This video started out with the great Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane record then went to the Hollies all time best On A Carousel then went to the Smoke My Friend Jack which to me is this underrated band best hit. 2023 has been gloomy with the horrible earthquake in Syria and Turkey and in the U.S mass shootings and the Tyre Nichols tragedy but when one hears The Eyes Of Blue Supermarket Full Of Cans any gloom goes away fast with this snappy tune. Thanks again Yesterday's Papers for posting this video and it proves the UK in February 1967 was putting out some great music.
Thanks, Darrell. Your comment about the Eyes of Blue is spot on. That's such a great, upbeat track. It's definitely the sort of song that will brighten your darkest day. The chorus is irrestible and always brings a smile to my face. "You can't find love like us in a supermarket full of cans". That's genius.
@@DwellerHollowMusic You beat me to it! I was just about to say the same thing. The clip of the Hollies singing On a Carousel was impressive, but to my ear they could sometimes be a bit strident. I think the Zombies definitely had the edge. How could they not, with the great Colin Blunstone?
I'm not a massive Beatles fan, but God, "Strawberry fields Forever" is one the most magical songs ever recorded. I feel sorry for The Game, they seemed to be a good group, they just had bad luck.
These were the records I hunted for in the 1980s when the comps started coming out. Bought some crummy unknown 45s along the way to finding the gems though. Your videos are a blast. Every time you namedrop another killer record I used to own like Supermarket Full Of Cans I laugh out loud!
Brilliantly enjoyable and informative, as always. I'd forgotten all about 'My Friend Jack eats Sugar Lumps', which I loved at the time. And now it's stuck in my head 🤪
What a glorious list of songs, YP! Not a bad one in the bunch. It's both a shame and a joy that the charts of the time were so filled with classics that so many great groups couldn't get a foothold of their own. The real winners were us, spoilt for choice and only so much in the pocketbook. ♥
"My Friend Jack"! Didn't become familiar with this until I bought the "Nuggets II" anthology and heard this superb acid-era gem in middle age. That and the follow-up ("High In A Room") - those two songs alone entitle The Smoke to immortal status regardless of the obliviousness of corrupt gatekeepers like the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
1967 surely was one of the best ever years in music!. Two of my favourites there too, wooden Spoon by The Poets and My Friend Jack by The Smoke. Superb YP love these longer videos
Thank you, YP, for another video in a great series. I love The Soft Machine. Loved seeing such a youthful and vibrant Robert Wyatt, before he had that unfortunate accident, where he fell out of a fourth story window and became a paraplegic. Didn’t stop him, though. He had a prolific solo career.
Did Robert Wyatt always perform bare-chested? I've a fairly distinct memory of his doing so even at their history-making appearance in the 1970 Promenade Concerts at the Albert Hall.
@@Krzyszczynski Robert didn’t always perform bare-chested. There’s lots of photos and footage of Robert playing with a shirt or sweater or whatever he happened to be wearing that day. He’s just well known for playing without a shirt.
Its interesting to note that i played my 17yr old grandson the track by Vanilla Fudge You Keep me Hanging On He went ape shit! No kidding he thought it was incredible & a blast Couldn't believe it was cut in the mid 1960s. He said it could be played anywhere today & gain a following! Lord he makes me proud & hes carrying on my great love of incredible music. I read a funny article about the Manfreds singer Paul Jones whos real name was Paul Pond was an Oxford Uni student & so desp for dosh, auditioned for the Manfreds! Rest is history! I also liked The Herd, they made some good stuff You should do a vid on Terry Reid he was a brilliant singer & could have been Zepps lead singer but for another commitment. Thanks for the vids 🇬🇧👧 Any music from the origional Tyrranausaurus Rex from the Magical Moon & Lofty Spires days My special faves from then.
Another excellent episode on the sixties psychedelic music scene. I'd never known about The Eyes of Blue before this. Strawberry Fields Forever is an absolute masterpiece in my opinion.
A few things I hadn't heard, really good as usual. The lacklustre reviews of Strawberry Fields/ Penny Lane are hard to believe...Tom Mcguinness told me trying to be as good as The Beatles was certainly an issue for MM. I got bored with a 45 I owned as a small boy, and can remember squashing it down in the dustbin. That record was an original copy of Vaccum Cleaner by Tintern Abbey :-) Hhhh...however I do own the Gibson fuzz pedal John Mcnally used on Have You Ever Loved Somebody. Sorry to go off topic...I have been telling the guy who runs the Del Shannon fanclub about your excellent psych era Del film..also there is an interview with Del's wife and son on YT now which is interesting. Keep up the great work! Marc Lemon
What a splendid video again YP! And what a great bands you had in the UK! "Strawberry Fields Forever" is my favorite Beatles song! Interesting how psychedelic music developed! Thanks a lot! 🎶👌
Another great YP production. I was extremely pleased that you included Manfred Mann's comments on the Beatles single. Strawberry Fields opened up for me the more that I played while earlier singles like She Loves You grabbed me at first lesson. Maybe it was simpler? And the Hollies clips were outstanding: both the vocals only and Hicks' guitar tracks made me think twice about the cuts. And Bobby Elliott, like BJ Wilson, gave their bands a solid r & r base/beat. As usual, I heard singles that were new to my ear, and unlike the Blind date videos, the music is generally choice quality stuff. I have a few Poets tracks on Nuggets 2 and other comps, but this was new to me. (And, per Manfred, I play these twice to get a better sense of the new - to me - tunes.) For what it's worth, I too love When the Night Falls by the Eyes. The drum pattern grabs me every time.
