Shindig's back, and it's gonna rock !

James Brown with The Rolling Stones backstage

at the TAMI show

Hi-ho daddy-O ! Shindig is back my friends and I can really tell that now we can dance and we'll blow your socks off ! 

I hope everybody had his/her rest 'cause the train is back on the tracks. I'm now posting all this wonderful music from Singapore. As always, I hope you will enjoy it and feel free to comment. This is what I like, and I'm sharing it with you :

Tracklist :

1. Stung - The Belairs (Arvee? - 1961?)

2. Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man - The Rolling Stones (Decca - 1965)

3. In Orbit - Joy Lovejoy (Checker - 1967)

4. Gone Gone Gone - The Picadilly Line (CBS - 1967)

5. Cry To Me - Solomon Burke (Atlantic - 1962)

6. Supermarket Full Of Cans - The Eyes Of Blue (Deram - 1967)

7. The Way You Do The Things You Do - The Temptations (Gordy - 1964)

8. Romeo & Juliet - Michael & The Messengers (U.S.A. - 1967)

9. Cadillac - New Colony Six (Sentar - 1966)

10. I Found A Love - The Falcons & Band (Ohio Untouchables) (Lu Pine Productions - 1962)

11. Grow Your Own - The Small Faces (Decca - 1966)

12. The Only One I Love - The Miracles (Tamla - 1961)

13. Bat Macumba - Os Mutantes (Omplatten/Polydor - 1968)

14. Baby Hit And Run - The Contours (Tamla Motown - 1974, rec. 1965)

15. Talkin' About The Good Times - The Pretty Things (Fontana - 1967)

16. William - White Lightning (Hexagon - 1969)

17. Continental Strut - Little Iva & Her Band (Miracle - 1961)

18. So What!! - The Lyrics (Era - 1965)

19. Save Me (My Ship Of Love Is Sinking) [alternate version] - The Velvelettes (Motown - 2004, rec. c1965)

20. Leaving Here - The Birds (Decca - 1965)

21. High In A Room - The Smoke (Metronome - 1967)

22. Shake A Tail Feather - The Five Du-Tones (One-Derful - 1963)

23. A Thing Or Two - The Beach Boys (Capitol - 1967)

So let's start with a little bit of surf

 The Belairs in 1962

Ian Stewart and Mick Jagger in Savannah, Georgia in 1965

Two members of The Picadilly Line

Solomon Burke

The Eyes Of Blue

The Temptations performing "The Way You Do The Things You Do"

at the Ready Steady Show in 1965

The Way You Do The Things You Do - The Temptations

Michael & The Messengers

New Colony Six

The Falcons

The Small Faces coming out of their egg (chair)

Os Mutantes performing live "Bat Macumba"

on French TV in 1969

That guy is in transe !

 The Contours

The Pretty Things performing "Talkin' About The Good Times"
on French TV in 1968

The Lyrics

The Velvelettes

The Velvelettes, as part of Dick Clark's
"Caravan Of Stars"

The Birds

The Smoke performing live "High In A Room" and
"My Friend Jack" on Beat Club in 1967

 The Five Du-Tones

The Beatles TV cartoon episode 34

Movie of the week
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Blue Surf-Ari (1967)

Here's the Huntington beach contest from the movie

Cool surfing film with a truly excellent original surf music soundtrack by The Blazers. In the early 1960s surfing was becoming a major new sport. First there were specialized full-color magazines catering to aficionados and fans. Then came films, the first well-known one being, Endless Summer.

Hot on the heels of Endless Summer came Blue Surf-Ari. While not as popular at the time as Endless Summer, Blue Surf-Ari is now a classic both for the terrific surfing footage and for the awesome surf soundtrack by the Blazers.

Cool vintage footage includes: Pacific Coast Highway One, Dale Velzy shaping boards, shooting arrows and riding a dune buggy. Surf band the Blazers play during a bikini contest, Tandem surfing with Mike Doyle at Huntington Beach Surf Championships, a spaghetti fight between surfers and cute bikini girls. The film opens with the same wave used in Hawaii Five-O.

Photographers that participated with the filming include Ron Church, Jim Freeman and Bud Browne. Jim Irwin, John Cormack, Hal Buckley, Ricky Grigg, Sue Peterson, Mike Benet, Greg Noll, Pam Douglas, Dian Charles, Stubby. Blue Surf-Ari!

