HOLE IN MY SHOE (1967) by Traffic (incredible stereo mix)
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- I bought this single when it came out (Smiling Phases was the 'B' side). This song was written and sung by Dave Mason, rather than Steve Winwood who did most of the singing for the band. Interestingly, Dave said it was the first song he wrote and that it was like a nursery rhyme. He said he had not tried LSD at the time he wrote the song (many thought it was influenced by that drug). Francine Heimann was the six year old girl who did the spoken part in the middle of the song. She was the stepdaughter of Island Records boss Chris Blackwell.
Winwood had success as a musician prior to joining Traffic, becoming the frontman of the Spencer Davis Group at age 15 in 1963. Winwood met drummer Jim Capaldi, guitarist Dave Mason, and multi-instrumentalist Chris Wood when they jammed together at The Elbow Room, a club in Aston, Birmingham. After Winwood left the Spencer Davis Group in April 1967, the quartet formed Traffic. Soon thereafter, they rented a cottage near the rural village of Aston Tirrold, Berkshire to write and rehearse new music.
Traffic signed to Island Records label and their debut single "Paper Sun" became a UK hit in mid-1967. Their second single, Mason's psych-pop classic "Hole in My Shoe", was an even bigger hit, and it became one of their best-known tracks, but it set the stage for increasing friction between Winwood and Mason, the group's principal songwriters.
The rest of their career involved various personnel comings and goings (Winwood joined Blind Faith for a year) and Dave Mason even rejoined again for a short period. They had varying success, although scoring with John Barleycorn Must Die and The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys (Nov. 1971), which was a Top 10 American album athough did not chart in the UK. Sadly Chris Wood died in 1983 and Jim Capaldi in 2005. The above was adapted from Wikipedia.
I have put together a slide show video for this song, hopefully matching up images to the music. Comments are invited.
I've also uploaded a live version of this song, which can be found here: • HOLE IN MY SHOE by Tra...
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I've just uploaded a live version of Traffic's Hole In My Shoe on my channel. Check it out. I've put a link at the bottom of the description under this video.
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I was born in 61 I woke up this morning with the song Green tambourine playing in my head
Everything about this song is still as great as it ever has been.
Fantastic era ❤
Nobody can convince me this wasn’t a time to live in ……. every record had a story ❤
Yeah the music was positive.... I loved it.
Yeah, sure does bring those days back, although somewhat dreamlike!
LSD on a daily basis! Good old daze!
never did any drugs but still loved living in those times
Glad I witnessed the 60s 70s first hand. What a great era for music. Wish I could go back in time.
You can, every time you access music from that period 😁😇 have you heard "Time Machine" by Beggars Opera or "Time Machine" by Mick Softley two of my favourite songs, cheers.
I bet you're not from that period.
Me too, I often wish I could open a door and go back to 1964.
My darling it was wonderful, but so are the magical times of your youth. WE/YOU - all make the times magical. much love my friend. 💖
I think Hole in my Shoe was the first record I bought just after my Dad bought a stereogram.I must have been about 13. Psychedelic pop is still my favourite music. Oh and blues.
I love this and other songs from the second half of the 60's, far better than the crap of today. Thanks for posting.
Sad but true. We thought the music was always going to be that good. We were waiting for another Beatles! which seems more and more ridiculous today.
At 74 I'm a worn-out hippy. I managed to live through and love the sixties. A fantastic time in my life. I still get the rush when I listen to sixties and seventies music now. I have no time for rap music or the boring music of today.
In today's virus troubles we need something to give us a lift. I am sure there is still plenty of talent in the singers of today, they just seem to have lost their way musically.
I feel the same way. I'm 63 and detest hip-hop and modern music. Music of the past lifted people up and made a deep and lasting positive impression on their lives. I feel sorry for the younger generation of today. Never having had that life enhancing experience.
