Chas & Dave with Lonnie Donegan

[@stevelee4952]

So many, far too many, folk will not know Lonnie. This bloke broke the mould from crass UK ballads to music with a beat. A great man.

[@nodrogawson963]

Artists like Lonnie Donegan were just magic. So glad to live in the times of these great performers.

[@lyndamcardle4123]

Chas and Dave never forgot their surroundings and roots did they ? Marvellous.

[@mauricelevy9027]

"From Tottenham to Tennessee" !

[@ronniegraham5266]

I am 1977 punk rocker love Lonnie chas dave ...music with heart and soul xxx

[@SharksSeanOSullivanSharkey]

Lonnie Donegan wrote the book, he invented the skiffle sound that paved the way for the bass, drums and guitar bands that still lives on today..He has influenced everyone from The Beatles, Stones to Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen...what a legend

[@silkiestream5050]

Bob Dylan and Bruce Springsteen? You gotta be kidding.

[@Mu5096rdgh]

@@silkiestream5050. They weren’t skiffle!

[@stevev238]

Not to mention Jimmy page, George Harrison and nearly all those first wave rock guitarists. Simply the most influential musician of the 20th century.

[@lindascarborough5551]

Lonnie Sure Did That!!! Jack of Diamonds WooHoo

[@lindascarborough5551]

@@silkiestream5050 I believe so?

[@stevev238]

I must have watched this 100 times, but it never loses anything for me.

[@chrismatthews6668]

me too.... i'm sure lonnie and chas are belting this out daily whilst up there... miss em. yeah

[@keithdavies1395]

​@chrismatthews6668 You're not wrong pal.

[@davidpetherbridge3470]

Certainly we shan’t be listening to today’s music in 50 years time!! Even the youngsters of today enjoy the old songs and long may it remain so!!

[@jamescurtis5787]

Real music, played by real musicians, real people

[@DrewSpriggs-xp7kp]

I’m Drew I’m 31 and I was introduced to Lonnie Donegan when I was still at school my favourite song that he used to preform is my old man’s a dustman.

[@MHawkyard]

Rock Island Line was mine

[@user-bob-i7s]

@@MHawkyard The best song by a country mile, started so many music trends.

[@RobertKetteringham]

I am 81years old September 2024 this is my kind music ❤❤

[@jedigaming2969]

Man I remember this song when i was a kid in the late sixties legend Lonnie Donegan, You still got that sence of humour that most singers have'nt got? Fun to sing along with 100% legend Lonnie Donegan, R.I.P Brother

[@dudleygillham2295]

I was in my early 20s when Lonnie Donegan rose to fame and he really did change the face of British music. Prior to him we had no progressive music available to us. From then on dozens of a aspiring musicians emerged from acts like Marty Wilde, Joe Brown to the Beatles, The Animals, The Stones and beyond. Thank you Lonnie, you set the ball rolling and music changed forever and today anyone with real talent can emerge to greatness. We have a lot to thank him for. Prior to him we listened to music which we had no say in and had what we were given.

[@darrenwoodhead9712]

I agree with you I'm still a young 50 but the music you talk of is spot on.give me 60 70 80's music any day then after that forget it. Have a good day 👍

[@BestUserNameUK]

Daves bass in on point. What a great player he is..

[@robinclarke9978]

There we see three great musicians. They enjoy what they do and its infectious! Gone maybe, but not forgotten.

[@BestUserNameUK]

4 great musicians! Mick Burt is on the drums.

[@leventakses1185]

Mick on the sticks go on son

[@christinajebali9201]

I can't think of any one better to sing with Chaz n Dave I totally love Loni Donegan this was fantastic it made me feel like I was there dancing and singing along with them,,

[@jeanstockley8379]

Never got to see Lonnie live but love his music and of course Chas and Dave a couple of legends.

[@John-ob7dh]

Donkeys years ago I was at a party ( invited by Albert Lee ) and I met Lonnie and his wife who was much younger than him ( I think her name was Sharon ) it was mini skirt days ,and she was tasty .Often wondered if she brought on his last heart attack .

