Monsoon - Ever So Lonely (TOTP 1982)
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- Опубліковано 11 вер 2024
- Monsoon - Ever So Lonely (Top Of The Pops 1982)
Full track, redubbed.
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A Guardian newspaper article on the song: www.theguardia...
Original promo video footage: • Monsoon - Ever so lone...
Remember recording the Sitar for this in Rockfield studios at 3am in the middle of winter!!
Superb ... way ahead of its time . Well done for holding it all together at 3am !
Being 17 in England Clem back in 1982
Loved that song, still do Budd ;)
I think your tabla player was living just up the mountain from me in Dhungri village, himalayas. But that was over 30 years ago!
And thank you for this. I recently discovered it and it's giving me great joy.
@@cuntchops23 No I don't think he went there. He stayed in Kolkata and then Bombay when he went to India.
Who'll still be listening to this great song in 2025?
Used to have a crush on this girl when she sudhamani was in Grange hill. What an amazing voice so ahead of her time and so sad she was struck down with burning mouth syndrome. xx.
Jeezus what a blast from the past, this was a question on Ken Bruce pop master on Radio 2 the other day, knew the tune, didn't know the group, i was 11 in 1982, this was my older sisters favorite tune at the time (she is now sadly gone), had to look it up on here as i've not heard it on the radio in decades.
Still a bang in tune, even after all these years!
My husband-to-be (God rest his soul) had this song on vinyl, he loved it ❤️
So sorry for your loss. 😢 I lost someone special recently, I know how much it hurts.
Wow. This is easy to listen to. So melodic and that angelic voice!
She was so beautiful
One of the best songs of the past 36 years! Wonderful song, beautiful vocals and orchestration. Sheila Chandra is just so incredibly gorgeous and mesmerising.
Absolutely stunning song...Sheila Chandra has got amazing voice backed up by this music I can't get enough of...always hit replay after hearing it once 😀
What a brilliant song
Yes and why not its a cracking song and i still have it on a 45. Sadly they don,t make great music like this anymore.
In 2009, Chandra began experiencing symptoms of what was eventually diagnosed as burning mouth syndrome, as a result of which she is unable to sing, speak, laugh or cry without suffering intense pain. She has thus been rendered effectively mute. As a result of her illness Chandra retired from music.
Wonder what her condition is now? So sad to hear this
@@personthing8192 This song appears on another YT channel called Fritz51334.
In the comments section there (under 'lostsoleful' thread), she recently responded to users' enquiries about her voice and current work.
@@MrJonno85 😂 Driving JCBs
How cruely ironic that she could have sung about its effects ahead of time.
staple of university radio musicin the 80's
Such a wonderful song, beautiful vocals and a mesmerising musical arrangement. One of the great pop songs, this is much better than an awful lot of songs which achieved more fame. Sheila Chandra is a highly accomplished talent.
Bloody wonderful
*Sitar, tabla....that deep rooted sound of culture....so good to the ears, mind and heart....*
agreed, as a huge psychedelia fan i love it, and Turkish instruments have the same quality
i've thought about this track a lot since being a teenager back then and only just thought to look it up. i'm glad i did. its still as sweet as i remember it being.
Still beautiful after nearly 40years
This song brought community's together,, great fusion,,
monsoon ever so lonely
great time for music 1982
thanks softladificasion 🎤🎸🎹😃
Blimey this song is 42 years old...still a banger after all this time 👍
Without doubt my favourite totp performance in terms of staging. So simple yet effective!
Love love love this song , still got the record x
So, am I to understand you love this song? Snark aside, I do too.
Loved the track at the time - part of the Goa mainsteam I guess.
Saw you in Sydney some years later as a solo artist with your true take.
Started to get an idea of you as a solo artist outside of a band.
In Sydney, about 5 munutes in - I was transfixed - regardless of genre, race or creed.
Your performance was transcendent - glad I was there.
