The Honeybus - I Can't Let Maggie Go
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- Опубліковано 25 жов 2024
- The Honeybus - I Can't Let Maggie Go
She makes me laugh, she makes me cry
With a twinkle of her eye
She flies like a bird in the sky
She flies like a bird and I wish that she was mine
She flies like a bird, oh me, oh my
I see, I sigh, now I know
I can't let Maggie go
We walk here and we walk there
People stop and people stare
'Cause she flies like a bird in the sky
She flies like a bird and I wished that she was mine
She flies like a bird, oh me, oh my
I see, I sigh, now I know
I can't let Maggie go
Oh, she flies like a bird in the sky
She flies like a bird and I wished that she was mine
She flies like a bird, oh me, oh my
I see, I sigh, now I know
I can't let Maggie go
Oh, yes she flies like a bird in the sky
She flies like a bird and I wished that she was mine
Oh yes, I wish that she was mine
She flies like a bird, oh me, oh my
I see, I sigh, now I know
I can't let Maggie go
Ooh
Such a wonderful timeless song. Amazing melody, nice lyrics and one of the real classics of the 1960s. I never tire of it. Well done, The Honeybus. ♥️
when people say these were happy days they really were, never had much money, played outside all the time.it does bring back happy moments in my life
I'm guessing you're about 56 years old. How far from the mark am I?
56? I don't think so! He'd have been 3! I'm 76. 23 in 1968 when this came out. Just the right age for the song and the times.
57.... I agree!
@@jeffkwells2003 i was 13 and remember it well. Wish we could have these times back.
I just wish we could go back to the real times before social media. Don't get me wrong, I recognise the irony and my hypocrisy for posting on this platform, but I'm sure you get my point :)
This song brings back memories of my dad playing it in the car on our way to skegness. Just played it and my 2 and a half year old said " again mummy", so played it 3 more times and he is now singing the chorus. They just dont make songs like this anymore! Love it. X
I love how pop music around this time wasn’t afraid to use a bit of bassoon and oboe, definitely adds a certain feel to the song
And a bit of cor anglais.
The casuals used oboe to !
Totally agree. I have always maintained that true singers do not need flashy loud background props/ music to 'help them sing'. All they need is a light orchestral background that simply serves to enhance their natural talent. Good stuff aye Peggy Wood (Aotearoa)
Always remember this song from the Nimble bread advert. I was only 6 at the time but loved this song.
Loved this song, reminds me of my best friend Margaret who sadly died age 20 in September 1972, miss her so much , this song will.always make me think of our nights spent in the Top Rank in Swansea .
What a lovely touching comment,such a pleasant change from all the bitterness on the internet.Thank you for sharing your memories June Davies.
Bless you June, it's special to be fondly remembered
Keep on remembering her then she still lives on ❤️
Sorry for your loss.
@june Davies. I'm sorry love. After all this time you post about her here. Beautiful. She lives on then, you think about her and now we wonder what she was like.
My mum died 4 weeks ago,named Marj. Her mum called her Mag. I love this song. It gives me happy tears cos it reminds me do much of her...sad tears cos she's no longer around. Rest in peace Mum x
Exactly the same with my mum, the same name. Loved her so much ! So sorry for your loss, lucky we still have memories of our mums, no one can take that away from us!
@@winnievink3041 That is so true. I can listen to it now and it's not as raw but I still think of her every day x
I'm sorry to hear that I've my parents too god bless X
🙏❤️
Now she flies like a bird, in the sky-y-y...R.I.P. to your lovely Mum.
What is greatness?
This song - Simple. Pure. Innocence. Full of telent. Optimism. Romance.
Everything we want in life, delivers perfectly.
this beautiful song is from an era gone by many years ago ....utter magic ,,,sublime joy xxx
Totally agree what a lovely song.
