I don't know on what planet I was but I just discovered that I can save the playlist you linked to and listen to it on TH-cam Music, which I subscribe to. Super Cool!
Obviously Hello Goodbye/IATW is a front runner in amongst this lot, many of which I think are trying too hard to follow a trend. But Care of Cell 44 by the Zombies is the only other single in this collection worth pausing the video for and looking up on Apple Music. I’m ashamed to say I have been alive 54 years and only just (via this channel) in the last few weeks found out about the Odyssey and Oracle album. But it’s superb, a great companion to Sgt Pepper and Pet Sounds.
SF Sorrow was the first concept album, period. My totally hip, cool younger sibling introduced me to this band over forty years ago. It's good to know they lived to see themselves acknowledged for their vast influence. (RIP Phil May) I loved the interesting singles and albums, some of which from groups I didn't know, for me to look up and listen to; it's one of the greatest bonuses of your excellent and informative videos! P.S. - Can we all take a moment to appreciate that Yesterday's Papers has some of the best, most professional, straightforward narration on TH-cam!
Yes I agree. I love SF Sorrow and have been saying how underrated and sadly unrecognised it is since I discovered it as a teenager. It predated Mark Wirtz’s stuff and The Who’s Tommy and the Kink’s Victoria and was really something avant garde and of good quality.
I was lucky enough in march 1967 , to visit a local club , The ricky tick houslow / london , the friday night was P.P.ARNOLD and the NICE ,the saturday night was PINK FLOYD ( who had just released Arnold Layne , and I was standing just a few feet from Syd Barrett , watching / stealing ideas from him ) and sunday night was CREAM ( one of our old guitarists John Simms , went on to play in bands , with Ginger / Kofi baker ! and each night was 10 shillings to get in ! Jimi Hendrix and the Experiance , played their first gig there for £ 25 , ironicaly , Jimi , shared a flat in nottinghill gate , with Pat Arnold , and Ronnie Wood . Jimi meet Mitch Mitchel , ( who was taught drums , by Jim Marshall ) while visiting Jims shop in nearby Hanwell , to get get a 100watt stack , mitch was the shop assistant there ! ha , ha great days / video cheers , thankyou guys , from france . ritchie .
Very very good, one more time. Somebody said you're very professional. I completely agree. "Defecting grey". I had the luck to see the Pretty Things in my town, five years ago. They still played this one, in a pretty good way. And I had the luck to talk to Phil (RIP) and Dick too. Fabulous gentlemen. You made my day with that one.
I saw The Pretty Things a few times in the 70s. Excellent band. Some friends of mine were the support act on one tour. They said they only had to take a couple of breaths in their dressing room and they came out buzzing 😂
I am very much enjoying your videos pertaining to the British psychedelic scene as this is one of my favorite genres of music. With the sonic experimentation that was going on in the music one can hear how these bands were separating rock from the blues that gave birth to it. It is interesting to hear how this later evolved into progressive rock. Also, I never knew Pink Floyd performed on American Bandstand! Now I'll have to find that on YT. Again, thank you and I look forward to part two!
Never heard oh the abbey YP now I must check this out ! Vacuum cleaner? OK? I love seeing the old Marshall amps in the background I have a few myself always fun ! Great show cheers from L A !
"Mr. Evasion", B Side of "Defecting Grey" is very cool too,.Biting lyrics , great pace, offbeat chorus, a wilder psychedelia than most. "Defecting"must be one of the craziest choices for an A side of that era!
@@YesterdaysPapers But that's what was great about the Pretties, they were edgy by instinct. When I first looked into them I was surprised how unsuccessful they were compared to their peers.
@@YesterdaysPapers Yes, so true! Still find it hard to believe that a rock n roll monster like "Midnight to 6" only got to no.46!!Being the ace researchers you guys are , you've probably seen this gem but just in case you haven't th-cam.com/video/1dvxVE8LltA/w-d-xo.html
I think they wanted "Defecting Grey" to be a single mostly to break ties with the album "Emotions", which the band made unwillingly and only for contractual fulfillment. Anyway, I too agree with you all. Maybe "Mr. Evasion" would have charted better...
I was alive in 67, never heard of most of these groups or their songs. It must have been a British thing. Outside of the Moody’s, Beatles, Zombies and Pink Floyd it’s all new to me. Thanks...I think.
So many great songs, YP, I can't recall them all! Not a bad one in the lot, though Pink Floyd's Apples And Oranges is definitely the weaker of the Barrett era singles. That they appeared on US television promoting this one explains why it took them a few more years to crack that market, especially on that Dick Clark teeny bopper dance show. Fantastic Tintern Abbey track and The Artwoods deserved better, though trying to break into the amazing 60s singles charts was so difficult. It's always amazed me the lack of enthusiasm Nights In White Satin garnered upon first release, considering the song's status over the past 50 years. Perhaps just ahead of its time? The Pretty Things never crossed over into Canada, so my exposure to them didn't occur until about 1980, while working with a woman from Manchester. Such a great band, even their foray into Psychedelic was excellent as well as their PF Sorrow concept album. Finally, one of my all-time favourites who also suffered from disappointing sales - The Zombies. While it's always so easy to see vocals and keyboards as the focus of this group, they boasted one of the most creative rhythm sections of the time. One of my many joys in life has been seeing The Zombies during their 2017 tour to celebrate the release of Odessey and Oracle with the original band, less Paul Atkinson, playing the entire album live - something they never got to do in 1967/68. It was a fantastic show, and the band hadn't lost a step. The highlight for me being spending some time with Hugh Grundy and Chris White, discussing music and how critical drums and bass are to every band's sound. Very kind and thoughtful guys. So down to earth, they could have been the neighbours living across the street.
Which came first - Nights in White Satin or I (Who Have Nothing)? The lead melody is the same. Another great video. I look forward to these every week. Thank you. 🙂
Tickle.. that is Mick Wayne who broke his string when pumping out the Space Oddity solo and detuned the guitar, weirdly replicated by Mick Ronson on the 1984 floor show. He also broke his string.
YP, If you are going to take me back to November '67, could you leave me there next time please? A few of these tunes were merely good to my ears, but you found some 'choice quality stuff' as we were wont to say back in '67. And the Zombies still stood out as head and shoulders over the others. But the Pretty Things, Elmer Gantry (this album was released here in the US - ? - and later led me to the Strawbs) and Tintern Abbey (thanks again Great British Psychedelia Trip) are never far from CD player. And I admire your patience with we buffoons who post comments. PP Arnold not Afro-American, or soul? Sometimes we let our prejudices stand between our ears and the music. Film noir! (US) Kaleidoscope's 'Ballad of Tommy Udo' made me chase down "Kiss of Death" just to hear Richard Widmark say "squirt." (Research was a lot harder to do before the internet.) Hope Emerson was Mother in the Peter Gunn TV series, and Mancini's theme had a great, pre-British invasion riff. 'Living in the Past' seemed made to be my theme song even back in'69.
I really like Apples and Oranges, but it's certainly inferior to their other singles. I Am the Walrus is out of this world. I don't care what people say though, I love Hello, Goodbye. The Pretty Things' S.F. Sorrow is one of the best albums I've ever heard.
