BILLY FURY. "Halfway to paradise", "Jealousy",....

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  • Опубліковано 21 лис 2011
  • Remembering a great pop star of the 60''s. Recorded from TV in 1983 on VHS...tape, remember??? LOL
    Sadly, Billy suffered heart problems for many years and died young. This was recorded days before he died, at his own request. (1940 - 1983 RIP. The good die young.
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  • @eileenbreheny7266
    @eileenbreheny7266 6 років тому +10

    I loved Billy...fantastic singer and what a sexy man even towards the end..Died far to soon xx

  • @madgemacneill1248
    @madgemacneill1248 7 років тому +8

    I met Billy in 1961 when he played in theTheatre Royal in Dublin he was very shy a beautiful person he left this world far too early Rest In Peace Billy

  • @dmg1866
    @dmg1866 6 років тому +8

    Such a lovely voice. Love Billy Fury. Sad he passed away so young and on!y days after this recording. Miss him.❤

  • @martinpalmer5204
    @martinpalmer5204 6 років тому +10

    the most underated british artist of all time

  • @nickpreece18
    @nickpreece18 7 років тому +8

    Amazing performance just days before his death..... R.I.P Billy

  • @TheSteffie59
    @TheSteffie59 3 роки тому +4

    A wonderful performance right up to the end, he was just iconic and so special.

  • @Colsoloact-po9wv
    @Colsoloact-po9wv 8 років тому +10

    Billy still sounding great despite his illness! RIP Billy!

  • @jeffpalmar2182
    @jeffpalmar2182 5 років тому +4

    And Jealousy one of the greatest songs ever written, maybe his best record.

  • @janetball4686
    @janetball4686 8 місяців тому +4

    Sadly he passed away leaving the world lost with out his great voice

  • @Spaseebo
    @Spaseebo 6 років тому +6

    There was something VERY special about Billy Fury ~~ it set him apart and above the other "rock stars" of the day.
    Dearly remembered well into the 21st century.

  • @cliveedwards2958
    @cliveedwards2958 3 роки тому +3

    Great performance..he certainly could sing!!

  • @malcolmkindred9940
    @malcolmkindred9940 11 років тому +6

    Along with the greats of his time, Billy Fury still holds best, we loved you and still do xx

  • @pollykennedy9319
    @pollykennedy9319 10 років тому +7

    Billy was Britain's best his music will live on R.I.P.

  • @alanevon8688
    @alanevon8688 9 років тому +9

    Just two words describe Billy and they are "A Legend"

  • @jaden2010100
    @jaden2010100 11 років тому +5

    I LOVE YOU BILLY .....YOUR THE GREATEST........LINDA

  • @lynnemiddleton5275
    @lynnemiddleton5275 3 місяці тому +3

    Love and miss you Billy thanks for the songs still listening. 2:32

  • @darrenharris5664
    @darrenharris5664 7 років тому +5

    in memory of my beautiful mom

  • @theresebowman1205
    @theresebowman1205 8 років тому +6

    Brilliant songs....missed. R. I. P.

  • @lindawatt4743
    @lindawatt4743 9 років тому +5

    Billy fury always and for ever we'll never ever find another you bless you billy xx

  • @coolmum47
    @coolmum47 12 років тому +6

    I was an avid Billy Fury fan when I was a very young teenager, I went to see him at The Tooting Granada, and I was absolutely certain he looked at me, oh yes ... out of all the hundreds of people in the audience ... he looked at ME .... big LOL !!!
    Such a shame he had to die so young. RIP Billy

  • @garystevens181
    @garystevens181 4 роки тому +4

    You can't beat him.

  • @brendawatford445
    @brendawatford445 9 років тому +5

    This is the first time I have seen this, and it wont be the last. Billy had a lovely voice and his music will live on.

  • @robertrobey3905
    @robertrobey3905 7 років тому +3

    just discovered billy .he had a nice voice and he was nice looking

  • @PaulJ59
    @PaulJ59 11 років тому +9

    What a great artist Billy Fury was ... I play the Violin ... / Fiddle and often play some of Billys Songs that are so timeless Such as Halfway to Paradise and Jealousy
    I remember my sister, since also passed away, playing these on 45" vinyl ... And Jukeboxes would run hot with these sounds, over a Coffee or a Coke, in our local Café at the time

  • @sueradcliffe653
    @sueradcliffe653 11 років тому +5

    Even though he was so close to death he could still deliver a song-What a great man-I thought he was better than Elvis.Still missed.

