The Byrds - Not Fade Away (1965)

[guitargeek1122]

look its brian jones!!! Just kidding.

[visitinguncle]

Look at Crosby groove!

[JettRink50]

Which one is David Crosby?

[Celi415]

@JettRink50 Oh if you pause at 0:20 then Crosby would be the one on the left. Also Mcguinn is the singer with the awesome specs, Gene Clark is on the harmonica, Chris Hillman playing bass, and Michael Clarke is rockin those drums:) Hope this answered ur question!:)

[Jaclyn1947]

The young David Crosby is a total hoot!

[MrDennisCLee]

Doing a Bo Diddley beat is not their strong suit. They sound limp. Their folk rock was exemplary and it defined the genre, but they should have stuck to covering Dylan and Seeger, not Holly.

[plrndl]

@MrDennisCLee

Everything recorded in 60's TV studios sounds awful, they weren't designed for rock, and the engineers were probably all Sinatra fans.

[TheAnimaBeatle]

Very unique drumming throughout the whole song...



[aguifi1]

SHADOWS IN THE BACK ARE THE DAVED CLAVE FIVE !!!!!!!!!!!! yeah mexcio teporingos

[rc00z28]

You"re right, my friend, sorry....

[rc00z28]

Wasn't that Eric Clapton and some other guys who went on to bigger and better?

[Hargiwald]

@rc00z28 Mind you, this is pretty catchy, but The Byrds, as a band, got bigger, better and more interesting than this. Also, David Crosby (as in Crosby, Stills and Nash) and other members certainly had other successes as well. Crosby's the one with the acoustic guitar, to the left of the McGuinn (the singer, who's had a pretty good solo career after The Byrds).

PS. Oh, and Clapton was in The Yardbirds, not The Byrds. Maybe that's what you're thinking of. DS.

[TheRoute19]

David Crosby was in the clouds man.....

[theodorus45]

Still a great song from the sixties,although the version from the Stones is MUCH better.

[m1kewithaone]

@theodorus45 oh yah the stones, that's it!!

[alonenjersey]

Holy Crap! Thank you NYRainbow!  I never knew these cats covered this Bo Diddley classic.

[elliecorkerry]

@alonenjersey Haha... It's Buddy Holly :)

[krezzykrezz]

Does anybody know what TV show this is from?

[TheEastcoast19]

Didn't buddy holly and the crickets write this song??

[LuccaTotti]

@TheEastcoast19 yes

[TheEastcoast19]

Didn't buddy holly and the crickets write this song??

[krezzykrezz]

@TheEastcoast19 Yes.

[nonobvious2]

Were they high as a kite while performing this time?

[nonobvious2]

Were they high as a kite while performing this time?

[ejectorerector]

@nonobvious2 i don't know, but i'm high as a kite while watching this time.

[falconoilcompany]

I think this is a poor version by a band that could do better. They will never be the Stones of course. Having said that, the Stones singing turn turn or Mr Tambourine Man would probably be poor too.To each their own.

[BaalofSouls]

Its so weird man....I hear "bo diddly" as i hear this cover

[krezzykrezz]

@BaalofSouls That's because Buddy Holly was either trying to emulate, adopt Bo's sound or pay tribute to it. A classic, awesome song passed down through the ages!

[jonlarkster]

i beleive dylan killed the folk movement in the mid 60`s. ironically, if he hadn`t, american rock might have suffered even more. mcguinn and crosby started out as folkies as well as many other successful future "rockers". too bad for the folk movement.

[FEDhardrock]

yeah, this is a uniq version.i also like tany tucker's version of this song:)

[oldhippypeace]

Oh, forgot to add to you in the USA try the Status Quo version..old Brit rockers. It is said the lead guitar got repetitive strain injury and had the piss took something rotten in in our press but they aint bad..have a look and try a listen to Whatever You Want

[oldhippypeace]

Love the Bryds but have to say this is a bit weak..sorry

[shoekstra1419]

@atomicflash500

please express your inept, tasteless bigotry elsewhere

[RodCow]

@shoekstra1419 Amen to that

[Shreadathon12]

david crosby is the best of them

[mickkey7]

WANK



[johnnyscouser]

@mickkey7 Its not really though, is it?

[popclub69]

is there also a (byrds) studio version of this song available?

[JannoKlufs]

I like Roger with an english accent :)

[Atomicflash500]

faggy

[russallert]

This was typical of the period for TV producers to make bands do covers of someone else's hits. There are clips on YouTube of the Byrds having to sing Do You Believe In Magic and Good Day Sunshine, with godawful musical backing. By the way, it's funny that someone thought Brian Jones was playing drums. That's why Michael Clarke was hired, because he looked like Brian.

[kingoma61]

This is a cover of a cover. This is a cover of The Rolling Stones' version of Buddy Holly's 1957 classic "Not Fade Away". The Holly original did not have a harmonica on it. The Stones version featured Brian Jones on harmonica. They are covering The Rolling Stones here. They are also playing Beatles guitars: Gretsch and Rickenbacker 12 string from A Hard Day's Night (1964). George Harrison played these guitars which they copied. They were really folk but pretended to be rock and roll.

[carlmoore19]

When in 1965 was this? I am seeing lead singer with "granny style" glasses (see that style on John Lennon on back of Revolver album, which was released in summer 1966).

[BETOCARNIER]

@carlmoore19

John Lennon copied Roger McGuinn. This was the first time a singer wore these glasses . A big hit at that time . I bought one two days later 

[EmeraldFlowsion62]

@carlmoore19 where can we buy glasses like this today I need a pair badly.

