I was 4 when I saw this on Eurovision, never to hear it again. I fell in love with the song but my parents didn't know what I was talking about, so I always kept the song close to my heart, because at 4 years old, it made me extremely happy - I've always loved music. Now, I am 36. Watching Eurovision tonight, there was a clip of the song, I jumped up, told my husband "OMG, that's THE SONG!!". Over 30 years took me to find this damn song. So, here I am. It still makes me happy!!!!
That's exactly what happened to me with ABBA:s take a chance on me. I heard it as a toddler, but I only remember the classic Cynth session, then I got up to my teens or so and found it. That feeling is something... This song is happier though ^^
I was deaf for the first few years after birth in the early 80's and this was one of the first songs I ever heard and would constantly have this looping all day long as a toddler. This and a few abba songs.
OMG! This is so dated now! I loved this band when I was a kid. I met Mike Nolan (he lived near me) and he signed my Bucks Fizz album (it was a cassette!!!) Probably still one of the best Eurovision songs though. They deserved to win. Classic 80's.
A huge Happy 40th Anniversary guys ..thank you for such wonderful times... Forever indebted for fabulous pieces of the action over here in Oz over the last 40 years ..Congrats to each of you for making so many memorable moments with such melodic uplifting music for so many fans in so many countries ......your Golden days are not over yet
TONY WOGAN LOOKS SMART ,THE SONG THAT MAKE THEM FAMOUS THE COLOUR COORDINATION AND THE DANCE WENT DOWN WELL ,DONE UK PROUD WE NEED ANOTHER WINNER IN THE EUROVISION
+Dallas Batman The Freemasons in charge won't allow good songs like this anymore on the radio unfortunately. Yes these songs are much better and had lots of words and melody and a story to each song, not just repetition.
Just Great, I watched this the first time it was on Eurovision in 1981. Am still watching it now all these years later!! A true classic moment.Thank You Buck Fizz.
***** And now we have Eurovision, which is appreciated all around the world, especially in Australia. I only got colour TV in 1975. Still a good song tho :)
Terry Fry Song for Europe hosted by Terry Wogan was how the UK....well the BBC picked the UK's Eurovision entry. The BBC still picks the UK song, but with less success nowadays. Maybe the BBC should go big time on the primary colours and mullet-up future UK's entries?
Bucks fizz making your mind up great song from the eighties bring back memories hearing this song classic tune from them makes me laugh and smile when I here this song great music
I'm from the Netherlands, when I was in the 8th class (for me it's 5 years ago), we made a musical. me and 5 other people danced on this song, and the audience loved it!
I remember seeing this song live even though I was young at the time. Jay, Cheryl, Bobby and Mike rose to prominence as members of Bucks Fizz in 1981 and this was the song I liked.
Cor - the things one finds on RUclips! I can just about remember watching this 29 years ago and hoping it would win, going out and buying the 7" single... thanks for posting this on here!
Great group. Always liked them. Bobby Used to be in my year at school. Nice chap, quite unassuming pleasant guy, never any problems. Best of luck to him: Regards Chris 'Omlette', Old class mate of Steve War***. All aged 61 now :(
@@hanno-erdmanntietz8424 I know the problem we have and its primarily the BBC not taking it seriously or possibly deliberately failing it to push us away from europe. There is also the issue of toxicity that may have been the result of Terry Wogan's drunken rants in the 2000s that turned opinion here against eurovision. It boils my blood when people blame it all on excuses such as Brexit, everyone hates us and block voting. In reality we send mostly trash songs.
Such wonderful memories of Sir Terry Wogan on this show and when the contest was not a 'vote for your neighbours' show. R.I.P. Terry. You may be gone but you are not forgotten.
Especially during the "cold war" the Grand prix Eurovision de la Chanson was highly political. Otherwise Nicole would never have won in 1982 with her horrible song "Ein bißchen Frieden".
Not your neighbours like.... Ireland? and former colonie like Malta and now Australia, right? Because you get angry when they do not give you douze points.
I remember watching this when I was growing up. In 1981 I moved from junior to senior school. This came out before my eleventh birthday so months prior to leaving juniors. The tune is initially in G major, then Ab and finally A major.
