Toy Dolls - Nellie the Elephant (We're Mad, Sunderland, UK, 1984)

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    The Toy Dolls' chart-busting version of the popular childrens' song. All together now: oooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOO!
    This video is a celebration of the north of England's most famous punk rock outfit. We're Mad captures the band at their best. Not so much a set of songs as a series of short stories. Packed full of witty lyrics and mad machine-gun guitar licks
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  • @安藤桃子-k1z
    @安藤桃子-k1z 5 лет назад +58

    日本のある40代です。20年以上前に聞いたときもいい意味でふざけてるけど、今見ても良い意味でふざけてますよねー。大好き💞

    • @RJ3220
      @RJ3220 5 лет назад +7

      Can't understand this but I agree with the sentiment.

    • @sergeiguselnikov5318
      @sergeiguselnikov5318 21 день назад

      Как дела ?

    • @adinocc2042
      @adinocc2042 9 дней назад

      Cool!🤘😎👍

    • @babuloser
      @babuloser 3 дня назад +1

      5年後の今もふざけてると思います(笑)

    • @安藤桃子-k1z
      @安藤桃子-k1z 2 дня назад

      @@babuloser ですよね😂

  • @MalleHenkie
    @MalleHenkie 3 года назад +124

    36 years later and still f***ing awesome!

    • @Stumpe1421
      @Stumpe1421 2 месяца назад +1

      T R U E

    • @simplesimonhadapie
      @simplesimonhadapie Месяц назад +3

      40 now. I am just a year older than this song but always reminds me of being a kid where this was more popular than the other versions

    • @SxSxG666
      @SxSxG666 Месяц назад +1

      At least one iconic getting on my nerves song :)

  • @amandabruce3869
    @amandabruce3869 2 года назад +266

    This takes me back to a time when the entire pub would be singing this, and we`d all be banging our glasses on the tables and stamping our feet to the chorus. Great atmosphere.

    • @dogwhistle8836
      @dogwhistle8836 6 месяцев назад

      Too many "trumps" in this song and too many WHITE people having fun and this obviously makes it a real "RACIST" dog whistle, only when people start using inventions that are from their own race will we end thought crimes aka " hate speech, when Africans find out that they have invented cars, mobile phones, computers, flight and antibiotics to name a few will whitey truly know their place in world history and black Americans as the most abused people in the history of the world not having to fear traffic stops because whitey won't have a car or gun because we all know these were inventions stolen from them by whitey and can't wait for my birthing person/she/her to give birth to our first Black male presenting child,I witnessed Tyrone plant they/them resistance pole in the birthing person as I cried with joy in the corner knowing I did my bit to fight against the racists that still judge people by their content and not by their race or gender, I really hate the bigotry that stops people from seeing colour or who the sleep with, treating people the same is just so racist and we need to use the covid camps for these insane racists that are coloured blind

    • @Dragon-Slay3r
      @Dragon-Slay3r 2 месяца назад

      Michael he was police he gave the Uzi to the murderer who got 48 years

    • @JustMeUpNorth
      @JustMeUpNorth 26 дней назад

      I remember nights like that. Good times.

  • @bombercountyblues
    @bombercountyblues 5 лет назад +3163

    This was actually banned from my local pubs jukebox after it all got out of hand every time it was played.

    • @devilman7012
      @devilman7012 5 лет назад +64

      True Story!

    • @DarkPhenix666
      @DarkPhenix666 5 лет назад +114

      Insert coin, get troubles lmao

    • @garymay799
      @garymay799 5 лет назад +37

      Same thing happened in our pub kept kicking fuck out of jukebox when Rene Renata cum on .

    • @napalmglop1
      @napalmglop1 5 лет назад +52

      Mate you just made my day!

    • @stanssoapbox
      @stanssoapbox 5 лет назад +17

      Lol.

  • @negativeman7716
    @negativeman7716 4 года назад +468

    This is the nicest punk song I’ve ever hesrd

    • @zombiegameruk
      @zombiegameruk 3 года назад +1

      @ROET 🤔

    • @thesaints-7-andrew.
      @thesaints-7-andrew. 3 года назад +5

      Τhen you have not heard punk song.listen for a start DEMOB-no room for you and RIOT CLONES-death to humanity .better yet all PUNK AND DISORDERLY ALBUMS
      GREETINGS FROM GREECE.

    • @zackzallie8735
      @zackzallie8735 3 года назад +7

      Green Day is the definition of "nice punk".

    • @dylann4417
      @dylann4417 3 года назад +3

      @@zackzallie8735 no.

