Oh boy! That was a long, glorious hot summer in the UK. It really was the gold standard to judge all summers by. The sun shone, virtually all day, almost every day. Every field you walked past was a shade of parched yellow because it rarely rained. And to top it all, we had great tunes like this as a soundtrack to it. And I was a young kid, with six weeks off school, playing out from the first thing in the morning until it got dark, day after day. And then, next thing I remember, 48 years slipped by … where did they go? 😢 😢😢
@@harrodsfan Thankyou. 👍 And true. But what memories they are. Or as Bowie sang, “Nothing’s gonna touch you in these golden years.” David is another one - gone, but not forgotten.
This song was penned by Ian on a farm they stayed at in a little village called Stockton Brook, Staffordshire in the early 70s about 3 miles from where I grew up, I had a schoolfriend who lived down the lane from them and spoke to them a few times, seemed like lovely blokes, I was about 12 back then...
The Sutherland Brothers and Quiver was a hard working band and didn't always get the respect and recognition they truly deserved. A nice string of Folksy Soft Rock albums appeared in the 1970s and Arms Of Mary remains their greatest hit!
Me and my siblings played this song at my parents funeral in 2014, they passed 12 hrs apart. And yes, my mother was called Mary, and she loved that song back in the day. I remember my dad used to sing it to her when we were kids. We miss you mum and dad. ♥️♥️♥️
Quiver was the brilliant guitarist Tim Renwick, who has played with many top artists, Bruce Thomas & drummer Willie Wilson. Quiver were in need of a vocalist & the Sutherland Brothers were in need of instrumentalists....the rest is history.
You're watching it in your own, personal Time Machine friend, we all are. I find so much stuff in here I thought I'd never see again back in the late 70's.
I was 22 in 1976, worked all the hours possible at the local tin mine so as to get our first house…hottest summer I can remember with the best music ever, would I go back…..to right I would I miss those days growing up in the 70’s…..but we are blessed after some 47 years together ….. good and bad times ❤️
That was the hottest Summer ever. I was in Blackpool on holiday with my work mates and the tar was melting on the roads. Those were the days my friend I wish they'd never end.
It's like being wrapped in happiness Me my mum my dad my sister and brother Only me on the island we were all born on My brother and daughter in England the others gone my mum 9 weeks ago Golly take me back and let me live there forever 😊😊
Every one just commenting how young they were or how good the summer was when this song came out, and i'm just here dreaming away of how good those times would've been! I was born in 1996. Have a good day everyone thats still listening
Oh! This song brings back such sweet, sweet memories. I used to sing this in a little band I was in back in the 70's. It was a joy to sing but Sutherland Bros were my fave. band.
In 1983 - 1992, when I was driving to worke as a nurse at cardiological care unit, I always heard this song on radio! It brings me back in good and careless time!😊
My name is Mary......this song is about me I gave all......I lived in Essex...but each weekend we would go up the City empire Leicester square London......we were apprentices hairdressers.....not much money ....but did we have fun and made memories......the dicso seen in London in the 70s THE BEST NO PHONES,NO INTERNET.....I CAN STILL SMILE TODAY.....ANYONE ELSE THERE TOO.... " Saturday night fever " Madonna, rod Stewart, queen, do I need to go on ...love FROM IRELAND xxxx
@@rocky7173 There wasn’t any Madonna in the 70s; she didn’t have a hit record in the UK until 1984 when Holiday hit the charts, peaking at number two. I might be wrong by a bit, but it was definitely the 80s and not the 70s when Madonna first hit the scene. That aside, I’m sure you had a great time. I was only a kid in the mid 70s but we had two hot summers in a row (75 and 76). There was no Internet and video games hadn’t really caught on yet, so we had six weeks of the summer holidays to play outside from early in the morning until it started to get dark. No bills and no worries, just me and my friends playing football and cricket (very badly, in my case!) It was a time of relative freedom when you could do as you liked, without a camera following you or having someone ring you on your mobile, asking you to come in and cover for a colleague who was sick on what was supposed to be your day off; heck, most people didn’t even have a landline then where I lived. I don’t know if times were better, but they were certainly simpler and more carefree with the emphasis not being on money all the time.
