Those were the days, days of my teenage years, Spanky and our gang beautiful voices ,the best music, my parents were good providers ,carefree life and dreams that I will never forget.
My parents were non-providers. I was their nuisance. Either of them was compromised by my existence on earth. Each of them went their separate way. Both of them abandoned their only child. Her at my 11, Him at my 15. Daddy, we were Boy Scouts. Didn't that mean anything. I was Order of the Arrow (a scout secretly selected by the other kids as emblematic of a GOOD Scout. It's a big deal. An honor). Didn't that mean anything? The other guys thought I was a worthwhile person. Didn't that count? You know, Daddy, I couda been a contender, I couda been somebody, instead of.....Why didn't I matter. I was just a little kid who wanted to be loved. Why was that so impossible? It's been decades since. I am now the same age as old people. My HATE is more intense than ever. One shrink remarked, Don't you see how resilient you are? What good is resilience if both your parents abandoned you? Enough. It's not been an easy row to hoe. You wanna know where the resilient kid got his fortitude to be resilient? From Spanky, and Diana, and Mick, and Percy, and Shirley, and Connie. The Drifters. The Tops, The Harem. Joe & Johnny. Bobby Rydell. Roy, the incomparable Roy. This is a Man's World. Billy Paul. Paul Anka. Gene Pitney. My first 45 Hound Dog, Dionne. JohnPaulGeorge&Ringo. Shaft! god-damned shut yo mouth Shaft! Jay Black. Help Me, Rhonda, help help me, Rhonda. Sherry. Will You Still Love Me, People, Teddy, Burt & Hal, Bill Haley, Adele, "the Beatles of Disco Miss Donna Summer" the Spoonful, Little Suzy, Along Came Jones, Dolly, My Girl, Da Doo Run Run, Stand By Me, Bessie Banks Go Now, What's Love Got to Do With It? Leader of the Pack, Sunny, BeachWood 4-5-7-8-9, One is the loneliest number, Please Dint Let Me Be Misunderstood , Luther, Cher we been together 7 decades Cher, The Divine Miss M, More Than a Woman.....it never stops. I had a lot of friends in high places. They raised me up, they watched over me, they helped me cry, they made me dance, they held my hand when I walked through a storm, they nourished my soul, they kept me up at night until I could sleep in the day, and they woke me up with joy. That's what friends are for. My songs kept me sane-er. My songs kept me company. My songs kept me alive. And Spanky was there, at just the right time. Spanky is here, still, at just the right time. And so am I. Thanks girl, I needed that. God bless.
I'm about 50 years late to the party, I only knew 'Sunday will never be the same ', but the other songs are all so good. Check out 'Yesterday's rain '. Spanky was a great singer.
This song was played regularly on the local oldies station in Philadelphia back when I was in high school in the early to mid-1990s (given that the 25th anniversary of Woodstock was in 1994).
Grew up during the 60's...summertime music, riding Schwinn Stingrays all over town...15 cent soda machines at the ESSO gas station, the sweet shop selling penny Bazooka gum, running through sprinklers. My children never experienced such freedom and things and it breaks my heart...And we were never afraid because no one ever tried to hurt us...
Darth, you invade my childhood. You got me at Esso. 9am....go out and play. Be back for dinner. Can you believe that? Someone actually put dinner on the table. And after that, let's go back out and play "Kick the Can" until bedtime. You know, after we stopped eating dinner together, the world got mean.
@JackMason Yes! Kick the can! Come home when street lights come on. Eating dinner at a friends house, as they did at mine. Those days are gone my friend... We were beyond fortunate to live them.😪
La Puente, California, 1968 hearing this on every station in So. Cal. Schwinn Stingray, if I had the money, a Hostess Cherry Pie and a bottle (glass of course) of ice cold Grape Crush. Every Saturday riding our bikes to Irwindale Raceway and the rest of the week all over the San Gabriel Valley. The summer vacations for kids in So. Cal. were quite something.
My teenage years growing up in Hawaii, not a care in the world 🌎🌎. Such a wonderful time of my life. Would not trade them for anything. The best time of my life. Peace ✌️ and Love...
I often wondered why Spanky McFarlane was not more popular than she was. After all, she had a voice and talent that could rival any of the great female singers of the era!
Malcom Hale "joining" the "Forever 27" crowd in late 1968 (death caused by carbon monoxide poisoning due to a faulty heater) caused the group to disband. Hale was the glue that kept the band together. They could have easily been one of the numerous acts on the Yasgur Farm stage in Bethel, NY in August, 1969.
