Wonderful! I was 15, this video takes me right back and reminds me of the fashions and hairstyles of my youth. The girls are just as I remember, no tattoos, no face piercings, no coloured hair, plastic noses or balloon lips, or Groucho eyebrows - just ordinary and natural. I give thanks I grew up in the '70's.
Absolutely agree there, just lovely natural young girls as I so well remember from the great 70’s I too was 15 at the time like you say it just takes you back, not a song that is played much but I have it on a sd card in my car and when it plays I instantly see those 4 lovely girls at the start, captured forever in my mind just beautiful…. those days are long gone but the memories live on.
Well said, Steve. I'm also very glad I grew up in the 1970s, listening to quality music from many different genres, including unique hits like this one...
Yep, I'm 64 years old and music is an emotional trip back in time, brings a happy tear to my eye when I hear music from that time of innocence, love it.
My Darling wife Gerda that I lost too covid loved this song and I cry my eyes out every time I listen too this song May be with her more sooner than later ❤
Exactly my story as well. I was into Led Zeppelin, Uriah Heep and Deep Purple and then came this song and I couldn’t stop listening to it. I dont listen to heavy metal all that much anymore, but still listen to my vinyl copy of The Congregation.
When I was 17, I loved this beautiful song, now in august 2021 I am 68 and still love and sing it. It makes something moves withing my heart and brain, fellings and memories. Hugs from México City.
Me too and and i was only 11 then. Loved it then and still love it now even though im coming up 60 this year. That guys got incredible passion in his voice. Makes me want to cry with joy and not sadness.
I was quite a bit younger than 25...... actually about 7. But I was always moved by the lyrics of this song. It took me another 20 years before I was able to get my own copy of this. Such a moving song.
I was just 14 when this song came out and I bought the 45rpm single, that I still have. Now I'm 62 and it is still my favourite song of all time. It never ceases to make me feel good. Unbelievably, this is the first time I have ever seen the video. Happiness is.....
I heard this song in 1972. It was revived in about 2011 but I never knew it’s title until one day I asked my younger sister. Of course she immediately responded, ‘It’s softly whispering by The Congregation!’ I had been searching the song for years!!!
I LOVE the comments here about this wonderful song - it's very nice to know there are so many like me, filled with nostalgia for those simpler days which are now so long ago.
@@jahno7154 LOL, there was also slaughter in Ireland and napalm in Vietnam, but for young children like me, who had NO RESPONSIBILITY for such outside events, these simpler sweeter times were so so much happier. Got it now ??
@@ysgol3 Oh your absolutely they were much happier times I loved watching television in the 70s when i was a child apart from Bernard Manning and the Black and White Minstrel show. I liked Rolf Harris he was very entertaining and i liked Jimmy Savile's clunk click advert, there was Top of the Pops whats happened to that ? everyone used to look forward to Thursday to tune in to TOTP it just shows you what todays music has become. Today we have to put up with reality shows which is so vulgar with disgusting looking tattoos fake tans and swear words, i can go on and on but my Grammer is so poor,but these days i just watch watch a lot of sport and RUclips thank God for RUclips !
Not if you were American and dropped out of school,you would be drafted and sent off to die in the jungles of Vietnam thats why I stayed in college and became a musician so the 60s dream would forever dwell in my heart and imagination .Peace and love.
I’m speechless. Have just stumbled on this gem. The wonders of utube . Bought the single Xmas 1971 only saw it performed once on totp. This is incredible and after 46 years this is unearthed- makes u think what a great song it was!
WHY don't people SING like this today. No outlandish costumes, VULGAR lyrics, Screaming, synthesized voices, IT'S ALL GARBAGE!!!! THIS is music. THIS is TALENT. I could listen to this all day. The world has changed a lot in the last 40 years.....and NOT for the better!!! Thank you Congregation for this Music. It speaks to my soul even today. I was about 8 or 9 when I first heard this. It's just as Beautiful today.
I was only 10 when I heard this song. I fell in love with the words and the melody. It's now 2022 and this song brings back sweet memories of love and tears in my eyes.
Nobody forgets the sensation they felt when they first heard his voice come in; how primeval and uplifting it was, and is. Adding the purity of he opening to the cauldron was musical alchemy.
@@paulmartin3682 I see ONE person watching him, at least somewhat. It’s the man on the far right close to the conductor, who looks like he could be related to both the conductor, and also related to the young man standing to the left of him.
This was the first single that I ever bought (I was 13) - 49p from Woolworths. Still love it - the contrast of the pure girls' voices in the choir against the rough, rocky voice of Brian Keith is really unique. The fashions in this clip really take me back.
