INCREDIBLE! This is the first Goldie & The Gingerbreads clip that I've ever seen. Thank you for posting. Extremely rare to find any clips of this ground-breaking female band. Genya Ravan, then known as Goldie on vocals. Amazing to see at long last.
This will sound like bs, but I worked with the drummer at Home Depot. She's so awesome. It really sucks to see her at a cruddy 9 to 5 instead of out making music.
Interesting! Ginger Bianco does mention briefly about working at Home Depot in an interview she gave on RU-vid. She said it was after she got out of rehab and had left the band, Isis.
I remember seeing this about 20 years ago and not thinking that much about it, until I read they were the first all girl rock band to be signed to a major label.
One of three versions, all in the Radio Caroline top 50 in 1965. The other two were by Herman's Hermits and of course Marianne Faithful. Herman's Hermits had the biggest sales, while Marianne had the loveliest voice. This one had some Motown influences, nice too!
That was Genya Ravan singing lead and playing tambourine. I believe this version came out before the Herman's Hermits version. BTW, Genya got her start in the Brooklyn doo wop group The Escorts.
Genya Ravan’s Real name which is GOLDIE ZELKOWITZ Was Jazz drummer and drumming legend, Les De Merle’s Girlfriend for seven years in Fact he helped her put together 10 Wheel Drive! And now you know the rest of the story! Although when I first met Les in 1972 he was already with Marlene!
Geyna Zelclovich as she was known then. Along with Carol McDonald on guitar, Margo Lewis on organ and Ginger Bianco on Drums. This band was formed after the Escorts which had Geyna aka Goldie as lead singer broke up. The song was first done by John Carter as a demo possibly as Carter-Lewis and the Southerners. Geyna had a brief solo career as Goldie before joining rock band Ten Wheel Drive. Carol had issued stuff under Carol Shaw.
On this day in 1965 {April 9th} Goldie and the Gingerbreads performed "Can't You Hear My Heartbeat" on the 'Ready Steady Goes Live!' episode of the British musical program, 'Ready Steady Go!'... One month earlier on March 4th the song peaked at #25 {for 1 week} on the United Kingdom's Official Top 40 Singles chart... On the day of Goldie and the Gingerbreads appearance on 'Ready Steady Go!', Herman Hermits' version of "Can't You Hear My Heartbeat" was at #3 on Billboard's Top 100 chart, two weeks earlier it had peaked at #2* {for 2 weeks} and it spent fifteen weeks on the Top 100... * The two weeks the Hermits' "Can't You Hear My Heartbeat" was at #2 on the Top 100, the #1 record for both those two weeks was "Stop! In The Name of Love" by the Supremes...
Thanks for posting that! I've got it on video and was going to dig it out and upload it but you've saved me the trouble. Great song and a rare glipse of the group.
Can't You Hear My Heartbeat" is a song written by John Carter and Ken Lewis, (ex Ivy League) produced by Mickie Most, and performed by Herman's Hermits.
I've listened /watched both performances on You Tube....I'd never heard this version. I can't choose one over the other...I'm so used to Herman, this one is as good. And what a great show this must have been. Is that the title...What's Left of? I like young Peter Cooke here. So cool.
Fanny wrote all of their own songs and played all their own instruments, the Runaways wrote most of their own songs AND they DID 100% play all their own instruments... both brilliant rock bands, and for the record so were the Go-Go's a brilliant band. Why do people always try to compare and pit these all-girl bands against each other? They were all totally different and brilliant in their own unique ways. For the record, Fanny were the first all-girl HARD ROCK band. Case closed.
Some of the girls went on to form the all girl New York funk band Isis, who recorded 3 albums in 1974-76. Some of the member of Isis would go on the play for the great New York singer/songwriter, Laura Nyro, such as on Nyro's live 1977 LP 'Season of Lights', featuring a stellar cast of jazz musicians such as Richard Davis on bass (Miles Davis, Charles Mingus).
Let's see a record company release a Goldie and The Gingerbreads full CD at last. They only had 45's in the UK and US , never an album. Maybe Ace, Revola, or Cherry Red [ all UK labels ] will have the sense to finally compile all their many songs together. They deserve it.
Skôr išlo o beatovú americkú skupinu, ktorú tvorili Goldie vl.m. Genyusha Zelkowitz narodená 19.aprila 1945 v Lodži v Polsku, Carol McDonald gitara, Margo Crocitto organ a Ginger Panebianco bicie. V Londýne nahrali pieseň autorskej dvojice John Carter a Ken Lewis, ktorí boli členmi skupiny Carter-Lewis and Southerners. Ich verzia skončila v UK vo februari 1965 na 25.m. Cover verziu nahrala skupina Herman s Hermits a v USA s ňou v 9 týždni od vstupu do rebrička 27. marca 1965 obsadila 2.m. za skladbou Stop In The Name Of Love skupiny The Supremes. Na EP s touto skladbou v podani Goldie bola vydaná aj skladba The Skip, ktorej autorkou bola Margo Crocito neskôr známa pod umeleckým menom Margo Lewis. Goldie sa v roku 1969 stala pod umeleckým menom Genya Ravan speváčkou skupiny Ten Wheel Drive a po odchode z nej pôsobila ako solová speváčka.
Years ago, I knew a girl who had a special chair which held her upside down at the organ; she played the pedals with her hands and the keyboard with her feet.
