What a great episode, my 2 favourite vocalists, Steve Marriot and Eric Burdon, my favourite guitarist, Jeff Beck, and my favourite Stones song, Paint it Black. Thanks YP for all the research you do. Allways so much new information
They were really one of the most talent bands of their era. It's a shame their managers were such thugs. They never reached the popularity they could have, especially in the States
For me, Steve Marriott was the best rock singer ever, as well as the brilliant Small Faces, my favourite band, some of the stuff he did with supergroup Humble Pie is mind blowing. Listen to ''30 Days In The Hole'' penned by and delivered by Marriott.
This episode is double top notch! The Stones with beautiful graphics of Brian Jones on sitar, the equally Eastern-sounding Yardbirds, the great fuzz of "Don't Bring Me Down" and the Small Faces! Never knew these cool Mods were not so happy with their single "Hey Girl" because it was a compromise. Well...I always liked it! The single by those other Mods, the Favourite Sons, was also a boost for me. And you know eh, no Stones cover can beat the original! Ha ha! 😂 Cheers YP and thanks a lot!!
Cool British Singles is the gift that keeps on giving. The audience gets excited. Yesterday's Papers gets views and engagement. The music gets exposure...and there's always more where that came from. I also appreciate the great editing of band performances, still photos, and random 60s weirdness.
Did you know he used to own and run a gun shop in an arcade in the West End? I worked for a man who disapproved of smoking and several of the girls used to sneak into the arcade to have a fag during tea break. His shop was the one on the end.
1966 was the most eclectic year in pop and rock of the ‘60’s. Bebop and teen idol was over. Psychedelia was still in developement. The music industry was trying to figure out where to go after the Beatles shook everything up. New bands were being thrown against the wall to see what stuck. Everything was in the air from Winchester Cathedral to Tomorrow Never Knows.
paint it black has never lost it's mystique for me. it's a transcending testament to just how artistic stones could be. a true synthesis of the jagger/richards dynamic songwriting and brian's diverse instrumental flourishes.
Before watching this series, I would have said 1967 was the year for great psychedelia. But it was 1966 when established bands like the Yard Birds, Byrds, Stones, Chambers Brothers and others were bringing new and original ideas based on the themes mixing psychedelic rhythms and sitars. By 1967 there were an onset of cliched bands jumping on the bandwagon all sounding and dressing alike with very little to add. So it goes with every new genre in rock: originals followed by hacks.
@@DrumAndDrumber Yeah 67 was Monterey Pop but also when thousands of kids descended onto the streets of Frisco's Haight Ashbury district and the world first learned of the hippies. Cause the summer of love turned into the winter of a discontented bummer when these barefoot, stoned, hungry and homeless kids wanted to rejoin society.
I think the Chambers brothers were a black soul/rock band. They had a big hit with "Time" in 1968 but I don't think they were known in 1966.@@randybackgammon890
Thank you for another return to that incandescent era. As the spring of '66 progressed, the influence of the burgeoning rock underground and the '60s counterculture was becoming more pronounced. It's possible that 1966- the year of "Aftermath," "Revolver," "Blonde on Blonde," and "Pet Sounds," not to mention "Jefferson Airplane Takes Off" and "The Psychedelic Sounds of the 13th Floor Elevators," may have been even more auspicious that its much-vaunted "Summer of Love" successor. And thank you for focussing on The Stones, so often placed by most critics and writers in the shadow of those other guys. And what a gem "Sittin' on a Fence" is, so often dwelling in obscurity in The Stones' oeuvre!
Back in 1966, my cousin and her family moved to England for most of that year. Her teenage daughter brought back many singles and LPs. When the song That Driving Beat by The Favourite Sons was featured in your video, I was taken back. YP, thank you for featuring the song because I just heard it a couple of times when she played it for me and never again until this video. It certainly wasn’t played here in Southern California. I didn’t know anything about the band and its history. So, this fills in a hole for me that I didn’t know needed filling. Such great memories of that time.
