Small Faces, what a band, with probably one of the best rock/soul singers ever, Steve Marriott.

Your channel is one of the greatest things to happen to KZfaq.

I was born early in the morning of August 11, 1966 in London. My father went out that afternoon with some friends and bought as many of the recent new singles and albums that were happening that day. I grew up listening to all of that amazing music. I still own all of those 45’s and albums.

I've longed argued that 1966 was the pinnacle year in popular music.

Revolver, a true gold mine for musicians. And The She Trinity too.

An excellent month/year indeed. Beatles, Who and my favorite Small Faces ❤ Steve Marriott's soulful voice coming out of a tiny Cockney teenager. So sad that we in the US missed out on this great group.

1966 was a great year for garage rock in the US

I loved George Harrison's comment about Eleanor Rigby only appealing to Ray Davies types.

Revolver is an amazing album.

Was explaining to someone not long ago, that when I was a child, The Beatles were releasing movies, on the television (The Ed Sullivan Show) and on the radio all the time. They even had a cartoon on Saturday mornings. They were so ubiquitous that it seemed to young pre-1970's me that they basically were the entirety of music. Then you see how everybody else was covering their songs, sometimes even before they released them themselves... No wonder.

Nice to be reminded of the all time great Steve Marriott!❤

Thank You for your great work in bringing us these little known or forgotten tidbits of our past for the greatest era in music of all time that sadly will never be repeated ✌️🇺🇲🇬🇧

Outstanding episode! 🤙🔥🇬🇧

Loose Ends - Taxman, wow. There's always at least one record in these that I've never heard & blows me away 👏 I've been delving into The Tremeloes & The Hollies recently, going behind the hits, some great stuff that never gets heard.

The power of The Beatles at that time was off the charts (so to speak). Seemed like everyone was covering their songs in hopes of riding on a small part of the Beatle train.

August '66, my 13th birthday and my bamitzva😂. I remember the whole month and what records I bought. Been waiting for you to feature this year and month. Thanks YP, you have one of the most well researched programs available available

That Taxman cover was awesome!

WOW !! Living in the U.S. during this period, I was unaware of many of these groups. Thank you from a new subscriber. 🎶🙂

Stellar piece of music history as always! Thanks YP

In the United States, the only small faces song to register any sales was itchycoo park, which reached the top 20

Wow-She Trinity captured the FUN of "Yellow Submarine" but the best cover of a song from Revolver was Ray Charles' haunting version of "Eleanor Rigby."

Never heard the Cliff Bennett version before, it's excellent, thanks for posting.

I'm always sad when your British Singles videos end. I've started watching them with a pen and paper to write down songs and groups I want to look into.

In August 1966 I was living in Bumfuck, Minnesota, working 12 hours a day, 7 days a week for $1.00 per hour at a pea viner. I didn't hear most of these singles but I did listen to the Yardbirds and The Beatles and The Stones. Life was good, especially on dates at the drive-in movies.

The best channel for archive music and trivia. Love it and thank you 🥰

This is fantastic!!!!!! I was born in Aug 1966 ... what a GREAT MONTH 🙂 ... ha ha ha ha .... this music is just so brilliant!!

Good stuff!! I hadn't realized how many songs by The Beatles had been covered by other groups so frequently back then.

Well done ​ @YesterdaysPapers , you are really getting into your stride and have really surpassed yourself with this month. The line "I'm still not sure if this cover is complete crap or utter genius" is an absolute laugh out loud moment. More power to your elbow! (as we say in the UK)

I was listening to Dutch internet radio yesterday and All or Nothing came on...man it was so cool hearing it that way. It gave me a surge. In 1966 I was 8 and had just moved to the States and I heard Elenor Rigby on the the radio and I was poleaxed..I listen to the orchestrated backing track from Anthology as well nowadays. Thise other singles didnt chart but that doesn't make them any less cool! Glad more people think you are the best channel on KZfaq cos that's what you are !👍

Hello from France. I wanted to thank you for the quality and accuracy of your videos on a truly exceptional period of music in Great Britain and which will have an enormous influence throughout the world.

Many thanks for the look back. Great memories here.

Thank you so much for turning all of us (fortunate enough to discover your channel) on to a lot of quality rarities from this period in the UK! ! ! (I was 10 in '66, living in a small, remote town - totally no idea about these songs)

The cover of "Taxman" was unbelievable. Going to check out the Cliff Bennett cover. I already listened to that four seconds as many times.

Just fantastic! Thank you so much for sharing these memories.

Ooh, got a bit of trivia meself here... She Trinity featured Pauline Moran on bass, who later went on to play the supporting character 'Miss Lemon' in ITV's series 'Poirot'. 😉👍

Este es el mejor canal de música que haya visto jamás!!! Soy fanático de la musica británica de los 60as. Y no tengo más palabras para describir lo que me generan! Simplemente, gracias infinitas. Saludos desde Argentina! 🇦🇷🎸🎼✨✨❤❤🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌🙌

What a song to begin with...an absolute gem,and it's my Nr.1 song on my Nano Ipod playlist for my daily run.....makes me feel like a teenager again......everytime....thanks so much

Love The Game although they didn’t release much. Ray Charsley was brought in by the band to replace Terry Boyes after their first single, mainly for his mod look, and sang lead on Gonna Get Me Someone, as well as Gotta Wait. He departed shortly afterwards although with him they appeared live on Ready, Steady, Go. Then they recorded the fabulously ominous Help Me, Mummy’s Gone, a real heavy freakbeat/psych classic. I interviewed Ray a few years back and he has never spoken to his former band mates since.

