MANFRED MANN -- Semi-Detatched Suburban Mr. James (TOTP 3-11-1966)

[@GaryJames864]

I had arrived in London, from the southern United States, just two weeks prior to this broadcast. Ten years old, living in a semi-detached in suburban Hillingdon with my English grandparents, I was a right proper semi-detached suburban master James.

[@johnamilner9019]

Just been to a 60's music show where Mike diablo performed this song along with many others, he's 79 and looks fit as a fiddle,excellent performer along with vanity fare and many others, John from Hull

[@murraywood7480]

For those such a me , just think how lucky we were to have grown up with music such as this... Great days ,Great singers , Great instrument players , Great talent. Non of this Mumbo Jumbo stuff they churn out today... Yes we were so fortunate. and we can still understand the words and sing along.... Peggy Wood

[@kernow123100]

So true Murray,great times to be a teen.

[@kevinbeck6785]

fantastic era to live in

[@TheBlueCream]

@@kevinbeck6785 it was magic !

[@jerrygil1965]

@@kevinbeck6785 Also, life was hectic then but most people had great times

[@kevinbeck6785]

@@jerrygil1965 Yes great times great music

[@AnneTerry-jb7mp]

I loved manfred mann, paul jones and mike D'Abo, great songs, i follow the manfreds around to this day, paul jones , Tom McGuiness, and sometimes Mike D'Abo aswell , love them all so very talented😊 ,and love their fans,seeing them in Christchurch in October, sadly not with Mike D'Abo this time, followed paul jones blues band also till they called it a day❤

[@bsastarfire250]

saw most of them on Saturday, great show, all very talented musicians writers artists .

[@MrMjp58]

Mike D'abo was on Radio 4 last week. He's still a brilliant singer/pianist and raconteur. A great replacement for the superb Paul Jones.

[@Baskerville22]

I think MM had more hits AFTER Jones left. Jones had the better singing voice but MM had barely got started when he left.

[@annoyingbstard9407]

Wow…Mike Hugg smiled. It took him the next fifty years to recover.

[@alaincelos476]

Gréât musician.

[@josbub]

So handsome.

[@MrKaywyn]

@@alaincelos476 And a remarkable songwriter.

[@geraldwalsh6489]

And,also,how fortunate we were to live in UK and Ireland so that we had this music and could understand the lyrics!!! All brilliant stuff

[@stephenleonard7093]

The sound and song was just in our lives 😆

[@andymatthews7617]

GREAT DAYS, SADLY MISSED.

[@marianalins4192]

Very cool! Good music from the past.👏👏👍👍

[@martinrosenblum6125]

Manfred Mann is absolutely one of the most under rated GREAT bands in musical history! From the amazing unique sound of the 1964 to 66 Paul Jones songs, to the Mike Diabo "Ha Ha said the clown"...."My names Jack"...mighty Quinn...and more. These guy,s were/are freaking Fantastic! Im not embarrased to say they are my favorite band..ever.....more than the Beatles, more than the Stones, The Hollies do come close...thank you. .

[@andymatthews7617]

Good taste martin.

[@geraldwalsh6489]

How come England has always produced fab pop groups thru the years? I am just a jealous Irishman! Fair play to all those Superb English groups since the sixties

[@barbarahalkyard1901]

One of the best British bands ever.

[@studio12archive60]

Who says Time Travel is impossible. With the first bars --- I was back as school. Excellent

[@1aberbeeg]

Was engaged when this came out got married 11 months later, seemed ages to wait. Still happy together 56 years on.

[@andymatthews7617]

Not many can say that.

[@1aberbeeg]

@@andymatthews7617Thank you Andy, time hasn't altered a thing.

[@andymatthews7617]

@@1aberbeeg that's great, long may it continue.

[@denisesaunders3067]

Love this video. They all seem happy.

[@JohnCashin]

Wonderful, ain't heard this one for ages, used to hear it a lot on the radio back in the 60's and 70's and even after that, first time I ever saw the video though, every bit of it sums up the essence of the 60's, thanks for the upload :)

[@kevinbeck6785]

magic magic times glad to have been brought up in this era !!!!!!!

[@needham831]

So many memorys

[@TonyG-iu4td]

I was just 3yrs but our house always had a radio all day. So as kids we absorb this music, AND the words. They stay with us! As a kid this record used to make me sad, cos I new it wasn't quite right for the person singing. I new he wasn't happy about something. Indeed as we grow up and older we then see the true realities of 'This World'! ...Even now I get a twinj in my chest just for a second when I listen!

[@andymatthews7617]

BEST MUSIC BEST DAYS.

[@eddapust9544]

Manfred Mann... Immer super 👍👍👍❤️❤️❤️

[@davidwhitehouse7719]

Some songs through a haze of growing up stand out and this is one of them

[@kevinbeck6785]

was it 1966 if released today 2020 it would out sell everything in the so called charts !!!!!!!!!!

