thanks to growing up in Kalamazoo mi in between Chicago and Detroit ... well I think of sitting outside and eating chili dogs drinking Root beer floats good times😊😢❤🎉😅
Maaan, Ko Ko Taylor was a pretty lil sweet thang as pretty as can be. She could sing too. I was blessed to see and be around these artists as a young musician. I lived in Bakersfield during the early 1960s. Blues artists visited the town every week end. It was wonderful being a young kid who was blessed to grow up around them. I wish I could do it again, I wouldn't change a thing.
Hound Dog Taylor on guitar! My sound engineer teacher was the master engineer at Chess. He was responsible for most Chess recordings, including Maybelline by Chuck Berry, but his favorite artist was Walter Jacobs. I saw Koko a dozen or so times.
I was 3 years old when I got hooked on listening to the blues. Because that's all my family would play, my uncle and grandfather would play the record player and I'll be right there just listening to the music. Now at age 45 I'm still hooked on the blues.
Lucky man! It took me a reverse journey through Led Zeppelin in my teens because my dad listened to the kind of country that you listen to when you’re a toothless drunk that beats his family and they leave you….. which , thank goodness we escaped! lol
Saw her at Grant Park, Chicago, IL. Probably at least twice. Chi-Town summer night. Weather Perfect ! Wow ! Won't hesitate to go it alone, the Blues Fest comes back this year ! 🎶
@@danielpaz3501 Yes, in 67 she was divine in the american blues festival. The big mama is the same top. In 1965 while jamming in the Pols jazz club in Brussels, Thornton broke her leg when she fell off the stage while she was playing the drums. The blues will never die.
Wang Dang Doodle, the immortal classic song, sung by the immortal classic female blues singer, written by the immortal classic Willie Dixon. It don't git no betta then dis. Amen
A historical video. With the" Great " little Walter! The hero on the harmonica. And the Koko! Real and authentique blues! Relaxed and deep out of the heart!
My mum and dad separated when I was 7 and my dad had to move out and get his own place. Dad always had a great taste in music but not until the separation did he look to play music regularly on the stereo again. So began my education in Blues, R&B, foundation reggae and soul. I was 10 when I took up the harp, as the preceding years I'd been listening to Little Walter, Junior Wells, Big Walter Horton on the tapes and CD's. I'm 39 now and still listen to blues all the time. Thanks Dad! Glad we've enjoyed it together for so many years.
Little Walter with two monster guitar players, one on each side, looks like a chess board with two towering bishops...and then a drummer in back.so friggen dapper...looks like hes mixing cocktails...man this is just amazing!!!
Look at these guys going to town on their Sears Catalog instruments, and sounding absolutely divine! More proof that “tone is in the fingers” and not the gear you have
Those instruments are sought after today. They weren't bad. Mostly Danelectro, Teisco or Kay made. Silvertone amps were fantastic. Cheap, but fantastic.
So very true as I’m blowing harmonica through two 1956 Slivertone Amplifier’s (I was 9 years old in 1956 and been playing 56 years) and it’s KILLER Thanks to my Beloved Mentor The Great Master Of Tone Big Walter Horton 1974-79🎼🎶♥️🎤🎸🎵🙌🏿
@@josephfelice8308 I had a Teisco one pickup my cousin didn't learn how to play. It cost $29.99 with an amp 5" speaker LOL. The better I got the more my aunt said the paid for it LOL A neighbor played his brother's two pickup Teisco with larger amp at $39.99 LOL the Sears Silver Tone were $100 all were made in Japan and were not even copies of USA instruments. We played then until they fell apart LOL
The Brits bringing it back in the 60's only made them famous. No real plus for Blues Musicians, except for a handful. I've been a life-long Blues fan, but never heard it on mainstream radio until SRV hit the charts in the 80's via his blistering solos on Bowie's progressive "Let's Dance" album. I'm puzzled by how Bluegrass, traditional Jazz, Blues, and Modern Classical music is ignored in favor of over-produced-auto-tuned-formulaic-dance-reruns.
Oh, please. Maybe YOU didn't know this music before the stones or the yardbirds or the execrable led zeppelin thieves did it, but many of us Americans were listening in the early 60s.
@@Vodichka9 Maybe YOU weren't under the age of ten, in The Midwestern "Polka Belt," listening to AM radio and watching Ed Sullivan. It's a matter of access. Today's young Americans have access, but have to seek out, the afore mentioned genres. I do. Maybe you judge others by your own experience. Good day.
