This wasn't a b-side. It was performed/recorded live for BBC radio in '69. Not included on anything until the boxed set in 1990. Then later as a bonus track on the CODA re-release in '93. But I agree...the song is killer.
I first heard it on MTV late '90, I actually thought it was '88 or '89, but I looked it up cause I suffer from CRS (Can't Remember Shit), and it was so much better than all the other hits that were out at the time. It's amazing that a song over 20 years old made such a splash on It's initial release. What a fantastic cover of Robert Johnson, no one could take an old blues song and make it sound so kick ass like Zeppelin could, definitely one of my favorites from them
They do the Blues so beautifully, they do Justice to those who created the originals. I think them covering these songs, helped to keep them still known, majority of us would have never heard them.
Thank you for pointing this out. To add to this is to acknowledge and pay homage to the Early African American Blues Artists who paved the way to a style of music that reflected on their Culture and Struggles. In this case, the late GREAT Robert Johnson. Peace my Northern Cali Brothers...!!
@@jfs70ss they often mention those they’ve admired, interviews done with Plant & Page especially, you hear their admiration for blues artists by name. Plant says as a young man, he saved his money to buy blues records, that’s who he admired most.
Every time I hear this song feels like the first time. Between the amazing bass riffs, the 12-string slides, Bonham’s underscored off-beats and Plant being an instrument all on his own, there’s always a new discovery to be made.
As LA always says JPJ is cooking with fish grease! But this track is so hot he's cooking with napalm!!! 🔥 🔥 🔥!! So glad you guys got to this one!!! Imagine, this song didn't even make it on an album!! The mighty Zeppelin and the great old days!!
Now they need to do "Hey Hey What Can I Do" next. Its amazing, both Traveling Riverside and Hey Hey weren't released on earlier albums because they were deemed unfit and a bit vulgar for the albums, now adays they are tame and mild in comparison. I remember when the boxed set came out in the early 90's and I first heard these songs being released after sitting for decades on tape on a shelf and was amazed at how great they were!
Led Zeppelin at it's utter best. This absolutely blew my mind when when it was released even after more than 20 years of listening to them devoutly. Simply the greatest music band of all time.
This was a live performance on the bbc. Page lied to the BBC assuring them they would play a "known song" and not something new. They did the opposite and played this song. The best part was JPJ saying in a later interview "we only practiced the song a couple of times".
Classic reaction guys. You should react to Baby Come On Home which was on the reissue of Coda. It’s more of a Stax Atlantic soul type of track. It’s another gem like this one.
Even their leftovers are classics. Plus there are enough Live Zeppelin videos out there to keep you busy for years. Endless enjoyment, they never cease to surprise, Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎶
Another genius song from Zepp. So dirty,gritty,funky, grimy and slick at the same time. This song could be from anytime from the 1890"s to the 1970"s and fit in. It"s so good it"ll always be hot.
You guys are the best reactors out there. I've set it before and I'll say it again. It hurts my heart. You don't have more subscribers because I look at the numbers on some of these other guys. And they can't hold a candle to you. I will do my level best to get your name out there.
We didn't hear this on Coda it was a remastered version that came out in 1993. This song came out in a boxed set in 1990. So for us Zeppelin fans to hear this 10 years after they disbanded was phenomenal to say the least.
John Paul Jones, before he joined Zeppelin, made a name for himself as a session player, because he was one of the few bassists in the UK in the 60s who could play authentic Motown-style grooves.
The "Squeeze My Lemon" bit is from Robert Johnson's original version of "Traveling Riverside Blues". "Goin' down to Rosedale, got my rider by my side" is from "Crossroads Blues", another Robert Johnson song. Robert Plant was taking bits & pieces of different blues songs & piecing them together.
The thing about Zeppelin is you can hear something different, some little subtlety on drums or bass ... after the 100th time of listening to one of their songs. Something you hadn’t caught before. Best band ever and it’s not even close.
