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  • Loved Trini's Gibson Barney Kessel guitar. This tune is Tex-Mex party-on-the-patio music at its best.

  • this is a complete rip off of the Beatles song - she's a woman. LISTEN TO IT! she's a woman was recorded in '64, this was '65.

  • @hl2isbestv2 I never noticed it as a kid. But now that you mention it.. who cares!

  • My great uncle was the drummer!

  • All these Tex-Mex bands like SDQ, ? and the Mysterion and Sam the Sham had that funky organ beat. Thats some really great music.

  • And some lady got paid Union scale to stand motionless in armor for 2:28.

  • It'd be funny to see Augie move like that these days....lol.

  • Augie Myers on the Vox Continental organ. Killer.

  • God bless Doug Sahm.

  • Augie's my hero!

  • you know people have to remember that it was a teen show in the 1960's and that's the way they set it up with the groups playing at the time. i watch

    it and enjoyed it, but the youth of today wouldn't. it's just a different time.

  • love the organ

  • love lo - fi

  • She's a body mover! RIP Doug - Keep the torch lit Shawn ...

  • Augie is ROCKIN' it!!!

  • oh wow. this is just amazing seeing doug sahm so young.

  • But she didn't move. Wassupp with that?

  • The stage set is so lame! Well, pretending to be a British quintet worked to get them famous...but they eventually retuned to their Texas roots...VIVA the Texas Tornados!

  • Great tune from the best of times and the worst of times.

  • It's almost like music to lobotomy-patients.

  • 0:43 ,, what the hell was  that ?!!!!!!

  • @william3231954 Sounds like a gunshot, doesn't it ??

  • @william3231954 Probably some idiot stagehand droppin a heavy flat piece of a set.....

  • I love the old Hullaboo and Shindig shows with the models standing like statues around the musicians,,  lol

  • Introduced by Trini Lopez.

  • Check out a Doug Sahm disc called the Last Real Texas Blues Band- great old rhythm and blues by some monster players.

  • For the longest time I thought this was Ray Charles. LOL

    Very cool tune, either way.

  • @gf19711 Well YEAH, because he used " What'd I SAY " ? A Ray Charles tune lyric. lmao.

  • Hard to believe he fronted the Texas Tornadoes

  • Woohoo! These guys are great.  I loved the Red Bull keyboard solo.

  • What a song....

  • I wish I saw more bands steppin' these days.

  • mop top failure

  • Great song. I don't understand the title tho. Can anyone explain?

  • one of my favorites..

  • Guy doing the intro looks like Trini Lopez. Not sure.

  • Why is that lady just standing there? Union?

  • @ponyboy1129 HA HA , That's pretty funny. No , they always had models on this show , basically doing nothing , while the bands played. They had women's (Living) heads sticking out of trophy plaques when The Animals did "We Gotta Get Out of This Place" , and moving in time to the music. I'm not the most enlightened male , but I even thought that looked incredibly sexist .

  • @pfordsq what show was this??

  • @m1kewithaone kingvidiot is right , this is Hullaballoo with Trini Lopez hosting....AND , The Texas Tornados are back (W/ Augie , Flaco , Shawn Sahm , Doug's son and sometimes Sir Douglas Quintet member , and Speedy Sparks , Ernie Durawa and Louie Ortega from the original lineup , plus a tuff younger singer whose name I forget.) , and throw any doubts you might have out the window. They ROCK ! SUNDAZED HAS A NEW SET OUT , OF ALL THE ORIGINAL SMASH / MERCURY SDQ and Doug Sahm sides

  • @pfordsq i didn't have any doubts about this song being a kick-ass rock and roll song, but i did like you said, and opened the window, (just in case) now, you may have doubts that because in 1966, i was only 10, that i would have trouble handling this song, maybe you're thinking it would be too much for me to handle at such a tender age, but don't bet on it, because you would be wrong, dead wrong, because i was weened on rock and roll ! and i knew how to play the radio! hullaballoo huh? thanx!

  • @m1kewithaone Allow me to explain , what I meant by "Doubts" was that some people are going to have doubts about The Texas Tornados w/o their two key singers/frontmen . But those doubts will be erased , as the band is on fire ! If I were 10 when "Mover" came out (In '65 , but , if you first heard it in '66 , you're years ahead of me.) , I would've been all over it , too. I first heard "Mendocino" when I was 5 , and I thought it was the most (Still do.) . 

  • That's actually Joe Cocker, before his unfortunate neurological disorder.

  • OK, this video got two dislikes? What the fuck was wrong with them?

  • @10STX

    2 people suffer from paralysis.

  • @phrumpster0

    Hahaha! OK, I'll cut 'em some slack I guess. Cheers.

  • @phrumpster0 I could not have said it better.

