Wow! This one ROCKS! - Anyone remember it? 66-5-4-3-2-1

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Hi All,

Listening to Pandora, and it got me to look into the Troggs. This one is catchy as all heck, and has more depth (IMHO) than their hits like Wild Thing, and With A Girl Like You...

Let me know what you think.


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Michael
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    I don't think I have ever heard it before.Catchy!
    I heard rumours that while they were considered one or two hit wonders here in the states that they have had quite a long run and a huge following over in the UK.
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  • Profile picture of the author Patrician
    yes.
    troggs good.
    troggs edgy too.
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    • Profile picture of the author ThomM
      Good find Mike.
      I'm with Kim, I don't think I've ever heard it before either!
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Oksa
    I don't recall hearing it either, but it sure made my ears twitch.

    Steven and others have talked about this. What about all of the other songs we haven't heard? Or the ones we will never be able to hear? So much good stuff out there.

    Anyway, glad you liked it.

    Please add any other "discoveries", It's cool to hear them.

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    Originally Posted by Michael Oksa View Post

    and has more depth (IMHO) than their hits like Wild Thing


    YouTube - Troggs- 66-5-4-3-2-1

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    Here's a video response...Wild Thing was actually written by a guy named Chip Taylor.

    Here's Chip Taylor doing Wild Thing with some guitar player I think I heard of before:
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    Here's the original Louie Louie, by Richard Berry:


    I've posted this before, but it's so cool...Here's the earliest known film of Hendrix. You should be able to figure out which one of the band members is Jimi. Watch his hands, he's already doing some cool stuff.
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    How about the original 'fuzzy' guitarist who influenced everybody from Jimi Hendrix to Pete Townsend?



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    • Profile picture of the author ThomM
      Originally Posted by Patrician View Post

      How about the original 'fuzzy' guitarist who influenced everybody from Jimi Hendrix to Pete Townsend?

      YouTube - Link Wray Rumble 1958


      YouTube - The Swag - Link Wray - 1958 ( Audio )
      And do you know how he achieved that sound?
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    I love Link Wray...He has a song or two in my Top 100 Most Played on my iPod.
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    all in all nice musc back in the day
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      • Profile picture of the author Steven Wagenheim
        My friend Paul and I would always play B sides of certain groups that we
        liked to see if maybe the flip side was any good. Most of the tunes were
        pretty bad (this one included...sorry but IMO, this is really bad LOL) but
        some of them were pretty decent and even better than the A side.

        Shannon's "Alice In Blue" (the B side of "Abergavenny") was a fantastic song.
        I don't think it's on YouTube but I'll look.

        I never liked this song and when Paul and I first heard it, we just looked
        at each other like, "huh?"

        I guess that's what's so wonderful about music. One person's "huh?" is
        another person's great tune.

        Michael, thanks for digging this up. It brings back wonderful memories of
        "huh?"

        ** EDIT **

        Can't find Alice In Blue (not surprised but here's the "classic" hit?

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    no thom, do tell.
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      Originally Posted by Patrician View Post

      no thom, do tell.
      He poked holes in his speakers with a pencil.
      True story, I kid you not
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    I have a Chip Taylor lp.
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    wow high tech lol
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    • Profile picture of the author ThomM
      It sure was:rolleyes:
      Also after the word got out, it made it hard for him to find a recording studiop to record in.
      Seems they didn't like having there studio speakers with holes in them
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    wow how petty. lolololol
    pretty funny he is teaching all these famous guitarists
    they are hanging on his every word
    he takes out a pencil
    and starts vandalizing the equipment.

    what a PUNK! lol
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    Oh, speaking of Chip Taylor...

    (Please don't answer in the thread if you have to look up the answer)

    Who is Chip Taylor's famous niece, AND what other big hit did he write (the two answers are sort of related)?

    You all brought out some kick a$$ tunes.

    My youngest is able to spot the Bo Diddley beat in other songs.

    I'm glad I was taking today off, because I have been finding tons of awesome music. And all of the ones you all added are icing on the musical cake.

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    • Profile picture of the author ThomM
      Originally Posted by Michael Oksa View Post

      Oh, speaking of Chip Taylor...

      (Please don't answer in the thread if you have to look up the answer)

      Who is Chip Taylor's famous niece, AND what other big hit did he write (the two answers are sort of related)?

      You all brought out some kick a$$ tunes.

      My youngest is able to spot the Bo Diddley beat in other songs.

      I'm glad I was taking today off, because I have been finding tons of awesome music. And all of the ones you all added are icing on the musical cake.

      Rock on!
      Michael
      I had to look it up so I won't answer
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      Originally Posted by Michael Oksa View Post

      I'm glad I was taking today off, because I have been finding tons of awesome music.
      I love my Zune. It finds me all kinds of awesome music. I'll be sitting around thinking "OMG, who was that guy who did 'Nineteen' back in the eighties?" and I go look it up and it's Paul Hardcastle and I go "Who was that other Paul guy who was a DJ and producer and stuff, oh yeah, Paul Oakenfold!" and I look him up and say "I like his stuff, who else does stuff like that?" and I click "Related" and there's a band called "Blaqk Audio" so I click over there and there's an album called "Cex Cells" so I download it on my Zune pass and start playing it.

