I thought I'd make a nice stereo enhanced version from the TV mono for the XL-5 fans as it was also a favorite of mine growing up in the 60's. Hope you like it!
For anyone now 60 or over, this show with its theme tune will never fail to take us back. Closely followed by that B&W Adventures of Robinson Crusoe with its equally nostalgic theme music.
@@yummybaconandeggs8804 It was only later on i realised we had been living through the greatest musical period ever!!!and we had`nt even reached the 70s!!!,truly magical times,to this day i rarely listen to anything from any other period.
Sad as this may seem, I can remember the words to just about all the songs to most of the Gerry Anderson productions from Supercar to Joe 90, and still love them all.
When I was about 10, I would get up at 6:30 AM to watch this and especially hear the song! We received it on KHQ TV from Spokane, WA. Since we lived in Montana, we were in the Mountain Time Zone and didn't have to get up quite so early 😊. Roof and Reddy came on at 7:00 AM.
I was maybe 2-4 yrs in 1985 in Mumbai India..... barely understanding the world but surely remembered XL5 crew and this song ....when i hear it today feels like it was last life.... JUST MAGIC ..........GOLDEN DAYS BEFORE 2000
Born in 1955. I remember crying when I couldn't watch because my parents wanted to go shopping! We thought music and tv was one and done. This was my first Saturday morning Sci-Fi. Bugs had the rest. I swear Elon had XL-5 in mind with the Starship design.
The most brilliant theme tune to a fantastic kids programme, along with Aquamarina from Stingray amongst others. Thank you, Gerry and Sylvia Anderson, for making it the best era to be a kid in. What memories it brings back!
I was 8 or 9 and I loved (I still do) the Gerry Anderson’s shows! Now I’m 65. Supercar, Fireball XL5, Stingray and Thunderbirds are my very favorite ones!
I have seen all the G n S Anderson shows-except this one,part loved Captain Scarlet and UFO( girls wearing purple wigs, futuristic cars) Auckland New Zealand 2022
The sheer wonder that Gerry's productions filled us with ! And the optimism for the future with technology being the answer - rather than the problem. Thank you for this marvellous enhanced version of the theme- you will have made a lot of people very happy !
Awesome memories! Im 63 now but just for a few moments it was 1966 and I was sitting on my living room floor watching FireBall XL-5! Thank you Lord I was born at the best time in history!
I just love this. Only yesterday I stumbled across a guy busking this song in the middle of Aylesbury High Street. It was brilliant. I couldn't believe what I was hearing. I thought nobody knew this song but me. I found myself singing the harmony along with him. I was totally transported back to my young days in the 60s. So wonderful to hear it again.
Back in 1998, HBO made a 12 episode miniseries on how the US got to the Moon titled From The Earth To The Moon. It was excellent, many of the same people who made the film Apollo 13 three years earlier worked on that miniseries. And, episode 5, Spider, on how the Lunar Module was developed, used this song for it's intro.
No, Jenny...there's alot of us that remember this when we were kids. I was in kindergarten when this show came out on Sat. mornings. I went nuts over this show. I begged my dad for a Fireball XL5 lunch box and I got a model rocket which I took to school for show & tell. I always loved the catchy theme song. Great memories. And I like this enhanced version of the theme.
@@q98rt710 There is no doubt the Andersons were way ahead of their time in both innovation and technique. They cut their teeth on Twizzle, Torchy and Supercar, but they really excelled themselves with Fireball XL5. They had finally hit on the nerve that would awaken the early 60s youngsters to science fiction fantasy, and they went on to produce even more big hits with Stingray, Thunderbirds, etc. Not only magnificent in the visual technology that they were able to produce (without computer enhancements!!), but also in coming up with such magical music to hook us even further (another of my favourites is Marina from Stingray). There are so many 60s series that are being reintroduced onto TV now, I really wish they would consider Fireball and Stingray. Trouble is, today's youngsters are used to computer graphics and enhancements. Perhaps those in control think today's kids won't be interested. I think they underestimate today's youngsters. But one thing's for certain - their grandparents will love them!!
Thank you for this! Fireball XL 5 was one of my fave TV shows as a kid, along with Thunderbirds Are Go! and Stingray. This end theme song brings back so many happy memories of watching this show as a kid (I'm 62 years young now).
