@@stephensmith799 I can't remember if I mentioned this somewhere else before but this piece had a profound effect on me when I was around seven years old.
@@monsterjazzlicks It’s a rare number which does that. If I HAD to choose a couple of high impact ones for myself, Hendrix’ Voodoo Chile and Paul Simon’s Mother and Child Reunion jump out immediately. I still love Resurrection Shuffle. We had a girl in school who could swing her bottom in perfect time to it. It’s quite fast and that impression of her in tight jeans has never left me. It sealed my conclusion that girls were a lot more interesting than boys. For albums, Floyd’s Soundtrack to a Film Called More was devastating in its melancholy, while Thunderclap Newman’s Something in the Air gave me hope. Indeed there WAS a big cultural shift happening, one which was to end the extraordinary levels of violence we experience from our teachers and ‘prefects’. Their licence to inflict Actual Bodily Harm was about to expire…. In one case, Grievous Bodily Harm, which would result in a jail sentence today. Yes. ‘Popular Music’ was an important progressive force for good in a way that is not true today.
@@stephensmith799 Very interesting Stephen, thanks. Yes, Henxdrix's music is also very much steeped in the blues. While I did not favour "Voodoo Child" too much, I did love a plethora of his repertoire during my late teens including: "Red House Blues", Foxy Lady", and "Stone Free". Cheers, Paul
@@monsterjazzlicks The music that truly terrified me was The Dance of the Trolls… mind you I was only three-and-a-half at the time. It felt like trolls were about to pile out of the fireplace and chase me out of a first floor window into an angry sea!
Gosh darn, Sax playas are the Soul of good music. Respect due. Trumpet playas too ! Horn sections rule( check out Alexis Korner's CCS) P.s. My all-time fave- Ball of Confusion by the Tempations. -And the Band played On!
@@billygoatgruff2554 the number is just so joyous. A local told me West Drayton was home to many partygoers in the 19th Century. They came back from west London on the returning empty milk trains which had come in from South Wales and the West Country. I’d never have guessed that Victorian ravers congregated in West Drayton!
@@stephensmith799 There was a hall behind The Railway Arms that all the local bands used to rehearse. Thing was that everybody turned up to each other’s rehearsals and the Guinness flowed and the joints were passed and the jamming started. It was a brilliant experience and I think quite a few tunes came out of it including this one. Tony, Kim and Roy were brilliant musicians and when the three of them got into it they played in all sorts of weird time signatures just for the hell of it. I was friends with all three but especially Kim who used to crash out at my flat over the record shop just across the road. He was also bloody good at darts …lol
@@billygoatgruff2554 Wonderful and important post from someone who was there. Thanks. Seriously. What happened there needs recording and understanding. What you describe is an influential and effective INSTITUTION. How that came into existence and how it faded away is an important question with wide implications for our country. If we knew the answer so much good could come from it. I wish I’d been there. There’s an idea called ‘invisible leadership’ and another called ‘distributed leadership’ which might have been what was happening🤔 BTW there’s a place in Caterham called ‘Skaterham’ where children and young people are learning their chops from each other. It’s a wonderful place in a converted church. I was there last night. It is very effective too. These institutions matter very much.
The band that played the music behind George Harrison for his first album while he was still with The Beatles, and Mick Liber on guitar 2 years after he recorded IN A BROKEN DREAM with Rod Stewart (Apr 69) although the record didn't chart until Aug 1972. Tony Ashton went on to Medicine Head and other work with Jon Lord and Ian Paice of Deep Purple. Talented guys.
A small slice of my youth right there and played live, too. Well, it had to be - no-one could forget that many lyrics and have it committed to vinyl. Still brilliant, though. Thanks for posting it.
Re-recorded in the TV studio and mimed to the re-recording for the programme - like 99.9% of TOTP performances. Of course, that involves a singer miming to misremembered lyrics. Dave and Ansel Collins is another example from the same year.
I was at a 71/72 New Years Eve party when this was on the stereo......crikey....it's like I've been transported back half a century to when music was tight and the chicks were loose...or was it the other way round.....I can't quite remember
did a disco at the weekend..this song knocked them all dead..they loved it so much..we played it twice...classic song..fab beat..thank you Guys....awesome..
