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The Troggs, Electric Prunes, Box Tops, Ten years after and Mungo Jerry are not forgotten. Eyery person who knows a little bit about music knows these bands.
I grew up with all these bands as I am now 71. One band that you've left out is The Music Machine. Their song "Talk Talk". Also, check out The Buckinghams or The Robbs.
Ten Years After never stopped as a band. They have a current touring schedule. Alvin Lee and Leo Lyons left over time. Among my all -time favorites as a group and as individual musicians.
The Troggs are also known for “Love is all Around” which is one of the prettiest 60’s hits. Many years later the group Wet Wet Wet had a huge hit with it. Their version in 1994 spent 15 weeks at number one on the UK singles chart and the song was in the 1994 movie “Four Weddings and a Funeral”. Nevertheless The Troggs original version of 1968 remains the favorite of many who lived through that decade.
Yes, and the Electric Prunes recorded more prolifically in the 21st century than they did in their late '60s heyday with Reprise Records. In the 21st century alone, they releaaed about a dozen albums of brand new material. Sadly that streak ended a few years ago when founding bassist Mark Tulin passed away suddenly.
@@lds1231 The Prunes performed on some of the songs on Mass in F Minor, the first three, I think. They did a great job too, especially considering it wasn't their style of music at all.
To each his own, but I thought that Mass in F Minor was dreadful. Turns out that the Prunes manager, whose idea of managing the band meant making them purple/mauve suits, was also the manager of David Axelrod who wrote Mass in F Minor and the follow up, Release of an Oath. If you like them, fine, but don't saddle the Electric Prunes with 'credit' for those albums. I saw the reformed Prunes in 2002 (?), and talked with bassist Mark Tulin after the show. He said that some of them played only on Mass and none on Oath. And that they loathed them. Mark said that the Prunes were one of the sixties bands that had virtually no control of their releases. Half of the first album was foisted on them. and only "Underground," their second represented the wishes of the band - for the most part. The 2002 Prunes had original members Jim Lowe (vocals), Mark Tulin (bass), and Ken Williams (lead guitar) as their core, and man could they play! So if you like Mass that's fine, but the Prunes hated it - which is no reason not to enjoy it though.
Most of these bands were one hit wonders but I don’t think Ten Years After belong to this category at all. They are certainly remembered by us who brought albums in the seventies.
As someone who grew up in the 70's I have to say this is very US-centric -apart from the Ten Years After and Mungo Jerry (both of whom who I remember fondly) I never heard of most of these bands at the time, here in the UK.
🎉they were all great ! I guess I am biased that era was Music. Today we'll t😊truthfully I think alot of what they call music leaves alone to be desired to put it mildly. I miss songs that have something to say likes for it's worth.
The Troggs were my home town band, as a teenager I saw them often, the later members are still playing Troggs' hits today, the original Guitarist Chris Britton only retired a few years ago.
You could say that most bands of most eras are forgotten. Few bands outlast the decade they shot to fame in. This applies to the 70's and 80's as well as the 60's. However those 60's bands produced songs that are still being played and enjoyed today.
The Raspberries will never be forgotten. One of the best bands of all time. 50 yrs later came back and were as great as ever. Will never forget Eric Carmen.
'Lady Rose' is great, I was in Northern Ireland with the British army at the time and a car was in the queue at a check point and was playing this on his car radio till our sergeant politely asked him to turn it off. I asked him who the group was, and he told me it was Mungo Jerry, now, here I am all these years later, and I am still playing it on my MP3 player.
Well, not forgotten in the US as I never heard them played on the radio. And I worked in a indie store briefly in 1969 and then 1972 - 2009. But as Winston Churchill is credited with saying: "Two countries divided by a common language." Or different radio programming.
Sometimes you hear a one-hit wonder song and it's just a mystery why they never had another hit. But sometimes you hear a one-hit wonder song and you know why they never had another hit.
The Troggs had a much later revival helped by the guys from R.E.M. That record (Athens Andover) was one of my favorites of the time, and the song 'Nowhere Road' is one of my all-time favorites by any band! And I'd heard all of their 60's hits by way of my family's throve of old '45's decades before that, so they were early childhood favorites even before I forgot about them for a decade or two (or more...).
It says bands, but while some had more than 1 hit they came and went. And that was the magic of the 60's especially. In a club or wherever someone would hear it and within a week it would be on the radio. And so many of the hitmakers were under 20. They had a REAL youthful exuberance which the corporate music business couldn't reproduce. The 70's were the 60's fading and rock n soul was cool but turned into disco. I saw Iron Butterfly in 75, to my surprise and they didn't have it though their 17+ minute In-A--Gadda,,,was the song to dance to with your favorite gal in junior high they were of their time. Box Tops singer great but....10 years after was not a one hit wonder. They were a BAND who crossed over to the stadium sound. They really didn't quit until after 75 but that was almost after 10 years. They don't fit here. Johnny Winter too. With Robin Trower both releasing live albums. Mongo Jerry were a one hit wonder even if it was extremely memorable and charming.
Troggs had four hits that are well-remembered; Wild Thing, With A Girl Like You, I Can’t Control Myself, and Love is all around. What more do you want. Jeez Louise.
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I saw Spirit at the Reading festival in the UK in 1978...and they brought the house err field down and they were surrounded on the bill by late 70's heavyweights.
Ed King from Strawberry Alarm Clock played bass then guitar for Lynyrd Skynard, writing their best songs like Sweet Home Alabama and Free Bird, so not everyone on your list disappeared.
The band Touch was amazing. Hendrix was a fan. The Collectors 1st LP is brilliant. Fanny was also great. The Beatles allowed them to add a verse to Hey Bulldog in their cover.
