Actually, she wrote the song I believe after seeing the 1939 movie starring Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier. The song references the narrative of the film which was different than the book. She was just 18 when she wrote and recorded it and 19 in the video you showed. She is in the Guinness Book of Records as the first woman to write and perform every song in a million selling album for her debut album The Kick Inside. But if you want to appreciate her talent for when she really was very young, play the heartbreakingly beautiful song, The Man With The Child In His Eyes, also from the same album which she also wrote when she was just 13 or 14. It is just so beautiful. I'm in my 50's and I can't help but get emotional listening to Kate and especially listening to her Before The Dawn live album recorded in 2014. I wasn't there alas 😔 A friend of Kate's brother Paddy managed to give some of her amateur recordings to Dave Gilmour of Pink Floyd and he called around to her house where he says the 16 year old Kate played him 40 or 50 of her home recordings. He brought some of them back to the studio where PF were recording Wish You Were Here and played them for some people there and she got signed. Dave and Kate have remained close friends since. Loving your channel more all the time. Keep doing what you are doing 👍
@@garycoates4987 I won't argue with you. I remember hearing quotes from other people on TV and radio that it was inspired by the original movie version and that she had not read the actual book at the time she wrote the song. But I must look for an interview with the lady in question and see if can find that quote myself. Actually just looked on the Kate Bush Encyclopedia online and it says that she wrote it in 1977 after seeing just the last 10 minutes of the 1967 BBC dramatisation... I'll go with that for now and apologies for quoting inaccurate information. Honestly, it's not very long ago I heard a serious music journo on the radio quoting her inspiration as the original movie version.
Kate was 16 when she wrote this, and 19 when the song was released. I was 22 at the time and had never heard anything like her before. I was instantly hooked. She's a complete original.
Uhm, you can only be proud of something you have achieved yourself. By your logic, I’d have to be ashamed to be German because of WW2. But I had no stakes in that, like you did nothing to become English, you just happened to be born there. On a lighter note, yeah, she is absolutely brilliant and lovely.
Read your book "Brave New World", should be proud of that as well as Pink Floyd, the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, so god damned many good artists from the UK. Oh, and thanks for burning down the White House, one of histories funniest moments.
Great replies everybody can't believe you are Kate's fans and this bitter OFCRS ppl are proud when someone from their part of the world dies something great it's inspiring
@@user-mw8nq5cu6h but that is how it works. lots of germans were shamed of their herratige after ww2. obviously time heals wounds. And in good things there is no hurt as result an ascociation doesnt have to errode away but can stay. logic is very nuanced.
Kate was 19 when this was released on her debut album, and the producers wanted to use a different, safer, more run of the mill track as the single. She stood up to them and insisted it had to be this song instead, and it was an instant hit when released.
She wrote it, choreographed it, sung it and even played the piano on it and she was still only 19. It ought to be illegal to have that much talent. No. 1 for 4 weeks in the country of her birth
I won't forget seeing this on TOTP 1978 for first time when the audience were generally stunned. She was 19 and sung live. This came out in the middle of disco and punk. Nothing like her then. Theatrical , charming and beautiful.
You are bang on there, I don’t think anyone who heard and saw this then will ever forget it or the effect it had on them, I think a lot of us fell in love with her talent right there and then.
The story behind this song,which is the lyrics,is also very captivating...its based on a book about a girl in the England back in time,abandoned by her boyfriend Heathcliff,dying,then coming back to the manor Wuthering Heights as a ghost,wanting to come inside the house by the windows. About her performance, she has a very feminine beautiful voice,she is very beautiful,and lovely. A great song..a great voice.
You can see it in her dance, a ghost outside a window coming closer. Haunted eyes and the lyrics: ooh, let me have it. Let me grab your soul. You know it's me, Cathy
Dear Cat Saray, the first time I heard Kate Bush was in 1979. I was 18 and it was something inexplicable. I had an indescribable sense of enchantment. Then, when I saw a video of her performing, I was completely fascinated with her so beautiful, delicate, sweet and magical figure. It's been 40 years and the magic is still the same. I get mesmerized every time I see a video with her. It is something inexplicable. Her voice, her extraordinary talent, expressiveness and uniqueness have since made her my favorite artist ever. It is simply unique. I will love Kate Bush forever. Thank you for showing this video.
