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  • they know how to do "IT" in front of the cameras ..

  • It is performed in the begining titles of the Man From Uncle movie The Karate Killers with really groovy dancing!!

  • @YellowfinGrouper I believe that this band also had a cameo in an episode of "The Girl fomr Uncle", as well...

  • Denny Sarokin.

  • Thanks for the show. Brought back Treasured memories of my First Love. Now my boat justs sits in the bactyard on a trailer .... and I lost her 30 years-ago.

    

  • I've been waiting for that girl for years.... since I was born in 1955

  • Talking about dentists ... I haven't been to one for "thirty" years ...

  • I loved Vh1's "My Generation," and I was only 12-13 when it was on. Now, its programming has gone to shit.

  • Great song--they all looked so happy in the 60s!!

  • did they have bondage pornography in 67??in black and white probably!!

  • Bubblegum? Yes. That being said: Who needs opiates after hearing this? Great sound ...

  • Flash back of my teenage. Great - I really like this track. I love music from the 60s and specially all of those great bands that didn´t "reach the highest level. Listen (youtube) for example to:

    THE ZETTLERS and their versions of "Skinnie Minnie" and "Beautiful Delilah".

    Really bloody driving beat.

    THE GOLLIWOGS and the tune "Tell me". Check up the singer - yes, it´s him!!

    THE GANTS AND "Greener Days".

    A kind of great Mersey sound from the Deep South - USA.

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  • Some interesting sexual subtext in this song: it's about a woman who is literally in bondage ("but she's tied to the dock and she can't get free") and he wants to "Make you happy in my little red boat" (harkens to the term "the little man in the boat"). Altogether a really sneaky bit of pop music writing -- fun, too!

  • brings back some great memories.. Thanks for sharing :o)

  • great teenage memories! Anyone with a transistor radio heard this one at least 3 times a day on the AM Pop stations back then! Thanks for posting this one skinnymulligan07....

  • Back when this was a hit in '67 there was a beach house at Lake Wauconda Illinois that had a juke box blasting the sound out for everyone on the beach..this song took almost every dime the box held and played almost non stop...what a great memory..comes back everytime I hear it.

  • @mickey1954RK Bangs Lake Wauconda great party beach Chicago resort town including Blues Brothers. Phils Beach and Honey Hill to locals live on

  • This was a great tune!

  • leeharvey....-maybe that's because today's pop muisic is pure goat tripe, whereas the stuff from the 60's was balls to the wall great. Ever think of that, hmmmmm?

  • For some reason 1960's bubblegum music seems a lot less phony than the bubblegum music of today.

  • @leeharveyosmosis Curious, isn't it?

  • @leeharveyosmosis I think that It's you had to have some real talent in order to make it.

  • @bikebeerrun1960 Right. You had to have some talent. Luck too. Back then it was talent and luck. Today, it's looks and luck.

  • @leeharveyosmosis That's because it was written and performed by adults (young adults but adults). Today's music biz figures that kids are easy to fool (which they are), so the music aimed at them (pop, bubblegum) is all contrived and not the least bit genuine.

  • I remember all the lyrics, my girlfriend and I would cruise the lake in the summer, waterski and have the fun that 15 yr. old girls have in the summer of 69!!!!

  • What? No go go girls? LOL. LOVE this song so I'll dance anyway :)

  • I was only 2 when this song was popular! But I sooooo love it!

  • A very good 60s song...thank you :)

  • My favourite song as a kid - still know all the words, doesnt get better than this - man, I miss those days!!

  • The Farfisa organ alone is awesome!!!

  • I remember riding to work with my father in his green 65 Mustang convertible to this song.

  • This music defined the times. Music will never be the same as it was in the 60's. Times change, but the memories never die.............

  • I remember reading something about these guys.... they were rich kids. Their dads werer dentists which accounted for their perfect teeth; an oddity in the 60's when the focus of dentistry was preventive only.

  • Lying in my backyard, sunning myself, This song on the transistor radio. Great.

  • oh yeah. heard this at the beach when going to the beach during the summer was a big event up in Rhode Island. Over hearing some teenagers radios playing this, then songs from Free. I only had a crystal AM radio in my room that I built at home!

  • @gk10002000 ...haha...I too only had a homemade crystal radio set at that time...remember the first album i ever bought at that time..The Byrds..8 Miles High....took me awhile to figure out you could buy songs you heard on the radio at a record store...what a revelation that was.....cheers...D

  • I now know who did the music for the Archies cartoon show!

  • 40 people are drooling over these guys.

  • Jukebox euphoria. They actually look like they've got a boat they can take the girls out on.

