Kursaal Flyers - Little Does She Know (TOTP 9.12.1976)

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  • @ianlivingston5802
    @ianlivingston5802 Рік тому +21

    I am now 77 years old and this is my favourite .
    Paul Shuttleworth reminds me of George Cole as Flash Harry in the St Trinian's Movie.
    A 1950's Spiv
    ( A wide Boy )

    • @halcyon289
      @halcyon289 2 місяці тому +1

      Absolutely spot on .

    • @tonypetts6663
      @tonypetts6663 Місяць тому

      That cannot be unseen now😂

  • @davidhill4143
    @davidhill4143 Рік тому +26

    The ultimate piss-take of every love song ever written - complete with full Phil Spector (Mike Batt) wall- of- sound backing. Fucking gold...

  • @pauldowling6444
    @pauldowling6444 Рік тому +11

    The orchestration is as magnificent as the lyrics. Loved this record now 61 not 16 makes me smile

  • @walternelson-aylott9309
    @walternelson-aylott9309 3 роки тому +28

    1976 aged 16 a Northern Soul fan I loved this, at 60 years of age, I still love it, even more. It's pre Punk, pre Ultravox, it's magic...

    • @TheFpCassini
      @TheFpCassini 3 роки тому

      what's the significance of it being pre Ultravox?

    • @heli-crewhgs5285
      @heli-crewhgs5285 Рік тому +1

      @@TheFpCassiniOverly dramatised New Romantic era.

    • @rexnemo
      @rexnemo Рік тому +3

      @@heli-crewhgs5285 A transient fashion . I remember visiting a club in 1976 London in Wardor Street called Chaguaramas . I had never seen such amazing people the clothes were incredible and the hair styles works of art and make up was so indescribable . New Romantics would not have been out of place there and I think that Punk Rock had not yet exploded onto the scene . There was no real name for the fashions back then and perhaps that made that year with its hot summer unique . People would wear American 1940's military uniforms and drive up and down Kings Road in Jeeps I seem to remember .
      Now I'm rambling 👴🤣

    • @rexnemo
      @rexnemo Рік тому +1

      @@TheFpCassini It means nothing to me .😁

    • @moogdome2562
      @moogdome2562 11 місяців тому

      I'm a N Soul boy, 62 years old me too.

  • @mightyquinnproductions8672
    @mightyquinnproductions8672 2 роки тому +12

    The Lead singer really makes this song with a brilliant performance and just great lyrics .

  • @johncoles-pw4qx
    @johncoles-pw4qx 7 місяців тому +3

    Brilliant, I love the way it all takes place in such a mundane place as a coin op laundry

    • @Villamartin26
      @Villamartin26 6 днів тому

      What other location could evoke a full orchestral movement?

  • @richardturner4950
    @richardturner4950 4 роки тому +20

    God I love this. Brilliant!!!

    • @rw8733
      @rw8733 4 роки тому +1

      It's magnificent isn't it. ☺

  • @geoffreydenton9153
    @geoffreydenton9153 8 місяців тому +2

    This song just makes me happy I love the music

  • @garethbramley1
    @garethbramley1 4 роки тому +24

    This appears to be one of those rare occasions where it was sung live to a backing track. You wouldn't get such a superb production (from Mike Batt) in a Top of the Pops studio.
    Great song - should have been a number one. It only reached No.14.

    • @brucerouffian2630
      @brucerouffian2630 2 роки тому +1

      I don't see any brass instruments in the band, or a violinist, so I think you are right.

    • @garybenson2385
      @garybenson2385 Рік тому +1

      indeed

  • @noelworkman87
    @noelworkman87 9 років тому +26

    What a classic. .bring back the 70s

    • @kupus6622
      @kupus6622 Рік тому +1

      " she was outside the one stop , when I saw her at the coin op"... beautiful words.

  • @moogdome2562
    @moogdome2562 11 місяців тому +2

    Such a wonderful and clever song. Love it today, as I did back then.

  • @musiclover9361
    @musiclover9361 2 місяці тому +2

    Absolutely fabulous, over the top production!

  • @andrewbutcher3391
    @andrewbutcher3391 11 місяців тому +4

    Paul Shuttleworth…genius performance!

  • @lesdobson2262
    @lesdobson2262 5 років тому +16

    Always loved this song

  • @Sparky-ov1ot
    @Sparky-ov1ot 3 роки тому +22

    Who needs Shakespeare? when you can have lyrics like this, "little does she know, that I know, that she knows, that I know , she's two timing me!"

