Mum was well known in club land in 60s and 70s her stage name was Toni Ardern she had a Shirley bassey Voice she won awards she worked with the likes of canon an ball Freddie Starr Jimmy tarbuck Bernard Manning she was fully booked all the time Toni (my mum) passed away New year day I have her trophies and recording and photos I will keep forever rip mum
Sorry to hear the sad news of your mum passing. It sounds like she had a fabulous time on the stage, what a time to do it too, the big stars were right there as well. Best wishes.
This was a time when social clubs were filled with people having a good time, drinking beer and smoking until the rooms needed fog horns and a lighthouse to navigate. World of Sport all day on Saturday and listening to the football results at 5. Those days have long gone.
@@garryfoster94 yep . Bloody Covid .. the U.K Government continued to allow and reward people for entertainment the U.K illegally… Covid rules didn’t apply to the Bogus Boys
Tommy did say in an interview with Rob Brydon about their act at this time & how Bobby actually used to queue outside with all the punters waiting for the club/venue doors to open, chatting to everyone & telling them ''I've come to see my mate....!'' so they were all primed to believe he was just a visiting friend of Tommy's & not part of the act...!!! Very clever stuff by Bobby 🙏
Icons of my childhood. My lovely late mother had a very soft spot for morecambe and wise. She saw these on TV and said they were as good as them and that was a huge compliment from her. I have just watched the status quo set they did and I was howling with laughter,tears streaming from my eyes. God bless you bobby ball deepest condolences to your family and friends. You may be gone but never ever forgotten.
Had the absolute pleasure of meeting Bobby Ball and his family some years ago whilst on holiday. Funny, charming, professional and a real kind human being. Rock on Bobby!!!
I was fortunate to meet both of them, whilst working at our local theatre, in llandudno in North Wales, back in 2004 Really charming and professional, and something i will not forget in a hurry. Very down to earth and friendly,
Absolutely brilliant one of the best versions of My Prayer you will hear 👏👏👏👏👏👏. As much as the were one of the funniest duo Britain has had they could also sing there voices were awesome what a talent they were. Requiescat in Pace Bobby 🙏🌹🤷♂️🌹❤️. Your sadly missed
Network On Air sell the complete collection for £27! To watch this show brings a tear to my eyes at the way our country has fallen. Watching the abysmal muck on TV these days makes me so so very sad.
I remember being took to see these two in Blackpool in the mid-eighties, I was around 9-10 years old. It was like seeing The Beatles!. Rock on Tommy,,,,,,,,,,,RIP.
i watched cannon and ball when i was a child, along with freddie star , queen released radio ga ga , and you could buy a cig for 5p and get on a bus for 10p, i'm 48 years old and it all seems like yesterday, it's true what they say, when your a child christmas is years away and when you get older just when the decorations are going down, it's not long before they are back up. time waits for nothing, rest in peace bobby x
God ur spot on 🙏I recall the good ole days n when ppl were happier 🤗 yet I get told stop living in the past🙄 why should ppl if it's happy memories 🥴👍ps seems like yesterday I was 21,where dose time fly eh🥴🧐👍
Rock on Tommy! Great to see this! Use to love watching this in the old days. In regards to being racist, it’s England, its the 70’s, it’s a northern club, what else would you expect? This is how it was and it’s funny. Anyone who doesn’t like it, do yourself a favour and watch something else!
Can I ask when and where you were brought up because that's not how I remember it. I was brought up on a Council estate and let me tell you life wasn't easy for my parents but they/we were far happier and more engaged socially then than people are now despite all the so called "wealth".
Wow it is like being transported back in time, I sat in clubs just like that many years ago, all working men did. Good to see them so young and fresh, it was a brave act and the bit when the women shouted was priceless
I love this one and can watch it again and again and again. I have done and will do more and more. I love Tommy's singing and it brought a lump to my throat when he sung their song with Bobby's children after Bobby passed away. So moving.
I love Cannon and Ball. It's great seeing one of their first appearances. The got better with every show and won the hearts of audiences all over the world.
Didn't honestly think much to them when they first appeared, but as time went on they just seemed to blossom and got funnier and their act more polished.
Before they were famous they used to do a turn in local pubs, one of which was The Cardinal's Hat (now long gone) on the Langley estate in North Manchester. My mum worked behind the bar as a teenager there and remembers them well. RiP Bobby.
