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Forgot THE ASSOCIATION... The drummer Ted Bluechel was my neighbor in Malibu... The Association knocked The Beatles off the #1 spot several times..."Cherish" , "Windy" , "Never My Love" , "Along Comes Mary"...HUGE HITS!...Great band , great harmony...
On the general topic of flipping through a collection of record albums, and commenting on them, discovering something new... As you know, many vintage paper album sleeves were advertisements for additional albums in the record company catalog. Columbia, A&M, Atlantic, Warner Bros, many of them, if not all, did that for a time. The late 60's and early 70's are what comes to mind when I think of that inner sleeve style. So one day a few years back while playing some of my albums, I was looking at a Columbia Records sleeve, and noticed that many of the acts, and albums, were unknown to me. I thought, the record company thought these acts were worth spending money to produce and promote their music, so there must be something there worth checking out. I began looking up the band/act names, reading about their history, charted singles, legacy, career duration... I discovered quite a few new-to-me songs/acts I really liked! A few come to mind: Nino Tempo and April Stevens, the brother sister act known for their early 60's body of work. Their cover of Indian Love Call is quintessential 60's gold! Another is Tony Joe White. Sure, those two acts are hardly unknowns, but they are examples of music/acts that never filtered into my generally broad range of music interests.
Matt- thanks for pulling out The Litter Emerge album. Minneapolis group that I saw a few times in Duluth in ‘70 & ‘72. A great band. I posted a TH-cam video of the Litter playing at the Duluth Armory May 15, 1970. Very rare. Search ‘The Litter Emerge Video’. Carry on.
John Renbourn also worked as a duo with Barbadian singer Doris Henderson. She later formed a group Doris Henderson’s Eclection, who morphed into Fotheringay and three of whose members ended up in Fairport.
The Racket Squad was a Pittsburgh group! They began as the Fenways, scoring a big hit in Pittsburgh with "Walk," I believe in '64. They evolved into the Squad as the decade went on. I need to check out more of their music.
For early R&B cover, find The Loading Zone. A Berkeley band that went R&B instead of folk, one of the first to have a horn section, fronted by Linda Tillery who, after the Zone split and reformed on the Blue Thumb label, went on her own as Sweet Linda Devine. After that Linda formed the Cultural Heritage Choir with friends and is doing well in that groove.
The Racket Squad (19:40) were a Pittsburgh group that had local success. Joey Covington (J.A) was the drummer for awhile. Most of their music are found on 45s. The Shondells were from Pgh too. Tommy James arrived by himself on Pgh TV. You've probably read his book. That should be a great program!
Very nice to see you mention the "See For Miles" import compilation albums, which were the only way to hear many 60s UK songs from artists like the Hollies, Zombies, Manfred Mann back in the 1980s. Their original American LPs were long out of print and reissues of the original UK LPs were not (yet) available in the States back in the 80's. Edsel Records in the UK did the same thing by creating compilation LPs from 60s from artists that didn't have records in the U.S., like the Mojos, the Mersey Beats, the Creation, etc. This was before the advent of the CD and record companies reissuing their back catalog of long deleted LPs from the 60s...
The Them album you showed is a later Parrot pressing (1966) that came out when the Shadows of Knight version of Gloria was becoming big nationwide (except in California). The original cover artwork for the first pressing from 1965 says "featuring Here Comes the Night", since that song was a bigger nationwide hit that year. But as a previous commentator said who was around in So Cal at the time it came out, the original Them single was a monster hit - the radio chart history shows that it was #1 on stations in Los Angeles and San Diego for quite a few weeks even before the first Them album ever came out. That's why the band managed to get a residency at the Whisky A Go Go in Los Angeles for 3 wks. on their first visit to the U.S. in 1966. The Doors early on cited them as an influence and even managed to jam with them at the Whiskey. I NEVER heard the Shadows of Knight version on L.A. radio - first heard it when I got the Sundazed reissue of the first SoK album on CD sometime in the early 2000s.
I like them too. In the Tarantino movie "One Upon a Time in Hollywood" they more or less implied PR and Raiders was "not cool" in the late 60s (even though the soundtrack heavily featured them)... can someone explain why? They seem like a great rocking band
@@bucksdiaryfan Their goofiness on "Where the Action Is' and the Revolutionary war outfits contributed to their "uncoolness', but their music was very good at that time.
Thanks for sharing your 60's collection parts 1 & 2. I made a few notes on artists I am less familiar with. Looking forward to part 3, the 70's and 80's 😀
I’m highly impressed with your Ventures collection. Yeah the Kinks and the Stones are both “ how far do you go” Both deserve creds for staying relevant well into the 70s(and beyond) Me and my friend Norm expended numerous brain cells listening to We’re Only in it lol I’m old enough to remember Gary Puckett and the union gap getting massive airplay on AM radio. Ton of hits but the arrangements are SO sappy! I’d definitely love to learn more about Moby Grape….Cheers
Matt, I must say you have an extensive 1960's vinyl record collection I am impress. Do you have any record albums by the folk group "The Brothers Four" they recorded 17 record albums on the Columbia Record label from 1960 through 1969. they are best known for the song "Greenfields" cool records bins by the way. 👍
Great collection and I’m glad you had a couple of signed albums. I try to get as many albums as I can signed by the original artists that way they become one of a kind and it is something that I possibly can pass along to my family eventually.
Matt, no Smother's Brothers? But they played folk music. Tommy is gone now. I always picture him sitting on John and Yoko's bed singing 'Give Peace A Chance'. The stories aren't necessarily in their recordings. They protested the war in Vietnam, the government, and CBS, who tried to gag them. They were great. I was a kid, but I never missed their show. Your collection is amazing. I'm sorry you didn't show the back wall. Hey, Tony Bennett? Boss!! 😊 So many groups I never heard of that I can't wait to hear about! If you do Sergio Mendez and Brazil '66, I would love that. My folks played them often. That would take me back. Wonderful as always. Thanks Matt!❤
Glad too see you got some crooners in there too as much as i love the teen idols, pop rock surf, and garage rock. I enjoy myself some connie francis pat boone the letterman etc.. too
Look forward to upcoming folk stuff. Don't see much talk of how early psych, rock, garage, and pop grew (often) from folk/roots groups like Fred Neil in the Greenwich Village scene and folk/roots guys like Rising Sons on the west coast. The rediscovery of American blues artists through 60's touring "Folk Festivals" was also a big influence on the Brits.
Fun tour, Matt. The last LP you showed but didn't comment on was one of the best TV soundtracks of the '60s: jazzy and exciting The Man From UNCLE, with performances by Hugo Montenegro and compositions by the great Jerry Goldsmith and Lalo Schifrin. And talk about "girl" covers!
