Brian & Michael - " Matchstalk Men and Matchstalk Cats and Dogs".

[@357HFC]

Had to have been released 1977. I remember it and loved it. Left UK December 1977. Loved my time in Lancs. If you have not been to North of England, you have not been to England. Nowt like it!

[@BobbyLennon-jn1bn]

An absolute classic from the days of innocence!!!..... superb!!!!

[@gremlinuk1968]

Was a 10 year old back then, remember this tune back then, born 23rd May 1968, from northern Ireland UK, 🤝👍😁

[@abiruehorn465]

Where are the 2023 people who have been listening to this since they were a nipper????

[@geoffparvin4946]

Regular listener to 60/70's at 76 yo

[@AlanWade-g2k]

71 and still listening :)

[@vanessapizzey4930]

2024 I am listening

[@markeldridgelongship2768]

I'm still here ( born in 1966)& listening to this great song.

[@m.shearer5233]

If this was 1978 then I was 6yrs old... All those years it would pop in my mind from time to time. Watching this video how times have changed.

[@357HFC]

I so remember this just before I returned to Australia December 1977. Fond memories of Lancashire and especially Lancastrians.

[@budekins542]

Best northern song of all time.

[@tonit5723]

Ken dodds accent sang it better haha

[@petertraynor440]

Youre right on the money my friend

[@ciaraodonnell9142]

Great memories of Manchester a song that a classic

[@jodyburrows1253]

Great reflection of Northern life

[@deano72]

A truly great song forever

[@philvitler9510]

First heard this in a club in Manchester where they were appearing love it

[@jamescunningham1973]

Wow,thats going back,how nice to hear it

[@aarondonnelly101]

I woke up this morning with this tune in my head.. Why? I've not heard it for Years. Still a classic.

[@deano72]

Lol it's a good song to invade ya head

[@aarondonnelly101]

@deano72 I'm guessing born in 72 like all good people?

[@LindaLester-r9l]

They hang upon my wall have always loved this song and the artist. Went to the Lowery as a gift of a day out from my daughter it was brilliant.

[@mikecasket5835]

Anyone Else want back to the Ali Ali oh a God Loving world?

[@michaelkinley2492]

My grandfather used to work at Liverpool docks I remember his hobnail boots aaaaah beautiful memories 😄

[@davidbeddow1]

I was 6 when this was released and I still remember hearing it on the radio and television all the time - and we only had a black and white TV set. It was years before I found out it was broadcast in colour!

[@gremlinuk1968]

Hi pal,, I was a 10 year old back then,! Born 23rd May 1968 , I remember this song from Brian &Michael,,! I also remember Ken Dodd, singing it as well,,! Do you,,? Cheers pal, from northern Ireland UK 🤝

[@matthewpayne42]

All those lovely girls will be in their 50s now.

[@staceynoelburton9551]

more like twirlys with the bus pass

[@lyndseykramer]

Late 50s. I was 13 in this year, and I'm 60 next year. Opened my eyes to difference in the UK, in recent history.

[@karate_girl_ibiza]

I loved this.. still do. Never understood what an Angcote was ( sorry for spelling ) till a few years ago when I learned it was a place. Wasnt one of those choir girls in Grange Hill. ❤

[@amitbasu8159]

It's spelt Ancoats, a small district of Manchester comprising a few streets just north east of the city centre.

[@jordanrochester5426]

Two of the choir girls were from Grange Hill, the girl with the long hair next to the man with the guitar is Cathy Hargreaves, and the third girl with the short hair on the side where the man is singing is Jessica Samuel's.

[@Tigerwoods663]

He was a friend of my grandad and they painted together!!

[@vincelockett7422]

Memories of my beautiful home town. My beautiful "Dirty home town "

[@Cortinaman63]

Featuring 12 of Barbara Speake Stage Schools beautiful, talented, pupils, and my fellow school friends,and class mates, wow this takes me back to fun days, they were all such nice girls. and some fellow Grange Hill cast members, including Lindy Brill, Sara Sugaman, Anne Mannion, Karen Saunders, i loved seeing this.

[@dolphin3003]

Who is the girl, 2nd closest to us on the left? she looks very familiar, i'm sure i have seen her in something.

[@Cortinaman63]

@@dolphin3003 Thanks for your question, (and especially for watching Brian & Michael;s song on TOTP with my friends from Stage School), which I hope you enjoyed, Most if not all of the girls in this worked on Grange Hill as indeed so did I, so if you have ever watched that you may have seen her on that, most of us at stage school did a number of different TV/Film/Stage and modeling work, (like super model Naomi Campbell who was at our school at this time.

[@AndyWoodger]

@@Cortinaman63 Where are these "kids" now? I'm sure stage school led, for some perhaps, to bigger things. But how does 2021 look them now? (Just saw a vid of Brian and Michael from 2013 on youtube, still sounding good!

