1. Warming Up 2. Just Holding On - (1:37) 3. A Taste of Honey* - (3:43) 4. Every Step I Take (Every Move I Make) - (8:02) 5. Coloured Rain - (10:32) 6. I Hear Voices - (13:55) 7. I Can Tell - (16:49) 8. Giving Up - (19:45) 9. Fever* - (24:03) 10. You've Got Me Hummin' - (27:22)
So many great memories connected to this album and this time of my life only to get better with the music of my Long Island brother..Billy ! Great music !!
This album has such a raw, loud, powerful sound, all the instruments are way over the top, especially the drums and the organ, and its great. The singing is also fantastic
I saw The Hassles at The Hullabaloo Scene in Lindenhurst, NY. After the opening band finished, Billy "Joe" Joel emerged from the green room, stepped up to his B3 and was a one man band. I remember it as if it was yesterday!
Then we werein the same place at the same time. I went there every Friday for I don't remember how long. Great place to meet girls and think you were cool. Hey, Esther Negrin...you still out there ? If I remember correctly, there a band called The Melting Pot with a black lead singer who did the most unbelievable rendition of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow". Good times....then I grew up.
Seeing a live band with a B3 and a pair of those giagantic speakers with the spinning horns on the top is seems like some thing you'd see in a dream. unreal.
I was 15 and in the band that opened for them at the Hullabaloo. If you went there you know that the setup was generally the opening band got to set up on 1/3 of the stage and the headliners took 2/3s. Well after we helped Billy get the B3 on stage ( weighed a ton) he said to me this is stupid let’s both spread out on the whole stage and your keyboardist can play the B3. None of the acts we opened for there ever did that. We were ecstatic. Little did we know he’d become the “Piano Man”.
So many great Long Island bands . The Vanilla Fudge, Vagrants,Illusion ,Fotomaker,Barnaby Bye . This album sounds very Fudge-ish with some Rascals thrown in . It was a great time to grow up if you were into good rock !
WOW! My father put the Illusions together. When I was kid I used watch them practice at The White Brick Inn which my father owned...The Hassels played at might high school Dances.
@@WilliamAngio Double WOW ! The guitarist Richie C's dad worked for my dad at his barber shop ! They were good friends . First time I saw them play was at his graduation party at their house. The second was when they backed Mitch Ryder at Westbury Music Fair . Good memories Where was your dads club ?
Other bands/performers that I didn't realize were from L.I.: • Santo & Johnny ("Sleep Walk") • The Shangri-Las ("Leader of the Pack“) • Lou Reed (Velvet Underground) • Kiss (several members) • Pat Benatar "Hit Me with Your Best Shot") • Stray Cats ("Sexy & 17") • Steve Vai (Guitarist) • Twisted Sister ("I Wanna Rock")
On Sundae morning, they do what other people do on Sundae morning. On Sundae afternoon, they groove like the Rascals. And on Sundae night, they taste like Vanilla Fudge. They defy categorization. Sing us a song, you're the organ man.
The record jacket listed, William Joseph Martin Joel...Affectionately called Billy Joe. I saw him at Nassau Coliseum in 1979 courtesy of a friend whose dad was a record exec. Only now when I looked it up to refresh my memory of the date did I find out that it was a charity event! I was wondering why we were surrounded by people wearing tuxedos and formal gowns at the Coliseum!! lol It was one of the best concerts I ever saw.
College band guitarist from Brooklyn. Brought this album back from vacay. We learned "I Can Tell" and loved it. So did audiences. The drum part is deep in my muscle memory.
Wow, this is Tremendo. Ha Ha B Joel may have been the less singer. But don't know this is Billy I like. But the ladies love 70!80's different style I suppose 🎸🎹🎤 A Gem. Thanks
If I'd have heard "I Can Tell" anywhere other than here, I'd have put money on it being the Small Faces, circa 65/66. Gritty vocals, rocking Hammond and tight bass line? Yep, the darlings of Wapping Wharf all day long.
That's awesome guys! My dad gave me this album when he died in 2007. He was born and raised in Yonkers but had friends from long island What a great era of music. I still have it . Is it worth anything? I would never sell it, im just wondering. Thanks
In the late 1960s, two songs by groups with names that started with H briefly got played on Top 40 stations in Washington, DC. I retain this type of knowledge, and later I learned that both groups contained future superstars. "Nothing But Tears" by Hourglass, with Gregg and Duane Allman, and "You've Got Me Hummin'" by the Hassles, with Billy Joel.
Interesting to note that this album was released around the same time as the first US album by Traffic "Heaven Is In Your Mind", and on the same record label (United Artists) no less.
The recording on this is really interesting. At first, I though it was a much more recent recording. I'm trying to figure out the studio craft here. How it was miked, how many tracks they used, what was fed directly into the console, etc. It's a very direct sound, not a typical completely separated stereo mix like a lot of stuff in 1967, but not a live sound stage either. But the more I listen, the more it begins to sound like a 1967 recording.