The importance of so called "chart topping hits" has been greatly, greatly exaggerated. At best, such an accomplishment does little more than chronicle a given record's performance over one specific seven-day period. The true measure of the worth of great artists such as these is that their impressive catalogs remain in print to to the present day in order to meet the ongoing demand. Don't let the mainstream media dictate your taste or your listening habits, folks. If you do, you will be missing out on a LOT.
The Electric Prunes was restricted by their manager who took ownership of the name and restricted them from reaching their full potential. By the time they were assigned to work on “Mass in F Minor” in late 1967, most of the band members quit and the album was completed by a band that would evolve into The Collectors. A new Electric Prunes was formed by the manager who owned the name and in 1969, released “Good Old Rock & Roll”.
You ended every description of the bands with a negative label and/or broad statement as to why, according to you, failed. None were failures and none are reduced to “the bottom of a dusty record bin.” Geez, learn some real history of these great bands.
I find it hard to believe that Spirit and Ten Years After are forgotten bands. Both have rather large catalogs, albeit Spirit had a number of lineup changes.
To imply that bands could not 'keep up with evolving trends" is to mistake change with improvement. Music does not necessarily improve with time. Time has nothing to do with it. One could argue that the peak of popular music was Big Band and Jazz of the 30s and 40s -- and it's been going downhill since then.
Too true. Historically, change was not progress, and the modern concept of progress started only about 1900 as scientific perception marked a change in average income and life expectancy. All of which led to the start of a population explosion despite falling birth rates. The idea of progress was reflected in popular music. 'Art' had been the province of the rich and/or well-heeled. (Folk music versus 'classical' music, and what do the hoi polloi know about art?) Pop music was not regarded as art until the Beatles arrived, and their albums progressed musically, becoming more than guitars, bass, music . I'd say that Sgt. Pepper (an album with no singles on it) was the first pop/rock album to be treated as art, and that, in conjunction with the transfer of musical consumption from singles to albums, led to some bands being praised by the new rock magazines' cognoscenti to make artistic value judgments. Original rock critic Paul Williams wrote reviews in praise of music rather than somewhat arbitrarily separating the wheat from the chaff. He pointed out what he thought sounded good to his ears, while others knocked what they did not like. Most of the groups in this list were not the chosen ones of rock critics, partly because they did have hit singles. Don't be fooled - even by me, every listener should trust his or her ears, and park 'artistic' judgments in the corner.
I'm 63 & grew up through the 60's to the 70's. By 1979 I was 18 & LOVED the music I grew up with. I remember ALL these old bands & liked them ALL. In my opinion the music from 1960 to the late 1980's was THE BEST time in music EVER. The majority of the music coming out now is COMPLETE CRAP & I HATE IT WITH A PASSION. It's a shame all these bands didn't last long.
The Beatles were only together for around 6 years producing records. Most groups probably don't have long term plans and just want to experience the fun of it all for a while. Long term fame and fortune is a rugged road and hard to maintain.
No band was expected to last long. For at least two years, the Beatles had to field questions about what they would after they broke up. Like that would happen any day. Before the Beatles established longevity as a possibility for rock bands (and back then the Beatles were really the first to write their own hits - after at least two years of playing covers in Liverpool and Hamburg). Record labels treated bands like the goose that laid the golden egg - cut their head off for a quick profit. So recording for 6 years was THE anomaly back then, and most bands ended up signing contracts that screwed them. Check out the movie "That Thing You Do."
I laugh at myself sometimes. I always liked the song “War” Edwin Star. We were in the Philippines in 68 and they would play it on the military radio station. I got to notice that I keep hearing it less and less. And it wasn’t just that it was getting older. Finally it started to dawn on me a few years ago. About the song the subject the words. And it being played on a military base. No wonder it just sorta disappeared.
Mungo Jerry had more than that one hit, although "In the Summertime" and "The Pushbike Song" (by the Mixtures) both sounded similar, neither could sue the other as both plagurised "The Darktown Strutters Ball".
Seeing his picture in the Spirit segment disoriented me. If you want to mention forgotten bands, how about Dr. West's Medicine Show & Junk Band. Greenbaum wrote their one sixties 'hit' single, 'The Eggplant That Ate Chicago" and almost all of their other released material.
10. The Box Tops aren't forgotten! Oldies stations play them all the time. 9.Their big hit also gets played too much on oldies stations. 8. Their manager's screwy idea of doing a religious-based fugue album for their 3rd outing was what killed them! 7. They had 4 or 5 albums that are highly sought after, now. One of their members (Ed King) went on to become a member of Lynard Skynard. 6. They had at least 4 albums and were scheduled to play at Woodstock! Hardly a curiosity! Some of them became members of Captain Beyond and did at least 3 more albums. 5. What did Norman Greenbaum have to do with Spirit?? Spirit had at least 7 albums before becoming Kapt. Kopter in the early `80's. They had a few major hits. At least 3 of their albums in the `70's were very psychedelic. 4. The Cowsills had their own sitcom t.v. show. They played more psych than bubblegum pop! The biggest reason for their break-up was their dad/manager who screwed them over as much as he could. 3. TYA started out as bluers but very quickly became more about psych and got even more psych into the `70's. 2. The Raspberries? Power pop? I don't think so!! Their singer, Eric Carmen, had a couple big hits in the late `70's/early `80's. 1. And, after that one big hit, they went full on rock in the mid `70's and, according to what I just heard from their singer, Ray Dorsett, they're going to get back together soon. He already letting his pork chops grow back! 0. They also had a string of hits. In the `80's, their singer, Reg Presley, came forth with a reel of alien footage that's still talked about and shown today.
