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  • Опубліковано 2 сер 2008
  • Top of the Pops 1-7-71

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  • @gregscott8383
    @gregscott8383 4 місяці тому +156

    They say you should not live in the past. But late 60s to early 70s were the best magical times. I'd go back and stay there.

    • @happyness8805
      @happyness8805 3 місяці тому +4

      Don't forget 80s too 😂

    • @ARJIT-lf3po
      @ARJIT-lf3po 3 місяці тому +6

      forever 70s

    • @ToniPhillips-tc9cl
      @ToniPhillips-tc9cl 3 місяці тому +1

      And then Came Thatcher and with it the demise of the UK an its music

    • @vasiluysaban5811
      @vasiluysaban5811 2 місяці тому

      Верно! 👍👍👍

    • @pilateschic9760
      @pilateschic9760 Місяць тому

      definitely the best times! I'd go back and stay anyday

  • @nni9310
    @nni9310 2 місяці тому +31

    As a 5-year-old in1972, I loved this song.

  • @krisdunwoody7037
    @krisdunwoody7037 2 роки тому +129

    Mid 60's to the end of the 80's was the best 25 years for music.

    • @rumpoh8039
      @rumpoh8039 4 місяці тому +1

      72 ACTUALLY

    • @paultreadaway102
      @paultreadaway102 4 місяці тому +4

      I think 54-89 35years.Rock n Roll setup the diet that started it, many genres from that part trace the roots to that what i

    • @FrewstonBooks
      @FrewstonBooks 3 місяці тому +4

      Gotta include the late 50s and early 60s.

    • @stefanlehner3779
      @stefanlehner3779 2 місяці тому +2

      90s also we're not so bad.

    • @smartfart9003
      @smartfart9003 Місяць тому

      Totally agree, late 60s to late 80s, but being a jazz fan I do agree with another in this thread that the 50s started a lot of it, but the 30s and 40s had great jazz, swing and big band. 90% of the forward progress, talent and creativity stopped almost exactly at 1990, as rap and grunge.took over. SO depressing.

  • @colinremmer2417
    @colinremmer2417 2 роки тому +321

    God, I miss the 70's. Life seemed so simple back then and the music so good

    • @ruthsayers1163
      @ruthsayers1163 2 роки тому +6

      There was LOADS of good music around then. (In the 70's, and 60's as well). I can't go back before that, I wasn't around!!!!!

    • @psour33
      @psour33 2 роки тому +14

      That was a very happy time 🙃

    • @StarfieldRailway
      @StarfieldRailway 2 роки тому +13

      @Jay, I loved the 1970s, but I was kid too. I thought for a long time about how the world seemed so much nicer and more stable then, but I realized later that history shows the world was pretty messed up then in a lot of ways. There were horrors like famine in Africa, war in Vietnam, the Cold War, gasoline crisis, racial tension and injustice, slavery, totalitarian government oppression, the threat of nuclear war, gang violence, crime, etc. The world has never been a rose garden. My childhood was a rose garden in the 70s, but the world in general was not.

    • @CovidConQuitTheCensorship
      @CovidConQuitTheCensorship 2 роки тому +3

      I miss the 70's too 😔

    • @colinremmer2417
      @colinremmer2417 2 роки тому +4

      @Jay Probably. all we had to worry about was what time was tea and what was going to be on tv on Saturday mornings

  • @malahammer
    @malahammer 2 роки тому +574

    Music is an incredible time travelling mechanism. This has just brought me right back to my childhood 😭

    • @Raptorel
      @Raptorel 2 роки тому +15

      I always said this, that music is a time machine that not only shows you how stuff was but makes you feel like you did then.

    • @InstantEuphory
      @InstantEuphory 2 роки тому +8

      wish i could telepotate into this times! (I´m 37)

    • @Raptorel
      @Raptorel 2 роки тому +3

      @@InstantEuphory 37 here as well

    • @dannyvandenbosch2734
      @dannyvandenbosch2734 2 роки тому +4

      Me too

    • @dannyvandenbosch2734
      @dannyvandenbosch2734 2 роки тому +4

      @@InstantEuphory I was 11 when it came out,first ladyfingers I fell in love with (born in 64)

  • @richardkeep1974
    @richardkeep1974 2 місяці тому +23

    74 and still loving the 70s music ❤️

  • @ianbell7342
    @ianbell7342 4 місяці тому +302

    whos loving this in 24 .... brings it all back .

    • @stmagicallsteps6139
      @stmagicallsteps6139 4 місяці тому +4

      Always singing this and get strange looks

    • @ralfhaggstrom
      @ralfhaggstrom 4 місяці тому +3

      Certainly does ...................

    • @gabsiyou
      @gabsiyou 3 місяці тому +2

      ❤ always to cheer up

    • @jofisher9692
      @jofisher9692 3 місяці тому +3

      Me. I was born in 73 and love 60s and 70s music 🎶 🎵 ❤ ♥ 😊

    • @helenrobson661
      @helenrobson661 3 місяці тому +1

      me me me me xx

  • @keithwalmsley1830
    @keithwalmsley1830 3 місяці тому +34

    I'm revisiting this in '24, my sister has just passed away and one of my earliest memories is of us singing this to our Mum!!! Very emotional and a great song from a much more innocent and simpler time in many ways!!!

