Paul Revere & the Raiders -The Smothers Brothers Show - 1967
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- Опубліковано 4 лют 2009
- The controversial TV show The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour provided a perfect setting for Paul Revere & the Raiders in early 1967. Both the Raiders and the Smothers Brothers, (Tom & Dick) were at their zenith. Looking completely sleek, lean and mean in their cool and sexy streamlined white tights and hip-length white velvet jackets, tailored to the max, the Raider's showmanship and musical tightness on this version of their hit "Ups and Downs," is unsurpassed by any rock band of their day. Little wonder they were the most visible band of the 60's. Over 750 television airings. "This is America's number #1 show band" according to legendary keyboardist, Paul Shaffer, of the Late Night Letterman show. Band members included: Paul Revere,(keyboard) Mark Lindsay, (vocals) Jim "Harpo" Valley, (Guitar) Mike "Smitty" Smith (Drums) and Phil "Fang" Volk, (Bass Guitar & vocals). Other guests that night were Barbara Eden & Carl Reiner.
I was 10 during this show. I begged my dad to let us watch them every time they were on TV. Hard to imagine now that the Vietnam war was raging ( my brother was a Green Beret waiting to go to Asia) and the country was tearing itself apart. Yet these guys let you forget about all that for 3 minutes at a time. What an era. Saw them one late night playing a bar in Reno 10 years later, couldn't have been 10 people watching. They belong in the Hall of fame while Mark Lindsay is still kicking!
@ Vince Thanks to your brother for his faithful service to our great country.
Only 10 people. Wow. That sounds so sad. I saw them probably 20 years ago at a fair near Charleston SC.
I was 10 also. They were great on the Radio, but they were THE Band at that time all over the 16, and other, magazines at the Grocery store. Tiger Beat, etc, usually an alternating Month on the cover with The Monkees. I would laff at the story titles, "What are Mark's Deepest LovexSecrets", uck. They had one cool story about one of them at Army Boot camp.
Yeah ..pop music helped to divert attention from Washington's crimes. For example , The Beatles came as called for to sooth a nation reeling from the assassination of Kennedy . It seemed as if the world forgot about it , as if nothing had happened.
While the U.S. had experienced a military coup , and slowly but surely became a one party state , where both allowed political parties allow the Pentagon unconditional unlimited access to the people's treasury, which usually is the privilege of one party states.
Since those days everywhere you look in the U.S. you encounter uniforms .
No surprise also that the two allowed political parties have to acknowledge the military during their four yearly "election" circus.
An independent political party that doesn't acknowledge "Our Fine Military" won't ever be allowed to enter the Capitol.
All with "God's Blessings" ofcourse.......
I watched them on any show after looking in the TV GUIDE. My Dad wanted to know why and I would just say " oh some group". Then he'd groan when they came on. 😊
Everybody needs to remember that Rock and Roll was only about 10 years old when the Beatles, the Raiders and the rest, came to play! They ALL were very new, very cool, very mod, and were something no one had seen before! Because of these 60s rock bands, our generation got to enjoy some of the greatest music of all time!
Oh, man..I LOVED this band!! Still loving it in 2022. Mark Lindsay was absolutely SMOKIN'!! Sounds great 55 years later! 🤗💕
One of the great American bands of the 1960s. I always loved those revolutionary war outfits. Whenever they played, they looked like they were enjoying themselves.
I am 58 saw Lindsey in concert, They are so great, man do I
wish I could go back to the 60s. Nothing like it, before or ever
will be again.
Let's make a push to get these guys in the rock and roll hall of fame
How about we just push the Hall into Lake Erie and start over?
Just 1 of way too many that should be there!
they were pretty bad compared to other groups from that time.
Their later albums were so good.
@@suspenso1313 - Put the mistake in the lake!
those dance steps .and play at the same time..this band was way ahead of its time🤗
Tights, boots, ruffled shirts and long hair. Who could ask for anything more?
PERFECT ✌️😎♥️🙏🇺🇸🌷🌼🌺🌻🌸☯️🕉☮️💟
And....Dancing guitarists!
@@mudhens4ever I could watch those two for hours!
But I don't wanna be a pirate!
Super cool
used to rush home from school to watch "Where the Action Is" so I could see this band
Ditto, on KABC-TV, Channel 7, Los Angeles.
Me too also shindig with jimmy o niel
@@daveyhouston And The Lloyd Thaxton Show on KCOP-TV, Channel 13, Los Angeles.
Same here! couldn't wait to watch it!
Watched them on "Where the Action Is" in NJ, I believe on WABC, Channel 7, NYC!!
