The Easybeats - Good Times (1968)
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- Опубліковано 10 вер 2024
- The Easybeats were an Australian rock band that formed in Sydney, Australia, in late 1964, and disbanded at the end of 1969. They were the first rock and roll act from Australia to score an international pop hit with the 1966 single "Friday on My Mind".
All five founding members were from families that had migrated to Australia from Europe: lead singer Stevie Wright and drummer Gordon "Snowy" Fleet were from England; rhythm guitarist George Young was from Scotland; lead guitarist Harry Vanda and bassist Dick Diamonde were from the Netherlands.
Easybeats where would Australian music be without these legends what a great band line-up that went on to be Vanda and young who helped stevie wright and no 1 songs for lots of Australian bands 😊
One of the most underappreciated front men of the time, singing a song by a couple of the most underappreciated songwriters of the time, with backing vocals by the one of the most underappreciated vocalists of the time.
Stevie Wright also wrote many of their earlier tracks !
They were too good for this world.
This comment is underappreciated.
Not in Australia bud!!
Yes mate , very good good
Singer Stevie Wright died in 2015
Rhythm guitarist George Young (older brother of Angus and Malcolm Young of AC/DC) died in 2017
One of the most authentic rock bands ever.
I luv steve marriot...
And his downfall frm (almost hit & miss) Star status-career was a tragic one..
Also thanks for providing this info, on Young's older brother, frm a documentary, I've learned he provided a few ideas, plus opened a few doors for the career of acdc, in Sydney, before they were catapulted to world fame, outside their 'little' continent
Dannie Anonymous George also co-wrote a lot of the early AC/DC songs
...and the guitar George has strapped on while he’s playing piano in the bridge will go on to fuel 95% of AC/DC’s catalogue 🤘
thx bro
@@Bill13012013 they were both investing everything in their hearts & minds to get a shot at fame.(both frm te low income strata-no prospects et all)
The Young Brothers, were pretty lucky enough to have an older brother, who gave his own inside ¥ on their attempts to make it, one step further. He nurtured them & showed him the hoops & tricks.
Whereas on the other side of the spectrum S Marriott, was traveling on the other side of the world, in order to get his name recognized (& got sweendled frm Mafias middle men, on his own hard working 💵)
Well these are pretty much opossite fates, colliding here - I suspected Marriott, wouldn't have collapsed in his bed, burning himself to cinder, after his transatlantic trip. And one other thing, I get this gut feeling from their voices, similar pitch & a deep voice (more harmonics from his side though!)
¥ I might be wrong here but he was the one who proposed the ambiguous girl crossdress for Bon Scott, on his live appearance, on te street at Sydney (ya just gotta see it, to believe it)
This is one solid song. The vocals both lead and backup are stellar. This song sounds as good now as it did 56 years ago.
Do you realise that Steve Marriott was the wailing backup singer on this? What a singer he was! Hence, lip sync.
@@MandyRRAh yes what a voice…..sublime sublime sublime
In Australia, 1966, there was only ONE band that we listened to.. The Easybeats. They were our Beatles. Search UA-cam for these songs - Sorry, Come and See Her, Wedding Ring, and of course Friday On My Mind. They were British and Dutch immigrants to Australia, and they ignited the Australian music scene. The Young family were the root of AC/DC, and Young/Vanda composed many great songs.
they should release the easybeats records .so .more people can see how great they are . even today they sound so good . l could not belive that they where the ones that started the rock band acdc they could do it all.
To be precise: Almost all members from AC/DC came originally from Scotland!
I'm the one person who got Easyfever in America in the early 2000s because of a 1960s beat music compilation on CD that had "Sorry" on it. From there, I researched and found a catalog of amazing songs and poked around weird record stores that have since gone out of business. I really, really tried to tell everyone about how the Easybeats were the second best 60s band after the Who. (Third best obviously the Monkees.) I even had this weird internet radio show and spent every week trying to introduce the Easybeats as one of the greatest 1960s bands. It was a different time, but I think the world is now ready for Easyfever. Let's go.
Flash and the pan.......
@@dellafenton2417 Yeah! What a surprise it was to discover that was George Young and Harry Vanda!
This folks is Rock n' Roll at it's very finest.
It's a shame that this band didn't get more recognition in the US. Their music was as good if not better than most "British Invasion" bands. Stevie Wright could hold his own against any frontman of that era.
It's what the power of marketing does. There were a thousand great American bands that were unheard of. But luckily we did get to hear 'Friday on my mind'
Wrong hemisphere to be a big deal in the era
@@wtfgoogle3884 when Steve Marriott comes on… wow. Out of this world
Two great singers Stevie Wright &.Steve Marriott singing together in this great song!
