I’ve no doubt in my mind that Billy field realises how absolutely gorgeous this song is and how it holds up ( the production etc) today. What a joy to play this on repeat after so many years. Thank you Mr Field.
Sometimes in life you find yourself reminded of a moment in your life that meant something to you personally and a song will resonate with that time. This is one of those songs.🥀
I was only three when this song came out, but this sucker remains an all-time classic that always manages to tug at the heartstrings. The standard radio version of the track that most 'old-timers' are familiar (the back-up of the orchestra) elevate it perfectly. Compare this to some modern tracks where the use of an orchestra is often overdone to the point of depreciating a song instead of lifting it.
31/08/2024. Been probably 42 years since I last heard this last night. Now I have woken up with this song in my head. I was looking for ‘Bad Habits’ as I really liked it when I was 10. Clicked on this, wow, I remember it now. Now as an older man with a few decades of history behind me Bad Habits has nothing on this song for me. It’s amazing how a song can make you feel as if you’re in the song itself & it was written about you. Memories. Nostalgia. Regret. Sadness
Nostalgia is the hearts way of reminding you of something you once loved ! It travels in many forms ; in a song , in a scent or in photographs... but no matter how it comes to you it will always have the same bitter sweet taste 😂
The 80s by far the best era compared to the crap of today ,so many great ballads,songs with effortless meaning,what's happened, I can't remember the last time I heard a good new song,80s forever
A Sunny Sydney Sunday 🌞 I was waiting for a friend on a corner at Potts Point ☝️ A Car Pulled Up 🏎 It was a Convertible - top down Billy Field was driving, he & a friend were laughing the happiest of laughs 😄😃 I smile at the memory - 35 yrs on 💫 👱🏼♀️~👵🏻 ✨
Billy arrived one day was there for a few moments then gone forever, like a guy who appeared at a party grabbed the guitar sang a couple of songs, we all thought he was a star, he left the party never to be seen again thought fondly remembered by party goers. Lots of guys like Billy remembered by the few.
As soon as he started singing it hit me right in the feels... I was back in Yr 9 in in 1981 in high school hopelessly in love with a girl who wasn't interested in me 🤣🤣🤣
I think when you’re a kid in high school, you become interested in the pretty girl and show her affection, but at some point come to the realisation that she actually likes somebody else but doesn’t reciprocate the feelings towards you, but you hope one day out of the blue she come to the realisation who really liked her That the person that like to from the start, was there all the time waiting for their shot.
I was a 14 year old boy sitting on a squab in the back of a Toyota Landcruiser traveling around Australia when this song was released and thrashed on the radio. Sounds just as good today as it did 43 years ago. Absolute masterpiece.
OMG had not thought about this song in years, but I so enjoyed it... had a big blubber cause it tears hard at the heart strings. Do broken hearts ever really mend???
When I was 16 or 17 I was in a band. I was the keyboard player. We were recording a demo in a studio in the city and I was trying to get my head around a Hammond organ. In walks a stranger and starts to show me what to do. It was Billy Fucking Fields! Can you believe it? Turns out he owned the studio. It was mesmerising to watch him play, and he made me look even worse than I was 😂 Seem to be a really nice guy and it’s something I’ll never forget it.
Getting music played in Australia was incredibly hard as a handful of promoters had the scene sewn up. Billy's parents had a lot of money and he used their wealth to get his music played on the radio. Without that we would never have heard of him. He sang a few great songs.
I was listening to this song while I was driving along Parramatta Road from the Sydney CBD to Parramatta in November 2019, exactly 3 years ago to the day.
Love, love , love this song.It is definitely on the soundtrack of my life. Born in the 70's grew up in the 80's.Thanks for sharing this fantastic song🙂
Just had a MASSIVE wtf moment. First time hearing this since 1981....as a 7yr old..... only to find out this genius is a local boy from Wagga. My fucking God!
