A girl up the street wanted to take me to see The Beatles with her in Atlanta and told my mom that it was free for me to get in but my mom said no because I was one year old.
Great video. Lots of killer tracks, By the way the bassist/vocalist for Grapefruit was Alex Young (using the stage name George Alexander). He was the older brother of George, Malcolm and Angus Young. He never emigrated to Australia though. He's in the shot at 16:59 sitting on the left (just under Brian Jones and Donovan). You can totally see the family resemblance.
Great selection of music combined with high quality rare footage and excellent production values...this channel is the future of music journalism. Back in the 80's there used to be an amazing magazine/fanzine called BamBalaam written by a guy called Brian Hogg. You had to send him a postal order and get it through the mail it was super imformative,almost scholarly,I'm always reminded of it when I watch this channel.❤
Long live Brian Hogg and John Wagstaff of Format International Record Collectors Magazine❤ Those were the days, when John and I collected stuff from Brian (in Edinburgh, if memory serves me well) Great writer!
As always, YP, so much great music and too much of it went unnoticed. Ah, the riches we lived in when chart competition was fierce. Grapefruit guitarist Alexander Young was the elder brother to The Easybeats' George Young and future AC/DC members Angus and Malcolm. Very cool to see the promotional poster you showed advertising Eire Apparent supporting Jimi Hendrix at the Pacific Coliseum, a great ice hockey rink built in 1967 to showcase an NHL team that didn't materialise until three years later. Hendrix had family ties to Vancouver as his grandmother lived here, recognised as an important person in her community. Thank you, as always, YP, for these deep excursions into the charts, music, and bands that deserved more attention than they received.
Oh here comes another song I’ve not heard since 1968 and had totally forgotten…. Sky Pilot! I remember Matchstick Man and Mighty Quinn. Big Hits in Germany, where I was living at the time. Thank you, well done, enjoyed the old film clips as well as the music!
Okay...now we're gettin' somewhere! This is about when I "figured it out." I was a 13-year-old whippersnapper trying to make sense of all this from Mississippi. It weren't easy! I saw Eire Apparent open for Eric Burdon & The Animals on their "Sky Pilot" tour. Whew! That's going back some for me! Thanks as usual for all your great work!
@@rogerbixley6911 Maybe that’s what he was known as in The Highlights, the cabaret outfit he was in before Quo. The twin girls he performed with were called Harrison.
@@starcloud4959Plant was/is in awe of Steve Marriott. And Jimmy Page wanted Steve to be his singer before R.P. came to his notice. AND Zepp absolutely ripped-off Steve's Small Faces'' You need Loving" for their"Whole Lotta Love, AND the Small Faces had absolutely ripped it off from....Willie Dixon (?)....one of the ole US Blues Giants, anyways.
Only discovered this website tonight. Well impressed with the off the beaten track of bands. Of which, some I'd never heard of. A lot I had as I am of a certain age that, whilst living through the sixties and flower power did remember that transition. I consider myself as belssed to be in that era. Thank you for the wonderful reminders and the depth of information from an age much missed!
Thanks for the introduction to many unfamiliar bands… Fantastic. It was good to see young Greg Ridley with spooky tooth, who eventually moved on to humble pie.
Wow this was fantastic as one of the turbulent years of the 20th century got off to a great start music wise with some great releases. The songs here by the Move Manfred Mann The Animals The Creation are my favorites by these groups and the Grapefruit though I like Elevator better had a good record plus any time The Small Faces are doing something you know it will be good. January 1968 was gloomy in the U.S with the Tet Offensive and the capture of the Pueblo but the British as usual were putting out great records and thanks for starting posting great 1968 debut records.
As well as the excellent music, I love seeing the migration of musicians from one band to another! The period clips and "videos" of the artiosts trigger so many memories of these days. Thanks so much for all the hard graft behind the scenes. Keep them coming!
Penny Valentine (in Disc) called Fire Brigade "a superb piece of nuttiness". Wonder why Record Mirror was a wee bit sniffy about Walk Upon The Water? "Short of excellence", yet!
Always brilliant videos, thank you. 'A Dream For Julie' was not on their first album though, only 'Please Excuse My Face' which was the b-side on the single released in 1968. Would have been ideal for their debut album indeed.
I'm making a spotify mix, if you're interested. Updating it every video. Some of the tracks aren't on spotify, so some will be missing. Eire Apparent's on there, but neither of the singles mentioned are.
