"Time of the Season" was orphaned by The Zombies -- they broke up a year before the song became a hit in 1969.
Like The Rolling Stones, The Zombies had been around since 1962 -- here's how they looked and sounded in 1964 -- fifty years ago.
Notice how that song has an actual ending and not a fade out -- that's the hallmark of a live performing stage act and not a studio band. Listen to many of the early Beatles songs and you'll also hear clean abrupt endings. How else are you going to close a song live? I think radio DJ's learned to love fade outs because they could start talking over the song.
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Wow! If I heard either of those on the radio I'd be wracking my brains to think who they were. I didn't know about the Zombies.
Fascinating footage, and leg-age and other ages.
Had a great long weekend in Chicago. Three days of non-stop partying, eating and laughing with some great friends. We had a crew of about 10 - 20 people including long lost friends, family, and new friends with half in their early twenties and half in our fifties. We had a great time going all around town to private home parties, restaurants, hotels, and bars from Navy Pier to downtown to the South side to Oak Park and Boystown.
The weather was incredibly good with Monday sunny and in the high 60's. The people of Chicago were just great, friendly and fun, and surprisingly tolerant of our obnoxiousness.
A few firsts: the dirtiest taxi I ever have been in, the largest concentration of exposed white skin on a 60 degree day, the roughest lesbian bar, and angriest taxi driver I ever saw. For a couple miles he was actually screaming at one of us about how much of an "asshole", "jackass", "idiot" and worst of all how much an "Michigander" he was, which was all true except the Michigan part. The cabby just did it with such vein bursting fury as I've never seen before, then he agreed to drive us another 15 miles if we threw out the offender at the next stop, which we obliged. Sacrifices must be made dude. You're young - you'll do OK in the wild. The rest of us are either too old or too pretty for that.
Good times.
So, I went and bought a Amazon Fire TV.
I hate the menu system on our Samsung Blu-Ray and it lacks Amazon Video. We use Prime for almost all of our non-grocery shopping. I was intrigued, had gift cards, and went for it.
I totally forgot to buy it through the portal here. My apologies.
Sounds like you had a blast, bago...what fun! The only time I've been in Chicago was to switch planes.
Chick a fashion tag wouldn't go amiss :) That's an artistic vid for those times, I think. Love Sixties fashions.
Twenty lashes with a wet noodle, Paddy :(
Just today I was looking at the newly launched Amazon Fire whatchamacallit. Like Roku. Looking at the channel offering, I see that it does not offer HBO GO, while Roku LH(?) at $50 less does. The both offer netflix. The Chrome one at $35. is lame because you must use your tablet or laptop to control the tv.
OK, fashion tag!
Here's another Zombies' hit, Tell Her No, from 1965. Ostensibly about avoiding a femme fatale, the song charted much higher in Puritan American than it did in Britain.
Yeah, no HBO GO, but we don't have HBO so it isn't an issue for us. We're just so tied in with Amazon in other ways, and I've been looking at Roku's and such for a while. That new Roku stick thing looks great. But the Amazon remote and game potential just seemed like a family winner that makes things more simple.
I think someone who is outside the Amazon web might get a better deal for the money elsewhere. But I thought it was pretty good for us, fitting what it offered with what we needed and offering a convenient user experience.
Or maybe I just bought into the hype. I'm never an early adopter. I still don't have a smartphone.
My willpower was low. Jeff Bezos has mad Jedi mind trick skills.
Perhaps one of our classically trained music scholars can tell us whose bust Rod Argent turns to look at in the "She's Not There" video at the 50 sec mark.
Maybe Troop can tell us whose bust the camera zooms in to look at at the 40 sec mark in the first video. :)
Paddy, I can see how the gaming was the deal clincher. I've never gotten into them.
For now I just want netflix. I understand I can have it directly online...no tv...must double-check.
I don't have a smartphone either. I think the camera function would be the biggest draw for me...supposed to be awesome. I'll wait for prices to drop. I'm always 10 years behind the curve on tech.
The most awesome thing about a smart phone is that you have a device in your hand that you simply can speak to and get an answer to almost any question whether real or imagined like:
"Where is the closest Museum of Jurassic Technology?"
https://www.google.com/search?q=Museum+of+Jurassic+Technology
I feel our brains are turning to mush, but I'd HATE to give up my GPS. Love it.
Nice to hear you had fun Bags.
I loved the flick, Zombieland. They should have used these tunes in the soundtrack.
Speaking of Amazon.
A big thank you to whoever bought a really nice expensive camera through our Amazon portal.
Is that the one with Harrelson? If so, I've never seen it straight through, but I want to.
What a trippy song. I signed the whole thing to the beat in my mind.
And that is herby earsly Beeth oven's bust.
Late here and no one will probably read this, but I feel compelled to comment that the America of the first song (1964) and the America of the second (1969), while only five years apart, might as well have been in different galaxies, so great was the social change. I was finishing the spring of my soph year in college in 1964 and from my provincial view all seemed alright with the world with Vietnam very far from the public mind, while in 1969 I was stationed in the UK as an Air Force officer fresh from a combat tour in Vietnam as I and my Squadron -mates watched the BBC evening news in horror as we watched America seem to be coming apart before our very eyes. A profoundly dispiriting experience..
PS: I arrived in the UK in Dec of '69, so the bulk of my tour there was 1970-Dec 1972-the height of the "Black Power" movement and of all the other sociocultural toothpaste being squeezed from the tube that was "traditional" America..
PPS: No morn coffee. Apologizes, I can't count. I arrived in Dec '68, NOT 69.
virgil, I know from where you speak. My tour was 1967-68.
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Didn't have access to a tv at the time, but we heard through letters about what was happening "back in the world".
vx, thanks for your insights.
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