After Bathing At Baxters is my pick for their best LP. I was in High School when it was released. There was nothing like it at the time. Actually I really liked Spare Chaynge in its entirety mainly because Jack Casady's bass work and interplay with Kaukonen and Dryden. Rejoyce by Grace Slick again with Casady and some orchestration.
Wow. You did it again. Had the original release of the Procol Harum album and it’s some the most innovative stuff to come out of one of the most innovative periods. Thanks again for the flash back.😊
Fudge debut album is a sentimental favorite. Saw them in 1968 with a few high school buddies including Pete Bremy. Pete is the current bass player and was Tim’s choice to take over for him on bass.
WCPAEB are one of the greatest 60's bands, in my opinion. The 2nd and 3rd albums are killer all of the way through. Some of the few albums that I have to have on cd and lp.
Great list. Another good albums from that year: The Association - Insight Out The Easybeats - Friday on my Mind The Chocolate Watchband - No Way Out Ten Years After - S/T Shadows of Knight - Back Door Man The Youngbloods - S/T Kaleidoscope - Side Trips Country Joe & The Fish - Electric Music for the Mind and Body The Hollies - Evolution The Creation - We Are Paintermen Harpers Bizarre - Feelin' Groovy
Great list Tom. I would add the Bee Gees and Janis Ian. Nyro recorded her album in 1966 aged 18 - its arguably the best debut album by a solo artist, spawning 4 major hits for other artists. It is honoured in the Grammy Hall of Fame. Streisand had a Billboard No.6 with Stoney End, which revitalised her flagging career from which she never looked back. Linda Ronstadt also covered Stoney End with her 1960's band. Nyro's melodies are delicious while she deals with some very serious subjects such as death and suicide ideation in Stoney End, drugs and prostitution in Buy and Sell, etc. Not your average pop album, especially for that time.
I saw Tim Harfin twice. First in 1973 backed by a Jazz combo, apart from the encores "Reason to believe' and " if I were a carpenter" When he just played acoustic guitar and his magic finally unfolded. And then I saw him right before his death when he just played piano... Incredible moving concert!
Had the pleasure of going to a concert around mid 75. It was an all day affair and featured John Sebastion, America, J Geils Band, the newly renamed Jefferson Starship, Beach Boys, New Riders of The Purple Sage and finally a very young Doobie Brothers. That was in Syracuse, New York. Lucky I still remember. Was 19 at the time!
Can't get enough of listening to Laura Nyro at the moment, for which I must give credit to you, after you mentioned the Monterey performance of Poverty Train in a video some months back and got me hooked
I add my voice to yours in praise of The Lovin' Spoonful's album "Everything Playing." I think I played it more than any of their other albums. Maybe it was more carefully produced. Maybe it was because of "She's a Mystery" and "6 O'clock," such great songs that didn't get the airplay of earlier Spoonful hits. John Sebastian gets my respect as one of the great songwriters of that, or any, era.
Laura Nyro’s More Than a New Discovery album is one of the best debut albums ever. Every song is great. 13th Floor Elevator’s Easter Everywhere is awesome. My favorite Tim Hardin album is This is Tim Hardin (Atco records, 1967). 😊
Interesting choices! I would add the charming first Bee Gees album in psych mood and exvellent cover by Klaus Voorman. Also the first 2 albums by West Coast Experimental Band whivh are psychedelic classics. And "5000 Spirits" By the Incredible Stringband (Paul McCartney's fabourite album of that magical year 1967) ❤
Thanks for these. Great recommendations. The mid to late 60s is arguably my favourite period for music. Nobody To Love is my favourite tune from Easter Everywhere.
Laura N. forever, my absolutely favourite female singer! And Tim Hardin, his second album was his best, still outstanding and timeless! And Vanille Fudge, overlooked today when people talk about the beginning of heavy rock ... and the second Elevators album is my personally favourite album of '67, special thanks!
Another gret list, Left Banke and Merry-Go-Round 2 great short lived bands,Definitely the best Monkees album. I'd add Paul Revere and the Raiders Spirit of '67 some filler but Good Thing, Hungry and the underrated Great Airplane Strike.
Enjoyed this, from the best year for music, IMHO. I’m glad you included the debut LP by the Electric Prunes, but I would also suggest their follow-up LP, from the summer of ‘67, including the rocking obscure single “The Great Banana Hoax,” which I remember as a pre-teen. It has a lot of great primitive rhythms. Also glad you included the debut Left Banke LP, another gem!
Wow, I’m unfamiliar with that JA album. It definitely sounds worth looking into. And love that Electric Prunes song. Discovered that through the American Nuggets box set. A wickedly, psychedelic guitar intro. But one of my favorite overlooked pieces is the Electric Music for the Mind and Body by CJ and the Fish. That album was a like a prequel to Woodstock. Great stuff 👍 !!
