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  • @dadoctah you took what I said literally when it wasn't meant to be. Obviously there is a market for this music, I am just not apart of it. I also wouldn't consider "When I'm 64" or "Honey Pie" to be 20's throwbacks, but maybe that is simply because I only listen to 20's jazz and not anything that sounds remotely like those songs. Besides, Macca rocks those two songs ten times harder than these guys ever could. That being said, no one rocks as hard a Paul. BEATLES!!!!!!!

  • Great stuff; you might want to check out Jay Jason, who was the comedy star in Sugar Daddy; vaudeville in the 1980s. See him on Youtube.

  • love the cymbal hangers. classy

  • Fucking Revolution 9 is better than this shit.  Paul McCartney could win a Grammy over this at the age of five.

  • @enuuts Except that Paul *didn't* win a Grammy over this, and it was two years later that he himself started doing 1920s-style songs like "When I'm Sixty-Four" and "Honey Pie".

    There was another performer who burst onto the scene in 1968 with twenties music: Tiny Tim.

  • なんだかなぁ〜。

  • SHIT

  • GREAT...!! Mt. Adams forever...!!!....differnent, very cute...one of a kind....Eleanor was NOT one of their (the boys) big hits...these guys did a cute song in a cute way, give them creditd.......

  • @louisville... go to about 2:45 of the video, they play two songs on here

  • This song isn't Winchester Cathedral.

  • Who wants Ice Cream?

  • Bob Kerr owed a lot to the Bonzo's.

  • Oh I remember both of those songs! *Sigh* I'm getting old :(. The NVB were parodying the songs and styles of the 1920s and early 1930s. Noel Coward was really big on the music scene for many years from the 1920s onwards and was still alive in the mid-60s and if you find a clip of him and watch him performing he's very much like these guys - almost as much over the top as well.

  • winchester cathedral RULES

  • Um, this is Peek-a-Boo followed by Winchester Cathedral - and there are two different leads. I think the first is Alan Klein singing Peek-a-boo and the second miming to Winchester Cathedral is Bob Kerr - John Carter being the actual singer of the song.

  • Preste atenção na segunda música. É um instrumental com características bastante engraçadas. Quem nunca ouviu esse teminha?

  • I heard this tune on the radio at 8 in '67 and associated it with my first hardcore crush on a blond who was 9 at the time and a grade ahead. Hardcore. You know. Fatal.

  • peter grant managed this mob

  • It's no Eleanor Rigby

  • Good gad, the 60's were ugly.

  • @GuyWithGuitars1 lolhahaha

  • clumsy gestures. didn't they get coaching?

  • These songs, this style, this band, these men and their instruments: all is a joke, a parody, the finest english humor. This is the only key to understand everything about the NVB.

  • Catchy tunes but the miming is awful .

  • winchester cathedral is still just a good tune. that first song was cruel and unusual punishment, however.

  • Really groovy daddio!!!

  • Little known fact: The singer in the first song is actually Tiny Tim after a haircut, nose job and testosterone replacement therapy.

  • @Galantski really?

  • cracked

  • one of my favorite songs ever :D

  • Fichnley Central?

  • This is Peek A Boo not Winchester Cathedral

  • This won a grammy. . . for fucking best ROCK recording. Fuck you, grammies.

  • Wondering if the drummer was thinking ... why couldn't I've been in the stones ...

  • To all you pro wrestling fans out there (like myself): This was the #1 song in the USA when Bill Goldberg came into the world (December 27, 1966).

  • Mutton Chop City.

  • excelentes canciones

    

  • This and anything by John Mayer is the worst song of all time.

  • I am 97 years old and I loved hearing this song again

    Modern hearing-aids are fantastic. What were we talking about?

  • I love this song I was six years old when they did this on Hollywood Palace. They were really really good and funny and I still enjoy this tune as well some 40 years later. They were a bit funny too in their acts. Keep this on you tube!!!

  • I love this song I was six years old when they did this on Hollywood Palace. They were really really good and funny and I still enjoy this tune as well some 40 years later. They were a bit funny too in their acts. Keep this on you tube!!!

  • Th first song is actually "Peek A Boo", which came out after Winchester did...and wasn't nearly as good.

  • this is a fantastic post! thanks for sharing.

  • They stole their whole act from Viv Stanshall & the Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band.

  • nice song i like it

  • THIS WON A GRAMMY OVER ELEANOR RIGBY!?!?!?! WTF!?

  • @betheboredom

    good point, but this also beat Good Vibrations by the beach boys, and GV was way better and more experimental that even Eleanor Rigby (though that is a very very good song!)

  • @betheboredom and The Beach Boys' "Good Vibrations"!

