Takes me back to my childhood, the machine gun effect did it for me as a kid! Fantastic song, both GeorgieFame and Alan Price remind me of growing up. Great voices, auto tune like the tossers these days 😎
By 1968 I was already into FM radio. It was still a "new" medium in those days. This song was big on my local NYC AM stations; WABC and WMCA. I used my older brothers tape machine and tried to record the gunfire near the songs end. Didn't work so well. This is one of those songs that you never forget the lyrics. After fifty years I can still sing along and know every word. Swell song!
He sang a lot for the Black G.I.s in Britain at the beginning of the 60s - and they all thought he had the sound of a black voice too! His voice is still as magic today aged 74 !!!
I first heard this song on one of those "soundalikes" compilations that also included "Love is blue.", "Young Girl", "Valerie" and "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay". Even on that, the ending almost made me feel as if a gunfight was going on inside the speaker of my hand-me-down RCA Victor record player. It was only when I heard the real versions on the radio that I realized they were all imitations. "Hit Records of Nashville" was actually pretty good at that sort of thing and the covers were at least as good as some of the phoned-in "original artist" covers and remixes for which K-Tel later became famous.
I wonder if this was recorded just for use on TOTP, or if it was also sent to similar shows (as videos often were in those days) all over the world. It's a wonderful pastiche of 1920s speakeasy and 1960s psychedelic imagery, much better than most productions that try to blend old and new that way.
This performance is missing from the BBC archives, great clip, Dutch (this clip) and German TV archives have numerous missing performances from Top of the Pops between 1968 - 1973
I still find it weird that this, the most popular song about Bonnie & Clyde inspired by the 1967 film, wasn't by an American. The entire story is as completely American as it could possibly be.
At least in the USA, all the Beatles stuff is blocked. There are titles that seem like the real thing, but when you click them it's covers and kereoke. Whoever owns it now never lets anything sip by.
THIS IS THE FIRST RECORD I EVER HAD WHEN I WAS A KID...........AND IT CHANGED MY LIFE FOREVER.........I DID TEN YEARS IN DARTMOOR........
Thank you to my ol man, my DAD for bringing me up with real music 🎶 miss you so much xxxx
Takes me back to my childhood, the machine gun effect did it for me as a kid! Fantastic song, both GeorgieFame and Alan Price remind me of growing up. Great voices, auto tune like the tossers these days 😎
By 1968 I was already into FM radio. It was still a "new" medium in those days. This song was big on my local NYC AM stations; WABC and WMCA. I used my older brothers tape machine and tried to record the gunfire near the songs end. Didn't work so well.
This is one of those songs that you never forget the lyrics. After fifty years I can still sing along and know every word. Swell song!
Yeh Yeh was a big hit on WORC AM Worcester, MA in 1964 and this was a big hit in 1968 on the same station.
Georgie Fame was a unique talent and a polished jazz singer that’s where he started lovely man.
Michael Hackett was? Is!
Takes me back in time to the age of 14 or 15...wonderful! Gracias desde Colombia
Has Warren Beatty or Fay Dunaway ever acknowledged Georgie Fame and this song in any kind of way?
Unusual voice
They played this video before the Morrissey show on Halloween. I love his facial expressions, especially his lips.
Georgie fame bonnie n Clyde fantastic song even yeh yeh and getaway are very good keep rocking georgie fame dean from Edmonton
I remember seeing this on. Top of the pops.
He has a great voice, check out Yeh Yeh, his first hit in 1964.
Cool video. Love this track.
This song became Georgie's biggest US hit, when it reached Number 7 on the Billboard Hot 100.
amen to that frankie jacques 36 south georgia
America loves their crooks and criminals!
Good tune but Yeh Yeh was better.
the brilliant mr fame
Best version by a million miles👍😁
I liked this song more than the movie. I can remember hearing it come on the radio at home
my aunts gave me the original 45 when I was little still have it and i'm 52 now.
He sang a lot for the Black G.I.s in Britain at the beginning of the 60s - and they all thought he had the sound of a black voice too! His voice is still as magic today aged 74 !!!
Come back 1968.
thank you
I love it
THIS IS GOOD STUFF
biggest star to come out of leigh in manchester england.
love this
what a party in this Bonnie and Clyde vedio
It looks like a speakeasy that was raided by the cops at the end.
Bonnie and Clyde
Sittin' on the hopper
Bonnie left a whopper and they both fell in
I first heard this song on one of those "soundalikes" compilations that also included "Love is blue.", "Young Girl", "Valerie" and "Sitting on the Dock of the Bay". Even on that, the ending almost made me feel as if a gunfight was going on inside the speaker of my hand-me-down RCA Victor record player. It was only when I heard the real versions on the radio that I realized they were all imitations. "Hit Records of Nashville" was actually pretty good at that sort of thing and the covers were at least as good as some of the phoned-in "original artist" covers and remixes for which K-Tel later became famous.
la mejor version
I wonder if this was recorded just for use on TOTP, or if it was also sent to similar shows (as videos often were in those days) all over the world. It's a wonderful pastiche of 1920s speakeasy and 1960s psychedelic imagery, much better than most productions that try to blend old and new that way.
Brilliant
It is from Top of the pops. :)
This performance is missing from the BBC archives, great clip, Dutch (this clip) and German TV archives have numerous missing performances from Top of the Pops between 1968 - 1973
CLIVE POWELL....HIS BEST WAS...YA YA...1965....HE NOW BACKS UP VAN MORRISON
Lord knows why the director of the video had Fame's arm extended with open palm for a whole chorus and verse? Hahaha
He is supposed to be a body on the ground
Is this taken from Top of the Pops?
Yes, indeed it is. I remember this on TOTP.
...jedinečná balada o Bonnie a Clyde,skutočný príbeh zašlých čias a jedinečný Georgie Fame....
produced by Mike Smith of The Dave Clark 5
I still find it weird that this, the most popular song about Bonnie & Clyde inspired by the 1967 film, wasn't by an American. The entire story is as completely American as it could possibly be.
America didn’t know Fame, so they had no idea the song was by a Brit
I always pictured Georgie Fame to be sporting an Elvis Presley style quiff instead of this hairstyle.
I think Randy Newman borrowed a bit of this.
Carl Sagan's pretty good.
A white person singing this??
I always thought it was a black voice.
Dewlap bag?????? Burlap bag, maybe .......
Loooot bag
Why the hell do you block stuff from RUclips!? I want to see the Beatles Madonna on Tops of the Pops. I don't like this "Sorry about that crap"!!!!!
At least in the USA, all the Beatles stuff is blocked. There are titles that seem like the real thing, but when you click them it's covers and kereoke. Whoever owns it now never lets anything sip by.