He was a troubled genius! People forget how hilarious he was but he was unpredictable and that affected his career, especially in later years...he had an I incredible voice and his impersonation of Elvis was amazing...rip Freddie 🇬🇧💖
It was the unpredictability that made him so famous. And that voice he puts on when he’s pretending to be serious, prim and proper, everyone knew there was something funny coming. So the anticipation was as funny as the jokes. He’s one of my all time favourites. RIP Freddie.
It was event television whenever he was on. Freddie, Billy Connolly and Spike Milligan were the three comedians I was introduced to at a young age, and whenever they were on I was watching. I'm so glad you enjoyed Freddie. His "An audience with Freddie Starr" show was legendary. They basically gave him a stage and an audience filled with famous UK TV celebrities at the time. It was chaos.
Squirrel, I’m so glad you’ve found Freddie. He was an absolute legend here in the UK. You talked about his timing. This wasn’t timing - I believe he was actually doing the speed changes himself. The guy was incredible. My dad was a huge fan of him. He loved his comedy and loved his singing voice even more, and always said he did the best impression of Elvis too. I have to agree after watching him sing with the Jordanaires, Elvis’ backing group. The guy was so bloody talented it’s unreal, and he’s sorely missed. But, I’m glad he’s getting a resurrection of sorts now through reactors.
I think it is more the timing of where and when to put the speed singing in, and that the band had to know where and how to play / stop ( reminds me of Spike Jones where every crazy instrument and interuption was meticiously scored yet sounded like ad hoc chaos).
He comes from Liverpool as I do he's a legend. Check out an audience with Freddy Starr. he will have you crying and your ribs aching with laughter. When you have seen it i highly recommend you check out another Liverpool legend called Ken Dodd you have to trust me when I tell you that he's even more hilarious it's also called an audience with Ken Dodd🤣😂👍
Freddy Was hilarious back in the day. The stuff he did on The Des O Conner show was pretty funny too. He was on there often and you never knew what he was going to do next. I remember one where Des is singing whilst Freddy comes out dressed as Hitler and starts goosestepping, fighting a giant inflatable octopus in the fountain and all sorts of crazy stuff in the background while Des still keeps singing. Amazing how Des managed to keep singing lol
The goofy sign language was part of the gag when after he yells VINCENT! This video always leaves me gasping for air and picking pieces of floor boards out of my teeth! A perpetual source of a good laugh, to send the blues packing!
There's another great version of this I would like to see again - at a different venue, different in a few ways I vaguely recall. I've gotta find it now.
Brilliant comedy. I loved it when he made fun of a celebrity audience on "An Audience with Freddie Starr", a television special, which is well worth watching.
First time I've actually seen you wiping away tears of laughter, and it's no wonder. Freddie was hilarious in his prime. Got to see him live too. Only he could get away with dressing like Hitler in white shorts and Wellington boots.
The speeded up and slowing voices he did, was not "good timing" to a playback, it was his actual live voice doing this! People get confused by this! He was THAT good! You should watch him singing "unchained melody", he does the same thing!
Seen Freddie at the pier shows during the summer in the 1970's and 80's. His best show was 1977 at the Britannia Pier when he dedicated half his show to Elvis and he played it straight down the line. He broke down in tears during his performance.
Freddie was a total one off We saw him a few times in the 70's at end of the pier shows and he was brilliant, kids could watch (and get that side of the joke) and my parents and grandma loved his adult side I remember he'd bound on to the stage and disappear down a hole😂😂 One of the other acts would be someone singing a slow ballad and he'd walk across the back of the stage in a thong They couldn't control him, which was why there is not much TV Brilliant comedian, entertainer and singer
The reason that everybody was laughing before he even started was because nobody knew what he was going to do next. He had a tendency to randomly attack talk show hosts, other guests or audience members. Most shows were too scared to have him on, but a couple loved him all the more for it. My favourite comedian growing up.
