★ Like To Get To Know You - Spanky & Our Gang ★

Spanky & Our Gang's "Like To Get To Know You", featuring Elaine "Spanky" McFarlane. It includes rare footage and outtakes. Other members of "The Gang" included Nigel Pickering, Paul "Oz" Bach, Malcolm Hale, John "The Chief" Seiter, Kenny Hodges and Lefty Baker.
This was the title track from the group's second album, which was released in April 1968. The group's name was inspired by the The Little Rascals "Our Gang" comedies of the 1930s that starred Spanky McFarland. Following the untimely death of lead guitarist Malcolm Hale, Spanky & Our Gang disbanded in 1969 after recording several hit songs. Spanky McFarlane later filled the void left by the late Cass Elliot and toured with the New Mamas & The Papas. She continues to perform as a soloist.
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Copyright Disclaimer Under Section 107 of the Copyright Act 1976, allowance is made for "fair use" for purposes such as criticism, comment, news reporting, teaching, scholarship, and research.

[@SydneyGreenstreet1227]

If one of my grandchildren was to ask me what the music was like in the 60s,I’d go through my playlist and say , “Well,just listen to this.”

[@lostsoul3154]

No other group has tried to recreate this beautiful piece. It would be impossible.

[@VidBrats]

Patrick, come to think of it you're right. I don't know of any covers of this song. Spanky & Our Gang's harmonies were outstanding.

[@SydneyGreenstreet1227]

Elaine and Lefty knocked it out of the park with their vocals on this one and the background vocals are superb too.

[@oldschoolrr6077]

IMO this is the best song Spanky and the Gang did. And they had a number of great songs. First time I heard this song on radio, the ending part just floored me. Still does effect me even today, each time I hear it played, 40+ years later. Music was simply awesome, back then.

[@debraweaver6308]

Well. I am 70. I was 15 when this song came out. It is really the ONLY song from this group that I actually like! And... just like you... when I heard the ending of this song... well...I wasn't floored...I was BLOWN AWAY!!! AND ..... that was FIFTY YEARS AGO FOR ME!!!!! Actually...no. I'm sorry. That was FIFTY-FOUR YEARS AGO FOR ME!!!!!! Around March...by the way...of 1968. I guess I cannot add anymore...at my age! Thank you for your comment

[@ronfisher5259]

Oh yeah, I’m 73 and really enjoyed this group back when

[@ninonicolosi5154]

@@debraweaver6308 I must agree Debra I followed this Gang when they were popular I too would be 70 years old. I too was floored, I too was blown away. When I 1st heard this it was on AM radio go figure that. A beautiful song for a beautiful decade of love♡ an ✌️

[@mpwb]

I have to admit the only song I loved and remembered was Lazy Day, and I was 12. It was a big hit in Australia. But now, with KZbin etc, I have become a big, big, fan of Spanky and Our Gang, and discovered so many wonderful songs and clips!!! Maybe not as big here in Australia back then (?) What an amazing talent Elaine is, and the boys, wonderful musicians!! I can't get enough of them now!...and I'm 67! Lol! Beautiful harmonies and arrangements. The more I hear Like To Get To Know You, the more I love it. Am now searching to buy their albums. Thankyou so much for this well thought out tribute to a great band. Glad Elaine is still going strong at 81. Bless you Spanky, and thank you! xx

[@user-uo4ex8zn8e]

one of the all-time greatest songs to come out of the unforgettable 60's

[@mikeheverly6913]

how could a song haunt me like this one does

[@VidBrats]

It's haunted me since Rhonda gave me a Spanky and our Gang 8-track in 1968. ^_^

[@marlenetrimnal4368]

One outstanding song most understanding so real.

[@sPacEc0w60y]

Never wanted it to end...

[@maevefarley1181]

Heartfelt. Much love and gratitude ❤

[@jamesfox2579]

I've LOVED this song forever!! ❤️🤸

[@community1949]

The ending is sublime.

[@robertsmolarek7671]

Absolutely in another zone

[@chrispritchett2946]

Beautiful, beautiful song, like no other.

[@kennethmoore2206]

2:45 is where the song transcends into something else. love this so much.

[@mikeheverly6913]

one awsome song the older i get the more i like it and im 60

[@madmanmatalawag]

Amazing Video ! One of my favorites. Love seeing Lefty Baker sing the line " But I'd like to get to know you" What an indispensable treasure He was and... this song was too.

[@carolburko7658]

Sentimental

[@thomasmartin7425]

Haunting, yet so upbeat and positive. A real unique masterpiece that has held up through the years.

[@maple1255]

Nice, so mellow, the beginning brought smiles, the ending tears ... music like this 'does it to me'.

