In those days it was almost impossible to hear bad music. We were wherever we went surrounded by fantastic, exciting, enchanting music. In shops, pubs, clubs and private parties and when visiting friends. Everywhere fantastic music and completely different atmospheres. From folk to jazz, from soul to rock and so on, but always brilliant. It was pure abundance.
This song is almost 60 years old, and it isn't just still good, it is still awesome, if not better every time you hear it. And not just Van Morrison's voice but the guitar, the drums, the harmonica, the whole vibe of that song is simply so great, it makes me wanna get in my car and just drive.
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Man, just listened to this in Wild At Heart film and didn’t realise it was a Belfast band, or Van Morrison. So much to learn about the 60s. What an era.
First time I became aware particularly about this song was in 1975 when I was a 22yr old disc jockey and I put on the first one hour video compilation VHS-tape on our brand new VHS-player (one of the three first VHS-players in discoteque clubs / dance halls in Denmark) ... but it was performed by Gary Glitter! LOL I think it's a great song, still do, and Van Morrison is a great singer
It truly amazes me that so many of those early Brit rockers really “GOT” the blues and gave it their own spin. I can also hear a little surf guitar in there, which is really, really cool.
to be honest the stones, them, the animals, the pretty things played better blues then muddy waters, or any bands from the south of the macon county line.
@@littlebigjohn69 Huh? Have you ever actually listened to Muddy? Not to mention most of the Brit guys couldn't sing the blues for shit or play harmonica well. Van and Steve Marriott were good singers, as was Eric B., but c'mon, Keith Relf? Jagger? Those guys couldn't hold a vocal candle to the Wolf or Slim Harpo or Junior Wells. And here's the thing, they knew it. The only truly decent harp players were Marriott and later Plant. Most of Clapton's guitar riffs in the early days were lifted from Albert King and other black guys. The Paul Butterfield Blues Band, now THAT was a band with three white guys who knew how to play blues -- probably because they learned it from the guys themselves, not by listening to records. Your comment betrays a really deaf ear and a total ignorance of how all this music developed -- go to any black gospel church on a Sunday and you'll hear the better "rock 'n' roll" ever that you will never, ever hear on a K-Tel compilation. No British rocker worth his salt would agree with your comment. You're confusing 60s rock 'n' roll with actual blues, which is a multi-faceted genre that had been around for decades before John Mayall realized it existed. Heck, just google Magic Sam for an education -- his guitar sound blows half the rockers you've heard out of the water.
@@emmetrobert4425 sorry your showing your bias here, i heard and been to some concerts with howling wolf, bb king (he was a good guitar man but boring as hell), back in the late 50s and early 60s and yes they were the originater of the blues but me personally and this my opinion and taste i rather see VAN MORRISON or eve ERIC BURTON OF THE ANIMALS . i have the stones album 12 by 5 and the early stone album i listen to it millions of time and Jagger has it by far better than any original blues guys. Playing the blues and im not a musician but have good hearing is very simple only needs is a good voice and a good harmonica . by the way i respect your opinion and comes down to taste.
This was my introduction to the song back in '64. I was 7 and my older cousin played it. I think I became a bluesman then and there. Still singing with a band but never sounded this good.
Such an outstandingly MARVELLOUS rendering of a GREAT classic song by the BRILLIANT VOCALIST and FOREVER GREAT MUSICIAN, Van Morrison--- LOVE ❤️ Evelyn O'Connor
Brenden Stop picking a fight with me, I agree with you say 99.99.99.99.5,I have said for many years that my almost next-door neighbor MICK and his palls from them Rolling Stone, borrowed, stole, nicked a million music, vocal and songwriting ideas from Van and Them boys and they never paid a red cent. But Van been the very best rocking singer out of Ireland for the past 50 years what about Saint Phil Lynott and the most Holy Rory Gallagher
@adebahn I refuse to disagree with you on this very important world item on brilliant rocking music because you are completely correct in what you said.
