American Reacts to The Iconic Music Scene Of July 1965!

[@jimmeltonbradley1497]

This date was right in the middle of my teenage years. If only I'd realised just how iconic that period was at the time.

[@martynnotman3467]

Donovan, Animals, Yardbirds, Who, Fortunes , Pretty Things, Stones, Dave Clarke Five, Dusty Springfield, Marianne Faithful all British too. Truly a British Invasion

[@lisa_loves_scarlet]

The "dresses to the left" comment sent me into a fit of giggles 😂

[@TheCornishCockney]

I was 10 in ‘64. I feel blessed to have lapped it all up.

[@beverleyarscott8589]

Saw John Mayall and his blues breakers on Eel pie island on the Thames it was packed. Short skirts and long hair!

[@davidrobinson970]

Nice to hear Acker Bilk playing in the background...

[@brianpowell6058]

"Stranger On The Shore" which was the theme for a TV programme of the same name in the UK.

[@davidrobinson970]

@@brianpowell6058 I think I can remember this; however I was only 9 years old at the time, and my memories are not as clear as they were! There are times when I hear a tune, and things come flooding back...

[@brianpowell6058]

@@davidrobinson970 I'm the same, I heard the Righteous Brothers "You've Lost That Loving Feeling" the other day, for the first time since the late 60's and it brought back memories of my girlfriends best friend, in late 1964/5, always wanting to dance with me, to it. My girlfriend never minded, she knew she could trust the two of us. She asked her friend why she loved dancing slow numbers with me, especially the Righteous Brothers and she said because I had a natural rhythm and I knew all the words to their songs. The funny thing is I sang along with "Feeling" after 60 years and even if I say so myself, I was word and note perfect singing Bill's baritone part. I couldn't hit Bobby's high tenor notes anymore. Age I guess.

[@davidrobinson970]

@@brianpowell6058 We are of an age when these tunes brings things to mind. Even the odd tune gets us thinking. Heard a background tune which I knew from somewhere and was surprised when I remembered it was from 'One piece'!

[@garyrigby21]

The way you whisper and tap your cup is somehow comfortable 😂 I like it

[@corringhamdepot4434]

My only exposure to "pop" music at the time was watching "Juke Box Jury" on the BBC. I remember my mother leaning over the arm of her armchair one night, looking down at me and saying "You do not like that sort of music, do you!". As I played with my toys on the carpet. Their sort of music was "The Billy Cotton Band Show" and "The Black & White Minstrel Show". 😂

[@appledoreman]

My mother would like to have burned all my records, she was so anti-pop - & I was an avid collector. I was also buying ALL the music mags of the day - Record Mirror, NME, Disc & Melody Maker. In 1965, the Beach Boys reigned supreme for me, but the best was yet to come, in the form of the Byrds, Love, etc.

[@corringhamdepot4434]

@@appledoreman My mother always claimed she had a "migraine" whenever we tried to play music. It did backfire, because she faked it so often that she got zero sympathy when she really had a headache.

[@lesleycarney8868]

I was 7 in 1964 and my first 45 i bought with my own money was the Dave Clark 5, "Bits and pieces" on one side and "Catch us if you can" on the other side I think it was a double A side. And yes, i walked to the Woolworths on my own about 2 miles to buy it. . referring to that lady in the States last week who was in the news for being arrested last year for letting her 10-year-old walk half a mile into his town. Anyway it was a great track by Dave Clark 5.

[@MrChasanDayve]

Best Disk Jockey starts name. . . Eyes widen, cheeks puff and cut.

[@Mike-James]

One guy up the street where I used to live still has his Lambretta, According to him even though a lot of money has been offered he will never sell it.

[@goldwillow12]

I was born in July 1965 :-) This is really cool to see! My mum used to work in Carnaby street too :-)

[@miamonan9627]

My parents always used to rave about the 50’s and 60’s, and loved the music, and fashion, so watching these tIme capsule videos really does bring their experience to life. I can’t vouch for anything personally, but ‘65 does look amazing.

