Cool British Singles Released in July 1968

[@olivierlusseyran]

So happy to find a single by one of my favorite bands, Family… Rare enough. Thank you again for your excellent videos. Merry Christmas Yesterdays Papers !

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Merry Christmas!

[@petejones879]

I've got most if not all of the singles by Family

[@petejones879]

​@@YesterdaysPapersmerry Christmas to you yesterday's papers

[@YesterdaysPapers]

@@petejones879 Merry Christmas Peter!

[@PaIaeoCIive1684]

Family's debut album this single was from is one of the best ever -- brilliant song-writing and performance. Many people aren't keen on Roger Chapman's vocals, but he's a distinctive singer able to perform both rockers and ballads. Great live too (as YT videos show). Their second album Family Entertainment is even better IMO.

[@tolanstout]

It would be great if you did a video on "The Boston Sound" promotion in 1968 or the criminally underrated group, Orpheus, which released four great albums and five singles. Orpheus is still around and recording a new album at Skywalker Ranch.

[@ianbruce-douglas]

And my group, the Ultimate Spinach.

[@jefferylane7976]

"Can't The Find The Time" is a favorite of mine. Great arrangement.

[@TheGoldvarg]

Love Orpheus. ❤❤❤

[@LarryWeissRhinestoneCowboy]

They all got ripped off by producer Alan Lorber.

[@67psych]

The Beacon Street Union were great as well .

[@danstone8783]

Thank you for one more history lesson from an era I was too young to know about and across the ocean anyhow. these singles were more obscure than usual which makes it all the more interesting. Yesterday's Papers remains the most enjoyble channel on You Tube for me.

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Thanks!

[@thereunionparty]

Another great selection. Although I was only a kid in the 60s (10 y.o. when these records were issued) and a lot of it passed me by, I feel as though these record reviews give me some insight into the excitement of the music scene in those days.

[@gingerovertone2929]

Merry Xmas and a Happy New Year YP! Thanks for being a shining light in a world made mainly of fecal matter. As the Stones once sang "We love you"...

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Cheers! Merry Christmas.

[@willminkorea2010]

Thank you for your hard work and research. Not too many hits but a lot of interesting music.

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Thanks!

[@vlad2838]

Another brilliant episode-thanks, YP! It seems there’s an never-ending fountain of sordid and violent tales surrounding Arden.

[@davidroberts7282]

Most, if not all, involve his ties to underworld UK and US crime families like the Gambinos and his threats against Jimmy Page and Robert Stigwood.

[@cindyfalstrom7231]

Surprisingly, I have rarely read a quote from Steve where he bad mouths Don Arden. Steve had been around in show business before Small Faces and claimed to understand how the business sometimes worked. He has said that Arden made the Small Faces, even though he did take advantage of their youthful ignorance. And even though Arden ripped the Faces off, according to Don's son, he truly loved Steve and was hurt when Steve did badmouth him. Now the other SF's did resent Arden and said so loudly....

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Cheers Vlad! Yeah, better not to cross paths with Mr Arden.

[@davidroberts7282]

@@cindyfalstrom7231 You do know this is the same man who once dangled Robert Stigwood from a high-rise window because he falsely thought Stigwood was trying to steal one of his acts. Then there’s that intriguing story about when Jimmy Page asked to talk to Arden about talking to Marriot, Keith Moon about forming a new super-group after the Yardbirds disbanded that would become Led Zeppelin. Arden’s response: “How would you like to play with five broken fingers”

[@LostPlanet2024]

Love these videos. You put a astonishing amount of work into them!! Top quality!

[@spatrick8035]

This channel never fails to impress! Always comprehensive, indeed. The best of the upcoming New Year to ya’!

[@YesterdaysPapers]

@@spatrick8035 Cheers! Happy new year!

[@user-nightmared]

It's always nice to know that these superstar 70's groups just didn't come out of nowhere, but the Hopscotch into the Average White Band is truly amazing.

[@jogischulz2576]

Hallo from Berlin starting with The Small Faces is always great, one of my favorite bands since their 60s Hits and the whole video is great again, thank you very much ! Merry Christmas to you and your loved ones🎄

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Cheers! Merry Christmas!

