Stream, download, or order the vinyl - song.link/x8dbz30pxcDBQ Hey! Thanks so much to everyone for the feedback on this, it's ended up getting a lot more traction than I'd anticipated... A few weeks ago, a label got in touch and asked if I'd be interested in releasing an extended version as a 45rpm vinyl, so I said yes. I've put another video up with more details of the release, along with a few answers to the questions I've had about this video. Head on over to my channel to view it, and thanks again for the support!
My old man passed a couple years back now, found out after he died that he was a huge Brubeck fan. I always loved Golden Brown growing up. So cool to find this little connection years later. Hope your father in law is doing okay, friend.
@@kairoarolsen1255 Oh I know! I was just saying it was a cool connection that resonated with me. Love the original Golden Brown by the Stranglers, gained a love for Brubeck and enjoyed the tie-in there. Though I didn't know this was done all the way back in 95!
There is so much that you can justifiably hate about the modern day technology, how its used to scam people, AI especially, but something like this… a little tech trickery to combine two brilliant timeless art pieces and make something uniquely beautiful. Its just pure
@@crazypantz3492 Hahahaha! I was walking through Woolies and G&B was b/g musak... My mate said "y'know this song's about hash!?!".... I went "Is it now mate!?!"
fake? what do you mean? are you trying to say someone else wrote the song, and d.b. is covering this smooth *ss classic, because if so, that’s not the same as faking, and you can’t fake what dave brubeck does. that sh*t is real. in a world filled with fake *ss sh*t, that sh*t is real. trying to impress people by knowing the original composer is a thing i guess. trying to make people feel bad for not knowing is something as well. peace.
@@Sheaker The owner of this channel made the song using samples of the drums and other elements of the Brubeck Song "Take 5". the owner of the channel played the Sax parts. Golden brown is a song by the stranglers from the 1980's, but the owner of this channel did such an immaculate job mixing this all together, that its almost believable that Dave Brubeck wrote and performed this in the 40's. when actually it is impossible since the song wasn't written till the 1980's
I normally don’t like when I’m fooled. But this is the exception. :-) Perfect execution of both the Stranglers’ song as a homage to Brubeck’s work. Chapeau!
Me too - although I should have noticed something was wrong with the photage already in the opening when this famous drummer starts playing the rhythm. This is of course photage Brubeck playing "Take Five" - with a new audio added.
I have always loved Golden Brown and it's unique 13/16 time signature, and have always greatly admired The Stranglers, a thinking man's band that crosses from punk through pop to neo classical. I spotted it as soon as they zoomed in on Brubeck's hands on the piano, he wasn't playing what I was hearing. I have a full backing track I produced of Golden Brown that I sequenced the harpsichord in real time on a Roland Juno G, so I know the hand movement. I did the sax solo on the keys also with alto sax samples on an SRX card, but I dont play brass intruments. Sample based synths have come a long way, you wouldn't know it was a synth if you heard it. Always The Sun and Peaches are great songs too.
RIP Dave Greenfield... RIP Jet Black... LONG LIVE THE STRANGLERS! "Golden Brown" is a timeless, immortal classic that will outlast us all. (Nice work, Laurence)
This is staggeringly brilliant to stitch such things together seamlessly - I'm in total awe of that ability. Professional talent in spade loads. Thanks for this incredible clip.
Nine million views and still going strong. Epic on so many levels. Hugh Cornwall must be so proud…and let’s hope Dave is giving two thumbs up from heaven.
@@rondohunter8966 Hi, maybe you didnt read the info. This has been faked (in a good way) to appear to be an old clip of them performing it. The stranglers were the genuine origin of this piece of music (which relates to heroin use) the tune & song is 100% stranglers.
Just wanted to say that this was SO smoothly made, that my dumb ass didn't even realize that it was edited by the uploader - I legit thought that Dave Brubeck had recorded a smooth Jazz cover of "Golden Brown" or that maybe he wrote the original and the Stranglers had done a cover. This is VERY nicely done, holy moly. My hat off to you!!
You managed to do something that is technically elegant and also that evokes the memory of Dave Greenfield and the emotion of the original song and his early passing away. It is very good indeed.
When I listened to this video I began to wonder why I didn't know that the Stranglers record was actually a cover of a Brubeck original. It took a while to figure out what was going on. That will teach me to read the description before playing a video. Brilliant piece of work!
@@sanguinefan1734 You and me as well. I was fished in to think Brubeck's Quartet had done it originally. Absolutely incredible patience to produce this.
You should listen to Miles Davis track Flamenco SKetches - I dislike brass, but once Miles' screechy trumpet intro is done, 2 minutes in, begins some really mellow sax' - 2 great sax players playing one after the other...hope you enjoy
@Maxbinned i literally didn’t? Maybe if I was still a stupid 16 year old who actually cared about youtube comments lol, no someone just happened to like my comment
according to himself in another video, it took him 2 days, a couple hours on the first day to do the audio and record the sax, then a couple hours the next day to chop up the video
I actually thought for a moment that the stranglers had covered the song. First class, brilliant piece of work. The piano intro is very similar to take five.