Great choice guys! This song never appeared on an album, but was recorded in 1969 by the B.B.C. It was floating around for years in bootleg form. It was finally released in 1990 on the first Led Zeppelin Box Set.
Great analysis and appreciation, guys! I really feel the love FROM Zeppelin here. Their love OF the Blues, and their love of having fun with their outsized talents that they know damn well they a;; were gifted with. Just joyful stuff, seems to me!
Love this song and appreciate your reaction to it. Did you skip the track before this one, "Baby Come On Home"? I did a search on your channel but didn't find it.
OhMyGosh!!! YAY YAY & YAY!!! **Luv** EVERYthing ya all said on this reaction!!! You guys are The **BEST!!!** & WoW **KickAss** can't wait for what is coming next! WaaaWhooo!!!
I think that Robert throwing the same blues lyric 'squeezing my lemon', having already used that same line in the Lemon Song kept this song from being released. This song, and Hey Hey What Can I do both became popular LONG after the band split up. The only way to get a recording was Japanese 45's. I got one at a pop up bootleggers table at a Mall. Both songs got radio airplay in the 80's. Zep did not release them until they did a compilation album.
This song wasn't included on the original album. We didn't get to hear this until it was included on the boxed set from 1990. It was released for radio airplay along with "Hey Hey What Can I Do" which was a B-side on the "Immigrant Song" single.
Glad you're going to do TSRTS live album. Better than just the movie. The movie was fun but it's success was primarily because nobody had seen Zep play in my world so seeing them in a theater was a trip. People were nuts; beer, weed, rowdy, they cancelled showings because the local theater couldn't handle the crowd. I saw it about 6 years after it's official release in a dumpy theater in Worcester MA, sold out. The sound system sucked and the crowd was throwing bottles at the screen stomping feet and chanting turn it up. Theater couldn't fix the sound so they called the cops and we were escorted out. Finally weeks later they fixed it and people flocked for weeks to it.
you guys are missing out on "baby come on home" it's a lost track from led zeppelin I that is featured in deluxe edition of coda. plant's vocals on this one are so delicious
This is a reworking of a Robert Johnson song, but Robert included a lot of ad libs from other songs like Terraplane Blues, Woke Up This Morning, and Killing Floor , etc. This song was originally performed in 1969 for a BBC performance and *not* for an album. It wasn't until 1990, I think, that Jimmy negotiated with the BBC to be able to release it on CD called Led Zeppelin/The BBC Sessions. YT does have a video with just the isolated bass, if you want to hear the bass alone. I don't recall your other channel - please tell us again what/where it is.
Zep was my first introduction to rock n roll and made me a music enthusiast. And to this day, they are still my favorite band. My friends brother had tickets to see them in clevelend when John Bohnam died! R.I.P John Bonham!
Fellas, this was done LIVE on English radio, except for the guitar solos in the middle and at the end! These dudes can groove! Don’t forget about John Paul Jones on that bass!😁👍🏻
"Traveling Riverside Blues" is awesome, but you will be dearly missing out if you pass up on a couple more tracks off of the 1993 version of CODA. Both are masterpieces in their own right! "Hey, Hey, What Can I Do" and "Baby Come on Home". You will sorely miss out if you don't listen to those two. Here's the links: Hey, Hey, What Can I Do ua-cam.com/video/epX8Th4aiMc/v-deo.html 'Baby Come on Home ua-cam.com/video/ZAiifpkWZfA/v-deo.html There a couple hundred comments ahead of this from people who may not know any better to mention these two. I really hope you guys see this. Peace
This song was played on radio stations every once in a while way back when, and it was a treat. Was lucky enough to record this to cassette so I could listen to it on my mixtape.
@@frankmarsh1159 This was long before Coda was released. I seem to recall hearing it first on the radio in the mid to late 70's. The DJ's that played it made a big deal about being able to play an unreleased Zeppelin song...especially one as good as this. So it wasn't played all the time...maybe once every few days or so.
