Glad you liked it, there are loads to choose from but I think you'd enjoy ' I can Hear the Grass Grow' 'Tonight' 'Blackberry Way' and 'Flowers in the Rain' (then of course there is Wizard to come too lol)
That crazy one in the Christmas song was Roy with his later band Wizzard. Of what you can access by The Move, "Fields of People" is great if you have 11 minutes to spare, and I love "Cherry Blossom Clinic Revisited", and for a later one with Jeff Lynne there is the classic "Message from the Country". Great choice here, thanks.
My schoolfriend's family ran a guest house. A good one by all accounts. Roy Wood stayed with them when he was doing some concerts in Newcastle. This was 70's and Roy had moved on from The Move and E L O and formed, Wizard.
When Roy Wood formed Wizzard, the song 'See My Baby Jive' got to Number 1 in the UK in 1973. Between 1972 & 1973, ABBA released 7 songs but not getting really noticed. The sound of 'See My Baby Jive' inspired ABBA on their 8th hit 'Waterloo' in 1974. Then ABBA took over the world 😊
Yes! That’s Roy Wood singing. Carl Wayne did most of the lead vocals during this incarnation of the group (though Wood was the primary songwriter) before he left. Then Jeff Lynne joined. For a great Move song by Lynne, try Message From the Country, or Do Ya (which he did again with ELO). Some great Move songs pre Lynne, try Night of Fear, I Can Hear the Grass Grow, Flowers in the Rain and Blackberry Way.
Nice reaction, i think you've called it well. Fun, creative. This songs been spinning round my head all day! I've known it since i was a kid but for some reason I'm really examining it now.
Fire Brigade are from 1968. Wood, Carl Wayne, Chris 'Ace' Kefford on bass, Trevor Burton on guitar and Bev Bevan on drums. Jeff Lynne were a member from 1970-1972. He joined on their third album. Drummer Bev Bevan was also a founding member of ELO. You should check out Blackberry Way. There are also a live recording with ELO doing Whisper In The Night in 1972. Roy Wood transforming into his Wizzard look. A very beautiful song
I havent heard this in decades, that little Duane Eddy style guitar riff is still as awesome as ever! Years ago, I had a job working at a fair, sometimes I used to work with a woman from Yorkshire....it turned out that she lived near Roy Wood, knew him well enough that he came and played at her wedding reception.
Fun fact. BBC Radio 1, first started broadcasting (the new popular music) in 1967. The first song they played was, Flowers In The Rain, by, The Move. (I'm just sitting watching flowers in the rain. Feel the power of the rain. Making my garden grow......tune and you can't get a song any more flower power than that. Maybe Scott Mackenzie's, If You're Going To San Francisco (be sure to wear some flowers in your hair). In
Roy wood wrote 21 hits in the u.k between 1966 and 1975 ,THE MOVE WIZZZARD ! SOLO , one hit with elo but was written by Jeff Lynne but co produced with Roy and also wrote the amen corner hit hello Suzie , Jeff Lynne was on the last 4 move hits for history buffs .
The Christmas song which you mentioned was by 'Wizzard' a later group by Roy Wood. Songs by them to react to, 'Tonight', 'Flowers In The Rain', and 'Blackberry Way' there are other tracks but these are good to start with.
I highly recommend you listen to the closest thing they had as a “hit” in the U.S., “Brontosaurus.” It starts as a slow heavy metal song and builds into a heavy rock and roll banger. “ Do Ya” is another minor “hit “ of theirs that rocks!
God I forgot about this song. I think this was a fixture of every family event I was dragged to as a kid in the early 80's! You dropped a real nostalgia bomb on me!
"I can't wait to get into more of this band", Cynthia says; I'd like to suggest my Move favourite 'This Time Tomorrow' to you two, which was the B-side of their single 'Curly' 😊 And Roy Wood was indeed playing a Fender 'Electric XII' guitar 😀👍
@@SPKdesign1 - I'll check it out! Myself, I've been on a couple of The Move trips around YT in recent years, but strangely, none of their other songs want to stick with me! Not even 'Blackberry Way', which seems to be regarded as one of their biggest successes!
