Friday Freak-Out: The Electric Prunes' "I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)" (1967)

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Friday Freak-Out: The Electric Prunes perform "I Had Too Much To Dream (Last Night)," from on The Mike Douglas Show, April 10, 1967. The song is included on the group's Rhino compilation, "Too Much to Dream - Original Group Recordings: Reprise 1966-1967."

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Lilith999

Agent 99? Awesome!
RioRico

The flatulence version:

I woke this morning to a cold and empty bed
My nose assaulted by an odor of the dead
The bed was empty where my lover used to be
And then another fart escaped from me-eee..
[bang bang bang]
Came the dawn
And s/he was gone
S/he was gone gone gone…
[bang bang bang bang bang]
I ate too many beans last night
I ate too many beans
I’m not willing to face the light
I ate too many beans
Last night…
katkins

Is that Bruno Kirby at the beginning?
Anonymous

Cute, but of such poor quality I would prefer a link to a soundtrack of better quality!
Anonymous

Who else thought MGMT or Ariel Pink when they started playing?
GuyInMilwaukee

Nice.. but it doesn’t match the master of early psychedelia.
http://youtu.be/SBOPCZCAb5Q
Rare stereo too. First I’ve ever seen it available. YouTube is amazing.
David Pescovitz

That is awesome. Next week’s Friday Freak-Out! Thanks.
beaker

One of best songs on Nuggets. Love the drumming on this track. Thanks for the great vid.
Anonymous

April 10, 1967
Star: Mike Douglas Host
Co-host: Barbara Feldon
Guests:
The Electric
Marty Ingels
Chris Calloway
Cab Calloway

It does look like Bruno Kirby and I thought Fred Travalena. Unforunately it Marty Ingels.
blendergasket

3:58. The singer stares at Barbara and it burns a hole in the image.
Anonymous

I was just revisiting the Nuggets box set yesterday! One of my personal favorites:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jcb0I-rwYsc
Anonymous

Mike Douglas, say what you will about him, but he always had such an interesting cross-section of guests… He hosted John and Yoko for ONE WEEK, and all the guests for that week were people like Chuck Berry and George Carlin, folks the Onos could relate to.

Mike also had M.L. King as a guest, a variety of political people, and I remember an amazing amount of “old Hollywood” types like George Raft, Gloria Swanson, even Moe Howard in one of his last appearances. It was quite the show in the late ’60s-early to mid ’70s.
Anonymous

Of course love Nuggets..all of them! And thanks for posting…BTW RIP Mark Tulin, Prunes Bassist :-(
InsertFingerHere

99.. gawd she was hot back in the day.

Not a fan of these sorts of ‘performances’ , let them play live and go with that.
yrarbil cilbup

Mike Douglas was such a sleazy opportunist, but, as noted before, his guest list was glorious.

Agent 99… ow, u make it hurt soo good momma!

Say looking at the lead lip-syncer, are really sure where George Bush was then? Creepy.

I wonder how much grass the drummer smoked before the taping, the bassist looked pretty out of it too.

The special effects. Take a middle aged Ohio television tech ordered by Mr. Douglas to make the shots ‘hip.’ Throw an oscilloscope over it for the win.
jfrancis

Home Vewing is killing Home Viewing
kqih

YES!
Anonymous

This is terrific!1There are so few good videos, where you can see the lip-synching band was ready to rip the audience up with a live performance. These guys look like they’re holding a lot back, just to be on TV.
Anonymous

I wouldn’t have expected Agent 99 to be so unhip.. like, man.
LightningRose

Great choice!