@@TheSteveDallas It was the flip side to the Immigrant Song single. I didn't hear it until probably the late seventies. But it eventually became a standard Zeppelin song at least in Atlanta.
Can you believe this was a song left off an earlier album? I mean really, most bands would love to have this song be their single and Zepp just cast if off and only gave it to us much later on in a compilation boxed set in the early 90's. Amazing! Its one of my favorite tracks by the band too! Please consider also reviewing "Hey Hey What Can I Do". Its another song never released until much, much later. A song considered too vulgar to put on an album back in the 70's....and its also a banger!
don't miss on "Baby Come On Home" which is my favourite Plant's soulful vocals.. 👌
Finally a reaction where JPJ is their first comment about.
AMEN
This is not the last one. Still need to do Baby Come On Home & it is also well worth the wait. Plant at his bluesy best.
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When a Zep b side is as good as another band’s single.
one of my favorite tracks
This wasn't a b-side. It was performed/recorded live for BBC radio in '69. Not included on anything until the boxed set in 1990. Then later as a bonus track on the CODA re-release in '93. But I agree...the song is killer.
💯!!
@@BDUBZ49 I should have put quotes around the word b-side
I first heard it on MTV late '90, I actually thought it was '88 or '89, but I looked it up cause I suffer from CRS (Can't Remember Shit), and it was so much better than all the other hits that were out at the time. It's amazing that a song over 20 years old made such a splash on It's initial release. What a fantastic cover of Robert Johnson, no one could take an old blues song and make it sound so kick ass like Zeppelin could, definitely one of my favorites from them
You still have Baby Come On Home to do. I think you'll love it
Love the line “She's got a mortgage on my body, got a lien on my soul.” Robert Johnson’s 1937 lyrics are so good, but Plant’s delivery is perfection.
Recorded impromtu live in the studio, in one take, for the Top Gear radio show in June, 1969.
Oh it was!!?? I always wondered...nice
They do the Blues so beautifully, they do Justice to those who created the originals. I think them covering these songs, helped to keep them still known, majority of us would have never heard them.
Thank you for pointing this out. To add to this is to acknowledge and pay homage to the Early African American Blues Artists who paved the way to a style of music that reflected on their Culture and Struggles. In this case, the late GREAT Robert Johnson. Peace my Northern Cali Brothers...!!
@@jfs70ss they often mention those they’ve admired, interviews done with Plant & Page especially, you hear their admiration for blues artists by name. Plant says as a young man, he saved his money to buy blues records, that’s who he admired most.
Every time I hear this song feels like the first time. Between the amazing bass riffs, the 12-string slides, Bonham’s underscored off-beats and Plant being an instrument all on his own, there’s always a new discovery to be made.
As LA always says JPJ is cooking with fish grease! But this track is so hot he's cooking with napalm!!! 🔥 🔥 🔥!! So glad you guys got to this one!!! Imagine, this song didn't even make it on an album!! The mighty Zeppelin and the great old days!!
Blues on steroids is the perfect description of Led Zeppelin.
💪🏿💪🏿💪🏿
Perfect description 🤘🏾
Finally someone reacted to this song. Amazing song. Love it
Now they need to do "Hey Hey What Can I Do" next. Its amazing, both Traveling Riverside and Hey Hey weren't released on earlier albums because they were deemed unfit and a bit vulgar for the albums, now adays they are tame and mild in comparison. I remember when the boxed set came out in the early 90's and I first heard these songs being released after sitting for decades on tape on a shelf and was amazed at how great they were!
@@BigTimeRushFan2112 They actually did it some months back:
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@@BigTimeRushFan2112exactly
Led Zeppelin at it's utter best. This absolutely blew my mind when when it was released even after more than 20 years of listening to them devoutly. Simply the greatest music band of all time.
This was a live performance on the bbc. Page lied to the BBC assuring them they would play a "known song" and not something new. They did the opposite and played this song. The best part was JPJ saying in a later interview "we only practiced the song a couple of times".
