Revolution Times | Cool British Singles from January 1968
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- čas přidán 28. 06. 2024
- Welcome to the first episode of "Cool British Singles from 1968".
For the next 12 months we will be revisiting some great British releases from 1968 in chronological order.
January 1968 was a particularly excellent month for singles, with a few psychedelic classics and other sensational tunes that have become cult classics among fans of 60s music.
I hope you enjoy this episode. - Hudba
I absolutely love these videos. They capture the excitement, creativety and naivety of the era perfectly. The best channel on CZcams 🤗
Cheers!
1968 what a year for great music.
No argument from me
And it's going to be a great year for us watching YP!
My exact words after watching this video. Super. Smashing. Not half.
Totally agree.
So happy you are continuing this series! Always excellent with great mix of well known classic and obscure gems
Cheers!
Your work on these posts is in a class all its own. Congratulations and thank you.
Steve Marriott should be a household name in all English speaking countries. Dude was a powerhouse back in the sixties and early seventies.🕊💖🎸
Sure, still a big fan.
I wanted to go hang out in London in 1968, but my mom wouldn't let me. This was because we lived in Chicago, and I only turned eight that year.
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@@janerkenbrack3373 I feel your pain. 😞
Rsrs
A girl up the street wanted to take me to see The Beatles with her in Atlanta and told my mom that it was free for me to get in but my mom said no because I was one year old.
Great video. Lots of killer tracks, By the way the bassist/vocalist for Grapefruit was Alex Young (using the stage name George Alexander). He was the older brother of George, Malcolm and Angus Young. He never emigrated to Australia though. He's in the shot at 16:59 sitting on the left (just under Brian Jones and Donovan). You can totally see the family resemblance.
Status Quo , legends in England & one hit wonders in the states. I remember they opened LiveAid 85 at Wembley Stadium.
Always found Matchstick Men a cool song.
I thought Matchstick Men was a movie with Nicholas Cage.
The American indie band Camper Van Beethoven did a cool cover of it in the early 1990s. That’s where I first heard the song.
@@foxbasealpha they were goofy fun.
They mentioned a guy called Rick Harrison...surely they ment Rick Parfitt
The Creation should have been right up there with the Who and the Kinks. They wrote their own songs, and well, had the same producer, Shel Talmy.
The Creation are one of my all time faves🎉 In the autumn 67 some European papers published the offer of Pete Townshend to the Creation's magnificent lead guitarist Eddie Phillips to join the Who!!! Phillips played the guitar with a violin bow years before Jimmy Page! 😮😅
Love The Creation, but 'How Does It Feel To Feel', "... some critics to cite it as a precursor to shoegaze...". Really? I think not.
"Please excuse my face" is such a great song title!
Indeed it is!
I love Fire Brigade by The Move but the B side Walk Upon the Water is equally great.
Keep on doing your stellar job..still my favorite channel 👍
Fire Brigade and and Flowers in the Rain. Loved both of them.
Penny Valentine (in Disc) called Fire Brigade "a superb piece of nuttiness".
Wonder why Record Mirror was a wee bit sniffy about Walk Upon The Water? "Short of excellence", yet!
Agree with Walk upon the water. Brilliant song with some very original lyrics.
Great selection of music combined with high quality rare footage and excellent production values...this channel is the future of music journalism. Back in the 80's there used to be an amazing magazine/fanzine called BamBalaam written by a guy called Brian Hogg. You had to send him a postal order and get it through the mail it was super imformative,almost scholarly,I'm always reminded of it when I watch this channel.❤
Cheers!
Long live Brian Hogg and John Wagstaff of Format International Record Collectors Magazine❤ Those were the days, when John and I collected stuff from Brian (in Edinburgh, if memory serves me well) Great writer!
I was born in January, 1968! Cool video for me, lol.
Wow this was fantastic as one of the turbulent years of the 20th century got off to a great start music wise with some great releases. The songs here by the Move Manfred Mann The Animals The Creation are my favorites by these groups and the Grapefruit though I like Elevator better had a good record plus any time The Small Faces are doing something you know it will be good. January 1968 was gloomy in the U.S with the Tet Offensive and the capture of the Pueblo but the British as usual were putting out great records and thanks for starting posting great 1968 debut records.
Thanks for the introduction to many unfamiliar bands… Fantastic. It was good to see young Greg Ridley with spooky tooth, who eventually moved on to humble pie.