I was totally lost, I did not get what was going on. I read a few replies and then realised how bloody brilliant a job has been made of this edit. Cheers.
@@ciscomars It is. inspired by take five off Bruback and they think, Brubeck would have translated Golden Brown off the Stranglers this way. I absolutely love it.
@@LFOVCF What a tragedy, guy was a monster with the arpeggios. That fugued solo duet with guitar on Down In The Sewer comes to mind. And that creepy organ on Do Ya Wanna was as tangible as movie scenery. Great talent. So long, Dave.
@@jamiesharp152 That is a very astute observation that I didn't really notice at first. I went back and watched again, and you are right on the money. Exquisite.
This is obviously one of the deftest pieces of editing that has ever happened, and The Stranglers song is just amazing, and unexpected from them at the time, yet, the littlest detail of Dave Brubeck looking up to his saxophonist is my favorite part. He's just checking in, and it's SO sweet!
The Stranglers were really a 'soft pop' band but they found out that their more aggressive music was more popular. In the end they returned to their 'roots'.
When Dave Brubeck was looking at his saxophonist I was imagining him thinking "You better get this right, I'm watching you. One bum note and you're fired"
Golden Brown by The Stranglers is the best song EVER written if it was the only song left I would listen to I until I die saying that, after hearing this instrumental version by Dave Brubeck is just beautiful the sax is truly mesmerising I love it and would add it to my list with The Stranglers.
Very clever and musically flawless in every aspect. It starts with a brilliant premise of linking two performing acts that seem worlds apart while being so strikingly similar. Then comes the perfect execution of the premise.
This confused the living hell out me ha ha. Went on a wild goose chase trying to find out if Dave Brubek wrote Golden Brown or if he did a cover and then the Stranglers did a cover of a cover, and THEN read your comments lol. Brilliantly done.
This is a masterpiece. I was looking up "composer Golden Brown" and "Golden Brown original" and I ended up with nothing other than "Stranglers" and "Hugh Cornwell"....excellent, excellent work! Thank you, Mr. Mason!
OUI EN EFFETC EST UNE TRES GRANDE INTERPRÉTATION BRAVO POUR DAVE ET PAUL TRES GRANDS ARTISTES A CE JOUR INCOMPARABLE AVEC TIKE FIVE ÉTALEMENT CLAUDE PROGNI
I heard this in the wild and I was totally convinced for a longer than I'd like to admit that Brubeck covered The Stranglers at some point. I had the pleasure of meeting Brubeck in the 90s w my dad. He seemed like he would have dug the esoteric and conspiratorial weirdness of which those Guildford boys were known to explore. Bravo. Rest in Peace to two great Daves.
That must have been a cool experience. I always loved Golden Brown myself. My old man was a huge Brubeck fan, only found that out after he died a couple years back so I kinda got into Brubeck's work. Imagine my surprise finding this. I wonder what my dad would have thought of it!
@@fcb9950 - You're not alone. I left a comment on the original Strangler's version saying R.I.P. to Dave Greenfield who wrote the music and a year later I'm still getting responses saying it was written by Dave Brubeck.
This piano chord progression and melody is so weirdly haunting and unique. Even as a guitarist playing hundreds of songs this one always strike me as "different" yet so smooth and playful.
No fair words can express the elegance, greatness, difficulty, precision and love for music this video means. An awesome work of art, mate. Gods salute you
Totally fantastic! I was baffled thinking Golden brown must've been an old instrumental that the stranglers must've got hold of! Totally fooled was I !
Keep coming back to this, it is pure genius. One of those things that is just so perfect that when you see / hear it is just sooo obvious, that it seems amazing that no one thought of it before, which is why it is so perfect, because of course it was not actually obvious at all, until was done, then it just was so right, it just seems like it had always been that way, and couldn't be any other way. Absolutely astounding, and really so very, very rare.
Lost for words. Truly astounding. It's so Brubeck, I refuse to believe that he didn't compose it. We all believe in truth, and if we all believe, the truth is, Dave Brubeck wrote Golden Brown. Respect to Dave Greenfield. Thank you Laurence Mason, I've revisited the original video, and after all these years, I can finally appreciate this beautiful piece of music for the masterpiece it is.
