Blackfeather - Boppin The Blues

[@bobleaver5399]

This song rips

[@paulhundy2986]

The drummer went on to have a great tennis career

[@fyiaustralia9686]

I had this on a 45 record back in the day - what a poppy tune.

[@mmoch]

I still have it.

[@yummybaconandeggs8804]

I lived through this as a teen in the 70s. It's only now thanks to youtube I realise how much of the great music on the radio then, like this, was Aussie.

[@wazzazone]

Me too

[@bobleaver5399]

Great Aussie rock

[@noelgoode9691]

Timeless ❤ It also helps me bop my own blues (depression) 😊thank you

[@PerthViking]

Pop pop poppin’ the juice... if you know, you know...

[@rippi37]

This is one of the best Aussie songs IMO....great party song and band....awesome !!!! My adult kids learned this song early on in their childhood...my duty as an Aussie mum....lol.....timeless song. Oh ..the nights spent dancing our tits off to these guys...unreal !!!

[@sandig621]

😂 too right!

[@kenchristie9214]

An Aussie song written by Carl Perkins & Curley Griffin.

[@rippi37]

@@kenchristie9214 Sure was ...performed by a great Aussie band :))

[@sherryhoward8191]

OMG my son didn't know what the "boys in blue" is. What kind of Aussie did I raise?

[@rippi37]

Hilarious !!!

[@brianmckoy9952]

wollopers ;-) lol

[@moirahenry2975]

That's great I couldn't stop laughing😆😆

[@gypsyl]

Lol 😂

[@darrenaldridge7815]

love boppin the blues i was 9

[@Rob-m2t]

Still love it

[@karlillek]

So much Aussie talent in the 70s

[@gogogeedus]

These Aussies are original Aussies of English decent.

[@johnaggett684]

not wrong there it was unbelievable so glad i came up in those daze

[@anthonywilson7304]

This post has been here for ages but fuck it, it's worth commenting on this timeless beauty. Thanks

[@penfloyd]

Memories of Ringwood/Box hill town halls. Aztecs..Chain..etc etc.. Thanks for posting

[@kurvapicsa]

They were the only Australian group to make #1 on the singles chart in Australia in 1972 with this hit

[@JustMinecraftcom]

The lead singer works as a teacher at my school amazing guy. :)

[@kathmandoo]

I watched Black Feather at so many rock concerts with bands like Billy Thorpe and aztecs and so many great ozzy rock bands at places like Sunbury and Meadows in Sth Oz. that was when Ozzy rock was huge. Now all we have is shit!!!!!!

[@catwzl49]

kathmandoo The best bit of Meadows though, was when Blackfeather and Fraternity got together and jammed on Seasons of Change. Pity though that Thorpe only did Sunbury, although he was expected to do both. And Meadows had near as many attendees as Sunbury, according to what little can be found about it on Google. An almost unknown event except to the 35,000 of us who were there.

[@stevelane6310]

I agree 100% Kath

[@zorazen2504]

Bands were best in '70's

[@reghowarth5060]

Great aussie band from my teenage days

[@chriscoghlan06]

1950s rockabily with a 1970s twist. Great song from my pre teen years.

[@genistia]

They were so underated...great vocals and sound...Love them so much...

[@thepwca1]

What a great song, what a great band, Mentone, Melbourne 1973, and a party with friends, parents where out for the night, we were all (off our faces) when the police arrived and as they crashed the front door someone put this song on the record player at full volume and everyone started to dance..the police did not have a chance..we were bopping the blues...literally.:-)

[@sethpleasance6129]

Anne-Kit Littler was

[@libertyvallance9664]

Ha ha ha same but in Bendigo,geez we had it good with music

[@carlarthur727]

Gold!

[@leonienicholson8631]

Lmao good job

[@glenmunro3]

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[@jackmag4056]

This lead singer has all the characteristic and mannerisms of Stevie wright

[@johnbelcher7164]

Incredible piano player one of the best.

