The Leaves - Three Phases of Hey Joe - 45 rpm recordings Mira Records

0:00 Mira 207 Promo 45 Version - Hey Joe Where You Gonna Go
2:54 Mira 207 Stock Copy Version
5:39 Mira 222 Stock Copy 1966 chart version - Hey Joe

[@johnoconnor2236]

These guys showed up unannounced one day at my jr. High school in the San Fernando valley. They blasted our all purpose room at lunch time. This was when “Hey Joe” was in the top 10 records. They did this for free.

[@irresistablejewel]

Groovy!

[@flagemdown66]

That's a once in a lifetime experience!

[@marclayne9261]

Wow!!!

[@maximumrnb66]

Fantastic 👌

[@ottokar6318]

Only in USA this can be happened..super !

[@arvidsmith1038]

In high School '66 this song got no airplay in Charleston SC , though we saw the group on Where The Action Is and Bandstand... They had a fan club address I got from my sisters 16 Magazine.... I wrote and got no response ..... Years later here in N. Florida I got to know Jim Pons , bass and first Vocal here ..... A fine Gent indeed ...

[@paulanderson7314]

Hey Joe had a very short run on AM radio in Buffalo NY. The bass really thumped tbrough my transistor radio. I bought it and wore it out on my suitcase record player. I like the first version here. They all just let loose. Thanks for sharing.

[@ratfink--ud6wq]

Thanks for listening/comment. I like all versions.

[@michaelwolf6424]

The opening of "Hey Joe" reminds me of the intro to "Feel a whole lot better" by the Byrds. It's that Rickenbacker "twang". Both songs came out around the same time.

[@Famulus9]

The 1965 promo is rough but quite revolutionary for the time just as the charting single version was in 1966. Jim Pons plays a great bass guitar.

[@Birdlives247]

The first version is incredible. This must be what they sounded like LIVE!

[@workingtheworld68]

The truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth

[@bernie320]

So punk for 66 they would have huge 10 years later.

[@joziahlongo9405]

pure punk authenticity! jim ponds rules on bass (and vox). what a band!!!

[@renash1815]

I had the 1966 version. That's the one I remember! Nice to hear it after all these years! Thanks RF!

[@stevebauer459]

Never knew there were 3 versions. The 2nd was the best....the 3rd was the hit..plastic fantastic.

[@chreynest]

the Leaves and their little label knew this song had the potential and I'm sure glad they didn't quit until they got it right, nomatter how many official attempts

[@irvinhansen7173]

Powerful. They worked it to perfection.

[@boboabundagus]

Very cool progression of refining a great song.

[@vinysilver7806]

Things you can only find on KZbin. Thanks!!!

[@lwoodt1]

love the paisley album cover.

[@bigred8438]

This version of this song, reminds me so much of groups from the 1970's punk scene, especially the sex pistols, but also The Saints.

[@lazlokovacs2263]

Matter of taste. The first version (I like it) is more chaotic, it could express the story more tragically. It's a bitter song, like folk songs, cowboy songs. It's a crime of passion, the perpetrator needs to get away: what's next?

[@matchingnumbers]

Great,this is special!Thanks for posting !!!!!!

[@ratfink--ud6wq]

Thanks for listening

[@samuelbartlett9394]

thanks so much for posting! awesome to hear the three versions

[@ratfink--ud6wq]

My pleasure. Thanks for listening.

[@pieman420]

mira 207 PROMO 45 was the way to go in 1965.....i recall first hearing it at vito's studio at beverly and laurel in la back in those daze....hard to believe it was so long ago...VITO LIVES

[@paulanderson7314]

This song had a short life on Buffalo, NY radio. The bass really thumped through my transistor radio!. I bought the single and wore it out on my suitcase record player. I would have loved the first version best. The are all clearly letting loose. Thanks so much.

[@arvidsmith1038]

Vito's life story needs a movie ..... He made history here at 33:40 kzbin.info/www/bejne/rKrMeHmIn5qVY80

[@arvidsmith1038]

Vito at 33:40 right after Jim McGuinn's Crosby-like moment kzbin.info/www/bejne/rKrMeHmIn5qVY80

[@dogupatree]

Thanks ratfink I needed to hear this

[@hm4steve]

Thanks for the upload.

[@ratfink--ud6wq]

You're welcome. Thanks for listening.

[@marclayne9261]

I survived this era....100% PTSD...from war Trauma....Hey Joe....

[@ottokar6318]

Tanks for all, glad you get back home.je suis français soutien depuis 65 des nam boys. Near 73 yo.

