Psychedelic Times | Cool British singles from April 1967
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- čas přidán 8. 09. 2024
- Last month, we revisited some cool British singles from March 1967. Now it's time to do the same with April of that year. Here are some cool British singles released in April 1967. Enjoy!
What a much better place england was in the 1960s totally different from today if only we had a time machine and could go back
i was there, it was ok. no internet though.
Penny Valentine was so astute and intelligent, we could've enjoyed her in the States ❤
Nostalgic BS. Things have always been this bad. You doubt it ? In the mid-60s one third of Londoners lived below the government's own definition of the poverty line. The Vietnam War raged [and America did it's best to get us involved ]. The 'Swinging Sixties' was nothing but a marketing tool - Britain's underlying economic performance continued deteriorate - a process that has continued with baleful effects until today.
That's just nostalgia. The music was great though
Nothing tops the first half of 1967 in London, the music, the scene, the art, the clothing...
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I never knew The Yardbirds covered that Velvet classic! WOW!
Amazing, isn't it?
Video is here: czcams.com/video/BLNSMtpfTx4/video.html
Page was friends with Nico around that the time.
Maybe he got the heads up about the track via her?
@@dilltdog1158 Could be!
The best thing on CZcams: informative, surprising.
Thanks
Pictures of Lily only reached #51 in the States?!? God, we were SOOO clueless back then!!!!
Page using the bow in "Little Games" is haunting and exquisite. I used to sit in the dark and listen to Bee Gees "Mining Disaster". It just seemed the right thing to my 13 year old brain. Some great stuff here I've never heard before. Thanks!
Page lifted the idea of using the bow from Eddie Phillips of The Creation. But to his credit, he's always admitted it.
@@zabadakxanadu . okaysaveme
Exactly and thanks for writing it instead of me.
New York Mining Disaster, the ground zero for the legend called The Bee Gees
Certainly among the ten greatest LPs of the RnR era, and followed by one almost as good. l worshipped the Brothers Gibb. "The Singer Sang His Song" is still in my all time top 20.
These excursions into music history are always entertaining and educational. As bad as some things might have been back then, those really were the good old days. 🖖🌱
You live and learn.. I always thought Say You Don't Mind was a Colin Blundstone song, never heard the Denny Laine original till now!
Yet again, quite a few of these bands were either relatively obscure or completely new to me, which is why I think your excellent videos are so important to music-lovers everywhere YP. It’s interesting to see how often the B Side was either superior or the preferred track too. Many thanks Yesterday’s Papers for another fabulous blast from the past.
Thanks, Linda!
Pictures of Lilly is my favourite Who song. I have a vinyl lp called 'the Most Collection' wit songs produced by him, groups include the yardbirds, Jeff Beck, and a really great song by Terry Reid called 'Superlungs'. Never heard much from Terry again. Some promising songs in this april selection
Reid's 70s album "Seed of Memory" has some good cuts.
@@WattisWatts Also Bang Band You're Terry Reid and the Terry Reid album from 1969, which has Superlungs on it, are pretty good albums.
@@ExplodingPsyche Love that Summertime Blues. Saw him back in 69. Reid and Marriott are in my Top Five singers.
@@WattisWatts I envy you! It was around 69 that someone turned me on to those two albums. Still pull them out every so often. Great stuff.
Donovan wrote the song Superlungs, and originally released it with The Jeff Beck Group on his 1969 album, Barabajagal, one of a few albums he only released in the States. He recorded two previously unreleased earlier versions in 1966, one appearing among the bonus tracks on the double CD reissue of his original U.S. version of his Sunshine Superman album, and one appearing among the bonus tracks on the CD reissue of another of his U.S. only albums Mellow Yellow. But on the Terry Reid version, he changed the word CHICK into GIRL. I have posted a link of the first and third Donovan versions. I cannot find his second version on CZcams.
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Well, the big take-aways for me are: I had no idea the Yardbirds included "Waiting for the Man" in their live set, wow! I've never gotten around to listening to Little Games, though I strongly doubt they cover that song on the album. From this post The Outer Limits strikes me as a band I need to investigate and maybe The Quik too. I want to hear that early Terry Reid single too. What a resource YP is! Well done.
Cheers!
You've said It all
If they would have made a follow up to LITTLE GAMES their version of "Waiting For The Man" may have been on that, boggles the mind.
@@jasontorres7756yes !
I found a video of that Waiting For The Man cover: czcams.com/video/BLNSMtpfTx4/video.html
Yes, I enjoyed this trip back to April 1967. An excellent range of singles! I'll definitely check out some of them, thank you👍.
