The Xmas School Disco 1972. Bowie, T-Rex, Alice Cooper, Slade, Mott, and Elton John are making all the very young dudes and girls jump around with youthful joy. This track by The Move has would-be young rockers bop around the dance floor. Looking back, it is a brilliant take on Jerry Lee Lewis but we are far too young to realize this. Many of my old school friends are sadly no longer here, but I hope they are dancing to this great song wherever they are now.
1972, I was 19 years old,doing my hairdressing apprentiship ,Leicester rd Loughborough,the builders were working on the property next door and Dennis (one of the builders) from Syston stood outside the shop with a spade pretending it was a guitar singing this to me. ! I have never heard it since until today. The best times remembered. ....
The 'B' side of "California Man" was Jeff Lynne's "Do Ya", it was more popular in the USA than Roy Wood's 'A' side. "Do Ya" scored a minor hit over there reaching # 97 in the Billboard Top 100.
I know that the miming is pretty obvious, but what a band! Jeff Lynne, Bev Bevan and of course, the great Roy Wood. Plus all the others, of course. Fantastic!
Brilliant, I remember this well, it got me into Rock 'n' Roll. Roy Wood went on to form Wizzard, and did solo work, much of got into the charts. His work was a nod to the early 1970s Rock 'n' Roll revival, whilst still being original, and not just derivitave. I remember Little Richard, in a radio interview, describing Roy Wood as "The Prince of Rock and Roll". Well deserved.
I expect they're both a bit beyond that now.. it's a bit like a few years ago someone commented under a Kelly Monteith video "I wish he'd come back", and I replied "he's in his late 70s"
At a time when the charts had some meaning, this record reached no 7 and was performed several times on Top of the Pops in 1972. I used to watch it and hoped the Move would be shown. It is a most memorable record and fine vocal contrasts between the two singers.
It's 2:30 AM, I'm 66 years old but feeling like 106. Been sitting here meandering around UA-cam for hours applying a little self-administered music therapy - Hurricane Smith, the Carpenters, The Hollies, Anne Murray - and what's this? The Move?! Raucous, joyful silliness! Time to have myself a dish of ice cream and go to bed to dream of happier days, past and future!
Mate i am 74 & remember clear as day all the best lates 60s/70s like yesterday my top fave is "born to boogie" & in the sumer time, mungo jerry, will bop till i drop. 😛
Totally agree. And brilliant drumming at 1.17 I seem to think there is a verse missing from this performance, because I remember another drum fill as well as 1.17, that was even cleverer. IMO this blew away everything else in the hit parade that month. Yes, it's a parody, but the guys got right to the absolute essence of rock and roll. Hugely underrated raw talent and professionalism.
I got that. ;-) Wondering why few others have... There is SO MUCH about this vid/performance that HAD to have influenced some set people on a certain project, a few years later, that has, by now, become iconic in American 'cult film' genres... ;-)
Never seen footage of Jeff Lynne looking so animated and jolly. Meanwhile Roy Wood performs a song written by Lynne which is very much a template of Wizzard (along with the costumes) as a member of The Move whilst also being in ELO at the same time. Happy days.
I wanted to let you know that "the Move" was a warm up band for Led Zeppelin" in some year.. and Led Zeppelin came out early and held an impromptu jam session with the move.. read this on linear notes on the Moving On move album I own. well I was in the Hard Rock Cafe in Baltimore one time and they had this drum set on a shelf. it had a note that it was the drum set used in this session! I think I was the only person who looked at that set in the restaurant with the prior knowledge of this event! I was so freaking excited but no one could share in my rapture!
John Bonham played drums on Roy Wood's "Keep Your Hands On The Wheel, Said Marie To The Driver", the song was released on Wood's 1979 solo album "On The Road Again".
But it was written by Roy Wood seen here. Cheap Trick had a lot more refined technology to work with but they aren't in the same class of musicians as The Move who became ELO.
