music video

rock music videos of the sixties 1 (introduction)

WAY BACK ON JULY 31, 2014, Bill Tobelman of Good Humor Smile fame (if not fortune) posted a link to a promotional video that the Troggs had made for their single Love Is All Around in 1966 on his Facebook page. He noted that this was “Another cool promo film from these guys.” [Continue reading]

a whiter shade of pale in some spectacular ruins

PROCOL HARUM MADE A VIDEO of their worldwide hit A Whiter Shade Of Pale in 1967. It was shot in some spectacular ruins in Witley Court in Worcestershire, England, once one of the great houses of the Midlands, but by then a spectacular ruin devastated by fire thirty years earlier. [Continue reading]

let’s all hully gully with pussycat a go-go!

SCOPITONE IS A TYPE OF JUKEBOX featuring a musical and visual performance on 16-millimeter film. The first Scopitone films were made in France by Cameca, among them was Serge Gainsbourg’s Le Poinçonneur Des Lilas filmed in 1958. Scopitones spread to West Germany, and went on to appear in bars in England, where the Tornados’ Telstar was a favorite, vying with such local huts as Pussycat A Go-Go! [Continue reading]

FAVORITE QUOTES

"Rock & roll is really swing with a modern name. It began on the levees and plantations, took in folk songs, and features blues and rhythm. It's the rhythm that gets to the kids—they're starved of music they can dance to, after all those years of crooners." – Alan Freed

"Rock & roll might not solve your problems, but it does let you dance all over them." – Pete Townsend

"I wanted to make the greatest rock record that I'd ever heard, and I wanted it to sound enormous and I wanted it to grab you by your throat and insist that you take that ride, insist that you pay attention, not to just the music, but just to life, to feeling alive, to being alive." – Bruce Springsteen

"Rock & Roll was one thing, and then they chopped off the Roll and called it Rock, which became a sort of umbrella term for anything with a guitar in it. Like hair bands ... how could we possibly believe that? It's just gotten downright silly, to the point where now it's sort of become like professional wrestling." – Tom Petty

"Rock & roll music, if you like it, if you feel it, you can't help but move to it. That's what happens to me—I can't help it." – Elvis Presley

"Do you believe in magic? Believe in the magic of a young girl's soul. Believe in the magic of rock & roll. Believe in the magic that can set you free!" – John Sebastian

"When you go looking for something specific, your chances of finding it are very bad—because of all the things in the world, you’re only looking for one of them. When you go looking for anything at all, your chances of finding it are very good." – Daryl Zero (The Zero Effect)

“Some of the worst mistakes in my life have been haircuts.” – Jim Morrison

"If I hadn't heard rock & roll on the radio, I would have had no idea there was life on this planet . . ." – Lou Reed