This song in particular-this song is one of the best songs ever recorded. Every time I hear it, from when I was 14 to now when I'm 71, I just start bobbin and boppin and swayin along. Like the Four Tops, I can't help myself, because this song is got such a quintessential, monumental, Biblically torrential, planet-eating groove. See? Even my words start shingalingin along. How could you not? Captivated, And loving it.
@@theherbpuffer The 70s were shit (Peter Frampton, REO Speedwagon, The Eagles)? The 60s were SO much better!! The Doors. The Byrds. Cream. Case closed.
@@mtntime1 Those are the 70s artists you chose to mention? Really?? Tom Waits, rory gallagher, black sabbath, led zeppelin, pink floyd, Queen, Deep Purple, Allman brothers, funkadelic, sly and the family stone, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Gil Scott Heron, Ramones, Iggy Pop, Bob Marley, Dennis Brown just to name a few. 70s were way more diverse. A lot of those may have started in the 60s but majority of their careers were in the 70s and shaped and defined the 70s
I’m 56, I have had many, many dreams with this song in my head. You don’t hear it, you feel it! It is not until I was an adult, that I realized when I was a young child, my Dad, who was a Tejano musician, used to play this record over & over. This group is from San Antonio, my Dad is from Kingsville and the rhythm on this song is like much of the Tejano music he played & is still being played today….He would have been 83 last month. He raised us with great musical taste. RIP Dad, ❤❤!
I'm glad you made it back. Husband and I are watching Greatest Beer Run ever, about a dude who went to Viet Nam to bring some buddy's beer who were in Bravo Company First Aid Camp. This song came on and I wanted to watch a video. Then I read this. Most of our friends and family made it home in our circle but we had too many not make it back. Peace.
The more I watch this, the more great stuff I catch in the performance. Epic head-banging moves by the keyboardist, Doug's ever-evolving facial expressions, and the poor stiff-as-a-board maracas player. How could anyone not love this!!?? Great song. Classic 60's everything! Peace, AHA
I was 13 when I saw this on TV. It is now one of my all time favorites. Those mannequins are LIVE models. You can see the front mannequin blink a couple times. And you can hear something drop and hit the floor......so it was taped live.
I have absolutely no idea why I woke up at 4:38 am, with this song playing in my head, but it just did! Haven't heard this since I was maybe 14,! I'm an old lady now, and I STILL don't know what the chorus means! I mean, "She's about a mover",... WHAT!? lol! So, I had to look it up & play this, to check if I'd lost my mind, and what do I see? I see a KEYBOARDIST who is the FIRST HEADBANGER of the 60's!! Pretty wild stuff! --- I LOVE IT ! (edited for half-asleep spelling)
Sooo NICE to see Whites and Mexicans getting along as well as we did then, a great enough humanitarian relationship to form a TOP BAND, and a TOP SONG!
I don't have the record but I still listen to this type music and play guitar and sing. I'll be 64 in August. Isn't it amazing how fast the years go by. I have a niece and she doesn't even know who the Stones or the Beatles are. Amazing!
Oh Yeah! I was blasting this in my truck yesterday getting nods from all ages. Even the deaf, numb, & ignorant teenage neighbors came asking, hey what's that? So many of these great Texas cats have left us though! Thank you kingviviot66. You and every other keeper of the faith.
Doug Sahm Tex-Mex Trip 8 track played the heck out of it,, saw him at Armadillo Club in Austin in 76?77,, i was stationed at Ft Hood and Austin was jamming. remember “ Hole in the Wall” and Hippy Hollow.
It's useless to debate which decade was better. Both decades were great, in my opinion, and beat the fire out of anything since, except maybe 3 or 4 songs in the 80s. I'm 72 so I was around for both. I haven't heard this song in 55 or 60 years, I would guess, and just thought about it a few minutes ago. Thanks King Vidiot. Great song and memory. Yes, the organ and the lead singer's voice made this song. It was different.
Still one of my favorites after all these years. Doug was somewhat a musical child prodigy around San Antonio in his younger years. My first record by the Quintet was The Rains Came, also still one of my favorites. I haven't seen Augie Meyer without his long braid in many years. He had a band in the late 60's that would play at the Pussycat Club in San Antonio, we used to have so much fun there. His band was Lord August and the Visions of Light. They played a killer Gimme Some Lovin, as good as the original. There was a guy that played in his band everybody called Pineapple. I sure miss those fun times, but great memories.
