Fun bit of trivia: The Ivy League sang backing vocals on "I Can't Explain" by The Who. Maybe you can hear the singer's nose scraping against the mic on that one, too.
Was he referring to Perry Ford's (RIP) nose? Ray Davies' snark and cattiness about "Revolver" is no match for this guy's. Sure is nice to see "Dead End Street" on your chart; Keith's "98.6", as well. "Dead End Street" did nothing in the US - which was still enjoying a post-WW2 economic boom in 1966/7, and the sentiments expressed in Ray's song went right over most teenagers' heads. Great record, "Dead End Street"; so was its B side, "Big Black Smoke". Thanks for this, YP. Excellent, as usual.
As a bass player, I always tried to play like him, yet still was light years away. A true legend and a savage, I spit my beer out when he said, "take it off, it might get worse." RIP Thee Ox.
"Take it off. It might get worse" 🤣😂Whether the critic is right or wrong, we have to admire the raw honesty of those sixties musicians, they called a spade a spade lol. Music would be a much better state of affairs today if we had real seasoned musicians who said "You know what ... this is not good enough" You're still rocking in that outro music YP. Why don't you become a professional musician and show those kids in the charts how it's done 💜
@@YesterdaysPapers It shows how much I know about modern music, I had to look that Billie girl up ... and wow ... I could have gone my whole life without hearing her 😂 Her singing sounds like mumbling. I had to turn it off ... it might have got worse.
Well the Ox was pretty spot on and succinct. He really knew his stuff. The comment about the same Motown type of backing track was true and his comment about Brenda Lee sounding like 1958 was dead center. He knew the sound of music because the film had just come out. Well done John!
To be fair, he did quite like There's a kind of hush. Anyway, it's a grow-on-you song. Now, especially since the Carpenters revival, it's regarded as a classic.
It always surprises me a little how popular The Monkees were. I've got nothing against them, but my older brothers were listening to people like Frank Zappa, Hendrix, Cream, Donovan, Beatles, Yardbirds, Larry Coryell, John Mayall, etc. I hardly ever heard anything by The Monkees, although I liked their TV show.
Your older brothers were your saving grace, Grok. If you've never thanked them for influencing your musical tastes, be sure to. They did you a huge favor.
Did you see the clip of Mike Nesmith pretending to be Frank Zappa while Zappa was pretending to be Nesmith on the Monkees show? Lots of fun seeing them bust each other. Monkees were always much cooler than the way they were shown in the 60's.
@@solarwave Authenticity and "being real" was everything to the older teens who were buying records during that time - and The Monkees weren't "authentic", compared to the important British bands; they were designed to interest younger teens and "tweens". For almost everyone outside of that cohort, The Monkees were 'kids stuff', not cool (despite the hits that many of us secretly liked).🤣
Kind of a test to see if they weren't just a fad, I gave my nephews a stack of LPs without them knowing who the artists were. Turned out they played The Monkees and Johnny Cash and tossed out the rest, lol...
My sons 26 year old girlfriend has never heard of Charlie Chaplin! or Humphrey Bogart, or Bette Davis, or Cream, or The Kinks. I could fill all this space with more legends if I really wanted to!
Plus he re-scored many of his silents when they were re-released and also wrote the music for his later films in the 40s. I think he also did the music for his last movie too, which was a critical & commercial flop
Yep. There's a great book series called the History of Rock and Roll. It sheds a lot of light on how cookie cutter nearly everything and everyone was. The next big thing would happen, then everyone would try to copy it. Makes you appreciate the top level guys who wrote memorable songs a lot more.
Lol. Well, this was really fun. A royal slagging off session. And the only one he really likes is a song from The Sound Of Music. Oh, that's rich. Did he play a part in keeping The Sound Of Music on the charts for 12 straight years, or whatever it was. I see it's #2 on the album chart this week, down from #1. Can't say I disagree with many of his ideas here although I do like The Marvelettes' song. But he's right about the similarity of backing tracks on so many of Motown's recordings. Of course that's what made them so instantly recognizable as Motown. But oh what a great bunch of singers on that label.
Yeah, Motown released some great singles in 1967 but a lot of the stuff they were putting out sounded quite samey. I think Marvin Gaye himself was complaining about that around that time.
