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- My 60s music journey was greatly aided by the many Rhino Records compilations that were released in the 1980s. Matt takes you on a brief overview of 20+ band featured on these excellent comps.
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It was their Super Hits Of The 70s series in the 90s that I loved the most, which generally focused on singles that, at the time, had not been available on CD. For 6 years they released 25 volumes and I immediately bought them as soon as they were released. They also had a Soul Hits Of The 70s series (20 volumes) around the same time that I would buy as well.
Another Great Rhino release!!! Also got all of these and now I see in used record stores (Amoeba) that they're now out of print.
Loved this video, Matt. By the mid 70's finding albums by bands like the Yardbirds, Beau Brummels, Love and others was extremely difficult, if not impossible, so when Rhino appeared in the 80's with their compilations, it truly seemed like a gift from the Heavens for a guy like me. Thank you for your dedication to this great music, my friend.
Matt, you're like a kid in a candy store! Such enthusiasm. I'm a big New Colony Six fan too. Gary Lewis also. The Troggs, does a name get any better? I love compilation cd's plus bonus tracks too. I have many of the cd's you do. #1 Matt!!
I highly recommend the 4-CD NUGGETS box set from Rhino. It has much of what you listed from the individual CDs and much more. My favorite release in any for or genre.
The Nuggets CD Box also has an excellent large 100 page booklet with extensive notes on bands and tracks. Best box set I own. Can't recall what I paid for it about 20 years ago, but I know it was expensive.
@@denpea-mm8zrthink I got mine late 90s, wasn't cheap but tremendous value, where as lots of CD's were 2 great chart tops and rest was filler, the Nuggets box was 90% relatable killer hits
I waited and waited and waited and was ready to castigate you for the oversight, then suddenly you mentioned The BEAU BRUMMELS! The two Beau Brummell albums were my introduction to Rhino, still some of my favs. You need to do these guys in a two part series sir🙂
I forgot to mention my From the Vaults by them!
@@popgoesthe60s52 Matt, any chance on a series about the Beau Brummels from you soon?
@@rogermanningjr452 Hey Roger, I will certainly cover the Beau Brummels though I don't know that it will be soon but stay tuned, because I will get there!
Rhino went above and beyond with The Monkees they released the whole Tv series on Blu ray and released super deluxe box sets of all there studio albums it’s quite amazing how much work they put into on all those box sets I have a few of them Sundazed Is another great label for all the obscure 60s band.
Rhino is a blessing to all listeners who want older records and don’t want to mortgage their homes!😘 they are phenomenal!! Matt you’re the best!! Great work!!
Thanks Cleve!
I loved the Monkees outtakes Rhino unearthed but it left me wondering a bit why they chose some of the songs they did on the later original Monkees albums. I look forward to the profile on The Monkees, I was someone who as a kid watched the reruns in the late 80's. I saw them on Much Music which was for many years Canada's answer to MTV and VH-1.
Yes, so many quality songs left off albums in favor of inferior tracks, in my opinion.
Back in the 1980s, many 1960s bands that weren't on major labels album catalogs became out of print. Rhino reissued those hard-to-find great albums such as the Turtles, the Nazz, Easybeats, the Monkees, as well as their own Nuggets & Dr. Demento series. What a fun and essential label for a teenage record collector like me back then. What a fun and nostalgic presentation!
Thank you, Dennis. I'm glad several viewers requested it - I never would have thought of it.
Another great video, Matt. After I graduated HS and got my first real job in '84, I'd hit the Crow's Nest record store and get at least one Rhino LP a month. The Best of the Music Machine album is excellent too. Around that same time, I'd flip through the store's giant catalog and special order a lot of the Bam Caruso compilation LPs from the UK. I enjoyed those even more because at the time, those obscure UK 45s were impossible to find in the US.
Have A Nice Day compilation is a great series detailing some the best songs of the seventies 😊😊😊😊
Alot of guilty pleasures on that 70's Have A Nice Day collection👍😅🤣😂
Matt, this video was amazing! Soooo many cool LPs I need to get after seeing your collection.
Matt, glad I discovered your channel. Like you, I'm a band history freak.
Welcome, Robert!
Yes Rhino is fantastic . I remember getting my first records from my very cool record shop "Timewarp" back in the late 80s.Monkees ,Nazz and others ,so cool.
Thanks for calling attention to Rhino.
I do want to mention their amazing series The History of British Rock, Volume 1-9, featuring music from 1962-1970. Fantastic sound & mastering, incredible selections, 20 tracks on each CD.
