Sopwith Camel - Hello Hello

[bckm54]

Tiny Tim did a great version of this song... :) I have it on a download from one of his albums...

[critic480]

@bckm54 Tiny Tim and Yoko Ono...Wow, you sure musta bumped your head.

You pathetic chump.

[bckm54]

@critic480 well how about that...i have a stalker... you know they CAN find you...you can't completely hide behind your keyboard there...you go stalking people, you get what you deserve...

Have a nice life.

[critic480]

@bckm54 Stalker ? I think not.I simply looked at videos you've commented on to see if you are vile or ignorant with everyone and it proved what I suspected. You did bump your head.

[Aldebaron9]

A very early psychedelic 60's era media sensation.

[MsBluheart]

Thanks for making me know I am not crazy!! Everytime I tell someone about his song, they don't know what I'm talking about!! I do have an old 45.

[gto66solstice08]

Thanx for the memories...

[psychedelicsam1]

take a listen sometime to cellophane woman by sopwith camel. pretty cool tune

[NihonjinBanzai]

Known this song a couple years. Just realized today it's the best one I've ever heard. Lis'n to it without the video.

[briwolfe1]

I had this one a Best of Buddah LP collection.

It began with a voice saying "if you meet a wayward camel while walking in the snow, what can a startled person say except, hello, hello."

Can't find that on any CD!

[7Ritadogs]

I think Winchester.

[lordvespatron]

FANTASTICA.

[himycatisdead]

I'm just wondering what came first "Winchester Cathedral " or "Hello Hello"?

[38ddkelly]

@himycatisdead "Cathedral" came out about two months before "Hello Hello". About five months later was my favorite, "Ding Dong the Witch is Dead" by Fifth Estate. What a marvelous time to have an AM radio!!

[frizzlefrap]

@38ddkelly ... no offense, but, "DING DONG" was your favorite song? ...... you must have some awfully poor tastes in music .... that song sucked .... now on the otherhand ... this song is very nice along with many other Sopwith Camel arrangements! ........... would be nice if they could have more than just this 1 song.

[ElmoPiano]

Thanks for posting this old Sopwith Camel classic. It was written by founding member Terry MacNeil, and he played the piano part. The sheet music for the original piano part on "Hello, Hello" can be found at manymidi.com/sheetmusic.htm - a note-for-note transcription.

[DylanGirl1963]

I worked for the record company that released this great album and song (still have the LP.) Sweet little song, great for quotes! "You got pretty hair..."

[ClearLight1967]

@DylanGirl1963 Cool, Kama Sutra was a great label, with both Sopwith Camel and the Lovin' Spoonful, I'm sure you have some great stories.

[WhataShameAboutMe]

What these acid addled stoners were doing in Park City in the dead of winter is anybody's guess. It was a very near a freaking ghost town in 1967.

[shmuli9]

I had this song on "The Best of Buddah" 2-record set. (For those who don't know, a "record" is a not-so-compact compact disc, usually made out of vinyl.)

Claudine Longet also had a hit with this record.

[chineechik]

Saw them at the Sequoia Theater in Mill Valley in mid 60's.

[MrJeff1947]

Its so cold their tangerines are turning blue!

[titostacos]

Would you like some of my benzedrine?

[bckm54]

I used to have a 45rpm with this song, sung by Tiny Tim. it was GREAT!

[lincbond442]

Such a great song! Thanks for posting ClearLight1967! By the way, great name.

[ClearLight1967]

@lincbond442

:)

official clear light. com (remove the gaps)

[yanfrom1987]

bella

[henrypeckstv]

i've been ragtimed psychedelicized.

[flamesounds]

The drummer here, Norman Mayell, was a Merry Prankster and went on to join Blue Cheer in the late 60s-early 70s.

[kidz711]

Saw Sopwith at Longshoremans Hall in San Francisco, along with the 13th Floor Elevators "Gonna Miss Me" For all you Roky Ericson fans. I think it was 1966... Can't remember exactly. The 60's were a little fuzzy at the time, and seem even more fuzzy 40+ years later.

[chinzebo]

I saw them at the Avalon Ballroom in th '60's..They did relax the crowd and in a fun way!

[tremsfan]

One of the group members, i cant tell which one from this clip, changed his name to William Truckaway and released a very cool 45 in 1969 called Bluegreens on the Wing..it is now posted on youtube, but cant say it sounds much like Hello Hello...more like Norman Greenbaum ! It is very good, though.

[moxie96]

WTAI stands for Where the Action is, not very many bits of footage is common here on youtube due to them not aging well this footage looks like one of the last ones before the weekday afternoon series got canceled. Their "house band" was Paul Revere and the Raiders who later would host Happenings '68 on Saturday mornings probably before the point when American bandstand was moved to Saturday afternoons in the 70's. I'm in my 30's so I can be a bit off in this info.