Sir Douglas Quintet( another U.S. band sounding and looking British) also hit" Shes About A Mover" in 1965. They were actually from Texas. Hosted by Trini Lopez also from Texas.
alan chrisman - US bands were scrambling to get a gimmick to compete with Brit bands they were as good as, and Doug Sahm's "Quintet" was able to make "Mendocino" and "Little Red Riding Hood." He is remembered in Texas.
DS was a child prodigy on violin too. Was offered a membership to the Grand Ole Opry at age 15 I think too. He made MANY great records, the best being "Doug Sahm and Friends" with Bob Dylan , Dr. John and many others, also his later stuff "Hell of a Spell" and "Jukebox Music" are top notch. Saw him maybe 2 times live at "Sully's" in Dearborn, MI back in the 80's-90's. He could play any style of music then. Died 1999, such a loss.
The crazy thing about that is the fact that, when I'm your age,I'll be trying to show my grandchildren the music in my memory card... live long and spread your knowledge as I know you will.
Can't believe that's Augie Meyer heading the group back then..and to think that I met and sat in and jammed with him in San Antonio back in '93-'94 at "Make My Day" lounge. How cool was that? Awesome man!
Sir Doug was greatness. Saw him in the Lone Star Cafe in NYC about 1979. He said he was the best ever, I told him no but now I regret that. He was great for sure.
Oh how I remember this song....I'm 69 now and the 60's was the best decade for Rock n Roll, I will listen to this music until end days..Enough said....
Happy 82nd Birthday August Meyers - May 31, 1940. San Antonio, Texas Founding member of the Texas Tornados and the Sir Douglas Quintet. He's a Texas legend.. Many more "Augie"..
They may be from Texas but damn if he ain't got the nose and features of one of the those old paintings of European royalty, and the dude behind him surely has the haircut
I drank a beer with Doug Sham and Stevie Ray Vaughan in 1984 in Austin, Texas at Antoine's on Guadalupe street. He'd hooked with other cats and went avant guard country. The drummer, Ernie Dawawa still plays in Austin to this day.
I hear the same opening riff when I hear Salesman by the Monkees. Which with Nesmith being from Texas too could express some "borrowing" since Salesman came out 2 years later
Hulaballoo made their go-go dancer gals into statues. Shindig show, which was a hour long, had them moving all the time. The red-head knight in this video was a stunner and a great dancer.
I'm just in the mood. Any music piece after the other is so great 'caus these times were so great. Even the ones that may got a bit disregarded and underappreciated in their time in the face of that enormous amount of gigantic art in those days, nowadays they are all so unbelievably great!
Dwight St John: You're spot on! The original lyric was, 'She's a Body Mover.' The censor of the time didn't like that, thinking it was lewd, so it was released as, 'She's About a Mover.'
Having the opportunity to be in Mendocino in 1968 as a16yo, living in a reused vast wine barrel that slept 6 right above the Pacific, 100 steps down to the beach and tide pools galore was one of the fondest memories I have of those days, and of course this song, this band always brings it back. The sandalwood incense, Patchouli oil, salty breeze and Cabernet enriched wood sends me over the top in joyful bliss. Then it was off to the ballrooms in San Fran., Golden Gate Park, Coit Tower, the Haight ,for all those live concerts, my god. Blew my little teenage mind it did...Woodstock 50th this wknd, here we com
They were a band from San Antonio, to be exact. They took to the Sir Douglas moniker in the mid-60's to cash in on the popularity of the "British Invasion" - Beatles, Stones, etc. 'Mover' was a hit in the summer of '65.
When I first heard this song at the tender age of 8, I swore up & down this was a black R&B band from like New Orleans or someplace. My brother only had a 45 rpm record of "She's About a Mover" and so I had no idea what these guys looked like. When I finally saw them perform on an old recording of this on TV I was absolutely floored.