@@johnlewis9158 Wow definitely would like to see that again can't remember it. Though you know something these days purely cause of involving Hitler they would put a stupid trigger warning on screen even if they did show it. I mean, if even Allo Allo which most common sense people realise it was always WW2 slapstick and farce type comedy taking the rise out of the Germans (making it classic show in itself and huge ratings for BBC in its day)...can be hit with it whichever station or platform it was - then that particular routine you mentioned probably would also.
I think this came from a TV show called An Audience With...Freddie Starr' where he performed a one hour special in front of TV celebrities of the time.
This reminds of when Owen Paul and his band were supposed to be miming “My Favourite Waste of Time” on TV show Pebble Mill. The couldn’t hear the tape, missed their cue and stood still live on air for the duration of the song. Love Freddie by the way.
There are two or three different performance versions of this as Freddie Honed it and did it for different audiences. So Frustrating as Freddie was a great singer doing things straight but the comedy brought in more paying punters. The headline from the newspapers of the 1970s "Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster" brought the fame.
Extremely unpredictable, but also hated crowds of people, very shy out of work, I helped him set up his restaurant and he knew a couple of my friends from his business, chain smoking outside before heading into the restaurant and bar, he was on TV quite a bit with his own An Audience With I think he did a couple of those and he would appear with his friend Des O'connor
So crazy that this is the third American Reacts to Freddie Starr’s Vincent routine video in the last 48 hours that I’ve seen. Oh and by the way as an FYI Michael Jackson never performed on Top Of The Pops.
Freddie was the epitome of an era from genius and dedicated craft put into a routine using like you said multi level talents that made countless laugh. Now its all about cheap soulless jokes that, are mostly not even that funny. And unlike Freddie's decades of making people laugh and routines like this, certainly won't be remembered as long after.
Do you know what, now I may be looking back with rose tinted glasses but, entertainment, music, TV and life in general was so, so much better then, than it is today! Just my opinion.
You should listen to him sing Elvis Presley there's nobody does it better, there's a tape out there with him singing with an American harmony group it's brilliant
It's called his 'Vincent' routine not because of any alter-ego, but because he's doing the song 'Vincent' by Don McLean, which is about Vincent Van Gogh.
@@BlueShadow777 You clearly didn't notice that Squirrel did not realise that, as he said he was confused about the alter-ego AFTER Freddie had already said the name of the song...
h was as mad as a box of spanners, but popular. I never watched a lot of his stuff as it was often OTT ( over the top ) . He was often in the press for indiscretions too. But his comedic talent was undeniable. The mad gestures were meant to be sign language for THE HARD OF HEARING. The ear chopping being a feed to that condition. Anyway, like you it provoked a laugh. Micro phone tricks seem to be a staple from that era. Norman Collier built a whole career on a dodgy microphone. You could look him up too. Totally off field now, here is a little clip I've just seen and think might interest you. It's only 16 secs. - Squirreled. ua-cam.com/video/vkVyZBLi4Ig/v-deo.html
he could have you laughing at this way he sung this and it's brilliant but he was a genuine great singer aswell as your other comments suggest watch him with the Elvis backing group
Evening Squirrel……how you doing buddy…..please check out “ Freddie Starr Sings” uploaded by a chap called “GRAHAM WHITE” …..he does 4 songs with the Jordanaires….Elvis backing group, they actually backed him twice, and he’s one of only 3 singers they ever backed after Elvis died , he was a massive fan, and knew all the songs…..👍🇮🇲👌. You will be amazed 👌
Remember seeing it for the first time as a kid and found it absolutely hilarious. It still is now. Met him a few times as a friend of mine was his driver. He was just as crazy off stage. Legend.
He was a troubled genius! People forget how hilarious he was but he was unpredictable and that affected his career, especially in later years...he had an I incredible voice and his impersonation of Elvis was amazing...rip Freddie 🇬🇧💖
Vincent was my song when I was born in 72,it was playing on the radio. Its very special to me and my mum
It was freddies own live voice not a tape it was his own routine. LEGEND R.I.P.
Freddie, what a legend
So pleased you've discovered Freddie! He had me in stitches as a kid. Thanks for sharing it to others!
I was blessed to have him on the TV during my childhood and formative years .
He was hilarious !