@@monsieurlaguillotine3481 That's a cool thing that you're doing. Looks like I might have to finally download Stotify. How can I search out the playlists?
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Some absolutely amazing ear candy here. Living in the States, we did not get to hear the Move, and it still boggles the (my) mind. Sky Pilot is okay, maybe the weakest track here (for me), but Fire Brigade brings a smile to my face while getting me out of my chair. Matchstick Men was a medium hit here in New England while Quinn was massive, but radio programmers really needed to be reprogrammed.
The Creation are one of my all time faves🎉 In the autumn 67 some European papers published the offer of Pete Townshend to the Creation's magnificent lead guitarist Eddie Phillips to join the Who!!! Phillips played the guitar with a violin bow years before Jimmy Page! 😮😅
Prescient comment from Penny V at 9:50, about Green Tambourine. Also surprised to see Janis Ian was already a name at the time, when she really was at (or near) seventeen.
I ALWAYS enjoy your videos, never mind the year, the month, or the content..! Your videos are ALWAYS excellent pieces of highly enjoyable and interesting information..!
Have heard only a few of these so thank you again, YP for a very enjoyable education. I wish my college classes were so much fun. Of the new ones to me, that Jason Crest song was the one that caught my ears on this video.
Some great singles featured here, The Creation were a terrific band, always liked their cover of ‘Cool Jerk’. That page from Record Mirror caught my eye: “Hendrix & Cream are out” says Jeff!
Some of the tracks sounded like they were putting the "Grrr" into " Groovy"! As always, Grreat stuff from YP!!! While I'm in bad wordplay mode, Yippy for YP! lol
I sent overseas for "Pictures of Matchstick Men" from Heanor Record Centre in Derbyshire, but had never heard of the Manchester artist, L S Lowry (1887-1976), until many decades later. He was known for his "pictures of matchstick men". At the time it was popular, I never understood what the song was about: all I knew was that I liked it. This has been another excellent episode. Cheers, YP. Thanks for this.
This vid. is truly an Artistic Labour of LOVE. Every credit to your research. I didn't know Stevie Marriott and the others were such busy boys. I'd love for you to do some in-depth research into 'Traffic', too. I believe the Small Faces did some backing vocals on "Berkshire Poppies", popping over when they were in the adjoining recording studio .
Would like to have seen this edition of Status Quo. And I can't believe I never got around to checking out Spooky Tooth until recently being hipped to them by this very channel. They really WERE pretty great!
Pictures of Matchstick Men? The same month, Vanilla Fudge was on Ed Sullivan to play their '67 version of You Keep Me Hanging On. Very similar intro (organ vs guitar) - Americans likely assumed the Quo was the Fudge.
Excellent! Please keep putting out these videos! I've discovered TONS of beautiful bands, music, and great obscure albums by watching these videos. Thank you! Keep up the good work!
Psychedelia still rules the roost in January '68, with so many cool, trippy sides seeing release--although "Fire Brigade"'s Cochran quote foreshadows the "return to rock'n'roll" trend that would sweep through UK rock that spring. Oddly enough I never really took to "Fire Brigade" until just recently, but now I like it. "Sky Pilot" is one of the greatest tracks from that lineup of The Animals, while "Sunshine Help Me" is a lost classic that would be covered to even greater effect by The Move a few months later. Indeed, I like just about every single reviewed in this clip, from Manfred Mann (their finest hour) to Status Quo to Grapefruit, although you missed a few by Cherry Smash, The Virgin Sleep, The Plague, and Cat's Pyjamas. No matter--this was a BLAST to watch and I'm just as excited to watch this series as I was for '66 and '67!! You're archiving history here, YP!
Great again. But something is missing. In Grapefruit lineup, you could have noticed one of the Young brothers. Yes, I mean the Easybeats/AC/DC family. Alexander Young. One more funny thing was his stage name, George Alexander. Just like the REAL name of the Flamin' Groovies bass player. Still following? 😉 Funny too I read the Jeff Beck interview, near the Status Quo article. Where he said that Jimi and Cream were finished. And, cool, I got this Ride single with a Creation cover. Anyway, great great job, once again. 👍
So much good music came out in 1968. I look forward to the comming months. I was especially pleased to see Billy Nichols featured. Such a shame that circumstances w/ Immediate records prevented him fro being even more successful. Everytime i hear this song, I laugh at Steve Marriott singing in the background- his voice is so powerful it's a standout. I paid a pretty high price for this CD recently (it's considered a collectors item) but enjoy it thoroughly.