That's when I originally first heard it , from the live at BBC , when I bought the double cd
Fellas, when I see your head bob, it makes me smile.
You guys are the best LZ reactors. You should go through some live stuff. Well done lads.
Classic reaction guys. You should react to Baby Come On Home which was on the reissue of Coda. It’s more of a Stax Atlantic soul type of track. It’s another gem like this one.
Even their leftovers are classics. Plus there are enough Live Zeppelin videos out there to keep you busy for years. Endless enjoyment, they never cease to surprise, Enjoy! 🎵🎸🎤🎹🎶
Excellent reaction guys! I'm elderly and bought their first album when in high school. Good music lasts, rock on gentlemen !!
This is one of my favorites, the sound of the bass and drums are clean as anything ever recorded, and Robert, well hell he's Robert!! ❤
That's what you call an old fashioned blues
JAM
The final studio track is "Baby, Come on Home". Plant's most soulful vocal. Must listen before you move on to the live stuff.
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Another genius song from Zepp. So dirty,gritty,funky, grimy and slick at the same time. This song could be from anytime from the 1890"s to the 1970"s and fit in. It"s so good it"ll always be hot.
"Why'd they wait so long to give us this?!" A pertinent question, Che!
Still the best music reaction channel on UA-cam! 💪
You guys are the best reactors out there. I've set it before and I'll say it again. It hurts my heart. You don't have more subscribers because I look at the numbers on some of these other guys. And they can't hold a candle to you. I will do my level best to get your name out there.
We appreciate that!!
I agree
@@AirplayBeats I am going to suggest you fellow's delve into crosby stills nash and young. You could pick literally anything off the so far album.
This reaction is dope. You guys are awesome lol.
Thanks for rocking with us!!
My favorite line in this song is, "She got a mortgage on my body, gotta a lien on my soul." Thanks for the great review guys!!
Your reactions to Zep are stellar!
“You gotta mortgage on my body, got a lien on my soul.”
I still think the “rider” was Robert Johnson’s succubus.
Originally performed by Robert Johnson Mississippi Delta Blues man , Sang squeeze my lemons. Also appears on the Live at BBC collection
Always liked this one, just shows how many good songs they had that it didn't make it on earlier albums.
This one sat on the shelf for 21 years. Tragic!
One of my favorite Zep tunes! Loved watching you guys enjoying this one as much as I do!! Thanks fellas 🤘
JPJ is Killing it!!!!!!!
JPJ what a sick bass player. So many notes and they all fall perfectly in place.
We didn't hear this on Coda it was a remastered version that came out in 1993. This song came out in a boxed set in 1990. So for us Zeppelin fans to hear this 10 years after they disbanded was phenomenal to say the least.
There is still one gem left that wasn't released until the 90's. It's titled the girl I love she got long black wavy hair.
That's another that appears on the live at BBC. I believe 1993-4 was released
Amazing - especially when you think how young they were when this was recorded as part of the BBC Sessions in 1969.
This song is their best song ever IMO.
Greatest Band Ever!
“She’s got a mortgage on my body, got a lien on my soul”
My favorite Zeppelin groove is their boogie mama medley diversion in the middle of Whole Lotta Love from their 1973 MSG concert. It never gets old.
Slide guitar ripping so hard. GOATs. Gotta love Jimmy.
Best and most versatile band ever. They covered all genres of music.
You guys are the BEST with Zeppelin reactions
It’s one of my favourite songs of all time and I’m 49.
Thank you for covering this vastly underrated Zeppelin track.
This song is,undoubtedly, a killer groove.
With a quintessential Jimmy P. Solo.
John Paul Jones, before he joined Zeppelin, made a name for himself as a session player, because he was one of the few bassists in the UK in the 60s who could play authentic Motown-style grooves.
The "Squeeze My Lemon" bit is from Robert Johnson's original version of "Traveling Riverside Blues". "Goin' down to Rosedale, got my rider by my side" is from "Crossroads Blues", another Robert Johnson song. Robert Plant was taking bits & pieces of different blues songs & piecing them together.