I was washing my dishes & suddenly this song popped up in my mind....I'd always loved it but had forgotten it...I was then probably 17 now 73. The mind is incredible
I was only 2 when this song was released in 1968. I now pick up my three Grandchildren and fly them around our lounge or garden singing it to them. My granddaughter Evie aged 4, loves the song and knows a lot of the words. But in the chorus she sings 'Grandpa Can't Let Evie Go' 😊
A special song from special times. Love to everyone listening to it. ❤
i see i sigh for the 60s what an era to have lived in ..i was there x
ditto great era
it was great times i was there
Best decade for music & great memories 😊
I played this at a gig on monday
Everyone join ed in
So was i great times great music memories wish I could go back
So lovely to listen to this and it never ages. Such memories with it, brill times..
Hello Pam, How are you doing?
It was the time when music meant something & love & romance was built on. The music from back then will remind us all of who we loved & shared our long summers with! Long live Love & good music!
Yes.. agree..
I totally agree far better than the tripe served today which sounds like tortured cats and construction lol..
You could also understand and hear every word of this great song.
Is that really you, Clint??
A-MEN.
Once heard, never forgotten. What a song!
I forgot the artist & the name of the woman he couldn't let go, but off the back of "she flies like a bird in the sky-y-y", google did the business with the rest. Happy!
This reminds me of my childhood, care free days just enjoying my childhood it was wonderful.
hit it on the head
Mine too
Carol Jones
True words ... then the world was uncomplicated unlike now days ... same goes for life the older we get.
Me too
i loved the late sixties i miss my mum & dad
Great song, made fabulous by that fantastic drum fill at the end of the first chorus. Timeless.
This song was number one for ages in my personal charts when it was released in 1968, great song!
That's an oboe. Almost unknown in pop music. Wonderful.
Played I believe by my Dad Jimmy Brown
Agreed, same as the sax. A nowadays often forgotten instrument..
The song would not be the same without it. Brilliant. 😊
@@Fortaguada I spent New Year's early morning in 2000, atop Fort Aguada in Goa. The motorbike taxis took us, as far as they could, we had to then clamber the rest of the way up on foot. Noice one, for the memory. Your Pop is/ was very talented, then - mad props to him. I love an oboe, sitar & harpsichord, three of the many instruments not used in western popular music nowadays. Golden Brown by The Stranglers, is one of my all-time favourite tracks, ever, not just for the harpsichord, but largely because :0)
One of the most brilliant songs ever written. A truly gem!
So simple ,so perfect !
THE SIMPLE ONE,S ALWAYS THE BEST. PEACE BE WITH YOU ALL MY FRIEND'S. 🙏✌️😎🏴
I bought this as a single all those years ago. Lovely tune well sung and performed. One of the softer numbers when you are in the mood.
I was only 16 when this beautiful song came into the charts. My dad really liked this simple tune, he wasn't a fan of pop music as he was tuned into a different era, I think he liked the fact had the name Maggie in it as my mom was Megan and he called her Meg. I think the back line was probably paid a session fee so weren't credited. Shame the arranger doesn't get a mention also. Such a magical song that evokes warm memories for me.
I loved this song when it first came out, and I never get sick of hearing it. Beautiful.
This song is one of my all time favourites. Decades ago hardly a week would go by before a song would surface, that I would regard as a classic. Today, hardly a day goes by before a song surfaces, that I would regard as a bag of unrefined shite. As far as today's music industry is concerned, R.I.P.
Well said, son!
absolutely, couldn't have put it better myself, now we have boy ' bands' and ' girl bands' and even more depressingly Adele, Ed sheeran etc, what a joke, I'm going to listen to beatles Abbey Road album and then commit suicide.
No flashy props, screaming background skimpy clothing, mumbo jumbo in songs such as this..Good Stuff aye. Peggy Wood (Aotearoa)
I'll send the flowers...thanks for the LaughOutLoud - very well-put!
I loved this song, I still remember every note and word to this day, in fact most of the songs of this era
Wonderful song. My father was 18 in 1969, he was still playing it in the 1970's, when my sister & me were growing up. Thank you, for posting this slice of nostalgia. Better, much happier times...
That was 1968, and you could sense it. Very nice song.
I was bowled over by this lovely song when it was a hit in 1968. 46 years on it's a good as ever. I'm sure Maggie (lots of them!) thought it was written especially for her. :-)
I got this 45 record in 1968 an I'm still playing it in 2009. Bring on the good times of of 1968.
