Cool British Singles Released in February 1966
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- Last month, we revisited some cool British singles released in January 1966. Now it's time to do the same with February. And February 1966 was a particularly great month for singles. Enjoy!
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I love the lady who goes into the record shop and asks to hear "19th Nervous Breakdown".
Thumbs up if you'd heard of Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick and Tich before Tarantino!
It's Tich, not Titch.
I hate Tarantino… so yes, I knew of them before
I thought it was a fake group John Lennon made up in one of the studio chatter bits on the Get Back album, as a sly hint at the Beatles breaking up.
@@gigglehertz they were real 🙂
I heard the name and thought it was real funny but I don't know if I ever heard any of the music before the movie.
Let's not forget- John Dalton was a temporary Kink in 1966. He is on some songs on 1966s Face to Face" LP and toured with Kinks while Pete Quaife recovered
Never knew he was in the Mark Four and I am a big fan of both the Creation and the Kinks
That's what I thought. my reply to familydogg.
But was it February? :)
This is one of the strongest slates of songs yet. “You’re a Better Man than I” is a hidden gem.
Us folks in Detroit were introduced to "... Better Man ..." by a group called Terry Knight and the Pack. Knight was later to be the manager of Grand Funk Railroad.
Check out the cover by the paragons
Many years ago I had a wonderful opportunity when I got a call from a woman in Palm Springs, CA. She told me she had a bunch of records that came from the estate of Dave Hassinger. I knew who he was from his work with The Electric Prunes. Needless to say I was on my way to the desert. To cut to the chase I bough some fantastic 45s, LPs, and some of Hassinger's gold records. I got Dave's gold LP for "Out Of Our Heads" and his gold 45 for "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction". As a bonus I got Dave's scrapbook which included all kinds of interesting items. One was a letter from Andrew Loog Oldham thanking Dave for his work on "Satisfaction". As a way of saying thanks Andrew and the boys made sure he got an engineering credit on the 45 label. All these items were going to be tossed away! Can you imagine that??
Wow! That's amazing.
Score lucky you cheers !!
What a great group of songs. The harmonies on "I Can't Let Go" are what we all want our harmonies to sound like.
No doubt, brilliant harnonies.
curious what you think of the harmony on "love is like oxygen"
Man!! What A Great Time!! Got A Record Player For Christmas And Used All My Allowance And Lawn Mowing Money For Records!! Those Were The Days!!!!
A time it was and what a time it was.
It’s hard to credit all these songs were released in a single month, I think we took it for granted at the time. The Yardbirds truly were an innovative band, with their excellent “Shapes of Things” covered by many artists including David Bowie. I’d never heard of The Wheels before but so many groups simply faded away if they didn’t make the Charts. I always thought it quite sad that Graham Gouldman didn’t have more success with his own compositions before he did, the man was always a gifted songwriter. Thank you kindly Yesterday’s Papers for another fascinating flashback.
Thanks, Linda! Yeah, "Shapes of Things" was truly groundbreaking. It's sad that the Yardbirds never seem to get the credit they deserve.
@@YesterdaysPapers …….I agree, especially when you consider the number of quality guitarists in the band’s lineup over the years! I think The Yardbirds are remembered fondly enough by their fans, but perhaps because so many members (Page, Beck, Clapton) enjoyed more commercial success outside the band (be it a later band or a solo career), unfortunately, that’s what the artists’ are best remembered for, rather than their work with The Yardbirds? At any rate, it’s always nice to revisit these wonderful times, so thanks again YP.
I'm guessing we're of an age ! {Can't belive I'm actually THIS OLD !}. I've bought quite a few CD's in the last year or two, with 15 to 20 song's on, by artist's like the Yardbird's, Pretty Thing's, Downliner's Sect, Bo Diddley {No Chuck Berry yet} & have all the early Stone's album's and many more of this period. I like the RAWNESS of the recording's and liked the London Band's over the Mersy Beat stuff. Did you ever see "The British Bird's" ? They were very yardbird's like.... I was struck by The Wheel's too. Never heard of them but that single sound's worth while to "youtube". All the Best Linda, Michael.
So many great singles from an era when 45’s were a fascinating barometer of pop culture. The Walker Brothers extraordinary ‘The Sun Ain’t Gonna Shine Anymore’ still sounds epic to this day, some 57 years on!
