My kids absolutely loved when they were young, I would tell them in my best Vincent Price voice, "The foulest stench is in the air The funk of forty thousand years And grizzly ghouls from every tomb Are closing in to seal your doom And though you fight to stay alive Your body starts to shiver For no mere mortal can resist The evil of mum's dinner"! 😊
Rod Temperton was so amazing, a fantastic musician and incredible songwriter. I live in Yorkshire and have family in Lincolnshire, people here and Northern people generally are so modest and would never bang their own drum. I wish he would be more celebrated worldwide for his spectacular achievements. Thank you for the video❤
Rod Temperton was a genius. Heatwave were one of my favourite bands back in the day (still are). Greg Phillinganes has a CV most musicians can only dream about - he really knows what he's talking about. Brothers Johnson - brilliant - favourite of their's is Stomp. If you like slap bass, check out Level 42's Mark King.
The song that launched Michael Jackson's solo career, Blame it on the Boogie, was written by two Jackson brothers. That would be Britain's Mick and Dave Jackson. The British Jackson's band, Wet Willie, recorded their song first. A delay at the production plant meant that Michael Jackson's version (which was offered to Michael's management by the publisher without Mick's knowledge or approval), came out at the same time. BBC Radio 1 refused to play Mick's version, Melody Maker only reviewed Michael's version, labeling it a self penned song. On the other hand, Capital Radio championed Mick's version and NME hailed Mick's as the superior version. On a side note, Multi-racial band weren't unusual in Britain from the seventies onwards. The first I can think of offhand, that was successful, was the Equals who has hits in the sixties.
In the UK there was a scene called "Northern Soul" happening in northern and midland working industrial towns, where DJs would hunt down the most obscure American black dance floor stompers from the 60's and if it was a flop that only sold a few hundred copies the better (Yes, DJs were ALWAYS like that). So, by the mid 70's there was a lot of UK musicians schooled in the language of black American music (and totally in love with it). All the early 80's British Blue Eyed soul kind of inspired by it. Its such a club where Soft Cell first heard "Tainted Love".
Love me my Northern Soul! Loved the NS proms a few years back, was soooo good!! My and my friend always try and find the rarest cuts on YT - just like in the NS films!! KTF brother!!
I’ve been waiting for this. He was so shy. Called the invisible man of popular music. I loved Heatwave but he wrote for George Benson, Michael McDonald, Brothers Johnson. Quincy Jones knew how talented he was
Rod was just fantastic, there are many talented songwriters, he was up there with the best. I'm not a big fan of ballads but even so I knew they were quality, My sweet,spot was the Funk, and man was he Funky.
I have known about this for a long time. I have been to Cleethorpes and no one would ever believe that those songs could have any connection to that town. But life is strange.
"Give Me the Night". I was a medical transcriptionist and was transcribing a report for an African doctor. I had a problem with his dictation audio file, just hearing music playing, so I messaged him and said " Sorry, dear Doctor..I really wanted to hear your voice but all I could hear was George Benson singing 'Give Me the Night'. He replied " "What makes you think that was George Benson"? 😅😅😅
One of my musical hero's. Mickie Most is another, for producing so many pop singles in the UK after that Tamla Motown boss (Berry Gordy?) announced the single is dead, then Mickie dominated the market. Pop producers seem to be looked down upon for producing throw away 3 minute hits I guess, but these were the guys who made growing up in Britain tolerable, Chinn & Chapman, Mickie's protoge's, Stock Aitken & Waterman, and slightly before my time, Joe Meek, the guy they made a film about called Telstar - the international No 1 hit he never got paid for, leading to tragedy. Interesting to see James Corden playing the drummer in the Tornadoes in that movie.
Grimsby was on the "Map Men" video where they explained the origin and pronunciation of England placenames. It ends with "-by", so it's Viking, and basically means "Grim's village". Grim presumably being some invading Viking who conquered the place. They open the video with the joke of "would you believe me if I told you that the pronunciation of this name was Gr-eye-m-ez-ez-b-eeeee? Well, it isn't. it's just Grimsby."
Also from Lincolnshire - Sir Elton John's co-writer Bernie Taupin, Nicola Roberts from Girls Aloud, Methodist hymn-writer and preacher Charles Wesley and record producer Alan Moulder, who's worked with bands/acts such as the Smashing Pumpkins, Jean-Michel Jarre, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Nine Inch Nails, the Foo Fighters and Foals. Alan is the brother of my first dentist!
