Dave Dee, Dozy, Beaky, Mick & Tich - "Last Night In Soho"

[Baggieboy291163]

Need to clarify what the song's about. He's NOT a rent boy! He is an ex-criminal who has left his crooked life behind him and has a relationship. Unfortunately his old "crew" demand he does another job for them - "if he doesn't want aggravation" - i.e. threatening his woman. He gets caught - goes to jail, and tells his woman that she mustn't wait for him. OK?

[dfarmbrough]

This is a terrific track, and the band should be celebrated more when people do retrospectives of the 1960s or oldies radio shows.

[60thChild]

My favourite pop song of the sixties. I'm nearing 57 , and still remember hearing it in 1968 . RIP Dave .

[wearyoldman]

Thanks WizardODoom. I have added this to my 60's playlist. I've been searching for this for years.

[VulpeLunatica]

Yeah this song is the bee's knees! And those 7 dislikes can go jump in the Thames! ^..^ r.i.p. and blessed be to Dave Dee.

[MissMolly5293]

awesome band...terrible name



[armoredcar3]

@MissMolly5293 The ridiculous tongue-in-cheek seven-dwarves name (disastrous in the US) was apparently a deliberate attempt to go against the 'collective' grain current in the 60s and to emphasize that a good band is a successful collaboration of individuals.

[marmot1957]

I played this single so many times I'm surprised the grooves didn't wear through to the other side. Loved Dave Dee. RIP xx

[AlfredWhy]

This was one of the very first singles I had. Oh I liked this. A great song.

[SuperNevile]

Gangsta pop ~ written by the same guys (Howard/Blaikley) who wrote "From The Underworld" and "Paradise Lost" for the Herd. In fact they wrote all the hits for DDDBMT

[ballochdubh]

Yes your so right, ichthipiscator.

[2503tony]

Saw DDDBMT at the Auditorium in Grimsby a year or so before Dave Dee died we got to meet him after the show, we had no idea he had cancer, he peformed with the rest of the band brilliantly, a this song nearly brought tears to my eyes the performance was spot ont and this song is fantastic RIP Dave and thankyou.

[ballochdubh]

Yes all very sad, brilliant group.Some tracks where quite diverse but wonderful.

[ichthipiscator]

@ballochdubh All the better for being so diverse.

[polecatcontinuum]

'Whitechapel' on ITV captures the Kray Brothers shadow over London that this song reflects.

[armoredcar3]

This band's greatest song.

[marmot1957]

@armoredcar3  Agree totally :)

[armoredcar3]

Tremendous song *****

[erik92mb]

This is one great video that I can watch over and over again. This group was one of the most overlooked British groups of the 60's.

[pandemonsatyr]

This is their greatest, darkest song.

[jinty59]

when all is said and done it's a brilliant track

[pandemonsatyr]

This is their greatest song.

[polecatcontinuum]

Mark Almond could make a great job of this song. Full of sexual guilt and ambiguity.

[17DJLOVER]

What a great 60s song, R.I.P. Dave.

[TheLarrydj]

awesome song,which still stands up today. Thanks for many great memories Dave.

[helenmarianne2009]

Still makes me tingle !

[helenmarianne2009]

Still makes me tingle !

[armoredcar3]

Better every time I hear it.

[Povampiren]

one of the best songs in the sixties.

[voodoochilled1]

Absolutely amazing! Raw as hell and seriously underrated!

[Pipilat]

When this song was written London was full of protection rackets, gangsters (the Kray twins) and blackmailers.

[DL11AZ]

LOL Just like it still is, only they call them politicians now..... :+)

[MattHatter]

This song is so powerful and CONVICTING. If you've been living the "high life" a little too much, take a real listen to these lyrics and you might just repent! LOL. Poor guy realizes he threw away the one love who mattered most for one "last night in soho."

[selfie52]

great video whats tich up to these days

[armoredcar3]

Magnificent song - one of the greatest of the sixties. As polecatcontinuum rightly says, it perfectly captures the menacing dark atmosphere of the time - gangsters ruling London, protection rackets, violence and blackmail.

