50s Stars Who Tried to Adapt to the Psychedelic 60s [Part 1]
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- After Beatlemania and the British Invasion bands, many rockers and crooners from the 50s struggled to find a success. However, some of them tried to adapt to the new trends. And there are some overlooked gems among the albums and singles they released. These are some of the 50s stars who tried to adapt to the psychedelic 60s.
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The excerpt from the Adam Faith track got muted due to a copyright claim. Sorry about that.
Adam Faith made some good beat records with the Roulettes,but his record label had him doing "lonely pup" and crap like that,a lot of artists were virtually owned in those days!
oh wow--glad I watched in before it was muted! it is a fantastic track and is thankfully available online and on various A Faith comps
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It happens. Thanks for keeping the video up; really enjoyed it.
Yes. I was about to say. And here I am fiddling with my volume control! 😝
It's bizarre to me how media that amounts to free advertising is constantly shot down by these litigious morons and their algorithms.
And let's not forget how many of the sixties artists tried to adapt and remain relevant into the 1980's with many disastrous results. History has a way of repeating itself.
Very true. Some of those 60s artists and bands recorded some truly terrible records in the 80s.
spot on , the mersey beat groups playing headless guitars on the pier with mullets and leather jackets.
Donovan.
I think disco's last days began when The Stones, Rod Stewart and Paul McCartney released their take.
Hell... some 60s stars are STILL trying to be relevent. Neil young and joanie mitchell most recently
Del Shannon's "Runaway" was proto-psychedelic with its synth line, syncopation, and lyrics about an internal experience. By 1966 it had started to sound like a leftover from older times, but from '61 through '65 it was rockabilly freak-out.
The song Runaway itself was ahead of its time. When Max Crook played that famous solo with the Musitron, his keyboard that was a forerunner to the synthesizers. That brought the song ahead of its time, because that was the 1st time something like that that was used in Rock Music. Since you mentioned Rockabilly music, one thing that Del Shannon did was that he recorded a tribute album to Hank Williams. The album was called, Del Shannon Sings Hank Williams. This was done in 1964 and it was considered ahead of its time. It was giving attention to Country Rock something that hadn't been done before. Country Rock is entirely different style for this kind of music became popular in the 1970's. Many groups in the 70's caught on to that. Del Shannon went Pyschedelic because he tried to appeal to a Hippie audience. Now they're saying he was part of the Psychedelic Rock, those albums that had those songs are now monumental. He was one unique music artist.
Del Shannon almost joined George Harrison's supergroup the Traveling Wilburys. He died forgotten, so sad, he had a magnificent voice.
As a 30 year old that grew up with oldies, I always liked his stuff. Even have a vinyl of his in my collection
Del Shannon can't get out of the 50's
I agree that song is almost like a missing link between classic 50's love songs and 60's psychedelic.
I always felt like if Buddy Holly had lived, he would have been the most successful at transitioning from the 50’s to the psychedelic era. I can see him competing with Brian Wilson and The Beatles and totally delivering very innovative songs and albums. He would have made his way to the forefront. Such a loss.
So true! His music was so innovative, he practically invented multi-tracking. I think he would not just have transitioned successfully but likely would have been ahead of the curve, precipitating changes himself, steering the course of that mid-late sixties shift, as the Beatles did
i always saw him as one of those who would help launch the “southern rock” movement. He would’ve been very big with Levon Helm and The Band, Almann Brothers, even Bob Dylan.
@@derekroberts6654 Maybe. But he could have also done something more in line with The 13th Floor Elevators or Big Brother & The Holding Company, which would be psychedelic rock with Southern rock elements.
Ever heard of Tommy Roe? He imitated Holly's sound (quite well), and in the late '60s he had a psychedelic hit called "Dizzy" which is well worth checking out.
He was a genius, so yes!!!
Early 60's band, Tommy James & The Shondells, changed their early rock sound to psychedelic with "Crimson and Clover" and "Crystal Blue Persuasion."
Amazing records; T & Shondells.
Surprised Tommy James wasn't mentioned here.
Crimson and Clover was my all time favorite song.
"Sweet Cherry Wine" is an absolute gem, too.
This is the best example I can think of off the top of my head too.
I believe Eric Burdon from the animals has also proven to be quite versatile and natural in the psychadelic era too
His band made a cover of "Paint it Black" 🖌️⬛⚫🏴🖤♣️♠️◼️
Eric burdon was famously off his head on super strong acid at Monterey festival.l
He’s a brilliant musician that’s shines through
Link Wray was a 50’s/early 60’s rocker who reinvented himself, although slightly later than the examples you give in this video. His self-titled 1971 album sees Link step wayyy out of his comfort zone into a swampy, hippie folk-rock creation of lo-fi roots music with one stand out track: Fire and Brimstone. Worth a listen👍🏻
Rumble, the record everyone knows them by, was quite strange anyway...certainly by the standards of the time, at least.
I totally forgot about that Link Wray record. Great album!
Link Wray allegedly played the opening chords of the 1974 classic pop song seasons in the sun by Terry jacks
That whole album is great.
All time fave you mention here
My favorite 50s artist who tried out the psychedelic thing in the 1960s/70s was Bobby Darin. He did a version of Aquarius with Tom Jones and their voices together work. It’s such a niche performance but that period of Bobby’s career is fascinating. After he found out his Sister was actually his mom, it seemed like his identity crisis was amplified by that whole situation.
