Liverpool, isolated from the rest of the world, had all the right ingredients as an R&B-Hungry seaport town to birth the phenomenon we would all embrace as The British Invasion. Thank you, Beatles for igniting the fire and charting the course of Pop Music. You've got a lucky face!
Just the sound of Bob Woolers voice brought the 1960s back to life in my memory. The Cavern with his voice introducing the groups , and just arround the not so far corner the Iron Door for more music. All now nearly a lifetime away.
Great stuff! I'm 70, and from 1965 to 1969 our band, The Passionate Cambodian Paddymen, jammed all that stuff out of the music rooms at Gresham's, North Norfolk. Our Eric Burdon lookalike, Bertie Baines, told us outlandish tales about his visits in the school holidays to the Cavern Club and the Liverpool girls. Rock on.
The bassist for the Hideaways, John Shell, who was "technically as American as their song" ended up being drafted, despite having spent most of his life in the UK, and died in Vietnam as a soldier in the US Army.
Brilliant. I'd love a hard copy of this. There was an accompanying album called Liverpool a go go. It's probably as rare as hen's teeth these days. Thanks for posting this
Biggest tragedy ever was the Demolition of The Cavern in 1973. For Rock 'N Roll that was like the equivalent of someone demolishing the Pyramids in Egypt.
It was in a bad state, nobody who lived nearby seemed that interested, things had moved on and instead of living in the past, it was high time for some redevelopment..
@@adrinathegreat3095 So they knocked down the Warehouses above , filled the Cavern in and made a car park. With respect I wouldn't say that was the greatest redevelopment plan for the City. I know in time they built Cavern Walks but I really think Liverpool and the world lost a historic landmark .But that's just my opinion . I wasn't there and it isn't my City.
I remember enjoying a pint of Higson's with Bob, in The Grapes on Matthew Street, way back in the 70s! Also met up with 'the man that gave the Beatles away'.
This is worth watching just to see Bob Wooler back in the day - a name that should be familiar to all die-hard fans of The Beatles. The whole thing is great fun to watch. Thank you much for posting this.
This is the mess those damned Beatles started! lol! This was fun, thanks for the post. Some of these bands, like the Fourmost were lower level Liverpool bands and the crest those Beatles created helped them out too. They put youth on the map! I'm so fortunate to have grown up then.
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I'm guessing this is from 1966/67?....good document to see post-Beatles.......Bob Wooler was the Cavern DJ when The Beatles were playing there...interesting seeing some of the groups showing out here! Wonder what they're doing now? Did they stay together or have re-formed gain since? Is Tiffany still singing? Maybe not. They'd be in there mid 60's now......Liverpool even now still rings with the Beatles, Gerry & The Pacemakers, The Searchers, The Fourmost etc....good to see The Spinners performing....they had quite a career in the 70's and beyond.....interesting watch this is......
Very interesting look at what was happening in Liverpool after the first wave of big acts appeared and many broke up, a kind of aftermath hoping for a similar thing to happen again.. But it didn't and only became famous for the explosion of talent that came out of there in 1963, and early 1964, a short period of time where so many good bands had been together for a long time and were waiting for fame
Some of those scenes look pretty grim. That post war time must have been tough. I see this ditch digging. Seems pretty rough. I wonder how strong organized crime was in the dockyards. Ringo grew up in poverty and it seems no surprise that he did no for back very often. Would love though to be transported back to that era for a few days.
Her real name is Irene Green. She originally fronted The Liverbirds, then teamed up with The Four Dimensions as Tiffany’s Dimensions. This group auditioned for George Martin which resulted in Tiffany and the group receiving two separate contracts. Tiffany released a single and then got a new group, The Thoughts, who appear in this program and backed her on her second and last single.
Lol it's kind of surreal a bunch of Brits singing about life on the Mississippi river. But if the Blues hadn't gotten popular in the UK it might've never made a resurgence in the US.
