Songs Graham Gouldman Wrote for Other Artists in the 60s

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  • Graham Gouldman is best known as a founding member of 70s rock band 10cc.
    However, he got his start in music in the early to mid 60s. At the time, he was the leader of a band called The Mockingbirds. Oddly enough, none of the singles he released with The Mockingbirds managed to chart. But on the other hand, several of the songs that he wrote for other artists such as The Yardbirds, The Hollies or Herman's Hermits became big hits.
    Here's a selection of songs that he wrote for other artists in the 60s.
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  • @YesterdaysPapers
    @YesterdaysPapers  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +155

    The excerpt from "Bus Stop" by The Hollies got muted due to copyright. Sorry about that.

    • @radiomindchatter7994
      @radiomindchatter7994 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      The Hollies publishing are annoying..

    • @Agnethatheredhairkid
      @Agnethatheredhairkid 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      @ Yesterday's Papers: No need to apologise, friend. It's not your fault but the fault of the greedy grabbing capitalist corporates.

    • @sexymama1966
      @sexymama1966 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      we understand and thank you!

    • @paulgoldstein2569
      @paulgoldstein2569 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      I understand. I wouldn't mind opening a TH-cam channel myself. But I would be too frightened of getting nabbed by the copyright lawyers, or purists as you might call them. So I think it is safest to leave it alone.

    • @pencilpauli9442
      @pencilpauli9442 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Fail to see how it isn't covered by fair use.
      I, for one, found the video to be educational 🤷‍♂️
      Great stuff as always thanks

  • @adrianbrowne7874
    @adrianbrowne7874 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +29

    Graham Gouldman's "genius" is truly infinite!! And in addition he is a lovely guy! I have been lucky to have met him on several occasions!!!

    • @adrianbrowne7874
      @adrianbrowne7874 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Thankyou! Yes have long admired his work!! And in particular with 10cc who remain one of my favourite bands of all time!!!

    • @toddblanks
      @toddblanks 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yes. He signed my bloody tourists record at an unannounced meeting/signing.
      He was humble although tired due to their last night of touring.
      I had a good long chat with guitarist rick fenn who stood with a glass of red wine on the go.
      Me and my friend crashed back stage entrance!

  • @ClandestineRecords
    @ClandestineRecords 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +119

    "Bus Stop", "No Milk Today" and "For Your Love" are absolute classic gems ❤️🎸

    • @vernpascal1531
      @vernpascal1531 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      There's another song of his that Cher did and was incredible. Can't think of it right now.

    • @peterzang
      @peterzang 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      You got that right. A pop genius

    • @akbarlebowitz8151
      @akbarlebowitz8151 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Herman's Hermits did a great recording of "For Your Love" as well.

    • @v3student
      @v3student 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@peterzang🎼🎶🎨🖌️😎

    • @carlcushmanhybels8159
      @carlcushmanhybels8159 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      And: "Look Through Any Window" (Hollies' 1st hit in the States), and "Heart Full of Soul." Wow, quite the composer. Thanks, "Yesterday's Papers," I'd never heard of him before. But his songs...

  • @GenialHarryGrout
    @GenialHarryGrout 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

    Prolific songwriter with a string of hit and still worked in a shop and getting there by bus. Thanks for some great songs Graham

    • @thereunionparty
      @thereunionparty 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      That he continued working in a men's outfitters after writing several US and UK Top Ten hits has just blown my mind!

    • @dankelly5150
      @dankelly5150 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@rotterred991 No offense to Goldman but a lot of these songs are just ok.

  • @scottjackson1420
    @scottjackson1420 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    Bus Stop, Look Through Any Window, No Milk Today, Evil Hearted You, For Your Love, Heart Full Of Soul. Those are all perfect. Love them all.

  • @drphelps9017
    @drphelps9017 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    "Look Through Any Window"... still gives me a chill - great vibe

  • @TooLooze
    @TooLooze 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +73

    I'm 73, have played guitar for 60 years and never knew he wrote those songs. 10CC is also iconic. Great job!

    • @vincentl.9469
      @vincentl.9469 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Can you write songs? not everyone can even after 60 years. don't think you can learn how

    • @TooLooze
      @TooLooze 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@vincentl.9469 No; occasionally I'll create a musical phrase or riff while noodling, but that's about it. I sure wish I could.
      Can you?

    • @vincentl.9469
      @vincentl.9469 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@TooLooze no..I think it's a mindset, being able to put music to words. Then, what do you sing about? far too many songs are about women & love-always have been, not everyone experiences those emotions. You can even get books that claim to teach songwriting...it doesn't work

    • @TooLooze
      @TooLooze 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@vincentl.9469 I don't let it bother me. I play blues no matter what version. I love rockabilly, zydeco, some country and classic rock. I have a pretty big guitar collection.
      What about you?

