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.
@@NormAppletonIt was certainly the only song by a member of the Dammed my parents allowed to be played in the car and we all sang along. My parents saw South Pacific the musical when they were dating, they knew he was in a band but we managed to pull the wool over their eyes.
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
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.
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.
@@wotdoesthisbuttondo The same could be said about numerous artists and their songs. I think that most of them are/were just trying to appeal to a large, mainly untapped market. Just look at the likes of "Baby Shark". It seems that in the entertainment industry (including music) there are a disproportionate number of (to put it politely) 'dodgy' characters. I'm sure in the years to come it will be found that a few more musicians were up to no good.
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!
*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*
@@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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 !
November 17th, 2021 There’s a question relating to this very song on THE CHASE quiz show with Bradley Walsh. I remembered it!! I was only 17 when this version was released.
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.
this is one of the cleverst songs ever recorded, for a cover version, someone here has seen the potential in doing this stage musical song again, BUT as a keyboarded version that perfectly suits it (having an oriental lilt to it. this is one of those songs that proved them all wrong, how can a gooey song like this work especially re-recorded, but it did in the 80s against all the odds
In July 1982, The Damned's guitarist Captain Sensible scored a No. 1 hit on the UK Singles Chart for two weeks with his version of the song,[2] featuring backing vocals by the band Dolly Mixture. Due to the chart success of the single, The Damned have frequently included "Happy Talk" in their set lists since 1982.(Wikipedia)
Captain sensible. Happy talk. Happy go lucky song . Very catchy song on a nice hot summers day to be happy .with family and friends. That surrounds you . On a lovely happy day on a barbecue day. So every one can dance to ...be happy . Happy day 😀😀
Seeing this for the first time in a very long time, decades in fact... All I can say is that it took me back to being a kid, (perhaps wearing rose tinted glasses), where everything seemed to be great. In our house the Captain could do no wrong... He had a place in all our hearts, was loved by young and old, smiling faces all around... The ridiculousness of it all... Brilliant times .... I should add that to this day my elderly parents still respond on occasion whenever we call them with lyrics from "WOT", as in "..said Captain... I said WOT YOU WANT"..😂
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.
I have this video, I have all the videos in this series. I got rid of the original copies a long time ago but a couple of years ago I rebought them on EBay. I also have all the "Do it your way" karaoke titles and burned them onto DVD a long time ago. It's interesting that this video features a few original artist recordings, I personally found it easier to sing along to the karaoke/covers. I even did my own karaoke backing tracks in the 90s on my Yamaha PSS-790 Porta-Sound and Casio CT-700 Tone Bank keyboards before the days of Cubase/Mixcraft.
Woke up on singing this to my 5 month old baby this morning, had to have anothet listen. I think I sing it better lol. Great message in this song. Aw the memories of my childhood.
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
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 have to agree
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
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!
😂
@@NormAppletonIt was certainly the only song by a member of the Dammed my parents allowed to be played in the car and we all sang along. My parents saw South Pacific the musical when they were dating, they knew he was in a band but we managed to pull the wool over their eyes.
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.
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.
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?
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
Brilliant! I remember singing this in a show twenty odd years ago. Fantastic!
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 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!!
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
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 ❤️
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.
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.
@@wotdoesthisbuttondo The same could be said about numerous artists and their songs. I think that most of them are/were just trying to appeal to a large, mainly untapped market. Just look at the likes of "Baby Shark".
It seems that in the entertainment industry (including music) there are a disproportionate number of (to put it politely) 'dodgy' characters. I'm sure in the years to come it will be found that a few more musicians were up to no good.
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!
*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*
Heard this for the first time way back in the early 80s on much music in Toronto Canada. Sounds as great today in 2024.
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.
Captain Sensible singing about HAPPY TALK from THE DAMMED .Now there's a turn up for books .LOVE IT !
It's The Damned, as in going to hell, not The Dammed, as in a river whose flow has been stopped! 😅
Never listening to this on the bus...
me neither :/
Agreed
Why not
@@loganjone4875 have you seen sex education?
Hahahahaha
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
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 😂
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.
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.
I can vaguely remember dancing to this 35 years ago!!!
Ditto
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;;
haven't seen this for 30 years! now i can sleep without nightmares.
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.
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
Happy 70th Captain 🎉xx
this whole song and video feels like a meme
Captain Sensible is one of my favourite British bands of all time......Mark from Canada.
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
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.
중독성 개쩐다.. 원곡도 좋지만 이분 버젼도 너무 좋네요
This tune was a hit in Canada back in the day. I love it.
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 song is like a time machine; It's just transported me back to the 80's.
Love this version best,if you feel down talk to someone,dont keep silent.
This takes me back to my primary school days which is where I first heard this song!
Happy days!!!!!
Love nostalgia!!!!
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!
이마트????!!!