[@Cloudberry46]

Absolutely brilliant!!! Great talent!!! I'd almost forgotten that music could be such fun. We live in very PC, talentless, mediocre times today.

[@charlesduguid4811]

What a performance , really majick , Lonnie and Chas; you are sadly missed, but you are up there rocking with the angels.

[@elainehernen286]

Great music from Lonnie he was brilliant ❤

[@rjpender70]

Whenever I watch things like this, I love it when the audience get stuck in too. Three legends, great stuff xx

[@loriblue1000]

Lonnie Donegan you were the absolute KING . Love you, you will never be forgotten

[@wkaibigan]

Two amazing legends. Lonnie Donegan and Chas and Dave. Awesome.

[@johnheaven7059]

pure enjoyment.just look at the crowd around them and sadly we don't see anything like this anymore

[@leemorgan8478]

Old Britain I remember these old days well & RIP Lonnie Donegan . .

[@jerryattheolympics1428]

Just fabulous - love Lonnie Donegan the soundtrack of my childhood

[@stc40]

Good, proper old toe tapping, hand clapping stuff. A great shame that Lonnie has left us but what a brilliant legacy this talented musician has left us...

[@masonvlogs9874]

If your not tapping your feet to this tune your dead already, proper music god bless ya boys

[@triciairvine3385]

That's what music waz about, having a good time love it 👏👏👏

[@emm352]

What a great performer...a natural talent 🙏

[@kennethdarby6783]

This was when Britain really was Great, sadly it has now been lost.

[@BestUserNameUK]

To brown skin scroungers.

[@phildavison9100]

God bless you, Lonnie. Massive part of my life. Your role will be recognized.

[@TWAAAT1]

All pubs should be like this, what a great time we would have.

[@666cricket]

terrific...Ol Lonnie has a fine voice and could call himself a musician in the true sense . Live or on record same wonderful sound !

[@MrGuitarbiker]

What a duo gods got up there now, the great late Lonnie plus the brilliant talent of Chas.......rip lads

[@chuckabutty888]

Mates enjoying life. Lonnie always so full of fun and enthusiasm a model to many of our talented groups RIP

[@richardwilliams1083]

The man who started it all in the UK. Without him there would be no Beatles and no '60s invasion'.

[@plasteckfly]

Whoah, Nellie!

[@roberthughes513]

Absolutely brilliant….living in Canada I miss all this .

[@FBAV]

His chewing gum never lost its flavour on the bed time overnight, it changed flavor all the time and it also blew up not only in the UK but across the entire world... I really wonder what was in that chewing gum and how it could grow so much the whole world seemed to fit inside of that chewing bubble gum.... 🤪

[@peetahoward]

Popular music owes so much to Lonnie. Many of our most well known "Pop Stars" own being influenced by this very talented performer.

[@tonyfranks9551]

Great memories of great music and musicians...cheers.

[@FATBAZ01]

Seamless chord changes. Happy stuff and so so professional.... Best of the best....

[@galericulus9736]

What a shame music has lost its fun. This reminds me of what it was like when I was growing up. Not all change is progress.

[@stevev4255]

The Ancients understood that- saw cycles of progress and decline.

[@robertarcher1704]

What a great treat to see these three together

[@Stejll1]

Chas and Dave absolute music legends( Mick the drummer was such a part of their great sound!)😊😊

[@gailcromie4476]

Rest in Peace Chas. Forever Loved. XX💖

[@henrybyrd5402]

Daddy? Did they really have fun programmes like this with real talent at Christmas? Is this what TV was like B4 Simon Cowell?

[@stevemale9404]

Yes indeed. I am so glad to have been born in 1962 to have enjoyed the legacy that was music from the 50s up to the late 80s. All went a bit Pete Tong after that....