Cheers, Edwin!
New York mining disaster is one of the most beautiful songs in history.
So is the B-side, and most of the LP is fantastic. Too bad they dropped "Gilbert Green" from the LP.
Another great video. Really like how you include the lesser-known groups, such as The Pandamonium and and The Quik here. Also, it continues to baffle me how did bands like The Artwoods, who had such a good following, just couldn’t get a hit, while there was so much crap (like Cilla Black and Engelbert Humperdinck for instance) flooding the charts and getting hit after hit. One has to question the record-buying public back then or the record companies for lack of promotion.
Cilla black was the pits 😮
So many motorway accidents back then concerning bands travelling all over to play in hopes of "making it".
Even took the drummer's life from Fairport Convention; Martin Lamble- on the M1 in Watford. Tony Kaye (Yes) has a cast on his foot, that was broken, as a result of one on the cover of The Yes Album....
One of the reasons that coke & speed became popular among some- in order to remain awake when driving long distances....
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That band fairport convention. Wtf? Those guys are still playing. That one chic died long ago. She had a problem besides drinking. The band had parties, She did this act on staircase fall down the stairs. Usually she no harmroll out of it unharmed. But she did this often. Friends said they knew it would happed. By mid seventies she drinking daily. She gave birth the father (one of full time members?) was father he loaded his shit up with the kid drove to airport and took kid wit Australia where he was raised. Espressially
Excellent eclectic compilation of interesting songs from mid-spring '67. Who would have ever thought that a song about masturbation (The Who) or a coal miner's anguished lament, issuing from the collapsed mine in which he is trapped (The Bee Gees) would hold anyone's interest? But they did, and do so to this day. Thank you again, PT/YP.
Cheers!
I was intrigued by one reviewer's comment that the Bee Gees song reminded them of I Don't Want To Spoil The Party off Beatles For Sale.
Another great episode... I love the Bee Gees whenever they sway into Beatlesque territory. Pictures of Lily remains a standout in the Who's catalog. Well done YP (as always) 😎
Thanks, Rachel! "Pictures of Lily' is also one of my favourites by The Who. Brilliant song.
I really hope the YT algo finally figures out what an amazing channel you have here.
Every one of these is a masterpiece.
Cheers, Robert!
More excellence! Pictures of Lily really stands up, over half a century later.
I’m surprised it never got banned! Totally over the BBCs heads!!!😂
Fabulous music, thanks for posting them. Good time for you. Excellent your post CZcams channel.
This episode flew under my radar!
Glad to have finally caught up with it.
Great stuff as always, thanks!
I was expecting this one for a long 🙂 Thanks for the great content
Love hearing these obscure tracks
Pictures of Lily - such a great song and it holds up well.
Very little by The Who has dated at all.
Amazing that the subject matter was never taken into consideration……….😂😂😂😂
@@billmagowan1492 You mean insofar as it didn't get banned?
The little games album was actually a pretty cool album. And it had a few songs that Led Zeppelin later redid like white summer. Good night sweet Josephine was to me a highlight, with that flanging and Wawa guitar it is the most psychedelic thing they ever recorded!
Phil Wainman would later go on to produce the Bay City Rollers.
Goodnight Sweet Josephine was not on their original album, which only got released in the States, despite being recorded in the UK. But it has appeared among the bonus tracks on CD reissues. Firstly, there was a now deleted double CD reissue in the States called Little Games Sessions, but it only had 32 tracks, 16 on each. There is now a single CD in this country called Little Games, containing 25 tracks. The First 16 tracks are side one of the U.S. double CD, although I noticed that the stereo separation between the channels is different on a few tracks. The first of the remaining nine tracks on this single CD starts with the second version of Goodnight Sweet Josephine, which was on CD2 of that double CD. The other 8 tracks are from their later Saturday Club live sessions 1967-68. But Disc 2 of the U.S. double CD had little extra of any value, a second take of Glimpses which has more guitar, but less sound effects on it, a Great Shakes commercial which has been reissued elsewhere, and a good instrumental version of a Graham Gouldman composition You Stole My Love, which he originally recorded as lead singer of his then-group The Mockingbirds. The rest of that disc 2 was made up of vocal tracks from disc 1, but reappearing in mono, a few worthless instrumentals, and lastly, tracks from a group called Together, containing ex-members of The Yardbirds.
There are a lot of guitar licks on that album that later showed up in LZ’s music.
Cheers, always something new to groove too!
