Originally posted by King Juke "N" Jive
Ive heard of that one!:D

I'm surprised at you Jack! This song is right up your alley! A novelty song so to speak! You have probably heard it. Here are a few of the lyrics;

"10, 20 ,30 ,40 ,50 or more..........................................

That's all I remember!
:crazy:

Originally posted by Penny Lane
Boy, you are really digging in the bottom of the barrel! I have never heard of them!:lol:

I have. They were terrible. Their song "Get Me To the World On Time" was one of those tunes that gave psychedelia a bad name.

:p

While the blues revival was underway in America with Paul Butterfield and Michael Bloomfield, there was a similar blues explosion in England fueled by John Mayall and his Bluesbreakers, who released their debut album in 1966. Mayall's guitarist, Eric Clapton, became famous for his solos - so famous, in fact, that the following graffiti was seen all over London:

CLAPTON IS GOD!

Among Mayall's alumni in the Blesbreakers, besides Clapton, were the core of the original Fleetwood Mac (Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Peter Green), Mick Taylor (later of the Rolling Stones), and drummer Aynsley Dunbar.

Also involved in the British blues boom were Alexis Korner and his group Blues Incorporated, along with a London jazz/blues quartet called the Graham Bond Organisation (as the Brits spell it). They were Graham Bond himself on keyboards and vocals, Dick Heckstall-Smith on saxophone, and a rhythm section of Jack Bruce on bass and Ginger Baker on drums.

Bruce and Baker were personal enemies, but when Baker approached Eric Clapton about forming a new band, Clapton agreed on the condition that Jack Bruce be it. Bruce and Baker put their differences aside for the good of the music and for the opportunity to work with Clatpon. During a rehearsal, Clapton took it upon himself to name the unit.

We're the Cream. . . . That's the name of the band."

Cream played their first gig at an outdoor festival on July 3, 1966.

And just to show that Bob Dylan and Paul Simon had nothing on the Beatles when it came to songwriting, here are two Lennon/McCartney songs from Revolver, one from Paul. . .

Eleanor Rigby

Ah, look at all the lonely people.
Ah, look at all the lonely people.

Eleanor Rigby picks up the rice in the church where a wedding has been,
Lives in a dream,
Waits at the window, wearing a face that she keeps in a jar by the door,
Who is it for?

(REFRAIN)

All the lonely people, where do they all come from?
All the lonely people, where do they all belong?

Father McKenzie writing the words of a sermon that no one will hear,
No one comes near,
Look at him working, darning his socks in the night when there's nobody there,
What does he care?

(REFRAIN)

Ah, look at all the lonely people.
Ah, look at all the lonely people.

Eleanor Rigby died in the church and was buried along with her name,
Nobody came.
Father McKenzie wiping the dirt from his hands as he walks from the grave,
No one was saved.

(REFRAIN)

. . .and one from John.

I'm Only Sleeping

When I wake up early in the morning,
Lift my head, I'm still yawning,
When I'm in the middle of a dream,
Stay in bed, float upstream.

(FIRST REFRAIN)

Please don't wake me, no, don't shake me,
Leave me where I am,
I'm only sleeping.

Everybody seems to think I'm lazy,
I don't mind, I think they're crazy,
Running everywhere at such a speed
'Til the find there's no need.

(SECOND REFRAIN)

Please don't spoil my day, I'm miles away,
And after all, I'm only sleeping.

(BRIDGE)

Keeping an eye on the world going by my window,
Taking my time.

Lying there and staring at the ceiling,
Waiting for a sleepy feeling.

(REPEAT SECOND REFRAIN)

(REPEAT BRIDGE)

(REPEAT FIRST VERSE)

Please don't wake me, no, don't shake me,
Leave me where I am,
I'm only sleeping. . . .

And here's George's best Revolver cut:

Taxman

(Goerge Harrison)

Let me tell you how it will be
There's one for you, nineteen for me.
'Cause I'm the taxman,
Yeah, I'm the taxman.

Should five percent appear too small,
Be thankful I don't take it all.
'Cause I'm the taxman,
Yeah, I'm the taxman.

If you drive a car, I'll tax the street,
If you try to sit, I'll tax your seat,
If you get too cold, I'll tax the heat,
If you take a walk, I'll tax your feet.
Taxman!

'Cause I'm the taxman,
Yeah, I'm the taxman.

Don't ask me what I want it for,
(Ah, ah, Mr. Wilson.)
If you don't want to pay some more.
(Ah, ah, Mr. Heath.)
'Cause I'm the taxman,
Yeah, I'm the taxman.

And my advice for those who die,
Declare the pennies on your eyes.
'Cause I'm the taxman,
Yeah, I'm the taxman,
And you're working for no one but me.

Originally posted by Penny Lane
I'm surprised at you Jack! This song is right up your alley! A novelty song so to speak! You have probably heard it. Here are a few of the lyrics;

"10, 20 ,30 ,40 ,50 or more..........................................

That's all I remember!
:crazy:


Oops! Sorry Jack! I misread your post. Thought it said that you had never heard of it!:crazy: :lol:

Does anyone remember "They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha Ha!" by Napoleon XIV? :lol:

Originally posted by Steve M.
Does anyone remember "They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha Ha!" by Napoleon XIV? :lol:

I do! I do!:happyface

Anyone see the Dickie Goodman bio I posted?


BTW anyone remember or heard "Hello Muddah Hello Fadduh" by Allan Sherman?


I like Ray Stevens a lot too

Originally posted by Steve M.
Does anyone remember "They're Coming To Take Me Away, Ha Ha!" by Napoleon XIV? :lol: I do!!:clap:

Originally posted by King Juke "N" Jive
Anyone see the Dickie Goodman bio I posted?


BTW anyone remember or heard "Hello Muddah Hello Fadduh" by Allan Sherman?


I like Ray Stevens a lot too I saw that about Dickie Goodman, I remember when those things were the rage in the 70's!!

Originally posted by Captain ABlairica
I saw that about Dickie Goodman, I remember when those things were the rage in the 70's!! Awesome!!!!!

Yeah he had lotsi n the 70s ever heard "Mr Jaws"? Thats him :D

To me, Ray Stevens will always be the king of parody pop! (Weird Al doesn't count here, as he writes silly lyrics to other people's music. Stevens writes entirely original songs parodying different subjects.)

Anyway, parody pop is a nice little rest stop here on the highway of sixties rock and roll. . . . :) :D

Kalaeidescope were another San Francisco scene band.

The Pretty Things were a British band who had a reputation of being wilder than the Rolling Stones, whom they knew in the early 60's. "Don't Bring Me Down", a Jimmy Reed cover "The Moon Is Rising", "Honey I Need", and "Cry To Me" were many of their British hits, but they never made it big in America. Which is probably a good thing, because the members were known to cause trouble wherever they went, such as trashing places, and drummer Vivian Prince fancied carrying around a dead crayfish around.

The Young Rascals, who later changed their name to just The Rascals
Good Lovin'

Good lovin' [3X]
Good lovin'
Verse 1:
I was feelin'so bad
I asked my family doctor just what I had
I said "Doctor, (Doctor), Mr. M.D., (Doctor)
Now can you tell me what's ailin' me (Doctor)"
He said, "Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah"
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Yes indeed
All I, I really need
Chorus 2:
Good lovin' (Now gimme that good, good lovin')
Good lovin' (All I need is lovin')
Good lovin' (Good, good lovin', baby)
Good lovin'
[guitar riff, 2X]
Verse 2:
Honey, please squeeze me tight (squeeze me tight)
Don't you want your baby to be all right (be all right)
I said baby (baby) now it's for sure (it's for sure)
I got the fever, yeah, and you got the cure (got the cure)
Everybody: yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
(Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah)
Yes indeed
All I really need
Chorus 3:
Good lovin' (C'mon, gimme that lovin')
Good lovin' (All I need is lovin')
Good lovin' (Good, good lovin', baby)
Good lovin'
[guitar riff, 2X]
Coda:
Good lovin'
Good lovin'
Good lovin' (all I need is lovin')
Good lovin' (all I want is lovin')
Good lovin' (lovin' early in the morning)
Good lovin' (lovin' you late at night)
Good lovin' (love... love)
Good lovin' (love, love, love, love, lovin')

The Crazy World of Arthur Brown sang, "I am the god of Hellfire!!" and was very convincing that he was. Was it all just theatrical rock??

Fire

I am the god of hellfire and I bring you:
Fire, I'll take you to burn.
Fire, I'll take you to learn.
I'll see you burn!

You fought hard and you saved and learned,
but all of it's going to burn.
And your mind, your tiny mind,
you know you've really been so blind.
Now 's your time burn your mind.
You're falling far too far behind.
Oh no, oh no, oh no, you gonna burn!

Fire, to destroy all you've done.
Fire, to end all you've become.
I'll feel you burn!
You've been living like a little girl,
in the middle of your little world.
And your mind, your tiny mind,
you know you've really been so blind.
Now 's your time burn your mind,
you're falling far too far behind.

Sam and Dave had a hit with "Soul Man".

Before we get into 1967, let's stop and remember the biggest Australian band of the sixties. No, not the Seekers. I'm talking about. . .

The Easybeats!

Who could forget their hit "Friday On My Mind?" :)

Guitarist George Young had two brothers who would take Australian rock farther in the seventies. Maybe you've heard of them - Angus and Malcolm! :D

The Beatles received the coveted M.B.E. from the Queen for their achievements. Other recipients were disgusted that the medals were given to such "vulgar numbskulls". The Beatles were proud that they received theirs for making music that made people happy, which was better than "for killing people and fighting in wars."

Originally posted by Steve M.
Before we get into 1967, let's stop and remember the biggest Australian band of the sixties. No, not the Seekers. I'm talking about. . .

The Easybeats!

Who could forget their hit "Friday On My Mind?" :)

Guitarist George Young had two brothers who would take Australian rock farther in the seventies. Maybe you've heard of them - Angus and Malcolm! :D George Young had two famous brothers, you say? What did THEY do??;) :lol:

Hope I'm not going TOO fast into the 60's!!! I'm trying to get everyone!!! If it seems like I'm getting a little too far ahead into the psychedelic era, I'm basically touching the very beginnings in San Francisco. But there is still so much stuff coming out of England and elsewhere!! Technically, I'm still in 1965/1966.

The Rolling Stones were arrested in 1965 in London for the heinous crime of--TAKING A LEAK IN PUBLIC!!!:eek: Those incorrigible hoodlums!!!

Here are the Stones on Shindig!

Otis Redding

The Four Tops

Ike and Tina Turner

And leave us not forget the Outsiders and their big hit, "Time Won't Let Me!" :)

Originally posted by Captain ABlairica
The Rolling Stones were arrested in 1965 in London for the heinous crime of--TAKING A LEAK IN PUBLIC!!!:eek: Those incorrigible hoodlums!!!

Here are the Stones on Shindig! Whoa! LOL

Hullabaloo - one of the musical variety shows of the 60s
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:fC6_N1DCmQcC:home.att.net/~outasite/hullabaloo.gif


I have all 3 DVDs of this show, and if it werent for it, I wouldnt be listneing to Gary Lewis, Herman's Hermits etc so much lol

[QUOTE]Originally posted by King Juke "N" Jive
Whoa! LOL

Hullabaloo - one of the musical variety shows of the 60s
http://images.google.com/images?q=tbn:fC6_N1DCmQcC:home.att.net/~outasite/hullabaloo.gif


I have all 3 DVDs of this show, and if it werent for it, I wouldnt be listneing to Gary Lewis, Herman's Hermits etc so much lol [/QUOTE

I liked "Shindig" better!;)

The Buckingham's- "Kind Of A Drag"

Originally posted by Penny Lane
You guys are reviving all my teenage memories! Music meant so much to me then (and now) This has been such a cool thread!Thanks for starting it Captain!:happyface :welcome:

19th Nervous Breakdown
The Rolling Stones

You’re the kind of person
You meet at certain dismal dull affairs.
Center of a crowd, talking much too loud
Running up and down the stairs.
Well, it seems to me that you have seen too much in too few years.
And though you’ve tried you just can’t hide
Your eyes are edged with tears.

You better stop
Look around
Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes, here it comes
Here comes your nine-teenth nervous breakdown.

When you were a child
You were treated kind
But you were never brought up right.
You were always spoiled with a thousand toys
But still you cried all night.
Your mother who neglected you
Owes a million dollars tax.
And your father’s still perfecting ways of making ceiling wax.

You better stop, look around
Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes, here it comes
Here comes your nilne-teenth nervous breakdown.

Oh, who’s to blame, that girl’s just insane.
Well nothing I do don’t seem to work,
It only seems to make matters worse. oh please.

You were still in school
When you had that fool
Who really messed your mind.
And after that you turned your back
On treating people kind.
On our first trip
I tried so hard to rearrange your mind.
But after while I realized you were disarranging mine.

You better stop, look around
Here it comes, here it comes, here it comes, here it comes
Here comes your nine-teenth nervous breakdown.
Here comes your nine-teenth nervous breakdown
Here comes your nine-teenth nervous breakdown

In the fall of 1966, John Lennon met avant-garde artist Yoko Ono.

In 1966, The Animals' bassist Chas Chandler made a musical discovery in New York that he had to bring to London.

The Jimi Hendrix Experience was formed with Jimi Hendrix, Noel Redding, and Mitch Mitchell.

Are You Experienced? - The Jimi Hendrix Experience

If you can just get your mind together
Then come on across to me
We'll hold hands and they'll watch the sun rise
From the bottom of the sea.

But first, are you experienced?
Have you ever been experienced?
Well, I have.

I know, I know, you'll probably scream and cry
That your little world won't let you go
But who in your measly little world,
Are you trying to prove to that you're made out of gold
And, uh, can't be sold?

So, uh, are you experienced?
Have you ever been experienced?
Well, I have.
(Uh, let me prove it to you. . . .)

(GROUNDBREAKING GUITAR SOLO!!!)

Trumpets and violins, I can a-hear in the distance
I think they're calling our name
Maybe now you can't hear them, but you will. . .
If you just take hold of my hand.

Oh, but are you experienced?
Have you ever been experienced?
Not necessarily stoned, but. . .
Beautiful. . . .

The Beatles and Bob Dylan never collaborated musically with each other, yet they unquestionably influenced each other. Bob Dylan realized the musical revolution belonged to rock and roll rather than folk, and the Beatles' music convinced him to go electric. Bob Dylan's impact on the Beatles was that he convinced them to make social and political statements in their songs and to use their platform as the number one band in the word to to speak on the issues of war and the government, which would succeed farther than folk ever could.

The other contribution Dylan made on the Beatles was that he introduced them to marijuana. During their first tour of America in 1964, Dylan met the band in a hotel in New York and showed them his little taboo substance....The band was leery of it at
first, but Dylan was able to show them how to properly light up.
They got so much into it that they started giggling due to the giddy effects of the drug. Paul soon used the expression "having a giggle" as his code word for smoking pot.

Their foray into the wonderful world of dope would later have a profound influence on their songwriting. The final cut on "Revolver" would have a song whose lyrics were based on a quote from the Tibetan Book of the Dead:
Tomorrow Never Knows

Turn off your mind relax and float down-stream,
It is not dying, it is not dying,
Lay down all thought surrender to the void,
It is shining, it is shining.

That you may see the meaning of within,
It is speaking, it is speaking,
That love is all and love is ev’ryone,
It is knowing, it is knowing.

When ignorance and haste may mourn the dead,
It is believing, it is believing,
But listen to the color of your dreams,
It is not living, it is not living.

Or play the existence to the end.
Of the beginning, of the beginning.
Of the beginning. Of the beginning.

Both "Tomorrow Never Knows" by the Beatles and "Eight Miles High" by the Byrds are considered to be the first psychedelic hits, though the former was never released as a single. The latter caused controversy due to the word "High" in the title, but it is actually a reflection of the members' first tour of Britain:

Eight Miles High
The Byrds

Eight miles high and when you touch down
You'll find that it's stranger than known
Signs in the street that say where you're going
Are somewhere just being their own.

Nowhere is there warmth to be found
Among those afraid of losing their ground
Rain gray town known for its sound
In places small faces unbound

Round the squares huddled in storms
Some laughing some just shapeless forms
Sidewalk scenes and black limousines
Some living some standing alone

James Marshall Hendrix was born in Seattle on November 27, 1942.

Jimi's father was Al Hendrix, who was born in Vancouver, British Columbia, the son of parents who played in a Dixieland troupe. Al's mother liked to sew flashy clothing, which would later influence her grandson's fashion sense. As a child, young Jimmy (his nom de plume would not come until later) was adventurous and daring; he and his friends formed a "bicycle" gang after seeing the Marlon Brando movie "The Wild Ones". "Buster", as Jimmy was nicknamed, began performing reckless stunt jumps on his bike.

