50s Stars Who Tried To Adapt To The Psychedelic 60s [Part 2]
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- Part 2 of "50s Stars Who Tried To Adapt to the Psychedelic 60s".
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"After Beatlemania and the British Invasion bands, many rockers and crooners from the 50s struggled to find a success. However, some of them tried to adapt to the new trends. And there are some overlooked gems among the albums and singles they released. These are some of the 50s stars who tried to adapt to the psychedelic 60s." - เพลง
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There was one 50's artist, the Quarrymen, that with a name change, adapted quite well to the sixties.
Disagree as they were not major recording artists in the 50s.
They were simply of their time. A launching pad if you like.
@@steffanhoffmann8937 They were joking Stefan Mr Serious Hoffman
@@glenndouglas8822 Hmm! 🤔
I didn't see any laughing emoji so .....
@@steffanhoffmann8937 It's called a sarcasm joke...
@@glenndouglas8822 There was no indication to show it. I'll just take your word 😃
A more than worthy follow-up to part one, well done yet again! Fun fact: Dion and Bob Dylan are the only two non-Beatles on the cover of 'Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band' who are still alive.
Im surprised! I thought he didn't like that record.
Dion's a true survivor and outlasted most of his peers (still with us at 82). Beatles thought highly enough of him to put him alongside some of their inspirational figures on the Peppers cover. Had a resurgence in the late 60s a decade after he was a household name with Abraham, Martin and John. Pride of the Bronx.
I remember hearing Lou Reed's 1988 single, a fairly obscure record called "Dirty Boulevard" and wondering who the "black" background singer was that came in during the fadeout. I was later surprised to learn that he was white and even more surprised that he was Dion Dimucci. Everything on that record was stellar, though it was probably a little too grim to have made it very far up the Hot 100.
@@pcno2832 that album is called New York and it's a really stripped down rock n roll album. One of my favorites from Lou Reed
@@deanstanley2125 when he says record think he's referencing the single, Dirty Blvd, from that album's release
I love how charitable you are in describing the music. Instead of ridiculing all these former stars for being something they’re not, you instead compliment them for trying something different. Also, the drum sound on Sweet Pea is incredible
I still find it so fascinating how Elvis dropped from performances for nearly 10 years but was so popular already he came back without struggle
Because he was the king of Rock n Roll who completely revolutionized music forever.
"Before Elvis there was nothing." - John Lennon
Great story! How does this channel not have 500K subscribers? Totally original and super production values!
Thank you!
I put word of mouth about this channel on Facebook all the time
@@michaelrochester48 Greatly appreciated!
@@michaelrochester48 Thanks!
Nothing perfectly illustrates the shift in culture from the 50's to the 60's than the Tokens going from "The Lion Sleeps Tonight" to an album called "Intercourse".
Also surprised you didn't mention this: The Johnny Rivers album in question featured his version of "Positively 4th Street" which Dylan was quite fond of. Dylan said in his best selling book Chronicles: Volume One that he preferred Johnny Rivers' version of "Positively 4th Street" to his own recording of the song.
Dylan also highly regarded Tomorrow Is A Long Time as done by Elvis.
Dion is back! His last two albums "Blues with Friends" and "Stomping Ground" show that the guy who toured with Buddy Holly is still a vital talent.
@Mike Dial. Yes, indeed. Also, Dion toured the U.S. South with Sam Cooke. He wrote "Here in America" for Sam.
Dion's blues albums from the 2000s+ are really, really good. And in the 60s, when he wasn't being a silly boy with the substances, he came out with some great stuff, e.g. My Girl The Month of May.
Joe Bonamassa has been producing Dion's latest blues albums and put them out on his label I think.
Aussie band Jeff St John and the copperwine did a masterfull cover of the rotary connection song, teach me how to fly.. They made it their own and was a big hit in Oz in 1970.. Definitely worth a listen
Elvis's song "Edge of Reality" is great and relatively little known.
