From Oct., 1966. This is a re-upload from my original channel... I replaced the tv audio with the remastered track. Alternate video take showing Renee 'walking away': • Left Banke - Walk Away...
In the 80s I met Tom at Farfel's in Greenwich Village. He was buying the first album by the Banke. Evidently he got a box of them back in the 60s, but left them on top of a radiator. Doh !
@stander - Do you remember where this was.. or close to? I've had many people ask over the years. All I knew is that 'Where The Action Is' filmed in many different locations in CA. TIA!
This song brings up nice memories of good times in the sixties. Even the sad songs back then made you feel a special feeling that most songs now get you really down.
I love 60s music while I grew up I'm the 80s and 90s I always have listened to it and yes I may not have been around then but just makes me think of how great the music was and how mostly peaceful America was and the music that came from that era.
@@iammatty203 the music of the 60's was amazing. Motown music filled the air. Great young groups were forming.... but I have this weird memory of driving downtown (into the city) while the 1968 Baltimore riots and burning was dying down, Four Tops were playing on the radio. MLK had just been assassinated and the Country went crazy. I remember being very afraid of the chaos.
Thanks guys for writing and bringing us this masterpiece. Levi Stubbs is my favorite male voice and his beautiful, heartfelt ,booming voice absolutely nailed this song when the 4 Topps recorded it.
My Daddy dedicated this song to me as a child. until After his passing 2 1/2 yrs ago & going thru trials in life I never understood to true making of this song. Sometimes I Just have to Walk Away ...
I saw the Left Banke at a teen nightclub in Ft Worth on New Years Eve once don't remember the year but the club was called "The Box" It was behind and under a Kmart, used to be a bowling alley.
From what I've read the singer had a crush on a bandmates gf who use to hang arpund them. They broke up but it was the singer's heart that was really broken.
For some reason, Steve Martin, an extraordinary singer, delivered this one song with a ‘mouthful of marbles’. Every other performance of his I can recall had fine articulation. If I had to guess I’d think he might’ve struggled with the emotional lyric at the recording session, perhaps drunk to get through the session. Contrast it with Pretty Ballerina to hear what I mean. Aside from that, it is a beautiful performance.
I love this song. I was about 4 or 5 years old when this song was popular but thanks to the magic of oldies radio I've heard this many times and consider this another favorite of mine growing up. As usual, another gem you posted and I thank you. :)
we just landed on this Earth when this song came on an it made the landing just well, an smooth.. on our Final Conflect.. great to come here an soon will be in outer space ones again.
Um, no. I'm very confident this is not a live recording. First, for the brief flute interlude, no one is shown playing one. Second, the lip-synching gets bad toward the end. Finally, an open air outside recoding would never sound the same as a studio one, and this sounds just like the released recording. Instead, this is just typical of rhe kind of "music videos" of that era of the mid-60s (filmed, of course) made popular by the Monkees, Beatles, and others.
@@CharlieArehart1 Yes... It's not live. This was from the 60's teen 'after-school' program "Where The Action Is" on ABC. ALL performances were mimed to the original recordings.
NW Traveler - 'Where The Action Is' was filmed in countless locations between '65-'67... mostly in CA. Only someone who was there or nearby at the time might be able to identify which park this is.... or was.