They just copied the production of the original Four Seasons version, credited just to Valli, nothing particularly unique to the Walker Brothers version apart from the lead vocals, which I think are superior to Valli's and make it the epic classic it is.
@@sg-yq8pm it was a similar arrangement to Valli’s recording, but it has slightly faster tempo. Scott Walker’s baritone gives the song a dramatic - some might say melodramatic - atmosphere that makes it (for me anyway!) particularly memorable.
"The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore" and "Love Her" are my favourite Walker Brothers songs, although they released several really good songs.
@@YesterdaysPapers Scott had the voice to make these songs soar.
And by this time these great bands and music were played by the fantastic offshore Pirate stations - Caroline, London, City, etc
London '66 is my fantasy place & time (above my actual hippie upbringing on America's west coast). The clubs, the birds, the cars, the World Cup - what a scene.
This is a fantastic channel 🤗
Thanks!
This was maybe the best dive into forgotten British pop history this channel has yet produced. You can see things building for what would come later in 1966 and then in 67. Shape of things to come indeed.
Some great releases in February 1966. I always enjoy these trips back to ......
There can't be a single month in 1966 without great songs, but this is a fantastic collection. Thanks for uploading!
That is a strong line up of songs for any playlist!
What a terrific channel. Always makes my day when I see another video popup. And the street shots from back then are gold.
Cheers, Elmo!
What a time to be alive! I was only one year old and didn't hear these songs when they were new, but it was a great time to be alive. Still is. Great music is timeless.
Dedicated Follower Of Fashion is Ray at his best 👌 .. A Top 10 Kinks song 🎵 in my book. Oh Yes , It is.
That guitar on "you're a better man than I" that faded out sounds really good
Great song.
An amazing issue, chock-full of classics and atmospheric obscurities. Great fun!
Yeah, where's that time-machine? I'm ready to go back! :0)
Brilliant answer by Brian Jones to a shortsighted comment, 19th is perfect as it is and with As Tears Go By, a two side A+++ single !
The whole selection is great, some I’m happy to discover in the best back to the future music channel where you don’t just listen to a playlist but contextualized with a real journalistic and popmusicologic work.
Agreed, "19th Nervous Breakdown" is a top tune as it is. Cheers!
For me, 19thNB is THE quintessential Stones record. (By contrast Satisfaction is and always was a total bore.) As for the "burial" of Mick's vocals, they were secondary to the overall sound. The niggling jumpy guitar rhythm, and that tremendous bent chord after Charlie's cymbal-crash are real standouts, perfectly calculated to drive your dad up the wall!
@@Krzyszczynski Along with "Have You Seen Your Mother Baby, Standing In The Shadow?" The epitome of raw Stones energy ?
Just awesome and great to see Stop Stop Stop at the end , a great single 👌
I’ve long lost count how many times I have told the sort of Beatles fans that Sgt pepper’s wasn’t the first psychedelic music, and that before them the Yardbirds, Cream, Byrds and “the Pink Floyd” had all gone there.
Some ignorant people think that the Beatles invented everything…
This channel should be on mainstream UK telly...oh wait...no one actually watches mainstream telly in the UK anymore...but this is great stuff and a real musical education 👌
And The Hits Keep On Coming!!! The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, The Yardbirds, The Animals, The Hollies, and The Walker Brothers released some of the best singles in rock and roll history during February of 1966. The only record that i found disappointing in this video. was The Action's version of "I'll Keep Holding On". I am big fan of The Motown Sound. and The Marvelettes are one of my favorite Motown groups. Just my opinion but The Marvelettes all but own "I'll Keep Holding On" which was one of the best records that the group ever made.
This is one of those months, like May 1967, that just seems utterly charmed. What a stack of stone-classic goodies!! So many delicious fuzz-toned rockers and multi-layered harmony-pop hits, with mod at its peak and even the emergence of the first psychedelic song ("Shapes"). You missed Peter and Gordon's "Woman" and The Craig's debut "A Little Bit Of Soap" but no matter, as I ended up being introduced to the Wheels and Gary Walker singles, with The Wheels really coming as a surprise--you're right, it sounds very proto-punk at the end! Good stuff. March should dig up some gold in the form of The Who, The DC5, The Spencer Davis Group, Them, Fleur-De-Lys, Roy Harper, Alan Price Set, and Nicky Hopkins! You can't go wrong with 1966, there's never been another year in music like it! Brilliance flowed like air and water.