Great selection Matt! Just so you know, your Peter & Gordon videos got me into them! It was not a wasted effort! I even downloaded the dreadful Peter cover of The Beatles “If I Fell”!! 🤣
I fell in love with Buffy Saint-Marie's music a couple of years ago and "Illuminations" is now one of my favorite records. I can't wait for your video on her. Regarding the recent controversy about her: I don't have a hard opinion either way, but regardless of how it pans out, it doesn't lessen her impact as an artist for me. The only thing that bums me out is that she's retired from performing so I won't get a chance to see her. Spirit is another band I discovered a few years back, and they have become one of my favorite bands. Just as Arthur Lee continued to make some great music after the classic lineup of Love broke up, I really like a lot of the music that Randy California made after the classic lineup broke up (though I will admit those first four albums are really hard to top). The Youngbloods are another group I discovered at the same time, and quickly became a big favorite. I gobbled up all of their records that I could find because they're pretty cheap in record stores. I recently picked up a Supremes album, "A Bit of Liverpool" that is mostly Beatle covers so of course it's good. I also really like the albums with Jean Terrell. Any chance you will do a video on Doug Sahm and the Sir Douglas Quintet at some point? Their records remain painfully hard to find without paying a little coin, but a great band with a unique sound.
I have all Sir Doug’s albums on my computer and I would like to do a history on them but I don’t know them well so it may be a while. I appreciate the requests!
Happy to see you mention The Shangri-Las. Mary Weiss was amazing! Looking forward to your take on their albums. The RSD 2 LP set from 2021, "The Shangri-Las - The Best of the Red Bird and Mercury Recordings" is an excellent source of information.
ok...one more comment...if I was asked for my top 5 albums...Buffy Ste Marie's album "Illuminations" would be in my top 5....let's notice how through her music she enlightened us to the First Nation's history...."Illuminations" is start to finish...every song memorable and so ahead of it's time electronically altering her guitar and voice...the song "Poppies" at the end of the album to this day takes me to a place...the best of the Beatles' music takes me, I have almost all her albums on vinyl..cheers Mike
Great collection of 60's albums Matt👍👌Thanks for another entertaining show & tell, I also made note of bands and artists Ive never heard of that you talked about- I'll have to hunt down that Supremes album Love Child, -and I hope you show us your 70's collection as well 🙂
A tour thorough your 60s record collection was the perfect way to unwind after a busy market weekend! Blue Cheer has been recommended to me many times, I'm definitely going to check them out. Love seeing all the Canadian gems, we have The Guess Who on at work all the time! I had no idea that Chilliwack had an early name as the Collectors, I gotta search that up too. The Incredible String Band is one of my very favourite 60s (and early 70s) groups - I know you've got so many amazing bands to do a series on, but man, they were an interesting crew!
Hi Matt. Thanks for mentioning Mick Taylor! I think you're right tho, you'll probably have to cover up till Tattoo You, which would bring you to 81? But, Ronnie Wood and Some Girls would be worth the five or six part series.
Manfred Mann were huge. Their first hit 54321 was the theme tune to the Friday night tv pop show Ready Steady Go. It actually runs for less than a minute.
I was just listening to that Rising Sons the last couple of days. Got it when it came out, 2001, it really grew on me. they only had 1 45 at the time, no wonder they are not remembered. Pentangle are among the very very top for me, several great albums by Bert and John before them, as you pointed out. Pretty Things? Where to start? AMAZING, all the way to their 1970 album Parachute for sure. Spirit! Unique 😊
Love visiting someone's record collection, so many memories and some new finds from the past. Best thing about watching a video on it as opposed to actually going over someone's place is, I don't feel like I wore out my welcome and have to put all the LPs back in order. There's another vinyl collector channel called Retro Musings which would make a great collab vid or a throwdown on who's is bigger.
I still have 800+ albums from the '60s until the mid 80's, when my collecting fever abated. I am envious of your remarkable collection and your undeniable dedication to the art. Love your channel.
i might be more impressed with the magnificent cabinets than i am the magnificent LP's and you don't need me to tell you that you are a great archivist of this stuff and have been since childhood. i wish i had spent mine in california where mine might've resembled the first 4 seasons of "chips" of which you have posters. i love the sergio mendes album especially. great video of things i would fear losing due to a natural disaster! thanks.
Matt... When you brought out Harry Nilsson's "Pandemonium Shadow Show" album, I immediately thought of his "Puppy Song" and (maybe) his best lyrical intro: "Dreams are nothing more than wishes, and a wish is just a dream you wish to come true..." The 1967 - 1973 period of Harry's output before he destroyed his vocals and became more self destructive with his artistry is my go-to spot... ("Nilsson Sings Newman" and "Touch Of Schmilsson" are personal favorites.) And my insides lit up when I saw that you had the "Funny Face" soundtrack in your collection. I've had that soundtrack since I was about 12 years old (1991-ish) and Adolph Deutsch's arrangement of "How Long Has This Been Going On" for Audrey Hepburn has been embedded in my aural psyche since then. Thanks for the share and godspeed...
Great video Matt. The Stones band history sounds awesome, I agree that ending it at Sticky FIngers might not be a bad idea. I'd prefer more of the one episode histories of the more obscure/short lived / deep cuts bands vs a never ending Stones slog up thru the 2010s. I doubt anyone cares about their current "nursing home era" lol. BTW I had never heard of Graham Bond before your episode, I think educating people about obscure bands like that makes the channel really unique and cool. I just told a bunch of people at a bar this past weekend about your channel, we were all discussing 60s music. Trying to spread the word.
Would love to hear the story of It’s A Beautiful Day.! I still have three of their albums. Couldn't part with them when we cleaned out my parent's house. So jealous of your Peter Tork signed Head album ! Best Monkees album IMO. Flowers...the best Stones album IMO. Orpheus !!!!....and so much more. Amazing. LOVE LOVE LOVE your channel !l Thank You !!
I really enjoyed seeing your collection, Matt! There are many albums in your collection that I also have and there are some that I don't own but your displaying them has reminded me that I need to get them. I can't imagine the amount of work it takes for you to put together your videos, the effort must be daunting. If I can be so bold to speak for the other subscribers, we thank you! The Knickerbockers sounded so much like the early Beatles, at least on their song "Lies", when John Lennon first heard the song he said, “I don't remember recording this”. Later on JL said, “They sound more like us than we do” and "(Lies is) the greatest song The Beatles never recorded.” So glad that you're planning on doing a video on the Pentangle, it is one of my favorite groups (as is Fairport Convention and Fotheringay). I also love Bert Jansch solo work and his collaboration with John Renbourn. I have a personal connection to Tommy James & The Shondells but I'll save that comment for when you do the profile on them. Mid 60's, I saw the Ronettes and the Shangri-Las live at one of NYC DJ Murray The K's shows in the Brooklyn Fox Theater. I had an uncle who was a NYC detective and he'd arrange for me and some friends to get into those shows for free, they were very cool shows at that time. I'm in the camp with those who think the Stones should have stopped at Sticky Fingers. There is a song here and there on albums after SF, like, "Sweet Black Angel", "Shine A Light", "Time Waits For No One" and a few others but as a big fan who started listening to them in '64, I didn't really care for much of their work after Mick Tayler left. I just bought the Stones mono box set, its very good.
What a great opportunity to have seen the Ronettes! And I didn’t know John Lennon said that! Funny. Thankfully that’s the only song of theirs that can be confused with the Beatles.
@@popgoesthe60s52 If you look up Murray The K's shows at the Brooklyn Fox, you'll get to see all of the acts that he had on those shows, he did them for years. The stage would rise up several feet, having front row seats gave me a great view. Performers would only do a couple of songs each because there were so many artists on the bill. Performances would start in the afternoon and go well into the night. The one that I missed is the one I'd REALLY like to have seen, although I'm not 100% sure it was at the Fox, it had Cream, the Who, the Blues Project, Smokey and the Miracles, Mitch Ryder, Wilson Pickett and others, that show ran for 9 days!