Angels in Heaven !!! just heard this song on the radio it's must be at least 50 years since I last heard it. Goosebumps an Tears flooding through me, I just played this video over an over, it's feels like someone you loved who'd passed away an miraculous reincarnated decades later
I have no idea how I came across this video but I love this song! Have played it over and over. I especially love the director, who is directing quite furiously, and not one singer is watching him.
Fantastic record, brings back happy memories of Christmas 1971. This video seems to have everything: Ed Stewart dressed as a pirate, a Jimi Hendrix lookalike on guitar, beautiful girls in the choir and a conductor who appears to be on acid. Magic! They don't make 'em like this anymore.
I was 17 when this lovely song came out and I had just met a new boyfriend whom I've now been married to for 49 years, so nice memories. The lead singer used to be in a group called ' Plastic Penny' and they had a hit song called Everthing I am. His voice is very powerful and distinguishable. Happy memories. ❤️
I was twenty four in 1972 when I first heard this song,I cried through the whole song because I was so much in love with a men that I had to let go for all the right reasons-my heart never fully healed,it was left with a void and a longing.
I was 12 when this came out and it reminds me of Xmas past and all the wonderful non commercial things about Xmas in those days . This recording still gives me goosebumps
Brilliant :) The girls back then were so lovely. I was 15 at the time and now I could cry when I see certain music vids from the early 70's. I miss that silly lad that I was back in those days. Life was so good back then. Lots of great mates and lovely girlfriends. The music from that period really brings the memories back the most though.
me too. out on the piss every weekend with my mates, blowing a weeks wages on a pair of shoes, and getting all silly over some young lovely. I thought I'd be jumping jack flash forever. where did half a century go
Everything about this performance is top class, from the 4 lovely angelic voices, the main choir and of course the power of Brian Keith's voice. A true classic.
Just wanted to say I am married to Stephen Huckle but my name was Elaine Minion but Elaine Kemp before that.I was the one in in the orange dress at the end of the row..
+Stephen Huckle Such a wonderful, moving song. To Elaine K, M & H - - really liked this one after first hearing it back in the early 70s. Had not heard it since, until 4-5 days ago. Talk about deja vu ... wow!
Hi Jim Haven't heard this in forever lol Lead singer looks like Rasputin lol Great song, very powerful. Talk about a blast from the past we don't usually get to hear. I'll have to check out some of their other songs. Thanks :o)
Toni, One of the best things about RUclips - - the related videos they show to the right side of each music video. I can't even remember what video I was watching when this one was shown over in the related videos section. I might not have found it otherwise. Kind of like stumbling over a rock on a trail and finding a rare gold coin, lol. I think this one was a one-and-done studio recording without them even making an album. The other neat thing about RUclips - - viewer comments that lead to finding little known, seldom played songs. The lead singer (Rasputin's double), Brian Keith, was part of a late 60's U.K. band called Plastic Penny that lasted LESS than one year (1967-1968). I listened to their best known U.K.song only part-way the other day because, to me, it was kind of a dud!! Totally unlike this one, which I keep replaying since finding it. Look in the YT search box for Plastic Penny to find the song. I forgot the song title since it didn't interest me at all.
I was just going to ask you the title bc I see there's quite a few songs after their name. It's not a wonder they didn't last long if all their songs were so so. I'll give it a look see. Yes, I know what you mean, I found some gems too through YT. I also belong to a music trivia room and I'm constantly writing songs down that don't ring a bell. YT usually has the ALL.:o)
people who like this sort of song are always such nice people. we all got along so much better back in the day. id go back in time in a heart beat if i could. i too have fucked my life up big time on occasions but life is still good if you can see the beauty in a song or nature. be happy everyone.xx
We've all made mistakes in growing. I wish I could change so decision that were made. However, as you put it life does go on and I'm happy enough. And when hearing music at this level. And it's positive music does make you feel content.
That's because there was a time when everyone had shoulders that were relaxed and sloped downward instead of backs that arched in offense at every word. Things rolled right off average people then.
Wow this takes me back to my childhood, listening to this song and imaging falling in love, and being too young to understand. Now after many decades and finding my own soul mate; partner; lover; and the person with whom will live the remainder of my days. So happy to revisit this song!
When I was in Grade 12, at Saint John High School in NB Canada (Canada's oldest high school!) I was lucky enough to go on an educational cruise around the Mediterranean with a load of classmates. the SS Nevasa! November 1972. Each morning the English crew would wake the dorms full of kids with music of the country we were visiting, REALLY LOUD, over the loudspeaker system. The final day of the cruise, we had docked at Southampton during the night and they woke us with this song. Never, ever will forget it
I loved this song but couldn't admit that as a 12 year old.Takes me back to a better time when life was still ahead of me.Miss the friends and family of those innocent days forever
The male vocal had a nostalgic voice! I heard this song in the 70s on the radio. It stuck subconsciously until now. I found it via listening to Paul Youngs version. Would never have known Paul Young wasn't the original singer had it not been through RUclips
I was a junior in High School when this was released, was going through a dark episode in my young life and I would hear this song on the radio and it had a calming effect, it sounded like the voices of angels telling me that all would be alright. It was a bit haunting at the time compared with the rest of the music on the charts.