[@Austinniya.]

I have a dream of wanting to play Bopping The Blues on Piano. Now I know it's an Aussie song, no wonder I have such strong feelings for the piano played in this, it's so cool :)

[@catwzl49]

BrickToyTrains It’s actually originally a Carl Perkins song. He recorded it, and co-wrote it in the mid fifties.

[@mjcussen7458]

@@catwzl49 . To be fair, and I don't really know; I haven't really researched this much, but the Carl Perkins song of the same title seems to have very little resemblance, lyric wise, and melodically, to Black Feather's "version", if that is the case. Apart from being a 12 bar blues piece, I'd offer that Black Feather's song, of the same name as Carl Perkins, is a different tune altogether. Maybe BF were paying homage to Carl. In hindsight, Carl's tune sounds like fairly generic Rockabilly. BF have quite a distinctive tune. Just my two bob's worth.

[@catwzl49]

@@mjcussen7458 Check the label on the Infinity single which can be found elsewhere on KZbin. The credits, according to Wikipedia are "Carl Perkins and Howard "Curley" Griffin". Under the heading Notable Recordings in the same article, it says "The band Blackfeather had a no. 1 hit for two weeks on the Australian singles chart in October 1972 with "Boppin' The Blues", a recording that has little in common with the original apart from the title, although Perkins and Griffin are still credited as writers". Which leaves us stuck somewhere in the middle.

[@Hendo2277]

@@mjcussen7458 It is a cover of Perkins

[@mjcussen7458]

@@catwzl49 Yes, still unresolved for me. When a song shares a title, and there plenty of examples of that through history, but has no resemblance, it is an entirely different song. Maybe they were avoiding litigation? Or took the title and put a completely new song around a similar theme.

[@phillipoos]

Fabulous in every respect !

[@popeye807]

I absolutely love the piano work in this song

[@martydawson1525]

popeye807 It is keyboard Heaven, isn't? Exquisite!

[@mauricezancanaro]

The late Paul Wyld........................later joined Screaming Lord Sutch.

[@Fuzcapp]

yeah - some great 'dirt' thrown in. Love it.

[@emmett8768]

Agree 100%. Our own local boogie woogie. Loved it since I first it in 72 as a 9 year old.

[@grebas88]

One of my dads favourite songs! RIP dad. Always good memories

[@charlietyler9719]

Paul Wyld was my cousin

[@grebas88]

my old man got me hooked on this song... love my 70s and 80s

[@christophermau1962]

Ah Great Music! What a time to have been young. My 8 year old boy came home from school the other day singing this song after listening to it with me! He doesn't know of today ' music' only the best will do!

[@lostraxx]

I remember these guys...great stuff! It was good time growing up with that music.

[@townonhill]

I have my brother staying with because he doesnt want to go home to Tasmania to isolate for 2 weeks, so I said I can stay as long as he wants. We were listening to this song last night on here, and he said, " I want you to play a song, but I dont think you will like it," this is that song. What a great Boppy song this is. He ate his words, I am 73 years old and volunteered in Community Radio for 20 years.

[@judykliendienst5639]

Brings back good memories nothing like the old songs at least you can hear what they are saying.

[@cqsteve1]

Totally agree. These blokes and the bands like them could go into any suburban hall or pub, plug their amps in and then belt out some great R & B and rock. And to think I probably whinged when it cost me a $1 to see them.

[@susanhewett8174]

I saw Blackfeather in concert in about 1972 when they performed at my School.

[@aaronpaterson1615]

When my dad returned from his tour of duty in Vietnam, he packed up the old FJ HOLDEN at Wacol Army Village, Brisbane and we travelled to Renmark, in the Riverland region of South Australia. We went to a small pub outside Renmark and saw DADDY COOL perform in the Beer Garden. i was nearly seven. they rocked the joint that Friday night, i remember my siblings, me and the cousins all dancing on the grass in front of Ross Wilson and most of the band had big beards ...