[@elmolewis9123]

Great research and production, as usual. It amazes me how many great British bands never made a dent in Canada.

[@davidroberts7282]

If you want to break Canada as a UK/European band or musician today or 50 years ago, that also meant you'd have to break US markets, too. I like Canadians. Their good, humble, salt-of-the-earth people so I hope I'm not stepping on any toes, here but when it comes to becoming successful in the commercial music business/concert industry in the North American market, it's not an either/or sort of seperate proposition, it's typically both. Our markets, like our economies, are strongly interlinked and interconnected since the late 19th century. Its as much of an issue as practicality as it is essential geopoliitics. It's unavoidable, really.

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Glad you enjoyed the video, thanks!

[@piershemmingsen3937]

Another great 17 minutes of time travel ! So clever that you are able to piece all of this together. Many thanks for all your great work and Happy New Year from frozen Canada.

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Cheers! Happy New Year.

[@EdwinJack64]

The Small Faces enjoy the honour of kicking off this episode. Nice, because it really was a good single. Too bad it was their last, though. Skip Bifferty and Status Quo also deserve credit. Nice work again YP! Cheers!

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Cheers Edwin!

[@joeyvocals1]

Always enjoy your channel! I was born in July 1996! So this is absolutely fascinating to me. Great job, as always! Joey in Cleveland

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Thanks Joey!

[@noelsalisbury7448]

Brilliant Cinematic/ TV Editing & compilation exercise ! A real Labour of Love !

[@marcowijdenes4695]

As always, my compliments for the great editing and very cinematic quality of youre videos. A great and colourful snapshot of that era, with many interesting background information.

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Thanks!

[@408SanJo]

Thank you sir for this video, great songs, as usual. And Merry Christmas out there to all the fans of this amazing music! --San Jose California

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Merry Christmas!

[@Transterra55]

It is astounding to me that so much great music did not chart or was very low on the charts and forgotten quickly… Dave Davies was definitely ahead of his time - if those songs were released 10 years later, they would’ve been more successful.

[@johnsvensson6623]

Merry Christmas from the US, your channel is parfect and always illuminating of UK groups/acts, we mostly never heard here. I am sure we have our own bunch of little heard acts in the UK.

[@geoffreykeane4072]

Great channel - I really appreciate the contemporary photos and film you find, no one else does that like you do.

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Cheers!

[@keithdunwoody1302]

I'm 64 and really appreciate this channel for deep diving into the old charts to reveal some of the lesser known bands that i missed. Fills in a lot of gaps.

[@Psychedlia98]

I would say songs such as "When My Mind Is Not Live" and "Sunny Cellophane Skies" were more on par with "Pictures of Matchstick Men" since both featured either a trippy dream-like vibe, or a tinge of an acidic sound that perfectly simulated the lysergic experience.

[@igorb2908]

Great job as usual! Enjoy your videos so much! Thanks!

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Cheers!

[@edwardmulholland7912]

I love “The Universal” and it’s B-side. The Small Faces were understandably floundering a bit after “Ogden’s” and things quite quickly started to fall apart for them, about 4 and a half months later after the single’s release, it was all over for the band. Steve Marriott thought that “The Universal” was one of the best things he ever wrote - but it was out of step with the rest of the band and the times. But still, it’s a great song about where Marriott’s head was at then. Cool video.

[@EdwinJack64]

Agreed!

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Cheers!

[@SuperNevile]

One of Steve's dogs Seamus, heard on the track also "sang" on Floyd's Meddle . An eponymous canine "crossover"..

[@paulgoldstein2569]

Always love watching your videos, Merry Christmas.

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Merry Christmas Paul! Cheers.

[@professortiki]

I was hoping to see another episode before Christmas. Thank you!

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Cheers!

[@HansRickheit]

Again, thank you for another splendid video. You've listed a few items I've never heard before, - but I will definitely be adding them to my listening library!

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Cheers!