    • @gooddealer5797
      @gooddealer5797 3 года назад +2

      Ashbrooke launderette

  • @paulwilliams2663
    @paulwilliams2663 Год назад +414

    Timeless.....British eccentricity....punk pathetique.....fantastic musicians.....flawless live.....yes olga is a genius

    • @nseight
      @nseight Год назад +7

      Paul Williams* :-) * Nice comment *Sending the best of wishes from Scotland*

    • @paulwilliams2663
      @paulwilliams2663 Год назад +5

      ​@nseight I live Belgrade but remember totp.....school was crazy in Liverpool the following day 😂 wishes m8 from Serbia 🇷🇸 😊

    • @Manwecaen
      @Manwecaen Год назад +1

      Yes, thank's god, yeah!, indeed, hm....., olga? check!

    • @skintclint
      @skintclint Год назад

      Not Punk you dimwit... they are fascist skin head lovers

    • @nashe2579
      @nashe2579 11 месяцев назад

      ​@@paulwilliams2663dededdrdddddddddðdddddddddddddddddddddrddddddddddddddddddrrrrrrrrerrrerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrdrrrrr

  • @intercat4907
    @intercat4907 4 года назад +537

    62 years old. Have no idea why I found this, but have showed it to my grown Goth daughter and to my grandson. Nice to be in the "in" crowd :D

    • @0therun1t21
      @0therun1t21 4 года назад +72

      Lucky! My kid's a furry.

    • @0therun1t21
      @0therun1t21 4 года назад +12

      @Karl Wilson Hahaha, mine would probably like it though.

    • @markgnarz5399
      @markgnarz5399 4 года назад +12

      @@0therun1t21 Eh, goths are pretty close to furries in mine eyes

    • @0therun1t21
      @0therun1t21 4 года назад +10

      @@markgnarz5399 I think I can see what you mean, is it because of the transformative nature of both?

    • @markgnarz5399
      @markgnarz5399 4 года назад +4

      @@0therun1t21 its the dullard, scenster sameness.

  • @louismarchesani2476
    @louismarchesani2476 6 лет назад +582

    My mum used to sing me this every night before bed. She was a 70 London punk rocker, but she sang the lulaby version

    • @Wheezr
      @Wheezr 4 года назад +55

      alright son, a lullaby, **tunes guitar**

    • @nikolait5
      @nikolait5 4 года назад +16

      Just imagined her punching you out, unconsciousness with the dance moves...

    • @robyn7493
      @robyn7493 3 года назад +8

      my mum did that too. I always thought this song was an actual nursery rhyme

    • @Kazar2020
      @Kazar2020 3 года назад +7

      I sang my kids "Bloodhound Gang - Fire Water Burn". They loved it...

    • @WoddyPecker
      @WoddyPecker 3 года назад

      @@Kazar2020 It's a relatively calm song anyways

  • @siansxo
    @siansxo 7 месяцев назад +61

    This was my grandads funeral song and honestly I cannot think of anything more fitting for him, ofc no one knew before it played🥲

    • @darrengeraghty897
      @darrengeraghty897 3 месяца назад +6

      Sounds like your grandad was awesome

    • @halroxdynasty8683
      @halroxdynasty8683 Месяц назад +2

      Omg that's so awesome

    • @richardzanetta9557
      @richardzanetta9557 19 дней назад +1

      Yep! She kill people and the they hang her 😢 poor baby

    • @holliecasey5463
      @holliecasey5463 8 дней назад

      Here because I'm making my funeral playlist too. This song has so many fun times associated with it. Most of them were me and my best friend cheating death (or arrest) in one way or another. Cheers to your granddad!

  • @samuelmills5135
    @samuelmills5135 4 года назад +405

    This was played as the last song of the night in my local pub. The logic was, who would fight after singing Nellie the Elephant? Never had any trouble walking home from that pub.

  • @goldenoriolesilverbirch8220
    @goldenoriolesilverbirch8220 4 года назад +164

    Sometimes music is just fun. I'd forgotten about this gem, but it made me smile as much as the first time I heard it.

  • @Dystopian_NZ
    @Dystopian_NZ 3 года назад +156

    How can you not love Toy Dolls? !! Mad as hatters with musical talent. Brilliant!!

    • @tombstoneharrystudios584
      @tombstoneharrystudios584 2 года назад +11

      Their version of Toccata & Fugue is both an hilarious poke at rock musicians and their classical pretensions
      And shows that Olga and co. are seriously talented musicians. It takes a lot of chops to parody at that level!

