Dusty Springfield Reviews the Singles of April, 1966

[@JasonMAlexander]

I recently discovered this channel and it’s such a rabbit hole to get lost in! I LOVE these BLIND DATE reviews! That’s so smart and such a great window into a place & time! Keep up the great work. I did have an issue with the title of a video but other than that these are great!

[@ricardolorrio8228]

me too!

[@viciousdope66]

Same here and this channel is EXCELLENT. These vids help me to find new songs and 60’s artists. I love Psychedelic Music, and the Stones/Beatles vids do not disappoint.

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Thanks!

[@lebe220]

Best series on the internet. Greetings from Germany (born 1958).

[@OuterGalaxyLounge]

Another banger video. Woman's artist perspective and female voice are a nice change of pace. Mad respect to Dusty.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

Wow, Dusty seemed really engaged and sharp when it came to checking out other artists' work. She pointed out the jazzy Fats Waller feel to "Daydream"--something I'd never thought of and that put the song into an historical context for me!

[@willieluncheonette5843]

No ego in her reviews and I love that. Also love her enthusiasm for all things Motown and that Temptations single, Get Ready, is surely a goodie. Her comment linking The Loving Spoonful with Fats Waller really was a surprise and shows her perception and intelligence. Really enjoyed this session and all of the YP posts.

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Thanks, Willie. I like her perspective on the songs, too. She had a good ear and was definitely very intelligent. Love "Get Ready", what a great song.

[@389383]

Yet she thought The Lovin' Spoonful were a 5 piece band. Was Fats on piano?

[@willieluncheonette5843]

@@389383 lol. I called them The Loving Spoonful in my comment so I guess no one's perfect.

[@patrickryan1515]

Right about "Get Ready"; it did not chart high in the U.S., but did reach Number 10 in the U.K. It's MY choice for best Temptation's release, and The Supremes did a nice cover on their 1966 Billboard No. 1 Album, "Supremes A Go Go".

[@willieluncheonette5843]

@@patrickryan1515 Your comment surprised me since Get Ready was all over the airwaves when it was released here in USA. So I looked it up. Reached #29 on the US charts and #1 on the R&B charts. Not really too bad, I would say.

[@soulfoodie1]

Lovely to hear Dusty review the records. A lady of impeccable taste. In particular I really enjoyed her positive review of Brian Wilson's beautiful Caroline No and The Temptations

[@cgawainf4785]

Brilliant. Dusty was a true professional whose musical acumen was impeccable.

[@MrMjp58]

Great footage of Dusty and really good reviews.

[@musicalSFCat]

Love Dusty Springfield. This was quite an insightful '66 review. Love how highly she spoke of Motown. Cheers.

[@brucemarshall3446]

I always thought She was American. She DEFINTELY derived inspiration from us!

[@alm5693]

Another great video. Dusty was on the mark. US top ten was an interesting combo of great songs and novelties. I can still remember the first time I ever heard "California Dreaming". I was a bit confused because it didn't sound like anything else on the radio (and it obviously wasn't a "band" like all the British Invasion stuff I loved) but then it drew you in completely before it was over. It was mesmerizing coming out of the radio.

[@francispower1418]

Neat that Dusty should pop up in this edition because just a few days ago I added her magnificent cover of ‘Spooky’ to my liked songs list on Spotify! She recorded some beautiful records over her years. And she should have been awarded the Congressional Medal for that time she near decked Buddy Rich. But there are rules, she wasn’t an American and she didn’t serve in WWII. A great artist. RIP.

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Yes, "Dusty In Memphis" is such a brilliant album. An all-time classic. A perfect record as far as I'm concerned.

[@sintamaroe8159]

Dusty's musical trajectory for other musicians are impaccable, unveiling musical gifts beyond explanation, a photographic musical memory, and bottomless natural talent. This is such a gem to discover. Feels like being swung back into reading Yesterday's Papers next to her and having her reading it out for you.

[@imkluu]

I like the addition of the lists at the end.

[@bddrex]

I love this channel so much. It's very informative.

[@TheBlueCream]

thanks so much for these Blind Dates....utterly fascinating !....really appreciate it !...subbed !

