What stands out is McCartney's certainty of what works artistically/commercially and what doesn't -- the. song, the sound, etc. Of course that reflects with his confidence in his own band's music, even at this relatively early stage. He and Lennon knew their stuff.
This was mere weeks before The Beatles played The Ed Sullivan Show. Even though the Lads were topping the Charts, I doubt that in his wildest dreams, Paul could have predicted the immense impact their upcoming American tour would have on the world. These were exciting times for music! Another fantastic video YP and your outro is lovely, thank you.
@@YesterdaysPapers …..YP, I realise you’re busy but should you get the time, I’d like to ask a favour? Having noticed a typo in my comment, I quickly edited but anytime I do this, I lose your ❤️. It’s almost always very early-morning here in Australia when your videos first appear, so mistakes happen and being something of a pedant, I’m compelled to correct them. It’s not a big deal but it is disappointing to lose your special acknowledgement, so I wondered if you knew of any way around this? Thanks mate.
Time goes by "faster" as we age. Remember when you began High School and couldn't imagine graduating four years later? Four years is an eternity when we're young.
I see the stones at #15 with the Beatles “I want to be your man”. This must have been RIGHT as they were exploding into the scene. This point in history was the calm before the storm. The eve of the greatness that was to come from so many legendary artists.
George Bean's record was written by Jagger/Richards and produced by Andrew Loog Oldham. Additionally, it appears as though Wayne Gibson's "Come On Let's Go" was produced by Shel Talmy, who would go on to great production success with The Kinks "You Really Got Me", later that year.
Listening to these reviews makes you realize that for every hit that is still remembered to this day there were dozens of other songs getting airplay that are now long forgotten.
What a level headed, intelligent chap. And not afraid to dish out some shade. I don't know enough about the Brit charts back then but I bet he was right about most of his opinions. I love Martha and the Vandellas but he's right about Quicksand--it doesn't scale the heights of Heatwave. I remember thinking the mix on Quicksand sounded a bit shrill and congested and remember liking the stereo version better, unusual for me since the mono usually had the power and so many stereo versions (take the Hollies for instance) were poor. Thanks as always YP. You're the best!
Paul's ability to recognise the artists impresses me. He's obviously up on what else is in the charts. Cool that he had nothing but good words for Rory Storm. As soon as I Just Don't Understand opened, I knew it from the Freddie and the Dreamers version. Cool that Paul acknowledges Freddie, and the possibility that Paul may have recommended the song to him is interesting. It certainly shows the camaraderie that existed between the various Liverpool groups. Some decent singles for Paul, though listening with modern ears I may be a tad kinder to what he's been given. Still, he offers good words with an ear for what he feels is hit material.
1964, an interesting year! On February 7 the British Invasion started with the arrival of The Beatles in NYC. So this video is from just before that! I like the record from Rory Storm and The Hurricanes. And some cool garage in the US Chart from The Kingsmen and The Trashmen 👍 My brother and I couldn't stop laughing when we played "Surfin' Bird", which was (and still is) in my dad's collection 😂! Thank you Yesterday's Papers!
Best music channel on CZcams!! I love you guys 😊💯. What a time capsule, it always fascinates me what was on the charts at the time when an artist reviewed current singles. Obviously Beatlemania had a firm grip in the UK at the time and “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” at Number 1 here in America…very exciting times.
Great review by Mr. McCartney. I will say though, I don't think you have to live by a beach to love and appreciate the surf sound 🏄🏄♂🏄♀ 😂🤔 Fab outro as per usual, YP 💖
I thought Paul was thoughtful, knowledgeable...and a little overly critical at times. But he had a not-very-exciting bunch of songs to listen to there, 'Drag City' being the best of the not-very-good. Yet, in just a few short years, music was going to get very strange and exciting indeed. Great organ sound on the outro, by the way...love it!