There are many other masterpieces from her, some of them even better - Cloudbusting, Big Stripey Lie, Babooshka, Running up that Hill, Heads We're Dancing, Suspended in Gaffa, Get out of My House, Hounds of Love, Love and Anger, There Goes a Tenner, The Dreaming, Moments of Pleasure, And so is Love, Breathing, etc etc etc...
Check the Spanish singer Virginia Glück, and her song "Entre animas"; from 1996. It's a complete COPY of this. I bought her album back then, but Al, such a copy, OMG!!
For 19 she was very mature in her songs and performances,she was ahead of her time,but yet in interviews she sounded really young.no one was ready for her.
Wuthering Heights was Kate's very first single. Like all the tracks she wrote for her first album The Kick Inside she wrote this track at a very young age. Naturally, she was inspired by Emily Brontës novel of the same name. However, when Kate wrote the song she had never read the novel. Her actual inspiration was a TV movie adaptation of the novel of which she caught the last few minutes of it. Then she read the novel. When it was about time to release her first single the record company executives wanted another song called James and the Cold Gun to be the first single. Kate, who at the time was only 19, stood up to them and wanted Wuthering Heights to be the first single. After a while, the record executives obliged to Kate's request but not because they were successfully persuaded by her but because they thought that Kate was going to be mistaken and was going to realize that when it came to choosing singles they were the ones who knew better and not Kate and she was gonna learn the hard way. Boy, they couldn't be any more wrong! Wuthering Heights was realized and BAM! It went to #1 in the U.K. and it was a big hit in other countries as well. Kate became an overnight success. The record executives had to eat their words and allowed Kate to choose her next single which was The Man with the Child in His Eyes (this song was the one that got her her record contract at the time) and it went to #6 in the U.K. Not only she showed courage to stand up to such sharks as the record executives are but she showed them that besides being an artist she had an eye for choosing hit singles.
The guitar at the end ALWAYS gives me chills. The way the note is sustained to build up then the bends in the strings. Damn its just beautiful...... as is the rest of the song of course
I've loved Kate from day one , when this was first on Top of the pops while I was at high school everyone was talking about Kate, she's the only British female artist to write , produce and perform a number one single, and this was that song, only 16 here, Kate was an instant success ,and very well loved in the UK.
When she goes into “Ooh it gets dark . . .” I’m still pinned to the wall even after all these years. I remember buying the single when it first was released. The lady in the store asked me if I thought it would be a hit. I replied that I expected it to get a lot of airplay but wouldn’t be successful because it was too left-field. Boy, was I wrong!
This song is one of my favourite memories of our generation, I always think back to a youthful romance I had at the time. I love the way Kate always had her own ideas about music and dance movement. By the way I think you are a very beautiful Gen x lady x
So glad that you love this song and video. Yes, Kate Bush went under the radar in the U.S. 1980's-1990's. I think it is because she is very very very very British. Her sensibilities, her style is not quickly accessible to most Americans. You are right, Americans missed the ball with Kate for a long time and it is our loss. Kate is stunning, talented, unique and oodles of lovely. I never met her but I have to believe that she is an angel. She seems like such a decent, kind and lovely woman. She is getting recognition for "Running Up That Hill" from that TV show, the name escapes me. But she is DEFINITELY worth checking out more, she has a lot of music out there over her career. Thank you for doing this.
Mrs, Bush was 19 when she wrote and recorded the song. Back then she was simply unique in her talent and she is still unique today. She was always special. The title and story of this masterpiece is about another english masterpiece, the sad story between Cathy and Heathcliff in the book "Wuthering Heights" of Emily Bronte. Recommendation! Read all seven of the Bronte Sisters Books - it´s well worth the money. Greetings from Germany!
This a horrible time in a broken world. To see a piece of music bring so much obvious and genuine joy to someone is almost a supernatural experience. This song always pulls on the few heart strings I have left whenever I hear it. Seeing your reaction is one of the few things that even comes close.
this song was my introduction to Kate some 40ish years ago ... instantly fell in love ... Steveie Nicks come down off of my wall and Kate went up ... LOL ... when I learned that David Gilmour of Pink Floyd discovered her that made it even better .... I just last week FINALLY watched the movie ( the 1939 version ) Wuthering Heights ..... just to get a glimpse of what Kate got her inspiration from for this song
Kate Bush has great Vocals, I never understood what this song was based on as a kid, it stayed on the UK charts for quite sometime. Until adult after watching the movie based on Drama and Romance years ago staring (Ralph Fiennes) then I started appreciating this song. Song written by Catherine (Kate) Bush herself at the age of 18 years old. To my understanding she was 19 years old when she appeared on this video. On the movie the young girls name is also named Catherine who was portrayed by Juliette Binoche. Kate bush is portraying the deceased Young Catherine Earnshaw of the Movie, which her heart was broken by none other than the adopted orphaned boy - Man himself Heathcliff? Great song
Although I've known this song since the year it came out, it never gets old, and it still moves me. Kate's originality and authenticity make her songs magical and evergreen.
