American Reacts to The Iconic Music Scene of March 1965!

[@tinaoreilly5973]

Herman’s Hermit’s hit ‘There’s a kind of hush’ was covered by the Carpenters in the 70s

[@letitiakearney2423]

There’s a kind of hush is a brilliant song. You really need to listen to it.

[@nolaj114]

And "Ferry Cross The Mersey" (Gerry and the Pacemakers) 😊

[@matthewashman1406]

Yes

[@AngelaVara-i4l]

I was telling my grand daughter just this afternoon how good the 60s was.

[@anncosten3222]

I was born in 1965. I am so glad these were my years. Great times.

[@PatriciaTaylor-fi4le]

The best time of my life.....16 years old, in Liverpool. which was THE place to be back then :)

[@julialk4536]

I was 7 years old and living in Yorkshire (not quite the music capital of the UK) but I remember the music of the time.

[@Elaine-p3g]

@Patricia Taylor-ft4le Law honey, you definitely hit the Mother load ! I was 13 and in Tennessee wishing I could be where you were. 😂

[@papercup2517]

Centre of the Universe! I even have a vague memory that, at 13, I started adopting a slight Liverpool/ Scouse accent, though born and bred in East Anglia! 😀

[@Elaine-p3g]

@@papercup2517 To be honest , kids around the world were all trying their best to get that Scouse accent thing down. 😂 Here in Tennessee my ears were subjected to some reeeally poor attempts at that. My fake British accent ,at that point in time, was a lot of fun.Something flew out of my little kid mouth sort of effortlessly, for some reason, that sounded like Hayley Mills . I dont know how it happened .It just did. Once when my best friend,Janice was at a sleepover I called a radiostation doing whatever it was that I can no longer do to sound British and the DJ put me on the air declaring that some British kid had called in and they were having an interview with me. 😂 😂. He asked me stuff I didn't know like " How far is Manchester from London ?" OH honey , I'm telling you if any of you guys would have been in Tennessee during that time, talk about being popular ! You Brits would have been weekly radio celebrities ! And you would know the CORRECT answers! Talk about street credentials! 😂 So much fun in those days! Sadly I, and my little kid mouth grew up, and neither of us can produce anything remotely British sounding , even if forced to at gunpoint. I would never embarrasse myself to even try. Which is probably a good thing .Non Brits who attempt to do that ,imo, especially around English people should be put in some kind of a special cage for stupid irritating people. Sorry for such a long reply . When a person walks into a room they should be themselves . Then they should sweep up the mess they 've left behind.

[@gingerwaynos]

Music is much more than entertainment. Music can, and has, changed the world.

[@charybdisontherocks]

I was 13 in 1965. I vividly remember every minute of it. It was the most exciting time. It's all been downhill since then.

[@lynette.]

In the 60s the UK was still rebuilding after the war it was like someone flipped a switch from grey to colour.

[@charybdisontherocks]

That's it exactly

[@robincarey6341]

The sixties was the decade life really changed in the west. We were re-building after the war, tech was becoming more sophisticated, and young people finally found they had a right to express their opinions. An iconic decade indeed.

[@lyndarichardson4744]

I was 17 in 1965, it was such an exciting time !

[@omegasue]

I was 17 as well in 65. Loved the atmosphere, fashion and music.🎉

[@lyndarichardson4744]

​@@omegasue👍🙂

[@ladylove3636]

In 64 you had Dusty Springfield in a prom dress with bouffant hair. Black & white. In 1966 you had Nancy Sinatra in technicolour, mini skirts and gogo boots. Wth happened in 1965. Was Nancy the first x

[@scotmax8426]

you know what, i think there's something in this, the mid sixties definitely created a divergent moment that a whole load of branches of music styles and lyricism and poetry was born from. Before i was born but i think i came in on the wave it created :D Summer of 69 ;)

[@charybdisontherocks]

" It's a little bit too happy for me" brilliant remark, could apply to quite a lot of 60's music.

[@Kelly-MarieLott]

Beach boys without auto tune 😂

[@fgrady1]

There was ZERO auto tune then! All authentic Beach Boy voices, people!

[@DroppingNoEaves]

Loving these deeper look music videos.

[@carolineskipper6976]

The things costing $1 in 1965 were ALTERNATIVES not a bundle that could be bought together for £1. In the UK the early 60's looked and sounded very much like the 50's - and a lot of young people still dressed like mini versions of their parents -despite the new movements and fashions that were gaining ground.

[@scousenotenglish2819]

That beach boys nearly killed me.

[@BuickRasDesign]

That Beach Boys bit - so hilarious! Might be the funniest thing I've seen this year!