This is the four piece line-up after Trevor Burton went to Bass replacing Ace Kefford who left due to various circumstances. Filmed (some mimed) for BBC 2 "colour me pop" episode the original five piece line up performance also exists ex top of the pops with Roy dressed as a knight in chainmail ( I think the audio from the disc has been placed on the vid showing, which is a pity as the Colour Me Pop audio is quite good of itself )
The Move (and Roy Wood) are super-underrated, they should be right up there with The Beatles, Stones, Kinks, Who... they had a string of fantastic, inventive singles (like this) and fairly weird albums, then Wood formed the Electric Light Orchestra (a whole other story in itself), before starting Wizzard (another string of brilliant singles) and a proper solo career (though Wizzard was effectively Wood solo anyway...)
The Move were one of the better UK bands never to make it in the USA. They were very much at the heart of the West Midlands music scene that had already produced the Spencer Davis Group, and would soon give us the likes of Slade, Black Sabbath and half of Led Zeppelin. Over several line-ups they morphed from a harmony group through the psychedelic pop of this, their most successful period, to a heavy psychedelic, almost proto-metal band, after Jeff Lynne joined the band. This before they became ELO and Roy Wood departed on his own eccentric path. I prefer this era of the band and it was a bit of a waste that they didn't achieve more transatlantic success. I think they were hampered by attracting a certain amount of controversy and damaging lawsuits. Other songs to check out - The 1967 Beat Club performances of I Can Hear the Grass Grow and Night of Fear are great, also Blackberry Way and Flowers in the Rain.
It's interesting because this is a live performance that they have dubbed with the studio version and it's pretty close to being synced up. The original live version... ua-cam.com/video/kb-OIFZXRQw/v-deo.html
Hi sorry if I am hijacking this post, but I just found the channel and not sure if you check your old video comments, this was for The Special vs Stiff Little Fingers: First let me say just found the channel and I am loving it, great to see people still enjoying SKA. Now your review of this is madness, utter madness, no one does it better than The Specials. Just my opinion. HAHA I also noticed you mostly do 2Tone, you should really check out some third wave like anything by The Scofflaws, saw them over 100 times easy, The Toaster were phenomenal, Checkered Cabs, Let's Go Bowling, Dancehall Crashers, the list goes on. Sorry for the long post, but as a bass player it was nice to see both getting some love from you guys, we often are the forgotten member, Horace is still with The Specials. Anyway thanks for the memories, if you want any suggestions feel free to ask. Always love turning people onto great SKA Sorry again if this was inappropriate
@@hanierfamily Scofflaws check out SKA la Carte and Paul Getty oh and WIlliam Shatner is hysterical, live we used to do the over acted Star Trek lean during the horn solos, What fun.
@@hanierfamily Sorry for doing this in parts but want to make sure things are available, Lets Go Bowling do Hare Tonic, very short, the titular Lets Go Bowling Checkered Cabs I don't see much
@@hanierfamily Dance Hall Crashers, He Wants Me Back, My Problem. I could give you so many more for each band but I dont want to overwhelm you. There are also a ton more bands, I have been a fan of SKA since the mid 80s. One of my favorite genres, enjoy and if you want more just ask.
The grainy, black and white clip of them performing this on Top Of The Pops, is better. Top Of The Pops used to make the atristes mime to a pre recorded performance (done in their studio) as the TV studio had terrible acoustics and wasn't set up for live performance. Because they're miming and don't have to concentrate on playing their instruments, thry have some fun with it, hamming it up for tha camera. Great performance. On a par with the Status Quo performance, (from the same show, with the same grainy black and white footage) of Matchstalk Men And You. Tune.
Thank you for reacting to "Fire Brigade", why not do a review of The Move's "Beautiful Daughter" from 1970, it has a string quartet sound that I think was the embryo of Electric Light Orchestra. You could also react to "Blackberry Way" from 1969, that was The Move's only UK number 1 charting 7" single, the 'B' side "Something" was also a great song that was written by Dave Morgan of The Ugly's. Roy Wood wrote Fire Brigade in a hotel room after Carl Wayne told him the band were booked in at the recording studio the foillowing day and they need a new single to record. Carl locked Roy in his hotel room with a bottle of Scotch whisky, in the morning Roy appeared from his room with Fire Brigade, it peaked at number 2 in the UK chart. During the recording of Fire Brigade, The Move's original bassist, Ace Kefford, threw his bass guitar at the wall and announced that he'd left the band. Ace wasn't replaced, so guitarist, Trevor Burton took over bass guitar duties, it is Trevor who is playing bass on that video clip.
Good lord, I don't think I've heard or even thought about this song since I was a kid back in '68. What's next, Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich performing 'Xanadu'? The Herd performing 'Paradise Lost'?
