i heard this record in late 59 ---on a 45- a girl went to school with him and played it for us and said it would be out soon---i had just graduated from high school in crosby, texas and we played it at a slumber party---i think the girl was from san anton. texas---sure did not he could dance like that
Nope! does not cut it, you must articulate why. No one loves James and Jackie more than me,but credit where credit is due..and after all you share your username with him, yours is Night Head Day so your attitude to this mans talent is surely due to the fact that on a Daily basis your Head is up your Ass,rendering you blind & deaf. Perhaps your username should be; Tetencul (HEAD IN ASS) I miss JB &JW v much, so isn't it great Roy is still around and still...DOIN IT carrying the torch for them!!!
some people, including myself think that Fontella Bass' Rescue Me is the best Aretha song that Aretha never did...well I reckon this could be the best James Brown song that James never did....love to know who was in the backing band...just imagine, a small sweaty club-circa '65: Roy & band.....hot, cookin' & real nasty....I feel good!!!!
Ok lets see... you guys have been arguing for three comment pages now and a few days. Enough already, it all started with one of you guys not liking Roy Head and one of you telling him off. Now you guys are talking about race. But I'm sure that you'll just read this whole comment paragraph and ignore it and keep on arguing but at least try to wrap it up guys. Other people wanna speak too.
my good mate dennis is a huge Kinks fan!!He says he just can never forgive Roy head for ripping off the riff from You really got me.That said, its a pretty good tune with some great renditions on youtube including Tom Jones and Bobbie Dylan.Its a 90 second belter that disc jockeys could play at the 55th min of their show and sneak in one or two extra 30 second ads similar to the letter by the boxtops.In that music climate, how gutsy was Dylans like a rolling stone at over 5 mins. jk
Why is it that blacks cannot just credit where credit is due? Why is it that this man can't just sing like a white man...cause that is EXACTLY what he is doing? Why can't he just dance well...cause that is what he is doing? Just makes all of you blacks, fussing and blaming and taking away credit, sound immature and jealous. Get over yourselves. This race shit is ssssooooooooooo damned old and boring and y'all need to find something else to fuss about.
@samisays As Khemuluxons said, he is a white man attempting to sing like Black men of that era! Dance as well?! He appears to be very athletic, but not even close to being as good a dancer as James Brown!
@designermite Bobby Byrd said that in the early days of the Famous Flames before they got the recording contract with King Records, that James could stand flat footed and do a back flip into a split and all kinds of moves beyond what was eventually seen by the time they started recording and doing TV shows...which is why its too bad that no footage of him rarely exists of JB before theTAMI Show
dont know too much about this guy !! but I love what im seeing here .. what energy wow .. hes awesome so cute too and a great dancer ,,Im pumped now .lol.. .. I will be checking him out from now on .. its on my favs ... thanx for a great post .. Lyndloo..
Good news for trailer fans! If you want to know the name of the song and singer which is featured in many comedy movie trailers like "Trial and Error," which is the second song in that trailer, here it is! It has been killing me to know this for 12 years and now I am relieved. I'm getting to download this on my iPod! And happy 44th birthday to Jessica Steen, the beautiful actress who fell in love with Michael Richards in "Trial and Error."
One of the most unbelievable rock performances! Jacko's fame is partly built on his dancing, but this guy really gives him a run for his money. And what a knockout classic song with superb vocals. This is a little known true rock classic. Spread the word...
lol...I see "lovin'" was replaced by "kissin'" in this version..oh well, that's American TV in the 60s for ya... actually, they STILL have a stick up their ass.. but Roy Head is 'the man".. This song belongs to HIM..!
@DemyxSpiritWaters How is he doing? I have loved him from the beginning...Please tell him that he has a lot of fans waiting for him to come back....especially here in Branson. lol
Regarding where the dance moves originated --- you can find similar moves from as long back as the 30's. Check out Cab Calloway, the Nicholas brothers, Bill Bailey (probably the first to do "the moonwalk" on tape, at least), Fred Astaire, Buck and Bubbles, and then Jackie Wilson in the 50's. (Wilson was honored when Elvis Presley,a good friend, used many of his moves.) The bottom line is that they're all hot, and they built upon each other's moves, whether they were dancers or singers or both
Earlier than that. There was a clip, "Earliest film clips of Black folks" - 3 men dancing, from 1894 it showed three men doing what is now called break dancing. It has been removed. These dances still show their African roots. Look up Chicago juke dancing, Detroit jit and Baltimore club dancing, these styles really take it back to Africa.
@3Rubee He does not sound Black, as for his dancing, he looks like a born, natural athlete, very flexible, not much dancing going on. He has charisma. Moves more like Prince than James Brown. The splits, the agility, but not much dancing.