  • @tinawinter1136
    @tinawinter1136 9 років тому +8

    Billy Fury was one of the best never for gotten& never will

  • @snoopybooboo
    @snoopybooboo 11 років тому +5

    I remember being there at Cinatra's in Croydon that Tuesday night this was recorded and chatting to him in his dressing room afterwards. I couldn't believe it when I heard the news on the Friday that he died. R.I.P. Billy Fury.

  • @susanpoole5222
    @susanpoole5222 8 років тому +11

    what a voice always bought tears to my eyes sadly missed by all his fans susan

  • @coral1321
    @coral1321 9 років тому +7

    Love you billy, I'm jealous of the angels you are now singing to. devoted to you

  • @patrickmkiv
    @patrickmkiv 6 років тому +2

    Billy / Ronald Wycherley was a cousin of mine. Sadly I never got to meet him. Wish I could sing like him!

  • @michaelcorke2992
    @michaelcorke2992 9 років тому +12

    The 60's will never repeat itself, thanks to Radio Caroline and the other pirate ships we heard great bands and singers. Thank you to all the 60's groups and singers, so glad I lived through the times.

    • @steve8651
      @steve8651 5 років тому

      I remember the 60's too with Radio Caroline, Radio Nord Sea and Radio Monica and Billy Fury performing at the Poco a Poco Cabaret Stockport and other venues around Manchester and beyond. Lovely memories, lovely times and like you said Michael 'never will repeated ever' We have been fortunate to have lived through a wonderful time of music, cultural change, romance and happiness something that our lovely young of today will never know. Take care happy memories.

    • @shanehutchinson2430
      @shanehutchinson2430 4 роки тому

      wish i lived through the times

    • @anneglockling
      @anneglockling Місяць тому

      Went to see billy in plymouth 1960 I was 10 years old but he was cancelled as in hospital but have loved him for nearly 65 years. Still play his music most days
      Beautiful guy will never forget him. Ag originally from cornwall uk

  • @tarttan1
    @tarttan1 12 років тому +3

    one of the greats this country are proud of Billy fury a great entertainer just a shame i wasnt older enough to have the chance to see him live.RiP never forgot

  • @peterdailly7250
    @peterdailly7250 11 років тому +3

    Brings back memories. Live in Canada now, but grew up in UK during 50/60s. I have a Wycherley ancestor tree, but we believe that it is a different tree than the Wycherley tree that Billy Fury was part of. RIP Billy, thanks for the memories.

  • @lovelychatybird
    @lovelychatybird 8 років тому +12

    my hubby was to young to go, he's in paradise now I will join him and we will both listen toi billy

  • @HarryWebb46
    @HarryWebb46 9 років тому +6

    A wonderful artist that was so influential to the British rock 'n' roll movement of the early 1960's. I grew up with his records! Billy played his last gig just a few miles from my then home. I wanted to go to the gig but for several reasons I didn't make it. Big mistake!
    I often think about how important it was and how it would have meant to me.

  • @karenwolfenden4554
    @karenwolfenden4554 8 років тому +7

    i saw him in Halifax just before he died i was only 15 at the time he was fantastic

  • @pollykennedy9319
    @pollykennedy9319 10 років тому +4

    Loved you so much and miss you what a guy.

  • @ShikiraPressley
    @ShikiraPressley 6 років тому +2

    A once-upon a dream Fury, way too cool to have been a Decca teen-idol, the only UK rock-ballad singer in the 60's too suave-jive his way to heartthrob notoriety. Elvis' twin would have achieved far more if not for his blasted illness, yet thanks to Marty Wild, kept Fury's stage-act legacy at the very top of the real class act charts!

  • @TheProfessorOfLife
    @TheProfessorOfLife 10 років тому +11

    I have to plead ignorance as to who Billy Fury was.
    All I can say is WOW, what a great singer he was!
    I have heard Halfway To Paradise a long time ago. Great song.
    Billy's version of It's Only Make Believe is OUTSTANDING.
    Just goes to show that us yankees don't pay enough attention to great Brit entertainers.