문성민 이게 원곡이래요
이거 원곡아니에여 뮤지컬 남태평양에 주아니타 홀이 부른 happy talk가 원곡이에여
M.C짱구 같은곡임
나나나내ㅓㅔㅔㅣㅐㆍ니나나니ㅡ늬넌ㆍ난
1.25배로 하면 이마트송
pure dead brilliant, that really cheered me up
2024 anyone?
👋 😂
😊🇦🇺
Never heard of this song until " sex education" on Netflix!
Yeah ! Of course 😅
Me!!!😉
Sheer genius. The keyboardist in a punk band becomes a pop star doing an old Broadway show tune.
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 !
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 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!
2020 is saved now. thank you so much for this.
The perfect song doesn't exi-
...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!
Ha! Just listened to this to cheer me up after some bad news. Worked a treat!! :)
November 17th, 2021
There’s a question relating to this very song on
THE CHASE quiz show with Bradley Walsh.
I remembered it!!
I was only 17 when this version was released.
this type of song is lost in modern music and has been for a while.
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.
A guilty pleasure for always
What a great time to grow up as a youth with these Cheerful songs in the 1980s.
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
Another great novelty song pure brilliance,!
Great song, one of the first records I bought back in the early 80s as I recall.
Peaked at #1 in U.K. on 27 June 1982
Good old Captain Sensible.
Was 7 when I heard this on Top of the Pops. Takes me back to trips to the seaside with my grandma
Captain Sensible is one of my heroes
this is one of the cleverst songs ever recorded, for a cover version, someone here has seen the potential in doing this stage musical song again, BUT as a keyboarded version that perfectly suits it (having an oriental lilt to it.
this is one of those songs that proved them all wrong, how can a gooey song like this work especially re-recorded, but it did in the 80s against all the odds
This was number one the day my grandmother died, saturday the 10th of july 1982!
Probably tbe country's, or maybe the world's, most famous trainspotter!
In July 1982, The Damned's guitarist Captain Sensible scored a No. 1 hit on the UK Singles Chart for two weeks with his version of the song,[2] featuring backing vocals by the band Dolly Mixture.
Due to the chart success of the single, The Damned have frequently included "Happy Talk" in their set lists since 1982.(Wikipedia)
This reached Number 1 for two weeks......happier, better times.
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
Captain sensible. Happy talk. Happy go lucky song . Very catchy song on a nice hot summers day to be happy .with family and friends. That surrounds you . On a lovely happy day on a barbecue day. So every one can dance to ...be happy . Happy day 😀😀
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?
Peaked at Number #1 in July 1982 above records by popular bands like Duran Duran, Roxy Music and The Jam.
I'm convinced he's saying "happy talk, keep talking happy talk" instead of "talky talky"
Seeing this for the first time in a very long time, decades in fact... All I can say is that it took me back to being a kid, (perhaps wearing rose tinted glasses), where everything seemed to be great. In our house the Captain could do no wrong... He had a place in all our hearts, was loved by young and old, smiling faces all around... The ridiculousness of it all... Brilliant times .... I should add that to this day my elderly parents still respond on occasion whenever we call them with lyrics from "WOT", as in "..said Captain... I said WOT YOU WANT"..😂
This is a feel good uplifting song! If you want to be depressed go watch some crap tv like East Enders or the news then you can wallow in that.
This is the greatest song ever recorded. It's so happy and mad❤😂❤
This song is a master lesson on the law of attraction.
I was 16 when this song came out I'm now 58😮
"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
I have this video, I have all the videos in this series. I got rid of the original copies a long time ago but a couple of years ago I rebought them on EBay. I also have all the "Do it your way" karaoke titles and burned them onto DVD a long time ago. It's interesting that this video features a few original artist recordings, I personally found it easier to sing along to the karaoke/covers. I even did my own karaoke backing tracks in the 90s on my Yamaha PSS-790 Porta-Sound and Casio CT-700 Tone Bank keyboards before the days of Cubase/Mixcraft.
Happy birthday to me! This was number 1 when I was born.
Woke up on singing this to my 5 month old baby this morning, had to have anothet listen. I think I sing it better lol. Great message in this song. Aw the memories of my childhood.
i had this song repeating in my head last night on an awesome acid trip. you guys should have been there...
I was just 8-9 yo but I still remember this lovely crap and WOT. Grande Captain and of course the Damned.
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
a very convincing tropical island
Who is here today listening to Captain sensible ❤️ in this crazy world
I’m here from 101X in Austin Texas, Deb played a small bit on air a couple days back.
Man this brings back some memories
The good old days with jimmy saville and maggy thatcher 😜
I loved this as a child ❤️!I never grew up lol
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!!!
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?
OMG I first heard this song as a kid #NostalgiaOnAScreen
Same it was my childhood
Happy talk is sensible sad talk is totally different. im happy watching and singing along to this video 😁
I love this song makes me feel happy everytime. Lol
How can you dislike this?? you don't have a dream?