The Move would tour with Jimi Hendrix and sing background vocals on one of his tracks. Thank you for posting this- Roy deserves a lot more respect and recognition for his amazing song writing
Love how Roy lauds David Morgan, who would write two songs for the Move later on, the excellent Something ( one of Carl Wayne's best vocal performances) and This Time Tommorrow)
Thank you for posting Roy Wood's review. Here in the States you could not find a piece of vinyl by the Move, so when I went to England in '69, the first vinyl I bought was the Move's first album. But Weekend and Zing Went Strings of My Heart? I had to wait years to get the singles on a double Move best of on A & M. Unlike some of your comments, I liked a lot of the music reviewed. I loved the Turtles, and while never seeing them, I saw Flo & Eddie with the Mothers as well as several touring versions of Flo & Eddie. Slim Jenkins Place is my faorite Booker T track (piano!) from my favorite Booker T album (Hip-Hug-Her). And despite endless listenings, I still like Bobbie Gentry and the Box Tops. But enough of my personal taste.
@@deirdre108 He did and Eric Stewart, great as he was, didn't. More important, I think the Mindbenders were just going through the motions at this stage. Fontana was long gone and Stewart didn't want to play in a band anymore and certianly not be the lead singer. I have a sneaking suspicion they recorded this only because the record company told them to.
I'm quite surprised he wasn't that positive about the soul numbers. The Move used to cover soul songs when playing live, so one would have thought he was a soul fan.
''Red Rubber Ball'' is one of my favourite songs from the 60s. ❤❤❤ My heart is strongly pounding. 'The Cyrkle' have another great song, ''Turn-Down Day''... ''Penny Arcade'' 4:18 isn't too bad. Thank you very much, Yesterday's Papers 🌹🥳😀
Very enjoyable. Roy is one of my great favourites as singer and writer. I feel he gets overlooked a little as he wasn't one of the 'cool' pop figures. What a chart at the end - and a nice version of Flowers in the Rain.
This I really liked with as with all your videos. Roy really seems to like country music. While he gives good feedback I notice he seems to encourage artists to do better. I like his take on a "songwriter's song." Interesting.
Man, you couldn't get away from Ode to Billy Joe, and The Letter by the Box Tops in 1967-68 in the States. The sound of my childhood, for sure. Very astute commentary overall by Roy Wood.
I had a lot of Booker T albums and I thought that Hip-Hug_her was their best, complete with Slim Jenkin's Place which was one of the few Booker T tracks to feature piano.
What a great top 30 singles list. Today I will be surprised if I find one song I like on the charts but on this list, I will be surprised if I find a hit I do not like.
Bobbie gentry’s song went to number one in the United States. On this side of the pond everybody knew who she was and everybody knew the song in the fall of 1967
He must have: cast his mind back ten years to a....🙂 No really, he's pretty accurate and knowledgeable. Particularly so with some real unknowns at the time.
I really have a soft spot for Excerpt From A Teenage Opera. I can just about remember it from it's first release. I must have been four or five at the time. Strange, quirky little song. I much prefer his version of Eloise though.....especially that fantastic ending! 😎🎸🎸
@0:48 - those early Hendrix sessions in NY are great. Shows his development. Nothing that memorable but you can hear his signature, llike on the even earlier Little Richard sides.
How cool is that record cover of Hendrix. I love that photo of him. I like the song too. Everything that guy touched turned to gold, even some of his less popular songs are still incredible. Lovely outro as always, YP 💫🤘😊
@@YesterdaysPapers Yep, I really love the work Jimi and Curtis recorded together. They really complimented each other's musicianship. It's a shame legal issues often overshadows those recordings. The business side of music always gets in the way 💖
Ode to Billie Joe got to #13 in the UK, which isn't bad. In the US that was her only song to make the top 25. I was surprised to see that 2 years later Bobbie Gentry had a UK #1 hit, a cover of "I'll Never Fall in Love Again".
I love "The Letter" by the Box Tops, one of my favourite songs from 67. This other version doesn´t sound as cool. I guess it´s Alex Chilton´s vocals that make it for me. It must have been lovely to be a teenager and to dance to that song in the summer of 67. There are videos of US tv programs here in youtube of people dancing to it in 67. My favourite is "Zacherley's TV dance party featuring the Box Tops "The Letter"" where they are having some sort of halloween theme in an episode of a TV show called Disco Teen and a bunch of teenagers dance to it in costumes. There is also a video of American Bandstand but I like the other one better
Have you ever seen the live version of The Letter from The Bitter End? There's two versions on UA-cam one is live, one has the record dubbed in the live appearance. This is the only live footage of the band I've seen.(from the 60's)
Martha and the Vandellas hit is good, I love "Ode to Billie Joe" and the Turtles' song is quirky but great and went to #12 in the U.S and i like Booker T and the M.G.s. I think they did a Christmas album. Finally Esther and Abi Ofarim will have a blockbuster hit overseas, as many know, with "Cinderella Rockerfella".
