Psychedelic Times | Cool British Singles from December 1967
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- During the last few months, we've revisited some cool British singles released during the second half of 1967. Now, it's time to take a look at some cool British singles released in December of that year
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Playlist: Cool British Singles from December 1967 czcams.com/play/PLZiczFvWkHKHjE7kwISuDk4uGaUR1v62j.html
Hey - you guys missed a young Jimmy Page at 1:57 playing with Mickey Finn! Otherwise LOVE your Channel!
What a fantastic bonus - organising a playlist for us as well! Thanks so much, and thanks for all the great videos throughout the past year - appreciated and enjoyed by so many!
@@Borella309 Thanks!
How about In The Heat Of The Morning by David Bowie in December 1967 played on John Peel's BBC Radio Sessions?
Great month and year for music bad news my grandfather died 🥵
“Tin Soldier” is by far my fav small faces song. Love the way it ends on that high note. I think rod stewart may have been more recognizable with faces but mariott had that rock n roll element that can’t be duplicated. Such a powerful force coming from such a small man. He was the main inspiration for Paul Stanley with his “minister of rock” speeches during performances.
I agree. Shame they never cracked it in the States. Itchycoo Park was their only top 50 entry there, yet it also became their only U.S. Top 10.
Ogden's Nut Gone Flake is an absolute masterpiece as a whole! Wish I had it on Vinyl!
Same.. it’s a total rock soul masterpiece.
When I see footage of Steve Marriott, I see lightening in a bottle. No way that dude could stay alive to an old age. So much talent and explosive energy.
The venue lights dim...then a disembodied voice..."Ladies and Gentlemen~!!!...For your listening and dancing pleasure...PREGNANT INSOMNIA~!!!"
Hahaha!
Who wants Yesterday's Papers? - Everybody in the world!
Merry Christmas, my greatest wishes to you!
Merry Christmas, Igor. Cheers!
Such a magical time to be alive. I was a teenager in a small rural town in Virginia. I was fascinated by the British acts.
This was the quickest "like" I can recall to date. Tin Soldier is just flat-out ROCKS! And "Bedazzled", too. What a groovy month for UK singles!
Steve Marriott was such a powerhouse of a vocalist, yet so soulful at the same time. The Small Faces are criminally underrated. Wow, what a year 1967 was for music. Your Christmas intro and outro music is precious 🎅❤ If you don't upload before next weekend, Merry Christmas, YP. Thank you for all your videos this year 😘❤
Thank you, Sophie. I agree, Steve Marriott was incredible. Probably the most soulful white vocalist ever. Merry Christmas, Sophie.
Merry Christmas, Yesterday's Papers.🤗🤗🤗
Merry Christmas, Kat!
@@YesterdaysPapers 😺😺😺🌹💯😀🤗
Did the year 1967 really happen? Heaven for my ears.
Cool to see the Small Faces and PP Arnold on cult french TV show "Bouton Rouge".
Merry Xmas, YP!
Merry Christmas, François!
I love these single videos. I now have a Yesterday's Papers CZcams list that I add any unheard single to.
Cool!
I've been hearing and collecting 60s UK psych for about 35 years now, and Yesterday's Papers still manages to dig up obscure singles I've missed!! It's so great hearing great tracks from the era I've never heard before.
Absolutely adore 'Bedazzled' which has a genuinely amazing Freakbeat background. 'You fill me with inertia ' is one of the all time great put downs (and Dudley Moore 's 'Love me' is great fun too). This track makes me emotional as the late great Peter Young used it as the final track on his final show on a radio station in 2008)
Good old P.Y!
I'm not available.
I think was the last period of the pop-psychedelic era. harder blues-based rock came bursting on the scene and things took a harder edge. A truly great period of music indeed. Again, I just wish I was born 35 years earlier.
Actually, there was a lot of psych-pop still being released in the UK for the first six or so months of 1968--The Status Quo, Jason Crest, Elmer Gantry's Velvet Opera, Mike Stuart Span, The Pretty Things, The End, The Fire, West Coast Consortium, The Idle Race, The Zombies, The Fox, Nirvana, Pink Floyd, Boeing Duveen, etc. The retro-blues explosion was definitely gathering momentum, but for a while in '68 the two styles existed hand-in-hand, with excellent music all around.
The Pete and Dud track were ace.
