I don't know why but this song comes to my mind when I'm nearing the end of my shift as an office cleaner here in central London at the Dept of health. .Timeless classic!
This was the first record I ever purchased. I bought this as a 4 year old in 1968 to play on the 2nd hand radiogram I had been given for my birthday. 37 years later, it was the song my bride and I left the altar to when we got married to the surprise and shock of family and friends. Not even the bridesmaids or best babe ( ididnt have a best man) knew what we had planned. :) We skipped out hand in hand, and then fell about laughing outside, leaving a bewildered venue full of people behind us.
As a spotty kid in 1968, it was the last hour at school before the Christmas holidays and our whole class was excited.I struck up with the first word / long note of the song and the rest of the class followed. It felt like every child knew every word and we all belted out the whole thing. Possibly my most vivid memory of school. Anyone reading this who was in the second year at Rothwell Grammar School, form 2 Alpha?
I bought this 45 in 1969. Still in my collection. Number one on the charts in Perth Australia. My late younger sister used to get up and dance every time it was played in our home😊
I remember singing this with my classmates at primary school in the 80's!! If I remember rightly, it was during a recreation period! Haha the words....it's great!
This is very odd, literally discover this song this morning by mistake, notice they're shooting the video in a building site. Notice Lloyd one of my longest subscribed to UA-camrs in the comments saying precisely that. They are called the scaffolds though so it makes some sense? Also is that Roger McGough in the hat!?
@@unrealdev5178 I was just going to comment on the choice of site, then I noticed the comment, then I noticed the commenter, then I was going to reply that I thought it was obvious that Lindy would be here, then I noticed your reply, then I noticed that this sentence is way too long, and contains way too many instances of the word 'notice'. Anyway, love Lindy's videos, I always thought this was an Irish Rovers' song.
Brilliant song. 1968 was when I was four, so with this and Mary Hopkins' Those Were the Days I started getting into music. And not forgetting: I am the Urban Spaceman. Apparently there were a few other bands around, some of them quite big, they tell me now.
I was also 4 years old in 1968 and this was the first song that truly grabbed my attention as a child. It must have been played on the radio or Top of The Pops. I still love it all these years later!
Guy in the middle is Mike McCartney who had a famous brother called Paul something... Bass guitar on this was played by the legendary Jack Bruce of Cream fame
Slightly before i was born... [ 1974 ] This was a Christmas number 1 in 1968. I only came across this the other day... as I am setting up a Christmas quiz [ every year ] This year .. Christmas number 1's. sadly when I spotted this ... i hadn't a clue what or who it was by.. and I love it... as a Christmas song. why you may ask... The fun factor [ xmas is about fun.. ] The drink factor [ also a xmas feel ] And the bells towards the end.. My favourite band is the Pet shop boys who got a Xmas number 1 in 1987.. with always on my mind... which has nothing about Christmas about it.. which got me in a negative mindset when I saw the past 10 - 20 yrs or so... the past 20 yrs have been poor xmas number ones. like ladbaby [ someone jail him ] or spice girls... ed sheeran not perfect... apart from wham - last Christmas 2023.. but... with hope and my input we might [ hope ] we can improve.. just like this great fun song... shakin stevens... paul mccartney .. slade.. chris rea... cliff richard [ last resort "Where are you"... Merry Christmas 2024 anyhow.....to all that read this... & have a great time. and I hope you all a successful 2025.
Man there’s something so sad and poignant about this video even though it’s upbeat and joyful (except for the last verse!) - perhaps it’s the massive amount of time gone by since this song was released and the vast amount of childhood memories associated with it i dunno. We sure did live in a different world back then. Kinda brings to light how rotten everything is now. I remember seeing this video when it came out but haven’t seen it since. Now I can’t stop watching it and I’m laughing and crying at the same time😳
Old Schickelgruber invented the Uber, found he'd got things on his play-a-ate So when he heard of Medicinal Compound, he was never there, but always late.
My current earworm - every day I walk past a bookshop, which has Mary Beard's "Emperor of Rome" in the window. This always makes me think about Ebenezer!
Mike McGear, the guy in the middle with the green-blue jacket, is the younger brother of another big band from Liverpool..... his brother answers to the name Sir Paul McCartney and the band is The Beatles
Wow. that fact blew my mind. I see on Wikipedia that after retiring he has dropped the pseudonym McGear and is now going by his proper name Mike McCartney.
@@G6JPG Actually yeah thats a good point it is a "left" track and a "right" track put together, but its great. It uses the 2 channels to their maximum.
The woman who acted Lilly the pink, once commented here in the comments? Where is she? She said she was indeed sitting in that bucket but it was very scary.