Thank you
all very exotic and mysterious - it was 1982 afterall!
giles901 Best year for 80s music.
In 1982 in the USA, the radio was playing a lot of wimp-pop like Air Supply or uninspiring arena rock like REO Speedwagon. This would have been a godsend to hear on the radio then.
40 years and this is still kicking ass!
Monsoon - Ever So Lonely Live Top of the Pops 29th April 1982 Presented by Richard Skinner
remember being completely mesmerised by this track when I was a wee lad - had a bit of a crush on sheila too :) it sounded so exotic in early 80s England. great production on this track.
Ever so unusual back then loved the sitar
Thanks. It was me.
@@clemalford9768 wow, I am a guitar player and would love to have a play of a sitar! Did you come from a background in guitar and pick up sitar, or is it a whole lot harder than that?! This is an outstanding track , by the way - respect, man! Peace, be well 🙏❤
@@calmblueocean7243 Hi
Pleased you liked that track from '82.
No, no guitar background worth mentioning. I went to India to study Sitar. The music is very fixed different from western Music as there is no harmony, chord structures and all that other stuff. It is purely melodic(Ragas) with grace ornamentations and rhythmic with fixed time cycles (Tala). That track was a kind of fusion so not really classical Indian but a good fusion track and well produced by Huge Jones.
@@clemalford9768 Thank you for getting back to me, that is so interesting! Peace ✌ ❤
One of my favorite songs to dance to at The Odyssey!
World class.
A blast from the past, great!
She beautiful ❤️
Great song!
Can you imagine a song like this being put out now? It just wouldn't happen.
Jakatta covered it in the last 10 years or so, and it did well. The video seemed to have a lot of arabic images as well as indian, probably due to some lazy video production.
Obviously inspired by the Beatles 😉
Omg loved this song and still do
lovely performance great track
Still a great song I think,Sheila was in Grange Hill then
The thing I love about this is the middle aged bass player in the background wearing glasses. He obviously loves his shot at fame.
That's Martin Smith. A core member of Monsoon and half its songwriting team. He played lots of instruments on the album, not just the bass. And I think he was about 22 here?
No idea what caused this song to pop up in my grey matter after almost 40 years but hey-ho!
40 years... 🙊
Hybrid Sparrow Me too !!! I was 11 when this came out . Love it
@@0000peaches im 49 at the end of the month so yeah me too... also a 1971 baby too! 😉x
@@Little-Sparrow And here's another 1971 baby who remembers this one. (Yes! Half a century is now little more than two months away for me!) Us folks definitely grew up in a wonderful era music-wise.
Sudhamani Patel! A fairly quiet, timid character as I recall. Had no idea at the time her portrayer was going to come out with one of the most memorable tracks of the early 80s. And I've loved it since hearing it for the first time on Tommy Vance's Top 40 countdown one Sunday evening in 1982.
This sounds absolutely timeless. Hard to believe it’s from 1982
Absolutely exquisite...
Wow, I don't remember ever seen this beauty before.
Timeless.
Still love this song! Jeezz!! ❤️
Tune ❤️
Sounds as great as it did in 1982, a precious moment before pop culture went into terminal decline...
No, the terminal decline is your health as oldfartitus sets in. If you bother to open your eyes and ears you'll discover a ton of wonderful new artists out there. Here are 2 for starters...
Aldous Harding: Horizon ua-cam.com/video/PqnUL7HGvZ0/v-deo.html
Wet Leg: Chaise Longue ua-cam.com/video/Zd9jeJk2UHQ/v-deo.html
Wonderful ❤️
A very clever piece of music I think.Remember it well when I was 9
Brilliant song this, If I remember correctly, wasn't this girl one of the first (if not the first) Indian artists to break into the UK Charts?