[@Cortinaman63]

@@AndyWoodger Thanks for watching, some of the girls went on to do well in the industry, Sara, for example continued Acting, then became a successful multi award winning Film & TV Director, picking up best feature film for 2021, at Cardiff .International Film .Festival, once again, and currently directing for the BBC, most went on to build good careers in other industry's after several years working as actresses and or singers, and some are working in the industry behind the scenes, One of the Girls from the school works for 20th Century Fox in the USA, another runs a London Casting Agency, another still performs all over France, where she now lives, sadly having a family meant the need for regular money, and so full time jobs , I have been in touch recently,with some of them in this video ,but a few I have lost contact with after leaving school, so not sure what they are currently doing. A great question thanks for asking, and very much appreciate your taking the time to watch & comment.and nice to know you enjoyed Brian & Michael's music, they are great guys.

[@budekins542]

Did they always have the same girls singing?

[@357HFC]

Still love it!

[@gremlinuk1968]

Remember this when a kid ,was just a 10 year old back then, ! Born 23rd May 1968,, wish I could go back then, again,! Anyone say the same,? ,am an old guy now, 55 year old,! 2023,! born May 23rd 1968,from northern Ireland UK 🤝

[@lyndseykramer]

I wouldn't go back, but I was a girl, sexism was even worse then. I remember this on TOTP.

[@AlanDuke-z6k]

Wonderful tribute to l.s lowry

[@christopherlock4703]

2 girls in their from grange hill last on right,3rd from end of left.

[@Cortinaman63]

@christopherlock:, YES Actresses "Lindy Brill" who played Cathy Hargreaves, and "Sara Sugarman" who played Jessica Samules, Now a multi Award winning Director (Both Form the Famous Barbara Speake Stage School, (as were all the girls in this ) I was in the same class as them, and remember them going off to record the song for TOTP each week for each video, and performing the song live on stage at the London Palladium, remembering happy times with these wonderful friends at one of London's Top Stage Schools

[@ilonaderhachova1808]

Супер. Песня нравится!!!!

[@DorMouse-y2o]

Oh! And the Alley-Alley-Oh is the Manchester ship canal

[@user-tn2lv3ok9m]

Greatsong

[@user-pt3by6pu5v]

I like the music

[@simon-oy6um]

I wonder where all those kids are now 😊😊

[@VodkaBhoy1]

Love the accent

[@Brian-oi8cg]

This is nice

[@rscosworthfan]

been looking for this version for ages

[@JACK-jd1tb]

Love his Northern accent, proud to be Northern

[@apj1480]

Me too.

[@modfather147modfather8]

Yeah it's great almost as good as me Irish accent

[@celiaansell4860]

Fantastic love this song but I still love Lowery I have a few paintings

[@judithfarnsworth8831]

I remember is at school born 1967

[@TamasSzabo-ql6wf]

Okosabban kéne élni (Apostol). 1974. Group from Hungary !

[@alexanderjames6328]

We do live smart in the UK. Many thanks.

[@seanmurphy5770]

I have a Lowery masterpiece,i will not part with it,reminds of the streets i lived as a small boy in the 1950's and 1960's.

[@jacquelinegunning10]

I'm here

[@DorMouse-y2o]

Ancoats is part of Manchester. Clogs had metal horseshoes on the heels to make them wear down slower and they spark on having stones

[@Martin4963]

That's if you didn't end up on your backside 😂

[@WayneVeck-yb3ul]

Must have been a great experience for the girls

[@Tigerwoods663]

Those days have gone forever, now men are women, women are men, some are a mixture of half a dozen things. No one has a laugh or joke coz they're scared of their own shadows or gluing themselves to a road. Never mind anyone 50 plus we can always say we had those days of fun and innocence and they can never take that or my daisy Duke and bionic man posters away from me. Crack on staring at your phones youngster's 😅😅😅

[@johnmellor6924]

So so true, and what we have now is the "woke" culture.When I was a kid, the only woke I knew, was when you "woke" up!!!!😂

[@alexanderjames6328]

Agreed!

[@lyndseykramer]

You're struggling with how change is happening. To be fair, aged 13 listening to that song back then, I, like many other girls had experienced and were experiencing, systematic, institutionalised sexism, to the extent that even all the heroes in books were boys. The Famous Five? I was George, I could whole heartedly empathise with being a tom boy. For me, being born female, remaining female, having children, grandchildren and a lovely man to live with, is the best. But, I wanted more, I wanted adventure, I want and wanted the same rights and opportunities as the boys around me. No though, of course. Society as it was in then, before then and now? Not the best place to be a girl is/was it? Imagine being a girl in the 1970s, an adventurer, strong, tough, looking for knowledge, (but a girl) and being pushed by society to wear fluffy pink dresses, make up, (my mother told me to laugh at boy's jokes and make them feel like they were always right). Imagine being born, and knowing you were born, to be a second class citizen. We all just need to be individuals, forget stereotyping people into genders, forget gendered expectations, people are all different. They don't fit tidy boxes and stereotypes, not even to make your mind feel more comfortable.