Somehow, they were able to license all of the great songs from the sixties (except for some of the big boys: no Who, no Stones, no Beatles except for the pre-mania German singles). Of course, each CD has an informative booklet and great pics.
The Rhino folks simply loved the music, as well as the IDEA of the music.
I'd be fascinated to hear you discuss David Bowie's absolute FAILURE of a career in the early sixties before Space Oddity changed his life, and most of those early singles were excellent (well, some were pretty cheesy!), and his 1967 album (released the same day as Sgt. Pepper - whoops) has some very good songs. His story to musicians is to NEVER give up.
It is clear the Rhino people did love music and understood exactly how to get it to us. As for Bowie, I think you are the first to suggest him but he would be a worthy topic. I love his 70s stuff.
Rhino and Sundazed were my favorite reissue labels. It's really hard to imagine that Rhino began as a little record store that put out a WILD MAN FISHER comeback album then were able to obtain the catalogs of both Atlantic and Elektra. Great video and collection.
Thank you George!
Matt, I share your enthusiam for Rhino.
Rhino has saved much wonderful music from being relegated to the dustbins of history.
I share your love of the Association. They were certainly not hip back in the day, but there is a quality and an elegance to their music that shines on
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Mark-Almond`s Greatest Hits is a godsend from Rhino. Jazz-Folk at it`s best, Jon Mark (vocals, guitar) Johnny Almond (sax, flute) this is a semi-forgotten group that had a unique, hip sound, great tunes, first-class musicians (Mark and Almond both played on the influential John Mayall album The Turning Point) and the result is exceptional.
God bless Rhino (if it ain`t out of keeping with the situation«)
Great one Matt. Love that Turtles Greatest Hits also!
Thank you for the great comment, Robert!
And, if memory serves, Jon Mark was the accompanist on the early acoustic marianne faithfull records.
@@wyliesmith4244 Absolutely right Wylie.
He was an enigmatic figure Mr. Mark.
At the time that Rhino released the Mark-Almond compilation - which I highly recommend - his whereabouts were unknown and he was even rumoured to have died.
Actually, he had moved to New Zealand, and begun creating some fantastic ambient music. His recordings are very beautiful, very Zen..
He even won a Grammy Award with his wife Thelma Burchell for their recordings of Tibetan monk chants.
A superior musician who never stopped seeking his next sound. A spiritual seeker.
His album The Standing Stones of Callanish is peace and tranquility incarnate.
Armed with a well worn copy of Rolling Stones Record guide from about 1978, I set about looking for all these bands in the mid 80's and finding these Rhino reissues and comps was a god send for me as I always like to dig deep into something. Thanks for reminding many of us that there was some great music produced by these lesser but no less passionate artists. The ones long forgotten that time has past by.
Regarding the Monkees: 1. Both Missing Links and the Listen To The Band set have one of my two favorite Monkees songs of all time, Nine Times Blue. When I first heard it, I thought it was just a standard country song, but then something about it stuck with me. My other favorite is also one of yours, Porpoise Song. I count it as one of my top-10 psychedelic songs, along with the song I mentioned in my other post, the Turtles' To See the Sun. 2. I interviewed Micky Dolenz once, and I remarked to him, thanks to Rhino and Andrew Sandoval, the Monkees' legacy was getting better treatment than the Beatles in terms of deep dives into their archives. Of course, that changed with the later Beatles Super Deluxe boxes.
So true that the Monkees legacy on Rhino got better treatment than The Beatles.
Played the heck out of that Left Banke album.
My very first concert was on late January 1967 with the Monkees in Phoenix, they also filmed it for a episode of the Monkees show called Monkees on Tour. Can't wait for your deep dive on the Monkees.🤞🏻
I bought Nuggetts 2 randomly when I was 13. it was just after my mother died and discovering this music, looking back, saved my soul just when i needed it. Nuggetts 1 and 2., best of the Music Machine also. In the eighties. Edsel put out some great stuff. I loved See For Miles with all their UK stuff. British Psych Trip Vol2 was one i bought randomly at the same time as Nuggetts 2. Family's Music from a Doll's House. i recently bought their Zombies coolection of A and B sides, thanks to your video I discovered how much i like this group, every song is fantastic. I missed them for over 30 years until I watched their Pop goes the 60's bio! Thanks Matt. i wish that I could I could show my appreciation by sending you some money but I don't have much myself and I am already supporting a couple of good friends who have big financial problems at the moment. I can tell you do this principally through a love of this music, one of the reasons that your content is so good. Love from France!