So this is where Noel Gallagher got his Black Star Dancing video from It's actually really good quality bit of film considering it's a working mans club and about 45/50 years ago Love the fact they didn't know it was a double act
Brilliantly done..I remember seeing that the first time on TV...everyone knew from that performance..it wouldn't be the last...just nothing compares these days...
Cannon and ball are performing comedy actors. Never said a joke and were very funny. Cannot stand the comments that people have put. People just don't understand situation comedy.
I found out recently that this was a well designed studio lot at Granada TV - always thought it was a working men's club but as you say looking back, where's the smoke 😁😁
Just bloody brilliant We are losing so many great British comedians. With the loss of Ken Dodd, they are so few left. It's really sad Cannon and Ball I just love them
Ian Watson welll that’s fair enough, but on tv the man just wasn’t funny, just like Lenny Henry and a lot of others,,,,if you’re funny, you can do it anywhere, anytime
What a Gr8 act they were. Now all we have are one-trick ponies who will be forgotten in a year or two. Now it's all about instant fame without having to work your way up and learn your craft.
Saw them at Rose grove Caberet club where Bobby was pretending to be a waiter when Tommy was introduced as a solo singer,they brought the house down the crowd did not want to let them go,absolute geniuses of comedy.
I used to love those clubs back in the olden times. Just raw, basic stuff. If you could sing you got a round of applause, if you couldn't, you got a round of applause.
The days when people earned the right to be a celebrity the hard way working the clubs.. now we are ‘entertained’ by self entitled reality TV shallow attention seeking shysters..
@Duc de Richleau Why do you think Graham Norton is an arsehole? A lot of people think he is funny and one of the best interviewers. Thoroughly good chap, met him several times!
The funniest thing I ever heard was from a comic one Sunday morning in a working mans club , the Jeremy Thorpe trial was all over the news and he said "what about all that going on with Thorpe and "Scott of the arse antics" I honestly nearly died laughing {Im laughing now just remembering it}
Interesting how double acts of the age so often in their early careers started their act with only one on stage and the other not appearing to be part of the act but disrupting it from the audience. Look at the Krankies, with "wee Jimmy" disrupting the Ian's song with looking for his "mam".
“at 1.39.......Yerrv Ruinit ‘ is act ....gerr off”...I love the comment from a woman who probably thought she was in a real Northern working men’s club..that’s exactly as it was..a tough comedy circuit 🥵
I could watch this sketch all day . In pre PC days , when British comedy acts could make jokes about other people and no one took offence . But the reason I like this so much is the timing of the song they both sing , and Bobby's "conducting" is hilarious
er no ....actually that was Tommy throwin his voice....they were a trad ventriliquist act originally until Tommy was illuminated and thee elite gave life to the dummy Bobby
@@trailwayz Actually, Cuthbert was probably correct. This was often a standard start of the routine with double acts, one being on stage, the other sat in the audience, pretending to be a punter. For example, you can see it again when the Krankies appeared at the Wheeltappers - with Ian on stage and Janette ("Jimmy") in the audience pretending to look for his mum. It was done for the comedy value, and to get the audience not being quite sure what was going on.
Cannon could sing well to be fair. Amazing straight man.... They perfected the act for a family audience and television. The classic clown and frustrated straight man.
This video is great and loved them anyway but now respect them; that was brave start were Ball doing the mate bit with out the audience not knowing ,what with the old clubs were you truly needed to be good or thrown out,i truly thought someone was going go on stage and bang him one
Before PC rubbish - when a joke was funny because it was funny. We made jokes about everybody and about ourselves. It used to be a compliment to have a joke made about you.
Here's a PC joke: A new member of staff called John is being shown around the office by his new boss. They enter the IT department and John sees a man using two keyboards at the same time. “That’s incredible,” says John. “Trust a geek to use two keyboards at once.” “Hey!” replies his boss. “That’s stereotyping.”
All these dewy eyed comments, like:- ''back when we could laugh/afford a pint/when comedians had talent....'' Do you know how fucking sad that all is. There is always great talent. And always money for beer!