Yeah, How did they do this recording (mix technique, the whole process) that results in this sound with Each instrument and vocal all up front , and on top without the usual layeres. And none interfering with any other. How did they do that? Only thing missing is maybe some additional harmonies because each part is so separate I guess each instrumentand vocal recorded on its own track with no overdubs . But how 4 or 5 tracks come out so independent with only 2 (left and right) separate channels with 2 speakers over listeners' equipment available? I dunno?
This is a great album done by a very tight band in the 1960s club circuit. It's a shame that, before Billy Joel really "broke through" that this album and The Hassles didn't garner more attention outside of the "tri-State" area. These guys really delivered. Kind of Sam And Dave meets The Rascals. I can't remember exactly, but getting big gigs for the group became a bit of a problem for the band, since Joel, and perhaps a couple other members, weren't 21 yet. Also - United Artists was NOT a "rock" record label, and they probably really didn't know what to do with the act.
Hey everyone. Im a bit young for this but love it. Im 33yo My dad gave me this album when he died in 2007. He was born and raised in Yonkers but had friends from long island What a great era of music. I still have it . Is it worth anything? I would never sell it, im just wondering. Thanks
This could have done something but 67' wasn't the year of angry shouting or preaching meant for Godspell or JC Superstar, although it came back into fashion later, and no hit songs. A taste of honey? Lucky to survive
1. Warming Up
2. Just Holding On - (1:37)
3. A Taste of Honey* - (3:43)
4. Every Step I Take (Every Move I Make) - (8:02)
5. Coloured Rain - (10:32)
6. I Hear Voices - (13:55)
7. I Can Tell - (16:49)
8. Giving Up - (19:45)
9. Fever* - (24:03)
10. You've Got Me Hummin' - (27:22)
Thanks for posting this track listing; super-helpful!
the stars (*) are for covers right?
#5 is by Traffic and #10 by sam and Dave .
The beginning of Giving up sound like the Chambers Brothers Time has come today
Massive sound in '67 :)
So many great memories connected to this album and this time of my life only to get better with the music of my Long Island brother..Billy ! Great music !!
Richard McKenna - guitars
John Dizek - vocals, harmonica, tambourine
Howie Arthur Blauvelt - bass
Billy Joel - keyboards, vocals
Jon Small - drums
Wow! Again God bless RUclips eh? What a gem.
This album has such a raw, loud, powerful sound, all the instruments are way over the top, especially the drums and the organ, and its great. The singing is also fantastic
I have the drum skin from this album
What a punch in this late 60's piece😃💥🌈💥💖
Most folks don't realize that this is Billy Joel.
Не хрена себе, для меня это новость! Спасибо за информацию!!!
How did I miss this as I was growing up? It's great sixties music. Thanks for posting it!
It's Billy Joel...
Not a well known band in the 60's. It features a young Billy Joel yeats before he hit big.
I saw The Hassles at The Hullabaloo Scene in Lindenhurst, NY. After the opening band finished, Billy "Joe" Joel emerged from the green room, stepped up to his B3 and was a one man band. I remember it as if it was yesterday!
Then we werein the same place at the same time. I went there every Friday for I don't remember how long. Great place to meet girls and think you were cool. Hey, Esther Negrin...you still out there ? If I remember correctly, there a band called The Melting Pot with a black lead singer who did the most unbelievable rendition of "Somewhere Over the Rainbow". Good times....then I grew up.
@@brianparbus8405 My band The Innovations opened for The Illusion [Did You See Her Eyes?]
Seeing a live band with a B3 and a pair of those giagantic speakers with the spinning horns on the top is seems like some thing you'd see in a dream. unreal.
@@trippmoore I don't remember if removed the top panel on the rear of his Leslie speaker. I do remember he was great solo
I was 15 and in the band that opened for them at the Hullabaloo. If you went there you know that the setup was generally the opening band got to set up on 1/3 of the stage and the headliners took 2/3s. Well after we helped Billy get the B3 on stage ( weighed a ton) he said to me this is stupid let’s both spread out on the whole stage and your keyboardist can play the B3. None of the acts we opened for there ever did that. We were ecstatic. Little did we know he’d become the “Piano Man”.
75 years old last week and I bought this album and Billy Joe
So many great Long Island bands . The Vanilla Fudge, Vagrants,Illusion ,Fotomaker,Barnaby Bye . This album sounds very Fudge-ish with some Rascals thrown in . It was a great time to grow up if you were into good rock !
WOW! My father put the Illusions together. When I was kid I used watch them practice at The White Brick Inn which my father owned...The Hassels played at might high school Dances.
Good analysis.
