The Kinks

Led by uber-talented Ray Davies, who was the lead singer and composer, this group is almost forgotten now, but they were one of the leaders of the British Invasion. Drummer Mick Avory landed with these guys after being fired by Brian Jones and replaced with Charlie Watts in the Rolling Stones in 1963. Lead guitar Dave Davies was weird, but he was also the brother of Ray, which kept him in the group for decades.

The Kinks
Got Love If You Want It
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JkB5_AJ747M

The Kinks
You Really Got Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzXAKVOnWkU

We used to turn this one up loud as we drove around town in 1966.
The Kinks
Till the End of the Day
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BIc-RnqjwWA

The Kinks
All Day and All of the Night
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F4DV-5d6a5g

"Father Christmas,
Give us your money!
We'll beat you up,
if you make us annoyed"

Come on! Everybody sing!
The Kinks
Father Christmas
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nHKTj02cmHI

Eric Burdon

The Animals
House of the Rising Sun
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EWOMuvTQg3U

The Animals
We Gotta Get Out of This Place
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TpNWSW49IBM

Eric Burdon and the Animals
Roadrunner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NawHkg87fa8

Eric Burdon and the Animals
When I Was Young
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ryeqvr_qCfY

Eric Burdon and War
Spill the Wine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7_U-zj2gfE

Female Pop Stars

Maybe the greatest female pop singer of all time...
Dusty Springfield (Mary O'Brien)
I Only Want To Be With You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M5LS---oX7Y

Dusty Springfield
Spooky
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fola80rQop4

Dusty Springfield
You Don't Have To Say You Love Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GBwSN0Yw5l0

The Seekers (Judith Durham) The first great Australian pop stars
I'll Never Find Another You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Ga9Bs4fzSY

The Seekers
Georgy Girl
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSVfLNCW4Fs

Here is the greatest selling female singer ever to come out of Great Britain. She was a child star in British films beginning in 1944 and her singing career includes Top 20 hits from 1954 to 2009.
Petula Clark
Downtown
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8GVE7lRZuFM

Petula Clark
Don't Sleep In the Subway
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6D6iz2Otd2M

Petula Clark
I Know a Place
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9K9e5rVxJ20

The British Invasion

From the "Day the Music Died" in 1959 to early 1964, real rock&roll nearly died out. It was replaced by formula music, which was favored by the large music companies as safer investments. No one even suspected that a musical revolution was brewing in Great Britain and other English speaking countries as teenagers created their own versions of American rock&roll and blues tunes. These new "beat groups" exploded onto the scene at the same time and astonished the world for the next 30 years...

The Beatles
I Want to Hold Your Hand
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52e7bClngW4

The Beatles
Yesterday
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONXp-vpE9eU

The Beatles (George Harrison sings lead on this one.)
I'm Happy Just to Dance With You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgNM1_3Tx9A

The Beatles
She Loves You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QoF-7VMMihA

The Animals
Boom Boom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b8PUYkaS3CY

The Animals
Talkin About You
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D7TmMtyzZwY

Six foot five inch, red-haired, Paul Jones was offered the job of lead singer of the Rolling Stones by Brian Jones, but he turned it down. Don't feel too badly for him. His son became one of the richest businessmen in the world...
Manfred Mann
Hubble Bubble
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I2mbtPmN98M

These lads don't look too enthusiastic about having to lip-synch their anthem of teenage rebellion. Its a good thing those ducks and boaters don't get too close to Keith Moon...
The Who
The Kids Are Alright
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rmowtt9vhLY

This one is more like it...
The Who
Anyway, Anyhow, Anywhere
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kNMB88gxCTE

The teenage band that eventually became The Who were originally known as...
The High Numbers
I'm the Face
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dw-RssjhpRg


The Rolling Stones
Pain in My Heart/Around and Around
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iLy6y70zj74

Hep Cat

Cab Calloway
Minnie the Moocher
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mq4UT4VnbE

Cab Calloway
Hi-De-Ho 1934
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hovtGsLPYeA

Cab Calloway
Jumpin Jive
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_8yGGtVKrD8

The Greatest Show on Earth

The Who
Baba O'Rielly
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SCNeVHv3Mlg

The greatest guitarist that I ever saw was Peter Townsend and the greatest drummer was Keith Moon: both of them were in this band. When their first hit records came out, the oldest member of the band, bassist John Entwhistle, was 19 and the youngest member of the band, Moon, was only 16.
The Who
Substitute
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dV2X_Ek2bms

Most of their songs were a continous battle between light melodies and harmonic vocals against a background of violent drumming with explosive guitar work.
The Who
Happy Jack
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z0EArPvTAsg

The Who
Won't Get Fooled Again
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oUbGLVvfB7Y

The masters of angry teenage music...
The Who
Behind Blue Eyes
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RaekgRtsTiQ

The Birth of Rock & Roll

Here is the very first rock & roll tune from 1954.
The term "rock & roll" hadn't even been invented yet.
The Crew Cuts
Sh-Boom
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YloXEViFNUE

Here is the tune that conquered the world.
In 1956, this band caused riots wherever they went.
Bill Haley and His Comets
Rock Around the Clock
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F5fsqYctXgM

The first rock & roll superstar was a 21 year-old truck driver from Tupelo, Mississippi.
Elvis Presley
You Ain't Nothin', but a Hound Dog
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X5JALwwaASg

Forced to wear tuxedos for TV, (so they wouldn't scare the parents) these motorcycle toughs from Texas were led by a 20 year-old who was killed two years later on "the day the music died."
Buddy Holly and the Crickets
Peggy Sue
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQiIMuOKIzY

The greatest teen idols of their time, these guys are seen here on American Bandstand: the first weekly rock & roll TV show, which was broadcast live from Philadelphia.
Dion and the Belmonts
A Teenager in Love
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SNYdcwunG7g

Here they are 50 years later. Modern equipment makes a big difference!
Dion and the Belmonts
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JvGktPaDAPM

This was filmed live just four days after "the day the music died" in February, 1959, when Buddy Holly (22), Richie Valens (17) and the Big Bopper (28) were killed in a plane crash. One year after this was filmed, Eddie was also killed in a taxi cab crash in London, England. He was 21.
Eddie Cochran
Summertime Blues
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a0SYHNKJguo

Eddie wrote his own material and he was a local kid from Bell Gardens, California.
Eddie Cochran
C'mon Everybody
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LRjlZ8x2uQM

White radio stations in the south wouldn't play black rockers on the air, but they were huge stars everywhere else in the world. Here Chuck Berry is introduced by the man who invented the phrase "rock & roll", Alan Freed.
Chuck Berry
You Can't Catch Me
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nSfx1nZTAuM

Watch the teenagers react to Chuck Berry more than half a century ago...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYYUIZq3Rv4


Johnny B. Goode (Live 1958)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6ofD9t_sULM

The wildest of them all was this guy.
Little Richard
Lucille
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3wiPch6n-vU

Long Tall Sally (1956)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J55_T0Dh01c

Whole Lotta Shakin Goin on
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwsS1IQfTrc