Five Man Electrical Band - Werewolf

[carsonphoto]

Wow....flashback to CKLW! 13 -14 yrs old, listening non stop 24/7....I finally stopped listening to AM radio when I wa 16, basically cause my friends made fun of me...but honestly, all of the songs I love and remember were on the CKLW playlist!

[MrPublicPain]

Best single song arrangement in modern recording. Period.

[PanioGuitarCovers]

mojofilter02, I have been digging through your channel like a stimulant abusing Worm. Thank you for introducing me to great unappreciated music.

[maricleshappen]

Thanks for posting this. It reminded me of listening to CKLW back in the 70s. Songs that didn't chart nationwide, we were lucky to hear all the time, like Werewolf and Absolutely Right. I love "Signs," but the band's lesser-known songs are my favorites.

[cindyao]

Cool!!

[jjf006]

I just picture a young Stephen Harper toking to this

[Syzygy60]

point is my impatientience may have cost me knowledge and untold enjoyment

[Syzygy60]

i'm sure i changed the channel when i heard that intro,as a child,I'd change channel after 5 notes sometimes,i may have turn this off not knowing how great i t is!

[Syzygy60]

listen to absolutely right I rate that a #1 song

[Syzygy60]

i love this 5 man electrical band renewal I have experienced

[caseyspaos]

I thought this was a black band when I was little

[Syzygy60]

sounds like rocky horror got an idea from this

[tyme4mike]

"He's just a young boy sowin' his wild oats and that's alright!" LOLOLOL Sounds like me when I was being young in the 70s.

[10hab]

so cool to find this old classic from my childhood days thanks

[toobularbells]

Man I miss the 'story' songs,such as this & one,& a couple of Jim Croce's,etc

[nyyanx23]

Great tune from AM radio.

[AaronMk91]

Heard this on the radio last night. T'is a great song. :3

[muskokan59]

Wow....years it has been. You should see the smile on my face :)

[vongrishnahk]

I always like this song. Thanks.

Wasn't Heart originally formed in 1963 by Roger and Mike Fisher and called Army and then White Heart and the Wilson sisters didn't join until the early 70's. I always read and heard they were from Canada but moved to Seattle to get airplay and exposure. Correct me If I am wrong. Because in 1976 some DJ.s, depending on what station you listed to, said Seattle and Vancouver. Confusing...Yes, important...No!

Wherever they were from, they ended up in a good place.

[mojofilter02]

@vongrishnahk

"White Heart" was formed in NW Washington in 1967 by Steve Fossen, with not Mike, but Roger Fisher on guitar. Mike was their sound & lights man/manager. Ann joined in 1970. To avoid being drafted, Mike Fisher slipped over the border to Vancouver; Ann later moved there to be with him. Slowly, the other members moved to Van and Heart was formed in 1973, with Nancy joining in 1974. Mike Fisher was able to return to the US after Jimmy Carter pardoned draft dodgers. Now back to 5MEB.

[vongrishnahk]

@mojofilter02

Thanks for the reply and insight. Very interesting family tree.

[doppelganger521]

@vongrishnahk

Five man were first the Esquires and then the Staccatos. Seattle and Vancouver are close to each other but these guys are from my home town,the capital of Canada,the city of Ottawa.

[Syzygy60]

@vongrishnahk they coulda exposedc themselves to...back in the day

[rickw1100]

A truly great Tune!!!!

[MrBuckwilliam]

man, this is packed with great memories. lol, reminds me of the time pops tried to do me in... itsa good thing he only had that one silver bullet and was a lousy shot  :)

just kidding of course, great blast from the past mojo :)

[maintoc]

@MrBuckwilliam You'd think, wouldn't you, that the silver bell would have melted down to make more than one bullet, unless it was a *very* small dinner bell. :p

[liquidgee13]

I had this on some vinyl compilation album way back in the 70s or so. Glad I found it here on youtube. Never did hear it get any airplay at least not in the Boston area that I can remember.  Thanks for posting.