  • @josephfisher3682
    @josephfisher3682 2 роки тому +254

    I was 9 years old in the hospital where they had to remove my tonsils and I heard it on the radio and loved it. The summer of 1971. I sang it all my life but never heard it again until I came here in 2022.

    • @LuciusDriftwood
      @LuciusDriftwood 2 роки тому +25

      Where’s ya tonsils gone?
      (Where’s ya tonsils gone) 🤪

    • @TheDanishGuyReviews
      @TheDanishGuyReviews 2 роки тому +3

      Wow, really? That's unfortunate. I heard it on the radio last month, and way before that as well.

    • @johnbailey3877
      @johnbailey3877 Рік тому +3

      @@LuciusDriftwood F___ing BRILLIANT

    • @JoinTheProgress
      @JoinTheProgress Рік тому +3

      I thought for sure your story was going to end with "had to remove my tonsils and when I woke up my parents had abandoned me."

    • @Slinkx
      @Slinkx Рік тому +4

      I wish they removed my eardrums. This is pure drivel.

  • @GARYK1968
    @GARYK1968 7 місяців тому +128

    This song is the one I have chosen for my Mothers Funeral on Friday 5th January 2024. I remember sitting in the front of her car when I was a little girl and her driving round The Bullring when we lived near Birmingham, - Kerry
    RIP Mum 1944 - 2023

    • @glennhaller9783
      @glennhaller9783 6 місяців тому +6

      You sound like a great daughter.. I'm sure she is proud of you ❤

    • @MalevEvans-dw3do
      @MalevEvans-dw3do 6 місяців тому +7

      Sorry you gave lost your mother. I wa thinking when I started listening to this track how it creates such a strong memory of the 70s and the good times for those of us who were lucky enough to have our childhood during that time. So yes it's a good choice of song.

    • @VictoriaSaunders-rq7qw
      @VictoriaSaunders-rq7qw 6 місяців тому +4

      Sorry to hear you have lost your mother,’ she will always be watching over you 😇 my condolences 💐

    • @thetruthandnothingbutthetr5733
      @thetruthandnothingbutthetr5733 5 місяців тому +2

      Hope your doing ok 😢
      Banging this for your mum 🎉

    • @jamesbrook16
      @jamesbrook16 5 місяців тому +1

      RIP mum.

  • @HyacinthFl0wer
    @HyacinthFl0wer 9 днів тому +2

    13 y/o, spring of ‘71, a big Hit in here in Scotland. I love Sally Car’s hotpants here (that’s what these shorts were called back then) reminded me of a pair of..red ‘wetlook’ hotpant dungarees I had. I saw them in a shop with mum and went on about them. She got them for me to shut me up. They were too big, but I was going to wear them when I was older. Lol! It was £4 she could’ve done without spending. I had a ‘feather haircut’ very fashionable at that time. My older brother had 2 Arthur Black shirts and a two-tone AB jumper. AB was a Glasgow shirt maker I think. The jumper shrunk in the wash so I got that. I notice there’s another girl dancing with hotpants on. This band and song brings back so much of that time for me. Some of our school teachers wore robes and we all had to at least wear the school shirt and tie - but that discipline was beginning to wane about the school uniform. Some teachers at school still wore robes. I was getting right into James Taylor, Joni Mitchell, CSNY, Judee Sill, Gerry Raffery, Gallagher & Lyle courtesy of 2 of my brothers’ influences, one of which was never in (ie at home) to listen to all the LP’s (vinyl albums) he bought. I forgotten how great this sound was in this single. Ah well..

  • @jayantakumarchatterjee4540
    @jayantakumarchatterjee4540 2 роки тому +61

    I am 70 now. First heard this song in 1971 in my second year college. Still enjoying listening to it. Thanks to You Tube..

  • @vanessa-rosefrances9717
    @vanessa-rosefrances9717 5 років тому +780

    Sally is so beautiful! She now lives in the city Glasgow, I know her personally and she is still as beautiful and bright as she was in the 70’s❤️

    • @alanjax7685
      @alanjax7685 4 роки тому +27

      i still would

    • @robertconnor175
      @robertconnor175 4 роки тому +24

      Pass on my love, best legs I’ve seen

    • @mikedamore9259
      @mikedamore9259 4 роки тому +22

      She is beautiful and I'm from America I've never heard that song I loved it say hi for me from America

    • @johnmongrel3142
      @johnmongrel3142 4 роки тому +2

      Vanessa-rose Frances you chat soo much shit - you don’t know her personally!

    • @johnmongrel3142
      @johnmongrel3142 4 роки тому

      A P she doesn’t know Sally for Gods sake!!

