We appeared on so many TV shows it's hard to remember them all. I have clips from Mike Douglas (the one here on KZbin), Smothers Bros, two appearances on American Bandstand, and the Hy Litt show from Philadelpia. We also did about 4 of Dick Clark's "Where The Action Is" shows, Ed Sullivan (can't find a tape of that), Merv Griffin,and zillions of local teen shows across the nation. Preston
@francescaa83313 жыл бұрын
Wow, amazing. Had your album. And my actual favorite song was Bangles. (I love a good tempo change.) Also....Your band name was just too good.
@francescaa83313 жыл бұрын
@hugbug67 loved get smart.
@rft2001 Жыл бұрын
Probably the greatest psychedelic song of all time. Also, one of the first. I didn't hear the song until the late 70's as I was just a baby when it came out but my friends and I listened to it constantly in high school. It was such a different and original sound. And as much as I loved the first album, the 2nd one was even better. Two of the greatest psychedelic records of all time. Also, I have to confess that I absolutely love the song "Onie" which many fans disparage.
@johnpastore76858 күн бұрын
This song rocks. You have great memories. I was a year old when this song was first released, but growing up, I learned this song. Incredible song. Thanks for this.
@johnpastore76858 күн бұрын
Sorry the audience was dead.
@InandOut-oc7vg Жыл бұрын
One of the best band ever
@terrylodge52134 жыл бұрын
Electric Prunes were a great Band of their time, got to meet Preston Ritter about 10 years ago through the Internet, He had contacted me, as I'm a singer in a Local Band here in Edmonton Alberta Canada called Flashback and he saw a video of my Band and he thought that my voice would be great for his band in LA & they needed a new lead Singer & he wanted me to come to LA and play in his Band, unfortunately I was not able to at that time, kind of wish I had as I knew his material as my Band at the time were playing "I Had To Much Too Dream last night". Would have been interesting. RIP Preston
@BossaNossa17 жыл бұрын
It never fails after listening to this song for decades, it always gives me the chills up my spine! Incredible!
@vilcan004 жыл бұрын
yes. takes me right back in a second.
@danthefan5378 Жыл бұрын
Timeless since it's inception! Bests, dtf
@InandOut-oc7vg Жыл бұрын
My favorite usa band❤ 1967 they recorded 3 albums. Whaou
@prestonr18 жыл бұрын
By the way, I paid $400 for the original tape of this Mike Douglas appearance to be taken from their storage vault and transferred to VHS tape. Now it's all over the Internet (not my fault)! If I hadn't paid for it, it would still be hidden in their vault and seen by no one. Preston (Drummer - Electric Prunes)
@1olddoggie4 жыл бұрын
Thank you! That is one of my all time favorite songs from the 60's!
@janetwilhelm44354 жыл бұрын
Thanks Preston!
@djbigleg32284 жыл бұрын
@@janetwilhelm4435 good lad pity they didnt let them play live cause they were great live but a great bit of footage.i recommend the sutro park lp release live in sweden 67 its analogue & captures this band at their peak great band peace...
@therockerfoo23393 жыл бұрын
Thanks Preston. Do you guys still play around the valley?
@RobertBare3 жыл бұрын
Saw you guys play at the Continental in San Jose, California. You guys were great
@rick007703 жыл бұрын
Brings back great memories. The strange guitar sound is a pedal that distorts the sound of the guitar. The used distortion a lot then it was more of a fuzzy sound. This record had an almost laser like tone which was unique. One of my favorites. I was in high school then . Thanks for sharing.
@soulmanjones95143 жыл бұрын
I could hear a little Hendrix in that awesome sound! Thank you for the info on the fuzz-like distortion on the guitar. Very well played and an excellent edgy group.
@63saruman13 жыл бұрын
You don't have to be high to enjoy and appreciate this music. I've never taken drugs, and I love psychodelic music: Electric Prunes, Jefferson Airplane, some Tommy James'.. etc.¡
@vano758 Жыл бұрын
I AGREE. But now i am high now and i really caN feel the Song nails it COMPLETELY. 🙂
@InandOut-oc7vg Жыл бұрын
Right. Music gets you high..no needs of drugs 🎉❤
@StoryTom2023 Жыл бұрын
True🎉. Love this band since 1979
@randyandtheretreads31444 жыл бұрын
One of my very favorite songs, so glad to see a video of it after all these years.
