Roger deserves some recognition for being the most level headed member of The Who. Plus he's looking fantastic these days. He's aged well

I read his autobio and was impressed and surprised at how honest and humble he is (or has become). I didn't expect to like him so much. Good read.

I think when you listen to a record for the first time maybe you'll hate it or love it and with some time you can love the record you hated. Those were the times when beautiful music was made , the 50's , 60's , 70's were so creative and sadly we lost that.

Kentucky Rain was one of Elvis finest moments. Beautiful arrangement and beautifully sung. Free’s Allright Now is just kick arse and would became a staple for most rock cover bands

Roger was just as critical of the Who's work which made his band so great. It's fun to hear the bits of many bands that were the soundtrack of my teen years.

The Who played an instrumental version of All Right Now as part of a jam in Germany in 1975. The audio is on KZfaq.

Haha.... and "Alright Now" proved to be a massive hit. Roger guessed wrong.

Daltrey brings up Three Dog Night not having a hit album in the UK at that point and as it turned out they would have practically no UK success despite having vast success in the US. A perfect example in reverse is Status Quo who had only one modest hit in the US but had incredible success in the UK.

I appreciate these videos, it's been great getting a variety of contemporary but informed views on music, it coincides well with me improving my music appreciation and music theory knowledge.

Just need to comment my sincere appreciation for these videos.

Roger probably thought he was dismissing a record and band that would disappear without trace. I was only a small kid when Alright Now was in the charts and I remember it blasting out at a fair while on holiday in 1970 and though the 6 years of the 60s I existed was a vague blur for me, there was something about hearing Free's record that day that emphatically told me a new era had arrived even though I was too young to understand that feeling at the time. Looking back it was the first fully fledged 1970s record at a time when songs still had a 1960s sound and energy about them.

Mountain! Leslie West! Saw him in the late 80s and he was amazing, I do not lie XXX

‘ That chick ( Dyan Birch) has got a great voice!’ Roger was spot on with that observation. ‘ l Will Survive’ , written by Frank Collins, was a fine single by Arrival.. Was just reading that Elton John was on piano and backing vocals. Still sounds good today. ‘ Yesterday’s Papers’ certainly prompts some memories.. I remember Pete Townshend ( 1971) telling the audience, in between songs, to go and see this band named Mountain. ‘They are coming to Liverpool soon and they have got this great guitarist, Leslie West’ l recall he said ..

Always so excited about this channel. You have a monopoly on a very original idea and approach. Should have 300k but 30k ain't bad. Congrats. Always on board for more.

wow...daltrey putting down allright now....which would become a classic i think mountain wanted to have a dirty sound i think aretha's cover of let it be is brilliant everyone should check out sinatra's watertown...his attempt at a concept album....it's really weird

The Who would have been doing promotion for 'The Seeker' at this time. Looks like the highest it got in the UK charts is 19. It tanked in the US. This was the period after 'Live At Leeds', but before 'Who's Next'.

He really appreciated Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young!

Carry-on is my favorite CSNY song. It is what I call a goosebumps song it is so stirring

Love the final charts with the music… best part always

Great to see the great vocalist Lee Marvin in the charts!

Good rendition of 1921! Lovely videos on this channel!

What's amusing is he is sarcastic both on his likes and dislikes. I remember almost all the US singles at the end. Just like a time machine.

Nice one Yesterday! I like Roger Daltrey. Can’t say a bad word about him. By 1970 the better releases were starting to be albums and not singles, in my opinion of course. Have a great week!! Cheers, Jon

I totally disagree with Rogers view of Kentucky rain, probably my favorite Elvis number, I even got to tell his former wife Priscilla and she said, “well that’s one of my favorite of his as well.”

quite possibly one of my favourite singers. beautiful.

So funny hearing Roger Daltrey commenting.. “ Look, it’s sunny in the garden..are there any more records!?”😊😊 Great to see the list at the end - that’s music, real music❤️🎶❤️ Thanks for the tip on Three Dog Night “ Live Forum” - haven’t heard that one..

Rog....Mississippi Queen is supposed to sound dirty!!!! lol This was a great one, thanks Y.P.!

Gotta feelin '21 is gonna be a good year.

Very interesting reaction to the 'Airforce' album. Definitely not an easy album to digest but holy cow once it does go down smooth it is really excellent. If Traffic, Fela Kuti, and Pharoah Sanders had a child together, it might sound like this. Glad that Daltrey gave this one a lot of respect. One of the best fusion albums ever created.

