well, compared to all the insanity we face today, coming from every direction, the 70s were a paradise. since 1980 the world has been sinking deeper and deeper into fascism, corruption, animosity, paranoia and social chaos. its now reached the gutter. and i don't see anything changing for the better anytime soon. i'm now in my sixties, and i'd rather be 60 in the 70s than today. overall, the 70s were a better time for everyone! just look at all THE BS we're inundated with. and we thought watergate and the "energy crisis" and the israeli/arab conflicts were bad. with trump, war, climate change, covid, poverty, police brutality, treason accepted in the mainstream, the rejection of science and women's rights and fascism taking over every american institution the world's society is on the verge of collapse. its not just nostalgia, generally speaking, the world really was better then than now.
@@cjmacq-vg8umI wholeheartedly agree, it was simple and basic times. The music was definitely the best part of my development. Songs with meaningful messages, inspiration and hope, fun and understanding the words. I feel sorry for this younger generation and beyond, the music today can be so negative and violent, and antisocial, allowing people to develop short fuses and hyper aggressive behaviour, and less tolerance. Not all are negative I know but it's a blessing that we still have country music.
A fun, infectious, catchy, crazy little nonsense song that means absolutely nothing but sold millions of copies around the world and you can't help but feel happy every time you hear it.
Born in december '61 in The Netherlands I really love this song and of course their other great hit "Sacramento". It really brings back sweet memories and if I had a timemachine I would go back to that period in history. The more I live in this present age, the more I want to travel back to the past. People of my age and beyond most likely know what I mean...
Funny though. It was only a few years ago that everything in the 70s was considered naff. But looking back, it was such an amazingly creative decade. (Probably because nobody had any money and were relatively time rich.)
This brings back memories of such a specific time in my childhood. My parents used to play this record often when I was around 5 or 6. Then one day I never heard it again and in time I forgot about it until I stumbled on it again on youtube!
My wife used to go to aerobics with Sally, early 80’s. We lived in Langbank a village on the Clyde. If I remember correctly she married Chic Young who was/is a well known sports journalist in Scotland.
Secondary school Rome Italy...1970 couldn't speak a word of english but I remember this group very well and this song. Yes great time it was, no worries, no bad thoughts, good future ahead...and now??? My future is right behind me... time dissolves
Krásna doba v 70 , 80 rokoch . Nádherné klenoty piesní ..... Veľa dobrých skupin..... Ostanú tu do nekonečna...... Ďakujem......❤..... Pozdrav letí zo Slovenska 🇸🇰 .
Growing up as a boy in the 70s I've heard this song played in a record player never knew the band nor seen them thanks to RUclips I now get the chance to watch them perform on stage it is a popular song in the 70s.
One of my earliest memories is standing on a stool in the kitchen and blowing into a tube to make bubbles in the sink (and pretending I was a chemist) while this track was playing on the radio. And now hearing this makes me realise that I've reached the age where prefer to seek comfort in the past, as opposed to hope in the future.
my mum constantly listened to this song in the car when i was a kid in the 70s, no seatbelts and i was chirped out by the time we reached where we were going
La voz de la solista exquisita, y el tema vibrante, alegre y pegadizo, no se puede pedir más. Es lógico que a todos nos traiga recuerdos de nuestra infancia en los 70.
Una de las canciones más chispeantes de los años 70 era CHIRPY CHIRPY CHEEP CHEEP, fue interpretada por el Conjunto Middle Of The Road, con una alegría chispeante, tan desbordante y contagiosa que todo el público al tiempo los acompañaba chocando las palmas de las manos. Y hoy casi después de 50 años que yo la escuché por primera vez, me sigue gustando tanto y mucho más que entonces, ojalá que nunca fuera guardada en el olvido porque su alegría era contagiosa.
