Dick Clark came from Philadelphia not too far from my parents. I got into American Bandstand as a kid in 1976. Penny Lane clicked for me in 1974. Strawberry Fields clicked for me in 1977, 10 years after the release. All in all, a fun video! Love all your videos, TJR. Super Fan is a hoot! As for the mustaches, I have too much of a baby face for facial hair but for them, that was their right! No problem with that! Kudos to Mr. Clark for staying neutral. TJ, you seemed to follow suit as you’re encouraging us to think what it was like back in the days… You hit it right on the nose with describing the cheerful Penny Lane and melancholy Strawberry Fields, TJ! The closest thing to a drastic change in later years is as U2’s Achtung Baby. That one took a while for me to warm up. It did. Zooropa never did. I remember Debbie Harry from Blondie said “It’s dangerous not to change.” Working on a part time cartoon for 31 years, I agree 100%! Thanks again for a fun nostalgic video!
@fgrady1
23 күн бұрын
To add perspective to this, “The Beatles at Shea Stadium” first aired on ABC-TV in January 1967, mere weeks before the PL/SSF single hit radio. That caused a disconnect between the band’s look which they easily connected with and this new age group that looked and sounded too different presented so quickly after we all got to see the legendary Shea show filmed in 1965. Nonetheless, it quickly took off on the charts when the 45 was released commercially.
@williamlangan5902
23 күн бұрын
@@fgrady1 , good point! I was just a baby though out it all. I do remember something similar as a kid growing up in the 1970’s. My sister was a big Elton John fan. She had the albums from 1973 to 1975. They all had the lyrics and pictures of the band members. Always present was a picture of Sir Elton’s lyricist Bernie Taupin. Often you’d see pictures of David Johnstone, Dee Murray, Nigel Olson and Ray Cooper. However, on Rock Of The Westies, there’s Bernie, Ray and David on the back cover. However, no Dee or Nigel. And at the time, I’m wondering “Hey! Where’s Dee and Nigel?” Caleb Quaye, Roger Pope and Kenny Pasarelli all did a great job with the EJ Band. But it seemed like David, Dee and Nigel were a team and a force to be reckoned with!
@YnotNomis
3 ай бұрын
And in 5 months these kids were buying up the Sgt. Pepper album like there was no tomorrow, even the kids who were doubtful about the "new" look of the Beatles and sound.
@mikemeade4947
3 ай бұрын
I was 16 and a huge Beatles fan (in 1967) . New Beatles' singles would be played on the hour, every hour, alternating A and B sides. My radio station just kept playing Penny Lane. I rang up the DJ (a big Beatles fan) and asked why he wasn't playing SFF. He said it was just too weird. But he played it. On first listen I thought dear John had at last gone insane. We just didn't have the ability to listen to it, it was so far away from anything that had come before. I am still (at 73) a huge Beatles fan and Strawberry Fields Forever is my favourite Beatles song
@sophiehanssel2017
3 ай бұрын
This is my first time seeing this. Thanks for this incredibly rare treasure!
@TJRtheOriginal
3 ай бұрын
Glad you enjoyed it! But I want to make it clear, that I did not discover this footage. You can see this American Bandstand footage on KZitem. I am just commenting on it.
@derekroberts6654
3 ай бұрын
Makes me wonder how they reacted when they first heard “Tomorrow Never Knows” from “Revolver”. if it was me, i would expect some kind radical change after hearing that….
@joe6096
3 ай бұрын
In many ways that was even more dark and avant garde than SFF. All in one chord, no bridge, "lay down all thoughts, surrender to the void"....... this isn't our mop tops singing "I Wanna Hold Your Hand". Even today when you listen to the entire Revolver album start to finish, after TNK fades you sit in stunned silence.
@stephenrostkoski837
3 ай бұрын
My babysitter woke me up from a nap when this American Bandstand broadcast originally aired. Even as a kid, I was mesmerized and loved it and couldn't believe all the criticism. I mean, it was the Beatles after all! "Tomorrow Never Knows" and Revolver in general did prepare me for the change. I don't remember there being much more to the Beatle segment of the broadcast.
