Bought their album for my 5 year old nephew, and loved the music and Mike Batt's voice so much, I taped it on my new Sony cassette recorder. I was 15 then, in 1974. I still have all my cassettes. Wobbling Merry Xmas one of my favourites. It's so danceable!
@James Hodson Same age as you on January 12th. The Wombles were great. I remember a local supermarket being opened by Wellington Womble. Queued for hours in freezing, wet weather. Happy times! 😊
Who could *not* like this song?! It’s the sort of gung-ho determined cheerfulness the world so desperately needs right now! Wombling Merry Christmas everybody! ☃️😀💕❄️🔔🎉🚌🎅🏻🧜🏻♀️
And now you have heard of the Wombles...are you listening again Christmas 2023? Doesn't matter if you are or not, Wombling Merry Christmas to you & yours. Happy New Year 2024, too.
Robert Ota Nah, it was the vikings and their youl-party that turned into the christmas. It was an asa faith from the beginning and some clever Tom decided to add Jesus way later. Hell, Jesus was born in the summer.
Oh Boy, now I feel my age…! Just over 57.5 years and I remember the Wombles like it was yesterday. I used to love to watch their stories narrated by the late great Bernard Cribbins RIP. Madame Cholet was the only female in the original series, but my favourite was Orinoco, closely followed by Uncle Bulgaria. Fond memories! “Wow, I've done some time travelling without a Tardis:” 👍🕛☃🎄🎉🎵🎶🌟
Wasn't he great in Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD? I saw it again recently on Talking Pictures TV. It's a bit dated, but still scarier than I remembered!
It brings back happy memories of a great era when there was none of this feeling sorry for ourselves or greed. Shoppers bought what they needed or what they could afford. Lovely days never to return.
@@BABYWOLF--1966 Merry Christmas 2023 to you, too :0) & A Happy New Year 2024. May all your hopes & dreams come true, every day the whole year through.
Can we not get this to No 1 This Christmas? What a way to end this year, The Beatles and then The Wombles back at No 1.. Merry Christmas all you Wombles out there.....
I remember being bought the entire Wombles Figurine Collection when I was a lad of 9 By my Mum !! This record will " Always Evoke Those Wonderful Childhood Memories " !!!! XXXX From Adrian Browne 1965
Possibly the most beautiful lyrics ever written ❤ The underground wombling scene really changed my life in the late 70s. I was such a mess until I started wombling. But all good things must pass 😔 Great Uncle Bulgaria embezzling profits from their first album on scotch eggs, Wellington consequently pursuing a solo career and the 7 year life expectancy of a Womble really stopped the band from achieving their full potential. Still the greatest Christmas song known to man... or Womble
MY nearly two grandson has been enjoying dancing on the bed to this song every evening before bedtime. Talked to his mum enthusiasticly about The Wombles and realising as she is thirty years old , this song was out around eighteen years before she was born and before her time . I was a member of the Mud fan club in my younger days, but this song deserved to be number one in the charts. Still great now, and does not seem that long ago that The Wombles were regulars on TV. Crikey nearly 50 years ago.
Incredibly catchy tune from the golden age of pop !, Should be a regular on radio playlists. at Christmas. Unfortunately most radio stations have very narrow, repetitive playlists
One of the great Christmas records I think and brilliantly put together with the bass line and the saxophone solo sections. Think the Wombles will still be around long after Jedward have gone...
Born in 72. I love this song just sang it out loud again remembering the good times in the 70's and 80's here in the UK, wondering if Jedwood watched this ha ha merry christmas everyone
The best band to have ever emerge from the underground of Wimbledon common. Merry Wombling Christmas everyone and remember to make use of things that you find, things that the everyday folk leave behind!! 😂😂😂👍
Playing this today for my dad on anniversary of him leaving this earth i used to sing this to my mum and dad aged about 7 running round living room into kitchen back to living room aaaw happy times my parents thought i was daft as a brush they must have been in stitches at my womble xmas dance. Still one of my old time favourites is this song makes me happy ❤️
My boss grew up in the 70s & she loves this song @ Xmas!! We always put it on in the shop I work in & she sings along while working (it's a very catching tune tho!!!) Fun song for Xmas, the oldies are the best!! 🥳🎄🎁🥳🎄🎁🥳🎄🎁🥳🎄🎁🥳🎄🎁🥳
Best Xmas song ever, my daughter plays every year at Xmas Dawn. My daughter arrived from OZ 4th December we blasted Gatwick with the only Xmas tune to play, was fantastic!! ❤
Fifth and last of the Wombles' hits from 1974. It was the highest placed of the five, reaching no. 2 on the first week of January 1975. Mud kept them off the top.
