Heck my first 45 was walk like a man with lucky ladybug on the flip side. By the 4 seasons. I was 5 at the time and I like lucky ladybug. But the one I remember the most was I want you back J5 and sugar sugar the Archie's. Goid times
Paul Roger's surprised me how much he commented on everybody's drumming. It was cool seeing Elvis's the wonder of you sitting #1 for singles at the end of August on charts, I love looking at the charts at end of each show.
I haven't seen such a solid collection of tracks since Dave Davies' video. Excellent stuff all around! It's wild seeing how much music changed by the end of the 60's. And about time we got some reggae in here!
Yeah, it's amazing how quickly music changed in those years. This issue of the magazine featured the hits of August 1970 and it also featured a list of the top 10 hits from August 1965, they used to do that every once in a while. And the top hits from August 1965 were "Satisfaction" by the Stones, "Mr Tambourine Man" by the Bryds, "Like a Rolling Stone" by Dylan and "Help" by The Beatles. It almost seems like 30 years had passed from "Help" to "Paranoid" by Black Sabbath.
As unlikely as it sounds, a friend of mine recognized Paul two days ago at a riverfront restaurant/bar in Homosassa, Florida. He told her; “I’ll do one autograph a day”, and signed the back of her check with the words, “Don’t you know! Don’t you know you are a shooting star?” (She’s getting it framed and I would too!)
@@manoftheworld1000 Was he being facetious ? Maybe, but all his comments are a little off. Criticizing Sabbaths bass and drums for not relating like they were in James Brown's band, rather than realizing its a Cream or Jefferson Airplane type approach. Again, maybe . The Zappa comment was daft , but maybe a poor joke. EDIT There's not even a solo in Chicago, ! WTF Maybe he just thinks oddly and his efforts at humour are just pathetic.
I saw the new post and went "oh shit" haha. I thought it had been unusual that we had gone a week without a Blind Date video. What a lovely Sunday morning surprise.
Paul Rodgers name doesn't come up enough when 'greatest singers' are mentioned. While the hits that he had to comment on were pretty decent, the charts were overloaded with great stuff. Let It Be, Led Zeppelin 2, In Rock, Hendrix, Live at Leeds, Creedence, Jackson 5, Melanie, and even Paul's band Free. And more. Hours, if not days, of incredible music was going on at that moment.
Yes, I think Paul was given a very nice selection of songs to review. Kind of covers the whole spectrum of sounds from 1970. Heavy metal, folk rock, reggae, soul, jazz, rock,... Pretty cool.
10 years after I had only one significant American hit, I’d love to change the world, which can’t even be played on the radio anymore because of the derogatory terms for homosexuals
@@michaelrochester48 At this point, I'm not sure if most Americans would know whether to consider "dykes and ferries" derogatory terms or not. "queer" used to be considered an insult but now it's used by self-appointed representatives of the "community". United Negro College Fund and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People both still use names that contain terms that would get the average politician thrown out of polite society. Nearly any term for a minority group is at risk of going out of style and becoming unmentionable on any given day.
Paul Rodgers has always been one of my favorite vocalists. That was a very good week for music. I remember thinking that the words for Spill the Wine were "Do I Dig That Girl?". I heard one of my classmates sing it that way, and it must have stuck. Great songs.
As a kid I always thought it was "Do I Dig That Girl", too. As an even younger kid I thought Herman's Hermits singing "She's A Must To Avoid" was "She's A Lobster-Boy".
He was wrong about Sabbath, it's a legendary song in this genre now. CSNY I was surprised at too. His knowledge was average with them. I'm also surprised he didn't know Richard Harris; as he had a distinctive style. As for the rest, he was a mixture of critic and compliments. Liked your mellotron stuff at the end. The year 1970 saw many progrock bands, using this new style of keys for the first time.
@Simon McCreath It's a good part of what makes Sabbath's sound, and probably what led to them being dismissed as "poor" or simplistic musicians. Sometimes, when a mold is so omnipresent, it's hard to see someone breaking it... Love Free, but LOVE Sabbath!
Black Sabbath 'Paranoid' was one of the best prog-rock (proto-metal) singles of the early 70's ..I guess Paul Rogers was so immersed in Free's own hard rock sound at the time as not to see the raw magic of 'Paranoid'.. Free Live (Rogers on lead vocals) was a superb album btw..
He lost me when he said the bass player and drummer don’t seem very together. Bill Ward and Geezer Butler were an excellent rhythm section. One of the best.
I think Sabbath clicked with the public way before they clicked with other musicians. My first reaction when they came out was that they were a poor man's Zeppelin, but, over time, I've come to appreciate the rawness of those early cuts.