    • @dogwhistle8836
      @dogwhistle8836 6 месяцев назад

      Too many "trumps" in this song and too many WHITE people having fun and this obviously makes it a real "RACIST" dog whistle, only when people start using inventions that are from their own race will we end thought crimes aka " hate speech, when Africans find out that they have invented cars, mobile phones, computers, flight and antibiotics to name a few will whitey truly know their place in world history and black Americans as the most abused people in the history of the world not having to fear traffic stops because whitey won't have a car or gun because we all know these were inventions stolen from them by whitey and can't wait for my birthing person/she/her to give birth to our first Black male presenting child,I witnessed Tyrone plant they/them resistance pole in the birthing person as I cried with joy in the corner knowing I did my bit to fight against the racists that still judge people by their content and not by their race or gender, I really hate the bigotry that stops people from seeing colour or who the sleep with, treating people the same is just so racist and we need to use the covid camps for these insane racists that are coloured blind

    • @dogwhistle8836
      @dogwhistle8836 6 месяцев назад

      Too many "trumps" in this song and too many WHITE people having fun and this obviously makes it a real "RACIST" dog whistle, only when people start using inventions that are from their own race will we end thought crimes aka " hate speech, when Africans find out that they have invented cars, mobile phones, computers, flight and antibiotics to name a few will whitey truly know their place in world history and black Americans as the most abused people in the history of the world not having to fear traffic stops because whitey won't have a car or gun because we all know these were inventions stolen from them by whitey and can't wait for my birthing person/she/her to give birth to our first Black male presenting child,I witnessed Tyrone plant they/them resistance pole in the birthing person as I cried with joy in the corner knowing I did my bit to fight against the racists that still judge people by their content and not by their race or gender, I really hate the bigotry that stops people from seeing colour or who the sleep with, treating people the same is just so racist and we need to use the covid camps for these insane racists that are coloured blind

    • @Dragon-Slay3r
      @Dragon-Slay3r 2 месяца назад

      Deploy protest from the far right?

  • @lotsofprobs
    @lotsofprobs Год назад +85

    i was sitting here, feeling very depressed and cried and then i remembered this song.. now i'm sitting here, still depressed but with a dumb smile on my face

    • @Alaski
      @Alaski 3 месяца назад +5

      Keep on smiling , it's the way out.

  • @e.smiles450
    @e.smiles450 4 года назад +88

    We used to go mental at middle school disco to this, teachers chasing us round trying to stop us jumping off tables and throwing crisps about 😂😂😂never realised it was a punk song, it all makes sense now.

  • @stompy16
    @stompy16 Год назад +8

    This reminds me so much of my Dad. R.I.P Dad. I'll never forget the classics you shown me over the years

  • @lukehartshorne3035
    @lukehartshorne3035 8 лет назад +653

    true punk mad as a box of frogs. No messing just be silly and act serious doing it. love it

    • @sawdustcaesar6853
      @sawdustcaesar6853 5 лет назад +10

      "mad as a box of frogs" this is a new expression to me. I can envision how appropriate it is, when all those slimy things are crawling on top of each other. Well done. Permission to use the expression again and again and again and again for the rest of my life. Cheers. Also reminds me of the DUKES OF STRATOSPHERE
      "Have you seen Jackie?
      He's a strange strange strange little girl
      Make up on his face and his hair in curls
      Have you seen Jackie?
      She's a strange strange strange little boy
      Her long black beard is her pride and joy
      And all the children follow him around
      And all the grownups try to drag her down
      So we sing
      Hey, leave Jackie alone
      Hey, his pigeons have flown
      Hey, she's never at home at all these days
      Leave Jackie alone . . .

    • @shadeauGU
      @shadeauGU 5 лет назад +3

      Crass is punk in my opinion

    • @jacobtheboy
      @jacobtheboy 5 лет назад +7

      @@shadeauGU as an american, this seems exceptionally British. Our punk wasn't anywhere close to this. I still love it though, and it follows the same lines; just a lot different

    • @daviderizzello9360
      @daviderizzello9360 5 лет назад +3

      @@shadeauGU crass were hippies not punks

    • @isaiahstephenson9775
      @isaiahstephenson9775 4 года назад

      @@daviderizzello9360 you're fucking crazy

  • @tomandyoshi
    @tomandyoshi 6 месяцев назад +7

    Used to love playing this and star trekkin with my dad on my grandma's vinyl player. Rip Dad and Grandma ❤

  • @lizz_3117
    @lizz_3117 6 лет назад +305

    My Dad bought this and used to play it all the time, my Nan wasn't amused as she hated this song. Now, whenever I play it, I can hear my Nan go, "Oh no, not this flaming record..."
    Hahah, fond memories. Miss her so much x

    • @neill7813
      @neill7813 2 года назад

      Bless all grandparents , mine described Richard Ashcroft as a tramp in a cardigan . RIP Nan x

    • @dominewimbury2039
      @dominewimbury2039 2 года назад +1

      Loooool

    • @dest5218
      @dest5218 2 года назад +1

      Sorry for your loss❤️

  • @Angus1973Young
    @Angus1973Young 13 лет назад +516

    it´s impossible not to like them
    they are just too great

    • @faustinreeder1075
      @faustinreeder1075 Год назад +2

      Easy to not like

    • @martinputt6421
      @martinputt6421 Год назад +8

      @@faustinreeder1075 Nope you're wrong.