What I like about your videos (apart from the superb music & rare video footage) is the obscure information imparted, eg 'Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack' (one of my favourite psychedelic singles) became the theme tune of a British TV series, 'Flames' was part of Led Zeppelin's early repertoire, 'Meditations' was recorded in a church, etc. Great research on your part, well done.
Some great singles including one or two I didn’t know, thank you! I’d completely forgotten that The Nice featured in Tyrant King. Thanks for the reminder of a very enjoyable series from my childhood. I connected with the series, because I travelled all over the underground by myself and visited the museums in Exhibition Road. “Follow the tyrant king … “ I count myself as lucky to have seen The Nice at the Fairfield Halls in Croydon. Keith Emerson played the venue’s pipe organ and asked the audience, “Do you think they’d mind if I stuck knives in this one?”
I know you must be busy, but these are never long enough or frequent enough for me. Your curation is amazing. I was aware of pop and psychedelic music at that time but was 10 years old and in Lake Tahoe with only two stations, where I got a taste of it, but nothing like what you present. Thank you for your enlightenment! I am a huge Syd Barrett fan and appreciate your acknowledgement of his brilliance.
For me this may be THE coolest site on the internet ! I am 72 ,and American who never got to hear the UK pirate. radio shows from pirate ships . Rock on !
The channel is totally fab! I'm British, but was only 8 at the time, and while many of the bands are familiar to me now, it's fascinating to see them and discover other acts.
Anyone out to pick on "I am the Walrus" should remember that John was inspired by Lewis Carroll, especially "The Walrus and the Carpenter" and "Jabberwocky", and how Charles Dodson experimented with English to make sentences that sounded like English but meant nothing, e.g., "’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe." So why IS the sea boiling hot?
The poster for the Hendrix/Move/Pink Floyd package tour also showed a band called The Eire Apparent...an Irish band, I believe, produced by Hendrix, who also played on their first elpee. I saw The Eire Apparent open for Eric Burdon and The Animals in the (very) old and (very) long-gone city auditorium in Jackson, Mississippi sometime in Spring '68. Eric Burdon and The Animals were touring in support of either "San Franciscan Nights" or "Sky Pilot." I forget which. But thanks for allowing me to dredge up memory!
Henry McCulloch was the lead guitarist. He once lived in a caravan outside my home town Enniskillen in Northern Ireland. My grandfather used to laugh recalling Henry playing guitar in the morning to the herd of cattle in the neighbouring field. Stoned, no doubt. No idea how the cows reacted to his playing. He went on to join Paul McCartney and Wings a few years later. RIP, Henry!
"The group hardly considered my reviews worth the paper they were written on" The shade 🤣😂 That does sound suspiciously like something Roger Waters would say 👀 Maybe I'm in the minority, but I've always loved "Apples and Oranges" I think it's really beautiful and whimsical. Your videos are a lovely way to start the week, YP. Stunning intro Music 💯❤
Of the two songs on that record, I have to say I prefer Paintbox, which would have had a lot more commercial appeal. Perhaps Syd and Roger couldn't countenance the idea of a Rick Wright number being on the A-side. I remember that final comment of Penny Valentine's very well - but from that day to this, I've never been able to decide whether she liked the final little flourish itself, or the fact that a record she plainly didn't much care for had finally come to an end.
@@Krzyszczynski Agree, great song; but Rick's "It Would Be So Nice" backed by Roger's "Julia Dream" had masses of commercial appeal, but bombed too. I think this is when they realised they were an "albums band".........
I don't know why Penny Valentine was so confused about the song's meaning. Syd himself is on record of saying that its about a time he followed a dolly bird from Barnes to Richmond where he was living at the time. It is amazing how unadventurous the journos of the day were when all this fantastic music was flying around.
Another great video, thank you! The Pretty Things are one of the best bands from Britain. I thought they changed genre better than a lot of bands but their earlier records are some of the best proto-punk r&b you can get. I also really enjoyed Apples & Oranges, I love Syd’s screeching fuzz-wah guitar.
I shake my head when I see all todays TV talent shows knowing how little chance they have. This video is a textbook example of how many bands just disappeared off the scene no matter how much journos raved about them. At least they had some sort of chance unlike today where 99% of the artists who do win a talent show are forced to contract to SONY for 2 years and do what they are told. And lets not even start talking about miming on stage OR Autotune. Bands and artists used to travel, beat the boards and learn their craft. Today? Nope.
It is one of my very favorites by the Beatles (and Sir George Martin) and, for me, an astonishing and utterly unique work of aural-art. Mind-blowing…🦭💕
@@YesterdaysPapers Any chance, with that fab Revolver remixing that just came out, you could look into a Yesterday's Papers around the release of that legendary Beatles album? I wouldn't dare make a request, it's just a thought. I'm so impressed by your curation and editing work. ☺
I was not too happy with apples and oranges either, gave it a miss and carried on listening to Piper. I am the Walrus is still great, and so are the Pretty Things, a truely great band. RIP Phil and some XPTs
Another fantastic episode for us pop music history buffs. At the time , I thought the British music scene was a little bit cooler than the US and Canada. Thank you.
I didn't know the now famous greats of this period had such piss poor charting success, especially Nights in White Satin, god damn! Also where did the Nights in White Satin in the video come from, it sounds slightly different..
Brilliant video, you must put in hard work to make it so good. I love Apples and Oranges and Beeside. Cities is an underrated Moody Blues B-side I think as well. Looking forward to a part 2. Thanks- Evan
I saw the Pretties and Pink Floyd on the same bill in Brighton, must have been very late 1968 - definitely after SF Sorrow had come out, anyway. (There was a third band as well, but despite regular brain-cudgelling I just can't remember who.)
This did not seem such a strong selection of new releases as your previous selection of monthly releases of cool British singles of 1967. But I thought there were two absolute gems among the lesser knowns (forget The Beatles). One of them was the Tintern Abbey one. This was their only release. But more recently, they had a CD compilation collecting their complete recordings, 24 in total which was a lot for a group who only released one single, booklet liner notes supplied by their surviving members. There were some unreleased gems on there, but tended to sound as though they needed finishing touches, which may have been done had this single been a hit, so they could have planned follow-up releases, possibly including an album. There can surely be only one more in this series to cover December 1967, as come the following year, everything quietened down for the first six months, and a brief fifties Rock 'N' Roll revival boom was born. It was not until later that year, that Psychedelia seemed to return, but was evolving into Progressive Rock. Maybe you could cover cool American made singles of this year, as in your series, you completely muted out the U.S. legends such as The Doors, Jefferson Airplane and Velvet Underground. Too many people think 1967 was the birth of Psychedelia, and 1966 was the last year of The British Invasion before Psychedelia took over. But it was during 1966 that Psychedelia was starting to be felt in The States, while the British side of the Pop Rock world was still British Invasion based, but with occasional advancements. In the States, Frank Zappa recorded his first album Freak Out in March 1966, and it was one of the first double albums. Also that year, Bob Dylan released his first more ambitious project Blonde On Blonde, another of the first double albums; The Byrds released Fifth Dimension which was more advanced and Psychedelic than their previous albums; The Doors recorded their first album in August of that year, although it was not released until early 1967; The Great Society who were Grace Slick's first band recorded a highly Psychedelic live album that year, but it was not released until two years later, to cash in on her later success with Jefferson Airplane; and The Electric Prunes had their breakthrough U.S. hit late 1966 with their weird Psychedelic Rock anthem I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night, complete with thick oscillating guitar sound effects. It was also in 1966 that The 13th Floor Elevators released their first Psychedelic singles and album.
