Ride Captain Ride - Blues Image - 1970
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 4 ต.ค. 2024
- Blues Image was formed in Tampa, Florida in 1966 by singer-guitarist Mike Pinera, singer-drummer Manuel "Manny" Bertematti, singer-percussionist Joe Lala, keyboardist Emilio Garcia, and bassist Malcolm Jones. They were later joined by keyboardist Frank "Skip" Konte when Emilio Garcia left the band to become a pilot. Blues Image moved to Miami in 1968, where they were instrumental in helping promoters form the most innovative music venue in South Florida, 'Thee Image'. Blues Image became the house band at the club, which featured bands like the Grateful Dead, Cream, and Blood, Sweat and Tears.
The band moved to Los Angeles and signed with Atco Records, releasing their self-titled debut album in February 1969. Their second album, Open (April 1970), included the popular hit "Ride Captain Ride". Featuring Kent Henry on guitar solo and fills, and Pinera playing solo at the end, the song was co-composed by Pinera and Konte. This disc sold over one million copies, and earned a gold record from the R.I.A.A. in August 1970. It was Blues Image's only charting hit, making the group a one-hit wonder.
Pinera left the band and was replaced by singer Denny Correll and guitarist Kent Henry. The band later broke up but did release a third album,
Friend of mine lived in S. Cal we played this every time we got together. In 1993 while partying loudly at the house, there was a knock at the front door. Neighbor guy always complaining about the loud music. This time he introduced himself as Mike Pinera and said hey I wrote that song! We had drinks and turned it up.
How freaking awesome is that!!!
Wow. What a story! Ride Captain Ride is my favorite one-hit-wonder song. (I was 12 when this song came out; I loved it from the start.)
If true, epic ish
That’s the coolest thing I’ve ever heard
You were lucky to meet him. The sixties were the best and he was one of the reasons for that.
This song will Always will be great, has lost nothing and it's February 2024
You can say that again brother.
Right on brother. 😂
Mark of a classic.
👍👍💯💯
Definitely 💯 Correct My Friend GOD BLESS 🙏🙏❤❤
When we look around , many of us in our 60s wish we could sail away to another shore.
Yep❤
im not 60 yet but ill ride off for sure
Soon, soon we will be sailing to that shore.
I'm 59. This world no longer makes any sense to me.
64 here! Wish to go back to the "good old days" and be able to APPRECIATE how good it was to be young!!!
It’s amazing how many one hit wonders are among the greatest songs ever written. This and Brandy right on top of the list.
Band of Gold by Freda Payne from the same period. In the Summertime by Mungo Jerry. The list goes on and on ...
Even more amazing was Denny's career long after this..
Never been any reason is another one
@@CharlieMoney77 no, but the local AM stn's hits records. KRLA and KHJ Los Angeles...for memory buffs😎
@@liber8or Green-Eyed Lady, and Don't Call Us (we'll call you). Sugarloaf: 2-hit wonders!
Oh Lord, I do miss these times. 10 years old, riding my bike with my buddies down to the river on a warm summer day for a glorious day of fishing and listening to this song on my A.M. radio. When the fish didn't bite, it turned into a swim fest. For those of us that grew up in this magical time,.... I'm SURE you can relate. Simple, endless summer days that mean so much more to us now that we are older.
I still can't move very far from the little shire, early orchards & fresh down a quarter miles is just picked fruits/vegetables... The little shire of Campbell!
Beautiful memories.
Cutting through orchards and creeks walking to school.
Thanks for my hometown... Excellent choice! RIP I'll always love and admire you both!
We were too busy watchin' those raindrops fall‼️
Good Days and most Excellent Music‼️
I was 13 great songs
Sixty-two now and loving it. ❤
the sun was never brighter. the grass was never greener. the sky was never bluer🎉😢
Now I am 70 years old but this song still comes back in my head. So glad they wrote it and the warm memories that it brings back.
hey me too 🙂
i am 68 i still like this song. thumbs up for Mike Pinera
65 now in 2023. I think the restaurant my family and I used to eat at closed down just so I wouldn't play it on the juke box anymore. Great music, great times (when we were on our own).