    • @vincentl.9469
      @vincentl.9469 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@TooLooze don't have a great guitar collection..

  • @rachelsghost
    @rachelsghost 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

    What a gift Gouldman is to the "soundtrack of our lives" - He's an absolute legend. Thank you for highlighting his remarkable discography, YP! As you rightly point out - "The rest is history" ❤🥰👍

    • @YesterdaysPapers
      @YesterdaysPapers  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Thanks, Rachel! Glad you enjoyed the video.

    • @91dodgespiritrt
      @91dodgespiritrt 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      What a gift Gouldman is to the "soundtrack of our lives" - Then your LIFE sucked as bad as his songs. HA, HA

    • @poempadgett4664
      @poempadgett4664 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      ⁠@@91dodgespiritrt
      You’re still mad because the school Bus Stop that you had to wait at was only for the special, short ones:🤤

  • @joansmith5870
    @joansmith5870 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    I know the songs and the bands but never heard of Graham. Thank you for acknowledging such a prolific songwriter.

    • @misterghee1
      @misterghee1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Goodluck enjoying 10cc

  • @harryharrison2633
    @harryharrison2633 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

    Saw Graham in an Acoustic concert 2 nights ago. Absolutely superb, a songwriter/guitarist supreme. No accolade is high enough for this incredibly talented musician.

  • @walterfechter8080
    @walterfechter8080 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +63

    About a decade ago, I played "Heart Full of Soul" for some younger folks at a party. They were knocked out! One guy said, "That tune reaches your heart like none other -- it's just so soulful!" I concur. Graham Gouldman just had a marvelous gift for musical composition. Many thanks (again), Yesterday's Papers! And now..., to satiate my appetite for minestrone. Bona petite!

    • @1goodthing
      @1goodthing 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      As a 10 year old , I loved the Yardbirds

  • @foxbasealpha
    @foxbasealpha 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +44

    “Bus Stop” and “No Milk Today” are two of my favorite non-Beatles/-Stones songs of that era.

    • @davedee4382
      @davedee4382 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      YES!

  • @boycompass7769
    @boycompass7769 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Finally !! Somebody recognizes what an awesome drummer Bobby Elliott was!! THANKS.

    • @alanblease3286
      @alanblease3286 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Bobby still is awesome, on tour now with the Hollies.

  • @rossgregor4817
    @rossgregor4817 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

    What an incredible song writer. Knew him only from his 10cc days. Had no idea he wrote so many great songs for such a wide range of artists. He's certainly belongs with his peers of the day. Super episode.

  • @thelatepetercook
    @thelatepetercook 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    Wow, I had no idea Toni Basil's career reached that far back. Oh, I'm in the USA & Bus Stop wasn't blocked on this episode.

    • @thewkovacs316
      @thewkovacs316 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      i didnt know she did any recordings
      her dance career goes back to the early 60s

    • @F1083
      @F1083 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Surprised me. It felt like a break in the timeline. Had to look it up while the video played and yep it was her.

  • @raymondbonington9355
    @raymondbonington9355 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    Got to mention how him and members of 10cc gave neil Sedaka a easy back into the charts in the uk in 1972 , playing on his albums .

  • @neilfriedman
    @neilfriedman 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +24

    The yardbirds were a really great band, Jeff was my favourite guitarist ever since for the rest of my life. Bus stop is my favourite Hollies song. All Gouldmans songs were excellent

  • @TheTaconator69er
    @TheTaconator69er 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I knew a lot of those songs, but until now, I had no idea of the author. Still learning after all these years.

  • @boomtownrat5106
    @boomtownrat5106 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +45

    “In 1972 Graham Gouldman formed 10CC. And as they say, the rest is history…” I, for one, am glad for it. Love 10CC! As a side note, living in California, I remember the single Sausalito (Is the Place To Go To). Very bubblegum pop. I did not know that Gouldman wrote and sang lead on that song.

    • @91dodgespiritrt
      @91dodgespiritrt 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      10cc mattered for about FIVE MINUTES. Get a life.

  • @babylemonade2868
    @babylemonade2868 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Bus stop is my favourite 60’s Graham Gouldman song and cool video I learnt heaps

  • @michaelrochester48
    @michaelrochester48 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    No milk today is my favorite Herman’s Hermits song

  • @paulnolan4971
    @paulnolan4971 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    I have all the 70s 10cc vinyl. LOVE IT !

  • @davidsigalow7349
    @davidsigalow7349 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks - once again, it's great to learn just how a great songwriter can have so many hits that were identified with the bands that recorded them.