ELP have been kicked around for years due to their supposed "pomposity" & "self-indulgency". Truth is, they were creators of some of the most innovative and best music in the 70's with Tarkus and Brain Salad Surgery as prime examples.
Except for the Beatles, one after the other mentioned here, we hear "The single failed to chart". There was such an embarrassment of riches from this period that even the ones that failed to chart are now highly regarded brilliant classics. They all deserved to be top 10 hits.
The singles chart changed a lot in 1967, probably because it was the beginning of the LP era and also because BBC Radio One took over and pirate stations were forced to shut down. In 1966, most of the songs on the singles chart were great songs that eventually became classics. But in 1967, crooners like Engelbert Humperdink, Vince Hill or Solomon King took the charts by storm as well as a lot of disposable crap and mediocre bubblegum pop.
@@YesterdaysPapers Disc's review of the year called 1967 The Year Of The Big Boring Ballad, and by crikey they weren't far wrong. The nadir for me came earlyish in the year, when first Petula Clark (who otherwise made some pretty decent drama-ballads) and then Harry Secombe took that unremittingly awful Charlie Chaplin piece This Is My Song into the top ten.
@@Krzyszczynski Yes, I came across that article some time ago. It was an interesting. read. It just goes to show how much perceptions change over the years. Nowadays, everyone remembers 1967 as the year of psychedelia but back then everyone was complaining about all these crooners taking over the charts and getting all the attention.
@@YesterdaysPapers The charts were controlled a great deal by record companies and pay for play still existed in the UK and US (and still does, I think). The payola scandal in the United States was just a way of shutting down rock for a while (like PMRC was in the 1980's)
You always fail to mention that, apart from Jon Lord and Art Wood,the Artwoods also featured Keef Hartley on drums, who later on went his own way and among other bands he was involved with, he also created his own band, the Keef Hartley Group.
14:10 Different Drum is reviewed in the press. The blurb states "A gal named Linda is featured..." "Not a hit, probably, but it's that bit different." I guess this is Linda Ronstadt's first taste of British music critics.
Great episode! I am amazed at how many brilliant singles failed to chart. How come? 'Nights In White Satin' reached number two in the Netherlands in January and February 1968! I liked to see the image of the single, exact the same is in my father's single collection! And what a fabulous single by Tintern Abbey! Thank you!
Best comment I've read, I too have everything that the Moodies recorded, plus Blue Jays, Justin Hayward,and also have I think every DVD released. Hi from Perth Australia 😎👋🎵🎶🎵
I read in a music magazine that it was an accidental hit. That DJs put it on to play because it was so long, so they could leave the room for a break lol.
Yknow I remember being pretty confused when I listened to SF sorrow for the first time. But I was absolutely blown away when I heard defecting gray. It’s so trippy, heavy and aggressive, it’s truly great.
Outstanding work, as usual!! Very professional presentation, with incredible lost footage and pics that suck one right into the period. November '67 has to be the peak of the UK psychedelic scene. I hope there's a part two--and if so, it would be great to hear "Have Some More Tea" by The Smoke, "Save Me" by Brian Auger & Julie Driscoll, "Man In A Shop" by The Marmalade, "Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush/Coloured Rain" by Traffic, "Reason To Live" by Skip Bifferty, "World" by The Bee Gees, and "Looking Glass Alice" by The Bunch; I can't think of too many more singles that you didn't already cover here, so I really look forward to seeing what else you come up with!!! GREAT JOB!!
Quick question which single would you prefer to own Apples and Oranges or Nights in White Satin? Obviously Floyd if you are a record collector. Floyd third single very rare.
Ever since hearing "Pivate Sorrow" on John Peel, I've adored the SF Sorrow album. Follow-ups didn't rate too highly with us, but THAT album is in the Top 5 EVER!
So many good singles that failed to chart back then. I mean the Zombies' Care of Cell 44 and Maybe After He's Gone is a GREAT two sided platter. How could that not chart? Bad distribution? And I love the clip you chose to go with the song. Caged (1950) is a terrific noir directed by John Cromwell. The lead actress, Eleanor Parker, was nominated for an academy award and won best actress at the Venice International Festival that year. The terrifying prison guard, Hope Emerson, a frequent noir heavy,, was nominated for best supporting actress at the Academy Awards. The film presents fairly both sides of the incarceration question---whether prisons actually rehabilitate anyone. At the end, Parker, having learned all the tricks of criminals during her prison stay, is now more equipped upon her release to become a real criminal. It is just about a perfect film noir. YP your psychedelic journeys to the 60's are better than an acid flashback trip. Thanks so much.
@@YesterdaysPapers Film noir is a big influence on my film. My favs in no particular order are Vertigo (a color noir!) Touch of Evil, Kiss Me Deadly, Out of the Past, White Heat and The Lineup.
@@YesterdaysPapers You might be interested in my review of the Big Combo but please delete it after you've read it since this is outside the subject of your post. Glad I saw, for the second time, THE BIG COMBO (1955) on CUNY TV last night. .Directed in fine style by Joseph H. Lewis, also responsible for My Name is Julia Ross (1945) and Gun Crazy.(1949). A real testament to a director who in 1938 and early 1940's was turning out six and seven bottom of the barrel quickies a year. Basically the story line is a police lieutenant (Cornel Wilde) goes after a criminal (Richard Conte) whose wife (Jean Wallace) does not love him. Wilde hopes she will assist him in his quest. Conte, full of chirping, venomous confidence, gives the best performance I've ever seen from him. He's psychologically aware, cunning and ruthless. Brian Donlevy, Lee Van Cleef and Earl Hollman are all fine as Conte's minions as is the striking looking Helene Stanton as Wilde's stripper girlfriend. The only weak link, IMO, is Wallace who is a bit one dimensional in her acting. From the dark opening alley chase sequence to the last shot in white fog, this is some kind of film. Cinematographer John Alton is universally praised for his style and The Big Combo might be his finest achievement. A claustrophobic tale filled with shadows, harsh facial lighting and spotlights. The whole film is an amazing exercise in painting with light (the title of his book). David Raksin's jazz influenced score is also perfect for the roller coaster twists and turns on the screen. The Big Combo has everything--guns, killings, violence and torture. Oh, and toss in sexual perversity and homosexuality..There is a brilliant and brutal torture scene that is almost unbearable to watch, a startling and most likely unique for its time machine gun killing, and an inventive last scene that, due to budget limitations, was fashioned out of skeleton sets and the most meager of props. This marvelous little noir was shot in 26 days---give Joseph Lewis full credit here. Like Edgar G. Ulmer, another poverty row director, Lewis had the wonderful ability to create gems out of rubble. Foster Hirsch is rapidly becoming one of my favorite commentators on noir. Last night he said " The Big Combo is a summation of noir themes" He is right; this late in the noir cycle film has everything. He also stated " There's not a normal, well adjusted character in the film." Spot on again.. Hero police lieutenants are supposed to be 100% good guys but here Wilde is anything but. In this respect The Big Combo reminds me of Kiss Me Deadly. Explosive melodramatic plot inhabited by flawed, unsympathetic characters. At one point in the program Hirsch, the author of 16 books related to film and theater, asked the host of the show, Jerry Carlson, a question because Hirsch wasn't sure himself. This is the kind of intelligent, humble man for whom I have the utmost respect and admiration. If you yearn for a noir that touches all bases, look no further than The Big Combo .Very highly recommended
A great run through of great songs. Cherry red has just released two comps On Elmer Gentry’s Velvet Opera and Tinter Abbey. Really inspired to check them out now. Really enjoy this channel. Looking forward to every episode!
