Listen to Roy Wood’s brummie accent- priceless! The wife bought tickets to go and see him as a surprise at the Birmingham Symphony Hall. Absolutely phenomenal!
Carl Wayne was the main lead vocalist with the Move up to 1970, he was also lead vocalist with the Hollies 2000-2004, married to Susan Hanson or Miss Diane to us old crossroads fans, he was a fantastic singer and fine actor too! RIP
Roy Wood is a super-talented song writer. When I hear 'See My Baby Jive', I'm 21 again. Only those really alive, at the time, can capture the spirit of their age.
It's not a live performance as such. Trevor's bass isn't even plugged in. Almost certainly what they did was to record a rough performance in the TV studio and then mime to that for the TV footage. That technique was used for TOTP for many years, which is why so many TOTP performances feature the show's orchestra and backing vocalists. If you look at Carl you can sense his frustration that he isn't actually quite doing what he would do on stage.
following the summer of love in 1967 rock ‘n’ roll was all but dead. All the bands had gone psychedelic. Then, fire brigade by the move, came out and resurrected rock ‘n’ roll.
I was born in 68 , and to me music like this is more real to me than all the new crappy singers . There are a few newer artists that amaze me but not as many as the 60s 70s and 80s.mostly it's indie artists that carry the torch from those good old days.
roy used to live at kinver a place called stourton hall. i used to deliver to his house. he gave me a five pound tip. that was back in the 1970s. he is a nice bloke. and not cus he gave me five pounds.
Im from coventry it came out when i was about 17 or so remember a lad called kieth he was so fat long story short he had a heart of gold asked me to go and meet his mum i went only as a friend out the goodness of my heart i went still laughing now at 74 she told him i wernt good enough for him never saw him again a mums love lol
What an amazing pop song. When I here this track always makes me smile and want to dance. So sad Carl Wayne is no longer with us. Gone too soon. RIP Carl.
Cast your mind back ten years To the girl who's next to me in school If I put my hand upon her leg She'd hit me with a rule
Though tomorrow won't be long You're gonna have to play it cool You've been fascinated by her She could set the place on fire
Run and get the fire brigade Get the fire brigade See the buildings start to really burn (Ooh) Get the fire brigade Get the fire brigade If you jump, you've got to wait your turn
Friends all seem to laugh I feel I have to make a compromise Try to reassure myself My head must need some exercise
Half past ten in the morning She just took me by surprise True, she set the place on fire You've been fascinated by her
Run and get the fire brigade Get the fire brigade See the buildings start to really burn (Ooh) Get the fire brigade Get the fire brigade If you jump, you've got to wait your turn
The lights across the street Throw a rainbow in her hair I'd love you all to meet her I'll be there, I'll be there
Notice that my eyes have been A misty place since Saturday Brings a feeling we might need The fire engines anyway
Though tomorrow won't be long We're gonna have to play it cool You've been fascinated by her She could set the place on fire
Run and get the fire brigade Get the fire brigade See the buildings start to really burn (Ooh) Get the fire brigade Get the fire brigade If you jump, you've got to wait your turn lyricstranslate.com/ru/move-fire-brigade-lyrics.html
Attention people from carrickfergus, for those who went to Central Primary School in the late sixties and early seventies...I remember during a class talent segment, a young Dianne Jardine singing this all by herself in front of the whole classroom Bless her ...I live in Australia now but do miss Carrickfergus dearly and hello to everyone...Matthew Steele
I was about eight when this song came out. I remember it on the TV from what I suppose was Top of the Pops. I liked it then and still do. This colour version is great for a TV tech-bore like me. A few good shots of a PC60 camera and the luxury of all the cameras having a zoom on board was Christmas-time for the Directors. Carl Wayne's 'ooohh' seemed to grow in intensity throughout the performance. I think he was enjoying himself. Woody didn't have his shades on in this song, I guess by the time they did 'Blackberry Way' he was dazzled by the 5Kw scoop in his eyes. Thanks for the post.
I'm not convinced it is, unless there's someone off-camera playing lead guitar. Roy's strumming doesn't seem to me to account for anything like all the guitar we're hearing. But the vocals seem to be totally live.
Nice try, but.. listen at 0:27 and again at 1:06. When the group was a five-piece, those arpeggios would have been played by Roy, but Trevor would have played the background chords - or maybe the other way about. So is Roy playing both of them here? On one 12-string? I seriously doubt it - there's probably someone in the wings on guitar. Bear in mind that not all 'Colour Me Pop' sessions were live - see the Small Faces 'Song of a Baker' for proof.