I completely agree, sounds like we travelled the same musical journey. I had an older brother that bought records as we were teens in the eighties. I remember when picked up Nuggets Vol 1, the Hits. I disregarded the liner notes and thought they were all current bands. My mind was blown away! I'd watch MTV in hopes they would play the Seeds or Electric Prunes, it's funny now to think about it, but true. Eventually I started buying records, and those Rhino comps were my first purchases. Best of the Yardbirds, Beau Brummels, Bobby Fuller, Love, y'know. They were priced fairly, the liners where top notch and I felt I always got the best for the buck. Then of course I started buying comps from Charly and the others you mentioned, plus the Eva label from France was really good!
@@andrewrasmussen4109 great story Andrew, hope you/re still enjoying them. Of course Eva has some excellent releases.
What a fantastic video have a wonderful weekend Matt ❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊
Rhino RULES! My first was THE BEST OF THE BOBBY FULLER FOUR as a Senior in H.S. [1982]... I was hooked from then on... I found an Old catalog the other day and MAN did that take me back to the '80s!! GREAT stuff!
Rhino might be the reason we can still hear these artists today.
If it weren't for Rhino I probably would have never heard The 2 last Monkees albums. Present and Changes. The originals were selling for big bucks at the time.
Speaking of the Otis Redding Greatest Hits album, probably one of the first hip-hop/rap tracks was his duet “Tramp.” if it was released in the early 80s people would think it was a hip-hop track.
What a great episode. Rhino was a real godsend at a time when it looked like so much of the sixties would be lost or else put out cheaply on K-Tel. Rhino began as a record store in West Hollywood, then the music heads who owned it decided to not only put out records, but give them superb engineering and excellent liner notes with rare pictures. That was really important, because in the 60s no one knew much about these performers, often not even what they looked like because it was a radio world. A city had one or two Top 40 stations and TV appearances were rare. Album notes were all fluff written by promo men and unlike Britain, we had no serious rock press until 1968 or '69. Warner Brothers bought Rhino in 1992. Some fans said the sound quality slipped but I don't hear it. Their true successor was Bob Irwin's Sundazed Records and there are currently some great British labels making super high quality CDs of 60s material. How I'd love to comment on all these groups... Do cover groups like Gary Lewis & the Playboys, Herman's Hermits, etc. Many "less than hip" performers are skipped and this distorts the music history, which becomes a history of what was hip instead of a true picture of the times. If you ever do the New Colony Six I hope you include heir biggest Chicago competitors, the Cryan' Shames, a sorely undervalued band.
Hope Matt also shows us his K-Tel collection 👍😂
Great video Matt...can"t wait for your Monkees retrospective!
There are some really EXCELLENT tracks on The Monkees Missing Links series. Mostly the Nesmith compositions
Boy, you really triggered the old man memory with these…I have days of YT catch-up ahead of me. Great as always, Matt…thanks!
Good topic about Rhino records! Back in the 80’s they were a good label!! Have a good one Matt!
Great presentation Matt of your Rhino record collection👍As a teenager growing up in 80's and getting heavily into 60's music, Rhino was a Godsend, if it wasnt for Rhino many of us would have never heard many of these bands.for example all the music I ever had from The Monkees where recorded on Sony cassette tapes from my uncle's record collection, so as soon as I discovered The Monkees being released on Rhino I got ALL of their albums!!! So along with the Monkees this led me into other 60's bands such as Love- The Best Of Love (1986) Blue Cheer-Louder Than God, The Turtles, The Left Banke, The Blues Magoos, The Choclate Watch Band, and of course the Grand Daddy of them all- The Nuggets Albums-and I bought everything I could get my hands on!!! And so began the many Pilgrimages from the suburbs to Tower Records in San Francisco on Columbus and Bay, and Rasputin Records on Telegraph in Berkeley where I would hunt down All these albums. It was a Great time to be a teenager discovering all this music. The last thing I bought from Rhino were The Nuggets Box Set (on CD) Orginal Artyfacts From The Psychedelic Era 1965-1968, Artyfacts From The British Empire And Beyond, Los Angeles Nuggets- Where The Action Is, San Francisco Nuggets-Love Is The Song We Are Singing -All Great Box sets !!!👍
The book "The Rhino Records Story - Revenge Of The Music Nerds" by Harold Bronson is well worth reading. And its not just for nerds! Used to love getting Rhino's catalogue every month when it was independent. Not been the same since Warner got its hands on it.
I didn't know about that book! Thanks for mentioning it.
I have the Monkees CD box set as well as their reunion album by Rhino "Justus". And besides the Otis Redding CD I have ones by Vanilla Fudge, The Rascals, Sam & Dave, Curtis Mayfield and Ray Charles.