Cheers, Spirit of 66! The Wheels' single is indeed fantastic. It's been a big favourite of mine since I first heard it on the "Nuggets II" boxset. Great tune.
@@YesterdaysPapers Oh you know what, I had that "Nuggets II" box...so I guess I have heard it, LOL. It has to have been a long while since I played it, though!
Sittin on my sofa became a dance club favorite
I have decided, based on this Cool British Singles series that 1966 was definitely my peak Radio Pop period. I always appreciate it when a chart place is mentioned for NZ. We don't get mentioned a lot, thanks!
That was really entertaining. You always manage to find pictures or old film clips I've never seen. Nice work!
YP's footage is amazing!
Always when I hear some hidden gems from the 60-ies on YP it is like being in a warm hot bath. I was born in 1959 and my fav decade in music are the 60-ies especially 1965, 1967 and 1969.
60’s.
Great month for music, wonderful post.
Excellent harmonies and instrumental on The Hollies I can't let go written by Chip Taylor.
Shapes of Things by the Yardies is really one of the best songs ever in my opinion but sadly doesn’t get much play today. Timeless lyrics written by the band, unlike many of their other chart hits.
Definitely my fav Yardbirds song. Showed they could write their own killer tune.
Agreed. Brilliant and grounbreaking track.
My first birthday was the 5th of February 66, I love music of that era.
The Troggs sounded like punk rock before punk rock
True.
Had all there hits in 2 year short period .
Absolute leaders in their genre!
"Dedicated Follower of Fashion" is far-and-away my favorite Kinks song.
Gary Walker you don’t love me got to Number 26 and 28 years later dawn penn took hers to number three
One of my faves as well, great tune.
I think my favorite from The Kinks might be "Apeman".
Aside from your excellent curation of all these fabulous songs of the 60s, I love that you include the reviews of the day. It's impressive how articulate and descriptive the reviews are! I know of nothing even remotely comparable in the US music press. Please continue to gift us with your creativity!!!
Cheers, Truckngirl!
Wow! the Animals great flip single
I always have a good time when a new YP video drops. Such a well edited, interesting overview of a phenomenal time in pop culture. It's great to have shoutouts for The Creation and The Action, my personal favourites. And then the pleasure of going down a YP rabbit-hole of newly discovered tracks - ' Sitting on my Sofa' and The Wheels! Blimey!! And always some intelligent viewer comments to read (present company excepted lol) Cheers YP!!
Thank you, Barry!
“Bad little Woman” by The Wheels is fantastic.
I love The Walker Brothers “The sun ain’t gonna shine anymore”, but it’s B-side “After the lights go out” is just as good in my view, you missed out on that one.
I love The Action and The Creation.
A great month in music.
God bless The Kinks!
Wonderful video!
Thank you for this.
Cheers!
I've long believed that 1966 was the greatest year for music. So many different styles and so much creativity! While some of these new releases are better than others, there's not a bad single in the bunch. ♥
Thank you, as always, YP. It's not only cool that you bring attention to so many lost songs, but placing them in a single moment of time and gives context to each track, as well
Cheers!
1966 was an amazing year specially may my month off birth 😊
I agree, 1966 was the greatest year for music. The Beatles, Stones, and other original British Invasion bands at their peak, Motown and Stax at their peak, the developing West Coast music scene, The Beach Boys Pet Sounds and Good Vibrations.
Absolutely.
The guitar solo on Mister You're a Better Man Than I is one of the classics in rock.
"Sitting on My Sofa" is one of those great Kinks tracks almost nobody has ever heard
Very true, even the obscure Kinks songs are good. It has typical Ray lyrics, although it's not as refined as later songs. There's loneliness, envy and bitterness.
You're right!
Agreed, love that song.
…..and you can dance to it!
In ‘66 I was graduating high school in June. I‘d been into the English music scene since ‘64. Can you guess why? Also I had started to read Rave magazine while I was attending art school in Chicago. Great times to be a teenager!!
