They didn't! I remember this song very well! He was great on the Muppets' singing "The Show Must Go On" I actually saw and spoke to Leo Sayer at a giftshop at Dallas International Airport @ 1979. Nice man.
One of my all time favourite songs & one which takes me back to my youth. Certainly not forgotten, especially here in Australia. I saw him perform live in Hobart, Tasmania a few years ago & he sang in a Christmas show here this year. Great performer!
@@bill3805 it's the upper half that Elvis couldn't show or else they'd have to cut the camera on both top AND bottom Only Spike Jones showed Elvis's lower half. This is Leo Sayer doing the upper half that even Elvis couldn't show. You have to decipher the encryption.
It's good to hear that Leo is still doing good in Australia, I live in the town of his birth here in the UK...Shoreham by sea where he is still fondly remembered by those of us of a certain age.
Met Leo at the Dallas airport in the early 90s. He was rushing towards his departure gate with several suitcases, but still stopped to sign autographs and do a brief dance routine that mesmerized a decent crowd of about 4 people. Much, much taller in real life.
I found out I could dance with my wife..This song was a celebration of giving up self consciousness and having Fun. It still touches me so many years later,.
Leo Sayer has an incredibly versatile singing voice. In "Long tall glasses" he almost sounds like 1960's Bob Dylan in the verses. In "You make me feel like Dancing" he employs a superb falsetto whilst in many other songs he can do a rocking scream, a soulful shout or smooth ballad voice. Great versatility and pretty good songwriter too. Very underrated artist.
in april of 1975 i saw leo sayer (he was warm up to golden earring) in a very small venue. this song was his highlight. when they got to the part where he says--"now wait a minute...of course i can dance, of course i can dance--he jumped down into the crowd and did some crazy dancing. he had a big huge afro and a long trench coat on. it was a riot!
What a great song , it takes me back to the.70s my friend was dancing on the bar with a 357 magnum , everyone had a great time . There was no harm done I took him home laughing all the way
He fell victim like a lot of other did in from 1965-75ish. There were so many talented people. They buried each other. He wasn't great but he was fun. More talented that he was given credit for just like a lot of people were in this time frame. They just got swallowed up.
I love the way Leo also acts as he sings. His concert videos when he’s dressed as Pierrot (clown) singing Won’t Let The Show Go on etc. he’s just a fantastic natural performer (and songwriter)
I love this song and Leo's music. I was 14 y/o in 1976 and listened to AM rock on WLS Chicago - in Maryland! I had a morning paper route, and pre-dawn, my transistor radio picked up WLS and WBZ (Boston) better than our local AM station just a few miles away. What a magical 3 or 4 years of music that I learned to love (1974-1977) while pedaling my bike through the darkened streets of my hometown with my transistor radio in my pocket and the single earpiece stuck in my ear.
Remember the wonderful year 1974. riding the School Bus in Redding, CA....to Central Valley High....and hearing this "Hit' of the day...on the radio. Max...our grumpy 'old man' bus driver... once quipped from the front of the bus...."Hey....he can Dance!!!! lol!....all us kids laughed. great memories
Leo Sayer and Yvonne Elliman was my first concert or show that I had ever been to. I was on a first date back in 1977. We had fun, and my date was impressed. I do remember it was the Village Theater somewhere southeast of Cleveland. And we thought it was so cool because they had a revolving stage
From 1956 when the KING, Elvis made rock and roll accepted, and popular...til 1970 when The Beatles, greatest group there ever was or will be, disbanded.....the true GOLDEN ERA of rock !!!!!!!!!
I love Leo…as a tween, I planned on marrying him because his songs are awesome and make me want to dance 💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻 My brother and I almost wore out the cassette tapes and memorised every song 🎧 and would sing them loudly on family road trips… great days indeed!!! 🎈💃🏻💋🎈💃🏻🎈
I love your sense of humour. We need more of that in this serious, crazy age. You are probably several paradigms ahead of today's numbness. We'll catch up to you in 10 or 20 years; keep going until we catch up to you, please. Aarre Peltomaa of Mississauga, Ontario
Brings back some fine memories from the Winter/Spring period of 1974/75. I miss that time, its music, and a lot of the people I knew back then. Ah those college days! Gone but never forgotten...