As soon as I saw the looping drummer I was comforted that I had my music history right and at the same time excited for what was to come. Popular music may long have reached its peak but your video proves art will never die.
oui Hugh vous ne serez pas je suppose a être le seul je pense qu il seront plusieurs aimer cette version en tant fan de Dave Brubeck j aime beaucoup cette musique Claude progni
You got me good! Then a little voice tried to tell me: Brubeck never did that. But I enjoyed it so much, I quashed that little voice with no apparent effort, and immersed myself in the exquisiteness of it all, momentarily self-convinced that Golden Brown was an original jazz track of the 60’s. Thank you 🙏
This came through on a Facebook feed, which got me frantically searching through Spotify trying to locate Dave Brubeck - Golden Brown.. Brilliantly authentic 👏👏
This is a wonderful mash-up for a fan of Brubeck and/or the Stranglers. Really appreciate the effort that went it to making this and I can confirm that it rewards repeated viewing.
oui Joyce c est plus que merveilleux mélange c est fantastique c est tellement bien interprété que j écoute tous les jours de Dave Brubeck Claude progni
I was thinking the good old days when yanks were just amazing cool,talented,stylish, sophisticated,elegant smart, sassy. And everyone wanted to be them. How did things go from the guys in this video to twists screaming,ranting, foaming mouthed,fat, stupid, scruffy,demented half wits? Tragic
What a GREAT idea, what a GREAT job! Laurence, your melding of Golden Brown and Take Five is SUPERB! One of the best things I've found on UA-cam. Thank you!
Brubecks version his great, the sax and drums,sort of make up for the Big sound of the Harpsicord from the Stranglers great version. Great music whatever way.🎹
I keep coming back to this... it's too good. I have to say, I also admire that you've gone to the trouble of making sure the footage matches the audio as much as possible.
Stream, download, or order the vinyl - song.link/x8dbz30pxcDBQ
Hey! Thanks so much to everyone for the feedback on this, it's ended up getting a lot more traction than I'd anticipated... A few weeks ago, a label got in touch and asked if I'd be interested in releasing an extended version as a 45rpm vinyl, so I said yes. I've put another video up with more details of the release, along with a few answers to the questions I've had about this video. Head on over to my channel to view it, and thanks again for the support!
That's awesome man
@@marrrrrrks Agreed.
Although Joe Morello does do a bit of a Max Headroom at the start!
Amazing dude!!!
Would have liked to see the bass player
Hi Lawrence, I'd love to play the sax solo myself, do you have a sheet available?
The salt mine called 'UA-cam' is a rough and deserted place but every now and then you will find a diamond like this one.
Like this the purpose of youtube
keithkool True words!!
the fuck you talking about, UA-cam has the widest collection of music. Of course the bad stuff is here, but most of the great stuff is here too.
@keithkool, there's more to UA-cam than classic jazz tunes, you should have a gander some day.....you'd be surprised what you find.
Hey, you are a true poet, i got it.
It’s amazing that this cover was performed before the song was written!
Infatti è un fake...
This version is from 1995, the orginal ist from 1981
@@TheArturziegleraren’t you people supposed to be real smart?
@@jump2000
lol
@@jump2000😂 Precisely what I was thinking
My father in law whos recovering from a stroke gave me a massive smile listening to this as he's a big brubeck fan.
My old man passed a couple years back now, found out after he died that he was a huge Brubeck fan. I always loved Golden Brown growing up. So cool to find this little connection years later. Hope your father in law is doing okay, friend.
@@cplshujumi This is no Brubeck tune. It was made in 1995 by
Laurence Mason in the Brubeck style. The original is by The Stranglers from 1982
@@kairoarolsen1255 Oh I know! I was just saying it was a cool connection that resonated with me. Love the original Golden Brown by the Stranglers, gained a love for Brubeck and enjoyed the tie-in there. Though I didn't know this was done all the way back in 95!
Are you expecting anything when he passes then?
Nice one.good story.❤😊
There is so much that you can justifiably hate about the modern day technology, how its used to scam people, AI especially, but something like this… a little tech trickery to combine two brilliant timeless art pieces and make something uniquely beautiful. Its just pure
Simply the coolest accountants you will ever see
You mean cool ? 🥶
Ahahahahahahah
Bwahahahahaha :p
Were they part-time accountants?
@@vikramadoddamani I dont know but they were certainly "creative" accountants
My first reaction when I saw this was "I never knew Golden Brown was an old song from Brubeck" Well done!
Literally it fooled me at first I was like wait a minute 😂
Dude same
The same for me !!!!!
Same!!!
Beerz Video Same! Even tried to claim I knew it as fact. Thank heavens for comments from intelligent people.
My mom sang with Dave Brubeck..many yrs ago in Lansing, Mi...at an old Michigan theater ( long gone now, sadly)...i was happy to meet him!
How amazing!
I'm very impressed! You're mom must have been a very good singer!
Sure
Oh she certainly was@@lindahandley5267
Is she Carmen McRae ???
Stays for a day..
Never a frown..
With Golden Brown!
NEVER!
@@crazypantz3492 Hahahaha!
I was walking through Woolies and G&B was b/g musak...
My mate said "y'know this song's about hash!?!"....
I went "Is it now mate!?!"
Plenty of FROWNS with the addiction that follows use of HEROIN.
