McGuinn and the second-generation Byrds were undergoing a bit of a revival as a good live act around then, and I think their 1971 tour was pretty successful in Britain. It's interesting that he seems pretty cognizant of current rock trends as their hit-making days were mostly behind them by that point. One of my favorite bands.
May 1971, almost halfway through the greatest year in rock history. The charts don't tell the entire story; here's a running list of the incredible music from that year. ☆ ALBUMS RELEASED IN 1971 ☆ ● THE WHO - WHO'S NEXT ● LED ZEPPELIN - LED ZEP IV ● THE ROLLING STONES - STICKY FINGERS ● MARVIN GAYE - WHAT'S GOING ON ● JOHN LENNON - IMAGINE ● PAUL McCARTNEY - RAM ● GEORGE HARRISON - ALL THINGS MUST PASS (Dec 1970) Hit #1 Jan 1971, #1 Selling Album of Year ● GEORGE HARRISON - CONCERT FOR BANGLADESH (1971 Album of the Year) ● RINGO STARR - IT DON'T COME EASY (Ringo's Iconic Hit Single) ● NEIL YOUNG - AFTER THE GOLD RUSH ● THE DOORS - L.A. WOMAN ● CAROLE KING - TAPESTRY ● ROD STEWART - EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY ● TRAFFIC - THE LOW SPARK OF HIGH HEELED BOYS ● JETHO TULL - AQUALUNG ● YES - THE YES ALBUM ● YES - FRAGILE ● ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND - LIVE AT THE FILLMORE EAST ● DAVID BOWIE - HUNKY DORY ● SLY & THE FAMILY STONE - THERE'S A RIOT GOIN' ON ● BLACK SABBATH- MASTER OF REALITY ● CAT STEVENS - TEASER & THE FIRECAT (7 Hit Songs) ● JANIS JOPLIN - PEARL ● T. REX - ELECTRIC WARRIOR ● JONI MITCHELL - BLUE ● DON MCLEAN - AMERICAN PIE ● EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER - TARKUS ● EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER - PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION ● CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG - 4 WAY STREET ● HARRY NILSSON - NILSSON SCHMILSSON (4 Hit Songs) ● THE MOODY BLUES - EVERY GOOD BOY DESERVES FAVOUR ● ELTON JOHN - MADMAN ACROSS THE WATER ● PINK FLOYD - MEDDLE ● TEN YEARS AFTER - A SPACE IN TIME ● CARLY SIMON - ANTICIPATION ● BADFINGER - STRAIGHT UP (4 Hits) ● VAN MORRISON - TUPELO HONEY ● AMERICA - AMERICA (3 Hits)
@@simonagree4070 The Mac before Buckingham/Nicks were outstanding. I think Kiln House was in 1970; Future Games was released in '71, an outstanding lp.
O was 16 at that time and of course I new vast majority of these albums. In my youthful naïveté I imagined that this was normal year for rock music and every year from then on I would listen to 10-20 great albums.
@@pawelpap9 It truly was a special time for music. Though 1971 was the best year, the early '70s overall was mind-blowing. There was no other decade like the 1970s for music; it had it ALL!
This is such a fantastic series. Before I found your channel a year or two ago, I had no idea these musician reviews from the paper even existed, so it's been fascinating to hear the takes on the current sounds by some of the greats of the period.
This guy has endless knowledge, and he didn't slag anything. His own family tree confuses me to bits - The Byrds, Dylan. The Band, CSN&Y... need to consult my Pete Frame books. He admitted being influenced by Dylan, and I like that. Thanks for these fantastic videos! Glad we're getting up to the '70s now, as I became aware of artistes and repertoire around that time (born in '61). Blessings.🙂
The Byrds can do no wrong IMO and Roger is the man. I'm finishing up an article titled Starting a Jamaican Music Collection Part 3b--The Deejays. The Start of Rap? and wrote about how the British kids embraced early reggae much earlier than the American kids did. See Double Barrel in the top 3 on the Brit singles chart. That would never happen in America. And between 1968 and 1971 there were 20 reggae singles on the Brit charts. The skinheads there embraced this wonderful music.
Laura Nyro was the standout here. Her music was more like musical theater tinged with rhythm and blues rather than rock/pop. She's who other artists were listening to rather than someone who was marketable to teenagers.
I thought this was really interesting in that the discs Roger reviewed and even the Charts barely hint at the amazing music that was around then. 1971 was a brilliant year for albums! Your Moonlight Mile outro is beautiful YP and thank you for another fascinating flashback.