Points of order: Kapt. Kopter came out in '72. In '71 after Doctor Sardonicus failed to get sales, Jay Ferguson and Mark Andes split to form rock band Jo Jo Gunne, while Randy California left to recover from an accident and then make the Kopter album. John Locke and Ed Cassidy stayed the course for one more album (Feedback) with the Staehly Brothers. Randy reformed a trio version of Spirit in '75 with his stepdad, Ed Cassidy. While I like some of the later Spirit albums, for me the first four on Epic was Spirit at its best with the five members all bringing different influences to the band. Unique, and ahead of their time, if Spirit ever had a time slot to fit into. And working in an 'alternative' record store in the 70s and beyond, the Raspberries were labeled as 'power pop' as soon as that term came alive. of course the members changed their musical values, but Bomp! magazine had the Raspberries as a quintessential power pop group.
@@wyliesmith4244 They only had 2 albums and a best of on Epic. The first 3 were on Ode. After Feedback, they switched to Mercury. The only thing I ever heard from The Raspberries was "Go Your Way". I wouldn't call that power pop. Badfinger was more power pop than that. For my money, Cheap Trick was the first power pop band followed closely by The Knack. (The 2nd one, not the 1st one.)
@@RedVynil Granted that the first three Spirit albums were on Ode, but that was a vanity label for Lou Adler. First he 'owned' Dunhill, but when he left, it lapsed into Dunhill's Distributor's hands - ABC. Sure Spirit's first three albums were technically on Ode, but Epic seems to have owned the rights. carole King was also on Ode, this time through A & M, but the rights for reissues and CDs reverted to Epic. So if a reader is searching for Spirit on Vinyl, I suppose Ode is correct, but at some point later pressings were on Epic as were all the CD issues. As for the Raspberries, they were definitely categorized as power pop, and one of the first bands to be so designated. Their first album came out in '72 while Cheap trick's first was in '77. Cheap trick may define power pop to your ears, but no way were the first power pop group. Greg Shaw's Bomp! magazine (later an indie label) was devoted to power pop, and Greg waxed eloquent over the Raspberries (most of whom had been in Cleveland's The Choir) and Cheap Trick (whom I saw touring for their first album with Crawler - formerly Back Street Crawler when Kossoff was in the band) at the Paradise in Boston. I worked in an indie record store from '72 until '06 when it closed (and a couple of other record stores after that), and we sold Bomp! which I read almost cover to cover. You might not classify the Raspberries as power pop, but I know that was their 'classification' in the early seventies. And yes, I preferred Cheap Trick while the first three Badfinger albums are even better than early Cheap Trick to my ears.
@@wyliesmith4244 Ode was originally part of Columbia and quickly ended up in the hands of A&M. Well, epic was also part of Columbia. It started in the late `50's. Yes, Carole King and Cheech & Chong. I think A&M bought out Ode around 1970. Yes, if the reader wants original pressings. I don't mind re-issues too much as long as they're accurate to the originals but, so often, re-issues have alternate mixes or things cut off or added on. The King Crimson album I'm listening to right now is a great example of that! On the original Atlantic pressing, very quietly at the end of side two, Bill Bruford can almost be heard saying, "Can we do one more immediately?". On the re-issue on King Crimson's own label, that's completely cut off! On the recent re-issue, not only is it back where it should be but, now, it's QUITE audible! I'd have to hear more of their stuff than just that one song. Then, Eric Carmen left the group and did, "All By Myself" which would HARDLY be called power pop. Cheap Trick existed under another name or two for a few years before that and half of them were in a band in 1970 called, Fuse. Only one Epic album under that name. Well, I've known people that claim ANYTHING that came out in the `60's was psych! I hardly doubt it! Psych was at its peak from mid `66 to late `69 with a few stragglers popping up in the early to mid `70's. Likewise, they call garage rock either psych or punk. It's neither. As I've said, I'd have to hear more than just one song by The Raspberries. I remember when they first came out, a local radio DJ referred to them as, "The Beatles Junior".
@@RedVynil I actually like reissues most of the time. If I really liked a record, I tended to play it a lot, and that can be bad news as records produce sound via the needle which not only transfers the sound, but also the heat that the friction of a needle in a groove creates. Some of my sixties purchases got a bit overheated - particularly the 45s. And at this point, I mostly own CDs as my needle needed replacing, but no needle, nor cartridge was available in the mid 2000s - except used ones on Ebay. But CD reissues, particularly the early ones, were fraught with problems. Frank Zappa disliked the playing by his early band members, so he re-recorded some parts and dubbed them in (on the Rykodisc reissues if I remember correctly). We had quite a few customers trying to return the discs because it was not from the original master tapes. Frank did it his way, but he ended up reissuing the Mothers on another label - from the original masters. And several companies, most noticeably Atlantic, made CDs from album masters. The problem there id that the master tape was equalized for sound as the needle sat at a different angle in the groove by the end of a side. This use of equalized tapes made some early CDs sound a bit off in the songs at the end of an album side. Record companies! They loved to label CDs as 'digitally mastered.' Duh! A CD cannot be played if the sourde is analog, so ipso facto, all CDs are digitally mastered. Sorry. I had to explain this stuff to customers over and over again.
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida was the product of slurred speech of Doug Ingel ..when he was drunk the real name of the song was in the garden of eden but they kept it because it sounded good
the BoxTops are more popular than Chiltons iconic and very influential power pop band Big Star. if you dont know and remember the troggs, electric prunes, strawberry alarmclock (thee sixpence) you dont have any knowledge of music iron butterfly and ten years after were never intended to be commercial-radio hit bands, they were just rock bands with a huge fan base and lots of success in record selling and live performance such as thin lizzy, mountain, canned heat, traffic,....
