Olympics - Good Lovin'

Olympics perform - Good Lovin' - on Shindig in the mid '60's.

[@zMyloAPPS3]

my grandfather is Melvin King! I'm a proud grand daughter. he so amazing.

[@dwightsmithsmith3512]

Quincey you not right my first cousin wasn't on drugs after Pat got killed how do you know my cousin and get on drugs too much later your book is a lie I am Alfred son me and Melvin stayed with Lula Davis my grandmother Harrison Davis my grandfather that was a preacher his church was 51st and McKinley or nowhere around I was born in 1961 when Pat got killed after the riot Martin Luther King I'm going to write my book after I buy my home my name is Dwight Emanuel Smith A,k,A Davis

[@timswain1815]

Just an idea: Have him tell some tales while you record them.

[@JTD472]

@@dwightsmithsmith3512 hope your book has better punctuation

[@pamelabush6540]

My Late Brother Thomas Bush Was The Original Bass Singer On Baby Hully Gully Song 🎵..."Everybody Looks Like They Got The Shakes" Was Thomas Bush Part. Thomas Had A Brush With The Law, And Was Incarcerated And Melvin King Sung That Part For Him. Thomas Bush, The Late Charles Fizer And Melvin King Went To Jordan High School. Melvin And Walter Ward Would Always Come By To Visit Us After We Moved From Jordan Down Projects.. By Any Chance Melvin King Is Still Living?

[@nightrain49]

The Olympics biggest hit was Western Movies way back in 1958. A great song from a great group.

[@ersiedakin37]

Billy Preston on the organ! Love it!

[@gussy6783]

I gigged (and partied like a crazy fool) with these guys back in the late '60s. This video predates my time with them, but it appears that their choreography and arrangements didn't change much. They were good guys and gave me an experience I'll never forget.

[@DeanMk1]

That's VERY cool you got to play with them. Rock on, dude. 👍🤙

[@boobalew]

I love both versions! Great Rock & Roll!!!!

[@wildbilltexas]

With the way they performed it here, its bewildering why their version didn't become a hit!

[@jdb10715]

WOW! Brings back memories seeing Shindig. I always thought the Rascals were the first to record Good Lovin. So happy to find this which I like better - the original artists.

[@robertwentz3326]

Lemme B Good was the original, I believe

[@kellysmith8809]

This is too cool and they are really playing live,that makes it even better

[@PrettyFly4aWi-Fi]

First time hearing this band perform this song, just loving it.

[@exyx]

Olympics weren't the first to record Good Lovin'. Lemme B. Good was.

[@roadyrider]

I knew Walter all through the '70s and '80s in Willowbrook, CA, and he was a good son who worked with his parents in the family house-cleaning business in-between gigs. It's really too bad that most of these early groups were signed into contracts where they received almost NO royalties for their songs. Walter and his parents were some of the hardest-working and nicest people that I have ever known. He never even mentioned that he was one of the 'Olympics', I know I would have!

[@marimbadearco]

Two drummers, extra tambourine percussion, horn section, male and female back up singers, wow! Too bad we couldn't hear a long Billy Preston organ solo, sounded so good.

[@sweetbabyray1000]

The drums are FIRE!

[@1JUSTGOTLUCKY1]

This is a great version of a great song!! Thanks for the post!

[@noahholcomb4666]

I'm 80, and I just KNEW that there was an earlier version of "Good Lovin" before the Rascals, and I finally found it! But, "Big Boy Pete" was another monster hit for the Olympics, at least in my teen years . . . .

[@antonematos6241]

Try and type in Good Lovin by Lemme B Good, very good version with soul in it. I think was recorded around 1965. I will check out Big Boy Pete right now.

[@hawsug4614]

Let's see... there was also Western Movies and Hully Gully.

[@CharlieMessing]

Also "Western Movies"!

[@unifiedfield]

Bloody great - I've been listening to their music since 1974... imagine seeing them for the first time in 2006. Would love to see them doing their Mirwood stuff. - Stuart Raith, Blackburn. UK

[@poppymac8873]

Hands down the best version, The Olympics are pure class, should of gotten way more credit

[@Lisbeth22250]

The Olympics are one of my favorite groups. They were always underrated and never seemed to get much credit for anything. I wish they had at least been nominated into the Rock and Roll Hall of fame but that passed them by. Great group.