Free at number 2 on both the singles and album charts. Just shows how big a band they were in that era. My impression is that these days they're almost forgotten. which is a great shame. Paul Rodgers is a pretty broad minded reviewer, though he did let slip some of that prejudice that used to be shown by rockers towards reggae - "I don't hate all reggae".
I agree 100%. Very underappreciated band nowadays. I've got an original UK pressing of "Fire and Water" and I played it after uploading this video. I hadn't heard that album in quite some time and I really enjoyed it. "Mr Big" is one of my favourites from that album. I love Paul's bluesy vocals, Kossoff's guitar and the brilliant rhythm section. They sounded very "tight and together" on that album, as Paul would say.
@@YesterdaysPapers One of the best live bands the UK has ever seen. Had the pleasure of playing a gig with Tich, Beaky, Robert Plant, Phil Carson and Chris Squire. Beaky on drums - he’s also a superb drummer!
I have never ever heard that song or of the band Gulliver but I notice a triple song writing credit and the last name is a certain Daryl Hall. I can't believe there were too many other Daryl Hall's knocking around back then. He must have been pretty young.
@@darganx i have a memory of hearing an album hall & oats did that was nothing like they went on to sound like. sketchy memory but it was kinda acoustic folk like. i'm going to google it, i probably should have done that first 🙃
CSN&Y: "...what if you knew her and found her dead on the ground?...Four dead in Ohio". Paul Rodgers: "This song is really nice" Truly though, this was a really interesting selection. Another great video, well done!
Paul was obviously into drums so it's testimony to Free's and Bad Company's drummer, Simon Kirke, that Paul wanted to stick with him in two bands. Simon K was great at maintaining intensity and keeping a steady tempo while playing slow, heavy tunes. That's not easy to do without a click.
Both the UK singles and albums charts shown here, were `NOT` from `Melody Maker` they were from the `British Market Research Bureau` lists which were used by both the B.B.C, and Record Retailer/Record Mirror magazines. Topping the `Melody Maker` singles chart for week ending 1st August 1970, was "All Right Now" by Free, enjoying its third week at No 1 on the M.M charts. On the M.M album charts 1 Aug 70, "Bridge Over Troubled Water" had just regained No 1 slot from "Let it Be" which had displaced it for the previous Eight weeks. `Y.P` can check MM charts to confirm this.
I love all these episodes, as I am perhaps more open minded than the harsh criticism that can be learned from.... 7 October 1967 spawned from summer of love
Didn't know In Rock was that high up that year. Also, just realized how much Paul Rodgers looked like Jason Lee from Almost Famous. I don't know why I would be surprised, after all they did mock up Burnin' Sky for the T-shirt scene and Simon Kirke was by the pool. 0 for 2. Just didn't register at the time.
Jason Lee looked exactly like Paul Rodgers in Almost Famous. And I thought Billy Crudup looked exactly like Dickie Betts. And there are more than a few Allman Brothers references in the film.
@@ralph0149 One reference in it actually involves the Allman Brothers. It was the scene where Billy Crudup accuses the kid of being a cop and he lunges at him. Cameron Crowe was on tour with the Allmans. Greg was out of his head on cocaine and accused Cameron of being a cop. In fact, the whole movie's plot is based on actual events from that tour. Cameron Crowe just wanted to get an interview with the Allman Brothers but they kept putting it off, so he had to travel from city to city just to get the interview. The whole time his mother was beside herself over his whereabouts.
The best unibrow in show biz! Love paranoid by Sabbath but I can't say he's wrong. You'd think someone with a great guitarist in his band like Paul Kossoff could tell the difference between Clapton and Young! Hilarious mistaking early Jon Anderson for Cleo Laine!!! The Hey Jude cover is ridiculous and Paul tells it like it is! How do you mistake Eric Burdons voice for Frank Zappa? Spot on with Jimmy Mcgriff. Insipid:Ray Stevens in a nutshell! Paul knows his stuff and his drummers! Always thought Free was so much better than the obvious Bad Company.
That Hey Jude version by The Templeton Twins got a lot of airplay on Radio One around that time, but there had been a phase of 20s-style songs, as in The New Vaudeville Band's Winchester Cathedral. I wasn't keen on it.
If you listen to the first segment of Everydays by Yes, it is very laid back and jazzy. With Jon's high voice I can totally get the Cleo Laine reference!
"...We decided we should adopt a song, a song that was current. She wanted "I'll Say Forever, My Love" by Jimmy Ruffin, I wanted it to be "Lola" by The Kinks." as the great Dexys Midnight Runners quote goes! Nice to see those two songs in the Top Ten together!
