The Lemon Pipers - Green Tambourine / Rice Is Nice

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  • @gpxo11
    @gpxo11 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    The guy playing the long guitar (sitar?) is Bill Bartlett who was the lead singer for Ram Jam (Black Betty)

  • @frankieboy967
    @frankieboy967 21 วันที่ผ่านมา

    This clip is priceless. Local-regional TV at its best. Mike Douglas is as white bread as you can get. Ann Miller is 44 years old. Roger Ailes (the late Fox News head) had his TV producing start at the Mike Douglas Show.

  • @curtnicholson7771
    @curtnicholson7771 5 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Green Tamborine was a great song. Can easily be listened to today and it's still great. Sure as hell beats thrash metal!

  • @cozener1
    @cozener1 5 ปีที่แล้ว +21

    Daytime USA TV in the 1960s was really kind of fun! Something for everyone.

  • @davidallen6641
    @davidallen6641 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    And he's really singing!!!!!

  • @wygakyl
    @wygakyl 8 ปีที่แล้ว +36

    Ivan, the singer, settled in Northern CA, and was friends with my duo partner from Santa Rosa...he brought him, his old lady Isa, and some other musicians, and jammed "Green Tambourine" at a party we threw.....was fun!!!!

    • @relaxrx
      @relaxrx 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      wygakylAnd Ron the drummer beat me for five years until I escaped by jumping off a boat.

    • @mikepitts3130
      @mikepitts3130 6 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      so they took different paths then...

    • @misstury606
      @misstury606 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@relaxrx Wow, that's crazy. I'm glad you got away.

    • @misstury606
      @misstury606 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@mikepitts3130 LOL

    • @newavatar2947
      @newavatar2947 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Rice Is Nice is better

  • @LACrimAtty
    @LACrimAtty 18 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Black Betty became a regional hit, then was picked up by producers in New York who formed a group around Bartlett called Ram Jam. They re-released the song, and it became a hit nationally. The "Ram Jam" recording was actually the same one originally recorded by Starstruck, the band at that time composed of Bartlett, lead guitar and vocals, Tom Kurtz, rhythm guitar and vocals, David Goldfliess, bass, David Fleeman on drums.

  • @matthewclark9652
    @matthewclark9652 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    The album "Green Tambourine" was the 2nd album for Buddah. (Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band "Safe As Milk") was the 1st in late 1967. "Rice Is Nice" was Buddah Records first stereo "Dual 45"!! Went to # 46 (Hot 100) in April 1968. The next 45 single "Jelly Jungle (Of Orange Marmalade)" went to # 51 (Hot 100) in May of 1968 but the 45 single is in mono but that was it. Member Bill Bramlett 9 years later formed Ram Jam & the 1977 song "Black Betty" (Epic Records) & the remake of the Leadbelly 1948 song went to # 18 (1 hit wonder) in September of 1977.

  • @tomthalon8956
    @tomthalon8956 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    He sounded like Tiny Tim on the chorus of Rice Is Nice. LOL
    Ann dancing to a version of TV's Batman theme was GREAT.

  • @fg6971
    @fg6971 7 ปีที่แล้ว +24

    Somewhere between charming and silly . I like the live vocals. Everyone seems to be having a good time which is what it is all about.

  • @tp10488
    @tp10488 10 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Ann Miller!!! You go girl!!!!

  • @Daberney
    @Daberney 5 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Great footage; slightly surreal: Mike Douglas, who was as square as they come, doing his awkward little interview with the band ("You didn't get THOSE glasses in Oxford, Ohio!"), the singer channeling Tiny Tim during the chorus of "Rice is Nice", and finally an aging Ann Miller running onstage to display her go-go dancing moves. You saw a lot of these odd little culture clashes during the Sixties.

  • @manuelrocha9477
    @manuelrocha9477 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    This song brings me a whole lot of memories. I even wrote a book about my summer of 1972.

  • @andrewrosen6508
    @andrewrosen6508 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The studio version of rice is quite pretty and catchy.
    Long live Bubblegum!

  • @drivinsouth651
    @drivinsouth651 8 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Mr. French from Family Affair; how charming. I`ve never seen a drummer playing the violin. Love the Zitar playing. I need some pants and a neru jacket like the singer so I can scare my neighbors. Thanks for posting.

