Cool British Singles Released in October 1966
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- Опубліковано 7 тра 2024
- Once again, it's time to revisit some cool British singles released in 1966.
October 1966 was a particularly excellent month for singles.
So, without further ado, let's take a look at some great British releases from October of that year.
I’m amazed at the incredible quality of your videos! Well reasearched, well narrated and great attention to detail! Interesting background footage and good original music! And, best of all, unlike most youtube videos nowadays the stories aren’t broken up with endless begging for likes! Well done keep up the good work!
Thank you very much! Glad you enjoy the videos.
Yes, I've discovered so many great songs. And the best of all, they all seem to be available on YT. I mean Yemm and the Yemen? Amazing! So much kudos for all your work.
It’s a shame there were only 12 months in the year - I’d happily watch more of these
I think a video about Penny Valentine would be interesting because she was such a part of the scene.
Yes! great idea! She' probably appears on the channel more than anybody.
A regular on Juke Box Jury. In 68 she appeared on New Release, where they judged singles. This show morphed into Time for Blackburn.
i was looking for a way to defend her even if i don't agree with her about track that came out around my 1st birthday. it's easy to look back 57 and a half years later and say she was wrong. she didn't have the gift of hindsight that i and millions of other rock fans have now. jeff beck was an upcoming guitarist in 66. he's a rock god in 2024!
Man, Penny must've hated 1967 if she had that reaction to that one song.
😂she did seem to fade in 67….
The way I see it, with this BAD review, Ms. Valentine really put the kibosh on the Yardbirds musical experimentation. Who knows what might have happened to them had they been reviewed by someone who liked Rock music instead of a MORish loving lady. Just my 2 cents
@@doccyclopz history has proved Penny wrong regarding that Yardbirds single.
Wow! 😍 You really can tell how good this late '66 music was... I love all these pre psychedelia sounds
Didn’t Boney M do a version of Painter man?
@@mygreatbigfoot1679 They mentioned that. But it was pretty weak, and comparatively innocent. They knocked out all the stuffing, and replaced it with nothing other than a very thin disco beat, making their version sound comparatively hollow, none of that thick bulky experimentation here.
Such a great time to be alive! The Hollies with new stuff, Cream's debut, great new stuff from the Easybeats and Spencer Davis,and new music from the Yardbids? Wow! Plus, BLOW UP was a great movie that should have won Oscars.
1966 was probably my favorite year for singles when I was growing up.
In 1966 I was 8 years old and I was offered singles I loved at the time : The Byrds : Eight Miles High/Why and The Who's : Happy Jack/Whiskey Man. I still love these bands and songs to this day. Thank you Yesterdays Papers for your great videos.
Thanks!
I’m the same age. Why did pop have such a profound effect on 8 year olds back then?
You were 8 years old and you loved Eight Miles High? It's hard to believe especially when I think of McGuinn's dissonant guitar solo.
@@mick1967 ...and I loved Crosby's Coltrane inspired guitar intro ! I had never heard anything like it at the time !
And Eric left the Yardbirds because he thought they were too pop???
Excellent coverage as usual..you are my favorite channel still.
Thanks!
I think he left them mainly because they didn’t get along all that well. He didn’t know what he had coming with Cream lol!
@@wilhelmhagberg4897 Eric could not have forseen that he was going to be in a group who were to shoot to huge international stardom, while that group he had by then for long left were to see their careers slide downward. Eric must have thought it was just as well he jumped ship, although by then twice. Of course, he may have been very prescient.
Funny to think that by the time Cream, The Hendrix Experience, Sgt. Pepper and the Summer of Love came about The Yardbirds had already come and gone. Talk about influential.
Yeah, they never get the credit they deserve, they wete huge innovators.
@@YesterdaysPapers Then it all ended up flourishing without them.
I guess by the end of october, Penny Valentine must've been pulling her hair out over Psychedelia 😂
Psychedelic was over too soon. She must have been relieved. Wonder if she likes Jazz? Thinking about it from her perspective perhaps she saw the prog rock writing on the wall? Perhaps it seemed as though the simplicity of rock and roll being lost in a rush of studio tricks and multitracks. With that I can agree. Can you imagine having a front row seat the on the UK beat scene in 1963 and by 67, realizing it was being left behind? A lot of people were not happy when the Beatles revealed their new Sargent Pepper look and sound. Take a look at the Dick Clark American Bandstand clip in which he premiered Penny Lane and Strawberry Fields. The audience reaction was quite mixed.