Yo alucino con la música de esa época, la de ahora no le llega a la suela de los zapatos. Era música que se te pegaba al cerebro y la bailabas, la de ahora no me gusta la mayoría y vuelvo a oír los temas de antes en youtube. Es pegadiza sin duda. Saludos desde España.
Wow!!! Memories from my youngest days and my dad playing this group on the 8 track fom the living room,this band was way ahead of there Time ,the beat is so funky and the song is unforgettable..
I remember us girls in junior school at playtime, we'd form a huge circle in the playground and sing this song, dancing and having so much fun!! Happy days!
I liked the tune and the sense of fun too but now I wonder why it was so. Was it such fun for ALL, for women to abandon their vows and their children for the sake of their individual freedoms?
@@bsota8513 No the words were "chirpy chirpy cheep cheep" which mimics the sounds a bird would make. So a mother was heard to be singing that song (like a bird) and in the morning that mother had gone. So the mother had abandoned her man, her children and her life to seek a new, possibly free-er and hopefully more happy life for h/self, but this certainly would leave her children in a bad situation. It's really a sad song I think, from a time when Western women demanded more freedoms and independence from past stereotypes.
@@bsota8513 Did you read what I said 5 hrs. ago? It's really about the 'womens' liberation movement' . . . equal rights and opportunities for women in the Western countries in that time.
@@colin4083 also still ❤️ Agnetha, checked out your playlist and refound some golden oldies. Any Dutch roots (TopPop, mouth & macneal) i guesstimate USA bc of the swim team video. Well i'm off, down another rabbit hole, 👏🇳🇱
1972,, dam , I just a 4 year old back then,! Born 23rd May 1968,,! From northern Ireland UK, 🤝🇬🇧 , you all have a whisky on me,! 🥃 as was a kid back then,,!
Песни моего детства, солистку никогда не видела,только голос красивый и необычный, , очень приятная и солнечная солисточка, приятно слушать и смотреть❤
I haven't heard this in yrs. and wow she had a very distinctive/unusual? voice. it was pretty catchy altho not a lyrical masterpiece. 1972 was a great yr for me, I dared to ask a girl I'd been hassling (it wasn't really flirting) in high school if I could see her now that school was over and I didn't not want to see her again, she said yes and I melted for her, I hadn't been so intimate with any girl as we were and she was all I wanted/needed. She was a very sweet and sexy woman altho' she had too many issues to believe it. In Adelaide S. Aust. there were free summertime 4 hr. concerts on the Sunday in the park by famous AU. pop groups and singers hosted by our local AM. radio station 5KA. It was a glorious time to be 18/19 and in love. Mind you the pay as a 1st yr. apprentice was borderline slavery!
This song always reminds me of being in the Lamplighter Pub on Great Homer Street area of Liverpool, the day the Queen opened the Kingsway Tunnel. After work, we waited for the crowds to disperse. It was a glorious warm June day in 1971. We didn't have I/T - work was plentiful and employees more respected than today. Despite revisionists, the 1970s was a magical decade to grow up in and listen to pop music like this, that still sounds happy and fresh. Its was also the time decimalisation was brought in, though prices were still like 25p for a pint of bitter.
Her voice had/has a 2 tone sound to it making it quite unique I think. 😲 I saw her singing this much later and she sounded practically the same, not sure but I don't think it was mimed! 👏🏻 BTW she was quite a babe also eh? 😉
As Scots man I first heard this on Scottish world cup album in mid 80,s loved song Frome then on went to disco in paisley when teen n end night my dad gave lift back home to girl me her sat in car boot my gosh it turned out to lead singer middle of road
This song and this beautifful woman, remenber to me ,goods memorys. Algiers 1972 where the life was good.
I had such a crush on Sally when I was younger. Good times, long gone.
If only I had a time machine I'd go back to the 1970s and live it all over again.
i am in
You'd probably be on strike again
I have had a hard time explaining what it was to my kids, John Rider. I would live it over to be young. That was the splendid part.
Ditto - I was a shop steward at Longbridge!
all of us
Love this song from the 70s.