The booker t is really nice, I don’t have this one, gotta get one copy. I am a bit shocked by his take on Otis Redding, the Monterey pop was in june 1967, the movie was out in 1968, the record with Hendrix and Redding performances was out in 1970, no way you hear and see Redding’s performance at Monterey and pretend he should not sing. But hey, it’s just an opinion 😏
Ron Wood's brother certainly gave an excellent guided tour of what was happening at that time for us in the future. He started out with an excellent conclusion on dredging up old mediocre Hendrix stuff as The Experience was probably soaring high. However, I was surprised when he said he didn't like Otis. Otherwise, he nailed just about everything else.
Suggestion if I may. While showing a record sleeve and listening to that artist and song, just show the images of that artist and not the reviewer's face/band. It's all a bit confusing as with one record we see the actual artist on that record and then on another we see the reviewers face and for a moment think they are performing that song. That said, I love the creation of this channel and always look forward to the next upload.
Well that first "Jimi Hendrix" is an odd one. Never heard it before and I'm pretty sure it was not released as a single here in America. Of course it is a reworking of Dylan's monumental Like a Rolling Stone. A soul version with different lyrics and it's actually not bad at all.. But hey, the record label did a good job marketing it as a Jimi Hendrix single when in reality he just plays guitar in the Curtis Knight band and that sounds like Curtis singing. (Hope I got all that right) And another shading of Otis Redding. What gives? There was also another Blind Date bloke who shaded him a while back. His ballads, filled with emotion, IMO are just wonderful as his rave-ups. Jeez, how can you not be moved by his singing?
Yes, it was Jimi on guitar. He actually recorded some really cool stuff with Curtis Knight. This is one of the best, "Strange Things": ua-cam.com/video/9Bepm6fts3Q/v-deo.html
Not a great selection of singles for Roy. Just to say, his band (The Move ) , with that original line-up of Roy, Ace, Bev, Carl and Trevor was quite sensational. ‘ l Can Hear The Grass Grow’, with three of the band taking lead vocals, still sounds great. I watched a film on UA-cam of their live act in 1967 / 68 the other day and it’s still quite scary viewing.. If you are a fan of auto destructive art it’s worth a look. Who did it first The Who or The Move, that is the question? Just to say, if their TV set broke, they didn’t bother to get it repaired , they smashed it to pieces with an axe live on stage 😂 The Move , a great band!
@Simon McCreath You’re right Simon, l think The Move might have smashed up television sets up first though . I think that was a pastime of Keith Moon , but just in hotel rooms 😀
@@michaelrochester48 Yeah, Keith Emerson was really into it. I think it started to hit The Who hard financially, so Townshend started smashing guitars that had been glued back together to keep the costs down. I remember someone who was there telling me about The Creation arriving at The Cavern, Liverpool 1966 . They had a new single out ‘ Painter Man’. Apparently they sprayed the walls of the club with modern art style images . The owners of the place were not impressed at all!
Without a shadow of a doubt, in my opinion, the best 45s were the soul ones. Love the Vandellas track. Thought the Mindbenders The Letter was not a patch the Boxtops original.
Am I right in thinking you do the background/intro music on these videos too? If so, that Hammond organ that comes in at 9 seconds in is pretty bitchin', mate 👍😆
I have to laugh when I see the Top 10 LP's because your last dozen or so uploads always have "The Sound of Music" soundtrack near the top. That record certainly had legs.
The Sound Of Music's soundtrack was the best selling album in the UK in 1965, 1966 and 1968. The streak was only broken by the Beatles Sgt. Pepper in 1967.
The Doors self titled album and Jefferson Airplane’s Surrealistic Pillow not being top ten at the end of the summer of love is mind boggling. Sick to see Sgt. Peppers and Pink Floyd up there tho.
*Sound of Music* on # 2 LOL. Over the years I met many people who liked one song "Edelweiss" from that soundtrack. Personally I hated that song, since it reminds me on my uncle who at age 21 while in Switzerland fell to his death wanting to get one more flower a couple of meters higher up in the rock. Those flowers don't grow at places one can pick them up easily. I typed this so that maybe other people will know that Edelweiss is a flower that caused death, at least the death of my uncle in the early 1920...