Paranoid went top 5, remember that pop kiddies! CSNY, class and Fotheringay Ballad Of Ned Kelly, love Sandy and Trevor. Incidentally, The Ballad Of Ned Kelly sounds suspiciously like a Bee Gees track from their 1969 album Odessa, check it out. Paul Rodgers, great vocalist and Free, Bad Co & The Firm were great bands.
Some great singles in this one. Starting off with Paranoid, then Spill the Wine and few other gems!! Ahhh, why can’t rock make a comeback?!?! It’s so far beyond all this boring rap trash. It makes me resent everyone who supports the vapid junk being pushed out these days.
Gulliver features a young Daryl Hall, not sure if he's the lead vocal that Paul is referring to. Max Romeo's follow up to Wet Dream, which the BBC banned but still got Top 5! He used to live local to me when I was growing up, in Wembley. The Clancy Eccles tune is a reggae classic, I guess Paul didn't catch the vibe! Also, I would have thought he would have known of Sabbath at that point, being close to the same scene?
He described the kind of music he likes to listen to and not surprisingly it fits the kind of music he sings. He's not good at recognising which songs are going to be hits though he got a better selection of songs than many reviewers in this series. I used to be a fan of Free and Bad Company but though I like Paul Rodgers' voice and singing and the bluesy sound of his bands, the beat of those bands often sounds plodding to me today.
Hello, You had a video called something like Hendrix - What was he listening to in 1967? The video appears to have been taken down! In it, you referenced a statement by Hendrix with his opinion on the singles of the year or something, in which he expressed he liked Tales Of Brave Ulysses by Cream. I am trying to find a source for this statement, could you please direct me to it??
@@shako4907 the riff had nothing to do with Jake Holmes and the things that make Zeppelin's version interesting had nothing to do with Jake Holmes. There's always some clown whose knowledge of the subject consists of a UA-cam video about Zeppelin and plagiarism who feels like he has to chime in anytime Zeppelin is mentioned. It's pretty embarrassing to anyone who has actually listened to the albums . Anyone who doesn't gather ' information' from the internet but actually has owned an album
I thought that Paul had an interesting batch of singles to review, especially considering that the 'good' tracks were meant for albums by 1970. The American singles chart was a MAJOR step down from the '67 - '68 charts that I have seen.
If anyone wants to hear the greatest blues rock album EVER, check out Free's debut Tons of Sobs. Also I'm curious as to what things Paul has heard before that sounds like Black Sabbath? What an odd thing to say.
It's a hard gig to be witty, eloquent and succinct when asked to review a bunch of never before heard singles. Sadly, Paul Rodgers isn't quite up to the challenge.
There were bands like Blue Cheer that played blues riffs with a lot of distortion or overdrive, but Sabbath was light years ahead of all those other bands.
Free broke up so Paul Rodgers and drummer Simon Kirke formed Bad Company along with Mick Ralphs from Mott the Hoople and the then bass player from King Crimson.
Not a great week for singles, oh just apart those 3 super great classics Paranoid, Ohio and Spill The Wine! The U.S charts has War, Ball Of Confusion and Ohio in the Top Twenty... WOW! We need that in 2022 please.
1:20 he says "The guitar is better than the Band, though..." I wonder if he meant the guitar is better than the REST of the band. Paul Rogers is pretty astute, he made a lot of insightful comments, for instance noticing that the new singer of the Supremes sounded like Diana Ross but without the certainty. Very interesting to hear his opinion even 50 years later.
As a kid I remember buying Spill The Wine & Time Of The Season as my first 45's at a Woolworths. I had good taste at that time !
A Chef's kiss for those two choices, mmm-wah!
Yes you did.
David..great first choices! My first two 45s were a cheesy tribute to JFK and Matt Monro! Embarrassing!
Heck my first 45 was walk like a man with lucky ladybug on the flip side. By the 4 seasons. I was 5 at the time and I like lucky ladybug. But the one I remember the most was I want you back J5 and sugar sugar the Archie's. Goid times
"And stay out of the Woolswotrths!"
Man, they really challenged Paul here with an insanely eclectic selection. Gotta give him props for taking it on.
Paul Roger's surprised me how much he commented on everybody's drumming. It was cool seeing Elvis's the wonder of you sitting #1 for singles at the end of August on charts, I love looking at the charts at end of each show.
I haven't seen such a solid collection of tracks since Dave Davies' video. Excellent stuff all around! It's wild seeing how much music changed by the end of the 60's. And about time we got some reggae in here!
