Mr. Bloe - Groovin' With Mr. Bloe (1970)

[@WrinkleyDude]

13 years old on holiday with Mom and Dad, Burnham on sea, played bingo in the arcade on the pier, won a record token(remember them?), went straight to the record store. this was the first vinyl record I ever owned. Still have it to this day.

[@JJONNYREPP]

Mr. Bloe - Groovin' With Mr. Bloe (1970) ahahahaah............. indeed... proper totp's pan's people hot gossip brian rodgers connection dance troupe number... no doubt you still dance to this in yer front room when yer sisters have gone out?

[@clintdavies491]

nice nostalgic story, made me smile.

[@alcamus1973]

great story, thanks for reminding me of record tokens 😀

[@stephenwilson9789]

Same here but Freda Payne Band of Gold

[@Steve14ps]

I was 13 when this came out

[@parzival1958]

God when the world was a far,far, far better place to live in 😢😢😢😢😢

[@anthonyokill2507]

Brilliant love this song also the Harmonica ❤❤❤❤

[@Lucasurfone]

This is an obscure gem! I just got the single from Germany via Discogs... This ROCKS! I imagine this would go on well with a mod- northern soul crowd...what a hit!!!👊👊👊🎉🎉🎉👌

[@Crinno74]

This doesn’t get the credit it really deserves. It’s a classic.

[@davemorgan7732]

I was born in 1954 in England. In 1971I ran a mobile disco and this was my “intro” music. One of the best instrumentals ever.

[@bobfriendship8893]

Absolutely agree with you. Great comment!

[@seansands424]

great tune

[@mrbillhicks]

My outro was Hit the road Jack

[@petercarter2256]

Great bassline by Russ Stableford who also played on Everlasting love by The love affair.

[@ianshippen279]

and used by Queen for A Kind Of Magic ..

[@keithtemple6774]

what a gem this was

[@davidgarione2206]

These girls are 75 years old on average today. Time is amazingly weird.

[@clintdavies491]

yeah, funny i look at erstwhile footage and think the same thing. in the blink of an eye we're over 50 years on. crazy. and big question,...where are they now , would love to know their journey.

[@LOGOASSASSIN]

Takes me right back. Awesome days!

[@bobfriendship8893]

Great track for, as I remember, a good summer too. You never hear it played over the radio. Shame.

[@alancaunce3199]

10 In 1970, 64= 2024; Just An Absolutely Majestic Masterpiece And One Almighty Timeless Classic. Cheers 🍻 👏 ✌️ 🥂 For This. ❤❤❤.

[@AG-xc9yh]

That dancing tho ❤

[@LeslieRobinson-s4u]

Still listening to this record at 70 2024

[@marcanthony520]

Did you hear it on greatest hits radio Ken Bruce ? Lol 😂

[@raybob49]

Yea, it was and is great. Still a favourite now at 75.

[@stevepickett4453]

Ditto

[@williewilycat9675]

I loved this track...so much,that at the time my band Hamster( had a great harmonica player ..Mick Joyce!)..put it in our set!👍

[@colincarroll7954]

This version was Harry Pitch on Harmonica

[@a0b0]

no tattoes, no piercings, no blue hair. no implants, no BBL , no botox..... these were real women.

[@bobfriendship8893]

Those were the days indeed!

[@algeebop]

Naughty boy, you should be concentrating on the music! Lol!!

[@adambrocklehurst4211]

Why does all this bother you?

[@algeebop]

@@adambrocklehurst4211 It's just his personal preference I suppose. Everyone is different.

[@brucebengtson847]

No Harmonica palyer

[@aeropro7558]

I found this in a local shop for a euro. It looked interesting so i brought it home,clened it up and vola.....an excellent time warp tune.

[@stephenwalsh5636]

I was told this was number 1 when i was born in june 1969 and i am so glad 😊

[@keithdickens1395]

Just brilliant

[@rainbow00ish19]

I listen to it over and over again ❤

[@MrMusicbyMartin]

Great tune, makes me think of Midnight Cowboy, but also the ska and reggae around at the time. Instrumentals have to be really good melodically to be a hit, they don’t have words to provide a ‘hook’ for the listener, I don’t think you get too many instrumentals charting these days!!

[@alanoneill3065]

ah ...true bout Midnight Cowboy!

[@mikedavies395]

Love Mr Bloe ! The album is excellent 👍

[@carlkane7338]

a great tune shame mr bloe didnt have anymore hits.