I used to love listening to Kim Gardner (the one in that floppy cap) when he played base for The Birds along with Ronnie Wood at the the Attic in Hounslow who's strap line was Be an Attic Fanatic. They used to do a number just before the half time break called 'We don't Care', play one chord then bugger off to the bar leaving just the drummer to do his solo for 10 MINUTES then come back play the last chord and take all the applause! Great times. This is still one of the greatest rock songs EVER.
Sadly Tony Ashton and Kim Gardner both died of cancer in the same year, 2001. Roy Dyke on the drums married Stacia Blake a dancer from Hawkwind, the lived in Hamburg, Germany. I believe they live in Ireland now.
Superb song, arrangement, and performance. This definitely had an influence on me becoming a jazz musician. I must have been about 7 or 8 years old when I first heard it. At the time I incorrectly thought it was called The Resurrection Shovel! Lol 😂
Saw these live at Boat Club Trent Bridge Nottm . It was when this was on the charts . I went to the loo in the break and the sax player came in at the next basin to me and we chatted whilst pissing . Nice 😊.
I`m 52 as I write this, been around a bit, seen live music from punk to opera from Buzzcocks (can`t think of an `A` but there must be one, just can`t remember) to Yes (same reason) and this is the first time I`ve seen these dudes..........I`m amazed what they look like!! My hand is on my hip...................freakin awesome,
Great song, RiP Tony. brilliant musians, I remember this song with great fondness in the 70s. It Kind of took the edge off all the troubles in Northern Ireland as did all decent music. Things are a lot better now. But not music [unfortunatley].
Drunk, live and sounding brilliant - is this really TOTP?! I love the way most of the audience (especially superman) appear to be dancing to the beat of a totally different song! Catch leery suit men on the right at 2:24 (who obviously aren't there for the music)
In fact, most of the 'dancers' don't exactly apear to be enjoying themselves - perhaps too conscious of the cameras? This is actually from a German tv programme and German youngsters then would always have blank looks on their faces on their pop music programmes. Whereas when it came to the corny Volksmusik programmes, an older German audience would generally be having a good time. I don't quite know why as I know, these days, Germans really can let their hair down. But somehow not then?? Maybe any Germans reading this can - bitte - explain this??
@@carnalea2424 Oh yes Stephen. My dad took me on holiday to Austria when I was 8 and he said here's something you _must_ see and he took me into a bier Keller halle and there were these rubicund gross men 8n tight shorts (lederhosen) performing on stage and we were all drinking steines (2 L) tankards of Heineken it was quite a buzz.
Still a great beat today as when I 1st heard this song 1960s the have taken there toll on me&My body but music as fresh. Great beat Manchester lad born set free with this beat. John Rooney st Anne's Blackpool
Late 1970: One member of the band, within my company, arrived to 'score' (?) something. Edinburgh. Good old days. Another visitor was Jack, the 'Roadie' from [insert text here]. Stay free. R 🍻 😎 🎲 🌠
Simple but effective! Great feeling for the Blues! 😁
@@monsterjazzlicks Yes. Robert Johnson would have approved the message.
@@stephensmith799 I can't remember if I mentioned this somewhere else before but this piece had a profound effect on me when I was around seven years old.
@@monsterjazzlicks It’s a rare number which does that. If I HAD to choose a couple of high impact ones for myself, Hendrix’ Voodoo Chile and Paul Simon’s Mother and Child Reunion jump out immediately.
I still love Resurrection Shuffle. We had a girl in school who could swing her bottom in perfect time to it. It’s quite fast and that impression of her in tight jeans has never left me. It sealed my conclusion that girls were a lot more interesting than boys. For albums, Floyd’s Soundtrack to a Film Called More was devastating in its melancholy, while Thunderclap Newman’s Something in the Air gave me hope. Indeed there WAS a big cultural shift happening, one which was to end the extraordinary levels of violence we experience from our teachers and ‘prefects’. Their licence to inflict Actual Bodily Harm was about to expire…. In one case, Grievous Bodily Harm, which would result in a jail sentence today.
Yes. ‘Popular Music’ was an important progressive force for good in a way that is not true today.
@@stephensmith799 Very interesting Stephen, thanks.
