It took me years to find this after hearing it as a teen.I'm 57.
@sophievonundzu81507 ай бұрын
I‘m feeling the same. Just that I‘m 26 and heard this when I was a child. I’m from germany and my dad had the greatest taste in music.
@illatease_iae7 ай бұрын
Same here, my dad played it in the car and it took me 10 years to find it.
@manfredheck35293 ай бұрын
Both of you: why didn't you buy the record? It was always available...
@johnkauppi70783 ай бұрын
@@manfredheck3529 Yeah, well I had no idea who the Artist was or what the music was even called. All I knew was, it played on the ABC Australia when I was a kid in the '79-'80.
@shanesargeson532Ай бұрын
Same here, played between shows before 6pm.
@alanhealy18858 жыл бұрын
Possibly Mike's best piece ever, timeless.
@costaminus35493 жыл бұрын
Yeah, really 😀😀😀
@scotthillard34182 жыл бұрын
Only rivalled by his Montreaux performance of North Star/ Platinum Finale.
@javiertoribio76292 жыл бұрын
Absolutamente de acuerdo!
@anamariamartinez42592 жыл бұрын
He crecido con toda su música y no sabría elegir, toda me encanta
@wacawako64432 жыл бұрын
Yes. But you only forgot Hiberna Culum...
@grailchaser3 жыл бұрын
My first introduction to Mike Oldfield was this video on the ABC's Video Hits, probably just after the Goodies and before Dr Who. :)
@plmsdevelopments5 ай бұрын
"The Goodies and before Dr Who" Also my memories of after school nights in front of the B&W TV in the late 70's too, add Cat Weasel as well...
@davidh74145 ай бұрын
@@grailchaser you forgot the Kenny Everett Video Show as well at that time in early 80's
@flinderscat13 ай бұрын
Same here, great days.
@pagonabarbata13644 жыл бұрын
I remember watching this back in the early 80s on the ABC after school. Brings back many memories.
@hotpotato402726 күн бұрын
Same here, video it from telly on VHS…🙋🏻♂️
@DerekMcAllan6 жыл бұрын
The nostalgia is so so strong with this one... love Mike Oldfield, but the pairing with this film clip is just perfect and I used to be glued to the TV anytime this came on the ABC. I fell 10 years old again :D
@MoonUnit64013 жыл бұрын
I rang the ABC and asked them what the song was called. I was already a MO fan. I just didn't know it. The whole Incantations LP is a classic. I still you love you dad.
@Riatzi3 жыл бұрын
Wonderful, marvelous music, plus celestial vocals by Maddy Prior.
@GreatVoltairesGhost7 жыл бұрын
Maddy's voice brings tears to my eyes *every* time
@MrSevillian7 жыл бұрын
Maddy or Sally?
@GreatVoltairesGhost7 жыл бұрын
I believe they sang it together but all I hear is Maddy 😌
@camugi1007 жыл бұрын
Definitely Maddy Prior, the one and only :-)
@Belfreyite2 жыл бұрын
Maddy shared the top spot with two other fantastic female vocalists, the sadly lamented Sandy Denny and June Tabor.
@scotthillard34187 ай бұрын
@@MrSevillian It's Maddy Prior on this track.
@marcusdavis79666 жыл бұрын
I’ve listened to mike since I was 9 years old I’m 52 now when ever I want to find myself again incantations is where I journey to. An incredible piece of imagination and sheer indulgence never to be forgotten.
@paulsheringham983710 жыл бұрын
Thank you to ABC TV. I remembering listening to this as a child and understanding the sadness and fragile beauty of this world.
@Daemien6510 жыл бұрын
This and the "Butterfly ball" !
@paulsheringham983710 жыл бұрын
Hughes Damien And Jolanta by Earl Klugh, Voyager by Alan Parsons
@VishusB4 жыл бұрын
I saw this just the once when I was 12, around 1982, (on ABC I think!) and I never saw it again but it stayed with me. Gives me goosebumps seeing it again.
@davidmason77653 жыл бұрын
@@Daemien65 yes, with the frog's vocals by ... Ronnie James Dio
@plmsdevelopments2 жыл бұрын
I used to watch this as a kid and daydream about one day seeing the moon close up myself, never imagining that humanity would drop the ball of manned space exploration for the next four decades. Sadly it will never be possible for me and the other day dreamers of that age, we're too old now...
@davidh74145 ай бұрын
You are not alone. There are plenty of Aussie Gen X kids the same. I was 8 years old in mid 80's I used to dream of flying to space as well after watching this.