Mum was well known in club land in 60s and 70s her stage name was Toni Ardern she had a Shirley bassey Voice she won awards she worked with the likes of canon an ball Freddie Starr Jimmy tarbuck Bernard Manning she was fully booked all the time Toni (my mum) passed away New year day I have her trophies and recording and photos I will keep forever rip mum
Sorry to hear the sad news of your mum passing. It sounds like she had a fabulous time on the stage, what a time to do it too, the big stars were right there as well. Best wishes.
@@futilejester thanks so much for your kind reply it was truly a magical era
She may have been but one to the world but to those who loved her she was their world
Wow any pics or can I google her👍🙏
Great memories xxxx
Rest In Peace to Bobby Ball. Gone to the great comedy club in the sky.
"Rock on Tommy!"
I doubt he went to a great Comedy Club in the sky, unless they allow anyone in tbh
Rock on Tommy
@@Aaaaaaaaa1234xxgv Probably slightly too nuanced for you ...not the brightest Nate you
Not forgetting Colin Crompton and Bernard Manning
This was a time when social clubs were filled with people having a good time, drinking beer and smoking until the rooms needed fog horns and a lighthouse to navigate. World of Sport all day on Saturday and listening to the football results at 5. Those days have long gone.
And one thing you notice, no black faces.
Not sure if you’re going down the racist route or not ?
@@brianhicks1058 so why reply then .
@@brianhicks1058. It was a statement of fact. Why bring racism into it?
We didn't realise how lucky we were
RIP Bobby Ball. So brilliantly executed. One woman in the audience is positively incandescent with rage.
The legend will be missed... Bloody Corona virus..
Yeruinedisact!!!
She was a stooge , part of the act of course
@@garryfoster94 yep . Bloody Covid .. the U.K Government continued to allow and reward people for entertainment the U.K illegally… Covid rules didn’t apply to the Bogus Boys
She might not have been a stooge. Many were trying their best to ignore him.
Love the fact some people in the audience haven't realised they are a double act.
Tommy did say in an interview with Rob Brydon about their act at this time & how Bobby actually used to queue outside with all the punters waiting for the club/venue doors to open, chatting to everyone & telling them ''I've come to see my mate....!'' so they were all primed to believe he was just a visiting friend of Tommy's & not part of the act...!!! Very clever stuff by Bobby 🙏
Absolutely cracking
Days long gone never to return only available on you tube
What a comedian rip
RIP Bobby Ball. I remember watching you on TV around 1979/1980 and laughing my face off. Thank you for the memories.
The last of the old school comedy double acts. That'll do for me Tommy!
R.I.P. Bobby Ball.
Icons of my childhood.
My lovely late mother had a very soft spot for morecambe and wise.
She saw these on TV and said they were as good as them and that was a huge compliment from her.
I have just watched the status quo set they did and I was howling with laughter,tears streaming from my eyes.
God bless you bobby ball deepest condolences to your family and friends.
You may be gone but never ever forgotten.
Had the absolute pleasure of meeting Bobby Ball and his family some years ago whilst on holiday. Funny, charming, professional and a real kind human being. Rock on Bobby!!!
I was fortunate to meet both of them, whilst working at our local theatre, in llandudno in North Wales, back in 2004
Really charming and professional, and something i will not forget in a hurry.
Very down to earth and friendly,
God bless ya Bobby.
A truly funny man with a kind heart.
May you rest in peace
One of the funniest acts around and they made so many people laugh. 100% Superstars and a massive part of my life. RIP Bobby.
Huh? What total and utter nonsense
@@Aaaaaaaaa1234xxgv You are clearly a disrespectful twat, so go back and crawl under that shitty little stone you have just come out of.
@@kramreprah Yes they were so funny.I loved watching them.It was a terrible day when i heard Bobby had passed away.He was a true one off.
I cried with laughter when I saw this back in the mid 70s. A great double act! So sad to hear the news. RIP .
Absolutely brilliant one of the best versions of My Prayer you will hear 👏👏👏👏👏👏. As much as the were one of the funniest duo Britain has had they could also sing there voices were awesome what a talent they were. Requiescat in Pace Bobby 🙏🌹🤷♂️🌹❤️. Your sadly missed
Was just a young teen when these wer on the go really enjoyed them brings back good memories when the world was half decenet
Network On Air sell the complete collection for £27!