    • @Jlipnicki
      @Jlipnicki Рік тому +3

      It was written by Shakespeare, the one that lived in Southend.

    • @Scunthorpesfinest
      @Scunthorpesfinest Рік тому +3

      ​​@@Jlipnicki Ryan Shakespeare! I went to school with him. Lived with his his mum over the Co-op. He wrote some great plays - Hamsandwich, Cory's Ol' Anus, Timon Of Arsenal, 2 Geezers of Virginia Water, It's Windy. And his prescient warning of climate change - Er... Winter's Late.
      Last I heard he was a scriptwriter for Rachel Riley.

    • @js2749
      @js2749 Рік тому +2

      @@Scunthorpesfinest You are talented

  • @waynejones4594
    @waynejones4594 2 роки тому +10

    Brilliant song.

  • @brucerouffian2630
    @brucerouffian2630 2 роки тому +4

    Thanks for this version. It's probably the best online. It's such a jolly song.

  • @noelworkman87
    @noelworkman87 2 роки тому +8

    i know its a bit strange but this is going to be the last song at my funeral😎

  • @peterscott5452
    @peterscott5452 4 роки тому +14

    Love this song

  • @wullieanderson3117
    @wullieanderson3117 Рік тому +1

    A brilliant song , ive always loved it .

  • @donnashorten3831
    @donnashorten3831 Рік тому +2

    Great singer, he puts everything into it.

  • @timeustace1287
    @timeustace1287 3 роки тому +7

    Only 114 likes? A seventies classic.

  • @rogeredmunds5806
    @rogeredmunds5806 Рік тому +3

    "Diddy" David Hamilton hosting TOTP, a cut above one or two others I could mention. (Fulham fan too !)

  • @raymondbonington9355
    @raymondbonington9355 3 роки тому +12

    Paul shuttleworth is a great front man , bit of max Miller ,Arthur Daly and any spiv out there .

    • @Jlipnicki
      @Jlipnicki Рік тому +1

      Even his name is good, reminds me of someone but on meds and alcohol and cannot think who.

    • @steveeyre6975
      @steveeyre6975 Рік тому

      Get what your saying there mate👍👍🇬🇧

  • @anthonybagnall4885
    @anthonybagnall4885 2 роки тому +3

    Loved this band , saw them live a couple of times

  • @bigfatcol
    @bigfatcol 3 роки тому +6

    Has anyone got a kitchen sink? I think we could throw that in somewhere towards the end... Fantastic stuff, absolutely love this

    • @stevemale9936
      @stevemale9936 Рік тому +1

      Oddly enough, when Mike Batt asked them what sound they wanted, they drew a kitchen sink. Thus the Wall of Sound, massive drums, opera aria, rifleman, etc.

  • @garyphilpott255
    @garyphilpott255 Рік тому +2

    I thought this was a great song back in 1976, nearly half a century later I'm convinced it's pure poetry.

  • @robertlangley1664
    @robertlangley1664 Рік тому +1

    Brings back happy memories

  • @drstevie
    @drstevie Рік тому +1

    Still love the 7".

  • @jamesward4191
    @jamesward4191 Рік тому +2

    Superb ❤😂❤

  • @chrisjordan1603
    @chrisjordan1603 Місяць тому

    Make my own CDs up for the car. Track 1- Kursaal Flyers 12 inch version, absolute quality.

  • @Bernsteinhaus
    @Bernsteinhaus 11 місяців тому +2

    Geile Zeit

  • @fabdave425
    @fabdave425 Рік тому +1

    Genius!!!

  • @patrickdarcy3863
    @patrickdarcy3863 3 роки тому +10

    Should have got to No1

  • @mutinyonthekitkat
    @mutinyonthekitkat 6 років тому +20

    Her escape was so urgent, she dropped her detergent.

  • @11carbuff19572011
    @11carbuff19572011 Рік тому +2

    I noticed the name of "Brand X." somewhere on the set, I actually know that there was a band called Brand X, their drummer was none other than Phillip David Charles Collins.

  • @rw8733
    @rw8733 4 роки тому +5

    I think this was produced by Orinoco Womble (Mike Batt).

  • @roswithaholy8785
    @roswithaholy8785 Рік тому +1

    What a beutifull song ❤❤❤

  • @patrickdarcy3863
    @patrickdarcy3863 3 роки тому +3

    Lovely

  • @hugovandermeer1566
    @hugovandermeer1566 2 місяці тому +1

    A young arfer daly on vocals there.,..Teeerrrryyyy...'it 'im!

