Thanks for the link 👍

Thank you for the list, mate - Absolufabumazing! Old favorites and now, some new fabs!

I don't know on what planet I was but I just discovered that I can save the playlist you linked to and listen to it on KZfaq Music, which I subscribe to. Super Cool!

Great video. Thanks so much for the playlist. Cheers, YP.🤗😀

The channel is totally fab! I'm British, but was only 8 at the time, and while many of the bands are familiar to me now, it's fascinating to see them and discover other acts.

Thank you very much, Jane!

Thank you very much, Pencipauli!

agreed.

Obviously Hello Goodbye/IATW is a front runner in amongst this lot, many of which I think are trying too hard to follow a trend. But Care of Cell 44 by the Zombies is the only other single in this collection worth pausing the video for and looking up on Apple Music. I’m ashamed to say I have been alive 54 years and only just (via this channel) in the last few weeks found out about the Odyssey and Oracle album. But it’s superb, a great companion to Sgt Pepper and Pet Sounds.

Discogs?

And quite a lot of cool records failed to chart! Back then, charting a single was everything.

Thank you very much, Darda!

I concur!

Yes I agree. I love SF Sorrow and have been saying how underrated and sadly unrecognised it is since I discovered it as a teenager. It predated Mark Wirtz’s stuff and The Who’s Tommy and the Kink’s Victoria and was really something avant garde and of good quality.

That's the truth!

Eden Ahbez did one much earlier than The Pretties

The absolute zenith.

I'm 43 and I tripped out to the Beatles as a teen. Used to take a LOT of mushrooms lol

It is one of my very favorites by the Beatles (and Sir George Martin) and, for me, an astonishing and utterly unique work of aural-art. Mind-blowing…🦭💕

Agreed, "I Am the Walrus" is one of my all-time favourites by the Beatles. What an amazing song.

"...and here's another clue for you all, the Walrus was Paul."

@@YesterdaysPapers Any chance, with that fab Revolver remixing that just came out, you could look into a Yesterday's Papers around the release of that legendary Beatles album? I wouldn't dare make a request, it's just a thought. I'm so impressed by your curation and editing work. ☺

You lucky old fart! 😉 *hug*

A phenomenal album, which still has a very special place in my heart ♥️

Something about that song. I could almost imagine a maiden in medieval England singing the song beneath a tree lol.

Very cool, that must have been a great show.

Brill album..pop psych..j.h.plays on it also...they played here sept 68...J.H.EXP...V.FUDGE.... SOFT MACHINE and EIRE APPARENT...search album

Henry McCulloch was the lead guitarist. He once lived in a caravan outside my home town Enniskillen in Northern Ireland. My grandfather used to laugh recalling Henry playing guitar in the morning to the herd of cattle in the neighbouring field. Stoned, no doubt. No idea how the cows reacted to his playing. He went on to join Paul McCartney and Wings a few years later. RIP, Henry!

You couldn’t get further from punk than the emotions album.

Lol those bands didn't invent shit. The 60's were pure magic. Damn near every genre was covered by the second part of the decade.

@@danieleyre8913 Blimey,I've always loved that album.Didnt know any one else had heard of it

@@randybackgammon890 I like the songs on emotions. Especially house of ten. But I’m not such a fan of the production, especially the brass section.

Yes, bloody great band

Thank you, Tom..

Some great singles including one or two I didn’t know, thank you! I’d completely forgotten that The Nice featured in Tyrant King. Thanks for the reminder of a very enjoyable series from my childhood. I connected with the series, because I travelled all over the underground by myself and visited the museums in Exhibition Road. “Follow the tyrant king … “ I count myself as lucky to have seen The Nice at the Fairfield Halls in Croydon. Keith Emerson played the venue’s pipe organ and asked the audience, “Do you think they’d mind if I stuck knives in this one?”

Thank you, François! I saw the Pretty Things in 2017 or so and it was a fantastic show.

I saw The Pretty Things a few times in the 70s. Excellent band. Some friends of mine were the support act on one tour. They said they only had to take a couple of breaths in their dressing room and they came out buzzing 😂

Best comment I've read, I too have everything that the Moodies recorded, plus Blue Jays, Justin Hayward,and also have I think every DVD released. Hi from Perth Australia 😎👋🎵🎶🎵

I read in a music magazine that it was an accidental hit. That DJs put it on to play because it was so long, so they could leave the room for a break lol.