What does Maggie stand for?? Any one know New Zealand
Maggie is short for Margaret, I live in New Zealand too.
@@kevinwood3211 Love affair Kevin..Another classic.Bringing on back the good Times..
OMGNSKSKNDNR HI TONY!! this is mental!! this was written about my auntie margarete and she has a little brother (my great uncle) called tony (i'm pretty sure)!!
classic 60's song from one hit wonders honeybus so beautiful a classic.
It makes me laugh these people who gives songs like this a thumbs down they haven't got a clue
I fully agree. It's such a lighthearted, lovely song, I can't think why anyone would give it a thumbs down, I'm happy just to enjoy this lovely song❤️❤️😊
@@curleymoo you have taste sir
Morons man. The Twenty First Century grows them on trees🌳
There's such tender beauty within this song lm in tears right now for what it evokes within me.
It's a great song but everyone has a right to their opinions. We all have different tastes. Don't be arrogant.
@@koleberdinoch926 i agree, i love this song, but i know others may not, doesn't put me off it though! 👍
Lovely laid back late sixties song of the times. Wonderful childhood memories. Wish we were back in those lovely relaxed tuneful times
Ditto. Oh, to be young again, to be that free & without care!
I love how the bass gently descends during the chorus
What a most lovely song from the fab 60s era ..i was part of those wonderful years .... memories to cherish until eternity xxx
it has to be said that in 30 -40 years we will still be listening to this and the Beatles etc and none of the current chart crap will get a look in on Gold music etc
YES YES YES and in 30 and 40 years they will still be listening shame we wont be here
Well that's the the acid test of quality music. Some of the present day garbage is forgotten 2 minutes later!! That's why the Stones are still touring because of the brilliant music, brilliant lyrics and a fantastic stage presence.Their music will live till the end of time alongside the other legendary stuff from the sixties / early seventies.
@@sansoucci5394 brilliant words its also why all these bands are touring again and are selling out all over the world. people say that music is the best in there days but in sixties seventies and eighties these bands were selling millions of singles and albums unlike today when a few thousand down loads and they have a best selling album..... yes you are correct it is CRAP !!!!!!!!!!!!!
@@kevinbeck6785 Bang on.. back in the day you would have bands and singers each selling hundreds of thousands of quality albums and millions of singles and it was a real fight to get to the top positions in the UK or US charts. Even artists in the middle of the charts were selling hundreds of thousands each week. Now with the internet any old kind of jiggery pokery involving downloads does lead to a record or album that has sold in miniscule amounts getting to the top of the "charts".and then in a matter of days it is forgotten by everyone. I wish ,like many others I could go back to those days when music was quality.
@@sansoucci5394 sansoucci thanks for your reply they were great times great music great clothes and the world was a great place to live in we need a time machine just to go back one more time. seen a lot of the bands but would have loved to have seen so many more !!!!!!!!
Anyone remember this as the soundtrack to the Nimble Advert ?
Sure do. Pleased I can at my age!
yeah
Yeah, that's how i found this :)
yeah, shamed it had to be used as music for a bread advert, i wonder if this bread is still sold? i doubt it .
Hovis make a loaf called Nimble but I don't know if its the same thing.
A perfect 60's pop song.
Love this - always have!
Colum Rogers agreed
Yes!
A masterpiece of poignant pop.
A gold medal to the arranger too [Tony Visconti?]. Easter '68 is my favourite time for pop songs.
I had just started school. I remember it being on the radio as my mum was getting me ready. A simpler, better, safer world. How I wish I could have those 50 years back. 😢
Nice,brings me back memoiries of my family in the sixties when everyting was simple, thanks!
great songs from the sixties, a wonderful decade.
We are 45 years on from the issue of this song and I never tire of it and never will.
Yeah. Reminds me of my mum, Maggie. One of a kind. Great song, love it
my oh my. a nostalgic youth is popping up, I went 14 in the summer of 68
Haven't heard this since the 60's, but I still remember it well. That goes to say how good this music is ! Such musicality is no longer to be found in today's run-off-the-mill pop 'music'. Many thanks for the upload.