Doug has passed away...a long time ago...BUT he lived in Shawnigan Lake B.C. for many summers and was a very kind man. We all thought the world of him.R.I.P. Doug
I found this on a compilation record called "A Shot of Rhythm and Blues", some 35 years ago. I remember thinking, "Sir Douglas?!" But I was certainly impressed.
I remember this when it first came out. Now that I'm revisiting it after many years, I notice a heavy Tex-Mex influence in this tune that I never noticed before.
Classic from wen I was a boy Rarely played in NYC Not until I ever heard of St Douglas or Texas Tornado MYC did have even one CW station in a city of 8 miillion. Go figure
Happy 82nd Birthday August Meyers - May 31, 1940. San Antonio, Texas Founding member of the Texas Tornados and the Sir Douglas Quintet. He's a Texas legend.. Many more "Augie"..
This group was mentioned by Dylan during his San Francisco interview as the band to listen to. Their groove documentary for some reason is not out yet. A great band. Really great! Auggie is a locksmith! And Doug has one of the best screams in rock and roll history.
I've actually jammed with Johnny Perez, the drummer.. He was about 70, and partied more fierce than some of the young bucks in my band now... lol... AWESOME!!
A fantastic drummer too. Played with The Premiers ("Farmer John") starting in his early teens!!! He never overplayed (he could have...totally) and, just drove the machine impeccably. Very much in the Charlie Watts school of drumming but learning more to RnB/Soul roots instead of RnB/Jazz That's super cool that you have that experience and memory
I remember I had the album I think it was the best hits it had Mendocino on it too the guy on the radio asked who can name the members of the Sir Douglas quintet well I just so happen to have the album right next to me and I read it off to him I want to Chicago album the double LP it was silver color they were great times great songs
I got to see Doug Sahm once. Backing up the Grateful Dead on 9/11/73 at William and Mary Hall , Williamsburg, Va - the only thing I remember was Martin Fierro playing sax and joing the Dead on Weather Report Suite- A life changing moment !
Ernie Duarwa is the drummer and still playing in Austin, Texas with Doug's son. Huey P. Meaux put this group together as kind of America's answer to the Beatles. 1965
That's his own special model Gibson double-cutaway guitar. You can look it up in old catalogs, the "Trini Lopez" model. A big jazz box guitar with the unusual pair of cutaways. I don't think that it was a big seller, but it sure looks cool.
I remember watching this show as a young child when it first aired. During the song, my Mom and Dad agreed that the Sir Douglas Quintet were English, with Dad suggesting they were from London and Mom thinking they were, like the Beatles, from Liverpool. When guest host Trini Lopez said the group was from Texas, my parents were shocked!
Hey..... I WAS SHOCKED!!! Until I saw this video earlier this year ( or maybe late in 2021.....I thought that The Sir Douglas Quintet were .... FROM ENGLAND!!!!!! Imagine my " wake-up " moment! But... it really doesn't matter to me. This song is one of my ALL-TIME FAVORITES! I do not care if they came from Pluto!!!
P. S. This brings me to the subject of The Beau Brummels. I had ALWAYS thought that they were from England.... since my teenage years ( long, LONG ago!!! ). Then.... I cannot remember the year... I found out that a LOT of people.... like me.... thought that The Beau Brummels WERE from England... just as I had. Imagine MY surprise ( along with a lot others' ). upon hearing one day on television that they were from:. SAN FRANCISCO!!!!!!!!!!!
great record, vaguely remember this from many years ago. It became one of the many sublime tunes played at the Twisted Wheel in Manchester during the 60's and beyond. Well done Sir Doug!
Yep, I remember this being played in Whitworth street and can still understand why it fits in with the dance style made famous at The Wheel. It may be pop but what a record to dance to.
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This song in particular-this song is one of the best songs ever recorded. Every time I hear it, from when I was 14 to now when I'm 71, I just start bobbin and boppin and swayin along. Like the Four Tops, I can't help myself, because this song is got such a quintessential, monumental, Biblically torrential, planet-eating groove. See? Even my words start shingalingin along. How could you not? Captivated, And loving it.
Me, too! Thanks for what you said!
Hey, Guy….I’m 70…and you speak the truth!❤
Totally inspired by The Beatles ‘She’s a Woman’ if you haven’t heard that you’d probably love that too!