@@baabaabaa-El Heroin
@@crazypantz3492 never ever
The suits. The ties. The haircuts. The talent. This puts me in another world! A glorious other world!
Fashions come & go, but style is timeless.
Cuz i am a frenchie did not find the good way , or the words ..... you just described what i would say..
The world named as Jazz
World of rampant sexism and white privilege :)))
@@arnoldoxenschwanz1385 sexism and racism is temporary, music is immortal
Still can’t believe how cleverly Golden Brown was merged with this original Brubeck score. Incredibly well done fake. Hats off!
bravo Dave et Paul c'est plus que bien fait c est extraordinaire ils sont formidables Claude progni
I read "fake hats off!". Still ok, imho.
Love it! So who is actually playing?
@@felixmak1712The guy who uploaded it.
fake? what do you mean? are you trying to say someone else wrote the song, and d.b. is covering this smooth *ss classic, because if so, that’s not the same as faking, and you can’t fake what dave brubeck does. that sh*t is real. in a world filled with fake *ss sh*t, that sh*t is real. trying to impress people by knowing the original composer is a thing i guess. trying to make people feel bad for not knowing is something as well. peace.
This version just make me realize how great the song is.
tout a fait raison pour moi c'est plus que géniale c est fantastique je penses qu'on aura plus des musiciens comme Dave bravo Claude progni
Yes, just pure, raw talent. Love it.
It's an incredible, high level, song.
So laid back 50s and 60s👍
Dude I actually believed this was real. Incredible arrangement and edit !
SERIOUSLY... I was like " this song is that old "
Could You, please, elaborate? I see all comments saying they almost believe it. I don't really understand what... Please?
@@Sheaker The owner of this channel made the song using samples of the drums and other elements of the Brubeck Song "Take 5". the owner of the channel played the Sax parts. Golden brown is a song by the stranglers from the 1980's, but the owner of this channel did such an immaculate job mixing this all together, that its almost believable that Dave Brubeck wrote and performed this in the 40's. when actually it is impossible since the song wasn't written till the 1980's
@@MikeDijital Holly Moly. Thank You! I just looked at 'Take 5" and it now makes sense.
@MikeDijital I honestly thought this was the original golden brown song and the stranglers covered it.
Getting old isn't that bad.
Decades ago I thought this was Hotel lobby music, now I can fully appreciate how brilliant this is.
You‘re right! I absolutely think the same
Hotel lobbies are wonderful places!
@@joepublic3933 Very true. However, it took me 40 years to find that out.
@@gravityskeptic8697 Look at it positively; you've probably got another good 40 odd years of hotel lobbies ahead of you!
True musicians at work...I'm 54 and enjoy many different types/genres of music now. Good music transcends many things.
I normally don’t like when I’m fooled. But this is the exception. :-)
Perfect execution of both the Stranglers’ song as a homage to Brubeck’s work. Chapeau!
Wow, just so unexpected, loverly. 💥👍💘
I get what you mean🤣🤣🤣🤣👍
I think what they did was superior
take five and golden brown have similar piano patterns, and so his editing, although with noticeable cuts, was in some way smooth.
@@GabrielRGomes this. golden brown was already very similar to take five to begin with
Stunning editing. You actually fooled me into believing The Stranglers played a cover of Dave Brubeck.
And me
Me too - although I should have noticed something was wrong with the photage already in the opening
when this famous drummer starts playing the rhythm.
This is of course photage Brubeck playing "Take Five" - with a new audio added.
I have always loved Golden Brown and it's unique 13/16 time signature, and have always greatly admired The Stranglers, a thinking man's band that crosses from punk through pop to neo classical. I spotted it as soon as they zoomed in on Brubeck's hands on the piano, he wasn't playing what I was hearing. I have a full backing track I produced of Golden Brown that I sequenced the harpsichord in real time on a Roland Juno G, so I know the hand movement. I did the sax solo on the keys also with alto sax samples on an SRX card, but I dont play brass intruments. Sample based synths have come a long way, you wouldn't know it was a synth if you heard it. Always The Sun and Peaches are great songs too.
I had to check, wasn't buying it tho.
me too
RIP Dave Greenfield... RIP Jet Black... LONG LIVE THE STRANGLERS!
"Golden Brown" is a timeless, immortal classic that will outlast us all.
(Nice work, Laurence)
Keep hands of chine white H and golden brown sugar 🥳
Not many STRANGLERS fans know that they did a cover version
@@stuartmorley3836they didn’t actually this is a cover of The Stranglers
@@stuartmorley3836wtf
@@stuartmorley3836read the intro
This is staggeringly brilliant to stitch such things together seamlessly - I'm in total awe of that ability. Professional talent in spade loads. Thanks for this incredible clip.
i love you Laurence Mason
I agree. Desmond so sweet!
“Spade loads”
Things is, nothing actually HAS been stitched together. It's all been played in on top of the drum loop....
This is beyond effing brilliant and impressive. Just speechless....