Honestly, I would love for this series to be continued into ‘68, but the first half of ‘67 is still pretty neat
During the first half of 1968, Psychedelia tailed off a bit for a while, and music went quiet and more commercial. It was not until later that year that Psychedelia seemed to come back, but by then, Progressive Rock was arriving, which Psychedelia may or may not have evolved into.
The bass playing on The Love Affair's "Everlasting Love" is great.
This is why I love this channel, it makes me aware of what I’ve missed living in the States. I have never heard of The Love Affair and their version of Everlasting Love. I am familiar with the Robert Knight version but the cover that had the bigger impact on me was by Carl Carlton which was released in 1974. That version really got me moving. Forget Carl, now I’m hip on The Love Affair’s version. I’m going to start hunting for more their recordings. Thanks, YP for broadening my musical appreciation!
They were fantastic. Most of their good songs are on Y-T. My favourite is "Rainbow Valley".
Oh man...that song from Bedazzled!
It ruined me the first time I saw it. I laughed so hard, thought I was going to break a rib. (There may have been weed involved.)
One of my favorite movies of all time.
"You fill me with inertia." Peter Cooke was the master of deadpan.
Love that film as well.
Fun fact: Traffic was almost going to be in the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour movie performing the Mulberry Bush song, but it was edited out from the film.
What a great year for music!!! Nice to see Pete and Dud in here too. Great video!!!
The Bonzos were on it because they were being produced by Paul McCartney and they swapped between 1920s whimsy and 60s rock (origin of McCartney's "Granny Music" period?) They were also a part of the Goons- Peter Cook-Python comedy strain that the Beatles were fans of.
Another great series of singles! 'Tin Soldier', one of the most powerful rocksongs of all time! I was surprised it only reached number 9 in the UK single chart. 'Garden Of My Mind', another great single! Top!
Love the small faces one of the most underappreciated groups of the 60s, the B-Side I Feel Much Better is a masterpiece and deserved to be an A-Side Single. Easily the best single that month
Brilliant single, indeed. "Tin Soldier" is one of my all-time favourite songs.
I agree with you.
Hi, I don't think the Small Faces are underappreciated. They really were a great band! In the Netherlands for example, they were very populair. Now they enjoy cult status!
@@EdwinJack64 But they never cracked it in the States.
@@EdwinJack64 I wish I can say the same in the US practically no one knows them, none of their songs appear on the radio.
'Everlasting Love' is standing the test of time . Great song.
Agreed, brilliant song.
What a groovy Month , I would have bought all those singles but wasn't born until 16 months later 🤷 Been a Small Faces fan for over 40 years , love all their records 👍
My baby boomeruncle recorded some songs from the Small Faces for me on tape when I was a teenager in 1980. Since then I've been a big fan of all their songs, just like you! Cheers!
@@EdwinJack64 Hey, that's awesome 👍
Fascinating to hear all these songs. This Yank has heard only two of these.
That Mickey Finn Song is a real thumper reminding me of Foxy Lady and "Scuse me while I kiss the sky"
The Love Affair cover is quite good but I must say I prefer the Robert Knight original. His 27 year old voice is more emotional and compelling to me in what is essentially a love song than is a 17 year old's voice here. As far as the arrangements go, both are excellent. Give these 15 to 17 year old kids props for their love of soul and for choosing what is a wonderful song. The Knight version just stalled outside the Cashbox top 10 which surprised me. I thought it would surely be a top 10--maybe the small label it was on had something to do with this. Interesting fact that the song actually top 40 charted three more times here in America. Carl Carlton (1974), Rex Smith & Rachel Sweet (1981) and Gloria Estefan (1995) The Love Affair cover kept Knight's original from scaling the UK charts and it only tickled #40.
Thanks as always YP. Happy holidays to you.
Cheers, Willie! I wasn't familiar with the Carl Carlton cover, I'll check it out now.
The oxford street lights with the warm glow bulbs look better than the present day designs
The magic that was Marriott! The fact that the band didn’t “crack” the States doesn’t detract from Small Faces’ massive popularity elsewhere, they were certainly a huge part of my youth. Some interesting singles I’d never heard of before, nice work as usual YP. I’d like to thank you for taking the time (and research) to bring us these interesting, informative and often fascinating videos. Wishing you a safe and happy Christmas.
Thank you, Linda! Happy Christmas!
They never came here to tour, and other than Itchycoo Park, their labels (there were 2 prior to Immediate), never got them much airplay. Things might have been very different if they had toured. As with The Pretty Things, who didn't come to the US until 1973. As a result by '75, their albums were in the charts.
