The Buckinghams - Kind Of A Drag - 45 RPM ORIGINAL MONO MIX
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- Опубліковано 23 сер 2024
- The ORIGINAL Mono mix!
No added horns or anything else!
Original USA Records #860
Debut 12/31/1966 and peaked at #1 for TWO weeks on the Billboard Hot 100 Chart.
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Huuuge hit, winter of 67. I was 9 years old and my older sister played this 45 day and night. Great song, great memories.
Even the record player brings back great memories. Its just great seeing it turn. Kinda of a
drag is a song that stays with you.
This song is the Buckinghams' best ever! I especially enjoy that organ solo in the middle of the record! Outasight!
WOW...WHAT MEMORIES,REMEMBER BUYING THE 45📀
R.I.P. Marty Grebb, the Buckinghams keyboardist from 1966-1968. Passed away on January 1, 2020 at age 74.
Its January 1st, 2020 he died
# 1 in early 1967-A certifiable classic!
I was only in fourth grade when this song first came out. Fifty years later, it still sounds great!!!
On this day in 1967 {May 27th} the Buckinghams perform "Kind of a Drag" and "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" on the late Dick Clark's American Bandstand...
Five months earlier on December 31st, 1966 "Kind of a Drag" entered Billboard's Hot Top 100; and on February 18th it peaked at #1 {for 2 weeks} and spent 13 week in the Top 100...
And three weeks later on June 17th "Mercy, Mercy, Mercy" entered the Top 100, eventually it reached #5 and stayed 12 weeks in the Top 100...
R.I.P. Mr. Clark...
My favorite song by The Buckinghams!!It still is today! EXCELLENT sound quality! Thanks for the Upload. R.K.
For those wondering, the musicians are lead vocalist Dennis Tufano, lead guitarist Carl Giammarese, bassist Nick Fortune, drummer Jon Poulos, and organist Dennis Miccolis.
That's Nick Fortuna.... His father worked for many years at our school in one of Chicago's suburbs and got the entire band to autograph my "Kind Of A Drag" mono album on USA Records... I still have it .... "Kind Of A Drag" on the album is the same mix (with the brass way down in the mix at the break) as the first single version.
Who'd have thought an organ and trumpets (real or synthesized) would complement this song so beautifully? Huge part of what makes this tune so enormously popular down through the decades.
I used to listen to this song over and over as a kid; loved it when the oldies station in St. Louis would play it, which they did often. Thanks for posting!
1:50 ... just wow!!
Those wonderful Chicago guys singing from my hometown!
Thank you so much for sharing this excellent vinyl....
Listening to this on the headphones of my iPod and then listening to it through my computer's speakers is a night and day difference. You can hear so much more sound and instruments through speakers than headphones can ever hope to create. I feel so bad for all those kids who are listening to their music through their tiny condensed headphones and their Beats and think that they are listening to it the way it should be heard. Music is a living organism: it needs space to breathe!
This is exactly how it sounded on the radio , I was there !!!! Great record !!!!! Thanks for posting !!
+Suze Rainer: I can't quite say that. I was only three years old when this record came out! HA!
The first song I remember hearing on the radio from my youth was Simon & Garfunkel's "Mrs. Robinson." I was about 6 or 7 then. I don't remember when that song was released, but it was 1969 or 1970 when I first heard it. It is still a favorite of mine.
Yummy! This song had just knocked the Monkees' "I'm a Believer", number one for the first seven weeks of 1967, out of the top. Sunday, 19 February 1967 is the most important date in my childhood, so I play this song every 19 February.
your first beej?
I had that exact same 45 when it first came out and kept it all these years until I lost it several years ago. I remember that label. I saw the Buckinghams perform this song live at a super cool concert that included the Buckinghams, the Turtles, Gary Puckett and the Union Gap, Herman's Hermits, and Tommy James and the Shondells. It was at the Concord Pavillion in Concord, California. The place is built on the same design as the Hollywood Bowl so it has awesome sound.
Man, this is WAY too cool. Thanks for putting all this together!
wow,, brings back some memories.. My mother had this and I used to listen to this on her player.. thanks..
Close to my all time top 100, if not at that.
" GREAT SONG !!! great memories !!!
This song went No.1 back in the summer of 1967.
I first heard this in the Fall of 1966, on WNDR Syracuse.
Wow! I wish that I had that sterio and amazing record collection! Thank you for sharing friend! God bless you...