I have both the EP version and the album version of Magical Mystery Tour which featured both Hello Goodbye and I Am The Walrus, but for some strange reason, I was unaware that Hello Goodbye and I Am The Walrus was released as a single. The B side was infinitely better than the A side. I like Hello Goodbye but I always reckoned it was something that The Beatles could have written in their sleep. I Am The Walrus is a psychedelic classic, deliberately written with very obscure lyrics as a riposte to pretentious critics that would look for deep meanings in just about every one of their mid to late sixties releases. IATH is a tour de force of weirdness, brilliant recording tricks and an insistent beat that keeps you hooked. Its strangeness that somehow does sound deep and meaningful despite Lennon's attempt to take the piss. A fantastic record.
To be fair, "Walrus" did appear on the EP, on the LP, on the Film, and on the No.1 hit single, so maybe the thinking was that it had been given enough "airing" and something "non album" should be an A side as the fans had bought the song on the EP. Still got to number 1.
This is the month/year I was born. I only discovered Tintern Abbey in the last year and have listened to those to songs obsessively. That Zombies song is seriously underrated too,
He was good until 1978. The last Moody Blues album in 1978 called Octave was a big departure from the classic Moody Blues sound of their first 7 albums as this album had no Mellotron and it was replaced by synthesizers. It was also the last album with original keyboardist Mike Pinder.
I was 15! Some of the singles missed the mark as they were trying to be too clever! 'I Am a Walrus' is miles better than 'Hello Goodbye' but that was a safer bet when it came to radio plays. 'SF Sorrow' was picked up by Motown in the US where it was released on Rare Earth label. I was not a hit there either. 'Loneliest Person' was recorded by Marianne Faithfull a few years ago. Thanks.
Another excellent production! It is worth noting that Flames by Elmer Gantry also had another airing on the 1968 compilation album, 'The Rock Machine Turns You On', which I believe was the very first of its kind.
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Thanks for the link 👍
Thank you for the list, mate - Absolufabumazing! Old favorites and now, some new fabs!
I don't know on what planet I was but I just discovered that I can save the playlist you linked to and listen to it on TH-cam Music, which I subscribe to. Super Cool!
Great video. Thanks so much for the playlist. Cheers, YP.🤗😀
Never creases to amaze me are the pictures of the actual singles(45s) being referenced. Extreme Kudos to Mr. Yesterday's Papers~!
agreed.
Obviously Hello Goodbye/IATW is a front runner in amongst this lot, many of which I think are trying too hard to follow a trend. But Care of Cell 44 by the Zombies is the only other single in this collection worth pausing the video for and looking up on Apple Music. I’m ashamed to say I have been alive 54 years and only just (via this channel) in the last few weeks found out about the Odyssey and Oracle album. But it’s superb, a great companion to Sgt Pepper and Pet Sounds.
Discogs?
SF Sorrow was the first concept album, period. My totally hip, cool younger sibling introduced me to this band over forty years ago. It's good to know they lived to see themselves acknowledged for their vast influence. (RIP Phil May) I loved the interesting singles and albums, some of which from groups I didn't know, for me to look up and listen to; it's one of the greatest bonuses of your excellent and informative videos!
P.S. - Can we all take a moment to appreciate that Yesterday's Papers has some of the best, most professional, straightforward narration on TH-cam!
Thank you very much, Darda!
I concur!
Yes I agree. I love SF Sorrow and have been saying how underrated and sadly unrecognised it is since I discovered it as a teenager. It predated Mark Wirtz’s stuff and The Who’s Tommy and the Kink’s Victoria and was really something avant garde and of good quality.
That's the truth!
Eden Ahbez did one much earlier than The Pretties
I was lucky enough in march 1967 , to visit a local club , The ricky tick houslow / london , the friday night was P.P.ARNOLD and the NICE ,the saturday night was PINK FLOYD ( who had just released Arnold Layne , and I was standing just a few feet from Syd Barrett , watching / stealing ideas from him ) and sunday night was CREAM ( one of our old guitarists John Simms , went on to play in bands , with Ginger / Kofi baker ! and each night was 10 shillings to get in ! Jimi Hendrix and the Experiance , played their first gig there for £ 25 , ironicaly , Jimi , shared a flat in nottinghill gate , with Pat Arnold , and Ronnie Wood . Jimi meet Mitch Mitchel , ( who was taught drums , by Jim Marshall ) while visiting Jims shop in nearby Hanwell , to get get a 100watt stack , mitch was the shop assistant there ! ha , ha great days / video cheers , thankyou guys , from france . ritchie .
You lucky old fart! 😉 *hug*
Very very good, one more time. Somebody said you're very professional. I completely agree.
"Defecting grey". I had the luck to see the Pretty Things in my town, five years ago. They still played this one, in a pretty good way.
And I had the luck to talk to Phil (RIP) and Dick too. Fabulous gentlemen.
You made my day with that one.
Thank you, François! I saw the Pretty Things in 2017 or so and it was a fantastic show.
I saw The Pretty Things a few times in the 70s. Excellent band. Some friends of mine were the support act on one tour. They said they only had to take a couple of breaths in their dressing room and they came out buzzing 😂
I love them 7 Moodies albums from Days to Sojourn. What a run. What covers ! I'm proud of my collection of them alone.
Excellent production Mister YP, thank you again 💯
I am very much enjoying your videos pertaining to the British psychedelic scene as this is one of my favorite genres of music.
With the sonic experimentation that was going on in the music one can hear how these bands were separating rock from the blues that gave birth to it. It is interesting to hear how this later evolved into progressive rock.
Also, I never knew Pink Floyd performed on American Bandstand! Now I'll have to find that on YT.
Again, thank you and I look forward to part two!
Cheeers, Michael!
Many thanks, Yesterday's Papers, for this exacting view on the British Psychedelic sounds from late 1967.
The Pretty Things - wow!
Lots of stuff I’ve not heard about before.
I’ve always loved “Beeside”.
Thank you for this,
Your channel is great.
Looking forward to a part two
I like to be reminded how Old I Am
A great trip indeed! Excellent choices, well researched and once again full marks for the visuals too. Looking forward to part two!