To watch this show brings a tear to my eyes at the way our country has fallen. Watching the abysmal muck on TV these days makes me so so very sad.
Thank you for the giggles for all my life! And the memories of my younger years Bobby r.i.p! Never for get you!
This isn't just stand up its an amazing act written performed brilliant
I never realised Tommy could sing, he was absolutely belting out that tune!
What the hell, I didn't know he could sing like that ether.
WAW What a voice.
You could just tell the brilliance these two lads would become
70s classic, two great showmen how lucky were we to have growen up then watching the wheel tappers
Thanks for all the laughs Bobby
It's still a brilliant act and still watching RIP Bobby you were fantastic.👏👏👏👏
Thank God for RUclips to be able to watch these fabulous entertainer.👏👏👏
Bobby did some really nice harmonies in that last song!
Can't remember hearing them sing before. What great harmony.
Still watching Still Brilliant bless you both.👏👏👏💙💙💙
when tv was good back then,i was 6 year old then,!! may 23rd,! 1974, !
CLASSIC Cannon&Ball when they were really funny with brilliant new material. Super-Smashin-Great!!
I remember being took to see these two in Blackpool in the mid-eighties, I was around 9-10 years old.
It was like seeing The Beatles!.
Rock on Tommy,,,,,,,,,,,RIP.
Love it when he sulks or threatens someone jokingly, brilliant both of them.
Ah the 70s. Back when everyone was 55
i watched cannon and ball when i was a child, along with freddie star , queen released radio ga ga , and you could buy a cig for 5p and get on a bus for 10p, i'm 48 years old and it all seems like yesterday, it's true what they say, when your a child christmas is years away and when you get older just when the decorations are going down, it's not long before they are back up. time waits for nothing, rest in peace bobby x
God ur spot on 🙏I recall the good ole days n when ppl were happier 🤗 yet I get told stop living in the past🙄 why should ppl if it's happy memories 🥴👍ps seems like yesterday I was 21,where dose time fly eh🥴🧐👍
So true. I'm 48 soon ha ha
Haha I was once 48🧐in the blink of an eye,🧐🥴🤕lol
Shut up man, your making me feel old.... 48 soon....
@@handlesarefeckinstupid old haha I used to deliver tablets to noah on his ark n pet all the animals 2by2🧐😁🥴
Rock on Tommy! Great to see this! Use to love watching this in the old days.
In regards to being racist, it’s England, its the 70’s, it’s a northern club, what else would you expect? This is how it was and it’s funny. Anyone who doesn’t like it, do yourself a favour and watch something else!
when England was still England
Mother Goose memories of me mam an dad 👍😂👍subbed👍😂👍Classic t.v😂👍
What, when most people were on low wages and living in slums That England.
Can I ask when and where you were brought up because that's not how I remember it. I was brought up on a Council estate and let me tell you life wasn't easy for my parents but they/we were far happier and more engaged socially then than people are now despite all the so called "wealth".
Aye Dick head. Is there something wrong with you?
Wow it is like being transported back in time, I sat in clubs just like that many years ago, all working men did. Good to see them so young and fresh, it was a brave act and the bit when the women shouted was priceless
I'm going to watch this every year at least once, till I get barred.
I love this one and can watch it again and again and again. I have done and will do more and more. I love Tommy's singing and it brought a lump to my throat when he sung their song with Bobby's children after Bobby passed away. So moving.
I love Cannon and Ball. It's great seeing one of their first appearances. The got better with every show and won the hearts of audiences all over the world.
Didn't honestly think much to them when they first appeared, but as time went on they just seemed to blossom and got funnier and their act more polished.
Oh God saw them 80s in one of my Dads Hotpoint pantomimes in Liverpool or Blackpool. Greets from Germany!
The first joke is now a death sentence for comedians.
God how I miss those days.
You miss your racism do you - any other ‘isms’ of your past you’d like to bring back?
@@Steampunksaly socialism
@@Steampunksaly Please explain what "isms" are ?
@@Steampunksaly piss off..you are either a Hindu that hates muslims or a muslim that hates everyone..
@@Steampunksaly. Why is stating a fact racism?
Before they were famous they used to do a turn in local pubs, one of which was The Cardinal's Hat (now long gone) on the Langley estate in North Manchester. My mum worked behind the bar as a teenager there and remembers them well.
