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Subject: British Invasion
Does anyone remember the British Invasion of the 60s? Everyone knows the Beatles, but what about the Hollies, Gerry & the Pacemakers, Freddie & the Dreamers, the Moody Blues, Donovan and other famous British acts? Which was/were your favorite(s)?
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Well, I'm not that old... ;)
Oddly enough, the ABC here in Australia is currently screening the BBC series "Walk On By", about the history of pop music. I taped last weekend's episode, and only got around to waching it last night. It was the "British Invasion" episode 8)
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Gee, where do you start, or better where do you stop ? They were all my favourites.....
To name just a few :
Hollies : Stop Stop Stop, Look Through Any Window, Gasoline Alley Bred, Too Young To Be Married
Gerry & The Pacemakers : Ferry Cross The Mersey, Don't Let The Sun Catch You Crying, and the unfortunate nasally sung "How Do You Do It" which the Beatles very wisely turned down...
Moody Blues : Tuesday Afternoon, Dawn, Nights in White Satin (in fact anything off 'Days of Future Passed')
Donovan : Universal Soldier, Seasons Of The Witch, Mellow Yellow, Wear Your Love Like Heaven
Animals : House of the Rising Sun (yeah I know R&RF...), When I Was Young, Sky Pilot
Badfinger : Come And Get It, No Matter What, Baby Blue, Day After Day
Wayne Fontana & The Minbenders : Groovy Kind Of Love, Game Of Love, Pamela Pamela
Herman's Hermits : Ha Ha Said The Clown, There's A Kind Of Hush, No Milk Today, My Sentimental Friend
Kinks : All Day And All Of The Night, Lola, Sunny Afternoon, Waterloo Sunset, You Really Got Me
Manfred Mann : Do Wah Diddy Diddy, Pretty Flamingo, The Mighty Quinn
Shadows : Atlantis, Apache, Wonderful Land
Status Quo : Down The Dust Pipe, Pictures Of Matchstick Men
Troggs : Love Is All Around, Wild Thing, With A Girl Like You
The Stones and The Beatles......too many too mention.....
...and that's just the groups. Required listening for any one who hasn't listened to it ! Apart from anything else you wil hear a number of today's songs here !
Sorry, Once I got going I just couldn't stop :) ;)
:) ;) FBVP
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Well, all of the above were great, but naturally my fave, of course was THE CAT MAN! Many folks might not realize that Cat started out in the 60s!
Peace,Vivian
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Let's face it, Cat. Many folks might not realize that Cat was British. ;)
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Well, all of the above were great, but naturally my fave, of course was THE CAT MAN! Many folks might not realize that Cat started out in the 60s!
Peace,Vivian
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Gee, where do you start, or better where do you stop ? They were all my favourites.....
To name just a few :
Hollies : Stop Stop Stop, Look Through Any Window, Gasoline Alley Bred, Too Young To Be Married
:) ;) FBVP
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I also enjoyed "Bus Stop" Very much!
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I also enjoyed "Bus Stop" Very much!
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Hi R&RF
Yes I liked it too. I never had that much luck at a bus stop !
I was trying to 'limit' myself to a few songs from each band, otherwise I would have gone on for ever, which I did anyway !
:) FBVP
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Well, I'm not that old... ;)
Oddly enough, the ABC here in Australia is currently screening the BBC series "Walk On By", about the history of pop music. I taped last weekend's episode, and only got around to waching it last night. It was the "British Invasion" episode 8)
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Anyone who gets the chance to see this show should not miss it. It is a quality show.
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Gee, where do you start, or better where do you stop ? They were all my favourites.....
To name just a few :
Hollies : Stop Stop Stop, Look Through Any Window, Gasoline Alley Bred, Too Young To Be Married
:) ;) FBVP
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Hey FBVP you left out "He aint Heavy.."
I liked thier later hit "all I need is the air that I breath" too ;D
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Recently covered by... Simply Red?
I'm a massive fan of The Hollies and The Beatles. As a matter of interest, if you haven't all already, you might want to check out The Everly Brothers' "Two Yanks In England" album. "No fewer than eight of the twelve tracks were sung by The Hollies".
http://allmusic.com/cg/amg.dll?p=amg&sql=A5aqog40ttv6z
As a sidenote, their latest collection of choons has been officially voted "Worst Album to be Released this week". They could have told me that BEFORE I got a copy... Well, they're classics, anyway, so they're not gonna hurt.
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Hey FBVP you left out "He aint Heavy.."