When young Jimmy began to play air guitar with a broom and scattered the straws into pieces all over the floor, his father came in and asked what was he doing. Jimmy replied, "I'm practicing guitar." At that moment his father decided to go out and buy his son a real guitar and not sacrifice their household cleaning equipment. He knew his son loved music.

Young Jimmy's two main interest were sports and music. He played football in school, but his direction in life was formed when his father went down to a local music store on First Avenue and Seneca Street in downtown Seattle and picked up an inexpensive guitar. Jimmy fell in love with it and practiced it tirelessly.

Jimmy actually got his musical start at the Birdland Club in Seattle with a group called the Rocking Kings wo appeared with national acts with the club. He left in 1961.

After a few years of trying to join bands, Jimi decided to go into the Air Force, as part of the 101st Airborne Division. He did well, but was discharged when he twisted his ankle. His guitar was his constant companion.

Purple Haze

PURPLE HAZE ALL IN MY BRAIN
LATELY THINGS JUST DON'T SEEM THE SAME
ACTIN' FUNNY BUT I DON'T KNOW WHY
'SCUSE ME WHILE I KISS THE SKY

PURPLE HAZE ALL AROUND
DON'T KNOW IF I'M COMIN' UP OR DOWN
AM I HAPPY OR IN MISERY?
WHATEVER IT IS, THAT GIRL PUT A SPELL ON ME

HELP ME HELP ME
OH NO NO...NO

YEAH
PURPLE HAZE ALL IN MY EYES
DONT KNOW IF ITS DAY OR NIGHT
YOU GOT ME BLOWIN, BLOWIN MA MIND
IS IT TOMORROW OR JUST THE END OF TIME?

Haight-Ashbury was the corner where the counterculture revolution was happening.
The Grateful Dead are pictured here at 710 Ashbury Street.

San Francisco Nights
The Animals

This following program is dedicated to the city and people of
San Francisco, who may not know it but they are beautiful and so
is their city this is a very personal song, so if the viewer
cannot understand it particularly those of you who are European
residents save up all your bread and fly Trans-Love airways to
San Francisco U.S.A., then maybe you'll understand the song, it
will be worth it, if not for the sake of this song but for the
sake of your own peace of mind.

Strobe lights beam create dreams
walls move minds to do
on a warm San Francisco night
old child young child feel alright
on a warm San Francisco night
angels sing leather wings
jeans of blue Harley Davisons too
on a warm San Francisco night
old angels young angels feel alright
on a warm San Francisco night.

I wasn't born there perhaps I'll die there
there's no place left to go, San Francisco.

Cop's face is filled with hate
heavens above he's on a street called love
when will they even learn
old cop young cop feel alright
on a warm San Francisco night
the children are cool
they don't raise fools
it's an American dream
includes Indians too.

Two hippies getting in touch with each other. :love:

The San Francisco lifestyle was about freedom, no constraints, no authority, nothing about the Man breathing down anyone's neck.
People who had grown up in the stifling 50's environment felt that they had achieved a new awareness about the world around them. Their music could and would change the world! The world was on the treshold of peace and love that would overflow, it was a matter of those who were in touch with that cosmic event to reach out and grab it. LSD was used as a means to realize deeper truths, to hear color, to see sound, and open oneself up to new experiences.

It was a such a wild, trippy experience, so liberating. There was free love, the sex was everywhere, no guilt, no hangups, it was deep, and it was groovy. Everyone was feeling good, everyone dug each other and everything. And it was beautiful, man. peace: peacesign: :rainbow: :love:

SAN FRANCISCO (Be Sure To Wear Flowers In Your Hair)
Scott McKenzie

If you're going to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you're going to San Francisco
You're gonna meet some gentle people there

For those who come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there
In the streets of San Francisco
Gentle people with flowers in their hair

All across the nation such a strange vibration
People in motion
There's a whole generation with a new explanation
People in motion people in motion

For those who come to San Francisco
Be sure to wear some flowers in your hair
If you come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there

If you come to San Francisco
Summertime will be a love-in there

Light shows were a great place to go long before the advent of raves.

The Doors with Jim Morrison on lead vocals, Ray Manzerek on keyboards, Robbie Krieger on guitar and John Densmore on drums. Jim Morrison, the band's dark, enigmatic lyricist, was a macabre, complex individual who claimed to be possessed by the spirits of dying Native Americans who had been in a fatal car collision when he was younger. This accounted for his wild, Dionysian persona.

BREAK ON THROUGH (TO THE OTHER SIDE)
You know the day destroys the night
Night divides the day
Tried to run
Tried to hide
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side, yeah

We chased our pleasures here
Dug our treasures there
But can you still recall
The time we cried
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side

Yeah!
C'mon, yeah

Everybody loves my baby
Everybody loves my baby
She get
She get
She get
She get high

I found an island in your arms
Country in your eyes
Arms that chain us
Eyes that lie
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Break on through, oww!
Oh, yeah!

Made the scene
Week to week
Day to day
Hour to hour
The gate is straight
Deep and wide
Break on through to the other side
Break on through to the other side
Break on through
Break on through
Break on through
Break on through
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah

SOUL KITCHEN
Well, the clock says it's time to close now
I guess I'd better go now
I'd really like to stay here all night
The cars crawl past all stuffed with eyes
Street lights share their hollow glow
Your brain seems bruised with numb surprise
Still one place to go
Still one place to go

Let me sleep all night in your soul kitchen
Warm my mind near your gentle stove
Turn me out and I'll wander baby
Stumblin' in the neon groves

Well, your fingers weave quick minarets
Speak in secret alphabets
I light another cigarette
Learn to forget, learn to forget
Learn to forget, learn to forget

Let me sleep all night in your soul kitchen
Warm my mind near your gentle stove
Turn me out and I'll wander baby
Stumblin' in the neon groves

Well the clock says it's time to close now
I know I have to go now
I really want to stay here
All night, all night, all night

Originally posted by Captain ABlairica
The Doors with Jim Morrison :rock:

Country Joe and the Fish was led by Country Joe McDonald.

Big Brother and Holding Company flew to stardom with the addition of a husky-throated female lead singer by the name of Janis Joplin.

Janis Joplin

Originally posted by Captain ABlairica
Janis Joplin Ya know they're planning to do a movie about her with Renee Zellweger in the title role

Originally posted by King Juke "N" Jive
Ya know they're planning to do a movie about her with Renee Zellweger in the title role

COOLNESS!!:cool: I think I might have heard about that!! I think she'd be good for that role!!

Allen Ginsberg, Beat poet and counterculture hero, dances with the crowd.

The Hell's Angels made a presence in San Francisco.

A bookstore in the Haight-Ashbury district.

By the end of 1966, the Beatles were considered mainstream popsters - so much, that, choral singers began performing ditties like "Yesterday" and even "She Loves You" on TV variety shows. The Beatles themselves had disappeared in the fall of 1966, with John going off to Spain to star in the Richard Lester movie How I Won the War, George going off to India to hone his sitar skills with Ravi Shankar, Paul taking in highbrow London culture with Jane Asher, and Ringo just staying home with the wife and family.

In November, they regrouped to begin recording their follow-up to Revolver, hoping to produce an album that would not only bring them back in the avant-garde, but would sound at least as good as the Beach Boys's Pet Sounds, which had been out for a few months. "Can we do something as good?" Paul McCartney asked George Martin.

"No," Martin replied. "We can do better."

They had three songs done or near completion by the beginning of 1967. The Fabs had originally planned to record a theme album about their childhood in Liverpool, but EMI was pressing them for a new release. It had been too long since Revolver - six months, an eternity between new releases then - so the first two completed songs were issued as a single. Because the Bealtes kept singles and albums, separate, the two new songs would not appear on the new LP.

And so "Strawberry Fields Forever," from John, and "Penny Lane," from Paul, were issued in February 1967 as the first "concept 45."

Moby Grape was another great band from San Francisco that was poised to become The Next Big Thing, but didn't.

Sgt.Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band

It was twenty years ago today, that
Sgt. Pepper taught the band to play
They’ve been going in and out of style
But they’re guaranteed to raise a smile.
So may I introduce to you
The act you’ve known for all these years,
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band!!!!

We’re Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,
We hope you will enjoy the show,
We’re Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band,
Sit back and let the evening go.
Sgt. Pepper’s lonely, Sgt. Pepper’s lonely,
Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

It’s wonderful to be here,
It’s certainly a thrill.
You’re such a lovely audience,
We’d like to take you home with us,
We’d love to take you home.

I don’t really want to stop the show,
But I thought you might like to know,
That the singer’sgoning to sing a song,
And he wants you all to sing along.
So may I introduce to you
The one only Billy Shears
And Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band.

"Strawberry Fields Forever" was a landmark recording in that it melded the beignning of a heavy rock version with the middle and end of an orchestrated version that had been in different keys and different tempos. When John Lennon wanted what he thought were the best of both versions edited together to create a master, George Martin mentioned the problem of differing keys and tempos, and Lennon repiled, "Well, surely you can fix it!"

Martin and engineer Geoff Emerick realized they could fix it by gradually speeding up the beginning of the rock take and slowing down the middle and end of the orchestrated take. They joined them together about a minute into what is now the definitive master, and the song was finished. The fade-out and fade back in at the end was necessary to cover Ringo's miss of a beat when someone distracted him.

"Penny Lane" was a straightforward recording that posed no problems. Paul McCartney's only request - a piccolo trumpet solo - was easily filled.

"Strawberry Fields Forever" and "Penny Lane" were issued as a double A-side in both the U.K. and the U.S. In America, "Penny Lane" hit number one. In Britain, the record only hit number two, the first time since "Love Me Do" that a Beatles single failed to top the singles charts in their home country. It simply couldn't surmount Englebert Humperdinck's "Release Me."

With a Little Help From My Friends

What would you do if I sang out of tune,
Would you stand up and walk out on me.
Lend me your ears and I’ll sing you a song,
And I’ll try not to sing out of key.

I get by with a little help from my friends,
I get high with a little help from my friends,
I’m gonna try with a little help from my friends.

What do I do when my love is away.
(Does it worry you to be alone)
How do I feel by the end of the day
(Are you sad because you’re on your own)
No I get by with a little help from my friends,
I get high with a little help from my friends,
Oh, I’m gonna try with a little help from my friends.

Do you need anybody,
I need somebody to love.
Could it be anybody
I want somebody to love.

Would you believe in love at first sight,
Yes I’m certain that it happens all the time.
What do you see when you turn out the light,
I can’t tell you, but I know it’s mine.
Oh I get by with a little help from my friends.
I get high with a little help from my friends,
Oh I’m gonna try with a little help from my friends.

Do you need anybody,
I just need somebody to love,
Could it be anybody,
I want somebody to love.

Oh I get by with a little help from my friends,
Mm I’m gonna try with a little help from my friends,
Oh I get high with a little help from my friends,
Yes I get by with a little help from my friends.

Lucy in the Sky With Diamonds

Picture yourself in boat on a river,
With tangerine trees and marmalde skies
Somebody calls you, you answer quite slowly,
A girl with kaleidoscope eyes.

Cellophane flowers of yellow and green,
Towering over your head.
Look for the girl with the sun in her eyes,
And she’s gone.

Lucy in the sky with diamonds

Follow her down to a bridge by a fountain
Where rocking horse people eat marshmallow pies,
Everyone smiles as you drift past the flowers,
That grow so incredibly high.

Newspaper taxis appear on the shore,
Waiting to take you away.
Climb in the back with your head in the clouds,
And you’re gone.

Lucy in the sky with diamonds,
Picture yourself on a train in a station,
With plasticine porters with looking glass ties,
Suddenly someone is there at the turnstile,
The girl with kaleidoscope eyes.
Lucy in the sky with diamonds.

Getting Better

It’s getting better all the time
I used to get mad at my school
The teachers who taught me weren’t cool
Holding me down, turning me round
Filling me up with your rules.

I’ve got to admit it’s getting better
It’s a little better all the time
I have to admit it’s getting better
It’s getting better since you’ve been mine.

Me used to be angry young man
Me hiding me head in the sand
You gave me the word
I finally heard
I’m doing the best that I can.

I admit it’s getting better
It’s a little better all the time yes
I admit it’s getting better
It’s getting better since you’ve been mine.

I used to be cruel to my woman
I beat her and kept her from the
Things that she loved
Man I was mean but I’m changing my scene
And I’m doing the ebst that I can.

I admit it’s getting better
A little better all the time
Yes I admit it’s getting better
It’s getting better since you’ve been mine.
Getting so much better all the time.

The third song from the fall 1966 sessions, "When I'm Sixty-Four," would be joined by twelve other tracks to form the new Beatles album. Originally conceived under the working title One Down, Six To Go, it became Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band when Paul, coming back from a visit to San Francisco, had been letting different words run through his head and the words "Sergeant" and "Pepper" came together with the phrase "lonely hearts club" for no apparent reason. He thought of Sgt. Pepper leading a band that played lonely hearts clubs, wrote the namesake song, and suddenly realized that the Beatles could pretend to be this fictitous marching band and do the album as if it were a live performance. Sgt. Pepper was thus given a theme, one of the first concept albums of its kind, but the concept was a rather thin one. Yet, as Nicholas Schaffner observed, the songs all had to do with innocence and experience, which tied in perfectly with the mindset of the Beatles's fans.

Fixing a Hole

I’m fixing a hole where the rain gets in
And stops my mind from wandering
Where it will go.
I’m filling in the cracks that ran through the door
And kept my mind from wandering
Where it will go.

And it really doesn’t matter if I’m wrong
I’m right
Where I belong I’m right
Where I belong.
See the people standing there who
Disagree and never win
And wonder why they don’t get in my door.

I’m painting the room in a colorful way
And when my mind is wandering
There I will go.
And it doesn’t really matter if I’m wrong I’m right
Where I belong I’m right
Where I belong.

Silly people run around they worry me
And never ask me why they don’t get past my door.
I’m taking the time for a number of things
That weren’t important yesterday
And I still go.
I’m fixing a hole where the rain gets in
And stops my mind from wandering
Where it will go.

She's Leaving Home

Wednesday morning and five o’clock as the day begins
Silently closing her bedroom door
Leaving the note that she hoped would say more
She goes downstairs to the kitchen
Clutching her hankerchief
Quietly turning the backdoor key
Stepping outside she is free.

She (We gave her most of our lives)
Is leaving (Sacrificed most of our lives)
Home (We gave her everything money could buy)
She’s leaving home after living alone
For so many years. Bye, bye.

Father snores as his wife gets into her dressing gown
Picks up the letter that’s lying there
Standing alone at the top of stairs
She breaks down and cries to her husband
Daddy our baby’s gone.

Why would she treat us so thoughtlessly
How could she do this to me.
She (We never thought of ourselves)
Is leaving (Never a thought for ourselves)
Home (We struggled hard all our lives to get by)
She’s leaving home after living alone
For so many years. Bye, bye.

Friday morning at nine o’clock she is far away
Waiting to keep the appointment she made
Meeting a man from the motor trade.
She (What did we do that was wrong)
Is leaving (We didn’t know it was wrong)
Home (Fun is the one thing that money can’t buy)
Something inside that was always denied
For so many years. Bye, bye.
She’s leaving home bye bye.

Being for the Benefit Mr. Kite!

For the benefit of Mr. Kite
There will be a show tomight on trampoline.
The Hendersons will all be there
Late of Pablo Fanques Fair - what a scene.

Over men and horses hoops and garters
Lastly through a hogshed of real fire!
In this way Mr. K. Will challenge the world!
The celebrated Mr. K.
Performs his feat on Saturday and Bishopsgate
The Hendersons will dance and sing
As Mr. Kite flies through the ring don’t be late

Messrs. K. And H. Assure the public
Their production will be second to none
And of course Henry the Horse dances the waltz!
The band begins at ten to six
Whe Mr. K. Performs his tricks without a sound
And Mr. H. will demonstrate
Ten somersets he’ll undertake on solid ground.
Having been some days in preparation
A splendid time is guaranteed for all
And tonight Mr. Kite is topping the bill.

Within You Without You

We were talking - about the space between us all
And the people - who hide themselves behind a wall of illusion
Never glimpse the truth - then it’s far too late - when they pass away.

We were talking - about the love we could all share - when we find it
To try our best to hold it there - with our love
With our love - we could save the world - if they only knew.
Try to realize it’s all within yourself
No-one else can make you change
And to see you’re really only very small,
And life flows on within you and without you.

We were talking - about the love that’s gone so cold and the people,
Who gain the world and lose their soul -
They don’t know - they can’t see - are you one of them?
When you’ve seen beyond yourself -
Then you may find peace of mind, is waiting there -
And the time will come when you see we’re all one,
And life flows on within you and without you.

When I'm Sixty-four

When I get older losing my hair,
Many years from now.
Will you still be sending me a Valentine
Birthday greetings bottle of wine.
If I’d been out till quarter to three
Would you lock the door.
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When I’m sixty-four.