@@YesterdaysPapers ……Moonlight Mile is my favourite track off Sticky Fingers and for my money, SF is the Stones’ best album. At any rate, I thought your rendition was lovely.
What is immediately striking is how much the musical landscape has changed in the early 1970s! Roger McGuin reviewed very well and with humour. "Cowbow sound like a cross between Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young" 😅 And about "Big Queen" by Mick Abrahams: "It didn't get off. I'll give it 69" 😂 I see that in the single and album charts "Brown Sugar" and "Sticky Fingers" did a very great job! As you would expect from the Rolling Stones in their heyday 😛! Thanks also for your mesmerizing "Moonlight Mile" outro!!! Cheers!
May 71 was the end of my first year of university. The air was full of folk music and Carole King and Tapestry, everybody that I knew had excellent stereo systems, there were TAndberb real to reals and TEAC's and all the best equipment. The music sounded phenomenal. I don't know how it can be repeated. The Byrds, Gram Parsons, Flying Burrito Brothers, Bob Dylan, CCR. What else can I say.
Near the top of the Singles chart was “Indiana wants me” by one of the first white artist to be signed to Motown, R Dean Taylor. The ending of the song has a standoff complete with gunshots and sirens. In the United States they had to release a second version without the gunshots and sirens because people who were listening to the song in their car would all of a sudden turned to the side of the road, terrified, thinking they were being pulled over or shot at!
After scrolling through the comments, it's obvious that YP hit a real chord(pun intended) with the fantastic original arrangement outro of 'Moonlight Mile'.
Thanks , always love your videos and equally enjoy the accompanying musical soundtrack you create, nice nod to " Winter" , the season we are approaching down here in Oz 😊
Laura Nyro broke all the songwriting rules and had more ideas in one song than others would have on a whole album, which is partly why dhe was so influential. Her art pop 1968 LP, the revolutionary Eli and the Thirteenth Confession is arguably the first progressive album for its complexity, virtuosity, innovation and concept. She was still a teenager. David Geffen saw her genius and snapped her up as his first artist under management and by 1969 she made him a millionaire. She was supposed to be the first Asylum artist, but she stayed with Columbia since they had been so good to her. Geffen cried for days. Nyro features heavily in the documentary Inventing David Geffen. She passed in 1997 from ovarian cancer.
@@91dodgespiritrt Apparently they do. For example, the recent mega hit Drivers Licence by Olivia Rodrigo is based on Nyro's You Don't Love Me When I Cry (1969), and the recent hit Runner by the band Tennis references 3 Nyro songs and her cover of Gonns Take a Miracle. Thanks for the opportunity to post more high nutrient information about the most influential songwriter in contemporary music.
The first progressive album? No, sorry. That goes to either Sgt. Pepper's (Beatles) or Days of Future Past (Moody Blues), both superior to Eli in songwriting and musicianship.
I wouldn’t say that Cowboy is a copy of Neil Young or CSN. That genre of folk/country/rock would have had similarities with other performers because of the style and structure of the music. If anything, they were more like the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Anyway, I was delighted to hear that clip from Cowboy. Plus, Laura Nyro! Love her!
@@simonagree4070 The album and its song by Cowboy, Reach for the Sky, was released in 1970, so it does pre-date Horse With No Name. The single HWNN was released in the US in early 1972. It was said that the group America was known as the poor man’s Crosby Stills and Nash.
In America the Tamla-Motown trademark was *NOT* used (6:13). Motown had several trademarks operating in 1971, they were: Motown, Soul, Gordy, Tamla, VIP, MoWest(a newly-introduced label to mark the shift from Detroit, Michigan to Los Angeles, California in 1971), C(a label for stuff that didn't really fit on the other labels) & Rare Earth(named for the group).
It was from his first "solo" album (actually Mick Abrahams Band) after Blodwyn Pig broke up. Notice that it has the same 5/4 beat as "Living in the Past"!
As always thakyou for another fascinating. Presentation l love this channel. Xxxlps. The International Times archive is complete and ànd 1970s archaeological goldmine.
Ah yes, “moonlight mile” at the end. A great track from their greatest album (in my opinion). Can I ask what software you use to make music? I’m slowly getting into this.
@@YesterdaysPapers That cool, contemplative, sitar/tablas/moogie-sounding (?lol) number playing during the charts was your own original jam? 😮Either way, I dug & loved it!
I have been a fan of this awesome channel for quite some time now, and it just keeps getting better, more interesting and more informative with every new video! One thing that has always delighted me is the background music played while showing the different charts. I always have fun trying to guess the song! This video’s version of Moonlight Mile was really beautiful! Could you possibly tell me which version this is? If it is made, specifically for this channel, could you share the whole song?