@@friendofbeaver6636 Access? You're a joke. I lived deep in rural Vermont and still found Son House in the mid-sixties, and, thanks to Paul Butterfield`s popularity, I was listening to Little Walter in the late sixties. In Lily-white Vermont. Your theory about "access" is based on your 2k sensibilities. Oh- I could hear plenty of polska music from Manchester, NH at that time, too. Abominable shit. Good DAY, suh.
@@Vodichka9 Well, ain't you hospitable about your privilege to be able to even know who Son House, Butterfield, and Little Walter were in the '60s. If you were older and bought the records, I thank you for supporting these legends. Mainstream radio/TV never gave the respect or attention they deserved. Not much has changed. If everyone who's awareness and appreciation of music is different than yours, is a joke, Ha ha! And E I E I O to you!
I grew up in th super deep south in the 60,s never got to see this kind of music on tv , no telling what might have happened if I did ,first blues man I got to see was BB King on Don Kershners rock concert in the 70,s and didn't even know about blues till the late 80,s .
Hound Dog Taylor is one of my favourites especially his slide playing.He played a crap guitar and a busted Amp but still sounded great and he made the sound his own...
Actually, this tour went to at least East Germany and Poland. The East Berlin performances were later released on a 2-part LP by Amiga, the East German state record company. Great records.
I can’t count the times I saw Koko Taylor I even took my Mom who was a gospel singer to see Koko she has so much stage presents she was over 60 last time I saw her…
Koko,,is young and vivaous in this performance, She toured with little Walter, like all chess, record artists, that same iconic band,primarily muddy waters band would support all of the same acts, on these packages tours. Imagineine, seeing so many greats of the time, all at once.
Yes this was the era when Blues wasn't actually that popular anymore in the USA. They'd moved on - Rock n roll, R&B, soul was getting huge. But it was Europe and the UK who was desperate to get these artists out and appreciated the hell out of them. They helped saved the Blues, no doubt about it.
…for his era. He is responsible for most of the blues-inspired harp techniques, and was an absolute genius at swing tempos. That being said, Howard Levy is probably the best harp player ever. No one else can do what Levy does on the harp. Not even close.
Thanks for the upload! Little Walter and Koko are legends! Historic footage of Hound Dog as a sideman playing clean. Great production values overall! The "Teisco-quality" bass and guitar with the house drum kit sound perfect for Chicago Blues!
@@paulcowart3174 Well, Eastwood Guitars sells the SD-40 Hound Dog Taylor Signature Model that looks just like the one he's playing. You've likely seen pics other bluesmen playing mostly Fenders and Gibsons.
I did 3 tours in West Germany and heard more blues on some radio stations in one night than on some Americans stations in months. I was very surprised. Love it.
I know he couldn’t have known how priceless this footage was. But I wish that commentator would not have talked over the band. Grateful to have this footage, in any case.
quelle belle voix Koko en ce temps là j'avais à peine 1 an. je suis de 1966.Que l'Homme blancs sachent que le monde sans les Africains, c'est ne serait pas possible. Dieux nous a doter d'un genie et nous sommes là et vous nous verrez quoi que vous fassiez
I played all over Germany, and Europe with R.L. Burnside, Robert Belfour, Richard Ray Farrell, and others between 1984 - 1997. THANKS EUROPE FOR THE GREAT TIMES.
Little Walter and Co Co Taylor were the best! There will never be blues like this again. I’m so grateful to have experienced the real blues.♥️♥️♥️
♥I'm 79 and know what you mean.
Little Walter could play that harp , like nobody in the blues scene would dream of !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nearly 68 years and tears roll down my eyes listening to my fav music......Thank you to very one for making this all happen!!!!
thanks to growing up in Kalamazoo mi in between Chicago and Detroit ... well I think of sitting outside and eating chili dogs drinking Root beer floats good times😊😢❤🎉😅
Koko kicked butt till day she passed as did great Walter
Thank you Germany for saving for us Americans
Nicely said!
England too.
Huh?
I don’t get i….Oh I get it! Good one!!! 😂
Maaan, Ko Ko Taylor was a pretty lil sweet thang as pretty as can be. She could sing too. I was blessed to see and be around these artists as a young musician. I lived in Bakersfield during the early 1960s. Blues artists visited the town every week end. It was wonderful being a young kid who was blessed to grow up around them. I wish I could do it again, I wouldn't change a thing.
Hound Dog Taylor on guitar! My sound engineer teacher was the master engineer at Chess. He was responsible for most Chess recordings, including Maybelline by Chuck Berry, but his favorite artist was Walter Jacobs. I saw Koko a dozen or so times.
yeah the great Hound Dog Taylor !!!!
