I'm sad for your loss (it's our loss too). This song has haunted most of my life - but in the very best way. It echos through the decades. A great singer.
I have always loved this song. I was born in 69, and remember as a child my mum playing it on the record player on Saturday afternoons with other singles. Marc Almond did your grandfather proud with his version of the song, Marc comes from just up the road from where we live now. My in-laws know the original song too as and come from just down the motorway from your grandad. I think his song was really ahead of its time.
Intenzity Y .....look for the NME dated Oct. 14th 1967 and there’s a front page, full page advert for David advertising The Days of Pearly Spencer ...ideal for framing.
@BeRn ArT ZiC I'm glad I found it today by chance. I recall listening to it on the radio in my teens. Many many years ago! I forgot the title and the singer, BUT not the song.
@BeRn ArT ZiC I'm afraid, I'm a little bit younger than you, since I was listening to Pearly Spencer about 10 years later.. end of the 70s. In the year 1967 I attended my 1st school year and I was in a boarding school for 5 years.
@@DanielFranc35 The video clip created for the song contains footage of the singer playing his guitar on the wharf close to the Oudegracht, the main canal in the centre of Utrecht, the Netherlands.
J ai chercher cette chanson partout , je viens juste de la retrouver en fredonnant le refrain sur une appli de mon tél . Je l entendais souvent dans la voiture de mon père , puis elle n est plus passé en radio . J avais que le refrain(dans les paroles) et cet effet du refrain , petite j avais l impression que c était un pilote d avion qui chantait dans une radio . En tout cas contente de l avoir enfin trouvé
One of those songs I heard on the radio a few times as a kid in the mid-70s without ever knowing who it was by...until now. I do remember the Marc Almond cover of it that got to about number 4 in April 1992,as well.
Je ne suis pas certain d'être d'accord, mais je comprends... Et puis, quand les Irlandais se mettent à la poésie, faut pas s'étonner que ça secoue, profondément...!
Même chose, et je remarque que c'est une des premières video de RUclips 😅 elle est sorti 1ans après la toute première video jamais publié sur youtube " AT the zoo "
Last time I 've listened to this song was more than 40 years ago! It gave me goosebumbs this time. Timeless. As we grow older we understand more, we feel more, we learnmore, we love more ... if we want to!
This is my mum, this song reminds me my mum, when she was doing housework in early 80s with her small mobile radio and I was playing lego on the floor of my room, today with dad they are not on earth anymore, but so deeply rooted in my heart each day they are accompanying me to be the best daddy with my kids as they were to me 💔💔❤❤
Encore une fois merci Kevin Hobbs pour cette vidéo. A regarder et écouter sans modération en 2024 comme en 1968. 56 ans et toujours pas une ride (sauf sur mon visage) ! Ce morceau est sur ma playlist depuis sa création en 1979 et n'est pas prêt d'en sortir.
Cette chanson est extraordinaire, 50 ans après ça passe comme au premier jour, voilà un TUBE pour la vie Peu de chansons ont se privilège !!! EXTRAORDINAIRE
👍👌👏🎉💕🎉... J'avais 14 ans à l'époque et, en cet été 2023, j'ai retrouvé tout à fait par hasard et en excellent état, le 45 tours d'origine, sorti, il me semble au début janvier 1968! ... Bien à vous.
Je l'ai découverte à 11 ans, en 1993, sur une compilation CD que mes parents avaient acheté intitulé "Sous les pavés... la plage (Les tubes de Mai 68)" sortie chez WMD Music pour les 25 ans de Mai 68. En mai 1993, même à seulement 11 ans à l'époque, je l'ai trouvée magnifique, et je ne trouvais absolument pas qu'elle faisait démodée. Elle aurait pu être sortie en 1991 ! La seule chanson de ce CD que je trouvais très démodée à l'époque, c'est "Cinderella Rockefella" d'Esther et Abi O'Farim. J'ai racheté ce CD depuis, et quand je le réécoute, je trouve ça fou que cela fasse déjà 30 ans que je connais ces chansons alors que cela me semble hier, et de me dire qu'elles avaient déjà 25 ans quand je les ai découvertes et en ont aujourd'hui 55, et toujours pas une ride.