Right behind you at 67. Love this song. I had my daughter put it on an MP3 player with a bunch of oldies for me about 15 years ago. Used to listen while I was keying mail at the Post Office.
I'm right with you guys i'm sixty three
1970 was a great year for music.
This song is one example why.
I think 1970 was the best year for 45's. The consensus seems to be 1971 for albums. Thanks.
1970 was a great year for movies 🎥 and sports as well.
1970 was a good year for me personally 😁
1970 was for sure great. But 1965 was the best with the emergence of Motown, the Kinks, the Animals , DC5, to name a few.
1965 - 1975 the best decade of all time imho
I'm 67 yrs young and grew up listening to this, one of my favorite tunes, while out plowing and discing fields for what seemed like an eternity. It provided a much needed, mental escape from the boredom. Started working the fields at age 12.
Had to beat HECK out of "International Harvester."
@@drpoundsignmaybe he’s more of a John Deere green kind of guy 🤷♂️
I am the same age and same background. Spent a lot of time from 1970-'73 listening to Top 40 tunes on a fender mounted radio which was on a JD 4020. If the radio broke, I didn't work until it was fixed.
Me too, 1964-‘69. In ‘70 “My” USMC took charge.
Wait, you guys had radios on your tractors???! I just had to sing it myself from memory.
End of December 2023 and still loving this song, good memories from a better time
Amazing song! :)
Yup! The flip side of the 45 rpm record was "Pay My Dues"
Great time to be alive when music was King.
Love this song I was a little girl when this came out,but I remember hearing it riding in our station wagon with my parents,great childhood memories!!!💙
One of the most underrated rock songs of all time! Ten out of ten!!
That beautiful soul in the middle of the song so incredible and clean
For sure.
My mom and I would always play this on the jukebox … this song came on her Hospice music tv station and she listened to me sing it and smiled and passed on shortly after - this song will have so many memories in my heart ❤️
Precious memories. So sorry for your loss. ❤
What a beautiful story to remember, share and smile to! You helped ease your Mother into Eternity. God bless you!!!
@@cruisingmimi9319 Thank you 😊- music helps us in so many ways
Awww...that was your collective "Drops of Jupiter." When MY Mother was spending her Last night in inpatient hospice, (on a New Year's Eve) Dad tried to soothe her by us watching NYE specials. On ONE show-they had a Singing Sheltie that howled. (WE had a Sheltie years before...we Loved her, but she wasn't that Talented.) Mom saw it and exclaimed: "AWWwww...that's a CUTE Sheltie!" It was one of the Last things she Ever Said...Before passing a little after 3 AM.
I checked youtube a few years back, and SURE Enough-there was a video of that Dog. Me and the poster exchanged memories of my Dearly Departed Mom and her Sheltie.
@@drpoundsign that’s a nice story … I have never heard of Drops of Jupiter before - it makes sense to me now - thank you for sharing
49 years later and I still love this song!
Met too !
My son has done 5 Sydney to hobarts
And his crewmate just done his sixth !
Half Century!!!! We can laugh our lives away stilllllll.... Right!
50.....
51 years and still sounds like a good idea!
Who doesn’t love this song.
Every time this song came on the radio in the car my mom would crank it up and we’d all start singing.
Cool memory
2021 and still loving this song, so glad I grew up in the 70s and 80s to enjoy such great music ❤️
Amazing
Me too! Adding this song to our group for the morning ear worm 😉😁
Can´t beleive there from my hometown...Tampa
Amen!!!!
@@frankmj9631 cool 😎
Still jamming in 2024...timeless
I'm a boomer and we had the best music. Wish i could go back to those times. Great memories
Amazing how my 62 year old self can hear a blast from the past like this and have the physical feeling of being transported back to those days and locations and be experiencing as if I just went back in a Time Machine. 😊
I'm with you all the way.
