And he mocks the one who says she's seventeen, and thinks he's clever, and they tolerate him Apart from that scumbag predator, Sir Jimmy Saville, this is a great video.
@Bri Y Yes, but we should continue to call him Sir in order to bring to light the fact that whoever Knighted him clearly had poor judgement. Maybe the queen and her advisors or something like that. Or maybe they knew but didn't care for all of the reasons you mention above.
@@lorenmiller3797 Why do you suppose none of it ever came out until after he was dead? Because if they had busted him while he was still alive, he could have named a lot of other names, others in high places who were at it too. That's why he was untouchable, he had too much dirt on too many 'pillars of the establishment'.
On reflection, Saville tainted not just pop, but the nation and countless childhoods and memories. Just think of the ones who are hidden by obscurity, and the lives they have ruined. All the bad people spoiled my life. It could have been a happy life... but the bad people spoiled it. Saville was one of them. I wish there was a hell for them to rot in!
From an age when Top of the Pops was a really big thing in this country. An incredible song that really summed up life in the early 70s. People in the present could have no idea of the world then.
I loved this song, it was popular just before I started working. Then I was so disappointed joining the Navy because we didn't have unions in there, but one of the cooks was a former meat worker and union man and he bragged about how they went on strike at the drop of a hat. Oh cut my finger, right let's strike.
Well we had better act soon. Those extra loud planes are the government etc, arming themselves against us for when the penny finally drops and we have to take action or starve or worse. Fake Wars are invented for a purpose.
I honestly never heard of him till he died. When someone defaced his grave I said there's no smoke without fire. Its so obvious THAT EVERYONE must have known
@@twombley Not at all. It was made in 1973 and is very much a song from a working class perspective and why The Strawbs still play it in working men's clubs and festivals still today.
Fabulous song and band. I went to the college where The Strawbs were founded - St Mary's at STRAWBerry Hill. I've often wondered which union was protecting Jimmy Saville, I don't think it was affiliated to the TUC!
@@seansands424 That other Labour-affiliated group known as The Paedophile Information Exchange. Then it all changed in 1979 when Maggie got in and teamed up with Leon. They stood up for Savile instead. Politicians... spot the difference.
According to the writers this song was in support of the unions. It was released in 1973, well before the miners strike of 1981. If you are interested in the miners strike, I strongly recommend you watch the film Pride. It’s brilliant.
The song was very popular, but the Strawbs split up afterwards as Hudson and Ford left to form their own group, Dave Cousins at the start doesn´t look too happy either. Blue Weaver took over from Rick Wakeman who went to YES, but Blue Weaver later had a great career with the Bee Gees. Saw them live in Cardiff in 1972, fantastic, the Sutherland Brothers were the backing group and had just brought out, ``We are Sailing´´whick Rod Stewart later made a fortune out of.
I love the candles on the piano , it wouldn't surprise me if we went back to the 1970s. With the country being in the state that it's in . Worst thing to happen was the UK leaving the EU .
Dont be silly, the EU was and is run like the mafia, GOOD RIDDANCE I SAY, the main thing about Brexit was to get control of our borders, FAT CHANCE NOW, MORE TORY LIES, I WILL NEVER BELIEVE ANOTHER WORD ANY "SO CALLED" MP SAYS AGAIN, TOTAL LIARS.
Back in the Seventies I was at a party chatting to a nurse from Stoke Mandeville Hospital. Needless to say, saville got mentioned and she told us then that his roving hands were infamous even then, but that he just brought in too much money. What the Hopital did at the time was quite funny. They had a list of all the Saville Groupies and whenever he was there, they were all picked to form a protective barrier between Saville and the normal nurses. Money talks!
Yeah I heard some stories about him in the early 1980s, I was still at school but my aunt knew people that worked at the hospital. As a teenager I didn't believe it, thought she was talking crap. Even my mum thought she was lying. Guess we were all wrong...
The strawbs had fun with performing the record but it was written with genuine intent in solidarity with the trade union movement. The strawbs confirmed this on many occasions 👍
@@nbenefielListen carefully, I think it's taking the piss out of "the working man", patronising is the word I'm looking for. It's plainly obvious it's a piss take.