I was just a 7-year old kid, but my older brother who was 14 in 1967 brought home every new Beatle album the day it was released. I do remember hearing this for the first time. I love it, but the Monkees were my favorite band at the time.
beatles were truly well ahead of the curve, all the releases alongside strawberry/penny sound like mashups of animals and who. carousel is such a fine tune this many years later.
The Beatles' mistake was to release the single as a ''double A-side'', which divided their extraordinary success in two. It was John's whim, as I have read, that he did not want to give in; he wanted his ''Strawberry Fields Forever'' to be on the A-side, but ''Penny Lane'' was much more commercial. ''Release Me'', by Engelbert Humperdinck, is a great song, but no better than the two Beatles songs. Thanks, YP. 😀😀😀
The SFF/PL single actually made #1 on the Melody Maker charts, and stayed there for three whole weeks! But it was #2 on the other three UK charts. It didn't really make a difference that it was a double-A; the group had already released two other double-A's that had effortlessly topped the charts, and SFF/PL sold around the same number of copies as those. It was mostly just bad timing, because "Release Me" was one of those fluke mega-successes that took the British adult contemporary audience by storm. But it did make #1 in Melody Maker, and of course in the US, Canada, Australia, Germany, Sweden, etc. Also, I doubt anyone today remotely remembers "Release Me", while "Strawberry Fields" is being taught in advanced college music courses worldwide! 😃
"THE SINGLE FAILED TO CHART" How much more do we have to hear this? because it is unfortunate that a lot of good songs were ignored by the public and quickly faded into obscurity.
Had a feeling this was going to drop today! Thank you again for highlighting some great tracks that deserve more love. And interesting that you note that some of these tracks sound like late 70s punk
I love this longer video--20 minutes! I was wondering what was up with the "anti-lust" groups--never heard about that. Enjoyed especially the "Graham Bond" and "The Game" segments--great sounds. Those are a couple bands I want to further check out. Also, 03:10 had me laughing out loud--"Those Disgusting Moustaches"! Would have loved John and Paul writing a song about that for Ringo to sing!
Do you have any videos of British folk, folk/rock from 1965, 1967 or 1968? I would be particularly interested in some more obscure folk or folk rock artists to be included. Thanks
The Number 2 peak chart position for Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane is highly misleading, and is merely a bizarre artifact of how the British charts worked back then. When record companies declared singles to be double-A-sides, as Parlophone did for SFF/PL, then the charts tracked each side separately, allocating half of the record's sales to each side. So it's not even quite correct to say that the single peaked at Number 2. Rather, SFF and PL were both on the charts simultaneously, and were tied for Number 2. With this formula, a double-A-sided single would have to sell more than twice what any other record sold in order to get the top spot. SFF/PL sold way more copies than Release Me did, but not twice as many. The Beatles learned their lesson from this and never issued another double-A again.
@@MplsTodd The term "double-A-side" is often used colloquially to mean a single where both sides are very strong. The Beatles obvious had several of these. Besides the one you mention, Hey Jude/Revolution and I Am The Walrus/Hello Goodbye come to mind. With We Can Work It Out/Day Tripper they flipped flopped several times about which would be the A, with the record company finally deciding on WCWIO. But as far as I know, none of these were double-A's in the narrow technical sense that the term had in the British record industry. There was always a designated A side. And even with SFF/PL, SFF is kinda sorta the A because its song code is one number less than PL's.
Su buen gusto musical es infalible,me alegro por usted,yo compré el disco de Penny Lane y Stamberry fields forever,cuando salió en España,me pareció muy bueno por ambas caras,pero si tuviera que elegir me quedo con Penny Lane,es un obra maestra Beatles,lo máximo
0:43 The *Double 'A' Side* concept didn't catch on until the early-to-mid 1970s. We'll just say *Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane* was a double-sided hit. To determine the A- or B-side of the record, you look at the matrix number which, in the case of EMI's HMV. Columbia, Parlophone, Stateside and Tamla/Motown labels, was on the left side of the label between the publishing credit and the publishing year(in Britain, that is).
WTF I've got Soft Machine vol 1-4 on vinyl, the rest on cd and 4 live boots (even a full Gong collection on Vinyl cos Gong are fkn awesome also RIP Daevid) BUT I HAVE NEVER heard that. oh, I also have Jet propelled photographs and neither songs on that either. I need to see what other singles I missed now cos I wanna hear feelin' reelin' squealin. Cheers YP. And the song is so square for them for what they must have done in the UFO but apt for the times and a single lol
Only two GBO albums put out during the band's "lifetime", it's true. But they also recorded Live At Klook's Kleek in October 1964, which however was not released in any form till 1977. To my mind it's better than either of the studio efforts, both of which seem to me to have a rather thin sound.
Anyway, sorry about posting so many comments to this thread, but after seeing theTube throw away half of this because the timer went off while I was writing, well...
Nice choices...buttttt.....It seems like the singles you're choosing have the same rhythm and sound to each other....Your preference, I guess...Were there any ballads? Softer songs? Top Pop Songs toward the Herman Hermits to Monkee spectrum? It sounds like you're centering on just one specific sound....not bad though....
I don't think these songs have the same sound at all. There's a bit of everything here: psychedelia (Beatles, Soft Machine), pop (The Hollies), mod/soul (The Eyes of Blue), proto-punk (The Game), etc... Believe me, the crooner-type ballads that were popular in 1967 are not worth talking about unless you like to torture your ears with stuff like "She Wears My Ring" by Solomon King.