Many of their box sets are out of print including "The Monterey International Pop Festival". I have the "Nuggets", "Nuggets II", "Children of Nuggets" and "The Brit Box", all great anthologies.
My favorite is "Can You Dig It? The '70s Soul Experience" which is 6 discs of classic r&b/soul from the '70s. The last 2 discs start leaning toward the disco trend to come.
I'll have to check out that Can You Dig it? I am 70s fan as well.
Great video, excellent collection, Matt. Lots of those lps I wasn't familiar with. Have to start looking for them. Thanks for another excellent video.
Those reissues of The Rascals totally got me into that band to this day.😊
Great video as usual Matt. I sometimes think music was more fun before the Internet. There was a real excitement in getting some "rare" record and having friends over to listen. I was lucky to grow up not far from Princeton Record Exchange in Princeton NJ which was an awesome shop. I remember being fascinated at the import section in the late 80s and looking at the original UK Parlophone Beatles albums, and how exotic and bizarre they seemed. I was also lucky my best friend's dad had been a DJ for Armed Forces radio and apparently stole every record the US military ever purchased lol. His entire basement was like a record store, tons of country and early rock n roll.
Agreed. It was a real risk to spend money on an unknown group; one you could sample before buying! Ah... simpler times. 🙂
The lead singer of the outsiders, Sonny Geraci later formed the band climax and had the huge hit in 1972, “precious and few.”
Great video! I bought a bunch of those great Rhino LPs back in the 80s, too! I've got all the Turtles LPs that you showed, and some of the Monkees, Easybeats, Standells, Troggs, Beau Brummels, Nuggets Series, and some of their CDs, too. I ordered most of the Rhino LPS through their mail order catalog back then. I remember searching for Tommy James & The Shondells at used record shops and discovered he did some solo LPs, too.
Left Bank! I bought the LP of Montage, the follow up to the Left Banke, also. I recognise a lot of these lp's.
Love Rhino. Lots of good ones! thanks Matt
I have always loved the Rhino collections. My introduction was with Dr.Demento and later the Monkees. I got the picture disc along with their whole collection which was released in 86 when they had the reunion. I have mostly CDs including the Monkees handmade, the Nuggets box sets and the Have a Nice Day 70s collections. They also put out the Billboard decades CDs. Great stuff…looking forward to a Monkees video someday.
Thanks for sharing Matt!
Thank you, Bill!
Hi Matt. Thank you for your trip into your Rhino collection. I purchased many Rhino LPs/CDs from that period as well, and enjoyed traveling back with you. I always thought Rhino as a top notch label. They always provided great liner notes, hard to find rare tracks and alternate mixes, etc. They also seemed to use rare band pictures for their covers, which really caught my attention in the shops. In looking back, I think the Bobby Fuller Four release was my most favorite. I only knew "I Fought The Law" and found the rare instance where I loved every other song on that comp. I suggest a possible episode of them, though you have no shortage of future topics. Excellent show as always. Thanks. :- )
I should get that Bobby Fuller Four comp! That's one I don't have.
Great collection Matt. Nothing like kicking back and dropping the needle on classic vinyl. I believe Rhino may have started out doing some Beatles bootlegs here on the east coast. I have a couple of live LPs with an older Rhino label (growling face with horns) from the late 70’s. Always love seeing what others have in their collection. Thanks!
I had a few Rhino's too. You really did get a great collection.
Very enjoyable video. I'm a life-long 60's fan and I had never heard of four of the groups (non-Nuggets bands) you covered.
Terrific collection, Matt! I know all of these bands, and I even had some of their albums back in the 60s, or at the very least I was familiar with their songs (having heard them on the radio). Like you, I was a big fan of the baroque-pop sound of Merry-Go-Round. Also, I'm glad you mentioned the Chocolate Watchband (whose track "Are you gonna be there (at the love-in)?" is one of the great garage band tracks of the 60s, IMO). Finally, I was shocked when you referred to the Standells as an L.A. band. I was familiar with their hit, "Dirty Water", which I had played in a garage band back in the day. The song specifically mentions Boston in the lyrics, and so I had always assumed they were a Boston band. However, the Standells didn't actually write the song. I grew up in Boston, and I was well-aware of all the 60s Boston bands -- The Remains, The Barbarians, Beacon Street Union, Ultimate Spinach, Arlo Guthrie, Earth Opera, etc. Now I can cross the Standells off the list! LOL
I may do a Standells history some day. Thanks for the comments!
