My idol growing up, because of Paul, I have been playing harmonica since 1969, and still playing the blues in Chicago, Milwaukee and Beloit, Wi where I live
Ron Beretta Your an old schooler like me, im 58 and have been playing since i was around 12. My favorite harp players are #1Paul Butterfield, Little Walter, Sonnyboy Williamson, Sonny Terry, Kim Wilson, Charlie Musselwhite, Buddy Greene, Charlie McCoy, James Cotton, and alot of others i know i didnt mention.
Butterfield rocks. It is a little known fact that he was on my fathers poorly received album in 66 Dick Campbell Sings Where its at with a ton of other good talent from the era like Mike Bloomfield, Sam Lay, Peter Cetera, and Mark Naftalin to name a few.
Wow this is to awesome! Ive been playing harp for 35 yrs and Paul Butterfield and Little Walter are my two favorites. Such a shame Paul did die young from a heroin OD. So sad!
This is why TH-cam is (arguably) the greatest site on the net! AMAZING. I was a huge Butterfield/Bloomfield fan at this time and never heard that Paul was going to be on, or was on, the show!
I read in Downbeat magazine a highly favorable review of Paul Butterfield so when they were appearing at The Village Gate in February 1965 I was sure to go. Bloomfield hadn't joined the band yet. Elvin Bishop was the sole guitarist in the quartet. They blew me away. The next time I saw/heard them was that summer when Bloomfield had arrived on the scene at Cafe Au Gogo.
ID'ed Paul immediately. I was introduced to him in 1966 by my then future husband who was a musician as well. Chicago Blues still moves me most. RIP Mr. B.
Great! Paul was a major influence on my harp playing(I saw him and Band several times in the "60s at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco) Some of his songs are on my set list
I first heard the better days cds by paul butterfield, and been a huge fan of paul butterfield ever since, he died way to young, but his music will live on,
Boy did this make me feel old. I remember watching To Tell the Truth with Bud Collyer but when I saw this video with the grainy black and white picture it just screamed out 100 years ago. Then I Paul's name and it just hit me I must be pretty old if a musician I listened to was on such an old show. And this comment will probably not get any replies while I'm still alive, LOL. (LOL?)
Just saw this clip on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame broadcast tonight as part of Butterfield's induction, great bit of research on their part, I never knew this existed. Cool stuff, this show was more ahead of its time than I thought in spotting unique contestants
Was fortunate enough to catch PB once in the mid 80's at a great (but under attended) two day 60's rock/blues festival in Devore Ca. As a late comer to the blues (age related, not from a lack of early interest) I quickly began to devour reading and searched out as many of the great blues players and influences while picking up things like Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, Allman Brothers Band, and The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, among others, on record. Like so many of you, I'm certain, the first minute after dropping the needle on that first Butterfield album opened up another great new world to explore. I went down to Peaches Records, in Clearwater, Fla. and picked up 'East-West' the very next day. Was elated to finally have this great artist and his band joining the likes of Blondie, Madonna, and Run DMC (heavy sarcasm included here!), finally, into the rock and roll hall of sham. One thing is for certain, they belong there with the ones who really do belong there.
Fifty years before the Internet, this show often had guests we instantly recognize but whose fame had not broadened into popular culture, or whose name might have been known, but whose face was not flashed across the screen every fifteen minutes. The blues-rock realm was in its infancy, and any non-pop musician was very obscure. The band is a square sort of NY jazz group that lacks his driving power. RIP.
Paul Butterfield, I had seen him play many times at the Cafe Au Go Go, in what was called Blues Bags. 1966, 1967 He was doing the East West material, as well as his previous albums. Even seen Waters/Hooker/Charlie Muscle White, Big Bill Broonzy/ same nights, and The Blues Project, That was all a partial list of one nights gig.
yeah, I know...Sam Lay (drums), Mark Naftalin (organ), Jerome Arnold (bass) , Elvin Bishop (guitar), and of course Mike Bloomfield (guitar) - that was the lineup for the first full studio album on Elektra...saw them at the Fillmore West, and at Newport '65 backing Bob...
hey, thanks for the link, i voted then got totally depressed when i saw the other nominees. Butterfield changed my life in 1966, now that's MY hall of fame!