[@davetice3708]

@@aaronpaterson1615 Don't hear the name "Wacol" too often these days. I spent time at Wacol migrant hostel after arriving in Oz with Mum, Dad and two brothers. The Army village was just across the main Ipswich Road. Coincidentally in one of my first bands (Strange Brew) we had one of the soldiers from the barracks play lead guitar with us for quite a while. Of course it didn't last because the Vietnam War was happening and he was sent there eventually. To my dismay I can't remember his name, my excuse is the many years that have passed since then.

[@garycallaghan7478]

Waverly College.?

[@rabbitrabbit1243]

These guys played at our high school in the early 70s great band

[@gregboardman915]

This band is one of the reasons the piano sounded cool

[@briankirkman6572]

Always cool mate 👍👍

[@mmoch]

The first single I ever purchased. Still have it to this day.

[@2000tc88]

Takes me way back to a nicer time and place, thanks for posting.

[@gdpunch]

right out of my teens .. loved it then ... love it now ... was one of my faves when I started truck driving .. lol

[@kurtfc1]

The first amplified electric performance I ever saw was a lunchtime concert with Blackfeather at my high school . It cost 50 cents! The next one I saw was when my sister took me to see Little Richard at the Hordern Pav. Cost a lot more, but.

[@wolfzillo1]

THIS IS THE VERY FIRST SONG I LISTENED TO ON KZbin IN 2010 WHEN I GOT MY FIRST DESKTOP COMPUTER SOME GREAT PIANO SKILLS HERE LETS THANK GOD FOR HIS GREAT MUSIC

[@billwhite9703]

YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH YEAH MAN!

[@PatSanders-u3u]

Now that’s entertainment at its amazing brilliance,❤❤❤

[@leroyhilliard1165]

One word 'Classic'

[@gypsyl]

Great memories. They don’t make music like this anymore.

[@6Valkyrie1]

The powerhouse pianist is Paul Wyld and he wrote a song for and recorded by Pete Townshend.Both Meher Baba devotees.

[@feralhippy]

Boppin' the Blues" is a 1956 song written by Carl Perkins and Howard "Curley" Griffin and released as a single on Sun Records in May, 1956. The single was released as a 45 and 78 It may not have been written by an Australian but Blackfeather's rendition is certainly the best known in Australia

[@debbiedaks932]

I remember these guys playing in the courtyard at caulfield tech, student union event, 71 I think, Conscription was in, we would all sit around in the student lounge waiting for the call up dates .... how times have changed .... fingers crossed tight, hoping the call up did not effect someone we knew, it all ways did!!!! xxx thank you black feather for cheering up our sad days .......

[@sarnee222]

seen this band at Kew club big memories 16 and out of controll!

[@peternoosa]

my good luck charm. Every time I heard this song going up the Sunny Coast on a Friday night I got lucky that weekend

[@gremlinuk1968]

am , from, northern Ireland,!! have just looked,, back to the 70s,! Australia , cause I have family down there !! / have played , slime dusty !! sorry my spell ,!! am a old 50 year old,, , born1968,! so am looking up 70s, songs,!! ;-)

[@hridayanstern9709]

My favourite Australian single of all time. Charlie Tumahai striking vocals. I loved going to see them back in the day. The early to mid 70s were the best, so many talented musos and bands. Soectrum , king Harvest, friends, Leo de Castro, Billy Green, Doug Parkinson. Though I’m four years younger than Mark Kennedy I knew him well as his brother Ross was my best mate and Mark would get us into gigs. Has there been a better Australian rythym section than Mark Kennedy and the ‘wiz’ Duncan Maguire? They played in so many of those great bands and Mark’s drum solos are legendary. I use to help roadie for Ayres Rock for any gigs they did in Melbourne and Andy would pay me in dope haha, we’d all be happy.