  • @jackojackson6043
    @jackojackson6043 3 роки тому +210

    My dad used to always sing this I didn’t realise it was an actual song 😂

    • @gongills
      @gongills 3 роки тому +15

      My dad used to do the same thing I always thought he made it up

    • @kevindrummond1786
      @kevindrummond1786 3 роки тому +10

      Don't worry ma mam sang it too lol in the 80s am 41 lol cany beat th old tunes 👌🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

    • @sliperysid
      @sliperysid 2 роки тому +5

      I heard it on Norfolk island, for the first time last year, I'm 47 and never heard of this before

    • @rubyscanlon5623
      @rubyscanlon5623 2 роки тому +1

      My dad sung it like a few minutes ago lol

    • @rjjcms1
      @rjjcms1 2 роки тому +3

      I was 6 when this was a UK number 1 in summer 1971. I always thought it was literally about a baby bird whose parents had abandoned it and flown off somewhere.

  • @VicenteGarcia-gx2ef
    @VicenteGarcia-gx2ef 5 місяців тому +31

    Thanks to You Tube we still can enjoy these songs otherwise they would have been living in our memories and the new generations wouldn't enjoy the good music

  • @owenparker6452
    @owenparker6452 6 місяців тому +33

    I was born on the day this song got to Number One on 19th June 1971

  • @ellislay
    @ellislay 4 роки тому +725

    Nobody:
    My last brainchells at 3 am:
    ChIrPy cHiRpY ChEeP cHeEp

  • @Garyh61
    @Garyh61 2 роки тому +176

    'Far, far away --
    Last night I heard my mama singing a song-'
    Still loving it 50 years later!! 🤗

    • @mysticblood212
      @mysticblood212 2 роки тому +3

      This song will be history

    • @carljones7380
      @carljones7380 2 роки тому +4

      Seemed to be played at every Wedding, parties in 70s, I was five and use to dance with my mum.

    • @paulinelim6384
      @paulinelim6384 2 роки тому +1

      Indeed.. Me too!

    • @steventhompson5968
      @steventhompson5968 2 роки тому +1

      It just makes me happy

    • @chipwells1352
      @chipwells1352 2 роки тому +1

      Had the single in 1972 right after my dad died.

  • @dales095
    @dales095 7 місяців тому +23

    After all this time it still puts me in a good mood. Great Song

  • @helenrobson661
    @helenrobson661 3 місяці тому +84

    Ian i am here dancing to this song in April 2024

    • @evelyncoomber4854
      @evelyncoomber4854 3 місяці тому +2

      Me too

    • @helenrobson661
      @helenrobson661 3 місяці тому +1

      @@evelyncoomber4854 well done XXx

    • @jesusguerra7472
      @jesusguerra7472 2 місяці тому

      Firmes acá en mayo y era una de mis preferidas en los años 70 ya estudiando mi secundaria

    • @desmondhull5778
      @desmondhull5778 Місяць тому +1

      Me too ,chirpy chirpy cheep cheep😊.

  • @Deedee-ee1sg
    @Deedee-ee1sg 4 роки тому +201

    Yet another song that was part of the soundtrack to my youth! 70s had some of the greatest songs ever written and incredible eclectic mix of bands and artists! This is classic 70s pop, so very catchy we all sang along to it!

    • @mohammadhammam5688
      @mohammadhammam5688 2 роки тому

      I love Zanado how about that?

    • @spannaspinna
      @spannaspinna 2 роки тому +2

      @@mohammadhammam5688 Xanadu is a great song

    • @ruthsayers1163
      @ruthsayers1163 2 роки тому +3

      Cat Stevens was singing then, one of my VERY favourites, and The Spinners Folk band was around, they were amazing as well!!!!! There was LOADS of AMAZING FOLK MUSIC AROUND. The Spinners, "The World Is Black, the world is white, it turns by day and it turns by night, it turns by night." Does anybody remember that one?????????

    • @Deedee-ee1sg
      @Deedee-ee1sg 2 роки тому +2

      @@ruthsayers1163 YES!. There was so much good music then, and so many genres. Did you like Hot Chocolate? Amazing songs.

    • @ruthsayers1163
      @ruthsayers1163 2 роки тому

      @@Deedee-ee1sg I heard about Hot Chocolate, I knew they were around, I don't think I knew any of their songs though.

  • @wetleyrocks3092
    @wetleyrocks3092 4 роки тому +77

    48 years later and I'm still enjoying it, great!

  • @paulhease1007
    @paulhease1007 Рік тому +18

    Funny how some songs just take you right back. I can remember the sun was shining and I was at nana's house and the world was new and beautiful in the summer of 1971. I still love singing this song.

  • @obbor4
    @obbor4 2 роки тому +50

    I'm sure that I hadn't heard this song since the year that it came out. Haven't even thought once about it in five decades and remembered every single word as soon as it began to play. It's amazing what stays in the mind's hard drive when yesterday's breakfast has been completely forgotten.

  • @aandy51x
    @aandy51x 4 роки тому +71

    What a song and what a singer she is incredible voice no wonder they had so many hits, great time for music

  • @williamwellington8668
    @williamwellington8668 4 роки тому +144

    My mates Mum used to sing.."Chippy,Chippy, Chip, Chip" while was cooking the chips in the fryer in the Chip Shop in St Agnes.

    • @1saracen
      @1saracen 4 роки тому +3

      cool mum!

    • @dirtyolbugger
      @dirtyolbugger 3 роки тому +2

      Was she rootable as well?