  • @Scottie_S
    @Scottie_S 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    It was about 12 years ago (or so) when Graham and his bloody wonderful band came to Dapto, NSW , Australia and I sat with my wife and band mates and their partners, and we were all shocked alive by the music we grew up with, and here was the creator!
    I had no idea that he had written so many great songs that were part of my life.

    • @petersampson4635
      @petersampson4635 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Bloody brilliant mate! Greetings from Tarrawanna. I missed it, damn!!! I bet Freddie Mezups was there though.

    • @Scottie_S
      @Scottie_S 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@petersampson4635 Pete, are you referring to the little guy that used to dance up the front all the time at every concert at Dapto Leagues back in the day? If so, I think he had passed away a while before that. Let me know!

  • @redwandennaoui4508
    @redwandennaoui4508 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    I had no idea he wrote so many hits , what a gifted artist

    • @xxcelr8rs
      @xxcelr8rs 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      All so different too.

  • @goliathsmall2911
    @goliathsmall2911 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    When I was 7 or 8 in the 60s I used to constantly play my mum's copy of Pamela Pamela by Wayne Fontana.
    The melody used to hypnotise me, especially when the whistling bit came in

    • @kenhoughton192
      @kenhoughton192 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Same here. Loved playing my mum’s records and this was a favourite

  • @hhpoa
    @hhpoa 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

    Bus Stop is so "representative" of the 60's sounds and atmosphere (at least what I've learned through songs and films). A very beautiful song and arrangement.

    • @peterbrown6224
      @peterbrown6224 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      And haven't you ever taken advantage of having an umbrella? A courting man should always carry one.
      That said, it was used as the device in Fatal Attraction - except that she had one.

  • @sexymama1966
    @sexymama1966 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    the yardbirds first 2 top ten hits, herman's hermits' "dandy" and "listen people" and the hollies' "window" and "bus stop" are great standouts! out of all, "for your love" rocked!

    • @carspiv
      @carspiv 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Ray Davies wrote Dandy, and the Kinks version puts Herman’s Hermits to shame.

    • @sexymama1966
      @sexymama1966 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​​@@carspivwe can agree to disagree on which version is the better version.

  • @tomc642
    @tomc642 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    Graham wrote many of my favorite songs. He was also blessed that many of his songs were given fabulous arrangements. Just look what John Paul Jones did with No Milk Today, what with those strings and bells.

  • @doggedout
    @doggedout 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Oh man, Heart Full of Soul? One of my favorite songs of the era.
    Clapton left over For Your Love?
    What dbag.

    • @Joanna-il2ur
      @Joanna-il2ur 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      At the time, they said he left because the YBs were forced by Giorgio Gomelsky to cover My Girl Sloopy by the Macoys. It’s on a few YB compilations but it’s an awful song and I don’t think it charted either.

  • @kulturkriget
    @kulturkriget 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +43

    Wow. Such an amazing talent. Clearly belongs among the absolute top of pop composers of that time.

    • @dompicksley3900
      @dompicksley3900 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      While a clearly talented songwriter, not sure he belongs in the same league as the likes of Brian Wilson, Lennon-McCartney, Ray Davies, Roy Wood, Jagger-Richard, etc...

    • @91dodgespiritrt
      @91dodgespiritrt 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      One "forgettable" song after another. YAWN. So, why waste any time on him? HA, HA

    • @SuperNevile
      @SuperNevile 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@91dodgespiritrt Hold on there boy, you weren't around in the sixties were you? 🤠

    • @michaelwills1926
      @michaelwills1926 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@dompicksley3900presuming at this point that any of those listed wrote *their own tunes, or recorded them

    • @kenlee1416
      @kenlee1416 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Some very good singalong songs for the Hollies and Herman's Hermits and a great one for the Yardbirds. The rest of the songs are rather pedestrian, quite average tunes.

  • @wobblybobengland
    @wobblybobengland 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Saw Graham playing last year, fantastic show.

  • @Chuckles..
    @Chuckles.. 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +74

    10cc really are the most underrated rock band of all time. Their entire catalogue is a study in song writing.

    • @muratomar6502
      @muratomar6502 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Same level as Queen for me

    • @schuberttim
      @schuberttim 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      When the band 10CC broke in half with Kevin Godley and Lol Creme leaving, Graham and Eric decided to go on as 10CC. The story goes that they figured if they had a number one hit, they could survive the split as 10CC. They sat down and wrote in cold blood, "The Things We Do for Love". Yes, it hit number one in many countries. I know of no other songwriter who could purposely write a song intended to hit number one and actually do it.

    • @muratomar6502
      @muratomar6502 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@schuberttim my favourite is Feel The Benefit from the same album...