What an era this was, classy and sensual, something we will never re-live again. Brilliant.
This seriously passes as an original Brubeck work and production in 1964. Bravo.
Sixty years ago 😮
Totally!!!!!!!! 👌🏻👌🏻👌🏻
Nine million views and still going strong. Epic on so many levels. Hugh Cornwall must be so proud…and let’s hope Dave is giving two thumbs up from heaven.
Can't believe how good this is. Killer piano hitting all the minors at the right time. Brubeck never misses. So good you do notice.
If you make an 8 minute version, there are at least half a million people who wouldn't object.
wow, yes please!
Too fast
Plzzzzz
I like that 8 min brubeck
Eight hour LOOP!
Absolute genius. When I saw it this morning I (a bit of a Brubeck fan) actually thought the Stranglers must have covered it!
Enlighten me: Did the Stranglers cover this or not? Sounds the same to me but I am not a musician.
@@rondohunter8966
Hi, maybe you didnt read the info.
This has been faked (in a good way) to appear to be an old clip of them performing it.
The stranglers were the genuine origin of this piece of music (which relates to heroin use) the tune & song is 100% stranglers.
@@pachy444 Thank you. That clarifies a lot. Much respect.
And you’re a Brubeck fan? ;)
@@RayasNegroOvejas oh yeah!
Just wanted to say that this was SO smoothly made, that my dumb ass didn't even realize that it was edited by the uploader - I legit thought that Dave Brubeck had recorded a smooth Jazz cover of "Golden Brown" or that maybe he wrote the original and the Stranglers had done a cover. This is VERY nicely done, holy moly. My hat off to you!!
NO THIS IS GENUINE, IT IS REALLY A DAVE BRUBECK PIECE!!!
it is simply sup[erb
Its so fitting, as it also has this 7/4 bar change, and Brubeck was a connoisseur of uneven time signatures... Very well done!
Same here... ;)
See my reaction above: I thought exactly the same!
golden brown on the piano like that just sounds insane to me its incredible
This is masterful. That you saw "golden brown" out of "Take Five" and made it happen.
🔂
Oui en effet c est fantastique de jouer golden Brown dans take five c est génial j ai été dupé bravo Claude progni
That was my first thought when I first this last night in "The Umbrella Academy!"
YOU ARE RIGHT....TAKE FIVE AND GOLDEN BROWN LYING CLOSE TO EACH OTHER....
@@chatssauvages06 Salut, c'est un faux ?
You managed to do something that is technically elegant and also that evokes the memory of Dave Greenfield and the emotion of the original song and his early passing away. It is very good indeed.
Like it. But don't like that you used /mis-used Brubeck. A little underhand, but at least you acknowledged it.
You are probably a genius. In my book anyway!😊👍😷🍺
I only found out that I lived 200 yrds from Dave Greenfield two months after he died! I sorta recognised this guy I saw in Tescos over the road.
It sounds like a Brubeck original, which is the highest praise I can give this.
It's definitely played well doesn't touch Brubeck. But I don't think that's what the poster was going for.
Take Five was a Paul Desmond tune.
The alto sax playing is amazingly similar to Desmond's style! Quite enjoyable!
When I listened to this video I began to wonder why I didn't know that the Stranglers record was actually a cover of a Brubeck original. It took a while to figure out what was going on. That will teach me to read the description before playing a video. Brilliant piece of work!
@@sanguinefan1734 You and me as well. I was fished in to think Brubeck's Quartet had done it originally.
Absolutely incredible patience to produce this.
Wow, that made me realize why I love the original version. This cover accentuates the best parts of golden brown.
That may be the finest sax playing I’ve ever heard. Controlled, expressive, soulful.
Agreed!
You should listen to Miles Davis track Flamenco SKetches - I dislike brass, but once Miles' screechy trumpet intro is done, 2 minutes in, begins some really mellow sax' - 2 great sax players playing one after the other...hope you enjoy
He is good. Fela to is good
Paul Desmond ❤
@jimioutback not a fan of chet bakers playing then?
This is the kind of content that UA-cam was created for. Can’t stop watching.
So true dear friend 👍
Praveen Arshid I’m here again too. Yesterday, day before that....been months really. Extraordinary rendition.
That was the content i was created for ;- ) Greets from Germany
ua-cam.com/video/gH69yBLISSg/v-deo.html
@@albertsalt thx 4 the Link 😁
So calm, so clear, no bells and whistles. Just wonderful song.
I want to express my gratitude to art, people and creativity.
Thank you 🙏
Glorious!
my grandma died # rip
@@heem8814 I dont see how that is relevant, sorry for being so blunt but its true.
HAIL SEITAN
Tasty tasty Seitan
Amen
Jack-spe-dicey
This must have taken forever. You're filling people's hearts with joy, Laurence.