It was the unpredictability that made him so famous. And that voice he puts on when he’s pretending to be serious, prim and proper, everyone knew there was something funny coming. So the anticipation was as funny as the jokes. He’s one of my all time favourites. RIP Freddie.
Freddie a bloody legend!
A genius and dangerously funny😂😂
I must've seen this hundreds of times, still have tears of laughter rolling down my face every time.
It was event television whenever he was on. Freddie, Billy Connolly and Spike Milligan were the three comedians I was introduced to at a young age, and whenever they were on I was watching.
I'm so glad you enjoyed Freddie. His "An audience with Freddie Starr" show was legendary. They basically gave him a stage and an audience filled with famous UK TV celebrities at the time. It was chaos.
Freddie started out singing in bands and was a regular at Liverpool's Cavern Club.
Squirrel, I’m so glad you’ve found Freddie. He was an absolute legend here in the UK. You talked about his timing. This wasn’t timing - I believe he was actually doing the speed changes himself. The guy was incredible. My dad was a huge fan of him. He loved his comedy and loved his singing voice even more, and always said he did the best impression of Elvis too. I have to agree after watching him sing with the Jordanaires, Elvis’ backing group. The guy was so bloody talented it’s unreal, and he’s sorely missed. But, I’m glad he’s getting a resurrection of sorts now through reactors.
I think it is more the timing of where and when to put the speed singing in, and that the band had to know where and how to play / stop ( reminds me of Spike Jones where every crazy instrument and interuption was meticiously scored yet sounded like ad hoc chaos).
Are you for real??
A greatly talented individual. I loved watching Freddie growing up.
You have discovered a gold mine of comedy with this guy.
He comes from Liverpool as I do he's a legend. Check out an audience with Freddy Starr. he will have you crying and your ribs aching with laughter. When you have seen it i highly recommend you check out another Liverpool legend called Ken Dodd you have to trust me when I tell you that he's even more hilarious it's also called an audience with Ken Dodd🤣😂👍
Freddy Was hilarious back in the day. The stuff he did on The Des O Conner show was pretty funny too. He was on there often and you never knew what he was going to do next. I remember one where Des is singing whilst Freddy comes out dressed as Hitler and starts goosestepping, fighting a giant inflatable octopus in the fountain and all sorts of crazy stuff in the background while Des still keeps singing. Amazing how Des managed to keep singing lol
His sped up Hitler playing football sketches were hilarious
@@johnlewis9158 Yeah lol Stevie Wonder in goal diving the wrong way lol
The goofy sign language was part of the gag when after he yells VINCENT! This video always leaves me gasping for air and picking pieces of floor boards out of my teeth! A perpetual source of a good laugh, to send the blues packing!
There's another great version of this I would like to see again - at a different venue, different in a few ways I vaguely recall. I've gotta find it now.
Great comedian and also a very good singer he does a great Elvis impression as well.
a Liverpool legend! check out his Mick Jagger impression from 1970
rest in peace freddie . amazing performer.
Watch him doing his elvis concert. Also him singing with the jordinaires.
Wonderful, thanks Squirrel.. Loved your laughter.
Brilliant comedy. I loved it when he made fun of a celebrity audience on "An Audience with Freddie Starr", a television special, which is well worth watching.
Man i miss Freddie. He was hilarious in his heyday 😆
There’s an earlier Freddie Starr version of “Vincent”… very similar with minor variations. Also very much worth watching.
It wasn't timing he would sing in slow motion and do the fast Mickey mouse from his own voice
That's called timing my friend.
First time I've actually seen you wiping away tears of laughter, and it's no wonder.
Freddie was hilarious in his prime. Got to see him live too. Only he could get away with dressing like Hitler in white shorts and Wellington boots.
The speeded up and slowing voices he did, was not "good timing" to a playback, it was his actual live voice doing this! People get confused by this! He was THAT good! You should watch him singing "unchained melody", he does the same thing!
Hey🐿️Freddie was a nightmare for celebrities, he was always pis***g about his Mick Jagger impression is simply hilarious. Cheers buddy 👍✌️
Seen Freddie at the pier shows during the summer in the 1970's and 80's. His best show was 1977 at the Britannia Pier when he dedicated half his show to Elvis and he played it straight down the line. He broke down in tears during his performance.