    • @richardstewart6900
      @richardstewart6900 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@schuberttim Dang! Out of nowhere I now have "Rubber Bullets" bouncing around inside my head. No idea why that track but I ain't bothered! 🙂

    • @schuberttim
      @schuberttim 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@richardstewart6900 I make CDs for my car from my vast music collection and I have one of 10CC. "Rubber Bullets" is track number two after their one "hit" as Hotlegs, "Neanderthal Man". Most people don't realize that was them. Graham Gouldman was not a member according to the album liner notes, but was brought in by Eric Stewart just to play bass and stayed when they changed their name to 10CC.

  • @bobsoldrecords1503
    @bobsoldrecords1503 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Gouldman also released a solo LP during his tenure in America

  • @familydogg1234
    @familydogg1234 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    You Stole My Love instru was covered by the Page- lead Yardbirds 1966 available on " Little Games, Sessions and More" 2CD set 1992. I appreciate this presentation. Noticed you said " The Late Great Jeff Beck"! Such a loss- glad I caught his Oct 8 show....... Cheers

  • @markthomas9703
    @markthomas9703 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

    You stole my heart ❤is my favorite,i love the guitar in that song.All the songs he wrote were my favorites and I had no idea he wrote them for a ll these years .THANKS FOR THE DOCUMENTARY.

  • @davidellis5141
    @davidellis5141 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +63

    Both For Your Love & Bus Stop are unquestionably classics. Good for Tony Basil for her perseverance resulting in an eventual smash hit with Mickey & she choreographed David Byrnes " Dancing " in the iconic Once In A Lifetime video.

    • @TimG1
      @TimG1 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      This is a bit off topic but Toni Basil was also in the movie, Five Easy Pieces, playing one of the hitchhikers.

    • @oldbatwit5102
      @oldbatwit5102 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      @@TimG1 Ooh.
      I actually rather like 'off topic'.

    • @eargasm1072
      @eargasm1072 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      She was also one of the harem girls near the end of "Easy Rider"!

    • @scottjackson1420
      @scottjackson1420 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      I think that Toni did dancing and maybe choreography in the T.A.M.I. Show.

    • @oldbatwit5102
      @oldbatwit5102 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      @@eargasm1072 With Karen Black!

  • @scottanderson2458
    @scottanderson2458 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    I also enjoyed his 80s work with Andrew Gold as Wax. Bridge to Your Heart was a very good single.

  • @jayhawkjd8565
    @jayhawkjd8565 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    YP post = excellent afternoon!

  • @RB-hx7rd
    @RB-hx7rd 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    A talented guy for sure.

  • @christopher9152
    @christopher9152 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +103

    "For Your Love" may have been pop, but it was a great song, and ironically, what Clapton ended up doing soon thereafter with Cream was hardly blues "purism." In any case, I always thought Clapton's best and most enduring work was when he let himself stray from the blues a bit, or mixed it with other genres, as he did with Cream.

    • @YesterdaysPapers
      @YesterdaysPapers  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      Agreed.

    • @mackb909
      @mackb909 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      And if it was too "pop," it was also unusual for 1965 in using bongos and harpsichord as the lead instruments. Perhaps EC was cheesed off that his guitar wasn't more prominently featured.

    • @plasteredbastard
      @plasteredbastard 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      but infinitely more blues than anything yardbirds ever did again until it morphed into led zep

    • @mackb909
      @mackb909 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@plasteredbastard "Heart Full of Soul"? Their cover of Billy Boy Arnold's "I Wish You Would"? One can argue which of the YBs or their successor band was "bluesier." I think their post-EC experimentation and forays into psychedelia and social-issue-oriented songs were great: "Over Under Sideways Down," "Shapes of Things," "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago" and others may not conform to the rigid standards of self-appointed (and almost entirely white) arbiters of blues "purism" (whatever the h*ll that is; if you asked the African-American artists who largely created the form, they would tell you that they were influenced by and played whatever the audiences- white, Black, working class, urban, rural, affluent- wanted to hear in the Southern juke joints and roadhouses and, eventually the urban bars up north), but they are all great and adventurous songs.
      As for the blues "purism" of LZ, that to me is a laughable concept. They explored a number of music forms in their slightly over one decade of existence ("Kashmir," "Battle of Evermore," etc.) and often seemed, especially live, to be showing off (well, three of them anyway). Thank God they had veteran session/studio ace John Paul Jones to keep them grounded and to keep the egos of the other three- 35-minute drum-soloing Bonzo, falsetto showing-off Plant, and (worst of the lot in the '70s IMHO), how-many-pointless-notes-can-I-cram-into-this-interminable-guitar-solo Page (previously also a session ace)- in check. Somewhat.
      And as for EC, Cream (after their first album) were hardly confined to the blues (and just as guilty as LZ later would be for live-performance egotism). I remember EC's beer commercial-friendly music of the '80s (because it was actually used in U.S. beer commercials), or how he took one of the greatest, most fiery electric guitar ballads of rock history, "Layla," and turned into a somnolent acoustic piece of crap for '80s yuppies, so he can spare me his pious sermons about blues "purism." Again, whatever the h*ll that means anyway.