 The Video Beat

Surfing, skateboarding and bikinis
This is cool!

Freakbeat : that's the wildest beat

The Who

Hi-Ho daddy-O. Here's a new playlist concocted by your man for your own good. Be prepare for a sonic assault : dis is Freakbeat!

Playlist :

1. Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere - The Who (Brunswick - 1965)

2. Daddy Daddy - The Birds (Reaction - 1966)

3. Making Time - The Creation (Planet - 1966)

4. Crawdaddy Simone - The Syndicats (Columbia - 1965)

5. Grounded - The Syn (Deram - 1967)

6. Why Don't You Smile - The Downliners Sect (Columbia - 1966)

7. No Good Without You Baby - The Birds (Decca - 1965)

8. The Ox - The Who (Brunswick - 1965)

9. Circles - Les Fleur De Lys (Immediate - 1966)

10. Take A Heart - The Sorrows (Piccadilly - 1965)

11. You're Holding Me Down - The Buzz (Columbia - 1966)

12. A Midsummer Night Scene - John's Children (Track - 1967)

13. Come On Back - Paul & Ritchie & The Cryin' Shames (Decca - 1966)

14. Understanding - The Small Faces (Decca - 1966)

15. Say Those Magic Words - The Birds (Reaction - 1966)

16. I'm Not Your Stepping Stone - The Flies (Decca - 1966)

17. When The Night Falls - The Eyes (Mercury - 1966)

18. Garden Of My Mind - The Mickey Finn (Direction - 1967)

19. Gamma Goochie - The Tribe (Planet - 1966)

20. How Does It Feel To Feel [US Version] - The Creation (Polydor - 1968)

21. Singing The Blues - Jason Eddie & The Centremen (Capitol - 1966)

22. Picture Of Lily - The Who (Track - 1967)

 The Who

The Who performing "Anyway Anyhow Anywhere" on

Ready Steady Go! in 1965

This is the song that created the Freakbeat genre

(although the name was coined more than a decade later)

An amazing performance of The Who at the Richmond Festival

in 1965 playing "Anyway Anyhow Anywhere"

Now, that's what I call Freakbeat

 The Birds

The Creation performing live "Making Time" in 

Offenbach, Germany

Ladies & Gentlemen, this is Eddie Phillips with his ... bow

The Creation are undoubtlessly the Kings of Freakbeat

The theatrical trailer of the excellent biopic about Joe Meek

"Telstar", released in 2009, backed by The Syndicats'

"Crawdaddy Simone"

The Syndicats
For me, The Syndicats' "Crawdaddy Simone" is
the epitome of Freakbeat 

The Syn

The Downliners Sect

Les Fleur De Lys (Sic!)

The Sorrows performing one of the greatest Freakbeat
tune ever "Take A Heart" in Offenbach, Germany

 John's Children

Paul & Ritchie & The Cryin' Shames

The Small Faces

The Mickey Finn

Jason Eddie

Picture Of Lily - The Who

The Beatles TV Cartoon Episode 33 Part 1


The Beatles TV Cartoon Episode 33 Part 2

The Beatles TV Cartoon Episode 33 Part 3

Movie Of The Week
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Wild In The Streets (1968)

Watch the theatrical trailer below

Max Frost and the Troopers are an extremely popular rock and roll group with all the teenagers. A series of events results in Max Frost becoming President of the United States. Everyone over 30 years old is sent to LSD camps. Psychedelic images and sounds.

Barry Mann and Cynthia Weil wrote soundtrack songs, with "The Shape Of Things To Come" being the big hit record. Shelley Winters, Christopher Jones, Richard Pryor, Diane Varsi, Ed Begley, Sr., Hal Holbrook, Millie Perkins. Attorney Melvin Belli, Dick Clark and Walter Winchell provide cameo commentary. Companion film to, "Cult Of The Damned." Wild in the Streets!

The Video Beat

Fourteen Or Fight

Rock the vote!

Shape Of Things To Come  - Max Frost & The Troupers

British Rhythm'n'Blues : these scruffy louts ain't no nice

The Birds

Scotch, bourbon, cigarettes, Flamingo, YYYEEEAAAHHH, Bright Lights, Big Cities! 

That's what you got in London from 1962 to 1965, when British Rhythm'n'Blues struck hard. Thousands of kids howlin' their throat away, spiting furiously in their harmonica and blazing the strings of their guitars : the perfect son-in-laws!

