if Zeppelin would not have recorded some of these songs, most people would never had the pleasure of the history lesson. If you love music enough... as Robert Plant does, and you dig deep enough...you will end up at the Ms Delta Blues.... Thanks to Zeppelin for opening our eyes to that wonderful sound...
Thats why Page loved him and wanted him for Zep. Plant sounded like an American black blues/ R&B singer............ The beginnings of a Rock God is what we have here
The roots of Led Zeppelin can be heard in this song... Plant takes a definite R&B sound and sings in a _slightly_ different key than one would expect, different from what an R&B singer would... and that's the very thing that made Led Zep: that *tension* _between_ and _within_ the vocals and the music, causing the listener not to know exactly where the music is going.
Plant is a living legend. This early Plant material is rare to find. He sounds like he's singing in "Elvis" or 60s pop-style...not being himself. But still a true gem! Thanks for posting.
we can find some Plant's similar singing approach in tracks like "You sook me"(Led Zepp I), when he "covers" the low/mids notes, using his chest ressonance instead his typical head or throaty voice we're used to. Also, there's a pretty much zeppelinesque high pitch screaming on 2:58
How many? Dixon: credited. Howlin: credited. They recorded their first album after less than a month together. They grabbed a few standards to have something to get their sound heard, and half those songs are credited to people who "borrowed" them from even earlier artists. Take a class in the history of Delta Blues. Out of 86-odd songs, Zeppelin borrowed on what 6? Find me a Kashmir, Achilles Last Stand, Song Remains, Rain Song, or a Ten Years Gone by someone else. Good luck with that. :)
I left the deep south in late 1967 at 25.Grew up on blues and New Orleans styles of" music . Those wonderful sounds were passed around. Don't remember any squabbling about whose song was whose. LZ didn't rip off songs any more than any one else. The only difference was that they became a huge success. This made them a target. SUE 'em $$$$$.😢
I did the EXACT same thing to a chick at the MSG concert - the night they got robbed. I knew she wasn't much into Zep anyhow and it was a 'date' not my regular squeeze, so I said 'I'll be back in a second and zoooooom, 'scuse me, pardon me. 'scuse me' all the way down to the floor. Damn, once in a life time experience for me and I wasn't gonna blow it. We were maybe 8 rows up off of stage right and were watching them at an angle - sound was horrible from there. She got over it ....
I must remember one Story about Robert Plant! LOL... One evening in the 1990ies or so, in LA - outside a Bar where a lot of Rockmusicians tended to go for a Drink, Plant and Ken Tamplin - a well known Singer in the Rock-Scene himself (Known as the "go to guy" when ever a Band needed a Singer with his capability of 4 Stunning Octaves of Range) were going outside of the bar, waiting for a Taxi, and they met some girlies, also waiting for Taxi. The smalltalk was going on about Rock´n´Roll, and some Bands, as one blond bimbo asked Robert: Oh well, are you also one of some Band members yourself? Then Robert looked astounded, jaw dropped to the floor first, then with a smile he answered, "Ok, well, I used to be in a Band..." While doing this, Ken and Robert looked at each other, trying not to burst into loud laughter! I mean, to go to such a Bar, trying gold-Digging, and then, no research about who is who? That´s pretty rich, isn´t it?
I urge you to check out his sole 45 with Listen "Everbody's Gonna Say" b/w "You Better Run", it sounds like The Small Faces with a horn section and chick backing vocalists!
there a re different shades to happiness...''i've got a secret'' takes you to the side, where happiness is smiling and dancing and singing along, where the sun is in the sky dotted by white puffy clouds; where the joy is tangible and the goodness of life offered on a plate....
@jroxx11211 What a story! You my friend are a lucky man. Women come and women go....Jimmy comes and you probably wont see him again! Once again, great story.
@jroxx11211 i've never heard of hobbstweedle but i've heard of the band of joy. thanks for telling me i'll check hobbstweedle out. i'd also like to see zeppelin tour again...i'd kill to get tickets to a near by concert!
