Doug Sahm was one of the best singers of our generation. Watch some of his other videos, listen to his albums. He had such a wonderful voice -- he could sing ANYTHING.
@RadyoRaRa That would be Frank Morin--on the maracas here--who was a backing vocalist, percussionist and other occasional assorted instruments--very versatile for that Sir Douglas Quintet sound!
Will someone please explain to me how there can be 9 pieces of shit that don't like this song? I'll bet anything Justin Bieber logged in and voted "thumbs down" 9 times!!
Fun tune but you may want to check out the Liverpool Five's early 1965 recording of "Too Far Out " . It's on You Tube and quite similar...maybe a coincidence but judge for yourselves.
Doug's music was part Cajun, Tex-Mex, Rock. Gotta give them staying credit with what Doug and Auggie did with Flaco Jimenez and Freddie Fender with the Texas Tornado's in the 90s before we lost Doug and Freddie.
Hi,I remembered I was 17 in 1971 and this song gave me a personality,my brother gave me a copy of this number yesterday and Bam,memories came back,thanx SD Quintet I stil Rock,today we went to buy a guitar at the Plug in Amsterdam,He played his song and I realized YEH a good song will never die,even when its in a new form ..
Its all about memories who are touch the heart I believe..music/love
hear ya, but coming back was not so sweet having seen what vietnam was all about. Everybody gave ME grief...what the hell did I know going in...seemed like the right thing to do....too bad the government screwed us and all those that gave the ultimate and for what!!?? To me that is when the government really started showing its true colors....they aren't for any of us, they are there for all they can get from us no matter how many lives it takes..we are near the end now!!!
We danced in our socks to this music. Never, never, never again will there be this unique style of music. Life was innocent, or so it seemed. Peace, love, grow your hair down, Vietnam took me away, but I came back.
@latech1116 Yeah, I hear ya, but coming back was not so sweet having seen what vietnam was all about. Everybody gave ME grief...what the hell did I know going in...seemed like the right thing to do....too bad the government screwed us and all those that gave the ultimate and for what!!?? To me that is when the government really started showing its true colors....they aren't for any of us, they are there for all they can get from us no matter how many lives it takes..we are near the end now!!!
I like the song, make no mistake, but I do find myself wondering why they bothered with a maracas player. He just sits there playing maracas. Who needs that?
This was a live performance, because the "sound" differs slightly from the record.
Given the line of go-go dancers behind the group, was this from "Shindig"?? That show seldom allowed acts to lip-synch, and when possible, perform live.
Well said, Duane Richardson! And I agree about that organ, too. I love the organ in the songs of that era. There was so much kick ass music in that era which was kinda overshadowed by the great British groups who got most of the publicity. This stuff was much more than "Top 40".
@iwillrocknroll4eva someone had posted that these guys were lifting riffs from the Beatles, when it was the other way around... in fact the beatles owe much of their styles to other folks before them... not to slight them too much!
@SEANFIR Yes, that's right...and they were first to say who all influenced their music...but they all did that back in the day, right? Still, noone managed to cause as big a frenzy as the one and only BEATLES! :-)
The original of this classic was written with the back beat of a Cajun two-step in 1965. Sir Douglas was persuaded to speed it up a little bit and add an organ. Great decision. This song was a giant hit at the same time as She's A Woman by the Beatles (sounds a bit like it, too), My Gal by the Temptations, and Can't Help Myself by the Four Tops. Pretty stiff competition.
It's so refereshing to hear a true southern accent from those days instead of a British one. Funny I'd never heard of Doug or the SDQ until the Texas Tornadoes. Glad I got to see both them and this great group with Doug.
Diggin the prince Valiant haircuts...........and what bout those background dancers.....looks like a combo between "the pony" and riverdancing......:o)
Friday nights at 7:00 on ABC-it's "SHINDIG!" This and "HULLABALOO", let's see todays' so-called music deliver the kind of energy that was available during the mid-60's.
I had one helluva time figuring out what "she's about a mover" actually said. When I was a kid I thought it was "She's-a-got-a-move-on, which I guess was close enuf, but now i feel like a dork.
barring the young ones,,,wow,,,cant believe how old im geetin!!!,,,,love all the 50's,60's,and some of the 80's,,90's,,,,etc,,,,still brings back childhood memorys!!!