I particularly enjoyed George Bean's Will you be my lover tonight, which was actually penned for him by Jagger and Richards and produced by Loog Oldham. B-side It should be you rocks too
Paul just before The Fabs played Ed Sullivan (two Sundays in a row) and became superstars. He knew his stuff, even then. Good to hear a few records with which I was previously unfamiliar. Nice what he said about Rory Storm. Of course they knew him; they nicked his drummer! Sad about Rory's death, officially an accidental overdose; ostensibly, his mum killed herself when she found his body. One has to wonder. We had a wonderful but definitely emotionally unstable actress here in the States named Margaret Sullavan (that's correct, an "i," not an "a") who had many struggles with depression and erratic behavior. She was found dead of an officially "accidental" barbiturate overdose in 1960, age 50, and few people have believed it was an accident since then. She starred opposite Jimmy Stewart and Frank "The Wizard of Oz" Morgan in one of the best romantic screwball comedies ever, "The Shop Around the Corner" (1940) directed by Ernst Lubitsch. The three appeared again later the same year in the (for America) early anti-Nazi drama "The Mortal Storm," directed by Frank Borzage. Sullavan was also the mother of Brooke Hayward, Dennis Hopper's first wife and the author of the memoir "Haywire," which detailed her mother's mental illness; both of Brooke Hayward's siblings, a brother and sister, Sullavan's other children, were official suicides with no "accidental" attached.
The Shop Around The Corner is one of my all time fave movies and I make sure I watch it every Christmas (the movie does end on Christmas Eve after all) they remade the movie years later as You've Got Mail with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, but though okay it wasn't a fraction as good as the original. Now if I can just find a faux leather cigarette box that plays Ochi Chërnye when opened....
Paul's ear was golden and having instantaneous perception of a recordings value- translates into making sure fire hit records. You can't teach good taste. I recognized the 'Long Tall Texan' tune, and I know it was not the version commonly played here on the west coast. In our version, to end the song they tagged the finish with a saxophone blast of 'the Old Gray Mare- She Ain't What She Used to Be' in a Benny Hill like style. remember?
'That Boy John' is great, it was infamously pulled from the US market when JFK was assassinated. Never heard of George Bean but that's a great song too, written by Jagger-Richards and produced by Andrew Oldham. 'Quicksand' is not quite as good as 'Heatwave' but still worthy. Best on the UK chart: (4) I Only Want to Be With You, (23) Baby I Love You, (26) Don't Talk to Him. All superb! Favourites on the US chart: (8) Out of Limits, (10) Anyone Who Had a Heart, (12 )Um Um Um Um Um Um. Again all are terrific
Bert weeding taught a generation of British lads to play guitar with books like his Play In A Day ! Pimmy page has talked of him many times ' hats of Bert 'Thanks YP I'm always happy to see another installment is up Cheers !
For January 1964, I think Paul McCartney had a surprisingly good batch here apart from a couple of lesser goods, unlike John Lennon who was given a comparatively poor selection from what was obviously another week of this same month. Jan And Dean, good, although unlike their earlier singles such as Baby Talk, they were by then getting to sound too much like The Beach Boys. Their Beach Boys influence here was too obvious. The George Bean one was passable. But Paul seemed unaware that it was written for him by Mick Jagger/Keith Richard. The Bert Weedon one was a bore. But The Raindrops' one that followed it was quite good. They included ace songwriters Jeff Barry/Ellie Greenwich who wrote dozens of hits for household names (Leader Of The Pack, River Deep Mountain High). The last track that Paul reviewed here was The Druids' UK version of Long Tall Texan. It was originally recorded in the States by a group called The Flickers of which I posted a link here. But it is the SECOND of the two tracks on this video. czcams.com/video/ReL1cyf4fcc/video.html It was already covered in the States by The Kingsmen. But months after this group The Druids covered it, it was most famously covered live by The Beach Boys who recorded what was by far the strongest version, even though they only released it on an album. As for Wayne Gibson, all of his stuff was run-of-the-mill, including his later mediocre version of Under My Thumb, which he then became best known and most popular for, even though it was nowhere near as good as The Stones' original. But the cherry in the cake here was easily the one by Martha And The Vandellas, called Quicksand. Paul was right in saying it was similar to their last previous one, but seemed unaware that Heatwave was a huge hit in the States, and was their second U.S. hit. Quicksand gave them their third. But they did it all over again with their next single Live Wire. Quicksand was their fourth single under that name, I'll Have To Let Him Go, Come And Get These Memories, & Heatwave were their previous three. Previous to that, they had a couple of singles released in the States on small labels as The Vells. I looked at the chart here for that January week of 1964, and there were only a few duffs - Harry Secombe, The Singing Nun and Kathy Kirby, plus a few lesser goods, but otherwise it was quite a good chart.