You’ll be older too,
And if you say the word,
I could stay with you.
I could be handy, mending a fuse
When your lights have gone.
You can knit a sweater by the fireside
Sunday morning go for a ride.
Doing the garden, digging the weeds,
Who could ask for more.
Will you still need me, will you still feed me,
When I’m sixty-four.

Every summer we can rent a cottage,
In the Isle of Wight, if it’s not too dear
We shall scrimp and save
Grandchildren on your knee
Vera Chuck & Dave
Send me a postcard, drop me a line,
Stating point of view
Indicate precisely what you mean to say
Yours sincerely, wasting away
Give me your answer, fill in a form
Mine for evermore.
Will you still need me, will you still feed me
When I’m sixty-four.

Lovely Rita

Lovely Rita meter maid.
Lovely Rita meter maid.
Lovely Rita meter maid.
Nothing can come between us,
When it gets dark I tow your heart away.

Standing by a parking meter,
When I caught a glipmse of Rita,
Filling in a ticket in her little white book.
In a cap she looked much older,
And the bag across her shoulder
Made her look like a military man.

Lovely Rita meter maid,
May I inquire discreetly,
When you are free,
To take some tea with me.

Took her out and tried to win her,
Had a laugh and over dinner,
Told her I would really like to see her again,
Got the bill and Rita paid it
Took her home and nearly made it
Sitting on a sofa with a sister or two.
Oh, lovely Rita meter maid,
Where would I be without you.
Give us a wink and make me think of you.

Good Morning, Good Morning

Nothing to do to save his life call his wife in
Nothing to say but what a day how’s your boy been
Nothing to do it’s up to you
I’ve got nothing to say but it’s O.K.

Good morning, good morning, good morning...
Going to work don’t want to go feeling loww down
Heading for home you start to roam then you’re in town
Everybody knows there’s nothing doing
Everything is closed it’s like a ruin
Everyone you see is half asleep.
And you’re on your own you’re in the street.

Good morning, good morning...
After a while you start to smile now you feel cool.
Then you decide to take a walk by the old school.
Nothing had changed it’s still the same
I’ve got nothing to say but it’s O.K.

Good morning, good morning, good morning...
People running round it’s five o’clock.
Everywhere in town it’s getting dark.
Everyone you see is full of life.
It’s time for tea and meet the wife.

Somebody needs to know the time, glad that I’m here.
Watching the skirts start to flirt now you’re in gear.
Go to a show you hope she goes.
I’ve got nothing to say but it’s O.K.
Good morning, good morning, good morning...

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band (Reprise)

We're Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band
we hope you will enjoy the show
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band
We're sorry but it's time to go

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band
We'd like to thank you once again
Sgt. Pepper's one and only Lonely Heart's Club Band
It's getting very near the end

Sgt. Pepper's Lonely, Sgt. Pepper's Lonely
Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Heart's Club Band

A Day in the Life

I read the news today oh boy
About a lucky man who made the grade
And though the news was rather sad
Well I just had to laugh
I saw the photograph

He blew his mind out in a car
He didn’t notice that the lights had changed
A crowd of people stood and stared
They’d seen his face before
Nobody was really sure
If he was from the House of Lords.

I saw a film today oh boy
The English Army had just won the war
A crowd of people turned away
But I just had to look
Having read the book.
I’d love to turn you on

Woke up, got out of bed,
Dragged a comb across my head
Found my way downstairs and drank a cup,
And looking up I noticed I was late.
Found my coat and grabbed my hat
Made the bus in seconds flat
Found my way upstairs and had a smoke,
And somebody spoke and I went into a dream

I heard the news today oh boy
Four thousand holes in Blackburn, Lancashire
And though the holes were rather small
They had to count them all
Not they know how many holes it takes
To fill the Albert Hall.
I’d love to turn you on.

The final, crashing E major piano chord was a fitting end to the Beatles's most ambitious album - except that it was followed by a dog whstle and a quick blast of gibeerish that, when played on a record player that didn't have automatic pick-up, sounded like "Never curse your tanning underwear!'

Sgt. Pepper was issued all over the world in June 1967, and it was the first Beatles album to appear in America exactly as it did in Britain. It became the soundtrack for the Summer of Love.

Reaction to Sgt. Pepper was nearly unamious in praise, with Brian Wilson so impressed he determined to surpass the album with a new Beach Boys opus called Smile (but that's another story), and Bob Dylan realizing that the Fabs didn't want to be cute anymore.

The new hippie sound, however, inspired a backlash. A diehard Beatles fan named Marshall Crenshaw absolutely hated the Sgt. Pepper album for being an "un-rock-and-roll-record." A seventeen-year-old kid from Pontiac, Michigan named Dave Marsh couldn't help but notice that hippies tended to be white, middle class, and high all the time, more into trendiness than into rock and roll and out of touch with reality. He hated the Grateful Dead with a passion, and when he became a rock critic in seventies, he would say so repeatedly. The less cool musicians and bands in the San Francisco Bay Area felt marginalized by the hippie community, including a young black fellow named Sylvester Stewart and his interracial, bi-gender backing group, and a rockabilly revivalist named John Fogerty who led a group with his brother Tom called the Golliwogs. Both of these performers would go on to greater things in 1968 and 1969. (So we'll get back to them later.)

In 1967, the Summer of Love was anything but for the residents of Newark, New Jersey, and Detroit, Michigan, where poverty and unemployment exploded into fierce riots. In Detroit, the Army had to be sent in when the Detroit police and the Michigan state militia failed to stop the riot. A new form of rock and roll, representing the gritty, industrial streets, emerged at this time, led by a New York City band associated with pop artist Andy Warhol. They dressed in leather, played driving songs about heroin, their leader dismissed Sgt. Pepper as "gooey pap," and their fans and hangers-on dismissed hippies as "scum." The leader was a punk from Long Island named Lou Reed, and his band was. . . .

the Velvet Underground.

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Looks like we're in 1968/69 now?

Originally posted by King Juke "N" Jive
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Looks like we're in 1968/69 now? We're still in 1967, getting closer to 1968. Amazing how so much could happen in so short of time!

Originally posted by Captain ABlairica
We're still in 1967, getting closer to 1968. Amazing how so much could happen in so short of time!

Yes, indeed! By the middle of 1967, the cultural rivalry between the East Coast and the West Coast heated up to produce a time of explosive creation in rock and roll not seen since the previous Tuesday! :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: From New York, The Velvet Underground's debut album quickly became one of the most important albums in all of rock, and they were quickly followed by the pornographic Fugs. In LA, the Buffalo Springfield upped the ante with their second album, Buffalo Springfield Again. The record contained some of the best songs its leaders had (have?) ever written; Neil Young's biting "Mr. Soul" and totally weird "Broken Arrow," Stephen Stills's thrilling "Rock and Roll Woman" and "Bluebird," and Richie Furay's countryish "A Child's Claim To Fame" (a lyric from which serves as my signature) and his soul-tinged "Good Time Boy" (sung by Springfield drummer Dewey Martin). Buffalo Springfield Again also freatured some of their tightest, most intense music.

While New York and LA bands were putting each other down, the Monkees made it clear that they were too busy singing to put anyone down. Because they had been artificially created, a lot of folks put the Monkees down, but they came up with some wonderful records - "Last Train To Clarksville," "I'm a Believer" (penned by Neil Diamond), and "Pleasant Valley Sunday," a critique of suburbia written by Gerry Goffin and Carole King (about a subdivision in West Orange, New Jersey, a stone's throw from where I live!). So okay, the Monkees did put a couple of people down.

England wasn't slow off the mark either, as psychedelic groups like Pink Floyd and the Move gained notice with their experimental shows. After opening the year with a basic blues-rock album, Between the Buttons, the Rolling Stones created a dark, drugged-up, spaced-out answer to Sgt. Pepper with Their Satanic Majesties Request. The Who perfected a concept album based on commercials aired on illegal radio stations in Britain, The Who Sell Out, which featured their U.S. Top Ten hit "I Can See For Miles."

While all this was going on, the inevitable question remained unanswered - What is Bob Dylan going to pull next? Dylan was still recovering from his motorcycle accident, but he wasn't idle. He taped a whole bunch of demos of new songs he offered to other artists, accompanied by the Band. They were released in 1975 as The Basement Tapes.

And then there were the Bealtes. . .still. Hot on the heels of Sgt. Pepper, they debuted a new song for the international "Our World" broadcast, in which they represented the United Kingdom to celebrate the idea of peace and harmony. The song, performed live on international TV on June 25, 1967, and released as a single in July, was called. . . .

All You Need Is Love

(Lennon / McCartney)

Love, love, love,
Love, love, love,
Love, love, love. . . .

There's nothing you can do that can't be done,
Nothing you can sing that can't be sung,
Nothing you can say but you can learn how to play the game,
It's easy.

Nothing you can make that can't be made,
No one you can save who can't be saved,
Nothing you can do but you can learn how to be you in time,
It's easy.

(CHORUS)

All you need is love,
All you need is love,
All you need is love, love
Love is all you need.

(REPEAT CHORUS)

Nothing you can know that isn't known,
Nothing you can see that isn't shown,
Nowhere you can be that isn't where you're meant to be,
It's easy.

(REPEAT CHORUS TWICE)

Love is all you need. . . .

The cover for the first album cover by The Velvet Underground was painted by celebrated pop artist Andy Warhol.

The Velvet Underground live.

I'm Waiting For The Man

I'm waiting for my man
Twenty-six dollars in my hand
Up to Lexington, 125
Feel sick and dirty, more dead than alive
I'm waiting for my man

Hey, white boy, what you doin' uptown?
Hey, white boy, you chasin' our women around?
Oh pardon me sir, it's the furthest from my mind
I'm just lookin' for a dear, dear friend of mine
I'm waiting for my man

Here he comes, he's all dressed in black
Beat up shoes and a big straw hat
He's never early, he's always late
First thing you learn is you always gotta wait I'm waiting for my man
Up to a Brownstone, up three flights of stairs
Everybody's pinned you, but nobody cares
He's got the works, gives you sweet taste
Ah then you gotta split because you got no time to waste
I'm waiting for my man

Baby don't you holler, darlin' don't you bawl and shout
I'm feeling good, you know I'm gonna work it on out
I'm feeling good, I'm feeling oh so fine
Until tomorrow, but that's just some other time
I'm waiting for my man

Nico was the female singer for the Velvet Underground.

Sadly, 1967 was also the year that the Beatles' manager Brian Epstein passed away, due to an overdose of drugs. The Beatles struggled to find a perfect replacement for the man who believed in them and launched them to superstardom.

At the end of the year, the Beatles came out with another movie for British television for Christmas and an accompanying album:
Magical Mystery Tour, but for the first time, a Beatles movie project failed miserably, and Britain was appalled at this surreal, disjointed program. However, the songs are brilliant as usual:

I Am the Walrus

I am he
As you are he
As you are me
And we are all together.
See how they run
Like pigs from a gun
See how they fly. I’m crying.
Sitting on a cornflake - waiting for the van to come.
Corporation teeshirt, stupid bloody
Tuesday man you been a naughty boy
You let your face grow long.

I am the eggman oh, they are the eggman -
Oh I am the walrus GOO GOO G’JOOB.
Mr. City policeman sitting pretty little policeman in a row,
See how they fly
Like Lucy in the sky
See how they run. I’m crying - I’m crying I’m crying.
Yellow matter custard dripping from a dead dog’s eye.
Crabalocker fishwife pornographic
Priestess boy you been a naughty girl,
You let your knickers down.

I am the eggman oh, they are the eggmen -
Oh I am the walrus. GOO GOO G’JOOB.
Sitting in an English garden waiting for the sun,
If the sun don’t come, you get a tan from
Standing in the English rain.
I am the eggman, oh, they are the eggmen -
Oh I am the walrus. G’JOOB, G’GOO, G’JOOB.
Expert texpert choking smokers
Don’t you think the joker laughs at you? Ha ha ha!
See how they smile,
Like pigs in a sty,
See how they snied. I’m crying.
Semoline pilchards climbing up the Eiffel Tower.
Elementary penguin singing Hare Khrishna
Man you should have seen the kick in Edgar Allen Poe.
I am the eggman oh, they are they eggmen -
Oh I am the walrus GOO GOO GOO JOOB
GOO GOO GOO JOOB GOO GOO
GOOOOOOOOOOOJOOOOOB.

Hello, Goodbye

You say yes, I say no,
You say stop, I say go, go, go.
Oh no.
You say goodbye and I say hello, hello, hello.
I don’t know why you say goodbye I say hello, hello, hello.
I don’t why you say goodbye I say hello.
I say high, you say low.
You say why and I say I don’t know.
Oh no.
You say goodbye and I say hello, hello, hello.
I don’t know why you say goodbye I say hello, hello, hello.
I don’t know why you say goodbye I say hello.
Why, why, why, why, why, why, do you
Say goodbye, goodbye, bye, bye.
Oh no.
You say goodbye and I say hello, hello, hello.
I don’t know why you say goodbye I say hello, hello, hello.
I don’t know why you say goodbye I say hello.
You say yes, I say no (I say yes but I may mean no)
You say stop and I say go, go, go (I can stay till it’s time to go)
Oh, oh no.
You say goodbye and I say hello, hello, hello.
I don’t know why you say goodbye I say hello, hello, hello.
I don’t know why you say goodbye I say hello, hello, hello.
I don’t know why you say goodbye I say hello, hello, hello.
Hello, hello, hello.
Hello, hello, hello.
Hela, heba, helloa.

And then there was, from that film, one of Paul's best ballads, "Your Mother Should Know". . . . KIDDING!! I'm really talking about. . .

The Fool On the Hill

(Lennon / McCartney)

Day after day, alone on hill
The man with the foolish grin is keeping perfectly still
But nobody wants to know him, they can see that he's just a fool,
And he never gives an answer.

(CHORUS)

But the fool on the hill
Sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head
See the world spinning 'round.

Well on the way, his head in a cloud,
The man of a thousand voices talking perfectly loud
But nobody seems to hear him, or the sound he appears to make,
And he never seems to notice.

(CHORUS)

And nobody seems to like him, they can tell what he wants to do,
And he never shows his feelings.

(CHORUS)

And he never listens to them, he knows that they're the fools,
They don't like him, the fool on the hill
Sees the sun going down
And the eyes in his head
See the world spinning 'round.

(John Lennon said that "The Fool on the Hill" proves that Paul "can write lyrics if he's a good boy." This song was covered a year later by Brasil '66, whose leader, Sergio Mendes, can't even use a public bathroom in Brazil without being noticed. Or so Seinfeld's Cosmo Kramer insists. :D )

The Buffalo Springfield's Neil Young, though, was definitely someone to watch as a songwriter in light of the opening cut on Buffalo Springfield Again. . . .

Mr. Soul

(Neil Young)

Oh, hello, Mr. Soul, I dropped by to pick up a reason
For a thought that I caught that my head is the event of the season
Why in crowds just a trace of my face could seem so pleasin'
I'll cop out to the change, but a stranger is puttin' the teaase on.

I was down on a frown when the messenger brought me a letter
I was raised by the praise of a fan who said I upset her
Any girl in the world could have easily known me better
She said, "You're strange, but don't change," and I let her.

In a while, will the smile on my face turn to plaster?
Stick around while the clown who is sick does the trick of disaster
For the race of my head and my face is moving much faster
Is it strange I should change?
I don't know, why don't you ask her?

Meanwhile, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention were showing that they weren't "just another band from LA" with their two 1967 albums - Absolutely Free, a satire on straight suburban America (so what kind of vegetable do you call by name?) and their parody of "hip" young America, We're Only In It For the Money, which featured a cover spoofing the Sgt. Pepper sleeve to the hilt!

"Plastic people, oh baby, now, you're such a drag. . . ."

In May that year, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger of the Rolling Stones was arrested for possession of drugs after police raided their London homes. It was apparent that the Stones were getting into deeper trouble than mere urinating in public. Richards was known to say to the court that he did not observe their petty laws and rules, which he felt were corrupt. Certainly the Stones were quickly becoming the bad boys of rock and roll.

Paint It, Black
I see a red door and I want it painted black
No colors anymore I want them to turn black
I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes
I have to turn my head until my darkness goes
I see a line of cars and they’re all painted black
With flowers and my love both never to come back
I see people turn their heads and quickly look away
Like a new born baby it just happens ev’ry day
I look inside myself and see my heart is black
I see my red door and it has been painted black
Maybe then I’ll fade away and not have to face the facts
It’s not easy facin’ up when your whole world is black

No more will my green sea go turn a deeper blue
I could not foresee this thing happening to you
If I look hard enough into the settin’ sun
My love will laugh with me before the mornin’ comes

I see a red door and I want it painted black
No colors anymore I want them to turn black
I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes
I have to turn my head until my darkness goes
Hmm, hmm, hmm,...
I wanna see it painted, painted black
Black as night, black as coal
I wanna see the sun blotted out from the sky
I wanna see it painted, painted, painted, painted black
Yeah!