Music is a Time Machine.
Amen❤
Today's music has doesn't have a chance this is real from the heart and soul
Music has been garbage for at least 20 years
How has this song not made it into a Guardians of the Galaxy movie? It fits perfectly!
Maybe in the third movie?
Gotta get this song to the producers.
For sure!
Their not worthy?
Born 1956, the songs seemed to be predicting something we are needing now. I really feel for the children of today.
I wouldn't change anything about growing up in this time and all the awesome music we experienced!
This song takes me back to my childhood in Chicago. Fishing with my brothers and my father. Rest In Peace dad. You always made sure there was a roof over our heads and food on the table.
Super CFL!
❤
Part of the soundtrack of my youth. What a killer tune!
For sure! I miss the 70's!
I'm 65 and this song is just as "fresh" as ever!!
I was born in 59. One of the greatest satisfactions of my life was hearing the world's greatest soundtrack in my childhood.
Share with my son, niece's and nephew this was real music
I vaguely remember hearing this song when I was a boy. And I was a baby when it came out. Now that I've found it, and thus learned the title of this song and the name of the group that performed it, I can enjoy it again and again. The 1970s had great music. And it is March of 2024 that I am hearing this and typing this comment.
Timeless classic, that never gets old.
This another of the great music that came from the 60's and 70's. Glad I was there to enjoy it firsthand.
Still digging this over 50-years later!
Man, the '70s were incredible!
Good Memories ... Those were the days when the music actually told a story ... This ones classic!!!
Sometimes, I catch a line and it makes me happy just for being written...."Be amazed at the friends you have here on your trip"
Good call Danny
I appreciate them using what looks to be regular people surfing average waves rather than pros on giant waves.
Best Summer of my life. Heard this song 1000 times and more.
Me too !
And this Summer 2020? Of course it doesn't compare for you I'm sure!!
@@Icarmzzy As a senior and a Covid-19 shut in over the past six months . This has been the strangest summer of my entire life. I have taken advantage of the time to weight train daily and review and expand my knowledge of music theory . I can.t turn back the clock become 18 again.
It’s 2024 and still digging it
I'm 62, this was the best song ever to roller skate to
My taste in music is jaded because I grew up with music like this in the background...I can appreciate some modern stuff but none of it tops songs like this or goey beyond them in creativity, innovation and conveying depth of feeling.
My high school year 1970 in Tracy, California. "73 men sailed her from the San Francisco Bay. Rolled off of that ship and here's what they had to say. Were calling everyone to ride along to another shore. We can laugh our lives away and be free once more." Loved hearing this fantastic song for years after when I was going to college. It explained to me what was happening in front of me. An exciting time leaving high school, my home town, exploring the world around me, girls, jobs, the future. All about freedom and a new vision. Amazing times in the 60's and 70's. Why can't today's young people perform songs like these.
I was in the ARMY 68-70 and in Viet Nam 69-70 ❤
I was born in 1962 and remember hearing this great song on the radio as a kid! What a great time to be a kid.
2024- One of the BEST tracks
To Hit Vinyl in 1970...Lyrical Art!✌️
Was in the grocery store today, and this song came on. You know you're getting old when you not only recognize the songs on the musack, you like them.
I was 10yrs young when this was all over the am radio ~ Ride Captain Ride, dig it!!
Only one of THE BEST songs ever made!
always loved this song
Now that's a song that sailed off to history. I like songs that make me drift away . The Cryan Shames with their Sailing ship. And Free with Sail on , Styx with Boat on a river. Grand Funk with I'm your Captain. There are a boat load of these kind of songs. I love it.
I was a 9 year old kid listening to this on the radio. I wish I could go back to those days.
I wasn't too far behind you, I was 12! Sporting the suede jackets frills and round rim glasses! (LOL)
I love this song.