Fantastic!!
I love this band. I used to run home from school and watch "Where the Action Is" after school with my 3 friends to hear The Raiders play their music. 😁😁😁😁
Man I was born in the wrong era. This music is over 40 years old and it's still great. Great talent, great musicianship..... you just don't see this anymore. This is what FUN is all about.
You were
One of the BEST American RR bands out of the mid to late 1960s!! Bar none........
I knew these albums front to back when I was a kid. Played em on the living-room Hi-Fi console. Good times.
LOVED this band!!! These guys were OUR band in the sixties. Incredible charisma, great showmanship, Mark was sexy as all hell, even his voice, wow, and I was only ten then!! Miss Paul, he just passed last night.
harpo and fang dancin up a storm,,,,amazing......they were awesome..!
And there goes my babyboom childhood! Thanks Mr.Revere for doing your part to help tame mankind and making the sixties a bit more fun...
"Paul Revere and the Raiders are my Beatles."
Your so right it's a joke that their not in the rock n roll Hall if famen. T
By far my favorite band from the 60s, America's Beatles '
@@garygrotz9793 You HAVE to be kidding!
Beatles can't compare
They need to be in the rock hall of fame.
Absolutely !
They're not?
@@RandyFricke no they are not, crazy.
Too late - Paul is gone.. RRHOF = what will it do for them? More tourists? There's really no cred there mostly $$$$$
have you seen the latest inductees? Dolly Parton. Eminem. it's watered down. it's just a business now and no longer has much if any meaning.
RIP Paul...thanks for the great sounds when I was a teenager in the 60's !
They stand alone,and truly one of those great feel good bands....Fantastic Footwork!!!!!
These guy's where really underrated. They had some really great songs.
Mark Lindsay and his pony tail: made me love long hair. The perfect front man.
He flubbed the lyric. Still, the vid is fabulous, and the lyric "So much pain upon this earth, girl I've had my money's worth" is as good as it gets!
His wig was hilarious. 🎶
actually his pony tail was just a hair piece.
@@cruzsilva5004 oy, tell me it ain’t so!
@@alolsen339 I know - I was so in love with him back then. The queue was so cool.
It’s nice to see from my now advanced age, that my young self had great taste. Mark Lindsay was damn fine. 😍😍😍😍😍. RIP Paul, thanks for the great music.
Fine indeed and still is.
Yup, Mark was definitely eye candy with a great r&r voice.
to paul revere thank you, for all the great times and music...
I'm in my 60s and still in love with Mark Lindsay. Awesome. 💖💕😘
Me too.
I’m 69 got airplane strike album for my 14th birthday present
Join the club
I am in my 70’s and still in love with him!
RIP Paul.
We thank you for great memories and a better era of music.
What you did will live forever.
Mr. Lindsay, you are the most handsome man on the earth. I have had a crush on you for 50 years. You and the Raiders need to be in the Rock n Roll hall of fame. Thank you for all the wonderful daydreams.
This was the classic lineup of Paul Revere and The Raiders and at their peak of cool!
Almost except for Levin.
@@jerryfay7517 Yes, Harpo was very good but many Raiders fans saw Drake as exceptional.
@@basilmarasco1975 Exactly. Drake was the Man, quintessential lead guitarist of the mid-60's who inspired Jimi Hendrix.
The R&R HOF is an organization of WORTHLESS CREDIBILITY as long as Paul Revere and the Raiders aren't a member!! IMHO this is the most underrated rock/pop group of all-time!! Mark Lindsay was one of the greatest lead-vocalists in rock history and the band had a WONDERFUL catalog of groovy, good-time hit songs!! Whenever I go to California in the summer and I head down to the beach I ALWAYS have Paul Revere songs in my head---their sound just captures that good vibes fun in the sun partying free spirit so perfectly!! An AWESOME band that gets overlooked nowadays--and that is SUCH a CRIME!!
nyterpfan You are a poor evaluator music artists. There was nothing special about them or their music.
Laraine Hutchinson I disagree strongly---so perhaps YOU are the poor evaluator of music!! Beauty is ultimately in the eye of the beholder so technically neither you nor I are "right" or "wrong." This ends the debate.
I was nine and my first record was Beatles. Then Stones. Then Paul Revere and the Raiders and I was hooked on them every bit as much. The vocals were great, lead guitars were great. Songs were inspiring. Just had the Dick Clark touch to them heck he produced them but they were a very good band.
