Making your mind up - United Kingdom 1981 - Eurovision songs with live orchestra

[@SLAmey-mu9hd]

Who's here again for 2023??.... Bucks Fizz were great back in the early 80's 😎💯

[@MarkReynolds-dy1pl]

And the Winner,s Were 😆🤣🇬🇧😲♥️👍

[@angelacooper2661]

And I was not yet eleven and in my last year at junior school back then!

[@catrionamaguire4347]

I’m 31 and my mother is 72 but il always remember her singing this song when I was young. I know the words without ever hearing the song. When I was a child we would sit around the TV as a family watching the Eurovision always special memories for Irish families. Sadly not the same anymore.

[@Chris_34]

Those jumpers the guys are wearing are the most 1980's thing i've ever seen.

[@emersonhcastro641]

I was 7 years old in 1981 and i fondly remember that song!

[@gerryfinn4868]

Cheryl's legs won that for uk

[@angelacooper2661]

I am four years older than you- 11 and moving from junior to senior school in 1981! Remember the song well.

[@zecarlospiripiri]

This music make me happy ☺

[@voleibolfan3132]

I´m portuguese, i had 10 yo when i saw this performance on tv. I said to my mom- "Mummy, i´m sure you don´t need to see the other songs. UK will win for sure!" She said- "Are you crazy?"... Two hours laters, she understood i wasn´t crazy...

[@debonidaniel]

Mais foi bem tenso por que eles ganharam da Alemanha por apenas 4 pontos.

[@JoseantonioGonzalezsanch-dx5ip]

Con el paso de los años me gusta más aún. Maravilloso recuerdo. Gracias.

[@seosamhofionnaghain8699]

Catchy song deserved the win!! UK on top form back in 1981!!

[@richallenxbox1976]

Yep, and sadly we didn't win again till 16 years later, and haven't won since (although I still think Sam Ryder was robbed last year)

[@fionathomson4436]

Still love the song 🎵 ❤️ after all these years

[@michaelmulholland9072]

Fh5 gitntiv

[@mike-lo4rt]

Sung with such joy and energy a worthy winner.

[@lorrenaelliott161]

Joy and energy ……judging from their eyes and era they were in. Should imagine they were flying high lol 😂

[@mike-lo4rt]

you could be right @@lorrenaelliott161 🤣

[@martysmith9184]

Long live Terry Wogan. RIP

[@edwardpootchemunka8027]

1981 I was 16 years old 2023 I'm 58 this song reminds me of my teenage days

[@angelacooper2661]

I am five years younger than you, as I was 11 in 1981 and moving from junior to senior school that year. Reminds me of that transition period! (Now aged 53).

[@ThoughtfulDuck-r8h]

2011, i'm 13! But I love 80s and 70s music!

[@577gjj]

I was 7..it reminds me of my childhood ❤

[@ΝίκοςΚαπαρής-ν2π]

2023...this is the meaning of eurovizion!! Love you england to moon and back!! Grear song and beautiful.singers!! Kisses from cyprus!!

[@williamgerost1558]

Joyfull and so great , they did deserve to be the winners , love from France !

[@cheekytyke]

Merci beaucoup

[@didier.gerost.07]

happy 2023 year to all !! kisses from Switzerland Gstaad

[@zenamarcoulidou9407]

Cyprus...❤❤❤

[@casperrabbit7254]

Hey remember when the UK actually cared

[@syr0utpl293]

The best songs of the 2000's 2002 2014 2017

[@richardwilcox2784]

You mean when when the rest of Europe didn't hate us,lol

[@moow950]

richard wilcox Well after all the British Brexit poison against us in the continent , it’s huge now!!!

[@THELEICESTERFOX]

The UK fans still care just the BBC dont...

[@bojchx]

@@richardwilcox2784 Nobody hates uk I liked last years song and 2018...

[@Adrian-jz8gr]

When I listened to it as a child I liked it so much that I preferred it to win instead of my country to listen to it again.

