Cool British Singles Released In June 1966 

Cheers, Edwin! Agreed, some of these singles were too far-out for the record-buying public. This was truly the beginning of psychedelia when music started to get more weird and less conventional.

I live in the Detroit area and I love the Creation Mid 60's music was great

@@barbaraburgoyne8359 Yes, mid-60s music was (and still is) great indeed! By the way, your city Detroit also had exceptionally cool garage bands back then like The Unrelated Segments, The Tidal Waves and The Likes Of Us to name a few. I really like those bands as well as those from Chicago! Like you, I also got to know The Creation much later. Very good band! Do you also know The Attack? Also very good! Cheers!

@@EdwinJack64 Yes!

I met HERBALIST DOCTOR KINGSLEY on RU-vid. A man with a Golden heart who helped me eradicate cold sores & genital herpes from my body completely! I'll Giving all my gratitude to him for a job well done!

Well said, can’t believe that the gifted and extremely personable Mr Gouldman has not received any formal honours.

Except it was mastered too fast at the wrong speed.

Funny , I always loved that song but never made the link in my head to Indian music!

@@lopezb the wavering harmonies in the chorus gives it away.

@@lopezb George Harrison was into Indian music . As part of his contribution to the music he did a couple of songs using Indian timing that's a little different from European music and the sitar is a pretty cool additive to the 60's rock sound .

Talk about bad luck. You're going through one of the best years for music and your radio decides that's best time to croak.

I remember that on-again, off-again pattern when I was a kid. Someone would give me an old clock-radio, or a pocket radio as a present, and I'd use if for 6 months and end up dropping it or trying to modify it and destroying it, so the songs I remember hearing first hand were from the "on" periods.

@@samp.8099 We never new we were in the best years.

Brilliant song.

A great song so representative of the sounds of the 60's.

"Rain" is one of my favourite Beatles songs.

Rain should have been the A side though, or at least a double A side

@@YesterdaysPapers Me too. It's so sluggy and heavy but in a good way.

Let’s Spend The Night Together/Ruby Tuesday not too shabby.

@@jessewolf7649 Brilliant single. Another favourite of mine is Jumping Jack Flash/Child of the Moon.

Post war social agreements that started allowing some mobility coupled with new technologies and scenes that just hadnt previously existed? A more monoculture where we all watched the same few channels and radio stations, with a strong music industry able to access those stations?

Yep, great tune.

Jimmy and The Boys did well with it in the 70s in Australia

It was. So glad I was around then.

Same here.

We had a great time in The London clubs between 1964 and 1967. Rubbed shoulders with the likes of Rod the mod, Bowie, Elton, Clapton, and many others b4 they became household names.

San Francisco was a lot of fun then!

The heavier tracks were all commercial failures. I guess people weren't ready for those type of tunes in 1966.

Yep. I'm 100% convinced that 'I Must Be Mad" by the Craig influenced "I Can See for Miles"

Cheers, glad you enjoyed the video!

Brillianat song. Love The Creation.

Cheers!

You've always got to have that jealous slap at them, don't you?

Thank you very much! Happy Holidays and New Year.

uk bands were experimenting

Cheers!!

I was missing the outro music!

Thanks!

Cheers, Walter!

@@YesterdaysPapers Cheers and a Merry Christmas!

@@walterfechter8080 Merry Christmas!

Christmas -- a groovy kind of Love!

Happy Holidays, Nathalie! Cheers.

Hahaha!

He got the Yardbirds to No. 2 twelve months earlier with Heart Full Of Soul.

Many Stones singles from the 60s were also not featured on their LPs. I think they didn't include them because they thought the fans would feel ripped off about buying the same song twice.

@@YesterdaysPapers It's kind of amusing because now Beatles diehards will buy the same product, re-mixed, re-packaged, whatever, over and over again.. I always felt it was a shame that certain Beatles tracks were effectively "orphans", without an album to call home.. I think eventually in the 70s there was a divergence between singles and albums buyers, whereby album buyers expected any singles to be on an album but singles buyers weren't bothered because they only bought singles.

