Great number - always loved it (I was sixteen when it came out). But it is one of the few big hits of the sixties where the lead "singer" doesn't actually "sing" a single note!
@MelosAntropon What's the story behind that? Funny, because I just read that the guy who sang lead on "Incense and Peppermints" was never actually a member of the group (The Strawberry Alarm Clock); he was just a friend who happened to be at the session, and the song wasn't being taken too seriously by the group, so they let the non-member sing lead. He never joined the band, but they kept his vocal on the recording.
For some reason, I always associate this song with two others of that period: "Come On Down To My Boat" by Every Mother's Son, and "Little Bit of Soul" by Music Explosion. I think they were all within a year of each other, maybe that's why. Great lyrics to this song that don't quite make sense: "You went out on me, so other girls did it too."
Another timeless 60's song. I was there, I lived it and listened to it, and would give anything to go back to that time -- the greatest period of history - no exceptions.
I'm a metalpunk and recently stumbled onto 60's garage bands, now I'm hooked! Music Machine, Banshees, Alarm Clocks, Jujus, Keggs, Bougalieu, Roosters, Rats, I just can't get enough!
Vocalist was so sarcasticly beautiful. Almost reminds me of Dante of Dante and the Evergreens when he sang "Alley Oop." He also had that wonderful rock and roll vocal drawl. Drums on this were superior for the time. This is what AM radio thrived on in the 60's. Did the Rolling Stones ever cover this? I could hear Mick Jagger wet his pants to cover this tune and sing it as good. Really too bad this band didn't last.
You said it. Come to t hink of it ;66 was my favorite childhood year. I had just started watching Green Acres on CBS and Eva Gabor became the idol of my youth.
The music back then was just great! In fact, 60's music is timeless! Today's music is nothing but junk, junk, and more junk.
This was a very big East Coast tune....again reminds me of driving down to Wildwood with my family in the 1955 Cadillac sedan and this was playing on WOND out of AC or WCMC out of Wildwood.
Another Summer of '66 classic......worked at beach hotel, Cliff Hotel, North Scituate Beach, MA....... driving my '51 Dodge, with songs like this blaring from my transistor......and the ladies were copious and fine......
What was even sexier was finding this in the '70s! We just adored this, the NY punks! We danced to this, made love to it, discussed it. All found on discarded vinyl. I just love my record collection. Thank you so much for this upload. Greetings from France!
i was 11 and now i'm not. but now, i'm looking for a girlfriend that can turn off her cell phone when she's with me...... no, i'm not having too much luck with that...
@nanlisa hey, i was about 12 when this came out, and i loved the music so much then, i knew all the words to all the songs! '66 was one of my favorite years, there were just so many hits that year, like good vibrations, and the hollys, and the troggs, didn't wild thing come out that year?
@nanlisa I was like 6 and loved it then! all this 60's stuff is just GREAT!!!! Sometimes we get a group of friends together and have 60's night .Posters,blacklights,lava lamps and even dress 60's! so much fun!!!!
@nanlisa I'm also a 1958 model & remember how exciting the music was growing up during the '60s. I'd go to sleep listening to a high powered AM station on my transistor radio. Then I'd enjoy singing all those songs to pass the time while mowing the yard. It worked out well because no one could hear me. LOL
Great song from a great time in music. I can only feel sorry for the younger generations today who never knew good music and never will. I feel blessed to have grown up during this explosion of original creativity commonly known as the SIXTIES.
In 1988, I was 13, and I heard this on very late night AM radio. Recorded it on cassette. They played "Lies", "Friday On My Mind", and "Pictures Of Matchstick Men". I stayed up listening intently.... letting the mid 60's mod sound change & shape and form my idea of cool. That's when i got out of hair bands... in their prime. I pretended with my friends, but secretly listened to these mod garage groups!
SME restricts playing of this video in a playlist. You must watch this video in a "standalone player" Sorry about that : / ........WHAT?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????
Back when this music was out, what you heard was genuinely talented artists. What came out and became hits and songs that will always endure did not need the technology of the current time. Only genuinely gifted people put out that music so that what you were hearing was real, credible TALENT. Thank you for this great post.
@0917gva Well, no, not exactly. It's just that the shit that made it out is collectively forgotten by history. Maybe there wasn't auto-tune back then, but there certainly was any shortage of shit or bands put together just to make money.
@StickWarrior Bands have always been "put together" to make money. The same is true of what we listen to today. Money is the name of the game in most ventures; the music industry does not have an "exclusive" on that.
Don't need non that there stinkin' new tecknolgee to please them yung whipper snapper digi-ass sniffers. Just git a GOOD vinyl copy and give a listen thar, 'cause you don't know what yer talkin' 'bout - OR what ya' damn missin'. So thar!