I liked "The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game", but always considered it to be more of an 'adult' song, not something that many teenagers would like. Smokey Robinson wrote it, and the harmonica sound that Entwistle didn't like sounds like how Stevie Wonder used to play on his early hits. "Hunter" got to US #13 (Billboard Hot 100), and #2 (Billboard R&B).
@@total.stranger hey, thanks for all that info. I never would have thought it reached that high on the charts since it was not the driving beat that so many Motown hits had. Damn, Smokey wrote some great songs, didn't he. I love all those Motown artists. Guess Martha and the Vandellas are my favorite. If you listen to those Motown albums, the drums are VERY prominent in the mix and the bass not so much. That all changed when the Stax sound became the public's choice as an alternative to Motown'
@@total.stranger marvelletes were always my favorite Motown singers. My Baby Must Be a Magician and Young and In Love were great. The latter was produced by Van McCoy.
John's dark humor coming in when he reviews The Ivy League, He probably would have met them when they did the background vocals on I Can't Explain. I like Donovan, The Marvellets, Petula Clark and Tim Buckley but none of these are their strongest tracks imo. Interesting that John liked Edelweiss, now I see why Pete Townshend used to call John an old romantic. The one single I personally liked from February '67 is There's A Kind of Hush, I love when Lenny sang it to his bowling ball on The Simpsons.
''Oh, It's Peter O'Toole'' 🤣🤣🤣 2:12 … Poor Petula 😜 I love ''The Sound of Music''; the film and the soundtrack. I admit that the film is a bit cheesy, but it has the ''je ne sais quoi'' that bewitched everyone. ''Edelweiss'' is a beautiful song. 3:40 Cheers Yesterday's Papers.🤗
I got to see a Broadway touring cast of "The Sound of Music" in the early 60's in St. Paul, MN. I have a soft spot for the musical because of seeing it done live in a theater back in the day. Feel the same way about "West Side Story" for the same reason.
You really think Tim Buckley's was bad? And if you don't like that song, how about one of these? ruclips.net/video/vMTEtDBHGY4/видео.html ruclips.net/video/G0eQoBnEsPw/видео.html ruclips.net/video/LtU-9EMSYu0/видео.html ruclips.net/video/5v2ZDc5DZLY/видео.html ruclips.net/video/RHPJQgr6_e8/видео.html The last one and first are of particular note
@@waycnf7229 loving the Tim Buckley love on this channel! Discovered him when I was still a teenager back in the late 80s, just before the release of Dream Letter, greatest live album ever!
He liked Vince Hill but not the rest.That was the corniest song of the lot. Not the greatest selection but he was being really bitchy about the artists. Disappointed in him and his comments.
I passed on buying a copy of that Powerpack single for £15 a couple of years ago, not wanting to risk buying it "deaf" having never heard it before. Was quite relieved about my decision in the end.
I worked in Butlins, Minehead in 1983 and I shared a room with a bloke who said he was in The Ivy League. It meant nothing to me at the time. Wish I could remember his name.
Ah the good old days or ol daze, or was it. Perhaps a selective memory. Yes they were good, I was 13 and so in love with Miss at school, then Mrs Peel in the Avengers, who didn't fancy her? To me Entwhistle was the greatest bass player on the planet and I still think he is the best. Where the hell has the last 55 years gone. Now Entwhistle is dead as is Diana Rigg and many others. They were good days they really were.
I was very surprised -- shocked, really -- by John's putdown of The Marvelettes' song, because the Mods were such Motown freaks. Actually, I love the song, which was written and produced by the great Smokey Robinson. The backing track may, as he said, been heard before, but so what? Motown was always recycling things, but they still sounded great. Wanda Young's vocal is sexy and, despite what he says, the harmonica part works. Sorry, John, but you were wrong!
Never heard that Attack version of Try it..sounds like Zappa - used to hearing the Standells version which is a version originally by the Ohio Express !
It was written by the guys who made bubblegum. The Monkees are the height of authenticity next to the Ohio Express. But the Standells version came out in '67 and the Ohio Express started recording in '68 - if one can believe what one reads.
@@freelywheely exactly....he closed out the series... not sure it was on purpose...but it was a kind a eff you to the suits...end the show about a pop band with a folk singer
The British charts were always more eclectic than the US ones. They were often the testing grounds to see how some of the tunes would do across the pond.
They always gave them new singles, not songs that had already charted. They also didn't give them singles from the top bands like the Who, Beatles, or Beach Boys.
