Cool British Singles Released in April 1966
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- Last month, we revisited some cool British singles released in March 1966. Now it's time to do the same with April of that year. And April 1966 was a particularly good month for singles. In fact, this video features more singles than any other video I've made. Hope you enjoy it!
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The fertile musical landscape of 60s England never ceases to impress me. I greatly appreciate YP's knowledge and research.
I would love to have been around in 1966, and wish that I could have gone to one of Bob Dylan’s half folk - half electric concerts, during his UK tour with The Hawks in that year.
Either Manchester for the version of Like a Rolling Stone, where the heckler shouts, “Judas!” or Sheffield for a brilliant live Mr Tambourine Man.
A clearly pissed off Dylan retorts to the heckler in Manchester, “I don’t believe you. You’re a liar!” He then says to the band, “Play f*****g loud!” before they blast off into a brilliant version of Like a Rolling Stone.
And the Sheffield version of Mr Tambourine Man is widely held to be the best ever live version of that song, with a brilliant harmonica solo thrown in for good measure.
I’ve heard the tapes from 1966 but to have been there in person ... it’s a shame that I wasn’t born until 1968.
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Not just the U.K. The states was pretty fertile in '66.
@@mcdaniels6188 Hence the mention of Bob Dylan.
But not just Bob. There was a great counterculture starting to make waves; Simon and Garfunkel, The Byrds, Grateful Dead, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix was about to burst onto the scene, quietly taking in the London club scene for the time being back then.
And at the other end of the spectrum, all those great Motown acts had just started to break through on both sides of the Atlantic; Stevie Wonder, The Supremes, Martha Reeves, Smokey Robinson.
At first it was the British bands in 1964, but by the end of 1965 the American music scene had also undergone a revolution and everybody was being influenced by everyone else. Sometimes it was hard to tell what was a British sound and what was an American sound, such as with The Byrds and how they managed to fuse The Beatles with Bob Dylan. There was some competition there, but there were also friendships between the musicians and it was healthy competition, with both sides of the Atlantic benefiting from it all.
It was a great year , I got married, and England won the World Cup
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Joe Meek is forever the guy behind *Telstar* for me.
Truly groundbreaking creator of weird sounds and electronic distortions.
Hey, anyone who could make a flushing toilet sound like a spaceship will perk my old production ears
@@djhrecordhound4391 Apparently, the flushing toilet tape sample was played in reverse to replicate the sound of a rocket engine starting.
What a tragic death. Never lived to see the outcome of " Telstar" court case.......
Oh yes. Joe Meek was certainly behind Heinz all the way, all right.
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@@jonathanj.7344 Heard a lot about Meek turning simple everyday sounds into something special , never heard about the "flushing toilet" though. I immediately loaded Telstar into a music editing program . Either normal or reverse ,... I fail to notice a flushing toilet. It might be for those at the time who seldom heard electronic sounds were prone to ridicule the Telstar intro as a "toilet flush".
A lot of people that were in London in 1966 say the summer of that year was the real summer of love, so many great singles here
A number of people who were pioneers on the Haight-Ashbury scene said the same thing. The real time to be there, when the hippie community was flourishing and the music was blossoming, was 1965-66; the "summer of love" hype of 1967 effectively killed the community by the fall of 1967.
@@mackb909 That definitely comes across in Joel Selvin's history of the scene, 'Summer of Love.'
If viewers of this video haven't yet seen it, they might be interested in the Peter Whitehead documentary 'Tonite Let's All Make Love in London.' While I don't think it was ready for screening until the fall of '67, most of the footage is from 1966.
@@ronmackinnon9374 Always meant to see that. It's on my long backlog of films to see. For over a year now I've been meaning to watch "Everything Everywhere All At Once" and haven't gotten to that either. I recently re-watched the original 1979 BBC series of John LeCarré's "Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy" (broadcast here in the States in 1980, when I first saw it) in preparation for watching the 2011 film version, which I haven't seen either. The list of films I need to see or re-watch and of books to read and to re-read (I read "Anna Karenina" and "Moby Dick," among others, one summer during a break from my summer job while in college in the '70s, telling myself that both books, and many others, needed to be re-read, and I haven't gotten to that either) seems to grow exponentially, and I'm 68 1/2. God help me.