Great start! Laura Nyro's first album was unique, in the moment. So many good songs came off it, by other artists! Baxter's is a stone groove, from beginning to end, and Groovin' was a great surprise, that Summer, a very mature album, from the "Young" Rascals. Tim Hardin never got the respect he earned. John Sebastian was more or less out of Lovin' Spoonful by Everything's Playing, but a couple of his best songs decorate the album. The Small Faces LP is a stone classic, though. It should have been a monster, but Itchykoo Park was too catchy, and too Pop-py, and too clearly a drug reference just when parents are starting to catch on to what their teenagers are up to. Those of us who have copies have a jewel. The Fudge hold a special place in my heart, after all these years. I can't listen to the original song, without hearing their version in my head. Easter Everywhere is another "Break out the good stuff, it's gonna be one of those nights!" album, best encountered fully prepared for mind-to-mind combat. Finally, the one-man-Beatles proto-supergroups, the Merry-Go-Round, was one of LA's finest on the bar circuit, but, despite clear genius, never made it to the top. Emitt passed away at the beginning of Covid, only 70 (we were twin sons of different mothers, like so many of our generation), without ever receiving the acclaim he richly deserved. We were all impressed, when Fairport Convention led off their first LP with Time Will Show the Wiser. The band had closed the first day of the Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival, in June 1967, with Canned Heat and the Doors playing earlier in the line-up, then were asked back, for the second night, in the penultimate position, a place of honor. That day had started with the Airplane and the Byrdsm with the Grass Roots, Steve Miller and Country Joe playing in the daylight hours. In those days, "openers" were bands that hadn't established themselves, so Emitt Rhodes and Merry-Go-Round were taken very seriously. By 1969, though, it was obvious the band was not going to break through. Emitt Rhodes released four very accomplished, if under-selling, LPs in the early '70s, but radio, once his friend, was no longer interested. The second one, eponymously titled Emitt Rhodes, got to #29, a respectable showing, but he didn't tour, to support it, and the third LP barely cracked the Hot 200. The fourth, released in 1973, sank without a trace. His last outings would be a Record Day single, in 2015, a version of the BeeGees 1971 hit, How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, with Chris Price, that brought nothing new to the song, and a new LP, in 2016, Rainbow Ends, a surprisingly good effort that didn't meet expectations of the music market, again. It's well worth a listen, and has a 81% rating on Metacritic. If you find a copy, it's worth the price.
New Subscriber :; Great video You had me with Laura Nyro Laura was such a talent and shame the hippies didn’t get her at Monterey. I was going to throw out Fred Neil but turns out it was released late December 66 I will say Captain Beefhearts Safe as Milk overlooked as is Absolutely Free by the Mothers by virtue is sandwiched between Freak Out And Were only in it for the Money.
The Prunes’ debut was eclipsed by “Underground” later that year but few noticed. The Monkees LP is the best they ever did and the last with mostly band involvement. “Vanilla Fudge” is rather dated and Procol Harum would peak in popularity two years later. What a watershed year. But my fave remains 1966. ✌️
I like when you start by talking in more general terms about the album without giving it away for at least ten seconds, as it gives me a chance to guess. I think I got most of those, but a few you said the title before I even had a chance to think. Something to consider for future ones, though of course that'll make more work for ya! Here's my picks. I could have a lot more jazz albums like Pharoah Sanders, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, Archie Shepp, but I'll just leave in the George Russell and focus on rock 'n' soul. Soul, because it's considered more of a singles genre, but there's albums that are definitely worth hearing in full. Small Faces - There Are But Four Small Faces The 13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere Leonard Cohen - Songs Of Leonard Cohen George Russell - Electronic Sonata For Souls Loved By Nature Art - Supernatural Fairy Tales Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Safe As Milk James Carr - You Got My Mind Messed Up Tim Buckley - Goodbye And Hello Wilson Pickett - The Sound Of Wilson Pickett The Left Banke - Walk Away Renée/Pretty Ballerina Kaleidoscope - Tangerine Dream Irma Thomas - Something Good: The Muscle Shoals Sessions Jimmy Hughes - Why Not Tonight? Donovan - A Gift From A Flower To A Garden Procol Harum - Procol Harum Darrell Banks - Darrell Banks Is Here! The Electric Prunes - Underground The Easybeats - Friday on My Mind
And agree, Safe As Milk is my favorite Beefheart. They were supposed to play Monterey, but Kooper quit and they were guitarless. I guess they couldn’t get Croz to sit in like the Springfield did. 😁
Oooh, that Left Banke album: so great! Some day, I want to sit down and figure out what secret Michael Brown, their songwriter, had. What made his melodies so strange and unlike anything else I have heard? I followed him after Left Bank, like with his Montage group. Like with so many other cases, the songs he wrote for his groups were the best. Songs other group members wrote were just not as good. You see this pattern with the Moody Blues, for example, where Justin Hayward's songs are superior; The Raspberries, where Eric Carmen's songs are the best; The Bee Gees, where Barry Gibb's songs were the best; and the last Creedence Clearwater album, where John Fogerty let other members write inferior songs. That ended the band.
Yeah i have the second laura nyro album but i want that first one, i love Jefferson airplane, all those are great i love Baxters, thats probably my favourite but i also quite like Crown of Creation which has some great songs, another forgotten album is the first Fairport convention, its almost like the Airplane. I havent got the first Prunes album but i should ,i have the next two .i lilke the Lovin spoonful too.
