We saw a GREAT Ed Sullivan clip the other night
on The Decades Channel ... had to be from late 1966 ... The Supremes (yes, they
were still just The Supremes back then!) appeared in these BEAUTIFUL pink gowns,
pink earrings and pink lipstick and sang a medley of their hits that kicked off
with "You Can't Hurry Love," which had to be their latest. After their spot, Ed
came over and asked each of them what their favorite of their own recordings was
... a real nice piece.
But the REALLY cool part was that Gary Lewis and the Playboys were up next. They, too, sang a brief hits medley (obviously lip-synched) behind a giant banner that said "Bye Bye Gary."
Sullivan announced that Gary was soon going off to the Army, which was the story that kicked off our 1967 Calendar Series back on January 1st. He then brought out a young lady to give Gary a farewell kiss, ala "Bye Bye Birdie," a film in which Ed Sullivan also starred! (Who can forget the great Paul Lynde song "Hymn For A Sunday Evening," the motion picture's tribute to Ed Sullivan!!!) Gary then sang a verse of "One Last Kiss" from the film before planting one on the cutie (who's now probably every bit of 70 years old!) Again, another REALLY cool clip. (Interestingly enough, Sullivan also showed a photo of Gary's father Jerry performing with his then-partner Dean Martin on Ed Sullivan's very first Toast Of The Town show from 1948. (I've often asked Andrew Solt, who owns the rights to ALL of the Ed Sullivan broadcasts, about resurrecting this clip for either a television special or commemorative DVD release but he told me that the clip is forever lost to the ages ... it was never saved or preserved. Makes sense ... who would have ever thought that Ed's first show from 1948 would have led to a television series that lasted on the air for 23 more years?!?!?) kk
But the REALLY cool part was that Gary Lewis and the Playboys were up next. They, too, sang a brief hits medley (obviously lip-synched) behind a giant banner that said "Bye Bye Gary."
Sullivan announced that Gary was soon going off to the Army, which was the story that kicked off our 1967 Calendar Series back on January 1st. He then brought out a young lady to give Gary a farewell kiss, ala "Bye Bye Birdie," a film in which Ed Sullivan also starred! (Who can forget the great Paul Lynde song "Hymn For A Sunday Evening," the motion picture's tribute to Ed Sullivan!!!) Gary then sang a verse of "One Last Kiss" from the film before planting one on the cutie (who's now probably every bit of 70 years old!) Again, another REALLY cool clip. (Interestingly enough, Sullivan also showed a photo of Gary's father Jerry performing with his then-partner Dean Martin on Ed Sullivan's very first Toast Of The Town show from 1948. (I've often asked Andrew Solt, who owns the rights to ALL of the Ed Sullivan broadcasts, about resurrecting this clip for either a television special or commemorative DVD release but he told me that the clip is forever lost to the ages ... it was never saved or preserved. Makes sense ... who would have ever thought that Ed's first show from 1948 would have led to a television series that lasted on the air for 23 more years?!?!?) kk
Regarding your October 19th
Grapeveine Post, I preferred Marvin Gaye's version as well. Just about anything
he did. Did ever see the California Raisins? My kids loved that animated version
of the Motown hits.
Keep up the good work.
Ted Gstalder
The
California Raisins actually featured Buddy Miles on lead vocals so they had some
pretty significant soul chops of their own! (Their version of "I Heard It
Through The Grapevine" went to #84 in 1988.) Miles wrote and recorded the
Classic Rock Hit "Them Changes" and performed with both Carlos Santana and Jimi
Hendrix at various times in his career. Sadly he passed away in 2008.
(kk)
Kent ...
Tom Seaver had to flee his beloved
Napa home and winery due to the fires raging in California.
Tom was the National
League's Rookie Of The Year in ... 1967.
Frank B.
Frank B.
Hi Kent;
Just had to get a note out to you
about my pal Ray Graffia.
50 years ago this week I was
lugging Fender amps for Ray and the Colony. I was making a whopping 50 bucks a
week, but I loved being a bit player on the Chicago rock scene.
Ronnie Rice was great. Pat McBride
was in his own subterranean world (Pat always seemed at his happiest when he was
depressed), but Ray was like an older brother to me. He exuded joy and
happiness. Ray was also incredibly grounded.
I saw him at the Blackhawks summer
convention about two months ago and he was like a kid under a Christmas tree. I
feel blessed to call him a friend. As the late Jack Brickhouse told me years
ago, "Kid, you can always tell class ... you can just sense it."
That is Ray Graffia...
Chet Coppock
That is Ray Graffia...
