I dont know about anyone else but when you see videos like this, I always get tears in my eyes, it is something to do with my age, the mood I am in and also remembering these songs and how life was then and how its a hell of a lot different now in our world, something like that folks.
From the first time I heard this song, it grabbed hold of me and just wouldn't let go! I almost wore the record out on my player back in '64. It has all of the elements we looked for in "British Invasion" music here in the states: great production, great singer, driving beat, wonderful bass part, good lyrics, and a sense of joy that comes through the whole thing. Can't say enough good things about this one. Seeing the group only makes it better. Very underrated group! Love 'em.
Me as a 7 year old with two teenage sisters ,jiving around the living room with their boyfriends,three of which are not with us anymore,just brought a tear to my eye when i think of those wonderful times we had back then as a family of six.
I bought my first set of proper drums from the drummer from the outskirts of Rotherham. He was a lovely chap, married the bass player, but I believe they were separated when I bought them (in early 2000's when I was 14/15/16). He told me about his old band and that he met The Beatles, had McCartney writing songs for them etc. You can recognise his face quite well. I googled them at the time and found this catchy song - occasionally it gets stuck in my head (like today) and I have to listen 5 or 6 times to shift it from my mind. I won them from an eBay auction for a ridiculously low price, he was apprehensive to sell but when he saw my age he was super happy and had nothing but encouragement. 6 months from now, I'll be playing with a quite well known blues band touring Europe (hopefully). What a great memory and what a great chap. Hope he's still around :)
I was a dj back in 1964 when this one roared inthe door. We played and never got tired of it even after weeks of spinning it. That said something. A great tune put over in a grand style that still moves me. Thanks for the clip, Chucko
@@2msvalkyrie529 the singer is a regular at the pub I work in...still talking about when he was 17 and famous 😄 mind you I probably would too if I'd been in a famous band! One of the other members was with him last night, though I don't remember which one. I want to say the little one who was at the front with him in this video, but I might be wrong. So at least 2 of them are alive and kicking!
@ MussNoonooify Thank you for taking the time to reply. Sorry I only found it today.!! I agree . ! If I had been famous at 17 Is probably be a complete pratt. Funnily enough : even though I'm a complete failure I'm probably still a Pratt anyway !!
A great Les Reed song. Reminiscent of my childhood. Memories of that era are already poignant enough without the added beauty of tunes like this. The feeling is bathetic.
Honey Lantree played the drums with The Honeycombs. It was rare to see women especially your Aunt to play bass guitar with the male group like The Applejacks.
Amazing to see this - I was at school with two of the band (the keyboard player and the guitarist next to him). I remember that they left school to pursue their musical career, rather than stay to take their "O" levels, which became something of a cause celebre.
I think you are so lucky to have seen this band in person. I grew up in Texas and discovered "Tell Me When" and "Like Dreamers Do", even though they got no air play in Houston! This is one of my favorite all time songs. Always uplifting.
What memorise they have left us with, and in a few more years not one 60s band will be alive, me neither but I was there in the 60s. And when we are all gone then all you will have is UA-cam. I wonder who will be reading this in 2062 and what music you will be listening to ??
Brilliant song. Takes me back to being a scruffy kid roaming the streets of Sheerness. All the pictures are coming back to me now. Thanks so much for sharing this clip. AN ALL-TIME CLASSIC:
One of the very first records that I purchased. As a 10 year old, saving my pocket money, I gradually started my record collection. I loved this song back then... still love it 55 years later!!
2021 Iam listening ! Just adorable ! When life was simple or so it seemed ! Filled with hope ! Jobs and a future this song is happy to me ! Even though I was only two ! ! Woke up yesterday at half four playing in my head ! Complete joy !! 💫
Yes,a great, happy sound. The record made it to the states, but in limited markets. I heard it on a San Antonio station while visiting relatives. I picked the 45 up in S.A. and wore it out on my player. It never got air play in Houston, only 200 miles away. This was back in the "payola" days of radio and, unfortunately, most of the U.S. never heard this wonderful song. Glad you got to hear it and like it. Check out their version of the Lennon/McCartney song "Like Dreamers Do". Another winner!