[@noelsalisbury7448]

"The Universal" could have fitted straight onto Humble Pie's 2nd Album, released in November 1969. Give "Take me back" &:"The Light of Love" a listen , and get into that downhome groove - ( there's even a touch of Sitar on "The Light" !) If Stevie & Pete had reworked or just simply saved "The Universal" for this 2nd Pie no-one would have even raised an eyebrow.

[@cindyfalstrom7231]

I agree. The first two Pie albums were very eclectic with more acoustic, pastoral, blues rock mixed in with the heavier rock. The Universal wold have fit right in. Love those first albums.

[@SmartCookie2022]

I can still recall getting a small blue plastic transistor radio as a wee child just after Radio 1 had first started broadcasting (1967), so some of these long-forgotten songs are a vague memory for me. I suppose that's why I love this musical period so much. Great stuff as always. Merry Xmas, YP🎄🎅

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Merry Christmas, SmarrCookie! Cheers.

[@nathalieplum2137]

Joyeux Noël YP!!! Always great to see Peely in one of your videos. I've been looking at John Peel's old Festive Fifties on his Fandom WIKI page. They have the complete lists starting in with the first in 1976. And the difference between the 1976 and 1977 Festive Fifty is quite something! Peel took control! But I'm not in the right decade to chat about the late 70s on this channel. (I so wish a Yesterday's Papers for the 70s and 80s could happen), Happy Holidays to all!

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Joyeux Noel Nathalie!

[@chuckdee66]

Top shelf as ever. Always learn something new!

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Thanks!

[@davidellis5141]

The Family were really good & an early indicator of the excellent & influential taste of John Peel.

[@davidellis5141]

* Family

[@petejones879]

67 and 68 are my favourite years for music and for life itself.. I was 13 in 68 it all felt magical especially 67

[@michaelmacaulay7808]

Love both the songs on the Small Faces single, but definitely odd choices. Astonishing to think they it was all over so soon after their biggest triumph. Always brilliant to see Skip BIfferty too - one of the all-time greatest bands from the NE, if only more people knew about them. Meri Kirihemete from NZ everyone, and thank you YP for all the fantastic videos in 2024!!!

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Cheers!

[@Janarnaud54]

I really like this channel, it's wonderful to hear about those little works of art that were the 45rpm singles, some of which didn't make it outside the UK. Thank you and Merry Christmas to everyone!

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Merry Christmas!

[@Rochfordessex2]

Thanks for this great Xmas Day presie, YP 🎉 And yet another very cool discovery in Plastic Penny. Your way to tell le go - superb ❤

[@willieluncheonette5843]

this Yank must plead ignorance to every one of these songs. And that is one of the reasons I love your channel, YP. I get a great lesson in British music. Have a great New Year, mate. BTW love your cut at the words " a very expensive collector's item"

[@YesterdaysPapers]

@@willieluncheonette5843 Cheers Willie! Happy Holidays!

[@michaelrochester48]

Music in a doll’s house by family is the exact reason why the Beatles had to change the name of their album, the white album to just the Beatles. Because the original choice for the name of their album was going to be “a doll’s house.”

[@charlesachurch7265]

Thanks for another great presentation xxx

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Cheers.

[@julianwalch3567]

Great video, as always. Thanks.

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Cheers!

[@chrisbacos]

Yes, this was fun to watch. I noticed the Small Faces were on Andrew Oldham's Immediate label. From what I read, Don Arden was a cruel human being. At least his daughter, Sharon, is nice (I met her in 2002). Steve Marriott never had the same success after the Small Faces split in 1968, later turning his back on the music business. As for the Quo, unfortunately, they didn't continue their stateside success. We have an institution here in the USA called the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame and the Quo should have been inducted years ago. Didn't know that about the Average White Band. They reinvented themselves in the 1970s with funk and disco. 1968 was a great year for fashion too. Ron Wood and Steve Howe honed their crafts in the 60s. While I'm here Happy Christmas. I always love watching your videos.

[@jimmickg]

I'd argue that Marriott's next band, Humble Pie, were much bigger than the Small Faces at least in the US. They were huge when I was in high school - Fillmore Live album, Smokin' album, 30 Days in the Hole, etc... Not necessarily better, but different and bigger in the US.