I was a newborn! I'm glad that, at least my good-for-almost-nothing father had it on 7" & it was played EVERY Christmas. Glad too, as the oldest, that I've some nice Christmas memories. The youngest siblings have none. Thanks for the pop-facts, Monsieur David "Kid" Jensen! Wombling Merry Christmas to you & yours & A Happy New Year 2024.
Anyone old enough to remember these I wish you a wombling merry christmas 😉
A Wombling Merry Christmas to you too!!
I'm there . Best wishes to you & yours my friend : D
Yes indeed ! 51 now mate ,a wombling merry Christmas to you too !
Yes!
Shouted out the first line to this one Crimbo morning.
But teenage son shouted back.
'Will you just shut up! '
Late note..
Awe.
Bought their album for my 5 year old nephew, and loved the music and Mike Batt's voice so much, I taped it on my new Sony cassette recorder. I was 15 then, in 1974. I still have all my cassettes. Wobbling Merry Xmas one of my favourites. It's so danceable!
Very Underrated single, doesn't get enough airplay, and reached an impressive N02 in the UK Charts in 1974.
I didn't know that! Wombling Merry Christmas to you 🎁🎅🎄🌟🥰
It’s great fun. Catchy, Christmassy and happy and singalong. Stuck it on today! Xmas Day 2022. Cracking
I had the single. It had Madame Cholet on the B side.
I was 19yrs l
Agree... absolutely agree
All us 50 something year olds who loved the wombles back in the 70s,, from my household to yours we wish you a merry wombling Christmas 2021.
And to you. Best wishes from Cheltenham.
@James Hodson Same age as you on January 12th. The Wombles were great. I remember a local supermarket being opened by Wellington Womble. Queued for hours in freezing, wet weather. Happy times! 😊
I'm 68 n love this song so, from me to you n anyone who reads this. Lots of love ❤ best wishes a fantastic Christmas n all the best for 2023. Xxlolxx
Listening to this in 2023, still love it.❤
Same here, its not Christmas until I've heard this classic song.
My favourite Christmas song
Another great song from Mike Batt should be Christmas no 1 this Christmas
If only. As opposed to the crappy actual number 1.
Mike Batty
Heard this in Tesco this morning, can't get it out of my head. Not that I want to
this is actually epic
Who could *not* like this song?! It’s the sort of gung-ho determined cheerfulness the world so desperately needs right now! Wombling Merry Christmas everybody! ☃️😀💕❄️🔔🎉🚌🎅🏻🧜🏻♀️
Loving the" gung ho" reference I need more of that in my life
Just heard Robin Le Mesurier has died and he was one of the Wombles, So sad
It is the greatest Christmas song ever written after all. @powdies
Still love wow 8o years old baz
Merry Christmas every wombling one
All wombles fans out there have a great womble Xmas
I'm an American, one who's never heard of the Wombles, and I love this. The 70s were a magical time for pop rock.
In the 70's, even the novelty records were better than most of the dross being produced today.
@@grahamfigg5817 Here here.
And now you have heard of the Wombles...are you listening again Christmas 2023? Doesn't matter if you are or not, Wombling Merry Christmas to you & yours. Happy New Year 2024, too.
@@cosmicstargazer10 indeed, still on my playlist. A wombling Merry Christmas to you as well
Still listening in 2021 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
A quality record from the wombles and way back to 1974, not always played by the radio stations.
Never got that either 🤣🤣
Always felt it missed out on 74 but I loved it!!
My daughter had all the Wombles records and played them out bless her. I still think this is one of the best Christmas records.
i was born in 1974 and i was just a baby at the time this song came out but now as i hear this song good on you mike batt richard
Mike Batt is one of our greatest songwriters. Under rated and under appreciated IMHO.
Mike also wrote that other great song A Winters Tale which gave David Essex a Christmas Top Ten hit in 1982.
He also wrote bright eyes from watership down
Jesus died on the cross for our sins. Jesus is the Reason for the Season.
and Caravan. Barbara Dickson. and Katy Melhua's entire career.
Robert Ota
Nah, it was the vikings and their youl-party that turned into the christmas. It was an asa faith from the beginning and some clever Tom decided to add Jesus way later.
Hell, Jesus was born in the summer.
Oh Boy, now I feel my age…! Just over 57.5 years and I remember the Wombles like it was yesterday. I used to love to watch their stories narrated by the late great Bernard Cribbins RIP. Madame Cholet was the only female in the original series, but my favourite was Orinoco, closely followed by Uncle Bulgaria. Fond memories! “Wow, I've done some time travelling without a Tardis:” 👍🕛☃🎄🎉🎵🎶🌟
Wasn't he great in Daleks: Invasion Earth 2150 AD? I saw it again recently on Talking Pictures TV. It's a bit dated, but still scarier than I remembered!