[@kingoma61]

@cluny This is actually a cover of Carl Perkins' 1956 follow-up to 'Blue Suede Shoes", "Boppin' the Blues", Sun 243. Blackfeather added new lyrics and expanded the coda of the original. The song was written by Carl Perkins and Howard "Curley" Griffin. Blackfeather credited Perkins and Griffin on the record label as the songwriters. It sounds like a song from the 1950s because it actually is one. It is essentially "Blue Suede Shoes" plus "Dixie Fried", another Carl Perkins song from 1956.

[@juliehuston4863]

Love the Warren😘😘😘👍

[@Screwface44]

Wow what a flashback. Blakfeather played at the first lunchtime concert that I attended when I went high school (Meadowbank BHS in Sydney). It was the loudest gig I'd heard to that point in my 13 year life. The vibrations of Bopping the Blues resounded through my chest for most of the double period of maths that followed.

[@SPOOKSTR]

I remember when this was a radio song.....classic piano riff.

[@tarbabybilly]

I bought this single in "73.... I think.... and the bloke I bought it through thought it was an an indigenous band..... bloody hell.... Great Song

[@Aussietari]

I remember a Very Young AUSTRALIAN GUITARIST LEGEND, STUART FRASER, Playing with BLACKFEATHER, when He was Only about 12 years of Age. :-)

[@swinetrek]

15 . He had toget permission to leave school.

[@kendokunti]

Great stuff Superyob, I remember we went on a school camp 1972 to MT Arappiles in VIC just up the road and we hammered that song the whole time we were there and on the bus there and back home. I also see at the start of the clip is that guy (cant remember his name) who hosted HIT SCENE on the ABC during the late 60's early 70's that was a great aussie music show as well.

[@seanwilliams1538]

I had this song on my list of a compilation tape of Aussie music I made when I went overseas on holiday in Ireland over 30 years ago. 3 years later the same tape and me came back home. And , yes, I still have that tape and still play it.

[@SPOOKSTR]

Thanks man...took me 20 years to find that out .

[@cheekypeteski7545]

My grade 1and 2 teacher played this song on his guitar and we sang and bopped along

[@luchilds]

I remember learning this in primary school also

[@cheekypeteski7545]

@@luchilds makes u want tobget up and have a boogie

[@RockNRollGiiirl]

cool song

[@sandig621]

I did at paddo town hall, such fun...the memories❤️

[@lisasmith5531]

It has been years since I heard this. Just so good!

[@stupendous1068]

Back in the days when music videos only cost about $200 to make.

[@moirahenry2975]

Wow i havent heard this song for a long time it takes me back to my youth, partying and dancing at the pub. Its so long ago but hearing this transpirt me back to a wonderful time 👀😊

[@pamelahay6242]

Yeah, music can certainly anchor in your psyche a time and place and good times for you. Hopefully make you feel again as good as you did when first heard/ experienced. 🙂

[@demonsbutterfly]

Remember this from the school bus Radio-cheers

[@miltonunez1]

Can't understand why this didn't go platinum.

[@woody7075]

Aaaahhh.......Sat arvos at the Village Green in Glen Waverley kickin back with a few pots and listening to Blackfeather and that driving piano riff......around 1970 - 71. Incomparable

[@crowdedenz87]

I went to the back road festival last night in Sunbury. I actually met Neale Johns

[@nikolaosmosxakis3395]

VERY VERY GOOD..............................................................

[@tymba100]

Love the piano !!

[@solaroz]

Hell mate I'm 51 - So I must have been around 15 or 16 years old around that time ..... It got pretty rough at times I remember a fair bit of blueing between the boys from different Suburbs Blackburn-Box Hill-Richmond-Doncaster. Still we had great fun.. What about those Sharpie Sheila's - clogs pleated mini skirts - attitudes.....Haha

[@inobi30]

I can't believe this song and Seasons of Change are the same band and both considered excellent in their genre.

[@kevstar58]

Not really the same band

[@inobi30]

@ Hi Kev, you mean because John Robinson left?

[@kevstar58]

Yes and believe there were internal issues too

[@inobi30]

@@kevstar58 I think at the mountains of madness was seriously underrated.