Yes, Henxdrix's music is also very much steeped in the blues. While I did not favour "Voodoo Child" too much, I did love a plethora of his repertoire during my late teens including: "Red House Blues", Foxy Lady", and "Stone Free". Cheers, Paul
@@monsterjazzlicks The music that truly terrified me was The Dance of the Trolls… mind you I was only three-and-a-half at the time. It felt like trolls were about to pile out of the fireplace and chase me out of a first floor window into an angry sea!
My dads on trumpet lol in red vest still playing now in Poole lyle Jenkins on sax unfortunately passed bless him x
So cool that your dad was part of such a great song! Was my fav song when it came out. I was ten years old.
mega tune, my God, loved this track, still do, timeless :)
Your father contributed to my well throughout nearly 5 entire decades. I still want a beer, when I hear this song.👍
Gosh darn, Sax playas are the Soul of good music.
Respect due. Trumpet playas too ! Horn sections rule( check out Alexis Korner's CCS)
P.s. My all-time fave-
Ball of Confusion by the Tempations.
-And the Band played On!
My apologies to Lyle Jenkins... but was he the inspiration for The Muppets sax player, Zoot?
Great sound from back in the day. We were spoiled for choice of great music then
You are SO right!❤
Loved this track as a kid and still love it!
You took the words! . . . .Never get's old💥🎶🎶🎶
Is Mr Ashton the one that's Lord & Paice's mucker?
havent heard this in years, still sounds wonderful
Top of the Pops 1971 Xmas show. Tony Ashton has obviously been making the most of the BBC's seasonal hospitality.
Written in a pub in West Drayton, in about ten minutes. Brilliant. The pub should have a Blue Plaque marking the event
The Railway Arms 😊
@@billygoatgruff2554 the number is just so joyous. A local told me West Drayton was home to many partygoers in the 19th Century. They came back from west London on the returning empty milk trains which had come in from South Wales and the West Country. I’d never have guessed that Victorian ravers congregated in West Drayton!
@@stephensmith799 There was a hall behind The Railway Arms that all the local bands used to rehearse.
Thing was that everybody turned up to each other’s rehearsals and the Guinness flowed and the joints were passed and the jamming started. It was a brilliant experience and I think quite a few tunes came out of it including this one. Tony, Kim and Roy were brilliant musicians and when the three of them got into it they played in all sorts of weird time signatures just for the hell of it.
I was friends with all three but especially Kim who used to crash out at my flat over the record shop just across the road. He was also bloody good at darts …lol
@@billygoatgruff2554 Wonderful and important post from someone who was there. Thanks. Seriously. What happened there needs recording and understanding. What you describe is an influential and effective INSTITUTION. How that came into existence and how it faded away is an important question with wide implications for our country. If we knew the answer so much good could come from it. I wish I’d been there. There’s an idea called ‘invisible leadership’ and another called ‘distributed leadership’ which might have been what was happening🤔
BTW there’s a place in Caterham called ‘Skaterham’ where children and young people are learning their chops from each other. It’s a wonderful place in a converted church. I was there last night. It is very effective too.
These institutions matter very much.
@@stephensmith799 so where did the partygoers in question live?
The band that played the music behind George Harrison for his first album while he was still with The Beatles, and Mick Liber on guitar 2 years after he recorded IN A BROKEN DREAM with Rod Stewart (Apr 69) although the record didn't chart until Aug 1972. Tony Ashton went on to Medicine Head and other work with Jon Lord and Ian Paice of Deep Purple. Talented guys.
Paice Ashton and Lords 'Malice in Wonderland'. One of my all time favorite albums.
A live performance, a rarity for TotP
When that Song hit to airwaves in the U.S. I was 14.....
Still ROCKS!!
Great track from 71 love the horns .
This was a smash in disco's back in the day, it got everybody up on the dance floor.
Spectacular! Maybe one day they'll achieve the fame they deserve.
Bit late. 2 of them are dead.
@@MrFrampo56 The singer no less with the voice that really identifies the heart of the song.
With this lock down we all going back to our youth.....
Soo true, dear Robert !!!
And we may ask ourselves:
"WHERE was our time b4 that...???" 🤔 🤔
Bin Jahrgang 57… die 70er waren die Geilsten……😎
Funkiest song of all time! I love it!