Hah, McGuinn is pretty witty. The Dick Clark bit and him saying "The Bee Gees imitated the Beatles, Cowboy Neil Young and The Byrds Bob Dylan" was funny
Well they did pretty well imitating then..I think they wrote more no 1 hits for other artists than even Lennon McCartney. Personally I don't hear anything similar to the Beatles. Totally unique imo
What an odd batch of songs they threw at McGuinn. Some of it new to me. Like Cowboy. I'll have to check them out. & Roger was spot on comparing then to Stills & Young. It sounded like Steven Stills impersonating Neil Young. . . Another great episode!
Looking at the songs he reviewed and at the songs on the top of the lists in the UK and the US, it's obvious that music was taking a nap after the 60's and before the 70's really took off.
Lots and lots of great music in the early 70s, even the pop stuff. The Guess Who, shocking blue, Judy Collins, Crosby stills Nash and Young, the Rolling Stone’s, the Moody blues, the carpenters, middle of the road, lots of great music
'71 Saw the release of Led Zep IV, Who's Next, The Stones-Sticky Fingers, Jethro Tull-Aqualung, Carol King-Tapestry, Yes- The Yes Album and Fragile, John Lennon-Imagine, Paul McC-Ram. George Harrison's All Things Must Pass, released late 1970, was the top selling lp of 1971.
In May of 1971 Jim Morrison was still alive in France. One of the lists here had Love Her Madly by The Doors at #7 and another list had their album LA Woman at #19. Morrison's death on July 3, 1971 had a positive long-term effect on the ongoing legacy of The Doors.
It was around this time, early 1971, that the British top 30 and the American top 30 only had a few songs in common. It seems like in the 60s it was about half and half. I don't recognize any of the songs they had Roger listen to, except for "Wheel's On Fire".
May 1971 not the best month for new releases. This was a year that gave us T Rex, Slade, Rod Stewart as well as Benny Hill, Clive Dunn and Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep, so a bit of a mixed bag with glam thrown into the mix
Roger was fair with his assessments, always came across as a thoughtful, nice guy. Still like Julie Discroll's version of This Wheels on Fire better though....
Does anyone know if the band Cowboy mentioned here is the same band that recorded the beautiful “Please Be With Me” in 1971? The song was penned by founding Cowboy member Scott Boyer and a particularly lovely version featured Duane Allman (accompanying Cowboy) playing slide on a Dobro. The song was also covered by Eric Clapton on his 461 Ocean Boulevard album and EC’s is perhaps the version most listeners are familiar with. What about you YP, any idea? Thanks in advance.
@@YesterdaysPapers ……thanks YP. It only dawned on me long after I’d commented yesterday, that it very likely was the same band. I’ve always thought PBWM was a beautiful song but I rarely hear mention of the band Cowboy. It’s little snippets of trivia like this that I find so fascinating and that consequently, render your videos compulsory viewing!
Rather listen to your music at the end than any of those 👍 Heard If Not For You by ONJ on the radio this week, must be first time in well over 30 maybe 40 years & there it is again in the charts 😂
Well known in LA circles. He and Leon had a duo called Asylum Choir in 1968/69. He also had just been guest guitarist with the Doors on the LA Woman album.
Say what you will about the Band and the Byrds, but the true knockout version of This Wheel's On Fire was by Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and the Trinity.
Mick Abraham's? After he left Tull he started Blodwin Pig I still have the first lp 's verry heavy jazz rock stuff ! Thanks YP CHEERS !The groundhogs Split lp? Extraordinary ! TS Mc phee was the real deal !
Were they really the Byrds by 1971? They had like about 30 personnel changes by that point. They would’ve been more appropriately named the Roger McGuinn band
Holy smokes except for Laura Nyro I've never heard of a single one of these bands!! (Marc Benno might be a vaguely familiar name, search me!) I assume Dee Dee Warwick is a sister? Wow I'm going to have to explore!!
Roger is not my favorite Byrd - that being said, Roger is amazing and he is an incredible musician - far better than Crosby was. Roger, if you’re reading this - I love you, you are a genius and I wish you all the best .
That Top Ten is a bit lame apart from Brown Sugar. Actually the whole Top Thirty has but two good songs. Brown Sugar and Hot Love. That's a pretty good band name right there. Or an early seventies detective duo.
They really shortchanged him. Odd selection of songs and I am not even sure representative of this great year of rock music. Arguably, Mick Abrahams was the best entry.