What vocal mics did they use in this video you think?
@@Gabrielle4870 Shure SM58. Not 'sure' what Koko has in her hand, maybe a Sennheiser.
@@joebubbit both the presenter and Koko are holding tiny microphones. Probably German 😂
What guitar is he playing!!!??? It's driving me crazy!
OMg…… my soul…. They just took my soul and lifted my spirit. How I would have loved to have seen them live. How marvelous.
I was 3 years old when I got hooked on listening to the blues. Because that's all my family would play, my uncle and grandfather would play the record player and I'll be right there just listening to the music. Now at age 45 I'm still hooked on the blues.
I'm 72 and still hooked!!
Lucky man! It took me a reverse journey through Led Zeppelin in my teens because my dad listened to the kind of country that you listen to when you’re a toothless drunk that beats his family and they leave you….. which , thank goodness we escaped! lol
Koko..Best female blues voice ever. Saw her live twice. Incredible.
Check out Big Maybelle and Bessie Smith.
Saw her at Grant Park, Chicago, IL. Probably at least twice. Chi-Town summer night. Weather Perfect ! Wow ! Won't hesitate to go it alone, the Blues Fest comes back this year ! 🎶
CHECK BIG MAMA THORTON WITH MUDDY WATTER BAND TOP !
I saw her a couple times in Memphis and Mississippi. She was all that! 👏🏻👏🏻
@@danielpaz3501 Yes, in 67 she was divine in the american blues festival. The big mama is the same top. In 1965 while jamming in the Pols jazz club in Brussels, Thornton broke her leg when she fell off the stage while she was playing the drums. The blues will never die.
Wow, I never thought I could see Little Walter live. Beautiful. Thank you.
8so 1¹¹1⁵
I was at both shows in Hammersmith Odeon in 1967.
And Hound Dog Taylor.
I'm in blues heaven.
I'm not worthy.
Wang Dang Doodle, the immortal classic song, sung by the immortal classic female blues singer, written by the immortal classic Willie Dixon. It don't git no betta then dis. Amen
Koko Taylor , was one of the strongest voice's in the blues , straight & simple !!!!!
I LOVE the BLUES. These are REAL BLUES. The origin of so many of the later generation of musical acts.
A historical video.
With the" Great " little Walter! The hero on the harmonica.
And the Koko!
Real and authentique blues!
Relaxed and deep out of the heart!
Don't leave out Hound Dog Taylor.
Hound Dog Taylor....flawless perfection..great tone...this is incredible video..and they are all so humble...true Masters!
They are piers of each other.
True giants of the most American of music…….so happy they live on in their music…..so much a part of my life. The Blues makes everything better .
Koko Taylor!!!! Her voice was a true musical instrument... no hands needed! Omg...she played her vocal chords beautifully!!!!!!
What can you say?? Little Walter...Legend!!! Props to Odie Payne getting it done on drums!! And I always love the great Blues Queen KoKo Taylor!!!!
My mum and dad separated when I was 7 and my dad had to move out and get his own place. Dad always had a great taste in music but not until the separation did he look to play music regularly on the stereo again. So began my education in Blues, R&B, foundation reggae and soul. I was 10 when I took up the harp, as the preceding years I'd been listening to Little Walter, Junior Wells, Big Walter Horton on the tapes and CD's. I'm 39 now and still listen to blues all the time. Thanks Dad! Glad we've enjoyed it together for so many years.
Best introduction of a blues band ever.
I am seeing her for the very first time, and I'm simply blown away. Koko Taylor you're the one girl.
Little Walter with two monster guitar players, one on each side, looks like a chess board with two towering bishops...and then a drummer in back.so friggen dapper...looks like hes mixing cocktails...man this is just amazing!!!
No drummer is more dapper than O.D. Payne
Look at these guys going to town on their Sears Catalog instruments, and sounding absolutely divine! More proof that “tone is in the fingers” and not the gear you have
Those instruments are sought after today. They weren't bad. Mostly Danelectro, Teisco or Kay made. Silvertone amps were fantastic. Cheap, but fantastic.
So very true as I’m blowing harmonica through two 1956 Slivertone Amplifier’s (I was 9 years old in 1956 and been playing 56 years) and it’s KILLER Thanks to my Beloved Mentor The Great Master Of Tone Big Walter Horton 1974-79🎼🎶♥️🎤🎸🎵🙌🏿
Thiis,music the. Music my father sang I am so. Thankful for the opportunity to experience an hear it...