@@thereunionparty True. It would've been better f those singles would have been included on their LPs 'cause a band's career is mostly judged by the quality of their albums.

@@YesterdaysPapers Eleanor Rigby/Yellow Submarine. Never understood that single release.

thing is now you can make your own Revolver and put it on. Same with Pepper.

Young British people were getting music over there that white America wasn’t getting over here. Particularly the blues. Then they repackaged it and sold it back to us as the Rolling Stones and Led Zeppelin and cream and many others.

Sister Rosetta Tharpe created Rock'n Roll in America........Chuck Berry plagarsied her sound, at the behest of his Chess records puppet masters! All the British bands who took music to a "whole other level" saw Sister Tharpes tour to England in the early 60's..........

Re: Oscar. Would that A-side have been a Speedy Keen composition?

Cheers! Glad you enjoyed the video. Yeah, it's incredible that so many of these singles never made it. But then again, there were so many great singles being released and after all, you can only have 40 songs in the top 40!

@@barbarakirk3064 Yes, it is.

@@YesterdaysPapers Agreed. The competition was fierce for chart space and competing with the likes of so many great acts was difficult at best. Merry Christmas, YP!

​@@Sp33ganMerry Christmas, Fab Gear.

Cheers!

Tremeloes,obscure?

To me most of the musicians/bands are obscure, I grew up in the 80s@@carolfan4466

Cheers!

the amount of music and bands that us audiences were never exposed to is amazing even music made here the reason the british invasion happened is because those guys were listening to r&b that got zero airplay on our airwaves....

Thank you, Paul. Happy Christmas.

Hackney Diamonds is the new double CD version with live at the Racket Club New York with Lady Gaga. That’s why people are buying it again unfortunately.

@@BigSky1 I know what you mean. They already bought it once. Now they have to buy it again to get the live half. Many thanks for your info. They are obviously still huge. But most of their fans today must be later fans who were not around in the sixties, with the generations having shifted fast and furious over the vast number of decades. Yet they must be the oldest band who are still going, but not the longest lasting artists. But the fact that their fans are willing to buy the studio half again to get the live half shows that they are still enormously popular. I did not reckon it was going to stay in the Top 10 album charts like it has.

@@paulgoldstein2569 I saw them in ‘76, Earl’s Court, 82, Wembley and at Brixton Academy whenever that was and the only one I enjoyed was ‘76. To be honest I can’t listen to them now. They are not the band I grew up with.

@@BigSky1 I did not know whether to confess this. But in a way I feel the same. Back in the mid sixties when I was glued to the Pirate Stations, they were among my favorites. But I think from the early seventies onward, they got a bit samey. I like some of the tracks on Hackney Diamonds, but the rest I found was just their usual. But I still think it is incredible after over 60 years that they can re-climb to the top of the album charts with one album, all because it has been expanded, and their fans are still willing to buy the original album again to get the bonuses. Yet during the seventies and eighties, they seemed to have gone out of the limelight, and hardly anyone spoke of them. But come the early nineties, they somehow re-exploded. I thought it was peculiar that when Rod Stewart's group The Faces disbanded, Ron Wood decided to join The Stones to replace Mick Taylor at a time when The Stones didn't seem to be as popular. They are not really the band I grew up with any longer either. But they are definitely the longest lasting band. They were also one of the bands responsible for helping The Beatles completely change the whole music world back in the mid sixties, and out-fashion almost everything before them, making many of their successful predecessors virtually redundant. Hackney Diamonds will now be the Christmas number one album this year. It must be the first time since the sixties that they have had an album of new material stay in the album Top 10 for so long. I have liked an occasional track that they have done since the early seventies, like She's So Cold, and Emotional rescue, only the ones that sound different, or where the songs themselves show out. But most of their later stuff is samey.

Those B-sides by the Tremeloes are excellent. Cheers, Jean-Marc.

And Instant Whip.

Thank you very much, appreciate it!

Cheers!

Cheers.