Likewise. There’s something about that era, the flip over from the 60s to the 70s… I can’t quite put it into words. That video, music & song says it all for me..
I just heard the original version of this in the 60s by the the 2 writer's cook and greenaway as David and jonerthan but always loved this version best.
A fantastic job.. ! As the original recording had no sound, you’ve done the dubbing almost seamlessly. All bar the lead break, in which you had no option really. Great bit of editing. I can see you guys have worked hard on this, so10 out of 10 for this great track being bought to life. Thanks.
I'm really so happy to have this life during the time I did ... awesome to have the net to look back ... peace and love to y'all watching and enjoying it now
The band is "The English Congregation", Brian Keith's gravelly voice and the distorted guitar makes it a classic love song, my girlfriend in highschool loved this song and I remember singing it to her when they played it for a dance... sweet memories...
They are 'The Congregation'. It is only in the US that they feel the need to name them 'The English Congregation' to avoid confusion with their own 'The Congregation'
I stumbled upon this song recently and have played it repeatedly since then. I can remember when I first heard it and I was trying to figure out the lyrics because although I loved his voice hearing it on the radio distorted it a little. I would stop the record over and over to catch each word. I believe I purchased the album or was there even a full album? I can remember the cover had the bearded man standing in front of the choir on the cover, I think. Anyway, I played it so many times stopping and starting that my mother got tired of it and wouldn't allow me to play it when she was around. I know he doesn't appeal to everyone but I thought the lead singer was really sexy, as did all of my friends. I am so happy that I grew up in the 60' and 70's when real music was made. I am also thankful that you have preserved this little gem for us to see over and over.
Same thing for me. When you find a song on RUclips that you haven't heard in over 40 years, it is a special occasion. Especially, if the song title and artist / band / or group have faded from memory. Something about the choir like chorus and lead singer Brian Keith's voice blending together sets it apart, imo. Kudos to paulsupanet & RUclips. :-)
I was about 14 when this came out and my girlfriend at the time regarded this as 'our song'. When I hear it now, I'm reminded of innocent snogs at parties, the smell of hairspray and Brut, and running for the last bus home or waiting for a parent to collect us (ideally out of sight of everyone else). Though the irony of a song called "SOFTLY WHISPERING I love you" bellowed out by a hairy beardy man with a Hendrix lookalike guitarist was probably lost on us at the time.
I agree with you, if that's the male vocalist's idea of "softly whispering" what is his shouting going to be like? I thought the guitarist looked like Derek Griffiths!
@Crispin Coulson. Brilliant comment and exactly what my life was like. The smells. Badedas bubble bath, Hai Karate or Brut aftershave. Just joyous times!
@@joanne4850 My boyfriend at the time was a skinhead. Crombie coat, bovver boots, tough as hell after 6months in Borstal, smelling of Hai Karate...irresistible 😂
The 4 angels starting and ending this are incredible,such perfect voices and such lovely girls,and probably the last really English choir to make such beautiful sounds.A masterpiece which should have been much longer.
Remember this at 16, the intensity of emotions in my head were overwhelming, maybe they are still in my head but I cant find them anymore.. Thanks for lovely memory my friend..
How I love this song, so many memories of my youth. I wonder if any of the singers look this up these days? It would be nice if one of them dropped a comment and gave their story of this day and said hello! x
@@stevekenney2804 Feel for you both gents. Cannot imagine how I will react when it's my turn to face her loss. Can't bear the thought of me going first and leaving her to cope alone, I fear that more than I fear being without my Sicilian beauty however. An old army mate of mine lost his wife of over 50 years last month and it has quite literally destroyed him. A big, tough, very hard man who faced and coped with anything thrown at him except this. Take care gents - we should be manly enough to admit to our frailties and you two are demonstrating it. There are many who cannot voice their pain and will be sat with a tear running down their face wishing they had your courage to admit publicly their grief.
@@Scaleyback317 No one knows the pain of losing a loving wife. The guilt, the regret and the missing the everyday stuff. I still have a little weep everyday 2years and 8 months on.
@@stevekenney2804 Tough to listen to mate not least because I fall into the bloke trap of thinking there must be something I can do to help - then waking up to the reality, of course, there isn't. It's your personal pain and nobody can understand nor help and the more anybody is likely to try the worse it's likely to make the situation. Words seem trite and insincere somehow and the magic wand abilities escaped this mere mortal. Life sometimes is just shite eh!? No stranger to grief, lost a couple of children along the way but I just know the worst is yet to come if and when my princess goes first. Words are failing me mate - and won't help you even if I had the gift of a Shakespeare. Take care.