@@barbarawatson5822 They were the three non african Amerikans who could sing like the ones Van, late Joe Cocker and Eric Bourdon. I'd like to know yours five rock's Gods
I'm so lucky to have lived and enjoyed this era of music, this type of music is still in demand and will be for years to come. People really enjoyed the down to earth musicians, and groups that formed, not only in the UK but right across the world
Absolute classic ryhthm and blues, by one the great groups and song from the rockin' 60's. Don't underestimate this bands musical ability, they didn't come much better than this ever!
I remember buying this epic tune on vinyl back in 77 when i was a punk rocker. It still means more to me than anything I listened to back in the day. Love Van Morrison
Way ahead of the times, still just as cool as back in the old days, And on flipside Gloria, 2 great tracks on a single 7" . Must have been in 60's and yet it still does something inside me.
I have seen Van 8 times from 1974 thru 1982 in Austin TX. Small venues- always superb shows. I am a lucky guy, along with being at the right place at the right time.
I have fond memories of this song due to my mum playing Van’s greatest hits on tape in her car when I was a young lad. I’ve come back to this more than 30 years later because this song SLAPS.
Them were a rock group formed in Belfast, Northern Ireland, in April 1964, most prominently known for the rock standard "Gloria" and launching singer Van Morrison's musical career. The original five-member band consisted of Morrison, Alan Henderson, Ronnie Milling, Billy Harrison and Eric Wrixon. Wikipedia
G-L-O-R-I-A, Mystic Eyes and Baby Please Don't Go - - who knew it was THEM - - they were great and I still have their 78 LP and it may even be on one of my still working 8 tracks
Man Van Morrison was so young. This was one of my all time favorite songs they did. Man I was there was a station that played only these songs. This is when music was still music & meant something, not like so who say their musicians & spew trash . Love my oldies .✌️
I've heard several versions of the song including one that I really like by Aerosmith but I have to say this one is my all-time favorite. Not only did it have the Great Van Morrison with the band that started his career, the sound was just so unique bluesy and soulful. ❤️
Got to see Them in concert in 1964 or 65 at the Sacramento Memorial Auditorium. Great great show. Then in the late 70s Van Morrison played a little club in Sacramento called Crabshaw Corner. It held maybe 50-60 people tops. Another great show! I feel really lucky.
I thought it was great when I saw it on Top Of The Pops as a kid way back then, and it stands the test of time. Great driving beat, distinctive vocals and a dramatic lyric, still great!
Oh...simply "fab"!!!...how it takes me back. Such great times,great music and great bands and singers who were all so very different,unique and unforgettable........I own/play so much and so many albums from all the years,this included but somehow,just sharing with like-minded souls on YTube at times means others have similar feelings as to exactly what you like,too,which is just wonderful!
Used to listen to brothers record collection and them LPs were amazing loved them ever since...I was 14 and now still rockin to this type of music ...just amazing!!!!
I remember the first time I heard this, listening to radio Luxembourg in bed back in the sixties. People my age will remember the station used to fade in and out. They played some great music and this one is just awesome, sounds as good now as it did then. I can even remember Luxembourgs jingle. it was the great 208, the ringa ding dinging station of the stars lol. Happy days.
The Royal Ruler and likewise great DJ's from the mid 60's onwards. It is hard to believe that there was only one hour a week of international music on Ireland's only radio station. Commercial radio stations were illegal in the dark ages and "foreign" music was frowned upon by the cultural luddites in charge of the very limited airwaves in those times. Now we have gone full circle, a huge amount of souless foreign music with little or no depth, endurance or singability. Nobody sings songs at work or in their daily lives anymore. They are not encouraged to do so. This is sad. It would be nice to have catchy songs with a singable chorus that last at least a year so that ordinary people can learn them and enjoy them as something to be sung.
THEM was the hardest rocking band of the mid sixties. Baby Please Don't Go was wild but Mystic Eyes was unique. Check it out if you wanna know just how 'avante garde' this band was.
Awesome...never heard this song before...thanks for posting and thanks for You Tube....to me this is as good as it gets...I can see playing this song full blast in an old pickup flying down the backroads at sundown....fantastic..