@@YorkyOnespanky herself has confirmed this. They were all devastated by his death. She says they all trudged along with the band for a few months, but their hearts just weren't in it anymore.
I turned 8 in Oct. '68 and this beautiful song was in heavy rotation on the radio that summer. It's one of my favorite songs from my early formative years in the 1960s. ♥
It's quite a captivating! and dreamy! song. It sounds very nostalgic and yet there's a certain haunting sadness to it that i like, which brings me far away back in time. I was born in 1968. When i first heard about Spanky and her Gang, it was on the short wave radio, during my puberty in the 1980s. Obviously, i didn't really know how she looked like, but i thought that these people could've been my brothers and sisters. Today! i realise that these people could've been my parents. ❤
Very funny video - innocent fun what happened to that anyway? But the ending to this 1968 single is dreamy and your brain just goes into a different place when you listen to it. Just beautiful and I've loved this song for 55 years.🙂
This band was an immediate hit. But they didn't last very long. Spanky had a powerful, mesmerizing female voice that was quite unique. I hope they made a lot of money from the great songs they produced.
Back when the music was still fun, clean, easy to listen to. And it was innocent, even if a bit naïve. And, the voices were real, because the singers could actually SING! ❤😊
maybe spanky and our gang seems a bit innocent to you but listen to their first album with the song about a pot smoking garbage man with the line "pots too good to be just for the young" and their cut off their live album yes seriously "Join the Klan". A great album from 1968 that completely goes against what you just said about the times is the album Outrageous by Kim Fowley . There was non fun, non clean, non easy to listen to, non innocent and, non naive music back then as well. Spanky is one of my favorite groups! Still no need to see the times as unrealistically innocent and wonderful; dont forget about Vietnam, cold war, and all the racism, everything else going in the 60s too. Dont forget eve of destruction and the like that also came out during this time. As much as we sometimes want it to be it was not ALL sunshine and flowers in the 60s.
You listen NOW. ALL music is NOW. Back when is gone, morning mist to be ain in distant places. You will never see it again. But music is NOW. You feel, NOW.
This song always seemed to stand out among all of those pop hits and misses of the 1967-'69 period. I'll always remember it for its great vocal harmonizing and dream-like instrumentation. It was quite sophisticated for a top-40 hit, especially in 1968, when almost every other song was either bubblegum or psychedelic, neither of which aged well for the most part.
Wow great footage of an original music video of a terrific song, ahead of its time and quite sofisticated wtih a crane shot in the middle. Thanks for posting.
I entered the 60's in 7th grade, then left the 60's as a husband, father, and teaching full time. The 60's were magical. Like to Get to Know You was the song that played on my first visit to meet my future wife's family.
1968 was one of the roughest years the United States experienced! You might've been untouched by the social and political strife going on when this song was recorded but, for a good chunk of the nation, 1968 wasn't a carefree time. Nonetheless, this was and remains great music.
LOVE this song, and this is a fun watch. The song is a bit draggy, the pitch is lower and tempo slower than the original, which actually makes it sound even warmer and more surreal.
Hi. Sadly for me, I only discovered this band recently. Could someone please tell me the names of the 6 people here at 3m mark please? I'm sure from top left to right we have Lefty Baker, Elaine McFarlane, then Ken Hodges? Who are the 3 on the bottom? Any info would be greatly appreciated.
Back when music was fun, clean and relaxing and women were approachable, feminine, dateable and agreeable. Elaine "Spanky" McFarlane, the voice and Queen of Sunshine Pop but the label does not fit with her jazz roots. Different times.
People still listening to this? Just love it!!! ❤❤❤
Always loved the song and especially the way it ended in the mystic way it did. The 60's forever.
Spanky is alive and well!! She is one of my best friends! I'm blessed to have her in my life!
Shades of the 5th Dimension
Tell her I've loved ♥her singing since 1967 when I was 7years old.
I hope she knows how many of us still love her and the band and their music.
Beautiful song
Truly one of the great singers of the era. tell her I said so.
One of the great bands of the 1960s, without any doubt. R.I.P. malcom hale, nigel pickering, oz bach, lefty baker and kenny hodges.
I go by and pay my respects to Oz on occasion, and to his daughter Belinda. I wish I could have met them in person..
Love their music, I still listen to it now, I am almost 74. I have seen all of the great bands.