  • Because the British invasion had been such

    a hit Doug Sahm thought it would help the band

    if they had a British flair. Never mind that 3 of the

    dudes were Mexican-Americans.

  • Why don' we music like this anymore? I danced to these groups of the 60's. It was awsome dawsome. Rap music nowadyas just does not cut it for me. I try not to make fun of the music my kids listen to. My parents were the same way. Maybe I'm anticuated and think like an old hippy. Enjoy these tunes folks. Long live Rock -n- Roll. Creedence, Beatles, Janice, Byrds, etc....

  • this is a kick ass song makes me feel just right. she was a super fox!!!TEXAS ROCKS!!!!!!!

  • @andy915tinty you don't mess with texas...

  • this is a kick ass song makes me feel just right. she was a super fox!!!

  • this is a kick ass song makes me feel just right

  • I tell you what.... This is purty good.

  • For Ed ...R.I.P. bro

  • Great music as usual... as heard on the EIB Network with Maha Rushie!

  • Augie Myers on the Vox organ, great player, but not a "handsome" man.

  • Young Freddie Fender on maracas.

  • Like the little dance step the guys are doing!Just great song!

  • Cool tune but you need to check out the Liverpool Five's " Too Far Out" on You Tube.....quite similar and recorded earlier.

  • This episode of Hullabaloo aired May 4, 1965.

  • was that host Trini Lopez?

  • @dakarlion1 yep

  • Great stuff

  • i want to learn playing keyboard heheeeee'''''

    fantastic song

  • Very cool, Doug was really into it, I dig the chic being so still a pretty!

  • I miss words...

  • Texas has redeemed itself!

  • Ray Charles must have been impressed by this song and dug it.

    I was amazed when I found out it wasn't Ray himself. Cool song.......

  • See Doug Sahm in the Texas Tornados videos... pretty good playing with Freddy Fender, Flaco Jiminez, etc.

  • This is HILARIOUS!!! Bunch of hillbillies dressed up in pseudo-English garb, Seasme Street props, manequin-esque broad in chainmail NOT MOVING, headbanging keyboard player. Man, I'm going to drop some acid....see ya in a week!

  • well it looks like she wasn't a mover.

  • was that Trini Lopez???? Sahm is ok but the Sir Douglas Quintet suuuuucccckkkeedd  what redeeming musical value came from She's about a mover?

  • lol'd so hard at 1:30. the headbanging keyboarder. hahahaha

  • @JCGelwicks

    Me too..LOL.

  • Doug Sahm was a genius! Loved him in the Texas Tornados too!

  • San Antonio Texas! Recognize vatos!

  • They got Freddy and the dreamers legs !!!

  • Never heard of this group till I saw videos out here - a very good band!

  • Yep these boys were from San Antonio, Texas...that's the inimitable Augie Myers on the Farfisa organ.

  • @ 0:45 sounds like a gun went off..probably in an attempt to get that chick about a movin...lol

  • Wait a tick...is that Julianna Moore on the stage? lol

  • i always thought these guys were from england--he looks very southern for sure--wow--i just listened to trini say --at the end--lol

  • Oh Yeah! I was blasting this in my truck yesterday getting nods from all ages. Even the deaf, numb, & ignorant teenage neighbors came asking, hey what's that? So many of these great Texas cats have left us though!  Thank you kingviviot66. You and every other keeper of the faith.

  • well, that was awesome....for y'all who remember this group, last night i met augie meyer who's playing the Vox organ....which ruled in the mid 60's;.... and doug sahm's son, sean, who's now in the Texas Tornado's....which was the late Freddie Fender's band.....augie's played with a lot of biggiesand his band opened for buffalo springfield, mountain and dwight yoakum, among others...btw, that's trini lopez introducing....

  • She's about a mover? She's about the only one NOT movin'! Cool old song though.

  • Still sounded like Ray Charles!  What would Ray Charles gonna think about that recording by Sir Douglas Quintet??

  • Great vocal

  • This is totally SHE'S A WOMAN from THE GREAT BEATLES...

  • @1982elenita Actually the Beatles "she's a woman" was lifted from THEM, if you listen to their version of "Sugar Bee" from 1964, it's the intro and chords to She's a Woman, this was later verified by Paul, who really didn't recall who it was, but that he had heard the riff somewhere. It was far from a hit, but obviously he heard it!

  • @SEANFIR

    The only problem is that they admit this was an homage to the Beatles "She's A Woman"

  • @Matildamothers I've never heard that, certainly it's possible, but seriously, Paul admitted that She's a woman was lifted from their song Sugar Bee, and chronologically there is no way it could be the other way around! :o) Just look up Sugar Bee.

