Pretty Things - Raining in my Heart 1966

[saladfork8]

lookie all the suits just standin' there, don't know what to do with themselves :)

[RAINLOVE5]

Interesting Instrumental Immense.

[79goldmaster1]

I think that Janis Joplin must have seen this guy singing somewhere...

[PaulBradford13]

This kicks ass. Sounds like a slow version of "The Midnight Special" too. It's that standard blues progression thing I guess.

[hotlipbrown]

PRETTY GOOD VERSION OF SLIM HARPO`S OLD CLASSIC ! ...

i SHOOK HANDS WITH DICK TAILOR IN COPENHAGEN ! LOL !

[sballonz]

long live pretty things!

[bobobekker]

Slim Harpo wrote this number look for it on google

[asoares16]

MUITO BOM.Alexandre Brasil.

[asoares16]

Muito bom.

[j1215hurd]

Dick Taylor deserved more recognition than he recieved. He was as fine a player as any of his peers at that time.

[totovillefranche]

@j1215hurd eah- that's what Keef says, too;in his book

[ROMEORAUNCH]

it is buddy,faaaarrrr out.

[ROMEORAUNCH]

I know I heard it somewhere.

[ROMEORAUNCH]

is that a buddy holly song?

[bobobekker]

@ROMEORAUNCH No Slim Harpo wrote this song look in google I got the org records

[problem49]

I've loved this song ever since I bought a double LP of their Fontana singles more than thirty years ago. Hard to believe they're still being discovered.

[Aborukuroots]

My fav band at the time. Roadrunner kept you busy and awake during the day. This one was for the schooldances. Thank you for posting. You Tube makes it easier to bring back forgotten memories.

[KOOLEO329]

Gotta say this is fabulous stuff....great vocals...best I have heard since the days of the Liverpool Five in the mid sixties. Both the PTs and the LP 5 deserve wider appreciation...You Tube has helped a lot in this respect.

[FUKKAKE]

acid rock is still alive, look up "Sun Araw"

[smokyotis66]

That's some really long hair for a dude in '66

[vel0cette]

Many thanks for this bit of nostalgia, loved the Pretties then and now--great stuff

[barazbulbo]

Well - there were The Beatles, and then The Rolling Stones, and then the WILDEST of them all: Pretty things ;-) So don't try and compare them with the Beatles *LOL*

I know what you mean though :-)))

[barazbulbo]

Well - there were The Beatles, and then The Rolling Stones, and then the WILDEST og them all: Pretty things ;-) So don't try and compare them with the Beatles *LOL*

I know what you mean though :-)))

[laosuwan]

so, hippies got their long hair emulating a gay english guy singing black blues songs? do I have that right?

[armjos1]

@laosuwan your wrong you wank stain

[laosuwan]

@armjos1 it's "you're" not your

[armjos1]

@laosuwan It is easy to make mistakes when you are angry with an arsehole who makes stupid comments about a great band.Now piss off you wank stain

[laosuwan]

@armjos1 my comment was not about the band; my comment was about hippies. If I wanted to comment about the band I would have said something about the bass player being out of tune. May I suggest you try working on your anger issues?

[dimges]

this is Cover of Slim Harpo song, tittle Rainin' ...., 1961.. Buddy Holly song from 1959 is completely different, and tittle is Raining .... ; because wrong last letter,you tube get on right side wrong comparable...

[econoroller]

Awesome footage...is there any more of this performance available???

[urizzle7]

If i was gay or a broad id let the pretties gang bang me and LOVE IT!!!!

[angrysamoan666]

@urizzle7 I am the pretty things, whats your phone number LOL

[thegenericgnome]

my friend jimmy mccullough played support with the pretty things in glasgow and swapped his gibson for a stat with one of the band they were called the jaygars jimmy was 10 at the time we were at primary school together jimmy of course went on to play with thunderclap numan and wings...........:{

[diva5356]

Hmmm, a few memories there. Great band. Love that everyone was shocked by Phil's hair being so long.

[leolovezsixties]

Dick Taylor actually left the Stones, because he thought he would never make money with them(!). So not because he was too ugly! This is a great song by an absolutely stunning band. I'm happy to be able tosay I have seen them life twice.

[dominiccarter77]

Skip looks about 15!haha! Get on!

[paisleybabee]

yeah the Pretties did it first!

[TumbrelJockey]

@paisleybabee That is a fact .As a 9 yr.old .i stayed up to watch the Jack Paar show in 63 & his daughter had made a 16 mm of what was happening in London music scene (to my shock lol)The Pretty Things were already sporting shoulder length hair.

[paisleybabee]

innovators!

[niuog]

It's great but the bass amp sounds like hell. I wonder what kind it is?

[youngy30]

wish the bass was intune.............

[36eyt]

Jimmy Reed influenced a lot of us...including these guys.

[Woodenfrog62]

This is from Beat Club, WDR German TV 16 April 1966. Also on the same show: "Roadrunner" & "Midnight To Six Man", both found on Youtube.

[goarock1]

I saw thr Pretty Things at the kings X cineme where Rock Bands used to play every fri. all night till early hours. Park my Zepher on the pavement after a good nights drinking around central London and crash out there for the night. Many bands used to play there. Where can you do that now.

[debiedog1]

The drummer is Skip Allen

[plopnod]

You would be hard pressedto see many frontmen have their hair that long back in 66.What a great song.Thank you for posting this

[sdgakatbk]

This is really good. Actually, the Beatles Oh Darling sounds a lot like this to me.

