Tommy James And The Shondells - Crimson And Clover - 45 RPM Hot Mono Mix - Original Short Version

[@KennethMeacomes]

Exactly like it sounded on the jukebox back then. Back to mono!!

[@wallacesmallwood1465]

Love playing this record !! Had mine since 1968 ❤️❤️

[@mikotosuoh5752]

I just bought this record on eBay! Cant wait to play it on my Turntable!

[@SpinCity420]

I said this exact thing not too long ago and now I have a video out of my copy being played!

[@wallacesmallwood1465]

Out of hundreds of 45’s , this is my Favorite ! ❤️❤️🥰👍

[@zephyr332]

So trippy that I'm watching this video on December 14th, the day this song was released!

[@rickster4u2007]

this is the very best version of this song..

[@djreid]

I don't like the long version..

[@robertterrell3065]

Well a lot of folks like the long version, but for some of us, this is the best :)

[@Veldoril]

I'm only 17, but I find this song stunningly beautiful throughout.

[@casplundk]

Great song from January 1969 and hit No.1.

[@SteveCarras]

Craig Asplund And unlike what radio usually plays, it's the 3:23 length single that debuted 12/14/68---NOT the longer 5:23 one issued later on the Crimson and Clover Lp which, by the way, as mnost know, just HAD that longer instrumnetal part added instead of the second shorter guitar break..

[@christopherdeluen8097]

OMG the 60's stoned awesome music and friends

[@chasinthewind1198]

This is a true great

[@Deakinstruction]

One of best songs to roller skate to in little town; Bernadotte, Il. right before I enlisted in Army 1971

[@go234ko96ts5]

My favorite from a local Pittsburgh boy. Who could ever get tired of this classic

[@TheJust22az]

The music of the 60s got me through Jr High as I tried to figure out life, Still love it.

[@wallacesmallwood1465]

Yes ! 1968 ❤️❤️❤️🥰

[@reggie44]

True. They went back, recorded a guitar solo, and stretched out some sections by turning off the lead vocal track and splicing them together. If you listen closely, the edited portion is a little off-pitch (slightly flat). I was in the studio where this was recorded, many years ago, to cut some drum tracks for a demo. The ownership changed, but it was a real trip to be in the same room as Tommy, Melanie Safka, and so many others. Around the corner from where Birdland once existed.

[@marie-francemathy9179]

Merci pour cette vraie version de Crimson and Clover, tout-à-fait semblable à celle que j'écoutais il y a une quarantaine d'années. Trop cool, ça n'a pas vieilli d'un pouce ;) Sublime...

[@anasolisamador4206]

Para todos ustedes con todo mi corazón 💕

[@nealbfinn]

Tommy is playing all the tracks on "C and C" and all vocals. It was a studio experiment that became a hit song. They brought in a drummer to complete it.

[@charlesdowney2281]

Thanks for the upload. Nothing beats mono on all these older tracks.

[@oldiesmusic76]

Great song from early 1969, #1. Frankly I prefer the longer LP version though, but both are great!!

[@carlwolski5311]

I was in Okinawa when this came out.

[@harryhaller9386]

so what?

[@carrieorser5534]

Omg! Love this more then I ever could express. Thank you!

[@brianhaney9487]

Great song to dance to and whisper in her ear those little things that drive them crazy.😇

[@consciousphilosophy-ericva5564]

Sweet nostalgia.

[@cristianoferreira8515]

My first car only had an am radio, so I have listened to WABC and that other radio station up the dial. Love it!!!!

[@claudettepreisinger]

I also have this 45. But as I said before, yours are in such pristine condition! I'm envious! Thanks for sharing...This is one of my favorite Shondells songs...

[@mitchrawles]

love this song

[@becauseno]

Always liked this original single version better than the extended version created for the album. Great mono mix!