Wonder if they put this on BBC1 during Brexit? And afterward, another Fizz song, "Love In a World Gone Mad"? Come to think of it, "The Land of Make Believe" would fit as well. Good luck to y'all over there.
Not my kind of music but I can at least admit that for a Eurovision song it's perfect. Stands the test of time too because the melody is faultless. Now to see if there's a punk cover...
I went to Butlins Minehead in 1981 with my School when i was 10. We were supposed to do Abseiling but was cancelled due to rain. We had choice of either written work or disco dancing in the Ballroom. I opted for Disco dancing. 2 songs we had to learn were "(Do) The Hucklebuck" by Coast To Coast and Making Your Mind Up by Bucks Fizz. Good call! Ive never lost it since. ;-)
I would have been not yet eleven and in my last year at junior school, so six years older than you, Amanda. Remember the song well and have a very good memory for tunes!
As a young teenager at the time I was quite excited by Cheryl Baker having her skirt ripped off, only to be disappointed to see a shorter skirt hidden underneath.
Yes. Probably 'Sun-In' which was basically neat peroxide. I 'streaked' my dark hair with it. The 'streaks' simply went ginger. So I tried to cover it with a Clairol black hair colour. I actually rather liked the Bachelor's Mushy Pea colour I was left with. My head teacher was less impressed & promptly suspended me til the following Monday. Happy Days!
This is from the year I was born. I've heard the song before and briefly seen parts of this performance but this was the first time for me seeing the whole performance. I sat here in my chair following the dance moves, couldn't help myself lol 😂😂
at the 50 birthday of my godmother I had with my buddy and make the song the dancing! that was so bad! mainly because it was so embarrassing! and therefor had to find when we do the whole dance and then dance something from fleetwood mac ....
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I was 4 when I saw this on Eurovision, never to hear it again. I fell in love with the song but my parents didn't know what I was talking about, so I always kept the song close to my heart, because at 4 years old, it made me extremely happy - I've always loved music. Now, I am 36. Watching Eurovision tonight, there was a clip of the song, I jumped up, told my husband "OMG, that's THE SONG!!". Over 30 years took me to find this damn song. So, here I am. It still makes me happy!!!!
@Cizlar Barriohumph dont know why but i only recall cheryls legs. Sorry jay
Fun Coincidence yesterday the eurovision 2022 when Ukraine 🇺🇦 🏆 won (and their war at the same time)
That's exactly what happened to me with ABBA:s take a chance on me. I heard it as a toddler, but I only remember the classic Cynth session, then I got up to my teens or so and found it. That feeling is something...
This song is happier though ^^
@@lennybustratt7024 abba played waterloo at eurovision when they won it
I was 13
I was deaf for the first few years after birth in the early 80's and this was one of the first songs I ever heard and would constantly have this looping all day long as a toddler. This and a few abba songs.
What a terrific song. Great energy. A very deserving winner.
@Matter Do OK well, great energy. Maybe.
I clearly hear the remnants of the 60's & 70's in this song. Simple and clean. Pure excellence.
The quintessence of Eurovision. Fresh, catchy, bubbly and utter pants.
I saw them win the Eurovision Contest in 81! Well, I saw it on TV. I've always loved it!
Terry Wogan miss you! Gosh How this song brings back memories of my childhood ! Love it!
+Becca May Love his voice
love Cheryl so bright and breezy in a non lesbian way !😀
OMG! This is so dated now! I loved this band when I was a kid. I met Mike Nolan (he lived near me) and he signed my Bucks Fizz album (it was a cassette!!!) Probably still one of the best Eurovision songs though. They deserved to win. Classic 80's.
I love the fact a lot of early 80's music retained it's bashfull happiness!
This was way before I was born, but last night's Erovision bought me here! R.I.P Sir Terry!!
A huge Happy 40th Anniversary guys ..thank you for such wonderful times... Forever indebted for fabulous pieces of the action over here in Oz over the last 40 years ..Congrats to each of you for making so many memorable moments with such melodic uplifting music for so many fans in so many countries ......your Golden days are not over yet
What a happy great song UK`s ABBA song
yes its very ABBA but I love it :-)
Now this is a brillint song loves it
They were and still are so talented , joyful and positive persons , sunshine at home with 'em !!
im single and alone at 44 years old and this song still makes me happy too :)
Perfect Song and the Dance Moves are really good, What a great Group this was Really Catchy Tunes.