Never heard oh the abbey YP now I must check this out ! Vacuum cleaner? OK? I love seeing the old Marshall amps in the background I have a few myself always fun ! Great show cheers from L A !
Thank you, Jerry. Cheers!
"Mr. Evasion", B Side of "Defecting Grey" is very cool too,.Biting lyrics , great pace, offbeat chorus, a wilder psychedelia than most. "Defecting"must be one of the craziest choices for an A side of that era!
Agreed, definitely a crazy choice for an A-side.
@@YesterdaysPapers But that's what was great about the Pretties, they were edgy by instinct. When I first looked into them I was surprised how unsuccessful they were compared to their peers.
@@shadowstealer2790 Very true, they were always very edgy and anarchic. They were never afraid to take everything one step further.
@@YesterdaysPapers Yes, so true! Still find it hard to believe that a rock n roll monster like "Midnight to 6" only got to no.46!!Being the ace researchers you guys are , you've probably seen this gem but just in case you haven't th-cam.com/video/1dvxVE8LltA/w-d-xo.html
I think they wanted "Defecting Grey" to be a single mostly to break ties with the album "Emotions", which the band made unwillingly and only for contractual fulfillment. Anyway, I too agree with you all. Maybe "Mr. Evasion" would have charted better...
I'm in awe! Beatles, Floyd, The Moodies, The Pretty Things, The Nice, Tintern Abbey, Zombies... I bend the knee. We'll never see their like again!
And quite a lot of cool records failed to chart! Back then, charting a single was everything.
I was alive in 67, never heard of most of these groups or their songs. It must have been a British thing. Outside of the Moody’s, Beatles, Zombies and Pink Floyd it’s all new to me. Thanks...I think.
I didn't see "big in Scandinavia" coming as a precursor to "big in Japan"!
Yet another great video! Thank you!
Care of cell 44/ Maybe after he’s gone. Sit tight fellas in 30yrs the kids are gonna love it!
So many great songs, YP, I can't recall them all! Not a bad one in the lot, though Pink Floyd's Apples And Oranges is definitely the weaker of the Barrett era singles. That they appeared on US television promoting this one explains why it took them a few more years to crack that market, especially on that Dick Clark teeny bopper dance show. Fantastic Tintern Abbey track and The Artwoods deserved better, though trying to break into the amazing 60s singles charts was so difficult. It's always amazed me the lack of enthusiasm Nights In White Satin garnered upon first release, considering the song's status over the past 50 years. Perhaps just ahead of its time? The Pretty Things never crossed over into Canada, so my exposure to them didn't occur until about 1980, while working with a woman from Manchester. Such a great band, even their foray into Psychedelic was excellent as well as their PF Sorrow concept album. Finally, one of my all-time favourites who also suffered from disappointing sales - The Zombies. While it's always so easy to see vocals and keyboards as the focus of this group, they boasted one of the most creative rhythm sections of the time. One of my many joys in life has been seeing The Zombies during their 2017 tour to celebrate the release of Odessey and Oracle with the original band, less Paul Atkinson, playing the entire album live - something they never got to do in 1967/68. It was a fantastic show, and the band hadn't lost a step. The highlight for me being spending some time with Hugh Grundy and Chris White, discussing music and how critical drums and bass are to every band's sound. Very kind and thoughtful guys. So down to earth, they could have been the neighbours living across the street.
The Zombies definitely had a great rhythm section. Those bass lines from "Odessey and Oracle" are just as memorable as the vocal melodies.
@@YesterdaysPapers Absolutely! Few things make a song work better than a great bass line and Chris is a fantastic musician.
Penny Valentine was pretty spot-on - she deserves to be better remembered.
Which came first - Nights in White Satin or I (Who Have Nothing)? The lead melody is the same. Another great video. I look forward to these every week. Thank you. 🙂
Tickle.. that is Mick Wayne who broke his string when pumping out the Space Oddity solo and detuned the guitar, weirdly replicated by Mick Ronson on the 1984 floor show. He also broke his string.
I just love that there's a second part coming! This video is a treasure pile of singles.
Disc magazine had an American associate living in London.His name was Lon
YP, If you are going to take me back to November '67, could you leave me there next time please? A few of these tunes were merely good to my ears, but you found some 'choice quality stuff' as we were wont to say back in '67. And the Zombies still stood out as head and shoulders over the others. But the Pretty Things, Elmer Gantry (this album was released here in the US - ? - and later led me to the Strawbs) and Tintern Abbey (thanks again Great British Psychedelia Trip) are never far from CD player.
And I admire your patience with we buffoons who post comments. PP Arnold not Afro-American, or soul? Sometimes we let our prejudices stand between our ears and the music.
Film noir! (US) Kaleidoscope's 'Ballad of Tommy Udo' made me chase down "Kiss of Death" just to hear Richard Widmark say "squirt." (Research was a lot harder to do before the internet.) Hope Emerson was Mother in the Peter Gunn TV series, and Mancini's theme had a great, pre-British invasion riff. 'Living in the Past' seemed made to be my theme song even back in'69.
Them was the days!
Today I believe, 18th Nov 1967.
Recalling the time Hendrix as well as (the)Pink Floyd played @ the Salem Armory (OR.)
Cheap tickets-*Great Shows!!*
Very cool. Did Syd show up?
@@YesterdaysPapers
Can't recall with certainty but the question remains valid, did Syd ever *really* show up ? *LOL*
Syd!!
I'm from September 11, 1967.
In the month...
I can see for milles - The Who
Let me sleep beside you - David Bowie
The Bowie song came out on September 1, 1967.
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Exactly and it's a great theme
The title is "NIGHTS in White Satin", not KNIGHTS.
Never had any use for somebody else's reviews, opinions or commentary -- so, I never bothered myself with any of it. 🙂✌
Not John Lock but Lodge
Hello Goodbye was much better than I Am The Walrus musically.
Are you posting this for your gran
Felius Andromeda. Did David Bowie get influenced by this to some degree for Blackstar?
Was Felius Andromeda inflenced by Procol Harum's "Whiter Shade", and Matthew Fisher wearing a monk's outfit on TOTP?
The Nice sound a bit like Bowie here.
You know what we were doing in 1967? Not reading reviews.
What the pretty things did was 100% Punk. They never get the credit. The Ramones, pistols, Richard Hell or whoever always get the credit for punk.
You couldn’t get further from punk than the emotions album.
Lol those bands didn't invent shit. The 60's were pure magic. Damn near every genre was covered by the second part of the decade.
@@danieleyre8913 Blimey,I've always loved that album.Didnt know any one else had heard of it
@@randybackgammon890 I like the songs on emotions. Especially house of ten. But I’m not such a fan of the production, especially the brass section.
Yes, bloody great band
I really like Apples and Oranges, but it's certainly inferior to their other singles.
I Am the Walrus is out of this world. I don't care what people say though, I love Hello, Goodbye.
The Pretty Things' S.F. Sorrow is one of the best albums I've ever heard.
I learned something new today. I didn’t know Pink Floyd was originally called THE Pink Floyd.
