Imagine having to go up against "Hey Jude" and its (ahem) weak B-Side. Once again, sir, this is one of the best pages on musical culture on YT! And I love Lennon's guitar tone, too. 🎸
A friend sent this to me this morning, saying "You have to listen to this!". I did, and was both delighted and amazed to be referred to at the end of the episode. I was the guitarist and songwriter (with Rob Gold) in Kate... And I still remember the recording session for Strange Girl... The CBS studio in Bond Street in London... The 60's in London in a band... Poverty stricken but fun!
I'm 62 now & am blessed with three older sisters who loved music. So growing up in the '60s I heard many of these songs first time around. What a fantastic musical education that was for a small boy - & yet your amazing channel introduces me to so much I've never heard before. Thank-you!
Cocker's cover of "I Get by with A Little Help From My Friends" has always been one of the best Beatles covers by my own estimation. "Sour Milk Sea" should've been a smash in a perfect world. A great song with a great lineup.
"Sour Milk Sea" conjures up an image that many people will find disgusting. You shouldn't ever be surprised if a song that elicits disgust in its title isn't a hit. People don't like negative emotions generally speaking, but even among them, people really don't like being disgusted.
@@perfectallycromulent I bought Sour Milk Sea when it came out, and I've never regarded as anymore than a great, solid slab of rock and roll. And that's what it will always be in my eyes. No more, no less! Listen...enjoy, don't analyse!!👍👍❤❤
The Joe Cocker cover song a well known one from Woodstock had a second life in the 80’s as the theme song for the American series set in the 60’s, The Wonder Yaars and since has been used for commercials here. Surprised it didn’t get more exposure at the time.
Interesting bit of information that Hey Jude came about because of the long form songs like, MacArthur Park, that were getting played on AM radio. MacArthur Park has been raked over the coals by critics. It seems to be on most ‘worst songs’ lists. I’m going put my neck on the chopping block by declaring, I love the song! Jimmy Webb painted word pictures of that park and the LA I remember. To this day, when I’m in LA, driving Wilshire Boulevard,as I’m ready to pass the park, I break out into song…”MacArthur Park is melting in dark.” Thank you, YP, for an excellent review of great songs.
A lot of people seem to really dislike that song and I can understand why some people may find it "cringey" but from a songwriting point of view, "MacArthur Park" is pretty incredible. Brilliant string arrangements, too.
Another great video. Also released in Sept 68 was One inch rock by Tyrannosaurus Rex, of course fronted by an up and coming Mark Bolan, just made #28 but a few years later and a few personnel changes and the rest would be history.
i was 8 years old. So: unsurprising that most of these gems passed under my radar, considering the scant attention given them by DJs.Thank you, very listenable! I really enjoyed hearing these bands, a lot of whom I hadn't heard of. Although I do still love the Move!
It’s worth mentioning that Street Fighting Man was released as a single in the States in August. The original single version has a completely different vocal track, and backing vocals, with the same instrumental track, also without the epic “Get Down !”
the Hollies really do something to me. Every time I hear them my heart feels so good. That World of Oz song is quite lovely too. Only wish it had one more stanza. Thanks for another excellent trip down British musical memory lane, YP
@@YesterdaysPapers And so many great songs buried in their albums that many have not heard if they are only acquainted with their hit singles. Songs like Time For Love on the In the Hollies Style LP., As perfect a melodic rock song as any Beatles single. I'm sure it would have been a top 10 single if it was released like that. Or more mature songs like Rain on the Window from the Evolution LP. Quite daring and unusual lyrics about the singer receiving a brutal shading from a girl after a one night stand
Another superb vid, YP; remembering MLK, Jr. and otherwise not particularly happy about events happening today over here in the States, so no long comment today.