[@suewalksthebluffs]

I was 13/14 in England in 1964/65. What a magical time! I saw many groups play in my local townhall - The Rolling Stones, Who, Zombies, Yardbirds, Them, Manfred Mann…many more! Life came crashing down around me when we moved to the frozen outskirts of Edmonton in October’65. But the music still played on the radio, British and American, and it just kept getting better. But yes, the times they were a-changin’.

[@bonniewenker6248]

Jeez! Frozen outskirts!! I laugh because I was also 14, living outside Edmonton. Army Base... I had asked for a record player for Christmas year before. I got a "Chatty Cathy"! NOT happy!! 65, I got a record player and 3 albums!!!! "Cherish" the Associations, Herb Alpert, and "Satisfaction" Rolling Stones. Almost 60 years later, still have them.

[@suewalksthebluffs]

@@bonniewenker6248 Good for you for keeping your albums….I hope you still play them now and then. We grew up with such fabulous music, didn’t we

[@LearnTechnicalSketching-y1e]

The narrator meant the prices of each item, not all of them.

[@vicibox]

Only an American would put 65 over 66. Britain went globally centre stage in 1966; we won the World Cup and it was the birth of Swinging London. Bands like Pink Floyd started. London was the fashion and music centre of the world until the summer of love in 68 - winks ;-)

[@SophiaPangloss]

In 1967 my dad went down to Wembley in London to watch Scotland beat the new world champions at home. He was part of the Scottish Invasion at the end of the match and our back garden got a little patch of Wembley turf added to it. I got a toy London bus. :-)

[@robopecha]

yes, it seemed like a very american video. so much talk about money and basically no analysis or anything, just a bunch of pictures of bands and some fashion. i expected more, but it was already over.

[@Elaine-p3g]

@vicibox Im guessing that JJ is just too young to know about the things that happened in 65, 66,67, etc He probably just picked the video with the most interesting cover photo. 😂 I love it when he explores that decade.Thank you, JJ ! Your's is the only reaction channel I subscribe to because you are so sincere. Vicibox, I am so envious of you UK folks when this topic comes up. I wanted to be in "Swinging" London soooo much in 66 , but I was only 13 so I couldn't get there on my own.😂 Many of us would love it if you Brits who lived through it could tell us all about your expierences.Please, if you'd like.to. I was in junior high school ironing my hair and wearing lipstick so frosted it was almost white.

[@andreharris7211]

Stole £1 from my mum around 1969. And my haul of sweets took two armloads to carry into the house along with a plastic flower in a pot and a toy mouse.

[@W0rdsandMus1c]

🤣🤣x

[@robopecha]

what a great day!

[@nicw5574]

When I was a child if I had 10 pence I could go to the shops and buy 20 sweets, good times.

[@alanmon2690]

In 1965 the film Thunderbird quoted $2.80 dollars is £1. Around that time that nice PM Mr Harold "I smoke a pipe as I'm pretending to be working class (but really I smoke cigars)" Wilson devalued the GB pound by a substantial amount saying "don't worry the pound in your pocket is still worth a pound". In about 1950 it was approx 4 dollars to a pound. A pint of beer in 1969 was about 10 to the pound. In about 1968 I bought a single record by The Beatles, it cost 6s 8d (a third of a pound). We were then entering a spell of inflation. A pint of beer is now nearer £5 and about $1.20 to the £.

[@nolaj114]

I saw The Beach Boys live in 1978... they were off their faces and that clip was pretty close to how they sounded. 😂

[@KateSander22]

😂

[@mikemcsweeney4753]

Yep I saw them in 78 too .. They were a embarrassing. Saw them in 66 and they were great

[@steven54511]

Jean, you have to check out the Glam Rock years during the 70's. You'll find it interesting and funny (regarding the fashion).

[@Escapee5931]

My Beach Boys illusions have been shattered! 😭

[@DianeLittle-dd6ej]

that's hilarious with the beach boys haha

[@gregmoore2386]

James Michener, awesome books, fictional characters set in and around real people/events/history.