I love this song my uncle played guitar for Billy in many concerts and i got to go back stage and party with him and the boys one night Billy got pissed as and i got all the band stoned as hell on some killer Adelaide weed Billy was maybe the nicest star i ever spent the night with so down to earth wow i was so young then now im 55 dam Billy were did the time go my friend .
This is a great song Billy 😊. Thank you for letting me sing this song with you in Tarana last December and Portland NSW a year ago. I am looking forward to singing it with you in the future ❤.
Just watched an Aussie movie called Transfusion......this song played near the end of the movie......Took me back....WOW.......catch the last 10 minutes of that movie while it plays....It's actually quite funny.
@@774CISCO I'll say..... I love how he is singing and doing his own thing, the guy busts in the door then he knocks him over the coffee table and goes ''who the F are you?"... Loved it!!
Awesome song, performance and arrangement. Heard it the other day (Feb 2022) and remembered it from way back when. Well done Billy Field. A great talent and a genuine guy!
gets you right in the feels and even brings modern heartaches to song it's like his raspy almost breakingvoice matches the feelings we all have inside....
Look at the way he sings this .. he exposes his soul . Just to stake his claim as someone who "was" . That's a tough thing for an Aussie man to do . To Fess up to not being perfect ..
many years late , brought here by a new film directed and written by an ex Aussie Rugby player.... props to him for popping this magic tune in here and showing it to a new audience ... nice one Billy and Matty Nable
For some unknown reason I woke up with this song on my mind. I have no idea why, since I hadn't heard it in years. Thanks to Spotify I have been giving it a daily bash for the past two weeks. I just love it now, though I didnt think much of it in its day.
Australia is a great country,Our indigenous people are timeless & priceless with untapped(so far) knowledge, but things are improving ; We are multi cultural However luckily the vast majority of new Aussies embrace our & there good fortune To live Down Under, I consider myself Lucky 🍀 & privileged to live here
In the 1960-80's had great love song groups eg Bee Gees, Air Supply, Olivia Newton John. Unfortunately Australia gave up on Jesus and became proud of being rough. The least Christian country by 1995. Then of course the Love Songs and Love died.
I painted houses an my boss would bring his multi coloured cd player an his Billy fields cd to every job.I hated it at first I heard it that much it grew on me .so hear I am tormenting myself again lol
I was a 5'4" sports/ Nerd. Every girl shut me down, Now 5'11" 50yr 80kg and full-time carrer fireman for 20yrs. Sucks to them, And I'd go home after highschool in tears. Now I rescue those in tears..?Ironic..don't you think
BILLY FIELD - I WAS IN LOVE WITH YOU Standing on the outside, I don't know where I'm going to But I do know-ow just one thing, and that is it's over with you I've been very lonely, I did not think I could go on I was caught, in mem'ries-ies, and dreams I should have won Blind Freddy knew that, a blind man could see I was in love with you, but you weren't in love with me Suppose I'll have to keep it, keep it inside, I don't know why Well I know, that it won't change it, but baby, it helps if I cry Blind Freddy knew that, a blind man could see I was in love with you (in love with you) But you weren't in love with me It used to be so perfect (so perfect) It used to be so perfect (so perfect) In lovin' you (used to be so perfect lovin' you) It used to be so perfect, it used to be so perfect In lovin' you (used to be so perfect) So now I'm standing on the outside, I don't know where I'm going to But I do know just one thing, and that is it's over with you Blind Freddy knew that, a blind man could see I was in love with you (in love with you) But you weren't in love with me Blind Freddy knew that, yes he knew it A blind man could see, yes he could, yes he could I was in love with you (in love with you) But you weren't in love with me (you weren't in love with me) My baby's not in lo-hove (you weren't in love with me) Weren't in love, weren't in love (you weren't in love with me) My baby's not in love (you weren't in love with me) Weren't in love, weren't in love (you weren't in love with me) Weren't in love, weren't in love (you weren't in love with me)
It's 2024 who's still listening to Billy's masterpiece
Me now... timeless and lyrics to take to heaven
Me
Yup. Remember listening to it on Countdown.
All music lovers are still listening to Billy and all romantics.
