@@Thatsallihavetosayaboutthat I understood it perfectly. While I agree that autotune and beat-snapping software have ruined a lot of music, that doesn't change the fact that there was a lot more lip-syncing in those days than today.
@@Alltime2050 And yet, the comment points directly to the fact this IS a live performance- No lip-sync. No Auto-tune. With actual instruments rather than a backing track.
From a time when if you couldn't cut it live you got found out,not like now where a computer makes you sound good if you can't sing,take me back to the 70,s
There is also a valid reason why we cling to this era regarding the music. It was so important to us with the few distractions of entertainment available to us at that time and as far as our working lives were concerned, there was no free ride. It was a far more disciplined time with no technology to aid us and as Rose tinted our glasses might be, if we were returned to that time there's a fair few from this current generation that might well curl up into a foetal position. Music was such an important escape back then it had more relevance in my humble opinion.
still vibing in Feb 2024 Johannesburg, SA. the 70's were THE BEST by FAR This song was in the charts when I finished school in 1976, in Cape Town and the local band, McCulley's Workshop covered it on Sunday nights at the Canterbury Inn, in Rondebosch. Don't know how i ever drove home after the place closed at midnight
To be fair nearly all of TOTP was mimed. If I remember correctly the early shows didn't even have the original music but used the BBC orchestra. I think for Musician's Union reasons. I was horrified to learn a few years ago that some of The Old Grey Whistle Test was fakery too, although the percentage of proper live music was much higher. When I was younger I had much more respect for OGWT because it had cool music and was (apparently, and mostly) live. The acts that mimed (e.g. The Rolling Stones) was more due to the bands not trusting that the Beeb would do justice to their sound. Although I might be being too generous. I knew someone who went on TOTP as part of the audience. They had tiny audiences they moved between the stages. If they'd zoomed out the studio would be pretty empty. So, as far as TV music was concerned, maybe not high tech alterations but certainly a few low tech ones. Most of the rock bands that appeared were miming to music they played on tour so, quite often, although not plugged in (or in the case of drums, miked up) they would still play what they'd normally play. Problem was the directors would always without fail misread what was going on and cut to the wrong camera. It was almost perverse how they managed to get it wrong every time. So if you were trying to cop what the guitarist was actually doing (silently) you would be out of luck. latter bands (especially US ones who didn't get the point of miming or ones who'd already made it) would parody the show they were on doing guitar sols with saxophones etc. My favourite one was when The Eels went on to do Novocaine For The Soul with the drummer behind a tiny kids drum kit. next to the drums is a marshall stack. Eight inches high. And the bass player and guitarist have alternate genuine or toy sized instruments. So the Beeb were conplicit in the joke. So funny. Bands like Madness and ShawaddyWaddy (however that's spelled) would also ham it up quite a bit.
Oops. I re-watched The Eels and it's toys all the way. The Beeb still had to be complicit though. By 1997 even they didn't take themselve too serioulsy.
@@littlefluffybushbaby7256 These guys were definitely not miming. If they were, they had to re-record the song, because this is not the arrangement they recorded and released. Way too much work.
@@beenaplumber8379 I agree. I play drums, bass and guitar and everything matched up (e.g. HiHat, fills, cymbals). Drummers rarely do the exact same thing so that''s usually a give away. The harmonic on the guitar was not there when visually not there and the solo looked like the right thing. They also had a Marshall Amp just off stage and they were also all plugged in. I was more talking about TOTP rather than the Climax Blues Band, who I saw live many moons ago and were excellent. But TOTP started out not allowing the bands to actually play their own songs and used the TOTP orchestra with a newly recorded vocal track. I think because of Musicians Union limitations (i.e. recordings putting musicians out of work). They moved on to having most (not all) bands playing to their own songs often not even bothering to plug the guitars in. You'd hear horns that weren't there and second guitar parts with only one guitarist, and maybe the drummer would only have half his kit. It wasn't the bands decision. The bands had been playing their hit songs at hundreds of gigs so were fully capable of doing it (guitar bands at least) and they quite often played what they would have played even though not plugged in. It would be harder not to. One of the reasons I think was it's hard to get the sound right for a live band and TOTP was put out weekly with little foreknowledge of who they'd get. It was chart-based and the band had to be available. I found a youtube of the 1970's band "Free" on TOTP and, even though the main riff was recorded with at least two guitars (that's why it doesn't sound quite right when cover bands do it), I could still see Kossoff was playing one part of the riff and using upstrokes which filled in a piece of the puzzle for that riff. But he wasn't plugged in. He was just playing what he normally played when gigging. I was horrified to learn that even on the Old Grey Whistle Test some bands where not playing live, although most were, which is why it was better than TOTP. So, in short, I was definitely not taking a pop at The Climax Blues Band, but at the show itself, which was more often akin to a band karaoke than a true live performance. It was not unusual to see some bands taking the piss and miming to the guitar solo on saxophone or a toy guitar. When Eels did it, their drummer used a childs drum kit. Hillarious.