RiP Bobby.
Rest In Peace Bobby, your probably entertaining in heaven right now. Rock On Tommy!
So this is where Noel Gallagher got his Black Star Dancing video from
It's actually really good quality bit of film considering it's a working mans club and about 45/50 years ago
Love the fact they didn't know it was a double act
Brilliantly done..I remember seeing that the first time on TV...everyone knew from that performance..it wouldn't be the last...just nothing compares these days...
Now watch ' comedians' giving lectures
Cannon and ball are performing comedy actors. Never said a joke and were very funny. Cannot stand the comments that people have put. People just don't understand situation comedy.
This is one comedy act I never laughe d at at all rubbish comedy
ll. Total rubbi
Sh
What is so funny about "Rock on, Tommeh!"???
DJA 67 👍🏻
This clearly a rare social club in 70s, as you can see the act,most social clubs were thick with cigarette smoke, like thick mist you could barely see
I found out recently that this was a well designed studio lot at Granada TV - always thought it was a working men's club but as you say looking back, where's the smoke 😁😁
Just bloody brilliant
We are losing so many great British comedians. With the loss of Ken Dodd, they are so few left.
It's really sad
Cannon and Ball
I just love them
Just heard that Freddie Starr has passed away. Not may left from this era now.
John Bland Ken Dodd a comedian? How tickled I am missus,,,,,seriously?
@@Heygoodlooking-lk9kg saw Ken Dodd live once, definitely a comedian, very toned down for TV.
Ian Watson welll that’s fair enough, but on tv the man just wasn’t funny, just like Lenny Henry and a lot of others,,,,if you’re funny, you can do it anywhere, anytime
Love the way it begins! People think he's ruining the show!
What a Gr8 act they were. Now all we have are one-trick ponies who will be forgotten in a year or two. Now it's all about instant fame without having to work your way up and learn your craft.
Tommy Cannon is a nice down to earth guy, Ive met him more than once !
When comedy and entertainment was gold 👏❤
A great comic duo. Tommy was an excellent straight man.
Yes and a totaly live full band. Just listen to that brass section..weve lost all that and say weve progressed..rotten shame...
Not only are these old school comics including Bernard M, Mike Reed and so on very funny they could sing as well. That's what I call value for money.
Tommy could really sing
and bobby could harmonise..good old days
Ace Platters! !!!
Both started out as singers on the cub circuit, but changed tack when they found out that comedians were paid more.
Saw them at Rose grove Caberet club where Bobby was pretending to be a waiter when Tommy was introduced as a solo singer,they brought the house down the crowd did not want to let them go,absolute geniuses of comedy.
I used to love those clubs back in the olden times. Just raw, basic stuff. If you could sing you got a round of applause, if you couldn't, you got a round of applause.
The days when people earned the right to be a celebrity the hard way working the clubs.. now we are ‘entertained’ by self entitled reality TV shallow attention seeking shysters..
@Duc de Richleau Why do you think Graham Norton is an arsehole? A lot of people think he is funny and one of the best interviewers. Thoroughly good chap, met him several times!
Exactly
@Cats Eye Graham Norton did stand-up comedy at Vicar St. in Dublin. Long before he was known in GB.
@@noelhughes6589 he's been around years. Some people just don't know. I thought he was pretty damn good on Father Ted as well.
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They were brilliant at everything they did .
The 70's was exactly like this, at least north of Chester.
I'm from Crewe, the 70s working mens clubs were exactly like this.
The video quality is superb! 🤠
This is great...when no one knew who they were. I bet at those social clubs they were even better than on tv.
The funniest thing I ever heard was from a comic one Sunday morning in a working mans club , the Jeremy Thorpe trial was all over the news and he said "what about all that going on with Thorpe and "Scott of the arse antics" I honestly nearly died laughing {Im laughing now just remembering it}
Interesting how double acts of the age so often in their early careers started their act with only one on stage and the other not appearing to be part of the act but disrupting it from the audience. Look at the Krankies, with "wee Jimmy" disrupting the Ian's song with looking for his "mam".
"Couldn't get a house for the Pakistanis" - A classic tune
Ikr, there's always a refuge for the unfunny comedians in racist agenda lol
@@Aaaaaaaaa1234xxgv Facts are facts, it's interesting to note how some jokes surpass the confines of time.
