Come On And Love Me - The Vikings - 1966

Recently, some things have happened to restore my interest in music and song writing. First, a few weeks ago I discovered that one of the first songs I helped write back in 1965 is currently on a play list at a Soho England dance club. Then, this morning I learned from Gary Carlisle that one of the songs we worked on together is currently one of the top songs in a UK song writing contest which is being judged by top musicians and producers such as those for Paul McCartney and Elton John. Not exactly light weights in the music industry. So, I have a new home music studio in place and have a basic video editor that will allow simple music videos.
The first is with The Vikings which is one of the first bands of which I was a member playing bass guitar. The second is Beautiful Lies that Gary and I worked on together. BTW, Gary and I graduated high school in the same class back in 1963. Gary, please add whatever comments you would like about this song because you did most of the heavy lifting to bring this 40 year of song up to modern standards and to completion. BTW, the girls are doing a Shuffle Dance.
The third video is the Janis Joplin version of Cry Baby. However, note that this is not Janis singing and not Big Brother and the Holding Company backing her. This is all studio musicians. I am playing bass and note that the song intro has a jazz organ and then at about the 3 minute mark, the jazz organ comes back in to close out the song which is totally different than the original song. I tried adding a little extra 6 string rhythm but it just muddied the excellent way the piano and guitar lead played off each other. The video portion comes from a You Tube of Janis performing the song with Spanish text lyrics that had a lot of photos of Janis.
In the future, maybe we can look at some of the classic 50s and 60s music plus take a look at some of Birmingham's great 60s groups such as The Torquays, Swinging Playboys, The Hard Times, The Rocking Rebellions, The Distortions, The Epics, The Ramrods and others.
This first song was written in 1965 and Released in 1966. It is one of my first songs and I am pleased that people still enjoy the music more than 50 years after release. The young lady in the video is Violeta, the 60s DJ that has the youtube channel and she has this song on her current play list. I don't know how this ended up being played in a Soho England dance club but it has encouraged me to do some more recording and maybe make some music videos. Violeta's web site is on the video with contact info so please contact her and say thanks for keeping the music alive.