She's sining to a teacher that changed her and her classmates lives. Sir gave them more than an academic education. He taught them respect, honor and love.
Lulu is Scottish (so am I). She burst onto the scene at 15 with the song "Shout" by Lulu and the Luvers in 1965. You really should hear that. It was a big hit in the UK and she went on to have many more. In 1974 she made a cover of David Bowie's "The Man who Sold the World". While at a party they met and Bowie invited her to the studio to record it with himself and The Spiders from Mars as backup. I recommend that. She has had a long career and still makes albums. Her last one (to date) was in 2015. She was rocking harder than ever and I won't be surprised if she makes another. The one you played is probably the only one most Americans know because of the film. Back in the UK it was the "B" side of a 7" single.
She’s still well known in America. My favorite from her is OH ME OH MY (I’M A FOOL FOR YA BABY) but I love pretty much all her stuff; early and more recent.
This song sung by the one and only LULU. Came out in (1967). It was the title song to the movie by the same name. It stars (Sir) Sidney Poitier as he is called by his students. He plays a black school teacher at a British high school full of white students. The students are unruly and make it difficult for him to teach. He gains their respect and love at the end... With this song being sung by Lulu who also acted in the movie in his honor. One of the best movies ever made...Great reaction as always.
I can tell your American it's not a public school in England you pay to go to public school ha ha also course it was full of white pupils England was nearly all white in mid sixties it was what it was different times England is so much better than America regarding race it always was thank you
I love the movie “To Sir With Love!” Excellent film and a MUST see! Sidney Poitier dripped cool! The way he dressed! The way we moved! Ooooooo! He was something else back in the day! 😍
This was the title song to a movie with the same name "To Sir, With Love" which was released in 1967. About a Black School Teacher (Sidney Poitier) at an inner city high school in London and deals with societal and racial issues, his students called him "Sir". The students were the typical unruly kids, with some of them coming from less than great homes. "Sir" teaches them to respect and love themselves, to see their worth and gives them confidence to achieve what they want in life. Lulu's character sings him this song at the end of the school year to thank him for helping her during a difficult period in her (and all the kids) life.
"TO SIR WITH LOVE " IS ONE OF THE GREATEST MOVIES EVER!!! I never write in Caps BUT IT'S A MUST WATCH FOR ALL AGES!!! Don't miss it!! it really is a great movie... and when Lulu sings this song in the movie it is a real tear-jerker!!
I've loved this movie since I was a teen. Then I discovered it was a book, so I was able to figure out what the girls were 'burning' in the fireplace. 😲
The entire movie is full of tear jerking moments. I just LOVE it. My mom turned me on to all the Sidney Poitier movies...To Sir, Guess Who, Lillies of the Field, etc. He was so elegant.
This song is about a young woman who just graduated high school singing about her teacher Sidney Poitier. When her teacher first started teaching the students gave him a hard time but he taught them how to love and respect. This is who "Sir" is, her teacher Sidney Poitier.
No ..that is Sidney Poitier.The film came out in the mid 1960s where he played a school-teacher in an English school .He was also co-star in Spencer Tracey's last film "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" (1967) which was the one where he marries the white girl. At the time these were very special cross-community/racial statements at a time of unrest ,especially in America.Lulu had already had a few hits as a teenager when she starred with Sidney in this and sang the theme song and this charted in the UK too.
In the US, up till about the mid-60s, we also called teachers (or any adult) Sir & Ma'am. If you weren't calling them by their title & name (Mr./Mrs./Miss So & So), it was Sir or Ma'am.
To Sir, With Love is a brilliant film with Sidney Poitier as the teacher and a teenage Lulu as one of the students. Lulu is in her 70's now and still gorgeous, she is a legend here in the UK. Sidney Poitier sadly passed away recently, a truly great actor.
Your homework this holiday weekend is to watch both, "To Sir with Love" and "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" and your questions will be answered. Both are great movies so it will be the easiest homework assignment ever. Enjoy!