Chris Teesside she and the group were British
Well it's weird. The track comes originally from 'Art Of Trance' an Englishman's (Simon Paul Berry) dance/trance outfit, and the track existed as a pure digital trance track (no actual band at all), and was titled by Art Of Trance originally as "Monsoon", and then later, was called "Ever So Lonely." So Lonely." But here, by the time of the hit, it's titled "Ever So Lonely" BY "Monsoon! So after all that, who CAN figure it out?
Cliff Richard beat her by 25 years.
Don't forget Freddie Mercury.
Ha!!
Great tune.
if im not mistaken she was in grange hill the kids tv programme
Yes she was.
@@geoffreyjonathanwilson5826 Sheila Chandra played Sudhamani Patel 1979-1981
It's strange that her Wikipedia page doesn't mention her acting career 🤔
I knew I didn't imagine it 👍
One of my all time favourites
The best 😊
14 when this was a hit
A beautiful song from a fine album.
Sounds similar to The Beatles 'Within or Without You' song from Sgt Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band album?
That is where Coe got the tune from!!!
@H Kay She covered Tomorrow Never Knows on the same album that this song is taken from:
ua-cam.com/video/UOROQyiDkkU/v-deo.html
You are right, very derivative of the Beatles song.
We need this to come back 2024
I've watched this a million times. I think those hand signals are saying something to me.
I'd forgotten about this. Thanks
Wonder if any commentators realise she was in Grange Hill for a coupel of years...
Her sari is beautiful.❤
Ever so Teardrop explodes!
what a great song
great taste in music 😀
I LOVE IT 🥰 🥰
She Was in grange Hill 78-79
Sheila Skelhorn 78-81 I thought?
She was the girl that Trisha was teaching to speak English
... "shut yor marf" lol!
Best version I also like the Jakatta cover with so lonely but this is the best
Awesome
Our first tentative steps into Global realization...Offra Haza anyone?
Ofra Haza R.I.P.
It’s sounds like it should have been a house anthem for Goa in the 1990’s. But instead of arriving there someone made a mistake and dropped it off in England in 1982!
Poor girl must have been mortified when she saw the sweaty pits when the episode went out. So Nena wasn't the only "pit malfunction" on TOTP!
"Pit malfunction"..... Pisser!
Sheila was in Grange Hill at the time I think
Yes she was and I remember she performed it on one episode
This was the first time Id' ever heard the sitar and Indian style music. Im not sure just how Indian it actually is. for me it evokes a hot dusty day at the Wankhede stadium, the kites flying and an english batsman using his pads against yet another wiley delivery from a spin bowler. with the increasing fumes , humidity and pollutiion sending people to sleep as the kites fly overhead
I am too - ever so lonely lol
Tony Mansfield produced this song.
No, it was Hugh Jones, smoking like a chimney at 3 am on a cold winter's morning in Rockfield. Hugh was a very creative producer.
It's weird, this track came originally from 'Art Of Trance' an Englishman's (Simon Paul Berry) dance/trance outfit, and the track existed as a pure digital trance track (no actual band at all, as seen here - existed), and the track by Art Of Trance was originally called "Monsoon", and then later, Art Of Trance called the same track "Ever So Lonely." But here, by the time of the hit, it's titled "Ever So Lonely" BY "Monsoon, and it APPEARS to have a band in tow!! So after all that, who CAN figure it out?
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Should have asked Steve Coe or Jhalib Millar when they were alive. Maybe Sheila Chandra can help. They could have told you. I know Steve Coe sessioned me in to do the Sitar tracks at Rockfield Studios in the middle of winter!!!!
ua-cam.com/video/iMCfip_udbQ/v-deo.html Art of Trance's Monsoon. Ms chandra's voice comes in at about 2 mins. Posted in 2012. Monsoon's ESL made 1982.
Interesting Paul. Cheers.
Art of Trance did a track called 'Monsoon' which features vocals from 'Ever So Lonely'. It came out in 2000. Maybe there was a Doctor Who thing going on so that Monsoon could cover it 18 years earlier, when Simon Berry of Art of Trance was just starting secondary school.