I mean, I love The Band but they absolutely butchered "This Wheel's On Fire". They turned a mysterious, menacing masterpiece into a goofy-sounding awkwardly-jaunty filler. This is all extra baffling given that Rick Danko is the one who composed it in the first place.
That was not McGuinn and The Byrds that was the Rodger McGuinn and Clarence White project and he had no business at this point criticizing anyone else's music when Chestnut mare is the only thing he put out that was worth a damn really with those guys some of the live stuff was okay
I’d be in a band with this guy in a second. I really enjoyed his attitude.
There’s a reason he quickly became the leader and stayed with the band from beginning to end, unlike the volatile Crosby and the panic stricken Clark.
He is one of my all-time favorites. He took his folk background and added the Beatles style and invented a new thing, then helped create Country Rock.
@thisguy5611 That's hilarious!
McGuinn is an incredibly astute musician. A Master of the 12-string.
Great work on the outro, YP 💖
Thanks, Sophie!
@@YesterdaysPapers 🙂❤
he was an old folkie...
McGuinn and the second-generation Byrds were undergoing a bit of a revival as a good live act around then, and I think their 1971 tour was pretty successful in Britain. It's interesting that he seems pretty cognizant of current rock trends as their hit-making days were mostly behind them by that point. One of my favorite bands.
Yeaaah, give us more Byrds!
May 1971, almost halfway through the greatest year in rock history. The charts don't tell the entire story; here's a running list of the incredible music from that year.
☆ ALBUMS RELEASED IN 1971 ☆
● THE WHO - WHO'S NEXT
● LED ZEPPELIN - LED ZEP IV
● THE ROLLING STONES -
STICKY FINGERS
● MARVIN GAYE - WHAT'S GOING ON
● JOHN LENNON - IMAGINE
● PAUL McCARTNEY - RAM
● GEORGE HARRISON -
ALL THINGS MUST PASS (Dec 1970)
Hit #1 Jan 1971, #1 Selling Album of Year
● GEORGE HARRISON - CONCERT FOR BANGLADESH (1971 Album of the Year)
● RINGO STARR - IT DON'T COME EASY
(Ringo's Iconic Hit Single)
● NEIL YOUNG - AFTER THE GOLD RUSH
● THE DOORS - L.A. WOMAN
● CAROLE KING - TAPESTRY
● ROD STEWART - EVERY PICTURE TELLS A STORY
● TRAFFIC - THE LOW SPARK OF HIGH HEELED BOYS
● JETHO TULL - AQUALUNG
● YES - THE YES ALBUM
● YES - FRAGILE
● ALLMAN BROTHERS BAND -
LIVE AT THE FILLMORE EAST
● DAVID BOWIE - HUNKY DORY
● SLY & THE FAMILY STONE -
THERE'S A RIOT GOIN' ON
● BLACK SABBATH- MASTER OF REALITY
● CAT STEVENS - TEASER & THE FIRECAT
(7 Hit Songs)
● JANIS JOPLIN - PEARL
● T. REX - ELECTRIC WARRIOR
● JONI MITCHELL - BLUE
● DON MCLEAN - AMERICAN PIE
● EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER -
TARKUS
● EMERSON, LAKE & PALMER -
PICTURES AT AN EXHIBITION
● CROSBY, STILLS, NASH & YOUNG -
4 WAY STREET
● HARRY NILSSON - NILSSON SCHMILSSON (4 Hit Songs)
● THE MOODY BLUES - EVERY GOOD BOY DESERVES FAVOUR
● ELTON JOHN - MADMAN ACROSS THE WATER
● PINK FLOYD - MEDDLE
● TEN YEARS AFTER - A SPACE IN TIME
● CARLY SIMON - ANTICIPATION
● BADFINGER - STRAIGHT UP (4 Hits)
● VAN MORRISON - TUPELO HONEY
● AMERICA - AMERICA (3 Hits)
Yes, amazing year. I loved Fleetwood Mac's Kiln House.
@@simonagree4070 The Mac before Buckingham/Nicks were outstanding. I think Kiln House was in 1970; Future Games was released in '71, an outstanding lp.
@@markb20 That was a great trifecta of albums by FM, with Bare Trees being the third one.
O was 16 at that time and of course I new vast majority of these albums. In my youthful naïveté I imagined that this was normal year for rock music and every year from then on I would listen to 10-20 great albums.
@@pawelpap9 It truly was a special time for music. Though 1971 was the best year, the early '70s overall was mind-blowing. There was no other decade like the 1970s for music; it had it ALL!
This is such a fantastic series. Before I found your channel a year or two ago, I had no idea these musician reviews from the paper even existed, so it's been fascinating to hear the takes on the current sounds by some of the greats of the period.