@@YesterdaysPapers My favorite song is "Girl from New York". Seems a little heavy for the times with an amazing guitar solo by Marriott. I read somewhiere Billy said Steve played so hard he snapped the guitar neck! Says Billy- "Steve just threw it aside and said "well, there you go!" such a cool dude...
@@noelsalisbury7448 I just checked with Amazon. They have several used copies of Billy's album "Would You Believe", a large selection from PP Arnold, including a new release coming out in Dec.2024!
I was more interested in the Jeff Beck article than I was in Status Quo. Didn't know he said that. Well, that's another rabbit hole to crawl into. Oh yeah, and Johnny Rivers. I'm always pausing these videos to read the rest of the items. Yet another layer of history.
Yeah, I paused the video at that point (1:17). Jeff said that Cream and Jimi Hendrix were finished, heavy blues was out, and orchestrated pap like his version of "Love is Blue" was now the happening thing. I'm wondering what kind of drug he was on when he said that?
Plenty of cosmic tunes - many of which I got scattered across various psychedelic comps. The Small Faces were at their peak in 68 with the release of their seminal Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake lp. A feature on Immediate would be good, I’ve got all of Loog Oldhams bios and the rise and fall of Immediate records is fascinating 😎✌️☮️
Great seeing some songs by Spooky Tooth here. Gary Wright would go on to release "Dream Weaver" and "Love Is Alive" in 1975, both becoming hits in the US the following year.
Whoopeee! I figured you'd either do 1965 or 1968 next. Happy to see you go with the latter! From what I gather '68 was a bit more eclectic and it'll be interesting to see how England pivoted away from the swinging era and the psychedelic era. I wonder if we'll see that shift towards heavier bands...
Fantastic, YP. Some all-time favs in there - The Creation, The Move - and plenty of discoveries! Spooky Tooth was a good surprise and like the great Paul Weller was a little influenced by them when going solo. As usual, thanks! Cool stuff indeed.
Great Video, YP, with a good mix of well known classics and interesting rarities. Love "The Mighty Quin" by Manfred Mann. Totally agree with Penny Valentine's review of that single.
Still remember when I found " Eire Apparent" amongst cut price albums in 1970, this poppy "Electric Ladyland " became one of my favourite albums. Had the Spooky Tooth and Status Quo singles also. The rest ofcourse caught my attention later through those excellent psychedelia compilation albums.
Thanks for another brilliant and fascinating trip down memory lane with these cool singles❤ By the way "Tom Tom" by the creation was a Top 10 Hit in Saarland (Nr 14 in Germany, 11 weeks in charts) in July 1967 where it was the follow up to Painter Man (Nr 8,18 weeks in Charts) 🎉
I love to see all the cross-pollination between artists. When I was in a band in the 60's, we had a battle-of-the-bands mindset. To collaborate with another group would have been viewed as treason. Yet, here we see all the greats collaborating both behind the scenes and in the open.
Isn’t Quinn the Eskimo on Self Portrait? I always thought that’s why when The Basement Tapes was eventually released in 1975 it didn’t appear on it. The version on Self Portrait is live with the Band at the Isle of Wight.
Status Quo apparently went through some name changes. Besides Traffic Jam, were they (or a semblance of them) known as The Spectres? In 1967 that group covered (We Ain’t Got) Nothin’ Yet, that The Blue Magoos made into a hit that same year. What a great beginning for 1968 with Status Quo!
Not all of course, but a lot of these singles have a slower, mellow groove, while still being psychedelic, which makes me think even more that Satanic Majesties fit perfectly right tight into this sound ❤ awesome episode 👍
I was just talking to Olivia D’Abo the actress from the TV show “The Wonder Years” about her dad’s song the mighty Quinn. She Gave me some fascinating stories about as a child people like Kenny Jones of the small faces and Ron Wood coming over to their house and playing with her.
As always I enjoyed it. Most Americans have never heard of the Quo and don't about their longevity in the UK and the rest of Europe. I discovered the Creation in the early 90s and in recent years their music has been featured in TV commercials here in the States. I noticed Olympic Studios in London in the photo of Stever Marriott and Ronnie Lane. I met the latter at a Los Angeles nightclub in 1987 and was very humbled as he was suffering from MS. Something extra. January 1968 saw the second Super Bowl which was played in Miami. It was the final game with Vince Lombardi as head coach of the Green Bay Packers as they beat the Oakland Raiders 33-14. The Super Bowl Trophy awarded to the winner is named after him. Interesting huh. I know many UK fans who watch this channel like American football.
