I borrowed my teenage daughter's umbrella in the early 2000's and was so pleased to see that she had written on the inside, "Bus stop, wet day, she's there, I say Please, share my umbrella".
One thing is for sure YP, your channel does not fail to chart! Tremendous, 1966 was indeed a year full of great music, from more commercial to obscure R&B and Mod singles. It's a shame that superior singles like by The Creation, Craig and The Wimple Winch didn't score! I think the general public was not ready for this kind of progressive music and probably never would be. It is underground music that attracted a different kind of audience. And this different audience was always going to be a minority, even today.... Thanks Yesterday's Papers!
Cheers, Edwin! Agreed, some of these singles were too far-out for the record-buying public. This was truly the beginning of psychedelia when music started to get more weird and less conventional.
@@barbaraburgoyne8359 Yes, mid-60s music was (and still is) great indeed! By the way, your city Detroit also had exceptionally cool garage bands back then like The Unrelated Segments, The Tidal Waves and The Likes Of Us to name a few. I really like those bands as well as those from Chicago! Like you, I also got to know The Creation much later. Very good band! Do you also know The Attack? Also very good! Cheers!
I met HERBALIST DOCTOR KINGSLEY on UA-cam. A man with a Golden heart who helped me eradicate cold sores & genital herpes from my body completely! I'll Giving all my gratitude to him for a job well done!
The instrumental backing track of "Rain" in the original speed you can find in the "Revolver" box set is quite revealing, especially Ringo's craftsmanship
@@lopezb George Harrison was into Indian music . As part of his contribution to the music he did a couple of songs using Indian timing that's a little different from European music and the sitar is a pretty cool additive to the 60's rock sound .
I turned 17 in July of that year but I lost almost the whole of 1966 because my transistor radio died and I didn't replace it until the new school year. In those days life was dependent on having access by the airways to the distant urban communicators of new talent. But still a lot of this material is familiar to me. Thanks for the contribution.
I remember that on-again, off-again pattern when I was a kid. Someone would give me an old clock-radio, or a pocket radio as a present, and I'd use if for 6 months and end up dropping it or trying to modify it and destroying it, so the songs I remember hearing first hand were from the "on" periods.
I’m 8 years old. Mom and dad just separated and mom, my brothers and I are living in a big drafty duplex in East Los Angeles. I heard Sunny Afternoon on the rickety back porch while sipping a soda. All these years later, I can still be transported there whenever I hear that song. Btw. Glendora by the Downliner Sect was on the soundtrack for Lars and The Real Girl in 07.
Thank you again, Y.P.! Has everyone noticed how often these truly great singles are appended with, "Failed to chart", "Went unoticed", "Was recognized later as..." Remember that, although some of these fine songs by very visible acts like The Who, The Beatles, The Kinks, etc. were widely acknowledged at the time, lesser known acts were putting out fine records which got lost in the shuffle amongst the virtual embarrassment of musical riches that was the 1960s. Often, this was due simply to the sheer number of releases choking a not overlarge market. Wide public acclaim or financial success is not always a mark of a record's true worth or lasting influence. P.S. - THanks for the Tremelo's compolation recommendation! Cheers!😀🎸
@@thewkovacs316John Peel was still in the U.S. in 1966, on a breakfast show in California. He didn’t come back to the U.K. until early 1967 as a DJ on the pirate station Radio London!
What a month!!! Paperback Writer/Rain is problably the best single A+B ever. Many other great songs (Sunny Afternoon, Bus Stop, Out of Time) but as a whole this was a fantastic "harvest" of great singles that happened in the UK, June 1966.
I was 6 that year and loved the beatles and all the great songs coming out seemingly everyday, standing on the front seat while my mother drove, singing along to bus stop on the AM radio, FM hadnt arrived yet. I still listen to these songs most days
Huge thumbs up for this unique channel. That the content is fastidiously researched and creatively presented goes without saying but there's a sprinkling of magic here which makes it greater than the sum of it's parts. Thanks for the huge effort, you make a lot of people happy!!
What a year, specifically June, 1966! The Craig, Wimple Winch and Spider, wow! Having read various works about Carl Palmer, the band name The Craig comes up, but I have never heard any of their music. Thank you, YP , for the introduction to these bands.
YP this all just makes me realise how much we have regressed in every way and especially Music, London was really Buzzing back then Unlike now, what a time it must have been to be alive 🙏
"...Experimenting with Indian influences and Eastern melodies..." Most definitely. And with other things as well. The acid was really starting to kick in by late spring 1966. Psychedelia (a word whose Greek etymology means "soul revealing," and the effects of the drugs, and the non-Western music, were indeed a revelation to the extraordinary concentration of talented musicians and songwriters working in this era) was rearing its rainbow-hued, pretty little flowered head. And rock and roll would change permanently, leave sock hops and ducktail haircuts behind permanently (at least until the roots rock revival later in the decade). Thank you for another brilliant documentary on that incredible time. Thank you, YP, also for being a bright spot in a politically dark time, and happy holidays and New Year (let's hope a fascism-free one).
What a great month. Love your use of 60s street scenes archive. As a Trems fan, thank you for unearthing the Right Time, Also Wimple Winch and the Craig are brilliant. Still eludes me how Making Time only reached no 45.
No YP intro music! What a sad day. Without it I am bereft of joy. Colors are duller, the clouds gather, the future seems bleak. That intro is such a banger. As good as any of the songs featured here -- well, maybe not quite. The Beatles aren't terrible. Thanks for the vids.
