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Post by lizzielooziani on Sept 17, 2022 15:10:21 GMT -5
Didn’t know where to post this but thought this might bring Beach Boys fans a bit of a chuckle. And it did happen in the 60s… US President Lyndon Johnson kept complaining about the air temperature inside the official plane, Air Force One. The plane people installed a non-functioning knob that the President could turn to “adjust” the temperature. There were no more complaints. Did Murry find out that the knobs he was using didn’t work? (Had to rework this sentence - the original was a bit off color lol.)
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Post by jk on Sept 17, 2022 15:34:01 GMT -5
Didn’t know where to post this but thought this might bring Beach Boys fans a bit of a chuckle. And it did happen in the 60s… US President Lyndon Johnson kept complaining about the air temperature inside the official plane, Air Force One. The plane people installed a non-functioning knob that the President could turn to “adjust” the temperature. There were no more complaints. Did Murry find out that the knobs he was using didn’t work? (Had to rework this sentence - the original was a bit off color lol.) Hahaha. It made me think of this definitely off-colour post from way back...
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Post by jk on Sept 19, 2022 16:52:18 GMT -5
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Post by jk on Sept 21, 2022 16:43:42 GMT -5
"'Down And Out' by Eindhoven's 4PK is fuzz-driven stomping freakbeat. 4 PK was a temporarily offshoot of famous Dutch rockers Peter and his Rockets, whose biggest hit was 1960's 'Kom Van Dat Dak Af'. In 1965, Peter Koelewijn renamed his band 4PK. This 1966 single could only be obtained by cutting out 2 stars from a Crespa crisps bag and paying half the normal price for a 45." [Adapted from the YouTube blurb]
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Post by jk on Sept 22, 2022 16:28:35 GMT -5
Roger Williams may have had the hit version of "Born Free" but English singer Matt Monro did it first (and best). It's his version you hear over the closing credits of the 1966 film of that name: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Born_Free_(Matt_Monro_song)
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Post by jk on Sept 30, 2022 3:40:40 GMT -5
To rework uploader Sids60sSounds' blurb, this is the ultra-rare lone single from Edinburgh's "freakbeaters" The Buzz, featuring Tam White on vocals (who found his contribution embarrassing) and written by guitarist Johnny Turnball. (This is not the Buzz who briefly backed David Bowie.) The Comments include this telling exchange between David Baxter and Mark Lungo: DB: "I was in the control room at 304 [Holloway Road in North London] with [producer] Joe [Meek] when this was recorded in February 1966. I was a guest of Joe and followed this up the following month when I met Heinz [of The Tornados] and Ritchie Blackmore and also Mrs Shenton [Joe's landlady whom he murdered shortly before committing suicide]. These are memories that I will never forget." ML: "What was the atmosphere in the studio like? 'You're Holding Me Down' sounds like a nervous breakdown set to music. Was any of that intensity reflected behind the scenes?" DB: "There was no intensity at all, the finished product bears little resemblance to the studio take. Joe completely did his own thing!" [Joe speeded it up for a start] ML: "I suspected that the production of 'You're Holding Me Down' was a reflection of Joe's psychological turmoil, and it seems you've confirmed that." I should add that Tam in his post-Meek days recorded a very relaxed version of "God Only Knows", which stalled at the demo stage... psychedelicized.com/playlist/b/the-buzz/
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Post by jk on Oct 2, 2022 8:01:13 GMT -5
Paul and Ritchie & The Crying Shames began life with Joe Meek as The Cryin' Shames, giving Joe his last UK top thirty entry in early 1966 with "Please Stay". The change of name was more a change of band, with vocalists Charlie "Paul" Crane and Ritchie Routledge quitting and starting anew with four other musicians. "Come On Back" was the majestic flip of their reworking of the standard "September In The Rain". Released on 1 September, it made #40 in one UK music mag. Five months later Joe Meek was dead, by his own hand. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Cryin%27_Shames
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Post by jk on Oct 5, 2022 3:46:00 GMT -5
The Motions are one more Dutch band I'd never heard of, until yesterday in their case, although their guitarist Robbie van Leeuwen (on the left in the cover image) will be familiar to many of you from his iconic break on Shocking Blue's US #1 "Venus", which he wrote. This is "Everything (That's Mine)", which I see reached #14 in the Dutch charts in '66: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Motions_(band)
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Post by jk on Oct 8, 2022 9:24:33 GMT -5
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Post by jk on Oct 9, 2022 3:04:49 GMT -5
During their brief career, The Riot Squad included among their ranks the likes of Mitch Mitchell, Graham "Supergirl" Bonney, and even David Bowie in a VU-heavy incarnation. In 1966, they recorded three Joe Meek-produced 45s, including the fuzz-driven "I Take It That We're Through": For a geek's account of their movements, see brunoceriotti.weebly.com/the-riot-squad.html. For the less anorakish, there's the usual suspect: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Riot_Squad.