[cooltooth112]

@EmeraldFlowsion62 you could buy them for a couple bucks back in '65

[EmeraldFlowsion62]

@cooltooth112 I need a pair now!!!!

[102Help]

they look lots like the beatles

[CTNWB]

Thanks! Christine Trzyna and Wes Bryan

[mrbobevans]

Rickenbackers are the coolest guitars.

[mrgeorgebanjoman]

What's Brian Jones doing on the drums? Seriously after watching this I'm glad The Byrds found their own style, I like to think this was filmed before they found their own

musical shoes.

[jimmyaloha]

Michael Clarke on drums ...original BYRD



[MrHellzapoppin]

Kick azz!!!

[heyzog]

If I were the Stones I would have sued their asses. They just aped the Stones version of a good Buddy Holly song. And before everyone says well Bo Diddley should have sued Holly's ass, you can't copyrite a drumbeat and if you listen to Holly's original Not Fade Away, you can tell it's done by a white hillbilly band and NOT Bo in Chicago. Bo himself recorded a cover of the original in 1976 to make some money.

[LetsNotBeL7]

this was great... the band itself did a nice version.

[LetsNotBeL7]

Great footage.

[cshargeit]

this was horrible... the band itself didn't take it serious

[6irondriver]

hmm, one of the origins of punk rock? early on?

[krezzykrezz]

@6irondriver I think that's a stretch. You can find early seeds of punk among bands like the MC5 at this time, but I personally would not suggest the Byrds.

[Stephanjnj]

I can detect an off-camera guitarist playing some twangy licks during the instrumental break, definitely not McGuinn's 12-string.

[samson970]

ya...sounds like a tele.

[Westcoasttony]

@Stephanjnj I would bet that was James Burton, who was one of the Shindogs on the show.

[MJLatora]

Nice cover. Put The Byrds in a new light to me, away from the jingly-jangly sound of a lot of thier stuff

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And I love the harmonica....this song screams for harp. Imagine what Paul Butterfield could have done with it

[doglips1958]

HEY!!! David Crosby doesn't have his Batman cape!!!

[beink]

The truth is this is a great version. And no one can be totally serious and at the same time totally facitious like McGuinn. In my view, he's the bridge between Buddy Holly and everybody else. Compare the voices and the experimentation with sounds. Of course the same could be said about the Beatles, but I think McGuinn is a more direct connection.

[jaqua524]

nice..i just have to say something...they are just singing i believe...i think the instrumental is the first version that the stones did, it sounds exactly like it..they did it in 1964..yes i no buddy holly was the original

[ohisashiburi]

That's true, BUT it is as well to forget her I think, just my rotten opinion though..BUT I do really like Lightfoot, his songs to me carry more feeling than Dylans for example...enjoy your evening.

[ohisashiburi]

Yanks never could match the Brits in music...

[TorpedoSam88]

Canadians > Brits!

[ohisashiburi]

Let's see...uum Gordon Lightfoot, great I love him..and Neil Young also like him a lot...then who else, oh Alanis of course she is really good too..then Rush, well a good band except for the insipid singing..isn't that about it?

[TorpedoSam88]

Fine, fine. Here's a correction:

1980-2009:

Canada > Britain

1960-1980:

Britain > Canada

[TorpedoSam88]

And you forgot Joni MItchell

[EmeraldWolf21]

Ya do know this is a cover of a Buddy Holly song right? Something of a mixed bag on the Brit vs. Yank rock. Brit rock didn't have much of it's own identity until the mid to late 60's. Before that, it was very much an imitation of American rock.

[ohisashiburi]

Sure I do, my point is really that the Brits on the whole just took a meagre weak rock sound and turned it into something MUCH better...no offence implied..

[EmeraldWolf21]

No offence taken. Personally I think some of the Brit covers are pretty good, Love Potion No.9 for example. But I have to admit that I have a definite bias toward early American rockers. (Rockabilly fan here S:) <--- See Pompadore Smiley. I think the Brit invasion was inevitable due to the void left by the early rock stars, the early fragmentation of rock, and America's 1960's identity crisis. Fortunately we got some decent music...too bad Disco had to rear it's ugly head :)

[ohisashiburi]

Cool message..thanks. anyway we look at it we have so much great music to share, no matter where from..while you are at it, live dangerously and check out my favorite: Japanese Enka singer Ishikawa Sayuri...look for her song 'Amagi goe' also 'Asabana'.....................­...please! *^^*

[jaqua524]

im american, and i agree

[krezzykrezz]

@ohisashiburi Apples and Oranges

[TheRetroDude]

wow thats soooo different byrds usually folk style tunes i like it!!!. ps i want some of those shades roger has on!!!!

[cgboomer]

roger had to wear prescription glasses but didn't want to look dork on stage, so he got those blue grannies

[Nokorola]

It's nice that there's a clip on here that has the video in the correct aspect ratio.

Thank you for that.

[mathcernea]

They sound like a drunken Rolling Stones...

[tfmuch]

This only just goes to show how really dumb the Byrds could be when they really tried. (Yeah, and I'm a fan.)

[CJurasin]

I never knew the Byrds did this song.....almost as good as the Stones! ;-)

[acceitunas]

I prefer the Byrds to the stones.

[titostacos]

I guess they're imitating the Stones' version...

[teenonator]

Gee, or possibly Buddy Holly, or The Warlocks?

[harrybyrd]

There must be an extra guitar player who plays the little licks.

[dfmason]

This song was the themesong to the movie Christine

[ryantunks]

Oh my God!!! I can't believe I am watching this!! Thanks for posting!