My wife and I are watching old Jefferson's episodes and this song popped up in the second episode, Lionel was listening to his radio and George came out dancing to it. It took me two attempts to Shazam it, but I finally learned who it was and what the song was called. I'm 59 years old and was really into music and the 70s but I do not remember this band at all. Reading all your comments makes me want to learn a little bit more about them now. Thanks everyone!
Saw them in 75. Brilliant APR 23 1975 Nektar Hammond Civic Center Hammond, In Set list Remember the Future PT 1 Let It Grow Remember The Future PT 2 Train From Nowhere th-cam.com/video/bjidBFQX718/w-d-xo.htmlsi=jarKNfzN4ig-kOD4
i've seen george jefferson dancing to this tune on an episode in which louise gets a job. i've read about sherman hemsley listening to yes gentle giant and nectar. this song sounds like a gentle giant tune.
I had this album, but I hadn't listened to in decades. I didn't recognize this song until about a minute into it. I was a total Nektar fan. Saw them twice. Nice journey into the past!
I bought this album via Columbia record club/fachsit club, never paid them, keeping it on the down low.... this album 8s in the top seven in my life, absolute masterpiece that no one knows about...
Me too. It was actually too loud. I could barely hear what my friends were saying after the show when we were walking to where we parked the car. My ears were still ringing the next day!
Great prog rock song! Saw Nektar in concert*...almost! Second song in, they had a massive electrical explosion on-stage, cutting short their set. And I had front row center! (*Lawrenceville, NJ, circa 1975)
My dad bought me this album because he liked the cover. Neither one of us had any idea who this band was. This turned out to be one of my all time favorite albums! This track is one of the highlights!
Sherman Hemsley was known to be a huge fan of prog rock, especially Gentle Giant, Nektar and Gong. Hemsley collaborated with Yes’s Jon Anderson on a funk-rock opera about the “spiritual qualities of the number 7” (never produced). Hemsley also did an interpretive dance to the Gentle Giant song “Proclamation” on Dinah Shore’s 70s talkshow, that was apparently somewhat confusing for her. But the best story, I mean the best story of all time, is the one told by Gong’s Daevid Allen about his encounter with the beloved 70’s sitcom star. Here is Allen’s verbatim tale as related to Mitch Myers (and originally published in Magnet magazine): “It was 1978 or 1979, and Sherman Hemsley kept ringing me up. I didn’t know him from a bar of soap because we didn’t have television in Spain (where I was living). He called me from Hollywood saying, ‘I’m one of your biggest fans and I’m going to fly you here and put flying teapots all up and down the Sunset Strip.’ I thought, ‘This guy is a lunatic.’ He kept it up so I said, ‘Listen, can you get us tickets to L.A. via Jamaica? I want to go there to make a reggae track and have a honeymoon with my new girlfriend.’ He said, ‘Sure! I’ll get you two tickets.’ I thought, ‘Well, even if he’s a nut case at least he’s coming up with the goodies.’ The tickets arrived and we had this great honeymoon in Jamaica. Then we caught the plane across to L.A. We had heard Sherman was a big star, but we didn’t know the details. Coming down the corridor from the plane, I see this black guy with a whole bunch of people running after him trying to get autographs. Anyway, we get into this stretch limousine with Sherman and immediately there’s a big joint being passed around. I say, ‘Sorry man, I don’t smoke.’ Sherman says, ‘You don’t smoke and you’re from Gong?’ Inside the front door of Sherman’s house was a sign saying, ‘Don’t answer the door because it might be the man.’ There were two Puerto Ricans that had a LSD laboratory in his basement, so they were really paranoid. They also had little crack/freebase depots on every floor. Then Sherman says, ‘Come on upstairs and I’ll show you the Flying Teapot room.’ Sherman was very sweet but was surrounded by these really crazy people. We went up to the top floor and there was this big room with darkened windows and “Flying Teapot” is playing on a tape loop over and over again. There were also three really dumb-looking, very voluptuous Southern gals stoned and wobbling around naked. They were obviously there for the guys to play around with. [My girlfriend] Maggie and I were really tired and went to our room to go to bed. The room had one mattress with an electric blanket and that was it. No bed covering, no pillow, nothing. The next day we came down and Sherman showed us a couple of [The Jeffersons] episodes. One of our fans came and rescued us, but not before Sherman took us to see these Hollywood PR people. They said, ‘Well, Mr. Hemsley wants us to get the information we need in order to do these Flying Teapot billboards on Sunset Strip.’ I looked at them and thought they were the cheesiest, most nasty people that I had ever seen in my life and I gave them the runaround. I just wanted out of there. I liked Sherman a lot. He was a very personable, charming guy. I just had a lot of trouble with the people around him.” Oi, if Daevid Allen thinks you’re weird, you must be a stone freak! (Like our pal, opera singer/actor Jesse Merlin. He met Daevid Allen in San Francisco and Allen said “Just look at him. He’s a perfect example of himself!” Coming from Daevid Allen, that’s the best compliment in the history of the world, isn’t it?)