What I like about your videos (apart from the superb music & rare video footage) is the obscure information imparted, eg 'Thoughts of Emerlist Davjack' (one of my favourite psychedelic singles) became the theme tune of a British TV series, 'Flames' was part of Led Zeppelin's early repertoire, 'Meditations' was recorded in a church, etc. Great research on your part, well done.
Thank you, Tom..
Some great singles including one or two I didn’t know, thank you! I’d completely forgotten that The Nice featured in Tyrant King. Thanks for the reminder of a very enjoyable series from my childhood. I connected with the series, because I travelled all over the underground by myself and visited the museums in Exhibition Road. “Follow the tyrant king … “ I count myself as lucky to have seen The Nice at the Fairfield Halls in Croydon. Keith Emerson played the venue’s pipe organ and asked the audience, “Do you think they’d mind if I stuck knives in this one?”
I know you must be busy, but these are never long enough or frequent enough for me. Your curation is amazing. I was aware of pop and psychedelic music at that time but was 10 years old and in Lake Tahoe with only two stations, where I got a taste of it, but nothing like what you present. Thank you for your enlightenment! I am a huge Syd Barrett fan and appreciate your acknowledgement of his brilliance.
what is the intro song?
For me this may be THE coolest site on the internet ! I am 72 ,and American who never got to hear the UK pirate. radio shows from pirate ships . Rock on !
The channel is totally fab! I'm British, but was only 8 at the time, and while many of the bands are familiar to me now, it's fascinating to see them and discover other acts.
Thank you very much, Jane!
Thank you very much, Pencipauli!
1967: my lifelong favorite year for music! 💖
The absolute zenith.
1971
Anyone out to pick on "I am the Walrus" should remember that John was inspired by Lewis Carroll, especially "The Walrus and the Carpenter" and "Jabberwocky", and how Charles Dodson experimented with English to make sentences that sounded like English but meant nothing, e.g., "’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves did gyre and gimble in the wabe."
So why IS the sea boiling hot?
S.F Sorrow is a masterpiece period.
The poster for the Hendrix/Move/Pink Floyd package tour also showed a band called The Eire Apparent...an Irish band, I believe, produced by Hendrix, who also played on their first elpee. I saw The Eire Apparent open for Eric Burdon and The Animals in the (very) old and (very) long-gone city auditorium in Jackson, Mississippi sometime in Spring '68. Eric Burdon and The Animals were touring in support of either "San Franciscan Nights" or "Sky Pilot." I forget which. But thanks for allowing me to dredge up memory!
Very cool, that must have been a great show.
Brill album..pop psych..j.h.plays on it also...they played here sept 68...J.H.EXP...V.FUDGE....
SOFT MACHINE and EIRE APPARENT...search album
Henry McCulloch was the lead guitarist. He once lived in a caravan outside my home town Enniskillen in Northern Ireland. My grandfather used to laugh recalling Henry playing guitar in the morning to the herd of cattle in the neighbouring field. Stoned, no doubt. No idea how the cows reacted to his playing. He went on to join Paul McCartney and Wings a few years later. RIP, Henry!
Weird to think that the girl shown dancing after the Moody Blues part is nearing 80 years old now.
Such a fertile scene that there just wasn't space for it all.
"The group hardly considered my reviews worth the paper they were written on" The shade 🤣😂 That does sound suspiciously like something Roger Waters would say 👀 Maybe I'm in the minority, but I've always loved "Apples and Oranges" I think it's really beautiful and whimsical. Your videos are a lovely way to start the week, YP. Stunning intro Music 💯❤
Thank you, Sophie! I've always really liked "Apples and Oranges" as well. Great song. I guess it was a bad choice for an A-side, though.
@@YesterdaysPapers Yep, I agree. It was a strange choice for an A-side 🍏🍊💖
Of the two songs on that record, I have to say I prefer Paintbox, which would have had a lot more commercial appeal. Perhaps Syd and Roger couldn't countenance the idea of a Rick Wright number being on the A-side.
I remember that final comment of Penny Valentine's very well - but from that day to this, I've never been able to decide whether she liked the final little flourish itself, or the fact that a record she plainly didn't much care for had finally come to an end.
@@Krzyszczynski Agree, great song; but Rick's "It Would Be So Nice" backed by Roger's "Julia Dream" had masses of commercial appeal, but bombed too. I think this is when they realised they were an "albums band".........
I don't know why Penny Valentine was so confused about the song's meaning. Syd himself is on record of saying that its about a time he followed a dolly bird from Barnes to Richmond where he was living at the time. It is amazing how unadventurous the journos of the day were when all this fantastic music was flying around.
Another great video, thank you!
The Pretty Things are one of the best bands from Britain. I thought they changed genre better than a lot of bands but their earlier records are some of the best proto-punk r&b you can get.
I also really enjoyed Apples & Oranges, I love Syd’s screeching fuzz-wah guitar.
This group and the Deviants were two groups from this time that got more respect in the Punk/New Wave era a decade later.
I shake my head when I see all todays TV talent shows knowing how little chance they have. This video is a textbook example of how many bands just disappeared off the scene no matter how much journos raved about them. At least they had some sort of chance unlike today where 99% of the artists who do win a talent show are forced to contract to SONY for 2 years and do what they are told. And lets not even start talking about miming on stage OR Autotune. Bands and artists used to travel, beat the boards and learn their craft. Today? Nope.
I had just turned 14 then. This was all very important to me; fun to look back on.
'I Am The Walrus' by The Beatles is a psychedelic masterpiece! Love that acid poetry by John Lennon, and the music is still trippy and weird as ever.
I'm 43 and I tripped out to the Beatles as a teen. Used to take a LOT of mushrooms lol
It is one of my very favorites by the Beatles (and Sir George Martin) and, for me, an astonishing and utterly unique work of aural-art. Mind-blowing…🦭💕
Agreed, "I Am the Walrus" is one of my all-time favourites by the Beatles. What an amazing song.
"...and here's another clue for you all, the Walrus was Paul."
@@YesterdaysPapers Any chance, with that fab Revolver remixing that just came out, you could look into a Yesterday's Papers around the release of that legendary Beatles album? I wouldn't dare make a request, it's just a thought. I'm so impressed by your curation and editing work. ☺
Truly an amazing year was 1967 and my favorite for music overall in the 55 years since,simply magical!
S.F. Sorrow. Hell yeah.
I was not too happy with apples and oranges either, gave it a miss and carried on listening to Piper. I am the Walrus is still great, and so are the Pretty Things, a truely great band. RIP Phil and some XPTs
Another fantastic episode for us pop music history buffs. At the time , I thought the British music scene was a little bit cooler than the US and Canada. Thank you.
I didn't know the now famous greats of this period had such piss poor charting success, especially Nights in White Satin, god damn! Also where did the Nights in White Satin in the video come from, it sounds slightly different..
It's from a live appearance on french TV in early 1968.
Thanks for don't forget about Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera. One of my loving bands from 60's. Fantastic 1st album. Very interesting video.
The Moody Blues bassist is John Lodge, not Locke.
Professional " journalists" should not be music critic's Apple's and Oranges was a great work as was Jugband Blues
Brilliant video, you must put in hard work to make it so good. I love Apples and Oranges and Beeside. Cities is an underrated Moody Blues B-side I think as well. Looking forward to a part 2. Thanks- Evan
Cheers, Evan.
