He IS nice and chill, But he IS a musician and we musicians have STRONG opinions about music NO MATTER how popular a record is we can still find "problems" with it. Does it make us right? HELL NO. Artists tend to be temperamental gatekeeping shmucks!, LOL. But DIFFERENT temperamental gatekeeping shmucks keeps music alive.
I think Paul mentioned that Ringo was very straight about what he thought. I think it was a recent interview maybe with Johns son. Something about how he told fans to f*ck off when they visit his home. I think.
I was aware December/January is traditionally a dead spot for releases, but, watching this video, I am still partially in shock to see that was even the case way back in the '60s. The Beatles actually ended up subverting that norm for a while by always releasing close to the holiday season.
Ringo, what a crank!! Trashing the Shangri Las, just crazy!!! Yesterday, that closing track you did was awesome! Killer guitar tone!! Great job!!! Cheers!!
Cranky Ringo is almost as much fun as cranky Ray Davies. Jack Jones's "Dear Heart" went to #30 on the US Hot 100, and #2 on US Adult Contemporary, but Andy Williams's went to US #2 on the US Hot 100. Interestingly, both of their 45s had the same song on their B sides. The charts you show on this video are phenomenal, and they prove why London was the center of the pop music and rock and roll universe in the 60s.
Apart from that great track by The Daylighters & Leader of the Pack, Ringo was given a pretty duff selection of records for his ‘Blind Date’. Unsurprising that the hilariously named ‘Alan Dean And His Problems’ didn’t set the charts on fire with that particular offering!
Those two are definitely the best songs of the bunch. I kinda like the Alan Dean song, though. But then again I like pretty much anything Joe Meek produced in the 60s. Love that sound.
@@YesterdaysPapers I do like the Joe Meek sound from that period, very bright & ‘zingy’… just found it difficult to get past Alan Dean’s problems! I thought Ringo was spot on when he said of The Daylighters disc: “being good, it won’t sell”… so true, & one of the great mysteries of pop!
I remember when that song came out. My older sisters thought it had something to do with Beatle Ringo (since in those days there were a number of records coming out that were about the Beatles or somehow hoped to tap into the Beatles phenomenon). Even though Lorne Greene's record had nothing to do with Beatle Ringo, I'm sure any confusion about the subject of the song only helped make that record a hit. I wonder what Ringo would have thought of "Ringo".
Thank you, Sophie! Amazing that a blues song like "Little Red Rooster" reached the charts, isn't it? It reached number 1 a couple of weeks before this Blind Date was published. Those were definitely different times.
The way I see it, Ringo might have been impolitic but he called them as he heard them, and frankly, they handed him off a load of tripes to review anyway! My complements to Mr. Starkey, known as the best back beat in the business, and right on in his commentary on these (mostly) third -rate records! Great show as always, Y.P.!
Lol I love Ringo “It won’t sell” Leader Of The Pack was a number 1 hit on billboards top 100. The “It sounds like he was given 25 cents an hour to make a record” for that other song made me laugh lol
I had to hear Leader every hour on AM, and after five plays I was ready to boycott radio. As a teen, those teen dramas made me want to wretch. But I still enjoy Walkin' in the Sand and Give Him a Great Big Kiss.
George, the Quiet Beatle, John the Intellectual Beatle, Paul the Cute Beatle and Ringo the Snappin' Bad Beatle ! Must have been in a bad mood to not realize Leader of the Pack was going to hit big. The TV scene w the motorcycle is from I've Got a Secret TV show. Betsy Palmer and another actor on the panel did a cold dramatic reading of the lyrics before the panel asked questions. The secret was it was a teenage pop song , not a play etc.as the lyrics imply.