Wouldn't mind a US copy of that Small faces album I have a rerelease UK copy and an original Aussie copy, just bought a great rerelease of the first album too, I've been into them since I was a mod in about 81/82, lol , before the mushrooms,lol. Just bought a second copy of Easter everywhere with a blue background on the cover and blue vinyl....haven't got the merry-go-round but I love Emmett Rhodes I have the first couple of solo albums bloody great!!! I also love that first Moby grape Lp
"After Bathing at Baxters" is one of my most-listened-to albums. I can relate to how it took you 30 years to become your favorite of theirs. I hesitate to recommend the album, because it takes a lot of work, a lot of repeated listens, to realize its greatness. For me, it was worth the effort. When it first came out, there was a lot of hype surrounding it, because they put so much time and effort into creating it. Then, I played it, and thought, "What on earth is this music? It is NOT "Surrealistic Pillow!" I would repeatedly give up on it, but for some reason, I kept coming back to it. I finally got it! I finally felt how electrifying it is. I like to play it now on Halloween, for some ambient scary music, while handing out candy to trick-or-treaters. "Baxters," followed by "Their Satanic Majesties' Request."
Wonderful, wonderful records, mostly (I'm not even crazy about the "good" songs on Everything Playing, and never warmed up to Vanilla Fudge at all). Lots of warm fuzzy memories here. Poor Laura Nyro, she wrote so many hits, but not for herself! Can't think of what else to add -- Song Cycle wasn't released until January 1968 -- except maybe Tim Buckley. He seems largely forgotten these days.
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Hey Tom, fantastic list....have you listened to "After Bathing At Baxter's" in mono? It's much different than the stereo version. I grew up with the mono mix and "Martha" is less busy than the stereo mix. Check it out when you've got some time. I just liked and subscribed! Take good care and I look forward to watching more of your channel.
Thanks for subscribing. 😉 I never heard the mono mix of Baxters. Need to check that out. Have you heard the mono mix of Heaven Is In Your Mind aka: Mr Fantasy from Traffic? There are different mixes as well as different versions of songs on a few tracks. Totally bizarre…
@@tomrobinson5776 You know, I've heard about that but I've never heard it yet! Comparing stereo to mono mixes can be a real trip to listen to. So many different sound placements and sometimes different vocal takes that never got finalized or used. I'll have to check out Traffic's.
A far more interesting batch than the 1969. But I did not think any of the Monkees' albums were unsung, as their 1967s were huge sellers. I thought the band were heavily overrated. I was surprised just how many of these other albums I had, but on CD reissues, a few of them with bonus tracks. But many of these were recorded in 1966, but not released until 1967, like the Laura Nyro, Tim Hardin ETC. But you could have added the first two Cat Stevens albums, Matthew And Son, and New Masters on Deram, both overshadowed by his later Island/A&M albums from the seventies, plus Bee Gees - First Paul Revere And The Raiders - Revolution (they never cracked the UK) David Bowie - Self-titled first album on Deram (released in the UK on the same day as SGT Pepper) Moby Grape - First album (they never cracked the UK) The Hollies - Evolution (UK version) The Hollies - Butterfly (UK version) The Pretty Things - Emotions (not then released in the States) The Troggs - Cellophane (apart from a few clonkers, but album not released in the States) The - Association - Insight Out (even they never cracked it in the UK, only had one Top 50 single here) I think the best way to get all the tracks Tim Hardin recorded for the Verve label is with his double CD which I think was called Complete Verve Recordings. But I think you can say that sort of thing for a lot of albums here. I could tell you were holding U.S. copies of the Procol Harum and Small Faces albums, as you were reading their U.S. tracklists. Ironically, Procol's first album was released in the States a few months before it came out in the UK, even though it was recorded here. But their classic hit Whiter Shade was replaced on the UK release by Good Captain Clack, and with the track order slightly changed, and the album released in the UK not on Deram, but on Regal Zonophone. That Small Faces' album you held was a shorter version of their UK album on The Immediate label just called The Small Faces, but was better known here as The Immediate Album, to avoid confusion with their first album on Decca released about a year earlier that was also just called The Small Faces. Their UK Immediate Album had 14 tracks. But when the album was released in the States, it was not only re-titled, but was shortened to 12 tracks, with six tracks on the UK release replaced by four tracks from singles that were not then album tracks in the UK. One of the six missing tracks, the instrumental Happy Boys Happy was just a short piece of crud, and an obvious filler. But the other five tracks were quite good. Why was one of those tracks, Things Are Going To Get Better missing from the U.S. release. The female backing vocalist on one of their tracks that you mentioned, Tin Soldier was Steve Marriott's then-girlfriend P P Arnold. The Cyrkle who you included released one single in 1965 under the name of The Rondells, Parking At The Kokomo, both sides of which were just passable pieces of Pop.
Interesting that the first Moby Grape album didn’t chart in the UK. It was a moderate seller here in the U.S. but has always been highly regarded as one of the great albums of ‘67 as well as one of the great debut records in rock. Although the Monkees albums were huge sellers, the critics always dismissed them back in the day. Almost 60 years later though those songs still hold up due to great songwriting from outside sources. They were not Milli Vanilli. 😉
@@tomrobinson5776 I thought Moby Grape may have been a lot bigger in the States, as they appeared at the legendary Monterey Pop Festival. I only recently surprisingly discovered that they appeared at the Playhouse Theater in London in 1969 when they were virtually unheard of here. But because a lot of these U.S. bands were big in the States, they didn't give twopence whether they made it elsewhere and probably never travelled overseas. I don't think Paul Revere And The Raiders ever visited the UK.
