This is one of my favourite songs. I do not own this song, the lyrics or Pink Floyd (I wish I did). This video was made for entairtainment purposes only. Enjoy ;)
I agree...isn't that great! Poor guy was so talented his brain cracked and his band was slipping away from him, as did with Brian Jones. Both of you - RIP.
Love, Love Syd Barrett nobody ever has had his magical lyrics down till this day! He was very good looking and very charming! When he was young of course ! He gave Pink Floyd there name and Syd Barrett was truly spectacular and Pink Floyd would never sound this special again without Syd Barrett!!!
It's been a long night and the sun is up. I got this song in my head and had to hear it. Thanks for posting this tune. BTW, I was fortunate to see Pink Floyd in a small club on their first small time tour of the US! This was a breakthrough album.
I watch this video every single day. Thank you so much, Sadghost, for this, my favorite early Floyd song. Love the montage and singing along with the lyrics. Brilliant, just like our Crazy Diamond. Keep the good stuff coming our way, please. Peace! ♪ ♫ ♫
I remember watching "vibrato" on french tv, you know, back in the 60s. this band came on and played "see emily play" besides spenser davis, procol harem, kinks, b.gees and everybody else these guys were my first acid trip. never forget
+Kevin Knutson Soooooo.....if they were all playing their latest singles, that would have been, in addition to "Emily Play", "Time Seller", "Whiter Shade Of Pale", "Waterloo Sunset" and "To Love Somebody". Maybe not, but if it was, what a SHOW! Bet they didn't record it though.... :-(
I absolutely love this song. There used to be another music video on here with an actual girl "Emily" running around, but I think they removed it yet again. It's so artistic and iconic for this era. I like this better than the dark-side-era pink Floyd...
"Emily" was actually "Alice" (in Wonderland). The video was taken from Jonathan Miller's surreal TV movie "Alice In Wonderland" (1966). "Emily" was based on the aristocratic Pink Floyd groupie Emily Young (Lord Kennet's daughter) ~ Google "Syd's Emily", there is a photo. She is now a notable sculptor. Anne Marie Mallik (Alice), was the thirteen year old star of the TV movie. It was to be her only role. She became a banker!! Her father was a member of a famous Indian family.
This is an outstanding song. For me it brings back a lighter time of being young and experimental. At the same time we can hear Roger's signature sound on bass ready to break out. Story is that this song was inspired by Syd's constant tripping. I was into that stuff as well and never realized it was connected to this song. It wasn't until David teamed up and gave the more 'spacey' sound to the group we've all come to be synonymous with Pink Floyd. I'm not sure which inspired the sound more, David's influence or was David influenced by Roger's bass playing. Either way it was the perfect fit and drove them onto and off the charts.
The first time I heard this song was Bowie's version of it from his "Pinups" album. It would be many years before I heard the original. Now, I'm torn and love them both, though they are different.
A true classic from Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd, this song, Arnold Layne, and the brilliant album Piper at the gates of dawn,all from 1967,was Syd Barrett at his finest. I love The Madcap Laughs and Barrett, but he was amazing back in '67, wish he could have kept it together,he could of went on to make some more amazing tracks, better than Vegetable Man,Apples and Oranges, Jugband Blues, which I like, but nothing like Emily and his debut album with Floyd.
But over in the U.S., it was part of the setlist on "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn", or, as it was entitled in America, "The Pink Floyd". It was the first track on the first side of the LP
I think this is an AH-MAZING stimulus for our project. Are you crying because of the class, the project, or the stimuli provided? Cuz I think we're all of us crying because of the project. It's humongous.
Subject: "BINSON ECHOREC" ~ Quote by ANDREW KING ~ "Syd was certainly the first Guitarist I knew to use a gadget called the Binson Echorette, which was a sort of predecessor to all the digital delay (echo) systems people use nowadays. It was more a complex version of the Watkins Copycat, which everyone later used. This was an upmarket version based on hardware originally built in the British Post Office for recorded messages. It was a solid lump of metal with a recording head all the way round the outside. As the tape moved round and paused different heads it produced different echo chamber effects. Syd used it on his Guitar and no one had thought of it before." Note: Syd utilizes the "BINSON ECHOREC" during the introduction to "SEE EMILY PLAY" and during his Guitar solo. How inventive and innovative SYD BARRETT was!
and holy shit. The part where it goes "float on a river forever and ever" reminds me of their last song (High Hopes) where it goes "the endless river forever and ever." That's some hardcore foreshadowing, from like their second song to their last song almost 30 years later.
this song is on a compilation called "an introduction to syd barrett". it's a bit expensive, but it's the best deal and it has the best of syd's songs!