Yeah, it's amazing how quickly music changed in those years. This issue of the magazine featured the hits of August 1970 and it also featured a list of the top 10 hits from August 1965, they used to do that every once in a while. And the top hits from August 1965 were "Satisfaction" by the Stones, "Mr Tambourine Man" by the Bryds, "Like a Rolling Stone" by Dylan and "Help" by The Beatles. It almost seems like 30 years had passed from "Help" to "Paranoid" by Black Sabbath.
The drummer he liked so much on the Jimmy McGriff cut was Grady Tate.
This channel needs a Spotify playlist, great songs I’ve never heard of but worth sharing to people like me who are too young
I think Paul Rodgers is great. Truly under-rated. His appearance at this stage of his career was not unlike the Geico caveman.
Wow. A Yes single being reviewed with the original band still intact ? Didn't expect that !!
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The guitar in Ohio sounds nothing like Clapton.
He thought Neil Young was Clapton??!? What a compliment!!!
@@DavidDykes-dm9lc It was Stephen Stills.
As unlikely as it sounds, a friend of mine recognized Paul two days ago at a riverfront restaurant/bar in Homosassa, Florida. He told her; “I’ll do one autograph a day”, and signed the back of her check with the words, “Don’t you know! Don’t you know you are a shooting star?” (She’s getting it framed and I would too!)
"Bullshit! It's bullshit!" 🤣 Spot on!
Wow, Dylan's album gets to #4 with just a load of scraps 😯
Maybe people hadn't discovered how bad an album it was yet. Wonder how it did in the September and October charts?
@@alm5693 You can look it up at Billboard's charts page.
Yeah, I said goodbye to Bob, until Blood on Tracks.
Self Portrait has got some great stuff on it, and Dylan at his worst is still better than 99.9% of all other American music.
@@amosungar5248 "New Morning" which came out right after SP is a somewhat overlooked gem. Didn't discover it till many years later.
My god he's clueless ! How can you mistake Neil Young for Eric Clapton ? ... or Eric and War for Zappa ? Great as always. Thanks
Are you sure those weren't ironic remarks?
@@manoftheworld1000 Was he being facetious ? Maybe, but all his comments are a little off. Criticizing Sabbaths bass and drums for not relating like they were in James Brown's band, rather than realizing its a Cream or Jefferson Airplane type approach. Again, maybe . The Zappa comment was daft , but maybe a poor joke. EDIT There's not even a solo in Chicago, ! WTF Maybe he just thinks oddly and his efforts at humour are just pathetic.
or was it Stephen Stills guitar he was referring to ?
Neil Young would later claim he was embarrassed by that song
Whoever’s playing guitar it sounds like he’s using a hammer as a guitar pic
Great video as always, Rogers voice is one of the best in Rockmusic, also some great songs, thank you Y'sP !
Oh yes. I like this one. These are so great.
Back when Andy Williams could share the charts with Live Cream. I'm glad I got to live thru this era.
Andy Willians com Simon & Garfunkel foi perfeito.
I saw the new post and went "oh shit" haha. I thought it had been unusual that we had gone a week without a Blind Date video. What a lovely Sunday morning surprise.
As well as the 60s it’s nice to see some of the 70s
Paul Rodgers name doesn't come up enough when 'greatest singers' are mentioned. While the hits that he had to comment on were pretty decent, the charts were overloaded with great stuff. Let It Be, Led Zeppelin 2, In Rock, Hendrix, Live at Leeds, Creedence, Jackson 5, Melanie, and even Paul's band Free. And more. Hours, if not days, of incredible music was going on at that moment.
Agreed. Lots of great albums that year.
@@nashvillesoup8820 Yes a great voice that powered three big bands and a solo career.
Realmente foi uma ótima safra ano !
It does because Paul Rodgers is considered the quintessential rock vocalist
Probably the best selection of singles I've heard from any of your other videos. Paul got lucky that week for his musical review.
Fucking cracking set of tunes here. Gold.
The Kinks at #3 with Lola! Great band! Great record!
I remember a girl friend at the time asking what Lola was about. When I told her, she was stunned - ‘men dress up like women??!!’
Didn't like "Lola" first time around nor now. Annoying dreck.
There are FIVE bona fide classic tracks in this top 18 - Elvis, Free, Kinks, Joni and Stevie. Great time for music.
I love what you've done with this series so much! And I love the music you make for it as well!!
Thank you!
Spill the Wine and also Ohio really shine here. The Jackson 5 is pretty good too. Nice to see some reggae here too.