Nicky Minaj will get in before these guys. Her butt is true talent...barf!!! Fuck the R&R HOF!!!!!!
must be they aren't getting in because there are a lot younger bands that got in. they are kind of r +b, pop. kind of corny. but excellent musicians, I'd put them in before some of the other pop and rap groups they've put in
Best 60s show band and should be in the rock and roll hall of fame
RIP Paul Revere. Thanks for the music.
And Smitty
And Drake, though he's not in this one.
They belong in the Rock and Roll Hall Of Fame.
Some great footwork by those two!
Phil was so smooth and very cool
Oh, does that bring back GOOD memories 😍😋
O MY GOD!!! DO YOU REALIZE THE MEMORIES THAT ARE POURING OUT OF MY HEAD RIGHT NOW???? i STILL LOVE THE RAIDERS!!!
One of their best. Brings back a lot of good memories.
Geeze, Mark looks great in this clip! Well, he always did, but he looks even better than normal! I saw him in person 3 times- when I was 8, 14 and about 15 years ago. He's one of the most beautiful men I've ever seen.....Great band, too! :)
I loved them since I was 12 yrs old and I used to read about them in Sixteen Magazine and watch them on Where the Action Is!
The Raiders were one of the premiere bands that some individuals thought were a touch gimmicky. But they were EXCELLENT musicians. And Mark Lindsey is arguably the best front man, if not one of the best, during the great 60s band era.
Hats off to the band. They deserved the R&RHOF.
Get with it Cleveland!!!!!
But Kiss who did the same thing to a greater extreme, that ok, wonder 🤔 where they got their idea? And giving some of the groups that have been inducted , really Mary J Blige, rock & roll I think not
Yeah, they were such good musicians that they didn't even need to plug their guitars in to get sound out of them. Or were they the first users of wireless technology in rock and roll?
@@patlatorres7000 do your research before talkin shit about the Raiders on the Internet.
@@dout0rm942 , all you need to do is look at the footage to see that the guitars are NOT plugged in. Sorry that reality hurts your feelings.
@@patlatorres7000 so what? The Raiders DID play live, on many occasions, and they toured the country and abroad. It was, and still is, very comon to lipsync on television appearances, such as this one. The Raiders WERE great musicians, and you insist on saying otherwise.
One of my favorite bands. They were always underrated. A little gimmicky, but they had great songs, great music, great vocals, and were very entertaining. That makes for a great band.
Adorable! I just loved them then and I still do! What an entertaining, class act they were♥
I always thought they had some of the best back up singing of any of the groups at that time. Had a very distinctive sound.
that shuffle is the hardest step in the world to figure out. i can't do it to save my life.
RIP and thanks for the memories, Paul! I love their music and had the biggest crush on Mark! The music of that time was so awesome and I knew all the lyrics! Fitting for him to leave the world at 76.
God Bless!
Mark Lindsay always had my 💜
Oh YES!!!
Saw them in concert Portland, Or around 1967. Great concert!
RIP Paul Revere.....October 4, 2014
Thanks for all the fun in the swinging 60's xxx
🌹
They were So young! The best show band that ever lived!!
2024 and still dancing to this one!
This is my favorite mix of people in the group, the mix I saw at a 1967 concert in a smallish venue where my friends and I were in the front row. Paul, Smitty, Mark, Fang and Harpo. those boys knew what fun was, and they backed it up with lots of talent and good looks.
RIP Paul Revere Dick (yes we all thought that was a 'gimmick' stage name--turns out he was born Paul Revere Dick!) Thanks for this vid--nice one! I was just a kid but those tights & Mark Lindsey's ponytail & it was all over for me! Probably my first band-boy crush!
Yeah, those tights really show off his last name! :-D
If he had a quarter in his pocket you could tell if it was "heads or tails" ! Lol
@@chairlesnicol672 LOL. That was hilarious!
love to watch these guys dance around
They always looked like they were just having fun! Used to watch them on “Where the Action Is!”
Outstanding! HOF worthy.
You were so fun to watch - thanks for the good times.
Oh boy, me at 13 loved Mark Lindsay like no one else. He was the hottest guy on the scene , so talented.
Jimi Hendrix used to watch the Raiders at the famous Spanish Castle dance hall south of Seattle when he was young and Drake (Raider guitarist) would play behind his back and do other tricks that Hendrix would later use. Our cousin Mike (Smitty) Smith was the Raiders drummer.
what a great sound they had....and such charm!
Great, great memories. I was 17 when they were popular!!!!!!
I saw the band in 1968 live in Great Falls, MT. Great show! And LOUD! They were just emerging from the Revolutionary costumes, but still had the long hair, boots, and had set aside the choreography. What impressed me was that it was just the five guys, no backups, and the music and vocals were dead on great! This was after the split, Freddy Weller, Joe Correro, and I can't remember the bass player had joined the band. They were professional and super-tight.