These rock stars sure don't pull any punches when it comes to evaluating the music of their contemporaries. Another interesting look into the past, YP. 👍

Wow, what an album hit list. Could have lived forever just on the music listed here.

Only pete and roger left now i loved the who growing up here in los angeles the happy jack and sell out lp are still on my turn table cheers great. Job YP cheers

After watching the new Elvis movie, these videos are a stark reminder of what was happening in music when he was making his comeback special. The movie presents years and dates as time goes on, but these really give context to how drastically out of step with popular music he’d become by the late 60s.

He got me from that review of Free ('Liberace?'). Thank you, Mr. Daltrey (still my favourite lead singer of the era)!

Daltry ended up doing those oldies " infomercials" . So theres that. Sure " All Right Now " was on there lol.

Кто вам пишет такие великолепные кавер-версии для музыки фоном? Это просто потрясающе! Я купил бы такой сборник! Благодарность и почтение за ваш труд!

Nana and Zeppelin on the same chart. Gotta love that. Reflects my record collection.

Oh rog got Free wrong.

Daltry and the rest of his generation wanted to be like Elvis when they were young. Those were his words. I think his comment here about Elvis meant that he wasn't the same Elvis he remembers wanting to be like.

dalt disses FREE and one of the most popular radio songs of 1970-1999.

My parents bought the Three Dog Night concert album for me. I was ten. I loved it and played it until it was no longer playable. Loved it.

Some stuff I like here -- 'Carry On', 'Kentucky Rain', 'Chest Fever' -- but nothing I come close to loving. Again the exit music sounds like something released around 1966 that inexplicably failed to chart

That woman sounding like Janis was Maggie Bell of Stone the Crows. One of Peter Grant's charges . Despite good promotion and being a band who had massive talent they couldn't catch on in the States or Europe unfortunately.

1:38 He's right that Aretha's version wasn't a hit, though I think it's much better than he acknowledges. The Beatles version was so good, and it was still on the charts at this time, so this was a bit of a third wheel. He really doesn't like "Kentucky Rain"; I wonder if he'd say that now. Yes, it was aimed at the AC charts, but I think it was one of Elvis' better easy listening efforts.

The songs here are way better generally than any of hte other blind dates.

Couldn't quite get his take on Mountain. I was expecting him to gush as the Who later (71?) recorded with Leslie West 🤔

Daltery is the best lead singer in the Rock n Roll industry

He really came at All right now and Free that’s crazy

I am the rare American who believes that Free were FAR superior to Bad Company,( although the song Burning Sky is a damned masterpiece) although I could do without Alright Now just because it's been overplayed. Mr Big, Be My Friend, Fire and Water , etc are better examples of Free. To me they were one of the best bands to ever take the stage

Great version of 1921/1951 at the end.

The song listed at #26, "Wanderin' Star by Lee Marvin issued on the ABC-Paramount label through EMI in Britain(I have a British issue copy), I'm almost certain it's a 1968 issue, but I'll have to check the label(so glad British records had the publishing/issue years on the label, they were never on Australian records until the early 1970s).

Never thought much about him, and this is fully confirmed here.

Mental. Picked up Free's Fire and Water today, along with a CBS comp and discovered The Arrival, quite literally only an hour ago.

"The great music adventure", but as everyone had there own paradise in mind," there lost horizon". It would have been a miracle that a better direction was acknowledged.

He's dead-on.Can't argue a single point.

Come on Roger, all right now by Free is a classic, i still listen to it in 2022.

Another great video. Roger is characteristically cool and a bit dismissive. He had a somewhat bizarre reaction to Alright Now, but very enjoyable otherwise. I never read the MM as a youth. I was strictly NME, though sometimes I think I may have made the wrong choice…

Roger has that punk vibe, even in his compliments... 😂

Cool chart--The Who and Creedence in the Top 20!

Just love your take on 1921 … btw, I don’t know if it was a good year but certainly not worse than 2021 😷🤒☠️ Roger is a bit harsh on free, but Who cares 🤭

I like Roger. He tells it like it is. Free's "All Right Now" ended up being their most well known song, despite having much better material throughout their albums.

Roger you're wrong, "So Glad You Chose Me" by Marv Johnson is a really strong Soul tune!

Roger Daltrey is great for avoiding the imitators. On the other hand I would like to offer my personal experience from the early 70's. When I was at Carleton University in Ottawa, when Three Dog Night were a new experience to us, he said if you haven't heard their Chest Fever then you haven't lived. I have to say that it is very difficult to relate to a later time what we actually went through back in those days.

4:57 - It ⚽️ still hasn't come home since 1966 ... Maybe this year !

