Youngbloods - Grizzly Bear 1967

Here's the Youngbloods performing the Jerry Corbitt composition "Grizzly Bear" air date 1/14/1967

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Music

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• Corbitt
• Youngbloods
• Grizzly
• Ragtime
• folk
• rock

[Eeklex]

Fun to see video of the original four! (Elsewhere here there's one of the song that preceded this on, "Tears Are Falling.") This was my favorite Youngbloods lineup. Lip-synched, yes, but it looks like they were trying to do it more accurately than a lot of acts did (like Jerry doing the volume pot effect at the end of the break). Poor Jesse has to endure DC's mispronunciation of the middle name. Bet that happened a lot.

[revup67]

@Eeklex - Yep - tears are fallin is the other Youngbloods clip I had posted (incredible tune) - there's also a color one from David Frost

[MerlePsyA]

I thought this song was written in the 1920's -- by Jim (don't recall his last name right now). Physicists say all time exists all at once, that in eternity there is no past, present, future. So maybe this song was written in eternity, by infinite songwriters.

[RaananVolesPianist]

@richig761 They probably were completely drunk or stoned at the time. Doesn't excuse their behavior, of course.

[margarita6022]

Saw them do this at the Philadelphia FolK Festival live around 67 or 68. Great group, love Jesse.Had us dancing in the aisles. As the previous poster said, also love "Tears Are Falling". Wish I still had that albumk!

[jazzage1920s]

Thanks for pointing out the Grizzly Bear authorship DemCubebs. Notice how nervous Corbitt gets when Dick Clark asks him if he wrote the song! On your suggestion I listened to the Jim Jackson version. But I must say that I like the Youngblood's Grizzly Bear arrangement better.

[DemCubebs]

Yet again white guys rip off the old black artists. This song was written by Jim Jackson and originally recorded in 1928 with the title This Morning She Was Gone. Look it up! It's on YouTube. Jerry Corbitt my a**!

[richig761]

@HandShock I know... I know. I think about it every day. I hate myself. My skin color makes me weak. The Youngbloods were right.

[HandShock]

@richig761 Well, think about it ya dumb nigger - becoz you got a white whore, nigger-fucking mother, you think you're better than a full nigger - well that makes you a racist, now don't it.

[richig761]

These guys were all a bunch of racist assholes. I saw them outside a diner back in 68, and the drummer called me a milk chocolate nigger. Because I am a light skinned african-american. They all laughed at me, and I had to run away because I felt scared for my life.

[Wintovisky]

They should have photos of this. It would be cool if I have some photos of this or the video in better quality for take some prints and upload in Last.Fm.