I spent the summer of love in Vietnam where Armed Forces Radio played mostly pop singles. Of those my favorites were: Windy, The Association, Summer Wine and Lady Bird, Nancy and Lee, Don't Sleep in the Subway, The Rain, The Park, etc., The Cowsills. If you wanted to hear The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Doors, you bought the albums at the local PX and played them on a (also PX purchased) turntable. A few of the albums I purchased were: The Jefferson Airplane Takes Off, The Doors, East-West, Butterfield Blues Band, All The Good That's Happening, The Leaves, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy Is Spreading, (yes, believe it or not, the PXs in '67 Vietnam sold psych albums) and Projections, The Blues Project. Keep up the good work.
When I first started trying to build up my LP collection in '71, I would often find those Asian pressings of records at the Goodwill store, brought back by returning soldiers. The covers always looked cheap and "off", as if they had been printed with a copying machine on the worst paper. Didn't want them at the time, but I'm curious now.
@@simonagree4070 We were fortunate to have the US pressings in our Vietnam PXs. I picked up some Japanese pressings while visiting Tokyo on R&R, but of course they were of high quality.
Gee Randy, I thought that I was the only one who bought "All The Good That's Happening". Their debut on Mira was pretty good, and I expected this 2nd LP to be, as well - but I was disappointed (and I'll bet that the band was, too). "Twilight Sanctuary" was excellent, though.
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I was there too, but in 1969. We bought albums at the BX (USAF) and taped them at the taping center on base. Anthem of the Sun by the Dead was in heavy rotation.
Keith Moon's drumming on Happy Jack is off the charts! It's one of those songs that I listen to 6 or 7 times in a row before moving on to the next track.
Re "Mercy Mercy Mercy": The lyrics were written by R&B singers Larry Williams and Johnny "Guitar" Watson, who recorded it as a duet. The melody was written by jazz keyboardist Joe Zawinul.
Songs that have hit number 1 or number 2 on my personal charts (in alphabetical order) : The Association - Windy / Never My Love The Beach Boys - Heroes And Villains Lou Christie - I Remember Gina Ronnie Dove - My Babe The Fifth Dimension - Another Day, Another Heartache Lesley Gore - Summer And Sandy / I’m Fallin’ Down The Happenings - I Got Rhythm The Hollies - Carrie-Anne Tommy James & The Shondells - Mirage / I Like The Way / Gettin’ Together Jan & Dean (Dean solo) - Yellow Balloon Gary Lewis & The Playboys - Girls in Love The Tokens - A Portrait Of My Love / It’s A Happening World Frankie Valli - Can’t Take My Eyes Off You The Yellow Balloon - Yellow Balloon
My favorites from your list are are Moby Grape, Petula Clark. Buffalo Springfield, Traffic, Kinks.Stones. I’m glad you like Petula Clark, one of my favorite singers. She recorded some fabulous songs back then. 😊
Homburg is my favorite Procol Harum song, but didn't hit America till the end of the year. Two more: Sound of Love - The Five Americans My World Fell Down - Sagittarius Would like to see a video of great British singles that didn't hit here. 1967 was full of them. Flowers in the Rain - The Move Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks And many others.
@@petercena9497 Its mind boggling Waterloo Sunset did not chart in the U.S. The ban in America destroyed The Kinks for years. Fortunately they persevered.
A marvelous collection of tunes, Tom. Not a clunker in the bunch.I grew up in Chicago and a wonderful local group called the Cryan Shames had a stunning single,Could Be Were In Love which was #1 on WLS in August for 3 weeks. Give it a spin.
@ricjan just checked it out. a beautiful song, for sure. kinda sounds like the association meets the beach boys. if you’re from chicago do you recall a band called new colony six ? they did a beautiful tune called “i will always think about you”
The Rain, The Park & Other Things - Cowsills Get Together - The Youngbloods Up Up & Away - 5th Dimension Windy - The Association King Midas In Reverse - The Hollies
A U.S. only hit by The Cowsills, Rain Park Other Things, never a Top 50 entry in the UK, Groovin', The Young Rascals, their only UK hit, and a song I don't know whether you heard of, as this never dented the U.S. Top 100 but was a huge UK number 2 hit by Keith West, Excerpt From A Teenage Opera, with Psychedelic orchestration by Mark Wirtz. Happy Jack by The Who was released in the UK December 1966, and charted here later that month to early 1967, not a summer of '67 hit in the UK. It's UK B side was I've Been Away, an unusual John Entwhistle song, never then released in the States, but decades later appeared among the bonus tracks in stereo on the CD reissue of their second album. Paul Revere And The Raiders never had a UK Top 50 entry in the singles or album charts, a great band they may have been.