@poptopia1 I agree, and I thought it was laughable when Dakota Fanning and Kristen Stewart said after playing in The Runaways movie that they "had no idea" The Runaways were the first all-girl rock band EVER. So untrue, and it just goes to show the lack of education people have about the real history of women in rock
as for this tape? not only is it painfully fabulous, it's genya ravan, for heavens sake. in our long lost & much smaller, if deeper world, *all* of these people count, many of them immeasurably.
@Sarahfreckle Sarah:-), good bands never die, they just lie possum until a more receptive generation discover them. I played this bands records on many pirate stations, we jocks loved them, and, thankfully, they have not been forgotten:-)
Check out Goldie solo single after they disbanded . she released Goin Back before Dusty did . But had problems with it . she asked it to be withdrawn . worth hearing . It got re released in recent times as vinyl ep .and pic on cover is so sixties , great
Mom happens to be Genya Ravan who escaped Poland in WW2 as a child after most of her family was wiped in the death camps. Mom grew up streetwise in NYC and was a cheesecake model. Mom later went on to become rocks first female producer after fronting a respected rock band in the 70s and having a solo career. And Mom has also gone on tour with Jeff Beck/ Yardbirds and the Stones as well, among others. Has your Mom kicked it with Mick, sung with Steve Winwood, been produced by Eric Burden, become the first female producer, owned her own record label and produced NY punk legends The Dead Boys as well as others, been a mainstay at CBGBs when that meant something, been a guest on the Tonight Show and survived lung cancer? Didn't think so.
@@justingrignon8749 I got here from BBC Radio Two. Tony Blackburn. The Sounds of the Sixties. He played it this morning. Absolutely brilliant 💗 🥰♥️🇯🇲🏴🕊️🔥✝️
This just might be the only rock group in history that used organ foot petals for a bass. That thing must've been a real bitch to lug around. I wonder if they had to dismantle it every time they lifted it into whatever means of transportation they were using for touring.
anyone who thinks fanny was not important to the runaways is probably too young to have been there. -i- am almost to young to have been there, but i was ridiculously precocious & i remember fanny. HUGELY, if you will, important to girls who wanted to be rockers in the early 70s. not quite suzi quatro, but at the time? close.
Goldie and Fanny were not relevant in the Runaways era. You think Kim Fowley went to Mercury records saying I have the next Goldie or Fanny here? Nope they had to groundbreak themselves.
This original by Goldie & The Gingerbreads (U.K number 25 on the 25th-Feb-65) which as I understand didn't chart in the U.S, made more famous by Hermans Hermits, their version making number 2 in the U.S wasn't released in the U.K.
She ended up i believe to be producer for RONNIE SPECTOR. SIREN ALBUM WHICH I THINK RONNIE HAD LOT GOOD SONGS AND. DID THEM IN CONCERTS. BUT PRODUCOR WHO I CAN SEE HERE WAS SELFCONTROLING AND RONNIE. LEFT AFTER THAT.
@@retrorex They were miming , so unless you can keep perfect time you can't really bash the drums can you ? It's rather awkward miming with a drum kit, This is still the Best version .
@@retrorex Miming to the record. Probably didn't want to make any extraneous noise in the TV studio. I saw them in the UK in the 60s, cool band but not lively.
THe singer Genya Ravan sang and played with Ten Wheel Drive, a couple years after this, they played great rock, fusion, some real good songs. She is still around now, mostly working with other bands to produce and promote their music. She has always been very much into doing a lot of recording herself, knowing a lot of that stuff.
@Prrzipiep Carol did play with Ginger in an Isis reunion after the 1997 Gingerbreads reunion and according to a MySpace page written by someone who says she knew them at the time, Carol did play with the Gingerbreads on at least one occasion in 1998.
@poptopia1 Oh, that Suzi Quatro is something else : ) I was knocked out seeing their video, they were covering a song, I can't recall but the video must've been mid to late 60s. She's a brunette. I can't recognize her. Like two different people. I will check out Genya (babe) . Thanks : )
What the f**k!? Fanny did NOT have any help in writing their songs, they did maybe four or five covers (utterly brilliant, Fanny-fied versions at that) and they wrote every not of the rest of their excellent, eclectic music. Plus they played every single instrument and were the first all-girl rock band to be signed to a major label.I say all this as a fan of the Go-Go's, too. In fact, Fanny's drummer Alice worked for IRS when the Go-Go's hit it big and they told her Fanny was a big influence.
It's almost as if this group was cursed not to have a hit. And still no full album or CD of all their songs. They started in 1964 or so. Maybe wait until 2014 for 50 years.
@akhilasraya this might not sound like rock music to you but by early 1960s standards it was.the gingerbreads were a self-contained band..they didnt need any back-up..in fact they provided back-up on other bands recordings.
@Khultan the pleasureseekers were good too. it doesnt hurt to have suzi quatro in your band. if you like goldie chek out genya"s records with ten wheel drive or her solo stuff.
No, Ray Manzarek never played organ pedals. He played bass lines with his left hand on a Fender Rhodes Piano Bass placed on top of a Vox or Gibson combo organ.
I would 100 % agree with your comment about Fanny being the first truly great all-female rock band. I wouldn't go so far as to say Goldie and the Gingerbreads were 'crap', but they were rather slight and very girl group sounding/poppy. Fanny were so incredibly good, like a female version of Taste, Cream or CSNY. And they were each incredibly talented songwriters and musicians. Fanny rocks!
Ellen Seeling The Gingerbreads were long before Fanny. And unlike Fanny, had several hit recors. This was was a dominant style back then. I think comparing these two groups is like apples and oranges. Compare Fanny with Isis. These bands were the vanguard of early women's rock bands. I don't think any should be dismissed lightly.