The Applejacks are the most underrated beat group of the 1960s. They had no control over their music recording. The producers wanted them to do a cover version of Chim Chimney but they refused to do it. They were dropped by Decca label
I had this song in my head this morning, and I had to see if I could find this on UA-cam, and here it is, thanks for sharing, it's great to hear it again, after all these years 👍
This was THE record that really got me into pop music in early 1964 when I heard it on one of the first Top of the Pops shows before I was 7 years old!
UK 60s pop-beat band Birmingham UK, once described as "Solihull Sound", Al Jackson (lead vocals), Martin Baggott (lead guitar), Don Gould (organ), Phil Cash (rhythm guitar), Gerry Freeman (drums) and Megan Davies (bass); Freeman & Davies married in 1965 (courtesy Wikipedia); biggest hits “Tell Me When” ’64 (UK#7); and Lennon/McCartney’s “Like Dreamers Do” ’64 (UK#20) and Ray Davies' "I Go to Sleep" ’65; successfully worked the Cunard cruises for years - see also ‘THE APPLEJACKS MARRIAGE’:
One of the songs that captures/nails the feel of the time and all in around 2mins....when the ooohs come in around 58 secs I'm grabbing for the tissues. sigh
This was a totally different era. Proper live acts, who really could perform live and actually play their instruments ! Clean-cut, smartly dressed and fresh-faced:
@@siarlb8115 Not totally true ! Yes, some acts did mime - agreed. I used to watch TOTP in the 70's and there were a number of acts who did play live. No miming ! Even back in the 1960's, groups played live. Whereas today, miming is par for the course. Your point is well made and noted. However, some acts (majority) did play live:
The Q-Continuum you may be right but I can’t remember any act on TOP, Ready Steady Go, Oh Boy, and The 65 Special, (yes I am old enough to remember them all 😃) playing live. In fact I can’t remember any act on TV playing live. It’s not that they couldn’t more the fact that the technology of the time wasn’t up to it.
Alan Jackson went on to be a staff trainer for the Prudential in Cambridge and I was one of his pupils in 1984! He was a nice chap and told us tales of his adventures with a mate of his called Roy Wood (of The Move and Wizard fame). And when I met Roy some years later in London, I reminded him of some of the things he got up to with Alan and he had a belly laugh, too!
He ran a training course I was on. I went drinking with him one night during the course and when I woke up the next day I was still smashed (he could sure drink). I think he knew how rough I was as he never asked me a question all that day and left me to recover at the back of the classroom. Top bloke.
The first single I ever bought... or I should say, bought for me at my request, as I was too young. And I still have that very record in my vinyl collection.
Solihull remembers the Applejacks as a band not a group thats wot we call em today. I live opposite one of the original Band Members and they came to Solihull Ice Rink Solihull Ice Rink had all the great bands not groups in the late 1960s and early 70s I saw Dave Berry and a few others long live the Cresta Club all the top acts would appear and come to Solihull Ice Rink Happy Days.
I was 12 or 13 at the time, my older brother took me to the hairdresser in New Street Birmingham, (I seem to recall it was called Greatrex or something similar) and Al Jackson worked there and he cut my hair while one of the others cut my brother's hair. Al Jackson left shortly after because Tell Me When became a hit
Lived in Stratford upon Avon in the 60's and went to see them play in Solihull, can't remember the the name of the venue but at the time it was a great song.
Maybe it was later than 64. I remember freddie and the screamers had this title out too. Ive been on the air 49 years and still play it. The original record that Ive had all these years! The defination of a standard is a number you can hear over and over again, never getting tired of it, This one fills the bill!
« The mood I am in and also remembering these songs and how life was then and how its a hell of a lot different now in our world ! » You are TRUE when you say «HELL is near» but I would like to know WHY ? PLEASE «TELL ME WHEN» YOU FIND THE ANSWER !