+steve Rowlands I hope he would refuse it. But I remember this as getting me when I was a kid, And then early ELO and Wizzard having that same edge. Then I discovered Spector. So fuckin A Roy.
I totally agree with the notion of taste - the Brits were considerably farther ahead of their American music listening/purchasing/playing counterparts. And not a great deal has changed, if the current trend of Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame inductees are of any indication nowadays...:-x How the Move - and Roy Wood in particular - don't receive plaudits in deference to other bands of the era is truly criminal...
Not exactly. Carl Wayne did play some keyboards but he was the original lead singer/frontman having been the leader of Carl Wayne & the Vikings, a popular pre-Move Birmingham band. As Roy Wood developed his considerable talent he started taking the lead more & more, singing his own songs.
I was at a girls school.. I loved these lyrics. Total wish fulfilment. I still do actually. The lyrics totally take me back to 18. I can't do any of it now.
***** Actually, I am not sure. Probably being young with all those lovely feelings that take you into the future. Ambition, career, imagining a wonderful sex life with your perfect partner, children and their lives, which, of course reflect so wonderfully on your life. Then you get old.
@rlm467 Also Carl Wayne (guy in black shirt) sang lead on many Move songs. He wasn't just the keyboard player. great vocalist too. Look at other Move clips and you'll hear him singing.
It ain't ALL Roy Wood y'know guys! The MOVE were a great BAND and I wish all their mid-to-late 60's singles had been heard in America. SHAZAM is an all-time top ten album for me and their version of Tom Paxton's "The Last Thing On My Mind" is probably the 2nd greatest "psychedelic" tune of all time (behind the Beatles' "Tomorrow Never Knows").
The geezer in the white pants { Carl Wayne } used to be married to Sue Hanson { Miss Diane, from the old Midland's soap, Crossroads} He died of cancer in 2004.
Kat knights I really hope we don't go The" Crossroads" route. It was corny, no question but actors have to make a living. And I quite liked it: my mum loved it.
Kat knights I worked as a courier in the day job and a takeaway delivery driver at night to supplement my poor wages, I guess you could say, I was a delivery courier and a curry deliverer! Anyway one of my regulars at the curry job was Paul Henry who played Benny, and he was always a good tipper and a real nice guy, he gave me £20.00 for a Christmas tip, that was a lot of money 25 years ago, especially as I worked at a courier firm owned by a modern day Ebenezer Scrooge! He had four drivers, at Christmas we never even got a card off him, but he had us taking a bottle of whisky and a card to each of his regular customers, and, get this, he even got them to sign for them to make sure we never kept a bottle for ourselves! One of his drivers, not me, honestly, let his wife know he was shagging his secretary most lunch times, she caught them in the act, and what made it worse, the secretary had only recently got married to her long term boyfriend! The shit hit the fan, and we drivers ended up out of work, turns out it was the wife's money that was funding the business and she pulled it all out, resulting in the business collapsing in a few short weeks! Every cloud has a silver lining though, it prompted me to move away and we headed down here to Brighton, on the other hand, that bastard headed for the divorce courts and eventual bankruptcy! Karma wins again!
I've never heard someone say "ooh" with such enthusiasm.
Roy Wood is a very under appreciated British music icon, a giant in the music world and this is one of his very best.
I was 7 years old when I became a fan of Roy wood. I have never doubted his iconic status and I am now 62 years old.
He really set the framework for ELO - the use of classical instruments, the tracking of vocals, the overall production.
Listen to Roy Wood’s brummie accent- priceless! The wife bought tickets to go and see him as a surprise at the Birmingham Symphony Hall. Absolutely phenomenal!
Brummie accent most horrible ever
Always underated. One of the best musicians of his time.
Carl Wayne was the main lead vocalist with the Move up to 1970, he was also lead vocalist with the Hollies 2000-2004, married to Susan Hanson or Miss Diane to us old crossroads fans, he was a fantastic singer and fine actor too! RIP
Great British Band, Great Song. So sad that Carl Wayne is no longer with us :( Gone but never forgotten. Your music will live forever. RIP
One of my favourite songs of all time.No matter what mood I'm in When I hear this song it makes me smile. ( :
Love this
Me too
Roy is so freaking good. I can't get enough of this band.
michael holley does your crewing gum
me too
That "Oooh" in the chorus always cracks me up x
Roy Wood is a very talented musician.
I read he has had 20 UK top 10 records in various bands and solo efforts. Quite an achievement.
@@kcuhc84 Yeah, no Roy Wood no ELO.
