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Hi again, I've been having fun watching your channel and your reactions to all the australian songs from my childhood. i've been feeling rather dismal as it will soon be ten years since my mum died and watching you has been a nice diversion from that. you have done a lot of sherbert/darryl braithwate reactions so here is a skyhooks song. sherbert and skyhooks were the most popular bands of 70s australia my mum particularly like shirley strachan as he had curly hair and mum adored curly hair skyhooks were the fun guys whereas sherbet were a bit more serious so i hope you get a kick out of this belinda (from canberra) 
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Skyhooks were a uniquely 'Melbourne' band. Theatrical, mercurial and highly talented musicians, who had a strong sense of fun and an ability to outrage the parents whilst also endearing themselves to the Nation at the same time. Their first album 'Living in The Seventies' had six of it's 10 Tracks banned from Radio, so if you wanted to hear them you had to buy the Album; they were a Promoter's Dream. They were all incredible musicians, and Shirl was an outstanding Frontman. They could and did write and play in multiple Genres. They had Rock, Pop, Country and Blues songs, but brought their distinctive sound to every song they recorded. They split and re-formed many times, as Australia loved them. Almost two Decades after their Heyday, they released a single called 'Jukebox in Siberia' which rocked to Number One in Australia the week of Release. Check out anything by them, you won't regret it, they were a powerhouse.
Smut.
@@EmbraceThePingHa yeah
You just like me cause I'm good in bed 😊
One of the greatest bands the rest of the world missed out on.
Yep, pretty much.
It was a sad day when Shirley died in that chopper crash. Thank goodness we still have these vids.🎶
They also dressed up and yes, did their own makeup :) one my all time favourite Aussie bands - it was great being a teenager in the 70s!
I was born in the 70’s and love Skyhooks. Graeme Shirley Strachan (pronounced Straw-n) is a fantastic singer. Their clothes and make up was different to our other bands. The guitarist Red Symons was a Judge of his self named Red Faces segment on a show called Hey Hey it’s Saturday. There is a live 1988 sound check of this song on YT that’s pretty awesome.
RIP Shirley 🕊
God I loved the Skyhooks. My first boyfriend bought me the "Living in the 70s" album for my 15th birthday.
Women in Uniform and Jukebox in Siberia were my favourite songs of theirs
All my friends are getting married.
Balwyn Calling,Smut,
@@alisonholland7531 Torak Cowboy
Countdown and Skyhooks came along just as colour tv started in Australia. A match made in heaven.
OMG!!!... I can't believe this was released 50 years ago in 1974! In '74 I was ending primary school and moving into high school in '75. That period of my life, and for many years on, felt like one long party! So long ago but regardless of our age, we carry within us all the ages we’ve ever been. As our youth gradually fades, our younger selves are still with us along for the ride.
Gotta love Skyhooks on Countdown, they never disappointed.
Hard to imagine how big Skyhooks were here down under especially in Melbourne! Their debut album of the same name was a must have!!!
Had it 🎉
And virtually unplayable on radio from day one. Haha. 7 of the album’s songs instantly banned from radio airplay.
It's the 70's... Of course they did themselves! Huge burst of creativity at this time.✌🏻
Not just a great tune, the lyrics are quirky.
So good RIP Shirley
Funny how you commented on the lead singer’s curls. His name was Graeme Strachan but was always known by his nickname Shirley (as in actress Shirley Temple…who had very curly hair). Shirl went on to host a renovation show on TV for many years(think he was a carpenter by trade). He was very much loved by the Australian public as he was a funny and genuine guy. Sadly he died about 20 years ago in a helicopter crash (he was the pilot).
Shirl the Curl, he was wonderful wasn’t he. I saw skyhooks live in nz in the. 70s
RIP Shirl
Skyhooks were one of Australia's top bands of the 70's and the first Australian band to sign contract for $1m for releases in the USA. They had a cult type following in the US and despite not being well known over there they had a huge following! Whilst commercially popular this for me is not one of their better tracks. Hope you explore some more.
Shirley was a carpenter before Skyhooks fame, and returned to it afterwards, never let the rock n roll life get the better of him.