This song is now 50 Years Old (Half a Century) it peaked at Number 2 in February 1973, during those years if was a lot of Strikes like Energy, television and Bins, Last it was holiday flights abroad and now it's NHS worker's and teachers
I can't figure out how I know this song, word for word. I'm in America. It wasn't played here, that I know of. We don't have Top of the Pops. It must have aired on something else..Good song though. My Dad was a union man until the day he died.
OMG talk about a song capturing the spirit of an age. Forget the crap about The Strawbs being Thatcherites, they lived off this for the rest of their lives.
Shame the comments constantly mentioning someone who should just be ignored. I am here for the song, was that Rick Wakeman on keyboards or someone else?
Quite right, you have to understand history in the time it actually happened. This is a great song by the way, and captured the spirit of an age in the early 70s.
I honestly don't know why. He's creepy, ugly and grotesque af and I don't care what decade it was. As a child in the late 80s, I felt there was something repugnant about him. I wish to see the people who facilitated him brought to account without brushing it off as, "things were different back then." Survivors of abuse don't say, oh it wasn't too traumatic because it was 1973. You can see how uncomfortable the young woman on the right is with his leering an invasion of her personal space. She's not fine with it, "because it's 1973". If you can't see how uncomfortable she is, you need some lessons on basic human interaction.
You edit evil like that out of history people will forget and yet more evil people will wreak their worst on yet more innocent victims.Imagine removing all trace of Auschwitz and the like.We need to be reminded such evil existed so we can recognise it and fight it
@Gary Smith I was a kid then. I clearly remember the power-cuts! The bin collections not being done. The disruption during the winter of discontent. The fact they were holding the public to ransom suggests they were out of control.
I’m working my first non union job - I’m 54 - and guess fuckin’ what - I’m going to get all the kids on the job to join a union - I’ll be the shop steward - and we can stick it to the man
That look on Savile's face when he realises her boyfriend is standing behind her is priceless. Don't understand the significance of the fruit machine symbols in the background though, no strawberries there
“You can’t treat the working man this way. One day we’ll form a union, and get the fair and equitable treatment we deserve. Then we’ll go too far, and get corrupt and shiftless. And the Japanese will eat us alive.”
And you'll notice we haven't recovered, because the problem was never unionisation - it was that English management style was and often still is lazy and conceited, hating the idea of continual improvement that allowed Japan (and China) to creep ahead. Managers of the 1970s thought they could run their businesses like it was still the 1930s, using desperate labour like it was still the 1930s. Germany's done just fine because it recognises the importance of sustainable industries from efficiency to working conditions. We're about to see this same problem come to a head again because of railways running under nearly three decades of Thatcherite corporate welfare. Again, the problem is not unions: it's rubbish management leading to poor service and terrible prices, because the owners ultimately don't care as long as they get enough cash.
Me too. Once upon a time, they genuinely represented the members and fought for their benefit. No longer imo. They wield their power in a way to disrupt everyday life with their shenanigans, yet expect public sympathy. They're selfish ba**ards, only concerned with what they can get and f the rest of us.
This song was a mickey take written by John Ford (acoustic guitar, but normally bass) and Richard Hudson (drums) - Strawbs (not The Strawbs) were not left wing at all. And it's completely unlike their other stuff, which was complex and brilliant.
Yeah and dance on her grave. There was a saying when she was in power, in America they have Bob Hope and Stevie Wonder we have Thatcher no hope and no bloody wonder.
"Oh goodness gracious, twins, sixteen. " "Are you a beauty queen? You don't have a lead with that collar do you? That's good. Is that husband behind? Sort of?" (Hand around waist)
And he mocks the one who says she's seventeen, and thinks he's clever, and they tolerate him Apart from that scumbag predator, Sir Jimmy Saville, this is a great video.
@Bri Y Yes, but we should continue to call him Sir in order to bring to light the fact that whoever Knighted him clearly had poor judgement. Maybe the queen and her advisors or something like that. Or maybe they knew but didn't care for all of the reasons you mention above.