My heart is once again filled with appreciation for what you are doing Yesterday's Papers ❤️ Let me limit myself to two things. In the early 70s, as a young lad, I was allowed to watch Toppop and I saw The Sweet, Slade, Mud and other Glamrock bands there. I loved that at the time! Now you teach me that The Move, who I also know well, were the pioneers of this genre through their hit "Wild Tiger Woman". I always thought Marc Bolan was the forerunner 😄 And the second one, "Good Times" I knew from those obscure Glamrockers Mott The Hoople, because they have it too! Now I know the song was written by Vanda and Young of The Easybeats. Awesome! "Listen To Me" is my favourite song by The Hollies 🤩 !
bYP. Thanks for another dose of the late 60s. It brought a smile to my face. I got around to watching your Graham Gouldman video (I am still catching up on the past - so to speak) yesterday and noticed that it had over 600 comments. Superb episode on a superb songwriter, and required watching if you like the 60s in my opinion.
Another informative and entertaining video… I was very impressed by the group World of Oz. Those guys were way ahead of their time and should’ve made it. As I have mentioned before, it makes me sad about all the sensational groups that did not make it. Thanks again for another outstanding video.
@@madamcyn if that is the case then Lennon had imported the single or heard it overseas. it was not released in the UK. And that intro setup was pretty popular in blues and jazz, check out Goree Carter "Rock Awhile" from 1949. Lonnie And Johnson was using triplets in 1926! Clearly Chuck Berry was influenced by these artists and i think it's more like Lennon got it from Chuck.
Another great video. Thanks. Always a treat to see something I didn’t know by musicians I like. I played the Clark Hutchinson album, A=MH2, so often I almost wore it out. I’ll have to look out for the Vamp now. Cy Payne, the arranger on Kate’s single used to live nearby. Small world.
Bassist Ace Kefford is still featured in the single print cover (9:29), however in the live performance Trevor Burton has switched to bass (9:50). I wonder the single was released shortly after Kefford's breakdown.
A shame there were no rarities in August..surely there must have been some great underground stuff? The KATE single sounded great to my ears. Thanks for sharing
@YesterdaysPapers ah, thanks for the heads up. I'm so used to musical curators finding unreleased tracks that I half expect every band to have some more in the vaults!
It amazes me how much of a disconnect there seems to be between the critics and the public on most of these records mentioned in this video. Was critical acclaim a "kiss of death" in those days?
Apart from the brilliant music by groups like Kaleidoscope you offer fascinating bits of info: the all star lineup for Jackie Lomax: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney & Nicky Hopkins🎉 Who wouldn't love to listen to an album by these gents❤? And that Chris Gilbey from Kate although unsuccessful as a group member in England later signed AC/DC and INXS! Keep up the good work😊
Ah, have been waiting for this for a few weeks! Nice one, YP. Warms up a freezing foggy evening in France! Here again a Nice discovery - The Vamp. Coincidence maybe, but sounds as though Long Pigs (great 90s group) may have been influenced by this cool 45. Tnx YP. Keep up the great work! ❤ ❤❤❤
I saw Jethro Tull at newport 69 i was 16 and already had the first lp most people in LA never heard of them but by the end of their set were really groovin Thanks YP Cheers !😊
How I'd love to go back to 1968. As of September I'd be 4 years old. My parents were not Beatles fans or any music of this period and it'd be several years until I started to develop my own tastes in music. Seeing Yellow Submarine triggered my interest in the Beatles and bought the soundtrack shortly afterwards. Thereafter I was asking "Santa" for more records. I prefer this version of Revolution to the one found on the White Album. I never really analyzed the song but I guess it's basic message is that a revolution, even one begun with the best of intentions, can go terribly wrong and needs to police itself from becoming increasingly similar to it's fighting against. I envy those who got to experience this period of time firsthand. It's easy to romanticize it but most of the best music was a response to the terrible things going on throughout the world and offered some kind of commentary. Music could rally people as we'd see in Woodstock, but modern modern-day music seems to have had the opposite effect.
Great music from August and September 1968. I'm sure I would have enjoyed it, but I was only a month old. However, I did get to enjoy Hey Jude and Revolution later, thanks to my Beatles loving mom.
16:26 "King Croesus" is exceptionally well-produced, with a clean and clear sound quality, impressive instrument separation, and a wide, spacious stereo image. The drumming is outstandingly performed.