The '68 Comeback Special was a serious effort to get into the musical mainstream of the time, and I was fascinated to discover Elvis as a fantastic guitarist in it, especially in the song "Baby, What You Want Me To Do". When I was listening to this song in 1981, on a cassette my brother bought in New York, it was Heavy Metal to me.
Great video, YP! Thanks. 🤗
I'm not a fan of Elvis but I do really rate his comeback special. And yes, Edge of Reality is a excellent record for sure.
Still can't believe Elvis never toured outside North America.
@@gregwilliams3120 Colonel Tom Parker would have been arrested for being an illegal immigrant had he done so.
i love edge of reality
@@barbarakirk3064 That guy was like Elvis' Yoko. Too bad he couldn't have broken loose from that swindler.
it blew my mind. Dion at 82 released a record in 2021 Stomping Ground
And his voice is still really good.
Just saw him two days ago at the Keswick Theater. He turned 83 and still sounds good. He performed a few tracks from his latest album.
The Ventures had a psychedelic album- and the original material was pretty darn good!
The Chubby Checker track reminded me of the Chambers Brothers' Time Has Come Today.
Diana Dors! Who would believe it? Excellent series!
A really expansive and immersive edition of Yesterday's Papers. So much to unpack in this one. Feels like such a vast universe. Totally unique content for TH-cam. You're operating at masterclass level.
Thanks!
I love music history, especially this type of stuff that happened when I was too young to be able to pay close attention to what was going on. I was only aware of a few of these recordings. Interesting stuff.
It's fascinating the influence psychedelia had on so many existing artists back then - even Elvis, Chubby "Hendrix" Checker and the spectacular Diana Dors! Love your work! ✌
You forgot Frank Sinatra!
They had no choice. They were going nowhere.
50 years later, and uncovered gems still arrive from the 1960s. The same may be said in 50 years about the 2020s, but in 2060 they will be talking about the ground zero music explosion of 100 years ago . This channel is a learning experience.
I love these two episodes! Please do an episode of each artists albums. I’d like to hear more in depth episodes about each artist trying to reinvent themselves.
I agree!
Dion met John Lennon in New York before the Ed Sullivan Show and he also was on the Sgt.Pepper cover, which might have helped to restart his career a bit.
When Elvis came up in this video, I thought the song you were going to discuss would be "Long-Legged Girl (With the Short Dress On)", a 1967 single which featured a fuzz-tone guitar, a feature of some psychedelic recordings around that time.
Intercourse gives new meaning to the Tokens Lion sleeps tonight!!! I love Dion, but I had to laugh when I heard he did Purple Haze!
I really enjoyed this. There is never a dull moment with your videos.
"Edge of Reality" by Elvis is probably his best mid-60s effort (at least my fave and Suspicious Minds later on is a classic). A big thumbs up for your channel, I actually do want Yesterday's Papers, so keep the presses rollin'! Take care.
I purchased Realisation by Rivers last year and it’s a wonderful album.
Finally Edge of Reality is remembered. Great song...
Edge of Reality. Will always be one of my personal Elvis favourites. So well composed and arranged. x
This is extraordinary and totally fascinating! I thought I knew a lot about the sixties, but these two videos are a revelation! Thank you so much!!
A great follow-up to the first video. There are some cool sounding tracks and albums amongst these - I'm going to check out the psychedelic works of Dion, Del Shannon, Chubby Checker and The Tokens now, thanks!
Delighted to see a part 2 and Chubby Checker to get included. Wasn't aware of the Tokens lp, definitely worth investigating further. Thanks for another great video.
This is a great series, thank you very much! I´d be really interested in seeing an episode about stars of the 1960´s that made a successful comeback in the 1980´s while beeing pretty much wiped off the scene in the 1970´s. Three names come to my mind here: The Everly Brothers, Simon&Garfunkel and Roy Orbison.
"So Little Time" by Diana Dors is one of my absolute favorites. I had no idea Lou Reed actually wrote it. I love it even more now.
Haha. I actually find it cool that Les Reed wrote it.
I grew up listening to some of the artists featured when they recorded in the '50's and early 60's when my mom played them. I never knew they branched into Psychedelic. I need to check out more of Chubby Checker's stuff!
