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  • Too much Sun will burn.

  • Traffic, Steve Winwood, Dave Mason, RIP Chris Wood and Jim Capaldi

  • this song is well trippy. so matter about the sixpence for the sixpence.kus move on.......

  • so 60s pycadelic i grew up on this music

  • Marvellous sound !!!

  • I heard this few years ago on the radio at work and i liked it straight away and now it's in my Top 100

  • The GREAT Stevie Winwood!

  • Music? Nope. Chuck Testa.

  • Probably one of the stupidest videos I've ever seen. GENIUS. Great post !!! :D

  • 15 people need to jump into traffic.

  • @zoo899 Now thats good!

  • Great stereo recording

  • It would've been awesome to live in the 60's, but I heard skateboarding didn't really get better till 75 when urathane wheels replaced the old clay wheels so it's a tuff choice......

  • great song by a great band.never cared for the mix though.a tad too compressed and limited at the time of mastering.i`d like to to hear a remix using modern tech.sounds like paper ripping.

  • @knabein No, it needs no 're-mix'. This is a bad audio transfer - trust me, I have the record and the mix is fantastic. A very big sound with lots of spread. Also, it's easy to hear what all the musicians were playing and it's not like the current recording technique, they weren't plugged into a click-track, so the dynamics of the Performance of the take that's used has it's own dynamics and ambiance. It's live music played by musicians and sounds better when recorded in analogue.

  • These songs were incredibly mixed!

  • I was 19 when this came out in the 60's, it is a fab track and if I could jump into a time machine I'd be heading straight back...

  • @diiiiiiiiinamic You and me both!

  • Look at the hair,the jackets the trousers,doesnt it tell you something in fashion what goes round comes round.

  • I love this video

  • Only Steve Winwood could make a psychedelic trippy tune sound soulful and bluesy.

  • Great memories.... thank you.

  • This tune should have been included in the soundtrack of Pirate Radio.

  • best sun of the sixties

  • after each cut on the "fantasy" album, you can hear a little paper sun. then, at the end they play " we're a fade, you missed this" which is at the end of this vidio

  • i read about this in the book on led zeppelin "hammer of the gods"

  • great

  • Steve Winwood made it happen for us back then. Bring it all back! Debra -- this one's for you! Thank you, for the poetry and strawberry incense waaaaaay back then!

  • love it!

  • One of the best voices in the business and an extraordinary song from a lovely era.

  • This video is why the American Museum of Natural History forbids video recording devices to this day.

  • listening to this song makes me feel like I'm inside a lava lamp. groovy

  • "HOLE IN MY SHOE" WAS UNDOUBTEDLY THEIR BIGGEST HIT, WHICH IN A SENSE OVERSHADOWS THIS SONG (WHICH IS JUST AS GOOD) LOVE THE SITAR ARRANGEMENT TOO. ANOTHER MEMORY JERKING MEMORY FROM THE "FLOWER POWER" ERA.;

  • Homer hates Traffic..

  • This hit has been recorded in the Royal Museum for Central Africa in Tervuren (near Brussels, Belgium) !

  • @africamuseumtervuren I thought it was. I was staying with friends just north of Brussels in 1993 and visited the museum (located in a large wooded park). The museum hasn't changed much between 1967 and then!

  • One of the best forget about all that shit tunes. Psychedelic XTC!

  • Got to be one of the greatest .

  • Like being stuck in Traffic...

  • why must Steve leave Spencer Davis Group , he was the best but i found only this song good of Traffic and Blind Faith ( Well allright ) ,

  • This song refers to a "paper sun." Later there was a movie "Paper Moon."  What was the significance of referring to paper replications of celestial bodies? Perhaps some 60s person can explain?

    Pretty good song BTW. The 60s produced some excellent music.

  • @fighttheracists The paper moon came first. It came from a 1940s musical. The paper moon was the backdrop of a photographer's booth where a courting couple were having their photograph taken in front of a paper moon in a cardboard sky. The song was and still is famous, being covered by Nat King Cole among others. That'll be where the idea of a paper sun comes from.

  • シタールも使った、躍動感に満ちたデビューヒットシングル~~­TRAFFIC~PAPER・SON~ポップなメロだが革新性も­、ナイスナンバー!