Mr.Capo Fret-ish...........Words was written by the Gibb Brothers...and The Fudge was a Great Lp back in the day Black light nights,a little smoke and a bean bag chair........
Ah, the wonderful Merry-Go-Round album, with all but one song written by the legendary Emitt Rhodes. Here's the legend: when the Beatles broke up, we were all excited because Paul McCartney was releasing an entire album on which he played every instrument! This held such promise, because we thought that, with his talent, he could do everything. Plus, as far as we knew, no one had attempted this feat before. Well, the album was a dud. Then, around the same time, some guy we had never heard of--Emittt Rhodes--was attempting to do the same thing: release an album on which he played every instrument and wrote every song. And guess what? Emitt Rhodes' album was great: vastly superior to Paul McCartney's!
never cared much for "Bathing At Baxters", the songs seemed overly long and unfocused and melodically weak to me and in an interview Grace Slick said they were high when they made it.
Love your videos, Tom, but jeez, you use the word "great" way too much. I counted at least 52 times on this video. Others are similar. Might make a good drinking game
In November 1969 Nyro songs were at 1, 2 and 10. on Billboard. Wedding Bell Blues was No. 1. The 5th Dimension had most of their hits with Nyro songs. They recorded 10 of them.
After Bathing At Baxters is my pick for their best LP. I was in High School when it was released. There was nothing like it at the time. Actually I really liked Spare Chaynge in its entirety mainly because Jack Casady's bass work and interplay with Kaukonen and Dryden. Rejoyce by Grace Slick again with Casady and some orchestration.
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Listened to Baxters right after it was released and it changed my life. In a tie with BST for my all time #1.
Wow. You did it again. Had the original release of the Procol Harum album and it’s some the most innovative stuff to come out of one of the most innovative periods. Thanks again for the flash back.😊
Fudge debut album is a sentimental favorite. Saw them in 1968 with a few high school buddies including Pete Bremy. Pete is the current bass player and was Tim’s choice to take over for him on bass.
The first two West Coast Pop Art Experimental Band LPs are totally cool and both from 67. Thanks for the great list.😊
I just needldropped two of their albums. One original one repop. Will be on the lookout for the others.
WCPAEB are one of the greatest 60's bands, in my opinion. The 2nd and 3rd albums are killer all of the way through. Some of the few albums that I have to have on cd and lp.
Weak vocals, though.
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@@Saturday8pm I agree that the vocals are the weakest link. Still love them though, especially when Bob gets weird and creepy.
Tracy had a hard day Sunday…one of the all time great songs!
Love these albums! Speaking of Love…
Great list. Another good albums from that year:
The Association - Insight Out
The Easybeats - Friday on my Mind
The Chocolate Watchband - No Way Out
Ten Years After - S/T
Shadows of Knight - Back Door Man
The Youngbloods - S/T
Kaleidoscope - Side Trips
Country Joe & The Fish - Electric Music for the Mind and Body
The Hollies - Evolution
The Creation - We Are Paintermen
Harpers Bizarre - Feelin' Groovy
I forgot The Easybeats and The Creation when printing my list.
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Electric Music For The Mind And Body is one of the best albums of all time. Mindblowing. As good as anything that any other San Fran band did.
After Aretha Franklin Laura Nyro is my favorite vocalist. Amazing songwriter as well.
Laura is my favorite female vocalist. Amazing singer with authenticity and emotion. Ronnie James Dio is my favorite overall vocalist.
All great albums, Tom. I've never heard anyone praise Mickey Dolenz vocals before, which I always loved. Thanks for that.
Great list Tom. I would add the Bee Gees and Janis Ian. Nyro recorded her album in 1966 aged 18 - its arguably the best debut album by a solo artist, spawning 4 major hits for other artists. It is honoured in the Grammy Hall of Fame. Streisand had a Billboard No.6 with Stoney End, which revitalised her flagging career from which she never looked back. Linda Ronstadt also covered Stoney End with her 1960's band. Nyro's melodies are delicious while she deals with some very serious subjects such as death and suicide ideation in Stoney End, drugs and prostitution in Buy and Sell, etc. Not your average pop album, especially for that time.
I saw Tim Harfin twice. First in 1973 backed by a Jazz combo, apart from the encores "Reason to believe' and " if I were a carpenter" When he just played acoustic guitar and his magic finally unfolded.
And then I saw him right before his death when he just played piano... Incredible moving concert!
That’s awesome. He was a true talent.
Wow that's awesome man I have my albums by year also,
1966 to 1969☮️🍄🙏
Had the pleasure of going to a concert around mid 75. It was an all day affair and featured John Sebastion, America, J Geils Band, the newly renamed Jefferson Starship, Beach Boys, New Riders of The Purple Sage and finally a very young Doobie Brothers. That was in Syracuse, New York. Lucky I still remember. Was 19 at the time!
What a cool varied line up. Must have been great.