TELL ME WHEN najväčší hit skupiny APPLEJACKS, ktorý bol v UK rebríčku od 5. marca 1964 celkom 13 týždňov a skončil na 7.m. Autormi piesne boli Les Reed nar. 24. Júna 1935 vo Wokingu a Geoff Stephens nar. 1. oktobra 1934 v New Southgate. Druhý hit mala skupina v podobe piesne Like Dreamers Do, ktorá v júni 1964 skončila na 20.m. Jej autor Paul McCartney ju zložil v roku 1957 a skupina ju spievala na konkurze v spoločnosti Decca Records. Applejacks vznikli v roku 1961 v Birminghame ako skufflová skupina pod názvom Crestas. V roku 1963 uzatvorili zmluvu so spoločnosťou Decca Records. Skupina bola známa najmä tým, že na basovej gitare hrala žena Megan Davies nar. 25. marca 1944 v Sheffielde sestra Raya a Dave zo skupiny Kinks. V roku 1965 sa vydala za hráča na bicie Gerry Freemana nar. 5. mája 1943 v Solihull. Skupinu okrem ních tvorili Al Jackson nar. 2+. apríla 1945 v Birminghame spev, Martin Baggott nar 20. oktobra 1947 v Birminghame gitara, Phil Cash nar. 9 . oktobra 1947 v Birminghame gitara a Don Gould nar. 23. marca 1947 v Solihulle orgán. V oktobri 1964 posledný krát uspeli na 23.m. s piesňou Three Little Words ( I Love You ).
@@johnmurphy7316 I stand corrected,I think I have her confused with a sister of Ray's who for a time was a popular star of the dance hall and was later the subject of a later kinks song Come Dancing
I dont know about anyone else but when you see videos like this, I always get tears in my eyes, it is something to do with my age, the mood I am in and also remembering these songs and how life was then and how its a hell of a lot different now in our world, something like that folks.
You’re right mate different world now😒
@@johncotterill3949 Yes, a shit world now.
yeah tell me about
@@johnaware9434 No, you're just old.
I don't get tears in my eyes, but this group was really amazing!
I was 16 innocent and still love this song.
From the first time I heard this song, it grabbed hold of me and just wouldn't let go! I almost wore the record out on my player back in '64. It has all of the elements we looked for in "British Invasion" music here in the states: great production, great singer, driving beat, wonderful bass part, good lyrics, and a sense of joy that comes through the whole thing. Can't say enough good things about this one. Seeing the group only makes it better. Very underrated group! Love 'em.
Really they sound like a garage band did they do any top forty’s ? Honestly I never heard of them before
I couldn't agree more, they were so under-rated and could have gone on to do more had they been better treated by their record company.
This is one of the best beat songs from the mid sixties - still sounds brilliant today.
this lovely 60s song is sublime joy what a very special era to live through ,we were there happy 2019 to all fans xxlol x
Truly is a beauty!! I remember it.
Me as a 7 year old with two teenage sisters ,jiving around the living room with their boyfriends,three of which are not with us anymore,just brought a tear to my eye when i think of those wonderful times we had back then as a family of six.
This is when music really was music. The best times. xx
I bought my first set of proper drums from the drummer from the outskirts of Rotherham. He was a lovely chap, married the bass player, but I believe they were separated when I bought them (in early 2000's when I was 14/15/16). He told me about his old band and that he met The Beatles, had McCartney writing songs for them etc. You can recognise his face quite well. I googled them at the time and found this catchy song - occasionally it gets stuck in my head (like today) and I have to listen 5 or 6 times to shift it from my mind. I won them from an eBay auction for a ridiculously low price, he was apprehensive to sell but when he saw my age he was super happy and had nothing but encouragement. 6 months from now, I'll be playing with a quite well known blues band touring Europe (hopefully). What a great memory and what a great chap. Hope he's still around :)
2 minutes of pure magic !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I was a dj back in 1964 when this one roared inthe door. We played and never got tired of it even after weeks of spinning it. That said something. A great tune put over in a grand style that still moves me. Thanks for the clip, Chucko
I am so glad I grew up listening to all of this kind of music. It was exciting time there was always something to sing along or whistle to.
I always love hearing this…happier times…miss them
My era takes me back to my youth how i wish i was back there different world not like now different music different times its hard to grow old.
The best era for music melodies, songs that kept going round and around your head time after time 50 odd years later those songs still do it.
Drummer Gerry Freeman is now one of ,if not the, best session drummes in the Midlands
They used to practice in my grandmothers front room as my late mother was friends with the female bass player.
@ Neil
Neil , do you know if all the band are still alive and well ? Must be nice to know you were a part of pop history !!