As always, YP, so much great music and too much of it went unnoticed. Ah, the riches we lived in when chart competition was fierce.
Grapefruit guitarist Alexander Young was the elder brother to The Easybeats' George Young and future AC/DC members Angus and Malcolm.
Very cool to see the promotional poster you showed advertising Eire Apparent supporting Jimi Hendrix at the Pacific Coliseum, a great ice hockey rink built in 1967 to showcase an NHL team that didn't materialise until three years later. Hendrix had family ties to Vancouver as his grandmother lived here, recognised as an important person in her community.
Thank you, as always, YP, for these deep excursions into the charts, music, and bands that deserved more attention than they received.
Thank you very much, glad you dug the video!
This line up of singles would make for a great compilation album!
I'm making a spotify mix, if you're interested. Updating it every video. Some of the tracks aren't on spotify, so some will be missing. Eire Apparent's on there, but neither of the singles mentioned are.
@@monsieurlaguillotine3481 That's a cool thing that you're doing. Looks like I might have to finally download Stotify. How can I search out the playlists?
It’s brilliant that you have gone on to cover 1968. It’s going to be a great twelve months.
PP Arnold should have been a major star. Her recent album is amazing. Would be great if you could do a similar series for US singles.
She can still show the young uns how it's done.
Thank you! Thank you! Thank you! Some absolutely amazing ear candy here. Living in the States, we did not get to hear the Move, and it still boggles the (my) mind. Sky Pilot is okay, maybe the weakest track here (for me), but Fire Brigade brings a smile to my face while getting me out of my chair. Matchstick Men was a medium hit here in New England while Quinn was massive, but radio programmers really needed to be reprogrammed.
Cheers Wylie!
Okay...now we're gettin' somewhere! This is about when I "figured it out." I was a 13-year-old whippersnapper trying to make sense of all this from Mississippi. It weren't easy! I saw Eire Apparent open for Eric Burdon & The Animals on their "Sky Pilot" tour. Whew! That's going back some for me! Thanks as usual for all your great work!
Cheers!
Yesterday's Papers if you ever have merch for sale you should have a T-shirt that just says "The single failed to chart." 😀
Take my money, dammit!
“The single sank without a trace” would be another T shirt.
Good idea!
Ouch.....!
Some of the tracks sounded like they were putting the "Grrr" into " Groovy"!
As always, Grreat stuff from YP!!!
While I'm in bad wordplay mode, Yippy for YP! lol
Cheers!
Lots to love about Spooky Tooth. "Sunshine Help Me" is a great song.
I first heard that song as covered by The Move on their Something Else EP!
Yay! I love it. Pictures of Matchstick Men holds a special place in my childhood.
Status Quo and Pink Floyd had more in common in the '60s than one might think!
Oh here comes another song I’ve not heard since 1968 and had totally forgotten…. Sky Pilot! I remember Matchstick Man and Mighty Quinn. Big Hits in Germany, where I was living at the time. Thank you, well done, enjoyed the old film clips as well as the music!
Thanks!
I still have the single, the A side continues onto the B side. Over 7 minutes in length.
Oh man, gorgeous! This heavy psychedelic episode is very solidly put together again! Thank you so much again Yesterday's Papers!
Thanks Edwin!
Always brilliant videos, thank you. 'A Dream For Julie' was not on their first album though, only 'Please Excuse My Face' which was the b-side on the single released in 1968. Would have been ideal for their debut album indeed.
We watch quite a few music channels, yours is truly the best produced and presented. Thank you!
Thank you very much, glad you enjoy the videos!
Every episode of this series finds me adding another couple songs to my playlist! Great work!
Cool!
So much good music came out in 1968. I look forward to the comming months. I was especially pleased to see Billy Nichols featured. Such a shame that circumstances w/ Immediate records prevented him fro being even more successful. Everytime i hear this song, I laugh at Steve Marriott singing in the background- his voice is so powerful it's a standout. I paid a pretty high price for this CD recently (it's considered a collectors item) but enjoy it thoroughly.
Brilliant album.
@@YesterdaysPapers My favorite song is "Girl from New York". Seems a little heavy for the times with an amazing guitar solo by Marriott. I read somewhiere Billy said Steve played so hard he snapped the guitar neck! Says Billy- "Steve just threw it aside and said "well, there you go!" such a cool dude...