Yup, he is right. Teacher and student relationship. He was a teacher that taught both boys and girls to mature into men and women and get ready to face the world with guts, courage, and respect upon high school graduation. Great movie and great song.
@@christinerobinson9372 Personally I didn't like the movie but liked the song. I found the movie dull and the subject the movie covered (dedicated teacher inspiring his/her students) has been done better many times (imo). Sidney Poitier made a lot of excellent movies but this one is overrated (imo). However I think the song is very good.
@@Amaberean Yeah well, thanks for your deep insightful comments. Everybody contributes what they are able to. But sorry, I just didn't like the movie. If that's a sign of insanity then so be it But I gotta say, I've been called NUTS for a lot more substantial reasons than that. You have a rather lazy standard for "NUTS".
@@keng4847 I respectfully disagree with you. I taught school for 20 years and this movie is one of the things that inspired me to teach. I enjoyed my time as a teacher....but as any teacher will tell you....there are moments when you find yourself in the dumps and at those times, this movie helped me get through those moments. But to be fair....the phrase "different strokes for different folks".
My mpression of the movie when I watched it, was the students were not unruly because of the new teaher, Poitier, but because they were unruly to begin with...most of the other teachers and the principal [headmaster] did not care about these troubled kids. Poitier plays the teacher who does, fights for change single handedly. When most the students ifnd he is standing up for them and cares, they eventually realize they were wrong about him. Excellent movie
The name of the movie was To Sir With Love and many have always felt (me included), that this was the movie he should have won the Academy Award for, and not Lilies of the Field. Even if you watch this movie now ... so many years later, it is still very moving.
You got the movie name right. But no hanky panky went on...lol Brother Sidney was straight up, super moral and ethical. He formed a major emotional connection with his students at a rough, underclass school, in London's East End. By the time they graduated, he was like a hero to them.
They disrespected him only because they basically disrespected everyone including themselves. Unruly students who were unruly before they ever met him. Get it ? It’s not an “everyone deserves respect” film, it’s about growing up and becoming respectful in general.
The most scandalous and nefarious thing that went on in that movie, was that Black teacher dancing with a White woman at the end, during a HS graduation party. :-) Nothing more than that. Classic film, an uplifting film, a must watch.
Great Song!!! I remember I was in the Air Force back then. This is from a wonderful movie. Sidney Poitier was one of my favorite actor. This movie is about him being a teacher and teaching a class of a bunch of white kids who were, to say the least, under achievers and hoods.
Thank you guys for this great review for a great song! 👏🏼👏🏼The movie you’re talking about is “Guess who’s coming to Dinner” a great movie staring the Great Sidney Poitier. “To sir with love” is a movie about a teacher assigned to teach a class of “teenage misfits” in the UK and taught them self respect, and made them realize there are teachers out there that really care about their well being and education. They all end up loving and appreciating this great man! Lovely movie! Always brings me to tears when Lulu sings to him surrounded by all classmates that he taught well. The Death of Mr. Poitier bought me here. May he rest in eternal peace. 🙏❤️😔
Please find the movie To Sir, With Love and watch it. It was WAY ahead of its time and an absolutely brilliant tribute to what it means to love and care for and actually TEACH young adults!!
I had always loved this song but then I was privileged one day I was in England I lived in London England for almost 9 years I got to see this old black and white movie called to Sir with Love with Sidney Poitier I just love the song even more and it just still gets me I fill up with tears because it's just so beautiful and the message
@@janicelangston5310 I actually did not see that movie until I was in the UK in 1985 they only had four channels at that point but it was awesome I just loved it and that's where I got to know all the American movies as well, Marilyn Monroe James Dean Elvis Presley Carrie Grant all of them it was awesome
I love the movie this song is from and titled for. I still have the VHS tape of it, lol. Sidney Poitier's character takes a job as a high school teacher in London with an unruly (to say the least!) class. Lulu acted in the movie and sang this song near the end as an expression of the kids' affection and gratitude for their teacher. Semi-spoiler alert: there was a character in the film who developed a crush on him but it wasn't Lulu. There was also a tv movie sequel done in the 90s, also with Sidney, that continues his story decades later.