[@westhavengwr4613]

Steve Marriott did not turn his back on the business but was playing live right up to his death. I saw Packet of Three three times in 1984-1985. Great gigs but not the same commercial success as Small Faces or Humble Pie.

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Happy Christmas, Chris!

[@noelsalisbury7448]

​@@jimmickg The Pie constantly, constantly, toured the States for several years . They became massive over there, and much bigger than back home in England.

[@noelsalisbury7448]

​@@westhavengwr4613 The two Stevie's - Marriott and Winwood - are STILL my favourite vocalists of all time !

[@francoispedro3694]

Hey hey, what can I say, exept it's getting better every time. Merry Xmas, Mr Y.P, by the way.

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Merry Christmas!

[@victorhawkins3461]

Always a pleasure. Just last night, I listened to Family's BANDSTAND album. I used to play the egg-suckin' grooves off the tune "Burlesque" back in my radio days. Thanks!

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Cheers! Great band, I love Family.

[@michaelrochester48]

Don Arden is better known now as the father-in-law of Ozzy Osbourne

[@tolanstout]

And a parasite.

[@Bigeazy87]

This is another great presentation. It seems as if music was in flux. Psychedelia is over and we're not yet to the heavy sounds of 1969/70.

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Cheers!

[@davidroberts7282]

That's a bit of a subjective statement. "Psychedelia" in terms of catchy pop songs might've hit its peak by mid-68, but as an creative, artistic and intellectual sub-genre, psychedelic rock, or "acid rock" still had some great albums, songs and influential conceptual themes left in it before it petered out by the mid-70's. Also many rock critics back then and rock historians even now say their was a stylistic difference between British and American psychedelia---in Britain it tended to be acoustic, pastoral, very whimsical almost fantasy like before it later morphed into complex, elaborate musical themes/music--like progressive rock of the early 70's, in the US, Psychedelic was more akin to harder, heavier rock with darker, more mature themes like war, civil rights and other late 60's tense socio-political issues. U.S. psychedelic bands tended to be edgier, louder, more aggressive on-stage and more experimental in pushing musical boundaries where the song-structure, melodies and lyrics grew more complex, daring and longer. When Led Zeppelin first emerged as a massively successful band, they were marketed as an "acid-rock" band, not as hard rock or heavy metal, that label got pressed on them posthumously. Some of Zep's earlier songs like "Dazed and Confused", " Tangerine", "Ramble On", " How Many More Times " have some trippy, psychedelic elements (lyrical themes, influences, time signatures/special effects).

[@johnbuzz]

Another great year of the channel, well done guys. The singles of 1969 will be fascinating, if you decide to go there.

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Cheers!

[@stephenwalker2924]

Plastic Penny - Your Way to Tell Me Go. Love it. Great track. The verses, especially, sound a little like The Stone Roses.

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Agreed, great track.

[@mr.milehi9883]

Steve Marriott is sorely missed even though that last single wasn't the best. Starting Peter frampton's career with the most prominent than before going solo it's too bad because Steve was really talented. Thank you for this early Christmas gift of the video.

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Cheers! Merry Christmas.

[@ludochem]

Skip bifferty "on love" is one of my fav sixties psyche track (1967) . thanks for introducing me to both Hopscotch and sleepy .. tw excellent obscure tracks !!!!! keep on the good work !

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Cheers!

[@appledoreman]

Wow, you certainly know how to dig out the obscurities! Lots here I'd never heard before. Just one little bit of added info you're probably already aware of: Bickerton & Waddington (who wrote the Toby Twirl song) went on to write for, & produce, the Rubettes in the 70's. Another great post, thank you.

[@tomc642]

Weren’t they members and songwriters of the Pete Best Four.

[@appledoreman]

@@tomc642 Yes.

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Thank you very much, cheers!

[@boomtownrat5106]

July 1968 in December! Now, that’s the way to warm things up! Thank you, YP, for ending the year with some spectacular singles! Always delighted to see anything featured by Family. Never heard of Toby Twill. They must’ve taken their name from Sheila Hodgetts’ book series on Toby Twill the pig. I immediately recognized, ‘ Nothing But a Heartache’ by the Flirtations in the background of that song.

