My late husband was called Terry, he died 7 years ago, in one hour, of heart failure at home. I did CPR on him until paramedics arrived but they could not save him. It was genetic, in the family. After 48 years of marriage I miss him so much as do my children and grandchildren everyday. RIP my darling. RIP to those that have lost someone. I wish you peace in your loss. 🙏💕
Runs in our Family, lost 3 brothers to h/attacks, been married 53 years, my number must be on the list somewhere, hopefully not for another 20 years or so. sorry for your tragic loss xx
I was a 17 year old motorcyclist when this came out. Lost some good friends on motor bikes. This brings back memories of my youth. Sad song but true of the times.
Did anyone ever see Kenneth Cope on That Was The Week That Was? He had a crash helmet with wings on and was singing "I'm waiting up here, go get your gear, Twinkle". I think it was to make fun of the fact that the BBC wanted to ban this song.
Kenneth Cope along with Millicent Martin (90 this year touch wood) are the last living cast members of TW3 However TW3 finished before Terry and LOTP were released so Mr Cope may have performed this on Not So Much a Programme, More A Way of Life which ran on BBCtv in 1964/65.
I bought a CD of her's a few years back and at that time she was said to be alive and well and living in Surrey (I think) with her husband and family. She also had a smaller hit with a song called 'Golden Lights'. I imagine it was fairly uncommon in those days for someone of just 17 to be writing her own songs.
My favourite "one hit wonder". This song was banned by the BBC in the 60s but I remember hearing on Radio Luxemberg and it still got to number one in the charts.
my late sister loved this song as a kid :). It drove my dad mad because I recall driving through Belgium from Germany (My dad was in the British army) and my sister constantly roved through the radio channels on her black transistor radio looking for this song. LOL....Thanks for the memories
I've loved this song for personal reasons all my life. Not surprisingly though as I am Terry and I died on my motorbike in a collision with a truck when I was a teenager. I was brought back though on the way to hospital in the ambulance and am pleased that is where the similarities end. So Sorry to hear of Twinkle's passing.
My lovely first boyfriend died in a motorbike crash 3 weeks before this aired. All these years on, I have never forgotten him, love him still, still think about that night !!
So sad. And so many youngsters have been killed on motorcycles, when their lives had hardly started. 😥But I'm glad that your boyfriend has lived on in your memory.
Brilliant live performance! What I love about Twinkle is that she was one Brit girl who didn't try to sound like she was from Brooklyn--"'e said to me 'e wanted to be close to me..."
Great song. Used to play it on the jukebox in the Cellar cafe in Windsor in the sixties, then go for a burn on the bike down the high street and back into the Cellar before the record finished! Those were the days!! Thanks Twinkle.
Ah, I was so in love with her. I thought she was both beautiful and sang so sweetly. Years later I read in a Sunday paper that she was living in a tiny London flat and drinking bottles of whisky, unhappy and depressed. Fame was fleeting. I was astounded. Surely that beautiful talent is always with you, whether recognised or not? All my love 'Twinkle'
I loved this song when I was a teenager. I've not heard it for nearly 40 years but still remember every word. Not a good recording but brought back some memories! Thanks
The fiancée of her ex-boyfriend was killed in an airplane crash. He said at the time that Twinkle was a tower of strength. She put everything into pulling him through his tragedy. RIP to a very honourable woman.
This is one of the saddest song I have ever heard as it is about someone called Terry who dies in a Motorcycle crash and his girlfriend is overwhelmed with grief over his death
Superb. Never heard this live before and surorisingly shows that it was innotative and before it's time. Could sit well in the 70's and 80's. I'm born'n'bred a few miles south of Molesey 'amplefly' and I can verify that Moleseyites like Twinkle are not Svenska.
I went to boarding school and we danced around a record player for half an hour everynight...we all acted out the chorus to the complete bemusement of vigilante nun!! How brilliant to find it on the tube...!!