Oh, very cool! It is a great record but went totally unnoticed. No radio play, very low sales, etc. You and your cousin were probably the only americans who heard that song in 1966!
@@YesterdaysPapers She always had a great ear for the unconventional, non-mainstream music. It never occurred to me at that time to ask her how she got in possession of that record. She had no information to share with me about it. but when I heard that song, I felt like I was sent back into a time machine. It really rattled me when I heard it after all these years.
Paint it Black, one of the very best ever Stones numbers! But Lord Sutch and Keith Relf - I never heard these singles before, even though I've collected so much British music from this era. Small Faces - marvellous as always. This episode of Singles from... excellent as always! I used to collect my British Psychedelia by referring to a very extensive series of articles that the magazine Record Collector published. Your research seems to have found a lot of things that Record Collector did not refer to in their series. Thanks for uploading all this fabulous stuff!
Another interesting video, but less surprises here. The Animals single here was written by New York pair Gerry Goffin/Carole King, and produced in the States by Tom Wilson. Goffin/King wrote many hits in the early sixties for various artists, but virtually all in a High School Pop style that was the fashion then. But by the mid sixties when the whole music world had changed, and the British Invasion had exploded, that early lighter Teen Pop style was very quickly out-fashioned, and their hits as songwriters got fewer. So to keep up with the changing times, they had to change their style of writing, and were then writing hits like this, Going Back for Dusty Springfield, later covered by The Byrds, Wasn't Born To Follow for The Byrds, and Natural Woman for Aretha Franklin. You mentioned that The Favourite Sons previously formed as The Juniors. They recorded one single under that name, both side of which were quite good, but sounded early British Invasion influenced. But their single here sounded more explosive with freaky guitar work. But the A side was let down by the fact that the song itself was very lame, although written and originally recorded in the States by Willie Mitchell, whose original also got a UK release in late 1965. But the B side here easily won out, as the song was much stronger, and far more distinctive, and written for them by Mike Hurst, but with snippets of tune borrowed from Paul Revere And The Raiders' U.S. hit of the previous year, Just Like Me. But this was very much in the style of The Eyes, and should easily have been the A side. You play many B sides as well as A sides. But with The Yardbirds' one here, you only played the A side. But the B side, Jeff's Boogie which was instrumental, was composer credited to the band members, but was a complete plagiarism of a Chuck Berry instrumental, Guitar Boogie, from the B side of one of his late fifties singles. I always thought Wayne Gibson' version of The Stones' Under My Thumb here sounded very lame, and was a complete copy. How his version got popular in the mid seventies, which resulted in it being reissued, and then finally charting, I do not know. How the BBC managed to track him to get him to perform it on Top Of The Pops, I don't know, as by then, he for long left the music world and was working day jobs. He released a string of singles in the sixties, all of which were very lame, and only then managed a brief Top 50 entry with his version of Del Shannon's Kelly. The only version of Under My Thumb that was of any good at all was the version that The Who recorded the following year, as that was a very different and delightful version, and The Who put their own stamp into it, with Pete Townshend's reflective multi-track backing harmonies behind Roger Datrey's lead. The rest of the versions were just carbon copies of the original. But The Stones' Aftermath album that you featured, containing that track, all sounded very London recorded, but was actually recorded at the RCA Srudios in Hollywood where Elvis Presley was recording all his soundtrack albums. Chris Farlowe's version of Out Of Time which is for the June 1966 video used the same pre-recorded backing track as the second Stones' version, which was not released at the time, but appeared years later on their Metamorphosis compilation. Maybe you can also play snippets of that version for the listeners to compare, as I thought it sounded better with a Mick Jagger lead, and it was a change to hear Mick sing with an orchestra.
Great comment, Paul. I too prefer the strings version with Mick over the original Aftermath version. I'll definitely include snippets of that one in next month's episode. Cheers!
*@paulgoldstein2569* Interesting comment, apart from you find 'Aftermath' sounded a "very London recording" . Aftermath has USA stamped all over it , soundwise and subject matter .Unlike "Between The Buttons" , which actually *does* sound very London recorded.