Colin yeah, you are right mate, it might not pass the pc test but you know what? The pc test is wrong and if anyone disagrees with me I am happy to explain why they are wrong haha!. (basically its lack of evidence, case dismissed) Not so sure about that woman going up to great heights in that bucket though - that looks dangerous to me!
@@carollynnchap Oh that's very good to hear Carol, feeling much less worried about it now haha! Must have been great to have been involved with something so iconic 🙂
My son 37. plays the game and it reminded him of being a child and me playing it in the car. I am a child of the 60's and it reminds me of my childhood, hence the 60's music in the car. I think it's wonderful a song can spurn memories of different generations
I used to hate this song because of the second verse, my brothers and sisters would sing it at me, I was bony and didn't eat my meals! 50 years on it's just funny.
We'll drink a drink a drink To lily the pink the pink the pink The saviour of our human race For she invented, medicinal compound Most efficasious in every case Mr freers, had sticky out ears And it made him awful shy And so they gave him medicinal compound And now he's learning how to fly Robert tony, was known to be bony He would never eat his meals And so they gave him medicinal compound Now they move him round on wheels We'll drink a drink a drink To lily the pink the pink the pink The saviour of the human race For she invented medicinal compound Most efficasious in every case Old ebineezer thought he was julius caeser And so they put him in a home Where they gave him medicnal compound And now he's emperor of Rome Jonny hammer, had a terrible st st st st stammer He could hardly sssay a word And so they gave him medicinal compound Now's he's seen, but never heard Aunty milly, ran willy nilly When her legs they did recede So they rubbed on medicnal compound Now they call her millipede Jennifer eccles, had terrible freckles And the boys all called her names But they gave her medicinal compound Now he joins in the games Lily the pink she turned to drink She filled up with parafin inside And despite her medicinal compound Sadly picklilly died Up to heaven her soul ascended All the church bells they did ring She took with her medicinal compound Hark the herald angels sing
@@nicksmith3737 Jennifer Eccles comes from the Hollies, who had Jennifer from Allan Clarkes missus Jennifer Bowstead and Eccles from Graham Nash's Rose Eccles.
Great to hear this after about 55 years, amazing !
Forget Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca ... I want medicinal compound
Great minds work alive! COVID is so 2021...now monkey pox is all the rage!
@@צביחזנוב-ט3ד
2023, where ‘DIED SUDDENLY’ is ALL the rage!!
7 year old in 68 living in Reading England. Oh the memories.
@leighwest5564 The song is based on Lydia Pinkham’s recipe from the 1800s but you can still get it today! 😅
@@pearsonchickwhat can you get?
I don't know why but this song comes to my mind when I'm nearing the end of my shift as an office cleaner here in central London at the Dept of health. .Timeless classic!
Medicinal compound
"Office cleaner ... Central London ... (UK) Dept. of Health"
Yep, makes sense to me.
You probably just need a drink, ahaha...
😂😂😂
This was the first record I ever purchased. I bought this as a 4 year old in 1968 to play on the 2nd hand radiogram I had been given for my birthday. 37 years later, it was the song my bride and I left the altar to when we got married to the surprise and shock of family and friends. Not even the bridesmaids or best babe ( ididnt have a best man) knew what we had planned. :) We skipped out hand in hand, and then fell about laughing outside, leaving a bewildered venue full of people behind us.
Excellent!
I absolutely LOVE this! Hope you and your wife are well and happy still! x
Here's was hoping you've grown up by now lol
lol. I hope that you are both still as happy as you were on that day.
You bought as a 4 year old,,? So you went out as a 4 year old and bought this song, ? LMAO, !
My Nan taught me this song more than fifty years ago. RIP Peggy Spruce ❤
As a spotty kid in 1968, it was the last hour at school before the Christmas holidays and our whole class was excited.I struck up with the first word / long note of the song and the rest of the class followed. It felt like every child knew every word and we all belted out the whole thing. Possibly my most vivid memory of school. Anyone reading this who was in the second year at Rothwell Grammar School, form 2 Alpha?
I bought this 45 in 1969. Still in my collection. Number one on the charts in Perth Australia. My late younger sister used to get up and dance every time it was played in our home😊
A wonderful song which is seriously needed today.
I remember singing this with my classmates at primary school in the 80's!! If I remember rightly, it was during a recreation period! Haha the words....it's great!
The Christmas No1 from 1968, I was 5 years old at the time and loved it. Always reminds me of Christmas as a child😊
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same here, fella.
Glorious memories.
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My birthday lol
Just think of the millions they DIDN'T spend filming this!!!
Thank U very much! For sharing this!
