This song brings me to tears. I remember this song from when I was a very small kid. Both parents gone now and many years passed. I'm Irish but despite the accents, this song brings me back to my childhood when both my parents were around. I struggle with life a lot but this song transports me back..
An absolutely timeless powerhouse!! This is what being British is about! 🇬🇧 It can make a Brit that wasn't even there feel nostalgic! 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧
We are an Island & the centre of the Earth...The Heart Chakra is Glastonbury ..we have been separated into countries when all we ARE is Northerners & Southerners....Brothers & Sisters in life and spirit...much love to you all
The guy who wrote this lived on the next street to us in Manchester. Its such a lovely song and takes me back to a time when life so much simpler. I miss those days.
The line about the Good Lord taking Lowry to mop his brow - it's making me cry just writing about it. And that's less than 24 hours after repeatedly crying with laughter at another video - life really can be an emotional rollercoaster!
Here because my mum just told me she was one of the kids singing in the background, the amount of times I’ve heard this song and just now she tells me😃
Why does everyone live this song…….because it is simply simple and well sung. Time when England was a beautiful place to live and this song captures it marvellously. Was 13 and roller skating down the streets brilliant times now all gone❤
I heard this song playing in every house in our street. Everyone loved it. Happy days from the distant past, my parents now both gone and almost all those neighbours gone too.
I agree Caroline I was born and bred in Salford and it was lovely growing up there at the time , certainly times have changed and not always for the better !
Christ alive! Still as poignant as ever. First hear this tune when I lived in Leicester, I was about 4 and it’s stayed with me ever since. I’m 40 now and still sing this from time to time. Timeless classic
Listening with tears and sadness in my heart....this was a family'/childhood song..... Lost my best friend my Mum just before Christmas....I can't come to terms with the pain,...can anybody give me any peaceful words.....xxx
In 1978 I had a good job in engineering, 2 kids and everything seemed to be as it should be. I’m now 75 yrs old, live alone. I’m disappointed this country has been run by thief’s,liars and cheats to feather their own nests. No common sense or morality where lies is the normal.
@@whitesapphire5865 I think the song about the paintings is jolly (happy, cheery). See what you think (link to it below) ua-cam.com/video/kmopSVOMSsU/v-deo.html
@@pwmiles56 I know the meaning of Jolly, and this song is definitely not jolly. It's only about two beats to the bar short of a dirge. It was never meant to be jolly. It was always a wistful, melancholic reflection of the life of L.S. Lowry, condensed into the space of a 45rpm single. It must be a very sad world that can find jollity in this song.
@@whitesapphire5865 the tune of it is, thats the point, and its a tribute to a painter so again in that sense it is, more to it than just the lyrics. The tune is very much jolly, typical catchubnursery rhyme-like wholesome song and theres the wholesome inclusion of kids singing in it too
everytime i listen to this song it reminds my the last time i saw my 86 yr old great granddad this song is a song i will cherish for life and it will always bring back the memory of me sing this song to my great granddad in the nursing home visiting my great grandma before she unfortunately passed away 🥰😪
I was 12... Born in the mid sixties and grew up in the seventies.. Hard but magical times. The music in those two decades had just the most eclectic mix of sound and vision. Amazing memories from just one song.. Tears in my eyes now
Incredible song about an incredibly mundane life of a struggling artist striving for recognition, I have copied his paintings, they are very perpendicular & much more difficult than you would imagine, from an artists eye, he was unique & unwavering in his belief & died a Rich man unlike most artists...Love & best regards to the Soul who Housed him
This for me is a very emotional song because it feels like they have captured his life in just over 4 mins, from his early days of painting to his death.. Also reminds me of my childhood when life seemed so innocent
@Chris P, I agree, I loved this song when I was a child and used to sing along to it when it was on Top of the Pops. Now it always seems to make me cry and some of that is for my lost childhood.
@@chrisp2653 Perhaps we're just being nostalgic but I agree. People wrote letters, now they just email you. People used phone boxes, now the phone boxes have all disappeared. People visited Libraries to find out information, now they simply Google it. As a child I played outside all the time. Now children like to play computer games etc. People said "Hello" as they passed you on the street, now their heads look down at their phones as they pass you. I could go on... but it's making me depressed. 😞
@@TorkG8 it's very sad the way we live. I get down when I get nostalgic because those years are in the past. I turn 50 next April and I'm so glad I was bought up in the 70s and 80s, years of pure bliss compared to today.
