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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. [thumbup]

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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.

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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...

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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.. [biggrin]

 

 

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.

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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

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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.

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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...

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