@Onneff69 Sho Nuff!! Boy howdy, these boys lay the law right on down! Might git arrested fer politikal inkorrectness nowadays I reckon. And thats a dang good tune to dance to too! Purt-near punk-rock geniuses of the mid 60s I'd say!
Doggy Diner..lol. Sopwith Camel sings about the Doggy Diner on their 1974 LP "The Miraculous Hump Return From the Moon"...I think they were a Bay Area band mid 60's to 70's.
1/28/2011 Hello JohnGee1977 The opening is between the g & b strings. Finger the b note on g string, then slide down to A, then A flat, back to A.(best on a RIC 12-string for the jingle-jangle sound); then to a-d g-c, hold g & repeat; the verse is: E-A-D-G. That should steer U in the right direction. Hope I was able to help. I don't think there is any instructional videos for Hey Little Girl on YT. FROM ME TO YOU hk
A touch of rock with a Buddy Holley influence on the guitar. Loved that song. Was also in love with a 14 year old girl at the time. I'm 61 now so she would be about 59.
"To us, they were the elite of the cover groups. They could learn a new Stones or Beatle's song and play it that same night just after it had been released. It drove the audience nuts. Their Beatle covers SOUNDED just like the Beatles! Their Stones covers sounded just like the Stones! We had never seen any other group capable of pulling that off."- David Aguilar (Chocolate Watch Band)
Good morning, do you like sixties? Listen and pod cast my program " great sound of 60' s " on the site plumfm. Greeting and made blooper in rock and roll.
Salut, vous aimez les sixties ? Ecoutez et podcatez mon émission "le super son des sixties" sur plum fm. Salut et faites gaffe au rock'n roll.
Stumbled across this here and wow, what memories it brings back! This is the record that got me really started listening to music and AM radio when I was eight years old. My next door neighbor made me listen, and I was quite startled. My big sister was well into Beatle-mania by that time, so I'd heard "better" stuff, but this was so different.
Then he told me his dad made it! I didn't believe it (I couldn't picture that old guy playing a guitar), but it turned out his dad produced the record.
This was one of the Biggest hits in Cleveland,OH back in '66, I bought TWO copies,it went to NO.1 in Cleveland, For a one hit wonder,They sure left their mark. Thanks for Posting This Classic.
Thanks Hawkmoon for the sharing of this one; the most outstanding spoken record of the decade. Gotta be the most infectious and tuneful spoken record of all time and should have been a big hit in '66
Summer, 1966.......hard work, great songs, and a big supply of beach, fast cars, parties, ladies and drink.....a Summer to remember......and then to the ships!!
This was out at this time in June of 1966.I think 66 was the best year for music growing up. Hearing it on The Mighty 1290 KOIL Radio in Omaha, Nebraska.
@Archiebell68 ... i remember walking into an ice cream shop in the East Bay after school, was introduced to the whole clan - at 14 that's a trip, very cool moment, very sweet guys, very lucky to have had the moment eons ago;)
Great sound! We take lessons from John Sharkey. Absolutely the best teacher you could ask for.3 of us playing better than ever in no time at all and with a nice understanding of music theory. Eugene, Oregon
Anyone remember a band in the San Francisco bay area, early 60's, "The Zoo"....? I remember hearing them at a local performance, may have been the old Oakland Auditorium by Lake Merrit in Oakland, CA and they did this song, hadn't hit the radio yet. Heard them a few times around then, doing it and later the Syndicate of Sound on the radio. Have always wondered if they were the same band, or what. ??? Great tune!
Anyone remember a band in the San Francisco bay area, early 60's, "The Zoo"....? I remember hearing them at a local performance, may have been the old Oakland Auditorium by Lake Merrit in Oakland and they did this song, before the SofS release was out. Heard them a few times around then, doing it and later this on the radio. Have always wondered if they were the same band, or what. ??? Great tune!
@mitch222ful - sorry just read this! I'm from Oakland also. As I recall the Zoo work polka dot shirts and black vests, kind of a Mersey/psychedlic thing popular at that time. They were a good band as I recall. Love this tune!
Groovy sound from the 60's. Too bad they were a one hit wonder. I find the lack of singing interesting and how they did it "rap-style" Of course there were a few others in this time period that tried this such as Napoleon XIV's "They're Coming to take me away".
@endtimescyp Sez, "Groovy sound from the 60's. Too bad they were a one hit wonder. I find the lack of singing interesting and how they did it "rap-style" Of course there were a few others in this time period that tried this such as Napoleon XIV's "They're Coming to take me away".