He... what? Huh? What a twist!
@@bigman25plus25 right?! It’s a wild story! This is from the Wikipedia “Darin believed his mother Nina was instead his elder sister and that Polly, who had raised him from birth, was his mother. In 1968, when he was 32 and considering entering politics, Nina told him the truth, reportedly devastating Darin.”
@@JL0ndon its fckin crazy really
@@JL0ndon And I thought my wife's niece's family was screwed up. It's still gonna be a blow when they discover all the multiple father situation.
Darwin's evolutionary ideas still has issues to account for.
Didn't Ted Bundy find out the same?
What is really interesting is that many British bands from the 60's were able to transition into the 70's and 80's. The Beatles, as solo artists after they broke up, The Rolling Stones, The Kinks, The Moody Blues, Pink Floyd, The Who and so forth. Even Genesis (starting out in 1967) with Peter Gabriel (he was with Genesis until 1975, then Phil Collins took over) transitioned into the the 70's and 80's.
Tommy James did a brilliant transition from pop to psychedelia
Yes he did! The shift from Hanky Panky to Crimson and Clover is like a lesson in the evolution of guitar sounds. B
James wasn't really a 50's star, starting his first band at age 12 in 1959. Crystal Blue Persuasion got him invited to Woodstock but he passed it up.
As a lover of psychedelia from all eras and genres, I wholeheartedly concur. He is still in my personal rotation. At his best he is pure, ecstatic bliss.
Absolutely Tommy belongs in the Hall of Fame.
@@douglasj.arcuri1370 the fact that he is not yet in the Hall shows that it was and is some perverted exercise in ego by those that don't get it. DOLLY PARTON was nominated this year and declined as she was of sound mind. T James is a legend. He wrote a great autobiography too.
Keep giving us videos like this. Keep introducing us to music we haven’t ever heard! Love it!
Thanks!
Del Shannon still has a thriving fan club building yearly on fbook. All of his self penned stuff beyond his classic early 60s classics is stellar. The album, "the further adventures of charles westover," as the video mentions, is a fantastic psychedelic masterpiece. He had other great obscured self written songs in the late 60s that you should definitely seek out like What Makes You Run, Never Thought I Could, Coming Back To Me, hey little star, break up, For A Little While, Stand Up, sister Isabelle, Colorado Rain which are brilliant and at points sound like The Byrds, The Stones, the beach boys and more, but it's all uniquely del. Then of course he had a great final posthumous album "Rock On" produced by jeff lynne and mike Campbell of tom petty and the heartbreakers fame. Songs like Walk Away (cowritten with petty and lynne) and calling out my name and others are hauntingly beautiful tracks. Del was an amazing artist.
People forget that the ultimate comeback was The Mills Brothers who had a top 20 hit in 1968, cab driver. Remember they started charting records in the 1930s!
That was around the time the Dells had a hit with "There Is", followed up by "Stand in my corner." and a reworked version of "Oh, what a night.", but like the Mills Brothers' comeback, those were more of an alternative to the psychedelic bandwagon than an attempt to jump it.
@@pcno2832 The Dells also had a fantastic version of love is blue, the Paul Mauriat song with lyrics.
Did not know that...weird, wild stuff! 😸
I remember ‘Cab Driver’. That was a great record. Their voices were sublime!
@@gns423 One of my favorite songs when I was very young.
So much here deserving a closer inspection... just goes to show that this period never grows old.
Thank you! 🌟✌️
Dion, a star of the 50’s on account of his hit songs “The Wanderer” and “Runaround Sue” also fits this description. His 1975 album “Born to Be with You” was produced by Phil Spector, and includes some great songs. My personal favorites are “In and Out of the Shadows” and “Only You Know”
Yes and he's still around to talk about it.
His album from about a 15 years back 'Bronx in Blue' is an R & B standout.
I'd almost liken it to the stripped down sound of Peter Green's Hot Foot Powder (Robert Johnson tribute) comeback.
He's one of very few musicians that consistently puts out good music. Even his newer albums are full of good songs. Worth checking out more if you haven't
Glad to see you added Bobby Vee. In an interview with Terry Gross (NPR), he stated that "Come Back When you Grow Up" was his all time biggest hit, despite having massive hits in the early 60s.
My favorite Bobby Vee work was on the "Bobby Vee Meets The Ventures" album. It's an album that I played over and over again as a child. I'm 65 now and still play this album at least once a month. I often wish they had decided to team up and make a few more albums.
I used to work with a chick back in them days who absolutely hated that song, when it came on the shop radio she simply walked over and turned it off- one of the original Karens of the day. ☺
@@n.miller907 I've hear of that album, but never came across it. I'll search for it on Y/T.
@@arneldobumatay3702 Yep, a couple of guys did upload the album to TH-cam. 😁
I was in communication with Don Wilson's daughter (Staci) several months ago (before Don's passing). I told her my favorite Ventures album was with Bobby Vee and that my all-time favourite song they did was "Slaughter on Tenth Avenue".
If any of you folks are big Ventures fans, be sure to check out "The Ventures: Stars on Guitar" documentary.
@@n.miller907 Thanks for the info! I'll look for the Vee/Ventures album and the documentary film. Thanks again.