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Post by jk on Oct 11, 2022 4:01:24 GMT -5
Here are two obscure 45s Mr Tubey threw at me yesterday. I don't even have to ask him for stuff from 1966 these days! "Him & The Others were formed in 1964, when drummer Keith Giles and bassist Lennie Shaw, left their former group and decided to start a new group with local vocalist George Demetrious. After placing adverts in Melody Maker, guitarists Colin Roche and Geoff Gibbs completed the line-up. The group soon built up a following playing top clubs around London and the home counties, and supported many of the major top acts, as well as backing group to chart singer Peter Fenton. They also appeared in the British made film, Mini Weekend, filmed during one of their many gigs at top London club, Tiles. They made one record on the Parlophone label, which received rave reviews, but never achieved chart success. In 1967, following Lennie Shaw's departure from the group, they changed their name to The Hand. With Geoff Gibbs switching to bass, they become more progressive/blues orientated. The band split up completely around a year later. George and Geoff went on to form George Paul Jefferson, Keith Giles joined progressive band, Fortes Mentum, whilst Colin Roche went back to his love of the blues forming a band with Paul Rodgers, who later went on to form Free." [ Source] This is "She's Got Eyes That Tell Lies": Thane Russal's stomping version of Otis Redding's "Security" is less well documented -- what we do know is that Russal was born Doug Gibbons ( this page found just now has more information on the subject). The Stones seem to have had something to do with Russal's career, the most extreme rumour being that his records were the Stones under another name!
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Post by boogieboarder on Oct 11, 2022 11:17:24 GMT -5
I really love that string of mid-sixties singles by The Animals: Don’t Let Me Be Misunderstood We Gotta Get Out of This Place It’s My Life Inside Looking Out Don’t Bring Me Down See See Rider Yes indeed. Here's a great one I'd like to add to that string. Sam Cooke's "Bring It On Home To Me" gave them a UK #7 in '65. I see it was their last 45 with Alan Price on board. I played this with my very first band in '68 (we played a lot of Animals songs) and again quite recently in a duo: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bring_It_On_Home_to_MeNot to mention the 1966 albums by The Animals - which differed in the UK VS the US. UK Animalisms US Animalization Animalism If you haven't checked out the U.S. Animalism, it's great, featuring 2 tracks arranged by Frank Zappa.
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Post by jk on Oct 11, 2022 17:14:56 GMT -5
Here's a great one I'd like to add to that string. Sam Cooke's "Bring It On Home To Me" gave them a UK #7 in '65. I see it was their last 45 with Alan Price on board. I played this with my very first band in '68 (we played a lot of Animals songs) and again quite recently in a duo Not to mention the 1966 albums by The Animals - which differed in the UK VS the US. UK Animalisms US Animalization Animalism If you haven't checked out the U.S. Animalism, it's great, featuring 2 tracks arranged by Frank Zappa. Thanks, BB. I have Animalism (singular) lined up for the early morning-late night listening experience. It looks fascinating -- and the first (Zappa-penned) track sounds great: (Curiously, side one of the LP ends with "Smokestack Lightnin'" and side two with the B-side (in the 1964 rerelease of that Howlin' Wolf 45), "Goin' Down Slow".) en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Animalism_(album)
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Post by boogieboarder on Oct 11, 2022 17:54:11 GMT -5
For Christmas 1966, I got Animalism, The Association’s Renaissance, and The Monkee’s first album. I still remember that day, bringing all three records into my bedroom, and playing them through.
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Post by jk on Oct 12, 2022 9:20:31 GMT -5
For Christmas 1966, I got Animalism, The Association’s Renaissance, and The Monkee’s first album. I still remember that day, bringing all three records into my bedroom, and playing them through. Not a bad start in life, musically.