[@f.w.2054]

My latest fix of yesterdays papers! Dusty knows her stuff. I would have thought she'd love Orbison but its not one of his classic tracks, never realized that the Lovin Spoonful actually do kind of sound like Fats Waller. Very astute. Accurate on bad Elvis and not afraid to admit it. Realized the greatness of one of the Temptations best songs. Dusty was a great artist and had real musical knowledge!

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Yes, it does sound a bit like Fats Waller. I never realized that, either. She definitely had a good ear.

[@appledoreman]

I never associated 'Daydream' with Fats Waller either - or Motown, though John Sebastian says the rhythm was influenced by 'Where did our love go!'

[@MsAppassionata]

Yes about the comparison to Fats. Never noticed that before either, though I’ve listened to that song 1,000 times.

[@flemit35]

I thought she liked it till she realized it was Elvis, obviously not one of his best. don't think she wanted to be caught liking an Elvis record.

[@tonycrosbie3846]

That Bowie track is a belter! People tend to knock Bowie's 60s records as naff but i think they are fantastic!

[@YesterdaysPapers]

I like those early singles, too.

[@maurice8607]

And I say to Myself, Good Morning Girl and Can't help thinking about me are my favs from this period. Gems.

[@YesterdaysPapers]

@@maurice8607 I agree. I like those songs, very underrated.

[@willemvandeursen3105]

It was his "Syd Barrett" episode and the songs were a bit silly, but the Bowie mark was already there. Bowie blossomed - exploded - with A Space Oddity. I loved everything with mellotron ands stylophone and other pre-synthesizer instruments, the sheer drama in the song also appealed to me greatly. Upon release, in both the American and British billboards Oddity didn't chart. Unbelievable! Well, David had his revenge a few years later; he was a superstar.

[@blackmore4]

