je suis d'accord, ces années étaient exceptionnelles et pétillaient de bonheur (Vladimir Cosma, Licari, Legrand, Roubaix, De Funès, Pierre Richard, Jacques François, le mouvement hippie, les pattes d'éléphant, .... tout était libre, heureux, en tout cas plus que maintenant)
Here in 2023, anyone from this generation will agree, the 70's will live forever, this music is timeless, the good old days bell bottom pants, platform shoes, 8 track players, etc.
Man I hear this and I'm thrown back in time... 8 years old, sitting in the back seat of Dad's 1973 Trans Am as he tore ass down the turnpike with his three oldest boys, on our way to one of our adventures and great songs like this blasting out of the 8-track as we sang along like pint-sized rock stars...
It was part of a movie "The man from Hong Kong" filmed in Australia and jointly produced in Hong Kong and Australia in around 1975. Notably one of the actors was George Lazenby who was previously a James Bond actor.
Summer of 1975. I was 14. The best days of my life. Songs like this are the soundtrack to an era that shall never come again. Someone please build a time machine.
@@timvest8141 I never went to any of my high school reunions. As much as I miss being 14, I do not miss high school or any of the people that attended mine.
One of the amazing aspects of this song is the arrangement. Whoever did this is a musical genius. From the start, with the swirling strings, the punctuating xylophone, and then the brass, and especially at the end with the fluglehorns, which give the final dramatic crescendo while Des hits his "Hiiiiiiiiii..." It's just astounding stuff all around. [I've since found out that the arranger is Richard Hewson, whose work I know from the Bee Gees, the Beatles "The Long and Winding Road," and many, many other artists. So no wonder it's such a brilliant arrangement. Kudos to producer Chas Peate, as well.]
This tune is quintessential '70's pop. This hit was playing non-stop on AM and some FM stations. Definitely a song to be included on one of those "K-Tel" greatest hits albums.
I just can't believe I missed this one from the 70's. I was 18 when this came out. It is such a great song, and epitomized the 1970's. Such a "Great Song" from a "Great Era" in Time. Thank God I was a Teenager back in the 1970's. A time of Great Music, and Great TV.
I was born in 69 so all these songs were always playing in the background. When I hear them now I get this weird nostalgic feeling that I can’t put my finger on. All good vibes. 80s songs opens up a whole different vault. God I hope I never forget. Good times.
They played this song at my junior high school dance in 1975. I always loved it, so exciting and dramatic with the strings and horns and tape echo. Outstanding. I still love it 48 years later.
I woke up at 4 am with this song playing in my head so naturally I had to come here to watch & listen. Now it will be in my head for days and that's okay.
Omgosh I woke up at 4 am today with this song in my head! How crazy is that and I’m thinking now that is no coincidence and I’ll let you know if I figure out what it means!
The 70's was the absolute best decade to grow up in! The songs, the times, the memories were the very best one could hope for. Life was beautiful and fun with strong families values and respect for one another. It's a shame it has all changed!
I would say the 80's were the best decade to grow up in (I was born 1961) but I'll admit the 70's were pretty cool too and I would add the 90's; the world has simply become too polarized, too violent, too technology-driven, too complicated, too polluted and too increasingly dark and dystopian after 2000.
@@armandocardona4478 I too was born in 61. The 70's as a kid was great ,but the 80,s was our era ..left school ,had been working for about 4 yrs and just starting out in life
Takes me back to my innocent early teen years when I had my whole life still in front of me. Now some nearly 50 years later it conjures up warm feelings of those early days!!
July 2024 . I still remember this song , what a wonderful times I enjoyed my teen age . born in 1961 . Still tears on my eyes to remember what a wonderful youth I had
particularly when you realize he's not actually touching anything with his sticks save for the occasional cymbal tap, also none of the guitars are plugged in... classic lipsync!
Daniel Vick : Phil Collins, Don Henley, the big blonde guy in Rare Earth, there is video out there of him. Levon Helm from the Band. Let’s not forget Ringo, too.
I love the clarity of his voice. So happy to have grown up in the seventies and eighties. So many incredible songs by truly talented people with wonderful ways of sharing their thoughts.