Completely off topic, I can't help but note the similarity between your name and that of a seminal figure in '60s counterculture music here in the States, Grateful Dead cofounder Ron McKernan (1945-1973), generally known as "Pigpen," who left us much too soon as one of the members of the tragic "27 club."
@@mackb909 Yes, I'd forgotten that was Pigpen's name, and the similar sound. : ) And I, too, understand the backlog of things meaning to be viewed / read / re-read.
Yesterday's Papers, my compliments on how well everything is explained and how connections are made. A truly frenzied set of singles! Learned new things again and lots to research. One nice explanation I found was "The Sorrows were one of the many British bands who emigrated to other European countries in order to find success and escape the mayor competition that existed in Britain." Yes perhaps the huge competition was the reason why many excellent singles did not become hits in the UK after all.
Exactly. There were so many bands and so many singles being released and, of course, you can't have them all in the top 30.
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Thanks for your response. Indeed, it would get very crowded there 😅! Cheers!
Gotta love the Troggs' pinstriped suits. Love me some Freakbeat, one of my favorite genres ever. 'Bowie sings well and deserves a hit', alas, the floodgates still had not opened.
American songwriter Chip Taylor, who composed “Wild Thing” was born James Wesley Voight and is the brother of actor Jon Voight and uncle of actress Angelina Jolie.
My favorite chip tune is Julie , by Bobby Fuller
My fave (co-)written by Chip Taylor is “I Can't Let Go” recorded by The Hollies.
I never knew that...pretty "wild"!
The Buzz sound just like the Monks ("I Hate You!")
Your channel never disappoints me. I have a Mexican LP copy of Aftermath with the same track listing as the US version. I'm sure you and the readers know the US and UK versions are a little different. As for Manfred Mann, one of the sixties most underappreciated British bands. Yes, Paul Jones and Manfred hit it right on the nose with their prophecy. As I've said, it is also the title of one of my monthly blogs on my website "1966 is the year everything changed." Wayne Fontana quickly faded into obscurity and played the sixties nostalgia circuit during his final years. He was quite a character.
I agree 100%, Chris. Manfred Mann are very underrated.
You should hear THE VENTURES " Wild Thing"!! Mick Ronson- RIP You Spider from Mars..
What an episode! Fuzz came to prominence via Grady Martin's bass solo on Marty Robbins' Dont Worry (1961), a Billboard No.1. Martin is Nashville's greatest ever session guitarist - incredible CV.
Apparently, that sound came about by accident, due to a faulty channel in the mixing desk. But they thought it sounded good, so they left it there.
This has some really great songs, plus two of my all time favourite groups, the Pretty Things and Manfred Mann, later the Earth Band. Good stuff and good times. Thanks YP
Cheers!
And Chapter Three.
You haven’t lived until you’ve heard Captain Beefheart and Julian Schnabel jamming on “Pretty Flamingo”, which Don Van Vliet re-voiced as “Little Tomato”
The long held mystery and secret how my high school band got it's name is finally exposed. Here's the story: It was a spring day in '66, and I was 16. We would get a copy of 'Hit Parader' magazine to read all the news about American/British bands and to get the printed lyrics of the latest songs. That fateful day I happened to see the name 'Bo Street Runners'. At the time we called ourselves 'The Chantels', but it just wasn't cool enough. So I decided to use the name 'Bo Street Runners'...BUT change it to BEAU STREET RUNNERS. See what I did there?...And the rest is history. Franconia, Virginia and Thomas A. Edison's Best High School Band. Covered all the hits by the Animals, Stones, Yardbirds playing at the long gone, but not forgotten 'Cameron Club', and Rose Hill and Virginia Hills Pool parties. Ronnie, Clay, Phil and me. $25 bucks each a night. 3, 40 minute sets. Just had to set the record straight for posterity. Now the WORLD KNOWS~!!! Thanks YP~!!!
Hahaha! Cool!