"Paperback Writer" features one of the greatest guitar riffs of all time. Good on ya, Brian and the Beach Boys. Ah, The Creation! Yes! The Kinks! "I'm Not Like Everyone Else" - my "anthem" back in the mid-sixties. I'm MAD about The Craig! "I Must Be Mad" --ending in a power chord -- the way boss sound should always end! "Save My Soul" (The Wimple Winch) -- simply bruisin' -- a great rant! The Hollies' "Bus Stop" -- top tune, then as now! The rest of these tunes are truly amazing! Many thanks, Yesterday's Papers!
I can happily say, once again, that I loved every song on this list. I recognised them all, save that downer of a single from Oskar, thanks to research I'd done for a facebook voting group I ran and a good friend who runs an online radio show out of Kent, who is a wealth of information. I'll never understand how so many of these incredible singles never caught on with the record buying public. Such a treasure trove of classics, including one of my favourite bands in The Zombies. Being only 4 in June of '66, I had to play catch up once I got my first job working in live music club here in Vancouver in '74 and '75, and had the budget for my long years of record collecting. Finally saw The Zombies in 2017 and was blessed with a brief chat with Hugh Grundy and Chris White, two of the nicest guys you could meet. Thanks, as always, YP. I love your channel and this exploration of the greatest decade in music.
Cheers! Glad you enjoyed the video. Yeah, it's incredible that so many of these singles never made it. But then again, there were so many great singles being released and after all, you can only have 40 songs in the top 40!
@@YesterdaysPapers Agreed. The competition was fierce for chart space and competing with the likes of so many great acts was difficult at best. Merry Christmas, YP!
"Sunny Afternoon" is a great song, and it is reminiscent of "Summer in the City" by the Loving Spoonful.Some of these songs I never heard at that time in the US so it's great to see this now!
Yesterday's Papers you were spot on June 1966 had a lot of great releases with the Beatles Hollies Kinks and Zombies releasing singles but the creativity of the British artists of that time was fantastic with how Out Of Time both versions were made and how they made the song Glendora a Perry Como song into a swinging 60's rocker. The Creation is one of my all time British groups of that era and even today if you listen to their records with their near perfect sounds that when you hear it you know its the mid and late 1960s. Thank You for the post of these great tunes and I wish you a good start to 2024.
Peak Beatles for me 👍 Kinks, Hollies killing it & the stuff that couldn't get in the charts then stands head & shoulders above anything produced today. Out of time is such a banger Farlowe nails it. Never heard that Bolan track before it's terrific 👍
Some incredible songs there - what an era for creativity and music! Kinks' "Sunny Afternoon" A and B sides every bit as good as the Beatles' offering (let's be honest, the Fabs - as great as they were - benefitted hugely from hype and marketing.) Bus Stop is another great tune...Out Of Time...pure brilliance from Mick and Keef...What a year!
I’m 71 and I guess that 66’ was my favorite year for music and the time. I can remember laying on the beach with friends, in Chicago, after our 8th grade graduation that summer, listening to “Paint it Black.” Still love that song. 14 and awaiting the unknown of high school, which ended badly. 😎 And even with the great music coming down the road in the rest of the 60’s, and all of those concerts, all of those great songs (it’s all about the song) from 1966 still stand tall.
A quick message, The Rolling Stones' Hackney Diamonds which you once opened a special UA-cam page about has now returned to the top of the UK album chart, when I would have thought all their fans would have bought it by now. As for The Creation, they have a box set of their complete recordings throughout the decades, including early Mark 1V tracks.. Many thanks for another great year of videos. Happy Christmas.
Hackney Diamonds is the new double CD version with live at the Racket Club New York with Lady Gaga. That’s why people are buying it again unfortunately.
@@BigSky1 I know what you mean. They already bought it once. Now they have to buy it again to get the live half. Many thanks for your info. They are obviously still huge. But most of their fans today must be later fans who were not around in the sixties, with the generations having shifted fast and furious over the vast number of decades. Yet they must be the oldest band who are still going, but not the longest lasting artists. But the fact that their fans are willing to buy the studio half again to get the live half shows that they are still enormously popular. I did not reckon it was going to stay in the Top 10 album charts like it has.
@@paulgoldstein2569 I saw them in ‘76, Earl’s Court, 82, Wembley and at Brixton Academy whenever that was and the only one I enjoyed was ‘76. To be honest I can’t listen to them now. They are not the band I grew up with.
@@BigSky1 I did not know whether to confess this. But in a way I feel the same. Back in the mid sixties when I was glued to the Pirate Stations, they were among my favorites. But I think from the early seventies onward, they got a bit samey. I like some of the tracks on Hackney Diamonds, but the rest I found was just their usual. But I still think it is incredible after over 60 years that they can re-climb to the top of the album charts with one album, all because it has been expanded, and their fans are still willing to buy the original album again to get the bonuses. Yet during the seventies and eighties, they seemed to have gone out of the limelight, and hardly anyone spoke of them. But come the early nineties, they somehow re-exploded. I thought it was peculiar that when Rod Stewart's group The Faces disbanded, Ron Wood decided to join The Stones to replace Mick Taylor at a time when The Stones didn't seem to be as popular. They are not really the band I grew up with any longer either. But they are definitely the longest lasting band. They were also one of the bands responsible for helping The Beatles completely change the whole music world back in the mid sixties, and out-fashion almost everything before them, making many of their successful predecessors virtually redundant. Hackney Diamonds will now be the Christmas number one album this year. It must be the first time since the sixties that they have had an album of new material stay in the album Top 10 for so long. I have liked an occasional track that they have done since the early seventies, like She's So Cold, and Emotional rescue, only the ones that sound different, or where the songs themselves show out. But most of their later stuff is samey.