Long Tall Glasses (I Can Dance) proved to be Sayer's first Top 40 hit,. and reached the Top 10 during the summer of 1975. Sayer had actually had prior success as a songwriter--his hit 'The Show Must Go On' was a top 5 hit for Three Dog Night the previous summer!
This song has been stuck in my mind for 3 weeks now. I couldn't remember who sang it, so I looked it up here on UA-cam. It doesn't surprise me that it is by Leo Sayer. I have always loved his music. 💖💖💖💖
And His Songs AWESOME, And Saw Him At The Astor Theatre In Perth, And Had Poster Saying JUST A BOY AT 70 And I had Come To Him My karaoke songs that I Did for You, And He shook my hands and said the The Three songs Long Tall Glasses, The Show Must go One An Moonlighting
Thanks for reminding me of the "...miles & miles...", I forgot, & had been looking for: "time in a bottle", and was really trying to feel & fill the memory from the hold out song is how I remember it, but I stopped waiting & wanting the romantic drama as it went 3 long terms later, but, I recently had something touch me internally that had me surfing great love songs, and I remembered what makes life worth living... Love, without a doubt, thanks for being cool as they ever came, Leo Sayers🕺🦋💃 Rocks!
I've never heard this song before although I am a fan of his and do remember him in the '70s, especially my favorite 'When I Need You'. I'll have to add this song to my playlist ☺️
This was the first song by Leo Sayer that I heard in '74 and it just grabbed me. Got his album and then the rest of his albums. Loved him. Fantastic singer/writer. Don't know why he faded away - he could have been competition for Elton John.
My Grandma used to make dance with her when i was like 9yrs old to this song! She would say before you can go outside and play you gotta dance like Fred Astaire! Good thing she didn't hold me to the like Fred Astaire part cause i would have seen outside! Rest Easy G-MA
Why did the world forget about Leo Sayer? He's absolutely a LEGEND
Greatest American that ever lived.
@@flightofthebumblebee9529 He's not American. He was British but lives in Australia now.
They didn't! I remember this song very well! He was great on the Muppets' singing "The Show Must Go On" I actually saw and spoke to Leo Sayer at a giftshop at Dallas International Airport @ 1979. Nice man.
One of my all time favourite songs & one which takes me back to my youth. Certainly not forgotten, especially here in Australia.
I saw him perform live in Hobart, Tasmania a few years ago & he sang in a Christmas show here this year. Great performer!
@@heatherjay8802 LEO -FOREVER!
His right leg can definitely dance. Not sure about the rest of him. I still love this song, though.
He has perfected "the shrug" which never appeared before modern dance. No jazz hands here!
You missed his point....
@@bill3805 it's the upper half that Elvis couldn't show or else they'd have to cut the camera on both top AND bottom
Only Spike Jones showed Elvis's lower half.
This is Leo Sayer doing the upper half that even Elvis couldn't show.
You have to decipher the encryption.
He couldn't dance.
Not too many UA-cam comments make me laugh these days, this one did though...'😆'
Leo Sayer - still touring and performing - been a resident in Australia for the last 10 years - still working his magic - marvellous little man!
It's good to hear that Leo is still doing good in Australia, I live in the town of his birth here in the UK...Shoreham by sea where he is still fondly remembered by those of us of a certain age.
Can still see my dad dancing around to this ( r.i.p. dad ). great song.
So sweet!
Met Leo at the Dallas airport in the early 90s. He was rushing towards his departure gate with several suitcases, but still stopped to sign autographs and do a brief dance routine that mesmerized a decent crowd of about 4 people. Much, much taller in real life.
I haven't heard this song for I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW MANY YEARS! What fun to hear it again. Love Leo!!!!
This song is absolutely amusing.
me 2 same ammount of time
Who else Is listening to this song in 2022?
I haven't heard it this song in 50years
Wow
It has been years and years
Great memories
I found out I could dance with my wife..This song was a celebration of giving up self consciousness and having Fun. It still touches me so many years later,.
Agree, great to forget about being self conscious 😊
Love this comment! Very cool! Great song. I hope you're still dancing❤
I thought it was a rebuttal to "Sing for Your Supper."
