John Sirois Yeah, the Hollies always had great harmonies, regardless of the lineup.

Track list... Please

Yeah. I love to get high while watching these episodes from this lovely channel

David bowie space oddity on the radio through headphones at age 15 during the mid 1990's was a very strange out of world experience for me.

I did. Penny Lane was a typical peppy Paul McCartny song, and till this day I'm amazed how enormous its appeal still is. Strawberry Fields took a bit longer to digest... but in 1967 the psychedelia was EXPLODING, and this new movement was a revelation to me. Reversed tapes, electronic voices, distorted hammonds and the magical Mellotron. (Manfred Mann was one of the first one using it, in Semi-Detached Suburban Mr James, 1966 and that was only the beginning of the musical vacuum cleaner sound!) I remember thinking, "This is the end of pop, it's impossible to get any better and more revolutionary than this. Of course I couldn't have been more wrong. But I was 18 years old, and naive. Not as naive as my parents and grandparent! "In five years from now they will be forgotten. " 😁 1966, 1967 and 1968 have always been the super groundbreaking years for me. My real adult phase in music. In 1963, only 4 years earlier! - the physical and mental shock that I Wanna Hold Your Hand gave me was huge - yet I could never have guessed that pop evolution would come as far as it did in the Summer of Love...and in 1969 Crosby Stills & Nash were another revolution, less gimmickry, but certainly sensational again. I'm grateful that it happened in my time of youth and being 'hip'. Others had to grow up with ' old man' Elvis and granny Connie Francis. Who I nevertheless started to appreciate a full decade later. But Elvis stopped being important for me when the Beatles had five singles in the American top 10. Those were the days.

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I'm from Dallas Texas too but wasn't born until the 90s. Too bad. I've been following this channel for a while and I can tell I missed out on some great music back then. Thank goodness for KZfaq. It really is the closest thing we have to a time machine.

Yep, it's pretty cool that he dug the Left Banke.

Pity their big hit single Walk Away Renee was later covered by the Four Tops, which is the version most people remember now. Not sure why the Tops had to do it at all - were Holland/Dozier/Holland on leave at the time?

@@Krzyszczynski I don't think "Renee" fit the 4 Tops style. The baroque strings and stuff seemed very unique to the Left Banke. I do however, think the Dickies did a hilarious but very tight and respectful version of the Bankes " Pretty Ballerina".'

The Left Banke to me was a mix of the sound of The Zombies and The Hollies

I saw The Left Banke once, it was a great show!

I saw them in the Albert Hall in 1991. I've also seen Graham Nash solo, twice.

Thanks, Darrell. Your comment about the Eyes of Blue is spot on. That's such a great, upbeat track. It's definitely the sort of song that will brighten your darkest day. The chorus is irrestible and always brings a smile to my face. "You can't find love like us in a supermarket full of cans". That's genius.

So much talent in the Hollies. In my opinion, they were the British band with the best harmonies.

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@@YesterdaysPapers I'd offer The Zombies for consideration...but, other than those two, it's no contest

​@@DwellerHollowMusic You beat me to it! I was just about to say the same thing. The clip of the Hollies singing On a Carousel was impressive, but to my ear they could sometimes be a bit strident. I think the Zombies definitely had the edge. How could they not, with the great Colin Blunstone?

​​@@annaforehan7784 in fact Colin Blunstone was considered to replace Allan Clarke when he left The Hollies C 1972

Cheers, Linda!

Hatfield & the north.

Thank you, Annie. "My Friend Jack" is indeed incredibly catchy.

If you want to find buried treasure you gotta dig for it

I very highly recommend you get their debut album. Ive had it for about 5 months and cannot stop playing it.

@@toddblanks Thanks; I bought the anthology on CD some years back after getting hooked on "My Friend Jack" and "High in a Room."

I have that on a decca Mods era compilation (which also has a ton of other great stuff)

Yes, CHEQUEbook, not checkbook. B@#$%y US-originated software ....

Thanks, Sophie. Same here, "Strawberry Fields" is one of my favourites by the Beatles. That song never gets old.

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That's how I feel too when seeing footage from those times. Nowadays everyone always seems to look so worried - with reason, of course - and they all wear such dull utilitarian clothing, often with tattoos showing (eurgh!).

​@@Krzyszczynski Hear! Hear!

​@@Krzyszczynski F tattoos, it's trendy now to cover yourself with more graffiti than the wall of a truck stop bathroom, where does it end

Especially Daevid Allen being on the first single who later found one of the most psychedelic bands of all time, GONG!

Cheers, Pierre-Olivier!

Did Robert Wyatt always perform bare-chested? I've a fairly distinct memory of his doing so even at their history-making appearance in the 1970 Promenade Concerts at the Albert Hall.

@@Krzyszczynski Robert didn’t always perform bare-chested. There’s lots of photos and footage of Robert playing with a shirt or sweater or whatever he happened to be wearing that day. He’s just well known for playing without a shirt.

You have a right to be biased. The Beatles are as we say in the States the GOAT-greatest of all time. I am a native Angeleno and biased towards the Beach Boys compared with other 1960s American bands. We have an understanding mate.

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@@chrisbacos Ladies and Gentlemen from Los Angeles, California........

@@chrisbacos THE DOORS (my 2nd fave band man)

@@paulnolan4971 The doors & jefferson airplain. Im more kinda newer to jefferson airplain than the doors. But jefferson airplain are very unusually different and very interesting. Jefferson airplain are different to any other band of that time and in a great unique way. White rabbit sounds like nothing else, full stop!!!!

Great song!

Yes, there it is, the mother lode. What extraordinary richness. It was pretty much exhausted by '72-'73, with a few exceptions.

Thank you very much, Spirit of 66. Glad you enjoyed this episode. Definitely a great month for singles.

13.52 WOW SEX IN THE SIXTIES!

He was a creep.

Me too.

It seems like these reviewers didn't get it at first.

Thanks!

The SFF/PL single actually made #1 on the Melody Maker charts, and stayed there for three whole weeks! But it was #2 on the other three UK charts. It didn't really make a difference that it was a double-A; the group had already released two other double-A's that had effortlessly topped the charts, and SFF/PL sold around the same number of copies as those. It was mostly just bad timing, because "Release Me" was one of those fluke mega-successes that took the British adult contemporary audience by storm. But it did make #1 in Melody Maker, and of course in the US, Canada, Australia, Germany, Sweden, etc. Also, I doubt anyone today remotely remembers "Release Me", while "Strawberry Fields" is being taught in advanced college music courses worldwide! 😃

​@@spiritof6663 Unfortunately, I suspect a lot of us remember Release Me!

@@annaforehan7784 Why not. Might not be to everyone's taste, but Gerry did a good job. Its proved itself as a staple song of the era at least.

Agreed! That's an incredible single. I was amazed when I heard that song for the first time a few years ago.

The GBO had provided a kind of foretaste to You've Gotta Have Love Babe, in the form of Spanish Blues (from their Sound Of '65 album). It has the same quasi-Arabic wailing on the alto sax, and could have just as aptly been called Moroccan Blues or something of the kind.

Thanks!

@@YesterdaysPapers you’re welcome 😉

I agree 100%, the Hollies were the British band with the best harmonies. Glad you enjoyed this episode, Willie. Cheers!

Thank you very much, Michael!

Great song. I heard it for the first time on the "Nuggets II" boxset.

@@YesterdaysPapers it reminds me mor of American mid 67 psych. Ahead of its time