So many lookalikes I lost all track of time but not nearly as much they did, pop stars, rock stars, footballers, actors, celebrities. Some finding themselves in the wrong area and the wrong era. Get on pub regular Tiger Woods or there's Robbie Williams at that Spinners gig led by Bobby Gould in the Gregsons Well, plus loads more. Good fun.
Probably mentioned elsewhere, but "Dirty Old Town" is about Salford, not Liverpool. I never realised how stiff Bob Wooler was. Doesn't seem right for the Cavern DJ.
I don’t know I wold you are but I am 71 and I remember like it was yesterday going their to the launch of the MS Windsor Castle by the then queen mother I was about 9 years old and must admit was scared stiff as it was soooo big (out of water) I thought it was going to fall on me but to watch her slide into the Mersey was very exciting
Love this... but I have to be ‘that bloke’, who points out that there is no way that those were live performances on that boat. Doesn’t take away from the film though. Nice advert for Liverpool.
that's interesting because I know for fact that dance bands in the Big Band Era played upon the decks of the Canadiana on Lake Erie from Buffalo N.Y. to Crystal Beach Amusement Park in Canada. If it possible for an entire brass band orchestra can play aboard. So please remind us all of how that this is improbable? always remember, Titanic & Lusitania had small ensembles too. enjoy; )
Very simple. It’s not a big band. Please notice that there are no leads from the guitars, except for one scene where one guitar appears to be plugged in to something for show, but… there are no amps. If you have ever played an electric instrument, you know that no audible sound is coming from a solid body instrument on its own while on the deck of a ship. In most shots, it’s abundantly clear that the guitars are not plugged in. This was a straight lip sync, because the quality of amplification in the 1960s would have made an actual recording quite difficult, expensive, and of poor quality. That’s how.
@@jasonrusso151 Based upon what? I mean, it doesn’t really matter what you ‘believe’. There are NO amps; the electric guitars have NO cords coming from them. It simply didn’t happen, and what you are saying is patently absurd. They played back a recording. Also, anyone who has ever worked in music, or recording music, knows instantly the difference between live outdoor recordings, and studio work.
Cavern club could not open in 2021 like it was then health n saftey would close it down ' no smoking 'no drinking ' Fire hazards ' to many people in confined place ' no air conditioning ' yet back then the atmosphere was magic everything Was normal people just having fun " those people are the pensioners of today i bet there still shaking all over cool
All in the name of health and safety and for our own benefit of course. The do gooders have helped to build the prison, Now it is Friday night and we are all stuck in our homes while the city centre is a ghost town. All in the name of health and safety eh.
@60s Man 60s Guitars Absolutely spot on. It was all social engineering. Roy Castle was a useful idiot record breaker. He had a long career himself and then took the music business the pub and club business to his grave with him. The do gooders always get used in the name of health and safety to advance the agenda. I am a none smoker myself and would encourage people to try to stop smoking but the smoking ban killed the pubs and clubs and millions of jobs. It destroyed the cabaret club and pub music scene. Most people don't like to admit it but the smoking ban was part of the agendas social engineering. Just like the forcing of wearing masks to stop us breathing the fresh air . Health and Safety..... All for our own good of course.
My first thought on them; sitting on someone's headstone is pretty disrespectful. But, you may be right about KISS and maybe Alice Cooper. Alice Cooper was my first concert back in 1973.
Its nice to see some of the lesser known Liverpool bands getting their dues but Bob says The Cavern, the place where the Beatles started, when it absolutely was not. They started at the Casbah coffee club in 1958.