Although it is a well.known song: It wasn't even a one-it wonder. It never hit the charts in the 1960s although Radio Caroline played it round the clock.
They played this on 50,000 watt KLIF "The Mighty Eleven Ninety" when I was a kid. It should have been a big US hit (US #134 !) considering it was #1 France and a hit all over Europe, except in the UK and Ireland because it was banned because one of the record guys was involved in Radio Caroline who broke the song. Also loved Mark Almond's excellent cover with his added optimistic last verse (UK #4).
Encore merci Kevin Hobbs pour cette vidéo. A regarder et écouter sans modération en 2022 comme en 1968. 54 ans et pas une ride (sauf sur mon visage) ! Le téléphone lui aussi a pris des rides. Vous ne me croyez pas les jeunes mais c'était comme ça il y a 50 ans.
The video was recorded at the (former) beer brewery “de Boog” at the Oudegracht-canal in Utrecht, the Netherlands. 1967 In color! Lucky for us watching this in the 21st century.
Je pense comme toi, c'est une chanson fantastique trés en avance pour son époque, n'y vois-tu pas une similitude sur l'effet de son étouffé sur le titre " radiio star " ?
i never heard it on Caroline, but remember hearing lots of classics on that station as a 7 year old (1977)with his first radio..the signal would sometimes fade to nothing then come back to normal.
@@sheridangmail1277 ‘Radio Caroline on 199 - your all day music station’ yes fantastic times - I walked along the shore today where I sat as a kid tuning into Radio Caroline - surreal, magical memories.
@@jfdevilliers3474 Comme cela nous serons au moins trois ! :-) maintenant mon rêve serait de trouver les paroles, je me suis toujours demandé ce qu'il disait ne parlant que quelques mots d'anglais malheureusement...
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One of the best ever..Still brings tears to my eyes. Was 14 when it was released,loved it then and have listened to it pretty regularly ever since
I was 15 when this was released......I froze as soon as those violins kicked in. It haunted me the very first time I heard it and it haunts me still. I have no idea why - but probably one of my favourite songs ever......and believe me, there are quite a few this old bugger has heard. ha ha
I was the same age. During that era, very few 'pop' songs used orchestras, another of my favourites, released a year or two later, is Darling Be Home Soon by Lovin' Spoonful. Superb.
huntiau OMG that could've been me writing your words as I felt and still feel the same way as you about this incredible song. I was 14 at the time. I think it haunts me 'cause it seems so full of despair and sadness for what I envisioned a child growing up in such a horrible desperate world with nothing to look forward to and all the beauty of it being stripped away. Now, in my mid 60s, I see it the same way but that sort of world has now come to fruition and the race is almost run I see as the human race has almost run, run out, soon to be over taken by machines. Sorry, very cynical but that's how I personally view the world today, sadly.
Je ne pensais pas reentendre cette chanson c est un réel plaisir ! Toute mon adolescence .❤
Hello ✌️moi itou et ça fait du bien !!! Bonne écoute trop cool !!! 🤗
This is my grandad❤️ rest in peace to a legend. Sadly never got to meet him as he passed away 2 years before I was born but I’m proud of you grandad
Ja klar..
@@storagewars It is a name. The song is inspired to a homeless
I'm sad for your loss (it's our loss too). This song has haunted most of my life - but in the very best way. It echos through the decades. A great singer.
I have always loved this song. I was born in 69, and remember as a child my mum playing it on the record player on Saturday afternoons with other singles. Marc Almond did your grandfather proud with his version of the song, Marc comes from just up the road from where we live now. My in-laws know the original song too as and come from just down the motorway from your grandad. I think his song was really ahead of its time.
Intenzity Y .....look for the NME dated Oct. 14th 1967 and there’s a front page, full page advert for David advertising The Days of Pearly Spencer ...ideal for framing.
❤️❤️❤️ Please, a minute of silence for those who will never find this song...
