RIP, Neil Innes. Love the Bonzos! Thank you for showing a clip of The Rutles’ All You Need Is Cash. The segment, Tragical History Tour, and it’s song Piggy In The Middle! Brought a big smile on this old girl’s face.
10 หลายเดือนก่อน +1
Yea the Rutles was such laugh but also very talanted
Man, November 1967 was a great month for UK singles that didn't chart! Some, I've heard of (an online friend hosts a radio show out of Kent and features a lot of these obscure groups) while others are new to me. Until the narration explained who The Societie was, I'd have sworn it was The Hollies under a different name. And there's nothing not to like from Marmalade. In Canada, the only one I ever knew until a few years ago was the mega-hit, but Man In A Shop and Rainbow have quickly become favourites for me. Gorgeous harmonies! Thanks for the second part, YP. Loved it! ♥
Equestrian Statue!!! I love that song. Great band too. Fun fact: when the flip-side mentions Eric Clapton (I believe “…and Eric Clapton on the ukulele!”), that was actually him!
Dave Davies was such a cool cat (still is) but damn especially during that time. "Susannah's still alive" is a really stunning song. It's mind blowing to think all these great singles were released in just one month. How times have changed, YP. Great video and music as always 💯💖
This was fantastic as usual! Just want to add that I (and I'm sure all of us) enjoy the color footage of mid 60's London, especially the Carnaby St scenes.
Thank you for featuring Brian Auger - he has had a very long and distinguished career on the Jazz scene and still performing today. (It's been great reading interviews with him in recent months)
A few years after this "Awge" (as he was known for a while) formed another rock-oriented outfit called the Oblivion Express, which I happened to catch once (Duster Bennett was the real attraction for me that night). To be frank I thought they were kinda boring and sounded too similar to all the million-and-one other bands playing in that style at the time. He probably chose well to step sideways into jazz. And Jools hasn't done too badly on that scene either, though under a different name.
Marmalade are such an underrated band. The middle of the road stuff they did in the 70s has hidden a great run of singles they had. Great video as always.
Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac was a highlight of ‘60’s music for me but the rest wasn’t too shabby either! It’s hard to believe that there was such a glut of quality music back then, countless excellent bands didn’t see the light of day. Of course, managers like the vile (“I don’t exploit anyone’) Don Arden didn’t help matters. Another fascinating trip back in time YP, many thanks.
@@YesterdaysPapers ……I’m not sure I’ve ever mentioned, your backing music is always beautifully done too so due credit to you. I really look forward to your excellent videos.
Big thanks for this, YP. I'm getting a good education from your excellent videos. That Mick Jones review of the Fleetwood Mac single is something I've felt from time to time. Maybe it's because I was a big fan of country blues and was brought up listening to all the original versions of these great songs. But I'm aware it was all new to a younger generation of listeners so probably that was a good thing.
Thanks, Willie! Yeah, it was a good thing 'cause a lot of musicians got introduced to the blues via those bands and that was their gateway to the great original bluesmen.
Fleetwood Mac’s single may not have done well, but they were massive in 1967, one of the best selling live acts in the UK. And Dave Davies must be one of the most unrealised British talents of the 60s & 70s because of the complicated relationship with his brother Ray.
This fascinating era came and went so fast, why was such cool themes dumped and forgotten? While our current era is full of pop music crap that won't end, don't get me started on rap! My musical champ BFF named one of her dogs Bonzo, I wonder if there was a connection?! She loved Zappa and many obscure British groups and turned me into Steve Hillage (Fish Rising was a great tune)! Thanks for this!
I was there and I remember it despite a popular saying a few years ago declaring, “if you remember the ‘60s, you weren’t there.” On that basis you could always pretend 🫠
Skip Bifferty! Next thing you know you'll be mentioning "Woman Of Distinction" by Caleb Quaye! It's taken decades for the Chocolate Soup bands to find some recognition but here you are bringing them to life! I like when you feature a big shot reviewing the singles of the day but these deep dives into obscure pop-psych are even better! But I have to warn you that if you feature The Fire doing "My Father's Name Was Dad" my heart might burst! Rock on! Rave on! I'm a fan of yours until Emerson Lake and Palmer take over!
@@garygomesvedicastrology you beat me to it. Their output is fairly readily available. Does anyone else think that The Intro And The Outro helped Vivian Stanshall get the narration job on Tubular Bells? I saw the remaining Bonzos (the ones who could be bothered to make the trip anyway!😊) in Norfolk about four or five years ago. I knew the words and mouthed along to everything they played. I felt so old and so delighted to have seen them one last time.
Such a great channel, "I see the rain" is definitely in my top 10 of UK psych, but it was their third single, not their first...anyway carry on I love this channel! 🎈🌈🦄
Really wonderful job YP it would be nice to see an episode on the guitar shops in London like sellers maharis ( home of the fuzz pedal and Jim Marshall's shop home of Marshall guitar amps ! But being a guitarist I know that would be to specialized a subject for most watchers ' keep the good work it really makes my day thanks cheers!
@@PaulMcCaffreyfmac yes I know I would love to see it what history! I think over the decades it's moved three times l8ke I said I would love to check out the shops in London I'm in LA and the shops here don't have near the charm or history as the UK's cheers mate !
Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac - so much better than the insipid "Rumours" onward iteration. Shame about what happened to Skip Bifferty and their record company's mismanagement. And dig those crazy adverts at 6.02 - "Poustin's Persian Embroidered Fur Coats. Bought direct from the Afghan-Persian borders £5.15.0 plus 10/- p&p" and "Go Gay! A bouncy new hairstyle with the Permaflick". More of these pages please!
