I lived through the 60s, 1967 was the greatest year ever for pop music, songs which will live forever, unlike todays ‘explicit lyrics’ and rapping garbage.
I was on the record and the video as one of the 6 children I can remember every bit of the video going on top of the pops aged 6 lol great times even listen to it now great song even in today's standards.
I worked for a grocer called Jack Brinsdon in 4:39 Canon Street St Albans at the same time when this was a hot, can remember the kids in the street singing this song, much to the delight of Jack, he was a right character
I'm 53 and I remember listening to this as a child. It made me cry then and it makes me cry now. Timeless. Let's see if they are singing "Umbrella" by Rhianna in 60 years time?
I'm 42 and from Germany. I liked the song as a child (my dad played it) but did not understand the lyrics. I bought the vinyl single a year ago. Of course I do understand the lyrics now. And yes, I am convinced that peole will be singing "Umbrella". If you don't know anything else that is your "classics", I'm afraid. I know a lot of people that just listen to radio stations that play charts junk. Their heads are full of these songs. Every now and then there is an okay song among it ("Umbrella" is still one of the better, in my opinion) but good music, unfortunately, went almost completely underground. Back in the 60s great music was mainstream. Well, the 60s were also the most innovative decade for sure. A lot of the good music today still is inspired by it. It's the big record company managers that f#*ked things up. Pure business people, no music lovers. They just keep putting out computer-produced bland music, boring to annoying. There is a lot of good music even today (and even in the "R&B" genre) but you have to dig to find it, it's not on the radio. With all that said, I will click repeat now and listen to Keith West again. No Rihanna for me ;-)
Of course taste is subjective as well, I shall add. I am a music snob (happy to be), and so is everyone else judging today's charts crap ;-) I keep spreading what I define as good music. And people generally are very receptive. Whether it's 60s soul or 60s ska in the background when you have people invited or when playing selected old and new stuff DJing at clubs or at the local radio station. I can't help it. Got to spread music. Music is important. And now Keith West will be on one of my next playlists for friends, for sure.
I woke up this morning with this song in my head - haven't heard it since I listened to my older sister had the 45. And I could still remember some of the lyrics. Gotta put it on my playlist.
A very endearing song sounding as good in 2022 as it did when released 55 years ago, the trumpet outro rivals those of any song. The schoolkid voices trick did it for Pink Floyd as well a dozen years later.
I'm currently reading the Elvis Costello memoir - unfaithful Music. He mentioned this track..so I thought I would investigate..what an amazing song...the musical and vocal arrangements are brilliant. Can't believe I have never heard it before. Thanks for posting 😎👍🏽✌🏽
ah the song that made me cry as a child as I didn't understand the words properly, but ran around the house & garden singing it!! Tunes back then were "musical" & easily sung & remembered unlike the "songs of the 2000's! So good to find it online! 😉😳😳 I guess it shows our age too!! 😂🤣😂🤣
I love this song and kind of loathe it at the same time. I am haunted by it because of my parents break up at the time, and grocer Jack was my dad, and he did come back in a massive way.I was the same age as the children in this song which makes it all the more compelling . Beautiful era ,although my emotions are mixed and slightly damaged. Here's to the summer of love.❤
How so magnificently beautiful clip! So very enchanting! Absolutely astounding! Thank you so very much my dear friend for sharing all this magic with us!
I heard this on the radio tonight on a radio special for Tony Blackburns 80th birthday. I remember it so well. I would have been 4 years old, and WoW to see Peter fonda in the film (that's vhat we called videos back then) is so cool. After just researching it, it's such a shame that the project wasn't given the green light. God bless Mark Wirts and of course "Captain America"
It's always the same, I hear this it gets stuck in my head I try to find the name of the song for days. Finally when I find it I listen to it for some weeks, forget it and afte rtwo years the cycle repeats...
Saw him perform this record at a Dance Hall in Ardleigh Green with a Band called Tomorrow. They played 'My White Bicycle' - Jack had a white jacket with Chinese Willow pattern in Blue - how cool and psychedelic was that !