Don't forget the flip side on Napoleon XIV's 45. "Yawa em ekat ot gnimoc er'yeht" !!
@hawkmoon03111951 You are more than correct. To many people this sounds ''crude'' or of ''bad quality''. To me its just natural and perfect. Classic 4 track recording and basic production.
@Building529 And who was your band back in those halcyon days of the "San Francisco scene"?? You must have been good or you wouldn't have been there??!...
My unlce gave me this single with his entire collection. I heard the Dead Boys version years ago, but the original is so good to hear! So much better than the bands of this time!
I can play this song over and over since the day it came out.The use of over dubing the drum and tha ttwangy guitar along with bass and cocky vocals make this my favorite American song of the 60,s.Thanks Syndicate of Sound.
WOE I Haven't heard this since 1966 when I used to sneak upstairs in the shop I worked in (Fred Dawes Electrical Appliances in Eccles, Manchester) and play it on the PYE Black Box (the dogs danglies in Hi Fi at that time). My Boss was always pissed off at me but aged 16 who cares! I thought this song was so cool. My other fave was The Martian Hop by the Rondells..probably cos they were so different to the usual stuff of the time. Thanks a million for posting it..it's still rather splendid.....
was going out with a girl when this song came out and i found out she cheated the next time we went out this song came on the radio and she wanted to know if i taped this song,she was pissed so i took her home and bid her farewell thanks guy for the song it was the easy way out
An ex reminded me about this song! Great memories attached to it. Met the band in Denver in 1966. Had this album autographed. Someone stole it. Dang! I remember John Sharkey best and Chuck "the money counter" Guess I am showing my age. lol I was 18 with a crush on Sharkey! LOVE this kind of music to this day!
wow it must have been hard to make a good signal in the 60s i mean every thing wqould be compared to the beatles and be shut down but there is a lot of amzing songs just another reason for me to wish i grew up in the sixtis music went form decent to FUCKING AMZING to just shit 2001-now
If you loved this period of top 40 get the book Tommy James - Me, the Mob, and the Music. Great read!
marteeen0 3 days ago
Wow! I still jam this song after all these years on electric guitar! Just a fun fun jam!
4774patrick 2 weeks ago
Great number - always loved it (I was sixteen when it came out). But it is one of the few big hits of the sixties where the lead "singer" doesn't actually "sing" a single note!
MelosAntropon 3 weeks ago
@MelosAntropon What's the story behind that? Funny, because I just read that the guy who sang lead on "Incense and Peppermints" was never actually a member of the group (The Strawberry Alarm Clock); he was just a friend who happened to be at the session, and the song wasn't being taken too seriously by the group, so they let the non-member sing lead. He never joined the band, but they kept his vocal on the recording.
57highland 3 weeks ago
For some reason, I always associate this song with two others of that period: "Come On Down To My Boat" by Every Mother's Son, and "Little Bit of Soul" by Music Explosion. I think they were all within a year of each other, maybe that's why. Great lyrics to this song that don't quite make sense: "You went out on me, so other girls did it too."
57highland 3 weeks ago
@57highland: Bad choice of words, I think. What he meant (I'm sure) is: "You walked out on me - big deal, others girls did, too".
MelosAntropon 3 weeks ago
@MelosAntropon Debating song lyrics is always fun!
57highland 3 weeks ago
@MelosAntropon I just figured it out, with your help: "You went out on me. So? Other girls did it too."
57highland 3 weeks ago
love tha fuck outta this song, rocked me in tha 60's/wynn
teleevangelist 3 weeks ago
FOSTERS-FREEZE LOS GATOS HIGH
godfreyrayking 1 month ago
I love this song!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jrickabaugh10 1 month ago
I was 16 years old...............love it!
march1836 1 month ago
From Camden High school I'm proud to say. And, I believe they were honor students, to boot. Go Cougars.
jo47dy 1 month ago
Another timeless 60's song. I was there, I lived it and listened to it, and would give anything to go back to that time -- the greatest period of history - no exceptions.
65rock4ever 1 month ago
Great stuff memories are coming back I was like 8 when this popped out of my transistor am radio!
newspapertaxis1 1 month ago
I'm a metalpunk and recently stumbled onto 60's garage bands, now I'm hooked! Music Machine, Banshees, Alarm Clocks, Jujus, Keggs, Bougalieu, Roosters, Rats, I just can't get enough!
jawnwise 1 month ago
Good Song To Dance To.
winyguy 1 month ago
Vocalist was so sarcasticly beautiful. Almost reminds me of Dante of Dante and the Evergreens when he sang "Alley Oop." He also had that wonderful rock and roll vocal drawl. Drums on this were superior for the time. This is what AM radio thrived on in the 60's. Did the Rolling Stones ever cover this? I could hear Mick Jagger wet his pants to cover this tune and sing it as good. Really too bad this band didn't last.
lastrada52 1 month ago
I first listened this song in the early '80s, when I listened to KRLA 1110 AM here in L.A. I was in junior high at the time. Ah, what memories! =D
nuts4clara 1 month ago
Boy does this zoom me back to '66. I love this song and I loved "living" the 60's
lowry5670 2 months ago
Had a real early Rolling Stones feel to it, I always thought
jmacleve 2 months ago
You said it. Come to t hink of it ;66 was my favorite childhood year. I had just started watching Green Acres on CBS and Eva Gabor became the idol of my youth.
