Cool British Singles Released in April 1966
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- Опубліковано 28 вер 2024
- Last month, we revisited some cool British singles released in March 1966. Now it's time to do the same with April of that year. And April 1966 was a particularly good month for singles. In fact, this video features more singles than any other video I've made. Hope you enjoy it!
The fertile musical landscape of 60s England never ceases to impress me. I greatly appreciate YP's knowledge and research.
Not just the U.K. The states was pretty fertile in '66.
It was a great year , I got married, and England won the World Cup
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Your channel never disappoints me. I have a Mexican LP copy of Aftermath with the same track listing as the US version. I'm sure you and the readers know the US and UK versions are a little different. As for Manfred Mann, one of the sixties most underappreciated British bands. Yes, Paul Jones and Manfred hit it right on the nose with their prophecy. As I've said, it is also the title of one of my monthly blogs on my website "1966 is the year everything changed." Wayne Fontana quickly faded into obscurity and played the sixties nostalgia circuit during his final years. He was quite a character.
I agree 100%, Chris. Manfred Mann are very underrated.
You should hear THE VENTURES " Wild Thing"!! Mick Ronson- RIP You Spider from Mars..
American songwriter Chip Taylor, who composed “Wild Thing” was born James Wesley Voight and is the brother of actor Jon Voight and uncle of actress Angelina Jolie.
My favorite chip tune is Julie , by Bobby Fuller
My fave (co-)written by Chip Taylor is “I Can't Let Go” recorded by The Hollies.
I never knew that...pretty "wild"!
The Buzz sound just like the Monks ("I Hate You!")
Yesterday's Papers, my compliments on how well everything is explained and how connections are made. A truly frenzied set of singles! Learned new things again and lots to research. One nice explanation I found was "The Sorrows were one of the many British bands who emigrated to other European countries in order to find success and escape the mayor competition that existed in Britain." Yes perhaps the huge competition was the reason why many excellent singles did not become hits in the UK after all.
Exactly. There were so many bands and so many singles being released and, of course, you can't have them all in the top 30.
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Thanks for your response. Indeed, it would get very crowded there 😅! Cheers!
Is there a YT channel that does a comparable month-to-month overview of AMERICAN 45s from the 60s? If not, there certainly ought to be, because there were a ton of low-charting singles that absolutely deserve to be better known.
Agreed
As always, a GREAT job! I always learn so much from your videos. They are Top Gear! April was one smashing year for music! That Mindbenders song is one I have to find. The flip to the Searchers cover of the Stones song, I never bothered to listen to. It is now a top favorite!!!
The Troggs are cool..."Love is All Around" is quite the departure from "Wild Thing" brilliant band
Love the Pretty Things and Manfred Mann
Joe Meek is forever the guy behind *Telstar* for me.
Truly groundbreaking creator of weird sounds and electronic distortions.
Hey, anyone who could make a flushing toilet sound like a spaceship will perk my old production ears
@@djhrecordhound4391 Apparently, the flushing toilet tape sample was played in reverse to replicate the sound of a rocket engine starting.
What a tragic death. Never lived to see the outcome of " Telstar" court case.......
@@jonathanj.7344 Heard a lot about Meek turning simple everyday sounds into something special , never heard about the "flushing toilet" though. I immediately loaded Telstar into a music editing program . Either normal or reverse ,... I fail to notice a flushing toilet. It might be for those at the time who seldom heard electronic sounds were prone to ridicule the Telstar intro as a "toilet flush".
I think Joe Meek either practically invented the synthesizer or was instrumental in introducing it in music.
I'm from Michigan in the US and I never had a chance to hear some of these.
My favorite freakbeat band was The CREATION , I didn't even know they existed until many years later. Still trying to catch up and it's a blast to hear music that's new to me!
Oh yeah, The Creation were great. Love that band.
Very interesting and instructive as always. Love this channel.
Thank you again for another re-visit to the early days of the psychedelic era and its short-lived precursor, freakbeat.
easy to forget stones most often recorded in los angeles at rca studios around this period which is where aftermath was laid down. pretty things were out there for a band of that time and you can see where mc5 might have taken some cues.
What can you say about that Buzz single? Man, it's wild. Really wild. I've known of this song for a good few years now and still can't believe just how crazy it is. Unbelievable.
Bowie's 45s from 66 are amazing. Good Morning Girl would've been a better A side, I think.
The Artwoods were a very good group. Deserved to be bigger.
Come see Me from the Prettys has to be their best single. Wonderful.