Wonderful! I was 15, this video takes me right back and reminds me of the fashions and hairstyles of my youth. The girls are just as I remember, no tattoos, no face piercings, no coloured hair, plastic noses or balloon lips, or Groucho eyebrows - just ordinary and natural. I give thanks I grew up in the '70's.
well said m8
Absolutely agree there, just lovely natural young girls as I so well remember from the great 70’s I too was 15 at the time like you say it just takes you back, not a song that is played much but I have it on a sd card in my car and when it plays I instantly see those 4 lovely girls at the start, captured forever in my mind just beautiful…. those days are long gone but the memories live on.
@@David-dz8jb couldn’t agree more spot on mate
Well said, Steve. I'm also very glad I grew up in the 1970s, listening to quality music from many different genres, including unique hits like this one...
Yep, I'm 64 years old and music is an emotional trip back in time, brings a happy tear to my eye when I hear music from that time of innocence, love it.
My Darling wife Gerda that I lost too covid loved this song and I cry my eyes out every time I listen too this song
May be with her more sooner than later ❤
I hope joy fills you in a way only God can.
Be strong my friend she’s probably still singing but in her sleep 🤔
Gerda is with you everyday, and wants you to enjoy whatever life you have left until you take the next step 👍
Feeling your loss. May she rest in peace.
Nobody dies--the spirit lives on. Keep the faith 🙏 ❤
72 years young now and this still sends a shiver up my spine. What a voice he had.
A nice song but did you know he was miming on this video
@@gordon39 I would have been surprised had you claimed otherwise
Guitar so fundamental too.
This song also send shivers down my spine. Must be my all time favourite. Fabulous voice
Fabulous song ❤
A beautiful song and beautiful ladies happy days
I loved this song when it was released in 1971 and still love it in 2021, where have all those years gone? This is truely a 'timeless classic'.
Exactly my story as well. I was into Led Zeppelin, Uriah Heep and Deep Purple and then came this song and I couldn’t stop listening to it. I dont listen to heavy metal all that much anymore, but still listen to my vinyl copy of The Congregation.
@@edteach3r Now you're telling "my" story.
@@diyallegrobusrepairmods5585 Amen, Brother. 😊
I always liked this song. Unbelievable how young I was in 1971. It's great to actually see the people who sang it. Beats an AM radio or a 45.
I haven't heard this since I was a kid. It makes me so happy when these songs pop up and remind me.
When I was 17, I loved this beautiful song, now in august 2021 I am 68 and still love and sing it. It makes something moves withing my heart and brain, fellings and memories.
Hugs from México City.
Exactly, same here.
Yes I’m the same age as you born 54, love this song as much as you. ❤️❤️❤️
More Hugs !
Also born 54. Remember this when at 17 I was joining the Royal Navy.
Also a 54 boy
Loved this song in the 70s. Listening to it in 2023 it still sounds great.
Classics don't die just get better with age
I cried when I first heard this song in 1972 aged 25, 45 years later it still touches me.
Very touching song I remember this in 1970s my mum loved it made number one in the charts gail
Me too and and i was only 11 then. Loved it then and still love it now even though im coming up 60 this year. That guys got incredible passion in his voice. Makes me want to cry with joy and not sadness.
I was quite a bit younger than 25...... actually about 7.
But I was always moved by the lyrics of this song.
It took me another 20 years before I was able to get my own copy of this.
Such a moving song.
@@gailwilson342 number 4!
So did I, was 15... and still can cry when I haar this. The high voices of the mainly girls choir, contrasting the strong voice of Keith, does it...
I listen to this when I really miss my late Helen which is almost daily softly whispering I love you
Wow, still gives me goosebumps even now. That man's voice!
exactly the same feelings I had back then and I have theese days.
I love this song for many many reasons but the main reason is that my darling angel Gerda loved it with me
and those angelic young ladies
He’s still a session singer.
his name is brian oshea he comes from port glasgow Scotland great song
Efter over 50 år lytter jeg stadig til denne sang, bliver aldrig træt af den!
I was just 14 when this song came out and I bought the 45rpm single, that I still have. Now I'm 62 and it is still my favourite song of all time. It never ceases to make me feel good. Unbelievably, this is the first time I have ever seen the video. Happiness is.....
IT IS A TRULY BEAUTIFUL LOVE SONG, the best. Amazing sound.
I heard this song in 1972. It was revived in about 2011 but I never knew it’s title until one day I asked my younger sister. Of course she immediately responded, ‘It’s softly whispering by The Congregation!’ I had been searching the song for years!!!