I think that after his first couple of singles (which were also very charming) ALL of the 60s Bowie stuff is absolutely brilliant. Particularly the 1966 Pye singles and especially the Deram stuff (album & singles). People who don't get the first album are seriously not paying attention. I saw this review on Rate Your Music which nails it... "The general level of disdain for David Bowie's first full length effort must, I am sure, in part rest with it's perceived disconnection with Bowie's subsequent career, and with canonical orthodoxy as it was being constructed at the exact moment this record was released. *David Bowie* cannot be "rediscovered", "rescued" as a charming little piece of sixties psych-pop, because of the artist's subsequent reputation, resting as it does on his integration into the rock canon with wholly other material. If anything, the upholders of the rock canon have sought to "rescue" Bowie's reputation from what is almost universally regarded as "youthful folly", rather than to regard the album as a work of some considerable merit on its own terms. I'm fine with people saying it's no Aladdin Sane or Low, but if you find greater value in Let's Dance or Young Americans, you might seriously want to question your grounds for doing so. In fact, *David Bowie* is miles more adventurous than its successor, the likewise eponymously titled LP more commonly referred to as Space Oddity after the song that gave Bowie a false start as a hit artist. That is truly a "difficult" second LP, with Bowie obviously fumbling for a direction that wouldn't start to gel until he teamed up with Mick Ronson and the gang. So we must ask why an LP like Bowie's debut, which is obviously brimful of ideas and a stunningly original work, even in the context of a golden era for original works, is so derided. It should be noted that Bowie had done the R&B thing earlier, and obviously found it too constraining. One of the keywords in the negative reviews on this site is "theatrical". HULLO!!! This is Bowie we're talking about - Major Tom, Ziggy Stardust, The Thin White Duke, Suntanned Bore, Wealthy Art Patron - the man's entire career (nay, life) is theatre. No, theatricality as objection is a red herring. I note that (at the time of writing) there are two Doors LP's in the top 10 for 1967, and artists don't come much more theatrical than Jim Morrison. The difference being that Morrison's affected brooding rebel pose and ultimate self-destruction chime much better with rock's sense of its own mythology. Quite the opposite, one of the most vital points of *David Bowie* is precisely its theatricality. Just as Bowie would subsequently adopt any number of characters as the need or the fancy took him, so the debut LP can be read as a microcosm of all that his career would become, presenting a multiplicity of characters whose oddities are dramatised even as they are embedded in a familiar structure - established by the obvious nod to the Music Hall tradition. The opprobrium heaped on this LP actually speaks volumes of how conventional standard rock criticism is in its attitude to originality. Each of the tracks, each of the characters on *David Bowie* presents a challenge, giving voice to ordinary preoccupations from an off-kilter position. Thus the inevitable search for love is nowhere near as straightforward here as elsewhere in pop; ergo "Uncle Arthur" who discovers that a wife is no match for mother; the fractured desires of "Maid of Bond Street"; and "Love You Till Tuesday", which up-ends the whole concept of the love song by being utterly delightful, dangerously obsessive and obviously insincere, all at the same time. *David Bowie* offers plenty of hints as to the man's subsequent preoccupations, with the twisted dystopianism of "We Are Hungry Men", while the gender issue rears its head in "She's Got Medals" long before Bowie's frock wearing days. The problem for Bowie both then and now, is that the times were not right. *David Bowie* is an LP that has virtually nothing in common with the preoccupations of its day. Quite the contrary, on "Join the Gang" Bowie seems to be distancing himself from the scene, sending it up in no uncertain terms: "Let me introduce you to the gang / Johnny plays the sitar, he's an existentialist [...] Molly is the model in the ads / Crazy clothes and acid full of soul and crazy hip / Someone switched her on, then her beam went wrong / Cause she can't switch off now that she's joined the gang." War has a significant part to play on *David Bowie,* but not war in the context of Vietnam, but the fall-out from the two great wars and earlier conflicts in British history. There's the "Little Bombardier", whom war made a solider, but peace a loser; likewise the protagonist of "Rubber Band", who survives the 14-18 war only to find that his love has married the leader of the band in his absence. "She's Got Medals" obviously has roots in firmly documented cases of women disguising their gender and enlisting. The little churchyard in "Please Mr. Gravedigger" was bomb damaged in the war. What is very clear about *David Bowie* is that it is not particularly interested in then fashionable opposition to the Vietnam War - it is a very English LP, but more than that it is a post-war British LP rather than one which partakes of the optimism of Swinging London. Its characters are also very real; they were everywhere at the time, yet everywhere unseen. More importantly, and this is the real oddity about responses to this LP, is how it is littered with protagonists who have difficulty fitting in or of coping with the world as found (whether because of the effects of the war, or simply because of their congenital unsuitability to it - "Uncle Arthur") - who are genuine Outsiders. Every song could easily form the basis of an essay in sociology, so striking are Bowie's vignettes. For all of its links to Music Hall, vaudeville and the surreal subversion of Anthony Newley (and much more besides), the most striking thing about David Bowie is its musical differentness, which only heightens the sense of characters unable to feel comfortable in their own skins in the world. This is grand for Bowie's vision, terrible for the LP's later reputation. For if anything, originality in rock has become no more and no less than a series of clichéd signifiers, culminating in that most useless of genres "alternative rock"; rebellion a matter of serial expletives and ferociously churning guitars (q.v. Rage Against the Machine). "Fuck you! I won't do what you tell me!" is no match for the oppositional qualities of Bowie's way with marginal characters, battling with conventions they cannot adhere to. The most striking example may well be the "Little Bombardier", who returns from the war unable to cope, turns to drink, only to find renewed joy in life in his friendship with two children, before the same forces of convention who sent him to war in the first place accuse him of being a child molester. (he may be, but craftily it remains only a suspicion in the minds of the forces of order). To be sure *David Bowie* has its flaws, but in the grand scheme of things these are nowhere near as great as many would have you believe. On the contrary, its rewards are manifold and its variety astounding. Its greatness and its curse are part and parcel of the same thing; it seems, just like the marginal characters contained within, to have very few links, very few connections to its own time, and just as few to the future of rock and to Bowie's own career. That, however, does not make it a bad LP, rather it speaks volumes of the originality on display, and the fertility of the young Bowie's mind. He would later come to a fuller understanding of how to make some of the concerns on show here palatable to a more mainstream rock crowd, and make some of the greatest records of all time into the bargain, but the debut is much more than a false start; it's a record which genuinely pushes at the boundaries of both musical and social discourse."