So much great stuff here - much of it unknown in the US. One could almost imagine these songs you highlight being released again to the pop charts sequentially, and doing brisk business in this musically impoverished era. I didn't hear most of these songs, just the obvious ones, but I'm glad I was alive at the time and can relate to the scene. "Here comes my baby" was a hit in the US, an early showing by Cat Stevens, and is one of those upbeat songs about breaking up. Another example might be "Red Rubber Ball" (written by Simon). Thanks so much!
the amount of music and bands that us audiences were never exposed to is amazing even music made here the reason the british invasion happened is because those guys were listening to r&b that got zero airplay on our airwaves....
I love these compilations. Always something new (I must confess 'Paperback Writer' is new to me), lots of refreshed songs and even discover that the Chocolate Watchband's 'I'm not like everybody else' is actually a Kinks song! Suggestion: Once you are done with the monthly reviews on British songs you may do something similar on foreign European musicians that had an impact on British charts.
Clearly brit pop has moved miles from the heavy r&b 1964 sound and has become very exploratory and often brilliant. Thank you for this super fab time capsule.
hard to believe that "I'm Not like Everybody Else" 🇬🇧 was relegated to a B-side. Bloody B-side. Whatta a tune🎙. Certainly in my top 20 best B-sides of all time👊
I enjoyed that greatly! I used to think I knew so much about 60s music.......had no idea how many other great bands were about - amazing scene back then!
What a great channel this is. I was 11 in June 1966, but remember so many of these great songs. Thanks for the shot of South Ken station and Dino's where I used to have coffee with schoolfriends all those years ago.
A terrific batch of releases there! I’d not heard The Craig single before, but I think Pete Townshend must have done as the opening is very reminiscent of I Can See For Miles. Always loved Chris Farlowe’s version of Out of Time & had no idea Mick Jagger produced it… the idea of giving it a string accompaniment was inspired!
Bus Stop by The Hollies was an early sign of the genius of Graham Gouldman who would later write ( with Eric Stewart ) one of the best songs of the 70's I'm Not In Love by 10CC.
What a year for music! Wished I’d been born in 46 instead of 66 so I could get to hear all these gems first time round. The Spider single is t one I’ve heard before - superb - Kim Fowley was a real character - would be good to see an in-depth video on him! Finally worth name checking Penny Valentine someone who clearly had a genuine passion for music - thanks for posting these cosmic tunes and have a cosmic new year 🤓👍🎸🥁
It's positively mind-boggling that Rain was left off Revolver, just like omitting Strawberry Fields from Seargent Pepper's, these were both huge mistakes imo.
Many Stones singles from the 60s were also not featured on their LPs. I think they didn't include them because they thought the fans would feel ripped off about buying the same song twice.
@@YesterdaysPapers It's kind of amusing because now Beatles diehards will buy the same product, re-mixed, re-packaged, whatever, over and over again.. I always felt it was a shame that certain Beatles tracks were effectively "orphans", without an album to call home.. I think eventually in the 70s there was a divergence between singles and albums buyers, whereby album buyers expected any singles to be on an album but singles buyers weren't bothered because they only bought singles.
@@thereunionparty True. It would've been better f those singles would have been included on their LPs 'cause a band's career is mostly judged by the quality of their albums.
As a 14 year old american at the time, its interesting to see the cross pond influence from the British perspective. So much seemed to be flowing from there to here from this viewpoint. But , I was only 14.
1966 was a very highly creative magical year in the psychedelic scene. Amazing bands/artists, breaking new musical grounds in San Francisco & L.A., other parts of the globe. Especially the stellar creative artists from England. They took "psychedelic" to a whole new stratosphere. IMHO. 💜
I'm Not Like Everybody Else was big w Bar and Punk bands. In '79 I heard a young band do it in a Boston bar so I asked which Punk group they heard it from. None, the Kinks single flip side.
Some great tunes here. I started getting into The Creation around 1983 and recall buying a couple of those early Bam-Caruso compilations in 1984, which included both The Craig and a few tracks by the Wimple Winch, including the amazing Save My Soul. In the UK labels like See For Miles, Edsel and Bam-Caruso made accessable a lot of these bands that never really took off, through no lack of quality. Post Mod Revival it opened up a wealth of cool tunes, many I'd heard of but due to their rarity never actually heard. Keep up your cool videos, really well done. Cheers!
I was 7 going on 8 in June 1966. My Uncle gave me my first transistor radio and I used to go through batteries much too quickly for my Mother's liking lol Living here across the pond in the colonies, only a few of these songs made it to our shores, but, I remember the vibe and excitement of this happening music. The 60s were such a fun time as a kid or adolescent, the Beatles, Stones, in the forefront, but the variety of music our friends in England listening to on pirate radio must have been amazing. I wish I could go back in time and relive some if the groovy influences of the era. Many thanks for this cg
Fantastic work as always. After decades as a fan, Rain probably stands out as my favourite Beatles song. One of the hazards of using an AI voice-over is that it really emphasises when there are more uncaught typos than usual. But that's just to make you aware that it's noticeable. As always I'm incredibly impressed by the amount of effort you put into these.
Chrys -AH -lis! PJ Probby! lol I really dislike robot/AI voice-overs. Why do so many people use them? I don't get it. They just sound so... robotic. And all those pronunciation errors get irritating after a while. Is it just me that feels this way? Maybe...