Best Eurovision song ever.
Simon Saunders it’s a great song but it’s not up there with classics like Brotherhood of Man or ABBA
@@philscott8158 Or the New Seekers which came 2nd in 1972. Beg Steal or Borrow is a far better song.
I love how they all wear different-coloured shirts. It reminds me of the kids' shows we all know and loved.
I love how cute they all were. Mike was totally on fire, he was everywhere except in the ceiling... Or maybe he was there as well, off camera ^^
I have this song stuck in my head non stop for 2 weeks now and even the dance...
What a great song back in the 70à
Not the 70's.
1981
TONY WOGAN LOOKS SMART ,THE SONG THAT MAKE THEM FAMOUS THE COLOUR COORDINATION AND THE DANCE WENT DOWN WELL ,DONE UK PROUD WE NEED ANOTHER WINNER IN THE EUROVISION
K
Sweeeeet!
I miss the days when such fun happy positive music was popular.
Now everything has to be doom and gloom.
Just a classic, what more can i say.
Love from Denmark
My favourite UK win!
I'm 15 years old I love the 80s and I loves this song
+Dallas Batman The Freemasons in charge won't allow good songs like this anymore on the radio unfortunately. Yes these songs are much better and had lots of words and melody and a story to each song, not just repetition.
ricky5538 the songs today are about sex drugs and getting drunk mostly which is a shame
***** true everything is about inappropriate stuff nowadays 😞
***** that's true
Just Great, I watched this the first time it was on Eurovision
in 1981. Am still watching it now all these years later!!
A true classic moment.Thank You Buck Fizz.
I was four years old when they sung this song, I’m now 41, where do the years go
one of the best songs of the 80s
fair enough
Damn 7 years, Sips
You really are a boomer.
why was Sips here? I could be asking myself the same question
now this takes me back I watched the eurovision jumped up when we won still love this song to this day
I couldn't complain about the weather in an orderly que while drinking tea and be more British than this - brilliant.
Of the three versions I have heard... this one, the album single cut, and the performance at Eurovision, this one is by far the best
WARDMAN3 this is eurovision...
@@nm-yuki-p no its not - its the BBC show A Song For Europe. The ESC performance is also on YT somewhere.
They really liked primary colours...
*****
And now we have Eurovision, which is appreciated all around the world, especially in Australia. I only got colour TV in 1975. Still a good song tho :)
Terry Fry Song for Europe hosted by Terry Wogan was how the UK....well the BBC picked the UK's Eurovision entry. The BBC still picks the UK song, but with less success nowadays. Maybe the BBC should go big time on the primary colours and mullet-up future UK's entries?
A bit like the beginning of La La Land. I thought the WIggles were about to appear.
Bucks fizz are power rangers. Confirmed.
they were like a poor mans ABBA in a way...based on the fact there was 2 guys & 2 girls...& that they made catchy pop tunes...thats where it ends tho
1981........ was a special year for me indeed........... (but why I will not tell..) ...... nice song... love the energy of it....
Why? Please tell.
Blue Peter is deffo responsible for making me love this song!! Thanks guys!
MY DADS FAV SONG
RIP 1992 KEITH NUTTALL
Hi why is your name do familiar and your dads xx
love cheryl's pony tail !😍
I love this song and I sing it a lot. Carol Wilson
Omg sooo brilliant well good done brilliantly omg such a good song
Bucks fizz making your mind up great song from the eighties bring back memories hearing this song classic tune from them makes me laugh and smile when I here this song great music
I think this should be theme song for #EUreferendum 😊
Omg that killed me 😂😂😂
that made me laugh hahah
Here you go: ruclips.net/video/EK_pZCktIUs/видео.html
Young Cheryl Baker, wow
its just so damn entertaining this, even seeing it for the first time in 2012.
I'm from the Netherlands, when I was in the 8th class (for me it's 5 years ago), we made a musical. me and 5 other people danced on this song, and the audience loved it!
