I remember an old dear lady coming into a record shop looking for some more music by the lovely Captain Sensible. The bloke behind the counter was very tempted to sell her an early Damned album.
He helped invent punk rock and was in arguably the best band of the original wave of London punks, and yet this was his only number one hit and likely the thing he’ll be most remembered for. Ain’t that just the way it goes
@@WiltshireByways Welcome to the real world, where even 'punks' eat buttered toast and like having money to spend. Now that you're a big boy who understands how the world works, you can let go of your bitterness and dissapointment, knowing that John Lydon is a normal bloke and not some fantasy version of him, that resided in your tiny f-king mind.
*OK Captain Sensible we're thinking a video on the beach with you and your disinterested pet parrot. Just sporadically wave your hands on the air and mimic the words. Trust me son, it'll be a classic*
This is just the right level of whimsical to fit perfectly in a horror movie over some gruesome violence or gore sequence, think along the lines of Clockwork Orange.
@@benjamindavey4782 You're definitely not the only person who has thought along the same lines when watching this video. All Captain Sensible needed to complete the look was a cigar, some jewelry and to say "now then, now then" a few times.
@@jaysmith2858 This song creeps me out, why's Sensible so keen on appealing to kids with this childish song? i'm amazed Channel Fours Minipops was simply ignored in the Yewtree thing and Malcolm McLaren got a strange pass after routinely stripping underage girls completely naked for his records as well.
Somehow this guy's music is both awful and wonderful at the same time. EDIT: Wow it's been a long time since I wrote this! I'm not sure why I used the word "awful," it's cheesy but I honestly love it. This stuff is great.
Every one moves to music in different ways. I'm not saying he wasn't "off his head" but judging the level on his style of dancing hardly makes much sense.
If this song came out today, I would think it was a load of crap, but it reminds me of coming back from the Falklands War in 1982. This is part of the soundtrack to my life.
Wasn't a waste, it had a knock on effect of turning Argentina into a democracy. It also cemented the fact that Britain was still a world power since everyone said getting the islands back would be impossible
Hey, Cap'n Sensible spoke to me as a high school student in Canada. He said two things. 1: South Pacific was a shitty stupid musical. I like musicals 2: 1983 very nearly nuked us all...I doubt you have to look that up
I know this is a song that one is not supposed to like - but I unashamedly DO. It is beautifully orchestrated and scores very high in the 'feelgood' factor! I LOVE IT!!
I remember liking this when it came out. I had no idea it was Cpt Sensible from the Damned. I saw them in 93 in Dundee. Halloween concert. Was wild. The whole crowd went backstage. Luv and Peace.
Yes it got to number 1 in the UK as well. Although its a classic rodgers and Hammerstein song( which prevents it from benig a "novelty hit") it wa a big suprise as captain sensible was front man for a punk band called the damned whose drummer was rat scabies.
I love Captain Sensible, this is a really good effort at this song; and his art and enthusiasm, and ability, within the Damned was great. He is the kind of guy who makes me feel... yeah!
In Korea, the department/grocery store chain uses a cover this which is almost completely instrumental, and la la la la la la laaa... known as the emart song, or the "Emart logo song"
Actually when this came out (he was still with the Damned) the press would come and photograph "him with his bunnies". Then people would take their kids to see the Damned cause the "happy talk guy". Then they'd get all pissed off and pen him angry letters.
Glad this was mentioned, although the singer does get the words correct as you can read his lips and clearly hear him singing the correct lyrics at 0:40 again at 1:20 and finally at 2:38.
@@debbiebrett6689 for some, being depressed is the same as being happy. There's a strange comfort in depression. When sadness and depression are all you've ever really known, true happiness is an alien concept which is uncomfortable... depression is comforting.
This was playing in the NAAFI when we got off the aircraft from the Ascension Island in July 82 coming back from the Falklands war. Couple this with getting a 20p piece, (these came out when we were away) in my change that looked a 5 rupee bit and I thought the world had gone mad while I was away.