[@MFCMUFC]

Didn’t realise bowie was around back then! Love this channel

[@oleplanthafer7034]

@yesterdays papers: really can't praise you enough for your accompanying soundtracks! The way you capture patterns and structures in these people's music is all the way up there with Neill Innes work with The Rutles, albeit with your own Freakbeat-Instro-Sound. Brilliant!

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Thank you very much, Ole! Glad you enjoy the music.

[@paddle_shift]

That Fats Waller comparison is spot on! Well done Dusty! RIP.

[@SmartCookie2022]

Interesting fact: The band Boz with their song "Meeting Time" featured future Deep Purple band members Jon Lord (keyboards) along with Blackmore (guitar) and Paice (drums).

[@YesterdaysPapers]

That's cool, I didn't know that.

[@brucedillinger9448]

Deep respect for Dusty! If she likes your stuff good for you. If not...you would have been a fool to ignore her opinions. ✌

[@chuckselvage3157]

Dusty Springfield.What a singer.

[@annaritaranalli1791]

One of best european singers....and she was not only a pop singer as.many people say

[@lthompson7625]

After The Beatles had departed to take over the world, and Merseybeat was a fading memory, if one record epitomised Liverpool clubs 1966- 68, it was ‘ Get Ready’ by The Temptations.

[@Fordham1969]

As we now know, Daydream by the Spoonful definitely ended up leaving its mark in the UK, both Lennon and McCartney loved it. John kept it on his jukebox while Paul used it as inspiration for Good Day Sunshine. Also, we see something on that weeks chart that we'd never see nowadays, two different versions of the same song (Elusive Butterfly) competing with each other in the top 10.

[@pcno2832]

I used to confuse Daydream with "Lazing on Sunny Afternoon", but I don't know which came out first. I wouldn't be surprised if one had been influenced by the other.

[@total.stranger]

@@pcno2832 According to Dave Davies, The Kinks loved "Daydream". Their "Sunny Afternoon" was recorded in May of '66 and was #1 in the UK for two weeks.

[@Fordham1969]

@@patrickryan1515 Yes, obviously meant that but got the title wrong. Fixed.

[@patrickryan1515]

@@Fordham1969 Hope you didn't think I was being picky. BTW, besides Bob Lind, who else recorded this in the same timeframe. In Albany, NY we heard only Bob Lind.

[@Fordham1969]

@@patrickryan1515 At first I thought there might be some snark in your first reply but I now see it was a misunderstanding, all good. The last part of this video shows the Melody Maker charts for the week in April 66 that this issue came out. If you go to the 4:54 mark and freeze it you'll notice that "Elusive Butterfly" was on that weeks chart by both Bob Lind at no. 6 and an Irish artist named Val Doonican at no. 10. This would happen sometimes back then, an artist on one side of the pond might record a cover of an up and coming record on the other side in hopes that their version would gain more traction on their own chart, although in this case both became hits simultaneously. Another example of competing versions of the same song becoming hits at the same time was "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing", the song that originated from the famous early 70s Coke commercial.

[@revrotunda3206]

Interesting-haven’t heard of a few of these as in England/UK, we didn’t get all of their hits like Cliff Richards wasn’t big in the USA. Luved the heart & soul in Dusty Springfield’s voice. I remember being so surprised to hear she passed as I missed that on the news at the time it happened. Worked long hours & no cell phones/computers in those days.

[@bonzoboots]

The greatest British female singer ever. And the greatest white soul singer from anywhere, male or female.

[@NewFalconerRecords]

Looking at the chart at the end there I notice that 'A Legal Matter' by the Who (on the Brunswick label) had just entered the top-40. Once the Who left Brunswick for Polydor/Track Shel Talmy belatedly put out three singles from the 'My Generation' album to spite the band (the other two being 'The Kids Are Alright' and 'La-La-La-Lies') the fact that all three singles charted just goes to show that Pete Townshend could do no wrong songwriting-wise at this point.

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Agreed. I recall The Who even told their fans not to buy those singles but they still sold plenty of copies.