Can't get enough of listening to Laura Nyro at the moment, for which I must give credit to you, after you mentioned the Monterey performance of Poverty Train in a video some months back and got me hooked
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Listen to it on a Saturday.
I add my voice to yours in praise of The Lovin' Spoonful's album "Everything Playing." I think I played it more than any of their other albums. Maybe it was more carefully produced. Maybe it was because of "She's a Mystery" and "6 O'clock," such great songs that didn't get the airplay of earlier Spoonful hits. John Sebastian gets my respect as one of the great songwriters of that, or any, era.
Absolutely! Sebastian is so underrated as a songwriter. The high quality of songs he wrote in just two years alone with the Spoonful is astonishing.
Steven Tyler appears on backing vocals on The Left Bank Too. He’s credited under his real name though: Steven Tallarico.
I read that years ago. Always wondered what tracks he was featured on. Left Banke Too has some real gems. Thanks 😉
❤️ fudge…nyro …..kaukonen and cassidy as musicians 💥💥
I love this music, to me your collections are like being in a time machine, thank you.
Laura Nyro’s More Than a New Discovery album is one of the best debut albums ever. Every song is great. 13th Floor Elevator’s Easter Everywhere is awesome. My favorite Tim Hardin album is This is Tim Hardin (Atco records, 1967). 😊
Interesting choices! I would add the charming first Bee Gees album in psych mood and exvellent cover by Klaus Voorman. Also the first 2 albums by West Coast Experimental Band whivh are psychedelic classics. And "5000 Spirits" By the Incredible Stringband (Paul McCartney's fabourite album of that magical year 1967) ❤
That first Bee Gees album is fabulous. Very consistent. I Can’t See Nobody is a particular fave.
Thanks for these. Great recommendations. The mid to late 60s is arguably my favourite period for music. Nobody To Love is my favourite tune from Easter Everywhere.
Great list! Thanks for turning me on to Tim Hardin!
The first four are recommended, then the smack took over.
Laura N. forever, my absolutely favourite female singer! And Tim Hardin, his second album was his best, still outstanding and timeless! And Vanille Fudge, overlooked today when people talk about the beginning of heavy rock ... and the second Elevators album is my personally favourite album of '67, special thanks!
Another gret list, Left Banke and Merry-Go-Round 2 great short lived bands,Definitely the best Monkees album. I'd add Paul Revere and the Raiders Spirit of '67 some filler but Good Thing, Hungry and the underrated Great Airplane Strike.
The Paul Revere album was released in the States in late 1966, despite it's title. In my list here, I added their actual 1967 album Revolution.
@@paulgoldstein2569 Revolution contains their best single IMHO, Him Or Me What’s It Gonna Be?
Enjoyed this, from the best year for music, IMHO. I’m glad you included the debut LP by the Electric Prunes, but I would also suggest their follow-up LP, from the summer of ‘67, including the rocking obscure single “The Great Banana Hoax,” which I remember as a pre-teen. It has a lot of great primitive rhythms. Also glad you included the debut Left Banke LP, another gem!
Blues Magoos, Electric Comic Book
Never heard that one. I do have Psychedelic Lollypop. Always loved “Gotta Get Away”
Wow, I’m unfamiliar with that JA album. It definitely sounds worth looking into. And love that Electric Prunes song. Discovered that through the American Nuggets box set. A wickedly, psychedelic guitar intro. But one of my favorite overlooked pieces is the Electric Music for the Mind and Body by CJ and the Fish. That album was a like a prequel to Woodstock. Great stuff 👍 !!
Great start! Laura Nyro's first album was unique, in the moment. So many good songs came off it, by other artists! Baxter's is a stone groove, from beginning to end, and Groovin' was a great surprise, that Summer, a very mature album, from the "Young" Rascals. Tim Hardin never got the respect he earned. John Sebastian was more or less out of Lovin' Spoonful by Everything's Playing, but a couple of his best songs decorate the album.
The Small Faces LP is a stone classic, though. It should have been a monster, but Itchykoo Park was too catchy, and too Pop-py, and too clearly a drug reference just when parents are starting to catch on to what their teenagers are up to. Those of us who have copies have a jewel. The Fudge hold a special place in my heart, after all these years. I can't listen to the original song, without hearing their version in my head. Easter Everywhere is another "Break out the good stuff, it's gonna be one of those nights!" album, best encountered fully prepared for mind-to-mind combat.
Finally, the one-man-Beatles proto-supergroups, the Merry-Go-Round, was one of LA's finest on the bar circuit, but, despite clear genius, never made it to the top. Emitt passed away at the beginning of Covid, only 70 (we were twin sons of different mothers, like so many of our generation), without ever receiving the acclaim he richly deserved. We were all impressed, when Fairport Convention led off their first LP with Time Will Show the Wiser. The band had closed the first day of the Fantasy Fair and Magic Mountain Music Festival, in June 1967, with Canned Heat and the Doors playing earlier in the line-up, then were asked back, for the second night, in the penultimate position, a place of honor. That day had started with the Airplane and the Byrdsm with the Grass Roots, Steve Miller and Country Joe playing in the daylight hours. In those days, "openers" were bands that hadn't established themselves, so Emitt Rhodes and Merry-Go-Round were taken very seriously.