@@DER_MOPS_IM_PALETOT It was I think the first time as a 12 /13 yr old I'd seen a real 'pop star' in the flesh - a memorable moment , and recently I saw a you tube vid with non 'no 1' classic 60's and there he was with Tomorrow wearing the jacket ( my kids raised their eyelids when Dad proved what he'd harped on about for years lol)
This reminds me of being about 9 years old and a strange, difficult time. My father was terminally ill but it was not particularly discussed. It was a weird phase in life that has lived with me.
+Tiger Moth Cheers Tiger , always thought this is up amongst the best songs of the sixties , like Eloise , I like the anthem types and back then they were quite long so a bold move to get played on the radio as most songs back then were short , have a good day :) ms
I like anthems also. when MacArthur Park & Hey Jude were released there was no gaurantee of radio play being over 7 mins. each! Good day to you. Tiger.
Hi MS...Enjoyable listen and video watch...I always thought that this song didn't get the credit it deserved...though it was a very popular radio play when issued....If The Beatles had written and recorded it..(It has a Beatles feel about it|).. it'd probably have been noted as another Beatles innovative masterepiece.. Have a great week....regards...Dave
Me too, being a foreigner, I always understood Roses, Jack. Never got what it was about really. Thanks to the internet one can find the lyrics now ;-). Happy growing up in the sixties, it was a very good time 😊
+flatop47 Thanks Brian ,Yes all Bizzare especially as these songs are not exactly flying off the shelves in the 21st century they are 50 years old some of them , maybe youtube could work from the moon .. no countries there and it would not be a problem up there lol
The clips in this video are from the movie 'Race with the Devil' (1975), starring Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Loretta Swift and Lara Parker, directed by Jack Starrett.
+Katest3r Thanks Kate .. yes the Film is a real good sixties movie and very psycadellic in style , lots of it I couldn't use due to subject content , but it fits the 60s perfectly :) ms
Probably the best thing Mr. West recorded MS,I know he's a somewhat cult figure these days,but apart from this one,his music doesn't do much for me( his fans are booing me now).LOL...Great spooky psychedelic clips you've used,top marks again 99/99.....
Another one went last week as the grocer was forced to retire due to heart trouble, l could see what was happening when his father who is 88 - six years older than Grocer Jack in the song - was minding the shop.
Music Selection, The grocery store that l was mentioning had a grocer who instinctively knew what l wanted, now it is run by a couple of Pakistanis who are bloody incompetent, further they will turn the fruiterer/greengrocer into a modern convenience store and have nothing to do with a commune of elderly people who they have served for years.
I lived through the 60s, 1967 was the greatest year ever for pop music, songs which will live forever, unlike todays ‘explicit lyrics’ and rapping garbage.
all pop music is rubbish, by definition. nothing good is ever popular, people have awful taste.
I was on the record and the video as one of the 6 children I can remember every bit of the video going on top of the pops aged 6 lol great times even listen to it now great song even in today's standards.
Were you?
@@digitalbroadcaster yes I'm the blond kid with curly hair and holding keiths hand
Amazing! How were selected to take part in the recording? I guess being aged 6 you probably weren't involved in that coming to think about it!
@@anthonydent6976 I went to a stage school called Corona stage school NR Hammersmith London that's where I got picked to be apart of it
@@craigbooth6009 Ah that makes sense. Did you go on to have a career on the stage? Last question honest!
I worked for a grocer called Jack Brinsdon in 4:39 Canon Street St Albans at the same time when this was a hot, can remember the kids in the street singing this song, much to the delight of Jack, he was a right character
I've loved this song since I was a kid and I love it still today
A amazing track from a Amazing era Kayleigh. I was only 3 in 1969 but with 4 older brothers and sisters I remember this well.
me too kayleigh !!!!!!!!!!!!
Me too.
Yeah same as me 1967.
