Psychedelic Times | Cool British Singles from May 1967
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- Last month, we revisited some cool British singles from April 1967. Now it's time to do the same with May of that year. Here are some cool British singles released in May 1967. Enjoy!
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Wow! May 1967 was the Holy Grail for English pop music.
I ride a 1967 Triumph Daytona --- another extremely cool 1967 release.
Love Procol Harum!!! Conquistador is my fave of theirs however
I like Homburg myself. Probably because I've heard AWSOP too many times. (There's a few other songs in that category.)
@@Krzyszczynski Salad Days Are Here Again ☺
What a great bunch of songs, but Waterloo Sunset is still one of the most perfect songs ever recorded.
Agree.
Yes, absolutely timeless positive melancholy
Yes, yes it is.
One of my all-time favourite songs.
Great song all right, but I think I'll always prefer Autumn Almanac.
I hate to admit it, but this midwestern American had never heard Waterloo Sunset. As far as I know it got little if any play on our local rock station. Yesterday's Papers have introduced me to a generation of mostly UK artists that didn't have a big audience in the US but deserve recognition. Thank you.
Possibly because the Kinks had been banned from touring America in 1965 by the American Federation of Musicians, on some phoney baloney charge, and the ban wasn't lifted until 1969.
Yeah I often have to remind myself that the song is not well known in the states nor Canada. It’s one of those iconic songs that almost everyone born before 1985 is familiar with in Europe and the British commonwealth.
There was far too many FANTASTIC SINGLE'S even for us Brit's to take in, let alone have them all transfer over the pond. Hope you're ENJOYING, CATCH-UP with youtube. I'm a 75 year old Brit, who lived through this wonderful period and I missed out on some.... Luckily, NOT "My White Bicycle" which I've alway's loved. Ditto, Traffic.
They didn’t hear see Emily play either 😂
Waterloo Sunset 🌇 & Carrie Anne .. Two instant classics !
What an incredible time... Thank you for this!
Every single an endearing forever CLASSIC. The records speak for themselves - truly the greatest era of quality pop music.
Pointless comparison, but I doubt many in 1967 would look back 55 years to the wax piano rolls and sheet music of 1912 with quite as much fondness as I'm sure many now look back to 1967. Terrific music.
Records were mass produced by that time. And yes, some genres are genuinely still loved.
That's a mindblower!... In 1967, being a kid, the year 1912 seemed like it must have been eons ago, almost pre history. Some stuff remembered from 1967 seems like it's just around the corner almost like it's pretty recent.
An excellent comparison IMO.
White Bicycle man. Forgot about that one.
Wow! It's amazing, Whiter Shade of Pale, Waterloo Sunset, Paper Sun and the rest, all in the time of one month. What an amazing scene this was, evolving as we now recall into a most beautiful summer of Music, Love and Flower Power!
May 67. Wow. When the creative seeds burst into full flower.
Leaving possibly the greatest month of this astonishing year until last. Thank you for this amazing series.
I've got chills with each song even though I've listened to most of them thousands of time
Cheers!
Ill pick April as the greatest month from that year. It was the month I as born.
Best month in the best year of the best decade
"A Whiter Shade Of Pale" by Procol Harum
"Waterloo Sunset" by The Kinks
"Paper Sun" by Traffic.
My three favourites in no particular order of May 1967.
What a groovy month of May it was in 1967!
Thanks as always, love this series!
'Carrie Anne' refers to Marianne Faithfull, a stunning languid beauty who was
Mick Jagger's girlfriend, and later a successful artist. This song references her lifestyle
at the time.
? Its not a song about school ? Monitor, Prefect. They're entering puberty. She's checking out the older boys.
Yes, it's about Marianne Faithfull
@@peliche77 What in the song would indicate that ?
@@terryenglish7132I don't know but I heard Graham Nash and I think Allan Clarke too in a documentary saying that "Carrie Anne" was dedicated to Marianne Faithfull.
In fact, they wanted to name the song "Marianne", but in the end they thought it was too explicit and they didn't dare, so they invented the title "Carrie Anne"
So many brilliant tracks here, loads of classic! great stuff!
May 1967 - my eightieth birthday. Great times to be alive.
67 was a huge year for music, 78 was another.
Paper Sun charted at#71 in the States??!? God, we were SOOO clueless back then!!!
