I saw her at The Plaza in Handsworth , Birmingham; she did a brilliant verion of Don Covay's "See Saw". Fabulous looking lady with great voice and 'Mod Crop' - only English people of a certain age will understand that !
I was 17, loved her just like you. When I saw a recent performance (she can still sing, but looks so different), I hurried back to the 67 recording...same problem with Sonja Christina from Curved Air.
This song is just as HIP today as it was back in 1968! Julie Driscoll was an exquisite, soulful singer who deserved FAR more recognition than she got, especially in the U.S. Yes, Julie ranked right up there with Dusty…the best of the best!
Brilliant then & brilliant now! That haunting voice & don,t forget the wonderful Brian Auger still going strong into his eighties! We would go to the Marquee club in the early 60,s to see him when playing modern jazz.Julie Driscoll was grossly underrated.
Not just the song but all the associated memories ALL things around us at that time...time, place, atmosphere,company and friends make these songs so place in time...almost time machine...takes me way bacjk when I was young1
Brian Auger and Eric Burdon came to Mexico around 1990 (don't remember well) and played in a tiny place. I saw them very close to me. A day to remember (although not the year)
To George Bennet. With respect, Bob Dylan was great AT PERFORMING some of his songs - and good at WRITING this one for THEM to perform (and also writing ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER, which Jimi Hendrix PERFORMED so fsntastically)
This song's very haunting and was like nothing else when it came out. Julie's phrasing and range is so elastic she's having fun with the song. A unique masterpiece!
the 60's was deffinately the best time for music, this song is just magic, I was lucky to be born in the early 50's so grew up with the greatest music of all time
If you ask people about the greatest time of creating fantastic music they´ll tell you about the 80s and its glory days. I know the music created in the 60s and 70s was also absolutely great. I know what I´m talking about - I was born 1953 and I´m grateful for having experienced those decades of creativity and expressive power.
I was born in 1955 Mike and miss the days of Emma Peel, Doctor Who (in monochrome) watching telly and giving it a half hour start waiting for the valves to warm up before watching your program...The days of the line or frame holds gone, the picture being perfect after adjusting the aerial, only to turn to shit the moment you sat down!..Those were the days to coin the song of Mary Hopkins - "Those were the days my friend We thought they'd never end We'd sing and dance forever and a day We'd live the life we choose" - You've gotta laugh or you'd cry, now cheer up you grumpy bastard!! ;-))
swingmaniac lol, I suppose you could have said OLD grumpy bastard ,but didn't want to incriminate yourself. Not sure Emma Peel was in Dr Who , she was in early The Avengers with Patrick Mcnee after Honer Blackman. Yes those were the days ..... days I'll remember all my life (kinks) and yes frustrating getting a good T V picture in early 60's, but we had pirate radio, mainly radio Caroline , as for Mary Hopkin she rocked my boat, she was..........
In that flippant pop era Julie was not around for long in the charts. In the mid sixties she started singing the usual girlie ballads but later teamed with Brian Auger to become almost a female David Bowie check out 'break it up'. By the 70s she had gone from the charts.
Julie Driscoll Brian Auger Trinity Wheels on Fire 🔥. This is most definitely an oldie but it still stands the test of time. Brings back old memories of the past.
Loved this song by Julie driscoll and Brian auger trinity ❤️ ✨️ seen them in Birmingham in the late sixties at the Town Hall I was a teenager then went with my late mum and aunties and friends enjoyed every minute of it she was known for her hairstyle absolutely awesome 👌 👏 👍 😍 💖 😀 xxxx
I'll second that. Musically '60s and 70's and some 80's were when music peaked. After that, with a few exceptions, the musical landscape has resembled a dry and dusty desert.
From David A. Wood: Wow! It's 1994 and I can just visualize both Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley in action on Comedy Central. Thanks very much, RUclips for presenting the memorably witty Brian Auger song, "This Wheel's On Fire!" Nuff Said, Peace Out, and 2024 Happy Holidays from Kettering, Ohio, everybody.