Translation - you have it arse about face.
Grange hill girl
No-my mistake-Sheila was in Grange Hill before '82
Trying to find the 4 minute version of this excluding this of what I am seeing. Hard to find it
Not bad for 1 16t year old kid
Avanzado para su época
If that isnt devilish music, i dont know what is. At least she is honest, "you're not the only one"..
I was singing 'You know you are the only one'..
I had a massive crush on Sheila.
Madonna renamed Indian dance into Vogue
Does anyone have the Grange hill clip of her performing this?
Wasn't she in Grange hill
Richardaw Rhodes yes she was
Yes, she playing Sudhamani Patel
should be rereleased
The only thing that's dates it is the cardboard cutouts dancing!
Lilou Dallas Multipass !
Dario G Be My Friend
This one completely past me bye
Wow, better than beyonce.
The world we live in now, the BBC would ban this song as it would be cultural appropriation, yes, I know what race Monsoon is but that is the world we live in, it eats itself now and will continue to.
what a load of rubbish
@@kamaal_i Thanks for your input.
A time before sjw, feminism and blm,
Bit of a pointless comment really....Been cancelled have you ?
@@jayzee6617 elaborate.... Also who rattled your cage? Why comment unless your a cancel culture subscriber,
@@smartchip "your" = you're..You're welcome ! (LOL)..Your comment seems out of place for this particular video...I might have expected this on perhaps a Pans People clip or the tattoo-less TOTP studio dancers not on an obvious example of multi-culturalism..As for your response..I have now elaborated...Open forum thus I exercised free speech which as possibly an anti-woke person (apologies if I am over presuming..) I am sure you are in favor of..Or would you like to "cancel" my response..2-way street that one...Frankly a bit bored of the lazy "cancel culture" description...easy phrase for the limited of thought to mindlessly repeat...In the capitalist world money drives decisions by platforms such as UA-cam to remove certain content...The people who pay for the ads..Who monetize UA-cam ...Decide they don't want to be associated with certain things as it damages their bottom line. Also You Tube being a private company can basically decide its own terms of service and remove what they like...You want certain types of content then start your own platform and you can put up what you want...Cancel culture as you call it is market forces...And the market is driven by younger and younger people who have different views than the older folk who are less valuable as generally they have less disposable income...Apologies for going on..But hey freedom of speech....Have a great life !
@@jayzee6617 on free speech, UA-cam is exempt from the ramifications of the laws, due to the fact, anyone can say anything, the form of media means it just echos what is placed on the platform, if UA-cam is private or not as an enterprise, does not mean it can curtail free speech, so if it starts to editorialize, it cannot be exempt from the ramifications of the law, in regards to what it displays, look into it, in regards to " your" ( this is like texting, not a English book) I need to keep up with higher education in mathematics, physics, E & E, anatomy /physiology & coding, so I dont really care about finer parts of the language, the purpose is to propagate my sentiments etc, so what is your subject, gender studies, interpretive dance or culture studies? Oyeah we are not in a capitalistic system, if so govt would be very very small, not a cancer that keeps growing and taking up resources to survive, its a fact as you get older and learn of the world, you become more and more tory / Conservative, it comes with knowledge, try reading 1984, animal farm, documentaries : secrets of the magna carta on amazon, money as debt, dirty money on netflix, then let's talk and critique on the above,
@@smartchip Pointless talking to you as you fired so many blanks...Not looking for a study buddy..Your lack of precision does not bode well for your "keeping up"...Your proposed reading list is interesting..Already seen/read all those..Doubt I took the same lessons from them that you did...Please remember your facts are actually opinions...Others are available....Good luck in your drift towards Tory heaven..Adios !
She looks like Michael Jackson in drag.
+Geoff Joffy Quite obviously you need glasses
wasnt she in Grange Hill