I watched this live broadcast back in '96. I was 16, and absent from school. I was lying in bed sick as a dog. I was watching daytime television on my portable TV set and couldn't be arsed switching over when Pebble Mill started. I'm eternally thankful I couldn't muster the energy to do so, or I would never have witnessed this car crash masterpiece.
I knew there had to be others 😮..... Others who'd seen it at the time and not after it was popularised by Shooting Stars/Vic & Reeves. I'd came in from college, was making food and just put the TV on and thought 'Ahh it's that pillock from Hi-De-Hi' I'm also glad that I didn't switch over as it was all sorts of surrealness.
When I'm down I find solace in this clip. It is one of my favourite performances of all time. It is a musical travesty, and i piss myself laughing. Yet I feel respect for all those involved.
The ironic thing is he played the bad club entertainer so beautifully on Hi-De-Hi - he totally 'got' it (and proved himself a pretty decent crooner). Here he even revives the 1950's quiff. I guess part of his soul was always in Maplins. Bless you, Paul!
BABY BABEEHH!! Bless Paul and his fellow singer - they gave it their all, right up to the cacophony of an ending. RIP Paul Shane and thanks for the laughs (even this unintentional one…)
I too remember watching this on Pebble mill at one back in 1996. Thank goodness this was a live show otherwise it surely would never have been broadcast, which would have deprived the world of such an excruciating masterpiece.
I saw this properly on TV at the time, there was no laughter track on it, it was done as a real promotion for his album on a live lunchtime show on the BBC in Britain called Pebble mill, if you can even imagine that this was a legit piece of TV, for a guy that truly wanted to promote his forthcoming album in the mid 90s!!! Well it was even more jaw dropping! It looks like parody, it seriously was not, the way he sung it, the bored sounding backing 'singers' the over enthusiastic chap that is next to him ...it's all totally real, and that is why this video is so funny.
Yeah but nowadays legit tv includes 4th rate celebs and wannabee celebs eating kangaroo penis while bickering in the Jungle all to try and get the viewer to spend money on a phone call. In comparison this is high art.
I was at university a couple of miles away at the time. Can confirm the birds themselves fell from the skies at the realisation that no song of theirs could ever come close to this.
1:04 onwards just keeps getting better like a crescendo ....Mike Holloways arm movements , Pauls growl then to top it all the 'baybeh baybeh....' 😂😂✅✅👌👌
I remember watching this at the time laughing my head off because I thought this can't be for real I thought it must be some kind of comedy routine, and when he said in an interview that he used to be a club singer I still couldn't believe it. Thanks for sharing this absolute classic I'm glad I'm one of the people that saw it live on TV
I remember this!!. After the performance I was waiting for the “reveal” where they all start laughing because it was all a big joke!!. It never came.. But it always brings a smile to my face every time I see it😂😂
Fantastic , singing doesn't get better than this . It takes me back to the working mens club days and the concert chairman was shouting order , order , nobody took a blind but of notice . Bloody hilarious.
Just viewed this again today after watching an old Hi-de-Hi on Gold channel jogged my memory. So funny, it always cheers me up :"my finger Tipppppssss" . The funny thing is that he was serious!
By luck I was off ill from work with man flu the day this was on Pebble Mill. It was the bestmedicine in the world. I never laughed so much. Thanks for posting. Ted Bovis your a legend :D Heidi Hi Campers
You gotta love "baby bay-beh!" all to pieces!!! And how nice that backup singers, Rochelle and Fran from accounting slipped away on their break to help out.
singing Paul Shanes rendition of 'Lost That Loving Feeling' helps overcome my constipation.... "no tenderness like before in my fingert IP IP IP IP IPs"
I remember paul shane being on pebble mill at one and they had a call-in to him. A old man comes on the phone and says "I used to know paul from the olden days in >small town
I was sure we would hear a comedy version such as: "You never close your eyes anymore when I kiss your lips, You just lie in bed with your beer and your fish and chips...'
Even the backing singers got laughed at, including the twat singing alongside Paul Shane! But the star of this gem is Paul himself. This is a fucking classic! I truly believe Paul thought this was a masterpiece of live singing and thought he was gonna bring the house down. Well he did.....with laughter.! So bad this is totally fucking brilliant and a piece of comedy genius that was never meant to be at all hilarious.
@@kevvome Oh, ok. uh, Flintlock were a 70s band who were always on kids tv, most notably with Pauline Quirke but never in the charts. Tomorrow People was a kids sci fi show , now seen as ITVs answer to Dr Who.