Got to love Ringo! The Candy and the Kisses Record 'Do the 81' was an early Kenny Gamble composition and is popular on the Northern Soul to this day (fan record even if it rips off Martha and the Vandellas 'In my lonely Room')
YP, Thanks for posting the charts at the end which reminded me why my ear was attached to my radio back in '64. I don't think that Ringo was as brutal as some folks have posted. He was evaluating chart potential - without much negativity - but he did make it clear which songs he disliked. The Beatles sure seemed to like American r & b, even girl groups like the Shirelles, but not Jack Jones nor Pat Boone. I was subjected to 'Leader' hundreds of times on AM radio, and I loathed it as I loathed all that teen drama bogus reality. On the other hand, I loved 'Walkin' in the Sand' and 'Give Him a Great Big Kiss' by the Shangri-Las. Your commenters seem to be ignoring that most girl groups were really the creation of their producers (how many groups did Darlene Love sing lead on for Phil Spectot?). The Shangri-Las recorded for Red Bird (first single release, I think, was 'Chapel of Love by the Dixie Cups which also makes me cringe) which was started by Leiber and Stoller (okay, a major cut above most writer/producers). The producers picked out the material. Sorry, I just hated teen drama song (Tell Laura I Love Her, ...), so I am going over the deep end here. I was unfamiliar with the Daylighters (but I am familiar with 'Can I Get A Witness' the basis for the single), and I really liked it. And I can see why Ringo, based on Beatles cover tunes, did too. And I love Petula's 'Downtown.' maybe the best thing here.
Can't recall any of these even vaguely, so have to say while Ringo might seem to be harsh, he is also spot on about this variety not making the charts.
Well it seems he was not given too many gems to review although I do like the Shangri- Las and always associate it with Kenneth Anger's ground breaking film, Scorpio Rising, the first to use all pop songs on the soundtrack. "Sounds like an English tambourine player as well...." Lol....Must say Alan Dean & His Problems is a very funny band name. I like it.
This might be the first Blind Date recommending a record for a specific dance. Makes sense since Ringo was all about the beat. He could probably do the Monkey like crazy!
YP stands out from the other YT Brit Invasioners as your choices are unique and don't insult your viewers by talking down to us! Thank you for this..Ringo's reviews are definitely honest (although I love L.o.t.p) (Didn't know Little Red Rooster hit 9 back then..great blues tune).
Thank you, Suzanne! I appreciate your words. "Little Red Rooster" actually reached number 1 in the UK a couple of weeks before this Blind Date. It was a major achievement at the time 'cause it was the first blues song to ever reach number 1 in the UK.
boy, ringo being a little to critical on a lot of these performers i thought, i liked a lot of these records. i guess when you are a beatle you expect nothing but perfection in the music field. thanks for sharing this, enjoyed it!
1964 was a great year for the Beatles. From their appearance on Sullivan in February, a world tour and a hit movie, they were untouchable. Ringo had quite an obnoxious mix of records to comment on. He didn't bite his tongue, either. Honest and straight forward opinions.
This is actually kind of refreshing. Instead of worrying what his opinion might do to the song's chances, he just gave it. He does come across as easily annoyed.
@@djhrecordhound4391 Funny! Didn’t know the Bonanza theme had lyrics. I’ll look for it on YT. I wonder how many non singing actors got a chance to make a record then? William Shatner is probably the most famous one. He recorded an LP , if I remember correctly, and of course his cover of Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds is a camp classic.
@@goplad1 I think most people who have read my comment recognize the ironic/sarcastic/snarky intent. Perhaps I should have made it more obvious for you alone.
Ringo should have been an A&R man...no matter what it was, "it won't sell!" Seriously, it's quite interesting how many comments he had about the songs' arrangements, singling out the trumpets here and the guitar solo there, not to mention that English tambourine player.
That surprised me. I thought Ringo would go soft on the December releases but instead he was really quite harsh. The only one he seemed to like was the Billy Fury single, but he still gave it a "miss". I suppose I can understand trashing the Shangri Las song as it probably came over as a novelty record on first listen, or perhaps a tad too morbid.
“Leader of the pack” went to number one in the United States so it wasn’t a load of rubbish! One of their earlier songs, “remember walking in the sand” actually had a teenage Billy Joel playing piano. I asked Christie Brinkley and she said it was true. Shangri Las Where among the baddest bad ass girl groups
The British Invasion groups were so much more interesting and rocking than those corny girl groups. The girl groups were interchangeable chicks singing about going on malt shop dates. No wonder the Beatles and Stones and Kinks and Animals and Hollies wiped them out.
@@buzzawuzza3743 Agree. Not to mention no songwriting talent and most of them only sang and didn’t play instruments. Not even in the same hemisphere as the groups you mentioned.
Bang on! I adore the Shangri Las. John Lennon must've liked them, because his unfinished song "Free as a Bird" quotes directly from "Remember (Walking in the Sand)". The line that goes 'Whatever happened to / The life that we once knew'. The Shangri-Las version was 'the boy that I once knew'.