    • @chrishumphrays84
      @chrishumphrays84 3 роки тому +1

      My Nana used to do that when I was a kid when ever she would cook

  • @rhondalynch6969
    @rhondalynch6969 2 роки тому +130

    I'm 50 now, but I remember my mom affectionately singing this to me when I was about 2-3❤

  • @mitchellsteele3878
    @mitchellsteele3878 Рік тому +82

    Absolutely brilliant song , I was 8yrs old when this was a hit, my mum played this song a lot when I was a kid, forgot all about it till I recently visited Glasgow and heard this song being played in the background and brought back great memories, sally sang so beautifully 👍

    • @gaialang4894
      @gaialang4894 Рік тому +2

      I was 3 years old ❤️

    • @laciLaszloM
      @laciLaszloM Рік тому

      thats great but how sadist is it that a poor baby called Don has been abandoned by both his parents....please keep enjoying songs that have let up to modern day grammy awards

    • @dufunia8313
      @dufunia8313 Рік тому

      what a strange song...what is it about?

    • @conservative6759
      @conservative6759 Рік тому

      I like it when she makes that stupid face.....Great Britain next Germany has some ugly women

    • @DaveDeLerch
      @DaveDeLerch Рік тому

      8 ? me too !!!

  • @mohammedjarjarah7419
    @mohammedjarjarah7419 5 років тому +73

    One of the best old songs. Thousands of lovely memories are back with smiles.

  • @dougfaulkner7858
    @dougfaulkner7858 5 років тому +377

    brings back many, many memories, just wish l could turn the clock back.

    • @paulritchie5868
      @paulritchie5868 5 років тому +1

      Met the drummer in the band many years ago in Spain,him and his partner still play in the local bars,nice bloke,seemed happy enough.

    • @edwardstinson8334
      @edwardstinson8334 5 років тому

      Those were the days no pun intended

    • @natnikilam2288
      @natnikilam2288 5 років тому +1

      In 1971 I was 4 years old , I listened this song n enjoyed it

    • @barryclarke7731
      @barryclarke7731 5 років тому

      Second that

    • @williamwatt1664
      @williamwatt1664 4 роки тому

      me too

  • @StephanHe-oq1fh
    @StephanHe-oq1fh Місяць тому +6

    Sally Carr und Middle of the Road die gehörten mit zu meinen Bands in den glorreichen Siebzigern wir waren jung Bj 1960 und bekamen damals di beste Musik zu hören ❤🎉❤

  • @Tyronewasere
    @Tyronewasere Місяць тому +4

    My mum and godmother are in the crowd dancing lol

  • @johnnieveight4925
    @johnnieveight4925 5 років тому +27

    I was 6 years old, me and my mum would sing to this, I loved that world, flowers were bright and tall, we as kids played out, doors stayed unlocked or open, food tasted better, toys were simple, I really miss them days, and at 6 what wasn’t there not to love.

  • @mrjohnmca
    @mrjohnmca 3 роки тому +26

    I remember my mother dancing with me in the living room I was 6 what a wonderful memories x

  • @infinitum5425
    @infinitum5425 Місяць тому +3

    As a former heavy metaller, having head-banged my way thru Led Zepp , Purple , Sabbath , etc etc in my teens , I am now absolutely LOVING the MOR sounds of MOR! 😄😄👏👏👏💐

  • @user-is9uk3yb4m
    @user-is9uk3yb4m 2 роки тому +14

    Summer of 1975, on the beach in the Crimea. The dawn. We have finished drinking party and are staring at the sea and the rising sun. And first we heard this song, sung on two voices, then saw two girls going along the shore in the surf and singing this song. I often see/recollect that marvellous picture from my Soviet youth and listen to Sally Carr, performing this masterpiece.

  • @melcrabtree7720
    @melcrabtree7720 5 років тому +138

    THE BEST TIME OF MY LIFE LIVING IN HE 70S LIFE WAS GREAT, AND I DO MISS SO MUCH

  • @garywinkworth3380
    @garywinkworth3380 4 роки тому +49

    i remember this song i was 9 years old, my beautiful mum liked it, i wish i could have her back even for just 5 minutes

    • @russelloliver3040
      @russelloliver3040 2 роки тому +1

      Bloody hell mate, that is one of the most moving things I've ever read. I'm not religious at all, but let's hope there is truth in it and one day you are reunited with your ma.
      We must be about the same age if you were 9 when this came out because I remember it too. Have a look for a video on UA-cam called we never owned an Ipad, that'll bring back some good memories for you.

    • @garywinkworth3380
      @garywinkworth3380 2 роки тому +1

      @@russelloliver3040 thanks mate I'll have a look when i get a chance

  • @philroberts1103
    @philroberts1103 2 роки тому +8

    I was 6 in the summer of '71 and my mum was in hospital for a month. Always remember this song.

  • @TomislavKoren
    @TomislavKoren Рік тому +23

    For years I thought this song is lost for me...i was a kiddo when i found some compilation cassette with yellow label. This song was last one on side A. I was sold immediately with rewinding it until it lost every tone above 10kHz. The tape was gone with time but melody and few words remained in my head. Back then I didn't knew english. Thanks to Google who's algorithm recognized chirps from my head and brought me to this masterpiece. Seventies and eighties in heart forever.