I remember a TV interview he and Isabel Sanford did once back in the late 70s, and he was wearing a Nektar T-shirt. I always thought it was cool that George Jefferson was a prog fan, especially Nektar whom so few people had heard of at the time.
I saw a Nektar concert at the Santa Monica Civic in the 70s where Sherman was there and introduced the band. I was also at a Yes promotional mini-gig at Tower Records on Sunset Bvd in the 90s and Sherman was there as well. He loved Progressive Rock.
That is NUTS. The 70's were wild... I'm sure celebrities are just as nasty and indulgent now but it's hilarious that a guy like Sherman was around such a crowd.
Bought this album when it was first released. Didn't know who these guys were but liked the cover. Wore out two copies and still lovin' it after all these years (decades? ha ha)
I think I'm on my 3rd copy of this album/disk, which I bought my fist copy in 77 or 78 when it came out. I also put this in my top 5 records. It has it all. How can you not find at 6 songs that are not monsters? Show me the way. same year Framptons version came out, and it blows that out of the water. Then there's Nelly the elephant," Tha'ts life"",Early morning clown"",That's life" and the 2 beasts, Finally Finally..
Back when K-She used to play great music now all they play is the same crap over and over and over again who wants to hear led Zeppelin 10 times a day a rush 10 times a day I wish they go back to their old format.....
@@shawnbeckmann1847 I agree that K-SHE is very disappointing these days. I'd like to put the program director in front of a firing squad, don't understand why they can't mix things up more. Pisses me off when they act like a band such as Black Sabbath or Foghat only have two or three songs to play, when they have MANY great ones to choose from. The only good time to listen to them is when they have a no repeat week (awesome) or weekend.....
One of my all-time favourites and certainly, the production on this sounds puny but it's such a great song and album. I bought this based on listening to the Alan Freeman Saturday show on Radio1 in the UK where he played "tab in the ocean" and I just kept buying more Nektar. Wish I'd seen them.
To think how this song and group would have benefited from an app like Shazam back in 1975, where it would have gained exposure on a top five show and change the group's career is mind-boggling.
They were plenty famous back in the day and had a huge following in America among prog rock fans. th-cam.com/play/PL-tUC9V5fIvPjtGxifJgVEOOlGwSXdazw.html
This instumental part of this song (starting around :38) used to be played during the opening of Cincinnati Reds TV broadcasts. I remember hearing this music and seeing Eric Davis make a diving catch. Life didn't get any better. It had to be late 80s.
Thank you. Saw them at the Hammond Civic Center in Indiana when Remember The Future came out. Great light show. Yeah....saw hundreds of shows. At 61 still going to shows....Soundgarden, Nine Inch Nails, etc. Taken the grandkids to Demi Lovato, Justin Bieber, etc.
Sherman Hemsley? When did he become an authority in music. Did I miss something. Come on people, think for your self. If you don't own this disc/album, wake up and buy it. This disc stands up to some of the classic albums of all time. As for me there is not a bad cut on this. Some of these tunes repeatedly bring you back again and again for more. For me this stands up against Robin Trowers "Bridge of sighs" Steely Dan's "Royal Scam' . Also "Taken it to the streets" by The Doobie bros and possibly the first 3 disc's by "The Allman Bros' Don't forget Rory Gallagers "Against the grain". These are solid albums with with no throw away material. Trust me on this. This is a must have.