Another Excellent installment. HEY JUDE/REVOLUTION was one of the first singles I had my dad buy for me back in the 80's I started my Beatles obsession, I must have been 10 or 11. Around that time "Revolution" was being used in a Nike commercial If I remember correctly. The original MOVE were so cool both visually and sonically.
My family got its first color TV in August 1968. The Beatles clips are from the David Frost Show. Jackie Lomax should have been more successful. That lineup of the Hollies is my favorite. I love the American TV commercial of the housewife giving ice cream cones to children. I can tell it's American because of the kitchen and the boy wearing a blue baseball cap.
Wonderful video as always. It’s worth noting though that The Beatles had already moved on from their psychedelic phase before Hey Jude. Lady Madonna was released in March 1968, and even then it was considered part of a “return to rock” movement. The Stones Street Fighting Man, recorded in May but released in August 1968, can’t be considered a pioneer of this trend.
"Lady Madonna" was more a 50s rock and roll pastiche rather than a return to organic and unpolished sounds. It certainly doesn't unpolished or raw like "Jumping Jack Flash".
A certain London based quintet released their last single in their original lineup in August 1968, but only in the US and Canada. It was quickly banned and withdrawn.
I honestly believe Kaleidoscope could have been as big as The Beatles, they had that much going for them. Criminal that they never had a hit. Jennifer Artichoke should have been a huge smash. Great video again. I’d never heard of Kate!
What's fascinating about the YP "Cool British Singles" videos is that the misses are often more interesting than the hits. Only drawback, they require an extra hour or so of RUclips research.
I bought the Hey Jude/Revolution single back in the day for the Revolution side as well. The UK was certainly a fertile ground for new music. Perhaps due to the sheer amount of singles in release explains why some of them never charted there.
Joe Cocker's cover of Feelin' Alright was another of his which should've been a bigger hit. Much more powerful than Traffic's own. It's interesting that Viv Prince also recorded with Kate and Kaleidoscope are still around now.
14:12 "This infuriated The Hollies....". I wonder if Graham Nash also felt infuriated when the other members dismissed "Marrakesh Express" saying it didn’t align with their style and wasn’t a strong enough song for their repertoire.??
Sour Milk Sea also happened to be the name of Freddie Mercury's early band... perhaps Freddie was one of the very few who paid attention to Jackie Lomax's record.
maybe he called for both singles, because he definitely called from a payphone to get Good Times played again, or at least that's been the story ever since I can remember.
After viewing this- again excellent - video went to search in my record collection from 1968, found a bundle of interesting records from September 1968 : The Carrolls with Ever Since, The Pop Workshop with Fairyland, Vanity Fare with I live for the sun, The Colors of love with Just another fly, Fearns Brass Foundry with Now I taste the tears, Spooky Tooth with The weight.
I just came across your channel and watched this excellent Video. Can I ask how did you come across some of these songs and obscure bands? I only knew a few of the bands/singles I really like that Kate track can you point me in some info please, I did a search but nothing only the singles on Discogs. I will watch your other videos 😋
By the late sixties bands like Traffic and Jethro Tull tended to appeal to people who were more inclined to buy albums, though Jethro Tull did end up having some success on the singles chart and immediately drew criticism from some quarters for "selling out" ( this was the era when "serious" rock bands didn't do singles) I thought Tull were great, they're still one of my all time favourite bands. I seem to remember the Hollies doing Listen To Me on The David Frost Show a few days before Graham Nash left the band, I thought it would have done better in the charts than it did, but an appearance on TOTP in those days could apparently make a record, so not appearing may well have had a negative impact.
Iommi was in Tull less than a week, and that was his only TV appearance in the band. I seem to recall he didn't feel like he fitted in. I really like Lulu's version of Traffic's Feelin' Alright. Wild Tiger Woman doesn't feel very glam to me.
Think Tony iommi said once back with sabbath that you have to work as hard as jethro Tull and knew they would go far and sabbath then took it very seriously 👍
Was that a promotional video for sour milk sea by Jackie Lomax? I know badFinger/the Ivy‘s put out a promotional video for maybe tomorrow but I am surprised that they did one for Jackie as well.
Wondering what month The United States of America's "Garden of Earthly Delights" came out - American group but UK-only single release. A true psych classic.