Skyhooks always wore those great outlandish costumes. Halloween wasn't a thing in Australia in the '70s (or '80s, '90s etc), we only started getting into it in the last ten years or so (influenced by American television).
The Hooks were a very different band, they pushed the boundaries of music at the time and had a lot of their songs banned from radio because at the time Australia was very conservative and they most certainly weren't.
They had quite a few good albums and many hits particularly in their home town of Melbourne as they used local suburbs and streets in their songs such as Balwyn calling, eastern suburb of Melbourne, Lygon St Limbo which is a street in a suburb called Carlton, Toorak Cowboy, Toorak is another Melbourne suburb. Their songs are full of tongue in cheek jokes and innuendo, when this came out I was about 10 yo so I didn't appreciate a lot of their material until I got older. They are well worth a listen, Horror Movie, Million Dollar Riff, Ego, All my Friends are getting married are all good songs.
My Dad loved them and as a child born in the early 70s, I was brainwashed with their sound. Such a fun band.
Iron Maiden, Covered "Women in Uniform" by the Hooks
Really wow
I've never heard that one😂, I'll have to search for it
@@aussiebornandbred Not hard to find
@@malcolmrayner3480 its not too bad, prefer the original though, but thanks for sharing that🍻🍻
This is The Skyhook's everyday get-up! They were fire.
Shirley's real name was Graham and his surname is pronounced 'Strawn', not Stracken.
He was a Carpenter and really wanted to spend his life surfing and thus, singing in a band, rather than a daily gring job, suited him fine. He got the nickname of Shirley because of the curly hair being like Shirley Temple.
This wasn't a Halloween show...they were a glam rock band and looked like that all the time.
I think Shirl could just sing, I sort of recall he didn't have a singing coach, but am prepared to be corrected if anyone knows otherwise.
Great Aussie band of the 70s
And this was a critical performance this was the first episode of countdown. A American equivalent would be American bandstand or solid gold. But countdown was critical to the Australian music industry. It exposed bands to the entire country that nobody had ever heard of. As a result Skyhooks became million sellers in Australia with record sales ! Before 1974 there was no national top 10 of what was the most popular song in Australia. It was only by city’s so Skyhooks could be big in Melbourne but number 10 in Brisbane! Thanks to countdown we could finally find out what was the number one song in the country! Lol. That’s why this performance by skyhooks of the opening of this new pop show was so important. Countdown had to succeed in order for the Australian music industry to get off the ground. No skyhooks and you don’t get midnight oil INXS or split enzs along with Silverchair !
The impact of Countdown on Australian music is hard to understate. A band who played on Countdown could see sales skyrocket the next day and many bands made it big due to Countdown.
Probably the biggest band to make it big from Countdown was Blondie when the host (Molly Meldrum) played the B-side of their single X-Offender called In the Flesh. It isn’t clear whether it was intentional but Jimmy Destri said “we still thank him to this day" for playing the wrong song.[
@@jspettiferYou say Blondie and that's true but I think Countdowns biggest revelation was ABBA absolutely broke them worldwide
Have to correct you, cobber. This was not the first episode of Countdown, or even the first episode of Countdown in colour. Skyhooks did headline the first colour ep, but with Horror Movie.
Also, Skyhooks ‘You just like me ‘cos I’m good in bed’ was the first song ever played on Sydney’s 2JJ, which has become JJJ Australia-wide.
You had to be there. Great times.
My fav skyhooks song ,
Million dollar riff
No this is just Skyhooks being Skyhooks! They were so much fun if anything this is tamer than their live shows toned down for TV!!!
Ah, the 70s so much fun. I was a big Skyhooks fan back in the day
It's kind of funny how relevant this song and "Horror Movie" still are today
Great. Thank you
They did heaps of great songs. It reminds me of learning to water ski at Eildon. 10:35
SMUT,will crack you up! Great Aussie humour!😂😂😂😉⏰
Someone needs to send them a bag of Twisties first.
@@moshly64🤣🤣🤣
Yep,it is how they always were, loved Red Symons 😂
They had no money for a stylist, Travis! This is part of the soundtrack of my teens. The lead singer Graeme Strachan was known as Shirley due to his curly hair. Not Halloween!