@@YesterdaysPapers but there must’ve been some interesting, as we call, bubble gum, popular top 40 music that should’ve charted. Don’t get me wrong I’m totally into the psychedelia at the time and all the great bands of that period. But were there any lesser insignificant music that didn’t chart? For example, in America in 1967, there was a band called "The Jet Stream" that had a song called “All’s Quiet On West 23rd” that was a very good record and should’ve charted, but did not go anywhere. Listen to it and see what you think. That’s the type of songs I’m talking about. Thanks… Alan
As much of a fan as anyone, and i love graham nash, but i always find his voice a bit too over nasally. Very clever man, more talent than most musicians of the time. Im sorry, but... Eeeeeeeey> nasally. Graham doesn't always sound that harsh though when he sings his more subtle songs, so perhaps i should just shut up. I recently bought the smokes 1966 debut long player. (''Gosh'' Highly Addictive)
How cool to see pics of a Beatle & a Monkee hanging together! I have to say I find it amusing and surprising that many listeners and musicians in that era didn't warm up right off the bat to some of the most melodic and hook-laden music ever written and recorded by the likes of the Beatles, Hollies etc. I found them catchy and highly satisfying as could be when I first heard them as a teen in the 80s....people are strange indeed!
Sounds like they were trying everything other than the Beatles and the hollies. Guess I understand why the rest of them weren’t hits. I don’t feel so bad about my originals now ha ha supermarket full of cans what?!!?
Mainly bc the Merseybeat veterans - Beatles and Hollies (both developed and marked their early sound styles 4ex Liverpool/Manchester sound) yes wer the most established sounds to follow, but even The Rolling Stones, evolving their sounds to the psychedelic time with pretty success... at least until they started to split their bands or lose orig members
11:48 As I've said countless times before, British groups *DO NOT and CANNOT* do authentic Rhythm & Blues! They can do great Rock & Roll or straight-out Pop, but outside the USA there were only ever *TWO* people who could perform and record *GENUINE RHYTHM & BLUES* and they were both *AUSTRALIAN!* They were *Doug Parkinson(who passed away in 2021)* and *Renee Geyer(who passed away in December, 2022).*
It's so great to see the wonderful Doug Parkinson and Renée Geyer mentioned here, but I don't agree with your statement about the British not being able to play rhythm and blues. There were many who did, especially in the 60s. It's such a shame that DP didn't have success outside of Australia. What a voice!
@@annaforehan7784 If Doug Parkinson and Renee Geyer had been picked up by Motown, they'd have been *perfectly at home* on any of that company's labels, but I could *NEVER* say that of any British group or soloist.
I did. Penny Lane was a typical peppy Paul McCartny song, and till this day I'm amazed how enormous its appeal still is. Strawberry Fields took a bit longer to digest... but in 1967 the psychedelia was EXPLODING, and this new movement was a revelation to me. Reversed tapes, electronic voices, distorted hammonds and the magical Mellotron. (Manfred Mann was one of the first one using it, in Semi-Detached Suburban Mr James, 1966 and that was only the beginning of the musical vacuum cleaner sound!) I remember thinking, "This is the end of pop, it's impossible to get any better and more revolutionary than this. Of course I couldn't have been more wrong. But I was 18 years old, and naive. Not as naive as my parents and grandparent! "In five years from now they will be forgotten. " 😁 1966, 1967 and 1968 have always been the super groundbreaking years for me. My real adult phase in music. In 1963, only 4 years earlier! - the physical and mental shock that I Wanna Hold Your Hand gave me was huge - yet I could never have guessed that pop evolution would come as far as it did in the Summer of Love...and in 1969 Crosby Stills & Nash were another revolution, less gimmickry, but certainly sensational again. I'm grateful that it happened in my time of youth and being 'hip'. Others had to grow up with ' old man' Elvis and granny Connie Francis. Who I nevertheless started to appreciate a full decade later. But Elvis stopped being important for me when the Beatles had five singles in the American top 10. Those were the days.
While I knew many of these acts from the time, I’m always surprised to learn of so many quality bands that just didn’t quite make it and simply faded into obscurity. Also, great insight into what musicians like Jeff Beck, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker were doing before they each became household names. Another fascinating flashback YP, thank you kindly.
I was a runty 11-year-old 6th grader in Dallas TX in Feb. '67; school in a silly boy's prep school all week long (my sisters attended the sister institution), religious education at our synagogue on weekends. I was a dumb little clod who didn't realize that much of the greatest music in the history of human civilization was coming out of the radio jumbled up among the inane car ads and department store sales promos. Within a year or two I wised up as adolescence took hold and I began to take stock of the world in all its terror and glory. Thank you for revisiting those miraculous years.
I'm from Dallas Texas too but wasn't born until the 90s. Too bad. I've been following this channel for a while and I can tell I missed out on some great music back then. Thank goodness for UA-cam. It really is the closest thing we have to a time machine.
Pity their big hit single Walk Away Renee was later covered by the Four Tops, which is the version most people remember now. Not sure why the Tops had to do it at all - were Holland/Dozier/Holland on leave at the time?
@@Krzyszczynski I don't think "Renee" fit the 4 Tops style. The baroque strings and stuff seemed very unique to the Left Banke. I do however, think the Dickies did a hilarious but very tight and respectful version of the Bankes " Pretty Ballerina".'
You have a right to be biased. The Beatles are as we say in the States the GOAT-greatest of all time. I am a native Angeleno and biased towards the Beach Boys compared with other 1960s American bands. We have an understanding mate.
@@paulnolan4971 The doors & jefferson airplain. Im more kinda newer to jefferson airplain than the doors. But jefferson airplain are very unusually different and very interesting. Jefferson airplain are different to any other band of that time and in a great unique way. White rabbit sounds like nothing else, full stop!!!!