  • Beach Boys wannabes from NYC. Still, a cool Summer song, for its time.

  • These guys were smart. At least one was a pre-dent student at an East Coast college.

  • Great tune but bad job of lip syncing.

  • @zobajoe Don't fool yourself- looks can sure be deceiving.

  • got so much oral to this back in 67'...good times!

  • He's gonna cut the rope for goodness sake!! I suppose you sing "There's a bathroom on the right" also.

  • @myhattrick Read closer-- I SAID it was a mondegreen and that those weren't the words. A mondegreen, for those who don't know, is a misapprehension of a lyric that turns it into something the writer never intended, usually because the singer doesn't know the words and is only going by sound, e.g. "I'll be home, I'll be a xylophone waiting for you." (And now that you've heard the "cut his throat" version, it will stay with you, unfortunately. Sorry, friend.)

  • I don't see any guitar or electrical chords or amps, do you? LOL

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  • Takes your mind off things and you start themen about which dona hurt a blessen theme.

  • "...Father never lets her out of his sight/ soon I'm gonna have to get my knife and cut his throat..." Well, what does a guy who ties his daughter up deserve, anyway? (OK I know those aren't the REAL words, but it's a fun mondegreen, isn't it? Tell me you never thought of it while listening to this otherwise innocent little ditty!)

  • @therealjoebloggs Yet further desicration of a great song: "She shits on the dock then she kicks it in water, uh huh!" ... "Why am I itchin in my little red scrote...don't be crappin in my little red boat!" (I listened to this song when was a hit on AM Top 40 radio. Always loved it, still do, but it's wide open for parody lyrics...glad to see someone else has some 'Yankovic' in them also.

  • wow look its ritchie cunningham,ralph malph,and potsie in a band.

    thanks for posting this video of a little song that provides big memories for many.

  • one of my favorites as a kid,actually had the album(that's vinyl for all you youngin's)

  • first heard this sone on tv show "Man from U.N.C.L.E" AbFab song

  • thought that these guys didn't really exist and that this song never happened. what the heck, let me try that too.

  • The 2 boys in the middle are my Dads Cousins from Brooklyn!!!

  • MrHansAryan, you are a pathetic moron and you get an "F" in history if you honestly believe you can causally link Obama's presidency to the rise of hip-hop. Sure, lots of people love 60s music, and I am one of them, but it's highly ironic that you praise it and fail to recognize the culturally subversive elements that ANY historian of music and culture would make note of!

  • ... hot pants.spaghetti string halter tops. and roman sandals ... i used to cruise up to the main street on my tricycle to watch the ladies walk by on a summer morning ... the awesome '60's !

  • THE 60's - ..what a TIME!!! GREAT music, hot , fast cars, and hot fast chicks! mini skirts....oh, take me back....it was great....WAIT!!! We needed to "CHANGE" and "HOPE" for a better future!! Damn, was Oblama there? No, I guess it must be Bush's fault we gravitated to shitty hip hip.....well it's a more "fair" music...you can't tell the shit from the shinola there. and no-talents can get a job. can you tell - I MISS the 60's!

  • ok song

  • The drummer is so high<lol

  • IS IT TRUE THIS BAND WAS THE VILLAGE PEOPLE IN A PAST LIFE?

  • the lack of sync makes it so much more soulfull

  • Love this song. An old favorite. The 60s was such a magnificent decade for music. You couldn't get away with a song with all those kinds of ambiguous start & stop changes today.  Everything has to have some kind of whack ass dance/trance/disco/rave groove.

  • Gotta love that drummer !!

  • Good God!! WHY are they clapping? This was probably on The Sullivan Show, which was all we had then for popular music. No doubt pantomiming as the technology required. This song was popular in Fall 1967, which was a hard place to compete: The Doors, Sgt Peppers, and many others come to mind. Yet, this band made its mark.

  • This harmony style - the counter point with, maj 7th backdrop - was stolen so many times. Really love this song.

  • I wish they just had a music channel that played alot of the older music.  I notice that there is a VH1 symbol down in the lower left. Funny, now they don't play any music anymore except reality crap! I think people would tune into shows with just music or older music videos, variety shows with music groups, etc. Musical groups that played the music from the 50's 60's, 70's, 80's! There was alot of great music during those decades! :-)

  • these r the highest mother fuckers ive ever seen

  • I feel the same way!!! This is real music...I love it!

  • The keyboard player has been my dentist for the past 30 years.

  • @juliadeetruchsess Well, just don't tell him you dislike this song!

  • The spring I got my driver's license!!!!! I had a convertible....and this song was fun!!!

  • the keyboard player was the guy on Night Court

  • @Prancer1231 - Not! He's a dentist.