Cheers Chris! Yeah, the last days of Ronnie Lane's life were very tragic. And he never got any royalties for all those Small Faces hits due to bad management deals, etc.
I absolutely love these videos. They capture the excitement, creativety and naivety of the era perfectly. The best channel on TH-cam 🤗
Cheers!
1968 what a year for great music.
No argument from me
And it's going to be a great year for us watching YP!
My exact words after watching this video. Super. Smashing. Not half.
Totally agree.
So happy you are continuing this series! Always excellent with great mix of well known classic and obscure gems
Cheers!
Your work on these posts is in a class all its own. Congratulations and thank you.
I wanted to go hang out in London in 1968, but my mom wouldn't let me. This was because we lived in Chicago, and I only turned eight that year.
😊😉❤
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@@janerkenbrack3373 I feel your pain. 😞
Rsrs
A girl up the street wanted to take me to see The Beatles with her in Atlanta and told my mom that it was free for me to get in but my mom said no because I was one year old.
Great video. Lots of killer tracks, By the way the bassist/vocalist for Grapefruit was Alex Young (using the stage name George Alexander). He was the older brother of George, Malcolm and Angus Young. He never emigrated to Australia though. He's in the shot at 16:59 sitting on the left (just under Brian Jones and Donovan). You can totally see the family resemblance.
Status Quo , legends in England & one hit wonders in the states. I remember they opened LiveAid 85 at Wembley Stadium.
Great selection of music combined with high quality rare footage and excellent production values...this channel is the future of music journalism. Back in the 80's there used to be an amazing magazine/fanzine called BamBalaam written by a guy called Brian Hogg. You had to send him a postal order and get it through the mail it was super imformative,almost scholarly,I'm always reminded of it when I watch this channel.❤
Cheers!
Long live Brian Hogg and John Wagstaff of Format International Record Collectors Magazine❤ Those were the days, when John and I collected stuff from Brian (in Edinburgh, if memory serves me well) Great writer!
As always, YP, so much great music and too much of it went unnoticed. Ah, the riches we lived in when chart competition was fierce.
Grapefruit guitarist Alexander Young was the elder brother to The Easybeats' George Young and future AC/DC members Angus and Malcolm.
Very cool to see the promotional poster you showed advertising Eire Apparent supporting Jimi Hendrix at the Pacific Coliseum, a great ice hockey rink built in 1967 to showcase an NHL team that didn't materialise until three years later. Hendrix had family ties to Vancouver as his grandmother lived here, recognised as an important person in her community.
Thank you, as always, YP, for these deep excursions into the charts, music, and bands that deserved more attention than they received.
Thank you very much, glad you dug the video!
Oh here comes another song I’ve not heard since 1968 and had totally forgotten…. Sky Pilot! I remember Matchstick Man and Mighty Quinn. Big Hits in Germany, where I was living at the time. Thank you, well done, enjoyed the old film clips as well as the music!
Thanks!
I still have the single, the A side continues onto the B side. Over 7 minutes in length.
Okay...now we're gettin' somewhere! This is about when I "figured it out." I was a 13-year-old whippersnapper trying to make sense of all this from Mississippi. It weren't easy! I saw Eire Apparent open for Eric Burdon & The Animals on their "Sky Pilot" tour. Whew! That's going back some for me! Thanks as usual for all your great work!
Cheers!
Always found Matchstick Men a cool song.
I thought Matchstick Men was a movie with Nicholas Cage.
The American indie band Camper Van Beethoven did a cool cover of it in the early 1990s. That’s where I first heard the song.
@@foxbasealpha they were goofy fun.
They mentioned a guy called Rick Harrison...surely they ment Rick Parfitt
@@rogerbixley6911 Maybe that’s what he was known as in The Highlights, the cabaret outfit he was in before Quo. The twin girls he performed with were called Harrison.
Oh man, gorgeous! This heavy psychedelic episode is very solidly put together again! Thank you so much again Yesterday's Papers!
Thanks Edwin!
your videos are ever a brilliant description about the british music and how the bands increase up on the rock scene . thanks for the great job!!
Thank you.
Steve Marriott should be a household name in all English speaking countries. Dude was a powerhouse back in the sixties and early seventies.🕊💖🎸
Sure, still a big fan.