[@NewFalconerRecords]

@@YesterdaysPapers I'm in Australia and co-wrote a couple of books on 60's music in Australia & New Zealand a few years ago, and whilst researching them I delved back into the local music papers of the day (on microfilm at the State Library of Victoria) and sure enough, the Who's singles were released here on two different labels simultaneously as well (the Brunswick ones were distributed by a local label called Festival, the rest were on Polydor International) and I recall that the papers were remarking that some of these "new" Who singles didn't seem quite so new. Looking at my state chart books "A Legal Matter' was a reasonable hit in a couple of states in August '66 while 'I Can't Explain' made #25 on the Adelaide (South Australia) charts in June 1967!

[@YesterdaysPapers]

@@NewFalconerRecords Very interesting. It's amazing that all these bands were so big and yet they had no control over what was being released.

[@wraithby]

I like Dusty's approach to the records. She seems to have detected a spark from an early, unknown David Bowie. She's also not keen on how these "beat records" all sound the same. She's willing to dismiss Elvis when he's putting out drek. Joe Brown is a neglected talent. Good calls.

[@YesterdaysPapers]

I agree. That David Bowie single is pretty cool.

[@krollpeter]

@@YesterdaysPapers good single with messy production, I agree with her

[@christopherpatefield6150]

Herb Alpert Spanish Flea. Hugely popular trumpet player in America. Who would have thought he would have ended up playing on Rat In Me Kitchen with UB 40.

[@adandap]

Dusty singing 'Sea of heartbreak' would be worth hearing!

[@pcno2832]

She would have nailed that great Paul Hampton/Hal David song. Don Gibson's version will always be the definitive one, but I particularly like the Johnny Cash/Tom Petty cover.

[@adandap]

@@pcno2832 Roseanne Cash does a good version too.

[@YesterdaysPapers]

@@pcno2832 I like that cover by Johnny Cash. I love all those albums he did for American Recordings.

[@chrisbacos]

I like how Dusty is unpretentious and gets right to the point. She does not try to come off as pompous or cerebral. Just straight answers. I noticed when I saw the Melody Maker Top 40 not one Beatles single. Interesting.

[@Uetti]

Well, their last 45 (We Can Work It Out/Day Tripper) came out almost five months earlier, in early December 1965

[@SophieLovesSunsets]

"You can take it off, it's rubbish" I take it she's not all shook up then 😂😂😂

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Hahaha!

[@John_Fugazzi]

Dusty had a real ear for discerning English and American group sounds and had a good overall knowledge. She was very right about the Lovin' Spoonful. There weren't any "Gantries" however. That was a portmanteau of the Gants (Road Runner) and the Gentrys (Keep On Dancing) both songs in autumn 1965. I'm amazed she knew of these two American groups at all.

[@GroovingPict]

man, you know it has to be old when David Bowie comes on with his very very unmistakable voice and the reaction is "I've no idea who this is" :p

[@adampeters7947]

She could really dance. One soulful artist

[@obbor4]

After Paul Revere and the Raiders' 'Kicks' (my favorite of theirs) and The Lovin' Spoonful's 'Daydream', I'd pass on the rest of the lot. A word of thanks goes to Dusty for recommending that Atlantic sign Jimmy Page's new group (Led Zeppelin), in late 1968. Dusty knew both John Paul Jones and Jimmy from the studio and Jonesy from when he played in one of her touring groups.

[@obbor4]

@@docsavage8640 Was that on there? That one too, then.

[@deirdre108]

Wow! 1966 David Bowie!

[@stepheng8779]

Ah Dusty, golden voice never bettered.

[@thomasrednour8857]

A first: I have never heard The Lovin' Spoonful referenced as Fats Waller!

[@appledoreman]

Me neither, but now she mentions it...

[@MsAppassionata]

But if you really think about it she did have a point.

[@blackmore4]

Bloody hell... looking at that amazing top 50 singles chart at the end of the video... if I'd been around back then, I'd have been massively in debt.

[@meursault7030]

"This is so corny; I like it" hahaaa

[@katbela3971]

Sad to see Elvis in decline when he still had so much to offer. Too bad he didn't know how to adapt to the new times. Thanks, Yesterday's Papers.

[@chuckcookus]

I like how she smashes almost everything.

[@michaelrochester48]

Paul Revere and the Raiders were awesome...Dusty was wrong with that one!

