Interesting reaction from Graham Nash to 'All You Need Is Love'. The Hollies' producer Ron Richards was at the recording session for the orchestral crescendo to 'A Day In The Life'. Witnessing the 40 piece orchestra resplendent in funny hats, red noses and with balloons tied to their instruments and then hearing the full track with its astonishing ending stunned him. He was seen sitting in the corner of the control room with his head in his hands saying " I just can't believe it....I give up".
It was rather sad bc he had a tremendous natural talent band like The Hollies at charge and everything that the man wanted on earth was his own Beatles sound copy cats band
July 1967! I had turned 17 in May. Last month at boarding school ever! Then the Summer of Love. A Whiter Shade of Pale had been No. 1. All You Need Is Love straight in at 2. Paper Sun - Traffic. See Emily Play - Floyd. Strange Brew - Cream - Sgt Pepper no 1 LP chart - and Are You Experienced - Hendrix. It was good to be alive.
17 in ‘67?? I’m very envious of you getting to be there at that age. I was 17 in ‘97, but I was listening to everything from ‘67! Still, I’m sure it was much more exciting to live it rather than visit it as I had to Cheers
From seeing Nash in TV interviews I always felt he was very intelligent and his detailed, fair and spot on reactions to these records is more proof. Love his sense of humor in the first 1 minute of this vid and certainly happy he decided to continue making records...lol. Hollies with Graham are just the cat's meow.
@@zeusapollo8688 great album "Wild Tales" of course but "Songs For Beginners" is even better... An absolute masterpiece. Graham Nash was a great talent. The post-Nash Hollies were never as bright as they were when Graham was in the band. They never reached that level of excellence again.
@@peliche77 The Hollies made some great records; "I'm alive", "Look Through Any Window", "Bus Stop". The post-Nash era was horrible. I hated "He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother", and still do. Meanwhile, Graham had a big part in turning Crosby Stills, Nash & Young into true legends. Meanwhile in the UK, the Hollies should have disbanded immediately! More or less the same with the Dave Clark Five. An amazing beat, excellent vocals, and in 1968 they suddenly went totally middle of the road... For instance, they relesed an inferior single titled "Everybody Knows". They did an Everybody Knows already in 1965, a totally different song and my favorite among DC5's early ballads. The harmonies are quite daring! The 1968 Everybody Knows is just sleep inducing.
To have your band in the same top 10 in which Sgt Pepper is featured at 1st place. OMG how hard it must have been to be closer to the Fab 4. Only The Monkees did at #2... but I prefer The Hollies to The Monkees at any time, if you ask me... Butterfly is my fav e.
I love The Hollies and The Kinks. It was good to see that Graham Nash liked the classic ''Death of the Clown'', by the Davies' troublesome little brother, Dave. 1:39 Thanks, YP.🎸💃🤗
Wow, embarrassed to say I had no idea that The Who released a single featuring two Stones songs as a reaction to their drug bust! Really fascinating bit of rock history there. Also, it's not surprising to hear Nash's reverent description of The Beatles track as he has so often praised them in interviews he's done in recent years.
When mick & keef got busted, the Who covered some Stones songs as singles, to keep their material before the public and show solitary with them getting busted for getting high.
The Last Time was able to escape onto Direct Hits (an agreeable UK compilation, superior to the horrid Magic Bus comp released in North America around the same time). But Under My Thumb has sunk without a trace and evaporated. And I’m a Who freak!
The clip of the woman breaking a record after he said "I had to remove the record from the turntable" 😂😂😂😂😂😂 I see the moms were still enjoying the Sound Of Music 🤔😂 The instrumental on this video is so gentle and relaxing. Love it 💜
Thank you, Sophie! Yes, that "Sound of Music" soundtrack was in the Top 10 for 5 years or something like that. It probably sold more copies than "Thriller" or any of those records that are usually considered to be the biggest selling albums of all time.
@@YesterdaysPapers Wow 5 years? I had no idea, I knew it was a pretty big movie, but damn, that's an impressive reign in the charts. It does seem a bit comical seeing Julie Andrews next to Jimi Hendrix though. Wholesome 😂
I love Baby Your A Rich Man, the most underated of all the Beatles tunes. Great Review here.... I don't know if there's any old articles about the reviews and reactions to Tomorrow Never Knows, would love to hear such a video if there is.
Has anybody ever confirmed that Lennon wrote the song about Brian Epstein and the chorus is actually " baby, you're a rich fat Jew"?. If you listen closely it sounds like the alternate lyric!!!
GN has nothing to give up about, The Hollies Butterfly album is up there with the mop tops. The Oo's version of Under My Thumb is excellent. Good old DD, reminds me of being in 2nd year of Junior School and long summer holidays. I recall Herman's Hermits doing summer season and Beverly is Bev Kutner who became Beverley Martin. Some great stuff on here better than a time machine!
Just rewatched and noticed you pulled that scene of Donna Reed breaking the record in It's a Wonderful Life when Graham is trashing the Troggs record. Lol. Brilliant, mate.
That was Donna Reed? Lol. She played in a 1950's TV series an angelic, almost virginal housewife who got suppressed by the morals of her time. "I liked playing a wife". She married four times. I wonder how she was in real life....
I saw this video somewhere before. I can't remember where. The two are arguing about the use of politics in pop music. Graham is suggesting that music infused with social consciousness can lead to utopia and Peter is basically saying that musicians should keep their politics to themselves.Graham was getting pretty hot under the collar and was treating Peter like an establishment boot licker.
I absolutely love these Blind Date reviews. The narrator makes it great. Love the insulting parts too 😂 I hope this magazine has a bunch more of these to keep these vids going! Wonder if there are ones from Zeppelin members and Roger Waters, David Gilmour. I love my Brit heroes! 😘🇺🇸
Graham's excellent song came after that, and just scraped into the top 20. The Hollies then returned to another "schoolgirl classic" and got back in the top 10 and then Graham left .....