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Cheers Boomtownrat! Merry Christmas.

[@boomtownrat5106]

@ Look forward to new videos in 2025. Thank you for your work.

[@Krzyszczynski]

Dead right about Toby Twirl. I remember those books from early childhood. They were about a young pig and the style and treatment were similar to the Rupert Bear stories.

[@wyliesmith4244]

Thanks for the early Christmas present! While I lived in Boston, Mass, that summer, I never saw a single one of these singles. Guess that makes me a provincial. I did buy the Family and Fleetwood Mac albums (Fleetwood Mac's early American albums had different tracks). Even 'Lincoln County' did not make an appearance in the States until "The Great Lost Kinks Album." Lost in record company politics I suppose. I have discovered/uncovered most of these songs in the years since, but Hopscotch and a couple of others are bands that I never even heard of before. Once again, YP is both educational and hugely enjoyable. Here's hoping that you get a Christmas gift as pleasurable as your video!

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Cheers Wylie! Merry Christmas.

[@crisprtalk6963]

Wow the tune “Does it really matter “ has an incredible sound Love it.

[@Psychedlia98]

Christmas came early, I see. I'll watch it and give my full thoughts on this vid on Christmas day. I also like how you chose July during December. It's probably just a coincidence, but I have a feeling that this goes with the whole "Christmas in July" but inversed.

[@stephensutcliffe1555]

thank you very much for the information it was greatly appreciated.

[@dazzlingdavedainty]

Excellent piece 👏🏽 👌

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Cheers!

[@robertjordan7348]

I love Dave Davies' Licoln County- tells a great story and has an an infectious beat.

[@stevejames2896]

Another very enjoyable trip! So many really good UK singles in '68. I've always thought Plastic Penny missed a trick by putting the very commercial (and very groovy) 'Baby You're Not To Blame' on the flip of 'Your Way To Tell Me Go' as it's the much stronger track of the two. The Sleepy were an interesting band- 'Rosie Can't Fly' is worth checking out as a great example of UK pop-psych.

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Yeah, the B-side by Plastic Penny would probably have done better than the other side. Killer single.

[@tattyshoesshigure5731]

The B side of the Fleetwood Mac single is terrific. “Stop Messin' Round” has a great ‘live’ feel to it, the addition of two saxophones & Christine Perfect’s keyboard playing flesh out the sound nicely!

[@MrCherryJuice]

Worth noting that Aerosmith covered 'Stop Messin' Round'. Joe Perry is on vocal, Steven Tyler is on harmonica, and Brad Whitford does the guitar solo. kzbin.info/www/bejne/fKq9ZqmFa6eijKs

[@tattyshoesshigure5731]

@ it is a fine version of the song!

[@noelsalisbury7448]

Love Christine. RIP a Talented, Tasteful & Beautiful Woman.

[@Psychedlia98]

On second thought, I'll watch it now so I can update my playlist by Christmas.

[@AF117]

Doing God's work here. Cheers mate, great channel and especially montages !

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Cheers!

[@cindyfalstrom7231]

This month fetured singles by two of my favorite bands - Small Faces and Peter Green's Fleetwood Mac. Two brilliant bands that were unfortunately too short lived (I know Mac continued, but not the same without Peter). It's sad that "The Universal" was panned by the critics. I love the song and "Donkey Rides" too. Steve said that the record's title was supposed to be "Hello, The Universal" , which I think explains the lyrics better. This was Steve in a happy, place greeting the day and the universe. Sadly, the failure put him in a very unhappy place and contributed to SF's demise. Now Donkey Ride has some quirky lyrics, but I think its' charming and very English. RIP Steve Marriott and Peter Green -two geniuses...

[@YesterdaysPapers]

I concur.

[@noelsalisbury7448]

Have Status Quo NEVER been in the US charts ever ? EVER ? .....since then? Like ...WOW !

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Their only hit in the US was their first single "Pictures of Matchstick Men".

[@dantean]

Am I wrong, or is it not Aynsley Dunbar on drums on the Keith West single, On A Saturday?