I always thought this song's about a suicidal girl who decides there's other way to stop her depression but suicide. "Soon after dark... Emily cries. Gazing through trees in sorrow, Hardly a sound till tomorrow." I picture Emily getting up in the morning before her parents wake up, putting on a nice dress so she looks nice when they discover her body, and drowning herself in a river. "Put on gown, touches the ground. Float on a river forever and ever, Emily." That's my take on it anyways.
I think in the line in the Chorus, "Free games for May" it seems to make more sense for may to be a proper noun, whether for the month or another girl's name
Games for May was the first significant concert for the Floyd in The Queen Elizabeth Hall 12th May 1967. It was described as a "Space age relaxation for the climax of spring - electronic composition, colour and image projection, girls, and the Pink Floyd". The concert featured some of the band's early singles as well as material from their then unreleased debut album - "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn". During the performance, some of the band members created sound effects by chopping up wood on stage, a man dressed up as an admiral gave out daffodils, and the bubbles produced from a machine while the show was in progress, stained all the furniture in the hall. As a consequence, Pink Floyd were banned from ever playing there again
I wouldn't say they were in their "Beatles' days" per se. This was when Syd Barrett was in the band. So it stands to reason that the band would have a different sound when compared to the later Pink Floyd. Syd’s voice sounds different compared to Gilmour’s iconic voice which is generally what comes to mind when people think of Pink Floyd. And, Syd had different musical tastes and ideas that showed in their earlier music that seemed to have slightly sifted out when he left. They're both great!!!
It does make sense but, this song is actually literally about a girl named Emily. After a gig Syd was sleeping in the woods & when he woke up he saw this girl dancing & playing carelessly. Her real identity is found, it was an article in a magazine google it. :)
@ThatOneMusicGuy789 Huh, 'never thought of it like that. However, what you said does sound like something Pink Floyd would sing a song about (and something Barrett would write).
Emily tries but misunderstands, ah ooh She's often inclined to borrow somebody's dreams till tomorrow There is no other day Let's try it another way You'll lose your mind and play Free games for May See Emily play Soon after dark Emily cries, ah ooh Gazing through trees in sorrow hardly a sound till tomorrow There is no other day Let's try it another way You'll lose your mind and play Free games for May See Emily play Put on a gown that touches the ground, ah ooh Float on a river forever and ever, Emily (Emily) There is no other day Let's try it another way You'll lose your mind and play Free games for May See Emily play
Topic: "SEE EMILY PLAY" ~ NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS ~ Review ~ Derek Johnson ~ "0n Pink Floyd's last disc, the Psychedelia in which they specialise didn't really come through but, golly, they've, made up for it on this new one. It's crammed with oscillations, reverberations, electronic vibrations and fuzzy rumblings. Surprisingly, somewhere amid the happening there's also a pleasant mid-tempo tune that's appealingly harmonised. Should register! Raul.😐
Paul Dillon lucy in the sky with diamonds fue lanzada en 1967, esta cancion se lanzo en 1966, fueron ellos quienes influenciaron a los beatles, no los beatles a ellos
I so badly want the original music video for this song. It's my favorite of all time. Copyright my ass, it was intended for the public, so what's the problem?
I was pointing out that your point about See Emily Play was incorrect. Personally, I love both Floyd and Beatles, and also the Kinks, Hollies, Black Sabbath, and a host of other bands from that era. Whether the Beatles were THE most influential band of their era is debatable, but there is no denying that they were one of the most influential. Lots of bands sold millions of units, but will their music be still getting played and bought over 40 years after they stopped recording?
Good to see photos of Syd when he was happy.
I agree...isn't that great! Poor guy was so talented his brain cracked and his band was slipping away from him, as did with Brian Jones. Both of you - RIP.
Or maybe just high?
My favorite Floyd song. Probably because Syd was still on it and guiding the group. He was the best. RIP mate. Also Rick Wright a great guy.