    • @Lightw81
      @Lightw81 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      ​@@mackb909and Graham Gouldman? I think Eric and Led Zep have been done to death. Let's give Manchester's boy pop genius a moment in the light.

  • @blipblip88
    @blipblip88 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    That guitar solo in Bus Stop to me always sounded like a Greek bouzouki being played, not a sitar. Thanks!

  • @omiluna7362
    @omiluna7362 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I discovered Graham Gouldman's song "Growing Older" in "Tea & Symphony (The English Baroque Sound 1967 - 74)". So glad I found that psychedelic folk-pop compilation.

  • @mackb909
    @mackb909 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Outside The Beatles, The Stones, The Kinks, and The Who, all with their resident songwriters, it is impossible to imagine '60s British invasion music without considering that nice Jewish Mancunian boy, Graham Gouldman. His list of hits in that era is oceans wide, and for him it was only an opening act in view of his work with that often-tongue-in-cheek but never boring '70s art/glam rock band 10cc (the inspiration for the name of that band I won't reveal here; let those who are curious look it up; while they're at it, if they're literary-minded, they can research the origins of the name of Steely Dan). Thank you again, YP.

    • @YesterdaysPapers
      @YesterdaysPapers  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Cheers!

    • @Joanna-il2ur
      @Joanna-il2ur 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Steely Dan had its properties described in detail by William S Burroughs in one of his novels. 10cc is similar to the spoonful covered by Cream...

    • @mackb909
      @mackb909 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Joanna-il2ur I know that and you know that, and now all the people who didn't know won't have to research it, because you just told them (oh well). (The Burroughs novel in question is "Naked Lunch").

  • @toddblanks
    @toddblanks 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    So glad i finally got to meet one of my long time hero's.
    I got totally addicted to 10cc when i first discovered them around 1995.
    I was a teenager buying all the lp records cheap from car boot sales.
    Hours on end in my bedroom every sunday playing music from the 1960's 70's & 80's.
    10cc were one of those bands that i just couldn't stop listening to.
    Even the later albums without lol creme & kevin godley kept me hooked.
    Very special artists/bands from very special era's that will unfortunately never happen again.
    Well'' not for music of this power anyway.

  • @spyderlogan4992
    @spyderlogan4992 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +15

    The bridge/chorus of 'Bus Stop' is incredible. The Hollies at their finest harmony and with a perfectly sung performance. And Bobby Elliot was way underrated. Notice at 9:03 The Mindbenders, Uncle Joe, the Ice Cream Man...The label imprint has "Accompaniment directed by John Paul Jones" Wow...Some of the best songs of the era and my personal memories were written by Graham Gouldman. And the guitar lead on "Heart Full of Soul" was the first guitar lead I ever learned...Long Live Jeff Beck~! Thanks again, Mr. Y.P. for the research and insight to our favorite musical era.

    • @YesterdaysPapers
      @YesterdaysPapers  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Cheers!

    • @scottanderson2458
      @scottanderson2458 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I think, over the years, that Beck outshone Eric and Jimmy. He was a very inventive guitarist. I've found myself bored by Clapton and Page, although I still rate them as axe men, I'd rather hear Jeff's jazz infused style nowadays as it feels less dated.

    • @anthonyscott4270
      @anthonyscott4270 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You are right Spyder. The Hollies were a great group with excellent harmonies. Along with that Alan Clark was a great singer with a instantly recognisable voice.

  • @maksim_erin
    @maksim_erin 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    That "Evil-hearted You" slide solo I consider the best ever recorded by Jeff Beck. It is so sublime.

  • @PaisleyPatchouli
    @PaisleyPatchouli 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Wow! I played in numerous cover bands thru the 70s and 80s, and we must have done a half dozen or more songs by Graham Gouldman without even knowing his name. Excellent vid here! Thanks!!

  • @andyjay9346
    @andyjay9346 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Yardbirds "For Your Love" was also a #11 chart hit in Australia (1965).

  • @doccyclopz
    @doccyclopz 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    I always thought that the Yardbirds should've offered Gouldman the empty Bass position after Samwell-Smith left the band instead of Pagey.
    Can you imagine Gouldman in the Yardbirds! Song writing wasn't their greatest strength and with Gouldman the sky's the limit.
    I like to think in some alternate Universe this really happened 🌌

    • @Mncrr
      @Mncrr 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Beck always said they were overqualified on guitar and under qualified on songwriting so wouldn’t have been something

    • @Joanna-il2ur
      @Joanna-il2ur 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      He was of course already in Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, with Eric Stewart, the group that became 10cc (after being Hotlegs).