@@gavinreid8937 thanks for the extra info gavin! Pop history is my hobby and I love films and the actor’s life stories. Actually, my remark about the singer with Paul Shane being a twat was meant to reflect on the whole sorry embarrassment of what we saw and heard. The other guy really could sing. Paul Shane said later that the acoustics were totally to blame. Maybe that had a lot to do with it! But it really is a piece of tv history that we won’t forget in a hurry!
I've got a facebook group dedicated to this moment of televisual history... just search for 'BABY BABY!! - The Paul Shane appreciation society' and spread the good word!!
This from the Wikipedia entry for the song...They recorded the vocal many times - Medley sang the opening verse over and over again until Spector was satisfied, and the process was then repeated with the next verse. The recording took over 39 takes and around eight hours over a period of two days. Shane nailed in one. I think most observers would agree that this is now the definitive version.
I watched this live broadcast back in '96. I was 16, and absent from school. I was lying in bed sick as a dog. I was watching daytime television on my portable TV set and couldn't be arsed switching over when Pebble Mill started. I'm eternally thankful I couldn't muster the energy to do so, or I would never have witnessed this car crash masterpiece.
I knew there had to be others 😮..... Others who'd seen it at the time and not after it was popularised by Shooting Stars/Vic & Reeves. I'd came in from college, was making food and just put the TV on and thought 'Ahh it's that pillock from Hi-De-Hi' I'm also glad that I didn't switch over as it was all sorts of surrealness.
I remember watching this at the time too 😂
Brilliant comment.
I saw it live on tv and thought wtf is ... the backing singers are next level too 😂😂
This is the single greatest moment in the history of all recorded sound
It's almost like 1996 was telling us what the internet would be valued for when it came to prominence. We would not have understood.
I actually watches this live! I repeat, I watched this live and was sectioned for 3 years.
Surely there's a channel on Sky or Freeview that could play this on a continuous loop til Doomsday?
@@noblemann4898 - I watched live too.... We are unique souls! *Embrace me brother (or sister)!*
When I'm down I find solace in this clip. It is one of my favourite performances of all time. It is a musical travesty, and i piss myself laughing. Yet I feel respect for all those involved.
Pure brilliance
I absolutely agree!!!!
The ironic thing is he played the bad club entertainer so beautifully on Hi-De-Hi - he totally 'got' it (and proved himself a pretty decent crooner). Here he even revives the 1950's quiff. I guess part of his soul was always in Maplins. Bless you, Paul!
Who is still watching it 10 years later
they should play this version at the end of Top Gun
Wait what.didnt Paul sing the top gun song?
baby BBAAYYBBEEHHH
what a piece of fucking musical art.
Imagine having the power to not only destroy your own career, but blitz the entire careers of everyone that appeared with you.
BABY BABEEHH!! Bless Paul and his fellow singer - they gave it their all, right up to the cacophony of an ending. RIP Paul Shane and thanks for the laughs (even this unintentional one…)
I too remember watching this on Pebble mill at one back in 1996. Thank goodness this was a live show otherwise it surely would never have been broadcast, which would have deprived the world of such an excruciating masterpiece.
RIP Paul. If you meant it or not.. this is an all time classic and will entertain many people for time to come.
I want this song played at my funeral. But then again it's so awesome, it'll probably bring me back to life.
It's not just Paul shane singing It's the 3 backing singer's that adds too it.
Perfect. The club style, the impromptu audition for Slade, the leather trousers, everything.
VIC WILL NOW SING IN THE STYLE OF A CLUB SINGER...... 'BAAAAABY BAAAAAAAABY'
i rememeber watching this live at home with my mum on my school dinner break i couldnt believe what i was
witnessing 😂😂 good old paul shane👍
He looks like Biffa Bacon's dad.
Ha! Bang on!
More like 8 Ace, I'd say.
You daft shooortliftin' hermersex'yal!!!
LOLOLOLOLOLOL OMG
@@dunebasher1971 "You've lost that one fourteh-nine"
I saw this properly on TV at the time, there was no laughter track on it, it was done as a real promotion for his album on a live lunchtime show on the BBC in Britain called Pebble mill, if you can even imagine that this was a legit piece of TV, for a guy that truly wanted to promote his forthcoming album in the mid 90s!!! Well it was even more jaw dropping! It looks like parody, it seriously was not, the way he sung it, the bored sounding backing 'singers' the over enthusiastic chap that is next to him ...it's all totally real, and that is why this video is so funny.