It sounds rather tinny, I think. Almost like they recorded it in a tin can. I assure you that it sounds ever so muh better on vinyl. So glad I bought it back then!
sounds a bit like this ridiculous french posse called Martin Circus ( and they look alike too...) well it's hard for them to pretend they can compare with such as Yes or Gentle Giant well they sound like a lot of bands at the time. there were a lot of inspiration in the air and lots of bands catching whiffs of it like PFM , NEKTAR, and so forth, but we know damn well who the real pioneers were, don't we ?
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My wife and I are watching old Jefferson's episodes and this song popped up in the second episode, Lionel was listening to his radio and George came out dancing to it. It took me two attempts to Shazam it, but I finally learned who it was and what the song was called. I'm 59 years old and was really into music and the 70s but I do not remember this band at all. Reading all your comments makes me want to learn a little bit more about them now. Thanks everyone!
Saw them in 75. Brilliant
APR 23 1975
Nektar
Hammond Civic Center
Hammond, In
Set list
Remember the Future PT 1
Let It Grow
Remember The Future PT 2
Train From Nowhere
th-cam.com/video/bjidBFQX718/w-d-xo.htmlsi=jarKNfzN4ig-kOD4
The TV show THE JEFFERSONS, Season 1, Episode 2, “Louise Feels Useless” brought me here. Thank God for Shazam identifying the song!
That’s why I came to lol
Sherman Hemsley is dancing to this in heaven.
:-)
i've seen george jefferson dancing to this tune on an episode in which louise gets a job. i've read about sherman hemsley listening to yes gentle giant and nectar. this song sounds like a gentle giant tune.
this is the first time i listened to show me the way all the way through.
I had this album, but I hadn't listened to in decades. I didn't recognize this song until about a minute into it. I was a total Nektar fan. Saw them twice. Nice journey into the past!
I bought this album via Columbia record club/fachsit club, never paid them, keeping it on the down low.... this album 8s in the top seven in my life, absolute masterpiece that no one knows about...
What a great boogie tune with prog chord changes and vocals.
4:20 he comes out if his room with the best dance moves..😅👍🏻🙏🏻 Rest easy George.
Just an unbelievably good album. Every. Single. Song.
A shadow of RTF!!
I saw these guys in the 70s, Loudest Concert I ever went to. They were great!!
Me too. It was actually too loud. I could barely hear what my friends were saying after the show when we were walking to where we parked the car. My ears were still ringing the next day!
Great prog rock song! Saw Nektar in concert*...almost! Second song in, they had a massive electrical explosion on-stage, cutting short their set. And I had front row center! (*Lawrenceville, NJ, circa 1975)
One of the best albums by Nektar along with Remember the Future and Recycled
Love the buzz in the bass notes, reminds me a lot of Squires sound. My favorite song.
WOW, The Jeffersons. Cool!!!
It was on Jeffersons because Sherman Helmsley was a massive Nektar Fan.
Ive been looking for this from my childhood on based on The Jeffersons!!!
Me too!😊
Saw Nektar live back in the 70s. Great light show
wow! now you can play the song whole over and over again. but try proclamation by gentle giant.
My dad bought me this album because he liked the cover. Neither one of us had any idea who this band was. This turned out to be one of my all time favorite albums! This track is one of the highlights!
The Jeffersons season one brought me here.
DJANGO JENKINS Me too!
Me too now I love this song I even downloaded it
Me too!
I feel the same too since yesterday.
Me too since twenty minutes ago!
The Jeffersons S01E03 (Louise Feels Useless) brought me here
my sister turned me on to nektar those days were great thanks sis
Such an under rated group! Their talent back in the 70's would kill all these new so called rock bands Now!!! PERIOD
Thanks for stopping by. Appreciate it. 👍
You're absolutely right on mate👍🏻
Sherman Hemsley was known to be a huge fan of prog rock, especially Gentle Giant, Nektar and Gong.
Hemsley collaborated with Yes’s Jon Anderson on a funk-rock opera about the “spiritual qualities of the number 7” (never produced). Hemsley also did an interpretive dance to the Gentle Giant song “Proclamation” on Dinah Shore’s 70s talkshow, that was apparently somewhat confusing for her.