I was 14 years old in 1966 but I only remember about four of these tracks. The Troggs number was a classic, Manfred Man's track was a favourite of mine but Sorrow by the Mersey's was a great track! Oh, and I remember owning The Stones LP Aftermath too. 😊
I also don't remember many of these, I wonder what radio station you listened to around that time? Radio Caroline had fallen under the spell of Philip Solomon in 1966 and a lot of their airtime was then dedicated to playing often not very good records from his own record label leaving less time to cover more interesting releases, so that might explain the situation in my case.
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Rhoda, I was seven years old in March of 66. My family had a café outside Stratford Station in London with a jukebox that was restocked every week with the top singles so we were really lucky with experiencing what was a music revolution. London was just a cooking pot of art and music just then and riding the tube into the West End was great, the people you’d see. One day my sister (thirteen at the time) came running into the café yelling that the Beatles were in Angel Lane just up the road from us. They were setting up to film them on horseback for a music film. Sadly I must admit to being a bit underimpressed, I was taken-aback at how beardy, moustachy and hairy-hippy they’d become. My sister was scandalised that her heartthrob Paul McCartney clearly couldn’t ride a horse. Quite why she thought a Liverpudlian musician would be an accomplished horseman is beyond me.
@@tinymonster9762 I remember how shocked my mother was when the Beatles showed up on the David Frost show with Hey Jude, she was expecting them to show up clean shaven in their black suits. She had nothing good to say about them after that, drug music she would exclaim, but their musical output was better than ever. You can just imagine how she reacted when I came home with my first Black Sabbath record 🤣
"Aftermath" you say? It's still my favorite Stones LP.
@@tinymonster9762The Beatles filmed their Penny Lane promotional film in Stratford London in early 1967!
You're right -- it's the piano that makes "Don't Hide It Away" stand out. Little extras like that really make my day -- like Christine McVie's piano on Kiln House, or Elton John's fills in Kevin Ayers' Sweet Deceiver. This episode is right in my sweet spot for psych pop.
Check out Christine McVie in her Chicken Shack days, especially her organ and lead vocals on their 1969 cover of "I'd Rather Go Blind," which had been a hit for Etta James in 1967.
The Troggs also had a very famous argument in the studio they got recorded and was called the Troggs tapes…it is legendary for the f bombs
I was aware of it but didn’t hear it until it was oddly added as an extra cd on a box release in the 90’s
And for the Andover-accented use of the phrase "oi shit 'em" and the word "pranny" - which we don't hear often enough these days!
It was released as an E P which l still have at home
I recall BOMP! records outta California always having that around but the novelty never exceeded the tunes for me. I've just always loved the Troggs! Picked up all of their US promo singles as a youth
Wow, what a great month for singles! I missed a lot of them first time around. I did think that the Cryin' Shames' 'Please Stay' counted as one of Joe Meek's last hits tho', as it reached No.26 in March '66. In any case, I loved your selection. 🙂
Cheers, Graham!
Another great piece of atmosphere building with all the ads.
Really well researched. Love these British Singles Released episodes!
This was a great episode! Well done on your research !
The Troggs were simply magnificent !!!!
Wonderful as always. I really appreciate all the extra material you include - instrument ads and street footage etc..
I always look forward to new videos from you. Billy Kinsley (The Merseys) went on to have some success in the mid 1970's with Liverpool Express
As always, a GREAT job! I always learn so much from your videos. They are Top Gear! April was one smashing year for music! That Mindbenders song is one I have to find. The flip to the Searchers cover of the Stones song, I never bothered to listen to. It is now a top favorite!!!
Fantastic stuff, disocver so many "new" tunes from this channel. Thank You
The author of this channel provides incredible insights to an era of music i just barely missed, being born in '65! I always learn something amazing on each episode! Example, i was sure the cool psychedelic sound wasn't until '67, this episode proves me dead wrong.
As usual, Apple music app had many of these obscure, wonderful songs to add to my brimming library!
I was born in 62 and love all that decades tunes.seems to have gone downhill ever since
Another excellent look at some of my favorite discs! The Koobas! The Wimple Winch! "Come See Me" by the Pretty Things! Rock on!
Cheers!
Thanks so much for the music recommandations ! That manfred mann tune and the searchers B-side sound fantastic. i would have never digged that deep ! And hats off for the contextualization/info and perfect editing !! that really bring the sixties mood.
Thanks!
Very interesting and instructive as always. Love this channel.
