The Move - Wild Tiger Woman

[kskvc]

the Move never cracked USA commercially but they had a kind of serious underground following. whereas in the UK they were seen as a singles pop group. Roy Wood is a genius .."grab her by the tail I was hoping that the ground would open up and take me in"...!!!

[Themanwhocameback2]

I grew up listening to THE MOVE through the graces of a music loving family in my town. Here in the US THE Move were totally unknown, and youhad to special order thier records, if you could find a shop that would do it. I hav enever seen this clips before tonight.

The bassist was named Ric Price, wasn't he? Jeff Lynne was still in The Idle race at this point.

Thanks for posting this!

[spacepatrolman]

@Themanwhocameback2 This bass player is trevor burton rick was later

[dawkeye1]

No Jeff Lynne yet. This is the underated single on Regal Zonophone post Ace leaving 1968, that stiffed in the charts. B side is Omnibus. "Too Hendrix for pop".

The next release was Blackberry Way, The Moves only UK number one...

[siouxie921]

Real stage presence - Jeff Lynne. Even w/ ELO - totally underwhelming.

[siouxie921]

@siouxie921 Duh. Just realized Jeff Lynne isn't even in this clip.

[rudeingenue]

Lip-synched, I take it? Wonder who played piano on this record.

[laineycrusoe]

@rudeingenue The pianist is Nicky Hopkins, the same guy who plays the piano on The Beatles' song 'Revolution'.

[trossachs2003]

This is brilliant - completely new to me. I gotta go and get a decent Move retrospective.

[MrSluggo666]

There is a reason some of these english bands don't go anywhere in the U.S., thsy stink!

[rudeingenue]

@MrSluggo666 I'm writing as a native U.S. citizen, by the way... but given the success in the USA of bands like Foghat, Foreigner, Asia, Judas Priest, and other thundering mediocrities on back to Herman's Hermits, I'm guessing the Move couldn't make a dent here because they DIDN'T stink. They were too smart, too sharp, too original, and too cool for us thick-eared Americans.

[MrSluggo666]

@rudeingenue Speak for your self thick ears !, they just weren't good enough to cut it! the powers that be can be merciful like sparing us from this crap and gak!! mott the hoople !!!

[rudeingenue]

@MrSluggo666 I loved Mott the Hoople, too, as you guessed. Well, "de gustibus...".

[HDN1956]

As a 14 year old boy I wanted to look as cool as Roy Wood I had a picture of. I am sorry for all the american comments about not knowing The Move, they were as essential as The Kinks or The Who.

[jsilence418]

no one knows them and dinosaur rock won't play them because they suck! it's that simple stupid .

[thehonposhbird]

@jsilence418

Grow up , dumb yank .

[MrSluggo666]

@thehonposhbird blow me stupid limey! get a job!

[thehonposhbird]

@MrSluggo666

I have a job - Have a nice day ( I hate that phrase . )

[thehonposhbird]

@jsilence418

Typical comment from a dumb yank . Apologies to other Americans who can appreciate British music as much as I appreciate much US bands .

[jsilence418]

@thehonposhbird jeff lynne is a marginal songwriter, singer et al ,very marginal ! it's a good thing he latched onto George Beatles coat tails! as for dumb, you limeys are notorious for being stupid, the world knows!

[thehonposhbird]

@jsilence418

I wasn't referring to Jeff Lynne who was not in The Move .

The world knows all Limeys are stupid ? About as accurate as the USA winning the war for us - ta for the help though !

[JagrrrTV]

It's sad, that most people don't know this band. Dinosaur rock station are too busy play songs from Pink Floyd the Wall, VH, and every single AC/DC song post (Bon Scott). Great Rock is left out because it's not familar to 90% of listeners. It seems no one cares enough to change this.