I was scratching my head about the #1 song being Monkees "Alternate Title", which I never heard of. Looked it up and learned the original title (used in the US) was "Randy Scouse Git", which means nothing in the US, but is English slang words meaning "a horny, Liverpudlian jerk".
When it was reviewed on the BBC TV show Juke Box Jury, Rolf Harris bellowed out the real title. "His reward" according to Disc "was a ghastly frown from David Jacobs".
What a refreshing channel, informative and entertaining. As an older music-lover, it’s also a fascinating flashback to near-forgotten (and some unknown) songs, from the perspective of the musicians I grew up with. Many thanks YP.
I really love these videos. The 1960's music from the Beatles arrival til the end is my favorite, and the decade I wish I had been a teen in, I was only a child so I remember some of it but I wasn't really experiencing it. This helps me feel like I am more a part of it.
I met Graham Nash in 1986. Very funny and smart. He is right to the point here. He did not get on with Peter Noone. Their politics in fact are almost polar opposites. Gotta love how he stands up for Donovan and his critique of the Troggs and Jeff Beck are quite funny.
Saw an interview with Noone and he was laughing because while other stars were gathering in the back rooms of clubs taking drugs and "talking bollocks" he would be out front with a beer chatting up all the birds....and I just thought, what a mug, those guys were changing culture and you missed it all so you could shag girls. What a loser.
Graham Nash is humorously harsh in his reviews but comes across more as honest, rather than belittling. I had to look up the chart topping Alternate Title by The Monkees - I didn't realise this was the British renaming of Randy Scouse Git!
I really loved your piece of music at the tail end during the charts. You managed to interpolate the In The Mood sax bit on the coda, just like The Beatles did on All You Need Is Love but, unlike their record, you decided not to end with She Loves You but rather with Please Please Me. Quite clever. By the way, if you're ever willing to put out an album with your pot-pourri 60s incidental music I would probably buy it 🙂
Townshend decided to record Last Time b/w Under my thumb as a show of support to Mick and Keith during their drug possession legal woes. Though they did well they never sounded genuine covering other's tunes. Graham nailed the Dave Davies critique. Good episode this one.
meh.. I like 1965 much better for psych - it was more original and rough hewn . by 67 it was contrived cookie cutter 8 track slickness. 66 was pretty decent as well , how can you mess with Arthur Lee? Speaking of Arthur Lee.. kept up that originality in 1967. One of the few.
Ray Davies tells an interesting story about how Graham came to their defense when The Kinks went on their first UK tour with the DC5 headlining, along with The Hollies, Marianne Faithful, and The Kinks at the bottom of the bill. Pye Records (Kinks UK label) weren't happy with the reports coming back about their "unprofessional" stage act and sent a Rep to visit them and make changes, which The Kinks didn't like. Apparently, Graham stepped in and told the Rep that they were fine the way they were, and to leave them free to develop their own identity as a band. Ray never forgot that kindness and wrote about it in his "Unauthorized Autobiography", X Ray (1994). By the way, I've always loved Dave's "Death Of A Clown" and have never noticed it being out of tune. Nicky Hopkins plays the piano on it, and they put thumb-tacks on the strings to achieve that distinctive effect. I don't know whether Pye Studios had a 4-track machine then, or just a 3, but it was most likely recorded in one or two 3-hour sessions. "Death Of A Clown" didn't get airplay and didn't chart in the US, but neither did "Waterloo Sunset". The last time they'd had a hit here was in late summer of 1966 with "Sunny Afternoon" (US #14), and right after that, Reprise Records released "The Kinks Greatest Hits", which got to #9 and also went Gold. Greatest Hits-type lps were often compiled when a record company assessed one of its artists as having peaked and being on the way out. Those sorts of albums will usually be best-sellers, making money for the record company, and allowing them to recoup some of their investment. Reprise got it wrong and The Kinks persisted.
Love Nash. Great vocalist and musician. Also a great story teller. Theres a vid of him telling the story of first meeting David Crosby and Stephen Stills. Very funny.
Wat, as you said , a great story teller. Saw him playing solo in Liverpool a few years ago, great show packed with fascinating stories about his career.. . After he’d finished his first song , he said a teenager came up to him outside the theatre and asked him would he sign some albums? The kid told him that he loved all the bands he had been in. He then pulled up his shirt sleeve to show him that he had had Crosby, Stills and Nash tattooed on his arm . Graham laughed and asked where’s Neil Young ? The kid replied that’s all l could afford at the time!
@@thewkovacs316 I think it was a marketing thing. It was the Kinks, but with Dave on lead vocals. There was the idea of promoting Dave as an artist alongside the Kinks. There were plans for a 'solo" album that was shelved a couple of years later.
I uploaded this song the other day. Love it. Check out the CD Hidden Treasures which is a look at how the Dave Davies solo album may have looked. I mean, really, tbh, it's just a kinks compilation with all the songs that Dave sung lead on.
Terry Reid once told the tale that Micky Most had wanted Donovan’s “Superlungs”to be recorded by the Hollies but they turned it down fearing it’d affect their image. Terry opted to do it & the rest is marketing history.
I've noticed that radio 2s pick of the pops programme has more or less given up on the 60's and early 70's. I have more or less stopped listening to it. When he did the chart from 69 last weekend, I nearly died of shock.
@GrahamNash-xx8fh I've loved your music ever since you broke out in the states with Look Through Any Window and I own almost all your albums with The Hollies, CSN and solo. I've seen you live 3 times. You have a great voice. Thanks for the great music.
😄 There's a song on The Hollies' "For Certain Because" LP (which had been released only six months earlier) titled "High Classed." I think it's pretty much cut from the same cloth as "Hi Hi Hazel."
The captions for the songs (which you can see when you rewind or fast forward) says Frank Sinatra is the singer of “Up up and Away.” Not so. The singer is Frank Ifield.