@@zabadakxanadu …….Don Arden also ripped the band off for every penny they made. I don’t remember now if this had any bearing on the band not touring the States but I don’t suppose it helped matters any.
Excellent, thank you!! And I look forward to the first half of '67.
Ron Grainer also wrote many tv theme tunes, including Dr Who and Steptoe & Son
Tin Soldier with PP Arnold...Man I love that track, great video too
Love these videos! Good to know that you will be doing more!
Thanks for the playlists and fantastic content throughout the year!
Great information as always. Thank you. Merry Christmas.
Great great work ♥️ thank you 🙏🏻
Merry Christmas and thanx a lot for posting!
Another cool video. I look forward to each of your uploads. Fantastic.
Thank you for this wonderful series which has paid tribute to the music of an astonishing year
Excellent video and saga of psychedelic singles, "Tin Soldier" is one of the best songs in the Small Faces repertoire. Congratulations and Merry Christmas :) ☮️
Saw P P Arnold at Islington Town Hall just before the lergie autumn 19 backed by Paul Weller’s musicians and in her 70s she still can do it.
Merry Christmas, Yesterday's Papers!
Merry Christmas, Silas.
It is great to hear about these singles- I especially like seeing the picture or art sleeves for them. MICKEY FINN Garden of My Mind"- features Jimmy Page on lead guitar and not only is confirmed but has been on Page 60s Sessions compilations( as well as previous songs he's played on.) In fact Page has posed for publicity photos including the one here! ELLIS " Everlasting Love" features Clem Cattini drums and John Paul Jones on bass. Great song. Was remade in the US by a few others then U2 covered it. Thanx again!!!
That Human Instinct single rocks!
Tin Soldier is right up there with the best singles of the 60s. An absolute masterpiece. Also it was great to see Aussie Ron Grainer get a songwriting credit on Paper Blitz Tissue’s record.
Ron Grainer was an Aussie?
@@darganx Incredibly, yes. I never knew that.
@@darganx Ronald Grainer was born on 11 August 1922 in Atherton, Queensland, Australia, the first child of Margaret Clark, an amateur pianist, and Ronald Albert Grainer, a storekeeper and postmaster
Fantastic as always.
AWESOME year for tunes! Love this series and your channel. All the best mate. ✌❤✊
Any month that has a Traffic Small Faces and Love Affair release is a good one and PP Arnold who was a member of the Ikettes is great in Tin Soldier. The year 1967 was rough with Devaluation of the Pound in the UK. The Australian Prime Minster drowned along with the Six Day War Vietnam and Urban Unrest in U.S Cities but the music was great both in the U.S and UK and thanks for posting Yesterday's Papers these great tunes from 1967.
Musically, an amazing year for sure.
Thanks for the holiday treats. Good stuff.
Great SHOW YP Happy Holidays thanks for all you do CHEERS,!
Happy Holidays, Jerry.
Nice work - the playlist is a great idea. Merry Christmas 🎄
Merry Christmas, Pygar.
I had no clue Black Sabbath’s Warning was a cover. Even as I heard the audio it didn’t register that I was listening to a video about 1967.
Aynsley Dunbar went on to join Jefferson Starship.
@@RideAcrossTheRiver His playing on the Zappa stuff and Bowie's Diamond Dogs is mint. A hugely underrated drummer
@@MCBhangramuffin "Stranger" is an amazing song.
Thank you for including Love Affair and The Herd. Signature bands of that era. What a Days. Merry Christmas.
Thank you Psychedelic Times/YP for so many great memories and sounds over this past year; happy holidays and 2023 from one of your Yank fans.
Thanks! Happy Holidays.
Thank you for all the great videos over the year, I wish you and all around here a Merry X-Mas and a Happy New Year, best wishes from Berlin
Merry Christmas, Jogi.
Wow, what a competent content! Great Job
Decades ago, a music lover started a group email called Mystery Lyrics. He gathered some hosts who were willing to contribute. They would post a song lyric and some hints and the email receivers had to guess the title and artist name. Because of that group, I got exposed to bands that never made it in the US. Just recently Love Affair’s version of Everlasting Love was highlighted. Great rendition. Love your videos, btw.
Thanks! "Everlasting Love" is a great song, love it.
Merry Christmas to you as well!👍
Seasons greetings to you. I love your channel.
Thanks!
Loved seeing that Pink Floyd/Soft Machine poster. 17 year old Frampton. Man!! I always saw Steve Marriott as somewhat of a tragic figure. Great talent.