Judging by the forgettable singles reviewed here, what pop music needed in January of 1964 was for something new to break out and make people forget most of what had gone on before.
I have to agree with him. 🤔Most of these tracks sound pleasing and are good enough, but they're very derivative and "samey". Quicksand does sound a lot like a less energetic and interesting version of Heatwave. And Drag City is a pale version of Surf City, where you just replace surf boards with fast cars. Everyone just sticking to a formula. Paul is always so concise when he does these things. He tries to identify the artist, says something nice if he can, then he rules it a hit or a miss (always towards its potential commercial success, not a deep dive into his own opinion of it as an artistic work). Sticking to his own little formula if you will (well, Melody Maker's formula anyway😛).
How is it Macca and the rest were so intelligent. The British education system must of been top notch back then. By 15 they were already advanced enough to take on the world with either an Art degree or apprenticeships in trades skills. You hear it from almost every artist of the period that they had already had some other career path in mind before becoming a rock star.
Imagine ( no pun intended ) if Paul did not think the way he was thinking at that time ( of the creative genius that he was ), would The Beatles be able to reach the apex that they did?..
I've pestered the OP of this channel with similar questions before, but were this and the Lennon one from Jan '64 the first ever of these to be done/published?
I always liked "That Boy John", and I had the 45. Its B-side was "Hanky Panky", which would become a huge hit for Tommy James, two years later. For those of you who'd like to hear it : czcams.com/video/9jhtDuosFF0/video.html
The U.S. charts do a better job standing the test of time. It's cool to see what the brits where listening to though. Paul McCartney was being his usual diplomatic self. No surprises there.
It's interesting that you mention that 'cause Beatles songs were usually good on record but not in clubs. Even in the 60s, DJs in clubs and discotheques rarely played Beatles songs because they just never worked in a club setting.
I love the falsetto and the drums. Drag City features TWO of the greatest drummers of all time, Hal Blaine and Earl Palmer. And the song was co-written by Brian Wilson, who became a big inspiration for Paul.
But as he said, it was a U.S. thing. Cars were a huge part of the American lifestyle, so it was an easy spinoff. The Beatles could have written a great song about cricket or soccer and it would still bomb in the U.S.
It's what I love about this time period in music. The atomic burst in creativity and diversity in sound and style. It's insane as to how much God level music was put out in the span of six years.
I'll Have you know that Sir Harry Seagoon was in the charts with "I Ruled The Word" *raspberry* lol I thought there were some good songs in episode's Top 30.
@@YesterdaysPapers much raunchier than the beatles for sure. But thats another thing that put the Beatles ahead early. They could write songs, albeit simple pop. Took awhile for the stones to catch up there too. Ha. Have to wonder what George Martin trying to produce the stones would have been like.
@Kevhead1 I think George Martin producing the Stones would have been terrible, they would have sounded too polished. I think the fact that the Stones recorded their debut in a cheaper studio with an engineer that probably didn't know what he was doing really worked for them 'cause it made the record sound raw and spontaneous.
That selection shows how far above the crowd the Beatles were. Uninspired cover after uninspired cover of songs that had been covered many times before and weren't very good in the first place.
To be fair, the Beatles also recorded several uninspired covers in 1963 and 1964. Some of those covers they recoded at the time like "Please Mr Postman", for instance, were just as medocre and unnecessary as the covers Paul reviewed here.
Play in a day, i wish. I’ve worn through two copies over the half century and i still can’t bloody play the damn thing. The poor ripped off french nationalist singing nun and her wonderful nicker song, i hadn’t a clue what it was about. But it gave me disturbing visions.😂
Wow, they get Paul in there to rate records and they serve up another pile of flops. Way to go, Melody Maker. They must've taken all the good disks home themselves. Lesson learned, though; even the Golden Age of Pop had its share of crapola.
