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  • Sometimes a cover is better than the original. This is such a rare occasion. Vince Taylor was the true King of Rock and Roll!

  • I remember this in my early teens it was on a scopeitone in a local cafe but the video was in color.

  • Jesus!?

  • piuttosto calma

  • I really like this track. I never know about this band. Maybe in contrast to this band, it´s very interesting to check up all those great unknown bands from the 60s that didn´t "reach the highest level". Listen (youtube) to:

    THE ZETTLERS and their versions of "Skinnie Minnie" and "Beautiful Delilah".

    (What a bloody f.....g driving beat.)

    THE GANTS in "Greener Days".

    (High class, kind of Mersey Sound, from The Deep South - USA)

    THE GOLLIWOGS in "Tell me".

    (Check up the singer - Yes, it´s him!!!)

  • The original was recorded by Johnny Kidd and The Pirates 1960 and was not a hit outside Europe before 1965.

    Kidd was quoted as saying:

    "When I was going round with a bunch of lads and we happened to see a girl who was a real sizzler we used to say that she gave us ‘quivers down the membranes’. It was a standard saying with us referring to any attractive girl…..I can honestly say that it was this more than anything that inspired me to write ‘Shakin’ All Over’.".

  • charles aznavour

  • I like the set it was filmed on, and the way it was filmed. The music is great also. The singer, and musicians, add to it. Good video.

  • Wow, Elvis ripped off this guy's act something rotten...

  • @kaioxygen -- Considering Elvis came before this guy, I somehow doubt it lol.

  • @endorphinz And they say Americans don't understand irony... You sir are a complete cretin.

  • Fabulous, primitive, dangerous, stylish: all of the crucial ingredients for this pure ingot of early British Rock and Roll. Exquisite !

  • I thought this was Alvin ficking Stardust, at first !

  • Oops, this was originally performed by Johnny Kidd and the Pirates in '60 not '65- that's when Guess Who did it (best)

  • The Gues Who - version is better

    this guy sings annoying.. -_-

  • @fretoo98 At that point, the band was called simply "Guess Who' and Chad Allan was the lead singer who sang this song. Chad left the band and The Guess Who was formed with Burton Cummings as the new lead singer. This song was actually originally sung by Johnny Kidd and the Pirates in '65 :)

  • @seonfox well thank you for the information

    never knew that

  • @seonfox

    Johhny Kidd's original Shakin All Over was in 1960.

    It was not a hit in Australia. Johnny Chester had a version here in 1961, and Normie Rowe's version was No1 in 1965, it was recorded before the Guess Who's which was also a hit.

    Both Chester's and Rowe's and IMHO are the best versions because of the similar guitars, both are on youtube

  • 2:03 Jim Carrey

  • @vladimirobamaosama lol, then turns into a young kurt russel with very dark, skinny hair after that :D

  • 2:00 you realize how much of a bad ass this guy is

  • Not the star he thought he was...

  • I want to live in 60

  • Elvis dressing  black?

  • Classic! Timeless! Heck, I'll say it -- ORGASMIC!!!!!

  • so cool

  • I love this song.. & also, That is an epic set that they are on, is it an optical illusion or what

  • he sounds like Scooby Dooo "WHHHHHHHEN u movin" **ahhhh whoooooooo***"

  • someone's a fan of gene vinceny, but i dont blame him

  • I like the Guess Who version better but this is awesome. I love rockabilly, especially "Be Bop a Lula" by Gene Vincent and I like the Johnnie Burnette Trio

    

  • skeida

  • VINCE  DE GROOTSTE ARTIST EVER.STEF

  • Vince Taylor is the real thing

  • @cristytovar Que bolas que veo un video y estoy viendo los comentarios y hay uno tuyo

  • This song is saving my life! I just listened to it about ten times in a row. I had a thought about Guillaume Thomas de Fontenoy. Bowie "makes sense in my head" (and also a fake lou reed he first met)

  • Looks like Steve McGarrett from the original Hawaii Five-0

  • @flaxonx3 he looks like Morrissey to me

  • >.< Never heard of these guys LOL....Not too bad actually. =)

  • I love it when he clocks the drummer.