She the little fan girl obviously never tripped, and as such is not the one to talk about let alone review psychedelic records. Basically UK press always had their heads up their asses, legendary idiots. What did she say about Sgt Pepper? OOps I've been wrong all along??? 🎬
@@jody8526937 Psychedelic lasted another few years through early 70s. That Penny chick was stuck in Herman DC5 Beatles Hollies l'il girl mode, couldn't handle change. Drop NWA F*ck The Police on her back in '66 she would've died literally. 👀
I always open up a second UA-cam tab when I watch these to get the songs. Almost every song on there is something I never heard before and sounds amazing, banger after banger
I'm a 64 yr. old Californian and I agree with you and 100%!!!
Scratch the word 'and' 😅
Semi Detached Suburban Mr Jones featured Klaus Voorman on Bass guitar. He designed that crazy cover for the Beatles Revolver album released in August of 66.
i am surprised he didn't mention the title change
@@CarlDraper "Mr. Jones" was the original title of the song. However when Manfred Mann recorded it they changed it to "Mr. James" because they didn't want to give the impression that they were taking a dig a recently departed vocalist Paul Jones.
Penny Valentine was wrong. Psychadelic music is in fact very entertaining, much like this channel.
She didn't have such a good taste after all. How could she slam The Yardbirds' one.
I never heard of Him & The Others before this. Brilliant research thank you so very much!
One thing about the Hollies is that they knew how to put out quality material as singles. And I believe that having a Graham Nash as a songwriter kept them on that very high level.
Really good music here. I really enjoy The Yardbirds, Cream, and The Spencer Davis Group. Cheers! ✌️
So many great releases that month! I never knew the US issue of Gimme Some Lovin’ was given a different production treatment to the U.K. release… Steve Winwood’s amazing Hammond organ playing on this song is still thrilling - 58 years on!
Miller did an interesting job on the U.S. remix , the U.K. (European) version is more direct ,thankfully none of that "hey" and singelong stuff to tempt U.S. audiences.
Miller did an interesting job on the U.S. remix , the U.K. (European) version is more direct ,thankfully none of that "hey" and singelong stuff to tempt U.S. audiences.
Wonderful journey into the intricacies of British beat music circa 1966. I’m always transported for a moment to my childhood when all this stuff was new. As a child I knew the era was exciting in a way I couldn’t describe. I was nostalgic for mid sixties by 1970-71.
Great channel! Very good work and lots of fun; lots of memories.
Thanks.
Exquisitely fascinating episode! So glad you included Spencer Davis Group’s Gimme Some Lovin.’ I was not previously aware of the reasoning for the re-cut U.S. release. Very prescient that the United Artists label demanded a fuller-sounding version, which probably changed the course of music history. I do remember some of these singles here in the U.S., from late 1966 and early 1967, like Stop Stop Stop, Friday On My Mind, See See Rider, and the aforementioned Gimme Some Lovin,’ (US version), as a young pre-teen back then. What a fabulous time for music! 👍
Cheers, glad you enjoyed the video.
'Friday On My Mind' will remain brilliant for all time, 'Stop Stop Stop' is great too.
Of the lesser-known tracks, the Wolves and Mockingbirds sound the most appealing.
As always great programme and a chance to hear some awesome rare singles 1966 definitely was a great year for music even though I was only 6 years of age at the time
I love to see all these pictures and videos from a time when my mother was pregnant with me. What a great time it was in retrospection. For my young parents (19 and 22 years) it wasn't that great. They had to work hard to support their small family with only little help from their parents.
Greetings from a young 40 year old Mod from Australia! When Painter Man was released by Larry's Rebels in 1967 in New Zealand - as the first ever cover version of the song BEFORE Boney M - it was pulled off the radio after receiving ONE complaint! 😅
At least it got enough airplay for me to still remember it now!
How exciting that this cool music came out in the month and year that I was born!
I don't know if this is correct but Manfred Mann's song was originally going to be called Semi-Detached Suburban Mr Jones but Paul Jones left the group so the title was changed from Mr Jones to Mr James so has not to make it appear that the band had a grudge against Paul
Happenings Ten Years Time Ago was a revelation of what a guitar break could be. Of course it was too wild and different to ever be Top 10, but it's still known and played.