The maker of this video posts under several YT accounts. I just watched a video with the same narrator claiming the Raiders, Hollies and Yardbirds.. yes the group with Clapton, Beck and Page... are "forgotten". At least the groups in this clip include a few one hit wonders likely only remembered by boomers. But the Troggs? Who doesn't know Wild Thing? Basically, this whole enterprise strikes me as disingenuous, a clickbait troll scheme to draw exactly the comments from outraged boomers that fill the threads, protesting that our culture is not only not forgotten, but still a hell of a lot better than the garbage those damn kids these days listen too! The truth is that the top 40 of our era did have its 0:150:15 share of garbage that was worth forgetting even if we can't (Seasons in the Sun, DOA by Bloodrock, anyone?), and so it is with every generation, but the groups in these clips actually made good music in their respective genres, deservingly filed as classics, whether the kids today have ever heard of them or not.
I find this whole list to be silly and just wrong. Iron Butterfly and Ten Years After are legendary bands. Forgotten? I don't think so. The Box Tops? A couple of their songs STILL get airplay. I know their guitarist Gary Tally who keeps that music alive in live shows. Strawberry Alarm Clock? Their one big hit will out live us all. I was friends with their guitarist Ed King (rest in peace) who went on to bigger things with Lynyrd Skynyrd. The Troggs? another bands who's music will out live us all. Spirit's "I Got A Line On You" is still a staple of Rock radio. I could mention others but I will end with this.. I have a 1970 taped interview with Jimi Hendrix and when asked about current music he mentions Mungo Jerry and even sang a few bars of "In The Summertime" and had fun with it.
Actually the first Faces album with Ron Wood and Rod Stewart came out on Warner Brothers as 'The Small Faces.' They dropped the 'Small' after that. No doubt a ploy by WB to garner name recognition (And Ron Wood's 'Around the Plynth' still visits my turntable.)
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The Troggs, Electric Prunes, Box Tops, Ten years after and Mungo Jerry are not forgotten. Eyery person who knows a little bit about music knows these bands.
Gone but Not forgotten!
Exactly, if you lived that area you never forget no matter how old you get.
Also kind of silly to have Iron Butterfly on that list.
Couldn’t agree more!
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The Troggs were great, as were Ten Years After.
Lucky enough to be old enough to remember all these songs when first came out. 😊❤ youth is wonderful and the memories are unreal
I comp;letely remember all of them. I loved hearing them. I miss that music. 74 yr old woman
And this 75 year old
Iron Butterfly might be gone, but they performed (in my opinion) the greatest rock song of the 1960s.
I grew up with all these bands as I am now 71. One band that you've left out is The Music Machine. Their song "Talk Talk". Also, check out The Buckinghams or The Robbs.
Ditto
Is this the one that started dial tone lounges. Just curious
Along with Every Mother's Son, Moby Grape, Sons of Chaplin
And this is what makes the Beatles, Stones and the Who etc. so amazing.
The Troggs “Love is all Around” is way up there among my personal favorite 60’s hits.
Totally agree probably in my top 10 all time favorite songs !
Mine too❤
It was used to great effect in the cult classic movie "Bulletproof Heart" which I really love.
I almost forgot, it was parodied most humorously in the movie "Love Actually". Enjoyed the movie immensely although I am NOT a fan of RomCom genre.
The Troggs, Reg Presley is an icon.
I always give 'Walk away Renee' several spins on my MP3 every time it comes up, it's one of the all-time greats.
I loved that record then and still do.👍
Ten Years After never stopped as a band. They have a current touring schedule. Alvin Lee and Leo Lyons left over time. Among my all -time favorites as a group and as individual musicians.
Sadly we lost Alvin Lee a short time ago
Ten years after recoded live is one of the best albums ever made!!!
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I agree!
The Troggs are also known for “Love is all Around” which is one of the prettiest 60’s hits. Many years later the group Wet Wet Wet had a huge hit with it. Their version in 1994 spent 15 weeks at number one on the UK singles chart and the song was in the 1994 movie “Four Weddings and a Funeral”. Nevertheless The Troggs original version of 1968 remains the favorite of many who lived through that decade.
Jimi Hendrix took Wild Thing to a higher level!
Love is all around is a gem!
@@JohnFenderje préfère, de très loin, l'original.
Ils ont créé "I can't control myself", "jaguar and thunderbird".
@@MrJeepsters pas de problème. j'ai la même guitare de Gretsch😇
Ten Years After is not forgotten and Alvin Lee is a legend.
More hits than any of my bands ever had. Respect.
Alvin was one of the best
The ELECTRIC PRUNES are not forgotten! They had amazing psychedelic songs - plus the famous groundbreaking LP MASS IN F MINOR.
That was a great album, but it used other musicians. It was too advanced for the Electric Prunes.
Yes, and the Electric Prunes recorded more prolifically in the 21st century than they did in their late '60s heyday with Reprise Records. In the 21st century alone, they releaaed about a dozen albums of brand new material. Sadly that streak ended a few years ago when founding bassist Mark Tulin passed away suddenly.
@@lds1231 The Prunes performed on some of the songs on Mass in F Minor, the first three, I think. They did a great job too, especially considering it wasn't their style of music at all.