Wooly Bully
@@jamesnunn7181 d cm
The keyboardist is what makes this video great
Augie Myers!
agree
Go get em Augie
There has NEVER been music as good as the 60s, everyday was a monster hit
The 70s were better
Not quite.
Amen to That brother
@@theherbpuffer The 70s were shit (Peter Frampton, REO Speedwagon, The Eagles)?
The 60s were SO much better!! The Doors. The Byrds. Cream. Case closed.
@@mtntime1 Those are the 70s artists you chose to mention? Really?? Tom Waits, rory gallagher, black sabbath, led zeppelin, pink floyd, Queen, Deep Purple, Allman brothers, funkadelic, sly and the family stone, Stevie Wonder, Marvin Gaye, Gil Scott Heron, Ramones, Iggy Pop, Bob Marley, Dennis Brown just to name a few. 70s were way more diverse. A lot of those may have started in the 60s but majority of their careers were in the 70s and shaped and defined the 70s
I’m 56, I have had many, many dreams with this song in my head. You don’t hear it, you feel it! It is not until I was an adult, that I realized when I was a young child, my Dad, who was a Tejano musician, used to play this record over & over. This group is from San Antonio, my Dad is from Kingsville and the rhythm on this song is like much of the Tejano music he played & is still being played today….He would have been 83 last month. He raised us with great musical taste. RIP Dad, ❤❤!
Thank you for sharing your story. Isn't life grand!
Trini Lopez callin' Sir Douglas up.
AINT IT FUN BEING FROM TEXAS!
Got blown off a truck in Vietnam singing this song. Ah, fond memories. I survived and went on to serve a full 18 months
Thank you Sir. As you said fond memories, people should read your words again. You Rock Sir
I'm glad you made it back. Husband and I are watching Greatest Beer Run ever, about a dude who went to Viet Nam to bring some buddy's beer who were in Bravo Company First Aid Camp. This song came on and I wanted to watch a video. Then I read this. Most of our friends and family made it home in our circle but we had too many not make it back. Peace.
Glad you made it back.
thank you had an older brother who served there
My uncle told me the first time he heard Satisfaction was when he found his rack where he was shipping out.
I remember them like it was yesterday. It played everywhere. I was in my teens and will never forget it.
Doug Sahm was the the godfather of the tex /mex sound . He is a legend and very talented
Tex-Mex, and yet somehow it was German engineered! Now how odd is that?
This guy is the most underrated legend ever!! Doug Sahm
Underrated by who? Certainly not by me.
Maybe somewhat forgotten or overlooked but never "underrated." You might want to consult a dictionary.
One of the best 2 minute songs ever made! An unforgettable hit record of 1965…these guys were great! Thanks for posting.
Doug and Auggie later formed the Texas Tornados along with Freddie Fender and the great squeeze box player Flaco Jimenez....a very cool group
Aaaaaaaa
Omg my dad loved that band !!
Oh. That explains the into to Wasted Days...
I've always loved Flaco Jimenez, and who is a big part of this group.
"We Made Love in Mendocino" early 3/69.
If you were a garage band in the 60's you had to know this song ! Everyone sang along - what great lyrics !
The more I watch this, the more great stuff I catch in the performance. Epic head-banging moves by the keyboardist, Doug's ever-evolving facial expressions, and the poor stiff-as-a-board maracas player. How could anyone not love this!!?? Great song. Classic 60's everything! Peace, AHA
That has to be where Jim Henson got the idea for the Muppets headbanging.
The subtle head movements and blinking of that mannequin are almost creepy.
Big Augie
Doug Sahm might be gone, but this song will live forever!
One of my favorite singers.....At The Crossroads
@@marilpelley969 Yes indeed.
Doug Sahm forever!
@@jg6698 For sure!
I was 13 when I saw this on TV. It is now one of my all time favorites. Those mannequins are LIVE models. You can see the front mannequin blink a couple times. And you can hear something drop and hit the floor......so it was taped live.
I think that sound is someone knocking into an amp with spring reverb
Hearing this for the first time and I'm 69. Fntastic.
I'm 56, and although I've heard it before, I never heard of the group before tonight.
