Drummer John Duckworth just passed away, some 3 years after lead vocalist Don Baskin in 2019. Sad. These guys and this song were to me the epitome of great '66 "Garage Rock." I'm glad this video of them playing live in 2014 survived. It looks like they're really having a good time, and they sound great.
The go-go dancers WAS a nice touch. I cracked up. But that's how it was. I was playing then, and I remember "go-go" dancers in cages above the stage. 😄
I remember this song back in '66 when I was still in HS. Loved it then and as well as now. Just learned how to play this on my Ibanez strat copy. The guy playing the 12 string looks like Chet Adkins. I'm sorry to hear that Don Baskin passed away. I knew they were a little older than me. I'm now 69 and Don was 73 last year. I always loved this song. Great lead licks. I always considered this to be part of the "beach music" of the era. That's why I learned to play it on guitar.
This is unbelievably good 48 years after the original! These guys still got it! Notice how the go go girls haven't aged at all in the past 48 years - haha
Now this Is Totally Groovy! Real Music! I could listen all day long! So, I play it over 'n over again! Talkin' bout my Generation, Aw Yeah!!! The only True & Real Music Era! Ya learn the words 'n sing along every time. I do! C'ya, CJ-4-JC always😎
RIP I was 16 and playing in a band when this came out. This is a timeless classic '60s hit. So sorry to hear Don has passed. I hope the other author / bass player Bob Gonzalez is still around. Anyone found an obit for Don? RIP guy. :(
Fantastic. True to the original recording. Of the few 60s bands left playing most don't seem to retain the original sound or try to reproduce it. This is spot on. Thanks guys.
Fantastic. It still has the same feeling and power as in the sixties. I consider this song as my all time favourite. Glad to see it live now. Never well known by a big audience. At least not here in the Netherlands. You guys should know how much pleasure this song gave me through the years. Greetings from Amsterdam
I bought this here in Australia when I was 15, I've listened to it ever since, and it still sounds fresh and original. Now I see you are the original singer, and co-writer! This track was ahead of its time, or maybe out of time, just special in every detail. Genius!
Best 60's Song ever. The most driving Lead/Rhythm Guitar in the Business. These kind of Bands & their Tunes back then had so much Punch, P & V. Thanks for posting.
Wow! These guys sound just as good as they did when 15-year-old-me saved my nickels and dimes up to buy their 45 record from Dearborn Music store in Dearborn, Michigan. Years later I put that record in my vintage 1964 Rockola juke box (the one with the window where you can see the records vertically spinning around until the selected one is rotated into the turntable). Those go-go dancers did are great job too... very creative and gorgeous!
I saw you guys open up for the Yardbirds in 1966 at the War Memorial in Rochester, NY. Don cut his hand on the tambourine very early in the set and they couldn't stop the bleeding. He never stopped performing and my sister still talks about that!
I will let Don know, he borrowed Keith's tambourine, lead singer for the Yardbirds. And had to return it all bloodied up, Keith was very cool about it.
I was about 7 years old when this came out and we lived outside of Chicago. Used to play it on WLS all the time. That guitar lick just slayed me as a kid and still does
Same here. I was 11. Only riff I can think of to compare the song to, with the triplicate chording, is the Beatles' "All My Loving." You think Syndicate of Sound borrowed the guitar lick from that?
Good lord, how great is this song...it still has all the energy it had when it first came out. it defines an era that was great in so many ways, not so much in others
They tried during the American "garage rock revival" from '01 to '05. The Witnesses, Blue Sparks, Dementia 13, The Hives, The White Stripes, and The Mooney Suzuki. They really tried...
Being 26 past July I didn't realize that these are the same guys, they don't look exactly like the pictures of my grandparents that are 74 showed me. They look a little bit different, I guess you know 48 years can do that to people! But we have this song in our arsenal, as I am a lead vocalist.That's pretty cool, really like the song a lot so God bless guys and I understand recently the lead singer passed away, God bless him
From the annuls of "photo-punk" comes one of the great garage band hits of 1966I grew up in the SF bay area and this one was up there. I was even in a garage band that played it back in the day. The Syndicate had a couple of other singles on the Bell label but this was their hit. "Too bad Little Girl".....they weren't bigger. I thought they were a cool band.