This one really does a great job. It took me ages to be sure it was one. I've had other people insist to me that it isn't. If the script is free of typos (which is a big ask, I admit) it's very difficult to notice indeed. But the typos do give it away.@@papercup2517
Some really good singles came out in June of 1966. The Beatles, The Kinks and The Hollies. Truly remarkable stuff. Always loved The Downliners Sect. Such a shame that "Glendora" wasn't a hit.
I invariably learn something from your videos each and every time. I've been a cognizant music listener since I discovered how to move the Zenith "Cobra-matic" tonearm from the table model hi-fi unit onto my parents' Les Paul & Mary Ford 10" EPs and my oldest brother's collection of early Ray Charles LPs for Atlantic. Best guess would be about 1958 or thereabout. I was 4 years old. Great to learn about Carl Palmer and Craig, and as soon as I saw the co-writer credit on Spider's single (Fowley), I knew it had to be Kim, so the Sunset Blvd. / Zappa connection was a logical step. Thanks for all the work you do. It is much enjoyed and appreciated.
What a wondeful bunch of 45s. Thanks so much. 😀 I recall a promo film for 'Hideaway' that i'd really like to see again. The group were going to this large house in the country. Does anyone else recall it?
This was wonderful. The Beach Boys are revered by musicians of all subgenres of rock music. That starts from the 1960s until the present time (2023). I saw pictures from the infamous Beatles "Butcher" cover. I have a copy of that US release. I first heard of the Creation in the 90s but only started listening to them a decade later. They went unnoticed here in the States until the 2010s when their music appeared in TV commercials. Many Americans especially millennials (my nieces) are fond of the band. Paul Nicholas also had a disco single in 1977 called Heaven on the 7th Floor which did well here. He is a fine actor. Everyone reading this Happy Christmas. Look at that, you've got me speaking British English (haha).
I borrowed my teenage daughter's umbrella in the early 2000's and was so pleased to see that she had written on the inside, "Bus stop, wet day, she's there, I say Please, share my umbrella".
You're daughter was obviously Cool!
@@DavidDykes-dm9lc As well as fab and gear!
The Creation... one of those forever underrated gem bands. 2024 and they still sound ahead of time
One thing is for sure YP, your channel does not fail to chart! Tremendous, 1966 was indeed a year full of great music, from more commercial to obscure R&B and Mod singles. It's a shame that superior singles like by The Creation, Craig and The Wimple Winch didn't score! I think the general public was not ready for this kind of progressive music and probably never would be. It is underground music that attracted a different kind of audience. And this different audience was always going to be a minority, even today.... Thanks Yesterday's Papers!
Cheers, Edwin! Agreed, some of these singles were too far-out for the record-buying public. This was truly the beginning of psychedelia when music started to get more weird and less conventional.
I live in the Detroit area and I love the Creation
Mid 60's music was great
@@barbaraburgoyne8359
Yes, mid-60s music was (and still is) great indeed! By the way, your city Detroit also had exceptionally cool garage bands back then like The Unrelated Segments, The Tidal Waves and The Likes Of Us to name a few. I really like those bands as well as those from Chicago!
Like you, I also got to know The Creation much later. Very good band! Do you also know The Attack? Also very good! Cheers!
@@EdwinJack64 Yes!
I met HERBALIST DOCTOR KINGSLEY on UA-cam. A man with a Golden heart who helped me eradicate cold sores & genital herpes from my body completely! I'll Giving all my gratitude to him for a job well done!
I never get tired of hearing "Out of Time".
The instrumental backing track of "Rain" in the original speed you can find in the "Revolver" box set is quite revealing, especially Ringo's craftsmanship
Except it was mastered too fast at the wrong speed.
Funny , I always loved that song but never made the link in my head to Indian music!
@@lopezb the wavering harmonies in the chorus gives it away.
@@lopezb George Harrison was into Indian music . As part of his contribution to the music he did a couple of songs using Indian timing that's a little different from European music and the sitar is a pretty cool additive to the 60's rock sound .
I turned 17 in July of that year but I lost almost the whole of 1966 because my transistor radio died and I didn't replace it until the new school year. In those days life was dependent on having access by the airways to the distant urban communicators of new talent. But still a lot of this material is familiar to me. Thanks for the contribution.
Talk about bad luck. You're going through one of the best years for music and your radio decides that's best time to croak.
I remember that on-again, off-again pattern when I was a kid. Someone would give me an old clock-radio, or a pocket radio as a present, and I'd use if for 6 months and end up dropping it or trying to modify it and destroying it, so the songs I remember hearing first hand were from the "on" periods.
@@samp.8099 We never new we were in the best years.
Graham Gouldman is a freaking genius. I would take him as a songwriter anytime.
Well said, can’t believe that the gifted and extremely personable Mr Gouldman has not received any formal honours.
I’m 8 years old. Mom and dad just separated and mom, my brothers and I are living in a big drafty duplex in East Los Angeles. I heard Sunny Afternoon on the rickety back porch while sipping a soda. All these years later, I can still be transported there whenever I hear that song.
Btw. Glendora by the Downliner Sect was on the soundtrack for Lars and The Real Girl in 07.
Bus Stop: Favorite Hollies (and Gouldman) song.
Brilliant song.
A great song so representative of the sounds of the 60's.