Freddie was a total one off
We saw him a few times in the 70's at end of the pier shows and he was brilliant, kids could watch (and get that side of the joke) and my parents and grandma loved his adult side
I remember he'd bound on to the stage and disappear down a hole😂😂
One of the other acts would be someone singing a slow ballad and he'd walk across the back of the stage in a thong
They couldn't control him, which was why there is not much TV
Brilliant comedian, entertainer and singer
What a treat, 👍❤🏴
When i was a boy i used to watch him invade the Des O'Connor show.. Best bits for me :)
Brilliant, please check him out with elvis' band "The Jordanaires", they said he was the closest to Elvis they had ever heard, well worth a watch.
This is one of my favourite videos.............love it........
An Audience With Freddie Starr ... worth checking out .
There's is a great clip of him singing 'Dont' with Elvis backing group 'The Jordanaires' on his show.
The reason that everybody was laughing before he even started was because nobody knew what he was going to do next. He had a tendency to randomly attack talk show hosts, other guests or audience members. Most shows were too scared to have him on, but a couple loved him all the more for it. My favourite comedian growing up.
His sped up Hitler playing football sketches were hilarious
@@johnlewis9158 Wow definitely would like to see that again can't remember it. Though you know something these days purely cause of involving Hitler they would put a stupid trigger warning on screen even if they did show it. I mean, if even Allo Allo which most common sense people realise it was always WW2 slapstick and farce type comedy taking the rise out of the Germans (making it classic show in itself and huge ratings for BBC in its day)...can be hit with it whichever station or platform it was - then that particular routine you mentioned probably would also.
Strangely I have never seen this in its entirety. That was great 🤘🏻🇬🇧🤘🏻
Absolute diamond. 👍❤
Freddie was a one off with his wacky off wall comedy. Half the fun watching freddie was never knowing what he'd do next!
Love him, met hima few times..
I think this came from a TV show called An Audience With...Freddie Starr' where he performed a one hour special in front of TV celebrities of the time.
He would throw Max Wall impressions in as well. You did a Max Wall reaction on the back of him being a Billy Connolly influence. Neat!
This reminds of when Owen Paul and his band were supposed to be miming “My Favourite Waste of Time” on TV show Pebble Mill. The couldn’t hear the tape, missed their cue and stood still live on air for the duration of the song. Love Freddie by the way.
Freddie is a pure genius , one of the funniest individuals to ever exist :)
Rip Freddie total comic genius
Love that he had a beautiful voice but would never stay serious enough to do a number straight.
So pleased you found this one Tony, it is Freddie at his best
For a music /comedy cross over / cross in check from TISWAS - Phil Lynott - We Are The Boys Who Make All The Noise.
There are two or three different performance versions of this as Freddie Honed it and did it for different audiences. So Frustrating as Freddie was a great singer doing things straight but the comedy brought in more paying punters. The headline from the newspapers of the 1970s "Freddie Starr Ate My Hamster" brought the fame.
That was very hysterical 😂😹💜🐿️✌🏼
Old school talent
Freddie was a great Elvis impersonator, Check out Freddie Singing "Don't" with the The Jordanaires
He used to rip the piss out of the audiences that attended.
Mad as a box of frogs 😂😂😂😂😂
More! 🤣💕
Extremely unpredictable, but also hated crowds of people, very shy out of work, I helped him set up his restaurant and he knew a couple of my friends from his business, chain smoking outside before heading into the restaurant and bar, he was on TV quite a bit with his own An Audience With I think he did a couple of those and he would appear with his friend Des O'connor
😂😂🤣😅 Brilliant !
He was hilarious with Shirley Bassey. Je t'aime . X
Saw him live, we miss his humour.
So crazy that this is the third American Reacts to Freddie Starr’s Vincent routine video in the last 48 hours that I’ve seen. Oh and by the way as an FYI Michael Jackson never performed on Top Of The Pops.