That "Smokin'" organ is a Vox Continental single manual. Lot's of groups used it in the 60s, including the Doors, Iron Butterfly, ? and the Mysterians, and others.
@RockinFunTower Right you are sir, and don't forget the Dave Clark Five..lots of echo as in "Any Way You Want It". Mike Smith didn't have the big riffs, but stood out anyway.
@RockinFunTower I loved that organ! The groups you mentioned are EXACTLY the ones who I would have mentioned. Seems like all of the bands had an organ back then. How about Vanilla Fudge?
Its hard to see, but I think on organ is Augie Meyers who played with Doug Sahm for 45 years! They started in blues, and most of the albums were Ranchero Tex-Mex-country and blues. Doug couldn't really be classified.
Check out the "Fabulous Fourplys" Version of this absolute classic of a song,Hampshires finest band from the men who were there in the 60's and lived the life and are still alive ( just! ) to tell the story!
Thanks for posting this. Doug Sahm and Augie Meyers played music with a soul as big as Texas and as tasty as Tex-Mex.. And, IMHO, that is why this song still sounds as fresh and original in late summer 2009 as it did when it was first released nearly 45 years ago. Take it from an Anglo who lives here, and there's no place I'd rather be. Better get some Tejano music in your ears, rock fans. The future is coming.
It's Country , it's Western , it's Ska ,it's Bluesy, it's a landmark Garage band sound of the 60s, so unique. The only thing on the charts that sounded anything like this at the time was "She's A Women" by The Beatles.
This goes out to all you pre pubesent "Punx" who think Good Charlotte and Simple Plan are Soooooo Punk... THIS was the First wave of punk rock in the late sixties. The term PUNK ROCK was used to lable the garage bands in the mid to late sixties by Lester Bangs a very popular music columnist of the era. Every little suburban Punk who tells me that punk rock started in 1977 should listen to the NUGGETS compilations and read up on this and other GARAGE bands from this era. It will set you free!!!!
Mr. Richardson for those of you NOT from the Mid-West and born AFTER 1976, was from the quintessential Michigan Proto-Punk band Insomniax. (1974-83) Their EP "Home for the holidays" Featured a picture of the band in Sunday Finery having tea in an Auto Graveyard and included the local hit "Green legs and Spam" Mr. Richardson Then went on to join "Vespers" in 1984 and all but dissapeared in 1989. He is the Father of Michigan Rock Rapper Dylan Nixon dylannixon dot n e t
@duanerichardson i hear you man il take The Stooges or The MC5 over any of this fake bullshit they try to call punk these days. i think punk is a mindset that you are born with, you either feel it or you dont. its not a style of music or a fashion statement. i would say woody guthrie was "punk" long before the sixties.
Doug Sahm reminds me of Mick Jager of the Stones. First head this in 1965 and then only a few times. It came and went so quickly. Now I revisit this and wonder why they had no staying power in Pop/Rock. I think they were poorly marketed. Then I did not hear from them again until 1970 but then again very briefly with Mendocino. After that nada mas.
Love this still! Graduation party 1965 from 8th grade! LOL Best days of my life! Oh to go back and know what I know now, hey hey! Thanks for his post!
Excellent tune! looks like the lead singer is channeling Roger Waters of Pink Floyd, polishing his style befor he decided to make music on a Really BIG scale.
Question: wasn't Doug Sahm in some other well-known sixties band before going out on his own? (I love the guy, but this question crossed my mind while watching this. RIP Doug, we miss you!)
@theamitlife
Dude, learn the times of music becuase they were around BEFORE the Beatles came around.
JJ5x5ROBLOX2012 3 weeks ago
a direct rip-off of Shes a Woman by the Beatles
theamitlife 3 weeks ago
i would love to play the pretend maracas too!
yenbadcito 1 month ago
That organ has just the right amount of reverb, sounds perfect!
videomaniac108 1 month ago 2
This is awesome
mythicky 2 months ago
I shook hands today with Augie Meyers, the organist. Really cool guy...
stereoears1 3 months ago
Don't forget about American Bandstand. Bandstand was before Shindig and Hullabaloo.
dstraightone 4 months ago
Not a bad band but certainly not ahead of their time. Pretty typical of what a lot of bands were doing back then.
howard385 4 months ago
Was this group from San Antonio, Texas? They were a great group and I always thought they were from England.
jimmyratz 4 months ago
@jimmyratz They were from San Antonio, TX, yes!