And when the Stones appeared on Ed Sullivan, they were told to change the lyrics of their song "Let's Spend the Night Together" to "Let's Spend Some Time Together". Anything to get past the CBS censors, but everyone caught the gist of the lyrics:

LETS SPEND THE NIGHT TOGETHER
(Jagger/Richards)

My, My, My, My
Don't you worry 'bout what's on your mind (Oh my)
I'm in no hurry I can take my time (Oh my)
I'm going red and my tongue's getting tied (tongues's getting tied)
I'm off my head and my mouth's getting dry.
I'm high, But I try, try, try (Oh my)
Let's spend the night together
Now I need you more than ever
Let's spend the night together now

I feel so strong that I can't disguise (oh my)
Let's spend the night together
But I just can't apologize (oh no)
Let's spend the night together
Don't hang me up and don't let me down (don't let me down)
We could have fun just groovin' around around and around
Oh my, my
Let's spend the night together
Now I need you more than ever
Let's spend the night together

Let's spend the night together
Now I need you more than ever

You know I'm smiling baby
You need some guiding baby
I'm just deciding baby; now-
I need you more than ever
Let's spend the night together
Let's spend the night together now

This doesn't happen to me ev'ryday (oh my)
Let's spend the night together
No excuses offered anyway (oh my)
Let's spend the night together
I'll satisfy your every need (every need)
And I now know you will satisfy me
Oh my, my, my, my, my
Let's spend the night together
Now I need you more than ever
Let's spend the night together now

The original cover to Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention's
We're Only In It For the Money. Zappa certainly did not hold either the hippies nor the squares sacrosanct.

Here is a hilarious take-off on Jimi Hendrix's "Hey Joe" (which was by the way a song Jimi covered by other artists), called:

Flower Punk
Hey Punk, where you goin' with that
flower in your hand?
Hey Punk, where you goin' with that
flower in your hand?

Well, I'm goin' up to Frisco to join a
psychedelic band.
I'm goin' up to Frisco to join a
psychedelic band.

Hey Punk, where you goin' with that
button on your shirt?
Hey Punk, where you goin' with that
button on your shirt?

I'm goin' to the love-in to sit & play
my bongos in the dirt.
Yes, I'm goin' to the love-in to sit & play
my bongos in the dirt.

Hey Punk, where you goin' with that
hair on your head?
Hey Punk, where you goin' with that
hair on your head?

I'm goin' to the dance to get some action,
then I'm goin' home to bed.
I'm goin' to the dance to get some action,
then I'm goin' home to bed.

Hey Punk, where you goin' with those
beads around your neck?
Hey Punk, where you goin' with those
beads around your neck?

I'm goin' to the shrink so he can help me
be a nervous wreck...

(Just at this moment, the 2700
microgram dose of STP ingested by
FLOWER PUNK shortly before the
song began TAKES EFFECT: before
your very ears his head blows up...
leaving a bizarre audial residue all over
your teen-age record player!)
Hey Punk! Hey Punk! Hey Punk!
Punky! Punk! Hey Punk! Punky!
Come and go...come and go...
Polly, do I ever have a lot of soul?
I think I love you!
Questi dominga?
Have you seen that nose eating?
I wanna know for sure!
Leave my nose alone please!
What 're you trying to do?
Listen! ...

This is one of the most
exciting things that's ever
happened to me
You know, every time I think
about how lucky I am to be in
the rock & roll industry
It's SO exciting
You know, when I first got into
the rock & roll business
I could barely even play the
changes to this song on my, on
my guitar
But now I'm very professional
I can play the guitar
I can strum it rhythmically
I can sing along with my guitar
as I strum

I can strum, sing, dance,
I can make merry fun all over
the stage
And you know, it's so wonderful
to...
It's wonderful to feel that I'm
doing something for the kids
Because I know that the kids
and their music are where it's
at

The youth of America today is
so wonderful
And I'm proud to be a part of
this gigantic mass deception

I hope she sees me thrilling,
yes...
I hope she sees me dancing and
thrilling

I will say: "Hello Dolly!"

Is the song over?
Boy, this is really exciting,
making a rock & roll record
I can't even wait until our
record comes out and teen-agers
start to buy it

We'll all be rich and famous!

And when my royalty check comes
I think I'm going to buy a
Mustang
No, I think I'll...I think I'll
get a Corvette
No, I think I'll get a Harley
Davidson
No, I don't think I'll buy any
of those cars
I think what I will do is I
will buy both
No, I don't do that either
I think, ah, I'll go into real
estate
I think I'd like to...
I think I'd like to buy a house
in ... Boulevard
No, that wouldn't do any good
Gee, I wonder if they can see
me up here, twirling that
tambourine and dancing...

Maybe after the show
One of the girls who sees me up
here, singing and thrilling my
tambourine and dancing, will
like me
And she will come over to me
And I will walk
I will walk up to her and I
will smile at her
And I will impress her and I
will say: "Hello, baby,
What's a girl like you doing in
a place like this?
I'm from a rock & roll band,
I think we should..."
Is the song over?

This song from Bob Dylan's groundbreaking "John Wesley Harding" album became also Jimi Hendrix's #1 hit:

All Along the Watchtower

"There must be some way out of here," said the joker to the thief,
"There's too much confusion, I can't get no relief.
Businessmen, they drink my wine, plowmen dig my earth,
None of them along the line know what any of it is worth."

"No reason to get excited," the thief, he kindly spoke,
"There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke.
But you and I, we've been through that, and this is not our fate,
So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late."

All along the watchtower, princes kept the view
While all the women came and went, barefoot servants, too.

Outside in the distance a wildcat did growl,
Two riders were approaching, the wind began to howl.

:rock:

Okay, are we still in 1967?:confused: Sorry, im kinda lost right now, I know who these bands etc. are and what Sgt. Pepper is etc, but thats it........ hm Ill see if I can find someone to post.....

Strawberry Alarm Clock - "Incense and Peppermints"
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/pic200_web/drp300/p338/p33852rpcap.jpg

Originally posted by King Juke "N" Jive
Strawberry Alarm Clock - "Incense and Peppermints"
http://image.allmusic.com/00/amg/pic200_web/drp300/p338/p33852rpcap.jpg Yep, we're still in 1967, I also thought it might be helpful to post the year and the date If I can, where we are in the 60's, there's so much that went on that year, it was a pivotal year.

Incense and Peppermints
Strawberry Alarm Clock
(Ed King - John Carter)

Good sense, innocence, cripplin' mankind
Dead kings, many things I can't define
Occasions, persuasions clutter your mind
Incense and peppermints, the color of time

Who cares what games we choose?
Little to win but nothin' to lose

Incense and peppermints, meaningless nouns
Turn on, tune in, turn your eyes around

Look at yourself, look at yourself, yeah, yeah
Look at yourself, look at yourself, yeah, yeah, yeah!

To divide this cockeyed world in two
Throw your pride to one side, it's the least you can do
Beatniks and politics, nothing is new
A yardstick for lunatics, one point of view

Who cares what games we choose?
Little to win but nothin' to lose

------ instrumental break ------

Good sense, innocence, cripplin' mankind
Dead kings, many things I can't define
Occasions, persuasions clutter your mind
Incense and peppermints, the color of time

Who cares what games we choose?
Little to win but nothin' to lose

Incense and peppermints
Incense and peppermints

Sha la la
Sha la la
Sha la la
Sha la la
Sha la la [fade]


Btw, Ed King was a future guitarist for Lynyrd Skynyrd.

The Doors- "Light My Fire"

Originally posted by Captain ABlairica
The cover for the first album cover by The Velvet Underground was painted by celebrated pop artist Andy Warhol.


You know what? I was a Senior in high school in 67/68 and I never had heard of The Velvet Underground! I didn't know who they were until I was in my 40's!
Obviously, they didn't get much AM airplay back then!:lol: Living in the sticks of MId-Michigan we weren't very aware of what was going on on the coasts! I knew no one who did drugs although it was rumored that the lower classmen were really getting into them!(Middle school kids) We were pretty sheltered in these parts!:D (At least I was);)

The Doors sang "Light My Fire" on their first - and only - appearance on "The Ed Sullivan Show." As Ray Manzarek recalled, the censors asked the band to replace the word "higher" at the end of the first verse, on the premise that the phrase "get much higher" alluded to drugs. However, the band couldn't think of another word that would fit the meter or rhyme scheme, so they left it alone. Though they apologized to the producers, the Doors were told that the producers were seriously considering booking them for more appearances, but now they were never going to do "The Ed Sullivan Show" again. Jim Morrison then stood up at retorted, "We just did 'The Ed Sullivan Show.'" The Doors would appear on CBS again, though - on "The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour."

The Smothers Brothers began their program in January 1967, and it started out as a standard, mainstream variety show. (The first show featured a surprise appearance from the dean of establishment television himself, Danny Thomas.) By the end of 1967, though, les freres Smothers were on the cutting edge, both with their politics and their choice of musical guests.

The Who appeared on a show that also featured Bette Davis and Mickey Rooney, performing "I Can See For Miles." But it was their performance of "My Generation" that made headlines. The band had planned for Keith Moon's bass drum to explode, but when they rehearsed the song, the pyrortechincs conked out. The stagehands added more powder for a more potent blast, but Keith Moon added even more on top of that for, umm, "added effect."

When the Who did "My Generation" for the show, the drum exploded on cue, but the force from Moon's extra powder was so great, it knocked him unconscious. When Tom Smothers walked on stage to see what was wrong, Pete Townshend, seemingly unaware of what had just happened, took Tom's acoustic guitar and smashed it as he had just smashed his own guitar. ""Dick," Tom called to his brother, "can I borrow your bass?"

"I don't have a bass to lend you," said a perplexed Dick, but maybe I can give you a bandage. . . ."

According to Roger Daltrey, Mickey Rooney was ecstatically calling for an encore. Rumors started that Bette Davis had fainted at the sound of the blast, but the Smothers Brothers have always denied that was true.

This performance would open the Who's 1979 documentary The Kids Are Alright.

The Monterrey Pop Festival also took place in 1967. The performers included Jimi Hendrix, Big Brother and the Holding Company, Simon and Garfunkel, the Jefferson Airplane, the Mamas and the Papas, the Who, and Otis Redding, who gave one of the most extraordinary performances of his life.

About a month later he died in a plane crash. :(

Originally posted by Captain ABlairica
This song from Bob Dylan's groundbreaking "John Wesley Harding" album became also Jimi Hendrix's #1 hit:

All Along the Watchtower

Just to set the record straight, John Wesley Harding came out in late 1967 or early 1968, and Hendrix's version of "All Along the Watchtower" appeared on his 1969 LP Electric Ladyland.

I remember when I was a kid and I was watching the Smothers Brothers one night, and they cut to silence during the show. I waited a few minutes while they showed a blank screen. Hmm, those "we're experiencing technical difficulties" thingies--or so I expected the network to say. Then a picture came back on the screen and it was a Hanna-Barbera cartoon, one of those short 6-minute dealies, "Yippie, Yappee, and Yahooey". You know, about the goofy royal guards of a king's castle? So I thought, that's really weird, they're showing a cartoon during a Smothers Brothers show that's not part of the show, must be some major technical difficulty.

It wasn't until years later that I realized the "technical difficulty" must have been the Smothers Brothers talking verboten political talk that the censors bleeped out.

Also in 1967, Arlo Guthrie released his Alice's Restaurant album, which featured the monumental title song that celebrated subverting the draft with a little civil disobeidence. It has since become a Thanksgiving classic. :)

:cool:


Um, have we talked about Frat Rock yet? LOL

Originally posted by Penny Lane
The Doors- "Light My Fire"

LIGHT MY FIRE
You know that it would be untrue
You know that I would be a liar
If I was to say to you
Girl, we couldn't get much higher

Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire

The time to hesitate is through
No time to wallow in the mire
Try now we can only lose
And our love become a funeral pyre

Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire, yeah

The time to hesitate is through
No time to wallow in the mire
Try now we can only lose
And our love become a funeral pyre

Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire, yeah

You know that it would be untrue
You know that I would be a liar
If I was to say to you
Girl, we couldn't get much higher

Come on baby, light my fire
Come on baby, light my fire
Try to set the night on fire
Try to set the night on fire
Try to set the night on fire
Try to set the night on fire

Originally posted by Steve M.
And leave us not forget the Outsiders and their big hit, "Time Won't Let Me!" :) Okay, jump back a year, got to post something about a very underrated band:

The Outsiders

Time Won't Let Me Be
The Outsiders

(Tom King - Chet Kelley)

I can't wait forever
Even though you want me to
I can't wait forever
To know if you'll be true
Time won't let me (oh, no)
Time won't let me (oh, no)
Time won't let me...ee...ee...ee
[1: Wait that long (repeat intro 1X; to Verse 2)]
[2: Wow! (to solo)]
[3: Wait that long (to coda)]

Can't you see I've waited too long
To love you, to hold you in my arms

Ahhh...ahhh...ahhh...ah!
[repeat verse 1]
[repeat chorus]

(CODA)...long It won't let me wait that long
(wait, wait, wait, wait that long) - BG vocals continue to end
Hear me baby waitin' that long
Take me back, I'm comin' back right now
Hear me baby sayin' I'm comin' home
I'm comin' home, oh hear me talkin', pretty baby
Don't you know I'm comin' back to you, oh!
Oh pretty baby, take me back, I'm comin' back
Open up your arms and take me back, a-here I come [fade]

Monterey Pop was the first of many music festivals that featured a plethora of various bands and styles. Here is Mama Cass Elliot of the Mamas and the Papas.

Michelle Phillips of the Mamas and the Papas is shown here singing at Monterey Pop.

Janis Joplin also sang with Big Brother and the Holding Company at the festival.

Ravi Shankar, the East Indian sitar player who taught George Harrison the instrument, performed a mesmerizing set which lasted four hours.

Jimi Hendrix also made one of his most memorable performances at Monterey Pop.

FIRE!!!!

Jimi performed his famous guitar-burning ritual here, which, to many carried a very political message: A BLACK MAN BURNING A GUITAR--HE'S SOME KIND OF RADICAL!!!!:eek: peace:

The Who also performed at the festival.

The Who

The Move

Cream with Eric Clapton on guitar, Jack Bruce on bass, and Ginger Baker on bass

Tales Of Brave Ulysses

You thought the leaden winter would bring you down forever,
But you rode upon a steamer to the violence of the sun.

And the colors of the sea blind your eyes with trembling mermaids,
And you touch the distant beaches with tales of brave Ulysses:
How his naked ears were tortured by the sirens sweetly singing,
For the sparkling waves are calling you to kiss their white laced lips.

And you see a girl's brown body dancing through the turquoise,
And her footprints make you follow where the sky loves the sea.
And when your fingers find her, she drowns you in her body,
Carving deep blue ripples in the tissues of your mind.

The tiny purple fishes run laughing through your fingers,
And you want to take her with you to the hard land of the winter.

Her name is Aphrodite and she rides a crimson shell,
And you know you cannot leave her for you touched the distant sands
With tales of brave Ulysses; how his naked ears were tortured
By the sirens sweetly singing.

The tiny purple fishes run lauging through your fingers,
And you want to take her with you to the hard land of the winter.

Eric Clapton
Born Under A Bad Sign

Born under a bad sign.
I've been down since I began to crawl.
If it wasn't for bad luck,
I wouldn't have no luck at all.

Bad luck and trouble's my only friend.
I've been down ever since I was ten.

Chorus

You know, wine and women is all I crave.
A big bad woman's gonna carry me to my grave.

Chorus

First Verse

Born under a bad sign.
I've been down since I began to crawl.
If it wasn't for bad luck,
I wouldn't have no luck.
If it wasn't for real bad luck,
I wouldn't have no luck at all.

Born under a bad sign.
Born under a bad sign.

Eric Clapton's psychedelic guitar

Swlabr

(Acronym stands for "She Walks Like a Bearded Rainbow")

Coming to me in the morning, leaving me at night.
Coming to me in the morning, leaving me alone.
You've got that rainbow feel but the rainbow has a beard.

Running to me a-cryin' when he throws you out.
Running to me a-cryin', on your own again.
You've got that pure feel, such good responses,
But the picture has a mustache.

You're coming to me with that soulful look on your face,
Coming looking like you've never ever done one wrong thing.

You're coming to me with that soulful look on your face.
You're coming looking like you've never ever done one wrong thing.

So many fantastic colors; I feel in a wonderland.
Many fantastic colors makes me feel so good.
You've got that pure feel, such good responses.
You've got that rainbow feel but the rainbow has a beard.

Originally posted by Captain ABlairica
Eric Clapton's psychedelic guitar

Now thats a cool guitar!

