I dont know about anyone else but when you see videos like this, I always get tears in my eyes, it is something to do with my age, the mood I am in and also remembering these songs and how life was then and how its a hell of a lot different now in our world, something like that folks.
From the first time I heard this song, it grabbed hold of me and just wouldn't let go! I almost wore the record out on my player back in '64. It has all of the elements we looked for in "British Invasion" music here in the states: great production, great singer, driving beat, wonderful bass part, good lyrics, and a sense of joy that comes through the whole thing. Can't say enough good things about this one. Seeing the group only makes it better. Very underrated group! Love 'em.
Me as a 7 year old with two teenage sisters ,jiving around the living room with their boyfriends,three of which are not with us anymore,just brought a tear to my eye when i think of those wonderful times we had back then as a family of six.
I bought my first set of proper drums from the drummer from the outskirts of Rotherham. He was a lovely chap, married the bass player, but I believe they were separated when I bought them (in early 2000's when I was 14/15/16). He told me about his old band and that he met The Beatles, had McCartney writing songs for them etc. You can recognise his face quite well. I googled them at the time and found this catchy song - occasionally it gets stuck in my head (like today) and I have to listen 5 or 6 times to shift it from my mind. I won them from an eBay auction for a ridiculously low price, he was apprehensive to sell but when he saw my age he was super happy and had nothing but encouragement. 6 months from now, I'll be playing with a quite well known blues band touring Europe (hopefully). What a great memory and what a great chap. Hope he's still around :)
I was a dj back in 1964 when this one roared inthe door. We played and never got tired of it even after weeks of spinning it. That said something. A great tune put over in a grand style that still moves me. Thanks for the clip, Chucko
One of the very first records that I purchased. As a 10 year old, saving my pocket money, I gradually started my record collection. I loved this song back then... still love it 55 years later!!
@@2msvalkyrie529 the singer is a regular at the pub I work in...still talking about when he was 17 and famous 😄 mind you I probably would too if I'd been in a famous band! One of the other members was with him last night, though I don't remember which one. I want to say the little one who was at the front with him in this video, but I might be wrong. So at least 2 of them are alive and kicking!
@ MussNoonooify Thank you for taking the time to reply. Sorry I only found it today.!! I agree . ! If I had been famous at 17 Is probably be a complete pratt. Funnily enough : even though I'm a complete failure I'm probably still a Pratt anyway !!
Amazing to see this - I was at school with two of the band (the keyboard player and the guitarist next to him). I remember that they left school to pursue their musical career, rather than stay to take their "O" levels, which became something of a cause celebre.
A great Les Reed song. Reminiscent of my childhood. Memories of that era are already poignant enough without the added beauty of tunes like this. The feeling is bathetic.
What memorise they have left us with, and in a few more years not one 60s band will be alive, me neither but I was there in the 60s. And when we are all gone then all you will have is RU-vid. I wonder who will be reading this in 2062 and what music you will be listening to ??
Honey Lantree played the drums with The Honeycombs. It was rare to see women especially your Aunt to play bass guitar with the male group like The Applejacks.
2021 Iam listening ! Just adorable ! When life was simple or so it seemed ! Filled with hope ! Jobs and a future this song is happy to me ! Even though I was only two ! ! Woke up yesterday at half four playing in my head ! Complete joy !! 💫
I think you are so lucky to have seen this band in person. I grew up in Texas and discovered "Tell Me When" and "Like Dreamers Do", even though they got no air play in Houston! This is one of my favorite all time songs. Always uplifting.
Brilliant song. Takes me back to being a scruffy kid roaming the streets of Sheerness. All the pictures are coming back to me now. Thanks so much for sharing this clip. AN ALL-TIME CLASSIC:
The Applejacks are the most underrated beat group of the 1960s. They had no control over their music recording. The producers wanted them to do a cover version of Chim Chimney but they refused to do it. They were dropped by Decca label
UK 60s pop-beat band Birmingham UK, once described as "Solihull Sound", Al Jackson (lead vocals), Martin Baggott (lead guitar), Don Gould (organ), Phil Cash (rhythm guitar), Gerry Freeman (drums) and Megan Davies (bass); Freeman & Davies married in 1965 (courtesy Wikipedia); biggest hits “Tell Me When” ’64 (UK#7); and Lennon/McCartney’s “Like Dreamers Do” ’64 (UK#20) and Ray Davies' "I Go to Sleep" ’65; successfully worked the Cunard cruises for years - see also ‘THE APPLEJACKS MARRIAGE’:
I had this song in my head this morning, and I had to see if I could find this on RU-vid, and here it is, thanks for sharing, it's great to hear it again, after all these years 👍
This was a totally different era. Proper live acts, who really could perform live and actually play their instruments ! Clean-cut, smartly dressed and fresh-faced:
@@siarlb8115 Not totally true ! Yes, some acts did mime - agreed. I used to watch TOTP in the 70's and there were a number of acts who did play live. No miming ! Even back in the 1960's, groups played live. Whereas today, miming is par for the course. Your point is well made and noted. However, some acts (majority) did play live:
The Q-Continuum you may be right but I can’t remember any act on TOP, Ready Steady Go, Oh Boy, and The 65 Special, (yes I am old enough to remember them all 😃) playing live. In fact I can’t remember any act on TV playing live. It’s not that they couldn’t more the fact that the technology of the time wasn’t up to it.