@@buzzawuzza3743 They were not corny at all. The Shangri La’s and the Ronettes were a cut above a lot of the female groups…And the British invasion produced many female singers that did not exactly bring on the electric guitar. Petula Clark a wonderful singer is an example
Oh dear, a few too many “No No Songs” for Ringo! 🤣 I found this interesting though because as the Charts prove, until The Beatles exploded onto the scene, the music (with very few exceptions) was mediocre at best. In a few short years, those lads not only dominated the charts, they created a wonderful musical legacy that will endure for generations to come. Thanks YP, fabulous as always.
Well, in 1963 the Surfaris, Ricky Nelson, The Beach Boys, The Impressions with Curtis Mayfield, The Miracles with Smokey Robinson, The Chiffons (who George apparently liked), were already going strong, so it wasn’t totally bleak. 🎉
Wonder if Ringo knew that Bonanza's Lorne Green recorded a song titled Ringo. Would have loved to hear fab4 Ringo's take on it. He was brutal but spot on!
Especially with someone like Ringo Starr it would make a big difference when you would hear and see him review. It must have been a bit tongue in cheek, here and there. I doubt if he still thinks the same about Leader of the Pack as he did then. Great song.
i love it ! beatles...fame ...beatles ....she loves you ...hard days night ...ect other bands were going to have to sound pretty damn good at this stage of ringo's ear career
a bit random but many years ago as a kid i caddied for Bob Miller (one of the records reviewed), he was a very nice guy. I cant find any info on what happened to him
Ringos wife Maureen was one of the prettiest ladies in all of Rock and Roll. She was so pretty, when Frank Sinatra heard she was a fan, he recorded a song just for her of which only 8 copies existed. The record became Apples first ever catalog number 00000000001.The song idoliuzes Maureen at the same time takes playful insults at the Beatles to rub it in she was his fan and not theirs. They loved it. All copies were destroyed except for one and when she died it was digitized and you can hear it today. TH-cam search "Maureen is a Champ".
Frank was stubbornly resistant to then-current styles of music and bands..until the late 60s of course. Even the manager for his label Reprise advised him to sign some new rock and pop artists or else have his label sink!
One problem, the sound quality of this track is terrible, could not have been recorded for a serious release, unless the master tape of it still exists in much better sound quality. Sung to the tune of Lady Is A Tramp.
Lee Curtis and The All Stars regularly played the Cavern alongside The Beatles. Pete Best even joined them for a while after The Fab Four sacked him. Ringo really putting the boot in on this one
Lorne Green's Ringo had absolutely nothing to do with Ringo Starr. Why would he cover the song? He certainly couldn't improve on it being the fact he couldn't sing.
@@goplad1 Good one, Captain Obvious! It's called "speaking figuratively" and "imagination". Shows you don't even know the song at all--it's spoken ("rapped").
Much Ringo love for The Wall of Sound. Man, did ever draw the short straw this week. Surprised to hear the Jazz 625 Theme come up (which he knew). It and the show are referenced in the Propellerheads track. th-cam.com/video/yzLT6_TQmq8/w-d-xo.html
Hahaha, totally fooled me. I thought Ringo would be so nice and chill. He was brutal!
He IS nice and chill, But he IS a musician and we musicians have STRONG opinions about music NO MATTER how popular a record is we can still find "problems" with it. Does it make us right? HELL NO. Artists tend to be temperamental gatekeeping shmucks!, LOL. But DIFFERENT temperamental gatekeeping shmucks keeps music alive.
He was chill. Those were nearly all crap records.
I think Paul mentioned that Ringo was very straight about what he thought. I think it was a recent interview maybe with Johns son. Something about how he told fans to f*ck off when they visit his home. I think.
Honesty is not "un nice"
@@mr.brenman2132 Correct! It was a critique of records, an opinion and that's all.
In Ringo’s defense, that does seem to be a rough month for new music 😆
True…true…and The Beatles were on top with “I Feel Fine” that month 😁😁😁
I was aware December/January is traditionally a dead spot for releases, but, watching this video, I am still partially in shock to see that was even the case way back in the '60s. The Beatles actually ended up subverting that norm for a while by always releasing close to the holiday season.