Ray Burns (aka) Captain Sensible) with a parrot, reached #1 in the UK singles chart June 1982. Taken from Rogers and Hammerstein's South Pacific. Probably the ultimate "feel-good" song. The Summer of 1982, I remember it well !
In the mid 90s I bought tickets for my parents to go see “South Pacific” at the local theatre, my dad’s response “but I have seen that already!!!!” My mum “Yes in 1955!” They did go and did enjoy themselves but it one of my most quintessential memories of my father.
My Mother got me this for my 17th Birthday in July 1982. My dream came true when I passed my driving test just 4 days later that July. Very happy memories.
2024 anyone?
👋 😂
😊🇦🇺
Never heard of this song until " sex education" on Netflix!
Yeah ! Of course 😅
Me!!!😉
I remember an old dear lady coming into a record shop looking for some more music by the lovely Captain Sensible. The bloke behind the counter was very tempted to sell her an early Damned album.
Silly talky talky silly talk
Seriously, Monsieur Sensible read the room and if he got one in ten Grannies to hear the Damned it was a raging success.
Ha!
😂
it's so ridiculously wonderful
Hey when you are facing nuclear annihilation, this song is pretty neat.
@@NormAppleton The innoculation to the Bomb Dream.
Luv and Peace.
its videos like this that are the reason the internet MUST exist
agreed
@@davidmg1925 seconded.
The internet no longer exists though.
Punk at its best x
Only a true producer in a drug haze could create such a masterpiece. Bravo.
It was written by Rogers & Hammerstein. This song is a cover, not an original creation.
@@Lil_Angry_Bitch I stand by what I said
This is nuclear war songs
I love 💘his name 👼
He helped invent punk rock and was in arguably the best band of the original wave of London punks, and yet this was his only number one hit and likely the thing he’ll be most remembered for. Ain’t that just the way it goes
and he didn't even write it.
Anybody "invented"punk that would be Syd Barrett!
@@Sandwich13455 oh please....that was moronic
@@dang2443 aw please 🙏 enlighten us all with the one truth?
@@Sandwich13455 ok, here ya go: You're an idi0t.
This is real punk
i love it, he and the rest only make fun music omg :)
More punk than John Lydon selling Country Life butter?
Even punks sing their mothers favourite songs..
Just like action heroes do kiddy films so their kids can see what mommy/daddy does..
This is real sarcasm!
@@WiltshireByways Welcome to the real world, where even 'punks' eat buttered toast and like having money to spend.
Now that you're a big boy who understands how the world works, you can let go of your bitterness and dissapointment, knowing that John Lydon is a normal bloke and not some fantasy version of him, that resided in your tiny f-king mind.
this whole song and video feels like a meme
*OK Captain Sensible we're thinking a video on the beach with you and your disinterested pet parrot. Just sporadically wave your hands on the air and mimic the words. Trust me son, it'll be a classic*
This is just the right level of whimsical to fit perfectly in a horror movie over some gruesome violence or gore sequence, think along the lines of Clockwork Orange.
True. Sort of like 'stuck in the middle with you".
That was exactly what I was thinking just as I happened upon your comment. I was thinking along the lines of "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest".
Speaking of horror, when I clicked on the video and saw the blonde sixties guy with those glasses I panicked and thought it was Jimmy Saville.
@@benjamindavey4782 You're definitely not the only person who has thought along the same lines when watching this video. All Captain Sensible needed to complete the look was a cigar, some jewelry and to say "now then, now then" a few times.
@@jaysmith2858 This song creeps me out, why's Sensible so keen on appealing to kids with this childish song? i'm amazed Channel Fours Minipops was simply ignored in the Yewtree thing and Malcolm McLaren got a strange pass after routinely stripping underage girls completely naked for his records as well.
Somehow this guy's music is both awful and wonderful at the same time.
