Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs Poison Ivy 1964
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 21 ก.ย. 2024
- Billy Thorpe & The Aztecs
Colin Baigent (drums), UK-born Tony Barber (rhythm guitar, vocals), Vince Melouney (aka Vince Maloney) (lead guitar, vocals), and John "Bluey" Watson (bass).
That's my Grandpa on the drums :D
Gday Col from an old Beach House boy
@@barrymcintosh8458 hugs my father in law is bluey watson
@@deskseven Gday to all the boys, Col, Vince. Tony, Bluey, everyone remembers Surf City, the Beach House was much more up close n personal, fun times.
Awesome Louise! This is the first time I've seen this. Later!
@@deskseven I have met him
In spite of its mid-60s style, this song still sounds great in 2023 -- truly a timeless classic!
In spite of what?
I cant belive these guys knocked the beatles off the number one spot when the beatles were actually touring australia at the same time..hats off to them ..
The18Angus Apparently their songs were based off of them, as the Beatles were in England, but not yet Australia, and Billy and Tony were British migrants.
Only in Australia!!
@@deskseven gee picky Billy was 9/10 when he got to Australia !!!!
Who are thé Beatles? Never heard
I've heard it on Spicks and Specks, jj and even a few old timers irl that when the Beatles were playing thousands more went to see Billy and the Aztecs that night instead, hard to find many sources online though.
Im surprised this hasnt been in a Quentin Tarantino movie, this is exactly the kind of song he loves using.
I have just heard The Hollies version of this, now I think the Hollies are one of the greatest. Can't hold a candle to this version. Still sends shivers up my spine.
R.I.P. BIlly
was lucky enough to meet Billy Thorpe in the Aurora pub Surry Hills Sydney one night. An absolute gentleman of the highest order. RIP Billy. You rocked my socks off with Poison Ivy when I was a kid.
Vince Maloney, hell of a guitarist!
Best version of this song that I've ever heard. So much better than the Rolling Stones' version.
Gee I'm glad I was a teenager in the early 60s.we had some great talent in australia❤
we still have some pretty good talent nowadays.
The Song that they are Singing was one of the many Songs from The Music Catalogue of The Late Jerry Lieber (RIP) and Mike Stoller who first met in 1950 through a Mutual friend at 17. They wrote "Hound Dog" which was originally a Hit for Willie Mae "Big Mama" Thornton. Then they wrote or Co Wrote Songs for The Coasters, Drifters, Wilbert Harris, Elvis Presley, Steelers Wheel. Phil Spector was their Protege and they also worked with up and Coming Singer/Songwriters from the Legendary Brill Building. Carole King/Gerry Coffin, George "Shadow" Morton, Barry Mann/Cynthia Weil and Jeff Barry/Ellie Greenwich (RIP). They also produced The "Original" Version of "Go Now" By Bessie Banks which was the breakthrough song for The Moody Blues with Denny Laine before Justin Hayward joined them.
That's a lot to process but thanks for the info!
Thank you for t hat :-) You made me Google Leiber & Stoller, and they wrote everything!
They wrote Stand By Me and Pearls A Singer, and so many other great songs.
@@IanM-id8orRight On! I feel that folks should get the credit that they so richly deserve. Folks from Ray Charles, Isaac Hayes and Smokey Robinson revered them. Even Berry Gordy wanted to work with them but they said no, he already knew what needed to be done and he created Motown. Did any Australian acts cover motown songs.
@@laminage
The Vibrants from Adelaide did a great cover of The Four Tops hit “Something about You baby”.
You can find it here on TH-cam.
aussie music at it's very best memories flooding back listening to these guys again
I'm just fucking astounded that I am still alive 51 years after first hearing this song. Sadly, Thorpie isn't but he was a great rock singer, esp. in the Sunbury era late 60s-early 70s.
I used to Watch American Band stand after school never missed it. Dark shadows too.
Dude does the best moonwalk; if they didn't show his legs you wouldn't know he was doing it!
I'm glad I wasn't the only one who noticed. Must have been where MJ learned it ;-)
MJ learned it from James brown...along witb a lot of JB's other moves
it seems like a lot of bands like the Aztecs and thorpie deserve more credit for their music because most music you hear today isn't worth two bob
Yeah, but we sound like my father now.
@Roxy Tiger yes they reckon he might have been the first one to do it
Rest in pease billy man my idol , moon walk before Michael Jackson.
Good to see future Bee Gee - Vince Melourney playing such great lead guitar work on this version of Poison Ivy.
Omg, my parents were married that year. Wish I wasn’t born ten years later. Would love to have been in this generation.
I first heard Billy at the Preston Town Hall Melbourne and then at to many venues after that. I was 12 years old and became an instant fan and still am at 68 years old. Sunbury all of them was awesome, 1972 was my first leave from Puka from national service. I think I was the shortest haired guy there!
I'm starting to itch just watching this.