@@CC007 My Billy is awesome
“ The 81” was a local hit in Phila PA. I am surprised he reviewed it.
Well, you've got Orbison, the Kinks, the Searchers, Gerry and the the Pacemakers, Brenda Lee and..Lorne Greene..Lorne Greene? Lol
So Ringo was the true quality control guy in The Beatles. Who knew?
Ha ha - the reason Paul had to release "Junk" during his solo career!
Ringo didn't have the "peace and love" for a lot of these performers! 😄
Ringo, what a crank!! Trashing the Shangri Las, just crazy!!!
Yesterday, that closing track you did was awesome! Killer guitar tone!! Great job!!! Cheers!!
Thank you, Jon! Glad you dug it.
Nothing but the truth just rubbish
Ringo was wrong about this song. If I am not mistaken it went to number 1.
@@waynejohanson1083 Yes, it was a huge hit both in the States and in the UK.
Cranky Ringo is almost as much fun as cranky Ray Davies.
Jack Jones's "Dear Heart" went to #30 on the US Hot 100, and #2 on US Adult Contemporary, but Andy Williams's went to US #2 on the US Hot 100. Interestingly, both of their 45s had the same song on their B sides.
The charts you show on this video are phenomenal, and they prove why London was the center of the pop music and rock and roll universe in the 60s.
Apart from that great track by The Daylighters & Leader of the Pack, Ringo was given a pretty duff selection of records for his ‘Blind Date’. Unsurprising that the hilariously named ‘Alan Dean And His Problems’ didn’t set the charts on fire with that particular offering!
Those two are definitely the best songs of the bunch. I kinda like the Alan Dean song, though. But then again I like pretty much anything Joe Meek produced in the 60s. Love that sound.
@@YesterdaysPapers I do like the Joe Meek sound from that period, very bright & ‘zingy’… just found it difficult to get past Alan Dean’s problems! I thought Ringo was spot on when he said of The Daylighters disc: “being good, it won’t sell”… so true, & one of the great mysteries of pop!
That Billy Fury one was ok-ish. I mainly know Billy from Lemmy talking about him.
I'd heard about Alan Dean & His Problems on a podcast and thought it sounded like a strip in Viz magazine!
@@YesterdaysPapers Kudos to Ringo for noticing how it sounded like the Honeycombs though. He must've recognized Meek's production.
Still funny as hell 58 years later. Go Ringo!
Ringo told most of these to Peace Off. Great work again thank you so much.
Finally! I had been awaiting as to whether or not there was one of these out there. Thank you for obliging me!
Richard Starkey still with us! And of course Sir Paul! ( Sounds if he's been given a quarter of an hour to make a record 😆)
Ringo being a Savage back in '64. Little hungover maybe....but except for one obvious he was mostly correct.
More Beatles means more HITS for you. Thanks for the upload. : )
I can't stop laughing. Lighten up Ringo!😅 Anyone else notice Lorne Green's "Ringo" was #34 on the Chart???
Ha. Nice catch.
I believe it was about the gunslinger, Johnny Ringo.
@@delbertstringbreaker7686 no matter how bad it might of been, couldn't have been worse than the no no song.
My dad liked that song. He said it was good to milk cows to. (the snare sounds like a milking rythmn).
I remember when that song came out. My older sisters thought it had something to do with Beatle Ringo (since in those days there were a number of records coming out that were about the Beatles or somehow hoped to tap into the Beatles phenomenon). Even though Lorne Greene's record had nothing to do with Beatle Ringo, I'm sure any confusion about the subject of the song only helped make that record a hit. I wonder what Ringo would have thought of "Ringo".
"Is it Pat Boone? Goodbye, Pat Boone."
Richard knows what's up.
Pat "The Godfather of Soul" Boone
Yeah I don't know why they selected Pat Boone song. By the time of the British Invasion in the US Pat Boone was dead
That was hysterical!! “What rubbish!”…”Turn it off!”…”It won’t sell!!!”. 😂😂😂
"Goodbye Pat Boone"....
That Daylighters track is pretty ferocious for 1964!
The track was known as the Uncle Willie, and it was a dance. For some reason it was popular in Europe.