[@caroldriehorst1165]

They had such a great sound together, I loved this song.

[@PaulMozdzien]

I love this song.

[@scdevon]

This song got huge airplay on the east coast in 1968.

[@paulgentile1024]

all over AM radio 📻

[@claudettepreisinger]

Cool video - Love the way it was done - especially the beginning with the Little Rascals clip! Thanks for uploading!

[@nyterpfan]

If there's any kind of heaven or higher realm this song is playing there!! That coda---God I've listened to it for 45 years and I still weep every time I hear it--it's so hauntingly beautiful!!

[@ploij89]

I think i understand -- especially at 2.22, most of those guys have sadly past, the b/w footage, the whole ambience of the song make it so mesmerising and VERY " hauntingly beautiful "-- back in time to where i want to be.

[@VidBrats]

Every time I listen to this I'm transported back in time to that warm place of my youth and youthful innocence.

[@don1985don]

my sentiments exactly I have been saying the same words with the same feelings myself too I have to say one of if not them most beautiful song ever created.You hit it on the head when you said this song belongs in heaven

[@metema85]

This song takes me back to when I first heard it in 1968 and those I was with then. We all thought we were indestructible and nothing would interrupt our lives.

[@susanpeters3234]

Hauntingly beautiful ... perfect way to describe it. Listened to this over and over the last few weeks

[@oldsoul4699]

I'm 32 but I find something extremely reminiscent about this song/video

[@VidBrats]

So do I. I call it evergreen. Never out of style.

[@VidBrats]

As CaptKundalani so well put it, "Like To Get To Know You" indeed took our minds off the war. I was in junior high, an Army brat, and living in Japan on an Army housing installation when a girlfriend gave me the 8-track of this album for my birthday. Both of our dads were in Vietnam at the time. Thanks for all of your wonderful comments!

[@freddiefreihofer7716]

I turned 21 in 1968, my junior year in college. That year brought America the greatest casualties of the Vietnam war. The disconnect between the beauties of a song like this and the horrors of the war was mind-boggling. Luckily I didn't have to go. Glad your parents made it back, and much thanks for their wartime service!

[@nyosito]

Lefty's vocal made this song for me. The sad loss of Malcolm Hale just months later and Lefty a couple of years later really robbed the music world of an amazing group.

[@tropicalpancake56]

GRAND! Thanks so much for the warm memories! Great work, here!

[@robertjones4200]

Such talent

[@louissbass7782]

I love this nothing compares

[@bekannbanfield9672]

Haven't heard there ture since I was 8 back in Cincinnati Ohio we're I was raised as well I need to make the trip back before winter :)

[@takemeback2]

Really a great one......and in stereo too!

[@michaelwilkerson7110]

Years ago I had a cassette tape of the group with this song on it. That cut started out with the sounds of a cocktail party (if memory serves me) and one of the guys talking to Spanky, hitting on her. She acted offended and then it segues into the song by him singing, but I'd like to get to know you. I loved it. This group made such beautiful music, poignant at times and others, fun. I am so glad that there is a KZbin where I can listen, smile, and remember.

[@ninonicolosi5154]

I was part of the gang back in the sixties this was a beautiful song. When the ending of the song came on I was blown away. It was my favorite from these guys but they had many good tunes. 1st heard them on AM radio. What a tribute to the Sixties for Peace & Love✌️🙋

[@Spiderizer]

First pop song when I was in college at WCWP-FM - CWPost/Long Island Unviversity GREAT SONG

[@franksanfilippo5148]

I have always loved this Spanky & Our Gang song, since first hearing the non-stereo version on AM radio back in late Spring, 1968. But this incredible video really takes the song to another level. Thank you for posting!

[@larryrubin5150]

Best great collection of videos and photos. Thanks for sharing

[@groverbaker6404]

Wonderful and beautiful!! Its been a favorite since 1968!! Love this band!!

[@don1985don]

Definitely the most beautiful song ever created, I for one along with many others will always love this song never tire of hearing it over and over again and again absolutely a sound like nyterfan said hauntingly beautiful from start to end, only thing wrong with this song is it is not longer!

[@robertsmolarek7671]

They definitely were in a different zone or something? How did they come up with this?

[@CaptKundalini]

This is the kind of song that you can't help but fall in love with. I was 16 days away from my 12th birthday when this was broadcast on Sullivan (he said, dating himself). As Jim Morrison once said, "A child is like a flower. His head is just floating in the breeze." Songs like this took your mind off the war and you could just sit in the park with your best girl next to you and not a care in the world. :)

[@briancritchley498]

Your words are so well said, I am Aussie male 62, I'd like to get to you..