@@littlefluffybushbaby7256 I get it. I re-read your first comment, and I misunderstood. I thought you were having a go at the extraordinary Climax Blues Band. (I say that because over here in the US they were a one-hit-wonder with Couldn't Get It Right until 1980 when they charted with I love You. I thought they were just some pop band. I've only now discovered what I've been missing!) Uh, sorry this got so long! OGWT & TOTP sound like The Midnight Special and American Bandstand here. Midnight Special was mostly live, and I think Bandstand was entirely pre-recorded lip synch. I learned one additional reason some networks and programmers insisted on miming the performance - they wanted to be absolutely sure the vocalists wouldn't violate their S&P (standards & practices) rules about language or content, like Jim Morrison did when The Doors played live on Ed Sullivan. I think another downside of playing live on TV is that you're at the mercy of TV sound people who might know nothing about how to make live music sound good. I've seen performances that were clearly live but one of the guitars was faded so low you couldn't hear their solo, and they might try to use TV mics on your guitar cabs, etc. I play bass, and my band did a half-hour music set for a tiny weekly local TV program in Minneapolis. (That's no boast - any local band could get in line for a date on that show for no pay; our date was in January 1996, and we broke up 3 months later.) We put on a great show, but the sound was atrocious! We had a bandleader whose name was part of the band's name, so everything was focused on him, as it should be, but his (rhythm) guitar was cranked!!! And it sounded incredibly screechy. (Awful preamps on the TV sound board? They used their own mics on the guitars, and I have no idea what they were.) Our lead guitarist sounded good, but he was kinda drowning under the rhythm guitar. My bass was predictably almost inaudible, though my tone was good in the mix. (I went direct from my rack into the board.) There was no reverb or compression on anything. I suspect there were similar limitations on OGWT. On most clips I've seen from that show the vocalists are singing into 2 mics taped together. During one performance by Lynyrd Skynyrd, I had the impression Ronny (lead vox) was favoring the mic he heard in his monitor, which was not the mic used for the TV mix. The level was low and inconsistent, though Ronny was a very experienced vocalist. I had the impression the band's sound guy wasn't involved. The Midnight Special always had a pretty decent mix though. I don't know if they had talented house staff that only did music or if the band's regular sound people were involved, but it was always quite good. Ok, some of the vocal mics occasionally clipped, but that's ok. That just meant it really was live! Sorry this got kinda long... Talking music with a musician is something I miss. I've only played one gig since COVID, and my tired old back still hurts from that! Rocque on!
It was such an amazing time...do you remember ordering albums via mail like "Summer of 76" only to find out it wasn't the original artists? So many copy cats it was unbelievable but shows just how GREAT the music was!
UR, you gotta keep an open mind with today's artists, not all machines sound bad. But I will have to say that this is one hell of a great video and the era back then, for me, was nothing but great music to get me through my life.
Not too many people probably ever noticed, but these dudes aren't just singing 3 part "harmonies" they're singing in 3 freakin "octaves" at the same time!!! Listen carefully! Lead vocalist on the low part, bass player in the middle and guitarist way up on top!! One of the very first bands to pull that shit off! (Very cool effect!) The Steve Miller Band was the only other band (I think) to even attempt that back then. Or ever for that matter! SMOKIN!!!
Love the vocal arrangement as well as that of the music- the way the guitars and sax blend to form one new sound. Awesome live performance from musicians' musicians.
Yeah Bruce this one of first 3 albums I bought.i know that to.only true music lovers know and pick up on that.yeah Steve Miller damn good singer and picker to brother.peace to you.the 70s was the real deal.
I'm not trying to be high and mighty, I'd probably have been the same back then: but a lot of them have eyes for the camera and are probably just trying to look good on TV back when not just anybody could be on screen. Yet I think in its own way, people are being there and present in a cool moment.
This totally captures the 70s for me...dudes with dorky clothes & hair, but damn could they sing and play the hell out their instruments. Fantastic tune.
55. I've started becoming very nostalgic about music. Was a metalhead and then just into all kinds of stuff. Lately though, I am listening to a lot more comfort music. Stuff from my childhood that makes me feel good. I still listen to other stuff but this is like finding your teddy bear that you lost when you was three years old.
Omg! Great memory of a great song! April 1977! I'm cruising in my father's 1973 Olds 98 Luxury sedan! My friend Vinny Santinello in the front seat, Pat in middle, Karen, Erin, and my friend Mike Calvito and his sister Susan in the back seat! Al the girls singing this song! Queens Village forever! Great friends! Great time! Kool girls! Rip Vinny!
Ok. Here it is. It was kinda before people knew how to make videos, so the singers look alive and the band looks like they’re on double quaaludes. Enjoy ua-cam.com/video/OpaCXtahXxk/v-deo.html
@@TentinQuarantino_ I know why you say its hilarious , basically because its a bit OTT. The bass player is a bit non existant emotion wise. I also looked at their Midnight Special version where they did it live, and it is the best version. It was a great song at the time. I would have been around 16 to 18, and I was heavy into Status Quo, but I didnt mind this song. Some disco songs like I feel love, Disco Inferno and Staying Alive would be many blokes guilty pleasures.
tiffd98133 bwahahaha Holy shit, those bangs have to be immortalized as the Apex of cringe! In their defense that was peak of cheesy music and frankly the backlash was warranted...
K.J. G. I know, right? But in all fairness, that goofball had a really good reputation for helping others and ran a soup kitchen for the homeless. I just had to look him up. He died young but I never got a reliable report on how.
commercial radio sucks .When Clear Cannel and I Fart Radio took over, radio has sucked since. If I ever hit the lottery I will start my own station and make music great again. That is my dream.
The song is just the grooviest and coolest. That chill as hell sounding voice and the lyrics "Time was drifting, this Rocker's got to roll, so I hit the road and made my getawayyy". How much cooler can you get? It's so brilliant and I'm addicted to it.
@@blackmore4 anarchy in the UK came out a year later…. This dates before punk rock. It’s cool and for those who were around back then ( myself). Couldn’t get it right , looks like you couldn’t get it right either.
@@MrChubbington No, you're the one who "couldn't get it right". Climax Blues Band released the single of 'Couldn't Get It Right' in October 1976 and performed it on this Top of the Pops in November 1976. The very same month in which the Sex Pistols released 'Anarchy in the UK'.