Fantastic stuff! Already looking forward to the next edition!

This is a great channel on you tube,being an avid record collector of obscure singles from the 60's you give me more artists to look for to add to my collection thank you

Fantastic stuff. You can actually hear pop becoming rock, but in a peculiarly British way that sought to preserve the Merseybeat sound while at the same time straining at the leash to turn it into something new. Penny Valentine's review of the Sorrows' single was especially amusing, because the elements she took exception to were exactly what you might expect from a very early iteration of proto-metal.

Thanks YP Big Deep Purple fan Here Cheers !!

Fantastic as always!

Fantastic selection yet again - that Bunch of Fives song is a belter!

Thanks so much for posting. Good time for you

I look forward to every new vid you create. I lived through this era and your vids are pure magic.

I always forget to mention how cool the name to your channel is. I know where you got it from, but that makes it even cooler. Very cool stuff. I was born in 82, so I missed the 60s, but feel nostalgic about the 60s and 1920s for some reason.

YAY! Yesterdays Papers just got pushed through my letterbox Been waiting for it to arrive! Great stuff as always, Thanks!

Every month I discover new bands and sounds, without a doubt music generates new sensations. Excellent video, I look forward to the next chapters, greetings :)

Just discovered this wonderful Channel. Thank you ✌️☮️

Episodes like this one remind us of how important the Beatles were to music, and how they were seen in that day. I can't think of any other artists who had multiple bands doing covers of multiple hits from a single album, especially released at the same time as the album. Bands didn't even wait to see if the song would be well received before they were covering it. Amazing.

Eleanor Rigby certainly was a quantum leap for the Beatles. My 14 year old sister's crowd, all of whom affected to despise the way they'd seemingly stagnated in pop-laced mediocrity (and preferring US acts like the Spoonful, Byrds, et al) were suddenly forced to sit up and take notice. And George Melly has written that it " .... broke right through the conventions of the very best traditions of popular song" and added "It was with a sense of delighted awe .... that I heard for the first time Eleanor Rigby".

love your channel,specially the gorgeous sound in every one of the vids.congrats and thanks mr.yesserday papers.

This was absolutely fantastic. A new subscriber. Thanks for the music

Another great YP instalment! Love, and always look forward to, your videos - informative and entertaining. Best wishes from Terry, Australia.

George Harrison, an unassuming chap, had the snarkiest wit of the Beatles. “Yellow Submarine will appeal to old-age pensioners… Eleanor Rigby will probably only appeal to Ray Davies - types.” Score one for George!

great stuff, plenty to look up and listen to in full there

I was 18 then, brilliant time to be a teenager. At 75 i still love my music, heavy metal mostly, but still return to 60s music to remember the best music ever ❤

So many great British bands. In the States the Small Faces , Spencer Davis Group and Tremeloes were still completely unknown and would have to wait til next year. Even the Who were essentially unknown since the failure of My Generation (due, I think, to conservative program directors not letting it on their playlists). Their first true American hit would be the atypical Happy Jack in the Spring of '67.

Love 1966 and the Trems What A State I'm In. Rick Westwood on a Maestro Fuzztone!

“Good day sunshine” became a top 10 hit in the United States on its own in 1976 when they started re-releasing Beatles music as compilations like the rock ‘n’ roll music album

Small Faces one of the best bands ever to come out of the UK, shame they never cracked the USA. I love that cover of Taxman - Revolver is my fave Beatle lp. Old Bowie never gave up throughout the 60s despite achieving next to no success until Space Oddity - just as well he persevered! All in all a cosmic trip back to the month and year of me birth - cheers! 😎✌️🎸

Another brilliant edition. Wonderful stuff! 🤗

Thanks for the trip, man, of unforgettable hits and those that were not. As an American teen in the 60s, all I know is the Beatles came first and everything else came after. And man, did it ever.

Excellent episode. Love that groovy version of TAXMAN by the Loose Ends, new to me that one is!

Absolutely exceptional article featuring the ‘Freak Beat’ scene. I discovered some bands and tunes I was unaware of. Excellent commentary. This compilation shows some great live footage, and really cool bands transitioning from beat music to early psychedelia. Always loved Cliff Bennett’s version of ‘Got to Get You into my Life’, but didn’t know it was produced by Paul, wanting a more soulful sound. Great B sides with early Brit Pop gritty guitars and a rogue’s gallery of future rock gods.

In 1966, the Beatles were head and shoulders over everyone else.

My new favorite channel. 🥰

That was fun!, once again, superior content!

Big nod to Mrs Miller for being the inspiration for the Yellow Submarine cover

Thanks for these great series! It's really a pleasure big time!