By way of example, permit to point out that the song "Spoonful" recorded by Cream was credited to Willie Dixon, whose Howlin Wolf recording became the template. Erroneous however was that credit. The song originated as "A Spoonful Blues" by Charlie Patton in 1929. So who screwed who on that one? Not too different from "Whole Lotta Love" coming from "You Need Love". In fact, credit still goes to Dixon despite the fact that Dixon heard Patton's version when he moved to Chicago in 1936. Um, yeah.
@Phenomenon58 Robert loved Elvis. Look up "Mess of Blues Zeppelin" here on UA-cam if you want to hear him doing a pretty wicked imitation!. Re Tom Jones, back in '66/'67 CBS wanted to market Plant as "a middle of the road balladeer, like a blond surrogate of Tom Jones or Long John Baldry", to his great embarrassment. This is quoted from "The Rough Guide to Led Zeppelin", if you're interested in more arcane history. So his "Tom Jones!" cry at RAH is probably just him having the last laugh.
@LedPeplum Yea he does, everytime i watched that performance, i always why i wondered why he randomly says Tom Jones. Thanks for clearing that up for me. But you have to admit that he does sound abit like Elvis in his later years at 0:59. I need to listen to some Tom Jones now lol.
They must've slowed down his vocals. The delivery sounds like Plant's style in the 1:50 area but man, it doesn't sound like anything you'd hear from Zeppelin's earlier stuff.
@Phenomenon58 Actually, at that time he was being groomed to be the 'next Tom Jones', and to my ear, that's who he really sounds like he's imitating. Check out the '69 Royal Albert Hall encore performance of 'Long Tall Sally". Somewhere in the first minute Plant cries 'Tom Jones!" and does a fairly good impression of him.
sounds similar to Steve Winwood here Plant is awesome ,one of my favorite singers of all time. I wonder when/how he developed his higher register. you get a little taste of it at the end
Ok ok i wont be drawn in to trolling pricks, but LedPeplum corrected me, and i thanked him for it. But he was influenced by Elvis, and i said he SOUNDS like him, i wasnt saying he was impersonating. And i quote from Robert Plant " Can't take my whole persona as a singer back then very seriously. It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer. So I got a few moves from Elvis and one or two from Sonny Boy Williamson II and Howlin' Wolf and threw them all together"
Man in 2 years, his voice changed so much, between this and the first Zep album! I wonder what changed? Its not just the musical style difference, there's a fundamental change in the tone of his voice.
Its pretty clear he is forcing a slight bit of a darker tone to his voice here. He said it himself a bunch of times too. He wanted to be like the ol bluesmen with darker voices
@337camo no strain on vocal chords, less cigarette damage and this is band of joy i believe, early days, but get a copy of the album and let us all know.
@jacquie876 Yea that definately could be right. It's hard to look up "I've Got A Secret" on youtube because there was an old show called ive got a secret. If you put this song at 1:40 and play it for a while you can cleary tell that it is robert plant. he sings like led zep at that part.
Jake Holmes said if Zeppelin had never recorded Dazed and Confused, no one would know his name. However his claim to the song was thrown out of court. Holmes opened for The Yardbirds in 1967, and The Yardbirds recorded it for the Little Games album. The reason Page was sued specifically was that upon The Yardbirds demise, he retained the rights to their catalog. This is why Holmes could not sue Zeppelin, as the band was doing a Yardbirds song which Page owned. Publishing is a funny thing! :D
@jroxx11211 Yea i know its him now. I sent that message the 1st time i heard the song and i wasnt sure. I know it's him now. 1:43 through the end is the best part to listen to...its definately him.
He said he was inspired by Elvis Presley, everyone has to be inspired by someone i guess, if you hear closely he tries to imitate Elvis abit. The tone of his voice sounds abit like Elvis. He eventually got his own style, he was really young here. 0:59 he sounds like a Elvis in his later years.
buena cancion para la epoca dentro del pop britanico de esos años, podrias re editar el video y te quedaria mejor. de todas maneras muy bueno. hace poco plant dijo que podria reunirse con zeppelin , esto lo he escuhado unas 200 mil veces. por que plant reniega tanto de su pasado si en vivo sus shows son netamente led zeppelin?