The number of songs where I've heard people say "the lyrics were written in the taxi on the way to the studio"... I think that may just be where most lyrics are written.
The school Rod Temperton went to (De Aston in Market Rasen) used to have big fights with schools in Caistor. And those fights were the inspiration behind Bernie Taupin writing "Saturday Night's alright for fighting". Though I'm not suggesting Rod was involved in those fights.
I have most of the albums named in this video - if it had "Quincy Jones" in the credits, I bought it, although most of those were by artists I already liked, e.g. Quincy's own albums, so I was very aware of the names Rod Temperton & Bruce Swieden. I didn't know until now he was British. And I should have, I'm Scottish.
"one of the most British names you've ever heard" is actually of Danish origin. There are huge areas of modern day England, that were once part of the Danelaw, they can easily be identified by their danish sounding names. Anywhere ending in 'by' (Corby, Grimsby, Selby etc, ) and Thorpe is another.
Rod was the MAN! Heatwave!! Check out Chaz Jankel - the late Quincy had a major hit with a song recorded and written by him, though a lot I've seen give Quincy all the credit - not that Quincy ain't great, you know, cos he damn well was the don! Brothers Johnson's Strawberry Letter 23 was written by the fantastic Shugie Otis; he wrote that when was 18.
You worked for a hip-hop group called "mop"? What was their lead singer's name? "Bucket"? "Ladies and Gentlemen, let me introduce to you... mop and bucket!"
The Grimsby connection, you think you know the place - this is a random guess: There is a movie called "Grimsby" starring Sacha Baron Cohen. EDIT: Secret personal triviaL I've always been a bit of a prog rock fan, but I loved the odd rare pop song. "Boogie Nights" was one of those few.
Hmm you remember the official release of Thriller on the radio and TV,, which was around 1982 according to the Internet you hadn't yet been thought of, it states you were born 1989
Listening to the documentary on headphones - the interview voices pan crazily from left to right. Odd. A great and interesting documentary. Always feels a bit odd that performing "pop" artists get the credit for tracks in the eyes and ears of the general audience rather then the creative talents that write many of the tracks.
Surprisingly, nobody has yet mentioned Sacha Baron Cohen's rare film flop called Grimsby so I'll mention it here. I've never been to Grimsby, but I think I've seen Grimsby Town football club and their fish mascot. I don't know if fishing is still the main industry.
@@Gmackematix Grimsby Town isn’t in Grimsby, so even if you have been to watch them in person you haven’t been to Grimsby. But… Their ground is in Cleethorpes, where Rod was from. Quirky!
Playing 5-6 hours per night (and touring) is absolutely nuts. But I guess maybe to them, it was the norm. Also, they must have all "lived & breath" TO perform. They must have been just very serious musicians who were living "their" dream of being able to entrance people for 5-6 hours daily. How the fcuk else could you survive 4 years OF TOURING with those hours. Also, "maybe" those 5-6 hours was 5-6 separate sets throughout the evening/day, with breaks in between? It's possible. I did 3 hour nights for about 4-5 years. It was split-up into 3-sets throughout the night (8/9pm-12am). FYI. We were together, as a band, for 9 years with 2 hits on the radio (here in Malaysia) after we released our debut (and only) album. Basically, we sadly ended up disbanding a year after the album release. It was a very disappointing reality to me. PE. Me, my sis & 2 of our cousins were completely obsessed with the Twin Peaks TV series when were kids. Who killed Laura Palmer? ❤❤❤😍🥰 Hey man, so glad you reacted to this video. I've saved the original video to my "watch late" list. I'll check it out tomorrow. It's 1.37am now & I have a few more videos I've queued-up to check-out before hitting the sack.
For me, Off the Wall was easily Micheal Jackson’s best Album, and I knew Rod had written three of the songs, the best three songs on the Album. THRILLER was a good album but not as good, sold more though so clearly I know nothing.
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JJ: Hmmmm....Cleethorpes Lincolnshire.....
Everyone watching at home : Show me on a map!!!!
We were not disappointed!