Legend Billy.
absolutely
He had a couple of classics--a most under rated Aussie
Ha ha..grew up with this song and only just found out he was an Aussie. Thanks mate
I just love my random UA-cam video feeds…. This is one of those reasons!
with you there. going through my High School favourites and came across this.
I’ve no doubt in my mind that Billy field realises how absolutely gorgeous this song is and how it holds up ( the production etc) today. What a joy to play this on repeat after so many years. Thank you Mr Field.
It's been 42 YEARS since Billy
released this magnificent song
onto the world,& it's still as
good now as it was then.
Quite an achievement!
🎶🎤🎹🎹🎹🎹🎶
With you Geoff.Reminds me of past romances.Beccy Cole has a great version well worth a listen.Take care mate.
Was just telling my dad that was more than 40 yrs ago
Get with the times music is shit now lol
Billy should be proud of his Australian Classics
Sometimes in life you find yourself reminded of a moment in your life that meant something to you personally and a song will resonate with that time. This is one of those songs.🥀
To all those that got drunk to this song!!! I'm still getting drunk to this song alone 2024😅😢❤
What a classic nostalgic tune.
Drinking alone is pathetic man. It is exactly why you are alone in the first place if you ever wonder about it.
You are not alone
Yeh and I am right now ..a few bourbons n brings bk memory’s …
One of the most underrated Aussie albums ever.
I played this song so much, the grooves on the album were worn out. I still know all the words.
I heard this 35 years ago, and its still gold on 2024
I was only three when this song came out, but this sucker remains an all-time classic that always manages to tug at the heartstrings. The standard radio version of the track that most 'old-timers' are familiar (the back-up of the orchestra) elevate it perfectly. Compare this to some modern tracks where the use of an orchestra is often overdone to the point of depreciating a song instead of lifting it.
A song that all the not so pretty or perfect people can relate to. Such a beautiful song and Billy's voice is magical.
No those with Big Hearts relate to.❤
Drunk again . The only song ever that astounds time after time . Should've been number one world over at the time . Australia lapped it up
Me too 😊 odds hurting bad
Absolutely right
H 😅😅
Just cry and cry and smile
It’s my drunk go to
31/08/2024. Been probably 42 years since I last heard this last night. Now I have woken up with this song in my head. I was looking for ‘Bad Habits’ as I really liked it when I was 10. Clicked on this, wow, I remember it now. Now as an older man with a few decades of history behind me Bad Habits has nothing on this song for me. It’s amazing how a song can make you feel as if you’re in the song itself & it was written about you.
Memories.
Nostalgia.
Regret.
Sadness
Nostalgia is the hearts way of reminding you of something you once loved ! It travels in many forms ; in a song , in a scent or in photographs... but no matter how it comes to you it will always have the same bitter sweet taste 😂
It's a special feeling when you feel a song is written to you specifically
The 80s by far the best era compared to the crap of today ,so many great ballads,songs with effortless meaning,what's happened, I can't remember the last time I heard a good new song,80s forever
Vdd
Its a shame we don't make music like this anymore!
A damn crying shame!
Amen to that
Foi e ainda é the best ❤
They do but radio will not play it as they’re owned by overseas companies who plug their own labels.
A Sunny Sydney Sunday 🌞 I was waiting for a friend on a corner at Potts Point ☝️ A Car Pulled Up 🏎 It was a Convertible - top down Billy Field was driving, he & a friend were laughing the happiest of laughs 😄😃 I smile at the memory - 35 yrs on 💫 👱🏼♀️~👵🏻 ✨
Nice comment
Everyone should have a laugh like that at least once in their lifetime
Billy was actually a poor little rich boy and used his parents vast wealth to put an album together and promote it. He did well out of it too.
That's a man that's had his ❤ broken. I've been there.
With you Peter me too.Great song by Billy.Beccy Cole does a great version of this classic.
81 was a gem of a year for music
One of the greatest songs to ever come out of this country
Agree
Brings a tear to my eye. A sad reminder of lost love.