Hi Tom: Awesome list!!!!!!! I would like to kick in along with each and every one of yours more of my unsung favorites from The Summer of Love. This list would have been different, pretty much all the ones you mentioned would make the list. So, with substitutions, these are my personal unsung favorites. 1. Make Me Yours: Bettye Swann 2. Step Out of Your Mind: The American Breed 3. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat: Bob Dylan 4. Another Day, Another Heartache: The Fifth Dimension 5. Society's Child: Janis Ian 6. I Could Be So Good to You: Don & The Goodtimes 7. Sound of Love: The Five Americans 8. The Oogum Boogum Song: Brenton Wood 9. Girls in Love: Gary Lewis and The Playboys 10. Sunshine Girl: The Parade 11. Pay You Back with Interest: The Hollies 12. C'mon Marianne: The Four Seasons 13. Have You Seen Her Face: The Byrds 14. Soothe Me: Sam & Dave 15. I Stand Accused (Of Loving You): The Glories 16. Don't Go Out Into the Rain (You're Going to Melt): Herman's Hermits 17. My World Fell Down: Sagittarius 18. The Jokers: Peter and Gordon 19. I Like the Way: Tommy James and The Shondells 20. Joy: Mitch Ryder 21. The River is Wide: The Forum 22. Out & About: Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart 23. Blue's Theme: The Arrows 24. Happy: The Sunshine Company 25. Pearl Time: Andre Williams 26. Devil's Angels: The Arrows 27. Things I Should Have Said: The Grass Roots 28. Jill: Gary Lewis and The Playboys 29. A Little Bit Now: The Dave Clark Five 30. Lady Friend: The Byrds 31. Twelve Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming to the Canyon): The Mamas and The Papas 32. Gettin' Together: Tommy James and The Shondells 33. Museum: Herman's Hermits 34. I Feel Good (I Feel Bad): Lewis and Clarke Expedition 35. Tell Him: Patti Drew 36. I Make a Fool of Myself: Frankie Valli 37. Requiem for the Masses: The Association 38. You're a Very Lovely Woman: The Merry-Go-Round 39. The Flower Children: Marcia Strassman 40. Wear Your Love Like Heaven: Donovan This has been a lot of fun Tom! And, my apologies for officially bringing an end to the summer of love. I knew something catastrophic happened on my fifth birthday... and that was it. I turned five and ended the summer of love!
@@Cap683 The Buckingham's record was really good. They'd moved over to Columbia Records who must have thought so, too, because they released it with a picture sleeve, which I bought. I never cared much for their other records and I hated "Kind Of A Drag".
The Summer of Love probably started with the Human Be-In, January 14, 1967. Timothy Leary voiced his catchphrase, "Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out", Monterey Pop Fest sealed the deal, and Scott McKenzie invited the youth of America to San Francisco. Many of them came! The Death of the Hippie was in response to the thousands of kids who had come to town with no means of support, who clogged the Haight with stinky begging bodies, and who thought turning on was a great idea. Gotta doobie? Don't Bogart that Joint, my friend! If the kids who come were going to represent the "hippie" movement, better to get rid of it altogether. Didn't work out that way, as it turned out. Music exploded in 1967, Sgt Pepper's being the clear example, but many bands released their best work in the era. It was magical, at times, with artists building off the competition, producing some of the best music of the 'Sixties. Moby Grape got screwed six ways from Sunday by Matthew Katz. That was the music biz, in the 'Sixties, lotta sharks, not a lot of heart. The Buckinghams got caught in between the Top 40, and Psychedelia, didn't make the cut. Mercy, Mercy, Mercy hit the Hot 100 on June 17, 1967, debuting at #81, staying on the charts through Sept 2, 1967, spending two weeks at #5. A Hole in My Shoe is the only Dave Mason track that made it to Heaven Is in Your Mind, the US release of the first Traffic album, featuring megastar Stevie Winwood, just coming off the Spencer Davis Group hits, Gimme Some Lovin', and Keep on Running. Homburg was a personal favorite for decades, still a great listen, but it didn't hit the charts until Oct 28, 1967, at #66, but it only rose to #34, befosre sliding off the Hot 100. It would be a taste of greater things to come. I slept in the subway, the Metro, in Paris, the Spring of '67, back in town after four months, and flat broke. My girlfriend had come to town ahead of me, was staying at her mothers='s, but I didn't know where that was, in the dark. I got in late, one night in late May, made my way to the etoile where the Arc de Triomphe sits, when I ran out of steam and found a bench that looked comfy. I woke up with two flics (French cops) whacking on my shoes to wake me. I explained my predicament, they pointed me in the right direction, and basically said, "Don't sleep in the subway". A week or so later, the song came out! How could I not like it? My list is of singles that resonated in the Summer of Love, from Spring, to Fall, 1967. A few didn't do well at all, but they'd loom large in the coming years. Best of Summer of Love Singles 01 A T T H E Z OO Mar 18 Simon & Garfunkel 02 M Y B A C K P A G E S Apr 1 the Byrds 03 G R O O V I N ' Apr 22 the Young Rascals 04 R E S P E C T Apr 29 Aretha Franklin 05 C R E E Q U E A L L E Y Apr 29 the Mamas & the Papas 06 W I N D Y May 27 the Association 07 S O C I E T Y ' S C H I L D May 27 Janix Ian 08 S A N F R A N C I S C O ( W E A R S O M E F L O W E R S I N Y O U R H A I R ) May 27 Scott McKenzie 09 T H E T R A C K S O F M Y T E A R S Jun 3 the Four Tops 10 U P , U P , A N D A W A Y Jun 3 the Fifth Dimension 11 L I G H T M Y F I R E Jun 3 the Doors 12 I W A S M A D E T O L O V E H E R Jun 10 Stevie Wonder 13 W H I T E R A B B I T Jun 24 Jeffereson Airplane 14 A W H I T E R S H A D E O F P A L E Jun 24 Procol Harum 15 P I C T U R E S O F L I L Y Jul 1 the Who 16 Y O U K E E P M E H A N G I N G O N Jul 8 Vanilla Fudge 17 T O L O V E S O M E B OD Y Jul 8 the Bee Gees 18 B R O W N - E Y E D G I R L Jul 8 Van Morrison 19 A L L Y O U N E E D I S L O V E Jul 22 the Beatles 20 W O R D S Jul 22 the Monkees 21 H E R O E S A N D V I L L A I N S Aug 5 the Beach Boys 22 N O T S O S W E E T M A R T H A L O R R A I N E Aug 6 Country Joe & the Fish 23 T H E R E I S A M O U N T A I N Aug12 Donovan 24 G E T T O G E T H E R Sep 2 the Youngbloods 25 P U R P L E H A Z E Sep 2 Jimi Hendrix Experience 26 P A P E R S U N Sep 2 Traffic 27 D A N D E L I O N Sep 9 the Rolling Stones 28 Y O U ' R E A V E R Y L O V E L Y W O M A N Sep 9 Merry-Go-Round 29 L E T I T O U T ( L E T I T A L L H A N G O U T ) Sep 16 the Hombres 30 P E O P L E A R E S T R A N G E Sep 23 the Doors
Happy Jack: we spent lots of fun family time trying to figure out that one line of Happy Jack. I think we finally concluded: "So they wrote on his head, in their fury: 'donkey'. " That reminds me: today I was puzzling over a line in the Donovan song, There is a Mountain. For it to make sense, it would be, "Look, upon my garden gate, a snail, that's what it is." But some times it sounds like he puts the word "the" in front, so it seems to become, "The lock upon my garden gate, a snail, that's what it is," Which makes no sense. I am going with the "Look..." version. The third time he says it, it sounds like "Look..."