I like this song, I have it on vinyl
I'm 53 and I remember listening to this as a child. It made me cry then and it makes me cry now. Timeless. Let's see if they are singing "Umbrella" by Rhianna in 60 years time?
I'm 42 and from Germany. I liked the song as a child (my dad played it) but did not understand the lyrics. I bought the vinyl single a year ago. Of course I do understand the lyrics now.
And yes, I am convinced that peole will be singing "Umbrella". If you don't know anything else that is your "classics", I'm afraid. I know a lot of people that just listen to radio stations that play charts junk. Their heads are full of these songs.
Every now and then there is an okay song among it ("Umbrella" is still one of the better, in my opinion) but good music, unfortunately, went almost completely underground. Back in the 60s great music was mainstream. Well, the 60s were also the most innovative decade for sure. A lot of the good music today still is inspired by it.
It's the big record company managers that f#*ked things up. Pure business people, no music lovers. They just keep putting out computer-produced bland music, boring to annoying. There is a lot of good music even today (and even in the "R&B" genre) but you have to dig to find it, it's not on the radio.
With all that said, I will click repeat now and listen to Keith West again. No Rihanna for me ;-)
Of course taste is subjective as well, I shall add. I am a music snob (happy to be), and so is everyone else judging today's charts crap ;-) I keep spreading what I define as good music. And people generally are very receptive. Whether it's 60s soul or 60s ska in the background when you have people invited or when playing selected old and new stuff DJing at clubs or at the local radio station. I can't help it. Got to spread music. Music is important. And now Keith West will be on one of my next playlists for friends, for sure.
Makes me cry too I lost my dad last year he was in his 80`s
Umbrella by who?
@@darkspy666 ....the weathergirls😉
One of the best 60s songs.
Thought provoking lyrics.
I love this song. I love all things 60's & 70's. Best years musically
Couldn't have said it better Elaine cheers 😁
ive still got my copy elaine, its part of my teenage years
@@andyblenkey8076 This song is so English and West's vocal delivery 'without you Jack the town CARNT eat' is fantastic.
That's true
this song apparently inspired paul to make the abbey road medley
I was 4 years old when this came out loved it then ❤ love it now ❤
I'm 61 now, and clearly remember & loved this song on the radio. ❤️
Remember this from 1967. I was 9 years old and this evokes memories of sunny Sundays and playing outside with my mates.
I was 10, hearing it now makes me cry, soppy git ain't I?
One of the very best 60s song hits. It's wonderful!
I remember this as a child of the 60's and it is still my favourite.
Me too nicola
Als kleiner Junge Ende der 60er das erste Mal gehört, nie mehr vergessen. Eine wirklich schöne Erinnerung, wunderbar!
This song brings back good memories
I am now a 60 year old man and remember hearing this on the radio when i was about 5 years old. We always had Radio 1 on jn our household.
This one of the first pop songs I can remember hearing on the radio, I was approx. 5 years old. still love the song, a time of great music 😀
Same here. It really made an impression!
Curley Spencer and this one...God bless the magnificent 60`s and 70´s
Pearly Spencer.
Is anyone still listening to this beautiful song in 2023 i am ❤
My husband just bought me this for our juke box. The first record I ever bought aged 6, I'm 58 now. Very happy memories.X
was my first bought record too..
I woke up this morning with this song in my head - haven't heard it since I listened to my older sister had the 45. And I could still remember some of the lyrics. Gotta put it on my playlist.
I woke up with it in my head this morning
I woke up at 4am with it playing in my head - so here I am. Great song x
Same here
A very endearing song sounding as good in 2022 as it did when released 55 years ago, the trumpet outro rivals those of any song. The schoolkid voices trick did it for Pink Floyd as well a dozen years later.
Rest in Peace, Mark Wirtz, producer and co-writer of this wonderful classic, which was meant to be a part of his full "A Teenage Opera"
I been looking for this song for 10 years so much childhood memories
Thanks for watching ..So pleased you found your song here after such a long time Rebekkah , one of the best from the 60's .. have a great week :)ms
Yes it took me many years to find it.Until my club got a state of the art Juke-box.That you could put the words in,then it gives you options.