Marriott legend 😊
Some great singles featured here, The Creation were a terrific band, always liked their cover of ‘Cool Jerk’. That page from Record Mirror caught my eye: “Hendrix & Cream are out” says Jeff!
I was more interested in the Jeff Beck article than I was in Status Quo. Didn't know he said that. Well, that's another rabbit hole to crawl into. Oh yeah, and Johnny Rivers. I'm always pausing these videos to read the rest of the items. Yet another layer of history.
Yeah, I paused the video at that point (1:17). Jeff said that Cream and Jimi Hendrix were finished, heavy blues was out, and orchestrated pap like his version of "Love is Blue" was now the happening thing. I'm wondering what kind of drug he was on when he said that?
Pictures of Matchstick Men? The same month, Vanilla Fudge was on Ed Sullivan to play their '67 version of You Keep Me Hanging On. Very similar intro (organ vs guitar) - Americans likely assumed the Quo was the Fudge.
Thankyou for including Kaleidoscope and Fairfield Parlour. Much appreciated...
@@PeterDaltrey Thank you very much, Peter! Great to see you commenting here. Thanks for the music!
Plenty of cosmic tunes - many of which I got scattered across various psychedelic comps.
The Small Faces were at their peak in 68 with the release of their seminal Ogdens' Nut Gone Flake lp.
A feature on Immediate would be good, I’ve got all of Loog Oldhams bios and the rise and fall of Immediate records is fascinating 😎✌️☮️
Absolutely, fabulous performance music, fantastic times. Thank you for posting. Good time for you
Excellent first episode, can't wait for the next ones 👍
Yesterday's Papers Bringing The Goods Again Thanks YP Right Then !
Cheers Jerry!
Thanks for another excellent late 60's month! More ideas for some obsure and not so obsure psych sounds!
Prescient comment from Penny V at 9:50, about Green Tambourine. Also surprised to see Janis Ian was already a name at the time, when she really was at (or near) seventeen.
Thanks YP for another great, informative and entertaining trip back to a great time in music history.
Absolutely Brilliant, Thank you for blessing us with this wonderful history. After you run out of singles, you could do albums of the month.
The Creation were/are so good!! What a month for music - bless you YP for reminding us all
Cheers!
clearly, the rest of 2024 is gonna have some great music played on this channel
your videos are ever a brilliant description about the british music and how the bands increase up on the rock scene . thanks for the great job!!
Thank you.
Alright! Excited to see 1968 singles featured on the channel now. This is gonna be a fun year to look at.
Was great to see Jason Crest in this January '68 episode. Such a great obscure '60s psychedelic band. Cheers.
Cheers!
Not all of course, but a lot of these singles have a slower, mellow groove, while still being psychedelic, which makes me think even more that Satanic Majesties fit perfectly right tight into this sound ❤ awesome episode 👍
Cheers Calvin. "Satanic Majesties" is brilliant.
1968 rocked! Great video and thank you for keeping your series going.
As well as the excellent music, I love seeing the migration of musicians from one band to another! The period clips and "videos" of the artiosts trigger so many memories of these days. Thanks so much for all the hard graft behind the scenes. Keep them coming!
Great again. But something is missing. In Grapefruit lineup, you could have noticed one of the Young brothers. Yes, I mean the Easybeats/AC/DC family. Alexander Young. One more funny thing was his stage name, George Alexander. Just like the REAL name of the Flamin' Groovies bass player. Still following? 😉
Funny too I read the Jeff Beck interview, near the Status Quo article. Where he said that Jimi and Cream were finished.
And, cool, I got this Ride single with a Creation cover.
Anyway, great great job, once again. 👍
From Spooky Tooth came
' Dream Weaver ' Gary Wright
( RIP).
Great seeing some songs by Spooky Tooth here. Gary Wright would go on to release "Dream Weaver" and "Love Is Alive" in 1975, both becoming hits in the US the following year.
Bassist/vocalist Greg Ridley joined Steve Marriott and Peter Frampton in Humble Pie, which earned them the moniker of "Supergroup" by the journalists.
I love to see all the cross-pollination between artists. When I was in a band in the 60's, we had a battle-of-the-bands mindset. To collaborate with another group would have been viewed as treason. Yet, here we see all the greats collaborating both behind the scenes and in the open.
