POP GEAR (1965) - [5of8]

[HEARTHEANGELSVOICES]

NICE T. & A. AT THE END TO FINISH THINGS OFF.

[erwinruys]

I'll bet the singer of the Nashville teens got a lot of girls when he said he was Roger Daltrey!

[noahf67]

What's a riot is that quite predictably, that whole Billie Davis style is seeing a huge revival motif in the U.K. amongst the young sirens.

[zingbing01]

Woooooh! Check out dem Trixon conical drums in the Spencer Davis clip! Almost as hot as the babe in the burnt orange sweater.

[domnal]

@Gyphia Young women in the 60s used to look like ladies compared to young women the same age today !!

[beatleboy123]

Lovin' the song at 2:36

[leach1527]

You are putting words into my mouth - I didn't say all early 60s recordings by British bands were covers of black American artists, but that a lot were. Fact.

Yes, increasingly as time went by the Beatles, and indeed other artists , were writing their own material. I have a copy of The Beatles at the BBC ( live radio recordings between 1963-1965) and of the 60 + tracks only about 12 are Lennon and McCartney numbers. Lots of Chuck Berry, some Little Richard and a whole range of other stuff.

[carlos1424]

@Gyphia you are absolutely 100000000% right! today's female artist that are example of dressing in such way are J lo (she has a horrible voice) Beyonce (at least better than J Lo) and Shakira

[leach1527]

Seeing some of these groups (as we called them) reminds me that when I first got into the "beat" scene in the early 60s I was totally oblivious to the fact that lots of the songs those band were then performing and recording, including the Beatles, were covers rather than originals.

Looking back I now know that a considerable part of the repertoire of those bands were covers of black American R&B singers who perhaps never got the credit they deserved - at least not on this side of the Atlantic.

[carlos1424]

@leach1527 I disagree to a good extent: not all were covers of black american artist and besides Bob Dylan had influence on the beatles! are you trying to say they were not originals???? please! i am sure many disagree also

[carlos1424]

@leach1527 Are you kidding? many of their songs were their own and they were not trying to cover black american music! the bealtes albums A hard day's night was all their material and black amerian rythm and blues was not their sole infleunce!Bob Dylan was a good example

[coordayaa]

nyrainbow2 2 good :) 

[aipomlover123]

Nope, this is not some kind of retro thing--this is the real thing from 1964: great peformances from Billie Davis, the Spencer Davis Group and The Nashville Teens from the film Pop Gear, highlighting English hitmakers from that year. I also love the stage sets!

[CrankCase08]

At 4:40 Winwood indulges in a spot of ventriliquism.

[PottyEsq]

Classic! Billie Davis is cool!

[baldbollocks]

that's how whores dressed in the 60's you twit !

[rcpinsa]

these vids are fantastic quality thanks for posting

[owleyed]

Am I the only one who sees the resemblence between the singer at 6:40 and the lead singer of the Who?

[PottyEsq]

@owleyed

Yep,he does look a bit like Roger Daltrey

[MrMotownmanny]

Which one is Steve Winwood?

[erwinruys]

@MrMotownmanny The young lead singer

[ilocarapid]

Nashville Teens - more thuggy looking than Mick n' Co.

[Bellyflops2]

Gosh JimmySavile is 83 now

[ironbuttermilk]

1)She was cute, but that long green dress was fugly. . . .but not nearly as fugly as that set.

2)Oh man, them Harmony guitars sound cool!

3) Sounds like they're hitting a piece of metal on the downbeat.

4) Ivy Rorchach used to have a pair of those gold pants.

[mikeybeatles]

the drummer of nashville teens was barry jenkins, who was a founder member of the group, who went on to play with eric burdon and the animals

[stu57stu]

fabtastic

[CrankCase08]

Nashville Teens - talk about overmanning and under utilization.

A gay year indeed!

[Snicki1946]

Steve is 61 now and this was 44 years ago so he was 17 in this. What an incredible talent then and now.

I loved the SDG and Nashville Teens so I guess I was moving away from pop to the grittier stuff even then.

[adamlinks]

Huge by the way...

[adamlinks]

Thanks :)

[theusualvibe]

yeah, duffy sounds a lot like this chick... love the heavy rhythm section here. very cool bass sound.

[steve371970]

3:21 Steve Winwood, legend!!

[hofnericon]

Where Duffy got her sound?

[moxie96]

30041991123

I can't remember their name but I know the year had been speculated as 1953. Are you meaning in America or in the UK? I 'd say america because it's where R'N'R was created while Skiffle is purely English. A lot of book s like to say it's Bill Haley and the comets which really is the first successful R'n'R group and who made the first rock album also in 1953. This is all I can say for your question, hope I helped a little!

[whatever30345]

Actually some people push the date of Rock 'n' Roll starting back to the late 1940's (either in '48 or '49) w/ the song "Rocket 88" (I'm forgetting the name of the artist off the top of my head -- it was an American though). Also before Haley & his Comets, both Little Richard & Chuck Berry were releasing Rock 'n' Roll earlier than 1955 back to at least 1952 (albums I'm unsure of though).

[47docrock]

@whatever30345  rocket Turner's spouse abusing husband

[kevinmichaelwilliams]

gold lame pants! why did they ever stop making 'em?

[HueyRocks23]

I guitarist on the left in the Spencer Davis Group would later sing in OLD AID in 1991-92....(i.e. Married...with Children episode)

[30041991123]

who was the first rock band?

can you help me?

[noahf67]

Man, I wish I could've gone & seen this at

the Loews Bay Terrace back in the day!!

[dix05069]

is she single

[Revolver8566]

whas the trakc played at tyhe end with the girls dancing from 7:34 to the end

[Moscvitch]

Yeah, boy! That's the beat music!

[BigBishop1]

thought nashville teens were american hillbillys

[LastTree]

I think they were..from Texas.

[mickhaus]

billie: a sparkling wonder

[hayef]

un grand merciiiii

[pantherpawed]

Send-ups - sorry for the Meldrumism!

[pantherpawed]

I wish we'd had Jimmy Saville on oz TV. I've only ever seen senups of him! Fortunately we had Molly Meldrum!

[xappraiser]

catch a young stevie winwood, spencer davis group!

[leopoldmozart]

Oh, for sure!! Steve Winwood is the towering genius of that band. Very obvious even then.

[enemysprout]

I'd be quite suprised if this track doesn't pop up in a film at some point, or hasn't already.

[HazelHillsborough]

yeah, i can totally see this stuff in a tarantino film in the not too distant future.

[kinkman07091979]

One of my favourite tracks by Billie Davis, great uptempo!