Yes,a great, happy sound. The record made it to the states, but in limited markets. I heard it on a San Antonio station while visiting relatives. I picked the 45 up in S.A. and wore it out on my player. It never got air play in Houston, only 200 miles away. This was back in the "payola" days of radio and, unfortunately, most of the U.S. never heard this wonderful song. Glad you got to hear it and like it. Check out their version of the Lennon/McCartney song "Like Dreamers Do". Another winner!
This was THE record that really got me into pop music in early 1964 when I heard it on one of the first Top of the Pops shows before I was 7 years old!
Alan Jackson went on to be a staff trainer for the Prudential in Cambridge and I was one of his pupils in 1984! He was a nice chap and told us tales of his adventures with a mate of his called Roy Wood (of The Move and Wizard fame). And when I met Roy some years later in London, I reminded him of some of the things he got up to with Alan and he had a belly laugh, too!
He ran a training course I was on. I went drinking with him one night during the course and when I woke up the next day I was still smashed (he could sure drink). I think he knew how rough I was as he never asked me a question all that day and left me to recover at the back of the classroom. Top bloke.
One of the songs that captures/nails the feel of the time and all in around 2mins....when the ooohs come in around 58 secs I'm grabbing for the tissues. sigh
I was 12 or 13 at the time, my older brother took me to the hairdresser in New Street Birmingham, (I seem to recall it was called Greatrex or something similar) and Al Jackson worked there and he cut my hair while one of the others cut my brother's hair. Al Jackson left shortly after because Tell Me When became a hit
The first single I ever bought... or I should say, bought for me at my request, as I was too young. And I still have that very record in my vinyl collection.
Lived in Stratford upon Avon in the 60's and went to see them play in Solihull, can't remember the the name of the venue but at the time it was a great song.
TELL ME WHEN najväčší hit skupiny APPLEJACKS, ktorý bol v UK rebríčku od 5. marca 1964 celkom 13 týždňov a skončil na 7.m. Autormi piesne boli Les Reed nar. 24. Júna 1935 vo Wokingu a Geoff Stephens nar. 1. oktobra 1934 v New Southgate. Druhý hit mala skupina v podobe piesne Like Dreamers Do, ktorá v júni 1964 skončila na 20.m. Jej autor Paul McCartney ju zložil v roku 1957 a skupina ju spievala na konkurze v spoločnosti Decca Records. Applejacks vznikli v roku 1961 v Birminghame ako skufflová skupina pod názvom Crestas. V roku 1963 uzatvorili zmluvu so spoločnosťou Decca Records. Skupina bola známa najmä tým, že na basovej gitare hrala žena Megan Davies nar. 25. marca 1944 v Sheffielde sestra Raya a Dave zo skupiny Kinks. V roku 1965 sa vydala za hráča na bicie Gerry Freemana nar. 5. mája 1943 v Solihull. Skupinu okrem ních tvorili Al Jackson nar. 2+. apríla 1945 v Birminghame spev, Martin Baggott nar 20. oktobra 1947 v Birminghame gitara, Phil Cash nar. 9 . oktobra 1947 v Birminghame gitara a Don Gould nar. 23. marca 1947 v Solihulle orgán. V oktobri 1964 posledný krát uspeli na 23.m. s piesňou Three Little Words ( I Love You ).
Maybe it was later than 64. I remember freddie and the screamers had this title out too. Ive been on the air 49 years and still play it. The original record that Ive had all these years! The defination of a standard is a number you can hear over and over again, never getting tired of it, This one fills the bill!
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Solihull remembers the Applejacks as a band not a group thats wot we call em today. I live opposite one of the original Band Members and they came to Solihull Ice Rink Solihull Ice Rink had all the great bands not groups in the late 1960s and early 70s I saw Dave Berry and a few others long live the Cresta Club all the top acts would appear and come to Solihull Ice Rink Happy Days.
