Greetings M55. I'm not familiar with a lot of their songs. I remember three tunes that got plenty of radio play here in The States. "Don't Throw Your Love Away" "You've Got Your Troubles" "Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again" I have those. They're all favs of mine. ✌️
Dale, I wish you good fortunes in 2025. I'm not all that familiar with their songs, but "You've Got Your Troubles" "Don't Throw Your Love Away" "Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again" are amoung my favorite songs. "HCTRDFA" is one of my favorite songs from 1971. It's one of my all-time favorite pop songs.
Greetings Thomas....I think Sir Rog would have liked this Late Night Cruiser. Heres wishing all good things come your way in 2025, my friend...BTW, I'm getting ready for boat load of snow over the next couple of days. How about the windy city, any snow headed your way?
@@recordcave Howdy do, D Yeah, I think this would have been in Rog"s wheelhouse. Rig"s daughter Debbie said she's thrilled that we still mention his name. I don't know, but I have a hunch she's a cave girl. I mean, I think she may be checking out your channel like her pops. That would be cool. Where is the cave located? Kansas, Buffalo, NY? We've skated around major snows. We've been "fortunate" I'm a "fortunate son" Plenty rain, but not cold enough for snow. Systems that produced snow just missed the city. No shovels no snowblowers. Ha ha nothing lasts forever. We'll get it. We got a taste, just a little taste of the Canadian polar vortex. December wasn't that cold, but we're starting the new year with a ten day stretch of below average frigid weather. The wind chill this morning was in the single digits. Yeah man, I'm California dreamin" Build a snowman ☃️ roast chestnuts on an open fire. Go for a sleigh ride, buddy. Cheers
Hi-De-Ho Thomas, The Record Cave is world wide, and all Cave Dwellers are bound by invisible knots of obscure 60s music...However, I am physically located in the Kansas City, Missouri area
@@recordcave You're from the Show-Me State and you have shown me a lot of 45s. "Kansas City" by Wilbert Harrison 1959 goes down as one of my favorite rock and roll songs of all time. It was instilled inside me when I was a squirt. My dad played the record a lot and he played it with the volume dial turned all the way to the right. Dale, the state of Missouri produced many garage bands. Have you ever heard of Fountain from St Louis? They also went by the name Cheshire Fountain. They released just one that I know of and it may be their only one "Renaissance Faire b/w "Pendulum" I think it was released in "70. "RF" is a spot on Byrds cover. "Pendulum" is an original with great organ and fuzz. Cheers, buddy Watch where the Huskies go don't you eat that yellow snow
The Fortunes are such a pro outfit. Not the most innovative group, but they were very sensitive interpreters of current melodic and harmonic motifs . I find the group's "persona" to be very upright, very proper. This conservatism may have limited their reach, as many listeners like their artists to be a little more like Don Quixote, that is: more daring.. HAPPY NEW YEAR AND THANKS, DALE!
Greetings vootee.... I agree, they had staying power, and they knew what their strengths were and they stuck with them for decades.. tight vocal harmony ballads and light pop songs. As they aged , so did their audience. Over the years the group had many different members and to the best of my knowledge, they are still performing occasionally today.
I remember you played their single "Things I Should Have Known" on your channel (which I love) but I don't know much of their discography other than "You've Got Your Troubles" and "That Rainy Day Feeling". Their clean harmonies and bright beat sound soothe my soul.
Greetings LHP,...I'm no expert on the Fortunes, but I've only found a hand full of their songs that I really like...songs that scream Mersey Beat.... There may be more that I haven't found ....yet.
@@recordcave That's two songs titled "Come On Girl" you've recently featured on your channel; one by The Redcaps and one by The Fortunes and both are great!.
I love this one! But then, I'm a sucker for great harmonies and The Fortunes always had those. As good as this one is, I don't think it made even a dent in the charts for the group. Their first success coming from their fifth single, and their biggest hit, You've Got Your Troubles. From what I've read from a very reliable source, the band made trouble for themselves when they admitted that they didn't actually play on their hit. While this wasn't uncommon for many groups, especially at the very frugal Decca label, public knowledge of this wasn't a wise decision. Subsequent singles garnered less and less attention until the band almost disappeared until the early 1970s, when they managed another big hit with Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again. The biggest issue bands found with Decca was that, unless you were a hot commodity, the label gave you little promotion.