Spirit and Ten Years After remain two of the greatest bands of all time
To each his own, but I thought that Mass in F Minor was dreadful. Turns out that the Prunes manager, whose idea of managing the band meant making them purple/mauve suits, was also the manager of David Axelrod who wrote Mass in F Minor and the follow up, Release of an Oath. If you like them, fine, but don't saddle the Electric Prunes with 'credit' for those albums. I saw the reformed Prunes in 2002 (?), and talked with bassist Mark Tulin after the show. He said that some of them played only on Mass and none on Oath. And that they loathed them. Mark said that the Prunes were one of the sixties bands that had virtually no control of their releases. Half of the first album was foisted on them. and only "Underground," their second represented the wishes of the band - for the most part. The 2002 Prunes had original members Jim Lowe (vocals), Mark Tulin (bass), and Ken Williams (lead guitar) as their core, and man could they play!
So if you like Mass that's fine, but the Prunes hated it - which is no reason not to enjoy it though.
Most of these bands were one hit wonders but I don’t think Ten Years After belong to this category at all. They are certainly remembered by us who brought albums in the seventies.
I’d love to change the world was their only hit.
I don’t think so either
@@moorlock2003 Led Zeppelin never had a hit. Are they forgotten?
@@bjornjagerlund3793 Whole Lotta Love was a hit single. I had a copy.
@@bjornjagerlund3793 maybe in America, but mungo jerry were a British band, had about 4 hits
Grew up with this music it was playing on the radio constantly in the 60s all of it was great music music
As someone who grew up in the 70's I have to say this is very US-centric -apart from the Ten Years After and Mungo Jerry (both of whom who I remember fondly) I never heard of most of these bands at the time, here in the UK.
Troggs?
🎉they were all great ! I guess I am biased that era was Music. Today we'll t😊truthfully I think alot of what they call music leaves alone to be desired to put it mildly. I miss songs that have something to say likes for it's worth.
Ten Years After - I'd Love To Change The World, one of the greatest songs ever written not mentioned imagine that......
The Troggs were my home town band, as a teenager I saw them often, the later members are still playing Troggs' hits today, the original Guitarist Chris Britton only retired a few years ago.
You could say that most bands of most eras are forgotten. Few bands outlast the decade they shot to fame in. This applies to the 70's and 80's as well as the 60's. However those 60's bands produced songs that are still being played and enjoyed today.
Alvin Lee playedplayed fast & furious I saw him many times w/10yrs & solo he probably the fastest nimblest guitarist & I literslly saw them all
The Left Banke was brilliant, and was the first pop band to use Lydian Mode.
Fun fact Ed King of Lynyard Skynard was in the Strawberry Alarm Clock!! RIP ED
I think there are a few who have already woken up to that fact
The 1960s decade was my youth, but I have never heard of some of these groups They must have only been popular in USA.
We heard them in Oz loved the Cowsills as a young fella.
I agree with you Brian, we about the same age. (recycled teenagers)😂
anyone who is a boomer knows who these bands are. we grew up with their music
Don't remember the names, but songs are still in my head.
Raspberries "Tonight" is still one of my favourites of the decade
The best band out of all ten here are the Bankes
The Raspberries will never be forgotten. One of the best bands of all time. 50 yrs later came back and were as great as ever. Will never forget Eric Carmen.
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Great bands need great songs to stay known and appreciated. Some bands got type casted, just like actors.
Mungo Jerrys hits " Lady Rose" and "Baby Jump" are not forgotten.
Maggie and the push bike song..
'Lady Rose' is great, I was in Northern Ireland with the British army at the time and a car was in the queue at a check point and was playing this on his car radio till our sergeant politely asked him to turn it off.
I asked him who the group was, and he told me it was Mungo Jerry, now, here I am all these years later, and I am still playing it on my MP3 player.
Well, not forgotten in the US as I never heard them played on the radio. And I worked in a indie store briefly in 1969 and then 1972 - 2009. But as Winston Churchill is credited with saying: "Two countries divided by a common language." Or different radio programming.
Sometimes you hear a one-hit wonder song and it's just a mystery why they never had another hit. But sometimes you hear a one-hit wonder song and you know why they never had another hit.
The Troggs had a much later revival helped by the guys from R.E.M. That record (Athens Andover) was one of my favorites of the time, and the song 'Nowhere Road' is one of my all-time favorites by any band! And I'd heard all of their 60's hits by way of my family's throve of old '45's decades before that, so they were early childhood favorites even before I forgot about them for a decade or two (or more...).
The narrator has a wonderful voice.
Except for the band Spirit, I've heard of the rest of the bands. Most of the bands I've heard on the radio. So not totally forgotten.
I haven’t forgotten…..
It says bands, but while some had more than 1 hit they came and went. And that was the magic of the 60's especially. In a club or wherever someone would hear it and within a week it would be on the radio. And so many of the hitmakers were under 20. They had a REAL youthful exuberance which the corporate music business couldn't reproduce. The 70's were the 60's fading and rock n soul was cool but turned into disco. I saw Iron Butterfly in 75, to my surprise and they didn't have it though their 17+ minute In-A--Gadda,,,was the song to dance to with your favorite gal in junior high they were of their time. Box Tops singer great but....10 years after was not a one hit wonder. They were a BAND who crossed over to the stadium sound. They really didn't quit until after 75 but that was almost after 10 years. They don't fit here. Johnny Winter too. With Robin Trower both releasing live albums. Mongo Jerry were a one hit wonder even if it was extremely memorable and charming.
Never forgotten Mungo Jerry, great song amongst others is, You don't have to be in the army to fight in the war.! Play it loud. 👍
So true but troggs were the best.
Spirit was and still is the Best for me. 💜
Spirit! Live not many bands could touch them....Massive talent!
They gone the Song stayed for rver. Thank you.🎉🎉
Troggs had four hits that are well-remembered; Wild Thing, With A Girl Like You, I Can’t Control Myself, and Love is all around. What more do you want. Jeez Louise.