The only song I can come up with is 'The Letter' by the Box Tops, released in August of 67. It did reach #1 so I'm not sure if the song qualifies as being unsung The other thing is I haven't heard the song get played much anywhere anymore. Great collection of songs, though. I love the song Dandelion. I had the album 'Through the Past, Darkly' when I was a very young lad.
Excellent! In my wheelhouse. The garage band I was in did both "Bluebird" and "Mr. Soul," "Happy Jack"--even "Harry Rag"! Speaking of double-sided great singles, have you done a video on "45's with great music on both sides"? Not necessarily double-A sides, but simply music you love on both sides. There are some obvious choices, but let your taste make the calls.
Great selection Tom (especially Pet Clark!); here’s five of mine: Night and Day (Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66)... Here We Go Again (Ray Charles)... Epistle to Dippy (Donovan)... Bowling Green (Everly Brothers, their final top 40 hit)... Ha Ha Said the Clown (Yardbirds, but sounds like David Bowie a few years later)
Great episode! Fortunately, 1967 was the year I started buying 45 vinyl singles, and am familiar with just about all of the tracks you mention. There’s not a bad song in the bunch. I would probably add the psychedelic “Reflections,” by Diana Ross and the Supremes, the follow-up to “The Happening,” to this list. It’s one of my all-time fav tracks, and one of the first 45s I ever bought.
Not so sure if I'd call "Reflections" unsung. It started getting airplay again when it was used as the theme song to the TV series China Beach. Unlike the other songs on this list, it still gets some airplay today on oldies stations.
Dave Davies’ is known for “Death of a Clown” (August ‘67) but the B side “Love me till the Sun Shines” is fantastic. The Young Rascals “A Girl Like You” also in August (57 years ago today) didn’t chart as high as the other two singles from “Groovin’” but the arrangement puts me in mind of what would late emerge in Blood, Sweat & Tears and Chicago, and its B side - “It’s Love” features amazing flute work by Hubert Laws. It’s also pretty amazing to think that “Then I Kissed her” and “Heroes and Villains” both came out that summer. I think each production is stellar.
I keep hearing from musicians who lived in LA during the 60's stating that the Real Summer of Love was in LA in 1966....they could be right...Maybe the Summer of Love caught up to SF a year later...So I say everyone is right...just depends...By the way. Loved your choices. Since I grew up back then, during that period, mostly all of the songs on the radio were great to listen to! When was the last time you couldn't wait to turn on the radio the next day to hear a brand new classic song....It's been a loooooooong time since that happened.
"Him or Me-What's it Gonna Be": Mr. Fetish, if you don't already own it, you should pick up a copy of the Raiders' album it came from, "Revolution." If you like that song, you should enjoy the whole album. Terry Melchor, producer, had a big part in this album. I good, rare pickup for you would be "The Best of Bruce and Terry" collection. Bruce is Bruce Johnston of the Beach Boys. Terry is Terry Melchor. They were also the Rip Chords, who I remember enjoying. If your band struggled with this song, it might be because of the strong harmony singing present in the whole album.
How about when the opposite occurs. I was listening to my local AO radio station(hey, my dogs like Sinatra). On comes Rainy Day Women! ! I almost jumped out of my shoes! I wonder who got fired...
Terrific video! Great list! Have you heard of, or own Simon and Garfunkel's Sounds Of Silence or Parsley Sage albums in mono? Super different from the stereo mixes and really fun to compare both back to back.
@@ConglomerationCat I only have the stereo version. It’s amazing the differences between some mono and stereo mixes on 60’s albums. The Who Sell Out is one example.