Yes, I think Paul was given a very nice selection of songs to review. Kind of covers the whole spectrum of sounds from 1970. Heavy metal, folk rock, reggae, soul, jazz, rock,... Pretty cool.
@@YesterdaysPapers Oh yes, a nice cross section of sounds here for sure.
Kind of weird that he focuses on the music of Ohio. In America we focused on the words.
@@389383 Totally get what you're saying.
Yes! Great to see Yes included here. Solid song.
A Buffalo Springfield (Steve Stills) cover. I've always preferred the original Yes. Must be because I prfer the 'sixties' to the seventies.
Great stuff. I never realized that Ten Years After and the Guess Who had hit singles in the UK.
American Oman
10 years after I had only one significant American hit, I’d love to change the world, which can’t even be played on the radio anymore because of the derogatory terms for homosexuals
@@michaelrochester48 I've heard it recently on both a Classic Rock station and free form WFMU NYC.
@@michaelrochester48 The words "dykes and fairies" have been reclaimed and rehabilitated so its OK now.
@@michaelrochester48 At this point, I'm not sure if most Americans would know whether to consider "dykes and ferries" derogatory terms or not. "queer" used to be considered an insult but now it's used by self-appointed representatives of the "community". United Negro College Fund and National Association for the Advancement of Colored People both still use names that contain terms that would get the average politician thrown out of polite society. Nearly any term for a minority group is at risk of going out of style and becoming unmentionable on any given day.
How anyone could confuse Eric Burdon with Frank Zappa is beyond me
Talvez os ácidos lisergicos explique isso.
He's clueless
Paul Rodgers has always been one of my favorite vocalists. That was a very good week for music. I remember thinking that the words for Spill the Wine were "Do I Dig That Girl?". I heard one of my classmates sing it that way, and it must have stuck. Great songs.
He's a great singer, great voice.
I caught him w The Firm. The vocals were just fine, but I was amazed how little stage presence he had.
As a kid I always thought it was "Do I Dig That Girl", too. As an even younger kid I thought Herman's Hermits singing "She's A Must To Avoid" was "She's A Lobster-Boy".
@@joelake7986 Stereo speakers tended to be crappy back then. It was pretty hard sometimes to make out lyrics.
@@joelake7986 'She's A Muscular Boy' was my favourite misheard lyric on that!
He was wrong about Sabbath, it's a legendary song in this genre now.
CSNY I was surprised at too. His knowledge was average with them.
I'm also surprised he didn't know Richard Harris; as he had a distinctive style.
As for the rest, he was a mixture of critic and compliments.
Liked your mellotron stuff at the end.
The year 1970 saw many progrock bands, using this new style of keys for the first time.
Thanks, Steffan. Glad you liked it.
@Simon McCreath It's a good part of what makes Sabbath's sound, and probably what led to them being dismissed as "poor" or simplistic musicians. Sometimes, when a mold is so omnipresent, it's hard to see someone breaking it... Love Free, but LOVE Sabbath!
Paul Rogers was really focused on drumming 52 years ago.
Yes, he seemed to be very focused on drumming and whether bands sounded tight or not.
His comment about Black Sabbath was way off.
The Fotheringay song is identical to “You Ain’t Going Nowhere” by Dylan.
Paul Rodgers is perhaps one of the five rock heroes of all time.
Black Sabbath 'Paranoid' was one of the best prog-rock (proto-metal) singles of the early 70's ..I guess Paul Rogers was so immersed in Free's own hard rock sound at the time as not to see the raw magic of 'Paranoid'.. Free Live (Rogers on lead vocals) was a superb album btw..
Yeah ! Sabbath sounded like no one else.
Paranoid was the heaviest track in ul totp then. Great band
The single Paranoid is what really broke the band in the states...
He lost me when he said the bass player and drummer don’t seem very together. Bill Ward and Geezer Butler were an excellent rhythm section. One of the best.
I think Sabbath clicked with the public way before they clicked with other musicians. My first reaction when they came out was that they were a poor man's Zeppelin, but, over time, I've come to appreciate the rawness of those early cuts.
Saw Paul Rodgers and Bad Company, Omni, Atlanta, Ga, 1975.
Spot on as usual paul especially on black sabbath
Hindsight changes alot of initial impressions. At least he liked the Yes song.
Free at number 2 on both the singles and album charts. Just shows how big a band they were in that era. My impression is that these days they're almost forgotten. which is a great shame.
Paul Rodgers is a pretty broad minded reviewer, though he did let slip some of that prejudice that used to be shown by rockers towards reggae - "I don't hate all reggae".