Got To be one of the best Christmas hits ever made in a rock and roll form fact
It brings back happy memories of a great era when there was none of this feeling sorry for ourselves or greed. Shoppers bought what they needed or what they could afford. Lovely days never to return.
Too right👍👏👌😎✌️
Still wombling to this even now!
This will always be one of my favourite childhood Christmas songs. Womble Womble :0)
Well said son merry Christmas to you from Paul 🎉🎉🎉🎉
@@BABYWOLF--1966 Merry Christmas 2023 to you, too :0) & A Happy New Year 2024. May all your hopes & dreams come true, every day the whole year through.
Omg ...I'm 57 saw the wombles.at Kingston uk as a kid in the 70s .in a shopping centre .....this is my favourite x mas song ever ❤️
here we go again ! seasons greetings all x
Yes. I am singing along this song now.
I'm 71 next month and still love this when I first heard it back in the seventies.
First record I got as a toddler was a womble record for xmas
thank you
Happy birthday
Anyone listening in December 22 i wish you a Wombling Merry Christmas 🎅 🎄 ❤
The coolest band the uk has ever produced!
Have a wombling merry Christmas everyone 🎅
epic mate
Cant beat the wombles 😂😂
Absolutely not, you'd be arrested, if you was caught beating a womble.
Its still one of the best 70s christmas track
this is actually epic
Was this 1974?
Can we not get this to No 1 This Christmas? What a way to end this year, The Beatles and then The Wombles back at No 1.. Merry Christmas all you Wombles out there.....
Wombling Merry Christmas to you, too!
I remember being bought the entire Wombles Figurine Collection when I was a lad of 9 By my Mum !! This record will " Always Evoke Those Wonderful Childhood Memories " !!!! XXXX From Adrian Browne 1965
" Bless You " 4 Your Support Re My Wombles Post !! Take Care Happy Christmas/ New Year !!!! From Adrian Browne 1965
" Bless You " 4 Your Support Re My Wombles Post !!!! From Adrian 1965
Thanks Happy Christmas and New Year 2 U !!
Whent to see them in 74 at my local shopping center...Great days 👍🎅👍
Greatest Christmas song EVER
RIGHT
Hardly ever played at Christmas on the radio?, the best feel-good Christmas song ever, Brilliant!🤩🤩
This needs to played more. I'm 70 years old n love it.
Brilliant. A classic!
I remember the wombles. I use to watch there show every week as a kid way back in the 70's.
Genius Mr Mike bat yet again 👏 ❤
Funny that this hardly gets played in the UK 🇬🇧 around Xmas I 🎄 think that it is rather good too 😕😕😕
Just listening to this and other 70s Christmas classics, remember the family Christmas periods, really brought tears to my eyes 😢
Possibly the most beautiful lyrics ever written ❤
The underground wombling scene really changed my life in the late 70s. I was such a mess until I started wombling. But all good things must pass 😔
Great Uncle Bulgaria embezzling profits from their first album on scotch eggs, Wellington consequently pursuing a solo career and the 7 year life expectancy of a Womble really stopped the band from achieving their full potential. Still the greatest Christmas song known to man... or Womble
MY nearly two grandson has been enjoying dancing on the bed to this song every evening before bedtime. Talked to his mum enthusiasticly about The Wombles and realising as she is thirty years old , this song was out around eighteen years before she was born and before her time . I was a member of the Mud fan club in my younger days, but this song deserved to be number one in the charts. Still great now, and does not seem that long ago that The Wombles were regulars on TV. Crikey nearly 50 years ago.
Incredibly catchy tune from the golden age of pop !, Should be a regular on radio playlists. at Christmas. Unfortunately most radio stations have very narrow, repetitive playlists
Lovin' the 'Remember you're a womble' sax part at 2:42
Love this song ❤
I remember the series great fun miss them even now
Have a very, Merry, Wombling Christmas!
You too Ian, keep wombling free! 🎅🎄☺️!
thank you
One of the great Christmas records I think and brilliantly put together with the bass line and the saxophone solo sections. Think the Wombles will still be around long after Jedward have gone...
Jedward. Who are they?
Forgot this song till now, still one of my favourites Merry Christmas everyone 🎅🎄👌
this is actually epic
Born in 72. I love this song just sang it out loud again remembering the good times in the 70's and 80's here in the UK, wondering if Jedwood watched this ha ha merry christmas everyone
A true Christmas Classic
I loved these as a child they were like the infants bay city rollers
Very true Lucas, the opening chords are very similar to the beginning of Shang A Lang, have a very Wombling Merry Christmas! 🎅🎄☺️!
this is actually epic
This really kickstarts the Christmas time
In memory of our grandad Bernard Cribbins who will probably have a wobbling Christmas in Heaven.