Carrie Ann, what a joy!!!!
Love how cokehead closer Steve Howe was in a good group pre-Yes (bad baseball joke, sorry)
So many timeless classics! 'Waterloo Sunset' is one of those Kinks songs that make me wish I lived in Britain in the 60s, 'The Wind Cries Mary" is one of my favourite songs by the Experience, and the B-side of Traffic's 'Paper Sun', 'Giving to You', is an excellent psychedelic jazzy tune-curiously, I was listening to it before I tapped on this video. I never heard The Brain before, but I must say, their tune was quite impressive. The experimentalism and ingeniousness of the late 60s/early 70s will never be matched.
Stunning collection .Had most of them. John's Children also due to its unprecedented chaotic "Thomas A.Beckett" B- side was my prime '67 purchase. 'Waterloo Sunset' , too sophisticated for my simple taste then. Began to appreciate its brilliance years later.
Who could live listening to May 1967 records only for the rest of their lives?
Hahaha! Same here!
Hollies never abandoned pop throughout the entire 60s...brilliant...
It's funny that Waterloo Sunset was actually released in May and charted right in the middle of the summer of love though no one really associates the song with it. To me it always sounded like a perfect autumn record.
Some absolute classics
RIP Gary Brooker and Keith Reid whose vocals and organ playing and lyrics made Whiter Shade of Pale such a classic who have both passed on last 18 months
RIP, great artists.
I've been waiting for this! Not gonna lie, clicking this I got a bit misty eyed knowing that this was the end. But man what a wonderful way to go out. I knew "Waterloo Sunset" was on the horizon but I was blown away by the sheer quality of today's episode: Procol Harum, Jimi Hendrix, Traffic...amazing.
Don’t know why , but ‘Night Of The Long Grass’ by The Troggs totally passed me by at the time. What a great single!
Love that single.
Personally I favor the B side Girl In Black.
@@moorlock2003 Never heard it before. It is good. Sounds like a bit of a Who thing going on. Could imagine Daltrey singing it.
I was 10 and as I live in Buenos Aires (Argentina) many of these records arrived months later, and many others just didn't come at all.
Wonderful times that made me want to be there.
Can't understand why My White Bicycle wasn't a hit,its a great piece of British psychedelic pop!
I think so too. Not only recorded at the same time as Pepper, but Piper too! Keith West who sang "My White Bicycle" got to No.2 a few months later with "Grocer Jack" (Excert From A Teenage Opera). I think it was the kids that helped that to happen.
And that wonderful Steve Howe touch. Very cool sound, song.
Well'' neil from the young ones was gonna cover it
but he opted for hole in my shoe instead which went to No1 of 1982.
@@patgalvez4563 Sadly a lot wasn't very well produced back then
There wasn't all that many professional in house producers who were interested in pop music.
It was all noise to most of the older generation, which you can sort of probably understand them
in a way looking back if you were of their generation.
Unless it was efficiently cheap, most studio record producers didn't wanna know modern music.
@@toddblanks We can thank Norman Smith for producing an excellent "Piper At The Gates Of Dawn" (and "See Emily Play") even when he had difficulties "with a certain gentleman". Of course Norman had been mentored by George Martin.
“Whiter shade” to this day is an iconic song in Chile, and I wouldn’t be surprised if the song also was one of the most played songs in the last 60 years there. “Waterloo” probably didn’t take off in North America because the lyrics referred to a specific but unknown location. A shame really but the song was thus saved to be loved later, when those of us across the water grew wiser.
It was the period Kinks were banned from America thus no support for record.
¡Cuánto tardaban en llegar los "long plays" a nuestro lejano sur!
🇦🇷🇨🇱
Just another great compilation from 60s expert "yesterday`s papers"! Please, continue your highly interesting output with the psych singles of 1966, another year full of remarkable issues!
Great to see johns children, more mod psych pleeease
As usual, great video! Hope A whiter shade of pale will get a special video on his own. Procol Harum's entire opus is amazing. One of the most British bands. Sadly Keith Reid passed away months ago, and so Gary Brooker.
What a trifecta outa the gate! The Wind Cries Mary is just the cat's meow. Thanks mate for another ace post.
Cheers, Willie! May 1967 was a great month for singles.
Absolutely, fabulous, good time for you. Fabulous comments.