  • rock raga

    read the book "hammer of the gods"

  • Drugs

  • @kato7547 i fucking hate probation! i fucking hate it!

  • song is materialism or an orientalist view of other lands?

  • Psychedelia at its finest. I love this song.

  • sadly some years later Steve Winwood started recording modern disco crap , nothing to do with these masterpieces.

  • The dead animals are musuem exhibits, there along with the African Masks.

    All a bit surreal & not-quite-right. Which is a bit like ---- after a Paper Sun.

  • Anglo - Saxon music - the best. But what's with the dead animals in the video for ?

  • Quite possibly the best song of the 1960s.

  • @karlvorderman ..it's, not by far, the best song of the 60's...BUT it absolutely IS one of the best flowing, trippy, 'with it' songs, done in 1960's,,,aka....the greatest time to have been living as a teen.

  • @karlvorderman I would agree. Traffic's first album has been played more by me than Sgt. Pepper's, and i think that Paper Sun is up there with the very best songs to come out of the sixties.

  • @karlvorderman I don't know man.... There's A LOT of really groovy song from the 60's.

    I do agree that this is definately one of them!

  • The end is epic.

  • LOVE this, was one of my favorite records!! Never saw this video!! WICKED vibes! Have always been obsessed with Traffic from its beginnings!

  • Wow -- really nice!

  • I wonder if The Beatles influenced them when they wrote this song ???

  • @spacemouse1 They began as a psychedelic rock group whose early singles were influenced by The Beatles :D

  • @spacemouse1 that s what i thought , it s exactly a single of the beatles , but i can not tell wich one

  • i like that they made it over 4 minutes long,that used to piss of the radio mobsters.

  • One of the best rocksongs ever.

    Eric Koekoek

  • Cute young mods looking at old stuff...and why not?

  • Who care's about the video. "Paper Sun," Is a Traffic classic !

  • where has this video gone - please re-load

  • This is one of my all time favourite sixties songs. It is fantastic! Thanks for posting it. The video is a little spooky but I've never seen anything like it before.

  • @37misspiggy I remember hearing this on the radio in about June 1967. Great single ; riff influenced i think by 'She has funny cars' by The Jefferson Airplane out a couple of months earlier

  • This maybe the most underrated song of all time. Love the sitar, the lyrics, the voice, the harmonies and the music. It is all simply brilliant. What a classic! Peace.

  • That's The Horniman Museum.

  • @xwsftassell I thought the same - are you sure (looks different today)

  • @thirstforwine Yeah. Instant recognition. My Auntie took me there when I was 6 (about the same time this record came out). Have been back a few times since, though not since the Nineties.

  • @xwsftassell well it seems we were both wrong, unfortunately. I found a link that proves it is the Powell Cotton museum (but youtube won't let me post it here)

  • @thirstforwine Whoops!

  • Somebody call security, there are Mods in the museum!!! Just kidding Traffic rocks!!

  • Early Genesis sounds like this. Dave Mason looks like John McVie here.

  • Everyone in this video looks uncomfortable.

  • What a crap video to such a great song, what were they thinking, nice that you played the complete song as quite often the end is cut off, well done and thanks for post.

  • <3

  • nursery rhymes

  • these and "rare bird" are memories from my childhood !!!..aaahhhh..the santicty of youth eh?...i must have only been about 8 or 9 at the time...

  • "Paper Sun" is blotter acid.

  • Steve winwood one of the great of British music, seldom mentioned and overlooked

  • @WELLBRAN - He was and is really good, I agree. Surely one of the best vocalists out of the 60s and that's saying something. Not sure if he's overlooked though.

  • sure reminds me of latchmere road (lavender hill) battersea.. in the late 60s/ealy 70s !! thanks!!

  • I always thought of this video as "It's raining outside boys so lets go to this weird little museum and wing it"- still love the song

  • If it needs a brilliant Video to 'make' a song great - then it isn't a great song.

    Great songs only need a speaker / headphone-socket or two to be great.

