Some excellent tracks still being selected. Add me to the list of people who think that "Where Are You Now?" by Jackie Trent is a great song. I also really like "Passing Strangers" and "Days of Pearly Spencer".
Sukiyaki by Kyu Sakamoto
Great little song. I think this was actually a Top Five hit, but I'm including it because how often does a Japanese record make the charts? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtXQ31F1A-k
Yes My Darling Daughter by Eydie Gorme
American song with a Trad Jazz feel and a distinctly Russian sounding melody. I do like this. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tncKohj_otI
I bought a box of records from someone once, it contains one of the worst records ever made -
"Clap Your Hands" - Hughie Green & Monica Rose (Columbia 1966)
I'll spare you that one.
Here's 8 for the list (can't look up YouTube clips at work - sorry!)
Chantays - Pipeline (great moody surfer instrumental)
Alan Klein - Striped Purple Shirt (or anything from the classic "At Least It's British" album)
Premiers - Farmer John (one for everyone who loves The Kingsmen's "Louie Louie")
Shangri-La's - I Can Never Go Home Any More (not a hit, but their most heart-wrenching song)
Barbara Lewis - Baby, I'm Yours (great soul smoocher, amazingly covered by Arctic Monkeys for a B-side)
Billy Hawks - Oh Baby (I Believe I'm Losing You) (another fab soul goove)
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore - Bedazzled (yes, from the movie, as sung by Drimble Wedge & The Vegetations "You fill me with inertia"...)
And 2 slices of pure summer pop to finish:
Rascals - Good Lovin'
Spiral Starecase - More Today Than Yesterday
Here's 8 for the list (can't look up YouTube clips at work - sorry!)
Chantays - Pipeline (great moody surfer instrumental)
Alan Klein - Striped Purple Shirt (or anything from the classic "At Least It's British" album)
Premiers - Farmer John (one for everyone who loves The Kingsmen's "Louie Louie")
Shangri-La's - I Can Never Go Home Any More (not a hit, but their most heart-wrenching song)
Barbara Lewis - Baby, I'm Yours (great soul smoocher, amazingly covered by Arctic Monkeys for a B-side)
Billy Hawks - Oh Baby (I Believe I'm Losing You) (another fab soul goove)
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore - Bedazzled (yes, from the movie, as sung by Drimble Wedge & The Vegetations "You fill me with inertia"...)
And 2 slices of pure summer pop to finish:
Rascals - Good Lovin'
Spiral Starecase - More Today Than Yesterday
Some great tunes there...big thumbs up for the Pete and Dud tune!
(it borrows VERY heavily from a 1955 song by Bo Diddley- She's Fine She's Mine, although I wouldn't totally trust Bo not to have nicked it from someone else himself))
Komm Gib Mir Deine Hand by the Beatles
Not so much a rarity as a curiosity, the Beatles singing in German! You’ll recognise the tune. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdYrUPa-6ko
Living Above Your Head by Jay and the Americans/Walker Brothers
Two consecutive versions of the same song on the one clip. I’m a Walkers fan, but definitely prefer Jay’s version. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et1l2tftdlA&feature=fvw
Standing Still by the Association
The rather pleasant B-side of the brilliant “Pandora’s Golden Heebie Jeebies”, which I can’t seem to find a Youtube clip for. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B46AYizLskY
Re: my earlier question. I was talking out of my backside I'm afraid.
The band were a 90's Canadian Punk Rock Band called Gob, however the song I was thinking of was their version of the 60's classic Mr Sandman, hence my confusion.
So, sorry about that, but thanks for your help anyway
Komm Gib Mir Deine Hand by the Beatles
Not so much a rarity as a curiosity, the Beatles singing in German! You’ll recognise the tune. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdYrUPa-6ko
Living Above Your Head by Jay and the Americans/Walker Brothers
Two consecutive versions of the same song on the one clip. I’m a Walkers fan, but definitely prefer Jay’s version. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et1l2tftdlA&feature=fvw
Standing Still by the Association
The rather pleasant B-side of the brilliant “Pandora’s Golden Heebie Jeebies”, which I can’t seem to find a Youtube clip for. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B46AYizLskY
elkie is like neil diamond, overlooked in the 60's but made it in the 70's... (guess alvin stardust, gary glitter, slade, t rex also fall into that bracket too). i personally didnt like neil or elkie in the 70's... loved them in the 60's.