[OldMusicOnVinyl1]

I just got this 45 at a local thrift shop today.

[markanic1]

I Love these guys!!!

[melmar1994]

Love this song! Had it on a K-Tel album in the 70s. Haven't heard it since then. Thanks for posting it.

[wildcatter63]

dang, remember this one from when I was a kid...never knew what it was called nor who did it....lol

[rjduke]

I  vividly remember hearing this on the radio one night when I was a kid. I was a huge horror fan and couldn't believe I was actually hearing a werewolf song on the airwaves. I bought the single the next day and still have it. Not in league with their song "Signs" but major kudos for the subject matter, at least in my book. Thanks for posting.

[dorn2100]

Hadn't thought about this song for over 30yrs...but once I heard the line..."Mama said ...Papa!" great memories came back. Great tune by the band from the nation's capital.

[EagleKammback]

great song! should be in the soundtrack for The Wolfman. Got this on vinyl

[jetshull]

i couldnt remember the date, '73-'74 was kinda crazy for me.

[cebran6]

this is an old tune i always kinda liked as a kid, kinda whimsicle but decent

[mojofilter02]

I have to ask: is "whimsicle" a new flavor of popsicle?

[slimfchance1]

I haven't heard this song since the 70s, and I've been looking. Thanks for posting, and thank the gods for the internet!

[pinkisfortoughguys]

My VERY first Album, Canadian Mint!!

[jazman28]

Great track - sure I first heard this on a K-tel collection ( I think it was either Sound Explosion, or Canadian Mint). Great track - this band had so many great songs that most have never heard.

[rubinoos1]

It was on K-tel's 1974 release Dynamic Sound.

[romanticwarrior97]

@rubinoos1  I had that LP....The Payback, Pt. 1, I've Got to Use My Imagination, Let It Ride, Love's Theme and of course the odd "werewolf' among others.

[Judybug33]

Thanks for this. It may seem funny but it brings back many fond memories!!  Thank you again!!

[iorioriorio]

who cares about all that crap?...they rocked, had rock, gospel, funk roots, and did it all back in the early 70's!!!! Beat that , my friend!

[yoogregcon]

Absolutely love this song.

[MrNutinfancy]

First heard this on a K-Tel record Super Bad I believe long long time ago.

[liquidgee13]

Holy shit ... haven't heard this since the 1970's!!! Thanks for the post.

[perreakaaspete]

Had forgotten what a great song this is thanks for posting

[EagleKammback]

Just bought an album with this song on it, no record player here at college, I'm listening to it online, I LOVE THIS SONG NOW

[minkymott]

Hahaha, thanks for posting. Haven't heard this in YEARS.

[russelljdj]

A Nice Part of the Late 60s early

70s "Canadian" Invasion which included The Guess Who, Gordon Lightfoot, Heart, Lighthouse, The Stampeders, and a couple others I'm somehow forgetting. Oh those were the daze of youth people. Now we are Old. That sucks!

[mojofilter02]

Those were great times for music, all right.

BTW, Heart is from Seattle, WA. Their first records had a MAPL logo because they were recorded in Vancouver, so they qualified as Cancon. But the group is American.

[russelljdj]

Well, Aside from their Canadian Accents, There is video of early Heart in which Ann Herself says they are from Canada. So unless she was lying I'm sticking to my story.

[mojofilter02]

The first line of their bio on Wikipedia says "Heart is a rock band whose founding members came from Seattle, Washington, USA in the early 1970s." The rest of the article goes into more detail about the Wilsons' origins. I suggest you check it out. They're Americans.

[russelljdj]

Wikipedia! UGH! They Certainly got their start in Seattle, but they are from Vancouver. That video of an early Seattle perormance where Ann Says they are from Canada used to be on You Tube. I think the song was Magic Man where she said it. Don't put complete trust in Wikipedia. It's nice but inaccurate a lot of the time. One thing for sure, Robert Gordon Orr is Canadian! Yet considered by many a Bostonian.