@BeRn ArT ZiC I'm out! I knew it but really forget it somehow.
@BeRn ArT ZiC I'm glad I found it today by chance. I recall listening to it on the radio in my teens. Many many years ago! I forgot the title and the singer, BUT not the song.
@BeRn ArT ZiC I'm afraid, I'm a little bit younger than you, since I was listening to Pearly Spencer about 10 years later.. end of the 70s. In the year 1967 I attended my 1st school year and I was in a boarding school for 5 years.
@BeRn ArT ZiC Sleep well, I'm going too.🌛 yes, the original was dedicated to ZZT, but then X died and I kept the name in his honour.
It took me almost 30 years to find it. I heard it in the back of my parents' car when I was a kid. 😅
Guitar playing near the canals in the city of Utrecht! Legendary, and what a unique and still a great song.
Where they dutch?
@@matata66he's British, and as far as I was aware, this video was filmed in Northern Ireland, where he's from.
@@jamesmason8436 It was just my comment to Elwin, Thanks! Enjoy the evening
THIS SONG IS SO ULTIMATE
Merci pour tout.
1pépite j avais 14ans je l ai enfin retrouvé
This song never fades away. This was real music.
👍👍👍
Excelente
I love the song but what does the second statement eve mean?
Real music 😊👍
Que de souvenirs u. Grand monsieur
One of Northern Ireland,s great singers who deserved more recognition and success
Where recorded lads?
@@DanielFranc35
The video clip created for the song contains footage of the singer playing his guitar on the wharf close to the Oudegracht, the main canal in the centre of Utrecht, the Netherlands.
Important share of outstanding musicians are underrated even on their countries. Glad of listen glorious music and poetry
Thanks for posting this most remembered song. Also, thanks to those who posted additional,info.
Wasn't aware he was from Norn Ireland
Meme les français écoutaient cette chanson , c était les belles années de notre pays
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J ai chercher cette chanson partout , je viens juste de la retrouver en fredonnant le refrain sur une appli de mon tél . Je l entendais souvent dans la voiture de mon père , puis elle n est plus passé en radio . J avais que le refrain(dans les paroles) et cet effet du refrain , petite j avais l impression que c était un pilote d avion qui chantait dans une radio . En tout cas contente de l avoir enfin trouvé
C'était mieux que du johny
I remember this song when it came out in 1967, as a 14 year I liked it. As a 69 yaer old in 2022 I like even more.
couldn't agree more
Me too. It makes me go cold all over not sure why. Was it in 432 frequency?
One of those songs I heard on the radio a few times as a kid in the mid-70s without ever knowing who it was by...until now. I do remember the Marc Almond cover of it that got to about number 4 in April 1992,as well.
I was 11 years old. As a Dutch boy I couldn't understand English at that time. But I felt it. Still an all time favourite for me.
tenia yo. 4 años cuando escuche esta maravillosa cansion .
First came out in 1967. It has aged well. A brilliant song.
J avais 12 an2 je me demandais qui chantait cette chanson vive Internet j ai 65 ans et toujours émotion
superbe chanson de l epoque.mon epoque
RIP the great David McWilliams ✌️🍀
Pure poetry, as well as a great song.
I was smitten by this song. What music. What lyrics. Sublime. The violins, really, Wohhhhhh.
❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Dear Mr. McWilliams cool Song and and a cool shirt - R.I.P, your song never dies!
Nous ne sommes plus capables d'écrire d'aussi beaux textes, c'est regrettable !
Je ne suis pas certain d'être d'accord, mais je comprends... Et puis, quand les Irlandais se mettent à la poésie, faut pas s'étonner que ça secoue, profondément...!
Absolutely master-piece of music
I forgot this song for so long. My sister dropped it for Easter, god blees a true gift. A memory.
J'adore cette chanson. Je l'écoute encore en 2024.
Oui, moi aussi. Il habite en Ireland du Nord.
@@robmca9265depuis 8 janvier 2002 il est mort
Moi aussi avec,plaisir
Me too!