No, it’s just that things from your past always seem better as you tend to remember the nice bits - I’m 67 but I find musicians now are every bit as good as they ever were or ever will be: just open your ears to it all while taking pleasure from having a personal back catalogue that extends over your lifetime.
@@davidrichards6835 I do not doubt musicians of today are every bit as good. I would love to hear some challenging music. Other than the dire modern tripe that is endlessly churned out.
@@davidrichards6835 you are right Dave...too bad you are casting pearls of wisdom before swine.
In that case I will forgive for being a hippy
So lucky to have experienced the 60s music. There is nothing today that comes anywhere near being this good !! So many talented bands !!
There is always great music. Claiming generational exceptionalism is either plain nostalgia or narcissism.
I used to see Traffic play in pubs in London including the night Save Mason left the band the first time and they payed as a trio..
of course nothing compares ...it was the 60s ...todays music s no longer about us,,,its a new generation...love it or hate it .....you either embrace todays new music or you dont...its no longer our time ...its their time...
We had so much choice of music to choose from ,,,Wow it was a fantastic time to live through ,,,,never to be repeated xxlol
I want to go back
Yeah I’ve gone through this all philosophically and I disagree. It’s not just nostalgia. The whole world was on a crest of a wave that broke. There is still good music yes. But the overall dynamic of how good the mainstream was and how it effected culture is not the same. The amount of venues and the scenes it created. It was an incredible thing. There will never be another 60s counter culture, 70s madness and 80s MTV generation or 90s Seattle.
It was a hell of a run in the 2nd half of the 20th century. That goes for all aspects of western culture. It’s just not as magical now. I’m just happy I got to experience most of it. Yes you can find good music now-but I can differentiate between nostalgia and the fact it’s just not as good. It’s not.
I really liked the music of Traffic. It was a joy to be a teenager in the 60s.
brings back music from my youth now 73.
78 here
Me too👍👍👍
Almost 70 here
73 and loving it
I was 16 when this came out now about to turn 70 and i still get flashbacks when i hear this awesome :) Best era ever
I was 16
All us oldies lived through the greatest of times that was the 60s.
One could understand all the words.
Andy i agree with you ,,, we had so much choice of fantastic music it was so diverse ,,,This classic rules my head and memories of the great 60s era lol xx
I want to go back
You missed the 90s mate 😂
The bands of the 60s were pioneers.
Class 60s music !!! There will never be decade like it again for great music 👍👍👍👍👍👍
Just cant beat the classics
This song is a psychedelic classic! Mellotron, sitar, flute, child spoken voice, trippy lyrics, it’s got it all!
Für die Zeit top ! Bin 69 j.und habe da zu Weihnachten mein erstes Kofferradio bekommen . Das waren die besten Jahre der Musikgeschichte ( bis 75 ).
Que tiempos aquellos alla a fines de los 60s escuchandolos
This was the music we grew up with - the psychedelic era of the second half of the sixties - simple timeless
I couldn't have put it better
i was in my teens when this record was out gotta tell ya im sorry if you missed the best two decades of the century 60s and 70s wow this music could out last time.
@@neild1617 if you think that was the last good music you have seriously been missing out for half a lifetime.
Woodstock/hippie era
I'm a young 65 as of 3/30/22, so alot of seeing the 60s, and Vietnam on the news
We grew up with that wonderful stuff, it shows us a way out of our lovely but booring hometown. Meanwhile I am 69 and I am glad beeing born in the early 50th!!
2 years have past by since my last comment and still this song as never aged from my teenage years.I am now 68 years and it will never fade from my memory.Long live Traffic the group.
When I was in Aden in 1967, a street patrol of Royal Marines was in a dangerous area and we had Bullet up the spout ready for instant action. One of the lads tripped and put a round through his foot. At that time, Forces Favourites was a request show on BBC Radio played World Wide, on a Sunday. While he was in Hospital, it came on the Radio, " This a request for Marine +++++ in, R.A.F. Hospital Kormaskar in Aden. The song was "And all that I knew was the hole in my shoe was letting in water".😂😂😂
Absolutely brilliant.