  • @maggieboo8142
    @maggieboo8142 8 років тому +10

    i was ten years of age when I fell in love with billyfuryy, and still love him now,I hope we meet when I go to the next life. he's on my list, you were the best xxx

    • @gabriiallek7727
      @gabriiallek7727 7 років тому +3

      im 20 and I love billy I name me kid after him. looks at him wiv hearts in me eyes. fanx to me gpa albert xxxxxx

    • @warrenmoodin9739
      @warrenmoodin9739 6 років тому +1

      Maggie Jenkins surprendre Elvis presle

  • @janicehull6119
    @janicehull6119 6 років тому +2

    Loved this guy

  • @suestreets5838
    @suestreets5838 6 років тому +1

    fantasic someone never forget for his music and history nice video

  • @kathleenmartin2070
    @kathleenmartin2070 4 роки тому +1

    Wish I had been a teen in the 60s sad but great music

  • @MrBonzoMan
    @MrBonzoMan 12 років тому +4

    A great singer and beautiful songs......RIP

  • @john111257
    @john111257 8 років тому +14

    poor guy i love his music, amazing man

  • @normanpolland7922
    @normanpolland7922 8 років тому +13

    There never be another Billy or James Dean

  • @farmbrough
    @farmbrough 5 років тому +2

    Billy's singing was as amazing as ever. I am so sad I never got to see him - I had tickets to see his show on that last tour.
    On a lighter note, there are some shocking syrups at that funeral! Larry Parnes is wearing an afro!

  • @andrewgardner7871
    @andrewgardner7871 8 років тому +12

    Billy Fury most definitely had the 'X' factor

  • @michaelwynn3918
    @michaelwynn3918 8 років тому +7

    great songs...remembered, missed...

  • @denisecahoon9753
    @denisecahoon9753 9 років тому +20

    I love this video of Billy Fury he never really got recognition he deserved thank you for sharing

    • @georgiethumbs2438
      @georgiethumbs2438 9 років тому +1

      Denise Cahoon - His songs were rather ordinary though, at least later on like this tripe. You can't expect to shoot off a rocket using wet hay.

    • @linrubyred4084
      @linrubyred4084 8 років тому +6

      +Georgie Thumbs You are soooo wrong. His songs were brilliant, loads of them self written and his diction was perfect. You can hear every syllable. how dare you. Most of the time he was so sick he shouldn't even have been standing up!

    • @jamesdoherty5628
      @jamesdoherty5628 8 років тому +3

      so true

    • @ginacable5376
      @ginacable5376 7 років тому +1

      lin bish well said! x

  • @julieedwards9270
    @julieedwards9270 8 років тому +8

    just love it but before my time x

    • @christrinder1255
      @christrinder1255 6 років тому +2

      Julie Edwards it was very much my time, and loved and admired him and his music intensely , everything he did. It’s so nice to read a comment from someone appreciating him who was born later 💖

  • @garryburrows8987
    @garryburrows8987 7 років тому +7

    beautiful singer

  • @martinpalmer5204
    @martinpalmer5204 6 років тому +2

    the best

  • @sladlad
    @sladlad 11 років тому +4

    a greatly under rated talent, but not by those who knew, he was the uk,s best early rocker, strangely nearly all his big hits were ballads

  • @beautyangelfriends6566
    @beautyangelfriends6566 9 років тому +4

    Genuine Talent! A Great performer to the end.

  • @annemoylan5378
    @annemoylan5378 8 років тому +24

    Brilliant singer Billy Fury died far to young

    • @susanemmerson7474
      @susanemmerson7474 8 років тому +7

      He died a few month after this appearance :(

    • @dianemurray7951
      @dianemurray7951 7 років тому +3

      He died 4 days after this. This was recorded on 23rd January 1983.

    • @ginacable5376
      @ginacable5376 7 років тому +4

      Diane Murray Oh god how awful. love him still i didnt know that thank you.