My first band used to play this in Junior High School 🙂 Come to think of it .. the drummer that I was playing with then has passed away some time ago .. Crazy daddy! 🙂
THESE are some cool, old motherfuckers! The spirit's still there! Much respect, Guys! Keep on rollin' till the wheels come off, then roll some more on the rims!
One damn happy-get-up-an-dance song! Summer night touring'round in the '66 Thunderbird Convertible. Sequential taillights in the club parking lot.......
My Favorite song as a kid, and still never get tired of playing this vid, SO well done! In 1966 when I was 10 I use to sit/ride in the Passenger seat of my cousin's 65 Red Culass 442 Vert White interior, 401 4 speed, and when this song came on, I remember my cousin had to get on it. THAT was a car! We'd pull up to Stop lights on HWY 100 in West Allis Wis and he'd lay a 20 on the dash and yell at the guy in the car next to him "Wanna run em?" He was only 15 with a PERMIT and my Uncle/My Godfather bought it for him at the auction. It was hit light in the front, so he put on new fenders and hood/radiator and grill, but NEVER got to the Bumper. What a FAST and hot car! Such a Rock'n/innocent time !
Every time I hear this song it reminds of a girl that really made a fool out of me. She was a little girl too. It is also good to hear these gents performing with such accuracy in making the song still sound good.
Well they got the dancing down pat even though they weren't even born yet. They got the Go-Go boots, Lol! Heard this song on the radio when I was a kid. Thanks for the video. They sound great.
The very first live band I ever saw, played this song at a Saturday Matinee at my local Movie Theater in 1966, I was 11 and I was hooked! Thanks for posting ya got me all emotional now.... lol
If push comes to shove and I'd have to pick the 5 fave Garage 45's of my youth, "Little Girl" would be one of those five. I first heard it on the radio here in Hamburg, Germany (the "real" home of The Beatles) in 1966 and I'm still into that music after all those years. Thank you so much Mr Gonzales.
I remember this song well from 60's, I remember I went to a Clash Concert at a movie theater in '78 & they were playing this song before the concert, well done guys, rocking in your old age.
Drummer John Duckworth just passed away, some 3 years after lead vocalist Don Baskin in 2019. Sad. These guys and this song were to me the epitome of great '66 "Garage Rock." I'm glad this video of them playing live in 2014 survived. It looks like they're really having a good time, and they sound great.
Absolutely great indeed!!
it always seems we lose them too soon ...duckworth was VN vet.
After over 50 years the lead singer still sounds the same. Great job of a great song by a great group. The 60's best!!!!!!!!
beyond bloody brilliant ... Thankyou SOS !!!
WOW. HOW MANY BANDS CAN COME BACK AFTER ALL THIS TIME AND SOUND THE SAME!!! THE FIRST I'VE SEEN!!!
The original guitar lead sounds great!!!!!!
Drummer deserves a lot of credit for carrying the Rhythm of this great song.
I totally agree...they are ALL GREAT musicians, but the drummer is a total force field!
love the drum rolls
The Syndicate Of Sound just "Busted It With This Song" - it's timeless it's a wonderful beach sound made for dancing.
Thank goodness I was able to see this ! It's been a very long time...
Just so good, they captured the original vibe, raw and not overproduced. I could watch this 100,000 times.
oh hell &&& more than that !!!
No, a MILLION times.
Almost 50 years later, these guys look like they’re having a blast playing this. And the go-go dancers are a nice touch.
The go-go dancers WAS a nice touch. I cracked up. But that's how it was. I was playing then, and I remember "go-go" dancers in cages above the stage. 😄
The little girl on the right has the moves! Brings a smile to my mug!
This period of 1966 was special. These guys were part of the epicenter of coolness 😎
I was in a "garage" band then ('66) and you're right, it was special.
Yeah an had TWO Rickenbackers, not just one!!!! Take that George and John!
What a grate song this was ...love it.🎶🎶🎸🎸☮️
Still sounds so good in 2024.
This song is one of the greats of all time.
Agreed.
👍👍👍💖💖💖#1😎
@@beatleographer_10-51 When I show this song to people who never heard it, they all love it. How can you not ?