I wasn't around then, but here's a few: 23rd Turnoff, "Michael Angelo" (UK only); Erma Franklin "Piece of My Heart" (covered in '68 by Big Brother and the Holding Co.); Do b-sides count? If so, Captain Beefheart's Abba Zabba (after the peanut butter flavored taffy). And one that was a hit but you don't hear much, The Stone Poneys' version of Mike Nesmith's "Different Drum"
Favorite Simon and Garfunkel songs: Sounds of Silence, Hazy Shade of Winter, At the Zoo, Homeward Bound, I am a Rock, and Dangling Conversations. Sounds of Silence should be revered for all time, but I also have a great admiration for Dangling Conversations. Critics didn't like it. I think, sadly, they convinced Paul Simon to lose the initial pride he had in that composition.
A Hollies song! Probably the best concert I ever attended was the Hollies when Graham Nash reunited with them for a reunion tour at the Front Row Theater in Cleveland, Ohio. The Hollies were always a great live band. But, by the time of the reunion, rock concert technology was greatly improved. And I saw some pretty famous bands in my day: To name a few: The Rolling Stones at the Akron Rubber Bowl (I think Stevie Wonder opened), Credence Clearwater Revivial at the Richfield Colosseum, the Kinks many times (once doing Preservation, probably second best ever concert), Zepellin maybe, Cat Stevens I think, a double feature with a new artist named James Taylor who got ignored because he opened for the Who, Chuck Berry, the Beach Boys many times (once, when their fame was just starting to decline, at John Carroll University). I even saw a very young Eric Carmen with a few of his soon-to-be Raspberries bandmates, doing covers of the Who and the Beatles' songs. By the way, Cleveland is celebration Eric Carmen. August 11, 2024 is to be Eric Carmen Day. His widow will receive the key to the city. A Raspberries tribute band will be playing in Lyndhurst, Ohio, his hometown, in a concert to raise money for charity.
@@stevenkaminsky You saw some stellar shows. That is so cool you were at The Kinks Preservation show. The earliest I saw The Kinks was the Sleepwalker tour in ‘77. Nice to hear about Eric Carmen getting a celebration in Cleveland.
I really like or love all of those songs. Luckily, I do hear most of them on Sirius radio. Stills always hated the long version of Bluebird, that's why its not on the boxset (or any other CD). You can find even longer versions on youtube. In the UK We Love You was the A side, here we got Dandelion as the A side -- I like Dandelion better.
Petula Clark and the Kinks: maybe the greatest album for me would be a Petula Clark album with all her hits. My Petula hits albums either have too few of her hits or too many extra cover versions. That being said, Kinks Kronikles is probably the greatest album I own, if we are permitting greatest hits albums.
Excellent list -- can't find much to argue with. I never liked "Six O'Clock", but that's probably my problem, not something intrinsically defective. I don't know that Kinks A-side, but the B-side, "Harry Rag", was still getting some airplay on San Francisco FM four years later, as was the Traffic single. The cockney rhyming slang probably confused the heck out of most young listeners. I still hear "Happy Jack" when I stoop to listen to "classic rock" radio, so that may not be as unsung as you think. The picture sleeve looks like an early Ralph Steadman caricature. Did I hear a bit of dyslexia pop up in your try at pronouncing Cannonball Adderley's name? Tsk tsk. 😉
The piano player on the excellent "Mr. Pleasant" is Nicky Hopkins, which reached #2 in the Netherlands and #3 in Belgium, but was only released as a "B side" of "Autumn Almanac" in the UK.
I spent the summer of love in Vietnam where Armed Forces Radio played mostly pop singles. Of those my favorites were: Windy, The Association, Summer Wine and Lady Bird, Nancy and Lee, Don't Sleep in the Subway, The Rain, The Park, etc., The Cowsills. If you wanted to hear The Beatles, Rolling Stones, Doors, you bought the albums at the local PX and played them on a (also PX purchased) turntable. A few of the albums I purchased were: The Jefferson Airplane Takes Off, The Doors, East-West, Butterfield Blues Band, All The Good That's Happening, The Leaves, The Peanut Butter Conspiracy Is Spreading, (yes, believe it or not, the PXs in '67 Vietnam sold psych albums) and Projections, The Blues Project. Keep up the good work.
When I first started trying to build up my LP collection in '71, I would often find those Asian pressings of records at the Goodwill store, brought back by returning soldiers. The covers always looked cheap and "off", as if they had been printed with a copying machine on the worst paper. Didn't want them at the time, but I'm curious now.
@@simonagree4070 We were fortunate to have the US pressings in our Vietnam PXs. I picked up some Japanese pressings while visiting Tokyo on R&R, but of course they were of high quality.
Gee Randy, I thought that I was the only one who bought "All The Good That's Happening". Their debut on Mira was pretty good, and I expected this 2nd LP to be, as well - but I was disappointed (and I'll bet that the band was, too). "Twilight Sanctuary" was excellent, though.
I was there too, but in 1969. We bought albums at the BX (USAF) and taped them at the taping center on base. Anthem of the Sun by the Dead was in heavy rotation.
@@randymixter7432 Great story. Very cool. 😉
Keith Moon's drumming on Happy Jack is off the charts! It's one of those songs that I listen to 6 or 7 times in a row before moving on to the next track.
Sunday will never be the same by Spanky & our gang, Lady friend by the Byrds, both from mid 67, both awesome songs, that you don't hear much.
@@gerardocarroll1158 You’re right. Lady Friend is one of Crosby’s greatest penned tracks with The Byrds. Love that Spanky & Our Gang track.
“Good morning, Mr Leach…” Fakin It SG
Re "Mercy Mercy Mercy": The lyrics were written by R&B singers Larry Williams and Johnny "Guitar" Watson, who recorded it as a duet. The melody was written by jazz keyboardist Joe Zawinul.