Thank you again, Y.P.! Has everyone noticed how often these truly great singles are appended with, "Failed to chart", "Went unoticed", "Was recognized later as..." Remember that, although some of these fine songs by very visible acts like The Who, The Beatles, The Kinks, etc. were widely acknowledged at the time, lesser known acts were putting out fine records which got lost in the shuffle amongst the virtual embarrassment of musical riches that was the 1960s. Often, this was due simply to the sheer number of releases choking a not overlarge market. Wide public acclaim or financial success is not always a mark of a record's true worth or lasting influence.
P.S. - THanks for the Tremelo's compolation recommendation! Cheers!😀🎸
Agreed.
i think a lot has to do with airplay
the pirate stations played everything...bbc, not so much
there was only one john peel
@@thewkovacs316John Peel was still in the U.S. in 1966, on a breakfast show in California. He didn’t come back to the U.K. until early 1967 as a DJ on the pirate station Radio London!
@@thewkovacs316 You are so right!
I knew '66 was going to be a blast on this channel. Brilliant stuff as always.
I really enjoy learning about the stories behind some of my favorite songs from the 60's
So glad to have lived thru the '60s , still mesmerized by those tunes today !!
Paperback Writer! What a great song! They let us play it in the 6th grade in the multipurpose room and do line dances. In Detroit.
What a month!!! Paperback Writer/Rain is problably the best single A+B ever. Many other great songs (Sunny Afternoon, Bus Stop, Out of Time) but as a whole this was a fantastic "harvest" of great singles that happened in the UK, June 1966.
"Rain" is one of my favourite Beatles songs.
Rain should have been the A side though, or at least a double A side
@@YesterdaysPapers Me too. It's so sluggy and heavy but in a good way.
Let’s Spend The Night Together/Ruby Tuesday not too shabby.
@@jessewolf7649 Brilliant single. Another favourite of mine is Jumping Jack Flash/Child of the Moon.
This is the real stuff. Freaky and fun records! Fantastic video! Rock on!
Cheers!!
I was 6 that year and loved the beatles and all the great songs coming out seemingly everyday, standing on the front seat while my mother drove, singing along to bus stop on the AM radio, FM hadnt arrived yet. I still listen to these songs most days
Huge thumbs up for this unique channel. That the content is fastidiously researched and creatively presented goes without saying but there's a sprinkling of magic here which makes it greater than the sum of it's parts. Thanks for the huge effort, you make a lot of people happy!!
Thank you very much!
This channel never disappoints.
What a year, specifically June, 1966! The Craig, Wimple Winch and Spider, wow! Having read various works about Carl Palmer, the band name The Craig comes up, but I have never heard any of their music. Thank you, YP , for the introduction to these bands.
Cheers, glad you enjoyed the video!
Fantastic clutch of singles! (hits or not) Thank you so much for turning the spotlight on June 1966 with such style and clearly lots of hard work!
Thanks!
YP this all just makes me realise how much we have regressed in every way and especially Music, London was really Buzzing back then Unlike now, what a time it must have been to be alive 🙏
It was. So glad I was around then.
"...Experimenting with Indian influences and Eastern melodies..." Most definitely. And with other things as well. The acid was really starting to kick in by late spring 1966. Psychedelia (a word whose Greek etymology means "soul revealing," and the effects of the drugs, and the non-Western music, were indeed a revelation to the extraordinary concentration of talented musicians and songwriters working in this era) was rearing its rainbow-hued, pretty little flowered head. And rock and roll would change permanently, leave sock hops and ducktail haircuts behind permanently (at least until the roots rock revival later in the decade). Thank you for another brilliant documentary on that incredible time. Thank you, YP, also for being a bright spot in a politically dark time, and happy holidays and New Year (let's hope a fascism-free one).
Thank you very much! Happy Holidays and New Year.
What a great month. Love your use of 60s street scenes archive. As a Trems fan, thank you for unearthing the Right Time, Also Wimple Winch and the Craig are brilliant. Still eludes me how Making Time only reached no 45.
No YP intro music! What a sad day. Without it I am bereft of joy. Colors are duller, the clouds gather, the future seems bleak. That intro is such a banger. As good as any of the songs featured here -- well, maybe not quite. The Beatles aren't terrible. Thanks for the vids.
I was missing the outro music!
"Paperback Writer" features one of the greatest guitar riffs of all time. Good on ya, Brian and the Beach Boys. Ah, The Creation! Yes! The Kinks! "I'm Not Like Everyone Else" - my "anthem" back in the mid-sixties. I'm MAD about The Craig! "I Must Be Mad" --ending in a power chord -- the way boss sound should always end! "Save My Soul" (The Wimple Winch) -- simply bruisin' -- a great rant! The Hollies' "Bus Stop" -- top tune, then as now! The rest of these tunes are truly amazing! Many thanks, Yesterday's Papers!
Cheers, Walter!
@@YesterdaysPapers Cheers and a Merry Christmas!
@@walterfechter8080 Merry Christmas!
Christmas -- a groovy kind of Love!
Great show...Great music a lot of it flying under the radar
Wonderful June of 1966, the music is great 🤠🌼
Discovered so many great obscure singles thanks to YP. Was only a child in 1966 but wished for the time, the music , the scene that I was a bit older.
I can happily say, once again, that I loved every song on this list. I recognised them all, save that downer of a single from Oskar, thanks to research I'd done for a facebook voting group I ran and a good friend who runs an online radio show out of Kent, who is a wealth of information. I'll never understand how so many of these incredible singles never caught on with the record buying public. Such a treasure trove of classics, including one of my favourite bands in The Zombies. Being only 4 in June of '66, I had to play catch up once I got my first job working in live music club here in Vancouver in '74 and '75, and had the budget for my long years of record collecting. Finally saw The Zombies in 2017 and was blessed with a brief chat with Hugh Grundy and Chris White, two of the nicest guys you could meet.