@mckeevertom19276 ай бұрын
The Space Movie was in theatres in the US in 1979. I missed that but in 1981 whwn I purchased my first VHS player/recorder it was the first video I purchased about the space program. Many more were to follow.
@sneeuwgetsie4 жыл бұрын
MO has composed so much beautiful music. He must be in contact with another dimension 🪐
@garrypower59564 жыл бұрын
This music restores my faith in humanity.
@christod112 жыл бұрын
Amazing. I have been looking for this for more than 20 years. I also remeber as a child watching it on ABC. The video and music still move me. Thank you so much...
@waefelectricflyer31632 жыл бұрын
Me too, remember it from my childhood.
@henrywhittaker25195 жыл бұрын
The Incantations album represents a rare high point in contemporary music, most likely never to be surpassed or equaled.
@tech9803Ай бұрын
A masterpiece. The combination of beautiful music and complimenting video.
@Ensign_Cthulhu5 жыл бұрын
I was a Mike Oldfield fan before I realised this was one of his works, and when I finally listened to Incantations I was shocked and amazed. I'd sort of wondered, but it was such a joyous surprise to have it confirmed.
@misty_miss9 жыл бұрын
I watched this on the ABC as a kid and now my own children get to enjoy it on here. This song is the queen of all music.
@Rockgi594 жыл бұрын
Masterpiece.
@stuartshone17402 жыл бұрын
such a long time, I had forgotten this. so wonderful
@yvonneoblein63338 жыл бұрын
Love this from the first time I saw it on ABC back in late 70s
@UteAlbers-yd1se7 ай бұрын
Wonderful Song 👍🎶🙂
@LitShaeffer11 жыл бұрын
Thanks echelon for solving a puzzle that has bugged me for so long. What an amazing piece of music from an astounding musician.
@squizznut12 жыл бұрын
This piece of music seems to touch so many people...I close my eyes and feel the powers of the universe reach in lift me up whenever I hear this.
@apost8ofoz3784 жыл бұрын
I remember watching this as a fill in between programs on the ABC. Decades passed and this song had haunted me that i could never remember it or who composed it until a brief off chance on radio i heard the end of it and Mike Oldfield mentioned. Looked it up and here it is. A most beloved piece of music i will enjoy for as long as i'm able.
@Yeromos10011 жыл бұрын
The most wounderful voice of a woman that I ever heard! Great Performance!
@jerryausten39314 жыл бұрын
She was the lead singer in a band called Steeleye Span, in case you hadn't found that out in the last 7 years since your comment. Hope you discovered more of her incredible voice in the interim !
@grahamboyce17192 жыл бұрын
Maddie Prior
@bradleyfrost64557 жыл бұрын
Hauntingly beautiful!
@fabriziocoppola90149 жыл бұрын
Absolutely wonderful !!
@fabriziomarchese98289 жыл бұрын
Absolutely stunning, images and music that produce thick emotions
@bdeesch6 ай бұрын
Mesmerizing! Beautiful! ❤️
@kerrydwyer49935 жыл бұрын
2019 Still perfection, Mike. Thank you
@keironsummers86293 жыл бұрын
Only ever saw this in the early 80's on the ABC between episodes of Monkey Magic and Tom Baker 'Dr Who'. Can't find it on either Spotify or Apple Music. Thank you KZbin.
@Ensign_Cthulhu4 жыл бұрын
I loved this from long before I knew who Mike Oldfield was, but I had the sneaking suspicion after I became a fan that this might have been his doing. The first time I listened to the whole album and this tune came in at the end, I had that same "I knew it!" feeling that you see Thor have when Captain America lifts his hammer in Avengers: Endgame.
@germain7728 жыл бұрын
splendid music, marvellous voice.
@darcy_taylor3103 Жыл бұрын
Genius ! Poland Love Michael Gordon Oldfield ;-)
@TheFinalMinutes12 жыл бұрын
Thank you for posting this. Its been haunting me for years, so glad I found this!
@mariastella68057 жыл бұрын
ADORE THIS SONG !!!
@iommiwasaboilermaker8686 жыл бұрын
I love this as much today as I did when I first saw it on ABC when I was a kid...The penny dropped when I became a fan of Oldfield,this filler was in my head,I realised it was Oldfield and youtubed to i found the song.This was a fair few years ago when you tube had not long started
@leonstuij95406 жыл бұрын
I have no words for this.
@DavidPablo29-s5c2 ай бұрын
IMPRESIONANTE. Una de las mejores canciones de New Age de todos los tiempos.
@martinwitchard82607 жыл бұрын
Thank you. My earworm is completely satisfied.
