jimmytheferret Channel profile

Join: Nov 7, 2006

Name: jimmytheferret

Gender: Male

Location: GB

Videos Watched: 2365

Subscribers: 107

Channel Views: 3150

Music: Sixties...is there any other sort?

Hobbies: Records...of course.Metal detecting - love it.

Mid-fifties, living in the middle of England. Used to be a DJ back in the late sixties and seventies, doing mainly soul stuff. Now still collecting records and enjoying them.Been collecting records since the late sixties and have an eclectic mix. Plenty of soul, beat, R & B, psych, blues, rock and pop. Large collection of TV and radio themes as well as masses of the great old comedy records that used to abound in the fifties and sixties.

Videos (191)

The Sun Set - You Can Ride My Rainbow

Length: 4:1
Rating Average: 4.67 from 3 people
View Count: 45
Author: jimmytheferret

Tags: 60s beat British freakbeat mod psych r&b sixties UK

Here's a pleasant little ditty for your edification. I know nothing about this band, except that they issued this delightful dreamy psych number back in the flower-power year of 1967. Mmm, nice.

John Mayall's Bluesbreakers - Looking Back

Length: 3:18
Rating Average: 4.86 from 7 people
View Count: 199' favoriteCount='4
Author: jimmytheferret

Tags: 60s beat blues bluesbreakers bruce clapton eric fleetwood green jack john mayall peter r&b sixties

Another great stomper from the grand-daddy of British Blues and R&B. Featuring Peter Green, and issued in the UK on Decca in 1966.

Roy Shirley - Paradise

Length: 2:59
Rating Average: 5.00 from 1 people
View Count: 113
Author: jimmytheferret

Tags: bluebeat coxsone crab dub island marley reggae rocksteady roots ska skatalites trojan

Great ska sound from a great ska era. Issued in the UK on Ska Beat in 1966.

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Eve of Destruction

Length: 3:19
Rating Average: 4.90 from 29 people
View Count: 11160' favoriteCount='45
Author: tinker800

Tags: Barry Destruction Eve McGuire Monterey of Talbot Terry

Barry McGuire doing his 1965 hit "Eve of Destruction" at the 40th Anniversary of the Monterey Pop Festival last July. Along with Terry Talbot of Mason Proffit fame, from their set called "Tripping the Sixties"