"puts on a gown that touches the ground , floats on the river forever and ever Emily" You can see Ophelia from Hamlet here
Piper at the Gates of Dawn. Simply one of the best albums of its time. Great music and decent lyrics.
Love, Love Syd Barrett nobody ever has had his magical lyrics down till this day! He was very good looking and very charming! When he was young of course ! He gave Pink Floyd there name and Syd Barrett was truly spectacular and Pink Floyd would never sound this special again without Syd Barrett!!!
Love this song so much! It just gives off that Sound you can't find in any new pop crap music!!
Beautiful. It's full of dreamy jollity. It's the ultimate in pyshcodelic rock.
You tell `em Mary.
I don't think Floyd ever did Pop
Love this psychedelic song. Especially the gorgeous English accents on 'tomorrow'.
It's been a long night and the sun is up. I got this song in my head and had to hear it. Thanks for posting this tune. BTW, I was fortunate to see Pink Floyd in a small club on their first small time tour of the US! This was a breakthrough album.
On the west coast,I imagine?
Great job of blending the lyrics into the photos. Nice, smooth transitions... just excellent.
Pink Floyd is the classic definitive best. This song is a powerful mix of emotions. Thanks for the upload.
I watch this video every single day. Thank you so much, Sadghost, for this, my favorite early Floyd song. Love the montage and singing along with the lyrics. Brilliant, just like our Crazy Diamond. Keep the good stuff coming our way, please. Peace! ♪ ♫ ♫
I remember watching "vibrato" on french tv, you know, back in the 60s. this band came on and played "see emily play" besides spenser davis, procol harem, kinks, b.gees and everybody else these guys were my first acid trip. never forget
+Kevin Knutson Soooooo.....if they were all playing their latest singles, that would have been, in addition to "Emily Play", "Time Seller", "Whiter Shade Of Pale", "Waterloo Sunset" and "To Love Somebody". Maybe not, but if it was, what a SHOW! Bet they didn't record it though.... :-(
If it was French TV, then unfortunately I think it may have been the post-Syd lineup miming to his song.
Had a cassette tape of this when I was a teenager; damn near wore it out driving around in my '64 Nova...
This song is Pure Genius!
I absolutely love this song. There used to be another music video on here with an actual girl "Emily" running around, but I think they removed it yet again. It's so artistic and iconic for this era. I like this better than the dark-side-era pink Floyd...
"Emily" was actually "Alice" (in Wonderland). The video was taken from Jonathan Miller's surreal TV movie "Alice In Wonderland" (1966). "Emily" was based on the aristocratic Pink Floyd groupie Emily Young (Lord Kennet's daughter) ~ Google "Syd's Emily", there is a photo. She is now a notable sculptor. Anne Marie Mallik (Alice), was the thirteen year old star of the TV movie. It was to be her only role. She became a banker!! Her father was a member of a famous Indian family.
Syd on top of his game here, he may of left us but certainly left his mark
This is an outstanding song. For me it brings back a lighter time of being young and experimental. At the same time we can hear Roger's signature sound on bass ready to break out. Story is that this song was inspired by Syd's constant tripping. I was into that stuff as well and never realized it was connected to this song. It wasn't until David teamed up and gave the more 'spacey' sound to the group we've all come to be synonymous with Pink Floyd. I'm not sure which inspired the sound more, David's influence or was David influenced by Roger's bass playing. Either way it was the perfect fit and drove them onto and off the charts.
The first time I heard this song was Bowie's version of it from his "Pinups" album. It would be many years before I heard the original. Now, I'm torn and love them both, though they are different.
It's catchy. Very psychedelic and very cool.
Thank you so much! This is a perfect video for a most perfect song---my favorite from our Crazy Diamond.. Please, make a video of Arnold Layne!
Love this song!!! And Pink Floyd in general. :D
Still listening 2023 who's with me 😘
A true classic from Syd Barrett's Pink Floyd, this song, Arnold Layne, and the brilliant album Piper at the gates of dawn,all from 1967,was Syd Barrett at his finest. I love The Madcap Laughs and Barrett, but he was amazing back in '67, wish he could have kept it together,he could of went on to make some more amazing tracks, better than Vegetable Man,Apples and Oranges, Jugband Blues, which I like, but nothing like Emily and his debut album with Floyd.
jamas me cansare de escuchar esta cancion
The thing that jumped out at me when I first heard this in 67 was Syd's accent. Games for May.