Même chose, et je remarque que c'est une des premières video de RUclips 😅 elle est sorti 1ans après la toute première video jamais publié sur youtube " AT the zoo "
Excellent lyrics.
Last time I 've listened to this song was more than 40 years ago! It gave me goosebumbs this time. Timeless. As we grow older we understand more, we feel more, we learnmore, we love more ... if we want to!
This is my mum, this song reminds me my mum, when she was doing housework in early 80s with her small mobile radio and I was playing lego on the floor of my room, today with dad they are not on earth anymore, but so deeply rooted in my heart each day they are accompanying me to be the best daddy with my kids as they were to me 💔💔❤❤
Parole bellissime, mamme e papà innanzitutto
❤ x
Oh my god I’m searching for this song , I can’t believe I found her
Cette chanson me bouleverse totalement ...😊
Listening in 2021? Great song.
1/10/2024 son las 22:51hrs chaoooooo 🎼🇨🇱✌️
Я в 2024
It's a masterpiece ✨️ 🎸🙏
You re right...great melody
What a brilliant song and yet little known.
Une chanson culte et Éternelle une époque formidable notre jeunesse et notre enfance comment oublier cette époque ❤❤
Elle fout toujours autant les poils cette pépite ❤❤❤
David was a great singer. He should have had greater success especially in the UK
Encore merci Kevin Hobbs pour cette vidéo. A regarder et écouter sans modération en 2023 comme en 1968. 55 ans et pas une ride (sauf sur mon visage) !
Encore une fois merci Kevin Hobbs pour cette vidéo. A regarder et écouter sans modération en 2024 comme en 1968. 56 ans et toujours pas une ride (sauf sur mon visage) ! Ce morceau est sur ma playlist depuis sa création en 1979 et n'est pas prêt d'en sortir.
Idem !!!! The number ONE !!!
@@sergeherbstvonmeyer4756 😊
Comme vous avez raison!@@sergeherbstvonmeyer4756
Juste intemporel ce morceau ... je l'ai écouté à sa sortie , j'avais 11 ans , il m’émerveille toujours autant
Like this very rarely played😎
Perfect song, huge hit in France
Was für ein brillanter Song. So zeitlos. Der Song ist älter als ich. Ich liebe ihn.
Wie alt? Zwölf?
@@mknie58 Flitzpiepe.
The song, the lyrics, the voice, the expression, the recording on summit. A real piece of art. Congrats.
Art. British art its best.
@@LarsTragel-zh7ei He is Irish.
Ich liiiieebe diesen Song!!! ❤
J avais 9ans je me demandais qui chantait cette chanson merci internet j ai 65 ans elle me boulverse toujours
Cette chanson est extraordinaire, 50 ans après ça passe comme au premier jour, voilà un TUBE pour la vie
Peu de chansons ont se privilège !!! EXTRAORDINAIRE
👍👌👏🎉💕🎉... J'avais 14 ans à l'époque et, en cet été 2023, j'ai retrouvé tout à fait par hasard et en excellent état, le 45 tours d'origine, sorti, il me semble au début janvier 1968! ... Bien à vous.
Je l'ai découverte à 11 ans, en 1993, sur une compilation CD que mes parents avaient acheté intitulé "Sous les pavés... la plage (Les tubes de Mai 68)" sortie chez WMD Music pour les 25 ans de Mai 68. En mai 1993, même à seulement 11 ans à l'époque, je l'ai trouvée magnifique, et je ne trouvais absolument pas qu'elle faisait démodée. Elle aurait pu être sortie en 1991 ! La seule chanson de ce CD que je trouvais très démodée à l'époque, c'est "Cinderella Rockefella" d'Esther et Abi O'Farim.
J'ai racheté ce CD depuis, et quand je le réécoute, je trouve ça fou que cela fasse déjà 30 ans que je connais ces chansons alors que cela me semble hier, et de me dire qu'elles avaient déjà 25 ans quand je les ai découvertes et en ont aujourd'hui 55, et toujours pas une ride.