I am 66 years old now. When I was about 14 or 15...'THIS'...is the FIRST RECORD that I ever bought.
amen .. it was huge!
bet it still MOVES yuh!~E
+Eric-Scott Bloom It DOES!
Good choice!
Have to agree with you Kodi... guess were showing our age. The 60's could not be beat for the best R&R!
I have absolutely no idea why I woke up at 4:38 am, with this song playing in my head, but it just did! Haven't heard this since I was maybe 14,! I'm an old lady now, and I STILL don't know what the chorus means! I mean, "She's about a mover",... WHAT!? lol! So, I had to look it up & play this, to check if I'd lost my mind, and what do I see? I see a KEYBOARDIST who is the FIRST HEADBANGER of the 60's!! Pretty wild stuff! --- I LOVE IT !
(edited for half-asleep spelling)
It brings me back to the day when I was 16 years old. I still love this song
Yes our generation had the best music so much better then today
Sooo NICE to see Whites and Mexicans getting along as well as we did then, a great enough humanitarian relationship to form a TOP BAND, and a TOP SONG!
I don't have the record but I still listen to this type music and play guitar and sing. I'll be 64 in August. Isn't it amazing how fast the years go by. I have a niece and she doesn't even know who the Stones or the Beatles are. Amazing!
Oooh. Sounds like you need to play some of Sir Doug, and Mick, and share the wonderfulness that is rock'n'roll with that poor child.
👍 😊
Oh Yeah! I was blasting this in my truck yesterday getting nods from all ages. Even the deaf, numb, & ignorant teenage neighbors came asking, hey what's that? So many of these great Texas cats have left us though! Thank you kingviviot66. You and every other keeper of the faith.
Doug Sahm morphed into a Tex-Mex, Texas Swing musician in later years. A really good sound.
That's what he was; he took advantage of the British Invasion to name the group and generate some buzz. Comment down below talks about it.
The Texas Tornados were, and are, a kick ass band.
Doug Sahm Tex-Mex Trip 8 track played the heck out of it,, saw him at Armadillo Club in Austin in 76?77,, i was stationed at Ft Hood and Austin was jamming. remember “ Hole in the Wall” and Hippy Hollow.
The days when TV had amazing music shows like Hullaballoo and Shindig and y'all know the others...No BS reality crap...real music...
Except there was often a lot of lip-synching back then. I'm not certain about this one, looks like it could be.
I love watching those reruns many many years ago
American bandstand??
You can say that again.
I couldn't agree more,....
The haircuts! The choreography! Amazing!
those are beatle wigs
I still have a mop top
Great record. Takes me back to the Swinging Sixties here in England when I was a Mod. It's groovy, man!!
It's useless to debate which decade was better. Both decades were great, in my opinion, and beat the fire out of anything since, except maybe 3 or 4 songs in the 80s. I'm 72 so I was around for both. I haven't heard this song in 55 or 60 years, I would guess, and just thought about it a few minutes ago. Thanks King Vidiot. Great song and memory. Yes, the organ and the lead singer's voice made this song. It was different.
the original is still the best !!!
Still one of my favorites after all these years. Doug was somewhat a musical child prodigy around San Antonio in his younger years. My first record by the Quintet was The Rains Came, also still one of my favorites. I haven't seen Augie Meyer without his long braid in many years. He had a band in the late 60's that would play at the Pussycat Club in San Antonio, we used to have so much fun there. His band was Lord August and the Visions of Light. They played a killer Gimme Some Lovin, as good as the original. There was a guy that played in his band everybody called Pineapple. I sure miss those fun times, but great memories.
👊👏👍😁
CRANSTONS AND POLES YEAPO
ich hatte jahrelang nur Fetzen von diesem Song im Kopf und heute hab ich den Song endlich gefunden 😍
08/13/24, today is the first time that I've heard this song on the car radio. I knew exactly where to find the video.
Sir Douglas Quintet( another U.S. band sounding and looking British) also hit" Shes About A Mover" in 1965. They were actually from Texas. Hosted by Trini Lopez also from Texas.
'Mendocino', a catch tune, as well. Bit later in their career, though.
alan chrisman Didn't think they were British but thought they were black.
barton cross-tierney
Catch them even later as The Texas Tornados...
