Them - Baby Please Don't

[ornotna]

[vanlassie]

1. I guess that was lip synced... hard to imagine The Man

doing such a thing!

[highplainsdem]

2. Standard back then (1964, which is when this was filmed, though some videos misidentify it as 1966).

From Wikipedia's page about another Them single recorded the same day and released about the same time...and though the clip in the OP is from Ready Steady Go it had performers miming in those days, just like Top of the Pops...and Van hated that:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Here_Comes_the_Night

"Here Comes the Night" was Them's third single in both the UK and the US; the US release following the success of "Gloria" in that market. The first day of its release it sold 16,000 copies, at the time an impressive showing.[10] It peaked at No.2 in the UK and No.24 in the US, spending 10 weeks on the US chart. It was also released on the EP Mystic Eyes. After the record was released, Them was immediately sent on a public relations push with television appearances on Ready Steady Go! and Top of the Pops.

Van Morrison has remarked on this:[10]

Them were never meant to be on Top of the Pops, I mean miming? Lip syncing? We used to laugh at the programme, think it was a joke. Then we were on it ourselves. It was ridiculous. We were totally anti that type of thing. We were really into the blues...and we had to get into suits and have make-up put on and all that..

[vanlassie]

4. Poor baby. He's such a complainer! 😂

But genius is genius.

[argyl]

3. Much better than Ted Nugent and the Amboy Dukes.

Van's singing compared to Da Nuge's? That makes it really easy.