The Poets - That's the Way It's Got to Be (1965)

[tonykbailey]

The Poets website online now...the-poets.co.uk

[rogerjohnpete1969]

Keith Relf voice

[MsBlack888]

I've never heard of this group but I like this song. Good beat and the lead singer has a nice voice.

[Leatherbubba]

Frankenstein meets the fucking Spacemonster,man!

[grombasher]

They sound like the Beau Brummels.

[sandrays2011]

factory girl!



[boproton]

you can get this on ebay

[iwantpizza06451]

Scoutthedoggie...:D

[MegaRedfox101]

@iwantpizza06451 me too

[0123Rusty]

scoutthedoggie brought me here gg

[NiceAndChrispy]

scoutthedoggie brought me here! :)

[m1kewithaone]

@REMEMBRANCESONG is that leon redbone??

[Dietpepsivanilla]

The theme song to "Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster," one of the greatest camp and "bad" films of all time.

[mssamie1000]

still good to hear brings back lovely memories marie paton

[allstar2bein2023]

Amazing song.

[LordPosho]

The Poets willl be playing in Edinburgh this July (2011) at The Big Stramash Festival.

[miseryguts36]

RIP Hume Paton, a legend.

[tonykbailey]

The Poets are playing Edinburgh at 'The Big Stramash' July 2011!!

[MrSciFiGuy1]

This song was featured in the ultra-camp 1965 movie "Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster".

[clarkewi]

The energy level and intensity of music from this era is unmatched. This was a golden era.

[MrBEB123]

I had never heard of this band until I saw these videos on YouTube. If you want to hear an interesting band you may not have heard before then type in "Seattle Band Child". Child played in the Seattle area in the 1970's, toured with Heart and some other National bands and were really good if you like the type of music they play.

[shroudbass]

Great song!! I want to say I heard it somewhere over the years...but thanks for the reminder.

[philipfloyd01]

i know they never made a record ... but i was wondering if at any point there was a best of, singles comp etc?

im a glasgow boy myself and got passed down a few 45's a while back from my parents and a couple where in there ... really great!!

[paintedship]

@philipfloyd01 the cd "scotland's no 1 group" has everything

[11xzxzxz]

Great scotadelic music.

[JoeSzilagy]

I love the guitar riff especially. Very cool, even 45 years later!

[osvelhos]

see: Os Velhos da Montanha

[mankielty]

still have the single

[Tam6866]

Yeah,great song there.I know George the singer,he,s a real good bloke.

[natatsula]

i like this song !

[Shawnster65]

Not sure if anyone here is aware of this, but this song is in an American horror film called "Frankenstein Meets The Space Monster" from 1965. I may be giving old hat information, but there again, not too many have heard of this movie either.

[RipTanion]

@Shawnster65 Actually, that movie is where I first heard this song. The movie is pure low-budget cheese and typical late-night TV fare, yet strangely entertaining. And the soundtrack isn't bad at all. The thing that always got me about that movie was that it starred a young James Karen, whom I remember as being "Mr. Pathmark" for all the TV commercials he did for that supermarket chain when I was a kid.

[Shawnster65]

@RipTanion Not to mention James Karen being the lucky bastard who got to watch Stella Stevens jiggle around in the shower in "Monster In The Closet." Oh man...how lucky ;-)

And yep I remember Mr. Karen's Pathmark commercials too. He seemed like a nice and fun guy. Then again, TV commercial in the 70's were a lot more fun anyhow (mostly because thry were put in the middle of horror movies, lol)

[SirAshmannOfTheShire]

On Mark Lamarr right now... quality song.

[MrsCrazyTunes]

Love it!! im young and i love it! may have something to do with Family being in it though!! im Great uncle was in this Band..

[66SS180]

I have a mint copy of this on 45..F.12074.... Top tune.

[NcicHit]

Nice find.

[kurskss]

Ahh.. the '66 bonneville, Alaskan white and tangerine?

[pirdyskins1]

thanks for your comments sitarnut always amazed at the different take people on music .youtube is a must for us shall we say more diserening veiwers of youtube content. Regards from scotland

[pirdyskins1]

what a time this was <the poets the beatstalkers,the saberes,maverics ,and a band from dundee who wore tartan waistcoats they rocked ,all at Paisley  ice rink 45/46 years ago ,MAN IM OLD

[sitarnut]

Me too.. but I love it when we can hear something like this- reminds me of the happy times riding my "66" Triumph Bonneville- love the guitarist's tone- reminds me of "Creme"... wish he could have played a bit more... thanks for this enjoyment RRWW.... cheers from Texas.

[mewrth]

@sitarnut

they played acoustic/electric 12-strings, check out the video of 'Now We're Thru'

[diddywahdaddy]

I'd rather say; LUCKY!!

[tonykbailey]

@pirdyskins1 The Poets play 'The Big Stramash' in Edinburgh July 2011.

[m1kewithaone]

@pirdyskins1 im old too. i was just telling some friends about some music they used to play at the skating rinks and they even broad casted on the local radio down in biloxi miss. when i lived there in '63.