[@-R.Gray-]

I liked Ringo's line when in the U.S. he was asked if he was a Mod or a Rocker . He said he was both - he was a Mocker. For some interesting background on The Beach Boys that not everybody knows - their famous vocal harmonies came from copying the vocal group The Four Freshmen. The Wilson brothers' father/manager was a big fan. See the 5 min video "The Four Freshmen on the BBC July 2012 ", where Brian Wilson and Al Jardine talk about copying the group. They interview a later incarnation of the Freshmen, who know about the connection , and there is a part of the video where they segue between both groups singing Surfer Girl".

[@nolaj114]

Yes..Mia Farrow in Peyton Place. Ryan O'Neal was in it too. My parents watched that show here in Australia.

[@vaudevillian7]

I spent a long time researching the real soundtrack of the Vietnam War, what was being listened to ‘in country’ and that was eye opening, I love the stuff that was released in 65 - as you say it’s almost what you think of as 50s before that and while not quite the seismic shift of 67-68 you get some really interesting stuff in the mid-60s

[@nicw5574]

Woolly Bully always reminds me of the movie Scrooged, I love that film 😀

[@cliffordwaterton3543]

regarding Bob Dylan, he played a concert at the Free Trade Hall in Manchester England on 17 May 1966 where he was booed and someone actually shouted out 'Judas!'. There is still footage available of this actual incident.

[@spruce381]

Was thinking that during the Newport bit.

[@smythharris2635]

​@@spruce381Then he ditched Joan Baez and went stellar.😅 She had plans to turn him into Pete Seeger mark 2.

[@WookieWarriorz]

10:20 People used to look older due to how we percieve 'oldness' in fashion and style, theres an amazing video by vsauce about this called ' ''Did People Used To Look Older?'' you should react to it, hes one of the biggest youtubers and a really fantastic video

[@Isleofskye]

I love your quest for knowledge and information and you spend a few seconds to check out the facts, there and then so, unlike some other reactors, we are never left wondering " Did JJLA realize xxx later?" I consider myself, extraordinarily, lucky to have been born and raised in the heart of London in, say,1965 when iy was The World Capital for Music, Theatre, The Arts, Photography, and Fashion. If I am greedy,I wish I had been 5 years older to see all those legendary Groups for £1 or $1.30 at THe Marquee Club but then I would now be 75 not 70 so..lol

[@peteroneill3993]

I was born in 65 . all my best to you and yours from Liverpool

[@MARKSTRINGFELLOW1]

I was 6 years old. My sister was 12 and mad on the Beatles. I loved Please Please me

[@wrorchestra1]

In August 1965, the Beatles released Help. In December they released Rubber Soul.

[@uppyraptor49]

I went to carnaby street on 30th of september 1967 with school

[@papercup2517]

I turned 13 in August of '65, living in a provincial town about an hour and a half's drive from central London. Being too young and poor to go to any actual concerts or licensed clubs my girlfriend and I hit on the solution of going down to the theatres and clubs and waiting for the band to show up so we could get their autographs. (No-one had heard of groupies at this point, so it was mostly pretty innocent!) We met loads of these amazing artists, then just pop stars to us, now music industry legends, who used to regularly do the relatively short drive north to our town in between appearances at the Marquee and other London clubs. They were almost always kind and sweet, and, since many were still relatively unknown beyond their regular haunts, some even seemed rather gratified to have actual fans there, waiting for them. A notable exception was Eric Clapton, who'd just left the Yardbirds and joined John Mayall's Bluesbreakers to get away from the whole pop star/ pop music thing and focus on being a 'proper' serious blues musician. When he swept up to the venue in an enormous vintage American car (mint green, slightly shabby/ worn tan leather upholstery, and built like a dining room table) he did his best to ignore us, scowling angrily as he brushed past us and our hopefully proffered autograph books (remember those?) to join the rest of the band, who'd arrived a few minutes earlier, all bundled up together in two dusty old vans, along with all their equipment. But John was onto him. I still remember Eric's snarl as his new bandleader remonstrated with him: "Come on, Eric, remember we talked about this? Gotta look after the fans!" Apparently they had, and Eric slunk back to us and signed those precious books, scowlingly compliant. I thought him a most unpleasant man, but now of course I can understand his point of view, and I also suspect a lot of the 'attitude' may have been a mask for shyness and/or whatever his other issues were that caused his drink problem later.. Lots of other stories but that's it for now... A great time and wonderful memories (apart from the curmudgeonly Eric, of course...) 😀