    • @zegumazim6107
      @zegumazim6107 Год назад +8

      some like some don't but I LIKE because I'M here obviously

    • @scotmark
      @scotmark Год назад +5

      Sadly, I didn't appreciate this at the time, but having never owned a telly in my life, finding this video on t"internet changed my view completely! Better a few decades late than never, I guess.😺

    • @geneclark3600
      @geneclark3600 Год назад +3

      @@faustinreeder1075 easy not to like YOU, these guys are great this is a 3 piece band, you have any idea how hard that is to pull off? Sorry, I am a bass player, and i can see this is a lot harder then it looks.

  • @RyanJohnsonD
    @RyanJohnsonD 12 лет назад +48

    Fun song! Just introduced it to my 12 yr. old son. He loves it!

    • @sandrinerousseau6579
      @sandrinerousseau6579 2 года назад

      oui c'est une gentillette chanson pour les petits keupons bien resistants qui emmerde la terre entiere

  • @Microtonal_Cats
    @Microtonal_Cats 3 года назад +46

    My band Bomb opened for them in Germany in very early 90s.
    Crazy show, and one of the more fun bands we ever played with.
    TOY DOLLS! TOY DOLLS! TOY DOLLS! TOY DOLLS! TOY DOLLS! TOY DOLLS!

  • @dudeivealreadydonethis5tim289
    @dudeivealreadydonethis5tim289 6 месяцев назад +7

    This song seriously makes me so happy

  • @vsixx4330
    @vsixx4330 8 лет назад +769

    Anyone else crack up with laughter everytime the chorus kicks in? A big smile forming as they go 'ooooh' in the lead up, the burst out laughing when the dance moves kick in, ending with the rib-tickling kick by the singer?

    • @Vicki-stfc
      @Vicki-stfc 7 лет назад +7

      Yes! Reminds me of my younger days

    • @robdubz1510
      @robdubz1510 6 лет назад +8

      Vicki Sixx there must been some high people in the 80s

    • @Mel-rk4vw
      @Mel-rk4vw 6 лет назад +5

      Vicki Sixx yessss... i’m at the airport and people must think i’m a loone hahaha

    • @athenamartin3442
      @athenamartin3442 6 лет назад +2

      Yessssss

    • @nickmcdonald5874
      @nickmcdonald5874 6 лет назад +3

      I dance like that ha

  • @binjuice59
    @binjuice59 Год назад +25

    This song no matter how crap you feel or how bad a day you have had is guaranteed to cheer you up and make you smile heard it tjis afternoon on the radio had it on full blast in my wagon... Happy for the rest of the day👍😂😆😆

  • @thaddeusmcgrath
    @thaddeusmcgrath 3 года назад +12

    2021 from the states and never heard this before. Making up for it now and the wife is pissed.

    • @hopebgood
      @hopebgood 3 года назад +1

      Is she drunk or just annoyed? ;)

  • @lederhosesiebzehn9749
    @lederhosesiebzehn9749 4 года назад +83

    This is british, this is humor! Love it!

  • @MADVLMIKE
    @MADVLMIKE 10 лет назад +236

    This is like the BEST bar song

    • @fredmilten5333
      @fredmilten5333 6 лет назад

      Je vous remercie de votre réponse je vous remercie de votre réponse je vous remercie de votre réponse je vous remercie par avance de votre réponse je vous remercie de votre réponse je vous remercie de votre réponse je vous remercie de votre réponse je vous remercie tout d'abord je vous remercie de votre réponse je vous remercie de tout le monde est petit et grand merci pour votre réponse je vous remercie de votre réponse
      Nous avons bien reçu votre réponse je vous remercie de votre réponse je vous remercie de votre réponse je vous remercie
      🤗😀😁😂😃😄😅😆😉😚😙😗😘😍😎😋😊☺🙂🤗🤔😐😑😶🙄

    • @Mod-rw9cw
      @Mod-rw9cw 4 года назад +3

      Is the best not "like"'you moron

  • @snookslayer4559
    @snookslayer4559 2 года назад +53

    Randomly came across this video and had never heard the song before... BLOWN AWAY. That was awesome. The budget made video is perfect. Can't help but smile watching these guys rock. God bless cool punk bands like the Toy Dolls.

  • @sarahboddy6242
    @sarahboddy6242 4 года назад +136

    This was played at me dads funeral hard to listen to again 💔

    • @cardigansarecool
      @cardigansarecool 3 года назад +4

      RIP

    • @DomIstKrieg
      @DomIstKrieg 3 года назад +3

      R.I.P.

    • @markogizdavic7617
      @markogizdavic7617 3 года назад +7

      He is legend ❤️, what a wish

    • @alecsouter
      @alecsouter 3 года назад +7

      Your old man had a sense of humour and would have been happy to have Nellie carting him off.

    • @dids3384
      @dids3384 3 года назад +4

      @@alecsouter I mean we’re all gonna die on day might as well make a joke of it

  • @supercompooper
    @supercompooper 4 года назад +25

    Haven't heard this in 20 years and still sang along with it!