Bobby Darin, mentioned here, also had an album titled "Darin". I bought it. He stopped wearing a hairpiece and grew a mustache. After a while he went back to his crooner look. He was cool, either way, and died relatively young. Had a variety TV show, as did Tom Jones. Both shows had duet performances top notch guests
Allow me to correct myself before I get skewered. The album was titled "Commitment".
those Tom Jones duets were outstanding! I still get chills seeing him with Joplin. Probably one of the only men of the time that could match her energy and power. Oh. And you know you can just edit your original comment, right? ;)
About 4 years before he died, he was told that the person he thought was his older sister was actually his mother and those her younger children were his nieces and nephews were actually his half siblings. The person whom he called mom was his grandmother. That's when he left showbiz and went to the California mountains for about a year and had no contact with anyone. That's when a lot of this material was written.
Father was a huge fan of Darin. That continues.
@@Bigbadwhitecracker Wow, same as...Ted Bundy. I'm glad this traumatic experience didn't force him to become a serial killer, he was such a wonderful singer.
The Beatles Ed Sullivan Show debut ended a ton of careers for the pop stars, men and women the very next day. Ozzie Nelson was at that show offstage and said himself that this was ending his son Ricky's career. The Beatles also made careers for many British Invasion bands. The main demographics for this new music and look were elementary and Jr High age girls so all these 50's guys were all over the hill to them. One side note on a band mentioned here, the Four Seasons. Of all the groups they made it thru the 60's and then into the latter 70's with huge disco hits.
As did the bee gees.
@@victorformosa2825 Correct you are and probably the most successful group doing it.
But Ozzie was wrong about his son who in 1972 reinvented himself with the very appealing LP Garden Party. He sidestepped the psych era with this gem.
@@willieluncheonette5843 He had top 40 hit in 1969 with cover of Bob Dylan’s “she belongs to me.”
@@michaelrochester48 just looked at his chart history. Between 56 and 65 he had SO many chart appearances! Had no idea he was so successful into the mid 60's
It could also include Muddy Waters "acid rock" album "Electric Mud" but he already did this before when he seeked to adapt his Chicago Blues to the folk revival phenomenon of the early 60s with his "Folk singer" album from 1964
I love the "Electric Mud" album. I haven't heard "Folk Singer", although I know it was recently reissued on vinyl.
I prefer Muddy's "After the Rain" to "Electric Mud." "Folk Singer" is amazing, and the CD has a lot of great bonus tracks from that era, and it sounds superb.
When I saw the name of the video, the first thing I thought was Electric Mud. I always thought it had some good stuff on it.
That is actually a great album
Howlin’ Wolf did a similar psychedelic blues album
The Thamesmen had a couple minor hits (like “Cups and Cakes”) then changed their name and had a hit with the hippie anthem “Flower People”. They’re still recording and touring to this day although a lot of people have relegated them to the “Where Are They Now” file. I think their album “Shark Sandwich” deserves a second listen. It was absolutely savaged by the critics. One was particularly brutal.
They had some flashy drummers, too.
Bloody hell !!!!!
This is fantastic stuff. I could have listened all day.
I'm 65 and although my favourite period of music is the 60s 70s and 80s you have opened all this back up to me
We all love The Stones , The Beatles , The Who , The Kinks and all the classic bands from that era but wow , there is a huge market covering all these acts you touched on.
I would definitely buy re-releases of all of these guys.
God bless , an excellent podcast
What a wonderful original video on this subject. Have heard some of these songs but the vast majority are new to me. I know I'm gonna like that Everly Brothers Hollies' cover LP. Now it's off to youtube to hear what i missed. A BIG thank you for all the time and effort you put into this, mate. You rule!
Thank you, Willie! The "Two Yanks In England" album is great, I think you'll love that one.
Check out the Everly Brothers' "Roots" album from 1968, especially the reimagined "I Wonder If I Care As Much," a wonderful early B-side. Also, they did an amazing 45 with The Byrds: "I'm On My Way Home Again" (just brilliant) and "Cuckoo." Well worth finding.
Their album Bowling Green had an abundance in male vocal choir backing. It isn't typically psychedelia or flower power, but it was very typical for the 1965-1968 era, and clearly inspired on Beach Boys harmonies. I'm still not sure if the backing arrangement was fitting for this production...
But imo the Everly Bros were the best vocal duo of all time.
@@willemvandeursen3105 The song Bowling Green was one of the best sunshine pop songs of 1967 and was their last top 40 hit. The Everly Brothers sang about Kentucky just like the Beach Boys sang about California and their vocals were fantastic on that song.
Loved the topic of this video. Back in 1969, Marty Wilde under the pseudonym of Shannon, wrote (under another name) and recorded the song Abergavenny, about the Welsh town of the same name. It was done like a British Music Hall/ vaudeville-style song. A style of music that was being played with by other British performers. It had hippie - like themes about ‘sunshine forever’ ‘lovely weather’ ‘a red dog running free’ and ‘paradise people.’ I heard this song a lot while living in Southern California.
Abergavenny made the top ten in Australia and New Zealand but peaked at $47 in the U.S. I remember it well, but I always loved these Music Hall novelties that popped up now and then like I Was Kaiser Bill's Batman by Whistling Jack Smith in 1967.
Remember as a young boy in the late 60s hearing this one on NZ radio,it did well on our charts here and I always enjoyed listening to it Auckland New Zealand 2022
Music Hall was an influence on The Kinks, Bonzo Dog, the Beatles and others.