You're firing on all cylinders tonight. Will check out the 4 songs that I'm not familiar with right now.
Songs that have hit number 1 or number 2 on my personal charts (in alphabetical order) :
The Association - Windy / Never My Love
The Beach Boys - Heroes And Villains
Lou Christie - I Remember Gina
Ronnie Dove - My Babe
The Fifth Dimension - Another Day, Another Heartache
Lesley Gore - Summer And Sandy / I’m Fallin’ Down
The Happenings - I Got Rhythm
The Hollies - Carrie-Anne
Tommy James & The Shondells - Mirage / I Like The Way / Gettin’ Together
Jan & Dean (Dean solo) - Yellow Balloon
Gary Lewis & The Playboys - Girls in Love
The Tokens - A Portrait Of My Love / It’s A Happening World
Frankie Valli - Can’t Take My Eyes Off You
The Yellow Balloon - Yellow Balloon
Enjoyed that. Always loved “When Something is Wrong With my Baby” by Sam & Dave that came out in 67.
And Boogaloo Down Broadway by the Fantastic Johnny C
My favorites from your list are are Moby Grape, Petula Clark. Buffalo Springfield, Traffic, Kinks.Stones. I’m glad you like Petula Clark, one of my favorite singers. She recorded some fabulous songs back then. 😊
@@dancingbear86 Indeed 😉
One of your best topics! 66 & 67....WOW! My copy of Bluebird had a hole punched in it too. I got it at Woolworth's -- 3 for 1$
Homburg is my favorite Procol Harum song, but didn't hit America till the end of the year.
Two more:
Sound of Love - The Five Americans
My World Fell Down - Sagittarius
Would like to see a video of great British singles that didn't hit here. 1967 was full of them.
Flowers in the Rain - The Move
Waterloo Sunset - The Kinks
And many others.
@@petercena9497 Its mind boggling Waterloo Sunset did not chart in the U.S. The ban in America destroyed The Kinks for years. Fortunately they persevered.
@@tomrobinson5776 It probably wasn't even promoted, as their previous release Mr. Pleasant stalled at no.80 on the charts.
A marvelous collection of tunes, Tom. Not a clunker in the bunch.I grew up in Chicago and a wonderful local group called the Cryan Shames had a stunning single,Could Be Were In Love which was #1 on WLS in August for 3 weeks. Give it a spin.
@ricjan just checked it out. a beautiful song, for sure. kinda sounds like the association meets the beach boys. if you’re from chicago do you recall a band called new colony six ? they did a beautiful tune called “i will always think about you”
@@kurt11110 Yes, indeed. One of the many good songs from them during that 65'-68' time frame.
@@ricjan58 I’ll check that out. 😉
Florence Ballard was horribly mistreated by Motown's Berry Gordy.
@@TheGamecock366 So I’ve heard. A sad story..
I've really gotten into Moby Grape in the last couple years, and they've rapidly become one of my favorite bands
My World Fell Down by Sagittarius?
The Rain, The Park & Other Things - Cowsills
Get Together - The Youngbloods
Up Up & Away - 5th Dimension
Windy - The Association
King Midas In Reverse - The Hollies
@@dmk7700 All fantastic 😉
A U.S. only hit by The Cowsills, Rain Park Other Things, never a Top 50 entry in the UK, Groovin', The Young Rascals, their only UK hit, and a song I don't know whether you heard of, as this never dented the U.S. Top 100 but was a huge UK number 2 hit by Keith West, Excerpt From A Teenage Opera, with Psychedelic orchestration by Mark Wirtz.
Happy Jack by The Who was released in the UK December 1966, and charted here later that month to early 1967, not a summer of '67 hit in the UK. It's UK B side was I've Been Away, an unusual John Entwhistle song, never then released in the States, but decades later appeared among the bonus tracks in stereo on the CD reissue of their second album.
Paul Revere And The Raiders never had a UK Top 50 entry in the singles or album charts, a great band they may have been.
Thanks for the reminder of Mercy, Mercy, Mercy.
"6 o'clock" and " She's a Mystery" are masterpieces. John Sebastian did a second version of "You're a Big Boy Now" on one of his solo albums.
I also loved "Close Your Eyes" and "Forever" from that album, which became B-sides later.
Thanks for the "Listen, my friends" Dandelion was a favorite of mine when it was out. For me, no other Hollies single touches Bus Stop.
I agree about "Bus Stop".
Graham Gouldman knew how to write songs.
Hi Tom:
Awesome list!!!!!!! I would like to kick in along with each and every one of yours more of my unsung favorites from The Summer of Love. This list would have been different, pretty much all the ones you mentioned would make the list. So, with substitutions, these are my personal unsung favorites.