Leo Sayer has an incredibly versatile singing voice. In "Long tall glasses" he almost sounds like 1960's Bob Dylan in the verses. In "You make me feel like Dancing" he employs a superb falsetto whilst in many other songs he can do a rocking scream, a soulful shout or smooth ballad voice. Great versatility and pretty good songwriter too. Very underrated artist.
Leo Sayer and Bob Dylan mentioned in the same sentence. That has never happened before. Guarantee you that:
in april of 1975 i saw leo sayer (he was warm up to golden earring) in a very small venue. this song was his highlight. when they got to the part where he says--"now wait a minute...of course i can dance, of course i can dance--he jumped down into the crowd and did some crazy dancing. he had a big huge afro and a long trench coat on. it was a riot!
My favorite Leo Sayer song!!!
A song that paints pictures with its words. Absolute Masterpiece!!
treu
I don't seek entertainment, just poultry and game. Too funny!
@@gpsone7319poetry NOT
poultry
That boy could flat out sing.....
that's funny because the band that Covered this song was The Boys or Boyz
I heard this song many times in the 1970s and never thought much about it. But seeing Leo Sayer performing it brings it to a whole new level.
What a great song , it takes me back to the.70s my friend was dancing on the bar with
a 357 magnum , everyone had a great time . There was
no harm done I took him home laughing all the way
I never saw him only herd him. He is différent
@@barrysims9906 Seems like he might be tough to round up. Did you get the band too?
Saw him in Worthing (UK) two day ago, 71 and still going strong. His voice was fantastic.
Excellent.
👏👏👏👍👍👍
You are so lucky!
Wonderful!!
An underrated artist. What I like about him,... he doesn't seem to take himself,too seriously.😁
And no one else does either
he is an off the chart vocalist
Certainly not underrated he was massive in the 70s even had his own tv show into the 80s .
@@MARTIN-bd7gm I stand corrected.👍👌😊
That's why he moved to Australia.
He really fits in here.
Leo could pass for a dozen sitcom actors from the 70s and early 80s, what a great singer he was.
I like how they keep switching the cameras on him. And he keeps looking for the right one. And finds it, quite quickly..
After 44 plus years, still love this song.
I think this song is a LOT older than 40 years! (At time of this blog)
@@bigyin2586 Came out in 1974
He is the only one who can give this song its proper everything 🥰
Tragic that they don't play this on the radio anymore.
i just enjoyed hearing it on my local oldies but goodies radio station! grateful . got me up dancing
Once in a great while I'll hear this ol gem
They just did in Tulsa Oklahoma oldies station.
They play it in all oldie stations here in Ontario, Canada.
Leo asayer is sooo underrated! Leo you were and still are a genius!
Leo is awesome! 😊 💜 🎤🎸
I know. He is pretty good
Right?! I'm a 70s/80s kid and I've heard his songs but don't ever remember hearing his name.
I need a greatest hits CD of his, if he has one.
He fell victim like a lot of other did in from 1965-75ish. There were so many talented people. They buried each other. He wasn't great but he was fun. More talented that he was given credit for just like a lot of people were in this time frame. They just got swallowed up.
@@larrylindgren9484 Yes the Pied Piper 🎷🎺 was really piping in those days! We are so blessed!
I love the way Leo also acts as he sings. His concert videos when he’s dressed as Pierrot (clown) singing Won’t Let The Show Go on etc. he’s just a fantastic natural performer (and songwriter)
I used to think he was goofy in the 70s. Now that I'm older, I have respect for Leo and his music.
same...he is great
He was an oddball but I always loved his music.
I love this song and Leo's music. I was 14 y/o in 1976 and listened to AM rock on WLS Chicago - in Maryland! I had a morning paper route, and pre-dawn, my transistor radio picked up WLS and WBZ (Boston) better than our local AM station just a few miles away.
What a magical 3 or 4 years of music that I learned to love (1974-1977) while pedaling my bike through the darkened streets of my hometown with my transistor radio in my pocket and the single earpiece stuck in my ear.
What a great word picture - thanks for sharing that! 😊
Remember the wonderful year 1974. riding the School Bus in Redding, CA....to Central Valley High....and hearing this "Hit' of the day...on the radio. Max...our grumpy 'old man' bus driver... once quipped from the front of the bus...."Hey....he can Dance!!!! lol!....all us kids laughed. great memories
Love it ! A lot of my favorite 70s music memories were on the school bus.