Grace just had the edge on technical brilliance, but Julie was also a force to reckon with! unless i am very much mistaken, this song was written by Bob Dylan ... feel free to correct me! x
i traveled to england from home in US in june 1968, i was 19, i was bumming around liverpool one day and i met this red headed guy on a bus bench and we were talking and somehow Dylan came up, and he said there was a new dylan record out, and i was very excited, he said it's called Wheel's on Fire, and it's not by dylan it's by Julie Driscoll, who i never heard of, and we went to a place that had a juke box and he put it on, wow, a new dylan song!!!! , the words stayed in my head, i couldn't wait to find my american friends who i'd wandered off from the night before, to tell them about this. please notify my next of kin, this wheel shall explode !!! what a lyric. as far as i know, that record wasn't played in the US. nobody i knew ever heard of it, last thing we heard by dylan was john wesley harding at christmas time in 67. but in england it was a hit, top ten record. when we got back from europe in september, the music from big pink by the band was out and it had that song on it.
Brian Auger and the Trinity with Julie Driscol were an amazingly good band to watch/listen to. Sadly never got the exposure internationally they deserved. Rick Danko of the Band was the co-writer with Dylan. In fact I read somewhere he was the greater inspiration behind the track, though not sure what that exactly means!
This is psychedelic hard rock at its best, and it has its place in Rock History, without this there would never have been Punk New Romantic or Goth, this song was a game changer in music
You are correct, the song was a big influence on young Siouxsie Sioux and Siouxsie and the Banshees covered it on their 'Through the Looking Glass' covers album.
Yes, i certainly remember Julie Driscoll with a young mans lust and longing for her, to say nothing of this particular song. I am transported back in time. 62yrs this year. The time has certainly passed with many a tale!!!!!! Thank whoever for memories and those of you for puting songs and videos like this to view.
Imagine what it must have been like hearing this for the first time, back then. It would have been a 'I have seen the future' moment. Mellotron, Hammond, flanging, Julie not smiling. Fantastic then, and now.
I came to read comments to learn exactly-this! This was its first incarnation? I was born in 1973 and only heard the song first from 1993 or 1994 discovering AbFab ♥️♥️
this is so cool, "with it" and "outta sight". groovy stuff. Love the live vocals grooving bass and Brian's hammond. Just love the last part. Grooving dance, smoke and organ. Love that era.
This Julie Driscoll Brian Auger & the Trinity cover of "Wheels On Fire" is easily the best version of this song. I remember this version from 1968-69, during the psychedelic days. So melodic & so heavy. Great stuff. Richard 👍
Absolutely brilliant this song brings back a lot of beautiful and wonderful memories for me and I often take trips and get totally lost down memory lane and reminisce fondly about those day's listening to this song and other music from the same era and wishing I could turn back the clock and go back to those times how bloody great happy and wonderful days they were greetings from Swansea South Wales UK 🏴🎶😊🎶
Lovely song. Thank you dear Queen Elizabeth II. My Manor London gave our devoted Queen a proper send-off. Brilliantly Military, especially the brave soldiers teens who carried a 500lb coffin. 2 sisters of mine passed away, their anniversary too. Very tough week. Shout out to Tower Bridge, SE1. WITH gratitude from a devoted nation. RIP MAMA . 🇬🇧
By "contrived and meaningless" I'll assume you mean that Ian and Sylvia's version of this much covered song isn't as ponderous, not as mannered and obviously less self-consciously self-important? . The Band's original is hard to beat, but I think the bottom line here is that Sylvia Fricker is a far superior singer to Julie Driscoll and Ian and Sylvia's arrangement makes the song actually MEAN something (which sadly, the Hollies version doesn't). I suspect that Ms.Driscoll has her coterie of fans as a sort of "junior league" Nico, but here are ten female singers I think could have done a hypothetically better job on this song:Sandy Denny; Dusty Springfield; Jackie DeShannon; Brenda Lee; Kate Bush; Rickie Lee Jones, Holly Beth Vincent, Annie Haslam, Annie Lennox and while the thought boggles my mind, I have to wonder if my favorite all-time female singer, Dinah Washington, hadn't died at the tragically young age of 39 in 1963, would she have even attempted a Bob Dylan song like this during her "comeback" in the late 60's? It's always fun to haggle over meaningless musical matters.