I agree 100%. Very underappreciated band nowadays. I've got an original UK pressing of "Fire and Water" and I played it after uploading this video. I hadn't heard that album in quite some time and I really enjoyed it. "Mr Big" is one of my favourites from that album. I love Paul's bluesy vocals, Kossoff's guitar and the brilliant rhythm section. They sounded very "tight and together" on that album, as Paul would say.
Mr President - Dave Dee, Dozy etc. Tich rang me only last week! Still looks about 40! Brilliant musician!🥰
That's cool. I love many of their singles.
@@YesterdaysPapers One of the best live bands the UK has ever seen. Had the pleasure of playing a gig with Tich, Beaky, Robert Plant, Phil Carson and Chris Squire. Beaky on drums - he’s also a superb drummer!
@@theesbband What a line-up!
He got to review some very good songs.
Was he an aspiring drummer?? :) Loved they threw in Jimmy McGriff. Awesome LP. Agreed with pretty much eveything! Hey Jude covers are daft.
1:16 Fotheringay with Sandy Denny on lead vocals (post Fairport).
I have never ever heard that song or of the band Gulliver but I notice a triple song
writing credit and the last name is a certain Daryl Hall. I can't believe there were too
many other Daryl Hall's knocking around back then. He must have been pretty young.
It is he.. by the time he hit the big time with John Oates (late 70s/early 80s) he was already a veteran!
@@darganx i have a memory of hearing an album hall & oats did that was nothing like they went on to sound like. sketchy memory but it was kinda acoustic folk like. i'm going to google it, i probably should have done that first 🙃
I don’t know what Paul Rogers had been listening to, but nothing else sounded like Black Sabbath of 1970.
with all due respect rodgers didn't know s...t about sabbath back then was pretty easy to review something that they've never heard before
obviously he was envious as other musicians from his time HELLO townshend and nash
WTAF???? Paul Rodgers reviews Paranoid and is less than impressed. Love these YP's so much.
I hope Paul had another listen and reviewed his review
Paul sporting one helluva unibrow!
Yep, that's a pretty impressive unibrow look. He makes the Gallagher brothers from Oasis look like Cristiano Ronaldo.
@@YesterdaysPapers 😂
I saw Jimi Hendrix in May of 1970.
I've been listening to Tim Rose recently. Morning Dew and Melinda are amazing songs.
“I’ve heard so many things like this before” for Sabbath in 70. WHAT
CSN&Y: "...what if you knew her and found her dead on the ground?...Four dead in Ohio".
Paul Rodgers: "This song is really nice"
Truly though, this was a really interesting selection. Another great video, well done!
Agreed, it's a pretty cool selection of songs.
Paul was obviously into drums so it's testimony to Free's and Bad Company's drummer, Simon Kirke, that Paul wanted to stick with him in two bands. Simon K was great at maintaining intensity and keeping a steady tempo while playing slow, heavy tunes. That's not easy to do without a click.
Both the UK singles and albums charts shown here, were `NOT` from `Melody Maker` they were from the `British Market Research Bureau` lists which were used by both the B.B.C, and Record Retailer/Record Mirror magazines. Topping the `Melody Maker` singles chart for week ending 1st August 1970, was "All Right Now" by Free, enjoying its third week at No 1 on the M.M charts. On the M.M album charts 1 Aug 70, "Bridge Over Troubled Water" had just regained No 1 slot from "Let it Be" which had displaced it for the previous Eight weeks. `Y.P` can check MM charts to confirm this.
I love all these episodes, as I am perhaps more open minded than the harsh criticism that can be learned from.... 7 October 1967 spawned from summer of love
Some literal CLASSICS are on this video
Green Manalishi is a beast especially the Boston one and pre 10cc Neanderthal men 😁 Used to love that
Paul Rodgers sure likes to notice drummers. Really surprised that there wasn't one "heavy" rock song in the US top 20 of August 1970.
Didn't know In Rock was that high up that year. Also, just realized how much Paul Rodgers looked like Jason Lee from Almost Famous. I don't know why I would be surprised, after all they did mock up Burnin' Sky for the T-shirt scene and Simon Kirke was by the pool. 0 for 2. Just didn't register at the time.
Jason Lee looked exactly like Paul Rodgers in Almost Famous. And I thought Billy Crudup looked exactly like Dickie Betts.
And there are more than a few Allman Brothers references in the film.
@@tomcarl8021 there are tons of references in that movie. Have to give it another look.
@@ralph0149 One reference in it actually involves the Allman Brothers. It was the scene where Billy Crudup accuses the kid of being a cop and he lunges at him.
