In previous videos, we took a look at some cool British singles released in June and July 1967. Now it's time to revisit some cool singles released in August of that year.
@@toddblanks Same here (born in 1973). I grew up listening to my parents' old 45s in my bedroom and it just escalated from there. I was practically obsessed with the 60s during my teenage years.
Another superb video. Thanks for all your work on them. I really liked all the records mentioned here. The absolute stand-out for me, quality wise, was Flowers in the Rain.
There were a lot of songs I was hoping would be on this list, this being one of them. Also loved FromThe Underworld, See Emily Play and anything by the Small Faces
Another comment here. This channel is so great because it highlights the beginning of Rock being the great hybrid that it became. Any previous musical style could be used to make a viable rock song. The seed of rock may be American but man did it flower in England.
Well said & thank you, being a Brit.... Excellent example... Quote, The Small Faces ONLY US Hit. LOL Oh, and of course Jimi had to come to the UK to be recognised.
Was 17, a senior in high school. Later came Itchycoo Park, Incense & Peppermints & 8 Miles High. For people alive & teen aged at this time it's just in our memories. Special memories.
In the U.S., Hendrix's "The Burning of the Midnight Lamp" was the B-side to the single of "All Along the Watchtower." My copy got mysteriously cracked through (thanks, Little Bro!) but I continued to play it...it...it...until I could scrounge the ca$h for ELECTRIC LADYLAND...
My buddy and l had an amazing LSD trip in July '77. We were all of 16 years old and walked up to the record store to buy Electric Ladyland and came back to the house and played it. Those were golden days, and we had a blast! Blessed memories. Life was so much simpler then🤔😏
YP, in replying to you, modestly omitted to add that he's put up a whole 9-minute clip on this subject, which you can find here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-uMWaQ9Nu1us.html
This has been such an excellent series which illustrates why the summer of 1967 was such an astonishing one for popular music here in UK. Thank you for championing artists and tracks that deserved more success alongside artists like the Beatles and Stones.
As someone that completely fell in love with the Beatles at a young age and has loved 60s British music ever since, your channel is really wonderful in that it's helped me discover a lot of lesser-known bands that I might not of otherwise learned about. Thank you!
Astonishing to realise that a lot of my favourite singles of that era all came out in the same month. I've still got a copy of the CD compilation "Midsummer Night's Dream" which does a brilliant job of pulling together the heat-haze sound of the late sixties in one place. Fond memories of sitting by the sash window in my flat, letting the breeze go through the flat and listening to that one, which featured The Herd's "From The Underworld" prominently.
I remember someone taking a transistor radio to the school swimming sports at that time. My friends and I hung around outside listening to the latest hits on Melbourne radio which included Hole in My Shoe and Itchycoo Park. It was downright orgiastic!
05:50 The comment about the music always changing in those years and not being stuck in the past was so true--1967 seemed like a decade away from 1965. Interesting enough, in the fall of that year (1967) Bob Dylan was going into the studio to record his roots Americana album "John Wesley Harding". And soon, psychedelicae would also be "the past". Thank you so much for these videos. I'm hearing so much of the music that never made it across the pond.
“Many great psychedelic singles released in 1967 failed to chart when they originally released, but later became cult favorites.” That statement and The Orange Bicycle reminds me of “My White Bicycle” by Tomorrow, released in May that year.
“My White Bicycle” by Tomorrow. Possible one of the ALL TIME best Psychedelic song's of all time. Especially because of it's content.... White Bicycles were Free to Use in Holland as part of the Hippy experiment (If memory is correct.)
So much variety of styles. It formed my lifetime trait of esteeming many contrasting styles. Unfortunately, the '70s saw most fans adopt a single style and stick to it exclusively. They preferred hearing a 4th rate song in their favorite style to a 1st rate one in an unfamiliar style. We call it the era of the fragmentation of musical tastes.
Zoot Money becoming ur-psychedelic Dantalian's Chariot is a gem of pop music history from the period I managed somehow to have missed. I knew Money were Andy Summers' first taste of fame, and it was funny hearing his praise for Soft Machine whom he later would briefly join after Kevin Ayers' departure. This is by far the best series on the greatest year in pop music history imaginable. Thank you.
Loved this one, YP! I was introduced to most of these bands by an online friend who is a DeeJay in Kent (I'm Canadian) when I was researching for the 60's music voting group I run on Facebook. Some great music here that deserves to be remembered!
“ I think the Soft Machine has much more to offer.” I guess so, because after Andy Summers left Dantalian’s Chariot in ‘67 he played briefly with the Soft Machine. What a varied musical career he had prior to the Police. He is around a decade older than Sting and Stewart Copeland.
Another amazing video from the best Channel. I honestly thought i knew a little bit about 60s music but your channel is a real lesson in what was really happening in the greatest music decade ever.
