The Easybeats - I'll Make You Happy

1966

[@lukebrennan5780]

They were SO DAMNED GOOD! Incredible they didn't sweep the world.

[@lesleybracey8167]

Yes, here in England apart from “Friday…..” back in the1960s I don’t remember hearing anything else they did! It’s only these past 2 weeks I have learned about them!

[@daveyvane]

Nah, they didnt have enough good original material

[@annaseireklidou4270]

I agree!!

[@Winky_]

One of the best❣️❣️❣️

[@Winky_]

@@daveyvane😱👎

[@brianstanmore5503]

Young Angus and Malcolm saw this and knew what they were gonna do...

[@tbutters41]

If only they were as talented as their older brother, George.... Please take this as a salute to George......

[@grasscarpets]

Lots of people don’t realize that george is the older brother of Angus and Malcolm Young from AC/DC

[@RelaxoDrive]

The girls of the sixties. Siggghh! I wish I could go back to there!

[@carlosnavarro9554]

No need, a lot of them are still around.

[@johnking6550]

The Easybeats captured worldwide acclaim a bit later with ''Friday on My Mind'' but 'I'll Make You Happy'' is probably where it should have started. With proper handling this could have been a major hit for the boys in international markets. As a Divinyls fan I love their spirited high energy interpretation of this song as well. Australia has produced some remarkable talent. jtk🍁Canada

[@sovereignspirit7640]

You deserve a big thumbs-up John 👍

[@zBeestBeest]

I didn't know there was a Divinyls cover until now. Thank you! I love covers done right.

[@jody8526937]

I didn't hear this song until today. A great 1967 single that somehow didn't make it to USA.

[@stephencopping9953]

Australia's Pretty Things both bloody wonderful bands !

[@patrockd6524]

Don't know why this band was not a bigger success. Creative, Energetic. They have a great sound

[@noelroberts8199]

One of the best Aussie bands ever, should have been a world wide success.......

[@gertarnold1356]

Here you can see the true elder brother of Malcolm and Angus Young from AC/DC.

[@donaldmac1250]

stevie wrights charisma was awsome it you saw him at his peak...i saw him just post easybeats and i was mesmerised.

[@CailenCambeul]

That's George Young! AC/DC's progenitor.

[@misterpeppercorn3078]

The Easybeats were really great!

[@gary36104]

This should have been the follow up to Friday on my mind

[@JohnLenOnzTheBeatloves1967]

Yes yes, The EasyBeats is greats!!! Music of 60s forever!!! I love it!!! This a dancing blonde girl is beautiful, I love her!!! 🇭🇲🤝🇨🇿🇸🇰👍❤️👍❤️👍❤️👍❤️👍❤️👍❤️👍❤️👍❤️👍❤️👍❤️

[@ACDZ123]

Largely unknown outside Australia back then ,but just as good as all the big bands of the era that are well known . Definitely worth a deep dive into their catalogue

[@frankfarago2825]

You're crazy. We listened to all the Easybeats songs in Eastern Europe in the late 1960s and later. They were huge in Europe and also in North America.

[@ACDZ123]

@frankfarago2825 I'm crazy 🤪..ok 😂

[@garymarquett7989]

The Youngs Gave us the Easy Beats and AC/DC

[@Slinkygal]

I love the Easy Beats 💜💙💛💚

[@StephenDiJoseph]

WOWW! a pitch for PR support cool! What a COOL BAND!

[@59markr]

Vander and Young! What a musical powerhouse!! 🇦🇺

[@CailenCambeul]

The two you see there are Stevie Write and George Young.

[@OldiesMomma]

Don't forget stevie wright was there also, and was writing their music to.. they had some great music that he wrote .. and stevie was a great performer and solo artist on his own as.well. I don't know who wrote the songs for the group acdc but it was not as good.acdc only screamed the songs and hurt your ears trying to I guess play their instruments by the way they could not do that either. Just to noisy and loud.. how they made it to the rock and roll hall of fame beats me

[@59markr]

@@OldiesMomma Though you must admit that its hard to beat "It's a long way to the top" on the back of a truck in Swanston Street back in '76!! kzbin.info/www/bejne/nV7UnIxors9nlaM

[@CailenCambeul]

@@OldiesMomma It's the BEATS that made it there for them. Hail Hail Easybeats. It's TNT the last song.