Look forward to your Kinks video. Ray Davies was the best British songwriter of the 60s, IMHO. I'd end it at the Lola album, don't know too many Kinks fans who get excited about what came after it. I agree with your comment about the Stones' best period ending with Mick Taylor but I think it would be worth taking a video on them as far as Tattoo You as it's a very good album, almost like their last hurrah.
Thanks for the Introduction to your Record Collection, very nice especially for my German ears and eyes. When you talk about the wood quality, I just thought “the cheap presswoods” would be a pretty good band name.
Ian and Sylvia's "Northern Journey" is an album I have and highly recommend their other records and their solo albums Sylvia Tyson and Ian Tyson ....steller song by Ian "Someday Soon"...Alberta Ian meets Sylvia from Ontario and woo Jim and Jean ...the song "One Sure Thing" from the album "Changes' AND Kensington Market (Toronto band) appreciate the Canada call out there...by the way my patreon feed stops at Strawberry Alarm Clock...searched this post and it does not appear...oh well...hopefully the internet will figure it out
As an Elvis fan, I strongly urge you to toss those soundtrack albums in the trash and replace them with Elvis Is Back and From Elvis In Memphis, his first and last album from the 60s. Both are strong from start to finish. Elvis grew to hate making those movies and no doubt hated making those soundtrack albums just as much.
I'm going to go against the grain, and say I love some of the Elvis movie tunes. E.g. "Wolf Call" and "Ft. Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce" from the movie Girl Happy are super groovy!
Hey Matt~~ great Chnl & great to see your collection of LPs. When I was a kid in the early 1960s and 1970s we had a 45 of this really cool pop song from an obscure Band from the '60s and the song's chorus was stuck in my head for about 50s yrs or so and I couldn't remember the name of the Band,..then I finally found them on YT after many attempts, a very strong pop song called,'Race With The Wind' by The Robbs. I was watching this Part 2 of yours here today to see if you had any of their vinyl. Perhaps you can check them out if you have not already heard of them. Thanks for you killer fun TH-cam uploads. I look forward to your newest video uploads on Pop Goes the 60s pretty regularly . Take care and ....beautiful collection you have there. Take good care.
Matt, one thing I like about 'Pop Goes the 60s" is that you highlight not only the well-known bands of the 60s, but also lesser-known artists. So much good music was made in the 60s that few people are familiar with -- even old-timers like myself. (It wasn't until the advent of file-sharing in the early 2000s that I was able to discover a lot of the obscure-but-great music of the 60s.) For example, I was surprised to hear that you've gotten a lot of requests for Moby Grape. They were a very good band, but never had any big hits back in the day. I didn't think that many people were even aware of them! Some feedback: I would LOVE to watch music histories on Steppenwolf, the Supremes, and Tommy James & the Shondells! (Actually, I'd enjoy a history of any of the bands you mentioned in your LP collection!)
Great video. I’m not sure if you have the Grass Roots first LP but it’s pretty good folk rock. I’d love to see a video on them as they seem to have an interesting story. Keep this stuff coming Matt
I saw The Scaffold with my parents in Canterbury. They did no singing. All poetry and sketches. They also got a children’s tv series Score with the Scaffold. I think the establishment had no idea what to do with them.
Love your channel Matt. Any chance that you would consider doing a video on the subject of care and maintenance of your vinyl collection, and the type of equipment you use?
Not a bad idea, William. I've had several very good suggestions about my personal collection and equipment. I must warn you it isn't too fancy! I appreciate the support - thank you!
Well you restored my faith in you Matt. I thought you weren't going to mention the 13th Floor Elevators, since I was thinking they'd be filed under "E." Also was wondering why no Cream, but here you pulled one of their albums out that was mis-filed. Seeing some those covers, like the soundtrack albums (that I never bought) was like being in the record department at K-Mart all over again. That was fun, thanks. 😻
I do have some solid research material on the Elevators so that will be an interesting one. Hey may even include an Album That Never Was on them as well.
Matt, a recommendation: if you haven't read Joe Boyd's book "White Bicycles," you really should give it a look. Boyd did a bit of everything musical -- make that, everything musical that didn't personally involve making the music -- during the '60's. It's a great read, and, holy crap, he touched on virtually everybody I liked, and quite a few individuals I didn't like. He went to high school with Geof Muldar; he was a dorm neighbors wih m Rush; he produced the first single for Pink Floyd. And so on. Highly recommended; I have probably given a copy to five people.
Thanks for sharing a look at your fabulous record collection , Matt. Much looking forward to your future band history videos you mentioned. One band I noticed missing in your collection was the Siegal-Schwall band, a Chicago group very popular in Illinios and southern Wisconsin in the late 60's early 70's.
Matt, A delight-filled episode. I love that you have several 'unhip' things in your collection. Sorting music by other folks opinions is downright foolish. Go with what you like! And a bunch of thoughts prompted by seeing the sleeves: "The Other Side of the Hollies" on SFM was ALL flipsides, most of which were originals and actually better than the hits Another reason to love See for Miles. I would recommend doing the Pentangle in two parts: one on the band and the other on solo Bert and John with their "Bert and John" album as the connecting piece. Bert played in my town several times solo and with martin Jenkins and/or other folks. John played played here solo, but mostly in the Renbourn Group or a version of Pentangle. Kensington Market's second album ,"Aardvark" - titled that to be the first in any alphabetical listings of album titles - is reputed to be the first (rock?) album to use a Moog. Moby Grape's Peter Lewis, being from LA, was involved with the early 2000s reunion of the Electric Prunes. Procol Harum actually recorded 10 albums before their (first) breakup. The Modern Folk Quartet had a great (to me, at least) folk-rock single on Dunhill: 'Night-Time Girl.' Henry Diltz took the photos for many album covers (CSN #1, Eagles #1, ...). Cyrus Faryar did a lot of session including the spoken word "The Zodiac: Cosmic Sounds." Chip Douglas joined the Turtles, produced one of their albums before producing other including "Headquarters" by the Monkees.And Jerry Yester recorded with (ex-)wife Judy Henske, produced an album by his brother's (Jim) band, the Association, replaced Zal Yanovsky in the Lovin' Spoonful, ....
Here's a band you may have not reviewed, THE AMERICAN BEETLES, 1964 to 1966, the only country they were big in was ARGENTINA, England and America didn't except them, what strange about THE AMERICAN BEETLES is I never saw any rereleases of their songs on CD or Albums , I believe they changed their name to THE RAZORS EDGE in 1966, THE AMERICAN BEETLES were cool
I saw a video on TH-cam about these fake "Beatles" that they fooled all these fans in Argentina thinking that the real Beatles were coming, only to realize it was all a sham by some Argentinian buisness man who was behind this scam.
Thanks for mentioning Orpheus. Bruce had a facebook page. He was very kind and would answer questions from followers of the page. I agree with you on the Diana Ross & The Supremes album, Love Child. It's pretty solid featuring James Jamerson on bass. The title track was one of Motown's first "socially aware" songs. Looking forward to your upcoming Supremes and Temptations vids. Keep up the good work! I love all your videos and learn something new when I watch them. I keep a paper and pen handy to jot down names of bands and singers you mentions to check out later.