Cameron Crowe was on tour with the Allmans. Greg was out of his head on cocaine and accused Cameron of being a cop.
In fact, the whole movie's plot is based on actual events from that tour. Cameron Crowe just wanted to get an interview with the Allman Brothers but they kept putting it off, so he had to travel from city to city just to get the interview. The whole time his mother was beside herself over his whereabouts.
@@tomcarl8021 i always thought Billy looked like Glenn Frey
@@chrisvanuden Haha!! I definitely see that. Too funny.
I have been hoping for years that Paul Rogers would be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and now I see that he was. Seven years ago lol..
That is a mighty fine top 30 at the end of this film.
Very good records!
Jeez that version of Hey Jude…..may it never be heard again
That was truly atrocious. Had me chuckling throughout...
The best unibrow in show biz! Love paranoid by Sabbath but I can't say he's wrong. You'd think someone with a great guitarist in his band like Paul Kossoff could tell the difference between Clapton and Young! Hilarious mistaking early Jon Anderson for Cleo Laine!!! The Hey Jude cover is ridiculous and Paul tells it like it is! How do you mistake Eric Burdons voice for Frank Zappa? Spot on with Jimmy Mcgriff. Insipid:Ray Stevens in a nutshell! Paul knows his stuff and his drummers! Always thought Free was so much better than the obvious Bad Company.
Agreed. Not a big fan of Bad Company but I love Free.
Bad Company never recorded anything as good as Fire And Water. Yes, Free was the better band and Paul Kossoff was the heavyweight champ of sustain.
That Hey Jude version by The Templeton Twins got a lot of airplay on Radio One around that time, but there had been a phase of 20s-style songs, as in The New Vaudeville Band's Winchester Cathedral. I wasn't keen on it.
If you listen to the first segment of Everydays by Yes, it is very laid back and jazzy. With Jon's high voice I can totally get the Cleo Laine reference!
"...We decided we should adopt a song, a song that was current. She wanted "I'll Say Forever, My Love" by Jimmy Ruffin, I wanted it to be "Lola" by The Kinks." as the great Dexys Midnight Runners quote goes! Nice to see those two songs in the Top Ten together!
Seriously? He didn't like 'Paranoid?' Yes, Yes is good. And Eric Burdon? He got some good songs.
Look that Top 20 albums MAN!!
“But you know I love you” was actually a hit in the United States for Kenny Rogers and the First Edition.
being a fan of Lawrence Welk I really liked The Templeton Twins Hey Jude thank you helping me add another song to my collection
Paranoid went top 5, remember that pop kiddies!
CSNY, class and Fotheringay Ballad Of Ned Kelly, love Sandy and Trevor. Incidentally, The Ballad Of Ned Kelly sounds suspiciously like a Bee Gees track from their 1969 album Odessa, check it out.
Paul Rodgers, great vocalist and Free, Bad Co & The Firm were great bands.
The Weight ? No, You Aient Goin Nowhere. Both probably lifted from some old folk song.
Paul got some great ones to work with. His personal taste notwithstanding. He didn't recognize Eric Burden and he didn't like Paranoid?!! Geez.
Some great singles in this one.
Starting off with Paranoid, then Spill the Wine and few other gems!!
Ahhh, why can’t rock make a comeback?!?!
It’s so far beyond all this boring rap trash. It makes me resent everyone who supports the vapid junk being pushed out these days.
"everyone who supports the vapid junk" Consumers and their mass societal mores
Rap is way better than Rock by far and it’s not even close
@@liltree8382 Don't be silly
52 Years Ago Today.
Revealing insights on Black Sabbath and The Band. The unshaven look was really popular then, based on Paul's photos.
The unibrow look, too.
Gulliver features a young Daryl Hall, not sure if he's the lead vocal that Paul is referring to.
Max Romeo's follow up to Wet Dream, which the BBC banned but still got Top 5! He used to live local to me when I was growing up, in Wembley. The Clancy Eccles tune is a reggae classic, I guess Paul didn't catch the vibe!
Also, I would have thought he would have known of Sabbath at that point, being close to the same scene?
Paul wasn't ready for doom metal like sabbath yet 🤣
The first time you hear All Right Now by Free is transcendent 😁
Lol good to hear he suffered no crap
He described the kind of music he likes to listen to and not surprisingly it fits the kind of music he sings. He's not good at recognising which songs are going to be hits though he got a better selection of songs than many reviewers in this series. I used to be a fan of Free and Bad Company but though I like Paul Rodgers' voice and singing and the bluesy sound of his bands, the beat of those bands often sounds plodding to me today.