The issue I have with this UA-cam channel is that everything posted is unvalidated - we have zero idea as to whether some or all of what you 'say' is true! --> Listing 'proper/full' sources would do you well.....!!
Hmmm... At the beginning of all these videos, you can always see an original scan from the magazine, the name of the magazine, and date of publication. What else do you need? And besides, why would I fake this stuff? It wouldn't make any sense.
@@YesterdaysPapers Since you are already scanning the source, why don't you include around 3-5 seconds (1-2 pages?) of the scanned article in question at the video start? - then, we'll all have the original source as a reference and can watch your excellent content with 100% confidence. In today's era of increasing fakeness and suspicion, this would be a breath of fresh air!
Esther and Abi Ofarim. "There's some nice things in the backing, though". The song was written by The Bee Gees and they supplied the backing vocals. By the way, was there ever a better looking female vocalist, anywhere, than Esther Ofarim?
British artists have reacted so negatively to Otis Redding's music in these "blind dates" (Scott Walker practically threw up) that I wonder how The Big O had any success in Britain at all.
Blasphemy! Only Alex Chilton could sing 'The Letter' properly. It is strange that Alex's voice ended up sounding so sweet years later on Big Star's 'September Gurls'.
Is the Dave Morgan who wrote Private Harold Harris for the Ian Campbell Folk Group the same one who was in The Idle Race? It sounds like a follow-on from 'Mrs Ward' on their debut album.
@@lthompson7625 When Ian Campbell was awarded a Lifetime Achievement award (by a folk organisation, I think), his thank you speech was ‘My sons have made more with one record than I have in my entire life’. He remained bitter and angry - what a sad waste.
@@dannybenair Yes, and what a fantastic song. When I was a little girl, I wouldn't listen to it, only to a-side Blackberry Way. I love it now. There's a great version of it on The Move Anthology, disc 3, track 6, listed as A Certain Something (piano version, rough mix). Does anyone know anything else about David Morgan, as I don't? I love The Move! ( Can't you guess?! Haha!)
One of the writers of Red Bubber Ball did become one of the major artists of the sixties and seventies, so I don't think time was especially harsh on either.
Ha ha. Why not? It was a crap record. What is interesting - and very refreshing - about these reviews is that we hear what other music professionals thought about these artists at the time. We get honest opinions without the deification that has occurred in the intervening 50 years. (Especially to the sadly departed artists of the day) To the reviewers they were just contemporary musicians.
'That bass player' is James Jamerson!!! No contest between The Box Tops and The Mindbenders. Alex Chilton comes out on top. Another young, pompous Brit disrespecting R&B legends like Otis Redding and Martha and the Vandellas! In recent weeks Frank Zappa and Peter Green have done the same thing on Yesterdays Papers, and the problem is I love The Move and Roy Wood as well as early Fleetwood Mac and The Mothers! I guess genius isn't always about being right!
Genius has nothing to do with what you like. Neither does right or wrong. There's there's some great musicians who don't appeal me. Doesn't mean people who don't like the great musicians that I do like are wrong.
Roy called it on the Box Tops but waaay off with Otis Redding! Great mention of James Jamerson, without actually mentioning his name.. For those in the U.S. not too familiar with Roy: he later downsized the Move, brings in Jeff Lynne, and in doing so he morphs the group into the Electric Light Orchestra. He leaves it to Jeff soon after, and the rest is history.
Take it with a grain of salt , this is the guy that wrote the silliest xmas song ive ever heard right after he left elo, and just before they became one of the most popular bands of the mid seventies....pff , otis redding should stick to producing, really?
“Ode” is great, it’s deep in our rural American culture. Otis was superb but that record wasn’t good. Bad song choice and too slow tempo! Booker was great. But you can only have a certain amount of instrumentals on the charts! Turtles departed too far from their sound. Bad song for Martha. The Letter version was new, gritty. This one too slick. The other songs aren’t very good at all.
I know who Otis Redding was but what I want to know is who the F*** is Roy Wood. Oh, you say, he was in The Move. My next question...Who the F*** was the Move. Was (or is) he Ron Wood's brother...cousin, nephew, or no relation at all. Oh wait, the video is over and I'll never hear of Ray Wood again.....
He was in the Move, ELO and Wizzard. One of the greatest songwriters of the 60s and early 70s. If you're not familiar with his stuff, you're definitely missing out on some truly great music. And no, he wasn't Ron Wood's brother.
The Move would tour with Jimi Hendrix and sing background vocals on one of his tracks. Thank you for posting this- Roy deserves a lot more respect and recognition for his amazing song writing
Roy with Trevor Burton + Graham Nash from the Hollies on Jimi's track "You've Got Me Floatin'"
@@VirreFriberg Actually, that is one of my favorite Hendrix tracks...