  • @herschaltrivedi
    @herschaltrivedi 3 роки тому +125

    I grew up with this song since I was 2 years old. I have loved this song since then. Even almost 50 years after it came out. Some songs never die. They live in people's memories forever.

    • @gremlinuk1968
      @gremlinuk1968 3 роки тому +3

      I was a 3 year old back then, born May 23rd, 1968,, northern Ireland UK,,

    • @glynnevans1851
      @glynnevans1851 3 роки тому +2

      @@gremlinuk1968 Hi, I was 10 . Fab music then also liked T.Rex n The Sweet. Luv your horse racing in Ireland and you sent Man Utd the king of Football 'George Best.Kind regards Glynn n greetings from Stourbridge West Midlands UK 🤝

    • @gremlinuk1968
      @gremlinuk1968 3 роки тому +1

      @@glynnevans1851 hi , God Bless from northern Ireland UK, I grew up in bushmills , live in Portstewart now , 😘 🤝

    • @glynnevans1851
      @glynnevans1851 3 роки тому +1

      @@gremlinuk1968 Bless you too. Kind regards Glynn 🌻🌻🌻

    • @peturdobrev1196
      @peturdobrev1196 2 роки тому

      8

  • @dernwales
    @dernwales 7 років тому +721

    They will never know how great it was in the seventies you had to be there

    • @Mark_Moore60
      @Mark_Moore60 7 років тому +18

      dernwales True, they were my teenage years and I loved it!😀

    • @ewaf88
      @ewaf88 5 років тому +23

      An incredible decade for music and just about everything you can think of.

    • @glamrocker5492
      @glamrocker5492 5 років тому +13

      you did have to be there to apriciate how good glamrock was i agree

    • @waivedwench
      @waivedwench 5 років тому +6

      It wasn't a bad decade to be born in.

    • @ingaradtke2789
      @ingaradtke2789 5 років тому +1

      @@waivedwench hallo guten Morgen kamst du auch Deutsch schreiben Danke

  • @PROFESSOR-I.C.
    @PROFESSOR-I.C. 2 роки тому +17

    I'm glad I was fortunate enough to have lived during the '60s and '70s. Great music during those decades and this song was one of my likes!

    • @rosebrown9265
      @rosebrown9265 2 роки тому +1

      Keep smiling and laughing and dancing 🤣

    • @rosebrown9265
      @rosebrown9265 2 роки тому +1

      Keep smiling 😃 the world is a horrible place 🙂

    • @ruthsayers1163
      @ruthsayers1163 2 роки тому +1

      I'm pleased to have lived during that time as well.

  • @frankzelazko
    @frankzelazko 4 місяці тому +7

    Brings back childhood memories

  • @jacquelineb4375
    @jacquelineb4375 4 роки тому +15

    Hello from Scotland🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿
    I lived in Germany as a kid & saw this group live & singing this song....those were the days & I have loved this song ever since.
    Happy memories.❤️❤️❤️😄😭💐
    Stay safe everybody.😷

  • @patrickbourne1348
    @patrickbourne1348 3 роки тому +21

    I remember this song from 1971: I was 7 or 8 years old. Loved it then, still do.

  • @marktucker7454
    @marktucker7454 11 місяців тому +6

    I was 10 years old when this song came out. Darn, didn't we have some great music.
    As grumpy old grandad, darn, Sally Carr was/is gorgeous. Especially in tiny hot pants and long boots.

  • @sandraroggenbach2925
    @sandraroggenbach2925 Рік тому +7

    This was my Daddys favorite Song. We played it at his funeral mom loved it.

  • @mick5296
    @mick5296 4 роки тому +12

    In 1971 i was 17yrs old and sally was a must see on top of the pops! great voice, great looks and cracking legs, oh and the song is great too.

  • @pauladriani3698
    @pauladriani3698 4 роки тому +24

    Ohhh yes, just listening to this transports me back to 1971, best days of my life, it seemed like everybody was happy then, a far cry from today’s society.

  • @michael7286
    @michael7286 2 роки тому +17

    1970s Music was and still is brilliant 👍♥️☺️

  • @dominiquewondra2917
    @dominiquewondra2917 3 роки тому +63

    I wasn't even born then but I absolutely love this song

    • @Dimes4Donuts
      @Dimes4Donuts 2 роки тому

      Same here. I wasn't born until 10 years later.

    • @b.f.3329
      @b.f.3329 Рік тому

      Try to listen to Beethoven:its older than you too.

    • @valbi1545
      @valbi1545 5 місяців тому +1

      @@b.f.3329 when is he going on tour? I tried looking him up on tiktok and theres only some classical crap

  • @antonioaranio3568
    @antonioaranio3568 3 роки тому +37

    My mother loved this song. Used to sing it all the time. Never saw the video or even heard of Middle of the Road until more than 20 years after she passed away, all too young. Boy did it bring her back to life for me for just a while. Still does every time I watch this.