This was really enjoyable. I turned six years old that month. I saw a picture of Barry Mason in front of George Harrison's Esher bungalow (it was demolished several years ago). I notice there are no American artists in the lineup this time around. I first heard of the Creation in the 90s and have grown to love them. They went unnoticed here in the States. Penny Valentine is quite witty with her words. FYI Question Mark and the Mysterians were Mexican-Americans from Michigan and part of a subgenre called Chicano Rock. Blow Up is one of my all-time favorite films.
This is a truly interesting group of songs. I especially like the "Him and the Others's" songs.
Brilliant single.
I suspect that if you put a copy up for £700 it would be snapped up straight away.
The next lesson of Dr. 60s music yesterdays paper! Thanks for a lot of well narrated informations, as usual. What an incredible bunch of great singles issued in only o n e month! Proud that The Creation had their only Top-ten hit here in Germany! Still unforgotten here in the land of strain and ink.
"Gimmie Some Lovin'" was, and still is, spectacular! One of the best songs if all time. Eighteen year old Stevie Winwood, wow!
As for the rest.... 🙄
Love this channel full of info and trivia I never knew! Brilliant 👍👍
Knowin' a lot of this music, it's funny how time slips away (sorry Willie) but never realized, how short this magical moment was. Thanx for your content.
The Easybeats!!!!!! "Friday on My Mind" IS ONE OF THE GREATEST '60s RECORDS!!! (Apologies for the all caps, my proud Aussie bias took over). Thanks as usual Y.P! (P.S don't forget to update your 1966 playlist as you add your new videos, or I'll send me Mum around to tell you to turn down your music - you've been warned!)
Baby Bolan 😍 Excellent YP once again. Thank you so much for existing!
I had to log in just to leave a comment YP. I just couldn't let such a fantastic effort into a video, so clearly full of love, time, devotion and care not get my tip of the hat, and respect. Some really deep cuts in this vid and you clearly know your stuff. Top marks, and I haven't subscribed to anyone in ages, but you deserve it man. Well done. 👏
Thank you very much!
As usual this is a superb effort from one of my favorite channels. I had no idea “Gimme some Lovin” was released in two different version!
Not only is 'Friday On my Mind' a great song, the writers, George Young & Harry Vanda wrote the equally great 'Love Is In The Air,' for John Paul Young a decade later.
That's a real surprise. Never bwould I have guessed that there was any connection between the Easybeats and Paul Young.
Brother of Malcolm and Angus of ACDC and Stevie Wright was considered to be a replacement for Bon Scott but because he was cut from the same self destructive cloth they went with Brian johnson instead.
@@John_Fugazzi "John Paul Young", not "Paul Young".
@@nicktamer4969From that look in your eye. I can tell you're gonna cry.
Interesting stuff!! That Cat's Squirrel song sounded really familiar. I think my older brother and his friends might have learned that one.
Cat's Squirrel was recorded by Jethro Tull 2 years later on their debut album. Great song.
Another great video! I love this series. Thanks so much for all the hard work and top quality vids.
Cheers.
Many thanks for another great video. A few points;
The Rolling Stones were the first to record that Chris Farlowe track. But it was not on Aftermath. It was not then released in the UK, but eventually appeared in the States on their Flowers album, likewise their original recording of Sitting On A Fence, also not then released in the UK.
Three of The Eaaybeats, including their lead singer, a certain Steve Wright were British, and the other two were Dutch, but all met in Australia. Steve died a few years ago, while his DJ namesake passed more recently.
The Montanas' single here was originally recorded in the States by The Grains Of Sand, written over there by The Addrisi Brothers who were writing some of the U.S. hits for The Association (E.G. Never My Love), and as recording artists in their own right, recorded the original of Cherry Stones, covered over here by The Searchers.
You can see how quick The Spencer Davis Group were to follow their disappointing last single, as this was a much stronger choice altogether, obviously realizing that to keep at the top of the game, they were going to have to come out with something much stronger, and this returned them to the top three. After one more massive hit, Steve very suddenly jumped ship, obviously realizing the change in direction of the music scene, yet still not quite 19.
The Manfred Mann single was their second of which lead singer Paul Jones and Mike Vickers were replaced by Mike D'Abo and Klaus Voormann respectively. Klaus was also a well known artist, and designed the cover of The Beatles' Revolver album, and the Bee Gees' 1967 album Bee Gees 1st. During the seventies, after moving to the States, he was bassist on Lou Reed's Transformer album, and on Carly Simon's You're So Vain, even playing the famous bass intro on it.