Spent four months of the long hot summer of 1976 motorbiking and camping and reaching for the sky, and oh yes, I remember "Mary" and have to find this song!
God we have been through worse than this … but everyone has story ..ours had a few chapters …young love to teenage parents to leaving our home land with 2 kids in our 20s.. making a new life with old life baggage is never easy glad to say the ones we did it for are the best humans we could have wished for ❤❤
12 years old. Best summer ever. Out playing, not coming home until we were hungry 😁. World was safer them for children. A piece 'n' jam and back on our bikes to explore. .Miss those days. Love from Bonnie Scotland.
The lights shine down the valley The wind blows up the alley, oh Well I wish I was lying in the arms of Mary She took the pains of boyhood And turned them in to feel good, oh How I wish I was lying in the arms of Mary Mary was the girl who taught me all I had to know She put me right on my first mistake Summer wasn't good when I learned all she had to show She really gave all a boy could take, oh So now when I get lonely Still looking for the one and only That's when I wish was lying in the arms of Mary Mary was the girl who taught me all I had to know She put me right on my first mistake Summer wasn't good when I learned all she had to show She really gave all a boy could take The lights shine down the valley The wind blows up the alley, oh Well I wish I was lying in the arms of Mary Lying in the arms of Mary, Lying in the arms of Mary Lying in the arms of Mary The wind blows up the alley, oh Well I wish I was lying in the arms of Mary She took the pains of boyhood And turned them in to feel good, oh How I wish I was lying in the arms of Mary Mary was the girl who taught me all I had to know She put me right on my first mistake Summer wasn't good when I learned all she had to show She really gave all a boy could take, oh So now when I get lonely Still looking for the one and only That's when I wish was lying in the arms of Mary
Me too! I was 16 in '76......the hottest UK summer we ever had and we were on a family holiday down on the South coast....in a touring caravan which was like an oven!! 😄🌞 Happy days and happy memories with a great musical soundtrack. Miss those carefree teenage years!
@@patriciaalexander4333 Also, forgot to mention; I recorded a single at their studio in the early 80's. Not only great musicians and songwriters but really nice guys. If they read this,' Hellooo from Billy and I hope your all well'.
Always a down to earth, rootsy Folk Rock/Soft Rock flavoured band. Never got the recognition they deserved. Thankfully this gem gave them a massive international hit. All their 70s albums were good.
This song is simply fantastic!!!!!!!! Released March '76 it reached No.5 in the UK charts. Written by Iain Sutherland. Gavin Sutherland wrote 'Sailing' in 1972 - later used as a TV Theme and then recorded by Rod Stewart in 1975. Very talented band.
I've loved the song for years. Heard it as a child from my parents. However, I have always ever known it to be by the Canadian band Chilliwack. Until right now, I've never heard another version.
My mum had their album with this on. I haven't heard the band but I visited Chilliwack in British Columbia once,as a passenger in a light aircraft flying over the beautiful Rockies from Vancouver.
@@andrewmatthews6861 I totally agree! Just look at Decca Records. Turning down The Beatles was probably not their wisest decision! Having said that, they signed Brian Poole and The Tremeloes who DID score a nice string of hit singles but a Beatles they most certainly weren't....
Thomas Marthinussen think they chose the tremeloes as they were a London band ,, back to the Sutherland brothers and quiver great band and only 3 top 50 records is a scandal ,
@@andrewmatthews6861 To be fair, SB&Q did get a lot of TV and radio exposure. 'When the train comes' was on TOTP, despite not being in the charts. Ditto, 'Secrets' (a minor hit), and 'Easy come, easy go.' And, they performed 'Ice in the fire' on TV, famously popping up on kids show 'Crackerjack.' And 'Somebody's fool' was on the radio, and even appeared in a record shop 'near you' as a 12 inch single. Ultimately, SB&Q were an 'albums band.' I don't blame CBS, their record company, for the band's lack of sizeable hits. The '45 single' buying public didn't go for it. End of. Sad but true.
I was 16 when the Sutherland brothers were in a band called the New Generation who used to regularly come to our local Co-0p Hall on a Saturday night. Oh the memories!!
@@raymondbonington9355 Hello Raymond. Sadly not I'm afraid. But I do have one thing in common with the ZZTop man; He has shed loads of money and I have loads of sheds.