@3Rubee" bullshit. This is a one-hit wonder who is incredibly white, who sounds black, and "moves" well beyond his time."
He sounds like a white man trying to sound like black singers of that era, James Brown, Joe Tex. Look up "vintage blues breakdown dance" from 1894, Lindy hop - hellzapoppin video, The Nicholas Brothers, Berry Brothers, Earl "Snake hips Hines, those "moves" define "well beyond his time". The bull-shit is flowing from your keyboard.
Grow up, turd, what are you, a white man, right? Roy was a handsome long-legged boy from south Texas who moved with grace and agility and sense of humor that could never have occurred to the short-legged, frenetic, immensely egotistical, but not even remotely good-looking James Brown.
@tonywsmith2 okay aborted fetus, Roy was a a long-legged, no rhythm, athletically inclined, double jointed boy with a jones for James Brown, the immensely talented and original real deal. That kind of hopping around and inane screaming demonstrated by Roy demands a sense of humor.
You certainly have a way of shooting yourself in the foot. "That kind of hopping around and inane screaming"---who else could you really be talking about but
James Brown? Musical talent worth thinking about begins far beyond the reach of either of these suckers. But at least Roy didn't take himself seriously, and wasn't drop dead h-ugly . . . like your munchkin her, James Brown.
@tonywsmith2 You certainly have a fixation with the looks of Roy "the one you would most love to give some" Head. Brown is a legend who has influenced many other music legends and one hit blunders like Roy whose true calling was circus freak.
Gee, Khem, you jump on those homo connotations like a faggot with an itchy anus . . . but at least if you took a run at it (idol worshipers like you, especially),
you'd have something to suck on, a far cry the well-documented wee-wee of
@tonywsmith2 Enough about your love life. Comparing a circus freak like Roy Head to James Brown. What happened James fired you from your first gofer job?
As for wonder bread, there's not a serious black musician---including Larry Graham and Winton Marsalis, for example---who wouldn't agree that if any musician ever deserved to be idolized, it was the wonder bread man J.S. Bach. But what would you know . . . you're just a spectator, albeit a vocal one, and one crazy hastard.
@tonywsmith2 wigger wannbe hipster is an expert on Black people. you're not "that" wonder bread, just that nasty, white, mushy pasty kind with no flavor, 99 cent store brand. The idols of "serious" Black musicians range from JB, Monk, Ellington, Miles, Parker, Jimmy Reed, Elmore James, Aretha, Lester Young, Sam Cooke, Junior Walker, Coltrane, Sarah, Ella, etc., the list goes on and on. Since you fancy yourself on what Black musicians idolize what are your fellow white musicians idolizing?
@KhemuLuxons U could go on an on till the cows come home, sister, any jazz musician knows that ultimately he is most indebted JS Bach, Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky, Shotakovitch, Profofiev and Bartok. Just ask around, rube, you simply don't know your shit. It's just a shame your mamma never saw to it that you studied the white bread instrument the piano, and western harmony. Either way, get to the drugstore for a refill. Otherwise, your rants really will come to an end.
@tonywsmith2 Typical wigger wannabe hipster, has to pretend that everything "colored" folk do had to come from the big house. Shut up and continue to live out your Norman Mailer white negro fantasies.
You crazy bastard, Khemuluxons. Do you have access to the internet in the rubber room? Now you're babbling about Norman Mailer. What's next, Nat Turner? Can't you just yank your thumb out of ass for a moment, and stop
babbling about race? It seems the color of your skin is driving your crazy, and that you want to do nothing more in life but play the role of ranting black man.
Give it a rest, you buffoon. You haven't even begun to think.
@tonywsmith2 Sho you right Normie. Typical wigger wannabe hipster wants to attribute the accomplishments of great musicians to others and when called on it screams about race. The skin color of of America's greatest musicians seems to have put a bug in your ass.
Oh, yes, that should have read munchkin hero, Khem. Now, to get down to business. You're a sermonizing little wigger, true? (In passing, if you want to know where musical talent worth talking about begins, you're going to have to look up, way up, at least to the level of, say, Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway
or Maurice. Better pull your thumb out, Khem. It's fine to grovel, and have fun doing it, but you're doing it with a straight face.
@tonywsmith2 I have forgotten more about musical talent than your wanna be hipster ass will ever learn. For the record wonder bread I am a real BLACK man who has attended the concerts of Brown, Hathaway, Wonder, The Tempts, Aretha, Miles Davis, Nancy Wilson, Dakota Staton others that go far beyond your wonder bread mind.
