Olympics - Good Lovin'

Olympics perform - Good Lovin' - on Shindig in the mid '60's.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Olympics
• sixties
• 60's
• 60s
• shindig
• good
• lovin'
• classic

[sanedra]

The sound quality this copy isn't the best. Also they are singing and dancing at the same time and are the originators and creators of the song! That's something no one can take away. Just think, The Olympics continue to sing and dance and create today.

God bless all of us who love this song~

[benjaminBarr]

OK you agree with Alouit. You know who DISagrees? The Rolling Stones. Thats who. Richards said Bos version of 'Mona' makes theirs sound sick. That might have been the smartest thing he ever said

[greatbighand]

@Princeboy99 If you watch the live performance of YR of this in colour (Ed Sullivan?) here at the tube you'll find that makes the song rock is Danelli: but I don't think the original version (I have the italian release of the first LP) is just as good. The drums there are more muffled and not as pyrotecnic: in facts I never realized what a great drummer DD was until I saw live performances of YR here. Anyway, to make a fair comparison one should hear the single release by the Olympics.

[SUPERROCKDRUMMER]

Great version. I thought the Rascals did it first. I was wrong.

[suraw48]

This is the first version of the song, copied by the Young Rascals. The song was written by Jerry Ragovoy (RIP at age 80, July, 2011) , and first performed and sung by The Olympics in 1965.

[stretchmorgan]

Fantastic!

[elamite66]

I knew there was an earlier version of Good Lovin' than the Rascals but I couldn't remember who did it I think it came out in the early 60s

[billchew450]

Most people are shocked to think that the Rascal's version, excellent as it was,

was not the original.

[roadyrider]

I knew Walter all through the '70s and '80s in Willowbrook, CA, and he was a good son who worked with his parents in the family house-cleaning business in-between gigs. It's really too bad that most of these early groups were signed into contracts where they received almost NO royalties for their songs. Walter and his parents were some of the hardest-working and nicest people that I have ever known. He never even mentioned that he was one of the 'Olympics', I know I would have!

[Princeboy99]

@hwgray You clearly no nothing about music theory and "notes". The best part about the Rascals' version is the "1, 2, 3" countdown in the very beginning which this version does not use. Also, the organ that's used in the Young Rascals' version is a lot more pronounced than in this version and it's a LOT more jumpin'. This version is good, but there's a reason why the Rascals' version went to the NUMBER 1 on the charts. You're talking out of your ass

[hwgray]

@Princeboy99 This is the original version, If the Young Rascals' version is "good," it's only because they copied the original note-for-note.

[glitteringsky]

So good. OMG. And the hair is outragious! Thank you so much for uploading this!