Chet Coppock
Ray responds ...
Wow, Kent! I am floored by the love from C.C.! He was and is a great friend and not a bad roadie "in the day" either; so very much touched by knowing he did indeed enjoy working with us as much as we loved having him on the team. And look how unbelievably far he has out-distanced us in the long run.
Chet is really one of the good guys
and deserves all the kudos he's earned, even if I may sometimes not be 100% in
line with some of his comments at Forgotten Hits. Maybe he (and you, Frannie
& Paige?) can add to the stories to accompany our gig at Pheasant Run, eh?
You know about that one, right? If not, here's a link: http://www.arcadalive.com/event/new-colony-6/.
Y'all sharing your own remembrances would surely give me time to rest the vocal
chords that night.
Please let Chester know how his
thoughts lifted me up in a week where I lost a dear friend to an extremely rare
disease (1 in 1,000,000 get it - passed away at age 62) and I continue to pray
for another who is struggling, but should be all right, albeit may take a while
yet.
Be blessed as you, the FH folks who
are kind to us and especially Chet were, are and always have been over all these
years.
Love ya, kk, CC and FH'ers ...
Ray
P.S. Hoping that I can clarify
what I meant by my "top of the charts" comment for "I Confess" down in
Bloomington with Cornerstones earlier this year.
While we were stopped at #2 here in
Chicago (attached), here is one chart (also attached) from New York state
(upstate I think) where we did reach the absolute top of the mountain, and for
at least two weeks in a row!
Your note today and Mr. Coppock's
kind words led me to finally dig out this chart, as it has been something I
intended to share as soon as you posted your review of the show. There may or
may not have been others as well, but this one came to me many, many moons ago -
two consecutive weeks at #1 for WENE ...
100 watts or 50,000 watts, I do not
know but ... we still reached the pinnacle!
Ray
Kent,
Glad to see the posting of Vikki
Carr's IT MUST BE HIM because I always liked that record.
Kent, as you may or may not know,
Vikki Carr's real name is Florencia Bisenta de Casillas-Martinez Cardona.
However, do you know why she recorded under the name of Vikki Carr?
The reason was they couldn't get
her real name on the record label.(LOL).
Have a great week.
Larry
>>>British songstress Petula Clark is the host of The Hollywood Palace tonight and performs "Imagine" (kk)
This being 1967, this was obviously not the John Lennon song. This "Imagine" was a song written by Francis Lai and Sammy Cahn for the movie "The Bobo," and was a track from Petula's These Are My Songs LP, and was later released as a Warner Bros. promo single in early 1968 (http://www.45cat.com/record/pro261).
– Randy Price
This is correct. Petula Clark is coming to The
Arcada Theatre on December 17th and we can't wait to see her! (kk)
Kent ...
Add this to 1967
collection.
Recorded 10/19/1967.
How do I know?
I got it From Ron Smith's book.
Frank B.
I got it From Ron Smith's book.
Frank B.
Or, you could have simply checked The Forgotten
Hits 1967 Calendar Page on that date ... where we ALSO featured this musical milestone ...
along with a copy of the song! (kk)
Kent ...
10/17/1942 = Happy Birthday, Gary
Puckett.
In this 1984 interview, they say
that this song was recorded in 1967.
Yep ... it's coming up ... keep watching the
weekly Super Charts. (And I'll tell you what ... we've seen Gary Puckett live
in concert at least half a dozen times now ... and he sings this song better
TODAY then he did on this vintage clip!) kk
Here are The British Top 30 Pop Charts for October, 1967, courtesy of Rockin' Lord Geoff Lambert ...