@jroxx11211 i'd love to see any of the zeppelin guys apart of any band. i never heard of the firm but i saw jimmy with the black crowes on youtube...it was nice. a new zep tour would definately sell out...no matter what country, day, or time!
It almost sounds like it's only Plant with those first couple lines and then another soul singer takes over from there. The rest of the song sounds NOTHING like him.
does anyone know if this is really plant. sounds like his pre zeppelin music. he even uses some of plant's trademark techniques and stuff. iam just not sure, i dont get how his voice would be deeper earlier in life, that makes no sense. anyone know if this is truely him?
Just to throw one more twist into this little tete a tete, it goes largely unmentioned that You Need Loving (the germ of Whole Lotta Love) was recorded by The Small Faces in 1965, and credited to Ronnie Lane and Steve Marriott. Now we have a real pickle! As The Faces held the publishing with Decca, and Dixon with Chess, and Waters also with Decca, what to do? Put out the album! Funny, Dixon never sued the Faces. No money in it. Artistic integrity in its highest form. ;)
Yeah i got that cleared up now. I like Plant too, obviously more Zeppelin, but i still enjoy listening to this stuff too. The dude is a LEGEND!
This crosses so many zones, it is even loved by Northern Soul devotees like me.
What a voice at 17!DAMN!!
19 not 17
or maybe 18 but not 17 he was born on 1948
*19
@@wsaxsa1239 He was born in 1948. That would make him 17 or 18, depending on when this was recorded.
Page is a genius in finding this man, and plant is a rock god!
if Zeppelin would not have recorded some of these songs, most people would never had the pleasure of the history lesson. If you love music enough... as Robert Plant does, and you dig deep enough...you will end up at the Ms Delta Blues.... Thanks to Zeppelin for opening our eyes to that wonderful sound...
This is great. I've been a fan for years, Led Zeppelin, and I'm happy to find this jewel.
Thats why Page loved him and wanted him for Zep.
Plant sounded like an American black blues/ R&B singer............
The beginnings of a Rock God is what we have here
great drumming from Bonzo and Robert's beautiful young soulful voice :)
C' est un véritable trésor, la musique de cette époque, des cuivres, des choristes
The roots of Led Zeppelin can be heard in this song... Plant takes a definite R&B sound and sings in a _slightly_ different key than one would expect, different from what an R&B singer would... and that's the very thing that made Led Zep: that *tension* _between_ and _within_ the vocals and the music, causing the listener not to know exactly where the music is going.
Spot on. Those 4 had exactly that. Among other virtues, such as friendship and passion. Everything crumbled when money fame and egoes came across
Robert Plant à évolué, sa voix est plus forte, il monte dans les aigus Le style Led Zeppelin, ce groupe unique Légende de l'histoire du rock
amazing. he sounds like a certified legit soul brutha.
It's the first time i hear this and i can't believe it, awesome, no words
❤❤❤Robert❤❤❤
Robert singing the blues
Beautiful and raw
Thanks!
Plant is the best! I'm a big fan.
Plant is a living legend. This early Plant material is rare to find. He sounds like he's singing in "Elvis" or 60s pop-style...not being himself. But still a true gem! Thanks for posting.
we can find some Plant's similar singing approach in tracks like "You sook me"(Led Zepp I), when he "covers" the low/mids notes, using his chest ressonance instead his typical head or throaty voice we're used to. Also, there's a pretty much zeppelinesque high pitch screaming on 2:58
dude this is REALLY robert singing.....i've been a BIG fan of his ever since i was 4 :)
Gotta love that voice...no one even close to that range and resonance!