Bands back then were essentially function bands. Covering songs that audiences knew, could dance to and make them stay at the venue was their purpose. If they couldn’t do that then promoters would drop them and then they wouldn’t be able to get anywhere. Nearly all of the big name British Invasion bands were initially cover bands and their first releases often were too: The Rolling Stones - Come On (Chuck Berry) The Kinks - Long Tall Sally (Little Richard) Herman’s Hermits - I’m Into Something Good (The Cookies) The Animals - Baby Let Me Take You Home (Bob Dylan’s version) The Yardbirds - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl (Sonny Boy Williamson) Nashville Teens - Tobacco Road (John D Loudermilk). The Beatles could have easily had a recording career just doing covers and songs written by professional songwriters (Mitch Murray’s ‘How Do You Do It?’ was originally given to them), similar to the career of Herman’s Hermits. They had already climbed to the top of the Liverpool scene as a cover band and that was what people knew them for. We see this in the Decca audition and a bit on the Please Please Me LP. Songwriting did not start becoming more mainstream until the later part of the decade.
What a horrid time to be stuck in. That crappy same same same music drives me nuts. I hate the beatles i couldn't imagine being soaked in clone bands of the day. Thank fuck for Clapton, Hendrix and the mighty Zeppelin. Still, cool post. Thanks for doing so. I love history.
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A fabulous chronicle of better times
@@oleggorky906 zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz
Born in Liverpool in 1951 this was my era and the city as I remember it. Thank you
Liverpool, isolated from the rest of the world, had all the right ingredients as an R&B-Hungry seaport town to birth the phenomenon we would all embrace as The British Invasion. Thank you, Beatles for igniting the fire and charting the course of Pop Music. You've got a lucky face!
@Charles Nelson Meaning, having its own culture maybe...
Just the sound of Bob Woolers voice brought the 1960s back to life in my memory. The Cavern with his voice introducing the groups , and just arround the not so far corner the Iron Door for more music. All now nearly a lifetime away.
The beat that rocked the world.😎✌🏽☮️🎸
Great stuff! I'm 70, and from 1965 to 1969 our band, The Passionate Cambodian Paddymen, jammed all that stuff out of the music rooms at Gresham's, North Norfolk. Our Eric Burdon lookalike, Bertie Baines, told us outlandish tales about his visits in the school holidays to the Cavern Club and the Liverpool girls. Rock on.
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Love the memories . Lets do it all again.
The bassist for the Hideaways, John Shell, who was "technically as American as their song" ended up being drafted, despite having spent most of his life in the UK, and died in Vietnam as a soldier in the US Army.
So very sad
never seen before-been playing along to songs i forgot about but still remembered
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Nice to see The Fourmost singing Hello Little Girl written by Lennon and McCartney .
This is so cool! Thanks for uploading it.
Outstanding upload. Thank you.
THE PILGRIMS & THE JOY STRINGS were great also
such beautiful camera shots, truly ACE
VERY BEAUTIFUL THANKS VERY MUCH FOR POSTING. GREAT ERA 💯👏👏👏💖💖💖
Great movie, thank you Jack! Memories...
Brilliant. I'd love a hard copy of this. There was an accompanying album called Liverpool a go go. It's probably as rare as hen's teeth these days.
Thanks for posting this
The album had no connection to this documentary
Went on that boat so many times going over to New Brighton
Biggest tragedy ever was the Demolition of The Cavern in 1973. For Rock 'N Roll that was like the equivalent of someone demolishing the Pyramids in Egypt.
Daddy said it wasn't safe.
They had no choice but to tear down the whole place, a large part of it ended up caving in.
It was in a bad state, nobody who lived nearby seemed that interested, things had moved on and instead of living in the past, it was high time for some redevelopment..
@@adrinathegreat3095 So they knocked down the Warehouses above , filled the Cavern in and made a car park.
With respect I wouldn't say that was the greatest redevelopment plan for the City.
I know in time they built Cavern Walks but I really think Liverpool and the world lost a historic landmark .But that's just my opinion . I wasn't there and it isn't my City.
@@KC-wi4gh I completely agree
I lived in Lark Lane in the 70s and Bob Wooler was my neighbour and friend. RIP Bob.
I remember enjoying a pint of Higson's with Bob, in The Grapes on Matthew Street, way back in the 70s! Also met up with 'the man that gave the Beatles away'.
