Kenny Everett Reviews the Singles of April 1968

Blind Date with Kenny Everett. Kenny Everett reviews the singles of April 1968.

[@marlonelliot8943]

Listening with my 2022 ears, Time of the Season was head and shoulders above the rest.

[@samp.8099]

20/22 insight

[@salipander6570]

But just behind Lazy Sunday that is!

[@zachgates7491]

We all know the Grapefruit towers over it

[@ericcrawford3453]

I agree the Zombie's are so awesome!

[@jbtownsend9535]

I love how he says “not a hit”!

[@davidellis5141]

Time Of The Season Is An Amazing Production & must have sounded so fresh in 1968 ! Colin Blunstone with a great vocal 👌

[@terryenglish7132]

? The vocal was what kept me from liking it more. Good song, good organ.

[@ericcrawford3453]

David Ellis I agree!

[@damianoakes2592]

Geoff Emerick, famous for his work with the Beatles, engineered that one

[@davidellis5141]

@@damianoakes2592 He Produced I Am The Cosmos for Chris Bell from Big Star .

[@gregwilliams3120]

I wonder if that organ solo was inspired by The Doors.

[@danielkelleher2419]

Time of the Season far and away the best of this lot! Holds up well!!

[@ericcrawford3453]

Very true!

[@fasteddie9867]

totally, and Kenny excoriated it. Shows his taste

[@zanti4132]

I recall there was an interesting story about "Time of the Season", so I did a little Internet research to refresh my memory. The Zombies had a couple of big hits in 1964 and 1965 ("She's Not There" and "Tell Her No"), but then hit a dry spell. After two years without much chart success or demand for live performances, they split up in December of 1967. However, they did have an unreleased album, which they released in April 1968, along with two singles from the album. Those also sold poorly, but then Al Kooper listened to "Time of the Season" and suggested that CBS Records release it as a single. The song had a psychedelic vibe that seemed to fit in well with the times. Kooper's judgment was validated. "Time of the Season" was released as a single a year or so after The Zombies broke up and became a surprise hit in 1969, reaching #3 in the U.S. With the song being so popular, a Zombies tour seemed obligatory, except they were no longer together and weren't interested in reuniting. Well, promoters couldn't bear to lose out on all that potential revenue, so they recruited musicians to form some fake Zombies bands, which, by the way, included Dusty Hill and Frank Beard, who went on to form ZZ Top. And so the Zombies returned from the dead - now there were several Zombies bands, all playing their songs for an unsuspecting public.

[@lakrids-pibe]

Zombies returned from the dead... hehehe! Yes indeed.

[@ericcrawford3453]

The Zombie's were awesome & still are! It's amazing that there still touring. Been waiting for your next show, thanks yp

[@ballhawk387]

I was utte amazed as how great Colin Blunstone still sounded when I caught their Odessey and Oracle 50th anniversary tour. The band was awesome, too, of course. It was well worth the hefty ticket price.

[@ericcrawford3453]

Ballhawk387 that is very cool in that you got to go see them live. Colin Blunstone is awesome I bet he sounds great li e I've seen him on utube & I love the album oracles & prophecy. Where did you see them?

[@willemvandeursen3105]

I saw a Blunstone/Argent gig in 2015. I was much, much better than I expected. Very professional, Colin's voice hadn't aged at all, and they played quite lot of their forgotten B-sides and certainly didn't shy away from their big chart flops - Indication, I never thought I would hear that live! I enjoyed their concert more than Elton John''s or Pink Floyds. Another universe, okay, but still. The ex-Zombies brought their older music with an amazing warmth and intimacy.

[@ericcrawford3453]

@@willemvandeursen3105 Well said. The Zombie's truly have a sound all there own. I envy you getting to see them live.

[@willemvandeursen3105]

@@ericcrawford3453 They are still touring, check out your ticket sale venues!

[@FatNorthernBigot]

This was all in the best possible taste.

[@samp.8099]

This guy sure likes John Lennon

[@joshgoldstein3991]

Can't say I blame him. "Play me Strawberry Fields Forever".