This is the most fun TH-cam I have ever seen. My man! In reality how many of the rest of us young harp players thought we were Butterfield. I know I tried to channel him all the time. Still do. d
One online source claims that this show originally aired on March 28, 1966. Great fun to see Bud Collyer, TTTT's original host from 1956 to 1968. Although he was asked to return for the new syndicated version in 1969 he declined as he was simply too ill. As it was, he passed on September 8, 1969--the very day that the show was revived in syndication. Garry Moore was his successor.
This show dates from late 1965 and at the time the term "folk rock" was more a media expression than one used by musicians. Butterfield was just starting to get press coverage in music trade magazines and so was a good choice for this show. As with so many of the guests on this show, the panelists hadn't a clue about their backgrounds or professional activity.
This is from the late 65 early to mid 66 period----based on his playing style and appearance. What a remarkable fnd----where on earth did you get this----fantastic
@franklowell I was glued to the radio as a kid, and my parents listened to jazz, folk and popular music, but I never heard the jug band. My mom had a date with one of the Wayfarers - LOL!!
Wow... a genuine cultural artifact... and if I didn't know this was for real (I'm old enough to remember the show), I would think it was an SNL or SCTV sketch. The Dylan references, and Butterfield's anonymity, and the fact that they got NY session/jazz guys and not r'n'b guys to back him up, and the fact that it's in B&W, makes me think that this is about 1965. (Geek-alert: Collyer, the MC, was the voice of Superman in several media. Look it up.)
I saw this program in June 1966, and have tried to find a copy of it for years! Not Butter's band, of course, which is kind of funny. The question about Jim Kweskin's Jug Band (another very cool band) was quite prescient, considering Butterfield's later collaborations with Geoff Muldaur. Butterfield was the coolest guy in music then, and remains my favorite singer, after 46 years.
the house band was doing lounge jazz licks, and thats not where butter was coming from... his days at big johns in chicago with arnold, lay, bishop, and bloomfield -were the finest. way beyond the stones at a similar period. miss em....
One of the imposters is the father of a co-worker (and I have met the dad). He did it to get money for school. I recognized him immediately because of a family resemblance. I like the way they do it now, where the name doesn't matter, but the accomplishment does.
Amazing bit of TV and music history. I agree with the comments about the house band not cutting it. They're a band of jazzers, with the drummer trying to avoid playing a backbeat (too "unhip") and the rest of them lacking the muscle needed for that kind of music. The panel seemed to ask irrelevant questions about formal musical terms and the Modern Jazz Quartet, although Orson Bean seemed to clue in on Butterfield's association with Dylan, thus the silly "Dylanism" question.
The real Paul Butterfield played with Dylan at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. I think the real one would have known about Larry Adler, too. And maybe John Sebastian Senior, too.
This is totally awesome. I forgot all about that show. Makes me feel old. Shit, I AM old. Butter is up for the R'n'R Hall of Fame, finally & YOU can vote. Go to rockhall.com and vote the man in wfere he belongs. Pass it on.
@12347771 Your correct he was instrumental in doing that. A lot of people don't realize he is nothing like his alter ego Bowser actually quite the brilliant sort.
I had the same thought about number 2. His answers were too perfect like he had studied for a quiz. Number 3 was hopeless. Butterfield played a terrific solo - one of the best I've heard from him. So sad they couldn't keep Bloomfield on board -- they could have been successful with the one-two punch.
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My idol growing up, because of Paul, I have been playing harmonica since 1969, and still playing the blues in Chicago, Milwaukee and Beloit, Wi where I live
Ron Beretta Your an old schooler like me, im 58 and have been playing since i was around 12. My favorite harp players are #1Paul Butterfield, Little Walter, Sonnyboy Williamson, Sonny Terry, Kim Wilson, Charlie Musselwhite, Buddy Greene, Charlie McCoy, James Cotton, and alot of others i know i didnt mention.
There has been non better than Paul!
Good for you my friend....a true trooper
Ron , me too exactly, I learned in 68 and 69 in Texas.