As for the Creation single, this is what it sounded like without the overdubbed cello, an electric guitar played with a violin bow, and the Kinks' soundalike backing harmonies. I don't know why they never hit the big time.
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Cheers Paul. You're right, "Ride on Baby" was on "Flowers". For some reason, I misremembered "Ride on Baby" as one of those songs that was on the UK version of "Aftermath" but not on the US version.
@@YesterdaysPapers I understand the confusion. Chris' last single before Out Of Time WAS his version of another Stones' Aftermath track called Think. Before then, he had a series of UK singles on other labels, but never got near to a hit. This was before his days with The Stones.
The greatest year in music history I very much doubt will be beat.
What a joy to watch. The energy and creativity of these bands leap from the screen and knock you backwards.
Almost as fascinating are the press cuttings which aren't highlighted, showing singles from the likes of Unit 4 Plus 2 getting two-line reviews as they slowly sank into obscurity. Another record given short shrift was Boulevard de la Madeleine by the Moody Blues, who would have to do something daft like invent a genre called progressive rock if we were ever to hear from them again.
I was born that month and year so this was fun to watch, lots of great songs here. Managed to find one single released on the day even, "A Hazy Shade of Winter" by Simon & Garfunkel.
Love this channel
Man, i listened to the music all thru that decade (bought my first 45 at age 5) and most of these i never heard. I did watch the Easybeats video on Ron Chapman’s Sumpin’ Else out of WFAA Dallas in the ‘60’s-a regional American Bandstand type of show. GoGo dancer Joanie was a favorite 😍
Beck and page and Clapton, just 3 of many amazing British guitar masters. Rory Gallagher was jimi Hendrix favourite guitar player. Thats really cool x
That makes about 20 guitarists who were 'Hendrix favourite guitar player'
@@sg-yq8pm Yep, every 60s guitarist's fans say Hendrix said they were the best player in the world when asked who was. All nonsense of course. Gallagher was still virtually unknown by the time Hendrix died in 19 70.
Another great video covering a great musical year. I remember reading Penny's reviews in Disc like it was yesterday.
Thank you for including The Easybeats in this October releases as three of the group members were originally from the UK and two from the Netherlands. I was more inspired by the lesser known tracks by The Creation, Mockingbirds, Wolves, Him And The Others and The Montanas.
Yeah, but they were and called themselves Aussies!
@@markhill9275 They didn't want to be classed as British, as they wanted to represent Australia. Should read Stevie Wright's biography called 'Hard Road', quite sad.
@@dja69 I assume you are not referring to his Steve Wright In The Afternoon namesake.
@@paulgoldstein2569 The biography called "Hard Road: The Life and Times of Stevie Wright" by Glenn Goldsmith.
Fantastic selection this month - thanks!
Wow ! What a month ! Your usual fantastic job.
Cheers!
The whole Jimmy Page/Late Yardirds thing has never garnered enough respect from critics I think it deserves. I mean, his playing is brilliant, the songs are fast-paced and fun, and there's NOTHING wrong with their achieving whatever commercial success they enjoyed--that's what you're SUPPOSED TO do in pop, make songs people dig. A shame, too, that The Creation never made it, same with The Action. It surpasses understanding how no record company jumped all over those bands and marketed them HARD. They were a lot better than a LOT of bands with GRAMMYS, much less record deals. It would be brilliant, btw, if the channel ended up doing the ENTIRE 1960s.
I agree 100%.
They were great musicians but I don’t think the song writing was up to par. Another problem is that they didn’t have a clear musical identity, with some rootsy blues, some mod music and some psychedelia. However it was well spent time as all of them went on to great careers.
@@YesterdaysPapers I hope that extends to the last part about doing the entire decade (he said, fingers crossed). 🤞🏿
@@wilhelmhagberg4897 I dunno, I like a lot of the psychedelic songs--just about all of them, in fact.
@@dantean I'll do 1968 after 1966.