    • @Mncrr
      @Mncrr 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@Joanna-il2ur was he in the mindbenders in July 1966 when Paul samwell smith quit?

    • @doccyclopz
      @doccyclopz 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@Joanna-il2ur According to Wikipedia He joined the Mindbenders in March 1968

  • @jreeder6168
    @jreeder6168 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Thank you for featuring this songwriter. We need more programs such as these and the stories behind the songs. The fellows posting music videos on here should be required to credit the songwriters.

  • @doctorbohr1585
    @doctorbohr1585 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Great songwriter!

  • @guestmichael16
    @guestmichael16 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Saw him in Sydney a couple of years ago with 10cc. A great performer. An incredible show!

    • @STOKEOZ1967
      @STOKEOZ1967 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Saw him with 10cc last year at Victoria Hall, Hanley, Stoke-on-Trent. At the third time of asking as it was rescheduled from 2020 due to covid. 😊.fantastic performance

  • @hudahekizzy8402
    @hudahekizzy8402 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Damn... a lot of great songs. Thanks for posting this.

  • @frederickherring2284
    @frederickherring2284 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ha, I remember them all. What a songwriter he is.

  • @Scotttyist
    @Scotttyist 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I heard GG being interviewed on the radio once and I remember him saying that he wrote No Milk Today with his Dad. Also, Kevin Godley was the drummer in The Mockingbirds, another 10cc link.

  • @Sparkledash1
    @Sparkledash1 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I actually never knew that he wrote No milk today, which is one of my favorite songs from that early rock era.
    Gouldman for me was always the guy who did the soundtrack for the animated movie animalympics in 1980, but i just now realize how prolific he actually was.
    Thanks for the video.

  • @fannycraddock99
    @fannycraddock99 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Another brilliant edition. Thanks to you I have just discovered Friday Brown and a vast number of songs never released.

  • @1950Grendel
    @1950Grendel 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I'm an American so some of those songs didn't get airplay here. But I always looked on the record for the writer and noticed Gouldman's name on a lot of the 45's I had. Always been fan of the Yardbirds and Hollies, too.

  • @michaelrochester48
    @michaelrochester48 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Toni Basil had singles before Micky?? Omg

    • @thewkovacs316
      @thewkovacs316 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      didnt know that either....i thought she only worked as a dancer/choreographer

    • @joekurtz8303
      @joekurtz8303 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@thewkovacs316she was also in Easy Rider , New Orleans scenes.

  • @herridge819
    @herridge819 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Really interesting video, some real 'classics' in that mix, thanks for putting this together.

  • @jean-marcknight8816
    @jean-marcknight8816 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Yesterday’s Papers … the back to the future of pop

    • @YesterdaysPapers
      @YesterdaysPapers  11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I like that!

    • @jean-marcknight8816
      @jean-marcknight8816 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@YesterdaysPapers This is how I feel it as I discover new old titles 😉

  • @simonagree4070
    @simonagree4070 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    All golden, for my money. I'm particularly fond of "No Milk Today" with its hypnotic repetitions, especially with that (non-Gouldman) B-side.

  • @derekstocker6661
    @derekstocker6661 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    So many of these songs have been well loved standards and I am sure that very few people outside the trade knew that Gouldman had anything to do with them. Some great tracks here and certainly many of my favourites and they still sound wonderful.
    Thanks for your contribution Graham to pop history, and thanks also for the upload of this video, very well done! RIP Jeff Beck.

  • @hawkeyepearce1066
    @hawkeyepearce1066 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Was lucky enough to attend a 10cc gig a few months ago (Graham Gouldman present and correct), and it was electrifying to hear songs like "I'm not in love" by some of the original performers (although it was mainly original session musicians that had been involved with the band for decades). Kevin Godley guested "virtually" for an original song, and it was great to hear some of these wonderful songs performed live. Thanks for putting out an interesting insight into a prolific hit-maker who doesn't (in my opinion) get enough credit for his contribution to pop music.

  • @briangreen8200
    @briangreen8200 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Wow I never knew how prolific a song writer he was back in the 60,s and of course with 10cc.
    Fascinating career

  • @johncollier9280
    @johncollier9280 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    I've been a huge fan o' Graham Gouldman, his early hits for other artists and 10cc...however this Yesterday's Papers release exposes a multitude o' accomplishments I had never known. Thank you so much for giving us such an incredible insight into the early contributions he made. You rule!...as does Graham...

    • @toddblanks
      @toddblanks 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Totally. This is as much addictive as listening to a 10cc album from say 1974/5!!!