5. Little Girl
6. When Will The Rain Come
7. Gonna Make You
8. Give It To Me
9. You're Lyin'
10. As I Ride By
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I can't believe The Seeds aren't part of this video.
The Seeds were great. A favorite.
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Me; Pushin' To Hard:- just to men-
tion some-: absolute crackers of
songs presented by Sky Saxon &
the guys! - Primo Group, along with
The Beau Brummels - deserved
greater fame than they achieved.
Mores the Pity!
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Yes I liked the Mixtures, the box tops, Mongo Jerry and the Troggs.
I saw Spirit at the Reading festival in the UK in 1978...and they brought the house err field down and they were surrounded on the bill by late 70's heavyweights.
Ed King from Strawberry Alarm Clock played bass then guitar for Lynyrd Skynard, writing their best songs like Sweet Home Alabama and Free Bird, so not everyone on your list disappeared.
The band Touch was amazing. Hendrix was a fan. The Collectors 1st LP is brilliant. Fanny was also great. The Beatles allowed them to add a verse to Hey Bulldog in their cover.
The importance of so called "chart topping hits" has been greatly, greatly exaggerated. At best, such an accomplishment does little more than chronicle a given record's performance over one specific seven-day period. The true measure of the worth of great artists such as these is that their impressive catalogs remain in print to to the present day in order to meet the ongoing demand. Don't let the mainstream media dictate your taste or your listening habits, folks. If you do, you will be missing out on a LOT.
At least Alvin Lee could actually play guitar unlike the no talent bums on the radio today. 7:34
The Electric Prunes was restricted by their manager who took ownership of the name and restricted them from reaching their full potential.
By the time they were assigned to work on “Mass in F Minor” in late 1967, most of the band members quit and the album was completed by a band that would evolve into The Collectors.
A new Electric Prunes was formed by the manager who owned the name and in 1969, released “Good Old Rock & Roll”.
And The Collectors eventually became Chilliwack. :)
You ended every description of the bands with a negative label and/or broad statement as to why, according to you, failed. None were failures and none are reduced to “the bottom of a dusty record bin.” Geez, learn some real history of these great bands.
I object! The Troggs were KINGS!
Wow,are you rough ! Most of these groups were not flashes in the pan!
The Troggs had many hits and are definitely not obscure
I find it hard to believe that Spirit and Ten Years After are forgotten bands. Both have rather large catalogs, albeit Spirit had a number of lineup changes.
Mungo were a British band, had about 4 hits
To imply that bands could not 'keep up with evolving trends" is to mistake change with improvement. Music does not necessarily improve with time. Time has nothing to do with it. One could argue that the peak of popular music was Big Band and Jazz of the 30s and 40s -- and it's been going downhill since then.
Too true. Historically, change was not progress, and the modern concept of progress started only about 1900 as scientific perception marked a change in average income and life expectancy. All of which led to the start of a population explosion despite falling birth rates. The idea of progress was reflected in popular music. 'Art' had been the province of the rich and/or well-heeled. (Folk music versus 'classical' music, and what do the hoi polloi know about art?) Pop music was not regarded as art until the Beatles arrived, and their albums progressed musically, becoming more than guitars, bass, music . I'd say that Sgt. Pepper (an album with no singles on it) was the first pop/rock album to be treated as art, and that, in conjunction with the transfer of musical consumption from singles to albums, led to some bands being praised by the new rock magazines' cognoscenti to make artistic value judgments. Original rock critic Paul Williams wrote reviews in praise of music rather than somewhat arbitrarily separating the wheat from the chaff. He pointed out what he thought sounded good to his ears, while others knocked what they did not like.
Most of the groups in this list were not the chosen ones of rock critics, partly because they did have hit singles. Don't be fooled - even by me, every listener should trust his or her ears, and park 'artistic' judgments in the corner.
I'm 63 & grew up through the 60's to the 70's. By 1979 I was 18 & LOVED the music I grew up with. I remember ALL these old bands & liked them ALL. In my opinion the music from 1960 to the late 1980's was THE BEST
time in music EVER. The majority of the music coming out now is COMPLETE CRAP & I HATE IT WITH A PASSION. It's a shame all these bands didn't last long.
The Beatles were only together for around 6 years producing records. Most groups probably don't have long term plans and just want to experience the fun of it all for a while. Long term fame and fortune is a rugged road and hard to maintain.
No band was expected to last long. For at least two years, the Beatles had to field questions about what they would after they broke up. Like that would happen any day. Before the Beatles established longevity as a possibility for rock bands (and back then the Beatles were really the first to write their own hits - after at least two years of playing covers in Liverpool and Hamburg). Record labels treated bands like the goose that laid the golden egg - cut their head off for a quick profit. So recording for 6 years was THE anomaly back then, and most bands ended up signing contracts that screwed them. Check out the movie "That Thing You Do."
For Spirit you have to 60s to 80s (they had one album in the early 80s with a remake of I got a Line on You
Ray Dorset , aka Mungo Gerry, lives in poole. See him most weeks.
The Cowsills are still touring with three of the original family members.
When a band gets popular, their earnings grows tremendously. Some members contributing more may want to have more causing the breaking up of the band.
I laugh at myself sometimes. I always liked the song “War” Edwin Star. We were in the Philippines in 68 and they would play it on the military radio station. I got to notice that I keep hearing it less and less. And it wasn’t just that it was getting older. Finally it started to dawn on me a few years ago. About the song the subject the words. And it being played on a military base. No wonder it just sorta disappeared.
How about "it's a beautiful day" with their song "white bird".
Isn’t Spirit’s legacy Stairway to Heaven?