[@michaelcapewell4811]

Yes it is 👍

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Yep.

[@Ogma3bandcamp]

Thank you. Happy holidays!

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Happy Holidays!

[@musicalSFCat]

Family. Great underrated '60s psychedelic band. Imho. Never realized debut LP was produced by Dave Mason. Intriguing. Cheers.

[@CarlDraper]

Another great month of groovy tracks, cheers!

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Cheers.

[@Psychedlia98]

Alright another good vid. I am hoping to see one more Hendrix Single before the year (68) ends, because Ik The Experience released their final album that year. Can't wait to see what August brings us!

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Cheers!

[@KevinRudd-w8s]

Family were one of my favourite bands in the late sixties and early seventies, I liked the band Streetwalkers featuring Roger Chapman and Charlie Whitney too. I liked The Universal, perhaps the Small Faces were inspired to release it because of the success busker Don Partridge had had, but I think they would have been better releasing the B side as the A. Another interesting selection of songs anyway. Have a merry Christmas and New Year.

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Merry Christmas!

[@sashamoghilla2919]

A very good selections of the songs, but FAMILY are on the Top! Thanks YP!

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Cheers! Family were indeed a top band.

[@grokeffer6226]

Interesting stuff!! I was eight back then. Merry Christmas to everyone. 🎄☕🚬☃

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Merry Christmas!

[@familydogg1234]

Id like to see a special on Immediate Records. Who is wth me? Happy Holidays

[@YesterdaysPapers]

That would be cool, maybe in the future. Happy Holidays!

[@dwaynewladyka577]

Good music here. I hope you have a Merry Christmas. Cheers! ✌🏻🎄

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Merry Christmas!

[@soulfoodie1]

Excellent vlog as usual. 'Last night in Soho ' gave it's name to an excellent film by Edgar Wright which explores the dark side of 1960s London and it plays over the end credits. And adore 'on a Saturday ' by Keith West

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Cheers!

[@danmayberry1185]

These superb time capsules refocus the memory. But not for bin day, I can't remember that.

[@crocknut]

😂

[@noelsalisbury7448]

Just put it out when everyone else does👍😉

[@TheEWFX29]

Another great video.

[@pcno2832]

15:26 "Nothing But a Heartache" was the first thing that came to mind when I heard the clip of "Romeo and Juliette", without knowing who wrote either. Songwriters do seem to have their signature riffs; seeing old reruns of shows like "Lost in Space", "Land of the Giants" and "Time Tunnel", the writing style John Williams used for Star Wars and Close Encounters is hard to miss.

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Very true.

[@tommiesmith3191]

Another great video. But alot of these bands were pretty much shut out in the U.S. market. The Beatles, Stones, Motown, and Bubble Gum Top 40 owned A.M. radio in '68. Album Oriented Rock F.M. was a year or two away. Our loss.

[@jozefserf2024]

From imaginative hippy psychedelia to dreary drab blues?

[@faeembrugh]

I well remember going to a guy's flat in the early 1980s (to buy er...substances...) and he had loads of 1960s singles and albums and him selling me a copy of Alan Hogg's 'Bam Balam' fanzine which was all about obscure 1960s psych bands. It was very interesting discovering this almost forgotten treasure trove of great music although buying almost any vinyl was very difficult, though reissue LPs by groups like The Action and The Creation did soon appear. 'Record Collector' magazine was the vital publication of that era for fans of that music but even then stuff was changing hands for a lot of money, which in early 1980s terms meant like £50 and was therefore out of the range of some 16-year-old as I was then.

[@dreammachine2013]

Thanks for the trip😊

[@johnpendarvis7885]

Familys' album from a couple of years later "Bandstand" is their masterpiece.

[@SEGAClownboss]

Excellent thumbnail

[@jorgeabrahamguzman4290]

Mi estimado Yesterday Papers, que el 2025 sea lo mejor para todos ustedes. Que haya más contenido y claro salud para todos por allá. Abrazo y gracias por estos documentales.

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Felices Fiestas!

[@stevegray9828]

Would it be possible for you to do a video of the ill fated, krumlin jazz , folk and blues festival, 1970, that would be fantastic.