The Litter was a great cover band out of Minneapolis Minnesota. My husband saw them many times. They were a crowd pleaser. Lots of friction in the band over the years though. It happens. Another group from Minnesota that you might want to check out is Gypsy. Great band. They were the house band at the Whiskey in LA. The band stayed at the house next to the labianca’s. Mason murder era. Yikes! Great collection you have Matt!
Its interesting that you mention that group Gypsy, because thats how they targeted the LeBianca house because a few of the Manson Family members had been at a party at that house you mention that Gypsy were living.
You should do a special called "Forget the music contained on this album, but look at this great album cover", where you just highlight great album covers (photos and art).
David McCallum had two albums back then. "A part of me" and "A bit more of me." Don't ask.🙄😁 I was a Folk Music fan also in the 1960s. Peter, Paul, and Mary did have one hit Rock N Roll song in 1968 called "I Dig Rock and Roll Music."👍 Thanks for reviewing your album collection. I enjoyed the trip.
As fascinated as you are about 60s British pop artists I can't believe you don't have any LPs by The Move. They had a lot of hit singles that were never heard on this side of the pond. And kudos for having a copy of "Ventures in Space." A landmark album that featured a bunch of guitar effects that were way before their time. Their stuff always sounded great.
Hi Matt…long time fan of the channel here from Australia. Love your presenting style and well researched content. I’ve 2 questions. 1) No The Who records? 2) the OCD in me is going wild on your collection with some records being in protector sleeve and some not. Thank you so much for walking us through your collection and giving us an insight on what groups you may cover in the future.
I do have plenty of Who and a few other bands that I skipped over for the sake of time. As for the protector sleeves, I occasionally add them to the deserving albums. 🙂 I also have thousands of files on my computer that wouldn't be possible to show in this manner.
Liking your Collection Yes please do the history of The Hollies think even though they were really popular in Britain. We do not know their Full History. I've two greatest hits albums. Hopefully we don't have to wait too long.
LOVE the Peanut Butter Conspiracy! 👍👍 If there was one American 60s band that should have enjoyed WAY more commercial success and received WAY more critical praise than they actually got, it was the PBC. Some of my very favorite 60s songs are on those two Columbia albums.
Had to smile when I saw you had the soundtrack to the movie The Lively Set. I was 13 when I saw this at my hometown movie theater and fell in love with Joanie Sommers. The song If You Love Him is one of my favorites of hers. Song didn’t chart but, in my opinion, should have been a top 20 hit (at least). Years later when I discovered Goldmine magazine I bought the 45 promo. Oh, I’m a big fan of The Grass Roots, one of my top ten favorite bands of the sixties. Would love to see you do a video on them. Saw them live in ‘71 and they were great!
11:14 *The Mindenders* - - "They tried." *Bob Lang* was a happenstance colleague in my admin college course, 1992. Nice guy, by far the oldest in class. He was down on his luck, but we *all* were - - that's why we were there. The new essential admin accessory was a computer monitor, & Bob found the subliminal flicker triggered epileptic attacks in class. Sometimes he'd be fine. Then he wouldn't. He didn't come back when he was hospitalised after the 3rd or 4th one. I remember driving the tutor & some classmates to visit him on my way to uni. Always affable, I remember Bob telling me that he'd been the bassist for The Minbenders from Wayne Fontana days right up to the 1968 split, when he bought a shop. I believed him, always genuine, he was ready to talk about it - - yet despite my streak of '60s nostalgia, I showed no especial interest. I even owned the 45 'Groovy Kind of Love' - - but had sold my 45s & many LPs in 1990. Think of the Qs I could've asked - - the gigs, recording sessions, filming with Lulu & Sidney Poitier... his youth far more eventful than mine. He was almost unrecognisable from those album covers - - the way I'm now unrecognisable from my former self. All I can say is I was mad busy then, making up for lost time in 4 different unis/colleges at the same time, in a schedule so demanding that I had to keep each course secret from the other unis/colleges so they didn't feel *their* course was compromised by an overextended student, as one course tutor did. But I sure wish I'd slowed down & given Bob the time of day he richly deserved. He was a good fellow. Sorry, Bob.
@@wyliesmith4244 Also *Graham Gouldman* joined Mindbenders in 1968 after Bob Lang & Ric Rothwell left, until the band disintegrated 1969. Then Gouldman & Stewart formed Hotlegs which morphed into 10cc.
Forgot THE ASSOCIATION...
The drummer Ted Bluechel was my neighbor in Malibu...
The Association knocked The Beatles off the #1 spot several times..."Cherish" , "Windy" , "Never My Love" , "Along Comes Mary"...HUGE HITS!...Great band , great harmony...
A video on Nilsson would be very welcome. One of the most underrated artists of the 60s in my opinion.
Agreed. Great voice.
On the general topic of flipping through a collection of record albums, and commenting on them, discovering something new... As you know, many vintage paper album sleeves were advertisements for additional albums in the record company catalog. Columbia, A&M, Atlantic, Warner Bros, many of them, if not all, did that for a time. The late 60's and early 70's are what comes to mind when I think of that inner sleeve style. So one day a few years back while playing some of my albums, I was looking at a Columbia Records sleeve, and noticed that many of the acts, and albums, were unknown to me. I thought, the record company thought these acts were worth spending money to produce and promote their music, so there must be something there worth checking out. I began looking up the band/act names, reading about their history, charted singles, legacy, career duration... I discovered quite a few new-to-me songs/acts I really liked! A few come to mind: Nino Tempo and April Stevens, the brother sister act known for their early 60's body of work. Their cover of Indian Love Call is quintessential 60's gold! Another is Tony Joe White. Sure, those two acts are hardly unknowns, but they are examples of music/acts that never filtered into my generally broad range of music interests.
Those two McCoys albums are both excellent.
Matt- thanks for pulling out The Litter Emerge album. Minneapolis group that I saw a few times in Duluth in ‘70 & ‘72. A great band. I posted a TH-cam video of the Litter playing at the Duluth Armory May 15, 1970. Very rare. Search ‘The Litter Emerge Video’. Carry on.
Glad to see you have Love Generation. Love Is A Rainy Day is a great song.
looking forward to a kinks video. great coverage. thank you!!
John Renbourn also worked as a duo with Barbadian singer Doris Henderson. She later formed a group Doris Henderson’s Eclection, who morphed into Fotheringay and three of whose members ended up in Fairport.
The Racket Squad was a Pittsburgh group! They began as the Fenways, scoring a big hit in Pittsburgh with "Walk," I believe in '64. They evolved into the Squad as the decade went on. I need to check out more of their music.
For early R&B cover, find The Loading Zone. A Berkeley band that went R&B instead of folk, one of the first to have a horn section, fronted by Linda Tillery who, after the Zone split and reformed on the Blue Thumb label, went on her own as Sweet Linda Devine. After that Linda formed the Cultural Heritage Choir with friends and is doing well in that groove.
Ian and Sylvia, yes! “Four strong winds”
Some of their harmonies were really delicious.
I love Pentangle. You're right Bert Jansch is a great guitar player. Solomon's Seal is my favorite album of theirs.
Great video once again. Looking forward to your upcoming Monkees video!
The Racket Squad (19:40) were a Pittsburgh group that had local success. Joey Covington (J.A) was the drummer for awhile. Most of their music are found on 45s. The Shondells were from Pgh too. Tommy James arrived by himself on Pgh TV. You've probably read his book. That should be a great program!
