Cinema Takes a Trip | 10 Wild Rock & Psych Soundtracks from the 60s

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1. I heard that the reason that the movie was called "Head" was so that if/when they did a follow up movie later they could use the line "from the people that gave you Head" but alas, it was not to be.

2. Cool episode, man! Now I wan'na watch those movies and do drugs (lol) Thanks for putting this one together. Cheers!

3. Skidoo and the Clint E one with the excellent motorcycle chase Coogans Bluff.

4. Re. "Performance": The reason why the film was held back for more than three years after filming had nothing to do with "censorship". The Warner Brothers executives, who after all were financing it, thought it was so awful that nobody would pay to watch it ! This happened to several British films at the time – the consensus was that they were so distasteful and incompetently made that there was no point in even distributing prints or advertising them. What particularly dismayed the executives was (a) the homoerotic scenes featuring Jagger and Fox, and (b) the general celebration of degradation and evil.

5. Psych Out should have included a featured role credit for Bruce Dern’s wig.

6. Thank you, very nice report.

7. Top shelf as ever. One of your top posts!

8. I really like the fuzz tone sound of Davie Allen and the Arrows.Also think the Standells and Max Frost and the Troopers have some great songs.

9. Vanishing Point has a great soundtrack.

10. Well I loved this one. As a Yank, it was nice to see a post that was more US focused. But Hollywood's attempt to cash in on the 60s youth movement only showed how much Hollywood understood cash, not culture. Two soundtracks that I really liked were "Revolution" (a 1968 'documentary' with a soundtrack album featuring the debuts of Quicksilver, Steve Miller, and Mother Earth). And "Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush." Much as I love "Blow Up," both music and movie, it does not seem to fit in with this batch. But no one mentioned "The Graduate"? Okay, I won't either. The 60s were a different time – several of these movies were rated 'R' when I went to see them.

11. Flash Boom Pow from The Trip 1967 and reused on Easy Rider 1969 but missing from OST album.
    The Band I think wanted too much money for rights cover version by Smith on OST kind of ironic what the film represents of freedom not greed

12. I'm 75, I went to see Performance and Privilege, and didn't like either of them.
    both seemed like the directors were indulging their perceptions, although the music was good.

13. Good one.

14. Ah to be 15 years old again 😂

15. A lot of putrid decadent stuff mostly. but let no one say that Americans aren’t great at exploiting one another

16. Hello,
    Could The Strawberry’s Statement” have a place in this list ?

17. You've done it again – my old man had a shelf full of trashy '60s paperbacks & Wild In The Streets was one of them! They weren't quite age-appropriate for a 14 year-old but that didn't stop me reading them… 😉

18. Christopher Jones (Wild in The Streets) was a brief cult star of the late '60s counterculture era and a would-be rebel successor to James Dean had he wanted it. He also appeared in Ryan's Daughter as a British soldier suffering from PSTD.

19. you could do a whole video about biker movie soundtracks as well, just check out the "maniacs on wheels!!!" compilation

20. Wild Angels baby.😎

21. Thanks for another excellent video. Head is a great album. I love the songs on it. The Nuggets compilation helped make me aware of the other films and songs featured. It may not be a popular choice, but I like the Coogan's Bluff soundtrack and the 2 psychedelic songs in it "Pigeon-Toed Orange Peel" and "Everybody". I believe Lalo Schifrin composed it and Wally Holmes provided the lyrics.

22. How about More?

23. I;m glad those days are long gome.

24. 14:14 Lynn Carey fronted the band, Momma Lion.

25. 'Here we go round the Mulberry Bush' is a fantastic Soundtrack featuring tracks by The Spencer Davis Group Traffic & Andy Ellison of Johns Children

26. Are you sure Charlie Watts drums on the Ry Cooder version of Memo From Turner? It doesn't sound like Charlie, and it's always officially been given as Gene Parsons.

27. https://youtu.be/e5OPsKgzW34

28. PORPOISE SONG (DEMO)- CAROLE KINGhttps://m.youtube.com/watch?v=wbJrUYz1T78&pp=ygUzQ2Fyb2xlIEtpbmcgcG9ycG9pc2Ugc29uZyBkZW1vIGJldHRlciBzb3VuZCBxdWFsaXR5

29. I am uncertain if this is true. I heard the reason the film was called Hed. So when the sequel that never happened came to be that the tagline would be. FROM THE GUYS THAT GAVE YOU HED. Any input on whether this is true or not?

30. This is the best one of the year! Which is really a big deal since all your videos are so fantastic. That hybrid of film and music history thank you always.