[@pcno2832]

"Kicks" was a remarkable song, although the hippie types accused PR&The Raiders of selling out by releasing a song with an anti-drug message. It was actually written by Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil about Gerry Goffin (Carole King's songwriting partner and husband) and his struggles with substance abuse.

[@robbrown4621]

@@pcno2832 Kicks has really held up over the years, too. Great song.

[@maurice8607]

Kicks is great. David Crosby wasn't a fan obviously 😁

[@Philliben1991]

They were a bit gimmicky and naff compared to British bands like The Who and The Stones. They had a couple of good records like 'Steppin' Out' or 'The Great Banana Hoax' but overall they never really adapted to the post Beatles era. They were more like an American version of The Searchers.

[@robbrown4621]

@@Philliben1991 I agree but Kicks is a great song and a great recording.

[@oleplanthafer7034]

One of the greatest Blue-Eyed-Soulies ever, she's clearly got some issues with Fuzz-Pedals... Somehow I could still here her talking over your (excellent!) Outro-track ("Who is this? Is it the Stolen Runes? No, I don't like it. Take it off.") 😄

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Hahaha! "This sounds like a bad copy of the Spencer Davis Group. Too desperate. Take it off, it's crap".

[@PAULLONDEN]

My brother got "Daydream" , (so good) . I bought the "Kicks" single in '66 . Even though Paul Revere & the Raiders had a terrible corny act , they made some very good pop , thanks ofcourse to Terry Melcher and his merry band of ace session men. With a dark Charlie Manson scene at the fringes . Love your instrumental at the end !

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Thanks, Paul! Glad you liked it. I agree, Paul Revere & The Raiders released some great records. I love "Midnight Ride", "Spirit of 67" and "Revolution". Very good, fun albums.

[@btipton6899]

❤️Dusty

[@colinglass1342]

Dusty Springfield A Very very interesting woman love to read her biography one day she knew how to sing almost any song a very who led a very buisy life in music

[@MG8181.]

I love this so much. Can you find anything with Marianne Faithfull

[@miguelangeljuarez6196]

Me encanta la crítica de Dusty, aparte de que siempre se me hizo una de las cantantes más hermosas de la época lastima que en ese tiempo aun no nacía yo si no, me hubiera casado con ella.

[@michaelrochester48]

Wow an early David Bowie single!

[@robbrown4621]

Yes, you have a great idea with these videos. Who is actually doing the voice over for this as I suspect it's not really Dusty! :)

[@mikewilson3581]

I wonder what Dusty though when she first heard 'The Laughing Gnome'?

[@cinematicpassages8884]

Great GREAT channel...but i wish there where more stones songs on these reviews.

[@MilesBellas]

O:40 "Caroline, no" .....mentioned by Neil Young in "Long May You Run"

[@dilltdog1158]

Late post. Super Girl credited to Graham Bonney in the lower reaches of the chart is no less than Skegness' No1 son, later known as Graham Bonnet who went on to sing with Rainbow, Michael Schenker Group, Alcatraz and as a solo artist. Must've been something in the water on that Lincolnshire coast, guitar legend Tony TS McPhee came from farther up the coast at Cleethorpes.

[@maurogajardo620]

I'm the one who found the Daydream álbum by the Spoons excellent?

[@johnreynolds71]

love your channel, whats the track and artist playing at the end when the melody pop 50 is on

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Thanks! That track is a song I recorded to go along with that part of the video.

[@johnreynolds71]

@@YesterdaysPapers wow I thought it was a original piece really good

[@YesterdaysPapers]

@@johnreynolds71 Thanks, glad you liked it!

[@SeboDigital]

1. "Frankie and Johnny" sounds like Elvis mimicking Sinatra. Really boring. Sorry, fans... No deal. 2. Caroline, No?. Never knew it was a single by just.... Brian Wilson. Anyway. It´s a good song. Love it.

[@clipstone]

"Don't Stop Loving Me Baby" - LOL

[@clipstone]

That's odd - never knew "Caroline No" was a single.

[@davidellis5141]

Same Here.

[@f.w.2054]

Let alone released under Brian Wilson's name rather than the Beach Boys!

[@terryenglish7132]

and by just Brian.

