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

[@davidrobinson970]

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

[@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.

[@goldwillow12]

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

[@beverleyarscott8589]

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

[@MrChasanDayve]

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

[@nolaj114]

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

[@uppyraptor49]

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

[@TheCornishCockney]

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

[@lisa_loves_scarlet]

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

[@-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".

[@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.

[@nicw5574]

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

[@thatcedric]

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

[@garyrigby21]

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

[@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

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@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.

[@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". 😂

[@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

[@lyndarichardson4744]

It was an amazing and a very exciting year!

[@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.

[@Luna.Nova.2018]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@Ayns.L14A]

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

[@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!

[@nicolafenner6260]

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

[@carolineskipper6976]

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

[@TerencePearse-x3j]

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

[@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.

[@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!

[@vaudevillian7]

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

[@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.

[@JillHughes-n1h]

I was 9 and a half 😊

[@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.

[@dyread]

Summer 1965 was right after I was conceived, lol

[@bfmt42]

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

[@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 ?

[@helensomeone6167]

I was born 22 July 1965!.🖐️❤️🇬🇧

[@malcomflibbleghast8140]

still got yer own teef ?

[@matthewashman1406]

The 60s began in 63😂

[@letitiakearney2423]

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

[@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. ❤️👍🏽👍☘️

[@chrisy8989]

I eat out a couple of times a year!

[@nicw5574]

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

[@tomjohnston1220]

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

[@julianmullins3470]

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

[@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.

[@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 :(

[@morrisminor56]

I was 2, so a bit young still.

[@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.

[@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

[@torros1839]

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

[@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 😂

[@MARKSTRINGFELLOW1]

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

[@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

[@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.

[@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.

[@tomjohnston1220]

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

[@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?