1. Make Me Yours: Bettye Swann
2. Step Out of Your Mind: The American Breed
3. Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat: Bob Dylan
4. Another Day, Another Heartache: The Fifth Dimension
5. Society's Child: Janis Ian
6. I Could Be So Good to You: Don & The Goodtimes
7. Sound of Love: The Five Americans
8. The Oogum Boogum Song: Brenton Wood
9. Girls in Love: Gary Lewis and The Playboys
10. Sunshine Girl: The Parade
11. Pay You Back with Interest: The Hollies
12. C'mon Marianne: The Four Seasons
13. Have You Seen Her Face: The Byrds
14. Soothe Me: Sam & Dave
15. I Stand Accused (Of Loving You): The Glories
16. Don't Go Out Into the Rain (You're Going to Melt): Herman's Hermits
17. My World Fell Down: Sagittarius
18. The Jokers: Peter and Gordon
19. I Like the Way: Tommy James and The Shondells
20. Joy: Mitch Ryder
21. The River is Wide: The Forum
22. Out & About: Tommy Boyce and Bobby Hart
23. Blue's Theme: The Arrows
24. Happy: The Sunshine Company
25. Pearl Time: Andre Williams
26. Devil's Angels: The Arrows
27. Things I Should Have Said: The Grass Roots
28. Jill: Gary Lewis and The Playboys
29. A Little Bit Now: The Dave Clark Five
30. Lady Friend: The Byrds
31. Twelve Thirty (Young Girls Are Coming to the Canyon): The Mamas and The Papas
32. Gettin' Together: Tommy James and The Shondells
33. Museum: Herman's Hermits
34. I Feel Good (I Feel Bad): Lewis and Clarke Expedition
35. Tell Him: Patti Drew
36. I Make a Fool of Myself: Frankie Valli
37. Requiem for the Masses: The Association
38. You're a Very Lovely Woman: The Merry-Go-Round
39. The Flower Children: Marcia Strassman
40. Wear Your Love Like Heaven: Donovan
This has been a lot of fun Tom! And, my apologies for officially bringing an end to the summer of love. I knew something catastrophic happened on my fifth birthday... and that was it. I turned five and ended the summer of love!
I still play Tell Him: Patti Drew.
@@nathanlaney4577 That is quite the list. 😉 Lady Friend, Sunshine Girl, You’re A Very Lovely Woman, Wear Your Love Like Heaven, etc. All fantastic.
joe zawinul from weather report wrote mercy mercy mercy and adderly played it live. such a classic.
I had no idea. I remember the Buckinghams rendition and prior to that Cannonball Adderly.
@@Cap683 The Buckingham's record was really good. They'd moved over to Columbia Records who must have thought so, too, because they released it with a picture sleeve, which I bought. I never cared much for their other records and I hated "Kind Of A Drag".
Great selection Tom. 😊
Happening really takes me back. Also, Homburg is good.
Thanks Kathy 😉
The Summer of Love probably started with the Human Be-In, January 14, 1967. Timothy Leary voiced his catchphrase, "Turn On, Tune In, Drop Out", Monterey Pop Fest sealed the deal, and Scott McKenzie invited the youth of America to San Francisco. Many of them came! The Death of the Hippie was in response to the thousands of kids who had come to town with no means of support, who clogged the Haight with stinky begging bodies, and who thought turning on was a great idea. Gotta doobie? Don't Bogart that Joint, my friend! If the kids who come were going to represent the "hippie" movement, better to get rid of it altogether. Didn't work out that way, as it turned out.
Music exploded in 1967, Sgt Pepper's being the clear example, but many bands released their best work in the era. It was magical, at times, with artists building off the competition, producing some of the best music of the 'Sixties. Moby Grape got screwed six ways from Sunday by Matthew Katz. That was the music biz, in the 'Sixties, lotta sharks, not a lot of heart.
The Buckinghams got caught in between the Top 40, and Psychedelia, didn't make the cut. Mercy, Mercy, Mercy hit the Hot 100 on June 17, 1967, debuting at #81, staying on the charts through Sept 2, 1967, spending two weeks at #5. A Hole in My Shoe is the only Dave Mason track that made it to Heaven Is in Your Mind, the US release of the first Traffic album, featuring megastar Stevie Winwood, just coming off the Spencer Davis Group hits, Gimme Some Lovin', and Keep on Running. Homburg was a personal favorite for decades, still a great listen, but it didn't hit the charts until Oct 28, 1967, at #66, but it only rose to #34, befosre sliding off the Hot 100. It would be a taste of greater things to come.
I slept in the subway, the Metro, in Paris, the Spring of '67, back in town after four months, and flat broke. My girlfriend had come to town ahead of me, was staying at her mothers='s, but I didn't know where that was, in the dark. I got in late, one night in late May, made my way to the etoile where the Arc de Triomphe sits, when I ran out of steam and found a bench that looked comfy. I woke up with two flics (French cops) whacking on my shoes to wake me. I explained my predicament, they pointed me in the right direction, and basically said, "Don't sleep in the subway". A week or so later, the song came out! How could I not like it?
My list is of singles that resonated in the Summer of Love, from Spring, to Fall, 1967. A few didn't do well at all, but they'd loom large in the coming years.