The Greatest!! (thanks Richard!)
Any age group loves this song.
I remember this song back in '66 when I was still in HS. Loved it then and as well as now. Just learned how to play this on my Ibanez strat copy. The guy playing the 12 string looks like Chet Adkins. I'm sorry to hear that Don Baskin passed away. I knew they were a little older than me. I'm now 69 and Don was 73 last year. I always loved this song. Great lead licks. I always considered this to be part of the "beach music" of the era. That's why I learned to play it on guitar.
Just stumbled across this tonight in a drunkin stuper. Absolutely fricking amazing.......
This was the very first album I got as a kid. It was given to me by a friend of my sisters. It was the coolest gift ever!
This is unbelievably good 48 years after the original! These guys still got it! Notice how the go go girls haven't aged at all in the past 48 years - haha
Now this Is Totally Groovy! Real Music! I could listen all day long! So, I play it over 'n over again! Talkin' bout my Generation, Aw Yeah!!! The only True & Real Music Era! Ya learn the words 'n sing along every time. I do! C'ya, CJ-4-JC always😎
After almost 50 years they still sing and play as the best!
RIP Don Baskin, lead singer. He passed away Oct 23, 2019. He was 73.
Just read that. Very sad. One of the greatest One hit Wonders ever. And that live version above is REALLY good. Very well played by the band.
RIP I was 16 and playing in a band when this came out. This is a timeless classic '60s hit. So sorry to hear Don has passed. I hope the other author / bass player Bob Gonzalez is still around. Anyone found an obit for Don? RIP guy. :(
So sorry to hear that. I was just watching this and thinking how good they all look and sound. RIP.
Heartbreaking.
Blessings Don ... the excellence persists !!!
I swear to God they sound just as good as they did in 1966! I was 6 this when song came out. I loved it then and still love it now!
Timeless song still sounds great.
Fantastic. True to the original recording. Of the few 60s bands left playing most don't seem to retain the original sound or try to reproduce it. This is spot on. Thanks guys.
my thoughts exactly....these guys still have "it"
Fantastic. It still has the same feeling and power as in the sixties. I consider this song as my all time favourite. Glad to see it live now. Never well known by a big audience. At least not here in the Netherlands. You guys should know how much pleasure this song gave me through the years. Greetings from Amsterdam
Hope all is well on the Aster.Greetings from St Antoine Abbe Quebec.Canada.
I bought this here in Australia when I was 15, I've listened to it ever since, and it still sounds fresh and original. Now I see you are the original singer, and co-writer! This track was ahead of its time, or maybe out of time, just special in every detail. Genius!
Impressive. The best garage-band song of all time sounds just as good nearly 50 years later.
I'm shocked as to how good this version is, after some 40 years.
correct....few can maintain that degree of energy...McCartney no longer has it....Fogerty does to some extent
Yes indeed, sounds fantastic!
@@PLugtmeier almost as good as their original record!
@@essessessesq yes i agree!
Wow!!! You guys sound great just like in the 60s and youre singer hasnt lost his voice.What a fantastic band you guys are.
Best 60's Song ever. The most driving Lead/Rhythm Guitar in the Business. These kind of Bands & their Tunes back then had so much Punch, P & V. Thanks for posting.
Awesome - I could watch those go-go dancers forever and a day !!! 😘😍💖
Top 45 of the 60s' 💥💪👊👊💪💥💖
Wow! These guys sound just as good as they did when 15-year-old-me saved my nickels and dimes up to buy their 45 record from Dearborn Music store in Dearborn, Michigan. Years later I put that record in my vintage 1964 Rockola juke box (the one with the window where you can see the records vertically spinning around until the selected one is rotated into the turntable). Those go-go dancers did are great job too... very creative and gorgeous!
I saw you guys open up for the Yardbirds in 1966 at the War Memorial in Rochester, NY. Don cut his hand on the tambourine very early in the set and they couldn't stop the bleeding. He never stopped performing and my sister still talks about that!
I will let Don know, he borrowed Keith's tambourine, lead singer for the Yardbirds. And had to return it all bloodied up, Keith was very cool about it.