My kids absolutely loved when they were young, I would tell them in my best Vincent Price voice, "The foulest stench is in the air
The funk of forty thousand years
And grizzly ghouls from every tomb
Are closing in to seal your doom
And though you fight to stay alive
Your body starts to shiver
For no mere mortal can resist
The evil of mum's dinner"! 😊
Rod Temperton was so amazing, a fantastic musician and incredible songwriter. I live in Yorkshire and have family in Lincolnshire, people here and Northern people generally are so modest and would never bang their own drum. I wish he would be more celebrated worldwide for his spectacular achievements. Thank you for the video❤
It's such a delightful and unexpected connection. It makes me very happy!
What an amazing guy!! Well done Rod, superb!
Rod Temperton was a genius. Heatwave were one of my favourite bands back in the day (still are). Greg Phillinganes has a CV most musicians can only dream about - he really knows what he's talking about. Brothers Johnson - brilliant - favourite of their's is Stomp. If you like slap bass, check out Level 42's Mark King.
I had no idea, thanks for this! RIP Rod, and thank you so much for all the -fish- hits!
The song that launched Michael Jackson's solo career, Blame it on the Boogie, was written by two Jackson brothers. That would be Britain's Mick and Dave Jackson. The British Jackson's band, Wet Willie, recorded their song first. A delay at the production plant meant that Michael Jackson's version (which was offered to Michael's management by the publisher without Mick's knowledge or approval), came out at the same time. BBC Radio 1 refused to play Mick's version, Melody Maker only reviewed Michael's version, labeling it a self penned song. On the other hand, Capital Radio championed Mick's version and NME hailed Mick's as the superior version.
On a side note, Multi-racial band weren't unusual in Britain from the seventies onwards. The first I can think of offhand, that was successful, was the Equals who has hits in the sixties.
UB40 ?
The Jimi Hendrix Experience!
He was so important … and so good.
In the UK there was a scene called "Northern Soul" happening in northern and midland working industrial towns, where DJs would hunt down the most obscure American black dance floor stompers from the 60's and if it was a flop that only sold a few hundred copies the better (Yes, DJs were ALWAYS like that). So, by the mid 70's there was a lot of UK musicians schooled in the language of black American music (and totally in love with it). All the early 80's British Blue Eyed soul kind of inspired by it. Its such a club where Soft Cell first heard "Tainted Love".
I love it when cultures mix!
@@JJLAReacts find a documentary on Northern Soul. You will love it.
Love me my Northern Soul! Loved the NS proms a few years back, was soooo good!! My and my friend always try and find the rarest cuts on YT - just like in the NS films!! KTF brother!!
Marc almond used to go to Wigan casino where they had all nighters playing northern soul
I’ve been waiting for this. He was so shy. Called the invisible man of popular music. I loved Heatwave but he wrote for George Benson, Michael McDonald, Brothers Johnson. Quincy Jones knew how talented he was
Rod was just fantastic, there are many talented songwriters, he was up there with the best. I'm not a big fan of ballads but even so I knew they were quality, My sweet,spot was the Funk, and man was he Funky.
Rod Temperton was a friend of the keys player in my band, I remember he had all the synth patches for Thriller that Rod had given him 😊
Here I am, sat on the sofa, in cleethorpes, 100m from the beach, watching this great channel!
Rod Temperton was a songwriting genius , he wrote so many songs for Heatwave and many more high profile stars .
I have known about this for a long time. I have been to Cleethorpes and no one would ever believe that those songs could have any connection to that town. But life is strange.
Rod wasn’t just born in Cleethorpes he grew up here.
If you've watched any Lost In The Pond videos Lawrence is from Grimsby and he often mentions it !
Lincolnshire may be flat, but it seems to have a musical vibe, as Bernie Taupin, lyricist for Elton John, was born there too.
"Give Me the Night". I was a medical transcriptionist and was transcribing a report for an African doctor. I had a problem with his dictation audio file, just hearing music playing, so I messaged him and said " Sorry, dear Doctor..I really wanted to hear your voice but all I could hear was George Benson singing 'Give Me the Night'. He replied " "What makes you think that was George Benson"? 😅😅😅
I'm glad you said the garage door was open, I was worried about your mother's intentions
Rod Temperton is the man!!!
Came from my home town, still not known very well in the area.
One of my musical hero's. Mickie Most is another, for producing so many pop singles in the UK after that Tamla Motown boss (Berry Gordy?) announced the single is dead, then Mickie dominated the market. Pop producers seem to be looked down upon for producing throw away 3 minute hits I guess, but these were the guys who made growing up in Britain tolerable, Chinn & Chapman, Mickie's protoge's, Stock Aitken & Waterman, and slightly before my time, Joe Meek, the guy they made a film about called Telstar - the international No 1 hit he never got paid for, leading to tragedy. Interesting to see James Corden playing the drummer in the Tornadoes in that movie.
