Them -Gloria

 "Gloria" is a rock song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison. Conceived in 1963, it was recorded with his band Them in 1964, and released as the B-side of "Baby, Please Don't Go"

Besides Morrison, present were Billy Harrison on guitar, Alan Henderson on bass guitar, Ronnie Millings on drums and Pat McCauley on keyboards 

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Them (feat.the Blizzards) in Holland, March 1967 (audio)

            Herman Brood - Van Morrison - Eelco Gelling - Hans Waterman -Willy Middel

 

Van Morrison & The Blizzards
One more Time - If you and i could be as Two - Gloria - Hey Girl - My lonely sad Eyes - Mystic Eyes.

  In March 1967 Morrison did a short tour of the Netherlands backed by Cuby & the Blizzards and then left for New York to start his solo career.

  Van Morrison has placed the break-up of Them in context: "There was no motive behind anything you did [back then]. You just did it because you wanted to do it and you enjoyed doing it. That's the way the thing started, but it got twisted somewhere along the way and everybody involved in it got twisted as well, including me."(1967) "You can't take something like that, put it in a box and place a neat little name on it, then try to sell it. That's what they tried to do. That's what killed Them."

Them - Mystic Eyes/Gloria (Olympic Theatre Paris 1965)

                                                               

  "Mystic Eyes" is a song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison when he was leader of the band Them. It was the opening tune for the band's first album, The Angry Young Them that was released in June 1965. It was released as a single in the US in October 1965 and in the UK on 12 November 1965. It charted at No. 33 in the US but did not chart in the UK.

                    Mystic Eyes / Gloria

 "Gloria" is a rock song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison, and originally recorded by Morrison's band Them in 1964. It was released as the B-side of "Baby, Please Don't Go". The song became a garage rock staple and a part of many rock bands' repertoires. It is particularly memorable for its "Gloria!" chorus. It is easy to play, as a simple three-chord song, and thus is popular with those learning to play guitar. 

 

Them-Baby Please Don,t Go (Pictures Chris Hill)

                                                     Foto,s by Chris Hill

 "Baby Please Don't Go" was one of the earliest songs recorded by Them, fronted by a 19-year-old Van Morrison. Their rendition of the song was derived from a version recorded by John Lee Hooker in 1949 as "Don't Go Baby". Hooker's song later appeared on a 1959 album, Highway of Blues, which Van Morrison heard and felt was "something really unique and different" with "more soul" than he had previously heard.

                  Pictures Chris Hill ,Thanks!!!

Them recorded "Baby, Please Don't Go" for Decca Records in October 1964. Besides Morrison, there is conflicting information about who participated in the session. In addition to the group's original members (guitarist Billy Harrison, bassist Alan Henderson, drummer Ronnie Millings, and keyboard player Eric Wrixon)

Them-The Story

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Them(feat.Van Morrison) LIVE!! + interviews with Van and the band.......

      Them were a Northern Irish band formed in Belfast in April 1964, most prominently known for the garage rock standard "Gloria" and launching singer Van Morrison's musical career.^[4] The original five member band consisted of Morrison, Alan Henderson, Ronnie Milling, Billy Harrison and Eric Wrixon. The group was marketed in the United States as part of the British Invasion.^[5]
Them scored two UK hits in 1965 with "Baby, Please Don't Go" (UK #10) and "Here Comes the Night" (UK #2; Ireland #2). The latter song and "Mystic Eyes" were Top 40 hits in the US ^wikipdia

     Here Comes The Night
 "Here Comes the Night" is a 1964 song, written by Bert Berns. It became a hit for Northern Irish band Them, fronted by Van Morrison, in March 1965, charting at No. 2 in the UK and No. 24 in the U.S. Them's single is listed at either No.33 or No.36 in the Top 100 best-selling UK singles during the calendar year 1965, depending on source.

The song was originally released as a single in both the UK and the U.S. by another Decca Records' artiste, Lulu, in November 1964. Lulu's recording charted at No.50 in the UK,and failed to chart at all in the U.S.

                                                              

    Gloria
 "Gloria" is a song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison and originally recorded by Morrison's band Them in 1964 and released as the B-side of "Baby, Please Don't Go". The song became a garage rock staple and a part of many rock bands' repertoires. It is particularly memorable for its "G–L–O–R–I–A" chorus. It is easy to play, as a simple three-chord song, and thus is popular with those learning to play guitar.

