The "Let's Enjoy YouTube While We Can" Thread

[RGMike]

Damn -- this was NTM, just heard it on 'LNG -- The Cherry Slush, a '60s garage obscurity that's mighty fine.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jU83MOGwLzA

[RGMike]

Obscure cover of the Week: Creative Source was an early-'70s vocal-soul outfit in the Friends of Distinction mold. They did the orig on "You can't Hide Love" in '73, 2 years before EWF covered it. Here they do a cover of Carole King's "Corazon"!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnXBqbnQses

[Gazoo]

Obscure cover of the Week: Creative Source was an early-'70s vocal-soul outfit in the Friends of Distinction mold. They did the orig on "You can't Hide Love" in '73, 2 years before EWF covered it. Here they do a cover of Carole King's "Corazon"!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnXBqbnQses

This was quite a grand find - thank you!

[RGMike]

Obscure cover of the Week: Creative Source was an early-'70s vocal-soul outfit in the Friends of Distinction mold. They did the orig on "You can't Hide Love" in '73, 2 years before EWF covered it. Here they do a cover of Carole King's "Corazon"!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GnXBqbnQses

This was quite a grand find - thank you!

Do you know their fab orig version of "Can't Hide Love"? it's even better than that.

[RGMike]

Especially for Gaz: the Turtles doing the fab-tastic "Elenor" on NBC's Kraft Music Hall in '69. I really think it's groovy... et cet'ra.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZofFpizK04

[Gazoo]

Especially for Gaz: the Turtles doing the fab-tastic "Elenor" on NBC's Kraft Music Hall in '69. I really think it's groovy... et cet'ra.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ZofFpizK04

Thanks for that.  I love John Barbata on drums; he's such a showboat.  And Howard & Mark's interplay is always fun to watch.  Whatever the nature of their relationship was/is, they've got a special one.

ETA: PS: TANC: Another friend just posted a 1969 Kraft Hall performance to YouTube yesterday (Laura Nyro).  Where was that place?

[RGMike]

ETA: PS: TANC: Another friend just posted a 1969 Kraft Hall performance to YouTube yesterday (Laura Nyro).  Where was that place?

It was a TV variety show on NBC. It was (iirc) the "summer replacement" (a common thing back then) for either the Andy Williams or Perry Como series.

[RGMike]

a delightful NTM nugget: the Contours' last Motown single, "Hard to be a Loser", circa '67 with Dennis Edwards (who would move on to become a Temptation) on lead.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kMc0gquLgqs

[urth]

Promo film for Harry Nilsson's Jump Into The Fire, featuring Keith Moon on drums:

http://vodpod.com/watch/1548274-keith-moon-jump-into-the-fire?pod=rocknrool

(Not sure why the video is credited to Moon rather than Nilsson. Arrrghhh.)

[Tinka Cat]

Promo film for Harry Nilsson's Jump Into The Fire, featuring Keith Moon on drums:

http://vodpod.com/watch/1548274-keith-moon-jump-into-the-fire?pod=rocknrool

(Not sure why the video is credited to Moon rather than Nilsson. Arrrghhh.)

looks like the orig vid was posted on the YouTubes, where the poster credits Moon but not Nilsson. 

From the comments on YouTubes I see this is a scene from a movie called "Son of Dracula" (1974) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072189/

[RGMike]

Promo film for Harry Nilsson's Jump Into The Fire, featuring Keith Moon on drums:

http://vodpod.com/watch/1548274-keith-moon-jump-into-the-fire?pod=rocknrool

(Not sure why the video is credited to Moon rather than Nilsson. Arrrghhh.)

looks like the orig vid was posted on the YouTubes, where the poster credits Moon but not Nilsson. 

From the comments on YouTubes I see this is a scene from a movie called "Son of Dracula" (1974) http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0072189/

a hard-to-find film that got a lot of publicity when it was in production (due to the names involved) but which was deemed "unreleaseable" and barely saw the light of day -- ironically it produced the hit single "Daybreak" (NOT the Manilow tune) for Nilsson. 

[RGMike]

sorry, I'm just clip-crazy today. One of my fave obscure '60s singles, just heard on 'LNG -- 4 Jacks and a Jill, "Master Jack" -- interesting song, odd promo clip from '68. They were South African, apparently. A strange strange world indeed... I smell a possible Gaz blog post in this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0WvXpyufT8&feature=

[Gazoo]

sorry, I'm just clip-crazy today. One of my fave obscure '60s singles, just heard on 'LNG -- 4 Jacks and a Jill, "Master Jack" -- interesting song, odd promo clip from '68. They were South African, apparently. A strange strange world indeed... I smell a possible Gaz blog post in this one.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A0WvXpyufT8&feature=

I have that song on a Dick Bartley comp that I reviewed for AMG - very strange, indeed.  Like if Lulu had studied under a pervy old guy instead of Sidney Poitier.

PS: As for "Daybreak," Micky Dolenz recorded it around the same time as Nilsson; kinda good, a little unhinged.

[Gazoo]

Richard Pryor, coked up and going off:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EvSgPowOO8c

[RGMike]

After hearing the Bessie Banks version of "Go Now" on KPOO, I came across this original "promo clip" (as they were called back then) of the Moodies version.  Striking black-and-white cinematography, and reminiscent of Queen's "Bohemian Rhapsody" vid 10 years later.  A real find if you've never seen it (I hadn't):

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qLgdcGEqgcw