Thanks for doing these postings. I love the British music scene in the 60s. I've heard many times that Brian Jones was a fabulous musician. He could pick up any instrument and figure out how to play it well. I really like his quote about the sitar musicians he had learned from. May of 66 was an interesting month for British music.
Props to the lady who records Penny Valentine's voice on your vids. It feels so natural that I always assume it _really is_ Penny Valentine doing the recording! Crazy, huh? Another splendid video from YP. Big thumbs up. *P.S.* I once had a few drinks with Lord Sutch. Great guy and such a joy to be with.
I love love love The Stones' "Paint it Black", my favorite of theirs from 1966. The Yardbirds' released 2 great singles, "Shapes of Things" and "Over Under Sideways Down". The story about what happened to Robert Stigwood was wild but he moved on to Bee Gees after that. "Almost Grown" by The Small Faces is my surprise favorite single. And that shade that was thrown at The Stones, and the Stones are still performing!
I have to say that in 1966 the Rolling Stones Paint It Black was my absolute favorite song. I was totally taken by it for I know not what reason. I just had to hear it endlessly. I had the High Tide And Green Grass hits album and I was disappointed not to have that song on it. And later the Aftermath album, my favorite, no Stones album I have put on more often. I know the American version is different but I totally love Goin Home. That sends me like Ball And Chain.
Great episode. My favorite bands with some of or their best releases. As always thanks for all the cool archival footage to go with the epic sounds, Cheers.
"You complain & criticize....I feel I'm nothing, in your eyes. It makes me feel like giving up, because my love just ain't good enough".... In combo with the music & it's beat ? Brilliant ❣❣❣❣ 🚬😎👍
Paint it Black was also probably the first tracks to feature a fretless bass, Wyman had removed the frets on his cheapo bass as they were buzzing too much, but he never got round to putting them back on and it featured on the track. plenty of great tracks here
These are brilliant videos and I very much enjoy them. The Attractions 45 cover of the Stones has always lived in the "so bad it's great" category. Rock on! More Stones! More freak-beat!
Thank you. My first watch of this channel and it’s very entertaining and informative. 1966 started to look much more creative than previous years with more experimentation and things generally becoming looser. That letter from The Attraction!
It would be fun to travel back to 1966 and tell Dean Maverick that The Rolling Stones would still be writing and recording new material for at least another 57 years. His head would probably explode.
I asked Andrew Loog Oldham on Twitter 10 years ago what was his favourite Stones song that he produced and he said Paint It Black. It’s definitely one of mine along with Aftermath. That Lord Sutch song was superb, he certainly should be acknowledged as an early influence on Goth. 1966 was a fab year - I was born then but wished I’d been born in 1946 so I could have experienced it! I highly recommend John Savages book 1966 The Year The Decade Exploded - there’s a double CD too to go with it. 😍👍🎸
And then suddenly the psych era is here: "Paint It Black", "The Cheat", "Over Under", and to some extent the Animals and Favourite Sons releases as well, all superb and all proving that the brand-new mindblowing genre heard on "Shapes" and "Eight Miles High" was here to stay (and even produce top 10 hits). The 60s, already an incredibly exciting decade, really heats up exponentially at this point. I hadn't heard some of the "Aftermath" cover songs this month, although none could really compete with the Stones originals (The Attraction was hilariously inept). I am a bit surprised that you missed a number of notable May releases including Dave Dee & Co.'s "Hideaway" (#10 UK!), Julie Driscoll's fine Spoonful cover "Didn't Want To Have To Do It", Vashti's lovely "Train Song", Tony Hazzard's "You'll Never Put Your Shackles On Me" and The Eyes' "Man With Money" (time for a part two??). Just for the record, however, I've always considered "Hey Girl" one of the weaker Small Faces hits; they perked up greatly after that.
