I never get tired of this song and the Kinks mysterious and melancholic take...what a great turn for a group that had produced such fabulous proto-punk rock. Ray Davies as a very original composer!
No other Brit band captured the imagery of English life like the Kinks....As a Californian, I hear Davies' words and I'm immersed in a cold foggy soggy day by a garden gate or the underground.
The first time i saw the Kinks was 74" in Chicago. They did the rock opera Preservation. I have seen them 12 times in smaller venues in Chicago. UPTOWN ,ARAGON .As a songwriter i admire their ability to make a social statement and rock it out at thr same time.
On this day in 1965 {May 14th} the Kinks performed "Set Me Free" on the British television program 'Ready Steady Go'... Nine days later on May 23rd, 1965 the song entered the United Kingdom's Singles chart at position #37; four weeks later on June 20th, 1965 it would peak at #9 for two weeks... In the U.S.A. it debut on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart on June 6th, 1965 at position #83, and on July 18th it peaked at #23 {for 1 week} and stay on the chart for 8 weeks... And on August 2nd, 1965 it reached #2 {for 1 week} on the Canadian RPM 100 Singles chart; the week it was at #2 the #1 record for that week was "What's New Pussycat" by Tom Jones... Between 1964 and 1984 the quartet had twenty-four Top 100 records; five made the Top 10, their two biggest hits both peaked at #6, "Tired of Waiting for You" {for 2 weeks in 1965} and "Come Dancing" {for 2 weeks in 1983}...
Yes re the Gild guitar. It diappeared shortly afterwards at NY airport. Dave bought a (then) unpopular Gibson flying V made in 1958 which was undersold in an American guitar shop after many years, for about $60. he then created the fashion for them.
My favorite English bands during this era were the Stones, Animals and Kinks. The Kinks are the most underrated of the three. Saw them once live in the early 80s and they were still great then!
Get catchy tune that survived the decades ! Memories of purchasing the 45 r.p.m.'s on a Saturday morning in the record department of the general store.
On this day in 1965 {July 23th} the Kinks performed "Set Me Free" on the ABC-TV program 'Where The Action Is'... One month earlier on June 6th, 1965 it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #83; and on July 18th, 1965 it peaked at #23 {for 1 week} and spent 8 weeks on the Top 100... It reached #2 on the Canadian RPM 100 Singles chart... Between 1964 and 1984 the quartet had twenty-four Top 100 records; five made the Top 10, their two biggest hits both peaked at #6, "Tired of Waiting for You" {for 2 weeks in 1965} and "Come Dancing" {for 2 weeks in 1983}...
It's incredible how the beatles influenced all those bands from the 60s: the Kinks, the Swinging Blue Jeans, the Hollies, Czerwone Gitary and many many more.
The Beatles influenced all these bands because they forced them to write good songs. If they wrote shit John Lennon would hammer them. That's why the Stones pretty much stopped making good records after 1980. John Lennons influence in music is so insane its unreal and Mark Chapman ended it.
The kinks were a great band than other [exept the beatles]. they got the idea of both decades,60' and the 70'. and they did all the great job at the first decade.pure guineses.
Sauquoit13456 mentions that the first performance of the song was on ready steady go in May 1965. I was about 13 at the time and watched it, and recorded the performance on my open real tape recorder. I still have the recording. Dave Davies admitted in his autobiography that the previous single everybody's gonna be happy was a poor song and a relative Failure compared to the previous three hits at number 17 in the UK chart unlike the first three hits which were numbers one, one and two. Set me free and I need You reverted to the previous formula of power chords.
it says live but the guitars have no cords coming out of them -- the sound is so exactly like the studio version I think that this is actually a lip synch. I have loved this song for decades, so have it so memorized!
i think this song, guitar dynamics was somewhat advanced for the time.] ray was a bit ahead of his time...he was a bright guy, good w words, rock chord dynamics so on...impressive. he s known, but i think he s up there with the lennons and jaggers, but he usually gets a lower rating, if you know what i mean.]
What is the story behind this song whatever happened to til death do us part anywats whatever the case the kinks were the perfect flowerchild posterchildren
Kelly Gregg not to rain on your parade but they were just copying the Beatles/Merseyside sound like everybody else. this song in particular could have been one of the Beatles b side numbers, it sounds so much like them...
THE KINKS ~ September 1,1965 ~ TV Cirkus Television Studios Stockholm, Sweden. Swedish TV "Drop~In" lip~synch ~ Set Me Free See My Friends Wonder Where Where My Baby Is Tonight Quote by RAY DAVIES ~ "I'm ashamed of that song [Set Me Free]. I can stand to hear and even sing most of the songs I've written night after night, but not that one. It's built around pure idiot harmonies that have been used in thousands of songs." Man, I love you Ray, but I respectfully disagree! "Set My Free" is my all-time favourite Kinks song!🎸🎙️🎼🎶
Never liked this song. It was a rehash of "Tired of Waiting", and it became forgettable for Ray Davies. The next single, however, is absolutely fantastic.
One of the most underrated songs of the 60s.
The music of the Kinks is so timeless, but this is a rare instance of pure 60's sound.