  • @martinhawkrsworth9676
    @martinhawkrsworth9676 Год назад +7

    One of my favourite songs of all time absolutely brilliant an absolute classic song timeless

  • @2000stephenellis
    @2000stephenellis 4 года назад +16

    Fond memories of "dancing" to this at the school xmas disco circa 1984/1985... upon the opening chords all the girls left the floor as they knew what was coming !! a giant free for all at the chorus bit !! ..great fun !!

  • @fairycherub1
    @fairycherub1 2 года назад +6

    I'm 59 now , but loved this when it came out. Had it on vinyl. We used to sing it up the bar on a Friday night. Good Times.

  • @ukuburu1972
    @ukuburu1972 3 года назад +46

    One of my favorite bands ever! WHAT A PARTY SONG THIS IS 😍

  • @mdcs1992
    @mdcs1992 5 лет назад +19

    My 3 year old son loved this (UK Number 1 Christmas 1984). He did the moves and everything. Took me hard to watch this because 3 years ago he died of a heart attack but those times were good.

  • @Dj_Nine001
    @Dj_Nine001 2 года назад +12

    2022..still loving this!!!!

  • @barryunderwood4645
    @barryunderwood4645 28 дней назад +2

    Been a hero of mine for,since first play in the UK.Plastic has been with me thru all of my darkest times and my happiest. So he is hugely appreciated by me.

  • @notaname8140
    @notaname8140 4 года назад +271

    George Orwell: 1984 will be a horrible dystopian future where we are ruled by a totalitarian regime and even thoughts can be a crime
    1984 IRL:

    • @StranglerHC
      @StranglerHC 3 года назад +34

      36 years later...now we got the real 1984 xD

    • @behavedave
      @behavedave 3 года назад +10

      Nellie had to escape her totalitarian circus.

    • @pietrom2
      @pietrom2 3 года назад +4

      Yes and that's why we must free Julian Assange.

    • @halowerder3356
      @halowerder3356 3 года назад +2

      @@pietrom2 rally the militia haha

    • @zackzallie8735
      @zackzallie8735 3 года назад +3

      Imagine showing this to George Orwell. lol

  • @RataStuey
    @RataStuey 4 года назад +121

    How to make a pub/ club full of people go absolutely bananas

  • @bizbobizbo82
    @bizbobizbo82 3 года назад +9

    One of the bands that I always listen to on my punk rock introduction days, this never gets old.

  • @richardpitwood2421
    @richardpitwood2421 8 лет назад +1083

    this was the first single I ever bought. It cost me £1.25.
    Ironically my eldest son looks like the lead singer. Don't tell him.

    • @senrioflove
      @senrioflove 7 лет назад +40

      Yeah, really dont

    • @mickychooooooooooon9996
      @mickychooooooooooon9996 7 лет назад +53

      I hope he sees your comment then watch him pack his trunk ha ha ha ha

    • @alvongientz2207
      @alvongientz2207 7 лет назад +15

      What did dad say about me?

    • @winningbigly9012
      @winningbigly9012 6 лет назад +21

      Richard Pitwood was his mom a groupie?

    • @ArgaAnders
      @ArgaAnders 6 лет назад +27

      Don´t feel bad mate! My first daughter is an elephant, even though we tell her that she´s a beautiful and slim rhino!!

  • @wp7581
    @wp7581 2 года назад +38

    Toy Dolls was the very first live concert I've been to in my life, in 1988 ! Hell yeah !!! 2021 still listen this band!!

  • @jarneheymans3992
    @jarneheymans3992 3 года назад +139

    23 years old and still enjoying the heck out of this song.
    We real music lovers will never die.
    Love you guys! Keep it going!🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪

    • @happinessaldc2445
      @happinessaldc2445 3 года назад +4

      My dad is friends with a guy who used to be in this band

    • @wolfpack4574
      @wolfpack4574 2 года назад +1

      42 here and still punk :)

    • @ReinerSchwarz
      @ReinerSchwarz 2 года назад +1

      @@wolfpack4574 same but 45 :)

    • @allanshort8264
      @allanshort8264 2 года назад +1

      Durham lad (auld git) not deid yet, in exile in Wiltshire, wishing he was hyem

    • @samyandkitty8399
      @samyandkitty8399 2 года назад +1

      It was out in 85

  • @fserra8351
    @fserra8351 4 года назад +6

    Where has this music been all my life? Absolutely incredible!

  • @give-peace-a-chance
    @give-peace-a-chance 9 месяцев назад +9

    Scheiß die Wand hoch....👍 Jetzt weiß was ich all die Jahre vermisst habe, obwohl ich es gar nicht wusste!!! ❤️❤️❤️

  • @erwinbrouwers7049
    @erwinbrouwers7049 6 месяцев назад +3

    The Toy Dolls… first concert with my 16 year old son in Utrecht about ten years ago. He’s still retrieving from that experience 😄

  • @TheAfker
    @TheAfker 8 лет назад +242

    At a metal club i went to when i was young loved this song, and would create a huge mosh pit....this song got banned frequently

    • @anitalamb374
      @anitalamb374 6 лет назад +5

      Elmo182 Games and shit yes i remember that too everyone went mad lol

    • @controversialchristian2378
      @controversialchristian2378 5 лет назад +7

      Got banned?! It's a work of genius!!!