@@2msvalkyrie529 the singer is a regular at the pub I work in...still talking about when he was 17 and famous 😄 mind you I probably would too if I'd been in a famous band! One of the other members was with him last night, though I don't remember which one. I want to say the little one who was at the front with him in this video, but I might be wrong. So at least 2 of them are alive and kicking!
@ MussNoonooify
Thank you for taking the time to reply. Sorry I only found it today.!!
I agree . ! If I had been famous at 17 Is probably be a complete pratt.
Funnily enough : even though I'm a complete failure I'm probably still a Pratt anyway !!
A great Les Reed song. Reminiscent of my childhood. Memories of that era are already poignant enough without the added beauty of tunes like this. The feeling is bathetic.
love the applejacks, mainly as my aunt is Megan Davies :) music really was at its best in the 50's-60's
Any dish on the Beatles or touring etc? Didn't take much to get people excited in the 60s, lol. www.britishpathe.com/video/applejacks-romance
Honey Lantree played the drums with The Honeycombs. It was rare to see women especially your Aunt to play bass guitar with the male group like The Applejacks.
No way read my comment you're in for a shock. Enjoy
Amazing to see this - I was at school with two of the band (the keyboard player and the guitarist next to him). I remember that they left school to pursue their musical career, rather than stay to take their "O" levels, which became something of a cause celebre.
Not a song you hear too often, but what a classic.
Grove Road hounslow 50-60 years ago. Memories I'll cherish till I die.
i really love this song, so many memories and helps you picture life in a better time when we were all carefree ... thanx for posting
I think you are so lucky to have seen this band in person. I grew up in Texas and discovered "Tell Me When" and "Like Dreamers Do", even though they got no air play in Houston! This is one of my favorite all time songs. Always uplifting.
I also saw this group marvellous
one of my favourite pop songs when I was a little kid
What memorise they have left us with, and in a few more years not one 60s band will be alive, me neither but I was there in the 60s. And when we are all gone then all you will have is UA-cam. I wonder who will be reading this in 2062 and what music you will be listening to ??
Brilliant song. Takes me back to being a scruffy kid roaming the streets of Sheerness. All the pictures are coming back to me now. Thanks so much for sharing this clip. AN ALL-TIME CLASSIC:
no feedback..no synth..no effects..just talent..nice!
Lovely; brings back memories of my childhood. My big sister used to play all these songs.
Love this song. I was 7 when this came out (scarey!)
Thanks for posting this.
I miss those days.... :)
Love this! Great song and they look like they are really enjoying singing it
1st time I've seen a female guitarist. I didn't know this group had one!
One of the very first records that I purchased. As a 10 year old, saving my pocket money, I gradually started my record collection. I loved this song back then... still love it 55 years later!!
2021 Iam listening ! Just adorable ! When life was simple or so it seemed ! Filled with hope ! Jobs and a future this song is happy to me ! Even though I was only two ! ! Woke up yesterday at half four playing in my head ! Complete joy !! 💫
A cheerful effervescent song
My late Mum liked this one. I think it brightened her day.
I LOVE
I certainly remember this from 1964 it was very popular.
As do I Primary achool Australia. Songs like this, I remember, were why I couldn't go anywhere without my 'trannie'.
superb song i still have an original playable copy typical 60s song played all over uk great harmonies just a great song
Man, I like when this song starts with the vocals straight away. It gives a whole different feeling. Nice song in a low key, so fitting my voice.
how sweet, how oldfashioned but still enjoyable & still gives me the good old feeling of my youth
Always loved this song and great to see the group playing..Looks like they just snuck off school for the afternoon !!!
Yes,a great, happy sound. The record made it to the states, but in limited markets. I heard it on a San Antonio station while visiting relatives. I picked the 45 up in S.A. and wore it out on my player. It never got air play in Houston, only 200 miles away. This was back in the "payola" days of radio and, unfortunately, most of the U.S. never heard this wonderful song. Glad you got to hear it and like it. Check out their version of the Lennon/McCartney song "Like Dreamers Do". Another winner!
This group is fab and reminds me of my dad and growing up at that time. They don't make groups like this any more
I wonder why?
The Applejacks are the most underrated beat group of the 1960s. They had no control over their music recording. The producers wanted them to do a cover version of Chim Chimney but they refused to do it. They were dropped by Decca label
Tell Me When was Issued on London.