[@bernie4366]

@@OldiesMomma Probably because AC/DC is one of the greatest bands to ever take the stage before the death of Bon Scott. Maybe. I dunno. How dare you.

[@SLB4523]

One of the best of the era. Very ‘Kinks’

[@kevinnixon6816]

I love Easybeats even more after this performance !!

[@zxccxz164]

man I LOVE THIS!!!!!!!! first time hearing!!!

[@darrenjray]

RIP George, and thanks for everything.

[@phildirt3]

Should have been huge outside Australia

[@thomo74]

Those days would have rocked !

[@allymayful]

One of my all time fav songs. How could it not have been an international hit if they had been allowed to re record it in the UK.

[@mattflinders9666]

Yes ,!

[@happyolddude]

Just a fantastic song which many people think is simplistic but listen to shifting musical notes.

[@AnOldTimer3333]

Brings back lots of memories of my late teens/early 20's. It was a great time to be alive!

[@sheronlyn2693]

So polite, so young, so talented, loved the Easybeats❤

[@mariancowles3042]

What a great time to be growing up in the 1960s with this great sounding music. It just made you feel so alive!

[@Mark-td5ux]

This video is iconic and awe inspiring.

[@zxccxz164]

this is a fantastic song and performance!!

[@davidlewis2681]

Killer song!!!

[@KingsleyThomson-j1w]

Real talent real classic song and great memories ,,,,🇦🇺

[@JohnDoe-pm3oq]

this is FANTASTIC!

[@pixie3760]

So good to see a healthy Steve. So sad. RIP Gorge and Steve. I still think of you guys often.

[@stuartcorlett5959]

Thanks for the memories George, came to Australia from the UK in 67 and the Easybeats was one of the first bands I heard, just as good as any band from the UK, loved them.

[@yowodup6094]

Stuart Corlett well I mean they an Aussie band! Pretty ballsy for their time.

[@OldiesMomma]

Yes but Stevie wright was there also along with the other easybeats members. George needs the other members to be known of at all. If they all had not moved to Australia at the same time nobody would have heard of the easybeats.

[@manuelalcantara6229]

Guitar George" e "Harry" são George Young e Harry Vander, guitarristas da banda The Easybeats, CITADOS POR MARK NOPFLER em seu clássico "Sultam of Swing"

[@OldiesMomma]

Yes they were. 🎉🎉🎉

[@ACDZ123]

True. The mystery is finally solved 😅

[@rosemaryb-c4927]

Rest in Paradise, George! May every day in the Great Big Gig in the Sky be a Friday for you! (PS: I always thought YOU were the "cute" one!)

[@lesterdiamond6190]

I listen to everything from Haydn to The Stanley Brothers and Dale Watson and his Lonestars.... this is a great song.

[@CC3193]

This is all so... groovy

[@glennevans5824]

So good a song for that period...sad they weren’t recognized more....

[@cubpower928]

excellent

[@josephkeogh6720]

Mad and sad❤

[@jody8526937]

wow...just what I am looking for.

[@billmago7991]

Brian Henderson the Molly Meldrum of the 50s n 60s

[@barbaragriffin8967]

still one of my faves to dance to

[@cherylthommo1]

Goodnight Brian

[@rosslavel]

I wonder what would have happened if their Aussie songwriting hadn't been looked down on by their label in London?

[@VirreFriberg]

George Young wouldn't have started writing songs with Harry Vanda, "Friday On My Mind" would've never been recorded and their career would most likely have stagnated upon their arrival in the UK.

[@JamesWitham-cx3op]

They could have been up there with the Beatles, Stones, Kinks, the Who and Small Face s, if they had released their Aussie hits to the world. Sad really. I saw them live in 1965, They were fantastic!

[@kaymathew4537]

Hey .. This is a good song - I'd never heard it before right now, like 55 years later. ... it's you know, kind of punk. Well except for those go go dancers.

[@thomothomo1078]

You could mistake this for just another very good pop rock song but it goes deeper than that.There is real bad boy ambiguity in that... I'll make you happy claim.

[@mrbubble185]

IIRC right after this show was broadcast the blond guy went home and his wife had committed suicide.

[@yuhgftp7925]

@@mrbubble185 WHHAAA?!?!

[@mrbubble185]

@@yuhgftp7925 Please correct me if I'm wrong but this TV show was kind of a sendoff for the boys cuz they were going to the UK / Europe etc. The wife was depressed cuz the managers of the band didn't want wives to go.