Also in 1967, Aretha Franklin broke through in a big way with her album I Never Loved a Man (the Way that I Loved You). In addition to the title song, it featured her cover of Otis Redding's "Respect," which she performed as an assertion of black female pride that would have never made it on on the charts a decade earlier. Aretha's record went to number one! :) Otis Redding himself heard it before his death. His reaction? "Look what that little girl did to my song!" :lol:

With Redding's career on the rise, pop impresario Robert Stigwood interested the legnedary soul man into doing a song penned by his new clients, a trio of English brothers who had spent their teen years in Australia and knew how to write Beatlesque tunes. . .the Bee Gees. Barry Gibb, the eldest brother, was given the task of writing an Otis Redding song, and he remembered years later that he was young and cocky enough to think he could do it, so he wrote a song for Otis Redding, just as he'd been asked to.

Redding died before he could record it, so Barry and his brothers, Robin and Maurice, did it themselves. The song was called "To Love Somebody," which became a huge hit for the Bee Gees. They would produce several hit singles in the sixties: "Massachusetts," "Words," "I Started a Joke," "Gotta Get a Message To You," "New York Mining Disaster 1941."

"To Love Somebody" was instantly covered by James Carr, one of the greatest soul singers who ever lived. James Carr could have been the greatest soul singer ever; he had the talent to carry him, and his voice was up from gospel in a way Redding's never was. He produced a number of definitive soul recordings - "The Dark End of the Street," "Love Attack," "You Got My Mind Messed Up," and even a cover of the country standard "Life Turned Her That Way." Carr was a troubled man, though, battling depression and insecurity, and he never became a mainstream success. But he was very influential in soul. When Aretha Franklin covered "The Dark End of the Street," she used Carr's original version as a reference point.

Cream's first album, Fresh Cream, did very well in Britain but was only a qualified success on the American charts. However, the follow-up, Disraeli Gears, was a very successful album on both sides of the Atlantic, soldifying Clapton as a guitar hero and giving the trio a major hit single. . . .

Sunshine of Your Love

(Bruce / Brown / Clapton)

It's getting near dawn
When lights close their tired eyes
I'll soon be with you, my love
Give you my dawn surprise.
I'll be with you darling, soon
I'll be with you when the stars start falling.

(CHORUS)

I've been waiting so long
To be where I'm going
In the sunshine of your love.

I'm with you, my love,
The lights shining through on you
Yes, I'm with you, my love,
It's the morning, and just we two.
I'll stay with you darling, now
I'll stay with you 'til my seeds are dried up.

(CHORUS)

(REPEAT SECOND VERSE)

I've been waiting so long,
Ive been waiting so long.

(CHORUS)

The rest of Disraeli Gears featured tremendous songs such as "Strange Brew," "World of Pain," "Tales of Brave Ulysses," and "SWALBR," played in the loudest, fastest psychedelic style imaginable by three of rock's greatest virtuosos.

Sky Pilot
The Animals

He blesses the boys as they stand in line
The smell of gun grease and the bayonets they shine
He's there to help them all that he can
To make them feel wanted he's a good holy man
Sky pilot.....sky pilot
How high can you fly
You'll never, never, never reach the sky

He smiles at the young soldiers
Tells them its all right
He knows of their fear in the forthcoming fight
Soon there'll be blood and many will die
Mothers and fathers back home they will cry
Sky pilot.....sky pilot
How high can you fly
You'll never, never, never reach the sky

He mumbles a prayer and it ends with a smile
The order is given
They move down the line
But he's still behind and he'll meditate
But it won't stop the bleeding or ease the hate

As the young men move out into the battle zone
He feels good, with God you're never alone
He feels tired and he lays on his bed
Hopes the men will find courage in the words that he said
Sky pilot.....sky Pilot
How high can you fly
You'll never, never, never reach the sky

You're soldiers of God you must understand
The fate of your country is in your young hands
May God give you strength
Do your job real well
If it all was worth it
Only time it will tell

In the morning they return
With tears in their eyes
The stench of death drifts up to the skies
A soldier so ill looks at the sky pilot
Remembers the words
"Thou shalt not kill"
Sky pilot.....sky pilot
How high can you fly
You never, never, never reach the sky

People Got to Be Free
The Rascals

All the world over, so easy to see
People everywhere just wanna be free
Listen, please listen, that's the way it should be
Peace in the valley, people got to be free
You should see, what a lovely, lovely world this would be
If everyone learned to live together
It seems to me such an easy, easy thing this would be
Why can't you and me learn to love one another
All the world over, so easy to see
People everywhere just wanna be free
I can't understand it, so simple to me
People everywhere just got to be free
Ah, ah, yeah . . . ah, ah, yeah
If there's a man who is down and needs a helping hand
All it takes is you to understand and to see him through
Seems to me, we got to solve it individually
And I'll do unto you what you do to me
There'll be shoutin' from the mountains on out to sea
(out to the sea)
No two ways about it, people have to be free
(they got to be free)
Ask me my opinion, my opinion will be
(ah-ha)
It's a natural situation for a man to be free
Oh, what a feelin's just come over me
Enough to move a mountain, make a blind man see
Everybody's dancin', come on, let's go see
Peace in the valley, now they want to be free

White Room
by Cream

In the white room with black curtains near the station.
Blackroof country, no gold pavements, tired starlings.
Silver horses ran down moonbeams in your dark eyes.
Dawnlight smiles on you leaving, my contentment.

I'll wait in this place where the sun never shines;
Wait in this place where the shadows run from themselves.

You said no strings could secure you at the station.
Platform ticket, restless diesels, goodbye windows.
I walked into such a sad time at the station.
As I walked out, felt my own need just beginning.

I'll wait in the queue when the trains come back;
Lie with you where the shadows run from themselves.

At the party she was kindness in the hard crowd.
Consolation for the old wound now forgotten.
Yellow tigers crouched in jungles in her dark eyes.
She's just dressing, goodbye windows, tired starlings.

I'll sleep in this place with the lonely crowd;
Lie in the dark where the shadows run from themselves.

Badge

by Eric Clapton and George Harrison

Thinkin' 'bout the times you drove in my car.
Thinkin' that I might have drove you too far.
And I'm thinkin' 'bout the love that you laid on my table.

I told you not to wander 'round in the dark.
I told you 'bout the swans, that they live in the park.
Then I told you 'bout our kid, now he's married to Mabel.

Yes, I told you that the light goes up and down.
Don't you notice how the wheel goes 'round?
And you better pick yourself up from the ground
Before they bring the curtain down,
Yes, before they bring the curtain down.

Talkin' 'bout a girl that looks quite like you.
She didn't have the time to wait in the queue.
She cried away her life since she fell off the cradle.

Canned Heat
GOIN' UP THE COUNTRY
(Alan Wilson)

Gotta get goin', cause I can't stay here long, now.
Cause I'm tired of the way, I've been dogged around.
Well, I've got to roam, maybe find me a brand-new home.

I'm goin' up the country, baby don't you wanna go?
I'm goin' up the country, baby don't you wanna go?
I'm goin' to some place where I've never been before.

I'm goin', I'm goin' where the water tastes like wine.
Well, I'm goin' where the water tastes like wine.
You can jump in the water and stay drunk all the time.

--- Solo ---

I'm gonna leave this city, got to get away.
I'm gonna leave this city, got to get away.
All this fussin' and fightin', man you know I sure can't stay.

Now baby, packin' up the truck you know I got to leave today.
Just exacly where I'm goin' I can not say, but we might even leave the USA.
It's a brand-new game and I don't wanna play.

--- Solo ---

No use of you running or screaming and crying
But you got a home man, long as I got mine.

Gotta get goin', gotta get goin', gotta get goin', gotta get goin'.
Gotta get goin', well I'm goin', well I'm goin'...

Gotta get goin', I can't stay here long now.
Cause I'm tired of the way I've been dogged around.
Well, I've got to roam, maybe find me a brand new home....

Time Has Come Today
Chambers Brothers
(W. Chambers/J.Chambers)

Time has come today
Young hearts can go their way
Can't put it off another day
And I don't care what the others say
'Cause they say we don't listen anyway
Time has come today, Hey!

The rules have changed today, Hey!
I have no place to stay, Hey!
And I'm thinkin' about the subway, Hey!
Love has gone away, Hey!
And tears have come and gone, Hey!
Oh my God, I have to run, Hey!
I have no home, Hey!
I have no home, Hey!

Now the time has come, Time!
There's no place to run, Time!
Might get burned up by the sun, Time!
Well, I've had my fun, Time!
Well, I've been loved and put aside, Time!
And I've been crushed by tumblin' tide, Time!
And my soul's be psychedelicized, Time!

Now the time has come, Time!
There are things to realize, Time!
Time has come today, Time!
Time has come today, Time!

Time!

Now the time has come, Time!
There are things to realize, Time!
Time has come today, Time!
Time has come today, Time!

Time!


Now the time has come, Time!
Time has come today, Time!
Time has come today, Yeah!

Originally posted by Steve M.
Also in 1967, Arlo Guthrie released his Alice's Restaurant album, which featured the monumental title song that celebrated subverting the draft with a little civil disobeidence. It has since become a Thanksgiving classic. :)

I love that movie!:happyface

On April 4, 1968, the Reverend Martin Luther King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee. The nation erupted into massive riots at the news. James Brown pleaded for calm in the face of the unspeakable tragedy. How far would hate continue to silence the voices of peace?

As 1967 passed into history, there was hope for a better tomorrow as the new year began. But in January 1968, any hopes for peace, love ,and brotherhood were quickly dashed by the Tet offensive in Vietnam - named after the Vietnamese holiday with which it coincided - in which the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong launched a major attack against American and South Vietnamese forces. Support for the war in the U.S. disappeared overnight as the casualties mounted. The Tet offensive was the first of several tragedies that would take place in 1968.

And yet, there was still room for fun, happy rock and roll in 1968, starting with the first number-one single of the year in America. It came from an obscure New Orleans rocker named John Fred and his backing group, the Playboy Band. Fred had been listening to the Beatles's Sgt. Pepper album while shaving and heard "Lucy In the Sky With Diamonds." Lucy in disguise, he thought, what a clever lyric!

Then Fred checked the lyric sheet on the back of the album, and saw that he had misheard the lyric. However, he preferred the lyric he thought he heard. He thought of a girl in disguise, substituted for Lucy another name with the "oo-ee" sound - Judy - and adorned her with eyeglasses instead of a girl's best friend. And so a number-one hit was born. . . .

Judy In Disguise (With Glasses) - John Fred and his Playboy Band

(John Fred)

Judy in disguise,
Well, that's what you are,
Lemonade pie,
With a brand new car,
Cantaloupe eyes come to me tonight,
Judy in disguise with glasses.

Keep a-wearin' your bracelets
And your new rara,
Cross your heart
With your living bra.
Chimney sweep sparrow with guise
Judy in disguise with glasses.

Come to me tonight,
Come to me tonight,
Taking everything in sight,
Except for the strings on my kite.

Judy in disguise,
Well what you aiming for?
A circus of horrors, yeah,
Well that's what you are.
You made me a life of ashes,
I guess I'll just take your glasses.

Ironically, this song inspired by a misheard Beatles lyric knocked a Beatles single - "Hello Goodbye" - off the top of the charts. :cool:

Originally posted by Steve M.
As 1967 passed into history, there was hope for a better tomorrow as the new year began. But in January 1968, any hopes for peace, love ,and brotherhood were quickly dashed by the Tet offensive in Vietnam - named after the Vietnamese holiday with which it coincided - in which the North Vietnamese and the Viet Cong launched a major attack against American and South Vietnamese forces. Support for the war in the U.S. disappeared overnight as the casualties mounted. The Tet offensive was the first of several tragedies that would take place in 1968. I didn't want to jump too quickly into 1968 without some earlier events before that spring...:doh:

In early 1968, Bob Dylan finally issued his long-awaited follow-up to Blonde on Blonde - John Wesley Harding, a collection of twelve eloquent songs rooted in faith and modesty, with low-key arrangements - a guira or piano, a bass, and drum kit, sometimes augmented by pedal steel - that stopped the psychedelic bandwagon in its tracks. Although some bands would continue with psychedelic trappings in 1968, the buzzword of the new year was simplicity; it would become fashionable to get back to the roots.

As for John Wesley Harding, Dylan's lyrics remained as involved and committed as ever, with songs like "All Along the Watchtower" (we covered that), "I Dreamed I Saw Saint Augustine," "Drifter's Escape," and the humble "Dear Landlord."



Dear Landlord - Bob Dylan

Dear landlord, please don't put a price on my soul
My burden is heavy, my dreams are beyond control
When that old steamboat whistle blows, I'm gonna give you all I got to give
And I do hope you receive it well, depending on the way you feel that you live.

Dear landlord, please hear these words that I speak
I know you have suffered much, but in this you are not so unique
All of us at times, we might work too hard to have it too fast and too much
And anyone can fill his life up with things he can see but he just cannot touch.

Dear landlord, please don't dismiss my case
I'm not about to argue, I'm not about to move to no other place
Now, each of us has his own special gift, and you know this was meant to be true
So if you you don't underestimate me, I won't underestimate you.

In 1968, The Doors released "Waiting For the Sun", which contained their hit "Hello, I Love You", with the opening riff that sounded suspiciously like "All Day and All of the Night" by the Kinks. When the band members apologized to Ray Davies for unconsciously taking the riff, the Kinks' lead singer said he had no problem with that. But radio stations had problems with the political commentary on the following song:

The Unknown Soldier

Wait until the war is over
And we're both a little older
The unknown soldier
Breakfast where the news is read
Television children fed
Unborn living, living, dead
Bullet strikes the helmet's head
And it's all over
For the unknown soldier
It's all over
For the unknown soldier
Hut
Hut
Hut ho hee up
Hut
Hut
Hut ho hee up
Hut
Hut
Hut ho hee up
Comp'nee
Halt
Preeee-zent!
Arms!
Make a grave for the unknown soldier
Nestled in your hollow shoulder
The unknown soldier
Breakfast where the news is read
Television children fed
Bullet strikes the helmet's head
And, it's all over
The war is over
It's all over
The war is over
Well, all over, baby
All over, baby
Oh, over, yeah
All over, baby
Wooooo, hah-hah
All over
All over, baby
Oh, woa-yeah
All over
All over
Heeeeyyyy

Steppenwolf was a Los Angeles band which was made hugely successful by their hit "Born To Be Wild", featured in the movie "Easy Rider". The song became a biker's anthem. The band featured John Kay on vocals, Michael Monarch on guitar, Jerry Edmonton on bass, Nick St. Nicholas on drums, and Goldy McJohn on keyboards. Their hits also included the psychedelic "Magic Carpet Ride", "The Pusher" (written by Hoyt Axton), "Rock Me", and "Move Over".