19th Nervous Breakdown was the first Rolling Stones records I bought, although I did go to buy Under the Boardwalk but ended up coming home with Help Me Rhonda by the Beach Boys😂. Some great music in this video
Not bad at all though? 😅
En mexico se escucharon casi todas éstas canciones.
Fantastico este post.
Saludos desde mexico City.
This channel is a godsend and shows time travel is possible (haha). The Kinks, Yardbirds, Troggs, and the Creation all laid the groundwork for punk, metal, hard rock, and other subgenres that followed. I was just a little boy in 1966 that discovered the Creation in the 90s. In the 2010s their music appeared as jingles on TV commercials here in the States. The Troggs are sadly underrated and while they had success along with the Creation they should have been more successful on both sides of the Atlantic.
I agree, Chris. All those subgenres were definitely invented in the 60s. Cheers!
@@YesterdaysPapers I forgot to mention Graham Nash in 81 years young and shows no signs of slowing down.
The Action and The Creation. ACE!!!!!! Gary Walker, Cool. "Sun Ain't Gonna Shine" is a Perfect Pop song.
What a trip down memory lane!
I had forgotten what a heady time early 1966 was. All the great Brit songs, in combination with what was going on here in the US made it heaven for a teenager.
So many great bands around that time that it's hard to mention... The singles by Dave Dee & Co always had incredible sounds like guitar fuzz and that stuff. They deserve more credit, their catalogue is very fine. The Hollies, The Kinks, The Yardbirds, always brilliant!
Agreed. Dave Dee and company may be remembered as some sort of irrelevant 60s pop band but I love many of their songs.
@@YesterdaysPapers you got a nice taste!
Search for the live version from “Beat Beat Beat”
Ha! Highly apt random clip from Faster, Pussycat, Kill! Kill!
What with the States being so big, and regionalized at the time, airplay and chart status was, too. I had very little awareness of The Walker Brothers at the time. "The Sun Ain't Going To Shine Anymore" did penetrate, but it was easy to mistake for a Righteous Brothers record, and I did.
Anyway, a new Yesterday's Papers post is always a welcome sight in my TH-cam feed. Thanks for brightening my day!
Cheers, Simon!
A raucous and brazen lineup, what a great month and year!
What an amazing time, and a great video in homage to it. I'm flashing back to that time - I was only 10, but it was an ecstasy for my ears. Thanks, YP.
Surely 1966 is the origins of punk and heavy metal.
Another splendid video - It took me a moment to suss out that Kaleidoscope (The American Band) did a cover of "You DOn't Love ME" which appeared on their album "A Beacon From Mars."
The song was originally recorded by Willie Cobb (or Cobbs) in l960. Mike Bloomfield and Al Kooper did a great cover in '68. I've played it a few times myself.😀
Being of that era {I'm 75} it's no wonder so many great song's didn't make it when you see how much was being put out. I've alway's said this about Album's too. Most of us were not rich and could only buy the odd record each month. An LP was a month's worth of Record buying for me ! Dave Dee, dozey etc were originally Dave Dee & the Boston's and I must of seen them over 100 time's, as "our local band".
A hit or not, "Sitting on my Sofa" is a great song. So is "Bad Little Woman."
So many great songs, I was just 13! Seems like only yesterday but then I can't remember yesterday.
"Sitting on a Sofa" by the Kinks was the apogee of a run of singles like "You Really Got Me", "All Day and All of the Night" and "Till the End of the Day". I mean, how could you improve on this? No wonder they switched style. Terrific singles and bands all around here. Howard and Blakely wrote all the hits for Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky , Mick and Tich and others. They could warrant their own segment.
Great video. A version of You Don't Love Me turned up on Al Cooper's Super Session album in 1968.
What a cracking month. Obviously apart from the Stones and the Yardbirds, The Action really really stand out. I bought the first compilation back in 1980,the Ultimate Action. Still listen to them now.
Incredible month, wasn't it? The Action were indeed a brilliant band, Reg King had one of the best soulful voices in Britain.
@@YesterdaysPapers I can't praise The Action high enough. Incredible singles and let's not forget the Rolled Gold album.
one of the best TH-cam channels, imho.