@KhemuLuxons. So you say, but I suspect you protest too much. Still, so you've put a lot of time and hard-earned spending money into voyeurism and attending concerts, have you? As a professional pianist, I played with Nancy several times years ago. Dennis Edwards' (David's replacement) shared a girl friend, or 2. Of course, I'm talking about real girls, chump, not the kind you wanna be. Fast, and without phoning a fellow wigger who plays piano, name the notes in an Eflat sharp 13th chord.
@tonywsmith2 So the wanna be hipster claims it is a professional musician. Probably a professional gofer and that is Ms. Nancy to you. You have just proven you are the typical wanna be hipster wigger. Pretending to be on a first name basis with the legendary Ms. Sweet Nancy, showing no respect. And wonder bread I am not a musician.
@KhemuLuxons. No pretense, here, ass. That's my profession plain and simple. Am I on a first name basis with Nancy Wilson? No, but, I did work as her
accompanist at the Governor's Inn in Buffalo years ago . . . but, geez, you rant.
Did your medication run out. Maybe you simply need to have a hole bored in your skull to relief pressure on your brain, such as it is, or, in lieu of all that, just
You poor bedeviled bastard, where did you get that alleged list of American's greatest musicians, includling the barely black Duke Ellington? Did you rip it off the
wall of the the gopher washfroom at the NAACP. Word of warning: you'll
get harsh treatment for loitering, stalking, or whacking off at the stalls ord of warning, they'll give your harsh treatment for loitering, stalking, or whacking
@tonywsmith2 "barely black Duke Ellington"? You are truly the king of wigger wannabe hipsters! This is the composer of Black, Brown, Beige, Liberian Suite., etc., He was VERY BLACK and proud of it. You would have walked away minus your teeth if you had ever called him that to his face. There have been many prominent and "barely black" , proud BLACK people: W.E.B. Dubois, Booker T. Washington, Walter White, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Mary Church Terrell, Sterling Brown, etc..
@tonywsmith2 Normie how about the "truly" black musicians like Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Scott Joplin, Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Bud Powell, Theolonius Monk, Art Tatum, Clifford Brown, Stevie Wonder, Sarah, Aretha, Dinah, Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Robert Johnson, Ledbelly? etc., . Too many to list. Not much American music without "barely black" or "truly black" musicians.
I wonder if the Nicholas Brothers were the dance team I saw in a b&w movie years ago, forget the name, but these guys were dancing all over a grand piano in part of it...it was a fantastic routine, whoever it was.
Yes, that sounds like the Nicholas Brothers. The film was Stormy Weather, and that dance scene is on youtube. It is one of the most famous dance scenes of all time, and many a dancer has agreed, including Fred Astaire, Gregory Hines, and Mikhail Baryshnikov. That dance number is called "Jumpin' Jive" and I can never see it too much.
roy is the man.unreal footwork,great song.others have done this song,they don`t come close.i was a kid when i first saw him perform,enjoy it even more now.
Yeah, that would be true. Especially since I must remember watching this ep. of "Shindig" even though I would have been less than 2 years old when this ep. aired (not much I remember from then -- & haven't seen any of the vids. on youtube this tune before posting this). Guess 1 or 2 of my older brothers or sisters must have had this turned on w/ my parents maybe out or something. All I know for sure is watching this vid. reminds me that I was very impressed indeed w/ Roy Head's movements.
I know when I was in my teens & 20's I did impress many girls & young women when I went out to dance & I danced very similiarly to this to some of pop. tunes from the early/mid-1980's (wish at 45 years old I could do the same) -- but I could never quite figure out where I picked up doing that -- now, I've figured it out.
It also appears from this vid. that Roy Head, like me, was a rather tall man (I'm 6'2" -- I'm not sure Head was that tall, but could be about that). I will tell everyone it is not very easy to dance like Roy Head & I did back in the 1980's being that tall. So, I'm even more impressed with Roy Head. Always have loved this tune, as well.
this man can move and sing, lots of talent there,he was at par with the grandfather of SOUL Mr. James Brown(R.I.P.) Thank U 4 posting this Classic!!!!!!!
give me a pint of what hes been on brilliant cheers
MickMcCarthy58 1 month ago
He could teach James Brown some moves....lol
TheArizonaghost 3 months ago
WOWWW!!!!!
Tengobaila 4 months ago
Absolutely Fantastic!
DominickFontana 5 months ago
I wish my legs bent like that! Holy cow!
flossflink 5 months ago
Is it true that Roy bit Elvis on the leg when he first met him?
depstein1112 6 months ago
i was very pleased when simon played a short clip of roy head when roy head's son was on american idol
crosbyhighlands 7 months ago
i heard this record in late 59 ---on a 45- a girl went to school with him and played it for us and said it would be out soon---i had just graduated from high school in crosby, texas and we played it at a slumber party---i think the girl was from san anton. texas---sure did not he could dance like that
crosbyhighlands 7 months ago
@crosbyhighlands ---correction ---the girl who brought the 45 was rom san marcus------my memory is starting to play tricks on me
crosbyhighlands 7 months ago
if roy was black he would have been a mega star. he was too cool to be white at the time.