@@tomc642 Imagine trying to teach the dance without severe suspicion from its name alone 😆
Ringo is brutal fun, “peace and love”
"This is another group doing a Honeycombs" Oh Ringo. Deary me 🤦♀😂 The Stones "Little Red Rooster" at #9 😍 Great video and outro music as always, YP 💖
Thank you, Sophie! Amazing that a blues song like "Little Red Rooster" reached the charts, isn't it? It reached number 1 a couple of weeks before this Blind Date was published. Those were definitely different times.
@@YesterdaysPapers 100% agree, YP. I think many people don't really grasp how innovative The Rolling Stones were. Different times for sure :)
"The trumpets are getting wine dead trying to keep up with her" (on Joanie Sommers) LMAO!
'I don't like it. Take it off! - Thats what I said when I first heard 'Don't pass me by' 😂
True that! Lol
But they didn't put it out as a single.
That is what I say to just about any song Ringo caterwauled on! Good drummer but a lousy singer.
What goes on...In your mind!!!
@@aw-h3875 What Goes On is arguably the worst Beatles song in their catalog. You can do better than that!
Ringo's pained and/or sarcastic double thumbs up says it all really
I was a child and did some childhood things. Bad things and good things. A sincere apology for everything.
Amazing video 👍😉
I think Ringo was spot on. Funny the amount of tempo related remarks. He would be best qualified for those.
i always thought of Ringo as being the nicest beatle. (my favourite is Paul, but still.) Perhaps he was in a bad mood when he did this. 😅
😅🤣😂
Ringo was a boozer in those days so perhaps he was hungover.
@@goplad1 golly! poor rings. that'd explain it, though, hypothetically.
Bad mood nothing. These songs pretty much sucked and he just said so.
@@brucedillinger9448 Regardless of that he came off like an obnoxious jerk. Mr. Happy Go Lucky my a@*!
The way I see it, Ringo might have been impolitic but he called them as he heard them, and frankly, they handed him off a load of tripes to review anyway! My complements to Mr. Starkey, known as the best back beat in the business, and right on in his commentary on these (mostly) third -rate records!
Great show as always, Y.P.!
...choosing which song to select on the radio (or listen to on an 8 track) was something I could do without anyone's input. 😎
Lol I love Ringo “It won’t sell” Leader Of The Pack was a number 1 hit on billboards top 100. The “It sounds like he was given 25 cents an hour to make a record” for that other song made me laugh lol
I had to hear Leader every hour on AM, and after five plays I was ready to boycott radio. As a teen, those teen dramas made me want to wretch. But I still enjoy Walkin' in the Sand and Give Him a Great Big Kiss.
LOL, "Ringo" (Lorne Green) hits the charts.
George, the Quiet Beatle, John the Intellectual Beatle, Paul the Cute Beatle and Ringo the Snappin' Bad Beatle ! Must have been in a bad mood to not realize Leader of the Pack was going to hit big. The TV scene w the motorcycle is from I've Got a Secret TV show. Betsy Palmer and another actor on the panel did a cold dramatic reading of the lyrics before the panel asked questions. The secret was it was a teenage pop song , not a play etc.as the lyrics imply.
@@MrPercy112 ? Certainly not "charmless" since of the four , he was , if not someones " Favorite Beatle" , he was their second.
“American trying to sound English never works!” Hear that Green Day
Agreed. They always sounded like The Jam to me. 😤
“This sounds like an English tambourine player as well.”
I don’t know what that means but it sounds damning.
Interesting episode. Most of these songs my uncles and dad listened to. 🤙
Got to love Ringo! The Candy and the Kisses Record 'Do the 81' was an early Kenny Gamble composition and is popular on the Northern Soul to this day (fan record even if it rips off Martha and the Vandellas 'In my lonely Room')
Love all of these but especially Ringo doing it!
These are always a treat but poor Ringo what a load of stinkers. My first Xmas too 😂
not Billy
YP, Thanks for posting the charts at the end which reminded me why my ear was attached to my radio back in '64. I don't think that Ringo was as brutal as some folks have posted. He was evaluating chart potential - without much negativity - but he did make it clear which songs he disliked. The Beatles sure seemed to like American r & b, even girl groups like the Shirelles, but not Jack Jones nor Pat Boone. I was subjected to 'Leader' hundreds of times on AM radio, and I loathed it as I loathed all that teen drama bogus reality. On the other hand, I loved 'Walkin' in the Sand' and 'Give Him a Great Big Kiss' by the Shangri-Las. Your commenters seem to be ignoring that most girl groups were really the creation of their producers (how many groups did Darlene Love sing lead on for Phil Spectot?). The Shangri-Las recorded for Red Bird (first single release, I think, was 'Chapel of Love by the Dixie Cups which also makes me cringe) which was started by Leiber and Stoller (okay, a major cut above most writer/producers). The producers picked out the material.
