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Alice Stuart in 1971, singing and playing electric:

"Freedom\'s the Sound," from 1971's Full Time Woman.

Stuart is still actively playing, just one state up from me. The last time she was scheduled to come to town, the roads were closed from a flood. But I vow to see her live-- someday!

I loved this song, too! It took me years to figure out the lyrics. I finally found them on the Internet about 15 years ago ("Just a 5'9", beautiful, tall . . .").

True story: The Hollies were formed by lead singer Alan Clarke and rhythm guitarist Graham Nash, although the latter had departed in '68 to form Crosby Stills & Nash. Clarke left the group around '71 and was replaced by Swedish singer Michael Rickfors, but when "Long Cool Woman" became an unexpected hit, Clarke rejoined the group and Rickfors was dispatched from whence he came.

What a cool thread. I haven't heard some of these songs since I was a little kid... thanks for remedying that.

Let me make my own contribution from 1970, with former Animals front-man, Eric Burdon, leading the funk band, War in the coolest version of Spill the Wine ever.

That's fantastic! I Eric Burdon!

Continuing on my "early appearances by members of Asia" theme, here's a very young Carl Palmer playing with The Crazy World of Arthur Brown .

Re: Arthur Brown

During the '70s, Ozzy Osbourne was asked in an interview if he liked KISS. He said he did not, as KISS's stage show had been done years before by Arthur Brown.

One of the few times Ozzy has made sense.

Here\'s some very early Fairport Convention, from when they were known as "the British Jefferson Airplane", before they developed the folk rock style that they are most known for.

Thanks for posting the link, Eryk. I'd seen an early Fairport video before, but it wasn't quite as long as this.

Fairport Convention has a fascinating history. The female vocalist in this video, Judy Dyble, was replaced later the same year by Sandy Denny, who became something of a legend in British folk rock. Drummer Martin Lamble was killed when the band's van tumbled off the highway a year later.

Iain Matthews, the male lead singer, left the band in '69 and went on to a successful solo career. In the U.S., he is best known for the 1978 hit "Shake It, Baby."

Lead guitarist Richard Thompson also became successful as a soloist, while bassist Ashley Hutchings co-founded Steeleye Span (see Page 1 of this thread, though he had left before "All Around My Hat") and the Albion Country Band.

A version of Fairport Convention exists today, but only guitarist Simon Nicol remains from the lineup in this video.

As I recall FC holds an annual folk rock festival in Britain.

Judy Dyble is also significant for her involvement with Giles, Giles, and Fripp, the band which morphed into King Crimson.

This isn't a 60s/70s video, but it's interesting, because had you gone to see the Plastic People of the Universe in the 60s/70s, you would've risked ending up in prison! Most of the members of the band spent time in prison themselves, and they were one of the main inspirations for the anti-communist movement in Czechoslovakia. And now we can watch them on Youtube!

They do. It's at the village of Cropredy .

Another connection is that Dyble used to date Ian MacDonald, who was an original member of King Crimson and Foreigner.

I've got some clips of them on iTunes!

Joy of Cooking : featuring Terri Garthwaite and Toni Brown "going electric" long before modern audiences would think (thanks to idiot critics with no sense of history), singing, "Don't the Moon Look Fat and Lonesome" (1972).

Wonderful song, cleome, from a wonderful group.

Makes one realize how bland Top 40 radio has always seemed by comparison.

Yeah. And yet... it's very accessible music, very danceable and so on. (Same with Stuart's stuff.)

You can never overestimate the caveman mentality of marketers, though. A couple of years down the line, IIRC, the Wilson sisters would be pitching their band to a major label and be told, "Well, we already HAVE a woman artist. So..."

[beats own head against the wall for three hours]

The first popular band I was ever aware of was the biggest U.S. band of the early '70s, Three Dog Night. Although all of their videos are available on youtube, I really like this one -- a wonderful song made even better by Danny Hutton's clowning around at the end.

McDonald is also a guest on Dyble's late-2009 record Talking With Strangers, as is Robert Fripp.

Interestingly enough, I was just listening to this performance of a track off that album earlier tonight.

As a kid in the 70s, I was lucky to get to go to summer camp each year at Camp Clover Point on the Lake of the Ozarks. There was swimming, canoeing, archery, crafts, softball, and a dance every night. I remember dancing myself silly to this number in the sweltering Missouri heat.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3XGjnQgsJA

LOL - Man, I wish I could go back to that feeling.

I watched the same video not an hour ago! "Little Willy" is one of my favorite songs. I have the sheet music and used to be able to play that riff.

It's an awesome riff!

Indeed it is. Here's another Sweet classic.

And another Three Dog Night classic. This performance gives me chills.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnyh6i9NvmE&feature=related

Been watching the early Soft Machine vids (thanks, HWW!) and they got to thinking about another underrated Canterbury band.

They never made it big in the progressive era, probably because they were poppier and jazzier than most of the bands to hit. The band is Caravan, and this is Golf Girl


Note: You may have to crank this one. Volume's a little low.

Does Marainne Faithfull qualify as smexy? She definitely qualifies as classy.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jf9w2hJIqUk

Don't know if I'd call this "smexy"...but I love this old song...


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yosCYE4vwlY&feature=related