[smokiebird06]

why couldn't dick clark ever shut the fuck up instead of talking over people's songs?

[MrClearlight]

I bought this record in '67..."so relaxed they could make the Spoonful sound uptight" (Lillian Roxon)

Thanx for this view of them.

[MattHatter]

Even with being a total '60s aficionado, I didn't get to finally hear this song until I purchased the "Love Is The Song We Sing" box set on Rhino that came out in 2007. Great song! Is their other stuff as good and catchy?

[Cubinoid]

The miraculous hump returns from the moon is my favourite album ever...You'll love it MattHatter!

[DS1967]

The Miraculous Hump Returns From The Moon is still a fave album. I bought the album on import when it came out (in '73 ?) and at that time I liked it it but it wasn't really my thing being heavily into Hendrix, Floyd, Dead, Hot Tuna and so on. However it has grown more splendiferous with each passing year! I was very grateful to find that it had been remastered for CD release in 2006 and got my copy direct from the band giving me the opportunity to heap compliments on them at the same time :)

[milesgma]

This was the group on the bill the very first time I went to the original Fillmore in SF. Can somebody PLEASE post 'Postcard From Jamaica'?!!!

[DylanGirl63]

I have the original (promo copy) album...worked for the record company. Very nice artwork on cover!

[BiggieB99]

When I was in my late teens/early 20's (only a SHORT decade ago) I was really into late 60's/early 70's music, and occasionally heard of Sopwith Camel, though the music stores never had their stuff and botched my only attempt to special order an album. That mistake probably saved me from disappointment. I'm not saying it's a bad song, but it's no Quicksilver.

[sixtiesbooks]

yet another 60's treasure!

[DustyDurst]

Sopwith Camel Forever!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[doesntmattermuchtome]

I'm so grateful for YouTube and ClearLight1967 for posting this slightly surreal and enchanting melody from days past. I've always loved that silly and yet truly endearing line, "Would you like some of my tangerine, I know I'd never treat you mean." Those lines have always been emblematic of the sweet innocence of the sixties. Yet, I recently realized i didn't remember the title or the band. Thanks so much, ClearLight, for connecting me with a magical part of my youth.

[93KHJBOSSRADIO]

VERY BOSS !!!!!

[OliverBoliverButt]

awesome clip. Thanks for posting it.

[TL250Rider]

Great Song Thank you for the Listing

[rowdymax1]

I remember the LP "The Miraculous Hump Returns From The Moon" by Sopwith Camel, 1973..classic!

[ElunedDdedwydd]

I still have the '45 somewhere and I've always loved this crazy song, mostly because it's so cheerful & upbeat, great sound, great group. Thanks for sharing it!

I was in my late teens when it was popular, I'm now 63 & I still like it a lot.

[7Ritadogs]

Martin Bartholomew Beard was the first bassist to do a bass SOLO on a pop single (that I know of)...in fact did so on BOTH of the Camel's first 2 singles. This, and the wonderful "Postcard From Jamaica". Very avant-garde! Love him.

[TSaxman74]

Entwhistle. My Generation. A bit earlier.

[7Ritadogs]

Martin Bartholomew Beard, one of my fave bassists of all time. Think: bass solos on both of the Camel's first 2 pop singles, unheard of! HH, and also 'Postcard From Jamaica'...(what a song!)

[xevcosmo]

Just wonderful! I was in seventh grade in West Jordan Utah when this was made in 1967, thank you for a great posting, it brought back many memories.

[Helivz]

I was just a lad of six, when I heard this tune in the spring of 1967. Those were the golden, innocent years of childhood. Both my parents and I took our first vacation to Hawaii together.

I entered my first grade of Elementary School in the fall of 1967.

[PhysicsProf1]

FABULOUS!!!! When was this video shot??  What year??

[flamesounds]

Great stuff...Those were some days..

[pkneeno]

One of the great lines of vintage rock: "Would you like some of my tangerine?..." I said this to a fiftyish very pretty lady once. She didn't miss a beat. We laughed.

[ClearLight1967]

I'm sure she found it very "a-peeling" :)

[packingten]

I loved this Song when I was a teen, they had another song I forgot what is was does anyone remember??What it was ??this will run me NUTZ!!!:)Dam I remembered the ending....thanks this was great, Bill

[ClearLight1967]

Hi Bill,

SC had a couple of other 45s: Postcard from Jamaica and Saga of the Low Down Let Down. Could either of these be the track you were thinking of?

[Bearhawke42]

@packingten Sleazy Street perhaps? It was from The Miraculous Hump Returns From The Moon 1971

[caran26]

Rare and very beautiful , thanks a lot

[weisserstein]

fantastic!!!!

[glencram]

Great song, wonderful rare clip. Thanks for posting!

[alien1x]

Classic, rare and awkward. Sounds like Dick Clark presenting. Keep 'em coming.

[torchkit]

Where The Action Is was a Dick Clark show.