By now albums were way more important than singles. Comparing the charts it's like two different worlds. Especially in the UK.

Epic

I'd love a blind date with Roger Daltrey! 😉 He's as blunt as ever... Rude sometimes! 😆 He does love Howlin' Wolf. And he used to love Elvis...

Hilarious! He got Free All Right Now wrong - a number one!

I think Roger missed on Alright Now, by Free. That song is being played on the radio to this day.

The song by "Stone the crows" was really good! Gotta go look them up.

Wow, I just met Danny Hutton of three dog night on the Fourth of July, you can’t compare that group with any group of the 70s. They had like 20 top straight 20 singles from 1969 to 1975. I think only Elton John and Madonna were the first to beat that number

Call for "Liberace".

Alright Now used to get lots of play on the radio back when. Now it's being used for a drug commercial. I share many opinions with Daltrey on these sounds.

He didn't like Free or the beginning of Chest Fever? That's my favorite part of the song.

Roger doesn't mention that Three Dog Night is covering the original Chest Fever by the Band, which was much superior both vocally and instrumentally IMHO. Or maybe he did and it got edited out. Great outro, love those fluttering horns. From Tommy of course.

I suspect ole Rog was having a go at what he considered competition, re: "Free", re: loud British rockers who weren't quite established yet

2:17 the dreamed Elvis record is Live At The International

I appreciate Daltrey's honesty. I would have thought he would have liked Free's Alright Now. I like Kentucky Rain, but I can see some may not have liked what Elvis did in the latter half of his career if they grew up listening to him in his earlier days. I noticed he used the word "chick" instead of "bird." I really like these videos. I wish there were an American equivalent. What was the American equivalent to Melody Maker back then?

It's funny how he bagged the only two classics on the list, Kentucky Rain and Alright Now.

Finally someone agrees with me about "All Right Now", i can go the rest of my life without ever hearing that again.

What was the deal about "Back Home" by the England Football Squad ? #1 UK but I don't think it charted in the US (good reasons?). That was an off the chain comment Daltrey had about Free--sounds like Liberace! LOL

So this was what happening the month I was born. Even Lee Marvin had a hit song.

I get why he slammed All Right Now because he was intimidated by Rogers vocals having more soul than he could ever think of mustering. Great hook, and certainly not rubbish. He fucked the dog on that one.

Well he wasn’t reading the trends about Free and “all right now”. That was a massive hit.

Wow! He really came out of the gate swinging at Paul Rogers! Then he smacks down Elvis, but it was a fair call. And he was willing to swap a Who live album (Live at Leeds?). THis was a rather electric record review. Maybe that is why Roger and Pete stayed together for so many years; neither one of them hold back criticism.

Daltrey dismisses Alright Now and then The Who end up playing it at the encores of some of their 1970 shows, go figure.

What was the instrumental song playing for the last few min of this video?

How to get it spectacularly wrong! Dissin' Free's Alright Now????? Fortunately he puts that howler right with his praise for groups like Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young and Three Dog Night. I think Alright Now is the record most people remember though.

Like everyone else l was amazed how he dismissed "All right now" and Free as Liberace when it came to be one of the best rock anthems of all time. Shame on you, Roger!

There's a Canadian pressing of Stone the Crows.. never seen it though.. WOW so Janis. Like completely. And of course Janis has lots to owe to Roky Erikson and Etta James.

He got it wrong with All right now by Free.

Kentucky Rain is one of Elvis's finest. Maybe Keith kept this plonker up all night before the review.

Roger got a little ruthless with some of his reviews. Completely cut Free, Elvis and Aretha off at the knees. Roger fancied his band over all them I'm sure. 1970 was a year they owned with Tommy the year before it and Live at Leeds the same year. Not a man short on will.

I seriously would buy a collection of the instrumental music on these vids. Is it available somewhere?

In my opinion, The Who were much better than Free. Yes, I've said it. Alright Now, after hearing it God knows how many times over the years bores me. The Who Sell Out, Live at Leeds, Whos Next and Quadrophenia. Amazing albums.

That Top 50 chart was all over the place musically - Frijid Pink, Mary Hopkin, Radha Krishna Temple, Simon & Garfunkel and Lee Marvin? That must have been from Paint Your Wagon. I don't think he had a hit in the States with it.

First thoughts, how depressing a time

I´m with him on Allright Now. A Song to instantly forget about after first listening if it wouldn´t have mysteriously chosen by rock history to be a rock classic. There´s classic rock songs that had been played to death by the radio but that one never was alive in my book anyways.

Three Dog Night Live Álbum is the one to have

3:14 - is that graham bond.