SuperAram111 7 months ago
he looks like my uncle LeeROY after he was hit by a 55 buick. when they picked him up his feet were facing backwards.
RJiminez51 8 months ago
those chicks are gonna dance their tits right off
Aeschlimann1 8 months ago in playlist Psycho Surfo
eat my caterpillar charlie manka
Morgan60033 8 months ago
does Roy Head have an ego?
wausauman 9 months ago
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SupaiKeshiaea10 9 months ago
Omg! This man has rubber legs! Lol love it! -3
booziesuzie64 10 months ago
Nope! does not cut it, you must articulate why. No one loves James and Jackie more than me,but credit where credit is due..and after all you share your username with him, yours is Night Head Day so your attitude to this mans talent is surely due to the fact that on a Daily basis your Head is up your Ass,rendering you blind & deaf. Perhaps your username should be; Tetencul (HEAD IN ASS) I miss JB &JW v much, so isn't it great Roy is still around and still...DOIN IT carrying the torch for them!!!
nicco47 10 months ago
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nuitetjuors1 10 months ago
@nicco47
ok i'll try and articulate it. the dance doesn't have much to do with the song and is a bit overdone and meaningless.
a bit like your comment.
nuitetjuors1 10 months ago
@nuitetjuors1 So the articulation doesn't match the articulation?
Paulustrious 9 months ago
@Paulustrious
i think that's what i was trying to say!
nuitetjuors1 9 months ago
some people, including myself think that Fontella Bass' Rescue Me is the best Aretha song that Aretha never did...well I reckon this could be the best James Brown song that James never did....love to know who was in the backing band...just imagine, a small sweaty club-circa '65: Roy & band.....hot, cookin' & real nasty....I feel good!!!!
MrByrdbath 10 months ago
Now that's a shindig!
prez58 1 year ago
Da boy had James Brown in his head but he was not in the body! I give him an " A " for afford!
cryingeyes100 1 year ago
i guess this proves that just because a dance move is hard to do doesn't necessarily mean it's good
nuitetjuors1 1 year ago
@nuitetjuors1 I bet he can still move better than you!!!
nicco47 10 months ago
@nicco47
.......nope!
james brown and jackie wilson could, but not this gent.
nuitetjuors1 10 months ago
Ok lets see... you guys have been arguing for three comment pages now and a few days. Enough already, it all started with one of you guys not liking Roy Head and one of you telling him off. Now you guys are talking about race. But I'm sure that you'll just read this whole comment paragraph and ignore it and keep on arguing but at least try to wrap it up guys. Other people wanna speak too.
riversross 1 year ago
@riversross Others are free to speak at anytime just as you did. Anybody can comment or just ignore.
KhemuLuxons 1 year ago
One of the forgotten greats
serpico56 1 year ago
The White James Brown, I saw him performing better (dancing) than this one.
harfuch1 1 year ago
@harfuch1
tonywsmith2 1 year ago
Why is it about 'race' always? It's a cool clip of a cool song. Enjoy it and keep your negative crap out of it.
dennistruckdriver 1 year ago
my good mate dennis is a huge Kinks fan!!He says he just can never forgive Roy head for ripping off the riff from You really got me.That said, its a pretty good tune with some great renditions on youtube including Tom Jones and Bobbie Dylan.Its a 90 second belter that disc jockeys could play at the 55th min of their show and sneak in one or two extra 30 second ads similar to the letter by the boxtops.In that music climate, how gutsy was Dylans like a rolling stone at over 5 mins. jk
HaberfieldChiro 1 year ago
Why is it that blacks cannot just credit where credit is due? Why is it that this man can't just sing like a white man...cause that is EXACTLY what he is doing? Why can't he just dance well...cause that is what he is doing? Just makes all of you blacks, fussing and blaming and taking away credit, sound immature and jealous. Get over yourselves. This race shit is ssssooooooooooo damned old and boring and y'all need to find something else to fuss about.
samisays 1 year ago
@samisays As Khemuluxons said, he is a white man attempting to sing like Black men of that era! Dance as well?! He appears to be very athletic, but not even close to being as good a dancer as James Brown!
luvureally 1 year ago
He lives in Porter Texas
michaelthediciple 1 year ago 2
could He dance or what. very limber!!!
youngmindedman 1 year ago
BURN a ROCK n' ROLL RECORD TODAY! SAVE OUR CHILDREN! (ummm the white ones that is...)
finnertyManuel 1 year ago
@finnertyManuel Well Pat Boone I wouldn't complain about.
strandwolf 1 year ago
this song became popular worldwide!!!
youngmindedman 1 year ago
I know he was from Texas, because my friend knew his brother.
