The Move would tour with Jimi Hendrix and sing background vocals on one of his tracks. Thank you for posting this- Roy deserves a lot more respect and recognition for his amazing song writing
Thank you for posting Roy Wood's review. Here in the States you could not find a piece of vinyl by the Move, so when I went to England in '69, the first vinyl I bought was the Move's first album. But Weekend and Zing Went Strings of My Heart? I had to wait years to get the singles on a double Move best of on A & M. Unlike some of your comments, I liked a lot of the music reviewed. I loved the Turtles, and while never seeing them, I saw Flo & Eddie with the Mothers as well as several touring versions of Flo & Eddie. Slim Jenkins Place is my faorite Booker T track (piano!) from my favorite Booker T album (Hip-Hug-Her). And despite endless listenings, I still like Bobbie Gentry and the Box Tops. But enough of my personal taste.
Love how Roy lauds David Morgan, who would write two songs for the Move later on, the excellent Something ( one of Carl Wayne's best vocal performances) and This Time Tommorrow)
@@deirdre108 He did and Eric Stewart, great as he was, didn't. More important, I think the Mindbenders were just going through the motions at this stage. Fontana was long gone and Stewart didn't want to play in a band anymore and certianly not be the lead singer. I have a sneaking suspicion they recorded this only because the record company told them to.
I'm quite surprised he wasn't that positive about the soul numbers. The Move used to cover soul songs when playing live, so one would have thought he was a soul fan.
''Red Rubber Ball'' is one of my favourite songs from the 60s. ❤❤❤ My heart is strongly pounding. 'The Cyrkle' have another great song, ''Turn-Down Day''... ''Penny Arcade'' 4:18 isn't too bad. Thank you very much, Yesterday's Papers 🌹🥳😀
This I really liked with as with all your videos. Roy really seems to like country music. While he gives good feedback I notice he seems to encourage artists to do better. I like his take on a "songwriter's song." Interesting.
Very enjoyable. Roy is one of my great favourites as singer and writer. I feel he gets overlooked a little as he wasn't one of the 'cool' pop figures. What a chart at the end - and a nice version of Flowers in the Rain.
Man, you couldn't get away from Ode to Billy Joe, and The Letter by the Box Tops in 1967-68 in the States. The sound of my childhood, for sure. Very astute commentary overall by Roy Wood.
I had a lot of Booker T albums and I thought that Hip-Hug_her was their best, complete with Slim Jenkin's Place which was one of the few Booker T tracks to feature piano.
What a great top 30 singles list. Today I will be surprised if I find one song I like on the charts but on this list, I will be surprised if I find a hit I do not like.
I really have a soft spot for Excerpt From A Teenage Opera. I can just about remember it from it's first release. I must have been four or five at the time. Strange, quirky little song. I much prefer his version of Eloise though.....especially that fantastic ending! 😎🎸🎸
He must have: cast his mind back ten years to a....🙂 No really, he's pretty accurate and knowledgeable. Particularly so with some real unknowns at the time.
Bobbie gentry’s song went to number one in the United States. On this side of the pond everybody knew who she was and everybody knew the song in the fall of 1967
@0:48 - those early Hendrix sessions in NY are great. Shows his development. Nothing that memorable but you can hear his signature, llike on the even earlier Little Richard sides.
I love "The Letter" by the Box Tops, one of my favourite songs from 67. This other version doesn´t sound as cool. I guess it´s Alex Chilton´s vocals that make it for me. It must have been lovely to be a teenager and to dance to that song in the summer of 67. There are videos of US tv programs here in youtube of people dancing to it in 67. My favourite is "Zacherley's TV dance party featuring the Box Tops "The Letter"" where they are having some sort of halloween theme in an episode of a TV show called Disco Teen and a bunch of teenagers dance to it in costumes. There is also a video of American Bandstand but I like the other one better
Have you ever seen the live version of The Letter from The Bitter End? There's two versions on RU-vid one is live, one has the record dubbed in the live appearance. This is the only live footage of the band I've seen.(from the 60's)
Ode to Billie Joe got to #13 in the UK, which isn't bad. In the US that was her only song to make the top 25. I was surprised to see that 2 years later Bobbie Gentry had a UK #1 hit, a cover of "I'll Never Fall in Love Again".