People put down the costumes and the dancing but that really makes this clip for me. The way the 2 guitarists do that shuffle in those white tights and boots, I'm just mesmorized. That's hot!
They weren't tights. They were pantyhose. TWO pairs of them. I lost this argument to a female fan not long ago. I'm still amazed how anyone got them to wear ONE pair of pantyhose much less two with those motley jackets. But it was the psychedelic '60s. Who knew? I do like those boots. Bought a pair.
I saw Mark earlier this year & Paul Revere & the Raiders last year. Paul was very entertaining, but Mark made the band. It isn't the same without him. Wish I had gotten the chance to see them in the 60's when they were cranking out all of those fabulous song.
The original raiders were outstanding.
Dammit! Mark Lindsay had a hell of a set of pipes! Great rock singer. RIP Paul Revere (legal name Paul Revere Dick). January 7, 1938 - October 4, 2014. Gone to the big concert stadium in the sky to perform along with Mike "Smitty" Smith and Drake "The Kid" Levin.
My favorite Raider hit was "Good Thing" still sounds as fresh today as when I heard it back in 1966. Never tire of these guys!
For all you "kiddies" born after the Raiders heyday, I'm sorry you don't "get" this band. They were a club cover band from the great Northwest who played music for people to dance to. Their onstage antics were a joy to watch. They obviously enjoyed themselves onstage and projected a lot of fun. The classic lineup of Paul, Mark, Phil, Drake and Smitty were underrated musicians who never got the respect they so richly deserved.
Underrated musicians true, I saw them live and can attest to that. But part of it is their own fault. They lip synced all the time on TV and played clowns on Where the Action Is. Just try to find a video of the original line-up actually playing and singing live. Can't find it. Based on that you'd think they couldn't really play, sort of like the Monkees or something. Nothing could be further from the truth but you'll find no live footage of Paul Revere and the Raiders actually playing their insturments.
Raiders forever!
These guys were SO CAL lads, hate to rain on your parade there!!!
Not in the rock in roll hall of fame?great musicians and there antics they are on the all time greats to deserve there spot!
Linda McDonald nope, Paul and Mark were from Boise, Idaho.
Every act that appeared on the Smothers Brothers Show gave the best performance they ever did.
The camerawork was great on this song. They HAD to split the screen to see all that was going on onstage.
This was an expensive show - custom costumes, special song arrangements, dance routines, skits, and everything. CBS didn't spare any expense on the show's production. The talent behind the scenes - writers, choreographers, set decorators, etc. were the best in the industry. Not to mention the comedy of the Smothers Brothers themselves were good singers, musicians, and comedy duo.
Its a shame the CBS censors had to intervene, but this was in a "Family" time slot and was getting too controversial. The show could have easily gone on for at least another year.
There's no "Variety" show like this on TV now. In my opinion, TV today sucks - endless commercials, stupid dialog, stupid shows. Give me the sixties and early seventies - the "golden age" of music and the arts.
They always looked like they were having so much fun performing together!!
I envy all of you who were able to see these guys when they were performing in the 60s. I would've loved to have seen them back in the early days when they were starting out in the Northwest, just before they came to L.A. They're really something special.
It's hard for today's fans to have any understanding of how popular this group was at the time. While this song isn't one of the more memorable ones, they could certainly rock out. And oldies DJ's say that "Indian Nation" is one of the most requested songs from the era.
Indian Reservation is the title
'Indian nation' lament of the Cherokee people was their only #1 hit BUT they did a quite a variety of rock and roll genre's from blues to bubblegum from acid and psychedelic to instrumental from humor to serious..Paul revere and the raiders did it also w/screaming teenyboppers too! They were the epitome of the la sound in the second half of the 60s. They BELONG IN THE ROCK AND ROLL HALL OF FAME‼️NOT just my opinion.
This vid is soooo friggin great! Classic! Love the double screen shot. Vintage 60's the best decade for pop music ever!
Thanks Paul,for ALL the great 60's music....Dig it.
I was lucky enough to have grown up in the town that Paul Revere and Mark Lindsey lived. I'm not sure Paul was originally from the town but Mark was. A high school classmate went to the same church as he did. Paul and his wife ran a Reed N Bell drive-in and was the pivot point of our cruising routes. I only went to one of his local dances. I think the band was already spreading their wings geographically. I'm pretty sure Paul retired back to Boise among other places, I'm sure. The sixties were a great time to grow up. Fast cars and Saturday night dances............
Paul revere and the raiders BELONG in the rock and roll hall of fame!