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Yep, it was released as a Brian Wilson single. Pretty weird.

[@michaelrochester48]

@@YesterdaysPapers It made the US top 40 but barely at no. 39

[@PtolemyJones]

What is that background tune during the intro?

[@andrewegan7011]

Would have been nice to have the record sleeves with artist and song on showing rather than waiting for Diusty to guess.

[@edlawn5481]

"I haven't got a clue who this is." Trust me, Dusty, one day you will know.

[@SenorZorrozzz]

I just love Dusty during this period and the early 70s. It’s a bit strange to know that she was gay as she was attractive to me as a male. She was dreamy. Just so classy, talented, and beautiful. No women we’re as professional as her in the 1960s. We Americans only liked a few of her hits! Sadly. She just never caught on here as others did. One day they’ll make a movie of her life. A low budget TV movie. Then people will pretend that they knew her, listened to her, were fans, even todays music singers who weren’t even born then! Yes, they’ll recall seeing her 25 years before they were born! Yeah. That always happens. Petula Clark was on tv often, her name was known and she had some huge hits here. She kept being on variety shows especially the Dean Martin Show as Dean had a thing for her. Dusty came and went. Only in the 1970s did she try to make it here and by then music had changed, and not for the better. She settled in LA. Why? Why? That’s not what you do! Why wasn’t she on tour in the 1960s here and on all the tv gigs she could get?

[@STPfuzzDemon]

"Kicks" was all about its anti-drug lyrical content, not whether "It has a beat that you can dance to."

[@terryenglish7132]

I'm kinda surprised Green Beret was an English hit. In the states we had one of those divides, like now, so older war hawks bought it, but the youth didn't. It was a catchy melody , setting aside the corny lyrics , so maybe that was enough.

[@willieluncheonette5843]

Speaking as a youth in America, I can tell you when that song came on the radio, it was instant switching of the stations....lol

[@brianthomas2434]

I have a hunch kids might have bought it for the goof factor. The sort of thing you play to encourage party guests to leave.

[@jackrosendale8367]

LOVE to hear The Dickies cover it.

[@terryenglish7132]

@@brianthomas2434 Mom bought it. The flip side was " Letter from Vietnam" , hilarious.

[@jeffclement2468]

I admit I bought it. But because I was just learning to play the drums. I was only about 12/13 so the "patriotic" bit didn't interest me either way, pro or anti-war.

[@jimcoleman598]

Dusty was so wrong on Kicks !

[@YesterdaysPapers]

I love that song. It's pretty sad that many people remember Paul Revere & The Raiders as some kind of a joke probably due to their costumes. Most of the stuff they released around 1966/67 is great. "The Spirit of 67", "Midnight Ride" and "Revolution" are excellent albums.

[@robbrown4621]

@@YesterdaysPapers There's a YT video with The Raiders & The Monkees hanging together. I think it was a TV show called Shindig...

[@davidellis5141]

Yikes ! - The Sargeant at # 1 in the 🇺🇸

[@susanaltman5134]

Surprised to see The Ballad of the Green Berets in the UK top 30 at the end.

[@jamesdrynan]

Great channel, YP! Artists, like Elvis and Orbison, really issued some crappy singles, didn't they. As a Canadian lad in the sixties, a lot of material in these posts was never issued here. Interesting groups and singers, though.

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Thanks!

[@ericwinnert]

her comments about Elivis and Cash 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@betsyduane3461]

Daydream went to #2 in the UK

[@davidellis5141]

😆 -Regarding Elvis ! " You Can Take It Off , It's Rubbish 🗑 "

[@elvisleeboy]

Elvis himself would have agreed. Not his choice of material.

[@louisnewton4292]

"Ronny and the Daytonas" LMAO

[@total.stranger]

Their "Little GTO" and "Sandy" were excellent records.

[@mrsjupiter9310]

"....l like records that start out with , ' here comes the bride .. music....'

[@PotrzebieConolly]

I had understood that David Bowie changed his name from David Jones to avoid confusion with Davy Jones of the Monkees. But when this Bowie record was released, there had been no Monkees records or TV shows yet. They were in California working on the show, but how would Bowie have known that?