I was all of 11 years old when this came out and I loved it right away. Sigh...the very good old days when times were a LOT LOT more simpler. We never had much as a family but God knows we enjoyed life back then...even with not much to eat!
One July morning back in 1976 I sat on the pier legs dangling, in Clogherhead in Ireland fishing for mackerel and an Asian girl sat next to me, it was the "first" time I saw a girl - never recovered - This track was played constantly on the radio and people would leave their radios on and windows open "to share the love", so now every time I hear this track I am right back there in the sun, smelling the sea air and in AWE! What beautiful memories! Thank you!
Not considered single material at first but it turned out to be their greatest hit! Underrated, they released a string of fine Folk Soft/Rock albums in the 1970s.
AM radio hit,,,,, because there were no FM stations other than "underground" radio. I remember that summer well, both the song and the unrequited love.
very very nice..
they were very beautiful days, they are all in the past, unfortunately, they remain in the memories..
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16 years old when this came out. Shut my eyes takes me right back to the best summer ever !!! What a time to be alive.
I was only 8 but can remember the great summer of 76
I was 17 love this song
Seems like a lost Eden now!
Always remember summer if 76
What a great summer- I remember they prayed for rain here in Ireland
76...my God weres the time gone
..listening July 2024...still fresh 😮
Oh boy! That was a long, glorious hot summer in the UK. It really was the gold standard to judge all summers by.
The sun shone, virtually all day, almost every day. Every field you walked past was a shade of parched yellow because it rarely rained.
And to top it all, we had great tunes like this as a soundtrack to it. And I was a young kid, with six weeks off school, playing out from the first thing in the morning until it got dark, day after day. And then, next thing I remember, 48 years slipped by … where did they go? 😢 😢😢
The music or you? ;-)
@@oleggorky906 Well said and true.
@@oleggorky906Indeed, the years went by so fast. We only have the memories now.
@@harrodsfan Thankyou. 👍 And true. But what memories they are. Or as Bowie sang, “Nothing’s gonna touch you in these golden years.”
David is another one - gone, but not forgotten.
Gavin and Ian Sutherland were so underrated as songwriters, wrote" Sailing", and give Rod Stewart one of his biggest hits.
This song was penned by Ian on a farm they stayed at in a little village called Stockton Brook, Staffordshire in the early 70s about 3 miles from where I grew up, I had a schoolfriend who lived down the lane from them and spoke to them a few times, seemed like lovely blokes, I was about 12 back then...
1976 what a year for brilliant music ,take me back now
Arms Of Mary 💙💙💙
I discovered this song through my brother, who died a few months later. Always reminds me of him. RIP little bro.
That song reminds me on the best years of my life! So sad, that they are gone😢
monika -we got YT now, so no worries...
Smile every day in the rest of your life. Charles Chaplin said "One day you no smile is a lost day"
My mother's name was Mary. She passed away few years ago. How I wish to be in her arms again.
❤
The Sutherland Brothers and Quiver was a hard working band and didn't always get the respect and recognition they truly deserved. A nice string of Folksy Soft Rock albums appeared in the 1970s and Arms Of Mary remains their greatest hit!
Southerland brothers and Quiver, McGuiness Flint, Gallagher and Lyle. These bands were priceless. They never had the recognition they deserved.
From a time when music had meaning 💯👌
Totally agree with you!
That the truth💯
Agreed they where an awesome band
Say that again!
This song took me back to my youth!💗
Not only you... 👍😥
Greetings from Saxony!
me too ))
Me too ❤
me too back in New Zealand . . .
Life was so simple then. Loved this song. ❤
Me and my siblings played this song at my parents funeral in 2014, they passed 12 hrs apart. And yes, my mother was called Mary, and she loved that song back in the day. I remember my dad used to sing it to her when we were kids.
We miss you mum and dad. ♥️♥️♥️
My condoleance
Thuis song always stay rememring
What you did was Beutiful
This man's voice is pure and clearly amazing !!!
Beautiful song loved it from day one still don't know who quiver was x
Quiver was the brilliant guitarist Tim Renwick, who has played with many top artists, Bruce Thomas & drummer Willie Wilson. Quiver were in need of a vocalist & the Sutherland Brothers were in need of instrumentalists....the rest is history.