[@joeyconservative]

He goofed on his Time of the Season prediction.

[@bumsharvest5493]

Yeah, that's still played regularly here in Michigan.

[@ericcrawford3453]

Agree

[@evilroyslade1099]

Hardly it never made the charts at all in the UK so not a hit.

[@bumsharvest5493]

@@evilroyslade1099 A hit in America is a hit.

[@evilroyslade1099]

@@bumsharvest5493 Yeah well he is from the UK talking about a UK band and UK chart. It even flopped in the states at first. A hit in the USA does not make it a hit anywhere else.

[@soulfoodie1]

Interestingly Kenny championed 'Care of cell 44 ' by The Zombies when it came out as a single a few months before and would continue championing it for the rest of his life (I remember him playing it on Capital Gold back in the late 1980s)

[@alihart]

It is a terrific track. The whole LP is great

[@wheelerconover8723]

But he also championed "Odessey and Oracle" too. On the Zombies box set, there is an interview track with Rod and Chris where he is sad about their breakup and tells the kids to go buy "the album of the century!"

[@NewFalconerRecords]

@@wheelerconover8723 It's such a great interview, he's totally devastated that the band are breaking up.

[@silversurfermusicco5263]

I had odyssey and oracle orig lp foolishly sold it on ebay but i needed the doigh

[@neilforbes416]

The circular EMI trademark for EMI means this sleeve for Adge Cutler & The Wurzels (4:11) is a reissue from the mid-1970s. EMI in 1968 was still using their His Master's Voice, Columbia and Parlophone, as well as Regal and Regal-Zonophone labels for Pop Music releases, while the EMI brand itself was used for specialist sound effect recordings. The fawn-and-red EMI label with the brand on the left of the label was introduced in 1973.

[@boomtownrat5106]

It was generous of Kenny to say the Cowsills lead singer had a nice voice. Well, I concur. I want to give props to Bill Cowsill, the lead singer. He sang lead on the majority of the family’s records until his father fired him in 1969 from the band. I was in my early teens when the Cowsills hit it big in the United States. The group’s images were plastered in the major teen magazines at the time. I was definitely their demographic.

[@ericcrawford3453]

I like the Cowsill's also & your rite he had a really good voice.

[@total.stranger]

I was just a little too old for their demographic, but I liked this 45 and bought it - the only one of theirs that I did.

[@joelake7986]

Agreed, and when I think of flower power, I think of "The Rain, The Park & Other Things" (which isn't a bad thing). The last time I saw Billy, he was in a band called Trainwreck and still great.

[@engineer909]

Bill later sand lead with the Blue Shadows. Very country rock oriented. He could sound just like Hank Williams Sr.

[@grokeffer6226]

I was a little younger than Susan. I'd always wondered what happened to them, and just in the last several years I found out. A sad story. I like their music quite a bit. They could have made a lot more money if their father hadn't treated them the way he did. I hope the survivors are feeling alright these days.

[@piggycity]

Love the Creation and Eddie Phillips’ guitar sound!

[@lupcokotevski2907]

Zombies and the Small Faces shine in amongst a lot of mediocrity. To think that the month before Laura Nyro's revolutionary and highly complex pop masterpiece was released, Eli and the Thirteenth Confession', which " blew everybody's mind" Todd Rundgren. Nyro was only aged 20. Arguably pop's most influential songwriting album.

[@selfcorrectingunit8671]

Time Of The Season not a hit! Only wall to wall radio play way back when. And then we found a way to slow dance to it at senior prom. (I love this channel!)

[@alrivers2297]

Yes, he was way off on that one, lol

[@RAFchurchlawford4469]

"It did not chart in the band's native Britain, despite being re-released twice, but it later found fame there with Rod Argent [songwriter] saying that it became 'a classic in the UK, but it's never been a hit.' Over a year after its original release, the track became a surprise hit in the United States, rising to number three on the Billboard Hot 100 and number one on the Cashbox chart. It has become one of the Zombies' most popular and recognizable songs, and an iconic hit of 1960s psychedelia that continues to enjoy frequent airplay on classic rock and oldies radio." (Wikipedia)

[@drwhatson]

Not in the UK.