@patriciaannetaylor16792 жыл бұрын
A tremendous track..👌
@digitalramyun9 жыл бұрын
Absolutely spine-tingling piece, especially with Sally Oldfield and Maddy Prior's singing of Ben Jonson's "Ode To Cynthia". I've often imagined this sequence as the "soundtrack" to the closing section (Aslan's country) of "The Last Battle" by CS Lewis... not quite sure why!
@nodlon2011 жыл бұрын
I LOVED this movie! Please re-release it!
@nodlon2011 жыл бұрын
Mike Higashi Hey Mike! Fine! Did you post that Mike Oldfield?? I wish they would release that movie here in the United States. I LOVED it, would love to get it on DVD
@simonreed73112 жыл бұрын
Top marks to who ever posted this. As a kid no matter how many times I watch this clip it just filled me with Aw and wonderment.
@Etswe6 жыл бұрын
I listened to this first time while reading an article about Carole Landis. I thought it was very suiting; Beautiful music to a beautiful woman.
@jonray469012 жыл бұрын
Thank you so much - I remember this from the ABC and it's been with me for so many years - Thank you again Cheers
@MrSevillian8 жыл бұрын
This music leaves me transfixed. While I do not always fall in love with the totality of his albums, there is usually some excerpt in them that I find mesmerizing.
@SeanWhite-by8uj Жыл бұрын
Getting ready for Doctor Who, in pyjamas
@uwhsimon37 жыл бұрын
I remember watching this when I was 14-15, and being totally amazed at how incredibly insignificant people were, compared to the universe. The music was perfect for the video.
@anamariamartinez4259 Жыл бұрын
Esta pieza me vuelve loca, tiene así un ritmo de no se que lugar, una mezcla, que incita a bailar por lo menos a mí, extrañamente bella❤❤❤🦋
@marcosdef2393 жыл бұрын
Magical and splendid song
@seedubyu12 жыл бұрын
ALLWAYS remember getting Incantations and listening to this for the first time. The feeling that I had.....it was like knowing something that I had no experience of, something ancient. It was mesmerising and it still is. I dont know what it is but I feel something on a really deep level when I listen to this music, it is brilliant.
@alekkacosmos98079 жыл бұрын
Absolutamente hermoso ¿qué más podría pedir? El cosmos y Mike Oldfield.
@sergio_el_requete.7 жыл бұрын
Mike Oldfield proved to be The Alchemist of music. In spite of all the unsuccessful efforts to turn an ordinary metal into gold, or any ordinary substance into medicine back in the Middle Ages, this Maestro was able to turn ordinary sound waves into the most precious gems, and the Ben Johnson's lyrics taken to exaltation. AS a catholic, it is not my intention to sympathize with any pagan expressions, but I understand this lyrics as a hymn to Our Lord, The Only God. Morning and night are nothing but part of His Creation. And Mike Oldfield was able to express this wonderfully. Greetings from Chile.
@nikostavalion7 ай бұрын
My favourite track of Mike Oldfield!!
@MrNympholover9 жыл бұрын
Remember seeing this on an Old Grey Whistle Test circa 1978/1979 some years back.
@Graham-ce2yk3 жыл бұрын
It is one of those pieces that contrives an 'epic' feel without 'epic' forces. I also remember the ABC fillers, but I'm pretty sure that the version of this one most often shown didn't include the Apollo footage, but footage from other NASA documentaries from the 1970s covering missions like Viking, Pioneer Venus, Pioneer 10/11. May someone one day upload that as well.
@davidmason77652 жыл бұрын
Oh my god. Maddy Prior and Apollo/Soyuz missions in the same vision. Best memory from 50 years ago
@メイスン-s3n6 жыл бұрын
翻訳字幕付けてくれた方、お疲れ様です ありがとう
@peterszabo17344 жыл бұрын
Ni Hao Ma
@wimkippers7085 Жыл бұрын
The live performance in 1981 is also Great with an extra guitar solo in part 4
@mathieuperroud26127 жыл бұрын
Masterpiece !.
@mathieuperroud26127 жыл бұрын
one of my favourite piece of music.. un de mes morceaux préférés..
@unprof16156 жыл бұрын
2'45" parte il Chorus of Angels....pelle d'oca
@ozegirl446 жыл бұрын
When the ABC had a spot to fill between programs back in the day, they would quite often play this piece by Mike Oldfield. It took me ages to find out what it was called and who the artist was. Then I tried to buy the album but it wasn't in Australia and had to be imported!