This video makes me so sad. Seeing all of them so happy. I would do anything to go back and live in their era
I saw My nieces friend Emily playing yesterday in the front yard!
FAAAAAAAAAAAB AND GROOOOVY! I enjoy this vid every day. And thanks for the lyrics!
I used to own both which I bought - wish I still did own them :(
Thank your god for youtube and classic rock radio stations :)
Great photo collection.
But over in the U.S., it was part of the setlist on "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn", or, as it was entitled in America, "The Pink Floyd". It was the first track on the first side of the LP
it is also on A Foot In The Door Best of Pink Floyd.
I think this is an AH-MAZING stimulus for our project. Are you crying because of the class, the project, or the stimuli provided? Cuz I think we're all of us crying because of the project. It's humongous.
Great job !! Nice pictures ! Thank you for posting
Subject: "BINSON ECHOREC" ~ Quote by ANDREW KING ~ "Syd was certainly the first Guitarist I knew to use a gadget called the Binson Echorette, which was a sort of predecessor to all the digital delay (echo) systems people use nowadays. It was more a complex version of the Watkins Copycat, which everyone later used. This was an upmarket version based on hardware originally built in the British Post Office for recorded messages. It was a solid lump of metal with a recording head all the way round the outside. As the tape moved round and paused different heads it produced different echo chamber effects. Syd used it on his Guitar and no one had thought of it before." Note: Syd utilizes the "BINSON ECHOREC" during the introduction to "SEE EMILY PLAY" and during his Guitar solo. How inventive and innovative SYD BARRETT was!
ebay, 45 rpm, french pressing..rare......i was 14 when this single came out...far ahead of its time...
and holy shit. The part where it goes "float on a river forever and ever" reminds me of their last song (High Hopes) where it goes "the endless river forever and ever." That's some hardcore foreshadowing, from like their second song to their last song almost 30 years later.
just had to get this out my head before bed)))))
this song is on a compilation called "an introduction to syd barrett". it's a bit expensive, but it's the best deal and it has the best of syd's songs!
here for the ib theatre as well and find dis song simply awesome.....love SYD bARREETT
Neither did I at first, but it really grew on me, as did most of the Syd material.
It would've been such a kick to write music with Syd. What a fellow he was.
Amazing song! So glad I get to inspire my IB Theater PPP from this :)
Syd Barrett was such a gifted singer songwriter!
Historical photographic material is incredible.
0:50 - 0:54 greatest 4 seconds of any song ever
When music was music!
its an incredibly clear/polished version.. yes.. its rare or at least I believe it to be : 0
Freakn great stuff.. Love Syd
fantastic track
I always thought this song's about a suicidal girl who decides there's other way to stop her depression but suicide.
"Soon after dark... Emily cries.
Gazing through trees in sorrow,
Hardly a sound till tomorrow."
I picture Emily getting up in the morning before her parents wake up, putting on a nice dress so she looks nice when they discover her body, and drowning herself in a river.
"Put on gown, touches the ground.
Float on a river forever and ever, Emily."
That's my take on it anyways.
Nice video
to a happy song.
Very nice video--thanks for posting!
Why is it that almost every song with my name in it is awesome?
I'm here for good music.
Beautiful!!!!
this song is addictive .-.
Syd is the coolest man in the world.
He's dead.
I think in the line in the Chorus, "Free games for May" it seems to make more sense for may to be a proper noun, whether for the month or another girl's name
Games for May was the first significant concert for the Floyd in The Queen Elizabeth Hall 12th May 1967. It was described as a "Space age relaxation for the climax of spring - electronic composition, colour and image projection, girls, and the Pink Floyd". The concert featured some of the band's early singles as well as material from their then unreleased debut album - "The Piper at the Gates of Dawn". During the performance, some of the band members created sound effects by chopping up wood on stage, a man dressed up as an admiral gave out daffodils, and the bubbles produced from a machine while the show was in progress, stained all the furniture in the hall. As a consequence, Pink Floyd were banned from ever playing there again
gone, but never forgotten. what a fucking genius
Thanks for posting the original single. The reprocessed stereo from Relics, while adding to the psychedelia, is not how the record originally sounded.