Lloydhl 2 months ago
they had only 2 hits,,, thats all
09bnunez 4 months ago
@09bnunez they had a lot more hits and major success... cleverly disguised as the Texas Tornadoes.
redc1c4 4 months ago
Another 60's group with a sound ahead of its time.
57highland 5 months ago
Otis Clay's version makes this look like the Monkees.
jablonsky67 6 months ago
Another great 60's one.
precisionb 6 months ago
Shandon, your daddy was the man, makes me damn proud to be from San Anatone!
texaspacific20 6 months ago
this was a 4 finger bag song. hey ... hey
surferlaments 6 months ago
Rock n' Roll: the only way dudes like that can get laid
KingCrimson776 7 months ago
Doug Sahm was one of the best singers of our generation. Watch some of his other videos, listen to his albums. He had such a wonderful voice -- he could sing ANYTHING.
jayne0914 7 months ago
Shades of Stone TP's.
getjediah 7 months ago
One of them waz my music teacher in 6th Grade idk which one tho :P His last name waz Morin.
RadyoRaRa 8 months ago
@RadyoRaRa That would be Frank Morin!!!
Rightsideup 7 months ago
@RadyoRaRa That would be Frank Morin--on the maracas here--who was a backing vocalist, percussionist and other occasional assorted instruments--very versatile for that Sir Douglas Quintet sound!
truethought62 7 months ago
Will someone please explain to me how there can be 9 pieces of shit that don't like this song? I'll bet anything Justin Bieber logged in and voted "thumbs down" 9 times!!
Dayga 8 months ago
@Dayga no i cant.... they do NOT know what's good. end of story. and we know that.
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SkidRowJosephine 8 months ago
9 people wont move to this beautiful song
walter4092 8 months ago
@walter4092 You ain't lyin' dude. This song wipes its ass with today's music.
taffy2003 8 months ago 16
@taffy2003 I couldn't agree more.
Amethyst272 5 months ago in playlist Amethyst272's Favorited Videos
@taffy2003 you said that right
hotrodtrucker88 2 months ago
i herd they were from Birmingham, UK
busterbone 8 months ago
@busterbone Nope. Texas, actually.
ClarkeMarek 8 months ago
TEXAS!!!
SuedeUppers 8 months ago
Wooly Bully!
ramitupursnout 9 months ago
great video....................i just uploaded one of his later songs but it was blocked by WMG of course.
rollinthunderoad 9 months ago
Good old Texas mix-up music. Great stuff....
rocktenniscat 9 months ago
OMG!! I've not heard this in years! Loved it then and more so now. Thank you! The dancers!! Wow!
itsmegidget 10 months ago
Thats Auggie playing the organ
zoot2233 10 months ago
Said hey big boy what's yo name?? The dancers!! O. M. G.
entersandancer 1 year ago
Fun tune but you may want to check out the Liverpool Five's early 1965 recording of "Too Far Out " . It's on You Tube and quite similar...maybe a coincidence but judge for yourselves.
Oddsman57 1 year ago
I was 28 when this came out and I loved it...good party/dance song !!! awesome memories of that time in my life ...ohhhh yeah what'd I say!!!
MsTigress66 1 year ago
Doug's music was part Cajun, Tex-Mex, Rock. Gotta give them staying credit with what Doug and Auggie did with Flaco Jimenez and Freddie Fender with the Texas Tornado's in the 90s before we lost Doug and Freddie.
dsmsoccerdad 1 year ago
Hi,I remembered I was 17 in 1971 and this song gave me a personality,my brother gave me a copy of this number yesterday and Bam,memories came back,thanx SD Quintet I stil Rock,today we went to buy a guitar at the Plug in Amsterdam,He played his song and I realized YEH a good song will never die,even when its in a new form ..
Its all about memories who are touch the heart I believe..music/love
margiedeymann 1 year ago
Doug Sahm. . .one of a kind.
Rabidburt 1 year ago
It's tex-mex music. Look it up.
TedSilar 1 year ago
This is R + B, plain and simple. Done by some mods. Check out Ray Charles.
holzg01 1 year ago 3
this song sounds like 'she's a woman' by the beatles
glimmer2158 1 year ago
I will add to the "punk" discussion here: search for The Monks, 1965 and '66.
