The original video is a masterpiece, Russel Morris as the lead singer with producer Ian (Molly) Meldrum, calling the shots. Written by Johnny Young, this was at the top of the charts in Australia mid 1969. Have never seen this Bandstand version, it's cobbled together from parts of the original video and TV show, without the mind bending whirly bits. This song has stood the test of time, it's a mock up version of I Am The Walrus if you look deep enough. Molly Meldrum was a Beatles nut who ended up working at Apple for a short while in 1968, came back to Australia after his short visit and started producing this song. By all accounts it was the most costly produced single ever in Australia at the time. Meldrum went on to become the host of Australia's Countdown from mid 70's.
This was on the Australian show "Bandstand." Though based on the concept of American Bandstand, the two were not connected. The man doing the introduction was the show's host Brian Henderson.
To get this, the whole warning behind the song, the cult of personality, you have to be aware. To see through the bullshit. If you want to treat this as a trippy toad experience, you’re not getting it. There is a massive core of Australians who ‘get this’ if you understand, it means you haven’t drunk the cool aid, that you’re still cogniscent, aware and in charge. The next awareness is “Midnight Oil’s’ Short Memory’
I have been waiting for you to do this song for so long. It is still in my top 10 songs ever and was a huge hit here in Australia, but you must play the original video which is haunting (to say the least). Russell had a long history in Aus music & has many hits here and also with a previous band "Somebodys Image". Fantastic stuff.....
Shout out from Australia.. Fabulous to see you do a reaction to Russell Morris.Can i recommend another absolutely brilliant Aussie band called The Dyvinals.You will absolutely love them, 💯 Guaranteed.
Real bodies in real skin tights… Yes, the girl with the hands…What is that?? !??? They were introduced by a guy in a suit and tie… What a trip! Thank you, John E. and Lee!
The end of the video was Anti-war and anti-violence imagery the singer was from the flower child hippy days of the late 1960's ❤ he was singing about the real thing because society brainwashes people into believing lies and supporting violent wars.
This song is on the incredible 'Rubble' 20CD box set I have from Amazon of psych, psych pop, mod, freakbeat 60s nuggets, a lot from little known artists who made incredible records that deserved to be hits but because of the wealth and volume of good music at the time the single charts could only be filled once so a lot of these songs only got reappraised many years later. From the 'Rubble' CD notes - Description Stunning 20 cd box set with 2 juicy booklets ( 86 pages and 96 pages). Legendary psych collection. Limited Edition. Includes legendary sides from the likes of Wimple Winch, The Misunderstood, Open Mind,The Mindbenders,The Pretty Things,The Spencer Davis Group, Tomorrow, Kaleidoscope,The Poets,The Falling Leaves, Second Hand, Sandy Coast, The Clique, Tintern Abbey, Curiosity Shoppe, Tuesday's Children, Fleur de Lys,Time Machine, Blossom, Soft Machine, Crazy World of Arthur Brown and hundreds more. If you like this type of music buy or download. All these psych nuggets are on You Tube etc. Some with incredible number of views some only very small but there lies the beauty of music, popular and well known often means good music but so does more obscure stuff like this.
Bought the single back in 1969 as a 10 year old. It's an iconic Australian recording...a #1 in Oz...biggest single of the year, which included anything from overseas. The official video of The Real Thing isn't quiet as psychedelic (and weird) as this one, which was done by Australian Bandstand. Russell Morris had some great songs from the late '60s to the early '70s. Great vocalist.
was originally going to be the standard 3.5 minutes but the band in recording studio keep playing till they crashed and the producers kept the tapes rolling
If you want to do some great Aussie seminal music perhaps Skyhooks’ Living in the Seventies might be up your alley. Great guitar, lyrics and production. I love this album.
What happened "between then" was Elvis Presley. When he appeared in the mid 1950's it was total pandemonium. The girls went crazy! (includin' my older sister.) Everything changed on the music scene. Nothin' was ever the same again from that moment on. A young John Lennon went to an early Elvis movie in Liverpool 'n thought "...Now that's a good job!" Elvis meant everything to that impressionable generation.
NEITHER of these versions on REACTIONS ive heard were not the ONE i remember both are too long THERE IS ANOTHER VERSION IM SURE 🤔😃🤔🤔🙄🙄🙄I live RUSSELS VOICE and AND EMOTIONS❤😮❤
This is only Part 1 of The Real Thing. There's also a Part 2 and Part 3. I hope you can find and react to them also. There's at least one youtube video you might use that has all 3 parts together.
Don't you understand a Protest song when you hear one? Look, your generation don't understand how my generation related to Adolpho. We weren't in awe of him, we didn't fear him. We recognized him, we vilified him and we laughed at him.
Australian, was a huge #1 over there in 1969. Few other hits but this is his biggest.
The original video is a masterpiece, Russel Morris as the lead singer with producer Ian (Molly) Meldrum, calling the shots.
Written by Johnny Young, this was at the top of the charts in Australia mid 1969.
Have never seen this Bandstand version, it's cobbled together from parts of the original video and TV show, without the mind bending whirly bits.
This song has stood the test of time, it's a mock up version of I Am The Walrus if you look deep enough.
Molly Meldrum was a Beatles nut who ended up working at Apple for a short while in 1968, came back to Australia after his short visit and started producing this song.
By all accounts it was the most costly produced single ever in Australia at the time.
Meldrum went on to become the host of Australia's Countdown from mid 70's.
This was on the Australian show "Bandstand." Though based on the concept of American Bandstand, the two were not connected. The man doing the introduction was the show's host Brian Henderson.
The genesis of Australian Olympic break dancing.