Seriously?? That's a classic Led Zeppelin song. I thought the entire world knew that.
@@randyloewen7389 Typical Zep, they stole the riff from a Spirit song, 'Taurus.' Page and Plant liked to get royalty checks.
Saw Box tops at the Olympia in Detroit
the troggs forgotten, ffs
Great band!
Is this based on my record collection?
Mungo Jerry had more than that one hit, although "In the Summertime" and "The Pushbike Song" (by the Mixtures) both sounded similar, neither could sue the other as both plagurised "The Darktown Strutters Ball".
Here’s one for you, after just ONE(?) solid album, they disappeared, The Headboys. There was the lost album, but they call it that for a reason.
HUGE RESPECT to The Raspberries although I didn't care for that name. No respect for Mungo Jerry: hated that song In The Summertime.
Ten Years After forgotten! I don't think so
Ten Years After became a highly regarded albums band, releasing a string of good or very good albums and shouldn't be included in this list.
Why did they show Norman Greenbaum when talking about Spirit?
Seeing his picture in the Spirit segment disoriented me. If you want to mention forgotten bands, how about Dr. West's Medicine Show & Junk Band. Greenbaum wrote their one sixties 'hit' single, 'The Eggplant That Ate Chicago" and almost all of their other released material.
The criteria to relegate these groups to the vinyl graveyard is silly.
And Mungo Jerry still playing
10. The Box Tops aren't forgotten! Oldies stations play them all the time.
9.Their big hit also gets played too much on oldies stations.
8. Their manager's screwy idea of doing a religious-based fugue album for their 3rd outing was what killed them!
7. They had 4 or 5 albums that are highly sought after, now. One of their members (Ed King) went on to become a member of Lynard Skynard.
6. They had at least 4 albums and were scheduled to play at Woodstock! Hardly a curiosity! Some of them became members of Captain Beyond and did at least 3 more albums.
5. What did Norman Greenbaum have to do with Spirit?? Spirit had at least 7 albums before becoming Kapt. Kopter in the early `80's. They had a few major hits. At least 3 of their albums in the `70's were very psychedelic.
4. The Cowsills had their own sitcom t.v. show. They played more psych than bubblegum pop! The biggest reason for their break-up was their dad/manager who screwed them over as much as he could.
3. TYA started out as bluers but very quickly became more about psych and got even more psych into the `70's.
2. The Raspberries? Power pop? I don't think so!! Their singer, Eric Carmen, had a couple big hits in the late `70's/early `80's.
1. And, after that one big hit, they went full on rock in the mid `70's and, according to what I just heard from their singer, Ray Dorsett, they're going to get back together soon. He already letting his pork chops grow back!
0. They also had a string of hits. In the `80's, their singer, Reg Presley, came forth with a reel of alien footage that's still talked about and shown today.
Points of order: Kapt. Kopter came out in '72. In '71 after Doctor Sardonicus failed to get sales, Jay Ferguson and Mark Andes split to form rock band Jo Jo Gunne, while Randy California left to recover from an accident and then make the Kopter album. John Locke and Ed Cassidy stayed the course for one more album (Feedback) with the Staehly Brothers. Randy reformed a trio version of Spirit in '75 with his stepdad, Ed Cassidy. While I like some of the later Spirit albums, for me the first four on Epic was Spirit at its best with the five members all bringing different influences to the band. Unique, and ahead of their time, if Spirit ever had a time slot to fit into. And working in an 'alternative' record store in the 70s and beyond, the Raspberries were labeled as 'power pop' as soon as that term came alive. of course the members changed their musical values, but Bomp! magazine had the Raspberries as a quintessential power pop group.
@@wyliesmith4244 They only had 2 albums and a best of on Epic. The first 3 were on Ode. After Feedback, they switched to Mercury.
The only thing I ever heard from The Raspberries was "Go Your Way". I wouldn't call that power pop. Badfinger was more power pop than that. For my money, Cheap Trick was the first power pop band followed closely by The Knack. (The 2nd one, not the 1st one.)
@@RedVynil Granted that the first three Spirit albums were on Ode, but that was a vanity label for Lou Adler. First he 'owned' Dunhill, but when he left, it lapsed into Dunhill's Distributor's hands - ABC. Sure Spirit's first three albums were technically on Ode, but Epic seems to have owned the rights. carole King was also on Ode, this time through A & M, but the rights for reissues and CDs reverted to Epic. So if a reader is searching for Spirit on Vinyl, I suppose Ode is correct, but at some point later pressings were on Epic as were all the CD issues.
As for the Raspberries, they were definitely categorized as power pop, and one of the first bands to be so designated. Their first album came out in '72 while Cheap trick's first was in '77. Cheap trick may define power pop to your ears, but no way were the first power pop group. Greg Shaw's Bomp! magazine (later an indie label) was devoted to power pop, and Greg waxed eloquent over the Raspberries (most of whom had been in Cleveland's The Choir) and Cheap Trick (whom I saw touring for their first album with Crawler - formerly Back Street Crawler when Kossoff was in the band) at the Paradise in Boston. I worked in an indie record store from '72 until '06 when it closed (and a couple of other record stores after that), and we sold Bomp! which I read almost cover to cover. You might not classify the Raspberries as power pop, but I know that was their 'classification' in the early seventies. And yes, I preferred Cheap Trick while the first three Badfinger albums are even better than early Cheap Trick to my ears.
@@wyliesmith4244 Ode was originally part of Columbia and quickly ended up in the hands of A&M. Well, epic was also part of Columbia. It started in the late `50's.
Yes, Carole King and Cheech & Chong. I think A&M bought out Ode around 1970.
