My first introduction to Kiki Dee was I Got the Music in Me. As a kid, it didn't dawn on me that a lot of the artists coming out of my transistor radio had actually been around for years before I was born! Thank you and my parents's generation for the gift of great music!!!
The Small Faces were my favorite group in the 60's, i saw them a couple of times live. Steve Marriot was brilliant, one of my favourite lead singers from one of my two favourite groups, the other being Freddie Mercury from Queen. We are never going to hear anything like them again.
The blonde girl whose request is being played on the radio is Anna Carteret, who went on to play Kate Longton, the female Police Inspector in "Juliet Bravo" on the BBC in the 1980s.
Hell Yah ! She is brill. I first saw her when she was 28 , must have been before the start of the war WW2...she was belting them out then...She also sang the best version of the French song called Amerouse ( wrong spelling ) but check it out...She sang it for De Gaulle when Paris was liberated by Ernest Hemingway.....enjoy..
My favourite Kiki Dee track was from the1970s, 1976 I believe. "Loving and Free", it's absolutely beautiful. Have a listen: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-ub_fruEg4Sw.html
These old videos of Marriot always remind me that he was a star his whole life. Some think of having 15 minutes. Marriot lived it his entire life. For good, bad, right or wrong.
Geez...I just found out Ian Mclagan of the Small Faces just died. I usually am never affected by famous people's deaths. I view them as the same as everyone else. This time it got to me. I met him a couple of times and he seemed like such a good soul. His beautiful music created with the Small Faces (and solo work) has touched me deeply over the years. I hope he is reunited with his beloved wife Kim (who died tragically in a car crash not many years ago). I also hope he is enjoying a heavenly choir of his favorite Booker T and the MG's songs. Thank you Mr. Mclagan for all the soulful music...
Hi Joshua, I only just found this excerpt by accident,and did some research on the film,apparently it features the original line up of the Small Faces,which means it's Jimmy Langwith ( aka Jimmy Winston ) on keyboards,not Ian McLagan,although all you said about the latter still holds true of course,they were all brillliant and underrated musicians.I was lucky enough to see Steve Marriott with Humble Pie and Packet of three as well,now I'll have to see if I can watch the whole of 'Dateline Diamonds',which was filmed in my hometown of Watford!
*Joshua* .......Yeah....the latest "Heavenly News" reports Ian's enjoying for over 4 years now all the cloudy perks heaven has to offer...and has a whale of a time with his beloved Kim.......👼🏻👼🏻
no,i agree with you...film looks like vacuous twaddle,which is unfortunate as Small Faces was one of the great bands from the '60s.Steve Marriott was one of the best singers who ever lived.
Kiki singing in a Tiki bar - that's awesome! This was the the Small Faces with Jimmy Winston before he left and Ian McLagan joined. I will have to check out this movie sometime it looks Fab ;-)
Kiki doing " Small Town " . Only in the 60's could you have the vocal with that huge orchestration and backing. This is Kiki in the 60's when she was making records for Fontana/Decca. A UK label really needs to do a CD of all her 60's recordings.
I remember how much I loved listening to many of the great female British singers from the early to mid-60s: Pet Clark, Marianne Faithfull, Cilla Black, Shirley Bassey, Lulu, Dusty Springfield and Mary Hopkin.
Kiki Dee is one of the best singers of the sixties to the present. With her pitch perfect voice and delivery, she really deserved a hit long before 1973. Small Town is from her sixties album, I'm Kiki Dee which is well worth seeking out. I love Kiki Dee.
Wow! Kiki Dee doing SMALL TOWN. Kiki made some great records in the 60's. I've only heard of this film. And early Small Faces before Ian McLagan was even in the band. Thanks for posting! Great quality too.
i wish i'd been around in the '60s,rather than being born at the end of the era :p what a fabulous time for music,fashion etc.....LOVE Small Faces and of course Humble Pie later on;Steve had one of the most monumentally great voices of all time,in my humble opinion :)...thanks for the upload;one doesn't often see things from the '60s!
