The Kinks - Sunny Afternoon (1966)
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- Опубліковано 21 сер 2024
- This song always makes me think of summer afternoon's like today's and the many summers past. It is, without a doubt, one of my most favorite songs by The Kinks, right up there
with "Green Grass" by Gary Lewis & The Playboys, the American version of summer days lost and found. Here in the US, the single was released in July 1966 (perfect timing). At that time it was already #1 in the UK. It peaked at #14 on Billboard's Hot 100 and #11 on the Cash Box Top 100 on September 24, 1966. More excellent home movie and docu-footage, courtesy of British Pathé.
Having been a teenager in the 1960s this marvellous film shows how people seemed to get on with life, even though this is set in Carnaby Street.
Many city's were neatly laid out, and Councils actually kept the streets clean.
One clear sign of the 60s was the smart appearance of people. No sign of track suits or trainer's. You seldom saw anyone wearing black as it so evident today.
Even pop groups and Top of the Pops were colourful to watch.
the great film, Summer Holiday from 1963 was a bright colourful story, that even though popular still today, would never be made in the dismal backdrop of so many TV and Cinema films.
Thanks for sharing! It was a colorful and optimistic time for many, even in the US where the counterculture had its beginnings due to the Vietnam War. I'm sure it was not so colorful for those who were drafted to fight. That was an entirely different perspective sadly. The brilliance and charm of Carnaby Street could also be found on the streets of San Francsico and other places on this side of the pond. The times we live in today are the exact opposite of what is shown in this video. We have more in common with those living in the squalor and hard times of the 1930s, without hope, without a future, in dread of the future, a world of shadow without color, unless the color is the redness of blood.
Maravillosa canción de Kinks,que me trae recuerdos de mi adolescencia
The Kinks----such a great, underrated band.
This would be late 1960s judging by the fashions and the hippie paintings and colours. I am so happy to have lived through this fascinating era. It was beautiful. No drugs.
I shopped at a groovy shop called Goopie. The shop smelt like incense and cheesecloth. And the colours were like a rainbow. There was another called the East India Trading Company. It sold sandals, bedding, everything to decorate ones house. It was very cool.
I live in Australia.
Thanks for sharing that. No other era like it, no other place either.
What I would give. To be in those times.
Were you ever in them and wanna go back? Or do they just look inviting? I was back there, but only 12 years old.
@@mikemunrowsretro8973 no I wasn’t born until 1970.
@@peterm1826 There's times I wish I was born later too. But those times were quite unusual, some very happy and beautiful, some not so much ... civilian life as a kid/teen growing up that is, but not life as a draftee forced to go to war. Their experience was quite different.
Those times would suit me to a T. Nature often makes mistakes.
I should have been born 1943. Or 1950.
@@mikemunrowsretro8973 Clearly in the USA call up was obligatory, but not in the UK in 1966,
1966 was teenage years for me. many UK city's were like London, bustling with commerce, most shops occupied, no such thing as VAT and business rates which kept them viable. Everything seemed to work. TV at a premium, which meant you horned talent in clubs and theatres, Pubs and clubs was were people met, rather than dating sites today
Even though wages were modest, many people knew more about home economics back then,. Only the advance in medicine betters today. Though every town and city had more hospitals than today, along with GP Surgery's spread throughout each local community.
And sadly we may never hear or see the music of the 60s or 70s again.
I love the famous Bob Dylan paper dress scene. Just one of those dresses would fetch a hundred grand now.
How so is this a famous scene...?
I'd never pay that much for toilet paper.
Noticed the newspaper headline Cowdreys Caribbean Comeback. It must refer to the 1967 Port of Spain Fourth Test. Colin Cowdrey scored 148 and 71 in that match.
Or it could be from Spring1968...?
Beautiful women, Wow! Thanks Mike
Yes they are! Thanks Allen.
Thanks.😎😎
No problem 👍 Thank you too!
hello Mike. good to see you're back, just been told you've returned...our fave ever band.....good luck. jane and brian.