The music back then was just great! In fact, 60's music is timeless! Today's music is nothing but junk, junk, and more junk.
nanlisa 2 months ago
63,64,65,66 the best years of the 60s,IMHO!
slapbush 2 months ago
This was a very big East Coast tune....again reminds me of driving down to Wildwood with my family in the 1955 Cadillac sedan and this was playing on WOND out of AC or WCMC out of Wildwood.
donnafromnyc 2 months ago
Another Summer of '66 classic......worked at beach hotel, Cliff Hotel, North Scituate Beach, MA....... driving my '51 Dodge, with songs like this blaring from my transistor......and the ladies were copious and fine......
toddwindyhill 2 months ago
I Fricking Love this song!!!!! I will hear it time to time on the Oldies stations, but never caught the band's name. Fatefully I found it!!
huitzil07 3 months ago
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fuck nigger music this is classic
longbeachk1d 3 months ago
@longbeachk1d other cultures man, embrace it
izzyofdahizzy 3 months ago
@ nanlisa
We were so lucky to have grown up back in the sixties,
The music and general society today sucks
DILLIGAF425 3 months ago 2
Before the PILL, abortion was still illegal and start of a age of Free Love. Love this song
JamesTAllen52 3 months ago
awesome! ha, loved these years, thanks for posting!
fingletoad 3 months ago
What was even sexier was finding this in the '70s! We just adored this, the NY punks! We danced to this, made love to it, discussed it. All found on discarded vinyl. I just love my record collection. Thank you so much for this upload. Greetings from France!
CuteCatFaith 3 months ago
it was better when the DEAD BOYS did it first !
and before you ding dongs go lookin they didn't really do it first try like 26 years later ! I just happen to like when people fly off the handle !
nuggets motherfucker ! get it or forget it !
TheNewstylewiz76 3 months ago
i was 11 and now i'm not. but now, i'm looking for a girlfriend that can turn off her cell phone when she's with me...... no, i'm not having too much luck with that...
m1kewithaone 3 months ago
One of the great things about sixties rock was the one hit wonders.
jaytf1231 3 months ago
Reminds me of family reunions in the summer at my cousins house on the lake...great times!
Pmr1957 3 months ago
I LOVE this song. You could say it's an early rap song....except this one doesn't stink.
avdreader1 4 months ago
@avdreader1 I feel the same way about the Hombres "Let it all hang out" . It kinda has a rap delivery to it in a way.
crazyromanian1 3 months ago
GREAT SONG!!!!!!
Nickie0016 4 months ago
what it's all about......
christopherthelast 5 months ago
I was only 8 when this song came out. I just love this song. Give me the music of my childhood (the 1960's) instead of all the junk that's out today.
nanlisa 5 months ago 18
@nanlisa hey, i was about 12 when this came out, and i loved the music so much then, i knew all the words to all the songs! '66 was one of my favorite years, there were just so many hits that year, like good vibrations, and the hollys, and the troggs, didn't wild thing come out that year?
m1kewithaone 2 months ago
@nanlisa I was like 6 and loved it then! all this 60's stuff is just GREAT!!!! Sometimes we get a group of friends together and have 60's night .Posters,blacklights,lava lamps and even dress 60's! so much fun!!!!
newspapertaxis1 1 month ago
@nanlisa I'm also a 1958 model & remember how exciting the music was growing up during the '60s. I'd go to sleep listening to a high powered AM station on my transistor radio. Then I'd enjoy singing all those songs to pass the time while mowing the yard. It worked out well because no one could hear me. LOL
railbuggy 14 hours ago
Just love this song nice to hear it again..Rock on 60"s
ringo244 5 months ago
Great song from a great time in music. I can only feel sorry for the younger generations today who never knew good music and never will. I feel blessed to have grown up during this explosion of original creativity commonly known as the SIXTIES.
65rock4ever 5 months ago 4
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65rock4ever 5 months ago
Remember how many radio stations wouldn't play this song? How times have changed!
