This song is just as HIP today as it was back in 1968! Julie Driscoll was an exquisite, soulful singer who deserved FAR more recognition than she got, especially in the U.S. Yes, Julie ranked right up there with Dusty…the best of the best!
I saw her at The Plaza in Handsworth , Birmingham; she did a brilliant verion of Don Covay's "See Saw". Fabulous looking lady with great voice and 'Mod Crop' - only English people of a certain age will understand that !
Brilliant then & brilliant now! That haunting voice & don,t forget the wonderful Brian Auger still going strong into his eighties! We would go to the Marquee club in the early 60,s to see him when playing modern jazz.Julie Driscoll was grossly underrated.
This is psychedelic hard rock at its best, and it has its place in Rock History, without this there would never have been Punk New Romantic or Goth, this song was a game changer in music
This song's very haunting and was like nothing else when it came out. Julie's phrasing and range is so elastic she's having fun with the song. A unique masterpiece!
Julie Driscoll Brian Auger Trinity Wheels on Fire 🔥. This is most definitely an oldie but it still stands the test of time. Brings back old memories of the past.
To George Bennet. With respect, Bob Dylan was great AT PERFORMING some of his songs - and good at WRITING this one for THEM to perform (and also writing ALL ALONG THE WATCHTOWER, which Jimi Hendrix PERFORMED so fsntastically)
Brian Auger and Eric Burdon came to Mexico around 1990 (don't remember well) and played in a tiny place. I saw them very close to me. A day to remember (although not the year)
Not just the song but all the associated memories ALL things around us at that time...time, place, atmosphere,company and friends make these songs so place in time...almost time machine...takes me way bacjk when I was young1
Grace just had the edge on technical brilliance, but Julie was also a force to reckon with! unless i am very much mistaken, this song was written by Bob Dylan ... feel free to correct me! x
the 60's was deffinately the best time for music, this song is just magic, I was lucky to be born in the early 50's so grew up with the greatest music of all time
If you ask people about the greatest time of creating fantastic music they´ll tell you about the 80s and its glory days. I know the music created in the 60s and 70s was also absolutely great. I know what I´m talking about - I was born 1953 and I´m grateful for having experienced those decades of creativity and expressive power.
I was born in 1955 Mike and miss the days of Emma Peel, Doctor Who (in monochrome) watching telly and giving it a half hour start waiting for the valves to warm up before watching your program...The days of the line or frame holds gone, the picture being perfect after adjusting the aerial, only to turn to shit the moment you sat down!..Those were the days to coin the song of Mary Hopkins - "Those were the days my friend We thought they'd never end We'd sing and dance forever and a day We'd live the life we choose" - You've gotta laugh or you'd cry, now cheer up you grumpy bastard!! ;-))
swingmaniac lol, I suppose you could have said OLD grumpy bastard ,but didn't want to incriminate yourself. Not sure Emma Peel was in Dr Who , she was in early The Avengers with Patrick Mcnee after Honer Blackman. Yes those were the days ..... days I'll remember all my life (kinks) and yes frustrating getting a good T V picture in early 60's, but we had pirate radio, mainly radio Caroline , as for Mary Hopkin she rocked my boat, she was..........
In that flippant pop era Julie was not around for long in the charts. In the mid sixties she started singing the usual girlie ballads but later teamed with Brian Auger to become almost a female David Bowie check out 'break it up'. By the 70s she had gone from the charts.
Imagine what it must have been like hearing this for the first time, back then. It would have been a 'I have seen the future' moment. Mellotron, Hammond, flanging, Julie not smiling. Fantastic then, and now.
I came to read comments to learn exactly-this! This was its first incarnation? I was born in 1973 and only heard the song first from 1993 or 1994 discovering AbFab ♥️♥️
this is so cool, "with it" and "outta sight". groovy stuff. Love the live vocals grooving bass and Brian's hammond. Just love the last part. Grooving dance, smoke and organ. Love that era.
I'll second that. Musically '60s and 70's and some 80's were when music peaked. After that, with a few exceptions, the musical landscape has resembled a dry and dusty desert.
Loved this song by Julie driscoll and Brian auger trinity ❤️ ✨️ seen them in Birmingham in the late sixties at the Town Hall I was a teenager then went with my late mum and aunties and friends enjoyed every minute of it she was known for her hairstyle absolutely awesome 👌 👏 👍 😍 💖 😀 xxxx
My 'bedridden' grandma [struggled downstairs for TOTP & Coronation Street] declared "Yes she can hold a note but she's obviously on drugs" Think that was the TOTP appearance with the stripes on the eyelids. I loved her [Julie D that is] as a 9 yo! Mind you this is the grandmother who told us that Stevie Wonder went blind from drugs & also thought the 4Tops were called The Pork Chops.
@@Tranmere59 I was big on Coronation Street in the late 90s. Les/Janice Buttersby, Kevin/Sally Webster. Gail, Vera, Natalie, Spider/Toyah, Mike Barlow. Chef was good too, & can't forget about Sorry!("language Timothy") 😄👍
i traveled to england from home in US in june 1968, i was 19, i was bumming around liverpool one day and i met this red headed guy on a bus bench and we were talking and somehow Dylan came up, and he said there was a new dylan record out, and i was very excited, he said it's called Wheel's on Fire, and it's not by dylan it's by Julie Driscoll, who i never heard of, and we went to a place that had a juke box and he put it on, wow, a new dylan song!!!! , the words stayed in my head, i couldn't wait to find my american friends who i'd wandered off from the night before, to tell them about this. please notify my next of kin, this wheel shall explode !!! what a lyric. as far as i know, that record wasn't played in the US. nobody i knew ever heard of it, last thing we heard by dylan was john wesley harding at christmas time in 67. but in england it was a hit, top ten record. when we got back from europe in september, the music from big pink by the band was out and it had that song on it.
Brian Auger and the Trinity with Julie Driscol were an amazingly good band to watch/listen to. Sadly never got the exposure internationally they deserved. Rick Danko of the Band was the co-writer with Dylan. In fact I read somewhere he was the greater inspiration behind the track, though not sure what that exactly means!
Yes, i certainly remember Julie Driscoll with a young mans lust and longing for her, to say nothing of this particular song. I am transported back in time. 62yrs this year. The time has certainly passed with many a tale!!!!!! Thank whoever for memories and those of you for puting songs and videos like this to view.
Saw her in the sixties at Chester Jazz Club with Brian Auger Trinity and Rod Stewart with Long John Baldry and the Steam Packet ... phew, sweaty, tiny place, exciting times. Amazing sound on the Hammond Organ.
Lovely song. Thank you dear Queen Elizabeth II. My Manor London gave our devoted Queen a proper send-off. Brilliantly Military, especially the brave soldiers teens who carried a 500lb coffin. 2 sisters of mine passed away, their anniversary too. Very tough week. Shout out to Tower Bridge, SE1. WITH gratitude from a devoted nation. RIP MAMA . 🇬🇧
Julie Dirscoll is every bit as compelling, and has every bit as good a voice. as Grace Slick. I only just discovered her. So very happy to make the discovery!
To Don Paladino. You know, I never thought of it! Two similar voices - Julie Driscoll, and Grace Slick! Talking if which, Grace Slick had a formidable fan! Another singer, called M A r I s k a V e r e s from the band Shocking Blue. You remember their number hit in 1970, Venus? Powerful band. You absolutely have to look up the internet, to get them live in concert to realise how atmospheric they could be and how M A R I S K A not only sounded like Grace Slick, but looked her ad well, when they played Jefferson Airplanes Don't You Want Somebody To Love.! I'm just going to look that up now! Happy music hunting!