I'm sat here, listening to such a pure song that reminds me of my youth, then my wife says she used to listen to this on the swings trying to do the revolution ..... such a lovely time
it was played at my nanans funeral i tolled myself not to cry in the song i endered up though i remember holding flowers wrapped in ribben in line wating to put it on her coffin crying miss you nan xxx
I am proud, every time I hear this song (at 52 years old) to have been born in Salford, Manchester and still live only 9 miles away, and my Dad born and brought up in Ancoats. Tune!
He painted a different world, one where manchester and most of the uk was a workshop, making everything from hairclips to ocean liners. Sad its all gone.
I am currently 46. My parents always said enjoy your school days, they will be the best of your life. Now, I have a very good life, money is not really a problem, but when I hear this type of song I always long for the more simpler, harder times in life. I think it is the togetherness communities used to have that I miss.
Jayden Styles My guess it's petty rival football teams/areas. This song was used as basis for a Celtic favourite. Other than this why would anyone berate it. It's classic!
I have always loved this song, its superb, it captures an amazing artist, singing and musician talent and a poignant message of how hard life can be all in one. Its quite unique & it will forever be heard.
Salford girl here. Born in hope lived on Chapel Street near town and ordsall... I remember moving to eccles when I was 9. My primary school teacher asked me to teach this song to the assembly. I had to stand up in assembly at 9 and teach lol Im 40 now This brings me to tears. I miss you dad, my mum is still here, but it all makes me so sad. I think he painted chapel street too. .
You northern folk have always been given a raw deal by the political elite in London. They don’t understand what community spirit is, something we used to have in London,but thats all gone here now too.
I was in the United States Air Force. RAF bentwaters near Woodbridge. My beautiful English bride and I remember sitting in our flat at felixstowe listening to Matchstick Men and matchstalk cats and dogs. She was 18 I was 27. One of the Fondest Memories of my whole life.
Yes we loved this in Liverpool in the 1970's as well, Brilliant. Do you all think that the Americans like this song. Do all people outside Great Britain no the History of the Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs.
I'm an American and not only very familiar with LS Lowry paintings but also love the uniqueness of his wonderful paintings/ This song is a wonderful tribute to Lowry and is the first time I've ever heard this great song.
Anyone watching in 2018? Omg did i just say twenty eighteen? I remember it like it was yesterday, playing on the mat (not a rug) with my starsky and hutch car, mam doing crosswords, dad messing about with his home brew, and id be dreading fools and horses, as much as i loved it, i knew that when the line "weve got some half priced cracked ice" played, it was bedtime. Im now 42 and miss those days dearly. Miss u mam and dad. Xxxxx
Remember calimero,my.younger sister Katy always cried at the end ,we would make fun of her 6 years of age ,Scottish family.7 of us all alive and still joking. 🤭😋
Nice memories for me...sunday afternoon no tv programmes on..radio and record player on..mam baking corned beef pies..warm memories and now a lump in my throat..
Aye up a 52-year-old working class Northern bloke here. I took my daughter when she was 8 to a local art gallery. I knew that they were showing a few lowreys. She saw them and she was pointing at everything. Today, his painting sold for £6,3m. Not bad for an ordinary Northern bloke. Aye, I'll doff my cap to him.
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He came to open our art exhibition at Central Library in Manchester. He liked my painting of farmhouse n hens. Our school had farmland. On the N edge of that great city of Industrial Revolution Revolution. Lowry saw all the little people who worked that change.
What is truly disturbing is the generations he sang about grew up in piss poor poverty, sacrificed themselves through too world wars and those that survived died in neglected nursing homes while their hard earned money was spent on the dole, single mothers and NHS tourists...
Memories of a time when life was good and we had nothing to fear and everyone got along with everyone else sadly times that will never ever be with us again
Erm, "before the match" makes me think you support the evil red lot from just outside of Manchester? Nevertheless I'll forgive you your sins because I too went round the Lowry recently. I've been to many gallery's before, including Picasso's in Barca, but none have touched and entranced me like this. My wife is American, she couldn't understand the attraction but I suppose anyone not born and raised in a mill town or city ever will.
+Bods only mention this because well I suppose shows how movable boundaries are.Thatcher changed the boundaries around "the theatre :)" it was M16 back in the day"Old Trafford "..