[holzg01]

Opening base line shades of White Rabbit? Then Savoy Brown?

[kingmunkeh]

i hear it brother

[bruciebear1]

glad i found this song as i always knew there had been a few top 20 hits . glas bb

[DasBlood]

Wow...this is amazing. I dig it.

[steve89z]

groovy man groovy!

[steve89z]

never heard this until today usa here.

[will1971a]

where can you find any of their cds? they didn't have any albums and none of their singles are on amazon or ebay.

[steve89z]

isohunt and piratebay

[weatherboxlisp]

The Poets should be lauded as on par with the seeds and the troggs for sure. Amazing.

[jm9407]

seen he poets in the 60s think club on byres rd. help me am I right wi the club.

[humerocks]

Yes, jm9407 - it was the Candlelight Club at the top of Byres road and Great Western Road. Now gone following a fire.

Hume ( guitarist with the poets)

[meraclees]

Perfect Freakbeat

.... there will be no tear 4 me....

[lapislazuli7]

Beautiful, I love that sound! :-)

[statelybird3]

I like this song too---taped it off my favorite public radio station here in the D. The beat has always sounded very Motownish to me---plus it has a dark,downbeat murky sound unusual for a pop single of that era. Read about them in either one of these books by Richie Unterburger---UNKNOWN LEGENDS OF ROCK 'N ROLL, or URBAN SPACEMEN AND WAYFARING STRANGERS--there's a chapter on the Poets in one of them--might be the first one. One Poets song was on a CD that came with the book--not this one,though

[whoreratio]

Frankenstein Meets The Space Monster !!!!!

Just finished watching it. My favourite movie of all time ! So corny that's it's a classic. I love this song.

Marilyn Hanold was a babe !! I'd do her in an instant.

Sex in space "Outer-course" ;-)

[ortleyman]

Song from Frankenstein vs. The Space Monster. A must see for B movie bufffs.

[ToothpickTony2]

This Was My Favorite Song As a Kid

Cant Believe I found It. Definetly The Best Of My Dads Old Vinel Collection

Thanx For Posting :-)

[rachel7036]

good song..never heard it before..

[hank3rox]

never heard this before. I thought I was pretty up on 60s tunes but obviously not. fantastic post. ta very much

[izzuki9]

can any one tell me where i can buy such an amazing song?

[rocknrollwerewolf]

It appears on several psychedelic collections. Most notably, "Rubble 5: The Electric Crayon Set", "A Perfumed Garden Volume Two" and the "Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts From the British Empire and Beyond, 1964-1969" box set.

[whoreratio]

I just downloaded it off Limewire.

[leapinturtle]

@izzuki9 There even exists a CD with all the Poets' recordings. I have it somewhere, but look it up on the internet.

[Hugechurbes]

@izzuki9 May be a bit late with this....I have an album on vinyl, label is pink, says Immediate (not sure the 'proper' Immediate though!) and has the reference Z12 52008. Nothing around the label edge, nothing on the insert and nothing on the cover to help give you a contact. Very strange because that was the number for the Small Faces original Nut Gone Flake on Immediate (proper!). Got most of their releases on it. Great live band they were before all the line-up changes.

[polaroyds]

great tune, good quality, nice to hear it again, it´s all but one chord except for the break, do you know that this song is hippie music? it´s trance it provokes.

[oldschoolhero2006]

i hate to correct people, but the real theme song to ''frankenstein meets the spacemonster'' [1965] is TO HAVE AND TO HOLD BY THE DISTANT COUSINS. this is the other song in the film. both are excellent lost classics from 1965.

[sunshinesupermanX999]

this is theme to Frankenstein meets the space monster

[kwabenaamankwah]

its so hard to find that song

[sunshinesupermanX999]

watch Frankenstein meets the space monster. that's the way it's got to be is the theme song.

[77doriella]

Great Freakbeat classic. Thanks for posting. What a bassline.

[aussiemush87]

I found it yay!!! It's called "Now We're Thru"

Just goes to show what you can find when you look.

[aussiemush87]

I asked out local record store for one of their records for ages.Got it but lost it then not too long after left UK for Australia.Seem to remember a line in the song which goes "You left me before" or am i dreaming.

Any one help?

[6motion6]

Don't recall ever hearing this in the US. I first heard it on a compilation CD I bought. Thanks Scotland for the Poets and the Marmalade.

[endlessjourney1966]

my favorite poets 45, really wicked beat!

[kendingo39]

great stuff and from my home town.

[tilefono200]

you cant get better music from the island,superb and thanks for the memories

[moveonupcb]

great bassline!

[Lamvesp]

Sublime.

[oldschoolhero2006]

great song by the poets [scotlands greatest rock group]. from the cult classic film frankenstein meets the spacemonster [1965]. i love the movie and the music in it, i proudly have the dvd in my collection. long live the 60s!!!!

[nikkleson]

Does anybody have photographs of the poets line up of Hugh Nicholson, Johnny Martin, Davie Nicholson and Dougie Henderson. They were an excellent band. This line up of the Poets were remembered by my older brothers and sisters.

