He has passed away now, but drummer Rick Andridge was my brother-in-law. I was in the audience when Desi Arnaz directed this performance of The Seeds portraying "The Warts".
@@suzannelawson9215 Rick died in 2011 (Sky in 2009 & Jan in 2020). Rick and Daryl (childhood friends from Michigan) lived near each other in No. Calif. until Rick's diagnosis with FTD and his family moved him back to Livonia MI (2009/10). Tho my nephew was still in touch with Daryl, I only know that he sat for a magazine interview in August of 2020.
👉 I recently moved and found a pair of Rick's drumsticks that I'd packed with my needlework supplies because they were the same length as my knitting needles... 😂
This was a hilarious show - the Seeds were what I now consider a PUNK ROCK BAND!!Way ahead of their time-i was 11 when this episode aired- ah,the memories!!
In reality, the term "punk rock" dates back to the mid-1960s when it was used to describe bands like the Seeds, the Leaves, the Standells and others, over a decade before the Ramones or the Sex Pistols ever existed
Wow that was awesome, I'm 65 years old and I remember as a child I loved that show and I remember that episode probably one of my first introductions to rock and roll as a child
They played The Seeds’ song “Up in Her Room” at the "Desert Trip" 2016 concert over the loudspeakers during intermission (Stones, McCartney, The Who, Roger Waters, Neil Young, and some other guy). It was very cool! Funny to hear them play this on the loudspeakers between Led Zeppelin and Cream songs. So finally after 50 years, The Seeds have finally been accepted into the main stream of cool music (none of my friends appreciated my playing music from The Seeds back in the 70's, lol).
I was nine years old when this came out I love this song but I loved the way Deborah Walley danced in it... I couldn't wait to get older so I could be a go-go dancer but things changed and so did music by the time I got in junior high in 1969 so that never happened LOL!
The seeds played on the back of flat bed truck in the vons parking in front of a record store in granada hills california i was just a kid it was the first time i saw a live band it was a great show what fun
@JayBer - - I know you must mean that you saw the episode when it aired originally on TV, but you didn't mean a "live" broadcast. The show definitely had been taped.
I have all the seeds vinyl albums it's fun to put them on the record player takes me back to Good Times bell bottom pants and tie dye those were the days
Eve Arden, née Eunice Quedens (wotta name !) was a classmate of my Mom's at Tamalpais HIgh in Mill Valley, CA, Class of 1926 Eunice left school early to pursue her theatrical ambitions.
I have no idea what this was, but I remember those TV actors as well as this song from my childhood. Those are memories I didn't know were still there. Thanks.
We used to watch this show all the time but apparently missed this episode. Thanks for posting!!!! In spite of it poor chart peak of #36 this song was quite a hit in my area in early 1967. Our school teachers just hated it.! Sky Saxon the leader sadly passed away in 2009 of heart failure (age 71)
However high on the charts this song reached, it can evoke a certain period of time, especially for the people who lived through those years. Thanks for posting this video clip. Peace 💚
Reflecting back on these outfits why did I never consider them to be strange? I guess I had to wait until I became the older generation. These costumes were wild.
Back in the day got a tape of the Seeds Pushing to hard , for my good Friend Itch, if I rember right it was On 4. Track, playing kit on my Pioneer 4 + 8 track, a good stereo back in the day
Sky Saxon had such a "boyish charm" about him! He was almost 30, but he was like the kid who never grew out of his ADHD. Like the David Lee Roth of the 60s
there was music that people could actually dance to! Real audience participation---not everybody with their cell phones trying to film the band, or trying to talk to their neighbors over the loud music. People showed their appreciation by dancing!
Yes. Miss her very much. She had esophageal cancer, dying on May 10, 2001 at only 59. This classic tv episode aired on Apr. 28, 1968, more than a year after "Pushin' Too Hard" became a solid psychedelic hit at #36 on Billboard's Hot 100, in Feb. 1967. It was released originally in Nov. 1965, then re-released in Oct. 1966, just after the psychedelic music craze started. Sadly, Sky Saxon has passed away, at 71, on June 25, 2009. The song is featured in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's exhibit showcasing "The 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll". Listed as #6 here: metv.com/lists/18-ripping-1960s-rock-roll-bands-that-performed-on-tv-sitcoms-and-dramas Quote on its listing: "In one of the great rock & roll performances in sitcom history, the influential garage giant storms through its hit "Pushin' Too Hard," under the alias of the Warts. Keep an eye out for them in the episode "How Not to Manage a Rock Group." Also on IMDb.com here: www.imdb.com/title/tt0651504 with a strong 8.2 rating out of 10. Directed by Desi Arnaz, famous for "I Love Lucy."
Could you imagine a popular band now let me clean this up, a popular band from decades ago playing in today's TV market on a variety show because back in the day that's when they had talent anyway as I was saying could you imagine alive band recorded or otherwise singing on a televised TV series ain't going to happen
Ah, you are so observant ! You are correct., Sir or Madam ! A similar-looking actor, Raymond Bailey, played Mr. Drysdale on Beverly Hillbillies for the entire run of the series. Herbert Rudley played Herbert Hubbard, Eve Arden's TV husband, on the Mothers In Law. And remarkably coincidental enough, Mr. Rudley also played a psychiatrist on 2 episodes of Hillbillies ! Actors do get around.@@yournamehere1886