A true Salfordian knows every single word to this song, and it's always the last song of the night at any wedding, birthday party, christening, 18th, 21st , funeral or any other Salfordian get together. A classic song about a truly remarkable son of Salford.
What the bloody hells a Salfordian???? Never heard of it, tho heard of Mancs! From a Bury born Man U supporter. Btw, I'm a Lancastrian, not a Bury 'ian' FYI dad born in Salford, he's never heard of a salfordian either...!
Laurence Stephen Lowry bring back happy and sad memories for many people and died age 88 and now I am 83 perhaps I will be remembered by many after I have passed away.
What a tune. And what a legacy. I'm from Salford and it makes me smile every time I hear this. There's not many cities that have a song written about there past. Its truly a beautiful song.
I agree wiv u, I'm a salfordian also and it's not often our city gives us somet to smile about but thanks to Lowry the legend we can smile wiv pride and hold r Salford heads high xx
Became part of my life. Probably i romanticise, but honoring his legacy as as artist myself, on seemingly a different path. Hopefully honesty does not have different paths.
Became part of my life. Probably i romanticise, but honoring his legacy as as artist myself, on seemingly a different path. Hopefully honesty does not have different paths.
I remember coming out of work at lunchtime and seeing Lowery sat across the road painting the factory. It was Metros/AEI in Trafford Park, I was just an apprentice at the time. We also had a visit from Yuri Gagarin (the first man in space) two things from that time I will never forget.
I still listen to this in 2019,I wud happily travel to Manchester to listen to Street Buskers singing this,And I wud very Happily Put a Scottish £20 Note In their Hat or Box,Very Happily wud do this without a Doubt,I wud even Come down in my Kilt,
One of the best I remember when I lived in cobbled street in hulme a mile or so from Salford.....wore clogs and rember kicking the cobbles with the studs in me clogs and making sparks...lovely memories
Class...the first record I ever got from my Grandma as it was No 1...I still get very emotional now listening to it. God Bless Grandma I Love you...RIP your in my Heart xxxx
sorry if you got that idea , no it wasn't meant to be , just if your 9 get creative rather than play your xbox for 50 hours a day , my pic i drew , was just saying your young enough to learn i'm not I'm stuck , i use a hb pencil and white paper , thats my capability , wish i could use paints , i drew polar bears on snow
I think every kid on our council estate knew this song when we were kids , even though we from north London., still remains the song that reminds me of my old home town..
So proud of the people Lowry painted, the "Northern folk" are the salt of old England! he was a true Northern working class man, I for one am proud of him, he never forsook his working class roots or where he came from for any amount of money/fame!...rare! as a footnote, Im not from Manc, but have been there, friendly people, great city, should be the Capital of England
Reminds me of my childish in Walkden we’re I was born amongst all the cotton mills my mam worked in them and I followed suit also we were fetched up on brass bands Lowrie became my favourite artist
Me and my family grew up in walkden in the seventies we lived at 65 Manchester road my mum and dad were called joe and Kathleen daley and my brothers Sean Patrick glen Micheal Christian sisters Kay and Joanne we emigrated to America in 1985 but still have brothers and 1 sister still living one in Bolton the others walkden little Hulton not sure if the name rings a bell
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This song brings me to tears. I remember this song from when I was a very small kid. Both parents gone now and many years passed. I'm Irish but despite the accents, this song brings me back to my childhood when both my parents were around. I struggle with life a lot but this song transports me back..
Thats absolutely lovely ❤
Yes Mark brings happy memories to me too
Also am Irish 😅
My mum played this to me as a kid to put me to sleep
Stay strong.
Other than i'm not Irish - I can totally relate to this; where did all the time go; where did all the people go..
An absolutely timeless powerhouse!!
This is what being British is about! 🇬🇧
It can make a Brit that wasn't even there feel nostalgic! 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧 🇬🇧
I agree with you! 🇬🇧🇩🇪
Best Wishes from Germany
We are an Island & the centre of the Earth...The Heart Chakra is Glastonbury ..we have been separated into countries when all we ARE is Northerners & Southerners....Brothers & Sisters in life and spirit...much love to you all
@@bpcroofingservices4912England isn't an island. Us Scots and Welsh disagree. So would the folk on the Isle of Wight or Lindisfarne.
@@thursoberwick1948 What a silly reply, England isnt an Island????