This is worth watching just to see Bob Wooler back in the day - a name that should be familiar to all die-hard fans of The Beatles. The whole thing is great fun to watch. Thank you much for posting this.
I heard Lennon gave him a black eye.
@@derrickstott5231 He gave him a little more than a black eye. He beat him around the head with a shovel.
scally1969 ...because John didn't like being called a "queer"......it touched a nerve...a bit too close to the truth, maybe?...
@@frankhornby6873 bit rich coming from wooler who was that way inclined.
EXCELLENT 🎥FABOULOUS🎥 AWESOME 🎥🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟
truly forgotten acts . ancient days when if your song charted , you could pretend to sing it for afternoon TV . Once . Then , back to the factory !
Liverpool hasn't half improved since the 60s!!......the Liver building, and town hall has had a good scrub up since then......a Great City....👍🏻
Go Tiffany go xx
This is the mess those damned Beatles started! lol! This was fun, thanks for the post. Some of these bands, like the Fourmost were lower level Liverpool bands and the crest those Beatles created helped them out too. They put youth on the map! I'm so fortunate to have grown up then.
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The band that covers "Unchain M y Heart, that is a nice musical choice.
4:38 on the right - check out how electric bass players in the early days held their basses as if they were miniature uprights
Very nice
I'm guessing this is from 1966/67?....good document to see post-Beatles.......Bob Wooler was the Cavern DJ when The Beatles were playing there...interesting seeing some of the groups showing out here! Wonder what they're doing now? Did they stay together or have re-formed gain since? Is Tiffany still singing? Maybe not. They'd be in there mid 60's now......Liverpool even now still rings with the Beatles, Gerry & The Pacemakers, The Searchers, The Fourmost etc....good to see The Spinners performing....they had quite a career in the 70's and beyond.....interesting watch this is......
1965
Very interesting look at what was happening in Liverpool after the first wave of big acts appeared and many broke up, a kind of aftermath hoping for a similar thing to happen again..
But it didn't and only became famous for the explosion of talent that came out of there in 1963, and early 1964, a short period of time where so many good bands had been together for a long time and were waiting for fame
My uncle was the original drummer for the fourmost his name was Brian Noddy Redman
Some of those scenes look pretty grim. That post war time must have been tough. I see this ditch digging. Seems pretty rough. I wonder how strong organized crime was in the dockyards. Ringo grew up in poverty and it seems no surprise that he did no for back very often.
Would love though to be transported back to that era for a few days.
That song by The Fourmost has the exact same beat as Shimmy Shake by The Beatles (Star Club performance).
Who was this Tiffany singing on the Double Decker bus?
Never heard a girl covering this song. She sings very well and great band backing her.
Formerly known as Irene Green. Lead singer of all girl band the Liverbirds. Then joined the Four Dimensions.
Her real name is Irene Green.
She originally fronted The Liverbirds, then teamed up with The Four Dimensions as Tiffany’s Dimensions.
This group auditioned for George Martin which resulted in Tiffany and the group receiving two separate contracts.
Tiffany released a single and then got a new group, The Thoughts, who appear in this program and backed her on her second and last single.
Awesome!
Love merseybeat never see this before shot on quality film some rare groups here.
Lol it's kind of surreal a bunch of Brits singing about life on the Mississippi river. But if the Blues hadn't gotten popular in the UK it might've never made a resurgence in the US.
he hit the woah at 4:30
At 41:57 the bass player reminds me of a British actor but I can't think of the name.
howabout a young david warner?
So many lookalikes I lost all track of time but not nearly as much they did, pop stars, rock stars, footballers, actors, celebrities. Some finding themselves in the wrong area and the wrong era. Get on pub regular Tiger Woods or there's Robbie Williams at that Spinners gig led by Bobby Gould in the Gregsons Well, plus loads more. Good fun.