I remember this period in pop music well, since it was in my teenage years. It was painful watching all those 50’s has-beens desperately trying to keep up with the latest trend and failing. The psychedelic era produced some utterly cringe-worthy stuff.
Gene Vincent did Psych/Garage track "Bird Doggin". (1966) That was another criminally underrated gem
That "Kickin' Child" song is kickin'!! Love it!
Best Rock Archive channel on TH-cam-and videos like this are the reason why!
Thank you!
A fantastic part 2! These videos bring me incomparable amounts of joy. Thank you so much for the incredible effort to deliver such enlightening and entertaining content! I LOVE Dion's cover of "It's All Over Now Baby Blue" and your reference to the VU in relation to "Daddy Rollin'" is doubly interesting considering Lou Reed inducted Dion into the R&R Hall of Fame. I wonder if there was a more conscious connection there! Fascinating stuff, thank you!
Thank you very much! Glad you enjoyed the videos.
Superb little vignettes here love it !
Jan and Dean had “Carnival of sound” that was shelved by the label.
Excellent as Always ! 👍
Thanks for this amazing video. 🙂
Another terrific post that has us music lovers scurrying back to listen to tracks we missed. IMO that Elvis song Edge of Reality, although well sung, is not what I'd call psychedelic, although the 4 min film clip tries its best to create a kind of bizarro world. To my ears it's simply a ballad type song, although maybe I'm completely missing it here. On the other hand that Dion song, also the first time I'm hearing it, really has a heavy psyche sound. I remember that Johnny Rivers Hey Joe--they used to play it on the radio here in America. The Tokens' record label not releasing their album because they thought it was not commercial enough immediately reminded me of CBS not releasing the Clash first album here for the same reason. So we Yanks all thought Give "Em Enough Rope was the Clash's debut LP because that was released first here. It was not until 1979! that CBS/Epic got up enough courage to let us dishpans across the pond hold that masterpiece in our grubby little fingers. BTW didn't all those 50's hits by Muddy have an electric sound? Maybe acoustic with an electric pickup? I'm not a musician so.... just going by what I hear.
Yes, Howlin' Wolf and Muddy Waters pioneered electric blues in the 50s. But they didn't like the psychedelic arrangements on those two albums they did in the late 60s. They didn't like the wah-wah and fuzz pedals and the funky drum beats,
I think you're right actually. As interesting as a lot of this stuff is to listen to and as much as I really like a good vocalist, I feel like most true psychedelic music is largely instrumental. Stuff like Bitch's Brew from Miles Davis is way more psychedelic, to me. However I do appreciate a lot of this stuff and I was into a lot of the early stuff from these performers in my youth (80s kid here) and never knew what happened to them afterwards, so this was all really fascinating.
I just stumbled upon this great channel. the content is superb and fresh.
Thanks.
Even better than part 1!!
I’m loving the Dion stuff!
It’s new to me!!
Good job, like always!
My favourite one, so far. Brilliantly researched and presented
Great episode and a great theme! Thank you for your stellar work.
Wow, great information. Thank you.
Great video. Lots of interesting stuff to discover here.
Great vídeos !
I had no idea about Howlin Wolf and Muddy Waters going psych. I’ll lend a couple ears on these ones 🙂
I'd like to recommend the film "Why Do Fools Fall In Love". This bio-pic of Little Frankie Lymon shows that there was NO room in the 60s for 50s Rock n Roll stars.
Until Elvis Presley, Fats Domino & Sha-Na-Na in the later Sixties.
I’ve added everything you discussed, minus a few I already had, to my shopping list! What a great episode topic!
Thanks for posting! Kinda like getting clued in to some overlooked Treasures from the Past. Slipped below the radar at the time.
Thank you very much for this upload.please can we have more like this.thank you again.
Well done!! Dion has put out some great stuff over many decades. Nice to know some good lps to be watching for!!
Love this, thanks for doing these two videos. Would love to see more. The Frank Sinatra album from last video is a great listen.
Any chance of doing a video of 50s Stars Who Tried Their Hand At Recording Country Music?
thank you for the very interesting video!