@@claremann8621 thanks clare
Can't beat them Old Songs
Man I'm aching to go back to these beautiful times so let's get together folks and build this time machine PLEASE.
You're watching it in your own, personal Time Machine friend, we all are. I find so much stuff in here I thought I'd never see again back in the late 70's.
You've got to be apart of that era to understand what it's all about. 😀😀😀😀😁😀😀😀.
Hey guys motors running --all aboard lets blast back into the mid 70s right away!!
Great days great memories !
Count me in
I was 22 in 1976, worked all the hours possible at the local tin mine so as to get our first house…hottest summer I can remember with the best music ever, would I go back…..to right I would I miss those days growing up in the 70’s…..but we are blessed after some 47 years together ….. good and bad times ❤️
'76 best year ever
Jesus, it was hot!
That was the hottest Summer ever. I was in Blackpool on holiday with my work mates and the tar was melting on the roads. Those were the days my friend I wish they'd never end.
78,still one of my best years even now at 60 looking back. Oh the lessons life teaches. Learn by them.
1976- a hot and steamy Summer in the UK, great friends, family, times. Miss it and those beautiful people so very very much. 💜😪💔
Great comment...1976.... superb memories
Thanks so much for sharing this from the United Kingdom...Know that I am here...it was my first Summer in this life dear One ...thanks for your Love 💚
It's like being wrapped in happiness
Me my mum my dad my sister and brother Only me on the island we were all born on
My brother and daughter in England the others gone my mum 9 weeks ago Golly take me back and let me live there forever 😊😊
Exactly how I feel bro, it was here too, in Durban South Africa. Thank you for your comment.
A time when folk songs became rock hits.
Most underrated band to come out of Scotland very very talented
Well said Davy
Wow!!! I always thought that they were an American band.
Every one just commenting how young they were or how good the summer was when this song came out, and i'm just here dreaming away of how good those times would've been! I was born in 1996. Have a good day everyone thats still listening
Yes they really were good days , just much more peaceful and simple.
Oh! This song brings back such sweet, sweet memories. I used to sing this in a little band I was in back in the 70's. It was a joy to sing but Sutherland Bros were my fave. band.
This was a fantastic song, which sounds as good today as it ever did.
Baz Howell class never fades Baz
In 1983 - 1992, when I was driving to worke as a nurse at cardiological care unit, I always heard this song on radio! It brings me back in good and careless time!😊
My name is Mary......this song is about me I gave all......I lived in Essex...but each weekend we would go up the City empire Leicester square London......we were apprentices hairdressers.....not much money ....but did we have fun and made memories......the dicso seen in London in the 70s THE BEST NO PHONES,NO INTERNET.....I CAN STILL SMILE TODAY.....ANYONE ELSE THERE TOO.... " Saturday night fever " Madonna, rod Stewart, queen, do I need to go on ...love FROM IRELAND xxxx
So that was YOU?
@@rocky7173 There wasn’t any Madonna in the 70s; she didn’t have a hit record in the UK until 1984 when Holiday hit the charts, peaking at number two. I might be wrong by a bit, but it was definitely the 80s and not the 70s when Madonna first hit the scene.
That aside, I’m sure you had a great time. I was only a kid in the mid 70s but we had two hot summers in a row (75 and 76). There was no Internet and video games hadn’t really caught on yet, so we had six weeks of the summer holidays to play outside from early in the morning until it started to get dark. No bills and no worries, just me and my friends playing football and cricket (very badly, in my case!)
It was a time of relative freedom when you could do as you liked, without a camera following you or having someone ring you on your mobile, asking you to come in and cover for a colleague who was sick on what was supposed to be your day off; heck, most people didn’t even have a landline then where I lived. I don’t know if times were better, but they were certainly simpler and more carefree with the emphasis not being on money all the time.
@@tonybates7870 BRILLIANT!!!
Yes the Best of Times growing up - I learned to ride motorbikes and anything else that I could - Great memories and I'm in Ireland too!
Reminds me of the best times of my life in the 70s great music Great Times please take me back
Graham Westover
Hello mate xxx ready when you are .. time machine anyone ???