[@THEKIDCOD2000]

great music plus the wold cup. life couldn't be better in 66.

[@ianbentley7276]

LOST MY VIRGINITY THAT YEAR TOO. ;-)

[@john111257]

@@ianbentley7276 2 mins i guess

[@ianbentley7276]

@@john111257 sorry, what question was that a reply to? Not for the 1st time I get notified of a reply to a comment I have made, but when I click on it I can only see the reply, not my comment. Obviously haven't got the hang of this. lol

[@john111257]

@@ianbentley7276 losing your virginity, 2 mins i guess, two mins more than me lol

[@MrKaywyn]

@@ianbentley7276 Lucky bastard.

[@nigellewis6279]

Great Song one of many Great Group

[@andrewmatthews6861]

mike dabo great voice 😎

[@Baskerville22]

Beatles, Stones, Hollies, Manfred Mann, Searchers, Herman's Hermits......

[@josefhanyka326]

And DDDBMT !!!

[@Baskerville22]

@@josefhanyka326 Really ? They had maybe 3 'hits'. After the top 6# listed above, i would add for #7 +.....Dave Clark 5, The Kinks, Jerry & the Pacemakers, The Animals, Troggs, Turtles, Zombies

[@josefhanyka326]

@@Baskerville22 I am with you, but it was "for instance". I don't want to rate that bands. All this bands are on the list of my favourites and from the most of them I still have the singles, my treasure ! But DDBMT was not so bad: UK Charts (Wikipedia) Xanadu P1, Bend It P2, Save Me P3, Hold Tight P4, Okay P4, Last Night...P8 (?) Thank you for the answer. Greetings from Vienna/Austria

[@Baskerville22]

@@josefhanyka326 Thanks for the further explanation. I love Xanadu & Hold Tight. Greetings from Brisbane, Australia

[@ottokar6318]

Who kinks animals....

[@alaincelos476]

Underrated mike hugg as drummer and composer!!!

[@seltaeb9691]

Not the UNDERRATED again🙄! By who. They were all rated.

[@alaincelos476]

@@seltaeb9691 do thinck Mike Hugg never got recognition hé ought to get from jurnalists...do thinck " up thé junction" was à prêtty good job from à "drummer"....

[@BrokenneckYgor]

This sums up me life--Neville Chamberlain, HH Asquith

[@tonbridgeman]

The "flute" was actually mellotron - perhaps the first use of this extraordinary but brilliant instrument in a top 10 single. The musicians union banned its use from TOTP but the reality was it was very heavy and cumbersome as well as not particularly reliable so this probably suited everyone.

[@VirreFriberg]

"Semi-Detached" was the first hit single worldwide to utilize the Mellotron. The first pop / rock artist who used the Mellotron (outside easy-listening music) was the Graham Bond Organization, who's bassist was Jack Bruce. Who also happened to have a brief stint in Manfred Mann before joining Cream. It all goes full-circle!

[@peterellul3458]

great song

[@cesarribeiro623]

Great's times...Amazing ...

[@markpalmar70]

So cool

[@andrewmatthews6861]

take me back to this music wonderment 😎anything to get away from this mad crazy bonkers we live in today 🤦

[@ianholmes3761]

The year I was born 😵

[@andrewmatthews6861]

happier times where did they all go 😧😧😧😧

[@potdog1000]

yes i was 16, then now2 72 & still think i am groovy lol

[@NewRootsHairUK]

Very clever song

[@melgrant7404]

Love manfred manxx

[@toothpick4649]

Can you imagine the songs of today being played in 60 years time ????' songs like " Bang Bang shoot the cop " or " Face down a### up that's the way way I like to ####... those songs were played on the A.B.C. ( read B.B.C ) on rage sat Morning recently, maybe he next generation will revert back to decent songs.. they say it's fashion cycles..

[@dotandgrahamxxxx4487]

I was 16 happy days

[@geraldcollins8273]

Never to return to these great years

[@welshcourtland]

Wasn't all smiles, Teddy. This was filmed 2 weeks after the Aberfan Disaster. Lovely Song though.

[@frankiejacques383]

this came ot the year my sister rita was born and also the year my parents switched to a 405 line tv witch belive it or not stil works frankie jacques 36 bedford uk

[@jdmresearch]

Right at the beginning, seems to be a flute, but it's actually one of the first uses of mellotron in rock music...

[@Isleofskye]

True but only Rick Wakeman knew how to not only use it to full effect but could fix it. Producers kept calling him in but he was shrewd enough to ask for Double and guarantee a session spot. Then he joined Yes and the rest is history......lol

[@jdmresearch]

@@Isleofskye And then he switched to birotron... and birotron was history... lol

[@alaincelos476]

@@Isleofskye totally wrong .onô Mike Pinder was able to used it correctly.and can fix it live !!! Hé had worked in Birmingham in 62_63 at Les Bradley factory...Wakeman only used mk5 and correctly. But pinder used every one mostly mk2 and Us brother thé chamberlin.