Just for a pleasant change, would it be possible to see a soul RnB singles from a particular week and month? The US RnB chart.
Cheers, Maurice. April 1966 was an amazing month for singles. Making a video about the US R&B chart sounds like a pretty cool idea. Maybe I'll do a video about that in the future.
Everything in here was fantastic. I particularly like The Troggs and The Pretty Things. Manfred Mann is worth a whole career retrospective. The evolution of the group(s) is so complicated and the variety and quality of the music was all over the place it would be interesting to see what the fuck was going on with them. Breezy teen pop and artistically visionary compositions. Triumphs and Turds...Manfred Mann had it all.
"Sorrow" was a great song and so was "Pretty Flamingo." Manfred Mann with Paul Jones had some great music.
Interesting stuff!! I'll have to check out at least some of these songs, especially the one with James Page. He's one of my all-time favorite music people. That was a very interesting era.
Wild Thing is groovy 👌
Wow! So many bands that I hadn’t heard of. I’m 74 and a major British Invasion ‘aficionado’. However, I certainly don’t consider having heard enough. Thank you.
Chip Taylor ( Wild Thing, Angel of the Morning and HOLLIES I Can't Let Go, FREHKEYS COMET Rock Soldiers Co wr) is John Voights brother therefore Angela Jolie's Uncle
im 58 this came out when i was 1
I hold 'The Pretty things' totally responsible for my Tinitus. 😢
unfortunately they were using 'Orange amps' which were crap. Its not the VOLUME its the distortion that damages ears...
"Wild Thing" "Lost Girl" & "Come See Me" emptied my paper round pocket money...
Money well spent.
The year when garage rock was at its peak. Then the "summer of love" drifted in and ruined it.
So, when do you get your Phd...Yet another great vid...Cheers
One can assume that "The Train to Disaster" was a literal cult-hit. LOL
Hahaha!
"Wild Thing" was also released on Atco Records in the U.S., as well as Fontana Records... One of my favorites from the year...Manfred Mann gets my vote for their single.."Aftermath" is one of my fave Stones albums.
@sexymama Also covered by Jimi Hendrix at Monterey Festival!
That bloke in the merseys looks like noel Gallagher
my feeling is, that the creativity of The Pretty Things is a refined autumn aesthetics of rhythm and blues, covered with seeming ugliness
10 CC !!!
Too bad that Joe Meek didn't get a hit out of the recordings by The Buzz and Riot Squad. Both recordings deserved to reach a wider audience as far as I'm concerned. "Pretty Flamingo" by Manfred Mann may be blatantly commercial but I just love the song. The Felder Orioles version of "I Know (You Don't Love Me No More)" might be a minor mod classic but, in my opinion, it's still not as good as the original version of the song by American soul vocalist Barbara George who had a top ten pop hit and a number one rhythm and blues hit with the song in the US. Supposedly, "I Know (You Don't Love Me No More)" is loosely based on the old gospel song "Just A Closer Walk With Thee"
I love "Pretty Flamingo" too.
Your repetitive "it didn't chart" is a bit off putting! I suppose it has to do with what you consider "cool"! I'll follow through with the rest of the year! Hang in there! I trust they have memories for you. Peace
Some of these videos feature a lot of hits, while some others feature a lot of singles that didn't chart. It's just that some months were stronger than others when it comes to hit singles. And after all, you can only have 20 songs in the top 20.
The long held mystery and secret how my high school band got it's name is finally exposed. Here's the story: It was a spring day in '66, and I was 16. We would get a copy of 'Hit Parader' magazine to read all the news about American/British bands and to get the printed lyrics of the latest songs. That fateful day I happened to see the name 'Bo Street Runners'. At the time we called ourselves 'The Chantels', but it just wasn't cool enough. So I decided to use the name 'Bo Street Runners'...BUT change it to BEAU STREET RUNNERS. See what I did there?...And the rest is history. Franconia, Virginia and Thomas A. Edison's Best High School Band. Covered all the hits by the Animals, Stones, Yardbirds playing at the long gone, but not forgotten 'Cameron Club', and Rose Hill and Virginia Hills Pool parties. Ronnie, Clay, Phil and me. $25 bucks each a night. 3, 40 minute sets. Just had to set the record straight for posterity. Now the WORLD KNOWS~!!! Thanks YP~!!!
Hahaha! Cool!
The Troggs also had a very famous argument in the studio they got recorded and was called the Troggs tapes…it is legendary for the f bombs
I was aware of it but didn’t hear it until it was oddly added as an extra cd on a box release in the 90’s
And for the Andover-accented use of the phrase "oi shit 'em" and the word "pranny" - which we don't hear often enough these days!
