The Royal Guardsmen-Baby Let's Wait

[aqmpoet]

Beautiful - I'd like to hear more from these guys when they weren't flying the Snoopy skies. (And in this age of TSA pre-flight security, it kinda is the "snoopy" skies...lol)

[audiomez]

Note re. vintage mixing techniques. Opinion only but an exquisitely executed mix (for that era). Obviously money was spent here as this recording appears meticulously constructed and finalized using a facility that offered lush chamber reverberation effects.

Here one can also appreciate the value of an excellent vocal microphone in the hands of an engineer that understood dynamics processing and "gain structure"

Thanks. Very nice audio quality in this upload

[slchandl]

Sex leads to poverty. How true that is............

[jmen4ever]

Their best song, even if not their biggest seller.

[dllewiszz]

Tampa Bay?

[TIMOTHYSAARINEN]

My favorite version of this song. Better than The Rascals. I like the sound of the organ much better here.

[boners2nite]

Rascal's version is better, but this ain't bad.

[winifredatwell]

I've never heard this before and just love it. Beautiful yearning in the vocal, very respectful to the original. Not many acts dared a treatment of a song done so well by a band as musically savvy as the Rascals (does anyone remember how they eclipsed John Lennon and the gigantic Plastic Ono Band when they shared the bill on a famous fundraiser?) Thank you for sharing this gem.

[catman5169]

Sort of a "daring" song for the time it came out in the 60's...but still good with a good message that some teens could listen to today.

[sirdave55]

Beautiful song with a message you definitly WILL NOT hear in any song these days! Major kudos to the Guardsmen for this!

[rmichaud42]

Hi All!

The Royal Guardsmen are set to release their first ever LIVE CD in December, "Beaglemania!" There's a sneak peek of "Biplane Evermore," one of the songs they recorded on their website. Check it out!

[ringo244]

Not bad, but my vote goes to the Rascals

[Widowsmight]

I had the lp Snoopy and the Red Baron, and this song was on it. I've always liked this song. It needed more radio play time, that's for sure!

[mkeulr]

@Widowsmight I still have the album packed away with my old LP's. I used to listen to it often. Love this song and all the rest of them on the album. "Bears...everywhere..beware..l­ookout lookout...beware...lookout lookout...bears..they don't care who they scare..you better beware....Peanut..Peanut Butter...I like Sweet meats yeah...you know that I do...Hey there litle Red Riding Hood...you sure are looking good..you're everything..a big bad Wolf would want" and the rest. What great memories.

[john111257]

classic song...their best song...

[MIKECNW]

This song is very meaningfull.

It says, don't rush into things, including marrige.

[hankyhoyo]

I still have my copy of this great song on 45. Great to see it posted! Sounds great as ever!

[countryrockstar2008]

My dad DID have this on the flip side of Snoopy Vs. The Red Barron...I say DID because I stole it from him lol.

[q89djdavek]

Actually the original flip side of this release when it first came out was a great garage tune called "Leaving Me" that I paid a few $100 bucks for. Baby Let's Wait I don't recall being the flip of Snoopy vs The Red Baron. You must have had a classic hits 45 of some sort where Laurie released a hit on each side by the same group.

[DiscoLegendZeke]

@q89djdavek you got it, it believe there was a laurie "Double Gold" 45 with this on the flip.

By the Way... Baby Let's Wait was the first Royal Guardsmen release, but went from obscurity to oblivion. It was re-released after the Snoopy hit, and did quite well.

On stage (teen dances, not bars) they were a mostly Young Rascals cover group. Baby Let's Wait was one of the big crowd pleasers.

[tazbri1]

I Had this song on a 45rpm. It is long gone. Good to hear the song again.

[Albacorewing]

I think this song was very under-rated at the time. it deserved to be more popular than it was.

[aaron112233445566778]

this was before 1967, i have this song on an lp from 1964.

[DiscoLegendZeke]

The royal guardsmen were a live performance Young Rascals Cover group on the 60's Teen-Dance circuit.