In the early 90's I was stationed in Alameda on the USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN-72) and we literally "sailed up from the San Francisco Bay."
There were around 80 guys in my division (close to the 73 mentioned in this song) and, man, did we ever have some great times.
I WAS IN THE 'NAM 69-70, WHEN THIS SONG 🎵 CAME OUT .
A perfect song as there will ever be. Awesome harmony and musicianship (especially the drumming!). An awesome entry to help usher in the 1970’s.
Oh wow who out there remembers this good classic rock song. I do I do I do I do. 💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃💃
I do too.
This is only one of a veritable plethora...
Like science, music is currently having a near death experience...
I love the John Byner intro
Thanks, Eddie. I came to the comments to get his name. I'm 55 and recognized him immediately but it's been so long since I've seen him regularly I couldn't quite recall it.
Still here in 2024.
53yrs back today, and still packs a mean swing. This orig. & the Blood, Sweat & Tears version with David Clayton Thomas on vocals are both great listening numbers.
Back in 1970 when the 45 came out, one of my younger brothers bought it and wore it out along with The Kinks "Lola" on a yellow Montgomery Wards portable record player. Truly amazing memories that Summer of 1970.
Brings back great memories.
My very first record purchase, it was a 45 . I was probably about 8 or 9.
Played it endlessly. 😊 my sister was with me, she’s gone now but I remember this experience with her like it was yesterday.
My dad and I, singing along to this in the car. Summer 1970, driving to the beach. I was 6. 🙂
Great find!
Even though they are on the beach, it sounds like the studio version! Imagine that!
We can laugh our lives away and be free once more.......
Another forgotten group. And that an unforgettable song. Great musicianship.
I was in high school at the time and wrote a term paper on U.S.S. Pueblo. I was marked down because my paper did not have a conclusion: the ship after all these years is still a commissioned Navy vessel but in captivity! Loved the song.
Yes these were the best days thank God for memories!!
I'm 65 years old...I still have this 45 that I bought when this came out...I still love it...truly great tune!
Be 70 yrs. Young next month. Had great music back in the 70's didn't they?
Yes they did❤
Iconic AM hit song from that era... the best songs were still Top 20 AM... this is a biggie from that summer...
Top 40 music on AM radio! With apologies to Archie and Edith Bunker, THOSE were the days!
I remember Blues Image opening for The Doors at Pittsburgh's Civic Arena in May 1970.
It was 6 years before I was born. Wish I could have seen it
This feels like a great companion song to Grand Funk Railroad's "Closer to Home".
I used to watch these guys in Miami, FL in '68 & 69. Great group.
Yep me too. At Thee Image
I truly wish i could take my son back to the 1970s .
60s & 70s U.S.A. -- primetime
I remember hearing this on the radio when it was just a kid now 59, thanx Mom I loved you radio stations
Timeless Classic This be! 2018 this still sounds so Cool.
💕💕💕
Happy Birthday Mike Pinera born on September 29, 1948. He is an American guitarist, singer, songwriter and producer who started professionally in the late 1960's with the group Blues Image, which had a number 4 hit in 1970 with their song "Ride Captain Ride". After the break-up of that group, he joined Iron Butterfly, and later formed the group Ramatam. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mike_Pinera
That song was a all time fav.❤😊
Performed with these guys at a celeb Beverly Hills show in 1968 along with BLack Oak Arkansas ... Mike PINERA besides his talent, Is a great soul that's what impressed me the most ! ... it was a crowded dressing room lol and GREAT SHOW by the way !
I salute you sir!
Pinera joined Iron Butterfly after the Blues Image broke up.
I remember Maggie May, Get Ready by Rare Earth and this song all came out at the same time and I couldn’t get enough of them. Funny the things that stick in one’s memory.
I remember hearing this classic on my little transistor radio in the summer of 1970.