TheChollie52 5 months ago
@TheChollie52 What was their beef with this song? Too sexually suggestive?
57highland 5 months ago
@tetoffensive100 I read you loud and clear. It just aint the same. We had it make back then and didnt know it.
7chill777 6 months ago
Because nothing has actually changed. Only the way we communicate now.
VinDcator 6 months ago
so immediate, and danceable, I used to have this single, it still sounds great....
paisleyization 6 months ago
Great 60's rock. I played this in one of my bands. Great (all is said)
precisionb 6 months ago
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MegaJGYoung 6 months ago
In 1988, I was 13, and I heard this on very late night AM radio. Recorded it on cassette. They played "Lies", "Friday On My Mind", and "Pictures Of Matchstick Men". I stayed up listening intently.... letting the mid 60's mod sound change & shape and form my idea of cool. That's when i got out of hair bands... in their prime. I pretended with my friends, but secretly listened to these mod garage groups!
MegaJGYoung 6 months ago 3
I have come to the conclusion I am one of the luckiest guys in the world to have experienced this musical era in my latter high school years.
83rrsou 7 months ago
SME restricts playing of this video in a playlist. You must watch this video in a "standalone player" Sorry about that : / ........WHAT?!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!?????
Aeschlimann1 7 months ago
Back when this music was out, what you heard was genuinely talented artists. What came out and became hits and songs that will always endure did not need the technology of the current time. Only genuinely gifted people put out that music so that what you were hearing was real, credible TALENT. Thank you for this great post.
0917gva 7 months ago
@0917gva Well, no, not exactly. It's just that the shit that made it out is collectively forgotten by history. Maybe there wasn't auto-tune back then, but there certainly was any shortage of shit or bands put together just to make money.
StickWarrior 7 months ago
@StickWarrior Bands have always been "put together" to make money. The same is true of what we listen to today. Money is the name of the game in most ventures; the music industry does not have an "exclusive" on that.
0917gva 7 months ago
@0917gva Well, at least we agree on that, but I still disagree with you initial post.
StickWarrior 7 months ago
@StickWarrior That's okay, people disagree on many topics all the time.
0917gva 7 months ago
I say hello to all pretty little girls out there! Take care..and be well!
SiouxSyndicate 7 months ago
I just love this song!
nanlisa 7 months ago
Here comes thats time warp again taking me back to '66. Great times, great music, great memories and I live it.
lowry5670
lowry5670 8 months ago
JR High Dances! Great Song! Love IT!
DoctorSombo 8 months ago
Don't need non that there stinkin' new tecknolgee to please them yung whipper snapper digi-ass sniffers. Just git a GOOD vinyl copy and give a listen thar, 'cause you don't know what yer talkin' 'bout - OR what ya' damn missin'. So thar!
Onneff69 8 months ago
@Onneff69 Sho Nuff!! Boy howdy, these boys lay the law right on down! Might git arrested fer politikal inkorrectness nowadays I reckon. And thats a dang good tune to dance to too! Purt-near punk-rock geniuses of the mid 60s I'd say!
TheEldoradoKid 7 months ago
this was one helluva song
TheLadandLass 9 months ago
One of my top favorite songs!! Love it! Dead Boys do a great cover.
laniecross 9 months ago
One of my top favorite songs!! Love it!
laniecross 9 months ago
Doggy Diner..lol. Sopwith Camel sings about the Doggy Diner on their 1974 LP "The Miraculous Hump Return From the Moon"...I think they were a Bay Area band mid 60's to 70's.
rowdymax1 10 months ago
Covered live by the Cleveland/New York punk band the Dead Boys.
Wiseguy92787 11 months ago
greatest garage bad song of all time
noodlam 1 year ago 3
1/28/2011 Hello JohnGee1977 The opening is between the g & b strings. Finger the b note on g string, then slide down to A, then A flat, back to A.(best on a RIC 12-string for the jingle-jangle sound); then to a-d g-c, hold g & repeat; the verse is: E-A-D-G. That should steer U in the right direction. Hope I was able to help. I don't think there is any instructional videos for Hey Little Girl on YT. FROM ME TO YOU hk
hkyoutoob 1 year ago 2
listen to the RESIDENTS song "Swastikas on parade" from the album THIRD REICH AND ROLL they do a cover of this song...and it is on youtube.
MichaelHansenFUN 1 year ago
Can anyone identify these chords? I'd appreciate it...
JohnGee1977 1 year ago
A touch of rock with a Buddy Holley influence on the guitar. Loved that song. Was also in love with a 14 year old girl at the time. I'm 61 now so she would be about 59.