  • @betheboredom At the 9th Grammys (1967), Eleanor Rigby won Best Contemporary Pop Solo Vocal Performance. Best Contemporary Pop Group Performance Vocal or Instrumental went to The Mamas and the Papas for Monday, Monday. Best Pop Recording went to Winchester Cathedral by The New Vaudeville Band (NOT the song in this video, which is Peek-a-Boo). Winchester Cathedral was a HUGE hit and basically became a pop standard. Sure, it's no Beatles but still deserved to win something.

  • @barbaricyawper14 I'm not saying it's bad, I'm just saying I think Eleanor Rigby deserved the award.

  • @barbaricyawper14 It is on the video...

    2:45

  • @betheboredom Apparently the Grammy Awards have always been meaningless.

  • Booooooo

  • Bah, This isn't Winchester Cathedral.

  • good friends of mine, and great guys, i played guitar with them a few times at the concorder in england, and man the acid trips we took were unforgettable

  • People take music too seriously sometimes. Its just supposed to be a bit of fun (a song like this) Just silly.

  • This song RULES. There is no argument to the contrary.

  • have always hated this song

  • Whats with the guy sitting at the table after he sings his song? Doesnt he have anything better to do but smoke his cigarette from that gay holder?

  • this is an exceptionally nice song & i've always really liked it

  • ಠ_ಠ

  • what the hell is that trumpet type instrument around 3:35

  • @superfeedbacker its a muted trumpet

  • @InfiniteRhombus isn't it a piccolo trumpet or does the guy have monster hands.

  • @buzzkillor might be, I cant really tell though.

  • @buzzkillor a cornet with a mute.

  • This song was a big hit back in 1968..it was fun, an homage to the 20's..

  • @Sugarbehr1967 it was pre '68... I recall it around 1966

  • wtf is this chit?

  • I like it. No, its no Beatles, but I am sure since most of the fuddy duddies were listening to things like this in the 20's it was easier for them to award this instead of bands like the Beach Boys. Remember, Grammy awards rarely have anything to do with quality or even "what's good." Look at the crap they nominate and award even today...

  • @pelverud

    This sounds almost nothing like actual 1920s music. It's more like a 1950s half-remembered parody of what 1920s music actually was. Even the most frothy pop stuff wasn't this bad-- not Gene Austin, not Rudy Vallee, not Johnny Marvin. Obviously, it's a joke, albeit a cute one. Did it deserve to beat the Beatles & the Beach Boys for the Grammy? Uh, probably not, but it works very well as a lighthearted bubblegum pop song.

  • quality stuff,thank you

  • So they beat "Eleanor Rigby," "Good Vibrations," "Last Train To Clarksville,""Cherish," and "Monday Monday" for best Rock & Roll recording? Seriously? 

  • Kate Smith was very HOT & SEXY!!!!

  • Good old tune...

  • I have one question... Why?

  • @moocher678 Why not?

  • @moocher678 It was the sixties. *shrug*

  • Good lord that was awful!

  • This beat out the beatles for best rock song in 1966!?

    @KangiTanka1 My thought exactly

  • The late great Kate Smith, a icon with Philadelphia Flyers fans.

  • I like to imagine that slayer did a version of this or maybe lynyrd skynyd, that would be so cool.

  • Makes Starland Vocal Band sound like Cannibal Corpse.

  • This is an unmitigated heap of dung.

  • Very nice for live programming at that time. The Brits have a way with audio

  • I heard this song split up the beatles. Lennon/McCartney couldn't compete with this magical songwriting. Who needs "hey jude" when you can get down to "peekaboo"?

  • 1:27 RINGO!!!!

  • this is the song i would play if i got laid

  • @Drbarrelroll369 LOL. good one LOL

  • Yes, this IS better than the Beatles.

    fucking idiots...

  • This and Your Body is a Wonderland by John Mayer are the worst songs of all time.

  • @MrBuc128 Your spot on the money with that!

    

  • Great stuff, takes me right back to my happier days. Wish they would come back.

  • this is NOT Winchester Cathedral. you fail at song titles.

  • @phenom1127 Watch the whole video dipshit

  • @phenom1127

    Try listening till the end

  • This rock...where?

    Another Grammy blasphemy as usual

  • Truly, a far more deserving Grammy winner than the Beatles, the Beach Boys and the Mamas and the Papas!

  • @samadhir How is this, in any way, rock?

  • @Anghellik9 Well... that was sort of my point...

  • This is awful !

  • I played this song backwards and it all it said was "Kill whitey" over and over.

  • WTF?!?! They won a Grammy? White people are idiots.

  • @jewsareracists It's a spoof. The monocle should have given it away to all but idiots

  • Man, do I dig these groovy far out bands who just sit there..... and croon me to sleep..... Zzzzzzzz.........

  • this shit won best rock and roll recording of the year? what the fuck were they thinking?

  • cad rock

  • Thanks for sharing this here. I was 5 in 1966. I woke up this morning singing "Winchester Cathedral." 

  • The guitarist doesn't even have his guitar plugged in. In fact, there isn't even a cord running from it.

  • wow! i just dont like it! props to our parents and grandparents who lived through this!