According to Record Retailer the
top thirty singles on the UK charts for week ending October 7th 1967
were:
WK LW
TW
07 - 01 - 01 - Engelbert
Humperdinck - The Last Waltz
06 - 05 - 02 - Traffic - Hole in
my Shoe
04 - 03 - 03 - Move - Flowers in
the Rain
05 - 04 - 04 - Diana Ross and the
Supremes - Reflections
04 - 13 - 05 - Bee Gees -
Massachussetts
08 - 02 - 06 - Keith West -
Excerpt From 'A Teenage Opera'
07 - 09 - 07 - Frankie Vaughan -
There Must Be A Way
08 - 06 - 08 - Small Faces -
Itchycoo Park
06 - 07 - 09 - Flowerpot Men -
Let's Go To San Francisco
03 - 12 - 10 - Box Tops - The
Letter
08 - 11 - 11 - Cliff Richard - The
Day I Met Marie
11 - 08 - 12 - Tom Jones - I'll
Never Fall In Love Again
05 - 16 - 13 - Dubliners - Black
Velvet Band
03 - 19 - 14 - Bobbie Gentry - Ode
to Billy Joe
13 - 10 - 15 - Scott Mckenzie -
San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)
02 - 17 - 16 - Seekers - When Will
the Good Apples Fall
13 - 14 - 17 - Anita Harris - Just
Loving You
02 - 23 - 18 - Herd - From the
Underworld
01 - NE - 18 - Procol Harum -
Homburg
03 - 20 - 20 - Frankie Mcbride -
Five Little Fingers
02 - 29 - 21 - Hollies - King
Midas in Reverse
01 - RE - 22 - Temptations -
You're My Everything
04 - 21 - 23 - Eric Burdon and the
Animals - Good Times
01 - NE - 24 - Vince Hill - Love
Letters in the Sand
01 - NE - 25 - Foundations - Baby
Now That I've Found You
01 - NE - 26 - Sandie Shaw -
You've not changed
07 - 22 - 27 - Beach Boys - Heroes
and Villains
07 - 25 - 28 - Jimi Hendrix
Experience - The Burning of the Midnight Lamp
10 - 15 - 29 - Tremeloes - Even
the Bad Times are Good
02 - 26 - 29 - Mindbenders - The
Letter
02 - 30 - 29 - Georgie Fame - Try
My World
According to Record Retailer the
top thirty singles on the UK charts for week ending October 14th 1967
were:
WK LW
TW
08 - 01 - 01 - Engelbert
Humperdinck - The Last Waltz
05 - 05 - 02 - Bee Gees -
Massachusetts
07 - 02 - 03 - Traffic - Hole in
My Shoe
05 - 03 - 04 - Move - Flowers in
the Rain
06 - 04 - 05 - Diana Ross and the
Supremes - Reflections
08 - 07 - 06 - Frankie Vaughan -
There Must Be A Way
04 - 10 - 07 - Box Tops - The
Letter
09 - 06 - 08 - Keith West -
Excerpt From 'A Teenage Opera'
09 - 08 - 09 - Small Faces -
Itchycoo Park
03 - 18 - 10 - Herd - From the
Underworld
02 - 18 - 11 - Procol Harum -
Homburg
03 - 16 - 12 - Seekers - When Will
the Good Apples Fall
06 - 13 - 13 - Dubliners - Black
Velvet Band
07 - 09 - 14 - Flowerpot Men -
Let's Go To San Francisco
09 - 11 - 15 - Cliff Richard - The
Day I Met Marie
04 - 14 - 16 - Bobbie Gentry - Ode
to Billy Joe
12 - 12 - 17 - Tom Jones - I'll
Never Fall In Love Again
03 - 21 - 18 - Hollies - King
Midas in Reverse
01 - NE - 19 - Anita Harris - The
Playground
02 - 25 - 20 - Foundations - Baby
Now That I've Found You
02 - 26 - 21 - Sandie Shaw -
You've Not Changed
02 - 24 - 22 - Vince Hill - Love
Letters in the Sand
14 - 17 - 23 - Anita Harris - Just
Loving You
01 - NE - 23 - Dave Dee, Dozy,
Beaky, Mick and Tich - Zabadak!
02 - 22 - 25 - Temptations -
You're My Everything
14 - 15 - 26 - Scott Mckenzie -
San Francisco (Be Sure To Wear Some Flowers in Your Hair)
04 - 20 - 27 - Frankie Mcbride -
Five Little Fingers
05 - 23 - 28 - Eric Burdon and the
Animals - Good Times
01 - NE - 29 - Four Tops - You
Keep Running Away
11 - 29 - 30 - Tremeloes - Even
the Bad Times Are Good
According to Record Retailer the
top thirty singles on the UK charts for week ending October 21st 1967
were:
WK LW
TW
06 - 02 - 01 - Bee Gees -
Massachussetts
09 - 01 - 02 - Engelbert
Humperdinck - The Last Waltz
08 - 03 - 03 - Traffic - Hole in
my shoe
06 - 04 - 04 - Move - Flowers in
the Rain
09 - 06 - 05 - Frankie Vaughan -
There must be a way
05 - 07 - 06 - Box Tops - The
Letter
03 - 11 - 07 - Procol Harum -
Homburg
07 - 05 - 08 - Diana Ross and the
Supremes - Reflections
04 - 10 - 09 - Herd - From the
Underworld
03 - 20 - 10 - Foundations - Baby
Now That I've Found You
10 - 08 - 11 - Keith West -
Excerpt From 'A Teenage Opera'
02 - 23 - 12 - Dave Dee, Dozy,
Beaky, Mick and Tich - Zabadak!