Cheers, Adam! Glad you enjoy these videos.
This guy has endless knowledge, and he didn't slag anything. His own family tree confuses me to bits - The Byrds, Dylan. The Band, CSN&Y... need to consult my Pete Frame books. He admitted being influenced by Dylan, and I like that. Thanks for these fantastic videos! Glad we're getting up to the '70s now, as I became aware of artistes and repertoire around that time (born in '61). Blessings.🙂
The Byrds can do no wrong IMO and Roger is the man.
I'm finishing up an article titled Starting a Jamaican Music Collection Part 3b--The Deejays. The Start of Rap? and wrote about how the British kids embraced early reggae much earlier than the American kids did. See Double Barrel in the top 3 on the Brit singles chart. That would never happen in America. And between 1968 and 1971 there were 20 reggae singles on the Brit charts. The skinheads there embraced this wonderful music.
Laura Nyro was the standout here. Her music was more like musical theater tinged with rhythm and blues rather than rock/pop. She's who other artists were listening to rather than someone who was marketable to teenagers.
Too bad hardly anyone ever heard of her. Some "Standout star". HA, HA
I thought this was really interesting in that the discs Roger reviewed and even the Charts barely hint at the amazing music that was around then. 1971 was a brilliant year for albums! Your Moonlight Mile outro is beautiful YP and thank you for another fascinating flashback.
Thanks, Linda. Glad you enjoyed the "Moonlight Mile" cover, very underappreciated Stones song.
@@YesterdaysPapers ……Moonlight Mile is my favourite track off Sticky Fingers and for my money, SF is the Stones’ best album. At any rate, I thought your rendition was lovely.
What is immediately striking is how much the musical landscape has changed in the early 1970s!
Roger McGuin reviewed very well and with humour.
"Cowbow sound like a cross between Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young" 😅
And about "Big Queen" by Mick Abrahams: "It didn't get off. I'll give it 69" 😂
I see that in the single and album charts "Brown Sugar" and "Sticky Fingers" did a very great job!
As you would expect from the Rolling Stones in their heyday 😛!
Thanks also for your mesmerizing "Moonlight Mile" outro!!! Cheers!
Cheers, Edwin!
May 71 was the end of my first year of university. The air was full of folk music and Carole King and Tapestry, everybody that I knew had excellent stereo systems, there were TAndberb real to reals and TEAC's and all the best equipment. The music sounded phenomenal. I don't know how it can be repeated. The Byrds, Gram Parsons, Flying Burrito Brothers, Bob Dylan, CCR. What else can I say.
Near the top of the Singles chart was “Indiana wants me” by one of the first white artist to be signed to Motown, R Dean Taylor. The ending of the song has a standoff complete with gunshots and sirens. In the United States they had to release a second version without the gunshots and sirens because people who were listening to the song in their car would all of a sudden turned to the side of the road, terrified, thinking they were being pulled over or shot at!
As a kid in Canada I loved that song, and they played it a lot since R. Dean Taylor was Canadian. He died of Covid last year.
Such a great song. "If a man ever needed dyin' he did!"
I was stationed in Scotland at that point in time. The Byrds' Chestnut Mare was very popular over there.
Great song!
After scrolling through the comments, it's obvious that YP hit a real chord(pun intended) with the fantastic original arrangement outro of 'Moonlight Mile'.
Wow, what a nondescript bunch of records. I'm surprised they didn't dump Bobby Goldsboro or Anne Murray on him, too. Roger must be a patient listener.
Love the use of moonlight Mile. I'm a tour bus driver, it's even lonelier than touring in a band. Super relatable
The top US Albums of May 1971 was filled with classic albums. Even more than May 2023...
Don't cha just love it
Chick-a- boom. Chick-a-boom boom boom. 😂
KINKS MUSWELL HILLBILLIES 1971 🤩🤩. MASTERWORK!!
Love McGuinn's humour!
Great episode...but then they always are thanks!
Laura Nyro is one of the most original pop artists ever, she
continues to influence songwriters across the ages.
Thanks , always love your videos and equally enjoy the accompanying musical soundtrack you create, nice nod to " Winter" , the season we are approaching down here in Oz 😊
I like Siouxsie & The Banshees cover of " Wheels On Fire " seeing her tomorrow & just saw The Cure on Tuesday. It's the 80's again !
Cool! I love Siouxsie & The Banshees.
@@YesterdaysPapers i play a roger mcguinn guitar(rickenbacker 370 12 string) in the style of john mcgeogh.