16 years old, they were too old for him LOL
Why tf you calling the cnut sir? 😂
@@lorenmiller3797 Why do you suppose none of it ever came out until after he was dead? Because if they had busted him while he was still alive, he could have named a lot of other names, others in high places who were at it too. That's why he was untouchable, he had too much dirt on too many 'pillars of the establishment'.
@@paulwhite6745 I don't doubt it for a second.
On reflection, Saville tainted not just pop, but the nation and countless childhoods and memories. Just think of the ones who are hidden by obscurity, and the lives they have ruined. All the bad people spoiled my life. It could have been a happy life... but the bad people spoiled it. Saville was one of them. I wish there was a hell for them to rot in!
Just sick how he rubs himself against those girls ..the girls faces say it all ..and the bbc are as sick for letting it happen ..😡
and his sick activities were known to many but they offset it against his charity work. So wrong
From an age when Top of the Pops was a really big thing in this country. An incredible song that really summed up life in the early 70s. People in the present could have no idea of the world then.
@@stevenwriteswebsite The standard of music in 70s was really good. It was way way superior to the absolute rubbish stuff of the modern world.
Was in the charts the week I started work , I retire this year ,that went fast 🥵
Happy retirement my friend
@@michaellavery9412 thank you ,just need a million quid to go with the retirement lol .
I loved this song, it was popular just before I started working. Then I was so disappointed joining the Navy because we didn't have unions in there, but one of the cooks was a former meat worker and union man and he bragged about how they went on strike at the drop of a hat. Oh cut my finger, right let's strike.
@@michaeldemarillac9992 it is actually an anti union song ,written by Hudson ford 👍
@raymondbonington9355 It might’ve been written as anti union but it wasn't perceived that way.
One of the most underrated bands of all time.
.......and one of the most overrated presenters.
That grin Saville pulls as he introduces the strawbs... vile man
It's in the name sa vile
Back when Jimmy Savile was a protected species
Fantastic performance.
Fantastic, this song/lyrics sure beats the hell of todays crap!!!
Just as relevant today as it was then.
BRING BACK ARTHUR, THATCHER SHOULD BURN IN HELL.
Even more so comrade ✌️🚩🍺💪
@@andymatthews7617 well said comrade. ⭐️🚩🍺💪💪✌️
Well we had better act soon. Those extra loud planes are the government etc, arming themselves against us for when the penny finally drops and we have to take action or starve or worse. Fake Wars are invented for a purpose.
Proletarians of all countries unite!!!
It was so obvious with Savile, and no one knew???????!!!!!!!!!! bollocks
I honestly never heard of him till he died. When someone defaced his grave I said there's no smoke without fire. Its so obvious THAT EVERYONE must have known
John lydon of the sex pistols said it in the late 70s I believe 🤔
@@fakerbaker1000 He did but he cut off by the BBc
It's all in the name.. Sa vile
Jimmy Savile the perfect saint!!! Pay attention to the last 4 letters of his surname.
That was brilliant from the Strawbs but freaky with hindsight seeing the presenter. 😱
Anytime my band and I play this on stage for an "encore" people run wild - real great song with a very explicit meaning. TY
@ UNION MAN: SINCE 1969 TO 2001 MY BROTHER (ACTIVE) TO DATE AND TIL THE DAY I DIE. EVERY TIME I HEAR IT MY BP GOES TO 1000 I LOVE IT!
This is an anti union song!
@@twombley No it isnt. Listen to the lyrics.
@@skintslots I have. Have you - it's very obviously over the top sarcasm.
@@twombley Not at all. It was made in 1973 and is very much a song from a working class perspective and why The Strawbs still play it in working men's clubs and festivals still today.
to say that Jimmy Savile hasn't aged well is the understatement of this century or any other...
But the band, the song!
I was a baby when this aired, but Savile - OMG.
Saville: how old are you twinnies then?
Twin 1: 16
Saville: Thats 14 years too old for me then
And she's alive. Not half as much fun.
Haha
yeah. This didn't age well.
16 years old, they were too old for him LOL
The best blue collar worker song!
