That precious little window in between the British Invasion and the Summer of Love that produced some of the greatest garage band/punk music in rock & roll history. These guys along with The Standells, The Troggs, ? & The Mysterians led the way.
@tp10488 I share your observation about that window of music. I was 11-14 y.o during that "window". It's my favorite 60s era time peri❤d 🆒. In '67 I began playing bass in the local "garage band".
As a Mexican kid growing up in El Paso, I was very jealous watching these fun loving California music shows with the miles of beaches, palm trees and care free dancing teens. I hated them. Right after high school, I joined the U.S. Air Force and guess where I got stationed. Yep, right here in good 'ol Southern California. That was many years ago and I now live near the beach in Orange County. I love it.
I was 12 in 1966. I think that the 5 year slice of time between 1966 to 1971 was possibly one of the most interesting times in rock music. It took us from the end of the innocent songs which included surf music through the British Invasion, through the Summer of Love and beyond into the next phase. I love how much attitude this song has. Brings back such nice times.
The hippy era ended one of the nicest, sweetest grooviest times in pop music. The drug/psychedelic wave was corrupt like a lethal virus in music/culture.
🌈 Jah Bless 🌈 I sure do agree! I grew up playing in.garage bands during that time, these songs were our "standards" it was the best era for Rock. The term punk rock was originally coined during this era, a decade before the Ramones or Pistols. Much better 🎵 music too!
@shevetlevi2821 8/27/2023 Yes, after '65 things exploded on the rock music scene, many new things, amps, gadgets, boutique amps, & instruments like Alembic, sub genres of music, etc ✅
Don Baskin was my Grandfather... His daughter Debbie passed away years ago.. I never got to get to know him.. wish things would have been different.. at least I’ll always have this song.. My grandma (the song is about her) she’s the blonde dancing in the back.
@@markdavis8958 this post makes me feel OLD. My god, I AM old! I recall this song like it was yesterday - such a great one. You have good family memories, kiddo.
Love the sound of those 12-strings. Made famous by Roger McGuinn of The Byrds and used to perfection here. I wish someone could have frozen time in '65-'66 and just left us there. ...Never get tired of great songs like this.
The lead guitarist, on the left, is Larry Ray. He was my first guitar teacher and taught me how to play this song! Way over my head at first but I finally got it. He and Sharkey, the guitarist on right, both worked at Guitar Showcase in San Jose - a local institution still going strong! I don't remember his name but the bass player in this video hung out at the store and might have worked there too.
Yes ❗🎵 I stumbled on this video a few weeks ago. Always loved the song. Great memories when RADIO was spitting out non stop hits like this. What a musical ERA😊
I love this song. The blond girls are so beautiful and the guy look great in their suits (very clean cut) even though they are standing out on the pier. That is the style I like. Respect for rock and roll music. Wow I'm glad I lived through that era!
One of the all-time great California garage bands from the very first wave in the mid-1960's. This song was their one big hit, and it's one of the best songs from that era. Don Baskin was their charismatic lead singer who continued to lead assorted versions of the band for over fifty years. This black & white video is a timeless document and an early example of California bands who would perform on the ocean to promote their latest hit!
WOULD SOMEONE JUST PLEASE TAKE ME BACK TO THIS TIME AND LEAVE ME HERE. i WAS FOURTEEN WHEN I HEARD THIS ON THE RADIO. FORGOT WHAT A GREAT SONG THIS WAS.
Adam Rivera I was stationed at Fort Ord. What an assignment. Never a dull in Monterey. Went to Hogs Breathe Inn. Sat down, everyone stared at me. I guess I had "Not a Local" written all over my face. lol Great party's, food and people were awesome. *sniff*
SO great to hear this again. Such a great song. The lead singer is fantastic ! I don't know why they weren't one of the biggest American rock bands of that time period. I'm going to play this song at my gig tonight & keep it alive
Hey Richie Ranno! Loved Starz and Stories and a while ago heard our local San Diego DJ Jim McGinnis mention you on his Vinyl Resting Place show and he spoke warmly about your mutual friendship and your career and played a Starz track. I think the singer on this song was gigging around San Diego at one time but I think I heard that he passed away. Always loved this song! Barry Amundsen
The fact that someone had the foresight to make this video amazes me. Then looking at the fact that the guitars have no power chords and their aren't any amps is funny. Love the innocence of the sixties, much simpler times.