There are friends of mine in their 30s and 20s that love love love Fleetwood Mac but only think of them as the version with Lindsay Buckingham Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie. I told him someday do a deep dive and you will see they had some awesome songs when they started out
I’m in my mid 40s. I only vaguely knew about Peter Green from his stint in the Bluesbreakers (especially the super-natural), and didn’t know of any Fleetwood Mac that wasn’t Buckingham-Nicks until my early 20s, even though I had a massive interest in 60s music from my adolescence and knew a lot about their contemporaries. I knew of Albatros, but for some reason in my head I assumed it was from the 70s and that it was Lindsey Buckingham playing (which in hindsight is ridiculous). I’d heard “Oh well” many times in films or occasionally on the radio but I didn’t have a clue who performed it. And I didn’t know about “man of the world” or “the green manalishi” and thought that “black magic woman” was a Santana original. And the strange thing is; my discovery that there was a Fleetwood Mac before Stevie nicks and Lindsay Buckingham was from looking into the music and career of Bob Welch, not Green or Spencer or Kirwan. I’d thought I’d look more into these excellent 70s songs “ebony eyes” and “sentimental lady” that I’d heard on classic hits stations over the years and who was responsible, and was shocked to discover that he’d fronted Fleetwood Mac with the famously tall lanky drummer and the unfaithful married other Brits. The entire picture didn’t get pieced together for me until not long afterwards, I coincidentally also read-up on the child sexual abusing Christian group; the children of god, and saw them mention many times the involvement of British musician Jeremy Spencer, formerly of Fleetwood Mac. Naturally, so recently after the discovery about Welch, I Iooked into this music made by Fleetwood Mac while this man was involved, and opened the treasure trove. And discovered just what a massive deal they were in the 1967-70 UK music scene. It was obvious to me that John Lennox’s “Sun King” was an inferior rip off of Albatross and that Led Zeppelin’s “black dog” was inspired by “oh well”. They were so good, were so big (at least in Europe), and yet they receive so little attention now and are almost forgotten. I remember guitar magazines in the 1990s were always talking about Jeff Beck or Jimmy Page or Clapton but no mention of Peter Green or Danny Kirwan or even Spencer. I’ve wondered if it’s mostly because of Spencer’s deplorable later activities with the children of god, or more because of Green and Kirwan both developing schizophrenia? But it all seems to have been swept under the rug.
@@danieleyre8913 My favorites from the Peter Green era are green Manalishi that was redone by Judas Priest and Oh Well That was the inspiration for the Led Zeppelin song Black dog
@@michaelrochester48 I really like both those tracks also. But my absolute favourites from the Green would be “rattlesnake shake”, “Long grey mare” and “show-biz blues” from Green. Along with “when you say” & “although the sun is shining” by Danny Kirwan and “my heart beat like a hammer” & “somebody’s gonna get their head kicked in tonight” by Jeremy Spencer.
8:21 Take note of the music publishing credit - Robbins Music, owned by Country crooner Marty Robbins. The company also handled the music publishing for both sides of *Aussie* group, *The Easybeats'* single, "St. LOUIS" c/w "Can't Find Love" on *Motown's* Rare Earth label, issue No. R-5009. The record was licenced from(but not credited to) the Australian arm of *Polydor Schallplatten GmbH.*
The Bonzos were with some of the Pythons before they were even Pythons - on that classic ITV show Do Not Adjust Your Set. (BTW: has that been lost? If not, has it ever been put out on DVD?)
For a lot of the UK in 1967-8: Fleetwood Mac was the first time they had ever heard slide guitar like Jeremy Spencer’s, and for them it was a revelation. The Fleetwood Mac very much continued the British interest in blues that the Bluesbreakers began and set up the UK fan audience that would later first propel Led Zeppelin and Free.
You make an interesting point. Psychedelic music was certainly a movement away from blues-based rock with all the sonic experimentation that was being done. It seems only natural that progressive rock would evolve at least partially from psychedelica and completely sever rock from the blues (at least in the prog rock and similar genres). As was mentioned here, what was somewhat surprising (at least to me) was the later resurgence of blues-based rock but this time much heavier a la Led Zeppelin and others. In the US the Americana trend grew more pronounced after psychedelica faded with a lot of rock bands sounding more "country" than what was on the country and western charts. There was so much creativity in this period and it was difficult to predict what the next trend would be.
Viv Stanshall of the Bonzos was a total nutter lol I remember in later years as a solo artist he released an album called spades balls and sausage trees.. Neil innes was also in the Bonzos and did most of the music for the Pythons he also played the part of John lennon in The Rutles
I'm a little surprised you didn't have Traffic's "Mulberry Bush/Coloured Rain" or The Bunch "Looking Glass Alice", but kudos on the rest! To be honest, I agree with the journalist's review on the Fleetwood Mac one--it wasn't a great debut single, indeed it's pretty generic, and they would do much better on the followup "Black Magic Woman".
The B side by Dave Davies, “Funny Face”, is fantastic. In my view, it is significantly better than “Susanna’s Still Alive”. It is emotionally resonant and well written and performed!
The critic of Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac obviously never saw them live. I saw them live at Wardour St Flamingo Club (The Mingo) in 1967/8 psychedelic blues nice!