      It's pretty good, so I click "Related" and see Marilyn Manson (got it), Interpol (got it), She Wants Revenge (got it), and a band called I Love You But I've Chosen Darkness - and that's just an awesome name, so I click on it and download their album, which I add to "Now Playing" so I can hear it after the Blaqk Audio album. Then I click "Related" again, and browse around, and after a few clicks I find a band called "Heavens" so I download that album and stick it in "Now Playing," and then I click around some more and find The Timelords with "Doctoring the Tardis" which was a great song so I download the whole EP with all the different versions, and then a few clicks later I find Chip-man and the Buckwheat Boys with "Peanut Butter Jelly Time" so I go "OMFG that was so funny" and I download it.

      So now I've got five albums full of new stuff I can check out, and it cost me all of $17 this month. What's that on iTunes? $40 or thereabouts? Puh-lease. 149 artists, 382 albums, 4222 songs - $17 a month. It's going to be twenty years before I've paid what that would cost on iTunes, and if I get tired of something I can just delete it without feeling like it's a waste of money. After all, if I miss it, I can just download it again.

      You know what I'd like to hear about now? Falco's Der Kommissar. Which is just a search away, and it won't cost me a dime.
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    I know part of it, but I dont know it all, and I want to be surprised, so I'm noty saying anything yet.
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        Have to agree with Steven regarding that Troggs track. Not one of their better efforts IMO.

        But it got me thinking about songs from 60s Brit bands that may be unfamiliar to those outside the UK.

        Here's one from the Tremeloes; a band who really knew how to wear sideburns! The video was shot in London's Trafalgar Square - just look at the "Rock 'n' Roll" audience they managed to attract :rolleyes:

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      Originally Posted by Kurt View Post

      Geez Kurt I tried watching that vid 5 times and every time it froze my browser
      Guess I'll have to hit you up with the Commander's version

      By the way the blonde guy on the right at 1:23 is John Tichy,
      He's a Professor at R.P.I. now.
      Tichy's research interests are tribology (friction, lubrication and wear), and rheology (the science of deformation and flow). Current sponsored research projects are concerned with life prediction of gears in Doppler radar antennae (FAA), energy harvesting using magnetic fluids (NSF) with Prof. Diana Borca-Tasciuc, and modifications to lubrication theory for microsystems (NSF) also with Borca-Tasciuc. Tichy is also studying non-Newtonian blood flow effects on an NSF project with Prof. Kenneth Jansen. An additional current research study is to develop continuum rheological models for lubricant and granular flows from molecular simulations and apply them to realistic engineering surface configurations, in conjunction with several labs in France and sponsored by the CNRS (French equivalent to the NSF).
      Here he is playing at Daisy Bakers a local bar about 6 miles from me.


      Here's one for Dave
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        Originally Posted by ThomM View Post

        Geez Kurt I tried watching that vid 5 times and every time it froze my browser
        Guess I'll have to hit you up with the Commander's version
        Hey Thom...

        Works for me...And it is the Commander doing it...It's the original studio version.

        I almost started a thread about cars/driving songs, 6 Days on the Road was actually on my mind. LOL

        My step dad was an old C/W singer in the 60s, and 6 Days was one of the songs he'd do back then.
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    Ok, trivia time, who wrote this?
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    • Profile picture of the author Michael Oksa
      Originally Posted by KimW View Post

      Ok, trivia time, who wrote this?
      Tremeloes - Here Comes My Baby 1967
      Well, my first two guesses were Paul Simon or Bobby Vee - so I looked it up. Excellent question. I knew he wrote another song that was covered by a few other people.

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    Seasick Steve from Mississippi USA, he shot to fame in the UK. I saw him on Later with Jools Holland on New Years Eve 2007. HE played a 3-stringed guitar, which is all he plays on most of Dog House Music, while banging his foot on a box on the floor. This man is a real star, absolutely brilliant. One of the best American guitarists I have seen, he was also at Glastonbury.


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      Originally Posted by madison_avenue View Post

      Seasick Steve from Mississippi USA, he shot to fame in the UK. I saw him on Later with Jools Holland on New Years Eve 2007. HE played a 3-stringed guitar, which is all he plays on most of Dog House Music, while banging his foot on a box on the floor. This man is a real star, absolutely brilliant. One of the best American guitarists I have seen, he was also at Glastonbury.


      YouTube - Seasick Steve LIVE ON JOOLS HOLLAND-- TOP QUALITY VID

      Now THAT is just sick...no pun intended.
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      Originally Posted by madison_avenue View Post

      Seasick Steve from Mississippi USA, he shot to fame in the UK. I saw him on Later with Jools Holland on New Years Eve 2007. HE played a 3-stringed guitar, which is all he plays on most of Dog House Music, while banging his foot on a box on the floor. This man is a real star, absolutely brilliant. One of the best American guitarists I have seen, he was also at Glastonbury.


