The History of Rock and Roll

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N3iD1Ud0IG4"]Randy & The Rainbows - Denise. (Best Quality) - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aDSepEeMgPg"]The Dave Clark Five - Glad All Over - YouTube
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Taking a break, I'll get back in a while.
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I'm back.

The Dave Clark Five is one of the most underrated groups of the sixties.
So one more DC5 hit....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AH1JEI79emU"]Dave Clark Five - Anyway You Want It (Shindig) 1964 - YouTube
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Which brings us to 1964 and the British invasion but I'm going to back up because I've been looking for this song and finally found it. I couldn't remember the title or who did it.

But I like it (1961).


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkYgBAm03KY"]Stick Shift - The Duals - YouTube
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So now I'll just wallow around in some motor head stuff for a while....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WwWaPOlzWnI"]The Hondells - Little Honda (Shindig) - YouTube

I actually saw these guys in concert...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=llAvYn0m8VQ"]The Rip Chords - "Hey Little Cobra" ( Stereo HQ ) - YouTube
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Jan and Dean were really big with 26 chart hits in 8 years.
Here's one of their hall of fame songs....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ukunx21UHCA"]Jan And Dean : Deadman's Curve ( 1964 ) - YouTube

Ironically 2 years after scoring a hit with this song Jan Berry crashed his Corvette into a truck near the intersection of Sunset Blvd, a short distance from Dead Man's curve causing brain damage and partial paralysis. Dean Torrence stood by Jan and kept the possibility of reuniting open while he got into the graphic arts and designed album covers for the Nitty Gritty Dirt Band,The Beach Boys, The Supremes, Canned Heat, The Ventures and many others.
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Now in the fifties and early sixes the only available music in a car was from the old AM radio. The hot set up was when you had TWO speakers one in the front...and one in the back, with a front/back/both switch under the dash. No stereo.

If you had a reverb unit mounted beside the switch...you were smoking!

Here's a demo of what a reverb sounded like. This guy also has a light bar, they came out in the middle sixties.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=89gXIJcu9fg"]Custom 62 Cadillac Radio by HCAT - YouTube

LOL. Reverbs were cool. They worked off of a long spring inside the box that must have delayed the signal. You could tune it for more or less echo effect.
If you went flying down the highway the spring would bounce around and smack the inside of the unit!
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So in 1964 we have a mix of motown, surf music, pop, folk, 50's rock, and the British invasion. 1964 was an amazing year for music. We all know the Beatles made their U.S. debut so we'll skip them. At the time they were a boy band anyway. Look at the videos from the time, most fans are 13 year old girls. While the music was good, the Blues were back, thanks to the British....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XpXPcnKWztU"]I'm Mad Again - The Animals - YouTube


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Let's mix it up!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qL0NlDmZOGg"]Iko Iko by The Dixie Cups - YouTube

Geez...there are so many good songs....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PhWdz0G_v-8"]A Summer Song - Chad & Jeremy (1964) - YouTube

Check out Van the Man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9TdJ4Hya-A"]Van Morrison with THEM, 1964, Baby Please don't go - YouTube
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SM_99DtI0tE"]Shangri-Las - Leader Of The Pack - 1964 - YouTube

The first hit for this classic was by the Nashville Teens....

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3AWbZcLpGw"]THE NASHVILLE TEENS - Tobacco Road - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5R-_ZUf0wY"]Johnny Rivers - Mountain Of Love - YouTube
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yy57Xdk9u0o"]The Rivieras - California Sun - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8bmbSC9c2ys"]Tommy Tucker - Hi-Heel Sneakers (1964) - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rR3ITUBFYqc"]Jay and the Americans - Come a Little Bit Closer (DEStereo) - YouTube
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jMKkCBOM7_4"]The Zombies - She's not there (lyrics in the description) - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ucP_8swUzEw"]Manfred Mann - Do Wah Diddy Diddy - 1964 45rpm - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bh4se9YMV3A"]J Frank Wilson and the Cavaliers - Last Kiss - YouTube
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZYj9J4UH8ck"]Millie Small - My Boy Lollipop (1964) HQ - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=06hB4oep4XY"]The Newbeats - Bread and Butter (1964) - YouTube

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h4OtMMq0v_s"]Alvin Cash & The Crawlers - Twine Time - YouTube
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And I could go on...

But let's finish 1964 with a few "newbies" that later pretty much caught on with the folks.