I am 72..... and this song is so dear to me. I feel transported to another place/time every time I hear it!
A lovely song. Spanky's voice is golden.
Those were the days, days of my teenage years, Spanky and our gang beautiful voices ,the best music, my parents were good providers ,carefree life and dreams that I will never forget.
Ditto ❤
SHES ONE SEXY LADY...WITH A BEAUTIFUL VOICE.
Sometimes i joke around and say id cut my hand off to go back in time
My parents were non-providers. I was their nuisance. Either of them was compromised by my existence on earth. Each of them went their separate way. Both of them abandoned their only child. Her at my 11, Him at my 15. Daddy, we were Boy Scouts. Didn't that mean anything. I was Order of the Arrow (a scout secretly selected by the other kids as emblematic of a GOOD Scout. It's a big deal. An honor). Didn't that mean anything? The other guys thought I was a worthwhile person. Didn't that count? You know, Daddy, I couda been a contender, I couda been somebody, instead of.....Why didn't I matter. I was just a little kid who wanted to be loved. Why was that so impossible? It's been decades since. I am now the same age as old people. My HATE is more intense than ever. One shrink remarked, Don't you see how resilient you are? What good is resilience if both your parents abandoned you? Enough. It's not been an easy row to hoe. You wanna know where the resilient kid got his fortitude to be resilient? From Spanky, and Diana, and Mick, and Percy, and Shirley, and Connie. The Drifters. The Tops, The Harem. Joe & Johnny. Bobby Rydell. Roy, the incomparable Roy. This is a Man's World. Billy Paul. Paul Anka. Gene Pitney. My first 45 Hound Dog, Dionne. JohnPaulGeorge&Ringo. Shaft! god-damned shut yo mouth Shaft! Jay Black. Help Me, Rhonda, help help me, Rhonda. Sherry. Will You Still Love Me, People, Teddy, Burt & Hal, Bill Haley, Adele, "the Beatles of Disco Miss Donna Summer" the Spoonful, Little Suzy, Along Came Jones, Dolly, My Girl, Da Doo Run Run, Stand By Me, Bessie Banks Go Now, What's Love Got to Do With It? Leader of the Pack, Sunny, BeachWood 4-5-7-8-9, One is the loneliest number, Please Dint Let Me Be Misunderstood , Luther, Cher we been together 7 decades Cher, The Divine Miss M, More Than a Woman.....it never stops. I had a lot of friends in high places. They raised me up, they watched over me, they helped me cry, they made me dance, they held my hand when I walked through a storm, they nourished my soul, they kept me up at night until I could sleep in the day, and they woke me up with joy. That's what friends are for. My songs kept me sane-er. My songs kept me company. My songs kept me alive. And Spanky was there, at just the right time. Spanky is here, still, at just the right time. And so am I. Thanks girl, I needed that. God bless.
I'm about 50 years late to the party, I only knew 'Sunday will never be the same ', but the other songs are all so good. Check out 'Yesterday's rain '. Spanky was a great singer.
This song was played regularly on the local oldies station in Philadelphia back when I was in high school in the early to mid-1990s (given that the 25th anniversary of Woodstock was in 1994).
@@rwboa2298.1WOGL FM 🤔
Nice to see this, very cute. Great vocals by Lefty and Spanky and the rest.
Grew up during the 60's...summertime music, riding Schwinn Stingrays all over town...15 cent soda machines at the ESSO gas station, the sweet shop selling penny Bazooka gum, running through sprinklers. My children never experienced such freedom and things and it breaks my heart...And we were never afraid because no one ever tried to hurt us...
Darth, you invade my childhood. You got me at Esso. 9am....go out and play. Be back for dinner. Can you believe that? Someone actually put dinner on the table. And after that, let's go back out and play "Kick the Can" until bedtime. You know, after we stopped eating dinner together, the world got mean.
@JackMason
We are from the same part of the woods...pop a wheelie....!!!!!!
@JackMason
Yes! Kick the can! Come home when street lights come on. Eating dinner at a friends house, as they did at mine. Those days are gone my friend... We were beyond fortunate to live them.😪
La Puente, California, 1968 hearing this on every station in So. Cal. Schwinn Stingray, if I had the money, a Hostess Cherry Pie and a bottle (glass of course) of ice cold Grape Crush. Every Saturday riding our bikes to Irwindale Raceway and the rest of the week all over the San Gabriel Valley. The summer vacations for kids in So. Cal. were quite something.
miss this music so much.
I bet every one of those guys thought of her like a little sister. Great band, thanks to TH-cam they will be remembered forever.👍
My teenage years growing up in Hawaii, not a care in the world 🌎🌎. Such a wonderful time of my life. Would not trade them for anything. The best time of my life. Peace ✌️ and Love...
Love this song, lots of memories
One of my all-time faves!🤸♂️
So many awesome songs. Always loved them. Saw them in 1984
They wer the greatest Sunshine Pop Group of All Time Period !!!!!
The memories - thank you!🙂😎💯💖👍✌!
I often wondered why Spanky McFarlane was not more popular than she was. After all, she had a voice and talent that could rival any of the great female singers of the era!
Malcom Hale "joining" the "Forever 27" crowd in late 1968 (death caused by carbon monoxide poisoning due to a faulty heater) caused the group to disband. Hale was the glue that kept the band together. They could have easily been one of the numerous acts on the Yasgur Farm stage in Bethel, NY in August, 1969.
@@rwboa22
Unlikely - much too 'pop'.
@@YorkyOnespanky herself has confirmed this.
They were all devastated by his death. She says they all trudged along with the band for a few months, but their hearts just weren't in it anymore.
@@rwboa22 Thanks for sharing this Pop History
I know what you mean Spanky from the Little Rascals on a groovy far out group
I was 8 years old in 1968 but remember this beautiful song. ❤
I turned 8 in Oct. '68 and this beautiful song was in heavy rotation on the radio that summer. It's one of my favorite songs from my early formative years in the 1960s. ♥
To me it sounds like something The Beatles would write. Very pretty and mystical 🎶
Another awesome song by Spanky and our gang. Love it.
It's quite a captivating! and dreamy! song. It sounds very nostalgic and yet there's a certain haunting sadness to it that i like, which brings me far away back in time.
I was born in 1968. When i first heard about Spanky and her Gang, it was on the short wave radio, during my puberty in the 1980s. Obviously, i didn't really know how she looked like, but i thought that these people could've been my brothers and sisters. Today! i realise that these people could've been my parents. ❤
Never tire of this beautiful group of talent. So many memories ✨
Best song of the entire year 1968 great spring time song when it came out
Spanky was gorgeous and what a voice
The maturity of this music is so amazing
This site won't let me reply to any one. So, I just hit the thumbs up. Sorry
Very funny video - innocent fun what happened to that anyway? But the ending to this 1968 single is dreamy and your brain just goes into a different place when you listen to it. Just beautiful and I've loved this song for 55 years.🙂
Beautiful ❤️
This band was an immediate hit. But they didn't last very long. Spanky had a powerful, mesmerizing female voice that was quite unique. I hope they made a lot of money from the great songs they produced.
this song reminds me of being 8 years old and living in Los Angeles. 93.KHJ radio AM.
I was 8 years old and living in Los Angeles, too, in 1968 but I heard the song later, sometime in the late '70's.
I have never seen this video cut of the song. Absolutely wonderful.
This song and video make me smile/happy.
Back when the music was still fun, clean, easy to listen to. And it was innocent, even if a bit naïve. And, the voices were real, because the singers could actually SING! ❤😊
maybe spanky and our gang seems a bit innocent to you but listen to their first album with the song about a pot smoking garbage man with the line "pots too good to be just for the young" and their cut off their live album yes seriously "Join the Klan". A great album from 1968 that completely goes against what you just said about the times is the album Outrageous by Kim Fowley . There was non fun, non clean, non easy to listen to, non innocent and, non naive music back then as well. Spanky is one of my favorite groups! Still no need to see the times as unrealistically innocent and wonderful; dont forget about Vietnam, cold war, and all the racism, everything else going in the 60s too. Dont forget eve of destruction and the like that also came out during this time. As much as we sometimes want it to be it was not ALL sunshine and flowers in the 60s.
You listen NOW. ALL music is NOW. Back when is gone, morning mist to be ain in distant places. You will never see it again. But music is NOW. You feel, NOW.
@@briseboyWhat the hell does this mean??
I was 15 when I first heard this on the radio in the sixties.....chasing girls in High School.......it seems like another lifetime now.
I forgot how much I enjoyed their music.
Top Class 🇬🇧👍
❤ WONDERFUL 🌟ERA...Michael W.Johnson retired now, in Modesto, California_______
I can feel myself drifting to sleep listening to my old tube radio with this playing! Thank you!! Beautiful, beautiful music.
I loved 🥰 this group and loved their music and sound
I love this song!
This song always seemed to stand out among all of those pop hits and misses of the 1967-'69 period. I'll always remember it for its great vocal harmonizing and dream-like instrumentation. It was quite sophisticated for a top-40 hit, especially in 1968, when almost every other song was either bubblegum or psychedelic, neither of which aged well for the most part.
Amazing voice Spanky!
One of my earliest fave songs that would play on AM radio stations of the 1960s, ~~The ending is magical to me~~
Wow great footage of an original music video of a terrific song, ahead of its time and quite sofisticated wtih a crane shot in the middle. Thanks for posting.
THIS IS BRAND NEW , IM JUST NOW SEEING THIS ,BUT BEEN PLAYING THE SONG FOR 7 YEARS
Elaine has a wonderful singing voice just like Mama Cass.
I'd give anything to grow up in the 60's. It must of been an amazing time.
I entered the 60's in 7th grade, then left the 60's as a husband, father, and teaching full time. The 60's were magical. Like to Get to Know You was the song that played on my first visit to meet my future wife's family.
It was.☮
Fantastic vocal arranging. I'm a fan of this group's singles, but tis is probably my fave.
Iconic
❤ Our Mother wore that 🔶️ SALMON LIPSTICK 💄 color back then, also***_______
One of my favorite 60’s tunes.
Awesome music video! This song is such a classic!
Me encanta ❤spanki te amo
Fun vintage video of a great 60’s group - they don’t make ‘‘em like that anymore unfortunately
Takes me back to happier days
And period as well memories.
This video is awesome.
Simply The Best !
Great group. Abd her voice................ SIGHHHHHH..........................
Loved their music growing up in the 60s …….
thanks! nice to this of one of my favorite groups.
A marvelous time great bands and great voices.. seems like spanky and the turtles and the monkees happened just yesterday.. time flies!
A early music video, very cool and fun!
Man I'm digging the film
Dreams come true and peaceful life chacing new beginings one day at a time.
I love the guys in unison. Beautiful
😉👌 We see the group's comical drummer without a hat ... 👒
Such a carefree time it was then it all changed 😢
1968 was one of the roughest years the United States experienced! You might've been untouched by the social and political strife going on when this song was recorded but, for a good chunk of the nation, 1968 wasn't a carefree time. Nonetheless, this was and remains great music.
great video thx
LOVE this song, and this is a fun watch. The song is a bit draggy, the pitch is lower and tempo slower than the original, which actually makes it sound even warmer and more surreal.
She's adorable.
At least you made it to the party!!!!
LOVE them LOVE this song
" Shabba do shabba do" !!!
This is a very entertaining video. Where did you find it? Thanks for posting this.
Do you have more? 😃😃😃
She's so pretty
This inspired Benny Hill, only one missing is Jackie Wright the Little Old Man, LOL.
Elaine was such a pretty woman back rhen.
@@Mr.56Goldtop She was gorgeous
Hi. Sadly for me, I only discovered this band recently. Could someone please tell me the names of the 6 people here at 3m mark please? I'm sure from top left to right we have Lefty Baker, Elaine McFarlane, then Ken Hodges? Who are the 3 on the bottom? Any info would be greatly appreciated.
Pretty sure it is Nigel Pickering, Malcolm Hale, and John Seiter.
@@PalaniRides Great. thanks for that. :-)
Elaine Mcfarland is in her 80s 😫
Only "Spanky" and John "Chief" Seiter (the drummer) are the only surviving members of the group.
@@rwboa22/ Sad but true ... 😔
2024..
I don't want to get to know any more narcissistic shallow people😢
Back when music was fun, clean and relaxing and women were approachable, feminine, dateable and agreeable. Elaine "Spanky" McFarlane, the voice and Queen of Sunshine Pop but the label does not fit with her jazz roots. Different times.
Yep -- she started out as a jazz singer in the style of Lambert, Hendricks and Ross!
They are in my upper left pocket.
a great band that had no appeal to me based on hippness quotient ilove them now..ok
Elaine said that they liked to sing harmony but this kind of pop was not what they really liked. She preferred jug band stuff and jazz
Really? How dull.
Holland
Let's get real Transgenders have been with us forever. It's a game with them. but, not a happy ending for the victim.
Pricks have been around for a long time and its a pity they comment this rubbish on my music channel!!!!!
Beautiful ❤️❤️❤️
Iconic
Yes, and I LOVE all your replys to this....I'll let her know! ❤