Doug Sahm went on with Augie Meyers to become members of The Texas Tornados with Flaco Jimenez and Freddy Fender.,
alan chrisman - US bands were scrambling to get a gimmick to compete with Brit bands they were as good as, and Doug Sahm's "Quintet" was able to make "Mendocino" and "Little Red Riding Hood." He is remembered in Texas.
DS was a child prodigy on violin too. Was offered a membership to the Grand Ole Opry at age 15 I think too. He made MANY great records, the best being "Doug Sahm and Friends" with Bob Dylan , Dr. John and many others, also his later stuff "Hell of a Spell" and "Jukebox Music" are top notch. Saw him maybe 2 times live at "Sully's" in Dearborn, MI back in the 80's-90's. He could play any style of music then. Died 1999, such a loss.
Might have lived longer if he and Townes Van Zandt hadn't spent alot of time hanging out together w cocaine. Both died young around the same time
Bless the sacred memory.
So simple, but so brilliant. Always in my top ten.
These guys are Great. I remember them vividly by their hit, She,s About a Mover. Good Act!!
Doug Sahm played a venue I used to own about thirty years ago and had Augie Meyers with him. Nice guys and great show
I love that little skip and hop move they do during the chorus part of the song.It, catchy and do it perfectly.Love this song.RIP Doug Sahm
Me too.
The crazy thing about that is the fact that, when I'm your age,I'll be trying to show my grandchildren the music in my memory card... live long and spread your knowledge as I know you will.
Can't believe that's Augie Meyer heading the group back then..and to think that I met and sat in and jammed with him in San Antonio back in '93-'94 at "Make My Day" lounge. How cool was that? Awesome man!
Ah, the great Mike Ellis! I first played with him in the early eighties, still do from time to time.
@@georgederocher8202 Sure miss him and Jackie at The Make My Day Lounge! If you see him again, tell him "Nutty" Ned said "Hi!" LOL
Sir Doug was greatness. Saw him in the Lone Star Cafe in NYC about 1979. He said he was the best ever, I told him no but now I regret that. He was great for sure.
Steve C . thankfully you took the chance to regret. God bless.
I GOTTA JUMP IN..... IM 63 AND I STILL LOVE SIXTIES MUSIC. IS THERE ANYTHING ELSE? I MEAN REALLY ?
Oh how I remember this song....I'm 69 now and the 60's was the best decade for Rock n Roll, I will listen to this music until end days..Enough said....
@saca1951 I totally agree. Enough said . . .
Dough sahm, freddy fender & flaco jiminez THE TEXAS TORNADOS..
Gruene Hall!
back then we thought they were from england then found out it was doug sahm and his group.
Don't forget Augie Meyers one of the best keyboardists around. He recorded a lot with Bob Dylan.
@@terrydouglas5008 wouldn't have that sound without him.
Texas bless
San Antonio bless
I first heard this song in Hawaii 4 days before shipping out to Vietnam
Organ playing with an attitude!🤘🤘🤘🤘...go Augie go!!!!
Happy 82nd Birthday August Meyers - May 31, 1940. San Antonio, Texas
Founding member of the Texas Tornados and the Sir Douglas Quintet.
He's a Texas legend.. Many more "Augie"..
They may be from Texas but damn if he ain't got the nose and features of one of the those old paintings of European royalty, and the dude behind him surely has the haircut
the guy really belts this song out. great.
I love that style and era of rock n roll voice.
Sounds a bit like Steve Winwood to me.
@@timbryant1621 I hear the blues saturating the vocals and all-around style just as I'm sure you do. Kick-ass song and performance ♨️
Yup stays a good distance from the mic
I feel your pain, Brother! I'm 64 and I've never gotten tired of 60s music.
Our group was the opening act for The Sir Douglas Quintet at the National Guard Armory in Grand Rapids Mn in 1966.Great guys!!
That's interesting. What was the name of your group?
I drank a beer with Doug Sham and Stevie Ray Vaughan in 1984 in Austin, Texas at Antoine's on Guadalupe street. He'd hooked with other cats and went avant guard country. The drummer, Ernie Dawawa still plays in Austin to this day.
I love Doug's face when Trinny tells everyone they're actually from Texas! Classic.