The Bonzos weren't the "musical equivalent of Monty Python", they were the musical ELEMENT of Monty Python! They worked with Eric Idle, Michael Palin and Terry Jones on "Do Not Adjust Your Set" before Monty Python. They provided music for all the Python movies (as well as the Beatles movie Magical Mystery Tour). They were "Sir Robin's minstrels" on The Holy Grail, and Neil Innes penned "Always look on the bright side of life".
From 6:03 the adverts are hilarious: Afghan fur coats for a fiver! A record player that fits in your pocket, just imagine the sound quality! with transistor radio thrown in! and "Go Gay!" with the historic meaning : "for girls with swinging hair! " Permaflick : " will set wigs and hairpieces too!" I can almost imagine the Bonzos singing those!
The Bonzo's were awesome at parody in their time. Neil Innes and Eric Idle in the Rutles was also perfection! I also liked Savoy Brown's "Looking In" and "Jack The Toad" Albums.
Skip Bifferty released a one-off single as Heavy Jelly 'I Keep Singing That Same Old Song' in 1968. I wonder if Mike Oldfield was listening to the Intro and Outro song when he got Viv Stanshall to introduce the instruments on Tubular Bells.
When someone said that Fleetwood Mac sounded unprogressive, the very second i thought - was it Julie Driscoll? And then she showed up later in the video. 🤣
So, journalists were skeptical of The Pretty Things' change of direction from blues in the previous installation of this month, but also carped about Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac being regressive. Damned if you do or damned if you don't...
It was wrong for a snidey journo to say that the Blues was 'unprogressive' because it metamorphosed into heavy rock which itself begat Metal. Anyway, I liked the Blues then and still do! Thank you YP for some more excellent work!
Every music evolves into Progressive as musicians evolve and learn more and apply what they learn--and King Crimson could arguably be connected to metal from the first track on their first album. The blues guitar tone was already established by 1968 through Clapton, Hendrix and others. I think blues rock groups sort of slowed the growth of rock. There was no need to have continuous repetitive blues bands repeating the same licks for years. Growing up at that time, I agree with the snidey journo. Every time rock tried to move forward on its own, it subverted its freshness with back to basics movements until now, it's basically cliched itself into irrelevance. Don't get me wrong! I liked those blues groups initially, but by 1969 I wanted to hear something different and started moving more to jazz and contemporary classical. Nothing wrong with blues...but a steady diet of the same food is pretty boring to me at least.
@@garygomesvedicastrology George Melly develops something like this thesis at the end of his book Revolt Into Style. Any form of pop music can only develop so far before it bumps up against the limits of its practioners' technique, at which point the only direction is back to the roots, rinse and repeat, sometimes in a different style or along a different route, but ultimately always ending up at that same insurmountable obstacle. The few who do get over it inevitably find they're operating in another idiom altogether.
@@Krzyszczynski I disagree with this thesis (but I will see if I can get the book). This proposition denies the evolution of virtually every music in the world.
The only songs I recognize are intro outro and the two Dave Davies songs. Dave showed he is a talent in his own right emerging from his big brother's shadow. Intro Outro always makes me laugh. As for B sides of 1967, true. I like I Am The Walrus more than Hello Goodbye and We Love You over Dandelion. Even though you don't celebrate it in either Britain or Spain Happy Thanksgiving.
Really? Their albums came out in the States for years and charted okay until Dave Pevrett took the band, minus leader Kim Simmonds, to fame as Foghat. And Kim toured with various versions of Savoy Brown for literally decades until his death in 2022.
Bueno,friend, se me acaban los elogios sobre tu programa,asi soy yo 69/70 años,pero todavia mos,Marmalade me gustaron mucho mucho con Reflections of my life,luego no,Savoy Brown no se porqué tuvo un pequeño exito in Spain😅,Sik Beferty,los descubrí tarde,gracias por devovelverme esos sonidos de 1966/68/69,cuando yo era un yeyé europeo
i don't know much about skp bifferty but the photo at 8:33 makes me want to check them out. their hairdos are amazing and freaky. it's like someone got a bouffant wig and put it on backwards. #newyorkdolls.
After december 1967, I'll do January to May since these series started with singles from June 1967. It'll be interesting to cover the first half of 1967.
As much as I love the original Fleetwood Mac, I have to say the reviewer hit the nail on the head about this track. Jeremy Spencer was obviously obsessed with Elmore James...but it's really pointless to keep copying the originals. Mediocre anyway, but to release it as a single?! What were they thinking?
@@YesterdaysPapers Right. I bought a Jeremy Spencer solo album tho where he was dabbling around with other genres ala the "Kiln House" period. Pretty interesting.
@@YesterdaysPapers I thought it’s the second Fleetwood Mac album “Mr Wonderful” where Spencer’s songs all almost sound the same and have the same intro?
Jeremy Spencer was a great live performer and great with the slide guitar. But yes his early material was either covers or a pastiche of Elmore James. And from what I heard, this started to frustrate Green, as it was inhibiting his own songwriting. The bands second album “Mr Wonderful” is a really dull and uninspired affair. And that was what led the band to take on Danny Kirwan, who was still in secondary school but had his own blues rock band called something like boilerhouse and who was a massive Fleetwood Mac fan and would hang out and help roadies load their equipment at the clubs, etc. Because at first; Kirwan’s own creativity allowed Green to move forward with his songwriting, and that’s what allowed Green to compose Albatross. So while they kept Spencer on for his live performing and off stage sense of humour, he was shunted aside for the writing and recording of the seminal “then play on” album. The record company allowed him to record his own solo album, full of his own compositions, within which he had expanded his range of artists to imitate, but it quickly sank without a trace. He did however contribute some decent songs for the Kiln House album that was written and recorded shortly after Green departed.