31. Good video, although pretty messy and chopped up – as psychedelic films were back then because of the then obvious psychedelic drug culture spreading out from Cali/Frisco – and yet, for example, Easy Rider flowed much more nicely than the chopped up mess that you've shown. etc However, I think you've completely missed where and when this all started in England – and therefore the historical and social context of the time and place(s), and that may be because you're a bit too young to remember, or you were brought up somewhere quite different to me😀. Our age, location and social surroundings are central to understanding this from our own experiences, especially to when and where we were growing up through those times.

    I was born in Stepney Green, London E1 – East London Street Kid with a Londonderry name – Tough area to say the least! I started school Jan '58 aged 3 3/4 – older brother had taught me his homework for over a year so I could read and write at 3. Mum, Dad and us two boys lived in 2 rooms above a greengrocers shop at 16-18 Globe Road between uncleared bomb sites. No bathroom, outside loo. Beautiful (white) multi-culti area. My scouser Dad, Harry, was a Navy Boxer and semi-pro Larry Adler-style harmonica player in all the local pubs – my well-educated 'Essex Country Gal' Mum, June, was an awesome jazz singer, already slowly dying of cancer, and working in the shop below us (owned & run by my Dad's brother).

    My school was a very new non-state selective-intake Progressive School – Ben Jonson Infants & Primary – a training ground for teachers eventually going up to Secondary School and University. We all learned music, dancing, poetry, knitting (my first Arsenal scarf and balaclava), sewing, cooking, sports and every other normal subject. In music and dance lessons we were learning pop, folk, classical – and Musique Concrète, especially Karlheinz Stockhausen – see where this is going yet…???

    In the meantime, around 1960, Cleo Laine and Johnny Dankworth & his small group were playing weekend evenings at The Old Globe pub 7 doors away from where we lived on Globe Road – and 3 (until recently) surviving relatives have confirmed this to me in detail — While Cleo was mothering me on her lap, nattering with June and her sister & sister-in-law, Harry was up playing jazz harmonica with Johnny Dankworth & his small band. (Plus occasional Sunday Lunches in (male-only) Irish Pubs)… And I was still learning Musique Concrète at school …!!!

    Fast Forward to 1965. We've moved to Brentwood, Essex (1962 – when I started playing guitar) to help June (Mum) try slow her cancer process. For me, '62-'65 another non-state selective-intake Progressive School – Hogarth Infants & Primary, and then '65-70 a non-state selective-intake Grammar School. Here we had a fully equipped School Orchestra with fully kitted instruments, a French Teacher trained on violin at the Royal Academy of Music, a 4-keyboard School Organ with foot pedals and 22-ft pipes – the then largest organ of any educational establishment in Europe, the first educational establishment in Europe with a computer (for use in lessons) which we all programmed to play music😃, and a Music Teacher who went on to be the leader & conductor of the New Zealand Symphony Orchestra. Pretty decent school. In my first year (Christmas Time) I was in the School Choir for a public performance (3 nights) of Handel's Messiah. I was getting progressively into the world of music…

    In very early '66 I managed to persuade our Music Teacher to teach us more Musique Concrète and Karlheinz Stockhausen – oh yes! He agreed, provided I stayed on after school 2 days a week to learn all the notes for all the instruments of parts of Handel and Bach – the 20-instrument parts, not the 14-instrument parts. Good deal!😃

    And then… It happened…

    He booked us all in for a school trip in Sept '66 (new term) to see Fantastic Voyage!!! The FIRST genuinely psychedelic film of that whole era – with the beautiful new actress Raquel Welsh 🥰. And a soundtrack to die for … without drugs.

    Lo-ooong before, YP, your crazy drug-induced and drug-promoting video(s). I do so wish you'd delete it and start again with Fantastic Voyage, because THAT'S where it started.

    Y'all check out this film music on YT: Leonard Rosenman – Fantastic Voyage
    Live Long and Prosper 🤘🙏! Ian

32. 9:38 I saw Privilege on TV around 1977 and remembered the movie, which I assumed to be a low-budget black&white film, but not its title. I spent years looking for it, but only about 5 years ago did I stumble on a reference to it and found that it was a mainstream color release; only my TV had been black&white. Anyway, I watched it again last year and Paul Jones' performance is hauntingly unsettling; he brings tension into every room he enters.

33. 8:45 Speaking of rap, another group that showed up incidentally in Performance was the Last Poets, an early rap group that sounded a little like a black version of beatnik poetry. The title of track included would get my comment auto-deleted, but you'll find it on the soundtrack album.

34. 4:10 Anyone else notice a strange similarity between Christopher Jones' vocal intonations and those of another unlikely U.S. presidential candidate, the only one in recent history to have been elected to two non-consecutive terms? Just an observation.

35. I suspect you have already, but if not, check out the Monkees recording "Daily Nightly" from 1967. Early Moog, great psychedelia and written by Mike Nesmith. An oft-overlooked gem.

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