I was a Moody fan from the first time i heard GO NOW!

@@RavenThom I hope your still a fan, but who in the world would stop being a moodies fan. 😎👋💕🎶🎵🎶🎵🦘

This group and the Deviants were two groups from this time that got more respect in the Punk/New Wave era a decade later.

Cheers, Evan.

An amazing song, no doubt.

Cheers, Christian!

Cheeers, Michael!

What was going on in Britain and the Netherlands was much more far out that anything going on in the USA.

Agreed@@LannieLord

Cheers, Linda!

Thank you very much! "Baron Saturday" is one of my favourite songs by The Pretty Things. Great song.

Thanks!

No doubt, a truly excellent single.

bee side

@@YesterdaysPapers They certainly are an amazing band.

Agreed, definitely a crazy choice for an A-side.

@@YesterdaysPapers But that's what was great about the Pretties, they were edgy by instinct. When I first looked into them I was surprised how unsuccessful they were compared to their peers.

@@shadowstealer2790 Very true, they were always very edgy and anarchic. They were never afraid to take everything one step further.

@@YesterdaysPapers Yes, so true! Still find it hard to believe that a rock n roll monster like "Midnight to 6" only got to no.46!!Being the ace researchers you guys are , you've probably seen this gem but just in case you haven't kzfaq.info/get/bejne/Z8qmq7l2nbLQpHU.html

I think they wanted "Defecting Grey" to be a single mostly to break ties with the album "Emotions", which the band made unwillingly and only for contractual fulfillment. Anyway, I too agree with you all. Maybe "Mr. Evasion" would have charted better...

"I Say Yeh Yeh"(!) Like Alan Price, someone who could really sing and play, so melodic that I remember those songs from childhood

Agreed. Georgie Fame is very underrated nowadays.

Hear, hear. Georgie Fame was at the top of the tree from a ridiculously early age, and deservedly so.

And still on top form when I saw him just prior to lockdown.

Thank you, Sophie! I've always really liked "Apples and Oranges" as well. Great song. I guess it was a bad choice for an A-side, though.

@@YesterdaysPapers Yep, I agree. It was a strange choice for an A-side 🍏🍊💖

Of the two songs on that record, I have to say I prefer Paintbox, which would have had a lot more commercial appeal. Perhaps Syd and Roger couldn't countenance the idea of a Rick Wright number being on the A-side. I remember that final comment of Penny Valentine's very well - but from that day to this, I've never been able to decide whether she liked the final little flourish itself, or the fact that a record she plainly didn't much care for had finally come to an end.

@@Krzyszczynski Agree, great song; but Rick's "It Would Be So Nice" backed by Roger's "Julia Dream" had masses of commercial appeal, but bombed too. I think this is when they realised they were an "albums band".........

I don't know why Penny Valentine was so confused about the song's meaning. Syd himself is on record of saying that its about a time he followed a dolly bird from Barnes to Richmond where he was living at the time. It is amazing how unadventurous the journos of the day were when all this fantastic music was flying around.

Thanks!

Thanks, Willie! I love "Caged". I'm a big fan of the film noir genre.

@@YesterdaysPapers Film noir is a big influence on my film. My favs in no particular order are Vertigo (a color noir!) Touch of Evil, Kiss Me Deadly, Out of the Past, White Heat and The Lineup.

@@willieluncheonette5843 Love those films. A big favourite of mine, apart from the ones you mentioned, is "The Big Combo".