This is a pile of groups and singers that for the most part would be pushed into the trash can by the Beatles and the British Invasion bands. They would be made to sound old fashioned.
Hit parade had decent to good songs only for 20 years: 1965 to 1985 and that´s it. Any other year´s top 100 hits are atrocious . The best albuns had no hits neither made success - with very few exceptions
What stands out is McCartney's certainty of what works artistically/commercially and what doesn't -- the. song, the sound, etc. Of course that reflects with his confidence in his own band's music, even at this relatively early stage. He and Lennon knew their stuff.
Paul knew popular music like nobody's business even at this early stage...the Beatles truly had their finger on the pulse of the 1960s!
He knew his music and was very honest. I wish they had given more interesting songs.
Well if there is one guy who knows a hit when he hears it , Paul McCartney is the guy.
Written more of them along with John and solo than anyone in History.
ANOTHER BEATLES REVIEW!!! THIS IS NOT A DRILL!! AND IT IS PAUL MCCARTNEY AS WELL!!! this has made my day 👍
😏And unlike the emergency alarm call, I actually received notification of it lol
He was spot on with everything - it wasn't his fault they were nearly all duds.
Jan and Dean were AWESOME
@@michaelrochester48 I did say 'nearly'...Anyway, by 'Drag City,' as Paul rightly points out, the formula was beginning to wear a bit thin.
paul has an ear for music....
@@appledoreman Brian Wilson took that sound and developed it in spectacular way to rival the Beatles until he burnt out in '67.
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This was mere weeks before The Beatles played The Ed Sullivan Show. Even though the Lads were topping the Charts, I doubt that in his wildest dreams, Paul could have predicted the immense impact their upcoming American tour would have on the world. These were exciting times for music! Another fantastic video YP and your outro is lovely, thank you.
Thanks, Linda.
@@YesterdaysPapers …..YP, I realise you’re busy but should you get the time, I’d like to ask a favour? Having noticed a typo in my comment, I quickly edited but anytime I do this, I lose your ❤️. It’s almost always very early-morning here in Australia when your videos first appear, so mistakes happen and being something of a pedant, I’m compelled to correct them. It’s not a big deal but it is disappointing to lose your special acknowledgement, so I wondered if you knew of any way around this? Thanks mate.
@@lindadote No problem.
@@YesterdaysPapers …..oh you’re a gem YP, thanks. I appreciate your valuable time. 😘
No other brutish band had any success in the US until the Beatles....
love paul's concept of time's passage with the "years ago" expression and being all of 21.
Time goes by "faster" as we age. Remember when you began High School and couldn't imagine graduating four years later? Four years is an eternity when we're young.
@@total.stranger i came into the world at aged 35 so not sure what you mean
Such a musician, that guy. "Long Tall Texan" sounds exactly like a Coasters song. I know it from the Beach Boys version I heard in the 70s.
It was on their 1964 live album, 'Beach Boys in Concert.'
22 years old ready to take over the world.
He was still 21 here
Nice to see the Trashmen near the top of the charts where they belong!!! Cheers!!
Love the Trashmen and the Kingsmen.
I see the stones at #15 with the Beatles “I want to be your man”. This must have been RIGHT as they were exploding into the scene. This point in history was the calm before the storm. The eve of the greatness that was to come from so many legendary artists.
Yep, I didn't include the British EP Chart in the video but the Stones' first EP was at number 3 at the time.
The storm had already started as far as the greatest of them all were concerned
George Bean's record was written by Jagger/Richards and produced by Andrew Loog Oldham. Additionally, it appears as though Wayne Gibson's "Come On Let's Go" was produced by Shel Talmy, who would go on to great production success with The Kinks "You Really Got Me", later that year.
They didn't give Paul much to work with here.
Listening to these reviews makes you realize that for every hit that is still remembered to this day there were dozens of other songs getting airplay that are now long forgotten.