Hi Matt. Really, really great video on a super important label. i, like you, got my first introduction to 60s bands through Rhino albums and comps. They were/are a great musical and informational goldmine for that era. Looking forward to the bands you'll pick to cover from this video. Great job!!
Great show. Excellent collection I think the name you could not recall was Brian Hyland.
Thanks for reviewing your Rhino collection. MY Rhino collection is mostly CDs because I was buying mostly CDs by the mid-1980s. So I was interested in what Rhino was producing. If I remember correctly, a LOT of the releases were happening during the times of the many oldies Rock & Roll tours. Good times for old folks like me who grew up with that music, got to see many artists later on, and even update the music collection. Another good show.
The Rhino label has a special place in my heart. I heard all the Ritchie Valens discography via the Rhino/Delphi release in the 80s. Also their reissues of 60s band compilations were always being advertised on tv when these bands were touring in the 80s and 90s. Rhino has always been a label for the true fans.
Nice collection you have Matt, brings back some good memories of my own record hunts back in the 70s. My late BIL had a real treasure trove of CD compilations by Time-Life and Rhino for 60s thru 80s music. You are planning a profile of the Monkees is that correct? That will be a tough one IMO since the band has been so extensively documented. Also the issue of the band's success and popularity being derived from chart hits written outside the group, I don't remember the band's own music having much impact at the time. Cheers!
Rhino used to have a record store on Westwood Blvd. in Los Angeles where back in the 80's, this was one of my main sources for seeking out out-of-print 60's albums and recent releases of compilations of 60's artists (e.g. See for Miles, Edsel/Demon), primarily UK bands. But my introduction to 60's music was listening to oldies radio in Los Angeles on both AM and FM radio in the late 70s and early 80's. This was where I first heard for example, the Merry Go Round (Live), Sopwith Camel (Hello Hello), New Colony Six (Things I'd Like to Say), Sunshine Company (Back on the Street Again), Danny Hutton (Roses and Rainbows), etc. Was there an oldies radio station in your locality where you could have at least heard the greatest hit (or two) from these artists first?
The Love greatest hits album (where they're posing in the desert) was the earliest Rhino compilation I ever saw in the shops in the early 80's, along with the Love Live picture disc. But the Forever Changes album was still in print back then, along with the Love Revisited hits collection (both on Elektra). I personally never bought any of the Rhino compilations on vinyl back in the 80's, was never really interested in them (would have rather looked for the original 60s issues). Only much later did I pick up the Rhino reissues/compilations - the Monkees' Missing Links collections and the original albums on CDs, since they contained bonus tracks. I already had the original LPs on Colgems from their first to the "Birds and the Bees". The collection of early David Bowie/David Jones 45s and outtakes from pre-1967 is one of my favorite non-Monkee Rhino releases.
Pretty sure you can do a monumental presentation of Iron Butterfly...Enjoyed your Rhino video quite a lot!
The Turtles "You Don't Stand An Outside Chance" is a killer track that was harder to find before the internet.
Very interesting subject, nice to be reminded of some of those forgotten artists. Good to see you feature the band Love quite often. Bought the first 3 albums as they were released in the 60s and loved them all, except maybe side 2 of Da Capo. Thanks
Matt, please do a feature on Gary Lewis & The Playboys. FYI, guitarist Tom Tripplehorn had a daughter who would become a famous Hollywood actress.
Hey Tom, they are on my very long list, so stay tuned!
Hey Matt As always outstanding show and have enjoyed every show.Has there ever been any thought of doing a Doors band history.On behalf of every 60’s fan out there Matt a sincere Thank You and take care.
Yes, I will certainly do the Doors. I have a couple other 'big ones' to do first. It's a very long list 🙂
Great video again Matt, nice to hear you mention some groups I listened to in the 60's. As a teenager then with only AM radio when you purchased an album you played each side completely while reading the liner notes. I made a few purchases which have withstood the test of time and still enjoy listening to, the first albums by the Merry-Go-Round, The Left Banke and Moby Grape are still some of my favorites. Moby Grape 69, my second favorite Grape album should have been the follow up to their initial release, it has some tunes on it. Hope you do a history of Grape someday - their manager and recording company did them in - besides drugs on Skip Spence.