8:48 It must have been around the time Dianna Dors recorded "So Little Time" that Jayne Mansfield recorded "Suey" accompanied by Jimmi Hendrix. The record was not a huge success, but I'm sure it's quite a collector's item given how Hendrix struck it big and Mansfield was "decapitated" (actually, only her wig was severed) in an auto accident the next year. To this day, the bar that hangs down below the bumpers of "lorries" in the USA to prevent such accidents is called the "Mansfield bar".
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Wow, these two videos are great! When I was a teenager, I used to stay up late at night, listening to the "oldies" station, so I thought I was familiar with a lot of the music of the 50s and 60s, but there were some great surprises in these videos.
I'd really like to point out The Everly Brothers 1968 masterpiece Roots, definitely their best, and one of the greatest country rock records, with some forays into psychedelia here and there for good measure
This Channel is the sickest ever, these vids are so interesting
Tommy roe had a fantastic top 10 hit 1971 called “Jam up and Jelly Tight”…One of the best horn driven Swamp rock hits ever
Follow up to Dizzy! As a child I thought he was singing 'Jam Roll and Gelignite'.
Rotary Connection had Minnie Riperton of Lovin You. Believe it or not, “electric mud” was the best selling Muddy waters album ever
I love this. I remember when I was in high school in the 60's a friend of mine coming to class and showing me his ElectricMud album. I had never seen anything so strange. But when I heard the songs I loved it.
I love that record, too. Great album.
Speaking of fuzz, change of habit is another cool late 60s elvis song. Not sure if it's exactly psychedelic though. Hank Marvin also used some fuzz towards the end of the 60s, which is interesting since he's usually known for a really clean and reverb-y sound
So thankful.
I saw Dion in concert with Creedence Clearwater Revival in 1969, and thought how weird it was that there were two artists with the same name, separated by a few years. Wonderful analysis here, and thanks for all the suggestions of songs/albums missed.
Dion's cover of "Purple Haze" is in all honesty one of the best covers I've ever heard. He took a rock song and sang it as if it were a love letter. It's stunning. Jimi always meant for it to be a love song and Dion did it a lot of justice.
Beautiful Sitar music, YP. Stay cool 💖
Thanks, Sophie! I agree, it's a great cover. He took "Purple Haze" and transformed it into an almost completely different song. Those are the best kind of covers.
@@YesterdaysPapers 💜💜💜
Yeah, Dion's sort of doing with Hendrix what Hendrix did with Dylan (Watchtower). Constant reflection and honest appreciation of each other's talents, a wonderful 60's trait and art form lost on today's copyist's copyists.
@@oleplanthafer7034 Yes "Watchtower" is another jewel of a cover to be treasured for sure. There was great respect amongst musicians back then.
This here is a superb version of Purple Haze. Love it
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I enjoyed watching both parts of this. If you ever want to do a part 3, here are some suggestions, including some female artists, which your first two parts didn't feature much of. All opinions are mine.
Gene Pitney - His 1968 hit single "(She's a) Heartbreaker".
Lesley Gore - Her 1967 single "Summer and Sandy".
Brenda Lee - Although she transitioned into a successful country music career after the British Invasion, listen to her 1964 single "Is It True?", recorded in England with Jimmy Page, later of a few psychedelic bands.
Not to mention Carlo Mastrangelo of the Belmonts who recorded a few tripped out singles as Endless Pulse! In the early 70s, name shortened to Pulse and released a full album with a more progressive sound!
Very educational.
Great stuff! Immediately after watching this looked up Electric Mud. Can understand blues purists like Muddy not liking it, but I love it. What a gem I've missed all these decades of not being aware of its existence. As well as other artists like Dion. Theres a dedicated Dion channel with some nice content too.
We need more episodes of this.
Diana Dors track So Little time was PRE Psychedelic.. 1964 - early use of the Fuzz . :)
Great vid - how about Part 3 - those who didn't try to adapt - must be some interesting music we've never heard
OMFG!
The Tokens' weird album!!!!