@@WilliamAngio Double WOW ! The guitarist Richie C's dad worked for my dad at his barber shop ! They were good friends . First time I saw them play was at his graduation party at their house. The second was when they backed Mitch Ryder at Westbury Music Fair . Good memories
Where was your dads club ?
Saw The Illusion 1970 open for Ten Years After in Baltimore. Great band . Helped supply Illusion video for Barry Richards Turn On dvd!
Other bands/performers that I didn't realize were from L.I.:
• Santo & Johnny ("Sleep Walk")
• The Shangri-Las ("Leader of the Pack“)
• Lou Reed (Velvet Underground)
• Kiss (several members)
• Pat Benatar "Hit Me with Your Best Shot")
• Stray Cats ("Sexy & 17")
• Steve Vai (Guitarist)
• Twisted Sister ("I Wanna Rock")
On Sundae morning, they do what other people do on Sundae morning. On Sundae afternoon, they groove like the Rascals. And on Sundae night, they taste like Vanilla Fudge. They defy categorization. Sing us a song, you're the organ man.
The record jacket listed, William Joseph Martin Joel...Affectionately called Billy Joe. I saw him at Nassau Coliseum in 1979 courtesy of a friend whose dad was a record exec. Only now when I looked it up to refresh my memory of the date did I find out that it was a charity event! I was wondering why we were surrounded by people wearing tuxedos and formal gowns at the Coliseum!! lol It was one of the best concerts I ever saw.
сколько всего хорошего пропущено !!! успеть бы всё прослушать....мне 62
Я тоже об этом все время думаю .
Я, парни, не думаю, а знаю.. Мне 64..
Мне 64
...и мне...,блин! 65...Но порох не отсырел и готов внимать новому... 🔥✊👍
тогда я "зелёный ишо", но мне тоже нравица )
What a Great album ,especially for the 60's !~ just at the right time!~ I like it
College band guitarist from Brooklyn. Brought this album back from vacay. We learned "I Can Tell" and loved it. So did audiences. The drum part is deep in my muscle memory.
Who woulda thought? This is some great "Nuggets" style garage rock music.
I gotta say this:
"I Love It Just the Way It Is."
This was Billy Joel's Long Island band back in the day.
Wow, this is Tremendo. Ha Ha B Joel may have been the less singer. But don't know this is Billy I like. But the ladies love 70!80's different style I suppose 🎸🎹🎤 A Gem. Thanks
If I'd have heard "I Can Tell" anywhere other than here, I'd have put money on it being the Small Faces, circa 65/66.
Gritty vocals, rocking Hammond and tight bass line?
Yep, the darlings of Wapping Wharf all day long.
Listening in 2023...still absolutely awesome ❤❤❤❤ !!!
I bought this when it came out and I loved it!
so did I Sal, I and I still have it !
That's awesome guys! My dad gave me this album when he died in 2007.
He was born and raised in Yonkers but had friends from long island
What a great era of music.
I still have it . Is it worth anything?
I would never sell it, im just wondering.
Thanks
Wow!😃
really great , i didn' t know his previous bands the hassles and attila !!!
An 18-year-old Bill Joel... cool!
Wow this is really good band I'm surprised they were never on the radio or anything!
It's Billy Joel... This is when he was 19 or something.
In the late 1960s, two songs by groups with names that started with H briefly got played on Top 40 stations in Washington, DC. I retain this type of knowledge, and later I learned that both groups contained future superstars. "Nothing But Tears" by Hourglass, with Gregg and Duane Allman, and "You've Got Me Hummin'" by the Hassles, with Billy Joel.
Thanks for sharing such good and unknown music!!
wow, that is pretty unexpectedly complex songwriting...... lot happening on such short record 👍👍
Walked past a mosque and there were cars all over the pavements. A tall black man was on security but the door was open.
A work based on powerful performances reminiscent of R&B. Fresh and bittersweet.
The bass player resurfaced later in Ram Jam!
I believe his name was Howie Blouvelt .......
thanks for good album...
my brother went to LaSalle with lead singer John Dyzek
If I had no idea who this was, I would’ve guessed Vanilla Fudge. Such an awesome, raw, gritty album from beginning to end!
Very reminiscent of Vanilla Fudge, especially A Taste of Honey.
Honestly better than Attila, Billy’s finest work I’d say
Atilla rocks my world!!
Great stuff love it i am 10 years old again that’s when it cane out
thank you for great music
I remember hearing it when it came out. Spencer Davis .... Just holding on Baby.
very good................................................................
Loving that Keyboard, happy X-mas You'All & Happy 2019
tremendo disco, muy pesado para su epoca, tipo deep purple, 66 67 68
Interesting to note that this album was released around the same time as the first US album by Traffic "Heaven Is In Your Mind", and on the same record label (United Artists) no less.
Hello from Dulin, have to say when I heard 2nd track Traffic jumped straight into my head.........
Great music!