Still getting played in 2015, in the lead up to Eurovision
Nice catchy tune. I always think of a friend from long ago who was mad on this band.
School disco music haha, the memories. I was only 5 when this was out.
Great song
R.IP Terry Wogan
It's just not the same without him. (Not a big fan of Graham Norton...)
I like Graham ..... but he is not Terry
Graham is too sardonic and cynical, and lacks the Wogan charm. That's just me though.
Ah sure...
How could this have been 36 years ago? To think how the world (and eurovision) changed in the blink of an eye.
When music was music and music TV really was music TV
I watched this live and cheered as we(the UK) won the euro vision that night.....I was 9 my sister was 12....great memories. ..
I am between you both in age, as not yet eleven and in my last year at junior school. Remember the song well and turn 53 in June!
Fantastic!!! I love this song!!
I had almost forgotten how lovely Cheryl was in those days!
she still is!!!!!!!!
I remember watching this live on tv. These were the good old days of Eurovision. Not like the political crap these days.
Ah yes. The good old days of Eurovision, where it was riddled with political bullcrap.
Totally agree....
I remember seeing this song live even though I was young at the time. Jay, Cheryl, Bobby and Mike rose to prominence as members of Bucks Fizz in 1981 and this was the song I liked.
Eurovision winners
Smug assholed
I was 16 when this song won... still have the single..Side B is.. "don't stop"
Cor - the things one finds on RUclips! I can just about remember watching this 29 years ago and hoping it would win, going out and buying the 7" single... thanks for posting this on here!
I have an autographed bucks fizz postcard, framed on my mantlepiece, so there!!
wow
I met Cheryl once at the London Marathon
Me - I hear you are on tour with The Brotherhood Of Man
Cheryl - That's the other Buck Fizz
Silence
Yep that's the song they should go with for the finals.
Great memories..sang and made a dance up to this with my sister when it came out...
Best song ever.
Love Jay Aston
My first crush.........ahhhhh. Music was crap but she is a honey xxxx
They are soooo "wholesome".
All the singers are handsome, cute, pretty. I like all their outfits. Nice and colorful.
Great group. Always liked them. Bobby Used to be in my year at school. Nice chap, quite unassuming pleasant guy, never any problems. Best of luck to him: Regards Chris 'Omlette', Old class mate of Steve War***. All aged 61 now :(
this sounds like one of those groups that travels to different high schools and sings "say no to drugs" motivational songs.
While being named after a alcoholic cocktail?
lolol, Up With People
One of my best mates is their sound engineer.
Liar
Robert Pilcher Do I know you?
Cheryl's Mum lives next door to my Mum.
I believe you all especially if you live in the south !😣
FULL OF SHIT BRO.
What a Brilliant Performance Buçks Fizz Were First Class Winners. ❤️🌹 Angela Arnold.💗
I think the harmonys are beautifull spot on infact their voices blend very well.
The song starts in G major, then Ab and finishes in A major. This from an amateur string player in an orchestra with perfect pitch!
eurovision is not the same without terry wogan
That's true
Steven Barclay I second it!😶
Ken Bruce's ascerbic commentary on Radio 2 is entertaining though.
Absolutely true.
And UK's performances at Eurovision in recent years have been shambolic.
@@hanno-erdmanntietz8424 I know the problem we have and its primarily the BBC not taking it seriously or possibly deliberately failing it to push us away from europe. There is also the issue of toxicity that may have been the result of Terry Wogan's drunken rants in the 2000s that turned opinion here against eurovision. It boils my blood when people blame it all on excuses such as Brexit, everyone hates us and block voting. In reality we send mostly trash songs.
Sunshine song for a sunshine British band , so good , great and positive compared to the present holy shit ! ...
Me & my Sister won a Record each @ Primrose Valley Dancing to this.
Such wonderful memories of Sir Terry Wogan on this show and when the contest was not a 'vote for your neighbours' show. R.I.P. Terry. You may be gone but you are not forgotten.
RIP Terry Wogan
Thus is when you won the Eurovision song contest on your music and not your neighbors or political standings...
Or with pyrotechnics.