[@CaptKundalini]

Thanks, Brian. Well met.

[@searchthewind99]

Clever opening. Great videos to a great song.

[@markthiede3135]

I’m 64 and I love this group, brings back better and simpler times

[@lseever1]

I graduated high school in 68 and this song reminds of that year. Beautiful song in at number one for a time and I think it was a great song for a great class.

[@crimsonxtc]

Thanks for putting this videography together. It was obviously a labor of love...much appreciated. What a great song!

[@meljrnone8608]

So many fond memories growing up and listening to this on the radio...

[@119jle]

Wish I could go back to 1967 and meet Spanky in person..or before we both leave earth......

[@VidBrats]

You and me both... I can't thank Rhonda enough for giving me that 8-track. This song will remain evergreen in my memory.

[@mpwb]

Me too! Back stage on the Ed Sullivan Show!!!

[@billpiech7564]

Love this song. It takes me back to a good place.

[@simonwilson1211]

Thank You ! X

[@markolson2466]

Thank you for bringing this beautiful music video to my day! ❤️

[@whatt2140]

love this song

[@joannie1q2w3e]

Great job with the video-brought me back to going into nursing school for my first year! And I'm still working as a RN, too--really blew me away. Everything seemed freer in the late 1960s; I believe I mean people smoking cigarettes and no concerns over our privacy matters, too. This song took me back in time..very nice. -J.

[@GigiCorrado1]

Beautiful!!!!

[@sauquoit13456]

On this day in 1968 {March 24th} Spanky & Our Gang performed "Like To Get To Know You" on the CBS-TV program 'The Ed Sullivan Show'... One month later on April 20th it entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart; eventually it peaked at #17 and spent 11 weeks on the Top 100... R.I.P. Mr. Sullivan {1901 - 1974} and Spanky, aka Elaine McFarlane, will celebrated her 71st birthday in three months on June 19th...

[@piercehawke8021]

Songs like this helped me keep my sanity while growing up with a pair of loony parents; dad was a WW II refugee from Eastern Europe, major culture clash since I was already self IDing as a generic American kid and my bio 'mother' was a true nut case, and she was part of why I had to 'ghost' my family 30 years ago. We had a rapprochement a few years after but, the damage had been done.

[@mrb4886]

Perfect.

[@raybarger8119]

I’m 70 and still love this group. Should have but never made it big Ashame

[@MsParisjm]

Perfect start and just a beautiful song. Love Spanky - both of them.

[@TheJohnOlivarez]

This song brings back so many memories, the way this song was arranged, with so many variables, the words and vocals are superb along with right instrumentation. Great, Great Song and the right group to perform it. Spanky & Our Gang WOW !!

[@soapbox5]

Marvelous work of folk art.Great to see the gang's all here.Thankyou.Great video.

[@stephenmcdonald6815]

My all time favorite! Incredible.

[@sclerismockrey8506]

This is a beautiful video creation. Very fitting for such a beautiful musical creation as this song. What a loving tribute, thank you for making this and adding a bit of the story behind the meaning of this song for you at the end (glad you still have it in your collection!). Just well done, all the way around, thank you!

[@cashflowglo7262]

Whoaaaa. It s been along time ! Absolutely Love Love This song ! I m So thankful for the upload! And for you thinking about the millions of us who remember and miss it. Yes the older I get the more I like it too and I’m 60 as well. Back then I thought this kind of music would never in. We were all born st exactly the right time ! I just want to cry. What a beautiful ballad!

[@darlatc1169]

Has always been for me such an emotional song that makes me cry !

[@VidBrats]

Darla T *hugs*... As you can see by my message on the end, it brings back fond memories.

[@darlatc1169]

I am looking at it again just now and my eyes started to poor rain . The Little Rascals part makes up for it though !

[@guillermog.hernandez3931]

ONE OF MY FAVS...

[@mariericketts1373]

Music for life 💓

[@JohnZinke]

Groovy!

[@johnneal2518]

My grandfather listisn to this he,s 50

[@mooseydeucy]

Very special ❤️

[@natemickens88]

Perfect mix at 2:51 leads into harmonic episodes then fades to infinity

[@rr7firefly]

A very nicely edited video, which shows the group dynamic -- they always looked like they genuinely enjoyed working together making their special music. Elaine and the guys were an important part of the mid to late 1960s and it is wonderful to be able to see them here. Thanks so much for your labor of love. You deserve much applause.

[@jhs517]

What a great video. I like how you extended the part at 2:35... that's always been my favorite part of the song...

[@cherriphelps0108]

Love this!