Cheers, Spirit! "Hideaway" was actually released in June 66 so it will be featured in next month's episode. I thought the Eyes' single was a bit average so I didn't include it. I did miss "Train Song" by Vashty. I didn't know she released that in May 66. The single wasn't reviewed in the press, that's why I missed it.
@@YesterdaysPapers 45cat gives "Hideaway"'s release date as May 27, although I'm totally cool with you reviewing it for June! And hey, maybe you can throw in "Train Song". June will be awesome, as you have The Beatles, The Kinks, The Hollies, The Creation, Chris Farlowe, The Zombies, The Craig, Downliner's Sect, Wimple Winch ("Save My Soul" is SO good!), and The Tremeloes. I know you're going by UK release dates but it's worth noting that "Paperback Writer/Rain" was a May 30 release in the US, one of the few times the American release came earlier than the British. Speaking of which, there's one thing I would humbly plead for and that's that when you get to July, to consider reviewing "Sunshine Superman" for that month as its US release date was July 1, whereas it had to wait all the way for December in the UK; I think it's really important that "Sunshine" get its due as one of the earlier psych hits (If I remember rightly, it was even supposed to come out as early as January '66--which could have made it the very *first* psych track to see release!!--but that messy change in record companies really put a dent in his plans). Anyways I understand if you want to wait for its UK release in December but if you could at least mention in the review that it had its US release back in July and was even supposed to arrive as early as January...
I know this video featured the songs of 1966, but I was surprised that the Kinks were not mentioned when discussing the eastern influenced Pop music… “See My Friends” was released in the summer of 65 and predates the Beatles Rubber Soul and in particular the Rolling Stones and the Yardbirds.
"See My Friends" was definitely ahead of its time. I did mention the song in another episode of these 1966 videos. I didn't mention it here because I didn't want to repeat myself too much! Hahaha. But I actually think "Heart Full of Soul" even predated "See My Friends" by a couple of months (I think).
I'm glad you're properly back on track after the last one and it's fantastic you got rid of that eye & brain disturbing intro. I always had to shut my eyes during that intro or I'd feel slightly sick! Looking good now! Yay! 👍
Woah ! Hilarious episode. The cheek of The Attractions. Got myself an all instrumental 'Aftermath' bootleg "Isolated TraX" from the net , which is ultra cooL . The Animals' "Don't Bring Me Down" , such an amazing single .
As a young guitarist starting out I always liked the Yardbirds I didn't know anything about Jeff just that he was a standout they got quite a bit of Airplay here in LA i just had to have a fuzz pedal soon after ha ha Thanks YP Happy Holidays Cheers !!
Always a pleasure! I can remember listening to AFTERMATH when it was first released...I was in 5th grade. All the other kids at school were arguing about which new Beatles song was best, while I was singing "Stupid Girl" or "Under My Thumb" or "Flight 505" on the playground. Even as a 10-year-old, I was never what most people would consider "right" in the head!
I wasn't around in May of '66, but this is my favorite period of music, 1966 through the early 70's. So, when you put up a video, I'm sure to be watching.
The columnist for that magazine had it bang on. Within a few months every pop group, even the stones, jumped on the bandwagon of putting a bloody sitar on their records.
England really had it goin' that month! Love the Stones Sitting on the Fence. Some of the most astute lyrics in a rock song IMO. (The great American hardcore band Social Distortion did a good cover of Under My Thumb) Too much Thanksgiving turkey put me in a 3 day haze but you just shook me out of it. Big thanks YP!!
Excellent episode, Y.T.! Not only one of the best singles of '66, but Paint It Black is one of the best of the decade! The Yardbirds, The Animals... What a list! Penny Valentine's comments are totally naff.
Penny V appears to have been strangely out of touch with the zeitgeist, both at this time and subsequently. In other circumstances she could have ended up being dropped from the reviewer gig altogether, but must have banked a shedload of "cred" from earlier times (as well as being - what shall we say? - "easy on the eye").
Thanks as always! Glad you mentioned bad singing, it dragged down so much good music from the 60s, especially male singers. Relf is the king of that scene.