Nice hat, Brian 3:08 😍It's lovely to see the footage of 1960s London, people looked way more happy and chilled out back then, no cell phones, just enjoying life and good music. "Strawberry Fields" has always been one of my favorite Beatles songs, there was nothing that sounded like it before and there been nothing quite like it since, I love hearing your instrumental version of that song too, YP. Always cool to hear when you use it in your videos. Great video and music as always 😘❤
That's how I feel too when seeing footage from those times. Nowadays everyone always seems to look so worried - with reason, of course - and they all wear such dull utilitarian clothing, often with tattoos showing (eurgh!).
@@appledoreman Hahaha, that Graham Bond single is one of my favourites from February. Love that song, sounds like Captain Beefheart tripping balls in the mountains of Persia or something like that!
@@appledoreman Yep, she was a big fan of "Forever Changes" by Love. She was also one of the few journalists who championed "Odessey & Oracle" by The Zombies.
Along with Tomorrow Never Knows and Rain, SFF is among my fave rave Beatles track. Unbelievably amazing. All ground breaking. The Game made some incredible singles, the best in my opinion being Gonna Get me Someone. Always loved My Friend Jack. Breathtaking. As is, It could be Wonderful.
On this day feb 20th in 1967 my mom turned 21, and getting spoiled by the embarrassment of riches of brilliant songs being released one after another that year.
Ah... Some beautiful, eargasms here! And some new songs to look up, along with favorites such as Strawberry Fields. Thank you for the memories, Y.P.!
Wish I could go back and snatch one of those See Emily Play singles. Wow.
This video started out with the great Strawberry Fields/Penny Lane record then went to the Hollies all time best On A Carousel then went to the Smoke My Friend Jack which to me is this underrated band best hit. 2023 has been gloomy with the horrible earthquake in Syria and Turkey and in the U.S mass shootings and the Tyre Nichols tragedy but when one hears The Eyes Of Blue Supermarket Full Of Cans any gloom goes away fast with this snappy tune. Thanks again Yesterday's Papers for posting this video and it proves the UK in February 1967 was putting out some great music.
Thanks, Darrell. Your comment about the Eyes of Blue is spot on. That's such a great, upbeat track. It's definitely the sort of song that will brighten your darkest day. The chorus is irrestible and always brings a smile to my face. "You can't find love like us in a supermarket full of cans". That's genius.
That footage of the Hollies recording the harmonies for "Carousel" was awesome
So much talent in the Hollies. In my opinion, they were the British band with the best harmonies.
this left me gobsmacked ua-cam.com/video/5XRjp7vClT8/v-deo.html
@@YesterdaysPapers I'd offer The Zombies for consideration...but, other than those two, it's no contest
@@DwellerHollowMusic You beat me to it! I was just about to say the same thing. The clip of the Hollies singing On a Carousel was impressive, but to my ear they could sometimes be a bit strident. I think the Zombies definitely had the edge. How could they not, with the great Colin Blunstone?
@@annaforehan7784 in fact Colin Blunstone was considered to replace Allan Clarke when he left The Hollies C 1972
I'm not a massive Beatles fan, but God, "Strawberry fields Forever" is one the most magical songs ever recorded. I feel sorry for The Game, they seemed to be a good group, they just had bad luck.
These were the records I hunted for in the 1980s when the comps started coming out. Bought some crummy unknown 45s along the way to finding the gems though. Your videos are a blast. Every time you namedrop another killer record I used to own like Supermarket Full Of Cans I laugh out loud!
I have that on a decca Mods era compilation (which also has a ton of other great stuff)
Brilliantly enjoyable and informative, as always. I'd forgotten all about 'My Friend Jack eats Sugar Lumps', which I loved at the time. And now it's stuck in my head 🤪
Thank you, Annie. "My Friend Jack" is indeed incredibly catchy.
The Beatles were in a class of their own, clearly.
That isolated vocal track of the Hollies Carousel is really impressive. Makes me realize how much power in their voices.
John Sirois Yeah, the Hollies always had great harmonies, regardless of the lineup.
Track list... Please
So many great bands in that era. Nice to see that the Smoke and the Poets were featured in this segment.
What a glorious list of songs, YP! Not a bad one in the bunch. It's both a shame and a joy that the charts of the time were so filled with classics that so many great groups couldn't get a foothold of their own. The real winners were us, spoilt for choice and only so much in the pocketbook. ♥
"My Friend Jack"! Didn't become familiar with this until I bought the "Nuggets II" anthology and heard this superb acid-era gem in middle age. That and the follow-up ("High In A Room") - those two songs alone entitle The Smoke to immortal status regardless of the obliviousness of corrupt gatekeepers like the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
If you want to find buried treasure you gotta dig for it
I very highly recommend you get their debut album.
Ive had it for about 5 months and cannot stop playing it.
@@toddblanks Thanks; I bought the anthology on CD some years back after getting hooked on "My Friend Jack" and "High in a Room."
1967 surely was one of the best ever years in music!.
Two of my favourites there too, wooden Spoon by The Poets and My Friend Jack by The Smoke.
Superb YP love these longer videos
Thank you, YP, for another video in a great series. I love The Soft Machine. Loved seeing such a youthful and vibrant Robert Wyatt, before he had that unfortunate accident, where he fell out of a fourth story window and became a paraplegic. Didn’t stop him, though. He had a prolific solo career.
Did Robert Wyatt always perform bare-chested? I've a fairly distinct memory of his doing so even at their history-making appearance in the 1970 Promenade Concerts at the Albert Hall.