Rod was a genius
My brother went to School with him (Reynold Street)... :o)
Glad you liked it JJ.
I did, thanks Rob! 🙏🤘
Grimsby is heavily featured in a Map Men video on hard to pronounce British place names. It's a name from the viking period.
Also if you watch the Lost In The Pond channel, it's where Lawrence hails from.
He's from my home town!! 🖤🤍
Really enjoyed this video and your informed interjections.
Grimsby was on the "Map Men" video where they explained the origin and pronunciation of England placenames.
It ends with "-by", so it's Viking, and basically means "Grim's village". Grim presumably being some invading Viking who conquered the place.
They open the video with the joke of "would you believe me if I told you that the pronunciation of this name was Gr-eye-m-ez-ez-b-eeeee? Well, it isn't. it's just Grimsby."
Also from Lincolnshire - Sir Elton John's co-writer Bernie Taupin, Nicola Roberts from Girls Aloud, Methodist hymn-writer and preacher Charles Wesley and record producer Alan Moulder, who's worked with bands/acts such as the Smashing Pumpkins, Jean-Michel Jarre, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Nine Inch Nails, the Foo Fighters and Foals. Alan is the brother of my first dentist!
October 1981 my daughter was7 months old !
Heatwave - The Groove Line, you wanna party to that song 🕺
Grimsby - I bet you looked it up for Map Men
Actually really liked the way you let the music play towards the end of this one. Likes me a bit of retro electro does I. Yes I does.
The number of songs where I've heard people say "the lyrics were written in the taxi on the way to the studio"... I think that may just be where most lyrics are written.
We also invented the peace symbol (CND)
Grimsby was one of the towns on a Jay Forman video about hard to pronounce British town names .
You know Grimsby from the map men video about hard to pronounce place names.
The school Rod Temperton went to (De Aston in Market Rasen) used to have big fights with schools in Caistor. And those fights were the inspiration behind Bernie Taupin writing "Saturday Night's alright for fighting".
Though I'm not suggesting Rod was involved in those fights.
These are so good you should call them "Behind the music" mate! One love from Scotland. 💙
Really interesting video!
I know this man's name, but didn't know anything about him... Thanks JJ 😊
Great video, I did NOT know all that lol. enjoyed the trip, cheers. (Y)
I never realised Rod Temperton was English... he'd got soul 🎵
I have most of the albums named in this video - if it had "Quincy Jones" in the credits, I bought it, although most of those were by artists I already liked, e.g. Quincy's own albums, so I was very aware of the names Rod Temperton & Bruce Swieden. I didn't know until now he was British. And I should have, I'm Scottish.
Working with m.o.p. What a mixture of artists you’ve worked with. Mop are great
So sad that Quincy Jones died recently
Got married I 1977 😊 47 yrs this November 😊
"one of the most British names you've ever heard" is actually of Danish origin. There are huge areas of modern day England, that were once part of the Danelaw, they can easily be identified by their danish sounding names. Anywhere ending in 'by' (Corby, Grimsby, Selby etc, ) and Thorpe is another.
Yay, go Cleethorpes
Awesome vid!
Wow! I did not know that. English, northern and the king if disco.
Grimsby was at the start of the Map Men video ‘why are British place names so difficult to pronounce?’
Rod was the MAN! Heatwave!! Check out Chaz Jankel - the late Quincy had a major hit with a song recorded and written by him, though a lot I've seen give Quincy all the credit - not that Quincy ain't great, you know, cos he damn well was the don!
Brothers Johnson's Strawberry Letter 23 was written by the fantastic Shugie Otis; he wrote that when was 18.
You worked for a hip-hop group called "mop"?
What was their lead singer's name? "Bucket"?
"Ladies and Gentlemen, let me introduce to you... mop and bucket!"
David Lynch playing peekaboo 😅
Fun fact! Jermaine Jackson is a fan of Sheffield Wednesday football club, just down the road from Cleethorpes.
That's quite a long road...... lol
@ you class a 70 ish mile drive a “long road”?!
