Music video roundup from the 1960s

Here are a few old songs I've come across and enjoyed lately on YouTube.

Small Faces -- Itchycoo Park (1967)

An innocent song about teenage drug use and truancy. Itchycoo is slang for stinging nettle, an herb I swear by for pollen allergies.

The American Breed - Bend Me, Shape Me (1968) This band's only huge hit was a remake of the The Outsiders' song from year before.

Lemon Pipers - Green Tambourine (1967)

Françoise Hardy -- Ce Petit coeur (1965)

The Osmonds -- Chilly Winds (1970) (No video, just this groovy pin-up.)

This song appeared in Pretty Maids All in a Row, an underrated creepy movie from 1970 written by Gene Roddenberry, directed by Roger Vadim, and starring Rock Hudson, who plays a high school football coach who rapes and murders the female students. If you want to watch it, you'll have to TiVo it, Torrent it, or buy a used VHS copy.

Previously on Boing Boing:
• Sixties music videos
• 9 great old punk videos
• 8 punk and post-punk female singer videos

[#1 posted by Steve Lodefink , January 10, 2008 12:37 PM]

Man, that Small Faces drummer doesn't seem that excited about being nominated to play drums.

[#2 posted by Paul Coleman , January 10, 2008 12:39 PM]

I should be embarrassed by this, but I have to tout the following Osmonds video:

The Osmonds - Crazy Horses

Way better than the pinup.

[#3 posted by Maddy , January 10, 2008 12:42 PM]

with regards to the punk videos link under this -- have you seen the Devo 2.0 version of Uncontrollable Urge -- the urge is now about snacking!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mfUW28pdyD4

[#4 posted by Anonymous , January 10, 2008 12:55 PM]

Mark, could you comment further on the stinging nettle - allergy connection? Thanks!

[#5 posted by Mark Frauenfelder , January 10, 2008 1:04 PM]

Thanks for the link to "Crazy Horses," Maddy! That was awesome.

[#6 posted by Anonymous , January 10, 2008 1:41 PM]

The Small Faces drummer was Kenny Jones who later went on to replace Keith Moon in the Who.

[#7 posted by ethan , January 10, 2008 1:41 PM]

I could watch the amusement park video for Françoise Hardy's "Tous les garçons et les filles" for hours and hours.

Her friends are having a lot more fun than she is.

[#8 posted by Skeeter Holler , January 10, 2008 2:20 PM]

Wow, Mark, if you'd also posted a link to The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore by the Walker Brothers I'd think you were totally channeling me.

[#9 posted by kendrak , January 10, 2008 2:26 PM]

@#1 Kenny Jones was probably bored because "Itchycoo Park" is one of the slower, duller Small Faces songs. It's not a scorcher like "Tin Soldier". Also... he's sort of a mellow guy on stage. What do you want, Keith Moon?

[#10 posted by csbmonkey , January 10, 2008 2:31 PM]

I'm a fan of France Gall's excellent Laisse Tomber Les Filles for weird, interesting, but also great to listen to and watch 60s pop videos

[#11 posted by Mark Frauenfelder , January 10, 2008 3:15 PM]

Thanks for all these great links! I love the one for "Tin Soldier."

About stinging nettles -- I take them in capsule form in the spring when I start sneezing from pollen. If I take them around the clock, I'm pretty-symptom free. If I forget to take them, then I need to use Claritin.

[#12 posted by j.black , January 10, 2008 3:22 PM]

The one for '7' punk and post-punk female singer videos doesn't work, because it should be /8/ punk and post-punk female singer videos. DUH! ;D

[#13 posted by lewisfrancis , January 10, 2008 5:59 PM]

Mark, I fell in love with Françoise Hardy last year and am still in a swoon. This decade's releases show her still relevant in her 60s. Many of the YouTube videos are available on a PAL format DVD, which plays fine on my laptop, If only I could get it back from my daughter's French teacher...

A couple good fan resources are Alex Gerry's francoisehardycompletely and Warren Gilbert's Françoise Hardy All Over the World.

[#14 posted by teflon , January 10, 2008 6:16 PM]

I have to recommend Spike Priggen's blog Bedazzeled! (http://bedazzled.blogs.com/). He does an awesome job of rounding up this kind of material. I noticed one of these youTubes was lifted from his blog. Recommended.

[#15 posted by lunarworks , January 10, 2008 6:20 PM]

I really, really like those movies of Françoise Hardy...

France had a certain, irreplaceable aesthetic back then.

[#16 posted by ignobilitor , January 10, 2008 8:26 PM]

OMG, is no one else completely freaked out by the Lemon Pipers clip? I think I started having a psychotic break when the elephant did that thing with its eyes...

[#17 posted by Skeeter Holler , January 10, 2008 9:14 PM]

And I just have to add psychebubblegumedelic Go Back by Crabby Appleton.

[#18 posted by Schmoo , January 10, 2008 9:33 PM]

Awesome! My sister-in-law made me an odd mix disc a couple of months back and that Small Faces song ended up being one of my favorites on the disc yet I had no idea who they were or what the name of that track was until now. Thank you. I listen to the same four songs in a row while I'm driving. It goes George Harrison - "When We Was Fab," Fugazi - "Waiting Room," Small Faces and The Kinks - "Nothing To Say." Another one of life's small mysteries is solved for me.

[#19 posted by Bruce Arthurs , January 10, 2008 9:52 PM]

It's been a long time since I've watched PRETTY MAIDS ALL IN A ROW, but I do remember that Rock Hudson's character was not a rapist: He seduced hot young female students, and murdered them only after they began to threaten to Tell All.

Pretty crappy movie, actually, but -- oh my -- Angie Dickinson's nude scenes made it worthwhile.

[#20 posted by Halloween Jack , January 10, 2008 10:44 PM]

Also recommended: Truly, Madly, Deeply, which has Alan "Snape" Rickman singing on his own version of "The Sun Ain't Gonna Shine Anymore." Great movie.

[#21 posted by Van Diemen , January 11, 2008 6:50 AM]

In the American Breed video you can see the drummer fake playing the trumpet at 2 minutes 12 seconds.

[#22 posted by Boba Fett Diop , January 11, 2008 9:37 AM]

For me, Song of a Baker rocks even harder than Itchycoo Park or Tin Soldier.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rm4klQeCbsM

The bottom end on this track destroys just as much as anything the Who ever did.

The Small Faces also did a fantastic cover of If I Were a Carpenter. Can't find live video, though.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sngAEbtEAlg