Great one. There were at least two mixes of the U.S.A. single, and a few label variants too, like the blue/white as opposed to the usual red/white/blue. One mix has the horns at the break mixed up slightly (though not as loud as the released stereo versions, which are downright distracting), while the better known mono mix pretty much had the horns mixed out (or way down in volume). This is a classic example of a '60s mono 'hot mix' that boosts the upper mids at the expensive of bass, probably to make certain the sound would carry through AM radio noise and static. In this case, it got it to #1!
Another great oldie for us to enjoy on UA-cam. Thanks for the memories!
An awesome tune!
The horns are there at 2:00. Listen with headphones and turn up the volume, you can hear them faintly. The horns sound like they are phase cancelled on the mono 45. This mono 45 still rules!!
I remember it well...
I love this song! Thanks for sharing this vinyl treasure.\m/
I STILL LOVE IT! THANKS FOR SHARING! R.K. 3/19/2021.
The magnificent highly compressed, speeded-up original USA Records single, which made the later Columbia releases sound dull in comparison. So much energy on this perfect for top 40 radio mix, with the powerful lead of Dennis Tufano jumping out of the speakers, and the middle instrumental cranking up the organ and muffling the horn section, which was sort of a novelty for a R&R record back in 1966, and later emphasized by Columbia producer James William Guercio on their later recordings, as well as with Blood Sweat & Tears and Chicago.
1967 summer of love music flashback
Damn, nice collection of picture sleeves.
Wow, sounds much better than the remastered versions on music services. Wish they'd stop remastering classic groups like the Byrds, Rolling Stones, etc. Original mixes were perfect, they always filter out key elements during remastering. Do all modern sound engineers have tin ears?.
I totally agree. The sound on the CDs is condensed, taking the fullness, depth and soul out of the song. VINYL RULES!!
Sound mixing is a lost art. The current crowd thinks you turn everything up to 11, and the result sounds like garbage.
Roland? Excellent points. “Tin Ears” is a great description. My Dad was an Sound Engineer. Today’s work would nauseate him. Otherwise very tight sounding band.
This is the way I remember the song back in 1967, as played by WNOR-AM 123 and WGH-AM 131 in the Tidewater area of Virginia! No flourishes or anything like that! Just pure and simple music!
Funny how the single Kind Of A Drag came out when the group was being released of their contract with USA Records in 1966. Perhaps the song was considered strange because of its heavy horn section, not overly used in pop/rock records at the time (hence the hornless middle of the song in the single mix). At Columbia in 1967, James William Guercio became their producer, and their string of hits with horn arrangements followed. Guercio would later successfully produce the horns/rock/jazz fusion groups Blood, Sweat & Tears and Chicago.
I'm proud to say that this is my all-time favorite song. I like that organ solo. The organ in this recording is a Farfisa Mini-Compact.
I see this song to myself all the time LOL Great song.
+austx290 I mean sing...not see.
I love this song. My sister had this in her record collection which I used to raid in the 60s when she was out of the house. :)
Fond memories of my boyfriend back then. Even though it was a sad song, it reminds me of great times with him! Thanks!!
When the Buckinghams signed with Columbia, they never were able to have another #1 single. "Kind Of a Drag" on independent label U.S.A. was their only #1.
+marie Hiam No wonder the Buckinghams' contract with USA Records was very short-lived.
U.S.A. didn't want to release Kind of a Drag. Finally they agreed to release it, but they also released the boys from their contract. Obviously they didn't think the record was going to do very well. A few weeks later...#1.
Thank you for this! I wondered where the horns were coming from in other versions. This sounds just like I remember hearing it on the AM radio in my first "real" boyfriend's '64 Chevy while cruising 'round our little town in Florida on those sweet, Saturday nights of '67. Ahhhhh memories. So bittersweet. So wonderful. *sigh* LOL
imdorf 1966/67, #1!
billboard debut 12/31/66
From the days when music was music...
Who Dat And had actual instruments.
and we could dance to it!
You are correct! Horns are NOT present during the break in the Mono mix.
My sister had this record. But really, I hear all the horns!
Legend has it that starting with this number,the Bucks would sell more records in '67 than any other act except the Monkees!!!!
right on Angelo
thanks
I know I speak for a lot of people who view your videos and don't reply when I say thank you for all these lovely songs
OMG-I can't believe someone has the 45!!!
You must be 12 years old
I love their music. One of my favorites is: Susan
I have this as well. I play it using a Stanton 500Al, "original" or a Shure M44C for that extra thick sound that only mono can give.