Cat Sarai, Kate Bush at the astonishing age of 17 wrote this synopsis of the classic English novel, Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte, 1847. Should you choose to read it you will realise the full meaning and magnitude of the song, Let me in through your window. And now look at Kate's eyes. She's a ghost haunting her love Heathcliff.
This is one of Kate's best songs, but the best recording of it is the one with the grown up vocals she recorded for her 1986 greatest hits album, THE WHOLE STORY. 🙂
That was amazing I enjoyed it. I don't remember ever hearing that song. It's quite theatrical it sounds similar to something you would hear in a Disney movie. It was a unique and beautiful song and she is talented as well with the dancing and movements she was making it was intriguing. ❤
Well done on getting to kate so long ago, now she again top girl, number 1 in 18 countries in just 2 months of a song on stranger things, get ready for this to top the same chart. oh, she was 19 when she sang this, ty
Love your reactions. This came out in 1977, I was a punk then, but secretly smitten by Kate Bush and her song. Years later Johnny Rotten admitted the same! Funny ol' world innit...
Lovely reaction, Cat ! .. Really enjoyed your enjoyment of it .. I can't believe how much I still love watching / listening to this masterpiece .. I must have heard it literally over a thousand times, and I'm still mesmerised by her and the song .. If I had to name an all-time favourite song by any artist, this would have to be right up there contending for the title .. Totally enchanting.
it seems like 2020 covid/lockdown Kate has had a huge resurgence and a lot of new fans. I'm sad I didn't know about her before but wasn't extremely huge in Canada where I grew up in the 80s. My older siblings are also not very aware of her. But I've gone through most of her music and bought a few LPs of hers. She's my fav musician/performer/talent of all time by a landslide. Sorry Bowie (RIP) Few suggestions if I may. React to 'The Man with a Child in His Eyes' - 'Army Dreamers' - 'This Woman's Work' (try to hold back the tears on that one!) and - 'Moment's of Pleasure' Thanks and have a lovely day!
Kate trained as a dancer with Lynsey Kemp who was also very influential in David Bowies early career,Many of her songs are based on classic literature. Nobody is like kate welcome to the Kate Bush rabbit hole. xxx
Kate Bush studied dramatic art, so the dance routine was very carefully choreographed. The song is based on the book of the same name, (also a film) Cathy is a ghost returning to her lover. To really understand the song and the overall performance you should look up the book or film, only then will you get the full power of this performance and just how clever she is.
What a hapy day watching, and listening, ( at the same time) two "Beauties". TheOne, singing and dancing (at the 80's),and The Other, describing what she's watching at 2020. The effect is DOUBLE.(reinforced)!!!
"You can't put your finger on it"... I'd say her voice is strange in the sense that it can go from crisp to mellow, warm to sharp and soft to almost raspy at times, all in the blink of an eye, following hilly melodies ... an odd but enchanting mix. The only singer whose voice ever reminded me of her is Emilie Simon on "The Big Machine" album.
THIS SONG IS ASTONISHING, LIKE THE BOOK "WUTHERING HEIGHTS" FROM EMILY BRONTE,AND THE 1939 MOVIE "WUTHERING HEIGHTS" WITH THE GREAT ENGLISH ACTOR LAURENCE OLIVIER,A BEAUTIFUL GOTHIC STORY ABOUT A LOVE BEYOND DEATH.
Like you said, she throws herself into the song, and the modulation-you said it- of her voice is always giving subtlety to her brilliant lyrics. Tori Amos, Bjork, and PJ Harvey, to only name a few, achieved greatness by following in her footsteps. Those performers influenced by Kate Bush were not mere imitators, they simply saw that her work represented a path forward in music that would never die.
