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  • no que no vamos locos great musica

  • question mark looks younger now than he did back in the mid 60's!!!

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  • robert, you are so right! I was a teenager when this was out and could only hear it on the radio. I used to wonder if this was mick jagger singing under an assumed name!

  • mexican rolling stones!!!

  • arriva mi raza azteca que tambien es chingona,,,,, y como en la vieja escuela..a disfrutar esta rola super chingona¡¡¡ keep going rudy......w 

  • Esta cancion la versionó el grupo estado-unidense The Music Machine en 1966.

  • makes me wanna drink 96 beers

  • ALL the best people still dress this way. The SHADES. The shades rule.

  • Oooh yeah......the best, best song to remember L.A. years. '64-'66. That organ, bass and sassy garage boy sing. Luv It.

  • The best music for me was between 1964-68. Those 5 years. This song is smokin'.

  • good classic rock...i love it

  • Notice the UFO, upper left.

  • I agree stewgotz1....This is one BADDDD To The Bone song!!!!!

  • Puking Hudepohl beer and Cheeto's music.

  • kokane stereo

  • the moves by Rudy!!!! M.J. has nuthin on him....lol

  • Thumbs up if you can't resist thinking of the "Quitters, inc" sequence in the movie "Catseye" when hearing this.;-D

  • Isn't that Michael Sarrazin at 0.11 and 0.48?

    As someone mentioned, it looks like John Lennon at 1:18.

    The guy at 1:47 is familiar but I can't place him.

  • uggggh - this song reminds me of Phyllis Pilletari (sp) what was the older sister of my friend Grace. Phyllis bullied 10yr old me, singing this song and backed me against the wall poking fun at me :-(((

    Ouch, scarred all these yrs later!

  • @lindalucys2004 Oh boo-hoo! Get over it!!

  • de lo mejor!!!

  • better live. saw them in B'ham in the '60s, WVOK Shower of Stars. Ten min version. Brought the house down. Had more of an audience response than Roy O, Byrds, McCoys, Sam the Sham -- forget the others -- ? was the best.

  • @Ardalla555 i do not for one second disagree with your personal experience,,,and i do think,,this and muddy waters by the standels,,,are the true first punk songs,,imo,,,but here's the deal. every group u name here,,where tremendously better bands than ?. roy? the byrds?...even sam the sham had 3 big hits. i just wish ? was more like the seeds and had more,,incredible songs like this one....for us comment about, and that show sounds like it was fun as hell.

  • I remember seeing these guys do this song that day on "Where the Action Is"

  • Love the song. Grew up south of Flint- so I heard the song on the radio all the time!

  • @av8tor17b They played it all over the country. Back then, they played it in Cleveland every hour too.

  • Originally was 69 tears but was thought to be too racy for the times.

  • I played this song on my regular 45's but never found them playing a show, even living in East L.A.. We're talking ahead of their time!!

  • JESUS CHRIST is the only only only -one way- to HEAVEN...Reverend Norman Edward Vail

  • Finally found this song.

  • I saw these guys in 1967 in Waterbury, Ct at a place called the Hullabaloo! They were fantastic! Ive still got the singers autograph! It will be handed down to my sons along with my whole huge music collection of the music of the 50s and 60s!

  • @horsenaround thats fuckin awesome...because of people like you real music will never die! thank you!!

  • Grand Funk Railroad's bass player Mel Schacher (formerly in Question And The Mysterias

  • The girl in the video at 1:18 looks like Reese Witherspoon. 

  • @MaryC1992 she was only 5 years old in this video

  • GROOVY

    

  • this song always reminds me of Steven King's Cat's Eye lol!

  • fook me ...thunderbird gallagher bros ripped these guy off big time lol lol

  • Original title: 69 Tears. Studio brass made them change it.

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  • Great song!

    Greetings from Italy!

  • the ultimate garage trash..!!!! bad-ass song

  • @stewgotz1 No, Louie Louie by the Kingsmen is the ultimate garage trash, haha!

  • @stewgotz1 BEST SONG EVER!!!!