Dinah's wonderful! and how about Sarah Vaughn? when a teenager my favourite would flip between dinah and sarah. and back. is Sarah more natural, less theatrical, less style and skill than Dinah but sounding more honest?
CHANNEL ONE Hello Allan, we meet again on somewhat the same turf. I like Sarah Vaughn a lot, but WORSHIP Dinah and never found her theatrical at all, simply sly, sassy, and swinging. I have 45 of Dinah's vinyl lps. which should tell you something about my fascination with her. Her effortless ease with a song is reminiscent of Sam Cooke and you'll never hear the sort of histrionics from her that seems to be Nina Simone's stock-in-trade (maybe that's why my least favorite female singer of all time is Janis Joplin). Anyway, you've got my mind on Sarah now, so I'll have to listen to my favorite song of hers before I finish typing this. Ah, just pulled out the lp. and now I'm indulging in "My One and Only." The real sad thing is whenever I play compilation tapes that have Dinah or Sarah on them, people always say, "Oh, isn't that Billie Holiday?" What kind of world are we living in?
My dream girl from the '60s. I was 19 years old then. In 2024, she still looks wonderful.
I saw her at The Plaza in Handsworth , Birmingham; she did a brilliant verion of Don Covay's "See Saw". Fabulous looking lady with great voice and 'Mod Crop' - only English people of a certain age will understand that !
She is very sexy !
She is very sexy !
I was 17, loved her just like you. When I saw a recent performance (she can still sing, but looks so different), I hurried back to the 67 recording...same problem with Sonja Christina from Curved Air.
Wonderful so glad I was a child of the sixties Thanks
This song is just as HIP today as it was back in 1968! Julie Driscoll was an exquisite, soulful singer who deserved FAR more recognition than she got, especially in the U.S. Yes, Julie ranked right up there with Dusty…the best of the best!
true. there are some fantastic performances on the beat club channel to back this up
I`m a 65 y old Japanese. This song takes me back to that chaotic `60s.
OK ,super Musik , I`m slovak from Czechoslovakia
Konnichi wa :)
I was born 1954 and Julie Driscoll was my idol in the 60s, loved her look!
Same here!👍
It's absolutely fabulous...😉
Cute 🥰🥰🥰🥰
Hahahaha. I know. A big kiss for Patsy and Edina.
I liked the theme song so well, I looked it up and found this video. Awesome
I see what you did there.
yeah, not at all predictable.
Ah , 1968 . Riding around in a Morgan , 21 years old . Dutch Au pair in the passenger seat. Never got any better. Now 74 and driving a Toyota Vios.
Sounds like my dream. Bit to young though, I'm 68. I'd swap with the au pair though 😊
Lol, you wish! Stupid comment! Only a loser would post guff like that.
beatles popworms 😅
wonderful
You're my hero
Brilliant then & brilliant now! That haunting voice & don,t forget the wonderful Brian Auger still going strong into his eighties! We would go to the Marquee club in the early 60,s to see him when playing modern jazz.Julie Driscoll was grossly underrated.
Not just the song but all the associated memories ALL things around us at that time...time, place, atmosphere,company and friends make these songs so place in time...almost time machine...takes me way bacjk when I was young1
Absolutely fabulous song
Brian Auger and Eric Burdon came to Mexico around 1990 (don't remember well) and played in a tiny place. I saw them very close to me. A day to remember (although not the year)
I was 18 when this came out. Watching Julie Driscoll with Brian Auger on Top of The Pops. Yet another fantastic Bob Dylan song. Great days!
Thanks. I was wondering who wrote it. Yes it sounds like a non-sensical song of his.