Greetings Sp33...Yes it was a common thing in the 60s for producers to talk the groups into letting studio musicians record the instrumental tracks....remember the Monkees? The same thing happened to them....sort of. They were put together for the TV show
@@recordcave True, though the difference with The Monkees was that they only supposed to be a TV show about a band, not a real band. Theirs is a Pinocchio story, becoming a real band through hard work and perseverance. They did record the third album, Headquarters, playing their own instruments but found trying to split time between writing, recording, and filming for the show was incredibly difficult so they went back to (mostly) studio musicians for the next album. Brian Wilson used the same studio musicians, The Wrecking Crew, as they were the best in the business and it was so much faster to record and then have the rest learn their parts from the recordings. It saved time and money, not to mention the creativity the Crew brought with them. That distinctive bass line for Sonny and Cher's The Beat Goes On was the creation of Carol Kaye, who transformed the song from a straight 4/4 into the rolling R&B that was released. If you've not yet seen it, there's a documentary on The Wrecking Crew that is a truly enlightening watch. It's incredible just how many hit singles were done by studio musicians. I've read that drummer Hal Blaine once had six or seven of the top 10 in the same week. The documentary is highly recommended. In the case of The Fortunes, England had their own studio crew which included Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, Big Jim Sullivan and the great Bobby Graham on drums. Graham provided drums for almost every Dave Clark Five track, keeping his playing as simple as possible due to Clark's limited ability. Clark and his managing of the band is an entire twisted story unto itself.
Amigo Duncan los Fortunes, cónicosde Searchers, beat mersey vocal, no me interesan mucho salvo la canción You got are a problem, o algo así, pero como me la sugieres tu, la voto positivamenre
This song gives me actually the feeling as if I had turned on the radio in the 60s! Cheers
Song was written by the Fortunes' lead guitarist Barry Pritchard (1944-1999).
I often play Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling during deluges 😃
Hahahaha good Doctor, U B Phunny !
The Fortunes were extremely popular and successful here in the UK in the sixties 🏴👍🏴
Greetings M55.
I'm not familiar with a lot of their songs. I remember three tunes that got plenty of radio play here in The States.
"Don't Throw Your Love Away"
"You've Got Your Troubles"
"Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again"
I have those.
They're all favs of mine.
✌️
Very catchy!😊
Dale, I wish you good fortunes in 2025.
I'm not all that familiar with their songs, but
"You've Got Your Troubles"
"Don't Throw Your Love Away"
"Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again" are amoung my favorite songs.
"HCTRDFA" is one of my favorite songs from 1971. It's one of my all-time favorite pop songs.
Greetings Thomas....I think Sir Rog would have liked this Late Night Cruiser. Heres wishing all good things come your way in 2025, my friend...BTW, I'm getting ready for boat load of snow over the next couple of days. How about the windy city, any snow headed your way?
@@recordcave
Howdy do, D
Yeah, I think this would have been in Rog"s wheelhouse.
Rig"s daughter Debbie said she's thrilled that we still mention his name. I don't know, but I have a hunch she's a cave girl. I mean, I think she may be checking out your channel like her pops. That would be cool.
Where is the cave located?
Kansas, Buffalo, NY?
We've skated around major snows. We've been "fortunate"
I'm a "fortunate son"
Plenty rain, but not cold enough for snow. Systems that produced snow just missed the city. No shovels no snowblowers. Ha ha nothing lasts forever. We'll get it.
We got a taste, just a little taste of the Canadian polar vortex. December wasn't that cold, but we're starting the new year with a ten day stretch of below average frigid weather. The wind chill this morning was in the single digits.
Yeah man, I'm California dreamin"
Build a snowman ☃️ roast chestnuts on an open fire.
Go for a sleigh ride, buddy.
Cheers
Hi-De-Ho Thomas, The Record Cave is world wide, and all Cave Dwellers are bound by invisible knots of obscure 60s music...However, I am physically located in the Kansas City, Missouri area
@@recordcave
You're from the Show-Me State
and you have shown me a lot of 45s.