[@evilroyslade1099]

@@alrivers2297 It never even made the charts in the UK so not even a minor hit.

[@alrivers2297]

@@evilroyslade1099 Well it had great success in the US and Canada and I'm sure people in the UK grew to love it over the decades. So that makes it a big hit and his statement wrong in my book.

[@alihart]

Everett comes over as a bit too into himself. Fair play to him, he was a pioneer of sorts, but a little of him goes a long way in my view

[@jackal59]

Really. After his last comment, I thought, "Well, don't let me stop you."

[@FatNorthernBigot]

I thought the same. A little too "It was forever thus", for my liking. Still, hot gossip were always worth a watch (not so much for Kenny).

[@wyliesmith4244]

Things here in the States were changing in 1968: albums were overtaking singles saleswise partially because FM radio offered a wider array of choice while AM radio was locked into into a set formula. (Yeah, late 60s FM radio was much more exciting, and open to oddball ideas - hello Lord Buckley - than it is now). here in the US at least, prime time deejays thought THEY were the stars while popstars would come and go. I am afraid that here Kenny Everett reminds me of the bad old days.

[@nathalieplum2137]

My type of DJ is John Peel. He wouldn't have The Creation record taken off that's for sure🤨

[@stephendavis5530]

Time Of The Season by The Zombies not a hit? Oh Kenny! What were you thinking?

[@silversurfermusicco5263]

Kenny how can you diss the creation? My faves

[@darganx]

I see a lot of Yanks on here don't get Kenny's humour 😄 Maurice Christopher Cole a.k.a. Kenny Everett was a total eccentric one off, no UK DJ like him before or since. The Kenny Everett Video Show on Thames/ITV - NOT the later BBC series (and his concurrent weekend shows on Capital Radio) - were must watch/listen, predating MTV VJing by a decade. Shame he was a Maggie loving Tory though.. R.I.P.

[@Sopmylo]

My, what a nice person he seems to be. Take it off, immediately.

[@judyjudy51]

Zombies & Small Faces - commercial, brilliant, still great..

[@Cincinnatus1869]

The Small Faces were always fantastic. Americans don't know what they missed out on because of that group's management ripping them off and not having them play in the States. To me they are on the same level as the Animals, Yardbirds, The Who and superior to the Faces - although they were good too. Rod Stewart was great in those days but he was no SteveMarriott and I think Rod would agree

[@total.stranger]

After they had their first (and only) hit in the US with "Itchycoo Park", "Tin Soldier" should have put them over the top, but it didn't - even with Immediate Records giving it a picture sleeve and releasing the 45 in stereo. It must have been a crushing blow for the band, as it was one of the finest records ever made in the 60s - and still is.

[@Cincinnatus1869]

@@total.stranger I have always put them right there with the best of the UK rock scene of the 60s . They had a major influence on so many bands that later became worldwide . They were trendsetters. To me their talent was obvious after digging into their catalog but most people don't take the time to do that. I am constantly looking for bands that the typical narrow minded American fan never heard because nobody on radio or TV said ' this is what is good now, go buy it ' . With all respect to the rock and roll and blues pioneers of America, I always have looked to the UK for the best interpretations of hard rock and pop music.

[@NewFalconerRecords]

Yes, couldn't agree more with all of the comments you've both made. The Small Faces totally sit in that level just under the Beatles, Stones, Kinks (I'm talking singles-wise at the time). 'Tin Soldier' is simply supreme. Should've been a huge US hit without a doubt. F*ck Sharon Osbourne's Dad.

[@total.stranger]

@@Cincinnatus1869 " ...I always have looked to the UK for the best interpretations of hard rock and pop music." Agreed, tbc.