Turned 16 that year. It really was a great time to grow up, sooo much great music. My first concert was in '77 at the Kingdome in Seattle, a little group named Led Zeppelin.
AWESOME SONG AND GROUP!!!!! 2021 STILL LISTENING... What was so freaking awesome back in the day, without noticing then, was the fact that, " We All Got Along '!!! No racist crap! Now, it's just sad. Everyone is for ONLY themselves! A certain age group has destroyed everything. It's heartbreaking! 💔😡 music is all that is left except for the memories in our heads. God Bless you and good luck... you're gonna need it!
(01:52) Peter Haycock (the guitarist) is playing a Veleno aluminum guitar. You don't see those often. There were fewer than 200 made. The band was known for their unique way of blending guitar and saxophone. The fact that both were made of metal may have been responsibile for helping to create this sound.
Concerts look so much fun back then, no cell phones, no selfies, just dancing and having fun. I am 55 so was too young for that show, but went to a lot of concerts in the 90's, would have loved to gone to ones in the 80's and 70's.
Love to see all the young people dancing and enjoying the music together, black and white, all equals. Too bad we didn't have more of that here in America, with our quasi-segregated TV shows like American Bandstand and Soul Train.
Killer band. I was lucky to have older brothers that jammed to this all the time in the 70s, as well as montrose, Dwight twilley band, foghat, Nazareth, kiss, heart, fleetwood mac, zz top, lynyrd skynyrd, molly hatchet, marshall tucker band, rolling stones and on and on and on. I was a lucky little dude.
I saw these guys around 1981 and they put on a great show, excellent playing, and had a chat backstage about their guitars and they were really cool, down to earth and modest. It was basically my first time meeting people I'd idolised through the Johnny Walker and Friday Rock Show, and it was a real pleasure to discover they were just real nice guys.
@@Kaleiddmode he was... a personal friend of ours we went on tour with him and Pete Haycock's True Blues, in Germany in 2008.. Had the most fantastic time... I posted vids on my channel google the band title.
+Phil Porter Indeed, Phil...back in the day when AutoTune and ProTools were someone's nightmare concept. It's so freakin' fun to watch musicans play real musicians. I really took it all for granted back in the day. As a drummer, I had to really know my meters and such in order to keep a job. Today, it's "No Experience Necessary." And by the way, I see Kanye West, the greatest fraud of them all, one more time, I am going to have to assassinate something!
I remember when this came out, I was a kid. Yet , I still remember hearing a radio commercial where the station played a bunch of tying in songs . That was when WPLJ was the R&R station. Yep, I’m old just don’t feel or act it. ; ). As Stevie Wonder said “New York, just like I pictured it. Skyscrapers and everything!” Hopefully some folks will give this a listen. Sincerely, PM❤🎉
I saw them live on March 10, 1984 in the hall of a restaurant in Xanten-Birten, Germany, in front of a maximum of 150 people. More people weren't there because there was a printing error on the tickets: Climex. The innkeeper was able to motivate them to still play a full concert with a few trays full of beer. It was wonderfull and will always be in my heart! I still have the tickets!
One of the best songs to come out of the 70’s. When I hear this I think of “So Into You” by Atlanta Rhythm Section & “Moonlight Feels Right” by Starbuck. Still love all three.
I saw these guys in the mid 70s in Stafford, their home town, at a charity gig to save a local Hotel from demolition. Couldn't Get It Right was in the charts and the atmosphere at the night club, Th Top Of The World, was electric! The place was absolutely heaving, with no restrictions on numbers in those days and no air con either! I've been to many a concert over the years and it was probably the best I'd been to for enjoyment and I'm sure the band must have felt the same. Needless to say the building was saved and is there to this day. Thank you fellas.
Every day on KEZY in Anaheim, CA, they would play this during what was my driver's education class. Even in AM, the song resonated. Cannot hear it without thinking about how it was way back when.
In 1976 they had a thing called a Jukebox that were in foosball / pinball joints. And this song played every hour along with Play That Funky Music.. Peter Frampton too..
I met these cats when they were playing the Aladdin Hotel in Vegas behind Johnny Winter in '76. We hung out together for 3 days and had a blast. It wasn't until I walked in on the sound check for their gig and they were playing this song that I realized that they had a hit record out. Nice group of easy going blue-collar dudes.
I'm a 55 year old black man raised in the projects of NE DC, and this is one of my favorite songs from the 70's era. DCOG
projects, what type projects would they be? i´m always looking for new projects, something new!!
You have taste 😉
It's bizarre these dudes are from the UK. Sound like true bluesmen.
I'm a 54 year-old metal musician and I love it.
Projects, what are they !?
The 70s really did have some good sounds.
2024 WHOS STILL JAMMING?!
I am I just turned 50 in October Just a little kid listening to all this type of music what's the best time
Love this tune still (2024)
Me! ❤🎶
👍
Meet me at the roller rink.
Skate on
Can i have a show of hands if you're still listening to this in 2020
3-13-19
Still listening? I've actually randomly discovered this gem today.
Oh, hell yeah!!
Meee ! 70s !
Until recently, I haven’t heard this song since I was a kid. And until I found this video, I could not identify the group or the song.
Listen! An actual performance, kids - no lip syncing, no computers, no auto-tune. Just talent and hair.
A lot of music on TV and in movies was lip-synced back in the day. That is nothing new.
@@Alltime2050I don’t think you understood the comment
@@Thatsallihavetosayaboutthat I understood it perfectly. While I agree that autotune and beat-snapping software have ruined a lot of music, that doesn't change the fact that there was a lot more lip-syncing in those days than today.