What an awesome episode, absolutely love this series!
Glad you like them, cheers!
To the team at Yesterday's Papers - FANTASTIC! Absolutely love (and appreciate) the research and presentation of your videos, which also seem to go up a notch over time! Great work!
Thank you very much!
Bert's Apple 🍎 Crumble is a smooth 👌 track.
You seem to top yourself with each video release. Excellent research and editing.
Cheers!
Yes, that is really true!
Lot's of variety this month. Never heard "Help Me Please" by the Outer Limits, sounds pretty groovy. The Jimmy Page era Yardbirds is endlessly fascinating, we were covering "THINK ABOUT IT" recently in my band POETS OF MYDNIGHT and "Puzzles" has that great frantic solo by Page. The Artwoods single sounds interesting, I'll have to check it out. The song by PANDEMONIUM is great and I first heard it on the CD comp ELECTRIC SUGARCUBE FLASHBACKS.
The Artwoods - I take what I want is a banger too
March was the strong month and April was even stronger. Then came the summer of love. 67' went like nothing else before or after. Wonderful time.
"Pictures of Lily" has been a favourite of mine since early 1967. The vocal harmonies are amazing -- what we came to expect from Roger and his mates. Of course, John's French horn (or "flugelhorn?") gave that tune something special. Once again, many thanks to Yesterday's Papers!
What a superb month April was. Full of absolute gems. Pictures of Lily is my fav Who 45 but the Outer Limits, the Yardbirds and Bee Gees shine brightly.
Agreed, Maurice. Great month for singles. The Outer Limits' single is so underrated. I never get tired of listening to it, especially "Just One More Chance".
From August of 1966 (the release of Revolver) thru the end of 1969 (with the release of Chicago Transit Authority) is probably the best years for rock music in history.
CTA was a fantastic LP!
Terry Reid was Jimmy Page's first choice as singer for Zeppelin, but he turned the offer down and told Page he should check out a young singer called Robert Plant from the midlands. The rest is history, as they say. Great video as usual.
I get so "angry" when other people write the thing I want to write, before me,lol . Spot on,he was Page's first choice, but Reid turned it down.
Thank you so much Psychedelic Times for uploading this great info video, I appreciate it!
The Mickey Most malaise days of the Yardbirds 🙁. Despite their dud singles, the Little Games LP has a handful of psychedelic gems. Whodathunk they covered the Velvets? You've done it again YP!
The 'Bee Gees/Beatles' links in the press were planted there by Stigwood - one of the many reasons The Beatles disliked him.
It was Paul McCartney who told Stigwood to sign them. Stigwood didn't just plant rumors, but he sent out DJ copies of the song without identifying the artist!
Some fine unsung songs on this doc,have come across Denny Laine,the Outer Limits and the Artwoods on 80s Edsel rec comps,their songs are excellent and have become favorites of mine, can't understand why they weren't successful thank you for the doc much appreciated Auckland New Zealand 2023
Cheers, Bryan.
Pictures of Lily is such a great Who song... It tends to be forgotten.....I am an Uber Who Fan and I forget about it..( also Keith Moon's Shirt is AMAZING)
Hell , I’ve just seen the ad for Ron’s music shop in Ilford .
Now that does take me back to the 60s and 70s
Yardbirds doing some VU 🤘
Artwoods - "In the Deep End" sounds awesome for a loop overdub. I'll get on it...
some good songs here ,thanks
Once again you've put the spotlight of some great forgotten gems amongst some more familiar classics. The Outer Limits (nice clips of them), Pandemonium and the Quik- great toons!
I was eight. It was a great time to be a kid!
Thank you very much. Memories were awakened.
What a fabulous collection of songs. Terry Reid was an incredible singer. Ossie Byrne produced some Bee Gees tracks in Australia before they left for the UK. Byrne is a bit of a legend here. Thanks again YP
Cheers!
Was Terry Reid at one stage lead singer in The Strangers, which included John Farrar, who wrote Livvy's first big hit, I Honestly Love You, and married her best mate Pat Carrol
@@markhill9275 never mate
I would love to visit London in the '60s, if only it were possible.
I do so by watching Austin Powers movies. When I saw the first one, my friend said that my face was glowing!
The publicity photos for NYMD1941 show the Bee Gees as a quartet, but in fact Vince Melouney had joined them officially shortly before it was recorded.
