It was so good ‼️ My favorite part was when Benny (Austin) just took off and then punched a member of the other gangs & started a whole gang fight 😂 And when Austin started crying over johnnys death, Movie told a good story & made me and a lot of others want to be just as bad as the vandals are 😂
@DA90027 actually, they weren't underrated at the time & today have tons of young fans who appreciate great music. Lots of youngish hipsters are into the 60s pop, surf & rock music.
Yes, I agree! Above and beyond what you would expect fropm a teen pop show of the time. I think the lighting can be attributed to Vincenzo Cilurzo. The whole episode is superb; the staging and lighting of This Sporting Life by Ian Whitcombe is great, and it segues terrifically from Give Him a Great big Kiss.
@@DzaVideo Thanks for the info. I’m going to look those bits up. It really was a magnificent time as far as stage artistry in presenting musical acts was concerned. So many amazing contributors that remain unknown. The very temporary nature of so much of it. In most cases there was no surviving record of the event beyond the original broadcast and many extraordinary shows and performances were simply wiped to reuse the video tape. Just amazing. I was watching the original Jugband Blues/Pink Floyd video the other evening and marveling over every aspect of it. It survives but no one seems to have info on who created such a masterpiece. These things aren’t made in an hour. There’s a lot of trial and error involved to finally get all elements looking right so as to assemble a final edit that shines. There are so many uncredited heroes that really contributed to the magic that was the historic pop scene.
@@soarornor Yes, it's a miracle that even these episodes of Shindig! still exist, albeit as kinescopes. Mary Weiss has actually commented on the staging of one of the TV shows they appeared on in the UK in 1964. It was a show called Thank Your Lucky Stars. Long wiped, of course (only two episodes from 1966 still exist). However, we're lucky in that a single colour image of them perorming in the studio exists. This is what Mary said: "When we went to England we found, the British spent more time setting up everything as far as television goes. They’re meticulous. I walk in the studio and the entire soundstage was filled with sand and a giant grandfather clock for one song. I just could not believe it. It was beautiful."
@@DzaVideo Wow. That’s a cool quote at the end. I didn’t know all of Thank Your Lucky Stars was wiped. That’s so absurd that they did that to so many shows. I realize that many people thought that whole scene would never last, but that so much creativity and artistry was poured into it should have had someone realizing that much of it was worth archiving. History was truly being made.
Mary Weiss is with the Ganser Twins now. Only Mary's sister, Betty. Thankfully all four are immortalized for all eternity through music and musical images like this. Hang in there, Betty.
RIP the two members of The Shangri-Las Mary Ann Ganser (February 4, 1948 - March 14, 1970), aged 22 Marguerite “Marge” Ganser (February 4, 1948 - July 28, 1996), aged 48 You both will always be remembered as legends.
Don't give a crap where Billboard ranked this. It was their best performance and one of the only times you heard them backed by a full string section. The twin's vocals, cello, violins, bass guitar, and drums are prefect.
Good morning my friend I was born in 1955 to These ladies was great in their era to RIP my lovely ladies to Today's music 🎶🎵 is like garbage to Am still listening to this music in Oct of 2024 to
After all these decades I'm only now really waking up to what a superb singing voice Mary Weiss possessed. It's like silver. The other girls are good too.
Oh My the 60s were great moments in music: history was being made! For the Baby Boom generation, it was fun and now memorable. The Shangri-las were no exception with their music. The song is another "golden gem" by songwriting team of the 60s Barry and Greenwich. The girls (only a trio now with the departure of Mary's sister Betty) sound incredible. Harmonies are clear and Mary's voice brilliant! RIP Mary Weiss. Thank you for coming into our lives and leaving us your music.
I pLayed this song over and over in the parking Lot tonight at the roLLer rink and aLL the peopLe were cooL with it . . .CLassic music wiLL never expire ! ! !
Such artistic staging, lighting and camera work. The subtlety of the sisters' hand gestures. People tend to focus on Mary, but the sisters, Maryanne and Marge were so important in their whole look and sound.
I just like the fact that they're twins. Every girl group should have some twins... Very sad that one succumbed to drug addiction so young. I wonder if the fact that the hits dried up made facing life unbearable. It must have hurt to have TV hosts say that Mary Weiss was the magnetic one, in front of the watching millions too. Maybe not and I'm projecting but...