[@gaysy1st]

That's nice to hear 😊

[@MrJohnnyMel]

Bucks Fizz are an Abba styled band from the UK and also won the Eurovision Song Contest like ABBA. Make sure you watch a video for the “surprise” 😀

[@pastorbri]

not as good as brotherhood of man though

[@MrJohnnyMel]

@@pastorbri 😂

[@kimberleyheadland4639]

Brilliant song very uplifting glad we won this Eurovision song contest 40 years ago now watched this in 9181 and now watching it again in june 2021 this song still has that wow feel about it🎶🎵🥰…………..Kimberley 🇬🇧

[@ΝίκοςΚοντόπουλος-η6θ]

the best in Eurovision story

[@kerismith4034]

It has to be one of the best all-around songs ever..

[@susannabonke8552]

Life is life. ...

[@michaelm3943]

y YOU MUST BE TRIPPING, THE GIRLS ARE HORRBILE SINGERS AND SPOIL THE WHOLE SONG.

[@josegabrielperezmartinez1371]

Adoro esta canción y cómo la interpretaron, una actuación de 10 y sin necesitar nada más que la orquesta acompañándolos. Una delicia! Gracias!

[@370DatsunZed]

Lets be honest, it doesn't get much better than this!!! I remember that night well..

[@lindashaw925]

Love that song and what did for that group and 40 years on they are still singing making your mind up well done fizz for win the Eurovision fizz for every🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧❤️💙💚💛💜🤍💖💝💗💓🎶🎤🎵🎸🎼🍾🥂

[@fredywithaD]

This song is a shot of pure good vibe 😀

[@alisonpovey4566]

Brilliant song, loved Mike Nolan and Bobby Gee in this, well done to Bucks Fizz for winning.

[@oiooi6460]

I am glad, but I am amazed they won with Cheryl Baker's off-key wailing

[@roby8655]

the song it fantastic 🤗

[@metallicroostersailor8105]

I love this so much.

[@packer812]

So fun and catchy.

[@thecinematicmind]

The Greatest British Eurovision winner by a landslide.

[@jennyfairhead1999]

Fantastic 😊

[@elainehughes5761]

My heart misses a beat when i watch these two

[@angelacooper2661]

I remember Bucks Fizz! when in my last year at junior school. I wasn't yet eleven at the time and an impressionable kid. Takes me back to a less complicated era with no social media or a preponderance of gadgets. Good time to be young!

[@BillyThomas-p2q]

Outstanding grope thay should be about now ❤❤😂😂🎉🎉

[@skygazer6898]

A great performance from all of the guys, they really were on top form. Worthy winners

[@WARDMAN3]

I agree with you on winning, however I have to say that this performance was far from top notch... I have heard the three versions of this.... The Eurovision performance, The Song for Europe perrformance, and the studio cut version.. The Song for Europe was the best... Something happened here, I do not know if it was nerves but there are times when they are way out of pitch.

[@nicoledickson6099]

Worthy winners, but the performance was BAD.... The one in yellow was very off key, and a song for Europe was top-notch, this was a downgrade..

[@YamsPhysicalCatalogueOfMedia]

I like this song, but can't sing live.

[@paulsharp2565]

It sounds to me, as though it is just the woman in yellow who is badly out of tune. She's ruining the whole song.

[@sharonconnolly337]

Yes Sharon in leicester England

[@marymcgivney9041]

Used to do this dance at the disco great one on 😃❤😃❤

[@PatrickSquires-e4f]

i was only 13 when i first heard this song and i knew straight away that this was a winning song, and it did in glourious stile, the last time was in 1976 when i was 8 and the botherhood of man won , how sad today that the song contest is about political , rather then how good the song is

[@mig0171]

The outfits made my eyes burn

[@romischetavernamusicavinir814]

[@andresgordillo2881]

Me encanta y me sigue gustando

[@joseblanco14]

Making your mind up. Good memories wonderfull song, we. See with my family all eurovision festival when I was young. Very good moments what stay with me ever.

[@MrGyuri45]

Excelente musica com bom video Kiváló zene jó videóval

[@budapest3942]

Great dance, lovely song, and I'm no vocal expert but 2:02 and 2:20 just don't sound right

[@BaronP91]

Cheryl Baker says she was so nervous that she accidentally sang one key higher than the rest of the group.