[@petejones7878]

In 1965 I would have been 16 ...........and I remember most of the bands and the music from that era ,,there has been great music since that time but to me there has been no better time forr pop than the 1960s

[@brigidsingleton1596]

In 1970 I started my second job (1st job in an office in London when I left school, aged 16) my second job from 1970 to 1976 was in a London Riding School. I was paid £1 per week, rising at a £1 per year, til my last year there at £6 per week... Working _6_ days a week, with _1_ week off as my annual holiday (vacation to Americans), and most Christmas Day every year, (sometimes just Christmas Day afternoon off) and worked every 'on duty day' from: 08:00_am until 7:30_pm (08:00 til 19:30)... It seems ridiculously _intense_ and very low paid etc, by today's standards, but 'par for the course' back then, _if_ you wanted to work with horses...& I did, so I did!! At four riding schools, _two_ in London, - SE21 & SE12, and _two_ in Kent (Chelsfield, and Meopham* - pronounced 'Mepum*') 👍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿💕🐎💕🐴💕🐎💕🐴💕🐎💕🐴💕🐎💕🇬🇧🖖

[@jonathanwetherell3609]

I was 91/2 then. I remember a lot of these songs, Churchill's funeral et al. What changed the music. This was just pre "Revolver". Contract "Beatles for sale" and see the sea change.

[@elliefrew3429]

If you're not familiar with Shirley Bassey, you should look into her. An incredible singer from Wales.

[@spursgog835]

Your propensity towards going off on a tangent reached new heights with this reaction.

[@steven54511]

Personally, I love the detours.

[@malcomflibbleghast8140]

honor blackman was sheer totty )

[@jabberbone1]

Iconic iconic iconic iconic iconic iconic iconic iconic iconic iconic iconic iconic iconic iconic iconic iconic iconic iconic iconic iconic say it say it again iconic iconic iconic iconic iconic iconic iconic iconic iconic iconic iconic iconic iconic iconic iconic iconic iconic iconic iconic iconic, wait what?

[@Adam_Le-Roi_Davis.]

Good music years in the '60s at least in the U.K. were 1963 and 1967, '63 saw new music being created a change from the music styles of the '50s, the was due in part to a growth in employment and the younger generation having more disposable income, '67 again there was a notable music shift in the U.K. too also Psychedelic was being introduced.

[@kenhobbs8565]

Prodigy Firestarter without music is good too.

[@auldfouter8661]

The UK had inflation of about 26% in 1975 and it took some time to fall so prices really changed over the years 1973 to 1980. The USA at this time had lower inflation although high by previous eras. Hence the dollar and pound moved out of line. The days when a half crown ( 8 of those to the pound) was slangily known as " half a dollar " were long gone.

[@Pablopax4]

That non-autotuned Beach Boys clip, The Guitar part reminds me of "Trout Mask Replica", I assume they must have been an influence on Captain Beefheart.

[@auldfouter8661]

The radio comedy show was Round The H o r n e , not H o m e. That being a pun on sailing " round the Horn" = Cape Horn at the tip of S America and the star of the show Kenneth Horne.

[@mikemcsweeney4753]

Talking of time machine's. Being an old coot nowadays, I saw the Beach Boys in 1966 at the Granada Tooting South London which was a cinema. It's still there now a Bingo hall. As for the Marquee in Wardour Street London I saw the Who many times plus Hendrix and Fleetwood Mac... Last time I went past there it was a Wetherspoons pub. Oh the Shame! 😉Loving the Beach Boys skit.. Have not seen that before..

[@markthomas2577]

'Eight Days A Week' wasn't released as a single in the UK

[@matthewashman1406]

Was rest of the world 🌍

[@petebear8212]

@@matthewashman1406 It wasn't what they wanted as it was on the album "Beatles For Sale" hence the title of the album, they didn't like album songs being released as singles. America/Capitol ruined many of their albums by doing this

[@matthewashman1406]

@@petebear8212 maybe 🤔 . But they sold a bunch. So it worked for there market. Down under we had U.K. albums. But 8 days was a single. In fact all sorts of songs were hit singles here 🙂. Incl roll over Beethoven, ob la de , Rock-'n'-roll music ,all my loving.

[@petebear8212]

@@matthewashman1406 I don't dispute that fact but the Beatles tried their best to leave singles off of albums as people would be paying for the same song twice (Yellow Submarine/Eleanor Rigby) being an exception. So with Beatles for Sale had a single "I Feel Fine" separate to the album Rubber Soul had "Day Tripper" with The Beatles "I Want To Hold Your Hand" It Wasn't until Abbey Road that "Come Together" was released but by that time that had all but split. Sound tracks were a bit different but they tried not to double up on releases.

[@matthewashman1406]

@petebear8212 yes that's right. Which of I'm honest is very annoying 😔. I would love those non album singles on albums.

[@xlerb_again_to_music7908]

For me, "the 60s" period spans late 1963 (assassination of Kennedy) to around 1973, with the end of the Apollo program and the oil crisis.

[@cliffordwaterton3543]

1973 wasn't bad, seeing the release of Bowie's 'Aladdin Sane', Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of the Moon', The Who's 'Quadrophenia' and many other iconic albums. not the same month admittedly but lifechanging music all year long.