  • @stewgotz1 i was nursed on garage band trash. loved it.louie louie, little latin lupe lou. way back can't think of anymore right now. a bit high

  • Alice Cooper said, "In the world of music, if can write just one hit song, you've got it made" meaning a steady stream of income from that. I wonder if "Q" as we call him in Saginaw, sold the rights?

  • @grandrapids57 Yep he sold it all. long time ago,

  • Who can forget this hit???? Love this!!!! Thanks for sharing this gem!!!

  • some where still wearing surfer haircuts

  • 1st time getting laid

  • Who knows they were "mojados"? from mexico, sad but it is true.

    No me diga que no senor Martinez..

    but you are or were god them good

  • This guy reminds me of Prince!!! LoL

  • @TheJunior5721 Oh my gosh,you're right. He does sound like Prince..ha ha ha!! Good ear!l

  • Always had to see Where The Action Is after school, it was so cool. Of all the channels on TV can't any of them show reruns.

  • What the punkers wished they could recreate ... this ... the real deal.

  • This show, "Where The Action Is", was on at 4:30pm after school. It was a weird show, hosted by Paul Revere and the Raiders and the set was a beach. Yet all the bands had electronic equipment and I recall at the tender age of ten (1966), how they plugged in all that stuff at the BEACH?

  • @MsJollycholly lol Well the 60's were marvel..ous time...:)

  • @MsJollycholly yes, my sis and I were excited for this new show to come on,only to find out.to our dismay.that it was over before we got home from school! I mean,come on,a show for teen-agers and it was on too early. We were bummed!I don't know if living in CA was the reason,since it was filmed there.Maybe it came on early for that reason.So I think "Where The Action Is" was the best show I never got to watch.!

  • @MsJollycholly guy in the short-sleeved turtleneck around 1 minute looks like Mark Lindsey

  • Hey, I remember this  :)

    good one :)

  • looooooove this song....Chicano rock from Michigan! Go Rudy!

  • I saw them a few years ago at The Beachland in Collinwood, Ohio. They were good. After the concert people were milling around him. He slipped me a card and said, "If you can figure out any way we can make money, give me a call".

  • ? (Rudy Martinez) was a real wild man on stage. He was Jim Morrison and Iggy Popp rolled into one.

  • Am I the only one who noticed John Lennon just sitting on the side of the stage digging it? My cousin's band used to play a really rocking version of this song in the 70s.  They had a lot of fun changing the lyrics especially the number of tears.

  • The 5 who dislike this are heartless and could not muster 96 tears between them.

  • This song was in an episode of Rob and Big when Drama had to take care of that artificial baby that wouldn,t stop crying it was a funny episode this song made it even more hilarious.

  • This is so fucked up it's good!!!

  • wOw!

    i just cried 96 tears...n i find dis...))

  • Lip syncing at its best..great tune

  • This is just Rythym and blues at it's finest :)

  • Where the Action is.....this is way, way too much!! ?mark was part of the music of my life back then! It made me learn B-3, Moog 88 Acoustic, etc. 96 thanks for this post!!

  • the sand hill gang

  • the sand hill gang

  • Slapjaxx: It must have been WindowPane...the song came out in 1966!

  • ? mark said he from mars..OH BROTHER!  ANOTHER IILEGAL ALIEN!!!!!!!!!

  • dude can move for being white dude, he must have some negro blood in him.

  • The pride of Saginaw, Michigan.

  • @motorcityquig I thought they were from Texas

  • @lisalisa817 The Saginaw area of Michigan always had a large population of migrant Hispanics who came to the area to pick sugar beats.Many settled in area to work the auto plants (the plants in Saginaw made transmissions).The band received their gold record for this song on the steps of Saginaw High School.I later met the lead guitar player,Bobby Balderama,who said the band signed the rights away to this song early on and they recieved very little in royalties.A regular one hit wonder tragedy.

  • @lisalisa817 Some were from Texas. They were the billed as "The Greatest Tex-Mex Garage Band of all time" by some of the promoters.

  • @motorcityquig Actually ? lives in CLIO Michigan now last time I talked to him which was after his house burned down.

  • @motorcityquig Mexicanos en Michigan making waves in the rock & roll

  • shmembleby

  • may be the first Latino chicano rock group , this song stuck in my head all the time since was a kid i would like to make punk metal version umm...