Music is a . mighty flowing. River
@@josephfelice8308 I had a Teisco one pickup my cousin didn't learn how to play. It cost $29.99 with an amp 5" speaker LOL. The better I got the more my aunt said the paid for it LOL A neighbor played his brother's two pickup Teisco with larger amp at $39.99 LOL the Sears Silver Tone were $100 all were made in Japan and were not even copies of USA instruments. We played then until they fell apart LOL
So beautiful to be appreciated around the world and we got to see it up close and LIVE in Chicago!
:)
so thankful i can see Walter live in this video. A real treat!
Probably the only sound/film footage of Little Walter playing live in existence...
Love it, love it, love it! Two of my favorites plus Houndog Taylor. Doesn’t get much better.
Absolutely stunning rendition....great vocals
Little Walter was a musical genius
The talent shown here is solid gold.
This is gold; this is life. A treasure. Thank you!
the way we're re-writing history these days it will soon be lost as somehow being racists
I was at both shows in the Hammersmith Odeon October 1967.
Are you the same Kavanagh legend on Radio Scotland?
@@MrHaln no! I'm from Dublin and founder of The Dublin Blues Club.
Koko, reaches deep and that hair on my arms and neck stands straight up.
Walter🌹You know we love you. Praise be to God.
Really terrific. Once again, our most talented artists have to (had to) go to Europe to be appreciated.
The Brits bringing it back in the 60's only made them famous. No real plus for Blues Musicians, except for a handful. I've been a life-long Blues fan, but never heard it on mainstream radio until SRV hit the charts in the 80's via his blistering solos on Bowie's progressive "Let's Dance" album. I'm puzzled by how Bluegrass, traditional Jazz, Blues, and Modern Classical music is ignored in favor of over-produced-auto-tuned-formulaic-dance-reruns.
Oh, please. Maybe YOU didn't know this music before the stones or the yardbirds or the execrable led zeppelin thieves did it, but many of us Americans were listening in the early 60s.
@@Vodichka9 Maybe YOU weren't under the age of ten, in The Midwestern "Polka Belt," listening to AM radio and watching Ed Sullivan. It's a matter of access. Today's young Americans have access, but have to seek out, the afore mentioned genres. I do. Maybe you judge others by your own experience. Good day.
@@friendofbeaver6636 Access? You're a joke. I lived deep in rural Vermont and still found Son House in the mid-sixties, and, thanks to Paul Butterfield`s popularity, I was listening to Little Walter in the late sixties. In Lily-white Vermont. Your theory about "access" is based on your 2k sensibilities. Oh- I could hear plenty of polska music from Manchester, NH at that time, too. Abominable shit. Good DAY, suh.
@@Vodichka9 Well, ain't you hospitable about your privilege to be able to even know who Son House, Butterfield, and Little Walter were in the '60s. If you were older and bought the records, I thank you for supporting these legends. Mainstream radio/TV never gave the respect or attention they deserved. Not much has changed. If everyone who's awareness and appreciation of music is different than yours, is a joke, Ha ha! And E I E I O to you!
Shoutin done right has so much expression and range. Long may she reign.
Thank you so much, the only Album I have with little Walter is the super blues Album.
I grew up in th super deep south in the 60,s never got to see this kind of music on tv , no telling what might have happened if I did ,first blues man I got to see was BB King on Don Kershners rock concert in the 70,s and didn't even know about blues till the late 80,s .
Love Koko's voice when she drives it , great for blues
The perfect video to have with the morning coffee. Merci.
This is just awesome. The sound quality is also fantastic!
Hound Dog Taylor is one of my favourites especially his slide playing.He played a crap guitar and a busted Amp but still sounded great and he made the sound his own...
One of the first contact of the European audience with Chicago blues. We behind the iron curtain couldn't attend but listened to the records.
Actually, this tour went to at least East Germany and Poland. The East Berlin performances were later released on a 2-part LP by Amiga, the East German state record company. Great records.
@@lbizWHUT Yes, I had listened exactly these records by Amiga
@@guitarnickbluealgroovyrus great recordings 👌
"I wonder why my man don't treat me right". Koko's voice gave me chills I won't forget.
KoKo and Janis should have gotten together and compared notes!
Thanks, never thought I would see Little Walter live...and as a bonus, we have Koko.
I can’t count the times I saw Koko Taylor I even took my Mom who was a gospel singer to see Koko she has so much stage presents she was over 60 last time I saw her…
It's funny at the 2:00 mark when Lil' Walter goes straight to the beginning of the verse while Hound Dog is still finishing the turnaround.
Koko,,is young and vivaous in this performance,
She toured with little Walter, like all chess, record artists, that same iconic band,primarily muddy waters band would support all of the same acts, on these packages tours.