I saw the Pretties and Pink Floyd on the same bill in Brighton, must have been very late 1968 - definitely after SF Sorrow had come out, anyway. (There was a third band as well, but despite regular brain-cudgelling I just can't remember who.)
That must have been a great show. Very cool!
Happy to see a song from the moody blues!!
A phenomenal album, which still has a very special place in my heart ♥️
Something about that song. I could almost imagine a maiden in medieval England singing the song beneath a tree lol.
This did not seem such a strong selection of new releases as your previous selection of monthly releases of cool British singles of 1967. But I thought there were two absolute gems among the lesser knowns (forget The Beatles). One of them was the Tintern Abbey one. This was their only release. But more recently, they had a CD compilation collecting their complete recordings, 24 in total which was a lot for a group who only released one single, booklet liner notes supplied by their surviving members. There were some unreleased gems on there, but tended to sound as though they needed finishing touches, which may have been done had this single been a hit, so they could have planned follow-up releases, possibly including an album.
There can surely be only one more in this series to cover December 1967, as come the following year, everything quietened down for the first six months, and a brief fifties Rock 'N' Roll revival boom was born. It was not until later that year, that Psychedelia seemed to return, but was evolving into Progressive Rock.
Maybe you could cover cool American made singles of this year, as in your series, you completely muted out the U.S. legends such as The Doors, Jefferson Airplane and Velvet Underground.
Too many people think 1967 was the birth of Psychedelia, and 1966 was the last year of The British Invasion before Psychedelia took over. But it was during 1966 that Psychedelia was starting to be felt in The States, while the British side of the Pop Rock world was still British Invasion based, but with occasional advancements. In the States, Frank Zappa recorded his first album Freak Out in March 1966, and it was one of the first double albums. Also that year, Bob Dylan released his first more ambitious project Blonde On Blonde, another of the first double albums; The Byrds released Fifth Dimension which was more advanced and Psychedelic than their previous albums; The Doors recorded their first album in August of that year, although it was not released until early 1967; The Great Society who were Grace Slick's first band recorded a highly Psychedelic live album that year, but it was not released until two years later, to cash in on her later success with Jefferson Airplane; and The Electric Prunes had their breakthrough U.S. hit late 1966 with their weird Psychedelic Rock anthem I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night, complete with thick oscillating guitar sound effects. It was also in 1966 that The 13th Floor Elevators released their first Psychedelic singles and album.
After december, I'll cover the first half of 1967, as these series started with cool British singles from June 1967.
I tend to think a better fusion of The Nice and ELP would have been a better version of ELP. But Keith wanted to be the Hendrix of keyboards so...
ELP have been kicked around for years due to their supposed "pomposity" & "self-indulgency". Truth is, they were creators of some of the most innovative and best music in the 70's with Tarkus and Brain Salad Surgery as prime examples.
The Zombies’ Odessey and Oracle is an amazing album, as is SF Sorrow by Pretty Things.
Wow. How nights in white satin failed to garner any love early on is astounding. A big part had to be poor promotion.
Except for the Beatles, one after the other mentioned here, we hear "The single failed to chart". There was such an embarrassment of riches from this period that even the ones that failed to chart are now highly regarded brilliant classics. They all deserved to be top 10 hits.
The singles chart changed a lot in 1967, probably because it was the beginning of the LP era and also because BBC Radio One took over and pirate stations were forced to shut down. In 1966, most of the songs on the singles chart were great songs that eventually became classics. But in 1967, crooners like Engelbert Humperdink, Vince Hill or Solomon King took the charts by storm as well as a lot of disposable crap and mediocre bubblegum pop.
Well _anything_ the Beatles put out was going to be a hit.
@@YesterdaysPapers Disc's review of the year called 1967 The Year Of The Big Boring Ballad, and by crikey they weren't far wrong. The nadir for me came earlyish in the year, when first Petula Clark (who otherwise made some pretty decent drama-ballads) and then Harry Secombe took that unremittingly awful Charlie Chaplin piece This Is My Song into the top ten.
@@Krzyszczynski Yes, I came across that article some time ago. It was an interesting. read. It just goes to show how much perceptions change over the years. Nowadays, everyone remembers 1967 as the year of psychedelia but back then everyone was complaining about all these crooners taking over the charts and getting all the attention.
@@YesterdaysPapers The charts were controlled a great deal by record companies and pay for play still existed in the UK and US (and still does, I think). The payola scandal in the United States was just a way of shutting down rock for a while (like PMRC was in the 1980's)
The Moody Blues: John Locke???? No, no, no. John Lodge is the base play in 1967 and forever after that.
You always fail to mention that, apart from Jon Lord and Art Wood,the Artwoods also featured Keef Hartley on drums, who later on went his own way and among other bands he was involved with, he also created his own band, the Keef Hartley Group.
Always thought that 1967 was thé years when every créative music were wrote ,thé following years were repeat them all.
14:10 Different Drum is reviewed in the press. The blurb states "A gal named Linda is featured..." "Not a hit, probably, but it's that bit different." I guess this is Linda Ronstadt's first taste of British music critics.
Great episode! I am amazed at how many brilliant singles failed to chart. How come? 'Nights In White Satin' reached number two in the Netherlands in January and February 1968! I liked to see the image of the single, exact the same is in my father's single collection! And what a fabulous single by Tintern Abbey! Thank you!
The Beatles were so far ahead of everyone else it's shocking. I like I am the Walrus and Hello Goodbye equally btw.
Best British single from 67 was Silence Is Golden by The Tremeloes. All the rest was just noise..
Love this channel. If there was a similar channel dealing with American singles at the same time it would be neat comparing the two.
What was going on in Britain and the Netherlands was much more far out that anything going on in the USA.
Agreed@@LannieLord
Nights in White Satin was and INSTANT Success with me. Moody Blues became my favorite group right then and got all their albums after that.
Best comment I've read, I too have everything that the Moodies recorded, plus Blue Jays, Justin Hayward,and also have I think every DVD released. Hi from Perth Australia 😎👋🎵🎶🎵
I read in a music magazine that it was an accidental hit. That DJs put it on to play because it was so long, so they could leave the room for a break lol.
I was a Moody fan from the first time i heard GO NOW!
@@RavenThom I hope your still a fan, but who in the world would stop being a moodies fan. 😎👋💕🎶🎵🎶🎵🦘
I wonder how much the demise of the pirate radio stations affected the charts
The Pretty Things were so good, still so underrated
Yknow I remember being pretty confused when I listened to SF sorrow for the first time. But I was absolutely blown away when I heard defecting gray. It’s so trippy, heavy and aggressive, it’s truly great.
An amazing song, no doubt.
Knights in White Saturn from the album Daze of Future Past.