  • @LACrimAtty
    @LACrimAtty 18 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Bartlett, now 63, still plays guitar, but during the last decade has transformed himself into a first-rate boogie-woogie piano player, self-taught. He also plays banjo, harmonica, slide guitar and has written dozens of great songs, many better, IMO, than Black Betty.

  • @hansgruber650
    @hansgruber650 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Ivan is a true spirit of the 60's scene.

    • @sunflowers4227
      @sunflowers4227 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Yes, so true!!👍👍 Ivan is so awesome but I feel like he is underrated. ♥

  • @clambeandip
    @clambeandip 8 ปีที่แล้ว +35

    I like it. And this may be the only "live" vocal of Ivan's that can be found.

    • @kino2450
      @kino2450 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      check out the vid on [Bruno Vejnic aka Retro Man]

  • @krazeykriss
    @krazeykriss 17 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I can date this to the week of January 20, 1968, two weeks before "Green Tambourine" hit #1. The singing is live, but they used a backing track.

  • @robertthacher
    @robertthacher ปีที่แล้ว +3

    An amazing song based on a basic instrument. The tambourine. The bass drum between verses is great They gave us this one extraordinary song! Never to be heard from again!

    • @paulvon2378
      @paulvon2378 ปีที่แล้ว

      Bunch of hippy kids making rock in roll. Simple as that

    • @davelink1318
      @davelink1318 ปีที่แล้ว

      But....... Rice is nice !

    • @burrburr6816
      @burrburr6816 ปีที่แล้ว

      Bill Bartlett went with ram jam and Ole black Betty

  • @phyllis1753
    @phyllis1753 15 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    I was in High School when this came out. At that time we dismissed it as "bubble gum", and from what I've read, so did the band who were more inclined to a more hard rock style. Wikipedia can tell you more about it. Anyway, this video has all the Sixties cliches I remember and it's worth a couple of hoots at least! Thanks for posting it!

  • @MichaelSherrer
    @MichaelSherrer 10 ปีที่แล้ว +20

    So nice to hear a truly live video- without lip-sync to a backing track. Thx.

    • @dansm1422
      @dansm1422 9 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Michael Sherrer The instruments are right off the recording, though.

    • @MikeBlitzMag
      @MikeBlitzMag 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      @@dansm1422 Right. Ivan is singing live to the backing track of the Buddah label 45. That was commonplace in TV appearances at that time (late 1967 / early 1968), due to the sonic limitations of the TV studio.

  • @talkrite1262
    @talkrite1262 17 ปีที่แล้ว

    yes..you have a great memory!! thanks for jogging mine.

  • @chuckschillingvideos
    @chuckschillingvideos ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Love the live vocal.

  • @starwarez73
    @starwarez73 18 ปีที่แล้ว

    GREAT VIDEO!!!
    I had an 45 RPM Vinyl when I was a child... is nice to meet them
    Thanks!

  • @Tamrons
    @Tamrons 15 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    "Rice is Nice" is the best written song EVER !
    The Beatles (or any band in history) could only dream of having this song.
    -Yummy

  • @stevecook8941
    @stevecook8941 10 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Underated group

  • @xander7ful
    @xander7ful 11 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    That's a very surreal combination: Sebastian Cabot, the male nanny, and the Lemon Pipers.

  • @t4texastomjohnnycat978
    @t4texastomjohnnycat978 6 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The first song is obviously a classic. But that 2nd one is aawwfull. At least we got to look at Ann Miller.

    • @samuelgates5935
      @samuelgates5935 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I agree!
      I guess that's why they only had the one hit🤣🤣

    • @richardkell4888
      @richardkell4888 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Yup, you nailed it. I wonder too if (most) of them are 'on the spectrum' ?

  • @patubo
    @patubo 16 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    They're doing it LIVE, sounds great.

  • @GalaxyRover1020
    @GalaxyRover1020 15 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Bill Bartlett from The Lemon Pipers later surfaced in one hit wonder 70's band "Ram Jam" too.
    Remember their cover of the Leadbelly tune "Black Betty"

  • @LACrimAtty
    @LACrimAtty 18 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Bill Bartlett went on to form a group called Starstruck--originally including Walmsley (bass) and Nave (organ) from the Lemon Pipers--later replacing Walmsley with David Goldfliess (who later played for years with Dickie Betts and Great Southern, and the Allman Brothers). While in Starstruck, Bartlett took Leadbelly's 59 second long "Black Betty," wrote music for it and arranged it and recorded and released it on the group's TruckStar label.