I loved all of these shows,I haven't heard this song for decades but could still sing along with it! That shows what an influence it had on a six year old boy! Absolutely brilliant, thank you Gerry and Sylvia Anderson.💙👍💙💙💙💙👍👍👍
All young eyes were riveted on a bright future in the early 1960's...and Fireball XL5, more than any other children's television show at the time, brought that bright future into stark focus. Every single boy and girl watching the show became transformed in their mind's eye into Steve and Venus...and growing older, our aim was true to that future. But grand dreams either progress into brighter, grander dreams...or darker, malevolent nightmares. As we cross the dividing line between imagination and reality, we often long to return to that original bright dream that held so much hope and promise...which brings us here together. All of us Fireball XL5 fans have had to slowly watch the world of hate that nowadays surrounds us, systematically destroy the highest hopes and aspirations of today's children...which is unbearable. We'll preserve what can of course, and like every older generation does just before it flickers out, we'll pass our highest hopes and dreams forward when possible to future generations. "But though I'm not a spaceman, famous and reknown, I'm just a guy who's down to earth with both feet on the ground. It's all imagination... I'll never reach the stars. My heart is still a Fireball... a Fireball... Everytime I gaze into your starry eyes!" My Venus is gone now...but if you've got yours, kiss her for me willya? And tell her that's from Steve.
"It`s all imagination,i`ll never reach the stars... ",that line almost brings a tear to my eye,the bad guys took over our world and kill us in our millions,where are our heros to save the day?,it seemed so simple then,launch Fireball XL5,ready Venus.?...ready Steve...and the bad guys never stood a chance.
This was my favorite show when I was 9 yrs old. Also loved Stingray. Always wished these shows had been available through syndication in the Cleveland OH market. Really grieved when they were taken off the air. Thanks for the memories!!!
Hey ladies. Thank you. And do not ever forget that Mrs. Sylvia, and many of the puppeteers, and the costume designers and dressers, were all proper British ladies. GOD Bless them all!! Hip, hip, HOORAH!!!!!!
This was our most favourite serial 50 years back. Memories of captain Steve zodiac and all visits to different planets. One remarkable visit to a planet where most people died by Corona and children left over. Another visit to a planet with a lonely powerful Alien refusing to let them leave . This is still the best
I had one of those lunchboxes in second grade, and apparently many flashbacks the same as you're all having in watching that video. My Dad watch every new show with me on Saturday mornings back then. He was a real rocket scientist, developing lunar lander rocket engines for Surveyor.
"Fireball XL-5" originally came out way before my time. But, I was lucky to have this available through one of my Roku channels. "Supercar", also had it's own channel. They were all awesome to see. Unfortunately, those shows are no longer offered. But, not before I'd seen them all - several times.
14 years old, as of now and I’m so happy that I stumbled upon the miraculous worlds of Gerry Anderson. XL5 has a sort of bond like thunderbirds, you can never forget it once you see it and the supermarionation series will forever be the greatest.
That XL5, man. It would go roaring down that launch track, and into the air. But when needed, that nose section would detach and fly off to accomplish the mission. The one toy I wanted but never got.
Amazing to see everything in colour. We didn't get electricity to the House until 1970. And a Television Set way out of budget until 1976... I look forward to some more great features.
I got into this show as a teenager in the late 90s, purely because of the theme song. It was part of a nightly retro block on this one channel I’d watch instead of going to bed at a reasonable time 😂
It is hard to explain how influential this was to me as a 10 year old who already loved planes and stars. Now I'm 65, and while I became a commercial pilot and instructor, we never went back to the Moon or explored/colonized the solar system. It is so disappointing to me that we have yet to live up to our potential. Hopefully Musk and others can make that dream a reality.
Yeah. I remember something of those days. The time when visiting our sister worlds in this corner of the Milky Way were just far-off dreams We smiled at in our slumbers. When you could pay for the phone call to hear Sputnik beeping it's way around the Earth. When captured Nazi V2's were no longer weapons of mass terror, but extensions of our own insatiable curiosity. But, like so many things in our time here, like the New Camelot, it was cruelly taken away from us, left in our own pool of pain, regret and what is now called the, " WTF?" response. I'm 61 and remember seeing the dawn of the space age, the beginning of the muscle car, civil unrest from our generation to change things for the better. Guess we could've done better?...
I am about the same age as you William Seigler. I grew up to work on the design of the Space Shuttle as an engineer and was twice a candidate for astronaut mission specialist. I always thought the horizontal takeoff on a rail was the ideal way to go. We still don't have mass fraction ratio and Isp sufficient to achieve the single stage to orbit, but those Fireball XL5 designers were ahead of their time!
Loved this show as a kid too. Too bad I was born a girl in a repressive traditional family that regularly crushed my dreams. I get a little irritated at Steve Zodiac's sexist quips to Venus, you know, she's a doctor at least but still expected to serve food and coffee. Geez.
We were spoiled rotten by 60s TV,it really was incredible considering we only had 2 TV channels in the UK until 1967,unlike today where we have thousands of cannels of dross.