How fantastic was that!!, I remember rushing out to buy this and I wore it out lol, Suck talented musicians, Englands finest. I honestly believe this stands up with any other immortal true rock and roll record ever released, Respect to both Roy and Jeff. PC, I saw Roy with Wizard in the 70s, he is tiny, about 5 foot tall, he was living with another British singer "Lyndsey De Paul" and she was about the same height ,lol they looked like little dolls when you saw them off stage
The overlapping stuff just wipes my brain out. Do you realize how many layers of musicians there are here? I am a California Man myself. so this if potent.
Even as a kid I felt this was one of the most perfect drumming performances ever - the drummer just keeps carrying the song to new new heights and beats. Incredible performance.
What a song woody at his best sharing Vocals with Jeff final single from the most underrated group ever slightly different mix on this version.woody fan for 56 year's and still listening to the very underated Mr wood rock now
@@zachsmith3 "um that's a stretch" Happens in the music sector all the time. Differentiate one member from another, give them a 'personality'. Sell more on that basis ("which one do YOU like best?") Drummers are often thought of as stupid anyway, so half of the work was done. Not rocket science.
Oh I've never seen this before. Jeff is looking like he is having fun, and I've never seen him on stage playing piano. He's so darn cute. Thanks so much for posting!!
Cheap Trick's version of this, is an open love letter to Roy and the rest of these fellers. The touch of putting Brontosaurus as the bridge on their version, only hardcore fans of the Move, would've made that call.
Only a couple of ELO w/Roy Wood songs worth listening to. Most of the first album is tosh. From Eldorado onwards ELO were golden. Not sure any songs from Roy's WIzzard Brew (as much as I like it) could be compared to the amazing Eldorado........
Brilliant record, lyrics and video, BUT I find it amazing how they can actually PLAY the instruments and sing when performing like that. AND YES I do know they are only acting, but it's still great.
Roy Wood can do no wrong in my eyes. Roy Wood, Jeff Lynne, Bev Bevan - 3 of the greats
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Has this ever been performed by the Muppets ?
I'm asking for a friend.
Roy Wood is a 'true' origional! All great and multi-talented! Really enjoy, their music here...in 2023!
We had some unbelievable bands in the late 60s and early 70s. Move right up there with the best
One of my all time favourite groups. Grew up with the move then went on to Wizzard and ELO. So much talent, so much fun.
Roy Wood - The undisputed KING of ROCK N ROLL!!!
Must be amongst the best ever sax style rock n roll songs ever, by anyone.
He's definitely the greatest artist in my lifetime and I'm almost 71. He's still brilliant in 2023❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Everything Wood was involved in was excellent . . . and still sound great
This song, i loved it in my youth!!! And now - 45 years later - it's the same old feeling!!!! Incredible!!!!!!!! Thank's a lot, Roy and Jeff!!!!!
To Manfred Beuth: This was a great song. It was number one on the BBC charts for six weeks, and I thought it would never come down.
Not that good
@@eddyvideostaryou must have been dreaming then! California Man by The Move never even made the top 5 in the UK. It peaked at number 7.
This is so great. I knew this awesome song from Cheap Trick, the sparkle in it comes through no matter how it’s rendered.
This isn’t Cheap Trick’s song, it’s the original and Cheap Trick covered it, but both versions are great!
@@matthewpage848Yep. And Cheap Trick's version ROCKS!
God, the days when we went straight to the record shop with our pocket money!! Played this on a loop in 1972 and drove everyone mad!! Ha Ha!
I think what you you mean is, you put it on your record player and left the return arm open so the record kept playing.
Roy Wood has always been brilliant, and is still making great music.
The first single I ever bought, this and Coz I luv u by Slade. Love them both still xx
You can see birth of ELO and Wizzard in this video
Really? Sounds just like the amazing Woody to me. The terrible Lynne's ELO sounded nowt like this.
IAIN BARTLETT Elo were brill to you uncircumcised philistine
trouble is the move were better than either
IAIN BARTLETT IF JEFF LYNNE"S *MUSIC* IS TERRIBLE WTF ARE YOU LISTENING TO IT?? :-) :-D
Just enjoy all of it you Muppets. Fuckwits like you lot piss me off. You all know next to fuck all.
This song is amazing!!!!! Love it soo much....!!!! Thank*s to Roy and Jeff.......This is my youth and i llove it very much!!!!!!!!!!
