THE GREATEST SONGS OF THE 1960s THAT NO ONE HAS EVER HEARD
1,051) John Williams — “Ramblin’ Boy”
This is not Tom Paxton’s “Ramblin’ Boy” or even Led Zeppelin’s “Ramble On” (though John Williams (see #402, 784, 857, 858) did play with Jimmy Page). Rather, it is an exquisite ’67 Brit folk number about a ramblin’ boy, “a ramblin’ boy I always will be”.
As to Williams, Corbin explains:
John Williams was an artist in the mold of Donovan a sort of traditional folk artist with a twist. . . . He hailed from Bedford, England, a town about 30 miles north of London, and in 1964 was the lead singer and rhythm guitarist in a band with his brother Brian known as The Authentics. . . . Jimmy [Page] met Williams when Williams was a member of The Authentics[, ] an early 60’s British pop outfit who regularly performed gigs at the famed Marquee Club in London. The group had been signed to a record deal by Jimmy’s manager Giorgio Gomelsky. Jimmy would go on to sit in with the band on a few recording sessions, even co-authoring one of their songs, a number titled “Without You”. Williams and Page soon struck up a friendship that revolved around their mutual love of folk music, and Jimmy would pass around songs written by Williams to groups he worked sessions for, notably “Little Nightingale” performed by The Mindbenders.
http://findingzoso.blogspot.com/2012/07/pageia-obscura-maureeny-wishful.html
Lenny Helsing continues the story:
John Williams will probably be more famous for being the one that put together the rare 1968 Maureeny Wishfull album, a shimmering, and enchanting slab of strange folk excellence that features significant contributions from Jimmy Page, Big Jim Sullivan [see #817] and John Paul Jones. Williams was also responsible for a wonderful, more folk-blues styled, self-titled album [from which “Ramblin’ Boy” is drawn] which appeared on the Columbia label in 1967. Something, however, that will forever tie him to the then burgeoning psychedelic pop scene (albeit not in any commercially successful way) is the truly excellent single composition ‘Flowers In Your Hair’ [see #784].
https://www.psychedelicbabymag.com/2015/04/john-williams.html
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