ROBERT JOHNSON, GENIUS, IS TAPPING HIS SOUL ❤
Been a while for this little gem
As you said JPJ & John were in the grove
Putting on rotation. Thanks guys 👍
My favorite Led Zeppelin song.
The thing about Zeppelin is you can hear something different, some little subtlety on drums or bass ... after the 100th time of listening to one of their songs. Something you hadn’t caught before.
Best band ever and it’s not even close.
Perfection, per usual.
Excellent reaction fellas.
This jam right here is my fav..got it all..everyone in the band showin out..thank you gentlemen. Enjoy!
Im so looking forward to seeing the movie with you guys 😅 👍👍
Great choice guys! This song never appeared on an album, but was recorded in 1969 by the B.B.C.
It was floating around for years in bootleg form. It was finally released in 1990 on the first Led Zeppelin Box Set.
Ahhhhh yaaaa! Its my favourite Zeppelin (Robert Johnson cover) song! Thank you for reacting to this.
How this didn’t make an album I’ll never know. Brilliant track.
Robert Johnson, enough said. Wish this delta blues player could realize what his influence on the 60s and 70s and beyond were, or are.
Great analysis and appreciation, guys! I really feel the love FROM Zeppelin here. Their love OF the Blues, and their love of having fun with their outsized talents that they know damn well they a;; were gifted with. Just joyful stuff, seems to me!
One of my favorites!
Thank you, Robert Johnson.
Without a doubt my all time favorite LZ song
JPJ said in "led zeppelin on led zeppelin" they only practiced this song "a couple times" before performing live on the BBC.
I am SO looking forward to the movie!!
My favorite of this album too.
Love this song and appreciate your reaction to it. Did you skip the track before this one, "Baby Come On Home"? I did a search on your channel but didn't find it.
You guys are the best! Nice to watch people, who actually knows music!! Keep on trucking fellows. You're the best on UA-cam, HANDS DOWN!!
In 1990 this was part of a 4 CD or 6 LP box set that I got for Christmas when I was 14. I’ve never looked back. Favourite band of all time.
OhMyGosh!!! YAY YAY & YAY!!! **Luv** EVERYthing ya all said on this reaction!!! You guys are The **BEST!!!** & WoW **KickAss** can't wait for what is coming next! WaaaWhooo!!!
I think that Robert throwing the same blues lyric 'squeezing my lemon', having already used that same line in the Lemon Song kept this song from being released.
This song, and Hey Hey What Can I do both became popular LONG after the band split up. The only way to get a recording was Japanese 45's. I got one at a pop up bootleggers table at a Mall. Both songs got radio airplay in the 80's.
Zep did not release them until they did a compilation album.
For most bands, this would be their very best track. For Zeppelin, it is a deep cut. 😂😅
This song wasn't included on the original album. We didn't get to hear this until it was included on the boxed set from 1990. It was released for radio airplay along with "Hey Hey What Can I Do" which was a B-side on the "Immigrant Song" single.
You didn’t, some of “we” collected boots and heard it
I’ve been begging for reactors to do this song.
Guys you're the best...you have to listen to LED Zeppelin BBC sections....insane🎉🎉🎉🎉
Glad you're going to do TSRTS live album. Better than just the movie. The movie was fun but it's success was primarily because nobody had seen Zep play in my world so seeing them in a theater was a trip. People were nuts; beer, weed, rowdy, they cancelled showings because the local theater couldn't handle the crowd. I saw it about 6 years after it's official release in a dumpy theater in Worcester MA, sold out. The sound system sucked and the crowd was throwing bottles at the screen stomping feet and chanting turn it up. Theater couldn't fix the sound so they called the cops and we were escorted out. Finally weeks later they fixed it and people flocked for weeks to it.
you guys are missing out on "baby come on home" it's a lost track from led zeppelin I that is featured in deluxe edition of coda. plant's vocals on this one are so delicious
Aw she's a good rider
One of my very favorite songs by zeppelin or any bands
Would be cool to react to Robert Johnson's original versions of songs that The Stones, Clapton, Zeppelin, etc. remade.