To George Bennet. With respect, Bob Dylan was great AT PERFORMING some of his songs - and good at WRITING this one for THEM to perform (and also writing ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER, which Jimi Hendrix PERFORMED so fsntastically)
This song's very haunting and was like nothing else when it came out. Julie's phrasing and range is so elastic she's having fun with the song. A unique masterpiece!
This performance hits you right between the eyes, leaves you stunned. For about 50 years and counting.
at least 50
She had the lot Gorgeous,great mover unique voice Julie and Grace Slick different league to any of today’s current crop
@@brianmorley7165 And to think, Brian Auger came so close to recruiting Jimi Hendrix to the band! What a combo that would have been!
60 years and trying not to count. She was just something else. Thank whatever is out there that I heard this in '68.
Leaves me stoned
Absolutely Fabulous!♥️
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Fabulous song. the UK were so ahead of the the world in 1968
Be fair, J - written by two Americans. But like all the others, Bob Dylan songs are always best when 'covered'
The original by The Band is much better.
@@johnkrieger185The original is from the Basement Tapes
@@Kwinquark1Written by an American and a Canadian
@Kwinquark1 Absolute rubbish, Dylan's own versions are best 99% of the time, including this song.
Brian Auger: perhaps the most underrated keyboard player of his time.
Discovered Julie Driscoll recently while watching The Monkees tv special. Her voice blew me away. I had to look her up.
This song came out when I was born. I was born on January 3, 1968. This is a great song.
the 60's was deffinately the best time for music, this song is just magic, I was lucky to be born in the early 50's so grew up with the greatest music of all time
If you ask people about the greatest time of creating fantastic music they´ll tell you about the 80s and its glory days. I know the music created in the 60s and 70s was also absolutely great. I know what I´m talking about - I was born 1953 and I´m grateful for having experienced those decades of creativity and expressive power.
so right mate I was born 1952
I was born 1953, loved my teen's in the 60's the freedom's, the girl's, the music, the worry fun free year's, 63 now and depressed.
I was born in 1955 Mike and miss the days of Emma Peel, Doctor Who (in monochrome) watching telly and giving it a half hour start waiting for the valves to warm up before watching your program...The days of the line or frame holds gone, the picture being perfect after adjusting the aerial, only to turn to shit the moment you sat down!..Those were the days to coin the song of Mary Hopkins - "Those were the days my friend
We thought they'd never end
We'd sing and dance forever and a day
We'd live the life we choose" - You've gotta laugh or you'd cry, now cheer up you grumpy bastard!! ;-))
swingmaniac lol, I suppose you could have said OLD grumpy bastard ,but didn't want to incriminate yourself. Not sure Emma Peel was in Dr Who , she was in early The Avengers with Patrick Mcnee after Honer Blackman. Yes those were the days ..... days I'll remember all my life (kinks) and yes frustrating getting a good T V picture in early 60's, but we had pirate radio, mainly radio Caroline , as for Mary Hopkin she rocked my boat, she was..........
Such a brilliant song, Auger mashing up the keys at the end is absolutely incredible
Fabulous
GREAT DAYS.
From Bob Dylans basement tapes
Hi, and now after all this years there is an new stream on this channel, sounds like never before
The sixties, the best time for music!!!!!!This song is just brilliant
Hello Carolyn
How could I have missed this for 50 years?
In that flippant pop era Julie was not around for long in the charts. In the mid sixties she started singing the usual girlie ballads but later teamed with Brian Auger to become almost a female David Bowie check out 'break it up'. By the 70s she had gone from the charts.
Ditto🎉
Julie Driscoll Brian Auger Trinity Wheels on Fire 🔥. This is most definitely an oldie but it still stands the test of time. Brings back old memories of the past.
Loved this song by Julie driscoll and Brian auger trinity ❤️ ✨️ seen them in Birmingham in the late sixties at the Town Hall I was a teenager then went with my late mum and aunties and friends enjoyed every minute of it she was known for her hairstyle absolutely awesome 👌 👏 👍 😍 💖 😀 xxxx
From a time when pop music was good. We'll never see its like again...
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I had almost forgotten this song, so Iconic, but just another song in 1968.....