Piper At the Gates of Dawn at #6 in the charts!
Yeah! There goes that Syd Barrett star 💫
It was beginning to fall in this month. See John Peels Top gear show from September. Scream thy last scream and Vegetable Man
Love how Roy lauds David Morgan, who would write two songs for the Move later on, the excellent Something ( one of Carl Wayne's best vocal performances) and This Time Tommorrow)
Thank you for posting Roy Wood's review. Here in the States you could not find a piece of vinyl by the Move, so when I went to England in '69, the first vinyl I bought was the Move's first album. But Weekend and Zing Went Strings of My Heart? I had to wait years to get the singles on a double Move best of on A & M. Unlike some of your comments, I liked a lot of the music reviewed. I loved the Turtles, and while never seeing them, I saw Flo & Eddie with the Mothers as well as several touring versions of Flo & Eddie. Slim Jenkins Place is my faorite Booker T track (piano!) from my favorite Booker T album (Hip-Hug-Her). And despite endless listenings, I still like Bobbie Gentry and the Box Tops. But enough of my personal taste.
LOVE Roy Wood/The Move so this was especially fascinating. Also love your slow, beautiful cover of Flowers In The Rain!
your new video popped up and I'm right away go to watch it, always interesting, thank you, kind regard from Berlin
Cheers!
Let's give that 'bloke on bass' a name! James Jamerson! He was on tons of hits in the 60's and 70's!
And he was the best thing on many of those records
This was the greatest year for music
Good call by Roy on The Letter ✉️ ! The Boxtops & young Alex Chilton version is the best 👌 one.
Alex Chilton looks like he could be Rob Thomas' father...!!
Right! Chilton had the voice for this one for certain.
@@deirdre108 It certainly gave his disc the advantage over The Mindbenders.
Joe cocker was alright.
@@deirdre108 He did and Eric Stewart, great as he was, didn't.
More important, I think the Mindbenders were just going through the motions at this stage. Fontana was long gone and Stewart didn't want to play in a band anymore and certianly not be the lead singer. I have a sneaking suspicion they recorded this only because the record company told them to.
My favourite song from 67 was living in a child's dream by the masters apprentices
Great title indeed
I love seeing the UK Top singles and US Top 10 lists and the Top UK albums lists...We had it pretty damn good for music back in the day...!!!
love roy
3:30 James Jamerson, probably, one of my favorite bass players of all time.
I'm quite surprised he wasn't that positive about the soul numbers. The Move used to cover soul songs when playing live, so one would have thought he was a soul fan.
I reckon Carl Wayne was the soul fan.
Uncannily spot-on, again and again.
''Red Rubber Ball'' is one of my favourite songs from the 60s. ❤❤❤ My heart is strongly pounding. 'The Cyrkle' have another great song, ''Turn-Down Day''... ''Penny Arcade'' 4:18 isn't too bad.
Thank you very much, Yesterday's Papers 🌹🥳😀
@fab4 Yes, it is one of Paul Simon's jewels. There are dozens of versions of ''Red Rubber Ball'', but none beats The Cyrkle's.
'Turn Down Day' always seemed to be a perfect easy summer song. And, of course, they opened for the Beatles here in the US.
Very enjoyable. Roy is one of my great favourites as singer and writer. I feel he gets overlooked a little as he wasn't one of the 'cool' pop figures.
What a chart at the end - and a nice version of Flowers in the Rain.
I agree, very overlooked. I think he's one of the greatest songwriters from the 60s british scene.
Booker T. & The MGs did do a version of Jingle Bells and Radio 1 used it as backing music for trailers.
Barbara, you probably know this , but two of Ian Campbell’s sons were members of UB40.
@@lthompson7625 Yes, Ali and Robin!
I love how critical he is.
This I really liked with as with all your videos. Roy really seems to like country music. While he gives good feedback I notice he seems to encourage artists to do better. I like his take on a "songwriter's song." Interesting.
I love the backing track of your videos! Its so lovely!
Thanks!
Roy was 100% correct about James Jamerson being the best guy on the Martha and the Vandellas record!
And hundreds of others...!
@@jordan390a No kidding Sherlock
Cheers to Roy for giving James Jamerson props...
Man, you couldn't get away from Ode to Billy Joe, and The Letter by the Box Tops in 1967-68 in the States. The sound of my childhood, for sure. Very astute commentary overall by Roy Wood.
Apart from saying that Otis Redding's just like 3000 other soul singers around at the time and should stick to producing! Madness.