And one of the best singers in rock history up there with robert plant!
@@starcloud4959Plant was/is in awe of Steve Marriott.
And Jimmy Page wanted Steve to be his singer before R.P. came to
his notice.
AND Zepp absolutely ripped-off Steve's Small Faces'' You need Loving" for their"Whole Lotta Love, AND the Small Faces had absolutely ripped it off from....Willie Dixon (?)....one of the ole US Blues Giants, anyways.
We watch quite a few music channels, yours is truly the best produced and presented. Thank you!
Thank you very much, glad you enjoy the videos!
Only discovered this website tonight. Well impressed with the off the beaten track of bands. Of which, some I'd never heard of. A lot I had as I am of a certain age that, whilst living through the sixties and flower power did remember that transition. I consider myself as belssed to be in that era. Thank you for the wonderful reminders and the depth of information from an age much missed!
Every episode of this series finds me adding another couple songs to my playlist! Great work!
Cool!
Thanks for the introduction to many unfamiliar bands… Fantastic. It was good to see young Greg Ridley with spooky tooth, who eventually moved on to humble pie.
Wow this was fantastic as one of the turbulent years of the 20th century got off to a great start music wise with some great releases. The songs here by the Move Manfred Mann The Animals The Creation are my favorites by these groups and the Grapefruit though I like Elevator better had a good record plus any time The Small Faces are doing something you know it will be good. January 1968 was gloomy in the U.S with the Tet Offensive and the capture of the Pueblo but the British as usual were putting out great records and thanks for starting posting great 1968 debut records.
As well as the excellent music, I love seeing the migration of musicians from one band to another! The period clips and "videos" of the artiosts trigger so many memories of these days. Thanks so much for all the hard graft behind the scenes. Keep them coming!
I love Fire Brigade by The Move but the B side Walk Upon the Water is equally great.
Keep on doing your stellar job..still my favorite channel 👍
Fire Brigade and and Flowers in the Rain. Loved both of them.
Penny Valentine (in Disc) called Fire Brigade "a superb piece of nuttiness".
Wonder why Record Mirror was a wee bit sniffy about Walk Upon The Water? "Short of excellence", yet!
Agree with Walk upon the water. Brilliant song with some very original lyrics.
one of the 1st bands i remember as a kid
Always brilliant videos, thank you. 'A Dream For Julie' was not on their first album though, only 'Please Excuse My Face' which was the b-side on the single released in 1968. Would have been ideal for their debut album indeed.
Lots to love about Spooky Tooth. "Sunshine Help Me" is a great song.
I first heard that song as covered by The Move on their Something Else EP!
This line up of singles would make for a great compilation album!
I'm making a spotify mix, if you're interested. Updating it every video. Some of the tracks aren't on spotify, so some will be missing. Eire Apparent's on there, but neither of the singles mentioned are.
@@monsieurlaguillotine3481 That's a cool thing that you're doing. Looks like I might have to finally download Stotify. How can I search out the playlists?
The bassist from Spooky Tooth, Greg Ridley, became part of Humble Pie...
Was great to see Jason Crest in this January '68 episode. Such a great obscure '60s psychedelic band. Cheers.
Cheers!
Thanks YP for another great, informative and entertaining trip back to a great time in music history.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Some absolutely amazing ear candy here. Living in the States, we did not get to hear the Move, and it still boggles the (my) mind. Sky Pilot is okay, maybe the weakest track here (for me), but Fire Brigade brings a smile to my face while getting me out of my chair. Matchstick Men was a medium hit here in New England while Quinn was massive, but radio programmers really needed to be reprogrammed.
Cheers Wylie!
The beginnings of prog rock can be heard in several of these tracks. Amazing episode YP!
Happy to see The Creation and Kaleidoscope receiving the credit they deserve. THANKS YP! every video you post is a jewel!
Cheers!
It’s brilliant that you have gone on to cover 1968. It’s going to be a great twelve months.
Absolutely, fabulous performance music, fantastic times. Thank you for posting. Good time for you
The Creation should have been right up there with the Who and the Kinks. They wrote their own songs, and well, had the same producer, Shel Talmy.
The Creation are one of my all time faves🎉 In the autumn 67 some European papers published the offer of Pete Townshend to the Creation's magnificent lead guitarist Eddie Phillips to join the Who!!! Phillips played the guitar with a violin bow years before Jimmy Page! 😮😅
Love The Creation, but 'How Does It Feel To Feel', "... some critics to cite it as a precursor to shoegaze...". Really? I think not.