  • @mellotronn
    @mellotronn 10 ปีที่แล้ว +16

    Bill Bartlett says he's from Oxford, Ohio but was born in England. He must have been raised in the U.S. due to his American accent. He later became the lead singer on Black Betty by Ramajam. The glasses he's wearing that Mike Douglas jokes about are actually prescription glasses.

    • @Corinthians-kjv
      @Corinthians-kjv 7 ปีที่แล้ว

      mellotron he ordered them he said.

    • @lesterjohnston8888
      @lesterjohnston8888 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Now i knew there was a bit of the British bands in it

  • @kabbey30
    @kabbey30 4 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Bill Bartlett is the man!

  • @WizardGlik
    @WizardGlik 17 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Ann Miller was such a M.I.L.F. in 1968!

  • @cco10399
    @cco10399 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    gr8 song from the 60s. Many thx to the ppl @ youtube for having the technology for us to enjoy :).

  • @senorxrey6429
    @senorxrey6429 8 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Pretty amazing for a 60's pop performance to be sung "live-to-track". These guys had a very contentious relationship with the late Buddah Records President Neil Bogart (later head of Casablanca Records who signed KISS, Donna Summer, and other hit acts). Their deal was that they MUST perform the bubblegum crap if they wanted to record the self-indulgent psychedelic AOR music they really loved. So both Lemon Pipers albums included the Leka/Pinz singles that would sell records, and some really out-of-place uncommercial rock numbers like the 9 minute "Through With You" that the band wrote. After the second album, and lots of arguments, they all went thier separate ways.
    side note: the backing track for "Green Tambourine" was originally done for The Peppermint Rainbow, and appeared on their album (though it wasn't issued as a single). Neil Bogart became aware of the song, instinctively knew it was a potential #1, and insisted The Lemon Pipers record it...much to their chagrin. Otherwise he'd drop them from the label if they didn't agree. The rest is history...

    • @Magnetron33
      @Magnetron33 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Thanks Neil!

    • @sabtahi13
      @sabtahi13 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      The Industry truly eats its own, sad to say...

    • @richardkell4888
      @richardkell4888 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Fascinating, thankyou.

  • @eyeballll
    @eyeballll 10 ปีที่แล้ว +33

    Unbelievably, the singer is really singing.

    • @u000drl
      @u000drl 10 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      Admirable for those days, however-he sung his harmony part from 2;05 onward, should have stuck with the melody.

    • @shaunmason3243
      @shaunmason3243 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeah, they, couldn't manage the echoed vocal hook live.

    • @mikepitts3130
      @mikepitts3130 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      live vocals wers typical on certain shows

    • @Magnetron33
      @Magnetron33 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      He probably did most of the parts in the studio and maybe was just try to mix it up to be different. Pretty high range. Kind of a pop pre yes. String arrangements , B3. Thanks to George Martin, string arrangements in rock had been groundbreaking, and became the bedrock of several Prog Rock bands. I think he was the only one live. the keys might have been live too

    • @MikeBlitzMag
      @MikeBlitzMag 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      It's the backing track to the Buddah label single, without the vocals. That was commonplace at that time in TV performances, due to the logistics, sound limitations, etc. of the studio. If you look at surviving clips from other bands making TV appearances at that time (late 1967/early 1968), you'll find it quite often.

  • @thewindowguy1
    @thewindowguy1 12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    no the guy who sang black betty is playing that big long guitarish thing lol .... bill bartlett ....he played in a band with my dad in the early 80s

  • @jonsmall2993
    @jonsmall2993 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Ann Miller at the end!🔥🔥

  • @uselessjoe
    @uselessjoe ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Ivan Browne be banging dat green tambourine like it’s job…

  • @MedievalRichard
    @MedievalRichard 16 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    awesome band love the psychedelia

  • @XxXxSabooxXxX
    @XxXxSabooxXxX 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Also note Bill Bartlett’s gold top Les Paul. It’s the same one u see him playing in the Black Betty music video, only by then he had stripped the gold paint and replaced the pickups after a headstock repair.