@@Alltime2050 And yet, the comment points directly to the fact this IS a live performance- No lip-sync. No Auto-tune. With actual instruments rather than a backing track.
@@DoubtingTaom I still don't understand the significance of that in relation to the then versus now tone of the original comment.
This is phenomenal 👍 great live performance.
Not one dislike. Faith in humanity restored.
1970's the BEST! Who's with me?
All of history built up to the 70's - from there downhill
Mid 1960s thru mid 1970s. Birth of the Stones through the death of John Bonham.
I agree!
Yeah when music was music 🎶🎶🎶
The Hughes Corp pushed the dance floor doors wide open!!! right here all of the races got along thru music...
I'm still lost in the 70's and here it is 2022. I wish there was such a thing as a time machine. I'd be gone you guys would never see me again .
I'm coming with you!
DITTO THAT!!
HEY!! What about me??
🤗I’m going too!
OH! DANG! Me too! No one would ever see me again!
From a time when if you couldn't cut it live you got found out,not like now where a computer makes you sound good if you can't sing,take me back to the 70,s
Can we please go back to this time
❤ I wish how lucky were we who grew up in the 70s
@@stevenchadwick3734Eh?
It was B.G.
*Before Gays*
There is also a valid reason why we cling to this era regarding the music. It was so important to us with the few distractions of entertainment available to us at that time and as far as our working lives were concerned, there was no free ride. It was a far more disciplined time with no technology to aid us and as Rose tinted our glasses might be, if we were returned to that time there's a fair few from this current generation that might well curl up into a foetal position. Music was such an important escape back then it had more relevance in my humble opinion.
1945-1995 was the most revolutionary era of music; all genres….. now everything is dead……
Creativity is getting lost because of technology
This is the best - thank you! (I'm 72)
I was 16 when this song came out. I'm now 64 and I still love it.
RIGHT ON!!!
I'm 60 now and was 12 when this came out.
I was 16 when this song came out. I'm now 64 and I still love it.
Me too 😄.
💯 right here with ya'!!
Great song from the mid 70's that I'm still listening to in 2023
2024 .
Friday the 13th! 2024! 😎🍻🇺🇲
Its 2024 and this song is still great! Love Love it❤🎶
Fuckin criminally underated band and song
@@badspellah Great song, for sure!
2023. Who's Jamming to this Song still?? 😎
Jamming to it in 2024!! 😎
Me too!
still vibing in Feb 2024 Johannesburg, SA. the 70's were THE BEST by FAR
This song was in the charts when I finished school in 1976, in Cape Town and the local band, McCulley's Workshop covered it on Sunday nights at the Canterbury Inn, in Rondebosch. Don't know how i ever drove home after the place closed at midnight
2024 and this tune is still a fave of mine. I feel robbed that there’s no cowbell in the live version! Haha.
2024 and I'm still jamming - love it !!! great music from the 70s and this is one kick ass song. thank you Climax Blues Band, you guys rock !!!
This was the day I was born.
Back when the music was pure, vocals, instruments, no high tech alterations. Thanks for the video.
To be fair nearly all of TOTP was mimed. If I remember correctly the early shows didn't even have the original music but used the BBC orchestra. I think for Musician's Union reasons.
I was horrified to learn a few years ago that some of The Old Grey Whistle Test was fakery too, although the percentage of proper live music was much higher. When I was younger I had much more respect for OGWT because it had cool music and was (apparently, and mostly) live. The acts that mimed (e.g. The Rolling Stones) was more due to the bands not trusting that the Beeb would do justice to their sound. Although I might be being too generous. I knew someone who went on TOTP as part of the audience. They had tiny audiences they moved between the stages. If they'd zoomed out the studio would be pretty empty. So, as far as TV music was concerned, maybe not high tech alterations but certainly a few low tech ones.
Most of the rock bands that appeared were miming to music they played on tour so, quite often, although not plugged in (or in the case of drums, miked up) they would still play what they'd normally play. Problem was the directors would always without fail misread what was going on and cut to the wrong camera. It was almost perverse how they managed to get it wrong every time. So if you were trying to cop what the guitarist was actually doing (silently) you would be out of luck. latter bands (especially US ones who didn't get the point of miming or ones who'd already made it) would parody the show they were on doing guitar sols with saxophones etc. My favourite one was when The Eels went on to do Novocaine For The Soul with the drummer behind a tiny kids drum kit. next to the drums is a marshall stack. Eight inches high. And the bass player and guitarist have alternate genuine or toy sized instruments. So the Beeb were conplicit in the joke. So funny. Bands like Madness and ShawaddyWaddy (however that's spelled) would also ham it up quite a bit.
Oops. I re-watched The Eels and it's toys all the way. The Beeb still had to be complicit though. By 1997 even they didn't take themselve too serioulsy.
@@littlefluffybushbaby7256 These guys were definitely not miming. If they were, they had to re-record the song, because this is not the arrangement they recorded and released. Way too much work.
