2024: I'm in my 70s, like Lulu, and this is my favourite single presentation by a female singer ever, even after all these years. I play it regularly. To Lulu, With Love
Just saw To Sir With Love tonight for the millionth time.She was great there and found this to check her out. Simply fantastic.She was a great rock ‘n roller with a powerful raspy voice
Its wonderful the way kids in the British Isles, Ireland and Scotland, mostly working class, took to this music, blues, R&B, and soul. Lulu kills it in this jaw dropping performance.
@@TrashWoodBand Apparently that's how many 'Ready Steady Go!' shows were produced. It's still Lulu singing nevertheless! She kills it vocally and with her animated stage presence in this dynamic performance. More on RSG here: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-et-8l8je354.html
Transient, That is not Lu Lu singing. She does not have that kind of a raspy voice and has never sang any song with a raspy black voice. More likely that is Ronnie Spector singing that song.
Still love this recording, am 77 now, i ued to play this non stop on the jukebox at my local cafe in 1965 or was it 1964, but whatever itsvbrilliant, thanks Lulu
My grandmother went to school with her in Glasgow. Yesterday she told us a story when she was talking to her in the rain, and that during music class she would go up to sing this song. That was their entertainment, ahah. I’ve always enjoyed this song. :)
I was born decades after this song came out and have never heard of Lulu before. Just randomly discovered this song on youtube. All I can say is what a voice! Magic performance.
You'll enjoy hearing her early soul covers, and if you have not already, wonderful Dusty Springfield's similar tributes to American music ("A Girl Called Dusty" album is one good place!).
She did an amazing job. What a voice. But The Isley Brothers were the originals. Then as now if a white person has a voice that sounds more typically like a black person, it is celebrated lol. Bother versions are brill.
I was born in Belfast two days before Lulu (who was Scottish). She had a very powerful but gorgeous voice that made the song "To Sir With Love" the hit it unquestionably was.
Shared the stage with Lula in Stirling Town Hall for some months we did the first session the Lovers the later half and at the Lindela . All memorable. Long may she go on . John D .
Heard her for the first time EVER (that I recall) yesterday on 60s on 6 XM Satellite Radio. Absolutely incredible, even more so when you consider that she was just a teenager
It certainly was a great song. She had a heck of a voice for a wee lassie ! She has her first manager to mightily thank for her unique and instantly memorable name. How many other people have you heard of with that name? In my opinion, a large part of her success was due to that short, single syllable name. Instantly memorable. Of course, she was incredibly talented and is one of the most successful UK singers ever !
On this day in 1964 {May 1st} Lulu performed her covered version of "Shout" on the British ITV network television program, 'Ready Steady Go!'.... Two week later the song entered the United Kingdom's Official Top 50 chart at position #41, five weeks later it would peak at #7 {for 1 week} and it spent thirteen weeks on the Top 50... Between 1964 and 2002 the Scottish native had twenty-eight records on the U.K. Singles chart, ten made the Top 10 with one* reaching #1, "Relight My Fire" {with Take That}, on October 3rd, 1993 for two weeks... Her twenty-eighth and last charted record was a duet, a covered version of "We've Got Tonight" with Ronan Keating, it peaked at #4 for one week on December 1st, 2002... Lulu, born Marie McDonald McLaughlin Lawrie, will celebrate her 71st birthday this coming November 3rd, 2019... * She just missed having a second #1 record when her "Boom Bang-A-Bang" peaked at #2 {for 1 week} on April 9th, 1969, and the week it was at #2, the #1 record for that week was "I Heard It Through the Grapevine" by Marvin Gaye...
THE AMERICAN LATE FIFTEES, HERE IN THE UK, WITH LULU! ORIGINAL: THE ISLEY BROTHERS, 1959. IT WAS COVERED SO MANY TIMES IN THE FIRST HALF OF THE SIXTEES. HERE IN THE UK, WITH LULU. SO GREST THISBLILU: A PHENOMENON.
SAW HER ON A LOCAL TV SHOW WHEN I USED TO GO IN 1964, SHE WAS NEW AND GREAT. MY FRIEND WENT TO GET HER AUTOGRAPH AND I SAID I WOULDN'T AS SHE WOULD NOT LAST!!!!
I was born in 1965 and Lulu was my moms favourite singer, that gravel sound like she's been chewing on nails is unique to her and she was itty bitty but my word her lungs could belt out. Now we have a bunch of barbie dolls with perfect everything, girls there is no such thing most priceless and perfect specimens are kept behind bullet proof glass.
Watch the old b/w murder thriller The Spiral Staircase (think its on RU-vid?) starring Dorothy Mcguire as a mute! I was amazed at her acting and sought more films from her, so then I got the incredibly romantic old film The Enchanted Cottage with her in it as well and became a fan of hers ever since! Now I want to see every film she's been in!
Lulu was/is the best female singer from Britain in the last fifty years. Unfortunately The BBC's light entertainment division got a hold of her and she became well, light entertainment and lost to 'real music'. With better management, some good song writers and she'd of 'cracked' America. It's a shame.
@@owenhopkins9192 In yur dreams ya english rimming bell end,,, the union hus only existed since 1707 and even then it was made against the peoples will.. if its the same hing half the country widnae be crying oot ti leav the union..
When I read that Lulu did a version of this, I thought it would sound ridiculous. I'm glad I was wrong. While not the Isley Brothers version, this is actually quite good and spirited, about on the same level as The Beatles version on "Around The Beatles" the previous year.