[@mikejones8953]

Yep, we didn't to pull our jeans up our arses in those days..... Christmas TV was "brill" hehe

[@Mikeboris1]

Oh yes, we had all sorts of treats, kids riding new bikes, smell of turkey and veg in the oven, dads coming home from the pub around 3 pissed. Nice it was until the EU.... haha

[@thijsthijsvanooijen1990]

Yes son, I think so

[@tomhamilton1562]

And better than today music

[@robertovens9372]

Best live performance by anyone ever! amazing!

[@thomasworkman3499]

Lonnie and Elvis changed everything for the 50s kids. This video brings back happy memories

[@daveharbour5418]

Long live Skiffle, Lonnie was the king.

[@stevev4255]

In view of the influence he was to those first wave rock guitarists- arguably THE most influential musician of the 20th century.

[@laughliketheflowers]

@@stevev4255 He pioneered a genre. Not many have done that. Crosby, Sinatra, Presley, Dylan, Lydon/Rotten, Hendrix. Not that many

[@MikeGreenwood51]

Lonnie predates Presley. He had his first single out, 'Rock Island Line' recorded in July 1954 which went gold in the UK. It peaked at No. 8 in the USA. Elvis was a Truck driver starting in on April 20th 1954. But by July 1954 his clowning at Sun records got Elvis noticed and by the 7th July he's on the radio causing listeners to phone in to find out who it was. He was aged 19.5 the next day on the eighth. Lonnie was 23 that April '54.

[@geoffreyking4515]

Now that's what you call a pub sing song, mr donegan r i p legend

[@skyebird3933]

Since I found this video, I've watched it dozens of times. Love it.

[@kaylfc]

3 great talents , you cant beat this , I love it

[@gynack]

Wowee, everybody's having an absolute ball, audience young and old, and the band just as obviously. you've got to love Lonnie's comment: I started in a pub and I'm back to the bloody pub. When I saw him, probably the very end of the 50's it was in a big and very full theatre. Mind you, the atmosphere there, good though it was, wasna a patch on the atmosphere in the pub here. It's fabulous.

[@bernardjeffcott6469]

Lonnie Donegan was and still is my hero. 👍😊🎸

[@toni4729]

My hero too. Saw him in Oz about forty five years ago. Smashing performer.

[@qikfire]

Lennie was a seasoned player and song writer...He did not need to prove himself..... A legend..

[@toni4729]

Fantastic, unforgettable Lonnie.

[@elainehernen286]

The fantastic lonnie brilliant music loved him❤🎉😊

[@hollyholy5362]

I have my mothers 78 records of Lonnie. Still play them occasionally on her wind-up gramophone. He was a sound of my childhood.

[@johndance3117]

Bring back this kind of music .great stuff ,makes you want to put lonnies records on again ,if I had a player ,,.

[@TonyTheDriver100]

This was exactly how songs 'developed' in my yoof! Incredible fun to perform. You'd start with something like Rock Island Line and see just where the song went. Sometimes they would last so long people would go off-stage, visit the loo, get a pint, have a cigarette, come back and we'd still be playing. Frequently I would light a cigarette, stick it on the end of a string and set about a 'set'. By the time we had finished the cigarette would be burned out! I would get through 60 a day but I only smoked about 20 of these! What fun we had! .................and don't start me on how much booze we drank! We floated battleships we drank so much! Music is for fun - go have some FUN!

[@ashrach18]

The Glastonbury Ferryman Happy days my friend. God I'm glad I lived through it!!

[@kayharris4894]

Anne and Tony Carey true nice one mate.

[@peterstubbings7978]

Anne and Tony Carey r

[@christinegauntlett7411]

Anne and Tony Carey b

[@johnziepe9506]

A truly great musician

[@thatbird2]

Oh wow! I had completely forgotten how brilliant Lonnie was!

[@davewilson7565]

Thanks for posting…… absolutely great 👍🏻

[@richardcourt3042]

They were good days to be growing up and Lonnie Donegan was a musical inspiration to many famous people to follow. The Beatles openly admitted being influenced by his music. As a young man in the late 1950's I frequented the Bodega in Cross Street, Deansgate, Manchester. Lonnie Donegan played Banjo there. Later I went to the Manchester Free trade Hall to see him and his Skiffle Group. Anybody remember Amiel Ford or Wee Willey Harris?