To get this, the whole warning behind the song, the cult of personality, you have to be aware. To see through the bullshit. If you want to treat this as a trippy toad experience, you’re not getting it. There is a massive core of Australians who ‘get this’ if you understand, it means you haven’t drunk the cool aid, that you’re still cogniscent, aware and in charge. The next awareness is “Midnight Oil’s’ Short Memory’
Russell morris is still gigging and is still the best
I have been waiting for you to do this song for so long. It is still in my top 10 songs ever and was a huge hit here in Australia, but you must play the original video which is haunting (to say the least). Russell had a long history in Aus music & has many hits here and also with a previous band "Somebodys Image". Fantastic stuff.....
Shout out from Australia.. Fabulous to see you do a reaction to Russell Morris.Can i recommend another absolutely brilliant Aussie band called The Dyvinals.You will absolutely love them, 💯 Guaranteed.
Real bodies in real skin tights…
Yes, the girl with the hands…What is that??
!???
They were introduced by a guy in a suit and tie…
What a trip!
Thank you, John E. and Lee!
The end of the video was Anti-war and anti-violence imagery the singer was from the flower child hippy days of the late 1960's ❤ he was singing about the real thing because society brainwashes people into believing lies and supporting violent wars.
This song is on the incredible 'Rubble' 20CD box set I have from Amazon of psych, psych pop, mod, freakbeat 60s nuggets, a lot from little known artists who made incredible records that deserved to be hits but because of the wealth and volume of good music at the time the single charts could only be filled once so a lot of these songs only got reappraised many years later.
From the 'Rubble' CD notes - Description
Stunning 20 cd box set with 2 juicy booklets ( 86 pages and 96 pages). Legendary psych collection. Limited Edition. Includes legendary sides from the likes of Wimple Winch, The Misunderstood, Open Mind,The Mindbenders,The Pretty Things,The Spencer Davis Group, Tomorrow, Kaleidoscope,The Poets,The Falling Leaves, Second Hand, Sandy Coast, The Clique, Tintern Abbey, Curiosity Shoppe, Tuesday's Children, Fleur de Lys,Time Machine, Blossom, Soft Machine, Crazy World of Arthur Brown and hundreds more.
If you like this type of music buy or download. All these psych nuggets are on You Tube etc. Some with incredible number of views some only very small but there lies the beauty of music, popular and well known often means good music but so does more obscure stuff like this.
We don’t do things by halves in Australia especially in 1969 ! Baby
Do check out Russel Morris 'Hush' live in 2007. What a performance.
Bought the single back in 1969 as a 10 year old. It's an iconic Australian recording...a #1 in Oz...biggest single of the year, which included anything from overseas. The official video of The Real Thing isn't quiet as psychedelic (and weird) as this one, which was done by Australian Bandstand. Russell Morris had some great songs from the late '60s to the early '70s. Great vocalist.
me too at 13.. first 45 I ever bought!
16 years old here. I didn't realize there was a "Part 2" until I played the B side!!
was originally going to be the standard 3.5 minutes but the band in recording studio keep playing till they crashed and the producers kept the tapes rolling
I am so in love with this thing!
Isn’t it so good???
This is definitely new to me. Maybe it'll grow on me. I like learning about new music too even though it's from my time period and I missed it then.
Oh. Ive heard this. Long ago.
One of the best Strayan songs of all time. Ol Rusty did a few good ones, but this was his biggest and best. He's still going too!
Trippy very trippy
1969, we were the children of the generation who fought WWII and now in Viet Nam, very topical at the time
If you want to do some great Aussie seminal music perhaps Skyhooks’ Living in the Seventies might be up your alley. Great guitar, lyrics and production. I love this album.
Welcome to psychedelia!
how did I miss this happening in my feed?
Such an enjoyable song, but it is kind of silly and very simple. Still love it.
Teenagers were even a thing in the 50s. People were out working at 14 years of age and went from children to adulthood. I think muduc is what changed.
Music. Is what changed the world.
The four faces are Hitler, Stalin, Ribbentrop and Molotov.
What happened "between then" was Elvis Presley. When he appeared in the mid 1950's it was total pandemonium. The girls went crazy! (includin' my older sister.) Everything changed on the music scene. Nothin' was ever the same again from that moment on. A young John Lennon went to an early Elvis movie in Liverpool 'n thought "...Now that's a good job!" Elvis meant everything to that impressionable generation.
You’re absolutely right. That’s exactly what it was. I forgot about the Elvis screaming and crying lol
That was indeed strange ... in a fun way lol
Classic
NEITHER of these versions on REACTIONS ive heard were not the ONE i remember both are too long THERE IS ANOTHER VERSION IM SURE 🤔😃🤔🤔🙄🙄🙄I live RUSSELS VOICE and AND EMOTIONS❤😮❤
New to me too.
I feel SO OLD!!!!
Now you must do The Real Thing by Brothers Johnson.
This is only Part 1 of The Real Thing. There's also a Part 2 and Part 3. I hope you can find and react to them also. There's at least one youtube video you might use that has all 3 parts together.
oohm-poppa-ooh-mau-mau (The Bird is the Word)
never heard of this dude
Never heard this song or heard of the artist!
Probably because you are American and NOT an old Aussie like me!
Don't you understand a Protest song when you hear one? Look, your generation don't understand how my generation related to Adolpho. We weren't in awe of him, we didn't fear him. We recognized him, we vilified him and we laughed at him.
You had to be there.
I think girls were screaming in the 1950's over Elvis Presley
Wow, do not remember this one at all.
You must be very young! Unfortunately I do, which means I’m very old! lol!
@@wendyryder2708 LOl, no im not, but this is not music I was interested in at that time. 😃
Girls weren't screaming for artists in the 50's? How about Elvis, Frank Sinatra, and Dion?
A song about Coca~Cola™
Hey man,who ate all the mushrooms?
What am I seeing here? 🤪
Not familiar at all