+Donald King it was a show called"where the action is" thet would send a camera crew..two camera:s a few takes and then bye bye..whole process took less than an hour
Donald, As someone who grew up in the late sixties, I always smile when I think of those "simpler times." 1. Massive war (and disaster) in Southeast Asia, resulting in 58,000 American dead, with 250,000 wounded, and about 2 million dead Vietnamese. 2. The largest race riots in US history, resulting in hundreds of deaths and thousands of arrests. National Guard tanks in downtown areas in some cities.....burning, looting, shooting, and chaos. Some neighborhoods (Detroit, Newark, south-central LA, Camden, South Chicago, etc.) never recovered. 3. The beginning of the cultural meltdown of post-modernism, resulting in the destruction of family units, marriage, traditional values, etc. 4. Riots, sit-ins, demonstrations, and terrorist acts on college campuses across the country, mainly driven by Marxists from SDS, Progress Labor Party, Weathermen, YSA, SWP, etc. 5. The largest anti-war demonstrations in US history, making the recent skirmishes in Berkeley look like a Sunday picnic. 6. The US was in a continual Cold War with the USSR across the world, with proxy wars, terrorism, regime changes, false flags, and assassinations used by both sides, with both nations coming within six hours of World War 3 in the fall of 1962 via the Cuban Missile Crisis. 7. Major US leaders assassinated, including Martin Luther King, JFK, and Bobby Kennedy. Yeah, those sure were "simpler times!" BBoucharde
bbouchard.. You must make your life a living hell, like the rest of your miserable crowd. Life is both equal parts good and bad. Like contrast in a beautiful painting. Try to see the forest before you cut down all the trees..
This is one of most deliciously sinister songs rock music has ever produced. This is how you ditch a cheating girlfriend, with equal parts venom and panache. The record is absolutely timeless, losing none of its power and relevance even now. (P.S. Thanks for letting us see the band themselves have a blast with this song, Great video.)
I have not heard this song in decades. And I never knew who was the band singing it until I just happen to click on it here on UA-cam. 1964 I was 8 years old, so I do remember a lot of songs during the 1960's.
Sure was,Paul !!!!!I was 13 and starting Grade Nine when "Hey,Little Girl" hit,and I've loved it since !!! Yes,those were hot chicks,and I'd have LOVED to be on that ship...but because I'm black and this being 1966,they would have told me to leave unless I agreed to become a shoeshine boy !!!!!!!
This song has one of the COOLEST guitar riffs. Comes off like a simple pop song but it really does have that something special that makes it a keeper. Incidentally, I loved this song before I heard these guys do it. I was introduced to it by- believe it or not- an excellent live track recorded at CBGBs by the Dead Boys and included on their first Sire album. Really great stuff!
I knew the Dead Boys long before I heard the S of S version. I think the S of S singer is actually snottier than Stiv Bators,and that alone makes their version better than the Dead Boys.’
Okay, it’s now the year 2020 and the song still sounds as good as it did when I first heard it 54 years ago. I was a young guitar slinger even back then when I was 14 years old and learned the song note for note. I still remember how to play it which is good because the lead singer in our 60s-70s group just discovered it and wants us to do it. Nick, if you read this “I agree we should add it”
this took me back today as if i had a time machine. it just came to me in a daydream when waking up today amidst all of this covvid 19 and political garbage. it lifted me and placed me back to a cooler lovely yes simpler time that was ecstatic comparably to now. great sounding music... steve m. babylon new York
One of the most perfect records ever made. And far from their only triumph. The Syndicate Of Sound went on to record a number of great singles for Bell, Capitol and Buddah Records.
you hit the nail on the head....i was telling my son about that little era where top 40 radio was just crammed with epic motown,stuff like this American garage bands,proto-punk stuff like Talk,Talk by Music Machine,and all the British stuff.It was a brilliant ,mind-warping good time for music...
I've been searching for this song for years i loved it back in the 70's but forgot the bands name i'm so happy to have found this on youtube thanks for posting you've made an old man very happy thank you....
I hadn't thought about this song for 50 years and the lyrics just popped into my head yesterday. Let's hear it for google search. I have songs I hunted for years also. It's great to find one!
50s 60s and 70s music bring me comfort in my room sit back after work with a beer and think damn I had a chance with that girl in 6th grade that kept smiling at me but I was too green to know
This is jangly garage rock perfection! I love the semi-insane way he sings the song to his dirty, low-down cheating ex-girlfriend. He sounds almost giddy from being wounded by her. The last line is so chilling (“Too baaad little girl, it’s aaaall over for you...heh-heh-heh”) that I always think the 5 final beats of the song sound like gunshots.
i was 18 when this song was a hit in Canada . This is the first time ever that i see the band . Many bands were herd but not seen during the 60's and before. You would hear the song on the radio, purchase the record and that was often it .
Great guitars! Dig the Rickenbacker 12-string sounds that drive this song. I love the chord progressions in this song! We all wanted to play this song when we were in our high school rock-wannabe bands!