'living above your head' was superb, why wasnt that huge?
the association too were criminally overlooked here in the uk.
thanks for posting the vogues, i remember it now! was it used for tv or film score? . funny isnt it, just how many tracks in the mid 60's were bemoaning the toil of work, bosses taking 'diabolical liberties' and dreams of betterment. 'matthew and son' , 'friday on my mind', 'its my life', to mention but a few.
Fantastic pop records. I can't understand why 'I Think We're Alone Now', 'Crimson & Clover' and 'Crystal Blue Persuasion' weren't huge hits.
Standing Still by the Association
The rather pleasant B-side of the brilliant “Pandora’s Golden Heebie Jeebies”, which I can’t seem to find a Youtube clip for. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B46AYizLskY
Yep...criminally ignored here in the UK. 'Windy' and 'Never My Love' should have been massive but flopped here.
Same with the Young Rascals. 'How Can I Be Sure' should have been huge.
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You Showed Me by the Turtles
The Lightning Seeds had a pretty big hit with this song in the 1990’s.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z4njn3_i4oU
Have Love Will Travel by the Sonics
My favourite track by arguably the best of all the American sixties garage bands.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=20S_kwNb4rg
Sukiyaki by Kyu Sakamoto
Great little song. I think this was actually a Top Five hit, but I'm including it because how often does a Japanese record make the charts?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RtXQ31F1A-k
She Comes In Colors by Love
A track from Da Capo, which is imo is a better Love album than the much lauded Forever Changes.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SkJtlMCbVY&feature=related
Treat Her Right by Roy Head
Classic blue-eyed Soul.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f-wYRkia6Y&feature=fvw
Sally Go Round the Roses by the Jaynettes
Strangely hypnotic rhythm to this song.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKoakleI5So&a=wFhvR5MIB3s&playnext_from=ML
Yes My Darling Daughter by Eydie Gorme
American song with a Trad Jazz feel and a distinctly Russian sounding melody. I do like this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tncKohj_otI
Royal Showband Waterford - "Huckle Buck" (HMV 1964)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N2bZe3spQ-Q
SPIKE MILLIGAN - 'Wormwood Scrubs Tango' - (Parlophone 1962) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fZEk3TNPCNU
ALF GARNETT - 'The Writing On The Wall' (CBS 1967)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7JRIvoZ_eSE
LORNE GREENE - 'Ringo' - (RCA 1964)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fKMXnXN8pbQ
Anybody remember Mrs Mills?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a31sZGozGT8
I have a stereo version of this on "Red Domino"
The Cowsills - "The Rain, the Park and Other Things" (MGM 1967)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8q6fLhnwEKk
From the time of John Profumo & Christine Keeler in 1963
Miss X -- Christine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dcsSrHRikjY
Some people might like
Victor Lundberg: "To the Flower Power" (Liberty 1967)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jwpDGM3TOPo&feature=PlayList&p=68F5A42A54B69977&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=2
I bought a box of records from someone once, it contains one of the worst records ever made -
"Clap Your Hands" - Hughie Green & Monica Rose (Columbia 1966)
I'll spare you that one.
love affair reached #1 with everlasting love in early '68 m8
Chantays - Pipeline (great moody surfer instrumental)
Alan Klein - Striped Purple Shirt (or anything from the classic "At Least It's British" album)
Premiers - Farmer John (one for everyone who loves The Kingsmen's "Louie Louie")
Shangri-La's - I Can Never Go Home Any More (not a hit, but their most heart-wrenching song)
Barbara Lewis - Baby, I'm Yours (great soul smoocher, amazingly covered by Arctic Monkeys for a B-side)
Billy Hawks - Oh Baby (I Believe I'm Losing You) (another fab soul goove)
Peter Cook & Dudley Moore - Bedazzled (yes, from the movie, as sung by Drimble Wedge & The Vegetations "You fill me with inertia"...)