May, 71. I was repairing chinooks in s.e.asia. I missed this.
This is an episode of Yesterday's Papers that I could enjoy listening to as a radio show, with the songs played all the way through.
I give the video a 85, better than average with a likable reviewer. This numbering system is a great idea. ✌
Love your melotron/tabla outro stones bit. Do you put these together yourself? They're really evocative of the era.
Thanks! Yeah, I record all the instrumentals at the end of these Blind Date videos.
Elvis Country album (#17 in the UK album charts) is one of the best country rock albums of all time. Just brutal.
Laura Nyro broke all the songwriting rules and had more ideas in one song than others would have on a whole album, which is partly why dhe was so influential. Her art pop 1968 LP, the revolutionary Eli and the Thirteenth Confession is arguably the first progressive album for its complexity, virtuosity, innovation and concept. She was still a teenager. David Geffen saw her genius and snapped her up as his first artist under management and by 1969 she made him a millionaire. She was supposed to be the first Asylum artist, but she stayed with Columbia since they had been so good to her. Geffen cried for days. Nyro features heavily in the documentary Inventing David Geffen. She passed in 1997 from ovarian cancer.
Thanks for the information about her - she was an incredible talent, sadly ignored.
She's OVERRATED, "SKI". In fact, "insignificant" might be a more accurate adjective for her. Does anyone think of her anymore - other than you?
@@91dodgespiritrt Apparently they do. For example, the recent mega hit Drivers Licence by Olivia Rodrigo is based on Nyro's You Don't Love Me When I Cry (1969), and the recent hit Runner by the band Tennis references 3 Nyro songs and her cover of Gonns Take a Miracle. Thanks for the opportunity to post more high nutrient information about the most influential songwriter in contemporary music.
Yes, everyone who knows about music, which obviously excludes you, thicko!
The first progressive album? No, sorry. That goes to either Sgt. Pepper's (Beatles) or Days of Future Past (Moody Blues), both superior to Eli in songwriting and musicianship.
I'd like to find out where they get the backing music they use while showing the single and album charts. That's a cool version of Moonlight Mile.
All the instrumentals featured at the end of these videos are recorded by me. Glad you like them!
Great work! I really enjoy them!
I wouldn’t say that Cowboy is a copy of Neil Young or CSN. That genre of folk/country/rock would have had similarities with other performers because of the style and structure of the music. If anything, they were more like the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band. Anyway, I was delighted to hear that clip from Cowboy. Plus, Laura Nyro! Love her!
America was the perfect copy of Neil Young. This might have been done before "Horse With No Name".
@@simonagree4070 The album and its song by Cowboy, Reach for the Sky, was released in 1970, so it does pre-date Horse With No Name. The single HWNN was released in the US in early 1972. It was said that the group America was known as the poor man’s Crosby Stills and Nash.
That Mick Abrahams album is one of the finest progressive blues-rock albums of all time!! Love to see that!
In America the Tamla-Motown trademark was *NOT* used (6:13). Motown had several trademarks operating in 1971, they were: Motown, Soul, Gordy, Tamla, VIP, MoWest(a newly-introduced label to mark the shift from Detroit, Michigan to Los Angeles, California in 1971), C(a label for stuff that didn't really fit on the other labels) & Rare Earth(named for the group).
Mick Abrahams was an original member of Jethro Tull. This must be a solo project between gigs with Blodwyn pig
It was from his first "solo" album (actually Mick Abrahams Band) after Blodwyn Pig broke up. Notice that it has the same 5/4 beat as "Living in the Past"!
The first Jethro Tull album, with Abrahams on guitar, was always my favorite. No disrespect to Martin Barre, my second favorite is Thick As A Brick.
As always thakyou for another fascinating. Presentation l love this channel. Xxxlps. The International Times archive is complete and ànd 1970s archaeological goldmine.
2:48 Unmistakable sound of P-90s there! Also, Marc Benno recorded _L.A. Woman_ with The Doors.
Fantachannel! Everytime I have a joy with it. Thnx!
Ah yes, “moonlight mile” at the end. A great track from their greatest album (in my opinion). Can I ask what software you use to make music? I’m slowly getting into this.
The DAW I use to record these instrumentals is FL Studio.
@@YesterdaysPapers
That cool, contemplative, sitar/tablas/moogie-sounding (?lol) number playing during the charts was your own original jam? 😮Either way, I dug & loved it!
@@poempadgett4664 Yep, glad you liked it!
I have been a fan of this awesome channel for quite some time now, and it just keeps getting better, more interesting and more informative with every new video!