When I first heard this song in late 70's ,I was 18 years old and I really didnt know what to make of it,Id never heard anything like it before,but I stuck with it bought the Album and every other of her albums since...you must check out " the man with the child in his eyes" a very beautiful song and of course "Babooshka" is well worth reacting to.....keep up the Great work...lovin your channel 👍👍👍💖💖
Kate Bush is a breathtakingly Beautiful woman inside and out ..I have only grown to appreciate her work more as i have gotten older..I'd like to see you do Army Dreamers ,Babushka or Love & Anger .
She's definitely an acquired taste, but her and Enya have grown on me over the years. Her Christmas song, "December will be magic again" is a family favorite for the holidays.
It took 2 years of stubborn talks convincing record companies to release this as her first single they said it was not commercial enough at 19 she had her way it shocked the industry and paved the way for female artists the world over to do things there way in a male dominated world of manipulation of male and female musical artists, speaking as a man she was facinating and beautiful two guys i knew were infatuated with her
Sensual world reaction would be great. Yes she is insanely under appreciated. I’m shocked that many people have never heard of her. She is her own genre and it’s wonderful
I'd love to inhabit the world of Kate Bush. It must be lovely there. 🤗
she's pulling you in !!!😌
Actually, she wrote the song I believe after seeing the 1939 movie starring Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier. The song references the narrative of the film which was different than the book. She was just 18 when she wrote and recorded it and 19 in the video you showed.
She is in the Guinness Book of Records as the first woman to write and perform every song in a million selling album for her debut album The Kick Inside.
But if you want to appreciate her talent for when she really was very young, play the heartbreakingly beautiful song, The Man With The Child In His Eyes, also from the same album which she also wrote when she was just 13 or 14.
It is just so beautiful.
I'm in my 50's and I can't help but get emotional listening to Kate and especially listening to her Before The Dawn live album recorded in 2014.
I wasn't there alas 😔
A friend of Kate's brother Paddy managed to give some of her amateur recordings to Dave Gilmour of Pink Floyd and he called around to her house where he says the 16 year old Kate played him 40 or 50 of her home recordings.
He brought some of them back to the studio where PF were recording Wish You Were Here and played them for some people there and she got signed.
Dave and Kate have remained close friends since.
Loving your channel more all the time.
Keep doing what you are doing 👍
@@tconnolly9820 in interviews says it was a BBC TV version that inspired her
@@garycoates4987 I won't argue with you. I remember hearing quotes from other people on TV and radio that it was inspired by the original movie version and that she had not read the actual book at the time she wrote the song.
But I must look for an interview with the lady in question and see if can find that quote myself.
Actually just looked on the Kate Bush Encyclopedia online and it says that she wrote it in 1977 after seeing just the last 10 minutes of the 1967 BBC dramatisation...
I'll go with that for now and apologies for quoting inaccurate information.
Honestly, it's not very long ago I heard a serious music journo on the radio quoting her inspiration as the original movie version.
@@tconnolly9820 it's all good
the 1939 movie is a great movie 😉
Sounds as fresh today as it always has. Kate is genuinely a national treasure.
Kate was 16 when she wrote this, and 19 when the song was released. I was 22 at the time and had never heard anything like her before. I was instantly hooked. She's a complete original.
It's gratifying to see Kate Bush has been rediscovered. Her interpretive dance is amazing, and her voice is other worldly.
Kate Bush is the real deal. Absolutely brilliant musician, singer and songwriter. Makes me proud to be English.
Uhm, you can only be proud of something you have achieved yourself. By your logic, I’d have to be ashamed to be German because of WW2. But I had no stakes in that, like you did nothing to become English, you just happened to be born there.
On a lighter note, yeah, she is absolutely brilliant and lovely.
Read your book "Brave New World", should be proud of that as well as Pink Floyd, the Beatles, Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, so god damned many good artists from the UK.
Oh, and thanks for burning down the White House, one of histories funniest moments.
Great replies everybody can't believe you are Kate's fans and this bitter
OFCRS ppl are proud when someone from their part of the world dies something great it's inspiring
@@user-mw8nq5cu6h but that is how it works.
lots of germans were shamed of their herratige after ww2.
obviously time heals wounds.
And in good things there is no hurt as result an ascociation doesnt have to errode away but can stay.
logic is very nuanced.
She's actually half Irish.
Kate was 19 when this was released on her debut album, and the producers wanted to use a different, safer, more run of the mill track as the single. She stood up to them and insisted it had to be this song instead, and it was an instant hit when released.