Thanks.
This is one of the best episode, all great singles.
Great songs came out this month that’s for sure. The only thing missing were the Beatles.
The Troggs were really, really good and very unique. I must check out more of their back catologue. Additionally, that Gary Walker song "You Don't Love Me" would be covered quite a few times. The version I'm most familiar with is by Jamaican singer Dawn Penn and retitled "No, No, No".
All their sixties albums were reissued on the German Repertoire label, all with bonus tracks, giving you their complete Larry Page produced tracks of the sixties.
Yeah, the Troggs were brilliant. Even some of their songs from the 70s are good.
I didn’t know The Troggs had a record out before Wild Thing. I just assumed Wild Thing was the first.
You Don’t Love Me, was originally done by Willie Cobbs who wrote the song in 1961, also The Allman Brothers did a version over 19 mins long on their Live at Fillmore East album in 1971
Everybody and his brother seems to have recorded a version of “You Don’t Love Me”. That one got around.
I can't let go by the Hollies is one of the very best songs of the 1960s
Just looping the end of "Hold Tight" a few times...🤘
I thoroughly enjoyed this long video full of exceptionally good singles!
I was surprised I didn't even know some songs from the great British bands, like the Kinks b-side "Sitting On My Sofa" and the Troggs debut single "Lost Girl"! Shame on me 🤨!
Lots of interesting trivia, like Bill Wyman's dive bombing bass line at the end of "19th Nervous Breakdown" or Beck's innovative use of controlled feedback and sustain on "Shape Of Things". And that it is considered the first psychedelic single!
I also really liked the mention of the excellent but underrated Mod bands the Action and the Creation.
This episode showed what the counter culture was all about: not conforming to the conservatism of the old generation.
In the end there was this garage band the Wheels with "Bad Little Woman". What a scorcher!
Thanks a lot for all your research Yesterday's Papers 😄👍!
Thanks, Edwin! Glad you enjoyed the video.
I know I've said this before...but I'm saying this again with LOVE. PSA: YESTERDAY'S PAPERS IS THE HIPPEST AND COOLEST CHANNEL ON TH-cam.....*mic drop*. I love you guys, thank you for your videos. This is not only educational on what was happening in England during such a creative and hot period in music, it's like a Time Machine for us who weren't around to see this firsthand. I love you guys, keep them coming :). Much respect :).....
Thank you very much!
Always thought Inside Looking Out was a Grand Funk song. TY for the info.
The Kinks are timeless.
Underrated and best songwriters!
Just love your emissions. Thanks xxx.With Pete Townshend we'd have two Beakies.!
19th Nervous Breakdown, a great song! Over the weekend , I went to The Grammy Museum in Los Angeles. On exhibit is the behind the scenes and concert stills from the 1972 California leg of The Rolling Stones tour. Photographs taken by Jim Marshall. After recording Exile On Main Street at LA’s Sunset Recording studio early in ‘72, when it was released it went #1 worldwide. The Stones supported that record by touring. I was particularly interested in these photos since I went to their concert that year in San Diego, at the late, great San Diego Sports Arena. A raucous affair, if ever there was one. Let’s just say a lot of arrests. Those photos brought back a flood of memories. That same year, at the same arena, I saw perform Black Sabbath and Yes! An interesting pairing, but it worked.
Very cool! The Stones, Yes and Black Sabbath on top of their game in 1972.
@@YesterdaysPapers It was Yes’ Fragile tour. I saw the classic line up of Bruford, Anderson, Wakenan, Howe and Squire. As much as I was a fan of Yes, it was Sabbath that I was drawn to see perform.
@@boomtownrat5106Great era of the band, I love "Fragile". I suppose Sabbath had just released "Masters of Reality" or "Vol.4". Love that era of Sabbath as well
@@YesterdaysPapersSabbath was supporting Masters Of Reality. Ozzy was one of the best front men.
I'm beginning to think that 1966 may well have been the apex of 60's rock. The almighty Kinks ruled (over there) during this period. Witness their influence on the Stones' "Mother's Little Helper" that came out later that year! Of course "Aftermath" just screams '66. For me anyway.
Do you know the book 1966: The Year the Decade Exploded by Jon Savage? This to me is better than 1967. Even in America it produced Jefferson Airplane, Buffalo Springfield, the Dead.