Joe Cocker's rise from anonymity and success was a function of producer Denny Cordell, who had done Procol Harum and others. Marjorine did not go well, so he made adjustments with first-rate studio musicians. Denny had a gold thumb.
You should do a video on Penny Valentine
Agreed. She totally deserves it
Yeshhhh!
Indeed !
He just has! 😉
Holy crap! That is a fantastic idea!
Yesterday's paper Is the only page that I give a like immediately every time I find a new post without even watching it, Never disappointed!
@@AlbertoVizcarra-i5h Cheers!
Absolutely.
Imagine having to go up against "Hey Jude" and its (ahem) weak B-Side.
Once again, sir, this is one of the best pages on musical culture on YT!
And I love Lennon's guitar tone, too. 🎸
Cheers!
Another splendid production - the research you do is impressive!
Cheers!
A friend sent this to me this morning, saying "You have to listen to this!". I did, and was both delighted and amazed to be referred to at the end of the episode. I was the guitarist and songwriter (with Rob Gold) in Kate... And I still remember the recording session for Strange Girl... The CBS studio in Bond Street in London... The 60's in London in a band... Poverty stricken but fun!
Very cool! That single is brilliant. Truly excellent sound and song. It still sounds great, timeless. Thanks for commenting, Chris!
that single is great much respect to you and the band
I'm 62 now & am blessed with three older sisters who loved music. So growing up in the '60s I heard many of these songs first time around. What a fantastic musical education that was for a small boy - & yet your amazing channel introduces me to so much I've never heard before. Thank-you!
Cocker's cover of "I Get by with A Little Help From My Friends" has always been one of the best Beatles covers by my own estimation.
"Sour Milk Sea" should've been a smash in a perfect world. A great song with a great lineup.
"Sour Milk Sea" conjures up an image that many people will find disgusting. You shouldn't ever be surprised if a song that elicits disgust in its title isn't a hit. People don't like negative emotions generally speaking, but even among them, people really don't like being disgusted.
It's true, the title is quite indigestible, pity.
@@perfectallycromulent I bought Sour Milk Sea when it came out, and I've never regarded as anymore than a great, solid slab of rock and roll. And that's what it will always be in my eyes. No more, no less! Listen...enjoy, don't analyse!!👍👍❤❤
The Joe Cocker cover song a well known one from Woodstock had a second life in the 80’s as the theme song for the American series set in the 60’s, The Wonder Yaars and since has been used for commercials here. Surprised it didn’t get more exposure at the time.
i LOVE Kaleidoscope!! amazing band!!
This channel gives us a wonderfully authentic glimpse back at one of the most significant musical eras, warts and all
George Young of The Easybeats is the older brother of Angus and Malcolm from ACDC. Great episode as always.
Co producer on there first few albums ,
Interesting bit of information that Hey Jude came about because of the long form songs like, MacArthur Park, that were getting played on AM radio. MacArthur Park has been raked over the coals by critics. It seems to be on most ‘worst songs’ lists. I’m going put my neck on the chopping block by declaring, I love the song! Jimmy Webb painted word pictures of that park and the LA I remember. To this day, when I’m in LA, driving Wilshire Boulevard,as I’m ready to pass the park, I break out into song…”MacArthur Park is melting in dark.” Thank you, YP, for an excellent review of great songs.
Great song
At least Donna Summer gave it a good disco beat in 1980
@@chrisbacos I love the Donna Summer cover of that song.
A lot of people seem to really dislike that song and I can understand why some people may find it "cringey" but from a songwriting point of view, "MacArthur Park" is pretty incredible. Brilliant string arrangements, too.
@@YesterdaysPapers Jimmy Webb won the Grammy for Best arrangement of that song.
Another great video. Also released in Sept 68 was One inch rock by Tyrannosaurus Rex, of course fronted by an up and coming Mark Bolan, just made #28 but a few years later and a few personnel changes and the rest would be history.
i was 8 years old. So: unsurprising that most of these gems passed under my radar, considering the scant attention given them by DJs.Thank you, very listenable! I really enjoyed hearing these bands, a lot of whom I hadn't heard of. Although I do still love the Move!
