SIXTIES HITS - JUNE 1967

[@petercrowl9467]

This was the beauty of Top 40 Radio. You were exposed to many different types of music

[@the_guitar_trooper]

Good point!

[@marstondavis]

I turned 17 that June. Great time to be alive. I'm 74 now. Great just to be alive. I've had a great life. PEACE

[@the_guitar_trooper]

Thanks for the view, Marston! Help spread the love 💕 by sharing the channel and the videos!!

[@georgekovacic5822]

My all time favorite from June of 1967 was Procol Harum’s “Whiter Shade of Pale” - it is a true classic!

[@the_guitar_trooper]

Great song!! According to Billboard, “A Whiter Shade of Pale” went to number 5 for the week of July 29th, so it didn’t make this listing for June.

[@appledoreman]

For me, 1967 will always be the year pop GREW UP, as albums came into their own: Vanilla Fudge, the Doors, Incense & Peppermints, Da Capo, Forever Changes, Electric Music for the mind & body, Buffalo Springfield, Younger than yesterday, etc. I bought all these at the time & they still stand up.

[@the_guitar_trooper]

It was a transitional year alright. Witness the contrast in the styles that made it to the top 5 of the same chart! Thank YOU for watching! Please help me to spread the love 💕 by sharing the channel and the videos!!

[@tpatrick44]

I learned how to surf on a board in the Sumner of Love in Oceanside, CA. Great Memories! “All You Need Is Love,” “Incense and Peppermint,” and If “You’re Going to San Francisco” were my takeaways from that Summer. It’s also the First Time I ever saw the Peace ✌️Sign and had now idea what it meant! 😂

[@the_guitar_trooper]

@@tpatrick44 Hi Tim! Yeah. I recall wondering what it was myself.

[@tpatrick44]

@@the_guitar_trooper Hi GT!!!

[@mjemigh3304]

Wow....I completely forgot about, "Forever Changes." Guess I'd better see if it's still out there in some format!

[@BubbaZen10]

I was 2. My little brain was soaking it all up thru the radio.

[@the_guitar_trooper]

Ha!

[@mr.milehi9883]

Did it again! This is no surprise to me. I love your videos you put a lot of research in them and it's just great. Thanks. I didn't know most

[@the_guitar_trooper]

Thanks a MILLION for the view!! Please share this stuff for me!

[@jeff11030]

Awww…AM transistor radios pumping out these songs. You should do the hits of 1968. That was a memorable year for me.

[@the_guitar_trooper]

Oh - there will be more in this series, Jeff! Thanks for watching!! Please share the videos for me!!

[@the_guitar_trooper]

@@dianegreyson8787 Aren’t you relieved that it wasn’t a zither?

[@MatthewPoplawsk]

Those 1967 ticket prices for Monterey WILL NEVER BE SEEN AGAIN. Hard to fathom that 57 years have gone by.😊😊😊😊

[@the_guitar_trooper]

Yep. It’s astonishing to me to see the absurdly high prices for concert tickets nowadays - BUT THEY STILL GET THE MONEY!

[@hartleycwhite]

Thanks for a great review of songs from the summer of '67. Keep up the good work Mr. Trooper.

[@the_guitar_trooper]

Thanks for listening, Harley! Great to see you again!

[@rickmacarthur8622]

What a great celebration of ‘67 music. You really captured the feeling of that year. I enjoy every thing you produce. Thanks for sharing it with us. Looking forward to more of your rich insights.

[@the_guitar_trooper]

I appreciate that, Rick! Thanks so much for your support!!

[@MatthewPoplawsk]

Although I was ten years old in the summer of '67(turned 11 in September), I could sense A BIG CHANGE not only in music, but, the country overall. STILL MISS YOU , Mary Ann.❤❤❤❤

[@the_guitar_trooper]

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[@MatthewPoplawsk]

NEVER KNEW that were previous versions of RESPECT and A LITTLE BIT 'O SOUL.❤❤❤❤

[@the_guitar_trooper]

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[@davidbaise5137]

“Can’t Take My Eyes Off of You” has this trombone solo in the chorus that for me, makes the whole song.