They really don't make songs like this anymore. Haunting, gritty and powerful, it stands the test of time well.
Listen to Season of The Witch.. Great cover!
RIP Julie
S.O.D. you put it very well..my sentiments entirely....
@@gsmith5865 she is alive and well aged 72
@@planetDREAMSPIRIT Thank you Sonic ...ROCK ON
I saw her at the jazz club in Grimsby in the late sixties what great days, I was born in 51and so feel those born then have had the best of it.
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Musically yes but u have also watched a Britain become a Muslim caliphate!
ok boomer
I'll second that. Musically '60s and 70's and some 80's were when music peaked. After that, with a few exceptions, the musical landscape has resembled a dry and dusty desert.
@@3vimages471 If they keep on marrying their cousins we wont have much to worry about.
Thanks, Bob, for this great song. And what a performance!
Thanks also to co-writer Rick Danko.
Loved it in 68!,still luv it now 😍
bob dylan has produced some amazing music.....this was one of the coolest performances of the 1960`s....julie was the face of 1968...stunning.
An absolute classic song.
An absolutely fabulous song
that dylan didnt even bother to release lol.
He did, on The Basement Tapes. The band also released their version (their bassist composed the song). @@cockoffgewgle4993
From David A. Wood: Wow! It's 1994 and I can just visualize both Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley in action on Comedy Central. Thanks very much, RUclips for presenting the memorably witty Brian Auger song, "This Wheel's On Fire!" Nuff Said, Peace Out, and 2024 Happy Holidays from Kettering, Ohio, everybody.
Probably sums up the sixties, cool hammond solo and cool dancing, and fashion and production
Excellent - still powerful after all these years.
I liked this song as a 12 year old boy. Still do!
Another song for me was "Fire" from Arthur Brown. Same year.
Both great songs.
I never could decide which was the greatest, Julie or Grace Slick; and 40+ years later I still can't, so I'll just listen to them both.
Both brilliant far superior to anything about these days voices totally unique
Grace just had the edge on technical brilliance, but Julie was also a force to reckon with! unless i am very much mistaken, this song was written by Bob Dylan ... feel free to correct me! x
It might be a continental thing. We might have heard from print media in North America about Julie, but on radio we heard Grace Sllick
Can't beat that late 60s atmosphere this song conjures up, Stunningly haunting!...If my memory serves me well!
2023 and my memory of this serves me well
Such an amazing grouping of talent that will never be again.
1968 what a year to be alive, what a year for music
This song's a timeless classic, I'm listening to this 41 years after its release and still love it as much in 2009 as I did in 1968!
Been better renditions
And I'm still loving it in 2021 ☺️
2022 sounds great.
@@charlesatty Yes indeed 😀
I agree! I bought their album in 1968, and love it still in 2022!
One of my favourite bands ,the haunting voice and look of Julie Driscoll. Thanks for the share
Julie Driscol-'the face'. What can you say that hasn't already been said a thousand times.
Such a beautiful song,beautifully performed, wish them times were today, well I seen it, so they are
I went to see the group before and after the record became a hit at the local R&B club at the Black Prince Old Bexley. Loved it then... love it now!
Happy Days eh?
One of the greatest performances ever
I still remember watching this on the TV in our front room in Battersea. I was only 10 years old at the time.
i traveled to england from home in US in june 1968, i was 19, i was bumming around liverpool one day and i met this red headed guy on a bus bench and we were talking and somehow Dylan came up, and he said there was a new dylan record out, and i was very excited, he said it's called Wheel's on Fire, and it's not by dylan it's by Julie Driscoll, who i never heard of, and we went to a place that had a juke box and he put it on, wow, a new dylan song!!!! , the words stayed in my head, i couldn't wait to find my american friends who i'd wandered off from the night before, to tell them about this. please notify my next of kin, this wheel shall explode !!! what a lyric. as far as i know, that record wasn't played in the US. nobody i knew ever heard of it, last thing we heard by dylan was john wesley harding at christmas time in 67. but in england it was a hit, top ten record. when we got back from europe in september, the music from big pink by the band was out and it had that song on it.
