For years I thought another rock band sang this classic hit song!I was a young girl in the 1970s just listening to the car radio & this song came on!hadn't been able to get the melody vout of my head since!🎉
This song always brings back memories. I loved it when I first heard it. I was 8 years old and recorded it on a cassette tape from AM radio. Those were the days.....rotary telephone......console tv.....being a human remote control for my dads tv........ so long ago.
Rare to see a band play live on ToTP - they were so good! 1:35 Colin’s sax is barely audible in the solo and Pete adds a neat bluesy pre-solo slide Thank you for sharing :)
About a week or so after this The Sex Pistols went on the Grundy show and the whole climate of music changed overnight but I remember that pre-punk feeling of 76 with fondness, it was kind of laid back and unpretentious with great songs like this and Gallagher and Lyle even if most of the groups reminded me of my geography or music teachers at school.
Yes, that was peak nice-time. Then I remember bands like The Stranglers starting to appear on TOTP and thinking who are all these nasty people who can't play their instruments? Although really of course they weren't; and they could.
hellochicago2 Yes punk was the last piece of the authentic pantheon of rock from 1955 to 1983 and I was just entering my teens in 76 so punk took me by surprise but I got caught up in the new energy but though I didn't pay too much attention to groups like Climax at the time, I remember that pre-punk period in the mid-70s being really mellow, a mellowness I haven't seen since so when I hear songs like this and see these bands on film it brings back that calm before the storm. When I see those punk docs on TV with all the cliches about how dull, bad and stale music was pre-punk, I say bullshit. These were genuine creative musicians who shunned image and all the phony superficial crap of the business but punk just swept them away, probably only Dire Straits of that ilk managed to emerge and survive the storm intact.
Exactly, you put your finger on that calmer atmosphere that is dismissed as just being too polite. I watched the Grundy appearance live as it happened and I can remember all the talk about it in school the next day. That certainly was the start of very different times - some of that mellow vibe would be good now.
Yes, that is the aluminium gold-plated guitar custom made for Pete by John Veleno; the same guy who built the Lunar Module, apparently. Guitar Insurance must've been cheaper in those days!
In my opinion this song would have never happened if it wasn't for AWB pick up the pieces...disco rock in general...this rockers got to roll...although they say it was a road sign song...deeper meaning in this new Bee Gees paradigm
The bass on the record sounds punchier, but pretty much the same. Looks to me that here they are miming to a pre-recorded backing track, apart from the vocals which are live. That's certainly the original bass player, Derek Holt.
ACC magazine - Yes, I agree. When I first posted this video I sensed it was all live; then later I thought no, it must be an instrumental backing track which was standard for TOTP. But looking closer I can see they are all miked-up properly (but only one over the whole drum kit) with their amps just visible low down on the floor. So I was right in the first place, and so are you! Cheers.
They only got it right on the original recorded version. The singing never had the same bass from his vocals that made the original recording studio version the best rendition.
For years I thought another rock band sang this classic hit song!I was a young girl in the 1970s just listening to the car radio & this song came on!hadn't been able to get the melody vout of my head since!🎉
1976 the backing track to every weekend 😍🤩🤣
Ha! Me too. This has been my ear-worm for the last week.Usually earworms drive me crazy, but it seems I can happily live with this one indefinitely.
Great 70s song
Saw them at Liverpool in 76/77 and again in Cardiff in 1980. Wicked live performers
Who saw them? Did you see them?
A tune that helps epitomize the moods of the 70s...fucking fantastic...
best song
Fantastic! Love his voice and sax playing style
Good live rendition ..
This song always brings back memories. I loved it when I first heard it. I was 8 years old and recorded it on a cassette tape from AM radio. Those were the days.....rotary telephone......console tv.....being a human remote control for my dads tv........ so long ago.
Amazing song along with some sick talent.
Yep.
3 singers all on different octaves.
love his voice....awesome
Rare to see a band play live on ToTP - they were so good!
1:35 Colin’s sax is barely audible in the solo and Pete adds a neat bluesy pre-solo slide
Thank you for sharing :)
Thank you. Great channel.
Cool. Sounds live too
About a week or so after this The Sex Pistols went on the Grundy show and the whole climate of music changed overnight but I remember that pre-punk feeling of 76 with fondness, it was kind of laid back and unpretentious with great songs like this and Gallagher and Lyle even if most of the groups reminded me of my geography or music teachers at school.
Yes, that was peak nice-time. Then I remember bands like The Stranglers starting to appear on TOTP and thinking who are all these nasty people who can't play their instruments? Although really of course they weren't; and they could.
hellochicago2 Yes punk was the last piece of the authentic pantheon of rock from 1955 to 1983 and I was just entering my teens in 76 so punk took me by surprise but I got caught up in the new energy but though I didn't pay too much attention to groups like Climax at the time, I remember that pre-punk period in the mid-70s being really mellow, a mellowness I haven't seen since so when I hear songs like this and see these bands on film it brings back that calm before the storm. When I see those punk docs on TV with all the cliches about how dull, bad and stale music was pre-punk, I say bullshit. These were genuine creative musicians who shunned image and all the phony superficial crap of the business but punk just swept them away, probably only Dire Straits of that ilk managed to emerge and survive the storm intact.
Exactly, you put your finger on that calmer atmosphere that is dismissed as just being too polite. I watched the Grundy appearance live as it happened and I can remember all the talk about it in school the next day. That certainly was the start of very different times - some of that mellow vibe would be good now.
@kenmills30 very insightful comment
i just realy like that song
Pete Haycock is playing his gold played guitar around the time of the excellent Gold Plated album.
Yes, that is the aluminium gold-plated guitar custom made for Pete by John Veleno; the same guy who built the Lunar Module, apparently. Guitar Insurance must've been cheaper in those days!
This was the day I was born .
🎉🎉🎉😂😊
Thank you for the information!
Bravo🥁🎸🎶❤️
John Cuffley on drums here.
Where's the COW BELL !!!
Great version nonetheless
Demaissssssss!!!!!!!
saw then NCSU with Renaissance late 70's?
In my opinion this song would have never happened if it wasn't for AWB pick up the pieces...disco rock in general...this rockers got to roll...although they say it was a road sign song...deeper meaning in this new Bee Gees paradigm
I just popped a Quaalude
Big Sky 714.....Rorer
Is that the bass line? Great song from a band that evolved with the scene of the times...But the bass?
The bass on the record sounds punchier, but pretty much the same. Looks to me that here they are miming to a pre-recorded backing track, apart from the vocals which are live. That's certainly the original bass player, Derek Holt.
ACC magazine - Yes, I agree. When I first posted this video I sensed it was all live; then later I thought no, it must be an instrumental backing track which was standard for TOTP. But looking closer I can see they are all miked-up properly (but only one over the whole drum kit) with their amps just visible low down on the floor. So I was right in the first place, and so are you! Cheers.
They are missing the all important cowbell from the studio version ... this still sounds tight and a terrific live version
Sometimes I have climax blues too.
sure looks and sounds "live" to me!
hmm. that sounds like a live rendition
They only got it right on the original recorded version. The singing never had the same bass from his vocals that made the original recording studio version the best rendition.
and...?
Could'nt get it right
Not sure but is this version extraSHORT ?????
I was thinkin the same, but great tune nevertheless.
Is that Derek Holt on bass guitar?
Yes, what you might call the Classic lineup.
Who's the drummer?
It looks like their regular drummer of that period - John Cuffley.
@@hellochicago2 Thanks