[@lighthousecollector]

they appeared at our school dance one year and sang this -seemed a thrill at the time!

[@SafeTrucking]

Never saw these guys. Dunno why. Bloody good though.

[@stitchgroover]

The irony then that this song had to reach back 15 years for inspiration to gain it's 12 bar blues format that had been left behind during the 60s as rock became more sophisticated.

[@kingoma61]

Carl Perkins' "Blue Suede Shoes" and "Dixie Fried" meet Jerry Lee Lewis. This is actually a cover of Carl Perkins' 1956 Sun single 'Boppin' the Blues', Sun 243. This was the follow-up to "Blue Suede Shoes". The song was written by Carl Perkins and Howard "Curley" Griffin. Blackfeather added new lyrics but kept the music and the refrain from the Carl Perkins song.. Bop, cat, bop. Gene Vincent also recorded this classic. The coda is: Bop, bop, rhythm and blues, rock, bop, rhythm and blues.

[@vicki1609]

some really great memories while watching this film clip,

[@johnwoods7941]

man was I boppin when I first heard this.....looking back I laugh at our hairstyles and fashion....pmsl :P

[@marielewis5530]

Such great memories, I went to High school at Gawler High School, and they had some band at the school one night doing this song, wow I love it, I was 12.

[@susiehewett3869]

Great video clip and great song. It looks like the guitarist was having a good time.

[@marisestory7644]

Every time I hear this song I feel like getting up & Boppin, makes me feel young again.

[@iriniking7230]

l are agree with you

[@glennmccudden8574]

That was there big hit. But i like there early songs. And the first album mountain Of madness. Season of change And on this day I die. Lp came out in 1971. Cheers.

[@vgavriel8044]

Great band

[@crunt6100]

Seriously,, what i really love about these old clips,, is some of the guitars you see,,,,, total collectors items now days... worth huge dollars now days.

[@christophersoulos6100]

One of the best drummers in the history of Australian music, Greg Sheehan.

[@pamelahay6242]

Who went on to really pioneer & promote all kinds of drum and hand percussive music/sounds through the following decades. A unique performer. I fondly recall the acoustic band Coolongubra he was part of in early 1990’s.

[@christophersoulos6100]

@@pamelahay6242, he was a long term member of Espirito, a band I co-founded.

[@wayneelliott7011]

Gil Matthews played Drums on the Record.

[@billyshane3804]

Back in the days when the police would give U a damn good bashing and send you on your way if they caught you misbehaving on the drink.

[@Electricchris1]

lmao i havent heard this is so long tyvm:)

[@27359]

i remember seeing black feather round Sydney night clubs in the mid to late seventy's different line up altogether. I think Jimy Barnes brother was fronting them.

[@robmac6508]

Chris G - Blackfeather had evolved into Feather by the Mid 70s and John Swan ( Swanee) was the lead singer , Stuart Fraser on lead guitar and his brother on drums, they released a 45 Girl trouble in 1977 and made an appearance on Countdown. I saw Feather at Chequers in late 77

[@civilwheels]

sounds like im heading to melbourne in march..Pete

[@mymonaro2008]

Saved up and bought a compilation LP just to get this song. Then a friend accidently scratched this track, much to my disappointment. I just pulled out my old LPs but can not seem to find this compilation. Who knows where it is...

[@johnbelcher7164]

Good memories great times

[@6Valkyrie1]

The piano player is Paul Wyld.Isn't he a gas!

[@ColeSonMusic]

ROCK ON!

[@phillipr1334]

wish they had this song on spotify

[@MattJohnGregan]

my very first 45 bought at PJ's Ingle Farm back in those Rocklin 70s

[@SpaceGuy-sd5ss]

The drummer is amazing

[@djrbfmbfm-woa]

it is actually gil matthews playing drums. j.

[@AccaDC1]

God damn I love this song, it reminds me of the 1950s, it makes me wanna put on a poodle skirt and start dancing!!