This sounds like Texas, and I have to admit I missed that entirely when listening to it back in the 60s. Great song.
The 60's . . . great music & great cars!
64 and didnt know i grew up in best of times.the music and i had several hot rods
THIS!!! My father played the fuck out of this record when I was little. Thx for bringing back memories!
You've got to understand the time & the music bubbling to the surface...the best of times...
I hear the same opening riff when I hear Salesman by the Monkees. Which with Nesmith being from Texas too could express some "borrowing" since Salesman came out 2 years later
Hulaballoo made their go-go dancer gals into statues. Shindig show, which was a hour long, had them moving all the time. The red-head knight in this video was a stunner and a great dancer.
I remember seeing this the night it ran on TV. I didn't think the set was dumb then.
What a GREAT voice..Real Deal.
What dramatics singing one of the greatest sixty songs.
I'm just in the mood. Any music piece after the other is so great 'caus these times were so great. Even the ones that may got a bit disregarded and underappreciated in their time in the face of that enormous amount of gigantic art in those days, nowadays they are all so unbelievably great!
i agree. super beat. = alex. ukraine
This is right up there with Roy Orbison and "Pretty Woman". A true classic from when I used to throw papers on cold mornings as a kid.
In HS I thought they were saying "She's a BODY mover', which still makes for sense for me.
Dwight St John: You're spot on! The original lyric was, 'She's a Body Mover.' The censor of the time didn't like that, thinking it was lewd, so it was released as, 'She's About a Mover.'
@@heli-crewhgs5285, do you have a source for that? It *sounds* true, but ya never know....
Having the opportunity to be in Mendocino in 1968 as a16yo, living in a reused vast wine barrel that slept 6 right above the Pacific, 100 steps down to the beach and tide pools galore was one of the fondest memories I have of those days, and of course this song, this band always brings it back. The sandalwood incense, Patchouli oil, salty breeze and Cabernet enriched wood sends me over the top in joyful bliss. Then it was off to the ballrooms in San Fran., Golden Gate Park, Coit Tower, the Haight ,for all those live concerts, my god. Blew my little teenage mind it did...Woodstock 50th this wknd, here we com
They were a band from San Antonio, to be exact. They took to the Sir Douglas moniker in the mid-60's to cash in on the popularity of the "British Invasion" - Beatles, Stones, etc. 'Mover' was a hit in the summer of '65.
Wait a minute; she didn't move at all. You really got me now.
Doug Sahm was a genius! Loved him in the Texas Tornados too!
YEAH YOU
When I first heard this song at the tender age of 8, I swore up & down this was a black R&B band from like New Orleans or someplace. My brother only had a 45 rpm record of "She's About a Mover" and so I had no idea what these guys looked like. When I finally saw them perform on an old recording of this on TV I was absolutely floored.
Doug has passed away...a long time ago...BUT he lived in Shawnigan Lake B.C. for many summers and was a very kind man. We all thought the world of him.R.I.P. Doug
I found this on a compilation record called "A Shot of Rhythm and Blues", some 35 years ago.
I remember thinking,
"Sir Douglas?!"
But I was certainly impressed.
I remember this when it first came out. Now that I'm revisiting it after many years, I notice a heavy Tex-Mex influence in this tune that I never noticed before.
The band's from San Antonio TX that Tex Mex sound isn't accidental
Classic from wen I was a boy
Rarely played in NYC
Not until I ever heard of St Douglas or Texas Tornado
MYC did have even one CW station in a city of 8 miillion. Go figure
Hullabaloo. Always had people decorate the set while someone was performing. And love that Vox organ.
Moving from one home to another is back breaking.. literally
I love this song.
Happy 82nd Birthday August Meyers - May 31, 1940. San Antonio, Texas
Founding member of the Texas Tornados and the Sir Douglas Quintet.
He's a Texas legend.. Many more "Augie"..
This group was mentioned by Dylan during his San Francisco interview as the band to listen to. Their groove documentary for some reason is not out yet.
A great band. Really great! Auggie is a locksmith! And Doug has one of the best screams in rock and roll history.
Loved this back in the day
Haven't heard this song in Forever .LOVE It!!!❤❤❤❤✌✌✌✌
This is one song that when it was playing on the AM nobody flipped to another station because it's a timeless tune that never gets old!!