    • @john111257
      @john111257 7 років тому +2

      a star to the end

    • @lynnfaulkner1553
      @lynnfaulkner1553 6 років тому +1

      Anne Moylan i

  • @olivemcginley4185
    @olivemcginley4185 9 років тому +3

    Absolutely fabulous

  • @jeffpalmar2182
    @jeffpalmar2182 5 років тому +3

    Great, considering how ill he was at this point. I think the beat ballads were commercial choices to record, but they were so good. RIP Billy. ML

  • @user-fc4ec9li9u
    @user-fc4ec9li9u 2 місяці тому

    Knew Billy when he had milky way as is backing group god bless him and Pete brown bass guitarist xx❤🎉xx

  • @RJB2012art
    @RJB2012art 10 років тому +2

    Time travel comes to mind. I always had a gist of the future, as in precognition, and wondered if retro cognition could be possible. Thanks to Billy Fury's video I now have a glint of understanding. Precognition (a look into the future) is just a memory of things that have not happened yet, as with retro cognition which is a memory of the past which has happened.

  • @cleret1
    @cleret1  12 років тому +8

    Well said, jamiespilsbury. I admired this gentle rock'nroller who I proudly imitated as a teenager, He did Elvis "his way", and still had his own identity. He "played it cool " baby...lol

  • @stevewitton5887
    @stevewitton5887 8 років тому +19

    The REAL British answer to Elvis...

  • @daviddavis901
    @daviddavis901 10 років тому +3

    ONE WORD GREAT...........THANK YOU FOR THIS

  • @thegowerboy
    @thegowerboy 11 років тому +3

    beautiful

  • @Mohlianum
    @Mohlianum 8 років тому +1

    I still have my original 45 of Billy singing A Thousand Stars but don't know what happened to the others. I saw him and Johny Kidd etc at Guildford in the 60's
    Very sad when he died so young.

  • @barrybrown331
    @barrybrown331 11 років тому +4

    A great voice sadly missed

  • @cleret1
    @cleret1  11 років тому +8

    I was amazed that his heart condition didn't prevent him doing a good live rendition of these hits. Better than Elvis??? By Billy's own admission,Elvis is where he came from, as was the case for Cliff, The Beatles and most who those who mushroomed in the early sixtees. Yes, Billy Fury was good.

  • @Apxbeet01
    @Apxbeet01 11 років тому +3

    The one and only, the greatest x x

  • @kh4949
    @kh4949 12 років тому +3

    god bless you Billy Fury

  • @niltonsoares5891
    @niltonsoares5891 5 років тому +1

    Esta era uma das música que Elvis adorava ouvir !

  • @loureviews
    @loureviews 7 років тому +3

    Oh gosh I remember seeing this at the time.

  • @RockinRedRover
    @RockinRedRover 7 років тому +4

    Recorded when Billy was very ill, and just days before he passed away on 28th January 1983, yet still sounded great. He recorded six numbers, but at his mother's request only four were broadcast. RIP Billy Fury.

    • @traciemarsh1611
      @traciemarsh1611 6 місяців тому +1

      one of the songs taken out was....forget him

  • @tommcdonald1880
    @tommcdonald1880 4 дні тому

    knew him and his Brother Albert used to sing in a band I used to drive around also I was at Marty Wilds Mums house on Prerscot Road when his daughter was born Kim

  • @anthonywaters3774
    @anthonywaters3774 10 років тому +3

    Legend

  • @1950sTeddyboy
    @1950sTeddyboy 4 роки тому +1

    The Greatest Singer UK Produced during the RnR Era. Although I would call Billy a Great Ballad Singer not a RnR Singer. But he was nearest UK produced to Elvis. But of course Elvis was far above the Rest

  • @briangoodacre7155
    @briangoodacre7155 7 років тому +1

    can't,beat,the,60s,popstars,

  •  11 років тому +2

    Belle chanson!

  • @mozart4meuk
    @mozart4meuk 9 років тому +9

    Billy really looks poorly on this video but what a voice he had. He wrote so many of his own hits and was a great, not fully realised talent. I believe rheumatic fever when he was young had much to do with his later health issues.

  • @petefroud5308
    @petefroud5308 9 років тому +3

    Utter class.

  • @rabmcallister776
    @rabmcallister776 7 років тому +3

    brillant song

  • @gabriiallek7727
    @gabriiallek7727 7 років тому +2

    he cool

  • @annemoylan5378
    @annemoylan5378 7 років тому +2

    He looked so ill bless him

  • @escormillos
    @escormillos 10 років тому +10

    B R I L L I A N T.

