No Early Clue to the New Direction™ today, due to tomorrow being one of our bi-weekly Cinema Listomanias.
In its stead, however, I thought I'd share this quite remarkable promo film from 1964 a friend hipped me to the other day -- the pre-cosmic Moody Blues, featuring the great Denny Laine, doing "Go Now."
I have no idea who directed the thing, and 'm not sure whether or not it was done as a deliberate homage to that iconic black-and-white Robert Freeman Meet the Beatles album cover. But it sure is arty in a wonderfully 60s sort of way.
[h/t Kerrin L. Griffith]
Is it just me, or do they all (except for Laine) look like they're in their mid-30s?
ReplyDeleteThe other Brit invasion bands looked a lot younger in 64, I think. Maybe it's the cinematography.
I was wondering about that too, now that you mention....
ReplyDeleteIt looks influenced by Fritz Lang's Metropolis.
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But it sure is arty in a wonderfully 60s sort of way.
ReplyDeleteAbsolutely.
I have always loved that song.
And my word is prepurmi. What is postpurmi?
Whatever it is supposed to be, it is fab.
ReplyDeleteI clicked through to YouTube so I could add this clip to my Favorites and read some of the comments. Somewhere along the way I had read that "Go Now" was a cover, but never heard the original or knew who the artist was. In case you're interested, check out Bessie Banks' original http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FY3eEhfY6o4
ReplyDeleteBut it was their second single, "Go Now" (released later that year), which really launched their career, being promoted on TV with one of the first purpose-made promotional films in the pop era, produced and directed by Alex Wharton
ReplyDeleteI've loved this song from first hearing it when I was 9 or 10 yrs old. Lovely!