As for the songs in this video, even the songs that weren't hits were fun and interesting.
Love your channel. I learn something every time…or I’m reminded of something I forgot.
Cheers!
Brilliant video , please keep them coming
Sorrow was written by The Strangeloves (I Want Candy), 3 boys from New Jersey who became very successful producers (eg Blondie) and early investors in digital technology.
I truly appreciate that you guys don’t dodge the real fuzz ⚡️
Hope you will keep this up for a loong time! Always time for a The Who fan to recive a nosebleed!
Toni Wine, who co- wrote A Groovy Kind of Love, later became a member of the Archies.
Tony Wine did not co-write it. She pinched the tune from an old classical piece and slowed it down, of which I went into details above.
Awesome collection of tunes today! Sounded like Roxy Music's Andy Mackay was playing on the Riot Squad tune!!! Thanks as always
Yes! I thought of early Roxy Music too!
I thought exactly the same thing the first time I heard that part of the song! 100% Roxy Music.
Good to hear David Bowie have his last name pronounced correctly (when asked in interview he said the 'ow' sound was as in 'low' - however he also wasn't that bothered).
As usual, so many songs in Britain that never made an appearance here in the States. I think it's really great that sixty years after the fact there are fans of mid sixties Mod pop.
The Troggs are cool..."Love is All Around" is quite the departure from "Wild Thing" brilliant band
Another amazing month of music and another top notch video. 'Sorrow' was originally done by US band the McCoys, best known for their hit 'Hang on Sloopy'. Their version is very Byrdsy folk rock with harmonica, it's nice, but the Merseys and Bowie versions improved upon it quite a lot I think.
So many awesome musical rabbit holes to explore!
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Thanks YP for yet another fab video!
Cheers!
Found this excellent channel today and subscribed. Really into 60s music, then 70s. Favourite 60s band so far is Count Five but they were American and lasted only one album, so they won’t make it here. Brought up in Ireland and now living in Australia I prefer the British sounds anyway. Great channel.
Great collection. Thanks
"Wild Thing" has stood the test of time. I heard it for the 1st time as a teenager in 1978. It turned me onto the music roads I've travelled ever since.
Fucking love this channel. As soon as I was turned on The Voice was introduced, I had a feeling Wimple Winch were to be mentioned. Listening to “Save My Soul” and other heavy mod for a decade or more now.
A great year, I left school aged 15 on 5th April 1966, I was now free to search the great world that was in front of me. Sheer bliss for me
I've only heard a few of these tracks so it's all new and exciting for me. That's one of the things that makes music so great. What might be old hat and ho hum for some is fresh and exciting for others. Thanks again YP for another excellent post.
BTW speaking of Aftermath , I think it might make an interesting post to compare the British and U.S. versions and hear what your viewers think about which is the best. I know the subject intrigued me back then, and still does, actually.
Cheers, Willie! That's a pretty cool idea for a video. Maybe I'll do a video about that in the future.
Many thanks for another great video. A few extra points;
The single you featured by St Louis Union which you stated was written by Graham Gouldman was also recorded in the States by Cher, who I think did an excellent version. But I assume hers was the cover, although Graham did write one or two songs for U.S. artists at the time.
The Mindbenders' single here was written by a U.S. songwriting team Toni Wine/Carole Bayer, who already wrote Groovy Kind Of Love, and wrote two of their following singles, Ashes To Ashes (not quite the David Bowie hit of the seventies, but not far off) and We'll Talk About It Tomorrow.
The Sorrows included Don Fardon who sang lead on other tracks of theirs, before having a solo hit.
Two different takes of the David Bowie single have appeared on reissues, of which I went into further detail in your January 1966 Cool British Singles.
The Voice had already recorded two singles as The Sheffields. The Buzz previously recorded as The Boston Dexters. But their single here did not start off sounding wild or "way out". It only got like that towards the end.
Someone else pointed that The Merseys' single Sorrow was originally recorded in the States by The McCoys. It was on the B side of their second single Fever. But The Merseys redid it as an A side, but it was just a carbon copy, and not worthy of mention here.
