Merry-Go-Round @ The Hollywood Palace 

Truly a huge loss. RIP Emitt. Happy this video has survived 13 years on YT!

RIP Emitt Rhodes 1950 - 2020. Great underrated songs.

I remember seeing this performance on Hollywood Palace. I was 10 years old, and I thought they were "groovy!"

Lord Bless Him...I wore his signature Album out...Twice! Have it on CD. Saw him at the Troubadour in 1970 and 1971. Amazing talent! GREAT Songwriter, Singer, Musician, Producer, Arranger, and Technician! RIP Emitt! 😢

My mom lived next door to one (or more) of the MGR's...I remember meeting them, and they gave me one of their albums. They were genuinely nice guys...pretty exciting for a young girl of 7 or 8!

Emitt Rhodes from Oakland New jersey an ultra talent.We went to INDIAN HILLS H.S.Together.We will miss you my Brother.REST IN PEACE!

Thank you to whoever saves treasures like this, thank you to whoever finds treasures like this, thank you to whoever posts treasures like this!

Emitt died on July 19, 2020. Our group practiced across the street from the MGR. Good guys all.

I love Emmitt Rhodes. I think he never made it as big as he should have due to the fact that he sounded alot like The Beatles..... Trying so hard to get two of his albums that I used to have......very difficult... Thanks for posting.

R.I.P. Emitt Rhodes. :'(

I remember catching this on the tube after taking my girlfriend to see Herman's Hermits at Steel Pier in Atlantic City.This Merry Go Round performance was the highlight of that day. I even recorded a version of "Listen,Listen" with my band in 1990. Still have my programme from the Hermits concert dated Aug.17,1968, so I'm guessing I saw a rerun of the Palace that night.Still have my promo 45 of "Listen,Listen" on white A&M label.

"Live" is one of my all time favorite songs. "Listen, Listen" is fantastic. Thanks for posting this very rare clip!

I got to meet Emmitt during a recording session with a friend and his band. Very nice guy. He even gifted my friend with a 1968 Wurlitzer electric piano from his studio.

RIP Emitt

When i attended Hawthorne High School I lived almost across the street from Mike Rice. His sister Debbie Rice was the best friend of my high school sweet heart, Doreen Whippo. Wow. Those were the days.

The band formed in the Summer of 1966. Emitt Rhodes had left his former band, the Palace Guard, and began jam sessions with Gary Kato and friends. Within weeks, they were joined by Bill Rinehart, formerly of The Leaves and Joel Larson, formerly of The Grass Roots .

Emitt is a Great songwriter.Love all of his music.

Thanks for posting this. One of the best groups of the 60's IMO.

very UNDERRATED group--Emitt Rhodes never got his due as a songwriter!

Listen, this was a minor hit here in vancouver canada, finding its way just inside the top 40 back in '68. I only heard it a few times and never again as a flashback. It definetly didn't get the recognition it deserved! It's an easy to follow song, the lyrics simply stating you to listen...as the band begins to play because there is nothing you can say or do. It;s in a catagory of it's own (bubblegum) and I missed hearing it but had never forgotten it. Thankyou for sharing this classic.

These guys are groovy , especially the drummer.

...and Barney Fife as the shows host...WOW!

Fierce competition, Merry Go Round, Left Banke, The Cowsills, The Clingers, and so on...wow!

Nehru jackets, Sgt. Pepper uniforms and Paul Revere and the Raiders fop ware. Gotta love 'em.

The Bangles covered the Merry-Go-Round (Emmit Rhodes) tune "Live" on their album "All Over The Place", released in 1984.

"Listen, Listen" should have been a MASSIVE hit! These boys were robbed. I often blast this song in my car and on my home system.

this performance was immortalized in spinal tap. clearly it was the inspiration for Listen to the Flower People.

these guys could really groove, look at the way they swing when they sing "listen (cha!) listen (cha!)", its great

Already miss him 💙

Just found it floating around on the internet a while back....ya it is good stuff.

I STILL have this song on a 45 record. The "B" side was just as great "Time Will Show The Wiser."

This is so cool. I never knew MGR, but I LOVE Emitt Rhodes in his solo period. If you haven't heard his stuff I highly recommend you give it a listen.

The Bangles did a remake of this song early in their careers. Michael Quercio of the Three O'Clock reminds me of these dudes. Cheers.

I enjoyed this group back then--they did have some good songs

Thanks for posting this! Never did I ever expect to see The Merry-Go-Round live. I actually bought their first album I believe in late 1967. Then when I heard She's Such a Beauty on the radio around Christmas of 1970 I got that and became a fan of Emitt's through Farewell To Paradise. It took a while before I realized he was the singer from The merry-Go-Round. I always felt not enough people knew of him. It's so gratifying to see over 90,000 views here.

R.I.P. Emitt...😞

This is awesome. Never expected to see anything of them in here.

When i was in 8th grade Debbie Rice in my class brought her brother from that band to school. I Hawthorne Ca.

"Here they are with their big hit.." in Los Angeles and vicinity. As I said elsewhere. the Bangles stuck up for their local compatriots. Their version of "Live" should have been a hit.

Correction...The year was 1968! It was a minor hit here in Vancouver Canada, peaking just inside the top 20 in May&June here locally. Never heard it as a flashback and never forgotten it either. Thanks for posting a classic as well as a #1 in my books,

Amazing clip!!!! Emitt Rhodes and Don Knotts!!! 2 American originals!!!

RIP Emitt!

I was in a band with Gary Kato, the guy playing lead in the video, he is a really talented song writer, musician and singer.

RIP Emitt Rhodes.