1bountifulinc 1 year ago 18
@1bountifulinc She's still too young for you.........
mpsicily 10 months ago
@1bountifulinc Whatever, these guys were so friekin' great, you hadda be there yeah.
precisionb 6 months ago
@1bountifulinc Grandpa remembers arithmetic. Just kidding. I'm 62. :)
jmitch623 1 month ago
a song from our teen club days camp lejuene NC
theSupertonesurf 1 year ago
Whatever the hell this is, it's perfect.
soaringvulture 1 year ago 2
"To us, they were the elite of the cover groups. They could learn a new Stones or Beatle's song and play it that same night just after it had been released. It drove the audience nuts. Their Beatle covers SOUNDED just like the Beatles! Their Stones covers sounded just like the Stones! We had never seen any other group capable of pulling that off."- David Aguilar (Chocolate Watch Band)
mashtones 1 year ago
I remember this soo well...THE sound of '66♫
'I Fought The Law"by Bobby Fuller Four, has a similar cool guitar phrase.
PAULLONDEN 1 year ago
A fav of my youth. Love the guitar sounds. Great drumming.
pooroldKawliga 1 year ago
A fav of my youth. Love the guitar sounds.
pooroldKawliga 1 year ago 2
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Good morning, do you like sixties? Listen and pod cast my program " great sound of 60' s " on the site plumfm. Greeting and made blooper in rock and roll.
Salut, vous aimez les sixties ? Ecoutez et podcatez mon émission "le super son des sixties" sur plum fm. Salut et faites gaffe au rock'n roll.
supersondessixties 1 year ago
@jim0581 yeah i fucking love the dead boys version... doesnt seem to be on here though... can find my tapes either!!.
tokaicarl 1 year ago
Stumbled across this here and wow, what memories it brings back! This is the record that got me really started listening to music and AM radio when I was eight years old. My next door neighbor made me listen, and I was quite startled. My big sister was well into Beatle-mania by that time, so I'd heard "better" stuff, but this was so different.
Then he told me his dad made it! I didn't believe it (I couldn't picture that old guy playing a guitar), but it turned out his dad produced the record.
heyidiot 1 year ago
first 45 i bought .......dam this is good
juliuscronk 1 year ago
I was twelve watching Where The Action Is...with Jeri Lynn Stapleton shaking her pretty little butt and whatnot
Asskicker32294 1 year ago
Oh yeah,those dances at the old YMCA!
3minutesingle 1 year ago
LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE this song , Thanks for posting !!!!
CuyahogaMustang 1 year ago
stupid am radios I used to listen to this to
chippy783 1 year ago
This was one of the Biggest hits in Cleveland,OH back in '66, I bought TWO copies,it went to NO.1 in Cleveland, For a one hit wonder,They sure left their mark. Thanks for Posting This Classic.
wolfmantip 1 year ago
Thanks Hawkmoon for the sharing of this one; the most outstanding spoken record of the decade. Gotta be the most infectious and tuneful spoken record of all time and should have been a big hit in '66
treiterschijf 1 year ago
another Cool Garage Band Song !!
mrhayz600 1 year ago
Great song!
artiefun 1 year ago
Excellent, raw sound as it is!
steve7138 1 year ago
good song from a verry nice time!!
mick59707 1 year ago
This took me right back to San Jose 1966. What a great song.
2kristyk 1 year ago
memories, memories and more memories--great
nc51heel 1 year ago
I first heard this song on 610 AM KFRC San Fransisco in 1966 ( I think it was June?) and have loved it ever since! Thanks for posting this!
x101x23 1 year ago
@x101x23 Cool- you are correct - -
debut 6/4/1966 on Hot 100 chart...
fusejockey 1 year ago
Loved this song--thx to the THETUBE I found it---and hawkmoon too!!
brucer12 1 year ago
Summer, 1966.......hard work, great songs, and a big supply of beach, fast cars, parties, ladies and drink.....a Summer to remember......and then to the ships!!
toddwindyhill 1 year ago
this songs is fantastic
skunkdad7 1 year ago
Good old tune, rock on. :)
Zippertheslipper 1 year ago
Been trying to find this song for awhile. Never knew who these guys were.
tjpell68 1 year ago
This song puts me in a time machine back to 1965, my senior year. Great Stuff
lowry5670 1 year ago
This was out at this time in June of 1966.I think 66 was the best year for music growing up. Hearing it on The Mighty 1290 KOIL Radio in Omaha, Nebraska.
blueticecho 1 year ago
Classic 60's sound. Miss that sound today.
plan9area51 1 year ago
Still playing around San Jose today.