You are obviously vaccinated
The guy who wrote this lived on the next street to us in Manchester. Its such a lovely song and takes me back to a time when life so much simpler. I miss those days.
So do I.
@@serendavies7375 wishing I could turn back the clock. 🙂
@@bertie_magoo yeah, so would I ☺
@@serendavies7375 🙂
This song always gets me😢. Memories of singing this in the seventies with my Gran❤
The line about the Good Lord taking Lowry to mop his brow - it's making me cry just writing about it. And that's less than 24 hours after repeatedly crying with laughter at another video - life really can be an emotional rollercoaster!
Ditto xxx
Me too it's so sad 😢
First single I brought when I was about 7 years old, 50 years later still always last track of the night after a few beers when I’m on my own!
Yes indeed
Same
Here because my mum just told me she was one of the kids singing in the background, the amount of times I’ve heard this song and just now she tells me😃
ua-cam.com/video/pFafPqsW3Cg/v-deo.html&ab_channel=MatchstalkMenBand
What a beautiful story to a gorgeous song
That's a great memory to have now
*number of times.
Why does everyone live this song…….because it is simply simple and well sung. Time when England was a beautiful place to live and this song captures it marvellously. Was 13 and roller skating down the streets brilliant times now all gone❤
This song always brings me to tears. Memories of a fabulous childhood and the joy of simple times 💛
I am 77 and this took me back, even though we had nothing we were a lot happier in them days.
I heard this song playing in every house in our street. Everyone loved it. Happy days from the distant past, my parents now both gone and almost all those neighbours gone too.
I am so sorry. Sending hugs. My dad has gone now. I'm a salford girl 40, and I miss my dad. Just mum now
Thankyou, stay strong@@sammy5674
I wish we could bring bk the old days, without social media & fear for everyone, I really do, some changes are good, but some are NOT!
I agree Caroline I was born and bred in Salford and it was lovely growing up there at the time , certainly times have changed and not always for the better !
Christ alive! Still as poignant as ever. First hear this tune when I lived in Leicester, I was about 4 and it’s stayed with me ever since. I’m 40 now and still sing this from time to time. Timeless classic
This song reminds me of childhood and happier times 💙
Same. It just makes me cry now.
@@TorkG8 I know what you mean, very emotive nostalgic song 🙏
Listening with tears and sadness in my heart....this was a family'/childhood song..... Lost my best friend my Mum just before Christmas....I can't come to terms with the pain,...can anybody give me any peaceful words.....xxx
In 1978 I had a good job in engineering, 2 kids and everything seemed to be as it should be.
I’m now 75 yrs old, live alone.
I’m disappointed this country has been run by thief’s,liars and cheats to feather their own nests.
No common sense or morality where lies is the normal.
Love Lowry's painting and this song - it's so jolly it should be rereleased nowadays.
"Jolly" ??
@@whitesapphire5865 I think the song about the paintings is jolly (happy, cheery). See what you think (link to it below)
ua-cam.com/video/kmopSVOMSsU/v-deo.html
@@whitesapphire5865 Happy?
@@pwmiles56 I know the meaning of Jolly, and this song is definitely not jolly. It's only about two beats to the bar short of a dirge. It was never meant to be jolly. It was always a wistful, melancholic reflection of the life of L.S. Lowry, condensed into the space of a 45rpm single.
It must be a very sad world that can find jollity in this song.
@@whitesapphire5865 the tune of it is, thats the point, and its a tribute to a painter so again in that sense it is, more to it than just the lyrics. The tune is very much jolly, typical catchubnursery rhyme-like wholesome song and theres the wholesome inclusion of kids singing in it too
everytime i listen to this song it reminds my the last time i saw my 86 yr old great granddad this song is a song i will cherish for life and it will always bring back the memory of me sing this song to my great granddad in the nursing home visiting my great grandma before she unfortunately passed away 🥰😪
Love it...still brings tear to my eye....love from the emerald isle ❤️
A lovely record. A fine and lasting tribute to a humble and great man.
True 😁
Lowery did not seek fame , humble quiet lovely man.....makes grown men cry this song as it does me, GO BLESS L S !!!!
I was 12... Born in the mid sixties and grew up in the seventies.. Hard but magical times. The music in those two decades had just the most eclectic mix of sound and vision. Amazing memories from just one song.. Tears in my eyes now
Same here.