But I think the best single here was by The Pretty Things. Also, a great B side, they must have switched their fuzz box off for this, as some of the guitar work here sounded pre-Jumping Jack Flash. They must have been the longest lasting band to have hardly had any hits, no gold records or Grammy awards here. They must have made all their money from touring. It is difficult to believe they ever saw royalties from record sales. But having said that, their first album did reach the Top 10 in the British album charts, even though their two singles that preceded it only barely scraped the British Top 30. They also had larger success in Holland, and CD reissues of their albums in much later years sold well. Their problem at the start was that they had a rather untrained, unpolished and flawed sound that made them sound less commercial, and therefore less marketable than their more successful contemporaries like The Stones, Yardbirds, Kinks and The Who. But they were still a great band. But their single here definitely WAS the roarest and wildest of them all.
But a much higher percentage of the tracks here went on to become classic hits, or were by artists who had much bigger hits with other singles.
For May 1966, we expect a mention of The Rolling Stones' Paint It Black, which I think was the first Pop single to feature a sitar. It was on the Decca label. But will there be a mention of the one single that Decca released, which was just one serial number down, the first single by pre-fame Olivia Newton John? The A side was nothing much. But on the B side was a hidden gem, a nice Marianne Faithfull inspired Folk styled number, although I was no fan of hers in the long run. It was her only release for the whole of the sixties. It took her five years to release her second single. But even that is not a record for the longest gap between the first two singles by an artist. That record must surely go to Billie Jo Spears.
Cheers Paul! Very interesting comment, enjoyed reading it. Next month's episode will definitely include Paint It Black, one of my all-time favourite singles.
Interesting commentary with lots of detailed info. The Pretty Things were indeed popular in the Netherlands, they may have been one of the bands that sought refuge in other European countries in the hope of more commercial success! There have also been quite a few British bands who have had success in Germany and Italy.
"Paint It Black" was not the first pop song in which the sitar made its appearance. On 1965's "Norwegian Wood", George Harrison plays the sitar.
Unless you mean that "Paint It Black" was released separately on single and "Norwegian Wood" was not, but as an album track from 1965's Rubber Soul.
Greetings!
@@YesterdaysPapers If you are going to include Paint It Black, you would be better to include the full length version with no added reverb, which is how it was originally recorded, making the whole track, including Mick Jagger's voice sound drier. Here, you also get the full length unfaded ending, which you could probably feature to surprise the listeners. Also, the stereo separation here is wider.
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@@EdwinJack64 I put the first Pop single. The Beatles' Norwegian Wood was not on a single.
I was aware that some of the British bands of the mid sixties had greater success in other countries. I believe The Downliners Sect had success in Holland, and The Creation were big in Germany. Many thanks for your reply.
@@paulgoldstein2569 Thanks Paul! I'll definitely use this version. Sounds great and the ending is brilliant. Cheers!
Love the Pretty Things and Manfred Mann
Is there a YT channel that does a comparable month-to-month overview of AMERICAN 45s from the 60s? If not, there certainly ought to be, because there were a ton of low-charting singles that absolutely deserve to be better known.
Agreed
Never knew that _Pretty Flamingo_ was one of Lou Reed's favourite songs of all time. Another great vid, YP.
Cheers!
Awesome episode Yesterday! Chock full of great music, info and fuzz!!! Cheers!!!
Thanks Jon! April 66 is one of my favourite months of 1966 when it comes to single releases. Lots of great tunes and fuzz, as you said. Cheers!
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excellent series, research and taste
Thanks to compilation albums over the years that feature rara and obscure songs from the 1960's and TH-cam a lot of these songs have seen a new light of day with new audience,
Thank you again for another re-visit to the early days of the psychedelic era and its short-lived precursor, freakbeat.
I really, really dig your channel. Keep it up, please!
Thanks!
Ahhh April 1966, I was 6 yrs old that month in 1966
You are the best channel on TH-cam…👍👏👏
Cheers!
I was born in 1961, so didn't really get into music until the mid-70s. Channels like Yesterday's Papers open my mind to the huge number of bands around at the time, many of which went unrecognised, and the links between them and other groups who followed.