I'd like a Ron Nasty, or a Dirk McQuickly interview about the new singles, back in 1967. They were more famous than Rod, afterall. I guess all that tea impaired their judgement, at the time.
Hey Graham, the Who were recording two Jagger/Richards songs to give Jagger and Richards money for their drug bust court cases. That's "the point of it".
Well, Graham doesn’t any punches here, does he? His opinions sound pretty reasonable to me on the whole, but I’m going to have to check to see if Most really did use the very same “backing track” for both the Donovan and the Herman’s Hermits recordings of “Museum”. That would be pretty cheeky.
Okay, I just checked: Graham is dead wrong. The arrangements and instrumental performances on these two records are very different. I prefer the Herman’s Hermits arrangement. It’s more elaborate but also cleaner. Peter Noone seems to have some trouble with the higher notes, but otherwise his singing is okay, if a bit perfunctory. (It turns out, by the way, that there’s a tertium quid: a Donovan out-take. I prefer the Hermits’s “backing track” to the out-take’s also.)
When I was a teenager, and these records were being made, I thought that recording studios were the most magical places on earth, and I wanted to know everything about them that I could find (and there wasn't much).
Beverley released a really cool single called "Where the Good Times Are" in 1966 featuring Jimmy Page on guitar, John Paul Jones on bass and Nicky Hopkins on piano. Great tune, check it out: ruclips.net/video/lUdlhOUrPoE/видео.html
@@YesterdaysPapers Beverley later married John Martyn and made a couple of albums co-credited with him. She returned to recording in 1998 and in 2014 released The Phoenix And The Turtle which included a previously unrecorded Nick Drake/John Martyn song Reckless Jane.
Nothing he reviewed was impressive except the Beatles song. Up Up and Away was original hit for the California soul group 5th Dimension who would have a #1 in the US in 1969 with Aquarius/ Let The Sunshine In
YP! You are really helping me find some gems. I’m in my 30’s but have always liked obscure English weird stuff from the 60’s. I’m finding the random songs being reviewed better than the one reviewing them. For example. On this one, one of the singles was one by Jeff beck. I went to look that up and found this cool obscure complications of other 60’s songs. It’s a whole album series! Called Piccadilly sunshine. So this was a gold mind to find. I rarely find new old stuff anymore. Do you have any recommendations of where else to look?
The "Perfurmed Garden" compilations are pretty cool if you're into obscure english stuff from the 60s. I also really like a series of compilations that Decca put out years ago. There are 5 of 6 of those focusing on different genres: "The Freakbeat Scene", "The Psychedelic Scene, "The R&B Blues", "The Mod Scene", "The Northern Blues Scene" and "The Beat Scene". Great stuff.
@@rs9003 even The Hollies were denied their deserved place at US pop toppers BUT just by coming a bit late (with "Bus Stop" in mid 60s (1966) it which really started some promoters to keep an eye on them. THEY HAD EVERYTHING to pursue a place right up there with the Rolling Beatles etc names. THEN... TV SHOW MONKEES ... Shame, they deserved the Monkees' spotlight (seriously, people think "I'll be true to you is a Monkees original) btw, I admit I knew The Monkees long before The Hollies as most of you and it was thank to the net that I discovered them Hollie years with Nash. That's why I think of it that's my very point of view
@@rs9003 Not true. Think about - outselling the Beatles in the year of Sgt Pepper's? And the Stones? Mike Nesmith made that claim in a 1980's interview just to see if the reporter would print any old nonsense without checking the facts. Which of course he did. As did you.
@@KieroUnasBotasAGoGo The Hollies were never considered cool in the UK. They released some decent enough singles but they just never had that 'presence' that the great groups have. They were also a bit schizophrenic - not sure if they were a pop or 'serious music' band.
Why give up as he sort of said. Faul after all! Which he more or less said in later years. He's much too critical. Maybe he'd smoked too much of weed! He wasn't too long away from quitting The Hollies. Thx for it. It's appreciated. Loved the Brian Wilson escapism type music at the end mate!
@@YesterdaysPapers ah, ok. Very cool sound. I almost said in my first comment that it had a Beatles type of chord progression lol. But I definitely hear it now. Awesome job!
"Tallyman" another one of my fave singles . The intro chord as good as 'A Hard Day's Night". I bought that one and the Who's Stones cover. The Troggs' 'Hi Hi Hazel" is ofcourse corny beyond belief , but as part of a compilation album it's an amusing track ; almost as amusing as "When I'm 64" which also took that typical corny British music hall road.
@@christopherriley1968 Dave Davies has said that his family name is pronounced as Day veeze - which is the way all American teenagers pronounced it in The Kinks heyday - and to this day. It's distinctive, as opposed to "Davis", which isn't.
@@total.stranger I don't know about Dave, but I've certainly heard Ray pronounce his own name "Davis." I also learned not long ago that Spencer Davis was born Davies but changed the spelling to match the pronunciation.
Graham is very opinionated about Music! I got to meet him about six years ago and I was discussing my love of ABBA and he says that his band especially Crosby absolutely hated that group! Lol
There's a decent clip on YT o fGlen Matlock explaining what he liked about ABBA (and The Beatles) and how it didn't go down well with the rest of the Pistols. Glen was right though 😉
Some interesting 45s there. Not keen at all on Frank Ifield and The Troggs version of Hi Hi Hazel ( Geno's is marginally better but who did it first?). Graham is kinda right about Jeff Beck but I think Tallyman is a good single. Cream of the crop though is Death of a Clown. Never tire of hearing this. Museum belongs to Donovan and Donovan only methinks.
"Death of a Clown" is a classic, love that song. I'm not a big fan of Herman's Hermits but I actually think their cover of "Museum" is pretty cool. I like it. It's not the same backing track as Graham said on the review.
