LisaB, blog reader, Brit, and newshound extraordinaire has been busy the past couple of days finding some pretty awesome and sometimes obscure British Invasion performances on You Tube. She’s been posting them all weekend in daily chat, and I thought I’d share the best of them with you.
Enjoy!
Small Faces, Spencer Davis Group, The Kinks, Lulu, Shirley Bassey, Marianne Faithfull, Cilla Black, The Seekers, Dusty Springfield, Wayne Fontana and the Mindbenders, Ian Whitcomb, The Moody Blues, Freddie and the Dreamers, The Nashville Teens, Dave Clark 5, Animals, Yardbirds, Zombies, The Who, Foundations, Tom Jones, The Troggs, Status Quo, Peter and Gordon, Peter Noone and Herman’s Hermits, Hollies, Los Bravos, Chad and Jeremy, Billy J. Kramer and the Dakotas, Manfred Mann, Easybeats, Dave Clark 5, Rolling Stones, More Stones, and even MORE Stones.
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I had a lot of fun watching/listening to some of these videos yesterday. I hope they pick well this week.
My favoritely twisted Brit invasion group, The Zombies: (some of these guys are still touring together)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KwdeQY-FGrk
and two current favorite Beatles covers:
“That Boy” with Sean Lennon (he’s great on this!), Rufus Wainwright & some other guy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bYcpu89TPUA
And a lot of famous people singing “I Saw Her Standin’ There”:
(Rock ‘n Roll Hall of Fame)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HNiFr30kcgk
This is a cool theme, but I’m sure with these contestants they will pick the most boring songs possible….
I can picture Haley singing “When Two Become One” by the Spice Girls
Sanjaya “You Don’t Know What it’s Like To love somebody” by the BGs
Melinda “You Don’t Have to Say You Love Me”
It will be another boring nice thanks to these contestants
The Kinks - Celluloid Heroes
http://youtube.com/watch?v=vWKv_CHEY8Q
I am looking forward to Peter Noone. Lulu I have heard of but am not really familiar with. I agree that this crop of contestants will find the most boring of available songs to put us to sleep.
angelia - LuLu’s song starts about 2:00 into this video.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7aSFoY3W3NM
Many thanks for taking the time to put this all in one place.
I think Jordin should do something by Bananarama. Then again, the Spice Girls tune suggested up above is spot on.
There will be no Spice Girls. It’s limited to the British Invasion songs in the 60’s. I’m hoping that they’ll get some help with their choices after the criticism they’ve gotten from the judges. I do think that there’s a good chance that the girls, other than Gina and Jordin, will do boring songs but you never know.
I wish I could get my YouTube to work properly!
Yesterday, PBS had a concert with guest singers from the 1960s British invasion! It was great! Many have lost their quality in their voices, but the Zombies were awesome!
Someone has to sing “Needles and Pins” by the Searchers. I have been singing this all day. It would be a great song for Jordin or Phil, although I am wondering if Phil shouldn’t go with an uptempo song this week?
bean99 Mar 18th, 2007 at 8:56 pm
NO? Damn. Then I don’t get this at all. Pfft. Gonna watch ‘Law and Order’ instead.