Love this song - such happy times.
Its the best song I ever since have head. From B Trelle ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢
I GIVE THIS SONG THE RARE DISTINCTION OF BEING A MASTERPIECE
GREAT SONGS DON'T COME ALONG TO OFTEN ❤️
Me to, I was fifteen and still at school. Clothes look a bit odd today though. White flares for gods sake
@@bellerophonchallen8861 I love the clothes & I was born in 1981 👍🏻
Correct😊
2 minutes and 35 seconds of musical perfection!
Those days were really the golden years for us all
Amazing songs talent and a slower pace of life ❤️❤️❤️❤️
how true, thanks we had these golden years.
I remember my mother saying " the world has gone mad" Dear god if she could see it now.
Brings back so many memories
the 70"s were best years for music and for living, cool relax peacefull..
Only fault with this song is its just not long enough
Love this song, hope it doesn't sound creepy but that was my grandmother's name. Loved her hugs. X
I was 7 in 76, 76 was a great year for music and movies. 70s was a great decade, ever forgotten
@jason75. Summer 76 I was ten, I'll never forget the whopping summer that year, there wasn't a cloud in the sky from May to September 🤝👍
@@i.marr.6688 Your a couple years on me, all in all same generation. No diff only a few years apart. Dont make waves, down by the way side.
BEAUTIFUL SONG, EXCELLENT BAND.👌👌👌👌👌👌
Days of peace and respect in England
The song I'll never forget. What a time.
underrated band i still have all there albums
Spent four months of the long hot summer of 1976 motorbiking and camping and reaching for the sky, and oh yes, I remember "Mary" and have to find this song!
God we have been through worse than this … but everyone has story ..ours had a few chapters …young love to teenage parents to leaving our home land with 2 kids in our 20s.. making a new life with old life baggage is never easy glad to say the ones we did it for are the best humans we could have wished for ❤❤
fantastic year 1976 bring them back ❤
12 years old. Best summer ever. Out playing, not coming home until we were hungry 😁. World was safer them for children. A piece 'n' jam and back on our bikes to explore. .Miss those days. Love from Bonnie Scotland.
Fantastic times Amnnemarie, and I remember even the hunger wouldn't bring me home!
Sixteen i was. Brings tears of happiness this song from a magic time when people cared about each other.
So true ❤
1976 was the year I met my first real love, Marita from Finland. We lost contact, sadly she died in 2014.
Sad for 🧒 you
😢
I remember that summer well..oh it was so hot 🔥
Very sad 😥
Just read your text my condolences mate , stay safe
1976 brilliant summer and cracking music like this 70s forever 👍👍
Reminds me of a lovely girlfriend of years ago named Mary. She sadly died in February. Great memories
Mein absoluter Liebling ich liebe diesen Titel, es war meine Zeit.
Only number 1 in The Netherlands, Flanders and Ireland. Strange I always thought it was a big hit everywhere.
took me back to my boyhood, what a great and in my opinion much better time
Born in 72, was 4 at the time. Can't remember much but I know I was happy..
This answer deserves millions of thumbs up
Happy memories from the 70s, i loved that era
Great times great music great bands if only we could go back 😢
best years of my life!!
The lights shine down the valley
The wind blows up the alley, oh
Well I wish I was lying in the arms of Mary
She took the pains of boyhood
And turned them in to feel good, oh
How I wish I was lying in the arms of Mary
Mary was the girl who taught me all I had to know
She put me right on my first mistake
Summer wasn't good when I learned all she had to show
She really gave all a boy could take, oh
So now when I get lonely
Still looking for the one and only
That's when I wish was lying in the arms of Mary
Mary was the girl who taught me all I had to know
She put me right on my first mistake
Summer wasn't good when I learned all she had to show
She really gave all a boy could take
The lights shine down the valley
The wind blows up the alley, oh
Well I wish I was lying in the arms of Mary
Lying in the arms of Mary, Lying in the arms of Mary
Lying in the arms of Mary
The wind blows up the alley, oh
Well I wish I was lying in the arms of Mary
She took the pains of boyhood
And turned them in to feel good, oh
How I wish I was lying in the arms of Mary
Mary was the girl who taught me all I had to know
She put me right on my first mistake
Summer wasn't good when I learned all she had to show
She really gave all a boy could take, oh
So now when I get lonely
Still looking for the one and only
That's when I wish was lying in the arms of Mary
Magical memories of the wonderful summer of 1976 - what a summer to be sweet sixteen!