She wrote it, choreographed it, sung it and even played the piano on it and she was still only 19. It ought to be illegal to have that much talent. No. 1 for 4 weeks in the country of her birth
I'm sure she's from another planet. Absolutely amazing.
I won't forget seeing this on TOTP 1978 for first time when the audience were generally stunned. She was 19 and sung live. This came out in the middle of disco and punk. Nothing like her then. Theatrical , charming and beautiful.
You are bang on there, I don’t think anyone who heard and saw this then will ever forget it or the effect it had on them, I think a lot of us fell in love with her talent right there and then.
The story behind this song,which is the lyrics,is also very captivating...its based on a book about a girl in the England back in time,abandoned by her boyfriend Heathcliff,dying,then coming back to the manor Wuthering Heights as a ghost,wanting to come inside the house by the windows. About her performance, she has a very feminine beautiful voice,she is very beautiful,and lovely. A great song..a great voice.
Read the book - 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Brontê, published in 1847.
Wuthering Heights was mandatory reading when I was in grade 12.
Spooky love
@BlubberBrother1672 i am NOT a ‘mercan!!! 🇨🇦
You can see it in her dance, a ghost outside a window coming closer. Haunted eyes and the lyrics: ooh, let me have it. Let me grab your soul. You know it's me, Cathy
How can someone so young be so talented? Genius.
The song that got me hooked on Kate Bush when I was 15 years old. Her voice has been a guiding light for me ever since.
Dear Cat Saray, the first time I heard Kate Bush was in 1979. I was 18 and it was something inexplicable. I had an indescribable sense of enchantment. Then, when I saw a video of her performing, I was completely fascinated with her so beautiful, delicate, sweet and magical figure. It's been 40 years and the magic is still the same. I get mesmerized every time I see a video with her. It is something inexplicable. Her voice, her extraordinary talent, expressiveness and uniqueness have since made her my favorite artist ever. It is simply unique. I will love Kate Bush forever. Thank you for showing this video.
When I heard this at 16 I knew I was definitely gay thanks kate BTW kate is no homopobe the exact opposite bless her and her amazing talent
This song is a masterpiece, there's really nothing else quite like it is there? :)
She is truly gifted!
There are many other masterpieces from her, some of them even better - Cloudbusting, Big Stripey Lie, Babooshka, Running up that Hill, Heads We're Dancing, Suspended in Gaffa, Get out of My House, Hounds of Love, Love and Anger, There Goes a Tenner, The Dreaming, Moments of Pleasure, And so is Love, Breathing, etc etc etc...
I listen to everything from Gabrielli to Brian Eno. There is nothing like her. She is not human. We are not worthy.
Check the Spanish singer Virginia Glück, and her song "Entre animas"; from 1996. It's a complete COPY of this. I bought her album back then, but Al, such a copy, OMG!!
Kate Bush is fantastic artist. Voice wonderfoul amazing, very expressive, simply adorable. I love Kate Bush forever.
How can a lady be so beautiful and talented? Kate is so special 💗
Kate, a combination of Beauty, brains and talent. (PS please don't stop it before it finishes)
For 19 she was very mature in her songs and performances,she was ahead of her time,but yet in interviews she sounded really young.no one was ready for her.
Kate Bush is an absolute genius.
don't know if anyone has mentioned this but Kathy is a ghost at this point...
Yes. And *Cathy
This dance is as iconic as the song. Kate fans gather every year, I think, and perform it. Usually, near or on the Moors or in grassy or woodsy areas.
For real? That's a lovely way to celebrate it
@@catsarai-genxrewind5271 you can find many videos here of these gatherings... from around the world; search for: Wuthering Heights day
Unless you've read the book 'Wuthering Heights' by Emily Bronte, you won't understand the song, but just listen and enjoy.
Wuthering Heights was Kate's very first single. Like all the tracks she wrote for her first album The Kick Inside she wrote this track at a very young age. Naturally, she was inspired by Emily Brontës novel of the same name. However, when Kate wrote the song she had never read the novel. Her actual inspiration was a TV movie adaptation of the novel of which she caught the last few minutes of it. Then she read the novel. When it was about time to release her first single the record company executives wanted another song called James and the Cold Gun to be the first single. Kate, who at the time was only 19, stood up to them and wanted Wuthering Heights to be the first single. After a while, the record executives obliged to Kate's request but not because they were successfully persuaded by her but because they thought that Kate was going to be mistaken and was going to realize that when it came to choosing singles they were the ones who knew better and not Kate and she was gonna learn the hard way. Boy, they couldn't be any more wrong! Wuthering Heights was realized and BAM! It went to #1 in the U.K. and it was a big hit in other countries as well. Kate became an overnight success. The record executives had to eat their words and allowed Kate to choose her next single which was The Man with the Child in His Eyes (this song was the one that got her her record contract at the time) and it went to #6 in the U.K. Not only she showed courage to stand up to such sharks as the record executives are but she showed them that besides being an artist she had an eye for choosing hit singles.