Well that first "Jimi Hendrix" is an odd one. Never heard it before and I'm pretty sure it was not released as a single here in America. Of course it is a reworking of Dylan's monumental Like a Rolling Stone. A soul version with different lyrics and it's actually not bad at all.. But hey, the record label did a good job marketing it as a Jimi Hendrix single when in reality he just plays guitar in the Curtis Knight band and that sounds like Curtis singing. (Hope I got all that right) And another shading of Otis Redding. What gives? There was also another Blind Date bloke who shaded him a while back. His ballads, filled with emotion, IMO are just wonderful as his rave-ups. Jeez, how can you not be moved by his singing?
Yes, it was Jimi on guitar. He actually recorded some really cool stuff with Curtis Knight. This is one of the best, "Strange Things": ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-9Bepm6fts3Q.html
Suggestion if I may. While showing a record sleeve and listening to that artist and song, just show the images of that artist and not the reviewer's face/band. It's all a bit confusing as with one record we see the actual artist on that record and then on another we see the reviewers face and for a moment think they are performing that song. That said, I love the creation of this channel and always look forward to the next upload.
The booker t is really nice, I don’t have this one, gotta get one copy. I am a bit shocked by his take on Otis Redding, the Monterey pop was in june 1967, the movie was out in 1968, the record with Hendrix and Redding performances was out in 1970, no way you hear and see Redding’s performance at Monterey and pretend he should not sing. But hey, it’s just an opinion 😏
Not a great selection of singles for Roy. Just to say, his band (The Move ) , with that original line-up of Roy, Ace, Bev, Carl and Trevor was quite sensational. ‘ l Can Hear The Grass Grow’, with three of the band taking lead vocals, still sounds great. I watched a film on RU-vid of their live act in 1967 / 68 the other day and it’s still quite scary viewing.. If you are a fan of auto destructive art it’s worth a look. Who did it first The Who or The Move, that is the question? Just to say, if their TV set broke, they didn’t bother to get it repaired , they smashed it to pieces with an axe live on stage 😂 The Move , a great band!
@Simon McCreath You’re right Simon, l think The Move might have smashed up television sets up first though . I think that was a pastime of Keith Moon , but just in hotel rooms 😀
@@michaelrochester48 Yeah, Keith Emerson was really into it. I think it started to hit The Who hard financially, so Townshend started smashing guitars that had been glued back together to keep the costs down. I remember someone who was there telling me about The Creation arriving at The Cavern, Liverpool 1966 . They had a new single out ‘ Painter Man’. Apparently they sprayed the walls of the club with modern art style images . The owners of the place were not impressed at all!
I have to laugh when I see the Top 10 LP's because your last dozen or so uploads always have "The Sound of Music" soundtrack near the top. That record certainly had legs.
The Sound Of Music's soundtrack was the best selling album in the UK in 1965, 1966 and 1968. The streak was only broken by the Beatles Sgt. Pepper in 1967.
How cool is that record cover of Hendrix. I love that photo of him. I like the song too. Everything that guy touched turned to gold, even some of his less popular songs are still incredible. Lovely outro as always, YP 💫🤘😊
@@YesterdaysPapers Yep, I really love the work Jimi and Curtis recorded together. They really complimented each other's musicianship. It's a shame legal issues often overshadows those recordings. The business side of music always gets in the way 💖
Am I right in thinking you do the background/intro music on these videos too? If so, that Hammond organ that comes in at 9 seconds in is pretty bitchin', mate 👍😆
The issue I have with this RU-vid channel is that everything posted is unvalidated - we have zero idea as to whether some or all of what you 'say' is true! --> Listing 'proper/full' sources would do you well.....!!
Hmmm... At the beginning of all these videos, you can always see an original scan from the magazine, the name of the magazine, and date of publication. What else do you need? And besides, why would I fake this stuff? It wouldn't make any sense.
@@YesterdaysPapers Since you are already scanning the source, why don't you include around 3-5 seconds (1-2 pages?) of the scanned article in question at the video start? - then, we'll all have the original source as a reference and can watch your excellent content with 100% confidence. In today's era of increasing fakeness and suspicion, this would be a breath of fresh air!
Without a shadow of a doubt, in my opinion, the best 45s were the soul ones. Love the Vandellas track. Thought the Mindbenders The Letter was not a patch the Boxtops original.
The Doors self titled album and Jefferson Airplane’s Surrealistic Pillow not being top ten at the end of the summer of love is mind boggling. Sick to see Sgt. Peppers and Pink Floyd up there tho.