@thedirtygoat : As someone who still has this very 45, I think I'm qualified to tell you that the b side was "You Make Me Feel So Good"
What you don't hear on the original 45, are all the horns that you now hear during the instrumental break today on the mix that all the oldies radio stations are using. On the 45 you only hear the organ - no horns!
Debut 12/24/1966 and peaked at #3 for ONE week on the Cashbox Top 100 Singles chart.
Memories
Excellent!
got this on imported single columbia records and it was dated march 1969 the australian single was was released on stateside records through EMI
the best
AWESOME VID MAN!!!
Kind of a drag 9 people disliked this song
Don't understand how anyone could not like this song. Great song, great memories.
Well, there's no accounting for taste, is there?
They's reguetoneros
Thanks for this. Always loved this song; that sweet voice and there's nothin' like a B3 organ. Oops, thought it was a Hammond, it's a farfrisa (either 180or 900series).
I could have sworn that when I heard this song on low-fidelity AM radio in early 1967 that the introduction was smoother than what I later heard on FM radio and Columbia/Sony albums/CDs. There were no gaps in the introduction, and no drums could be heard behind it. I figured that if I ever got to hear the original single on the USA label, it would verify my memory. But alas, this introduction is the same one I've been hearing over the years. I guess my memory is not as great as I thought it was.
Whose listening in 2086
ohhhh yes
I like the keyboards
SICK!!!
I saw these guys 2 weeks ago.
Wow.... where are my white Go- Go boots ?
@JaredLekites Yes, mine is as well. Still sounds better than what's on the CD!
Recorded at the Chess Studios in Chicago
Sounds like some music they play at a county fair carnival ride.
The tinny organ sound in the background is what I refer to. They play stuff like that on the Merry Go Round or some other thrill rides. Some other songs would be "Let Me Help" by Billy Swann. Or "Time Is Tight" by Booker T. etc.
Little known fact....this song was recorded at Chess Studios, 2120 S Michigan Ave.
Eu curti muito aqui na voz do Joey Jeffrey
Kind of a drag
Damn! The box of chocolates with the heart didn't work!.....
so totally bubble gum....💚
The original USA records version has a more exciting brighter sound with reverberation added to the vocals. The Columbia mix (I've only heard it in Stereo) has a less compressed, drier sound with the bass guitar far more forward in the mix, also the instrumental break includes the horns. I am fine with the more familiar Columbia mix, but prefer this monaural mix.
No hay mejor versión que la original,
I agree that I definitely don't hear the horns during the organ break on this record. What I don't understand is why we hear the "remix" with pronounced horns on the original video in black and white that's posted on UA-cam, presumably from one of their first TV performances. It would appear that, if the band is lip-synching to the remix in this b/w video, then the record company must have done it quickly, while this was still a hit. Or is that NOT the original sound on the film clip?
I see now, that reading on down, this is just basically an opinion of mono vs. stereo as opposed to there being a different mix on the radio today. Today, we hear the song in stereo, where originally, we heard it in mono; there isn't actually a different "mix that all the oldies radio stations are using".
ohhh yes darling
@imthedorf1964 #1 for 2 weeks in February 1967
the human memory is less than perfect
Italian boys rock best!!!!
ohhhhhh girls
Just out of curiosity..What do you use to clean you records? Do you use a machine?
@WABCRADIO77 you're talking my language when it comes to mono. in most cases i prefer the monophonic or monaural sound before '68 especially motown. Columbia tried to sanitize the sound even further on the lp. i don't like horns dominating the instr. break especially sacrificing the organ part. horns can compliment the overall sound in the background.. but the organ should stand alone in the break without horn interference. for your love(yardbirds) try to find the original mono reissued.
Going to see these guys this Aug...@oaklawngaming (PS I LOVE the concord pavilion; saw Steve Miller Band there!)
great
my sweet lord (doo lang doo lang doo lang)???
What year was this released, and how high did it reach on the charts?
#1 in 1967
I see you had 2 different color 45 s of this. I have the Blue 45. What's the difference?
The blue was the promo copy that went to radio stations. (Former DJ here.)
Hey WABCRADIO77.... Here's a suggestion; start the music, then instead of just uselessly watching a record go round and round, show all the information on the record label and jacket, so that we can be listening to the music and learning about it AT THE SAME TIME!
Good suggestion
Why do so many 45 r.p.m. versions sound as if RIAA equalization had not been employed in their playback?