  • horrible vocalist

  • SOMEBODY... is going to fall off that set... and get hurt.

  • super vince<<

  • In 1961-62 I put a lot of one franc coins in the scopitones in cafés & fairs in France to watch Vince Taylor and the Playboys. The scopitones were the avant-guard video equipment of the 60s. This clip (16 mm film as all scopitone films) was in colour actually. Vince was the greatest R'nR showman on stage. His moves and wild ways on stage were terrific. He had R'n'R in Him. The drummer was as famous as Vince; his name was Bobbie Clarke (real name Woodman).

  • Scary set. I would feel like I was going to fall off backwards.

  • The band seems very tame in this clip - they are miming in a tv studio after all. The drummer played a double bass drum kit - years before Ginger Baker or Keith Moon took the credit - and I bet the guitarists were a lot less restrained out of a studio....

    I just wonder what this band would have been like at 2am in a smoky club in Hamburg?

    Shit hot, I reckon ;-)

  • ToP TuNe

  • @gpz108 Yeah, badass miming!

  • "once a greaser..always a greaser".. the Playboys rocked and "rolled" on into the sixties.. still carrying the torch.. long live white trash and hillbilly hellcats.. black leather bomber jackets and rockabilly 45's on the juke box.. Vitalis and gasoline.. Lucky Strikes and Southern Comfort.. red lip stick, tight sweaters, saddle shoes and bobby socks.. the miracle mile.. nothing more American.. happy VD

  • dayum big booty poppin' at 1:17

  • Dang it! I never knew about this guy until 3 minutes ago. I could having been groovin to his music and moves for the last 50 years.

  • GOOD....BUT AN ELVIS WANNABEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • This guy was fucking cool. Love the way he moves. Very unique. I don't know of any singer from back then besides Jackie Wilson, who could move like this. Why didn't someone bring him over here (USA) in the late fifties? He mighta been big.

  • @rb62470 "very unique"??? Maybe you never saw the moves of a guy named Elvis Presley? Yeah he was a pretty famous singer/entertainer, you should check him out, I'm sure there must be a few vids of him here on YT. ;o)

  • @chh5555 Taylor's moves blow Presely out of the water. I'm a big Elvis fan, but his moves are not nearly as precise as Taylor's. Most of Elvis' moves were haphazard and sloppy compared to Taylor. Look how Taylor snaps his upper body in time to the guitar twangs. Elvis never did that. Look at Taylor sliding his feet, especially when coming down the ramp. Elvis never slid his feet like that. The gestures and moves in this vid do not resemble Elvis at all, with the exception of the move at 00:58.

  • @rb62470 Agree-a fantastic performance.

  • Bonjour, Vince Taylor est toujours présent chez moi car mon père étais son photographe et aussi son meilleure ami !! il a même des photos inedites jamais encore développé

  • Jim Carrey is a Vince taylor look-a-like; Billy Zoom from "X" clearly looks like the blond guitarist; and I am not sure if the Who's version on "Live at Leeds" is better than the original!! This rocks

  • Funny how they make that guitar sound like a piano...

  • Vince is cool you can tell he was  influenced by Gene Vincent From The States

  • Super cool video. Love when he punches the drummer.

  • wow....I last saw this in 192 or 63. We were on holiday in Paignton Devon. At the caravan/camp site they had a video juke box....never seen before or after. I always played this...

  • I thought it was Morrisey 

  • superbe, le dernier d es bons Francis19431

  • 1:30 - Man, he's gonna slide down that thing and fall and break his neck bone. And don't come cryin to me.

  • Cool!

  • this is a silly Q but is this before or after elvis?