The Xmas School Disco 1972. Bowie, T-Rex, Alice Cooper, Slade, Mott, and Elton John are making all the very young dudes and girls jump around
with youthful joy. This track by The Move has would-be young rockers bop around the dance floor. Looking back, it is a brilliant take on Jerry Lee
Lewis but we are far too young to realize this.
Many of my old school friends are sadly no longer here, but I hope they are dancing to this great song wherever they are now.
GREAT DAYS, NEVER BE FORGOTTEN.
Sounds more like Little Richard to me.
Love this song. Great energy & a sax fest. Always loved The Move. Brilliant
1972, I was 19 years old,doing my hairdressing apprentiship ,Leicester rd Loughborough,the builders were working on the property next door and Dennis (one of the builders) from Syston stood outside the shop with a spade pretending it was a guitar singing this to me. ! I have never heard it since until today. The best times remembered. ....
Geoffs toys has now gone...
That sounds like a photographic memory
@@dylanrichardson199 You never forget the great songs, they always transport you back in time
How did this NOT hit here...in California!
The 'B' side of "California Man" was Jeff Lynne's "Do Ya", it was more popular in the USA than Roy Wood's 'A' side. "Do Ya" scored a minor hit over there reaching # 97 in the Billboard Top 100.
@@davidmacgregor5193
Both Do Ya & California Man got air play in Detroit on WABX. Both have been staples in my listing for over 50 years now.
I know that the miming is pretty obvious, but what a band! Jeff Lynne, Bev Bevan and of course, the great Roy Wood. Plus all the others, of course. Fantastic!
Brilliant, I remember this well, it got me into Rock 'n' Roll. Roy Wood went on to form Wizzard, and did solo work, much of got into the charts. His work was a nod to the early 1970s Rock 'n' Roll revival, whilst still being original, and not just derivitave. I remember Little Richard, in a radio interview, describing Roy Wood as "The Prince of Rock and Roll". Well deserved.
Utterly magnificent! From when it was cool to look like you were having fun. People could learn a lot from this!
Be nice to see Roy & Jeff back together for one more time, the Move were brilliant
I expect they're both a bit beyond that now.. it's a bit like a few years ago someone commented under a Kelly Monteith video "I wish he'd come back", and I replied "he's in his late 70s"
At a time when the charts had some meaning, this record reached no 7 and was performed several times on Top of the Pops in 1972. I used to watch it and hoped the Move would be shown. It is a most memorable record and fine vocal contrasts between the two singers.
Jeff, Bev and Roy......you wear, sorry, you're amazing!!!!! !For me, the best song from the MOVE ever!!!!!!!!!
great feel good rock n roll number, with a good riff and great sax!
It's 2:30 AM, I'm 66 years old but feeling like 106. Been sitting here meandering around UA-cam for hours applying a little self-administered music therapy - Hurricane Smith, the Carpenters, The Hollies, Anne Murray - and what's this? The Move?! Raucous, joyful silliness! Time to have myself a dish of ice cream and go to bed to dream of happier days, past and future!
Mate i am 74 & remember clear as day all the best lates 60s/70s like yesterday my top fave is "born to boogie" & in the sumer time, mungo jerry, will bop till i drop. 😛
Wow! I never realized that the original version rocked so hard!
I wish Roy and Jeff would get back together and do something after all these years
Ha ha. Lynne is a one-song man. which he proved all through his 12 ELO albums, plus his rubbish production after that. Simply awful.
Ha ha ha. You really need to start taking your meds.
@@iainbartlett4951 Iain B: Ya talk fart.
@@iainbartlett4951 And you listen to...wait...let me guess...METAL! LOL
@@iainbartlett4951 lmao not true at all
I like how this song feels like ELO and Wizzard!
Roy Wood was Wizzard.
@@paulwilson2651 - Amazing!
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Jeff Lynne was ELO
More Wizzard.
still one of the coolest rock n roll songs :)
Loved this as soon as I heard it. A little later Jeff did Rock aria and that is one of the best rock and roll songs ever
Ron Wylie absolutely great Ron
Totally agree.