@Maxbinned this isn’t the original recording. The uploader made this entirely himself, it’s just over footage of the Brubeck Quartet
@Maxbinned i literally didn’t? Maybe if I was still a stupid 16 year old who actually cared about youtube comments lol, no someone just happened to like my comment
I liked his comments ;)
according to himself in another video, it took him 2 days, a couple hours on the first day to do the audio and record the sax, then a couple hours the next day to chop up the video
I actually thought for a moment that the stranglers had covered the song. First class, brilliant piece of work. The piano intro is very similar to take five.
Likewise!
@ecky1965 it just shows you what a class song this is, not exactly take five but good enough 😁
It’s n 6:8 not 5:8 but very impressive
@@billtracey9067 similar yes?
Jimmy Page loved it!
My Father was in a jazz band in 1940's Brubeck one of his favs,thanks for this beautiful memory of him.
This had me fooled, I thought for a moment that it was an original version! Brilliant just brilliant 👏👏👏👏👏
The best thing Dave Brubeck never wrote
LOL
He didn't write Take Five either. It was the saxophonist, whose name I've forgotten.
@@michaelbennett8393 Take it easy man
@@michaelbennett8393Paul Desmond.
@@michaelbennett8393 Yes! Paul Desmond.
I was totally lost, I did not get what was going on. I read a few replies and then realised how bloody brilliant a job has been made of this edit. Cheers.
Only today,June 2024, listening to this, when I've listened to Take Five hundreds of times. Loving this too
i hope you khow this is a Stranglers song...
@@ciscomars It is. inspired by take five off Bruback and they think, Brubeck would have translated Golden Brown off the Stranglers this way. I absolutely love it.
This is by the Stranglers over film of the Dave Brubeck Quartet
@@sophiafakevirus-ro8cc drum loop too
That was wonderful. Could we now have The Stranglers' version of Take Five? Thank you.
:D
Hahaa
Sadly, the Stranglers keyboard legend, Dave Greenfield, died recently, so the Stranglers will never sound the same again.
@@LFOVCF True that, RIP DAVE.
@@LFOVCF What a tragedy, guy was a monster with the arpeggios. That fugued solo duet with guitar on Down In The Sewer comes to mind. And that creepy organ on Do Ya Wanna was as tangible as movie scenery. Great talent. So long, Dave.
Not only is this effort a masterpiece, but the comment section gets a standing ovation as well!
Can’t stop watching this, one of the most amazing things I’ve ever seen.
Bravo!!! First I was amazed, then confused, then amazed again!
🤣🎹🎷🎵❤️
This is probably the most impressive thing I’ve ever seen on the internet
Wait until you see the videos in colour.
Me too man
I love the way Brubecks face is framed by the sax,while tickling the ivories.Masters of the universe.
@@jamiesharp152 That is a very astute observation that I didn't really notice at first. I went back and watched again, and you are right on the money. Exquisite.
He was the bands audience . Even when joe does his drum solo he turns round to watch. Brubeck oozed class
Reckon Dave Greenfield would approve. This is sheer brilliance!
Except for the fact that half of the people here think it was a Dave Brubeck original.
This is obviously one of the deftest pieces of editing that has ever happened, and The Stranglers song is just amazing, and unexpected from them at the time, yet, the littlest detail of Dave Brubeck looking up to his saxophonist is my favorite part. He's just checking in, and it's SO sweet!
The Stranglers were really a 'soft pop' band but they found out that their more aggressive music was more popular. In the end they returned to their 'roots'.
"Dave Brubeck looking up to his saxophonist," I found that to be completely annoying, like get a room already! lol
@@minkvelour I disagree. The shot was staged as a painting and it worked.
@@minkvelour he’s vibing with one of the greatest Sax players ever. Look into Paul Desmond.
When Dave Brubeck was looking at his saxophonist I was imagining him thinking "You better get this right, I'm watching you. One bum note and you're fired"
Golden Brown by The Stranglers is the best song EVER written if it was the only song left I would listen to I until I die saying that, after hearing this instrumental version by Dave Brubeck is just beautiful the sax is truly mesmerising I love it and would add it to my list with The Stranglers.
This is not an instrumental by Dave Brubeck. It’s an instrumental cover by Laurence Mason.
A very respectful and beautiful tribute to both artists. Well done!
Very clever and musically flawless in every aspect. It starts with a brilliant premise of linking two performing acts that seem worlds apart while being so strikingly similar. Then comes the perfect execution of the premise.
This confused the living hell out me ha ha. Went on a wild goose chase trying to find out if Dave Brubek wrote Golden Brown or if he did a cover and then the Stranglers did a cover of a cover, and THEN read your comments lol. Brilliantly done.
Same!
Nooo! Really? I of course didn't think exactly the same thing at all....not even a little bit.... nada....
Well alright then.
The Stranglers originally wrote the song in 1981. Dave Brubeck's version is the cover.
I heard this. It sent a shiver down my spine. The Stranglers Original will never be beaten though!
Me too!
So took me a while of scratching my head and reading the comments to figure out what you did.