[@GazGaryGazza]

Bank of England inflation calc is £16.45 for £1 in 1965

[@AlexByth]

Why are you telling him something that's literally in the video that he just made?

[@GazGaryGazza]

@ Because he then did another check and came up with another figure - why are you asking when it was literally just in the video?

[@knockshinnoch1950]

The Supremes had 12 No1s on the Billboard Hot 100 between 1964-69. Only Elvis and the Beatles had more!

[@Clouds_wheelchair]

Might be worth you checking out a channel called Yesterday's Papers. It's probably the best music channel on KZbin. It covers the 60's music scene, and dives into a lot more obscure stuff from that period too

[@andy7owen7]

Show me onna inflation calculator!

[@wulfgold]

JJ - check out "The Final countdown: worst cover". I've listened to it so much, the real version sounds wrong 🤣🤣

[@nolaj114]

Hilarious.. that keyboard..😅😅

[@wulfgold]

@@nolaj114 it's weird though - it stays in my head for days if I listen to it... off I go 🤣

[@nicw5574]

I think the $1 bought you either 4 loaves of bread or 4 boxes of cheerios or 1 slinky. I don't think they meant you could buy all of it, but I could be wrong.

[@timelord5920]

Yes, in 1965 Milk: $1.05 per gallon Bread: 20 c per loaf Eggs: 53¢ per dozen Swanson TV dinner: 65¢ each

[@notmissingout9369]

Great year I entered the world

[@onbedoeldekut1515]

We highlight the second syllable in Savoy, making it SaVOY, compared to your SAVoy.

[@jabreck1934]

The mid 60s was considered the “ British invasion“ of music. A contributing factor to this would be that the US military draft didn’t end until 1972.

[@torros1839]

Bob Dylan at Budokan is still my favourite album of his

[@leowalless9328]

Everything about the 1965 video sounds like it was researched, written and narrated by A.I.

[@twiggystelly5599]

The Marquee club in 65, was more likely to be 5 shillings not 5 pounds. it was a quid to see top bands around 1970.

[@mikemcsweeney4753]

Yep you are right I'm sure it was about 5 bob to get in. You would come out like you were just in a Sauna.

[@EartwisterTV]

65 just doesn't compare with 1967 which was game changing. The Beatles release Sgt Peppers and people hear 'A Day in a Life' for the first time. 'Are You Experienced' and with itHendrix's 'Purple Haze' arrive. The Kinks release 'Waterloo Sunset: Areatha's 'Respect' The Doors 'Light My Fire', Sam & Dave's 'Soul Man', Small Faces 'itchycoo Park', Van's 'Brown Eyed Girl', Moody Blues 'Nights In White Satin' & Procul Harum 'A Whiter Shade of Pale' , all 1967. Not to mention The Velvet Underground had travelled to the future in their time machine, and released Velvet Underground & Nico years head of it's time. Imagine, Heroine, I'm Waiting for My Man', punk in 1967. A staggering year for music.

[@brigidsingleton1596]

JJLA the correct pronunciation of the Savoy Hotel is 'Sa_voy_' ... _NOT_ "_Sav_oy" !! It's odd that you are too young,( just so very young) to know the songs I grew up with (& mostly loved) I was _12_ years old in 1965...!! Oh so looooooooong ago!

[@W0rdsandMus1c]

Made me laugh when you couldn't believe the monetary figures, I was born mid 50s and very little had changed from Victorian days, No Television, washing machines, telephones and very few had cars (only the elite) everything started to change middle to late 60s, I agree with you about Herman Hermits, most their songs were childish, I started work in 1970 and my first weeks wage for 40 hours a week in retail was £5 but you could buy so much with that and 50% of it went to my mom for board money, I disagree with there not been the good music around today, still plenty out there ❤x

[@MThree1215]

❤❤❤❤

[@Robhalifax]

Another AI concoction.

[@MrGrahawk]

I enjoyed the "Beach Boys" segment most.

[@nautilus4599]

6:15 proposed new catchphrase

[@JJLAReacts]

Ayeeeeyaeeeyaeeeyaeeee😂

[@martyjones1413]

I'm a 67 baby 'so this is about my parents in their 20s

[@ElDubz420]

Is that beach boys scene real? Please tell me no someone 😂 the tears are running down my leg 😂😂

[@snowfirma5423]

I was a teenager in the 60's was great time for music from Britain and the USA. I did not like the Hermits too soppy .Loved mini skirts .

[@mrsll5255]

Beach Boys without autotune 🤣😂

[@tonyollier7098]

In the UK SpaghettiOs are Spaghetti Hoops!