Too bloody right! I want this playing at my funeral 🤣💙✊
wanka, with folk you, no wonder unemployment an jobs send overseas, proud, fukwit
Cool, I've been singing this for over 40years!
And now I get a monthly check, whether I earned it or not,lol!
Fabulous song and band. I went to the college where The Strawbs were founded - St Mary's at STRAWBerry Hill. I've often wondered which union was protecting Jimmy Saville, I don't think it was affiliated to the TUC!
The nonce union that is JS union
@@seansands424 That other Labour-affiliated group known as The Paedophile Information Exchange. Then it all changed in 1979 when Maggie got in and teamed up with Leon. They stood up for Savile instead. Politicians... spot the difference.
I saw these cats in Birmingham,Spring 1973 when they opened for Ten Years After.Good times.
look at the drastic change of emotion in the girl on the left's face, no wonder he started talking to someone else and the camera zoomed in.
Wonderful. A great band.
The 70s music was fantastic part of the union jive talkin all great songs
My dad John Beebe was a coal miner at Treeton colliery England his number was 429 and he still listens to this
Strawbs, so talented and British.
According to the writers this song was in support of the unions. It was released in 1973, well before the miners strike of 1981. If you are interested in the miners strike, I strongly recommend you watch the film Pride. It’s brilliant.
Don’t forget the miners strike of 1972
That sounds like a barrel of fun....Not!
I was led to believe this song was a piss take at the union’s. Definitely read that somewhere but it may not be correct
In USA, we generally had to wait for late-night tv to see acts like Strawbs!
forever...hail to the union
It’s 1973 and Jimmy Savile is on Top of the Pops talking to 16-year old twins.
I wonder what future generations will make of that?
Just seen the doc.on jimmy.some garbage there jumbo was.i seen strawbs at the CAPITOL theater Passaic nj.hero n heroine era.fine show.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Less triggered I guess
One of the great songs of the 70s
Love the irony of a song agains unions. The Union bosses at the time probably made it their anthem
Was not a song against the unions
GREAT DAYS NOW THAT 1984 HAS COME TO BE
“Union Man” was by the Cate Brothers, Earl and Ernie, and their band.
The song was very popular, but the Strawbs split up afterwards as Hudson and Ford left to form their own group, Dave Cousins at the start doesn´t look too happy either.
Blue Weaver took over from Rick Wakeman who went to YES, but Blue Weaver later had a great career with the Bee Gees.
Saw them live in Cardiff in 1972, fantastic, the Sutherland Brothers were the backing group and had just brought out, ``We are Sailing´´whick Rod Stewart later made a fortune out of.
Such a shame. This song brings back happy memories of my youth. So did Saville prior to recent revolations. Shame on you Saville.
I love the candles on the piano , it wouldn't surprise me if we went back to the 1970s. With the country being in the state that it's in . Worst thing to happen was the UK leaving the EU .
Dont be silly, the EU was and is run like the mafia, GOOD RIDDANCE I SAY, the main thing about Brexit was to get control of our borders, FAT CHANCE NOW, MORE TORY LIES, I WILL NEVER BELIEVE ANOTHER WORD ANY "SO CALLED" MP SAYS AGAIN, TOTAL LIARS.
Missed the tune, couldn't get passed that ghoul Saville.
At least the lead vocals are live.
Very creepy moments sullying a great song/band.
The clip at the beginning makes me wonder how the BBC "didn't know" about Jimmy Saville 🤢
Back in the Seventies I was at a party chatting to a nurse from Stoke Mandeville Hospital. Needless to say, saville got mentioned and she told us then that his roving hands were infamous even then, but that he just brought in too much money. What the Hopital did at the time was quite funny. They had a list of all the Saville Groupies and whenever he was there, they were all picked to form a protective barrier between Saville and the normal nurses. Money talks!
Yeah I heard some stories about him in the early 1980s, I was still at school but my aunt knew people that worked at the hospital. As a teenager I didn't believe it, thought she was talking crap. Even my mum thought she was lying. Guess we were all wrong...
They did know. And they covered it up.
Considering that this song was meant to be taking the pee out of the Unions, I find it heartwarming that it turned into an Anthem for the Unions.