I was born in May 1967...and A Whiter Shade of Pale was the song the priest played during my confirmation in the church
Hollies are the BEST! Two singles in a row fronted by Graham
Took 8 years but my white bicycle got there in the end ,Nazareth hits the charts with there version in 1975 .
Stunning, that's all I can say! Nice mix of familiar songs (old friends of mine) and stuff I've never even heard of (e.g., Nightmare in Red). Is there any doubt that this era was the most creatively fertile in the history of popular music?
Wow! That roster of singles was just staggering. This is truly wonderful work and an obvious labor of love. This Yank in upstate NY is grateful for your efforts. Think I'll go practice Dave's riff on Waterloo Sunset.
Cheers!
I second the appreciation. One of my weekly highlights is viewing this channel, especially this year. 1967 was the year I was born and seeing this year being reviewed is a incredible way to see what was happening when I was born. Thank you again for the work you do and the channel itself.
@@TheEWFX29 Thanks! Glad you enjoy these videos. Cheers!
Wow man . This was groovy 👌Every song ❤
That last comment at the very end about it being an era when labels took risks and released unusual music is so true! I feel like artists also took more risks as well and released creative interesting things that could potentially not be popular.
Being a young fan of this kind music in London in May 1967 could have been like a kind of heaven assuming things were going well in your life. Love those rainy street scenes you included on this one.
Musically, 1966 and 1967 just did the thing for me. In 1967, "Whiter Shade of Pale" served as the perfect background for yours truly dancing with a truly dazzling gal. Memories which will never fail. Remember, "too much sun will burn." Sure, some great psychedelic sound came out the States, but, to me, Britain took the field and won the day. Many thanks, Yesterday's Papers!
May 1967 - Hendrix's arrival on the music scene.
And world was never the same again.
Great singles coming out in May. Always loved Paper Sun but also with Wind cries Mary and Waterloo Sunset. Loved to have seen John's Children live at the time. Not overkeen on the Troggs 45 to be honest.
A excellent month.
Yep, Maurice. One of the best months of 1967 when it comes to singles.
What a massive list of great songs! Incredible month, hope there's a part two coming. Thank you for another remarkable video, I'm a fan of Yesterday's Papers 🙂
Remember it well....Thanks
Whiter shade is still an amazing song..
Love hearing The Troggs referenced. I always thought their sound was ahead of the time. A lot of quality this month before June, when everything changed!
Im not sure if our humble YT narrator is human or voice generated, but lets have a round of applause for him
Kudos to Guy Stevens, the man who formed, named and produced Procol Harum (A wither shade of pale was a sentence from him before becaming a song). And he did the same 2 years later for Mott the Hoople (with a couple of month in jail for drugs in between).
Ended up Producing The Clash ! Awesome 👌
Denny Cordell produced it, not Guy
.
I just noticed that parts of Waterloo Sunset sound a bit like Neil Sedaka's "Laughter In The Rain"
Love these, what great music!
What a great issue! Tomorrow's debut album, that includes "My White Bicycle" is one of my favorite albums ever from British Underground, Kinks' "Something Else" is a masterpiece too. Peace ☮ from Russia.
I'm a big fan of "Something Else" as well. Brilliant album.
I'll have to look that album out. I bought the single and 'often sing the tune' when riding on my Black Electric Bike in Wales.... Velvet Opera released a great album..... V̾E̾L̾V̾E̾T̾ ̾O̾P̾E̾R̾A̾ ̾-̾ ̾R̾i̾d̾e̾ ̾A̾ ̾H̾u̾s̾t̾l̾e̾r̾ ̾D̾r̾e̾a̾m̾....
@@HTJB60 I really love the first Velvet Opera's album
thank you.
What a month. Here comes Summer. Thanks YP ^^
Cheers, Paul!
@@YesterdaysPapers
Describing Gary Brooker as "Stevie Winwood without the viciousness..."? Quite harsh on one of the best pop/rock/soul/blues/psychedelic singers ever to emerge from the UK, not to mention multi-instrumentalist, songwriter, and arranger (who just turned 19 during the month under review but had already racked up a mountain of musical accomplishments, with decades more to come). Still, an excellent compendium of great songs that still echo unforgettably in my musical consciousness after more than five and one-half decades. Great to hear pre-Yes Steve Howe's guitar on Tomorrow's "My White Bicycle." Thank you again, PT, for a bright spot in a lumbar-damaged (damn old age and its chronic back pain!) Memorial Day weekend here in the US.