But the best story, I mean the best story of all time, is the one told by Gong’s Daevid Allen about his encounter with the beloved 70’s sitcom star. Here is Allen’s verbatim tale as related to Mitch Myers (and originally published in Magnet magazine):
“It was 1978 or 1979, and Sherman Hemsley kept ringing me up. I didn’t know him from a bar of soap because we didn’t have television in Spain (where I was living). He called me from Hollywood saying, ‘I’m one of your biggest fans and I’m going to fly you here and put flying teapots all up and down the Sunset Strip.’ I thought, ‘This guy is a lunatic.’ He kept it up so I said, ‘Listen, can you get us tickets to L.A. via Jamaica? I want to go there to make a reggae track and have a honeymoon with my new girlfriend.’ He said, ‘Sure! I’ll get you two tickets.’
I thought, ‘Well, even if he’s a nut case at least he’s coming up with the goodies.’ The tickets arrived and we had this great honeymoon in Jamaica. Then we caught the plane across to L.A. We had heard Sherman was a big star, but we didn’t know the details. Coming down the corridor from the plane, I see this black guy with a whole bunch of people running after him trying to get autographs. Anyway, we get into this stretch limousine with Sherman and immediately there’s a big joint being passed around. I say, ‘Sorry man, I don’t smoke.’ Sherman says, ‘You don’t smoke and you’re from Gong?’
Inside the front door of Sherman’s house was a sign saying, ‘Don’t answer the door because it might be the man.’ There were two Puerto Ricans that had a LSD laboratory in his basement, so they were really paranoid. They also had little crack/freebase depots on every floor. Then Sherman says, ‘Come on upstairs and I’ll show you the Flying Teapot room.’ Sherman was very sweet but was surrounded by these really crazy people.
We went up to the top floor and there was this big room with darkened windows and “Flying Teapot” is playing on a tape loop over and over again. There were also three really dumb-looking, very voluptuous Southern gals stoned and wobbling around naked. They were obviously there for the guys to play around with.
[My girlfriend] Maggie and I were really tired and went to our room to go to bed. The room had one mattress with an electric blanket and that was it. No bed covering, no pillow, nothing. The next day we came down and Sherman showed us a couple of [The Jeffersons] episodes.
One of our fans came and rescued us, but not before Sherman took us to see these Hollywood PR people. They said, ‘Well, Mr. Hemsley wants us to get the information we need in order to do these Flying Teapot billboards on Sunset Strip.’ I looked at them and thought they were the cheesiest, most nasty people that I had ever seen in my life and I gave them the runaround. I just wanted out of there. I liked Sherman a lot. He was a very personable, charming guy. I just had a lot of trouble with the people around him.”
Oi, if Daevid Allen thinks you’re weird, you must be a stone freak! (Like our pal, opera singer/actor Jesse Merlin. He met Daevid Allen in San Francisco and Allen said “Just look at him. He’s a perfect example of himself!” Coming from Daevid Allen, that’s the best compliment in the history of the world, isn’t it?)
I remember a TV interview he and Isabel Sanford did once back in the late 70s, and he was wearing a Nektar T-shirt. I always thought it was cool that George Jefferson was a prog fan, especially Nektar whom so few people had heard of at the time.
Interesting
I had NO idea Sherman Hemsley was a prog fan, that is pretty cool....
I saw a Nektar concert at the Santa Monica Civic in the 70s where Sherman was there and introduced the band. I was also at a Yes promotional mini-gig at Tower Records on Sunset Bvd in the 90s and Sherman was there as well. He loved Progressive Rock.
That is NUTS. The 70's were wild... I'm sure celebrities are just as nasty and indulgent now but it's hilarious that a guy like Sherman was around such a crowd.
Bought this album when it was first released. Didn't know who these guys were but liked the cover. Wore out two copies and still lovin' it after all these years (decades? ha ha)
I think I'm on my 3rd copy of this album/disk, which I bought my fist copy in 77 or 78 when it came out. I also put this in my top 5 records. It has it all. How can you not find at 6 songs that are not monsters?
Show me the way. same year Framptons version came out, and it blows that out of the water. Then there's Nelly the elephant," Tha'ts life"",Early morning clown"",That's life" and the 2 beasts, Finally Finally..
Godbless you, so did I!!!!
@@stevenjmancini Frampton's "version?" It isn't even the same song. It just has the same title. Why even compare them?
all time favorite! working on my 2nd copy since 75'.