1968 rocked! Great video and thank you for keeping your series going.
"Please excuse my face" is such a great song title!
Indeed it is!
Thankyou for including Kaleidoscope and Fairfield Parlour. Much appreciated...
@@PeterDaltrey Thank you very much, Peter! Great to see you commenting here. Thanks for the music!
Thank you for your continued hard work and research. You have excellent taste as well.
Thanks!
Prescient comment from Penny V at 9:50, about Green Tambourine. Also surprised to see Janis Ian was already a name at the time, when she really was at (or near) seventeen.
Absolutely Brilliant, Thank you for blessing us with this wonderful history. After you run out of singles, you could do albums of the month.
I ALWAYS enjoy your videos, never mind the year, the month, or the content..! Your videos are ALWAYS excellent pieces of highly enjoyable and interesting information..!
Thanks!
Thanks for another excellent late 60's month! More ideas for some obsure and not so obsure psych sounds!
Have heard only a few of these so thank you again, YP for a very enjoyable education. I wish my college classes were so much fun. Of the new ones to me, that Jason Crest song was the one that caught my ears on this video.
Cheers Willie! The Jason Crest single is quite good.
Some great singles featured here, The Creation were a terrific band, always liked their cover of ‘Cool Jerk’. That page from Record Mirror caught my eye: “Hendrix & Cream are out” says Jeff!
Some of the tracks sounded like they were putting the "Grrr" into " Groovy"!
As always, Grreat stuff from YP!!!
While I'm in bad wordplay mode, Yippy for YP! lol
Cheers!
Fantastic channel.. Nice to hear about the all the artist of the era , not just the superstars.
Excellent first episode, can't wait for the next ones 👍
I sent overseas for "Pictures of Matchstick Men" from Heanor Record Centre in Derbyshire, but had never heard of the Manchester artist, L S Lowry (1887-1976), until many decades later. He was known for his "pictures of matchstick men". At the time it was popular, I never understood what the song was about: all I knew was that I liked it.
This has been another excellent episode.
Cheers, YP. Thanks for this.
Brian and Michael brought out another hit single about Lowry in 1977. "Matchstick Men and Matchstick Cats and Dogs". It got to No.1 in the UK 😮
This vid. is truly an Artistic Labour of LOVE. Every credit to your research.
I didn't know Stevie Marriott and the others were such busy boys. I'd love for you to do some in-depth research into 'Traffic', too. I believe the Small Faces did some backing vocals on "Berkshire Poppies", popping over when they were in the adjoining recording studio .
The Creation were/are so good!! What a month for music - bless you YP for reminding us all
Cheers!
I was born in January, 1968! Cool video for me, lol.
same..24th
Would like to have seen this edition of Status Quo. And I can't believe I never got around to checking out Spooky Tooth until recently being hipped to them by this very channel. They really WERE pretty great!
Cool! I love Spooky Tooth.
Pictures of Matchstick Men? The same month, Vanilla Fudge was on Ed Sullivan to play their '67 version of You Keep Me Hanging On. Very similar intro (organ vs guitar) - Americans likely assumed the Quo was the Fudge.
Alright! Excited to see 1968 singles featured on the channel now. This is gonna be a fun year to look at.
Another amazing month. Great work.
Love this music so much, thanks!!!
Love it when a new video drops, there's always a little gem in there that I've never heard before.
Thank you very much for these videos. They are absolutely terrific. Well done and informative.
Another great month of singles. Thanks so much! 😂
Yesterday's Papers Bringing The Goods Again Thanks YP Right Then !
Cheers Jerry!
Excellent! Please keep putting out these videos! I've discovered TONS of beautiful bands, music, and great obscure albums by watching these videos. Thank you! Keep up the good work!
Cheers, that's what it's all about. Sharing the love for the mjusic!
Another brilliant video. I've discovered so many hidden gems thanks to you! Keep up the good work!