Yeah, viciousness is wrong, but I know what she means.
All of these songs are great. I want to brown leather vest Graham Nash is wearing.
“Waterloo Sunset” > “Whiter Shade of Pale”
They are both different and unique tunes. No need to make unnecessary comparisons. Let's keep the loving vibes alive! ✌️🏵
@@Mojorising1328 Alphabetically first of the two songs too.
That Paper Sun review was world class lols
What a month !!
That was an excellent month for singles.
I feel like I definitely agree with Penny Valentine regarding A Whiter Shade of Pale it's such a beautiful song and beautiful melody and it's sung so beautifully that you think you're about to hear the most profound words ever and it's just about having too much to drink lol. It's like the lyrics aren't quite worthy of this song if you will. I used to mishear the lyric, and think it was "call out for another dream" which I think sounds so much more poignant and beautiful and fitting for the melody than "call out for another drink"
MAN! It's just one five-star masterpiece after another for this month!! The only tracks I see missing here are The Moody Blues' "Fly Me High" (their rebirth!) and The Hi-Fi's "Tread Softly For The Sleepers". Otherwise, trying to pick which one of these singles was best is a nearly impossible task, although I suppose I'd *have* to go for "Waterloo Sunset" which is one of the greatest songs ever. "Paper Sun" and "My White Bicycle" are glorious slices of psychedelia, and even the Troggs got trippy! Incredible music! The spring of 1967 has to be some kind of peak for Western Civilization (there was amazing stuff happening in the US that month, too, of course: Country Joe & The Fish "Electric Music For The Mind & Body", Zappa "Absolutely Free", Mort Garson "Cosmic Sounds", Red Krayola "The Parable Of Arable Land", etc.). In any case I just want to congratulate you heartily for having finished all of 1967, and (hint hint) I know I wouldn't mind similar journeys back through 1966 and 1968!! Thanks so much for all the high-quality content, it's much appreciated!
Cheers, Spirit! I couldn't include the Moody Blues due to copyright. I've decided the new series will be "Cool British Singles from 1966".
@@YesterdaysPapers YAY!! FUCK YES! "Paint It Black", "Substitute", "Eleanor Rigby", "Sunny Afternoon", "Gimme Some Lovin'", "Shapes Of Things", "Sunshine Superman", "I Feel Free", "Making Time", "Hey Joe", "Smashed Blocked", "Don't Bring Me Down", "Indication", "Have You Seen Your Mother Baby", "Night Of Fear", "Happenings Ten Years Time Ago", "Semi-Detached Suburban Mr. James", "Paperback Writer", "Mud In Your Eye", "Happy Jack", "Am I The Red One?", "Somebody Help Me", "Dedicated Follower Of Fashion", "Come See Me", "Painter Man", the list of classics goes on and on! I can't wait to see what you dig up on the more obscure end!
Like the 45 sleeve you showed, a lot of early Traffic sleeves in Europe referred to the band as “Stevie Winwood’s Traffic” or “Traffic with Stevie Winwood” etc.
Once again have to mention the enthusiasm and insanity of the British pop music machine!
With seemingly a dozen weekly tabloid pop music publications reviewing and parceling down each single record and creating trends where none exist. I think this alone deserves its own historical review.
A great selection; with several nascent prog rockers getting their start around then.
I just about remember that month and year and one could sense something was ‘in the air’ (I’d just turned 9..).
I liked most pop music back then.
Maybe a lot of it was aimed at introverted, rural dwelling pre-teens.
thanks for showing the page of the paper i can freeze the video and read the article.....more please💝🧡😄😄
Much appreciated,great work.Must make a contribution......When I can shake off the usuall procrastination.Keep on keeping on💙
Nice to trip back to the groovy past... I was on the verge of graduating High School.... and of course, because I'm American, I didn't get to hear most of what you played.. but we would've been listening if we had the chance... and some of those did make it over to us. Always enjoy!