  • @Radio478
    @Radio478 2 роки тому +5

    This makes me feel young again, love this 😀 ❤

  • @sergiolima2469
    @sergiolima2469 2 роки тому +46

    Como não lacrimejar, em 71 eu era um garoto de 19 anos, dançava muito esse hit

    • @lesleyspeake7704
      @lesleyspeake7704 2 роки тому +2

      I was 16 😆

    • @miguelangelvazquez4772
      @miguelangelvazquez4772 2 роки тому +1

      Es: cómo no lagrimear🤗

    • @viviane.chavasse
      @viviane.chavasse Рік тому +1

      Bonjour c’est viviane ,ça vous plais ,d’autre surprise vous attente à bientôt.♥️♥️♥️♥️🫡🫡🫡🫡

  • @budgietrousers8275
    @budgietrousers8275 5 років тому +18

    The 70's were deffo the best years to me, growing up as a young lad, I would be 8 when this came out and I remember it like it was yesterday.

  • @dmytrocks
    @dmytrocks 2 роки тому +9

    I'm 30 and I listen to this song for the first and second time only today and I feel lovely.

  • @pdmfuture53
    @pdmfuture53 7 місяців тому +12

    Oh those 70’s care free days…where’s those days gone😢

    • @mattsawyer343
      @mattsawyer343 4 місяці тому

      you got old. Younger people have them now.

    • @JohnPreston888
      @JohnPreston888 4 місяці тому

      Pay close attention to the credits. "Care-free" for child molesters who get to the grave before the justice system gets to them...
      I wonder if the fiddled-kids reminisce wistfully.

    • @angelacooper2661
      @angelacooper2661 3 місяці тому

      I had just celebrated my first birthday at the time of this video. Spent my first nine years during that decade!

  • @tanoideta2468
    @tanoideta2468 2 роки тому +2

    Bring me a sweet memory in 70s .Now im 70 yrs old.

  • @weejim48
    @weejim48 4 роки тому +28

    The 70’ was a fantastic time. Great music and a time when the younger generation were cutting free. 👍

    • @ruthsayers1163
      @ruthsayers1163 2 роки тому +1

      Cutting free from what????? Were there the problems with teenagers that there are now?????

    • @crieff1sand2s
      @crieff1sand2s Рік тому

      If you read the lyrics to this song it's the parents cutting free and leaving the kids to fend for themselves and one of the children is a baby,leaving "mama & papa to go far far away" it's a pretty depressing song if u read the lyrics 🤔

  • @jmrodas9
    @jmrodas9 5 років тому +14

    Another of those great songs of the seventies and the singer is not only a good singer but a beautiful lady too. This one brings to me so many memories of those years.

  • @publius4631
    @publius4631 2 місяці тому +2

    Played this to my son now my grandson… my father played it back in the day. 4 generations 👍

  • @rebeccafoster2803
    @rebeccafoster2803 2 роки тому +2

    I cried to this when I was 4 🥲

  • @roned9189
    @roned9189 4 роки тому +17

    Sally superb singer loved you when I 13 so cute sweet good looking love you to day at 61 god bless you sally thanks for making me happy with your music Ron 👍👍🇬🇧🇬🇧

  • @kevinmachin941
    @kevinmachin941 4 роки тому +9

    I lost my mum in 71 and I remember this song on the radio
    We’re your moma gone sad but good memories

  • @RaciePSB
    @RaciePSB 2 роки тому +6

    As a small child I was inconsolable, with the lyrics singing of my greatest, most horrific fear. Now that fear has become reality. My pretty mother died last week, after an aggressive blood cancer took her life two months after diagnosis. I miss her more than words can say.. more than ever when listening to her old music.

    • @elizamay6402
      @elizamay6402 2 роки тому

      So sorry for your loss. ❤️

  • @Smartass_Jedi
    @Smartass_Jedi Рік тому +14

    No matter how shitty of a mood I'm in, this song always brings a smile to my face. Well deserved UK #1 for these guys

  • @jacekzamorski8165
    @jacekzamorski8165 4 роки тому +10

    Yes, my father would ALWAYS play this in the car, and I am glad I found this song, ah it beings memories back.

  • @darrylknight2675
    @darrylknight2675 5 років тому +14

    Oh I turned 15 in 1971 and always felt that I had missed the 60s but the 70s were still great.

  • @izak7925
    @izak7925 2 роки тому +8

    Jaka ja wtedy byłam młoda!!! Pełna radości,planów ,beztroski......

  • @turscakamadeo4864
    @turscakamadeo4864 8 місяців тому +1

    Middle of the Road - Chirpy Chirpy Cheep Cheep great

  • @maidonian68
    @maidonian68 4 роки тому +18

    This is the first song I can ever remember at 3 years old and my Mum teaching me the lyrics.

  • @rwashi
    @rwashi 6 років тому +110

    Oh the good old 70"s !!!

  • @TheCVee
    @TheCVee 2 роки тому +5

    No way would they have thought we would still be talking about their song in 2022. Love this song and songs from the 70’s.

    • @kennethcook8857
      @kennethcook8857 2 роки тому +1

      Wow! Talk about memories from long ago! I was 16. I'm now 66!

  • @kevingreen3781
    @kevingreen3781 2 роки тому +3

    I was 11 when this came out and I’ve still got it how time fly’s wish I could go back dont we all

  • @addersdewinter1141
    @addersdewinter1141 5 років тому +25

    I love the 70's; the music was life affirming, and joyous. It lifts your heart to the rafters.😚

    • @gibbopg
      @gibbopg 5 років тому +2

      Yes, there was great variety.