Ha!!! Man, he ripped the Troggs a new bung hole!! Sounds like he only listened to a couple bars and demanded they turn it off!! “I know feel good about recording again”. 😅😅😅😅
I don't want to be unkind to the Troggs, but I can't help myself, yikes! Another slam, this time on Jeff Beck, "It might be that he doesn't have the ability to sing!" Ouch. Another major slam, this time on Jet Harris, "I don't know who it is. It's disgusting." Hey, Graham, don't hold back.
Graham Nash as always struck me as a decent fella. I'm sure he wasn't the only one who felt like giving up after hearing the latest Beatles' single.
I'm currently reading his autobiography!
Graham probably is a decent fella. Just don’t ask him about David Crosby though!
Everyone says he's a real gentleman
@@oleggorky906 well Crosby always comes across as a complete arse :D
Interesting reaction from Graham Nash to 'All You Need Is Love'. The Hollies' producer Ron Richards was at the recording session for the orchestral crescendo to 'A Day In The Life'. Witnessing the 40 piece orchestra resplendent in funny hats, red noses and with balloons tied to their instruments and then hearing the full track with its astonishing ending stunned him. He was seen sitting in the corner of the control room with his head in his hands saying " I just can't believe it....I give up".
It was rather sad bc he had a tremendous natural talent band like The Hollies at charge and everything that the man wanted on earth was his own Beatles sound copy cats band
July 1967! I had turned 17 in May. Last month at boarding school ever! Then the Summer of Love. A Whiter Shade of Pale had been No. 1. All You Need Is Love straight in at 2. Paper Sun - Traffic. See Emily Play - Floyd. Strange Brew - Cream - Sgt Pepper no 1 LP chart - and Are You Experienced - Hendrix. It was good to be alive.
All of you youngsters back then...spoiled rotten with some of the greatest music ever made.
17 in ‘67??
I’m very envious of you getting to be there at that age.
I was 17 in ‘97, but I was listening to everything from ‘67!
Still, I’m sure it was much more exciting to live it rather than visit it as I had to
Cheers
You were very very very fortunate to live that golden era.... To me the best and most brilliant in the history of popular music.
So amazed at all of the covers that were made in the 60s! Would never fly in today's music!
Except now it takes a half-dozen professional writers to write one hit pop song. They schedule their writing sessions.
haha Yeah, today they sample the original artist's hook, talk over it and most who enjoy it think they created it.
From seeing Nash in TV interviews I always felt he was very intelligent and his detailed, fair and spot on reactions to these records is more proof. Love his sense of humor in the first 1 minute of this vid and certainly happy he decided to continue making records...lol. Hollies with Graham are just the cat's meow.
Early solo albums are great. Wild tales
Yep. Very intelligent and talented man.
@@zeusapollo8688 great album "Wild Tales" of course but "Songs For Beginners" is even better... An absolute masterpiece.
Graham Nash was a great talent. The post-Nash Hollies were never as bright as they were when Graham was in the band. They never reached that level of excellence again.
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The Hollies made some great records; "I'm alive", "Look Through Any Window", "Bus Stop". The post-Nash era was horrible. I hated "He Ain't Heavy He's My Brother", and still do. Meanwhile, Graham had a big part in turning Crosby Stills, Nash & Young into true legends. Meanwhile in the UK, the Hollies should have disbanded immediately!
More or less the same with the Dave Clark Five. An amazing beat, excellent vocals, and in 1968 they suddenly went totally middle of the road... For instance, they relesed an inferior single titled "Everybody Knows". They did an Everybody Knows already in 1965, a totally different song and my favorite among DC5's early ballads. The harmonies are quite daring! The 1968 Everybody Knows is just sleep inducing.
1967 was an amazing year for pop and rock music, certainly one of the best of my lifetime.
I always think back on the great music of those times but in reality there was a lot of crap imho - like covers of Donovan and up up and away - yikes.
Baby You're A Rich Man is one of most unfairly overlooked songs in The Beatles canon. I always found it superior to the trite and overwrought A side.
no don't give up ! your records hold up in 2022 ! Love the Hollies.
To have your band in the same top 10 in which Sgt Pepper is featured at 1st place. OMG how hard it must have been to be closer to the Fab 4. Only The Monkees did at #2... but I prefer The Hollies to The Monkees at any time, if you ask me... Butterfly is my fav e.
I love The Hollies and The Kinks. It was good to see that Graham Nash liked the classic ''Death of the Clown'', by the Davies' troublesome little brother, Dave. 1:39
Thanks, YP.🎸💃🤗
Graham Nash really knew his music back then. He knew nearly all the artists immediately. I think he's a very bright guy.
Wow, embarrassed to say I had no idea that The Who released a single featuring two Stones songs as a reaction to their drug bust! Really fascinating bit of rock history there. Also, it's not surprising to hear Nash's reverent description of The Beatles track as he has so often praised them in interviews he's done in recent years.
John Entwistle was away on his honeymoon so Pete played bass on The Stones covers. It’s not a very good record.
Jagger was a bit sardonic about it: "Peter, you're a gentleman."
When mick & keef got busted, the Who covered some Stones songs as singles, to keep their material before the public and show solitary with them getting busted for getting high.
The Last Time was able to escape onto Direct Hits (an agreeable UK compilation, superior to the horrid Magic Bus comp released in North America around the same time). But Under My Thumb has sunk without a trace and evaporated. And I’m a Who freak!
Under My Thumb was way better than The Last Time..if you get the original 45 version with the crunchy guitar solo...really good 👌
See Emily Play ▶️ jumps from # 20 to # 10 ! That's a 🔥 record !
great piece of psychedelia.
The Piper that was Syd Barrett
His flame was bright in July of ‘67, one of my personal Favs
The clip of the woman breaking a record after he said "I had to remove the record from the turntable" 😂😂😂😂😂😂
I see the moms were still enjoying the Sound Of Music 🤔😂
The instrumental on this video is so gentle and relaxing. Love it 💜
Thank you, Sophie! Yes, that "Sound of Music" soundtrack was in the Top 10 for 5 years or something like that. It probably sold more copies than "Thriller" or any of those records that are usually considered to be the biggest selling albums of all time.