You mean thank you very very very much! 😂
What background shall we have for the film? Of course! A massive demolition site!
Didn't expect to find you here matey! Well, in hindsight it's not surprising at all!
With scaffolding and a woman dressed in pink.
I guess they had some scaffolding in the background to go with the name of the group. Music videos weren't really big in 1968!
This is very odd, literally discover this song this morning by mistake, notice they're shooting the video in a building site.
Notice Lloyd one of my longest subscribed to UA-camrs in the comments saying precisely that.
They are called the scaffolds though so it makes some sense?
Also is that Roger McGough in the hat!?
@@unrealdev5178 I was just going to comment on the choice of site, then I noticed the comment, then I noticed the commenter, then I was going to reply that I thought it was obvious that Lindy would be here, then I noticed your reply, then I noticed that this sentence is way too long, and contains way too many instances of the word 'notice'.
Anyway, love Lindy's videos, I always thought this was an Irish Rovers' song.
Brilliant song. 1968 was when I was four, so with this and Mary Hopkins' Those Were the Days I started getting into music. And not forgetting: I am the Urban Spaceman. Apparently there were a few other bands around, some of them quite big, they tell me now.
I was also 4 years old in 1968 and this was the first song that truly grabbed my attention as a child. It must have been played on the radio or Top of The Pops. I still love it all these years later!
Those were the days, my friend, when music was actually good!
@@graciefields898 Still is, the youngsters tell me.
Vernon Kay played this on Radio 2 today. I tried to sing along. It's a really funny and fun song.
Heard on Radio 2 today as a tribute to Paul O'Grady.... Such a jolly tune
Was a lovely man Paul o' Grady ❤
This never fails to make me smile! 🤭😁
Guy in the middle is Mike McCartney who had a famous brother called Paul something... Bass guitar on this was played by the legendary Jack Bruce of Cream fame
Paul maccartney?! The singer and bass guitar for the WINGS?! That Paul maccartney? Incredible
@@peterlewington4651 Obviously the talent didn’t follow in the family then because it’s absolutely awful and one guy is completely flat
Paul McGear, yes. Left handed guitarist and vocalist with Johnny and his Moondogs.
Yes we all know that thx.
He looks like he’s brother only little bit tho…… that smile.
Father was a product of 1954,I came along in 1982,worked with him for 2 years at the turn of the 21st century and he used to hum and sing this....🤣👍
Im here after this song popped in my head for no apparent reason !! lol
Me too 12 months after you haha
I think I 1st heard this song back 70s when i was a kid , born May 23rd 1968 from northern Ireland UK, 🤝♥️🇬🇧
You were born two days after me, you young whippersnapper.
Great song -I always liked it
WE BE MAKING OUT OF BARNSWORTH WITH THIS ONE!! 💯 💯 🔥 🔥 🗣🗣🗣
Yes!! ❤
Such fun, so delightful and full of humour!
In December 1968, 1st place on the British charts! (Record Mirror).
Thanks for your beautiful committe
Thank goodness this video is here!
Slightly before i was born... [ 1974 ] This was a Christmas number 1 in 1968.
I only came across this the other day... as I am setting up a Christmas quiz [ every year ]
This year .. Christmas number 1's.
sadly when I spotted this ... i hadn't a clue what or who it was by..
and I love it... as a Christmas song. why you may ask...
The fun factor [ xmas is about fun.. ]
The drink factor [ also a xmas feel ]
And the bells towards the end..
My favourite band is the Pet shop boys who got a Xmas number 1 in 1987..
with always on my mind... which has nothing about Christmas about it..
which got me in a negative mindset when I saw the past 10 - 20 yrs or so...
the past 20 yrs have been poor xmas number ones.
like ladbaby [ someone jail him ] or spice girls... ed sheeran not perfect...
apart from wham - last Christmas 2023..
but... with hope and my input we might [ hope ] we can improve..
just like this great fun song...
shakin stevens... paul mccartney .. slade.. chris rea...
cliff richard [ last resort "Where are you"...
Merry Christmas 2024 anyhow.....to all that read this...
& have a great time. and I hope you all a successful 2025.
Man there’s something so sad and poignant about this video even though it’s upbeat and joyful (except for the last verse!) - perhaps it’s the massive amount of time gone by since this song was released and the vast amount of childhood memories associated with it i dunno. We sure did live in a different world back then. Kinda brings to light how rotten everything is now. I remember seeing this video when it came out but haven’t seen it since. Now I can’t stop watching it and I’m laughing and crying at the same time😳
Buttons of your mind was my favourite serious song their best IMO
brings back memories of junior choice on radio one
A classic.