Outstanding work, as usual!! Very professional presentation, with incredible lost footage and pics that suck one right into the period. November '67 has to be the peak of the UK psychedelic scene. I hope there's a part two--and if so, it would be great to hear "Have Some More Tea" by The Smoke, "Save Me" by Brian Auger & Julie Driscoll, "Man In A Shop" by The Marmalade, "Here We Go Round The Mulberry Bush/Coloured Rain" by Traffic, "Reason To Live" by Skip Bifferty, "World" by The Bee Gees, and "Looking Glass Alice" by The Bunch; I can't think of too many more singles that you didn't already cover here, so I really look forward to seeing what else you come up with!!! GREAT JOB!!
Quick question which single would you prefer to own Apples and Oranges or Nights in White Satin? Obviously Floyd if you are a record collector. Floyd third single very rare.
Ever since hearing "Pivate Sorrow" on John Peel, I've adored the SF Sorrow album. Follow-ups didn't rate too highly with us, but THAT album is in the Top 5 EVER!
I'd only been familiar with a few of these songs. That was a truly great year.
So many good singles that failed to chart back then. I mean the Zombies' Care of Cell 44 and Maybe After He's Gone is a GREAT two sided platter. How could that not chart? Bad distribution? And I love the clip you chose to go with the song. Caged (1950) is a terrific noir directed by John Cromwell. The lead actress, Eleanor Parker, was nominated for an academy award and won best actress at the Venice International Festival that year. The terrifying prison guard, Hope Emerson, a frequent noir heavy,, was nominated for best supporting actress at the Academy Awards. The film presents fairly both sides of the incarceration question---whether prisons actually rehabilitate anyone. At the end, Parker, having learned all the tricks of criminals during her prison stay, is now more equipped upon her release to become a real criminal. It is just about a perfect film noir.
YP your psychedelic journeys to the 60's are better than an acid flashback trip. Thanks so much.
Thanks, Willie! I love "Caged". I'm a big fan of the film noir genre.
@@YesterdaysPapers Film noir is a big influence on my film. My favs in no particular order are Vertigo (a color noir!) Touch of Evil, Kiss Me Deadly, Out of the Past, White Heat and The Lineup.
@@willieluncheonette5843 Love those films. A big favourite of mine, apart from the ones you mentioned, is "The Big Combo".
@@YesterdaysPapers You might be interested in my review of the Big Combo but please delete it after you've read it since this is outside the subject of your post.
Glad I saw, for the second time, THE BIG COMBO (1955) on CUNY TV last night. .Directed in fine style by Joseph H. Lewis, also responsible for My Name is Julia Ross (1945) and Gun Crazy.(1949). A real testament to a director who in 1938 and early 1940's was turning out six and seven bottom of the barrel quickies a year.
Basically the story line is a police lieutenant (Cornel Wilde) goes after a criminal (Richard Conte) whose wife (Jean Wallace) does not love him. Wilde hopes she will assist him in his quest. Conte, full of chirping, venomous confidence, gives the best performance I've ever seen from him. He's psychologically aware, cunning and ruthless. Brian Donlevy, Lee Van Cleef and Earl Hollman are all fine as Conte's minions as is the striking looking Helene Stanton as Wilde's stripper girlfriend. The only weak link, IMO, is Wallace who is a bit one dimensional in her acting.
From the dark opening alley chase sequence to the last shot in white fog, this is some kind of film. Cinematographer John Alton is universally praised for his style and The Big Combo might be his finest achievement. A claustrophobic tale filled with shadows, harsh facial lighting and spotlights. The whole film is an amazing exercise in painting with light (the title of his book). David Raksin's jazz influenced score is also perfect for the roller coaster twists and turns on the screen.
The Big Combo has everything--guns, killings, violence and torture. Oh, and toss in sexual perversity and homosexuality..There is a brilliant and brutal torture scene that is almost unbearable to watch, a startling and most likely unique for its time machine gun killing, and an inventive last scene that, due to budget limitations, was fashioned out of skeleton sets and the most meager of props. This marvelous little noir was shot in 26 days---give Joseph Lewis full credit here. Like Edgar G. Ulmer, another poverty row director, Lewis had the wonderful ability to create gems out of rubble.
Foster Hirsch is rapidly becoming one of my favorite commentators on noir. Last night he said " The Big Combo is a summation of noir themes" He is right; this late in the noir cycle film has everything. He also stated " There's not a normal, well adjusted character in the film." Spot on again.. Hero police lieutenants are supposed to be 100% good guys but here Wilde is anything but. In this respect The Big Combo reminds me of Kiss Me Deadly. Explosive melodramatic plot inhabited by flawed, unsympathetic characters. At one point in the program Hirsch, the author of 16 books related to film and theater, asked the host of the show, Jerry Carlson, a question because Hirsch wasn't sure himself. This is the kind of intelligent, humble man for whom I have the utmost respect and admiration.
If you yearn for a noir that touches all bases, look no further than The Big Combo .Very highly recommended
@@willieluncheonette5843 Great review, Willie. I enjoyed it. I actually wasn't aware that "Gun Crazy" was by the same director. I love that film, too.
14:02 Tony Visconti, the 'o' in Visconti is short, as in "on" or "off", not like in "cone".
Same guy that directed movies ?
@@terryenglish7132 No.
man I've always loved that [pretty things single
LOVE IT.... please do part 2
A great run through of great songs. Cherry red has just released two comps On Elmer Gentry’s Velvet Opera and Tinter Abbey. Really inspired to check them out now. Really enjoy this channel. Looking forward to every episode!
I have both the EP version and the album version of Magical Mystery Tour which featured both Hello Goodbye and I Am The Walrus, but for some strange reason, I was unaware that Hello Goodbye and I Am The Walrus was released as a single. The B side was infinitely better than the A side. I like Hello Goodbye but I always reckoned it was something that The Beatles could have written in their sleep. I Am The Walrus is a psychedelic classic, deliberately written with very obscure lyrics as a riposte to pretentious critics that would look for deep meanings in just about every one of their mid to late sixties releases. IATH is a tour de force of weirdness, brilliant recording tricks and an insistent beat that keeps you hooked. Its strangeness that somehow does sound deep and meaningful despite Lennon's attempt to take the piss. A fantastic record.
To be fair, "Walrus" did appear on the EP, on the LP, on the Film, and on the No.1 hit single, so maybe the thinking was that it had been given enough "airing" and something "non album" should be an A side as the fans had bought the song on the EP. Still got to number 1.
This is the month/year I was born. I only discovered Tintern Abbey in the last year and have listened to those to songs obsessively. That Zombies song is seriously underrated too,
Thank god for Justin Hayward.
He was good until 1978. The last Moody Blues album in 1978 called Octave was a big departure from the classic Moody Blues sound of their first 7 albums as this album had no Mellotron and it was replaced by synthesizers. It was also the last album with original keyboardist Mike Pinder.
I was 15! Some of the singles missed the mark as they were trying to be too clever! 'I Am a Walrus' is miles better than 'Hello Goodbye' but that was a safer bet when it came to radio plays. 'SF Sorrow' was picked up by Motown in the US where it was released on Rare Earth label. I was not a hit there either. 'Loneliest Person' was recorded by Marianne Faithfull a few years ago. Thanks.
Another excellent production!
It is worth noting that Flames by Elmer Gantry also had another airing on the 1968 compilation album, 'The Rock Machine Turns You On', which I believe was the very first of its kind.