Yes, if the reader wants original pressings. I don't mind re-issues too much as long as they're accurate to the originals but, so often, re-issues have alternate mixes or things cut off or added on. The King Crimson album I'm listening to right now is a great example of that! On the original Atlantic pressing, very quietly at the end of side two, Bill Bruford can almost be heard saying, "Can we do one more immediately?". On the re-issue on King Crimson's own label, that's completely cut off! On the recent re-issue, not only is it back where it should be but, now, it's QUITE audible!
I'd have to hear more of their stuff than just that one song. Then, Eric Carmen left the group and did, "All By Myself" which would HARDLY be called power pop.
Cheap Trick existed under another name or two for a few years before that and half of them were in a band in 1970 called, Fuse. Only one Epic album under that name.
Well, I've known people that claim ANYTHING that came out in the `60's was psych! I hardly doubt it! Psych was at its peak from mid `66 to late `69 with a few stragglers popping up in the early to mid `70's. Likewise, they call garage rock either psych or punk. It's neither.
As I've said, I'd have to hear more than just one song by The Raspberries. I remember when they first came out, a local radio DJ referred to them as, "The Beatles Junior".
@@RedVynil I actually like reissues most of the time. If I really liked a record, I tended to play it a lot, and that can be bad news as records produce sound via the needle which not only transfers the sound, but also the heat that the friction of a needle in a groove creates. Some of my sixties purchases got a bit overheated - particularly the 45s. And at this point, I mostly own CDs as my needle needed replacing, but no needle, nor cartridge was available in the mid 2000s - except used ones on Ebay.
But CD reissues, particularly the early ones, were fraught with problems. Frank Zappa disliked the playing by his early band members, so he re-recorded some parts and dubbed them in (on the Rykodisc reissues if I remember correctly). We had quite a few customers trying to return the discs because it was not from the original master tapes. Frank did it his way, but he ended up reissuing the Mothers on another label - from the original masters. And several companies, most noticeably Atlantic, made CDs from album masters. The problem there id that the master tape was equalized for sound as the needle sat at a different angle in the groove by the end of a side. This use of equalized tapes made some early CDs sound a bit off in the songs at the end of an album side. Record companies! They loved to label CDs as 'digitally mastered.' Duh! A CD cannot be played if the sourde is analog, so ipso facto, all CDs are digitally mastered.
Sorry. I had to explain this stuff to customers over and over again.
Ed king went on from Strawberry Alarm Clock to join Lynyrd Skynyrd and Co wrote Sweet Home Alabama with Ronnie Vant Zant and Garry Rossington.
Lemon Pipers.? My green tambourine I think.?
Remember the band Dragonfly?
You can’t judge yesterday by today’s standards. These bands were groundbreaking, their music led today’s sounds. Stop being judgmental.
The Records.
Mungo Jerry? nicht für meine Ohren!
Not AT ALL TRUE ABOUT THE BOX TOPS!!
No comment on SAC Ed King?
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida was the product of slurred speech of Doug Ingel ..when he was drunk the real name of the song was in the garden of eden but they kept it because it sounded good
the BoxTops are more popular than Chiltons iconic and very influential power pop band Big Star.
if you dont know and remember the troggs, electric prunes, strawberry alarmclock (thee sixpence) you dont have any knowledge of music
iron butterfly and ten years after were never intended to be commercial-radio hit bands, they were just rock bands with a huge fan base and lots of success in record selling and live performance
such as thin lizzy, mountain, canned heat, traffic,....
This one goes to 11
Very difficult business. Most of them wind up dead broke.
The maker of this video posts under several YT accounts. I just watched a video with the same narrator claiming the Raiders, Hollies and Yardbirds.. yes the group with Clapton, Beck and Page... are "forgotten". At least the groups in this clip include a few one hit wonders likely only remembered by boomers. But the Troggs? Who doesn't know Wild Thing?
Basically, this whole enterprise strikes me as disingenuous, a clickbait troll scheme to draw exactly the comments from outraged boomers that fill the threads, protesting that our culture is not only not forgotten, but still a hell of a lot better than the garbage those damn kids these days listen too!
The truth is that the top 40 of our era did have its 0:15 0:15 share of garbage that was worth forgetting even if we can't (Seasons in the Sun, DOA by Bloodrock, anyone?), and so it is with every generation, but the groups in these clips actually made good music in their respective genres, deservingly filed as classics, whether the kids today have ever heard of them or not.
Oo oo, the sludge of Bloodrock!
I find this whole list to be silly and just wrong. Iron Butterfly and Ten Years After are legendary bands. Forgotten? I don't think so. The Box Tops? A couple of their songs STILL get airplay. I know their guitarist Gary Tally who keeps that music alive in live shows. Strawberry Alarm Clock? Their one big hit will out live us all. I was friends with their guitarist Ed King (rest in peace) who went on to bigger things with Lynyrd Skynyrd. The Troggs? another bands who's music will out live us all. Spirit's "I Got A Line On You" is still a staple of Rock radio. I could mention others but I will end with this.. I have a 1970 taped interview with Jimi Hendrix and when asked about current music he mentions Mungo Jerry and even sang a few bars of "In The Summertime" and had fun with it.
I remember the troggs
No one from the small faces ever joined the stones
Actually the first Faces album with Ron Wood and Rod Stewart came out on Warner Brothers as 'The Small Faces.' They dropped the 'Small' after that. No doubt a ploy by WB to garner name recognition (And Ron Wood's 'Around the Plynth' still visits my turntable.)
What about " Steppenwolf" where are they now😮😮
most 60s/70s band are more or less forgotten from the youth today, apart from the 'we are only in it for the money' ones (beatles.stones etc)
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