[@andymcgeechan8318]

Lovely memories 🥰

[@shemanic1]

John Mayall & his Bluesbreakers, were responsible for the nurturing of such musical Icons as, Eric Clapton, Peter Green, Mick Fleetwood, John McVie, Jeff Beck, Jimmy Page and many others. His British tinted Blues encouraged their experimentation & growth. Donovan was a Troubadour in every sense, a beautiful soul.

[@MissSJ4429]

I was two years old but I had a very keen interest in music, apparently singing Downtown by Petula Clark sitting in my pushchair. So I somehow know all these songs.

[@Sandra.Grace59]

Hi JJLA, lots going on in 1965 and I was born.... What a great year 😁

[@thatcedric]

I must be old, I've seen the Fortunes live. 🤣

[@Maureen-g2c]

Have you ever listened to Australian singer John Farnham's 1980 remake of the Beatles Help. Sounds completely different but really amazing. John Lennon heard it before he died in 1980, and said that that was the way he had wanted it to sound. I went from 8 to 18 in the sixties, great time to be alive, and best music ever in my humble opinion.

[@davidberesford7009]

I was 12, too young for most of this at the time. I since recognise that there was some incredible music happening, but not just that, the TV & radio were bring this music into our UK homes. The Yardbirds Still I'm Sad came out about then beautiful for teenage angst. Keep Reacting!

[@Lily_The_Pink972]

I was 12, going on 13. I was (still am) deeply in love with The Beatles and wanted to buy almost every record that came out. Even The Beatles singles didn't stay No 1 in the charts for many weeks as there was so much great stuff coming up behind. There was also a real mix of pop music, 'easy listening' and comedy records in the charts.

[@brianpowell6058]

From your name I'm assuming you were a fan of The Scaffold?

[@GC-sf7kx]

The 1960's gave us Motown. Most of the top bands signed to the label florished in the 60's. Three top songwriters, Holland-Dozier-Holland wrote nearly all there top hits along with Smoky Robinson and Marvin Gaye. The bubble burst in 1970 when the Holland brothers along with Lamont Dozier left the label and set up there own, Invictus Records. Soon after that many of Motows top performers left the label also. Motown is such an iconic 60's sound.

[@bryantonks5364]

One of the tracks highlighted - "Heart full of Soul" by the Yardbirds was written by a teenager - Graham Gouldman (from Manchester) who also wrote big hits for people like the Hollies and Herman's Hermits... Look him up, you will be surprised!

[@GayJayU26]

We had a band playing at our wedding in March 66 and hubby and friends joined in with Barbara Ann Da Do Ron Ron etc.

[@lyndarichardson4744]

It was an amazing and a very exciting year!

[@Ayns.L14A]

hey JJ watch "Quadrophenia" ..................as well as The Boat That Rocked...

[@SpuzzyLargo]

Two months later in the US the three main TV channels converted from black and white to color. Long-running series of the 1960s made the switch during that television season.

[@julianmullins3470]

Glad you didn't use your inflation calculator. That $2000 car would be worth $1.8m now! Ahahahaha 😊 🤣 Great reaction as usual ✌️

[@MarjorieStoker-oj8fh]

You need to check out Northern Soul England

[@lordleonusa]

Yes, Mia Farrow was in Peyton Place, but left the series because her then-husband Frank Sinatra wanted her out.