BigTig14 1 year ago
White Soulman! Yeah!!
floppybollox3 1 year ago
James Brown was on tour opening for Little Richard in 1955
diamondnight 1 year ago
Roy head is 69 he will be performing @ the Cadillac Lounge Friday September 17th with the Danny Marks Band if you need tickets please reserve now
1296queen 1 year ago
@1296queen Hey, that's tonight. Is it in Pontiac by any chance? Or maybe on the Riviera? I better Dodge on out of here on my Mustang.
strandwolf 1 year ago
I don't think James Brown was doing moves like this in 1965...or was he?
designermite 1 year ago
@designermite Bobby Byrd said that in the early days of the Famous Flames before they got the recording contract with King Records, that James could stand flat footed and do a back flip into a split and all kinds of moves beyond what was eventually seen by the time they started recording and doing TV shows...which is why its too bad that no footage of him rarely exists of JB before theTAMI Show
d820m 1 year ago
Political correctness, back in the day. Changed "want a little lovin" to "WANT A LITTLE KISSIN"
No 'Lovin' allowed on TV in those days!
Saw Roy on the old Bossier Strip, 40 sumpthin years ago. One of the best white guys to do black material, ever!
Shreveport boy name of Burton, leading the shindig band, on Guitar.
thruthefence 1 year ago
Political correctness, back in the day. Changed "want a little lovin" to "WANT A LITTLE KISSIN"
No 'Lovin' allowed on TV in those days!
Saw Roy on the old Bossier Strip, 40 sumpthin years ago. One of the best white guys to do black material, ever!
Shreveport boy name of Burton, leading the shindig band, on Guitar.
thruthefence 1 year ago
he is soo great---the video by destinationdoowhop is the best
slovacek59 1 year ago
dont know too much about this guy !! but I love what im seeing here .. what energy wow .. hes awesome so cute too and a great dancer ,,Im pumped now .lol.. .. I will be checking him out from now on .. its on my favs ... thanx for a great post .. Lyndloo..
lyndloo 1 year ago 2
Rubber Man! Did he write the song?... cause that would be too much!
foodstamp7007 1 year ago
wtf..... tom jonew is way better.
Tdubb92 1 year ago
finally an explanation for Jim Morrison
thanksforthemessdick 1 year ago 2
That move at :26 has got to be the coolest fuckin thing i've ever seen....lol, are we sure this isn't JB wearing a bad Shatner mask?
vinkleman 2 years ago 2
@vinkleman Major LOOOOOOOOOOOOL!!!
floppybollox3 1 year ago
His son Sundance Head auditioned on American Idol!
PuertoRico231 2 years ago
LMFAO HIS SCREAM
Zeppelinrocker7 2 years ago
have this on vinyl
mcconkeyMOD 2 years ago
Good news for trailer fans! If you want to know the name of the song and singer which is featured in many comedy movie trailers like "Trial and Error," which is the second song in that trailer, here it is! It has been killing me to know this for 12 years and now I am relieved. I'm getting to download this on my iPod! And happy 44th birthday to Jessica Steen, the beautiful actress who fell in love with Michael Richards in "Trial and Error."
hamletmiss 2 years ago
One of the most unbelievable rock performances! Jacko's fame is partly built on his dancing, but this guy really gives him a run for his money. And what a knockout classic song with superb vocals. This is a little known true rock classic. Spread the word...
Borella309 2 years ago
Wow, what a peacock! I never knew that Roy imitated James Brown.
juslookin3 2 years ago
imitation malaise
supersoulbrother 2 years ago
always loved this song he owns it! The white James Brown...but never heard anything else from him
snakpak9 2 years ago
hahhahahahha who the fuck is this guy?
zackthemack 2 years ago
my band used to play this back in the 60's it was a real crowd pleaser in the bars we use to play in in el paso......
pbaub 2 years ago 5
E.P. in the sixties--ever know Dave Dyer? (drummer)
nmcityrocker 2 years ago
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pixicam 2 years ago
rubber legs???
BONGOMAN3003 2 years ago
lol...I see "lovin'" was replaced by "kissin'" in this version..oh well, that's American TV in the 60s for ya... actually, they STILL have a stick up their ass.. but Roy Head is 'the man".. This song belongs to HIM..!
TigreDelAmor 2 years ago 2
Thats my Uncle Roy!! ^^ I sang with him at a benefit for his brother (My Uncle Jesse) who passed away...