[@cartoonsbystanthompson7519]

I saw Emile Ford twice in Liverpool. First time he had a little backing band, second time he was reduced to backing tapes. Shame, he just sounded like his records.

[@brianmasters1125]

I used to buy a certain type of bubblegum (I think) which contained a picture of a singer. If you collected so many you could claim a prize. I never managed to collect more than about nine because I kept getting the ones with Wee Willy bloody Harris!

[@welshwizard55]

Chaz and Dave absolutely great party music and Lonnie was a good performer.

[@stevev238]

My favourite clip on the whole of KZbin. The most influential musician of the 20th century- and yes all those first wave rock guitarists wanted to be Lonnie- drops in with the greatest pub act of the modern age and together get the whole crows going. It doesn't get better.

[@BestUserNameUK]

Spot on👍🏼

[@RockinAtheist]

Lonnie Donegan - the man who influenced John Lennon to pick up a guitar and learn to play

[@stevev4255]

Influenced Beck, Harrison, Page, Clapton- all those first wave rock guitarists, yet Rolling Stone failed to include him in their top 100- shameful omission.

[@Mikeboris1]

If there ever was a legacy, Lennon liked my tunes.

[@alanhope9139]

Not just John Lennon, but almost every young kid of the era ! !

[@laughliketheflowers]

That was Lonnies's only crime. He puts Lennon in the shade, to me.

[@SharksSeanOSullivanSharkey]

True ,True and true again

[@user-jb6yd3uh9r]

The style is flawless, the melodies, the rhythms, at high level of virtuosity, with the mood, we can say that it's a masterpiece!

[@notinthecharts-4740]

A pint or two, a good dance and a sing a long, Good Old English Pubs.

[@TheDowzer]

was it real pub

[@steveross8326]

@@TheDowzer No, it was a studio set........the alcohol was real though, most of the audience were p#seed by the end.

[@stevev4255]

Dying sadly these days under insane taxes and greedy brewery costs

[@adrinathegreat3095]

Commenting by someone using the internet, the killer of british drunkenness

[@adrinathegreat3095]

@@TheDowzer highly unlikely, if they filmed it in a real pub they'd have to boot out the regulars and bring in the extras to make it look real and make it look like everyone was having the time of their lives. Going out on Saturday nights 30 years ago if you didn't see at least the odd glass attack and some broken bones you weren't in the right place, they ain't gonna be filming with that kind of risk

[@Stejll1]

Little story......years ago me and my mate were wondering around a seedy part of town.....the great Chas and Dave were appearing there that night.......as we walked....a car slowed.....window wound down" You looking for the gig boys?"........it was Chas Hodges!!!!!!!😊😊😊😊he told us were it was.....car parked and Chas,Dave and Mick got out and signed autographs and posed for pics......we were just 2 young fellers at the time,they were absolute GENTLEMEN!!!!!!! No ego at all,i thought id share that story with all the Chas and Dave fans out there👍👍🎹🎸

[@willtricks9432]

I took my youngest boy to the tribute to Lonnie gig at the Albert Hall. Saw Chaz and Dave, they rocked hard. I am an old Punk and Metal boy but that night saw many legends who were influenced by Lonnie and in turn set off younger bands. Had tickets for right above the stage door and got a wave from top British talent. Cheers

[@seanfeeney536]

What a combination C&D with Lonnie Donegan, fantastic!!!

[@memphisbulls1859]

when this first aired my dad put the 1st vhs tape he could find in the machine to record the program trouble was it was our family Christmas 81!!!!! oh dear but at least we had Chas & Dave with Lonnie plus Eric Clapton later in the show doing a turn , like they say they dont makeum like this anymore

[@SISU889]

REAL music thank you , lovely punchy bass from Dave .

[@mickkennedy1344]

Mick, top class drummer, Chas & Dave, top class musicians.

[@Lewisjls]

LOL.