Bonzos superb but dated; as are most here. (Like Neil Ines a lot though.) Never mind it's a good history lesson. 🤫 Btw your opening Hammond, I think I've got it! The style that is. Sounds like Iron Butterfly.
From the bits I heard, there was nothing worth listening to in that bunch. I’m not surprised so many didn’t “chart”. Even the Fleetwood Mac song was below their usual standards. The fact that it flopped was a signal to Jeremy Spencer to stop doing Elmore James songs that all sound the same.
Yes I heard that he bought it and also met Green to jam with him with it about a decade ago. And I’ve heard that Green (or maybe one of his brothers) modified at least one of the pickups back in the 60s by reversing their electric polarity or something, which gives it a different sound to regular Les Paul’s.
Don Arden, what a shady Group Management style.... He 'allegedly' exploited quite a few of the Artists on his roster, including the Small Faces. He 'allegedly' had someone else from the Music Industry held out of an upper window of his offices until they'd agreed to pay a debt ! Sharon Osbourne ( Ozzy's wife &:manager ) was his daughter- so I would advise anyone not to bring it up in conversation with her !
Of course this is all very relevant. Who thinks we only should focus on the big shots. Better for me to get some sort of relation to the not quite gods of popular idolatry.
Early Fleetwood Mac were an excellent band and no doubt given time, would have progressed. Unfortunately they did change, in my humble opinion, to a sterile middle-of-the-road radio friendly band
2022 All the "Soft Rock" bands...TODAY (2000's) The Killer , Franz Ferdinand , The Strokes , Tame Impala , & Thousand meny bands...they just only REPET the 60' proto psycodelic SOUNDS (Love Rita - THE BEATLES , Living Spoonful , Strawberry Alarm Clock , Pink Floyd - See Emily play , The Byrds - 8 miles away , The Kinks - End of the Street , also...A 1000 Lightyears - The Rollings Stones)...Will was passed !!! , (incluide the Mexican Soft Rock bands in the last years) !!! Greetings to all from México City...!!! 🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽
Great footage of London in the 60s, love it
RIP, Neil Innes. Love the Bonzos! Thank you for showing a clip of The Rutles’ All You Need Is Cash. The segment, Tragical History Tour, and it’s song Piggy In The Middle! Brought a big smile on this old girl’s face.
Yea the Rutles was such laugh but also very talanted
Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac and Savoy Brown always stayed true to the blues. Both great groups. Still listen to them often
Well, Fleetwood Mac did branch out a bit (Albatross, Man of the World, Green Manalishi etc. etc.) ;)
@@KariKauree those songs are still blues. If you listen to blues radio today, those songs fit in easily with the playlists
@@neilfriedman I disagree 🤷🏼♂️
@@KariKauree I still listen to Manalishi from time to time - terrific cut.
Man, November 1967 was a great month for UK singles that didn't chart! Some, I've heard of (an online friend hosts a radio show out of Kent and features a lot of these obscure groups) while others are new to me. Until the narration explained who The Societie was, I'd have sworn it was The Hollies under a different name. And there's nothing not to like from Marmalade. In Canada, the only one I ever knew until a few years ago was the mega-hit, but Man In A Shop and Rainbow have quickly become favourites for me. Gorgeous harmonies!
Thanks for the second part, YP. Loved it! ♥
Would love to know the name of the radio show.
Equestrian Statue!!! I love that song. Great band too.
Fun fact: when the flip-side mentions Eric Clapton (I believe “…and Eric Clapton on the ukulele!”), that was actually him!
Fantastic, all the singles this month are pretty great, no doubt 1967 was one of the best years musically :)
Not to much , just only The British Electric Blues...!!!
Thank you Yesterday's Papers, I really enjoy part two! 'Man In a Shop' and 'Susannah Still Alive' are great!
One of the best channels on TH-cam? Yup. Thank you for all the work you do!
Thanks!
Agreed. Fantastic channel!
Dave Davies was such a cool cat (still is) but damn especially during that time. "Susannah's still alive" is a really stunning song. It's mind blowing to think all these great singles were released in just one month. How times have changed, YP. Great video and music as always 💯💖
Thanks, Sophie! It was an incredible month. I think november and august might be the best months of 1967 when it comes to single releases.
@@YesterdaysPapers Definitely 💖
It sounds like Allan Clarke is also singing on Bird Has Flown. He has such a distinctive voice.
He was involved in background vocals but I think he wasn't credited bc of royalties, I mean he belonged to EMI label, not Deram.
This was fantastic as usual! Just want to add that I (and I'm sure all of us) enjoy the color footage of mid 60's London, especially the Carnaby St scenes.
I loved the Bonzo Dog Band! Extraordinary!
Thank you for featuring Brian Auger - he has had a very long and distinguished career on the Jazz scene and still performing today. (It's been great reading interviews with him in recent months)
A few years after this "Awge" (as he was known for a while) formed another rock-oriented outfit called the Oblivion Express, which I happened to catch once (Duster Bennett was the real attraction for me that night). To be frank I thought they were kinda boring and sounded too similar to all the million-and-one other bands playing in that style at the time. He probably chose well to step sideways into jazz. And Jools hasn't done too badly on that scene either, though under a different name.
Marmalade are such an underrated band. The middle of the road stuff they did in the 70s has hidden a great run of singles they had. Great video as always.