  • Great

  • Doug Sahm is great ... those guys could really play

  • bit of a tune this is--fooooooooooooking fabulous

  • absolute classic tune...love roy heads version proper fat

  • Dig the Epi that Doug's playing! About the Beatle's influenc - I once heard an interview with Huey Meauxe (manager/producer) who said he spent a weekend in a hotel room with a case of Thunderbird trying to figure out the Beatle's secrect. The formula dawned on him - he applied it, and they had hits. By the way, the great Doug was a child prodigy on steel guitar, and played on the Grand Ole Opry as a child! He's among my top favorites of all time!

  • It sounded like gun fire toward the begining of the clip. Does anyone know what happened?

  • @SweetSue4 It sounded like a spring reverb crash

  • @mewrth Yup. Caught that too LOL !!

  • @mewrth yep. didn't realize the instruments were live too!

  • Are they the Texas Tornadoes?

  • @PedanticbutKind The lead singer (the late, great Doug Sahm, and the keyboardist, Augie Meyer are/were Texas Tornadoes. Along with the late, great Freddy Fender and Flaco Jiminez

  • @rockinredneck57 freddy fender, man that name is familiar....

  • @PedanticbutKind no though Dough became a part of the TT's

  • This is a cool song and Sir Douglas Quintet were on The Hullaballoo Show doing that song.

  • Originally, the lyrics were "she's a body mover"

  • Same here.

    I also thought they were black and not from England.

  • Is that Sandie Shaw dressed up at the front?

  • For years I thought these guys were a Black soul group! Whoaaa! And what's all this with Trini Lopez hosting a rock and roll show? Hip me to that would ya please? Time? Space? Place?

  • it was back before race became the all encompassing issue: they were from San Antonio, and everyone just played together because they liked the music.

  • From Shes about a mover to mendocino Doug sahm and the band from San Antonio have really placed themselves in a high position in The History of Rock and Roll..

  • To chassy10

    Don´t be asshole. If you think that "She's About A Mover" Ripped off from the Beatles "She's A Woman", you are an idiot, in that case the 4 insects (beatles) Ripped off from Ray Chales song "What'd I Say " (from 1959 year)

    The beatles were only 4 snob girls and nothing more.

    You can see "What'd I Say " song in this video:

    watch?v=LTanHDGOIlI

  • Calm the f**k down you mouthy twat. it's only an opinion. Perhaps I should have said "heavily influenced by"...? Also - the Beatles had, and still have, a massive, wide-ranging influence and effect on rock music. Which is rather more than I can say for the Sir Douglas Quintet.

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  • Oh dear.

    Yes, Presley was brilliant & inspirational.

    The Beatles also inspired thousands of bands all around the world and changed the way music was played and listened to. It's fine for you to dislike the Beatles, but If you don't understand this, you're either very blinkered or very stupid.

  • The Beatles ripped off 'What'd I Say'? What exactly does the singer sing in this song? 'WOAH YEH WHAT'D I SAY'...

  • @Teotihuacan112 Beatles, insects? Along with Elvis they inspired a few million kids to buy musical instruments and changed music forever. Most of the successful artists of the last 40 years were inspired by the Beatles. Pretty amazing influence for "insects".

  • What in hell are British teeth? LMAO

  • british teeth are all piled up on each other and unbrushed...

  • Jeez, he has British teeth!

  • great song!

  • Sir Doug was an American treasure and did it all....from sitting on Hank William's lap and performing as a child to recording with the Grateful Dead and Bob Dylan.

  • The dude on KB's is sooo cool! I started H-banging with him.

    THANK YOU so much for posting this

    Seattle Mark

  • Seriously, this is just way too fuckin' cool. I want me one of them bad Sir Lancelot bowl cuts... This is surrealistic joy! "She's about a Mover"? I always thought it was " da beed-a badda-boo-bah.." :-)

  • WHAT SHOW IS THIS AND WHO IS THE MC!?

  • Hullaballoo Trini Lopez

  • @kingvidiot66 ---where's his hammer?

  • @kingvidiot66 when I first heard this song I thought it was Ray Charles singing this version.

  • @youknowwhichone TRINI LOPEZ  HULLABALOO

  • @youknowwhichone sounds like ricky of the lucy  show! lol oh it's trini lopez, i used to have a girlfriend named rocio lopez, wonder if they're related? ok, what song did trini lopez have out??

  • great texas music!!

  • Great song! Lead singer looks like Gene Clark of the Byrds!

  • keyboard guy's sick :D

  • NOW THATS GOOD MUSIC! THANK YOU AMIGO!

  • Great song! Short trousers where very fashionable while waiting for the flood!

  • Great gig; odd staging. A song called "She's About a Mover" but, instead of two or three girls shakin' it, there's a model standing statue still.

  • Trini Lopez on the intro...

  • Check out the version by `Fourply`, this seems totally pedestrian in comparison.

  • They also had the benefit of Augie Meyer on organ. More recently he played on a couple of Bob Dylan's CD's,

  • Doug Sham looks like Woody Harrelson wearing a Sonny Bono wig. Great Mersey Beat sound, and that Joan of Arc model was a real turn on!