Orpheus038 1 year ago
@Orpheus038 To me it sounds like a later song by the Guess Who called Clap for the Wolfman.
blueticecho 1 year ago
hear ya, but coming back was not so sweet having seen what vietnam was all about. Everybody gave ME grief...what the hell did I know going in...seemed like the right thing to do....too bad the government screwed us and all those that gave the ultimate and for what!!?? To me that is when the government really started showing its true colors....they aren't for any of us, they are there for all they can get from us no matter how many lives it takes..we are near the end now!!!
truesignabove 1 year ago
We danced in our socks to this music. Never, never, never again will there be this unique style of music. Life was innocent, or so it seemed. Peace, love, grow your hair down, Vietnam took me away, but I came back.
latech1116 1 year ago 2
@latech1116 Yeah, I hear ya, but coming back was not so sweet having seen what vietnam was all about. Everybody gave ME grief...what the hell did I know going in...seemed like the right thing to do....too bad the government screwed us and all those that gave the ultimate and for what!!?? To me that is when the government really started showing its true colors....they aren't for any of us, they are there for all they can get from us no matter how many lives it takes..we are near the end now!!!
truesignabove 1 year ago
Music today sucks! Back then no music sucked! It was all good! Every bit of it!
shatchett0 1 year ago
Does anyone remember this song being banned by some midwestern states.They thought they were saying shes a bottom mover.
themudman59 1 year ago
Mod, Mod, Mod!!
hobsonjs 1 year ago
This is Great Swamp People Music.
TREE SHAKER!!!!
We got us a Tree Shaker!!!!
stan2211stan 1 year ago
OMG i am showing my age...again.
highlife0586 1 year ago
I like the song, make no mistake, but I do find myself wondering why they bothered with a maracas player. He just sits there playing maracas. Who needs that?
ponyboy314 1 year ago
well said 100 per cent in tune with you the music of today 2010 is fuckin shit
spider15able 1 year ago
@spider15able LOL! Hahahahaha! Stop, please stop...woooo hahahahahahaha!
iwillrocknroll4eva 1 year ago
he was in a band called the texas tornadoes with freddy fender.
Sophiemittens1 1 year ago
This song and group sounds like it's influenced by Ray Charles..
RayPFP 1 year ago
@RayPFP ..I forgot this song exsisted! shit i;m old.
theonlysaltspring 1 year ago
Love genre defying bands like this.....
I was lucky enough to catch Sir Doug in the 90's in various band formations in Austin & San Antone.
Always original, always fun, and u couldn't help but smile during their sets holding a cold Lone Star half empty.
'Hole in the Wall' anyone????
marcntexas 1 year ago
These guys are from San Antonio, Texas. Somebody told Doug
Sahm that if they would get an English sounding name for the
group, they would make lots of money. They did and the rest is
history.
PistolPete2 1 year ago
Dancin' in the basement with my sister---man, she could dance--- oh man, i could not-she never picked on me-R.I.P.
pillroller88 1 year ago
This was a live performance, because the "sound" differs slightly from the record.
Given the line of go-go dancers behind the group, was this from "Shindig"?? That show seldom allowed acts to lip-synch, and when possible, perform live.
altfactor 1 year ago
Well said, Duane Richardson! And I agree about that organ, too. I love the organ in the songs of that era. There was so much kick ass music in that era which was kinda overshadowed by the great British groups who got most of the publicity. This stuff was much more than "Top 40".
LesbianVampireLover 1 year ago
can anyone say mick jagger...thats what i say....ah hey hey hey
pheyafox 1 year ago
The Beatles - She's a woman.....this is a clear tribute to that song
ROVINATO 1 year ago
@ROVINATO It's the Beatles meet Ray Charles "What I Say"
ChasBeauregarde 1 year ago
@ChasBeauregarde If you hear the song they recorded in 1964 called "Sugar Bee" then you will realize the Beatles actually were copying THESE guys...
SEANFIR 1 year ago
@SEANFIR Uh...I'm feelin' froggy...WHAT'S YOU POINT??? LOL
iwillrocknroll4eva 1 year ago
@iwillrocknroll4eva someone had posted that these guys were lifting riffs from the Beatles, when it was the other way around... in fact the beatles owe much of their styles to other folks before them... not to slight them too much!