@@borderlands6606 Yes, Paul McCartney was very much influenced by it due to his family's musical background. Allegedly, John Lennon got so sick of it, especially with Maxwell's Silver Hammer which he hated, that he put the kibosh on any more songs in that style.
Wow!, I have that 45, love it, never knew it was Mrty
Love this concept for a video. This reminds me of how Rick Dalton in Tarantino's Once Upon a Time in Hollywood struggled to remain relevant in the late '60s in Tinseltown after his '50s success. You can see it here, in how the music dudes changed up their hair and clothing trying to be hip, along with changing up the music. It's really sad these talents did some of their best work but the old fans and the young people could see no place for them in their paradigms.
I love "Once Upon a Time in Hollywood". I agree, all these stories are very remniscent of the Rick Dalton character from the film.
yep, image isn't everything but it does matter and it gets in the way of some good music
This reminds me of the Def Leppard video for "When Love And Hate Collide" in the mid-90s. The song is great, as is just about all of their material, but the fellas were decked out in Grunge-type gear! I mean, I really like Grunge, and I LOVE the 80s, but it just didn't feel right seeing them dressed like that...
@@YesterdaysPapers i can see what you mean
@@cordeliachase5241 Or when MC Hammer tried to be all gangsta. That was cringe.
Duane Eddy's "Monsoon" showed him adopting to the Psychedelic era. (The other side of that single, "Roarin'", however, was not psych, but in his '50s/early '60s style)
In a rush to everything British and nothing pre-1964, we lost a LOT of great talent, many of whom were in their 20's or perhaps 30's.
I barely had a clue who Jerry Lee Lewis, Little Richard and Chuck Berry were when the nostalgia craze began in the late 60's.
I wondered where these guys had been hiding, that THIS was real rock and roll. They hadn't been hiding, we had shunted them off to Nowheresville.
What a shame. We could have the British Invasion AND kept the classic artists and sound pre-1964.
It wasn't just the Beatles' arrival; Jerry Lee Lewis, Chuck Berry, and The Platters had scandals that affected their careers, Little Richard temporarily quit rock and roll in 1958 to become a preacher and only recorded gospel for a while. Elvis got drafted, Buddy Holly died, Eddie Cochran died, Johnny Burnette died, Sam Cooke died, the Payola scandal, and Bill Haley's popularity in the US began to decline as early as 1957. A lot of 50s rock and rollers were considered old hat by 1961. The movie Twist Around the Clock opened with a scene of a manager dumping his R&R group dressed in checkered jackets and turned his focus to "twist acts."
Man... the 1960s had such a interesting discography and history. It's just genuinely fascinating that in the span of a decade it transformed society a dozen times, literally every year there was a diffrent style of music and fashion.
Whats dusan?
@@Indygenous meant to say 'a dozen' sorry.
60s rocked 👍
dusan,,, serbian name
Thank you for including Roy Orbison. He is one of my favorite singers of all time.
This is absolutely fascinating! I’m a child of the sixties, and I was totally unaware of any of this. Thank you very much!
I've given up on most modern music and looking for something interesting and this is it, will be delving deep.
@@maccagrabme the bulk of mainstream modern music hasn't been worth anything since at least the mid-90s.
@@benstandard Fully agree, the last golden era in mainstream music was the Britpop, then almost overnight it went off the rails with Spice Girls and Britney Spears type crap and hasnt recovered at all. I cant see it improving now because most of these modern pop artists are too immature with no life experience and can barely sing or play anything worthwhile. The industry is a joke, just like Hollyweird.
Del Shannon still has a thriving fan club building yearly on fbook. All if his self penned stuff beyond his classic early 60s classics is stellar. The album, "the further adventures of charles westover," as the video mentions, is a fantastic psychedelic masterpiece. He had other great obscured self written songs in the late 60s like What Makes You Run, Never Thought I Could, Coming Back To Me, break up, hey little star, For A Little While, Stand Up, sister Isabelle, Colorado Rain which are brilliant and at points sound like The Byrds, The Stones, the beach boys and more, but it's all uniquely del. Then of course he had a great final posthumous album "Rock On" produced by jeff lynne and mike Campbell of tom petty and the heartbreakers fame. Songs like Walk Away (cowritten with petty and lynne) and calling out my name and others are hauntingly beautiful tracks. Del was an amazing artist.
Being around at the time, the names mentioned were really seen as not very cool, but a throwback to fifties old style rock music and crooning. Strange really, I am now listening to older style music such as Doo Wop, Old Blues and Rockabilly along with acts like Cab Caloway who are even older than the one's mentioned. Music, the journey it takes us on, just love it.
The narrator doesn't sound like a Prick here... usually he does. I want my heart.
Watertown is an amazing album. Well-produced and some great songs.
Every time I tune in I get another interesting and seldom discussed take on music further 60s. Well done.
Oh shit, this was super interesting to hear, considering that most of the time someone talks about a time when a group of musicians attempt to transition into another decade, it’s either about 60s/70s bands to the 80s or 80s bands to the 90s. I don’t think anyone has talked about 50s artists to the 60s, and I’m glad you decided to make this!
Pop music changed drastically every 7-10 years throughout the 20th Century, both in sound and visual style. Musicians continually had to evolve or get left behind. Doo-wop to psychedelic, classic rock to punk/new wave, hair metal to grunge, and that's just in rock. It must seem strange to younger people, because sounds and styles haven't really change that dramatically in the last 25 years. I mean, is anyone really snickering at old pictures from 1999?