[@daveroth9168]

...hear, hear...Rod Stewart (not knockin him, mind yuh) (look up Roy Wood Jr's fabulous story of his mama's love of Rod, you'll enjoy it, betcha) is a personality, Steve bloody Marriott was a bleedin MASSIVE musical talent...cheers...

[@pcno2832]

0:17 Seems that he was right, at least as far as the UK was concerned, but after sitting around for a year, "Time of the Season" was a huge hit in the USA, which had received their previous releases more hospitably as well. I guess the Zombies were just better suited to the American market.

[@brucedillinger9448]

I don't think I've heard "Take it off" more often than during this. Lol! Now...TAKE IT OFF!

[@theesbband]

The Creation were excellent: they did Painter Man which was nicked for Galveston. And the Singing Ribs, aka Small Faces, always brilliant. Bowie nicked Changes from Rainbow Valley - he was such a magpie.

[@theesbband]

I knew Adge Cutler; lovely guy, car mad. A friend used to tune his cars - and of course he died in a RTA, sadly.

[@joeoconnor5400]

RIP Kenny. You were great.

[@francoispedro3694]

Put all these "rock critics for a day" in a time machine and program 2022. When they come back in their own time they'll say "Everything you make me listen to is fabulous, I swear!!" 😄

[@brucedillinger9448]

Lol! That's for sure!

[@jamesthompson316]

Take it off or I’ll throttle you” 🤣 miss Kenny 💙

[@MonotoneTim]

Good synergy with the recent Techmoan video.

[@michaelrochester48]

In the United States, time of the season didn’t come out until the summer of 1969, nearly a full year later

[@michaelrochester48]

Grapefruit had AC/DC’s Malcolm and Angus Young’s oldest brother Alex Young, even older than George from the Easybeats

[@psychedelicprawncrumpets9479]

Damm, them youngs were everywhere it seems

[@3rdmm]

Is that Helter Skelter along with the charts?

[@joeltaylor3189]

it sounded a bit like Monkey Man by the Stones to me

[@terryenglish7132]

The channel does the music to evoke the times. An an excellent job , I might add.

[@joeltaylor3189]

@@terryenglish7132 agreed!

[@michaelwilson2340]

Everett really gave Queen a boost. I've read that, against the band wishes, Everett played a test pressing of the Bohemian Rhapsody single on the air after visiting the band in their studio. And then it was played over two dozen times on the air during the weekend. Perhaps the biopic revealed that? I never saw the film. I figured Hollywood would take liberties with the truth in order to appease the masses.

[@richsackett3423]

Whoever wrote that BS story was obviously taking liberties with the truth to appeal to the masses. Worked a treat on you.

[@michaelwilson2340]

@UCNjDIVcn65oJkxl0RfhyC9A Actually, if you consult 'Queen - The Ultimate Illustrated History Of The Crown Kings Of Rock' by Phil Sutcliffe or 'Is This The Real Life -The Untold Story Of Queen' by Mark Blake you would actually have a sense of illumination and truth about the Everett/Bohemian Rhapsody story. Book learnin' can be beneficial. What you assume if far fetched and what is truly revealed in actual research and print are two vastly different things. I prefer research over feelings. In addition, without Freddie's contribution or John's, you only have the perspectives of two members for the film. Not a complete picture.

[@richsackett3423]

@@michaelwilson2340 Which book was the story from? "What is revealed..." That's some way sketch conspiratorial language. At six minutes, a dozen plays is an hour and a fifth. Times two for the weekend. On a broadcast radio station which has to pay royalties to play an unreleased record which neither the studio nor the band owned. What you described is a crime, which seems a dubious claim. Maybe you should do some law book a'larnin' rather than rely on your feelings concerning the legality or probability of things you personally wish were true as a fanboy.

[@michaelwilson2340]

@@richsackett3423 Wow. I really struck a nerve there didn't I? I can imagine you hastily typing away as the foam seeps from the corners of your mouth. If something such as this sets you on a bizarre tangent, I shudder to think how you view the world outside of your self imposed reality. Can you say "Solipsism"?