By 1969, though, it was obvious the band was not going to break through. Emitt Rhodes released four very accomplished, if under-selling, LPs in the early '70s, but radio, once his friend, was no longer interested. The second one, eponymously titled Emitt Rhodes, got to #29, a respectable showing, but he didn't tour, to support it, and the third LP barely cracked the Hot 200. The fourth, released in 1973, sank without a trace. His last outings would be a Record Day single, in 2015, a version of the BeeGees 1971 hit, How Can You Mend a Broken Heart, with Chris Price, that brought nothing new to the song, and a new LP, in 2016, Rainbow Ends, a surprisingly good effort that didn't meet expectations of the music market, again. It's well worth a listen, and has a 81% rating on Metacritic. If you find a copy, it's worth the price.
Cool, I’ll check it out. 😉
New Subscriber :; Great video
You had me with Laura Nyro
Laura was such a talent and shame the hippies didn’t get her at Monterey.
I was going to throw out Fred Neil but turns out it was released late December 66
I will say Captain Beefhearts Safe as Milk overlooked as is Absolutely Free by the Mothers by virtue is sandwiched between Freak Out And Were only in it for the Money.
Safe As Milk and Absolutely Free are fantastic. Thanks for subscribing. 😉
Too cool, starting with Laura Nyro. Love her. My favorite female artist. Not my favorite LP of hers but still sooo good.
Love the Chanel and vids. Would be great if you listed the rec's in the comments so we could seek them out and give them a spin.
The Prunes’ debut was eclipsed by “Underground” later that year but few noticed. The Monkees LP is the best they ever did and the last with mostly band involvement. “Vanilla Fudge” is rather dated and Procol Harum would peak in popularity two years later.
What a watershed year. But my fave remains 1966.
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I like when you start by talking in more general terms about the album without giving it away for at least ten seconds, as it gives me a chance to guess. I think I got most of those, but a few you said the title before I even had a chance to think. Something to consider for future ones, though of course that'll make more work for ya!
Here's my picks. I could have a lot more jazz albums like Pharoah Sanders, Sun Ra, Albert Ayler, Archie Shepp, but I'll just leave in the George Russell and focus on rock 'n' soul. Soul, because it's considered more of a singles genre, but there's albums that are definitely worth hearing in full.
Small Faces - There Are But Four Small Faces
The 13th Floor Elevators - Easter Everywhere
Leonard Cohen - Songs Of Leonard Cohen
George Russell - Electronic Sonata For Souls Loved By Nature
Art - Supernatural Fairy Tales
Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Safe As Milk
James Carr - You Got My Mind Messed Up
Tim Buckley - Goodbye And Hello
Wilson Pickett - The Sound Of Wilson Pickett
The Left Banke - Walk Away Renée/Pretty Ballerina
Kaleidoscope - Tangerine Dream
Irma Thomas - Something Good: The Muscle Shoals Sessions
Jimmy Hughes - Why Not Tonight?
Donovan - A Gift From A Flower To A Garden
Procol Harum - Procol Harum
Darrell Banks - Darrell Banks Is Here!
The Electric Prunes - Underground
The Easybeats - Friday on My Mind
Nice list. Almost put Safe As Milk in the video. Great album.
Have you heard Frumious Bandersnatch, Plastic Cloud, The Paupers, Captain Beefheart, Apple Tree Theatre-Playback, cool albums from 1967😊
The Paupers were at Monterey, but nothing was recorded, save that they could be heard in a period newsreel.
And agree, Safe As Milk is my favorite Beefheart. They were supposed to play Monterey, but Kooper quit and they were guitarless. I guess they couldn’t get Croz to sit in like the Springfield did. 😁
@@seed_drill7135I have The Paupers Magic People album, ‘It’s Your Mind’ is a classic track!
I have Safe As Milk. Great album. Love the track Autumn’s Child. Fantastic album closer.
Totally agree with you on After Bathing at Baxter’s. Spare Change is a bit long, but otherwise it’s one of the greatest of the sixties.
Neon is a long time favorite.
Two masterpieces from 1967 you missed are Moby Grape and Buffalo Springfield Again,
The Byrds 'Younger Than Yesterday'
I’ve mentioned these 2 albums quite a bit in past videos. Masterpieces indeed!
Oooh, that Left Banke album: so great! Some day, I want to sit down and figure out what secret Michael Brown, their songwriter, had. What made his melodies so strange and unlike anything else I have heard? I followed him after Left Bank, like with his Montage group. Like with so many other cases, the songs he wrote for his groups were the best. Songs other group members wrote were just not as good. You see this pattern with the Moody Blues, for example, where Justin Hayward's songs are superior; The Raspberries, where Eric Carmen's songs are the best; The Bee Gees, where Barry Gibb's songs were the best; and the last Creedence Clearwater album, where John Fogerty let other members write inferior songs. That ended the band.
No doubt about it.
PAC&J Ltd. was the first album I ever got. I think I was 4. It actually would have been even better with its original track list.
Van Dyke Parks' "Song Cycle" recorded in '65 and released in '67, is the greatest album of all time.
Yeah i have the second laura nyro album but i want that first one, i love Jefferson airplane, all those are great i love Baxters, thats probably my favourite but i also quite like Crown of Creation which has some great songs, another forgotten album is the first Fairport convention, its almost like the Airplane. I havent got the first Prunes album but i should ,i have the next two .i lilke the Lovin spoonful too.