[@djjee-one352]

thanks to the Eurovision musical event that founded some the talant and music we grew up with in the 70s and 80s

[@josegarciacarrasco4526]

Me encantó esta canción

[@dessiemckenzie5857]

What always gets me is Jay Aston checks to make sure that her skirt isn’t completely ripped off

[@erdinctopkara8401]

Bu şarkı bana 1991'de Türkiye'nin İzel Reyhan Can'la Eurovision'a katıldığı iki dakika şarkısını hatirlatiyor hele nakarat kısmı tamamen aynı.

[@nissadarra6410]

Wowww o love it❤❤❤❤

[@john.highheels.3244]

Now that is what a Eurovision song should sound like. Great song and of course the girls Cheryl and Jay absolutely sensational looking. 💯☑️

[@nathelondon3719]

Bucks Fizz , Making Your Mind Up and Terry Wogan. Those were the days. Rule Britannia! God Save the Queen.

[@grantkoeller8911]

Greatest song of all time

[@BlytheWorld1972]

you have been in lock down far too long darling lol

[@djbillybopdjbillybop2817]

Get out more.

[@grantkoeller8911]

@@BlytheWorld1972 ha ha !!!!!!

[@Orlando-Corea]

Very happy memories from when I was 5 ❤️

[@tamarforest5472]

nice

[@anitasynnes306]

I remember I really loved this one😊❤

[@klausschulz6524]

Super Musik 😊

[@magicmike6961]

love that skirt rip

[@joseantoniogonzalezsanchez485]

Tema maravilloso, yo llevaba ese mismo pelo. Ojalá la gente joven deje de raparse la cabeza. Vivan las melenas masculinas!!

[@Palombina]

Muy gracioso 😂

[@AntoniaCrivillesRojo]

Me in June 2024 😍 😍

[@erlandeikestad1347]

I recall from that year, seeing one of the Presentation- Shows of all the ESC - Contenders at an acquaintance's place, where also a bloke, whom I thought was a Complete Tosser, to say the least (For reasons not relevant bringing up here) had popped by, sat and watched the Show. When Buck's Fizz came up with "MYMU", he annoyingly loud proclaimed "THAT'S The Winner! I'm POSITIVE!" And I muttered "Yeah-Yeah Sure, Mate". As it happened, he also was around the evening of the ESC- Final, and when B.F. actually DID win, (to my shocking surprise), he said " I KNEW it! Do you remember that I'd said that?" I couldn't really refuse to that and replied shortly; "Yes, You DID say that". (But He still was a Complete Tosser!) :-D

[@diegoperezperea128]

They had a lot of success with that song...

[@josegalindo-herrador5565]

Timeless ❤️❤️❤️

[@adelinapintodesa9705]

Oh, this was such amazing music!!!!

[@barbapapa9741]

1:37 we tried to dance like this but never succeeded (I'm member in a dance club)....but my feet are moving all alone with the swing of the melody

[@Tyler_Mills26]

The guy in blue is absolutely gorgeous and Jesus Christ the guy in green looks like Paul McCartney in a blonde wig haha xxx

[@holzapfelstein]

I think the guy in the green looks more like actor Andrew McCarthy in a blonde wig!

[@Tyler_Mills26]

@@holzapfelstein I just had to Google who that was and I agree he does xxx

[@holzapfelstein]

@@Tyler_Mills26 - Yes! Thank you! I should have emphasized he looked like Andrew McCarthy THEN (back in those "Pretty in Pink" days) as opposed to now.

[@LindaGrace74]

Love the song put performance wasn’t great on the night.

[@Hertfordshire247]

There are so many Carry On puns in this that only the English would get lol

[@burnts0x]

No, we all see this is one, long, glorious double entendre ;)

[@DerKaktuszuechter]

orf = österreichischer Rundfunk 🇦🇹

[@sebastianbaxter3761]

I made it 😂 Got to be within a day's drive to the Black Sea Coast and where I don't need to go out to the rain to have a ciggie. What a mad world we turned into since 1981 🇷🇸❤

[@PtolemyJones]

I saw a more modern remake of this. Still sounded great. Also fun, the ladies ripped the men's pants down to shorts. Turn about is fair play! Fun tune.