[@SwedeProof]

Love, love, love The Olympics!

[@LPCustom3]

Love Billy’s “Beatlehair-do”!

[@ytlas3]

You'll also see Darlene Love with The Blossoms in the background center throughout the video.

[@chrisradant]

OMG I should still be dancing from the very first time I heard this. Happy music!

[@Tony-ws4rq]

Real soul music, love it :)

[@sauquoit13456]

On this day in 1965 {April 24th} the Olympics performed "Good Lovin'" on the Los Angeles-based syndicated television program 'Shivaree'... The very next day, April 25th, the song entered Billboard's Hot Top 100 chart at position #91; three weeks later it would peak at #81 {for 2 weeks} and it spent 5 weeks on the Top 100... Between 1958 and 1966 the Olympics had fourteen Top 100 record; with one reaching the Top 10, "Western Movies", it peaked at #8 {for 1 week} on September 15th, 1958... And on April 24th, 1966, exactly one year later to day the Olympics appeared on 'Shivaree", the Young Rascals covered version of "Good Lovin'" peaked at #1 {for 1 week} on the Top 100...

[@WytZox1]

That's Billy Preston on the keyboard! ☺

[@hwgray]

He was the organist at my landlady's church.

[@laurah6845]

I thought this clip was from Shindig.

[@fmmaj9noname332]

Maybe he's talking about the day he posted, not the day this song was broadcast.@@laurah6845

[@ScanMan]

Organ Solo rocks!!

[@deyoungaza]

Actually a fellow called Limmie Snell a/k/a Lemme B. Good did the original for Mercury Records in April 1965, but the lyrics were considerably different. Listen to it here on KZbin.

[@user-cd7ds7cs3z]

Who knew that the Rascals version was a cover?! This is fantastic with a very young Billy Preston on keyboard!

[@stewarthome]

This is great, would love to see film of them doing other stuff, especially "I'll Do A Little Bit More", great dance routine and of course Billy Preston rocks!

[@edhalfen7380]

A very young Billy Preston (another genius musician) on keys...

[@nathandodge665]

And what did Billy Preston do that rises to the level of Genius? What did he do that was hard to duplicate?

[@7425park]

He was a good musician, but nothing special

[@ferdinandthecrow]

Good enough for the Beatles

[@AlHill]

@@nathandodge665 By the age of ten, he was playing organ onstage backing gospel singers such as Mahalia Jackson. At 11, he appeared on an episode of Nat King Cole's NBC TV show singing the Fats Domino hit "Blueberry Hill" with Cole. He also appeared in St. Louis Blues, the 1958 W. C. Handy biopic starring Nat King Cole; Preston played with Handy at a younger age. He put out his debut album, 16 Yr. Old Soul, backed Little Richard, Sam Cooke, Ray Charles, the Everly Brothers, Eric Clapton, the Rolling Stones and the Beatles, the only non-Beatle musician to be given a credit on a Beatles recording, had hit singles with "That's the Way God Planned It", the Grammy-winning "Outa-Space", "Will It Go Round in Circles", "Space Race", "Nothing from Nothing", and "With You I'm Born Again". He also co-wrote "You Are So Beautiful", which became a #5 hit for Joe Cocker.

[@nathandodge665]

@@AlHill still doesn't make him a genius

[@elvispresley2021]

Love their song Little Pedro

[@KarenMargaretSchmidler]

So good. OMG. And the hair is outragious! Thank you so much for uploading this!

[@smokeyrainbows]

That was exhilarating fun! Thank you! :D

[@suraw48]

This is the first version of the song, copied by the Young Rascals. The song was written by Jerry Ragovoy (RIP at age 80, July, 2011) , and first performed and sung by The Olympics in 1965.

[@jamnjen6666]

correction this is the second version, first by Lemmie B. Good, earlier in 65, it's here on KZbin. Rudy Clark wrote Good Lovin, it's on my 45 record by Lemme. He re-wrote it with Artie Resnick a month later then the Olympics recorded it.

[@civilsoldi]

Love this, still have the 45!!

[@tink00000000]

Neil, you are absolutely correct. My mistake. Thanks for the note. The Olympics should have gotten far more credit.