@@YesterdaysPapers Wow 5 years? I had no idea, I knew it was a pretty big movie, but damn, that's an impressive reign in the charts. It does seem a bit comical seeing Julie Andrews next to Jimi Hendrix though. Wholesome 😂
The record breaking scene is from the Christmas movie "It's a Wonderful Life". I think the record is "Buffalo Girls Won't You Come Out Tonight".
Yep. That clip of Donna Reed breaking the record is from It's A Wonderful Life, and it was perfect.
@@brucedillinger9448 Oh Cool! I think I'm one of the few people who has never seen "It's A Wonderful Life" I'll have to give it a watch one day.
A pretty good week. Both Traffic and Pink Floyd's early entries into the charts, plus songs like "Waterloo Sunset." Vive la 1967!
I love Baby Your A Rich Man, the most underated of all the Beatles tunes. Great Review here.... I don't know if there's any old articles about the reviews and reactions to Tomorrow Never Knows, would love to hear such a video if there is.
Has anybody ever confirmed that Lennon wrote the song about Brian Epstein and the chorus is actually " baby, you're a rich fat Jew"?.
If you listen closely it sounds like the alternate lyric!!!
GN has nothing to give up about, The Hollies Butterfly album is up there with the mop tops.
The Oo's version of Under My Thumb is excellent.
Good old DD, reminds me of being in 2nd year of Junior School and long summer holidays.
I recall Herman's Hermits doing summer season and Beverly is Bev Kutner who became Beverley Martin.
Some great stuff on here better than a time machine!
Graham Nash delivers the funniest Blind Date yet .. love this series Papers 👍🏾
Just rewatched and noticed you pulled that scene of Donna Reed breaking the record in It's a Wonderful Life when Graham is trashing the Troggs record. Lol. Brilliant, mate.
That was Donna Reed? Lol. She played in a 1950's TV series an angelic, almost virginal housewife who got suppressed by the morals of her time.
"I liked playing a wife".
She married four times. I wonder how she was in real life....
Looks like Graham arguing with Peter Noone in the background there. I searched RUclips but didn’t find anything about it.
I saw this video somewhere before. I can't remember where. The two are arguing about the use of politics in pop music. Graham is suggesting that music infused with social consciousness can lead to utopia and Peter is basically saying that musicians should keep their politics to themselves.Graham was getting pretty hot under the collar and was treating Peter like an establishment boot licker.
Here it is: ruclips.net/video/Uk1sGtp1AY4/видео.html
@@jimcullen2211 Peter was right though, politics and music do not mesh well and most of the time sound embarrassing years later
@@YesterdaysPapers ah thanks! Unfortunately I think Graham has the best intentions here, but needs to take his rose colored glasses off.
@@Sprenklefish Maybe, but he was right about wars being caused by old men.
LOVE THESE VIDEOS I APPRECIATE IT
I absolutely love these Blind Date reviews. The narrator makes it great. Love the insulting parts too 😂 I hope this magazine has a bunch more of these to keep these vids going! Wonder if there are ones from Zeppelin members and Roger Waters, David Gilmour. I love my Brit heroes! 😘🇺🇸
ruclips.net/video/_76PqEj7RhE/видео.html
I counted 10 classic rock songs in the British top 30 singles that week. 1967, the greatest creative time for popular English and American music.
Great stuff!
I notice The Hollies' Carrie Anne at number 7. Great tune!
Graham's excellent song came after that, and just scraped into the top 20. The Hollies then returned to another "schoolgirl classic" and got back in the top 10 and then Graham left .....
@@SuperNevile Must have been “King Midas in Reverse”, a classic. Like the strings.
@@tomc642 Love that song.
Graham Nash said the original title was ‘Marianne’ ( Faithful) , but they thought it was wise to change it .
"You can't expect me to take this after the Beatles". Brutal. But man. Graham didn't hold back on anybody. Hilarious.
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I bet he would've had a different reaction to WITH A GIRL LIKE YOU!
One of the Beatles weakest efforts too 😹
I love the Troggs but "Hi Hi Hazel" is a pretty terrible song.
@@jeffclement2979 I think Nash is referring to the A side...All you need is love.
I was scratching my head about the #1 song being Monkees "Alternate Title", which I never heard of. Looked it up and learned the original title (used in the US) was "Randy Scouse Git", which means nothing in the US, but is English slang words meaning "a horny, Liverpudlian jerk".
Lol, good to know
micky loves to tell the story about how he got one over on the american censors who didnt know jack about english slang
and it's a great tune
Brilliant tune!
Randy Scouse Git was a catchphrase in Alf Gatnett Til Death Us Do Part on British TV at the time
When it was reviewed on the BBC TV show Juke Box Jury, Rolf Harris bellowed out the real title. "His reward" according to Disc "was a ghastly frown from David Jacobs".
These are so great. Thank you for putting these together. Just fascinating to hear these legends' reactions in that time.
What a refreshing channel, informative and entertaining. As an older music-lover, it’s also a fascinating flashback to near-forgotten (and some unknown) songs, from the perspective of the musicians I grew up with. Many thanks YP.
Thanks for watching, Linda. Cheers!
I really love these videos. The 1960's music from the Beatles arrival til the end is my favorite, and the decade I wish I had been a teen in, I was only a child so I remember some of it but I wasn't really experiencing it. This helps me feel like I am more a part of it.
I met Graham Nash in 1986. Very funny and smart. He is right to the point here. He did not get on with Peter Noone. Their politics in fact are almost polar opposites. Gotta love how he stands up for Donovan and his critique of the Troggs and Jeff Beck are quite funny.