In particular, it blew my mind to see Dave Formula in a 60s outfit in this video; I know him as the keyboard player for Magazine (formed by Howard Devoto, formerly of the Buzzcocks), a group I got into in 1977/78. I bet Dave never thought he'd end up playing keyboards on a song like "A Song From Under the Floorboards" way back in the 60s!!
I'm from Michigan in the US and I never had a chance to hear some of these.
My favorite freakbeat band was The CREATION , I didn't even know they existed until many years later. Still trying to catch up and it's a blast to hear music that's new to me!
Oh yeah, The Creation were great. Love that band.
Excellent crate digging!
Many thanks, another excellent edition. Your mention of The Searchers covering a Stones’ track got me thinking . Perhaps something on The Searchers drummer Chris Curtis , with his links with early Deep Purple and some very unusual recording sessions he was involved in might go down well.
I've thought about making a video about Chris Cutis so maybe you'll see it one day on this channel. Certainly, a very interesting character and topic.
A channel that takes its name from a Stones song -- gotta love it!
YP .... such a great channel ✌😎
I think Joe Meek either practically invented the synthesizer or was instrumental in introducing it in music.
The often astute Penny Valentine gave a bit of a bummer on The Pretty Things single. Correct that it didn't provide them with a big hit, but the sound they achieved was amazing on this 45! Top channel by the way. Still providing quality output. Great stuff, cheers!
Thanks!
Yeah! Don't hide it away is such a good waltz. Big Searchers fan here!
Great tune, no doubt.
That was well done!
I think the reason why The Troggs cover of "Wild Thing" succeeded is that is was arranged better than other versions of that song.
GOLDEN ERA !!!
Love the girl with the goat in the Pretty Things promo! 😂
Just great! Big thanks as usual...
What a great record Sorrow is, I didn't know who played on it but no great surprise. Also Come See Me, so great.
You never disappoint fella. This channel is an amazing cultural document, in and of itself.
Edit: I loved Bowie’s version of Sorrow on Pin Ups. In fact, I loved Pin Ups - full stop. People panned it in the music press, but he did stellar covers of Let’s Spend the Night Together, See Emily Play and Friday on My Mind, amongst others.
I've always loved "Pin Ups", too. Great covers album.
@@YesterdaysPapers I’ve always thought so as well. I can’t understand why the music press savaged it. Not every album he did was going to be a concept album. And if they expected that, then more fool them.
@@oleggorky906 Agreed.
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As insightful as ever - thanks for this.
very cool video, thanks!
Thanks, Harry. Cheers!
Another fantastic month from the best year for singles
Las imagenes y las canciones en este canal, son fantasticas! Saludos desde Argentina 🇦🇷❤💪💪💪
Saludos.
Hey man, I love your knowledge of 60's music! Really chapeau bas :) just one thing - give us a full playlist of all the songs in the description of your videos - PLEASE ! It will be so much easier for us to find forgotten songs @stream etc. Do it please !
Best regards from Poland :)
Cheers! I'll post a playlist in the comments section tomorrow.
@@YesterdaysPapers THX :) and ...Keep On Rockin' In The "FREE" World :)
"Sorrow" was a great song and so was "Pretty Flamingo." Manfred Mann with Paul Jones had some great music.
15:30 - You should do a video on all the bands that appeared in The Ghost Goes Gear. It’s a fun film with some great songs from bands I otherwise know nothing about.
Regarding the relative success of a single in the U.S., you have to understand that it's a huge country with many different markets. During the '60s it was common for songs to do extremely well in some markets but to not chart well nationally because of their failure to break out in the crucial NY and L.A. markets. "Pretty Flamingo" was one such example.
We had an Anglophile DJ in NY who tried to promote PF. He didn't have much local success. However, he sold it to me and I played it quite a bit. I had no difficulty finding it in a record department.
What can you say about that Buzz single? Man, it's wild. Really wild. I've known of this song for a good few years now and still can't believe just how crazy it is. Unbelievable.
Bowie's 45s from 66 are amazing. Good Morning Girl would've been a better A side, I think.
The Artwoods were a very good group. Deserved to be bigger.
Come see Me from the Prettys has to be their best single. Wonderful.
Just for a pleasant change, would it be possible to see a soul RnB singles from a particular week and month? The US RnB chart.