@@robertgonzalez1931 If Keith Relf had stuck to the tambourine he might be with us still.
This is an epic performance. Bravo to everyone on the stage!
OUTSTANDING!!!! You guys knocked it out of the park!!!
still sounding good after all these years
MR Gonzalez, thank you for this song, you have no idea the memories this brings and it is all good, take that with you, you did good.
I've just known Don passed away yesterday. Rest in peace. 😢
I was about 7 years old when this came out and we lived outside of Chicago. Used to play it on WLS all the time. That guitar lick just slayed me as a kid and still does
Same here. I was 11. Only riff I can think of to compare the song to, with the triplicate chording, is the Beatles' "All My Loving." You think Syndicate of Sound borrowed the guitar lick from that?
I was 12 years old in 1966 when my sister said, " you have to listen to this song." It is still my favorite !!!!!!!!
Good lord, how great is this song...it still has all the energy it had when it first came out. it defines an era that was great in so many ways, not so much in others
Incredible! Complete with Go Go Dancers!
That was one of my first thoughts too.
"Just Take Me Back to the 60's !"
Surf City, Calif †
Still kicking up that great sound ... love it !
I. LOVED THIS SONG WHEN IT CAME OUT. NOTHING HAS CHANGED. STILL LOVE IT
This is really great. You guys kept to the original tune, thank you.
true, other groups have turned their songs into unrecognizable heavy metal.
@@dianegodbout2356 Or a ballad
Stunned still sounds awesome after all these year's i think they could be considered the orginal punk band way ahead of their time brilliant!
still a great song! and you guys were obviously having a blast playing it (still) which is cool.
Yep, great to see they were having fun playing it!
GREAT SONG! I'VE ALWAYS LOVED THIS SONG. BAND SOUNDS REALLY GOOD!
I loved Don Baskin......I' m sad he's gone. I hope he lived a wonderful life.
Whats missing from today's music is go-go dancer's. We need to bring them back.
They tried during the American "garage rock revival" from '01 to '05. The Witnesses, Blue Sparks, Dementia 13, The Hives, The White Stripes, and The Mooney Suzuki. They really tried...
@@deestttone791 Ad least they made an effort, and for that I give all those bands a lot of credit.
dont need any go go dancers.just the band thank you
@@deestttone791 here they are again! never any stopin!
One of the few that kept the voice we remember oh so well! Rock on!
Always loved this song and I still have the 45!! ;-)
This is the first song I heard after graduating from high school.
never forget this great tune 1966 the year i graduated hi school what memories
There's a thread on a music video by them in 1966, where some of the grandkids of the band get on and comment on their granddads.
It's great.
One of my favorites. Thanks for posting, Bob
This us great....and sad at the same time.
One of the best bands a monster of a song and they rock the house ❤❤❤🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸🎸✌🏻✌🏻✌🏻
Talk about Flash Backs,this tune opened up a Real Box of Fond Memories
This song is a timeless classic! I will never get tired of this song! I like exclamation points!
Love the Grove they project on stage. Gotta have the. Go go dancers also.
Being 26 past July I didn't realize that these are the same guys, they don't look exactly like the pictures of my grandparents that are 74 showed me. They look a little bit different, I guess you know 48 years can do that to people! But we have this song in our arsenal, as I am a lead vocalist.That's pretty cool, really like the song a lot so God bless guys and I understand recently the lead singer passed away, God bless him
From the annuls of "photo-punk" comes one of the great garage band hits of 1966I grew up in the SF bay area and this one was up there. I was even in a garage band that played it back in the day. The Syndicate had a couple of other singles on the Bell label but this was their hit. "Too bad Little Girl".....they weren't bigger. I thought they were a cool band.
I remember them at Cupertino High School my Senior year 1966
My first band used to play this in Junior High School 🙂 Come to think of it .. the drummer that I was playing with then has passed away some time ago .. Crazy daddy! 🙂
One of my favorite songs of the 60's! Great job guys...
Love the Go Go girls.
the original girls were much cooler!
The original girls are probably in a nursing home
satchhuntzhall1
Brutal.... but probably true
What the world needs, more Go Go girls!
Probably the band's grand daughters....are we getting old or what?