I never get tired of this song and the Kinks mysterious and melancholic take...what a great turn for a group that had produced such fabulous proto-punk rock. Ray Davies as a very original composer!
J 'ai la vidéo de la chanson :thill the end off the day, superbe !
Could you imagine life without the Kinks?
No!
One of the best song of the Kinks. Ray was perfect and Dave made a great job.
Its a lovely song, there's something wonderfully subtle in the way Ray sings it, he just breathes it out in a beautifully weary way, genius.
This tune HAS LEGS. It sounds good today, better than most old rock tunes.
All Kinks songs from the 60s have long legs
My fav Kinks tune , among dozens of others ❤😂😂❤❤
No other Brit band captured the imagery of English life like the Kinks....As a Californian, I hear Davies' words and I'm immersed in a cold foggy soggy day by a garden gate or the underground.
What an awesome voice Ray has. I've always loved the Kinks, ever since I first heard them as a child in the late 60s!
The first time i saw the Kinks was 74" in Chicago. They did the rock opera Preservation. I have seen them 12 times in smaller venues in Chicago. UPTOWN ,ARAGON .As a songwriter i admire their ability to make a social statement and rock it out at thr same time.
On this day in 1965 {May 14th} the Kinks performed "Set Me Free" on the British television program 'Ready Steady Go'...
Nine days later on May 23rd, 1965 the song entered the United Kingdom's Singles chart at position #37; four weeks later on June 20th, 1965 it would peak at #9 for two weeks...
In the U.S.A. it debut on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart on June 6th, 1965 at position #83, and on July 18th it peaked at #23 {for 1 week} and stay on the chart for 8 weeks...
And on August 2nd, 1965 it reached #2 {for 1 week} on the Canadian RPM 100 Singles chart; the week it was at #2 the #1 record for that week was "What's New Pussycat" by Tom Jones...
Between 1964 and 1984 the quartet had twenty-four Top 100 records; five made the Top 10, their two biggest hits both peaked at #6, "Tired of Waiting for You" {for 2 weeks in 1965} and "Come Dancing" {for 2 weeks in 1983}...
What a great haunting riff that carries this great forgotten song. Love it!
perfect pop music
50 years down the road. Where have all the good times gone? I really hope heaven has this era's music on a continual loop.
British pop has such a rich background. Wih more bands would be influenced by this.
I dunno man, it just reminds me of comercials for retirement funds and old-people medicine.
"Set yourself FREE, with Lisinopril!"
@@EntryLevelLuxury Yes, you dunno.
Steven thanks for the reply!
Kinks were Awesome!
Fantastic performance
Thanks H&M!!!
me too! good taste of music H&M!
This song is awesome...
One year old in 1965. I've loved most of the Kinks music growing up.
This song has set me free!
This song slips through my ears, and into my soul.
Cara, eu viajo nessa música, muito boa!
Hadn't heard this for ages till the BBC4 Kinks strand. Didn't even realise it was them I don't think. Marvellous. Thanks!
That's because Ray Davies is the best songwriter ever :D
Legendery band !! Genius !!!
The first ever British rock ballad, superb...
What are you talking about?
Yes re the Gild guitar. It diappeared shortly afterwards at NY airport. Dave bought a (then) unpopular Gibson flying V made in 1958 which was undersold in an American guitar shop after many years, for about $60. he then created the fashion for them.
One of my fav's ...love the Kinks
Luv this yes Ray set me free
My favorite English bands during this era were the Stones, Animals and Kinks. The Kinks are the most underrated of the three. Saw them once live in the early 80s and they were still great then!
Amazing, precious, and underrated and awesome tune, master-piece, and art-work!!!
I LOVE THEM SO MUCH WTF
amazing!
Long live the kinks
Get catchy tune that survived the decades ! Memories of purchasing the 45 r.p.m.'s on a Saturday morning in the record department of the general store.
Albert Musco
Me too !!!
Set me free ...oh yeah.....Kinkdom rulz !!🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵🎶🎵😍😍😎😎🤗🤗✔️✔️
On this day in 1965 {July 23th} the Kinks performed "Set Me Free" on the ABC-TV program 'Where The Action Is'...
One month earlier on June 6th, 1965 it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #83; and on July 18th, 1965 it peaked at #23 {for 1 week} and spent 8 weeks on the Top 100...
It reached #2 on the Canadian RPM 100 Singles chart...
Between 1964 and 1984 the quartet had twenty-four Top 100 records; five made the Top 10, their two biggest hits both peaked at #6, "Tired of Waiting for You" {for 2 weeks in 1965} and "Come Dancing" {for 2 weeks in 1983}...
No nadamás los rollings son abuelos del rock los kinks de who animales y lógico beatles salieron del anonimato en el 64
Grande hit de um lindo verão
"Set me free"... Una de mis canciones preferidas... Temón-Beat Muy Sensual..
respect
It's incredible how the beatles influenced all those bands from the 60s: the Kinks, the Swinging Blue Jeans, the Hollies, Czerwone Gitary and many many more.