I think not many of these songs got airplay at the time, most of the singles he reviewed here never charted,
Like this, Macca dishing it out very simply. Shortly after this, he conquered the world with the three other guys and shaped the sixties.
The two songs on the George Bean single are the first Jagger-Richards songwriting credits on record.
Yep.
What a level headed, intelligent chap. And not afraid to dish out some shade. I don't know enough about the Brit charts back then but I bet he was right about most of his opinions. I love Martha and the Vandellas but he's right about Quicksand--it doesn't scale the heights of Heatwave. I remember thinking the mix on Quicksand sounded a bit shrill and congested and remember liking the stereo version better, unusual for me since the mono usually had the power and so many stereo versions (take the Hollies for instance) were poor.
Thanks as always YP. You're the best!
Cheers, Willie!
@@YesterdaysPapers Good evening, mate
Sir Paul mailed it 100% but he is a genius 🤟
Paul's ability to recognise the artists impresses me. He's obviously up on what else is in the charts. Cool that he had nothing but good words for Rory Storm. As soon as I Just Don't Understand opened, I knew it from the Freddie and the Dreamers version. Cool that Paul acknowledges Freddie, and the possibility that Paul may have recommended the song to him is interesting. It certainly shows the camaraderie that existed between the various Liverpool groups. Some decent singles for Paul, though listening with modern ears I may be a tad kinder to what he's been given. Still, he offers good words with an ear for what he feels is hit material.
Hey hey hey! It´s a Blind Date day !! Thumbs up!
1964, an interesting year! On February 7 the British Invasion started with the arrival of The Beatles in NYC. So this video is from just before that! I like the record from Rory Storm and The Hurricanes. And some cool garage in the US Chart from The Kingsmen and The Trashmen 👍 My brother and I couldn't stop laughing when we played "Surfin' Bird", which was (and still is) in my dad's collection 😂! Thank you Yesterday's Papers!
Cheers, Edwin.
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Cheers as well YP! 😄
Thank u for uploading this!
Imagine reading Blind Date and seeing your record panned by Macca?
Best music channel on CZcams!! I love you guys 😊💯. What a time capsule, it always fascinates me what was on the charts at the time when an artist reviewed current singles. Obviously Beatlemania had a firm grip in the UK at the time and “I Wanna Hold Your Hand” at Number 1 here in America…very exciting times.
Thank you very much!
The Beatles were starting to record A Hard Day's Night that month!!! 🤯
Cool that in the 🇺🇸 both Louie Louie & Surfin' Bird were in the Top 5. Poor Paul was dealt a stack of turkeys !
5:48 Oh my God it's Surfin' Bird by The Trashmen! That's my favourite song of all time!! (Family guy quote)
Great review by Mr. McCartney. I will say though, I don't think you have to live by a beach to love and appreciate the surf sound 🏄🏄♂🏄♀ 😂🤔
Fab outro as per usual, YP 💖
Thanks, Sophie!
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I thought Paul was thoughtful, knowledgeable...and a little overly critical at times. But he had a not-very-exciting bunch of songs to listen to there, 'Drag City' being the best of the not-very-good. Yet, in just a few short years, music was going to get very strange and exciting indeed.
Great organ sound on the outro, by the way...love it!
Paul was a tough young lad!
Comparing this music to what Paul was doing is ‘interesting’.
I was deeply infatuated with him in Jan ‘64 :))
“i just don’t understand’ sounded good.
Ah, the Hollies in the charts, where they belong.
I particularly enjoyed George Bean's Will you be my lover tonight, which was actually penned for him by Jagger and Richards and produced by Loog Oldham. B-side It should be you rocks too
I like that song, too.
These were fair and reasonable assessments. This was about the time I really started paying closer attention to music.