I Hear Voices is my favorite🤩
I still have my original copy!
Keep it!
Здорово 👍 сильнейшие рокеры суперская группа
Smell the flowers.
This is a pleasant surprise. The best thing Billy Joel has done IMO.
Attila is even better
Great album, feels like its live live live...
The recording on this is really interesting. At first, I though it was a much more recent recording. I'm trying to figure out the studio craft here. How it was miked, how many tracks they used, what was fed directly into the console, etc. It's a very direct sound, not a typical completely separated stereo mix like a lot of stuff in 1967, but not a live sound stage either. But the more I listen, the more it begins to sound like a 1967 recording.
Love my early rock,heavy organ
Yeah,
How did they do this recording (mix technique, the whole process) that results in this sound with
Each instrument and vocal all up front , and on top without the usual layeres. And none interfering with any other.
How did they do that?
Only thing missing is maybe some additional harmonies because each part is so separate
I guess each instrumentand vocal recorded on its own track with no overdubs .
But how 4 or 5 tracks come out so independent with only 2 (left and right) separate channels with 2 speakers over listeners' equipment available? I dunno?
To the people that think Billy Joel was a singer from the 90’s:
no
True that!
I'm glad to now know he was much more than a 90s singer ☺️
He literally only released one album from the 90s
I think you mean the 70s...maybe the 80s? By the 90s he was on oldies stations.
So he did start the fire!
The guitarist hold this band back
¡¡¡¡Uyyy esto me gusta....!!!
🍀Cheers 🍻🍺 I' ll Drink2That🍀
The best band in the late 60s
This is a great album done by a very tight band in the 1960s club circuit. It's a shame that, before Billy Joel really "broke through" that this album and The Hassles didn't garner more attention outside of the "tri-State" area. These guys really delivered. Kind of Sam And Dave meets The Rascals. I can't remember exactly, but getting big gigs for the group became a bit of a problem for the band, since Joel, and perhaps a couple other members, weren't 21 yet. Also - United Artists was NOT a "rock" record label, and they probably really didn't know what to do with the act.
Puro êxtase. 🤗😚 ❤
Hey everyone.
Im a bit young for this but love it. Im 33yo
My dad gave me this album when he died in 2007.
He was born and raised in Yonkers but had friends from long island
What a great era of music.
I still have it . Is it worth anything?
I would never sell it, im just wondering.
Thanks
Warner music group has exclusive license since the purchase of the Parlophone label.
Sensationally unreal, baby ❤❤❤❤❤
I love
I like it. Very interesting. Reeks of the 60s. A mash of Vanilla Fudge and the Hollies me thinks.
! My first thought was Spencer Davis Group. ;)
Музыка ваша американская говно ... да и вообще скоро вам всем американцам кердык,мы вам сделаем козью мордочку !!!!🐐🐐🐐
I do not hear any Hollies in this, Spencer Davis in Hold on.
@@Doo_Doo_Patrol Группа одной песни ,как Animals .///
@@николаймешков-ж4з Sorry, don't know Russian? Do like the Animals though.
A great psychedelic masterpiece 😅
Just Holding On IS OR IS NOT poor copy of Gimmie Some Lovin'?
Una verdadera sorpresa esta banda .noooooo muy muy buenos!!!!!
Sounds like Spencer Davis in Just Holding On.
Billy Joel alle tastiere sembra John Lord geniale 😀
Boris. I have a spare room.
Similar Traffic or Deep Purple...
Very interesting old band..i didn't known before now..
In '67 I was only a 7 child old.
Super
Благодарю.
I have found something that I care about. Shoes that fit.
its like jefferson & spirit in my mind
Almost like you are on another planet.
This could have done something but 67' wasn't the year of angry shouting or preaching meant for Godspell or JC Superstar, although it came back into fashion later, and no hit songs. A taste of honey? Lucky to survive
When I say fit I don't mean imagining pain followed by tolerance followed by acquiescence followed by death.
Thanks,,,,,👌
Guitar player held this band back
Great stuff.
We can make a yurt in the garden.
This is so sixties!
They sound a little like the Vanilla Fugde
WE HAD IT.
This is very cool!
after hearing this band i bought an electric organ
Far out !
West Hempstead and Plain View ....
😯 that first 0:40 secs.
I mean shoes that make you want to walk.
🎷.
They were a bit more successful than the Tuneful Trolley band (also from Long Island) and made a better debut record
Boris. Give it up.
Hay ! Que buena banda..
Que fue de ellos?
Comenten..
Try early The Rare Earth. I love their debut.
Vanilla Fudge influenced vibe.
Or what Jake C said. Ahem🎧
dig that distorted organ----
Great year for music, sadly this LP is far from great
That album featured Billy Joel.
These guys were good but what about the Smubs? Now they were a great band.
Billy Joe trying to sound like Vanilla Fudge.