A great example of that was Sha Na Na's performance at Woodstock. They were considered a nostalgia act because they were playing music that was popular just ten years earlier. To my ears, lots of songs I hear from ten years ago could be hits right now.
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Music changes from week to week these days.
@@johnnycab8986 "Heat Waves" by Glass Animals has been in the Hot 100 for over a year. Most of the songs in the top 20 have been on the charts for at least six months. Popular music moves slowly these days.
@@johnnycab8986 music hasn't changed in 20 years
This was a great concept and production. Technically Dion didn't really hit until the decade of the 1960s, but he was an older-era artist who hit big with Abraham, Martin and John. Love all your videos!
Besides, Dion recorded a fine Electric-Dylan inspired album with " Kicking Child" and also recorded one of the greatest songs on drug addiction Daddy Rolling in your arms. Look for CD called Bronx Blues
Even If Dion isn't 50.. Del Shannon is ?
@@reuireuiop0 I'll look for the Dion. 59 to 61 always gets muddled for me. The plane crash was the real end of the 50s culturally. Then it becomes a 5 year journey where some of the 50s people are hanging on. Motown, Stax and Brian Wilson are figuring it out. And Phil Spector is a good guy. Short lived era
You got that right. Dion must have started in the fifties, even if he didn't have any hits until early 60s. Kept waiting for him to be mentioned here, never was.
Dion & The Belmonts were HUGE in the late '50s with amazing doo-wop classics like "I Wonder Why," "Don't Pity Me" and many more. He went solo in 1960, but his group records were all about him as lead singer. Del Shannon's first hit was 1961, but he had that '50s feel. And let's not forget The Dells, who were huge with "Oh What a Night" in 1958 and came back with "There Is" and many more in the '60s post-Beatles.
Dion's version of Purple Haze is fantastic.
We could really use another psychedelic, peace & love era right about now.
It is coming. Very soon.
Already passed
Another brilliant show!! This really helped show that you should never give up of which I believe firmly! Great episode! Thanks!!
Chubby Checker released the psychedelic influenced “Chequered!” In 1971. Produced by Ed Chaplin! Worth checking out.
That's the one I was going to mention. An absolute favourite for me and the most psychedelic any 50s star got. Of course he disowns the lp to this day.
Listen to Gypsy 1973,
It's Chubby Hendrix
Yep, got the 45....superb track. 2 tracks he did with the De Maskers are great as well.
Goodbye Victoria and Stoned in the bathroom were 2 of the best songs on that album.
Stoned In The Bathroom
This is fascinating, didn’t know some of this stuff existed . There’s a school of thought that David Bowie based Ziggy Stardust and The Spiders From Mars on 1950s British rocker Vince Taylor. This was after a chance meeting with him in the street and a rather weird conversation about spiders from Mars between David and Vince taking place.. Don’t know if Vince attempted any psychedelic material, but he seemed exactly the type to give it a go. Nowadays, he’s a bit of a forgotten figure , but in his own way Vince influenced the great man to become Ziggy. ‘ Brand New Cadillac’ by Taylor is one of the great rock records..
Yes, Ziggy Stardust is based on Vince Taylor. I love Vince Taylor. I think he never recorded a psychedelic record or single but I love many of those rock and roll songs he recorded. "Brand New Cadillac" is a classic, indeed.
Ziggy Stardust was at least part based on The Legendary Stardust Cowboy
Ziggy stardust is also heavily influenced by Marc Bolan’s whole career.
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Another fantastic video! Thanks for posting. 👍
Thank you for posting this. It's very interesting to learn more about these singers.
Overlooked is that a lot of the '50s folks who got swallowed up in the musical changes of 1964 and after, especially those who were teenaged during their '50s stardom, were just about the same age or only slightly older than many of that "next generation," but their entire musical ethos was different. That was the "point of conversion." Let's remember, too, that Frank Zappa, Sly Stone and Paul Simon (with and without Art Garfunkel) got their start in '50s doowop and teen pop before becoming "who they were." S&G and S alone even had significant chart hits.
Possibly the best video this channel has put out in turns of output, uniqueness, and creativity, so kudos to whoever runs this account for their hard work in creating something so entertaining. If I'm not mistaken, didn't Fats Domino do a comeback album in '68 in the traditional rock-and-roll style covering 'Lady Madonna' and 'Everybody's Got Something to Hid Except for Me and My Monkey'?
I didn't know that about Fats Domino. He is what gave Chubby Checker the idea for his name.
Fats domino released Lady Madonna on his 1968 album Fats Is Back, which also had his version of Lovely Rita. Everybody's Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Monkey was released only as a 7" single on the reprise label in 1969.
Yeah, and Fats's version of Lady Madonna grooves harder than the original and also has the advantage of actually having Fats on it, instead of Macca imitating Fats.
@@matthewsnyder3433 McCartney was quite open about "Lady Madonna" being an homage to Fats.
Fats' "Lady Madonna" is THE version. Yes, that good.
Thank you very much for this upload it is very much appreciated.
Fantastic work compiling these! Thanks so much.
Del Shannon's effort to psychedlize his work in 60s sounded great.
The Everly Bros also had the not-so-subtle “Mary Jane” and “Talking to the Flowers” in ‘67. And even Elvis, if you hold your nose and wade through his 66-68 soundtracks you’ll hear a few fairly trippy songs like “Edge of Reality” and my favorite (from CLAMBAKE!) the beautiful “A House that Has Everything”.