Thanks to you both. Glad to be back, I was surprised I got the channel so easily. Hopefully things will work out better. This was my first Kinks video, took a long time to give it a try. Have a nice day!
Astounding vintage B roll, Mike! Damn, Bob Dylan and the ginger *almost* ruined everything...but we dodged a bullet.
I actually convinced my folks to take me to Carnaby St in early 1968 and I visited the Apple Boutique. Wiki says it was "on the corner of Baker Street and Paddington Street, Marylebone, London. It opened on 7 December 1967 and closed on 31 July 1968" so...whew! Good timing! I was 12 years old. Bought some purple granny glasses. Wish I had scarfed up a bunch of cheap Beatles signatures for my retirement fund but...oh well. (-:
Thanks Kent! I love that footage, almost feel like I was there. Good and accurate docu footage is so perfect for some of these songs. Really nothing else can replace the real thing!
@@mikemunrowsretro8973 But your rediscovered footage is a bit clearer than my 50 year old memories, especially after two Martinis. LOL Great stuff! Sending your links out to a few Jurassic friends tonight. 😂
I was born in the wrong era 😞 damn I need a time machine!
So british ! So sixties !
Thanks! Glad you liked it. Some nice docu footage, glad it was avaialble.
Yoko Ono (0.50) ?
The documentary footage doesn't say, although these are mostly locals. It could be her or it could be someone who looks like her, a coincidence. This source footage was made before Lennon and Yoko met, I believe.
@@mikemunrowsretro8973 Lennon first met her in 1966 at (Barry Miles') Indica Gallery so she was certainly around in 66. But Lennon and Ono did not get together till around June 1968 (when he returned from India). So it could be her. Certainly looks like her!!
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The tax man is taking all my dough is how the song begins. Beatles had similar song 'tax man'.
So Beatles.
soy argentino, nací en el 65, y realmente esas imagenes son magicas, hipnoticas, dan ganas de transportarse hacia allí
¡Gracias! Es lo que intenté hacer con este vídeo. Me alegro que te hayas transportado a esa época.
I like the footage where is it from
Unfortunately the narrator only mentions London ... which covers a lot of territory. I saw Carnaby Street in one of the department store windows, so before we get to the beach I would guess a lot of the first part was in that district. The latter part may not have have been in London but in Manchester.
@@mikemunrowsretro8973 last years of 60s or 70s, Sure
It's from a time when the UK was British.
Beside the Serpentine, London I think.
Nice! Looks like most of the footage is from 1968....?
Thanks Susan! Swinging Britain, 1967.
What a marvellous year it was... i was born 😊 'Sumner of love' great music and great clothes, great talent about. Thanks for this, my mum loved The Kinks, she was a real 60's girl, and although she was 41, still only looked about 30 at most, was always in a mini skirt. ❤️ and had a great little figure. I'm happy to say she seems to have passed on her youthfulness to her children too 😁 @@mikemunrowsretro8973
They've gotten very, very good colorizing old black and white news reels from the 1960s
I guess. I never knew this was colorized. Good job.
@@mikemunrowsretro8973this wasn't colorized, it was originally shot in color.
Beside the Serpentine i think
It really wasn't that long ago when the UK was populated by BRITISH people.
Funnily enough, in 1966, if you were India, Kenya, Uganda, the West Indies you WERE British and had a legal right to settle in any part of the British Empire. Think about that. Who conferred British citizenship upon Indians, Kenyans, Ugandans - who made them "British" and why? The adage, we are over her because you were over there has never been more true eh?
Dumbass, there were still many immigrants in the UK at the time to the point that Enoch Powell had to do his infamous rivers of blood speech, also maybe if an empire didn't spend centuries pillaging and conquering foreign countries, this wouldn't have happened.
Get a grip. You people colonised the entire planet.
Haha, gold. It could be so again if people wanted it
Wonderful song. Stupid comment
0:51 Yoko Ono?
So I'm told.