[@the_guitar_trooper]

That’s one thing that everyone that likes the song remembers about it! Thank you for the view and the comment!! Please help me to spread the love 💕 by sharing the videos and the channel!!

[@Ken-l2e]

8 year old then. Every time I hear San Francisco, it brings me back to the jiffy store in crystal river Florida when my aunt bought me an icee because a dog bit my arm. In a 1963 Cadillac convertible. She is still alive too 95 years old.

[@the_guitar_trooper]

Wow! Thanks for sharing!

[@kelf114]

1967. I turned four that year. AM radio. The backward seat in the station wagon. My first deep sea fishing trip. And music everywhere. I drove my parents crazy singing Windy all the time at the top of my voice.. I was confused, thinking The Rascals were actually The Little Rascals grown up. My mom loved Englebert Humperdink. My dad koved laughing at his name. When I want to remember when something happened, I just look up what year certain songs were released. 😄 Thank you for another great video! 😊♥️ PS - you're my favorite "old guy", too....we oldsters rock! 😄

[@the_guitar_trooper]

Thanks as always! I hope this will stir a lot of memories of the time. If it works, I’ll do one a month. Or try to, anyway.

[@Mick_Ts_Chick]

Ha, my mom loved Englebert too. 😂 My first crush was Peter Tork of the Monkees and she liked Mike Nesmith because he was a fellow Texan.

[@paso193]

This is brilliant content! I’m a Boomer that came up through the 60s’, 70s’ +. Played in bands through the whole era. Gotta ask….what’s your backstory? Looks like you could have been a musician who also came through that period? 👍🍸🥃

[@the_guitar_trooper]

Garage band until 1970. Solo bar act in college. Disco DJ in mid 70’s. Thanks SO VERY MUCH for your support! Please spread the love 💕 by sharing the channel and videos!!

[@paso193]

@@the_guitar_trooper ….. _I KNEW IT!_ You just had that killer look of someone who knew how to play! I will spread the word on you and your unique Y.T. channel. Keep trucking, mate! 💥👏🙏

[@joeyvocals1]

I was born in July of 1996, so these songs don't give me memories, but I like most of these songs in this video! You are the best sir! Joey

[@the_guitar_trooper]

Glad you like them, Joey! And THANKS for the support!! Please share the channel with your friends!!

[@timnotbrianmay]

AS ABSOLUTELY ALWAYS, TOTALLY AMAZING, AND ABSOLUTELY SPECTACULAR!!!!!!!!!?!

[@the_guitar_trooper]

Wow, thank you, Tim! This video needs a publicity push! Please share for me!!

[@timnotbrianmay]

@@the_guitar_trooper ... ALREADY DONE!!!

[@mjemigh3304]

Hey, fellow old guy! So, I did quite a bit of work in the '80s with The Tokens. I recall the lone original member telling me that the records by The Happenings were actually recorded by The Tokens. He had no reason to lie about it, since The Happenings didn't exactly set the world on fire.Also, if you can find a copy of The Happenings album (this guy actually had one!), on the back you'll find the words, "Produced by The Tokens." Ah, showbiz......

[@the_guitar_trooper]

That must be a well-kept secret, because there is no evidence of such a substitution. Thanks for the post! Please share the channel and the videos!

[@MatthewPoplawsk]

The minute you said "studio musicians", I KNEW that The Wrecking Crew were involved. I think IT'S A DAMNED SHAME that the entire group isn't in The Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame.😢😢😢😢

[@the_guitar_trooper]

Thanks for watching!! Here’s the thing: The term was a loose definition for those studio musicians that came about after the generation that considered themselves to be more formal musicians. They dressed in suits and had a very strict decorum in the studio. The newer generation, in contrast, were FAR less formal in both dress and behavior and were “wrecking the business” of studio musicians. Hence the name “Wrecking Crew” and also hence the umbrella label for ANY new age studio person, so drawing lines around the names that it encompassed was not easy.