  • @60s70sVintageRock
    @60s70sVintageRock 11 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    the big long guitarish thing is a sitar, as made popular by the Beatle's George Harrison

  • @giagnorio86
    @giagnorio86 11 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Magic song magic sitar!

  • @Idfc-atall
    @Idfc-atall 14 ปีที่แล้ว +61

    the guy on keyboard is my grandpa:)

    • @jamielwendland7041
      @jamielwendland7041 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

      He sure had it going on with that beatnik look....Love it! Ohhhhhhh yeah baby....

    • @ABCABC-tj4dg
      @ABCABC-tj4dg 2 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      Love the Lemon Pipers and your Grandpa he's fantastic.

    • @ABCABC-tj4dg
      @ABCABC-tj4dg ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I wish he was my grandpa

    • @brianglade848
      @brianglade848 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I love his hey man beatnik look

    • @stevensprunger3422
      @stevensprunger3422 ปีที่แล้ว

      That’s incredible😊

  • @Darmesis
    @Darmesis 12 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Two things that remind me of growing up and hanging out in my Mom's kitchen with its10" black and white T.V. on the counter: Mr. French and Mike Douglas' groovy wall that looked like it had no-slip bathtub stickers all over it.
    And Ann Miller in go go boots makes me think of Leonid Brezhnev. Don't know why. (Maybe they were on The Love Boat together.)

  • @maureenmcgovern6119
    @maureenmcgovern6119 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    I always Loved the Mike Douglas Show. Mr. French should be used to Rock and Roll since Sissy like the Velvet Voltures.

  • @yekkedancer
    @yekkedancer 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

    the "missing thing" destroys it all - hahahahaha

  • @hihats
    @hihats 16 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    the great bill bartlett on sitar,ladies and gentlemen

  • @timokeefe2948
    @timokeefe2948 10 ปีที่แล้ว +46

    Mike Douglas had a good show, No paternity test brawls or the like just good entertainment.

    • @Mynamesalexa
      @Mynamesalexa 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      My parents saw it religiously even after he left Philadelphia and went west.

  • @WizardGlik
    @WizardGlik 6 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    That "Batman" chick was SMOKING!!!!

  • @johnperry6874
    @johnperry6874 ปีที่แล้ว

    Love how some of this is live

  • @usa02
    @usa02 12 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    This was two years after Mike Douglas (RIP) moved his show from Cleveland to Philadelphia when KYW became WKYC in Cleveland and KYW moved to Philadelphia along with Westinghouse.

  • @mickeybaumann
    @mickeybaumann 10 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    thx ! great live act ...

  • @johnmillercpainc
    @johnmillercpainc 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    I believe one of the hosts on the video was Sebastian Cabot. I believe he played Mr French on Family Affair! Does anyone remember that show? Anyway, Green Tambourine was the Lemon Pipers great hit and what a great song is was! Thank you for posting it.

    • @smartluck100
      @smartluck100 ปีที่แล้ว

      What time is dinner Uncle Bill?

  • @GTVAlfaMan
    @GTVAlfaMan 13 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    That Bill Bartlett with the green glasses, the lead singer of Ram Jam,,,famous for Black Betty.

  • @jeantetreault132
    @jeantetreault132 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Rest in peace Mike Douglas!

  • @1970groupie
    @1970groupie 17 ปีที่แล้ว

    Yes, thanks for that!

  • @piroschka6
    @piroschka6 11 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    how i loved this song!!!!!!!!

  • @JochenRindtFan
    @JochenRindtFan 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    Nice, the guest in studio is "Mr. French" of "Family Affair" (Lieber Onkel Bill in Austria and Germany)

  • @jimarmstrong5820
    @jimarmstrong5820 2 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    Green Tambourine isn’t bubble gum, it’s a gorgeous song.

    • @bradsense7431
      @bradsense7431 ปีที่แล้ว

      I was just reading about this song and it was classified as bubble gum. But I totally agree with you it is not. It is a gorgeous song as you say and has a pop/rock/psychedelic groove and I love how it makes me feel. And I actually do like some bubble gum but that is not what we have here.