Whoa! So cool. I love hearing stories like these!
@@catsarai-genxrewind5271 you have a wonderful smile.
The notes she hits at the end stops me cold sublime
The guitar at the end ALWAYS gives me chills. The way the note is sustained to build up then the bends in the strings. Damn its just beautiful...... as is the rest of the song of course
I've loved Kate from day one , when this was first on Top of the pops while I was at high school everyone was talking about Kate, she's the only British female artist to write , produce and perform a number one single, and this was that song, only 16 here, Kate was an instant success ,and very well loved in the UK.
When she goes into “Ooh it gets dark . . .” I’m still pinned to the wall even after all these years. I remember buying the single when it first was released. The lady in the store asked me if I thought it would be a hit. I replied that I expected it to get a lot of airplay but wouldn’t be successful because it was too left-field. Boy, was I wrong!
Kate Bush...weird, arty, entertaining, talented/gifted, creative, disarming, beautiful and everything else I can think of.
A MAJOR TEAR-JERKER NOT TO MENTION EXTREMELY BEAUTIFUL!!!
I fell in love Kate back in 78 and still am .Hauntingly beautiful.Thanks for reaction 🌹👏🏻
Great reaction to an incredible artist ❤️
Kate Bush began writing songs at 11. She was signed to EMI Records after Pink Floyd guitarist David Gilmour helped produce a demo tape.
First heard this on an airplane ride when I was 13. I could not get enough of it. Her first 4 albums are still some of my favourites.
The GENIUS that is Kate Bush brilliant and utterly original Singer and Songwriter and Performer and Outstanding innovative Producer
This song is one of my favourite memories of our generation, I always think back to a youthful romance I had at the time. I love the way Kate always had her own ideas about music and dance movement. By the way I think you are a very beautiful Gen x lady x
David Gilmour of Pink Floyd heard her tapes ... piano/ voice ... yep she plays most of the piano ... and introduced/promoted her.
So glad that you love this song and video. Yes, Kate Bush went under the radar in the U.S. 1980's-1990's. I think it is because she is very very very very British. Her sensibilities, her style is not quickly accessible to most Americans. You are right, Americans missed the ball with Kate for a long time and it is our loss. Kate is stunning, talented, unique and oodles of lovely. I never met her but I have to believe that she is an angel. She seems like such a decent, kind and lovely woman. She is getting recognition for "Running Up That Hill" from that TV show, the name escapes me. But she is DEFINITELY worth checking out more, she has a lot of music out there over her career. Thank you for doing this.
Mrs, Bush was 19 when she wrote and recorded the song. Back then she was simply unique in her talent and she is still unique today. She was always special. The title and story of this masterpiece is about another english masterpiece, the sad story between Cathy and Heathcliff in the book "Wuthering Heights" of Emily Bronte. Recommendation! Read all seven of the Bronte Sisters Books - it´s well worth the money.
Greetings from Germany!
Kate turned 62 on July 30th. Happy B'day Kate xxx
Happy Happy birthday to Sweet Kate!
Kate is so unique, a wonderful artistic performer in more ways than one. thanks for sharing.
She has bewitched me.
Kate was also a ballet dancer and wanted to go pro as well as a great singer songwriter. Fortunately for us she chose singing.
Thank you! 🥰
Tears on my cheeks with the sheer joy of watching and listening to a wonderful Woman reacting to a wonderful Woman 💕❤️😍🥰
A beautiful reaction to a beautiful song.
Thank you
Seeing the joy on your face is as pleasing as the song itself.
Thank you.
This a horrible time in a broken world. To see a piece of music bring so much obvious and genuine joy to someone is almost a supernatural experience. This song always pulls on the few heart strings I have left whenever I hear it. Seeing your reaction is one of the few things that even comes close.