[@이진미-m6i]

저렇게 밝고 유쾌하고 천진난만한 장난꾸러기.paul jones 축복받은 사람.무한히 부럽다.나이든 모습도 너무 보기좋다.luv you.

[@chrischandler833]

Yes, except that this was their new vocalist in 1966, Mike d'Abo.

[@rm7guy]

Yea a group having a bit of fun and enjoying themselves. Shocking. They should be more pompous and self important like so many modern bands.

[@NewRootsHairUK]

Well said

[@welshcourtland]

Yes great Teddy. Aberfan was about a week earlier. Wasn't all roses.

[@andymatthews7617]

PLEASE.!!!!!

[@gusglen]

From 0:50 to 0:52 after he takes Manfred's glasses Mike is pre-channelling Austin Powers somewhat ;-)

[@andrewmatthews6861]

not many better written songs by the great Manfred thanks for all the hits 😁

[@racketman2u]

I was searching for this under "Kinks" - it is so much like a Ray Davies song subject (and IMO as good as anything the Kinks did)

[@jodeepurkeypile7137]

No one ever mentions the fact that this was the most likely earliest appearance of a Mellotron on a pop record.

[@nigelmicklewright]

Yes, this was the first 45 in the UK to chart which featured a Mellotron (Flute and Bass Accordian - you can hear the pinch rollers sticking at the end!).I understand they had an instrument at IBC Studios in London where Manfred Mann recorded and it was here also the master sounds were recorded for the Tron.)Graham Bond was, however, using and recording with the Mellotron the previous year and it can be heard on his "There's A Bond Between Us" LP from December 1965.

[@garethjones7725]

Taking the Puss out off Paul Jones leaving the band ,I wonder

[@majorlaff8682]

wot's a melotron?

[@Selvikus]

@@majorlaff8682 Early synth, played samples of other instruments, was very big and prone to malfunction, but sounded like none other(check out the Moody Blues)

[@majorlaff8682]

@@Selvikus Thank you.

[@geoffwilkins5274]

Like some other viewers, no doubt, there's one particular woman I would like to aim this at!

[@andrewmatthews6861]

mike dabo thanks man 😎

[@lilylind4834]

I totally agree music was great back then . Now it’s just nasty

[@andrewmatthews6861]

mike dabo rock on man u day best 😎

[@geoffolehane]

Actually this song only got to #2 on the UK charts. Not #1 as the intro suggests. Still a good song.

[@tinahardman9805]

The tag line back then was 'It's number one, it's TOTP's' meaning that the show was number one not that particular song.

*IVO`s MAGIC WORLD* presents *MUSIC HISTORY GUIDE - FAMOUS BIRTHS* - *TRIBUTE To KLAUS VOORMANN - 80th BIRTHDAY, TODAY!!!* (ApRiL 29, 2018)

[@richardcook2606]

80? Wow, we're all getting old

[@JaneFrieman]

This is quite a different style for Manfred Mann.

[@PlasticGirl65]

I was about 14 when I first heard this song and always loved it since. I was only one when it was released so obviously don't remember it then.

[@SuperNevile]

Interesting, Mike Vickers who could play bass and flute, was replaced by Klaus Voormann who could also play bass and flute

[@annamariedarkholme147]

Mike Vickers could also play clarinet and saxophone, too! His exit of the band is almost a marking point of when they went from being a jazzy and bluesy instrumental group to strictly pop sounding songs.

[@batsup1951]

Mike Vickers played guitar and Tom McGuiness played bass on the earlier records. When Mike left Tom switched to guitar.

[@geraldwalsh6489]

How come there is a whistle on this video.....is it down to the tape recorder??

[@RedVynil]

Why is it so many Brits in this era played drums in this bizarre way??

[@kramrollin69]

Notice the name change for one of the chorus. Semidetached Suburban Mr. Most. I always wondered if this was some reference to Mickey Most, a popular producer at the time. I read once that both Mickey Most and Manfred Mann were friends in South Africa and had bands there, and both went/returned to England at around the same time. Does anyone know?

[@VirreFriberg]

Could definitively be possible, considering that the song was written by songwriters Geoff Stephens and John Carter who did compose multiple songs for Mickie Most-produced artists, such as Herman's Hermits "My Sentimental Friend" and "Knock, Knock Who's There?" by Mary Hopkins

[@kramrollin69]

@@VirreFriberg Cheers, good info.

[@FryPanMusic]

Great clip how did this film survive the wiper?

[@leighbrown5652]

Looks like this clip is from a domestic home recording and not the original tape.