It’s worth mentioning that Street Fighting Man was released as a single in the States in August. The original single version has a completely different vocal track, and backing vocals, with the same instrumental track, also without the epic “Get Down !”
Wonderful content, as always. That song by Kate has pulled me in. Thank you again.
Another great video, thank you.
Cheers!
Traffic, Tull, what a time to be alive. I was still 13 months away from birth so I can only imagine. Saw a bit in the 90s though lol.
Good video as always, I also loved the intro song "Flower king of flies" one of my favorite songs from The Nice
the Hollies really do something to me. Every time I hear them my heart feels so good. That World of Oz song is quite lovely too. Only wish it had one more stanza.
Thanks for another excellent trip down British musical memory lane, YP
Cheers Willie! Same here, the Hollies had so many brilliant songs. What a band.
@@YesterdaysPapers And so many great songs buried in their albums that many have not heard if they are only acquainted with their hit singles. Songs like Time For Love on the In the Hollies Style LP., As perfect a melodic rock song as any Beatles single. I'm sure it would have been a top 10 single if it was released like that. Or more mature songs like Rain on the Window from the Evolution LP. Quite daring and unusual lyrics about the singer receiving a brutal shading from a girl after a one night stand
@willieluncheonette5843 Very true, way underappreciated.
Another superb vid, YP; remembering MLK, Jr. and otherwise not particularly happy about events happening today over here in the States, so no long comment today.
Cheers Mac!
You actually think it matters who plays the role of president? HAHAHAHA,
COPE HARDER!!!!!
My heart is once again filled with appreciation for what you are doing Yesterday's Papers ❤️ Let me limit myself to two things. In the early 70s, as a young lad, I was allowed to watch Toppop and I saw The Sweet, Slade, Mud and other Glamrock bands there. I loved that at the time! Now you teach me that The Move, who I also know well, were the pioneers of this genre through their hit "Wild Tiger Woman". I always thought Marc Bolan was the forerunner 😄 And the second one, "Good Times" I knew from those obscure Glamrockers Mott The Hoople, because they have it too! Now I know the song was written by Vanda and Young of The Easybeats. Awesome!
"Listen To Me" is my favourite song by The Hollies 🤩 !
Cheers Edwin! Yep, "Wild Tiger Woman" is totally proto-glam rock. Love that sound.
Some great sounds
Thanks as always for yet another corker!
Cheers!
bYP. Thanks for another dose of the late 60s. It brought a smile to my face. I got around to watching your Graham Gouldman video (I am still catching up on the past - so to speak) yesterday and noticed that it had over 600 comments. Superb episode on a superb songwriter, and required watching if you like the 60s in my opinion.
Cheers Wylie!
Just found your channel. Great work sir. I shall be watching more.
Thanks!
You have such an original and great channel.
Cheers!
Another informative and entertaining video… I was very impressed by the group World of Oz. Those guys were way ahead of their time and should’ve made it. As I have mentioned before, it makes me sad about all the sensational groups that did not make it.
Thanks again for another outstanding video.
John Lennon's guitar on Revolution is a fuzzy mess. Gorgeous wonderful fuzzy mess.
It came from Do Unto Others by Pee Wee Crayton.
The hot fuzzy mess comes from Pee Wee Crayton’s Do Unto Others recorded in 1954.
@@madamcyn if that is the case then Lennon had imported the single or heard it overseas. it was not released in the UK. And that intro setup was pretty popular in blues and jazz, check out Goree Carter "Rock Awhile" from 1949. Lonnie And Johnson was using triplets in 1926! Clearly Chuck Berry was influenced by these artists and i think it's more like Lennon got it from Chuck.
4:07 interesting that Tony Iommi was in Jethro Tull, I didn't know that! Thanks!
Nicky Hopkins also played the electric piano on Revolution but was uncredited.
Session Man (The Kinks)
Great video. I appreciate the amount of work you put into these.
Thanks!