@@Krzyszczynski Robert didn’t always perform bare-chested. There’s lots of photos and footage of Robert playing with a shirt or sweater or whatever he happened to be wearing that day. He’s just well known for playing without a shirt.
Its interesting to note that i played my 17yr old grandson the track by Vanilla Fudge
You Keep me Hanging On
He went ape shit!
No kidding he thought it was incredible & a blast
Couldn't believe it was cut in the mid 1960s.
He said it could be played anywhere today & gain a following!
Lord he makes me proud & hes carrying on my great love of incredible music.
I read a funny article about the Manfreds singer Paul Jones whos real name was Paul Pond was an Oxford Uni student & so desp for dosh, auditioned for the Manfreds! Rest is history!
I also liked The Herd, they made some good stuff
You should do a vid on Terry Reid he was a brilliant singer & could have been Zepps lead singer but for another commitment.
Thanks for the vids
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Any music from the origional
Tyrranausaurus Rex from the Magical Moon & Lofty Spires days
My special faves from then.
Another excellent episode on the sixties psychedelic music scene. I'd never known about The Eyes of Blue before this. Strawberry Fields Forever is an absolute masterpiece in my opinion.
An extraordinary video---informative and entertaining. Love Yesterday's Papers!
Canterbury scene is so cool. Egg, Caravan, Matching mole, GONG.
Hatfield & the north.
A few things I hadn't heard, really good as usual. The lacklustre reviews of Strawberry Fields/ Penny Lane are hard to believe...Tom Mcguinness told me trying to be as good as The Beatles was certainly an issue for MM.
I got bored with a 45 I owned as a small boy, and can remember squashing it down in the dustbin. That record was an original copy of Vaccum Cleaner by Tintern Abbey :-) Hhhh...however I do own the Gibson fuzz pedal John Mcnally used on Have You Ever Loved Somebody.
Sorry to go off topic...I have been telling the guy who runs the Del Shannon fanclub about your excellent psych era Del film..also there is an interview with Del's wife and son on YT now which is interesting.
Keep up the great work! Marc Lemon
What a splendid video again YP! And what a great bands you had in the UK! "Strawberry Fields Forever" is my favorite Beatles song! Interesting how psychedelic music developed! Thanks a lot! 🎶👌
Another great YP production. I was extremely pleased that you included Manfred Mann's comments on the Beatles single. Strawberry Fields opened up for me the more that I played while earlier singles like She Loves You grabbed me at first lesson. Maybe it was simpler? And the Hollies clips were outstanding: both the vocals only and Hicks' guitar tracks made me think twice about the cuts. And Bobby Elliott, like BJ Wilson, gave their bands a solid r & r base/beat.
As usual, I heard singles that were new to my ear, and unlike the Blind date videos, the music is generally choice quality stuff. I have a few Poets tracks on Nuggets 2 and other comps, but this was new to me. (And, per Manfred, I play these twice to get a better sense of the new - to me - tunes.) For what it's worth, I too love When the Night Falls by the Eyes. The drum pattern grabs me every time.
Cheers, Wylie! "When the Night Falls" by the Eyes is brilliant, so ahead of its time.
I was just a 7-year old kid, but my older brother who was 14 in 1967 brought home every new Beatle album the day it was released. I do remember hearing this for the first time. I love it, but the Monkees were my favorite band at the time.
Penny Lane is a McCartney masterpiece of melody
It seems like these reviewers didn't get it at first.
RIP Jeff Beck and David Crosby again.
"...only seen LSD on their chequebook..." lol!
Yes, CHEQUEbook, not checkbook. B@#$%y US-originated software ....
Please Release Me got to #3 on the Australian charts. The Beatles charted at #1. What were the English thinking?? 😂😂
beatles were truly well ahead of the curve, all the releases alongside strawberry/penny sound like mashups of animals and who. carousel is such a fine tune this many years later.
Psychedelic episode of y.p. for sure! Excellent show this week, a real step beyond into the strange. Thanks y.p. T
C.B. 🤟⚡⚡
Excellent video, this month's singles are fantastic :)
The Beatles' mistake was to release the single as a ''double A-side'', which divided their extraordinary success in two.
It was John's whim, as I have read, that he did not want to give in; he wanted his ''Strawberry Fields Forever'' to be on the A-side, but ''Penny Lane'' was much more commercial.
''Release Me'', by Engelbert Humperdinck, is a great song, but no better than the two Beatles songs.
Thanks, YP. 😀😀😀
The SFF/PL single actually made #1 on the Melody Maker charts, and stayed there for three whole weeks! But it was #2 on the other three UK charts. It didn't really make a difference that it was a double-A; the group had already released two other double-A's that had effortlessly topped the charts, and SFF/PL sold around the same number of copies as those. It was mostly just bad timing, because "Release Me" was one of those fluke mega-successes that took the British adult contemporary audience by storm. But it did make #1 in Melody Maker, and of course in the US, Canada, Australia, Germany, Sweden, etc. Also, I doubt anyone today remotely remembers "Release Me", while "Strawberry Fields" is being taught in advanced college music courses worldwide! 😃
@@spiritof6663 Unfortunately, I suspect a lot of us remember Release Me!
@@annaforehan7784 Why not. Might not be to everyone's taste, but Gerry did a good job.
Its proved itself as a staple song of the era at least.
"Morning Dew" was written by Bonnie Dobson. ;)
Supermarket was compiled on Deram Dayze, an 80s (!) Deram comp worth picking up if you see it.
SFF not just a great single of 67, but of all time
What a great month !
"THE SINGLE FAILED TO CHART" How much more do we have to hear this? because it is unfortunate that a lot of good songs were ignored by the public and quickly faded into obscurity.