Saw an interview with Noone and he was laughing because while other stars were gathering in the back rooms of clubs taking drugs and "talking bollocks" he would be out front with a beer chatting up all the birds....and I just thought, what a mug, those guys were changing culture and you missed it all so you could shag girls. What a loser.
That footage of Graham arguing with Peter Noone is intense!
Graham Nash is humorously harsh in his reviews but comes across more as honest, rather than belittling.
I had to look up the chart topping Alternate Title by The Monkees - I didn't realise this was the British renaming of Randy Scouse Git!
The Monkees number one single - Randy Scouse Git changed to Alternative Title because the title was deemed too naughty in the UK. Outrageous.
I really loved your piece of music at the tail end during the charts. You managed to interpolate the In The Mood sax bit on the coda, just like The Beatles did on All You Need Is Love but, unlike their record, you decided not to end with She Loves You but rather with Please Please Me. Quite clever.
By the way, if you're ever willing to put out an album with your pot-pourri 60s incidental music I would probably buy it 🙂
Thank you very much, Uetti! Glad you liked it.
Yes I was digging that too and I noticed the Please Please Me at the end
Good ear!
For rock fans-- this is the best new thing on RUclips in a very long time! I wish for this channel to grow big!
Thank you!
Just amazing how diverse pop music was back then, and with so much quality, another brilliant upload from YP.
Graham is honest and direct. And also quite right. Dave Davies had a big hit with Death of a Clown. And it was the Kinks that played on the track.😊
Loved that nosebleed as he went from the Beatles to the Troggs. I'm sad as they are from my home town, lol.
Townshend decided to record Last Time b/w Under my thumb as a show of support to Mick and Keith during their drug possession legal woes. Though they did well they never sounded genuine covering other's tunes. Graham nailed the Dave Davies critique. Good episode this one.
1967; the golden psychedelic shimmering year of everything magic. Anything from 1967 should be paid attention to!
I agree, especially since I was born that year 😁
Even though I was born in 1971, I think that 1967 was an excellent year for music😃
meh.. I like 1965 much better for psych - it was more original and rough hewn . by 67 it was contrived cookie cutter 8 track slickness. 66 was pretty decent as well , how can you mess with Arthur Lee? Speaking of Arthur Lee.. kept up that originality in 1967. One of the few.
@@SPINNINGMYWHEELS777 What Psychedelic tracks were there in 65?
@@alrivers2297 Here's a great one - by the Ban , west coast '65 - ruclips.net/video/wlJkKlv5AJU/видео.html&feature=emb_title
Imagine David Crosby doing the reviews instead. Opinionated, brutal comments while wearing a cape.
OMG Grrraaahamm ❤️ I Love youuu... The Hollies' phase with Graham is simply TOP, don't ask me why 🙆🏻♀️
My Lord, the US top ten is astonishing!
" Light My Fire", " WHITER SHADE OF PALE", " Little Bit of Soul"
Whew!
Bang on outro again! It's like the Andrew Oldham Orchestra - doing the Beatles instead of the Stones...! Brilliant! 😃😃😃
Thank you!
You gotta love Graham Nash!!!
Nice to see at least this one A List contemporary of the Kinks, WHO GETS THEM AND SUPPORTS THEM!!!
Ray Davies tells an interesting story about how Graham came to their defense when The Kinks went on their first UK tour with the DC5 headlining, along with The Hollies, Marianne Faithful, and The Kinks at the bottom of the bill.
Pye Records (Kinks UK label) weren't happy with the reports coming back about their "unprofessional" stage act and sent a Rep to visit them and make changes, which The Kinks didn't like. Apparently, Graham stepped in and told the Rep that they were fine the way they were, and to leave them free to develop their own identity as a band.
Ray never forgot that kindness and wrote about it in his "Unauthorized Autobiography", X Ray (1994).
By the way, I've always loved Dave's "Death Of A Clown" and have never noticed it being out of tune. Nicky Hopkins plays the piano on it, and they put thumb-tacks on the strings to achieve that distinctive effect. I don't know whether Pye Studios had a 4-track machine then, or just a 3, but it was most likely recorded in one or two 3-hour sessions.
"Death Of A Clown" didn't get airplay and didn't chart in the US, but neither did "Waterloo Sunset". The last time they'd had a hit here was in late summer of 1966 with "Sunny Afternoon" (US #14), and right after that, Reprise Records released "The Kinks Greatest Hits", which got to #9 and also went Gold.
Greatest Hits-type lps were often compiled when a record company assessed one of its artists as having peaked and being on the way out. Those sorts of albums will usually be best-sellers, making money for the record company, and allowing them to recoup some of their investment.
Reprise got it wrong and The Kinks persisted.
Nicky Hopkins! Session man extraordinaire.
Fuck, Nash really knew his music
Love Nash. Great vocalist and musician. Also a great story teller. Theres a vid of him telling the story of first meeting David Crosby and Stephen Stills. Very funny.
Wat, as you said , a great story teller. Saw him playing solo in Liverpool a few years ago, great show packed with fascinating stories about his career.. . After he’d finished his first song , he said a teenager came up to him outside the theatre and asked him would he sign some albums? The kid told him that he loved all the bands he had been in. He then pulled up his shirt sleeve to show him that he had had Crosby, Stills and Nash tattooed on his arm . Graham laughed and asked where’s Neil Young ? The kid replied that’s all l could afford at the time!
In The 🇺🇸 , Death Of A Clown 🤡 is credited to The Kinks appearing on their Something Else album.
It was part of the Kinks album, but on 45 it was credited to Dave Davies.
wonder why dave had it released as a solo single
@@thewkovacs316 I think it was a marketing thing. It was the Kinks, but with Dave on lead vocals. There was the idea of promoting Dave as an artist alongside the Kinks. There were plans for a 'solo" album that was shelved a couple of years later.
"Sussanah's Still Alive" and "Lincoln County" were also released as Dave Davies singles.