  • That has to be the only rock band playing a Johnny smith Jazz guitar. You go Doug. I loved his Texas tornado stuff too. RIP miss him

  • "y'all come back, ya here"was a popular phrase at the time thanks to a prime time TV hit "The Beverly Hillbillies".

  • Notice when Trini mentions Texas, there's no hooting "YEAH!!!" nor applause. Tha'ts back in the day when Calif. ran America's music culture. Now, TEXAS rules it!--no one's clapping "Yeah!" for Calif. music these days!

  • That also might be because of what was going on politically by the time this probably aired. Don't forget that LBJ, from Texas, was President and his popularity was already slipping (although not nearly as bad as it would later) due to the escalating Vietnam War & also many southerns, unfortunately, were appalled that a fellow southern, LBJ, had signed the Civil Rights, Voting Rights act and was perceived at that time as the very socialist, Medicare, into law.

  • Yeah San Fransisco!

  • Hardly the case. Audience were expected to behave themselves back then; ergo, rowdyism was out.

  • That's what Texans thought of when they thought of Rock music, I guess. Not great, but sympathetic.

  • Love that Texas Hippie Music, circa 1966.

    Priceless!

  • @steve7138 LOVE THAT ORGAN SOUND, EVERYONE THOUGHT THEY WERE BRITISH, BUT YES, THEY CAME FROM TEXAS.

  • @steve7138 me too, good stuff

  • Trini rules!!

  • great song, what's up with that mannequin? and the castle backdrop? 60s cheezy at it's finest!

    great job Doug Sahm (and it's "come back to Texas, y'all!)

  • Great song

  • I always thought the Sir Douglas Quintet were black. They sure don't sound like white boys.

  • Just for the record, SHE'S A WOMAN by the Beatles was recorded Oct 1964 and released one month later... SHE'S ABOUT A MOVER didnt enter the top 40 charts until April 1965..both have the same beat....

  • You're correct, When listening to this song, I couldn't help thinking of "She's A Woman" The Beatles.

  • Wonder how many people thought they were British. I can just hear the manager "hey lets give ourselves a British name, dress like British bands, learn some British dance moves, put some castles on the set and never never tell anyone your from Texas!"

  • they are sooooo young!

  • Sorry, I don't hear anything in this that sounds like Ray Charles or the Beattles,just a unique sound and style invented by a group of guys who don't look a day over 18. Priceless!

  • are you serious? this is a straight ahead ripoff of 'she's a woman' by the beatles, they just changed the words & maybe slowed it down just a notch & the singer does sound very much like ray charles.. it's still a great sound from a great band...'every artist is a cannibal ,.. every poet is a thief ',...so why not steal from the best, i.e. beatles , ray charles, etc...

  • Too bad that tv producers were always trying to upstage the bands in these old videos. Get rid of the actor budget and pay the band. Great band, by the way.

  • have to admit can hear some Ray Charles & the Beatles in there - but I don't consider that a rip-off - all musicians, even the greatest Dylan, the Beatles have influences and may 'borrow' chords, melodies from others - it's what the artists add to it and make it different that matters!

  • It's called the Cajun 2-Step. The Beatles were known to draw inspiration from the roots music of the USA, and it is clearly heard on "She's a Woman". Hughey P Meaux, SDQ's producer and a Louisiana native, noticed this about the Beatles as well. Hence "She's About a Mover", a Cajun 2-Step but with a Tex-Mex flavor.

  • Thank you sirdoug3 and jimidom, walker 107 obviously knows nothing about music,as evidenced by her profile. I am not trying to discredit Mr. Sahm, but the very catchy "hey, hey" and the "what I say" lyric were both lifted from "What'd I Say (Part 1). A simple listen to both songs reveal the similarities. If SDQ came out before Charles, I would say that it was Ray who have been the "borrower".

  • @sirdoug3 lol I was going to say he sounds alot like Ray Charles.

  • You'd have to be crazy on drugs to believe that Doug's song is a rip-off of either Ray Charles or the Beatles.

  • mondays!

  • This song kind of sounds like "She's A Woman" by The Beatles

  • I can't believe how much Doug Sahm sounds like Ray Charles.

  • Because the song is a direct rip off of "What'd I Say" (Part 1) written by Brother Ray in 1959.

  • Amp reverb explosion at 0:44!

  • Yeah, heard that.  What the hell?

  • I love that. Nobody flinches though. I'd go WTF!@?

  • This song is a classic! I love the organ sound!

  • heerlijk beregoed

  • man I love this shit..Even though I'm more down w/Louisiana stuff, this Texas sound is great..Man the video is wicked, and Trini Lopez is really precious here.., with a bit of sugar thrown in..