  • @steviezxr same time

    this is a JOHNNY KIDD song early 1960. Presley mid-fifties was driving a truck going to see jungle movies sneaking thru the back door. I guess young Elvis preceeded this. when did he go to the army boot camp? cos after that episode he was finished. Sadly Frederick Heath aka Johny Kidd died in a car crash. the PIRATES his band reformed in 1977.

  • @PoireauMan68 so did he really take acid and stuff and is he still alive? and I'm not being sarcastic

  • @CHANGEMYPLEATOGUILTY allegedly TAYLOR took a lot of acid...that seems to be true...whether Taylor is still alive NO I don't think he is but I wish. Elvis? Alive? That's a bad joke in'it? I think he did die, with his pants on...in the kitchen...at Graceland...on the other hand Michael Jackson may have been murdered

  • @PoireauMan68 haha, yeah he's dead unfortunately, I forgot about wikipedia, well I think the death of michael jackson was very suspicious, anyway, WEELLL THATS WHEN I GET THE SHAKES ALL OWWVER MEEEE

  • @steviezxr After-but who cares it's still fantastic.

  • Very interesting that Radio 4 programme about Vince Taylor being the building block for Ziggy Stardust. His difficult behaviour fuelled by alcohol and drugs, and a big frustration that he never made it big. Ultimately, not known for his rise to stardom but his fall.

    When Bowie met him he was well-past his sell-by date and was on another planet, completely bonkers. But luckily a few great performances like these clips on YouTube still remain, and perhaps he deserved more success.

  • The 30 minutes documentary on Vince (from Isleworth) including the Ziggy references is up on the BBC Homepage. It was broadcast on Radio 4. Its up for 7 days on BBC Radio IPlayer.

  • @minutegongcoughs Just listened to it. As a Bowie freak, it made for fascinating listening. Going to do some more research on Vince.

    I am the only person who did not know that the Clash covered his most successful song "Brand New Cadillac"...duh!!

  • @ziggsstar And that was produced by the frenetic Guy Stevens who probably uncovered those esoteric tracks in the early to mid sixties before anyone else. He was a bright light.

  • @ziggsstar The MILKSHAKES covered Brand New Cadillac

  • OMG...Alvin Stardust you should be ashamed of yourself mate....!

  • Vince Taylor sho' was a cool cat!

  • shakin all over meant something different in those days..

  • The song is excellent..I love Vince's voice, built in "tremolo"...now that stage looks pretty shaky,,and it's all "wireless"...Mmm :)

  • Bowie talked about this guy a lot in articles & interviews.

  • killer performance great guitar solo!!!!

  • He is one cool cat!

  • no way, it may be old,but no one could copy ELVIS and this dude has no chance of that..every one sang this song, but this is a joke...lmao..

  • @TimGombos1

    You obviously know nothing about rockabilly then. Elvis had a few years as a Rocker, but soon drifted into unadulterated crap (pop) I have been Rocking since 1976 and have travelled all round the world to Rockin gigs, and believe me nobody on the Rockin scene is interested in Elvis because he was a pop singer (Rock n Roll) whilst Taylor is being played daily in all the Rockin clubs around the world, and that is because he ate, breathed and died the rockin life style

  • Oh my this song is great!

  • so he's lip syncing? there's no guitar chords? "all overuuuuuur" he has a speech impediment too? 

  • Do you think vince inspired Alvin Stardust and billy idol.......this is my fave alltime rocker, by Johnny Kidd.

  • Quivers down my backbone

    I got the shakes in the knee bone

    Quivers in a backbone

    Like a shake in a hollow bone

  • Something about the audio quality is killing my ears in headphones here. Too bad too, because I wanted to hear their version.

  • This is when Rock and Roll use to be Rock and Roll, not fucking lounge atcs like Fleetwood Mac or the Eagles who the Rock and Roll hall of fame thinks are more Rock and Roll than actual RnR bands. I mean for example; Even though Madonna and the Stray Cats started their careers at exactly the same time, she is in the RnR hall of fame and they aren`t. A bitch that plays watered down lip synching karaoke disco is more RnR than the Stray Cats LOL!