  • I bet ? Mark has not gained a inch from then to now.

  • one hit wonder

  • Anybody remember 1966 and this song and the '60s TV show "Where The Action Is"?

  • @Chicago10281 I was only 9 then but I REMEMBER this show, watching it with my older sisters. Didn't Paul Revere and the Raiders do the theme song " Where the Action is"? Oh baby come on, let me show you where the action is ....

  • @MacDisel1 Yes, And Dick Clark was the Host. this was on in the afternoon,about 4:30pm.

  • @MacDisel1 The "Where The Action Is" theme song was titled "Action" and was originally recorded by Freddie "Boom-Boom" Cannon. I believe it was his last top-5 single.

    The show, BTW, was taped on-location, almost always outdoors, and usually (but not always) in the Los Angeles area. Malibu Beach and the Santa Monica amusement pier were frequent taping locations.

  • Que Dios tenga en su gloria. Eddie Serrano, baterista de ? mark & the mysterians......q.d.e.p.

  • i love 60's music ♥ 

  • originally intended to be called 69 Tears. The record label brass went crazy, so it was changed to 96.............

  • (no description available xP) well yeah yu should say that the bassist mel schacher, later became the bassist for grand funk freakin railroad. xD

  • There's no way their other songs are even half as good as this one. I'm not even gonna give them a chance.

  • Where the Action Is was a summer show, created by Dick Clark. Check out Wiki there is a great article on it.

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  • I was so young but loved Where the Action is.......Loved this and Paul Revere and the Raiders. I think this was produced by Dick Clark. Thank goodness I grew up then and not now.......YES !!!!!

  • @runthruthewoods What was "Where the Action is" A TV Show?

  • my favorite song,.-cruising in my 84 buick regal,.-tijuana mexico,.-

  • The origination of the garage band sound.

  • EXCELENTTTTT!!!!!!!!!

  • One helluva of a Top 40 hit even if they do look like they all need to find their green cards

  • @48mwl

    lol, huh?

  • Isn't that The Space Needle in the background?

  • @GahDub I think it would have to be and I am glad you mentioned this. The one in San Antonio opened in 1968, so unless this was taped in Japan, it must be Seattle. I researched it, but results were not conclusive.

  • This is cool. Isn't that the Space Needle in the background on :28 ?

  • fuck yeah.

  • Cd.juarez 

  • One of the real "Nuggets". Thanks to Garland Jeffreys for showing me the way

  • THis is one of the BEST & GREATEST Songs EVER!!!

  • This song is raw genius.

  • This sounds like a punk rock carousel.

  • @elementz1986 Oh damn that's funny.

  • @elementz1986 Agreed

  • @elementz1986 Actually, this song was the first to be referred to using the term punk rock. I never thought of it that way when I was dancing to it. It was unique, that's for sure, but everything in the mid-'60s was intended to be shocking. Sure brings me back memories of a lot of beautiful girls. I can still dance to this!!

  • @elementz1986

    That comment was CLASSIC!

    kudos!

  • @elementz1986 i think they were the inventors of punk rock

  • @elementz1986 i wanna ride on that punk rock carousel all day long !

  • Hey, Axl Rose....Question Mark called ...he wants his move back!

  • 1964 wacked out on lsd in a club doing the dog dance with a great blonde with a great ass dancing 2 this song. when the keyboard would bang the keys iwould bang her placw went nuts didn,t pay 4 drinks all night

  • @slapjaxx OMG, you are freaking me out. I want to be back there, right now, watching you watching me, driving the babes nuts, lookin' to bust a nut. Man...

  • @slapjaxx good your you DUMBFUCK! You are almost an animal, you shud be proud!

  • @slapjaxx you were classing it up big time

  • @slapjaxx Really? I don't remember this song until it was released in 1966. You must have been on some really "hard cider" to have danced to it two years prior.

  • And now you know

  • @kosmicfreak So apparently I can't post a link to the dance . . . Sad day . . . So it's definitely not sixtiescity(insert period here)com(insert forward slash here)Culture(insert forward slash here)dance(insert period here)shtm

  • I love the organ. You could sway with this song, it is an easy song to dance with a partner. 96 tears!