"Kansas City" by Wilbert Harrison 1959 goes down as one of my favorite rock and roll songs of all time.
It was instilled inside me when I was a squirt. My dad played the record a lot and he played it with the volume dial turned all the way to the right.
Dale, the state of Missouri produced many garage bands.
Have you ever heard of Fountain from St Louis? They also went by the name Cheshire Fountain.
They released just one that I know of and it may be their only one
"Renaissance Faire b/w "Pendulum"
I think it was released in "70.
"RF" is a spot on Byrds cover.
"Pendulum" is an original with great organ and fuzz.
Cheers, buddy
Watch where the Huskies go don't you eat that yellow snow
@@recordcave❤
The Fortunes are such a pro outfit. Not the most innovative group, but they were very sensitive interpreters of current melodic and harmonic motifs . I find the group's "persona" to be very upright, very proper. This conservatism may have limited their reach, as many listeners like their artists to be a little more like Don Quixote, that is: more daring.. HAPPY NEW YEAR AND THANKS, DALE!
Greetings vootee.... I agree, they had staying power, and they knew what their strengths were and they stuck with them for decades.. tight vocal harmony ballads and light pop songs. As they aged , so did their audience. Over the years the group had many different members and to the best of my knowledge, they are still performing occasionally today.
I remember you played their single "Things I Should Have Known" on your channel (which I love) but I don't know much of their discography other than "You've Got Your Troubles" and "That Rainy Day Feeling". Their clean harmonies and bright beat sound soothe my soul.
Greetings LHP,...I'm no expert on the Fortunes, but I've only found a hand full of their songs that I really like...songs that scream Mersey Beat.... There may be more that I haven't found ....yet.
@@recordcave That's two songs titled "Come On Girl" you've recently featured on your channel; one by The Redcaps and one by The Fortunes and both are great!.
I love this one! But then, I'm a sucker for great harmonies and The Fortunes always had those. As good as this one is, I don't think it made even a dent in the charts for the group. Their first success coming from their fifth single, and their biggest hit, You've Got Your Troubles. From what I've read from a very reliable source, the band made trouble for themselves when they admitted that they didn't actually play on their hit. While this wasn't uncommon for many groups, especially at the very frugal Decca label, public knowledge of this wasn't a wise decision. Subsequent singles garnered less and less attention until the band almost disappeared until the early 1970s, when they managed another big hit with Here Comes That Rainy Day Feeling Again.
The biggest issue bands found with Decca was that, unless you were a hot commodity, the label gave you little promotion.
Greetings Sp33...Yes it was a common thing in the 60s for producers to talk the groups into letting studio musicians record the instrumental tracks....remember the Monkees? The same thing happened to them....sort of. They were put together for the TV show
@@recordcave True, though the difference with The Monkees was that they only supposed to be a TV show about a band, not a real band. Theirs is a Pinocchio story, becoming a real band through hard work and perseverance. They did record the third album, Headquarters, playing their own instruments but found trying to split time between writing, recording, and filming for the show was incredibly difficult so they went back to (mostly) studio musicians for the next album.
Brian Wilson used the same studio musicians, The Wrecking Crew, as they were the best in the business and it was so much faster to record and then have the rest learn their parts from the recordings. It saved time and money, not to mention the creativity the Crew brought with them. That distinctive bass line for Sonny and Cher's The Beat Goes On was the creation of Carol Kaye, who transformed the song from a straight 4/4 into the rolling R&B that was released.
If you've not yet seen it, there's a documentary on The Wrecking Crew that is a truly enlightening watch. It's incredible just how many hit singles were done by studio musicians. I've read that drummer Hal Blaine once had six or seven of the top 10 in the same week. The documentary is highly recommended.
In the case of The Fortunes, England had their own studio crew which included Jimmy Page, John Paul Jones, Big Jim Sullivan and the great Bobby Graham on drums. Graham provided drums for almost every Dave Clark Five track, keeping his playing as simple as possible due to Clark's limited ability. Clark and his managing of the band is an entire twisted story unto itself.
Amigo Duncan los Fortunes, cónicosde Searchers, beat mersey vocal, no me interesan mucho salvo la canción You got are a problem, o algo así, pero como me la sugieres tu, la voto positivamenre