Queens, NY - our greatest contribution to the world is Rock n Roll (Shangri Las, Simon & Garfunkel, Johnny Thunders, Cyndi Lauper, KISS, The Ramones, Run DMC)
I believe a man named Shadow Morton wrote most, if not all of their songs. Give Him a Great Big Kiss is so much fun! I think my favorite is the atmospheric - with seagulls sounds - and very dramatic Remember: Walkin’ in the Sand. Dang, what an amazing song!!
Shadow wrote "Remember: Walkin' in the Sand" after stopping by the roadside and realizing he had no material for the Shangs to record. He generated that pop masterpiece in a few minutes literally on his way to the studio. Amazing!
@@wrongwaypete Zowie! I did not know that! Thanks for the info! I wonder if the roadside was near a beach. Jaw-dropping how masterpieces like that can just come to people. Perhaps Shadow was channeling it from a muse of divine inspiration! It remains one of my all-time favorite songs. Thanks again, Harry
@@Daisnap Hi, Harry. Thanks for the kind message. I'd read that story about the composition of "Remember" years ago in a published interview with Shadow Morton. There is a version of the story with a somewhat longer and bifurcated composition time in the Wikipedia article on the song. Regardless of which is closer to the actual truth, it does often seem that musical inspiration and genius happen instantaneously. I know Barry, Robin and Maurice Gibb all claim that songs simply materialize to them in a heartbeat from the ether, and that the melody of Paul McCartney's "Yesterday" came to him of a sudden, though it took him a bit longer to solidify the title and opening lyrics, as all he could initially conjure up was "Scrambled Eggs" until the more poignant and poetical title and first lines were written. On another note, my big brother was fortunate enough to have seen the Shangri-Las live in a small venue and had conversations with the two sets of sisters, Mary and Betty Weiss, and identical twins, Margie and Mary Ann Ganser. He said they were extremely nice girls and very warm and friendly, with zero pretentions. When Mary Ann died in 1970, Marge was heartbroken, as it felt as half of herself died with her twin. In many ways she never fully recovered, though she lived 26 more years. Just gotta love and appreciate the Shangs and their "idea man" Shadow Morton, who always said one of the amazing things about lead singer Mary Weiss was that, not only did he ask this 15-year-old girl from Queens to sing, but also to act in his teenage tragic mini-operas, and that she pulled off those duties with incredible feeling and absolute believability. High praise indeed!
I'd love to know if 50 years from now people still listen to the music from this time when there will be noone alive who was even born then (like me). Or will it be forgotten like most of the music and musicians from before the 1950s now? I just hope one day I'll go wherever all those bands and singers from the 50s and 60s went and then I'll listen to this wonderful music for all eternity.
@@SUPERFLY-ky7yh Creating music and playing music is a beautiful thing. Being signed and entering into the business of being a property sold to the public by sleazeballs (not always but all businesses have them in abundance and the music business has them in ultra abundance) usually ends up awful for the people who actually have to deliver the goods. The pressure of delivering the Golden moment on demand night after night, doing constant promotion, interviews, travel etc and basically barely having a private moment to call your own takes a major toll on most sane people who started out just wanting to share the joy of their music. The pressure to keep delivering the goods, stay on top, stay visible, make it all look effortless while maintaining a relentless pace while management and record companies help themselves to the biggest slice of the pie ends up making a lot of artists in the music business completely miserable with fairly predictable consequences.
@@soarornor That is definitely true. I think the saddest story in music history is the true story of Badfinger. Two members committed suicide over that tragedy.
@@kimsullivan5576 Yeah. Their manager screwed them over good. Imagine the desperation and misery of reaching the point those two had reached. It should never happen to anyone.
@@soarornor I feel such sadness for Pete Ham, the most. He died 3 days short of his birthday and his girlfriend was expecting their baby Daughter the following month. I also read that their Manager was so selfish that the band members could barely afford to buy new guitar strings for their guitars. The guys didn't deserve that. It's a true heartbreak. 😔
I love this group, love their singing, harmonies and their stage presence. Choreographed beautifully. What an incredible voice Mary had, unlike anybody else. And she was what, 15 or 16 when she was singing some of these songs? Just amazing@
No, they're not. I don't know why people in the US put such emphasis on it - It means nothing, and you basically have to buy yourself into it. ie. It's nothing but a racket.