And 2 slices of pure summer pop to finish:
Rascals - Good Lovin'
Spiral Starecase - More Today Than Yesterday
Some great tunes there...big thumbs up for the Pete and Dud tune!
Another great surf instrumental is 'The Lonely Surfer' by Jack Nitzsche. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4xPAWRLQWF4
One of my favourite 60s instrumentals is 'Soul Coaxing' by Raymond Lefevre. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILFsdDcgwdQ&a=RLtY-HAX_Sw&playnext_from=ML
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mD3PeYji9Ew
My World is Empty Without You - not much of a hit for Diana Ross & The Supremes - if you compare it with their other success that is.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zOqSwFUyKHE
I really like the Barbara McNair version as well
If this songs sounds familiar but you hadn't heard it before that's because it was ripped off by The Coral with Dreaming of You!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJrGKqYYfdY
Just thought of this one:
There's a Light Shirley Ann Lee
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=skPYO3fmUS0
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m9dX6jPHDHc
Everybody knows the cover versions of this 1961 record, but here's the (nearly) original You Don't Love Me by Willie Cobbs
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZsJMfYDUNCE
(it borrows VERY heavily from a 1955 song by Bo Diddley- She's Fine She's Mine, although I wouldn't totally trust Bo not to have nicked it from someone else himself))
i know this cos my mum bought it in '68! later the dj used it as his outro at the pop music quiz...great track though!
oh i remember that!
This is superb! If Elkie Brooks was this good in the mid-sixties, why did it take her to the late-seventies to achieve any real success?
Excellent track.
Here are my contributions for today:-
A Change Is Gonna Come by Sam Cooke
What a song! What a voice! The greatest Soul singer ever imho.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQU4torUz-Q
Komm Gib Mir Deine Hand by the Beatles
Not so much a rarity as a curiosity, the Beatles singing in German! You’ll recognise the tune.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CdYrUPa-6ko
Five O’Clock World by the Vogues
Good track, despite the yodelling.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2vgez_the-vogues-five-oclock-world_music
Big Shot by the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band
“You got a light, mac?”
“No, but I’ve got a dark brown overcoat”.
Brilliant!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KYULQT2ObkU
Living Above Your Head by Jay and the Americans/Walker Brothers
Two consecutive versions of the same song on the one clip. I’m a Walkers fan, but definitely prefer Jay’s version.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Et1l2tftdlA&feature=fvw
Hanky Panky by Tommy James and the Shondells
This lot made some great singles, so I can’t understand why Mony Mony was their only UK hit.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nGRXe_e5S1Y&feature=related
Standing Still by the Association
The rather pleasant B-side of the brilliant “Pandora’s Golden Heebie Jeebies”, which I can’t seem to find a Youtube clip for.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B46AYizLskY
These Arms of Mine by Otis Redding
The first ever Stax release of imho the second greatest Soul singer ever.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K-FQL-tJ3ic
The band were a 90's Canadian Punk Rock Band called Gob, however the song I was thinking of was their version of the 60's classic Mr Sandman, hence my confusion.
So, sorry about that, but thanks for your help anyway
elkie is like neil diamond, overlooked in the 60's but made it in the 70's... (guess alvin stardust, gary glitter, slade, t rex also fall into that bracket too). i personally didnt like neil or elkie in the 70's... loved them in the 60's.