@@michaeljenkins7024 True.....but even Redding did some mediocre stuff like this particular track here.
@@michaeljenkins7024 He also thought Martha or Gladys Knight or Diana Ross voices were interchangeable That's unbelievable.
These are always brilliant!
Nice name, Hugh!
I wonder if he’s referring to James Jamerson when he talks about the bass player on the Motown tours
Yes, he does
"Slim Jenkins' Place" is like the genesis of Creedence and I bet young Mark Knopfler had an ear on it too.
I love the honesty and knowledge.
"Slim Jenkin's (place)Joint" ; great track , which Radio London used as a theme tune for an afternoon show.
I had a lot of Booker T albums and I thought that Hip-Hug_her was their best, complete with Slim Jenkin's Place which was one of the few Booker T tracks to feature piano.
Looks like today's dig brought up quite a few gems. Of course, we recognized those rock 'n' roll legends, The Cyrcle.
The Curtis Knight recordings indirectly lead to the Band of Gypsies release.
I have peppers, piper, headquarters, Scott, Experienced on vinyl. Deliver would be an addition.
What a great top 30 singles list. Today I will be surprised if I find one song I like on the charts but on this list, I will be surprised if I find a hit I do not like.
This dude was smart as a whip about music. He reasoned which would be the more successful version of "The Letter".
Roy had some good material to work with. Two songs about San Francisco in the top ten.
"love bug leave my heart alone" by Martha and the Vandellas is a great record!
The great thing about Tamla is the bass player. Take a bow, James Jamerson.
the best to ever do it in my opinion. The best thing any bass player could do is study Jamerson
Bobbie gentry’s song went to number one in the United States. On this side of the pond everybody knew who she was and everybody knew the song in the fall of 1967
Flowers in the Rain!
First song on Radio One after the Pirates were closed down.
End of an era.
Love that Roy loves The Cyrkle! Penny Arcade is a fun track but their finest hour
He must have: cast his mind back ten years to a....🙂
No really, he's pretty accurate and knowledgeable.
Particularly so with some real unknowns at the time.
I really have a soft spot for Excerpt From A Teenage Opera. I can just about remember it from it's first release. I must have been four or five at the time. Strange, quirky little song. I much prefer his version of Eloise though.....especially that fantastic ending! 😎🎸🎸
Barry Ryan did Eloise not Keith West?
@@dream-67 Yes...I do believe you're right! D'oh! 🙃🙋♂
@0:48 - those early Hendrix sessions in NY are great. Shows his development. Nothing that memorable but you can hear his signature, llike on the even earlier Little Richard sides.
I had no idea that Ode to Billy Jo was that old of a song. I always assumed that it came out in the 1970s
Interesting......We Love You By The Stones was the B-Side in the states
How cool is that record cover of Hendrix. I love that photo of him. I like the song too. Everything that guy touched turned to gold, even some of his less popular songs are still incredible. Lovely outro as always, YP 💫🤘😊
Thanks, Sophie! Some of those recordings he did with Curtis Knight are quite good.
@@YesterdaysPapers Yep, I really love the work Jimi and Curtis recorded together. They really complimented each other's musicianship. It's a shame legal issues often overshadows those recordings. The business side of music always gets in the way 💖
@@SophieLovesSunsets Happy now that the Hendrix Estate controlling the Curtis Knight recordings and released it without mentioning Hendrix!
Ode to Billie Joe got to #13 in the UK, which isn't bad. In the US that was her only song to make the top 25. I was surprised to see that 2 years later Bobbie Gentry had a UK #1 hit, a cover of "I'll Never Fall in Love Again".
I love "The Letter" by the Box Tops, one of my favourite songs from 67. This other version doesn´t sound as cool. I guess it´s Alex Chilton´s vocals that make it for me. It must have been lovely to be a teenager and to dance to that song in the summer of 67. There are videos of US tv programs here in youtube of people dancing to it in 67. My favourite is "Zacherley's TV dance party featuring the Box Tops "The Letter"" where they are having some sort of halloween theme in an episode of a TV show called Disco Teen and a bunch of teenagers dance to it in costumes. There is also a video of American Bandstand but I like the other one better
I love it, too. Great song.
It's so weird how much younger Alex sounded when he started doing Big Star.
@@NotoriousLightning Yes, his voice sounded completely different in Big Star.
C'mon Box Tops are one of the all time greats. - Kinda like another American group CCR.
Have you ever seen the live version of The Letter from The Bitter End? There's two versions on UA-cam one is live, one has the record dubbed in the live appearance. This is the only live footage of the band I've seen.(from the 60's)
It seems Jimi Hendrix even humbles Roy Wood!
