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Toppermost of the Poppermost - UK Number Ones : part 2 - The 1960s

Started by daf, June 12, 2019, 01:55:00 PM

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machotrouts

I think I've mentioned in this thread before that I make Only Connect-style quizzes and foist them on people sometimes – one of my favourite music connections has 'I Got You Babe' as the 4th and final giveaway clue, following 'Dangerous' by Big Data, 'Busy Day Birthday' by The Trak Kartel, and 'Gotta Get Up' by Harry Nilsson.

daf

Quote from: Cardenio I on November 09, 2019, 08:27:17 PM
Pal, you don't owe us shit. Thanks for keeping up the good work on whatever schedule suits you.
Cheers!

Quote from: Satchmo Distel on November 09, 2019, 11:23:23 PM
Three times a week is fine, for as long as you want.
Aw!

Quote from: Pranet on November 10, 2019, 11:01:43 PM
Thirded. Can't imagine how much effort goes into these. Especially the epic Beatles or Elvis entries.
Sniff!

Quote from: Ballad of Ballard Berkley on November 11, 2019, 06:25:38 PM
Take as long as you like, Mister daf. You've started one of the great CaB threads here, we are but humble servants.
Blub!
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Thanks playmates - your kind words butter my parsnip!

purlieu

Unlike the others, I'm fuming, and demand that you get back to daily posts. Only now I want two songs a day to make up for the inconvenience.


daf

They've got a Fuzzbox, and they're going to use it, it's . . .

202.  The Rolling Stones - (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction



From : 5 – 18 September 1965
Weeks : 2
Flip side : The Spider and the Fly
Bonus 1 : Charlie is my Darling - live in Ireland
Bonus 2 : Ed Sullivan
Bonus 3 : Live


The Story So Far :
QuoteOn 11 June 1965, The Rolling Stones released the live EP "got LIVE if you want it!". The band's first live recording to be released, it was captured during selected dates at Liverpool and Manchester during their British tour in March that year.

The title is a pun on the blues song "I Got Love If You Want It" by Slim Harpo. The EP, the last issued by the group, reached #1 in the UK EP chart in June 1965.

 

Renowned for its raw-sounding quality, engineer Glyn Johns had hung microphones over the balcony for the recording; however, some of the songs may have been more live than others :

"I'm Alright" on the 'Got Live If You Want It!' live LP (recorded and released a year later) contains the same backing track but with different vocals - this would have been impossible if the recordings were made as described. Additionally, "I'm Moving On" features a harmonica overdub as the instrument can be heard underneath Jagger's vocal during the first verse while Brian Jones (the group's other harmonica player) is playing slide guitar. These two tracks may be studio recordings re-tooled to give the impression of being live.

Although it was never released in the US, three of its songs were included on the American albums 'Out of Our Heads' and 'December's Children (And Everybody's) later in 1965.

The songs included were : "We Want The Stones" -  "Everybody Needs Somebody to Love"  -  "Pain in My Heart"  /  "Route 66"  /  "I'm Moving On"  and  "I'm Alright"

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Out of Our Heads was the third British, and fourth American studio album by the Rolling Stones. Initially issued in July 1965 in the US, it contained a mixture of recordings made over a six-month period.

As with the prior two albums, it consists mostly of covers of American blues, soul and R&B songs, though the band wrote some of their own material for this album. The American version contains the UK number 1 single, "The Last Time" and "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" - which would be the band's first number one US hit, and would go on to top the charts in 10 other countries, including the UK.

Besides the five band members, the album also contains musical contributions from former Rolling Stones member Ian Stewart, and frequent collaborator Jack Nitzsche. It was produced by the band's manager Andrew Loog Oldham.

 

Riding the wave of "Satisfaction"'s success, the album was released in the US on London Records on 30 July 1965, and became the group's first US number one album.