You can expect a Mobe Grape video this year, so stay tuned!
very interesting - nice presentation style - good audio quality
I bought quite alot of Rhino Records CD's many years ago. Super Hits of the 70's (Have A Nice Day), Billboard Top Pop Hits, Soul Hits of the '70's. And who can not forget the "Golden Throats" series where celebrities sang or spoke pop hits, like William Shatner's "Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds". Leonard Nimoy's rendition of "Proud Mary", Jim Nabors doing "You Are The Sunshine of My Life"?? And as an encore?? "Mr. Tambourine Man" by William Shatner and Leonard Nimoy's "If I Had A Hammer". Guaranteed to clear out any leftover stragglers from that party you finished up a couple of hours ago.
Excellent job Matt, love your channel and topics. I recall Rhino also got into releasing albums by (then) current artists. I bought the Beat Farmers first record on Rhino, which came with a booklet made from the band themselves, pretty hilarious. As I recall, there were a few releases Rhino did with a booklet inside, there was a cool one inside one of the Bobby Fuller comps. I also enjoyed just going over the plastic Rhino inner sleeve, looking at all the other artists and comps. Beau Brummels, Left Banke, the Nazz and so many others. I got to give credit to Rhino for doing a great job of reissuing the Monkees catalog. I think it gave a newer generation and others a chance to reassess their music. The Monkees might have been looked at as square or bubblegum, but I think time as shown they were a great band, and Rhino did a fantastic job of showing that...
Thanks for the comment, Andrew!
Just some observations, as I had tons of Rhinos back in the day (still have CDs). Standells: one listen to full-length "Rari" will make you a fan. Troggs: would love to see a dive into this band (a favorite of mine). Outsiders: Sonny Geraci was a class performer up to the end, lots of internal strife within the band, loads of LPs put out, not terribly polished, but I loved them (had them all). Cryan' Shames: best Chicago based band ever (and I'm not a Chicagoan). I could go on about them, but one listen to "A Scratch in the Sky" LP will make you a believer. This is a neat collection, and a cool overview. FWIW - what I'd like to see: Troggs, Spanky, NC6, Vogues. Keep 'em coming! Great stuff.
I remember that Cryin Shames comp but I never picked it up. A very good band for sure!
I love rhino records and any expensive box that they are really amazing. One of my favorite rhino records is a really great box set it’s a three box set series but I only have the two of them and ask do you want that’s the simple title of the first one and then do you want to. I love the doo-wop box set the first one because it has all the essential tracks like why do fools fall in love by Frankie Lymon and the teenagers one Summer night by the Dan layers and it even has Randy and the rainbows Denise along with so many great classic songs. I think they’re still doing box sets and CD compilations another box set that I was able to get called song book by Gordon Lightfoot
Really enjoyed this video. I am of the age where I remember going to the mall and finding these albums at a great price. Thanks for sharing your collection.
Yes, thank you for this video! Rhino releases made it possible for me to finally have Monkee songs beyond the Arista hits packages. The CDs they put out in the 90s of their albums were lovingly packaged. Best looking CDs/cases I owned at the time! The Missing Links series was what I wished the Beatles Anthologies would've been, so many gems! Then the Monkees got me into other 60s bands and I kept finding them on Rhino too! If only the company was what it used to be.
Wild Thing and Love is All Around were great songs with the feeling of 66 & 67 respectively.
Yeah, when you bought a RHINO cd in the 90’s you got an extensive brochure of their amazing catalog. How exciting it was to see many of the groups that I grew up listening to on my A.M. radio being treated as serious artists who deserved to be heard again…🎸
Have the Super Hits packs-loved this-thanks, Matt!
The sound quality of Rhino is impeccable.
The Troggs also were infamous, completely infamous for a 1970 recorded argument they had, the infamous “sprinkle fairy dust on it” profanity laden rant, packaged as the Troggs tapes.
Yes, I do have the Troggs Tapes. Classic stuff.
The fact that everything in the era had to be released on PHYSICAL MEDIA is a great thing since there is evidence for posterity that the music was made and existed. Think about all the music mostly just STREAMED which will disappear into the ether made these days ! Of course the ether of disposable crap is where a lot of it should go! The music you have there is worth listening to and I remember a lot of it 😀
Well said!
J&R Music world in New York City was heaven as record store 🏬
The Turtles' pedecessor incarnation as The Crossfires were dedicated a compilation on Rhino as well. Which is is fun surf and hot rod. Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman on sax and vocals.
Turtles Greatest hits is one of my favorites. Apparently I listened to the original release since I listened to it in 1969
The Turtles had a major tiff with their record label (White Whale), but Volman and Kaylan acquired the rights to their catalog in the early 70s. As a result of actually owning their own records they were able to license their music to Rhino. But one compilation that I always loved was their first venture into licensing" "Happy Together Again." It was a 29 track double album on Sire issued in '74. I did/do love that band. And I love that Matt spent a lot of time waxing rhapsodic about Rhino.