I posted the video showing the segment where Hemsley's character is dancing to this.
This song is on The Jeffersons episode "Louise Feels Useless".
Go to 4:22 and remember George Jefferson dancing to this song that Lionel was listening to in The Jefferson's episode "Louise Feels Useless."
th-cam.com/video/MKHY3pMEUJs/w-d-xo.html
2023!
Great K-SHE Classic from an excellent band......
Back when K-She used to play great music now all they play is the same crap over and over and over again who wants to hear led Zeppelin 10 times a day a rush 10 times a day I wish they go back to their old format.....
@@shawnbeckmann1847 I agree that K-SHE is very disappointing these days. I'd like to put the program director in front of a firing squad, don't understand why they can't mix things up more. Pisses me off when they act like a band such as Black Sabbath or Foghat only have two or three songs to play, when they have MANY great ones to choose from. The only good time to listen to them is when they have a no repeat week (awesome) or weekend.....
Love this.
Sherman Hemsley - Nektar - Show Me The Way
One of my all-time favourites and certainly, the production on this sounds puny but it's such a great song and album. I bought this based on listening to the Alan Freeman Saturday show on Radio1 in the UK where he played "tab in the ocean" and I just kept buying more Nektar. Wish I'd seen them.
To think how this song and group would have benefited from an app like Shazam back in 1975, where it would have gained exposure on a top five show and change the group's career is mind-boggling.
They were plenty famous back in the day and had a huge following in America among prog rock fans.
th-cam.com/play/PL-tUC9V5fIvPjtGxifJgVEOOlGwSXdazw.html
Turns out that was S01 E02. of the Jeffersons, but thanks. I didn't know that.
these guys were pheonmoneally good back a when... i always felt they would help heal the nation
This instumental part of this song (starting around :38) used to be played during the opening of Cincinnati Reds TV broadcasts. I remember hearing this music and seeing Eric Davis make a diving catch. Life didn't get any better. It had to be late 80s.
Hate to read those "X brought me here" comments...but at the same time.
Sherman's LSD lab brought me here.
ONE OF MY ALL-TIME FAVE LPS
I just heard this on an episode of the Jeffersons. The part they played almost sounded like U2.
The great P. P. Arnold on backing vocals.
3:44 to 5:00 is the best part🎉🎉🎉🎉💃💃💃
moving on up
kshe classic
you got to be a hard rocker from the 70's for this album. Purple haze days
That also is my post. Thanks
Thank you. Saw them at the Hammond Civic Center in Indiana when Remember The Future came out. Great light show. Yeah....saw hundreds of shows. At 61 still going to shows....Soundgarden, Nine Inch Nails, etc. Taken the grandkids to Demi Lovato, Justin Bieber, etc.
+Kunchcar Whaleboy 61 to my friend. My ears still let me appreciate good music.
Kunchcar Whaleboy great somg
George Jefferson brought me here
@David Trice Really? That' wild. :-)
Sherman Hemsley? When did he become an authority in music. Did I miss something.
Come on people, think for your self.
If you don't own this disc/album, wake up and buy it.
This disc stands up to some of the classic albums of all time. As for me there is not a bad cut on this. Some of these tunes repeatedly bring you back again and again for more.
For me this stands up against Robin Trowers "Bridge of sighs" Steely Dan's "Royal Scam' . Also "Taken it to the streets" by The Doobie bros and possibly the first 3 disc's by "The Allman Bros'
Don't forget Rory Gallagers "Against the grain".
These are solid albums with with no throw away material.
Trust me on this. This is a must have.
Sherman did do music in his spare time. Next.
The production sounds a bit hollow and flat...doesn't it?
It sounds rather tinny, I think. Almost like they recorded it in a tin can. I assure you that it sounds ever so muh better on vinyl. So glad I bought it back then!
a pocket full of stars... anyone for tea?
and too briefly!
sounds a bit like this ridiculous french posse called Martin Circus ( and they look alike too...)
well it's hard for them to pretend they can compare with such as Yes or Gentle Giant
well they sound like a lot of bands at the time. there were a lot of inspiration in the air and lots of bands catching whiffs of it like PFM , NEKTAR, and so forth, but we know damn well who the real pioneers were, don't we ?