For some reason we were forced to sing this at school (in the late 80s). Now I know where it is from!
We still sang it in school in the early 2000s! 🤣
There´s no song that might reflect any better why I really love England so much
a blast from the past brings back memories from my childhood they dont make them like this anymore theres no humour any more in music
This song tormented me as a young child!
I hope they all had their cscs card & 1 hour induction to get on to the site
Brilliant lyrics of course , written by a poet.
Nice to see the lads from Auf wiedersehen in the background 🙂
Was ein geiles Lied!! Und so passend zum Pharmazismus
Old Schickelgruber invented the Uber, found he'd got things on his play-a-ate
So when he heard of Medicinal Compound, he was never there, but always late.
Always a fan of Scaffolds Work
I remember doing the Freddie dance in front of my parents. Valerie Singleton beautiful as ever.
Drink a drink a drink happy carefree song miss those times great people too
Great sounds the mad monk is back one cool dude😅😅
Number 1 the day I was born 😂 that's why im here
I hope you have turned out to be efficacious in every way! Bless you xxx
It's great!
Brilliant 💕
🥰🥰
Never heard of the word "efficacious" before listening to this song.
For those that don't know, Mike McGear, in the green and blue jacket, is Paul McCartney's brother.
Wait the Paul McCartney from the Beatles
@@jenniferbookless Yep, the Paul McCartney
What an old favourite of mine 🙂
My current earworm - every day I walk past a bookshop, which has Mary Beard's "Emperor of Rome" in the window. This always makes me think about Ebenezer!
Mike McGear, the guy in the middle with the green-blue jacket, is the younger brother of another big band from Liverpool..... his brother answers to the name Sir Paul McCartney and the band is The Beatles
Yes but not the present McCartney
Wow. that fact blew my mind. I see on Wikipedia that after retiring he has dropped the pseudonym McGear and is now going by his proper name Mike McCartney.
So clever to think you can listen to this all and right at the end you find...that it's a Christmas track in fact.
Thank Goodness You're Here!
when did Arthur Scargill become a singer
thanks for sharing this... never seen it before... 2022
The first guy is the most 60s guy I've ever seen
The second is the most 70s guy I've ever seen
The third... would probably fit in better today
1st guy...Mike McGear (Paul McCartney's brother!)
2nd guy...Roger Gorman (from Tiswas!)
3rd guy...Roger McGough (brilliant poet who's still performing!)
...and the girl?
@@akitakutya Lily the pink
Third guy dresses like a pimp
@@akitakutya That would be me .. Carol Bura then, now Chapman ( Waitress from the Revolution Club and one time extra in films)
Amazing!
Building and demolition sites seemed to be a thing, for videos. Look at Concrete and Clay, or War Baby by Tom Robinson. That one looked bloody lethal.
My mum introduced this song to me in my teens I’m now 36 in 2024
A good song and very dark
This song is pure genius 😂😂😂
This was when stereo was used properly. They don't know what stereo is today!
That isn't stereo, it's two separate tracks! (And all the better for it, IMO! Like you, I like the technique.)
@@G6JPG Actually yeah thats a good point it is a "left" track and a "right" track put together, but its great. It uses the 2 channels to their maximum.
This song is what you call an earworm 😁
The woman who acted Lilly the pink, once commented here in the comments? Where is she?
She said she was indeed sitting in that bucket but it was very scary.
Great when you hear from the people who were actually there.. her mini dress and knickers so of that fun era.
I ❤️ the Scaffold
same hun xxx
My song when I was a kid
Can't see a music video like this being approved this day in age!!
Colin yeah, you are right mate, it might not pass the pc test but you know what? The pc test is wrong and if anyone disagrees with me I am happy to explain why they are wrong haha!. (basically its lack of evidence, case dismissed) Not so sure about that woman going up to great heights in that bucket though - that looks dangerous to me!
Yep, that's how far we have fallen.
@@davidsmith6355 It was!, but ll made them chain up the tipping mechanism so that it couldn't flip.
@@carollynnchap Oh that's very good to hear Carol, feeling much less worried about it now haha! Must have been great to have been involved with something so iconic 🙂
@@davidsmith6355 how is this politically incorrect I’m confused 😂
Anyone here because of the game "Thank Goodness You're Here"?
My son 37. plays the game and it reminded him of being a child and me playing it in the car. I am a child of the 60's and it reminds me of my childhood, hence the 60's music in the car. I think it's wonderful a song can spurn memories of different generations
@@maxinemcivor4974 Came as a shock to discover my class teacher at the time created Finchley Central, the fore-runner to Mornington Crescent
My 23 year old heard it on my playlist, and when he started playing that game, I remember him laughing and telling me about it. 😂
Knocks Michael Jackson's Thriller video clean out of the park. The great John Gorman was born in 1932, aged 55.