@@jimchumley6568 "Toots " Theilman
Butterfield rocks. It is a little known fact that he was on my fathers poorly received album in 66 Dick Campbell Sings Where its at with a ton of other good talent from the era like Mike Bloomfield, Sam Lay, Peter Cetera, and Mark Naftalin to name a few.
WOW! What a shock! Never new Butter was on To Tell The Truth! I bought all his band's albums as a teenager! Thanks for posting!
Same here on both counts
Wow this is to awesome! Ive been playing harp for 35 yrs and Paul Butterfield and Little Walter are my two favorites. Such a shame Paul did die young from a heroin OD. So sad!
This is why TH-cam is (arguably) the greatest site on the net! AMAZING. I was a huge Butterfield/Bloomfield fan at this time and never heard that Paul was going to be on, or was on, the show!
Some of the most ridiculous questions I've ever heard .. lol
@@pgroove163 and oh the answers ain’t shabby either
My first audio cassette was "East West" It was a Christmas present along with a cassette player, probably around 1968.
I read in Downbeat magazine a highly favorable review of Paul Butterfield so when they were appearing at The Village Gate in February 1965 I was sure to go. Bloomfield hadn't joined the band yet. Elvin Bishop was the sole guitarist in the quartet. They blew me away. The next time I saw/heard them was that summer when Bloomfield had arrived on the scene at Cafe Au Gogo.
ID'ed Paul immediately. I was introduced to him in 1966 by my then future husband who was a musician as well. Chicago Blues still moves me most. RIP Mr. B.
Priceless clip! I love this!
that was intense questioning, and very calculated. love it smart show
Just Awesome!
One of my favorite musicians and great to see that he had some early recognition on a national TV show in the 60's.
Great! Paul was a major influence on my harp playing(I saw him and Band several times in the "60s at the Fillmore Auditorium in San Francisco) Some of his songs are on my set list
I first heard the better days cds by paul butterfield, and been a huge fan of paul butterfield ever since, he died way to young, but his music will live on,
Seen him twice but never realized what I was witnessing also he played the harp mainly upside down throughout his life
FELICITACIONES POR ESTA MARAVILLOSA PERLA .... POR SIEMPRE PAUL!!!!
wow, unbelievable...what a rare gem.
Boy did this make me feel old. I remember watching To Tell the Truth with Bud Collyer but when I saw this video with the grainy black and white picture it just screamed out 100 years ago. Then I Paul's name and it just hit me I must be pretty old if a musician I listened to was on such an old show. And this comment will probably not get any replies while I'm still alive, LOL. (LOL?)
Just saw this clip on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame broadcast tonight as part of Butterfield's induction, great bit of research on their part, I never knew this existed. Cool stuff, this show was more ahead of its time than I thought in spotting unique contestants
saw him in '68 in D.C., blew me away
East-West is a great album
I wish they could have been there when the Paul Butterfield Blues Band were inducted into the R&R HOF in 2015
This is an incredible treat!
Was fortunate enough to catch PB once in the mid 80's at a great (but under attended) two day 60's rock/blues festival in Devore Ca. As a late comer to the blues (age related, not from a lack of early interest) I quickly began to devour reading and searched out as many of the great blues players and influences while picking up things like Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac, Allman Brothers Band, and The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, among others, on record. Like so many of you, I'm certain, the first minute after dropping the needle on that first Butterfield album opened up another great new world to explore. I went down to Peaches Records, in Clearwater, Fla. and picked up 'East-West' the very next day.
Was elated to finally have this great artist and his band joining the likes of Blondie, Madonna, and Run DMC (heavy sarcasm included here!), finally, into the rock and roll hall of sham. One thing is for certain, they belong there with the ones who really do belong there.
Fifty years before the Internet, this show often had guests we instantly recognize but whose fame had not broadened into popular culture, or whose name might have been known, but whose face was not flashed across the screen every fifteen minutes. The blues-rock realm was in its infancy, and any non-pop musician was very obscure. The band is a square sort of NY jazz group that lacks his driving power. RIP.
This is the coolest video on TH-cam. Thanks so much for posting!
This was freaking awesome thank you so much!
Wow does that bring me back ! Used to watch this show all the time.Thanks for the memory.
this is simply priceless
What a hoot! Who knew Butterfield was on this show?