Side 1 : "Mercy, Mercy"  /  "Hitch Hike"  /  "The Last Time"  /  "That's How Strong My Love Is"  /  "Good Times"  /  "I'm All Right" (originally released on Got Live If You Want It! EP)
side 2 : "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"  /  "Cry to Me"  /  "The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man"  /  "Play with Fire"  /  "The Spider and the Fly"  /  "One More Try"

 

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Although they share the same title, the US and UK versions of Out of Our Heads have significant differences in the track listings. Six songs from the US album would be included on the UK version, two from the third US album "Rolling Stones Now" plus some new songs which would later surface on the next US album, December's Children (And Everybody's) in 1966.

Released by Decca Records on 24 September 1965, the Out of Our Heads reached number two in the UK charts, held off the top by Help! by The Beatles.

 

side 1 : "She Said "Yeah""  /  "Mercy, Mercy"  /  "Hitch Hike"  /  "That's How Strong My Love Is"  /  "Good Times"  /  "Gotta Get Away"
side 2 : "Talkin' 'Bout You"  /  "Cry to Me"  /  "Oh, Baby (We Got a Good Thing Going)" (Originally released on The Rolling Stones, Now!)  /  "Heart of Stone" (Originally released on The Rolling Stones, Now!)  /  "The Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man"  /  "I'm Free"



The Single :
Quote"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richard and produced by Andrew Loog Oldham.

The song was first released as a single in the United States in June 1965 and was also featured on the American version of the Rolling Stones' fourth studio album, Out of Our Heads, released that July.

"Satisfaction" was a hit, giving the Stones their first number one in the US. In the UK, the song initially was played only on pirate radio stations, because its lyrics were considered too sexually suggestive. It later became the Rolling Stones' fourth number one in the United Kingdom.

 

Keith Richard wrote "Satisfaction" in his sleep - having woken up in the middle of the night, he recorded a rough version of the riff on a Philips cassette player. He says that when he listened to the recording in the morning, there was about two minutes of acoustic guitar before you could hear him drop the pick and "then me snoring for the next forty minutes".

Sources vary as to where this story happened. While they make reference to a hotel room at the Fort Harrison Hotel in Clearwater, Florida, a house in Chelsea and the London Hilton, Richard wrote in his most recent autobiography that he was in his flat in Carlton Hill, St. John's Wood. He specifies that Mick Jagger wrote the lyrics by the pool in Clearwater, four days before they went into the studio.

The Rolling Stones first recorded the track on 10 May 1965 at Chess Studios in Chicago, Illinois, which included Brian Jones on harmonica. The Stones lip-synched to a dub of this version the first time they debuted the song on the American music variety television programme Shindig!  The group re-recorded it two days later at RCA Studios in Hollywood, California, with a different beat and the Maestro fuzzbox adding sustain to the sound of the guitar riff.

Richard envisioned redoing the track later with a horn section playing the riff: "this was just a little sketch, because, to my mind, the fuzz tone was really there to denote what the horns would be doing." But the other Rolling Stones, as well as producer and manager Andrew Loog Oldham outvoted Richard's suggestion, and the track was released - fuzzy and hornless - as it was.

Like most of the Stones' pre-1966 recordings, "Satisfaction" was originally released in mono only. In the mid-1980s, a true stereo version of the song was released. The stereo mix features a piano (played by session player Jack Nitzsche, who also provides the song's iconic tambourine) and acoustic guitar that are barely audible in the original mono release.

The lyrics outline the singer's irritation and confusion with the increasing commercialism of the modern world, Jagger also describes the stress of being a celebrity, and the tensions of touring. The reference in the verse to not getting any "girl reaction" was fairly controversial in its day, interpreted by some listeners (and radio programmers) as meaning a girl willing to have sex. Jagger commented that they "didn't understand the dirtiest line", as afterwards the girl asks him to return the following week as she is "on a losing streak", an apparent reference to menstruation.

"Satisfaction" was released as a single in the US by London Records on 6 June 1965, with "The Under-Assistant West Coast Promotion Man" as its B-side. By the time the song was included on the album, it had been edited to remove the outrageously rude "I break my ass every day" line.

It reached the top on 10 July, and held the number one spot for four weeks, before being knocked off on 7 August by "I'm Henry the Eighth, I Am" by Herman's Hermits.