Hello,
You had a video called something like Hendrix - What was he listening to in 1967?
The video appears to have been taken down!
In it, you referenced a statement by Hendrix with his opinion on the singles of the year or something, in which he expressed he liked Tales Of Brave Ulysses by Cream.
I am trying to find a source for this statement, could you please direct me to it??
lol wow, I have everythin on vinyl in that top 20 UK albums cept for Nana, Elvis and Andy
Interesting how he says he feels like the Black Sabbath sound isn't very original when they are regarded as a founding father of metal.
that song just took the chorus riff from Zeppelin's Dazed and Confused and built a half-assed jam around it. I like Sabbath . But that song sucks
Yes. I could be wrong, it's like Sabbath really got his attention.
@@Cincinnatus1869 Zeppelin's Dazed and Confused? Bahahaha! I think you mean Jake Holmes'
Helter Skelter is way harder in my opinion and came out two years prior.
@@shako4907 the riff had nothing to do with Jake Holmes and the things that make Zeppelin's version interesting had nothing to do with Jake Holmes. There's always some clown whose knowledge of the subject consists of a UA-cam video about Zeppelin and plagiarism who feels like he has to chime in anytime Zeppelin is mentioned. It's pretty embarrassing to anyone who has actually listened to the albums . Anyone who doesn't gather ' information' from the internet but actually has owned an album
I remember Roger Daltrey reviewing Alright Now and thinking it was crap so they all review songs and all say things they might regret later
i love the out music on this video
His statements about Paranoid are the opposite of my own lol
I want to see the rest of that Yes promo with the nun chasing them!
Here you go: ua-cam.com/video/G2DQua8h82M/v-deo.html
I thought that Paul had an interesting batch of singles to review, especially considering that the 'good' tracks were meant for albums by 1970. The American singles chart was a MAJOR step down from the '67 - '68 charts that I have seen.
Rodgers is a goddam CAVEMAN!
He was the model for the Geico caveman
Love like a man a UK single? Wow - charted pretty well
If anyone wants to hear the greatest blues rock album EVER, check out Free's debut Tons of Sobs.
Also I'm curious as to what things Paul has heard before that sounds like Black Sabbath? What an odd thing to say.
The BLUE magoos,blue cheer and all other heavy garage bands of mid 60s
It's a hard gig to be witty, eloquent and succinct when asked to review a bunch of never before heard singles. Sadly, Paul Rodgers isn't quite up to the challenge.
The album Live Cream there in the charts. I played it until the needle almost wore through the vinyl.
Paul Rogers said Black Sabbath sounds like groups he has heard before. So he’s basically saying the inventors of heavy-metal are copying someone else?
what other bands sounded like sabbath in 1970?
@@sg-yq8pm that sounded like sabbath?
There were bands like Blue Cheer that played blues riffs with a lot of distortion or overdrive, but Sabbath was light years ahead of all those other bands.
Richard Harris again! I thought McCarthur Park was awful enough but he seemed to have quite the recording career.
I’ve never heard of most of the people doing the music reviews on this channel.
You are either too young or not from the UK. Either way you need to listen to some classic 60s and 70s music.
Holy crap throwing shade at Geezer Butler and Tony Iommi.
What's the song at 4:59?
It's a remake of The Kinks' Lola
@@drowningman Thanks, it seemed familiar
"Take it Off!"
This is the most contemporary of these reviews thus far. How long did this feature run along until?
Not sure. I think they stopped doing it around 1972 or 1973 but I could be wrong.
@@YesterdaysPapers Okay, I had been wondering about that before this upload.
@@YesterdaysPapers Hope there's more to come, I love these posts 😻✌
Me too, there's got to be quite a few more.... hopefully
I'm curious as to what bands sounded like Black Sabbath to inspire his comment "He's heard it all before".
If I’m not mistaken didn’t Free change their name to Bad Company
Free broke up so Paul Rodgers and drummer Simon Kirke formed Bad Company along with Mick Ralphs from Mott the Hoople and the then bass player from King Crimson.
Not a great week for singles, oh just apart those 3 super great classics Paranoid, Ohio and Spill The Wine! The U.S charts has War, Ball Of Confusion and Ohio in the Top Twenty... WOW! We need that in 2022 please.
1:20 he says "The guitar is better than the Band, though..." I wonder if he meant the guitar is better than the REST of the band. Paul Rogers is pretty astute, he made a lot of insightful comments, for instance noticing that the new singer of the Supremes sounded like Diana Ross but without the certainty. Very interesting to hear his opinion even 50 years later.