  • @hlambourne3847
    @hlambourne3847 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I love bridge to your heart, bus stop, look through any window...

  • @NewFalconerRecords
    @NewFalconerRecords 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Another top notch video. What a prolific hitmaker Graham Gouldman was. 'You Stole My Love' was an Australian top-40 hit for Mike Furber - a British-born singer who had a bit of success in Australia before dying in suspicious circumstances, aged just 24.

    • @YesterdaysPapers
      @YesterdaysPapers  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I've heard that version by Mike Furber, pretty cool.

    • @NewFalconerRecords
      @NewFalconerRecords 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@YesterdaysPapers His voice was vaguely similar to Keith Relf of the Yardbirds.

    • @australianchartentries60sa35
      @australianchartentries60sa35 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yep great version

    • @graemekornicki6810
      @graemekornicki6810 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Time a compilation of 60s songs were on cd hits & misses various artists all by gouldman and mockingbirds

  • @haroldgillette7157
    @haroldgillette7157 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    This guys amazing! I surely didn't realize his impact until now.thank you for this video!

  • @dreammachine2013
    @dreammachine2013 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for that brilliant video!!! I always was interested what Gouldman wrote 64-67 apart from those great Songs for the Yardbirds, Hollies, Herman's Hermits and Jeff Beck🎉❤

  • @rachel-rb4bp
    @rachel-rb4bp 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    He wrote a lot of great songs love them all 😁

  • @Era515
    @Era515 10 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Loved, loved, loved 10cc! Still have their first 8 albums in vinyl. But many people have no idea about Graham's hits apart from the band 10cc, so I'm glad you did this video on him.

  • @bugeanuflorin1531
    @bugeanuflorin1531 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Absolutely, fabulous performance music, fabulous comments. Thanks for posting them. Good time for you

  • @wongying2562
    @wongying2562 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    My first knowing of him is from the song, "Love's Not For Me" from the film "Animalympics" and later found that he wrote so many good songs!

  • @Transterra55
    @Transterra55 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Way to go Yesterday’s papers… I have always been a huge fan of Graham. I was very familiar with many of his compositions, but you took it to another level… Thank you very much for an excellent video.

  • @kso808
    @kso808 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Fascinating episode!

  • @andyzehner3347
    @andyzehner3347 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Thanks for this. "Bus Stop" and "For Your Love" are both astonishing compositions. I appreciate knowing it was Gouldman behind all those great songs.

  • @coyoteartist
    @coyoteartist 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Bus Stop, It's Nice to Be Out in the Morning (recorded by Herman's Hermits), and No Milk Today were three songs that in some manner involved Graham's father Hyme, a playwright and poet whom he would memorialize with "Ready To Go Home" on 10cc's Mirror Mirror album. The first lines of Bus Stop was actually written by his father. Having told his father of the ider of the title, he came home one day to his father saying he'd thought on that ider and and proceeded to play him the first lines. Graham finished most of the song that day in bed room, save for the middle 8, which he actually wrote on the bus. It's Nice To Be Out in the Morning contains the lines “United's ground where the champions score," "A hundred goals to the Reds stand's roar, “And Bobby Charlton, Best and Law...“It's a most fantastic day when they play.”. Hyme was a huge fan of Man U and Graham had grown up near the team's old practice grounds. As his father actually helped write a number of lyrics with him, he encouraged the reference to The Reds who would became the first British team to win the European Cup that year in 1968. After all the he song was being sung by a Manchester band in in the movie Mrs. Brown You've Got A Lovely Daughter. I recommend the movie if you enjoy '60s British band movies. No Milk Today was a title Hyme came up with. He would receive royalties for the songs he worked with his son on.

    • @dreammachine2013
      @dreammachine2013 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Many thanks for your fascinating insights!!! 🎉

    • @coyoteartist
      @coyoteartist 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@dreammachine2013 I enjoy music history and sharing it. So thank you for a great video to work with.

  • @Taffy064
    @Taffy064 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    OMG. I "sing"(massive inverted commas) the songs "No milk today" and "Bus stop" all of the time to the guy i support in my job. Never realised who it was written by. Thank you for uploading this.

  • @Borella309
    @Borella309 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    A great 1960's pop songwriter in the vein of Paul McCartney and Ray Davies.

  • @rmh3657
    @rmh3657 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great stuff. I knew about the Hollies & Herman's Hermits songs, but I never realized he wrote those hits for the Yardbirds & Wayne Fontana.

  • @grahamnunn8998
    @grahamnunn8998 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Such a legend. I played in a 60s band and would like to shake Graham Gouldman's hand for raising the bar.

  • @crisprtalk6963
    @crisprtalk6963 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Guy was busy!