@Uppernorwood976
3 ай бұрын
I remember hearing Strawberry Fields for the first time in the early 90s. At the time I only knew the Beatles from their early songs, which by that time sounded very ‘dated’, for want of a better word. But Strawberry Fields was completely different, it could have been released in any decade. I only knew it was the Beatles because I’d heard they had a song with that title. Instantly blew me away. Lennon’s off tempo singing is still one of the weirdest and most compelling vocal performances I’ve ever very heard.
@michaelbarcus7011
3 ай бұрын
Really good video! It's always interesting to watch people react to music that is completely removed from what their ear is used to digesting. Over time popular music absorbs it into its collective musical conscience & what once sounded bizarre becomes status quo. I grew up in the 90's so while I was a fan of The Beatles I didn't experience their music through the lens of this dramatic musical shift. But I can remember, for example, remember listening with my best friend to Alice'N'Chains Dirt when it was first released. It was so bizarre that we had to listen to it several times before we could even process what it was that we were hearing - yet alone decide whether or not we liked it. I imagine on a much grander scale that must be how these kids felt.
@donniemunden3283
3 ай бұрын
Great content !!!
@TJRtheOriginal
3 ай бұрын
Thank you.
@franco426
3 ай бұрын
Great analyses of this video! I can imagine it was quite a shock! Just a few years later this would be easily accepted.
@TJRtheOriginal
3 ай бұрын
I know. Crazy! LOL
@M5guitar1
3 ай бұрын
I liked the new look. Very psychedelic.
@jmad627
3 ай бұрын
The first kid interviewed after Strawberry Fields really gets it. In the summer of 67 I was 5 and we moved from Charleston SC to Gales Ferry CT. That’s my overwhelming memory of that time. "They look like someone’s grandfather." "They’re as bad as The Monkees." ….Hilarious now in retrospect.
@TJRtheOriginal
3 ай бұрын
LOL Yes!
@donnicholas7552
3 ай бұрын
I remember seeing that episode when it first aired. Strawberry Fields Forever video blew my teenaged mind. It was weird, but I liked it. Penny Lane was more Beatley and not as weird. I loved their new sound. 👍
@TomHolliday9
3 ай бұрын
Paul has commented over the years how at each stage of the Beatles career they lost fans and gained fans due to their change in both appearance as well as their music. So hearing the Bandstand audience's comments isn't too surprising.
@aminahmed2220
3 ай бұрын
Absolutely fantastic have a wonderful day tjr also today is Canada day where I live in ❤😊
@steveclark9211
3 ай бұрын
Some of those teens' answers are hilarious
@denniswood1437
3 ай бұрын
For most people in 1967, the surreal, psychedelic imagery of "Strawberry Fields Forever" must have seemed strange & out there. Lennon was singing about a state of mind. He can't go back to his Liverpool childhood but only revisit it in his mind. Conversely, "Penny Lane" was about a continuity with childhood as it's in his ears & eyes. The barber, the pretty girl selling poppies, the banker, & the fireman are still there. Both songs are about looking back but from a different point of view. Each viewpoint is valid and likewise, both songs are eternal classics.
@boymoontube
3 ай бұрын
When the kid said “grandfather”, my eyes naturally moved to TJR 😅
@KneeAches
3 ай бұрын
In 1967 I loved SFF and continue to feel that way to this day. The video I found strange but it was The Beatles! Seemed too cool for me. Penny Lane I did not love as much but still….it was The Beatles. I was 16 at the time.
@reddykilowatt
3 ай бұрын
This was a period, 1963-1967 when pretty much everything in the culture was changing rapidly. Some liked it and some did not which always leads to tension between progression and backlash. The cultural changes since in the 70s, 80s and 90s are also all pretty distinct and had people in both camps. The cultural changes over the past 25 years though have been pretty minimal. People in general, setting aside politics, and the arts in particular don’t reflect the kind of rapid changes we saw in those prior eras. Some audience today commenting on Taylor Swift, Ed Sheeran or Beyonce would be hard pressed to come up with any big changes in their sound, look or style from a fee years ago.