The one guy in the Fourmost looks a lot like Alan Hansen the Liverpool centre half
Probably mentioned elsewhere, but "Dirty Old Town" is about Salford, not Liverpool. I never realised how stiff Bob Wooler was. Doesn't seem right for the Cavern DJ.
Jettison the saxophones.
cammell lairds shipyard in background,my apprenticeship from birkenhead
I don’t know I wold you are but I am 71 and I remember like it was yesterday going their to the launch of the MS Windsor Castle by the then queen mother I was about 9 years old and must admit was scared stiff as it was soooo big (out of water) I thought it was going to fall on me but to watch her slide into the Mersey was very exciting
fantastic /JIM DUNN DEAD IN THE WATER
Wow. Just incredible
So it appears that the ceiling of the "new" Cavern is lower than the original one, or the stage is higher.
Not only that,the “new” one is much deeper...I’ve played on both!
@@Grahamgusbull They must have found a load more bricks from the car park.
who is the first band and the song they play? and the first bus band with the female singer and liam gallagher on guitar?
1:06 "The Clayton Squares"
Tiffany And The Thoughts (Phil Boardman on guitar)
The Cavern could have been the CBGBS of the 70’s when the Ramones ruled the airwaves 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻
In what alternate universe did the Ramones rule the airwaves?
Exactly the Ramones were popular, but never ruled the airwaves in the 70's like The Bee Gees, Yes ,Genesis, Squeeze etc.
Liverpool had Eric’s which was essentially the 70s Punk/New Wave equivalent of the Cavern
25:28 - im glad that at least one of the bands let the dishwasher sit in on harp
I love the obvious fakery at 6:48
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bob wooler looking like Alfred E. Neuman. & the rest.......... Austin Powers, Shagadelic!
the royal iris is rotten away in a london dock so sad
Yes that's correct, but we want it back, cammil laird's can restore her no problem!
@@stormytempest3907 lets hope she can come home been on her many times when i was a young lad with me dad
@@paul-ne1bh Hi, spot on! I'm a welder, I'll weld her up for nothing! stay safe.
@@stormytempest3907 good on you lad, and i will paint her when do we start
@@paul-ne1bh You can help me weld her up my friend!😁 Painting her up is easy!😁stay safe.
Para esos años habían sobre 300 grupos en Inglaterra no pudieron salir de allí. La razón porque no componían.No tenían esa virtud.
Tiffany the thoughts Dave Crawford crofdy Pete Alan Phil hi tiff hi denny
Were you the drummer in the Thoughts Dave?
Grande eric burdon
He sounds like a Canadian
Great times eh .... sadly now Liverpool is just a shadow of what it used to be 😟
Por favor compartanlo por mi parte.
Song at 48:03 ?
Love this... but I have to be ‘that bloke’, who points out that there is no way that those were live performances on that boat. Doesn’t take away from the film though. Nice advert for Liverpool.
that's interesting because I know for fact that dance bands in the Big Band Era played upon the decks of the Canadiana on Lake Erie from Buffalo N.Y. to Crystal Beach Amusement Park in Canada. If it possible for an entire brass band orchestra can play aboard. So please remind us all of how that this is improbable? always remember, Titanic & Lusitania had small ensembles too. enjoy; )
Very simple. It’s not a big band. Please notice that there are no leads from the guitars, except for one scene where one guitar appears to be plugged in to something for show, but… there are no amps. If you have ever played an electric instrument, you know that no audible sound is coming from a solid body instrument on its own while on the deck of a ship. In most shots, it’s abundantly clear that the guitars are not plugged in. This was a straight lip sync, because the quality of amplification in the 1960s would have made an actual recording quite difficult, expensive, and of poor quality. That’s how.
if a large one can do it, so can a small...... furthermore mr. "bloke" I believe it to be genuinely recorded upon this vessel.