"Satisfaction" was not immediately released by Decca Records in Great Britain. Decca was already in the process of preparing a live Rolling Stones EP for release, so the new single did not come out in Britain until 20 August, with "The Spider and the Fly" on the B-side. The song peaked at number one for two weeks in September 1965.

Mick Jagger : "It was the song that really made the Rolling Stones, changed us from just another band into a huge, monster band ... It has a very catchy title. It has a very catchy guitar riff. It has a great guitar sound, which was original at that time. And it captures a spirit of the times, which is very important in those kinds of songs ... Which was alienation."

Otis Redding recorded a rendition of "Satisfaction" for his album Otis Blue/Otis Redding Sings Soul, released in 1965. Redding claimed that he did not know the lyrics of the song. "I use a lot of words different than the Stones' version," he noted. "That's because I made them up."

Steve Cropper : "...if you ever listened to the record you can hardly understand the lyrics, right? I set down to a record player and copied down what I thought the lyrics were and I handed Otis a piece of paper and before we got through with the cut, he threw the paper on the floor and that was it."

The American new wave band Devo released their version of the song as a single in 1977, initially in a self-produced version on their own label Booji Boy Records. The song was re-recorded with Brian Eno as producer for their first album, and that version was also released as a single in 1978, after it was played for Mick Jagger's approval.

 

Other Versions includeChris Farlowe (1965)  /  The Ventures (1965)  /  Quincy Jones (1965)  /  "Tyytymätön" by Eero ja Jussi & The Boys (1965)  /  "Rien qu'un seul mot" by Eddy Mitchell (1965)  /  "Keine Klasse" by Die Dorados (1965)  /  "Satisfacción" by Los Salvajes (1965)  /  Paul Revere & The Raiders (1966)  /  Manfred Mann (1966)  /  The Kingsmen (1966)  /  Mary Wells (1966)  /   The Supremes (1966)  /  David McCallum (1966)  /  Billy Preston (1966)  /  Aretha Franklin (1967)  /  The Shirelles (1967)  /  Bill Cosby (1968)  /  Blue Cheer (1968)  /  Sandie Shaw (1968)  /  José Feliciano (1970)  /  CCS (1970)  /  Ken Boothe (1970)  /  The Shadows (1970)  /  Assemblage (1971)  /  Oscar Peterson (1971)  /  Herbie Mann (1972)  /  Raffaella Carrà (1973)  /  The Incredible Bongo Band (1974)  /  The Troggs (1975)  /  The Residents (1976)  /  The Biddu Orchestra (1978)  /  The Portsmouth Sinfonia (1979)  /  Television (1982)  /  MiniPops (1982)  /  Jerry Lee Lewis (1986)  /  Samantha Fox (1987)  /  Cicciolina (1988)  /  The Ukulele Orchestra of Great Britain (1988)  /  Alien Sex Fiend (1988)  /  Vanilla Ice (1989)  /  Tom Jones (1989)  /  Sly & Robbie (1997)  /  "Triune Godhead" by ApologetiX (1999)  /  Cat Power (2000)  /  Britney Spears (2000)  /  allthings8bit (2011)  /  Danny McEvoy (2011)  /  Marlon Clarke (2016)  /  Kelly Valleau (2017)  /  Beverley Knight (2019)  /  Alex Pe (2019)  /  Martin Rauhofer (2019)  /  a robot (2019)

On This Day  :
Quote8 September : Dorothy Dandridge, actress, dies of accidental overdose at 42
10 September : Great Britain performs nuclear test at Nevada Test Site
11 September : Moby, musician, born Richard Melville Hall in Harlem, New York
13 September : The Beatles release "Yesterday" as a single in the US
13 September : Zak Starkey, drummer, son of Ringo Starr, born in Hammersmith, London
16 September : Fred Quimby, Tom and Jerry producer, dies of a heart attack at 79
18 September : "I Dream of Jeannie premieres on NBC in the US

Extra! Extra! Read all about it! :
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The Culture Bunker

It's a great song, very good work from that dirty old sod Wyman on bass, though I'd probably listen to the Otis or Devo versions when I want to revisit it.

purlieu


The verses are excellent, very Dylan circa 1963-64, driven by a dirty blues riff and sung by someone impersonating a sexually frustrated teenager. However, I think they are still warming up and their next pair of No. 1s are on a different level.

