At the zenith of the Beatles popularity, the Merry-Go-Round was riding the stylistic coat tails of the Fab Four. Emmit Rhodes and the group are shown here in perfect Sgt. Pepper’s style on a variety show singing “Listen Listen.” It also looks like they stole the wardrobe of Paul Revere and The Raiders. The Beatles had inspired numerous imitators of thier style, but the Merry-Go-Round did it with class and folk-rock overtones. Don Knotts introduces them, and it looks to me like the group is lip syncing to a recording (likely a very common practice on TV in 1967).
Occassionally I will trot out a lost classic video like this one, but I wanted to let you all know there is a blog out there that’s got alot of these classic music videos from YouTube called Side Three – he finds the cool power pop videos so you don’t have to…