    • @bamstheman
      @bamstheman 4 года назад

      Probably stage door/cosmic ballroom.

  • @trichagoodison7826
    @trichagoodison7826 3 года назад +45

    2021 and still listening... Happy New Year all!

    • @cameronmaden6268
      @cameronmaden6268 3 года назад +1

      happy new year 2 u 2, sorry it took a while :p

    • @Brolycel
      @Brolycel 2 года назад

      Happy 2021

  • @iremainproductions4827
    @iremainproductions4827 2 года назад +10

    Still Epic in 2022!

  • @bloodhound9638
    @bloodhound9638 3 года назад +10

    I can actually remember being a toddler and loving this, I can remember singing it with my grandma with me in the back of the car, I loved the 'bridge' part best obviously

  • @thegrimreaper1991
    @thegrimreaper1991 5 лет назад +5

    I went to Ibiza in 1993 and visited a pub called the red lion wonderful pub and the dear lady that owns it is a superstar x they played this song and everyone in the place was dancing on the tables and going ballistic IT WAS AMAZING!! I’m so proud to be British......WE KNOW HOW TO HAVE A GREAT TIME!!!

  • @Ericcartman8126
    @Ericcartman8126 7 месяцев назад +6

    2024, working from home, possibly the worst quality video on YT but it's made my fackin' day, this was on a compilation tape in my car with my kids growing up and has become an iconic tune in our world. Bring back 1984.

    • @hopebgood
      @hopebgood 6 месяцев назад

      Even us sad southern softies love this song mate.

  • @cookiemobers5650
    @cookiemobers5650 5 лет назад +21

    I love the Toy Dolls, saw them every time they played the US, which wasn't enough. Now a new album and a potential tour... god life just got better.

  • @thomasfurgalack2577
    @thomasfurgalack2577 3 года назад +64

    Ok. Im just gonna go ahead and say it. At 40 years old, here in America, this is one of my favorite songs period.

  • @lawrencepeak8309
    @lawrencepeak8309 3 года назад +4

    I live in Benidorm, a karaoke hotspot, sometime back after a few beers I got up and did this, I'm no singer, but love the fun of it and give it my all, now when I walk into a bar I hear 'give us Nellie', god they must all be hearing deficient.

    • @johnhenry7214
      @johnhenry7214 3 месяца назад

      Go to Bennie three times a year. coming over on the 9th of August. I will bust this out at a bar

  • @LiamTheLegend
    @LiamTheLegend 8 лет назад +53

    My Art/Photography teacher showed my class this (we do like a music playlist and this was what he chose). This is such a simple yet legendary song!!

    • @helenbarton9199
      @helenbarton9199 7 лет назад +1

      Ruthless_Illusion wished we had had that teacher,brilliant!

  • @mholsather
    @mholsather 10 месяцев назад +3

    Classic. I’ve shared this with my grandkids and we’ve danced the heck out of this song together. Fantastic

  • @SortenRavn
    @SortenRavn 3 года назад +4

    It could be 3021 and I STILL WOULD BE BACK..
    Good music never dies nor get old

  • @duckeyjr92
    @duckeyjr92 8 лет назад +78

    I love this song it always makes me smile

  • @Charloteblahblah
    @Charloteblahblah 8 лет назад +61

    This was my favourite song when i was a little kid! Thanks Dad.

    • @pinkiepiescz
      @pinkiepiescz 8 лет назад +2

      Same :DD

    • @jeremyallen8796
      @jeremyallen8796 8 лет назад +4

      your dad's taught you well!

    • @stevehaas500
      @stevehaas500 6 лет назад +1

      my dad made me love three little pigs by green yelly when i was young hahahaha

  • @juttamariongreim7911
    @juttamariongreim7911 Год назад +15

    Just love this song! Living in Berlin back in the 80ies this was a must-play in the little indi 'Linientreu' club... the dance floor was full with punks, rockabillies, goths and newwaves, dancing all together in 'harmony' ✌

  • @Vladik614
    @Vladik614 2 года назад +16

    I can’t express enough how I like this song! 🐘

  • @leppie
    @leppie 3 года назад +5

    First time hearing this in like 30 years. Glorious!

  • @Hairyskinback
    @Hairyskinback 29 дней назад +2

    Takes me back, to a young lad away from home training for the army in Winchester. We would head to the pub on a Saturday and they had a video jukebox and this track was played to death.

