The 60s, for those who remember

[Tero]

Rum there was a Finn, turned to a typical Jewish businessman later! who covered a bunch of Cliff hits. I can't find any, but here he is doing Flowers on The Wall. All his hits were covers. He had his own "Shadows" who were called Sounds.

[kiki5711]

thanks Zilla, I loved the Jimmy Hendrix version, actually every version is good!

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0y5GDvN9 ... re=related[/youtube]

[Gawdzilla Sama]

I remember Barry Sadler quite well, the song game out about the time a friend of my brother's came home from Vietnam. I attended his funeral while that song went through my head endlessly.

[Robert_S]

I'll forever be traumatized by that song (Wild Thing). It was what Sammy Hagar and Eddie Van Halen played at their first public appearance together at Farm Aid 1. What was called Van Halen after that was a sad sad affair IMO.

[Hermit]

I can't describe how much I welcomed the smashing down of the buttoned-up, straight-laced culture that had anaesthetised the fifties and the early sixties. There was nothing more depressing than the mindset typified by shows like Father knows Best. Yes, the Beatles, the Stones and the rest of the storm that blew the doilies off the occasional tables in the living rooms had precursors like Elvis Presley and Bill Haley, and it is not easy to pinpoint when the fresh breeze turned into a cyclone, but for me the crooners and Mantovani's cascading violins were being banished from my radio's loudspeaker (yes. mono.) by the sound of "She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah." The lyrics were by no means revolutionary, but the Beatles were the harbingers of forces that would overthrow the ancien régime. Or so it seemed until The Who made their wake-up call with "Won't get fooled again."

No, the sixties, with their hippie movement, the socialist student movement and whatnot were not the radical change we imagined them to be at the time, and yes, many participants slid back into a suburban life style, sipping martinis after work and looking forward to their pensions after their brood had flown the coop, but at least the felt-hatted conformism that squeezed the life out of so many shoots of creativity had been vanquished - until the greed is good brigades arrived on the scene a couple of decades later. [/hyperbolic ramble]

[Rum]

I can't describe how much I welcomed the smashing down of the buttoned-up, straight-laced culture that had anaesthetised the fifties and the early sixties. There was nothing more depressing than the mindset typified by shows like Father knows Best. Yes, the Beatles, the Stones and the rest of the storm that blew the doilies off the occasional tables in the living rooms had precursors like Elvis Presley and Bill Haley, and it is not easy to pinpoint when the fresh breeze turned into a cyclone, but for me the crooners and Mantovani's cascading violins were being banished from my radio's loudspeaker (yes. mono.) by the sound of "She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah." The lyrics were by no means revolutionary, but the Beatles were the harbingers of forces that would overthrow the ancien régime. Or so it seemed until The Who made their wake-up call with "Won't get fooled again."

No, the sixties, with their hippie movement, the socialist student movement and whatnot were not the radical change we imagined them to be at the time, and yes, many participants slid back into a suburban life style, sipping martinis after work and looking forward to their pensions after their brood had flown the coop, but at least the felt-hatted conformism that squeezed the life out of so many shoots of creativity had been vanquished - until the greed is good brigades arrived on the scene a couple of decades later. [/hyperbolic ramble]

Rant more than ramble! But well said in any case! On the nose!

[kiki5711]

I remember Barry Sadler quite well, the song game out about the time a friend of my brother's came home from Vietnam. I attended his funeral while that song went through my head endlessly.

I swear if I was qualified to join the Marines back in that time, I would have gone. If not for the principle but to stand and fight next to my brothers and die with them. I'd choose that over being a millionaire thousnd times over.

[kiki5711]

I'll forever be traumatized by that song (Wild Thing). It was what Sammy Hagar and Eddie Van Halen played at their first public appearance together at Farm Aid 1. What was called Van Halen after that was a sad sad affair IMO.

Traumatized as in "it's a bad thing"?

[Rum]

I hated Wild Thing by the Troggs. They seemed to be one of the groups somehow to be pretending to be part of the 'wave' of newness. Then Hendrix did it..

Watch in awe if you haven't seen it!

[kiki5711]

"Wild Thing" is a song written by New York City-born songwriter Chip Taylor. Originally recorded by The Wild Ones in 1965[1], "Wild Thing" is best known for its 1966 cover by the English band The Troggs, which reached No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 in July 1966. The song peaked at one position lower in Britain.

As performed by The Troggs, "Wild Thing" is ranked #257 on the Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time.

Hey I just came across this:

The original version of the classic song "Wild Thing", later made famous by The Troggs and Jimi Hendrix. This was released on November 1, 1965, about six months before The Troggs recorded their remake, which would would go to #1 on the US charts and sell millions of copies around the world.

I have a feeling it probably goes back further than that.....

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9rxDOncg ... re=related[/youtube]

[Rum]

The singer sounds like a cat howling.

[kiki5711]

I hated Wild Thing by the Troggs. They seemed to be one of the groups somehow to be pretending to be part of the 'wave' of newness. Then Hendrix did it..

Watch in awe if you haven't seen it!

Oh, hell YEA!!! seen it, watched, drooled over it many times!!!!!! I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks he's making love to the guitar ie the ladies watching him

[Rum]

Oh, hell YEA!!! seen it, watched, drooled over it many times!!!!!! I'm sure I'm not the only one who thinks he's making love to the guitar ie the ladies watching him

I had the supreme privilege of seeing him live in 1967/8 in Bristol. I was only 17 myself, but even I could tell he was something really special.

[maiforpeace]

[Hermit]

I can't describe how much I welcomed the smashing down of the buttoned-up, straight-laced culture that had anaesthetised the fifties and the early sixties. There was nothing more depressing than the mindset typified by shows like Father knows Best. Yes, the Beatles, the Stones and the rest of the storm that blew the doilies off the occasional tables in the living rooms had precursors like Elvis Presley and Bill Haley, and it is not easy to pinpoint when the fresh breeze turned into a cyclone, but for me the crooners and Mantovani's cascading violins were being banished from my radio's loudspeaker (yes. mono.) by the sound of "She loves you, yeah, yeah, yeah." The lyrics were by no means revolutionary, but the Beatles were the harbingers of forces that would overthrow the ancien régime. Or so it seemed until The Who made their wake-up call with "Won't get fooled again."

No, the sixties, with their hippie movement, the socialist student movement and whatnot were not the radical change we imagined them to be at the time, and yes, many participants slid back into a suburban life style, sipping martinis after work and looking forward to their pensions after their brood had flown the coop, but at least the felt-hatted conformism that squeezed the life out of so many shoots of creativity had been vanquished - until the greed is good brigades arrived on the scene a couple of decades later. [/hyperbolic ramble]

Rant more than ramble! But well said in any case! On the nose!

It stinks?