Memories 💞🥰💟 Music takes us on a journey.
😢
I'm now 70 love love love this song from the first moment I heard it 💃💃💃💃💃💃💃😍🙆💛❤️💃
Thats two of us
I have the LP. How blessed am I?
BLESSED!!!!
I'm 75 and surely this is what music is all about,caring, being, living, loving, life ! 💜🙏🏴
Loved it in 1971 and love it in 2023 what a voice what a tune and what memories of great times
Best and happiest times
I LOVE the comments here about this wonderful song - it's very nice to know there are so many like me, filled with nostalgia for those simpler days which are now so long ago.
When I was 16 I could cry with emotion listening to this song.. I was such a messed teenager.. Still love it..
You mean the days when we had to put up with Jimmy Savle?
@@jahno7154 LOL, there was also slaughter in Ireland and napalm in Vietnam, but for young children like me, who had NO RESPONSIBILITY for such outside events, these simpler sweeter times were so so much happier. Got it now ??
@@ysgol3 Oh your absolutely they were much happier times I loved watching television in the 70s when i was a child apart from Bernard Manning and the Black and White Minstrel show. I liked Rolf Harris he was very entertaining and i liked Jimmy Savile's clunk click advert, there was Top of the Pops whats happened to that ? everyone used to look forward to Thursday to tune in to TOTP it just shows you what todays music has become. Today we have to put up with reality shows which is so vulgar with disgusting looking tattoos fake tans and swear words, i can go on and on but my Grammer is so poor,but these days i just watch watch a lot of sport and RUclips thank God for RUclips !
Not if you were American and dropped out of school,you would be drafted and sent off to die in the jungles of Vietnam thats why I stayed in college and became a musician so the 60s dream would forever dwell in my heart and imagination .Peace and love.
I’m speechless. Have just stumbled on this gem. The wonders of utube . Bought the single Xmas 1971 only saw it performed once on totp. This is incredible and after 46 years this is unearthed- makes u think what a great song it was!
Wow, I am 65, but this song brings me right back to age 14 in 1972. Brilliant!
Never tire of listening to this, love everything about it
Just wish the song was longer.
Love the backing singers introducing still love it now at 70yrs old
The girls up front remind me of high school. By the 1971-72 year the girls were allowed to wear pants or slacks. Times were changing.
WHY don't people SING like this today.
No outlandish costumes, VULGAR lyrics, Screaming, synthesized voices, IT'S ALL GARBAGE!!!!
THIS is music. THIS is TALENT. I could listen to this all day.
The world has changed a lot in the last 40 years.....and NOT for the better!!!
Thank you Congregation for this Music. It speaks to my soul even today. I was about 8 or 9 when I first heard this. It's just as Beautiful today.
Beam Me Up
Beam me up too - totally agree 👍
Because they can't!!
Yes they can , its just they are being suppressed by people in the music industry @@billwellington4222
And no ugly tattoos either.
You are right....modern music is ALL Garbage.
But even worse much of it is utterly BORING.
By the way, In the 70's stars did wear outlandish costumes.
I was only 10 when I heard this song. I fell in love with the words and the melody. It's now 2022 and this song brings back sweet memories of love and tears in my eyes.
A brilliant wonderfull song fantastic
Nobody forgets the sensation they felt when they first heard his voice come in; how primeval and uplifting it was, and is. Adding the purity of he opening to the cauldron was musical alchemy.
Sincerity from his heart 🎉
the conductor is a joy to watch, puts his heart & soul into this performance, Wonderfull song.
Yes love to watch a conductor at work
Yes but there is not one person out of the choir paying attention to him 🤣
@@paulmartin3682 I see ONE person watching him, at least somewhat. It’s the man on the far right close to the conductor, who looks like he could be related to both the conductor, and also related to the young man standing to the left of him.
@@peterashworth3427 while not a soul is watching him. They are all staring at their song sheets . He is in fact totally superfluous
Those four young women singing in the front are superb eye-candy! What a treat! And fabulous singing voices.
Totally
It takes something like this wonderful work once merely taken for granted, to make you realise what we have lost.
This was the first single that I ever bought (I was 13) - 49p from Woolworths. Still love it - the contrast of the pure girls' voices in the choir against the rough, rocky voice of Brian Keith is really unique. The fashions in this clip really take me back.
You nailed it in describing the vocals :)
Angels in Heaven !!! just heard this song on the radio it's must be at least 50 years since I last heard it. Goosebumps an Tears flooding through me, I just played this video over an over, it's feels like someone you loved who'd passed away an miraculous reincarnated decades later
This song always gives me goosebumps loved it in 1971 ...