Its definitely the same movie. I love Lulu😍. Shes from Scotland, started singing in mid 60s. She's still performing, early 70s. My favorite song from her that really shows her range is OH ME, OH MY!!!
She's from Glasgow in Scotland had her first hit in the early 60s at the age of 15, she was at the peak of her success when she recorded this for the movie To Sir with love set in sixites London. She was married Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees for a few years. She's had a lot of success over the years in the 70s had a major hit with a David Bowie song The Man Who sold the world, which Bowie produced and performed on. She has also recorded a Bond theme and Co wrote a hit for Tina Turner called I don't want to fight used as the theme to the movie What's Love Got to do with it. She still performs and records to this day
My wife and I have always loved this song. Great movie too. Such a classic! I wish I had a teacher just like him. The other movie you're thinking of is Guess Who's Coming To Dinner. But the movie To Sir, With Love is the best. I have such respect for his role and it taught me so much about being respectful to others. As for Lulu, you need to check out her amazing American Idol guest star performance singing this song. She still wins me over.
it's about thanking a mentor portrayed by a black man as a high school teacher who helped his students appreciate his efforts in making them into responsible adults.
Yep... it was from a movie To Sir With Love in 1967. I was 17 and went to a movie theatre in downtown Philly. I loved this movie at the time. Sidney Poitier was a school teacher that wasn't accepted at 1st. In the end it was a different story. He wasn't married in the film. It was good ...he was good....get a chance watch it..🤗👍
Growing up in Baltimore, I attended Western High School.....graduated with the class of 1972......our principal was Angelo Fortunato.....we dedicated this song to him at our graduation.....all these years later....I still tear up when I hear this song.....he did all this for us and more......
No - The teacher (Sir) transformed all from kids in his classroom. Changed their thinking from the petty things the kids thought were important, into young adults who can survive the world. The movie is To Sir With Love.
2nd..! Awe man - My Mom took us kids to see this Movie in 1967 when it came out ..I was 7.......what a Great Movie and SONG....and of course Sidney Poitier as Lead .......chk that movie out if u get a chance "To Sir with Love"
LULU , she had a big hit with a song called SHOUT when she was 15 , she also covered David Bowie's MAN WHO SOLD THE WORLD , she had lots of chart success in UK .
Good song ...from a really good movie. When I think of movies I can remember from the 60s....this is one of the few. In The Heat of the Night; is another. Try them both if you have never seen them. *Mel...the movie Guess Who's Coming To Dinner, another great one, might be the one you are thinking about.* S. Poitier and K. Houghton are in it and it's about their inter-racial marriage.
Lulu uses extensively in the song a musical singing technique call "melisma" where a note/word is changes tone or slides to a different tone. You can hear it in her words, "I", "heart", "love", "end", "sir", ...a very beautiful voice.
Song from a really great movie, To Sir, With Love starring Sidney Poitier (Sir) and new star, Lulu. Worth watching a hundred times over. Be sure you have a couple of boxes of tissues for the ending.
Lulu starred alongside Sydney Poitier in the British movie To Sir With Love and she sang the title song. Lulu had the short red hair in the clips shown of the movie. Lulu had hits with Shout, I'm a Tiger and represented the UK and won the 1969 Eurovision Song Contest with the song Boom Bang A Bang. 1969 is also the year she married her first husband Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees . In the 1990s the Boy Band Take That, asked her to feature with them on their single Relight My Fire. At the age of 73 Lulu is still recording and gigging, and selling her own brand of cosmetics on QVC. Lulu appeared on American Idol singing To Sir With Love ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-GWHMEOgl-rQ.html
Lulu has a great voice. She has blue-eyed soul! Check out her song Oh Me Oh My and her duets with Bobby Womack. I saw her in concert 5 years ago and she still can sing!