Especially during the "cold war" the Grand prix Eurovision de la Chanson was highly political. Otherwise Nicole would never have won in 1982 with her horrible song "Ein bißchen Frieden".
leroyw62 though I'm sure the skirt rip helped....😆
Not your neighbours like.... Ireland? and former colonie like Malta and now Australia, right? Because you get angry when they do not give you douze points.
I thought you won based on your vision like the name says!
A classic, I love it! I love the colours!
I remember watching this when I was growing up. In 1981 I moved from junior to senior school. This came out before my eleventh birthday so months prior to leaving juniors. The tune is initially in G major, then Ab and finally A major.
Wonder if they put this on BBC1 during Brexit? And afterward, another Fizz song, "Love In a World Gone Mad"? Come to think of it, "The Land of Make Believe" would fit as well. Good luck to y'all over there.
This is the funniest thing I've read in a long time
no luck needed dipstick
Not my kind of music but I can at least admit that for a Eurovision song it's perfect. Stands the test of time too because the melody is faultless. Now to see if there's a punk cover...
Love this song.Happy happy memories of watching them win with the folks!
I went to Butlins Minehead in 1981 with my School when i was 10. We were supposed to do Abseiling but was cancelled due to rain. We had choice of either written work or disco dancing in the Ballroom. I opted for Disco dancing. 2 songs we had to learn were "(Do) The Hucklebuck" by Coast To Coast and Making Your Mind Up by Bucks Fizz. Good call! Ive never lost it since. ;-)
My first thought was "Holy shit is that Terry Wogan?!"
Is Terry Wogan that annoying git who does all that inane and incessant commentary during every single Eurovision?
German was better
British Wiggles
Nagyon szeretem őket, főleg ezt a dalukat. Számtalanszor meghallgattam már. Csodás!!!
I was 5 years old and absolutely loved this song! ❤️
I would have been not yet eleven and in my last year at junior school, so six years older than you, Amanda. Remember the song well and have a very good memory for tunes!
As a young teenager at the time I was quite excited by Cheryl Baker having her skirt ripped off, only to be disappointed to see a shorter skirt hidden underneath.
I think they all used the same shade of blonde hair dye
KaydeyRai They actually did. I remember a TV interview where they talked about two of them dying their hair so the group would all be blonde.
***** One of them is natural. It was one of the women and one of the men.
Yes. Probably 'Sun-In' which was basically neat peroxide. I 'streaked' my dark hair with it. The 'streaks' simply went ginger. So I tried to cover it with a Clairol black hair colour. I actually rather liked the Bachelor's Mushy Pea colour I was left with. My head teacher was less impressed & promptly suspended me til the following Monday. Happy Days!
That was the intended gimmick before they hit upon the idea of tearing off the dresses
Mike has dark hair in some performances of Land of Make Believe and the photo sessions the group did around that time.
i love that song,,,thank you
This is from the year I was born. I've heard the song before and briefly seen parts of this performance but this was the first time for me seeing the whole performance. I sat here in my chair following the dance moves, couldn't help myself lol 😂😂
Doubt you'd get away with the skirt ripping these days Hehe. I find this song oddly catching.
at the 50 birthday of my godmother I had with my buddy and make the song the dancing! that was so bad! mainly because it was so embarrassing! and therefor had to find when we do the whole dance and then dance something from fleetwood mac ....
Woohoo. I remember dancing to this.
Love the memories.
Choice
With this song on the stereo in my car I can be at work on time and not be so grumpy I usually are when I've been battling the morning traffic jams
James Mcavoy brought me here
me too, me too.
Niamh McNamara and me too, didn't know who bucks fizz was, but the song everybody knows.
I knew Bucks Fizz, I'd just forgotten the song until I watched the Graham Norton show.
I was about to write the same thing lol
I just had to know...
WHY
ikr sips, the dancing is dreadful haha
Thank you buck made fall in love.
Love this! I remember watching this in 81!
Imagine trying that skirt-ripping bit in today's post Harvey Weinstein world.
The David Van Day Bucks Fizz 'updated' that bit by ripping the tops off the girls to reveal their bras!!
LOL oh yes .... year five after Weinstein LOL
When #Brits were supposedly #winners 😛
I love Terry Wigan RIP. My mum's idol.
one of my favorite esc songs :-)
Television came a long way since then!
Love the song!!