  • @robertanderson1788
    @robertanderson1788 3 года назад +9

    I am so happy to relive this moment from the 80s. holy shite

  • @timdogdawg4099
    @timdogdawg4099 Год назад +6

    I loved this song as a little kid and so I used to play this for my 2 eldest kids in 2005 when this was released on this compilation album and they loved it, and still do! ❤

  • @dannyvine3605
    @dannyvine3605 3 года назад +51

    I remember dancing to this with my friend at his sister's new years eve party - I was never invited to another party of his family after that lol

    • @hopebgood
      @hopebgood 3 года назад +3

      Mmm. Me and my mates were shown the door at a new years eve party too. The girl who'd invited us's father was the local grammar schools headmaster. We then gate-crashed another party up the road.....that my mum and dad were at!

  • @edster612
    @edster612 5 лет назад +21

    omg...how have I missed these guys???? I grew up in the 80's and they must have flown way under the radar...These guys are freakin' awesome and fun!

  • @styleererik
    @styleererik 7 лет назад +4

    Love it my mum shows me and i would be soo proud if music like this would be played still today ✊️

  • @criandoEdesenvolvendo
    @criandoEdesenvolvendo 2 года назад +3

    They took the crowd by storm
    Happy 2022 to who's still alive

  • @ВикторРитц
    @ВикторРитц Год назад +3

    This is one more reason for me to love the British. Besides classic writers and comedy shows. My best regards from Russia.

  • @H.C.Q.
    @H.C.Q. 4 года назад +10

    I grew up listening to the Toy Dolls with their album "Dig That Groove, Baby" and later with "We're Mad". Both excellent albums, still in the shoppes. They sound better than ever!

  • @lola221
    @lola221 2 года назад +2

    As a 15y old teen in 2022 I feel very proud of myself listening to one of my favourite songs 🙌🏼

  • @DerwoodEllington
    @DerwoodEllington 4 года назад +10

    From the states.. flying to the UK just to play this song in a pub. New bucket list item. I’ll post here to let y’all know what pub I will be at.. see u in 2020

    • @Almatinho19
      @Almatinho19 4 года назад +2

      How 2020 is going so far,mate?)

    • @DerwoodEllington
      @DerwoodEllington 4 года назад +2

      Almat Kyrgyzbay right?? Could be worse.. could be in grease or Spain where everyone is on house arrest.

  • @jost-thome
    @jost-thome 2 года назад +6

    Saw them yesterday on Arte Tv at Hellfest. Still amazing, happy and „not too old for this.“ Thank you for so much fun.

  • @brendandoe3082
    @brendandoe3082 3 года назад +6

    I have nothing but love for this tune!!!! 😂😂😍😍

  • @ginnied7346
    @ginnied7346 3 года назад +6

    This brings back great memories

  • @tikisinspace
    @tikisinspace 4 года назад +5

    Heard this on KROQ and have loved it and 'I've got asthma' since. Can't believe it's been almost 40 years. Wow.

    • @concatinate
      @concatinate 4 года назад

      Same here. I remember Toy Dolls being reviewed in MRR at the time, and described as "utterly worthless"(?!?) Hahah.

    • @jaffamonks4724
      @jaffamonks4724 4 года назад

      I also heard this on KROQ...good times.

  • @karlleuschner6766
    @karlleuschner6766 2 месяца назад +2

    Als Angehöriger der Bundespolizei neulich nachts ein paar ältere Fußballfans aus England bei uns in Fulda am Bahnhof Fulda angetroffen. Die Jungs waren gut dabei und man kam ins Gespräch. Einer von Ihnen erwähnte nebenbei, dass er in den 80ern als Roadie bei den Toy Dolls gewirkt hätte. Als ich ihm zu verstehen gab, dass ich von der Gruppe den Song Nelly the elephant kennen würde, waren die Jungs völlig aus dem Häuschen und haben sich tierisch gefreut.

  • @vickilouise3307
    @vickilouise3307 3 года назад +3

    Oooh, I surprising like this, now I can’t stop listening

  • @AlehandrosArhangelos
    @AlehandrosArhangelos 4 года назад +11

    This is so british underground that I had to dig lower to get even more underground and be able to listen to it.

  • @nikhum322
    @nikhum322 5 месяцев назад +1

    I´m sooo happy I was young in the 80´s and not today!
    This is Gold not heard today.

  • @acatisfinetoo3018
    @acatisfinetoo3018 4 года назад +9

    I love it...classic 80's vibe and madness.

  • @kawka2
    @kawka2 9 лет назад +52

    I love it, cheers from poland

  • @sadisticclowngaming187
    @sadisticclowngaming187 24 дня назад +2

    2024 Still A Brilliant Pub Song

  • @Shnecko
    @Shnecko 9 лет назад +131

    One of the funnest bands in existence. Still loving them 20 years later.

    • @sarawalter2420
      @sarawalter2420 8 лет назад

      tisca

    • @skintstudios
      @skintstudios 8 лет назад +3

      +Spruce Bruce 30 years

    • @Shnecko
      @Shnecko 8 лет назад +1

      Fordas I was born in '85 so I didn't hear them until about 10 years later.