[@dirkbag22]

Joan Jett? I love Joan but this is one of the most important records in all of pop music. People don't remember, or never knew, just what a mind blowing single this was when it came out. Right up there with the Beatles this was. "The song contains a tremolo effect on the guitar, set so that it vibrated in time with the song's rhythm. Near the end of the recording, the band had an idea of utilizing the tremolo effect with vocals. To achieve this, the voice microphone was plugged into an Ampeg guitar amplifier with tremolo turned on, and the output from the amplifier was recorded while James sang "Crimson and clover, over and over". -Wikipedia Brilliant. So simple, and so unique. It made the song.

[@SteveCarras]

dirkbag .com I;ll bet Joan Jett fans don't even REALIZE that Tommy James even DID this first, in the FIRST place..on the beatles..Tommy sounds like John Lennon when hje sings, doesn't he? Love that ending..

[@dirkbag22]

Steve Carras I would call it one of the best 60s singles ever, right up there with anything the Beatles did.

[@richardranke7878]

There were plenty of younger Tiffany fans who didn't know Tommy James & the Shondells did,"I Think We're Alone Now,"first.

[@lyndhaevensen8297]

This is THE SONG for Joan Jett for me! Thanks for adding a comment on guitar technique which is certainly significant and makes the recording even more memorable!

[@mrmjb1960]

Tommy Joked "Many thought their radio speakers had broken".

[@MichaelHansenFUN]

awesome so is the joan jett cover also I THINK WERE ALONE NOW all cover versions and original!!!

[@sethhorst6158]

I founded one at Goodwill back in 2017 and I bought it with the other records I found there.

[@ernestkovach3305]

the first song or one of the first songs ever to push the rock genre music to synthetic special effects that is so common today.... in that sense the song is revolutionary in how the song emerges from straight vocals into special effects vocals!

[@mrceleb2006]

The #10 song of 1969, according to 'Billboard' magazine.

[@seektherapy70]

My sister use to have the same 45!!

[@loumiller1328]

The first time I ever heard this song... we were traveling across a metal bridge, I thought it was interference when the special effects began, lol. Later, I realized it was the song! Great music, love this song.

[@Dra741]

treat from the past

[@reggie44]

Also true. The entrance was actually on West 50th St. This goes back to an old NYC cabaret law that forbid musicians and entertainers from entering the front door of any establishment. By the time I did my drum parts there, it had changed its' name to Generation Sound, and upgraded to 24-track analog. They still had those old Scully machines that Tommy used. From what I learned later, Allegro/Generation had a noise problem: the subway would rumble through the mic stands during rush hour.

[@kennyc388]

Thanks for all your great time and effort puting these cool old tunes out there for everyone.....very nice.

[@jitiway]

You have fabulous music. Thanks.

[@chasinthewind1198]

This takes me back

[@neilforbes416]

When this record was issued in Australia early in 1969, well after its US release, the Roulette label was still under EMI distribution so the label was white with eight coloured stripes across, horizontal, vertical and two diagonal. EMI relinquished Roulette to Phonogram Recordings(later known as Polygram) in 1970/71 and it's then when we saw the label design as it is here.

[@flyingtiger49]

This origin disc is priceless. Bring back good memories from 1969.Thank you very much Wabcradio77

[@robertorick6383]

A favorite on Windsor/Detroit's CKLW station, which I used to listen to as a kid. Big Jim Edwards, Walt "Baby" Love" or Daryl B. would play this one a lot. It also appears on the 1971 compilation "CKLW-Solid Gold Volume 1" in it's three minute version, albeit in rather poor sounding reprocessed stereo. It sounded more powerful on a mono transistor radio.

[@ohmamadoes]

Dude so awesome.

[@chasinthewind1198]

One of their greats

[@HwoarangtheBoomerang]

What a nice song :). Thank you for uploading this :).

[@scottburton2218]

Great venture into psychedelia!

[@HardRockRecords]

love this song !

[@robjune14]

This was one of the first records to be recorded on a 16 track recorder. In1968 4 track was the norm, rarely 8 track.

[@KaiWatson]

The best ever.

[@lunarmation]

very cool... thanks.

