and it stands the test of time.
Great driving beat, distinctive vocals and a dramatic lyric, still great!
Totally ICONIC. Brilliant vocals, great song from a terrific band! NOONE today making tracks like this.
It's raw, rough and gets you in the guts! Brilliant !!!
Супер хит, сколько лет прошло, а слушаю с удовольствием!!!!
great old film, with the very young Van the Man, singing a great old blues song.
this is the best of the best songs and music EVER!!!!!!
I love this song by Them 💜
tout a fait d'accord c est une grande chanson bravo them et surtout van Morrison quelle artiste
Omg Van is so young! What a mature rich voice.
How can any sentient being not like this: bloody fantastic
Musica fantastica,immortale!Grazie,sono emozionato come quando avevo 20 anni!❤️❤️
Driving across Ireland!! Puts a new perspective on things when you see the Leprechauns dancing!! Peace!!
Damn I love this song, it's one of my favorites from my youth day's. So much great music & great times to be alive & so many beautiful "chicks"
Van Morrison is still alive and kicking. He's been around for quite a while.
An still miserable
@@bluenose007 and an anti masker!!
@@Georgie2047 good lol
75 same as myself.
anti-masker, anti-vaxxer conspiracy theorist, still he made some good music.
This song always reminds me of being driven in a car at night in Berlin around 1965 when i was 12. I remember thinking at the time WOW who are these and what a great song....
I remember the first time I heard this, listening to radio Luxembourg in bed back in the sixties. People my age will remember the station used to fade in and out. They played some great music and this one is just awesome, sounds as good now as it did then. I can even remember Luxembourgs jingle. it was the great 208, the ringa ding dinging station of the stars lol. Happy days.
The Royal Ruler and likewise great DJ's from the mid 60's onwards. It is hard to believe that there was only one hour a week of international music on Ireland's only radio station. Commercial radio stations were illegal in the dark ages and "foreign" music was frowned upon by the cultural luddites in charge of the very limited airwaves in those times. Now we have gone full circle, a huge amount of souless foreign music with little or no depth, endurance or singability. Nobody sings songs at work or in their daily lives anymore. They are not encouraged to do so. This is sad. It would be nice to have catchy songs with a singable chorus that last at least a year so that ordinary people can learn them and enjoy them as something to be sung.
Emperor Roscoe.
Oh the memories come flooding back. Saturday night dance halls, nervous boys and girls, hormones going ballistic, amazing energy in the room and live bands pumping out music raw and loud that said 'go on I dare you not to tap your feet and move'.
Maybe not the original version of the song, but definitely the best. Well in my not so humble opinion anyway.
Bill Blinky ccc
You frequented the Maritime club in Belfast ?
@@francismadden8561 No. But I wish I had.
THEM was the hardest rocking band of the mid sixties. Baby Please Don't Go was wild but Mystic Eyes was unique. Check it out if you wanna know just how 'avante garde' this band was.
Absolutely, and don't forget "Here comes the night".
@@danieltrickey9285 and G L O R I A ????
@@johnthonig8832 How do you spell that?
@@danieltrickey9285 😃
@@danieltrickey9285 my personal favourite .
In those day's young kid's knew the evolution of their music where it came from.
Belfast..yet.another great band...Greetings from Ireland
Greetings to You and Ireland from the States!!🖤🖤
My father was born in Belfast (1922). Greetings from Detroit.
‘Them’ headline act at Sammy Huston’s Jazz Club, Thursday nights in Belfast!
Didn't know Dennis Quaid was the lead singer for this band
and Mr Bean was the lead guitarist and his twin was on the drums! :)
Right!!!????
😂 Good call! 😂
Man, those were the days
U said it!
First heard this song on "Good Morning Vietnam". Was just a kid but loved that soundtrack!
Que jovencito se le ve al genial Van Morrison. Ya tenía su gran voz, y su amor por el blues 💪👏👏
Nice bass riff. This song takes me back. Sure don't hear great music like this anymore!
It was written in 1935 and recorded in 1965 by THEM (a Northern Irish rock/pop band) when Van Morrison was singing with them.
1964.
Really?? Eh? How can this be?
Yes, but Big Joe Williams recorded it in 1935 -ua-cam.com/video/g22l1hnAnlA/v-deo.html
Do u know what show this was? Not american bandstand...right?
I noticed you said when Van Morrison was playing with "them".
Great live performance!
And Van Morrison has grown and developed since those days in his solo career a very spiritual talent and a real genius of his kind of music...!! 🕵🏼♀️❤️🎶👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿👍🏿
parfaitement raison van Morrison très grand chanteur grand talent superbe musique
@@chatssauvages06Sorry, I don't understand French language, can you translate, please...?
@@jussix48 désolé que vous comprenez pas le français van Morrison un très grand chanteur superbe interprétation
@@chatssauvages06 🕵🏼♀️?????🤔
@@jussix48 je vous remercie pour votre commentaire vous savez van Morrison je le suis depuis le début c est la classe
I love this record it's absolutely brilliant pure blues awesome
Just to reiterate what someone already posted, this is the studio version and it is Jimmy Page on guitar. It's estimated that Page played on 60% of the records recorded in Britain in the early 60s. That stat is from pg 19 of "Light & Shade" by Brad Tolinski. Even if he was never in the Yardbirds or Zeppelin, he would be considered one of the most important contributors to the early 60s British pop/rock movement. Just another tidbit on how incredible Page really is. Yes, he's one of my idols, what can I say? Marc
+Guitar BS (Guitar Wiseass) Wow! Interesting. I never knew that. Thanks.
Actually it is Billy Harrison on guitar [the Them guitarist] and Page on Rhythm guitar according to Harrison.
i always said the silver fox was the best ever , he hit every note perfectly ..
Billy Harrison has said again and again in interviews [ the Them Guitarist] he played lead guitar and Page played Rythym. He would know. The most recent intervew in Ugly Things Magazine a few years ago he says he played on all the Them records lead.
I hear 2 guitars, one is Rythm. Billy harrison says he did it and I In fact a few years ago he used to post on youtube as well as his son. He even said on youtube on a long deleted video of this it was him. He also says Page only played on that recording, and no other Them recording. Some other guitarist played rythm on some of there other records. It is in the Magazine ugly things. Guitar word magazine is like wikipedia it has printed many false facts over the years. I have seen some. Page has even said many things he was supposed to of played on aren't him.
2/6/18: Song originally written by Delta bluesman Big Joe Williams & recorded in 1935. It was the version by John Lee Hooker released in 1949 that influenced a 19-year-old Morrison to take on the song. Them's then-lead guitarist Billy Harrison handles all of the distinctive lead parts while ...JIMMY PAGE holds down the rhythm behind him. ~~~ "Baby, Please Don't Go" was released as a single on Nov 6th, 1964, but was ultimately completely overshadowed by the B-side, "Gloria" which of course became the biggest hit of Them's career. (Info courtesy of Rolling Stone.)
And Acdc versión?
Wow, didn't know gloria was a b side!
What about lightnin hopkins tho, where does he fit into this? So did he just do a live version in the 60s? Also, thanks for the knowledge fr, I'm looking every version up that I can😅🤘
Laura Milagros ....Thanks for details .
Van Morrison's déja formidable!
Had never heard of this incredibly cool band!