Ha check out Tim Leary photo at 0:07
(60s LSD guru for the uninitiated)
same
I love this this song. It brings me back many memories when I was a teen-ager.
....geht mir heute noch genauso und ich werd dieses Jahr 70....
My mum listens to this all the time and not until I read the lyrics did I really know what it was about. Oh my that is such a sad song :(
KAYLEIGH I TOTALLY AGREE WITH YOU...I LOVED THIS SONG WHEN I WAS A KID.. I'M 52yrs OLD NOW AND I STILL LOVE THIS SONG 😁☮️❤️☯️🦔🦔🏴☠️🏴☠️🏴🏴
Film clip is taken from the film.
The Trip.
Thank you It's been bugging me for two weeks who this actor is Peter Fonda and film
So nothing to do with the song! 🙄
I'm currently reading the Elvis Costello memoir - unfaithful Music. He mentioned this track..so I thought I would investigate..what an amazing song...the musical and vocal arrangements are brilliant. Can't believe I have never heard it before. Thanks for posting 😎👍🏽✌🏽
Vond ik een mooi liedtje nog steeds af,z Peter Potemans Amsterdam.
Made me cry kid. 😢 I'm 63 now
ah the song that made me cry as a child as I didn't understand the words properly, but ran around the house & garden singing it!! Tunes back then were "musical" & easily sung & remembered unlike the "songs of the 2000's! So good to find it online! 😉😳😳 I guess it shows our age too!! 😂🤣😂🤣
You just can not bet this music we need this kind of music back
I love this song and kind of loathe it at the same time. I am haunted by it because of my parents break up at the time, and grocer Jack was my dad, and he did come back in a massive way.I was the same age as the children in this song which makes it all the more compelling . Beautiful era ,although my emotions are mixed and slightly damaged. Here's to the summer of love.❤
What?
Used to listen to this on Ed "stewpot" Stewart on a Saturday/Sunday morning
How so magnificently beautiful clip!
So very enchanting!
Absolutely astounding!
Thank you so very much my dear friend for sharing all this magic with us!
+SpiralBlue Andromeda So thrilled you enjoyed this masterpiece from Keith Hill , a pleasure to share such great song with you :) ms
Great one moz that takes me back love the song
Ein ganz,ganz tolles Lied!!!!!!!!!!!
Thanks so much Monika for checking out this song and video , very much appreciated , have a terrific weekend :) ms
Great song remember this from.my childhood
I heard this on the radio tonight on a radio special for Tony Blackburns 80th birthday. I remember it so well. I would have been 4 years old, and WoW to see Peter fonda in the film (that's vhat we called videos back then) is so cool. After just researching it, it's such a shame that the project wasn't given the green light. God bless Mark Wirts and of course "Captain America"
Me to loved this song. I think I was 9/10. Memory's of a childhood. .never to be forgotten.
Sorry I was eight. .
I never knew who this was by but I have a vivid memory of this song from when I was about 3 years old !!
A fantastic song this takes me back ,I was 9 at the time and it sounds as vivid and poignant now as it did then, wonderful.
Just love this song
It's always the same, I hear this it gets stuck in my head I try to find the name of the song for days. Finally when I find it I listen to it for some weeks, forget it and afte rtwo years the cycle repeats...
beautifull sad .
Saw him perform this record at a Dance Hall in Ardleigh Green with a Band called Tomorrow. They played 'My White Bicycle' - Jack had a white jacket with Chinese Willow pattern in Blue - how cool and psychedelic was that !
They were very much in with the times(Via-The Kings Road,Chelsea).
Great memories !
Got the photo with his white jacket...