Thanks, as always, YP. I love your channel and this exploration of the greatest decade in music.
Re: Oscar. Would that A-side have been a Speedy Keen composition?
Cheers! Glad you enjoyed the video. Yeah, it's incredible that so many of these singles never made it. But then again, there were so many great singles being released and after all, you can only have 40 songs in the top 40!
@@barbarakirk3064 Yes, it is.
@@YesterdaysPapers Agreed. The competition was fierce for chart space and competing with the likes of so many great acts was difficult at best. Merry Christmas, YP!
@@Sp33ganMerry Christmas, Fab Gear.
"Sunny Afternoon" is a great song, and it is reminiscent of "Summer in the City" by the Loving Spoonful.Some of these songs I never heard at that time in the US so it's great to see this now!
Yesterday's Papers you were spot on June 1966 had a lot of great releases with the Beatles Hollies Kinks and Zombies releasing singles but the creativity of the British artists of that time was fantastic with how Out Of Time both versions were made and how they made the song Glendora a Perry Como song into a swinging 60's rocker. The Creation is one of my all time British groups of that era and even today if you listen to their records with their near perfect sounds that when you hear it you know its the mid and late 1960s. Thank You for the post of these great tunes and I wish you a good start to 2024.
Cheers!
Another fascinating presentation thanks xxx
Peak Beatles for me 👍 Kinks, Hollies killing it & the stuff that couldn't get in the charts then stands head & shoulders above anything produced today.
Out of time is such a banger Farlowe nails it.
Never heard that Bolan track before it's terrific 👍
A great Video, a great contribution to this fantastic period of the Sixties' Bands in Britain. I love it!
Some incredible songs there - what an era for creativity and music! Kinks' "Sunny Afternoon" A and B sides every bit as good as the Beatles' offering (let's be honest, the Fabs - as great as they were - benefitted hugely from hype and marketing.) Bus Stop is another great tune...Out Of Time...pure brilliance from Mick and Keef...What a year!
You've always got to have that jealous slap at them, don't you?
This is the hippest, most informative, and entertaining. Resourceful and clever. Quite skillfully put together! Thank you.
Thank you!
Always very entertaining, a great listen! Some fantastic singles.
Your look back videos never disappoint, and they always seem too short!
Thank you for this. June 1966. Great.
What. A. Month. 🤩 Happy Holliesdays to Sir Yesterday's Papers and thank you so much for your work. 💯
Happy Holidays, Nathalie! Cheers.
Everytime I see someone on social media asking you could go anywhere in time where would you go? For me its always London 66-67.
Same here.
San Francisco was a lot of fun then!
Loved the YP old graphics - very period. Love the obscure bands Wimple Winch, Spider, Tremoloes... Very informative as always!
Cheers!
Tremeloes,obscure?
To me most of the musicians/bands are obscure, I grew up in the 80s@@carolfan4466
Outta sight! Thank you for posting this splendid vid.✌️🧐✌️
I’m 71 and I guess that 66’ was my favorite year for music and the time. I can remember laying on the beach with friends, in Chicago, after our 8th grade graduation that summer, listening to “Paint it Black.” Still love that song. 14 and awaiting the unknown of high school, which ended badly. 😎 And even with the great music coming down the road in the rest of the 60’s, and all of those concerts, all of those great songs (it’s all about the song) from 1966 still stand tall.
I love the instrumental break on Indication by the Zombies, super cool
San Francisco gets the press, but London in the 60's! Mad, man!😎
A quick message, The Rolling Stones' Hackney Diamonds which you once opened a special UA-cam page about has now returned to the top of the UK album chart, when I would have thought all their fans would have bought it by now.
As for The Creation, they have a box set of their complete recordings throughout the decades, including early Mark 1V tracks..
Many thanks for another great year of videos. Happy Christmas.
Thank you, Paul. Happy Christmas.
Hackney Diamonds is the new double CD version with live at the Racket Club New York with Lady Gaga. That’s why people are buying it again unfortunately.
@@BigSky1 I know what you mean. They already bought it once. Now they have to buy it again to get the live half. Many thanks for your info. They are obviously still huge. But most of their fans today must be later fans who were not around in the sixties, with the generations having shifted fast and furious over the vast number of decades. Yet they must be the oldest band who are still going, but not the longest lasting artists. But the fact that their fans are willing to buy the studio half again to get the live half shows that they are still enormously popular. I did not reckon it was going to stay in the Top 10 album charts like it has.
@@paulgoldstein2569 I saw them in ‘76, Earl’s Court, 82, Wembley and at Brixton Academy whenever that was and the only one I enjoyed was ‘76. To be honest I can’t listen to them now. They are not the band I grew up with.
@@BigSky1 I did not know whether to confess this. But in a way I feel the same. Back in the mid sixties when I was glued to the Pirate Stations, they were among my favorites. But I think from the early seventies onward, they got a bit samey. I like some of the tracks on Hackney Diamonds, but the rest I found was just their usual. But I still think it is incredible after over 60 years that they can re-climb to the top of the album charts with one album, all because it has been expanded, and their fans are still willing to buy the original album again to get the bonuses. Yet during the seventies and eighties, they seemed to have gone out of the limelight, and hardly anyone spoke of them. But come the early nineties, they somehow re-exploded.