Extremely nice guy
And singer, nobody has that sound, so unique and cool
Roy Wood is a super-talented song writer. When I hear 'See My Baby Jive', I'm 21 again. Only those really alive, at the time, can capture the spirit of their age.
Fantastic band. Roy Wood is a legend.
Absolutely! Roy Wood IS The Move!
Twelve string beauty Roy Wood’s playing…😊
Their greatness is really apparent here in this live performance.
It's not a live performance as such. Trevor's bass isn't even plugged in. Almost certainly what they did was to record a rough performance in the TV studio and then mime to that for the TV footage. That technique was used for TOTP for many years, which is why so many TOTP performances feature the show's orchestra and backing vocalists. If you look at Carl you can sense his frustration that he isn't actually quite doing what he would do on stage.
Timeless British band from the '60's for sure.
GREAT DAYS.
following the summer of love in 1967 rock ‘n’ roll was all but dead.
All the bands had gone psychedelic. Then, fire brigade by the move, came out and resurrected rock ‘n’ roll.
This is a very good live version.The Bass is very good!!
A great 60s band, the best of Brum. RIP Carl Wayne.
I was born in 68 , and to me music like this is more real to me than all the new crappy singers . There are a few newer artists that amaze me but not as many as the 60s 70s and 80s.mostly it's indie artists that carry the torch from those good old days.
Brilliant pop single fizzing with creativity from a time when pop music mattered.
I was a teenager when this song came out and I was always singing the lyrics in my head but I thought they were saying "Eat a pie every day" !!!!
I wasn't a toddler; a teenage girl and a bit excitable. I loved these lyrics back then. Now I think why? This is a fairly non-song.
Right, that's all I need, parody lyric coming up in a few days :)
Barbara Cadogan lol I love that babs!
Barbara Cadogan lol
You should pitch that to Weird Al Yankovic
I wanted to join The fire brigade its a burning ambition I always had.
against all odds, Brummies singing WITHOUT subtitles.
Great to hear it played live as so much TV music was mimed in those days.
Great band,great live and great music we supported them at Wimbledon Palais,very friendly people!
Totally Brilliant ! Roy Wood Genius.
roy used to live at kinver a place called stourton hall. i used to deliver to his house. he gave me a five pound tip. that was back in the 1970s. he is a nice bloke. and not cus he gave me five pounds.
One of the first brummie bands to emerge from the flower-power era, phenomenal musicians and uniquely gifted, Roy Wood still active today!
Im from coventry it came out when i was about 17 or so remember a lad called kieth he was so fat long story short he had a heart of gold asked me to go and meet his mum i went only as a friend out the goodness of my heart i went still laughing now at 74 she told him i wernt good enough for him never saw him again a mums love lol
What an amazing pop song. When I here this track always makes me smile and want to dance. So sad Carl Wayne is no longer with us. Gone too soon. RIP Carl.
moloko1953
The Move! You just have to love 'em.
'what makes being alive worth it, thanks Roy Wood, Sir, xx
Cast your mind back ten years
To the girl who's next to me in school
If I put my hand upon her leg
She'd hit me with a rule
Though tomorrow won't be long
You're gonna have to play it cool
You've been fascinated by her
She could set the place on fire
Run and get the fire brigade
Get the fire brigade
See the buildings start to really burn
(Ooh) Get the fire brigade
Get the fire brigade
If you jump, you've got to wait your turn
Friends all seem to laugh
I feel I have to make a compromise
Try to reassure myself
My head must need some exercise
Half past ten in the morning
She just took me by surprise
True, she set the place on fire
You've been fascinated by her
Run and get the fire brigade
Get the fire brigade
See the buildings start to really burn
(Ooh) Get the fire brigade
Get the fire brigade
If you jump, you've got to wait your turn
The lights across the street
Throw a rainbow in her hair
I'd love you all to meet her
I'll be there, I'll be there
Notice that my eyes have been
A misty place since Saturday
Brings a feeling we might need
The fire engines anyway
Though tomorrow won't be long
We're gonna have to play it cool
You've been fascinated by her
She could set the place on fire
Run and get the fire brigade
Get the fire brigade
See the buildings start to really burn
(Ooh) Get the fire brigade
Get the fire brigade
If you jump, you've got to wait your turn
lyricstranslate.com/ru/move-fire-brigade-lyrics.html
Appreciated 😀
*You'd be fascinated by her
(the narrator is clearly talking to someone who hasn't yet met the girl)
Everytime the guy goes "ooo!" I lose it! 😂😂
Attention people from carrickfergus, for those who went to Central Primary School in the late sixties and early seventies...I remember during a class talent segment, a young Dianne Jardine singing this all by herself
in front of the whole classroom Bless her ...I live in Australia now but do miss Carrickfergus dearly and hello to everyone...Matthew Steele
You're so right. The wee bit by Carl makes the hair stand up on the back of my neck!