    • @ruthsayers1163
      @ruthsayers1163 2 роки тому +2

      There was a lot more positive music around then.

  • @michaelp3126
    @michaelp3126 3 роки тому +11

    I'm here because my friend just got his very elderly mum a new budgie for her birthday and this just popped into my head. Oh for the joy of the 60's and 70's music again

  • @Aaroncodycain
    @Aaroncodycain 4 місяці тому +3

    I learnt this song in primary school I love this one the memories 😭❤️ feels so long ago now that I’m 24

  • @paulomendesdesa9759
    @paulomendesdesa9759 10 місяців тому +6

    ..... linda canção da época em que tudo era romantismo..... nunca vou cansar de ouvir essa linda canção..... são muitas emoções.....(Paulo Mendes - Curvelo - MG).

  • @kittylitter9331
    @kittylitter9331 3 роки тому +11

    I was 6 when this came out. I used to jump up and down and sing my little heart out when it came on tv on top of the pops. Happy Times back then, much better world than the one today.

  • @fourkero1216
    @fourkero1216 5 років тому +25

    1971 ! the year of the Hot Pants worldwide ! Thanks You Mary Quant for your design ! Thank You Beautiful Sally Carr for using them ! Greetings from Chile.

  • @bluelyricscat
    @bluelyricscat 2 роки тому +4

    My parents loved that song and had put it on repeat over and over again. I was a child back then and didn't like it all. Now, centuries later, I enjoy listening to the happy songs now and then.

    • @bluelyricscat
      @bluelyricscat 2 роки тому

      @R S Everyone is singing along to it and enoying the melody.

    • @bluelyricscat
      @bluelyricscat 2 роки тому

      @R S We don't know. Maybe mother had to go to work, I don't want to discuss nor argue. It is just a song.

  • @Toxicshots-xp4ee
    @Toxicshots-xp4ee 6 місяців тому +2

    My dad used to sing this to me when I was a little boy when we went out on the stroller and I never knew I’d become so attached to it

  • @PNEKarl
    @PNEKarl 5 років тому +103

    Simple natural people in the 1970's. Lovely.

    • @wordsofcheresie936
      @wordsofcheresie936 4 роки тому +2

      You think that this is simple and natural? Everyone on stage is made up with highly coiffed hair. This was the glam rock era.

    • @tony_w839
      @tony_w839 4 роки тому +2

      Top of the pops introduced by the 'simple natural' Jimmy Saville !!!!!

    • @wordsofcheresie936
      @wordsofcheresie936 4 роки тому

      @Voeding 2.0 I'm not saying that this band was glam rock. I'm saying that it was common for bands at this time to use a lot of makeup and have carefully done hair.

    • @PNEKarl
      @PNEKarl 3 роки тому

      @eternal echo I simply meant, the 1970's. The best decade of my childhood. Fuck Savile!

  • @bobsilver3983
    @bobsilver3983 9 років тому +511

    I'm goin back to the 70's, FUCK 2018!

    • @nigeltock9396
      @nigeltock9396 9 років тому +9

      i totaly agree bob i was a kid but at least you could understand the music.

    • @alltaken678
      @alltaken678 9 років тому +15

      nigel tock And the funny thing is, back then our parents were complaining about this music!

    • @sirgeorgeprevost3612
      @sirgeorgeprevost3612 9 років тому +7

      and 2015...and 2016....and 2017.........................................

    • @igorcoincoin8608
      @igorcoincoin8608 9 років тому +4

      * I'm goin back to the 70's, fuck 2015!

    • @twinstu50
      @twinstu50 9 років тому +1

      alltaken678 No we weren't, we were HUGELY enjoying it!.
      That's why YOU are here now, OH YEAH, we had fun!.

  • @MiKu-xw6in
    @MiKu-xw6in Рік тому +19

    Als ich diesen Song nach über 50 Jahren wieder hörte, lief es mir eiskalt den Rücken runter und die Situation, in der ich diesen Song zum ersten Mal als 8-jähriger hörte:
    Ich ging mit einer Glasschale "bewaffnet" in ein Cafe (Cafe Zorn) in unserem Ort um 20 Kugeln Vanilleeis zu kaufen für Eiskaffee und da wurde genau zu der Zeit dieser Song gespielt! Ich kann mich an die Stimmung, die Atmosphäre, den Geruch und den Geschmack in diesem Cafe nach über 50 Jahren noch ganz genau erinnern als wenn es gestern gewesen wäre!!!
    Absoluter Wahnsinn!!!!!!

    • @thorsteng1166
      @thorsteng1166 Рік тому +2

      Ich finde den Song auch ganz toll ☺. Ich bin allerdings nur Jahrgang 72, der Song ist ein Jahr älter, lol, aber das ist unwichtig.