[@carolineskipper6976]

Whoops for the JS 'best DJ' accolade.......Moving on......

[@jarvisa12345]

IMDB credits Mia Farrow with 263 of the 514 episodes of Peyton Place.

[@W0rdsandMus1c]

Didn't she marry her co star Ryan O Neil at the time?

[@Masque54]

I was 11 in 1965. I watched Peyton Place weekly, to the mild disapproval of my parents. After all, it was completely scandalous! 😅

[@nolaj114]

I think he was her love interest on screen..I still remember their names in the show - Alison McKenzie and Rodney Harrington..lol. Not sure if they had a real romance but in 1966, she married Frank Sinatra.@@W0rdsandMus1c

[@jimclark1374]

This is the American music scene. In the UK there was a lot more soul and Tamla Motown music.

[@stephenhowell5611]

Black music wasn't popular in white America, it took the brits to bring it. Notably Dusty Springfield who shipped Motown artists over to the UK for a tour and a tv special, there were of course those who didn't like it in the UK but it was a beginning.

[@whitecompany18]

You might enjoy the movie 'quadrophenia' (mods-rockers)

[@nicw5574]

Funnily enough I noticed that about Mick Jagger too. Also what was up with his legs? 😂

[@TerencePearse-x3j]

I can see no similarities between Mr Tambourine Man and Nowhere Man.

[@patticrichton1135]

I don't either

[@khum3175]

I love your comments on the clips. You need to watch the Two Ronnies 'four candles'. Just watch it without commenting or searching for info. It will all be explained as you watch. By the way, is it left for Micky? 😂

[@spruce381]

Half way through, and I’m an Irish mod, ah, Otis appeared as I was about to type, where is the Motown and Stax. Check - The Action, Creation, Them, Chris Farlowe, Georgie Fame. ❤️👍🏽👍☘️

[@GayJayU26]

Hubby worked on the fashion shows at Lord John, Carnaby Street.

[@stevenhowe1688]

Hey, how are you?.. It is extremely funny when you say " show me on a map", 😂😂😂😂😂😂, you are really funny mate, as you may guess, I am in Britain or the UK.

[@eezZzee]

Grrrrrrrrrrreat reaction JJ. Pease react to Pete and Bas Action Man . Two rappers in their 70's that havre been big in the UK for a few years now. You wont be disapointed. Channels that have reacted to them have grown massively.

[@nicolafenner6260]

Mr tambourine man was written by Bob Dylan and sounds nothing like nowhere man

[@patticrichton1135]

I agree!!

[@MAB_Canada]

FYI That airplane with the wide aisle is first class on a Boeing 747…the speak staircase to the upstairs lounge was the giveaway.

[@MAB_Canada]

***spiral staircase 🤦‍♀️

[@OC35]

@@MAB_Canada It's not a spiral, it's a helical staircase. It's basic geometry. :)

[@daveac]

I was in college back then (yes, I'm old) and the guy in the next 'student' room to me played 'Rubber Soul' c o n t i n u o s l y for about 6 weeks! And, yes I was trying to STUDY!

[@jnagarya519]

TV dinners were inveted during the 1950s to go with TVs.

[@chrissymoss514]

Marvin Gaye, Brenton Wood and Gladys Knight & The Pips - just to name a few brilliant singers 😊 Edit : A whole lot of 60's soul music eventually made its way to the UK for the awesome Northern Soul venues - Wigan and Blackpool were awesome 👊❤❤❤

[@highpath4776]

1965 UK Music and the pirate radio had kicked in, the BBC were playing bits of pop on the Light Programme and some regional variants of home, with Luxy getting their sponsered seqments into the southern bit of the uk in the evening. I think looking back I might have liked to have taken more advantage of the club and gig scene in London but a lot of my record playing was dad's collection of classical and 1930s tunes on LP and Shellac along with slipped disc cheap singles from the CoOp record bar. I think things seemed 1950s as the new buildings of the suburbs had been completed in the 1950s and thus matured into the everyday of the 60s, the 60s newness coming from "slum" clearences and the rise of the tower block for residences and offices which detached us from one another.