Nonsense.
@@Berniewahlbrinck Which part of my comment do you consider to be Nonsense?
..and with Nicky Hopkins too on the piano. :)
Marriott can easily be heard in this. I think I read the Small Faces were touring Australia and Marriott was asked to sing with Wright on this.
@@oywee928Yep that sure is Nicky Hopkins on piano! What a great mixture of talent in one song! The Easybeats, Steve Marriott & Nicky Hopkins. Wowwww that’s stuff of legends !!!
The Easybeats is a very deceiving name...
Their music is raw, loud and wild, love it!!!
In the late 60s, the Easy Beats was the only band that could get me away from the Beatles and the Stones. Great , raw RR group that didn't last as long as it should have. RIP Stevie and George and Malcolm
Love this band love this song. R.I.P Stevie and George.
The Easybeats were a fantastic band! In Australia they were loved as much if not more than as the Beatles and the Rolling Stones. Their music was so different, all the members were great musicians and Stevie Wright an incredibly good frontman! I loved them then and still do now! They deserved so much more success than what they got.
Just came across this band and I adore them, his voice is fantastic!
Unfortunately he was a sitting duck for the dangerous drugs that the culture was awash in at the time.
One of the best Bands from the 1960's❤
I remember Stevie as being the most cutest singer at the time, and the group one of the most talented. R.I.P Stevie & George
I’ve always loved this song but never knew it was the Easybeats! Still sounds great 50 odd years on!
RIP george. stevie . Mr Marriott. LEGENDS.
what a great song and performance!!! love these guys!!!
The unmistakable voice of Steve Marriott singing backing vocals....
And the unmistakable Nicky Hopkins on piano.
Della Fenton unmistakable voice of Stevie Wright!
gemspa73 what... thats george young.
Yep........never realized before & I've heard this song many times.
Great backing vocals by the Great Steve Marriott.
@@sandygravel39 I’m not exactly sure how checking the credits on any number of records from the 60’s through 80’s (especially the Rolling Stones) is proof that its Nicky Hopkins playing on this record. It would only be evidence if you checked the credits from this record, surely?
even the bad times are good
WOW!!! I love the Beatles, don’t get me wrong, but what a band the Easybeats were! Stevie was a frontman unexcelled, George and Harry were superb writers and guitarists, Snowy was an exuberant and skilled drummer, and I must say I was always fascinated by Dick on bass. He stayed in the background but contributed mightily to the music. Tony is really going at it here on drums too. The Easybeats didn’t get the fair shake they deserved.
What really makes this song however is the guest backing vocals by Steve Marriott
What does loving the Beatles have to do with the rest of your comment? Nobody said anything about the Beatles in the video? The Beatles don't need to be mentioned in order to validate another band.
Fab band one of so many from 60s that kill anything today !! Gx
Wow I've been rocking to this 45 b side for many years and always thought that sounds just like Steve marriot on backing vocals and now I find out it is after all this time. The record is before its time it's the early rock sound that was emerging
This is some of that rock and or roll I was warned about....I think I like it!
The singer definitely has that Australian look as if he could be one of the Gibb brothers….these dudes put out some pretty good music starting in the late 60’s…….👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼
Back then you needed talent to succeed.
Thank you Beat-Club for putting our boys back out there again - helping to keep their music alive. Love you dearly, for doing this.
Also thanks for preserving this great quality film
Thank You beat club we really did possess the best
One of their best numbers amongst many. The Easybeats are fantastic. New York's Headless Horsemen did a great version of this, which was something to behold live. Thanks for posting this spirited performance. Stevie Wright was one of the great front men of the era.
Stevie was so full of life, very sad ending
I think I'm listening to the best album in history
Ohh, Stevie... 💓
This shorten version is worse that the original one. This is a pure gem. The Easybeats forever!
I just love this song! Can't listen to it and keep still.
The template for AC/DC.Right here.Awesome
Brilliant, love it ❤️
So young ,so good!
Stevie always rock star
what a great track how great is it to find these hidden gems.
Amazing group,so underated
Great song
this is incredible
Beyond incredible was the world sleeping and missed the most amazing band my ears and eyes were wide open now tears
@@lindsaykelly2224 Think of all the crap music in the charts today compared to this is blistering Aussie rock n roll. American charts are rigged.
@@yowodup6094 Yeah although icehouse and Eskimo Joe have carried the flag
@@lindsaykelly2224 True.