Great days sadly missed Dilly
Me too...
Same age, sweet sixteen, the innocence...💕
Me too! I was 16 in '76......the hottest UK summer we ever had and we were on a family holiday down on the South coast....in a touring caravan which was like an oven!! 😄🌞 Happy days and happy memories with a great musical soundtrack. Miss those carefree teenage years!
Being 21 in '76 was not as easy ...
A song which should be played every week at least on BBC radio
This song and 1976 always reminds me of someone special ❤
awesome
One of the great songs.
Reminds me of the long hots summers of childhood.
I'd like to go back to wallow in it's gloriousness again.
Warum hat dieser Traumhaft schöne Song nicht 6 Milliarden Aufrufe?💘💕🤩💓💖😍💗😇💕💓💖💝💗💗💗💞💞💞!!!
As a very young child, I used to hear my late dad play this song. I am 47 now and still love this song 💕
Great music and great memories.
What a wonderful song and wonderful time past. Now know I am getting old --- that I feel the urge to make a comment and reminisce so much!
Hi Mark
Sounds like you’re ready for Don Henley and his track The Cost of Living .. that’s where we’re at I think x👍☀️
I'm with you Mark.... you don't know who I am, I don't know who you are but.. I'm with you!
@@mitchly just a brillant song i have the vinyl album my vinyl are very pressures
@@patriciaalexander4333 Also, forgot to mention; I recorded a single at their studio in the early 80's. Not only great musicians and songwriters but really nice guys. If they read this,' Hellooo from Billy and I hope your all well'.
Know where your at. I am 65 and just retired and the only chance of listening to music like this is on RUclips or you have hung on to the original.
this is one of my favorites from that era. Masterpiece!!!
I remember when it was released. Best summer i can ever remember. Temperatures to match the music. ❤❤❤
Nog altijd even mooi wordt spijtig niet meer gespeeld op de radio
My wife Mary and I'm glad I get to lie in her arms 😊😊
God this brings back memories of better times and better days , wish they were here again .
Absolutely.
With you on that
You and I both
Yes Dave. When I was a kid I thought things could only get better. Sometimes you don't realise you are living in the best times until they are gone.
me too
Wasn't a massive hit in New Zealand but i loved it straight away. 1976 what a year for music.
Hallo new Zealand. From norway
@@klemmetvaagenes7935 hello New Zealand, hello Norway from Germany
reminds me of the hot summer in 1976, long hot hazy days, beautiful memories and fabulous song
Truly GREAT DAYS.
Saw these live back in the early 70 's. ❤
Always a down to earth, rootsy Folk Rock/Soft Rock flavoured band. Never got the recognition they deserved. Thankfully this gem gave them a massive international hit. All their 70s albums were good.
This song is simply fantastic!!!!!!!! Released March '76 it reached No.5 in the UK charts. Written by Iain Sutherland. Gavin Sutherland wrote 'Sailing' in 1972 - later used as a TV Theme and then recorded by Rod Stewart in 1975. Very talented band.
Iain wrote the better song. I didn't like Sailing
I've loved the song for years. Heard it as a child from my parents. However, I have always ever known it to be by the Canadian band Chilliwack. Until right now, I've never heard another version.
When we all knew what’s in the charts it’s all that mattered
This is the original from 1976 .
My mum had their album with this on. I haven't heard the band but I visited Chilliwack in British Columbia once,as a passenger in a light aircraft flying over the beautiful Rockies from Vancouver.
Mid seventies and the early eighties were the best years ever!!!
It was about 6 years ago
Happy Birthday Gavin Sutherland! 70 years ♥
Gavin Sutherland (born 6 October 1951) ♥
Great Memories, No Mobiles But We Managed.
Peace From London. 🙏🙏
Summer wasn't summer without this timeless classic. Simply Fabulicious. X :)
The Sutherland Brothers really deserved more chart success than they got.