Super Kool all around!! Great version, "look", "move's", and Killer Boot's!! 1st Rate!!
johnny o'keefe will always be king of rock,,,had the pleasure of seeing him when i was fifteen at mullumbimby rsl club,,,my parents took me along,,,,,we were on the tables ,,,he rocked mullum,,,,,,a night never to forget,,,,,,,,,,but billy was king of his own thing,,,,,we have so many greats ,,,,Billy, BrianCadd,,,,Glen shorrock i could go on for hours ,,,but yes billy rocked and he was beautiful....
@kblopp Yes this is The same Billy Thorpe of Children of the Sun. He passed away a few years ago and boy could that guy ROCK! Get the CD "The ZOO" to hear Billy with Bekka Bramlett and Mick Fleetwood.
This is great! I cannot believe this is same guy who in later years did Children of the Sun. Crazy and cool.
D'Antonio - obviously not Australian to make a comment like the one you've made! A terrific Australian band from the early days of Australian rock. RIP Billy Thorpe.
Funky looking guitar and bass the two guys on the far right (lead guitarist and bassist) are playing. I've read somewhere that in the early rock days in Oz there were Oz-made guitars, because the usual Fender / Vox / Gibson / etc. weren't plentiful at that time. Cool to see.
listening to this on a tablet with little earphones, just like the 60's..
Best version of this song by far.
True true, best song ever dennep, lyrics r 2hard 2 remember,, anyhoo long live the baby boomers, go little Pattie ❤️😁
Ray Stevens Version is up there.
Rolling Stones' version is better than all others, in my opinion
I used to go to Surf City Kings Cross to watch them at weekends, in about 1964 when I was 15, amazing,...
Love this version, love the Coasters..Have too listen to them both!! One of favorite oldies songs..
This is the best version of the song. Much more energy than even the young Rolling Stones.
But not the coasters.their version rocks.
@@poppacapps5573 I was about to say the same, the coasters' version is the best...
This Sucks Big Time. THE BEST AND ONLY GOOD VERSION OF THIS SONG IS BY THE COASTERS!
First time I hear that cover I love it
what a showman
Timeless mid 60's Aussie pop, Unforgetable. The gift that keeps giving. If you want a big laugh read Thorpies 2 books, hysterical.
Peter Evans b
We were on a cruise a few yrs back and met the drummer Col and his partner. Nicest couple 😀
WOW...new to my ears
No1. June 1964 when The Beatles toured.
I wish they had stayed in Liverpool.
These guys rock!
Very good ! I knew the version of the Hollies ,however this one did not disappointed me .
These guys were enormous out here in Australia, even giving the Beatles a run for their money! One of my favourite bands at the time.
The late and great Billy, passed away the same week as my Dad, what a prick of a week that was. !
Wow!.... that was a blast from the past! Man, Brian Henderson was a square. No wonder he went on to read news on Channel 9 Sydney for twenty years!!
Henderson was so square he was cubed, how the hell he compered a rock show
is anyones guess, we used to moan when he was on camera,
but the artists were great
The best version of poison ivy i've ever heard!
If you watch very closely you will see Billy Thorpe do the first moon walk, not Michael Jackson.
Good spot mate. Billy had the moves ! !
Michael Jackson popularised the move, not pioneered it. The Moonwalk was a dance move that had been in existence since the late 30's early 40's. It's very cool to see Billy doing it though ;)
Robert Gale is the Billy from Liverpool does the car boots
car boot sales..or is that a different Bikky/Aztecs. if same guy he seeks records and guitars
We all start somewhere, and how lucky he did he gave us many years of music excelence.
My daughter is Ivy love it
Saw them sing this at Brookvale Oval in 64. The place went beserk. You couldn't hear a word.
Great foot work!Billy! Miis you
I remember Billy and the Aztecs at Surf City, and how we used to copy how Billy danced. Love seeing this, thanks
Fantastic song, this! And I love the choregraphy for it as well. :)
Overseas artists had the management money & logistics we didnt have but we sure had lots of talent.
Well Human Nature Did Do This Cover Version Live On My Favourite Australian TV Show Hey Hey It’s Saturday Finale From 1999.
I love that song! The chorus remember me a song that was released in Brazil years later from Rita Lee!
I just discorvered it is the same song!!! OMG!!
Lorena Lopes Santana I highly recommend the original version by the Coasters if you have not heard it.
Dwarmin Thanks i didn't. But i will take a look!
Lorena Lopes Santana it was released in the UK by the Hollies
Graham Sweet Thanks!
Saw them at Surf City up at the Cross in '63.
Showman - Having a crazy good time.. Got to love them
I love how Billy did the shuffle. The rest of the band I thought look familiar. Tony Barbor went on to solo and vince wasn't he with the Bee Gees. Billy had to share my heart with Normie Rowe.
These guys are incredible. Reminds me a bit like Led Zeppelin and Beatles.❤❤❤
Poison Ivy was the first "pop" song that snapped my "music switch" on.....(at 9 years old.)