[@nicadair7700]

I think it survives because it was held as an insert by a French TV company. Not a domestic recording from 1966 on videotape, if it was a domestic recording from that era it would of been shot onto film such as The Hollies Bus Stop clip also from TOTP 1966.

[@alanrabjohns2187]

oh what a classic record of monumental proportions it sums up what you feel when a ex girlfriend rubs in the fact she has named the day!!!! I mean she mentions to you she is buttering some one else,s toast..... I hope you do not regret it!!!!!!! & so on!!!!!!!. This song is 1966 wrapped up.........

[@seltaeb9691]

Little bit of TOTPs video manipulation with Mr Mann's mouth near end. TOTPs producers would pounce on anything new on videoing technique.

[@terrymitchell469]

plus jsaville

[@kevfarny4082]

So off their faces LOL

[@diskochimp]

Everybody was stoned on TOTP in 1966, it would've been written into their BBC contract I expect...

[@chatham43]

....never knew Simon Dee presented TOTPs....bit uncool for the great one.....is this newly discovered footage....not seen it before.....

[@beesknees91]

This performance was taken from Top of the Pops, however the performance was shown on a French TV music show, hence the BBC sold the show overseas and this performance no longer exists in the BBC archives. It would worth looking for The Kinks - Sunny Afternoon and also The Hollies - Bus Stop. Both have been posted on you tube, which are also rare Top of the Pops performances from 1966 and officially missing. Also The Walker Brothers - (Baby) You don't have to tell me, which was returned to BBC and was shown for the first time since original transmission in 2013. Now the BBC has an official archive of 2 songs from 1966 for Top of the Pops, the other being Stevie Wonder - Uptight.

[@blackmore4]

Kelvin Walker I want to take the bright spark at the BBC who instigated their flog-it-or-wipe-it policy and put my hands around his neck and squeeze hard. Pete & Dud, Scott Walker's TV series, countless classic pop performances... wiped. If that's not bad enough, it also seems a bit sinister, bitter and twisted. When he heard that their series of 'Not Only but Also' was going to be wiped, Peter Cook rang the BBC and offered to both buy the tapes and replace them with a new ones. The answer was no. Why the fuck was the answer no? Aaaargh.

[@potdog1000]

he was on £100 a week what do you expect? the BBC had to get there monies worth out of him lol

[@SuperNevile]

blackmore4 Yes but the "Hi-Falutin'" BBC probably thought "This pop music only appeals to teenagers, who will grow up, and then become adults listening to "more refined" music". This is "cheap, here today gone tomorrow" music. Same with the "silly" comedy of Pete and Dud ~ a transition to something better. Oh and tape is "so expensive", we need it to record the Elgar. Although I heard that the reason some of these performances still exist is because someone retrieved them from a bin, so you may be right. Thank goodness for the europeans and BeatClub

[@SuperNevile]

+Buick Le Sabre I wouldn't use the word " usual" though..... :-)

[@martinhughes2549]

Wonder were this clip is from? This is supposed to not exist.

[@antonioszytulskyj8165]

Klauss voorman, primo.

[@lilylind4834]

Klauss voorman is gorgeous

[@4rumani]

You came here from Wikipedia

[@glennhfriedman4571]

swing and miss in the States ..which kinda sucked... A split level is what we called semi detached house ..

[@jamesbirkbeck]

Duplex

[@SuperDelphinidae]

Was this recorded on a plane

[@Sarahfreckle]

Terrible video but this is a great song. Very cleverly written and arranged. Some of the lyrics are a bit contrived though.

[@lilylind4834]

I love this video . They always seem to be having so much fun

[@nicadair7700]

Not a video as such but a studio recording by the BBC, Top of the Pops.

[@nigelwilliams9307]

Stoned

[@thomasdearment3214]

We were Paul Jones fans We Liked Mike D Abo. but Paul had a certain timber in his voice we thought sounded better.

[@andymatthews7617]

OHHHHH MANNN.

[@diskochimp]

Because playbacks are stupid?

[@yonkieponkie]

why are they so , grinning at themselves, looking at the monitor?

[@jackiemolloy5226]

Ò0oòp0⁹⁹

[@chrisbacos]

Never realized Mike D'Abo had such bad teeth.

[@Witheredgoogie]

Its interesting to note from old clips, that even groups like the Osmonds had their god given teeth (going in all directions) and not the pearly white, perfectly straight teeth they eventually got.

[@yonkieponkie]

why are they so unprofessional, grinning at themselves looking at themselves looking at the monitor? geez, i wait 30 years to see them being so unprofessional

[@rainertrebbin-vf7nt]

❤

[@throatgorge2]

Someone must have been listening to this old broadcast when they were figuring out what to call the old grey whistle test, because that high pitched whistling drone is horrendous!

[@shawnbrown1437]

I'm glad someone has finally pointed it out, I was beginning to think it was just my tinnitus!