I have no idea how I came across this video but I love this song! Have played it over and over. I especially love the director, who is directing quite furiously, and not one singer is watching him.
Fantastic record, brings back happy memories of Christmas 1971. This video seems to have everything: Ed Stewart dressed as a pirate, a Jimi Hendrix lookalike on guitar, beautiful girls in the choir and a conductor who appears to be on acid. Magic! They don't make 'em like this anymore.
Not to mention the sexy lead dude with the gravelly voice :)
Possibly the best comment on YT I’ve ever read. 😂
Don't forget Jimmy Hill on lead vocals.
Is that not Phil Lynott from thin Lizzie on guitar
@@Jojoseahorse He is session singer, Brian Keith.
My poor old mum loved this record. The 70’ what a decade. 👍
It always results in my being branded an 'old fart', but I will persist in asking: why can't any current song come close to something like this?
I was 17 when this lovely song came out and I had just met a new boyfriend whom I've now been married to for 49 years, so nice memories. The lead singer used to be in a group called ' Plastic Penny' and they had a hit song called Everthing I am. His voice is very powerful and distinguishable. Happy memories. ❤️
nice song of thursday 30 december 1971
love this song still listening in dec 2023
Such a great song fantastic memory.
I was twenty four in 1972 when I first heard this song,I cried through the whole song because I was so much in love with a men that I had to let go for all the right reasons-my heart never fully healed,it was left with a void and a longing.
Those girls melt your heart.
All probably in their late sixties now!
I was 12 when this came out and it reminds me of Xmas past and all the wonderful non commercial things about Xmas in those days . This recording still gives me goosebumps
When life was worth living, beauty was real, music mattered, art was unpretentious and to be young and in love was bliss.
Beauitiful. Takes me back to special time in my life!
stupendous, stunning, sensational, ELECTRIC!! Why hasn't this video got 100 million views?
I totally forgot about this song ! What a pleasure to hear it again after so many years … They just don't do stuff like this any more
Oh my days what a great voice he literally gave me goosebumps
Incredibly beautiful song...cannot get tired of it.
I look this up every Christmas. Makes me happy and sad all at once. I was 14 then. 😊
Thank goodness for youtube that these clips are still available to all....a truly fantastic song!
This lovely song brings memories of my teenager ages to me.
Brilliant :) The girls back then were so lovely. I was 15 at the time and now I could cry when I see certain music vids from the early 70's. I miss that silly lad that I was back in those days. Life was so good back then. Lots of great mates and lovely girlfriends. The music from that period really brings the memories back the most though.
I was 16
Fully agree.
Great time.
Not like rubbish to
me too. out on the piss every weekend with my mates, blowing a weeks wages on a pair of shoes, and getting all silly over some young lovely. I thought I'd be jumping jack flash forever. where did half a century go
Everything about this performance is top class, from the 4 lovely angelic voices, the main choir and of course the power of Brian Keith's voice. A true classic.
Everytime I hear this song all I do is get goosebumps one amazing tune
Just wanted to say I am married to Stephen Huckle but my name was Elaine Minion but Elaine Kemp before that.I was the one in in the orange dress at the end of the row..
+Stephen Huckle Such a wonderful, moving song. To Elaine K, M & H - - really liked this one after first hearing it back in the early 70s. Had not heard it since, until 4-5 days ago. Talk about deja vu ... wow!
Hi Jim Haven't heard this in forever lol Lead singer looks like Rasputin lol Great song, very powerful. Talk about a blast from the past we don't usually get to hear. I'll have to check out some of their other songs. Thanks :o)
Toni, One of the best things about RUclips - - the related videos they show to the right side of each music video. I can't even remember what video I was watching when this one was shown over in the related videos section. I might not have found it otherwise. Kind of like stumbling over a rock on a trail and finding a rare gold coin, lol. I think this one was a one-and-done studio recording without them even making an album. The other neat thing about RUclips - - viewer comments that lead to finding little known, seldom played songs. The lead singer (Rasputin's double), Brian Keith, was part of a late 60's U.K. band called Plastic Penny that lasted LESS than one year (1967-1968). I listened to their best known U.K.song only part-way the other day because, to me, it was kind of a dud!! Totally unlike this one, which I keep replaying since finding it. Look in the YT search box for Plastic Penny to find the song. I forgot the song title since it didn't interest me at all.
WOW !!! What a flashback this has to be for you !!! How cool is that??? Few can make the same claim. I hope it was a great experience.:o)
I was just going to ask you the title bc I see there's quite a few songs after their name. It's not a wonder they didn't last long if all their songs were so so. I'll give it a look see. Yes, I know what you mean, I found some gems too through YT. I also belong to a music trivia room and I'm constantly writing songs down that don't ring a bell. YT usually has the ALL.:o)
people who like this sort of song are always such nice people. we all got along so much better back in the day. id go back in time in a heart beat if i could. i too have fucked my life up big time on occasions but life is still good if you can see the beauty in a song or nature. be happy everyone.xx
Dylhan Smith b
Spot on Dylhan, couldn't agree more.