[@brianpowell6058]

Radio Caroline was the first "Pirate Radio" so called because it broadcast from a ship anchored in international waters of the coast of England. I was something of a fan of John Mayall, Peter Greens Fleetwood Mac, Chicken Shack and Geno Washington and The Ram Jam Band.

[@helensomeone6167]

I was born 22 July 1965!.🖐️❤️🇬🇧

[@malcomflibbleghast8140]

still got yer own teef ?

[@dyread]

Summer 1965 was right after I was conceived, lol

[@torros1839]

There is a good documentary that's on you tube about the history of Ready steady go

[@garethm3242]

"Homogenous" is the perfect word for the current state of pop music. I agree. I'd love to hear your take on how much the production has to do with this too. Everything has to be "big", pumped to the max, and dynamic range seems to get ignored more. Not to mention AI mastering etc :(

[@highpath4776]

Trying to remember who was in John Myall's Bluesbreakers (probably everyone over time) was it some of Cream, Rod Stewart and Elton John for short stints ?

[@brianpowell6058]

Mid-sixties Elton was more of a session musician.

[@JillHughes-n1h]

I was 9 and a half 😊

[@morrisminor56]

I was 2, so a bit young still.

[@fleuriebottle]

I saw the Pretty Things in Pontypridd 1965/66

[@tomjohnston1220]

Maybe in America it started 2 years later, they had to catch up.

[@letitiakearney2423]

There’s an old saying that goes If you remember the sixties the. You weren’t there 😂. Think about it.

[@brianpowell6058]

That's because of the explosion of drug use, which didn't affect the vast majority of teens.

[@VFLPlus]

OMG - 22:18 and Jimmy Saville rears his ugly name. Voted number 1 DJ. 60s dark side . . .

[@chrisy8989]

I eat out a couple of times a year!

[@adylevene4318]

In the very early 70's we used to go to the drive-in in South Africa, it was shit.

[@MARKSTRINGFELLOW1]

Paint it brown. Doesn't show the muck. My mum would take me to the Wimpy for a Milkshake on Saturday

[@stevenhowe1688]

A buttoned down short sleeved shirt in the US is called a polo shirt in the UK.. 😁😁😁😁😁❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@Lily_The_Pink972]

As a Brit, I'd say a button-down shirt is an ordinary shirt with the collar buttoned down. A polo shirt is made of knitted fabric, has a collar and a three button fastening.

[@ChelseaPensioner-DJW]

A polo shirt is named after the team shirts of polo players, tennis shirts were also later called polo shirts because of the cotton pique fabric. Button down collared and short sleeves went from the Ivy League style from the US to be made a staple shirt for Mods and Skinheads under the manufacturers names, such as Ben Sherman and Jaytex.

[@gingerwaynos]

Don’t look back, the Dylan film following his time in England is a great one to check out, Dylan comes off as a bit of a dick but it’s a good insight into his change in style and attitude

[@vaudevillian7]

The Who was very much a mod band so definitely contemporary with the Beatles

[@brianpowell6058]

Status Quo were also a Mod band. Their first hit was "Pictures of Matchstick Men" which was a reference to L.S. Lowry's paintings.

[@GayJayU26]

Try Born with a Broken Heart by Damiano David. The Italian lead singer of the Rock Group Måneskin.

[@jnagarya519]

"The Who" WERE after "The Beatles". They didn't really catch on in the US until 1969.