Imagineine, seeing so many greats of the time, all at once.
Yes this was the era when Blues wasn't actually that popular anymore in the USA. They'd moved on - Rock n roll, R&B, soul was getting huge. But it was Europe and the UK who was desperate to get these artists out and appreciated the hell out of them. They helped saved the Blues, no doubt about it.
Chess Records was the down south Chicago BLUES headquarters to me.
Wonderful! I'm sitting here comparing him to "Lil Walter" in Cadillac Records movie. I never thought I'l get to see him in person!
Little Walter.......greatest harp player ever.
…for his era. He is responsible for most of the blues-inspired harp techniques, and was an absolute genius at swing tempos. That being said, Howard Levy is probably the best harp player ever. No one else can do what Levy does on the harp. Not even close.
These are the real legends
Thanks for the upload! Little Walter and Koko are legends! Historic footage of Hound Dog as a sideman playing clean. Great production values overall! The "Teisco-quality" bass and guitar with the house drum kit sound perfect for Chicago Blues!
I'm not sure if that's HD's guitar of choice Seen a lot of pic's and not too many blues men ever used them
@@paulcowart3174 Well, Eastwood Guitars sells the SD-40 Hound Dog Taylor Signature Model that looks just like the one he's playing. You've likely seen pics other bluesmen playing mostly Fenders and Gibsons.
@@friendofbeaver6636 Mostly Airlines, Silvertones, and Nationals.
Koko Taylor is my idol! She’s so powerful!
Seems she was pretty hot, in her days. lol
Baddest blues harp ever Little Walter!
Thank You ❤️
Coolest drummer I've ever seen.
Good to see the Overton Park Shell, revitalised and being accessible for locals, out of town-ers & overseas visitors.
This isn’t at the shell in meMphis
To my Divine Twin, the real Blues which he loves, which we experienced together in a previous lifetime. Much love .
Wow! Cant ya just dig this lady,such a fanatical voice........
I just love her...wonderful blues woman.
What a treat! Powerful stuff and this is the real deal.
VERY GOOD................................................................
Wonderful!
Great musicians and singers. Koko is wonderful, whai a feeling! Authentique blues!
hound dog taylor on guitar! gracias por este video!
I was fortunate enough to see Koko live . So great!
Thanks for posting this brother !!!!!!!!!
O.D. Payne was an incredible drummer.
Two of the BLUES Greatest.
I did 3 tours in West Germany and heard more blues on some radio stations in one night than on some Americans stations in months. I was very surprised. Love it.
Go on, Ms. KokoTaylor, "All Night Long!"
I know he couldn’t have known how priceless this footage was. But I wish that commentator would not have talked over the band. Grateful to have this footage, in any case.
She really hits the nail on the head.
It's a shame that those artists where ignored in their home country.
Chicago blues, the best!
That's AWESOME !!! TYSVM for posting...
Great upload. So good
Love me some Koko, 'course Little Walter ain't shabby
quelle belle voix Koko en ce temps là j'avais à peine 1 an. je suis de 1966.Que l'Homme blancs sachent que le monde sans les Africains, c'est ne serait pas possible. Dieux nous a doter d'un genie et nous sommes là et vous nous verrez quoi que vous fassiez
lil Walter is the harmonica goat
I remember and pretty sure I have Koko singing “wang dang doodle”.
Very nice video !
Watching Walter playing the harmonica makes me cry
oh yeah, me too!
The Lil Walter footage is priceless 👏👏👏🙏🏼❤️thanks for posting!!!!!
I love this.
3 greats! thank god this was filmed and shared.
Koko was pretty when she was young
Ascolto blues da quanfo ero ragazza ora ho 75 anni e continio ad ascoltarlo cosa c è di più bello di un blues che tocca l anima e il❤👍👍👍👍
I played all over Germany, and Europe with R.L. Burnside, Robert Belfour, Richard Ray Farrell, and others between 1984 - 1997. THANKS EUROPE FOR THE GREAT TIMES.
THX for the post, What to say.
Just great
Greetings from Sweden
Love it !
THERE WILL NEVER BE A WALTER
His name now is Frèdèric Yonnet, I believe he's reincarnated, and can play his butt off. Check him out he's damn good.
Absolutely historic! Authentic blues!
WOW what a fantastic voice
The bass player is KILLING it!!!!
One ☝🏼 of the older blues.Some of the older folks love ❤️ songs
Little walter amazing band
Sublime! Thank you for posting.
real blues =======
A really historical video
Hound Dog Taylor fantástico !!!