An example of what Robert Wyatt calls a perfect pop song.
Trevor plays with such attitude.
I dig the way another singer comes in on the bridge in Move songs. They always made great use of the variety of voices. Brill!
Reminds me of my final school year. Army cadet camp and a rescue mission, those involved will know the significance, great song - great era
Trev Burton what a cool vibe.Great band .Perfect pop.
I totally agree with all the comments below and above. Roy Wood is one of the all time great characters in the history of music.!..Ah.
Love it, sang it in High School!
Ufff todo lo que me perdi mientras tenia 3 ó 4 años( Naci en 1959) y hesta Hermoza canción YÁ Existia.
What a song, man....
I remember being between 4 - 6 and playing this over and over and singing along - great memories - thank you
i was born in 62 and apparently my older brothers and sisters said i used to love this song and here we are in 2022 and i still love it
Roy Wood. Great Song. Great Talent !
Saw them in 1969,along with Amen Corner on the same bill in local town hall in Wales.
Memories of my misspent youth!
my first ever album great music
remember, when the summer of love killed rock ‘n’ roll, and Roy Wood and the Move resurrected it with Fire Brigade?
I love all the recordings done in the BBC'S whistle test studios. top class .
How can something so wrong be so right? Long Live Roy.
Another treat to hear live the nee-nor harmonies make it! Rival the Moodies as the best Brum band of the era...
To me it's the best middle-eight ever written and McCartney would give his right arm to have written it!!
1:36 ✨🌈✨
get the firebrigade before the building starts to really burn oooohhhhh. fucking classic. love it..
I was about eight when this song came out. I remember it on the TV from what I suppose was Top of the Pops. I liked it then and still do. This colour version is great for a TV tech-bore like me. A few good shots of a PC60 camera and the luxury of all the cameras having a zoom on board was Christmas-time for the Directors. Carl Wayne's 'ooohh' seemed to grow in intensity throughout the performance. I think he was enjoying himself. Woody didn't have his shades on in this song, I guess by the time they did 'Blackberry Way' he was dazzled by the 5Kw scoop in his eyes. Thanks for the post.
great track brings back some marvellous memories
er ist für mich einer der größten .lieder wo man mit singen ,tanzen,sogar kuscheln kann wo findet man das noch heute
Thanks for posting this!
Unlike their appearance on TOTP this is totally live.
I'm not convinced it is, unless there's someone off-camera playing lead guitar. Roy's strumming doesn't seem to me to account for anything like all the guitar we're hearing. But the vocals seem to be totally live.
This is completely live. Think it's the bass playing a few extra runs confusing you maybe?
Could be the 12 string he's using?
No, I've played in bands before, thank you, I know the difference between the sound of a bass and the sound of a guitar.
Nice try, but.. listen at 0:27 and again at 1:06. When the group was a five-piece, those arpeggios would have been played by Roy, but Trevor would have played the background chords - or maybe the other way about. So is Roy playing both of them here? On one 12-string? I seriously doubt it - there's probably someone in the wings on guitar.
Bear in mind that not all 'Colour Me Pop' sessions were live - see the Small Faces 'Song of a Baker' for proof.
What a brilliant band
GREAT DAYS, I WANT TO GO BACK, NOW.
The vocal arrangement on this song is nothing short of astonishing!
Roy Wood is a fucking GOD!!!! This guy is a legend and needs to be knighted asap!!! Your majesty if your reading this,pull your fucking finger out!!!!
+steve Rowlands I hope he would refuse it. But I remember this as getting me when I was a kid, And then early ELO and Wizzard having that same edge. Then I discovered Spector. So fuckin A Roy.
If Peter Dinklage were ever tall.
Great harmony - shades of ELOesquenes
I totally agree with the notion of taste - the Brits were considerably farther ahead of their American music listening/purchasing/playing counterparts.
And not a great deal has changed, if the current trend of Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame inductees are of any indication nowadays...:-x
How the Move - and Roy Wood in particular - don't receive plaudits in deference to other bands of the era is truly criminal...
Good British rockers with sharp Harmonies.
Remember watching on top of the pops ready steady go great song my era, John Rooney st Anne's Lancashire uk
Now that was a great 'tache Roy had! 😁
Not exactly. Carl Wayne did play some keyboards but he was the original lead singer/frontman having been the leader of Carl Wayne & the Vikings, a popular pre-Move Birmingham band. As Roy Wood developed his considerable talent he started taking the lead more & more, singing his own songs.