Agreed, a very talented man.
Brilliant! More excellent rarities. Pregnant Insomnia that’s fab❤
Brilliant!
I really hope that Roxy Music's debut single "Virginia Plain" will be featured in an upcoming episode. I am really curious to hear the reaction of their musical contemporaries to its release
In an episode of the 70s then
Thanks YP! You gave me the Xmas gift of this amazing video and my gawd, absolutely luv this group Paper Blitz Tissue! What a fantastic out of sight name, too. Was able to locate the hit Boy meets Girl & Grey man to add to my Apple library!
You're the bomb for doing this channel! Zounds 🤗
Oh! Thank you very very much, Sable! Appreciate it! I love that Paper Blitz Tissue song. Great tune and great guitar. Cheers and Happy Christmas!
Another great video, especially as this was from December, the month that new releases were always thin on the ground with Record Companies taking their holidays. Merry Christmas YP.
Merry Christmas, Paul.
Anyone noticed how similar Peter Cook's brilliant deadpan performance on "Bedazzled" is to some of John Lydon's vocals with Public Image, particularly "Albatross" and "The Suit"?Also a touch of Peter in Terry Hall too. And "Derek and Clive" were the Sex Pistols of Comedy for sure. A man ahead of his time, an influencer across two mediums. Sadly missed.
I agree, that song is like proto-postpunk.
all of these songs are great. i'm really glad you included "bedazzled." that song is one of my all time faves. that film has had a tremendous impact on my personal philosophy.
I've always loved that film, and the song.
I had a really fun year hanging out with my uk friends, I hope you and your colleagues have a good visit from Father Christmas and a rocking new year. I know we are going have a lot fun in 2023.
Thanks! Happy Christmas, Bryan!
Thank you for this great video. And I wish you Merry Christmas. 🙂🎄🎁🎅
Merry Christmas, Marta.
This was awesome. Hope you have a Merry Christmas. Cheers! ✌️
Merry Christmas, Dwayne. Thanks.
Wonderful as always. Love that Mickey Finn single. Thank you. Happy Christmas wishes from a Yank in upstate NY.
Happy Christmas!
Garden of My Mind has all the stops and stops of Purple Haze! great video!
It's definitely 100% Hendrix. Thanks Michael, glad you enjoyed the video!
The producer of Garden of my Mind, New Jersey boy Richard Gotterher, co wrote Sorrow covered by the McCoy's and Bowie, as well as I Want Candy when a member of The Strangeloves in the early 1960's. He has had a stellar career in songwriting, production and business.
Produced Blondie at first.
The Strangeloves were very good Australian sheep farmers.
I loved mungo jerry's in the summer time, lets not forget the great mark bolans hot love ey !
'Pregnant Insomnia' I think I won't forget that name...
That poor reviewer (literally)!
“Here we go round the Mulberry Bush” by traffic was also featured in the Beatles movie, magical mystery tour
Great series! Subscribed for more!
My favorite musical year!!
6:00 - "You fill me with inertia" - Both a hilarious send-up and a perfect example of this type of anti-love song. Good on Pete and Dud. Glad to see the excellent P.P. Arnold getting some attention (with her invaluable vocals on Small Faces' Tin Soldier). Also, I suddenly realized when I saw Fairport Convention in an ad for a 1967 concert that it was the pre-Sandy Denny Fairport.
Yep, that was when Fairport Convention still sounded like a sort of British version of Jefferson Airplane.
@@YesterdaysPapers I found Fairport in the late 1970 when they had released their more folky songs like Steeleye Span....
Happy Christmas, your channel is ace. :D
Thanks! Happy Christmas.
Bedazzled was a great great movie. I'm happy to see the hilarious song got some notice in the U.K. Merry Christmas, YP and I hope your new year is not filled with inertia.
Merry Christmas, Kevhead1.
Lo que digo,Excelente recopilación de canciones mod y psicodélicas,fabuloso amigo,usted sí que sabe
Great job, as usual! I had never heard of the Studio Six and Pregnant Insomnia releases so it was quite educational, as well. The only Dec '67 UK psych singles I think are missing are "Fredereek Hernando" by One In A Million and "Monterey" by The Animals (although I realize that was only US, not to see UK release until May '68); also "Mulberry Bush" was released on November 24, but no matter--I can't wait to go back to January!! You can have The Game "The Addicted Man", Tuesday's Children "A Strange Light From The East', Spencer Davis Group "I'm A Man", The Rolling Stones "Let's Spend The Night Together/Ruby Tuesday", Wimple Winch "Rumble On Mersey Square South", The Fingers "Circus With A Female Clown", The Remo Four "Live Like A Lady", Donovan "Epistle To Dippy" (I realize it didn't have a UK release, so you might not be able to find UK press reviews for it--but a great song nonetheless!), The Loot "Baby Come Closer" and The Attack "Try It".