[@richsackett3423]

@@michaelwilson2340 Dude, that's a mirror. LOL

[@MikeDial]

I have no idea who Kenny Everett was, but his comments are a hoot!

[@michaelrochester48]

Cinderella Rockefeller, one of the most bizarre songs of the 1960s when I looked at the music charts at the end

[@Sp33gan]

I've no idea who Kenny Everett is but he's not great at spotting good music. The only one he really seemed to love is the Grapefruit's Yes (though I also like it) and that's only because, as he says, they were friends and he loves John Lennon (who suggested the band's name). There are far better reasons to like a record than personal bias. The first time I heard Time Of The Season, I loved it, yet had no idea how big a hit it was. If Everett was a record producer, I feel sorry for any acts signed under him.

[@SmartCookie2022]

Kenny was a popular and extremely zany DJ in the 60s, 70s and 80s who even had a TV sketch show that featured the likes of David Bowie, Freddie Mercury, Bill Wyman, The Police, Elton John, Kate Bush, etc, all sending themselves up. He famously promoted the Queen song Bohemian Rhapsody that everyone said was too long for radio and helped turn it into a hit. He's even featured in the recent biopic movie Bohemian Rhapsody (2018) played by someone called Dickie Bea.

[@deementia6796]

From what I've read of him, I'm betting he had his tongue firmly in cheek on both sides of the coin during this review. This was in his pirate radio days I think, so he's got to have that edge.

[@newforestpixie5297]

I recently read a modern article telling folk that Steve Wright was a “ Legend because of his originality when 1st being a big Radio 1 star in the mid 1980s “ but the Wright tribute didn’t mention Kenny Everett once . I wouldn’t normally bother but when Radio was important to my generation aged 13 in 1977 , Kenny WAS Already bringing crazy comedy stuff between records along with ‘ characters ‘ - almost a decade before Wrights’ stardom in the Radio 1 mid 80s afternoons & had apparently been outrageous or controversial enough to be sacked & re hired by Radio 1 & Capital 194 nearly a decade before I’d heard him in the late 70s. As English DJs go he WAS Authentic & a real Legend . On the BBC Radio 4 programme “ Real Lives “ Chris Tarrant said of him “ Kenny was openly gay before most would dare to come out- but he still loved his wife & always made love to her if he’d taken LSD “ - Steve Wright couldn’t be that zany if he tried bless him 👍

[@stepheng8779]

​@@newforestpixie5297 Wright has always been woeful.

[@deirdre108]

The big question in the Top Ten LP listings is where "The Sound of Music" would land. Yup, April '68 and it's still up there. And I apologize on behalf of the United States that the Cowsills made it over to your side of the pond. Luckily they were only a "couple hits wonder" and didn't get invited to play at Woodstock the following year.

[@likklej8]

Jason Crest live at Tiles club Oxford Street were a soul band for most of their set doing the psychedelic Turquoise Tandem Cycle single at end of the set. Good band live.

[@chrisbacos]

Kenny said some songs aren't commercial. Hello, you're a media personality. Get with the program. I knew he was gay but not a misogynist jerk. I saw the Beach Boys LP Wild Honey was number 5 on the UK charts. It didn't even crack the top 10 here in the States. It's my favorite BB LP. Shows you Brits know a true artist in Brian Wilson.

[@johnceglick8714]

Time of The Season by the Zbies was recorded , and on the airwaves late 67.

[@johnceglick8714]

I didn't know that Wild Honey was an LP in 4/68 . I know "Do It Again was a hit of theirs early 7/68.

[@annoyingbstard9407]

Only one record there worth remembering. Worzels still touring!

[@dream-67]

Love the Creation and Grapefruit most out of this lot, the Cowsills b side was much better than the a side

[@caryheuchert]

I love the Creation, but this is the later version with Ron Wood.

[@dream-67]

@@caryheuchert okay proof he did something good I guess!

[@toothumbs]

Zombies Time Of The Season was a huge hit in the states sorry Kenny R.I.P.