I didn't realise the Psychedelic thing carried on to '68 to this extent
This was pretty much its last hurrah. The Summer Of Love was long over, and the reaction against flower-power and the like was about to set in, one consequence being a short-lived back-to-the-roots rock 'n' roll revival. You could view Fire Brigade and its sharp contrast to Flowers In The Rain as being a harbinger of that trend.
A few months after this one would be seeing the first lads with skinhead haircuts (strangely, they were known initially as "Mods"); a violent swerve away from excessive hirsuteness (though plenty of hair would still continue to be seen, on both head and face).
Thank you for your continued hard work and research. You have excellent taste as well.
Thanks!
I sent overseas for "Pictures of Matchstick Men" from Heanor Record Centre in Derbyshire, but had never heard of the Manchester artist, L S Lowry (1887-1976), until many decades later. He was known for his "pictures of matchstick men". At the time it was popular, I never understood what the song was about: all I knew was that I liked it.
This has been another excellent episode.
Cheers, YP. Thanks for this.
Brian and Michael brought out another hit single about Lowry in 1977. "Matchstick Men and Matchstick Cats and Dogs". It got to No.1 in the UK 😮
what a fantastic time!!
Thanks for another brilliant and fascinating trip down memory lane with these cool singles❤
By the way "Tom Tom" by the creation was a Top 10 Hit in Saarland (Nr 14 in Germany, 11 weeks in charts) in July 1967 where it was the follow up to Painter Man (Nr 8,18 weeks in Charts) 🎉
Always a pleasure.
Kaleidoscope UK! Genius!
Thank you very much for these videos. They are absolutely terrific. Well done and informative.
As always I enjoyed it. Most Americans have never heard of the Quo and don't about their longevity in the UK and the rest of Europe. I discovered the Creation in the early 90s and in recent years their music has been featured in TV commercials here in the States. I noticed Olympic Studios in London in the photo of Stever Marriott and Ronnie Lane. I met the latter at a Los Angeles nightclub in 1987 and was very humbled as he was suffering from MS. Something extra. January 1968 saw the second Super Bowl which was played in Miami. It was the final game with Vince Lombardi as head coach of the Green Bay Packers as they beat the Oakland Raiders 33-14. The Super Bowl Trophy awarded to the winner is named after him. Interesting huh. I know many UK fans who watch this channel like American football.
I respect your quality of intention. You are beyond the rest sleeping in their satisfactions.
I would say most American rock fans have heard of Status Quo, but don't know their music.
@@tomcarl8021 trust me, they've haven't
Cheers Chris! Yeah, the last days of Ronnie Lane's life were very tragic. And he never got any royalties for all those Small Faces hits due to bad management deals, etc.
@@YesterdaysPapers Don Arden I understand was a horse's ass
Love this music so much, thanks!!!
Another brilliant video. I've discovered so many hidden gems thanks to you! Keep up the good work!
Would like to have seen this edition of Status Quo. And I can't believe I never got around to checking out Spooky Tooth until recently being hipped to them by this very channel. They really WERE pretty great!
Cool! I love Spooky Tooth.
I ALWAYS enjoy your videos, never mind the year, the month, or the content..! Your videos are ALWAYS excellent pieces of highly enjoyable and interesting information..!
Thanks!
Whoopeee! I figured you'd either do 1965 or 1968 next. Happy to see you go with the latter! From what I gather '68 was a bit more eclectic and it'll be interesting to see how England pivoted away from the swinging era and the psychedelic era. I wonder if we'll see that shift towards heavier bands...
I hope you meant shift.
Ill take the attack and eire apparent. Thanks YP for another great collection.
another great month's worth! Thanks so much. :-)
Love it when a new video drops, there's always a little gem in there that I've never heard before.
Psychedelia still rules the roost in January '68, with so many cool, trippy sides seeing release--although "Fire Brigade"'s Cochran quote foreshadows the "return to rock'n'roll" trend that would sweep through UK rock that spring. Oddly enough I never really took to "Fire Brigade" until just recently, but now I like it. "Sky Pilot" is one of the greatest tracks from that lineup of The Animals, while "Sunshine Help Me" is a lost classic that would be covered to even greater effect by The Move a few months later. Indeed, I like just about every single reviewed in this clip, from Manfred Mann (their finest hour) to Status Quo to Grapefruit, although you missed a few by Cherry Smash, The Virgin Sleep, The Plague, and Cat's Pyjamas. No matter--this was a BLAST to watch and I'm just as excited to watch this series as I was for '66 and '67!! You're archiving history here, YP!