Thanks for this!!!
Great song.great reaction
They also had another hit “ You only love me Cause I’m Good in Bed “. Great song.
I'm sure that they had more than one other HIT song.
I had an elder brother who introduced me to the big names of the time: Hendrrix, Cream, Credence, the Who, etc. when I was 5 or 6 years old. Skyhooks was the first band I discovered and introduced to him. They were such a good band, telling Australian (Melbourne in particular) stories. Such clever, funny lyrics. Hearing them still lights me up.
They would have come up with the look all by themselves. They were hilarious.
This was one of the biggest albums of 1975 in Australia. Skyhooks’ biggest hit by far was ‘Horror Movie’ (a critique of the Vietnam War on tv news).
Women In Uniform is a great song of theirs that I know you will enjoy. They really get into it :)
Yes this took me back to my childhood growing up in Melbourne and having older siblings who were into Skyhooks. Great memories!
One of favourite albums. Awesome entertainers. RIP Shirley, wonderful personality on and off stage!
Remember the 70s well! RIP Shirl
Back in the 70's there was a show called Shirls neighborhood and they actually came to my school, Laverton Heights primary school and filmed an episode. Shirl was a complete gentleman and had fun with us kids while filming....we chased Norm(a bloke in a kangaroo suit) and beat the living crap out of him on the footy field...when it went to air Shirl said " and there's Norm having fun with the kids😂...don't know if it was fun for him, but it was for us...fantastic memories...
Thank you for this🇦🇺
The tv show Countdown was a weekly TV show for young people here in Australia when I was a kid in the 70's and it ran for years with Molly (Ian ) Meldrum as the host. Countdown gave up and coming bands exposure and created so many of the big stars from Australia back in the day, they should bring it back. I always loved Skyhooks a a kid and still listen to them today. In case you don't know a sky hook is a mythical thing that we as humans wish we had, we could hang things in the sky easily. Haha, we would play tricks on young apprentices at work and send them to the store to get a sky hook or tin of striped paint if we wanted some peace for a while or a laugh lol
Awesome song choice :)
The greatest Aussie bar none! Nothing like it since.
Another great Aussie Band ❤
No that wasn't the standard practice for Aussies back then but Skyhooks were a little different, one of their big hits was Horror Movie after all, check that one out. Love how you show so much Australian music. Cheers
Thanks for playing the favourite band of my adolescence. This is by far one their tamer songs. If you want to listen to some of their more outrageous stuff, give these songs a listen:
- Smut (about masturbating into a bag of Twisties at the cinema)
- You just like me ‘cos I’m good in bed (kinda self explanatory, banned from radio, and as a consequence the first song ever played on fledgeling rebellious youth music radio station 2JJ. Yes kids, there was a time when JJ/JJJ was rebellious.)
- Motorcycle bitch
- Toorak Cowboy (‘Well he bought his first dope outside the South Yarra Arms…’)
Musically, their finest songs were:
- Carlton
- Love on the Radio
And Belinda had one thing a little fuzzy - in 1974 you were Skyhooks or you were Sherbet. *Never* both.
Yeah baby, that bought back some memories, great reaction as always guys.
John D
That was just skyhooks always creative and always a bit different 😊
HAPPY HEAVENLY BIRTHDAY to OUR SHIRLEY.
❤️🇦🇺👍👍
Im 61, grew up through all this in North Brisbane Australia 🇦🇺, cant believe Im watching this lol.
Skyhooks sang about contemporary things, people and places, were sometimes very naughty with a bit of glam and vaudeville thrown in. Wonderful songs to grow up with (horrified my parents though).
Hey Belinda , i have a mate who lived in a house just outside of Melbourne where skyhooks hang out and play and penciled graffiti all over a wall in one room. The lady that once owned it (who's son now owns it ) used to hide people who didnt want to be conscripted into war . I have partied in the room many times ad we all love the history . Much love .
If you like the costume thing, then there's the New Zealand group Splint Enz. Their music was as intriguing as their eccentric look. Neil Finn, the musical genius in Crowded House was a member in the group's later years.
Wow! Red was a much better guitarist than I realised!