Born To Be Wild

Get your motor runnin'
Head out on the highway
Lookin' for adventure
And whatever comes our way
Yeah Darlin' go make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space

I like smoke and lightning
Heavy metal thunder
Racin' with the wind
And the feelin' that I'm under
Yeah Darlin' go make it happen
Take the world in a love embrace
Fire all of your guns at once
And explode into space

Like a true nature's child
We were born, born to be wild
We can climb so high
I never wanna die

Born to be wild
Born to be wild

John Kay of Steppenwolf was born in East Germany when he and his mother fled to Canada. There he formed the group Sparrow and came to America. They changed their name to Steppenwolf after the Herman Hesse novel. The hit from their "Steppenwolf the Second" album has the coolest, most memorable intro--and instrumental break--of the late 60's:

Magic Carpet Ride

I like to dream yes, yes, right between my sound machine
On a cloud of sound I drift in the night
Any place it goes is right
Goes far, flies near, to the stars away from here

Well, you don't know what we can find
Why don't you come with me little girl
On a magic carpet ride
You don't know what we can see
Why don't you tell your dreams to me
Fantasy will set you free
Close your eyes girl
Look inside girl
Let the sound take you away

Last night I held Aladdin's lamp
And so I wished that I could stay
Before the thing could answer me
Well, someone came and took the lamp away
I looked around, a lousy candle's all I found

Well, you don't know what we can find
Why don't you come with me little girl
On a magic carpet ride
Well, you don't know what we can see
Why don't you tell your dreams to me
Fantasy will set you free
Close your eyes girl
Look inside girl
Let the sound take you away

The Pusher
by Steppenwolf

You know I've smoked a lot of grass
O' Lord, I've popped a lot of pills
But I never touched nothin'
That my spirit could kill
You know, I've seen a lot of people walkin' 'round
With tombstones in their eyes
But the pusher don't care
Ah, if you live or if you die

God damn, The Pusher
God damn, I say The Pusher
I said God damn, God damn The Pusher man

You know the dealer, the dealer is a man
With the love grass in his hand
Oh but the pusher is a monster
Good God, he's not a natural man
The dealer for a nickel
Lord, will sell you lots of sweet dreams
Ah, but the pusher ruin your body
Lord, he'll leave your, he'll leave your mind to scream

God damn, The Pusher
God damn, God damn the Pusher
I said God damn, God, God damn The Pusher man

Well, now if I were the president of this land
You know, I'd declare total war on The Pusher man
I'd cut him if he stands, and I'd shoot him if he'd run
Yes I'd kill him with my Bible and my razor and my gun

God damn The Pusher
Gad damn The Pusher
I said God damn, God damn The Pusher man

Also on their "The Second" album was a song which reflected Steppenwolf's disdain for anti-drug laws. The song ended with a re-enactment of a pot bust:

Don't Step On the Grass, Sam

Starin' at the boob tube, turnin' on the big knob
Tryin' to find some life in the waste land
Fin'ly found a program, gonna deal with Mary Jane
Ready for a trip into hate land
Obnoxious Joe comes on the screen
Along with his guest self-righteous Sam
And one more guy who doesn't count
His hair and clothes are too far out

While pushin' back his glasses Sam is sayin' casually
"I was elected by the masses"
And with that in mind he starts to unwind
A vicious attack on the finest of grasses

Well it's evil, wicked, mean and nasty
(Don't step on the grass, Sam)
And it will ruin our fair country
(Don't be such an ass, Sam)
Well, it will hook your Sue and Johnny
(You're so full of bull, Sam)
All will pay that disagree with me
(Please give up you already lost the fight, alright)

Misinformation Sam and Joe
Are feeding to the nation
But the one who didn't count counted them out
By exposing all their false quotations
Faced by a very awkward situation
This is all he'd say to save the day

Well it's evil, wicked, mean and nasty
(Don't step on the grass, Sam)
And it will ruin our fair country
(Don't be such an ass, Sam)
Well, it will hook your Sue and Johnny
(You're so full of bull, Sam)
All will pay that disagree with me
(Please give up you already lost the fight alright)

You waste my coin Sam, all you can
To jail my fellow man
For smoking all the noble weed
You need much more than him
You've been telling lies so long
Some believe they're true
So they close their eyes to things
You have no right to do
Just as soon as you are gone
Hope will start to climb
Please don't stay around too long
You're wasting precious time

Repeat Chorus

Creedence Clearwater Revival were a band from the San Francisco Bay Area that indicated a return to more traditional rockabilly-based rock and roll, in spite of the wave of psychedelic sounds all around. The band consisted of brothers John and Tom Fogerty on guitar, with John singing lead vocals, Doug "Cosmo" Clifford on drums and Stu Cook on bass, they began in the late '50's as the Blue Velvets absorbing all the blues greats, then in 1963 became the Golliwogs, at the urging of the heads at local Fantasy Records who would record them who wanted them to sound British. The band balked at this, as well as at having to wear moptop wigs. In 1967, the band was allowed to rename themselves Creedence Clearwater Revival, and in the summer of 1968, their first self-titled debut album with a cover of Screamin' Jay Hawkins' "I Put a Spell on You" and "Suzie Q".

SUSIE- Q

Oh, Susie Q, Oh, Susie Q,
Oh, Susie Q, Baby I love you, Susie Q.

I like the way you walk, I like the way you talk;
I like the way you walk, I like the way you talk, Susie Q.

Well, say that you'll be true, well, say that you'll be true,
Well, say that you'll be true, and never leave me blue, Susie Q.

Well, say that you'll be mine, well, say that you'll be mine,
Well, say that you'll be mine, baby all the time, Susie Q.

Oh Susie Q, Oh Susie Q,
Oh Susie Q, Baby I love you, Susie Q.

I like the way you walk, I like the way you talk,
I like the way you walk, I like the way you talk, Susie Q.

Oh Susie Q, Oh susie Q,
Oh Susie Q, Baby I love you, Susie Q.

Creedence live

BORN ON THE BAYOU

Now, when I was just a little boy,
Standin' to my Daddy's knee,
My poppa said, "Son, don't let the man get you
Do what he done to me."
'Cause he'll get you,
'Cause he'll get you now, now.

And I can remember the fourth of July,
Runnin' through the backwood, bare.
And I can still hear my old hound dog barkin',
Chasin' down a hoodoo there.
Chasin' down a hoodoo there.

CHORUS:
Born On The Bayou;
Born On The Bayou;
Born On The Bayou.

Wish I was back on the Bayou.
Rollin' with some Cajun Queen.
Wishin' I were a fast freight train,
Just a chooglin' on down to New Orleans.

CHORUS

Do it, do it, do it, do it. Oh, Lord.
Oh get back boy.

I can remember the fourth of July,
Runnin' through the backwood bare.
And I can still hear my old hound dog barkin',
Chasin' down a hoodoo there.
Chasin' down a hoodoo there.

CHORUS

All right! Do, do, do, do.
Mmmmmmm, oh.

John Fogerty on guitar and Cosmo on drums

GOOD GOLLY MISS MOLLY

Good Golly Miss Molly, sure like to ball.
Good golly, Miss Molly, sure like to ball.
When you're rockin' and a rollin' can't hear your momma call.

From the early early mornin' till the early early night
You can see Miss Molly rockin' at the house of blue lights.
Good golly, Miss Molly, sure like to ball.
When you're rockin' and a rollin' can't hear your momma call.

Well, now momma, poppa told me: "Son, you better watch your step."
If I knew my momma, poppa, have to watch my dad myself.
Good golly, Miss Molly, sure like to ball.
When you're rockin' and a rollin' can't hear your momma call.

I am going to the corner, gonna buy a diamond ring.
Would you pardon me if it's a nineteen carat golden thing.
Good golly, Miss Molly, sure like to ball.
When you're rockin' and a rollin' can't hear your momma call.

Good golly, Miss Molly, sure like to ball.
Good golly, Miss Molly, sure like to ball.
When you're rockin' and a rollin' can't hear your momma call.

Creedence in concert


PROUD MARY

Left a good job in the city,
Workin' for The Man ev'ry night and day,
And I never lost one minute of sleepin',
Worryin' 'bout the way things might have been.

CHORUS:
Big wheel keep on turnin',
Proud Mary keep on burnin',
Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river.Cleaned a lot of plates in Memphis,
Pumped a lot of 'tane down in New Orleans,
But I never saw the good side of the city,
'Til I hitched a ride on a river boat queen.

CHORUS

Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river.

If you come down to the river,
Bet you gonna find some people who live.
You don't have to worry 'cause you have no money,
People on the river are happy to give.

CHORUS

Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river.
Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river.
Rollin', rollin', rollin' on the river.

Bad Moon Rising
(J.C. Fogerty)

I see the bad moon arising.
I see trouble on the way.
I see earthquakes and lightnin'.
I see bad times today.

CHORUS:
Don't go around tonight,
Well, it's bound to take your life,
There's a bad moon on the rise.

I hear hurricanes ablowing.
I know the end is coming soon.
I fear rivers over flowing.
I hear the voice of rage and ruin.

CHORUS
All right!

Hope you got your things together.
Hope you are quite prepared to die.
Looks like we're in for nasty weather.
One eye is taken for an eye.

CHORUS
CHORUS

Iron Butterfly

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida

In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, honey,
don't you know that I love you?
In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida, baby,
don't you know that I'll always be true?

Oh, won't you come with me
and take my hand?

Oh, won't you come with me
and walk this land?

Please take my hand!

-Repeat-

~solos~

-Repeat-

On June 5, 1968, Robert. F. Kennedy, brother of the late president, was campaigning in Los Angeles when he was shot by a Middle Eastern man named Sirhan Sirhan, who was opposed to Kennedy's stand on Israel. Again, the march of death and chaos bore down on America as the spirit of violence threatened to tear the nation apart and snuff out the promise of peace.

In that moment of turbulence, the Rolling Stones offered one of their most sinister--and honest--statements of the times:

Sympathy For the Devil

Please allow me to introduce myself
I’m a man of wealth and taste
I’ve been around for a long, long year
Stole many a man’s soul and faith
And I was ’round when Jesus Christ
Had His moment of doubt and pain
Made damn sure that Pilate
Washed his hands and sealed His fate

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name
But what’s puzzling you
Is the nature of my game

I stuck around St. Petersburg
When I saw it was a time for a change
Killed the czar and his ministers
Anastasia screamed in vain
I rode a tank
Held a general’s rank
When the blitzkrieg raged
And the bodies stank

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guess my name, oh yeah
Ah, what’s puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah

I watched with glee
While your kings and queens
Fought for ten decades
For the gods they made
I shouted out,
"Who killed the Kennedys?"
When after all
It was you and me
Let me please introduce myself
I’m a man of wealth and taste
And I laid traps for troubadours
Who get killed before they reached Bombay

Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But what’s puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, oh yeah, get down, baby
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah
But what’s confusing you
Is just the nature of my game
Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners saints
As heads is tails
Just call me Lucifer
’cause I’m in need of some restraint
So if you meet me
Have some courtesy
Have some sympathy, and some taste
Use all your well-learned politesse
Or I’ll lay your soul to waste, um yeah
Pleased to meet you
Hope you guessed my name, um yeah
But what’s puzzling you
Is the nature of my game, um mean it, get down

Woo, who
Oh yeah, get on down
Oh yeah
Oh yeah!
Tell me baby, what’s my name
Tell me honey, can ya guess my name
Tell me baby, what’s my name
I tell you one time, you’re to blame
Ooo, who
Ooo, who
Ooo, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Oh, yeah
What’s me name
Tell me, baby, what’s my name
Tell me, sweetie, what’s my name
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Ooo, who, who
Oh, yeah

Amidst the psychedelia and wildness of the times, Bob Dylan released "John Wesley Harding".

Rick Nelson, like many other American artists who were sidelined by the British Invasion, returned in 1968 with a new band that was heralded as the beginnings of country-rock with his new band, the Stone Canyon band. He had met up with other such artists as Poco to create a new sound in rock and roll.

In 1968, former Yardbirds guitarist Jeff Beck formed the Jeff Beck Group with vocalist Rod Stewart.

I Ain't Superstitious
Ain't superstitious,
black cat crossed my trail.
I ain't superstitious,
but a black cat crossed my trail.
Bad luck ain't got me so far,
and I won't let it stop me now.

The dogs begin to bark,
all over my neighborhood.
And that ain't all.
Dogs begin to bark,
all over my neighborhood.
Mmm-mmm
This is a mean old world to live in,
And I can't face it all by myself, at all.

And, dogs begin to bark,
all over my neighborhood.
The dogs begin to bark,
all over my neighborhood.
I got a feelin' about the future,
and it ain't too good, I know that.
I know, I know, I know.

Ain't superstitious,
but black cat crossed my trail,
(I said it so many times before)
Ain't superstitious,
a black cat crossed my trail.
Bad luck ain't got me so far,
and you know I ain't gonna let it stop me now.
Come on.

Originally posted by Captain ABlairica
In 1968, former Yardbirds guitarist Jeff Beck formed the Jeff Beck Group with vocalist Rod Stewart. :cool:

Originally posted by Captain ABlairica
Brothers John and Tom Fogerty, John on guitar and Tom on drums

No, that's John Fogerty with Doug "Cosmo" Clifford on drums! Tom Fogerty was CCR's rhythm guitarist. (Stu Cook was the bassist.)

The most exciting new band to emerge from Britain in 1968 was. . .

Family.


http://members.aol.com/gabihol/fam/reccoll1.jpg

(Clockwise from top left: Rob Townsend, Roger Chapman, Charlie Whitney, Jim King, Rick Grech)

Originally posted by Steve M.
No, that's John Fogerty with Doug "Cosmo" Clifford on drums! Tom Fogerty was CCR's rhythm guitarist. (Stu Cook was the bassist.) :doh: Thanks for telling me!! I better go back and change that!!

Family started out as a rhythm-and-blues band from Leicester before arriving in London in 1967. Their blend of Swinging London psychedelia and their own brand of soul-based rock earned them praise from people like John Lennon, who praised them for their "fantastic blend of sound." The band was comprised of Rick Grech on bass and occasional lead vocals, Jim King on saxophone, piano, and harmonica, Rob Townsend on drums, Charlie Whitney on guitar, and, as the main lead vocalist, Roger Chapman, who became famous for his goatish vibrato. Whitney became known for his interest in twisted guitar chord sequences, and Townsend was a drum virtuoso who could devastate Ginger Baker with his small kit. Chapman's bleating voice got all the attention, and many listeners didn't know what to make of it. Chapman himself couldn't understand the fuss. "I thought I was just singing like Little Richard and Ray Charles," he explained.

On the strength of their live act, Family won a recording contract with Reprise Records, and Dave Mason of Traffic produced their first album. That LP proved to be one of the most astonishing debuts of all time, and certainly one of the best debut records of 1968. . . .

Music In a Doll's House.

Music In a Doll's House perfected Family's blend of mannered Victorian psychedelia and rhythm and blues perfectly, delivering driving, rhythmic songs interwoven with tastefully orchestrated tunes and backward tapes. The effect of Mason's production could be stirring, as evidenced by the opening cut, the chilling "The Chase," which depicts a love affair as a fox hunt with the man as the hunted fox:

The Chase

(Whitney / Chapman)

AHH-ah! AHH-ah! AHH-ah!

What is it now, there's something I see in your face
Feel like a fox, hounds close at heels at the chase
Do I see blood in your eyes, babe?
Is it the end of the race?
Ahhh. . .Ahhh. . .AHHH!!!

Hunted me out, sapped me of strength and of will
Showered affections, baited me, loved me until
My defenses and cautions were gone, babe
And you did it just for the thrill.
Ahhh. . .Ahhh. . .AHHH!!!

Tally-ho! Tally-ho!

And then, suddenly, "The Chase" segued into an orchestrated ballad that explained in two verses the concept of a single day that took the Moody Blues an entire album to explain on Days of Future Passed. . . .

Mellowing Grey

(Whitney / Chapman)

Mellowing grey, in misty morning's day,
My thoughts turn to you, kingfisher blue.
Loveliness born in velvet shades of dawn,
Joy from your eyes, soft summer skies.
All things within the world supreme,
I compare with the the love that is my dream.

Mellowing grey, the veil of evening's day,
The dream that is you is midnight blue.
Your lips that evade a crimson charade,
I wait for the dawn from whence you're born.
All things within the world supreme,
I compare with the love that is my dream.

But Family could still churn out a gritty blues song like "Old Songs New Songs" or the downright lecherous "Hey Mr. Policeman."

Hey Mr. Policeman

(Whitney / Chapman / Grech)

Hey Mr. Policeman, one man at bail
Can I see her one time before I make jail
I'd kill for that woman, I'd kill for that woman
Kill for that woman, kill for that woman
The things I don't tell.

Hey there, driver, wait for me here
Don't stop the engine, keep out of gear
Last time I see her, the last time I see her
Last time I see her, last time I see her
In many a year.

Hey there, woman, see me last time
Don't care a nickel, don't give a dime
I'd kill for you, woman, I'd kill for you, woman
Kill for you woman, kill for you woman
You call it a crime.

You wouldn't know it from the band photo insert that accompanied Music In a Doll's House (the front sleeve of which showed the band members in a Victorian dollhouse in ridiculous poses). . . .

http://members.aol.com/fampics/dollpic.jpg

. . .but it is said that the Jimi Hendrix Experience were afraid to follow Family at festivals! :cool:

The tumultous year of 1968 actaully got off to a quiet start for the Beatles. Except for George, who was working on the soundtrack for the art film Wonderwall, the Fabs took January off. Finally, the Beatles decided to spend the spring taking the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi's Transcendental Meditation course in India, and in February they returned to Abbey Road to tape a single, to be released while they were on religious retreat.

The Beatles ended up recording four new songs: George's "The Inner Light," employing a Harrison-conducted raga from the Wonderwall sessions as the backing track; John's "Hey Bulldog," a boogie rocker composed specifically for the soundtrack of the forthcoming Yellow Submarine movie; John's "Across The Universe," and: Paul's "Lady Madonna," a piano-based blues rocker that helped the Beatles get back to the roots of rock and roll. John was dissatisfied with how "Across the Universe" came out, so "Lady Madonna" won out as their new single, with "The Inner Light" as the B-side - George's first composition to grace a single.

Lady Madonna - The Beatles

(Lennon / McCartney)

Lady Madonna, children at your feet
Wonder how you manage to make ends meet.
Who finds the money when you pay the rent
Did you think that money was heaven sent

Friday night arrives without a suitcase,
Sunday morning creeping like a nun,
Monday's child learns to tie his bootlace,
See how they run.

Lady Madonna, baby at your breast
Wonders how you manage to feed the rest.

See how they run.

Lady Madonna, lying on the bed
Listen to the music playing in your head.

Tuesday afternoon is never ending,
Wednesday morning papers didn't come,
Thursday night your stockings needed mending,
See how they run.

Lady Madonna, children at your feet,
Wonder how you manage to make ends meet.