I was there in December 66, sure was dangerous@
Was it the right or left foot????
@@michaelking9772 I can't remember mate but the way we carried our Rifles, the muzzle would have been pointing towards the left foot, so that would be a good guess.
🤣🤣🤣...classic!!
Man, this music will "never" b repeated! Thanks guys 🤗
1967 Psychedelia, what a magical time that was for music to a young 18 year old impressionable music lover, such a special time and vivid memories take me right back there, just great music, if I had a time machine would be happy to go back again, would have to be one of my favourite years.
I was 15 years old and fascinated with music when this song came out. My parents thought there was something wrong with me. It was years before my first toke.
I still love this song.
Winwood's soulful harmonies and the bluesy organ help set this apart from ah lot of psychadelic music
The hole in my soul !!
The song is still there forever . .
Timeless music from the '60's in my opinion.😊
did pink floyd copy traffic?
The start of everything really,than moving into great sounds in the 70s.
Maybe early stuff.
triffic traffic!!@@GarryWootton
'here we go round the mulberry bush'?@@GarryWootton
I was 13 when this was released. I loved it then and now❤
Hello 😇how's your day going so far?
I agree with all my heart, we are most fortunate to have been there just at the right time .we are the lucky few
So was I use to listen to radio Luxemburg under my sheets at night as well
I own the original.
fell in love with Stevie Winwood on the strength of this song. I was 15. still love him.😊
Hello Maggie.. how are things going with you?
Oh, you naughthy Maggie....😂😂😂
Dave Mason wrote this song. Winwood and the others in Traffic hated it, hated it.
When i die i will do so knowing that I lived through the greatest music ever to cross the airwaves
So very true John. we were so fortunate weren't we?
You absolutely nailed it with that comment brother.
i agree totally
I remember waiting for XRT at 11 or 12 at night (been a long trip) for the night time DJ to come on and play what was in my head. I'd give a kidney (not of much use) to be back in those times, my times.
A great thought except the bit about dying , It put me off a bit
Traffic was one of the greatest bands ever
Isn’t is absolutely great we can listen to this and say we were there at this time the 60s
This fine classic will never die , it was a smokers delight , ,,xx The 60s era was so special , im so happy i was their lol x
I loved this song from Traffic. The sounds were incredible. It;s now 2015 and I still love it. it's still Incredible...
I was a kid of 13 years when this was in the charts. Absolutely fantastic music from the Flower Power era.
I' ve heard this song at the Top of the pops for several times in 1967, bought the record and played it all day long.
Dave Mason was such a big talent, both as a musician and as a songwriter.
He still is!
Nothing takes me back to that hippy, psychadelic period as this one!!!!
HIPPIE not hippy. Hippy is a weight problem.
Jackie Hussey Poulouktsi It’s spelt ‘psychedelic’.
@@Kate1Chopin Spelt is an ancient wheat or you're British.
Glad you made it through jackie, peace 🤘
Incense and peppermints - that's another one
WOW. FAR OUT MAN! WHAT A FANTASTIC SOUND FROM THE SUMMER OF LOVE 1967,BELL BOTTOMS ,KAFTANS ,BEADS,PSYCHEDELIC PAINTED 1950S CARS ,SITARS ,PEACE AND LOVE ,MAGICAL YEAR
Still listen to this in 2020, 53 years later ❤️
Damn
Cheesus
Me, and it makes me happy.
9 years old, we bought hole in my shoe and listened to it all weekend, loudly!
The world has changed so greatly in the last fifty years. None for the better in my estimation.
This brings beautiful memories of me & my brother we used to say the words together! Miss you Tony so very much💔
Hello Paula.. how are things going with you?
Thumbs up if you're still listening to this in 2040! Flower Power is better than any other human way of thinking...
Now in 2024😂
I loved being a teenager in the 60s, 1967 i was 17 happy days x
Being young is always a wonderful thing but to have been young during the 1960's, was really special!