Ballad of Ballard Berkley

A truly astonishing record, and everything you could ever want (or need) from the early Stones: an enormous turbo-charged riff, a pummelling groove and inspired anti-establishment lyrics blared by Jagger in full-on mixed-up angry young man mode. It's all hook, that song, a rare thrill.

grassbath

Fucking hell, if feelings of 'alienation' were the spirit of the times in 1965, how alienated are we now?

machotrouts

I think I've mentioned in this thread before that I make Only Connect-style quizzes and foist them on people sometimes – one of my favourite music connections has 'I Got You Babe' as the 4th and final giveaway clue, following 'Dangerous' by Big Data, 'Busy Day Birthday' by The Trak Kartel, and 'Gotta Get Up' by Harry Nilsson.

daf

They all end up straddling a big cannon wearing a G-string?


Dr Rock

If you don't like the Rolling Stones you're a prat. Especially this period, churning out so many great songs. If there was a thread about best intros (I imagine there has been) there are loads from 60s Stones.

purlieu

Other than their brief pop period in '66/'67, they represent the antithesis of everything I like in music. Just juvenile, angry, sneery music for the most part. Horrible.

Ballad of Ballard Berkley

Quote from: purlieu on November 13, 2019, 10:29:16 PM
Other than their brief pop period in '66/'67, they represent the antithesis of everything I like in music. Just juvenile, angry, sneery music for the most part. Horrible.

You're allowed to be juvenile, angry and sneery when you're in your early twenties, that's partly the point. The Stones were funny, intelligent, arty, talented, sexy, and subversive too, an absolutely lethal combo.

Quote from: Dr Rock on November 13, 2019, 10:20:47 PMIf there was a thread about best intros (I imagine there has been) there are loads from 60s Stones.

An intro which, even today, declares "HERE WE FUCKING GO" in no uncertain terms.

Dr Rock

Quote from: purlieu on November 13, 2019, 10:29:16 PM
Other than their brief pop period in '66/'67, they represent the antithesis of everything I like in music. Just juvenile, angry, sneery music for the most part. Horrible.

Ok you're not a prat if you think that period is the best, as it is definitely ace.

purlieu

Quote from: Ballad of Ballard Berkley on November 14, 2019, 04:01:46 AM
You're allowed to be juvenile, angry and sneery when you're in your early twenties, that's partly the point.
I'm not saying they're not allowed. Just that it represents the antithesis of everything I enjoy in music.

Ballad of Ballard Berkley

Quote from: purlieu on November 14, 2019, 11:10:33 AM
I'm not saying they're not allowed. Just that it represents the antithesis of everything I enjoy in music.

Fair enough.

daf

And if one day he should become, a singer with a Spanish bum, it's . . .

203.  The Walker Brothers - Make It Easy On Yourself



From : 19 – 25 September 1965
Weeks : 1
B-side : But I Do
Bonus : Simon Dee

The Story So Far : 
QuoteScott Walker was born Noel Scott Engel on January 9, 1943, in Hamilton, Ohio, US. His father was an oil industry manager whose work led the family to successive homes in Ohio, Texas, Colorado and New York. Scott and his mother settled in California in 1959. Interested in both music and performance, he spent time as a child actor and singer in the mid to late 1950s, including roles in two Broadway musicals, Pipe Dream and Plain and Fancy. Championed by singer, TV host, and serial love-rat, Eddie Fisher, he appeared several times on Fisher's TV programme.

As Scott Engel, he released several singles on Orbit records, including : "When Is A Boy A Man?" (b/w "Steady As A Rock") - March 1957  /  "The Livin' End" - March 1958  /  "Charlie Bop" - August 1958  /  "Golden Rule Of Love" - March 1959  /  and "Comin' Home" in May 1959.