  • I wonder if ANY of these guys ever sing along to their songs when they come on the radio?

  • one of my favorites !

  • wonder if this is another dirty song?

  • davy jones locker cross the equinox yet

  • Dont you just miss the innocent fun songs from the 60's ? At least for the most part.

  • Just saw them perform this song in a 2-part episode of "The Man From UNCLE" (The Five Daughters Affair). The scene was set in a London go-go club. This song really typifies that 1967 feel.

  • It played several times daily in the summer of 1967. There was nothing better than being an adolescent listening to pop music and rock in the Sixties!

  • @davidLw15 Man ain't this the truth!

  • Brings back GREAT memories ... girls, booze, girls, music, friends a plenty, party, more girls and FUN !!!

  • As a 50 yr old all I can say is...groovy.

  • i know that it was mandintory for every '60s band to incorporate at least one geeky looking guy into the band, but damn, the eye ware fashion sure was slow in catching up!

  • every song is on yutube.

  • good song in a great time

  • @maryquant1967 Mary - you asked in an earlier post if Jack Aaronberg ever sang with them. I KNOW Jack ! I don't believe he ever did, though. If you want to contact me, look me up on Facebook. I'm Eddie Rabin.

  • Great music is timeless. Here's the proof!

  • Fun song...brings back good memories! Thanks for posting!

  • Rockland Harbor, Maine! Here I go! Great Tune!

  • This song reminds me of the only time I ever went to Cape May, NJ on the last weekend of July 1967.

  • @BuddyNovinski I go to Cape May except im 13

  • @BuddyNovinski ask us if we care. ok, i was just kidding. sorry.

  • Ouch, how do they smile so constantly?!

  • I absolutely love it!!!!

  • thanks for posting i went to high school with these guys keyboards bruce a dentist for 40 years in nyc

  • Another hot band!

  • "Go on down to my boat baby"

  • nobody's plugged in

  • now i know who all the 80s bands copied...

  • @Canaboy12 well said!

  • First head this in the man from uncle film. The karate killers fight scene in the bar, that's how I came to know this song. Just catchy.

  • @vulcathene SAME HERE!!!

  • 9 people must not like all the cheesey smiles the group gives the camera when focused. Sad.

  • Some mothers do have them.

  • stephen tyler: man, they look stoned..

  • @Canaboy12 That's only because YOU, probably are.

  • Just saw them on a DVD of a 1967 episode of"The Man From U.N.C.L.E." singing this song during a fight between Solo & Kuryakin vs. THRUSH...

    I was a mere 4 years old back then !

    Ah, youth...

  • Great song. Takes me back to when a friend and I would play this. The innocent age.

  • Yup. One of the "one hit wonders".

  • The poster's username is "skinnymulligan07".  I guess that's a "Gilligan's Island" reference (Gilligan would often talk about his buddy Skinny Mulligan). Cool song. I was in 2nd grade when this came out. Yup, I'm pretty old.

  • Brilliant song.

    The sort of song that you want to play it over and over again.

  • Come On Down To My Boat by Every Mother's Son - or as my ex used to call them "the My Three Sons band".

  • Was playing in a band in '66 when I was 16 in Augusta, Ga. Wish I could go back for just one Saturday night.

  • @1bountifulinc But would you want to come back, once you were there my friend lol!

  • It is so refreshing to hear tunes like this again, thank God someone had a camera to bring the performance back to life for those of us who never saw them....

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  • @mr1168726 I disagree. You just don't like bubblegum music--I suppose it's not "sophisticated" enough? A lot of the composition, chord progressions, harmony was genius. But I guess if it's too easy to listen to, it can't be good, right? Classical music snobs are the same way. Romantic composers like Tchaikovsky and Schumann are quickly dismissed as simplistic, too easy on the ears. Bubblegum, sunshine, folk--all the stuff that boomer snobs hate--were some of the greatest pop ever.

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  • @mr1168726 I can comment because I've heard the music on oldies and classic rock stations. You didn't have to live during that period to be able to analyze the music. Agreed, some of pop/bubblegum was simplistic. But OTOH there was a fair amount of Led Zeppelin that sounded like garbage to me. There are no absolutes--this is excellent, that is junk--it's a matter of perspective and taste. You're certainly welcome to your opinion; I'm just getting tired of hearing pop bashed.

  • @MrTrashcan1 Spot on! This was a great Pop record and what is wrong with that?

  • Who can tell us which other rock star the bespectacled guitarist was hero worshipping? C'mon oldsters,this one is easy.

  • Thatnks for the song little buddy.

  • Beautiful. Absolutely beautiful.