Estos videos son una pequeña joya.
I love the Beat group "thump' of this version!
Billy & the Aztecs performed weekly at Surf City, Kings Cross, this is exactly how they performed all dressed up to the nines, stove pipe pants, ribbon ties, winkle picker shoes, great days those and the beatles were staying at the Hilton Kings Cross, saw them there.
"moonwalk" en el segundo 1:17 wow, increible, Billy Thorpe haciendo moonwalks desde 1966
I just realized that the actual poison ivy plant only grows in a portion of North America, including New York, where this song was written. So even though countless people might be familiar with the name, they've never encountered the allergic reaction that it produces. That includes me, since I don't live where it grows, and am happy I've never had to deal with it.
A girl in our town was auditioning for a band and they asked her to play Poison Ivy
She didn't know it. BUT luckily I had the single for her to practise it.
When you listen to it and the guitar riffs involved, you can understand it was a good tune to audition on
Another great Aussie group and Billy rocked on until his death....
Surf City, Kings Cross. Oh the memories. Thank you for the upload.
The Beach House , Elizabeth street city.
5:01 5:01 5:01 @barrymcintosh8458
At the corner of Bathurst Street??
I remember that place so well. Also Ray Brown and The Whispers. Aah the memories.
GREAT AUSSIE ROCK ! SEEMS TO ME THAT THERE IS A BIT OF WHAT THEY CALL THE MOON WALK IN THIS CLIP ! ROCK ON IN HEAVEN BILLY !
God bless TH-cam ❤ What a great pickup for us septuagenarians 😊👌
my beautiful mum would have been listening to this, i was only 2
I danced to these guys at Whisky-A-Go-Go in Williams St back in '63
Great thanks for this, love it.
so cool grandpa on drums...gotta love it.
Saw Billy at Leederville Oval, Perth. (1972) Played on a long flat-top truck trailer. Hot Perth February evening.
My favourite version of this song by far.
coooool moooooves....
Vince Melouney from Bee Gees!
Vince is a Bee Gee too.
Great musician.
I recently read Billy Thorpes' "Sex, Thugs and Rock n Roll" which was an entertaining insight into the Kings Cross of the 60's even if a lot of it seemed 'slightly exaggerated'. It sounds like he had a hell of a time anyway.
Was in the same class as Billy in the late 50's at Salisbury High in Brisbane ... he was just an average guy at school .... ran into him on the Gold Coast in the mid 60's ... he was diving an Aston Martin ... I was driving an FJ holden
The innocent bloke in vid was shacked up with 2 dollybirds. Great 2 books by the Aussie legend...
We marched to this melody when I was in the Army. The adjusted lyrics were, shall we say, profane.
And they were awesome.... Billy was awesome :)
hard to belive it will be 4 years on the 28TH feb since Thorpie passed
Love that tremelo.
Ah I think so! This is way too cool, like far out man!!!
And then Brian Henderson would come in and explain how wonderful they were. It was a part of my childhood that no one can take from me :)
Excellent!
Massive hit then bring back the 60s
He's 16 yrs old here.
Correction!!! Probably closer to 18yrs, at this stage of his career.
Sick moves & fitted black suits never go out of style
Here's another fun fact that blew me away. When The Beatles did "Some Other Guy" I had no idea it was Co Written by Leiber/Stoller and Richard Barrett (A Poor Man's Berry Gordy). He worked with The Chantels who had the hit Maybe and The Three Degrees. In The Documentary I'm In A Girl Group Richard would say "I Can Replace You Just Like That" and at least 15 Women came through The Ranks.
WHO REMEMBERS THIS SONG?
It was in my bands songlist.
I was 15 or 16 when the song came out in Sydney.
Me
Tenneille Day I remember singing it to my brother at the school bus stop. He had calamine lotion all over his neck and cheeks, a bad case of poison ivy for the first day of school.
@@mariekatherine5238 The Coasters did the original
Freakin hell,,, even a left-handed guitarist like Paul McCartney. What are the odds of that?
we certainly need more songs about poisonous plants.
i wish you were still here mum
Wow, Colin Gaigent lives down the street from me now! (2010), thanks for posting the video as I never really knew who he was !
Ellis Girrard Tony Barber (the guitarist) is my grandpa.
Hey Keven, the B side to Poison Ivy was Blue Day.
Miss you Billy!
I saw him play on the back of a cattle truck at Scaborough Beach in my teens.Check out those quitars.
jennifer hands did you see johnny farnham and russel morris at the innaloo shopping center way back when. ?
Brilliant!
the dance moves are very oompa loompa
Brian Henderson, what a smooth talking host. He always looked so straight and old school sensible.
Classic Clip
thx for putting this one up, man!
There is a film clip done in the 30's of an old blues singer doing the moonwalk first.
Oz rock music from the sixties was underrated some of the bands should have had UK's charts success