What a fantastic video have a wonderful day also I enjoy the videos to be honest ❤❤❤❤❤❤😊😊😊😊😊😊

August 1966 - my 16th Birthday! What a time to remember - thanks for the memories, YP!

Genius: Sorrows, She Trinity [Climb that Tree!!], Loose Ends, Cliff Bennett … and of course the more famous bands. Thanks for another great episode!

I had a blast on this trip. Revolver was the Beatles' best LP to date at the time. Not one cover version matched the original. Deep Purples' members have quite the pedigrees. The Who's Rhythm section writes a song. Impressive. I guess it never occurred to Bill and Charlie. I have the US version of Revolver but I like the UK version better because it has three more songs. FYI that month the Beatles had their final tour and it was in the States. The last two concerts were in Los Angeles and San Francisco. I laughed when I heard George Harrison say "Ray Davies types." Pure George Harrison. He had it out for the Kinks. Some humor. As for that female band if any are still alive they now have pear-shaped figures and/or walk with canes and walkers. And finally, in Burbank, California Davy, Micky, Mike, and Peter were waiting in the wings.

I turned 17 in July of 1966 and that year to me was the apex of Pop/Rock. There were so many great songs and groups that it was amazing. In America, we didn't hear some of the groups mentioned here which is a shame since there was some great stuff there. Thanks for posting this.

great work top class

Amazing insight.

It wasn’t just Motown for R&B… although Wilson Pickett and Sam and Dave recorded for various labels, they also recorded at Stax Records in Memphis, Tennessee .

Wonderful channel that makes that era seem new. I find myself watching and waiting to hear “new” singles. I have been collecting for years but there is a lot out there I overlooked. For instance The Tremeloes B sides. I guess I could suggest a Beatles cover clip ( or Floyd, or Stones). You make me realize how much I don’t know. THANK YOU.

I love you, one of my fav rolling stone song is yesterday papers and now my fav yt channel is called the same ❤

A deliciously long episode full of spectacular footage! And the songs? Really massive! "All Or Nothing"... What a lot of work you put into it again YP! I enjoyed the history of some Deep Purple members. The Koobas is definitely a band to look into, a whopper of a band! Now I don't use the word underrated easily but with regard to the Artwoods it is correct I think. This band is hardly known here in the Netherlands, but that could also be just me 😁. Your videos make sure these 'forgotten' bands get a life again. The Bunch Of Fives? Never heard of them! Until now! Greetings EJ

YP never fails us. NEVER! Thanks for this. :)

Thanks for the trip back to august 66 where notably lays "I’m a Boy", a song incredibly fun to play. Many gems here though, a very shiny month.

I've seen your channel before and love the " failed to chart" entries. Code for stinkers and there were lots.

Ah the nostalgia from a trip down memory lane! I was 16 and enjoying some of the best years of my life. We had no money but we had Pirate radio playing pop music 24/7 which paved the way for what everyone takes for granted today with radio.

Thumbs up for mentioning The Shaggs.

Well this is earlier than expected; I am excited though.

Cuanta sabiduría hay en tus videos...me facinan, te mando un abrazote desde Zacatecas México.

There's a real pattern here. Obviously a lot of bands were encouraged to put out something "commercial" to possibly hit the charts, but when it came to recording the B-side, the suits let them do whatever they wanted, that's why so many B-sides by these bands are brilliant, they were let off the leash.

I love this series! The release of ER/YS in the states had a massive effect on the Beatles' reputation here, because the older generation (who were younger then than I am now) started to take them very seriously. They finally realized the group could create more than wild love songs, and the string backing sounds helped a lot too. After this, people like Leonard Bernstein started mentioning them in his television music analyses. I'll be truly sorry when YP is done with this series!

Interesting that Paul, normally considered the more Beatle Beatle, produced what might have been seen snub to George Martin/EMI and Ringo...

Excellente vidéo comme toujours. Je ne connaissais pas l'histoire autour de Got To Get You Into My Life. Merci!

I TURNED 16 IN AUGUST 66, I have always said if I could go back that would be the year I would choose .Music, Girls, Booze and Motorbikes every young man's dreams!!!!

FYI from a previous video: The producer-songwriter team that produced "Romeo & Juliet" by Toby Twirl re-worked the song and arrangement to produce "Nothing But A Heartache" by The Flirtations. I could hear the similarities right away, and found someone who had the background on both singles, so it's solid info.

The Beatles sounded 1966 like a band of time travellers:) So far Ahead

Essential as usual. Off to listen to that She Trinity 45 😮

At 10:42 is one of the coolest transitions I've seen on the channel: 11 turntables spinning~!...WOW. Where did THAT come from? And of course Pete Townsend playing that TRIPLE PICKUP Telecaster. If only we knew what happened to that one. Another great episode YP. All the best from Austin, Texas~!

Born in August 66, thank you!

I recall the Beatles appealing across the board , so we kids , our parents , and grandparents could all listen to , and enjoy them . Then came ' Magical Mystery Tour ' and the world was just different ✌️☮️