[@TheApowell72]

I knew the keyboard player on this. He was a nice bloke and brilliant musician.

[@lidaatanasova7768]

😍Bravo!!!!!

[@kaW3_4]

*Joyful* *and* *so* *great* *They* *did* *deserve* *to* *be* *the* *winners* 💗

[@privatedietitian4598]

This song is ageless, does not matter how many years pass it annoys as in 1981.

[@theenglishalpinist5031]

Can't believe those outfits were ever fashionable, but nevertheless beautiful memories.

[@angrybidoof847]

Fashionable and eurovision usually don't mix

[@VeraRouz]

**Super old song 👍💯🌟**

[@raymondharland6504]

Watched this live at the time. Great song deserved to win. Its the orchestra sound that's a bit off putting. Loved all the music they've produced. 😊

[@LVDvideo]

the music was 'on tape' for bucks fizz. You could choose. Ochestra or on tape. Bucks Fizz is on tape :)

[@richardyoung1053]

@@LVDvideo the rythem track was on tape (hence why John Coleman wore headphones) with the string and brass sections of the orchestra playing along.

[@LVDvideo]

@@richardyoung1053 could be. But the drum track is on tape, right?

[@richardyoung1053]

@@LVDvideo yes 99% certain the drum track was on tape

[@annakobuk3618]

"Don't let your indecision take you from behind" 🤣

[@anonymouspeacefulperson6199]

Used to dance to this in Andrea’s house !

[@robintripp8164]

Terry Wogan realised what a politicized con the eurovision song contest had become.

[@stevebbuk]

It was the best song of the night, flattered by an orchestra which fortunately drowned out Jay Aston's semitone off pitch, and the novelty of the skirt removing distinguished it from the German and Swiss entries snapping at its heels.

[@confidentconnor5741]

Jay could have literally ruined it for them😂😂

[@paulmacca]

It was Cheryl singing off key

[@kevinsoutham]

Paul McCarthy I was thinking the same thing - after the key change one of the girls is very flat and bit screechy, at the beginning one of the guys is also quite flat.

[@GusPlayer94]

Thankfully the juries judge based on the jury final the night before (or at least I am certain they still did back then, they were doing so in the 90s at least). That probably helps to explain it too.

[@jamiegrifter]

That’s Cheryl who’s off not Jay

[@stefanonealfio8966]

Che differenza dagli eurovision di oggi

[@franciscoramirezdominguez7822]

Divertidisimos

[@patrickvandamme1348]

Emly starr from Belgium had to win that year with "Samson and Delilah"!

[@MrGyuri45]

Jó.

[@blazzingsaddles]

I made my mind up years ago...Cheryl Baker

[@darrenb8974]

Fantastic. Didn't they do the UK proud! As a "Generation X" I always say this was our "World Cup 1966" moment!

[@elainehughes5761]

Good in them days

[@intreoo]

That was the fastest 3 minute song I’ve ever listened to

[@chrisjames6327]

There was actually a gaffe, where they gave the girls the lead mics and the men the backing mics. It should have been the other way around, as the lead mics are much louder. Which is why the high backing vocals are so prominent. But it's still a really good vocal performance/harmony, so you can see how talented they all were

[@julessherwood]

The gaffe was the second time they had to perform the song, the guys had the right lead mics for this first time round, they didn't care about the second time as they had already won.

[@marymcgivney9041]

Great music 😂❤❤😂

[@javismanterminator6947]

PARCHIS *Me vas a volver loco*

[@zerringungor-b8h]

kıyafetler çok güzel şimdi çok açık tuhaf

[@ruibento9840]

I was into English language so much at this time

[@ruibento9840]

I was very good in English in Portugal

[@ruibento9840]

My English teacher was Portuguese but she looked like more English when she was younger

[@ullahelwegrothe2024]

❤❤❤❤❤

[@tur74d56]

Jay Aston is Stunning

[@jennyfairhead1999]

We won with this

[@davidcoull3747]

We always care ! We just don't do very well 😜