I'm 57 and I remember most of Gerry Anderson's supermarionation series. I could watch these and forget that weren't real. As you get older you start to realise how much work must have gone into these series.
Los que ya pasamos los 60 años fuimos testigos de una época maravillosa. Cuando las cosas se hacían con mucha paciencia, amor y sin tanta tecnología. Y esta canción como pocas sintetiza aquel tiempo maravilloso. Inolvidable melodía, que siempre permanece en nuestra memoria. Gran trabajo de remasterización. Saludos
Oh man , this really brings me back ! I was 6 years old when I first saw Fireball XL5 and seeing that model and the coloring book and the Lunchbox makes me wish I was a little kid living in the 60's again . Loved the Theme song too ! Thank you for the wonderful trip down memory lane , it warms my heart to see and hear this again !
I also would have been about 6 or 7 I loved the show for Robbie the robot and the theme tune , it's great to see Don Spencer the Australian singer of the theme still fit and well at 83 years old
Since this show came out when I was barely old enough to remember watching TV, I don't remember much about the series other than the name of the spaceship and what it looked like. I remember just a bit more about the show after it, Stingray and how the bad guys travelled around in a ship that looked like a big fish. I think what I do remember was due to coloring books since both of these series had them. I always got at least one coloring book about something for Christmas. A new coloring book and a Crayola box of 64 crayons with the sharpener in the box was my mother's go to solution for a rainy day.
In the 80’s I was working in Namibia and the§res no street lighting around most places. When I walked I sing this song along with Aqua Marina. I haven’t heard this full version for donkey years but word for word remember it !
I loved this show when it originally aired. I was 5 years old and thought it was so cool (without even being familiar with the concept of "cool" ). This was way before Star Trek, any sort of computer animation, etc.
Very skilful, like the stereo spread. Drums on left and it strangely brings out the backing vocals and also the sound of an organ at times. Bet you had fun making this.
Great theme song! "XL5" aired on NBC in the early 60s, the same time ABC aired "The Outer Limits" and CBS aired "The Twilight Zone". It can be safely said that all three networks had an interest in sci-fi at this time.
Off course you will we all recognise good music that we can hear the lyrics too and you're dad dancing in the front room, then dig out those sixties classics.
I love this! This is one of the first songs I remember. I’m now in my 60’s and my parents were way ahead of the times. I got a Fireball XL5 ship as a Christmas present along with Barbies and my favorite Breyer model horses. . I’ve noticed there aren’t many women posting here but I bet there are some who like me loved Fireball XL5 too. Being the age I’m, I was influenced by the NASA space program and the Moon Landing. I think kids today with all the special effects in movies can’t appreciate what a big deal this all was.
Yup I am female also loved Supercar, Astro boy, Fireball XL 5. My mom wanted girly girl. Oh well Dad raised me on steam trains, fighter jets, ships, trolley cars. Only doll I liked was Barbie didn't push baby dolls in carriage only stuffed animals. Big animal lover always. I am 65. We had the best times. My cousin made fun of me cause I said the puppets were good looking 😆
This song was probably the best part of the show. I still remember it (vaguely) all these years later -- 1965, American TV on Saturday mornings. I don't think I've ever seen re-runs either (until the internet age). The singer reminds me a bit of Gerry Marsden (of Gerry & The Pacemakers).
Well, the song does have a merseybeat like sound since it's british which may remind you of Gerry and The Pacemakers, but apart of that, i also remember watching this show as a kif in the 1960's but never re-runned again the later 1960's or into the 1970's, probably because it's in B&W, but at least i have the complete DVD Box set, and a tin lunch box.
Nice to see there was a Golden Book on the series. The Black and White Anderson series were before my time (born 1959) although I am familiar and very fond of his 60s series.
Wow Kenn: Great Minds think alike! I loved the TV show and always loved the Barry Gray version of the song. You did an awesome job on it. The distorted TV audio gives it kind of a neuvo charactoristic mixed in with the digital stereo tracks. Thanks again. Looking forward to hearing your other 268 enhanced tunes. Best Regards, Gary
Wow I can still remember playing with my Fireball XL5 model, I always thought it was so much cooler than any thunderbird. I'm actually thinking just who could play Steve Zodiac in a big Hollywood film. I guess it would have to be Tom Cruise because he's around the same size as the actual puppet 🚀🚀🚀
Denita Arnold. Well spotted I hadn't thought of that. But as Tom loves to do his own stunts, I'm sure he would be up for dying his hair 🤷🏻♂️💇🏻♂️💇🏼♂️🤷🏼♂️