[@franceskronenwett3539]

I remember this record well. A brilliant instrumental.

[@ClareHarrison-qi3bw]

So atmospheric. One of my favourite tracks.

[@bobradford2637]

Yep, had this record. I wonder where it would get into todays charts if released for first time.?

[@fletch61]

I love this tune

[@alanoneill3065]

Crackin party song!

[@56postoffice]

This got to #2 in the UK charts.......beaten by *"In The Summertime"* by Mungo Jerry. No shame in that.

[@zcarm]

I was 10 years old, our neighbours Hippy son play that song very loud all day long, with open windows...Never knew who it was or what title. I only had that song on tape reel to reel. Shazam couldnt find it. The googeling Piano song with Harmonica and finally after 50 years I found that brilliant track !!!

[@Buz-Lunch-Punx]

Funny you should say this, but it has taken me years to find this song. Must have spent 100 hours searching for it on the internet over the past 20 years

[@zcarm]

​@@Buz-Lunch-Punx Yeah, very same here LOL. You had the song in your mind for years, but never knew who the band was when you had it only on audio tape those days (IF at all) with no song titles on it :D - Since its only an instrumental it was much much harder to search, so I Google Harmonica and Piano, hahahah and found it - I found the track on a very old reel to reel and was like,,,woooow thats actually the song I heard when I was 10 :D

[@MairyHinge]

I was that hippie!

[@kidd1701]

Super!

[@drumlocaltv6800]

my first ever vinyl single

[@drumlocaltv6800]

mine too

[@Buz-Lunch-Punx]

I really enjoyed this video, especially the epileptic fit and seizure it gave me at the end

[@alcamus1973]

🤣

[@renek2050]

Schön das dieses Video reingestellt wurde. Was ich so schade finde das man den Harp Spieler nicht sieht. Stattdessen sieht man nur die zu dieser Zeit Typischen Hupfdolen. Danke für das reinstellen👍✌️

[@derekgibbs7271]

Fabulous 😎

[@largemarge1603]

Got here from Kim Dutoit and Splendid Isolation!

[@carlogalliano384]

The dancers: what a wonderful girls!

[@LOGOASSASSIN]

Pans People I think.

[@davidgarione2206]

About 75 years or more today on average.

[@carolebarker2195]

Yes, indeed. I like how they get more wild as the song goes on, lol!

[@carlh429]

Don’t see many like them anymore 😢

[@LeighRichards27]

This is the only surviving footage of zack lawrence (mr bloe) performing this track - it's from the roger whittaker show. the appearance on top was sadly wiped

[@jimrobin]

Really good video - if a little out of sync. The producer went a bit crazy with the camerawork near the end but that was all the rage back then. They thought it was very clever and effective! 😂

[@janemccallum]

Used to play it at the fair

[@grimupnorth]

Don't really need an excuse to listen to this song, but if you've got one...

[@rm009z0858]

David Bowie's 'A New Career In A New Town' harmonica.

[@colincarroll7954]

Larry Pitch on Harmonica

[@marcanthony520]

Harry not Larry 😂

[@TheGatesofDelirium]

On the harmonica the one and only Harry Pitch.

[@ianmax69]

Its hard to believe he also performed Last of the Summer Wine.... from this

[@bardo0007]

I remember the rhythms of the girls, I took the idea with me later in life

[@pgh45rpms]

Give credit where credit is due. The keyboard player, Mr. Bloe, is actually Zack Laurence.

[@FryPanMusic]

Fantastic 1970, but where's the band?

[@Widmerpool99]

Couldn't find anyone to mime the harmonica?

[@Thomas-pt7kn]

Da war die Welt noch in Ordnung

[@zzzbbbooo]

Where's the harmonica?

[@markwalker5723]

Great record but... no monica in the vid???

[@burgerderbrd5014]

👍

[@alanoneill3065]

Here she come down, say Mony Mony

[@mrbillhicks]

Strange that the featured instrument is a Harmonica and they choose a bloke playing the piano

[@martynbrinham9483]

What ever happened to Zack Laurence

[@LeighRichards27]

Think he went on to write tv music and radio jingles. Still around so far as i know

[@carrietide]

I know his real name the name of his parents, and where he is from originally.(England ,obviously!) I was at his house back in 1974,played on his grand piano.I believe his wife back then,whom I did speak to,was Scandinavian-either Swedish or Danish.