Ohh I Got A secret
Dammmm love love an keep LOVIN Me
So talented in the 60s
amazing voice love him
How many? Dixon: credited. Howlin: credited. They recorded their first album after less than a month together. They grabbed a few standards to have something to get their sound heard, and half those songs are credited to people who "borrowed" them from even earlier artists. Take a class in the history of Delta Blues. Out of 86-odd songs, Zeppelin borrowed on what 6? Find me a Kashmir, Achilles Last Stand, Song Remains, Rain Song, or a Ten Years Gone by someone else. Good luck with that. :)
People who make those arguments against LZ's brilliance clearly don't understand how the blues worked, couldn't agree more!
@@benobscure9542 So true
Absolutely
I left the deep south in late 1967 at 25.Grew up on blues and New Orleans styles of" music . Those wonderful sounds were passed around. Don't remember any squabbling about whose song was whose. LZ didn't rip off songs any more than any one else. The only difference was that they became a huge success. This made them a target. SUE 'em $$$$$.😢
Awesome talent
God bless this man❤️
He once said" " Elvis inspired him to sing,. That makes a whole lot of sense"... :-)
Blue eyed soul ....
I did the EXACT same thing to a chick at the MSG concert - the night they got robbed. I knew she wasn't much into Zep anyhow and it was a 'date' not my regular squeeze, so I said 'I'll be back in a second and zoooooom, 'scuse me, pardon me. 'scuse me' all the way down to the floor. Damn, once in a life time experience for me and I wasn't gonna blow it. We were maybe 8 rows up off of stage right and were watching them at an angle - sound was horrible from there. She got over it ....
Beautiful RP!! now and then
I agree. I get to watch Zoso this weekend! Yah!!!
I must remember one Story about Robert Plant! LOL... One evening in the 1990ies or so, in LA - outside a Bar where a lot of Rockmusicians tended to go for a Drink, Plant and Ken Tamplin - a well known Singer in the Rock-Scene himself (Known as the "go to guy" when ever a Band needed a Singer with his capability of 4 Stunning Octaves of Range) were going outside of the bar, waiting for a Taxi, and they met some girlies, also waiting for Taxi. The smalltalk was going on about Rock´n´Roll, and some Bands, as one blond bimbo asked Robert: Oh well, are you also one of some Band members yourself? Then Robert looked astounded, jaw dropped to the floor first, then with a smile he answered, "Ok, well, I used to be in a Band..."
While doing this, Ken and Robert looked at each other, trying not to burst into loud laughter!
I mean, to go to such a Bar, trying gold-Digging, and then, no research about who is who? That´s pretty rich, isn´t it?
such an amazing voice and song.
wow. so cool .
ty
He sounds like a black American soul singer! Wow. I just heard this on Sirius XM for the first time today. Awesome .
If I have a clue
You enjoy being a singular source of music to my days?
Is that the message I’m seeing
Good morning
AMAZING!!
I urge you to check out his sole 45 with Listen "Everbody's Gonna Say" b/w "You Better Run", it sounds like The Small Faces with a horn section and chick backing vocalists!
At around 3 minutes he actually lets rip omg he was an untrained kid and he could sing the blues yet still smash it out at taht age!!
there a re different shades to happiness...''i've got a secret'' takes you to the side, where happiness is smiling and dancing and singing along, where the sun is in the sky dotted by white puffy clouds; where the joy is tangible and the goodness of life offered on a plate....
i agree with Tenth Illusion on this.
I swear it sounds like they slowed down his vocals to bring the pitch down or summat.
I feel like it's plant for the first 25 seconds and then someone else sings the rest.
@jroxx11211 What a story! You my friend are a lucky man. Women come and women go....Jimmy comes and you probably wont see him again! Once again, great story.
Robert has so much soul! This was the year of my birth!
@jroxx11211 i've never heard of hobbstweedle but i've heard of the band of joy. thanks for telling me i'll check hobbstweedle out. i'd also like to see zeppelin tour again...i'd kill to get tickets to a near by concert!