Very nice to see you mention the "See For Miles" import compilation albums, which were the only way to hear many 60s UK songs from artists like the Hollies, Zombies, Manfred Mann back in the 1980s. Their original American LPs were long out of print and reissues of the original UK LPs were not (yet) available in the States back in the 80's. Edsel Records in the UK did the same thing by creating compilation LPs from 60s from artists that didn't have records in the U.S., like the Mojos, the Mersey Beats, the Creation, etc. This was before the advent of the CD and record companies reissuing their back catalog of long deleted LPs from the 60s...
I may have to do a vid on See For Miles and Edsel. You’re right, they were so great in the pre cd era.
The Them album you showed is a later Parrot pressing (1966) that came out when the Shadows of Knight version of Gloria was becoming big nationwide (except in California). The original cover artwork for the first pressing from 1965 says "featuring Here Comes the Night", since that song was a bigger nationwide hit that year. But as a previous commentator said who was around in So Cal at the time it came out, the original Them single was a monster hit - the radio chart history shows that it was #1 on stations in Los Angeles and San Diego for quite a few weeks even before the first Them album ever came out. That's why the band managed to get a residency at the Whisky A Go Go in Los Angeles for 3 wks. on their first visit to the U.S. in 1966. The Doors early on cited them as an influence and even managed to jam with them at the Whiskey.
I NEVER heard the Shadows of Knight version on L.A. radio - first heard it when I got the Sundazed reissue of the first SoK album on CD sometime in the early 2000s.
Thanks for that info, Terry - much appreciated!
Great Taste in music Matt Great collection thanks for shareing .
P.R. and the Raiders brought the garage sound into the mainstream, IMHO.
I like them too. In the Tarantino movie "One Upon a Time in Hollywood" they more or less implied PR and Raiders was "not cool" in the late 60s (even though the soundtrack heavily featured them)... can someone explain why? They seem like a great rocking band
@@bucksdiaryfan Their goofiness on "Where the Action Is' and the Revolutionary war outfits contributed to their "uncoolness', but their music was very good at that time.
Looking forward to your Pentangle video including or separately their influential and incredible guitarists Bert Jansch and John Renbourn🎉
Thanks for sharing your 60's collection parts 1 & 2. I made a few notes on artists I am less familiar with. Looking forward to part 3, the 70's and 80's 😀
Gary Lewis from Gary Lewis and the playboys lives in Rochester New York and I have seen him perform in the city many times. Really nice guy.
It would be cool to see a video on The Youngbloods. They don’t get enough love, even if just for their first three albums.
I agree, the Youngbloods are seldom recognized among the other bands of their time.
I’m highly impressed with your Ventures collection. Yeah the Kinks and the Stones are both “ how far do you go” Both deserve creds for staying relevant well into the 70s(and beyond)
Me and my friend Norm expended numerous brain cells listening to We’re Only in it lol
I’m old enough to remember Gary Puckett and the union gap getting massive airplay on AM radio. Ton of hits but the arrangements are SO sappy!
I’d definitely love to learn more about Moby Grape….Cheers
Wow. I didn't think anyone else had that "Orpheus" album. Took it with me to college, based on "I Can't Find the Time to Tell You."
Thanks for sharing Matt - I could get lost in that collection over a weekend!
Matt, I must say you have an extensive 1960's vinyl record collection I am impress. Do you have any record albums by the folk group "The Brothers Four" they recorded 17 record albums on the Columbia Record label from 1960 through 1969. they are best known for the song "Greenfields" cool records bins by the way. 👍
Buffy St Marie would be VEEERY interesting...I know very few things about her. Her music is excellent. Top quality protest folk.
Mat, thanks for your reply about the creation, I missed that one. Please consider a Move-Elo video.
Great collection and I’m glad you had a couple of signed albums. I try to get as many albums as I can signed by the original artists that way they become one of a kind and it is something that I possibly can pass along to my family eventually.
Matt, no Smother's Brothers? But they played folk music. Tommy is gone now. I always picture him sitting on John and Yoko's bed singing 'Give Peace A Chance'. The stories aren't necessarily in their recordings. They protested the war in Vietnam, the government, and CBS, who tried to gag them. They were great. I was a kid, but I never missed their show.
Your collection is amazing. I'm sorry you didn't show the back wall. Hey, Tony Bennett? Boss!! 😊
So many groups I never heard of that I can't wait to hear about! If you do Sergio Mendez and Brazil '66, I would love that. My folks played them often. That would take me back. Wonderful as always. Thanks Matt!❤
I do have about 5 Smothers Brothers lps but I was skipping some artists to save a little time. 🙂
Glad too see you got some crooners in there too as much as i love the teen idols, pop rock surf, and garage rock. I enjoy myself some connie francis pat boone the letterman etc.. too
Great collection you have and very good you mentioned The Pretty Things as well!😀
Love that you got The Ventures. Looking forward to a video on them. Apparently the McCoys are named after the Ventures song The Real McCoy.
Look forward to upcoming folk stuff. Don't see much talk of how early psych, rock, garage, and pop grew (often) from folk/roots groups like Fred Neil in the Greenwich Village scene and folk/roots guys like Rising Sons on the west coast. The rediscovery of American blues artists through 60's touring "Folk Festivals" was also a big influence on the Brits.
Fun tour, Matt. The last LP you showed but didn't comment on was one of the best TV soundtracks of the '60s: jazzy and exciting The Man From UNCLE, with performances by Hugo Montenegro and compositions by the great Jerry Goldsmith and Lalo Schifrin. And talk about "girl" covers!
David McCallum was junior. His father, a dance band leader of the same name, used to be on TV here. We saw David jr on the box singing way before MFU.
Oh Man I can’t wait to see your video on The Monkees!!!!! that was one of the first 60s band I really got into.
What a collection! Thanks for sharing!
Great selection Matt!
Just so you know, your Peter & Gordon videos got me into them! It was not a wasted effort!
I even downloaded the dreadful Peter cover of The Beatles “If I Fell”!! 🤣
Excellent, Samborn - glad to hear it. You are brave to download their If I Fell!
I fell in love with Buffy Saint-Marie's music a couple of years ago and "Illuminations" is now one of my favorite records. I can't wait for your video on her. Regarding the recent controversy about her: I don't have a hard opinion either way, but regardless of how it pans out, it doesn't lessen her impact as an artist for me. The only thing that bums me out is that she's retired from performing so I won't get a chance to see her.
Spirit is another band I discovered a few years back, and they have become one of my favorite bands. Just as Arthur Lee continued to make some great music after the classic lineup of Love broke up, I really like a lot of the music that Randy California made after the classic lineup broke up (though I will admit those first four albums are really hard to top). The Youngbloods are another group I discovered at the same time, and quickly became a big favorite. I gobbled up all of their records that I could find because they're pretty cheap in record stores.
I recently picked up a Supremes album, "A Bit of Liverpool" that is mostly Beatle covers so of course it's good. I also really like the albums with Jean Terrell.
Any chance you will do a video on Doug Sahm and the Sir Douglas Quintet at some point? Their records remain painfully hard to find without paying a little coin, but a great band with a unique sound.
I have all Sir Doug’s albums on my computer and I would like to do a history on them but I don’t know them well so it may be a while. I appreciate the requests!