Loved the wombles growing up in the 70’s and this is one of the best Christmas songs. Wish you all a wombling merry christmas
I absolutely love the wobmles especially uncle Bulgaria
Love Great Uncle B on the Christmas bells 🔔 ❤.
One of the beat christmas songs ever. The grandkids always ask me to put it on
Haven't heard this on TV or Radio yet, Merry Christmas to you all 🎅🎄🍻
R.I.P Bernie, Merry Xmas from us and The Wombles
This simply does not get enough air play. A beautifully crafted Christmas rock n roll tune from The Wombles
Great song and happy memories.
Classic Christmas hit. Loved the Wombles!! Xx
The best band to have ever emerge from the underground of Wimbledon common. Merry Wombling Christmas everyone and remember to make use of things that you find, things that the everyday folk leave behind!! 😂😂😂👍
Still in my top 3 Christmas songs along with Greg Lake and Shakin Stevens. Brilliant😊
Greg Lake song is brilliant 😊
Greg lake number 1 David Essex number 2 👀😉
Happy Wombling Christmas to you all ! Loved dancing along to this with my Sister and still play it ! Brilliant !
Wombling Merry Christmas to one and all!
Playing this today for my dad on anniversary of him leaving this earth i used to sing this to my mum and dad aged about 7 running round living room into kitchen back to living room aaaw happy times my parents thought i was daft as a brush they must have been in stitches at my womble xmas dance. Still one of my old time favourites is this song makes me happy ❤️
Good memories are better than being sad. I'm thinking of you. ☺
Oh Debbie! I'm right with you. God bless x
It came on in toy shop yesterday i was singing my head off shop girl went go on haha
@@debbieclough4322 Your dad is still around you Debbie ☺
Bs
2019 and still love it!
sasjazz Gray
Me too I even do the dance
I remember it being released. 😂
yasss kween xxx luv u xxx
I played this at work today( 21st December 2022). They loved it. I always did, and I'm 60 soon!
Love the wombles!!! Merry womblemas folks!!!!!
Underrated but lovely song
This is the best Christmas song Mr Mike batt ❤ever
This is a amazing song especially for my grandad
Loved this Version of the Wombles
my new favourite song-not just for christmas!
haha i still have my wombles suit from 10 years ago
Il love the Wombles i wood love to meet them as now i am in my 50s i still love them they just fab.xxxxxxxxx
Christmas classic 🎶🎵🎶🎵
I don't get to listen to this song very often only but when I do so do my neighbours
Ya hay!!
Wombling Christmas is fab... always put a big big smile on my face
Me too 😊
Well-crafted pop song, with a couple of lovely sax solos.
I remember them 😁
I saw the wombles on stage. Great stuff!⛄🎄
They came to my local shopping center 74 ..Prob just the staff dressed up who knows 👍🎅👍
My boss grew up in the 70s & she loves this song @ Xmas!! We always put it on in the shop I work in & she sings along while working (it's a very catching tune tho!!!) Fun song for Xmas, the oldies are the best!! 🥳🎄🎁🥳🎄🎁🥳🎄🎁🥳🎄🎁🥳🎄🎁🥳
Best Xmas song ever, my daughter plays every year at Xmas Dawn. My daughter arrived from OZ 4th December we blasted Gatwick with the only Xmas tune to play, was fantastic!! ❤
Gibson Firebird bass and a Gibson Flying V! the Wobbles were serious about their music.
Memories of childhood!
Waiting now for my Wombling mug. From Amazon and Royal Mail.Got it. It's nice. They had an annual 1976.
My First ever single and Vinyl , for my 9 year old self!!!!!
No 1 fav Xmas song 😁
Fifth and last of the Wombles' hits from 1974. It was the highest placed of the five, reaching no. 2 on the first week of January 1975. Mud kept them off the top.
I was a newborn! I'm glad that, at least my good-for-almost-nothing father had it on 7" & it was played EVERY Christmas. Glad too, as the oldest, that I've some nice Christmas memories. The youngest siblings have none. Thanks for the pop-facts, Monsieur David "Kid" Jensen! Wombling Merry Christmas to you & yours & A Happy New Year 2024.
I saw the wombles live awesome
Great Christmas songs form the past
My yearly Christmas song
Takes me back to a better time xx
Love it cheers you up.
I know it's really early for Christmas but now all my family's birthdays have gone it's Christmas time and this my fav Christmas song!!!! 😋🎄🎄🎄
Im a teen but i know this awesome song because of my da. Love this Christmas song
used to love the wombles as a kid .especially the tv series with Bernard cribbins doing the voices. haven't heard this in years
All of a sudden I am 18 and dancing to this in the Student Union after too much cider. Happy Days!
Thanks Mike I always sing it
Best ever Christmas song in my opinion. B'aht doubt. all the best from Bob (Huddersfield)
I honestly have heard of The Wombles. 😊