Cheers, Maurice. April 1966 was an amazing month for singles. Making a video about the US R&B chart sounds like a pretty cool idea. Maybe I'll do a video about that in the future.
Everything in here was fantastic. I particularly like The Troggs and The Pretty Things. Manfred Mann is worth a whole career retrospective. The evolution of the group(s) is so complicated and the variety and quality of the music was all over the place it would be interesting to see what the fuck was going on with them. Breezy teen pop and artistically visionary compositions. Triumphs and Turds...Manfred Mann had it all.
Another superb month with some truly wild sounds on display! Once again, you mention a few singles I've never heard--The Buzz (wow!), The Riot Squad, and Felders Orioles (although not too keen on this one). With "Wild Thing", "Come See Me", "Machines", "Train To Disaster" and "Can't Live With You, Can't Live Without You" leading the way, it's another fine crop from '66 and the year is just getting started--the only singles this month I think you missed were The Truth's cover of Ray Davies' "I Go To Sleep" and Episode Six's "I Hear Trumpets Blow". Looking forward to May which should bring genius sides (and nascent psychedelia) from The Rolling Stones, The Animals, and The Yardbirds plus good stuff by The Dave Clark Five, Dave Dee & Co., The Silkie, Julie Driscoll, Vashti, The Small Faces, The Eyes, Twice As Much, The Favourite Sons, Tony Hazzard and Barry Mason.
Cheers, Spirit! Glad you enjoyed the video. The Episode Six single gets a mention in the video after Rod The Mod's single.
@@YesterdaysPapers Oopsie!! I don't know how I missed that--I must have been distracted by all the other dazzling music on display. It just goes to show I should watch these more than once; so in fact, I'm going to watch the clip over again right now!
Thank You , yes I did enjoy it .
Graham Gouldman does seem to have been around forever ...
Interesting stuff!! I'll have to check out at least some of these songs, especially the one with James Page. He's one of my all-time favorite music people. That was a very interesting era.
I was in first grade back then in Boston, already a huge rock and pop fan.
Terrific time for pop music. And genuinely evolving fast - it would be difficult to compare to 5 years earlier and say this or that top song was just like same as the past. Unlike today where anything in the last decade or more could all be lumped together and all with far too much influence from the 20th C
Beatlemania was wearing thin toward the end of 1966. Then, we didn’t see the Beatles for a long time! Not until Pepper came out!
The Troggs' version of "Wild Thing" -- primal and heavy for its time. I love that ocarina. It has staying power. Oh yeah, The Pretty Things -- still a fave of mine! Thank you, Yesterday's Papers, for this amazing look back at 1966 -- my favourite year for sound!
Cheers!
@@YesterdaysPapers Cheers!
@walterfechter The ocarina was also used on the original version of Space Oddity, not the one on the 1969 Bowie album.
@@johnpolitis9060 Yes indeed! Many thanks. -- W
Another great batch of unknown Freakbeat classics here. I'd love to know what make of fuzztone made that brilliant "nasty" sound for the Pretty Things's Come See Me. 1966 what a year for music, style and football!
The riot squad one sounds like something king gizzard would try to do.
Great great... Great job, once again.
(Naughty George Harrison, he did sampling way before sampling, haha!)
well done!
"Wild Thing" was also released on Atco Records in the U.S., as well as Fontana Records... One of my favorites from the year...Manfred Mann gets my vote for their single.."Aftermath" is one of my fave Stones albums.
@sexymama Also covered by Jimi Hendrix at Monterey Festival!
The guy who wrote wild thing I believe was the brother of Jon Voight the actor
Yep
Wow, well done!
--Is that long-titled b-side hard to find? Funny/weird is my favourite genre, so I love oddballs and novelties like that.
--Love the original, though I know there were many covers of "Sorrow" in North America. One by Canadian band called British Modbeats got airplay in Toronto. Even the Everly Brothers did it.
--Been a fan of Manfred Mann's Earth Band for years, but I keep forgetting about his earlier forms. I'll take a rolled paper to my nose for that lol
Hey Recordhound, cheers! The long title B-side by the Artwoods is quite pricey, just like most of their singles. According to Discogs, it goes for 150 to 250 dollars!
Man there sure were groovy vibes back then. Dig it man ?