Best of Summer of Love Singles
01 A T T H E Z OO Mar 18
Simon & Garfunkel
02 M Y B A C K P A G E S Apr 1
the Byrds
03 G R O O V I N ' Apr 22
the Young Rascals
04 R E S P E C T Apr 29
Aretha Franklin
05 C R E E Q U E A L L E Y Apr 29
the Mamas & the Papas
06 W I N D Y May 27
the Association
07 S O C I E T Y ' S C H I L D May 27
Janix Ian
08 S A N F R A N C I S C O ( W E A R S O M E F L O W E R S
I N Y O U R H A I R ) May 27
Scott McKenzie
09 T H E T R A C K S O F M Y T E A R S Jun 3
the Four Tops
10 U P , U P , A N D A W A Y Jun 3
the Fifth Dimension
11 L I G H T M Y F I R E Jun 3
the Doors
12 I W A S M A D E T O L O V E H E R Jun 10
Stevie Wonder
13 W H I T E R A B B I T Jun 24
Jeffereson Airplane
14 A W H I T E R S H A D E O F P A L E Jun 24
Procol Harum
15 P I C T U R E S O F L I L Y Jul 1
the Who
16 Y O U K E E P M E H A N G I N G O N Jul 8
Vanilla Fudge
17 T O L O V E S O M E B OD Y Jul 8
the Bee Gees
18 B R O W N - E Y E D G I R L Jul 8
Van Morrison
19 A L L Y O U N E E D I S L O V E Jul 22
the Beatles
20 W O R D S Jul 22
the Monkees
21 H E R O E S A N D V I L L A I N S Aug 5
the Beach Boys
22 N O T S O S W E E T M A R T H A L O R R A I N E Aug 6
Country Joe & the Fish
23 T H E R E I S A M O U N T A I N Aug12
Donovan
24 G E T T O G E T H E R Sep 2
the Youngbloods
25 P U R P L E H A Z E Sep 2
Jimi Hendrix Experience
26 P A P E R S U N Sep 2
Traffic
27 D A N D E L I O N Sep 9
the Rolling Stones
28 Y O U ' R E A V E R Y L O V E L Y W O M A N Sep 9
Merry-Go-Round
29 L E T I T O U T ( L E T I T A L L H A N G O U T ) Sep 16
the Hombres
30 P E O P L E A R E S T R A N G E Sep 23
the Doors
@@TheAnarchitek A stellar list and a great story. 😉
Happy Jack: we spent lots of fun family time trying to figure out that one line of Happy Jack. I think we finally concluded: "So they wrote on his head, in their fury: 'donkey'. " That reminds me: today I was puzzling over a line in the Donovan song, There is a Mountain. For it to make sense, it would be, "Look, upon my garden gate, a snail, that's what it is." But some times it sounds like he puts the word "the" in front, so it seems to become, "The lock upon my garden gate, a snail, that's what it is," Which makes no sense. I am going with the "Look..." version. The third time he says it, it sounds like "Look..."
The only song I can come up with is 'The Letter' by the Box Tops, released in August of 67. It did reach #1 so I'm not sure if the song qualifies as being unsung
The other thing is I haven't heard the song get played much anywhere anymore.
Great collection of songs, though. I love the song Dandelion. I had the album 'Through the Past, Darkly' when I was a very young lad.
Excellent! In my wheelhouse. The garage band I was in did both "Bluebird" and "Mr. Soul," "Happy Jack"--even "Harry Rag"! Speaking of double-sided great singles, have you done a video on "45's with great music on both sides"? Not necessarily double-A sides, but simply music you love on both sides. There are some obvious choices, but let your taste make the calls.
@@user-od4gz9bg4u I’ll keep it in mind 😉
Great list! I'd give you two thumbs up if I could.
Great selection Tom (especially Pet Clark!); here’s five of mine:
Night and Day (Sergio Mendes & Brasil ’66)... Here We Go Again (Ray Charles)... Epistle to Dippy (Donovan)... Bowling Green (Everly Brothers, their final top 40 hit)... Ha Ha Said the Clown (Yardbirds, but sounds like David Bowie a few years later)
@@user-ky6wp3qx4c Love Night and Day by Sergio. So good!
Get a 60's comp. You can't go wrong. I guess the stars aligned. Plenty of gorgeous pop.
Great episode! Fortunately, 1967 was the year I started buying 45 vinyl singles, and am familiar with just about all of the tracks you mention. There’s not a bad song in the bunch. I would probably add the psychedelic “Reflections,” by Diana Ross and the Supremes, the follow-up to “The Happening,” to this list. It’s one of my all-time fav tracks, and one of the first 45s I ever bought.
@@kso808 That is a great track. So many stellar singles from The Supremes.
Not so sure if I'd call "Reflections" unsung. It started getting airplay again when it was used as the theme song to the TV series China Beach. Unlike the other songs on this list, it still gets some airplay today on oldies stations.
Dave Davies’ is known for “Death of a Clown” (August ‘67) but the B side “Love me till the Sun Shines” is fantastic. The Young Rascals “A Girl Like You” also in August (57 years ago today) didn’t chart as high as the other two singles from “Groovin’” but the arrangement puts me in mind of what would late emerge in Blood, Sweat & Tears and Chicago, and its B side - “It’s Love” features amazing flute work by Hubert Laws. It’s also pretty amazing to think that “Then I Kissed her” and “Heroes and Villains” both came out that summer. I think each production is stellar.
I keep hearing from musicians who lived in LA during the 60's stating that the Real Summer of Love was in LA in 1966....they could be right...Maybe the Summer of Love caught up to SF a year later...So I say everyone is right...just depends...By the way. Loved your choices. Since I grew up back then, during that period, mostly all of the songs on the radio were great to listen to! When was the last time you couldn't wait to turn on the radio the next day to hear a brand new classic song....It's been a loooooooong time since that happened.
That’s for sure. 😉
Country Joe McDonald - Fixing to die rag?
Happy Jack was No. 1 in Germany.
Also forgot -in the Wee small hours of sixpence-Great
Indeed 😉
What about “Bus Stop.” Saw “The Happening,” at the drive-in in 68, thought it was great. Smoking Banana peels…
"Him or Me-What's it Gonna Be": Mr. Fetish, if you don't already own it, you should pick up a copy of the Raiders' album it came from, "Revolution." If you like that song, you should enjoy the whole album. Terry Melchor, producer, had a big part in this album. I good, rare pickup for you would be "The Best of Bruce and Terry" collection. Bruce is Bruce Johnston of the Beach Boys. Terry is Terry Melchor. They were also the Rip Chords, who I remember enjoying. If your band struggled with this song, it might be because of the strong harmony singing present in the whole album.