Sorry, I just hated teen drama song (Tell Laura I Love Her, ...), so I am going over the deep end here.
I was unfamiliar with the Daylighters (but I am familiar with 'Can I Get A Witness' the basis for the single), and I really liked it. And I can see why Ringo, based on Beatles cover tunes, did too.
And I love Petula's 'Downtown.' maybe the best thing here.
Can't recall any of these even vaguely, so have to say while Ringo might seem to be harsh, he is also spot on about this variety not making the charts.
Damn, Ringo - shots fired! Lol harsh bro. Rough Stuff folks
The Beatles was (and still is) the King of Pop and he was feeling like everyone else was beneath them.
Well it seems he was not given too many gems to review although I do like the Shangri- Las and always associate it with Kenneth Anger's ground breaking film, Scorpio Rising, the first to use all pop songs on the soundtrack. "Sounds like an English tambourine player as well...." Lol....Must say Alan Dean & His Problems is a very funny band name. I like it.
Hahaha! Awesome band name.
Strong mead from Ringo!
"I don't like it. Take it off. It wil never be a hit".
Tell us you really think Mr. Starky!
Hadn't heard of some of them. I was thousands of miles away, in Madrid Spain. A gear flash back.
Goes to show you that, you can’t be afraid to go with your gut. I only did that as confidently much later!
This might be the first Blind Date recommending a record for a specific dance. Makes sense since Ringo was all about the beat. He could probably do the Monkey like crazy!
Wow. Ringo must be the harshest critics ever on this channel. Can't say he is wrong either.
He runs John Lydon on Juke Box Jury a pretty close second...
YP stands out from the other YT Brit Invasioners as your choices are unique and don't insult your viewers by talking down to us! Thank you for this..Ringo's reviews are definitely honest (although I love L.o.t.p) (Didn't know Little Red Rooster hit 9 back then..great blues tune).
Thank you, Suzanne! I appreciate your words. "Little Red Rooster" actually reached number 1 in the UK a couple of weeks before this Blind Date. It was a major achievement at the time 'cause it was the first blues song to ever reach number 1 in the UK.
@@YesterdaysPapers Wow! And what a fab song it was too!
Little Red Rooster made it to the top of the charts.
"Is that Pat Boone? Goodbye, Pat Boone."
boy, ringo being a little to critical on a lot of these performers i thought, i liked a lot of these records. i guess when you are a beatle you expect nothing but perfection in the music field. thanks for sharing this, enjoyed it!
Man- Ringo didn’t like Leader of the Pack- Love that tune!
Ringo was off the mark with Thunder And Rain. Great song, great sound.
I like that song, too. Great Joe Meek production.
@@YesterdaysPapers He was such a brilliant and overlooked producer.
I have never seen the Dave Clark 5 being reviewed on this channel.
1964 was a great year for the Beatles. From their appearance on Sullivan in February, a world tour and a hit movie, they were untouchable. Ringo had quite an obnoxious mix of records to comment on. He didn't bite his tongue, either. Honest and straight forward opinions.
Geez Ringo, you're making John look like the positive one. Something tells me he wasn't so fond of these songs:)
I liked the 81 by Candy 🍬 & The Kisses 💋 ... Should have been a hit !
Love that song, too. Great tune.
Is that the one that nicked the melody from “In My Lonely Room “ by Martha and the Vandellas ?
@@calvinguile1315 Yep, very similar melody.
Big with the Mods.
This is actually kind of refreshing. Instead of worrying what his opinion might do to the song's chances, he just gave it. He does come across as easily annoyed.
The Candy and the Kisses 81 and the Daylighters were big highlights here. Zoot Money covered the latter very well.
Agreed. Those two and "Leader of the Pack" are the best of the bunch.
Relentless Ringo!! 😆
Ringo was totally wrong about Leader Of The Pack and "The 81"...Both major hits in America
Gotta agree with Ringo, quite a sad-sack group of records
I loved the name of the band 'Alan Dean and his Problems', but that was probably the best thing about them.