[@alvinsavage1775]

INSTANT TRAVEL BACK IN TIME TO MUCH HAPPIER , SLOWER , ENJOYABLE DAYS . . . . . . . . . . . .

[@johnwriterpoet1783]

I unite with all of you in speaking about how glorious and sentimental this song is. I send my love out to all of you

[@geofbrit59]

Love this video! And I like the way you blended the album version "Like ToGet To Know U - reprise" onto the end. Makes my fave part (the fade out) even longer! S&OG have the most beautifully produced albums. If you only know the single hit versions find the albums, they are incredible!

[@jesuscarrillo5533]

maravillosossssssssssssssssssssss.

[@iNuchalHead]

Her bangs are... doing things to me.

[@timothykearns2232]

ohhhhhhhh, yeah!

[@scdevon]

I used to have a MAJOR crush on Elaine.

[@mpwb]

I do now!!!!

[@robertsmolarek7671]

This song is so incredible, what can I say?

[@spectre56j]

Thanks VidBrats! Love the stereo remix of this!

[@tropicalpancake56]

A beautiful production and one of the sweetest songs of the decade. Thanks so much...

[@Tiberius291]

This song warms the cockles of my heart with nostalgia. 💓 🌤 🌡

[@KSguitarmusic]

One of the more haunting songs to emerge from that era, especially the latter part to the ending.

[@critchley3819]

Well how is it that a song a simple as this can be so good, sure takes me back, being a baby boomer has it pluses, this post WW11 era was a great time to grow up ,will be a long time ( if ever) for these times to roll around again..

[@critchley3819]

brian critchley

[@astonvilla1able]

❤️

[@acousticshadow4032]

It's a great groove. Would've made one heckuva commercial jingle for a dating service, but oh so very glad it didn't.

[@SteveStalzle]

A GREAT editing job! Well done!

[@pilot9781]

Lefty Baker on lead vocal...

[@christophertote8912]

If anyone tunes into this and remembers an intro for this song where the man asks a woman if she's lost her slipper "Excuse me, have you lost your slipper? There's a slipper over in the corner" she responds with "you must be crazy" - it was like a pickup line-smoother than what I describe here and just a great version. If anyone knows of this please indicate how I can hear it again. Lost my album in 90's that had that intro and my cassette recordings of such...it was just cool. I figure it's about an "original" album as it came from the late 60's and my stepfather's.

[@jeffj9322]

Remembering Nigel Pickering born on June 15, 1929. He was a rhythm guitarist, and a founding member of the 1960's folk-rock music group Spanky and Our Gang. - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanky_and_Our_Gang#Members

[@awb2000cdn]

If I am not mistaken, the episode of The Little Rascals shown from 0:01 through 0:25 was originally filmed back in 1935. In 1935, as few as 0.5% of Americans had television sets, so The Little Rascals was shown in movie houses.

[@azgrapefruit]

The original series was named “Our Gang” and filmed in the 1930s viewed in movie theaters….fast forward to the TV era and the films were syndicated and renamed “The Little Rascals”. Don’t know if any of the actors made a cent out of this…Was hugely popular with the after school crowd….saw this when my mom got a TV for our humble trailer and have been nostalgic ever since….simple happy times….except for fears of being nuked by the Soviet Union…😮

[@TheStikapos]

Totally jersey

[@Sunfried1]

Which one was Malcolm Hale? Sadly he passed away 7 months after this appearance on Sullivan.

[@Zepster77]

Nice vid with some cool extras but the sound quality does not even come close to touching the mono mix I just heard elsewhere on youtube. From a well-used 45rpm too; it is transcendant!! Find it live it love it

[@roydean1137]

One of the pictures in the mix was the Jefferson Airplane.

[@VidBrats]

Yes, that was pointed out five years ago. Can't fix it without deleting the entire video. Sorry.

[@jamescalifornia2964]

@@VidBrats They were pretty good too . .. 🎶

[@VidBrats]

Son of a gun! You're absolutely right. That's Grace Slick, not Spanky McFarlane. How'd that one slip by me? Sharp eye!

[@woolfy02]

Did he say "and the last thing....take a piss test!"?

[@TOTIARO]

Ok, the folks at 2:48 look way different from the other pictures.

[@VidBrats]

Yup Quintin, you've got sharp eyes. You're not the first to catch that blooper. Grace Slick and Jefferson Airplane somehow slipped in for a cameo.

[@community1949]

+Quintin Smith That's Jefferson Airplane.

[@juliewitt7496]

Hmm. And I thought, what's Marty Balin doing in this band. Must be some bad acid.

[@karmices]

I thought the performance was Smothers Brothers, not Ed Sullivan.