[@YesterdaysPapers]

I've heard that story about Bowie changing his name because of Davy Jones too but it's not true, he had already changed his name before the Monkees.

[@DMAC463]

Davy Jones had a career and was famous before the monkeys

[@brucemarshall3446]

Was " Caroline No" not a Beach Boys release?. Surprised " Ballad of the Green Berets" cracked the top thirty. Must have been bought by US serviceman stationed there

[@YesterdaysPapers]

It was released as a Brian Wilson single. Pretty weird.

[@surfohio]

@@YesterdaysPapers Capitol Records just had no idea what to make of Pet Sounds lol.

[@antebellumstage]

Beach Boys Party at #3??

[@lrvogt1257]

Great commentary but a little more nuance in the dramatic reading would help and probably attract more of an audience.

[@thewkovacs316]

caroline, no was released as a single by brian wilson and not the beach boys in the uk? didnt know that not sure if it was released as a single in the states not sure how dusty didnt recognize the voice boy, was she off on her critique of kicks and paul revere....great song and they dont sound like every other group by 66 not everyone in the uk pop scene knew who bowie was? everything from motown sounds the same? who was saying that? right about elvis...it was rubbish wrong about orbison....he never sounded desperate how often did a song and it's cover top the charts at the same time? interesting that lind's version was rereleased to compete with val's version

[@chasjohn57]

Yes it was a single in U.S.

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Bowie was pretty much unknown until he released the "Space Oddity" single in 1969.

[@thewkovacs316]

@@YesterdaysPapers i thought that was only true in the states

[@YesterdaysPapers]

@@thewkovacs316 In the UK, too. His early singles were all unsuccesful and his first album from 1967 was also a flop. "Space Oddity" was a hit in 1969 but he was considered a one hit wonder until he really broke big in 1972 with the Ziggy Stardust album.

[@jgc4818]

Space Oddity really didn’t do anything in the states when it came out in ‘69. David Bowie didn’t really make a splash here until Changes made the top 60 in April 1972

[@peteraleksandrovich5923]

"Kicks" rocks.

[@markhunter8554]

Actually the Spoonful were a 4 piece.

[@dilltdog1158]

I was 7, in my final year at Infant School. and we'd soon be moving house. What a year! Lovin' Spoonful, great song, even my grandad liked this song. Temptations, utter class, Get Ready one of their best. The old Rock 'n' Rollers hanging in there though Dusty Gal! And Joe Brown, lovely bloke, had the pleasure to meet Joe a few times and he might be touring again in 2023 if the rumours are more than just that.

[@patrickryan1515]

Queens? I'm from Albany, NY. Miss Manhattan, but I know it's quite unrecognizable from 50 years ago.

[@keenanbob9254]

Didn't like 'Kicks'? Well it was a hit here in Canada and is still a great mid 60s song.

[@noscrubbubblez6515]

She over reacted to 'KICKS' by the Raiders. It was like she was afraid they'd ask her if she used amphetamine.

[@edwardwilson7858]

The Spoonful sound like Fats Waller? What was Dusty under the influence of? Anyway, love your channel.

[@ericwinnert]

You need to get this channel on Instagram

[@jasonrothbaum7266]

Wow - a stacked line-up and she doesn't know anyone. She missed on Kicks and Caroline, no, but almost everything here was a hit.

[@BackWordsJane]

Shes genuine ,not abrasive. If you don't care for a song just say so and don't be mean about it as some guests did

[@marguskiis7711]

Strange she did not recognize Beach Boys

[@fredsalfa]

“Take it off its rubbish” Hahaha

[@Sopmylo]

Wow, she's brutal.

[@ericcrawford3453]

Man I can't believe she gonna sit there and say Elvis 's Frankie&Jonny is rubbish and also put down Roy Orbeson

[@barbarawebb7185]

Caroline, No was great!

[@maurogajardo620]

Pretty Woman

[@grahammccready2647]

So the headline is Dusty says Elvis is rubbish.

[@Philliben1991]

Elvis was putting out terrible old rubbish around this time. '68 comeback was just round the corner though.

[@Richard_K1630]

She was cute.

[@saifonlawrence2044]

Some really groovy tunes.?totally far out man !