@@DER_MOPS_IM_PALETOT It was I think the first time as a 12 /13 yr old I'd seen a real 'pop star' in the flesh - a memorable moment , and recently I saw a you tube vid with non 'no 1' classic 60's and there he was with Tomorrow wearing the jacket ( my kids raised their eyelids when Dad proved what he'd harped on about for years lol)
@@cliveherbert7461 Those were the days...
Lovely ' emotionally charged tune.
the very good video of the super musician thanks
+Lola Koenig Thanks so much Lola , yes a super musician indeed very underrated , enjoy rest of your day :) ms
Immer noch ein Hammer song
Reminds me of lovely memories at work in disc records morden along side my colleagues ken cliffin and Ken frost
I was at my grandma's listening to this.i miss my family
Sooooi beautiful a song❤❤
Gold!
+Rose Erna You are too kind Rose , so pleased you enjoyed this , have a fantastic Friday :) ms
Beautiful.
Ultimate song of my childhood
A great old classic if you do what mommy says you won't go back I wish I could in time anyway for the good times
Hi keyliegh Natasha thanks for your nice reply
Actually its "is it true what mummy says
you won't come back". Jack died.
This reminds me of being about 9 years old and a strange, difficult time. My father was terminally ill but it was not particularly discussed. It was a weird phase in life that has lived with me.
Fab Super Tops! Brings back memories!
+wordsmith52 Ahh those memories Steve , a classic from Keith indeed , have a cool weekend bro lol (bro is the new catchphrase now ) lol
Music Selection As favored by Joe Brown - Have nice week end bro...
wordsmith52 Ok bruv lol
Music Selection tools down, all out and to the streets...lol!
wordsmith52 lol .. ok bro lol
Das gleiche auch mit mir..sincr
Childhood dachte hirngedpinst...mein inneres kind liebt es thanks
Hakon
Thanks for reminding me about this one MS. I've got it on some old dusty record locked away somewhere in the archives!!! Really good song, Tiger.
+Tiger Moth Cheers Tiger , always thought this is up amongst the best songs of the sixties , like Eloise , I like the anthem types and back then they were quite long so a bold move to get played on the radio as most songs back then were short , have a good day :) ms
I like anthems also. when MacArthur Park & Hey Jude were released there was no gaurantee of radio play being over 7 mins. each! Good day to you. Tiger.
Tiger Moth Oh yes MacArthur Park is one of the best even Donna Summers Disco version was brilliant :)
Love this music
Yes,Lloyd Webber missed the boat on this one.
I love it ❤
Hi MS...Enjoyable listen and video watch...I always thought that this
song didn't get the credit it deserved...though it was a very popular radio
play when issued....If The Beatles had written and recorded it..(It has a Beatles feel about it|)..
it'd probably have been noted as another Beatles innovative masterepiece..
Have a great week....regards...Dave
+A297MAN104 Thanks Dave , yes a masterpiece of its day , I think he was to innotive for the time back then , enjoy rest of the week :) ms
The Trip.
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Fonda and Hopper two years before Easy Rider.
Great musical accompaniment.
🇬🇧
Excellent channel, some great songs, stirring up some good memories , and excellent videos too, nice one MS
+MrRayzer1 Thanks for watching and great comments on my channel my friend , much appreciated , have a great day :) ms
Great song time
75 now. Only 7 more years to go!
Didn't realise they could be that accurate with life expectancy!!! ☹️
Memories ❤🏴
got the record... love it
me too carol
Love this. X
super song
Havent heard for 40 years 😢
Another great song and video, ms :-) Best wishes, Jenny
+JennysCountryChannel Thanks Jenny , so pleased you enjoyed this one too , , have fun :) ms
Excellent music video! Thanks my friend Happy new week, greetings :) liked #44 :-)
Thanks so much Phillip , pleased you enjoyed this one , much appreciated the like , have a great day :) ms
Piękna piosenka, akurat rozpoczęłam naukę w szkole średniej nucę ja do dzisiaj!!!!
Schönes Lied. Da kommen Erinnerungen hoch. 😢
Me too,a real story in a few secondes.. times goes fast.