@LDManibog9 жыл бұрын
Rest in peace, Dad! I love and miss you so much!!!
@jimmyrodasmolestina9794 жыл бұрын
Which one was your dad ?
@LDManibog4 жыл бұрын
Jimmy Rodas Molestina Preston Ritter, the drummer.
@Speedboozer3 жыл бұрын
He was a good drummer rip ❤️
@marcap97573 жыл бұрын
RIP ❤
@robertbishop5357 Жыл бұрын
I miss my pops too.
@DavidSandilands12 жыл бұрын
I first heard I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night) when it had been just released in UK the on a little portable radio with a single earphone late at night on Radio Luxemburg with the static swooshing in and out. I guess I was about 13. The echo on the vocals and the fuzz guitar sounded fabulous and exotic. I remember thinking "Wow!"
@mhairimushroom56012 жыл бұрын
Fabulous story 💗🎶
@marclayne92616 ай бұрын
Quite possibly, the greatest song of 1960s.....
@vano758 Жыл бұрын
Incredible clip -- with THREE songs instead of just one. And on top of it, is the TV girl! She looks just fantastic.
@danthefan5378 Жыл бұрын
You Got Smart!~Barbara is the GRRL Lead on TV show Get Smart. Barbara Feldon's early 60's TV commercials are drooling And She Has a GR8 Book from not that long ago! Bests, dtf
@PeterMayer13 жыл бұрын
Mike Douglas, a bit of a square and yet, so hip. He always had music on. RIP Mike !
@vincentkosik4032 жыл бұрын
Yep Mike was a square hip dude
@johnpastore76858 күн бұрын
The tunaville trolley is like a great song for kids, too
@jackdaw61826 жыл бұрын
When I was younger I thought they were singing.... "I had too much to drink last night"! Love this song
@56BUICKRiviera17 жыл бұрын
I would come homefrom school and this show would be on the T.V. Every day new & fresh. Ass kicking.
@marclayne92616 ай бұрын
'All that we see or seem, is but a dream within a dream'....Edgar Allan Poe....
@SeattleLA13 жыл бұрын
this was a monster hit, and most TV shows then, were great.
@NadiaSahari9 жыл бұрын
The best song writer Annette Tucker and this group sang it superbly!!!
@Timberland195217 жыл бұрын
I was and it was GREAT. The drummer and I are friends today
@jamesyuille95342 жыл бұрын
Loved it. One of my fav albums is Mass in F Minor.
@fob1xxl2 жыл бұрын
Thank you Preston.
@runway27r9 жыл бұрын
R.I.P. Preston Ritter, original drummer
@THEDV1313 жыл бұрын
mike douglas was bad ass....just like the talent he put on his show...
@drivinsouth65110 жыл бұрын
This is an awesome piece of vintage retro psychedelica :-D Barbara Feldon is one hot mama (Agent 99) Groovy man :-D
@davidspicer43302 жыл бұрын
The very first psychedelic song and band .they started it all back in 1966.
@naradaian11 ай бұрын
Apparently so….amazing
@kidcalabria13 жыл бұрын
I've listened to this song a 1000 times since I first discovered it round 1980 (I've heard lots of other stuff too). The more I listen to it the more I think it's one of the best Rock songs ever. It's true that The Prunes didn't write it, it was written for them by professional songwriters, hit-makers, but the sound, the feel, the arrangement, the performance are theirs. This is the best video clip of it, thank you so much for posting this. I heard that bassist Mark Tulin died recently, rip
@MrMalibu30 Жыл бұрын
1980?....25 yrs later....oh well,, better late than never...
@debraweaver6308 Жыл бұрын
@@MrMalibu30 I thought that it was out in 1967!
@AnalogCzar16 жыл бұрын
Seeing these cats live on Sunday! Brilliant.
@CarmieSchulz11 жыл бұрын
This band is pretty cool. I love Barbara Feldon too. What a sweetheart.
@kynoceph18 жыл бұрын
oh, man, that sunburst Les Paul Standard with Bigsby!
@kynoceph18 жыл бұрын
good for him! nice to communicate w/you by the way.