You say, Robert Fripp, I sit up and pay attention. I loved The Cheerful Insanity of Giles, Giles and Fripp. And King Crimson, sigh… I’m over the moon! Never heard of Fripp’s and Michael and Peter Giles’ involvement with The Brain. From the clip I heard, Nightmares In Red, I want to hear more. I’m intrigued!
It's a crazy record!
Heavyweight after heavyweight!!! One heck of a group of records although the novelty of the Brain 45 doesn't do much for me. Excellent look at some fantastic singles, well done!!!
Cheers, Buzza!
Not too shabby a clutch, eh? This channel's compulsive viewing!
''Waterloo Sunset'', The Kinks. ❤❤❤
I would love to see another one on the top records being played in the clubs if there are any more of those
Sadly, Disc magazine only did that once.
I never knew Tomorrow's My White Bicycle wasn't a hit. It's the song which, after hearing it about ten years ago,, got me into exploring English psychedelic bands that were unknown over here in America. I love their CD, which has 23 songs.
It had to be business. I'm an American and loved it on first hearing on a compilation CD. It sounds like it could have been a hit.
I'm a Brit, bought it at the time and I too am surprised it wasn't a 'hit'. It WAS with me and I still listen to it. >>> Nowaday's I ride a Black, Electric one. LOL.
Fantastic, this month included some of my favorite songs ever. I remember buying the Night of the long Grass in a good 45 haul from a 1980's yard sale. The flip When will the rain Come is also very good. Cheers.
That skirt wudna got Desdemona far anyway - it was a mini 😁
Ha ! I was in London the next month on vacation. Some skirts were just wide belts !
@@terryenglish7132
Ha good times man
Wow, what a trip! So many wonderful melodies and concepts this month. As always, I will undertake a flurry of YouTubing to find some of these treasures..Gonna begin with the Troggs.Thank you Yesterdays Papers, great video.
Cheers, Cliff!
Very good ... thank you
So many beloved classics with a few forgettable one.
Wonderful as always, thank you!
What a month! Here in NZ we never got to hear My White Bicycle, (which see the book "white bicycles making music in the 1960s" Joe Boyd Profile Books Ltd 2010).
Nor john's children. Nor The Troggs' Night of the Long Grass.
Nor Nightmares in Red.
Definitely part of my formative years. I didn't even know there was a music press, let alone what anyone else was saying. I just had my radio and my own evaluations.
'Whiter Shade of Pale' and 'Paper Sun' are my favourites here. Believe it or not, I didn't even like Procol's track at the time. RIP Keith Reid and Gary Brooker
Waterloo Sunset? Why isn't Ray mentioned when people talk about Lennon/McCartney or Dylan? He really could write about the lives and trials of regular folks. Sort of what Jarvis Cocker did with Pulp. "Byrds Back With Dylan Song"? Never saw that one coming. Dylan's songs were sort of a safety net for The Byrds.
In early BritPop in the 90s, Blur made the Kinks, mostly Ray, so cool again. Many videos on youtube to prove it.
The Brain? With Robert Fripp WOW love king crimson here in LA on the first tour simply astonishing ! It was a great time to be a Londoner me thinks thanks YP CHEERS!!!
Cheers, Jerry!
Bin großer Fan von TRAFFIC und den KINKS. Danke für den Beitrag...
... And then, on the 26 May 1967, a defining moment in pop culture happened with the release of THAT album. It was fifty six years ago today (plus a few days)
Oh what a lovely month -- nevermind the charts, a lot of these were still getting regular airplay when I got my first FM radio for Christmas 1970.
J.H.E. holds up today with anybody! Hendrix was one Cool dude!
Incredible!
I think there were tons of singles from 1964-1969 which were classics that will never happen again in the western civilisation because suddenly albums became more important than singles
The drummer for John's Children sounds just like Keith Moon.
Yeah, John's Children were very influenced by The Who
@@YesterdaysPapers More than that as it turns out. From Chris Townson's wiki page: " He replaced The Who's Keith Moon on drums on a 1967 UK tour after Moon had injured himself," They should have put him in the band instead of Kenny Jones.
Really enjoy these videos, which are clearly a labour of love for you. Just wanted to let you know that they are much-appreciated!
Thanks, Marty!
Amazing month.
That was an interesting trip. I've been listening to King Crimson for years but never knew about Fripp and the Giles brothers releasing that weird single as The Brain.
Another cracker, thank you Yesterday's Papers!