is "king kong" by the KINKS the first great glam song?

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3/28/69 b-side to the single "Plastic Man"

sci-fi trash theme, pre-T.Rex-Bolan quivery vocals, obvious and clunky but huge and catchy riff.

or is there an earlier one?

― mike bobak, Monday, 23 May 2005 18:41 (twenty-one years ago)

The Joe Meek produced "Have I the Right?" has the drum beat down some years earlier.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 23 May 2005 18:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Geez, that's '64. Is that the "stomp" beat - snare on every quarter note? Maybe Dave Clark Five had that, too - "Bits and Pieces?"

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Monday, 23 May 2005 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Didn't Meek actually freak out over that DC5 record because he thought one of their guys stole it from HITR?

― jared, Monday, 23 May 2005 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, but "Have I The Right" does kind of sound like glam, whereas "Bits And Pieces" just sounds like a Dave Clark Five song.

― billstevejim (billstevejim), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 03:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know if I agree with that. What glam songs sound like "Have I the Right?"

― Tim Ellison (Tim Ellison), Tuesday, 24 May 2005 04:48 (twenty-one years ago)

three years pass...

Is there a 60s history of proto-glam? Does it go from Joe Meek to the Kinks to T.Rex?

― late adopter, Wednesday, 20 May 2009 00:19 (seventeen years ago)

Philip Auslander's book on glam has a good chapter that claims some surprising precedents for glam, including Phil Ochs' Elvis phase, psychedelic light shows, Sha Na Na, and John Lennon.

― dad a, Wednesday, 20 May 2009 01:52 (seventeen years ago)

I always thought Spirit in the Sky by Norman Greenbaum sounded like total Electric Warrior era T Rex before that existed.

― filthy dylan, Wednesday, 20 May 2009 02:37 (seventeen years ago)

AGREED!

The original question was a great ilm moment for me.

― PappaWheelie V, Wednesday, 20 May 2009 02:37 (seventeen years ago)

Has anybody heard this 'Nederglam' comp? Looks neat.

http://www.excelsior-recordings.com/shop/secure/images/products/180_large.jpg

Booby Trap - Kelly, Grace & Sally
Catapult -Let Your Hair Hang Down
Lemming -Father John
Heart-Lovemaker
Dump-Annabelle
Long Tall Ernie And The Shakers -Motor Man
Amsterdam-Mary Lou
Bonnie St. Claire & Unit Gloria-Clap Your Hands And Stamp Your Feet
The Heavy Dwarfs-Moeder Natuur
Left Side -(like a) Locomotion
Black Fire-Do It
Smyle-She Means A Lot To Me
The Rockets-Rock And Roll Drummer (Part 1)
Plastic Feet-Big Blond Baby
Cardinal Point-The Grand Pretender
Melody-Stepping Stone
BZN-Sweet Silver Annie
Cherry Van Gelder-Smith-Goodbye (Guitarman)
Hank The Knife And The Jets- Guitar King
Zingara-Girl, Girl, Girl
Serpentine-Powerful Jim
Hans van Hemert-Because of the Cats
Pantherman-Pantherman
Bonnie St. Claire & Unit Gloria-The Rock Goes On

― dad (gnarly sceptre), Wednesday, 20 May 2009 12:21 (seventeen years ago)

two years pass...

I was just listening to this in the shower a few days ago and thought the exact same thing.

― Naive Teen Idol, Sunday, 13 November 2011 04:00 (fourteen years ago)

pre-T.Rex-Bolan quivery vocals

Uh, but Bolan had quivery vocals pre-T. Rex and was certainly well known enough for Ray Davies to have heard of him, if not actually heard him - I'm not saying that Ray was ripping Bolan off because I think he'd done similar vocals before

― R. Stornoway (Tom D.), Sunday, 13 November 2011 12:48 (fourteen years ago)

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