Iguana - California My Way (1968)

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Music from Australia and New Zealand in the year 1968:
Iguana performing 'California My Way' on the ATV-0 program Uptight - broadcasted on the 19th of October 1968.
Note: Uptight is an Australian music television series aired on ATV-0 in Melbourne in 1967 until 1969 every Saturday mornings at 8am to 12pm, It hosted by Ross D. Wylie.
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@jamesdatson4069 4 года назад

I'm still watching it 50 years later, what a great song.

@juliedove4827 3 года назад

Same here James. Another great Aussie band.

@yurilemming4130 5 лет назад

In 1969 asked a recording engineer who was the best band he'd recorded & he said Iguana was it, I also knew their manager & often ran posters & flyers for dances which featured them around Melbourne dance scene.

@billwhite9703 2 года назад

Not a guitar cable or a microphone in sight. Magic.

@thurstonhowellthetwelf3220 Год назад

They used telepathy back then

@darrenjray 8 месяцев назад

Or a lead singer!

@petertrezise4545 2 года назад

Growing up, in Melbourne, this is the only version I remember.

@SirToastedOne 5 лет назад

First saw this band at Stonehenge (Beaumaris Hall) - they were great. Love this song

@chuckdieselkicksdisks2380 6 месяцев назад

from the USA and love your posted Version , great discovering this Aussie Band

@grahamjones2840 3 месяца назад

no no ...Aussie band from Melbourne.

@chuckdieselkicksdisks2380 3 месяца назад

@@grahamjones2840 cool

@chuckdieselkicksdisks2380 3 месяца назад

@@grahamjones2840 thanks m8

@michaelpound5156 5 лет назад

I seem to remember that this group grew out of an East Bentleigh garage. I only remember them having 2 singles, and I think I bought both of them. The B side of California My Way was also good, Requiem Mass Latham....???. California My Way was a cover of, from memory, an album track by the Fifth Dimension. Their second release, Good News, was also of a high standard, but, as is sometimes the case, when the second release is better than the first, the public don't love it, strangely, or oddly enough. Think, Whiter Shade of Pale, then Homburg. Never heard of Iguana after that....

@kevintownsend7469 3 года назад

Hi Michael, bit late with this, Iguana's first single was an excellent double sided "Imagine This/Dreaming Away To Myself" which can be found on this site, then "California My Way", then a Vanilla Fudge style version of "Ticket To Ride/Sunshine People", "Sunshine People" was a very good Hans Poulsen written ode to "The Flower People" and in my opinion should have been the A side, can't find it anywhere online but I have still got the single, as you have stated "Good News" came last.

@floydroadheroes 2 года назад

Love this song. Great era in Australian music! So many wonderful hip groups of the day around then! I used to watch the Town Criers rehearse at one of the band members homes, as a kid! Does anyone know how tall Gary Sweetman was? He looks so short.

@skaf9587 9 месяцев назад

Extraordinary clip. Plenty of band members miming the backing vocals, including the lead singer who doesn’t mime the lead until the end when he mimes “We gotta gotta go!” Like I said extraordinary!

@petermaxwell2965 5 лет назад

It's got a nice bass, but I've never heard this before.

@zoewillard3749 2 года назад

I can't get enough of this!!!!

@willminkorea2010 6 лет назад

Great song

@thuggeetennessee7981 3 года назад

These guys played at our school formal (Elwood High School, 1969 or 70?), God knows what our Social Committee had to pay them! But I tell you what, they were worth it. Very professional and great harmonies. Plus I got to dance with Marcia, haha.... Great days.

@bryanpalmer9660 2 года назад

Good song very well performed

@richardfinlayson1524 2 года назад

Found this single in the op shop today,thanks

@blueycarlton 6 лет назад

Some of them went to McKinnon High School in Melbourne.

@GregHoward-fs9np Год назад

I attended McKinnon High School between 1964 and 1969 and remember a concert in our new assembly hall in 1969 consisting of Max Merritt and the Meteors, MPD Ltd, The Flies and Iguana. The principle at the time was NOT exactly impressed by Stewie Speers (Max's Drummer) I have always remembered this show. Thanks for the reminder!

@blueycarlton Год назад

@@GregHoward-fs9np Thought the Hall was opened in 1964 or 65. The Flies and The Wild Colonials played there. Saw Iguana playing in church hall on Centre Road Bentleigh near Jasper Road.

@GregHoward-fs9np Год назад

@@blueycarlton Reading through my copies of "Thistle" Magazines, Fred Meyer (Principle) mentions the hall in 1966. I remember earlier years having Assemblies held in the Quadrangle between the classroom blocks, but I do remember the concert in my later years at the school.