  • MAN I WISH THE TECKNOLOGY OF TODAY IN MAKING GRAPHIC VIDEOS WAS BACK THEN...THE VIDEOS BACK THEN WERE BAD!!! BUT THE MUSIC WAS GREAT AND WITH A LITTLE HELP FROM OUR FRIENDS WE HAD OUR VERY OWN VIDEOS IN OUR HEADS!

  • awesome upload!..gr8 song !..thanks !

  • Psychedelphamania  #__*

  • @kissesandthrills

    yes... is it not a Traffic video?

    but,' fancy' might mean something else,no?

  • it's the vietnam era, LSD experiments with us troops ...ect

  • Man, Steve Winwood is one talented dude.

  • I never knew Jimmy Hill played for Traffic - thought he was at Fulham. Must be the drugs.

  • I never knew Jimmy Hill played for Tracffic - thought he was at Fulham. Must be the drugs.

  • i think paper sun refers to a stage set.  you dont have to believe everything you see.

    its all just scenery. also, there was a song in the 30s called paper moon.

  • @granniemir - paper sun was Blotter Acid - LSD impregnated on tiny pieces of blotting paper.

    We are talking the Summer of '67 here..........

  • What an era, Traffic, The Who, The Stones, Jimi Hendriks, Pink Floyd, just to mention a few, of the brilliant groups of that time. Never will there be a time like it again.

  • EXCELLENT..Thanks for posting.

    My original vinyls were recently STOLEN.

    Respect,

    Grandma, Eire....(low income, honest)

  • Man, this song is 1967 in a bottle...

  • I remember buying this single in 1967. It's somewhere in my loft, ahh! the memories.

  • This reminds me of home movies I suffered through as a kid. "And here we are at the Museum of Natural History.......................­..................." One of my favorite songs, though.

  • What does "paper sun" mean? I'm from Argentina so I don't know

  • @JulianFb - see my reply ,posted 09 December

  • Where did you find this promo film, it is a very strange video, but quite enjoyable! Thank you.

  • Psychedelia rating: extreme :) Excellent!

  • Você não é o unico que ainda ouve Spencer Davis Group ,trafic ou o proprio Steve Winwood o mundo ainda continua escutando suas musicas ......Gimme Some Lovin

    ........Viva a boa musica hoje... amanhã ..e ..sempre

  • in the paper sun

  • Glad to see that Steve made it after leaving "Spencer Davis." I was worried.

  • @NcicHit - Niiiiiiiiiiiice humour, man.

  • we call it a TUNE

  • i may be the only man at my school who still listens to these guys

  • I was in 9th grade, ahhhh what great music! This was a fantastic group!

  • Horniman Museum, Forest Hill, London. Single was released May '67. Marvelous!

  • Great, great song and that video is a real collectors item. Thanks

  • Hey, CharlieRutan, i'm really looking forward to your stage debut, and your right, you just can't get this stuff today,- the world loses its soul from time to time

  • Hmm, Mono. I'm listening to this on headphones and I'm getting most of the vocals in my right ear and what seems like a lot of the instruments in the left one.

  • Still have the single from 1967 that i play - it is timeless, love it.

  • i always thought 'paper sun' referred to an lsd tab!!

  • nothin like sax, sitar & stuffed aardvark!!!

    ya just cant get this kinda stuff today!

  • I love early vids and I adore Traffic!

  • "You can't make the train fare or the sixpence for the phone". It would have to be rewritten now as 60p for the phone! That's what payphones now cost.

  • wtf

  • Great sound ......Love Traffic

  • I know the books say that 'Mr Fantasy' came out in 1968, but I got my copy on Christmas Day in 1967, then spent months and months waiting for the second album 'Traffic' to come out.

  • @hssmrg - but this - is a single from the summer of LOVE

  • this was one of the songs that got me into PSYCHEDELIA ,back in 1991 when i was 16, one of the best pop songs from britain in any era STRAIGHT TO HEAVEN IN 67!!!

  • in the beginning traffic sound a bit as pink floyd

  • good muslim music pray allah

  • @currypot1965 Its called a sitar. with a name like "currypot" you would think you would be a little more on the ball. LOL

  • The first Traffic song I have ever heard. I was twelve and it was the Summer of Love

  • @pataphysician66

    The summer of luv was 1967.......Trafic did not put out it's 1st album till 1968

  • @Duncetoo Their first album with this and 'Hole in my shoe' came out in'67 in Europe, I was there and bought it immediately.