Tim was looking a bit older than his 28 years on earth near the end. There were some factors such as not achieving success even though he ended up compromising with 'Look At The Fool'. If somehow he'd started in the early 80's he'd have a much better chance. Imagine Tim starting out on I.R.S. Records and working his way up with each release. Then the major labels would start showing interest. Another What If?. Oh well.
Love John Entwistle & Tim Buckley; would have loved to hear Entwistle's opinion on Tim's material later on Goodbye & Hello or Happy Sad if he had the chance to hear them.
They called him The Quiet One, but he had strong views! 😆 Very muso approach to reviewing. The trombone dig must've hurt - JE played brass as well as bass.
There were two versions of This Is My World in the charts at the same time, Pet's & Harry Secombe's. The Attack have had a reappraisal in recent years and get name checked by 'those in the know' The Ox really had some stickers although Vince Hill was a nice chap.
Secombe's version followed on shortly after Clark's. (This Is My Song, BTW.) Carl Wayne called it "insanity" and gave it as his opinion that the public were being "very shrewdly conned". He was I think rather overstating the case, but I do feel in hindsight the Secombe hit has the smell of manipulation about it.
Edelweiss and hermans hermits? Yuk! Mellow Yellow and Tim Buckley not given their due? Almost seems like the Ox was displaying his legendary dark sense of humor here by hating nearly everything. Peter O' Toole was a versatile chap! Damn! Now I have to wait a few days for my next Yesterdays Papers fix!
He's pretty good at predicting how songs by male artists would do, but his Petula Clark guess is way off, as this song was a big hit. Also, the Marvelettes song did well, getting to #13 on the Billboard chart, and the Brenda Lee song made the top 40 - two other songs he thought wouldn't be hits. I have to say, he doesn't have a good feel for chick music.
Dang. Release Me is still on the charts but Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane are nowhere to be seen. Release Me is the song that kept Strawberry Fields / Penny Lane from the number one slot. This is an outrage. Strawberry Fields / Penny Lane was the transition single for the Beatles. A lot of people didn't get where they were going, tho it was hinted at on Revolver, the summer before. By next summer and the release of Sgt Peppers, everyone got it.
"Strawberry Fields Forever" was released a couple of weeks after this Blind Date. "Release Me" had just been released and was starting to climb up the charts.
The Attack single was pretty good but not quite one of their best. Don's Mellow Yellow is a fine 45. Not the best for Entwistle to review generally but such is life though I rate the Marvelettes highly.
John was so damn funny and he was quite good at calling the winners or, more likely losers for that week. Love your ‘Sunshine Sandwich Man’ at the end.
re- The Who's Happy Jack: I like the stop and start and the drums sound great. What's that about a furry donkey? Is he riding the donkey or is the donkey riding him? The backing vocals are The Beatles from 1965. It's alright but I think Sugar Town by Nancy Sinatra will pass it in the charts and in people's hearts.
It would have been cool to get his opinions on Cream, Hendrix, S.Davis, etc... I guess none of those bands released new singles that first week of February 1967.
@@YesterdaysPapers yes, it would have been great. The list at the end has The Troggs, Temptations, Wilson Pickett too. Would have been awesome to get his take on a bunch of those classics. Great work Y.P. and thanks!!👍
Gotta admit, John was presented with a dreadful selection to review. Surely they could have selected a few good songs from that month? That crack about that guy's nose hitting the mic is priceless.
@@johnqpublic314 I've noticed they almost never chose bands from the biggest acts such as the Beatles, Stones, Kinks, Beach Boys, etc. They asked the musicians in the top bands to review singles by lesser known bands.
Fun bit of trivia: The Ivy League sang backing vocals on "I Can't Explain" by The Who. Maybe you can hear the singer's nose scraping against the mic on that one, too.
Was he referring to Perry Ford's (RIP) nose?
Ray Davies' snark and cattiness about "Revolver" is no match for this guy's.
Sure is nice to see "Dead End Street" on your chart; Keith's "98.6", as well.
"Dead End Street" did nothing in the US - which was still enjoying a post-WW2 economic boom in 1966/7, and the sentiments expressed in Ray's song went right over most teenagers' heads. Great record, "Dead End Street"; so was its B side, "Big Black Smoke".
Thanks for this, YP. Excellent, as usual.
@@total.stranger Yes, he was referring to Perry Ford's nose. Thanks for watching, glad you enjoy the videos!