October '66, man. It's definitely a contender for greatest month of the year, although February and June give it some stiff competition. But there's no question that psychedelia is gaining momentum here with not just established bands like The Yardbirds (Penny Valentine's reaction is hilarious and annoying at the same time, as this was one of the greatest singles of the 60s!), but lesser-known acts like The Creation, The Wolves, Him And The Others, The Montanas (that guitar solo is *killer* ! Very Hendrixian, just before Hendrix), Barry Mason, and one fascinating single I'd never heard of by Yemm and the Yemen. Some really far out, ear-splitting guitar sounds and other effects, and even the poppier hits by The Hollies and Manfred Mann were getting more experimental. It's just all so exciting!! This is what the promise of the 60s was all about. The one that's a bit strange, to me at least, is Eric Burdon's "Help Me Girl"--it's good, but it's a rather conventional blue-eyed soul number when I thought the whole reason Burdon broke up the original Animals was that he wanted to go in a more experimental/psychedelic direction (which of course, he finally would a few months later). I see you left out Donovan (although "Mellow Yellow" was an Oct release only in the US), The Majority, The Fingers, and Tuesday's Children, but none of those singles (outside of "Mellow") are all that important. We're nearing the end of '66 but still have two fantabulous months left, both steering right in the direction of 1967, with November seeing releases from The Kinks, The Small Faces, The Alan Price Set, The Fleur-De-Lys (a freakbeat classic), Episode Six, Thane Russal, Twice As Much, Five's Company, The Attraction, Magic Lanterns, The Young Idea (esp the B-side), The Bystanders, Allen Pounds Get Rich (fantastic!!), The Pandamonium (decent Donovan cover), Mike Stuart Span, Eyes Of Blue, The Human Instinct, Katch 22 ("Major Catastrophe" is a great fuzz-rocker), The Score (interesting mod/freakbeat cover of "Please Please Me") and The Gnomes Of Zurich (another notable B-side). Whew! I already can't wait. EXCELLENT work, as usual.
Cheers Spirit! October was indeed one of the greatest months of 1966 when it comes to singles.
Yesterday's Paper, you just get better ! My playlist consists of most your tunes featured, last episode was brilliant (Where the Good Times Are, Neighbor Neighbor...) Carry on highlighting the best era of music for us, peace and love man
Cheers!
another great job man...thanks
Let me say this about the year 1966. There were a lot of innovative songs, with lyrics about politics or LSD and use of sitar and other experimental sounds, and some of these recordings sold quite well in the US. However, we placed these recordings in the category of "novelty". They sold because they were fresh and different. If any of us realized these songs were pointing towards the future such people were very few indeed. We could go to the store and purchase "Shapes of things" or "Over under sideways down" and purchase in the same lot bubblegum, corn, pop without considering the older styles moribund. During the first half of 1966 the recordings in general tended to be very typical of the styles that had flourished in 1964 and 1965. A lot of jangly British Invasion imitations and a lot of crude garage rock. Only at the very end of 1966 did many of us begin to suspect that psychedelia was not just a novelty and rather might be the new normal in the near future. It was "We ain't got nothin' yet" (released in October 1966, national hit by February) that woke everyone up. There was no hearing this major hit without realizing that the happy carefree jangly sound of 1964-65-early 1966 was hopelessly out of date.
It's been a while since I said so, but the gal who does Penny Valentine's voice does a wonderful job. This episode where she was was annoyed by the vapidness of the current psychedelia was esp. impressive acting.
Good Video, YP. The various versions of "Gimme Some Lovin' by The Spencer Davis Group are both solid in my opinion but I grew up with the US version so that that is the version I am used to. Love The Easybeats single. "Stop, Stop, Stop" by The Hollies is another favorite. Finally, in my opinion, whoever decided the Manfred Mann shouldn't be released in the US made a mistake because their version was definitely superior to the American cover version.
Finally my month! Great episode, for multiple reasons :-)
Very engrossing videos.All kudos to you!
I love your videos, As a psychedelic fan you have helped me provide info for my channel. Great editing, Cant wait for your next video.
Cheers.
some good stuff here with excellent presentation
Great days,and not just for music,in many many many ways.
I love these vids, though they do make me sad about the state fo today's pop music when you compare the creativity of back then to the blandness of today. Looking forward to November :)
Hey "Made My Bed" is a focking CELESTIAL tune, right there. I didn't think the Easybeats would ever get a mention, but now I'm so glad. You're one of the people who know.
Well, Ms Valentine was spot on. That 1966 cacophony of a "song" beating the crap out of that annoying tritone was headache material. She must've really put the kibosh on the Yardbirds "musical" experimentation and that is a good thing considering that the music started getting better and so did the Yardbirds who got their act together and produced some truly good sounds. Thank you Ms Valentine because who knows what other LSD was all the rage then and the music resonated that crazy vibe.