Sally: phantastic like ever. Look at the enthusiastic crowd ...
Sally was a great looker and fantastic singer top of the pops for me
At least she still has her golden tresses to the middle of her back, except for the bangs.
Just love this song, it reminds me when life in the 1970’s seemed so great, it obviously wasn’t for some but as a young child it was !
Sure was for me. Funny thing is, despite being born in '65, I didn't hear this until a few years ago.
Ach ja die 70iger- Teenie weenie ❤
Beautiful memories!
well, compared to all the insanity we face today, coming from every direction, the 70s were a paradise. since 1980 the world has been sinking deeper and deeper into fascism, corruption, animosity, paranoia and social chaos. its now reached the gutter. and i don't see anything changing for the better anytime soon.
i'm now in my sixties, and i'd rather be 60 in the 70s than today. overall, the 70s were a better time for everyone! just look at all THE BS we're inundated with. and we thought watergate and the "energy crisis" and the israeli/arab conflicts were bad. with trump, war, climate change, covid, poverty, police brutality, treason accepted in the mainstream, the rejection of science and women's rights and fascism taking over every american institution the world's society is on the verge of collapse.
its not just nostalgia, generally speaking, the world really was better then than now.
@@cjmacq-vg8umI wholeheartedly agree, it was simple and basic times. The music was definitely the best part of my development. Songs with meaningful messages, inspiration and hope, fun and understanding the words. I feel sorry for this younger generation and beyond, the music today can be so negative and violent, and antisocial, allowing people to develop short fuses and hyper aggressive behaviour, and less tolerance. Not all are negative I know but it's a blessing that we still have country music.
oh to back to my youth knowing what I know now Oh still dance like that
Simple lyrics and still a hit, fantastic. 70's
What are the main lyrics of this song?
@@UPBEATFOREVER Birds leaving nest.
I think it was Sally Car in her short shorts?
None of the songs by this group make any sense.
@@Astyanaz Naw, but they're fun!
A fun, infectious, catchy, crazy little nonsense song that means absolutely nothing but sold millions of copies around the world and you can't help but feel happy every time you hear it.
I am from 67 and this song is part of our collective memory
Born in december '61 in The Netherlands I really love this song and of course their other great hit "Sacramento". It really brings back sweet memories and if I had a timemachine I would go back to that period in history. The more I live in this present age, the more I want to travel back to the past. People of my age and beyond most likely know what I mean...
Also born in 61, agree with you all the way, simple times, and fabulous growing up at the time, what happened.
The '70s and their unforgettable music!!!
Funny though. It was only a few years ago that everything in the 70s was considered naff. But looking back, it was such an amazingly creative decade. (Probably because nobody had any money and were relatively time rich.)
Born in 68 and can recall hearing my parents playing this. Brings back so many memories
Born in '50; haven't heard it over 40 years......now I have!
Here too, but i hid under the table when this song came on lol
@@bonysminiatures3123 Why's that?
I was born 23rd May,, 1968, as well,! God Bless from northern Ireland UK,! 🤝🇬🇧
@@mdogg1604 ME TOO ❤❤👍👍
Great listening since 1970s
Today 16/3/2022
Beautiful classic Collection 👌
I'm 64 and a hard rock fan...but as a kid I loved this group.. beautiful.
🎼🎶🎶☮️
Very good and wish i was very young again
Middle of the road are a very underrated group. The 70’ were a great time to be a teenager. I was 17 when this came out. Fantastic.👍
Lots of great music.
You are 2 years older than me,I can still remember everyone singing it on our school bus....except the driver😂
Born in 61 this was on the radio all the time along with banner man by blue mink fantastic time to be a teenager the 70s.
This reminds me of MUM ... I remember her playing it takes me straight back to my childhood.. lost her August 2021 😪💔
My god, this was one of my favorite songs in 1970 or so. Bought the 45 when I was stationed in Germany while in the Army.