I think the Jackson Five did do a TOTP perf (though most were on imports on Film,/ stage show US recordings or dance Pans People variations
He was a great talent
Freddie was the epitome of an era from genius and dedicated craft put into a routine using like you said multi level talents that made countless laugh. Now its all about cheap soulless jokes that, are mostly not even that funny. And unlike Freddie's decades of making people laugh and routines like this, certainly won't be remembered as long after.
Freddie star and Mahamed Ali
Is brilliant🤣🤣🤣
Try Freddie singing the Skye Boat song with Des O'Connor
I e added it to the Freddie list Thank You
He was a not to be missed , bless him
Do you know what, now I may be looking back with rose tinted glasses but, entertainment, music, TV and life in general was so, so much better then, than it is today! Just my opinion.
He's brilliant, but some of the humour generated by Harry's book takes some beating, social media never been so funny.
You should listen to him sing Elvis Presley there's nobody does it better, there's a tape out there with him singing with an American harmony group it's brilliant
It's called his 'Vincent' routine not because of any alter-ego, but because he's doing the song 'Vincent' by Don McLean, which is about Vincent Van Gogh.
WOW! 😮 You don’t say…! 🤪
@@BlueShadow777 You clearly didn't notice that Squirrel did not realise that, as he said he was confused about the alter-ego AFTER Freddie had already said the name of the song...
There’s no flies on you.
Great stuff from days of old. Did the Squirrel ever see a comedian series of Scotch & Wry with Ricky Fulton? Scottish, from I thin k early 80's.
Hes taking the Mick about Deaf "Talk"
Glad you said it, I was confused what you meant by nose fell off
h was as mad as a box of spanners, but popular. I never watched a lot of his stuff as it was often OTT ( over the top ) . He was often in the press for indiscretions too. But his comedic talent was undeniable.
The mad gestures were meant to be sign language for THE HARD OF HEARING. The ear chopping being a feed to that condition.
Anyway, like you it provoked a laugh. Micro phone tricks seem to be a staple from that era. Norman Collier built a whole career on a dodgy microphone. You could look him up too.
Totally off field now, here is a little clip I've just seen and think might interest you. It's only 16 secs. - Squirreled.
ua-cam.com/video/vkVyZBLi4Ig/v-deo.html
Freddy would so funny it was nuts shot to bits
He was from Liverpool
he could have you laughing at this way he sung this and it's brilliant but he was a genuine great singer aswell as your other comments suggest watch him with the Elvis backing group
you need to do some of his live stage stuff its awesome really funny
Watch him scare the shit out of Muhammed Ali
Evening Squirrel……how you doing buddy…..please check out “ Freddie Starr Sings” uploaded by a chap called “GRAHAM WHITE” …..he does 4 songs with the Jordanaires….Elvis backing group, they actually backed him twice, and he’s one of only 3 singers they ever backed after Elvis died , he was a massive fan, and knew all the songs…..👍🇮🇲👌. You will be amazed 👌
Watch an audience with freddie starr it's really good 😂😂
His Ray Charles skit is just a few minutes long, but was similarly good.
Well now you have to watch him entertaining Mohammed Ali. Well worth your time :)
Absolute nutcase ! :)
Freddy was brilliant sadly he died a pauper in Spain
Check out Freddie with the jordanairs singing elvis songs brilliant
Remember seeing it for the first time as a kid and found it absolutely hilarious. It still is now.
Met him a few times as a friend of mine was his driver. He was just as crazy off stage. Legend.
If you're going retro, check out jasper carrott singing "the Bantam cock" 😁👍
Should watch him do 'the Indian' sketch.
Watch the Des O’Connor interview and he tells Ali a joke
It was Parkinson, & it was a horror story, not a joke!
Apart from that, you were spot-on!! 🤣
Freddie did a brilliant Elvis
Watch Freddie Starr's Mick Jagger impersonation
Very talented man I watch that years ago and I still laugh as much
that was a laugh an hour
Another one taken too early from us.
Is it beyond the comedy understanding of most, west of the pond? Bob UK
Freddie Starr ate my hamster
Have you ever seen Muhammad Ali scared? Watch Freddie on the talk show 'Parkinson'.
I have hilarious stuff!