Brian Auger and the Trinity with Julie Driscol were an amazingly good band to watch/listen to. Sadly never got the exposure internationally they deserved. Rick Danko of the Band was the co-writer with Dylan. In fact I read somewhere he was the greater inspiration behind the track, though not sure what that exactly means!
Spot on about the lyric. Julie Driscoll frightened the shit out of this youngster I’ll never forget that particular TOTP appearance.
@@nickskyrme7128 my Dad had this recorded. I was terrified of it as a kid too.
Still amazing song in 2023☺
2024
This is psychedelic hard rock at its best, and it has its place in Rock History, without this there would never have been Punk New Romantic or Goth, this song was a game changer in music
It's Dylans song. You don't even know who he is otherwise you would not have made that comment.
I don;t know who Dylan is eh?, I could prove otherwise I have probably forgotten more about music than you know
You are correct, the song was a big influence on young Siouxsie Sioux and Siouxsie and the Banshees covered it on their 'Through the Looking Glass' covers album.
there needs to be more views for such an iconic performance
The face of the 60,s wow
A classic, there's so many of them, take's me back to my teens. FAB. Jo Trig
I remember her being my inspiration. Cut my hair down to my sculp and drew eye lashes under my eyes - the whole thing. Good memories 😊
Clarissa Gafoor she had a unique voice Clarissa
I bet you looked just as lovely as Julie
"You know we'll meet again if your memory serves you well". Classic 60's stoned-out lyrics. Wow, man, just wow.
It has been over 40 years since I heard that song. Good song. From the hippie days of the late 60's. Good shit!
Yes, i certainly remember Julie Driscoll with a young mans lust and longing for her, to say nothing of this particular song. I am transported back in time.
62yrs this year. The time has certainly passed with many a tale!!!!!! Thank whoever for memories and those of you for puting songs and videos like this to view.
Imagine what it must have been like hearing this for the first time, back then. It would have been a 'I have seen the future' moment. Mellotron, Hammond, flanging, Julie not smiling. Fantastic then, and now.
Yes brilliant. Was Russ Ballard still in the band?
It was I was 14
I came to read comments to learn exactly-this! This was its first incarnation? I was born in 1973 and only heard the song first from 1993 or 1994 discovering AbFab ♥️♥️
This video is pure art.
Love this track sends tingles down spine. Brilliant production.
To Andyj. Sends Pringles down my c o c k.
What a voice,gives me goosebumps every time I hear it. Superb 👌
this is so cool, "with it" and "outta sight". groovy stuff. Love the live vocals grooving bass and Brian's hammond. Just love the last part. Grooving dance, smoke and organ. Love that era.
Julie's eye makeup knocked me out as a little girl i thought it was amazing still do
I was 18 when I first heard this on LM Radio. It blew my mind. Love it!
Absolute class gorgeous then and now
15 years old at the time - I thought she was so beautiful and loved the song
Hello Jeanette
Hauntingly beautiful song......fantastic 60's music
Saw Julie and Brian perform this in 1968 in NW London. Kilburn? Unforgettable.
wonderful, i saw her in the late 60's at the Marquee in Wardour street, what an act, thx for posting.
Remember this! Definitely showing my age. Was thirteen or fourteen when I heard this, very phsycadelic! Shows how things stick in your mind.
*psychadelic
*psychedelic
Hypnotized to this day!
Brilliant voice loved this band in those days great music
john bethell none better john
Julie Driscoll was an absolute dream 😍😍😍😍
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Think I used to listen to this and it gave me my first love of words & , `poetry`. Mystical.