By way of example, permit to point out that the song "Spoonful" recorded by Cream was credited to Willie Dixon, whose Howlin Wolf recording became the template. Erroneous however was that credit. The song originated as "A Spoonful Blues" by Charlie Patton in 1929. So who screwed who on that one? Not too different from "Whole Lotta Love" coming from "You Need Love". In fact, credit still goes to Dixon despite the fact that Dixon heard Patton's version when he moved to Chicago in 1936. Um, yeah.
@Phenomenon58 Robert loved Elvis. Look up "Mess of Blues Zeppelin" here on UA-cam if you want to hear him doing a pretty wicked imitation!. Re Tom Jones, back in '66/'67 CBS wanted to market Plant as "a middle of the road balladeer, like a blond surrogate of Tom Jones or Long John Baldry", to his great embarrassment. This is quoted from "The Rough Guide to Led Zeppelin", if you're interested in more arcane history. So his "Tom Jones!" cry at RAH is probably just him having the last laugh.
Never heard these Robert Plant`s songs,sounds good
@LedPeplum Yea he does, everytime i watched that performance, i always why i wondered why he randomly says Tom Jones. Thanks for clearing that up for me. But you have to admit that he does sound abit like Elvis in his later years at 0:59. I need to listen to some Tom Jones now lol.
They must've slowed down his vocals. The delivery sounds like Plant's style in the 1:50 area but man, it doesn't sound like anything you'd hear from Zeppelin's earlier stuff.
@Phenomenon58 Actually, at that time he was being groomed to be the 'next Tom Jones', and to my ear, that's who he really sounds like he's imitating. Check out the '69 Royal Albert Hall encore performance of 'Long Tall Sally". Somewhere in the first minute Plant cries 'Tom Jones!" and does a fairly good impression of him.
@gordmino yea ive heard that song. i wrote that 2 weeks ago, ive learned that it is indeed him. i dont know why i even thought otherwise...
Sounds quite different from his LZ vocals, this one's like a soul or r'n'b singer.
J adore !
sounds similar to Steve Winwood here
Plant is awesome ,one of my favorite singers of all time.
I wonder when/how he developed his higher register.
you get a little taste of it at the end
@alcoyot
Maybe because his mic started getting rigged up to Page's Plexi Marshall amp, and we all know the epic tone that thing gave.
@jroxx11211 Nice! I'll check those out too. Whitesnake and Bad Company both had awesome singers. I bet their collaboration bands are awesome.
Shows that Robert was on his way to stardom!
@TheFurthur whatttttt this is good stuff right here man
Is their a compilation of plants pre zeppelin recordings I love this so sixties
Ok ok i wont be drawn in to trolling pricks, but LedPeplum corrected me, and i thanked him for it. But he was influenced by Elvis, and i said he SOUNDS like him, i wasnt saying he was impersonating. And i quote from Robert Plant " Can't take my whole persona as a singer back then very seriously. It's not some great work of beauty and love to be a rock-and-roll singer. So I got a few moves from Elvis and one or two from Sonny Boy Williamson II and Howlin' Wolf and threw them all together"
Man in 2 years, his voice changed so much, between this and the first Zep album! I wonder what changed? Its not just the musical style difference, there's a fundamental change in the tone of his voice.
He grew up…
Its pretty clear he is forcing a slight bit of a darker tone to his voice here. He said it himself a bunch of times too. He wanted to be like the ol bluesmen with darker voices
@337camo no strain on vocal chords, less cigarette damage and this is band of joy i believe, early days, but get a copy of the album and let us all know.
@luvthatzeppelin And Bonzo on drums.
yes thank you for correcting me
i did indeed mean Plant
Cheers,
Sam
Y he sing so funny?
Thank you girl!
:)
@jacquie876 Yea that definately could be right. It's hard to look up "I've Got A Secret" on youtube because there was an old show called ive got a secret. If you put this song at 1:40 and play it for a while you can cleary tell that it is robert plant. he sings like led zep at that part.
I believe it's from his Band of Joys period with Bonham.