[hawkmoon03111951]

@armoredcar3 What menacing, dark atmosphere of the time? I was in London at the time and it was a far nicer place than it is now.

[DL11AZ]

YEs RIP Dave Dee. Saw them live in Ryde Isle of Wight, 'The '69' Club think at the Savoy Hotel Or Wootton Bridge, I was just 19......is that really 40 years ago?

Anyone still remember those days? maybe it was Ryde Airport or Sandown......

[Goblinshead]

Lucky you, they were one band I never managed to see, I wanted to see them, I thought they were brilliant. I dont know where the years have gone either, however, the Isle Of Wight never seems to chage.

[pandemonsatyr]

Astonishingly different and brilliant song from this band who always rang the changes.

[Pipilat]

Last Night in Soho is this band's most brilliant song among so many great ones. Dave Dee is such a loss.

[redredreds100]

do you mean musically, or literally??

[lyndloo]

loved this song bak in the 60s' and still love it today !!! it sounds Great ! long live the British Invasion !!! thanx for posting ..Lyndloo...

[polecatcontinuum]

Most fantastic song that captures the dark side of the swinging sixties - Kray Twins, protection rackets, clip joints, blackmail.

[anitashelby]

Great Song!!! Although I've never heard this one before..I Love it! Thanks Anita

[ristonburrows]

Gr8 band A + Dave Dee a great vocalist, Thanks for the memories.

[poguematane]

Thank you for all Dave!

[LVEMEDO]

RIP DAVE DEE HOPE YOU,VE TOOK THE MEMORIES YOU LEFT US GREAT LITTLE BAND ZILLION******************* POST TY hey tricia awesome share we are twins lol i love it saved & faved

[HALIDAYINN]

AWESOME TRACK !

DAVE DEE R.I.P

[pompeyblue2]

rip dave you were my fav band in the 60s see you at butlins these days thanx for the memories

[whyisusernameunavail]

You were a great entertainer Dave. We will miss seeing you at the 60s concerts! You music will live on!

[shootthebusstop]

This is an AMAZING song. So underrated!!!!!!!! RIP Dave, we will miss you SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!

[canttakemeanywhere]

Thanks Dave

[steps1]

RIP ,,,,you made me happy ..

Thank you .

Dotxx

[rich88b]

What a sad day for Dave Dee fans! I saw him just a few months ago and he and the Dozies were on top form with an amazing show and it's hard to think we won't see him again!

RIP and thanks for the music and for continuing to play live gigs for us fans!

[kezcuk]

Dave Dee was on Gold Radio only a few weeks ago on a 2-hour slot with DJ Mike Sweeney, recalling his 60s hits. This record he declared to be his favourite.

RIP, Dave

[themindbender]

RIP Dave...great song.

Love the 2 in the middle ducking from the girl on the swing...good fun.

[poterus]

Gutted to hear the news today, whenever we saw you we would ask you to play this song and you always obliged and fitted in your show. With much love Judith,Paula&Monica. RIP XXX

[ichthipiscator]

Great and surprising song from the DDDBM&T canon.

[tortois5]

those were the days!

[tacako1930]

how great sound !!

[0213kay]

yeah !!

[helenmarianne1]

Still makes the hairs stand-up on my neck, 40 years on ! ....As for the lyrics, they are at the mercy of personal interpretation, as are so many poems .

Don't know the sexual orientation of Dave Dee , but I wouldn't have thought he could have considered it good for his career to be associated with a song about a 'rent boy ?!'

....And 40 years ago that was just the bloke who went round on Fridays to collect the money from council tenants wasn't it ?!

[quantumleap7]

You're so right helenmarianne. I think all this band's songs are open to personal interpretation, but the wonder is that they seem to strike a chord with so many people of all ages after all these years.

[AllanAllsopp]

Strange - I always thought it was about someone who was employed by the krays (or someone of that ilk) and got sent down for killing someone.