  • This band was managed by Peter Grant. If this band didn't have the success of this song, there would be no Led Zeppelin as we know it!

  • @garbeaj hmm

    

  • @jmclohosey It is true! "Winchester Cathedral" was one of very few really big "hits" that one of his acts had at the time. He got his start in the music management business by Sharon Osbourne's father Don Arden. A year later, he formed his own management company, which included Jeff Beck, Stone the Crows,Terry Reid and The Nashville Teens who had a hit with "Tobacco Road"...

  • This stuff is spooky.

  • Judson J. Laucks should be in this vid.

  • these dudes are just plain freaky looking.

  • If everyone alive could see this video, we would no longer require antidepressants, because it is impossible to not feel happier after watching it . . . I am born anew in its sheer brilliance . . .

  • This was on ABC's "Hollywood Palace", on a Saturday night back in Spring 1967.

    Kate Smith (sang "God Bless America") was the lady announcer at the video's intro.

  • apologies if this has been said before, but that guy on the far right looks a LOT like jimmy page...

  • is the first half of this a diffrent song

  • @theedictofworms The first song is called 'Peek a Boo'.

  • Pure Genius!

    How can you not tap your foot and smile

  • I love it!!!

  • Markx64: If this group is as horrible as you describe, and their music so terrible, why do you keep coming back to this site, month after month bashing this group????? Just curious......

  • seen them September 1984 at the Normandy Hotel in Renfrew they were fantastic and at the time Britains top cabaret band!

  • @travislasanimas haha, I'm just now reading an article named "The 7 Most Unforgivable Grammy Award Snubs of All Time", and the one you mentioned was #2.

  • THIS recording won at the 1966 Grammys for Best Rock & Roll Recording?! THIS??!! Unforgivable. I can't believe the Beach Boys, hell, even the fucking BEATLES lost to this crap! What a loss.

  • @KenzieSpiltTheApples That is not so. they never won a Grammy. Best song was Strangers in the night . Frank Sinatra. There is an article on them on the computer somebody wrote it has bad information. thank you . Drohegda

  • more bands and songs need a megaphone

  • This is some awful music. I wonder if anyone bothered to tell that dork that he couldn't sing to save his life. Bloody awful.

  • @titans0002 But popular - and it sold very well! :-)

  • I like that first guys suit, I have a shower curtain with the same patern.

  • @markx64 LOL!!!

  • How can a band doing music of the 1930s be dismissed as being derivative of another band in the 60s? This was not the only band that saw tin pan alley music as being a source of the British take on rock and roll, but they did a fine job of it.

  • Nice music shame they're derivative! For the real "Originators" of this, check out the Bonzo Dog Doo Dah Band. They not only did oldies but wrote their own stuff!! Brilliant!

  • @premieresoldat The Temps were going long before the Bonzo's

  • Yep, one's my uncle - Stan.

  • i love peek a boo!

  • what thefuck

  • @greaserleo love it! you hate it? :(

  • @MrRyan2582 'what the fuck' as in it's like a cross between The Clockwork Orange & Larry Grayson.

  • @greaserleo oh!

  • Were this band really snobs?

  • @phil1958uk love it!  you hate it? :(

  • @MrRyan2582 No! 

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  • In '66-67 ish, looking back to the '20's was cool for a couple of months in pop culture.... You see some of it on The Laugh-In T.V. show...

  • the beginning sounds like being for the benefit of mr. kite....... hmmmmmm beatles stole it???

  • I played this backwards and all it kept saying was "kill whitey" over and over again.

  • @markx64 HA HA HA HA!!! - NICE!!!

  • LMAO

    GOLD

  • @markx64 LOL!

  • I read once that The Bonzo Dog band were offered to perform as The New Vaudiville Band

  • To noleman46 and other i bet you that Corny song drove Charles Manson into insanity, if play too much I'll bet you It will make him jump off the building instead going on a mass murding spree. Or that song would have made the Beatles and other Hippes get stonged too much on LSD. I finally bet you inspired Woodstock

  • What a great parody of the corny 1920's music.

    Some of you need to lighten up - this was never intended to be serious music. The guys got their 15 minutes of fame, then disappeared.

    Hey, unlike CRAP er. RAP, at least you can understand the words.

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  • @noleman46

    Didn't stop these clowns from winning a Grammy

    And "CRAP"? That's the best you could do? I think I got cut by your razor wit

  • Who's the lady giving the intro?

  • Ethel Merman

  • I am sorry that is not Ethel Merman it is Kate Smith the last of the red hot moma's

  • A billion years of human evolution for this?

  • I cannot get over that that is Kate Smith (God Bless America) who introduces them!

  • Well Mark it may well be shit at it's finest but it's good British shit etc. etc.. It's a young Bob Kerr on trumpet and 2nd song vocal 2 years before forming Bob Kerr's Whoopee Band

  • Shit at its finest!!

  • in your opinion