[mojofilter02]

Look, there is no argument here. There is me recounting published facts, and you refuting them, with nothing to go on. I don't care if you think they were Canadian. Every single biography of Heart says clearly that the original members are from Seattle, including their official website. The group relocated to Vancouver so the male members could evade the draft. They didn't go back to the US until Jimmy Carter declared amnesty. There really isn't anything further to discuss.

[beatmastert]

@russelljdj They are from Seattle, they did work and record in Vancouver.

[Vatch1966]

I was only 8 years old when this song came out. My brother had the 45 single,exactly the one showing in the pic!!

[daryl060761]

This song totally stood out on the air when in came out. There wasn't anything else like it. There's a great documentary out now about the early days on the Canadian music industry in the 60s/70s where Les Emmerson gets his props from people like Burton Cummings and Robbie Robertson! Great songwriting!

[ufclover1]

wuts that song by them that goes ''rock and rooooll music, rock and rooooooll music. it has a good drum intro and some good solos.

[robbiethecook]

iam 43 now i cant belive i was only 9 when it came out.growing up in sarnia ontario 50 miles north of detriot on the canadian side. it came on every night.listening to it in the dark.i think i would turn the lights on when it came on. lol..

[plmm0]

I remember this song as a teenager listening on my transistor radio from n.w. Ohio on CKLW-Detroit/Windsor,Canada. Thanks for the blast from the past!

[kerluvscin]

Thanks Mojo, I used to sing this to my big brother when I was little.

[mojofilter02]

That conjures up an image that makes me smile. Is your brother's name Billy?

[kerluvscin]

Actually his name was Randy, so I had to change the name in the song. It still used to make him mad though.

[WolfieStorr]

I love this song, someone really ought to make a video of it, it'd be heaps of fun to do.

[biollante62]

Classic man.I must have been 8 at the time this came out,hell it was on AM for gods sake.Thanks mojo you rock

[1BarefootCowboy]

One of their best. Great song!

[melodymaker65]

pure canadian 70s classic. thanks for posting mojo

[deathbybunga]

True song of the early 70's before disco took over. Great band with a great sound. Haven't heard this in years. Thank you mojo !!

[jamdinbard]

I have found memories of listening to this on an 8 track filled with various artists back int the mid-1970s. Thanks for the posting it.

[alandhopewell]

Haven't heard this in ages...thanks, Mojo!

[RonRaddio]

Very cool, Mojo! One of my favorites when I was a teenager. Think this was on a K-Tel album. Thanks!

[KYterunn3r]

Thanks Mojo, I also have been wanting to hear this song again...

I had just about given up.

[mojofilter02]

Glad I could end your search! You can get the "Absolutely Right" CD on amazon, sealed, for less than nine bucks right now. You'll be glad you did.

[ufofruit]

I heard this song in junior high and I've been looking for it since then!

(I'm not going to state how many years ago that was!)

[premed2]

:-)

[TurnpikecII]

fantastic, I'd almost given up hope this one

was coming - Thank You

Canadian and Proud

[mojofilter02]

You're welcome. Me, too.

[ryan1988h]

Thank you so much for this vid !

I've been looking for this song forever & finally it's here! Yayyyyy :)

[mojofilter02]

You're welcome! Happy to be of service.

[mojofilter02]

Glad you like it. The group is still out there, too! A lot of Canadian musicians who hadn't performed their original material for years and years are back in the game, now that I'm a thousand miles away. I'll still never get to see them. :(

[Pickanoriginalname13]

Thank you Mojo for this upload

[ValsHere]

I always liked the arrangement of this song. Lead vocals were raunchy and appealing to the young gals back then too.

Without a doubt, one of the bands who earned their place in rock & roll history.

[sknyrd77]

Cool song and nice story telling. I always liked this better than "Signs"...