[gaysongs]

Just added this and Janus' version of song to this channel.

[squanderedlustboy]

For confirmation that xwftassell might be barking up the right tree check out Last Night in Soho + Janus.

[xwsftassell]

It's a song about being a rent boy.

Reet cracking orchestral arrangement, what?

[pandemonsatyr]

I'm sure you've hit on the correct interpretation of the song.

[armoredcar]

What makes you say that? (About the rent boy)?

[xwsftassell]

Most of the managers of 60's British pop acts were super-gay. DDDBM&T's managers (who wrote this) were, according to an Observer article, no exception. Maybe it was a subject close to their hearts...

I felt sure it wasn't too late

I'd find strength to make me go straight

I had love and threw it away

Why did they lead me astray?

don't get above your station,

if you don't want aggravation

Got a little job for you, this is what you gotta do, boy!

[armoredcar]

It depends from xwftassell's quote of the lyrics whether 'straight' is as opposed to bent or queer, or as opposed to criminal/Kray brother gangster. Could mean either.

[pandemonsatyr]

Tremendous song whatever.

[xwsftassell]

Technically yes, but practically: gay double-entendre.

Wonder what "Bend It" is about.

[quantumleap7]

They were brilliant songwriters first and foremost and managers only second.

[tacako1930]

GREAT SONG !! I love them .

[dividedselfRDL]

Their best song.

[awolwakefield]

I think the B side to this record was called "Mrs Thursday" I still remember all the words to it although i was only 8 years old when it was released.

[WizardODoom]

Yes, the b-side was the theme to a TV series on ITV at the time called "Mrs. Thursday", about a Birmingham cleaning lady who won a fortune on the football pools. There is one episode available on a Network DVD set called "Jack Rosenthal at ITV".

[Graphicals]

Mrs Thursday came to tea

At the same locality

As she did last week

And the week before

And the band

Who were grand on the stand

Kept on playing..

I love that b side..

[Honkivonarsen]

I remember that song - it was a brilliant b side.

What was it called?

[Graphicals]

Mrs Thursday! Can't find it anywhere!! :(

[WayBackThen100]

@WizardODoom Oh, thanks for that little insight, as a kid, I loved Mrs. Thursday, I have no memory of what it was about, just remember the wonderful Kathleen Harrison, and a guy, who's name I don't know, but face I can see. Still don't remember it though

[WayBackThen100]

@awolwakefield Who remembers the TV show, Mrs. Thursday, with Kathleen Harrison??

[ichthipiscator]

@awolwakefield Who cares about the B side when this is perhaps the band's greatest track.

[tacako76]

I loved song of DDDM&T . Thank you for the great post !!

[MrGagararo]

Didn't need Tarantino to find out about the 60's :D.

[WizardODoom]

My thoughts exactly - Tarantino? An ancient roman word meaning "derivative and talentless video shop clerk with pretentions to grandeur who copies scenes from every film he has seen, but without the stylistic finesse to carry it off..." - or so I gather... ;-)

[yellowwasp09]

oh yeah like your smarter or what ? actually i knew about them for like a year, bend it was in a commercial with a yellow car but i didn't knew the name or who sang so if it wasn't for death proof i would have never heard them again. oh and pulp fiction is one of the greatest movies ever

[WizardODoom]

I'm not saying I'm smarter, just expressing an opinion. I hated Pulp Fiction (as did a lot of people - despite popular legend, some reviewers hated it). Still, I'll say this for Tarantino, you either love him or hate him, and I always think that anyone who manages to elicit such extremes of opinion with no middle ground must have something going for him. I personally dislike most of his movies (apart from Resevoir Dogs, which I quite liked), but I can't deny he has excellent taste in music. :-)

[80sVideoLord]

@WizardODoom exactly; tarantino is mis-cast as a director, he's a dj..or a wanna be..

[NelsonsHat]

@yellowwasp09 Actually I think Wizzard is a lot smarter than you, you can barely type a sentence without an error, simpleton!