  • @pataphysician66 The summer of luv was in 1967. Traffic put out their 1st album in 1968

  • @Duncetoo I was there -it was 1967. Maybe you got your info from Wikipedia, they aren't always accurate.

  • @pataphysician66 name the album..........

  • @Duncetoo The single came out in 67...I don't know when the album came out and I don't know the name- hell I was only twelve!

  • Happy Birthday Steve!!!! 5-12-2010

  • nice post cheers

  • I used to trip in museums...it was a smart thing to do.

  • can life & music be this fantastic?

  • a stroll down the old natural history museum is always a good idea!

  • Great Post !! I love this song..I remember the 1st time I heard it..I dropped a hit of acid and listened to it 17,324 times hahaha.... now I'm 63 and drop ant acids and listen to it :)

  • @rockncleve LMAO...you're too f'n funny! Definitely a good tune!

  • Such a great song , Traffic's first ; Sound quality here is fantastic

    Thanks for posting!

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  • @Bigpolak57

    Only in the woods?

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  • @Bigpolak57 Remember that time in the woods, when you went down on Jim ???

  • This band hit the ground running. Magical.

  • maybe one of the best indian music rock n roll cross overs, beatles do not have a chance in comparison LOL

    the tremeloes sitar driven proud mary however man thats gold have you heard live at cabaret lp? :P

  • that giselles name is tabitha twitchet the welsh rocker, a bonnie lass.....

  • thank you Stevie Winwood

  • Superb track - great vid!!

  • Great band. Coloured Rain is my favourite, off Here We Go Round The Mulberry classic 60's film soundtrack. *also check out Spencer Davis Group's Waltz For Lumumba, an AWESOME INSTRUMENTAL. promise.

  • In the late sixties that was called tripping. Us LSD users in that age tripped out on strange things like this video.

  • my museum skeleton is smarter than your honour student.

  • Graphics still aint that good.

  • It looks like they might be getting some inspiration from these artifacts..fantastic!

  • i think this is the horniman museum in south london

  • Think it is Norwich castle museum

  • type in paper sun horniman in google

  • I LOVE TRAFFIC!!!!  ;0)

  • GREAT video and classic tune, THANX for this.

  • my ex girlfriend looks just like steve winwood in this video

  • You lucky guy. So you got to bang Steve Winwood for a while?

  • So where is your ex-girlfriend in this video?

  • Responce to Alex Trebucq: traffic were no supergroup. The bandmembers apart from Steve Winwood were unknown at this time. The first supergroup in rock history were "Cream" anyway. Cream was established in 1966 and Traffic one year later.

  • I remember when Winwood left to join Blind Faith they tried to replace him with Mick Weaver calling themselves Mason, Capaldi, Wood and (Wynder. K.) Frog. They tried hard (I saw them) and Weaver is good but it wasn't going to work.

  • Aaaah Traffic! The first supergroup. What on Earth is Steve Winwood up to these days. He's dropped off the radar.

  • Good song, but the video is boring. It's always the same. What a pity ...

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  • I think it's the British Museum and this part of it became the Museum Of Mankind. Correct me if I'm wrong. Thanks for posting by the way.

  • I guess they decided a trip to the local natural history museum would be an appropriate video. wtf.

  • love the content of the video.

  • "Sixpence for the phone" kind of dates this, but still a good song.

  • Dave mason is the other founding member he wrote an sang half the songs on the first two albums.

  • The lead singer oh you mean Stevie Winwood,yeah he still does alot of work with other famous people like Tom Petty,Stevie Wonder and Eric Clapton,He was also in the Spencer Davis Group and Blind Faith,I dunno what happened to the others.I heard 2 of them are gone and there is only one other band member from Traffic besides Stevie Winwood that is still around.

  • Excellent track.The lead singer had a very dramatic voice.I wonder what they are doing now?

  • that's the one

  • the first album i ever bought. didnt know anything about them. just liked the cover and band name at 14