[@rickp4155]

Love that "Beatles" haircut on Billy Preston who knew what was to come in a couple of more years LOL (RIP Billy Preston)

[@williamhole1914]

Very nice !

[@metalheadneji]

Rock N Roll!!!!!!

[@MrKingGator]

Awesome

[@robertvelez7415]

Who's d lead singer of d Olympics song 'good loving " is it Walter Ward ?

[@jackiebessard7988]

🎶 Look at the blossoms 👍🏽

[@7425park]

The Who have a rollicking version too!

[@zMyloAPPS3]

Melvin King, my grandfather got on drugs a little after his sister was killed he stop performing..smh everything went bad from this point on, anyways I publish a book called Not Forever by S.L.King on kindle, amazon and eBay. check it out! a story coming from a young girl who been through foster homes back and forth with family members. The life you live when drugs become apart of your family life the kids suffer.. by S.L.king.

[@johnjarou2357]

predates the rascals version.

[@jeffrey322]

I just learned this while watching an interview with Felix! I never knew!

[@guitarmemoir]

@Moon Pie That is not accurate. The Olympics recorded that song with that arrangement a year before the Rascals even released their version. The Rascals recorded the Olympics' arrangement, not the other way around. Look it up.

[@djunius]

there are 429 people on that stage!

[@ADAMSIXTIES]

Dino Danelli 1944-2022

[@billchew450]

Most people are shocked to think that the Rascal's version, excellent as it was, was not the original.

[@ginobeneli447]

Hi yall hope all is good. Hey is there an actual video of the olympics singing big boy pete, cant find it.

[@taddyd1]

is that BILLY PRESTON on the organ?

[@SUPERROCKDRUMMER]

Great version. I thought the Rascals did it first. I was wrong.

[@BEATNIKCASS]

Alquit- you is right fo' sure.

[@greatbighand]

@Princeboy99 If you watch the live performance of YR of this in colour (Ed Sullivan?) here at the tube you'll find that makes the song rock is Danelli: but I don't think the original version (I have the italian release of the first LP) is just as good. The drums there are more muffled and not as pyrotecnic: in facts I never realized what a great drummer DD was until I saw live performances of YR here. Anyway, to make a fair comparison one should hear the single release by the Olympics.

[@Glicksman1]

We hear how they dropped the Latin feel of the original recording after the Rascals had a #1 with this song using a straight R&B beat..

[@ROADWARRIOR-2000]

Had no idea this was the original version. Rascal's version great but this has the edge!

[@LACraig621]

Always thought that this song was originally done by the Rascals.

[@TheLegendaryTim]

+Craig Blast Me too

[@richardsoffice9176]

Sorry - no, this was the original! It was on the Black Music, Soul Music charts. The Young Rascals (I'm going to have to find an old 45, with this name!) also had a big Pop Music hit, with their version -

[@ginobeneli447]

Yeap. So many other remakes that made top 40 in the 60s going forward that i thought they were originals. DJs then didnt play the original recording of good lovin either but only the young rascals version.

[@mrbassman4]

Rest In Peace Eddie Lewis. Just found out he passed away today.

[@doowopper1951]

This version by the Olympics hit the Charts in May 1965. The Rascals didn't hit until March 1966. Therefore, the Rascals version is a note for note copy of the Olympics version.

[@brainsareus]

Yes, but fortunately, music is more than just notes. Inflexion, tempo, coloring; all make an interpretation unique.

[@MonologueMusicals]

This live version takes cues from The Rascals' arrangement. Listen to the original Olympics 45 version, it's a straight rhythm section at a lower tempo and the break has a flute.

[@Charles_CHARLIE.Shafer]

@Neil Russell, IT'S ALL GOOD !!! Enjoy the memories ... 'NUFF SAID 👍👍😎

[@liamthomson219]

The song was written by Resnick, who was in neither band - so he's the true genius :)

[@lenb7275]

the rascals !

[@ritchiecross8972]

HOT !!

[@DavidWillis1957]

is one of these members here on the show Charles Fizer? He was killed during the Watts riot a couple of months or so after this performance.

[@elamite66]

I knew there was an earlier version of Good Lovin' than the Rascals but I couldn't remember who did it I think it came out in the early 60s

[@manny44]

Wow Billy Preston

[@justiceforall6412]

I like The Rascals version better, but it's great to see the originals do it their way. Good video, good rendition.