'living above your head' was superb, why wasnt that huge?
the association too were criminally overlooked here in the uk.
thanks for posting the vogues, i remember it now! was it used for tv or film score? . funny isnt it, just how many tracks in the mid 60's were bemoaning the toil of work, bosses taking 'diabolical liberties' and dreams of betterment. 'matthew and son' , 'friday on my mind', 'its my life', to mention but a few.
i think your being abit harsh there, the coral did some great tracks that drew unashamedly from the 60's, and why not update the sound?
the poets - now were thru #31 in oct 64
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jNgFAgiVcz0
heres one from the animals that reached #12 in 66, but dispite its high chart position i bet not many remember this track...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=No_CxA2K_1Q
and a great one hit wonder from 65, reached #15, 'shes about a mover' sir douglas quintet
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XboE3_7KZ3Y
and another from neil diamond... 'cherry cherry',
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vvXCYqd8AAs
somehow this too failed to chart... so he re-worked it for an up and coming new pop group and this was the result!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1xow8HjjN9Q
Kiki Dee also made fantastic records in the 60s. Check out her storimng version of 'Why Don't I Run Away From You?'.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQJfV815icg
Fantastic pop records. I can't understand why 'I Think We're Alone Now', 'Crimson & Clover' and 'Crystal Blue Persuasion' weren't huge hits.
Yep...criminally ignored here in the UK. 'Windy' and 'Never My Love' should have been massive but flopped here.
Same with the Young Rascals. 'How Can I Be Sure' should have been huge.
thats a damn good version by kiki, mind you she seemed strained at times.
was going to post 'how can i be sure' but couldnt find a decent version of that fantastic song!
'White Bird' by It's A Beautiful Day.
"Spanish Armada" - Les Reed Combo (1964)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rulMzpbHntw
"Rinky Dink / Java" - Johnny Howard Band (1964)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5VhPN5yIsSs
"Tricky Dicky" - Denny Seyton (Mercury - 1964)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XunA6Yb9GLY
"Chills and Fever" - Tom Jones (Decca 1964)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zbgmgrZgBJI
"Promise Her Anything" Tom Jones (1966)
written by Burt Bacharach
B side of "Green Green Grass of Home
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1MGhCWTjUvw&feature=PlayList&p=660C7199B96BC982&playnext_from=PL&playnext=1&index=97
"I Know" - Beryl Marsden (1963)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZZXrCqgyCg
'Things Ain't What They Used To Be' - Max Bygraves (1960)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eg-Ycc-yKqY
The Cryin' Shames - Nobody Waved Goodbye (1966)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuRs0dJjiBM
Norma Tanega - "Walking My Cat Named Dog" (1966)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jMm9oi3RVY
James Last orchestra "Mornings at 7" (Polydor 1969)
not a hit but 'm sure the BBC used this as a theme tune)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3Zuuc21FeI
Oops, put that one down to old age
Anyway today's goodies
Clyde Valley Stompers - Peter & The Wolf (great trad version of the Prokofiev classic)
Dean Ford & The Gaylords - He's A Good Face (this lot later changed their name to The Marmalade and did rather well)
The Poets - That's The Way It's Got To Be
Alex Harvey & His Soul Band - Framed (recorded live at The Top Ten Club, Hamburg)
As you may guess I am going back to my Glasgow roots for these ones.
Good choice!
Grantchester Meadows - Pink Floyd - 1969 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vfZPNQPNw-U
Peaches en Regalia - Frank Zappa - 1969 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v-cEkk-n8OA
The Warmth Of The Sun -The Beach Boys - 1964 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=70psCljGnXM
The Midnight Cowboy Theme - John Barry - 1969 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZGORPUzLxtU
Image - Alan Haven - 1965 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bRsIfbK1PJg
Soul Coaxing - Raymond Lefèvre - 1968 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ILFsdDcgwdQ
Spanish Armada - The Les Reed Combo - 1964 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rulMzpbHntw
Absolutely magnificent! The greatest movie theme ever! Good movie too.
Sharon Tandy - Fool On The Hill / For No One (Atlantic 1968)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-g1DHpuU-3A
Etta James - Stormy Weather (Chess 1960)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KgdJjvWIlJg
Julie Grant - Count On Me (Pye 1963)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vcKsdy90S9o
Bernard Cribbins - 'Gossip Calypso' - (Parlophone1962)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yKNYOh8iK6g
Colosseum - "Backwater Blues" (Fontana 1969)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-tMOr1NPa3w