  • I love the organ.....

  • I wish videos today were still like this.

  • NOW THIS IS MY SHIT,YYYOU KNOW A SONG' YOUY'RE SHIT IF YOU'RE HEARING IT WITH NO MUSIC PLAYING

  • THE STUFF WAY BEFORE MY TIME STILL IN LOVE WITH IT HEHEHE.

  • I wish I grew up in the 60's; it was a great time for music! This song was so simple yet so good!

    In my opinion somewhere between 1989 and 1992 musical talent went straight to hell...right about the time grunge took hold! Sorry to step on anyone's toes but screaming doom, angst and misery into a mic and playing an ultra loud over-distored guitar is not music, it's bullshit! I'm sure there are others here who'll agree!

    Are you listening Kurt Cobain...oh wait, that's right...you're dead!

  • @ryanspeed I am old enough to see gradual shift to SATANIC lyrics, and beats. It actually started to really change with the late 60s music, and then to the plastic/phoney disco era. I hated it! Now heavy metal/rap etc. today is enough to make anyone do drugs, and or commit suicide! lol If you need drugs to enjoy music there is something desperately wrong. Google LTD "Back In Love Again" for the best funk you have ever heard! cheers bro!

  • @ryanspeed I think most of the good tunes died before 89 for sure. though there are still some excellent garage outfits playing today in the style and tradition of the 60s, nothing tops that old rock and roll sound. I agree though about musics decline. and i agree about fuck nirvana.

  • Viva La Raza Rock N' Roll!

  • Uena musica

  • OKEY ME GUSTA MUCHOSALUDOS DE CPI NAVARRETE DESDE CARTAVIO - PERU

  • no Microphones no Amps and a single snare drum Yes Band members we are STOOPID its  all real lol

  • A previous poster liked the bass line. The bass player was Mel Schacher, who went on to future fame as a member of Grand Funk Railroad.

  • @EvilGorm Thanx for the info..Into Rock & Roll trivia..Did not know

  • @muhrvis: sorry buddy... I really didn't mean to indict ALL white people. It was just a early-mid 60's phenomenon when white audiences were being introduced to musical forms that had been unknown to them previously.  Obviously from Elvis to the Beatles and beyond, white people have created some great rhythmic music. I just intended my remark to be a silly joke. My my, people are SO touchy about these things. As the person commenting on gay matters noted, we've become so intolerant!

  • Looks like he perfected the moonwalk before Michael Jackson....only sideways

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  • Best song in the universe, Dig that bass

  • Could this be in Seattle?

  • richard ramirez?

  • This guy is a Martian.

  • Great video. As for the people clapping on the "down beat," I don't think they actually are. It appears that way becuase the video seems to be a little delayed with the audio. If you notice, the drummer seems to be playing on the down beat too, and ?'s mouth movements seem to be not in sync with his singing.

  • @U2SaxFan Some of the viewers are too dumb to realize this.

  • Chicano's got soul

  • @ritter89: You mean white people TRYING to clap on the downbeat and FAILING!

  • @erniemedeiros Yes, I know there are no white people with rhythm. No drummers, no dancers, no performers. Just be sure and don't ever complain about being stereotyped if it happens to you.

  • @muhrvis OH YEAH? White People Are Better! OH You say white men can't JUmp, Well, Black People CAN'T SKATE!

  • @ThePaddyjoejr1 hahaha

  • @ThePaddyjoejr1 oh that was intelligent. geez

  • @shamanjon I don't know who this comment is for, but, EVERYTIME I read it it makes laugh. LOL

  • Chicanos from Michigan! Awesome music!

  • 75 and alive you said a mouthful, pardon the pun. In some ways we were more progressive back then. The music was sure better that's for sure.

  • all of u talking all that "Is he queer???" shit...in the 60's,most very cool circles didnt trip if not embraced that shit,u all are a true testimony of how fucked up we have gotten as humans,,,you all are regressing...not moving forward...fuck u all

  • This ones for Rip-Rip

  • Pocho Rock baby. Love it .

  • Ah yeahs, the transistor radio days. WQAM top 50's Miami, Florida,