I thought it was peculiar that when Rod Stewart's group The Faces disbanded, Ron Wood decided to join The Stones to replace Mick Taylor at a time when The Stones didn't seem to be as popular. They are not really the band I grew up with any longer either. But they are definitely the longest lasting band. They were also one of the bands responsible for helping The Beatles completely change the whole music world back in the mid sixties, and out-fashion almost everything before them, making many of their successful predecessors virtually redundant.
Hackney Diamonds will now be the Christmas number one album this year. It must be the first time since the sixties that they have had an album of new material stay in the album Top 10 for so long.
I have liked an occasional track that they have done since the early seventies, like She's So Cold, and Emotional rescue, only the ones that sound different, or where the songs themselves show out. But most of their later stuff is samey.
What a month for records - right on the cusp of pop and heavier things to come. Perfect combination IMO.
16 year old Carl Palmer. I get such a kick out of the kinda digging YP does.
Truly great month. Perhaps your best of an excellent series. Big thanks! Love the obscure stuff and the Zappa and Kim Fowley links too
I love the visual presentation of this channel. Really also enjoy how you cover the b sides as well as the a sides. Sterling work. Keep it up! Thanks
Mind expanding episode!🤙🔥🇬🇧
So much great stuff here - much of it unknown in the US. One could almost imagine these songs you highlight being released again to the pop charts sequentially, and doing brisk business in this musically impoverished era. I didn't hear most of these songs, just the obvious ones, but I'm glad I was alive at the time and can relate to the scene. "Here comes my baby" was a hit in the US, an early showing by Cat Stevens, and is one of those upbeat songs about breaking up. Another example might be "Red Rubber Ball" (written by Simon). Thanks so much!
Cheers!
the amount of music and bands that us audiences were never exposed to is amazing
even music made here
the reason the british invasion happened is because those guys were listening to r&b that got zero airplay on our airwaves....
I love these compilations. Always something new (I must confess 'Paperback Writer' is new to me), lots of refreshed songs and even discover that the Chocolate Watchband's 'I'm not like everybody else' is actually a Kinks song!
Suggestion: Once you are done with the monthly reviews on British songs you may do something similar on foreign European musicians that had an impact on British charts.
This was great to,learn about. Thank you for a fantastic production and detailed look of this mini musical era. ✊🏼
Clearly brit pop has moved miles from the heavy r&b 1964 sound and has become very exploratory and often brilliant. Thank you for this super fab time capsule.
uk bands were experimenting
hard to believe that "I'm Not like Everybody Else" 🇬🇧 was relegated to a B-side. Bloody B-side. Whatta a tune🎙. Certainly in my top 20 best B-sides of all time👊
Yep, great tune.
Jimmy and The Boys did well with it in the 70s in Australia
There's a lot to love in this month.
Excellent. So great, this channel.
As always great show mate❤❤❤❤
"Making Time' -they truly out-whoed the Who. White hot Mod classic. No wonder I never heard in all my Who purchases.
I enjoyed that greatly! I used to think I knew so much about 60s music.......had no idea how many other great bands were about - amazing scene back then!
What a great channel this is. I was 11 in June 1966, but remember so many of these great songs. Thanks for the shot of South Ken station and Dino's where I used to have coffee with schoolfriends all those years ago.
Incredible to think some of those songs didn't make it, once again very entertaining YP.
I was born the end off may 1966 thanks for this video 😊
A terrific batch of releases there! I’d not heard The Craig single before, but I think Pete Townshend must have done as the opening is very reminiscent of I Can See For Miles. Always loved Chris Farlowe’s version of Out of Time & had no idea Mick Jagger produced it… the idea of giving it a string accompaniment was inspired!
Well that was great! But,I tell ya I'm never going to be the same after finding out Perry Como sang " Glendora"
Hahaha!
I still remember the first time I listened Making Time 😂 I felt like watching the northern lights
Brillianat song. Love The Creation.
Such a fascinating era for music!
Always informative, always entertaining and very well-made videos. I'm glad this channel exists.
Bus Stop by The Hollies was an early sign of the genius of Graham Gouldman who would later write ( with Eric Stewart ) one of the best songs of the 70's I'm Not In Love by 10CC.
He got the Yardbirds to No. 2 twelve months earlier with Heart Full Of Soul.
Wow there was a lot of heavy tracks back in 66. I never realized.
The heavier tracks were all commercial failures. I guess people weren't ready for those type of tunes in 1966.
Great to hear all -these rare songs----British Garage bands --YEAHHHHHHHHH
Thanks for this Killer episode.
WOW Thanks for this 🙏🏻 I was 14 in 1966 so this really applies to me 😀🤘🏻🎸
What a year for music! Wished I’d been born in 46 instead of 66 so I could get to hear all these gems first time round. The Spider single is t one I’ve heard before - superb - Kim Fowley was a real character - would be good to see an in-depth video on him!
Finally worth name checking Penny Valentine someone who clearly had a genuine passion for music - thanks for posting these cosmic tunes and have a cosmic new year 🤓👍🎸🥁
It's positively mind-boggling that Rain was left off Revolver, just like omitting Strawberry Fields from Seargent Pepper's, these were both huge mistakes imo.
Many Stones singles from the 60s were also not featured on their LPs. I think they didn't include them because they thought the fans would feel ripped off about buying the same song twice.
@@YesterdaysPapers It's kind of amusing because now Beatles diehards will buy the same product, re-mixed, re-packaged, whatever, over and over again.. I always felt it was a shame that certain Beatles tracks were effectively "orphans", without an album to call home.. I think eventually in the 70s there was a divergence between singles and albums buyers, whereby album buyers expected any singles to be on an album but singles buyers weren't bothered because they only bought singles.