I think to cut out the talking heads on the 'worst of' show this poster cut to the end of Room 101 where the clip was also shown.
Yeah but nowadays legit tv includes 4th rate celebs and wannabee celebs eating kangaroo penis while bickering in the Jungle all to try and get the viewer to spend money on a phone call. In comparison this is high art.
Looks like it’s been taken from one of those top 100 style programmes for TV’s most shocking moments.
i have now uploaded the full version on my channel cheers
How do you know it wasn't parody?, he was a comedian at the end of the day, live or not it can still be a rehearsed act eh
I was at university a couple of miles away at the time. Can confirm the birds themselves fell from the skies at the realisation that no song of theirs could ever come close to this.
1:04 onwards just keeps getting better like a crescendo ....Mike Holloways arm movements , Pauls growl then to top it all the 'baybeh baybeh....' 😂😂✅✅👌👌
he's singing in the club style....
@steviepetrucci They used to randomly show the clip of Paul Shane singing "Baby, baby" every now and again before the club singer round.
what club is that the can,t sing for toffees club ,but i loved his hi di hi act.//
Singing in the Maplins style!🥴
I remember watching this at the time laughing my head off because I thought this can't be for real I thought it must be some kind of comedy routine, and when he said in an interview that he used to be a club singer I still couldn't believe it. Thanks for sharing this absolute classic I'm glad I'm one of the people that saw it live on TV
2021 and I'm still howling at this masterpiece!
You just know the Mums and Dads of the backing singers were so proud of their children on the telly and yet afraid for them at the same time.
I'd still be bathing the blonde one..
Historic performance, this will still be viewed in 100 years time.
no probs
what a true classic in tv history
paul shane is a ledgend
they should play this every christmas day its incredible 👌👌
I remember this!!. After the performance I was waiting for the “reveal” where they all start laughing because it was all a big joke!!. It never came.. But it always brings a smile to my face every time I see it😂😂
The man who taught the greatest Working Mans Club singer, Vic Reeves, how to sing in the ‘club’ way. 😉
The original club singer.
Vic reeves soulmate.
i remember watching this before listening to this video i remember the baby baybyyyyyy!! love it
I will always remember this legendary performance.
1:37 that harmonising, I just repeat that, so hypnotic and soothing.
Fantastic , singing doesn't get better than this . It takes me back to the working mens club days and the concert chairman was shouting order , order , nobody took a blind but of notice . Bloody hilarious.
Shane's style and rhythmic feeling carries the song along to the ultimate climax when passion and energy take over, well done man!
1min 8 even the crowd in the mocking tv clip r stifling giggles 😂😂
There just aren't words enough in the english language to describe how wonderful and terrible this is.
It's Terriful lol
You ever seen Bobby Davro faceplanting the floor while cuffed in a set of stocks?
left arm shaking at 1min 8 seconds no time to settle its straight onto the main course at 1minute 11 seconds absolutely incredible 😂
Thank you for making me spit my beverage across my floor with laughter!!!!!!
His voice, his look, his backing singers... my god, so funny
BABY BABY!!!!
Never before in the history of pop was a song sung with so much raw and beautiful emotion!!!
Only England could have given birth to this beautiful tragedy, makes me proud.
me too the finest cover ever
the best bit is straight after the bayby baybyyy the giggling lol
Just viewed this again today after watching an old Hi-de-Hi on Gold channel jogged my memory. So funny, it always cheers me up :"my finger Tipppppssss" . The funny thing is that he was serious!
Absolutely tremendous! This is the best rendition of this song I have ever heard!
By luck I was off ill from work with man flu the day this was on Pebble Mill. It was the bestmedicine in the world. I never laughed so much.
Thanks for posting. Ted Bovis your a legend :D Heidi Hi Campers
oh my god!!!!!! i have been waiting for someone to post the full version of this- many many thanks- i will pass on the joy to friends!
My eyes and ears actually melted!
you have no idea just how long I have looked for this in its entirety- great mixing and editing job!!!! This is the purest shite on the planet!!!!!
"and there's (in a yorkshire accent) NOO tenderness like before in your fingertips"
Saw this live when at my grans for lunch when at school. Brilliant and terrible all at once and now it belongs to the ages.
I’d buy this if it was released.
absolutely class
such a powerful performance from the late great paul shane, never to be equaled.
RIP, Paul. Thanks for the memories.
Without ANY doubt whatsoever a work of pure undiluted genius,......."Baybe Baybe!"
it really is bud my desert island disc
I joined UA-cam just to comment on this video. It is so hysterically bad! Love it.
