Willie Simpson – Page 65

The Unicorns, Tuff Ghost

If you’ve been visiting my site, you realize that a lot of my youtube favorites come from another era. Well here’s one from a more recent time. Part 18 of my countdown continues with the Unicorns, Tuff Ghost. Hailing from Montreal, the now defunct Unicorns were fronted by silly pop geniuses Nick Diamonds (real name…

March 11, 2011
The Who, I Can't Explain

I open part 17 of my youtube countdown with a very serious question, what the hell was going on in England in the 1960s? The ratio of incredible music and cool bands to the rest of universal history makes one wonder about the nature of quarks, quasar radiation, and folded cosmic fabrics. What the heck…

March 10, 2011
James Brown, Please Please Please

Welcome to part 16 of my youtube favorites countdown. In this edition we’ll be bringing down the house with the Godfather of Soul, James Brown. Helped out by his Famous Flames, this performance of Please Please Please, is from the TAMI rock show, a 1964 concert movie. This performance, considered by Prince to be the…

March 8, 2011
Motorhead, Let it Rock!

Part 15 of my youtube favorites continues with Motorhead covering Chuck Berry’s Let it Rock on the old David Letterman show. Now, you’ve probably never heard of Let it Rock. It’s one of Chuck’s lesser known tunes. It’s basically Johnny B Goode with different lyrics and no choruses. But the lyrics are amazing, featuring an…

March 4, 2011
Bill Haley and the Comets, Rock Around the Clock!

Part 14 of my youtube favorites countdown clicks off another rung, this time with Bill Haley and the Comet’s Rock Around the Clock! This live clip, from 1956, features Bill and his band absolutely shredding their iconic classic with total disregard for the world they were changing. Considered one of the first true songs of…

March 3, 2011
John Lennon, Cold Turkey

Part 13 of my youtube favorites countdown continues with the hard-blues psyche fest, John Lennon’s Cold Turkey. Just around the time the Beatles broke up, John Lennon set loose a blistering array of personal/emotional/political singles; Instant Karma, Give Peace a Chance, and this immortal classic, Cold Turkey. John wrote the song about his experience in…

March 2, 2011
Eternity, the Game Show!

Christopher Walken once claimed that he speaks the way he does because he constantly keeps waltz time in his head. It explains a lot. But perhaps nothing can explain this incredible sketch from SNL, which is also part 12 of my youtube countdown. Written in SNL’s golden age, this sketch is what happens when you…

March 1, 2011
The Beatles, Sgt. Pepper's Inner Groove

As part 11 of my youtube favorites rolls on, we reach the slightly stranger section of my favorites list. From here on out you’re gonna see more odd videos like this “peppered” in with the more traditional music videos and performances. This is a video someone made of an original Sgt. Pepper vinyl’s inner groove. …

February 28, 2011
The Rolling Stones, Respectable

Welcome to part 10 of my youtube favorites countdown where we take a look at the rollicking 1978 single, “Respectable,” by the Rolling Stones. Its appropriate that we take a look at this awesome song right after diving into Chuck Berry’s world. This s0ng is basically a master course on what happens when you combine…

February 27, 2011
Chuck Berry, Roll Over Beethoven

Part 9 of my youtube favorites countdown rocks on with Chuck Berry’s legendary 1956 ultra-classic, Roll Over Beethoven. This clip is like none you’ve ever seen of Chuck. Here he was on a French TV show in 1958 in his utter prime. He’s young, happy, and capable of bending his guitar into a piece of…

February 25, 2011