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  • The Guitar rift at 0:29 is pure genius. Life was so much simplier in the 60's and the pop music was so much better than the music of  today.

  • Great to see this footage after so many years. I only thought there would be the Man from uncle footage out there . Great song that has a real feel good factor to it

  • Remember this well, just a few months before i was drafted.

  • What a dam GREAT song. I wish I was around when this stuff was popular. Seems like it was an amazing time for music. Late 60's and early 70's man. CLASSIC Rock N' Roll! I love this stuff! Garage Rock baby! Can't beat it

  • grew up in san francisco's sunset district. was in the boy scouts and went to the world jamboree in idaho 1967. we had stopped near a lake with a store there. played this song on the juke box. wow! what a different world back then. today there is nothing. its dead.

  • @jimmyd10100 I was at the same jamboree and had similar experiences of playing the juke boxes with songs like this in '67 on that trip. The XII world jamboree was the last remnant of the 'old time' jamborees. When I went to Japan in 1971 for the XIII world jamboree it was a much different world.

  • This was when they still lipped the songs and the sound was turned off on their equipment. Notice how staged all the bands were back then compared to today's artists. There was an innocence then that was lost after Woodstock.

  • man from U.N.C.L.E memories :)

  • Awww man thank you for putting this wonderful great sweet tune up I bought the 45 in the mid 80s SSSSSOOOOOOO COOL to see the video again woohooooo.

    simple happy story. come on down where we can play.

  • One of my all time favorite oldies.

  • OMG I FORGOT ALL ABOUT THIS SONG. THANKS FOR POSTING IT. BOY DOES IT BRING ME BACK TO MY YOUTH

  • think this was the summer of 1087, right before i was drafted

  • @brownindian17

    How'd that work out for you?

  • 1:15 : "Soon I'm gonna have to get my knife and cut their throat"? Holy shit!

  • @billand714 Pretty sure he says "cut that rope." Maybe you're thinking of the death metal remake lol

  • Farfisa compact, complicated backbeat, treacle voices, ahhh, they don't make songs like this no more... bubble gum rock? sheesh...

  • I just love this track!

  • If this wasn`t written for 17 year old Port Aransas shrimp boat trash, well... it shoulda been.

  • Gotta love these guys

  • 66 67 the golden age of one hit wonders

  • Perhaps 'borderline' but I agree in that this one is NOT bubblegum; just a nice, simple song with a great rythym and vocals. Thanks SM07.

  • this song is way too good to be called bubblegum. man, it's early punk! check out buddy holly in the cowboy hat. this was a one hit wonder song, i have no business remebering it for forty years, but i did, and that's how i know it's a great song. a minor classic.

  • @54markl Definitely not bubblegum.

  • @akcoins Yeah, I said that to my girlfriend today. We were singing it at a coffee shop, people were giving us curious looks. I sang it at karaoke last year, it brought down the house! It's kind of a psychedelic song, actually.

  • U got a great colletion. Thankyou for shareing

  • Great song and performance.

  • check this out nice harmonies

  • The Three Larden brothers up front all on guitar!

  • That guy looks really cool with his little cowboy hat and those horn rimmed glasses he has on.

  • @husky500cr Isnt that Elvis Costello?

  • Whoa! Mike Brady on the drums!

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  • It's funny because I thought it was Greg Brady on the drums!

  • @Cedarcity1 I love it. Thats was funny!!!!

  • bad sound but nice song i remember girls san g this song on a party album and never seen that album again wasent these singers though

  • Just to resurrect a favorite comment from the past, who knew that Biff from "Back to the Future" was in a band?

  • Love this song. old time bubblegum. And we can go fishing in my little red boat. He, he, hee

  • Too COOL..!

  • I had the unexpected chance to meet Lary Larden and his wife the other day... really nice people. They came in the antique store where I sell records, and Lary was gracious enough to autograph the two copies I had in my bin of the first EMS album. Totally made my day!

  • @vj498 You met Larry Lardo? ... I mean Sarokin? Did you know he didn't even keep a copy of EMS' albums?

  • not sure why but one of my all time 60's favorite songs

  • My favorite song when I was 9. Bubblegum roots.

  • This song and Tommy Roe's Oh Sweet Pea helped me get through one rainy 60's saturday of washing dishes for our family of 8. I can still remember Mom's radio sitting up on the windowsill, tuned into kmrc Morgan City, LA 1430 on your dial, staring out the window at the yard, woods and rain and these two songs played in succession. Took the sting out of the "ordeal" and made a memory that has lasted over forty years. This song is great and yes, it still makes me happy.

  • I love this song!!!

  • amigo skinnymulligan07 una buena musica clasica