Happy to see you mention The Shangri-Las. Mary Weiss was amazing! Looking forward to your take on their albums. The RSD 2 LP set from 2021, "The Shangri-Las - The Best of the Red Bird and Mercury Recordings" is an excellent source of information.
Thanks much for sharing, Matt! Really enjoyed it! I have the Neil Hefti Batman album and that Man From UNCLE lp too!😂
I love the Hollies. Looking forward to your review.
P.S. last great Kinks album was Misfits. Just my opinion.
I could go along with that. I toughed it out till "Low Budget," which I believe came later.
ok...one more comment...if I was asked for my top 5 albums...Buffy Ste Marie's album "Illuminations" would be in my top 5....let's notice how through her music she enlightened us to the First Nation's history...."Illuminations" is start to finish...every song memorable and so ahead of it's time electronically altering her guitar and voice...the song "Poppies" at the end of the album to this day takes me to a place...the best of the Beatles' music takes me, I have almost all her albums on vinyl..cheers Mike
Great collection of 60's albums Matt👍👌Thanks for another entertaining show & tell, I also made note of bands and artists Ive never heard of that you talked about- I'll have to hunt down that Supremes album Love Child, -and I hope you show us your 70's collection as well 🙂
Great collection!
Great collection
A tour thorough your 60s record collection was the perfect way to unwind after a busy market weekend! Blue Cheer has been recommended to me many times, I'm definitely going to check them out. Love seeing all the Canadian gems, we have The Guess Who on at work all the time! I had no idea that Chilliwack had an early name as the Collectors, I gotta search that up too.
The Incredible String Band is one of my very favourite 60s (and early 70s) groups - I know you've got so many amazing bands to do a series on, but man, they were an interesting crew!
Thank you, Jennie! This was a fun 2-parter to do.
Amazing collection Matt! Thanks for sharing this!
Hi Matt. Thanks for mentioning Mick Taylor! I think you're right tho, you'll probably have to cover up till Tattoo You, which would bring you to 81? But, Ronnie Wood and Some Girls would be worth the five or six part series.
Enjoyed that. definitely hit the other side of the room at some point. Very interested in where the 70s and 80s took you.
I would have loved a part 3!
I will probably do a 'girl covers' episode 🙂
Manfred Mann were huge. Their first hit 54321 was the theme tune to the Friday night tv pop show Ready Steady Go. It actually runs for less than a minute.
Would really enjoy a video on the New Colony Six! Great group out of Chicago and it would be cool to hear your take on their tunes.
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I was just listening to that Rising Sons the last couple of days. Got it when it came out, 2001, it really grew on me. they only had 1 45 at the time, no wonder they are not remembered.
Pentangle are among the very very top for me, several great albums by Bert and John before them, as you pointed out.
Pretty Things? Where to start? AMAZING, all the way to their 1970 album Parachute for sure.
Spirit! Unique 😊
What? No 1910 Fruitgum Company! 😂 A very impressive collection, thank you for sharing.
Hey, I may do a special on bubblegum music for that period so everything is on the table!
@popgoesthe60s52
An overview of bubblegum would be interesting. There are lots of fun pop songs from that era. I hope you get a chance to do one.
Love visiting someone's record collection, so many memories and some new finds from the past. Best thing about watching a video on it as opposed to actually going over someone's place is, I don't feel like I wore out my welcome and have to put all the LPs back in order.
There's another vinyl collector channel called Retro Musings which would make a great collab vid or a throwdown on who's is bigger.
I’ll check out that channel - thanks!
The Litter´s Breakfast At Gardensons is one of my favorites
I still have 800+ albums from the '60s until the mid 80's, when my collecting fever abated. I am envious of your remarkable collection and your undeniable dedication to the art. Love your channel.
Thank you Elmo - it’s been such a pleasure to share it!
i might be more impressed with the magnificent cabinets than i am the magnificent LP's and you don't need me to tell you that you are a great archivist of this stuff and have been since childhood. i wish i had spent mine in california where mine might've resembled the first 4 seasons of "chips" of which you have posters. i love the sergio mendes album especially. great video of things i would fear losing due to a natural disaster! thanks.
Great collection Matt ! Alot of artists and bands I forgot even existed. I Enjoyed this ,thanks !
Matt... When you brought out Harry Nilsson's "Pandemonium Shadow Show" album, I immediately thought of his "Puppy Song" and (maybe) his best lyrical intro: "Dreams are nothing more than wishes, and a wish is just a dream you wish to come true..." The 1967 - 1973 period of Harry's output before he destroyed his vocals and became more self destructive with his artistry is my go-to spot... ("Nilsson Sings Newman" and "Touch Of Schmilsson" are personal favorites.)
And my insides lit up when I saw that you had the "Funny Face" soundtrack in your collection. I've had that soundtrack since I was about 12 years old (1991-ish) and Adolph Deutsch's arrangement of "How Long Has This Been Going On" for Audrey Hepburn has been embedded in my aural psyche since then.
Thanks for the share and godspeed...
Thanks for the comment! I may have to do a part three at some point!
Great video Matt. The Stones band history sounds awesome, I agree that ending it at Sticky FIngers might not be a bad idea. I'd prefer more of the one episode histories of the more obscure/short lived / deep cuts bands vs a never ending Stones slog up thru the 2010s. I doubt anyone cares about their current "nursing home era" lol.
BTW I had never heard of Graham Bond before your episode, I think educating people about obscure bands like that makes the channel really unique and cool. I just told a bunch of people at a bar this past weekend about your channel, we were all discussing 60s music. Trying to spread the word.
I appreciate you sharing my channel with your friends - thank you!
Would love to hear the story of It’s A Beautiful Day.! I still have three of their albums. Couldn't part with them when we cleaned out my parent's house. So jealous of your Peter Tork signed Head album ! Best Monkees album IMO. Flowers...the best Stones album IMO.
Orpheus !!!!....and so much more. Amazing.
LOVE LOVE LOVE your channel !l Thank You !!
Hello Janice! I have plenty of my list so I'd better get cracking!
Yay !!!!
THANKS...
I'll be watching !!!
Many of these bands I've never heard of. Many I've heard one song or so.
Fun two part series! You should have let the light keep flashing as an homage to the popular strobe lights from the 60s!
I really enjoyed seeing your collection, Matt! There are many albums in your collection that I also have and there are some that I don't own but your displaying them has reminded me that I need to get them. I can't imagine the amount of work it takes for you to put together your videos, the effort must be daunting. If I can be so bold to speak for the other subscribers, we thank you!
The Knickerbockers sounded so much like the early Beatles, at least on their song "Lies", when John Lennon first heard the song he said, “I don't remember recording this”. Later on JL said, “They sound more like us than we do” and "(Lies is) the greatest song The Beatles never recorded.”
So glad that you're planning on doing a video on the Pentangle, it is one of my favorite groups (as is Fairport Convention and Fotheringay). I also love Bert Jansch solo work and his collaboration with John Renbourn.
I have a personal connection to Tommy James & The Shondells but I'll save that comment for when you do the profile on them.
Mid 60's, I saw the Ronettes and the Shangri-Las live at one of NYC DJ Murray The K's shows in the Brooklyn Fox Theater. I had an uncle who was a NYC detective and he'd arrange for me and some friends to get into those shows for free, they were very cool shows at that time.