I was 7 and didn't know shit
...still don't
Margaret I was born in 1949, we just had the best of everything and the greatest music In the 60s. Peace and love.
@@martinchamberlain542 yes brother you said it right, fantastic times, make love not war!
@Gabriel Chin that's 2 of us and it still moves my heart
i NEVER GET TIRED OF HEARING THIS SONG...Loved the 60's soooo much.
Such a great song, it stills sends chills down my, it is so special and beautiful.
I was a young 20 year old Royal Engineer Sapper as part of an Engineer Squadron constructing an airfield on the Isle of Unst at Baltasound when this was a hit . . a great song that brings back great memories.
I always loved this song. It's so perfect for the era.
The BEST thing about the 1960s was THE MUSIC !!!!!!
No. There was so much more xx
Best thing was that I was young.
Was 12 when this came out...blew my mind with THAT sound...still does ...amazing!
I remember when this song came out in 67. I was 7 yrs old at the time and just loved its hippy trippy feel, I never got tired of it!
+Samantha Williams
I was a teenager then and I loved too, still do. A Golden Oldie for sure.
Hello Samantha.. how are things going with you?
I was 12 years old when this song came out.It’s a song that as always stuck in my mind.
It’s a reminder of my youth and perhaps it will always will be.
I was less than 5. The version by Neil from The Young Ones. Wow how original!
The 60s and 70s were fab times for pop music 👌
Alexander Heath great times Alexander
Alexander Heath great musical years Alexander we were the lucky ones to have been there 😉youngsters today can only wonder how good it was !!!!
That little girls voice really does it in this timeless classic.
The girl was Chris Blackwell's stepdaughter, Francine Heimann
Spectacular band and awesome song !
There will never ever be an era or fantastic music like this. Take me back.
66,67,68 and 69 produced some of the best music ever.
You age is only a number i am 67years old hippy and rock yes peace and love to all and happy days still rocking MAN o YEAH i HA HA HA HA HA HA
Old enough to remember this when it was released in the 'Summer of Love' - still sounds as good now. Thanks for sharing.
Here July 2018 😘but loved the 60s everything about that era,,,take me back,,way back😘
Hello Paula.. how are things going with you?
absolutely brilliant stuff.....loved it then love it now...
Ron me too until eternity i say lol x
Just LOVE it, its time`s like these, that I wish I could go back in time and see the like`s of TRAFFIC live, on stage which sadly I never did,,,
Hello Hilary.. how are things going with you?
I just wanted to back in time
I saw them live in London in the late 60's & they were BRILLIANT
A very underrated group in my opinion.
This song takes me right back to my childhood in Paisley, in 1967 when my grandpa passed away in October of that year, I was only 8 years old , it’s such a haunting melody for me, the other song from that period was Massachusetts from the the Bee Gees. Sad but also good memories.
I would only be 7 when this great song was a hit. Am 64 this month (june)
i was - 10
I was 14.
I remember this when I was 8 years old on holiday in morecambe. Great memories Great tunes, . How times have changed, and the tunes are crap .
one of my favourites in my collection.love love it. I was 9 when it came out.
another classic 60's song. can't touch this.!!!
60 music certainly made life worth living
So viele schöne Erinnerungen an das Lied im Jahr 1967
Traffic's first album "Heaven Is In Your Mind" is one of the best examples of tripping out with headphones. The speaker phasing is incredible, and the songs are connected (no dead space) thru sound sampling various cuts off the album. This is so subtle that it requires headphones, most people probably missed this trippy feature.
Great psychedelic song .. love it..
This stereo mix brings back to me for the first time almost exactly the same magic of this song that I experienced in the late sixties. It captures the quality of the original mono mix in stereo - what is very seldom achieved. I'm able to even persue the flute throughout the mix!