Issued as a single in March 1968, "Lady Madonna" was a number one in the U.K., a number four in the U.S.

It only reached number 35 on the British album charts, and American record buyers hardly even noticed it, but it is undoubtedly on the greatest debut albums of the late sixties:

Family - Music In a Doll's House

http://members.aon.at/friedl/mbdi/168_Fa_Music%20in%20a.JPG

As impressive as their debut was, Family were just getting started; they would quickly to prove that they were a band to be reckoned with! :cool:

Bump!! peace: Tons more goodies in 1968!!:cool:

1968! My graduation year!:D
Kenny Rogers and The First Edition- "My Condition"

Mason Williams- "Classical Gas"

The Beatles- "Hey Jude"

Richard Harris-"MacArthur Park"

Jeannie C. Riley- "Harper Valley PTA"

Glen Campbell- "Wichita Lineman"

Nancy Sinatra and Lee Hazelwood- "Some Velvet Morning"

Merrilee Rush- "Angel Of The Morning"

Status Quo-"Pictures Of Matchstick Men"

Amboy Dukes-" Journey To The Center Of Your Mind"

The BeeGees-" I've Just Got To Get A Message To You..........Hold On"

Two of the greatest soul recordings of all time are released in 1968. Released after his death months earlier in a plane crash, Otis Redding's "The Dock of the Bay" goes straight to number one. Meanwhile, Marvin Gaye, the prince of Motown, enjoys the biggest hit of his career - a reworking of "I Heard It Through the Grapevine," which Gladys Knight and the Pips had done a year earlier. While Gaye's record is majestic and monumental in the Motown tradition, Redding's song, which he co-wrote with Booker T. and the MG's guitarist Steve Cropper, is simple and cuts to the bone.

The Dock of the Bay - Otis Redding

(Cropper / Redding)

Sittin' in the morning sun,
I'll be sitting 'til the evening comes.
Watchin' the ships roll in,
And I'll watch 'em roll away again.

So I'm sittin' on the dock of the bay
Watching the tide roll away.
Sittin' I'm on the dock of the bay
Wasting time. . . .

I left my home in Georgia,
Headed for the Frisco Bay.
'Cause I've had nothing to live for,
Looks like nothing's gonna come my way.

So I'm just gonna sit on the dock of the bay
Watching the tide roll away.
Sittin' on the dock of the bay,
Wasting time. . . .

Looks like nothing's gonna change,
Everything still remains the same.
I can't do what ten people tell me to do,
So I guess I'll remain the same, yes.

Sittin' here resting my bones,
And this loneliness won't leave me alone.
Hey, two thousand miles I roamed,
Just to make this dock my home.

Now I'm just gonna sit on the dock of the bay
Watching the tide roll away.
Sittin' on the dock of the bay,
Wasting time. . . .

The Four Tops- "Walk Away Renee"

Small Faces- "Itchicoo Park"

The Monkees- "Valleri"

Although rock is returning to the roots - simple, two-to-three-minute songs based in rockabilly, country, soul, and the blues - grandiose pop hasn't given up the ghost in 1968. Songwriter Jimmy Webb composes and produces an entire album, A Tramp Shining, for actor Richard Harris. Its single, the seven-minute epic "MacArthur Park," is a seven-minute epic that goes straight to number. . .two. It's kept from the top of the charts by Herb Alpert's version of Burt Bacharach and Hal David's "This Guy's In Love With You." :D But it is Webb's song that carries the day in the end; "MacArthur Park" will be covered by the Four Tops, Donna Summer (who will finally take the song to number one), Waylon Jennings, and Tony Bennett in the years to come, and it will become popular among generations of Vegas lounge lizards. The Beatles will even have a go at it while rehearsing at Twickenham Studios for the Get Back / Let It Be project.

Speaking of the Beatles, recording sessions for their new album aren't going well. Fights ensue, Ringo walks out for ten days, and engineer Geoff Emerick quits to avoid the tension. No one thinks the Beatles can pull off a single, let alone a new album. But the Beatles prove everyone wrong with a seven-minute epic of their own: "Hey Jude." Released in the summer of 1968, it goes to number one in the U.S. and stays their for nine weeks - the Fabs's bestselling U.S. single ever.

Strawberry Alarm Clock-"Tomorrow"

OC Smith- "Hickory Hollow's Tramp"

Herb Alpert-"This Guys In Love With You"

1910 Fruitgum Company-"Simon Says"

Ohio Express-"Yummy Yummy Yummy"

Hey Jude - the Beatles

(Lennon / McCartney)

Hey Jude, don't make it bad,
Take a sad song and make it better.
Remember to let her into your heart,
Then you can start to make it better.

Hey Jude, don't be afraid,
You were made to go out and get her.
The minute you let her under your skin,
Then you begin to make it better.

And any time you feel the pain,
Hey Jude, refrain,
Don't carry the world upon your shoulder.
For well you know that it's a fool
Who plays it cool,
By making his world a little colder.

Hey Jude, don't let me down,
You have found her - now go and get her.
Remember to let her into your heart,
Then you can start to make it better.

So let it out and let it in,
Hey Jude, begin,
You're waiting for someone to perform with.
And don't you know that it's just you,
Hey Jude, you'll do,
The movement you need is on your shoulder.

Hey Jude, don't make it bad
Take a sad song and make it better.
Remember to let her under your skin,
Then you begin to make it better,
Better, better, better, better, oh. . . .

Na na na na na na na , na na na na, Hey Jude. . . .

Tommy James and The Shondells- "Mony Mony"

Tiny Tim!:lol: - "Tiptoe Through The Tulips"

There were several instrumentals in 1968. Among them were;

Love Is Blue by Paul Mauriat

Classical Gas by Mason Williams

Soul Coaxing by King Curtis

The Good The Bad And The Ugly by Hugo Montenegro

Grazing In The Grass by (I can't remember!):crazy:

The Horse by (don't remember that one either!):(

In addition to his triumph as the producer of Family's debut LP Music In a Doll's House, Dave Mason makes history with his own band - Traffic. Together with bandmates Jim Capaldi, Chris Wood, and ex-Spencer Davis Group frontman Steve Winwood, they release a heralded debut album of their own in 1968. . .

Mr. Fantasy.

Lemon Pipers- Green Tambourine

Originally posted by Penny Lane
There were several instrumentals in 1968. Among them were;

Grazing In The Grass by (I can't remember!):crazy:

Hugh Makesela. :)

How far back to the roots was rock getting in 1968, Pink Floyd, Family, and Traffic notwithstanding? In 1968, the Byrds re-emerged with a new lineup (Michael Clarke and Gene Clark had since left, and David Crosby got fired when his bandmates got repulsed at the idea of recording his song, "Triad," about a guy and two girls in a menage a trois) and recorded the country-rock masterpeice Sweetheart of the Rodeo. New member Gram Parsons wrote the two originals, including his signature song "Hickory Wind," and the Byrds covered Merle Travis, Bob Dylan and Woody Guthrie songs with help from guests like John Hartford and Clarence White.

Gram Parsons, however, didn't stick around. Roger McGuinn was ambivalent about turning the Byrds into a full-time straight country band, but that's not what caused Parsons to leave; he and Chris Hillman quit in disgust upon learning that the Byrds were to tour apartheid-ruled South Africa. Parsons and Hillman went on to form the Flying Burrito Brothers.

Originally posted by Steve M.
Hugh Makesela. :)

Thanks Steve!:clap:

Originally posted by Penny Lane
Richard Harris-"MacArthur Park" Have you ever heard Weird Al's parody of that called "Jurassic Park"?

Originally posted by King Juke "N" Jive
Have you ever heard Weird Al's parody of that called "Jurassic Park"?

No, I haven't but it sounds interesting!:lol:

This is one of the most influential debut albums in all of rock and roll:

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The backlash against indulgent heavy rock and far-out electronic experiments had slowly been brewing throughout 1968. Creedence Clearwater Revival may have brought a no-nonsense working-class sensiblity back to rock and roll, and Dylan may have started the trend in favor of simplicity with John Wesley Harding, but his sometime backing group, the Band, took things one step further. Music From Big Pink was a collection of eloquently written songs, played with no pretentiousness and rooted in the rustic, rural beginnings of rock. By getting to the heart of America's musical roots, the Band (all Canadians! - except drummer Levon Helm, an Arkansan) enocuraged the rest of the rock establishment to go back to basics. Eric Clapton heard this album, and realized that Cream, with the excess and relentless soloing their music was becoming, were heading in the wrong direction.

Blue Cheer

The Moody Blues

The Grass Roots

Jimi Hendrix Experience's second album was Axis: Bold As Love.

At the Democratic National Convention in Chicago in the summer of 1968, police moved in to crush rioters.

That summer, from the "Beggars' Banquet" album, the Rolling Stones released "Street Fighting Man" which was banned in many places across the country.
Street Fighting Man
Ev'rywhere I hear the sound of marching, charging feet, boy
'Cause summer's here and the time is right for fighting in the street, boy
But what can a poor boy do
Except to sing for a rock 'n' roll band
'Cause in sleepy London town
There's just no place for a street fighting man
No

Hey! Think the time is right for a palace revolution
'Cauce where I live the game to play is compromise solution
Well, then what can a poor boy do
Except to sing for a rock 'n' roll band
'Cause in sleepy London town
There's no place for a street fighting man
No

Hey! Said my name is called disturbance
I'll shout and scream, I'll kill the king, I'll rail at all his servants
Well, what can a poor boy do
Except to sing for a rock 'n' roll band
'Cause in sleepy London town
There's no place for a street fighting man
No

The National Guard was called in to assist the police.

The B-side of the Beatles's "Hey Jude" reflected the ambivalance of young people everywhere as violence erupted in Chicago:

Revolution - The Beatles

(Lennon / McCartney)

You say you want a revolution, well you know
We all want to change the world.
You tell me that it's evolution, well you know
We all want to change the world.
But when you talk about destruction
Don't you know that you can count me out

(CHORUS)

Don't you know it's gonna be
Alright - alright - alright?

You say you got a real solution, well you know
We'd all love to see the plan.
You ask me for a contribution, well you know
We are doing what we can.
But if you want money for people with minds that hate
All I can tell you is, brother, you have to wait.

(CHORUS)

You say you'll change the constitution, well, you know
We all want to change your head.
You tell me it's the institution, well you know
You'd better free your mind instead.
But if you go carrying pictures of Chairman Mao,
You ain't goin' to make it with anyone anyhow.

(CHORUS)

Alright. . . .

Originally posted by Captain ABlairica
In 1968, Jimi Hendrix released "Electric Ladyland", the original cover featuring a bevy of nude women.

Hey, Captain, what happened to Axis: Bold as Love ? :)

In 1968, the members of Pink Floyd realized guitarist Syd Barrett's LSD consumption was deeply affecting his personality. On "The Pat Boone Show", where 50's music idol Pat Boone featured up and coming stars on his program, Mr. Boone attempted to interview Barrett, who would give him only vacant stares without saying a word. The band agreed, LSD was making a rather gifted musician insane. It was time to replace him.

Pat Boone and Syd Barrett...now THAT would have made an interesting conversation.

Originally posted by Steve M.


Hey, Captain, what happened to Axis: Bold as Love ? :) [/B]

OMG!!! Thanks for reminding me!!!:doh:

I actually remember reading that reviews for "Axis" were rather mediocre...HUH???:confused:

The third album by the Jimi Hendrix Experience was Electric Ladyland. The original cover featured a bevy of nude women, but when retailers complained, a fiery, dazzling shot of Jimi replaced it.

Also in Britain, a new band released its first album with British folk and blues influences. The band was Jethro Tull, with its flamboyant flute-playing lead singer, Ian Anderson.

On the funkier side, Sly and the Family Stone, with lead singer Sly Stone (real name Sylvester Stewart), made huge hits with songs such as "Stand", "Let Me Take You Higher", and "Dance to the Music".

That year, the Beatles made a sort of animated appearance in a movie based on their song, "Yellow Submarine".

Yellow Submarine

As amazing and colorful the movie was, none of the Beatles actually appeared in it, except for a bit of dialogue from Ringo.

More Yellow Submarine

Traffic featured Steve Winwood, Dave Mason, Chris Wood, and Jim Capaldi.

The Low Spark of High Heeled Boys

If you see something that looks like a star
And it's shooting up out of the ground
And your head is spinning from a loud guitar
And you just can't escape from the sound
Don't worry too much, it'll happen to you
We were children once, playing with toys
And the thing that you're hearing is only the sound of
The low spark of high-heeled boys

The percentage you're paying is too high priced
While you're living beyond all your means
And the man in the suit has just bought a new car
From the profit he's made on your dreams
But today you just read that the man was shot dead
By a gun that didn't make any noise
But it wasn't the bullet that laid him to rest was
The low spark of high-heeled boys

If you had just a minute to breathe and they granted you one final wish
Would you ask for something like another chance?
Or something similar as this? Don't worry too much
It'll happen to you as sure as your sorrows are joys
And the thing that disturbs you is only the sound of
The low spark of high-heeled boys

If I gave you everything that I owned and asked for nothing in return
Would you do the same for me as I would for you?
Or take me for a ride, and strip me of everything including my pride
But spirit is something that no one destroys
And the sound that I'm hearing is only the sound
The low spark of high-heeled boys

Vanilla Fudge

Originally posted by Captain ABlairica
On the funkier side, Sly and the Family Stone, with lead singer Sly Stone (real name Sylvester Stewart), made huge hits with songs such as "Stand", "Let Me Take You Higher", and "Dance to the Music".

As rock was becoming overwhelmingly white and soul was becoming overwhelmingly black, Sly and the Family Stone represented sometihng different - a racially integrated, bi-gender soul-rock band. Peace and harmony, brother! :D

Small wonder that Sly called his band's debut album A Whole New Thing.

From left: Richard Manuel, Levon Helm, Rick Danko, Garth Hudson, and Robbie Robertson. Together they were. . .

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The Band.

Also releasing their self-titled debut album in 1968 was one of the most electrifying folk rock bands since the Byrds. Led by guitarist/songwriter Richard Thompson, vocalist Ian Matthews, and vocalist Judy Dyble - who was soon replaced by Sandy Denny - they welded English folk ballads and madrigals with modern rock and roll, delivering dynamic, chilling music that brought listeners close to the edge of danger and mystery. The group was. . .

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Fairport Convention.

In the midst of America's season of fallen heroes, former 50's teen idol Dion offered this touching song:

Abraham, Martin, and John

Anybody here seen my old friend Abraham?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He freed lotta people but it seems the good they die young
You know I just looked around and he's gone

Anybody here seen my old friend John?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He freed lotta people but it seems the good they die young
I just looked around and he's gone

Anybody here seen my old friend Martin?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
He freed lotta people but it seems the good they die young
I just looked around and he's gone

Didn't you love the things that they stood for?
Didn't they try to find some good for you and me?
And we'll be free
Some day soon, it's gonna be one day

Anybody here seen my old friend Bobby?
Can you tell me where he's gone?
I thought I saw him walkin' up over the hill
With Abraham, Martin, and John

Amid all the social unrest, swirling mad psychedelia and baroqueness of pop music came back one welcome face--

ELVIS!!!!

After spending the past several years sidelined by the army, Hollywood, and the British Invasion, the King had returned on a t.v. special on December 21, 1968.

But the greatest band of that era, no question, would have to be the band that invaded Saturday mornings:

THE ARCHIES!!!!

Sugar, ah honey honey
You are my candy girl
And you've got me wanting you.
Honey, ah sugar sugar
You are my candy girl
And you've got me wanting you.

I just can't believe the loveliness of loving you
(I just can't believe it's true)
I just can't believe the one to love this feeling to.
(I just can't believe it's true)

Ah sugar, ah honey honey
You are my candy girl
And you've got me wanting you.
Ah honey, ah sugar sugar
You are my candy girl
And you've got me wanting you.

When I kissed you, girl, I knew how sweet a kiss could be
(I know how sweet a kiss can be)
Like the summer sunshine pour your sweetness over me
(Pour your sweetness over me)
Sugar, pour a little sugar on it honey,
Pour a little sugar on it baby
I'm gonna make your life so sweet, yeah yeah yeah
Pour a little sugar on it oh yeah
Pour a little sugar on it honey,
Pour a little sugar on it baby
I'm gonna make your life so sweet, yeah yeah yeah
Pour a little sugar on it honey,

Ah sugar, ah honey honey
You are my candy girl
And you've got me wanting you.
Oh honey, honey, sugar sugar ..
You are my candy girl ..

The Banana Splits

Fleetwood Mac

Peter Green

The two biggest triumphs in 1968 came toward the end of the year. The Rolling Stones released Beggar's Banquet, a document of the decline and fall of Western civilization that was as exciting as it was salacious. "Sympathy For the Devil" was on that record, and so was "Street Fighting man," which encouraged people to up-end the system even as it admitted that doing anything probably wouldn't make a difference. (They perfromed many songs from that album, including their single "Jumpin' Jack Flash," on theit classic TV special The Rolling Stones's Rock and Roll Circus, which was finally aired in 1996.)