@@jasonrusso151 Based upon what? I mean, it doesn’t really matter what you ‘believe’. There are NO amps; the electric guitars have NO cords coming from them. It simply didn’t happen, and what you are saying is patently absurd. They played back a recording. Also, anyone who has ever worked in music, or recording music, knows instantly the difference between live outdoor recordings, and studio work.
@@iVenge oh yes, but it does matter what I believe.
Cavern club could not open in 2021 like it was then health n saftey would close it down ' no smoking 'no drinking '
Fire hazards ' to many people in confined place ' no air conditioning ' yet back then the atmosphere was magic everything
Was normal people just having fun " those people are the pensioners of today i bet there still shaking all over cool
All in the name of health and safety and for our own benefit of course. The do gooders have helped to build the prison, Now it is Friday night and we are all stuck in our homes while the city centre is a ghost town. All in the name of health and safety eh.
You got that right x
@60s Man 60s Guitars Absolutely spot on. It was all social engineering. Roy Castle was a useful idiot record breaker. He had a long career himself and then took the music business the pub and club business to his grave with him. The do gooders always get used in the name of health and safety to advance the agenda. I am a none smoker myself and would encourage people to try to stop smoking but the smoking ban killed the pubs and clubs and millions of jobs. It destroyed the cabaret club and pub music scene. Most people don't like to admit it but the smoking ban was part of the agendas social engineering. Just like the forcing of wearing masks to stop us breathing the fresh air . Health and Safety..... All for our own good of course.
When was this filmed? Well after the 1960s, I think (though the still photos are from that time).
1965
Brian Sykes ....this was bang in the middle of the 60s!.......I know cos I was there....👍🏻🎶
I was guessing ‘64/65....I’ll agree’65
Now we know: KISS started with the Mersey Monsters! (20´00")
My first thought on them; sitting on someone's headstone is pretty disrespectful. But, you may be right about KISS and maybe Alice Cooper. Alice Cooper was my first concert back in 1973.
Its nice to see some of the lesser known Liverpool bands getting their dues but Bob says The Cavern, the place where the Beatles started, when it absolutely was not. They started at the Casbah coffee club in 1958.
half ok this
Great performances by Denny Alexander (Clayton Squares)(RIP) also Alan Hornby (Thoughts)(RIP)
And Clayton Squares was cofounded by Ringo
@@jaredf6205 You’re confusing the Clayton Squares for the Eddie Clayton Skiffle Group. Two totally separate acts
That is black metal band before metal exist
The kids at the Cavern standing there like zombies when the band played. Holding back yawns. LOL.
😆
1965
Just covers of American records. The ability to write original songs is priceless.
Knob head
Bands back then were essentially function bands. Covering songs that audiences knew, could dance to and make them stay at the venue was their purpose.
If they couldn’t do that then promoters would drop them and then they wouldn’t be able to get anywhere.
Nearly all of the big name British Invasion bands were initially cover bands and their first releases often were too:
The Rolling Stones - Come On (Chuck Berry)
The Kinks - Long Tall Sally (Little Richard)
Herman’s Hermits - I’m Into Something Good (The Cookies)
The Animals - Baby Let Me Take You Home (Bob Dylan’s version)
The Yardbirds - Good Morning Little Schoolgirl (Sonny Boy Williamson)
Nashville Teens - Tobacco Road (John D Loudermilk).
The Beatles could have easily had a recording career just doing covers and songs written by professional songwriters (Mitch Murray’s ‘How Do You Do It?’ was originally given to them), similar to the career of Herman’s Hermits.
They had already climbed to the top of the Liverpool scene as a cover band and that was what people knew them for.
We see this in the Decca audition and a bit on the Please Please Me LP.
Songwriting did not start becoming more mainstream until the later part of the decade.
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What a horrid time to be stuck in. That crappy same same same music drives me nuts. I hate the beatles i couldn't imagine being soaked in clone bands of the day. Thank fuck for Clapton, Hendrix and the mighty Zeppelin. Still, cool post. Thanks for doing so. I love history.