@deantaylor1512
3 ай бұрын
It took till 1967 to finely end the 1950s….the music and promo films were a radical step forwards .. It’s interesting how the kids picked up on how old it all seemed to feel … exactly what the Beatles were doing .. by looking back to go forward.. The album is about nostalgia and memory… genius in my humble opinion..
@MIKECNW
3 ай бұрын
Think you're wrong about that. I've heard in took till 1964 to do that.
@deantaylor1512
3 ай бұрын
@@MIKECNW out of interest then .. who .. what do you think acts as a marker for cultural change?… My reason for thinking it’s the Beatles at this point is in both strawberry fields and the pepper album there’s no or very little references to rock and roll music.. it’s a sound that pre date all that … most other bands were still play a blues / rock and roil based musics.. .. Be interesting to read what you think
@jameswilson7084
3 ай бұрын
@@deantaylor1512 I'd say 1965, with Bob Dylan, The Byrds, and of course The Beatles, with "Rubber Soul". I guess Bob Dylan was the main artist responsible for the big step forward. And in 1966, with The Beach Boys and "Pet Sounds" and "Good Vibrations". "Good Vibrations" is just as big a marker of a change to me as "Strawberry Fields Forever". And of course, "Tomorrow Never Knows".
@MIKECNW
3 ай бұрын
@@deantaylor1512 All you said doesn't necessarily mean it took till 67 for the 60's to begin. That's silly.
@steveclark9211
3 ай бұрын
I was 10 years old when Strawberry Fields Forever/ Penny Lane was released. I had been a Beatles fan since I was 7 and saw them on the Ed Sullivan Show in 1964. Even though I was young I liked and enjoyed new Beatles music as they progressed.
@MIKECNW
3 ай бұрын
Why is it so important to mention that you were young? You were probably not the only one at such a young age to enjoy The Beatles or music in general.
@steveclark9211
3 ай бұрын
@@MIKECNW I realize I'm not the only one who was at a young age who enjoyed The Beatles' music back then. I was just putting things in perspective. I loved The Beatles' music as it was happening. It wasn't like I discovered it 10 or 20 years after the fact.
@TJRtheOriginal
3 ай бұрын
Nothing wrong with putting things into perspective. That’s what I did in my video when I said, “By the time I heard Strawberry Fields Forever” I the Beatles had already been broken up for a number of years.
@MIKECNW
3 ай бұрын
@@TJRtheOriginal I'm not saying the opposite either. I've seen others says "Even though I was young" elsewhere making it sound like there's odd about listening to music at such an age.
@bobmessier5215
3 ай бұрын
I always felt that the "Help" album ended the black & white period of Beatlemania and started the new trend of 'colorful thought-provoking lyrics and sounds' that was prevalent on "Rubber Soul". In fact, could've easily have been a double album in late 65' and early 66'. "Revolver" pushed the limits on 'color and sound'. Opening the door wide open for psychedelia like "Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band", "Magical Mystery Tour" and the animated film soundtrack "Yellow Submarine" 1967-1968.
@scottandrewbrass1931
2 ай бұрын
They were certainly no Joey Dee and The Starliters.😂 (Squares).
@carnacthemagnificent2498
3 ай бұрын
hah! They thought the Beatles looked outlandish just a few months before the Summer of Love and hippies hit the scene. I guess you have to see the norms broken / new ones being created for the first time by someone, makes sense it was the Beatles.
@thomastimlin1724
2 ай бұрын
About 8 months before this, in summer 1966, there was the "We're more popular than Jesus" John Lennon quote scandal had hit, and this did NOT help the Beatles case to fans changing their look and music. The Bible belt had Beatles smashing and burning parties. There is plenty of newsreel footage of these. These songs were really the dividing line between the "cute Beatles Pop rock sound" and their experimental period including LSD [More so than the Revolver album. Both of these issues were fodder for critics and parents and politicians and church leaders who already hated them to become even more vocal and anti "long haired weirdo groups and music.. There were some fans, including my sister in law, who abandoned the Beatles at this point.