[@13loomisst73]

Great job loading this. I just gotta say, All three versions are killer --

[@ratfink--ud6wq]

Thanks. I like all three.

[@taztaztaz]

first version!

[@rineric3214]

Hey Joe! Where you going with that flower in your hand?(2) I'm gonna kiss my old lady, you know, she make me feel like a natural man"

[@danielcruz8347]

That's right!! Peace

[@rineric3214]

@@danielcruz8347 I was appointed to be the singer at an Oktoberfest party and as we hit the first chord of "Hey Joe", I thought, "I can't sing those words!" so I made up a peaceful version of the same story right off the top of my head as we played the song. I sing it that way every time now. I actually met the guy who wrote "Hey Joe"". He picked me up hitch-hiking. He didn't like Hendrix's version. He liked it menacing folk.

[@danielcruz8347]

@@rineric3214 fascinating.. thank you for sharing peace

[@rineric3214]

@@danielcruz8347 Thank you for thanking me!

[@justsumguy2u]

I think the second version (the stock copy version) sounds best. The '66 stereo remix sounds really tinny

[@arvidsmith1038]

I believe their first version was released and went nowhere.... #3 was the killer version ...Engineered by John Haeny who later knobbed a few Bonnie Raitt lps

[@ElBote54]

The last version is the one I like the best the wailing sound is lead guitar? I don’t seem to be able to detect how it’s done on the KZbin live version Thanks

[@gregluecke1195]

I have always wondered what kind of instrument produce that distinctive high-pitched sound. Some kind of guitar? Violin? The first two versions are empty without it. The KZbin video version is apparently lip-synched and they didn’t have anyone playing that sound or even pretending to. Love it.

[@raymondkitchen6137]

Omg! That first version, the drummer was on fucking fire!!! The 2nd & 3rd version lose their edge with that bunny rabbit hop of a drum beat; you know what I mean.

[@timbrady6473]

Guitar(12 string?)is more upfront and bass is not as prominent but still there,drummer is enjoying himself on first one . Bass dominates third one.

[@pendragonU]

he's going unhinged to deliver max R&R

[@yesterdayproductions1019]

Not really. The later versions are better. The drums are too loud & wildly out of control on the first version. Unless you like the first version with no vocals, the 2nd & 3rd version are are better with the 3rd version the best.

[@chreynest]

Jim Pons!

[@johnirvine2090]

“GENTLEMAN Jim Pons”

[@truethought62]

You can hear Jim singing lead all over that first version--the last two have Jim and John Beck sharing lead vocals, having a dialogue back and forth with each other--Jim asking the questions, and John answering them.

[@danielcruz8347]

​@@johnirvine2090Cool name!! 🎯

[@michaelwolf6424]

Jim Pons was quite the bass player. You can Google an interview Jim gave to a NY magazine (I believe) around '89 that chronicled his life while in a frat band at Cal State Northridge in the late '60s to his involvement with the TURTLES and later, his brief stay with Frank Zappa. Zappa was a perfectionist who wrote down every note, every beat. Only Jim couldn't read music. The piano player read his parts and showed him. Quite the ruse. Jim left music and ended up becoming the video production manager for the NY Jets for almost 10 years. He left NY and married a Dr, moved to Jax, Fla where he still resides. Helluva life. Really nice guy. This is my favorite version of "Hey Joe". Hands down.

[@stevebauer459]

So far away from " Blue Steel 44"

[@lopezb]

See also: Billy Roberts kzbin.info/www/bejne/hqvMmoGwe7yNpck&ab_channel=Ikerbustovillate and Neila Miller (his ex who wrote this version which he modified) kzbin.info/www/bejne/eHauY3h6pt2jmbs&ab_channel=DaveWood

[@arvidsmith1038]

Funny the disc credits Dino Valenti as the writer ..... Was it Billy Roberts ? Tim Rose ? Who exactly?? David Crosby claims he 'discovered 'the song and The Byrds didn't like it so Croz passed it on to Arthur Lee who passed it on to The Leaves....when it hit Croz pulled an 'I told you so ' on the guys of his band and they finally relented and cut it for 5D .... Love's version wasn't so great either..... To my ears not even Jimi comes close to The Leaves ..

[@ratfink--ud6wq]

The Mira 207 versions do not show any songwriting credits, but Dino Valenti is listed as composer on Mira 222 version.

[@clearview4076]

@@ratfink--ud6wq But it was Billy Roberts in 1958.Crosby learnt it from him.

[@ratfink--ud6wq]

I had read that.They should have gotten the credits right on the label. The Mira 207 labels don't list a composer at all.