Yes Don plays guitar, the best rhythm player around....
My favourite song since ever
He's the coolest - 😎😎😎. You guys are badasses!! 💪💥🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟👑
the music is fine without the dancers.
@@francinewatson1222 And it's even better with the dancers!
THESE are some cool, old motherfuckers! The spirit's still there! Much respect, Guys!
Keep on rollin' till the wheels come off, then roll some more on the rims!
One damn happy-get-up-an-dance song! Summer night touring'round in the '66 Thunderbird Convertible. Sequential taillights in the club parking lot.......
My Favorite song as a kid, and still never get tired of playing this vid, SO well done! In 1966 when I was 10 I use to sit/ride in the Passenger seat of my cousin's 65 Red Culass 442 Vert White interior, 401 4 speed, and when this song came on, I remember my cousin had to get on it. THAT was a car!
We'd pull up to Stop lights on HWY 100 in West Allis Wis and he'd lay a 20 on the dash and yell at the guy in the car next to him "Wanna run em?"
He was only 15 with a PERMIT and my Uncle/My Godfather bought it for him at the auction. It was hit light in the front, so he put on new fenders and hood/radiator and grill, but NEVER got to the Bumper. What a FAST and hot car! Such a Rock'n/innocent time !
Brilliant..great voice!
Every time I hear this song it reminds of a girl that really made a fool out of me. She was a little girl too. It is also good to hear these gents performing with such accuracy in making the song still sound good.
I always dug this song! Great version. (Divinyls did a pretty killer cover of it!) Thanks for postin' it!
Heard this on my way out this morning. And when I got home I went to RUclips to hear it again. This popped up as well‼️ Bonus‼️❤️
Spectacular!!
Love this! Glad to see they're still bringing it on stage after so many years.
AND AGAIN! THX!
Awesome.
Well they got the dancing down pat even though they weren't even born yet. They got the Go-Go boots, Lol! Heard this song on the radio when I was a kid. Thanks for the video. They sound great.
Awesome,nice touch on the go-go dancers.
Always loved this song! It's a Symbol Sound of the 60's!
Oh man! It sounds just like it did in 1966!! Great video!! Love this song!! Thank you for posting!!
This band played at my High School during lunch time in the cafeteria back in the late 60's
Awesomeness superb
Still one of the all-time great songs. Still sounds fresh.
kleo 1480 in wichita played this a ton, thanks guys and gals for the memories
I am amazed at hoe good they still are, It sounded perfect. Loved them back in the 60's and still do today.
Great job! Love to see old guys having fun. I'm an old guy myself, just had our 50th high school reunion.
This song just makes me feel good, 1966, great time in America. Love it. Sounds just as good as original
As Mick Jagger said.....
I Know It's Only Rock and Roll but I LIKE it!!!!!
Fantastic Guitar triplets. Played Flawlessly!
The very first live band I ever saw, played this song at a Saturday Matinee at my local Movie Theater in 1966, I was 11 and I was hooked! Thanks for posting ya got me all emotional now.... lol
Bravo, Bravo, Bravo...... I love this song, this video.
If push comes to shove and I'd have to pick the 5 fave Garage 45's of my youth, "Little Girl" would be one of those five. I first heard it on the radio here in Hamburg, Germany (the "real" home of The Beatles) in 1966 and I'm still into that music after all those years. Thank you so much Mr Gonzales.
Great fun to watch them have a perfect moment and share it with us!
we grew up with the music , 50 + and they still sound great .
I remember this song well from 60's, I remember I went to a Clash Concert at a movie theater in '78 & they were playing this song before the concert, well done guys, rocking in your old age.
Excellent rendition of a great fun 60's oldie. Thanks guys!
Always a great song to interrupt doing my high school algebra homework.
Good for you young man, you have great taste.
I was quite young when this came out but loved it!!! Sounds great.
Loved playing drums to this tune back in the day when it was new.
If, as a band, you are destined to have 'one great song' then this is the one to have in my view. It is fabulous and 'ages' well!
man does this sound fresh!!
Sounds great. One of the first songs I learned to play on drums. He still plays it just like the recording. Thanks
This song was in my band's set in 1966. Love it. So much fun.