Ahhhhh. To be 20 again
Geez how my dear old dad loved the Easybeats.
Hammer !!!! In that time it has been the best and so much more powerfull than any others . I love that 💖💫💖🌺✨💫
Never forget Stevie !
Fantastic.
Im from israel and im familiar with all the best songs of the sixties but how come i never heard this mighty song, wow and it makes me even sadder to hear now that the excellent singer died in 2015, rip Stevie❤
your country sucks.
regards, australia
Wow. Someone mentioned "Flash and the Pan" the other day and I've just done a deep dive of Vanda/Young. As a Yank I've never heard this version, and may not have even heard the INXS/Barnes version until I moved to NZ. What a great tune and what fabulous musicians.
That is an amazing version.
@@tehnyitchin1301 have a listen to Marc Hunter and Dragon excellent kiwi band that kicked serious butt in their time
Matt Agnew Flash and the pan are so cool. And the band played on is my favourite tune of theirs, so cool
Fellow American here. I first hear this on the flip side of the reissued (oldies) 45 of Friday On My Mind, which I bought in the 1980s. Thought it would have been a great hit Stateside had it ever been released... A year or so later INXS teamed up with Jimmy Barnes and did their version, and it got airplay here. Quite fitting version, really. This one here, of course, is on fire. The Easybeats influenced a lot of Oz acts.
Never mind that, I still find it fascinating that Vanda and Young wrote love is in the air :)
wow this is a super song
Australia's premier group they created the standard that followed.
band is in top form here...
Wow what a great band ... i had herd that song in a film ... great Rock and roll music
INXS, did a version in the Lost boys movie
What a great energetic performance! I have been aware of song for many many years thanks to cover of Mott and now I finally sensed why they covered this song! Thanks for sharing this!
The Canadian rock band Teaze did a pretty good cover in 1978.
@@AndreOuellette5150 Shocking Blue (of Venus fame) from the Netherlands made a very good cover of this song too, in 1974.
@@robertdendooven7258 yeah that's good.
Those were the days when you could do those dance moves, not anymore unfortunately! It’s no fun getting old.
Great raver!!!! Marriott can make his mark whenever he moves his jaw.
That isn’t Marriott
haha
Marriott was the songwriter. Stevie Wright is the jaw bender.
@@guymontag9577 Marriott was credited as providing back-up vocals as if anyone needed to see it on paper. It's obvious in his back-up vocals...that is what I was referring to.
@@johnwerner4925 True. Marriott must have provided vocals while touring in Australia in 67 or 68. He is listed on wikipedia as adding background vocals and you can hear him in this. Great stuff! NOTHING like this today.
Very Kool Tune 🎵 🖖🏼👍🏼🎼☮️
WOW! Incredible!
Show! Thanks.
Best band ever
Awesome!
Great song, thanks! 🤘🏻🤘🏻🤘🏻
Ŕeally cool, amazing Rock n Roll, send more. 😎
Auch schon. Wunderbar spiel oben.
Fryday ,❤its thé dayyyyyyyyyy🎉
Stevie Wright and Bon Scott have similar vibes. In fact, easy to imagine that ACDC were inspired by these guys.
There's a family connection.
Лучшая песня у ребят!! Россия Вас любит!!! Жаль к нам не приехали((
This blew Paul McCartney away when he heard it on his car radio. He got out of his car and called the radio station.
A high energy raver. I don’t understand why it didn’t chart in the US at the time and it took several decades before I heard it.😎✌🏽☮️🎸
Крассавчик...., хоть и под гером.....))) Обожаю его.....
Little Stevie. Huge Down Under apparently.
The drumming is excellent!
Thanks...your highness!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂🎉😂🎉🎉🎉😂🎉😂🎉😂🎉 🤡 🤡 🤡 🤡 🤡
Didn't know they were that much into R&B.
Catchy tune !
Stevie ❤❤❤😢
HO YEAH we love to see them love to play
Luv em yo!
What's better than one Steve? TWO Steves!
Too bloody right
Two small Steves at that.
lol
Вещь классная! Но особенно впечатляет монтаж клипа. Именно КЛИПА!!! Это уже именно не просто съёмка, а продуманный клип опередивший время!!! Хотя это 60-е но смотрится очень современно!