I'm in the camp with those who think the Stones should have stopped at Sticky Fingers. There is a song here and there on albums after SF, like, "Sweet Black Angel", "Shine A Light", "Time Waits For No One" and a few others but as a big fan who started listening to them in '64, I didn't really care for much of their work after Mick Tayler left. I just bought the Stones mono box set, its very good.
What a great opportunity to have seen the Ronettes! And I didn’t know John Lennon said that! Funny. Thankfully that’s the only song of theirs that can be confused with the Beatles.
@@popgoesthe60s52 If you look up Murray The K's shows at the Brooklyn Fox, you'll get to see all of the acts that he had on those shows, he did them for years. The stage would rise up several feet, having front row seats gave me a great view. Performers would only do a couple of songs each because there were so many artists on the bill. Performances would start in the afternoon and go well into the night. The one that I missed is the one I'd REALLY like to have seen, although I'm not 100% sure it was at the Fox, it had Cream, the Who, the Blues Project, Smokey and the Miracles, Mitch Ryder, Wilson Pickett and others, that show ran for 9 days!
In the mid 70s, lofton kline from new Christy minstrels was teaching at my high school in san Antonio
Look forward to your Kinks video. Ray Davies was the best British songwriter of the 60s, IMHO. I'd end it at the Lola album, don't know too many Kinks fans who get excited about what came after it. I agree with your comment about the Stones' best period ending with Mick Taylor but I think it would be worth taking a video on them as far as Tattoo You as it's a very good album, almost like their last hurrah.
Thanks for the Introduction to your Record Collection, very nice especially for my German ears and eyes.
When you talk about the wood quality, I just thought “the cheap presswoods” would be a pretty good band name.
Ian and Sylvia's "Northern Journey" is an album I have and highly recommend their other records and their solo albums Sylvia Tyson and Ian Tyson ....steller song by Ian "Someday Soon"...Alberta Ian meets Sylvia from Ontario and woo Jim and Jean ...the song "One Sure Thing" from the album "Changes' AND Kensington Market (Toronto band) appreciate the Canada call out there...by the way my patreon feed stops at Strawberry Alarm Clock...searched this post and it does not appear...oh well...hopefully the internet will figure it out
As an Elvis fan, I strongly urge you to toss those soundtrack albums in the trash and replace them with Elvis Is Back and From Elvis In Memphis, his first and last album from the 60s. Both are strong from start to finish. Elvis grew to hate making those movies and no doubt hated making those soundtrack albums just as much.
Absolutely right!!! Those two are also my favourites of Elvis in the 60's
Thank you for that advice. I view those albums as “so bad they are good” but I have many of his regular lps that are on my list. 🙂
I should have kept my glasses on, when I saw that hair and you said ' everybody was cutting a record's I thought ... Eddie Munster sings the hits
I'm going to go against the grain, and say I love some of the Elvis movie tunes. E.g. "Wolf Call" and "Ft. Lauderdale Chamber of Commerce" from the movie Girl Happy are super groovy!
Hey Matt~~ great Chnl & great to see your collection of LPs. When I was a kid in the early 1960s and 1970s we had a 45 of this really cool pop song from an obscure Band from the '60s and the song's chorus was stuck in my head for about 50s yrs or so and I couldn't remember the name of the Band,..then I finally found them on YT after many attempts, a very strong pop song called,'Race With The Wind' by The Robbs. I was watching this Part 2 of yours here today to see if you had any of their vinyl. Perhaps you can check them out if you have not already heard of them. Thanks for you killer fun TH-cam uploads. I look forward to your newest video uploads on Pop Goes the 60s pretty regularly . Take care and ....beautiful collection you have there. Take good care.
Yes! The Robb’s are from my hometown and I’ll be doing a video on them at some point.
I love this mini-series!
Matt, one thing I like about 'Pop Goes the 60s" is that you highlight not only the well-known bands of the 60s, but also lesser-known artists. So much good music was made in the 60s that few people are familiar with -- even old-timers like myself. (It wasn't until the advent of file-sharing in the early 2000s that I was able to discover a lot of the obscure-but-great music of the 60s.) For example, I was surprised to hear that you've gotten a lot of requests for Moby Grape. They were a very good band, but never had any big hits back in the day. I didn't think that many people were even aware of them!
Some feedback: I would LOVE to watch music histories on Steppenwolf, the Supremes, and Tommy James & the Shondells! (Actually, I'd enjoy a history of any of the bands you mentioned in your LP collection!)
I plan on doing each of those groups. I have my work cut out for me!
Great video.
I’m not sure if you have the Grass Roots first LP but it’s pretty good folk rock. I’d love to see a video on them as they seem to have an interesting story. Keep this stuff coming Matt
I saw The Scaffold with my parents in Canterbury. They did no singing. All poetry and sketches. They also got a children’s tv series Score with the Scaffold. I think the establishment had no idea what to do with them.
Strobe light to the Stones Matt, quite fitting lol.
i love ian and sylvia - still listen to them periodically......the royal canal is one of my favourites
I’m still acquiring their catalog. They have soMe very good stuff.
WOW great condition 👍
Love your channel Matt. Any chance that you would consider doing a video on the subject of care and maintenance of your vinyl collection, and the type of equipment you use?
Not a bad idea, William. I've had several very good suggestions about my personal collection and equipment. I must warn you it isn't too fancy! I appreciate the support - thank you!
Well you restored my faith in you Matt. I thought you weren't going to mention the 13th Floor Elevators, since I was thinking they'd be filed under "E." Also was wondering why no Cream, but here you pulled one of their albums out that was mis-filed.
Seeing some those covers, like the soundtrack albums (that I never bought) was like being in the record department at K-Mart all over again. That was fun, thanks. 😻
I do have some solid research material on the Elevators so that will be an interesting one. Hey may even include an Album That Never Was on them as well.
Plus, roky Erickson had many great songs from his solo records. I hung out with him one afternoon @popgoesthe60s52
Matt, a recommendation: if you haven't read Joe Boyd's book "White Bicycles," you really should give it a look. Boyd did a bit of everything musical -- make that, everything musical that didn't personally involve making the music -- during the '60's. It's a great read, and, holy crap, he touched on virtually everybody I liked, and quite a few individuals I didn't like. He went to high school with Geof Muldar; he was a dorm neighbors wih m Rush; he produced the first single for Pink Floyd. And so on. Highly recommended; I have probably given a copy to five people.
I haven't read that - thank you for the recommendation.
Thanks for sharing a look at your fabulous record collection , Matt. Much looking forward to your future band history videos you mentioned. One band I noticed missing in your collection was the Siegal-Schwall band, a Chicago group very popular in Illinios and southern Wisconsin in the late 60's early 70's.