These guys first appeared in 1964 as a quartette made up of Ray Thomas, Michael Pinder, Denny Laine, Graeme Edge, and Clint Warwick. John Lodge was around but had gone off to college.
In the video the fifth Beatle, Brian Epstein can be seen sitting on a stool.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FmYo0ZRpOgo"]Go Now - The Moody Blues - YouTube

This is from when these guys were good. Don't hear this song anymore...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0a3YjyOp8N8"]the rolling stones - little red rooster - enhanced sound - YouTube

And finally Woodie Guthrie's self proclaimed "greatest disciple", old Bob Zimmerman his self...
This is from his 1962 debut album and is the first song he did on TV in 1963. I was going to post The Time's they are a Changing from 1964, but everybody knows that one and I couldn't find a video without an advertisement.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xCipKmyngLY"]Bob Dylan - Man Of Constant Sorrow - YouTube
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So now we are coming to 1965 and I must stop here and talk about the Four Track tape system.

In 1955 Chrysler offered a turntable in its high end cars, but they never caught on.

So we soldiered on with our AM radios until 1962 and the introduction of the 4 track car player. Four tracks were used extensively for commercials in the radio business starting in 1959. In 1962 "Mad Man" Earl Muntz came up with a unit that would work in a car. Here's video which explains how it works.

At the end of the video you can hear some of Fijid Pink's version of The House of the Rising Sun.
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JoKzivUJ3nY"]Muntz 4 track cartridge player, rare 1960's tape format, Kingstereo 4 track cartridge - YouTube
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Four tracks, and later the 8 track, led directly to the psychedelic era as they are based on pseudoscience and witchcraft. Note in the example 4 track cartridge below that the tape unwinds from the center of the reel, passes a roller at the back. Travels up to the front where it passes over the heads in the unit. The hole in the front bottom left is for the pinch roller which snaps up from inside the unit to trap and move the tape back to the OUTSIDE of the reel.
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Obviously the laws of physics dictate that you can't remove tape from the center and wind it up onto the outside as the center is a null point and the outside part of the reel must have some dimension.
Which means that eventually the tape is going to break, which it always did. Then you had to open the case, untangle the mess, and re-splice the tape back together by applying a piece of Scotch brand tape to the back and carefully cutting off the excess. Usually you lost a note or two in the process.

This lead us all to start taking drugs out of desperation and frustration.

Later on a guy named Lear (yes he also invented the Lear Jet) gave us the 8 track which had poorer quality sound, but held more music. They still broke and good old Lear removed the screws that held the case together and used plastic pins which needed to be pried apart with a knife or screwdriver leading to loss of blood and more drug taking.

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Above is a picture of my Top O The Line Muntz 4 and 8 track unit from 1969. I payed big bucks for that sucker. It was a cross over unit when we were switching from 4 to 8 tracks. I still have it as I was going to install it in my Hemi Cuda as sooon as I could afford one..but that don't look like its gonna happen.
Plus I got it out the other day and found out the drive belt had rotted to death.

But now we had our own music on the go whenever we wanted it!
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...but before moving on.....I'll clean up a little with some songs I missed....(I think)

1963

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pq5Me_LgHXk"]JIMMY GILMER & THE FIREBALLS **** SUGAR SHACK - YouTube

1961

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3khhdsOj0Y"]The Tokens - The lion sleeps tonight - YouTube

The original Tonight show 1963.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9P2V0_p6vE"]Steve Allen show, Frank Zappa Playing music on a Bicycle 1963 - YouTube
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1957

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbGthv-dJp4"]Get A Job-The Silhouettes-original song-1957 - YouTube

1959

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MrGaoSB0Eus"]The Coasters - Along Came Jones - YouTube

1963

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y1ZJiBHh-Yw"]The Coasters - Get an ugly girl to marry you - YouTube
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Back to 1965.
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Here's a song by Howard Kaylan and Mark Volman (AKA The Phosphorescent Leech and Eddie, AKA Flo and Eddie) of The Turtles. Flo and Eddie went on to join The Mothers of Invention with Frank Zappa and also had ties to Jan and Dean, Warren Zevon, The Byrds, Ray Davies of The Kinks, T-Rex, and Bruce Springsteen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xXCqDbCQVdw"]The Turtles - It Ain't Me Babe (Shindig - Sep 30, 1965) - YouTube

When I saw them in concert with Zappa they were The Famous Zanarini Brothers.
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Bonus Section !!

10 points to the first one to name these guys. They didn't have a major hit till 1964/65. This charted in 1957. Who are they???

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V_HUEpt8snU"]Tom & Jerry Vol. 1, Track 2 - Hey Schoolgirl - YouTube​