Look! One of the Beatles has reviewed our single...oh...oh dear....
Too bad Ringo didn't get a chance to review the Melody Maker #34 hit, "Ringo" by Lorne Greene!
Funny enough, the flipside of that 45 was the Bonanza Theme, with Lorne singing its lyrics. The TV show version was instrumental
@@djhrecordhound4391 Funny! Didn’t know the Bonanza theme had lyrics. I’ll look for it on YT.
I wonder how many non singing actors got a chance to make a record then? William Shatner is probably the most famous one. He recorded an LP , if I remember correctly, and of course his cover of Lucy In The Sky With Diamonds is a camp classic.
Lorne Green's Ringo had nothing to do with Ringo Starr. What could he have said?
@@goplad1 I think most people who have read my comment recognize the ironic/sarcastic/snarky intent. Perhaps I should have made it more obvious for you alone.
@@deirdre108 Nice backpedaling. Your comment has no hint of sarcasm at all.
Ringo should have been an A&R man...no matter what it was, "it won't sell!" Seriously, it's quite interesting how many comments he had about the songs' arrangements, singling out the trumpets here and the guitar solo there, not to mention that English tambourine player.
Well, quite the buzz kill are we Ringo? 😆
That surprised me. I thought Ringo would go soft on the December releases but instead he was really quite harsh. The only one he seemed to like was the Billy Fury single, but he still gave it a "miss". I suppose I can understand trashing the Shangri Las song as it probably came over as a novelty record on first listen, or perhaps a tad too morbid.
Yeh Yeh by Georgie Fame from 27 to 15 that week. Now that was ,or is, a very very special sound.
“Leader of the pack” went to number one in the United States so it wasn’t a load of rubbish! One of their earlier songs, “remember walking in the sand” actually had a teenage Billy Joel playing piano. I asked Christie Brinkley and she said it was true. Shangri Las Where among the baddest bad ass girl groups
The British Invasion groups were so much more interesting and rocking than those corny girl groups. The girl groups were interchangeable chicks singing about going on malt shop dates. No wonder the Beatles and Stones and Kinks and Animals and Hollies wiped them out.
@@buzzawuzza3743
Agree. Not to mention no songwriting talent and most of them only sang and didn’t play instruments. Not even in the same hemisphere as the groups you mentioned.
Bang on! I adore the Shangri Las. John Lennon must've liked them, because his unfinished song "Free as a Bird" quotes directly from "Remember (Walking in the Sand)". The line that goes 'Whatever happened to / The life that we once knew'. The Shangri-Las version was 'the boy that I once knew'.
@@R_Jackson Aerosmith did a version with Mary Weiss an original member
@@buzzawuzza3743 They were not corny at all. The Shangri La’s and the Ronettes were a cut above a lot of the female groups…And the British invasion produced many female singers that did not exactly bring on the electric guitar. Petula Clark a wonderful singer is an example
"It won't sell. It won't be a hit."
Translation: It's not THE BEATLES.
Oh dear, a few too many “No No Songs” for Ringo! 🤣 I found this interesting though because as the Charts prove, until The Beatles exploded onto the scene, the music (with very few exceptions) was mediocre at best. In a few short years, those lads not only dominated the charts, they created a wonderful musical legacy that will endure for generations to come. Thanks YP, fabulous as always.
Well, in 1963 the Surfaris, Ricky Nelson, The Beach Boys, The Impressions with Curtis Mayfield, The Miracles with Smokey Robinson, The Chiffons (who George apparently liked), were already going strong, so it wasn’t totally bleak. 🎉
@@Mandrake591 ……true.
I will confess to liking the “No No Song!”
💗 the No No Song..lol!
Ringo did a fun version, though I just found the LP "Road Songs" by the song's writer Hoyt Axton. Cool to hear the differences.
Wonder if Ringo knew that Bonanza's Lorne Green recorded a song titled Ringo. Would have loved to hear fab4 Ringo's take on it. He was brutal but spot on!
He was right about all of them except for the first song. Great tune.
not Billy
Ringo's tough!
Especially with someone like Ringo Starr it would make a big difference when you would hear and see him review. It must have been a bit tongue in cheek, here and there. I doubt if he still thinks the same about Leader of the Pack as he did then. Great song.