How did so many great records come out in one month Youll be lucky to get that in a year nowadays Great programme
Psychedelia still rules the roost in January '68, with so many cool, trippy sides seeing release--although "Fire Brigade"'s Cochran quote foreshadows the "return to rock'n'roll" trend that would sweep through UK rock that spring. Oddly enough I never really took to "Fire Brigade" until just recently, but now I like it. "Sky Pilot" is one of the greatest tracks from that lineup of The Animals, while "Sunshine Help Me" is a lost classic that would be covered to even greater effect by The Move a few months later. Indeed, I like just about every single reviewed in this clip, from Manfred Mann (their finest hour) to Status Quo to Grapefruit, although you missed a few by Cherry Smash, The Virgin Sleep, The Plague, and Cat's Pyjamas. No matter--this was a BLAST to watch and I'm just as excited to watch this series as I was for '66 and '67!! You're archiving history here, YP!
Cheers, Spiritof66!
Great again. But something is missing. In Grapefruit lineup, you could have noticed one of the Young brothers. Yes, I mean the Easybeats/AC/DC family. Alexander Young. One more funny thing was his stage name, George Alexander. Just like the REAL name of the Flamin' Groovies bass player. Still following? 😉
Funny too I read the Jeff Beck interview, near the Status Quo article. Where he said that Jimi and Cream were finished.
And, cool, I got this Ride single with a Creation cover.
Anyway, great great job, once again. 👍
Great video - a reminder of some outstanding music
PP Arnold should have been a major star. Her recent album is amazing. Would be great if you could do a similar series for US singles.
She can still show the young uns how it's done.
So much good music came out in 1968. I look forward to the comming months. I was especially pleased to see Billy Nichols featured. Such a shame that circumstances w/ Immediate records prevented him fro being even more successful. Everytime i hear this song, I laugh at Steve Marriott singing in the background- his voice is so powerful it's a standout. I paid a pretty high price for this CD recently (it's considered a collectors item) but enjoy it thoroughly.
Brilliant album.
@@YesterdaysPapers My favorite song is "Girl from New York". Seems a little heavy for the times with an amazing guitar solo by Marriott. I read somewhiere Billy said Steve played so hard he snapped the guitar neck! Says Billy- "Steve just threw it aside and said "well, there you go!" such a cool dude...
Marriott legend 😊
It would be 'nice' 😉if I could buy the PP Arnold or Billy Nichols CD's - are they very very hard to get now ?
@@noelsalisbury7448 I just checked with Amazon. They have several used copies of Billy's album "Would You Believe", a large selection from PP Arnold, including a new release coming out in Dec.2024!
I was more interested in the Jeff Beck article than I was in Status Quo. Didn't know he said that. Well, that's another rabbit hole to crawl into. Oh yeah, and Johnny Rivers. I'm always pausing these videos to read the rest of the items. Yet another layer of history.
Yeah, I paused the video at that point (1:17). Jeff said that Cream and Jimi Hendrix were finished, heavy blues was out, and orchestrated pap like his version of "Love is Blue" was now the happening thing. I'm wondering what kind of drug he was on when he said that?
Plenty of cosmic tunes - many of which I got scattered across various psychedelic comps.
The Small Faces were at their peak in 68 with the release of their seminal Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake lp.
A feature on Immediate would be good, I’ve got all of Loog Oldhams bios and the rise and fall of Immediate records is fascinating 😎✌️☮️
Great seeing some songs by Spooky Tooth here. Gary Wright would go on to release "Dream Weaver" and "Love Is Alive" in 1975, both becoming hits in the US the following year.
Bassist/vocalist Greg Ridley joined Steve Marriott and Peter Frampton in Humble Pie, which earned them the moniker of "Supergroup" by the journalists.
Thanks...interesting and informative as ever.
I rather like the contemporary London street scene included in these videos.
Cheers
Whoopeee! I figured you'd either do 1965 or 1968 next. Happy to see you go with the latter! From what I gather '68 was a bit more eclectic and it'll be interesting to see how England pivoted away from the swinging era and the psychedelic era. I wonder if we'll see that shift towards heavier bands...
I hope you meant shift.
Yay! I love it. Pictures of Matchstick Men holds a special place in my childhood.
Fantastic, YP. Some all-time favs in there - The Creation, The Move - and plenty of discoveries! Spooky Tooth was a good surprise and like the great Paul Weller was a little influenced by them when going solo. As usual, thanks! Cool stuff indeed.
Cheers!
Great Video, YP, with a good mix of well known classics and interesting rarities. Love "The Mighty Quin" by Manfred Mann. Totally agree with Penny Valentine's review of that single.
Cheers Greg!
Still remember when I found " Eire Apparent" amongst cut price albums in 1970, this poppy "Electric Ladyland " became one of my favourite albums. Had the Spooky Tooth and Status Quo singles also.