Cheers, Spiritof66!
Status Quo apparently went through some name changes. Besides Traffic Jam, were they (or a semblance of them) known as The Spectres? In 1967 that group covered (We Ain’t Got) Nothin’ Yet, that The Blue Magoos made into a hit that same year. What a great beginning for 1968 with Status Quo!
Yes, that is correct I've heard tracks from BBC live recordings like Neighbour Neighbour and Gloria, fun stuff.
@@fueledbylove Glad to know I didn’t imagine that. Thanks for filling in the holes.
Yep Boomtownrat, they were called The Spectres in 1966.
I really enjoy these 45 singles posts!
Thanks...interesting and informative as ever.
I rather like the contemporary London street scene included in these videos.
Cheers
Anyway, good start, Can't wait to see how psychedelia became harder and slowly phased throughout 68, cheers!
Fantastic, YP. Some all-time favs in there - The Creation, The Move - and plenty of discoveries! Spooky Tooth was a good surprise and like the great Paul Weller was a little influenced by them when going solo. As usual, thanks! Cool stuff indeed.
Cheers!
Have heard only a few of these so thank you again, YP for a very enjoyable education. I wish my college classes were so much fun. Of the new ones to me, that Jason Crest song was the one that caught my ears on this video.
Cheers Willie! The Jason Crest single is quite good.
Excellent! Please keep putting out these videos! I've discovered TONS of beautiful bands, music, and great obscure albums by watching these videos. Thank you! Keep up the good work!
Cheers, that's what it's all about. Sharing the love for the mjusic!
Keep doing ! We enjoy so much this reviews.
Another smash! Great episode!
love your content, keep going!
Another great month of singles. Thanks so much! 😂
another cracking video and great info
Great show my friend!
What a fantastic video have a wonderful weekend also Canada day is Monday where I live in ❤😊
This music never died
Another great video - thanks! I'm definitely hunting for some of those B-sides!
Or track down some of those Marriott / Lane produced SF backed songs
Great Video, YP, with a good mix of well known classics and interesting rarities. Love "The Mighty Quin" by Manfred Mann. Totally agree with Penny Valentine's review of that single.
Cheers Greg!
I was just talking to Olivia D’Abo the actress from the TV show “The Wonder Years” about her dad’s song the mighty Quinn. She Gave me some fascinating stories about as a child people like Kenny Jones of the small faces and Ron Wood coming over to their house and playing with her.
I recall having a bit of a crush on her when I watched that show, very attractive lady.
Wow! If only....if only all those singles and their B-sides were collected, remastered, and released on one CD! Hours, if not days, of pure listening pleasure! Sure, there are some less-than-original and hungry bands trying to cash in on the psychedelic trend, but you could hear many bands moving away from the 50s vocal sounds, and the early 60s Pop sounds.
Well done! Ive been waiting for this. Thank you!
Another great post! Just checked out Eire Apparent's 1969 album Sunrise and its a corker! Thanks for the tip. Keep up the great work! 🙂🤟
Cheers.
oh jeez, I was worried this series was over. Glad to see that isn't the case.
Interesting stuff as normal. If I could like it more than once I would. 😍
A month to remember...
Some really fantastic singles particularly by The Creation and Kaleidescope but my favourite is by PP Arnold. Sooo good.
Great tune.
"Nite-Is-A-Comin" is such a MASSIVE tune. Massive, massive, massive. I remember when Japanese producer Cornelius was making the album "Dr. Head's World Tower" for his group Flipper's Guitar, widely regarded as their best, and it featured so many 60s nods and samples since Cornelius was a huge fan of 60s contemporary rock and pop. There are plenty of "Pet Sounds" samples on it, for instance. But the most massive tune on it deliberately samples "Nite-Is-A-Comin" for their last track for 10 grand minutes.
Yeah, "Nite Is A-Comin" is brilliant.
some of those songs are still around and you can hear it in radios, bars, supermarkets etc......crazy isn't? and it's only January ! Are there any memorable songs that came out in January this year & that will be played around in 56 years?