Paul just before The Fabs played Ed Sullivan (two Sundays in a row) and became superstars. He knew his stuff, even then. Good to hear a few records with which I was previously unfamiliar. Nice what he said about Rory Storm. Of course they knew him; they nicked his drummer! Sad about Rory's death, officially an accidental overdose; ostensibly, his mum killed herself when she found his body. One has to wonder. We had a wonderful but definitely emotionally unstable actress here in the States named Margaret Sullavan (that's correct, an "i," not an "a") who had many struggles with depression and erratic behavior. She was found dead of an officially "accidental" barbiturate overdose in 1960, age 50, and few people have believed it was an accident since then. She starred opposite Jimmy Stewart and Frank "The Wizard of Oz" Morgan in one of the best romantic screwball comedies ever, "The Shop Around the Corner" (1940) directed by Ernst Lubitsch. The three appeared again later the same year in the (for America) early anti-Nazi drama "The Mortal Storm," directed by Frank Borzage. Sullavan was also the mother of Brooke Hayward, Dennis Hopper's first wife and the author of the memoir "Haywire," which detailed her mother's mental illness; both of Brooke Hayward's siblings, a brother and sister, Sullavan's other children, were official suicides with no "accidental" attached.
Damn that's sad
The Shop Around The Corner is one of my all time fave movies and I make sure I watch it every Christmas (the movie does end on Christmas Eve after all) they remade the movie years later as You've Got Mail with Tom Hanks and Meg Ryan, but though okay it wasn't a fraction as good as the original. Now if I can just find a faux leather cigarette box that plays Ochi Chërnye when opened....
@@fuzzlewit9 who asked?
Some great factoids there. I love a good factoid, me
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Paul's ear was golden and having instantaneous perception of a recordings value- translates into making sure fire hit records. You can't teach good taste. I recognized the 'Long Tall Texan' tune, and I know it was not the version commonly played here on the west coast. In our version, to end the song they tagged the finish with a saxophone blast of 'the Old Gray Mare- She Ain't What She Used to Be' in a Benny Hill like style. remember?
Ringo wanted to be a country western music Star ⭐
Great organ at the end!
'That Boy John' is great, it was infamously pulled from the US market when JFK was assassinated.
Never heard of George Bean but that's a great song too, written by Jagger-Richards and produced by Andrew Oldham.
'Quicksand' is not quite as good as 'Heatwave' but still worthy.
Best on the UK chart: (4) I Only Want to Be With You, (23) Baby I Love You, (26) Don't Talk to Him. All superb!
Favourites on the US chart: (8) Out of Limits, (10) Anyone Who Had a Heart, (12 )Um Um Um Um Um Um. Again all are terrific
@Yesterday´s Papers , could you make videos from the last Blind Dates´issues, please?
Cool to see Elvis and the Beatles and the Stones all in the top 20 at that early time in rock’s history!!
Bert weeding taught a generation of British lads to play guitar with books like his Play In A Day ! Pimmy page has talked of him many times ' hats of Bert 'Thanks YP I'm always happy to see another installment is up Cheers !
Cheers!
For January 1964, I think Paul McCartney had a surprisingly good batch here apart from a couple of lesser goods, unlike John Lennon who was given a comparatively poor selection from what was obviously another week of this same month.
Jan And Dean, good, although unlike their earlier singles such as Baby Talk, they were by then getting to sound too much like The Beach Boys. Their Beach Boys influence here was too obvious.
The George Bean one was passable. But Paul seemed unaware that it was written for him by Mick Jagger/Keith Richard. The Bert Weedon one was a bore. But The Raindrops' one that followed it was quite good. They included ace songwriters Jeff Barry/Ellie Greenwich who wrote dozens of hits for household names (Leader Of The Pack, River Deep Mountain High).
The last track that Paul reviewed here was The Druids' UK version of Long Tall Texan. It was originally recorded in the States by a group called The Flickers of which I posted a link here. But it is the SECOND of the two tracks on this video.
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It was already covered in the States by The Kingsmen. But months after this group The Druids covered it, it was most famously covered live by The Beach Boys who recorded what was by far the strongest version, even though they only released it on an album.
As for Wayne Gibson, all of his stuff was run-of-the-mill, including his later mediocre version of Under My Thumb, which he then became best known and most popular for, even though it was nowhere near as good as The Stones' original.