 Morrison said that he wrote "Gloria" while he performed with the Monarchs in Germany in the summer of 1963, at just about the time he turned eighteen years old.^[4] He started to perform it at the Maritime Hotel when he returned to Belfast and joined up with the Gamblers to form the band Them. He would ad-lib lyrics as he performed, sometimes stretching the song to fifteen or twenty minutes. After signing a contract with Dick Rowe and Decca, Them went to London for a recording session at Decca Three Studios in West Hampstead on 5 July 1964; "Gloria" was one of the seven songs recorded that day. Besides Morrison, present were Billy Harrison on guitar, Alan Henderson on bass, Ronnie Millings on drums and Patrick John McCauley on keyboards. Rowe brought in session musicians Arthur Greenslade on organ and Bobby Graham on drums, since he considered the Them members too inexperienced. There remains some dispute about whether Millings and McCauley were miked up, but Alan Henderson contends that Them constituted the first rock group to use two drummers on a recording.^[5] Although some sources claim that Jimmy Page played second guitar, other sources deny this. ^Wikipedia

   Mystic Eyes
"Mystic Eyes" is a song written by Northern Irish singer-songwriter Van Morrison when he was leader of the band Them. It was the opening tune for the band's first album, The Angry Young Them that was released in June 1965. It was released as a single in the US in October 1965 and in the UK on 12 November 1965. It charted at No. 33 in the US (it did not chart in the UK)

 In 1965, Van Morrison explained to a Belfast reporter how the song had just happened during the first recording session for the album and the band was just "busking" around. "Someone started playing a fast riff and we all just joined in. The lyrics I sing at the end were just words from a song I had been writing at the time." Later in 1966 he told an American reporter how it was inspired by an occasion in Nottingham Park as he walked by a graveyard wall where some children played next to it. "You know, man, there was life and death beside one another so close...yet so different...And then I thought of the bright lights in the children's eyes...and the cloudy lights in the eyes of the dead."^Wikipedia

                                   




"I Put a Spell on You" is a 1956 song written by Jay Hawkins, whose recording was selected as one of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame's 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll. It was also ranked No. 313 on Rolling Stone magazine's list of The 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. The track became a classic cult song covered by a variety of artists and was his greatest commercial success, reportedly surpassing a million copies in sales,^[3][4] although it failed to make the Billboard pop or R&B charts.^[

                                  

The Story Of Them
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Them - Them Again (1966)

 John Wilson(drums)Ray Elliott(Key,s,Sax,Flute)Alan Henderson (Bass),Van Morrison,Jim Armstrong(Gitaar)

Via het mooie weblog Alldylan kwam ik erachter dat het vandaag 21 Januri 51 jaar geleden dat het album Them Again   de UK uitkwam.De USA zou in April volgen.Mooi gelegenheid de LP weer eens tevoorschijn te halen.

                                          It,s All Over Now,Baby Blue (Dylan)


 side one                               

1.  “Could You Would You” (Van Morrison) – 3:15
2. “Something You Got” (Chris Kenner) – 2:36
3. “Call My Name” (Tommy Scott) – 2:23
4. “Turn On Your Love Light” (Deadric Malone, Joseph Wade Scott) – 2:18
5. “I Put a Spell on You” (Screamin’ Jay Hawkins) – 2:40
6. “I Can Only Give You Everything” (Mike Coulter, T. Scott) – 2:43
7. “My Lonely Sad Eyes” (Morrison) – 2:27
8. “I Got a Woman” (Ray Charles, Renald Richard) – 3:16

side two

1. Out of Sight” (James Brown, Ted Wright) – 2:26
2. “It’s All Over Now, Baby Blue” (Bob Dylan) – 3:52
3. “Bad Or Good” (Morrison) – 2:09
4. “How Long Baby” (M.Gillon) – 3:41
5. “Hello Josephine” (Dave Bartholomew, Fats Domino) – 2:06
6. “Don’t You Know” (T. Scott) – 2:26
7. “Hey Girl” (Morrison) – 2:59
8. “Bring ‘Em On In” (Morrison) – 3:46

Them - Here comes The Night (1965)

This song was written by Bert Berns and was released as a single in 1965 with "All For Myself" as the B-side. It was the biggest hit for Them, who were from Belfast, Ireland but still considered part of the "British Invasion."

 The story of Them
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