Billy arrived one day was there for a few moments then gone forever, like a guy who appeared at a party grabbed the guitar sang a couple of songs, we all thought he was a star, he left the party never to be seen again thought fondly remembered by party goers. Lots of guys like Billy remembered by the few.
Sad beautiful song. I absolutely never tired of Billy Field's voice and this song.
😎
As soon as he started singing it hit me right in the feels... I was back in Yr 9 in in 1981 in high school hopelessly in love with a girl who wasn't interested in me 🤣🤣🤣
100%
200%
300%
You shouldn’t have tied her up then.
I think when you’re a kid in high school, you become interested in the pretty girl and show her affection, but at some point come to the realisation that she actually likes somebody else but doesn’t reciprocate the feelings towards you, but you hope one day out of the blue she come to the realisation who really liked her That the person that like to from the start, was there all the time waiting for their shot.
Haven’t heard this for decades - great tune
Gosh, I'd clean forgotten about this gem. Thanks for posting.
Same!
He nailed it. Truth right there.
I was a 14 year old boy sitting on a squab in the back of a Toyota Landcruiser traveling around Australia when this song was released and thrashed on the radio. Sounds just as good today as it did 43 years ago. Absolute masterpiece.
We had talent in Australia in the 70’s and 80’s . Not so much now .
There so ordinary now you could pick someone off the street they'll do a better job
Check out Tame Impala. Kevin Parker is the best we've produced.
OMG had not thought about this song in years, but I so enjoyed it... had a big blubber cause it tears hard at the heart strings. Do broken hearts ever really mend???
Absolute brilliance! 🎵 🎶
When I was 16 or 17 I was in a band. I was the keyboard player. We were recording a demo in a studio in the city and I was trying to get my head around a Hammond organ. In walks a stranger and starts to show me what to do. It was Billy Fucking Fields! Can you believe it? Turns out he owned the studio. It was mesmerising to watch him play, and he made me look even worse than I was 😂 Seem to be a really nice guy and it’s something I’ll never forget it.
Getting music played in Australia was incredibly hard as a handful of promoters had the scene sewn up. Billy's parents had a lot of money and he used their wealth to get his music played on the radio. Without that we would never have heard of him. He sang a few great songs.
I can still hear and feel my heartbreak of an unreciprocated teenage crush…💔😥❤️
I know the feeling Rebecca
Many of us have been there. Twice for me. Indescribable feeling
Shit. My crush was in fact named Rebecca.
I was just a kid when this song came out. But since my wife of 19 years dumped me, I can really relate to it.
Great Song!🙏
Hes still playing the pubs.
Think of the big company Goodman Fielder when you think of Billy.
Great song.
What a stunning song! The melody alone gives me goosebumps! And look how good he is LIVE. Thank you, Billy!
For single I ever bought. I'm 50 now and it's still my favourite song.
It used to be so perfect, what a cool line
Still sounds just as good now as it did way back then.....
This song hit me hard when i first heard it back in 82. I dont know why, i was only 10 😅. I only have a few all time faves. This is one 👍
Listening to this on Christmas day in Sydney 2021. Absolutely beautiful voice , song and music. Perfecto!
And one of the saddest songs ever! 😭
Hello from Perth!
I'm here in 2022, live on the Central Coast, 30 min away from him, best song ever 🎵
I was listening to this song while I was driving along Parramatta Road from the Sydney CBD to Parramatta in November 2019, exactly 3 years ago to the day.
@@nicholasjohnson6724 he's from a little town called Urana in the Riverina. The flood planes ov the Murray River. Wheat and sheep country.
@@janied1007 Ditto!
A masterclass in song writing, soulful singing, and beautifully simple music videography.
Love, love , love this song.It is definitely on the soundtrack of my life. Born in the 70's grew up in the 80's.Thanks for sharing this fantastic song🙂
Ahhh the 80's 🤗
72 model 😁👍
74😁
Yes 74 here....Greatest of times
@@topherlo38definitely was a great time😊
Trùly great. Never heard it before. Best song I've heard in a long time.