[@DianeLittle-dd6ej]

thought it was the Drifters that sang my girl ? ok originally was the Temptations im bad

[@almister]

In 90s youd get two bucks for a quid practically

[@almister]

Hence the difference in inflation as the dollar is now equivalent to a pound maybe due to our economies merging more closely together in the past 30 years

[@uppyraptor49]

The madchester scene was brilliant in the 80s & 90s, unfortunately for you, you didnt have it?

[@gwaptiva]

The pound at the time was made up of 240 pence, not the 100 it is today (see Decimalisation). This makes a big difference if the 1971 year is included in your calculations

[@simonrobbins8357]

If you are referring to the fact that he was looking at what a pound in 1965 is worth today, and that decimalisation happened between those dates, it makes no difference whatsoever. The pound remained exactly the same before and after decimalisation, it was only the subdivisions which changed. If he was comparing pennies (or d) in 1965 with pennies (or p) today you would have a point, but he wasn’t he was comparing pounds.

[@andrewmstancombe1401]

You have just explained something I've been wondering about since 1971, my elders and betters were always saying the government robbed them off 140 pennies when it went from 240 to 100 to the pound especially when we were still using some pre decimal coins like a shilling being used as a ten pence piece and a sixpenny bit being used as a 5p and if memory serves a few other coins rubbing salt into the wounds. I remember being asked to do the shopping as they couldn't understand the new money. Like I could, just because we had decimalisation lessons, it didn't mean I'd paid any attention. I was spending shillings and pence. I'd never had 10 shillings notes, let alone a pound note, and suddenly, I was doing the household shopping. It taught me about money though cause some shops weren't so good at it either you had to be careful. You know, for those who never went through the change, it wasn't easy. Imagine if today's generation had to go back to £s shillings and pence. Even with the three or something years warning beforehand, most people thought it wouldn't happen the government would stay with what we had, just imagine the cost of changing. Well, we did what a shock it was, too.

[@simonrobbins8357]

@@andrewmstancombe1401 I know people said that but they just didn’t understand it, they weren’t robbed of anything. By the way it was the two shillings which were used as 10p coins, shillings were 5p both being used until the early 1990s when they changed size. Sixpences were used but only for a few years and were 2 1/2p. The bit people don’t seem to get for some reason is that there were 20 shillings in a pound and there are 20x 5p in a pound. It was only the design and the name which changed not the value. Only the small coins up to the three penny bit didn’t have an exact value post decimalisation.

[@thegroovetube3247]

1:23 No, $1000 invested at 900% interest would only get you an extra $9,000 - not $900,000. (100% of $1,000 is only $1,000)

[@WookieWarriorz]

If you invest $500 a month in the S&P500 for 22 years, dude to compounding interest you'd be a millionaire.

[@tonysmith3501]

1972- 1974 BRITSH Glam rock

[@AndyRobby]

When I was conceived lol.

[@garyrigby21]

The Beatles

[@danielstembridge7376]

Can you trust that calculator jay? I mean it might be giving false answers

[@onbedoeldekut1515]

Funny (not). Clapton thought the Yardbirds were moving away from traditional (African American blues) music, but in the late 70s, he was all about there being too many black people in Britain. You couldn't make it up.

[@julianmullins3470]

Based on inflation of 901%, your $1000 investment in 1965 would be worth $9010 today, not $900000. That would need inflation of 90000%. S&P investments can go up as well as down 🙃

[@lindastaines8288]

Compound interest

[@bri77uk1]

I smell an AI script on this one

[@scotmax8426]

right, lol so it's been a night , i'm half drunk... ahem, i'm at 8 minutes 50 something and HAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAHAHHA sOMG!" lol too funny ffs! lol wtf? right.... picks up can of McEwans Export and clicks -play

[@danielstembridge7376]

Beach boys video...WTF !!?

[@jonathanmaybury5698]

Maybe if you got rid of stuff like TikTok, America or whoever it is has Got Talent, the voice, and all things like that plus the dreaded auto tune, Then you might be able to find someone who could put a decent song together.

[@sg-yq8pm]

This AI narration could use some pitch correction

[@madmark1957]

Wow you just don't know when to let a video play do you?

[@Tass...]

This is an AI audio generated video being reacted to right?

[@BrianMac2601]

There's more video of him googling than the video he's meant to be watching ffs.

[@janolaful]

Just watch the video for gods sake do your searches in your own time .

[@Russ_Keith]

You just scrolled past "Round the Horne" which was British radio comedy at its best at the time - and still funny now. I don't know if an American would get the references or socio-political scene - or the parlare. If you fancy a laugh from 60 years ago, you might give it a try.

[@veraluxmundi2032]

What an odd expression.