Kiki looks radiant in B & W. Small Faces look ... young! Great song by Kiki and great performance as alway. The cigar chomping guys at the bar looking at her remind me of Meyeresque quick cuts.
Massively underrated singer, her oeuvre needs to be reassessed, she did some pretty amazing stuff across several genres, blue eyed soul, folk, brit-pop, and disco. She did a great album produced by Elton John.
How can you say she is underrated? Everyone here rates her. Elton John rated her. Shes had goodness knows how many hits. She has a net worth of $10 million. If $10 million is underrated, thats what I want!
Aaah, those "Pirates of the Sound Waves..... If it wasn't for these "floating Radio Stations" us teens of the 60s would never have seen the breaking up of the hold that the BEEB (BBC) had on what should or should NOT have been heard ! They were also the first DJs to breach the 2 minute 30 second limit on "records" that wa stipulated by the BBC ! Thanks to those brave "Sound Seafarers", your memory lives on ! Also see the homage paid to them in that BRILLIANT Movie, "The Boat That Rocked" ! A Brilliant movie with a Great Soundtrack !
Jeez has everyone gone deaf, dumb, & blind.......P. P. Arnold with the Small Faces "Tin Soldier" ..... not only the best voice but quite stunning lovely.... Sure hope its not racist cause I'm a 70 year old white guy.....
Kiki Dee was the first female artist signed to the Tamla-Motown record label in England in the mid-sixties. She had a pretty decent career at that time. Her mid-seventies releases on Elton's Rocket Records label featured some really nice soul as well as folk-rock ballads and love songs, some written by Elton and Bernie, and other great writers. They are definitely worth a listen, especially her album "Loving and Free" which is one of my favorites.
thanks. i didnt know about tamla. im from detroit and it passed me by, but in the mid sixties i was ten, yet still had a radio permanently implanted on my wrist. my biggest problem in life was obtaining batteries. thanks again
She was aslo a hot-shot backing singer. There was Dusty Springfield, Maddie Bell, Lesley Duncan and Kiki Dee and most hits of the time featuring girl choruses would ideally have had at least one of not two, three or even all four of those ladies in the background.
Kiki Dee is the same age as Elton John.. In fact three weeks apart. So she is now over 60 and still looks and sounds fantastic.. Some women just age gracefully and she is one of them..
I wish that the Turner Classic Movies Channel would show this movie. Now that I've seen a clip of it here, I'm interested in seeing it from beginning to end.
The song I Got Mine was released too early or the movie was released too late but either way they weren't released at the same time so the song didn't chart well.
I never knew she had a career from the 60s nor that she was from bradford, I only remember her from 'I got the music in me' and her duet with Elton John. Great singer
Kiki Dee was Pauline Matthews when I knew her, growing up in Lidget Green, Bradford. And isn't that Conrad Phillips, the actor who played William tell in the 50s ITV series for kids? Happy memories!
I was from Great Horton. I met her a couple of times around 1960 - 1962 at parties, both held in Lidget Green. Beckside Road to be exact. I always assumed she must live nearby. Maybe you're right about Little Horton. I remember she was asked to sing ... and she refused LOL!
sunryse111 I read that Eric Stewart's (10cc) wife Gloria is from same place as Kiki Dee aka Pauline Matthews. They attended school together and apparently Kiki fancied Eric as well.
It's torment to hear Steve Marriott sing because I can't sing at all. What a voice! And I'd forgotten that song too and it's great. If only we could turn back the clock to 1965, we've all gone so wrong since then. Aren't those people so beautiful? I'm going to get a video cam to do some music and I'll put it on RU-vid. Don't expect anything as good as this though - I just want to sing something about Theresa May and it will probably only take me ten minutes because I have the attention span of a gnat. So look out for Tru Riley's virtual band! And you lot can name it - I can take it. We've gone so wrong! Steve Marriott, RIP. Wonderful.