I used to drive to work through the woods with this playing. 1967. Wicked record
I was 15 then. Still love them in 2018. Thanks for sharing.❤️and peace
Wow man liook at the colors!!!
The best time of my life. Loved reading the comment too. Just takes me back.
Hello Chris.. how are things going with you?
A lot of talent in Traffic....!!!!
Time just stands still when listening to this classic. Every time it came on the radio was divine and other-worldly. It still has that effect today like being back in 1967.
Aww sweet memories.singing this walking home from dance with the best girls ever not many left now xx
Hello Christine.. how are things going with you?
Yes we were "buzzed" to this music...and we loved it
WOW
Wonderful sounds from one of the top groups of all time.
Had the joy of seeing them live in London in the late 60's while on a world trip.
They were magnificent & blew all the audience away.
From a 71yo Aussie fan.
So lucky.
Loved the small faces singing all or nothing 💯💯❤️
Hi Dora
Thank you for that bit of history. Really interesting. I was born in 52 so remember the 60s well.
Hello Bridget.. how are things going with you?
BOY DO I FEEL OLD.......BUT PLEASED I WAS THERE WHEN THIS WAS FIRST PUT OUT........SUCH BEAUTIFUL WORDS.....the young have no idea how to be cool today....peace man.....
Right up there with Small Faces' Itchycoo Park as favorite early psychedelic tunes. Those were the days!
Absolute Classic Love This Song From Traffic
I'm a huge Traffic fan and im just now hearing this classic hit that ive heard so much about from them and i loved it!
I love the sound of this song, especially the “letting in water“ echoey part. It reminds me of the Moody Blues song, “Nice to Be Here”, and Donovan’s “The Magpie”. All three are gentle and childlike. There was a reason we were called flower children. That’s the part of hippie culture I appreciated the most: the gentleness and innocence.
Hello 😇how's your day going so far?
@@honestmark6681 Good, thx, u?
Had an Indian influence, like aspects of George Harrison,
Sarg Peppers ,
Cool music 🎶🎶
This brings back so many memories of my teenage years.76 now
Na meer als 50 jaar nog steeds geweldige muziek!Creatieve sixties sound!Het verkeer is wel toegenomen!
GREAT SONG............WE DIDN'T HAVE MUCH MONEY THEN BUT HAVING A GOOD TIME WITH GREAT MUSIC AND GOOD FRIENDS WAS THE BEST OF TIMES!!!!!
I was 13, battery operated transistor radio in a leather case, listening to this on pirate radio in bed and falling asleep, so the batteries would be flat in the morning lol. Great days...Ian
TheDiomedef16 Great days indeed Ian - thanks for sharing :))
true goes too damm quick.......
Lorraine Ashby ,Nothing changed there then . Still havn't got much money LOL
i had a transister too listening to the pieate stations radio 1 wasnt the same never was ..........
To right Phil. The hairs on the back of my neck still stand up when I hear 60s music. Unfortunately at 66 that's all that stands up now!
One of the greatest British bands!
Reminds me of my first day at work when I was 15 .still working and still listening to this great track am now 66
I remember this song in those days.
Hello 😇how's your day going so far?
even those deliberate off notes on the sitar are a sheer joy.Also, those 70s albums mentioned are very good.John Barleycorn. etc.Bravo.
One of the outstanding songs of the entire period.
i guess you had to be stoned to enjoy this 60s classic ? however im a 72years young female who never took any thing only deep breaths when i heard this bonkers song ,,pure magic x long live the 60s what utter joy x
jane oughton I was stoned listening to this! I’m 69 years old now and when hearing music like this still miss the good old days of my youth
69 here too David, always reminds me of my Blakpool holiday with 2 pals for some reason.
Of course you don't/didn't have to be stoned to enjoy it. What a ridiculous thing to say.
@@janeough45 "rediculous"...oh the irony!
clive bindley the only ridiclulous thing is you ,,,,grow up ...
I was a 13 year old when this was a hit in 1967 I have this track on a best of Traffic album .Great music .