[@evilroyslade1099]

Never even made charts in the UK and it flopped in the states as well but then became a hit about a year after it was first released.

[@toothumbs]

@@evilroyslade1099 It was still a hit! lol Number one in Canada and number two in South Africa, and IMHO one of the greatest pop songs ever

[@evilroyslade1099]

@@toothumbs Yeah a hit in the states and Canada but it did nothing in the UK which is what this was about.

[@stevec2993]

Are you sure these aren't the reviews by Sid Snot? Well at least they are all in the best possible taste.

[@doggedout]

I only just heard of Kenny for the first time last week! (techmoan) He seems to like everything I hate ..and hate everything I like. ...but, I like his attitude: "Take it off before I throttle you..." and "I think I will commit suicide". A lot funnier than Wolfman Jack.

[@deementia6796]

Good taste watching Techmoan! I wondered if he would see this video, considering he just did those radio carts like 2 weeks ago.

[@dannystrat]

Very British!

[@NewFalconerRecords]

That Techmoan video was great. I love his stuff too.

[@BackWordsJane]

" It's not a hit" Time of The Season was released as a single in the States in 1969 and became a #3 hit. Now considered a classic

[@hoyboys1000]

Guess I was on the wrong side of the pond for this stuff. 🤔

[@goodiesguy]

Do you have the Benny Hill one? I think he did the singles sometime in late 63 or early 64, I've only seen a fragment of the clipping on eBay so only know that he was given a cover of 'Shout' by the Redcaps to listen to and wasn't impressed!

[@ericwinnert]

I would love to see what Kenny Everts top 20 for 1968 would have been.

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Ironically enough, "Time of the Season" probably would have been in his Top 20 for 1968. Even though Everett gave the song a somewhat negative review, he championed "Odessey & Oracle" since it came out and it was one of his all-time favourite albums. In this Blind Date, he mentioned that he had just interviewed the Zombies. If you listen to that intereview, Kenny was devastated that the Zombies had decided to break up the band.

[@maurice8607]

Didn't Kenny end up on Capital Radio in the end? Some pretty good singles here apart from the Wursals. Time of the Season is quite obviously the best one and Rainbow Valley and Midway Down not too far behind it. I'll have to check out Grapefruit a bit more. And what can you say about Lazy Sunday?

[@YesterdaysPapers]

I'm not a big fan of the song Kenny reviewed here but Grapefruit had some great songs. I like them.

[@chasjohn57]

Good to see Reparata and the Delrons have a hit somewhere

[@darganx]

Love that song (not the Betty Boo version)! Co-written by Noosha Fox, who would later have hits in the 70s with her own group, Fox.

[@deementia6796]

A orchestral arrangement and conductors credit for future Zeppelin bassist, John Paul Jones on "The Stockingtops" 45. Looked it up, and no Jimmy Page on guitar for this session work.

[@imogenimeson664]

What is that very last tune please,the closing track?

[@terryenglish7132]

The incidental music is done by the channel. He really captures the vibe of the times so that you think you're heard it before, but you haven't.

[@weeooh1]

Adge Cutler and the Werzels - Never heard of them and hope to never hear them again.

[@scottjackson1420]

Hilarious that an all time 60's track like Time of the Season is being dismissed this way. Today, everyone has heard of Time of the Season. Far fewer recall the name of Kenny Everett.

[@Mazalinda]

In those Pirate Days I listened in to the Kenny and Cash show. Loved Kenny’s wacky humour and that he got sacked from Radio 1 by making a joke about the Minister for Transport’s wife passing her driving test first time. His TV series was outrageously funny and who can forget Cupid Stunt! Come back, Kenny we need you more than ever in these depressingly woke days…

[@f.w.2054]

Never heard of this dude, and I hope I never do again after hearing his take on The Zombies, Rod Argents organ solo, and Jackie Wilson w/Count Basie!