I liked thier later hit "all I need is the air that I breath" too ;D
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Hi Arcfire
I didn't honest ! It's just that I'm a pedantic bastard, so I was limiting my answers to 'before the 70's'.
I agree with your additions however.
I would add to that one of my all-time favourites :
Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress
FBVP :)
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Just One Look, Jennifer Eccles... Gasoline Alley Bred... I Can't Tell The Bottom From The Top...
http://www.songmeanings.net/artist.php?artist=6764
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Hi Arcfire
I didn't honest ! It's just that I'm a pedantic bastard, so I was limiting my answers to 'before the 70's'.
I agree with your additions however.
I would add to that one of my all-time favourites :
Long Cool Woman In A Black Dress
FBVP :)
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My faves continue to be The Beatles and The Moody Blues.
I remember it very well, having been the genius fetus that I was! ;)
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http://sassy_elj.homestead.com/files/tinyglitter.gifI didn't exist back then, so i wouldn't know what it was. But many people that were alive way back when have told me about it and i think the whole British invasion thing is cool 8) like when the Spice Girls were popular back in 96 & 97, one of the best girl groups in music history, and many others.
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I saw the British Invasion when it was on Ed Sullivan's Rock and Roll Classics. 8) 8)
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like when the Spice Girls were popular back in 96 & 97, one of the best girl groups in music history, and many others.
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Umm, my words exactly...
Subject: Re: British Invasion
Does the problem not lie here with the definition of "British Invasion"? In my opinion, British Invasion, as a broad term, is that group of British Artists, The Beatles and The Hollies included, who broke America. These were 60s bands who, back in their day, broke both sides of the water. As for The Spice Girls, they just break other things.
The Everly Brothers CD Two Yanks In England, contains songs recorded in England, as their nod to British artists and the invasion in question. Eight of these tracks - "So Lonely", "Signs That Will Never Change", "Like Everytime Before", "Have You Ever Loved Somebody", and others, were recorded by The Hollies, a big group in the 1960s British Invasion.
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I see the british invasion CD for sale on Tv. although I was aware of these groups prior to that comercial I was not aware they were all part of an "Invasion".
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I guess here is the problem of the "British Invasion". To what extent did they invade? As much of a fan as I am of the Hollies, I couldn't, personally, tell you.
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To the long list of groups already mentioned, let's add:
The Yardbirds - "Heart Full of Soul"
The Searchers - "Needles and Pins"
The Barbarians - "Are You A Boy, or Are You A Girl?"
Billy J. Cramer and the Dakotas - "Little Children"
and I'm incredulous no one mentioned the Dave Clark Five -
"Bits and Pieces", "Glad All Over", "Reelin' and Rockin'", etc.
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My favorite -
The Kinks - "Dedicated Follower of Fashion" "Autumn Almanac"
AND MANY MORE ;D
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The Fab Four and The Stones - hands down....................
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Does anyone remember the British Invasion of the 60s? Everyone knows the Beatles, but what about the Hollies, Gerry & the Pacemakers, Freddie & the Dreamers, the Moody Blues, Donovan and other famous British acts? Which was/were your favorite(s)?
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My favorite Hollies song is Bus Stop. The story it tells "gets me."
The Dave Clark Five had one of the most beautiful rock and roll ballads in their Because. They also did the best version of You Got What It Takes.
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The Merseybeats - Wishin' and Hopin', I think of You.
The Tremeloes - Silence is golden
Steve Ellis' Love Affair - Everlasting love
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I liked all the british stuff....it got old around America with all the motown stuff, Not that I was against it, but variety is cool man.
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Personally, I think it more like a British Counter Attack against the American onslaught viz. Presley, Hailey and other music eminating from the 'writing factories'. This wasn't so much an artist driven attack, it was more that british song writers began to find a market.The problem was, and this is an historic problem, that eventually it all becomes the same.
The British dragging themselves out of the mire of misery that was the 50's were confronted with on one hand, Skiffle a lovely quaint term for jazz/rock 'n' roll and the more agresive American style. By creating a new style of music that would become 'POP' they could develop a dress code, a hair code, a behaviour code that would describe ALL perfromers. This was unheard of in the UK and frightening to the powers that be on both sides of the Atlantic.
The Brits of course did not have their music industry controlled by big song writing empires or recording companies. So they were much better placed to change musical history. In much the same way that the independents achieved change with punk and new romantics in 77-83 or the garage bands of the early 90's.
The reason that the American's see it as an invasion is that it took them so long to find a credible anti-ballistic missile. The bands were there, but the big controlling interests wouldn't give them a chance.....Until is was really too late.