Hello Melissa
Puts a shiver through me, so on *point* absolutely fabulous entree
This Julie Driscoll Brian Auger & the Trinity cover of "Wheels On Fire" is easily the best version of this song. I remember this version from 1968-69, during the psychedelic days. So melodic & so heavy. Great stuff. Richard 👍
I like Byrds version the best
Check out Ian and Sylvia
Yes, thanks for posting. Have the CDs,, but nice to see the images that went with the sound.
one ofr the most evocative song of all times
Absolutely brilliant this song brings back a lot of beautiful and wonderful memories for me and I often take trips and get totally lost down memory lane and reminisce fondly about those day's listening to this song and other music from the same era and wishing I could turn back the clock and go back to those times how bloody great happy and wonderful days they were greetings from Swansea South Wales UK 🏴🎶😊🎶
I heard this song when I was a thirteen years old boy: I got amazed, it sounded intriguing ... it was then that my love for music exploded
I was ten when it came out and I loved it then and I love it now
love her ... and such an awsome song. xxx
She was always absolutely bewitching and with the combination of this number this is something else!!
Great one !!!!! love it.....
Hello Yvonne
Brilliant song, Love the violin arrangements. Wonderful on a long motorway trip! Genius! Uk
Love this song☺👐😄👌🔥🔥
Wish I could say I remember this one, because it's fantastic! Great lead vocals from JD, incredible keyboards/mellotron sound!!
Lovely song. Thank you dear Queen Elizabeth II. My Manor London gave our devoted Queen a proper send-off. Brilliantly Military, especially the brave soldiers teens who carried a 500lb coffin. 2 sisters of mine passed away, their anniversary too. Very tough week. Shout out to Tower Bridge, SE1. WITH gratitude from a devoted nation. RIP MAMA . 🇬🇧
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what a song what a decade the best
Classic, I was born in 1954 grew up with some great music.
Can't recall where I saw this performed (Leeds, probably), but then who can recall late '60s....Jools was lovely.
Great voice,great song!!!!
Just Classic, and great production for the time. Love this.
Would have loved to see this live . Get blown away .
always loved this still do brilliant top preformer
Great version.
I was 14 years old when this hit me
Brian Auger, you're amazing! :D
by FAR the best version I've ever heard.
Then you never listened to Ian and Sylvia's far superior virgin.
Paul Maney superior? not sure. certainly more contrived and meaningless
By "contrived and meaningless" I'll assume you mean that Ian and Sylvia's version of this much covered song isn't as ponderous, not as mannered and obviously less self-consciously self-important? . The Band's original is hard to beat, but I think the bottom line here is that Sylvia Fricker is a far superior singer to Julie Driscoll and Ian and Sylvia's arrangement makes the song actually MEAN something (which sadly, the Hollies version doesn't). I suspect that Ms.Driscoll has her coterie of fans as a sort of "junior league" Nico, but here are ten female singers I think could have done a hypothetically better job on this song:Sandy Denny; Dusty Springfield; Jackie DeShannon; Brenda Lee; Kate Bush; Rickie Lee Jones, Holly Beth Vincent, Annie Haslam, Annie Lennox and while the thought boggles my mind, I have to wonder if my favorite all-time female singer, Dinah Washington, hadn't died at the tragically young age of 39 in 1963, would she have even attempted a Bob Dylan song like this during her "comeback" in the late 60's? It's always fun to haggle over meaningless musical matters.
Dinah's wonderful! and how about Sarah Vaughn? when a teenager my favourite would flip between dinah and sarah. and back. is Sarah more natural, less theatrical, less style and skill than Dinah but sounding more honest?
CHANNEL ONE Hello Allan, we meet again on somewhat the same turf. I like Sarah Vaughn a lot, but WORSHIP Dinah and never found her theatrical at all, simply sly, sassy, and swinging. I have 45 of Dinah's vinyl lps. which should tell you something about my fascination with her. Her effortless ease with a song is reminiscent of Sam Cooke and you'll never hear the sort of histrionics from her that seems to be Nina Simone's stock-in-trade (maybe that's why my least favorite female singer of all time is Janis Joplin). Anyway, you've got my mind on Sarah now, so I'll have to listen to my favorite song of hers before I finish typing this. Ah, just pulled out the lp. and now I'm indulging in "My One and Only." The real sad thing is whenever I play compilation tapes that have Dinah or Sarah on them, people always say, "Oh, isn't that Billie Holiday?" What kind of world are we living in?