Freddie and The Dreamers - Brown and Porters (Meat Exporters) (live, 1967)

[@rcpinsa]

Great Video and a great book

[@peterchecksfield9958]

Thank you Roy!

[@stewartsnape2936]

It’s million pities we don’t have great fun groups like Freddie and the dreamers in 2022, this is a unusual song but great

[@MichaelMitchRailfan2009]

By that, this aired on ABC (as originally in color) as summer replacement 1967 for ‘Hollywood Palace’ until august 1967

[@cak813]

My first hearing this song. What a gem!!

[@simonramsden8870]

Nice glimpse of Freddie in the late 60s.

[@maureenmcglynn3777]

E xcuse me. I hope you didnt mean Fred is welsh? Our family came from Ireland. Yes, OUR FAMILY. Fred was my cousin. Loved him dearly and will always miss him. I didnt get to see him again after. I moved to the U.S. he will always be in my heart tho. Continue to RIP Cuz. Xxx

[@pinedelgado4743]

This nice little tune has BRITAIN all over it!! A true British sound!!! :)

[@JohnCarterUKSongwriter]

It's a true British sound, indeed, and a bit exaggerated, but it's a true story of when I used to hitchhike from Birmingham to London. Good old days. Best, John Carter.

[@timothysprengeler4071]

You can tell it's British because it has the word "lorry"--LOL!

[@timothysprengeler4071]

The original Manfred Mann band also recorded a version of this song. It is a bonus track on the expanded CD reissue of the "Up the Junction" soundtrack album.

[@JohnCarterUKSongwriter]

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[@waynereynolds7598]

It's a bit goofy but fun to listen to. Freddie and the dreamers are awesome.

[@andrewyoung2796]

Possibly the greatest song ever

[@john111257]

No hit since 65, the bands days at the top were over but still this is great

[@highpath4776]

Freddie went in part to the Childrens TV involved with a couple of projects released under different names

[@MedievalRichard]

Brilliant!

[@JOHNWLOUCKS]

I am really falling for this unusual little ditty. Glad to see Pete ditched the Epiphone for a Jazz Bass. Good move.

[@Scranton0]

Crazy Song. Never heard of on American Radio

[@peterchecksfield9958]

Or British radio!

[@filmgesprach4615]

@@peterchecksfield9958 ...we have heard this song on Radio Luxembourg!

[@albo2006]

I liked it.

[@dmitrymedvedd]

So odd seeing Freddie not jumping during the number

[@mog398]

Oh man, I was hoping Freddie had done something with Morecambe and Wise

[@dmitrymedvedd]

Has Freddie done something with the Beatles?

[@mog398]

Oh hey, it's me again!

[@hertstraveller]

Its funny how groups started using a recorder, an instrument previously associated with music lessons in junior school, after Brian Jones played one on Ruby Tuesday - the Beatles (Fool on the Hill), Jimi Hendrix (If6 was 9), Led Zeppelin (Stairway to Heaven) - and Freddie and the Dreamers....

[@peterchecksfield9958]

I've always seen The Mamas and The Papas' 'California Dreamin'' (released December 1965) as being the song that started the whole flute/recorder trend.

[@hertstraveller]

@@peterchecksfield9958 Yes maybe - but I think a flute had more credibility than a recorder. The instrument on If 6 was 9 by Hendrix was a recorder but apparently Jimi Hendrix wanted it credited as a flute

[@brucenenke-vk5nk]

This is a pshyc classic but like the Moody Blues everybody in 67 thought Freddie was square.

[@1o5o2]

funny little gem

[@john111257]

Nice little toytown/psyche

[@dmitrymedvedd]

Great performance, but what's the meaning of the song?

[@Selvikus]

It was based on the songwriter's experience hitchhiking from London to Birmingham.

[@dmitrymedvedd]

@@Selvikus thank you

[@paulonatanaeldossantossana3909]

Só entender o Roy Crewdson usava cabelo desde 1964

[@ironphil799]

anyone know who wrote this song?

[@peterchecksfield9958]

Too lazy to use Google? I just did, and it's credited to Carter-Stephens.

[@JohnCarterUKSongwriter]

@@peterchecksfield9958 Unfortunately, Geoff Stephens isn't with us. But we had so much fun writing this song together. Good old days. Best, John

[@smileysmilefan7879]

Groups got more serious over the 60s

[@BarbaraPineda-v9p]

Fred its'nt a english man, his diveritues, it's a goggly welsh man's.with his singing. ... partner's, he's no longer's a rounds poor creatures, fred has passed long's times a illnesses, so dreadfully r.n.p. bru so 😋 🍬 🍫 🍡 sweets with a dinbb on those sand colored compexions,