And I always thought it was Pete Townshend’s nose scrapping against the mic…
Eehm , yeh.....
easy on The Ivy League John ,or else they might explain to the world how they replaced your ox voice on some Who sessions .
Reminds me of Bono’s speech at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame when inducting The Who 😅
As a bass player, I always tried to play like him, yet still was light years away. A true legend and a savage, I spit my beer out when he said, "take it off, it might get worse." RIP Thee Ox.
I love him sarcasm and of course he was ahead of his time what can you expect from the top bassist of the world the ox the bass still missing you man
yeah he was the man
JPJ overall blows him away.
@@JoeandAngie You're full of it.
"Take it off. It might get worse" 🤣😂Whether the critic is right or wrong, we have to admire the raw honesty of those sixties musicians, they called a spade a spade lol. Music would be a much better state of affairs today if we had real seasoned musicians who said "You know what ... this is not good enough"
You're still rocking in that outro music YP. Why don't you become a professional musician and show those kids in the charts how it's done 💜
Thank you, Sophie. I might get in touch with Billie Eilish and ask her if she wants to add some vocals to that outro music! Hahaha
@@YesterdaysPapers It shows how much I know about modern music, I had to look that Billie girl up ... and wow ... I could have gone my whole life without hearing her 😂 Her singing sounds like mumbling. I had to turn it off ... it might have got worse.
@@SophieLovesSunsets Hahaha!
@@YesterdaysPapers 💖💖💖
Musicians today hide out in their safe spaces.
I've said it before but this is one of the best channels on RUclips.
Thanks for existing! 💜
Thank you very much, Lola! Cheers.
I completely agree 💯
@@nathalieplum2137 Thank you, Nathalie!
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I love it...amazing!!
Well the Ox was pretty spot on and succinct. He really knew his stuff. The comment about the same Motown type of backing track was true and his comment about Brenda Lee sounding like 1958 was dead center. He knew the sound of music because the film had just come out. Well done John!
I've been digging desperately for Entwhistle material the past week, so this is a scrumptious treat. Thanks, YP. 👍
It's spelled "Entwistle"
@@lptomtom its so simple yet so many fail
Said it before and I'll say it again, this channel is awesome and you're destined to blow up my friend. Always great videos.
Thank you very much!
I love this channel and I turning my friends onto it.
@@chrisbacos Thank you, Chris. I appreciate that.
@@YesterdaysPapers you're welcome
Very interesting
I like how "the Ox" has a great grasp of the technical aspects. Love his sense of humor too.
''I beat the lot of them at hand wrestling, not a very strong group'' This wordplay tickles me.
The only place he may have been wrong is the Hermit’s song- one of their best. Entwistle is my favorite rock musician and best bassist
To be fair, he did quite like There's a kind of hush. Anyway, it's a grow-on-you song. Now, especially since the Carpenters revival, it's regarded as a classic.
Was he joking about the trombone? All I hear is a trumpet or two. Might be a trombone at the end, but you can hardly hear it.
John nails it every time! I love these trips back into the 60s.
It always surprises me a little how popular The Monkees were. I've got nothing against them, but my older brothers were listening to people like Frank Zappa, Hendrix, Cream, Donovan, Beatles, Yardbirds, Larry Coryell, John Mayall, etc. I hardly ever heard anything by The Monkees, although I liked their TV show.
Your older brothers were your saving grace, Grok. If you've never thanked them for influencing your musical tastes, be sure to. They did you a huge favor.
Did you see the clip of Mike Nesmith pretending to be Frank Zappa while Zappa was pretending to be Nesmith on the Monkees show? Lots of fun seeing them bust each other. Monkees were always much cooler than the way they were shown in the 60's.
They had some pretty good writers and musicians backing them up...
@@solarwave Authenticity and "being real" was everything to the older teens who were buying records during that time - and The Monkees weren't "authentic", compared to the important British bands; they were designed to interest younger teens and "tweens". For almost everyone outside of that cohort, The Monkees were 'kids stuff', not cool (despite the hits that many of us secretly liked).🤣
Kind of a test to see if they weren't just a fad, I gave my nephews a stack of LPs without them knowing who the artists were. Turned out they played The Monkees and Johnny Cash and tossed out the rest, lol...
Damn, this series is so addictive. I don't know how many I've listened to in a row or why I care what my teen idols used to think about other music.