  • British Fonzie!

  • but,but what  about Johnny Kidd & the Pirates ? surely version 150 % better than this ..

  • As a drummer, I watch this in fear for the drummer  - one little move and hes ass over backwards to the floor ! ! Very easy to do while kickin' that bass drum !! Maybe the welded the frame of the seat down or somethin'....

  • hahaha he sounds like screech singing 50's music

  • i kept thinkin poor Vince was gonna fall down that slide. nice version of the surf classic.

  • @ivycompton NO SURF sorry...just enough echo but NOT SURF...

  • Love it. LOVE it. What a great howl he's got.

  • GUA-PI-SSI-MO!!!!OLE TU SALERO!!

  • カッコいいね。

  • @Mr350goose what's that squiggly?

  • sounds like an exaggerating pub singer

  • this Vince taylor and the Playboys.

    seen on TV 1960.

    the bass player is Brian Licrice Locking.

    he also played bass with marty wide's

    wildcats

  • The best cover of the classic from Johnny Kidd.

  • too kewl for words!!

  • Uh I hate this version....I LOVE the Guess Who version though

  • this is a great song. his voice is somewhat irritating though. I still like it.

  • Cette video date de quand ??

  • 1960!

  • ok merci !

  • Cette vidéo date de novembre 1961 !

  • merci

  • J'ai eu la chance de le cotoyer une soirée,

    c'était un vrai MONSIEUR.

  • Elvis was a MAMMA'S BOY!!!!!

  • I agree Elvis is an enertainer no argument about that,i dont have to be from the 50s to know that, my point is that all of you guys that are calling Vince a Gene Vincent rip off should know that Elvis would sing like a black artist and dance like one, look it up. Now if Elvis can copy styles why cant Taylor

  • Considering that Vince was a Gene Vincent clone, if anything it was Vincent doing the influencing...

  • Maybe Elvis was the king, but Vince was THE KILLER KING

  • Elivis is no king he's jus a rip off of every black artist before his time so if Vince Taylor dress like Gene let him have it

  • Clueless

  • @olskool1877 Elvis was the a Great Entertainer,look up his history before making a comment.I was around in the 1950's-were you?

  • Just a Gene Vincent rip off

  • @deadlyhippy Exactly!!! i met Vince Taylor back in the early 60's,not a nice guy.

    Gene was Great!

  • wow i first hand account backing up my point. thats pretty incredible. thanks

  • BULLET BOY

  • Quivers down m' backbone! Classic. 5* & Fav

  • great song.

  • un des meilleurs rocker avec du rock "pur et dure" comme on aime...

    magistralement encadré par ses plays boys

    Merci pour tous ces souvenirs...

  • Just like Vince Taylor=excellent Golden Earring song

  • I have´em SIDE by SIDE.......................

  • As usual, Van Morrison comes up with obsure lyrics...in his song "Going Down to Geneva" he says Vince Taylor used to live here, but nobody's ever heard of him.

  • I'd never seen or heard Vince Taylor till I first encountered old Scopitones in the 1990s. His whole act looks like an exaggerated 1970s version of a '50s rock singer, when the '50s revival happened - all the mannerisms carried to an extreme, partly as a satire. Except, of course, in his case it was new when he was doing it. Or maybe "over"doing it, with the leather outfit, the pompadour hairstyle, the sideburns, the body moves, the breaks in his voice; all the elements of Elvis, but more so.

  • more like the catman, GENE  VINCENT, than old swivel hips

  • And elvis learnt and copied his trade from Johnny Burnett and the Rock n Roll Trio. Elvis was not the first, he jumped onto the bandwagon, and he happened to be the one who went massive with the style.

  • @motorvating At least Elvis was great! not like this clown

  • il est mort de quoi?

  • He died of cancer.