Be proud to be English. Here are some of their best anthems :

Playlist :

1. You're On My Mind - The Birds (Decca - 1964)

2. Keep Me Covered - The Frays (Decca - 1965)

3. Bring It To Jerome - David John & The Mood (Parlophone - 1965)

4. Got My Feet On The Ground - The Kinks (Pye - 1965)

5. Fortune Teller - Tony Jackson with The Vibrations (Pye - 1965)

6. I'm Rowed Out - The Eyes (Mercury - 1965)

7. Anytime At All - The Fairies (Decca - 1964)

8. Oh Yeah! - The Others (Fontana - 1964)

9. Help Me - The Primitives (Pye - 1964)

10. Boom Boom - Blues By Five (Decca - 1964)

11. I'm A Hog For You - Erkey Grant & The Eerwigs (Pye - 1963)

12. Don't Gimme No Lip, Child - Dave Berry (Decca - 1964)

13. The Uncle Willie - Zoot Money's Big Roll Band (Decca - 1964)

14. I Got My Mojo Working - Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated (Decca - 1962)

15. I'm Leaving - The Mark Four (Decca - 1965)

16. You've Gotta Keep Her Underhand - The Big Three (Decca - 1964)

17. Out In The Street - The Who (Brunswick - 1965)

18. Talkin' Bout You - The Redcaps (Decca - 1963)

19. Leave My Kitten Alone - The Syndicats (unreleased - rec. 1965 for EMI)

20. See That My Grave Is Kept Clean - Paul's Disciples (Decca - 1965)

21. I Need Your Lovin' - Ronnie Jones with The Nightimers (Decca - 1964)

22. Rosalyn - The Pretty Things (Fontana - 1964)

23. Long Tall Shorty - Graham Bond Organization (Decca - 1964)

24. You Don't Love Me (You Don't Care) - The Birds (Decca - 1964)

 The wonderful program of the legendary Ealing Club

The 100 Club's one ain't bad too, is it ?

Pick your favorite night

(I know, it's hard)

The Birds

(left to right) Ali McKenzie, Pete McDaniels, Kim Gardner, 

Tony Monro and Ronnie Wood reclining in the back seat

The Frays

David John & The Mood

David John & The Mood

2nd lineup

A historical footage of The Kinks performing Long Tall Sally

live at the Cavern Club

A wonderful documentary of The Kinks Iceland Tour of 1965

in Icelandic Newsreel

And the crowd went crazy sir

The Kinks performing "You Really Got Me" and

"Got Love If You Want It" live on the Beat Club in 1964

Tony Jackson with The Vibrations

The Eyes

The Fairies

The Others

The Primitives

Mal & The Primitives performing "Gimme Some Lovin'"

Blues By Five

John Lee Hooker performing "Boom Boom" live at the BBC

in the early sixties

Erkey Grant

Dave Berry

Zoot Money's Big Roll Band in front of the Flamingo

Zoot Money's Big Roll Band in action

If that doesn't rock you out of your socks, you're probably

not in the right place

A very young Mick Jagger singing with the 

Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated

Alexis Korner is sitting on the chair with the guitar 

in the middle ; the man with the harmonica is Cyril Davies

Charlie Watts, Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker, Long John Baldry

and Graham Bond also belonged to the band

Alexis Korner's Blues Incorporated

Cyril Davies' All Stars featuring Long John Baldry

and Carlo Little providing the fine back beat

performing live "I Got My Mojo Working" in 1963

The Mark Four

The Big Three

The Who faking "Out In The Streets" on A Whole Scene

Going On on January 5, 1966

The Redcaps

The Syndicats performing savage renditions of

"You Can't Judge A Book" and "Howlin' For My Baby"

live on the Beat Club on October 5, 1964

Ronnie Jones & The Nightimers

The Pretty Things

The Graham Bond Organization playing

"Hoochie Coochie Man" live at the 1965 

National Jazz and Blues Festival held on

August 7, 1965 in Surrey, UK

An early shot of The Birds, when they were still 

known as The Thunderbirds

The Beatles TV Cartoon episode 32

Movie of the week

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Harper (1966)

Jazz or go-go dancing, you chose

Paul Newman is getting hard times

Paul Newman is Harper
And Harper does it better

What a georgous Pamela Tiffin
That's a pretty cool pool in a pretty cool mansion