[@wulfgold]

'66 was pretty good too. Modern music's - there's plenty of good stuff, but you need to be looking into niche genres - mainstream is very safe, generic and boring. There's exceptions, I kinda enjoy Billie Eilish if I hear it, but won't seek it. The WAP song I find hilarious and kinda, kinda punk rock in its way, it's very "out there" in subject matter. I'm not sure it's "empowering", if that equivalent came out of male mouths... but, find the "confrontationalness" of it warms my heart a little. Gaga's 1st album's aged really well (2nd hasn't). There's still cool/cutting edge hiphop, jazz, metal/rock coming out, but the boy/girl-band and sanitised solo artists are so overdone, I totally understand kids apathy to music.

[@johnpipere83]

Is Taylor Swift any good ? I've never listened to her.

[@carolross6583]

Style over substance.

[@bfmt42]

Same. I've never knowingly heard one of her songs from start to finish. So I'm completely clueless on her 😂

[@bfmt42]

Who did Jimmy have to sleep with to win that prize?

[@matthewashman1406]

The 60s began in 63😂

[@brianpowell6058]

The 60's really started in early 61 with Ben E. King's solo version of "Stand By Me" just after he left The Drifters.

[@matthewashman1406]

@brianpowell6058 interesting 🤔 point. 4 me please please me is the beginning. Or maybe Del Shannon

[@stephenhowell5611]

the british invasion is underway lol, in truth british acts had sporadically charted in the US since the late 50s but gained momentum with the beatles, dusty et al.

[@W0rdsandMus1c]

I was eight at the time, I remember a lot of the big songs, I always find brilliant songs in every decade, but also find lots and lots of rubbish, My friend had a portable record player for her tenth birthday, with it was the single Woolly Bully, has anybody listened to the words? atrocious, Taylor Swift isn't in your top 100 because she is too busy saturating our charts, not giving anyone else a chance, I like a lot of bands/artists today, Taylor Swift isn't one of them, over hyped, I don't think she will be remembered in ten years time, never mind sixty.

[@daverigby23]

I think that all the fuss about Dylan going electric is overdone. At Newport ok, but by the time he went on tour in '65 every Dylan fan must have heard Bringing It All Back Home. The first side was electric, so no real surprises

[@davidmarshall6616]

Ah yes, my favorite star jimmy Saville, he fixed it for me to milk a cow blindfolded.

[@wulfgold]

old, but still funny. Definitely the greatest radio prank in a long while.

[@thomasferguson5478]

Jimmy Saville 😂

[@letitiakearney2423]

I am totally out of touch with today’s artists as we know the amount of auto tuning and so much more. Nothing like the older original music and pure talent. Ga Ga is gifted but she’s just too much to watch. I would love to strip all these artists back to hear the raw talent as I’m sure some definitely have. Today is Liam Paynes funeral so maybe give his family and friends and thought.

[@appledoreman]

Sorry, I can't agree that Taylor Swift's music will stand the test of time. In my humble opinion, the only contemporary act that will be remembered in a hundred years time is Keane, as, in Tim Rice-Oxley, they have a genius songwriter who still believes in MELODY.

[@tomjohnston1220]

Bollocks, even all the musicians say it all started with The Beatles.

[@brianpowell6058]

They started what became known as Pop-Rock. Musically they weren't that good, there were dozens of much better bands around. Their advantage was in Lennon and McCartney being such prolific song writers.

[@Chris-c7i8d]

From the 50's to the 90's and beyond, the music trends never actually line up with the decade. I think the 60's went from 63 to 72.

[@brianpowell6058]

1963 onwards was the start of Blue-eyed Soul. Spearheaded by the Righteous Brothers. !970/1 was the beginning of Soft Rock, spearheaded by Bread and The Eagles.

[@jaimepardo]

I can’t handle the AI voiceover. It’s a no from me

[@almostyummymummy]

Never listened to Help. Beatles did nothing for me. Sorry?

[@GayJayU26]

We had a band playing at our wedding in March 66 and hubby and friends joined in with Barbara Ann Da Do Ron Ron etc.