I wouldn't say they were in their "Beatles' days" per se. This was when Syd Barrett was in the band. So it stands to reason that the band would have a different sound when compared to the later Pink Floyd. Syd’s voice sounds different compared to Gilmour’s iconic voice which is generally what comes to mind when people think of Pink Floyd. And, Syd had different musical tastes and ideas that showed in their earlier music that seemed to have slightly sifted out when he left. They're both great!!!
Pink Floyd back in their Beatles' days! :D
it was released as a single but was also in the compilation album relics
It does make sense but, this song is actually literally about a girl named Emily. After a gig Syd was sleeping in the woods & when he woke up he saw this girl dancing & playing carelessly. Her real identity is found, it was an article in a magazine google it. :)
Sid Your A Genius
Syd looks rather lucid in that shot at 2:25. Probably from '66. That made me happy.
i have seen this around 100 times :D
I like this song..
fantastic.
@ThatOneMusicGuy789 Huh, 'never thought of it like that. However, what you said does sound like something Pink Floyd would sing a song about (and something Barrett would write).
The genious Syd Barret
Keep shining Syd
Emily tries but misunderstands, ah ooh
She's often inclined to borrow somebody's dreams till tomorrow
There is no other day
Let's try it another way
You'll lose your mind and play
Free games for May
See Emily play
Soon after dark Emily cries, ah ooh
Gazing through trees in sorrow hardly a sound till tomorrow
There is no other day
Let's try it another way
You'll lose your mind and play
Free games for May
See Emily play
Put on a gown that touches the ground, ah ooh
Float on a river forever and ever, Emily (Emily)
There is no other day
Let's try it another way
You'll lose your mind and play
Free games for May
See Emily play
I am working on Arnold Layne now!! I will post it soon
Thank you so much!
Topic: "SEE EMILY PLAY" ~ NEW MUSICAL EXPRESS ~ Review ~ Derek Johnson ~ "0n Pink Floyd's last disc, the Psychedelia in which they specialise didn't really come through but, golly, they've, made up for it on this new one. It's crammed with oscillations, reverberations, electronic vibrations and fuzzy rumblings. Surprisingly, somewhere amid the happening there's also a pleasant mid-tempo tune that's appealingly harmonised. Should register! Raul.😐
Syd, you mad genius. Pink Floyd, Cream, and The Beatles handled psychedelia the best.
I wonder if this song had an influence on The Beatles song Lucy in the Sky with
Diamonds?
Lucy in the Sky with Diamonds was already recorded prior to this song's release.
Paul Dillon lucy in the sky with diamonds fue lanzada en 1967, esta cancion se lanzo en 1966, fueron ellos quienes influenciaron a los beatles, no los beatles a ellos
+Paul Dillon Just because it mentions the word "river".....err no.
Genialidad...
No I'm here because I love this song.
I so badly want the original music video for this song. It's my favorite of all time. Copyright my ass, it was intended for the public, so what's the problem?
Thanks!
I was pointing out that your point about See Emily Play was incorrect. Personally, I love both Floyd and Beatles, and also the Kinks, Hollies, Black Sabbath, and a host of other bands from that era. Whether the Beatles were THE most influential band of their era is debatable, but there is no denying that they were one of the most influential. Lots of bands sold millions of units, but will their music be still getting played and bought over 40 years after they stopped recording?
I thought the same,are you not from the uk?
It was on the US version of Piper at the Gates of Dawn
I do not know but always reminds me of my Grandmother her name was Emily.
good song
I'm from NorCal as well! Sacramento in the house! 916!
Or not!
Not!
named my daughter after this song
I think we all know why I'm here
lol
Can I watch you play?
RS Music Woah man, that's a bit far
I was named after this song.
The stones and the beatles were before them, and they were what you'd call "classA" bands from the UK
Exactly... Or this same beautiful accent on "touches" :)
(I'm French)
@larockeramenor thank you so much!!!
Syd was a fucking genius
My teacher always says Emily tries but misunderstands to this girl named Emily when ever she is talking or something
I was named after this song. Can you guess what my name is?
Thanks man
Is this single so hard to find? I saw it on a record store.
! See Emily Play !!!
thumbs up if your here cause you love this song and not IB theater