64-66
Another great video. I really enjoy your work. Kudos!
Thanks so much. Good time for you
Great vid. love the music and the historic clips!
Only one or two I haven't heard of this time, but some really good picks, I always love some Animals and Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich is something I've only relatively recently stumbled onto but instantly fell in love with. I would say that they might be one of the least commercially friendly band names though, lol. Also thanks for reminding me that I still haven't watched Death Proof 😋
As always love these videos, thanks for making them and hopefully introducing some of this stuff to a wider audience.
Cheers!
I'm one the few in the U.S. who bought "Hold Tight". If a song I liked was huge in the UK but not in the U.S. it's likely I would buy it figuring that if I didn't I'd likely never hear it again.
This a fab channel, love it ❤
On our first TRIP I tried so hard to rearrange your mind. In the US " Sad Day" was the non- LP flip which is just as good as the Aside. That's Bsides the fact!
Gotta Get Away was on the B side of the U.S. As Tears Go By.
Another great video. I love your channel,😊
What a great video. Many thanks.
What a fantastic review of a great month's worth of UK singles! At about 5:30, you should have stated that 'You;re A Better Man Than I' was included on the Yardbirds' second US album, however.
What a month! What a year! I love all your videos but this one is a real masterpiece! Great documents behind the (great) music! The spirit of 66. This is exactly what made me dream of crossing the channel in those days. Un grand merci!
Merci beaucoup, Jean-Luc!
A really good month for music, but I think '19th Nervous Breakdown' and 'I Can't Let Go' are a cut above the rest
So is Shapes Of Things in my opinion
"Sittin' On My Sofa" is one of the coolest B-Sides ever I think! "Shape Of Things" blew my mind when I first heard it when I was around 13 or 14 years of age on a compilation of British Invasion songs that my father had purchased. The
Action are personal favorites, Reg King is one of the top Blue-eyed Soul vocalists of the era. "Bad Little Woman" is a down & dirty groover, my friend's band The Contrarians covered and put it on vinyl some 20+ years ago, Shadows Of Knight also covered it.
Agreed, "Sitting on my Sofa" is a brilliant song.
Brilliant again, thank you.
If i were a teenager back then I would need 2 jobs just to afford all the great singles and lp’s…
Great year for music
Your efforts with the editing are amazing.
Exploding White Mice from Adelaide South Australia released Bad Little Woman in 1985 on "Nest of Vipers" 12" EP
Great work again. I was racking my brains to remember the name of the other band who did Bad Little Woman and there it was!
Awesome episode!
I totally agree with the girl's criticism of Jagger not being audible enough to hear the words. And Brian's reply is very telling of what would have been happening between him and Mick at the time.
Also, when lyrics are so unusual in a song that it's hard for the listener to understand them, it's crucial the band make every effort for the listener to hear exactly what is being sung. Especially for a single!!
Again, how interesting was Brian's comment, though. Wow!
I'm not sure singles ever got successful because of the lyrics, heh. It's not a poem, it's the whole package, it's the emotional experience. And fans do sometimes get caught up in the singer and forget to pay attention to the entire band.
@@TheaterPup Good point.
An amazing list of talent,the British music scene was riding the crest of a wave
So enjoyable! A terrific month for singles and some I've never heard so thanks for the education, YP.
That Stones song was the first of four from what I've called their "delirious" period. It was followed by Paint It Black, Mother's Little Helper and Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In the Shadows? I remember being in a car driving around with friends and hearing all these on the car radio. Immediately the volume was jacked up full blast and we were all laughing and howling like crazy people. BTW I never once felt Mick's voice was too low in the mix. All the lyrics are clear as day.
Love that clip of the woman asking for the song. That was a wonderful touch. You are a REALLY good filmmaker, YP. If you ever make a feature film I would love to see it. Maybe we could swap films.
Thank you very much, Willie! That was definitely an incredible period in the Stones' career. Great lyrics and music, they defined 60s cool.
@@YesterdaysPapers Indeed.
Playing Sitting On My Sofa TWICE in the same video makes you a legend. All of the records here are my meat, fantastic stuff! Gotta split now and go play some more Kinks flipsides!!! Rock on!