On November 22, the Beatles released their long-awiated double album. Comprised of nearly thirty songs they wrote in India (including a composition from Ringo, "Don't Pass Me By"), it ran the gamut of Western music, from the old-time rock of "Birthday" and the heavy rock of "Yer Blues" and "Helter Skelter," to the folk of "Julia" and "Mother Natures's Son," to the country of "Rocky Raccoon," to George Harrison's compositions ("While My Guitar Gently Weeps," "Piggies," "Long Long Long," "Savoy Truffle"), to jazz ("Honey Pie") and musique concrete ("Revolution 9") - and was ecstatically received all over the world. Simply called The Beatles, it became known for its plain white cover. . . the White Album.

"It's the bloody White Album, shut up!" - Paul McCartney, 1995

The Beatles almost named the White Album A Doll's House, but Family put the kibosh on that idea when they released their similarly titled album four months earlier. In November 1968, as Family's fans eagerly awaited their second album, the Leicester band offered a sneak preview of it in the form of a single that would appear on the new LP. . . a Rick Grech composition that recycled a Chuck Berry riff with an arrangement that recalled the Beatles's "Paperback Writer". . .

Second Generation Woman - Family

(Rick Grech)

Smokes like a man, getting higher than I can,
She knows how.
Ahead of her time, but she don't give a damn,
Why should she?
She looks good to handle from a personal angle,
Second generation woman.

Last thing you got to do is force her into loving you,
No need to.
She knows when the time is right and comes to you without a fight,
She wants to.
She looks good to handle from a personal angle,
Second generation woman.

Second generation woman, yeah.

She's a woman who won't let you down, just as long as she's around,
You don't have to worry.
She feeds, loves you, lets you know she digs you,
She's in a hurry.
She looks good to handle from a personal angle,
Second generation woman.

Last thing you got to do is force her into loving you,
You don't have to.
She knows when the time is right and comes to you without a fight,
She wants to.
She looks good to handle from a personal angle,
Second generation woman.

Second generation woman.
She's a second generation woman,
You know that she digs you.

In January 1969, the Beatles filmed a concert on top of Apple Studios.

Early in 1969, Bob Dylan returned with the country-influenced album, "Nashville Skyline", where he dueted with Johnny Cash.

Also that year, the Who recorded a bold rock opera called "Tommy" about a miraculous blind deaf-mute boy.

John Lennon had found a side project outside of the Beatles with his soon-to-be wife Yoko called The Plastic Ono Band, which turned to be more than a side project. He and Yoko would participate in "bed-ins" to promote world peace.

In the summer of 1969, a series of horrific murders occured in the outskirts of Los Angeles in Beverly Hills--a hippie cult leader named Charles Manson led his "Family" of followers to kill actress Sharon Tate and several others in an attempt to foment racial war. He used both the Bible and the Beatles' "White Album" as inspiration for his gruesome acts. Were the Beatles responsible in any way for his actions?

"Helter Skelter" was Manson's code word for race war. He wanted to make it appear as if black radicals were responsible for the crimes. It didn't work.

While 1968 saw numerous bands - the Band, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Fairport Convention, Family, Jethro Tull, Sly and the Family Stone - issue the first albums, it was the year two sixties bands called it quits. . .and paved the way for seventies rock. The Buffalo Springfield released their final album, the aptly titled Last Time Around, the discord in that group tearing it apart. Not even new bassist Jim Messina could save them. But the group's members went on to many of the groups and solo careers that would define the sounds of the seventies. Stephen Stills went on to Crosby, Stills and Nash, Neil Young would join CSN on occasion while pursuing a successful solo career, Richie Furay helped found Poco, and Jim Messina would form a partnership with a West Coast folkie named Kenny Loggins.

The Yardbirds had scored a coup with the psychedelic Roger the Engineer, but after Jeff Beck's departure the disastrous Little Games, they broke up. Keith Relf and Jim McCarty formed the art rock group Renaissance with a young woman named Annie Haslam. Jimmy Page, left holding the rights to the Yardbirds name and having several European concert dates to fill, quickly formed an ad hoc replacement band to honor the Yardbirds's commitments. The New Yardbirds consisted of Page, John Paul Jones on bass, John Bonham on drums, and Robert Plant on vocals. The European tour was so successful, it encouraged Page to keep his new band going, with a new name. Led Zeppelin had been born.

In 1968, as the Yardbirds broke up, guitarist Jimmy Pagewanted to continue as the New Yardbirds with a new lineup. He found a lead singer named Robert Plant, a drummer named John Bonham, and a bassist/keyboardist named John Paul Jones. When they played before Keith Moon and John Entwistle of the Who, the two replied, "That's gonna go down like a lead balloon."
Thus, Led Zeppelin was born.

Also popular at the time was the rock and roll revival band Ten Years After, named when Elvis had been a star for a decade.

Ten Years After

Ten Years After with Alvin Lee on lead guitar

Blood, Sweat & Tears

In February 1969, Family released their eagerly awaited second album, Family Entertainment.

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No longer concerned with psychedelia, the group was involved in a country tune like "Dim" (go here (http://www.geocities.com/SunsetStrip/Alley/4950/family.htm) to hear it on RealAudio 3.0), the introspective folk song "Processions," and the tune that became their signature song. While it was recorded in the studio as a mannered, polite folk rock tune, Family always played it live as the dirtiest, sweatiest, heaviest rock they could conjure up. The song was. . .

The Weaver's Answer

(Whitney / Chapman)

Weaver of life, let me look and see
The pattern of my life gone shown on your tapestry.

Just for one second, one glance upon your loom
The flower of my childhood could appear within this room
Does it of my youth show the tears of yesterday
Broken hearts within a heart as love first came my way

Did the lifeline patterns change as I became a man
An added untold aura blends as I asked for her hand
Did your golden needle sew its thread virginial white
As lovers we embraced as one upon our wedding night

Did you capture all the joys, the birth of our first son
The happiness of family made a brother for the one
The growing of the brothers, the manliness that grew
Is it there in detail, is it there to view
Do the sparks of life grow bright as one by one they wed
To live as fathers, husbands, apart from lives they led

Are my lover's threads cut off when aged, she laid to rest
My sorrow blacking out a space upon thou woven crest
A gathering for the last time as her coffin slowly lain
Ash to ashes, dust to dust, one day we will regain
Does it show the visits of grandchildren on my knee
But only hearing laughter when age took my sight from me

Lastly through these last few years of loneliness, maybe,
Does by sight a shooting star fade from your tapestry
But wait there in the distance, your loom I think I see
Could it be that after all my prayers, you've answered me?
After days of wondering, I see the reason why
You've kept it to this minute - for I'm about to die!

Weaver of life, at last now I can see
The pattern of my life gone by shown on your tapestry.

Crosby, Stills, Nash, and Young

The movie "Easy Rider", starring Peter Fonda and Dennis Hopper as bikers travelling cross country, also featured Jack Nicholson in an early memorable role. It featured many songs by Steppenwolf, the Byrds, Jimi Hendrix, and other bands.

Wasn't Born to Follow
Oh I’d rather go and journey
Where the diamond crescent’s glowing and
Run across the valley
Beneath the sacred mountain
And wander through the forest
Where the trees have leaves of prisms
And break the light in colors
That no-one knows the names of

And when it’s time I’ll go and wait
Beside a legendary fountain
Till I see your form reflected
In it’s clear and jeweled waters
And if you think I’m ready
You may lead me to the chasm
Where the rivers of our vision
Flow into one another

I will watch her dive beneath
The white cascading waters
She may beg she may plead
She may argue with her logic
And then mention all the things I’ll lose
That really have no value
In the end she will surely know
I wasn’t born to follow

Unfortunately, it was nearing the end for the musical partnership of Simon and Garfunkel.

Easy Rider also featured this song by the Band:

The Weight

(J.R. Robertson)

I pulled into Nazareth, was a-feelin' 'bout half past dead
I just had to find a place where I could lay my head
"Hey Mister, can you tell me where a man might find a bed?"
He just grinned and he shook my hand, "No" was all he said.

(CHORUS)

Take a load off Annie,
Take a load for free,
Take a load off Annie. . .
And. . .you put the load right on me.

I picked up my bags, I went looking for a place to hide
When I saw Carmen and the devil walkin' side by side
I said, "Hey Carmen, come on, let's go downtown."
She said, "I got to go, but my friend can stick around."

(CHORUS)

Go down, Miss Moses, there's nothing you can say
It's just old Luke, and Luke's waitin' on his Judgement Day.
"Well Luke, my friend, what about Emily?"
He said, "Do me a favor, son, won't you stay and keep Emily company."

(CHORUS)

Crazy Chester followed me, and he caught me in the fog
He said, "I will fix your rack, if you'll take Jack, my dog."
I said, "Wait a minute, Chester, you know I'm a peaceful man."
He said, "That's okay, boy, won't you feed me when you can?"
(Yeah!)

(CHORUS)

Get your cannonball, now to take me down the line
My bag is sinking low, and I do believe it's time
To get back to Miss Annie, you know, she's the only one
Who sent me here with her regards for everyone.

(CHORUS)

Simon and Garfunkel's Bookends album, a spectacular song cycle about aging and loss of innocence, featured the hit song "Mrs. Robinson," from the movie The Graduate.

Originally posted by Captain ABlairica
Blood, Sweat & Tears

Blood, Sweat & Tears were formed by Al Kooper as a way of bringing back jazz and blues elements in rock. Their first album, Child Is Father to the Man, which included Kooper's "I Can't Quit Her," was a critical success, but Kooper's bandmates thought that if could commercialize and water down Kooper's concept to appeal to a mass audience, they could have a huge hit album. Kooper was forced out of his own band, and David Clayton-Thomas took over lead vocals. Their self-titeld second album was indeed a huge hit, and produced three chart-topping singles.

Only trouble was, the music wasn't very good anymore.

Two other bands came to an end in 1968. One was the Monkees. After proving that prefabricated rock bands don't have to be bad - indeed, they can be quite good - and making the great psychedelic movie that Magical Mystery Tour should have been (Head), the Monkees felt they had gone as far as any prefabricated band could, so they broke up.

The tensions in Cream, meanwhile, had gotten so bad, especially between Jack Bruce and Ginger Baker, that they called it quits after giving a farewell concert at London's Royal Albert Hall on November 26, 1968.

Meanwhile, Dave Mason left Traffic for a solo career, and the group fell apart - though they'd regroup without Mason in early 1970. In the year just begun, 1969, Steve Winwood drifted for a few weeks and started hanging out with Eric Clapton in the Berkshire countryside. Clapton and Winwood had always wanted to form a band, and now they had the opportunity. They agreed to get a new group going, which Clapton named after exactly what he had in the project. . . Blind Faith.

Although Clapton wanted nothing more to do with Cream, Ginger Baker, hearing of Clapton and Winwood's new project, talked himself into being Blind Faith's drummer. The lineup was set, with Clapton on guitar, Baker on drums, and Winwood on vocals and organ. Winwood had planned to approximate bass choords with his organ in the style of Ray Manzarek of the Doors. Then, one small change was made that would severely damage another band's chances of making it in America.

Family had two acclaimed albums - the second a top ten hit - a rabid fan base, and a finely honed concert act, and they were ready to take on America as a warmup act for Ten Years After. Then, when Eric Clapton and Steve Winwood invited Rick Grech to join Blind Faith as a bass player, Grech jumped at the chance. He told everyone he knew of his plans to quit Family. . .except his bandmates. Grech finally told Family leaders Roger Chapman and Charlie Whitney on the eve of their U.S. tour, when it was too late to find a replacement. Grech would stay on during part of the tour while a new bassist was sought out. An enraged Chapman told the British music press: "He could have bloody told us before the tour began!"

Visa problems and logistical difficulties threw Family off balance even more. When they finally made their American debut on April 8, 1969 at the Fillmore East in New York, they gave a horrible, undisciplined performance that was met with jeers by the audience. It was Roger Chapman's 27th birthday, but it was not a happy one; furious at how badly things were going, he threw his microphone stand in disgust - and it hit Bill Graham by accident. Though Family assured Graham it was an accident, Graham supposedly spread the word to other promoters about Family and what an unreliable band they were.
They were forced to leave the tour when Chapman lost his visa, and they never were to do much business in the States. They did replace Grech, though, with a fellow named John Weider.

Meanwhile, Fairport Convention released their third (or fourth, I'm not sure) album, Unhalfbricking. The album was a mix of good time folk rock and haunting ballads composed by Sandy Denny and Richard Thompson, along with quirky remakes of obscure Bob Dylan tunes (one such song, "If You Gotta Go, Go Now" performed here in French! :D ) The sound was defined by Thompson's scholarly guitar, Martin Lamble's peppy drums, and Sandy Denny's soaring vocals.

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The couple on the front cover are Sandy Denny's parents, symbolizing Fairport Convention's respect for tradition.

Both Thompson and Denny proved to be adept songwriters, as evidenced by this Denny composition that Judy Collins would add to her set list. . . .

Who Knows Where The Time Goes - Fairport Convention

(Sandy Denny)

Across the evening sky
All the birds are leaving
But how can they know
It's time for them to go?
Before the winter fire
I will still be dreaming
I do not count the time
For who knows where the time goes?
Who knows where the time goes?

Sad deserted shore
Your fickle friends are leaving
Ah, but then you know
It's time for them to go
But I will still be here
I have no thought of leaving
You know I have thought of time
For who knows where the time goes?
Who knows where the time goes?

And I am not alone
While my love is near me
I know it will be so
Until it's time to go
So, come the storms of winter
And then the birds in the spring again
I do not fear the time
For who knows how my love grows?
Who knows where the time goes?

Irish rocker Van Morrison was also one of the rising stars in those years with his latest "Moondance" album. His previous album "Astral Weeks" put him on the rock and roll map as a performer to watch for.

Having just been fired from the Rolling Stones for "creative differences"--in fact, perhaps more out of unwillingness to conform, guitarist Brian Jones moved to his country home in Britain. There, on July 3rd, 1969, during a party, Jones, intoxicated by a combination of drugs and alcohol, fell into the swimming pool. He drowned before anyone could save him.

:crying:

His replacement in the Stones was guitarist Mick Taylor.

Let It Bleed

Chicago Transit Authority

Does Anybody Really Know What Time It Is?
As I was walking down the street one day
A man came up to me and asked me what the time was that was on my watch, yeah
And I said

Does anybody really know what time it is
Does anybody really care
If so I can’t imagine why
We’ve all got time enough to cry

And I was walking down the street one day
A pretty lady looked at me and said her diamond watch had stopped cold dead
And I said

Does anybody really know what time it is
Does anybody really care
If so I can’t imagine why
We’ve all got time enough to cry

And I was walking down the street one day
Being pushed and shoved by people trying to beat the clock, oh, no I just don’t know
I don’t know
And I said, yes I said

Background:
People runnin’ everywhere
Don’t know where to go
Don’t know where I am
Can’t see past the next step
Don’t have time to think past the last mile
Have no time to look around
Just run around, run around and think why

Does anybody really know what time it is
Does anybody really care
If so I can’t imagine why
We’ve all got time enough to die

Small Faces

1969 was the year of the supergroup. A relatively new concept, a supergroup consisted of established stars from earlier bands. Two supergroups debuted in 1969, one hot, one not.

Crosby, Stills and Nash came together as a trio of equals, each contributing their own songs and arranging them around their precise, flawless harmonies. Not to put a fine point on it, but they had their own "vibe." They proved to be one of the few supergroups that actually worked artistically, but they spent so much time arguing - especially when they invited Neil Young to join them - that fans would have to wait for years between albums while David Crosby, Stepehn Stills, and Graham Nash pursued extracurricular projects.

Blind Faith - discussed in greater detail earlier - was far less fortunate. Their only British concert, on June 7, 1969, suggested potential, but their debut album proved to be uninspired and tepid. They toured before developing an identity or a specail sound, and they became an unintentional parody of Cream and Traffic. When the summer of 1969 was over, so was the band. Eric Clapton jumped ship and joined Delaney and Bonnie Bramlett's rock and roll revival road show. Winwood went back to Traffic after another stint with Ginger Baker. Rick Grech followed Winwood into both acts, and was not able to get Roger Chapman and Charlie Whitney to take him back in Family.

After a classic album, Ogden's Nut Gone Flake, the Small Faces split into two groups. Steve Marriott left and joined the guitarist from the Herd - a guy you might have heard of, Peter Frampton - to form Humble Pie. The other three Small Faces recruited Rod Stewart and Ron Wood from the first Jeff Beck Group and became, simply, the Faces. Both bands became famous for their salacious blues-based rock. ;)

MC5

The Stooges with Iggy Pop