[tumblerpigeon2]

I've put some pics on for you, their singing 'Someone'

[Klangillustration]

woaaahr - I LOVE IT !!

[gansternando]

booo yeahh...

[NIRVANAmat]

the lead singer is my english teacher

iam not kidden, iam into slipknot and nirvana hens my name lol

he told me to search the poets so i did and .... here i am lol

:) how cool is that ?

[rocknrollwerewolf]

That's pretty cool. Tell your English teacher The Poets were amazing. Does he have any Poets vinyl he would want to sell? Haha.

[NIRVANAmat]

haha

will do man :)

[DickStainy]

He sings like the guy in the Prima Donnas (on Peekaboo).

[MaxxLeFou]

Gene Defcon wishes he could sing that well.

[kwabenaamankwah]

that is really awesome, i am trying to look for the song and its sooo hard grrrrrrr

does he teach in nyc or no?

[NIRVANAmat]

nah man scotland in my school holyrood :)

[75lester]

@NIRVANAmat The lead guitarist in this band if I'm not mistaken is a guy named Mick Jones. Not the guy from Foreigner or the guy from the Clash, but a popular session guitarist from England, perhaps most famous for playing the solo on Gerry Rafferty's hit song Baker Street.

[scotishjohn]

scotland 60s 70s

cool

[jaynez31]

So scary! Floating statue and the guy in the front.

[tezbooze]

aint this just the biz

[locobuick]

Scottish!

[ONKlub]

Cool! Do you have "Wooden Spoon"?

[jaynez31]

I immediately flash back a picture of Silvia Plath and his husband when I saw first pic not name of the group.

[spacepope69]

Never heard of this band before. Nice sound, reminds me of the musical scores from movies of that time. Not quite psychedelic but close.

[pep437per]

fantastic what a blast from the past

[almadora]

great song, great cool sound. infectious.

[Eightball69]

f****** classic, having this all the way to the grave.

[holly1golightly]

amazing.

[IllegalFreq]

thx for this great song!

[gina888warhol1]

HI PHIILG;0

[marvelguy6]

a cross between the kinks and the creation

[rocknrollphilip]

shake it, baby, shake it for me one more time....

[gina888warhol]

so factory girl

fabulous

[gina888warhol]

yeah

[poetnumerouno]

For more information on the band go to google and type in 'George Gallacher interview with richie unterberger' (George Gallacher lead singer of the Poets.

[Nite30889]

SS Frazer, I have become an entertainment writer & manager for several oldies since 1965....Susan from USA/Miss'sippi

[oldschoolhero2006]

awesome!!!this is an absolute lost classic from the 1965 cult film frankenstein meets the space monster.thank you for giving this song its just recognition.rock on poets.

[b9cje]

This is a classic! Subtle sounds accompanied by true creative genius, could never tire of listening to this.... and as for the good looking one...Hume Paton??? Why don't they make them like him any more?

[bikerfreak1]

you could call this an example of pre psychedelia.

[rocknrollwerewolf]

Yes, actually. The Poets releases "Fun Buggy" 6 years after "That's the Way It's Got to Be" in 1971. The single was released to promote the UK soda pop brand Strike Cola. The original single has become quite collectible.

[Armand61685]

nice i like

[RockingMarshall]

The singer sounds like a french guy.

[reckonman]

these dudes trying to paul rever and the raiders

[noland628]

Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster aired tonight on AMC Central Time Zone. Heard this soundtrack, and just has to see if I could find it. Love the songs from the 50s. 60s, and 70s. Seems like music isn't what it once was. If you can call some of music at all.

Thanks for posting.

[Mabuse13]

I also learned of this tune from Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster. You can hear the Distant Cousins track over at the "Monster Movie Music blog". I'd post a link, but each time I've tried commenting with the link included, YouTube wouldn't seem to allow it.

[LemmyX777]

Excellent tune. Wasn't this the same band that did 'I am so blue'?

LemmyX

[humerocks]

yes...first was 'Now We're Thru' followed by 'That's The Way it's Gotta Be' and then 'I Am So Blue' all self penned and all for Decca, before they moved to Immediate Records.

[chingford99]

AYE.

Their record releases apart from way 'it's gotta be' never did justice to the rocking sounds they could conjure up live.  Brilliant musos...

[sampson1959]

from the epic "frankenstein meets the space monster". great song with a jammin bass line. thought it was lost forever! now do you have the other song from that film? to have and to hold by the distant cousins

[rocknrollwerewolf]

Wow, what a great little piece of trivia. I have never seen that film, but rest assured it is now at the top of my Netflix queue. Frankenstein, space monster and The Poets? Sounds right up my alley. I'll look into that Distant Cousins track too. Thanks for the comment!

[victoriadaniel]

muy bun ritmo amigo ,tienes mas de este grupo si puedes ponte mas de esta banda gracias

[rocknrollwerewolf]

Gracias por su comentario. Agregaré más videos pronto.