A power ballad and a man in tight leather trousers. What's not to love?
R.I.P BIG PAULY, KEEP SINGING IN HEAVEN KID !
Excellent version!
Whenever i watch this video it brings tears of pure joy to my eyes and an audio orgasm to my ears.
BABY! BABY!
Pure fucking comedy gold!!
Thanks so much for posting this. I've been looking for it for ages. Behbeh! ha ha.
You gotta love "baby bay-beh!" all to pieces!!! And how nice that backup singers, Rochelle and Fran from accounting slipped away on their break to help out.
High waist, flat fronted leatherette pants and a secure moose knuckle - the dress code of a confident guy. Kudos to you sir.
2:17 his hands though 😂😂
First rule of comedy...sing in a pubstylee!
Classic mate
I wonder if there is anybody walking around now who was conceived to this song
1:09 Vic and Bob brought me here
R.I.P Paul Shane
I remember watching this live. Jeebus.
pure gold
And yet somehow still manages to be better than anything on Radio 1 these days.
Thanks CheapShow.
Baby baby!! I want the lp.
The guy next to him be like this is my one chance you bastard!
It certainly isnt easy on the ears nor is it easy on the eye!
That bastard in the leather trousers seems to think he's belting out a masterpiece!
Brilliant🤣
When I feel down I watch this and my life dosent feel that bad..
@Daniel White yeah that's a good 1 as well when that photographer nuts him.. 🤣
When I watch it I get more depressed.
@@seltaeb3302 oh come on bill life can't be as bad as this ever.. 🤣
My ears have melted!
singing Paul Shanes rendition of 'Lost That Loving Feeling' helps overcome my constipation.... "no tenderness like before in my fingert IP IP IP IP IPs"
I remember paul shane being on pebble mill at one and they had a call-in to him. A old man comes on the phone and says "I used to know paul from the olden days in >small town
This hideous travesty will forever be ingrained on my mind. The sad part was he was serious.
Magnificent performance possibly the best rendition lol.
Genius in so many ways
This is pretty much the inspiration for Vic and Bob's "club singer" routine.
the best cover ever
He looks like 8 ace
I was sure we would hear a comedy version such as:
"You never close your eyes anymore when I kiss your lips,
You just lie in bed with your beer and your fish and chips...'
All he had he put in to singing this lovely rendition......... is just me that wishes he never boved 😆😭😲😢
How did this ever make it to air?....but thank goodness it did. Hilariously brilliant TV.
Even the backing singers got laughed at, including the twat singing alongside Paul Shane!
But the star of this gem is Paul himself.
This is a fucking classic!
I truly believe Paul thought this was a masterpiece of live singing and thought he was gonna bring the house down.
Well he did.....with laughter.!
So bad this is totally fucking brilliant and a piece of comedy genius that was never meant to be at all hilarious.
I know, haha! He apparently thought that he had nailed it
The Twat is Mike Holloway , who was the drummer in Flintlock, & appeared in the Tomorrow People.!
@@gavinreid8937 Never heard of Holloway or Flintlock or Tomorrow People! Should I have?
@@kevvome Oh, ok. uh, Flintlock were a 70s band who were always on kids tv, most notably with Pauline Quirke but never in the charts. Tomorrow People was a kids sci fi show , now seen as ITVs answer to Dr Who.
@@gavinreid8937 thanks for the extra info gavin! Pop history is my hobby and I love films and the actor’s life stories. Actually, my remark about the singer with Paul Shane being a twat was meant to reflect on the whole sorry embarrassment of what we saw and heard. The other guy really could sing. Paul Shane said later that the acoustics were totally to blame. Maybe that had a lot to do with it! But it really is a piece of tv history that we won’t forget in a hurry!
Way better than the original..he reminds me of a transport boss I worked for many moons ago
Liked
r.i.p. paul, a true gentleman, we'll all miss you.
I've got a facebook group dedicated to this moment of televisual history... just search for 'BABY BABY!! - The Paul Shane appreciation society' and spread the good word!!
This from the Wikipedia entry for the song...They recorded the vocal many times - Medley sang the opening verse over and over again until Spector was satisfied, and the process was then repeated with the next verse. The recording took over 39 takes and around eight hours over a period of two days. Shane nailed in one. I think most observers would agree that this is now the definitive version.
that is spot on so very true the best ever
Farewell, Paul...found a great character in Ted and played it brilliantly. Made a lot of people laugh. Me included.
That matters.