So this was pre "Kiss" and yes, they always dressed like that. Being Metal - hard rock you'd know "Women in Uniform", well they wrote it and preformed it. My personal favorite is "Why Don't you all Get *ucked, and you can find it on You Tube. It was released around 77 or 78.
Well, KISS were formed in 1972, before Skyhooks.
Thanks for reacting to Skylooks, brings back lots of memories!
RIP Shirley
I have a daughter Belinda but I named her after the song Bella Linda by Grassroots 🇦🇺
One of the best bands from Australia in the 70's. I would suggest you check out Shirly doing a sound check for the same song - 1984 or so i think. You will realise how good a vocalist he was. Fun Fact: The very first song played on 2JJ (two double jay), youth radio station was Skyhooks - You Just Like Me (cause i'm good in bed) and the last song ever played on 2JJ was 'Why Don't You All (get fuc*ed) by Skyhooks. Would recommend you check them both out and hope to see a reaction some time in the future
Skyhooks first album had 6 songs band from the radio There look was part of the contract if you wanted to be in band at the time you had to dress up preferably different every gig
My favourite skyhooks song is women in uniform rip lead singer shirl crashed his chopper and died near brisbane
The first Album I ever purchased, Skyhooks, Livin in the 70's 😊😊
Skyhooks had a banned song off the Living in the 70’s album. The song was used to open radio station 2 double J. The song was “ You just like me because I am good in bed”
Halloween has really only become “a thing“ in Australia in the last ten years or so. Before that, it was something we saw Americans doing in movies and meant as much to us as Thanksgiving or Independence Day. What you see here is just Skyhooks being Skyhooks.
That's right mate those were the days when on every bloody 31st October you didn't have kids knocking on your front door and you didn't have to worry about making sure you have enough Freddo frogs and Snickers bars in the cupboard. Ahhh those were the days I miss them.
Oh this makes me feel old. RIP Shirl
Absolutely cracking song, excellent reaction 😊😊😊
I also was a teen of the 70's,
The live music scene was going off almost everywhere. Just about every local Pub had a band playing on weekends, Newcastle had Blue Light Disco's for under 18's at the Town Hall.
I always took the line "I caught another disease" to be literal.
Loved your reaction. Will check out what else you have to offer.
Cheers from Australia 🇦🇺 👍 😀
Wait til you hear Women in Uniform! Iconic breakout Aussie 70’s band.
skyhooks were an early glam rock band, dressed like that most of the time
Welcome to the Skyhooks rabbit hole.
You just like me cos I'm good in bed
Ego is not a dirty word
All my friends are getting married
Horror movie
Women in uniform
Million dollar riff
Not a bad song amongst them.
Aussie glam rock at its finest... although it was really "smartarse rock", great humorous lyrics taking the mickey out of life in Melbourne in the 70's led by the great Shirl the curl with that amazing voice and stage presence.
A Kids music show back in the day here in Australia.... Just another normal day downunder. Note the audience age was 12-14.... lol
Hi
If you want to see the best of skyhooks
Look at skyhooks live 1990 Adelaide. You just like me cos I am good in bed and jukebox in Siberia
They were a wonderful fun band live and very talented musicians
It is great to see your reactions you bring this wonderful music to life again through your eyes and to a new generation
Eamonn
Top band good memories 👏
Another brilliant Australian talent
70's Oz Rock FTW. I lived in Australia in the 70's and Skyhooks were ubiquitous on the Radio
Cool look ,cool sound. Thanks for sharing. ❤❤❤
pill popping 70s :)
So good, great memories, I couldn’t wait for it to start so I could sing along.
Pronounce Strarwn spelt Strachan one of their best along with Horror Movie im a kid from the 70's in OZ, yeah that's Skyhooks as they were sadly Shirl curly was killed in a Helicopter crash near Mt Archer Queensland Australia in 2001
That’s what they always wore, especially earlier in their career
Mondo Rock. Sadly Graeme (Shirley) Strachan from the Skyhooks was killed in a helicopter crash in 2001.