@stephenp.farrelly2296 6 лет назад

First time I saw a rock-band late 1960's ??... Marist Brothers College Ashgrove Brisbane, QLD. THAT was VERY progressive for Marist Brothers in those days; I DID NOT have a good time /life from Grades 6 - 10. (SOME were sadistic brutal bastards) Never heard about the Iguana since then ?? They would now have to be in their +++++70's or dead. Nice to see we have a memory of them on film.

@joesweetman5383 6 лет назад

Hi Stephen, yes still alive and kicking my father the lead singer Gary Sweetman is now 70 :)

@leeenfieldsmle 5 лет назад

Cleve Littlewood the guitarist was in a band that I was in in the early 70's in Brisbane, called Oracle. I would love to know where he is now. I believe he may be in Melbourne. If your Dad knows, could you let me know.

@leeenfieldsmle 5 лет назад

I went to the brothers in Ashgrove in that decade and hated it. Frustrated sadistic men in dresses.

@danielreily2701 3 года назад

@@leeenfieldsmle I too was sent to a Christian Brothers boarding school (in Ballarat !!). They were second rate priests (not much better) who were sadists or sexual deviates. They no longer exist, live by the sword ,die by the sword ! On a lighter note , I actually saw Iguana at Allans Music , loved them and I have played in bands ever since.

@williammahoney9656 3 года назад

A huge hit for 5th Dimension. This is not a bad cover though.

@Crust2020 3 года назад

Much better than The Fifth Dimension.

@williammahoney9656 2 года назад

LOL

@johnmacgregor5050 Месяц назад

But not as good as the Four Freshman version.

@Crust2020 Месяц назад

@@johnmacgregor5050 I've just listened to Freshmen version, it's awful !

@leeenfieldsmle Год назад

Guitarist on the left, Cleve Littlewood formed a band with me in Brisbane in about 1971 called Oracle. I have completely lost touch.Anyone know his whereabouts?

@darrenjray 7 лет назад

Iguana should have been much bigger. A couple of things stopped them. Firstly, the lead singer was invisible. It was great for publicity but made photo sessions a nightmare. Secondly, one of the members was a midget. And the other members made it obvious by performing on platforms in film clips whilst the little guy was made to stand on the floor.

@jamesdatson4069 7 лет назад

still love the song. James

@joesweetman5383 5 лет назад

Thank you James 😊 from the lead singers son

@indeliblejames 4 года назад

Short singers are very common. What they needed, IMO, was someone to manage their image: clothes, stage demeanour etc, The only other version that I think comes close in quality is the song writer's (Willie Hutch) soul/funk recording of the song.

@thurstonhowellthetwelf3220 Год назад

Pumping section..

@JacksPlace-AusMusic 2 года назад

The bass player also played in The New Dream 🎸

@grahamjones2840 2 года назад

Your right...and Captain Australia and the Honky Tonk and Grantley Dee and the All Stars.

@JacksPlace-AusMusic 2 года назад

@@grahamjones2840 Hi Graham. Are you on Facebook ?

@grahamjones2840 2 года назад

@@JacksPlace-AusMusic Hi Jackson...no , not on Facebook...just having a reminisce..👍

@JacksPlace-AusMusic 2 года назад

@@grahamjones2840 I met you many years ago - my sister was in the New Dream fan club. I was to young to go to gigs but I was already playing music. I have an Australian Music channel on RU-vid called Jacks Place - Australian Music. I shelved it when all the saga started 3 years ago but I want to do some special episodes starting soon on underground and alt 60s and 70s Australian bands. If you’d be interested in having a chat please let me know and I’ll exchange contact details.

@JacksPlace-AusMusic 2 года назад

@@grahamjones2840 I run the Australian music channel 'Jack's Place Australian Music'. Can we get in contact. Cheers, Jackson.

@gregboswell4194 4 года назад

Go Gazza

@michaelpound5156 5 лет назад

one clue to the group being short lived, is that in this clip, the lead singer refuses to take his part, and forms the back up vocals, with no lead singer being evident, causing the camera to focus on members who are not singing. when the lead vocals are being performed. The nett result? A short lived group.

@indeliblejames 4 года назад

The lead singer does take part and it looks more like a production error.. Someone needs to ask a witness. It does unfortunately mar their performance. They had a great sound though.

@darrenjray 2 года назад

Well, that clears that up. I thought the lead singer was invisible. Pity. It would’ve been a great gimmick.

@markblahwoof789 Год назад

who was the lead singer? or did the bloke in front just forget it was him

@darrenjray 8 месяцев назад

LOL

@patrickryan1515 2 месяца назад

Not quite the 5TH Dimension, but not bad either.

@GaZonk100 3 года назад

not for mine, sorry...

@michaelpound5156 2 года назад

obviously an excess of cravats in wardrobe, such is the fate befallen of the East Bentleigh garage start up band.....no wonder with those dress ups some of them forgot which bits they were miming......