Exquisite song, Mr Field. Bravo.
I've had this chorus melody stuck in my head for like 20 years. Finally found the song it belongs to.
Haven't heard this for years, forgotten tunes of yester year.
It's hard to pretend that you love someone when you don't , but it's harder to pretend that you don't love someone when you really do ! 😂 ❤ 🇦🇺
If it’s not reciprocal then an adult most certainly should know how to handle it. Otherwise that’s stalker territory.
Just had a MASSIVE wtf moment. First time hearing this since 1981....as a 7yr old..... only to find out this genius is a local boy from Wagga. My fucking God!
Ay fuck makes you think.. imagine this dude just rollin around Wagga in the day
wagga wagga to woy woy
Billy boy lives large hahah
Never understood the words until later on in life…. Classic
I love this song. Billy is an extremely talented musician. I will never get sick of hearing his music.
forgot how good this song was...!!!
It used to be perfect.
Such a beautiful song! I remember hearing it on the radio back in the day, but I never really listened to it until now. Very moving!
I love this song my uncle played guitar for Billy in many concerts and i got to go back stage and party with him and the boys one night Billy got pissed as and i got all the band stoned as hell on some killer Adelaide weed Billy was maybe the nicest star i ever spent the night with so down to earth wow i was so young then now im 55 dam Billy were did the time go my friend .
This is a great song Billy 😊. Thank you for letting me sing this song with you in Tarana last December and Portland NSW a year ago. I am looking forward to singing it with you in the future ❤.
Just watched an Aussie movie called Transfusion......this song played near the end of the movie......Took me back....WOW.......catch the last 10 minutes of that movie while it plays....It's actually quite funny.
What a ripper scene
@@774CISCO I'll say..... I love how he is singing and doing his own thing, the guy busts in the door then he knocks him over the coffee table and goes ''who the F are you?"... Loved it!!
Standing on the outside... That line still kills me.
Just Beautiful😉🇦🇺
Eu não bebo, e não paro de ouvir este hino maravilhoso, na voz do Billy e Mick Fleetwood!
I'm From Brasil!
As an Australian your gracious comment from a far off great land is very much appreciated.
@@paulrankin8578 thank's so much "muito obrigado"
Inesquecível canção, me transporta a minha adolescência, de paixões em silêncio
Beautiful song which unfortunately has been applicable in my life on occasions 😢
just fantastic
Another brilliant Aussie!
Awesome song, performance and arrangement. Heard it the other day (Feb 2022) and remembered it from way back when. Well done Billy Field. A great talent and a genuine guy!
I heard this as the first song after a break up. It killed me because I never heard this. He spoke to me in this and it kills me to this day
Just a gorgeous, gorgeous song. (And the Mick Fleetwood cover is pretty darn good too)
Mick's cover is really better than the original
@@williamf1967 Nah, just listened to it. Billy's is much better for sure.
What a gem of a song.
Stills make cry...Everytime i hear it😢Breaks my heart all over again..
gosh... I was only 10 when this came out...❤
I was 15 !
Brilliant 💥🌟💖 2024 real music 🎵🎶
Thank you so so much for uploading this for us to see means a lot.
Just re discovered this awesome song, I didnt realise he was Australian! Always thought he was American.
Yep brilliant song Billy 👍
Geez. Nailed it here. Deeply.
Very deeply.
gets you right in the feels and even brings modern heartaches to song it's like his raspy almost breakingvoice matches the feelings we all have inside....
Love this song brings back fond memories ❤❤❤
Look at the way he sings this .. he exposes his soul . Just to stake his claim as someone who "was" . That's a tough thing for an Aussie man to do . To Fess up to not being perfect ..
great song + clip.
Uma música tão espetacular como essa e com poucas curtidas... uma pena.
Muita gente não conhece o autor da música, e também a música
Pensei exatamente a mesma coisa. E esta e' a versao original. E pra mim a mais linda.
Love this original cover song, best version. Billy is from my home town, still lives in Australia just nearby me.