DemyxSpiritWaters 2 years ago 16
@DemyxSpiritWaters How is he doing? I have loved him from the beginning...Please tell him that he has a lot of fans waiting for him to come back....especially here in Branson. lol
ekocentric 1 year ago
@DemyxSpiritWaters Your uncle Roy rocks...which year was he born?
nicco47 10 months ago
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sprngh2o 2 years ago
he almost reminds me of Jimmy Swaggert, Jimmy Swaggert at a go go bar. Video is a pure classic
wausauman 2 years ago
pretty funky
wausauman 2 years ago
omg, he cant stand still lol. hes got ants in his pants ... no better yet, a porchipine LOL
jgecy 2 years ago
Roy's a natural!
White man's answer to James Brown!
gyrene1966 2 years ago
This comment has received too many negative votes show
He is not a dancer he is a contortionist. No rhythm at all.
luvureally 2 years ago
no Michael got it from James Brown, Roy Head got it from James Brown.
luvureally 2 years ago 2
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karinablacktie 2 years ago
Regarding where the dance moves originated --- you can find similar moves from as long back as the 30's. Check out Cab Calloway, the Nicholas brothers, Bill Bailey (probably the first to do "the moonwalk" on tape, at least), Fred Astaire, Buck and Bubbles, and then Jackie Wilson in the 50's. (Wilson was honored when Elvis Presley,a good friend, used many of his moves.) The bottom line is that they're all hot, and they built upon each other's moves, whether they were dancers or singers or both
karinablacktie 2 years ago 3
Earlier than that. There was a clip, "Earliest film clips of Black folks" - 3 men dancing, from 1894 it showed three men doing what is now called break dancing. It has been removed. These dances still show their African roots. Look up Chicago juke dancing, Detroit jit and Baltimore club dancing, these styles really take it back to Africa.
KhemuLuxons 2 years ago 7
@KhemuLuxons bullshit. This is a one-hit wonder who is incredibly white, who sounds black, and "moves" well beyond his time.
Dont drag African, antique social issues into this great whitey peformance.
SO tired of politcial correctness and bull-shit analysis.'
Fuck.
3Rubee 1 year ago
@3Rubee He does not sound Black, as for his dancing, he looks like a born, natural athlete, very flexible, not much dancing going on. He has charisma. Moves more like Prince than James Brown. The splits, the agility, but not much dancing.
KhemuLuxons 1 year ago
@3Rubee" bullshit. This is a one-hit wonder who is incredibly white, who sounds black, and "moves" well beyond his time."
He sounds like a white man trying to sound like black singers of that era, James Brown, Joe Tex. Look up "vintage blues breakdown dance" from 1894, Lindy hop - hellzapoppin video, The Nicholas Brothers, Berry Brothers, Earl "Snake hips Hines, those "moves" define "well beyond his time". The bull-shit is flowing from your keyboard.
KhemuLuxons 1 year ago
@KhemuLuxons
Grow up, turd, what are you, a white man, right? Roy was a handsome long-legged boy from south Texas who moved with grace and agility and sense of humor that could never have occurred to the short-legged, frenetic, immensely egotistical, but not even remotely good-looking James Brown.
tonywsmith2 1 year ago
@tonywsmith2 okay aborted fetus, Roy was a a long-legged, no rhythm, athletically inclined, double jointed boy with a jones for James Brown, the immensely talented and original real deal. That kind of hopping around and inane screaming demonstrated by Roy demands a sense of humor.
KhemuLuxons 1 year ago 2
@KhemuLuxons
You certainly have a way of shooting yourself in the foot. "That kind of hopping around and inane screaming"---who else could you really be talking about but
James Brown? Musical talent worth thinking about begins far beyond the reach of either of these suckers. But at least Roy didn't take himself seriously, and wasn't drop dead h-ugly . . . like your munchkin her, James Brown.
tonywsmith2 1 year ago
@tonywsmith2 You certainly have a fixation with the looks of Roy "the one you would most love to give some" Head. Brown is a legend who has influenced many other music legends and one hit blunders like Roy whose true calling was circus freak.
KhemuLuxons 1 year ago
@KhemuLuxons
Gee, Khem, you jump on those homo connotations like a faggot with an itchy anus . . . but at least if you took a run at it (idol worshipers like you, especially),
you'd have something to suck on, a far cry the well-documented wee-wee of
your munchkin hero.
tonywsmith2 1 year ago
@tonywsmith2 Enough about your love life. Comparing a circus freak like Roy Head to James Brown. What happened James fired you from your first gofer job?