Shirley actially died crashing into the mountain on my family friends property, we had my fathers funeral on this property at the end of last year and the room my dads coffin was in during the service has part of the plane in which we thought was pretty rock n roll for my dad
They came to NZ. They played at Carlaw Park, also with Santana. The police were there to make sure that they didn’t do anything wrong. They had a big penis on stage. It was a fantastic show.
Thus was controversial stuff in the 70's. TV station were fielding complaints. These people were breaking creative and social boundaries.✌🏻
🇦🇺👍 yes!!!
lead singer Shirl the Curl or just better known as Shirl, nicknamed for his curly hair like Shirley Temple.
Government banned 6 out of 10 songs on their first album which made everyone want it more.
Skyhook s were the first band in the world to dress like this and wear make-up. Before Kiss, there was Skyhooks.
👍
The Hooks were out there but very talented to back it up.
They used to do their own make up
No this is the how the band was
On good medicine 😉 i think
Also a lot of grate bands at the time in Ozzie
So bands in 70s where like them out landish costumes as well talent
Many big hits women in uniform was another
Unfortunately after retiring for many years
They where about to get back together to tour again
But the lead singer Shirley Strachan died flying his helicopter
Was originally another working class carpenter / chippy in Aussie slang
Like tradie is tradesmen and what he was before singer
Cheers guys 🦘🇦🇺👍
Strachan sounds like strawn said like lawn. He was nick-named Shirl because his curls were like Shirley Temple's.
The Australian music scene was pretty stagnant, then Skyhooks turned it upside down with their killer debut album. Australians realised that a local act was just as good if not better than overseas bands.
There were plenty of talented local acts going around that played the pub scene for years with plenty of fans, Countdown gratefully gave them a new medium that exposed them even more and more album sales
SKYHOOKS were OUR MOTLEY CREW well before that motley crue..
RIP SHIRLEY
Shirley's name is pronounced 'strawn' and spelt 'strachan'
The surfers that Shirley surfed with nick named him because of his curly hair similar to Shirley Temple's.
The Bass player Greg Macainsh wrote 99% of the Bands' songs.
Skyhooks were the first Australian artist to have a Gold album with "Living in the 70's"
They were very turbulent and exciting times.
Thanks to our 1st Labor government in 23 long, dark years, The mighty Whitlam government created a social & cultural environment that encouraged and nurtured Australian artists.
The mighty Whitlam Labor government funded the creation of Radio Station JJ 1540 am which played all 6 of the banned songs by Skyhooks and funded the LIVE TV music program called COUNTDOWN.
This music TV show launched the careers of some of the best and finest artists of the time.
The timing couldn't have been better.
The great government, the radio station, Countdown and the tsunami of artists.
Who could forget the episode of Countdown when Bon Scott wore 'pig tails' and a dress.
Bon probably did this due to the flamboyancy of Skyhooks which broke down the barriers.
The music magazines created a fake rivalry between Sherbet and Skyhooks in order to sell more magazines.
I liked both Bands, Sherbet made some of the best and biggest songs of the 70's.
Ted Mulry Gang made a huge impact for a few years in the mid-70's.
Hush did the same for a few years.
JPY and Jon English were massive male artists.
Both JPY and Mark Holden were pulled into the crowd on Countdown.
Supernaut came on the show and played "I Like it Both Ways"
Rose Tattoo got banned from Countdown because Angry Anderson gave an open mouthed kiss to Guitarist Mick Cocks.
Anyway, Skyhooks were a revolutionary music group that changed the music landscape in Australia.
RIP - Shirley
Your could get away just about anything in the 70s 😊
The guy with the curls was nicknamed Shirl, “Shirley Temple” and what you’re seeing is how they dressed at every gig.
No Halloween - this was them!
The guy who wrote this Greg Macainsh was sick with hepatitis on the day this was taped November 1974. If you look closely at the guy in the white suit with the white hat. You will see that he is a she. It was Greg’s girlfriend who saved the day by taking his place ! Lol. It was a mimed performance to playback so she didn’t have to worry about playing the guitar!
It's hard to imagine how conservative Australia was in the early 70's, and how shocking the Skyhooks were.
The did take the piss with the outfits, but the music was dead serious, and reflected a younger changing Australia and the era they were from.