EDIT: Wow it's been a long time since I wrote this! I'm not sure why I used the word "awful," it's cheesy but I honestly love it. This stuff is great.
Put another way HOW can.... .....this guy's music be both awful and wonderful at the same time.
He wqs off his tits on lsd, I mean u can tell by the dancing that he does, he looks like hes havibg a drug infused seisure
Every one moves to music in different ways. I'm not saying he wasn't "off his head" but judging the level on his style of dancing hardly makes much sense.
Would there really be any other way to approach it? Just so long he didn't seizure and they didn't give any to the parrot.
Bryn Reynolds
☺
I want this played at my funeral.
Have I missed it
@@gordon1997looks like it 😂
If this song came out today, I would think it was a load of crap, but it reminds me of coming back from the Falklands War in 1982. This is part of the soundtrack to my life.
must have been a long voyage the war ended in june the record came out in july
and what a waste of time that war was too
Wasn't a waste, it had a knock on effect of turning Argentina into a democracy. It also cemented the fact that Britain was still a world power since everyone said getting the islands back would be impossible
Hey, Cap'n Sensible spoke to me as a high school student in Canada. He said two things.
1: South Pacific was a shitty stupid musical. I like musicals
2: 1983 very nearly nuked us all...I doubt you have to look that up
Bri?
Listening to this on the morning is really inspiring and sets my mood for the rest of the day
A happy song..
Silly talky talky silly talk
Lockdown has lasted too long. Am regressing into my 80s childhood. I want to go back Captain!
RUclips. A more efficient time machine than The Tardis. 😉🤣🤣🤘
I bet the Captain never thought - when recording this - he would make a divorced woman with a broken heart happy with this song in 2019 😍
Your divorce doesn't define you sis!
This is my go to song when my heart aches too lol
I can vaguely remember dancing to this 35 years ago!!!
Ditto
I know this is a song that one is not supposed to like - but I unashamedly DO. It is beautifully orchestrated and scores very high in the 'feelgood' factor! I LOVE IT!!
Brilliant! I remember singing this in a show twenty odd years ago. Fantastic!
Never listening to this on the bus...
me neither :/
Agreed
Why not
@@loganjone4875 have you seen sex education?
Hahahahaha
Today I learned I must've been living under a rock since 1982 cos I never knew about this masterpiece - I love it!!!
Born 82 here my friend
I remember liking this when it came out. I had no idea it was Cpt Sensible from the Damned.
I saw them in 93 in Dundee. Halloween concert. Was wild. The whole crowd went backstage.
Luv and Peace.
Sheer genius. The keyboardist in a punk band becomes a pop star doing an old Broadway show tune.
Believe it or not this tune was a hit in Canada back in the day.
Yes it got to number 1 in the UK as well. Although its a classic rodgers and Hammerstein song( which prevents it from benig a "novelty hit") it wa a big suprise as captain sensible was front man for a punk band called the damned whose drummer was rat scabies.
Good old Captain Sensible.
This song is like a time machine; It's just transported me back to the 80's.
Wise advice! Every time I'm sad and feel like I'm lost in my life I come here! This is a NICE therapy!
I love Captain Sensible, this is a really good effort at this song; and his art and enthusiasm, and ability, within the Damned was great. He is the kind of guy who makes me feel... yeah!
In Korea, the department/grocery store chain uses a cover this which is almost completely instrumental, and la la la la la la laaa... known as the emart song, or the "Emart logo song"
Simon Naylor
Now, will you reply to me after 5 years?
방준석 sake L
ruclips.net/video/ds3iedhVZaQ/видео.html
well it's surely not a cover of this, but a variation of the version from South Pacific.
5년전에 이걸 어케 알았대;;
The perfect song doesn't exi-
A guilty pleasure for always
this is the best song ever fucking recorded.
ruclips.net/video/MPt8uTX9loY/видео.html yea!