    Il est morte du cancer.

  • cancer des os, le plus douloureux;

  • Succès inoubliable de Vince Taylor ; il avait un sacré potentiel .

    Dommage que sa carrière a été courte.

  • supremo amiga, supremo

  • Shit he isnt alive!

    I love that man!!

    RIP

  • Captivating video!!!!

  • J'ai eu le bonheur de voir plusieurs fois Vince TAYLOR sur scène dans le début des années 60. Une pure merveille, mais il à vite pété les plombs...Dommage....

  • Is that real PVC he is wearing ?

  • hahah

  • Just like Gene Vincent! But without the good music.

  • Heres a brilliant early British rocker, Vince Taylor who took too much acid and went bonkers, he was the inspiration for Ziggy Stardust

  • Don´t think so...I read somewhere it was an artist called "The Legendary Stardust Cowboy"...but I don´t remember his real name...

  • @pignatan .. really my god,,,lol

  • @pignatan he didnt go bonkers , he went to Switzerland

  • david fricke is right - he rocks. Has quentin tarintino used his stuff yet???

  • This is a very beautiful song and video.*****

    Have a very nice day!

    Esta es una muy bonita cancion y video.

    Saludos, Millones de Bendiciones y que HOY SEA UN MARAVILLOSO DIA PARA TODOS!!!

  • mieux que l'original, R.I.P. vince

  • On some of those notes he sounds like Weird Al who'll probably do a version of it now, everyone else has.

  • definitely my favourite rendition of Shakin' All Over

  • Vince was a cool operator. And underated. Nice version of the "Rock "N" Roll" classic.

  • I prefer the Guess Who version. But this is good too.

  • Fantastic, this is how it use to be, before videos and all this hi-tec studio stuff they can do now, just basic rock 'n' roll and that raw sound, great stuff.

  • Before videos? Hey dude, this IS a video. And a pretty cool one at that. The public started watching music videos in 1929.

  • Great, never heard this version before

  • Is it just me or this song also gives you all the "quivers down the back bone"? I get massive goosebumps with this.

  • lmao looks like his leather pants make it hard for him to move at first,LOL.

  • has anyone heard a cover of this song in which a woman is singing it!?!!? if so, please tell me!!

  • Um....Donna Loren.

  • Cachumon92, You can checkout Suzi Quatro covering this rock 'n' roll classic on youtube. Listen-- and weep.

  • une de mes preferé, un classique y a pas photo lol

  • LOL funny to see people arguing on youtube about other people dead since about 30 years...come on grow up and just enjoy good old ROCK'N'ROLL!!!

  • haha the same conversations happenend back then ,at least its alive in some way

  • rock'n'roll ain't noise pollution rock and roll will never die!!!!!! remember

  • Alvin Stardust in drag.

  • Why would someone's feelings be hurt by the fact that you're clueless?

  • sorry i didnt mean to hurt your feelings but i dont really care about elvis soo ...whatever

  • elvis didnt really brought nothing new to the the table.he build his style by copying others like eddie cochran and vince taylor, and so on.....but he had really really magnificent voice and a gigantic charisma.the rest is history........

  • Sorry but ELVIS' recording of "That's Alright Mama" was being played on the radio in 1954. Vince and Eddie were great in their own right but didnt hit the scene until 1956/57. Give credit where credit is due. The only style he MAY have copied was blues and gospel from black artists. This was during a time when black artists werent getting air play. Elvis introduced the world to a whole new kind of music and sang from his heart!

  • Valinmal is right on. Elvis came before everyone. Eddie Cochran was doing country music with Hank Cochran (no relation) when Elvis started everything.  Elvis turned Eddie onto to rockabilly.

  • Elvis also turned Buddy Holly onto Rockabilly

  • Absolutely brother!

  • Elvis was the real singer , Vince was the real wild guy...

  • Gene Vincent and Vince Taylor were the first leather rebels...Elvis copyed them in 68s TV Special