Me also. Great tune to evoke memories like Seasons in the Sun ☀ 💫 ✌🏼
@@mattychapati It was an Xmas song too....magical memories
Incredible song about an incredibly mundane life of a struggling artist striving for recognition, I have copied his paintings, they are very perpendicular & much more difficult than you would imagine, from an artists eye, he was unique & unwavering in his belief & died a Rich man unlike most artists...Love & best regards to the Soul who Housed him
This for me is a very emotional song because it feels like they have captured his life in just over 4 mins, from his early days of painting to his death.. Also reminds me of my childhood when life seemed so innocent
@Chris P, I agree, I loved this song when I was a child and used to sing along to it when it was on Top of the Pops. Now it always seems to make me cry and some of that is for my lost childhood.
@@TorkG8 I would love to get those days back. No worries,life was simple and a slower pace of life.
@@chrisp2653 Perhaps we're just being nostalgic but I agree. People wrote letters, now they just email you. People used phone boxes, now the phone boxes have all disappeared. People visited Libraries to find out information, now they simply Google it. As a child I played outside all the time. Now children like to play computer games etc. People said "Hello" as they passed you on the street, now their heads look down at their phones as they pass you. I could go on... but it's making me depressed. 😞
... and I bet someone replies to me saying "OK Boomer" before too long... lol 🙄
@@TorkG8 it's very sad the way we live. I get down when I get nostalgic because those years are in the past. I turn 50 next April and I'm so glad I was bought up in the 70s and 80s, years of pure bliss compared to today.
I'm sat here, listening to such a pure song that reminds me of my youth, then my wife says she used to listen to this on the swings trying to do the revolution ..... such a lovely time
Always brings a tear to my eyes. Reminds me of my nan and grandad x
Me too mate, feel your pain
it was played at my nanans funeral i tolled myself not to cry in the song i endered up though i remember holding flowers wrapped in ribben in line wating to put it on her coffin crying miss you nan xxx
woñderful sat here crying remembering my youth
I know,very emotional tune
David Worrall, life a bit rough lately?
.......... says greenfingers gardener.
David Worrall I was 9 when I was your age!
Bless!
I am proud, every time I hear this song (at 52 years old) to have been born in Salford, Manchester and still live only 9 miles away, and my Dad born and brought up in Ancoats. Tune!
Big up the Broughton massive ✌️
You are old?
I have to say I always aim to visit The Lowry whenever I can get to visit my family in Northwich and Manchester
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He painted a different world, one where manchester and most of the uk was a workshop, making everything from hairclips to ocean liners. Sad its all gone.
THE VERY BEST OF BRITISH, Best Wishes fro Over't hill ere in Yorkshire.
We Like a Banter, But We Love you Loads In Manc's, / Lanc's Area
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That’s true but with my job I can work from home in luxury and not have to wear ‘clothes that have seen better days’ so it’s not all bad!
@@morsmagne prick
Salford
lad in prison in strangeways , told em only thing ever made me CRY WAS THIS SONG makes ME CRY !!
Lets not lie Who singing along with this?
Memories of living in Manchester Way back in the 70!s Good times
So long ago
Och well!! My memories will be remembered!!
Salford
I am currently 46. My parents always said enjoy your school days, they will be the best of your life. Now, I have a very good life, money is not really a problem, but when I hear this type of song I always long for the more simpler, harder times in life. I think it is the togetherness communities used to have that I miss.
Me to buddy
Happy Birthday Dad 💔 gone but never forgotten xx
Why are there any "dislikes" u clicked on the song! u know what its about so why dislike it???? this song is amazing :D
This is the best song written about the masses in the north west- like an anthem to us up here!
Jayden Styles My guess it's petty rival football teams/areas. This song was used as basis for a Celtic favourite. Other than this why would anyone berate it. It's classic!
Dave K Totally agree, it is a classic. By the way I'm a Liverpool supporter.
BonnieKenzie I'm also a fan of the reds.
Probably southerners.lol
i love the old tunes so many memories of my dear much loved n best mum eva xxx fanku mum xxx
No such thing as an 'old' tune...just classics
I have always loved this song, its superb, it captures an amazing artist, singing and musician talent and a poignant message of how hard life can be all in one. Its quite unique & it will forever be heard.