Yes, VERY Pet Soundsish! That is ... quite amazing stuff! I liked it, well ... what we were allowed to hear owing to YT's arseholery.
Thank you for this!
Thank you! Glad you enjoyed it.
💕 J. Rivers 🌊
Along with Checker, Waters and Wolf is Diddley's album Black Gladiator. Another interesting one is Don Covey's House Of Blue Lights. Though the title track is psychedelic, overall it's trying to fit in with Stones style blues rock.
There was this group of teenagers in the 50s called Tom and Jerry, they had a name change in the 60s but they did really well
Great tutorial!!!
William Shatner (of Star Trek fame) was not a recording artist, but he did record some albums. What is really hilarious is he recorded and sang The Beatles' song "Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds". You can watch the very psychedelic music video of him singing the song which it is uploaded on TH-cam. Try not to die laughing too hard when you see it!
This is cool seeing 50s artist trying to adapt to the psychedelic 60s. Artists aside, I'm sure there were some older people who were born in the 1910s and 1920s who were wanting to be "hip" and tried to adapt to the psychedelic 60s. I wish there were photos online on how they looked before and during the 60s. The 60s always fascinated me since style and culture changed dramatically
“Summer rain” was actually a big US hit for Johnny Rivers. And I always loved that jangly guitar after the line “…and the jukebox kept on playing Sergeant peppers lonely hearts club band.”
That and Poor Side Of Town are my favourites from Mr Ramistella
Did they have jukeboxes that played full albums in the late 60's? That line never made sense to me, because I only think of jukeboxes playing 45s.
@@robgronotte1 I vaguely remember seeing an album juke box, but just the one. Whether it was as early as '67, I can't remember.
There were jukeboxes that played EPs with 4 songs on. They were usually made only for jukebox use and not sold in stores. A very niche area of record collecting.
A little later, chronologically, but we can't ignore when even Barbra "Babs" Streisand tried her hand at attempted "Hipness"! She put out a couple of albums in the early and mid 70's that included several brilliant Laura Nyro penned folk-rock songs, a chilling, gospel infused cover of John Lennon's "Mother", and perhaps most baffling of all, David Bowie's "Life On Mars" which, apparently, he utterly adored!
These mini documentaries are awesome. Are you a professional writer? This must be a side gig for you?
I am 26 and my boss plays 'Teenager in Love'. I had to stop and play it through before coming back. I love that tune
Keep this series going! Maybe Georgie Fame?
That 1968 Dion album is classic. Really good originals like sun fun song and he looks a lot like me. Scott Walker even called it the beat pop record ever back upon release.
The Diana Dors track is one I'll have to look up! One you missed: Gene Pitney's late-60s gem "Heartbreaker".
Had never heard that Elvis song before until now. Very interesting!
The Tokens "It's a happening world" has some great psych elements which was released before Intercourse. Check out the song "How Nice"
That LP was on Warner Brothers so it was widely available.
I like to think of Bobby Vinton as another pre-British invasion artist who had successes in the later 60's, except he really didn't change his style at all or experimented. He had the last #1 song on Billboard before Beatlemania swept the charts.
This is a great education
Bravo!
Dick Rowe at Decca Records in London wasn't the only guy to turn down the Beatles. Atlantic Records in New York turned them down as well.
It was Tommy Roe, who, after returning from the UK tour with the Beatles, carried tapes of the Beatles around to try to get American interest. No takers. FAME Records in Muscle Shoals turned them down as well!!
Which is how they ended up on Vee Jay and Swan.
@@themoviedealers But I'm not sure if Tommy Roe had anything to do with that story.
But, just think: Tommy Roe was, in all likelihood, the very first person in all of America to actually own recordings of the Beatles. That's astonishing.
Brenda Lee did the same thing after after touring Europe with the Beatles as her opening act. She taped them and brought the tapes back to her record company and they weren't interested. They told her that sound would never sell in America!
Electric mud is one of my favourite albums from the 1960s
Johnny Rivers' Realization is one my favorites. His version of Whiter Shade of Pale is lovely.
great!