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!