My friend jack eating sugar lumps....Now I understand why Syd Barrett was eating sugar lumps in that picture.
Had a feeling this was going to drop today! Thank you again for highlighting some great tracks that deserve more love. And interesting that you note that some of these tracks sound like late 70s punk
Some great rarities here!
I love BONEY M. They have a version of ''My Friend Jack'', but I prefer the original version of ''The Smoke''. (5:33)
6.47 All you really needed in the 60s was a sitar and an Afghan hound. GREAT RECORD
13.52 WOW SEX IN THE SIXTIES!
I love this longer video--20 minutes! I was wondering what was up with the "anti-lust" groups--never heard about that. Enjoyed especially the "Graham Bond" and "The Game" segments--great sounds. Those are a couple bands I want to further check out. Also, 03:10 had me laughing out loud--"Those Disgusting Moustaches"! Would have loved John and Paul writing a song about that for Ringo to sing!
Hahaha! I can totally see that. "I'd like to be / under the sea / with those disgusting moustaches / in the shade".
Do you have any videos of British folk, folk/rock from 1965, 1967 or 1968?
I would be particularly interested in some more obscure folk or folk rock artists to be included. Thanks
The Number 2 peak chart position for Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane is highly misleading, and is merely a bizarre artifact of how the British charts worked back then. When record companies declared singles to be double-A-sides, as Parlophone did for SFF/PL, then the charts tracked each side separately, allocating half of the record's sales to each side. So it's not even quite correct to say that the single peaked at Number 2. Rather, SFF and PL were both on the charts simultaneously, and were tied for Number 2. With this formula, a double-A-sided single would have to sell more than twice what any other record sold in order to get the top spot. SFF/PL sold way more copies than Release Me did, but not twice as many. The Beatles learned their lesson from this and never issued another double-A again.
Interesting info! Though, I think Come Together/Something was a double A side.
@@MplsTodd The term "double-A-side" is often used colloquially to mean a single where both sides are very strong. The Beatles obvious had several of these. Besides the one you mention, Hey Jude/Revolution and I Am The Walrus/Hello Goodbye come to mind. With We Can Work It Out/Day Tripper they flipped flopped several times about which would be the A, with the record company finally deciding on WCWIO. But as far as I know, none of these were double-A's in the narrow technical sense that the term had in the British record industry. There was always a designated A side. And even with SFF/PL, SFF is kinda sorta the A because its song code is one number less than PL's.
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A;ways a pleasure!
Mickey Dolenz comment about the Beatles is just priceless.........such were the times........lol
Love it! 🤙🇬🇧
Seems like they didn’t really have time to fully absorb and appreciate what strawberry fields was at first.
In Your Tower by The Poets (the b-side) is also a great tune
What a great channel.
Love to hear 1968 stuff
Clash ripped that off then lol defo Love Should I Stay
Jeff Beck plays guitar on JOHNS CHILDREN But She's Mine- its common knowledge to JB fans. Available on Jeff beck Shapes of Things to Come
Even those company record labels look edible🍭
It's fun to learn about performers like Ian Gillan when they were obscure and unloved.
Vi actuar a Soft Machines,en Alicante/Spain ,en 1973
The b side of the John's Children 45 (8:06) sounds almost exactly like "I Can't Explain" by The who
That's exactly what I thought!
My favourite Beatles song is Penny Lane. I loved and both that and my friend Jack,
Su buen gusto musical es infalible,me alegro por usted,yo compré el disco de Penny Lane y Stamberry fields forever,cuando salió en España,me pareció muy bueno por ambas caras,pero si tuviera que elegir me quedo con Penny Lane,es un obra maestra Beatles,lo máximo
The ladies of London. The "birds". Short skirts and miles of long beautiful legs.
0:43 The *Double 'A' Side* concept didn't catch on until the early-to-mid 1970s. We'll just say *Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane* was a double-sided hit. To determine the A- or B-side of the record, you look at the matrix number which, in the case of EMI's HMV. Columbia, Parlophone, Stateside and Tamla/Motown labels, was on the left side of the label between the publishing credit and the publishing year(in Britain, that is).
WTF I've got Soft Machine vol 1-4 on vinyl, the rest on cd and 4 live boots (even a full Gong collection on Vinyl cos Gong are fkn awesome also RIP Daevid) BUT I HAVE NEVER heard that. oh, I also have Jet propelled photographs and neither songs on that either. I need to see what other singles I missed now cos I wanna hear feelin' reelin' squealin. Cheers YP. And the song is so square for them for what they must have done in the UFO but apt for the times and a single lol
lol u played it, awesome
I think both sides from that single appear as bonus tracks on reissues of their debut album.
You find this single on japan version first soft machine cd. (there are two bonus tracks)
Sehr gut! A+++++
Graham Bond Organisation is so cool but only two albums and them 4 albums from Colosseum which I have hehe are fkn GREAT ! lol
I love Colosseum.
Only two GBO albums put out during the band's "lifetime", it's true. But they also recorded Live At Klook's Kleek in October 1964, which however was not released in any form till 1977. To my mind it's better than either of the studio efforts, both of which seem to me to have a rather thin sound.
Anyway, sorry about posting so many comments to this thread, but after seeing theTube throw away half of this because the timer went off while I was writing, well...
Cool, the Smoke id like to check out: wonder if they have a long player.
Yes, the have and it's a banger.
8:05 Sounds very much like The Who's Can't explain....
"Wooden Spoon" -- what's this Brit thing with spoons? You remember Badfinger's song, "Dublin", right?