I used to watch the Smothers Brothers all the time when I was like a baby! I was born in Dec 66'. I loved it!! And Laugh In. Have always loved the music from the 50's and 60's, and am one of the BIGGEST Paul Revere fans!
I saw them in Florida - great show!
They are better than I remember.
To hell with looking cool. I DEMAND more demon footwork like this today ;)
Why, when you can yell Get High and get a cheer.
@@mapleva Yeah right Lazy is as lazy does.
Saw these guys in concert in Syracuse NY and always loved their pop songs. Saw Paul Revere and band last year in Glendale CA....crowd went wild...young folks too. These are great 60's songs....especially Cinderella Sunshine and Peace of MInd.
What incredible lyrics. Easily my Raiders' favorite song. Sounds like my life story
was such a little boy when I used to see the Raiders on TV...loved them so much then..the raider, james brown and the beatles...this clip is great...
The "Spirit Of 67" was the first album I ever bought
The Raiders were fantastic in every way. Mark Lindsay made that group what they were - and he is still rocking it out at 71 years old. He still has the talent and the looks. Rock on, Mark - and RIP, Smitty and Drake. You are missed.
In love again....after all these years. WOW LOVE THIS!!!!!!!
check out the all the songs written by Mark Lindsay ... pretty amazing musician ..
FANTASTIC FUN Paul Revere and The Raiders featuring singer extraordinaire Mark Lindsay
And somewhere in Minnesota, a 9-year-old Prince Rogers Nelson was thinking to himself, "Wow, I really like those clothes."
I liked how those 2 guitars danced in sync
Over 700 TV appearances , with their own spot on a daily show "ACTION" , numerous hits , and no Rock and Roll Hall of Fame selection . What does it take ? There are countless groups in there that haven't accomplished a 4th of those numbers !
buzzsawblade1 right about Rock and roll hall of fame. It makes one think they were too flashy for the grungy RRHofF.
Because the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is biased against artists whose fanbase was majority female. Every so often, they'll let in someone like James Taylor, Simon & Garfunkel, Gene Pitney, or Neil Diamond (whose eventual induction in 2011 was considered by many to be long overdue), but anyone who was ever thought to have been a teen idol or any group who had a member who was classified as such can pretty much forget about being a Rock and Roll Hall of Famer. The Beatles and Elvis Presley are exceptions because of their special places in rock and roll history.
Don't let it bother you, fuck the hall, there are so many omissions and with all the politics involved most bands doon't give a sit just the fans. When the Sex Pistols were inducted they didn'y show up and told the hall to fuck off.
i always liked these guys
Fantastic !!!!
Things was lookin' roses, Baby........Man, what a great tune...Brings back so many good memories. This band never got the credit they deserved.
mark live
fang and harpo dancin
smitty poundin...paul playing chops....oh my!
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, come on now. This band deserves induction!
Great energy. It looks like they are having fun entertaining the audience. Too many contemporary performers seem to show disdain or indifference to their audience.
The guys looked very sharp I
n those tights. Mark Lindsay had a great voice!
one of my all-time favorite bands back in elementary school. RIP
Loved these guys.
america"s best band.....
great musicians.....great performers
I was very fortunate to grow up watching these guys on the TV and following their career durning the mid 60's when you had to be good to compete with the British Invasion. These guys were cracking into the top 10 with the rest of them and ended it with a big Number one in 1971!
Paul, a unique personality and great performer. So sad to see him go. Saw his show at a state fair, about 8 years ago. Man, I gotta say that Paul and the Raiders played their material and hits as fresh as if they had just released them. No just phoning in songs they had played for 40 years - no sir, they played them with gusto, and Paul was the ultimate, enthusiastic performer. A lot of fun and the songs still held up great!
I can't believe these guys haven't been inducted into the Rock'n'roll Hall of Fame.
In my opinion they were the American equivalent of the Who.
I agree totally. But them being an underrated gem that people who love music can find through enough digging makes them very special too. It's nice when you hit pay dirt by spinning that "obscure" record you find in your dad's record collection!
Yeah - Sam the Sham & the Pharoahs too !
OH COME ON REALLY ????????
I agree. To the best of my knowledge, there were only two major American rock bands that predated the Beatles/British invasion, and kept going afterwards: The Beach Boys, and Paul Revere and the Raiders. I love ALL their music.
The Hall of Fame is a disgrace a joke . Bands and Guitarists who should be in the Hall of Fame are not like Paul Revere and the Raiders, Gutiarist Tommy Bolin and others, so as far as I am concerned I don't recognize none of their B.S. Hall of Fame period.