@@stevenkaminsky I have Revolution, but haven’t heard it in ages to be honest. I guess I need to give it another spin asap. 😉
How about when the opposite occurs. I was listening to my local AO radio station(hey, my dogs like Sinatra). On comes Rainy Day Women! ! I almost jumped out of my shoes! I wonder who got fired...
Terrific video! Great list!
Have you heard of, or own Simon and Garfunkel's Sounds Of Silence or Parsley Sage albums in mono? Super different from the stereo mixes and really fun to compare both back to back.
@@ConglomerationCat I only have the stereo version. It’s amazing the differences between some mono and stereo mixes on 60’s albums. The Who Sell Out is one example.
@@tomrobinson5776 Oh yeah, good one. Definitely some major differences with that one for sure
There is an interesting B+W film/video on UA-cam of the Hollies' doing "On a Carousel" in the studio.
@@EricSchultz-zs8hz Yes, just recently saw it. Really cool.
I wasn't around then, but here's a few: 23rd Turnoff, "Michael Angelo" (UK only); Erma Franklin "Piece of My Heart" (covered in '68 by Big Brother and the Holding Co.); Do b-sides count? If so, Captain Beefheart's Abba Zabba (after the peanut butter flavored taffy). And one that was a hit but you don't hear much, The Stone Poneys' version of Mike Nesmith's "Different Drum"
@@seed_drill7135 Different Drum is great and you’re right it’s seldom heard these days.
Favorite Simon and Garfunkel songs: Sounds of Silence, Hazy Shade of Winter, At the Zoo, Homeward Bound, I am a Rock, and Dangling Conversations. Sounds of Silence should be revered for all time, but I also have a great admiration for Dangling Conversations. Critics didn't like it. I think, sadly, they convinced Paul Simon to lose the initial pride he had in that composition.
Those are all great. America off Bookends is another fave of mine.
A Hollies song! Probably the best concert I ever attended was the Hollies when Graham Nash reunited with them for a reunion tour at the Front Row Theater in Cleveland, Ohio. The Hollies were always a great live band. But, by the time of the reunion, rock concert technology was greatly improved. And I saw some pretty famous bands in my day: To name a few: The Rolling Stones at the Akron Rubber Bowl (I think Stevie Wonder opened), Credence Clearwater Revivial at the Richfield Colosseum, the Kinks many times (once doing Preservation, probably second best ever concert), Zepellin maybe, Cat Stevens I think, a double feature with a new artist named James Taylor who got ignored because he opened for the Who, Chuck Berry, the Beach Boys many times (once, when their fame was just starting to decline, at John Carroll University). I even saw a very young Eric Carmen with a few of his soon-to-be Raspberries bandmates, doing covers of the Who and the Beatles' songs. By the way, Cleveland is celebration Eric Carmen. August 11, 2024 is to be Eric Carmen Day. His widow will receive the key to the city. A Raspberries tribute band will be playing in Lyndhurst, Ohio, his hometown, in a concert to raise money for charity.
@@stevenkaminsky You saw some stellar shows. That is so cool you were at The Kinks Preservation show. The earliest I saw The Kinks was the Sleepwalker tour in ‘77. Nice to hear about Eric Carmen getting a celebration in Cleveland.
Another terrific video! 😊😊😊😊😊
@@kingofallmediums2123 Thank you 😉
Four Tops Bernadette. My favorite song from them. Not sure how it charted.
Chris Wood 🪵 is the sax 🎷 player!
@@kingofallmediums2123 Of course. 😉
I really like or love all of those songs. Luckily, I do hear most of them on Sirius radio. Stills always hated the long version of Bluebird, that's why its not on the boxset (or any other CD). You can find even longer versions on youtube. In the UK We Love You was the A side, here we got Dandelion as the A side -- I like Dandelion better.
Petula Clark and the Kinks: maybe the greatest album for me would be a Petula Clark album with all her hits. My Petula hits albums either have too few of her hits or too many extra cover versions. That being said, Kinks Kronikles is probably the greatest album I own, if we are permitting greatest hits albums.
Excellent list -- can't find much to argue with. I never liked "Six O'Clock", but that's probably my problem, not something intrinsically defective. I don't know that Kinks A-side, but the B-side, "Harry Rag", was still getting some airplay on San Francisco FM four years later, as was the Traffic single. The cockney rhyming slang probably confused the heck out of most young listeners. I still hear "Happy Jack" when I stoop to listen to "classic rock" radio, so that may not be as unsung as you think. The picture sleeve looks like an early Ralph Steadman caricature. Did I hear a bit of dyslexia pop up in your try at pronouncing Cannonball Adderley's name? Tsk tsk. 😉
The piano player on the excellent "Mr. Pleasant" is Nicky Hopkins, which reached #2 in the Netherlands and #3 in Belgium, but was only released as a "B side" of "Autumn Almanac" in the UK.
The Who pic sleeve WAS done by Steadman.
@@simonagree4070 oooops! 😉
Chris Wood Brother.....
@@newspapertaxis1 Of course. Brain freeze on my part. 😉
@@tomrobinson5776 Yep! Been there done that...Freeze Frame!!!! Ha!