I wish I was alive during this era ! These songs may be underrated for a modern listener, but they're all lovely !
I gotta check out The Mickey Finn .. The Producer , Richard Gotteher ( SP ) has worked with Blondie , Robert Gordon & Dum Dum Girls over the years ( to name just a few ) Sounds awesome 👌 !
Tin Soldier is among my all-time favorite songs.
It's my birthday today! Born December 17... 1966! I almost got my year, one day maybe! 😊 Joyeuses Fêtes Monsieur YP 🎄
Happy Birthday, Natalie! And Happy Christmas as well!
Wow, Wallpaper. I heard that song decades ago on the radio but they didn't say who recorded it, but thanks to this video i finally know. Ummm.....the band name is certainly surprising, lol.
Well I definitely remember this month my grandfather passed away 😩
Mulberry Bush had a great soundtrack and Judy Geeson, who could ask for more?
Another great video Yesterdays Papers.
I never thought I would ever hear of Human Instinct on any CZcams channel outside New Zealand or Australia.
excellent
The only bands here I recognize are the Small Faces and Traffic. I'd say Peter Frampton and Steve Winwood did alright for themselves. Here in the States we are most familiar with Carl Calton's 1974 version of Everlasting Love.
That clip with the guy making faces at the doorknob, I saw on an anti-drug film we watched in 4th grade class. That segment was about the evils of LSD. The guy was roaring like a lion into the doorknob. We all laughed out loud at this.
Love it
I missed all these singles. I was on the wrong end of the Great Big Pond. I have been a Small Faces/Faces fan for a few years now so I had heard of Tin Solder. But I missed the rest of these bands. Back then unless you were the Who or the Rolling Stones or Cream it was rare for Brit Music to get a shake in the US. Now I was a young lad in 1967 so my music education was limited. I was at the mercy of my local Top 40 radio station. Maybe if I had a big brother in College I would have been exposed to the Brit music scene earlier.
Many of these songs I hadn't been aware of. Happy Holidays, everyone. ✌🌲
Happy Holidays.
I read somewhere once that Hunter Davies was angling to get the Beatles to do a soundtrack for Mulberry Bush. (He was spending a lot of time with them around then, gathering material for the biography he published the following year.) Didn't happen, of course, but he was gracious enough to acknowledge Traffic had done a good job instead.
BTW, I think it's only fair to add that although Judy Geeson did have a prominent role in that film, Barry Evans was the real star, playing the central character of Jamie.
It would be really cool if this series is continued into 1968 and onward past that.
Absolutely fantastic stuff as usual but I must point out that Howard Blaikley was actually two people - Ken Howard and Alan Blaikley.
1:53 For anyone who has never heard of the significance of the name Mickey Finn, the original Mickey Finn was a Chicago bar owner who was eventually convicted of slipping chloral hydrate into the drinks of unsuspecting customers, robbing them and dumping their unconscious bodies in an alley. Since then, the term "slipping the mickey" has been used for any attempt to take advantage of someone by drugging his or her drink.
PS: I just read that the drummer for T.-Rex during the period in which they recorded "Bang a Gong" was also named Mickey Finn, but there was no implication that it was a stage name. Maybe his parents were just named Finn and chose the name Mickey.
Mickey was not the drummer in T.Rex. He played percussion which usually consisted of bongos or tabla. The drummer was Bill Legend.
That's the spirit!
PAPER BLITZ TISSUE doing Boy Meets Girl! One of my all time fave rave hit pick platters from then! But I refuse to be such a cliche writer as to type "how did it never become a hit"? Your channel is a real kick. Happy New Year! Looking forward to more videos! Might there be a time when you "plug" Zoot Money's Welcome To My Head album?
Thank you Buzza Wuzza! I like "Welcome To My Head", maybe I'll "plug" it in a future video. Good stuff!
Studio Six are from “Ruchazie” in Glasgow. That’s a crazy area. Must have been like the Wild West in ‘67!!