Again more than 10 classic pop-rock songs in the British top twenty. 1967, the greatest year for popular music.
With more to come!
John Entwistle was a great bass player and he seemed to be very picky about what music he listened to. I have to agree with everything he said.
Another great video. Thanks. What a brilliant chart it was that month!
Fun fact: 'This is My Song' was written by Charlie Chaplin. It's fair to say that he was a multi-talented chap to say the very least.
his little tramp might still be the most iconic image in the world.
My sons 26 year old girlfriend has never heard of Charlie Chaplin! or Humphrey Bogart, or Bette Davis, or Cream, or The Kinks. I could fill all this space with more legends if I really wanted to!
He also wrote the Nat King Cole hit "Smile".
@@davehire9840 I'd forgotten that. What a lovely tune it is too.
Plus he re-scored many of his silents when they were re-released and also wrote the music for his later films in the 40s. I think he also did the music for his last movie too, which was a critical & commercial flop
Nice to hear some straight to the point analogy of songs. Best reviewer by far.
"Take it off, it might get worse." "I can hear his nose scraping against his instrument." And they say Moonie was the humorous one! Lol.
Ha ha! Definitely among the funniest of these. Could just imagine hearing it in his own voice. Rock In Perpetuity, The Ox!
It's good to be reminded that there was also a lot of dross around in the “golden age of pop”.
Yep. There's a great book series called the History of Rock and Roll. It sheds a lot of light on how cookie cutter nearly everything and everyone was. The next big thing would happen, then everyone would try to copy it. Makes you appreciate the top level guys who wrote memorable songs a lot more.
Lol. Well, this was really fun. A royal slagging off session. And the only one he really likes is a song from The Sound Of Music. Oh, that's rich. Did he play a part in keeping The Sound Of Music on the charts for 12 straight years, or whatever it was. I see it's #2 on the album chart this week, down from #1. Can't say I disagree with many of his ideas here although I do like The Marvelettes' song. But he's right about the similarity of backing tracks on so many of Motown's recordings. Of course that's what made them so instantly recognizable as Motown. But oh what a great bunch of singers on that label.
Yeah, Motown released some great singles in 1967 but a lot of the stuff they were putting out sounded quite samey. I think Marvin Gaye himself was complaining about that around that time.
I liked "The Hunter Gets Captured By The Game", but always considered it to be more of an 'adult' song, not something that many teenagers would like. Smokey Robinson wrote it, and the harmonica sound that Entwistle didn't like sounds like how Stevie Wonder used to play on his early hits.
"Hunter" got to US #13 (Billboard Hot 100), and #2 (Billboard R&B).
@@total.stranger hey, thanks for all that info. I never would have thought it reached that high on the charts since it was not the driving beat that so many Motown hits had. Damn, Smokey wrote some great songs, didn't he. I love all those Motown artists. Guess Martha and the Vandellas are my favorite. If you listen to those Motown albums, the drums are VERY prominent in the mix and the bass not so much. That all changed when the Stax sound became the public's choice as an alternative to Motown'
@@willieluncheonette5843 I didn't know that about Motown's drums, willie. Thanks, back at you!
@@total.stranger marvelletes were always my favorite Motown singers. My Baby Must Be a Magician and Young and In Love were great. The latter was produced by Van McCoy.
John's dark humor coming in when he reviews The Ivy League, He probably would have met them when they did the background vocals on I Can't Explain. I like Donovan, The Marvellets, Petula Clark and Tim Buckley but none of these are their strongest tracks imo. Interesting that John liked Edelweiss, now I see why Pete Townshend used to call John an old romantic. The one single I personally liked from February '67 is There's A Kind of Hush, I love when Lenny sang it to his bowling ball on The Simpsons.
We called that "the librarian's song"
Thanks for posting these!
''Oh, It's Peter O'Toole'' 🤣🤣🤣 2:12 … Poor Petula 😜
I love ''The Sound of Music''; the film and the soundtrack.
I admit that the film is a bit cheesy, but it has the ''je ne sais quoi'' that bewitched everyone.
''Edelweiss'' is a beautiful song. 3:40
Cheers Yesterday's Papers.🤗
Would 'Goodbye Mr. Chips' which she was in with Peter O'Toole have been out at that time?
@@barbarakirk3064 I think ''Goodbye Mr. Chips'' is from 1969, two years after this review.