[@charlesachurch7265]

Cupid Stunt luvvim!,

[@willieluncheonette5843]

The chap certainly has strong opinions but right off the bat re The Zombies--"I would want to end on a stronger one than this if I was breaking up the group as they are...Everything they do is professional but it's too classy. (Huh???) They should have concentrated on doing more commercial stuff for singles...It's not a hit." He does add in the end he likes it but by that time the scales were tilted too far in the wrong direction for me. I did listen to the complete Blind Teat but that opening was, as the Buckinghams' said " Kind of a drag."

[@YesterdaysPapers]

His comments about "Time of the Season" are odd because "Odessey & Oracle" was one of Everett's all-time favourite albums.

[@willieluncheonette5843]

@@YesterdaysPapers Strange. But he's right about Odyssey & Oracle. One of my all time favorites too. Sometimes I can't believe how great it is. A Stunning achievement.

[@radiomindchatter7994]

It sounds like Kenny is just being contrary to be contrary...

[@RealTJS]

" Take it off, I think I'll commit suicide ..." 😂😂😂😂

[@steffanhoffmann8937]

Some really good songs. However Kenny didn't appreciate lots of them. Personally I thought Kenny was too bias about The Beatles. I just about remember his show. I was a young kid. Didn't like it. But his playlist was ordinary, and his radio show was comedic; rather than musical. So I'll give ALL the songs a HIT and Kenny a MISS.....think about it! 😉 LOVED the outro music. I felt like singing 🌈🌻🎤we luuuuuvvvv you....🌻🌈🎹Rolling Stones to it.

[@MrMjp58]

Why did the Cowsills never have a uk hit? It seems a bit odd that a lot of these reviews never feature releases that went on to be big hits. Jenny’s humour and wit nicely to the fore here though.

[@YesterdaysPapers]

The guests on these Blind Dates were asked to review the week's new singles. So I guess that these Blind Dates prove that hit singles weren't released every week.

[@lukehauser1182]

LP Top Ten @ 5:20 - too bad they didn't discuss those

[@tylerthompson1842]

Paul McCartney that clever boy had two hits going with Lady Madonna and Celia Blacks Step Inside Love

[@sd31263]

So, are these Everett's opinions, or just what he thinks Lennon would say in his shoes?

[@lakrids-pibe]

You can never have too much organ.

[@RobbieCalifornia69]

Tell me, tell me, tell me the answer .... You may be a lover, but you ain't no dancer ....

[@neilfriedman]

Video killed the radio star, Kenny was a true genius

[@richsackett3423]

With a tin ear and crap attitude, apparently.

[@grokeffer6226]

He seems a bit down on everything. Maybe he was having a bad day. Time of The Season was a great song.

[@evilroyslade1099]

Yeah but it failed to chart.

[@funkyalfonso]

These comments dissing Kenny. NO.

[@nofrackingzone7479]

Who’s Kenny Everett??

[@ronsmac]

Time of the season is not a hit?

[@evilroyslade1099]

Not in UK. Never made charts at all.

[@RideAcrossTheRiver]

"It was like that show in aid of spastics at Wembley ..."

[@hammer44head]

Completely wrong about Time of the Season, classy yes but people made it a "hit" numerous times and anybody that puts down Jackie Wilson is an idiot. Though i thought the rest was funny.

[@TrumptonMayor]

Did he actually like music lol?

[@richsackett3423]

No. Just hella-gay for John Lennon.

[@Andrey110379]

What a mistake with "Time o the season" ))

[@evilroyslade1099]

It flopped in the UK and never made charts.

[@Fuzzbrain61]

Have to disagree with Kenny about The Creation, Not their best song but still listenable. Not a hit so he was right there!

[@fueledbylove]

I am certain if they had played "Simon Says" Kenny would have choked someone, maybe himself.

[@jockmctodger]

Sid Snot

[@maurogajardo620]

0:43 fail

[@todd3563]

It was hard to take him seriously after his ridiculous review of "Time of the season".

[@JM-co6rf]

Sounds like there's a reason I've never heard of Kenny Everett. He's a fool.