On ne s'en lasse pas ,les violons magnifique magique
This song touches me again and again and is my favorite forever
If you never heard his music you never lived
Someone wrote one hit wonder but what a tune.he should have been an international superstar.never tire of listening to this song
Had completely forgotten this song. What a gem.
I'm 66 old i'm from algeria and i say that David was à gréât singer
Tiger baby.
Un chef-d’œuvre absolu …
❤
A one hit wonder.
But an unforgettable one.
Simply Timeless.
I don't like your style of slurring a artist then in a ready brek weak porridge trying to amend .get lost . You suburban scotish nobody
Although it is a well.known song: It wasn't even a one-it wonder. It never hit the charts in the 1960s although Radio Caroline played it round the clock.
It was very much under rated at the time.. A brilliant song.
Je ne me laisserai jamais de l écouter tellement bien !!!!!😢
Very Apt for Our Times. Great Lyrics.
I love this song . One of my favorit
Rest in peace thanks for this classic song
They played this on 50,000 watt KLIF "The Mighty Eleven Ninety" when I was a kid. It should have been a big US hit (US #134 !) considering it was #1 France and a hit all over Europe, except in the UK and Ireland because it was banned because one of the record guys was involved in Radio Caroline who broke the song. Also loved Mark Almond's excellent cover with his added optimistic last verse (UK #4).
Je ne me lasserai de ce titre .
Great song. Still gets airplay here in Israel (thanks, Geddy Livneh!).
Marc Almond adds magic to this.
Ich Liebe diesen Song 👍👍👍👌👌👌👏👏👏🎶🎶🎶🌹🌹🌹❤️❤️❤️
Growing up I thought it was the days of Shirley Spencer which was my mom's maiden name. Brilliant song.still sounds fresh today.
Ma jeunesse....perdue à tout jamais perdue......
I'm a GDR child and my father had it on tape. 🥰 I was four years old and love(d) it so much. ❤️
For a 1967 song, it sounds like many songs decades later. Thanks RUclips for the recommendation!
En écoutant cette chanson enfant,je savais très bien que j’allais vivre ,et vieillir avec.
me too!
Me too ❤
Idem
quelle merveilleuse chanson et qui écoute encore ce titre exceptionnel a part moi
They don't make them like they usta any more.
Thank God I lived through that era.
What a fantastically written song he must have been a great poet as well, Born in the Cregagh Estate Belfast.
Do you know what sporting icon came from the exact same place!
@@stephenmcwilliams5842that would be the great Georgie Best. 😊
This song brings back memories of my youth living in the UK cool❤❤
A MAGNIFICENT AND GLORIOUS SONG globally speaking,, RIP DAVID THANK YOU FOR ETERNITY,
Encore merci Kevin Hobbs pour cette vidéo. A regarder et écouter sans modération en 2022 comme en 1968. 54 ans et pas une ride (sauf sur mon visage) ! Le téléphone lui aussi a pris des rides. Vous ne me croyez pas les jeunes mais c'était comme ça il y a 50 ans.
Suis d’accord
Awesome love it.
A haunting song that I have come back to many times over the last 50 plus years. It has that certain magic .
The video was recorded at the (former) beer brewery “de Boog” at the Oudegracht-canal in Utrecht, the Netherlands. 1967 In color! Lucky for us watching this in the 21st century.
100% agree, this is just so special
The opening Celebration for the Olympics at the Tour Eifel at around 23:10h made me look for this song. The violin theme reminded me.
I just heard the song on Qatar 🇶🇦 radio. I came to play again. Wonderful music
Sie müssen sehr stolz auf ihn sein!
Unvergesslich!!🎩🎸
MAGNIFIQUE !....
I was looking for this song for a long time (50 years) and thought I would die before I found it.
Love this song what a great artist.
Love this
5.4 million views tells you all a Very underrate singer his name shall live for ever more
Great song 🎵 brilliant memories 👏
Enthralling, haunting. Great lyrics. I'm still listening to it...
Superbe mélodie 👌👌💖💖💖
Great song , very spécial feeling. I like this!