@@beenaplumber8379 I agree. I play drums, bass and guitar and everything matched up (e.g. HiHat, fills, cymbals). Drummers rarely do the exact same thing so that''s usually a give away. The harmonic on the guitar was not there when visually not there and the solo looked like the right thing. They also had a Marshall Amp just off stage and they were also all plugged in. I was more talking about TOTP rather than the Climax Blues Band, who I saw live many moons ago and were excellent. But TOTP started out not allowing the bands to actually play their own songs and used the TOTP orchestra with a newly recorded vocal track. I think because of Musicians Union limitations (i.e. recordings putting musicians out of work). They moved on to having most (not all) bands playing to their own songs often not even bothering to plug the guitars in. You'd hear horns that weren't there and second guitar parts with only one guitarist, and maybe the drummer would only have half his kit. It wasn't the bands decision. The bands had been playing their hit songs at hundreds of gigs so were fully capable of doing it (guitar bands at least) and they quite often played what they would have played even though not plugged in. It would be harder not to. One of the reasons I think was it's hard to get the sound right for a live band and TOTP was put out weekly with little foreknowledge of who they'd get. It was chart-based and the band had to be available. I found a youtube of the 1970's band "Free" on TOTP and, even though the main riff was recorded with at least two guitars (that's why it doesn't sound quite right when cover bands do it), I could still see Kossoff was playing one part of the riff and using upstrokes which filled in a piece of the puzzle for that riff. But he wasn't plugged in. He was just playing what he normally played when gigging. I was horrified to learn that even on the Old Grey Whistle Test some bands where not playing live, although most were, which is why it was better than TOTP. So, in short, I was definitely not taking a pop at The Climax Blues Band, but at the show itself, which was more often akin to a band karaoke than a true live performance. It was not unusual to see some bands taking the piss and miming to the guitar solo on saxophone or a toy guitar. When Eels did it, their drummer used a childs drum kit. Hillarious.
@@littlefluffybushbaby7256 I get it. I re-read your first comment, and I misunderstood. I thought you were having a go at the extraordinary Climax Blues Band. (I say that because over here in the US they were a one-hit-wonder with Couldn't Get It Right until 1980 when they charted with I love You. I thought they were just some pop band. I've only now discovered what I've been missing!)
Uh, sorry this got so long!
OGWT & TOTP sound like The Midnight Special and American Bandstand here. Midnight Special was mostly live, and I think Bandstand was entirely pre-recorded lip synch.
I learned one additional reason some networks and programmers insisted on miming the performance - they wanted to be absolutely sure the vocalists wouldn't violate their S&P (standards & practices) rules about language or content, like Jim Morrison did when The Doors played live on Ed Sullivan.
I think another downside of playing live on TV is that you're at the mercy of TV sound people who might know nothing about how to make live music sound good. I've seen performances that were clearly live but one of the guitars was faded so low you couldn't hear their solo, and they might try to use TV mics on your guitar cabs, etc.
I play bass, and my band did a half-hour music set for a tiny weekly local TV program in Minneapolis. (That's no boast - any local band could get in line for a date on that show for no pay; our date was in January 1996, and we broke up 3 months later.) We put on a great show, but the sound was atrocious! We had a bandleader whose name was part of the band's name, so everything was focused on him, as it should be, but his (rhythm) guitar was cranked!!! And it sounded incredibly screechy. (Awful preamps on the TV sound board? They used their own mics on the guitars, and I have no idea what they were.) Our lead guitarist sounded good, but he was kinda drowning under the rhythm guitar. My bass was predictably almost inaudible, though my tone was good in the mix. (I went direct from my rack into the board.) There was no reverb or compression on anything.
I suspect there were similar limitations on OGWT. On most clips I've seen from that show the vocalists are singing into 2 mics taped together. During one performance by Lynyrd Skynyrd, I had the impression Ronny (lead vox) was favoring the mic he heard in his monitor, which was not the mic used for the TV mix. The level was low and inconsistent, though Ronny was a very experienced vocalist. I had the impression the band's sound guy wasn't involved.
The Midnight Special always had a pretty decent mix though. I don't know if they had talented house staff that only did music or if the band's regular sound people were involved, but it was always quite good. Ok, some of the vocal mics occasionally clipped, but that's ok. That just meant it really was live!
Sorry this got kinda long... Talking music with a musician is something I miss. I've only played one gig since COVID, and my tired old back still hurts from that! Rocque on!
Just more proof that the 70's were the best decade for rock music.
I was a kid in my mom's car listening to this great music. Still remember those happy times.
I wouldnt go that far. Two different styles of music. "Bang your head..Metal Health will drive you mad".
Colin Cooper Pete haycock two more members of rock and roll heaven rest in peace fellas ❤️
From 68 to 76 was a magical time in music history. Some of the best pop/rock music ever made.
Completely agree with the above comment
+Dave Wray Link Wray?
Absolutely agreed. The zenith in music history.
Absolutely!!
It was such an amazing time...do you remember ordering albums via mail like "Summer of 76" only to find out it wasn't the original artists? So many copy cats it was unbelievable but shows just how GREAT the music was!
Takes me back to a much better place
Book me a seat in a time machine back to the 70s..am 60 now and that decade was the best ever for music..
Yea, the music was genuine!
I am 75 now and I totally agree with you ☺❤🙏
Look kids! No auto tune. No drum machine. No computer based instruments. It's what's referred to as talent.
Before we had Pro Tools, we had pros!
UR, you gotta keep an open mind with today's artists, not all machines sound bad. But I will have to say that this is one hell of a great video and the era back then, for me, was nothing but great music to get me through my life.
Yep - and no lip sync. Just musicians playing and singing. Great video.
And no cow bell, damn!
Agree!!!!
Not too many people probably ever noticed, but these dudes aren't just singing 3 part "harmonies" they're singing in 3 freakin "octaves" at the same time!!! Listen carefully! Lead vocalist on the low part, bass player in the middle and guitarist way up on top!! One of the very first bands to pull that shit off! (Very cool effect!) The Steve Miller Band was the only other band (I think) to even attempt that back then. Or ever for that matter! SMOKIN!!!