      YouTube - Seasick Steve LIVE ON JOOLS HOLLAND-- TOP QUALITY VID
      Thanks...Cool video, but I wouldn't say he's all that unique. John Lee Hooker had that sound 60 years ago. Listen to this...You'll hear John Lee tapping his foot. They would brinig a piece of plywood into the recording studio, John Lee would tap his foot and they'd put a mike on it. Here's a classic example of John Lee, his voice, his guitar and his foot tap (written in 1948):

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        Originally Posted by Kurt View Post

        Thanks...Cool video, but I wouldn't say he's all that unique. John Lee Hooker had that sound 60 years ago. Listen to this...You'll hear John Lee tapping his foot. They would brinig a piece of plywood into the recording studio, John Lee would tap his foot and they'd put a mike on it. Here's a classic example of John Lee, his voice, his guitar and his foot tap (written in 1948):

        YouTube - John Lee Hooker Boogie Chillen
        Yes, you are right to point to the similarity, with John Lee Hooker. In fact a couple of weeks ago there was a documentary on the BBC about Seasick Steve, where he spoke of his debt to Mississippi Delta blues men, like John Lee Hooker and others. Steve was shown going to Beale Street in Memphis where the old blues men used to hang out.

        While in London Steve also spent some time busking inside railway stations to make some extra cash, a friend of mine saw him performing in Earls Court tube!
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Oksa
    See, Steve said Seasick Steve's sick.

    That was pretty good, nice blues riff, real enjoyable.

    Not the same type of music, but the Presidents of the United States of America (the group from the 90s, not the ones that did Wooden Wife in the 60s) did a similar thing on their debut album.

    By the way...does anybody else want to guess the answer before I reveal it?

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    PS...Thom, I like my step Dad's version a lot better than the Burrito Bros.

    Here's another song the old man did better than this cover:
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      Originally Posted by Kurt View Post

      PS...Thom, I like my step Dad's version a lot better than the Burrito Bros.

      Here's another song the old man did better than this cover:
      YouTube - wurlitzer 1900 plays Mule Skinner Blues by The Fenderman
      Love that song, always have and always will
      Apparently it's trying to view the vids here in the forum that is freezing my browser up

      So I'm guessing your father played in a country type band?
      My parents didn't play though my father was a true music lover and dance instructor at one time.
      My uncle on the other hand retired at 58 and was bored.
      So he taught himself to play the violin and Hammond B3 organ.
      When I got my first drum at 10 he and I would often 'jam' as he lived right upstairs.
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    • Profile picture of the author Patrician
      Originally Posted by Kurt View Post

      one of my favorite songs of all times - right up there with 'light my fire' by the doors - i can't believe this is all anyone ever heard from them?


      ... oh just saw Michaels post - so they have been spotted after 1970 (1991 ... but no new songs? or what?

      just answered my own question - http://www.96tears.net/ - just glossed over it, but no new songs - ? is a true one hit wonder, but ? reappeared in 2007 when his house burned down to appeal for funds. poor thing.
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    I saw ? sans Mysterians in 1991 (I think). Still put on a heckuva a show.

    For those who have not had the pleasure, here is an earlier version of Hot Rod Lincoln...


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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Oksa
    Who is Chip Taylor's famous niece, AND what other big hit did he write (the two answers are sort of related)?

    Chip Taylor is the brother of actor John Voight. John's daughter is Angelina Jolie, making Chip her uncle.

    The other big hit he wrote was Angel Of The Morning.

    The answers are "sort of" related as they both have the word Angel in them.

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    Go ahead and answer mine too Michael.
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    Warning: Contains the "f" word:

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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Oksa
    Thanks Kim,

    Here Comes My Baby was written by Cat Stevens. He also wrote The First Cut Is The Deepest.

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    Michael is absolutely correct.

    Of course this was before Cat Stevens changes his name to a muslim name and was put of the Terrorists list. :rolleyes:
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    that Troggs tune is not hard to get addicted to in a minute. nice oldies
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  • Profile picture of the author Michael Oksa
    @madison - Yes! I have a disc in the car that has a few Joe Jackson songs on it. Namely, Is She Really Going Out With Him, Steppin' Out, and Breaking Us In Two.

    I like the humor in Is She Really...

    Pretty women out walking with gorillas down my street.



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      Originally Posted by Michael Oksa View Post

      @madison - Yes! I have a disc in the car that has a few Joe Jackson songs on it. Namely, Is She Really Going Out With Him, Steppin' Out, and Breaking Us In Two.

      I like the humor in Is She Really...

      Pretty women out walking with gorillas down my street.



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      Yes I also did a double take when he said gorillas! I wasn't sure if he said that. You know your stuff, I didn't think he was known outside Britain!
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  • Profile picture of the author KimW
    Of course he is, I have his first 3 albums.
    Look Sharp
    I'm The Man
    Steppen Out
    One of my favorite songs is Sunday Paper.Actually, Look Sharp is an awesome LP.
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  • Profile picture of the author madison_avenue
    Does anyone remember Rod Stewart's Handbags and Gladrags? Well this cover version from The Stereophonics is even better. They have improved upon the original song!



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