Wouldn't mind a US copy of that Small faces album I have a rerelease UK copy and an original Aussie copy, just bought a great rerelease of the first album too, I've been into them since I was a mod in about 81/82, lol , before the mushrooms,lol. Just bought a second copy of Easter everywhere with a blue background on the cover and blue vinyl....haven't got the merry-go-round but I love Emmett Rhodes I have the first couple of solo albums bloody great!!! I also love that first Moby grape Lp
"After Bathing at Baxters" is one of my most-listened-to albums. I can relate to how it took you 30 years to become your favorite of theirs. I hesitate to recommend the album, because it takes a lot of work, a lot of repeated listens, to realize its greatness. For me, it was worth the effort. When it first came out, there was a lot of hype surrounding it, because they put so much time and effort into creating it. Then, I played it, and thought, "What on earth is this music? It is NOT "Surrealistic Pillow!" I would repeatedly give up on it, but for some reason, I kept coming back to it. I finally got it! I finally felt how electrifying it is. I like to play it now on Halloween, for some ambient scary music, while handing out candy to trick-or-treaters. "Baxters," followed by "Their Satanic Majesties' Request."
Haha, that’s awesome 😉
I love the line in “Martha” that goes…”She does as she pleases, her heels rise for me”…🙂
A list of LPs with terrible and off putting sleeves that are actually great would be cool .
Great idea 😉
@@tomrobinson5776 The Peppermint Trolley Company for instance.
Bee Gees 1st - Most underrated album of the sixties.
Triangle - The Beau Brummels
Left Banke's debut was a little dissapointing.
triangle ❤❤❤
That first Bee Gees album is great. Just heard New York Mining Disaster 1941 on shuffle the other day. Such cool harmonies.
If you mean "Triangle" by the Beau Brummels, then yes, that may be my favorite album, "Along with their "Bradley's Barn."@@akulinamackenzie4492
@@stevenkaminsky 👍🤜🏻
You’re a very lovely woman was a Linda Rondstadt single in 71. It was a minor hit.
Interesting, never heard that version.
I am laughing you calling it Sunday!
“Bartenders and their wives”……LMAO
Barterers and their wives is a great song in the same vein as the Beatles “Piggies”…🙂
"Neon" by The Cyrkle : a perfect album.
You obviously live in the States, as they were little heard of in the UK. But this was the second of their two perfect albums.
In Canada, but that's almost the same !
Wonderful, wonderful records, mostly (I'm not even crazy about the "good" songs on Everything Playing, and never warmed up to Vanilla Fudge at all). Lots of warm fuzzy memories here. Poor Laura Nyro, she wrote so many hits, but not for herself! Can't think of what else to add -- Song Cycle wasn't released until January 1968 -- except maybe Tim Buckley. He seems largely forgotten these days.
👍👍👍 tim buckley: words, music, musicianS, voice….NObody ever reached his height in intellectual and musical evolution…..plastic people deep down in their dungeons…..with their electronic shrines….in their
liquorice clothes…..-and I thought I was flying and I opened my eyes…….this could go on and on….
the MAGICian……to good to reach the masses……I guess he does not rest in peace….❤️❤️❤️
ps: christmas and the beads of sweat 💥💥💥
I was no fan of Vanilla Fudge, but liked The Lovin' Spoonful.
@@paulgoldstein2569 👍 lovin‘ spoonful „did u ever have t make up ur mind
fudge: 2 different worlds
Capo nobody ever mentions In The Beginning Jimi Hendrix with the Isley Brothers! Have you ever heard it it has "Testify"
I have heard it. It’s great. It’s on the box set West Coast Seattle Boy. Excellent 4 CD package.
Hey Tom, fantastic list....have you listened to "After Bathing At Baxter's" in mono? It's much different than the stereo version.
I grew up with the mono mix and "Martha" is less busy than the stereo mix. Check it out when you've got some time.
I just liked and subscribed! Take good care and I look forward to watching more of your channel.
Thanks for subscribing. 😉 I never heard the mono mix of Baxters. Need to check that out. Have you heard the mono mix of Heaven Is In Your Mind aka: Mr Fantasy from Traffic? There are different mixes as well as different versions of songs on a few tracks. Totally bizarre…
@@tomrobinson5776 You know, I've heard about that but I've never heard it yet! Comparing stereo to mono mixes can be a real trip to listen to. So many different sound placements and sometimes different vocal takes that never got finalized or used. I'll have to check out Traffic's.
No. She wrote + recorded W B Blues in 1966. 5th dimension released their #1 hit in 1969
A far more interesting batch than the 1969. But I did not think any of the Monkees' albums were unsung, as their 1967s were huge sellers. I thought the band were heavily overrated. I was surprised just how many of these other albums I had, but on CD reissues, a few of them with bonus tracks. But many of these were recorded in 1966, but not released until 1967, like the Laura Nyro, Tim Hardin ETC.