Mary Jane? It's just about a girl, isn't it? 😉
Yoga is as Yoga Does? Does that qualify? I actually like Elvis soundtracks, though I can see they are an acquired taste. Set them beside similar product from the era and you find that they (and the films) are comparatively good for the time. People forget - there were lousy records and films in the 60s too.
wasn't Edge of Reality originally for a Bond film?
@@elvisonwax - "Viva Las Vegas' still gets me up dancing!!
Good stuff, sitting next to. You're right about the one gem on the Clambake album, the rest is absolute dreck. I won a copy in a radio promo and it was full of those mindless two minute ditties that the execs loved. A jaw-droppingly bad movie that also attempted to launch a truly-awful dance called The Clam. Look up "Do the Clam" if you're ever feeling masochistic. Also look for the 40-year-old "teenagers" in the background.
Poor Elvis. Seeing him struggle gamely with this material explains so much about his slide into drug abuse.
So happy for this!!!! Thanks for pulling the curtain to reveal these - great job!
Another great video, thanks for highlighting an overlooked area of music. Great that some of this music is now being reevaluated and I'm now going to find these songs / albums for a listen. Yesterday's Papers is the best Channel on YT, thanks.
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed the video.
I remember the Traveling Wilburys wanted Del Shannon to join them when Roy Orbison suddenly died, but unfortunately Shannon took his own life before it happened. Like Shannon, Orbison was in the middle of a comeback after his career stalled in the 60's and personal tragedies kept him from making hits after "Pretty Woman". And he was also a victim of changes of the music scene. He continued to to tour in Europe where he was still known. In the eighties he underwent a Renaissance with his music, and artists such as U2, George Harrison, Bruce Springsteen, Tom Petty, Jeff Lynne and Bob Dylan, who were fans of Orbison, wrote and produced songs for him. He joined the Wilburys and released his first album in years titled "Mystery Girl", which showcased his singing style to a whole new generation of fans before his death.
Orbison was one of the greats. You're Not Alone Any More from Traveling Wilburys is a masterpiece.
He tried his hand at acting too, I saw him in "The Fastest Guitar In The West" at the cinema...though honestly that wasn't quite so great🙄
I love the song.
Did not know that about Del Shannon. Would have been interesting to hear him cutting tracks with TTW.
@gw Del Shannon has Runaway with the Traveling Wilburys, it's on the double album
This was very interesting 🤨 🧐 🤔 to watch, view and hear. This just proves that most of the Artists from the 50’s, late 50’s and early 60’s really didn’t just disappear and fade from obscurity like most of us would think 🤔 they were always there in the back hidden near the bottom of the charts somewhere trying to make some noise had people then paid attention more closely.
Great work! Thanks for sharing
Great stuff!!! Some really very good and sadly mostly quite obscure stuff here! The two decades are actually very intertwined. Thanks! XX
Omitted successes: Dion, who appeared on the cover of Sgt. Pepper's, had a huge hit in 1968 with Abraham Martin and John. Carole King, who at age 18 had penned Little Eva's 1962 monster hit "The Loco-Motion" and numerous others, had an explosive career beginning in the 70s. And of course there was the Elvis comeback, 1968 to early 70s.
All very true.
Bobby Darin's "Me and Mr. Hohner" is a great slice of psych-country rock. I love that song.
Just love this channel. Thanks for putting in the work. 😉
Fantastic channel, thanks for your hard work!
Early 60's pop singer Tommy Roe put out a 1967 LP Phanasy which showed the psych influence.
I haven't heard that record but I've heard his album "It's Now Winter's Day", which also showed some psych influences here and there.
About the time when Berry Oakley was his bass player.
Dion. From "Run Around Sue" to "Abraham, Martin and John."
Another awesome, interesting video!!
Keep ‘em coming!
I love discovering new songs from this era!
Thank you thank you thank you! You just introduced me to so many great songs in this video I had never heard before! ❤️
DUDE!! WHAT A GREAT VIDEO!! Great subject matter and research. I LOVE this channel
Thank you!
Wow! Great video about a cool unique topic I have literally never heard of on here. That's super unique. Whatever u did with the title, it hit the algo btw
This was an excellent video. I am going to look up that del Shannon album now. Keep up what you are doing. This is right up my alley.
This video is incredible. Great research. Can't wait to dig in.
This is the best music channel I have ever come across, thanks so much for these, this one was really interesting despite the face I wasn't born until the 70s and have no interest in the 50s! My guilty pleasure is Sir Cliff Richard giving me acid rushes with a mellotron drenched 'b' side from '68 "Mr Nice"
Never thought I'd hear Sinatra compared to Leonard Cohen! The amazing thing is that most of these attempts at riding the psychedelic wave sound pretty good judging by these brief snippets. The idea of Frank and Roy doing hippie tunes sounds ridiculous, but it sounds here like they pulled it off! I wasn't familiar with Brit pop stars like Fury and Faith, but even their stuff sounds interesting. Its no surprise to me that Darin and the Everlys continued to release quality material, they were such high caliber artists whether the sales were there or not. Maybe the biggest surprise was the Four Seasons! Who would have thought that they could successfully cross that bridge? Always loved Del. What a tragedy. Gene Vincent was one cool dude! Even near the end he nailed it and the Beatles agreed, they were hugh fans.Thankyou YP for your always informative and fun webgems!