Excellent as usual. Vamp is a great discovery ! & I'm a Graham Gouldman fan: all the good hits he wrote...
thsi channel did an excellent vlog on Graham Gouldman's songwriting during the 1960s
Another great video. Thanks. Always a treat to see something I didn’t know by musicians I like. I played the Clark Hutchinson album, A=MH2, so often I almost wore it out. I’ll have to look out for the Vamp now. Cy Payne, the arranger on Kate’s single used to live nearby. Small world.
Love Listen To Me by The Hollies & Penny Valentine summed it up excellently.
I always loved Strange Girl from Kate. Thanks for another video!
Wild Tiger 🐅 Woman is an excellent & underrated track by The Move & the B-Side Omnibus is ace as well.
Agree.
Great single, both sides.
Bassist Ace Kefford is still featured in the single print cover (9:29), however in the live performance Trevor Burton has switched to bass (9:50). I wonder the single was released shortly after Kefford's breakdown.
@diegoferreiro9478 Yep, he left the Move shortly before the release of this single. Maybe he even played bass on it.
A shame there were no rarities in August..surely there must have been some great underground stuff?
The KATE single sounded great to my ears. Thanks for sharing
August 68 was a very disappointing month. Lots of forgettable pop songs. The Kate single is indeed very good. Great unusual sound.
@YesterdaysPapers yep, I'll be searching that out.
I'm hoping Vamp did a few tunes. Would be nice to look into what viv price did later..if anything?
@karlsinclair9918 That is the only single Vamp ever released. It's a pity 'cause "Floating" is really good.
@YesterdaysPapers ah, thanks for the heads up.
I'm so used to musical curators finding unreleased tracks that I half expect every band to have some more in the vaults!
Great stuff! Made my day! Thank you!!
Cheeers!
Love this channel.
Amazing time for music - you can practically see it change by the month.
It amazes me how much of a disconnect there seems to be between the critics and the public on most of these records mentioned in this video. Was critical acclaim a "kiss of death" in those days?
Apart from the brilliant music by groups like Kaleidoscope you offer fascinating bits of info: the all star lineup for Jackie Lomax: George Harrison, Eric Clapton, Paul McCartney & Nicky Hopkins🎉 Who wouldn't love to listen to an album by these gents❤?
And that Chris Gilbey from Kate although unsuccessful as a group member in England later signed AC/DC and INXS!
Keep up the good work😊
Oops I forgot Ringo in the All-Star lineup😮
Ah, have been waiting for this for a few weeks! Nice one, YP. Warms up a freezing foggy evening in France! Here again a Nice discovery - The Vamp. Coincidence maybe, but sounds as though Long Pigs (great 90s group) may have been influenced by this cool 45. Tnx YP. Keep up the great work! ❤ ❤❤❤
Cheers.
I saw Jethro Tull at newport 69 i was 16 and already had the first lp most people in LA never heard of them but by the end of their set were really groovin Thanks YP Cheers !😊
Cheers Jerry.
Fantástico.
Ya lo esperaba con ansias, gracias Yesterday Papers.
How I'd love to go back to 1968. As of September I'd be 4 years old. My parents were not Beatles fans or any music of this period and it'd be several years until I started to develop my own tastes in music. Seeing Yellow Submarine triggered my interest in the Beatles and bought the soundtrack shortly afterwards. Thereafter I was asking "Santa" for more records. I prefer this version of Revolution to the one found on the White Album. I never really analyzed the song but I guess it's basic message is that a revolution, even one begun with the best of intentions, can go terribly wrong and needs to police itself from becoming increasingly similar to it's fighting against. I envy those who got to experience this period of time firsthand. It's easy to romanticize it but most of the best music was a response to the terrible things going on throughout the world and offered some kind of commentary. Music could rally people as we'd see in Woodstock, but modern modern-day music seems to have had the opposite effect.
Prefer the album version tbh
We could do with one atm be it upbeat or slowed down lol
Another great video to remember those great times! Thank you YP!!!
Cheers!
Great music from August and September 1968. I'm sure I would have enjoyed it, but I was only a month old. However, I did get to enjoy Hey Jude and Revolution later, thanks to my Beatles loving mom.
I hope the sixties never end that they won't well they?
