The Standells on The Mike Douglas Show (5/27/66) LIVE!!!

[myshilohranch]

Classical ... on soooo many levels ... thanks for posting this!

[BlueDevilBlues]

2 people are frustrated women who have to be in by 12 o'clock.

[zuneslave]

A big step up from the Munsters performance.

[RoboSlater]

The Standells are not from Massachusetts. Ed Cobb wrote the song after a visit to Boston, during which he was robbed on a bridge over the Charles River. None of the Standells had been to Boston before the song was released. In 1997, "Dirty Water" was decreed the "official victory anthem" of the Red Sox, and is played after every home victory. In 2007 the original group members were deemed honorary citizens of Massachusetts by official decree by the Massachusetts State legislature.

[RoboSlater]

Mike Douglas was born in Chicago and died at age 81 in Palm Beach Gardens, Florida.

Diahann Carroll (born Carol Diahann Johnson) is 77, was married to Vic Damone from 1987 to 1996, grew up in Harlem, went to high school with Billy Dee Williams, was actually engaged to David Frost for a time, and is a breast cancer survivor.

Dickie Dodd had been the original drummer for The Bel-Airs, known for the hit surf rock song "Mr. Moto", before joining The Standells. He left in 1968 to try it solo.

[harvey1954]

Moulty was the drummer and singer for the Barbarians. Moulty!!

[vitoduval]

The Red Sox sucked then

[monkeeman1966]

A real good live TV version. I like it!

[jerseytarzan2]

Dihann Carroll was beautiful then, she was beautiful 20 years later when she just happened to walk by me in NYC and she is still beautiful on White Collar.

[maggievol]

One of only 2 bands that I know of that the drummer was the lead singer. The other was Rare Earth.

[thelazycomic]

Always amazed me that Mike Douglas was able to get really cool acts on the show... but he was like a fish out of water when he was around them. Douglas was not the coolest when interacting with them. Makes you wonder who was REALLY booking these cool acts of the day.

[ummerrahh]

Props to Mike for the bands he booked.

[doctord43]

Feeling Homesick!

[yourtubesteak]

Way cool. Love that Vox Continental.

[gerardusch]

Dick's vocals are pretty tame here ,..

[gropingwithastoker]

Took me a bit to realise the drummer was the one singing lead. Live.

This video does help show why bands like this lipsynched to the superior studio productions rather than go fully live. But little did anyone realise at the time that this song would be an anthem for so many Boston sports championships nearly half a century later. Those opening chords are the first thing played at Fenway Park and Boston Garden the moment the home team wins.

[problem49]

@gropingwithastoker Boston fans should be grateful for such a great, instantly identifiable song.I love the Standells!

[wuss81]

@gropingwithastoker Which is a fuckin joke. fenway has turned into a circus of Neil Diamond, The Wave...and NOISE...NOISE....NOISE !!! Real sox fans do not recognize any of this shit. It's fun like........once. Not 81 times a year.

[Longetty]

Amber Tamblyn's uncle on keys.

[DrummerGrrrl]

The drummer needed a new ride cymbal. Looks like something chewed the edge.

[DaDa2Phlux]

@DrummerGrrrl Probably used equipment to begin with or the use of 7a's

[garagecaverna]

un gran documento,que grandes the Standells,gracias.

[DonJulioBlanco2002]

So nice to hear this live in '66 instead of the usual lip-sync.

[TheParamountPrincess]

excellent! thank you for sharing! :))

[bigtimten]

Batman decal. classic

[citroen66]

Awesome clip. Thanks for posting!

[fromthesidelines]

At that time, Mike was seen in New York on WOR-TV (Channel 9) on late weekday afternoons, either 4 or 4:30pm...

[revup67]

that's got to be one of the best snare drum sounds..what a "pop"! - way to go Dick Dodd

[casper1918]

I liked this song when it came out, but this is a very uninspired performance.

[canebluff]

@casper1918 hahaha, yep. TV was far more staid back then.

[66rules]

Thanks for uploading this Spike.

This clip was not even known to exist until recently.

Go to my channel and see the Every Mother's Son clip from The Douglas show.

[myblueroad]

Wow! Mike Douglas, this song, really takes me back :) Thanks atreb56 xo

[wyomingmali]

Did they mimic the Rolling Stones much? Pretty awful.

[merseymain]

@ModGirl1967, hi, i'm Andy from Liverpool, England. I was wondering, did you ever get to see this band back in the day?

[nealharpole1]

this is live and the drummer is singing lead! someone should have bought him and new ride cymbal!!! it has a huge chunk broken out of it, cant believe he went on the t.v. with that!!!!!!!!

[TheWhatsinaname]

@nealharpole1 Not that there should be an excuse for going on live with a broken cymbal. But The Standells were probably on tour at the time this was recorded, promoting themselves during the year (1966) that both this tune and their "Sometimes Good Guys Don't Wear White" were popular) and probably had come in the studio probably not realizing that the cymbal broke the previous evenings.

[TheWhatsinaname]

@TheWhatsinaname Dick Dodd is just amazing to me that he both played the percussions and sang lead vocals.

[Chizoom]

@TheWhatsinaname I can tell you that this was right about when "Dirty Water" was still on the top of the charts, during the Standells very first tour. And yes, Dick's cymbal had just boken only a few nights before. Dick was a terrific talent .

[spacepatrolman]

@Chizoom they were on the clay cole show but they didnt play live [clay cole was a straight pop singer like mike douglas that scrapped his show because he didnt like heavy rock music which was becomeing prevalant, a recording engineer at nbc quit hullabaloo and went to japan and worked on the olympics for the same reason ]

[ClassicShowbiz]

Geez, Mike Dance! Why ya gotta be SO SQUARE!!?!

[mewrth]

This is precious! A LIVE Standells footage! Many thanks indeed!

[ModGirl1967]

Damn it, I was undoubtedly at school (in the 6th grade) when this first broadcast. Thanks for posting!

Awesome sound and picture quality! Love the Batman troll doll standing at the bass drum.

Diahann Carroll: "Very intriguing title -- 'Dir-ty Wa-ter."

Priceless!

Coulda done without that dorky dancing. Then AND now.

[feb091964]

@ModGirl1967 .............how else would you have danced in 1966??......that WAS the style back then!

[ModGirl1967]

@feb091964 I was referring to the way the "old" people were dancing. We "youngsters" knew how to get it done! :)

[feb091964]

@ModGirl1967  Oh , sorry that makes sense!

[ModGirl1967]

@feb091964 ;) And when we were kids we looked at ANYONE past 25 as being "old"...jeeeeez....

[TheWhatsinaname]

@ModGirl1967 Gosh, I missed this when I was 2 and half years old. I should have woken up to this, instead of probably "Romper Room". -:)

[ModGirl1967]

@TheWhatsinaname Was that a shot, or... :p

[thetinalyons]

I always loved the Mike Douglas daisy graphic. Mike had a lot of great guests - I'd love to know how many Nuggets artists did his show...:)

[mewrth]

@thetinalyons The Electric Prunes also were on the show. But then there was some extra 'dorkiness' to that show as Modgirl1967 mentioned above when they appeared, plus, it was lipsynched, although in color. Hope it answers your question. peace

[spacepatrolman]

@mewrth When tony bennett was on the mike douglas show he had his sons rock group quacky duck on mike did the same shtick introduceing them pretending like he didnt know they were tony bennetts sons .

[donnalethal]

YEAH!!