Martha and the Vandellas hit is good, I love "Ode to Billie Joe" and the Turtles' song is quirky but great and went to #12 in the U.S and i like Booker T and the M.G.s. I think they did a Christmas album. Finally Esther and Abi Ofarim will have a blockbuster hit overseas, as many know, with "Cinderella Rockerfella".
ode to billie joe it's a masterpiece
Where does the funky version of Flowers In The Rain come from?
That Hendrix/C Knight song sounds like a bit of a rip of "Like A Rolling Stone".
I’d love to know the tune that plays during the end
The booker t is really nice, I don’t have this one, gotta get one copy.
I am a bit shocked by his take on Otis Redding, the Monterey pop was in june 1967, the movie was out in 1968, the record with Hendrix and Redding performances was out in 1970, no way you hear and see Redding’s performance at Monterey and pretend he should not sing.
But hey, it’s just an opinion 😏
I was there and he really did shake us up!
@@389383 This is one of the gigs I would like to be timeteleported to 😋
Very good observations, except for his comments on Otis Redding
Ron Wood's brother certainly gave an excellent guided tour of what was happening at that time for us in the future. He started out with an excellent conclusion on dredging up old mediocre Hendrix stuff as The Experience was probably soaring high. However, I was surprised when he said he didn't like Otis. Otherwise, he nailed just about everything else.
Not Ron Wood's brother. Though he did have a brother, Art, whose band was the Artwoods.
@@unsightlyandserene Genuinely didn't know this, Dan. Thank you.
Suggestion if I may. While showing a record sleeve and listening to that artist and song, just show the images of that artist and not the reviewer's face/band. It's all a bit confusing as with one record we see the actual artist on that record and then on another we see the reviewers face and for a moment think they are performing that song.
That said, I love the creation of this channel and always look forward to the next upload.
I loved the version of Flowers in the rain. Anyone know who played it?
I recorded it myself.
I think it's brilliant. I would love a copy of it.@@YesterdaysPapers
add me to the list wanting a copy of that. Great version of the song
The bass player he is talking about on the Martha Reeves song is the one the only James Jamerson
Well that first "Jimi Hendrix" is an odd one. Never heard it before and I'm pretty sure it was not released as a single here in America. Of course it is a reworking of Dylan's monumental Like a Rolling Stone. A soul version with different lyrics and it's actually not bad at all.. But hey, the record label did a good job marketing it as a Jimi Hendrix single when in reality he just plays guitar in the Curtis Knight band and that sounds like Curtis singing. (Hope I got all that right)
And another shading of Otis Redding. What gives? There was also another Blind Date bloke who shaded him a while back. His ballads, filled with emotion, IMO are just wonderful as his rave-ups. Jeez, how can you not be moved by his singing?
I think it was recorded when he was a sideman before he got discovered by Chas Chandler.
Yes, it was Jimi on guitar. He actually recorded some really cool stuff with Curtis Knight. This is one of the best, "Strange Things": ua-cam.com/video/9Bepm6fts3Q/v-deo.html
@@YesterdaysPapers I actually have that album. Some quite good stuff on there. 😄
@@YesterdaysPapers yes this is the clearly most accessible track but the 2 instrumentals he did, Hornets Nest and Knock Yourself Out are fantastic.
@@YesterdaysPapers that vid is unavailable here, but I managed to hear it. Very much a Bo Diddley beat but good.
Not a great selection of singles for Roy. Just to say, his band (The Move ) , with that original line-up of Roy, Ace, Bev, Carl and Trevor was quite sensational. ‘ l Can Hear The Grass Grow’, with three of the band taking lead vocals, still sounds great. I watched a film on UA-cam of their live act in 1967 / 68 the other day and it’s still quite scary viewing.. If you are a fan of auto destructive art it’s worth a look. Who did it first The Who or The Move, that is the question? Just to say, if their TV set broke, they didn’t bother to get it repaired , they smashed it to pieces with an axe live on stage 😂 The Move , a great band!
@Simon McCreath You’re right Simon, l think The Move might have smashed up television sets up first though . I think that was a pastime of Keith Moon , but just in hotel rooms 😀
Bobbie Gentry was awesome as well as her song
@@lthompson7625 the Nice did that
The Turtles had a great song
@@michaelrochester48 Yeah, Keith Emerson was really into it. I think it started to hit The Who hard financially, so Townshend started smashing guitars that had been glued back together to keep the costs down. I remember someone who was there telling me about The Creation arriving at The Cavern, Liverpool 1966 . They had a new single out ‘ Painter Man’. Apparently they sprayed the walls of the club with modern art style images . The owners of the place were not impressed at all!