"Baby Let's Wait" was their first national release, and went, according to Chris Nunley, "from obscurity to oblivion."

The flip side of the original release was ISTR "Sweetmeat Slide" a cute Donovan sounding song. If anyone has a copy would appreciate a post.

I was co-producer and recording engineer on most of the "Tampa sound" garage band records of the 60's.

[freeburg100]

what happened to snoopy and the red baron?

[072381Mack]

I always listened to the flip side of everything I bought and dicovered this on the flip of Snoopy vs. the Red Baron when I was young with raging hormones!!

[garageband66]

I was a big fan of flip sides myself. Often the flip was better than the so-called hit.

[DiscoLegendZeke]

Laurie released "Baby Let's Wait" as the Guardsmen's first single and it never caught.

Later it was re-released and did quite well.

Much later a single 45 with "Snoopy" on one side and "Baby" on the other on Laurie's "Double Gold" series label.

[jimwalsh2001]

Wow! The guys who cut

"Snoopy vs. the Red Baron" doing this bona fide hunk o' blue-eyed soul! Wha'da thunk it...

[garageband66]

Not me.

[omgitsmikegravel]

@jimwalsh2001 For a band who made their name with a novelty song, the Royal Guardsman were a solid rock and roll band. That album also featured an awesome hard driving cover of Bo Didddly's signature song.

[HeyStoopid91]

What a great song! Believe it or not, Alice Cooper's high school band, The Spiders, covered this song live A LOT and even recorded it at Copperstate Studios when they had some down-time recording their first single. You can find it on some bootlegs. Both versions are just amazing! Thanks for posting this!

[garageband66]

thanks for viewing.

[47Mima]

@garageband66 Did Barry Winslow sing the lead?

[Widowsmight]

@HeyStoopid91 I had the lp Snoopy and the Red Baron, and this song was on it. I've always liked this song. It needed more radio play time, that's for sure!

[JCANELAKES]

I always liked this song. It was great living in, and being in a band, in the 60's. Playing at "Teeny Bop" clubs all over country. It was a safer, happier time!

[SherryAnn68]

Boy, is that the truth... I used to go to all those "teeny bob" clubs and it was so great hearing live bands play all the top hits plus some of their own stuff. It was a great time to be young, wasn't it???

[rmichaud42]

The Royal Guardsmen are coming back for one more tour. The name of the Tour is called the " Over & Out Tour" go to Star Creek Records website and you will get to their brand new website.

God Bless

Star Creek Records

[garageband66]

I hope it all goes well.

[MrJimgordon]

garage66- this video by the royal guardsman & snoopy Vs. the red baron are great videos-have always loved snoopy vs. the red baron-do you have baby let's wait with the group singing it live=please respond

[garageband66]

Have not seen one (live that is) but that does not necessarily mean that it does not exist. You could try asking the band I imagine they have a web-site somewhere.

Thanks for the view.

[dahur]

I sure miss the sixties. There were a lot of bad things going on in the world, but it was a wonderful time to grow up. Such great music.

I do not like 95% of the stuff being put out today, ESPECIALLY the rap crap some call music. (UGH!)

I know there are a lot off young people that like the sixties music too. Wish it would come back.

[garageband66]

Try listening to groups of today like The Grip Weeds, The Red Button, The Shake, and many others like them. The 60's sound is still alive in many great groups today.

[dahur]

I will listen to every one you recommended. Thanks. It's nice to hear some are still making that music.

[hollies65]

'Cruel Girl'...Best song in the last four years...

[dmantine]

great song, i also think it was their best and its ironic that no oldies but goodies stations ever play this. thanks for the song.

[scottystrider]

This is their best song in my opinion. Oh the 60's there will be no better decade of music,cars. Yes, those were the days. Sometimes it just brings a tear to my eye that the world we live in will never be the same again.

[tigerssixty]

The good days with the good music. Love this. Gotta be their best song. Thanks for putting it up.