Happy New Year
Happy New Year.
16:26 "King Croesus" is exceptionally well-produced, with a clean and clear sound quality, impressive instrument separation, and a wide, spacious stereo image. The drumming is outstandingly performed.
It was a top forty hit on Los Angeles radio station KHJ at the time of its release.
Another great episode! I look so forward to these. Thanks!
Cheers!
Never heard of World of Oz. They are very good. Thanks for the introduction.
love it keep up the good work
Who else noticed the credit to John Paul Jones for the accompaniment on the Mindbenders single? Led Zeppelin just around the corner.
What a decade of muzic ...from Johnny kidd 1961-1969 Beatles
Wonderful music from that time period. Would make a nice compilation album.
Another Excellent installment. HEY JUDE/REVOLUTION was one of the first singles I had my dad buy for me back in the 80's I started my Beatles obsession, I must have been 10 or 11. Around that time "Revolution" was being used in a Nike commercial If I remember correctly. The original MOVE were so cool both visually and sonically.
Agreed. The Move are criminally underrated.
My family got its first color TV in August 1968. The Beatles clips are from the David Frost Show. Jackie Lomax should have been more successful. That lineup of the Hollies is my favorite. I love the American TV commercial of the housewife giving ice cream cones to children. I can tell it's American because of the kitchen and the boy wearing a blue baseball cap.
Cheers, Chris! I love the Hollies, too. So many brilliant songs, they should get more recognition.
There are some amazing unknown gems in this video.
Stevie Wright (Easybeats) was an awesome performer! RIP .
Wonderful video as always. It’s worth noting though that The Beatles had already moved on from their psychedelic phase before Hey Jude. Lady Madonna was released in March 1968, and even then it was considered part of a “return to rock” movement. The Stones Street Fighting Man, recorded in May but released in August 1968, can’t be considered a pioneer of this trend.
"Lady Madonna" was more a 50s rock and roll pastiche rather than a return to organic and unpolished sounds. It certainly doesn't unpolished or raw like "Jumping Jack Flash".
@ well that’s something different again. I was pointing out that The Beatles had left Psychedelia behind well before Hey Jude.
…and additionally, there was Cream, the Yardbirds and others. The Stones didn’t pioneer anything.
I miss John peel I miss his last show that was so interesting and peel sessions
A certain London based quintet released their last single in their original lineup in August 1968, but only in the US and Canada. It was quickly banned and withdrawn.
Interesting stuff. That was a very good month. 👍👍👍
Penny "always positive" Valentine - what a lovely lady!
I honestly believe Kaleidoscope could have been as big as The Beatles, they had that much going for them. Criminal that they never had a hit. Jennifer Artichoke should have been a huge smash. Great video again. I’d never heard of Kate!
"Withering Tree" by Traffic wasn't on their 2nd LP, but was included on "Last Exit".
What's fascinating about the YP "Cool British Singles" videos is that the misses are often more interesting than the hits. Only drawback, they require an extra hour or so of RUclips research.
The marathon song that rivaled “hey Jude” was probably “Atlantis” by Donovan, which structurally is nearly the same song as hey Jude
I bought the Hey Jude/Revolution single back in the day for the Revolution side as well. The UK was certainly a fertile ground for new music. Perhaps due to the sheer amount of singles in release explains why some of them never charted there.
God, do I remember this year so vividly.
I'm glad that Jackie Lomax's Sour Milk Sea was a chart hit if only in Canada!
MacArthur Park. Did anybody find out if the cake was completely ruined or salvageable?
It formed the base for a pleasant trifle
@@joanneentwistle7653 Thank God
I don’t think that I could bake it ‘cause I’ll never have the recipe again.
@ Never mind. I hear it made a good trifle. Don't beat yourself up about it. It's been thirty-six years for God's sake.
😂
A seperate video for "marathon songs" please please please
Joe Cocker's cover of Feelin' Alright was another of his which should've been a bigger hit. Much more powerful than Traffic's own. It's interesting that Viv Prince also recorded with Kate and Kaleidoscope are still around now.
Lemmy of Motorhead once listed Sour Milk Sea as his favourite 45 single
14:12 "This infuriated The Hollies....".