She wrote the song, wrote and arranged the music and played the piano beautifully. And choreographed all her dance routines.
this song was my introduction to Kate some 40ish years ago ... instantly fell in love ... Steveie Nicks come down off of my wall and Kate went up ... LOL ... when I learned that David Gilmour of Pink Floyd discovered her that made it even better .... I just last week FINALLY watched the movie ( the 1939 version ) Wuthering Heights ..... just to get a glimpse of what Kate got her inspiration from for this song
Kate Bush has great Vocals, I never understood what this song was based on as a kid, it stayed on the UK charts for quite sometime.
Until adult after watching the movie based on Drama and Romance years ago staring (Ralph Fiennes) then I started appreciating this song.
Song written by Catherine (Kate) Bush herself at the age of 18 years old. To my understanding she was 19 years old when she appeared on this video.
On the movie the young girls name is also named Catherine who was portrayed by Juliette Binoche.
Kate bush is portraying the deceased Young Catherine Earnshaw of the Movie, which her heart was broken by none other than the adopted orphaned boy - Man himself Heathcliff?
Great song
This hit No.1 in the UK chart when I was five and indicated a totally individual talent. We could all learn from her.
Although I've known this song since the year it came out, it never gets old, and it still moves me. Kate's originality and authenticity make her songs magical and evergreen.
Cat Sarai, Kate Bush at the astonishing age of 17 wrote this synopsis of the classic English novel, Wuthering Heights, by Emily Bronte, 1847. Should you choose to read it you will realise the full meaning and magnitude of the song, Let me in through your window. And now look at Kate's eyes. She's a ghost haunting her love Heathcliff.
I've always loved this song since I heard it as a child. It's inspired by the Emily Brontë novel Wuthering Heights. Such unique sound and talent!
When I heard the album "The Kick Inside" I was hooked onto her for the rest of my life.
In her music video's Kate's facial expressions were so important to the performance, especially her eyes > she was amazing.
Listen to her song 'The Man with the Child in his Eyes". She wrote that one when she was 16.
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She recorded it aged 16
She actually wrote that song when she was 13 - what an incredible talent
She was 5
I love the way you split the screen so we can see more of the video, I wish more people did that!
Beautiful song. Kate Bush certainly a unique artist. Btw you look gorgeous. 🇬🇧🌹
This is one of Kate's best songs, but the best recording of it is the one with the grown up vocals she recorded for her 1986 greatest hits album, THE WHOLE STORY. 🙂
Romantics are goth..... Fantastic song written by a teen, about dead wife who visited her husband by night, gorgeous !
she is the queen of my hearts
Kate’s collaborator was her brother and band-member Paddy.
That was amazing I enjoyed it. I don't remember ever hearing that song. It's quite theatrical it sounds similar to something you would hear in a Disney movie. It was a unique and beautiful song and she is talented as well with the dancing and movements she was making it was intriguing. ❤
England's finest , once heard this will never leave you.
And that is maybe the best british voice in Pop music I have ever heard.
Well done on getting to kate so long ago, now she again top girl, number 1 in 18 countries in just 2 months of a song on stranger things, get ready for this to top the same chart. oh, she was 19 when she sang this, ty
Love your reactions. This came out in 1977, I was a punk then, but secretly smitten by Kate Bush and her song. Years later Johnny Rotten admitted the same! Funny ol' world innit...
I'll never forget the great dry ice shortage of 1978. Love ya, Kate.😘
Lovely reaction, Cat ! .. Really enjoyed your enjoyment of it .. I can't believe how much I still love watching / listening to this masterpiece .. I must have heard it literally over a thousand times, and I'm still mesmerised by her and the song .. If I had to name an all-time favourite song by any artist, this would have to be right up there contending for the title .. Totally enchanting.
it seems like 2020 covid/lockdown Kate has had a huge resurgence and a lot of new fans. I'm sad I didn't know about her before but wasn't extremely huge in Canada where I grew up in the 80s. My older siblings are also not very aware of her. But I've gone through most of her music and bought a few LPs of hers. She's my fav musician/performer/talent of all time by a landslide. Sorry Bowie (RIP)
Few suggestions if I may. React to 'The Man with a Child in His Eyes' - 'Army Dreamers' - 'This Woman's Work' (try to hold back the tears on that one!) and - 'Moment's of Pleasure'
Thanks and have a lovely day!