Absolutely, and I don't blame them for not budging over that song.
absolute classic,thanks,great music quiz song ,no one remembers the band
Très belle chanson, j'adore et aussi bon groupe
I had this song in my head this morning, and I had to see if I could find this on UA-cam, and here it is, thanks for sharing, it's great to hear it again, after all these years 👍
Thank god for the 60s what a decade for music
This was THE record that really got me into pop music in early 1964 when I heard it on one of the first Top of the Pops shows before I was 7 years old!
Love the basist for ever!!
Finally- someone else who finds her attractive. :-)
Yep. Attractive, but not sure why. Definitely something there though.....
Agree. She was exceptionally beautiful.
UK 60s pop-beat band Birmingham UK, once described as "Solihull Sound", Al Jackson (lead vocals), Martin Baggott (lead guitar), Don Gould (organ), Phil Cash (rhythm guitar), Gerry Freeman (drums) and Megan Davies (bass); Freeman & Davies married in 1965 (courtesy Wikipedia); biggest hits “Tell Me When” ’64 (UK#7); and Lennon/McCartney’s “Like Dreamers Do” ’64 (UK#20) and Ray Davies' "I Go to Sleep" ’65; successfully worked the Cunard cruises for years - see also ‘THE APPLEJACKS MARRIAGE’:
just pure bliss ! love it
One of the songs that captures/nails the feel of the time and all in around 2mins....when the ooohs come in around 58 secs I'm grabbing for the tissues. sigh
This was a totally different era. Proper live acts, who really could perform live and actually play their instruments ! Clean-cut, smartly dressed and fresh-faced:
Clean-cut, smartly-dressed and fresh-faced- exactly the true alternative in this 21st century. Who would have ever imagined, eh?
The 60s were the best decade to be in your 20s. Nothing has topped the early 1960s, nor will any era!
The Q-Continuum live ...haha ..nobody was live on TV in the 60s or 70s, they were miming ..check out the guitar leads.
@@siarlb8115 Not totally true ! Yes, some acts did mime - agreed. I used to watch TOTP in the 70's and there were a number of acts who did play live. No miming ! Even back in the 1960's, groups played live. Whereas today, miming is par for the course. Your point is well made and noted. However, some acts (majority) did play live:
The Q-Continuum you may be right but I can’t remember any act on TOP, Ready Steady Go, Oh Boy, and The 65 Special, (yes I am old enough to remember them all 😃) playing live. In fact I can’t remember any act on TV playing live. It’s not that they couldn’t more the fact that the technology of the time wasn’t up to it.
IM SINGING ALONG THER SUPER FAB 📻📻📻📻📻📻📻📻📻📻📻📻
Great local band from Solihull, Warwickshire.
Alan Jackson went on to be a staff trainer for the Prudential in Cambridge and I was one of his pupils in 1984! He was a nice chap and told us tales of his adventures with a mate of his called Roy Wood (of The Move and Wizard fame). And when I met Roy some years later in London, I reminded him of some of the things he got up to with Alan and he had a belly laugh, too!
He ran a training course I was on. I went drinking with him one night during the course and when I woke up the next day I was still smashed (he could sure drink). I think he knew how rough I was as he never asked me a question all that day and left me to recover at the back of the classroom. Top bloke.
I heard he is now a fishing guide, is this true?
Yeah. He was down in Wales - not sure which river - and very happy
last I heard !
what a gem I found in YT... Mercy!!!
The first single I ever bought... or I should say, bought for me at my request, as I was too young. And I still have that very record in my vinyl collection.
What a tune cool man
Awesome song
A simple but effective track. I really like it.
First brum group to get to number 1 in charts
What a happy song
Solihull remembers the Applejacks as a band not a group thats wot we call em today. I live opposite one of the original Band Members and they came to Solihull Ice Rink Solihull Ice Rink had all the great bands not groups in the late 1960s and early 70s I saw Dave Berry and a few others long live the Cresta Club all the top acts would appear and come to Solihull Ice Rink Happy Days.
So many good groups in the 60s🥰🎵🎵🎵🥰
Lovely, those were the days...
Saw them live when I was a child. Loved them.