Drugs?
ravenhill merchant what the heack
Y'know the original is pretty good too
ruclips.net/video/JXgmQDFhPjo/видео.html
Language!
The punkers must have *hated* this when it came out! It's brilliant, though.
Actually when this came out (he was still with the Damned) the press would come and photograph "him with his bunnies". Then people would take their kids to see the Damned cause the "happy talk guy". Then they'd get all pissed off and pen him angry letters.
@Henry Smith I loved it :) Punk Show tunes lol!
Nobody ever said "punkers," though.
@@Schenectadont "I took in Younge Street at a glance/ heard the PUNKERS play, Watched the Bikers dance... ~Bruce Cockburn 1981
No, most of us got it, most of us loved it.
This song is all ways stuck in my head I love this song
" You've got to have a dream, if you dont have a dream, how you gonna have a dream come true."
Thank you Captain Sensible, such wise words. 💙
This was number one the day my grandmother died, saturday the 10th of july 1982!
Great song, one of the first records I bought back in the early 80s as I recall.
Gosh I love this. Pure Magic from the past :)
superb stuff!
Paul Reynolds Great isn't Paul, :)
I keep singing it, I will drive everyone nuts today lol
Drive 'em nuts Gilly... I'm like that when a tune enters my head...though they do have a minor cause to complain, I can't sing lol
this type of song is lost in modern music and has been for a while.
I love that my daughter years later told me she thinks of me to this song. Nice. So we sang and held hands I cherish every moment of my children XX ❤️
haven't seen this for 30 years! now i can sleep without nightmares.
This tune was a hit in Canada back in the day. I love it.
Captain Sensible is one of my heroes
Our class sung this with our teacher on her last day with us and I was quite sad and I come to listen to this because it reminds me
I had a great day today. Something totally different from the depression I had to fight for years now! This shall be the soundtrack for my future!
Love this version best,if you feel down talk to someone,dont keep silent.
이마트????!!!
문성민 이게 원곡이래요
이거 원곡아니에여 뮤지컬 남태평양에 주아니타 홀이 부른 happy talk가 원곡이에여
M.C짱구 같은곡임
나나나내ㅓㅔㅔㅣㅐㆍ니나나니ㅡ늬넌ㆍ난
1.25배로 하면 이마트송
Peaked at #1 in U.K. on 27 June 1982
pure dead brilliant, that really cheered me up
"Happy talk, keep talking happy talk" are the correct words.
Glad this was mentioned, although the singer does get the words correct as you can read his lips and clearly hear him singing the correct lyrics at 0:40 again at 1:20 and finally at 2:38.
no they are not
love this song
I'm convinced he's saying "happy talk, keep talking happy talk" instead of "talky talky"
This song is a master lesson on the law of attraction.
Who is here today listening to Captain sensible ❤️ in this crazy world
Captain Sensible is one of my favourite British bands of all time......Mark from Canada.
The bird in the video: 👁 👄 👁
This sounds like something a serial killer would sing in a horror movie with his victim strapped to a chair.
It sounds like the kind of song that would play slowly on a record in a haunted old house in a horror movie
Sex education brought me here immediately
I'm glad I'm not alone
Finally
Yep. Me too.
Same here
I did the same immediately
중독성 개쩐다.. 원곡도 좋지만 이분 버젼도 너무 좋네요
This takes me back to my primary school days which I think is where I first heard this song!
Love nostalgia!!!!
OMG I first heard this song as a kid #NostalgiaOnAScreen
Same it was my childhood
Brew brought me here have a DREAM.
yes lad, scramble 2.0
Leave means leave
Fix Bayonets, we're going over the top Gents!
Lets start the British take over of the moon
Special Brew?
Happy 70th Captain. 🙂
...John Peel was the first DJ to play this song on his Radio 1 show! Look at the impact it had on the chart of the time and beyond!
Happy birthday to me! This was number 1 when I was born.
brings back the childhood memorys :)
I had totally forgotten about this song and I totally forget how I found it here after forty something years, but thank God for HAPPY TALK.