Or The cancel everything arses
Cannon and Ball were not cancelled
@@gothicpagan.666What jokes are you on about?
What a talented duo
Used to love them when I was young. It has not aged very well but a million times better than today's garbage comedians.
Brilliant ,so much better than todays so called comedians ,even kids can watch this ,no swearing ,or coarseness
Bernard manning is there. One of the coarsest comedians ever
Just just fantastic saw them a few years back in panto Brilliant ❤️❤️ sadly last of the greats 😢
“at 1.39.......Yerrv Ruinit ‘ is act ....gerr off”...I love the comment from a woman who probably thought she was in a real Northern working men’s club..that’s exactly as it was..a tough comedy circuit 🥵
Colin Crompton,MC,and Bernard Manning made this show.
bloody hell, talent , class,nowt like that today i m o. love you guy,s. rock on tommy.
Class act, will never be replaced. RIP Bobby
1:48 Comedy back then, prophetic 50 years later! 😮
"Sit down you're spoiling his act"...pmsl.
Absolutely fabulous
What a double act😂👏👏👏
I could watch this sketch all day . In pre PC days , when British comedy acts could make jokes about other people and no one took offence . But the reason I like this so much is the timing of the song they both sing , and Bobby's "conducting" is hilarious
100% better than the rubbish today
Internet Vie
Are you serious
About as funny as diphtheria
That's not difficult! There's no comedy around anymore. But unfortunately, these are not funny either!
@@marascomedywig5350 had diptheria , thought not
I watched this at the time. Thought he was going to get thrown out. It didn't twig with me until the audience got it.
The lady shouting out thought he really was
a member of the audience
er no ....actually that was Tommy throwin his voice....they were a trad ventriliquist act originally until Tommy was illuminated and thee elite gave life to the dummy Bobby
@@trailwayz Actually, Cuthbert was probably correct. This was often a standard start of the routine with double acts, one being on stage, the other sat in the audience, pretending to be a punter. For example, you can see it again when the Krankies appeared at the Wheeltappers - with Ian on stage and Janette ("Jimmy") in the audience pretending to look for his mum.
It was done for the comedy value, and to get the audience not being quite sure what was going on.
@@ashleyp.4932Isn't his mum now leader of the SNP?
Cannon could sing well to be fair. Amazing straight man.... They perfected the act for a family audience and television. The classic clown and frustrated straight man.
Got it Tommy I've got it! Check the irony of the song choice for these two not so soon to be Christians x God bless you both
This video is great and loved them anyway but now respect them; that was brave start were Ball doing the mate bit with out the audience not knowing ,what with the old clubs were you truly needed to be good or thrown out,i truly thought someone was going go on stage and bang him one
Great stuff!
i used to go to a club like this
Awesome I love it 😅xx
"Why was Jesus born in a manger"
"Because he couldn't get a house for the Pakistanis".
A definite joke of the times.
A true legend and entertainer
Brilliant...😀
Before PC rubbish - when a joke was funny because it was funny. We made jokes about everybody and about ourselves. It used to be a compliment to have a joke made about you.
So very true. Well said, Jill.
Here's a PC joke:
A new member of staff called John is being shown around the office by his new boss. They enter the IT department and John sees a man using two keyboards at the same time.
“That’s incredible,” says John. “Trust a geek to use two keyboards at once.”
“Hey!” replies his boss. “That’s stereotyping.”
Unfortunately these funny jokes you mentioned had no place in Cannon & Balls act.
Utter tosh
Best rendition of My Prayer I have ever heard.
Rock on tommy 🙏🙏😂😂good slapstick dou n wat voices eh👌bring em back I say ,(repeats their shows for thm who replied can't see tht happening 🤕sicko)
Err that won't be possible now 😞 R.I.P. Bobby
@@darganx as in show repeats🙄🥴
Rock on Tommy. Classic act.
It’s nice to see where Frank Skinner started out.
Look at the flares 😅😅😂😂.
All these dewy eyed comments, like:- ''back when we could laugh/afford a pint/when comedians had talent....'' Do you know how fucking sad that all is. There is always great talent. And always money for beer!
Aye! Crap Britain.
They could sing brilliant ❤❤