Leo Sayer and Yvonne Elliman was my first concert or show that I had ever been to. I was on a first date back in 1977. We had fun, and my date was impressed. I do remember it was the Village Theater somewhere southeast of Cleveland. And we thought it was so cool because they had a revolving stage
I need something to cheer me up. This works, I Love the 70s.
I love his voice, his songs, his joyful side, and his funny side! ❤❤❤
I totally remember and loved this as a young teen, I haven't heard this since it's release duration. I'm happy that I stumbled upon this. 🤩
This is one of the first records on 45 i ever asked my parents to buy me I never knew it was leo sayer
Leo was the man, in the 70's.
its 2024 and yes i can dance and still sing it word for word ,dam i hate getting old
I agree, but it sure beats the alternative!
Oh the 70's ....superb decade of music...
if you can get past the beegees and saturday night fever
From 1956 when the KING, Elvis made rock and roll accepted, and popular...til 1970 when The Beatles, greatest group there ever was or will be, disbanded.....the true GOLDEN ERA of rock !!!!!!!!!
@@TheShootist yes, but that was the forerunner of the 80s
Saturday night was ahead of its time 😃 😀
I love Leo…as a tween, I planned on marrying him because his songs are awesome and make me want to dance 💃🏻💃🏻💃🏻
My brother and I almost wore out the cassette tapes and memorised every song 🎧 and would sing them loudly on family road trips… great days indeed!!!
🎈💃🏻💋🎈💃🏻🎈
I never forgot Leo. He had one of the most coolest styles for that era.🎉😂❤
After listening for the 50th time, I don't think a vocal performance that can match this ❤
I love your sense of humour. We need more of that in this serious,
crazy age. You are probably several paradigms ahead of today's numbness. We'll catch up to you in 10 or 20 years; keep going until we catch up to you, please.
Aarre Peltomaa of Mississauga, Ontario
Great 70s tune.....
The more I listen to Leo Sayer's version I'm convinced. This song was written just for him.
Was written by Leo Sayer and Dave Courtney .
What a great talent! I had forgotten about this song. Always loved Leo Sayer.
Still Leo sayer loves ❤️ his 1970s disco songs 🎵
He's so wonderfully vaudeville in this song!
Brings back some fine memories from the Winter/Spring period of 1974/75. I miss that time, its music, and a lot of the people I knew back then. Ah those college days! Gone but never forgotten...
driving around in moms car with the am radio playing as loud as it would go! haha
Leo did lots of Top hits! He was NO 1 HIT WONDER!!!!
Hello Jennifer
How are you doing?
It's nice to have you here!
Great song Leo Sayer ❤
He was an Artist greatly underated,story teller.
2023 still listening to this great song from the 70's
Good singer and song writer
I look back now and realize how good leo is still to till this very day
When I was a kid I l got a real kick out of this dude. Loved this song! Still makes me smile.
ME TO
Leo Sayer- best artist ever. Long Tall Glasses- best song ever.
@@davidcedarfallsiowa8553 👍👍
ieattofu68 Yeah Leo still makes me smile too!
Love it
Long Tall Glasses (I Can Dance) proved to be Sayer's first Top 40 hit,. and reached the Top 10 during the summer of 1975. Sayer had actually had prior success as a songwriter--his hit 'The Show Must Go On' was a top 5 hit for Three Dog Night the previous summer!
I ve never fogotten leo Sayer. Knew him when i was small and i m still a fan of him
Legend
This song has been stuck in my mind for 3 weeks now. I couldn't remember who sang it, so I looked it up here on UA-cam. It doesn't surprise me that it is by Leo Sayer. I have always loved his music. 💖💖💖💖
Very underated singer/songwriter is Leo Sayer!
He had many hits
I'm dancing! A two step a quick step and a bosonova. Ya should see me moving right across the floor. Thank you for the post
AWESOME ❤
One of the truly great talents in the music world - what other male singer has the range that Sayer does?
David Bowie.
The lead singer of Faith No More
W. Axl Rose
"You Make Me Feel Like Dancing" and "When I Need You" both 1977 Billboard #1's
And His Songs AWESOME, And Saw Him At The Astor Theatre In Perth, And Had Poster Saying JUST A BOY AT 70 And I had Come To Him My karaoke songs that I Did for You, And He shook my hands and said the The Three songs Long Tall Glasses, The Show Must go One An Moonlighting
Awesome, love this so much!!!! Unique man!!! I get goosebumps!