[bopka45]

@sdgakatbk You're right, its a carbon copy.How cool is it that the beatles ripped off the pretty things?!

[Philtration]

@bopka45

Yes... the Beatles ripped them off even though they where the biggest band in the world 4 or 5 years before this came out.

Get a clue.

[bopka45]

@Philtration I know that the beatles existed before the pretty things, i was obviously talking about this particular song, which was made 3 years before the song "oh darling" came out.

GET A CLUE.

[Philtration]

@bopka45

And this same riff was used over and over again long before the Pretty Things used it here. Not exactly original by any stretch of the imagination.

I never said that I did not like it.

I like this better than Oh Darling to be honest.

Bands have used the same rock or blues riffs and chord changes for decades.

If it sounds good then it does not matter where the influence came from.

[tstoakley]

DRUMMER???Viv or Skip????Shame theres not a better wkip on the band?????

[armjos1]

its skip allen

[ex1le444]

@tstoakley Viv left in '65, he wasn't around long at all, his legend survives tho!

[SonofThor73]

This is one of my favorite songs! I love Slim Harpo!!!

[ex1le444]

@SonofThor73 Me2 :D

[kawliga55]

scuse me, but im wit u lil queen, I dont care what them haterz say, this is HOT!!!!!

LOL

[littlequeen64]

I would have loved to have been a little groupy and shagged the shit out of Phil May. yummmmmy........ ; )

[fred166]

absolutely awesome, thank you so much for uploading this

[lapislazuli7]

Thank you, thank you :-) For years I only had the sound, no vision!

[whatever30345]

I would dare say that the Pretty Things could conceivably wear the crown as the 1st punk rock band more than a decade before the term was coined. Although, in the states there had already been garage rock bands that were bordering on the proto-punk sound that would be a hallmark of the rest of the 1960's & there were some bands in the rest of the world doing the same; the Pretty Things sound that developed from garage rock was a more raw sound that would be duplicated by the 70's punk bands.

[LoveMarriott]

Fantastic band. This is my favorite song.

Thanks for sharing.

[oldfart4751]

If your a blues fan watch Stevie Ray Vaughan.

[oldfart4751]

Talking ugly a bit far fetched, all the stones are ugly. Love their music though. Keith Richards has got to be in the top ten of ugly performers of all time.

[Khultan]

I'm not a homosexual. I'm a man who goes for women. Now-to comment-Keith really got worse looking after the drugs. Even Mick Jones. On an unrelated topic there is a book called 'Ugliness'. I didn't buy it.

[PAULLONDEN]

Let's see your snout at 62 ,after years of

abuse, mr. oldfart4751.

The woman went for their 'uglyness' dude.

Go, and pin a picture of Peter Frampton

on your wall then.

ByTheWay Fritz...This surely is a GEM.

[tunderbomber]

It's a Jimmy Reed song.

Dick Taylor was part of the first Stones edition till he was replaced by a certain Keith R.

[problem49]

The story is that he got the boot because he was too ugly. In light of Bill Wyman this is rather suspect.

[tunderbomber]

Another story is he wanted to finish artschool first. But the Stones used to hide their pianoplayer Ian Stewart behind a curtain for decades for estetical reasons. So they have a history.

[problem49]

You're right, it was Ian Stewart that I was thinking of. Still hard to believe that he was too repulsive to share a stage with Charly Watts.

[captainsoul1953]

I think it was because of his chicken pox scars...i think he is playing on the Stones Rocknroll Circus film but they never show his face

Jim

[VDGG94ki]

Keith Roberts?

[2009framat]

It is not a Jimmy Reed song but a song of Slim Harpo who did the Pop charts as well as many of Jimmy Reed's who hit the pop charts at the same time 1961 with Big boss man. Reed was Slim Harpo's role model using harp on a rack and playing relaxed R&B.

I did an animated short film to honor Jimmy Reed and like to invite you on my youtube site.

Greetings

[tunderbomber]

You 're right my man. I realized that myself later. Really loved your video, good work!  You 're true bluesfan.

[JerryBen]

Buddy's song is also named RAINING IN MY HEART but it ain't the same song...

[revup67]

Anyone know where this is from ? Are there any other clips from this apppearance ? completely brilliant !!

[Bluebottle83]

They were absolutely wonderful, I loved their music.

[ginolight]

greatest group.significant. seen them often around 67/68

[qr7ab]

Tolston is god

[katietheblueslady]

this song was originally done by slim harpo, circa 1961 or so

[blueswailing]

Actually Buddy Holly 1956

[katietheblueslady]

actually not....slim harpo aka james moore is the writer and first person to perform raining in my heart in 1961...

[katietheblueslady]

the song was written earlier than '61 by slim harpo but he couldnt get it put out until then, so probably buddy's version was the first one heard by the public

[blueswailing]

felice bryant and boudleaux bryant actually wrote the song.

[katietheblueslady]

your right....my bad

[blueswailing]

no biggie, cheers!

[twolunches]

the real thing.

[9marbles]

fanfuckntastic!

[electriclightorifice]

i would have loved to have been alive and seen this in the flesh!

[lyndloo]

Great!!!! luv it!!! thanx...Lyndloo....

[skeptyky]

VERY GOODDDDDDD PRETTY THINGS !!!

[dicksatan]

Brill! Five stars!

[pooXpoo]

raw as hell

[godiva10]

great playing on bass from John Stax

[stOOpid68]

thanks for postin this gem fritz!!!

got any more?

Tre

Liverpool Mods.

[steveconn]

Haven't heard much Pretty Things other than Bo Diddley covers - the singer's really modern and cool. Good stuff!