Kate trained as a dancer with Lynsey Kemp who was also very influential in David Bowies early career,Many of her songs are based on classic literature. Nobody is like kate welcome to the Kate Bush rabbit hole. xxx
I'm very happy here! She's terrific
Kate is treasure
She genuinely is. So happy I found her.
AN absolute classic spent 7 weeks at number one in 1978 here in Australia
This takes me back. Personal favourite from around this time is the song, the man with the child in his eyes
Can't stop listening to this song.
She is so theatrical in that video... very expressive! With just the right amout of humor and derision :D
She's divine
I'm loving your kate bush reactions 🤩 and you seem to really get her and her music which is wonderful
Thank you! She is a surprise. So unique and talented. She has bewitched me : )
@@catsarai-genxrewind5271 welcome to the club 😅😇🥰
kate bush....the ultimate enigma.her creativity is out of this world
Kate Bush studied dramatic art, so the dance routine was very carefully choreographed. The song is based on the book of the same name, (also a film) Cathy is a ghost returning to her lover. To really understand the song and the overall performance you should look up the book or film, only then will you get the full power of this performance and just how clever she is.
You really need to do more from her 1985 album the hounds of love. It is definitely one of the best albums of all time.
This was released at the height of Disco. Kate Bush is her own genre.
What a hapy day watching, and listening, ( at the same time) two "Beauties". TheOne, singing and dancing (at the 80's),and The Other, describing what she's watching at 2020. The effect is DOUBLE.(reinforced)!!!
"You can't put your finger on it"... I'd say her voice is strange in the sense that it can go from crisp to mellow, warm to sharp and soft to almost raspy at times, all in the blink of an eye, following hilly melodies ... an odd but enchanting mix.
The only singer whose voice ever reminded me of her is Emilie Simon on "The Big Machine" album.
THIS SONG IS ASTONISHING, LIKE THE BOOK "WUTHERING HEIGHTS" FROM EMILY BRONTE,AND THE 1939 MOVIE "WUTHERING HEIGHTS" WITH THE GREAT ENGLISH ACTOR LAURENCE OLIVIER,A BEAUTIFUL GOTHIC STORY ABOUT A LOVE BEYOND DEATH.
Kate Bush is perfection!!! No one will ever match her voice control and artistry !!
Complete and utter genius! No more to be said really.
Kate Bush is a genius.
Friend I noticed when the music possessed you and you felt 1000 emotions. It was so beautiful. This song always gets me
It was her first single and first number one in the UK in 1978,just before her 20th birthday. The song never charted here in the USA.
Like you said, she throws herself into the song, and the modulation-you said it- of her voice is always giving subtlety to her brilliant lyrics. Tori Amos, Bjork, and PJ Harvey, to only name a few, achieved greatness by following in her footsteps. Those performers influenced by Kate Bush were not mere imitators, they simply saw that her work represented a path forward in music that would never die.
When I first heard this song in late 70's ,I was 18 years old and I really didnt know what to make of it,Id never heard anything like it before,but I stuck with it bought the Album and every other of her albums since...you must check out " the man with the child in his eyes" a very beautiful song and of course "Babooshka" is well worth reacting to.....keep up the Great work...lovin your channel 👍👍👍💖💖
Kate Bush is a breathtakingly Beautiful woman inside and out ..I have only grown to appreciate her work more as i have gotten older..I'd like to see you do Army Dreamers ,Babushka or Love & Anger .
She's definitely an acquired taste, but her and Enya have grown on me over the years. Her Christmas song, "December will be magic again" is a family favorite for the holidays.
Kate is amazing.
She is truly bewitching
@@catsarai-genxrewind5271 yep, and so talented it's staggering.
It took 2 years of stubborn talks convincing record companies to release this as her first single they said it was not commercial enough at 19 she had her way it shocked the industry and paved the way for female artists the world over to do things there way in a male dominated world of manipulation of male and female musical artists, speaking as a man she was facinating and beautiful two guys i knew were infatuated with her
What a great reaction beautiful lady
Kate Bush was a mesmerising goddess
A wonderful rabbit hole of creativity.
This is a classic , and by the way , Kate was a trained ballet dancer , that's why she moves so gracefully .
Kate Bush is intoxicating like the smell of Jasmine on a warm Summer night. I absolutely adore her.
Sensual world reaction would be great.
Yes she is insanely under appreciated.
I’m shocked that many people have never heard of her.
She is her own genre and it’s wonderful
Cat,.. I just love the expression on your face. You cannot keep it back.