Mindbenders should have released My New Day and Age as a single it's a psych classic
Without a shadow of a doubt, in my opinion, the best 45s were the soul ones. Love the Vandellas track.
Thought the Mindbenders The Letter was not a patch the Boxtops original.
Agreed. I like the Turtles' song as well, cool harmonies.
@@YesterdaysPapers Strangely enough, I've never heard of that Turtles track before. I must admit to being a little disappointed with it.
Am I right in thinking you do the background/intro music on these videos too?
If so, that Hammond organ that comes in at 9 seconds in is pretty bitchin', mate 👍😆
Thanks, glad you liked it!
I want to know where to get the song at 5:32
I have to laugh when I see the Top 10 LP's because your last dozen or so uploads always have "The Sound of Music" soundtrack near the top. That record certainly had legs.
Old people un those days purchase the album
The Sound Of Music's soundtrack was the best selling album in the UK in 1965, 1966 and 1968. The streak was only broken by the Beatles Sgt. Pepper in 1967.
The Doors self titled album and Jefferson Airplane’s Surrealistic Pillow not being top ten at the end of the summer of love is mind boggling. Sick to see Sgt. Peppers and Pink Floyd up there tho.
*Sound of Music* on # 2 LOL. Over the years I met many people who liked one song "Edelweiss" from that soundtrack. Personally I hated that song, since it reminds me on my uncle who at age 21 while in Switzerland fell to his death wanting to get one more flower a couple of meters higher up in the rock. Those flowers don't grow at places one can pick them up easily.
I typed this so that maybe other people will know that Edelweiss is a flower that caused death, at least the death of my uncle in the early 1920...
@@isallah1kafir196 SOM is a certified phenomenon. The film came out in 1964 and the LP ( and film) is still selling in 1967!!!
@@brucemarshall3446 I met people in the late 1980 who liked that movie, and the song Edelweiss, but I knew better to speak negative about it. 🙂
The Move\Mod
Kind of amazed that this is the 4th or 5th Brit in these videos that didn't care for Otis Redding.
That's why their empire fell!
He doesn’t like Ottis Redding?! But he won me back when he talked about James Jamerson
He snubbed one of the few songs I enjoyed here, by Esther and Abi; at least I have good taste.
Esther sang like an angel
@@Ridersonthestorm8899 Yes she did, and she was beautiful.
Good taste and the Ofarims were never seen together in the same room
@@mariuspoppFM I strongly disagree, o learned one.
Glad to know
The issue I have with this UA-cam channel is that everything posted is unvalidated - we have zero idea as to whether some or all of what you 'say' is true!
--> Listing 'proper/full' sources would do you well.....!!
Hmmm... At the beginning of all these videos, you can always see an original scan from the magazine, the name of the magazine, and date of publication. What else do you need? And besides, why would I fake this stuff? It wouldn't make any sense.
@@YesterdaysPapers Since you are already scanning the source, why don't you include around 3-5 seconds (1-2 pages?) of the scanned article in question at the video start? - then, we'll all have the original source as a reference and can watch your excellent content with 100% confidence.
In today's era of increasing fakeness and suspicion, this would be a breath of fresh air!
However, for as long as you don't do this, the strong suspicion that you're faking significant elements of the content will remain!!
@@ChrisM541 Only for the paranoid.
Esther and Abi Ofarim. "There's some nice things in the backing, though". The song was written by The Bee Gees and they supplied the backing vocals. By the way, was there ever a better looking female vocalist, anywhere, than Esther Ofarim?
A lot
@@mariuspoppFM OK. Maybe Marianne Faithfull. Possibly Michelle Phillips.
@@wellsy1954 Francoise Hardy, Marie Laforet, Kate Bush, Asha Puthli, Flora Purim, Rita Lee, Tina Turner and Sade
@@mariuspoppFM Olivia Newton John, especially before she left Australia.
Ah you should have done this in a broad Brummie accent....flowers in the rain was good though..
Roy Wood never got his due as far as I'm concerned.
True. Brilliant songwriter.
British artists have reacted so negatively to Otis Redding's music in these "blind dates" (Scott Walker practically threw up) that I wonder how The Big O had any success in Britain at all.
Blasphemy! Only Alex Chilton could sing 'The Letter' properly. It is strange that Alex's voice ended up sounding so sweet years later on Big Star's 'September Gurls'.
Why do they all hate Otis Redding?