[@stevephillips7264]

Lowry was a good man

[@jamesmccaig5713]

Beautiful song, I’d love a copy of this song.

[@KevTheImpaler]

"He painted kids on the corner of the street that were sparking clogs." I could never catch that line. They must have been clogs with hobnails in them. The kids must have been kicking them against the cobblestones. Lowry must have painted it in one of his pictures.

[@rscosworthfan]

which one of them is sally lindsay off corrie anyone know

[@rscosworthfan]

found her on this version @ 1:50 kzbin.info/www/bejne/iGG2foGQnb6gaKM

[@williamnightingale2285]

She isn't on here. Sally was in St Winifred's School Choir who sing on the record and some later tv performances. Rules at the time prevented St Winifred's School Choir from being on TOTP.

[@Eltonlaleham]

funny song

[@darrensnell3235]

Kept Debbie harry and blondie and Denis from number 1

[@colinbrown2907]

Please give the followup evensong a listen it is on line the tune is catchy and the lyrics lovely i brought both but played evensong till the single wore out not a hit suprisingly

[@dercoss]

Good job Jimmy Savile wasn't presenting that day...

[@jammiedodger629]

He was probably busy teaching a kid to milk a cow blindfolded.

[@Raymond-w5i]

It’s different

[@mialuk]

go on Noel Edmonds!!, year 2021

[@KevTheImpaler]

Credit them with being different.

[@bob-du4tx]

Nowadays the snowflakes would say there is not enough diversity in the girls school choir

[@WelshHomo87]

They can fuck off. Everyone's overreacting these days. I'm only 33 and I'm a gay man but people get offended by everything and it's fucking stupid

[@kelsender]

That’s assuming genders. How very dare you. 🤣🤣

[@ongen9070]

@@WelshHomo87 you shouldn’t be gay! But apart from that I agree

[@Noticeofintentto]

@@WelshHomo87you’re the one telling hypothetical people that some random has made up to FO

[@jameshankssr466]

🤣😂🤣😂🤣😂😂

[@jalaneperry7643]

You know i wondered what was with those kids going YAYLLY YALLY YO YAYLLY YALLY YO AT THE END OF THIS SONG I THOUGHT IT WAS KINDA ASSININE MAYBE IT WAS AN ENGLISH THING I COULDN'T FIGURE WHAT THE SIGNIFICANCE WAS WITH YAYLLY YALLY YO

[@roberts4517]

They're singing the nursery tune The great ship sailed on the alley alley o

[@magicalnemo]

"The big ships sail on the Alley Alley o, all day long"

[@coolguy8972]

All the girls have dark or black hair? Coincidence?

[@SCARRIOR]

Probably to coincide with the theme of the paintings.

[@badhabit3737]

It's what i was thinking.!

[@lyndseykramer]

That was the way it was, some communities, even in the 1970s, had been discreet for few hundred years. I don't know the history of the North West, but my people, from Cornwall, had dark brown, black or sometimes ginger hair just 50 years ago. Not to say that we aren't or weren't a bit of a mix of Normans, Celts ( of course) and most certainly Roman. In my area, Cornwall, everything from the Atlantic side of Portugal of course. The world is a mix of everything, but, not always as English as the English want it to be. So, some people, 50 years ago, still might not have exhibited Anglo Saxon fairer complexions and hair. Most certainly, they just got regular kids to perform, no picking of kids to suit the black and white paintings, that's, quite frankly, daftness from minds that did not live through those times and have little historical awareness.

[@jodyburrows1253]

Edmonds lack of enthusiasm is typical

[@Noticeofintentto]

I don’t know what is worse, this song, Lowry’s doodles or Manchester Itself.

[@paulwilliams2663]

., my wife and I both artists, Liverpool born, Lowry was so gifted, and actually found fame and recognition in the 30s, 50 plus years prior to death. His tone, composition, and consistently brilliant perspective, using only 5 basic colours was genius. His subject matter had never bern explored, he was a lone wolf when cubism, surrealism, abstract expressionism, dada futurism etc where the art movements, vogue. He never altered his style....True Artist.

[@357HFC]

You , should be tops there.

[@alexanderjames6328]

Lowry was talented. You took the time to comment... just like every ignorant troll before and after you.

[@alexanderjames6328]

@@paulwilliams2663 True, Paul. The first comment was obviously from a troll.

[@lyndseykramer]

Wanker