ABBA always said they were inspired by this group.
You can see ...and hear...the influence.
Toute la magie de ces années,qui ressort dans le rythme de cette chanson.
I love this song .... and all the good times of those good old days !! Thanks.
Now thats a great memory. I would have been a kid when this came out. Easy song to remember and a great song for New Year parties.
The sound of my life, thank you middle of the road, thank you Sally
This brings back memories of such a specific time in my childhood. My parents used to play this record often when I was around 5 or 6. Then one day I never heard it again and in time I forgot about it until I stumbled on it again on youtube!
Same!
My wife used to go to aerobics with Sally, early 80’s. We lived in Langbank a village on the Clyde. If I remember correctly she married Chic Young who was/is a well known sports journalist in Scotland.
Měli syna a ten tragicky zemřel 😢😢
Secondary school Rome Italy...1970 couldn't speak a word of english but I remember this group very well and this song. Yes great time it was, no worries, no bad thoughts, good future ahead...and now??? My future is right behind me... time dissolves
Krásna doba v 70 , 80 rokoch .
Nádherné klenoty piesní .....
Veľa dobrých skupin.....
Ostanú tu do nekonečna......
Ďakujem......❤.....
Pozdrav letí zo Slovenska 🇸🇰
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Amazing hits from our sunny childhood.
I remember this song when I was a little boy in the 70's...my mom was happy watching it on a black and white TV... haha 😂😍
Growing up as a boy in the 70s I've heard this song played in a record player never knew the band nor seen them thanks to RUclips I now get the chance to watch them perform on stage it is a popular song in the 70s.
One of my earliest memories is standing on a stool in the kitchen and blowing into a tube to make bubbles in the sink (and pretending I was a chemist) while this track was playing on the radio. And now hearing this makes me realise that I've reached the age where prefer to seek comfort in the past, as opposed to hope in the future.
I'm feeling this comment.
my mum constantly listened to this song in the car when i was a kid in the 70s, no seatbelts and i was chirped out by the time we reached where we were going
I'm with you on the past vs future deal.
❤️
We are in the same boat. It is sinking fast!
Every generation says they had the best times im glad I was around in the 70s music.
I was a very small boy when this song was released.
And it has been my favorit song at this time.
Today I love it as same as back then .
Avevo appena 16 anni quando uscì questa canzone.Bravissima cantante.
Herinnert mij aan mijn mooie jeugdjaren, waar is die tijd zonder zorgen en mooie muziek
I remember watching them on Top of the pops😊
❤👍
VERY GOOD GROUP. THIS SONG IS TOP FOR ME. THERE WAS THE GOOD TIMES.
AMAZING VOCALIST!
THE GOOD OLD TIME MUSIC.
GREETINGS FROM BULGARIA 🇧🇬
Sally Carr ! Woof !! Can't wait to see her in more outfits... This pantsuit (?) really rocks !
La voz de la solista exquisita, y el tema vibrante, alegre y pegadizo, no se puede pedir más. Es lógico que a todos nos traiga recuerdos de nuestra infancia en los 70.
Fue la mejor época
@@juliogonzalezgonzalez9213 sin duda amigo
Una de las canciones más chispeantes de los años 70 era CHIRPY CHIRPY CHEEP CHEEP, fue interpretada por el Conjunto Middle Of The Road, con una alegría chispeante, tan desbordante y contagiosa que todo el público al tiempo los acompañaba chocando las palmas de las manos. Y hoy casi después de 50 años que yo la escuché por primera vez, me sigue gustando tanto y mucho más que entonces, ojalá que nunca fuera guardada en el olvido porque su alegría era contagiosa.
A mi también ahora en 2022
Jajaja.
Yo también cada vez la disfruto más. Hermosa melodía.
Saludos desde Chile Parral
@@hectordelgado6428 2023😊
Mama and papa are addicts. Ooh wee chirpy chirpy cheep cheep.