[@60sPsycheFanatic]

After the death of pirate radio few decent records got any airplay on Radio one and their mini me copyists. Music and fashion died.

[@williamr3840]

15:23 People are always wishing it was possible to time-travel -- but it is possible. We take photography and film for granted, yet it is a visual portal into another time It's absolutely incredible that you're seeing a whole street in motion in the 1960's. This is a form of time-travel. (If you slow that bit of film down to 0.25x, you get a real sense of being in that street). :0)

[@xwsftassell]

As Last Night in Soho was written by Howard and Blaikley, song more likely about Piccadilly rent boy scene. Or so it seems to me.

[@mackb909]

Superb vid; not familiar with many of these bands. The late Paul Raymond was in Plastic Penny before moving on to Chicken Shack (after Christine Perfect-later-McVie left that band), Savoy Brown, and UFO, among others; Nigel Olsson, the drummer, of course would soon become Elton John's go-to drummer. I first came across Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, MIck & Tich when they were mentioned in passing In Nik Cohn's "Awopbopaloobop Alopbamboom" (published here in the states as "Rock From The Beginning") when I was a teenager in the early '70s (I still have the paperback, which I bought in a jasmine incense-scented head shop in Dallas, where I grew up before I got the hell out, in '71 or '72; it's practically fallen apart due to countless re-readings- I liked Nik Cohn's writing style then, not so much now- and is well-preserved in a resealable plastic sandwich bag and has a psychedelic drawing of a Hendrix-like- guitarist on the front cover); I never thought much about them until I became intrigued several years back for the trailers to the film "Last Night in Soho." I ended up seeing the movie on a streaming service in 2022 and, in spite of an excellent cast (Diana Rigg in her last film, Terence Stamp, Rita Tushingham, and of course the young actresses in principal roles) and was visually beautiful, but fatally hampered by a ludicrous and incoherent script and revealers that made absolutely no sense; too bad this was the swan song for Diana Rigg, to whom the movie was dedicated. But It gave me the opportunity to listen for the first time to DD, D, B, M & T and the song itself is for me a winner. I wish we had more exposure to talents like Keith West here in the States. Same witih Toby Twirl, Skip Biffington and too many others. Thanks again for another fine vid, YP, hoping for happy holidays and a hopeful 2025 for you; we here in the States will resist fascism (it may become a full-time job for me, on the cusp of 70) as best we can.

[@Krzyszczynski]

Mr Cohn just gave a list of five or six bands fitting the same general description (including DDDBMT) before adding: "there's nothing I could say about any of them except that they had hits".

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Thank you very much, Mack! Happy Christmas!

[@hopebgood]

10:53 Oooh! I like the sound of this.

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Great B-side.

[@davidellis5141]

Excellent solo single Lincoln County from Dave Davies.

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Yep, great tune.

[@michaelholycross2633]

Merry Christmas!

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Merry Christmas!

[@barbarakirk3064]

Before you said it, I thought Toby Twirl's Romeo & Juliet sounded like a slowed-down version of the Flirtations' Nothing But A Heartache!

[@BanalayerPete1972]

Just noticed that Steve Marriot looked just like Viv Prince in the '60s.

[@ippitblack5289]

Phantastisch......My World❤❤❤❤

[@neilforbes416]

15:08 The ubiquitous *UA-8* autochanger turntable in an unknown-brand record player.

[@JasonTryp]

Love the footage of clubgoers dancing to the era's music. I fancy anything by Skip Bifferty, their sole LP is a hands down classic to my ears. Vocalist Graham Bell had really soulful Stevie Winwood-like vocals. Syd Barrett once said in an interview that FAMILY did 'nice things' so he obviously dug them. They seem to have been an influence on Peter Gabriel/Genesis. Hadn't heard the GLASS OPENING single in a long time, that's one groovy number!

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Agreed. The Skip Bifferty LP is excellent. Cheers!

[@jerrywatt6813]

Thanks YPCheers !

[@YesterdaysPapers]

Cheers Jerry!

[@jozefbelien7555]

Also from July 1968 is this groovy single : YOU'RE IN LIFE from ICARUS .