"A Patch of Blue" was the film about Poitier befriending a blind white girl to racial times. Shelley Winters is great as the mother. TO SIR WITH LOVE is another Poitier film where he's a teacher bridging the generations during the "age of Aquarius."
You need to watch the movie "To Sir with Love" to get the context of the songs meaning. Excellent movie, starring Sidney Poitier, I suggest you watch all of his early movies, once again music of my youth, such memories ..
The movie you first thought it was, is was "Guess Who's Coming To Dinner" which also starred Sidney Poitier. It won Best Picture at the Oscars. This movie, To Sir With Love is about a black male teacher from British Guyana. He ends up teaching high school in the East end of London. The he teaches the kids much more than their regular curriculum. He teaches them how to respect themselves and others. He gives them hope. He believes in them. No matter how awful they behaved, he kept coming back and teaching. I cry every time I hear this song. It's so beautiful and the movie is one of my very top favorites. Guess Who's Coming To Dinner is another top fave.
A Great Teacher is worth all that and then some, anyone that changes your life onto the right track and Opens Your Mind to the Truth and Facts! Awesome Movie & Song, Thanks Again Shawn & Mel for the Flash Back.
You must see this 1967 movie. Excellent performance by Mr. Poitier, as usual. Lulu was a student in his class in a poor working class section of London. He has a wonderful influence on his students. Lulu was a student in his class and she is thanking him for helping her to mature into a young lady with this song. See it!!!!
The movie you're thinking about is: GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER :) ...Thanks for this reaction. This is one of my FAVE movies and songs of all time!....(along with Grease, and Rizzo's song, 'There are Worse Things I Could Do' :) )
No funny business between students and teacher. In the UK students call their male teachers Sir. The students in this film were unruly and no manners, Sir taught them how to behave, prepare them for life after high school
n the US, up till about the mid-60s, we also called teachers (or any adult) Sir & Ma'am. If you weren't calling them by their title & name (Mr./Mrs./Miss So & So), it was Sir or Ma'am.
This song goes with one of the best movies I've ever seen. Not only is this song depicting exactly what happens in the movie, the movie is a tearjerker...have tissues ready. It's a serious coming of age movie that will leave a forever lasting impression. 😭😍
So I'm doing a binge watch of all the 60s music you guys are doing, and love love them all 💕. 60s had the best simple lyrics and simple stunning melodies. I still remember every word from every song you have reacted to, 'cause I'm old 🤣. Sidney Poitier was in Guess Who Is Coming For Dinner in the 60s, and also in To Sir With Love starring Lulu as well. Sidney was an amazing actor and is 94 years old. 😍👏👏
What a wonderful film set in a school in the East end of London in the '60s. They did a second film some 20 years later set in LA (I think). Watch it - you'll thoroughly enjoy it!!. Lulu next song has to be Shout!.
Lulu is a legend in The UK. She was The Firt Mrs. Maurice Gibb of The Bee Gees and she like so many folks did her Version of "Shout" by The Isley Brothers. In later years she would do a Cover Version of Relight My Fire with Take That who at one point was The UK's Biggest British Boy Band who were created after seeing the success of New Kids On The Block. Also just to let you know that The Brits, Scots, & Irish are brilliant at doing Blue Eyed Soul.
She also sang this song 40 years later in 2007 as a celebrity guest on American Idol and showed that she still has it! Worth a look when you have a moment.
One of my favorite songs, but as great as this song is the movie is such a fascinating and deep classic. Please watch the movie because it is as relevant now as it was then. "Do you two...shake?"
@@sallycripe2697 DH & I were B-11 Jul85 (a training romance that has lasted!). We are living in Bama and went to McClellan on our 30th fill date anniversary. We were quite sad at the deterioration. We got a pic of the Pistol Palace sign (the building was long gone). I got out when our 1st child was born, but DH stayed for 23 years. How long were you in?