2:17 Of course he's saying "I'm a lucky cuss" XD
Omg I literally see you everywhere lol, one place I didn't expect to see a fellow DSP-denouncer was in the comments of this video lol; shit be crazy.
Captain sensible be looking like doctor octopus from spider man 2 lmao
Fancy seeing you here larry
He is also saying "lucky to be us"
Cough. Wink.
Fuck off
Man this brings back some memories
The good old days with jimmy saville and maggy thatcher 😜
Heard this for the first time way back in the early 80s on much music in Toronto Canada. Sounds as great today in 2024.
I was just 8-9 yo but I still remember this lovely crap and WOT. Grande Captain and of course the Damned.
You can only write a song like this if you have experienced severe depression.
When you've come out of it, i suppose, and are feeling happy again. Ti is a wonderful piece of music.
Thank you for liking my comment!
It's a cover from the 1949 Rodgers and Hammerstein musical South Pacific about WWII
I know it is. I used to be in shows. I wanted so much to play the part of Nelly Forbush - but this was not to be!
@@debbiebrett6689 for some, being depressed is the same as being happy. There's a strange comfort in depression. When sadness and depression are all you've ever really known, true happiness is an alien concept which is uncomfortable... depression is comforting.
This was playing in the NAAFI when we got off the aircraft from the Ascension Island in July 82 coming back from the Falklands war. Couple this with getting a 20p piece, (these came out when we were away) in my change that looked a 5 rupee bit and I thought the world had gone mad while I was away.
This is the greatest song ever recorded. It's so happy and mad❤😂❤
I loved this as a child ❤️!I never grew up lol
Ha! Just listened to this to cheer me up after some bad news. Worked a treat!! :)
I played this for my sick brother and it made him feel happy
Paradomics Intonix I have a sick brother. Maybe I will try it too. My brother is 51. How old is yours?
Ray Burns (aka) Captain Sensible) with a parrot, reached #1 in the UK singles chart June 1982. Taken from Rogers and Hammerstein's South Pacific. Probably the ultimate "feel-good" song. The Summer of 1982, I remember it well !
Happy 70th Captain 🎉xx
i had this song repeating in my head last night on an awesome acid trip. you guys should have been there...
Cute parrot, it would be in the great parrot tree in the sky by now. R.I.P cute parrot.
Died?
@@Miguel_16811 Well yes, parrots only live 10 years.
@@eleanorhogan8643 strange, somes birds live 80+ years
In the mid 90s I bought tickets for my parents to go see “South Pacific” at the local theatre, my dad’s response “but I have seen that already!!!!” My mum “Yes in 1955!” They did go and did enjoy themselves but it one of my most quintessential memories of my father.
Was 7 when I heard this on Top of the Pops. Takes me back to trips to the seaside with my grandma
0:33 the bird's face is all "what is happening?"
I love this song makes me feel happy everytime. Lol
My Mother got me this for my 17th Birthday in July 1982. My dream came true when I passed my driving test just 4 days later that July. Very happy memories.
Captain Sensible is the damned if he do and the damned if he don't!
This song is funny and creepy at the same time.
Ikr
How pissed off does that parrot look? 😂😂
Always loved this!
Another great novelty song pure brilliance,!
Randomly started whistling this earlier
Sing along version with the wrong words, great
2020 is saved now. thank you so much for this.
i love this song
The netflix series Sex education Brought me here
Ash Hill - thanks for letting us know. I feel my life is immeasurably changed by this information.
Same here. LMAO
Ash Hill how
Seriously?!
Me 2
Is this Boris Johnson before he became a politician?
LOL
No its captain sensible. Boris Johnson is anything but sensible.
Love 😆
Please don't insult the Capt!!!
This is an AWESOME song,I LOVE it!!!!!!
Thanx for sharing mate!
Still sounds as good as good today as in 1981.