I've actually jammed with Johnny Perez, the drummer.. He was about 70, and partied more fierce than some of the young bucks in my band now... lol... AWESOME!!
A fantastic drummer too. Played with The Premiers ("Farmer John") starting in his early teens!!!
He never overplayed (he could have...totally) and, just drove the machine impeccably. Very much in the Charlie Watts school of drumming but learning more to RnB/Soul roots instead of RnB/Jazz
That's super cool that you have that experience and memory
I remember I had the album I think it was the best hits it had Mendocino on it too the guy on the radio asked who can name the members of the Sir Douglas quintet well I just so happen to have the album right next to me and I read it off to him I want to Chicago album the double LP it was silver color they were great times great songs
Great song. 60's music is THE BEST.
I got to see Doug Sahm once. Backing up the Grateful Dead on 9/11/73 at William and Mary Hall , Williamsburg, Va - the only thing I remember was Martin Fierro playing sax and joing the Dead on Weather Report Suite- A life changing moment !
Wow! "Hallabaloo"! I used to watch that all the time when I was a teenager...Good memories!
Another blast from the past thanks for sharing the video it brings back memories for me when i was a teenage girl in the mid sixties.
Ernie Duarwa is the drummer and still playing in Austin, Texas with Doug's son. Huey P. Meaux put this group together as kind of America's answer to the Beatles. 1965
The drummer is Johnny Perez from San Antonio, and he was quite good!
Thanks loved that flash back
Texas Tornadoes = Sir Douglas Quintet == and they are THE BEST BAND EVER......go TexMex
where are the amps...…..?
even with no electic linhes……………...
60ths sound wow awesome. Bring back good memories. Love The Texas Sound............
Saw them in San Antonio.........................
That was Trini Lopez introducing the band. Remember him?
Si!
One of my dad's favorites!
That's his own special model Gibson double-cutaway guitar. You can look it up in old catalogs, the "Trini Lopez" model. A big jazz box guitar with the unusual pair of cutaways. I don't think that it was a big seller, but it sure looks cool.
I remember Trini Lopez, this song (She's About A Mover) from Trini Lopez' album "Rhythm and Blues" 1965.
If I had a hammer was one of my favorites, different spin.
One of the coolest songs ever-👍💯🎯🥳🤠
I remember watching this show as a young child when it first aired.
During the song, my Mom and Dad agreed that the Sir Douglas Quintet were English, with Dad suggesting they were from London and Mom thinking they were, like the Beatles, from Liverpool.
When guest host Trini Lopez said the group was from Texas, my parents were shocked!
Hey..... I WAS SHOCKED!!! Until I saw this video earlier this year ( or maybe late in 2021.....I thought that The Sir Douglas Quintet were .... FROM ENGLAND!!!!!! Imagine my " wake-up " moment! But... it really doesn't matter to me. This song is one of my ALL-TIME FAVORITES! I do not care if they came from Pluto!!!
P. S. This brings me to the subject of The Beau Brummels. I had ALWAYS thought that they were from England.... since my teenage years ( long, LONG ago!!! ). Then.... I cannot remember the year... I found out that a LOT of people.... like me.... thought that The Beau Brummels WERE from England... just as I had. Imagine MY surprise ( along with a lot others' ). upon hearing one day on television that they were from:. SAN FRANCISCO!!!!!!!!!!!
ABOUT WHAAAA SEEE
Fantastic and fabulous sixties! very good this group in the music and on the move. thank you for the share.
Wow! I just happened to think about their other song - “The Rains Came” - and then saw this one - I haven’t heard them in years!
"Mendocino" was another song by them that I remember fondly. They really do have a catalog worth looking into.
You've alerted me to a GREAT talent of whom I knew nothing.
great record, vaguely remember this from many years ago. It became one of the many sublime tunes played at the Twisted Wheel in Manchester during the 60's and beyond. Well done Sir Doug!
Yep, I remember this being played in Whitworth street and can still understand why it fits in with the dance style made famous at The Wheel. It may be pop but what a record to dance to.
I heard this song at like 3 this morning on my phone's radio. Felt like getting up and dancing right along with it.
Another grate dance tune ...with memories attached.