@1:58 A brief glimpse of the guitar Malcolm Young would later use to record pretty much every AC/DC song
Stevie Write pretty much gave AC/DC their sound.. listen to Hard Road and Black Eyed Bruiser.. vocals n guitars etc sounds like AC/DC b4 they started
Loved the remake from Lost Boys / did some research & love this even more
Didn't know this band until I started watching Vietnam. 1987 Australian TV mini-series directed by Chris Noonan and John Duigan. It stars Barry Otto, Nicole Kidman and Nicholas Eadie. On Prime.
so nice :p thanx for uploading
A great lost late 60's masterpiece, never a big hit. Anyone notice the Small Faces Steve Marriot on BV's.
Notice ? - Mr Marriott steals the show!
The Amen Corner from the UK made a very good cover of this song too, in 1968 (album «Round»)
Front man is nuts at the end
Hot rock star
EASYBEATS Y SU “GOOD TIMES”:
La canción “Good Times” (o buenos tiempos) de los australianos The Easybeats (donde se conocieron la dupla compositiva que produciría los discos de AC/DC, es decir George Young & Harry Vanda) salió como single a mediados de 1968 casi un año de su grabación en los Olympic Studios de Londres donde participó el productor Glyn Jones.
Y si prestan atención a esta canción coescrita por el mayor de los Young, en los coros se encuentra nada menos quien fuera el vocalista y guitarrista de los Small Faces y luego Humble Pie, el gran Steve Marriott.
Don't forget that Stevie wright was the Lead singer on this song. Steve Marriott was there only for the Back Up Vocals.
And that there would be no AC DC or Vanda and young if not for the fact that Stevie wright was the writing partner with young before Vanda..
Yes Marriott had a very tragic life , but so did Stevie wright.
It is all very sad what happens to you after you become famous for a period of time. Then you are just tossed in the land of gossip and forgotten. Only mentioned in history as a Drug addict and acholic.
. No one remembers that they are only Human and makes mistakes in their life just like you and me. But no one knows us so we can get away with it. Their lives are put under a microscope and looked at very closely. They live in a Fish bowl especially when they are not performing anymore. Just looking for any thing that gives that person 15 minutes of fame. Not caring who they hurt.
Especially when they are not able too defend themselves.😢😢😢😢😢😢
We miss you all four of them. Stevie wright and George and Malcolm Young and don't forget Steve Marriott. !! Thank you all for your Music and Talent❤❤❤❤❤ you were Great.❤❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉
Should have been the follow up to Friday
Inxs tiene un cover buenísimo de esta excelente canción
In this song I can hear where AC/DC's Angus and Malcolm Young learned their guitar riffs - from their older brother. George Young fathered that Australian hard guitar sound.
Paul McCartney wanted to sign them to Apple because of this song. Harry gave his guitar to Malcolm Young of ACDC
Да, Полу Маккартни Гуд Таймс тоже понравился... звонил на радиостанцию с просьбой повторить...
That's good news to hear - that Paul was interested in them. I so wished someone decent had taken them under their wings. Georges brother was with a group called Grapefruit, and they were with Apple - so that makes sense. Again l wonder why they didn't? I have also read the Robert Stigwood was interested in them.
Yes and Alexander Young (George Alexander), elder brother of the Young Family, who stayed in England, was the Bass player of GRAPEFRUIT a band that actually signed for Apple Records.
@@allymayful Easybeats manager signed them to too many contacts that took years to get out of Ultimately sending them broke with George and Harry working in London to pay off the debts
The music industry is so strange.. The number of amazing bands that worked for years that never really hit it big and yet X factor stars become household names over night...
x factor n those shows are a setup fr filthy record companies to make more money.. they just give a guy money set up the show.. the winner must record from their catalouge.. n all money must be paid back to the company plus profit. the winers usually disapear pretty quick because they mostly cant write their own stuff.. its usually SONY/BMG or Warner Chappel own rights to pretty much every big name uve heard.. younger bands n artists these days are better informed n generslly do well to stay away from the dinosaurs but now theres Spotify etc that ripoff artists
Who is x factor?
Hells the wee man taught Michael Hutchence every funkin move - Say Hi to Bon for me Stevie?
Tuve el single español,me gustaba muchísimo
♥
Move like Wright.....eat your heart out Mick...
Only just found out the INXS version is actually a cover.
An inferior one at that. Nothing beats the original version of this song
havent heard it ill check it out ty!
Me too.
That’s what we call a raver!😎✌🏽☮️🎸
Dam guitar is off the hook!
The singer was an idol of Bon Scott.
listen to Hard Road and Blackeyed Bruiser by Stevie and u will hear wer Bon got his voice from
Little Stevie Marriott lurking in the background !
just found out this song wasn’t by barnsey and inxs, ive thought that for 18 years
the steves love herion
Sad days are real