  • @RobertShaw-l9m
    @RobertShaw-l9m 5 місяців тому +1

    His voice was made for this song.

  • @allandutkiewicz88
    @allandutkiewicz88 Рік тому +1

    Great son

  • @susanstrutt74
    @susanstrutt74 4 роки тому +5

    Richie Bull where are you now ??

    • @exoticgamer2127
      @exoticgamer2127 4 роки тому +3

      Richie bull. Owner of deep sea diving firm in bristol

    • @exoticgamer2127
      @exoticgamer2127 4 роки тому +2

      Richie bull owner of deep sea diving firm in bristol

    • @yellowtommytanker
      @yellowtommytanker 9 місяців тому

      Richie used to own Current State Diving in Bristol, he taught me to dive. Remember going in there and a couple times he was playing the banjo. You used to see him on BBC natural history programmes when they were doing diving, normally in charge of safety and he taught all the hosts to dive as his shop wasn't far from the Natural History unit in Bristol.

  • @kernowarty
    @kernowarty Рік тому +1

    Nice to see Jimmy at the end, I wonder what ever happened to him. He was such a lovely man.

  • @steve9542000
    @steve9542000 5 місяців тому

    Now i can see where Morrisey got his inspiration! 😮

  • @bluey7007
    @bluey7007 Рік тому +1

    what a change from todays garbage

  • @PaulJohnson-yw9gi
    @PaulJohnson-yw9gi Рік тому +1

    Where's Barry Cleasby these days?

    • @Billy-h7b
      @Billy-h7b Рік тому

      Who is Barry Cleasby ?😮

    • @PaulJohnson-yw9gi
      @PaulJohnson-yw9gi Рік тому +1

      @@Billy-h7b He played bass in the band up to a year before they hit big with this. Was last seen teaching in fe.

    • @Billy-h7b
      @Billy-h7b Рік тому +1

      Thanks Paul

  • @DavidJones-or8ek
    @DavidJones-or8ek 2 роки тому +2

    Amazing teeth

  • @jamesjennison881
    @jamesjennison881 4 роки тому +3

    Remember this song as a young boy dont like the lyrics though .

  • @TheMichaelseymour
    @TheMichaelseymour 3 місяці тому

    robbie williams monsoon rips this off i reckon ?

  • @lauraeva57
    @lauraeva57 Рік тому

    Sadly massively over-produced by Mike Batt, what the Kursaals were being turned into caused Graeme Douglas to decamp to genuine pub rockers Eddie and the Hot Rods.
    The Flyers had the pedigree of Dr Feelgood, Duck's Deluxe, Kilburn and the High Roads, Brinsley Schwarz ... a brilliant live band I saw back in Middlesbrough 1975 ... bit raw and unpolished but instrumentally tight, high energy, with Paul Shuttleworth's spiv act great frontman.
    The "Golden Mile" album produced by the so called "Wombling free" pop genius led to their rapid demise.
    If you've ever had the pleasure of listening to Batt's Schizophonia album of same period you'll understand why the Kursaal's should have kept well away !

    • @sclarke1721
      @sclarke1721 7 місяців тому

      You appear to have missed the point of this wonderfully over the top production.

  • @pacman9425
    @pacman9425 Рік тому +2

    The most dramatic music with the stupidest lyrics 😂

  • @koln74
    @koln74 4 роки тому +3

    it is a total contradiction. if she knows what he knows about her, she knows everything - thereby making his claim nonsensical!

    • @johnmckiernan987
      @johnmckiernan987 4 роки тому +3

      get a life

    • @timeustace1287
      @timeustace1287 3 роки тому +1

      Thanks, Sherlock.

    • @TheFpCassini
      @TheFpCassini 3 роки тому +10

      wait a second, i beg to differ. If "little does she know, that I know, that she knows, that I know , she's two timing me!"
      are the lyrics, the singer is simply asserting that the girl does not know that he knows that she knows that he knows she's two-timing him. I believe this kind of thing happens all the time in real life. I wouldn't know, I've never had a romantic partner. Too busy finishing Mom's basement when I'm not passionately indulging my persona as Mister Smarty Pants on UA-cam. Plus, what few social skills I once had have since atrophied.

    • @rw8733
      @rw8733 2 роки тому +1

      I'm overthinking this ....

    • @paulbeachcroft3323
      @paulbeachcroft3323 Рік тому

      @@timeustace1287 the games afoot……

  • @davidshattock9522
    @davidshattock9522 Рік тому

    Always liked this bad taste spectere copy.piss take