04 - 12 - 13 - Seekers - When Will
the Good Apples Fall
05 - 16 - 14 - Bobbie Gentry - Ode
to Billy Joe
07 - 13 - 15 - Dubliners - Black
Velvet Band
10 - 09 - 16 - Small Faces -
Itchycoo Park
10 - 15 - 17 - Cliff Richard - The
Day I Met Marie
04 - 18 - 18 - Hollies - King
Midas in Reverse
08 - 14 - 19 - Flowerpot Men -
Let's Go To San Francisco
02 - 29 - 20 - Four Tops - You
Keep Running Away
01 - NE - 21 - Kinks - Autumn
Almanac
02 - 19 - 22 - Anita Harris - The
Playground
15 - 23 - 23 - Anita Harris - Just
Loving You
03 - 25 - 24 - Temptations -
You're My Everything
13 - 17 - 25 - Tom Jones - I'll
Never Fall In Love Again
01 - NE - 26 - Shirley Bassey -
Big Spender
03 - 21 - 27 - Sandie Shaw -
You've not changed
05 - 27 - 28 - Frankie Mcbride -
Five Little Fingers
01 - NE - 29 - Who - I Can See For
Miles
01 - NE - 30 - Troggs - Love Is
All Around
According to Record Retailer the
top thirty singles on the UK charts for week ending October 28th 1967
were:
WK LW
TW
07 - 01 - 01 - Bee Gees -
Massachussetts
10 - 02 - 02 - Engelbert
Humperdinck - The Last Waltz
09 - 03 - 03 - Traffic - Hole In
My Shoe
04 - 10 - 04 - Foundations - Baby
Now That I've Found You
04 - 07 - 05 - Procol Harum -
Homburg
10 - 05 - 06 - Frankie Vaughan -
There Must Be A Way
03 - 12 - 07 - Dave Dee, Dozy,
Beaky, Mick and Tich - Zabadak!
06 - 06 - 08 - Box Tops - The
Letter
07 - 04 - 09 - Move - Flowers in
the Rain
05 - 09 - 10 - Herd - From the
Underworld
08 - 08 - 11 - Diana Ross -
Reflections
05 - 13 - 12 - Seekers - When Will
the Good Apples Fall
06 - 14 - 13 - Bobbie Gentry - Ode
to Billy Joe
02 - 30 - 14 - Troggs - Love Is
All Around
11 - 11 - 14 - Keith West -
Excerpt From 'A Teenage Opera'
02 - 29 - 16 - Who - I Can See For
Miles
02 - 21 - 17 - Kinks - Autumn
Almanac
08 - 15 - 18 - Dubliners - Black
Velvet Band
01 - NE - 19 - Donovan - There Is
a Mountain
01 - NE - 20 - Eric Burdon - San
Franciscan Nights
05 - 18 - 20 - Hollies - King
Midas in Reverse
04 - 27 - 22 - Sandie Shaw -
You've Not Changed
03 - 20 - 23 - Four Tops - You
Keep Running Away
16 - 23 - 24 - Anita Harris - Just
Loving You
11 - 17 - 25 - Cliff Richard - The
Day I Met Marie
01 - NE - 26 - Val Doonican - If
the Whole World Stopped Loving
01 - NE - 27 - Stevie Wonder - I'm
wondering
04 - 24 - 28 - Temptations -
You're My Everything
11 - 16 - 29 - Small Faces -
Itchycoo Park
02 - 26 - 30 - Shirley Bassey -
Big Spender
And, in other British Chart news, circa
1967 ...
"Let The Heartaches Begin" was one of two
songs that Tony Macauley pitched to The Foundations. They chose to record "Baby,
Now That I've Found You" and it topped the UK charts on November 8, 1967.
Lightning struck twice for Macauley as he became the first UK songwriter /
producer to have back to back number ones. Long John Baldry released the tearjerker
ballad "Let The Heartaches Begin" on October 28 and the song replaced the
Foundations at number one on November 22.