I got to see a Broadway touring cast of "The Sound of Music" in the early 60's in St. Paul, MN. I have a soft spot for the musical because of seeing it done live in a theater back in the day. Feel the same way about "West Side Story" for the same reason.
Poor John, that was a sad sack of singles.
The Attack sounded mediocre 😕
You really think Tim Buckley's was bad? And if you don't like that song, how about one of these?
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ruclips.net/video/G0eQoBnEsPw/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/LtU-9EMSYu0/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/5v2ZDc5DZLY/видео.html
ruclips.net/video/RHPJQgr6_e8/видео.html
The last one and first are of particular note
@@waycnf7229 loving the Tim Buckley love on this channel! Discovered him when I was still a teenager back in the late 80s, just before the release of Dream Letter, greatest live album ever!
He liked Vince Hill but not the rest.That was the corniest song of the lot. Not the greatest selection but he was being really bitchy about the artists. Disappointed in him and his comments.
@@davidellis5141 I love the attack, but that is one of their most mediocre songs imo
I passed on buying a copy of that Powerpack single for £15 a couple of years ago, not wanting to risk buying it "deaf" having never heard it before. Was quite relieved about my decision in the end.
I like how he's not reverential about the Motown formula.
"It sounds like an Arab singing off one of those towers." OMG, we definitely can't say stuff like that anymore! 😂
He loved The Sound of Music !
I worked in Butlins, Minehead in 1983 and I shared a room with a bloke who said he was in The Ivy League. It meant nothing to me at the time. Wish I could remember his name.
John Entwhistle was hilarious and honest with it,
"It faded out ... which is about all it could do." Ox was polite even with a nasty backhand! LOL
PURE GOLD... Entwistle Trolling the Singles!
Who the hell did he think he was!!
Strawberry fields and penny lane also came out in feb 67. Was keen to hear what he thought of them
The single came out a week after this Blind Date.
Awesome honesty
Ah the good old days or ol daze, or was it.
Perhaps a selective memory.
Yes they were good, I was 13 and so in love with Miss at school, then Mrs Peel in the Avengers, who didn't fancy her?
To me Entwhistle was the greatest bass player on the planet and I still think he is the best.
Where the hell has the last 55 years gone.
Now Entwhistle is dead as is Diana Rigg and many others.
They were good days they really were.
Great comments from John but where is this video from never seen it before killer Who film .
I was very surprised -- shocked, really -- by John's putdown of The Marvelettes' song, because the Mods were such Motown freaks. Actually, I love the song, which was written and produced by the great Smokey Robinson. The backing track may, as he said, been heard before, but so what? Motown was always recycling things, but they still sounded great. Wanda Young's vocal is sexy and, despite what he says, the harmonica part works. Sorry, John, but you were wrong!
3:31 what a burn
I like that he is not afraid to say that he likes Edelweiss
Edelscheiss was a hit in 1910 and still dominates the Top 10,000 Charts. Homo sapiens can't get enough of it.
Climb Every Mountain was better. Genuinely uplifting.
Once again, good outro music.
Never heard that Attack version of Try it..sounds like Zappa - used to hearing the Standells version which is a version originally by the Ohio Express !
It was written by the guys who made bubblegum. The Monkees are the height of authenticity next to the Ohio Express. But the Standells version came out in '67 and the Ohio Express started recording in '68 - if one can believe what one reads.
Amazing videos man
Thanks!
john is hilarious
tim buckley has the distinct honor of being on the final monkees tv show
Yes, but not until the very end of the episode which is a cut away to Tim solo on a soundstage playing "Song to the Siren".
@@freelywheely exactly....he closed out the series...
not sure it was on purpose...but it was a kind a eff you to the suits...end the show about a pop band with a folk singer
Whoever drew that caricature of Entwistle for the column must have been getting even for his crack about the Ivy League singer!
John was a pretty mean caricature artist himself - in fact I wouldn't be surprised if he'd done it. I THINK he did the cover for The Who By Numbers.
The British charts were always more eclectic than the US ones. They were often the testing grounds to see how some of the tunes would do across the pond.
"It's one of those 'take it off' numbers" lol 😸
Candid analysis.
The Ox, taking no prisoners in this acerbic piece
"I could hear the singers nose scraping against the mic."
That was brutal
Burn! It would have been interesting to have JE review "Happy Jack" since it was on the charts that week.