One thing that has always delighted me is the background music played while showing the different charts. I always have fun trying to guess the song! This video’s version of Moonlight Mile was really beautiful! Could you possibly tell me which version this is? If it is made, specifically for this channel, could you share the whole song?
I record all the instrumentals ar the end of these Blind Date videos. Glad you enjoy them, cheers!
Just another moonlight mile …. Wow, you outdid yourself with this version …
Thanks.
Great to hear from Roger! I wonder if the great Gene Clark ever did a blind date? Probably not.
I don't think he did.
Hah, McGuinn is pretty witty. The Dick Clark bit and him saying "The Bee Gees imitated the Beatles, Cowboy Neil Young and The Byrds Bob Dylan" was funny
Well they did pretty well imitating then..I think they wrote more no 1 hits for other artists than even Lennon McCartney. Personally I don't hear anything similar to the Beatles. Totally unique imo
What an odd batch of songs they threw at McGuinn. Some of it new to me. Like Cowboy. I'll have to check them out. & Roger was spot on comparing then to Stills & Young. It sounded like Steven Stills impersonating Neil Young. . . Another great episode!
Looking at the songs he reviewed and at the songs on the top of the lists in the UK and the US, it's obvious that music was taking a nap after the 60's and before the 70's really took off.
Lots and lots of great music in the early 70s, even the pop stuff. The Guess Who, shocking blue, Judy Collins, Crosby stills Nash and Young, the Rolling Stone’s, the Moody blues, the carpenters, middle of the road, lots of great music
'71 Saw the release of Led Zep IV, Who's Next, The Stones-Sticky Fingers, Jethro Tull-Aqualung, Carol King-Tapestry, Yes- The Yes Album and Fragile, John Lennon-Imagine, Paul McC-Ram. George Harrison's All Things Must Pass, released late 1970, was the top selling lp of 1971.
In May of 1971 Jim Morrison was still alive in France. One of the lists here had Love Her Madly by The Doors at #7 and another list had their album LA Woman at #19.
Morrison's death on July 3, 1971 had a positive long-term effect on the ongoing legacy of The Doors.
Again, love the music for the outro
Thanks!
5:18 Wow. Elton released it as 17-11-70 over there and 11-17-70 over here. You learn something new every day.
Wow, those singles on the Top 30. I haven't heard any of them.
Interesting review icymi today Roger is a born again Christian and plays the oldies circuit
Moonlight Mile indeed.
I never heard of Cowboy but I need to check them out.
This is great but I'm really waiting for the top singles of May/67.
Rogs knows how to use a MOOG synthersiser in clever and delicate way
You pick such great songs but sometimes I wish the soundbites were just a little bit longer - the last song for example.
I wish the song excerpts could be longer but unfortunately, I can't play longer excerpts due to copyright.
@@YesterdaysPapers I thought you were allowed 30 seconds - that last song we got about 7 secoonds.
@@clipstone Sometimes I get copyright claims just for playing more than 7 seconds of a song.
It was around this time, early 1971, that the British top 30 and the American top 30 only had a few songs in common. It seems like in the 60s it was about half and half. I don't recognize any of the songs they had Roger listen to, except for "Wheel's On Fire".
Marc Benno had not long finished guesting on the Doors L.A.Woman album
May 1971 not the best month for new releases. This was a year that gave us T Rex, Slade, Rod Stewart as well as Benny Hill, Clive Dunn and Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep, so a bit of a mixed bag with glam thrown into the mix
HEY! I like "Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep"! That's a good song!
Middle of the Road yes, had a number of good hits.
Roger was fair with his assessments, always came across as a thoughtful, nice guy.
Still like Julie Discroll's version of This Wheels on Fire better though....
Yeah, it's my favourite version of the song as well.
@@YesterdaysPapers It is "Absolutely Fabulous"!
I Love Leslie West's Hard Crunchin' version of This Wheel ...
I like the original version off The Basement Tapes
Does anyone know if the band Cowboy mentioned here is the same band that recorded the beautiful “Please Be With Me” in 1971? The song was penned by founding Cowboy member Scott Boyer and a particularly lovely version featured Duane Allman (accompanying Cowboy) playing slide on a Dobro. The song was also covered by Eric Clapton on his 461 Ocean Boulevard album and EC’s is perhaps the version most listeners are familiar with. What about you YP, any idea? Thanks in advance.
Yep, same band.
@@YesterdaysPapers ……thanks YP. It only dawned on me long after I’d commented yesterday, that it very likely was the same band. I’ve always thought PBWM was a beautiful song but I rarely hear mention of the band Cowboy. It’s little snippets of trivia like this that I find so fascinating and that consequently, render your videos compulsory viewing!