The six foot seven Baldry was one of the most
renowned blues singers in England. Both Rod Stewart and Elton John were his
proteges. He discovered Stewart busking at a railway station. He found Reginald
Dwight playing piano at The Cromwellian (a London private gambling club). Both
future pop superstars would apprentice while backing Baldry in his band's
Steampacket (Stewart) and Bluesology (Dwight). Dwight would soon take the stage
name Elton John as a tribute to Bluesology's Elton Dean and John Baldry. He
would reference Baldry as Sugar Bear in his 1975
hit "Someone Saved My Life Tonight". It seems that in 1969 Baldry convinced a distraught Elton John not to go through with his impending marriage to a woman he didn't really love.
hit "Someone Saved My Life Tonight". It seems that in 1969 Baldry convinced a distraught Elton John not to go through with his impending marriage to a woman he didn't really love.
In America Baldry's single (Billboard #88)
couldn't duplicate the chart success of The Foundation's hit (Billboard #11) and
disappeared after only two weeks. "Let The Heartaches Begin" had an arrangement
reminiscent of The Drifters.
It was the very first song I recall hearing on the radio when I arrived in London in 1968.
Mike G
It was the very first song I recall hearing on the radio when I arrived in London in 1968.
Mike G
Interesting ... and not at all the style one might expect from Long John Baldry. Thanks for sharing. (I just noticed that this song also charted here in Chicago on WLS where it reached #27 ... but I don't remember it at all.) kk
My brother sent me a copy of a
Houston Top 40 list from early September of 1967 this morning.
The # 1 hit was from a Texas band, which was
actually covering a song from another Texas band. If you don't know either version, they're worth
hearing.
Here's is the version by the Clique, which was a
cover of the 13th Floor Elevators.
Brad
Why did you write “The so-called 'March On The Pentagon' — I was there and it was very real ... the “so-called” seems, in a way dismissive to me. History tells us that it had a tremendous impact. Happy to say I wasn’t one of the 600+ who were arrested, but I was tear gassed ... nothing "so-called" about that.
Best,
Bob Merlis
Nothing dismissive intended ... I simply meant that this is how it became to be known. (I don't know that they called it that at the time ... I think this was more a case of "we need to call it something" ... "we need to refer to it in some way" ... so that's what it became known as. It certainly wasn't my intention to diminish the importance or the motives in any way.
On a personal note I would have never picked you as such a rebel! (Lol)
It was a different time - and a different mind set -
I always say "we wanted to change the world" - and in many ways we did - just not always in the way we may have originally intended to. (kk)
No biggie ... but I just had
to let you know how I felt and that I was proudly part of it.
As an undergraduate at NY’s Columbia University
in 1968, I was among the many who occupied the campus in protest to military
recruiting there which sparked student uprisings thereafter including Harvard,
Berkeley and Kent State. It was a time like no other and I got to introduce the
Grateful Dead when we brought them onto the Columbia campus to perform a free
concert for the student strikers.
Here’s me at the mic back then — that’s Bob Weir on guitar right behind me and, I think, Bill Kreutzman tuning up his drums (could have been Mickey Hart since they had two drummers) and you see Jerry Garcia’s striped shirt and guitar strap at the lower left.
Here’s me at the mic back then — that’s Bob Weir on guitar right behind me and, I think, Bill Kreutzman tuning up his drums (could have been Mickey Hart since they had two drummers) and you see Jerry Garcia’s striped shirt and guitar strap at the lower left.
Bob
You might remember Jeff Lind from the Illinois Entertainer late 70's articles he wrote on Chicago 60's music. Over 10 years earlier, he was loving this music as a kid just like me. He left Chicago for Rockford College station WRCR where he started writing columns in the Roselle, Illinois paper at times. Below is one of his first commentaries from the April 28, 1967 issue, in which he sounds just as excited as I was in that era.
One of his record comments is of the Easybeats' "Friday On My Mind," of which co-writer George Young just passed away a few days ago. Along with writing partner Harry Vanda, they wrote and performed some great music with the Easybeats over the late 60's and early 70's.
Here's Jeff's article and it will make you want to go
back to 1967 again. OH YEAH, that's exactly what FH is doing!
Clark Besch
Hi Kent,
The 1967 series has been a joy to
follow this year. Thanks again!
Eddie Burke,
Ashley, PA
Thanks, Eddie ... I still can't believe it's almost over ... only two more months to go ... but it's been one heck of a ride!
I am looking into other ways of permanently posting this series ... as well as recapping all that went out by email over the past year ... so that others can enjoy it, too. Stay tuned for more details in the weeks to come! (kk)
Eddie Burke,
Ashley, PA
Thanks, Eddie ... I still can't believe it's almost over ... only two more months to go ... but it's been one heck of a ride!
I am looking into other ways of permanently posting this series ... as well as recapping all that went out by email over the past year ... so that others can enjoy it, too. Stay tuned for more details in the weeks to come! (kk)