@@wyliesmith4244 Thanks for additional info
I think Rhino's first release was, from when they were a record store, when they hired Wild Man Fischer to record a promotional song for the store.
Matt, A totally enjoyable video. And based on the comments, I am hardly the only one to think so. I think that you really touched on the personal experience of finding the vinyl, later CDs, of bands that are more or less forgotten. Music does not need to be famous to be enjoyable. A tour through your collection of See for Miles or Edsel or other British reissues (Big Beat covers the Chocolate Watchband and SF scene well) would be entertaining. But Sundazed, being an American company run by a fan of garage and surf might be more appropriate. But you always amke videos of choice, quality stuff! Mant thanks!
I do have plenty of the record companies you named. That may be a good future topic.
Rhino (and Sundazed) have played a big role in the gaping holes in my bank account over the years. God bless 'em.
Hi from New Zealand. Im in my sixties, and remember groups and singers of that time. Left Bankes song Walk away Renee was also recorded by the Four Tops in 1968. Also the song Brother Louie was done by the British band Hot Chocolate in 1973. Rhino put out excellent compilations. Very good records you have there.
I had the Nazz compilation. Nice!
Remember The Lyres doing 'I confess' from New Colony Six in the early 80's? Heavy version ✌️
An excellent video. How about an episode on The Royal Guardsmen?
As a child of the sixties I have a bit of shame about the large gaps of my knowledge in this music beyond the hits.Then I listened to Rhino's Nuggets cd box set in 1998. After this my listening habits changed. I lost interest in a lot of the prog and fusion I was listening to and became obsessed with garage , psych and freak beat. I also regularly listened to Little Steven's Underground Garage. It would be good if along with band histories , you could have guests like Steven Van Zandt , Lenny Kaye and others to give an overview of this genre. I know you've got a lot on your plate , but OVERVIEW doesn't mean band histories for garage bands. Anyway thanks and keep up the good work. 👍👍
Thank you, David - very good suggestions.
Great video Matt.Love the 60's since I was a teenager back in the day.I believe the drummer for the Standells was a mouskateer.
Great job as always.....our taste's are pretty close...I too bought a lot of the Rhino's releases.
Love your channel & wat u did on the Cowsills !!!! U really need 2 a video on Rick Nelson’s discography …. Osmonds discography & Bay City Rollers / The Rollers discography….
This was fun, ty for sharing (hope to see more of your collection)! I recently picked up a few releases from Rhino's High Fidelity series; Cars (self titled & candy-o), Television, and Grateful Dead, Doobies, Van Morrison...have a few and they sound incredible. I too appreciate Rhino! (Will you be covering the Disney+ release of Let It Be? )
I will touch upon the rerelease of Let it be next week. Thanks for the request.
So cool, Matt! I remember the 60s revival in the 80's, as I was all in on it, having first gotten into punk and new wave a few years earlier. Loved the Nuggets series! You mentioned the Strawberry Alarm Clock. Coincidentally, I've been working on some musical collabs with guitarist Steve Bartek who was a member of the band (and probably most well known for his guitar playing in Oingo Boingo). If you ever do something on the Alarm Clock, I could probably get you in touch with Steve.
Thank you for that. I hope to do the SAC soon!
Thank you for showing this, Matt 👍
Very informative. I would've sworn The Standells were from Boston, given all the references on "Dirty Water."
You mentioned The Box Tops, but not Alex Chilton?! The rock-snobs are gonna get you for that! I'm assuming you were pressed for time, so I'll let it slide. 😻✌P.S. A Gary Lewis & Co. vid would be interesting. That's when I first learned about session musicians, and the first time I heard about Leon Russell. ("This Diamond Ring")
Chilton is loved by many a hipster... yeah, I was doing it off the cuff. I would like to do the Boxtops some day.
This was fun. Just going through the record collection generates topics of interest. If you are looking for a topic, I have a suggestion: The difference between American and British sound in the 60s. On your episode about the Small Faces, you said one reason they did not sell well in the US was they sounded very British. I'm not what that means yet. The Yesterday's Papers channel has reactions from artists at the time to songs. One thing that is heard occasionally something like: "definitely British" or "definitely American". This intrigues me. Thanks!
That's a very good idea. I may focus on that topic - thank you!