The strawbs had fun with performing the record but it was written with genuine intent in solidarity with the trade union movement. The strawbs confirmed this on many occasions 👍
Wrong
According to the writers, this song was in support of unions. There’s nothing in it negative to unions.
@@nbenefielListen carefully, I think it's taking the piss out of "the working man", patronising is the word I'm looking for. It's plainly obvious it's a piss take.
@@alvindimes4729 hat's what's called 'confirmation bias'.
I posted it on a tmtch site recently me first song I learned and nothing changes at all.
This song is now 50 Years Old (Half a Century) it peaked at Number 2 in February 1973, during those years if was a lot of Strikes like Energy, television and Bins, Last it was holiday flights abroad and now it's NHS worker's and teachers
Our Jimmy with his theme tune.
The days when fashion mattered ;-)
The 70s the decade that fashion forgot.
A correction to some comments: the host's name is spelled Jimmy Savile (with one 'l'), and IMHO should be pronounced that way.
I still play this as part of my set, always goes down well
Me too! Always goes down well.
I can't figure out how I know this song, word for word. I'm in America. It wasn't played here, that I know of. We don't have Top of the Pops. It must have aired on something else..Good song though. My Dad was a union man until the day he died.
Hi Ali,
What an amazing DNA history,
You have done an excellent job with this song, it's really good. Get well soon...🙂👍🏻👍🏻
OMG talk about a song capturing the spirit of an age. Forget the crap about The Strawbs being Thatcherites, they lived off this for the rest of their lives.
Shame the comments constantly mentioning someone who should just be ignored.
I am here for the song, was that Rick Wakeman on keyboards or someone else?
The Strawbs, such an amazing band. Hudson & Ford later became 'Hudson & Ford' , 'The Monks' & 'High Society'.
Jimmy Saville was seen in a completely different light in 1973.
Quite right, you have to understand history in the time it actually happened. This is a great song by the way, and captured the spirit of an age in the early 70s.
@@peterhutchins9246 Absolutely!
I honestly don't know why. He's creepy, ugly and grotesque af and I don't care what decade it was. As a child in the late 80s, I felt there was something repugnant about him. I wish to see the people who facilitated him brought to account without brushing it off as, "things were different back then." Survivors of abuse don't say, oh it wasn't too traumatic because it was 1973. You can see how uncomfortable the young woman on the right is with his leering an invasion of her personal space. She's not fine with it, "because it's 1973". If you can't see how uncomfortable she is, you need some lessons on basic human interaction.
@@kavkaz1758 Thank you for that response. It's the song I like, not Saville!
@@peterboczan2116 Oh yes, sorry I didn't mean to have a go at you. I love the song too :) Thanks for uploading.
only in the 70,s never to be repeated, where,s all the protest songs now,?
What about we're the 99%
A song all about people's rights, introduced by jimmy SH!TING saVILE
Jimmy Saville needs to be EDITED out of all clips.
You edit evil like that out of history people will forget and yet more evil people will wreak their worst on yet more innocent victims.Imagine removing all trace of Auschwitz and the like.We need to be reminded such evil existed so we can recognise it and fight it
Not really he's an important part it would be like editing Hitler out of the 1940s
Notice how Jimmy Saville asks the lady on the right if the man standing behind is her husband, then it's hands off.
I love the fact that a song written as a parody of the state of the country with unions out of control was adopted by them!
They weren't out of control the establishment was.
@Gary Smith I was a kid then. I clearly remember the power-cuts! The bin collections not being done. The disruption during the winter of discontent. The fact they were holding the public to ransom suggests they were out of control.
As today suggests, the union’s were not out of control, just fed up with the greedy exploiting hard working average people! 😡
@youjontube50 Really? Were you around then?
Royal mail new entrants on just above minimum wage, the race to the bottom has begun
Great fucking song!
A tight squeezy hug from jimmy saville🤔🤢🤢
I’m working my first non union job - I’m 54 - and guess fuckin’ what - I’m going to get all the kids on the job to join a union - I’ll be the shop steward - and we can stick it to the man
Jimmy Saville perhaps in enforced union with the birds.