I wonder if Graham Nash also felt infuriated when the other members dismissed "Marrakesh Express" saying it didn’t align with their style and wasn’t a strong enough song for their repertoire.??
Sour Milk Sea also happened to be the name of Freddie Mercury's early band... perhaps Freddie was one of the very few who paid attention to Jackie Lomax's record.
I’m running out of superlatives for you! Once again, impressive, concise and well done. Regards…
Cheers!
I think McCartney called the radio for Friday on my mind, not for Good Times.
correct! from his Mini Cooper whilst driving up to the Norf,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,
@@bernardbaker6803 I knew it. Thanks!
maybe he called for both singles, because he definitely called from a payphone to get Good Times played again, or at least that's been the story ever since I can remember.
@ 'Telephone box'!
Never heard of Vamp. Mick Hutchinson and Pete Sears originally from Sons of Fred, one of my faves. Mick guitar player extraordinary.
Awesome!!! I think US also needs a Yesterday's papers
Old school Jethro Tull was the best. They were the hardest rocking New group of the British blues boom.
Can't keep a good Tull down!
"This Was" and "Stand Up" are my favorite Tull albums.
If you're interested, could you do a video on the most inspiring soul singles from the 60s?
love that idea
After viewing this- again excellent - video went to search in my record collection from 1968, found a bundle of interesting records from September 1968 : The Carrolls with Ever Since, The Pop Workshop with Fairyland, Vanity Fare with I live for the sun, The Colors of love with Just another fly, Fearns Brass Foundry with Now I taste the tears, Spooky Tooth with The weight.
I just came across your channel and watched this excellent Video.
Can I ask how did you come across some of these songs and obscure bands?
I only knew a few of the bands/singles
I really like that Kate track can you point me in some info please, I did a search but nothing only the singles on Discogs.
I will watch your other videos 😋
By the late sixties bands like Traffic and Jethro Tull tended to appeal to people who were more inclined to buy albums, though Jethro Tull did end up having some success on the singles chart and immediately drew criticism from some quarters for "selling out" ( this was the era when "serious" rock bands didn't do singles) I thought Tull were great, they're still one of my all time favourite bands.
I seem to remember the Hollies doing Listen To Me on The David Frost Show a few days before Graham Nash left the band, I thought it would have done better in the charts than it did, but an appearance on TOTP in those days could apparently make a record, so not appearing may well have had a negative impact.
Iommi was in Tull less than a week, and that was his only TV appearance in the band. I seem to recall he didn't feel like he fitted in. I really like Lulu's version of Traffic's Feelin' Alright. Wild Tiger Woman doesn't feel very glam to me.
Think Tony iommi said once back with sabbath that you have to work as hard as jethro Tull and knew they would go far and sabbath then took it very seriously 👍
Interesting and rare as usual! The VAMP worth checking out😅
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Great fun fun fun!!!! Thanks!
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The Minions version of "Revolution" is a classic.
The Easybeats are absolutely amazing! Such an underrated group!
Top shelf as ever. Fun Fact: The Beatles Revolution borrowed it's sound from Pee Wee Crayton's Do Unto Others! Love the VAMP! Want that 45!!!
Yep, same riff and sound. Cheers!
Love Viv Prince, never knew Vamp.
Was that a promotional video for sour milk sea by Jackie Lomax? I know badFinger/the Ivy‘s put out a promotional video for maybe tomorrow but I am surprised that they did one for Jackie as well.
I have seen it on RUclips. Love the tune.
Jenny Artichoke (Kaleidoscope) was another song I first heard on Brian Matthew's Sounds Of The 60's programme.
Nicky Hopkins; Mary Hopkin 😉
Thanks. As always a great presentation xxx.
Wondering what month The United States of America's "Garden of Earthly Delights" came out - American group but UK-only single release. A true psych classic.
YP videos sure are Hits!
Joe Cocker's rise from anonymity and success was a function of producer Denny Cordell, who had done Procol Harum and others. Marjorine did not go well, so he made adjustments with first-rate studio musicians. Denny had a gold thumb.