    • @thegranddilligaf
      @thegranddilligaf 8 лет назад +1

      +Spruce Bruce Look up 'Woman' by Anti-Nowhere League.

    • @tadzik-ph6ji
      @tadzik-ph6ji 8 лет назад +2

      +Spruce Bruce Born 1980 in Poland. The Toy Dolls... first time I heard them it was the year 1996. immediately i I liked it

  • @olivier7006
    @olivier7006 10 месяцев назад +12

    Big respect for Nellie !🤧

  • @adinocc2042
    @adinocc2042 9 дней назад

    Way back in the day, in the states, my friend and I used to have to blind buy punk albums. And we found a lot of good bands that way (Thankfully).
    For whatever reason we couldn't find Toy Dolls on anything other than vinyl, and he was the only one between us who had a turntable. As soon as we discovered them, he started buying up every album by them that we could find, and we used to sit and listen to them all day.
    Because of that, they're in my top three punk bands of all time.
    Toy Dolls, just like Punk, will never die!

  • @rogerioalves6039
    @rogerioalves6039 2 года назад +10

    Uma das melhores bandas que a cultura punk produziu na história da música. Conheci nos anos 1980 e fez parte da minha juventude rebelde.
    Toy Dolls é inesquecível! ❤️🇧🇷

  • @roberth254
    @roberth254 4 года назад +48

    So many pubs have been destroyed as a result of this song coming on.

  • @sandrawilliams8782
    @sandrawilliams8782 Год назад +1

    So many happy memories with this song and dancing with our toddlers in the 80s . Wish I could go back there just for 1 day at least .

  • @MarkBruceUK
    @MarkBruceUK 4 года назад +2857

    2020 anyone? Respect to you all. I know you are all coming back in 2021.
    2023 and still here!!!
    2024!!

    • @groovcapo
      @groovcapo 4 года назад +16

      one more right here! what a blast

    • @mrp7563
      @mrp7563 4 года назад +14

      Hahaha pack your trunk 2020

    • @kingfang67
      @kingfang67 4 года назад +12

      2021

    • @mrp7563
      @mrp7563 4 года назад +18

      This track will still be around after 2030 🐘🐘

    • @Yargh
      @Yargh 4 года назад

      Yep

  • @sanfordcurtis8242
    @sanfordcurtis8242 3 года назад +52

    This sounds like a mortal song to sing when you’re really drunk.

    • @ccg3017
      @ccg3017 3 года назад +3

      un saludo desde medellin colombia

  • @carlosalbertoviega723
    @carlosalbertoviega723 Год назад +2

    Great great great ... awesome songs from.the great minds of this guys...👏👏👏😁😁👏😁

  • @robynlynnellebaker3378
    @robynlynnellebaker3378 4 года назад +9

    Fabulous!!! Haven’t heard this song in forever! and never seen the video! Love it!

  • @AnbuAnbu-pu9dj
    @AnbuAnbu-pu9dj 4 года назад +4

    my kids are freaking over this well done

  • @NICO-MARIUS
    @NICO-MARIUS 3 года назад +43

    Paroles :
    To Bombay a traveling circus came, they brought an
    Intelligent elephant and Nellie was her name
    One dark night she slipped her iron chain
    And off she ran to Hindustan
    And was never seen again
    Oh
    Nellie the elephant pack her trunk
    And said goodbye to the circus
    Off she went with a trumpety trump
    Trump trump trump
    Now Nellie the elephant packed her trunk
    And trundled off to the jungle
    Off she went with a trumpety trump
    Trump trump trump
    The head of the herd was calling far far away
    They met one night in the silver light
    On the road to Mandalay
    Night by night she danced to the circus band
    When Nellie was leading the big parade
    She looked so proud and grand
    No more tricks for Nellie to perform
    They taught her how to take a bow
    And she took the crowd by storm
    Oh

  • @johnh539
    @johnh539 2 дня назад

    I have easily seen more than 100 gigs and without question the Toy Dolls was the best Gig I ever saw, helped by the fact that the venue was called "The Beer Keller" so we where drinking Shtines.
    Olga is the best guitarist imaginable and seeing him laying flat on his back in/under one of those modular "Hop-Up" stages ripping out fabulase guitar is something I will never forget.
    I could say more about this fabulas act but special mention must go to their fans who know their place in the show as they partly created it.

  • @robleeming4815
    @robleeming4815 4 года назад +36

    How have I never heard this before? This is genius.

    • @nafvol5053
      @nafvol5053 4 года назад +6

      remember this and came to look for it,came out when there was still fun in the world

  • @donaldjohn123
    @donaldjohn123 6 лет назад +4

    I'm on a five hour dive to the Isle Of Wight tomorrow with three kids in the back.
    They are going to love this.