What's the bird calling? I don't get it.
In the early seventies , I listened to this beautiful song in Baghdad , via The Voice Of America . I just love it .
WONDERFUL SHOW 😃😃😃😃😃😃❤❤❤❤👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾👍🏾
How exciting is the singer, this song has no particular words, but brings happiness into your heart.
You know! Thanks to RUclips, i was introduced to this lovely lady's music!! I love her voice and her music!! Thank you so much for sharing this video!
Wonderful. Thank you very much.
55 años q no la escuchaba. Me encanta, recuerda mis primeras fiestas😊
Yo alucino con la música de esa época, la de ahora no le llega a la suela de los zapatos. Era música que se te pegaba al cerebro y la bailabas, la de ahora no me gusta la mayoría y vuelvo a oír los temas de antes en youtube. Es pegadiza sin duda. Saludos desde España.
Was going through some shit times in 1972 on the streets of Glasgow aged 15 but this song brought back happy memories of that time...bless them
@Stanly Stud Ha!
I was going through some down times myself , school it was so not good aged 12 and yes this was a fun song , during grey skies .
Wow!!! Memories from my youngest days and my dad playing this group on the 8 track fom the living room,this band was way ahead of there Time ,the beat is so funky and the song is unforgettable..
8 track?😅
Brilliant , brings back great memories
I remember us girls in junior school at playtime, we'd form a huge circle in the playground and sing this song, dancing and having so much fun!! Happy days!
I liked the tune and the sense of fun too but now I wonder why it was so. Was it such fun for ALL, for women to abandon their vows and their children for the sake of their individual freedoms?
@@johnzuijdveld9585 I don't get the meaning of chipa cheep.
@@bsota8513 No the words were "chirpy chirpy cheep cheep" which mimics the sounds a bird would make.
So a mother was heard to be singing that song (like a bird) and in the morning that mother had gone.
So the mother had abandoned her man, her children and her life to seek a new, possibly free-er and hopefully more happy life for h/self, but this certainly would leave her children in a bad situation.
It's really a sad song I think, from a time when Western women demanded more freedoms and independence from past stereotypes.
@@johnzuijdveld9585 Maybe its about birds?
@@bsota8513 Did you read what I said 5 hrs. ago?
It's really about the 'womens' liberation movement' . . . equal rights and opportunities for women in the Western countries in that time.
Great song
Best time of my life. Great Song!
Gracias. Lo comparto.
Good old days, oi oi oi
School trip to York via train.... can of Coke exploded ..... we were singing this as it happened. Brilliant stuff !
Lots of memories, just greatly
Still listening & watching @June 2022🙏🧡
Love it! Her outfit precedes ABBA's use of the same look by at least 3 years!
The singer is gorgeous but Annetta did it better
@@colin4083 also still ❤️ Agnetha, checked out your playlist and refound some golden oldies. Any Dutch roots (TopPop, mouth & macneal) i guesstimate USA bc of the swim team video.
Well i'm off, down another rabbit hole, 👏🇳🇱
So true..Benny and Bjorn must have been fans !
Good point 👍🏼 ✨ ✨
Good observation.
Brings back memories discos in the seventies, happy days brilliant thanks guys 🌼
Serously cute girl, seriously cute song. Wonderful!
Eerst gehoord op karnaval Aalst in februari 1971! Was 15 jaar jong toen! Ongelooflijke “coup de coeur “ Sally Carr 🌹”
I REMEMBER THAT SONG ON EARLY '70'S I WAS 4 OR 6 YEARS OLD AND MY LATE MOM SAID THAT I USED TO LOVE THAT SONG AND TRY TO DANCE AND SHAKE MY BODY.❤❤😂😂😂
Great memories from when I was Young, Now I'm old
Those burgundy possibly velvet tuxedoes...DUDE!