Dissonance refers to a lack of harmony or a combination of sounds that create tension, unease, or a sense of discord. It is often used to describe music that intentionally incorporates clashing or unresolved musical elements, resulting in an unsettling or jarring effect and that is exactly what that music is in my humble opinion.
That being said there are elements of the music that I like despite the hyper- dissonance any arrhythmic beat. They were talented musicians experimenting with groundbreaking technology, amplification, that changed to sound of music forever. LSD was a mind boggling thing tearing the fabric of the society.
Jeff Beck and the rest were talented musicians and luckily they got their act together and produced some classics. Ms Valentine was probably speaking for the vast majority of people who would not buy or listen to that kooky stuff, but they did catapult those cats to the top.
I saw Jeff Beck play "Little Wing" on some TV show and he was super impressive indeed. Jazz declined even though the artists were top notch. What replaced it was a more approachable music that could be danced to, with the new sound of amplified bass which was a revolution in music and amplified guitar that replaced the sax. The overtones created by distortion from the amplifier made many instruments redundant. One guy with a guitar could now pull a "Jimi Hendrix" rich harmonics ringing out through an effects loop. Lennon thought it was like the musical Renaissance.
Terrific video, as usual.
Well, I'm freaking out listening to all the treasure from this month. What a cornucopia of wonderful songs, one after another. Keep 'em coming YP. You're the best deejay on UA-cam. Thank you for a 20 minute masterpiece.
Only one drop of rain on this parade. Penny, how could you do this to me with your total dismissal of this GREAT Yardbirds' track?? I really enjoy your reviews, but girl, get with it.
Cheers! Yeah, Penny Valentine was a huge soul/rock/pop fan but she never really cared for psychedelia.
Penny won't read that, as she has for long passed. But maybe her soul will read it.
@@paulgoldstein2569 Yes, I know. I was using poetic license, or whatever it is called. But yes, it is possible that Penny, in her new body, will read this. She should be just over 21 years old so she or he is the right age to be clicking on YP's music posts.
Bryn Yemm Abergavenny boy and proud of it still, performing today, ace guy who has never forgotten his Welsh roots despite being an internationally known cabaret artist for many years, thanks for mentioning him and that under rated single!
Super stuff as always...thanks
How funny Eric could change his mind in a so short period of time. He leaved a band because he said they became too commercial and then, he needed to go commercial with another band...
Anyway, great job, once again.
Wow! This has to be my favorite episode. Oct6ober '66 was my first semester in college and hearing this batch of songs reminds me why. I loved the Yardbirds and Easybeats, but I've been trying to find that 'She's Got Eyes' for years. I first heard it by the Lyres live at the Rat in Boston where I found out that it was a cover, but I never found out the name of the original band until now. The drums and guitar are particularly addictive for me. Thanks YP!
Cheers!
Clapton changed his tune pretty quickly.
The year before he didn't like that the Yardbirds were doing "for your Love" a vastly superior song to "Wrapping paper".That's Clapton for you.
So many great tracks! nice roundup
Brilliant as always, thanks YP!
From the snippet of the US version played, I'm sticking with the original arrangement of Gimme Some Lovin'
Yeah, I very much prefer the UK version too.
@@YesterdaysPapers And me.
American here, born in 1980, grew up on "oldies" radio. I don't think I've ever heard the UK version of "Gimme Some Lovin'" once in my entire life. What is this strange alternate universe I've found myself in? If you're not used to the US version, I can see why that mix would sound weird, but all I can think of when I hear the UK version is "Needs more cowbell!"
@@PartTimeBuddhist
Nah, the US version over produced.
It's like having a curry and someone piling a load of strawberry ice cream on top.
There's a great live version of 'Happening's' with just Jimmy playing on his mirrored Telecaster on youtube. And I remember watching the Jimmy/Jeff version on American TV(ABC?) when this single was released, very bad black and white video of them lip synching. The Blow Up film clip is STILL classic. Thanks YP.
John's Children were phenomenal !
If Penny Valentine did not think that single was clever, she should have retired from Music completely.
Maybe it she got a bit caught up in her self importance. Not uncommon for music critics to think that their opinions are more important than the music. Having said that she's not usually like that.