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Post by jk on Oct 12, 2022 9:27:20 GMT -5
Getting back to Thane Russal and "Security" (several posts ago), the record was most often attributed to "Thane Russal and (or & or +) Three". According to this source, "t]he 'Three' were actually a four-piece -- Bob Johnson (guitar), Mick Brill (bass), Alan Collins (keyboards) and Pete Huish (drums)". And here's another page on versions of the song "Security" (scroll down for Thane). Well, it's always an adventure scouring YouTube for music from a particular year, meaning 1966. Sometimes you come across the quaintest things. Take "Hoppel Poppel" by Sven Arvidsen: It seems the Hoppel Poppel is not only a goofy dance (see the instructions)… ...but also a German Farmer's Breakfast -- yummy!
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Post by jk on Oct 14, 2022 3:32:50 GMT -5
When I worked in the record department of W.H. Smith in '66, friends from school would occasionally drop by to listen to things. Once they requested the B-side of Napoleon XIV's "They’re Coming To Take Me Away, Ha-haaa!", a US top five hit that year. This is something you can only get away with once: Here's the A-side for comparison: It's mind-boggling to know that this same person wrote Sammy Davis Jr.'s evocative "The Shelter Of Your Arms"! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Napoleon_XIV
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Post by boogieboarder on Oct 14, 2022 10:42:43 GMT -5
When my first wife was a teenager, she bought the single “They’re Coming To Take Me Away,” and when her father heard it, he grabbed the record and broke it in two.
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Post by jk on Oct 14, 2022 14:17:11 GMT -5
When my first wife was a teenager, she bought the single “They’re Coming To Take Me Away,” and when her father heard it, he grabbed the record and broke it in two. That's hilarious! Here's one he might have liked, Nappy's follow-up 45 from that same year, the only moderately confrontational "I'm In Love With My Little Red Tricycle", which I heard just once on UK pirate radio at the time. According to Wikipedia it went "relatively unnoticed": He even released an album that year with some wonderfully wacky titles like "Photogenic, Schizophrenic You", "Marching Off To Bedlam" and "The Place Where The Nuts Hunt The Squirrels". It's a pity the music was shite. I see there was a projected second album, For God's sake, Stop the Feces, which remained at the projected stage.
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Post by jk on Oct 15, 2022 3:26:43 GMT -5
Probably best known these days through her duet with Elton John, Kiki Dee is one of the finest singers to come out of the UK. Ample proof of that can be heard on "Why Don’t I Run Away From You", her lone single from 1966, which like its predecessors failed to chart. She would have to wait another seven years for a hit. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiki_Dee
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Post by jk on Oct 16, 2022 4:46:34 GMT -5
Nice to come across this one again. This powerhouse rendition of the Boyce-Hart composition "I'm Not Your Stepping Stone" was the first version I heard of that song. The Monkees' take on it (on the flip of "I'm A Believer"), which I heard much later, to me sounds pretty wimpy in comparison. I think in this case it's more than just a question of preferring the version you hear first: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Flies_(English_band)
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Post by jk on Oct 17, 2022 14:01:22 GMT -5
I have always admired the acting of the ill-starred if brilliant Englishman Oliver Reed. The Trap (1966) with Rita Tushingham was already 20 films into his screen career but still two years away from his big breakthrough as Bill Sykes in Oliver! May his troubled soul be at rest now. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trap_(1966_film)
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Post by jk on Oct 21, 2022 5:37:01 GMT -5
Bob Kuban and The In-Men made their mark only once, when they took "The Cheater" (I remember it well) to #12 in the US charts in 1966. There is a tragic sequel to this success story (see the wiki page): en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Kuban
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Post by jk on Oct 27, 2022 9:07:32 GMT -5
I was never a fan of Cilla Black and her repertoire, particularly her covers of other artists' (in my view) superior originals. I did watch the first few years of her TV show Cilla, though, and grew to admire her warm, open personality. This is "Alfie", one of the songs most associated with her (more so in my mind than with Dionne Warwick) and a good demonstration of the sheer range of emotions she could express. As one commenter points out, when you've got Burt Bacharach, George Martin and Cilla in the same studio, you're bound to come up with something pretty special! Rest in peace, Ms Black. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cilla_Black
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Post by Will/P.P. on Oct 27, 2022 18:02:34 GMT -5
I have always admired the acting of the ill-starred if brilliant Englishman Oliver Reed. The Trap (1966) with Rita Tushingham was already 20 films into his screen career but still two years away from his big breakthrough as Bill Sykes in Oliver! May his troubled soul be at rest now. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Trap_(1966_film)For me his breakthrough was The Curse of the Werewolf, 1961. Came out that Summer in America, a Hammer film. That was the first time I noticed him. I saw The Trap, tho.
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