*Masterful*
Kudos and Thanks
God Bless 🙏
I just love the way he looks at Paul Desmond while he's doing his thing.
Same. Paul died way to young from lung cancer.
Get you a partner who looks at you like Brubeck looks at Desmond
Thanks for the comment. I was actually going to say something about this. This is not the only video in which I've seen him look at Desmond like that.
you can just tell he is zoned out listen to his music while playing his own :)
@@whispersmith so good
One of my favorite songs "performed" by the Brubeck Quartet. Dreams are made of this. Absolutely brilliant!
This song is cooler than the cold side of your pillow....
ha ha ha... So true :-D
well said ♥
100% agree
if the cool side of your pillow was billy dee williams !!!
Best comment I've read all week
Ohh thats absolute genius. Bravo on a fantastic sequence
This is a masterpiece. I was looking up "composer Golden Brown" and "Golden Brown original" and I ended up with nothing other than "Stranglers" and "Hugh Cornwell"....excellent, excellent work! Thank you, Mr. Mason!
This is stunning, the music skill, the technical editing skill, the playing skill. Massive congratulations on such an amazing performance!
Beautiful!
@@joannemercer8457 ♥️
I am absolutely bowled over by this. I am honestly baffled by how someone puts something like this together. Incredible skill!
Mind blown. Had no idea, always thought it was a Stranglers original.
It is a Stranglers original
Stranglers is the original!
Yup same here
This is some sound wizardry computer gimmick. It works well though.
Nothing else to add besides ABSOLUTELY BRILLIANT !
This is one of the greatest songs. It's beauty and hauntingness is immeasurable.
OUI EN EFFETC EST UNE TRES GRANDE INTERPRÉTATION BRAVO POUR DAVE ET PAUL TRES GRANDS ARTISTES A CE JOUR INCOMPARABLE AVEC TIKE FIVE ÉTALEMENT CLAUDE PROGNI
vous avez raison c est très beau et la hantise me hante tous les jours tellement c'est remarquable Claude progni
Will nobody mention the audio? This is the best tribute recording ever, so suave
2024… still perfect.. Thank you for this wonderful and timeless music 🥰
4 years is not a long time.
The bass player is so good he was able to get around the "must look like Dave Brubeck" clause of joining the band.
thank you for making me laugh
Hahahaha!!
Bahahahaha, brilliant
@@FelsNaptha same
😂😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣
I heard this in the wild and I was totally convinced for a longer than I'd like to admit that Brubeck covered The Stranglers at some point. I had the pleasure of meeting Brubeck in the 90s w my dad. He seemed like he would have dug the esoteric and conspiratorial weirdness of which those Guildford boys were known to explore. Bravo. Rest in Peace to two great Daves.
That must have been a cool experience. I always loved Golden Brown myself. My old man was a huge Brubeck fan, only found that out after he died a couple years back so I kinda got into Brubeck's work. Imagine my surprise finding this. I wonder what my dad would have thought of it!
I think my late father who was a big Dave Brubeck fan would have roared with laughter at this. Absolutely fantastic. And why not!!!!
you can't get enough of this song. Once I played it on repeat like 10 times when drunk. Simply awesome!
I have literally listened to this 16 times in a row. Bravo. Excellent work.
100% the same. it's crying out for an extended version
OCD is compelling.
For a year...I thought this was actually a Dave Brubeck Quartet recording. Absolutely brilliant.
Me too!
And me. Just shouted to the family I've been playing this for years and always thought the Stranglers wrote this🤪🤪🤪
@@fcb9950 they did lol
@@FinnbarrGoesFast 😂😂
@@fcb9950 - You're not alone. I left a comment on the original Strangler's version saying R.I.P. to Dave Greenfield who wrote the music and a year later I'm still getting responses saying it was written by Dave Brubeck.
Brilliant. Take Five is a favourite of mine, And I saw the Stranglers live back in 1979. So this intrigued me
This piano chord progression and melody is so weirdly haunting and unique. Even as a guitarist playing hundreds of songs this one always strike me as "different" yet so smooth and playful.
Yeah bit dark and changes❤
No fair words can express the elegance, greatness, difficulty, precision and love for music this video means. An awesome work of art, mate. Gods salute you
This is perfect, a beautiful tribute to both Daves!
Totally fantastic! I was baffled thinking Golden brown must've been an old instrumental that the stranglers must've got hold of! Totally fooled was I !
Same here
Same! Still want to kid myself it’s real.
Dave Greenfield was an awesome musician, and a really nice guy.
I bet Dave would be highly impressed over this and it's actually to perfect.
Keep coming back to this, it is pure genius. One of those things that is just so perfect that when you see / hear it is just sooo obvious, that it seems amazing that no one thought of it before, which is why it is so perfect, because of course it was not actually obvious at all, until was done, then it just was so right, it just seems like it had always been that way, and couldn't be any other way. Absolutely astounding, and really so very, very rare.