And brilliant drumming at 1.17
I seem to think there is a verse missing from this performance, because I remember another drum fill as well as 1.17, that was even cleverer.
IMO this blew away everything else in the hit parade that month. Yes, it's a parody, but the guys got right to the absolute essence of rock and roll. Hugely underrated raw talent and professionalism.
Great song.
Its Wizard and the E.L.O ,fantastic yeahhhhhhhhh great times
The move rolling back the years!
That sound forged in the brumbeat scene. Various members of bands made the big move and formed the move.
Hot Patootie! Bless my soul, I really love that Rock 'n' Roll!
I got that. ;-)
Wondering why few others have...
There is SO MUCH about this vid/performance that HAD to have influenced some set people on a certain project, a few years later, that has, by now, become iconic in American 'cult film' genres...
;-)
Happy 76th birthday the fabulous Jeff Lynn!! 🎂🎉🎊💐❤️👏🥂🎁🎈
This group really moves me.
The Move were and are still awesome.
Insane
what a time to be growing in
Jeff is too cute!!!! 😍😍😍😍 I'm in love!
Seriously one of the greatest videos ever.
An absolute shame these guys never got the recognition they deserve. Great video to learn a bit of trivia from!
Amazing classic kick ASS ROCK never gets Old!
this is the beginning of jeff lynne. absolutely fabulous.
Terry Kenny non better Terry
The beginning? Didn't the Idle Race put out two LPs?
the different moves were all great. once saw them live. two foot of hair. about 1970.
This takes me back to the days when my hair was not grey. lol! A classic song!
Takes a lot of people back to when they had hair .
What a classic.
Who would have known back then that Jeff Lynne would become the greatest composer of pop for the next 50 years ?
Pretty good producer too.
I grew up with Cheap Trick's version from "Heaven Tonight" LP. Both are great.
Never seen footage of Jeff Lynne looking so animated and jolly. Meanwhile Roy Wood performs a song written by Lynne which is very much a template of Wizzard (along with the costumes) as a member of The Move whilst also being in ELO at the same time. Happy days.
Perhaps Jeff had just acquired some new happiness pills .....
Cheap Trick's version is better.
Ah yes, I remember Cheap Trick - good band.
***** Way different kind of band.And C.T.was four yrs.later with this...
Weirdbald "Meanwhile Roy Wood performs a song written by Lynne " Roy Wood is the composer of California Man.
Love this great early 70s rock n roll revival,the teddy boys must of loved this .long live rock n roll
I wanted to let you know that "the Move" was a warm up band for Led Zeppelin" in some year.. and Led Zeppelin came out early and held an impromptu jam session with the move.. read this on linear notes on the Moving On move album I own. well I was in the Hard Rock Cafe in Baltimore one time and they had this drum set on a shelf. it had a note that it was the drum set used in this session! I think I was the only person who looked at that set in the restaurant with the prior knowledge of this event! I was so freaking excited but no one could share in my rapture!
John Bonham played drums on Roy Wood's "Keep Your Hands On The Wheel, Said Marie To The Driver", the song was released on Wood's 1979 solo album "On The Road Again".
During the commercial breaks, Jeff Lynne debuted his new song, "Purple Rain".
Hehehe
Cheap Trick's version is better.
***** Bollocks.
***** No, sorry, it's not..........
But it was written by Roy Wood seen here. Cheap Trick had a lot more refined technology to work with but they aren't in the same class of musicians as The Move who became ELO.
Best song since 1958 which had a few.
A true good time feel good rock 'n' roll number by a great band!
Brings back memory's ☺ ☺ ☺ ☺
Birmingham ,England? What a throwback to the late 60s
+Ernest Dauterive Early 70's.
How fantastic was that!!, I remember rushing out to buy this and I wore it out lol, Suck talented musicians, Englands finest. I honestly believe this stands up with any other immortal true rock and roll record ever released, Respect to both Roy and Jeff. PC, I saw Roy with Wizard in the 70s, he is tiny, about 5 foot tall, he was living with another British singer "Lyndsey De Paul" and she was about the same height ,lol they looked like little dolls when you saw them off stage
The overlapping stuff just wipes my brain out. Do you realize how many layers of musicians there are here? I am a California Man myself. so this if potent.