The rest ofcourse caught my attention later through those excellent psychedelia compilation albums.
another great month's worth! Thanks so much. :-)
Thanks for another brilliant and fascinating trip down memory lane with these cool singles❤
By the way "Tom Tom" by the creation was a Top 10 Hit in Saarland (Nr 14 in Germany, 11 weeks in charts) in July 1967 where it was the follow up to Painter Man (Nr 8,18 weeks in Charts) 🎉
I really enjoy these 45 singles posts!
'68 starting off with a bang. Some of my favorite 60s tunes right off the bat.
Yesterday's Papers if you ever have merch for sale you should have a T-shirt that just says "The single failed to chart." 😀
Take my money, dammit!
“The single sank without a trace” would be another T shirt.
Good idea!
Ouch.....!
Status Quo and Pink Floyd had more in common in the '60s than one might think!
Always a pleasure.
What a fantastic video have a wonderful weekend also Canada day is Monday where I live in ❤😊
I love to see all the cross-pollination between artists. When I was in a band in the 60's, we had a battle-of-the-bands mindset. To collaborate with another group would have been viewed as treason. Yet, here we see all the greats collaborating both behind the scenes and in the open.
Kaleidoscope! The Creation! Manfred Mann!... Some great bands in this month.
Some really fantastic singles particularly by The Creation and Kaleidescope but my favourite is by PP Arnold. Sooo good.
Great tune.
Great show my friend!
Isn’t Quinn the Eskimo on Self Portrait? I always thought that’s why when The Basement Tapes was eventually released in 1975 it didn’t appear on it. The version on Self Portrait is live with the Band at the Isle of Wight.
Keep doing ! We enjoy so much this reviews.
Another smash! Great episode!
Status Quo apparently went through some name changes. Besides Traffic Jam, were they (or a semblance of them) known as The Spectres? In 1967 that group covered (We Ain’t Got) Nothin’ Yet, that The Blue Magoos made into a hit that same year. What a great beginning for 1968 with Status Quo!
Yes, that is correct I've heard tracks from BBC live recordings like Neighbour Neighbour and Gloria, fun stuff.
@@fueledbylove Glad to know I didn’t imagine that. Thanks for filling in the holes.
Yep Boomtownrat, they were called The Spectres in 1966.
Not all of course, but a lot of these singles have a slower, mellow groove, while still being psychedelic, which makes me think even more that Satanic Majesties fit perfectly right tight into this sound ❤ awesome episode 👍
Cheers Calvin. "Satanic Majesties" is brilliant.
I was just talking to Olivia D’Abo the actress from the TV show “The Wonder Years” about her dad’s song the mighty Quinn. She Gave me some fascinating stories about as a child people like Kenny Jones of the small faces and Ron Wood coming over to their house and playing with her.
I recall having a bit of a crush on her when I watched that show, very attractive lady.
Ill take the attack and eire apparent. Thanks YP for another great collection.
These videos are always the best thing on the internet for me
love your content, keep going!
Another great video - thanks! I'm definitely hunting for some of those B-sides!
Or track down some of those Marriott / Lane produced SF backed songs
Another great post! Just checked out Eire Apparent's 1969 album Sunrise and its a corker! Thanks for the tip. Keep up the great work! 🙂🤟
Cheers.
As always I enjoyed it. Most Americans have never heard of the Quo and don't about their longevity in the UK and the rest of Europe. I discovered the Creation in the early 90s and in recent years their music has been featured in TV commercials here in the States. I noticed Olympic Studios in London in the photo of Stever Marriott and Ronnie Lane. I met the latter at a Los Angeles nightclub in 1987 and was very humbled as he was suffering from MS. Something extra. January 1968 saw the second Super Bowl which was played in Miami. It was the final game with Vince Lombardi as head coach of the Green Bay Packers as they beat the Oakland Raiders 33-14. The Super Bowl Trophy awarded to the winner is named after him. Interesting huh. I know many UK fans who watch this channel like American football.
I respect your quality of intention. You are beyond the rest sleeping in their satisfactions.
I would say most American rock fans have heard of Status Quo, but don't know their music.
@@tomcarl8021 trust me, they've haven't
Cheers Chris! Yeah, the last days of Ronnie Lane's life were very tragic. And he never got any royalties for all those Small Faces hits due to bad management deals, etc.
@@YesterdaysPapers Don Arden I understand was a horse's ass