Archiebell68 1 year ago
@Archiebell68 ... i remember walking into an ice cream shop in the East Bay after school, was introduced to the whole clan - at 14 that's a trip, very cool moment, very sweet guys, very lucky to have had the moment eons ago;)
TheRustySteel 1 year ago
@TheRustySteel
Fentons Ice Cream?
eodglas 1 year ago
@eodglas
yes! Fentons it was ...
TheRustySteel 1 year ago
@TheRustySteel
Fellow East Bay Denizen here (no better place to grow up)
eodglas 1 year ago
Great sound! We take lessons from John Sharkey. Absolutely the best teacher you could ask for.3 of us playing better than ever in no time at all and with a nice understanding of music theory. Eugene, Oregon
RatherbeinMaui 1 year ago
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galiaxy 1 year ago
For a one hit wonder This was really COOL. I have it on the original label. Thanks for the post.
wolfmantip 1 year ago
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Anyone remember a band in the San Francisco bay area, early 60's, "The Zoo"....? I remember hearing them at a local performance, may have been the old Oakland Auditorium by Lake Merrit in Oakland, CA and they did this song, hadn't hit the radio yet. Heard them a few times around then, doing it and later the Syndicate of Sound on the radio. Have always wondered if they were the same band, or what. ??? Great tune!
northbayguitar 1 year ago
Anyone remember a band in the San Francisco bay area, early 60's, "The Zoo"....? I remember hearing them at a local performance, may have been the old Oakland Auditorium by Lake Merrit in Oakland and they did this song, before the SofS release was out. Heard them a few times around then, doing it and later this on the radio. Have always wondered if they were the same band, or what. ??? Great tune!
northbayguitar 1 year ago
@northbayguitar i remember them i ws born in oakland
mitch222ful 1 year ago
@mitch222ful - sorry just read this! I'm from Oakland also. As I recall the Zoo work polka dot shirts and black vests, kind of a Mersey/psychedlic thing popular at that time. They were a good band as I recall. Love this tune!
northbayguitar 1 year ago
@northbayguitar Do ya remember the Doggy diner in Hayward.
mitch222ful 1 year ago
@mitch222ful - yeah, Doggie Diner! LOL! Spent some time at the DD in Oakland mostly.
northbayguitar 1 year ago
@northbayguitar i remember them they allways played in hayward too & i"m from oakland
mitch222ful 1 year ago
best when dancing to it.
loubriel3 1 year ago
Groovy sound from the 60's. Too bad they were a one hit wonder. I find the lack of singing interesting and how they did it "rap-style" Of course there were a few others in this time period that tried this such as Napoleon XIV's "They're Coming to take me away".
endtimescyp 1 year ago
@endtimescyp Sez, "Groovy sound from the 60's. Too bad they were a one hit wonder. I find the lack of singing interesting and how they did it "rap-style" Of course there were a few others in this time period that tried this such as Napoleon XIV's "They're Coming to take me away".
Don't forget the flip side on Napoleon XIV's 45. "Yawa em ekat ot gnimoc er'yeht" !!
jojotusc 1 year ago
Guitar reminds me of The Byrds
jojotusc 1 year ago
I'm looking for that little girl! Still!!!
porscheguy57 1 year ago
Love it!
askmewhy51 1 year ago
You really had to live in the 60's to appreciate the music...fantastic!!!
cablonde320 1 year ago
1966 ROCKED !!!!!
93KHJBOSSRADIO 1 year ago
imagine what these guys would sound like with the tecnoligy of 2 day
mitch222ful 1 year ago
This record doesn't need today's technology. In fact I think that the raw sound of this would be ruined.
hawkmoon03111951 1 year ago 68
@hawkmoon03111951 You are more than correct. To many people this sounds ''crude'' or of ''bad quality''. To me its just natural and perfect. Classic 4 track recording and basic production.
oldschoolhero66 1 year ago 3
@mitch222ful
You mean like spell check?
Sorry, I couldn't help myself.
04460 1 year ago
@mitch222ful It'd suck...like everything today.
EmeraldFlowsion62 9 months ago 2
This was the summer I turned 12- I grooved to this song as it was pllayed to death on the radio- love it!
pataphysician66 1 year ago
Great song. Good band. Some record company really dropped the ball to turn these talented guys into one-hit wonders!
pepperdineu1 1 year ago 2
Another song my head hadn't forgotten, just misfiled.... Thanks
mstj1949 1 year ago 2
The Residents - Swastikas on parade
A song from the marvellous band The Residents on their masterpiece album : The Third Reich 'N' Roll (Euro ralph) (1975) Song : Swastikas on parade
TEMPmichaelhansen 1 year ago
Larry Ray was my guitar instructor at Bud Eastman's Guitar Showcase. The Syndicate of Sound was and is a great band! Deb
USADeborah 1 year ago
"Little Girl" another classic with a great beat to it. Thanks for uploading this!
jettwonder 1 year ago
niiiccceeee
charger771 1 year ago 2
Hey Joe!
cookmoore 1 year ago
My band opened for these guys in San Francisco when this was a hit on the radio. They were great live.