I was 12 or 13 at the time, my older brother took me to the hairdresser in New Street Birmingham, (I seem to recall it was called Greatrex or something similar) and Al Jackson worked there and he cut my hair while one of the others cut my brother's hair. Al Jackson left shortly after because Tell Me When became a hit
so cool, these lovely folks, the chick married the drummer bytheway, great song thank you, you lovely people The Applejacks
theshameofthesun
Clearly they would have used the rhythm method?!
Al Jackson looks about 13
Well spoken smiling cause they really are enjoying it as you say lovely folks 😀 😊
This music had a tune you can tell they all could play
Lived in Stratford upon Avon in the 60's and went to see them play in Solihull, can't remember the the name of the venue but at the time it was a great song.
Maybe it was later than 64. I remember freddie and the screamers had this title out too. Ive been on the air 49 years and still play it. The original record that Ive had all these years! The defination of a standard is a number you can hear over and over again, never getting tired of it, This one fills the bill!
Freddie and The Dreamers' hit, 'I'm Telling You Now', does sound similar.
very similar sound to gerry and the pacemakers .allways loved this song ....
Yes- total, fab Merseybeat.
What a tune - Easter 64 - thanks for sharing , brings it all back - ah
discovering this group right now and love this.paul. 52. melbourne.
« The mood I am in and also remembering these songs and how life was then and how its a hell of a lot different now in our world ! »
You are TRUE when you say «HELL is near» but I would like to know WHY ? PLEASE «TELL ME WHEN» YOU FIND THE ANSWER !
Sounds like The Honeycombs ..Good Tune
I love this song!!!!
Good music the 60s are
just love this
I love this video.
The milky bar kid on drums and the female guitarist fingering her guitar fantastic
Saw these at The Winter Gardens, Weston-super-Mare. Good days!
a classic from one of the great eras of rock music
Excellent frack, and one hell of a comb-over on the keyboard player.
Superhit 😘💋🎸❤️🎸😘💋🎹🎤🎧
Oh happy days
Thanks for that. I looked it up. Nice version too.
Lovely song 🎵 ❤
Some of them look about 12 years old !! Brilliant, great vid and choooon.....
Esto es una escena de la película just four you (solo para ti 1964).
Never heard of this band. And having a female bassist. was a novelty at the time (1964).
Fantastic voice wonderful to listen to
great music
a great sounding local midlands band
TELL ME WHEN najväčší hit skupiny APPLEJACKS, ktorý bol v UK rebríčku od 5. marca 1964 celkom 13 týždňov a skončil na 7.m. Autormi piesne boli Les Reed nar. 24. Júna 1935 vo Wokingu a Geoff Stephens nar. 1. oktobra 1934 v New Southgate. Druhý hit mala skupina v podobe piesne Like Dreamers Do, ktorá v júni 1964 skončila na 20.m. Jej autor Paul McCartney ju zložil v roku 1957 a skupina ju spievala na konkurze v spoločnosti Decca Records. Applejacks vznikli v roku 1961 v Birminghame ako skufflová skupina pod názvom Crestas. V roku 1963 uzatvorili zmluvu so spoločnosťou Decca Records. Skupina bola známa najmä tým, že na basovej gitare hrala žena Megan Davies nar. 25. marca 1944 v Sheffielde sestra Raya a Dave zo skupiny Kinks. V roku 1965 sa vydala za hráča na bicie Gerry Freemana nar. 5. mája 1943 v Solihull. Skupinu okrem ních tvorili Al Jackson nar. 2+. apríla 1945 v Birminghame spev, Martin Baggott nar 20. oktobra 1947 v Birminghame gitara, Phil Cash nar. 9 . oktobra 1947 v Birminghame gitara a Don Gould nar. 23. marca 1947 v Solihulle orgán. V oktobri 1964 posledný krát uspeli na 23.m. s piesňou Three Little Words ( I Love You ).
Ps ... The female guitarist is rather lovely too ! This has become my favourite feel good tune of the moment !
Agree. She was exceptionally beautiful.
I think her name is Meghan Davies,her brother is Ray Davies of the Kinks
@@bryanpalmer9660As far as I know you are incorrect and they are not related at all.
@@johnmurphy7316 I stand corrected,I think I have her confused with a sister of Ray's who for a time was a popular star of the dance hall and was later the subject of a later kinks song Come Dancing
Brummy band brilliant