It was released as an E P which l still have at home
I recall BOMP! records outta California always having that around but the novelty never exceeded the tunes for me. I've just always loved the Troggs! Picked up all of their US promo singles as a youth
Gotta love the Troggs' pinstriped suits. Love me some Freakbeat, one of my favorite genres ever. 'Bowie sings well and deserves a hit', alas, the floodgates still had not opened.
A lot of people that were in London in 1966 say the summer of that year was the real summer of love, so many great singles here
A number of people who were pioneers on the Haight-Ashbury scene said the same thing. The real time to be there, when the hippie community was flourishing and the music was blossoming, was 1965-66; the "summer of love" hype of 1967 effectively killed the community by the fall of 1967.
@@mackb909 That definitely comes across in Joel Selvin's history of the scene, 'Summer of Love.'
If viewers of this video haven't yet seen it, they might be interested in the Peter Whitehead documentary 'Tonite Let's All Make Love in London.' While I don't think it was ready for screening until the fall of '67, most of the footage is from 1966.
@@ronmackinnon9374 Always meant to see that. It's on my long backlog of films to see. For over a year now I've been meaning to watch "Everything Everywhere All At Once" and haven't gotten to that either. I recently re-watched the original 1979 BBC series of John LeCarré's "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" (broadcast here in the States in 1980, when I first saw it) in preparation for watching the 2011 film version, which I haven't seen either. The list of films I need to see or re-watch and of books to read and to re-read (I read "Anna Karenina" and "Moby Dick," among others, one summer during a break from my summer job while in college in the '70s, telling myself that both books, and many others, needed to be re-read, and I haven't gotten to that either) seems to grow exponentially, and I'm 68 1/2. God help me.
Completely off topic, I can't help but note the similarity between your name and that of a seminal figure in '60s counterculture music here in the States, Grateful Dead cofounder Ron McKernan (1945-1973), generally known as "Pigpen," who left us much too soon as one of the members of the tragic "27 club."
@@mackb909 Yes, I'd forgotten that was Pigpen's name, and the similar sound. : ) And I, too, understand the backlog of things meaning to be viewed / read / re-read.
I was 14 years old in 1966 but I only remember about four of these tracks. The Troggs number was a classic, Manfred Man's track was a favourite of mine but Sorrow by the Mersey's was a great track! Oh, and I remember owning The Stones LP Aftermath too. 😊
I also don't remember many of these, I wonder what radio station you listened to around that time? Radio Caroline had fallen under the spell of Philip Solomon in 1966 and a lot of their airtime was then dedicated to playing often not very good records from his own record label leaving less time to cover more interesting releases, so that might explain the situation in my case.
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Rhoda, I was seven years old in March of 66. My family had a café outside Stratford Station in London with a jukebox that was restocked every week with the top singles so we were really lucky with experiencing what was a music revolution. London was just a cooking pot of art and music just then and riding the tube into the West End was great, the people you’d see. One day my sister (thirteen at the time) came running into the café yelling that the Beatles were in Angel Lane just up the road from us. They were setting up to film them on horseback for a music film. Sadly I must admit to being a bit underimpressed, I was taken-aback at how beardy, moustachy and hairy-hippy they’d become. My sister was scandalised that her heartthrob Paul McCartney clearly couldn’t ride a horse. Quite why she thought a Liverpudlian musician would be an accomplished horseman is beyond me.
@@tinymonster9762 I remember how shocked my mother was when the Beatles showed up on the David Frost show with Hey Jude, she was expecting them to show up clean shaven in their black suits. She had nothing good to say about them after that, drug music she would exclaim, but their musical output was better than ever. You can just imagine how she reacted when I came home with my first Black Sabbath record 🤣
"Aftermath" you say? It's still my favorite Stones LP.
@@tinymonster9762The Beatles filmed their Penny Lane promotional film in Stratford London in early 1967!
Wow, what a great month for singles! I missed a lot of them first time around. I did think that the Cryin' Shames' 'Please Stay' counted as one of Joe Meek's last hits tho', as it reached No.26 in March '66. In any case, I loved your selection. 🙂
Cheers, Graham!
You haven’t lived until you’ve heard Captain Beefheart and Julian Schnabel jamming on “Pretty Flamingo”, which Don Van Vliet re-voiced as “Little Tomato”
Good to hear David Bowie have his last name pronounced correctly (when asked in interview he said the 'ow' sound was as in 'low' - however he also wasn't that bothered).