*Sound of Music* on # 2 LOL. Over the years I met many people who liked one song "Edelweiss" from that soundtrack. Personally I hated that song, since it reminds me on my uncle who at age 21 while in Switzerland fell to his death wanting to get one more flower a couple of meters higher up in the rock. Those flowers don't grow at places one can pick them up easily. I typed this so that maybe other people will know that Edelweiss is a flower that caused death, at least the death of my uncle in the early 1920...
Ron Wood's brother certainly gave an excellent guided tour of what was happening at that time for us in the future. He started out with an excellent conclusion on dredging up old mediocre Hendrix stuff as The Experience was probably soaring high. However, I was surprised when he said he didn't like Otis. Otherwise, he nailed just about everything else.
British artists have reacted so negatively to Otis Redding's music in these "blind dates" (Scott Walker practically threw up) that I wonder how The Big O had any success in Britain at all.
Esther and Abi Ofarim. "There's some nice things in the backing, though". The song was written by The Bee Gees and they supplied the backing vocals. By the way, was there ever a better looking female vocalist, anywhere, than Esther Ofarim?
Blasphemy! Only Alex Chilton could sing 'The Letter' properly. It is strange that Alex's voice ended up sounding so sweet years later on Big Star's 'September Gurls'.
Ha ha. Why not? It was a crap record. What is interesting - and very refreshing - about these reviews is that we hear what other music professionals thought about these artists at the time. We get honest opinions without the deification that has occurred in the intervening 50 years. (Especially to the sadly departed artists of the day) To the reviewers they were just contemporary musicians.
'That bass player' is James Jamerson!!! No contest between The Box Tops and The Mindbenders. Alex Chilton comes out on top. Another young, pompous Brit disrespecting R&B legends like Otis Redding and Martha and the Vandellas! In recent weeks Frank Zappa and Peter Green have done the same thing on Yesterdays Papers, and the problem is I love The Move and Roy Wood as well as early Fleetwood Mac and The Mothers! I guess genius isn't always about being right!
Genius has nothing to do with what you like. Neither does right or wrong. There's there's some great musicians who don't appeal me. Doesn't mean people who don't like the great musicians that I do like are wrong.
“Ode” is great, it’s deep in our rural American culture. Otis was superb but that record wasn’t good. Bad song choice and too slow tempo! Booker was great. But you can only have a certain amount of instrumentals on the charts! Turtles departed too far from their sound. Bad song for Martha. The Letter version was new, gritty. This one too slick. The other songs aren’t very good at all.
Roy called it on the Box Tops but waaay off with Otis Redding! Great mention of James Jamerson, without actually mentioning his name.. For those in the U.S. not too familiar with Roy: he later downsized the Move, brings in Jeff Lynne, and in doing so he morphs the group into the Electric Light Orchestra. He leaves it to Jeff soon after, and the rest is history.
One of the writers of Red Bubber Ball did become one of the major artists of the sixties and seventies, so I don't think time was especially harsh on either.
I know who Otis Redding was but what I want to know is who the F*** is Roy Wood. Oh, you say, he was in The Move. My next question...Who the F*** was the Move. Was (or is) he Ron Wood's brother...cousin, nephew, or no relation at all. Oh wait, the video is over and I'll never hear of Ray Wood again.....
He was in the Move, ELO and Wizzard. One of the greatest songwriters of the 60s and early 70s. If you're not familiar with his stuff, you're definitely missing out on some truly great music. And no, he wasn't Ron Wood's brother.
Is the Dave Morgan who wrote Private Harold Harris for the Ian Campbell Folk Group the same one who was in The Idle Race? It sounds like a follow-on from 'Mrs Ward' on their debut album.
@@lthompson7625 When Ian Campbell was awarded a Lifetime Achievement award (by a folk organisation, I think), his thank you speech was ‘My sons have made more with one record than I have in my entire life’. He remained bitter and angry - what a sad waste.
@@dannybenair Yes, and what a fantastic song. When I was a little girl, I wouldn't listen to it, only to a-side Blackberry Way. I love it now. There's a great version of it on The Move Anthology, disc 3, track 6, listed as A Certain Something (piano version, rough mix). Does anyone know anything else about David Morgan, as I don't? I love The Move! ( Can't you guess?! Haha!)
Take it with a grain of salt , this is the guy that wrote the silliest xmas song ive ever heard right after he left elo, and just before they became one of the most popular bands of the mid seventies....pff , otis redding should stick to producing, really?