And mine also. I have his albums on cd and still play and enjoy them more than 30 years on.

Wow! These songs sound so very much like what I was writing back in those days.

I have been looking for these guys for a while now, never heard of the song listen though.

I dig the sound. The Merry-Go-Round had alot of air play on the local AM radio stations in L.A. They were one of the many groups who tried to take advantage of the "British Invasion" by trying to sound British. Emitt Rhodes actually went to Hawthorne High School in Hawthorne, CA. The same high school as the Beach Boys.

I've always enjoyed his voice and sound..

great clip! thanks ! he sounds like Lennon one moment then mccartney. What a shame he's unknown.

Still one of my FAVE groups !!!!

On this day in 1967 {May 13th} Merry-Go-Round performed "Live" on the Dick Clark ABC-TV network Saturday-afternoon program 'American Bandstand'... At the time the song was at position #63 on Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart, that would also be it's peak position on the chart, and it spent 4 weeks on the Top 100... And on the same 'Bandstand' show they also performed "You're A Very Lovely Woman", it would be their only other Top 100 record; it entered the chart on September 3rd, 1967 for a three week stay, peaking at #94... Original member Emitt Rhodes, as a solo artist, had a Top 100 record, "Fresh As A Daisy", in 1971, it reached #54 on the Top 100...

Anyone else here after he died

Thanks for posting! Love it!

Emmit's voice reminds me of Chrisie Hyndes (sp?) of the Pretenders.

emitt rhodes = genius

RIP emmitt

About hockey askybottom, Vancouver downtown is getting all decked out for the winter olympics, we've got the new canada line up and running in september, so tourists flying in can get from the airport to downtown Vancouver by Skytrian/subtrain in a half hour or less. I like this song and I play it 2 or 3 times a week, thanks for posting.

I recall all these songs but never realized the same band di them all!

immortalized in Spinal Tap "listen to the flower people".

Better to say they are best known for backing the great songwriter, singer, multi-instrumentalist, producer and engineer, who went on to record some very classic solo albums which he wrote, recorded and produced entirely on his own, before even Paul McCartney did it.

I would've been pissed if they made me do that dopey short medley! I was in NY area and they never got any airplay there zero

Groovy!

Wow!! Very nice sound!! I like it!! yes! ^____^

Never heard of this group; they're good

So sad to hear that he died 😢💔

excellent! thanks a lot for uploading this one...seen it once before but could not find it again...doh! i disagree with fletch1950, this is a great Merry go Round clip! fair enough, i don't like medleys (especially if it's not live) but still you get to hear their 2 better known (and best?) songs plus the fantastic Listen Listen in its entirity,by far my fave song by the band! COOL!

I just heard this , and I thought this was a new band trying to do some kind of "flashback" thing, because I bought a tape of the Bangles in the late 80's, early 90's, and the Bangles seem to do this same song as at the beginning, called "Live", I though the Bangles wrote it, but who knows. The Bangles have good songs.

WOW// They should have been bigger, but what a sound!

2nd Song has sgt pepper influences

I hear bits of the Sergeant Pepper melody in this.

They (Emitt) should have been much, much bigger.

The Merry-Go_Round was another good band that were victims of bad management and internal frictions within the group mainly connected with not making the kind of money that greedy record companies promised. Emitt Rhodes is and was a genius on the level of the greats of his time.

Very surrealistic seeing Don Knotts introduce the group but they sound great! and Emitt Rhodes (lead singer) has some awesome solo albums out too. They are kinda' hard to find. Plus he sounds a little like McCartney too! (which doesn't hurt)

@crowmac49 Great little anecdote. Funny how little things can turn your cup over and spill everything on the floor.

His Facebook page is full of mourning now but worth joining if you care about him or his music

Check out The E-types version of "Live" They recorded it in 1966, several months before the Merry Go Round released it. (1967) Just click on etypebob.

RIP

Who in the hell gave me a thumbs down again?!? What the hell did I say that was so wrong for crying out loud?!?

@Babyhowdy233 - How reassuring and depressing at the same time. Thanks for the info. :)

where on earth did you find this? AMAZING!

In response to the -1'ing of my comment, if you've ever read an interview with Emitt, his grasp of reality and truth as generally understood can be a bit slippery. He's still a genius.

This is an awesome song! How did it not chart?

Wow! Joel Larson when he was thin!

Wow emitt is 16 in this video.

it's the sweetles!

Do you have Time Will Show the Wiser by this group?

I don't see my comment so I'll try again. I said this is cool 'cus although I didn't know the MGR, I LOVE Emitt Rhodes in his sole period. He has some excellent stuff. Check him out.

Nice hair!

Badfinger....Beatles......and this band....you thing they were all on the same page?

Speaking of Female Paisly, didn't The Bangles cover "Live" on their first album?

I've never heard of MGR. They seem to have been a very talented group. What ever happen to them?

Very Beatlesque.....Emitt

@robotswan And there is even a guy who has to change guitars in between songs ;)

difficuLt, that is.

Emitt liked the Bangles' cover (as do I), but, if he is to be believed (which can sometime be difficut), he hasn't received royalties for it.

@written12 - Hmmm - seems insufficient, but, then, I'd rather be kissed by Emitt Rhodes. :)

A cross between the Byrds and the Beatles. but hey there are worse things in the world to be influenced by! Emitt Rhodes wrote some great songs tho!

Is everything going all right in your life? They have medication for your issues.

Actually, he did receive a royalty. Susannah Hoffs, the divine one. gave him a kiss on the check. Payment enough, right? I'm just kidding here, engaging in a bit of whimsy.