What an episode! Fuzz came to prominence via Grady Martin's bass solo on Marty Robbins' Dont Worry (1961), a Billboard No.1. Martin is Nashville's greatest ever session guitarist - incredible CV.
Apparently, that sound came about by accident, due to a faulty channel in the mixing desk. But they thought it sounded good, so they left it there.
This has some really great songs, plus two of my all time favourite groups, the Pretty Things and Manfred Mann, later the Earth Band. Good stuff and good times. Thanks YP
Cheers!
And Chapter Three.
As for the songs in this video, even the songs that weren't hits were fun and interesting.
Many thanks for another great video. A few extra points;
The single you featured by St Louis Union which you stated was written by Graham Gouldman was also recorded in the States by Cher, who I think did an excellent version. But I assume hers was the cover, although Graham did write one or two songs for U.S. artists at the time.
The Mindbenders' single here was written by a U.S. songwriting team Toni Wine/Carole Bayer, who already wrote Groovy Kind Of Love, and wrote two of their following singles, Ashes To Ashes (not quite the David Bowie hit of the seventies, but not far off) and We'll Talk About It Tomorrow.
The Sorrows included Don Fardon who sang lead on other tracks of theirs, before having a solo hit.
Two different takes of the David Bowie single have appeared on reissues, of which I went into further detail in your January 1966 Cool British Singles.
The Voice had already recorded two singles as The Sheffields. The Buzz previously recorded as The Boston Dexters. But their single here did not start off sounding wild or "way out". It only got like that towards the end.
Someone else pointed that The Merseys' single Sorrow was originally recorded in the States by The McCoys. It was on the B side of their second single Fever. But The Merseys redid it as an A side, but it was just a carbon copy, and not worthy of mention here.
But I think the best single here was by The Pretty Things. Also, a great B side, they must have switched their fuzz box off for this, as some of the guitar work here sounded pre-Jumping Jack Flash. They must have been the longest lasting band to have hardly had any hits, no gold records or Grammy awards here. They must have made all their money from touring. It is difficult to believe they ever saw royalties from record sales. But having said that, their first album did reach the Top 10 in the British album charts, even though their two singles that preceded it only barely scraped the British Top 30. They also had larger success in Holland, and CD reissues of their albums in much later years sold well. Their problem at the start was that they had a rather untrained, unpolished and flawed sound that made them sound less commercial, and therefore less marketable than their more successful contemporaries like The Stones, Yardbirds, Kinks and The Who. But they were still a great band. But their single here definitely WAS the roarest and wildest of them all.
But a much higher percentage of the tracks here went on to become classic hits, or were by artists who had much bigger hits with other singles.
For May 1966, we expect a mention of The Rolling Stones' Paint It Black, which I think was the first Pop single to feature a sitar. It was on the Decca label. But will there be a mention of the one single that Decca released, which was just one serial number down, the first single by pre-fame Olivia Newton John? The A side was nothing much. But on the B side was a hidden gem, a nice Marianne Faithfull inspired Folk styled number, although I was no fan of hers in the long run. It was her only release for the whole of the sixties. It took her five years to release her second single. But even that is not a record for the longest gap between the first two singles by an artist. That record must surely go to Billie Jo Spears.
Cheers Paul! Very interesting comment, enjoyed reading it. Next month's episode will definitely include Paint It Black, one of my all-time favourite singles.
Interesting commentary with lots of detailed info. The Pretty Things were indeed popular in the Netherlands, they may have been one of the bands that sought refuge in other European countries in the hope of more commercial success! There have also been quite a few British bands who have had success in Germany and Italy.
"Paint It Black" was not the first pop song in which the sitar made its appearance. On 1965's "Norwegian Wood", George Harrison plays the sitar.
Unless you mean that "Paint It Black" was released separately on single and "Norwegian Wood" was not, but as an album track from 1965's Rubber Soul.
Greetings!
@@YesterdaysPapers If you are going to include Paint It Black, you would be better to include the full length version with no added reverb, which is how it was originally recorded, making the whole track, including Mick Jagger's voice sound drier. Here, you also get the full length unfaded ending, which you could probably feature to surprise the listeners. Also, the stereo separation here is wider.
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@@EdwinJack64 I put the first Pop single. The Beatles' Norwegian Wood was not on a single.
I was aware that some of the British bands of the mid sixties had greater success in other countries. I believe The Downliners Sect had success in Holland, and The Creation were big in Germany. Many thanks for your reply.