[@DeeckyRizzo]

"Time of the season is not a hit"...Lol

[@evilroyslade1099]

It never made charts in the UK. Only became a hit in the states but about a year after its release it flopped there at first too.

[@pablocaira8240]

Cuanta arreglos de vientos en esa época, no me gustan nada. Esa es la diferencia entre Los Super Grupos: Beatles, Stones, Who, Kinks, Small Faces, Pretty Things, Yardbirds, Hollies, Pink Floyd, etc... que trascendieron hasta hoy, y los otros grupos de turno. SALUDOS desde ARGENTINA 🇦🇷

[@arriano99]

Kenny Everett is one of those people who thinks he's smart and funny when he's neither. Take him off.

[@salgarcia8581]

This is proof that "I can't guarantee you love" or most of Tony Rivers and The Castaways's material was too ahead of its time, they sound nothing like gary lewis and the playboys, not that they're not good but nothing like tony rivers. If you dig a little past commercial crap like beatles or pink floyd and not even that deep you find gems like tony rivers or honeybus.

[@hermanmelville3368]

They gave him bad songs. Only Zombies are worth it to listen.

[@idontcareanymore7988]

Lazy Sunday afternoon is a banger

[@SmartCookie2022]

I actually like both Lazy Sunday Afternoon and Rainbow Valley as well as Time of the Season. Unfortunately, the latter became a belated hit in the U.S. when the Zombies had already disbanded.

[@TallyRocky]

Time Of The Season won’t be a hit? HaHaHa! Don’t know who this guy is, but he’s no Nostradamus

[@martinhughes2549]

Technically he was right. It wasn't a hit when first released in the UK. It was a hit later in the US. Its a great song, very evocative, and Kenny likes the band. So sort of honest appraisal really.

[@evilroyslade1099]

He was correct it flopped.

[@georgeditzel3504]

These sound worse than anything I remember from 1968. I was 13. I only remember the Zombies tune.

[@terryenglish7132]

Never heard of Kenny Ever a git , but he sucks. Sound of Music is on the charts, reality is restored. Usual great job w the vid.

[@silgen]

This is very sad, Kenny was a great and very funny DJ and comic actor.

[@terryenglish7132]

@@silgen Seems to be the concensus. He comes off as a prick here, but so does almost everyone unless they're rock royalty that get the good tunes. So I'll withold judgement and not go by first impressions. I was in England during the Good Ship Caroline time and the BBC just beginning to rock , was he around then or later ?

[@YesterdaysPapers]

@@terryenglish7132 I think he started out as a Radion London DJ and then started working for BBC Radio One when the pirate stations were shut down.

[@terryenglish7132]

@@silgen By any chance is he in the sketch on youtube where Lemmy, Knoffler, Gilmore testify about TAB vs written music ?

[@silgen]

@@terryenglish7132 No, that wasn't him. This is Kenny kzbin.info/www/bejne/kKGWYaWibrOhh6c

[@ubtrippin9980]

Could Kenny have gotten it more wrong.

[@evilroyslade1099]

He was correct with the Zombies it never made charts.

[@MrKeychange]

Whoever this is has horrible taste in music. lol

[@The.Last.Guitar.Hero.]

five months before I was born. None of these songs do anything for me

[@DubSun33]

Poor Kenny, mostly dross. It's like they handpicked a lot of crap, small faces apart.

[@jeffscheiner1553]

Time of the Season not a hit. Uh . . .

[@ednad4607]

figures he hates the creation song and likes like the worst small faces song

[@pardyhardly]

All rubbish.

[@mickydee7502]

god, what a load of crappy records from the sixties.

[@maurice8607]

Are you kidding or something? The Small Faces, The Zombies, Love Affair and the Creation. Come on.........

[@gasparucciox9706]

ceazy how loads of the blind date songs are kind of still around , ( tv, radio, films , commercial. etc ) they're classic!

[@samp.8099]

Especially "Don't Tell I, Tell 'Ee"

[@gasparucciox9706]

@@samp.8099 😁