Thanks. I’ll check it out
Thanks. I’ll check it out
Thanks. I’ll check it out
Thanks. I’ll check it out
Thanks. I’ll check it out
Skip Bifferty and Violent Thimble?? Whatever will you unearth next? Totally right about the Marmalade first singles excellent. Brilliant rarities!
I still have my Rutles album on vinyl. So ingenious. The movie is hilarious.
Me too and the movie on VHS
Love your content. So happy in such frustrating times.
Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac was a highlight of ‘60’s music for me but the rest wasn’t too shabby either! It’s hard to believe that there was such a glut of quality music back then, countless excellent bands didn’t see the light of day. Of course, managers like the vile (“I don’t exploit anyone’) Don Arden didn’t help matters. Another fascinating trip back in time YP, many thanks.
Cheers, Linda.
@@YesterdaysPapers ……I’m not sure I’ve ever mentioned, your backing music is always beautifully done too so due credit to you. I really look forward to your excellent videos.
@@lindadote Thank you very much, Linda. Glad you enjoy the background music.
Big thanks for this, YP. I'm getting a good education from your excellent videos. That Mick Jones review of the Fleetwood Mac single is something I've felt from time to time. Maybe it's because I was a big fan of country blues and was brought up listening to all the original versions of these great songs. But I'm aware it was all new to a younger generation of listeners so probably that was a good thing.
Thanks, Willie! Yeah, it was a good thing 'cause a lot of musicians got introduced to the blues via those bands and that was their gateway to the great original bluesmen.
Fleetwood Mac’s single may not have done well, but they were massive in 1967, one of the best selling live acts in the UK.
And Dave Davies must be one of the most unrealised British talents of the 60s & 70s because of the complicated relationship with his brother Ray.
This fascinating era came and went so fast, why was such cool themes dumped and forgotten? While our current era is full of pop music crap that won't end, don't get me started on rap!
My musical champ BFF named one of her dogs Bonzo, I wonder if there was a connection?! She loved Zappa and many obscure British groups and turned me into Steve Hillage (Fish Rising was a great tune)!
Thanks for this!
Marketing rules current music...
Keep these shows coming!
Fantastic series! If only I could have been there!
I was there and I remember it despite a popular saying a few years ago declaring, “if you remember the ‘60s, you weren’t there.” On that basis you could always pretend 🫠
As well as a great selection of singles, some really amazing footage of London at that time. Great stuff 🙂
So love Peter Green’s Fleetwood Mac. The Green Manalishi with the Two Prong Crown.
I was born 4 years too late, and on the wrong continent. I love this music from a soul level, but most of it I'm hearing for the first time.
"4 years too late" ? Do you mean 40 years too late?
Bought both of the Dave Davies singles ... I still have them.
Very, very interesting as well as, educational! (And I thought that I’d everything!)
Excellent 👌 Love this channel ✌️
The Bonzo’s were one of the best British bands ever! I still love them.
Another marvelous video. Thank you!
Skip Bifferty! Next thing you know you'll be mentioning "Woman Of Distinction" by Caleb Quaye! It's taken decades for the Chocolate Soup bands to find some recognition but here you are bringing them to life! I like when you feature a big shot reviewing the singles of the day but these deep dives into obscure pop-psych are even better! But I have to warn you that if you feature The Fire doing "My Father's Name Was Dad" my heart might burst! Rock on! Rave on! I'm a fan of yours until Emerson Lake and Palmer take over!
I love "My Father's Name Is Dad". Great song!
Didn't The Fire do Treacle Toffee World too? Another fine track.
@@maurice8607 Yes, that was the B-side.
Love The Dave Davies single & wish I had the Bonzo 7" for the B-Side !
th-cam.com/video/yCtkJxyYsrc/w-d-xo.html
You can get the B side on several BDB compilations, along with other gems.
@@garygomesvedicastrology you beat me to it. Their output is fairly readily available. Does anyone else think that The Intro And The Outro helped Vivian Stanshall get the narration job on Tubular Bells? I saw the remaining Bonzos (the ones who could be bothered to make the trip anyway!😊) in Norfolk about four or five years ago. I knew the words and mouthed along to everything they played. I felt so old and so delighted to have seen them one last time.
Such a great channel, "I see the rain" is definitely in my top 10 of UK psych, but it was their third single, not their first...anyway carry on I love this channel! 🎈🌈🦄
Really wonderful job YP it would be nice to see an episode on the guitar shops in London like sellers maharis ( home of the fuzz pedal and Jim Marshall's shop home of Marshall guitar amps ! But being a guitarist I know that would be to specialized a subject for most watchers ' keep the good work it really makes my day thanks cheers!
Macari's - still in existence now albeit in a different shop
@@PaulMcCaffreyfmac yes I know I would love to see it what history! I think over the decades it's moved three times l8ke I said I would love to check out the shops in London I'm in LA and the shops here don't have near the charm or history as the UK's cheers mate !
Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac - so much better than the insipid "Rumours" onward iteration.
Shame about what happened to Skip Bifferty and their record company's mismanagement.
And dig those crazy adverts at 6.02 - "Poustin's Persian Embroidered Fur Coats. Bought direct from the Afghan-Persian borders £5.15.0 plus 10/- p&p" and "Go Gay! A bouncy new hairstyle with the Permaflick". More of these pages please!
There are friends of mine in their 30s and 20s that love love love Fleetwood Mac but only think of them as the version with Lindsay Buckingham Stevie Nicks and Christine McVie. I told him someday do a deep dive and you will see they had some awesome songs when they started out
I’m in my mid 40s.