    • @lesterjohnston8888
      @lesterjohnston8888 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Och the noo very good

  • @pgh45rpms
    @pgh45rpms ปีที่แล้ว

    RIP drummer Bill Albaugh (1946-1999), organist Robert G. Nave (1944-2020)

  • @myturbodog1
    @myturbodog1 15 ปีที่แล้ว

    I lived in Oxford for 3 months in the spring of 1987. Our apartment was called"The Fallout Shelter."

  • @jameslanclos568
    @jameslanclos568 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Good Ol' Mr. French, Sebastian Cabot. (7:28) I'd be curious to hear what they had to say about reincarnation on this show!

  • @martianshoes
    @martianshoes 10 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    This music went down right after the wave that brought us the Strawberry Alarm Clock. Personally the sound of an electric sitar sends me running for the hills but it was a cute kitschy kind of tune; I recognized it that way even as child. Looking at the lead vocalist, I realize where Mackelmore got the idea for his "Thrift Shop" thing....

  • @bot51993
    @bot51993 16 ปีที่แล้ว

    guys its an old recording so you can't really say much. because this is when audio recording stuff and video recording stuff. and besides the only thing he's playing while he plays the violin is the kick drum which you play with your feet

  • @HippyShake9
    @HippyShake9 15 ปีที่แล้ว

    Batman! Batman! Batman! Batman! Batman! Batman! That was the song the girl danced to! lol I love the Lemon Pipers!

  • @cybolton302
    @cybolton302 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    Who knew Mr. French was a rocker???

  • @RetroJoe66
    @RetroJoe66 13 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    @Mr7o4 I was not expecting the lead singer to sing the female part of the song! WOW! That's weird. You have to listen to the original recording. I wonder how they did this song live...if at all!

  • @johnbundy4818
    @johnbundy4818 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Bill Bartlett and Ram Jam's hit was "Black Betty.

  • @BigStar303
    @BigStar303 15 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    He always sounded like that, and I don't think he was nervous at all. The Lemon Pipers were a real band, and the bubblegum thing was foisted upon them by their producers. It was GOOD bubblegum, don't get me wrong. But check out "Through With You" from their first album for some genuine psych. As this and other clips show, they had a hard time taking it all seriously.

  • @rodneyowens3449
    @rodneyowens3449 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Miami University!! Go Redskins! Love and Honor

    • @rayjr62
      @rayjr62 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Bill Bartlett still performs with his band.

    • @t4texastomjohnnycat978
      @t4texastomjohnnycat978 6 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Rodney Owens
      Whoa!!! Redskins???? How awful. 😂

  • @talkrite1262
    @talkrite1262 17 ปีที่แล้ว

    It is Sebastian Cabot. He was on a TV show then as a butler. I forget the name of the show.

  • @SconeMason
    @SconeMason 16 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I wonder if Bill Bartlett used that awesome Les Paul Goldtop to record Black Betty?

  • @DoIGetTube
    @DoIGetTube ปีที่แล้ว

    "The Mike Douglas Show," co-hosted then by Sebastian Cabot during the week when Mr. Douglas had the Lemon Pipers as his guests, was the origin of this video.

  • @jalan6473
    @jalan6473 10 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    Another of hundreds of "one-hit-wonders" in the 60's-70's.

    • @jalan6473
      @jalan6473 10 ปีที่แล้ว

      *****
      mmmmm....ok....thats a squeeker though. LOL
      What other hits did ramjam put out? I remember Black Betty...great tune.

  • @hollies65
    @hollies65 17 ปีที่แล้ว

    Crap? Go back to bed dad...go back to bed.This stuff is top notch.

  • @spectrumlocalb191
    @spectrumlocalb191 7 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Uncle Mike would have no lip syncing and here's proof real singing.

  • @chriscampbell9191
    @chriscampbell9191 4 ปีที่แล้ว +10

    Very cool to hear Ivan Browne's vocals so up front and clear. He really did have a cool voice. It's too bad the Lemon Pipers only had three hits (Jelly Jungle being the third), but hey, most groups get zero, so there ya go...

  • @robertrock8778
    @robertrock8778 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Mike Douglas was fabulous.

  • @torchkit
    @torchkit 16 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Actually this was written BEFORE the Who's Tommy. By about a year.

  • @duane1073
    @duane1073 17 ปีที่แล้ว

    What this groovy music needs is a go-go dancer...wouldn't that be hip???
    2 funny!