Matt, A delight-filled episode. I love that you have several 'unhip' things in your collection. Sorting music by other folks opinions is downright foolish. Go with what you like! And a bunch of thoughts prompted by seeing the sleeves: "The Other Side of the Hollies" on SFM was ALL flipsides, most of which were originals and actually better than the hits Another reason to love See for Miles. I would recommend doing the Pentangle in two parts: one on the band and the other on solo Bert and John with their "Bert and John" album as the connecting piece. Bert played in my town several times solo and with martin Jenkins and/or other folks. John played played here solo, but mostly in the Renbourn Group or a version of Pentangle. Kensington Market's second album ,"Aardvark" - titled that to be the first in any alphabetical listings of album titles - is reputed to be the first (rock?) album to use a Moog. Moby Grape's Peter Lewis, being from LA, was involved with the early 2000s reunion of the Electric Prunes. Procol Harum actually recorded 10 albums before their (first) breakup. The Modern Folk Quartet had a great (to me, at least) folk-rock single on Dunhill: 'Night-Time Girl.' Henry Diltz took the photos for many album covers (CSN #1, Eagles #1, ...). Cyrus Faryar did a lot of session including the spoken word "The Zodiac: Cosmic Sounds." Chip Douglas joined the Turtles, produced one of their albums before producing other including "Headquarters" by the Monkees.And Jerry Yester recorded with (ex-)wife Judy Henske, produced an album by his brother's (Jim) band, the Association, replaced Zal Yanovsky in the Lovin' Spoonful, ....
Yeah, my unhip albums seem to be the bands that people are afraid to do! Thanks Wylie!
@@popgoesthe60s52 My collection is filled with guilty pleasures. I always enjoy your trips down those paths.
Voting for 2 parts re Pentangle , John Renbourn. Bert Jansch. My periodic suggestion of Pentangle .
Modern Jazz Quartet had Henry Diltz… who became one of the Premier rock photographers
Check that - Modern FOLK Quartet 🙂
Here's a band you may have not reviewed, THE AMERICAN BEETLES, 1964 to 1966, the only country they were big in was ARGENTINA, England and America didn't except them, what strange about THE AMERICAN BEETLES is I never saw any rereleases of their songs on CD or Albums , I believe they changed their name to THE RAZORS EDGE in 1966, THE AMERICAN BEETLES were cool
I saw a video on TH-cam about these fake "Beatles" that they fooled all these fans in Argentina thinking that the real Beatles were coming, only to realize it was all a sham by some Argentinian buisness man who was behind this scam.
Thanks for mentioning Orpheus. Bruce had a facebook page. He was very kind and would answer questions from followers of the page.
I agree with you on the Diana Ross & The Supremes album, Love Child. It's pretty solid featuring James Jamerson on bass. The title track was one of Motown's first "socially aware" songs. Looking forward to your upcoming Supremes and Temptations vids.
Keep up the good work! I love all your videos and learn something new when I watch them. I keep a paper and pen handy to jot down names of bands and singers you mentions to check out later.
Thank you. Doing this video got me I. The mood to cross some of these bands off my list!
The Litter was a great cover band out of Minneapolis Minnesota. My husband saw them many times. They were a crowd pleaser. Lots of friction in the band over the years though. It happens. Another group from Minnesota that you might want to check out is Gypsy. Great band. They were the house band at the Whiskey in LA. The band stayed at the house next to the labianca’s. Mason murder era. Yikes! Great collection you have Matt!
Thank you!
Its interesting that you mention that group Gypsy, because thats how they targeted the LeBianca house because a few of the Manson Family members had been at a party at that house you mention that Gypsy were living.
You should do a special called "Forget the music contained on this album, but look at this great album cover", where you just highlight great album covers (photos and art).
David McCallum had two albums back then. "A part of me" and "A bit more of me." Don't ask.🙄😁 I was a Folk Music fan also in the 1960s. Peter, Paul, and Mary did have one hit Rock N Roll song in 1968 called "I Dig Rock and Roll Music."👍 Thanks for reviewing your album collection. I enjoyed the trip.
Great collection, Matt!
As fascinated as you are about 60s British pop artists I can't believe you don't have any LPs by The Move. They had a lot of hit singles that were never heard on this side of the pond. And kudos for having a copy of "Ventures in Space." A landmark album that featured a bunch of guitar effects that were way before their time. Their stuff always sounded great.
I have all four of the Move albums, just not on vinyl. I also had to leave some bands out for the sake of time.
Hi Matt…long time fan of the channel here from Australia. Love your presenting style and well researched content. I’ve 2 questions. 1) No The Who records? 2) the OCD in me is going wild on your collection with some records being in protector sleeve and some not.
Thank you so much for walking us through your collection and giving us an insight on what groups you may cover in the future.
I do have plenty of Who and a few other bands that I skipped over for the sake of time. As for the protector sleeves, I occasionally add them to the deserving albums. 🙂 I also have thousands of files on my computer that wouldn't be possible to show in this manner.
Liking your Collection
Yes please do the history of
The Hollies think even though they were really popular in Britain. We do not know their Full History.
I've two greatest hits albums. Hopefully we don't have to wait too long.
LOVE the Peanut Butter Conspiracy! 👍👍 If there was one American 60s band that should have enjoyed WAY more commercial success and received WAY more critical praise than they actually got, it was the PBC. Some of my very favorite 60s songs are on those two Columbia albums.
I will eventually work my way to them!
Had to smile when I saw you had the soundtrack to the movie The Lively Set. I was 13 when I saw this at my hometown movie theater and fell in love with Joanie Sommers. The song If You Love Him is one of my favorites of hers. Song didn’t chart but, in my opinion, should have been a top 20 hit (at least). Years later when I discovered Goldmine magazine I bought the 45 promo.
Oh, I’m a big fan of The Grass Roots, one of my top ten favorite bands of the sixties. Would love to see you do a video on them. Saw them live in ‘71 and they were great!
11:14 *The Mindenders* - - "They tried." *Bob Lang* was a happenstance colleague in my admin college course, 1992. Nice guy, by far the oldest in class. He was down on his luck, but we *all* were - - that's why we were there. The new essential admin accessory was a computer monitor, & Bob found the subliminal flicker triggered epileptic attacks in class. Sometimes he'd be fine. Then he wouldn't. He didn't come back when he was hospitalised after the 3rd or 4th one. I remember driving the tutor & some classmates to visit him on my way to uni.
Always affable, I remember Bob telling me that he'd been the bassist for The Minbenders from Wayne Fontana days right up to the 1968 split, when he bought a shop.
I believed him, always genuine, he was ready to talk about it - - yet despite my streak of '60s nostalgia, I showed no especial interest. I even owned the 45 'Groovy Kind of Love' - - but had sold my 45s & many LPs in 1990.
Think of the Qs I could've asked - - the gigs, recording sessions, filming with Lulu & Sidney Poitier... his youth far more eventful than mine. He was almost unrecognisable from those album covers - - the way I'm now unrecognisable from my former self.
All I can say is I was mad busy then, making up for lost time in 4 different unis/colleges at the same time, in a schedule so demanding that I had to keep each course secret from the other unis/colleges so they didn't feel *their* course was compromised by an overextended student, as one course tutor did.
But I sure wish I'd slowed down & given Bob the time of day he richly deserved. He was a good fellow. Sorry, Bob.
Thank you for sharing that. Many of the old pop stars struggle. I hope to do justice to a Mindbenders history in the future.
@@popgoesthe60s52 I assume you know that Eici Stewart migrated to 100cc from the Mindbenders. Just not sure what category 10cc fits into.
@@wyliesmith4244 Also *Graham Gouldman* joined Mindbenders in 1968 after Bob Lang & Ric Rothwell left, until the band disintegrated 1969. Then Gouldman & Stewart formed Hotlegs which morphed into 10cc.
@@4-dman464 I was ynaware of that. And I appreciate your sharing the info.
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