flatbaroque Posted June 27, 2013 Share Posted June 27, 2013 Check out this cover of a Roger Miller song.. choreography is of particular note......I should point out I was looking at the original song cause it's good in it's own way....but this cover.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MissouriPicker Posted June 27, 2013 Share Posted June 27, 2013 Amen, FB. Couldn't stand that song. Miller was a very talented guy, but that song didn't work for me. I guess we have to consider the times of The British Invasion, drugs. For me, a lot of songs, particularly songs called "bubblegum music" were pretty foolish....yummy yummy yummy I've got love in my tummy....do wah diddie diddie dum diddie do. Even some of The Beatles songs were stretching for commomsense. Hated Octopus's Garden...lol.... Fortunately there were a lot of gems to balance things. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zombywoof Posted June 27, 2013 Share Posted June 27, 2013 Like any decade the 1960s had its gems and its trash. But it would also be hard to argue with the statement that 1969 was the single greatest year for LPs ever. But some of the music may of us cool people looked down on back then does not look near so bad nowadays. Case in point - The Monkees. While it was fahsionable back in the day to deride them as the Prefab Four who only teenyboppers listened to, those guys made some really good pop music. Hey even Butterfield covered Nesmith's "Mary Mary." That should have told us something. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiloMinderbinder Posted June 27, 2013 Share Posted June 27, 2013 There's always going to be more crap than not, no matter what the time period. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kidblast Posted June 27, 2013 Share Posted June 27, 2013 that spiked the LAME meter, In fact, it may have broken it all together.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tarrr Posted June 27, 2013 Share Posted June 27, 2013 Even more so today than then, if it makes money write down the formula and do it til the money dries up Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mojorule Posted June 27, 2013 Share Posted June 27, 2013 Have you chaps ever encountered Morecambe and Wise? I'm guessing they are known down under, but not so sure about the States. Without a doubt the Lennon and McCartney of comedy. They used to produce that sort of choreography as a joke... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czc-0OqfhEM They let the Beatles off very lightly in 1963: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7eAp_5Rp9I You should see how they treated Sir Elton just before the first clip... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MiloMinderbinder Posted June 27, 2013 Share Posted June 27, 2013 They let the Beatles off very lightly in 1963: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7eAp_5Rp9I That routine at the end was hilarious. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zombywoof Posted June 27, 2013 Share Posted June 27, 2013 You make the call. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
merseybeat1963 Posted June 27, 2013 Share Posted June 27, 2013 Check out this cover of a Roger Miller song.. choreography is of particular note......I should point out I was looking at the original song cause it's good in it's own way....but this cover.. Wow that was horrible..don't let the label British Invasion anywhere near that garbage(American Composer & singer..I didn't know Patty Duke was a singer,thought she was an actress.) This is original,charming,on eve of British Invasion. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bobouz Posted June 27, 2013 Share Posted June 27, 2013 Hey even Butterfield covered Nesmith's "Mary Mary." Wore out the East-West album, but always skipped Mary Mary. Still do with the cd! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
onewilyfool Posted June 27, 2013 Share Posted June 27, 2013 If you were in a certain "state of mind" let's call it....that version would have been FAR OUT!!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
flatbaroque Posted June 27, 2013 Author Share Posted June 27, 2013 Yea Mojo...M & Wise were popular down here...and deservedly so. They were brilliant at their best. Can't believe I haven't heard of the Shaggs before! Thanks for the introduction into their oeuvre Zomby. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mojorule Posted June 27, 2013 Share Posted June 27, 2013 I can believe I've not heard of the Shaggs before (despite the phenomenally punk name). They make the Pistols sound virtuosic, but the astonishing thing is that they were actually tight with each other despite the shambolic whole. Maybe it's a siblings-do-telepathy thing, but I've never heard a song so rhythmically all over the place in which all members of the group were all over the place together, and exactly in the same weird place at any given moment. Same with the harmonies - how do you manage to get two singers to sing exactly the same lyrics, when the lyrics are so utterly random, unrhyming and of varying metre? Astonishing. Here's a class British/Canadian all-girl garage act from the '60s, with Miss Lemon from Poirot on bass (look carefully and you'll spot her in the photos...): http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cDVHiXJ2Gz4 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jedzep Posted June 28, 2013 Share Posted June 28, 2013 Every era has it's garbage, worse with every generation. Faux R&B has taken over here in the USA, but it doesn't matter with the demise of recorded music sales. You have to dig out the good music nowadays but it's probably being made by musicians that can't quit their day jobs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
struma6 Posted June 28, 2013 Share Posted June 28, 2013 Funny clip. I watched The Patty Duke Show religiously and loved Roger Miller (Englishmen was a less-favored song) Now, combine Patty singing a Roger Miller song and you have disastrous results!! It screamed of the '60's pop commercialism that brought about many travesties. The dancing and the "yeah yeah yeah's" cracked me up. Patty's singing voice could crack glass... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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