Good idea. I have to make a list
Still need to listen to baby come home from album one
This is a reworking of a Robert Johnson song, but Robert included a lot of ad libs from other songs like Terraplane Blues, Woke Up This Morning, and Killing Floor , etc. This song was originally performed in 1969 for a BBC performance and *not* for an album. It wasn't until 1990, I think, that Jimmy negotiated with the BBC to be able to release it on CD called Led Zeppelin/The BBC Sessions. YT does have a video with just the isolated bass, if you want to hear the bass alone. I don't recall your other channel - please tell us again what/where it is.
Mortgage on my body, lien on my soul😊. Now thats a friggin line🤘❤️
I’m so glad you guys reviewed this, this wasn’t put out there I think till the mid-eighties. It is an awesome jam!
The one and only time the band performed the song
Zep was my first introduction to rock n roll and made me a music enthusiast. And to this day, they are still my favorite band. My friends brother had tickets to see them in clevelend when John Bohnam died! R.I.P John Bonham!
I had tickets twice, and sadly, Plant's son passed, and then Bonzo passed. I never did get to see them. 🙏🎶👑
I had tickets when Plants son passed
Fellas, this was done LIVE on English radio, except for the guitar solos in the middle and at the end! These dudes can groove! Don’t forget about John Paul Jones on that bass!😁👍🏻
"Traveling Riverside Blues" is awesome, but you will be dearly missing out if you pass up on a couple more tracks off of the 1993 version of CODA. Both are masterpieces in their own right! "Hey, Hey, What Can I Do" and "Baby Come on Home". You will sorely miss out if you don't listen to those two. Here's the links:
Hey, Hey, What Can I Do
ua-cam.com/video/epX8Th4aiMc/v-deo.html
'Baby Come on Home
ua-cam.com/video/ZAiifpkWZfA/v-deo.html
There a couple hundred comments ahead of this from people who may not know any better to mention these two. I really hope you guys see this.
Peace
We did Hey Hey What Can I do. Check out our LED Zeppelin playlist. We will do Baby Come on Home next.
Awesome!!! Thanks!!!
@@AirplayBeatsplease please do Dazed and Confused live at “Supershow”. Trust me here.
👍 Thanks for the links.
This song was played on radio stations every once in a while way back when, and it was a treat. Was lucky enough to record this to cassette so I could listen to it on my mixtape.
Every once in a while?
@@frankmarsh1159 This was long before Coda was released. I seem to recall hearing it first on the radio in the mid to late 70's. The DJ's that played it made a big deal about being able to play an unreleased Zeppelin song...especially one as good as this. So it wasn't played all the time...maybe once every few days or so.
@@TheSteveDallas It was the flip side to the Immigrant Song single. I didn't hear it until probably the late seventies. But it eventually became a standard Zeppelin song at least in Atlanta.
This made my day
I think this song was played on the BBC radio in England and wasn't released till CODA .
Man, I really enjoy seeing you guys hearing all this music for the first time
Can you believe this was a song left off an earlier album? I mean really, most bands would love to have this song be their single and Zepp just cast if off and only gave it to us much later on in a compilation boxed set in the early 90's. Amazing! Its one of my favorite tracks by the band too! Please consider also reviewing "Hey Hey What Can I Do". Its another song never released until much, much later. A song considered too vulgar to put on an album back in the 70's....and its also a banger!
They done did it. ua-cam.com/video/R3QTf4vegFc/v-deo.html
This was only played once and it’s live to boot, what album was this left off of?
Led Zeppelin’s outtakes are better than most band’s actual albums.
What a band my admiration is immense
Hello,thank you~ stunning traveling- farewell. Airplay~=)
That is the best song on this album... IMHO. 😎
It wasn't on the original album. It's a bonus track.
“The girl I love has long black hair” check it out!