YESTERDAY'S PAPERS, I've had an idea... I was thinking a great video for your channel could be focusing on unreleased albums or tracks between 1966-69 which have now been unearthed and given proper releases. An example such as The Actions - Rolled Gold ; Ace Kefford - The Lost 1968 Tapes etc... I know this video needs an awesome creator like you, however as always just a suggestion❤
Another great job! The music is -- like always -- great...but the commentary is what really makes these efforts exceptional!
Excellent episode YP! What's great about this is highlighting the legendary hits of 66 while also giving us the incredible sounds that failed to chart. Yep, why in heavens didn't they when in retrospect they were great? A thought left after this is whatever happened to these blokes who tragically only missed out? A theme for a new YP series? Anyway, great stuff. ❤
Cheers!
Great great great video of records I've loved for a long time. Well done as always. Thought: Chris F couldn't keep a career going because he never smiled on television. It's not even that he frowned but more like an actual SNEER. I may have put this theory out there before in your comments section but after all of these psychedelics, who can remember? Am keeping my fingers crossed for a video from you covering Zoot Money and Dantalion's Chariot and Zoot joining the Animals for some very excellent records. Who else could tackle such a subject???
October 1966 was a month full of bad news with the 23rd Street Fire that killed 12 Firefighters in New York City and in Aberfan Wales a mountain of coal slab became a avalanche killing over 100 Children in a school so something good was needed and the British music scene produced greatly that month. The Creation with its loud sound is one of the most underrated groups of that era and Painter Man is a masterpiece and the B side of that record would cheer any one up. The Hollies Stop Stop Stop is one of their best so is the Yardbirds Happenings Ten Years Time Ago. I see the Australian group the Easy Beats were releasing their great song Friday On My Mind while US President Johnson was visiting their Country and Eric Burdon and Manfred Mann and the Spencer Davis Group were releasing high quality records. Yesterday's Papers you were spot on in saying there were a lot of great records released in October 1966.
Been rough couple of days for me, thank you for posting videos such as this, it helps my mood.
Best post yet!
Top shelf as ever. Oct 66 was a great month for music. Incredible Mockingbirds never charted.
Penny valentine was a drag a well known drag we use to turn dow the sound on the telly and make rude comments about her 😊 Thanks YP Cheers !
Great Beatles reference! Thanks.
Cheers Jerry.
We only tend to remember the successful songs and so we think some bands always had successful songs. It's interesting to be reminded they had failures too.
I was growing up in Germany in 1966. Many British singles were better known in Germany than here in the US. OMG… I’d forgotten all about Painter Man! It’s one of many great songs that just doesn’t get played on Oldie Stations here. Thanks for jogging my memory!
Respected music journalist Penny Valentine was clearly struggling with the new psychedelic sounds coming her way. And that's a pity because this episode once again shows what peerless singles were allowed to see the light of day! By now, I too know my way around quite well but that single by The Wolves, "Lust For Life" had not reached my ears before 👂! Fascinating! I recently saw the cult film 'Blow Up' at an alternative film house here in town. Very much worth seeing! Yesterday's Papers, thanks very much again for all your hard work! Much appreciated! Greetings, Edwin
Cheers Edwin!
Brought the memories flooding back. Great work again. Kudos.
Thanks.
I always loved Friday on my Mind, I really loved the guitar and backing vocals….pretty cool b-side
This is my reply to a replier under the name of vikingbeard from September 1966 video, which I could not return there, as it would not submit. I have had this problem with UA-cam in the past. It was in relation to Herman's Hermits' No Milk Today. I stated it sounds a million times better than anywhere else on their double CD on the German Bear Family label 50th Anniversary Anthology, which is an official release. All the tracks on it are properly remastered for the first time from the original session tapes, therefore excluding overdubbed echo and reverb, so you get a drier and clearer sound, often with full endings for the first time, some of them unfaded, and bits of glorious studio chatter at the beginning of some of the tracks, many in stereo for the first time anywhere, plus two previously unreleased February 1964 demos, licensed by Peter Noone himself. Even the master tape owners EMI have always poorly remastered the tracks, even for the band's box set. This track not only sounds drier and clearer there, but you get the full ending with the extra instrumental string passage at the end before it fades, which itself helps to make this track a million times better there. Peter himself explains in the booklet that he forgot just how great these tracks sounded when they originally recorded them, until he finally heard them here. But it misses one of my favorites of theirs, Man With The Cigar. Vikingbeard replied @paulgoldstein2569 Thanks, that's very interesting. Had a look at the Bear Family site and seems they have released lots of old stuff. Do you know if everything is remastered as well as the HH CD?