Me too ... back in 2023 to briefly believe! (Australia)
Lost for words. Truly astounding. It's so Brubeck, I refuse to believe that he didn't compose it. We all believe in truth, and if we all believe, the truth is, Dave Brubeck wrote Golden Brown. Respect to Dave Greenfield. Thank you Laurence Mason, I've revisited the original video, and after all these years, I can finally appreciate this beautiful piece of music for the masterpiece it is.
As soon as I saw the looping drummer I was comforted that I had my music history right and at the same time excited for what was to come. Popular music may long have reached its peak but your video proves art will never die.
So good and convincing I spent 15 minutes looking for Dave Brubeck's Golden Brown on Apple Music
Sublime. I can't be the only one who'd love an extended version of this..?
Yup
oui Hugh vous ne serez pas je suppose a être le seul je pense qu il seront plusieurs aimer cette version en tant fan de Dave Brubeck j aime beaucoup cette musique Claude progni
It's up there in the description. Check it!
Find yourself someone that looks at you, the way Brubeck looks at his Sax player.
It's beautiful, really.
1:49 The way the drummer is looking at someone offstage is how my mother-in-law looks at me. 😂🤣😆
@@skunk12 😂😂😂😂😂
You'd have to play like Paul Desmond to do that.
Well, Paul Desmond did write for Dave the money maker.
If I hadn't read the description I would have been searching everywhere to get hold of this version of Golden Brown.
...and you wouldn't have find it !
That's the highest possible praise you can get from a crate digger 10/10
@@silviorefondini Mr. Obvious.
You got me good! Then a little voice tried to tell me: Brubeck never did that. But I enjoyed it so much, I quashed that little voice with no apparent effort, and immersed myself in the exquisiteness of it all, momentarily self-convinced that Golden Brown was an original jazz track of the 60’s. Thank you 🙏
Did EXACTLY the same thing!
…or was it? 🤣 that 5/4 time signature is something else 😂
Anyone else wish this version was about 3 days long?
Nope - you're the only one.
Not any more. I do too.
More like 5 days
not really.....
ME for shure !!
This came through on a Facebook feed, which got me frantically searching through Spotify trying to locate Dave Brubeck - Golden Brown..
Brilliantly authentic 👏👏
Woke up this morning with this playing in my head. Pure joy. Hadn't listened to it for a bit.
Absolutely mesmerizing! True musical mastery. Hats off to the genius behind this.
I’m so in love with this, at so many levels. Top quality work, but better still, genius imagination. Thank you.
This is a wonderful mash-up for a fan of Brubeck and/or the Stranglers. Really appreciate the effort that went it to making this and I can confirm that it rewards repeated viewing.
Joyce, yes it`s a great thing in these shitty times. I now listen to this every night as a bit of lovely fun, which we are lacking in our mad world.
oui Joyce c est plus que merveilleux mélange c est fantastique c est tellement bien interprété que j écoute tous les jours de Dave Brubeck Claude progni
This is beyond beautiful.
Kudos ! Love both Dave Brubeck and the Stranglers
Yes, it’s has a real Brubeck-mood. The combination of chords is unbeatable, I love that song.
“What came first, the egg or the chicken?”
-the omelette, according to this video.
Continental breakfast.
I didn't even know there was an instrumental version of Golden Brown. Nice mash up with the Dave Brubeck footage. Very well integrated.
The good old days when musicians looked like your science teacher.
I was thinking the good old days when yanks were just amazing cool,talented,stylish, sophisticated,elegant smart, sassy. And everyone wanted to be them. How did things go from the guys in this video to twists screaming,ranting, foaming mouthed,fat, stupid, scruffy,demented half wits? Tragic
Keith David ...Mr Brubeck is Handsome! 😍
🤣 🤣 🤣
I reckon Dave looks a lot like Jeff Goldblum in some shots.
Yet they smoked weed
What a GREAT idea, what a GREAT job! Laurence, your melding of Golden Brown and Take Five is SUPERB!
One of the best things I've found on UA-cam. Thank you!
Same here luv it!
That is absolutely true
@@a.r.9530 same
its a pearl
I'm stunned. For a moment I thought it was a jazz standard which then inspired the Stranglers. :)
You did an amazing job!
I ran into this a couple of months back, I wrongly assumed it was a Soulful Strut/Am I the Same Girl situation.
It's still brilliant work nonetheless.
Waste of time basically.
Brubecks version his great, the sax and drums,sort of make up for the Big sound of the Harpsicord from the Stranglers great version. Great music whatever way.🎹
@@brucekilby9957
Brubeck’s version doesn’t exist, mate.
@@brucekilby9957 You ought to read some of the comments. You've been fooled, and hopefully you'll feel good that you were fooled.
I keep coming back to this... it's too good.
I have to say, I also admire that you've gone to the trouble of making sure the footage matches the audio as much as possible.