Love the vocal arrangement as well as that of the music- the way the guitars and sax blend to form one new sound. Awesome live performance from musicians' musicians.
Spot on Bruce! Thanks for pointing it out!
Well spotted Bruce and thanks for pointing that out. Yeah it works.
Bruce McFarland thats what this song one of the best
Yeah Bruce this one of first 3 albums I bought.i know that to.only true music lovers know and pick up on that.yeah Steve Miller damn good singer and picker to brother.peace to you.the 70s was the real deal.
The fact that they sound so good just raw with no auto tune like nowadays is just amazing
Just the occasional Conn Strobo-Tuner.
@@RedArrow73such a beautiful tuner.
Not amazing.. it's talent... gotta love analog.. everyone had to play live back then....
All their little heads are bopping up and down in time to the beat. What a great scene. Bring this back and cure the world!
I'm not trying to be high and mighty, I'd probably have been the same back then: but a lot of them have eyes for the camera and are probably just trying to look good on TV back when not just anybody could be on screen. Yet I think in its own way, people are being there and present in a cool moment.
I love your comment. ❤️
Good to see some nerds from high school band made it.
This totally captures the 70s for me...dudes with dorky clothes & hair, but damn could they sing and play the hell out their instruments. Fantastic tune.
Yeah, the clothes...I even got accused of being a hippie. LOL!
Richard Tetta Miss those Days....👍🇬🇧🤓
Max Herron Sr Yes them ladies were.....and also they were Silicon Free.....👍🇬🇧🤓
Looks like any hs dance I ever went to. Class of 77 in the house!
And they’re way cooler than these little soy boy betas today
That high pitched vocal backing is awesome!!!!!
Honestly that’s what makes this entire song so iconic! At least that’s what makes me remember it from my childhood
Yes!! Agree 1000%
any other 53 yr old folks like me still love this in 24? never thought back then I was listening to some of the best songs ever to be written 🎶
I'm 71 and couldn't agree more.
I’m 53 and completely agree. We had it so good.
55. I've started becoming very nostalgic about music. Was a metalhead and then just into all kinds of stuff. Lately though, I am listening to a lot more comfort music. Stuff from my childhood that makes me feel good. I still listen to other stuff but this is like finding your teddy bear that you lost when you was three years old.
@@andreabradley5837 same here , these songs are like a time machine, what a different world we grew up in
61 and I agree! The future will never be as good as the past
I miss the 70s, AWESOME.
Omg! Great memory of a great song! April 1977! I'm cruising in my father's 1973 Olds 98 Luxury sedan! My friend Vinny Santinello in the front seat, Pat in middle, Karen, Erin, and my friend Mike Calvito and his sister Susan in the back seat! Al the girls singing this song! Queens Village forever! Great friends! Great time! Kool girls! Rip Vinny!
You grew up in a Cameron Crowe movie!
Kept away from Son of Sam
1976...teenagers still listening in 2019...you?
Have the album on vinyl...1976=15
I was born in 1997 and I love this song! My generation of music is just awful.
Sootys Disco, Hello my friend 😊, I'm still listening in 2019🎵🎤🎶😀.I was 13 in 1976.😎😎 Now I'm 55 and I miss the good ole days.🎼😍🎵🎤🎶
22 and loving this
I was born in ‘76. Song showed up on my feed. Good stuff.
Colin Coopers (main singer) voice always reminded me of the singer in the band Exile. Remember the song Kiss you all over?
There is an absolutely hilarious video of that song on UA-cam, lemme find it for ya.
Ok. Here it is. It was kinda before people knew how to make videos, so the singers look alive and the band looks like they’re on double quaaludes. Enjoy
ua-cam.com/video/OpaCXtahXxk/v-deo.html
@@TentinQuarantino_ I know why you say its hilarious , basically because its a bit OTT. The bass player is a bit non existant emotion wise. I also looked at their Midnight Special version where they did it live, and it is the best version. It was a great song at the time. I would have been around 16 to 18, and I was heavy into Status Quo, but I didnt mind this song. Some disco songs like I feel love, Disco Inferno and Staying Alive would be many blokes guilty pleasures.
tiffd98133 bwahahaha Holy shit, those bangs have to be immortalized as the Apex of cringe! In their defense that was peak of cheesy music and frankly the backlash was warranted...
K.J. G. I know, right? But in all fairness, that goofball had a really good reputation for helping others and ran a soup kitchen for the homeless. I just had to look him up. He died young but I never got a reliable report on how.
Show me anything on commercial radio today that can even touch this! It doesn’t exist.
👍
I heard it on the radio station in my truck.
Foget it!
commercial radio sucks .When Clear Cannel and I Fart Radio took over, radio has sucked since. If I ever hit the lottery I will start my own station and make music great again. That is my dream.
@@richardtaylor8595 lol! I think about winning the lottery and having my own radio station too!
The song is just the grooviest and coolest. That chill as hell sounding voice and the lyrics "Time was drifting, this Rocker's got to roll, so I hit the road and made my getawayyy". How much cooler can you get? It's so brilliant and I'm addicted to it.
"How much cooler can you get?" Er, quite a lot. Especially at the time. My older brother had just bought 'Anarchy in the UK' ;)
I like your comment. His voice is cool!
@@blackmore4 anarchy in the UK came out a year later…. This dates before punk rock. It’s cool and for those who were around back then ( myself). Couldn’t get it right , looks like you couldn’t get it right either.
@@MrChubbington No, you're the one who "couldn't get it right". Climax Blues Band released the single of 'Couldn't Get It Right' in October 1976 and performed it on this Top of the Pops in November 1976. The very same month in which the Sex Pistols released 'Anarchy in the UK'.