I only vaguely knew about Peter Green from his stint in the Bluesbreakers (especially the super-natural), and didn’t know of any Fleetwood Mac that wasn’t Buckingham-Nicks until my early 20s, even though I had a massive interest in 60s music from my adolescence and knew a lot about their contemporaries.
I knew of Albatros, but for some reason in my head I assumed it was from the 70s and that it was Lindsey Buckingham playing (which in hindsight is ridiculous). I’d heard “Oh well” many times in films or occasionally on the radio but I didn’t have a clue who performed it. And I didn’t know about “man of the world” or “the green manalishi” and thought that “black magic woman” was a Santana original.
And the strange thing is; my discovery that there was a Fleetwood Mac before Stevie nicks and Lindsay Buckingham was from looking into the music and career of Bob Welch, not Green or Spencer or Kirwan. I’d thought I’d look more into these excellent 70s songs “ebony eyes” and “sentimental lady” that I’d heard on classic hits stations over the years and who was responsible, and was shocked to discover that he’d fronted Fleetwood Mac with the famously tall lanky drummer and the unfaithful married other Brits.
The entire picture didn’t get pieced together for me until not long afterwards, I coincidentally also read-up on the child sexual abusing Christian group; the children of god, and saw them mention many times the involvement of British musician Jeremy Spencer, formerly of Fleetwood Mac. Naturally, so recently after the discovery about Welch, I Iooked into this music made by Fleetwood Mac while this man was involved, and opened the treasure trove. And discovered just what a massive deal they were in the 1967-70 UK music scene. It was obvious to me that John Lennox’s “Sun King” was an inferior rip off of Albatross and that Led Zeppelin’s “black dog” was inspired by “oh well”.
They were so good, were so big (at least in Europe), and yet they receive so little attention now and are almost forgotten. I remember guitar magazines in the 1990s were always talking about Jeff Beck or Jimmy Page or Clapton but no mention of Peter Green or Danny Kirwan or even Spencer. I’ve wondered if it’s mostly because of Spencer’s deplorable later activities with the children of god, or more because of Green and Kirwan both developing schizophrenia? But it all seems to have been swept under the rug.
@@danieleyre8913 My favorites from the Peter Green era are green Manalishi that was redone by Judas Priest and Oh Well That was the inspiration for the Led Zeppelin song Black dog
@@michaelrochester48 I really like both those tracks also.
But my absolute favourites from the Green would be “rattlesnake shake”, “Long grey mare” and “show-biz blues” from Green. Along with “when you say” & “although the sun is shining” by Danny Kirwan and “my heart beat like a hammer” & “somebody’s gonna get their head kicked in tonight” by Jeremy Spencer.
Great reminder it wasn't always Stevie Nicks & Fleetwood Mac
8:21 Take note of the music publishing credit - Robbins Music, owned by Country crooner Marty Robbins. The company also handled the music publishing for both sides of *Aussie* group, *The Easybeats'* single, "St. LOUIS" c/w "Can't Find Love" on *Motown's* Rare Earth label, issue No. R-5009. The record was licenced from(but not credited to) the Australian arm of *Polydor Schallplatten GmbH.*
After Julie Driscolls fine single, the Bonzos really do it. Neil Innes is a legend and the Rutles film is really excellent.
True, I really love that film.
The Bonzos were with some of the Pythons before they were even Pythons - on that classic ITV show Do Not Adjust Your Set. (BTW: has that been lost? If not, has it ever been put out on DVD?)
@@Krzyszczynski Some of the episodes are on youtube or used to be.
The series is available on dvd along with At Last the 1948 show. I own them and they are probably still available.
Part two is even better than part one🤙
Don Arden there representing the dirty underbelly of the business.
A.K.A The Al Capone of the Music Business.
@@YesterdaysPapers And his daughter Sharon learned how to be just as ruthless, but within the legal boundaries.
The Societie “Bird Has Flown” sounds like it has Allan Clarke of The Hollies on vocal.
The guy who reviewed Fleetwood Mac was spot on. The blues is limited and for the most part wore out it's welcome in the ever evolving rock scene.
For a lot of the UK in 1967-8: Fleetwood Mac was the first time they had ever heard slide guitar like Jeremy Spencer’s, and for them it was a revelation. The Fleetwood Mac very much continued the British interest in blues that the Bluesbreakers began and set up the UK fan audience that would later first propel Led Zeppelin and Free.
You make an interesting point. Psychedelic music was certainly a movement away from blues-based rock with all the sonic experimentation that was being done. It seems only natural that progressive rock would evolve at least partially from psychedelica and completely sever rock from the blues (at least in the prog rock and similar genres).
As was mentioned here, what was somewhat surprising (at least to me) was the later resurgence of blues-based rock but this time much heavier a la Led Zeppelin and others. In the US the Americana trend grew more pronounced after psychedelica faded with a lot of rock bands sounding more "country" than what was on the country and western charts. There was so much creativity in this period and it was difficult to predict what the next trend would be.
More great stuff .Thanks xxx
love your videos, great work!
Thanks!
Viv Stanshall of the Bonzos was a total nutter lol I remember in later years as a solo artist he released an album called spades balls and sausage trees.. Neil innes was also in the Bonzos and did most of the music for the Pythons he also played the part of John lennon in The Rutles
Love all the atmosphere-building touches, ads for real afghans, traffic wardens. All to remind us that it was a very different era.