Jimmy ❤️
Wanker
@@richardwinters9543😘
See jimmy saville shake with fear when he finds that her bf is standing behind her.
This shows that a good tune can completely make up for an utterly vapid message. Also See John Lennon’s “imagine “
In fact the lyrics are anti-union and meant to be satirical, but you can't tell and they sound pro-union - so maybe not as vapid as you think!
@@stephengoldstraw102 They lyrics were PRO-union, sir.
The song is called Par of the Union.
The creep at work in front of 18 million people on live TV…
And So fell the Once Great Nation of England.
Was that Arthur Scargill introducing the Strawbs?
Should be the National Anthem!
That look on Savile's face when he realises her boyfriend is standing behind her is priceless. Don't understand the significance of the fruit machine symbols in the background though, no strawberries there
The BBC loved Jimmy … he was on everything…. One of Prince Charles closest friends
The beginning wasn’t creepy at all
Auld Pervy Jimmy Saville at the Start....😂...loved this song growing up. ❤
Calling him ''Pervy'' is an understatement.
@@justsomeguywholikesmangoes1363 true dat
“You can’t treat the working man this way. One day we’ll form a union, and get the fair and equitable treatment we deserve. Then we’ll go too far, and get corrupt and shiftless. And the Japanese will eat us alive.”
And you'll notice we haven't recovered, because the problem was never unionisation - it was that English management style was and often still is lazy and conceited, hating the idea of continual improvement that allowed Japan (and China) to creep ahead. Managers of the 1970s thought they could run their businesses like it was still the 1930s, using desperate labour like it was still the 1930s. Germany's done just fine because it recognises the importance of sustainable industries from efficiency to working conditions.
We're about to see this same problem come to a head again because of railways running under nearly three decades of Thatcherite corporate welfare. Again, the problem is not unions: it's rubbish management leading to poor service and terrible prices, because the owners ultimately don't care as long as they get enough cash.
@@dididahdahdiditNo dude, it was the unions. I remember it well. Strikes all the time
Regio, F. TROOP, RIP.
Love the song
Fxxxxxg Hate unions.
Me too.
Once upon a time, they genuinely represented the members and fought for their benefit.
No longer imo.
They wield their power in a way to disrupt everyday life with their shenanigans, yet expect public sympathy.
They're selfish ba**ards, only concerned with what they can get and f the rest of us.
We now have militant management in 2023 in the race to the bottom on workers terms and conditions
* Part of the union correct title actually!
This song was a mickey take written by John Ford (acoustic guitar, but normally bass) and Richard Hudson (drums) - Strawbs (not The Strawbs) were not left wing at all. And it's completely unlike their other stuff, which was complex and brilliant.
Yeah they were tory tosspots apparently
@@duncanbirss8923 Sadly, they were. But they still made brilliant music.
Jimmy saville,tamperer
Well the intro to this aged about as badly as milk left in the heatwave sun
They should play this at the BBC Christmas party every year.....
Thank you for the information. Perhaps its better that both sides think its a song supporting their viewpoint!
Members of Strawbs said they support unions and this was genuine.
Creepy guy Saville........
He was always a creep. No wonder he was so perfect in the role he played in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang
He wasn't in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
OWZABOUTHATHEN !
I don’t even like the union but i do like this song lol
Thatcher had them disappeared after this. They were in industrial complexes factories unlike her son!
0:15 - you could tell she felt so uncomfortable around him…
play this at Thatchers funeral!
Play it at scargils funeral.
Yeah and dance on her grave. There was a saying when she was in power, in America they have Bob Hope and Stevie Wonder we have Thatcher no hope and no bloody wonder.
How apt for 2023
Please edit out the C*NT from Leeds.
Jimmy Sa(vile)
This song sounds like The Beatles.
Goodness gracious, how's about that, then?
name of the song is part of the union
Well spotted,duh.
Saville salivating over 16 girls, BBC’s finest
fab
"Oh goodness gracious, twins, sixteen. "
"Are you a beauty queen? You don't have a lead with that collar do you? That's good. Is that husband behind? Sort of?" (Hand around waist)