“Born in Chicago” by Nick Gravenites still living and playing in Sonoma County where I live.
Paul Butterfield, I had seen him play many times at the Cafe Au Go Go, in what was called Blues Bags. 1966, 1967
He was doing the East West material, as well as his previous albums. Even seen Waters/Hooker/Charlie Muscle White, Big Bill Broonzy/ same nights, and The Blues Project, That was all a partial list of one nights gig.
Great! What a gem!!! Super cool.
Epic! Just…EPIC! Loved this one thank you.
If Butter was in the news, how would these experts not know him?
yeah, I know...Sam Lay (drums), Mark Naftalin (organ), Jerome Arnold (bass) , Elvin Bishop (guitar), and of course Mike Bloomfield (guitar) - that was the lineup for the first full studio album on Elektra...saw them at the Fillmore West, and at Newport '65 backing Bob...
astounded to find this, what a treasure for pg fans
Humorous harmonica history,here. Precious 'relic' of 'St. Paul'. Wonderful video !!
hey, thanks for the link, i voted then got totally depressed when i saw the other nominees. Butterfield changed my life in 1966, now that's MY hall of fame!
They should have known : "Butter" gave himself away with the casual, self-assured answer about the number of holes in a harp.
What a switch-a-roo. The bands on pills, and Butter is straight.
paul is great!
This is the most fun TH-cam I have ever seen. My man! In reality how many of the rest of us young harp players thought we were Butterfield. I know I tried to channel him all the time. Still do. d
How cool is this? Awesome.
Look at Butterfield's "Driftin and Driftin" from the Monterrey Festival, HQ and beautiful.
Heard once that this existed. Amazing.... lol.
One online source claims that this show originally aired on March 28, 1966. Great fun to see Bud Collyer, TTTT's original host from 1956 to 1968. Although he was asked to return for the new syndicated version in 1969 he declined as he was simply too ill. As it was, he passed on September 8, 1969--the very day that the show was revived in syndication. Garry Moore was his successor.
Tom Poston, one of the squarest guys ever, saying "I dig"...LOL!
@Mark Speck he was also one of the funniest guys around.
@@22lyric and very smart too.
This show dates from late 1965 and at the time the term "folk rock" was more a media expression than one used by musicians. Butterfield was just starting to get press coverage in music trade magazines and so was a good choice for this show. As with so many of the guests on this show, the panelists hadn't a clue about their backgrounds or professional activity.
love this!
Left your three sons too soon...miss you💞
This is from the late 65 early to mid 66 period----based on his playing style and appearance. What a remarkable fnd----where on earth did you get this----fantastic
WHOA..Thanks for posting!! I am THRILLED!!!
Drummer sounds like he's trying to play Peppermint Twist . Great video,Thanks
Paul, it must be a treat for you to play with this great band we have! -- Er, uh, yeah, they're outta sight cough
DucksDeLucks
So funny...
Thank you Donnie, great video!)
@franklowell
I was glued to the radio as a kid,
and my parents listened to jazz, folk
and popular music, but I never heard
the jug band. My mom had a date with
one of the Wayfarers - LOL!!
Who knew! One of the coolest guys on one of the most old-fashioned Quiz shows!
Distinct cultural collision!
This was fantastic - thank you so much for posting!
Extremely cool!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Nice upload, missed this show as I was in the San Francisco ballrooms every weekend from 1965 till they evaporated.
Aint he adorable? Who knew he did this show?! Love him to pieces. Thank you for uploading this quirky, fun lil tid bit ♥ "Jen"
1966-Orson says "too much information". The first time that phrase is used in public!
+DAM FLA not really!
+DAM FLA Pres. LBJ had a hard time with that word with his drawl he used to say "the nigra community" til he "retired" in '68.
Nope. Same was said to Benedict Arnold.
@@acousticshadow4032 Benedict arnold blues band... great
frickin' great! thank you for posting the video.
unreal !
A show with the word truth in the title would be really weird today.
This is amusing! Of course Paul Butterfield is the man with the piercing eyes and who looks COOL.
Classic !!!
