I am grateful for having had hip babysitters. My parents were not big fans of the 60’s music scene that was exploding all around us. But the babysitters were. So I was exposed to all sorts growing up. The swinging London scene was full of talented newcomers. But the Beatles, Dave Clark Five, Herman’s Hermits, the lovable mop tops pretty much overshadowed everyone outside the genre. Another problem was that there was a long standing battle between English and American entertainers’ unions, and it was only through a labor exchange the English artists could appear on American telly and vice versa. I’m sure that’s how we missed one of the hippest cats around, Georgie Fame. While 'Get Away' and ‘Yeh Yeh’ received no airplay that I recall, he finally had a US hit with a soulless entry, The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde, years after the two aforementioned tunes dropped.

Note on the ‘Yeh Yeh’ link that he was on ‘Ready, Steady, Go!’ and he and his band are doing it live, not the lip sync-style American shows of the same time were married to.