I was at a girls school.. I loved these lyrics. Total wish fulfilment. I still do actually. The lyrics totally take me back to 18. I can't do any of it now.
***** Actually, I am not sure. Probably being young with all those lovely feelings that take you into the future. Ambition, career, imagining a wonderful sex life with your perfect partner, children and their lives, which, of course reflect so wonderfully on your life.
Then you get old.
Great song. Roy has a brill voice.
Ooohhh
1:52 I hadn't previously noticed, but Roy glances at the side-view camera.
Such good songs!
great harmony band and heavy too.. thanks
i love the voice of Roy and when Carl sing ,it sounds as Beatles voices
Better than the bloody beatles.
This is such special music,what a talented band the Move were, wish I had been around to see them in the 60's
And me I was only 10 in 1969.
Love Roy's eyes on this one- great one!
I love this song
@rlm467 Also Carl Wayne (guy in black shirt) sang lead on many Move songs. He wasn't just the keyboard player. great vocalist too. Look at other Move clips and you'll hear him singing.
Handsome mr wayne rip
Listen to Roy's lovely South Brum lilt. He sings 'lang' for 'long' LOL RIP Carl Wayne who sings great backing vocals on this.
Carl looks cool as a cucumber to me! Great guy!
I actually did some work for him at his house and he was so modest and super-cool (as a person)...sadly missed.
I found the single on Nuggets II: Original Artyfacts From The British Empire And Beyond. So pleased to get a copy. :o)
OOOOOH Indeed. Very good Jared Frank. Sometimes less is more.
Love this phase in the Moe's career!!
Brilliant tune
wizard brilliant
It's the Move, enough said!
It ain't ALL Roy Wood y'know guys! The MOVE were a great BAND and I wish all their mid-to-late 60's singles had been heard in America. SHAZAM is an all-time top ten album for me and their version of Tom Paxton's "The Last Thing On My Mind" is probably the 2nd greatest "psychedelic" tune of all time (behind the Beatles'
"Tomorrow Never Knows").
The last thing on my mind brilliant cover by the move Carl great vocal great guitar by Roy and Trevor and vocals.
GREAT BAND!!!!!!!
Genius
This is good music oh yeah!
the great roy wood
This fab song was the first to ever be played on Radio One! I remember it!!!
ooops, no, it was Flowers in the Rain
Great stuff.
perfect song
Wasn’t Flowers In The Rain the first song played on The Tony Blackburn Show on the day Radio One was first launched back in 1967 ?
Christopher Dillon yes it was.
Excellent song
The first band i ever saw live ,in the late 60`s.
Lets make sure that Grenfell Tower doesnt happen in Edinburgh CALL THE FIRE BRIGADE!!!!!!!
Super musik
The geezer in the white pants { Carl Wayne } used to be married to Sue Hanson { Miss Diane, from the old Midland's soap, Crossroads} He died of cancer in 2004.
snerper Oh dear. That is a fact that saddens me. I liked Carl Wayne and I actually quite liked Miss Diane.
snerper cheers Bennie
Kat knights I really hope we don't go The" Crossroads" route. It was corny, no question but actors have to make a living. And I quite liked it: my mum loved it.
Kat knights I worked as a courier in the day job and a takeaway delivery driver at night to supplement my poor wages, I guess you could say, I was a delivery courier and a curry deliverer! Anyway one of my regulars at the curry job was Paul Henry who played Benny, and he was always a good tipper and a real nice guy, he gave me £20.00 for a Christmas tip, that was a lot of money 25 years ago, especially as I worked at a courier firm owned by a modern day Ebenezer Scrooge! He had four drivers, at Christmas we never even got a card off him, but he had us taking a bottle of whisky and a card to each of his regular customers, and, get this, he even got them to sign for them to make sure we never kept a bottle for ourselves! One of his drivers, not me, honestly, let his wife know he was shagging his secretary most lunch times, she caught them in the act, and what made it worse, the secretary had only recently got married to her long term boyfriend! The shit hit the fan, and we drivers ended up out of work, turns out it was the wife's money that was funding the business and she pulled it all out, resulting in the business collapsing in a few short weeks! Every cloud has a silver lining though, it prompted me to move away and we headed down here to Brighton, on the other hand, that bastard headed for the divorce courts and eventual bankruptcy! Karma wins again!
+snerper Just picking the bones out of this story, I am getting that Paul Henry who played Benny was a nice guy and a generous tipper. Nice to hear