One of my all time favourites along with Frank Wilson's Last Kiss, sad songs with great music. Thought I would never hear this again when I lost my copy when moving. Thanks for bringing back lots of happy memories (even though it's a sad song). Wife of POOH1964
You're so lucky to have been around when all this music was brand new. I've discovered '60s music through old tv shows and radio, but there was nothing like having been there when it all happened.
Great!! what more can one say, well. having daughters the same age as Twinkle was at the time of that song, I realise how hard that was, well done all those years after, love it!
She is a very underrated british girl singer and should rank among peers like Sandie Shaw, Lulu and Cilla Black. She did many great songs and wrote many of them herself!
i just keep finding all the great songs i grew up with,what great great memories thy bring back,hard to think i get my free bus pass later this year,a very very big thank you to all that contribute so much wonderful music on this truly great site.
An interesting fact is this record shared the UK top 40 for 6 weeks (Jan-Feb 1965) with another well known teenage motorbiking death disc. The Shangri Las Leader of the Pack.
If the Authorities didn't ban this record in the 1960s [1964 to be exact] there might have been a few more records from this Beautiful singer Twinkle.R i p Twinkle
Pure pop for now people.I don't think it's crap given the technology of the time.Brilliant.I can watch it over and over again.I think she was the first British girl pop star who wrote her own songs.And I wasn't there I wish I was
Nervous perhaps to start with but she picks up...after all she was only 15. I love the innocence of her youth and the rare and raw historical live recording.
She was only 16 or so when this hit the charts This I seem to remember was the NME Concert in 65 ( I am sure some one can help on this) She made very few live performances This one is imo an absolute Classic, the rawness of the backing is brilliant ( I believe they were Sounds Inc) pls correct me if wrong But she was in total control Her voice over riding all else This is what live music in those days was all about. A Gorgeous Girl with immense talent. X Factor Wannabies Look Listen and Learn !!
Blimey, I was 15 when this came out and doing a paper round. Next year I get my free bus pass. lol Didn't think there would be any footage of this. What a great place youtube is. Thanks for posying.
She was a jewel of the sixties girls sound and along with Dusty, Sandie, Cilla, Marianne Faithfull and Petula Clark she will forever more be an integral part of English pop music in the Swinging 60s.... I only found out today that she died last year
@@ritageorge2348 Brian is right but you are wrong. This is live in an large open area. Do you think she should be smiling when singing a song about death ? Her personality here fits the song. This is available is stereo recorded at a studio. You should check it out, then listen to "Golden Lights"
Oh yes! Our mothers were real pop-divas! Have been thinking of this song now, when I`am older. It is a very sad and brutal song to sing for a child! But I loved it! LOL
Johnsons Cafe/The Beachcomber/The Musketeer and The Woodlands - can I be the only one who remembers it pissing down with rain each time we took our bikes to these places in the '60s? OK, it didn't rain all the time - but it seemed like it?
I too have bitter sweet memories of this song, the love of my life at the time gave me this record, probably the last time I saw him, and I often wonder if he found happinness. So glad to see it on you tube, and it brings back happy and sad memories :-)
Yup, KFWB played the heck out of this back in '64. I still have the single somewhere. The music was beginning to change (finally) & i loved the new sound. This rode over on the crest of the English invasion. Mid '60s music was primo ! Too many songs for the stations to play - love discovering 'new' ones. Many were only regional hits - either i liked them or i didn't. Who sang the songs didn't matter - what counted was having the sound i went for & liking it plus the lyrics.
Yes, Dec from the Bachelors was her secret boyfriend, she was 3 months short of 16 when they first went out, that would have caused a scandal back then , it was Dec who introduced her to Decca producer Phil Solomon, I think she is still the youngest female in the UK to have written and sung a top 5 hit.
...Twinkle had written Terry when she was 14. She told interviewers that she conceived it when her father’s chauffeur-driven Rolls-Royce was overtaken by a pack of rockers. She scribbled down the lyrics during a French lesson at Queen’s Gate. www.theguardian.com/music/2015/may/26/twinkle