@Jordi_SP2 жыл бұрын
For me, this song is de MAIN THEME of mike oldfield. personally
@bobbavet9 жыл бұрын
When I was a kid this filler amazed me both musically and visually. Laying on the carpet, on a hot afternoon with fan on. Waiting for Countdown or Doctor Who to come on. Thinking WOW, amazing and dreaming how we are goin to travel so far in the future. Now it's the future and the missions at best an epic waste of time, money and effort, at worst fake. Though the music remains constant and still lifts me with my dreams.
@tassiedave32279 жыл бұрын
+Dedley Tedley And the same for me. Late seventies, played on the ABC in Tasmania as a fill in before other programs every now and then. I was transfixed. I never knew what and who it was, until a mate was over and his dad was into this stuff. Pretty out there for a 10 year old. I still play it regularly, thanks to KZbin and my Cd copies.
@JohnKuridala8 жыл бұрын
+bobbavet you nailed it man.. I still listen to this track 3-4 times a week.. obsessed with it. And it all started being a completely mesmerised kid.
@StupidLittleNobody8 жыл бұрын
Countdown or Doctor Who... or The Goodies.
@rienneant30958 жыл бұрын
And yet, Bob, this is the beginning of the Ascend of Man. We shall pursue that endeavour, we shall run that gauntlet and we shall complete that journey. We shall harvest stars and mold distant worlds and some day look back at these feeble attempts and frail ships and wonder how we could cross that threshold. But watching this, I just know we shall.
@Jayar746 жыл бұрын
Fake? The missions have all been widely useful - even if not appearing to brazenly 'explore' - they've now been experimenting with fundamental stuff of the local solar system; creating returnable spacecraft, putting up telescopes that can nearly see to the edge of the observable universe, discovering habitable planets, landing on moving comets, sending more and more to Mars, flybys of Pluto...
@helencarter6936 жыл бұрын
Just beautiful.
@David64T4 жыл бұрын
How nice would it be if the ABC could slip some of these into their Rage Retro nights, during the Summer?
@feverpitchtv2 жыл бұрын
Tonight's "rage" is a Space Special. Sadly this is nowhere in it.
@francisleal65025 жыл бұрын
Simply amazing
@blackletter25919 жыл бұрын
Our fledgling wings. We were never better.
@catarinasilva5943 жыл бұрын
My music ♥️
@robcheerful5 жыл бұрын
When I heard this in the background while I was playing with matchbox cars I used to go out to the lounge room and watch the tv.
@thomfmify8 жыл бұрын
Touching sense, hearts, then in 1978. Great Mike, always worshipping you and your art!!! Amities du Allemagne!!!!! Never forget his sister Sally Oldfield, appearance on this album, now the lyrics: The Song of Hiawatha: . By the shore of gitche gumee By the shining big-sea-water At the doorway of the wigwam In the early summer morning Hiawatha stood and waited All the air was full of freshness All the earth was bright and joyous And before him through the sunshine Westward toward the neighbouring forest Passed in golden swams, the ahmo Passed the bees, the honey-makers Burning, singing in the sunshine Bright above him shone the heavens Level spread the lake before him; From it's bosom leaped the sturgeon Sparkling, flashing in the sunshine On it's margin the great forest Stood reflected in the water Every tree-top had it's shadow Motionless beneath the water From the bow of hiawatha Gone was every trace of sorrow As the fog from off the water As the mist of the meadow With a smile of joy and gladness With a look of exultation As of one who in a vision Sees what is to be, but is not Stood and waited hiawatha Toward the sun his hands were lifted Both the palms spread out towards it And between the parted fingers Feel the sunshine on his features Flecked with light his naked shoulders As it falls and flecks an oak-tree Through the rifted leaves and branches O'er the water floating, flying Something in the hazy distance Something in the mist of morning Loomed and lifted from the water Now seemed floating, now seemed flying Coming nearer, nearer, nearer Was it shingebis, the diver? Or the pelican, the shada? Or the heron, the shuh-shuh-gah? Or the white goose, waw-be-wawa, With the water dripping, flashing From it's glossy neck and feathers? It was neither goose or diver Neither pelican nor heron O'er the water floating, flying Through the shining mist of morning But a birch canoe with paddles Rising, sinking in the sunshine Dripping, flashing in the sunshine And within it came a people Can it be the sun descending O'er the level plain of water Or the red swan floatin, flying Wounded by the magic arrow Staining all the waves with crimson With the crimson of it's lifeblood Filling all the air with splendour Filling all the air with plumage Yes, it is the sun descending Sinking down into the water All the sky is stained with purple All the water flushed with crimson! No, it is the red swan floating Diving down beneath the water To the sky it's wings are lifted With it's blood the waves are reddened! Over it the star of evening Melts and trembles through the purple Hangs suspended in the twilight Walks in silence through the heavens!