@@popgoesthe60s52 The source for Yesterday's Papers is a London newspaper in the 60s. An artist (American or British) would be played songs without telling them anything about it. The reactions were then in the paper. These were ambiguous songs to the listener for the most part. Obviously, Beatles, Supremes, or the Beach Boys would be recognized right away. There seem to be a lot of these, but I have not listened to that many. I've heard Stevie Wonder and John Lennon among others.
Mentioning the Searchers. The Beatles were the first British Invasion band make the Billboard 100 singles, Dave Clark 5 was 2nd and The Searchers were tied for 3rd with.............The Swinging Blue Jeans.
Didn't know that - thank you.
Both Rhino & Greg Shaw's label BOMP! re-released some real 60's gems.
Rhino was as an awesome reissue company back in the day, when Warner bought them they went downhill after that.
I had a few Rhino labels in my collection back in the day. But mostly I remember the Pickwick Label . I used to collect Elvis right after he passed and alot of re-releases of his were pickwick .
Maybe you have other artists who's albums had releases on pickwick ? If so, I'd love to see a video. This was very interesting , thanks Matt.
I had a kind of cheesy Beach Boys comp on Pickwick. I think this was when Brian's Dad sold their catalog without their knowledge.
Great video I loved the rhino releases / did they do the Hip o select stuff
I believe the first massively successful compilation by rhino record was actually the 20 greatest hits of The Turtles. I was able to get that signed by Mark Vollman and Howard and I’m gonna be sending a cover so Jim Pons in Florida can sign it too
Hi Matt:
I also relied on Rhino to really beef up my oldies collection! I have the Standells Rarities album too, great album! The Best of The Standells (the one in the predominantly pink cover) was one of my first Rhino purchases. Later I replaced that with the Best of Standells that you displayed in your video. However, I bought the CD. I gave my younger brother the Best of that I had bought on vinyl.
I also have Nazz Nazz, but mine is an original on black vinyl. For a while it seemed that the red vinyl versions were more common, but the last time I was on Discogs it seemed like there might have been more black versions.
I really like the Left Banke, but I never bought the Rhino comp, but I did eventually buy the "There's Gonna Be a Storm" CD comp.
I first heard The Merry-Go-Round on one of Rhino's Nuggets comps (You're a Very Lovely Woman). Eventually I was able to snag a promo copy of "Live"/"Time Will Show the Wiser."
I also have the Byrds' In the Beginning on vinyl. Same with Best of The Chocolate Watchband, which I really like! Also have the Turtles Greatest Hits, but mine is on CD. I also have the "Missing Links" album on vinyl, which I think is really, really good! I have Best of The Troggs on vinyl also. Best of Love was my first Rhino purchase! "Forever Changes" was perpetually in print. I have the "Crimson & Clover"/"Cellophane Symphony" CD too. I really like it. I have "Crimson & Clover" on vinyl, but I wanted "Cellophane Symphony" so I bought this CD. As far as Nuggets albums, I have Vol. 1: The Hits, Vol. 2: Punk (my personal favorite of the series), Vol. 3: Pop, Vol. 5: Pop Part III, Vol. 6: Punk Part II, Vol. 7: Early San Francisco, Vol. 11: Pop Part Four, and Vol. 12: Punk Part three.
When they released their Nuggets 4-disc box set, I loved it so much that I typed a letter (no computer yet) to Gary Stewart praising the set, and Rhino, on every level. He responded with a very nice letter explaining that he had put his heart and soul into that project, and to receive that level of praise was extremely gratifying. He went on to say that he felt that they never got it quite right on the twelve volume Nuggets album series. Personally, I think it's a splendid series!
Some of the other Rhino albums I have are some of the Billboard series; The History of Rock Instrumentals: Volumes 1 and 2; The Summer of Love 2 LP set; Introducing The Beau Brummels, The Larry page Orchestra - "Kinky Music" (picture disc); Frat Rock 4 LP box set; The Monkee's first album; More of The Monkees; Headquarters; The Birds, the Bees and The Monkees, and many, many more! I absolutely love this video!! It's really fun to see and be able to compare each other's collections! Thanks so much for sharing Matt!!!
My pleasure, Nathan. I forgot about my 2 Beau Brummels albums From the Vaults and Introducing. Too many!
I really enjoy this type of content, and have checked out all your videos. Bravo! I request a review of the music of Donovan Leitch. I consider Donovan as one of the unsung heroes of psychedelic music. Thanks
I love Donovan and will most certainly be covering his work, so stay tuned!
A great valued collection Matt.Not everybody have this collection.I do have the whole "Nuggets" collection released in the early 80's by Rhino.
I should've tried to complete all the Nuggets comps, I still may do that.
@@popgoesthe60s52 👍You will.