Building529 1 year ago 8
@Building529 And who was your band back in those halcyon days of the "San Francisco scene"?? You must have been good or you wouldn't have been there??!...
TheEldoradoKid 11 months ago
A sweet 16 song in my case. Well not so sweet I suppose.
gerkins1 2 years ago 2
I love this song :)
Been a while since I've heard it.
veggiedeadhead 2 years ago
From Argentina Thank you man.....I didn`t know this song.....sorry but my english sucks......i like very much this group
Gracias amigo
tortugasajenas 2 years ago
Man I love this song!!
happydmg2 2 years ago 2
Reminds me of 1966 and going to sports night at Palisades High School in SoCal. What great days those were..................
fbenenati 2 years ago
fun too...great song
strat8383 2 years ago
My unlce gave me this single with his entire collection. I heard the Dead Boys version years ago, but the original is so good to hear! So much better than the bands of this time!
MrChattyO 2 years ago 3
the dead boys...
only good they did was make it hard to find the good recording of this song.
don't get me wrong...they didn't suck.
but what a weird song for a "punk" band to cover.
it wasn't a bad job, just not the best job.
mfnheff 2 years ago
Nice Drum !!!
TheChicagotommy 2 years ago
1:17
chrisradano 2 years ago
I can play this song over and over since the day it came out.The use of over dubing the drum and tha ttwangy guitar along with bass and cocky vocals make this my favorite American song of the 60,s.Thanks Syndicate of Sound.
LIL WoBbLy Wade
melaniesuehine 2 years ago 3
The Deadboys were from Cleveland.This(original) version kicks their asses anyway.
mwnn2211 2 years ago
yeah i love the dead boys version...
punkbabydoll77 2 years ago
First heard this song by N.Y. punkband Dead Boys back in '77 and discovered the original this way. Great track!
VL1302 2 years ago
I like this song too...I especially like the lead singer's little asides and laughter...sounds like he might have been stoned
Asskicker32294 2 years ago
guitar sounds like the lead from "i fought the law" bobby fuller four..
westrokker 2 years ago
WOE I Haven't heard this since 1966 when I used to sneak upstairs in the shop I worked in (Fred Dawes Electrical Appliances in Eccles, Manchester) and play it on the PYE Black Box (the dogs danglies in Hi Fi at that time). My Boss was always pissed off at me but aged 16 who cares! I thought this song was so cool. My other fave was The Martian Hop by the Rondells..probably cos they were so different to the usual stuff of the time. Thanks a million for posting it..it's still rather splendid.....
lankylad50 2 years ago 5
Yes it still sounds great and just to hear it brings memories of 66 flooding back into my mind. Even sounded good on the old transistor radio.
hawkmoon03111951 2 years ago
@hawkmoon03111951 ... it flooded in my town in northcentral ohio in 1966 also. where are you from?
frizzlefrap 1 year ago
@frizzlefrap I'm from England. London at the time this record released.
hawkmoon03111951 1 year ago
I remember as a 7 year old, WLS use to play this all the time.
PeterMayer 2 years ago 2
was going out with a girl when this song came out and i found out she cheated the next time we went out this song came on the radio and she wanted to know if i taped this song,she was pissed so i took her home and bid her farewell thanks guy for the song it was the easy way out
jrembnum3 2 years ago 3
An ex reminded me about this song! Great memories attached to it. Met the band in Denver in 1966. Had this album autographed. Someone stole it. Dang! I remember John Sharkey best and Chuck "the money counter" Guess I am showing my age. lol I was 18 with a crush on Sharkey! LOVE this kind of music to this day!
PeachStatePam 2 years ago 2
Driving beat, looks and oooh that guitar!
The whole package baby!! Fabulous!!! :)
Saggitarian2December 2 years ago 8
summer of 67.. a band from Boulder CO. (The North Side Moss) came to Steamboat Springs and played this tune. still gives me chills......
tscotthammond 2 years ago 6
This is one of my favourite songs from the 60's.
laceyemily1 2 years ago 17
wow it must have been hard to make a good signal in the 60s i mean every thing wqould be compared to the beatles and be shut down but there is a lot of amzing songs just another reason for me to wish i grew up in the sixtis music went form decent to FUCKING AMZING to just shit 2001-now
pivot1022 2 years ago 9
I'll drink to that!!!
Khultan 2 years ago 3