Can't believe you've not heard this since the 70s! Where have you been man! Great tune though, :-)
***** Sir: If you have not heard this classic track by Honeybus - "I Can't Let Maggie Go" - since the late 1960s, then I think one can safely conclude that you were not a regular listener to the 'Golden Hour' on the Simon Bates show (on National Radio One) during the period of time between 1977 and 1990 (approx). You don't know what you were missing, Chris!
Moreover, it is somewhat unlikely that you were a regular listener to the "Double Top 10 Show" (also on Radio One) - a Sunday afternoon programme which, for many years, was presented by Sir Jimmy Savile. That said, I can't say that I blame you for that, sir - Savile (as we all now know) turned out to be a nonce case. In fact, the man was a ruthless, depraved and out-of-control sexual predator with no regard whatsoever for the law. What is more, he was nowhere near as good a radio presenter/'DJ' as he thought he was.
Indeed I've not watched any British pop TV shows. In fact I've hardly been into pop
since the 60's, being a classical musician.
But enjoying a spate of nostalgia recently, thanks to UA-cam. And I find many of those marvellous 60's hits sound like they've never been away. It beings back so many memories.
Such taste was also not to be found in most of the pop music of THAT time too. I have to say, I've enjoyed your interpretations of Romantic-era piano music for many years now, but I'm off put by this short-sighted comment.
Ah well, nobody's perfect ;-) It's probably nostalgia that makes me (and many others of my generation) think that pop music in the 60's was much better than it is now.
magic 60's pop song, so beautiful. a classic.
brilliant song from my childhood sixties, many thanks uploading this song
Memories of the sixties,great!
Great song and great production. Outstanding and one of the best singles of the sixties. A time full of the best singles ever.
The 60s and radio Caroline Radio London, great days.
Nimble bread springs to mind lol , great song
Hello Liz, How are you doing?
Such a feel good song. I wanted to see the band
Grazie honey bus,canzone bellissima che resterà in noi degli anni 50
I wa s alittle too young to have been a hippie but the world would be a better place if they had lasted, it must have been awesome to have been a part of that era, even now the singles of 68 have a very special place in my life and have probably made me the person that I am. Thank you.
Brilliant song - the melody manages to be both uplifting and wistful all at once. Pop music these days just isn't the same.
Today's music is not all bad.
@@daisychain3007 indeed, not ALL.
Good times, good days.lucky to have lived then, as these times count for less than nothing!
Played on the radio on my first car Ford Cortina in sasolburg South Africa
Gee Wizz. Dat's nice. Such a lovely little breezy, whimisical , sing along melody with lyrics that are so easy to follow & join in with . Recorded in the days that music was exactly that, simply enjoyable & wonderful to grow up with. The simple orchestral backing serves to enhance the singer's natural talent. No skimpy clothing, flashy props, screaming background needed .Peggy Wood (Aotearoa).
My parents used to play this lots when my sister and I were little; I'm only 18 but it reminds me of my childhood. Lovely song.
So optimistic and pastoral, great use of the oboe and bassoon, classic.
I was 18 when this was a hit. Reminds me of my youth. Great song!
So glad I have such a great song for me. Maggie. X
Hello Margaret, How are you doing?
A remember this song from growing up in the 70's watching Nimble bread adverts! But what a beautiful song!
Gentle,soothing and rhapsodic,totally delightful!!!
This was played at my Mums funeral her name was Margaret xx.❤
Remember this well. Another time, another era. Lovely happy days. Jeez how the world and people have changed
Grew up in the US. Never heard of this group or this song, but it's sooooo British 60s. Very cool.
Great song! Stays with us.
i loved this song from the first time i heard it on Radio Luxembourg riding high in the New Musical Express chart in the winter 1968....I still love it
Remember This Great Classic From An Absolutely Brilliant Advert. Remember This Very Well I Can Still See That Balloon. Thanks Guys For The Brilliant Harmonies.
I heard it on radio in the sixties how i wish i was there back then the world was yours and everything in it.
A timeless classic 👍 😊
Great song and lovely musik
It's called a lack of class..its still wonderful after 50 years
So many memories come flooding back.