But the cherry in the cake here was easily the one by Martha And The Vandellas, called Quicksand. Paul was right in saying it was similar to their last previous one, but seemed unaware that Heatwave was a huge hit in the States, and was their second U.S. hit. Quicksand gave them their third. But they did it all over again with their next single Live Wire. Quicksand was their fourth single under that name, I'll Have To Let Him Go, Come And Get These Memories, & Heatwave were their previous three. Previous to that, they had a couple of singles released in the States on small labels as The Vells.
I looked at the chart here for that January week of 1964, and there were only a few duffs - Harry Secombe, The Singing Nun and Kathy Kirby, plus a few lesser goods, but otherwise it was quite a good chart.
Great!
Judging by the forgettable singles reviewed here, what pop music needed in January of 1964 was for something new to break out and make people forget most of what had gone on before.
When you consider that the Beatles were doing, 'She Loves You', this batch of singles wern't too bad. It was 1964 after all
Yes, I particularly liked Bert Weedon, The Vandellas, George Bean, Rory Storm and The Cresters' I just don't understand
She loves you still has a staying power difficult to erode tho, either because of their tight interplay or some powerful chords
@@mariuspoppFM I liked the Wayne Gibson track as well. Cool guitars on that one.
@@YesterdaysPapers true
@@mariuspoppFM "She Loves You" is The Beatles first great record.
That sounded like Ritchie Blackmore on the “good sound from the guitar” song.
How can anybody not like "Quicksand"?
Fascinating to think how ready America was for the Beatles right at this time. Kennedy had been killed only two months before.
A great blast from the past as always Yest! I wrote a song about 'Yesterdays papers'...Really..It's on my site. Cheers.
Cool!
lol I'm so glad minds were expanded from 65 on. Cos this could not continue lmao
I have to agree with him. 🤔Most of these tracks sound pleasing and are good enough, but they're very derivative and "samey". Quicksand does sound a lot like a less energetic and interesting version of Heatwave. And Drag City is a pale version of Surf City, where you just replace surf boards with fast cars. Everyone just sticking to a formula. Paul is always so concise when he does these things. He tries to identify the artist, says something nice if he can, then he rules it a hit or a miss (always towards its potential commercial success, not a deep dive into his own opinion of it as an artistic work). Sticking to his own little formula if you will (well, Melody Maker's formula anyway😛).
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I wonder what he might say about the same line up of songs now a days! That would be an interesting perspective
American band SPOON does a great cover of "I Just Don't Understand".
The songs had so much reverb at that time... it hurts.
Before listening, he'll have something positive to say about all of them. DANGIT!
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Every time someone doesn’t totally love a Motown record I get super defensive 😂
if this was the best the radio could do I'da pawned it
How is it Macca and the rest were so intelligent. The British education system must of been top notch back then. By 15 they were already advanced enough to take on the world with either an Art degree or apprenticeships in trades skills. You hear it from almost every artist of the period that they had already had some other career path in mind before becoming a rock star.
Getting a lot of George Bean mentions last few weeks. Can't get enough.
Imagine ( no pun intended ) if Paul did not think the way he was thinking at that time ( of the creative genius that he was ), would The Beatles be able to reach the apex that they did?..
Dave Clark Five was number 1??!
I've pestered the OP of this channel with similar questions before, but were this and the Lennon one from Jan '64 the first ever of these to be done/published?
I believe the Blind Date section started in 1963. I'm not sure if these were the first Blind Dates with members of the Beatles.
I always liked "That Boy John", and I had the 45. Its B-side was "Hanky Panky", which would become a huge hit for Tommy James, two years later.
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The U.S. charts do a better job standing the test of time. It's cool to see what the brits where listening to though. Paul McCartney was being his usual diplomatic self. No surprises there.
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Beatles knocking Louie Louie out of #1. Not surprised 🤘
Raises eyebrows and says in mildly scouse accent, "Well I dunno, you know..."
Paul's comments are spot-on - "Nice song, not a hit - too 'samey' - good in a club, but not on record'" - that's a mistake Paul's band seldom made!
It's interesting that you mention that 'cause Beatles songs were usually good on record but not in clubs. Even in the 60s, DJs in clubs and discotheques rarely played Beatles songs because they just never worked in a club setting.