@@thereunionparty True. It would've been better f those singles would have been included on their LPs 'cause a band's career is mostly judged by the quality of their albums.
@@YesterdaysPapers Eleanor Rigby/Yellow Submarine. Never understood that single release.
thing is now you can make your own Revolver and put it on. Same with Pepper.
Another fantastically fascinating foray into yesteryear. Once again, I will note how here in New Zealand we never got to hear so many of these.
As a 14 year old american at the time, its interesting to see the cross pond influence from the British perspective. So much seemed to be flowing from there to here from this viewpoint. But , I was only 14.
Ringo's drumming on 'Rain' is UNSURPASSED.....❤
Glad I found this.
As ever, brilliant!!! 😀
1966 was a very highly creative magical year in the psychedelic scene. Amazing bands/artists, breaking new musical grounds in San Francisco & L.A., other parts of the globe. Especially the stellar creative artists from England. They took "psychedelic" to a whole new stratosphere. IMHO. 💜
Seeing that Zappa liked Traffic actually makes me happy.
I'm Not Like Everybody Else was big w Bar and Punk bands. In '79 I heard a young band do it in a Boston bar so I asked which Punk group they heard it from. None, the Kinks single flip side.
Bus Stop is a good record and a classic one in rock phrase making (Greil Marcus).
Awesome as always! I miss your music though!
Smashing...thanks
Some great tunes here. I started getting into The Creation around 1983 and recall buying a couple of those early Bam-Caruso compilations in 1984, which included both The Craig and a few tracks by the Wimple Winch, including the amazing Save My Soul. In the UK labels like See For Miles, Edsel and Bam-Caruso made accessable a lot of these bands that never really took off, through no lack of quality. Post Mod Revival it opened up a wealth of cool tunes, many I'd heard of but due to their rarity never actually heard. Keep up your cool videos, really well done. Cheers!
Cheers.
I was 7 going on 8 in June 1966. My Uncle gave me my first transistor radio and I used to go through batteries much too quickly for my Mother's liking lol Living here across the pond in the colonies, only a few of these songs made it to our shores, but, I remember the vibe and excitement of this happening music. The 60s were such a fun time as a kid or adolescent, the Beatles, Stones, in the forefront, but the variety of music our friends in England listening to on pirate radio must have been amazing. I wish I could go back in time and relive some if the groovy influences of the era. Many thanks for this cg
This channel. Makes me feel young! Cheers!
Cheers!
the tremeloes- let your hair hang down is one of the best freakbeat tunes from that time, absolute stormer
And Instant Whip.
Fantastic work as always. After decades as a fan, Rain probably stands out as my favourite Beatles song. One of the hazards of using an AI voice-over is that it really emphasises when there are more uncaught typos than usual. But that's just to make you aware that it's noticeable. As always I'm incredibly impressed by the amount of effort you put into these.
Chrys -AH -lis!
PJ Probby!
lol
I really dislike robot/AI voice-overs.
Why do so many people use them? I don't get it. They just sound so... robotic. And all those pronunciation errors get irritating after a while.
Is it just me that feels this way? Maybe...
This one really does a great job. It took me ages to be sure it was one. I've had other people insist to me that it isn't. If the script is free of typos (which is a big ask, I admit) it's very difficult to notice indeed. But the typos do give it away.@@papercup2517
Nice, as always!
Great video, as always.
Some really good singles came out in June of 1966. The Beatles, The Kinks and The Hollies. Truly remarkable stuff. Always loved The Downliners Sect. Such a shame that "Glendora" wasn't a hit.
I invariably learn something from your videos each and every time. I've been a cognizant music listener since I discovered how to move the Zenith "Cobra-matic" tonearm from the table model hi-fi unit onto my parents' Les Paul & Mary Ford 10" EPs and my oldest brother's collection of early Ray Charles LPs for Atlantic. Best guess would be about 1958 or thereabout. I was 4 years old. Great to learn about Carl Palmer and Craig, and as soon as I saw the co-writer credit on Spider's single (Fowley), I knew it had to be Kim, so the Sunset Blvd. / Zappa connection was a logical step. Thanks for all the work you do. It is much enjoyed and appreciated.
Cheers!
What a wondeful bunch of 45s. Thanks so much. 😀 I recall a promo film for 'Hideaway' that i'd really like to see again. The group were going to this large house in the country. Does anyone else recall it?
Hey Paul, that video is on youtube. Here it is: ua-cam.com/video/qf35lmzcMpk/v-deo.htmlsi=rPVwyWmOyGsBMHeb
Top shelf as always. Never knew Spider. Will check out Tremelo's comp. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!!!
I thought Spider was going to turn out to be Peggy Lee's son from Dave Barbour!
Cheers! Merrry Christmas.
@@barbarakirk3064Hahaha!
This was wonderful. The Beach Boys are revered by musicians of all subgenres of rock music. That starts from the 1960s until the present time (2023). I saw pictures from the infamous Beatles "Butcher" cover. I have a copy of that US release. I first heard of the Creation in the 90s but only started listening to them a decade later. They went unnoticed here in the States until the 2010s when their music appeared in TV commercials. Many Americans especially millennials (my nieces) are fond of the band. Paul Nicholas also had a disco single in 1977 called Heaven on the 7th Floor which did well here. He is a fine actor. Everyone reading this Happy Christmas. Look at that, you've got me speaking British English (haha).
Happy Christmas, Chris! Yeah, The Creation are criminally underrated.