  • @taimeuppe6174
    @taimeuppe6174 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Dude wrote a lot of the songs I loved in 60's..Thanks for the post

  • @plasteredbastard
    @plasteredbastard 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    graham is still with us today thankfully

  • @jamesovens4175
    @jamesovens4175 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Thanks for the video. There were a couple of tunes there that I didn't know that Graham wrote. "The Graham Gouldman Thing" LP from 1968 is one of my faves. Similar to the "Tony Hazzard Sings..." LP, in that it has songs written for other artists, finally recorded by the writer of said songs. Keep up the good work Yesterday's Papers, I always enjoy your videos.

    • @YesterdaysPapers
      @YesterdaysPapers  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Cheers!

    • @dannybenair
      @dannybenair 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Gordon Mills and Marty Wilde also released LP's of songs they wrote for others.

  • @willieluncheonette5843
    @willieluncheonette5843 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    How interesting and all new to me. What a fine song writer he was! If he had just written For Your Love, Heart Full of Soul, Look Through Any Window and Bus Stop he would be great. Every time I hear Look Through Any Window I fall in love with that song again. These days I rather listen to the Hollies than the Beatles or Stones. Their albums contain so many great songs that were never singles. Listen to Time For Love, a perfect song in every way, and Rain on the Window, a devastating song recounting the singer's one night stand with a long time friend.
    We used to quiz our high school buddies by asking them what is the librarian's favorite song. Answer--Herman's Hermits There's a Kind of Hush.
    Another great post, YP. Thank you!!

    • @YesterdaysPapers
      @YesterdaysPapers  11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Cheers, Willie! I agree, those Hollies albums are full of great tunes. Many of the album tracks are as good if not better than their singles.

    • @willieluncheonette5843
      @willieluncheonette5843 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@YesterdaysPapers Agree 100%

  • @danmayberry1185
    @danmayberry1185 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Wow, '66 was quite a year for him. And I didn't realize what he did for Wayne Fontana's career.

  • @pcno2832
    @pcno2832 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    When I first heard "For Your Love", I thought it was an old Toyota commercial. And, well, No Milk Today, seemed a little odd even then, when there were still milk trucks making the rounds in some neighborhoods. I can't imagine what someone growing up today would think. But, as this video demonstrates, most of Gouldman's songs were brilliant; "Heart Full of Soul" is one of my favorite records of all time.

  • @thebarbaryghostsf
    @thebarbaryghostsf 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Crazy, these are all my favorite songs by some of these bands. Had no idea Gouldman wrote them! He really had a penchant for those Baroque-Pop melodies and chord arrangements. Love it. It's funny, to me, he's best remembered as the guy from 10cc that wrote the music for Animalympics lol. This is really cool information, I'll have to hit discogs to check out his full discography.

  • @michaelrochester48
    @michaelrochester48 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Wasn’t Graham Gouldman a member of the group Hotlegs that had a huge hit in 1970 called Neanderthal man?

    • @perrybarton
      @perrybarton 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Yes, and Hotlegs evolved into 10cc.

  • @larrydanadavid2435
    @larrydanadavid2435 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Grew up in the 80’s and only knew Toni Basil from Mickey.
    Your videos are well edited and narrated professionally. Good stuff 👍

  • @anfrankogezamartincic1161
    @anfrankogezamartincic1161 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is an education channell, thank you. Heard many great unknown songs in last few minutes

  • @victorhawkins3461
    @victorhawkins3461 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Another killer video. As much as I've been keeping up with pop/rock/R&B music since I first heard Ray Charles as a precocious 5-year-old long about 1959, I always come away from your videos having learned something new. Thanks!

  • @michaelbrassington7549
    @michaelbrassington7549 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Those are my favourite Yardbirds songs. Thank You Graham Gouldman my fellow manc

  • @pteeng1
    @pteeng1 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Great stuff. So informative. Keep it up, mate.

  • @pablocaira8240
    @pablocaira8240 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Las canciones que hizo para The Hollies, The Yardbirds y Hermann Hermits son fantasticas. Aunque hay méritos en las bandas por como las interpretaron. Bobby Elliot es uno de los mejorés bateristas de la historia. 🇦🇷❤🎸🎼🎤💪

  • @eddonks4293
    @eddonks4293 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Nice for this to pop up in my feed today as i just watched him perform last night with the current 10cc line-up. An amazing show and not only a brilliant songwriter but a wonderful performer with great musicianship.
    I loved every moment

  • @daveconleyportfolio5192
    @daveconleyportfolio5192 11 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    When I heard "No Milk Today" the first time, it haunted me and I had to look up the guy behind it. Gouldman's best stuff to me, is cinematic. You can see it playing out like a movie scene.