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@@YesterdaysPapers Agreed. I know someone who saw them in the early days and commented you couldn't really dance to their records
paul mccartney was right. but all these songs are better than his newer material.
Agreed!
I would actually rate Drag City higher than some tracks on the first two Beatles albums.
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I love the falsetto and the drums. Drag City features TWO of the greatest drummers of all time, Hal Blaine and Earl Palmer. And the song was co-written by Brian Wilson, who became a big inspiration for Paul.
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But as he said, it was a U.S. thing. Cars were a huge part of the American lifestyle, so it was an easy spinoff. The Beatles could have written a great song about cricket or soccer and it would still bomb in the U.S.
This time in rock was like the dam getting ready to burst. Soon there would be a flood of good stuff but pretty blah for now.
It's what I love about this time period in music. The atomic burst in creativity and diversity in sound and style. It's insane as to how much God level music was put out in the span of six years.
@@KayGeeBe it really was remarkable. It seems what was holding the dam back was drugs. hate to say it but...
@@kevhead1525 That and bad times are a boon for creativity.
John and Paul were just experts at music
Paul McCartney is the best singer and guitarist in the world.
The Beatles really had no real competition at that time, did they?
I'll Have you know that Sir Harry Seagoon was in the charts with "I Ruled The Word" *raspberry* lol
I thought there were some good songs in episode's Top 30.
The Stones were probably as good at that time but The Beatles were way ahead publicity wise.
@@kevhead1525 The Stones' debut album is my favourite album of 1964.
@@YesterdaysPapers much raunchier than the beatles for sure. But thats another thing that put the Beatles ahead early. They could write songs, albeit simple pop. Took awhile for the stones to catch up there too. Ha. Have to wonder what George Martin trying to produce the stones would have been like.
@Kevhead1 I think George Martin producing the Stones would have been terrible, they would have sounded too polished. I think the fact that the Stones recorded their debut in a cheaper studio with an engineer that probably didn't know what he was doing really worked for them 'cause it made the record sound raw and spontaneous.
That selection shows how far above the crowd the Beatles were. Uninspired cover after uninspired cover of songs that had been covered many times before and weren't very good in the first place.
To be fair, the Beatles also recorded several uninspired covers in 1963 and 1964. Some of those covers they recoded at the time like "Please Mr Postman", for instance, were just as medocre and unnecessary as the covers Paul reviewed here.
McCartney showing wny he was known as the polite Beatle, lol.
Play in a day, i wish. I’ve worn through two copies over the half century and i still can’t bloody play the damn thing.
The poor ripped off french nationalist singing nun and her wonderful nicker song, i hadn’t a clue what it was about. But it gave me disturbing visions.😂
Wow, they get Paul in there to rate records and they serve up another pile of flops. Way to go, Melody Maker. They must've taken all the good disks home themselves. Lesson learned, though; even the Golden Age of Pop had its share of crapola.
He was wrong about drag city and that boy John by the raindrops is killer. Paul has taste like his granny.
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What a bunch of duds
Paul doing a favor for his friend Rory...Rory was never successful record wise because he couldn't carry a tune in an armored car....
Both of Rory’s singles failed due to circumstance and poor oversight.
Nothing to do with his musicianship
Man, Paul got stuck with a bunch of lemmons.
Pretty much everything except for jazz and a few great songs like "House of the Rising Sun" and "She's Not There" was pretty awful in 1964.
that's complete nonsense
This is a pile of groups and singers that for the most part would be pushed into the trash can by the Beatles and the British Invasion bands. They would be made to sound old fashioned.
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You are absolutely right! They would all be blown off the stage! Especially from 1965 things went fast...
I felt Paul wanted to say something positive but just couldn't with the crappy selections they played..
Paul listening to Beatles wannabees is crazy!!
...and they weren't hits
Hit parade had decent to good songs only for 20 years: 1965 to 1985 and that´s it. Any other year´s top 100 hits are atrocious . The best albuns had no hits neither made success - with very few exceptions
besides jan and dean most of these artist he reviewed are garbage
Terrible selection that month!
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