The Beatles didn't influence the kinks they were different genres at the same time in history
The Beatles influenced all these bands because they forced them to write good songs. If they wrote shit John Lennon would hammer them. That's why the Stones pretty much stopped making good records after 1980. John Lennons influence in music is so insane its unreal and Mark Chapman ended it.
Can somebody name another rock bands comparable to the Beatles in 1963? Not separate rock-n-roll/blues performers?
The Kinks
SUPER KINKS
Epic..............
Pete Towhnsend said that Ray Davies is the best song writer ever . Coming from Towhnsend Thats the biggest compliment a man can get
love this song of them
Que bonita melodía
LIVE meaning the band is at the tv studio but NOT performing live,just there in the flesh miming to a pre-recorded playback of the album cut.
Great band, great song but yeah, I'm so tired of vids presented as "live" being anything but.
The kinks were a great band than other [exept the beatles].
they got the idea of both decades,60' and the 70'.
and they did all the great job at the first decade.pure guineses.
in my life was only two really moving sonds: she loves you and set me free. And perhaps some more
che bella canzone.. che meraviglia..
muito bom
wicked stuff
Sauquoit13456 mentions that the first performance of the song was on ready steady go in May 1965. I was about 13 at the time and watched it, and recorded the performance on my open real tape recorder. I still have the recording. Dave Davies admitted in his autobiography that the previous single everybody's gonna be happy was a poor song and a relative Failure compared to the previous three hits at number 17 in the UK chart unlike the first three hits which were numbers one, one and two. Set me free and I need You reverted to the previous formula of power chords.
Ray Davies has a particularly nice package in this video! :o)
2:13 of pure awesome....................
Holy shit. Zero dislikes! :o
+Raul Mejia Sorry, 2 souls;)
+Gram Parson 3 👈
Рей и Дейв красавчики
Most groups did mime back them on tv programmes.
i would like to be set free of my self,
whoooh!
Who else came from an h&m ad
This is not live. It is the record.
It's not live.
Musica de verdad
it says live but the guitars have no cords coming out of them -- the sound is so exactly like the studio version I think that this is actually a lip synch.
I have loved this song for decades, so have it so memorized!
It's not live. Good song though.
more like The Kings
tune
I hear Adam Johnson is releasing a cover of this song.
This is one of the best Kinks song. But isn't it playback?...
Yes
Still poignant, And exciting in one tune....
he's miming, not live
Recording is slightly sped up. It's playing in Ab, not A
This and Tired of Waiting are the Kinks ultimate tunes! What are your opinions?
50 more come to my mind!
Sorry, but that's not live ...
Cool video but the music is not live?
i think this song, guitar dynamics was somewhat advanced for the time.] ray was a bit ahead of his time...he was a bright guy, good w words, rock chord dynamics so on...impressive. he s known, but i think he s up there with the lennons and jaggers, but he usually gets a lower rating, if you know what i mean.]
Ray's only 21 here! DROOL.
@kitaristka21 Pete Quaife or Townshend?
Why won't bands play live today?
What is the story behind this song whatever happened to til death do us part anywats whatever the case the kinks were the perfect flowerchild posterchildren
H&M's song(Jpn)
H&M
Merhaba, ortak bı yanımız var, size ulaşmam mümkün mü? :)
'live'
Live? Not!
this is NOT live - why lie ? -- great group though .
Douglas Humphries they're lip synching , so it's kinda live you know
who came here from the H&M ad?
Live? This is a miming.
モウタクサンダ！！ジユウニシテクレ？
so much better than the Beatles!!!
The Pretty Things are also better than...... and equal to The Kinks!!! :)
Kelly Gregg not to rain on your parade but they were just copying the Beatles/Merseyside sound like everybody else. this song in particular could have been one of the Beatles b side numbers, it sounds so much like them...
+stella pm its like the Madonna/Gaga similarity... Madonna did it first but Lady Gaga did it better
The world would be a much sadder place without both The Kinks and The Beatles.
lmao both are good bye
Great song - but indeed, this is not live.
THE KINKS ~ September 1,1965 ~ TV Cirkus Television Studios Stockholm, Sweden.
Swedish TV "Drop~In" lip~synch ~
Set Me Free
See My Friends
Wonder Where Where My Baby Is Tonight
Quote by RAY DAVIES ~ "I'm ashamed of that song [Set Me Free]. I can stand to hear and even sing most of the songs I've written night after night, but not that one. It's built around pure idiot harmonies that have been used in thousands of songs."
Man, I love you Ray, but I respectfully disagree!
"Set My Free" is my all-time favourite Kinks song!🎸🎙️🎼🎶
This song would be a little more enjoyable if Ray Davies wouldnt of been throwing "hand gesture gang signs" during it.
Great lip-synching. Ray makes it look real.
But Dave and Pete make up for it by scratching their faces when they should be playing.
Never liked this song. It was a rehash of "Tired of Waiting", and it became forgettable for Ray Davies. The next single, however, is absolutely fantastic.
regoregap See My Friends is one of their best, I agree.
can ya give us a short list of the gems you've written
Stink Fistula Nothing so far, since I am not a composer.
That's Ray DAVIES.
+Robert Nesfield Oh, I do not know why I keep making that mistake.
Thank you for pointing it out.