9/9/2024. No your goose gets the bumps.
Love this song. Leo will never be forgotten. He had a great head of hair on him.
1975 was quite a year for a mass variety of Top 40 hits.
CB
I remember this one being all over the radio! Mama would turn the radio on while we got ready for school and this one helped get me moving...
Thanks for reminding me of the "...miles & miles...", I forgot, & had been looking for: "time in a bottle", and was really trying to feel & fill the memory from the hold out song is how I remember it, but I stopped waiting & wanting the romantic drama as it went 3 long terms later, but, I recently had something touch me internally that had me surfing great love songs, and I remembered what makes life worth living... Love, without a doubt, thanks for being cool as they ever came, Leo Sayers🕺🦋💃 Rocks!
I had forgotten about this aong until i heard it on the 70's station. Loved it when it came out when i was in high school.
I'm still stuck at the "I can't dance" part of the song. Never in my life have I ever thought to myself "now wait a minute; of course I can dance!"
More vodka
Bob Marshall
Pity.
I’m still young and I’m a huge fan of this song. It’s just so catchy
It’s “ I can dance “
Low self esteem gave way to hunger and now he can dance.
I’m still young and I’m a huge fan of this song. It’s so catchy
This is my best friend Garrett's favorite song. Man does he love having water coming from his eyes...and he can dance.
USE to hear this on AM radio ALL THE TIME! You go Leo!🥰
Bravo...Leo ..
Having a song like this playing on the radio when I was four and a half made all the differance! Unreal! Leo is a demi god!
I've never heard this song before although I am a fan of his and do remember him in the '70s, especially my favorite 'When I Need You'. I'll have to add this song to my playlist ☺️
He wrote and sung so many good songs including this one he co wrote.
Brilliant singer , I made a wee collage of my moto trip to Poland to this tune .
Leo was the last person to talk to Elvis over the phone, Aug. 15, 1977
Hmmm… Really? That’s an interesting factoid.
Wonderful
Leo Sayer was no one hit wonder! He had a number on top 10 hits throughout the 1970's!
I think someone needs some 1970's music reedgamacatshunning!
Leo is a great entertainer, great singer and a great song writer.
Hello dear fan
How are you doing?
It’s nice meeting you here!
This song was a staple at Imdiana Pacer games back in the 1980's. Every 4th quarter, this was used to energize the crowd at Market Square Arena
This was the first song by Leo Sayer that I heard in '74 and it just grabbed me. Got his album and then the rest of his albums. Loved him. Fantastic singer/writer. Don't know why he faded away - he could have been competition for Elton John.
And threw you out of your chair? ;-) I love his albums, too including a box set. Well he did outchart Elton in 1977.
Love this song
Love his singing
I didn't know, believe, or guess that Leo Sayer sang this song. Really well done!
What a tallent. A real showman, didn't follow any trend. Great singer and songwriter
"For the 10th million time, I'm not Richard Simmons".
Hilarious!
He looks like Gary Cole in The Brady Bunch Movie.
Hilarious song!
He's still touring, in the UK at the moment 2024
Simply great no other way to say it yes Leo can sing and dance. Yes it feels good
My Grandma used to make dance with her when i was like 9yrs old to this song! She would say before you can go outside and play you gotta dance like Fred Astaire! Good thing she didn't hold me to the like Fred Astaire part cause i would have seen outside! Rest Easy G-MA
What a lovely memory, thanks for sharing it : )
Leo is Fantastic love ❤️ him so talented love he's songs 🎵 😊❤❤
Haha! Heard this on some radio station the other day! Such a fun song and now its stuck in my head. 🤪
Have always loved Leo and his music! So talented!💕
I pulled out this classic vinyl album last night from my collection, and I played It 4 times, This is an awesome album.
Great talent... Always has been... Since I was in High school was a huge fan...
Makes me smile every time I watch it
Love each and every song of Leo sayers. Especially this one
What a great performer
The ultimate showman 🎊 🎉🏆
I STILL love this song and, long live Leo Sayer...and his wonderful talent!🤗