WOW 💯♥️😜
love it
I remember this from childhood
I reckon Lilly took three in the pink.
Not one American understands anything about this song, it is a mystery to them.
And it's about Lydia Pinkham, an American during prohibition who invented a highly alcoholic tonic for women and gov never sussed it !
It's an American folk song to be fair mate.
Used to sing the chorus in the school playground without really knowing what the words meant
Yeah, I remember when I first learned the words I didn't have a clue what it was about. Strange growing up in the eighties, wasn't it?!
We used to sing this at school.
Cool school you went to!
This song is about 150 years old. It’s based on Lydia Pinkhams pills from US.
NOBODY... Does comedy of any variety like us BRITISH. GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, BY A LONG WAY..
I think it would be good if 1 of the members did a version of Hallelujah.
Did... did they just murder Lily the Pink?!
Just funnelled some scrumpy down her gullet, she'll live! Might have a wee hangover though 😂 🍺
I used to hate this song because of the second verse, my brothers and sisters would sing it at me, I was bony and didn't eat my meals! 50 years on it's just funny.
today Dec9 th played on Pick of the tops radio2
Jack Bruce on Bass. Elton John on backing vocals. :)
Andy Scott on guitar?.
Sorry to ask, what year was this song, ? 😐
She's got a firm grip on that bottle of medicinal compound. Reggie's wife could learn a thing or two.
Smello!!
Can you fix the aspect ratio? (It isn't widescreen.)
Arthur Scargill anyone? 😂😂
My favorite song in english ❤
Yes, I could do with medicinal compound at times.
Read UA-cam comments instead. Just as uplifting and not nearly so dangerous!
@1:42 My choreographer wife couldn't help but notice that they all turn together and then John sets off on the wrong foot.
How true it became
Thanks Grandad ❤ 😢
I bloody hated this back in 1968 but with the passing of time and the mellowing of age, I still fucking hate it.
It's great. Miserable sod. haha. :)
That's just like the rational way people spoke back then!
John Gorman, who's still alive, made a few appearances on Tiswas.
lol...no comments!
Is that Liverpool they're demolishing in the background?
Forgot the 70s were quite grim... But I'd go back 👍
1968 apparently.
Xmas 1968
It's filmed on a building site, they're always grim. And it was the 60s.
WTF. NO WONDER MY FRIENDS AND I ARE FUCKED UP. THIS WAS OUR MUSIC TEACHERS SONG OF CHOICE TO LEARN IN 1982.
We'll drink a drink a drink
To lily the pink the pink the pink
The saviour of our human race
For she invented, medicinal compound
Most efficasious in every case
Mr freers, had sticky out ears
And it made him awful shy
And so they gave him medicinal compound
And now he's learning how to fly
Robert tony, was known to be bony
He would never eat his meals
And so they gave him medicinal compound
Now they move him round on wheels
We'll drink a drink a drink
To lily the pink the pink the pink
The saviour of the human race
For she invented medicinal compound
Most efficasious in every case
Old ebineezer thought he was julius caeser
And so they put him in a home
Where they gave him medicnal compound
And now he's emperor of Rome
Jonny hammer, had a terrible st st st st stammer
He could hardly sssay a word
And so they gave him medicinal compound
Now's he's seen, but never heard
Aunty milly, ran willy nilly
When her legs they did recede
So they rubbed on medicnal compound
Now they call her millipede
Jennifer eccles, had terrible freckles
And the boys all called her names
But they gave her medicinal compound
Now he joins in the games
Lily the pink she turned to drink
She filled up with parafin inside
And despite her medicinal compound
Sadly picklilly died
Up to heaven her soul ascended
All the church bells they did ring
She took with her medicinal compound
Hark the herald angels sing
Jennifer Eccles turns into a boy if you listen to the lyrics. "he joins in the games"
"Now they call her Millipede"
Aunty milly, ran willy nilly
When her legs they did recede
So they RUBBED on medicinal compound
(not "looked" on!)
Now they call her millipede
Not sure that everyone in the song was any better off for having medicinal compound
@@nicksmith3737 Jennifer Eccles comes from the Hollies, who had Jennifer from Allan Clarkes missus Jennifer Bowstead and Eccles from Graham Nash's Rose Eccles.
one of members of this trio has a brother who played Bass guitar in certain group
Do you refer to the group that used to be called the Quarrymen?
@@graciefields898 i do not think we was in the quarymen, more the egg men
@@RobertKincaid-vq3hn Goo goo g'joob!