[@sajordan3428]

Great music great times, people were so much more creative back then

[@SmilingIbis]

I was almost 7 when these songs came out. Most of what I remember about the 60s music is that no matter how catchy or innovative it was, it only seemed to make my dad angrier and angrier. They must have been doing something right.

[@the_guitar_trooper]

HA!! Thanks for the view! Please share this for me!!

[@DavidDykes-dm9lc]

Oh God, those Grey Lines tours thru the Haight-eeeeessshhh!!!😂

[@the_guitar_trooper]

Yeah. It’s really kinda kookoo.

[@judih.8754]

Another great trip down Memory Lane. Thanks Trooper!!

[@the_guitar_trooper]

Glad you enjoyed it, Judith!! As always, please share the videos and the channel!!

[@dannakinnaman7115]

I graduated from high school in 1967, so this brings back good memories.

[@the_guitar_trooper]

Hi Danna! Thanks for watching! Please help me to spread the love 💕 by sharing the channel and the videos!!!

[@leedsdevil]

Thanks for the 1967 Summer of Love slice of radio life. I was a mere 6 years old but I remember listening to either WFIL 560AM or WIBG 990AM in Philadelphia. I have the benefit of having 2 aunts who are much younger than my mother, so were more like older sisters. They schooled us well in the music of the era as it happened.

[@the_guitar_trooper]

Glad you enjoyed it!! I am very curious about what it will do in the wild.

[@mjemigh3304]

Dorsey changing his name was a nice marketing ploy. There was a German composer who really had the E.H. name. Around the turn of the previous century, he had a hit on his hands with an opera based on "Hansel and Gretel."

[@the_guitar_trooper]

That’s interesting! Thanks for the post!

[@Music_is_Breathing]

I remember most of these songs. I also remember thinking Engelbert Humperdink was dreamy. He was sort of Tom Jones light with looser pants.

[@the_guitar_trooper]

Humperdinck. LOLOLOL

[@Music_is_Breathing]

@@the_guitar_trooper well, I was only 11 ;)

[@sapelesteve]

Yet another terrific video highlighting great recordings and bringing back lots of long lost memories! Thanks GT for keeping the history of this music alive and well! 👍👍📀📀

[@the_guitar_trooper]

Heya Steve! Thanks as always for the views!!

[@mikeymutual5489]

4:37 Bob Crewe was the Four Seasons' producer, not a band member. Bob Gaudio was indeed part of the group.

[@the_guitar_trooper]

Thanks for that!!

[@flautalee3090]

I always enjoy your posts. Thank you!❤❤❤

[@the_guitar_trooper]

Thank YOU!! Please help me out and share the videos and channel with your friends!!

[@MartysPopParty]

Great one. You brought up the subject of Gordon Mills in relation to Engelbert Humperdinck. Another interesting video would be the bramble involving Gilbert O’Sullivan and Mills and how Gil managed to finally get ownership of his own masters, something that was unprecedented for contracts from that time period.

[@the_guitar_trooper]

Hi Marty! Yeah. Interesting! I’ll make a note of it.

[@jerryboucher4251]

Dude you are one of a kind

[@the_guitar_trooper]

Hi Jerry! And Thanks! I guess….

[@DavidDykes-dm9lc]

Kudos for mentioning the Great!! Society!! (as it was spelled back then. Yes , I'm from the Bay Area. 😊)

[@the_guitar_trooper]

Woohoo!! The double exclamation mark got ‘em every time.

[@DavidDykes-dm9lc]

@@the_guitar_trooper I keep forgetting kudos for calling the original by it's real title Someone To Love. Have you heard the original? (sure you have) it's kinda cool, I like it! 😀

[@the_guitar_trooper]

@@DavidDykes-dm9lc Hi, David! I’m too immersed in the Airplane version. When I listen to the Society!! version, it just sounds wrong! Me and my ears.