@moorlock200317 жыл бұрын
Lots of bands appeared on The Mike Douglas show, including The Hollies, who performed "On A Carousel", "Butterfly", and "Dear Eloise". The band was also presented with some gold records for "Bus Stop", "Stop! Stop! Stop!", "On A Carousel", "Carrie-Anne", and the LP "The Hollies' Greatest Hits".
@edgarfletcher21333 жыл бұрын
Awesome! I saw the Hollies in 1985/86 in Rockford Illinois in a movie theatre, maybe 5 or 600 people there. Very intimate. They were great!
@moorlock20033 жыл бұрын
@@edgarfletcher2133 You must be referring to the 1983 Nash reunion. I saw them on that tour too, in New York City and Saratoga Springs, NY.
@danthefan5378 Жыл бұрын
Nash solo (on KZbin) & The Hollies song "King Midas in Reverse" is Very Psychedelic! Big Hit in UK! Bests, dtf
@vincentkosik4032 жыл бұрын
I remember this cool tune when I was a kid going to Sandy Hook beach in Jersey
@Idelia41211 жыл бұрын
I remember when they performed in a club in Ontario, California and I was to young to attend. LOL
@ARGONAUTIshow11 жыл бұрын
THE definitive psychedelic rock song. Not Band, just that one song.
@MrSteinpower13 жыл бұрын
Who is normal here? The Prunes or the suits? Really wish that I were alive for the 60's. The only difference is that, now, war is privatized . Seriously though, super rad band and I'm glad I found them here. Thanks TablesTurned!
@dunkcraven66324 жыл бұрын
Real kool love and peace always glass banana UK
@darksomehandsome16 жыл бұрын
Probably one of the best things that came out of american 1960s music.
@brucegaylord13186 ай бұрын
Way before their times, hadn't heard this in awhile, Barbara Felton Gets Smart with the band
@nancylewishavensheart Жыл бұрын
I knew Mark Kincaid and Ron Morgan (1400 Wabash, Aurora, CO-1976) who were with the Prunes for a while. Both were excellent guitarists
@sexobscura8 жыл бұрын
reminds me so much of *MAMAS AND PAPAS*
@edkollin11 жыл бұрын
Agent 99 and the Electric Prunes. Only in the 60's
@micmac0914 жыл бұрын
I like their look !
@beefheart6717 жыл бұрын
wow i love the 60's innoscence
@prestonr18 жыл бұрын
Yes, it's a nice guitar and worth a fortune today. It's a 1958 Les Paul. As far as I know, Ken Williams our lead guitarist, still owns that guitar. Preston Ritter (drummer - Electric Prunes)
@lawrencehric81733 жыл бұрын
This ia a bit late reply but is this the same guitar for sale on Reverb.com? I believe its a 1960 Les Paul Standard.
@lilythepink2u13 жыл бұрын
RIP Mark..thanks for the music x♥
@ricardomendoza59194 жыл бұрын
💜💜🌹🌹🌹🌹🤩😜 so many memories😜⚡️
@thebrush0313 жыл бұрын
This was written as a country western hit. (Which explains the name) The arrangement and group put it on the map.
@Bullit79699 жыл бұрын
She is so sweet!!!!!
@bluesborn12 жыл бұрын
The Douglas set is familiar to anyone who grew up in the 60s.Sure takes me back.
@GordosGigs4 жыл бұрын
Drummer is feelin' it !
@machia07054 жыл бұрын
In 2020 the Surfrajettes are doing a killer cover of this song.
@danthefan5378 Жыл бұрын
Susanna Hoffs (fyi~The Bangles) absolutely nails To Much To Dream ~ Live & on KZbin, Bests, dtf
@peterlewis37153 жыл бұрын
A new group of female guitarists have done a remake of this song.. they are called The Surfragettes. They are really good.
@johnbarry19652 жыл бұрын
Nicole the lead guitarist is cuter than a box of kittens!!
@danthefan5378 Жыл бұрын
Susanna Hoffs (fyi~The Bangles) absolutely nails To Much To Dream ~ Live & on KZbin, Bests, dtf
@fob1xxl2 жыл бұрын
Their slogan should have been, "The Electric Prunes" they'll really move you !
@pbrucpaul4 жыл бұрын
This is what you play when a teenager today wants to hear what a psychaedelic number sounds like.