Thank God Denny Laine hooked up with Paul McCartney five years later or he would’ve been totally forgotten in rock ‘n’ roll
What a time for great music Especially love New York Mining Disaster
Continuing the golden age. I never heard any of this until my mum's boyfriend gave us the Bee Gees first album in 1970, and the Who released Meaty, Beaty, Big and Bouncy in the US. Love the ads, "Are you a real man?"
The first Bee Gees album is one of my all-time favourite albums. Great, great record.
More great stuff. Thanxalot xxx.A Saturday morning treat.
Nice Stuff My Friend!! I Just Turned And Garage And Psych Was My Passion!!! So Much Good Stuff!!!!
Thanks, Dan!
Yeah Buddy!! Ment To Say I Was 15 And Hooked On Psych and Garage!!!!! Already And Still Am!!!!
I love that Denny Laine single. I’m happy the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, when inducting the Moody Blues, included Denny Laine. At first it was the classic lineup of Hayward, Lodge, Pinder, Thomas and Edge but how can you not include its founding member Denny Laine? At least they righted that wrong. (I’m still scratching my head as to why original bassist, Clint Warwick, wasn’t included?) I am digging that single by The Other Limits. I never heard of them. I am definitely familiar with the group Christie and their hit they had here in the states Yellow River. The things you learn.
Yeah, the Outer Limits single is really good.
Love all the 60s but man i wish it could be 1965 again!!!. Rog.
Poor Denny Laine. Moodys got so much bigger when he left. Hope he found another group to play with.😉
One gulp of Red Bull and, woosh...!
A guy called Paul gave him a job 😂
@@nathalieplum2137 Well, Denny was visually channelling Pepper John in that promo.....(and Pepper Paul in the music).
He was with Paul McCartney and wings
@@barbaraburgoyne8359 guess you missed the winky face.
Interesting as always. :) Keep them coming.
The Yardbirds covering the Velvet Underground is a rock history tidbit I had not encountered before. Wow.
The Pretty Things fail to make a presence on Yesterday's Papers... again.
What do you mean "again"? The "Defecting Grey" single was included in another one of these episodes and this channel features two videos about the Pretty Things.
@@YesterdaysPapers Okay. Okay. My bad, I couldn't find them. They did have a single released in April 1967 though. Love the channel.
EXCELLENT MUSIC !!!
German Polydor always had such cool picture sleeves ; they were often released in Holland , bought many of them from cut price bins.
"Little Games" one of The Yardbirds' best was a must buy for me.
Yeah, the dutch picture sleeves were usually the best.
Amazing how the Bee Gees stayed relevant. They made the best disco records.
There is an edit function on here. But, you're right about the disco records.
@@ExplodingPsyche thanks, the keyboard didn't understand Gees
I hadn't known the Outer Limits were from Leeds! I also noticed the old site of the Lewis's department store during their bit.
thanks for this amazing time capsule. I m aways introduced to tunes i did not know and this one is no exception (the Artwoods, this time)
Groovey man !
Such a great channel! April 1967 happens to be the month and year a certain record collecting yours truly was born, so you know there had to be some great gems and rarities for that amazing month. Didn't disappoint!😁
Ron Mael of Sparks cited "Pictures of Lily" as influential to his songwriting, particularly lyrics/subject matter. You betcha. Also, the Beatles/BeeGees thing wasn't really a debate in the US that I recall. It never sounded imitative to me, anyway. Love the channel, btw❤
There is another great psychedelic song from this era called "Golden Apples" by the Californians. The song failed to chart in America but I believe had modest success in the U.K. where the band was based. Written by Barry Kane the song was originally a folk song that the Californians morphed into a spectacular work of psychedelic pop.
Yes, I was surprised to see "Golden Apples" missing here! It's fantastic!!
11:34 Also featured in the film Gangster No.1 from the year 2000.
Psychedelic Britain is the best kind of Britain.
Totally agree w you
Give that man a purple heart
My Friend Jack Eats Sugar Lumps 😂
@@hudois so do 👁️
Not sure I'd call any of that "psychedelic". This genre is "psych-pop" and it never caught on in The States. Very very few psych-pop hits on this side of The Pond. If you want to hear some classic American psychedelic, there's the debut LP by Circus Maximus, or there's "Psychedelic Lollipop", or the early "First Edition" or early Doors. To give your ears a thorough cleaning out, try "Travelin' around" by Circus Maximus.
67. What a great year for real music....
Yard Zeppelin 😁👍👍👍
This would make a great compilation album 🤘
Another great presentation taking us back to wonderful1967! I hadn't ever heard Pandamonium before, really like 'em - they remind me a bit of The Creation.