I hear that, like a US version of my UK childhood, switch Raleigh for Schwinn, Switch Hot wheels for Matchbox (or Mattel), Vietnam dominated global news , but the IRA to keep us on our toes too....
What I love about the music that I grew up with is that as soon as I hear a song from those days my mind immediately goes back in time to a specific memory of where I was and what I was doing when I heard the song back in those days. It's an instant time travel. I then have to stop what I'm doing and enjoy the memory of exactly what was going on at the moment.
Wow, this takes me back! Was a teen in the 70's, and was when I really got into my music. I remember the launch of Capital Radio, and it was just a great time for music, this stuff is timeless!
I go to pieces whenever I hear this song i was only11 in 1975 this makes me feel young again. i miss those great songs from the amazing 70's....😪✌👍.....
Summer of 1975 playing this song on my eight track tape deck in my 67 Camaro with the 350 engine … there was nothing better cruising the strip .. Centralia , Missouri ❤
I was a fellow musician in their native Coventry in the 1960's & 70's and played on the same bill several times and well remember Clive Scott setting fire to the top of his Hammond organ when they used to do their cover of "Fire" by Arthur Brown, ... priceless memories. RIP Clive, from Keith ... bass player in Tuxedo Junction.
Raised in Rugby, we used to love Jigsaw appearing in the 60s especially at Bradby Boys Club. Great version of Fire, complete with pyrotechnics that would never be allowed today! Also the "Community swearing" which led into "Walk on by". Great times, followed by Pinkertons Assorted Colours as Rugby's claim to fame (Fortunes were more Coventry but we had claimed them too)
70's the ultimate era in music. What a privilege to have enjoyed this era, and none ever can match it for music, the best music everywhere. I often wondered how you could put up a chart list when every band, every singer was the best of the best, like this song, and performance.
I would hear this song so many times in the 1970's on Radio Luxembourg. I never would get tired of the song. It's stills sounds as good today all these years later.
In 1975/76 we had no electricity in our house as my Mum couldn't afford the bill. We lived by candlelight at night and listened to an old radio with no back on to hear Radio Luxembourg with the Emperor Roscoe. He used to play this quite a lot, along with ABBA's Dancing Queen, R n J Stones We Do It, and El Doomo by Steve Ellis. The best times were in the summer as we had light nights and stayed out late playing football and scrumping apples and pears from nearby gardens. Some people thought this song was by John Miles. Great band, still gigging apparently. Good on 'em.
Re-discovered this song from XM Radio (70s) in 2018. I can't recall it ever being played on the air elsewhere for decades. It's like a lost treasure! Thanks for uploading.
Funny you should mention not ever hearing it played for decades thenightsky.org/skyhigh.html And no, I don't believe the link that I shared. Just a funny coincidence, I remember this story about the song from Art Bell.
One of the songs I grew up on when I first started listening to music!! (Yep...I'm old.) I absolutely love this song, and the fact that the drummer (which I am) is the lead singer makes it even better! A huge part of the soundtrack of my youth!! 😊🎶🥁
Yep older Gen-Xer here (born 66'). Though the 80's were technically my era, I didn't feel in touch with that time period. I mostly enjoyed the early and mid-70's as a child. I guess because my pre-teen and teens were meh. LOL
Skyhigh, Calling Occupants of Interplanetary Craft, Dream Weaver, January, Magic, Fox On The Run, Ballroom Blitz, We will Rock You, We are the Champions. Who remembers all these wonderful songs from the mid 1970s ❔🔹️
We had one phone that was mounted on the wall. You had to call the phone company if you wanted to move it or get it fixed. Now I’m watching this video on my phone. Yeah, simpler and better-easier too, except for all the cigarettes.
This songs reminds me of that time we used to believe rods were real in the high of the sky. Also, why am I feeling like my body heat has been taken away? Guess I should lit myself on fire.
GREAT TIME TO BE A KID GROWING UP DURING THIS ERA. AS SOON AS I GET MY HANDS ON A TIME MACHINE, I'LL SAVE A SEAT FOR YOU. ALL GENERATION XER'S ARE WELCOMED. IN THE MEANTIME, ROCK ON C SHEETS!!!!.
I was ten. October-November 1975. My older brother says this song was on the local radio station when they interrupted with the Edmund Fitzgerald news.
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