@@YesterdaysPapers You might be interested in my review of the Big Combo but please delete it after you've read it since this is outside the subject of your post. Glad I saw, for the second time, THE BIG COMBO (1955) on CUNY TV last night. .Directed in fine style by Joseph H. Lewis, also responsible for My Name is Julia Ross (1945) and Gun Crazy.(1949). A real testament to a director who in 1938 and early 1940's was turning out six and seven bottom of the barrel quickies a year. Basically the story line is a police lieutenant (Cornel Wilde) goes after a criminal (Richard Conte) whose wife (Jean Wallace) does not love him. Wilde hopes she will assist him in his quest. Conte, full of chirping, venomous confidence, gives the best performance I've ever seen from him. He's psychologically aware, cunning and ruthless. Brian Donlevy, Lee Van Cleef and Earl Hollman are all fine as Conte's minions as is the striking looking Helene Stanton as Wilde's stripper girlfriend. The only weak link, IMO, is Wallace who is a bit one dimensional in her acting. From the dark opening alley chase sequence to the last shot in white fog, this is some kind of film. Cinematographer John Alton is universally praised for his style and The Big Combo might be his finest achievement. A claustrophobic tale filled with shadows, harsh facial lighting and spotlights. The whole film is an amazing exercise in painting with light (the title of his book). David Raksin's jazz influenced score is also perfect for the roller coaster twists and turns on the screen. The Big Combo has everything--guns, killings, violence and torture. Oh, and toss in sexual perversity and homosexuality..There is a brilliant and brutal torture scene that is almost unbearable to watch, a startling and most likely unique for its time machine gun killing, and an inventive last scene that, due to budget limitations, was fashioned out of skeleton sets and the most meager of props. This marvelous little noir was shot in 26 days---give Joseph Lewis full credit here. Like Edgar G. Ulmer, another poverty row director, Lewis had the wonderful ability to create gems out of rubble. Foster Hirsch is rapidly becoming one of my favorite commentators on noir. Last night he said " The Big Combo is a summation of noir themes" He is right; this late in the noir cycle film has everything. He also stated " There's not a normal, well adjusted character in the film." Spot on again.. Hero police lieutenants are supposed to be 100% good guys but here Wilde is anything but. In this respect The Big Combo reminds me of Kiss Me Deadly. Explosive melodramatic plot inhabited by flawed, unsympathetic characters. At one point in the program Hirsch, the author of 16 books related to film and theater, asked the host of the show, Jerry Carlson, a question because Hirsch wasn't sure himself. This is the kind of intelligent, humble man for whom I have the utmost respect and admiration. If you yearn for a noir that touches all bases, look no further than The Big Combo .Very highly recommended

@@willieluncheonette5843 Great review, Willie. I enjoyed it. I actually wasn't aware that "Gun Crazy" was by the same director. I love that film, too.

Thank you very much, Kevhead1.

Must be 55 years or more since I saw Caged on TV, but I'll never forget that forcible head-shave, or the terribly downbeat ending, which as you say must have been a real face-slap for 1950 audiences.

That must have been a great show. Very cool!

The singles chart changed a lot in 1967, probably because it was the beginning of the LP era and also because BBC Radio One took over and pirate stations were forced to shut down. In 1966, most of the songs on the singles chart were great songs that eventually became classics. But in 1967, crooners like Engelbert Humperdink, Vince Hill or Solomon King took the charts by storm as well as a lot of disposable crap and mediocre bubblegum pop.

Well _anything_ the Beatles put out was going to be a hit.

‘67 was THE most incredible time for pop music ever.

@@YesterdaysPapers Disc's review of the year called 1967 The Year Of The Big Boring Ballad, and by crikey they weren't far wrong. The nadir for me came earlyish in the year, when first Petula Clark (who otherwise made some pretty decent drama-ballads) and then Harry Secombe took that unremittingly awful Charlie Chaplin piece This Is My Song into the top ten.

@@Krzyszczynski Yes, I came across that article some time ago. It was an interesting. read. It just goes to show how much perceptions change over the years. Nowadays, everyone remembers 1967 as the year of psychedelia but back then everyone was complaining about all these crooners taking over the charts and getting all the attention.

Glad you liked it. Cheers!

I think "Parachute" from 1970 is much better than SF Sorrow because it doesn't sound as dated ~ check it out 😉

@@airmark02 OK thanks

Yes, maybe ´quite enjoyable´. But I don´t like the ovet-the-top look-at-me I´m so zany type of performance he gave. Just let the lyrics do the surreal / the funnies. Anything else is like trying to gild the lily.

Thank you, Jerry. Cheers!

Thank you, Karl. Cheers!

@@YesterdaysPapers nah, all the thanks is to you 👍

Art Wood, Ronnie’s big brother!