[@gil72755]

This was the first 45 I ever had which IMHO is better than the album version.

[@tonygee6418]

Please include their other big hit from 1969: "Crystal Blue Persuasion" .....

[@sandraperswain5739]

Always loved the sound of vinle

[@paulhoffman8840]

I think Candace Hudson would love this song Crimson and Clover from Tommy James & The Shondells

[@neilforbes416]

Here's me thinking this record was a 1969 release when it actually debuted on the US charts in December, 1968, which meant it would've been released in November, or very early December, 1968. I have now made the necessary correction to my MP3 file of the stereo mix and moved it into my 1968 folder.

[@WillWatchAnything]

I do have to agree the stereo version is way too wide, as are most stereo mixes of this time. This shorter version in mono sounds a lot better.

[@flightofarrow]

Sweet!

[@j-doblefe7461]

simplemente...excelente

[@zman291977]

@zman291977 Another good example of a poor "too wide stereo version" is Crystal Blue Persuasion.

[@sergiopain1437]

Fabuloso som

[@bildakid]

you've got the best version of the original, the rest seem to only have one side... in those days they separated tracks to different sides, great recording!

[@damilasa]

A psychedelic Masterpiece !

[@susanwallace1963]

still doing it!

[@jonathanschult9286]

The original is always the best, but Joan Jett did do a great version. Billy Idol's "Mony Mony was great too. The crime was Tiffany's "I Think We're Alone Now".

[@jeanyvesrajaonarivony1439]

Best

[@tonygee6418]

We want "Crystal Blue Persuasion" too 😉

[@vidiot9006]

Ahh when AM radio played psychedelic songs...

[@xICoPYRiGHT]

would you play the other side of this please?...The Prism Song"...i cant find it anywhere on youtube....thanks..

[@aeiane01]

Thank you for posting up my all time favorite from Tommy and the Shondells. The much needed improvement would be eliminating that obnoxious ambient hum at the beginning that is most likely caused by not having your equipment grounded. Hope you get that glitch figured out, man! Thanks again.

[@mrmjb1960]

Flip on some was "Some Kind Of Love" others had "(I'm) Taken".

[@peterjol]

I seem to remember I preferred to play it either at 78 rpm or 33 ..I can't remember which it was.

[@JMacQ77]

As a young boy I always loved this song. As a teen fumbling with his first guitar, I always wanted to know how to duplicate that tremolo effect. I can do it with the modern digital crap equipment, but it still doesn't sound authentic.

[@zman291977]

Totally agree on the mono version. Split stereo sucks! This is the only version playing on my stereo system.

[@talau85]

Peaked the week ending February 1, 1969

[@WCPR1620AM]

This label makes you think that it would cause eye strain when spinning a Roulette label on a 45.

[@MichaelHansenFUN]

was I the only one that was treated to not playing MONO records on STEREO's because it will ruin the needle and or record? anyone else subjected to this experience besides myself?

[@fredroper398]

how does he do the echo and the song with his voice

[@jackyrakotoniaina3444]

Lois Griffin brought me here

[@drgitlow]

You cut off the video just before the end of the song! Part of the instrumental background is a descending 4 note bell. On the last descending sequence, all the other instruments have faded away but for the bell on the last two notes. You've got the next to last one here, but not the very last note, which completes the song quite nicely.

[@louisethrussell2338]

My brother got hanky panky as a import single

[@jeremykrane4855]

alexa, play music that sounds like i’m on drugs. “playing the last quavery 45 seconds of crimson and clover.” 2:50

[@lucalone]

is this John Lennon's brother on vocals?

[@youtubeviewer7030]

he never had a brother

[@lucalone]

@@youtubeviewer7030 brother from another mother

[@wonkydude1]

Who the hell thought this song was by the Velvet Underground?

[@billdalrymple2522]

Ah...I don't hardly know her

[@ritzman999]

This may be the original, but I'm sorry, nobody does this song like Joan Jett.

[@__-ho2bb]

О чём эта песня?

[@pseudofox]

Superb! :-D