Even as a kid I felt this was one of the most perfect drumming performances ever - the drummer just keeps carrying the song to new new heights and beats.
Incredible performance.
Nice bloke Roy wood is i saw him down Birmingham Airport once .
What a song woody at his best sharing Vocals with Jeff final single from the most underrated group ever slightly different mix on this version.woody fan for 56 year's and still listening to the very underated Mr wood rock now
The first song I heard on the first transistor radio I ever owned, when I was 13, life was never quite the same from that time on!!!!
the rockabilly light orchestra!!!!
Never heard of them until I heard this song on XM's deep tracks and instantly loved it. Never knew the back story of them.
Guess Jeff finally became the California Man he always wanted to be
I absolutely love this song, and this video is INSANE!
Looks like Jeff Lynne was Prince before Prince was...
"This is Bev Bevan. Favorite composer: Roy Wood and Jeff Lynne" HAHAHAHA great call!
I think we can take it as read that Bevan wasn't actually asked the questions, they just thought they'd make him out to be a thick drummer..
@@misterteaification um that's a stretch
@@zachsmith3 "um that's a stretch"
Happens in the music sector all the time. Differentiate one member from another, give them a 'personality'. Sell more on that basis ("which one do YOU like best?") Drummers are often thought of as stupid anyway, so half of the work was done. Not rocket science.
@@misterteaification I'd bet he was just joking around... I think they all have good humour, pretty common for many English groups
a fantastic rock n roll song
when music was fun!!!!
1972. Roy Wood had UK hit singles with The Move, ELO, Wizzard AND under his own name!
Freakin' Hilarious! Well done! It's hokey and it rocks at the same time.
Rip Alan Hiscoe one of the funniest but straight speaking guys I’ve ever met this was his tune.Love ya Al
Oh I've never seen this before. Jeff is looking like he is having fun, and I've never seen him on stage playing piano. He's so darn cute. Thanks so much for posting!!
what a song - only discovered it recently on a remastered move album - excellent,
The Move's Flowers in the Rain was the first song played on the new Radio 1 in 1967.
This great and I love Cheap Trick's version too!!!
Fantastic!
Cheap Trick's version of this, is an open love letter to Roy and the rest of these fellers. The touch of putting Brontosaurus as the bridge on their version, only hardcore fans of the Move, would've made that call.
This is heaven.
The Move to super zespół wszechczasów z Jeffem Lynnem ,Royem Wodem ,Bevem Bevanem.Szkoda że nie można kupić płyt CD tego zespołu.
Superb.
Fantastic 😊
great forgotten gem
Jeff Lynn , is still at it, The guys just a natural, what a performer.
Pity with ELO he kept writing the one same song over and over.
IAIN BARTLETT h. Vcvvvv
Wel
Only a couple of ELO w/Roy Wood songs worth listening to. Most of the first album is tosh. From Eldorado onwards ELO were golden. Not sure any songs from Roy's WIzzard Brew (as much as I like it) could be compared to the amazing Eldorado........
Eldorado - what an album! Perfect from start to finish.
Jeff giving his best Jerry Lee Lewis!🤘
Brilliant record, lyrics and video, BUT I find it amazing how they can actually PLAY the instruments and sing when performing like that.
AND YES I do know they are only acting, but it's still great.
Don't cry, I need to learn 👁️👽 so I can fight it with 🙏
This was the moment when I stopped going to Brownies and stayed home to watch TOTP. Thanks for giving me lifelong love of the sax, Roy. CE
Claire - not Charlie!
What a video! They are having a hell of a time and it's catching. Ah those times when Roy Wood only had bum fluff.
great stuff .
Really enjoyed the video. Jeff Lynne was great.
And a brummie band, rock on birmingham.
Fantastic !!)
thanks for this amazing video from the past ... rock on
Buzzin, back to my teens. 👍♥️👍
I discovered The Move in 72 when I was in London watching a show on the Beeb. It was a revelation.
yeah great record i have on 45 single
and still good today
2 legends
JUST AWESOME!!!!!!!!!