[@DavidDykes-dm9lc]

@@the_guitar_trooper understandable, I've always had a prevalence of picking the other side especially when it's kinda weird like that. I think it comes from where and when I grew up, Bay Area 60s thru 70s. I also had a very competitive family, all us grandkids on my mom's side lived in two cities 20 miles apart. I was blessed with having an uncle and older cousin (more like the big brother I never had) who would buy all the cool albums almost as soon as they were released. So I got exposure to the kick-ass stuff at an early-ish age...

[@glennso47]

In 1967 I was in the navy and stationed in Kenitra Morocco and listening to this music on Armed Forces Radio

[@the_guitar_trooper]

Thanks again, Glenn!

[@the_guitar_trooper]

@@dianegreyson8787 HA!

[@Foul_Quince]

These 10 minute videos are consistently excellent. Wasn't Little Bit O'Soul the first hit for Jeffry Katz and Jerry Kasenetz, before they conquered the world with their bubblegum sound? Englebert Humperdinck's full story is absolutely amazing. That guy is an absolute legend.

[@the_guitar_trooper]

Hi Quince! And THANKS as always for the very kind words! I have no idea about Katz/Kasenetz - I have never dug into their work or history. I’ll bet YOU have though! Your research never seems to have holes in it!

[@Foul_Quince]

@@the_guitar_trooper They were the men who gave the world "Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'" by Crazy Elephant, a major and enduring part of my musical education and my most played song on Spotify on 2022

[@the_guitar_trooper]

@@Foul_Quince HA! Our garage band played Gimme Gimme Good Lovin'! What a hoot!

[@Mick_Ts_Chick]

Hey GT! See, I told you I'd be back this weekend. Nice video. I was a little kid but I remember all the songs. I remember being confused about Groovin. I couldn't figure out who "Leslie" was and why she was with them, lol. We could probably do 10 videos on misunderstood song lyrics though! 🤪

[@the_guitar_trooper]

And Welcome back!

[@kennethswain6313]

That was a different mix - I really appreciate these back stories keep ‘em coming ( please)

[@the_guitar_trooper]

Hey, Thanks ever so much for the view, Kenneth! Will definitely continue! Doing this for you guys is a blast.

[@DavidDykes-dm9lc]

Great channel!!! You should do one on the Wrecking Crew, if you haven't already 😊

[@the_guitar_trooper]

Hi, David! Haven’t specifically, but I have a script outline. Not scheduled at this point though. Most people don’t know WHY the new generation of studio people got that name.

[@shuroom57]

Good work, GT! The Association is one of my favorite singing groups -- seven lead singer-songwriters in one band! And, they were funny! You should look for the bits they did on the Smothers Brothers Show. And I understand the corporate decisions to use wrecking crew members on their records, but they were accomplished musicians and played well live; their set on the Monterey Pop Festival stage was certainly more polished than the sloppy Mamas & Papas effort. I mean I like their music (M & P's) but they were tripping a little too much. I used to work with a girl who was at that show; she dated John Densmore of the Doors. She said there was a lot of LSD going around. Poor Pamela; she and her German husband had a horrible experience in Tulsa when we knew them, in the early '80's. Home invasion. They lived, but it took the wind out of their free wheeling artistic spirit. I often hope that the memories of better times, like she had in LA and San Francisco in 1967, sustained her and maybe still do. Sorry so down, GT; I just think someone should know their story.

[@the_guitar_trooper]

Well, my intent with the piece was to stimulate HAPPY memories of course, but there were plenty of others to go around.

[@tbirdtim]

Great commentary (as always). I was shy of my 11th birthday (August 9) in June of 1967. I remember every one of these records quite well.

[@the_guitar_trooper]

Thanks for sharing! And THANKS especially for the kind words!! Please share the videos for me!!