Billy wrote this song. This is not a cover.
many years late , brought here by a new film directed and written by an ex Aussie Rugby player.... props to him for popping this magic tune in here and showing it to a new audience ... nice one Billy and Matty Nable
Ahh I only watched this last night... Movie is called Transfusion, starring Matt and Sam Worthington. I enjoyed this movie a lot!
I had just broken up with my GF when this was released, oh how it ripped my heart out 😢
Brilliant such a great song and artist
Billy Field is a part of the Mandela Effect phenomena. People remember hearing he died in late 80's early 90's, yet he's still alive.
For some unknown reason I woke up with this song on my mind. I have no idea why, since I hadn't heard it in years. Thanks to Spotify I have been giving it a daily bash for the past two weeks. I just love it now, though I didnt think much of it in its day.
and i thought australian weren't able to write such beautiful songs >>>>>.. they certainly are !!!!!
oh you was wrong: Australia have beauty songs. Today, they have gospel beautiful songs (worship) with the band HillSong
Australia is a great country,Our indigenous people are timeless & priceless with untapped(so far) knowledge, but things are improving ; We are multi cultural However luckily the vast majority of new Aussies embrace our & there good fortune To live Down Under, I consider myself Lucky 🍀 & privileged to live here
In the 1960-80's had great love song groups eg Bee Gees, Air Supply, Olivia Newton John.
Unfortunately Australia gave up on Jesus and became proud of being rough. The least Christian country by 1995. Then of course the Love Songs and Love died.
@@ricky5538 oh come on now look how USA treat christianity ????/ an absolute right wing farce !!!!!!
You might want to do some research.
My signature song; it says it all, my life in one song.
Remete seu pensamento para outra época,uma época boa, saudades dela.
Magnificent voice and piano skills
My youth 😢
Saw him live on the gold coast,just brilliant.
Listening to this Anzac Day 2022 great music for a lazy public holiday
Still beautiful as the first time Billy sang this cheers Stephen from QLD ✌️👍🤠🦘🐨🍀
Superb and so moving ❤️
I painted houses an my boss would bring his multi coloured cd player an his Billy fields cd to every job.I hated it at first I heard it that much it grew on me .so hear I am tormenting myself again lol
„Transfusion” Movie brought me here..😢
I was a 5'4" sports/ Nerd. Every girl shut me down, Now 5'11" 50yr 80kg and full-time carrer fireman for 20yrs.
Sucks to them, And I'd go home after highschool in tears. Now I rescue those in tears..?Ironic..don't you think
Spelt career wrong
@@Juz990Sorry typo error. CUNT, I know that I got you right
BILLY FIELD - I WAS IN LOVE WITH YOU
Standing on the outside, I don't know where I'm going to
But I do know-ow just one thing, and that is it's over with you
I've been very lonely, I did not think I could go on
I was caught, in mem'ries-ies, and dreams I should have won
Blind Freddy knew that, a blind man could see
I was in love with you, but you weren't in love with me
Suppose I'll have to keep it, keep it inside, I don't know why
Well I know, that it won't change it, but baby, it helps if I cry
Blind Freddy knew that, a blind man could see
I was in love with you (in love with you)
But you weren't in love with me
It used to be so perfect (so perfect)
It used to be so perfect (so perfect)
In lovin' you (used to be so perfect lovin' you)
It used to be so perfect, it used to be so perfect
In lovin' you (used to be so perfect)
So now I'm standing on the outside, I don't know where I'm going to
But I do know just one thing, and that is it's over with you
Blind Freddy knew that, a blind man could see
I was in love with you (in love with you)
But you weren't in love with me
Blind Freddy knew that, yes he knew it
A blind man could see, yes he could, yes he could
I was in love with you (in love with you)
But you weren't in love with me (you weren't in love with me)
My baby's not in lo-hove (you weren't in love with me)
Weren't in love, weren't in love (you weren't in love with me)
My baby's not in love (you weren't in love with me)
Weren't in love, weren't in love (you weren't in love with me)
Weren't in love, weren't in love (you weren't in love with me)