A masterpiece👏 i like also Caterina Caselli and Marc Almond ones
J ai adore 🥰 60.s époque magnifique
Ma jeunesse merci du partage
I speak french also: i wrote on french exam how to describe yourself, on my poor french vocalybary i just said; je suis un avion
Ich liebe das Lied🥰 Schöne Grüße aus Österreich, Seefeld in Tirol
Theres something really magical about this song... theres a certain feeling it gives me and i cant even say what it is.
Same here!
@@larshimler2063 The style is French Chanson, popularised by singers like Edith Piaf, Jaques Brel and Serg Gainsborough, check them out!
Quite true. It is awesome how it makes me always feel notwithstanding the meaning of the lyrics.
Wistful melancholy.
Same here … 60/70s vibe and all of its trials and tribulations
Extraordinaire chanson!j écoute toujours ce son particulier s en m en lasser❤️❤️❤️
Je pense comme toi, c'est une chanson fantastique trés en avance pour son époque, n'y vois-tu pas une similitude sur l'effet de son étouffé sur le titre " radiio star " ?
video killed the radio star by the Buggles
@@icedbass oui c est ça !je n avais pas fait le rapprochement
merci merci
Such a beautifull song😢❤
June the 13th 2024 ..Still listening ❤
I remember listening to this wonderfulsong on Radio Caroline every night in 1968. I loved it.
i never heard it on Caroline, but remember hearing lots of classics on that station as a 7 year old (1977)with his first radio..the signal would sometimes fade to nothing then come back to normal.
Me too, Caroline and RL
Yes those heady days listen to Radio Caroline and hearing this haunting song - wonderful.
@@chrissieretallick5432 "Ca-ro-line, Caro-line" la la la la :) Still have it in my head, wonderful times :)
@@sheridangmail1277 ‘Radio Caroline on 199 - your all day music station’ yes fantastic times - I walked along the shore today where I sat as a kid tuning into Radio Caroline - surreal, magical memories.
That string arrangement is so good.
Nostalgie quand tu nous tiens !magnifique chanson❤
Nostalgie aussi, délicieuse période de ma jeunesse...tempête de ciel bleu et pluie d"étoiles...!
@@jfdevilliers3474 Comme cela nous serons au moins trois ! :-)
maintenant mon rêve serait de trouver les paroles, je me suis toujours demandé ce qu'il disait
ne parlant que quelques mots d'anglais malheureusement...
One of the best ever..Still brings tears to my eyes. Was 14 when it was released,loved it then and have listened to it pretty regularly ever since
Una verdadera obra de arte
I was 15 when this was released......I froze as soon as those violins kicked in. It haunted me the very first time I heard it and it haunts me still. I have no idea why - but probably one of my favourite songs ever......and believe me, there are quite a few this old bugger has heard. ha ha
I was the same age. During that era, very few 'pop' songs used orchestras, another of my favourites, released a year or two later, is Darling Be Home Soon by Lovin' Spoonful. Superb.
huntiau OMG that could've been me writing your words as I felt and still feel the same way as you about this incredible song. I was 14 at the time. I think it haunts me 'cause it seems so full of despair and sadness for what I envisioned a child growing up in such a horrible desperate world with nothing to look forward to and all the beauty of it being stripped away. Now, in my mid 60s, I see it the same way but that sort of world has now come to fruition and the race is almost run I see as the human race has almost run, run out, soon to be over taken by machines. Sorry, very cynical but that's how I personally view the world today, sadly.
I was 15 too and it was love at first listening for this wonderful song !
Yes! I was 13. This song is so spooky cool.
This song was one of the songs on my very first album i bought. I think i was about 14. Alway liked this song, and i'm glad it's on youtube!
Αυτό το υπέροχο κομμάτι το λάτρεψα απο την πρώτη στιγμή που το ακουσα.. πόσα χρονια πριν? 40?50? αγόρασα τον δίσκο μόλις πρωτοκυκλοφόρησε!
Nearly 50 years i love this song - it was a great time at that time and this is still music - not like today 😉