I once heard a British DJ in America remark what a terrible singer Paul Jones was, from Manfred Mann. I was taken aback, until I realized he was right.
More gems. For what it's worth, I prefer Brian Jones' sitar to Harrison's. Jones seems so hell-bent determined to match what the others in the band are putting out, while Harrison is content to merely flavor the music. YMMV.
I think Brian Jones was at his best in 1966. His contributions to songs like "Paint It Black", "Under My Thumb" or "Lady Jane" really made those songs shine. He gave those songs a very unique and innovative flavour.
But George Harrison took Indian Music and its spiritual basis very seriously and it completely changed his life in many ways. He championed and supported Indian music all his life and had an almost father son bond with Ravi Shankar.
Brian Jones was an excellent instrumentalist but weirdly he just couldn't write songs, which eventually marginalised him in the band. There's a really good documentary about it - "The Stones and Brian Jones" - on BBC Iplayer.
I hope you’ll find this YP…….Not for a moment did I lose interest in your fabulous channel, but after unexpectedly losing my little dog earlier this year, I was devastated. My eldest son recently brought home a new furry friend for me, but he’s a young Dachshund and such a little dynamo, I’ve been rather preoccupied. 😂 I miss your informative videos and promise to catch up with any missed instalments soon.
@@YesterdaysPapers……I’m fine now thanks but it’s always tough losing a beloved Pet. However, my new little companion sure keeps me on my toes! It’s good to be back and I’ll be sure to watch any videos I’ve missed!
That Gene Latter cover of Mother’s Little Helper sounds hideous 😂, and the Favourite Sons song has the Satisfaction riff in it..also I think my favorite cover of Under my Thumb is the Who’s version in 67, I love the crunchy guitar in it
I'd like to see a mini-doc on this channel about Pye records, maybe even about session vocalist Carl Douglas who later on recorded the no. 1 hit "Kung-fu Fighting" in 1974.
Mostly pretty good stuff here but I do think 'Paint It Black' and 'Over Under Sideways Down' are the class of the field. The Lord Sutch sides have some intrigue
Aftermath is one of my favorite Stones LPs. Regarding goth, although never released as a single the Beatles Tomorrow Never Knows with its cacophony and some lyrics is also a precursor to goth. Lady Jane laid the groundwork for songs about alternative lifestyles. Since it was acknowledged that 1966 was the year everything changed bands were no longer singing solely about puppy love. Songs about love and romance were no longer from the perspective of the male. A joke. Dave Maverick. Who? Lord Sutch went under the radar here in the States. Even though I was just a little boy looking at him he would have been considered way too weird and silly for Americans. Songs also started to have a great variety of themes and meanings.
@@aquatarkus2022 "Cousin Jane" also reminds me of the Velvet Underground ballads from this period. Great screen name, btw!!! My favorite "Aquatarkus" was from Buffalo in August '74--truly mind-melting synth work.
Love The Rolling Stones and "Paint It Black" is one of my favorite songs by them. "Over Under Sideways Down" by The Yardbirds is also a favorite. Like most Beatles covers of the time, I found most of The Stones Covers to be boring in comparison to The Rolling Stones original versions. Just my opinion but The Attractions version of "Stupid Girl" never should of been recorded, let alone released as a single. Finally, I would like to say, that "Don't Bring Me Down" by The Animals is easily one of the most underrated songs that Carole King ever wrote.
He was indeed. Founder in the early 80s of the Official Monster Raving Loony Party, for whom he contested a record number of parliamentary elections. Though intended as a joke/satire, some of the party's policies have actually made it on to the statute books. But I digress. Sutch was primarily a live performer, Gothic stage-props and all, and it's not really surprising that he never made much of an impact on record. (In the same way, Cream weren't totally successful either in capturing the excitement of their live act.) No great vocalist, on his own admission, but his backing band, The Savages, must have been awesome. They included Nicky Hopkins on keys and Carlo Little (who tutored the young Keith Moon) on drums.