@seanhayden7719
3 ай бұрын
Hello lovely video will you be doing a unboxing video of the police box set
@TJRtheOriginal
3 ай бұрын
Hoping to.
@scotttaylor7767
3 ай бұрын
How many of those kids would have heard of LSD ? Or found out what was happening in SF. Or the grateful dead ! Lol. Play the clip when the Jefferson Airplane comes on to do white rabbit a few months latter. Poor Dick Clark is still playing catch up.
@joe6096
3 ай бұрын
None of the pop shows at the time were really "with it" with the exception of Laugh In. Ed Sullivan, American Bandstand..... they were talking to the artists and speaking to the audience like it was a Lawrence Welk show, meanwhile the Beatles, Jefferson Airplane, The Doors, Grateful Dead, and the Rolling Stones were all hitting acid and expanding their horizons making different music with lyrics really above and beyond what old people could possibly grasp. It was two completely different levels, and there was not a TV show that understood that. It really wasn't until MTV hit the airwaves in 1981 that TV hosts who talked to rock bands and rock audiences could be on the same level.
@demonsbutterfly
3 ай бұрын
Hard to believe those clips were first shown in Black & White… The reactions would have been vastly different if it was shown off 35mm Colour Film
@TJRtheOriginal
3 ай бұрын
While the broadcast was in black and white, there is the possible likelihood that they saw the films in color.
@demonsbutterfly
3 ай бұрын
@@TJRtheOriginalyes that was B&W video tape broadcasting
@MIKECNW
3 ай бұрын
@@TJRtheOriginal Would you know why this was in B&W? By watching older TV shows, I thought B&W was pretty much gone by the late 60's. At least with Commercial TV.
@TJRtheOriginal
Ай бұрын
I am pretty sure that black-and-white broadcast continued until sometime during the 70s.
@MIKECNW
Ай бұрын
@@TJRtheOriginal Seeing reruns of TV shows from back then, especially early in the decade I can't see how that could of been. Unless you can tell me or some examples you recall.
@joe6096
3 ай бұрын
It was not doing the viewing audience any favors airing this video in black and white. This was the first time they'd appeared ANYWHERE without their matching suits, which even with the slightly more colorful design by 1966 were still of the gray/khaki/black shade variety. The whole purpose of the song and video was the vivid color, their individual attire, and psychedelic production. Maybe they saw it in color in the studio but the black and white broadcast took a lot of the air out of it. Only when people saw the video in color could they really comprehend what the Beatles were doing at that time.
@MIKECNW
3 ай бұрын
Do we even know if AB was still airing in B&W? While I wasn't around then and from watching older TV shows from the 60's, TV was still pretty much B&W till the mid-60's and while pretty much gone by the late 60's, there might have been some exceptions.
@joe6096
3 ай бұрын
@@MIKECNW I just googled it, and in 1966 American networks were only broadcasting prime time shows in color. It was not until 1969 that all American television networks transitioned to full time, full color broadcasts. If I understand it correctly, American Bandstand was usually a Saturday afternoon show. So in 1967 it most likely was still broadcast in black and white.
@MIKECNW
3 ай бұрын
@@joe6096 Any reason why they were only showing prime time shows in color?
@joe6096
3 ай бұрын
@@MIKECNW Just like in the early days of the HDTV conversion, in the early 2000s only certain shows were actually broadcast in true 1080p HD, and you had to have an HDTV to view it in that resolution. They still broadcast everything in standard 480i until about 2009 when the FCC mandated full transition to HD for all broadcasts. Technology transition on a mass scale like that is expensive and slow.
@TJRtheOriginal
3 ай бұрын
Just because the broadcast was in B&W, doesn’t necessarily mean that the studio audience was seeing it in B&W.....But I have no way to confirm that one way or the other. Thanks for your comment.
@BackWordsJane
3 ай бұрын
Penny Lane was more commercially friendly than Strawberry Fields it did better in the pop chart in both the US and UK
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