[@garywray2503]

So sad what Stevie spiralled into Had 2 of the most gifted song writers in Australian history

[@winnievink3041]

❤Stevie Wright and Easybeats ❤️

[@Serg-Young]

R.I.P.+ George Young (6.11.1946 - 23.10.2017)

[@D800Lover]

The Easybeats... eventually, if you know the whole story, led to *AC/DC*

[@cindyheadon9005]

❤

[@highdb1]

George looks and sounds just like his brother Angus here. So funny. 😅

[@michaelwood875]

my high school teachers were boss!

[@rainertrebbin-vf7nt]

❤Stevie Wright❤

[@OldiesMomma]

The performance of the easybeats was great. But the show was about the performance not the dancers.❤❤🎉❤❤

[@pvtjohntowle4081]

Just Look 'em up on the internet !! LOL

[@jasonfrenell5314]

Better than the Divinyls cover.

[@gunston999]

Brothers Young..from Scotland..Brothers Gibb..from Manchester..they all started from Australia..SoOo much talent in Britain..they even exported some to other countries🤪

[@zyunilovesbali216]

They had to mature somewhere decent !

[@zyunilovesbali216]

They had to mature somewhere decent !

[@zyunilovesbali216]

They had to mature somewhere decent !

[@zyunilovesbali216]

They had to mature somewhere decent !

[@browntrouser4792]

They came here for a reason to make pure Australian Rock n Roll !

[@KameraShy]

Where have all the Go-Go Girls gone? (Long time passing.)

[@keithplunk6611]

What a cool time to be a young musician. I still remember the excitement of hearing this ingenious simple feel good music I could play and perform too. Now adays the music is like fast food, it really sounds & tastes bad. People have hit the wall on melody and creativity. Everything is stale and rap|rap. Oh, one other thing. The performers are overweight and have zero stage presence. Back in the day, you had to be a total package. Today all you have to be is...mediocre and overweight with way too many tattoos everywhere! Give me a break, especially my poor ears. Pee eew to you pretentious artists. Give me the 1960's please! Real talent and happy too!!!

[@pvtjohntowle4081]

Yes Snail mail those DJ's overseas.. That will work

[@lindsaykelly2224]

Ward Pally Austin wasn't mentioned

[@Janster59]

Rick Springfield does this song

[@mrbubble185]

I heard that Rick was in Vietnam on a tour and actually got pulled into some combat!

[@Janster59]

@@mrbubble185 yea I saw that on one of his interviews

[@liztoal9395]

wow , how was Brian Henderson

[@popmusic7]

very straight

[@zBeestBeest]

Who is this host? He's so shy and awkward. It's very interesting. It's weird to see a presenter as awkward and shy as the musicians he's interviewing.

[@popmusic7]

He was trying to be overly nice to appease the mums and dads who watched Bandstand for lightweight pop while trying to also appeal to the teenagers who loved this new wave of pop-rock.

[@Mark-td5ux]

Brian Henderson is a legend.

[@garyevans3647]

What, never heard of Hendo !😮

[@davidhaley5395]

Harry using a Gretch not his usual Gibson

[@garyevans3647]

Aced

[@nikjaric5442]

when i had my own radio show had to play 10% australian music so i just played easybeats cause every other band is shit still to this day

[@mrbubble185]

May I introduce The Vines? kzbin.info/www/bejne/p5jEnol5iZmYbtE

[@lindsaykelly2224]

The Groop the masters apprentices the whispers we had some

[@donaldmac1250]

@@nikjaric5442 I go to a hotel where sometimes they play only aussi music and I don't get bored

[@bernie4366]

AC/DC version 1

[@mattflinders9666]

One thumb down , check your pulse but piss off .

[@alainquinzelaire1253]

Non, c'est zéro, juste une parodie de Friday on my mind, un succès unique, que rien ne remplacera, surtout pas cette nullité de rock loupé !

[@mrbubble185]

It predated Friday On My Mind (FOMM). They had this "Beatlemania" phase in Australia before they packed up and moved to England, where they hit the ground running with FOMM, but the Beatles were already changing the ecosphere with "serious" works like Sgt. Pepper.

[@allenkennedy6748]

Skip the first 2:10. Such BS.

[@mrbubble185]

Whatever. I enjoyed it.

[@Puppydoug]

Wasn't Brian Henderson a dag?

[@michaelwinston713]

They were shite, alas…