Mindbenders screwed up The Letter
Is the Dave Morgan who wrote Private Harold Harris for the Ian Campbell Folk Group the same one who was in The Idle Race? It sounds like a follow-on from 'Mrs Ward' on their debut album.
Barbara, you probably know this already,, but two of lan Campbell’s sons were members of UB40.
He wrote The Move b-side Something.
@@lthompson7625 When Ian Campbell was awarded a Lifetime Achievement award (by a folk organisation, I think), his thank you speech was ‘My sons have made more with one record than I have in my entire life’. He remained bitter and angry - what a sad waste.
@@dannybenair Yes, and what a fantastic song. When I was a little girl, I wouldn't listen to it, only to a-side Blackberry Way. I love it now. There's a great version of it
on The Move Anthology, disc 3, track 6, listed as A Certain Something (piano version, rough mix). Does anyone know anything else about David Morgan, as I don't? I love The Move! ( Can't you guess?! Haha!)
@@traceya9615 Right. He wrote the song Hiroshima for Wishful Thinking and released it. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/David_Scott-Morgan.
disses Otis Redding but loves Red Rubber Ball.. 😂 Uh.. time has told that story.
One of the writers of Red Bubber Ball did become one of the major artists of the sixties and seventies, so I don't think time was especially harsh on either.
Roy who? He had a great group in the Move but never made it in the U.S.
The bands weren't matched up with the vocals. Very hard to watch.
This dipsquat dissed Otis Redding? 😩
Ha ha. Why not? It was a crap record. What is interesting - and very refreshing - about these reviews is that we hear what other music professionals thought about these artists at the time. We get honest opinions without the deification that has occurred in the intervening 50 years. (Especially to the sadly departed artists of the day) To the reviewers they were just contemporary musicians.
He got everything except Otis.
Up to now everyone is really giving Otis Redding a hard time, I guess he wasnt as widely appreciated as I thought.....
I bet they loved " Sitting on the
Dock..."😍
Roy Wood has a scary face
Without the make up Roy Wood has a scary face
Roy Wood stomping on Otis Redding - after Otis' drop dead performance at Monterrey Pop, looks silly at best.
'That bass player' is James Jamerson!!! No contest between The Box Tops and The Mindbenders. Alex Chilton comes out on top. Another young, pompous Brit disrespecting R&B legends like Otis Redding and Martha and the Vandellas! In recent weeks Frank Zappa and Peter Green have done the same thing on Yesterdays Papers, and the problem is I love The Move and Roy Wood as well as early Fleetwood Mac and The Mothers! I guess genius isn't always about being right!
Genius has nothing to do with what you like. Neither does right or wrong. There's there's some great musicians who don't appeal me. Doesn't mean people who don't like the great musicians that I do like are wrong.
I was stating my opinion. It is right or wrong to me.
R+B wasn’t for everyone especially for Rock and Roll fans… It wasn’t one of the best songs at the time it was just his opinion, not a dis
The flipside of 'The Cyrkle' record is the better song.
Roy called it on the Box Tops but waaay off with Otis Redding! Great mention of James Jamerson, without actually mentioning his name..
For those in the U.S. not too familiar with Roy: he later downsized the Move, brings in Jeff Lynne, and in doing so he morphs the group into the Electric Light Orchestra. He leaves it to Jeff soon after, and the rest is history.
So, was Roy Wood once a muppet?
His comments on Otis didn't age too well.
Take it with a grain of salt , this is the guy that wrote the silliest xmas song ive ever heard right after he left elo, and just before they became one of the most popular bands of the mid seventies....pff , otis redding should stick to producing, really?
“Ode” is great, it’s deep in our rural American culture. Otis was superb but that record wasn’t good. Bad song choice and too slow tempo! Booker was great. But you can only have a certain amount of instrumentals on the charts!
Turtles departed too far from their sound. Bad song for Martha. The Letter version was new, gritty. This one too slick. The other songs aren’t very good at all.
Wow Curtis Knights How Would You Feel, is a blatant Like A Rolling Stone rip off
That's a horrible bunch of records... Good Lord that stuff reeks... Pee Yew!!!
I know who Otis Redding was but what I want to know is who the F*** is Roy Wood. Oh, you say, he was in The Move. My next question...Who the F*** was the Move. Was (or is) he Ron Wood's brother...cousin, nephew, or no relation at all. Oh wait, the video is over and I'll never hear of Ray Wood again.....
He was in the Move, ELO and Wizzard. One of the greatest songwriters of the 60s and early 70s. If you're not familiar with his stuff, you're definitely missing out on some truly great music. And no, he wasn't Ron Wood's brother.
@@YesterdaysPapers The haircuts speak for themselves....definitely brothers.