Those were my teenage years - glued to my little bedroom radio in the 'burbs of Dunedin, NZ. The music came from another planet, the sound only, as if created by faceless Gods, but none of these background stories of struggle or politics ever trickled through with the music. There was no taint. Just perfection. Gods they weren't, but geniuses, yes! I was entrance by the little girl's voice on "Hole in my Shoe", She was six and I was hitting 13. Nothing weird. Just, enchanted. So 50 years later I tracked her down ('slewthed' would be a better word) and 'spoke' with her, via Facebook, for a few minutes. Cannot tell you who she is, but I can say that it shattered my illusions. They were actually very dark days for that little girl. But perhaps it is safe to say that her best memory was in meeting Steve Winwood. He was, by her account, a total sweetie!
I really like almost all of the songs here, except for Hole In My Shoe. I imagine The Young Ones version has a lot to do with hat. Such a shame about The Move's problems with royalties on Flowers In The Rain, I hope Wizzard's Christmas royalties were some consolation ☺ This such a great feature for discovering hidden gems (Skip Bifferty), nice work once again
Ah yes the summer of love and yes it truly was. The late 60s were the best years of my life. It's a different world now. They should have listened to us....
It was definitely a great era, Bobby. So much creativity and freedom in music. The music industry is so lame these days that's it's almost hard to believe that there was a time when major labels were willing to release music that was challenging and original.
Sting was 15 when Andy Summers was releasing music and talking to the music papers. The guy played beat music, psychedelia, probably glam, punk, new wave...
Love this channel. For me, this one really hits my memory. Age 14. Psychedelia, Hendrix, John Peel, Pirate Stations etc. That was on my transistor radio. On my portable record deck was Zappa, Jethro Tull, John Mayall, Floyd etc. Radio chart stuff was regarded as commercial crappyness mostly! Although of course it was glued to my ears! Great work here and a significant cultural record of popular music.. Tons of music I now realise I didn't hear at the time, but of course with no internet the average person had to make considerable effort to find stuff other than what was presented via limited TV/radio/press sources. No simply tapping a button on a phone. You had to actually physically go out and search for pieces of vinyl!
Favourites: 'Flowers in the Rain', 'Dandelion' (flip of 'We Love You'), 'Hole in My Shoe', 'From the Underworld', and 'Itchycoo Park' in descending order, although they're all fairly close
Another fantastic video YP, in fact they just get better & better. A couple of stories you raised led me down the internet rabbit hole for further info: 1.The Guardian reported at the time of The Moves libel case: 'The royalties on the record and sheet music of Flowers in the Rain and the coupled song Lemon Tree, and the damages to be paid by the last two defendants, will go into trust and the money be shared equally between the two charities named by Mr Wilson: the Spastics Society and the amenity funds of Stoke Mandeville Hospital, to aid paraplegic patients' - so I was glad to read that the royalties continue to help those 2 worthy charities. 2. The full story of The Fortunes manager Reginald Calvert's tragic death is covered on his wiki page and is a grim little piece of British pop music history that I'd not been aware of before. A fascinating, macabre story.
Nice... More Jimi, please!!!! You guys had him for nearly a year before we ever heard about him. We finally started hearing him about July/August of '67. Yes, the H. estate is notorious for not letting anybody play "their" material. It should belong to ALL OF US. I would still like to hear any news you guys have from that magical time.
My mum met Jimi in a night club in London. 68 I think? He was wearing an orange satin suit. They shook hands. IKR?? Insane. Soft Machine's roadie, one Dave Goodman, lived in the same house as we did. We lived in the front flat and he lived out back.
@@DawnSuttonfabfour If my memory is still working, I believe Jimi Toured with Soft Machine all over the U.S. in early 1968. I was barely getting into Jimi, as I had to wait until Christmas 1967, before I got the 'Are You Experienced' album and really hear what he had to offer. My sister saw Jimi and possibly Soft Machine in Anaheim, California in January 1968, but I'm not 100% sure if they were on that bill. Hard to verify that info, but I know they were on many shows right after that touring together. seems like they would've been there too. I don't think she remembers, as they were not well known here. Yes, I can believe your mum shook hands with him, I've heard he was very congenial if met under good circumstances, especially in the first couple of years after arriving in England. She's very lucky. Jimi will be remembered in the future, longer than most. Thank you for writing !!!
I greatly appreciate this channel. I was in my mid-teens during this period, and it is so interesting to hear the lower-tier bands we never heard of in NZ. I just created a saying: "Just because you like a steak, it doesn't mean you can't like a hamburger". I have dived into obscure old girl groups & 50s to early 60s R&B, this is a similar excursion. Thanks!
Great video again. In the USA, "We Love You" was never played on the radio. Maybe in the 60s, before I can remember, but not in the 70s. I suppose the psychedelic sound dated it. It's a KILLER track which I never would've heard had I not purchased "Singles Collection: The London Years" around 1990.