    • @tassimo4806
      @tassimo4806 5 місяців тому

      Ich lag im Kinderbett, war noch sehr klein. Meine Eltern ließen oft das Radio laufen. Es war ein Gefühl der Geborgenheit, das ich jetzt noch habe, wenn ich alte Songs höre. Dieser Song jedoch hat nun, da ich den Inhalt verstehe, einen bitteren Beigeschmack

  • @user-dd3lf5bg6n
    @user-dd3lf5bg6n 5 місяців тому +1

    My son grew up listening to this so did I lol he is now 22 years old I am prouder of him everyday

  • @rjmcallister1888
    @rjmcallister1888 3 роки тому +60

    Now 50 years since MOTR recorded this at RCA's Rome studios and it became a #1 in much of Europe, with the UK coming on board a few months later. Happy to say both Sally Carr and Ken Andrew are doing well after Sally recovered from a brain embolism. Still fun to listen to, even now.

    • @marcosdaye3073
      @marcosdaye3073 2 роки тому +1

      Não conhecia mas adoro coloquei

    • @marcosdaye3073
      @marcosdaye3073 2 роки тому +1

      Na minha playlist inigualável escuto muitas vezes

  • @hongy.k.1048
    @hongy.k.1048 7 років тому +16

    What a beautiful combination and shuffle of sad lyrics and joyous melody!

  • @raginichetty1715
    @raginichetty1715 2 роки тому +1

    Had my grandson wit me since he was born,, played dis song everyday 2him,,, wen he was 12yrs old he played dis song 4 me n asked" do u remember dis song" ,,, I was sooo overwhelmed 2 know this song connected us 2 a time DAT was soooo simple n loyal n true,,,,,, bless u girl

  • @juliopacheco7760
    @juliopacheco7760 12 днів тому

    Q canción muy contagiante, recuerdos de mi adolescencia, viva el rock en inglés, Saludos desde el
    CUZCO...❤

  • @geoffjoffy
    @geoffjoffy 3 роки тому +316

    I'm here because
    I was 9 years old in 1971 and remember this record very well. I don't need some crap X factor show from 2020 to bring me here.

    • @ZerokillerOppel1
      @ZerokillerOppel1 3 роки тому +9

      Damn right!!

    • @18thebat
      @18thebat 3 роки тому +6

      I totally agree with you.

    • @geoffjoffy
      @geoffjoffy 3 роки тому +2

      @@18thebat Cheers

    • @PartworkUpgrades
      @PartworkUpgrades 3 роки тому +4

      I remember this from the age of 5.... and not until I was over 25 did I finally connect that tune to this song... awsome... have never forgot this since and play it every now and then.

    • @shanef8728
      @shanef8728 3 роки тому +1

      I was 9 also and this was the first record I ever bought back in 1971 , well it was my late dear father who bought it for me!

  • @Imaginacion57
    @Imaginacion57 5 років тому +20

    I love this band... I love this woman... I LOVE THIS SONG!!!

  • @williamarthur4801
    @williamarthur4801 2 роки тому +4

    There are time when you just feel this is the best song ever!

  • @TonyWeaving
    @TonyWeaving Рік тому +4

    I remember hearing this on the radio when I was 8 years old. Still as good as it was then.

  • @asokanponnusamy
    @asokanponnusamy 7 років тому +256

    Brings memories of my youth rushing back so strongly that I find it unable to breathe.

    • @susanwalls6232
      @susanwalls6232 6 років тому +11

      Scared the crap out of me as a kid thought my mum was gonna leave me

    • @andrewclarke142
      @andrewclarke142 6 років тому +3

      Fucking lovely😁

    • @andrewclarke142
      @andrewclarke142 6 років тому +1

      Did she? Ha ha

    • @MrKirby2367
      @MrKirby2367 6 років тому +7

      I found this on a movie trailer and I literally cried. i haven't heard this since '72

    • @prabhabalan219
      @prabhabalan219 6 років тому +1

      hahaha

  • @martinhiggins3987
    @martinhiggins3987 9 років тому +32

    everytime i hear this it makes me smile,cheesy but catchy.

  • @kevinadamson5768
    @kevinadamson5768 2 роки тому +4

    Remember this song as a kid growing up and it brings back lovey memories, mainly of my mother who is no longer with us.

  • @gntdriver2840
    @gntdriver2840 2 роки тому +25

    Along with Agnetha Faltskog and Debbie Harry, Sally Carr has got to be one of the most attractive female pop singers of the seventies.

    • @georgejob2156
      @georgejob2156 Рік тому

      She,s from Muirhead Lanarkshire..

    • @Aninka-uo2gf
      @Aninka-uo2gf Рік тому +1

      Jest do niej bardzo podobna🙂

    • @flankerroad7414
      @flankerroad7414 Рік тому +1

      She's beautiful!! Love her voice.

    • @irishguy200007
      @irishguy200007 Рік тому

      Mariska Veres??

    • @crieff1sand2s
      @crieff1sand2s Рік тому

      She's Chick Young's first wife they had a son who was sadly killed not so long ago in a motorcycle accident I think. Chick is a legend up hear in Scotland in and around fitba knows them all Fergie,Souness,Dalglish ,he is in semi retirement the now but you can usually catch him on the weekend reporting from some cup tie or other.....

  • @neverbesilentever5179
    @neverbesilentever5179 4 роки тому +10

    My foster mother taught me this song, made me learn the words and sing it every night, fostered at two years old... can never forget this ever.