I've always underdtand "Rose and Jack" ☺ but love it anyway!
Me too, being a foreigner, I always understood Roses, Jack. Never got what it was about really. Thanks to the internet one can find the lyrics now ;-). Happy growing up in the sixties, it was a very good time 😊
I whch it was playing on the radio more often,clasic
Don Letts played it on his 6 Music show yesterday. I hadn't heard it in years, and had forgotten how good it was.
Excellent video comrade!
+Gerzo McC (Dragonball Gamer) Thanks so much Gerzo , glad you could see this one :) ms
Very nice!! Thumbs up!! :-))
+WonderBooks Thanks so much my friend , so pleased you enjoyed it , have a super day :)) ms
Used to sing as a kid
Thumbs Up ..MS..Tops Of The Pops...Well Now You No There Is 239 Countries To Ban One Record..What Can Be So Bad To Do That!!!
+flatop47 Thanks Brian ,Yes all Bizzare especially as these songs are not exactly flying off the shelves in the 21st century they are 50 years old some of them , maybe youtube could work from the moon .. no countries there and it would not be a problem up there lol
I got it from the then "Pirate Ships".
Me and My Brother Jack and my Granny used to Always listen to this in her Polo Jack thought it was Grosser Jack
I used to think the lyrics were "grocer Jack...get off my back"!
@@forheavenssakeidonthavewif2657 Easily done when you are a kid in 1967.
Rose and Jack for many years😂🎶🎶🎶
The bit I mostly remember (and indeed the best bit) is from 04:00 on.
There was a follow up record to this, what happened to that
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This song terrified me as a kid.
Not really sure why. Sounded like a horror film to me. Still gives me the creeps.
Top Notch !
+Music Selection - Reload Cheers mate lol
***** ha ha .. its the best way bro .. no crap then lol
+RC FPV VIDS AND ANIMATION Ahh a freak lol more than a tool then , had many weirdos too lol
Footage from the trip.
Pity we only ever got an excerpt ... :(
+sunryse111 Yes a masterpiece this is ,, poor Grocer Jack :(
The clips in this video are from the movie 'Race with the Devil' (1975), starring Peter Fonda, Warren Oates, Loretta Swift and Lara Parker, directed by Jack Starrett.
Don't think so???
Still a brilliant song from December (Hence why it's a Christmas song).
Great 60s record
Ah the great trip.
The grave scene is from the Devil rides out , its a compilation...of Fonda's 60' movies
Why set it to 'The Tirp'? There's no connection at all and it doesn't fit.
cool song a new one for me :) the video was interesting I noticed you said it was from an American film. it looks quirky
+Katest3r Thanks Kate .. yes the Film is a real good sixties movie and very psycadellic in style , lots of it I couldn't use due to subject content , but it fits the 60s perfectly :) ms
Probably the best thing Mr. West recorded MS,I know he's a somewhat cult figure these days,but apart from this one,his music doesn't do much for me( his fans are booing me now).LOL...Great spooky psychedelic clips you've used,top marks again 99/99.....
+SixtiesOnly Thanks so much Mick ,Yes a true 60s classic , ahead of his time I think Mick , glad you liked the film clips , a great 60s movie :)
He was on the right track,only a few years ahead of Lloyd Webber.
Great song! AND great bass! Anyone knows who played it?
Another one went last week as the grocer was forced to retire due to heart trouble, l could see what was happening when his father who is 88 - six years older than Grocer Jack in the song - was minding the shop.
Thanks so much for watching , grocer shops defiantly are closing so fast these days have a great day :)ms
Music Selection, The grocery store that l was mentioning had a grocer who instinctively knew what l wanted, now it is run by a couple of Pakistanis who are bloody incompetent, further they will turn the fruiterer/greengrocer into a modern convenience store and have nothing to do with a commune of elderly people who they have served for years.
WakinTheDeadFan They are not so incompetent now, if anything they do quite a considerable service, practically on a par with the previous owners.