Cool British Singles Released in July 1966

The important thing is that you are making these videos and not just repeating the same old shite that people regurgitate on the net. I’ve got originals of 99% of the records you feature, but luckily I got them 25 years ago. That said, I usually find at least one record from your videos that I have to track down. And for that, I owe you a pint next time I’m in the UK.

I love the snippets of radio airplay you have interspersed within this video! What an innovative period in pop music history!

Sunshine Superman great song. Thanks for the insights into those times.

The film clips of this year continue to blow my mind. 1966: I was sixteen and your recaps of all of these British Singles warms this old man's heart. Thx YP.

“The Troggs are unprogressive”!!! That’s a compliment if I ever heard one! The Troggs are the Johnny Cash and the Tennessee Two of the sixties. Both artists broke everything down to the bare basics! Almost genius! Unprogressive is now my new favorite word!!! Excellent job Yesterday!!! Cheers!!

I especially enjoyed the focus on Beach Boys covers. I haven't heard many of those yet! I also found your report on Chris Curtis interesting, especially in relation to Deep Purple. Also new to me! Yes, for many bands it was not easy to continue their successes later that year. The footage of the Pretty Things is from a concert in the village of Blokker in the Netherlands on 19 April 1965. YouTube has a more than 10-minute video of that concert. The audience went completely wild! Thanks again Yesterday's Papers! EJ

“The Troggs" are my home town band & were great live, raw & sometimes dirty, but always playing to the crowd. The B side of their hit "Wild Thing" is a superb track called "From Home" with some great guitar from Chris Britton. "With A Girl Like You" is probably my favourite single release. I am 73 & still spin some of these vinyl 45's at Festivals in the U.K.

I’d agree that wasn’t a great slate of songs but the quality of these videos remains top notch.

I didn’t know that the song Aggravation was written by Joe South. He was such a prolific songwriter that transcended over different genres. I don’t know how many people knew that he wrote Hush that Deep Purple covered. Jon Lord and his Hammond took that to another level. It is said that he heard the version done by Billy Joe Royal and thought if they can give it a new arrangement, it could work for them… And boy did it!

Another addictive chapter. Donovan's troubles with Pye is another indictment of the record biz Here in the States, Sunshine Superman came out in the summer, so I was deprived of minths of listening pleasure, and Donovan' reputation in the music press, not that there was much music press in the US in '66, took a hit. Pet Sounds was/is superb, but it came out here in May '66. My favorite song (ties with Donovan) that was mentioned was the Spoonful's Summer in the City. A jackhammer featured as an instrument?! A lot of the records featured did not cross the ocean. so I was happy to hear them - and if July was a bad, we've suffered endless bad years in the decades following.

There were so many incredible English acts and songs that Americans including myself have never even heard of or never charted here, These video clips are like unearthing a plethora of enjoyable entertaining sounds that we were simply just never exposed to, not even on any Oldies radio programs. Here in America we thought the British invasion was only a handfull of artists, These videos show, we only scratched the surface, it also provides a wider spectrum as to what swinging London was really like.

An absolute pleasure as always. A girl like you is fantastic. And Sunshine Superman was psychedelia fully real sided while most stars were still asking what the fuss was about with LSD.

I was 9 in 1966, what a time to grow up, music, fashion, thanks for all these, remember them all like yesterday,

The best gem of this episode is learning MC5 did a cover of a Troggs song. Both of these bands knew that back to basics was the right thing all along.

I so look forward to these. The trade clippings, video, audio and voiceover flow beautifully. Might even learn something.

I was definitely born too late. I love this era. Thanks again

It never fails to bring a smile on my face to see a new YP video posted, and this is no exception. Perhaps, as you say, July was not the most excellent month for new singles among the months of an awesome year, but, as your vid shows, it has its gems and interesting songs. Perhaps, as you say, the British covers of "Pet Sounds"-era Brian Wilson songs fail to "hold a candle" to the Beach Boys originals, but to these old American ears, which had not heard them before, they are certainly tuneful and intriguing. Thank you also for highlighting Zoot Money's career prior to the short-lived Dantalion's "Madman Running Through The Fields" Chariot and his time in the later iteration of The Animals, replacing Dave Rowberry in that band (who had earlier replaced Alan Price) and bringing with him Andy Summers through all these bands. And learning about the brilliant and troubled Chris Curtis, obviously a precocious and eccentric genius in the Syd Barrett/Brian Jones mold, including his role in the formation of the early Deep Purple, was a revelation. Thank you finally for featuring Mike D'Abo. I prefer Manfred Mann's cover of Dylan's "The Might Quinn the Eskimo" to the original, and that is largely due to D'Abo. D'Abo also penned the classic "Handbags and Gladrags" about a girl running through her family's sparse savings in a desperate bid to stay hip and fashionable, and played piano on Rod Stewart's beautiful version of that song. D'Abo also of course originated the role of Herod for the original recording of "Jesus Chtist Superstar," performing the show-stopping comedic classic "Herod's Song" ("So you are the Christ/The great Jesus Christ!..."). Your vids always promise a welcome break from the anxiety and stress of daily life, and this video is another standout. Thank you yet again.

This series of British singles released in the 1960s is simply wonderful. I have a lot in my CD collection, compilations with many of these rare and difficult singles, but even so, here I discovered wonderful songs from this magical period of British rock & pop. Congratulations to the creators of the videos.👋👋👋

Un grand MERCI pour ces vidéos! Quel travail, tant iconographique que musical! BRAVO!

I recently got to speak to Mike D’Abo’s daughter Olivia. Told me some interesting stories. She said Klaus Voorman was like another uncle to her said that in her childhood, she would just have Rod Stewart or Bill Wyman, or Ringo at her house like they were just normal every day people