I copy-pasted the reply I was trying to send in my computer notebook, and copy-pasted it from there to here.
@vikingbeard Indeed it was all excellently remastered. They are independent, but do licensing deals with other labels to obtain original masters, labels such as Sun, Sony, EMI, and Universal, and other top labels. Whenever they issued box sets by top artists, they were literally complete collections of every recording by that artist, including previously unreleased recordings. But unfortunately, their box set prices eventually became ABSOLUTELY EXTORTIONATE, even through Amazon. They did not start off like that. They were based in Germany. But the cheapest way to get them in the UK is from their official UK distributors, Rollercoaster Records. For a while, they stopped distributing them in the UK, and then started again. You can contact their website. They may send you a Bear Family catalog, like they did with me in the past. I think a lot of their box sets are now deleted, but would have sold in far greater quantities if they were cheaper.
They started reissuing Country, then branched into Rock 'N' Roll, and then occasionally, Soul. Most of what they reissued was American. Maybe Raucous Records would be a good bet, but I think they specialize mostly Fifties Rock 'N' Roll.
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But the few later CDs I bought on that label did not seem to give the same sound quality as the earlier ones. Maybe because they were a small label licensing tracks from major labels, they found that licensing original session tapes was getting expensive, and maybe that's why they pushed up the prices of their CDs. It may be that Richard Weise no longer runs the label, or maybe being based in Germany caused problems. I think the Herman's Hermits double CD was among the last really great sounding CDs they ever released. Here, most of the masters were licensed from EMI.
3:43 - "October 1966 saw the release of one of the most aggressive and psychotic British singles of 1966." I love it that you employ the word "psychotic" as a compliment. LOL!
Since I was a kid in the 60s its always intrigued me that it seems that the 'hit', is this intangible thing that seems to be a combination of things and hit or miss, roll of the dice as much as skill. You know a hit when you hear it - er, ummm, most of the time that is. I remember seeing Aerosmith as the warm up act for Ray Davies at a local college. No one I knew had heard of them but I nearly lost my mind with enthusiasm, absolutely flummoxed by the lack of enthusiasm of the people I attended the show with. 'They're gonna be the next Stones" I cried ! ,'You don't you se it,
how can you not see it ?'. Crickets.
Conversely, i walked out, with in minutes, of three Ramones shows,.I thought 'no way'. Wrong. Over all, I had a very good track record of knowing a hit when I heard it but I couldn't say though what it was about the recording that made it so. Of course there's a big difference when you're throwing down large sums of cash to back your 'feeling' with a record contract and hearing a tune on the AM radio, declaring 'This ones gonna be a HIT' while mom is calling out 'dinners ready'. Chemistry, cohesion, 'tight-ness', a catchy riff or lyric and on and on ?
Of course I wasn't the one who picked these bands first, or their songs. I was only hearing them because someone else had already picked them and hired them / recorded them but I've always enjoyed the game of 'pick the hit' and watching it slide up the charts. The drone of '96 Tears' (yup, I bought that 45 too), the stomping feet in 'Glad All Over' (still have my DC5 45s)
I mean how in the hell, what in the hell ... ? Its been reported that Richards didn't care much for his 'Satisfaction' riff so whats that say about the process of hit making ? Of course if could be codified it, it would be a great college elective course, something one could study. I suppose the first hula-hoop, pet rock etc., was no different. Hard to say what turns on the 'public' in a way where something becomes a huge overnight sensation, be it a pop song hit or the next pet rock. Instinctual maybe?
Love your videos.
Thanks Bobby!
"The Perfumed Garden (82 Rare Flowerings from the British Underground 1965-73)" is a good CD boxset source for some of these great singles.
Thanks for the tip! I’d forgotten about that compilation.
Some amazing obscure tracks. Whoever is choosing them has great taste. Some of these tracks never even made it onto the Chocolate Soup for Diabetics series.
Thanks.
The chorus of Painter Man consists mainly of the beginning of the German children song Hänschen klein with the pitch sequence in reverse.
Some more "exciting" records from October 1966 : "IN 19 DAYS" from The Dave Clark Five, "LOOKING BACK" from John Mayall''s Bluesbreakers and "TAKE ME INTO YOUR EYES" from Roy Harper.