KhemuLuxons 1 year ago
@KhemuLuxons
As for wonder bread, there's not a serious black musician---including Larry Graham and Winton Marsalis, for example---who wouldn't agree that if any musician ever deserved to be idolized, it was the wonder bread man J.S. Bach. But what would you know . . . you're just a spectator, albeit a vocal one, and one crazy hastard.
tonywsmith2 1 year ago
@tonywsmith2 wigger wannbe hipster is an expert on Black people. you're not "that" wonder bread, just that nasty, white, mushy pasty kind with no flavor, 99 cent store brand. The idols of "serious" Black musicians range from JB, Monk, Ellington, Miles, Parker, Jimmy Reed, Elmore James, Aretha, Lester Young, Sam Cooke, Junior Walker, Coltrane, Sarah, Ella, etc., the list goes on and on. Since you fancy yourself on what Black musicians idolize what are your fellow white musicians idolizing?
KhemuLuxons 1 year ago
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@KhemuLuxons U could go on an on till the cows come home, sister, any jazz musician knows that ultimately he is most indebted JS Bach, Debussy, Ravel, Stravinsky, Shotakovitch, Profofiev and Bartok. Just ask around, rube, you simply don't know your shit. It's just a shame your mamma never saw to it that you studied the white bread instrument the piano, and western harmony. Either way, get to the drugstore for a refill. Otherwise, your rants really will come to an end.
tonywsmith2 1 year ago
@tonywsmith2 Typical wigger wannabe hipster, has to pretend that everything "colored" folk do had to come from the big house. Shut up and continue to live out your Norman Mailer white negro fantasies.
KhemuLuxons 1 year ago
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You crazy bastard, Khemuluxons. Do you have access to the internet in the rubber room? Now you're babbling about Norman Mailer. What's next, Nat Turner? Can't you just yank your thumb out of ass for a moment, and stop
babbling about race? It seems the color of your skin is driving your crazy, and that you want to do nothing more in life but play the role of ranting black man.
Give it a rest, you buffoon. You haven't even begun to think.
tonywsmith2 1 year ago
@tonywsmith2 Sho you right Normie. Typical wigger wannabe hipster wants to attribute the accomplishments of great musicians to others and when called on it screams about race. The skin color of of America's greatest musicians seems to have put a bug in your ass.
KhemuLuxons 1 year ago
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Oh, yes, that should have read munchkin hero, Khem. Now, to get down to business. You're a sermonizing little wigger, true? (In passing, if you want to know where musical talent worth talking about begins, you're going to have to look up, way up, at least to the level of, say, Stevie Wonder, Donny Hathaway
or Maurice. Better pull your thumb out, Khem. It's fine to grovel, and have fun doing it, but you're doing it with a straight face.
tonywsmith2 1 year ago
@tonywsmith2 I have forgotten more about musical talent than your wanna be hipster ass will ever learn. For the record wonder bread I am a real BLACK man who has attended the concerts of Brown, Hathaway, Wonder, The Tempts, Aretha, Miles Davis, Nancy Wilson, Dakota Staton others that go far beyond your wonder bread mind.
KhemuLuxons 1 year ago
@KhemuLuxons. So you say, but I suspect you protest too much. Still, so you've put a lot of time and hard-earned spending money into voyeurism and attending concerts, have you? As a professional pianist, I played with Nancy several times years ago. Dennis Edwards' (David's replacement) shared a girl friend, or 2. Of course, I'm talking about real girls, chump, not the kind you wanna be. Fast, and without phoning a fellow wigger who plays piano, name the notes in an Eflat sharp 13th chord.
tonywsmith2 1 year ago
@tonywsmith2 So the wanna be hipster claims it is a professional musician. Probably a professional gofer and that is Ms. Nancy to you. You have just proven you are the typical wanna be hipster wigger. Pretending to be on a first name basis with the legendary Ms. Sweet Nancy, showing no respect. And wonder bread I am not a musician.
KhemuLuxons 1 year ago
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You must drive your boyfriend nuts.
tonywsmith2 1 year ago
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absolute truth
''Red, Petite and gone'' movie is from 1946 and also showed black men dancin LINDY HOP: THE BREAKDANCE ANTECESSOR
funkberto 1 year ago
@KhemuLuxons. No pretense, here, ass. That's my profession plain and simple. Am I on a first name basis with Nancy Wilson? No, but, I did work as her
accompanist at the Governor's Inn in Buffalo years ago . . . but, geez, you rant.
Did your medication run out. Maybe you simply need to have a hole bored in your skull to relief pressure on your brain, such as it is, or, in lieu of all that, just
to soak your head.
tonywsmith2 1 year ago
@tonywsmith2 okay keep living in fantality gofer.