That was down to record companies most would not know a great band if it stared them in the face 😢😢
@@andrewmatthews6861 I totally agree! Just look at Decca Records. Turning down The Beatles was probably not their wisest decision! Having said that, they signed Brian Poole and The Tremeloes who DID score a nice string of hit singles but a Beatles they most certainly weren't....
Thomas Marthinussen think they chose the tremeloes as they were a London band ,, back to the Sutherland brothers and quiver great band and only 3 top 50 records is a scandal ,
@@andrewmatthews6861 To be fair, SB&Q did get a lot of TV and radio exposure. 'When the train comes' was on TOTP, despite not being in the charts. Ditto, 'Secrets' (a minor hit), and 'Easy come, easy go.' And, they performed 'Ice in the fire' on TV, famously popping up on kids show 'Crackerjack.' And 'Somebody's fool' was on the radio, and even appeared in a record shop 'near you' as a 12 inch single. Ultimately, SB&Q were an 'albums band.' I don't blame CBS, their record company, for the band's lack of sizeable hits. The '45 single' buying public didn't go for it. End of. Sad but true.
This so makes me shiver with sadness for the passing of my youth. SO many things I would like to have changed and so many girls I did not do well by.
RIP Ian, your beautiful and wonderful music will always be played. Thank you so much,
beautiful music
Very true ❤️❤️❤️❤️
1976 I was 16 I'm 60 now how i miss those days
Ruth me too !
Great days, if only time could be controlled so we could go back
I was born then but I begin to miss these times and the 80's and 90's the same as you the 70's.
You know, one day these will be the good old days, for someone!
Rest in peace Iain, an amazing guy who will be sadly missed
Still watching here in Ireland, 2022. A classic.
I was 16 when the Sutherland brothers were in a band called the New Generation who used to regularly come to our local Co-0p Hall on a Saturday night. Oh the memories!!
RIP Iain. Thank you (and Gavin) for the many outstanding songs and some great concerts. Yet another voice of my youth has gone all too soon.
I was nine year old, best summer ever, and it is still my nr. 1 song
Ich war 19 und begegnete meiner ersten großen Liebe. Hielt nur 3 Jahre, aber der Song ist unvergessen.
Mir ging es fast genau so ;-)
50 + YEARS AGO I CAN REMEMBER when I was in Sri Lanka used to sing along with the radio
R.I.P. Iain. Superb songwriter/musician and a great bloke. Happy memories of 'working' with you.
No can't be zz top Billy gibbons? But right about a great talent .
@@raymondbonington9355 Hello Raymond. Sadly not I'm afraid. But I do have one thing in common with the ZZTop man; He has shed loads of money and I have loads of sheds.
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That has to be the quote of the day ...
@@tomthompson7400 Many thanks Tom and...it's true! I've got 18! Haha.
Oh, wow. What memories. Wonderful.❤
I was all of 11 years old when this came out and I loved it right away. Sigh...the very good old days when times were a LOT LOT more simpler. We never had much as a family but God knows we enjoyed life back then...even with not much to eat!
Takes me back to the glories summer of 76 and my first love of my life I wouldn't change a thing even though we parted
great memories and magic times when music was at its best......
Met my first love that year - we married in 1984 & will be 37 years together this summer PG....great memories!!
Straight back to 1976 and great memories.
One July morning back in 1976 I sat on the pier legs dangling, in Clogherhead in Ireland fishing for mackerel and an Asian girl sat next to me, it was the "first" time I saw a girl - never recovered - This track was played constantly on the radio and people would leave their radios on and windows open "to share the love", so now every time I hear this track I am right back there in the sun, smelling the sea air and in AWE! What beautiful memories! Thank you!
You know when you come across a song you'd forgotten about you here it all still know the words. Love ❤️ it
i was 12 when this was big. it brings back a lot of memories sitting recording songs off the radio
RIP Iain, you gave us some totally unfogettable songs, thanks, so sad....
Beautiful song from back in the good old days when we could actually understand all the words!
Not considered single material at first but it turned out to be their greatest hit! Underrated, they released a string of fine Folk Soft/Rock albums in the 1970s.
AM radio hit,,,,, because there were no FM stations other than "underground" radio. I remember that summer well, both the song and the unrequited love.