@seanrobinson640710 ай бұрын
I had too many electric prunes last night
@caerphillykid14 жыл бұрын
More Cab Calloway on KZbin please! he's the cool afro-american cat with the unmistakable moustache and front teeth at 8:46 sitting on a stool crooning away with quite a good female vocalist. He of Minnie the Minx and Blues Bros fame
@BossaNossa17 жыл бұрын
This is the episode where The "Enterprise" goes back in time to Earth and encounters this mind bending fruit, which they later discover is called, "Electric Prunes"... We don't see the full episode here but the partakers of the "fruit" begin to change into, an "Electric Prune"...
@CaptNemo10011 жыл бұрын
I remember the first time I heard this song on the radio....I was like, what the ??? It's a cool song though
@RedMist8513 жыл бұрын
They're rocking out hard!
@jimimacsheen46623 жыл бұрын
we all thought he said drink back then cuz our parents (the greatest generation) thats all they did 🤪 then there was Rick Derringer's hang on snoopy🤣🤣🤣
@fdhgtw110 жыл бұрын
The 60's great example of a garage band!
@thekid19216 жыл бұрын
WOW, POWERFUL!!!!
@stevenreed97575 жыл бұрын
(Annette Tucker [COMPOSER]+ Lyricist: Nancie Mantz + Electic Prunes + Dave Hassinger [Producer] + Electricity [Gobs of]) x GENIUS = I Had Too Much To Dream
@Barrett97714 жыл бұрын
wonderful!
@skeletonkey613 жыл бұрын
@thebrush03 I've heard that said a lot of times, but in actual fact, the writers of the song said that they had the Rolling Stones in mind when they wrote the song.
@urbanexplorer199612 жыл бұрын
happy birthday james
@johnbarry19652 жыл бұрын
Classic "Psych".Someone once wrote that the feedback at the start of The Beatles "I feel fine" sounds like the door of a Vauxhall Victor being shut compared to the beginning of this.I can hear The Stones "Paint it black" in the drums!!
@hat33kiid11 жыл бұрын
She did good I love that kit man groovy kit :)
@darylcumming71199 ай бұрын
99 from Get Smart. 😊
@TheParamountPrincess13 жыл бұрын
Mike Douglas wernt no 'fuddy duddy'... but i totally understand what u mean.. LOL. remember we only had few channels back then. Channel 2,4,5,7,and 9 and then 20. and 44. Thats all we had.. and u know what? i miss it! i miss the Star Spangled Banner static commin on at 2am.. to tell me 'Time to go to Bed America' :(...
@marcfedak13 жыл бұрын
thanks tablesturned for including the whole segment of that show. Sure it's corny at times, and the Electric Prunes aren't as original as Mike Douglas thought (the Yardbirds did similar music but earlier) but "Take Me to the World on Time" and "I Had too Much to Dream Last Night" are great songs and Barbara Feldman was pretty hot at the time.
@briseboy Жыл бұрын
Congratulations! You have happened upon the fact that music techniques affects others, especially musicians. Notice how specific instruments elicit certain overtones, and that sustaining consonant overtone series helps create what you MISTAKE as" original" by whatever player[s] you first heard. Name the instrument date of origin ( or in the case of keyboard, when Johann Bach developed "well-tempered scale, which affect strings, and consequently, the placement of stops/holes on horns and woodwinds. Now, you can understand, with considerable study of not only acoustics, but also cochlea and neural development, that is with only another lifetimewith which to avoid remaining with a narrow temporal and cognitive life, and, instead, a willingness to follow curiosity into the FACT that ALL creativity is borrowing and synthesis.
@willminkorea201011 жыл бұрын
Next to Mike Douglas-That's a young Marty Ingels who was married to Shirley Jones.He was a "rising star" who never seemed to find the right show or movie.
@charlesstepp20834 жыл бұрын
When music had a point
@RJS356611 жыл бұрын
Barbara Feldon was a square even in her younger days.
@robin2012ism11 жыл бұрын
Niice one
@HomebrewStew4 жыл бұрын
What? 5:44 Mike Douglas: Here, do you want me to take your prune? LOL Barbara Feldon: If I catch you eating it...
@anonyarena11 жыл бұрын
therotiv4 - the name of the last song was The Toonerville Trolley. It was a cut on their first album.
@georgefeist81907 жыл бұрын
MIKE SAID...THE TOOTERVILLE SONG.