SEANFIR 1 year ago
@SEANFIR Yes, that's right...and they were first to say who all influenced their music...but they all did that back in the day, right? Still, noone managed to cause as big a frenzy as the one and only BEATLES! :-)
iwillrocknroll4eva 1 year ago
Is that Graham Chapman?
jfulbright 1 year ago
Love his expressions!
mewrth 1 year ago
This song does not get played enough by the Classic Rock radio stations.
Huge loss to anyone who hasn't heard it yet...And there are a lot of those...
Love the lyrics - not that mean much!
PowlettJones45 1 year ago
@PowlettJones45 I agree. One of my all time favs.
goldbug66 1 year ago
wanna be beatles got somthing to say 12702276917
Harryedwardmikail999 1 year ago
The lead singer TOTALLY looks like Woody Harrelson! Great tune!
recaulkulous 1 year ago
Saw 'em up at U.C. Santa Barbara in the fall of '66. A class act!
kwixotic 1 year ago
After the show I wonder if the back-up dancers fought about who was on and who was off with the choreography?
generatrix999 1 year ago
The original of this classic was written with the back beat of a Cajun two-step in 1965. Sir Douglas was persuaded to speed it up a little bit and add an organ. Great decision. This song was a giant hit at the same time as She's A Woman by the Beatles (sounds a bit like it, too), My Gal by the Temptations, and Can't Help Myself by the Four Tops. Pretty stiff competition.
trentk268 1 year ago
It's so refereshing to hear a true southern accent from those days instead of a British one. Funny I'd never heard of Doug or the SDQ until the Texas Tornadoes. Glad I got to see both them and this great group with Doug.
rockinredneck57 1 year ago
A similar tune to, Put on your high heel sneakers.
phil1958uk 1 year ago
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phil1958uk 1 year ago
Fantastic after all these years,Classical song.
dusty11111988 1 year ago
doug sahm great career
phildirt3 1 year ago
Diggin the prince Valiant haircuts...........and what bout those background dancers.....looks like a combo between "the pony" and riverdancing......:o)
MissSusieQue1 1 year ago
Truly a great song - gotta
love it.
hrothgleas 1 year ago 2
Friday nights at 7:00 on ABC-it's "SHINDIG!" This and "HULLABALOO", let's see todays' so-called music deliver the kind of energy that was available during the mid-60's.
alonenjersey 2 years ago 8
The great Sir Douglass Quintet and go-go dancers.Does it get any better?
hammer44head 2 years ago 2
Deze plaat was zo'n ontzettende hit op de kermis. Doug Sam is en bleef een held. Een tijdloze plaat
dusty11111988 2 years ago
Amazing camera presence! Sahm should'a been an actor!
hodadsmusic 2 years ago
At the end Doug is doing the little dance step by himself,it appears the other 2 forgot to do it.
estelle715 2 years ago
I had one helluva time figuring out what "she's about a mover" actually said. When I was a kid I thought it was "She's-a-got-a-move-on, which I guess was close enuf, but now i feel like a dork.
badflamenco 2 years ago
and at first when I was young I thought it was ray charles :)
VenusBlue4u 2 years ago 2
Me too!
hodadsmusic 2 years ago
@VenusBlue4u yes....at first you were young
doowaditti 2 years ago
This song should be the national anthem.
aldichiara 2 years ago 2
Doug Sahm and the band were very good friends with Freddie Fender. They used to party hard like only Freddie knew how. Great Music!
ZapNation21 2 years ago
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wenalena9 2 years ago
great song- would like to hear more of his songs on here!
wenalena9 2 years ago
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wenalena9 2 years ago
did stevie winwood ever play with these guys?...great song..lots of memories..
johncartelli 2 years ago
No, these guys were out of San Antonio...
majormadmax 2 years ago
barring the young ones,,,wow,,,cant believe how old im geetin!!!,,,,love all the 50's,60's,and some of the 80's,,90's,,,,etc,,,,still brings back childhood memorys!!!
nlheagy1956 2 years ago
well this is pleasing
Bennyviolentinavent 2 years ago
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alfonsoteja 2 years ago
These guys were'nt the only American bands with a British sounding name.
alonenjersey 2 years ago
@alonenjersey: Very true. There was also The Beau Brummels. Very British sounding name as well.
MattHatter 2 years ago
Love it. Makes me smile and want to dance.
spurtong 2 years ago
That "Smokin'" organ is a Vox Continental single manual. Lot's of groups used it in the 60s, including the Doors, Iron Butterfly, ? and the Mysterians, and others.