Salford girl here. Born in hope lived on Chapel Street near town and ordsall... I remember moving to eccles when I was 9. My primary school teacher asked me to teach this song to the assembly. I had to stand up in assembly at 9 and teach lol
Im 40 now
This brings me to tears. I miss you dad, my mum is still here, but it all makes me so sad. I think he painted chapel street too. .
You northern folk have always been given a raw deal by the political elite in London.
They don’t understand what community spirit is, something we used to have in London,but thats all gone here now too.
My grandads favourite. It was played 3 days ago at his funeral. My chest hurts so much 💔
I am so sorry for your loss, my friend. He'll always be with you.
g'awd bless u sorry for ur loss and grandad will always loook down on u xxx
☹️😭
Your heart hurt with love for him he will always be with you merry Christmas ❤️😘😄
sorry to hear :(
people think he was just a northerner artist but if you just sit back and look at the detail in his work it is fantastic what a great un selfish guy.
The detail is amazing ,like aA photo ❤
I was in the United States Air Force. RAF bentwaters near Woodbridge. My beautiful English bride and I remember sitting in our flat at felixstowe listening to Matchstick Men and matchstalk cats and dogs. She was 18 I was 27. One of the Fondest Memories of my whole life.
How old is the dear wife now, as im originally from Felixstowe
@@christophergarrard5210 hello Christopher, Beverly is 59 I am 69. We have one daughter and three granddaughters. We live in Delaware USA now.
Mauro that's a lovely memory for you both.
It's a masterpiece of a song that is a fact.
Such a lovely heartfelt song.
Just brilliant.
This song will never be forgotten ever
Just like the streets of London (Ralph McTell ) a great subject, great song.
A True One Hit Wonder!, No 1 in UK!.
Should have bought a couple of pics back i 79:(
Yes we loved this in Liverpool in the 1970's as well, Brilliant. Do you all think that the Americans like this song. Do all people outside Great Britain no the History of the Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs.
I'm an American and not only very familiar with LS Lowry paintings but also love the uniqueness of his wonderful paintings/ This song is a wonderful tribute to Lowry and is the first time I've ever heard this great song.
like lowry I was born in stretford so hats off to the legend
*No mobile phones to hide behind in them days - people used to speak to each other*
Reminds me of Saturday mornings, watching Swap Shop.
I remember that and Saturday superstore.
AS LONG AS NOT ROLF !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
***** I remember that too.
Me too Robert
Tiswas represent!
With the help of the Tintwistle Brass Band and St Winnifreds School Choir. Wonderful.
I am another fan of Matchstalk Mwen and Match Stalk Cats and Dogs. I love all of LS Lowry's paintings. 🙂❤
Heard it again after all these years at a touchscreen in Stockport museum.
A song of old but certainly good times gone by.
LS Lowry's Going to the Match [1953] depicts Burnden Park, Manchester
Road, Bolton, the former home of Bolton Wanderers Football Club.
I'm from Bolton
this was the only song I heard my wife sing . I lost her last year and this brings her back for a moment
first heard this in primary school in year 5 which was about 8 years ago. it popped into my head the other day
Sameeeeee
When times were a lot more innocent,. Great times,. Can we go back please
Still listening 2019.
Always Rose Marie 🍀🌹🥂👍🙏🏻
Thank you matthew.
Rose Marie Walsh me too 😊
stuartellis2 🥂👍🙏🏻
Make it 2020
For me
Like a Lowry..a masterpiece
REMINDS ME OF MY WORKING DAYS AND POOR WIFE go bless her xxxxx
I have not heard for years i love this song 💕💕💕
Alan Partridge always comes to mind listening to this
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sam
I love L.S.Lowry, he did something a lot of people can't do. He found beauty in gritty mid-century Manchester
LeilahLola totally , love this , so true and honest xx
Salford not Manchester ;)
+soddof actually he painted alot over manchester not just salford and alot of his paintings are from my home town stockport x
+Kelly Thistleton Boyce and parts of ancoats where i used to play.
Kelly Thistleton Boyce you tell them...ignorant priks....we like it....sod em all
Anyone watching in 2018? Omg did i just say twenty eighteen? I remember it like it was yesterday, playing on the mat (not a rug) with my starsky and hutch car, mam doing crosswords, dad messing about with his home brew, and id be dreading fools and horses, as much as i loved it, i knew that when the line "weve got some half priced cracked ice" played, it was bedtime. Im now 42 and miss those days dearly. Miss u mam and dad. Xxxxx
It seems like we are actually the same person!