Rather listen to your music at the end than any of those 👍 Heard If Not For You by ONJ on the radio this week, must be first time in well over 30 maybe 40 years & there it is again in the charts 😂
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How did. he know who Mark Benno is? Who is he?
He was a musician from Los Angeles and I believe he played with Leon Russell.
Well known in LA circles. He and Leon had a duo called Asylum Choir in 1968/69. He also had just been guest guitarist with the Doors on the LA Woman album.
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What’s that track at the end? It’s nice.
3:58 Moonlight Mile! :0)
What's the cover you did while showing the top singles of the week at the end? So familiar yet I can't put my finger on it
It's a cover of "Moonlight Mile" by the Stones.
@@YesterdaysPapers awesome! Thank you
Say what you will about the Band and the Byrds, but the true knockout version of This Wheel's On Fire was by Julie Driscoll, Brian Auger and the Trinity.
Mick Abraham's? After he left Tull he started Blodwin Pig I still have the first lp 's verry heavy jazz rock stuff ! Thanks YP CHEERS !The groundhogs Split lp? Extraordinary ! TS Mc phee was the real deal !
"Split" is a brilliant album, love that record.
is outro music moonlight mile?
Yep.
The late Laura Nyro was so beautiful. Someone I would have married in a second without hesitation. Not that I would have had a chance of course.
Jesus Christ Superstar. It had to be the original with Ian Gillan on that one in '71.
Whats the tune in the end?
Were they really the Byrds by 1971? They had like about 30 personnel changes by that point. They would’ve been more appropriately named the Roger McGuinn band
Yeah, but the "Untitled" record they released that year is really good.
What's the end music on this? Sounds something like Moonlight Mile.
Yes, it's an instrumental cover of "Moonlight Mile" that I recorded.
@@YesterdaysPapers It's well beautiful. Top notch.
Holy smokes except for Laura Nyro I've never heard of a single one of these bands!! (Marc Benno might be a vaguely familiar name, search me!) I assume Dee Dee Warwick is a sister? Wow I'm going to have to explore!!
The Cowboy albums are pretty cool.
Why was there never a band called The Three Rogers? McGuinn (gtr/v), Waters (b/v) & Taylor (d/v)? 😂
I got silence on my radio - let the airwaves flow.
Interesting the last track was by Christian rock artist Mylon LeFevre, then Roger McGuinn also became a Christian
All the represented songs that was judged by Roger ..."Tanked."
Roger is not my favorite Byrd - that being said, Roger is amazing and he is an incredible musician - far better than Crosby was.
Roger, if you’re reading this - I love you, you are a genius and I wish you all the best .
Please tell me you're Skip Battin's number one fan!
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Skip was cool for sure!
But for me Gene Clark’s the man.
Pretending Mc Guinn to spot Mick Abrahams was really far out
That Top Ten is a bit lame apart from Brown Sugar. Actually the whole Top Thirty has but two good songs. Brown Sugar and Hot Love. That's a pretty good band name right there. Or an early seventies detective duo.
The album charts were cool, though. Lots of great records there.
Yes, Brown Sugar a great song!! But I also like It Dont Come Easy and the Delfonic's song.
@@YesterdaysPapers My God yes. The Top 15 are lethal.
@@hhpoa Sure, I can dig the Delfonics.
They really shortchanged him. Odd selection of songs and I am not even sure representative of this great year of rock music. Arguably, Mick Abrahams was the best entry.
"Soft jangly bit"......too many jokes here.
I mean, I love The Band but they absolutely butchered "This Wheel's On Fire". They turned a mysterious, menacing masterpiece into a goofy-sounding awkwardly-jaunty filler. This is all extra baffling given that Rick Danko is the one who composed it in the first place.
"Goofy-sounding awkwardly-jaunty" is the Band's sound in a nutshell. Except when they get maudlin (Tears of Rage, It Makes No Difference).
Dylan’s song
@@LeeTomboulian-uj5zv composed by Rick Danko
@@amosungar5248: we’re both right. It’s credited to both.
Loving the Indian moonlight mile
Cheers!
Nice Indian Moonlight Mile
Cheers!
That was not McGuinn and The Byrds that was the Rodger McGuinn and Clarence White project and he had no business at this point criticizing anyone else's music when Chestnut mare is the only thing he put out that was worth a damn really with those guys some of the live stuff was okay
Mc GUINN IS NOT THE BYRDS .. GENE CLARK IS THE SOUND OF THE BYRDS...
laura nyro ! my fav!