[garageband66]

Thanks for the view.

[pres2go]

This is a great presentation and one of my favorite songs. For the record (no pun intended), this song was written by Pam Sawyer and Lori Burton, not by the Rascals. Sawer/Burton also wrote the Young Rascals' debut single, "Ain't Gonna Eat Out My Heart Anymore". After This version failed to chart when it was first released, The Young Rascals covered it on their first album.

[garageband66]

Had not heard that. Thanks for the correction.

[w9x7cv3vg6]

lol same here...I lost a girl after 2 months but now...41 yrs later she has to deal with him living in the insane house,so much for that

[auhs70]

I have this original 45...bought it when it was released. I was junior in high school, and had a date with with the girl I had always wanted to be with since grade school. Went steady for two glorius months. I love the guitar solo, what a memory.

[felixiav]

wptr albany ny played it for about a week

[garageband66]

A week? What were they thinking?

[oldies45s]

Can you or anyone send mp3 of that song?

Thank you for sharing!

[garageband66]

That was one of my early videos and I think I have it somewhere (the mp3) send me a personal message with an e-mail address and I'll see if I can track it down.

[68enxy]

This is one of the best songs on youtube! The slide show is excellent and funny. The comments are also right on, especially yours from 4 months ago, Mr. garageband

[garageband66]

Thanks for the nice comments and the view!

[goodguy309]

Poor, poor hotdogs. They were always used and abused. Word around the condiments is that they were glad when bananas were discovered and needed the video work.

The hotdog live on, long live the hotdog!

[garageband66]

They plump when you cook em.

[haltmusic]

Nice song - let's do it and say we didn't!

[garageband66]

I was guilty of some of that back in the day. By the way, I did respect each and everyone of them in the morning, whatever their names were.

[bufb]

I was raised outside of Buffalo NY..it got some airplay there

[IDLERACER]

The date at the beginning of this isn't correct. It was originally released in the fall of 1966 (before all their Snoopy hits) but didn't chart. It was then re-issued a couple of years later, in the fall of 1968 (after all the Snoopy hits) with a different B-side and made it to #35 nationally.

Incidentally, the song isn't about abstinence, it's about postponing marriage until one is financially solvent enough to support a wife and family.

Man, that is some weird phallic imagery at 1:03.

[garageband66]

Thanks for your correction about the national dates of release but as I said in the description of the video this song got a lot of regional airplay in my hometown radion station in 1967 making their hot 100 playlist. I recall many of the DJ's and a few are still in the business at FM stations. There were three AM stations working during this time in Columbia, SC and all of them had this record spinning.

[garageband66]

And also to remind you, I never said the song was about abstinence but with the success of Let's Wait A While just a few years earlier the topics are closely related.

During the 60's pre-marital sex often ended up with pregnancy and young marriages. I had an older sister that was on the pill and that was a rarity in the conservative area I grew up in.

[GEORGEJMALEY]

Back in my day..(back when the Dead Sea was still just sick!!)..the common phrase when an unmarried young girl got pregnant, people would say "she got herself in trouble" and she had to practically live in isolation to keep the bullcrap down. No one mentioned that sweet, upstanding guy that helped her get the job done!! He skated!! Whatever the interpretations are about this song, it seems to be wise to throw caution to the wind.

[shrew06]

At a time when sex ed was not a part of the curriculum, and birth control not readily available, pregnancy was often the result of teen sex. Getting "married because they had to" was not unusual event. I was a teen at the time and that was the connection i made from the song. It just sounds weird now because the song makes more sense told from a female perspective.

[garageband66]

I agree! Where this issue and far too many other issues are concerned women are held to a different and unfair standard.

[LouisGodena]

nice tune. was this before or after the red baron stuff?

[garageband66]

Nope I teach in public schools and you'd be amazed at what middle school boys and girls will try to do.

[SherryAnn68]

Great song by the Royal Guardsmen.  Precious sentiment that isn't valued today, unfortunately.