@@blackmore4 Poseur by proxy! (Note: Sid never stood trial for Nancy's death)
What a great song, I'm 57 and I never get tired of listening to it!
Join to my rocknrol page and channel please.
It'll still sound just as great..maybe better when you hit 65yo, best wishes keep rockin them years away.
Heard it on the radio, shazam it.
What a song!!!
Feels more like song than today's music.
One of the VERY rare occasions, in the 70's, when a live performance isn't using a taped version of the studio track!!!
COOL!!!😎
And they're not speeding it up like a lot of band do when they perform live.
@@61Slughi True dat!😉👍
As good or better than the studio version. Nice
Back when nobody knew how to dance! This audience anyway!😂
....and it sounds great! 😎👍🏻
My show of hands. Loving it still June 2024.
July 2024👍😎
@@mikeking7381Also July 2024. Great song ✌🏼
@@mikeking7381July 31 2024 from Thailand
This song is a really good and brings back memories ❤❤
Just warming up for the summer of '77. Fantastic stuff. What an era, what a time to grow up.
So true mate.....👍🇬🇧🤓
Turned 16 that year. It really was a great time to grow up, sooo much great music.
My first concert was in '77 at the Kingdome in Seattle, a little group named Led Zeppelin.
Summer of 77 was a magical time.
AWESOME SONG AND GROUP!!!!! 2021 STILL LISTENING... What was so freaking awesome back in the day, without noticing then, was the fact that, " We All Got Along '!!! No racist crap! Now, it's just sad. Everyone is for ONLY themselves! A certain age group has destroyed everything. It's heartbreaking! 💔😡 music is all that is left except for the memories in our heads. God Bless you and good luck... you're gonna need it!
Couldn't have said it any better, sad but true.
Thank you for the post....72 years old, I am, and still rocking!!
(01:52) Peter Haycock (the guitarist) is playing a Veleno aluminum guitar. You don't see those often. There were fewer than 200 made.
The band was known for their unique way of blending guitar and saxophone. The fact that both were made of metal may have been responsibile for helping to create this sound.
Anyone listening in 2020 .
Me!
Yes - music of my teen years. REAL MUSIC and real musicians. That era is gone I'm afraid. Still a few "getting it right" but not many.
Yes, I am!
Just listened to this today on Spotify!
Definitely!
Concerts look so much fun back then, no cell phones, no selfies, just dancing and having fun. I am 55 so was too young for that show, but went to a lot of concerts in the 90's, would have loved to gone to ones in the 80's and 70's.
Love to see all the young people dancing and enjoying the music together, black and white, all equals. Too bad we didn't have more of that here in America, with our quasi-segregated TV shows like American Bandstand and Soul Train.
2022 Thanks !!! PHILADELPHIA USA
All the Greatest music has Already been done…
I feel sorry for anyone who thinks this way.
🎉🎉🎉😊
RIP Colin Cooper (Sax) and Pete Haycock (Guitar) Greatly missed.
Anyone who invents a time machine, please let me know asap so I can go back to a cooler world!
U. Hinson take me with you ))
+Tony Rome I wish my friend!!
u hinson u dont approve of the world u now inhabit.
Damn straight!
U. Hinson You took the words right out of my mouth. Get me out of these horrible times and drop me off in the mid-1970s
Who’s still listening 👂, now in 2025??🤗
Always. 70's music will always be what I'm listening to. It was good when I was young and still is
Killer band. I was lucky to have older brothers that jammed to this all the time in the 70s, as well as montrose, Dwight twilley band, foghat, Nazareth, kiss, heart, fleetwood mac, zz top, lynyrd skynyrd, molly hatchet, marshall tucker band, rolling stones and on and on and on. I was a lucky little dude.
ladies and gentlemen music doesnt get much better than this
RIGHT ON!
whitedust696 100% AAA
I TRULY LOVE THIS
Cool
All the good movies should end with this awesome song.
When his voice dips deep in the original recording, my insides get all fuzzy. Just a great voice, and a wonderful voice and song.
I saw these guys around 1981 and they put on a great show, excellent playing, and had a chat backstage about their guitars and they were really cool, down to earth and modest. It was basically my first time meeting people I'd idolised through the Johnny Walker and Friday Rock Show, and it was a real pleasure to discover they were just real nice guys.
Pete Haycock seems to have been a lovely guy
@@Kaleiddmode he was... a personal friend of ours we went on tour with him and Pete Haycock's True Blues, in Germany in 2008.. Had the most fantastic time... I posted vids on my channel google the band title.
70s were a blur. Went through 2 wives and they still haven't found either one of them. Been living in Winnipeg even since. They call me Gus now.
Everything about this is just COOL
Watching this in 2019 and wishing I was in the 70's...
I was there... Used to have all albums
Exactly! Best freaking decade.
Take me with you
Just wait til 2020...
60's 70's and 80's were very cool. Wish I could relive it
Back then..good times no cell phones just living the moment
For ONCE, a 70’s TV performance which was not lip synced. Thank you.
Underrated classic which is one of the great tunes that epitomizes my life in the 70's.
Great song and incredible live version!
& the gold-plated guitar!
It's not underrated else i doubt it would be a classic
Still love this in 2021,
Who's with me?
They were such an underappreciated band ...
The music of the 70's will live forever. We had the best from all genres and it brought us all together.
You didn’t know it then but those were the best times in your life.
Back in the day when bands believed in their musicianship enough to play live on TOTP.
Radical!
+Phil Porter The bands that played on the show didn't have any say in the matter when TOTP decided that bands would lip sync.