@@mj95b I went in in Oct 85, was sent to Korea first duty station, extended and brought hubby over. I went in married, was oldest in my training cycle. Got out when my son was born, March '92. Often think I should hhave stayed in, as did my hubby. Oh well. Haven't been back to 'Bama, but last stationed at Ft. Ritchie, MD, and it was closed soon after I got out.
Hi Shawn and Mel Last Saturday I went to the Royal Albert Hall in London to see Jools Holland and his Rhythm and Blues Orchestra in concert. It's all blues and swing, honky tonk piano and great horns. Jools has been in the business for ever and I was hoping for some special guests. And so it was, he introduced the one and only LULU!! What a coincidence you should react to this. She did three songs including her big UK hit 'Shout'. She's 73 but was whirling round the stage like a youngster, and she still has that fabulous voice. I'd suggest: Shout (1964) The Man Who Sold The World (1974) - a great cover of a David Bowie song The Man With The Golden Gun (1974) - theme to the James Bond movie of the same name and there's a video on RU-vid from 2019 of her singing Relight My Fire with Take That, which was a hit in the UK and Europe in 1993 (Take That was one of those bands that never made it in the US,) Never in my life thought I'd get to see Lulu 1) on stage 2) reviewed by Shawn and Mel!
I absolutely adored Sidney Poitier and his movies! He was so dignified and such a great actor! I’ve seen this movies several times and it’s about a black teacher in a all white British school! Lulu was in the movie as well as singing the title song! Sidney was the first black actor to win an Oscar for a lead role but he was not the first black actor…lol! Check out some of his iconic films like: A Raisin In The Sun, Guess Who’s Coming To Dinner, Lillies of the Field, In The Heat Of The Night, A Patch Of Blue, and many more! He was also a civil rights activist, Rest in Paradise Sir!!❤️❤️
Im a musician, i play 12 instruments and met Ronald Reagan in 1981 I played l big hair metal all through the 80s and lived in Los Angeles I consider my love for music to songs like this, lyrics are the most important. But my passion is the talent that bands have in this era and the 70s it was actually skill
I was 16 sat through 3 showings in one afternoon, three weekends in a row. Fabulous movie and music! I'm 70 now but still feel 16 when I watch this movie.
I have always loved this movie and the singer Lulu made a career out of this song, She was also in the movie. Trust me on this, watch the video "Ladies' Choice - To Sir, With Love" it shows the teacher "Sir" dancing with one of his students on graduation evening. It's so awesome to see how Sir adapts from a slow dance as the band changes gears and goes into a fast song. You guys will love this!
I saw this when I was a young girl.. To sir, with love was one of the best movies i've ever seen And the greatest Actor Sir Sidney.. One of the best actors ever... The movie still affects me .. Beautiful beautiful song made me cry at the end of the movie
She was singing to her teacher for all the students who loved him for teaching them to respect people and so on please 🙏 react to LuLu singing Shout when she was only 16yrs old it will blow your mind also The Boat that I love and I’m a Tiger and there’s many more she a brilliant singer she’s in her 70s now and looks unbelievable she’s really beautiful Love from Denise in Yorkshire England 🏴👏👏👏💕👍🥰👋
Sidney Poitier was a huge star in the early Sixties. We kids sat in our den with Mom watching movies on our small black and white TV. Sidney Poitier, Robert Mitchum, Cary Grant...all huge stars of the day. I had a huge crush on Poitier, like probably every white girl in America. One of my Dad's restaurants at 7th and Alvarado Los Angeles was in a scene in "A Patch of Blue." "Lillies of the Field" is awesome too. His autobiography is a must read. He was a dishwasher in NYC and wanted to act but he was told his Caribbean accent was too strong, so forget it. He listened to the radio and learned his acting voice. He and singer Harry Belafonte were competitive friends. He grew up naturally confident. Prejudice was unknown on their island and he had loving parents. P.S. You're thinking of "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" with Sidney, Hepburn and Tracy.