In the face of adversity, Butterfield pulled it off.
Wow... a genuine cultural artifact... and if I didn't know this was for real (I'm old enough to remember the show), I would think it was an SNL or SCTV sketch. The Dylan references, and Butterfield's anonymity, and the fact that they got NY session/jazz guys and not r'n'b guys to back him up, and the fact that it's in B&W, makes me think that this is about 1965.
(Geek-alert: Collyer, the MC, was the voice of Superman in several media. Look it up.)
Wow...very cool. Thanks for this!
I saw this program in June 1966, and have tried to find a copy of it for years! Not Butter's band, of course, which is kind of funny. The question about Jim Kweskin's Jug Band (another very cool band) was quite prescient, considering Butterfield's later collaborations with Geoff Muldaur. Butterfield was the coolest guy in music then, and remains my favorite singer, after 46 years.
wow his playing transformed by the late 60's and 70's
Thanks Joni!
Lol...I think I would have voted for No. 2 myself...what a find here though...thanks for posting...
yeah he was pretty sharp for a fake butterfield, bet he was either a musician or in the record biz
the house band was doing lounge jazz licks, and thats not where butter was coming from... his days at big johns in chicago with arnold, lay, bishop, and bloomfield -were the finest. way beyond the stones at a similar period. miss em....
One of the imposters is the father of a co-worker (and I have met the dad). He did it to get money for school. I recognized him immediately because of a family resemblance. I like the way they do it now, where the name doesn't matter, but the accomplishment does.
Ace footage!
This show must have aired in 1964 or 1965, as Born In Chicago was on Paul's first album in 1965.
Like a boss...
Amazing bit of TV and music history. I agree with the comments about the house band not cutting it. They're a band of jazzers, with the drummer trying to avoid playing a backbeat (too "unhip") and the rest of them lacking the muscle needed for that kind of music. The panel seemed to ask irrelevant questions about formal musical terms and the Modern Jazz Quartet, although Orson Bean seemed to clue in on Butterfield's association with Dylan, thus the silly "Dylanism" question.
Numero uno dellarmonica
WOW Wow wow
That was awesome. Rather hilarious that the three contestants have to split $500 3 ways. Tight budget for a TV show!!
roughly about $8 to 10K now - 2021
AWESOME!!! The "how many holes" question was the killer, though....
Lot of great names for sure. I thought T-Bone Walker because of Stormy Monday, which was well-known on both sides of the fence.
Color television became common in the 1965 and after.time period. This is before that.
Saw him 30 yrs ago in san francisci
Rip Paul
Bloomfield said "he is the blues".
That was so cool
What year way this show recorded? Paul still had that. greasy look. Must have been 65 or 66. WOW!!!
The real Paul Butterfield played with Dylan at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival. I think the real one would have known about Larry Adler, too. And maybe John Sebastian Senior, too.
Butterfield did not play with Dylan at Newport. Bloomfield did, along with Lay, Arnold, Kooper, and others.
This is totally awesome. I forgot all about that show. Makes me feel old. Shit, I AM old.
Butter is up for the R'n'R Hall of Fame, finally & YOU can vote.
Go to rockhall.com and vote the man in wfere he belongs.
Pass it on.
I thought of Lightnin' Hopkins but I believe he's from Austin TX.
Wigmen and Lawyers...what a theme...
@12347771 Your correct he was instrumental in doing that. A lot of people don't realize he is nothing like his alter ego Bowser actually quite the brilliant sort.
a few days ago this clip had only 300 hits...but thanks to harp-l it now has over 1000....lets eat brownies!!!
I had the same thought about number 2. His answers were too perfect like he had studied for a quiz. Number 3 was hopeless. Butterfield played a terrific solo - one of the best I've heard from him. So sad they couldn't keep Bloomfield on board -- they could have been successful with the one-two punch.
Yeah, Bloomfield left to form Electric Flag around 67
I recall being not quite 17, and my dad changed the channel...yeah, he was a ass and not to hip, but I miss him!
A website called dangerousminds.net says this appearance took place on March 28, 1966.
One of them was pretty visible as a regular on Newhart in the 80s.
Paul sober? No way!
definately not sober in 66