+Phil Porter Indeed, Phil...back in the day when AutoTune and ProTools were someone's nightmare concept. It's so freakin' fun to watch musicans play real musicians. I really took it all for granted back in the day. As a drummer, I had to really know my meters and such in order to keep a job. Today, it's "No Experience Necessary." And by the way, I see Kanye West, the greatest fraud of them all, one more time, I am going to have to assassinate something!
+robert glenn h hopefully it will be kanye
+Ken Holland Would love to put Kanye in an open-air limo and do a repeat of Dallas...
And award medals to the shooters on the grassy knoll.
I met Colin Cooper In Wigan early 90's. A lovely fella, what great band
they were from Stafford, the county town. Used to watch them play at local youth clubs.
2025 anyone still here?
I remember when this came out, I was a kid. Yet , I still remember hearing a radio commercial where the station played a bunch of tying in songs . That was when WPLJ was the R&R station. Yep, I’m old just don’t feel or act it. ; ). As Stevie Wonder said “New York, just like I pictured it. Skyscrapers and everything!” Hopefully some folks will give this a listen.
Sincerely,
PM❤🎉
Still in a pub that plays it in Canada! Grateful to hear.. ✨️
Yas
Nope. We all went to another planet.
Yo Boo 👋👋😁😁
This is the shit! How can you not like this? sound is superb, great song, excellent musicians, they literally piss this with ease, so cool.
No excrement here. Just pure talent and joy!
アメリカ在住の1977年、毎日ラジオから流れていた。中毒性が高い。
I saw them live on March 10, 1984 in the hall of a restaurant in Xanten-Birten, Germany, in front of a maximum of 150 people. More people weren't there because there was a printing error on the tickets: Climex. The innkeeper was able to motivate them to still play a full concert with a few trays full of beer. It was wonderfull and will always be in my heart! I still have the tickets!
One of the best songs to come out of the 70’s. When I hear this I think of “So Into You” by Atlanta Rhythm Section & “Moonlight Feels Right” by Starbuck. Still love all three.
Greatest comment ever.
Indeed.
Presumably you also do an air marimba solo half way through Moonlight Feels Right like I do???
Funny, I get that exact feeling too…. It’s gotta be that Fender Rhodes
This was literally the 1st band I saw in concert, they opened for Bad Co. Cleveland Coliseum; 1977-ish
Cleveland rocks!!
Me too. They opened for Alice Cooper im 76. I was in third grade lol
You guys are lucky, lucky. Musta' been good times.
We saw them twice live in the 70s in Chicago- Once with Foghat in the Auditorium-- the other I don't recall.
I do recall them playing "I am Constant"-- and 7th Son!!!!!!
Jamming out... Drinking some brews tonight & reminiscing... This is a great one!
hey, wish I could join you !
@@nereydacortes1297 I guess ya just did! Have a good one....
That's the badass bass player from the band Sweet is it not and nobody even noticed or knew except me.
One of THE songs of the 1970s for me. So atmospheric.
Love this song!💕💕💕
2025! Still rockin to this one!! Love this band❤
Right on. This song needs played more. Thanks for upload ❤✌🤘
60yrs still listening; Climax blues band, Cristoffer Cross, Toto, Hall&Oates etc. Completely right, no autotunecrap and naked bodies..
virtuosos who earned the fame
Can I like this twice?
I saw them do this in the summer of 77 with Pure Prairie League and ZZ Top.
Wow, what a lineup
I saw these guys in the mid 70s in Stafford, their home town, at a charity gig to save a local Hotel from demolition. Couldn't Get It Right was in the charts and the atmosphere at the night club, Th Top Of The World, was electric! The place was absolutely heaving, with no restrictions on numbers in those days and no air con either! I've been to many a concert over the years and it was probably the best I'd been to for enjoyment and I'm sure the band must have felt the same. Needless to say the building was saved and is there to this day. Thank you fellas.
Remember my Childhood
Peaked at #3 on the Hot 100 in the spring of 1977.
SHOULD HAVE HIT NO.1
And #2 was the lame "When I Need You" by Leo Sayer. #1 was Stevie Wonder's excellent "Sir Duke"
Kelly02895 Love When I Need You, which went to no.1
Every day on KEZY in Anaheim, CA, they would play this during what was my driver's education class. Even in AM, the song resonated. Cannot hear it without thinking about how it was way back when.
In 1976 they had a thing called a Jukebox that were in foosball / pinball joints. And this song played every hour along with Play That Funky Music.. Peter Frampton too..
You cannot help but get pumped up when you hear this tune. Smooth , upbeat and you can dance to it !
Me too. 😀
I met these cats when they were playing the Aladdin Hotel in Vegas behind Johnny Winter in '76. We hung out together for 3 days and had a blast. It wasn't until I walked in on the sound check for their gig and they were playing this song that I realized that they had a hit record out. Nice group of easy going blue-collar dudes.
Great story!
@penn707 Jerk
I wasn't there dude.
The series "Forever" brought me here, a great song
Ahhhh yes the 70s where the fabulous bands were plentiful and the the superb songs were everywhere....my favorite decade 👌👍✌✌✌✌
Love his baritone voice. Excellent live band. I'm impressed.
Great song reminds me of my youth some Great songs made in the 70s
It's 100% live. Talented group. Love it.
When musicians did not sign contract deals with the devil,they played with their heart and soul..
Inarah Lucero Contracts with the devil go back to the start of rock n roll.
WRONG!
I actually thought bands got screwed over much more then.
Tell that to Badfinger
Badfinger, The Chambers Brothers, Tommy James, Steve Marriott