@Feathertops I read they slowed the tape down here to make his voice sound more Tom Jones-like.
Jake Holmes said if Zeppelin had never recorded Dazed and Confused, no one would know his name. However his claim to the song was thrown out of court. Holmes opened for The Yardbirds in 1967, and The Yardbirds recorded it for the Little Games album. The reason Page was sued specifically was that upon The Yardbirds demise, he retained the rights to their catalog. This is why Holmes could not sue Zeppelin, as the band was doing a Yardbirds song which Page owned. Publishing is a funny thing! :D
wow just wow
love the video :)
=]
yes Page was an R&B singer before he was with zep
his voice sounds so pure here
he could have made it as an R&B singer if he wanted to
the singer doesn't the tipic Plant voice. Are u sure he's Plant??
wow!
Gooooo plant go!
@jroxx11211 Yea i know its him now. I sent that message the 1st time i heard the song and i wasnt sure. I know it's him now. 1:43 through the end is the best part to listen to...its definately him.
Northern soul
He said he was inspired by Elvis Presley, everyone has to be inspired by someone i guess, if you hear closely he tries to imitate Elvis abit. The tone of his voice sounds abit like Elvis. He eventually got his own style, he was really young here. 0:59 he sounds like a Elvis in his later years.
buena cancion para la epoca dentro del pop britanico de esos años, podrias re editar el video y te quedaria mejor. de todas maneras muy bueno.
hace poco plant dijo que podria reunirse con zeppelin , esto lo he escuhado unas 200 mil veces. por que plant reniega tanto de su pasado si en vivo sus shows son netamente led zeppelin?
Sorry I didn't see any of the other videos "Listen" very Elvis influenced.
dude he was 19 when he sang this song
today is Led Zeppelin Celebration Day!!!!!!! Their new film comes out today!!!!!! :)
I can't find Hobbstweedle anywhere, and I really want to.
Where can I find there music?
@alcoyot I think it's a musical style difference...
WOAH!!!!!!!!!
@CarbinBleuDia Do you really think so? I mean, you can tell it's Plant, but that helium wail from his Zep years is *not* evident on this track.
Coulda been the next Tom Jones... whatever happened to Bobby Plant anyway?
career went over like a .......
...Led Zeppelin
THANK YOU
anymore of this kinda stuff around that any1 cud steer me towards?
where did you find this?
cool
@jroxx11211 i'd love to see any of the zeppelin guys apart of any band. i never heard of the firm but i saw jimmy with the black crowes on youtube...it was nice. a new zep tour would definately sell out...no matter what country, day, or time!
Make him tell😽
@luvthatzeppelin Yea i know i could have looked it up. I just wanted a simple yes or no though :P
Thanks.
Whoever put this video together shouldn’t have bothered
@romanjor yea i believe so.
This is bonham right? sounds like him.
Again... CBS slowed it down cuz his voice was "too high".
UGH
How many songs did Robert record before Zeppelin? Is this actually Robert and John Bonham? How many were recorded between the two of them?
ua-cam.com/play/PL6BE5723C4976878D.html
It almost sounds like it's only Plant with those first couple lines and then another soul singer takes over from there. The rest of the song sounds NOTHING like him.
i know right, i was thinking that
I agree 100%
what cd is this on
does anyone know if this is really plant. sounds like his pre zeppelin music. he even uses some of plant's trademark techniques and stuff. iam just not sure, i dont get how his voice would be deeper earlier in life, that makes no sense. anyone know if this is truely him?
Black Hole the engineer slows the recording down = a lower voice simple really
Just to throw one more twist into this little tete a tete, it goes largely unmentioned that You Need Loving (the germ of Whole Lotta Love) was recorded by The Small Faces in 1965, and credited to Ronnie Lane and Steve Marriott. Now we have a real pickle! As The Faces held the publishing with Decca, and Dixon with Chess, and Waters also with Decca, what to do? Put out the album! Funny, Dixon never sued the Faces. No money in it. Artistic integrity in its highest form. ;)