But you could have added the first two Cat Stevens albums, Matthew And Son, and New Masters on Deram, both overshadowed by his later Island/A&M albums from the seventies, plus
Bee Gees - First
Paul Revere And The Raiders - Revolution (they never cracked the UK)
David Bowie - Self-titled first album on Deram (released in the UK on the same day as SGT Pepper)
Moby Grape - First album (they never cracked the UK)
The Hollies - Evolution (UK version)
The Hollies - Butterfly (UK version)
The Pretty Things - Emotions (not then released in the States)
The Troggs - Cellophane (apart from a few clonkers, but album not released in the States)
The - Association - Insight Out (even they never cracked it in the UK, only had one Top 50 single here)
I think the best way to get all the tracks Tim Hardin recorded for the Verve label is with his double CD which I think was called Complete Verve Recordings. But I think you can say that sort of thing for a lot of albums here.
I could tell you were holding U.S. copies of the Procol Harum and Small Faces albums, as you were reading their U.S. tracklists. Ironically, Procol's first album was released in the States a few months before it came out in the UK, even though it was recorded here. But their classic hit Whiter Shade was replaced on the UK release by Good Captain Clack, and with the track order slightly changed, and the album released in the UK not on Deram, but on Regal Zonophone. That Small Faces' album you held was a shorter version of their UK album on The Immediate label just called The Small Faces, but was better known here as The Immediate Album, to avoid confusion with their first album on Decca released about a year earlier that was also just called The Small Faces. Their UK Immediate Album had 14 tracks. But when the album was released in the States, it was not only re-titled, but was shortened to 12 tracks, with six tracks on the UK release replaced by four tracks from singles that were not then album tracks in the UK. One of the six missing tracks, the instrumental Happy Boys Happy was just a short piece of crud, and an obvious filler. But the other five tracks were quite good. Why was one of those tracks, Things Are Going To Get Better missing from the U.S. release. The female backing vocalist on one of their tracks that you mentioned, Tin Soldier was Steve Marriott's then-girlfriend P P Arnold.
The Cyrkle who you included released one single in 1965 under the name of The Rondells, Parking At The Kokomo, both sides of which were just passable pieces of Pop.
Interesting that the first Moby Grape album didn’t chart in the UK. It was a moderate seller here in the U.S. but has always been highly regarded as one of the great albums of ‘67 as well as one of the great debut records in rock. Although the Monkees albums were huge sellers, the critics always dismissed them back in the day. Almost 60 years later though those songs still hold up due to great songwriting from outside sources. They were not Milli Vanilli. 😉
@@tomrobinson5776 I thought Moby Grape may have been a lot bigger in the States, as they appeared at the legendary Monterey Pop Festival. I only recently surprisingly discovered that they appeared at the Playhouse Theater in London in 1969 when they were virtually unheard of here. But because a lot of these U.S. bands were big in the States, they didn't give twopence whether they made it elsewhere and probably never travelled overseas. I don't think Paul Revere And The Raiders ever visited the UK.
Mr.Capo Fret-ish...........Words was written by the Gibb Brothers...and The Fudge was a Great Lp back in the day
Black light nights,a little smoke and a bean bag chair........
Oops!...Sorry Cape wrong "Words".......Now I feel like a Jack ass not....A Monkee!!!
@@newspapertaxis1 All good 😉
Ah, the wonderful Merry-Go-Round album, with all but one song written by the legendary Emitt Rhodes. Here's the legend: when the Beatles broke up, we were all excited because Paul McCartney was releasing an entire album on which he played every instrument! This held such promise, because we thought that, with his talent, he could do everything. Plus, as far as we knew, no one had attempted this feat before. Well, the album was a dud. Then, around the same time, some guy we had never heard of--Emittt Rhodes--was attempting to do the same thing: release an album on which he played every instrument and wrote every song. And guess what? Emitt Rhodes' album was great: vastly superior to Paul McCartney's!
I agree. That first Emitt Rhodes album is just stellar.
Barterers. No bartenders.
Slip of the tongue on my part. 😉
These weren't unsung back in 1967.
never cared much for "Bathing At Baxters", the songs seemed overly long and unfocused and melodically weak to me and in an interview Grace Slick said they were high when they made it.
That’s a given. 😉
I love After Bathing At Baxters. It may be the Airplane's most psychedelic album.
@@rft2001 Absolutely, their psychedelic peak.
The Byrds - Younger Than Yesterday...So You Want To Be A Rock n' Roll Star, My Back Pages, Everybody's Been Burned, Thoughts & Words, Why.
Excellent record. One of their best.
Love your videos, Tom, but jeez, you use the word "great" way too much. I counted at least 52 times on this video. Others are similar. Might make a good drinking game
Yes, it might make a GREAT drinking game.
i say get rid of the young rascals and give us blue cheer... otherwise great list
No, Wedding Bell Blues was not covered by the 5th dimensions, it was their release. She covered the song.
"Wedding Bell Blues" is a song written and recorded by Laura Nyro in 1966. The best known version was a number one hit for the 5th Dimension in 1969.
Nope !
In November 1969 Nyro songs were at 1, 2 and 10. on Billboard. Wedding Bell Blues was No. 1. The 5th Dimension had most of their hits with Nyro songs. They recorded 10 of them.
@lupcokotevski2907 thank you, for correcting me..
@@doaver2.125 No worries. Its all good.