I uploaded this song the other day. Love it. Check out the CD Hidden Treasures which is a look at how the Dave Davies solo album may have looked. I mean, really, tbh, it's just a kinks compilation with all the songs that Dave sung lead on.
Graham Nash is very polite.
@GrahamNash-xx8fh You're very welcome. Always been a great fan.
Amazing how the Beatles had a 1970s-80s recording sound down by 1967.
Oooh, a tune from Fiddler on the Roof! Very eclectic.
Wow! That footage of him & Peter Noone getting into it!
Love your channel!
Thanks!
Good appreciation for The Who!
I love how Graham starts off with The Beatles and after that it's "game over." lol
If I remember correctly, Jeff Beck himself hated that single
God save the Kinks!! 🤩🤩👍👍👌👌Ray Davies genius. Dave Davies great guitarrist. 🎸🎸🎸 🤡🤡🤡 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
Terry Reid once told the tale that Micky Most had wanted Donovan’s “Superlungs”to be recorded by the Hollies but they turned it down fearing it’d affect their image. Terry opted to do it & the rest is marketing history.
Never heard of "Superlungs", and who is Terry?
Loving your channel. Thank you. Do you have contact info for the creators? I'm working on a project that might dovetail with this. Cheers.
I've noticed that radio 2s pick of the pops programme has more or less given up on the 60's and early 70's. I have more or less stopped listening to it. When he did the chart from 69 last weekend, I nearly died of shock.
Parece claro que, para Nash, The Beatles estaban en un nivel diferente al resto.
Nice "Wonderful Life" tribute at 0:44
It's interesting what he thought would be a hit in the states. I never of heard any of them. I was blown away by the top 30 list at the end, though.
@GrahamNash-xx8fh I've loved your music ever since you broke out in the states with Look Through Any Window and I own almost all your albums with The Hollies, CSN and solo. I've seen you live 3 times. You have a great voice. Thanks for the great music.
😄 There's a song on The Hollies' "For Certain Because" LP (which had been released only six months earlier) titled "High Classed." I think it's pretty much cut from the same cloth as "Hi Hi Hazel."
The captions for the songs (which you can see when you rewind or fast forward) says Frank Sinatra is the singer of “Up up and Away.”
Not so.
The singer is Frank Ifield.
True. RUclips does those captions automatically, I had nothing to do with that.
I'd like a Ron Nasty, or a Dirk McQuickly interview about the new singles, back in 1967. They were more famous than Rod, afterall. I guess all that tea impaired their judgement, at the time.
Hey Graham, the Who were recording two Jagger/Richards songs to give Jagger and Richards money for their drug bust court cases. That's "the point of it".
Thanks!
Well, Graham doesn’t any punches here, does he? His opinions sound pretty reasonable to me on the whole, but I’m going to have to check to see if Most really did use the very same “backing track” for both the Donovan and the Herman’s Hermits recordings of “Museum”. That would be pretty cheeky.
Okay, I just checked: Graham is dead wrong. The arrangements and instrumental performances on these two records are very different. I prefer the Herman’s Hermits arrangement. It’s more elaborate but also cleaner. Peter Noone seems to have some trouble with the higher notes, but otherwise his singing is okay, if a bit perfunctory. (It turns out, by the way, that there’s a tertium quid: a Donovan out-take. I prefer the Hermits’s “backing track” to the out-take’s also.)
Yeah, but what did he think of the recording technique on these records? That's what I need to know.
Hahaha!
When I was a teenager, and these records were being made, I thought that recording studios were the most magical places on earth, and I wanted to know everything about them that I could find (and there wasn't much).
Never heard of Beverly.
I actually like Herman's cover of Museum too.
Beverley released a really cool single called "Where the Good Times Are" in 1966 featuring Jimmy Page on guitar, John Paul Jones on bass and Nicky Hopkins on piano. Great tune, check it out: ruclips.net/video/lUdlhOUrPoE/видео.html
@@YesterdaysPapers Beverley later married John Martyn and made a couple of albums co-credited with him. She returned to recording in 1998 and in 2014 released The Phoenix And The Turtle which included a previously unrecorded Nick Drake/John Martyn song Reckless Jane.
@@Schteve59 That explains it! I'd heard of John & Beverly Martyn. Thanks for that info.
Nothing he reviewed was impressive except the Beatles song.
Up Up and Away was original hit for the California soul group 5th Dimension who would have a #1 in the US in 1969 with Aquarius/ Let The Sunshine In
Graham sounds like a heck of a nice guy, even when he's saying somebody sucks.
YP! You are really helping me find some gems. I’m in my 30’s but have always liked obscure English weird stuff from the 60’s. I’m finding the random songs being reviewed better than the one reviewing them.
For example. On this one, one of the singles was one by Jeff beck. I went to look that up and found this cool obscure complications of other 60’s songs. It’s a whole album series! Called Piccadilly sunshine. So this was a gold mind to find. I rarely find new old stuff anymore. Do you have any recommendations of where else to look?
The "Perfurmed Garden" compilations are pretty cool if you're into obscure english stuff from the 60s. I also really like a series of compilations that Decca put out years ago. There are 5 of 6 of those focusing on different genres: "The Freakbeat Scene", "The Psychedelic Scene, "The R&B Blues", "The Mod Scene", "The Northern Blues Scene" and "The Beat Scene". Great stuff.
Blimey i see Vince Hill in the singles chart,he was in loads of variety shows on tv when i was a nipper
Graham Nash was keeping it very real with his record reviews. 🤣
@GrahamNash-xx8fh You're welcome. Thanks again for your music!
HA! Love it. And he was right.
While Sgt. Pepper is #1, there are 2 Monkees albums in the top 10 as well. Pretty fascinating stuff that week in 1967.
Useless trivia...the Monkees outsold the Beatles & Rolling Stones combined in 1967. Thanks, tv show!