[@tamla63]

Got several different versions of this track and tho' this ain't my favourite it's the one I play out the most cos you can dance to it(though the studio version is slightly punchier) which is what their performance and intended audience at the time were about! ;) Rascals version is just typical of a lot of the white sixties high school/punk type bands!;)For an incredible uptempo version of this song try listening to the latin version by the Gilberto sextet..blows them all away!;)

[@lazur1]

"I Aint Gonna Eat My Heart Out" was their first hit single, 1965. The Olympics had plenty of big hits, so the race thing won't cut it this time. The Young Rascals were a great group.

[@williamg2552]

The Olympics recorded the FIRST CHART HIT VERSION of this song…BEFORE the Young Rascals…But, just like THE ROLLING STONES covered THE VALENTINOS’ Original Version of ITS ALL OVER NOW…and had a BIGGER HIT with it, so the SAME THING happened to THE OLYMPICS’ version of THIS song…which only reached #81 on the Billboard Pop chart…while THE RASCALS cover reached #1. It’s truly a shame that the OLYMPICS were cheated of top chart honors for THEIR VERSION of this song…

[@hwgray]

@Princeboy99 This is the original version, If the Young Rascals' version is "good," it's only because they copied the original note-for-note.

[@universallanguage59]

Can anyone tell us what year this one is from? '65 or '66, maybe?

[@VirreFriberg]

March 1965

[@universallanguage59]

@@VirreFriberg Ah yes. Well then, let's have Paul Revere and the Raiders doing 'Just like Me', up next, then, eh? Good times indeed. Thanks much!

[@VirreFriberg]

@@universallanguage59 Incredible song, I don't understand why the Raiders weren't bigger

[@universallanguage59]

@@VirreFriberg In an effort to be funny, I would say maybe it was those outfits they wore, and that the audiences never took them more seriously because of it. I'm fairly sure that they didn't write their more popular hits, themselves, and maybe that limited what material they produced, and a wider audience. Not sure. I do know the the cat likes to dance to "Just Like Me", and maybe that's enough to have it be played here on a regular basis. "Everybody boogaloo"! Cheers, man...

[@knockshinnoch1950]

This is the original

[@stOOpid68]

yes!!! *****!! Lee Liverpool Mods.

[@davidmaslow399]

Better than the Young Rascals!

[@edhalfen7380]

An early B3 if I'm not mistaken

[@BEATNIKCASS]

I dig BO , but Stones' Mona was in da zone.

[@jason75]

Nope it was the Olympics

[@lovetheoldies]

the rascals were a high school/punk type band? Tamla, you may know what you like but otherwise youre clueless.

[@lazur1]

Thr Olympics, The Young Rascal's, later The Grateful Dead , but I don't think the Who ever did this tune.

[@marcelomartinez475]

Young Rascals True...

[@loucostello3111]

Singer stole Sammy Davis Jr. moves.

[@edmundhudson]

The Rascals version 'blows', period.

[@poppymac8873]

@@amanuel_23 strongly agree! 👍🙂

[@toopoable]

This kicks the living crap out of The Rascal's version.

[@richardsoffice9176]

The Living Crap!

[@trextrextrex]

No not really

[@Herman47]

Like hell it does.

[@bpabustan]

The Rascals - high school/punk type band? Hmmm....Even Wilson Pickett thought they were Black. He thinks they are the real deal - an authentic soul group that rocks hard. So to say the Rascals are a typical group is shortchanging them.

[@SlimDanWedgie]

😢 lot of original black songwriters and performers songs were stolen and given to white groups.they never got paid for them yet alone any royalties Elvis thee big hits we're written by a black songwriter and performer.

[@ezedikeohamadike9003]

Hope the Rascal helped them

[@lamper2]

ironically,the rascals version is about a hundred times more soulful

[@poppymac8873]

Lol daft comment.

[@blackvinylgrooves]

It's a tossup,in my opinion,as to whether these guys,or The Who did this song better.

[@A_Chicago_Man]

Not the version I thought it was. Was this the original version? I like the other one by the white kids WAY better.

[@RustyCrawford-cc1zy]

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