@@hanierfamily If you are interested in UK pop music in the middle '60s before everything started to either get heavy or proggy or too psychedelic (well... there probably isn't any such thing as TOO psychedelic), right at the peak of '60s radio pop, then yeah, those songs would be interesting to explore. Also: The Move - "I Can Hear The Grass Grow", "Blackberry Way" Small Faces - "Lazy Sunday", "Afterglow", "My Mind's Eye" The Tremeloes - "Here Comes My Baby", "Silence Is Golden" Traffic - "Hole In My Shoe", "Paper Sun", "No Face No Name No Number" The Who - "I'm A Boy", "PIctures Of Lily", "Dogs" Julie Driscoll - "This Wheel's On Fire" The Herd (Peter Frampton's old band) - "Paradise Lost", "From The Underworld" I don't know if you've hit any of these, but they were all in heavy rotation in the UK back in the day.
Glad you liked it, there are loads to choose from but I think you'd enjoy ' I can Hear the Grass Grow' 'Tonight' 'Blackberry Way' and 'Flowers in the Rain' (then of course there is Wizard to come too lol)
Don't forget Curly.🤗
Can't believe anyone still remembers This fantastic band.
Wow ! this is an old one ! Roy Wood ,without his Wizard make up on is a new experience !! Ace fun band ! Cheers !
Roy Wood is an amazing musician. He pretty much turned his back on stardom just to play the music inside of him rather than commercial music.
As it ultimately should be, too! And good on him!
That crazy one in the Christmas song was Roy with his later band Wizzard. Of what you can access by The Move, "Fields of People" is great if you have 11 minutes to spare, and I love "Cherry Blossom Clinic Revisited", and for a later one with Jeff Lynne there is the classic "Message from the Country". Great choice here, thanks.
My schoolfriend's family ran a guest house. A good one by all accounts. Roy Wood stayed with them when he was doing some concerts in Newcastle. This was 70's and Roy had moved on from The Move and E L O and formed, Wizard.
When Roy Wood formed Wizzard, the song 'See My Baby Jive' got to Number 1 in the UK in 1973. Between 1972 & 1973, ABBA released 7 songs but not getting really noticed. The sound of 'See My Baby Jive' inspired ABBA on their 8th hit 'Waterloo' in 1974. Then ABBA took over the world 😊
I still have that and "Angel Fingers" on 7".
You just reminded me of 'Ball park incident' around that time! Happy memories!
Yes! That’s Roy Wood singing. Carl Wayne did most of the lead vocals during this incarnation of the group (though Wood was the primary songwriter) before he left. Then Jeff Lynne joined. For a great Move song by Lynne, try Message From the Country, or Do Ya (which he did again with ELO). Some great Move songs pre Lynne, try Night of Fear, I Can Hear the Grass Grow, Flowers in the Rain and Blackberry Way.
I LOVED the Move. So glad you seleced this song. Thanks for posting.
This and Blackberry way are the two earliest songs I remember , I would’ve been 5 when this came out , Roy Wood is a legend !
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i can hear the grass grow , goodbye blackberry and flowers in the rain are more 60s hippyish LOL
Nice reaction, i think you've called it well. Fun, creative. This songs been spinning round my head all day! I've known it since i was a kid but for some reason I'm really examining it now.
My mates dad ace kefford was on bass on this move are superb
Chris , Roy wood was in Wizard and their big Xmas hit was I wish it could be Xmas every day 👍
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Yeah. Great stuff. We did that song in December.
That song makes him a fortune every year
@@colrhodes377 yep , him and noddy holder call their Xmas hits their pensions 😀good on em
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I can hear the grass grow.
Fire Brigade are from 1968. Wood, Carl Wayne, Chris 'Ace' Kefford on bass, Trevor Burton on guitar and Bev Bevan on drums. Jeff Lynne were a member from 1970-1972. He joined on their third album. Drummer Bev Bevan was also a founding member of ELO. You should check out Blackberry Way. There are also a live recording with ELO doing Whisper In The Night in 1972. Roy Wood transforming into his Wizzard look. A very beautiful song
I havent heard this in decades, that little Duane Eddy style guitar riff is still as awesome as ever!
Years ago, I had a job working at a fair, sometimes I used to work with a woman from Yorkshire....it turned out that she lived near Roy Wood, knew him well enough that he came and played at her wedding reception.
That would be a fun reception.
@@hanierfamily apparently so, he ran through his hits, then did requests!