[@Randysinger]

I love love love love your postings, but you should consider getting a new theme song :-)

[@the_guitar_trooper]

Funny that you mention that… Thanks for the view! Please share!!

[@KRW628]

When I saw the name "Jefferson Airplane" on the poster,, I wondered - who the hell is that? Then I remembered, that was the original name for J Starship.

[@the_guitar_trooper]

Yep. They were the original San Francisco garage band sound.

[@teresamc521]

Remember all of the songs very well. .prob wore out those singles

[@the_guitar_trooper]

Thanks for the view, Teresa! Please share the videos and the channel with your friends!!

[@glennso47]

What about Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass?

[@the_guitar_trooper]

Hi Glenn! Thanks for watching!! They are on the development list. Herb, to be specific. Not scheduled yet, but I expect to do his story this year.

[@harrymaciolek9629]

Aretha made no friends in the Detroit rock scene when she released “Respect” just as a version by the Rationals was rising up the local charts.

[@the_guitar_trooper]

She had a rep of being rather assertive.

[@w.llawrence86]

Biggest shame on the Monterey poster: current hitmaker and partial backer of the Monterey Pop Festival ($10K if I understand correctly) is omitted from the poster (Johnny Rivers). Apparently D.A. Pennebaker & his staff deemed this artist "inconsequential" and chose not to shoot any footage of his performance at this historic gathering

[@the_guitar_trooper]

Oh Man. That festival was chaotic behind the scenes. As were most all of them that I have seen. The printing deadlines caught a lot of the promoters. There were simply too many last minute changes.

[@mikeymutual5489]

Maybe because compared with the rest of the lineup there, Johnny Rivers was indeed inconsequential.

[@w.llawrence86]

@jeffreyslotnikoff4003 Not to mention that he negotiated his own record label (Soul City Records) before Apple Records. He soon thereafter introduced us to The Fifth Dimention and Al Wilson aro

[@mikeymutual5489]

@jeffreyslotnikoff4003 The Monkees had a lot of hits by that time too. Were they consequential too at that time? You have no knowledge or sense of rock history if you think that Johnny Rivers was an important recording artist by the summer of 1967.

[@mikeymutual5489]

@jeffreyslotnikoff4003 "Who are you to decide who was or who wasn't important at ANY time in "rock history"?" Exactly - making the claim that Johnny Rivers was an important artist among the other performers at Monterey is exactly the kind of know-it-all comment that none of us needs.

[@rocksinger45]

Larry transformed into Wendy 😂

[@joeramirez709]

My ex-wife was in love with Engelbert Humperdink....probably why she's my ex-wife.

[@the_guitar_trooper]

No accounting for taste, eh!??

[@sethcarley1446]

WHY IS IT SINGERS LIKE JOHNNY MEISTRO AYBE ONE OF THE BEST EARLY ROCK nROLL VOICES AND ALSO NEIL SEDAKA WhO HAS TO HIS CREDIT BOTH WRITTEN AND ADDED SEVERAL TOP 20 HITS FOR HIMSELF AND OTHERS NOT IN THE ROCK n ROLL HALL OD FAME ???????

[@the_guitar_trooper]

Politics?

[@DavidDykes-dm9lc]

That DAMN MacKenzie song helped to ruin the so-called Summer of Love. Ask any self-respecting Hippie and they'll tell you that the REAL Summer of Love was in '66 when we didn't have all those strung-out, pock marked teenagers running around!!😮

[@the_guitar_trooper]

LOL!

[@VictorSamuelson-nk5nw]

You picked some real steps to represent this summer I give this a 65 barely passing because you included so many stupid songs like Engleberg Humperdink

[@the_guitar_trooper]

Hey! I can’t help that Humperdinck made the top 5! Gimme a break, Man! LOL

[@sludge8506]

No one’s getting fat, except…

[@ront769]

Mama Tass!

[@sludge8506]

@@ront769 🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪🤪