THE ASSOCIATION (1981) - The Mike Douglas Entertainment Hour

‘The Mike Douglas Entertainment Hour’.
The band perform "Backseat Of Heaven" and "Along Comes Mary"

[@DONGOE]

The Association should definitely be Inducted into The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame!!

[@justsomeguy820]

RRHOF is nothing to strive for.

[@kaycass]

RIP in Terry....you and this group was just fabulous!! Thanks for the memories...sing high in the heavens now!

[@raydelavega7457]

PURE VOCALS NO STUPID MACHINES OR TRICKS!! SUPERB BAND!!! 60S GREAT SOUND!!! 🎶🎶🎶🎸🎶🎶🎶

[@porgiepoo1]

❤❤❤ RIGHT! When music was REALLY music!!!

[@jabbahursty]

an excellent band who needed to be taken more seriously at all times

[@gillysmusic]

Not many bands sound this good live. Perfect. Love Larry and Russ's voices especially.

[@RETROTV1394]

The legendary association. A great group of guys. With great harmonies. R.I.P. Larry Ramos, Terry Kirkland and Mike Douglas

[@heli-crewhgs5285]

Brian Cole too.

[@oldtyedyeguy]

Russ also

[@spudjohnsonn8122]

They will never make great music like this again! These guys belonged in the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame but were never recognized for their mind-blowing talent!

[@nondeblah]

Mike Douglas rocks.

[@scottmiller6495]

Two icons, the association and mike Douglas, incredible!!!!!

[@032319581]

Love Larry's voice! RIP

[@fivemile13]

So nice to see the whole original band there (minus Brian Cole of course) plus Ric Ulsky.

[@robertvasquez2738]

Wow beautiful 🙏🏻👍🏼

[@MichaelSmith-rn6vd]

I miss Larry's wonderful voice!

[@valerieteti1755]

Me too he was so talented

[@jeffreysnow2640]

They sang Live on this show !!!

[@danielbesser4602]

They sound better here than they even sounded in the 1960s! Both of the guitarists ' playing has gotten even better than when they started out!

[@LucasVigor]

I had read that they had studio ringers on a lot of their albums…but they clearly had to learn it all for live performances!

[@danielbesser4602]

That's certainly possible, I am surprised at how well they learned to play live

[@SL-vi4tk]

Hand picked to open the Monterey Pop Festival... pretty cool.

[@computerboy2k]

I wish they were that film of the festival, I would love to see any deleted scenes if there are any…

[@SL-vi4tk]

@@computerboy2k All I saw was "Along Comes Mary" on the outtakes DVD, and "Along Comes Mary" and "Windy" on the CD. So many other bands and performances weren't recorded at all. Lost and never to happen again.

[@computerboy2k]

@@SL-vi4tk at least there is a wealth of videos from all decades including this year

[@stewartwilbanks4294]

Jerry Garcia said they stole the show

[@SL-vi4tk]

@@stewartwilbanks4294 ... and from what I read, The Grateful Dead also had a great show - with none of it recorded.

[@jacksmith5692]

Jim went from straight hair and a handlebar moustache to Harpo Marx!

[@kensellers4082]

Yes, Jim has one of the greatest heads of hair of rock musicians along with fellow bandmates Terry Kirkman, Russ Giguere and Justin Hayward, Sir Ringo Starr, Mark Volman, Graham Nash and Dennis Drew.

[@Marcella12610]

They are fantastic, look so well turned-out for their perfomance and loved the live singing. Jim Yester's voice is outstanding. I do wish the hats would go, though.

[@pgroove163]

i dig the hats !

[@spudjohnsonn8122]

I thought it was Jim Yester also, but I swear he said Jerry Yester?

[@judyread492]

Rest in Peace, Terry Kirkman❤

[@tadroid3858]

The Mike Douglas Show was a staple in the Philadelphia market. The Association had amazing vocals and instrumental arrangements.

[@peppercat8718]

I love their sound 🎼🎵🎶🎤

[@mrb4886]

I love them. Always.

[@lunarsabbatical7906]

They had two number one and a number two hit which when you think of the talent in the 60’s that was amazing

[@DONGOE]

"The Association" - THE BEST vocal band in rock history.

[@raybenoit5238]

He's the only one that I want to hear singing the lead to " along comes mary "

[@20thCB]

So weird seeing these guys in the 80s, love it! Along Comes Mary sounds great here!

[@melissae1116]

Mike Douglas, I haven't thought of him in years. He is right about how great the Association was.

[@rgg4040]

Fantastic song....but needs more cowbell.

[@robertmichalscheck3072]

One of the best bands of all time.

[@howie9751]

Seriously?

[@chuckdieselkicksdisks2380]

agreed :)

[@robertmichalscheck3072]

@@howie9751 yep,seriously

[@spudjohnsonn8122]

Hell yes, one of the greatest vocal bands of all time, no doubt.

[@DONGOE]

Why is The Association not in The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame? Tragic.

[@ciarraibuzz]

I liked the Mike Douglas show and the Association. These guys sounded great on this show. Just like always. What a live act, not just in the studio. Mike Douglas was sincere and funny and he had a very nice voice.

[@spectrum04002]

Such a treat to see Mike spend real time with the band. I have seen a number of these performers in various incarnations of the Association on the Happy Together tours over the years. I made a double take to recognize Jim Yester with the big hair! This year Jules Alexander was in the act.

[@tomkitchen9457]

When I remember the Association, I remember them performing on this vertical stage rig, I don't know how to describe it. Anyone else remember it?

[@davidkoerner1905]

I grew up listening 2 there music and c them back in the 60's they don't make good music like the association I've got there greatest hits d and play it alot

[@alpha-omega2362]

maybe the Smother's Brothers Show?

[@loketokhan6529]

Birthday Morning

[@melanie010203]

Ed Sullivan 🧐

[@kenzahora9167]

@@alpha-omega2362with the gear-works in the background? I just watched it with Wings of Pegasus analysis.

[@jeffryphillipsburns]

Two years after this aired I (was in a group that) traded sets with them (we played a set, they played a set, we played another set, they played another set) and shared a dressing trailer-Chicagofest. I got to know them a bit, especially Terry and the keyboard player (different from this one it seems, but I can’t say for sure) and also a frustrated groupie named Thomasina (as in the Disney movie, which is why I remember). Just before going on and opening with “Along Comes Mary, they lit a joint and offered me a hit (I declined). In 1983 they played their sixties hits-or at least mostly their sixties hits-and it wasn’t clear to me if they were aiming for a big-time come-back or not (It didn’t seem polite to ask). Whether they were still in 1983, this show makes it clear they were in 1981, so that’s an old lingering question finally answered.Thanks.

[@kensellers4082]

Whenever Mike Douglas had a band on his show, he would ask the band members who they were and where they were from. When The Turtles appeared on his old Philadelphia show back during the 1960s, he also asked each guy how old they were. Lead singer Howard Kaylan replied by asking Mike, “How old are YOU, Mike?” Mr. Douglas declined to answer Howard Kalyan’s question. At least, Mike Douglas refrained from asking the guys in The Association that same rude question. By the way, the guys sounded fantastic on that performance of “Along Comes Mary.”

[@stereofidelic67]

Check out my 55th Anniversary mix of Windy.

[@tylerthompson1842]

Wish the sound was better cause you can tell they sound amazing

[@chrisphillips4859]

Bop a door wahh.

[@chrisphillips4859]

Another example of a good project faded away.

[@jacksmith5692]

Terry was with HBO then.

[@grouchosays]

What did he do for them?

[@fivemile13]

I wonder what the first song was?

[@alanforrester1401]

Backseat of Heaven

[@michaelwillett8885]

awful song. The songs they recorded in the 1980s were pretty bad and I believe they were all written by outside writers. What a shame, since Kirkman, Yester and Alexander were all great songwriters.

[@johntobin3235]

Miss Jules here

[@leograndovic5171]

I was hooked on these guys when I first heard "On A Quiet Night" off of the Insight Out album.

[@QueenViolet8]

I know I hadn’t heard of this group before but now I’m so surprised I wasn’t born then such amazing music 🥰

[@leograndovic5171]

@@QueenViolet8 If you were into music, that period was a great time to be alive!

[@christophergaff6992]

Radio broadcasting 101 you got it too loud

[@pkeelan56]

Larry Ramos. Unbelievable voice!

[@BobSchusterMusiccom]

So good.

[@cliffworks748]

please re-post with decent audio thank you.

[@toneyisaiah3556]

1981, right?

[@HippieNiecey]

These were the best! Love them.

[@randyking6029]

There are not words to describe the incredible talent and sound of The Association in their prime - and it was a long stretch of "prime". What's left of the band today is still first rate. But Mike Douglas was a consistently clueless ding dong for his entire run.

[@kensellers4082]

I always enjoyed watching “The Mike Douglas Show.” Mr. Douglas had quite a few rock & roll bands on his show. He also had this little boy named Mason Reese, who did a ton of tv commercials during the 1970s, on his Philadelphia-based show very frequently. I once saw Mason Reese walking with crutches near Carnegie Hall years later, but I digress. However, I remember when Mike Douglas complained about the over-commercialization of Christmas, with people trying to make a buck during the Yuletide season. So, when Mr. Douglas (born Michael Delaney Dodd) recorded a song entitled, “Christmas is the Birthday of the Baby, Jesus,” or some such title, he was asked what he would do with the profits from the song, and Mr. Douglas had to acknowledge that HE was keeping them for himself. Oh, well....

[@tomkitchen9457]

Clueless ding dong was kinda his brand. 👍

[@scottmiller6495]

@@tomkitchen9457 That's not fair, Mike Douglas was great and his show was extremely good!!!!!

[@nofrackingzone7479]

Mike Douglas was the cheesiest talk show host ever😂

[@grouchosays]

I give him lot of credit for inviting a LOT of rock icons on his show… including Frank Zappa!!

[@chrisphillips4859]

That's an interpretation of the Association and it really doesn't cut it man kinda pathetic.

[@gerrydooley951]

It's everyone but Brian

[@20thCB]

I think he died about a decade earlier? Sad end indeed.

[@gerrydooley951]

yep '72@@20thCB

[@chrisphillips4859]

That's just awful man