Such a great channel
I'm a little surprised you didn't have Traffic's "Mulberry Bush/Coloured Rain" or The Bunch "Looking Glass Alice", but kudos on the rest! To be honest, I agree with the journalist's review on the Fleetwood Mac one--it wasn't a great debut single, indeed it's pretty generic, and they would do much better on the followup "Black Magic Woman".
The B side by Dave Davies, “Funny Face”, is fantastic. In my view, it is significantly better than “Susanna’s Still Alive”. It is emotionally resonant and well written and performed!
The Violent Thimble what a great name for a band 😊
Well made, thanks!
"Save me"- fantastic!
Yay! Pleasent surprise. 😃
The critic of Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac obviously never saw them live. I saw them live at Wardour St Flamingo Club (The Mingo) in 1967/8 psychedelic blues nice!
And Fleetwood Mac was never heard from again.
😁
If you've ever had a brush with alcoholism you can appreciate Death of a Clown
Funny how the PG Fleetwood Mac song has shades of "Don't Stop" in it.
The Bonzos weren't the "musical equivalent of Monty Python", they were the musical ELEMENT of Monty Python! They worked with Eric Idle, Michael Palin and Terry Jones on "Do Not Adjust Your Set" before Monty Python. They provided music for all the Python movies (as well as the Beatles movie Magical Mystery Tour). They were "Sir Robin's minstrels" on The Holy Grail, and Neil Innes penned "Always look on the bright side of life".
The Rutles film has to be up there with spinal tap with the greatest rock parody film ever
Agreed.
From 6:03 the adverts are hilarious: Afghan fur coats for a fiver!
A record player that fits in your pocket, just imagine the sound quality! with transistor radio thrown in!
and "Go Gay!" with the historic meaning : "for girls with swinging hair! "
Permaflick : " will set wigs and hairpieces too!" I can almost imagine the Bonzos singing those!
November 1989 was great too.
9:00 THIS GUY! HIM!!!
*sicks my imaginary hounds on him*
Sharon Osbourne's father.
@@YesterdaysPapers holy heck! I had no clue!
Nice touch showing Meter Maids at end of presentation! "2" likes for this presentation..
The Bonzo's were awesome at parody in their time. Neil Innes and Eric Idle in the Rutles was also perfection! I also liked Savoy Brown's "Looking In" and "Jack The Toad" Albums.
Skip Bifferty released a one-off single as Heavy Jelly 'I Keep Singing That Same Old Song' in 1968.
I wonder if Mike Oldfield was listening to the Intro and Outro song when he got Viv Stanshall to introduce the instruments on Tubular Bells.
Skip Bifferty got screwed...they had an extraordinary sound, and it makes me sad they did not break through as a band.
Agreed, very underrated band.
And featured many, many times in session on John Peel’s Top Gear.
When someone said that Fleetwood Mac sounded unprogressive, the very second i thought - was it Julie Driscoll?
And then she showed up later in the video. 🤣
They were unprogressive. Green's solo album from that era was Great
Great! 😃👍
Let's NOT forget APOLLO C VERMOUTH* who produced " I'm the Urban Spaceman" for Bonzo Dog Do Da Band (* pseudonym for Macca)
So, journalists were skeptical of The Pretty Things' change of direction from blues in the previous installation of this month, but also carped about Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac being regressive. Damned if you do or damned if you don't...
It was wrong for a snidey journo to say that the Blues was 'unprogressive' because it metamorphosed into heavy rock which itself begat Metal.
Anyway, I liked the Blues then and still do!
Thank you YP for some more excellent work!
Every music evolves into Progressive as musicians evolve and learn more and apply what they learn--and King Crimson could arguably be connected to metal from the first track on their first album. The blues guitar tone was already established by 1968 through Clapton, Hendrix and others. I think blues rock groups sort of slowed the growth of rock. There was no need to have continuous repetitive blues bands repeating the same licks for years. Growing up at that time, I agree with the snidey journo.
Every time rock tried to move forward on its own, it subverted its freshness with back to basics movements until now, it's basically cliched itself into irrelevance. Don't get me wrong! I liked those blues groups initially, but by 1969 I wanted to hear something different and started moving more to jazz and contemporary classical.
Nothing wrong with blues...but a steady diet of the same food is pretty boring to me at least.
@@garygomesvedicastrology George Melly develops something like this thesis at the end of his book Revolt Into Style. Any form of pop music can only develop so far before it bumps up against the limits of its practioners' technique, at which point the only direction is back to the roots, rinse and repeat, sometimes in a different style or along a different route, but ultimately always ending up at that same insurmountable obstacle. The few who do get over it inevitably find they're operating in another idiom altogether.
@@Krzyszczynski I disagree with this thesis (but I will see if I can get the book). This proposition denies the evolution of virtually every music in the world.
Thanks y.p. cool. T.C.B 🤟
The only songs I recognize are intro outro and the two Dave Davies songs. Dave showed he is a talent in his own right emerging from his big brother's shadow. Intro Outro always makes me laugh. As for B sides of 1967, true. I like I Am The Walrus more than Hello Goodbye and We Love You over Dandelion. Even though you don't celebrate it in either Britain or Spain Happy Thanksgiving.
Happy Thanksgiving, Chris.
@@YesterdaysPapers Thanks
Fleetwood Mac: Hold my beer...
I put some of Neil Innes Beatles parodies up there with the real ones. Cheese and Onions is a great song. Even better is Questionnaire.
The original Fleetwood Mac with Peter Green was when they were at their best as a blues rock band
*I barely remember 'Savoy Brown' here in the States...and the rest are a mystery*
( From what little I heard...they can stay a 'mystery')
Really? Their albums came out in the States for years and charted okay until Dave Pevrett took the band, minus leader Kim Simmonds, to fame as Foghat. And Kim toured with various versions of Savoy Brown for literally decades until his death in 2022.
