YouTube question: How to search for bands whose names are very common words?

Cafe Society
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…like The Smiths or Them? To make it more complicated, what if the song you want isn’t something the band wrote, but an old pop or blues standard?

I want to search for a TV appearance of Them performing “Baby Please Don’t Go”, but for the life of me I can’t find it. Everybody else’s performance of the song seems to be there, but not Them’s. I thought it was on Ready Steady Go, but I can’t find it if it is.

I also tried typing “Them (Band)”–Wikipedia style–but that doesn’t work either.

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And moving this from GQ to Cafe Society.

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Are you using the YouTube search, or something else. I usually go straight to Google. Put in the song name, the band name, and site:youtube.com. The last part is actually optional … put in the other criteria and click on the Video link to filter the results to just videos. You might find it somewhere else other that YT.

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You mean this?

I didn’t find it on youtube. I searched “baby please don’t go” Them TV in google and then clicked on video results. If I can’t find stuff I’m looking for easily with a site’s search engine, I just use google.

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Google’s awesome. I can successfully search for The The. That’s impressive.

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[Quote marks are your friend.]
(http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query="the+the"&aq=f)

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[quote=“gaffa, post:6, topic:592520”]

Well, yeah. But how does that help me with Them?

Is there a general standard usage in Google, like “Them (band)”?

Inner Stickler, yes that’s it. Thanks!

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Just searching “them band” without quotes brought up their Wikipedia entry. Similarly, “the who” brings up the official web site of the English rock band.

Part of the wonder and majesty of Google is the weighting it gives to other sites links to a particular site.

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ETA: Strangely enough, this only works on my notebook. On my new Android device, the link takes me to the landing page of a Dutch porn site. It’s a different URL, too.