Yeah, they did sound a bit like The Creation. Glad you enjoyed the video, Syd. Cheers!
some fabulous singles here and. as usual, amazing footage
Thanks again for all the work you put in to make these wonderful videos. Such a good education you're giving us! Most of these songs this Yank has never heard so thank you again! PS. Every time I heard Pictures Of Lily I realize how much I love that band. What a great, daring song!
Thanks, Willie. Agred, "Pictures of Lily" is brilliant. The Who were masters at doing those sort of great pop songs with clever lyrics.
April 1967 is such an idyllic time, for this music and so many other aspects
Not a dog in the bunch! "Can't you see there's no presents for me? Fame and fortune will never be free"!!! ROCK ON YP!!!
Rock on, Buzza!
Another great video. Thank you!
Have to say I loved the early BeeGees better than the later ones. New York Mining Disaster and When The Lights Went Out In Massachusetts. But what do I know. Their singing got better but I could not tolerate Disco. Loved the Zombies highlight though, my favorite group.
Indeed another great selection again! Also from April 1967 I can remember : "Crystal Ball" from Twice as Much and "Soul sauce" from Timebox...
Thanks for the slice of FAB YP Cheers !
Cheers, Jerry!
Got both of those Outer Limits tracks on a compilation cds 💿superb
Fabulous clips...thank you so much.
A very cool video, every month I discover new sounds from 1967. Excellent all the content, regards :)
Cheers!
bert's apple crumble soundsl like the quik heard jimmy castor's "hey leroy" and used it as a starting point for something new. both are great tunes.
It's a wonder the makers of a certain milk-drink powder didn't sue The Quik over their choice of name. Or maybe they did .... anyone know?
Thank you. This is the month of my birth on the 24th. The Who and the Jimmy Page era Yardbirds released singles that is cool.
Regarding the BeeGees debut single, it's a darned shame that they didn't make "I can't see nobody" a separate single, or promote it separately after "Mining Disaster" had run its course. In 1969 RCA Victor did exactly that with "Undun" after the A-side "Laughing" had run its course, and it became a big hit on its own; ever since oldies stations have played Undun far more often than Laughing. "I can't see nobody" did Bubble Under, but I think it would have been an even bigger hit than Mining Disaster if properly appreciated and promoted by the label. It's a fantastic song and recording.
Excellent work as usual (The Outer Limits single was one I had never heard before!), but there are some omissions--The Pretty Things' "Children", Hat & Tie's "Finding It Rough", The Shotgun Express' "Indian Thing", The Purple Gang's "Granny Takes A Trip" and (my favorite) The Californians' "Golden Apples". The month wasn't quite as psychedelic overall as February and March had been, but the quality was still top-notch with "Pictures Of Lily", "Say You Don't Mind", "New York Mining Disaster", "No Presents For Me" and "In The Deep End". "I Can Fly" is actually one of the few songs by The Herd that I like! I disagree with the reviewer who said it wasn't good psychedelia. Looking forward now to May and utterly *stellar* singles by Procol Harum, Jimi Hendrix, The Hollies, Tomorrow, The Troggs, John's Children, The Hi-Fis, Traffic, The Brain ("Nightmares In Red") and The Koobas! It may be the best month yet!
Cheers, Spirit. May was definitely a great month for singles. Next month's episode will be great.
I got an education here. The Bee Gees and the Who didn't hit their stride in the States until the early 70s. The Bee Gees were known more for having chart singles while The Who had very few songs on the US charts they were better known for being played on a radio format known as album-oriented rock (AOL) in the USA and Canada. Peter Frampton became most successful here in the States in the mid-70s as a solo artist.
But we had AOL rock stations as early as 1966, and college stations playing progressive rock before that. This more ambitious music didn't impact the 45 rpm market until the 70s, but the LPs sold like mad. "Nights in White Satin" tanked as a single the first time around and then went #1 years later, exemplifying how the market had changed. But from Day One the LP was considered a classic.
The Yardbirds Little Games/Puzzles is blistering great
Denny Laine and Outer Limits….brilliant records. Outer Limits had another great single; The Great Train Robbery
Little Games is such a great tune.......never gets old
9 minutes in and the ads in the newspaper had "replica pistols" for sale
Another exellent upload.Imzgine the time it takes to put something like this together....Top man
Thanks, Randy!
best series on youtube ! honored to say that i’ve been with you since the near beginning and it’s great that you spreading info about the greatest time of music ❤️
Cheers, Ethan. Thanks for being here since the beginning. I appreciate it!
Thanks for this interesting video. 😃