The Bonzos were unique
Although it's very fashionable to pronounce this musician of that "under-rated", there isn't a more under-rated musician than Neil Innes.
Great keyboard player
Bueno,friend, se me acaban los elogios sobre tu programa,asi soy yo 69/70 años,pero todavia mos,Marmalade me gustaron mucho mucho con Reflections of my life,luego no,Savoy Brown no se porqué tuvo un pequeño exito in Spain😅,Sik Beferty,los descubrí tarde,gracias por devovelverme esos sonidos de 1966/68/69,cuando yo era un yeyé europeo
Thanks!
Thank you very much, Ross! Really appreciate it. Cheers!
No worries, you have a great channel looking forward to more.
@@rossgregor4817 Thanks!
i don't know much about skp bifferty but the photo at 8:33 makes me want to check them out. their hairdos are amazing and freaky. it's like someone got a bouffant wig and put it on backwards. #newyorkdolls.
Great band, definitely well worth checking out.
The only problem is, you're running out of 1967!
After december 1967, I'll do January to May since these series started with singles from June 1967. It'll be interesting to cover the first half of 1967.
@@YesterdaysPapers Yay!!!!
Viv Stanshall's Grand Piano.
As much as I love the original Fleetwood Mac, I have to say the reviewer hit the nail on the head about this track. Jeremy Spencer was obviously obsessed with Elmore James...but it's really pointless to keep copying the originals. Mediocre anyway, but to release it as a single?! What were they thinking?
Yeah, the first Fleetwood Mac album includes about 3 or 4 Elmore James tracks that sound almost identical.
@@YesterdaysPapers Right. I bought a Jeremy Spencer solo album tho where he was dabbling around with other genres ala the "Kiln House" period. Pretty interesting.
@@YesterdaysPapers I thought it’s the second Fleetwood Mac album “Mr Wonderful” where Spencer’s songs all almost sound the same and have the same intro?
Jeremy Spencer was a great live performer and great with the slide guitar. But yes his early material was either covers or a pastiche of Elmore James. And from what I heard, this started to frustrate Green, as it was inhibiting his own songwriting. The bands second album “Mr Wonderful” is a really dull and uninspired affair. And that was what led the band to take on Danny Kirwan, who was still in secondary school but had his own blues rock band called something like boilerhouse and who was a massive Fleetwood Mac fan and would hang out and help roadies load their equipment at the clubs, etc. Because at first; Kirwan’s own creativity allowed Green to move forward with his songwriting, and that’s what allowed Green to compose Albatross.
So while they kept Spencer on for his live performing and off stage sense of humour, he was shunted aside for the writing and recording of the seminal “then play on” album. The record company allowed him to record his own solo album, full of his own compositions, within which he had expanded his range of artists to imitate, but it quickly sank without a trace.
He did however contribute some decent songs for the Kiln House album that was written and recorded shortly after Green departed.
@@danieleyre8913 You're right, I was getting the albums mixed up.
Bonzos superb but dated; as are most here.
(Like Neil Ines a lot though.)
Never mind it's a good history lesson. 🤫
Btw your opening Hammond, I think I've got it! The style that is.
Sounds like Iron Butterfly.
From the bits I heard, there was nothing worth listening to in that bunch. I’m not surprised so many didn’t “chart”. Even the Fleetwood Mac song was below their usual standards. The fact that it flopped was a signal to Jeremy Spencer to stop doing Elmore James songs that all sound the same.
💗
👍👍👍
december one due?
I believe Kirk Hammett of Metallica is the proud owner of Peter greens guitar that he used in Fleetwood Mac
Yes I heard that he bought it and also met Green to jam with him with it about a decade ago. And I’ve heard that Green (or maybe one of his brothers) modified at least one of the pickups back in the 60s by reversing their electric polarity or something, which gives it a different sound to regular Les Paul’s.
Neil Innes was great.
Don Arden, what a shady Group Management style....
He 'allegedly' exploited quite a few of the Artists on his roster, including the Small Faces. He 'allegedly' had someone else from the Music Industry held out of an upper window of his offices until they'd agreed to pay a debt !
Sharon Osbourne ( Ozzy's wife &:manager ) was his daughter- so I would advise anyone not to bring it up in conversation with her !
Julie Christie, not Crystal.
Of course this is all very relevant. Who thinks we only should focus on the big shots. Better for me to get some sort of relation to the not quite gods of popular idolatry.
Racuous? I think he means raucous!
Early Fleetwood Mac were an excellent band and no doubt given time, would have progressed. Unfortunately they did change, in my humble opinion, to a sterile middle-of-the-road radio friendly band
2022 All the "Soft Rock" bands...TODAY (2000's) The Killer , Franz Ferdinand , The Strokes , Tame Impala , & Thousand meny bands...they just only REPET the 60' proto psycodelic SOUNDS (Love Rita - THE BEATLES , Living Spoonful , Strawberry Alarm Clock , Pink Floyd - See Emily play , The Byrds - 8 miles away , The Kinks - End of the Street , also...A 1000 Lightyears - The Rollings Stones)...Will was passed !!! , (incluide the Mexican Soft Rock bands in the last years) !!!
Greetings to all from México City...!!!
🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽🇲🇽
It's funny you mention Tame Impala because the first time I heard the single by The Societie, I thought it sounded a lot like Tame Impala.