  • @ailierich1167
    @ailierich1167 9 років тому +4

    Nice singer he died the same age as Elvis Presley.

  • @joyceotter7390
    @joyceotter7390 11 років тому +1

    My dads favourite film too, xx

  • @alberttatlock5237
    @alberttatlock5237 6 років тому +1

    Many people saying " he didn't get the recognition he deserved" are wrong, he was a major star and hitmaker from the late 50s through to the early 60s, he was a tv regular during this time and even starred in 2 films, he certainly got recognition.
    He went bankrupt in the early 70s for paying no income tax since 1962 considering the huge record sales and other work he had from 59-65, I find it strange how he'd spent all his fortune, he even hooked up with an Heiress in the early 70s.
    A lot of far less successful singers from this period retired and lived off of the millions they earned during their heyday and paid tax on as well

    • @stevenmorris8325
      @stevenmorris8325 5 років тому +1

      He was ripped off by his crook of a manager.

  • @geoffpratt1956
    @geoffpratt1956 10 років тому +4

    The real KING.....

  • @wadeaminute
    @wadeaminute 6 років тому +4

    Today may have given him a heart transplant , so sad and we are still grieving for you Billy xx

    • @TheSteffie59
      @TheSteffie59 3 роки тому +1

      My thoughts exactly. Tragic loss

  • @michaelparkinsonnotsir
    @michaelparkinsonnotsir 8 років тому +2

    My Billy Fury Dance Show to be performed at the Shaw Theatre, London in April 2016 uses actual recordings accompanied by dancers and a narrator telling the Billy Fury Story. There will be 14 performances over 10 days with 4 matinee's. Although the recordings were made many years ago the songs are as relevant today as they were when they were first recorded. Michael Parkinson

  • @tonybaker316
    @tonybaker316 10 років тому +6

    Britians GREATEST ...sadly died too young

  • @pauljones8197
    @pauljones8197 11 років тому +3

    Tragic. Without billy`s health problems, he could have topped elvis.

    • @colinsludds9249
      @colinsludds9249 6 років тому +1

      Paul Jones he never had a number 1 so doubt that but was very good.

  • @SteveJJamesEta
    @SteveJJamesEta 10 років тому +1

    The Professor,my friend look up Elvis in 1956 Just Pretend the look at Billy the same song same time TCB

  • @zarbithechti
    @zarbithechti 10 років тому +1

    Préciser quand même que les quatre chansons qu'interprète ici Billy Fury sont : « Halfway to paradise », « Make believe », « When will you say I love you » & « Jealousy ».

  • @smithslinger
    @smithslinger 9 років тому +4

    sang a thousand stars to my mother and got a signed pic from him

    • @Michele92308
      @Michele92308 6 років тому +1

      smithslinger I'm jealous haha :)

  • @thomaskenny4618
    @thomaskenny4618 9 років тому +4

    Billy Fury's hair look's too long so I remember that TV show on channel 4 since 1983 so it was his last performance before his death that same year.

    • @dianemurray7951
      @dianemurray7951 8 років тому +3

      +Thomas Kenny He died 4 days after recording this programme. R.I.P. xxxx
      It was broadcast on 3rd feb 1983.

    • @francesgillard9825
      @francesgillard9825 5 років тому +4

      He's a brilliant singer and a good bloke he will always live on in my eyes 👍

  • @stanleytomlinson9530
    @stanleytomlinson9530 9 років тому +2

    does anybody know if this show was released on vhs or remastered to dvd in the uk many thanks
    for any info from ---v ----billy fury collector -----great post cleret 1

  • @deborahvenner2559
    @deborahvenner2559 6 років тому +1

    this was recorded on the 24 th january he died on the 28 th january

  • @13stevenj
    @13stevenj 20 днів тому

    There was a better version on you tube but it was taken off, WHY?

  • @charliegirl3056
    @charliegirl3056 3 роки тому +3

    Sticking 2 ads on right in the middle of his funeral footage. What bad taste

  • @cleret1
    @cleret1  11 років тому +2

    Ah! But, did you see him in the film " Play it cool"?