@benchampion37684 жыл бұрын
That’s the lyrics for Incantations part 2 I do believe
@riverelbe312211 жыл бұрын
This is my driving Force!! Lordy Life..Here Goes another adventure...This music is inspirational :)
@nelsonpinto96811 ай бұрын
Uma das musicas instrumentais mais belas e profundas de sempre. Adoro
@shopgirl2099 Жыл бұрын
I would love if it this was updated with the amazing images from Hubble and the JWT... but these images are so beautiful, they show bravery and hope and wonder. It's a history that so many today will never know of.
@fabiobaglioni58522 жыл бұрын
Molto forte!!!!!!
@garysiddons215711 ай бұрын
2024 still perfect. 😊
@MrWindowman18 жыл бұрын
the bell was a total tune for me with his genius adding of more instruments which he played individually to add together love mike
@makiseythimopoulos34708 жыл бұрын
fantastic music, best wishes from athens greece
@nevrs8 жыл бұрын
Used to see this all the time growing up on ABC in between the kids shows
@nickshipway81999 жыл бұрын
The ABC used this and many other short films to fill in around kids shows. I'd love to see more of them. Other clips I can remember were: Rainbow Connection with Kermit, Love Is All (Butterfly Ball) by Roger Glover & guests, Portsmouth by Mike Oldfield. Clips I can't name but would like to track down: A short film with a woman painting garden gnomes, a film of a model railway backed by (I think) fairground organ music, scenes from a steam railway and a film of two kids playing with toy soldiers seen from the soldiers point of view (I seem to remember the boy and girl running of hand in hand leaving all the soldiers behind). Does anyone know what any of these were called?
@David64T9 жыл бұрын
Nick Shipway Was it Villa-Lobos 'Little Train of the Caipira'? I'm glad I'm not the only person who remembers these clips on ABC TV! I remember the film clip for Kevin Peek's "Sailplane" had some airplay too (a paper plane drifting down a stream)
@resolutehamster9 жыл бұрын
+Nick Shipway I remember them all, Nick. Sigh ... I have such fond memories of childhood afternoons spent watching ABC afternoon TV, with shows like The Goodies, Dr Who etc. Thanks to the comment from David64T, I also found out about Kevin Peek's "Sailplane" which I have been carrying around in my head for about 30 years wondering if I'd ever find out what that piece of music was that I loved as a kid. The sense of nostalgia is so strong it brings me to tears. I had a similar experience with another piece of music from ABC TV at the time - it turned out to be the theme tune to "Chocky's Children" - an experimental synth piece called "Red Kite". You can view that here on KZbin as well.
@tassiedave32279 жыл бұрын
+resolutehamster Don't forget Catweasel, I still "tear up" in the final scene.....and I'm nearly 50!
@JohnKuridala8 жыл бұрын
+Nick Shipway I remember Fleetwood Mac's Tusk was regularly used as a time filler as well
@bedraggled18 жыл бұрын
Thanks - I've been wanting the name of artist of Sailplane for 30+ years. The images of the plane coming off the waterfall have stuck in my head since childhood.
@totoroboy12367 жыл бұрын
I love this song so much!!!!!
@bernardw48426 жыл бұрын
I'm another one with memories of this clip from the ABC, for years they played this and another clip. Never knew what it was until tonight it occurred to me the guitar and overall arrangement sounded like Mike Oldfield (isn't it structured a lot like Tubular Bells?) so I googled "Mike Oldfield video with moon landing" and lo and behold. The other one they played all the time was by Yellow Magic Orchestra and it took me almost as long to find out what it was, it's called Firecracker, with all the computer vector graphics and analogue video processing on it. If you remember this from the ABC look up that one too, you'll remember it (also posted incorrectly as Rydeen but skip about the first 2 minutes of that one)
@grahamboyce17192 жыл бұрын
Totally love Maddie Prior. Immortal voice.
@anamariamartinez42592 жыл бұрын
🌹❤🎸 From Spain.
@plmsdevelopments5 ай бұрын
Time for a remake using HD video of the many Spacex flights and booster recoveries... (and one day the moon again).
@JeanDelvaux-h7x8 ай бұрын
Tout simplement grandiose🦸🦸🦸🦸🦸
@sudocarbon12 жыл бұрын
I concur with "MoonUnit640,AlBoerik and OzNormandy' I also have been waiting 30 years to find this gem. You gotta love UTube !!!
@iommiwasaboilermaker8685 жыл бұрын
I just came back here after watching "The Dish"....A great movie that has A kind of magic