  • @BBINGHAM032352
    @BBINGHAM032352 14 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Also don't forget about "Zig Zag" by The Ohio Express (backward masked freaky music). It was the flipside of Yummy Yummy Yummy.Shades of Pink Floyd I must say.

  • @timokeefe2948
    @timokeefe2948 10 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    too bad we missed Ann Miller

  • @ABCABC-tj4dg
    @ABCABC-tj4dg 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    Massive hit in the UK 1968

  • @christoJihad2
    @christoJihad2 15 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    @phunkyphreddy There were lots of bands that played their hits on Mike Douglas. A friend of mine was in the band "The Electric Prunes" and they played "I Had Too Much To Dream" and "Get Me To The World On Time." There was a gimmick on that show too, when my friend, Preston Ritter, tried to teach "Agent 99", Barbara Feldon a drum part. That kind of campy crap was all over the tube in the mid 60's when it came to rock and roll bands. That and almost constant lip syncing.

  • @MikeBlitzMag
    @MikeBlitzMag 11 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    One gets the impression that the band did not share Ann Miller's enthusiasm in the final moments.....

    • @Magnetron33
      @Magnetron33 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      She could still really bring it. Wonder if they even knew who she was.Probably one of the top 5 dancers ever, other than dancing on top of the Campbells soup can in commercials, of course.

    • @swami1
      @swami1 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      MikeBlitzMag What in the hell was that?!?

    • @MikeBlitzMag
      @MikeBlitzMag 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Magnetron33 It looks like timing in this case, tempered by a couple of slightly incongruous societal references. Ann Miller's routine would have fit in impeccably had in been in tandem with the appearance of a like minded band on Mike Douglas' show perhaps a year and a half earlier or so. All concerned (Douglas, Miller, the Lemon Pipers) meant well respectively, and perhaps a bit of strategizing beforehand would have helped to close any such gap. But did they basically know one another? I have no doubt that they did. Artists are visionaries who think outside of the box, no matter where that thinking may take them. It is only certain factions of their audience (aka the entertainment industry version of the armchair quarterback) that views them in compartmentalized fashion and wants to put them back into that box and nail the lid shut.

    • @Magnetron33
      @Magnetron33 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@MikeBlitzMag Well said. In a box with the lid nailed shut seems to be the only model they know for marketing anything.

  • @quentinkirk7221
    @quentinkirk7221 10 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    I Love The Psychedelic Sixties music.

  • @softshoes
    @softshoes 14 ปีที่แล้ว

    Rivers rising, he's got his floods on

  • @beasst94
    @beasst94 12 ปีที่แล้ว

    thats pretty awesome

  • @bzzzzap
    @bzzzzap 13 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Mike Douglas is part of an extinct breed. A square with class.

  • @ZakusDog
    @ZakusDog 16 ปีที่แล้ว

    I have the gold record for green tambourine. =)

  • @vicferrari89
    @vicferrari89 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    GoGo girl dancing Batman. How cool is that?

  • @davidellis485
    @davidellis485 4 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    The B side of ‘Rice is Nice’ was the excellent ‘ Blueberry Blue’

  • @weenielongus
    @weenielongus 15 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    I thought this clip was totally fun!! Ann Miller was in early middle-age at the time, and I'm sure she was being as camp as the "Batman' TV show was (and she DID have the legs for the mini-skirt), and the Lemon Pipers were cool with their bubble-gum psychedelica!! I only wish they had lip-synched both records instead of doing the live vocals, the records had good production for sunny bubble-gum pop that was kinda ruined by the live vocals.

  • @1970groupie
    @1970groupie 17 ปีที่แล้ว

    Great video. Had Rice Is Nice 45 and this is first hearing in 35 yrs. One of my fav's
    But can't remember the B side. Anyone help ?

  • @graemehardaker1125
    @graemehardaker1125 8 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I think they should have played ' No Help From Me' ...the B side of Green Tambourine.

    • @garyjones2561
      @garyjones2561 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      Graeme Hardaker What was wrong the number they did?

  • @smtpgirl
    @smtpgirl 15 ปีที่แล้ว

    Sebastian Cabot, Wow, Mr. French

  • @michaelcaliri2795
    @michaelcaliri2795 7 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    Live vocals