@@paulgoldstein2569 Thanks Paul! I'll definitely use this version. Sounds great and the ending is brilliant. Cheers!
You're right -- it's the piano that makes "Don't Hide It Away" stand out. Little extras like that really make my day -- like Christine McVie's piano on Kiln House, or Elton John's fills in Kevin Ayers' Sweet Deceiver. This episode is right in my sweet spot for psych pop.
Check out Christine McVie in her Chicken Shack days, especially her organ and lead vocals on their 1969 cover of "I'd Rather Go Blind," which had been a hit for Etta James in 1967.
my goal is now to join a religious cult that moves to the bahamas
Hahaha!
As usual, so many songs in Britain that never made an appearance here in the States. I think it's really great that sixty years after the fact there are fans of mid sixties Mod pop.
I always look forward to new videos from you. Billy Kinsley (The Merseys) went on to have some success in the mid 1970's with Liverpool Express
Sorrow was written by The Strangeloves (I Want Candy), 3 boys from New Jersey who became very successful producers (eg Blondie) and early investors in digital technology.
David "Peter Noone" Bowie
8:42 That's one way to keep the B-side from upstaging the A-side; just give it a title that's too long to fit in a chart listing.
“It has an ugly arrangement …” For 1966 ears, Can’t See Me and L.s.d. would seem so. It was so out of the box and unconventional and unlike anything that Penny Valentine would have been use to. 1966 was a watershed year for rock where it was shifting from your basic three chords, to your basic three chords BUT they were experimenting with those chords using the technology that was available at that time. To my ears, the songs that were highlighted for the month of April 1966 sounds innovative and lead the way to what the punks and New Wavers were doing in the ‘70s into the 80s.
Totally agree. Many of the songs could be described as proto-punk or proto-new wave.
Punk was happening before peoples' very eyes and they didn't even know.Re:Machines by the Manfreds well I'd say we are slaves to our phones.
Toni Wine, who co- wrote A Groovy Kind of Love, later became a member of the Archies.
Tony Wine did not co-write it. She pinched the tune from an old classical piece and slowed it down, of which I went into details above.
The guy who wrote wild thing I believe was the brother of Jon Voight the actor
Yep
Another great piece of atmosphere building with all the ads.
Terrific time for pop music. And genuinely evolving fast - it would be difficult to compare to 5 years earlier and say this or that top song was just like same as the past. Unlike today where anything in the last decade or more could all be lumped together and all with far too much influence from the 20th C
Awesome collection of tunes today! Sounded like Roxy Music's Andy Mackay was playing on the Riot Squad tune!!! Thanks as always
Yes! I thought of early Roxy Music too!
I thought exactly the same thing the first time I heard that part of the song! 100% Roxy Music.
Thanks so much for the music recommandations ! That manfred mann tune and the searchers B-side sound fantastic. i would have never digged that deep ! And hats off for the contextualization/info and perfect editing !! that really bring the sixties mood.
Thanks!
15:30 - You should do a video on all the bands that appeared in The Ghost Goes Gear. It’s a fun film with some great songs from bands I otherwise know nothing about.
Another amazing month of music and another top notch video. 'Sorrow' was originally done by US band the McCoys, best known for their hit 'Hang on Sloopy'. Their version is very Byrdsy folk rock with harmonica, it's nice, but the Merseys and Bowie versions improved upon it quite a lot I think.
X Ray Spex must've liked Riot Squad
🎶 1 2 3 4 !! 🎷 🎶
I thought "Machines" was done by Lothar and the Hand People guess you learn something new everyday
Living in the States, I missed Manfred Mann's version of 'Machines' which was written by Mort Shuman who wrote a lot of songs with Doc Pomus. I always wonder how US compositions emigrated to Britain for their first releases. I did see Lothar and the Hand People live in '69 - and Lothar was a theremin. And I really liked the early Manfred Mann albums which were consistently good even if they were off the usual pop track.
YP or how Out Of Time is still well and living
The riot squad one sounds like something king gizzard would try to do.
The Troggs were simply magnificent !!!!
Hey man, I love your knowledge of 60's music! Really chapeau bas :) just one thing - give us a full playlist of all the songs in the description of your videos - PLEASE ! It will be so much easier for us to find forgotten songs @stream etc. Do it please !
Best regards from Poland :)
Cheers! I'll post a playlist in the comments section tomorrow.
