😂Compare this to Count Five playing it live on YT(see:'The' Count Five) ; in glorious black and white, looking embarrassed and an absolutely wooden performance. This is more like it!
Considering the year this song was conceived, written, learned and then recorded (we forget that we sometimes first hear a new song 2 years after it was even conceived and for a garage band with no record label contract demanding 3 new albums a year (requiring 30 songs total to be written, learned, rehearsed all before it's recorded in lightning speed) the idea this sound was born as early as '63 makes you wonder who the real influences were because this song pre-dates Rubber Soul I believe and they were an LA band with only an LA following. Its sounds like a Stones song, but dare I say? Better? All I know is this sound that defines the pre-psychedelic period in rock music almost invents what the heavy bluesy psychedelic sound would become. And I dont think LSD was the influence. Just pure originality by a group that influenced but never saw the fame all of the bands that made their own versions of it, but still used the same beat and even vocals. I mean this guy could have been the lead singer of The Animals an sang Rising Sun just as well. My dad graduated from HS in '66 and was from upstate NY and saw the Stones when they toured the U.S. in '66 and every tour after and he attended Woodstock. When I played this so ng for him 2 years ago he said he'd never heard it before, and was wow'd by it, as if he were 17 hearing it for the first time. His old music instincts from that time hit him.
I like it. The dancers are doing modern dance, and are pretty good. Hot looking, too. Go go dancers were special back then, better than the sleazy women on stage these days.
Was it Boom radio you heard it on? That's where I first heard it...I'm 58 and I can't believe such a great band went virtually unnoticed in the UK as I had never heard of them before.
Love this song!!! ❤ Shared to a couple childhood friends! 👍 Don't really care for the so-called dancing, looks like weird exercise! There's another video which has band playing on American Bandstand! I like that one better, bcuz of band! Ellen, don't know which is your Dad but his band ROCKS! Just ordered the CD & former video I saved in my email so I can, and have, played over & over! Thank You Count Five for this GREAT MEMORY! ROCK ON!!! ✌️🤘
Who choreographed the dancing and all of those moves. How did this group get together (meet)? How much practice before taping? Any future videos planned? Great job ladies. I have watched this many times because it is so good. THANKS
RU-vid does do a good job of keeping One-Hit-Wonders alive. I have to admit that when I first heard this song on the radio I thought that it was the latest from The Yardbirds. Was this dance routine a 'cut scene' from Goldfinger?
I knew these guys. At least most of them. They were absolutely a bitchin' garage band, That's why they're in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame These guys dealt with the realities of the '60s. Vietnam and drugs (sorry Roy). Johnny Michalski was a successful conscientious objector (thank God) and became a very successful contractor. Roy Chaney was missing a big toe from a childhood bike accident and couldn't be inducted (although I think he would have been a MF, man). He's also a very successful contractor. Sean (John ) Byrne stayed in college (S-2 deferment) and became an accountant for Montgomery Ward. He sang Psychotic Reaction. I never met Ken Ellner or Butch Atkinson. Music is about people who make it big. or don't. I'm a Count Five fan.