 

John Walker was born John Joseph Maus on 12 November 1943 in New York City. With his parents and his older sister, Judith, he moved to California in 1947, at first settling in Redondo Beach and later in Hermosa Beach. He began learning saxophone, clarinet and guitar as a child, and by the age of 11 also began acting and appearing in TV talent shows. He had a role in a regular sitcom, Hello Mom. He began using the name John Walker at the age of 17, because he was unhappy at how people pronounced his real name.

From 1957 onwards, he worked as singer and guitarist with his sister, as the duo John and Judy. They recorded several singles, including "Bother Me Baby" - June 1958  /  "Hideout" - December 1959  / and  "You Can't Have My Love" - January 1960.

 

In 1961, they formed a backing band and performed as John, Judy and the Newports, until the band split up after an engagement in Hawaii. They then met Scott Engel, who had been playing bass in The Routers, and, with drummer "Spider" Webb, formed a new band, Judy and the Gents.

In 1963, John and Scott, with two other musicians, toured the Midwest as "The Surfaris", although the group included none of the musicians who played on the Surfaris' records. In July 1964, John wrote and released his first solo record - under the name Johnny Walker - "What a Thrill" (b/w "Beginning Of The End"), on  the Almo label, with The Blossoms as backing singers.

In 1964, Scott and John, by then working as a duo, linked up with drummer Gary Leeds to form a trio. Prompted by John, each of the members took "Walker" as their stage surname - and The Walker Brothers were born.

   

Initially, John served as guitarist and main lead singer of the trio, with Gary on drums and Scott playing bass guitar and mostly singing harmony vocals. By early 1965, the group had made appearances on TV shows Hollywood A Go-Go and Shindig and had made initial recordings, but the start of their real success lay overseas.

 

While working as a session drummer, Leeds had recently toured the United Kingdom with P.J. Proby, and persuaded both John and Scott to try their luck with him on the British pop scene. With financial backing from Leeds' stepfather, Walker, Engel and Leeds traveled to the UK in February 1965 for an exploratory visit.

When they landed in England, record producer Johnny Franz was keen to sign them up. In a short time, Walker and Engel had secured a recording contract with Philips Records, an affiliate of Mercury, and had played several venues around the UK, with Leeds as drummer.

Their first single - with John as lead singer - "Pretty Girls Everywhere" (b/w "Doin' The Jerk") missed the charts, but their next single - with Scott's deeper baritone in the lead - "Love Her" (b/w "The Seventh Dawn") – proved more successful, climbing to #20 in June 1965. The hit helped to promote Scott into the role of front-man of the group.

   

The Walker Brothers' next release, "Make It Easy on Yourself", a Bacharach/David ballad became a #16 hit in the US, and went to #1 on the UK Singles Chart in August 1965.



   

In November, they released two separate debut albums. The UK version - Take It Easy with the Walker Brothers - released on Phillips records, opened with their number 1 hit, "Make It Easy on Yourself", and was followed by : "There Goes My Baby"  /  "First Love Never Dies"  /  "Dancing in the Street"  /  "Lonely Winds"  /   and  "Girl I Lost in the Rain"

Side Two kicked off with "Land of a 1,000 Dances", and continued with the Scott Walker and Lesley Duncan composition "You're All Around Me"  /  Bob Dylan's "Love Minus Zero/No Limit"  /  "I Don't Want to Hear It Anymore" by Randy Newman  /  "Here Comes the Night"  /  and "Tell the Truth"

 

In the USA the album was released on Smash Records as Introducing the Walker Brothers. This alternate version shifted the running order around - replacing "Lonely Winds", "Girl I Lost in the Rain", "First Love Never Dies", and "Tell the Truth" with the singles "Love Her", "My Ship Is Coming In" and "Pretty Girls Everywhere", along with the B-side "Doin' the Jerk".

 

They finished the year with another smash hit - "My Ship Is Coming In", originally recorded in by soul singer Jimmy Radcliffe, reached the Top 3 in December 1965.

The Single :
Quote"Make It Easy on Yourself" was written by Burt Bacharach and Hal David. It was first a hit for Jerry Butler, who after hearing demo the demo, featuring Dionne Warwick's vocal, commented: "Man, it's a great song, and the girl who's singing it, and the arrangement, is a hit". Butler's version reached #20 on the Billboard Hot 100 in August 1962.