@@rs9003 even The Hollies were denied their deserved place at US pop toppers BUT just by coming a bit late (with "Bus Stop" in mid 60s (1966) it which really started some promoters to keep an eye on them. THEY HAD EVERYTHING to pursue a place right up there with the Rolling Beatles etc names. THEN... TV SHOW MONKEES ... Shame, they deserved the Monkees' spotlight (seriously, people think "I'll be true to you is a Monkees original) btw, I admit I knew The Monkees long before The Hollies as most of you and it was thank to the net that I discovered them Hollie years with Nash. That's why I think of it that's my very point of view
@@rs9003
Not true.
Think about - outselling the Beatles in the year of Sgt Pepper's? And the Stones?
Mike Nesmith made that claim in a 1980's interview just to see if the reporter would print any old nonsense without checking the facts. Which of course he did.
As did you.
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The Hollies were never considered cool in the UK. They released some decent enough singles but they just never had that 'presence' that the great groups have.
They were also a bit schizophrenic - not sure if they were a pop or 'serious music' band.
@@Wotsitorlabart Yeah, not to mention Penny Lane/Strawberry Field's, All You Need Is Love, Hello Goodbye and Magical Mystery Tour. Total bollocks!
Very interesting take on jeff beck
He certainly knows his music, quite a tough guy to work with I would imagine. Delia Morris
Not sure why Graham is bubbling over to Baby You're A Rich Man. I haven't intentionally played that in 20 years.
Try Hey Bulldog instead.
The beatles was the high point and it went down hill from there .
The last time and under my thumb were the stones?!
Graham Nash must have really been keeping up with music. I've seen a lot of these by now and I think he knew more artists right away than anyone.
love the videos, but just a heads up: no need for a comma between the month and year, grammatically incorrect
All I remember about G Nash is he was some Canadian chicks part time boyfriend in the mid-60's.
God I love Graham Nash
Why give up as he sort of said. Faul after all! Which he more or less said in later years.
He's much too critical. Maybe he'd smoked too much of weed!
He wasn't too long away from quitting The Hollies.
Thx for it. It's appreciated.
Loved the Brian Wilson escapism type music at the end mate!
Hi Hi Hazel - The Troggs ... probably not their best.
The Who...the Last Time?
Ed. Some mistake shurely?
I’d never heard of Get Harris but liked this song.
He was The Shadows' bass player from 1958 to 1962.
What's the instrumental song playing at the end of this video? It's so familiar but I can't place it.
It's a sort of Wall Of Sound adaptation of "All You Need Is Love" that I recorded for that part of the video.
@@YesterdaysPapers ah, ok. Very cool sound. I almost said in my first comment that it had a Beatles type of chord progression lol. But I definitely hear it now. Awesome job!
"Tallyman" another one of my fave singles . The intro chord as good as 'A Hard Day's Night".
I bought that one and the Who's Stones cover. The Troggs' 'Hi Hi Hazel" is ofcourse corny beyond belief , but as part of a compilation album it's an amusing track ; almost as amusing as "When I'm 64" which also took that typical corny British music hall road.
I love how he briefly retired in the middle of this 😂
5:05 What's this music?
Point of information: Davies is pronounced the same as Davis
It depends on your place of birth! Davies is not pronounced the same as Davis in the north of England (by most people!) Mr. R. 😀🎶
@@christopherriley1968 Dave Davies has said that his family name is pronounced as Day veeze - which is the way all American teenagers pronounced it in The Kinks heyday - and to this day. It's distinctive, as opposed to "Davis", which isn't.
@@total.stranger I don't know about Dave, but I've certainly heard Ray pronounce his own name "Davis." I also learned not long ago that Spencer Davis was born Davies but changed the spelling to match the pronunciation.
Graham is very opinionated about Music! I got to meet him about six years ago and I was discussing my love of ABBA and he says that his band especially Crosby absolutely hated that group! Lol
There's a decent clip on YT o fGlen Matlock explaining what he liked about ABBA (and The Beatles) and how it didn't go down well with the rest of the Pistols. Glen was right though 😉
haha, no doubt cos he was jealous of Abba's amazing world wide success.
@@alihart Glen Matlock admits that the main guitar riff in 'Pretty Vacant' was inspired by Abba's 'S.O,S,'
Crosby was an extreme egotist who apparently hated a lot of people. I don't think anyone who worked with him had too much good to say about it.
@@christopher9152 great musician but not so great person, at all
Some interesting 45s there. Not keen at all on Frank Ifield and The Troggs version of Hi Hi Hazel ( Geno's is marginally better but who did it first?).
Graham is kinda right about Jeff Beck but I think Tallyman is a good single.
Cream of the crop though is Death of a Clown. Never tire of hearing this.
Museum belongs to Donovan and Donovan only methinks.
"Death of a Clown" is a classic, love that song. I'm not a big fan of Herman's Hermits but I actually think their cover of "Museum" is pretty cool. I like it. It's not the same backing track as Graham said on the review.
@@YesterdaysPapers Same here with Herman, YP. Though I do quite like their version of Jezebel which I think was just a BBC thing possibly.
Ha!!! Man, he ripped the Troggs a new bung hole!! Sounds like he only listened to a couple bars and demanded they turn it off!!
“I know feel good about recording again”. 😅😅😅😅
The Who did Last Time??
They recorded Last Time / Under My Thumb single in protest to the recent arrests of Jagger and Richard.
@@fuzzyhaskins8075 Oohfah doofah!
Yup and Under my thumb. Stones got busted and they were Stones freaks (and friends). Take that authorities, lol.
Yes. It’s awful. Pete plays bass as John was away on honeymoon.
@@televinv8062 Stones returned the favour by canning their TV special cuz Who upstaged them!
I don't want to be unkind to the Troggs, but I can't help myself, yikes! Another slam, this time on Jeff Beck, "It might be that he doesn't have the ability to sing!" Ouch. Another major slam, this time on Jet Harris, "I don't know who it is. It's disgusting." Hey, Graham, don't hold back.