RockinFunTower 2 years ago 21
@RockinFunTower Right you are sir, and don't forget the Dave Clark Five..lots of echo as in "Any Way You Want It". Mike Smith didn't have the big riffs, but stood out anyway.
AOXOMOXO 1 year ago
@RockinFunTower I loved that organ! The groups you mentioned are EXACTLY the ones who I would have mentioned. Seems like all of the bands had an organ back then. How about Vanilla Fudge?
LesbianVampireLover 11 months ago
@RockinFunTower Kind of like the harpsichordish sound. I love it.
ekocentric 8 months ago
Its hard to see, but I think on organ is Augie Meyers who played with Doug Sahm for 45 years! They started in blues, and most of the albums were Ranchero Tex-Mex-country and blues. Doug couldn't really be classified.
RasMajnouni 2 years ago 4
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633squadrongoodwin 2 years ago
Cute little dance steps the guys have going! A very different sound in those days. Great then and great now!
estelle715 2 years ago 3
Check out the "Fabulous Fourplys" Version of this absolute classic of a song,Hampshires finest band from the men who were there in the 60's and lived the life and are still alive ( just! ) to tell the story!
breezester 2 years ago 2
gotta be the only rock video where the guitar guy is playing a johnny smith style jazz box. Doug was a one of a kind
dandamagetoo 2 years ago 3
Nice to hear this again! Thanks!
lostaboutnow 2 years ago
Thanks for posting this. Doug Sahm and Augie Meyers played music with a soul as big as Texas and as tasty as Tex-Mex.. And, IMHO, that is why this song still sounds as fresh and original in late summer 2009 as it did when it was first released nearly 45 years ago. Take it from an Anglo who lives here, and there's no place I'd rather be. Better get some Tejano music in your ears, rock fans. The future is coming.
jfrankley55 2 years ago 3
Ray Charles + British Invasion haircuts + Tex Mex = one good video!
sbarr10 2 years ago
mad :)
farfela333 2 years ago
LONG LIVE TEXAS HIPPIE MUSIC, circa 1966!!!
steve7138 2 years ago
Doug Sahm epitomized Tex-Mex, soul, and greatness in his career. This is cosmic American music at it's finest!
cosmichiccup1 2 years ago
Love this! Excellent.
rosesredvioletsblue 2 years ago
It's Country , it's Western , it's Ska ,it's Bluesy, it's a landmark Garage band sound of the 60s, so unique. The only thing on the charts that sounded anything like this at the time was "She's A Women" by The Beatles.
retrogradevids1 2 years ago
the organ riff is basically a polka.skoll.
rw5791 2 years ago
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Phazer123 2 years ago
That's Augie Myer on the Organ!! Man great song and Doug be getting down!
qwesence1 2 years ago 2
He sounds like Ray Charles here
jgbaren 2 years ago
dame un lone star por favor
walkingdead7 2 years ago
RIP Doug Sahm. I miss you.
almostacowboy77 2 years ago 2
This is one of the best songs EVER that came out of the 60`s!!!!!
steppene 2 years ago 5
This goes out to all you pre pubesent "Punx" who think Good Charlotte and Simple Plan are Soooooo Punk... THIS was the First wave of punk rock in the late sixties. The term PUNK ROCK was used to lable the garage bands in the mid to late sixties by Lester Bangs a very popular music columnist of the era. Every little suburban Punk who tells me that punk rock started in 1977 should listen to the NUGGETS compilations and read up on this and other GARAGE bands from this era. It will set you free!!!!
duanerichardson 2 years ago 28
@duanerichardson
Mr. Richardson for those of you NOT from the Mid-West and born AFTER 1976, was from the quintessential Michigan Proto-Punk band Insomniax. (1974-83) Their EP "Home for the holidays" Featured a picture of the band in Sunday Finery having tea in an Auto Graveyard and included the local hit "Green legs and Spam" Mr. Richardson Then went on to join "Vespers" in 1984 and all but dissapeared in 1989. He is the Father of Michigan Rock Rapper Dylan Nixon dylannixon dot n e t
MrFlashBazbo 1 year ago
@duanerichardson Punk started in 1976 with the Ramones, not 1977.