[@martynbrinham9483]

Thanks Caroline

[@spindoctor-ff3yd]

Zach of Force Field & Rock Revolution fame ?

[@boristheamerican2938]

OK Im going out on a limb here but I can see the base look Elton John was going for now.

[@MrKeeft1]

Whoever pushed the camera buttons at the end...i end up staring....after my dad had strokes he couldnt hsndle flashing lights or too fast changing shots but if its too fast..whats the point..

[@bobgreen623]

It was a thing around this time, along with very fast and repeated zooming in and out on, say, the drummer's nose or the bassist's boots.

[@carolebarker2195]

@@bobgreen623 Ha ha! It's ridiculous seeing as the girls are moving around fast enough without using snazzy camera work!

[@RPNization]

You can hear a harmonica/French harp, but they didn't show who's playing it, which is a pity, because of the leading role.

[@BlackDahlia776]

Why doesn't it show the harmonica being played.

[@harmonicamastery]

They probably used the studio recording. I believe the Harmonica player was Harry Pitch from the UK. He did the studio version he said.

[@bobgreen623]

There is some mild debate around that - some say it's Ian Duck playing harmonica as he was part of Elton John's band at the time, who morphed into Hookfoot, which included drummer Roger Pope and guitarist Caleb Quaye, both of whom are also on this.

[@GrilloTheFlightless]

@@bobgreen623 Ian Duck made a Top Of The Pops appearance playing it, but the recording as released was Harry Pitch. The problem was that Mr Bloe wasn’t really a band but was a group of session guys put together by Zack Lawrence, so TV appearances tended to use whoever was available. In the case of this video, just Zack Lawrence and a bunch of dancers! As well as Duck, the TOTP appearance used the band that would become Hookfoot. Zack Lawrence had been working with them, and Elton John (in fact, before recording the single he tried doing a piano version, minus harmonica, using Elton but it didn’t work out). I guess that’s why he used them on TOTP. Harry Pitch was mainly a chromatic harmonica player and not so accustomed to diatonic harmonicas. The story goes that he had to learn to play a different style for the recording. He was a very highly respected session musician, as well as being a band leader in his own right. His work can be heard on many movie soundtracks, including Bridge Over The River Kwai, and played on a number of British pop hits of the age. Legend has it that he gave John Lennon some advice on harmonica technique prior to the recording of Love Me Do. But to many Brits, the most well known tune he played on was the theme tune to sitcom Last Of The Summer Wine.

[@crusadeagainstgreedyentert4865]

Where is the harmonica player in this clip? No credibility without the harmonica player.

[@bob-sb2zu]

Who are the dancers ? They 're not Pans People .

[@paulmason329]

This is one of those o e hit wonders created by jamming session musicians who are not a band as so they remain single hit artists Did "Mr Bloe" ever exist? The video doesn't prove anything

[@modslil]

Who was really Mr blow.

[@xiropigado]

Girls were so much hotter then.

[@davidfogarty2220]

Totally. Just natural and full of fun.

[@margaretjeffries1666]

his father name

[@didierbernard2494]

where is the harmonicist !!??

[@ianmax69]

Harry Pitch He also performed the music for the BBC sitcom Last of the Summer Wine

[@godjira63]

Die Tänzerinnen müssten jetzt so um die 70 sein, wie viele wohl noch schlank geblieben sind.

[@Voex1966]

Oder umgekehrt: Ich bin ein 4jähriger Junge, wenn ich diese Frauen sehe.

[@raulpeyrano9021]

ESPETACULAR TEMA..D LOS 70...

[@MairyHinge]

I wonder what Mrs Bloe does for a living.....

[@MrMjp58]

Where's the galumphing bassist on his shiny precision? The harmonica player? With dancing like that going on, who cares..

[@harmonicamastery]

I believe it was Harry Pitch from the UK. He did the studio version he said. Yes it's hard to know where to look I agree.

[@3521rob]

Where is the Harmonica player! The real star !

[@PublicOpinion61]

The original version is by a group called 'Wind' slightly different mix. kzbin.info/www/bejne/hn6kkoSPeaydj7csi=l42SrviBmQzE1vNZ

[@JohnCBurzynski]

???????

[@Adrian-ql3co]

Sounds like a horse glamping

[@philipbonner6486]

Much perfer the original by Wind.

[@Tabsi-d1z]

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