American as well (Spoonful Of Sugar .... and of course Willie Dixon's Spoonful).
Nice choices...buttttt.....It seems like the singles you're choosing have the same rhythm and sound to each other....Your preference, I guess...Were there any ballads? Softer songs? Top Pop Songs toward the Herman Hermits to Monkee spectrum? It sounds like you're centering on just one specific sound....not bad though....
I don't think these songs have the same sound at all. There's a bit of everything here: psychedelia (Beatles, Soft Machine), pop (The Hollies), mod/soul (The Eyes of Blue), proto-punk (The Game), etc... Believe me, the crooner-type ballads that were popular in 1967 are not worth talking about unless you like to torture your ears with stuff like "She Wears My Ring" by Solomon King.
@@YesterdaysPapers but there must’ve been some interesting, as we call, bubble gum, popular top 40 music that should’ve charted. Don’t get me wrong I’m totally into the psychedelia at the time and all the great bands of that period. But were there any lesser insignificant music that didn’t chart? For example, in America in 1967, there was a band called "The Jet Stream" that had a song called “All’s Quiet On West 23rd” that was a very good record and should’ve charted, but did not go anywhere. Listen to it and see what you think. That’s the type of songs I’m talking about. Thanks… Alan
lol flower power Glover and Gillan
Something is wonky with the sound in the final 2 minutes of the video
The track got muted due to copyright, that's why the audio sounds weird towards the end.
As much of a fan as anyone, and i love graham nash, but i always find his voice a bit too over nasally.
Very clever man, more talent than most musicians of the time. Im sorry, but... Eeeeeeeey> nasally.
Graham doesn't always sound that harsh though when he sings his more subtle songs, so perhaps
i should just shut up.
I recently bought the smokes 1966 debut long player.
(''Gosh'' Highly Addictive)
How cool to see pics of a Beatle & a Monkee hanging together! I have to say I find it amusing and surprising that many listeners and musicians in that era didn't warm up right off the bat to some of the most melodic and hook-laden music ever written and recorded by the likes of the Beatles, Hollies etc. I found them catchy and highly satisfying as could be when I first heard them as a teen in the 80s....people are strange indeed!
What about the pretty things
Johns Childrem tienen un EP español,que es una rareza internacional,a mí no me convencen, prefiero Small Faces
Sounds like they were trying everything other than the Beatles and the hollies. Guess I understand why the rest of them weren’t hits. I don’t feel so bad about my originals now ha ha supermarket full of cans what?!!?
Mainly bc the Merseybeat veterans - Beatles and Hollies (both developed and marked their early sound styles 4ex Liverpool/Manchester sound) yes wer the most established sounds to follow, but even The Rolling Stones, evolving their sounds to the psychedelic time with pretty success... at least until they started to split their bands or lose orig members
Hum, The Game was interesting, but so badly produced who could like it, even later?
I do) "it's shocking what the call me" might feature one of the 60s best guutar Sounds. Compressed to the max. It never ceases to amaze me.
11:48 As I've said countless times before, British groups *DO NOT and CANNOT* do authentic Rhythm & Blues! They can do great Rock & Roll or straight-out Pop, but outside the USA there were only ever *TWO* people who could perform and record *GENUINE RHYTHM & BLUES* and they were both *AUSTRALIAN!* They were *Doug Parkinson(who passed away in 2021)* and *Renee Geyer(who passed away in December, 2022).*
It's so great to see the wonderful Doug Parkinson and Renée Geyer mentioned here, but I don't agree with your statement about the British not being able to play rhythm and blues. There were many who did, especially in the 60s. It's such a shame that DP didn't have success outside of Australia. What a voice!
@@annaforehan7784 If Doug Parkinson and Renee Geyer had been picked up by Motown, they'd have been *perfectly at home* on any of that company's labels, but I could *NEVER* say that of any British group or soloist.
Give it a rest mate. Who made you an authority?
"Hope you enjoyed this trip back to February 1967"
Yesterday's Papers is always a good trip, man!
Great sounds well presented as always, thanks!
Yeah. I love to get high while watching these episodes from this lovely channel
Imagine being able to hear Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane for the first time again
David bowie space oddity on the radio through headphones at age 15
during the mid 1990's was a very strange out of world experience for me.
I did. Penny Lane was a typical peppy Paul McCartny song, and till this day I'm amazed how enormous its appeal still is. Strawberry Fields took a bit longer to digest... but in 1967 the psychedelia was EXPLODING, and this new movement was a revelation to me. Reversed tapes, electronic voices, distorted hammonds and the magical Mellotron. (Manfred Mann was one of the first one using it, in Semi-Detached Suburban Mr James, 1966 and that was only the beginning of the musical vacuum cleaner sound!)
I remember thinking, "This is the end of pop, it's impossible to get any better and more revolutionary than this. Of course I couldn't have been more wrong. But I was 18 years old, and naive. Not as naive as my parents and grandparent! "In five years from now they will be forgotten. " 😁
1966, 1967 and 1968 have always been the super groundbreaking years for me. My real adult phase in music. In 1963, only 4 years earlier! - the physical and mental shock that I Wanna Hold Your Hand gave me was huge - yet I could never have guessed that pop evolution would come as far as it did in the Summer of Love...and in 1969 Crosby Stills & Nash were another revolution, less gimmickry, but certainly sensational again.
I'm grateful that it happened in my time of youth and being 'hip'. Others had to grow up with ' old man' Elvis and granny Connie Francis. Who I nevertheless started to appreciate a full decade later. But Elvis stopped being important for me when the Beatles had five singles in the American top 10.
Those were the days.