@@mattstacyandthepomskies Absolutely, as that road would have to be in England :o) (M180-M18)
There's an old saying: An American thinks 200yrs is a long time, and an Englishman thinks 200 miles is a long way :o)
@@mattstacyandthepomskies Yeah, but that's like me working in a cinema and saying "what do you mean you haven't seen Barbie 70 times"... :o)
The Grimsby connection, you think you know the place - this is a random guess: There is a movie called "Grimsby" starring Sacha Baron Cohen.
EDIT: Secret personal triviaL I've always been a bit of a prog rock fan, but I loved the odd rare pop song. "Boogie Nights" was one of those few.
you probably heard the word Grimsby from the sasha baron cohen movie the grimsby brothers
From my home town 😎
Mine too! 🐠
Ha..
Art
A Jackson 5 song was written by a Yorkshireman called Mick Jackson.
No one cares about Yorkshire
@waynepunkdude alright kid, if you say so.
@@waynepunkdude 5.5 million Yorkshire folk would disagree with you on that one.
Confusingly an English guy named Michael Jackson co-wrote "Blame It on the Boogie" 🙂
Hey JJ, you know Grimsby because of the start of a Map Men video. Pronounced Grrrrrrrriiiiiiiiiiiimmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmssssby
Hmm you remember the official release of Thriller on the radio and TV,, which was around 1982 according to the Internet you hadn't yet been thought of, it states you were born 1989
Believe it or not, Brits have written at least 2, maybe even as many as 3 popular songs!
Probably because of the comedy 'The Brothers Grimsby'?
Grimsby is where Laurence Brown Lost in the Pond is from there.
Rod isn’t from Grimsby, he’s from Cleethorpes, it’s next to Grimsby, not the same town
But my guess is Caroline was answering JJ's question of why has he looked up Grimsby before.
Though the answer is probably Map Men.
Alice Cooper used Vincent Price on a track in 1975.
Listening to the documentary on headphones - the interview voices pan crazily from left to right. Odd. A great and interesting documentary. Always feels a bit odd that performing "pop" artists get the credit for tracks in the eyes and ears of the general audience rather then the creative talents that write many of the tracks.
Surprisingly, nobody has yet mentioned Sacha Baron Cohen's rare film flop called Grimsby so I'll mention it here. I've never been to Grimsby, but I think I've seen Grimsby Town football club and their fish mascot. I don't know if fishing is still the main industry.
@@Gmackematix Grimsby Town isn’t in Grimsby, so even if you have been to watch them in person you haven’t been to Grimsby. But… Their ground is in Cleethorpes, where Rod was from. Quirky!
"...he worked as a filleter..." Is not pronounced "fillayer" but the English way - filliter - '_fill_it_er'...JJLA. 😊 filliting fish.
Playing 5-6 hours per night (and touring) is absolutely nuts. But I guess maybe to them, it was the norm. Also, they must have all "lived & breath" TO perform. They must have been just very serious musicians who were living "their" dream of being able to entrance people for 5-6 hours daily. How the fcuk else could you survive 4 years OF TOURING with those hours.
Also, "maybe" those 5-6 hours was 5-6 separate sets throughout the evening/day, with breaks in between? It's possible. I did 3 hour nights for about 4-5 years. It was split-up into 3-sets throughout the night (8/9pm-12am). FYI. We were together, as a band, for 9 years with 2 hits on the radio (here in Malaysia) after we released our debut (and only) album. Basically, we sadly ended up disbanding a year after the album release. It was a very disappointing reality to me.
PE. Me, my sis & 2 of our cousins were completely obsessed with the Twin Peaks TV series when were kids. Who killed Laura Palmer?
❤❤❤😍🥰
Hey man, so glad you reacted to this video. I've saved the original video to my "watch late" list. I'll check it out tomorrow. It's 1.37am now & I have a few more videos I've queued-up to check-out before hitting the sack.
You do know that we cant hear the music on most of your videos?
Easy for you to say.
react to Bugsy Malone, the best child's Film ever
For me, Off the Wall was easily Micheal Jackson’s best Album, and I knew Rod had written three of the songs, the best three songs on the Album. THRILLER was a good album but not as good, sold more though so clearly I know nothing.
Rod Temperton was incapable of writing anything that wasn’t brilliant.
I love your music reactions, but not a fan as you can't play the songs🤨
Can’t.
Stand.
Rap.
Stop plugging yourself your not all that
Want to disco with j j ...he could find one on the map ,,,