[yellowwasp09]

@NelsonsHat my english may not have been that great in the past.what I don't understand however is the need for agression.why do you have to be agressive towards someone you don't know even on the internet.this tells alot about the times we're living.look at you,probably you're a loser in real life so you need to insult people in order to feel better

[NelsonsHat]

@yellowwasp09 If you are prepared to argue in English, then be prepared to take the flack in English you fucking "hedge monkey" Please tell me of all the great successful bands, singers that hail from your country, let me help you fuck all! Now fuck off to your own country and leave people alone, you simpleton!

[yellowwasp09]

@NelsonsHat I heard there are some snobish brits......

[17DJLOVER]

@yellowwasp09 We are still awaiting your reply about all of your very successful bands, listen you know nothing about our music so fuck off Gypsy!

[yellowwasp09]

@17DJLOVER some twin account or what ?

[17DJLOVER]

@yellowwasp09 No I just feel the same way as they do about pricks like you coming here and being truculent, go and argue about your own music, you know nothing about our music, our bands so just fuck off from whence you came, you are not wanted here!

[yellowwasp09]

@17DJLOVER I'll just hang around here and do what I want.Maybe I'll then start comenting on your literature.I'll recite some poems by Keats and Byron.Then maybe some british architecture.Then maybe I'll come to Britain in person and try to steal some other guy's job.

Not I'll start commenting on your books: James Joyce is the best writer of our century.Not a brit,an Irishman.Brits have always exploited the Irish as they did with.....

[17DJLOVER]

@yellowwasp09 You are just a boring Romanian gypsy, now fuck off and steal something, you are irksome and dirty.

[yellowwasp09]

@17DJLOVER Ketas and Byron are great poets.We also have George Eliot and Charles Dickens.

[Goblinshead]

@yellowwasp09 First you argue with Wizzard, then DJ 17, then with Nelson! whats your problem? piss off back to your third world thieving country, idiot!

[yellowwasp09]

@Goblinshead won't such a though guy when i steal your job you incest produced shit

[slugman2000]

@yellowwasp09 We have come here to enjoy the music, now leave people alone and get back to your own music, you are not welcome here!

[yellowwasp09]

@slumman2000 I'll just keep on staying fucker

[TENRECORDS]

@yellowwasp09 Go away you smell, get back to your own kind.

[yellowwasp09]

@TENRECORDS fucker,stop making accounts

[TENRECORDS]

@yellowwasp09 Just leave peeple alone, this is a music forum, we do not wish to be bothered by Romanian Gypos like you.

[yellowwasp09]

@TENRECORDS fucker twin account

[yellowwasp09]

thank you mr Tarantino for introducing me to dave dee and the crew

[Hansa94]

Love it and love them :D

[lyndloo]

love it !GREAT!!!!!!!!!

[pandemonsatyr]

Dramatic and moving song. Conjures up London of the Kray Brothers.

[coverman73]

Good beat and clear vocal from Dave.This was one for the bikers.

[themindbender]

The intro to this tune is stunning. Great bendy strings!

[sadodarkskies]

exxxellent!!!

[armoredcar]

This song gets better and better. Of all this great group's hits this has the best tune and lyrics.

[1960sbabe]

Heard this on radio this morning. Wow. Completely forgotten it. Nice to hear a song not readily played, one of their better ones too, I think.

[HIBBO32]

Another brilliant one from a brilliant group!

[DiForkeye]

I'm so happy to see this one again - I'd forgotten it! DDDBM&T stand the test of time so well. More please! I'd love to see the TOTP clip when they sang "If I Were a Carpenter"...

[armoredcar]

Kray twins era

[squanderlust666]

Such an original song.

[pandemonsatyr]

Sensational

[northernraider]

This has to be the pinnacle of psychodelic music like kites ( simon dupree)see Emily Play ( pink floyd) etc

[jan141253]

A new clip from 3DBMT. GOOD ! I'd like to see and hear all of the numbers they've put on record.

[northernraider]

This is there best ever song.

[quantumleap7]

Their greatest song. Thanks for adding.