[@primroseharan9749]

Fantastic love this remember Lonnie and his great voice

[@alansadler62]

Just love this. Real sing along songs.

[@jonnyrondo9840]

Pure unbridled joy!

[@gillianfox1557]

I grew up listening to Lonnie brilliant

[@peterb5837]

Just how to preform a song - what a talent

[@bapete5159]

Bring back the good old days....coz it ain’t the same now....

[@dazboot2966]

Well - that was bloody marvellous

[@stevev4255]

Would love to have been there for this unexpected unveiling of a legend. Arguably the most influential musician of the 20th century- Page, Harrison, Beck, Clapton all said he's the one who inspired them.

[@mariegast4313]

They were the good old days x

[@JM-jr4pr]

Just looks great fun in that place. All enjoying themselves. Not a care in the world like todays concerts wae mobiles filming n the selfie crew

[@Tombro1856]

Agree 100%

[@alexhollins5830]

Not really my cup of tea but these guys were so vital to the history of rock and pop music.

[@MATTUK10]

Absolutely brilliant great song love it

[@cartoonsbystanthompson7519]

I had to wait till 1976 to see Lonnie, at the Liverpool Empire, like he`d never been away. Someone in the audience shouted out, " LONNIE DONEGAN ! " It swayed him a bit. Also on the bill was, Joe { Mr Piano Henderson. } Another great entertainer.

[@antonincorsham1]

I had the privilage to meet Lonnie Donegon in Bristol when he was being interviewed by the "Late Great" Trevor Fry, one of the most talented radio presenters the Beeb ever had. Lonnie was so personable and a real gentleman, with an incredible sense of humour.... I'll never forget that few minutes in my life....

[@stpeterscooksriver1873]

I think Lonnie Donegan was the banjo player in the Chris Barber traditional jazz band, who sang American ‘folk songs’ to give the band a break. I remember my mates, forming a skiffle group, entirely inspired by Lonnie’s ‘Rock Island Line,’ all they needed were two guitars, a tea chest bass and a washboard with thimbles. Within two years, they had gone electric, with drums, guitars, etc., and were playing in the interval in dance halls where there were dance bands of something like fifteen musicians. It was not long before they took up the whole night and the big bands were gone. That was my experience in a provincial town of forty thousand in England. I agree, the Beatles and everything else with British pop music from that time stemmed from the singing of Lonnie Donegan. There’s still a lot of fun to be had from a cheap guitar and the learning of five chords.

[@Lee-70ish]

Lonnie and Bert Weedon the foundation of UK pop.

[@margaretmcmahon574]

Fabulous 🎤🕺🎸👏👏👏Lonnie Donegan 🕺👍

[@michaelmcguinness10]

Proper entertainer.

[@rodneyhull9764]

true class

[@philhewitt5069]

Oh, you lucky people to have been there, to see a legend.

[@4wdthinking]

What fun... imagine to be there in the room that day. sensational.

[@SISU889]

REAL talent , those were the days !

[@KeithWright-nn9fz]

Just,love this guy,A legend,miss you man,From the good old days,A Dustman,🤠😍😍😍 Keith France m🤠🍷🍷

[@KiwiSpuds]

Those were the days when you had real fun with a lot Loonies great songs, and I loved singing them

[@gregtaylor8327]

One of the best bass players going.

[@ianlawrie9769]

This is class musicianship and entertaining a crowd ..

[@robertgrimshaw9036]

What joy they bring 😊

[@patdoyle3686]

A real true Superstar🌟⭐🌟⭐🌟⭐🌟⭐🌟⭐🌟⭐Lonnie📀Donegan⭐🌟⭐🌟⭐⭐🌟⭐🌟⭐🌟⭐🌟⭐🌟

[@caesarsmith4711]

1st concert I ever went to was Lonnie, a bus man's outing. never forgotten.

[@MrGuitarbiker]

Saw them several times at Margate Winter Gdns 50 years ago, real rockers plus Mick the sticks just great!

[@jamesmark6547]

Too right, one of Jimmy Page's heros (Lonnie), such energy !