Man, hearing these records, they sound more like music from the 50's, it's crazy to think that Sgt. Pepper came out only a few years later.
Ringo era cruel che, era antes de toda esa movida de peace and love ☮☮
Loved leader of the pack I was sixteen, and motor bike mad
Wow, this was like 4 months after Bob Dylan introduced the Beatles to marijuana.
Imagine what Ringo was like before that!
Ringo is hard to please! I've always loved the Shangri-las.
i love it !
beatles...fame ...beatles ....she loves you ...hard days night ...ect
other bands were going to have to sound pretty damn good at this stage of ringo's ear career
I think the guy of the intervew is Ringo Bonavena,the boxer
Ringo with a great big case of the goo during these reviews. Great!
a bit random but many years ago as a kid i caddied for Bob Miller (one of the records reviewed), he was a very nice guy. I cant find any info on what happened to him
Ringo reviewing Billy Fury- they were in " That'll Be The Day" 11 years later. Lol- Jimmy Page played on 6 of those songs( at the end )the chart hits
Anyone else expecting Ringo to comment on the drumming of the Lee Curtis Allstars record? Drummer was a certain Pete Best.
Gives the impression doesn't always know when he's being funny 😄
Ringos wife Maureen was one of the prettiest ladies in all of Rock and Roll. She was so pretty, when Frank Sinatra heard she was a fan, he recorded a song just for her of which only 8 copies existed. The record became Apples first ever catalog number 00000000001.The song idoliuzes Maureen at the same time takes playful insults at the Beatles to rub it in she was his fan and not theirs. They loved it. All copies were destroyed except for one and when she died it was digitized and you can hear it today. TH-cam search "Maureen is a Champ".
You are almost correct there. Ringo himself asked Frank to record the song for Mo's bday and Frank being a fan graciously complied.
Frank was stubbornly resistant to then-current styles of music and bands..until the late 60s of course. Even the manager for his label Reprise advised him to sign some new rock and pop artists or else have his label sink!
One problem, the sound quality of this track is terrible, could not have been recorded for a serious release, unless the master tape of it still exists in much better sound quality. Sung to the tune of Lady Is A Tramp.
Pattie Boyd was the hottest Beatle wife but Maureen was no slouch. She looks great on the rooftop in the Get Back documentary.
Wow how many versions of walk tall were there?
Lee Curtis and The All Stars regularly played the Cavern alongside The Beatles. Pete Best even joined them for a while after The Fab Four sacked him. Ringo really putting the boot in on this one
As with John,Paul and George, Ringo was pretty much on the money with these and proved they had their fingers on the pulse of music at the time,.
Yes this was a trifle hard to take in…except I loved “leader of the pack” as a kid!
This a good illustration of why the Beatles were necessary. Pop music in the early '60s was abysmal.
That's a matter of opinion ............
Ringo has obviously mellowed over the years haha
Ringo is spot on! Before he put a lovable baffoon persona. Which works very well for him and helps avoiding arguments with idiots
Say, I wonder if Mr Starkey ever thought about doing a cover of "Ringo." Seems natural doesn't it?
That would've kicked off the Paul-is-dead thing, but with Ringo instead since the song's title character is killed.
Lorne Green's Ringo had absolutely nothing to do with Ringo Starr. Why would he cover the song? He certainly couldn't improve on it being the fact he couldn't sing.
@@goplad1 Good one, Captain Obvious! It's called "speaking figuratively" and "imagination".
Shows you don't even know the song at all--it's spoken ("rapped").
@@djhrecordhound4391 Rapped?? It's called a recitation! Nice stretch. I'll give you that.
Hah! I think Ringo was being pranked! ✌
64 had some really good music, Ringo seemed to get a very bad bunch, like the last of early sixties shmaltzy music😂
The only one he was wrong about was the Shangri-La's. Great group, great song. A hit. Big one.
Estoy de acuerdo con Ringo, mucha de esa música sonaba igual.
Same thing today
wait what is that end music? "I'm Downtown And I Feel Fine"?
Much Ringo love for The Wall of Sound. Man, did ever draw the short straw this week. Surprised to hear the Jazz 625 Theme come up (which he knew). It and the show are referenced in the Propellerheads track. th-cam.com/video/yzLT6_TQmq8/w-d-xo.html