@@jerryweber1768 "In My Minds Eye" is my favourite Small Faces song. I heard it recently having forgotten that it existed and then, in my mind's eye, I remembered it from when I first heard it in 1966. There was definitely some marijuana in there somewhere.
Very much like Polly Brown of Pickettywitch; beautiful voice and drop dead gorgeous..you'll see what I mean if you google bluegutter's upload of ''Summertime Feeling''...she also should have been a major star. After PW, she went on to solo work and the duet Sweet Dreams and also performed two songs on the 1976 UK Song for Europe but sadly thereafter slipped off the radar.
TBH I had no idea that this early footage of Kiki Dee existed. She took off briefly in the '70s with I've Got the Music in Me and, with Elton John, Don't Go Breaking My Heart which was massive at the time. It does explain why she had so much depth, though, as she'd clearly been bubbling under for a decade or so before.
@@mickpowell2529 And Dusty Springfield. Her version of "I'm gonna run away from you" is as good as, if not better, than Tami Lynn's. And she was the first white woman to sign for Motown at the age of 19.
The Small Faces chords on the verse are already psychedelic. Those chords became a psych staple for loads of bands (Beatles, Hendrix, Who, etc.) by '67.
kiki fans are almost like a cult . we all adore her excessivly . and we all know she never got the masses to follow her the same way they have other less talented artists. nevertheless we realize she is an original and may have come way before her time or way after her time in the sense of all the great pop artists belong mainly to the past.
I'm very intrigued by the fragments of the plot that show up here...so there's something criminal going on, or espionage, and the Small Faces are on the edges of it. That's pretty odd. There's offshore pirate radio as well. AND Kiki Dee singing in a tiki bar, of all things.
Graham Austin I think he says 'great' in an odd way. I was a teenager at the time and believe me the word 'gay' back then meant jolly/cheerful; it didn't convey today's meaning for at least another decade. Homosexuals were referred to by epithets that today would cause peoples' hair to fall out.
+Marmaduke Winterbotham some examples: Oh yes, I'm the great pretender, just laughing and gay like a clown / Let me tell you about a place, somewhere up-a New York way, where the people are so gay, Twistin' the night away / No milk today, it wasn’t always so, the company was gay, we’d turn night into day.
Motown was by no means an R&B only label. From the mid through the late '60s (and into the '70s), they recorded not just Debbie Dean, Chris Clark and Kiki Dee, but also the Underdogs, Tony Martin, the Ones, the Messengers, Paul Petersen, Soupy Sales, Lesley Gore, Bobby Darin, the Pretty Things, Tom Clay, Love Sculpture and many others who made their mark in different genres.
When she recorded Don't Go Breaking My Heart with Elton John there was all sorts of speculation of them being romantically involved.The only thing I know of by the Small Faces that was a hit in the United States was Itchykoo Park.
Kiki Dee was pretty much incapable of making a bad record. Her early work is stupendous, including this track (Small Town), as well as Early Night, Miracles and Don't Put Your Heart In His Hand.
everything about Kiki is beautiful. adorable face, beautiful blue eyes.perfect full lips,lovely graceful hands,and the sexiest dreamy voice i've ever heard.that chicks a winner.she's impressed me more than any female on you tube.and thats the way it is.
yes and no, we were under threat of nuclear war, or being butchered in Vietnam, and the music was part of the rejection of war and the Vietnam bloodbath. I was in rock bands then, and also kept in college to keep my deferred status, until finally the last year before the war ended I could have been drafted. Of course, Charles Manson didn't help, that really killed the flower generation movement......but yeah, it was fun.....
@@michaeld.mcclish yeah I suppose we often only remember the good things about a decade and block out the negative aspects. I’m the same with the 80’s.
Man, Ronnie Lane looks so young,and is a very underrated bassist, and a good backup singer. The last time I seen him was the ARMS concert at MSG N.Y. It was a Charity concert for him and MS