Thanks, f.w. Yes, as I was saying in another comment, even though most people thought these albums and singles were just desperate attempts at trying to jump on the psychedelic bandwagon, they actually sound like these artists were genuinely interested in trying something new and experimenting a bit. After all, with the exception of Sinatra, they were still young guys even if they were seen as stars from another era. Most of them were still in their mid to late 20s.
Inversely, you could compare the Cohen brothers to Sinatra. There was already a movement fusing lo fi with 50's style crooning. Alot of folk era artists either auditioned and demo'd during the crooning era or were kids in the 50's listening to their parents Sinatra and Billie Holiday albums. Joni Mitchell claims her style was inspired by crooning artist as well as the new minstrel artist. She was the teen bride and duet partner to oscure hold over crooner Bill Mitchell. Jim Morrison claims to have modeled his voice after Chet Baker....
I know its the inadequate auto correction function turning Leonard Cohen into the Coen (or Cohen Brothers), but I really never thought I'd hear them compared to Sinatra!!!!
@@YesterdaysPapers That's a great observation. When performers make an honest attempt at creating a different style of music, they deserve at least an honest, unbiased listen.
As in life, there is nothing harder than trying to break out of your comfort zone.
@@YesterdaysPapers It strikes me as quite odd that Brit invasion groups like the Beatles, Stones, Who, Kinks, even Herman's Hermits, ... could modify each's own style without any negative comment, but the folks who started in the 50s were not allowed to change and progress as well. A lot of people like to stick artists (and others) in a cubbyhole and keep them there to molder. What is it with we humans that we often fail to use our ears to judge a record.
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Another great video, mate. Great subject matter and of high quality as usual. Thanks so much 🎸
Thank you, Robert! Glad you enjoyed it.
Hey Yesterday's Papers do you remember Long Line Rider by Bobby Darin ? Late 60's minor hit also had a good version of If I Were A Carpenter. Long Line Rider was about the skeletons of three prisoners found at a prison farm. Much different that his usual material. Love your site !
Indeed Darin really proved his chops before his life was cut short. Some great recordings.
Interesting subject. The Association deserved a highlight themselves. Alot of rockabilly and bee-bop era artists made stellar comebacks in the psychedelic era in my opinion. They also refreshed alot of those mod era bass and guitar stylings in the late 60's and early 70's, as that was probably the nearest cultural reference they understood to the psychedelic era. The beatnik artists were closer in age to those old fogie 30 something squares from the 50's and more willing to colaborate I guess. It made for a rich blend and fusion of sounds in that transitional time anyway. I imagine Sugarloafs Green Eyed Lady and Golden Earrings Radar Love is probably more of a nod to and the result of the great success and cult popularity of those retro comebacks more than anything contemporary. The comebacks of The Hollies and Classic IV for example were very popular and contemporaneous to that era. Retro Rockibilly and punk was just around the corner. Metal and prog drew alot from early rock.. Ronnie Jame Dio had a spectacular cross-era history. Alot of early Motown artist transitioned to some wild funkedelia in the late 60's early 70's too
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Its an interesting video because ive always wondered how musicians adapt to changing times
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Great concept. 1. Another era where this happened was when mainstream rock and pop music of the 70s transitioned to post punk & new wave from the 80s. I remember at the time how groups such as Styx and Jimmy Page with Paul Rogers and many others tried to hang on to relevancy as arena rock faded (or morphed into hair bands) by releasing some songs from the dorkier of side teenage angst which was the trendy space at the time. 2. Your analysis of the advent of psychedelic rock like so many others fails to take into account the role folk music played in bringing about the psychedelic era (Grateful Dead originally were from that ilk, The Byrds and others in SF and Greenwich Village. Bob Dylan, etc). The Beatles were just channeling the trends from those areas when they went psychedelic.
Fabulous video!
You can add Jerry Lee Lewis' 'Just Dropped In (To See What Condition My Condition Was In)' from 1967. It was later a hit for Kenny Rogers and The First Edition, but it seems even weirder hearing Jerry Lee mouth those words!
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Thank you very much, Peter. Glad you enjoyed the video. Love your channel.
Kenny then transformed himself to Country.I was at his Christmas Show in New York.It was a Great Show 150% effort and the results were fantastic.
That was in 2004.
Fascinating video. Thank you for your excellent research.
Fantastic video! Playlist all over this. ❤️✌️
The 1960s had the most unique sounds in pop music, and culture. The 1950s were a magical decade all its own. There are not many artists, or groups who change their stripes, and find a new generation of fans. MADONNA, THE ROLLING STONES, and RUSH may be among the very few exceptions.
I really love stuff like this because otherwise it would be very hard to find on my own. I always find the transition of generations to be interesting, and the 1900s had a different flavor every decade. I think what made it so stark was not just the change in culture - but the change in audio tech. The deep sounds and range of Zepplin were not really possible in the 50s... and when you go back to the 20s and 30s the reason the music sounds monotone is because that was the limit of tech. Sometimes I wonder what kind of music these guys would make if they were born today.
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very cool video, LOADS of interesting info
I have that Bobby Darin album, for me it’s a brilliant album and he made many great albums in the ‘60’s. Great video, enjoyed this.