Have to disagree; I love this song but am a total cunt in real life :)
We've all made mistakes in growing. I wish I could change so decision that were made. However, as you put it life does go on and I'm happy enough. And when hearing music at this level. And it's positive music does make you feel content.
That's because there was a time when everyone had shoulders that were relaxed and sloped downward instead of backs that arched in offense at every word. Things rolled right off average people then.
This is the first time I've seen this clip. Loved the song ever since it was released. Thanks for uploading!
Wow this takes me back to my childhood, listening to this song and imaging falling in love, and being too young to understand. Now after many decades and finding my own soul mate; partner; lover; and the person with whom will live the remainder of my days. So happy to revisit this song!
One absolutely beautifully executed song of love.
Never heard this song ever and I was around back then .
...but where????
When I was in Grade 12, at Saint John High School in NB Canada (Canada's oldest high school!) I was lucky enough to go on an educational cruise around the Mediterranean with a load of classmates. the SS Nevasa! November 1972. Each morning the English crew would wake the dorms full of kids with music of the country we were visiting, REALLY LOUD, over the loudspeaker system. The final day of the cruise, we had docked at Southampton during the night and they woke us with this song. Never, ever will forget it
I loved this song but couldn't admit that as a 12 year old.Takes me back to a better time when life was still ahead of me.Miss the friends and family of those innocent days forever
Same, I loved it too ... but if I'd ever admitted it to my mates at the time there would've been hell to pay! :)
I almost forgot this wonderful track from 1972. I was 15 when this hit the charts in the UK. How I miss my beloved parents.
The male vocal had a nostalgic voice! I heard this song in the 70s on the radio. It stuck subconsciously until now. I found it via listening to Paul Youngs version. Would never have known Paul Young wasn't the original singer had it not been through RUclips
Wow the 70s was musically so diverse that every song had a chance of being a hit
I bought this 45 when it first came out. I forgot all about this song till today 02/03/2019. Thank you for uploading.
Simply gorgeous. Job done. That's how you write a song. Sweet as !!!
I was a junior in High School when this was released, was going through a dark episode in my young life and I would hear this song on the radio and it had a calming effect, it sounded like the voices of angels telling me that all would be alright. It was a bit haunting at the time compared with the rest of the music on the charts.
Still sounds great in 2024. Timeless classic.
Can’t believe I was only 11 when this came out so angelic then and now hope you all read this voices of angels
Just love the way they are singing from a song sheets,aids a genuine nostalgic authencitity to it.
Such a beautiful song and sung with pure voices no gimmicks or synthesizer music just incredible
I was 12 years old when this was released, it takes me straight back with tears rolling down my cheeks as I once again get lost in the beauty of it.
Likewise. There’s something about that era, the flip over from the 60s to the 70s… I can’t quite put it into words. That video, music & song says it all for me..
Thank you for this post! It reminds me of March 1972 in Bern (in der Schweiz/Switzerland).
I just heard the original version of this in the 60s by the the 2 writer's cook and greenaway as David and jonerthan but always loved this version best.
Thank you Paul for at long last, posting the full version. The last one cut off the best part
Such a beautiful song! I remember it well. Thanks for posting this.
A fantastic job.. ! As the original recording had no sound, you’ve done the dubbing almost seamlessly. All bar the lead break, in which you had no option really. Great bit of editing. I can see you guys have worked hard on this, so10 out of 10 for this great track being bought to life. Thanks.
65 yes old, still brings back memories from long ago
What an amazing song, absolutely beautiful and uplifting
I'm really so happy to have this life during the time I did ... awesome to have the net to look back ... peace and love to y'all watching and enjoying it now
Just brilliant. Thank you RUclips
Memories of trying to record this from radio to a cassette player in the 70’s without the fancy software and cables we now have available to us.
The band is "The English Congregation", Brian Keith's gravelly voice and the distorted guitar makes it a classic love song, my girlfriend in highschool loved this song and I remember singing it to her when they played it for a dance... sweet memories...
They are 'The Congregation'. It is only in the US that they feel the need to name them 'The English Congregation' to avoid confusion with their own 'The Congregation'
Wow brought back memories of my generation, nothing will ever come close to our music.