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I don't remember too much as a small child but remember getting the German Odeon singe from my Uncle when I was 8 years old visiting Berlin in 1972.
While I knew many of these acts from the time, I’m always surprised to learn of so many quality bands that just didn’t quite make it and simply faded into obscurity. Also, great insight into what musicians like Jeff Beck, Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker were doing before they each became household names. Another fascinating flashback YP, thank you kindly.
Cheers, Linda!
My Friend Jack has to be one of the best songs of 1967
I was a runty 11-year-old 6th grader in Dallas TX in Feb. '67; school in a silly boy's prep school all week long (my sisters attended the sister institution), religious education at our synagogue on weekends. I was a dumb little clod who didn't realize that much of the greatest music in the history of human civilization was coming out of the radio jumbled up among the inane car ads and department store sales promos. Within a year or two I wised up as adolescence took hold and I began to take stock of the world in all its terror and glory. Thank you for revisiting those miraculous years.
I'm from Dallas Texas too but wasn't born until the 90s. Too bad. I've been following this channel for a while and I can tell I missed out on some great music back then. Thank goodness for UA-cam. It really is the closest thing we have to a time machine.
Love My Friend Jack by The Smoke 🚬 ! 💊
I love that Nash caught on early to the brilliance of the Left Banke. Great episode!
Yep, it's pretty cool that he dug the Left Banke.
Pity their big hit single Walk Away Renee was later covered by the Four Tops, which is the version most people remember now. Not sure why the Tops had to do it at all - were Holland/Dozier/Holland on leave at the time?
@@Krzyszczynski I don't think "Renee" fit the 4 Tops style. The baroque strings and stuff seemed very unique to the Left Banke. I do however, think the Dickies did a hilarious but very tight and respectful version of the Bankes " Pretty Ballerina".'
The Left Banke to me was a mix of the sound of The Zombies and The Hollies
I saw The Left Banke once, it was a great show!
I love the Hollies! It was wonderful to see them featured on a Yesterday's Papers video.
I saw them in the Albert Hall in 1991. I've also seen Graham Nash solo, twice.
The Beatles settin' the scene for the year with a psychedelic masterpiece but I'm a biased Scouser hehe
You have a right to be biased. The Beatles are as we say in the States the GOAT-greatest of all time. I am a native Angeleno and biased towards the Beach Boys compared with other 1960s American bands. We have an understanding mate.
@@chrisbacos ALSO
@@chrisbacos Ladies and Gentlemen from Los Angeles, California........
@@chrisbacos THE DOORS (my 2nd fave band man)
@@paulnolan4971 The doors & jefferson airplain.
Im more kinda newer to jefferson airplain than the doors.
But jefferson airplain are very unusually different and very interesting.
Jefferson airplain are different to any other band of that time and in a great unique way.
White rabbit sounds like nothing else, full stop!!!!
Nice hat, Brian 3:08 😍It's lovely to see the footage of 1960s London, people looked way more happy and chilled out back then, no cell phones, just enjoying life and good music. "Strawberry Fields" has always been one of my favorite Beatles songs, there was nothing that sounded like it before and there been nothing quite like it since, I love hearing your instrumental version of that song too, YP. Always cool to hear when you use it in your videos. Great video and music as always 😘❤
Thanks, Sophie. Same here, "Strawberry Fields" is one of my favourites by the Beatles. That song never gets old.
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That's how I feel too when seeing footage from those times. Nowadays everyone always seems to look so worried - with reason, of course - and they all wear such dull utilitarian clothing, often with tattoos showing (eurgh!).
@@Krzyszczynski Hear! Hear!
@@Krzyszczynski F tattoos, it's trendy now to cover yourself with more graffiti than the wall of a truck stop bathroom, where does it end
Love Hate Revenge became a huge hit here in NZ for local group The Avengers.
You know you're big when a member of the Monkees likes your song!!
Penny Valentine must be one of the worst judges of pop music and songs who was ever given a column to fill
She was a great journalist and had great music taste but she was never really into psychedelia.
@@YesterdaysPapers Well, I'm with her on the Graham Bond single, at least. It just sounds like a noisy dirge.
If I remember correctly, she loved the Forever Changes album, so couldn't have been all bad.
@@appledoreman Hahaha, that Graham Bond single is one of my favourites from February. Love that song, sounds like Captain Beefheart tripping balls in the mountains of Persia or something like that!
@@appledoreman Yep, she was a big fan of "Forever Changes" by Love. She was also one of the few journalists who championed "Odessey & Oracle" by The Zombies.
The amazing things you find. Tony Hicks' isolated guitar is wonderful.
Gobsmacked to see The Soft Machine in there! Excellent work per usual 👍
Especially Daevid Allen being on the first single who later found one of the most psychedelic bands of all time, GONG!
Many good songs, but Strawbery fields was two thousant years from the other.Hello from Slovenia.
Winced when I heard Kim Fowley's name.
He was a creep.
Me too.
Along with Tomorrow Never Knows and Rain, SFF is among my fave rave Beatles track. Unbelievably amazing. All ground breaking.
The Game made some incredible singles, the best in my opinion being Gonna Get me Someone. Always loved My Friend Jack. Breathtaking. As is, It could be Wonderful.
"Strawberry Fields Forever"/"Penny Lane" got this video a like right off the bat.
A great time, when groups were proud of the music they made. Some excellent singles in this episode
Boney M covered "My friend Jack" in the 70s. 😱
Another super one. The series fills in the gaps behind the big bands of the time. So many good groups and songs.
On this day feb 20th in 1967 my mom turned 21, and getting spoiled by the embarrassment of riches of brilliant songs being released one after another that year.