KhemuLuxons 1 year ago
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You poor bedeviled bastard, where did you get that alleged list of American's greatest musicians, includling the barely black Duke Ellington? Did you rip it off the
wall of the the gopher washfroom at the NAACP. Word of warning: you'll
get harsh treatment for loitering, stalking, or whacking off at the stalls ord of warning, they'll give your harsh treatment for loitering, stalking, or whacking
off at the stalls.
brethren Ord
NAACP? Word, you
tonywsmith2 1 year ago
@tonywsmith2 "barely black Duke Ellington"? You are truly the king of wigger wannabe hipsters! This is the composer of Black, Brown, Beige, Liberian Suite., etc., He was VERY BLACK and proud of it. You would have walked away minus your teeth if you had ever called him that to his face. There have been many prominent and "barely black" , proud BLACK people: W.E.B. Dubois, Booker T. Washington, Walter White, Adam Clayton Powell Jr., Mary Church Terrell, Sterling Brown, etc..
KhemuLuxons 1 year ago
@tonywsmith2 Normie how about the "truly" black musicians like Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Scott Joplin, Muddy Waters, B.B. King, Bud Powell, Theolonius Monk, Art Tatum, Clifford Brown, Stevie Wonder, Sarah, Aretha, Dinah, Johnny "Guitar" Watson, Robert Johnson, Ledbelly? etc., . Too many to list. Not much American music without "barely black" or "truly black" musicians.
KhemuLuxons 1 year ago
@KhemuLuxons is what the singer is doing with his legs an african style? just curious it looks cool
youbriggs 9 months ago
@youbriggs Head seems to have been influenced by fellow Texan Joe Tex.
KhemuLuxons 9 months ago
I wonder if the Nicholas Brothers were the dance team I saw in a b&w movie years ago, forget the name, but these guys were dancing all over a grand piano in part of it...it was a fantastic routine, whoever it was.
WillJStudio 2 years ago 2
Yes, that sounds like the Nicholas Brothers. The film was Stormy Weather, and that dance scene is on youtube. It is one of the most famous dance scenes of all time, and many a dancer has agreed, including Fred Astaire, Gregory Hines, and Mikhail Baryshnikov. That dance number is called "Jumpin' Jive" and I can never see it too much.
karinablacktie 2 years ago
Roy head was Rob Tyner's idol, lead singer of the MC5's. This is the Detroit sound.
clarkewi 2 years ago
@clarkewi Christ...the MC5 was one of my very fav bands in college.
Like Kick Out the Jams...Motherfucker!
cool.
3Rubee 1 year ago
One of the greatest songs of all time. I love the horn break at the end. What a rocker!!!
clarkewi 2 years ago
Roy is my everloving hero!!
7ReelsRanch 2 years ago
I really liked shindig, and hullabaloo!
youngmindedman 3 years ago
Poor man's James Brown.
kiredornosnibor 3 years ago
I feel sorry for the act that had to follow Roy Head. What an absolute heart stopper of a performance.
problem49 3 years ago
roy is the man.unreal footwork,great song.others have done this song,they don`t come close.i was a kid when i first saw him perform,enjoy it even more now.
razek44 3 years ago 3
his son is awesome !!!
fricis3 3 years ago 2
Interesting how they changed the words "Loving" to "Kissing", must be something about not having that on television at the time
Starrman69 3 years ago
Yeah, that would be true. Especially since I must remember watching this ep. of "Shindig" even though I would have been less than 2 years old when this ep. aired (not much I remember from then -- & haven't seen any of the vids. on youtube this tune before posting this). Guess 1 or 2 of my older brothers or sisters must have had this turned on w/ my parents maybe out or something. All I know for sure is watching this vid. reminds me that I was very impressed indeed w/ Roy Head's movements.
Yesimustbestupid2 3 years ago
I know when I was in my teens & 20's I did impress many girls & young women when I went out to dance & I danced very similiarly to this to some of pop. tunes from the early/mid-1980's (wish at 45 years old I could do the same) -- but I could never quite figure out where I picked up doing that -- now, I've figured it out.
Yesimustbestupid2 3 years ago
It also appears from this vid. that Roy Head, like me, was a rather tall man (I'm 6'2" -- I'm not sure Head was that tall, but could be about that). I will tell everyone it is not very easy to dance like Roy Head & I did back in the 1980's being that tall. So, I'm even more impressed with Roy Head. Always have loved this tune, as well.
Yesimustbestupid2 3 years ago
this guy was talented; incredible athleticism for a singer, was he a dancer too?
2vintage68 3 years ago
Was he a boxer?
tweedles99 3 years ago
Elastic Man ! How can a man do such things with his legs. I think he's part of the Fantastic four... :o)
samlejerk 3 years ago
his son sundance head was on american idol season 5 or 6
dayborne35 3 years ago
this man can move and sing, lots of talent there,he was at par with the grandfather of SOUL Mr. James Brown(R.I.P.) Thank U 4 posting this Classic!!!!!!!
GAT818 3 years ago
Roy was the wrong color with those moves.
kking3287 3 years ago
The 2nd hardest working man in show business!
customkey 3 years ago