They always gave them new singles, not songs that had already charted. They also didn't give them singles from the top bands like the Who, Beatles, or Beach Boys.
@@loosilu Right! I was thinking about how funny it would be to hear JE review his own band’s song.
@@deirdre108 I'm sure he'd insult them the worst of all.
@@loosilu That’s what I wanted to hear! “Take if off before it gets worse”!
@@deirdre108 right???
Mr Entwistle knew how to lay down some serious sarcasm...
Tim Buckley could still sing at that time - His son Jeff had a golden voice.
I love both Tim and Jeff Buckley.
Tim was looking a bit older than his 28 years on earth near the end. There were some factors such as not achieving success even though he ended up compromising with 'Look At The Fool'. If somehow he'd started in the early 80's he'd have a much better chance. Imagine Tim starting out on I.R.S. Records and working his way up with each release. Then the major labels would start showing interest. Another What If?. Oh well.
I love all of Tim's stuff. His first album isn't his strongest but to be more complimentary about Herman's Hermits and Vince Hill.....
Hey David!....I thought Tim had an equally golden voice, albeit not as smooth.
@@leipherd8118 Sort of like Townes Van Zandt's first album: For The Sake Of The Song. Not a good introduction to the man's work.
Love John Entwistle & Tim Buckley; would have loved to hear Entwistle's opinion on Tim's material later on Goodbye & Hello or Happy Sad if he had the chance to hear them.
Imagine his reaction to Starsailor and Lorca
@@waycnf7229 I still have to listen to "Starsailor"...i'm very curious
@@waycnf7229 I think he would have dug it, especially since he made songs like Nightmare (Please Wake Me Up) & I Believe In Everything
They called him The Quiet One, but he had strong views! 😆 Very muso approach to reviewing. The trombone dig must've hurt - JE played brass as well as bass.
Coincido en todo con John. Me encantó. Esperaba que estén Penny Lane y Strawberry Fields Forever. Me hubiera encantado su opinión.
Wow. We were just talking about scathing reviews.
Thunderfingers got no mercy! Slagging everything!
There were two versions of This Is My World in the charts at the same time, Pet's & Harry Secombe's.
The Attack have had a reappraisal in recent years and get name checked by 'those in the know'
The Ox really had some stickers although Vince Hill was a nice chap.
Secombe's version followed on shortly after Clark's. (This Is My Song, BTW.) Carl Wayne called it "insanity" and gave it as his opinion that the public were being "very shrewdly conned". He was I think rather overstating the case, but I do feel in hindsight the Secombe hit has the smell of manipulation about it.
The bit about arm wrestling the guys from the attack, lmao.
All this right before the Strawberry Fields Forever/Penny Lane bomb drop
He hates everything. That's hilarious!
Edelweiss and hermans hermits? Yuk! Mellow Yellow and Tim Buckley not given their due? Almost seems like the Ox was displaying his legendary dark sense of humor here by hating nearly everything. Peter O' Toole was a versatile chap! Damn! Now I have to wait a few days for my next Yesterdays Papers fix!
I was shocked by whst he DID like!
Now that's a top 5.................
I love that Ivy League single, it's a great little tune.
John Entwistle like Herman's Hermits. I don't know why, but I find that so cool. I LOVE your channel.
Thanks!
The Who opened for the Hermit's on their first US tour. The Hermits took part in Keith Moon's legendary 21st birthday party in Michigan.
@@loosilu Yes. Rog describes it in his auto in a sort of matter of fact mixed with slight exasperation and bittersweet nostalgia. And humor.
He was right about everything 😁
Hear There's a Kind of Hush in the Chilean version "Dulcemente"
Who knew he could be so brutal
Decent week for music.
Totally wrong about Petula Clark! Anything she did was awesome. One of my favorite female singers of the 60s
Agree.
Muzak
He's pretty good at predicting how songs by male artists would do, but his Petula Clark guess is way off, as this song was a big hit. Also, the Marvelettes song did well, getting to #13 on the Billboard chart, and the Brenda Lee song made the top 40 - two other songs he thought wouldn't be hits. I have to say, he doesn't have a good feel for chick music.
Pet did put out some damn good records around this time, but "Song" was most decidedly not one of them.
Can we expect another Entwistle video in the future ?
Yes, please. And hopefully more Pete, Rog and Moonie?
