Jessie Hill By The Who

[Guest posstot]

Did anyone on here watch the programme on BBC 4 about, The Who. Was blown away by the whole programme. Yet mostly by the footage of them in there early days in some small pub/club...playing ooh pah pa doo, penned and performed originally by Jessie Hill. Supposedly they moved into a flat and come across a huge collection of blues from the tennant before them which became their inspiration.

It's just nice to see/hear from the artists themselves, re-affirmation of the fact, that American RnB is the inspiration to the vast majority of music that the general public listen to, commercially!....yesterday, today and forever.

if you ain't seen the programme try to...Fantastic.

[pogo paul]

Did anyone on here watch the programme on BBC 4 about, The Who. Was blown away by the whole programme. Yet mostly by the footage of them in there early days in some small pub/club...playing ooh pah pa doo, penned and performed originally by Jessie Hill. Supposedly they moved into a flat and come across a huge collection of blues from the tennant before them which became their inspiration.

It's just nice to see/hear from the artists themselves, re-affirmation of the fact, that American RnB is the inspiration to the vast majority of music that the general public listen to, commercially!....yesterday, today and forever.

if you ain't seen the programme try to...Fantastic.

You can get this footage on dvd , it's called "amazing journey"and is also on you tube

[Guest posstot]

You can get this footage on dvd , it's called "amazing journey"and is also on you tube

thanks for that Paul...

Mike

[Makemvinyl]

Absolutely first class

took me back to my teens and earlier even

super back catalogue of film clips loads I hadnt seen previously

and brilliantly put together and Narrated by Daltrey and Townsend

only down side was Gallagher making his usual crass statements as if he had been there.

IMO

good stuff

[Geoff]

I used to regularly see The Who perform at the Marquee in late 64 and early 65. Don't remember them doing Ooh Poo Pah Do, but loads of other R&B tunes, e.g. I'm A Man (Muddy Waters), Heatwave, etc. B side of Anyway Anyhow Anywhere was their version of Daddy Rolling Stone.

Friends of mine saw them earlier at Loyola Hall, Stamford Hill in their earlier incarnation as the High Numbers, presumably more R&B tunes in their act.

I didn't see the programme referred to, but not sure about getting their songs from someone leaving records behind, that seems extremely unlikely to me. To some extent they were made into a "Mod" group by their then manager (can't remember his name); and the songs in their live act would be quite well known then. Jesse Hill's Ooh Poo Pah Do had plays on the radio, not sure if it was on BBC Light Programme (Saturday Club?) but definitely on Radio Luxemburg.

[pogo paul]

Absolutely first class

took me back to my teens and earlier even

super back catalogue of film clips loads I hadnt seen previously

and brilliantly put together and Narrated by Daltrey and Townsend

only down side was Gallagher making his usual crass statements as if he had been there.

IMO

good stuff

Totally agree with you! Gallagher seems to get on everything !

Wish i was there!!!

Pete Meadon ( Mod Legend ) was their manager before Lambert/Stamp.He styled and mentored the complete Mod way of life into the group,probably as far as choice of covers?

Edited April 24, 2008 by pogo paul