[Nastadamente]

I agree JagrrrTV.. this band is fantastic. I'd heard of them but never heard their music except for the occasional playing of Do Ya on classic rock radio in the early 80s to compare to the ELO remake. I was floored by a youtube piece that had them singing their first three A-sides on British TV and just from that fantastic performance I was hooked. Unbelievable that a band this great is unknown today and that classic rock radio can't forego a few playings of Sweet Home Alabama to make room!

[1983alp]

Brilliant

[Andrewwarrior]

One of my favourite Move singles.. As several of the other comments have stated, a big influence on the next generation... Always loved the guitar sound on this track

[stymye]

correction * ..tied to my bed....

[stymye]

chained to my bed...she's waiting to be fed...?

..lol

[whojamfan]

Absolutely, that middle part has Queen written all over it!

[mtopper66]

Always wondered why this one single out of their unstoppable string of UK hits from 66-69 flopped, as it was one of their best! Hey, anyone else here hear the later influence not just on ELO but Queen (esp vocals)?

[LBrilliante]

absolutely.. I read that by this point, Roy Wood was already collaborating with Jeff Lynne who was at this point in The Idle Race. You can hear that driving rhythym and melody that Lynne would use for "Turn to Stone" and "Sweet Talking Woman" ... but this one just takes the cake... I'd never heard this before last year and I'm just floored that this band isn't more famous in America and their music isn't played on classic rock stations.. "TIED TO THE BED!!!" Frontman Carl is fantastic.

[posthumanhero]

@LBrilliante maybe the tinny production has something to do with it.

[LBrilliante]

@posthumanhero The soundtrack accompanying the video is truly sad.... Not sure how good the mono is for this song anyway... but the stereo mix brings out the bass and drums and moves like crazy!!!

[posthumanhero]

@LBrilliante bought all of the new salva reissues and the sound quality for all their stuff is much improved....this particular recording is always gonna be a liitle abrasive though

[posthumanhero]

@posthumanhero bought all of the new salva reissues and the sound quality for all their stuff is much improved....this particular recording is always gonna be a liitle abrasive though

[Andreagear4]

Roy is the greatest.

[2131013]

Carl Wayne was an incredible vocalist!

[ppaulmorris]

Just great

[Krzyszczynski]

Thanks for posting this, Sleepwa1lker. Just great to see such an early clip of The Move in full colour.

(Historical note: 1968 was when colour TV began in the UK .... unlikely then that there's any but b&w clips of the original 5-member line-up.)

[NeilThompson30]

Roy Wood is one of my heroes too. It was Brontosaurus that did it for me - I still think it's a classic single. At the time I much prefered Roy to Carl Wayne - he was too cabaret, I thought. While watching these Move videos on youtube it comes to light that (even though he was a bit cabaret) he was an incredible frontman and an essential part of the early Move. RIP Carl Wayne.

[palmalal]

Roy wood is my hero!!!

[adams6780]

Most of the songs on this show were performed live...this was one of the exceptions.

[whotles]

I don't think its live.

[Krzyszczynski]

'Course it isn't live - otherwise who's playing the piano that's distinctly audible in the backing?!

[LBrilliante]

Big problem.. British musician's union demanded that members not use lipsyncing on broadcast appearances. For the BBC they would often lipsync to a new set of recordings made exclusively for the BBC. More often they might do live vocals over the backing music from their single. From the quality of the sound on this clip there might be some of that going on.

[harfarhs]

@LBrilliante - often one can detect the phenomena you refer to, but as a Move fan I think this performance sounds exactly like the record (complete with piano and lead guitar).

[LBrilliante]

@harfarhs You're right... this performance doesn't differ from the record at all. I was blown away by the stereo mix on the CD of Message From the Country tho'... lots of power to it!

[Basie369]

i love this song

[WolfieVilans]

Cool. Only a couple of takes remain of Colour Me Pop, and The Move was on that show too. :)

[LBrilliante]

@WolfieVilans Sad to think that in the last few years tens of millions of video tape machines have gone to the garbage when they could have been loaded into a time machine with a plentiful suppy of recording tape and sent back to 1962 so those great old music shows could have been saved to them!