George Chkiantz later recorded much of the work by the Fripp/Cross/Wetton/Bruford iteration of King Crimson. A truly powerful band, and what was asked of George was no easy task.... 🚬😎
Sir, I don't know where you get this film, these record reviews, these bits of film, but please keep doing what you do. I am a fan and I await whatever you put out next. Thank you.
5:31 Dantalian's Chariot 'Madman running through the Fields' with Andy Summers is such a catchy tune, I can't believe it hasn't been covered by others since then.
Thanks for the info re the 45s ~ I've now got a new "record collection" via YT, amazing tracks; who knew? So many great records came out that magical year, something in the air... never happened quite like that again!
Not only an interesting video BUT an enjoyable read of the 'comment's'...... It's so refreshing to have nearly 100% POSITIVE & INTERESTING comment's (100% with this post.) Opening people's eye's to the fantastic music they missed is an extremely worth while job. I lived through it and it's "opening my eye's" to missed music. (Thank you). I was thinking while listening to this month's review's, that it's no wonder some great music & artist's never made it BECAUSE there was just SO MUCH / TOO MUCH & this is just the UK.. There was some fantastic music being released over the other side of the pond, too.
The start looked like (Kings Road) where I'm from, Kensington and Chelsea in London. As a kid I remember the 70s glam rock kids frequenting it. Kings Road also and it was just a continuation of the 60s stuff but even more flamboyant. Great selection mate. Small Faces loved by Londoners. Sorted! Hahahaha 🤣 Resuwwwwt! Lol 😂 I live in Alanya region (Turkey) of the beautiful Med Sea climate. Nowadays. Here's where....video attached. Two in fact.... This was filmed early May by a Brit guy. Even then it was hot, unusually for May, at around 33c plus or minus either way. These are the comments I made on the video. QUOTE Superbly well made mate. I moved here in March 31 2021, I travelled a fair bit before deciding here. I've not regretted it. I'm a Turkish resident now. Just renewed it for another two years. Just over two hundred quid inclusive of legal stuff. I rent an apartment in Oba Alanya just up the road from Cleopatra Beach. Three hundred Euros a month. My water bill was 6 quid for May. Electric was just over fifteen quid. Ciggies are a quid twenty pence for twenty. I don't smoke but it's a good comparison to UK. 324 Sunny days a year. Jan is about 12-14c and rains a few days only. Feb is the worst at 8-12c and rains like the tropics for three weeks but not incessantly. March to April starts to get warm again. 18 ascending steadily to 25. May it's been 25-31 no rain. In fact it rained June 15 for half a day. Before that March 10. June is hotter this year than last. 32-37 July August last year was 38-46. Sept to December averages about 25 to 21 sliding scale. UNQUOTE Lots of ladies from Eastern and Western Europe. Scandinavian. African. Asian. Australian. English language is the norm. Second one is from a drone shot about ten days ago. Today is 38c ☀️ so yes thanks. I will have a good day 😊🙌 ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE--UO4F-edC9o.html ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-qOzq9t_n9AQ.html
In New York we had an FM disc jockey who pushed British hits, sometimes playing them well before they were released in the U.S. If I recall, he even did a countdown of the week's British hits. He pushed "Hole in my shoe", very hard, but it never did catch on. I purchased it but it was never a particular favorite.
I just about remember Hole In My Shoe by Traffic at the time it was out. Great Mellotron sequences and a surreal bit where a young girl whispered some poem about an Albatross. Loved the Sitar as well. One of my most favourite psychedelic records that I actually haven't heard in years, so thanks for the reminder.
Your channel is a gem for people like me into the history of pop music. The US Billboard charts often are quite different than the UK charts .I think "Dandelion" , the flip side, by the Stones got more airplay than "We Love You" in America. The latter is a perfect example of a great psychedelic pop song.
Thank you, glad you enjoy the channel. You're right, "Dandelion" got more airplay than "We Love You" in the States. "Dandelion" actually reached number 14 on the Billboard chart. "We Love You" never charted in the US.
Dandelion should have been the a side. Love that song. It's rumored a Beatle or 2 was singing backup. Eh. Posted this too soon. They did have Beatle backup. Anyway, love the channel.
Two countries divided by a common language. As a Yank, I never understood the appeal of Stanley Unwin. In fact I loathed his bits on Ogden's Nut Gone Flake. I played side two twice, and I can't bear listening to it again. But then that's culture - or what passes for it here in the US. But the rest of this return to August 1967 had me grinning, and looking for hashish. I love the Dantalions Chariot single, and yet again, Rhino's Nuggets II box introduced me to the cultural deprivations of living stateside. YP videos are great, but this period is the creme de la creme.