Hit it so good young man!!!!!!.Still good .show them how it was done
A song, a group, worthy of greater fame.
Marvellous stuff. I remember buying the 7 inch single back in the day.
I still have the 45 single... 😁
The local accountancy firm having a jam. I think I appreciate this song more now than I did back then.
A small slice of my youth right there and played live, too. Well, it had to be - no-one could forget that many lyrics and have it committed to vinyl. Still brilliant, though. Thanks for posting it.
Re-recorded in the TV studio and mimed to the re-recording for the programme - like 99.9% of TOTP performances. Of course, that involves a singer miming to misremembered lyrics. Dave and Ansel Collins is another example from the same year.
OH EM GEE!!! 8th grade picnic with the radio turned up as far as it could go!! GAWD! Those were the bestest of days!!
Radio Luxemburg classic......with the sound drifting in and out
Those were the days!
Used to sing Resurrection Shovel as a kid :)
you just can't sit still to this, I remember my older brother playing it and I thought it was fab, still is.🎹🎶♥♥
Brother same & thinking
same
I love this - Tony gets about half the words right! But what a fabulous voice!! And what a brilliant song!
Back in the day I would play this every Sunday morning and that was enuff church for me
Always liked this. Still got the 45.
Catchy as hell, and.....a nod to Tony Ashton for singing live - a rare occurrence on TOTP.
Brilliant, and I absolutely love it 👍👍
As a kid i danced to this. Still brilliant.
Big hit here in Canada at the time!
...peace sign out the window of my '69 Bug ...Wayne's World party on !!! Hello from CANADA!
Great!!! Haven't heard this for years!
About 40 years!
I'm 20 and I've loved this song since I was 16. I dance to it all the time! Also lmao at the lead singer forgetting the lyrics 😂😂😂
Loved this track ever since it's release.
He bolloxed the lyrics up a bit at the beginning but it's live vocals at it's best.
Nice one!!
I was at a 71/72 New Years Eve party when this was on the stereo......crikey....it's like I've been transported back half a century to when music was tight and the chicks were loose...or was it the other way round.....I can't quite remember
did a disco at the weekend..this song knocked them all dead..they loved it so much..we played it twice...classic song..fab beat..thank you Guys....awesome..
Ist year at college - all I can remember. Monday night disco. We all want those years back. Only music does it.
+una mckillen Don't we just, times goes too fast
I used to love listening to Kim Gardner (the one in that floppy cap)
when he played base for The Birds along with Ronnie Wood at the the Attic in Hounslow who's strap line was Be an Attic Fanatic. They used to do a number just before the half time break called 'We don't Care', play one chord then bugger off to the bar leaving just the drummer to do his solo for 10 MINUTES then come back play the last chord and take all the applause! Great times. This is still one of the greatest rock songs EVER.
Sadly Tony Ashton and Kim Gardner both died of cancer in the same year, 2001. Roy Dyke on the drums married Stacia Blake a dancer from Hawkwind, the lived in Hamburg, Germany. I believe they live in Ireland now.
Now we`r ROCKIN ! pure classss !!
WOW! I remember this - I was 14 and we blew the doors off my mate's hose with it! Fantastic memory.
One of the best
Haven't heard this for years. Kudos for the upload!!
this was my first 45 I purchased all those years ago, still love the song....
The young people of the 70's seemed to really enjoy the Rock & Roll.
Yup, in the early 70s, there was such a variety of musical styles about, we were spoilt for choice - ! 😅
And how we did !! And still do sometimes.
Huge record in its day. Top sound.
Superb song, arrangement, and performance. This definitely had an influence on me becoming a jazz musician. I must have been about 7 or 8 years old when I first heard it. At the time I incorrectly thought it was called The Resurrection Shovel! Lol 😂
A superb performance! Tony Ashton is super!
Should have seen my funky groove moves when I was 13 skating to this song...
cool song I still have the 45 record
Saw these live at Boat Club Trent Bridge Nottm . It was when this was on the charts . I went to the loo in the break and the sax player came in at the next basin to me and we chatted whilst pissing . Nice 😊.
Takes me back to the day
love the dancing in the back xD
Good ol,Tony,love this so much.