Jeff Lynn's first album with the Move was Message from the Country.
Fun fact. BBC Radio 1, first started broadcasting (the new popular music) in 1967. The first song they played was, Flowers In The Rain, by, The Move. (I'm just sitting watching flowers in the rain. Feel the power of the rain. Making my garden grow......tune and you can't get a song any more flower power than that. Maybe Scott Mackenzie's, If You're Going To San Francisco (be sure to wear some flowers in your hair). In
Roy wood wrote 21 hits in the u.k between 1966 and 1975 ,THE MOVE WIZZZARD ! SOLO , one hit with elo but was written by Jeff Lynne but co produced with Roy and also wrote the amen corner hit hello Suzie , Jeff Lynne was on the last 4 move hits for history buffs .
The Christmas song which you mentioned was by 'Wizzard' a later group by Roy Wood.
Songs by them to react to, 'Tonight', 'Flowers In The Rain', and 'Blackberry Way' there are other tracks but these are good to start with.
I highly recommend you listen to the closest thing they had as a “hit” in the U.S., “Brontosaurus.” It starts as a slow heavy metal song and builds into a heavy rock and roll banger. “ Do Ya” is another minor “hit “ of theirs that rocks!
God I forgot about this song. I think this was a fixture of every family event I was dragged to as a kid in the early 80's! You dropped a real nostalgia bomb on me!
Great stuff... Go for 'Goodbye Blackberry Way' by the Move... I think that was more of a hit
"I can't wait to get into more of this band", Cynthia says; I'd like to suggest my Move favourite 'This Time Tomorrow' to you two, which was the B-side of their single 'Curly' 😊 And Roy Wood was indeed playing a Fender 'Electric XII' guitar
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I still just remember Wizzard on ToTP.
@@SPKdesign1 - I'll check it out! Myself, I've been on a couple of The Move trips around YT in recent years, but strangely, none of their other songs want to stick with me! Not even 'Blackberry Way', which seems to be regarded as one of their biggest successes!
These guy can really sing and play. They also made fun melodic tunes that survived more than 50 years.
they also had another great hit called night of fear
HE CO FOUNDED ELO TOO
Roy Wood and Jeff Lynn on the right, went on to form ELO. And then Woody formed Wizard totally of the wall.
This is the four piece line-up after Trevor Burton went to Bass replacing Ace Kefford who left due to various circumstances. Filmed (some mimed) for BBC 2 "colour me pop" episode the original five piece line up performance also exists ex top of the pops with Roy dressed as a knight in chainmail ( I think the audio from the disc has been placed on the vid showing, which is a pity as the Colour Me Pop audio is quite good of itself )
The Move (and Roy Wood) are super-underrated, they should be right up there with The Beatles, Stones, Kinks, Who... they had a string of fantastic, inventive singles (like this) and fairly weird albums, then Wood formed the Electric Light Orchestra (a whole other story in itself), before starting Wizzard (another string of brilliant singles) and a proper solo career (though Wizzard was effectively Wood solo anyway...)
The Move were one of the better UK bands never to make it in the USA. They were very much at the heart of the West Midlands music scene that had already produced the Spencer Davis Group, and would soon give us the likes of Slade, Black Sabbath and half of Led Zeppelin. Over several line-ups they morphed from a harmony group through the psychedelic pop of this, their most successful period, to a heavy psychedelic, almost proto-metal band, after Jeff Lynne joined the band. This before they became ELO and Roy Wood departed on his own eccentric path. I prefer this era of the band and it was a bit of a waste that they didn't achieve more transatlantic success. I think they were hampered by attracting a certain amount of controversy and damaging lawsuits. Other songs to check out - The 1967 Beat Club performances of I Can Hear the Grass Grow and Night of Fear are great, also Blackberry Way and Flowers in the Rain.
Ouch that s some Spinal Tap level hair and 'staches
Do their amps go to 11 though? ;)
@@Sandy-dd4le the most overused line from that movie :)
@@fredarsenault8987 true, but it's one of the safer ones!
It's interesting because this is a live performance that they have dubbed with the studio version and it's pretty close to being synced up. The original live version... ua-cam.com/video/kb-OIFZXRQw/v-deo.html
Love some of the move stuff like I can hear the grass grow
Good luck ever writing a song as good as this
Hi sorry if I am hijacking this post, but I just found the channel and not sure if you check your old video comments, this was for The Special vs Stiff Little Fingers:
First let me say just found the channel and I am loving it, great to see people still enjoying SKA.