@chocolatcats11 жыл бұрын
drum on Preston you're great
@psychicwhoosh13 жыл бұрын
The electric prunes will give you the 40 megawatt shits.
@bdff40072 жыл бұрын
U have my brother' s sense of humor. Thanks for the laugh at 2:40 a.m EST. October 2021. Corona tonic
@davidkemery72162 ай бұрын
They used to early on have these suits that could be plugged in and they lit up I've never seen a video of them but I've heard it being talked about their manager would get on them angrily if he found out that the previous night they had not worn there *prune suits* if anyone has video proof of this I would love to see it
@iVenge18 жыл бұрын
Barbara Feldon... what a dope. Just goes to show that a lot of the people we look back on in the 60s as being cool would have been more at home at an Eddie Fisher concert. How more totally uncool could she be? Note also that the Executive Producer of the Mike Douglas Show was Roger Ailes, who is now the guy who runs the Fox News Network.
@bdff40072 жыл бұрын
Roger Ailes also worked for Reagan.
@iVenge2 жыл бұрын
@@bdff4007 And now, fifteen years after I wrote that comment, he is dead. But thanks for showing up! Better late than never. 😆
@astarisborn7511 жыл бұрын
When I first heard this I thought they were saying "I Had Too Much To Drink Last Night" hahaha
@naradaian11 ай бұрын
It’s not remotely interesting and yet you keep saying it - what a non life
@JuanTucoRamirez14 жыл бұрын
Richie Podolor produced (Steppenwolf). I love agent 99
@kidcalabria11 жыл бұрын
Outrageous and offensive to The Electric Prunes and their fans - and also to viewers and to people's intelligence in general - to have this dumb chick ruining The Prunes's performance of Get Me To The World On Time... Apart from that, thanks for posting this; always loved this band and I think I Had Too Much To Dream Last Night is one of the best songs I've ever heard since I heard it on Nuggets over 30 years ago.. it took me all these years to finally see these guys... Great upload, thank you
@oldgit987918 жыл бұрын
great clip of the fantastic electric prunes .a question for preston ritter if you read this.which other shows did you appear on.did you do ed sullivan?thanks
@2oldfashgrl12 жыл бұрын
@skeletonkey6 Yeah, I can agree somewhat! It has a hard-driving beat/sound that reminds me of "Painted Black", or "Standing In The Shadows" by the stones.
@Elspode10 жыл бұрын
The guy talking to Mike at the beginning sounds for all the world like Joe Pesci.
@25marmag10 жыл бұрын
His name is Marty Engels, an actor and comedian.
@johnpastore76858 күн бұрын
Barbara had too, much prunes lol
@toonersteve14 жыл бұрын
the origin of their Electric Prunes name exposed to Agent 99
@MrDoubtfulguest11 жыл бұрын
Marty Ingels, a comic and voice over guy who is married to Shirley Jones of THE PARTRIDGE FAMILY.
@strongbrave11 жыл бұрын
Doro Pesch has a sweet cover of this on one of her CD's
@squyres17 жыл бұрын
That is awesome!! Where does he live & yourself?? Does he still play ???? D. in Florida--Peace/Love
@1Sithe5 ай бұрын
Far out man 😂
@alanstrom22214 жыл бұрын
Yes Brooklyn I agree. A lot of the Psych Garage bands had a similar vein of sound. That's not a criticism, it's an observation. It's called a genre of music. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_garage_rock_bands On this long list of bands you'll see some Australian bands. Listen to Masters Apprentices from Adelaide, they are brilliant. The Missing Links from Sydney The Purple Hearts from Brisbane The Loved Ones from Melbourne The La De Das from New Zealand www.moshcam.com/articles/19801/australians-psychedelic-rock Have a listen to The Lime Spiders, they are one of the most genuine and honest Psych / Garage bands of all time. They are a Sydney band, though Mick Blood on Lead vocals is from Western Australia.
@AnaSanchez-vd6rl11 жыл бұрын
Rebel, rebels.
@aginghipster17 жыл бұрын
Im more of an 80's alternative guy aka REM, Smiths, Cure, Replacements, Husker Du, ect. but I also love 60's psychadelia and pop.
@TheFarrah66613 жыл бұрын
its mike douglas he was the oprah and helen of that time young and old watched him
@CelticBadAss13 жыл бұрын
@robinbussian - the hosts represented the parents.