👍John Duckworth: a talented, upcoming drummer, who was drafted, after band won Battle of the Bands. He was in my platoon, during Army Basic Training in October 1966, Fort Lewis, Washington. A real bummer to be drafted then😒👎
I used to listen to them practice in their garage in east San Jose (Gordon Ave or Valley View) when I was @ 14; they were like a block from SJ Country Club. My schoolmate at St. John Vianney, his last name was Taylor, can't remember his first but we used to listen to them sometimes on the way home from school out on the sidewalk. It has been a favorite of mine since and just finding it today made me laugh/cry!
Very cool! I grew up in SJ and was wondering where in SJ SoS got their start. Count Five (famous for 'Psychotic Reaction') started around the same time (in 1964, a few years ahead of my time; I was only 9) with the 2 founders being from Pioneer High (my high school!). Then came the Doobies (Leigh HS, I think it was; they got their start playing for Hells Angels at the Cats in Los Gatos!). And Stevie Nicks, up the peninsula @ Menlo-Atherton, then 1 yr at SJSU before dropping out to make music w/ Lindsay Buckingham. Before SJ became "The Capital of Silicon Valley".
Your post made me super-curious to know more about SoS. So FYI: from the San Jose Rocks website I found out that both Don Baskin & Bon Gonzalez graduated from Camden HS. (Camden was torn down yrs ago, so for SJ residents who've never heard of it, it was on Hillsdale Ave in the Cambrian Park area. The woman who I married in 1979 was a Camden High grad! Interesting connections!)
All the fun poked at this mid-sixties bands. Wow. One thing though, we had something we called music and people are still enjoying and will keep enjoying it. Music of the 60's folks.
This was one of those mega hits that came & went quickly. It peaked at #8 and its top 40 run was just 8 weeks. But that's how it was in the 60s when the Beatles came along. Rise fast on the charts and then suddenly drop off it. That changed around 1968-69.
Larry Ray was my first guitar teacher at Guitar Showcase in San Jose, California. He told me my fingers were too big to play good and being a 15 year old who was in love with guitar I was devastated! When my mom picked me up after that lesson and asked me what was wrong I barely got 2 or 3 words out and she was out of the car and on her way in there to confront him. I was pretty embarrassed but secretly proud of her.
On this day in 1966 {July 5th} the Syndicate of Sound performed "Little Girl" on the ABC-TV week-day program 'Where The Action Is' One month earlier on June 4th it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; eventually it peaked at #8 & spent 10 weeks on the Top 100 Obviously this was a taped performance; because the day before the group was one of the opening acts for the Rolling Stones, this concert was at Alan B. Shepard Civic Center , more commonly referred to as The Dome, in Virginia Beach, VA
Hit Eastern rock stations summer of '66...very novel sound and beat...became a classic because of that...used to love hearing it on my AM transistor radio.
I remember this song listening to the radio in my father's car when I was a little boy in Chicago. I thought I heard it around 1964 but if it wasn't recorded until 1966, I guess I'm mistaken LOL Time and memories, what a trip. I'm 67 years old and I never forgot that song but never knew who did it. Now I know and can go to the happy hunting grounds in peace. Ha ha ha
Wow!! The Greatest of All, Up by 100,000...It's always been, 1.8M views, Now, up by 100K...What An Amazing, Tune!! LUV IT, NOW & ALWAYS!! CHEERS!! PLEASE TO ENJOY...
RIP Grandpa Don.. hopefully you and Debbie are together somewhere.. wish I had more of you than just a song.. Sandy has cancer.. just wish you would have reached out to me.. I really needed you these past 34 years.. I feel alone in this world
I worked with Don 20 years ago and he was a good man who I never forget taught me alot we both worked in Auto Repair as service writers so sad to hear of his passing RIP Don 🙏...
2 Rickenbackers make this song what it is. These guys were playing some expensive guitars for a garage band. If I could get the hell out of 2017 and go back to 1966 I'd be leaving tonight. What a great era to be young.
One of the best songs ever !!!!when I think of the 60 this is the kind of sound that I think of🙉🙈🙊 kind of like the stones" this will be the last time" or the standells dirty water that is the 60 sound to me moving and grooving😎 Little Jack SoCal OPB
I want to thank whiever one of these guys I was making out with for taking me back to the wedding reception upon learning I was 16. I had never been drunk before, and I appreciate the thoughtfulness.
In it's own way that's a very nice memory. It also shows a decent side of male human nature. I hope you've had a positive life since then. Kevin, Western Australia
My great uncle, Jim Sawyers, was (is) in Syndicate and when I last traveled over to the west coast I visited him and got a lot of thorns from his cactus impaled in my body. That is all.
Nothing but good fun here . I used to sing this with a band. It's one of those songs that when you play it on your turntable, you want to hear it again.
Well sh-t here I am ,2024 at 70 still loving this cool sounding song . Miss those great years
Here I am at 80 !😎
@@bobross6802 Cool guy
I'm with you old fella, I turn 70 next month and that was one of my favorite songs while hanging out at Edisto Beach
Little Girl is one of my favorite songs of all time. Love the Rick and the drums.
i'm 74yrs old and still listening
My grandfather was a part of this band and i will forever jam to this song
is he still living Sienna?
Which member ?
Funny to think of these kids as grandparents. Stopped and counted on my fingers, I had just turned 5 when the song came out
Ended up being a cover song when The Dead Boys played it.
@@bonniemoerdyk9809 yes! he is alive and well (:
A big part of what made this song so good was the sound of the Rickenbacker guitars. Such a distinctive sound. Worked pretty well for the Byrds too.
Paul McCartney's bass was a Rickenbocker too
@@Scriptease123
Thanks very much for ruining the fact of 125jlm's comment
@@Scriptease123 McCartney only played a Rickenbacker bass on a couple of Abbey Road tracks. Otherwise, he played a Hofner almost exclusively.
George played a Rickenbacker at least on some songs. And yes, the Byrds were great!
And Ludwig Drums
That precious little window in between the British Invasion and the Summer of Love that produced some of the greatest garage band/punk music in rock & roll history. These guys along with The Standells, The Troggs, ? & The Mysterians led the way.
@tp10488 I share your observation about that window of music.
I was 11-14 y.o during that "window".
It's my favorite 60s era time peri❤d 🆒.
In '67 I began playing bass in the local "garage band".
Glad I lived through that era.
The Seeds ("Pushing To Hard") and The Leaves ("Hey Joe").
Jr High and Friday night dances- those were the years to really enjoy music
@@ronfisher5259 How 'bout a "dance" 🩰 at the Teen Center in Van Nuys CA, featuring the original Iron Butterfly 🦋, circa 1968.
As a Mexican kid growing up in El Paso, I was very jealous watching these fun loving California music shows with the miles of beaches, palm trees and care free dancing teens. I hated them. Right after high school, I joined the U.S. Air Force and guess where I got stationed. Yep, right here in good 'ol Southern California. That was many years ago and I now live near the beach in Orange County. I love it.
March or Norton?
Well done being the pilot of your life.
I was 12 in 1966. I think that the 5 year slice of time between 1966 to 1971 was possibly one of the most interesting times in rock music. It took us from the end of the innocent songs which included surf music through the British Invasion, through the Summer of Love and beyond into the next phase. I love how much attitude this song has. Brings back such nice times.
The hippy era ended one of the nicest, sweetest grooviest times in pop music. The drug/psychedelic wave was corrupt like a lethal virus in music/culture.
Yes to Led Zeppelin, Blind Faith, Spirit, Electric Prunes...
@@garycallihan4206 For sure Gary. All masters of their craft.
🌈 Jah Bless 🌈 I sure do agree! I grew up playing in.garage bands during that time, these songs were our "standards" it was the best era for Rock. The term punk rock was originally coined during this era, a decade before the Ramones or Pistols.
Much better 🎵 music too!
@shevetlevi2821
8/27/2023 Yes, after '65 things exploded on the rock music scene, many new things, amps, gadgets, boutique amps, & instruments like Alembic, sub genres of music, etc ✅
Love the rhythm guitar in this song. One of the best riffs of the 60's.
That's the sound of a Rickenbacker guitar..........Jangle as its known
RIP Don Baskin, lead singer of the Syndicate of Sound, who recorded one of the greatest Garage Band 45s ever.
One of the first songs our band learned to play!! The best!
And executed the best rock n roll laugh ever recorded, there at the end!
This is too sad. One of my all time favorites. I like Jack Lord on drums......
Don Baskin was my Grandfather... His daughter Debbie passed away years ago.. I never got to get to know him.. wish things would have been different.. at least I’ll always have this song.. My grandma (the song is about her) she’s the blonde dancing in the back.
@@markdavis8958 this post makes me feel OLD. My god, I AM old! I recall this song like it was yesterday - such a great one. You have good family memories, kiddo.
Love the sound of those 12-strings. Made famous by Roger McGuinn of The Byrds and used to perfection here. I wish someone could have frozen time in '65-'66 and just left us there. ...Never get tired of great songs like this.
Yes......nothing like a 12 string Rickenbacher
This was a six string Ric on this....
Do you mean the music or being young? :)
I have over 600 songs from 65-66 on my channel.
I also have almost every year from 50-90's.
Special switch setting " Rik-O-Sound"
U r correct.
Here it is the year 2020 and this song is still cool as hell.
Here it is 2021, it's STILL very cool, great 12 string guitar, band, and singer too. A CLASSIC, I wonder where they are now?
I agree with you on that
A true classic never goes out of style
Still cool.
And, 2021 ~!
The lead guitarist, on the left, is Larry Ray. He was my first guitar teacher and taught me how to play this song! Way over my head at first but I finally got it. He and Sharkey, the guitarist on right, both worked at Guitar Showcase in San Jose - a local institution still going strong! I don't remember his name but the bass player in this video hung out at the store and might have worked there too.
thanks
Bob Gonzalez??
After 35 years I finally found this song!!!! It's been in my mind for like 8 years already. Now my 60s play list complete!!!😃😃😃
Yes ❗🎵 I stumbled on this video a few weeks ago. Always loved the song. Great memories when RADIO was spitting out non stop hits like this. What a musical ERA😊
They were playing at our local high school school dances. The coolest local band we had at the time.We all loved them!
They were from San Jose, right?
I love this song. The blond girls are so beautiful and the guy look great in their suits (very clean cut) even though they are standing out on the pier. That is the style I like. Respect for rock and roll music. Wow I'm glad I lived through that era!
Don't forget the skinny ties! Wish I'd kept mine.
One of the all-time great California garage bands from the very first wave in the mid-1960's. This song was their one big hit, and it's one of the best songs from that era. Don Baskin was their charismatic lead singer who continued to lead assorted versions of the band for over fifty years. This black & white video is a timeless document and an early example of California bands who would perform on the ocean to promote their latest hit!
Ahhh the memories, 1965-'66. I bought the album and still have it today.
WOULD SOMEONE JUST PLEASE TAKE ME BACK TO THIS TIME AND LEAVE ME HERE. i WAS FOURTEEN WHEN I HEARD THIS ON THE RADIO. FORGOT WHAT A GREAT SONG THIS WAS.
I'll gladly join ya!
dido
I love seeing this. I am from Monterey, California and this was filmed on the roof top of one of our restaurants ( Rappa's ) on our wharf.
I used to walk along the wharf all the time. I miss those days.
Adam Rivera I was stationed in Monterey at the language school. Loved Monterey.
The DLI's a pretty good location to be stationed at. I'm currently at Kadena.
Adam Rivera I was stationed at Fort Ord. What an assignment. Never a dull in Monterey. Went to Hogs Breathe Inn. Sat down, everyone stared at me. I guess I had "Not a Local" written all over my face. lol Great party's, food and people were awesome. *sniff*
Henry J
I was at Fort Ord in spring/summer 66. So home sick and hated it there but God, the Grassroots and hope for a future love got me through.
Loved this song as a kid and it still sounds fantastic. A classic track.
SO great to hear this again. Such a great song. The lead singer is fantastic ! I don't know why they weren't one of the biggest American rock bands of that time period. I'm going to play this song at my gig tonight & keep it alive
My dad will be thrilled to hear that his music is still being played! ^_^ - He's the drummer
@@marcellapeterson5991 He's the main reason I listen to this video.
Hey Richie Ranno! Loved Starz and Stories and a while ago heard our local San Diego DJ Jim McGinnis mention you on his Vinyl Resting Place show and he spoke warmly about your mutual friendship and your career and played a Starz track. I think the singer on this song was gigging around San Diego at one time but I think I heard that he passed away. Always loved this song!
Barry Amundsen
They WERE big! I'm old now and remember this song like it came out yesterday.
The Dead Boys paid tribute to this on their live album "Night of the living Dead Boys".
The fact that someone had the foresight to make this video amazes me. Then looking at the fact that the guitars have no power chords and their aren't any amps is funny. Love the innocence of the sixties, much simpler times.
+Donald King it was a show called"where the action is" thet would send a camera crew..two camera:s a few takes and then bye bye..whole process took less than an hour
GREAT TIMES----CEPT FER ALL THE RIOTS AND ALL THAT BS!!!!!!! AND THE CHICKS WERE GIRLS AND HOT!!!!!!!! DAM THEY HOT....!!!!!!!
Mellencamp mentioned this song in an interview back in the 90's. You can tell, this is all over R.O.C.K. in the USA.
Donald, As someone who grew up in the late sixties, I always smile when I think of those "simpler times."
1. Massive war (and disaster) in Southeast Asia, resulting in 58,000 American dead, with 250,000 wounded, and about 2 million dead Vietnamese.
2. The largest race riots in US history, resulting in hundreds of deaths and thousands of arrests. National Guard tanks in downtown areas in some cities.....burning, looting, shooting, and chaos. Some neighborhoods (Detroit, Newark, south-central LA, Camden, South Chicago, etc.) never recovered.
3. The beginning of the cultural meltdown of post-modernism, resulting in the destruction of family units, marriage, traditional values, etc.
4. Riots, sit-ins, demonstrations, and terrorist acts on college campuses across the country, mainly driven by Marxists from SDS, Progress Labor Party, Weathermen, YSA, SWP, etc.
5. The largest anti-war demonstrations in US history, making the recent skirmishes in Berkeley look like a Sunday picnic.
6. The US was in a continual Cold War with the USSR across the world, with proxy wars, terrorism, regime changes, false flags, and assassinations used by both sides, with both nations coming within six hours of World War 3 in the fall of 1962 via the Cuban Missile Crisis.
7. Major US leaders assassinated, including Martin Luther King, JFK, and Bobby Kennedy.
Yeah, those sure were "simpler times!"
BBoucharde
bbouchard.. You must make your life a living hell, like the rest of your miserable crowd. Life is both equal parts good and bad. Like contrast in a beautiful painting. Try to see the forest before you cut down all the trees..
awesome song ...listened to it as a kid in the 60s!
me neither!
1966......Great year!
This is one of most deliciously sinister songs rock music has ever produced. This is how you ditch a cheating girlfriend, with equal parts venom and panache. The record is absolutely timeless, losing none of its power and relevance even now. (P.S. Thanks for letting us see the band themselves have a blast with this song, Great video.)
That's quite a perceptive assessment of this song's message! And probably absolutely correct, as well!
@@basilmarasco1975 It's pop punk before its time!
I have not heard this song in decades. And I never knew who was the band singing it until I just happen to click on it here on UA-cam. 1964 I was 8 years old, so I do remember a lot of songs during the 1960's.
One of my faves from this era. Great song🔥🔥🔥 Interesting guitar 🎸🎸🎸
You can FLOAT on this riff!! It is so mellow and so cool at the same time.
Sure was,Paul !!!!!I was 13 and starting Grade Nine when "Hey,Little Girl" hit,and I've loved it since !!! Yes,those were hot chicks,and I'd have LOVED to be on that ship...but because I'm black and this being 1966,they would have told me to leave unless I agreed to become a shoeshine boy !!!!!!!
Makes you wonder how a group can have such a great song and then all of a sudden they are gone, thank you for posting this classic 60's musical gem!!
A terrible manager who stole all their money, or drugs or the strain of touring constantly.
This song has one of the COOLEST guitar riffs. Comes off like a simple pop song but it really does have that something special that makes it a keeper. Incidentally, I loved this song before I heard these guys do it. I was introduced to it by- believe it or not- an excellent live track recorded at CBGBs by the Dead Boys and included on their first Sire album. Really great stuff!
I knew the Dead Boys long before I heard the S of S version. I think the S of S singer is actually snottier than Stiv Bators,and that alone makes their version better than the Dead Boys.’
Snot was cool back then…it was everywhere and made me what I am today
@@charlesameyer1 Yeah, but ya gotta love that Cheetah Chrome guitar. Now if the Dead Boys second album was half as good as the first.....
Absolutely Stunning!! Greatest Of All..."Little Girl"!!!
The sound holdsup in 2021! I'm smiling as I remember dancing to this song as a kid. :D
Great music from the mid sixties, rock on radio Caroline 🎼
@@johnager9428Hey John~Happy Thanksgivingto you! I'm SO thankful that we were blessed with terrific, compelling music in my(our?) generation! :)
@@debishelton9647 keep enjoying the music 🎶🎼🎵❤️
@@johnager9428 Stay young~at heart! :)
This is my type of rock and roll. The lads show class with coats and ties.
thank god for songs like this! The 60's will be around for a loooong time!!!
I'm reliving my 60's childhood here in 2014. I was in grade school when this song first came out.
I Just cant get enough of this Amazingly Super Garage Punk Masterpiece...Soo GREAT!!
the good times will never come back one of my favorites please
Okay, it’s now the year 2020 and the song still sounds as good as it did when I first heard it 54 years ago. I was a young guitar slinger even back then when I was 14 years old and learned the song note for note. I still remember how to play it which is good because the lead singer in our 60s-70s group just discovered it and wants us to do it. Nick, if you read this “I agree we should add it”
The Great Bob Gonzalez is still a major player in the South Bay music scene..still a master Bass player..and great guy!
Graduated high school in ‘64, I have a massive list of favorites, & this is very near the top. Thanks for the video.
this took me back today as if i had a time machine. it just came to me in a daydream when waking up today amidst all of this covvid 19 and political garbage. it lifted me and placed me back to a cooler lovely yes simpler time that was ecstatic comparably to now. great sounding music... steve m. babylon new York
One of the most perfect records ever made. And far from their only triumph. The Syndicate Of Sound went on to record a number of great singles for Bell, Capitol and Buddah Records.
you hit the nail on the head....i was telling my son about that little era where top 40 radio was just crammed with epic motown,stuff like this American garage bands,proto-punk stuff like Talk,Talk by Music Machine,and all the British stuff.It was a brilliant ,mind-warping good time for music...
Another slice of the 60s...Great little garage band song...Love the surf style guitar.
A great sound I had forgotten all about and here is a view of the band I never even saw before!
I'm still in love with this band !!!
One of the best nuggets of gold from the 60's
I've been searching for this song for years i loved it back in the 70's but forgot the bands name i'm so happy to have found this on youtube thanks for posting you've made an old man very happy thank you....
I hadn't thought about this song for 50 years and the lyrics just popped into my head yesterday. Let's hear it for google search. I have songs I hunted for years also. It's great to find one!
50s 60s and 70s music bring me comfort in my room sit back after work with a beer and think damn I had a chance with that girl in 6th grade that kept smiling at me but I was too green to know
This is jangly garage rock perfection! I love the semi-insane way he sings the song to his dirty, low-down cheating ex-girlfriend. He sounds almost giddy from being wounded by her. The last line is so chilling (“Too baaad little girl, it’s aaaall over for you...heh-heh-heh”) that I always think the 5 final beats of the song sound like gunshots.
Do these guys seem like stalker/murderers top you? Get real, jerk!
Heh, heh, heh!!!
I just met the lead singer he lives in a town near me. Great guy with great stories.
He died October 22nd, 2019.
Sneaky good drumming...carries this tune!
awesome drumming!
One of the first songs I learned to play when the other guitar player in our band said I never make it as a guitar player!! lol Loved this song.
My step uncle is the guy in the drums CR
Agreed.
@@rjpage5200 John Sharkey?
Gotta love the attitude in this song!
I was 14 when this song came out. There was never a better era in which to be a teenager. . .at least until one became eligible to be sent to Vietnam.
Yep, good old college deferrement saved my just out of high school ass. Wondering how many of my breathern never made it home,
i was 18 when this song was a hit in Canada . This is the first time ever that i see the band . Many bands were herd but not seen during the 60's and before. You would hear the song on the radio, purchase the record and that was often it .
Great guitars! Dig the Rickenbacker 12-string sounds that drive this song. I love the chord progressions in this song! We all wanted to play this song when we were in our high school rock-wannabe bands!
This takes me back to summer 1966 in Brooklyn ..Listening to AM radio....WABC...ding
Great sound, great drummer
👍John Duckworth: a talented, upcoming drummer, who was drafted, after band won Battle of the Bands. He was in my platoon, during Army Basic Training in October 1966, Fort Lewis, Washington. A real bummer to be drafted then😒👎
Boy did I love this song. I never bought it which was my bad but everytime it came on the radio I listened and tapped my hands like I was the drummer.
never get tired of this since it came out, it has a special knack
One of the founding documents of PUNK ROCK!!!
I used to listen to them practice in their garage in east San Jose (Gordon Ave or Valley View) when I was @ 14; they were like a block from SJ Country Club. My schoolmate at St. John Vianney, his last name was Taylor, can't remember his first but we used to listen to them sometimes on the way home from school out on the sidewalk. It has been a favorite of mine since and just finding it today made me laugh/cry!
Very cool! I grew up in SJ and was wondering where in SJ SoS got their start. Count Five (famous for 'Psychotic Reaction') started around the same time (in 1964, a few years ahead of my time; I was only 9) with the 2 founders being from Pioneer High (my high school!). Then came the Doobies (Leigh HS, I think it was; they got their start playing for Hells Angels at the Cats in Los Gatos!). And Stevie Nicks, up the peninsula @ Menlo-Atherton, then 1 yr at SJSU before dropping out to make music w/ Lindsay Buckingham. Before SJ became "The Capital of Silicon Valley".
Your post made me super-curious to know more about SoS. So FYI: from the San Jose Rocks website I found out that both Don Baskin & Bon Gonzalez graduated from Camden HS. (Camden was torn down yrs ago, so for SJ residents who've never heard of it, it was on Hillsdale Ave in the Cambrian Park area. The woman who I married in 1979 was a Camden High grad! Interesting connections!)
@@marklehnhoff6935 Great memories! I was in the class of 70 at James Lick. We moved to Sacramento for my junior year at Rio Americano.
All the fun poked at this mid-sixties bands. Wow. One thing though, we had something we called music and people are still enjoying and will keep enjoying it. Music of the 60's folks.
The simple drum transition aqt 2:22 is fantastic. I always look forward to it when I play this song.
Now I know why I like to wear suits.
Great song from a great era!
it was a great song when i was 16!!
I was it forgotten, thanx
One of the greatest pop songs of all time!
Wow I hadn't seen this clip since it first aired on TV in '66, when I was 7!
I love this song. It seems as though the best, most enthusiastic dancers are hidden behind the band. That little brunette is a kick!
One of the best songs on the planet...:)
These dudes are from my home town! San Jose, California!
I was a youngster and listened to this on my transistor radio.An all time favorite.
This was one of those mega hits that came & went quickly. It peaked at #8 and its top 40 run was just 8 weeks. But that's how it was in the 60s when the Beatles came along. Rise fast on the charts and then suddenly drop off it. That changed around 1968-69.
Back then a song was considered an 'oldie' after about a year.
I remember that this song came out when The Association had their first song. One group faded away, the other had a dozen hits
A year? More like after a month.
my best friends Big Brother played this and Talk_Talk over and over again. Two of the raddest songs ever!
Larry Ray was my first guitar teacher at Guitar Showcase in San Jose, California. He told me my fingers were too big to play good and being a 15 year old who was in love with guitar I was devastated! When my mom picked me up after that lesson and asked me what was wrong I barely got 2 or 3 words out and she was out of the car and on her way in there to confront him. I was pretty embarrassed but secretly proud of her.
That's a terrible thing to say! So, you still play?
***** Still do
***** Still like the band though!
Cool!
Yeah, it sure hurt Leslie West sumpin' fierce.
The drumming is perfect for the song.
They all looked so happy in this video. What a gem!
One of the very best songs to come out of the '66-'67 era. Love it! Thanks for posting.
On this day in 1966 {July 5th} the Syndicate of Sound performed "Little Girl" on the ABC-TV week-day program 'Where The Action Is'
One month earlier on June 4th it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; eventually it peaked at #8 & spent 10 weeks on the Top 100
Obviously this was a taped performance; because the day before the group was one of the opening acts for the Rolling Stones, this concert was at Alan B. Shepard Civic Center , more commonly referred to as The Dome, in Virginia Beach, VA
THANKS.
You "Nailed It With The Guitars " comment. A stand out feature.
Hit Eastern rock stations summer of '66...very novel sound and beat...became a classic because of that...used to love hearing it on my AM transistor radio.
A perfect example of great music is TIMELESS !!!
OMG I had forgotten this great song. Well now it’s downloaded and mine. THANKS
I remember this song listening to the radio in my father's car when I was a little boy in Chicago. I thought I heard it around 1964 but if it wasn't recorded until 1966, I guess I'm mistaken LOL Time and memories, what a trip. I'm 67 years old and I never forgot that song but never knew who did it. Now I know and can go to the happy hunting grounds in peace. Ha ha ha
Great tune- lively and fun!!! Love when the tall singer dances and claps himself into a hunch and keeps the rhythm. Super video!!!
My niece, born 1994, says my generation had the Best Music. True!
Wow!! The Greatest of All, Up by 100,000...It's always been, 1.8M views, Now, up by 100K...What An Amazing, Tune!! LUV IT, NOW & ALWAYS!! CHEERS!! PLEASE TO ENJOY...
The drum fills are creative and epic. 🎉
What a fantastic video, I have never seen this before. Thanks for sharing this, it made my day.
Donald Kelly I was 11 when I first heard this. It remained one of my favorites from this era. Glad to see that people enjoy this!
RIP Grandpa Don.. hopefully you and Debbie are together somewhere.. wish I had more of you than just a song.. Sandy has cancer.. just wish you would have reached out to me.. I really needed you these past 34 years.. I feel alone in this world
I worked with Don 20 years ago and he was a good man who I never forget taught me alot we both worked in Auto Repair as service writers so sad to hear of his passing RIP Don 🙏...
Absolutely phenomenal classic
2 Rickenbackers make this song what it is. These guys were playing some expensive guitars for a garage band. If I could get the hell out of 2017 and go back to 1966 I'd be leaving tonight. What a great era to be young.
I loved this song when it was new, and I still love it. On my scratchy A.M. radio, I thought the fast strummed chords was a Vox organ. Wow, just wow!
The natural beauty of 60's girls is still enough to make this 58 year old dude rock hard!!!!!
One of the best songs ever !!!!when I think of the 60 this is the kind of sound that I think of🙉🙈🙊 kind of like the stones" this will be the last time" or the standells dirty water that is the 60 sound to me moving and grooving😎
Little Jack SoCal OPB
Cool vintage Rickenbacker guitars!! Worth a fortune today!!
@phillyman5000 Little did they know at the time what their value in the "future" would be, due to their enduring popularity and demand for them.
I'm going to do everything within my power to get me a Rickenbacker 325 electric guitar 🎸 😊❤😊❤😊❤
Thank you for sharing, been years since last heard this.
Liked this song when a teen. Like it now as a old man.
I want to thank whiever one of these guys I was making out with for taking me back to the wedding reception upon learning I was 16. I had never been drunk before, and I appreciate the thoughtfulness.
Sue H You made out with one of the members of this band? Cool beans Sue!
In it's own way that's a very nice memory. It also shows a decent side of male human nature. I hope you've had a positive life since then. Kevin, Western Australia
I have known and loved this song since first released. Never saw the band though, so thank for this excellent video post!
My great uncle, Jim Sawyers, was (is) in Syndicate and when I last traveled over to the west coast I visited him and got a lot of thorns from his cactus impaled in my body. That is all.
Caelen Sawyers nn
Nothing but good fun here . I used to sing this with a band. It's one of those songs that when you play it on your turntable, you want to hear it again.