Dang. Release Me is still on the charts but Strawberry Fields and Penny Lane are nowhere to be seen. Release Me is the song that kept Strawberry Fields / Penny Lane from the number one slot. This is an outrage.
Strawberry Fields / Penny Lane was the transition single for the Beatles. A lot of people didn't get where they were going, tho it was hinted at on Revolver, the summer before. By next summer and the release of Sgt Peppers, everyone got it.
"Strawberry Fields Forever" was released a couple of weeks after this Blind Date. "Release Me" had just been released and was starting to climb up the charts.
Fifty-five years and later it still hurts 😭🤣
Cute. Tim Buckley and the Bronx genius Laura Nyro turned out to be the best and most innovative singer and songwriters in contemporary music.
The Attack single was pretty good but not quite one of their best. Don's Mellow Yellow is a fine 45.
Not the best for Entwistle to review generally but such is life though I rate the Marvelettes highly.
Keep uploading these reviews and do you have any post 1970 ones
Yes. I would love to see Alice Cooper review or Mott or TRex!
From where is the Who animation during the Marvelettes?
I searched all the comments before I asked the very question you’re asking! I’ve searched online. I hope somebody might know!
John Entwistle spoke his mind and was nobody's diplomat. Yet, he didn't seem to come across as "You're an idiot if you disagree."
Brutal, but fair
Entwistle didn't seem to like much of anything. He should have been so happy to have as many hits as Brenda Lee had.
Bit of trivia
The last performer on the final Monkees show was Tim Buckley.
3:56 Yes, it sounds exactly like Matt Monro. Otherwise savage AF. Another outstanding performance from the greatest rock bassist of all time.
Ha they all think Mellow Yellow is crap - good one , agreed. Nauseating - they used it appropriately in Canada in the 80s for a Margarine commercial.
I guess that they did not know that the electrical banana was a vibrator.
No mercy from John lol!
Sounds like one of those Arabs singing off one of those towers…..Can’t say that anymore! 😂😂🇬🇧🇬🇧 Great channel
“Is it Eric Burdon with the MJQ?” Freaking hilarious!!
The Ox never minced words, miss this guy!
RIP John Entwhistle!
You set them up and John knocked them down.
Hilarious! lol
The best bass guitarist in the world.
I'm binge watching. This one was the funniest and best yet
Me too. Playing it over..lol! My very favorite one..so far.
John was so damn funny and he was quite good at calling the winners or, more likely losers for that week. Love your ‘Sunshine Sandwich Man’ at the end.
Happy Jack! ...is it The Who? No, boring please take it off! But it will probably be a hit in the states! Lol
"I knew it was The Who because I could hear the guitarist's nose scraping against the mic".
@@YesterdaysPapers "What's good for the goose ..."
"Bass player is worthless. He only plays one note for most of the song."
re- The Who's Happy Jack: I like the stop and start and the drums sound great. What's that about a furry donkey? Is he riding the donkey or is the donkey riding him? The backing vocals are The Beatles from 1965. It's alright but I think Sugar Town by Nancy Sinatra will pass it in the charts and in people's hearts.
Wow, he got better songs to review than most I've heard so far, and he didnt like but one or two.
Ox humor on full display.
Didn’t realize Entwistle was such a critic.
Why couldn't they get his opinions on Cream, Hendrix, S. Davis!?!?! #$##$!!
Nonetheless, J.E. RULES!!! 👍🙏👍🙏
It would have been cool to get his opinions on Cream, Hendrix, S.Davis, etc... I guess none of those bands released new singles that first week of February 1967.
@@YesterdaysPapers yes, it would have been great. The list at the end has The Troggs, Temptations, Wilson Pickett too. Would have been awesome to get his take on a bunch of those classics. Great work Y.P. and thanks!!👍
Gotta admit, John was presented with a dreadful selection to review. Surely they could have selected a few good songs from that month? That crack about that guy's nose hitting the mic is priceless.
I guess the first week of February 1967 wasn't the greatest week for singles.
@@YesterdaysPapers People need to realize that just like today along with the hits were a lot of recordings that didn't make it.
@@johnqpublic314 I've noticed they almost never chose bands from the biggest acts such as the Beatles, Stones, Kinks, Beach Boys, etc. They asked the musicians in the top bands to review singles by lesser known bands.
@@loosilu I've noticed that as well.