Well, look at this. Loved this song since I was a kid. Have never seen the band performing it before now. Thanks, Gene.
I wasn't even born when this song was written and it's still one of my favourites of all time.
40 years old and this song randomly popped in my head. Still don’t remember where I’ve heard it from
Even the album awesome.!
I loved this song when it came out. Joe Lala!!! I had no idea!!
I used to listen to this when I was 5...Wow!
I can’t believe this song is over 50 years old. I was a kid when it came out. It’s a shame they left off the sick guitar solo at the end.
I’ve always felt the same about the song, and how they cut that last solo out! In fact I was actually angry the record company did.
I wished the master could be found and rereleased in the long version if there is one.
Saw them as a kid at PhilmoreWest SF back in the day...quite amazing for a teen. Thanks.
Great guitar solo.
That's the late Kent Henry on guitar. He went on to join steppenwolf and is on the for ladies only record.
I enjoy watching videos like this one.
I was 11 yrs old when this came out. I used to listen to my transistor radio when I was in bed. Stations like KOMA, WLS I would listen on the AM dial.
KOMA! That’s all I could get at night that was worth a darn in central Kansas back in the day. My room was upstairs, no ac! Didn’t care, somehow didn’t suffer from the heat, damn sure couldn’t handle it today.
The best song when, youhad a smoke back in the 70
memoires I was just like 7 or 8 but I can still remember this song growing up in the 70s was like you never want to grow up but then you wish you were older. BACK IN THE 70S EVERYTHING WAS SO GREAT! THE PEOPLE,THE MUSIC,"NOT LIKE NOW". EVERYTHING IS TERRIBLE,. ALL WE CAN DO IS HOLD ON THOSE DAMN GOOD MEMOIRES THAT THIS GOOD MUSIC BRINGS US
Living in the past is a death sentence.
I was 14 in 1970.
@@batswbennett Good point. Yet, we can still move on, and continue to enjoy this music.. Example: I'm leaving Canada soon, to emigrate to another Country. I will take this music with me. For me, that is not living in the past. But more like enjoying my memories..
@@undergroundwarrior70 I was 15
I was still swimming around in the 70s but love this music
You can't imagine how much I loooove that long-lost, golden oldie, original hippie song, with it's melodious guitar-picking chops, and just outright way cool hippie vibe! Thanks for dragging it out and reposting it! I'm 69 now, and this just brought back my childhood!
I sang and played drums when i was 15 in a band with friends from church, we played this tune. First time hearing it in 50 years, what a trip
From the best year EVER in music, in my opinion, 1970!
I agree
I used to sit in a restaurant back in those days. There was a little jukebox at each table. I believe it was a dime to play songs, I spent quite a bit of my small paycheck listening to this song.
Great memories, part of my young life ❤!!
While stationed aboard the U.S.S. Durham L.K.A.114 , for some reason we had the Army band on board , they put on a concert for us on the mess deck , this is one of the songs they played
Endless summers growing up in San Francisco… great childhood.
Excellent song, brings back so many memories I was like eleven years old when it was on the radio.
Laugh our lives away.....tells me everything.
They don't write music like that anymore. What a shame too.
I bought an original 45 of this song when I was 9. at about the same time I got the 45 of "Signs" by the 5 Man Electrical Band. these went on heavy rotation in my bedroom. after several months, they both mysteriously disappeared. I discovered them both 10-12 years later standing upright in the kitchen cupboard, on the top shelf behind some seldom used dishes. I guess my mom couldn't stand the constant repeat!
Used to hear this on the radio in 1970. Great song but pretty much a one hit wonder The Blues Image. Written and sung by Mike Pinera the band was from Tampa, Florida. The band definately had a latin influence like Santana.
I believe Mike Panera may be Latino. His birth name is Carlos Michael Pinera.
Damn! I had this 45. Was in a Clearwater cover band who did this song a few years back & had nooo idea these guys were a Tampa band! Great old song!