She’s definitely a sweetheart 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👍👍👍👍👍👍🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸
I would go back to then tomorrow
Extraordinarily wonderful, beautiful, dynamic, melodious song:)👍💖🌹❤️
1972,, dam , I just a 4 year old back then,! Born 23rd May 1968,,! From northern Ireland UK, 🤝🇬🇧 , you all have a whisky on me,! 🥃 as was a kid back then,,!
Nagyon tetszik a dal szuper szeretem a dalt halgatni ❤.
Love after 100 years
such a unique voice
I was today years old when I first heard this.
I'm pushing 60; not sure how I never heard this all these years.
Sally was GORGEOUS X
Удивительный голос. Услышала впервые. Спасибо за такую возможность!
Bellísima canción, inolvidable!!
Песни моего детства, солистку никогда не видела,только голос красивый и необычный, , очень приятная и солнечная солисточка, приятно слушать и смотреть❤
Her voice projects! The instruments ring out! No amplification! This group is absolutely amazing!
they are miming
no amplification???????seriously???????have you heard an electric guitar unamped?
@@shadowbanned5164 don't they need to be plugged in?
and the drummer needs to actually hit the snare drum for any sound, they are miming over a orevious recording, dim
@@bobby505050 haha yes, dim is correct!
OMGEEE, the tuxes at my wedding in 1975!! lol I had forgotten about this song, catchy tune, was just fun to sing along with.
Me encanta su voz, hermosa.!!
Thank you but youve never heard it?
This song reminds me of August 1971 when I was 16 it received AM radio airplay often
I agree although they were also playing D.O.A. by Bloodrock so it was not all cotton candy and soda.
I bet you could still win the Euro song festival with this song, now.
ha hahahaha..!!!
There's just something wonderful about this simple catchy tune that can never be forgotten God bless those
Just love this old song beautiful song and voice
I haven't heard this in yrs. and wow she had a very distinctive/unusual? voice. it was pretty catchy altho not a lyrical masterpiece.
1972 was a great yr for me, I dared to ask a girl I'd been hassling (it wasn't really flirting) in high school if I could see her now that school was over and I didn't not want to see her again, she said yes and I melted for her, I hadn't been so intimate with any girl as we were and she was all I wanted/needed. She was a very sweet and sexy woman altho' she had too many issues to believe it.
In Adelaide S. Aust. there were free summertime 4 hr. concerts on the Sunday in the park by famous AU. pop groups and singers hosted by our local AM. radio station 5KA.
It was a glorious time to be 18/19 and in love. Mind you the pay as a 1st yr. apprentice was borderline slavery!
Just gone back minehead butlins boiling weather listening to this again as a kid
This song always reminds me of being in the Lamplighter Pub on Great Homer Street area of Liverpool, the day the Queen opened the Kingsway Tunnel. After work, we waited for the crowds to disperse. It was a glorious warm June day in 1971.
We didn't have I/T - work was plentiful and employees more respected than today.
Despite revisionists, the 1970s was a magical decade to grow up in and listen to pop music like this, that still sounds happy and fresh. Its was also the time decimalisation was brought in, though prices were still like 25p for a pint of bitter.
The first vinyl record I ever bought. I still have it 😊.
..kollosszális alkotás!!..🥰🤩
Her voice had/has a 2 tone sound to it making it quite unique I think. 😲 I saw her singing this much later and she sounded practically the same, not sure but I don't think it was mimed! 👏🏻
BTW she was quite a babe also eh? 😉
Love this song. Reminds me of when my mother did a runner for three years.
Sad memory.
🥰🥰🥰🥰rien que du bonheur à réécouter toute cette musique des années 70
J'adore
Beautiful,
As Scots man I first heard this on Scottish world cup album in mid 80,s loved song Frome then on went to disco in paisley when teen n end night my dad gave lift back home to girl me her sat in car boot my gosh it turned out to lead singer middle of road
Thanks man.🤗🇸🇪
I was only 2 years old and my mother used to sing this to me everyday