@@YesterdaysPapers THX :) and ...Keep On Rockin' In The "FREE" World :)
I was born in 62 and love all that decades tunes.seems to have gone downhill ever since
I've only heard a few of these tracks so it's all new and exciting for me. That's one of the things that makes music so great. What might be old hat and ho hum for some is fresh and exciting for others. Thanks again YP for another excellent post.
BTW speaking of Aftermath , I think it might make an interesting post to compare the British and U.S. versions and hear what your viewers think about which is the best. I know the subject intrigued me back then, and still does, actually.
Cheers, Willie! That's a pretty cool idea for a video. Maybe I'll do a video about that in the future.
Wild Thing is Louie Louie
Another excellent look at some of my favorite discs! The Koobas! The Wimple Winch! "Come See Me" by the Pretty Things! Rock on!
Cheers!
This was a great episode! Well done on your research !
I think the reason why The Troggs cover of "Wild Thing" succeeded is that is was arranged better than other versions of that song.
That US version of Wild Thing sounds like it’s super annoying.
Regarding the relative success of a single in the U.S., you have to understand that it's a huge country with many different markets. During the '60s it was common for songs to do extremely well in some markets but to not chart well nationally because of their failure to break out in the crucial NY and L.A. markets. "Pretty Flamingo" was one such example.
We had an Anglophile DJ in NY who tried to promote PF. He didn't have much local success. However, he sold it to me and I played it quite a bit. I had no difficulty finding it in a record department.
Rory Gallagher had a great version of I take what I want.
Another great batch of unknown Freakbeat classics here. I'd love to know what make of fuzztone made that brilliant "nasty" sound for the Pretty Things's Come See Me. 1966 what a year for music, style and football!
Fucking love this channel. As soon as I was turned on The Voice was introduced, I had a feeling Wimple Winch were to be mentioned. Listening to “Save My Soul” and other heavy mod for a decade or more now.
Found this excellent channel today and subscribed. Really into 60s music, then 70s. Favourite 60s band so far is Count Five but they were American and lasted only one album, so they won’t make it here. Brought up in Ireland and now living in Australia I prefer the British sounds anyway. Great channel.
That Joe Meek track is Outrageous. Leave it to Joe to be so far ahead. Check out The Sharades "Dumb Head" with a weird Keyboard for the Bass. RIP Joe Meek. The Mersey's "Sorrow" alternate version(here on UA-cam) is the Best version of the song.
0:17 Ford Consul Classic designed by the same guy who did the Black and Decker Workmate. Nearest uk car in looks to the 59 Impala.
I know I've said this before but what a soul destroying sentence: "The single failed to chart".
The bands sounds ok,but what kind of recording studios they had there in England??
Amazing single from The Riot Squad with Joe Meek at his best 👌.
Yep, way ahead of its time.
Tony Blackburn does not play these songs in his 60's show, apart from Pretty Flamingo.
That song by The Buzz sounds like something the CIA would use to torture enemy prisoners to reveal intel info.
OMG..!!!
I'M HAVING A NAME-DROP OVERLOAD.
This is far-out
I truly appreciate that you guys don’t dodge the real fuzz ⚡️
Beatlemania was wearing thin toward the end of 1966. Then, we didn’t see the Beatles for a long time! Not until Pepper came out!
That original version of Wild Thing was hideous 😂 it sounded like a drunk Sonny Bono, trying to sound like Dylan
The Troggs were signed to two labels at the same time due to their unscrupulous management. Atlantic records eventually won the lawsuit.
I get the sense with the new guitar technology and fuzz and amps around that time it needed Hendrix and also Clapton to come along and show everyone what was possible with it as those 1966 bands only seemed capable of making a discordant racket with it with little subtlety or skill.
Something I forgot to mention about Aftermath. It was the first Stones LP which featured all tracks written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. They no longer had to take a back seat to anyone. As I said, "1966 is the year everything changed."
True. And what a great album it was. Still one of my favourite albums by the Stones. Actually, one of my all-time favourite albums.
Thank You , yes I did enjoy it .
Graham Gouldman does seem to have been around forever ...
The author of this channel provides incredible insights to an era of music i just barely missed, being born in '65! I always learn something amazing on each episode! Example, i was sure the cool psychedelic sound wasn't until '67, this episode proves me dead wrong.
As usual, Apple music app had many of these obscure, wonderful songs to add to my brimming library!
Very scouse -"with your long blonde huuurrrr and your eyes of blue.....'
Do Brits really pronounce it "sax-OFF-on-ist"?
Never heard anyone pronounce Visage like that (not the band name anyway)
GOLDEN ERA !!!