The most successful version of "Make It Easy on Yourself" was the 1965 single by The Walker Brothers which reached #1 in the UK in September 1965, and #16 in the US that December.



The song appeared as the opening song on the group's début studio album Take It Easy with the Walker Brothers and as the opening song on side 2 of their début US album Introducing the Walker Brothers.

Although based in London, the Walker Brothers were familiar with the original 1962 hit by Jerry Butler, and group member John Maus suggested that the Walker Brothers make a recording of it. The track was recorded in a June 1965 session at the Philips studios in Marble Arch arranged by Ivor Raymonde who conducted his orchestra with production credited to Philips' head of A&R Johnny Franz; session personnel included Vic Flick and Big Jim Sullivan on guitars and Ronnie Verrell on drums.

The track sold 250,000 copies in the UK, and over one million copies globally, achieving gold disc status.

 

Other Versions include :   "Non verrà da te la felicità" by Carmen Villani (1963)  /  Kenny Lynch (1965)  /  The Four Seasons (1965)  /  "Mais n'essaie pas de me mentir" by Claude François (1965)  /  Sarah Vaughan (1966)  /  Cilla Black (1966)  /  Long John Baldry (1966)  /  Ian & The Zodiacs (1966)  /  Percy Faith (1966)  /  Jackie Trent (1967)  /  Connie Francis (1968)  /  Burt Bacharach (1969)  /  Tony Bennett (1970)  /  Carpenters (1971)  /  Johnny Mathis (1972)  /  Cliff Richard (1974)  /  Cissy Houston (1977)  /  The Three Degrees (1989)  /  Amar (1994)  /  The Divine Comedy (1997)  /  Elvis Costello (1998)  /  Glen Campbell (1999)  /  Rick Astley (2005)  /  Michael Ball (2007)  /  Ronan Keating (2011)  /  Danny McEvoy (2011)

On This Day  :
Quote21 September : Singapore admitted to the United Nations
22 September : Andy Cairns, (Therapy?), born Andrew James Cairns in Ballyclare, County Antrim, Northern Ireland
25 September : The Beatles cartoon show begins in US
25 September : "Do I Hear a Waltz?" closes at 46th St Theater NYC after 220 performances

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Ballad of Ballard Berkley

As a very funny someone - sorry, I can't remember who - said earlier in this thread with regards to Roy Orbison: fucking voice on that cunt.

kalowski

Ah, Mr Engel, what a voice, what a genius. We see glimpses of his genius even in the early days, but this one is just a delightful piece of pop.

purlieu


machotrouts

Don't know this song! Normally I would listen to it before posting, but in this instance.. I'm exteemy drunk

DrGreggles

Quote from: Ballad of Ballard Berkley on November 15, 2019, 05:59:11 PM
As a very funny someone - sorry, I can't remember who - said earlier in this thread with regards to Roy Orbison: fucking voice on that cunt.

This cunt concurs

grassbath

I love that expansive, cinematic sound you get on this kind of '60s stuff, but the actual song doesn't move me all that much. Much prefer 'The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine...'

Still, absolutely mad to think that this shit is coming out of the same bloke 45-odd years later.


daf

Interesting he was a bit of a child star at first - might explain his later reclusive behaviour.

More to come from them of course, and I'll give Scott's solo doings a good shake in that one.

daf

Bonus Extra! :
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Talking of artists who radically changed direction, Alex Harvey: Agent OO Soul, advertised on that Record Mirror page, isn't bad, but it's no 'Next':

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CQy4s3xVzm0

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dpl_8N6647M

machotrouts

I've listened to it now. As someone whose concerted effort to get into Scott Walker has yet to extend past listening to his first album, I am mostly surprised at how much like Scott Walker it sounds. I don't know. I read so much about how different he was to the Walker Brothers I'd sort of fooled myself into thinking this wouldn't have his voice on it, or he'd be singing in a falsetto or yodelling or something. I'm sober now by the way.