CatapultYourMom 1 year ago
@CatapultYourMom guess you never heard of the mc5, or THE FUGGS....way before that joke called the ramones
ioriorioriorio 1 year ago
@duanerichardson this was not punk at all..60s rock n roll.
TheBluesguy62154 1 year ago
@duanerichardson i hear you man il take The Stooges or The MC5 over any of this fake bullshit they try to call punk these days. i think punk is a mindset that you are born with, you either feel it or you dont. its not a style of music or a fashion statement. i would say woody guthrie was "punk" long before the sixties.
lonestarpunk 1 year ago
Dang, those heavy bass lines at da start bring you right into the song!
ZapNation21 2 years ago
♫~~~~ELECTRIFYING~~~~♫
PAULLONDEN 2 years ago
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Didn't these guys get stranded on Gilligan's Island ;-)
novapup2001 2 years ago
great post ty HEY bigeezy AKA AS J AWESOME SHARE
LVEMEDO 2 years ago
Doug Sahm reminds me of Mick Jager of the Stones. First head this in 1965 and then only a few times. It came and went so quickly. Now I revisit this and wonder why they had no staying power in Pop/Rock. I think they were poorly marketed. Then I did not hear from them again until 1970 but then again very briefly with Mendocino. After that nada mas.
kwickenbe 2 years ago 2
fantastic !!! thanx for posting ..Lyndloo...
lyndloo 2 years ago
This'll get you on yer feet!! Great stuff.
Thanks for posting.
Poopaloo55 2 years ago
Love this still! Graduation party 1965 from 8th grade! LOL Best days of my life! Oh to go back and know what I know now, hey hey! Thanks for his post!
msstevie1951 2 years ago 3
This incarnation of Doug Sahm could be played by Woody Harrelson.
Other than the chorus, isn't this song a dead ringer for High Heel Sneakers?
josiemax 2 years ago
Doug Sahm is the bomb! How can anyone hear this song and not want to get up and dance....
ZapNation21 2 years ago 2
Excellent tune! looks like the lead singer is channeling Roger Waters of Pink Floyd, polishing his style befor he decided to make music on a Really BIG scale.
Belit01 2 years ago
I loved this song. So great to find it. I love you tube!!!
stephenkingrocks 2 years ago
Great song, great clip, a very charasmatic bloke.
14up0 2 years ago
A total frat party song...1965... give me more songs from then.
kweeks39 2 years ago
God...look at that douche behind the keyboard.
MisterAtoms 2 years ago
Hope that's not a put-down to Augie Meyer. He was quite a musician. He also backed up Bob Dylan a few years ago.
RoyFive 2 years ago 2
Augie was just getting with the music. Good song.
NcicHit 2 years ago
5 years ahead of his time with the head shakin
mtwallet 2 years ago
I had forgotten about this song. thanks for posting it...fun stuff!
brujaderio 2 years ago
Doug was awesome
pretorious700 2 years ago
a classic very good the texas tornadoes is awesome to very good band!!!
Mysterymusicgirl 2 years ago
Ricky naranjo sings this song to
Johnnypmaster1 2 years ago
Great clip. Thanks for sharing this, Shandon.
ronfrankl 2 years ago
Not only was this song was inspired by "She's A Woman", I can hear a little Ray Charles in this too.
jwwutube 2 years ago 2
at my sock hops in school-this was a favorite
moondogs61 3 years ago
This song was influenced by the Beatles "She A Woman".
KingCrimsonfan990 3 years ago
no it was'nt the song was written about his Mom that worked at a moving co. silly
markrink 2 years ago
Question: wasn't Doug Sahm in some other well-known sixties band before going out on his own? (I love the guy, but this question crossed my mind while watching this. RIP Doug, we miss you!)
vinegaroon1 3 years ago
This song was the epitome of "Cool"
in '66, also here in €urope ♫
PAULLONDEN 3 years ago
an absolute classic
moondogs61 3 years ago
Man EVERYBODY was "ON something" back then... made for great music too, huh?
B0FF01 3 years ago
I really dig the hot licks on the Farfisa Combo Compact...hey hey hey...
ElfFarmRaffle 3 years ago
yeah, me too. You just don't get that sound off anything but a Farfisa. Like Leslie, it sounds totally unique. whoo!
ConditionalID 3 years ago
Vox Continental.
homonculus9 3 years ago
yanno, I think yer right. Those predated Farfisas, right?
ConditionalID 3 years ago