Classic 70s song. Tony Aston in fine form.
After David died, a light went out in the world.
A killer tune
Brilliant..............
Loved it
One of my all time favourites. Cooool.
2021 and this takes me right back! Tune!
Was in my teens working at a supermarket... This song made it good as I had it in my head as I ran the half mile to be there on time. ;+)
Great track.
8 Ace out of Viz on piano and vocals!
Love it ❣️
Rocking horn section!
I`m 52 as I write this, been around a bit, seen live music from punk to opera from Buzzcocks (can`t think of an `A` but there must be one, just can`t remember) to Yes (same reason) and this is the first time I`ve seen these dudes..........I`m amazed what they look like!!
My hand is on my hip...................freakin awesome,
Abba & Zappa
Timeless classic
Class, pure class music.
I remember this great record wish i could turn back the clock
That's one guy who was nice & high . . . . . .Did miming come sometime soon after this? Just saying🤣
my bueno. gracias por revivir estos momentos.
Just the tops⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐🔥🔥
Saw them at a local night club just after this was released.Awesome night.
1.56 - the chick in the black dress with glasses, she is SO in the groove baby!
Great song, RiP Tony. brilliant musians, I remember this song with great fondness in the 70s. It Kind of took the edge off all the troubles in Northern Ireland as did all decent music. Things are a lot better now. But not music [unfortunatley].
. . . Love the Irish, hate English government.
Leave the Decent Folk alone to Live Life!
Things are much better?
How do you work that out?
Things are much better?
How do you work that out?
It's 1971 all over again.....brilliant track.....I was 13
So was I x
@@lisafairclough8122 Yup 13.
Brilliant just found this, I remember it playing - age 4 going to seaside, going to in my mates Dads Morris Traveller
R.I.P., Tony and Kim; you were great blokes. Memories of West Drayton!
Ahh the memories of being a teenager 😊😊
Still GREAT!
good record,,i could get up and dance to this!!
Charming video, nice to watch and listen to.
There can be no better compliment for a sax player!
Back when fashion was fashion
Lol! Great, wasn't it?
Chinn, Chapman and the Sweet played this a good many times, the night before deciding on the intro for "Ballroom Blitz". ;)
Brilliant 70s music
love this happy memories ,xxxx
Drunk, live and sounding brilliant - is this really TOTP?!
I love the way most of the audience (especially superman) appear to be dancing to the beat of a totally different song! Catch leery suit men on the right at 2:24 (who obviously aren't there for the music)
In fact, most of the 'dancers' don't exactly apear to be enjoying themselves - perhaps too conscious of the cameras? This is actually from a German tv programme and German youngsters then would always have blank looks on their faces on their pop music programmes. Whereas when it came to the corny Volksmusik programmes, an older German audience would generally be having a good time. I don't quite know why as I know, these days, Germans really can let their hair down. But somehow not then?? Maybe any Germans reading this can - bitte - explain this??
@@carnalea2424
Oh yes Stephen. My dad took me on holiday to Austria when I was 8 and he said here's something you _must_ see and he took me into a bier Keller halle and there were these rubicund gross men 8n tight shorts (lederhosen) performing on stage and we were all drinking steines (2 L) tankards of Heineken it was quite a buzz.
Men in suits 2:24
That would make even me want to get up and dance
Bring on the revolution ✌️😎pass the joint man 😜
This is so groovin', I am in awe.
Top drawer stuff. Thanks!
Still a great beat today as when I 1st heard this song 1960s the have taken there toll on me&My body but music as fresh. Great beat Manchester lad born set free with this beat. John Rooney st Anne's Blackpool
We'll all be doin the resurrection shuffle one day, n lots ll be living to tell the tale, viva CPR!
Michelle Roberts hallelujah to that!
I had this in the Album Collection love it ..👏❤
Late 1970: One member of the band, within my company, arrived to 'score' (?) something. Edinburgh. Good old days. Another visitor was Jack, the 'Roadie' from [insert text here].
Stay free. R 🍻 😎 🎲 🌠
Very cool.😊
Half of the Remo Four in this group, no wonder they were awesome, definitely deserved more hits..
Brilliant memories of Sutton College with Rick Barley 👍