A georgeous song I have to admit to have forgotten thank you for posting it
I stumbled upon this song recently and have played it repeatedly since then. I can remember when I first heard it and I was trying to figure out the lyrics because although I loved his voice hearing it on the radio distorted it a little. I would stop the record over and over to catch each word. I believe I purchased the album or was there even a full album? I can remember the cover had the bearded man standing in front of the choir on the cover, I think. Anyway, I played it so many times stopping and starting that my mother got tired of it and wouldn't allow me to play it when she was around. I know he doesn't appeal to everyone but I thought the lead singer was really sexy, as did all of my friends. I am so happy that I grew up in the 60' and 70's when real music was made. I am also thankful that you have preserved this little gem for us to see over and over.
Same thing for me. When you find a song on RUclips that you haven't heard in over 40 years, it is a special occasion. Especially, if the song title and artist / band / or group have faded from memory. Something about the choir like chorus and lead singer Brian Keith's voice blending together sets it apart, imo. Kudos to paulsupanet & RUclips. :-)
Hell yes he IS sexy, incredible voice too :)
What a fantastic song from the incredible 70s.
I was about 14 when this came out and my girlfriend at the time regarded this as 'our song'. When I hear it now, I'm reminded of innocent snogs at parties, the smell of hairspray and Brut, and running for the last bus home or waiting for a parent to collect us (ideally out of sight of everyone else).
Though the irony of a song called "SOFTLY WHISPERING I love you" bellowed out by a hairy beardy man with a Hendrix lookalike guitarist was probably lost on us at the time.
LOL - when I look at our bellowing friend I see Jimmy Hill.
I agree with you, if that's the male vocalist's idea of "softly whispering" what is his shouting going to be like?
I thought the guitarist looked like Derek Griffiths!
@Crispin Coulson. Brilliant comment and exactly what my life was like. The smells. Badedas bubble bath, Hai Karate or Brut aftershave. Just joyous times!
@@acechadwick my brother was a skinhead!
@@joanne4850 My boyfriend at the time was a skinhead. Crombie coat, bovver boots, tough as hell after 6months in Borstal, smelling of Hai Karate...irresistible 😂
This was my first 7" single. Wonderful! I wish I had found a love like this. Beautiful music.xx
The 4 angels starting and ending this are incredible,such perfect voices and such lovely girls,and probably the last really English choir to make such beautiful sounds.A masterpiece which should have been much longer.
I like queen and rush but I'd put this on first truly magical x
Yes - they really helped make the song, the contrast with his voice.. shame they aren't listed.
The one second from the left looks like Carol Vorderman.
"Four angels" is exactly what I thought.
They will be at least 70 yrs old now. How did this happen!
Remember this at 16, the intensity of emotions in my head were overwhelming, maybe they are still in my head but I cant find them anymore.. Thanks for lovely memory my friend..
I first heard this when I was 11, I'm 50 now and still love it. Xxx❤️
I never tire of this song. Have loved it since 1972
What a song!! I really love it and brings me a lot of great memories of the good old days...
How I love this song, so many memories of my youth. I wonder if any of the singers look this up these days? It would be nice if one of them dropped a comment and gave their story of this day and said hello! x
Extreme passion, this is a most beautiful, loving song I have ever saw, plus, this was from Tops of the Pops!!
Who’s still listening to this in Feb 2021. Love it 🥰
I watch this several times a year ... fabulous!
It takes me back to my youth. And there was a very special young lady in my life. So many happy memories.
My deceased wife loved this song every time I listen to I cry my heart out love you for all of eternity Gerda
I'm in the same place mate. Tough going.
@@stevekenney2804 Feel for you both gents. Cannot imagine how I will react when it's my turn to face her loss. Can't bear the thought of me going first and leaving her to cope alone, I fear that more than I fear being without my Sicilian beauty however.
An old army mate of mine lost his wife of over 50 years last month and it has quite literally destroyed him. A big, tough, very hard man who faced and coped with anything thrown at him except this.
Take care gents - we should be manly enough to admit to our frailties and you two are demonstrating it. There are many who cannot voice their pain and will be sat with a tear running down their face wishing they had your courage to admit publicly their grief.
@@Scaleyback317 No one knows the pain of losing a loving wife. The guilt, the regret and the missing the everyday stuff. I still have a little weep everyday 2years and 8 months on.
@@stevekenney2804 Tough to listen to mate not least because I fall into the bloke trap of thinking there must be something I can do to help - then waking up to the reality, of course, there isn't. It's your personal pain and nobody can understand nor help and the more anybody is likely to try the worse it's likely to make the situation. Words seem trite and insincere somehow and the magic wand abilities escaped this mere mortal.
Life sometimes is just shite eh!? No stranger to grief, lost a couple of children along the way but I just know the worst is yet to come if and when my princess goes first.
Words are failing me mate - and won't help you even if I had the gift of a Shakespeare. Take care.
@@Scaleyback317 Thanks. You're right, the pain never ends. You just try and live with it one day at a time.