Bobby Darin was also Tim Hardin's greatest interpreter in mid-'60s. And find his "Sweet Reason" on his own Direction label from the late '60s - it's the autobiography of a young man who knows his days are mumbered, and it's absolutely heartbreaking. But there's a precedent: the magical acoustic ballad "Lost Love" (which he also wrote) from 1958 on the flip side of Queen of the Hop.
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I have both the “If I were a carpenter” and the “Inside Out” albums which are fantastic. I love his version of Randy Newman’s “I think it’s going to rain today”. I’ve not heard those 2 songs you mentioned - I’ll go have a look for them. Cheers
Excellent as ever.....you could have included Elvis' - 'Edge of Reality' 1968
This is so wild! What an amazing collective of classic 50’s artists exploring their freaky deaky side! Some super lost records that are worth another spin! I’m now going to get on my magic carpet to seek out some of these trippy records by these not so trippy artists! Thanks for opening the door for a rabbit hole I’m going to enjoy tumbling into! Peace ☮️✌️👽🤘☮️
Great concept! Really enjoyed this👍
This was really fascinating. Back then the kids and those in the 18-25 demographic would have scoffed at them. It's a whole different world now. What crossed my mind watching this was Pat Boone's foray into heavy metal with his 1997 LP In a Metal Mood-No More Mister Nice Guy as well as Christopher Lee recording heavy metal material.
A friend who's into music met Pat at his gym. Pat told him about him talking to James Brown about doing a collaboration ! He had the horn charts etc written out.
Pat Boone was also one link in the chain of events that led to Jimmi Hendrix's rise to fame. Boone heard an unknown garage band, The Leafs, doing a rendition of a 1961 folk song named "Hey Joe" in an LA club in 1965 and decided to promote them. Their U.S. success with that song in 1966 led Hendrix to cover it and release it as a single in the UK, in 1967, scoring his first big hit.
Kudos to Pat B. for having a sense of humor about it 😸
Pat Boone?! Christopher Lee??! My mouth keeps dropping....
Peggy Lee had a huge hit in 1969, “is that all there is.” Bobby Vinton had a top 10 hit in 1969, I love how you love me. Bobby Vee had a top 10 hit in 1967 come back when you grow up, so many of them did adapt and get hits after Beatlemania
When I was in grade school, my mother always had the radio on WKOX AM in the morning, because it covered local news and suburban Boston school snow-storm cancellations. I didn't recognize most of the records they played, but they sounded a lot like the 1950s records I later heard on oldies stations. With the internet, I've learned that the music was actually 1950s stars like Connie Francis, Brenda Lee and Bobbie Vinton, whose records were still successful on the Easy Listening and Country charts during that time.
@@pcno2832 The last refuge after the hits die is country music!
This video was so awesome! You should make more videos about artists changing their sound dramatically.
What an interesting video. Thanks, it’s brilliant
Del Shannon's Home & Away is an excellent album! Love "It's My Feeling" and the cover of Billy Nichols' "Come Again"
Yep, it's a truly great album.
One of my favorite albums of all time fits this category- Julie London's album "Yummy Yummy Yummy", which includes " Stoned Soul Picnic" "Light my Fire" and "The Mighty Quinn". And of course the title tune, a remake of the 1910 Fruitgum Co. bubblegum classic, which she completely owns and makes her own. Julie's voice and the arrangement actually work well in my opinion.
I think she was making a statement with that album...that the music of the sixties wasn't her thing louie louie ..in fact most of the album sounds like she downed a handful of values and half a bottle of scotch. Then she got an acting job on TV and gave up singing.!!!!!!
She played nurse Dixie McCall on Emergency much better. She was also married to first Jack Webb of Dragnet fame, then to Emergency costar Bobby Troup (Doctor Joe Early) Who was really a terrible actor if you watch a few episodes featuring his character Joe Early.
@@davenone7312 Bobby Troup was a song writer as well.
Julie London's "Light My Fire" is surprisingly good.
Julie London's "Light My Fire" is surprisingly good.
Wonderfully informative video. Thanks very much.
Thanks for this excellent music-docu. Your research, narration and editing shows real talent. Cheers.
Thank you.
Del wrote a great hit for peter & gordon titled Go to pieces, that was a huge hit in the USA. It still speaks to breakups to those who are young at heart.
A very enlightening explanation of how some of my very favorites faded as I graduated high school and entered my college years. I was the square, flag waving type opposed to anything psychedelic. These many decades later I’m still the same, yet with a real appreciation for the music of the time.
This is great. Thank you.
Good video some very overlooked gems that are now being appreciated for their musical quality
The Everly Brothers had one top 40 hit in the United States in 1967, “Bowling Green”which is one of the greatest songs
Went to #1 in Canada.
Yes! It veered away from the classical EB sound. I suspect the album only sold well in England and Europe and Canada (thanks, darrenj)
excellent song!
If you love that song Bowling Green you owe it to yourself to hear Jesse Winchester's version. Touches your soul.
Yes best song of theirs for years and so modern,but they looked like Fabian, with Beatle cuts and flowered shirts. It didn't work😔
Pat Boone made the album "Departure" produced by Zal Yanovsky and Jerry Yester in 1968 with legendary guitar player Clarence White. No sitars, no face-melting fuzz, but an interesting effort nonetheless.
boone;s ''in a metal mood'' is pretty mad
Great work.Thanks.
First track into Watertown and I’m hooked. I have a ton of music to listen to thanks to this video. I’d love another forgotten gem albums video!