Hear hear mate.tootrue
2019!!
John Slack I’m a tad bit older than u and I totally get it!!! 2019 and still listening and have been for years , a real family favourite 👍🏾
I first heard this being played on swap shop still a brilliant song
Used to sing this to my younger sisters///crying as i type!!
Remember calimero,my.younger sister Katy always cried at the end ,we would make fun of her 6 years of age ,Scottish family.7 of us all alive and still joking. 🤭😋
Number 1 in the UK the day I was born (April 21, 1978)
this song was my dead mother's favourite songs i record this one for her goodbye mum this is for her.
Met these guys doing a gig in my local....amazing humanists and beautiful people :)
Brings back so many memories, being a Salford boy 😃
Nice memories for me...sunday afternoon no tv programmes on..radio and record player on..mam baking corned beef pies..warm memories and now a lump in my throat..
Aye up a 52-year-old working class Northern bloke here. I took my daughter when she was 8 to a local art gallery. I knew that they were showing a few lowreys. She saw them and she was pointing at everything. Today, his painting sold for £6,3m. Not bad for an ordinary Northern bloke. Aye, I'll doff my cap to him.
He came to open our art exhibition at Central Library in Manchester. He liked my painting of farmhouse n hens. Our school had farmland. On the N edge of that great city of Industrial Revolution Revolution. Lowry saw all the little people who worked that change.
Love all the old songs love them to bits xxxxxx
its a masterpiece!!!!....and the music is pretty good as well!!!
What is truly disturbing is the generations he sang about grew up in piss poor poverty, sacrificed themselves through too world wars and those that survived died in neglected nursing homes while their hard earned money was spent on the dole, single mothers and NHS tourists...
Sad, but so true! That's why I'm Yorkshireman, now happily living in Tasmania!
You nailed it……so true. I moved to Texas 25 years ago and rarely do I look back. The song brings back memories though.
Oh, you absolute scum...
Im from Cardiff and I can't stop playing this song class
I may be from Redcar but I love this song (R I P )
my mum who sadly past on this year had the painting on her wall for years x
i’m 17 and i wish i was around in this day and age, it was much better then the present (2019)
No it wasn’t , but Vote Labour
Being poor and dying young wasn't good. People fought for rights. stop the slide backwards. 👍
dave denton no thanks
mester Manchester obviously that wasn’t good but i hate how people are today. it might just be me who feels this way.
@@jamo1793 you sound like you've got your head screwed on for a seventeen year old. 👍
Memories of a time when life was good and we had nothing to fear and everyone got along with everyone else sadly times that will never ever be with us again
You know it my friend.
You're an idiot.
livold How old are you 5 grow up sonny.
ManMultiBusa He thinks the world was peachy and great when he was little. No, he just didn't give a shit back then.
Ian Robertson Wow, and all without a basic knowledge of punctuation.
walking round "the Lowry" before the match,lovely new year's eve..
Jay 67 HAPPY New Year
Sam Armo of a sudden urge the president of the year before that I have a great way to get the best chance
Gary Dunning
Erm, "before the match" makes me think you support the evil red lot from just outside of Manchester? Nevertheless I'll forgive you your sins because I too went round the Lowry recently. I've been to many gallery's before, including Picasso's in Barca, but none have touched and entranced me like this. My wife is American, she couldn't understand the attraction but I suppose anyone not born and raised in a mill town or city ever will.
+Bods only mention this because well I suppose shows how movable boundaries are.Thatcher changed the boundaries around "the theatre :)" it was M16 back in the day"Old Trafford "..
Sat here waiting for a parcel.. Thinking of my youth and growing up in the 70s.great memories.. Know every word
Just brill even after all these years x
A true Salfordian knows every single word to this song, and it's always the last song of the night at any wedding, birthday party, christening, 18th, 21st , funeral or any other Salfordian get together.
A classic song about a truly remarkable son of Salford.
Carlisle man co wrote it-
What the bloody hells a Salfordian???? Never heard of it, tho heard of Mancs! From a Bury born Man U supporter. Btw, I'm a Lancastrian, not a Bury 'ian' FYI dad born in Salford, he's never heard of a salfordian either...!