This reminds me of my Mam this was her song Luv you Mam XX
Mine too. Breaks me. 😢
perfectly constructed pop song, a delight
16 when this was released, and played it on record plaayer at home, juke box in the pub and everywhere i went, such memories of great carefree days when life was simple and music was music so miss those days
Does anyone remember the bread advert, priceless!!
Yes, but it didn't use this version of the song. (The ad itself is on here somewhere.)
Worked with a fabulous looking dame called Maggie Bates back in 1968--we were both 17 but my love was unrequited!!! Lol
Thanks for the memories and the posting.
Fabulous Days that we all thought would never end, here we are 50 years later wondering where it all went. Great Songs and Times
Great song. The charts around time were a sheer delight. Chris Newman 🎼
Bit of trivia: Renowned musician Jennifer Paull played the cor anglais (English horn) heard at 1:40 and at the end (2:40). Great song!
You just dont hear the cor anglais so much in pop records these days
@@ianclarke1852 There are good musicians out there making incredible music now, but it's not as likely to get played on the radio.
@@orchplayers Very true. Great musicians who get little or no recognition and people with very little talent who become huge stars. I always appreciate good musicianship and the late sixties was a time when the cor anglais could make a big difference in a great pop record.
@@ianclarke1852 I agree, except that good arrangements extended well into the 70s, with a handful of exceptions even later than that. It was pop radio in the 70s that was my biggest influence to play oboe, actually! All those yummy Barry Manilow arrangements ("Weekend in New England" immediately comes to mind), Olivia Newton-John's "Have You Never Been Mellow", Stylistics "Betcha By Golly Wow", and Earle Dumler's peerless playing on all those classic Carpenter recordings.
A couple of the later examples were Madonna's "Crazy for You" from the 80's, and Seal's "Kiss from a Rose" in the 90's.
By the way, I used "Happy Together" by the Turtles for my wedding recessional performed by a group of friends, including an oboist friend playing 'the lick'!
i remember listening to this record while i was waiting in a cafe while my Velocette Thruxton was being made ready for me to ride away,still sounds good lots of memories
unbelievable beautiful and innocent.
for good.
all is just in the name of the group: honeybus.
who had the idea for the oboe ?
who´s done the arrangement ?
listen to the bassplayer.
the harmony´s are just incomprehensible.
they had just one hit.
this one sends out rays till this day.
who was maggie ??
Hello from Berlin, Germany - oh yeah, this one is so fine, havent heard or seen it for ages 😍👍
When this sweet song was a hit, London was a beautiful, safe city that was 25 years behind the States in every way.
I love the 'Englishness' of this song...'68 was a good year for pop...I like all the 60s anyway...
My lovely mum Margaret as a 60s child x thank you mum xx
as a rastaman i love this music when i first heard it play on the jukebox in a cafe where i use to live great then great now
classic
Sunny days, being young and loving the childhood! Grew up in a busy house in the sixties, The Monkees on the telly and the beatles on the charts! Can mind my mum warning my sister about Mick Jagger! Can smell it now!
Beatles came after - I loved the 60's what an amazing time for music .... amazing songs and bands.
I sometimes wish I was around during the time where music was actually from the soul...
Almost pastoral in its beauty and simplicity. Not heard on oldies radio as often as it should be (and I listen to a lot of it. Lovely song. Thanks for posting it.
spot on, sing this one with my bandand I love the sound of the obe and the strings. takes me into another world for a couple of min's. excellent. just something magic about what it captured, its pure summer days, like Theme from a summer place. Percy Faith.
reminds me of another world when i was a kid with no thoughts of anything but beautiful melody
😂 I had only remembered the Nimble bread advert with the songs on it but I got the song up on you tube and when I heard the full song it's very good and funny I love it 😂❤❤ I never heard of the pop group because it was before my time but the song is brilliant 😊❤
I bloody love this song
Sow do I man. 👍❤🇬🇧
Got this when I was at school, still sounds great and another Dream label .
Instant memory of when i was 8 years old with my family in St James park London SW1.
Grew up in England, love the memories, this used to ba Comercial for English bread