Now your review of this is madness, utter madness, no one does it better than The Specials. Just my opinion. HAHA
I also noticed you mostly do 2Tone, you should really check out some third wave like anything by The Scofflaws, saw them over 100 times easy, The Toaster were phenomenal, Checkered Cabs, Let's Go Bowling, Dancehall Crashers, the list goes on.
Sorry for the long post, but as a bass player it was nice to see both getting some love from you guys, we often are the forgotten member, Horace is still with The Specials. Anyway thanks for the memories, if you want any suggestions feel free to ask. Always love turning people onto great SKA
Sorry again if this was inappropriate
We don't know any of those bands. Please leave us some song requests. We would be happy to check them out.
@@hanierfamily Scofflaws check out SKA la Carte and Paul Getty oh and WIlliam Shatner is hysterical, live we used to do the over acted Star Trek lean during the horn solos, What fun.
@@hanierfamily Sorry for doing this in parts but want to make sure things are available, Lets Go Bowling do Hare Tonic, very short, the titular Lets Go Bowling Checkered Cabs I don't see much
@@hanierfamily Dance Hall Crashers, He Wants Me Back, My Problem. I could give you so many more for each band but I dont want to overwhelm you. There are also a ton more bands, I have been a fan of SKA since the mid 80s. One of my favorite genres, enjoy and if you want more just ask.
Carl Wayne doing the ooh part, years later I had the pleasure of giving him a lift home, he told me about growing up in Brum with Roy Wood and Ozzy!
The grainy, black and white clip of them performing this on Top Of The Pops, is better. Top Of The Pops used to make the atristes mime to a pre recorded performance (done in their studio) as the TV studio had terrible acoustics and wasn't set up for live performance. Because they're miming and don't have to concentrate on playing their instruments, thry have some fun with it, hamming it up for tha camera. Great performance. On a par with the Status Quo performance, (from the same show, with the same grainy black and white footage) of Matchstalk Men And You. Tune.
Roy wood was lead singer of glam rock group wizzard
an old classic
From Colour me Pop, a series worth watching (includes Marmalade)
Try their 'Chinatown' also really good and a favourite of mine.
Thanks for your videos. I recommend "She's Got Love" by Thomas and Richard Frost 1969.
Thank you for reacting to "Fire Brigade", why not do a review of The Move's "Beautiful Daughter" from 1970, it has a string quartet sound that I think was the embryo of Electric Light Orchestra. You could also react to "Blackberry Way" from 1969, that was The Move's only UK number 1 charting 7" single, the 'B' side "Something" was also a great song that was written by Dave Morgan of The Ugly's.
Roy Wood wrote Fire Brigade in a hotel room after Carl Wayne told him the band were booked in at the recording studio the foillowing day and they need a new single to record. Carl locked Roy in his hotel room with a bottle of Scotch whisky, in the morning Roy appeared from his room with Fire Brigade, it peaked at number 2 in the UK chart. During the recording of Fire Brigade, The Move's original bassist, Ace Kefford, threw his bass guitar at the wall and announced that he'd left the band. Ace wasn't replaced, so guitarist, Trevor Burton took over bass guitar duties, it is Trevor who is playing bass on that video clip.
Yeah The Move with a Super Song. All Records in my Collection.
Good lord, I don't think I've heard or even thought about this song since I was a kid back in '68. What's next, Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich performing 'Xanadu'? The Herd performing 'Paradise Lost'?
We can put them on the list if you are making a suggestion.
@@hanierfamily If you are interested in UK pop music in the middle '60s before everything started to either get heavy or proggy or too psychedelic (well... there probably isn't any such thing as TOO psychedelic), right at the peak of '60s radio pop, then yeah, those songs would be interesting to explore. Also:
The Move - "I Can Hear The Grass Grow", "Blackberry Way"
Small Faces - "Lazy Sunday", "Afterglow", "My Mind's Eye"
The Tremeloes - "Here Comes My Baby", "Silence Is Golden"
Traffic - "Hole In My Shoe", "Paper Sun", "No Face No Name No Number"
The Who - "I'm A Boy", "PIctures Of Lily", "Dogs"
Julie Driscoll - "This Wheel's On Fire"
The Herd (Peter Frampton's old band) - "Paradise Lost", "From The Underworld"
I don't know if you've hit any of these, but they were all in heavy rotation in the UK back in the day.
Another one gone, Tony Mc Phee of the Groundhogs.