I love you this song and I'm a Londoner
@@asseyez-vous6492 man u and you don't know what a Salfordian is lol man u are salfordian
I love this song i am from Dublin Ireland
I play rugby and this is our song thanks
Laurence Stephen Lowry bring back happy and sad memories for many people and died age 88 and now I am 83 perhaps I will be remembered by many after I have passed away.
What a tune. And what a legacy. I'm from Salford and it makes me smile every time I hear this. There's not many cities that have a song written about there past. Its truly a beautiful song.
I agree wiv u, I'm a salfordian also and it's not often our city gives us somet to smile about but thanks to Lowry the legend we can smile wiv pride and hold r Salford heads high xx
It most certainly is 😊
Became part of my life. Probably i romanticise, but honoring his legacy as as artist myself, on seemingly a different path. Hopefully honesty does not have different paths.
Became part of my life. Probably i romanticise, but honoring his legacy as as artist myself, on seemingly a different path. Hopefully honesty does not have different paths.
oh this is such a wonderful and beautiful song
I remember coming out of work at lunchtime and seeing Lowery sat across the road painting the factory. It was Metros/AEI in Trafford Park, I was just an apprentice at the time. We also had a visit from Yuri Gagarin (the first man in space) two things from that time I will never forget.
There's no such thing as "space" dude. It's 2018. You are God. Time to wake up...
Aww you two have so nice comments! Sweet xxx
Nowadays...
He sits on the corner,on a bench near his home,does our Mr Lowry.
@@nedfromthehill3475 that's what we ... everyone called it in the 1960s; space.
Amazing and wonderful memory
I still listen to this in 2019,I wud happily travel to Manchester to listen to Street Buskers singing this,And I wud very Happily Put a Scottish £20 Note In their Hat or Box,Very Happily wud do this without a Doubt,I wud even Come down in my Kilt,
This song has a quality that can't be defined, much like the paintings. Wonderful, they shouldn't be good yet are brilliant.
i got no idea what it is with this song but i can't stop playing it !! help i need help
One of the best I remember when I lived in cobbled street in hulme a mile or so from Salford.....wore clogs and rember kicking the cobbles with the studs in me clogs and making sparks...lovely memories
"And Lowry said thats just the way they'll stay " such a beautiful lyric
Class...the first record I ever got from my Grandma as it was No 1...I still get very emotional now listening to it. God Bless Grandma I Love you...RIP your in my Heart xxxx
When life was simple ❤
1978 !!!! good lord,,it was like yesterday
I visited Manchester and Oldham for an interview the other day. Visited 'The Lowry', and went on: # The ally ally oh! The ally ally oh! # Terrific!
Makes me proud to be Northern...
Im only 9 and i love this song
if your only 9 , teach yourself to draw or paint
Ok is that meant to be mean?
sorry if you got that idea , no it wasn't meant to be , just if your 9 get creative rather than play your xbox for 50 hours a day , my pic i drew , was just saying your young enough to learn i'm not I'm stuck , i use a hb pencil and white paper , thats my capability , wish i could use paints , i drew polar bears on snow
i dont have a tv or any thing
get pencil and paper , where you from ?
I think every kid on our council estate knew this song when we were kids , even though we from north London., still remains the song that reminds me of my old home town..
Bring memorise, I miss you dad...
Love the northern Ascent. Brilliant 👍
This song takes me back to my Lancashire childhood. A real comforting song. Brass bands, walking days, Morris dancing. Playing out till it got dark.
So proud of the people Lowry painted, the "Northern folk" are the salt of old England! he was a true Northern working class man, I for one am proud of him, he never forsook his working class roots or where he came from for any amount of money/fame!...rare! as a footnote, Im not from Manc, but have been there, friendly people, great city, should be the Capital of England
Bakewell yes NEWCASTLE
Another Great City of the North love you from Derby of the Midlands
Manchester, second rate birmingham innit
Whoo hoo do we care
@@FlourescentPotato err no Birmingham is a shitheap!
Reminds me of my childish in Walkden we’re I was born amongst all the cotton mills my mam worked in them and I followed suit also we were fetched up on brass bands Lowrie became my favourite artist
Me and my family grew up in walkden in the seventies we lived at 65 Manchester road my mum and dad were called joe and Kathleen daley and my brothers Sean Patrick glen Micheal Christian sisters Kay and Joanne we emigrated to America in 1985 but still have brothers and 1 sister still living one in Bolton the others walkden little Hulton not sure if the name rings a bell
Brian & Michael, top tune and subject