Opportunity Knocks Neil Reid / songwriter "Mother Of Mine" reunion

[@danielwotson9953]

Neil,,, i bet you never read this Clip,,,, but, please know that you brought great joy and emotion to so many who love their mums, when we could not find the words, you sang them so beautifully for us., ...at 11 back in 76, my mother nursed me through my heart Operation, and we used to listen to you many times ,,, in 2018, when i nursed her for just the 5 weeks they gave her, in so much suffering fighting Cancer, only to take her from us, and so gain i played her your song.. and we cried together... i held her hand as she passed away that day... Thank you Neil for helping bring out the Love from within my heart.....

[@lynnefoxmusic]

As a child Neil I watched you on Op Knocks and loved Bills song and your beautiful rendition. I later covered this song and fortunately corresponded with Bill via Martin Kershaw the producer. Your version is the Very Best but I enjoyed every moment recording the beautiful song you and Bill created. 🙏.

[@djangiebaby]

i used to phone you neil on lunch time at school .. thanks to hugh green passing on my letter to ur dad .. i got a lovely letter from your dad oh i loved speaking to you from the phone box next to my high school . friends didnt believe me hence me putting them on the phone to say hello to you .. pity your not singing anymore .. still looking great neil .. i bought this for my mother who is no longer with the family .. that song would av made a glass eye cry .. ur a wee legend in my eyes x

[@johnkays39]

He still has a beautiful voice !!

[@Tampo-tiger]

Ha ha ha, thanks for making me laugh!

[@alangoding1715]

this record hits you right in heart, it bloody hurts.

[@simonmoore2380]

It is fairly painful, yea.

[@Tampo-tiger]

I've only to hear a few bars of it and I am projectile vomiting like a garden sprinkler. It really is one of the most dreadful dirges ever concocted.

[@xdra31]

⁠​⁠@@Tampo-tigerYour (wrong) opinion only, you don’t speak for everyone!

[@Tampo-tiger]

@@xdra31 Ha ha ha, stop pulling my leg, ha ha ha! This was a quick cash-in for some cynical record executive’s leaving present. Anybody could write something so universally appalling but it took a special type of person to waste 50p on it. Thankfully it has vanished without trace, as has the scarily dreadful poofter who farted out the vocals. My goodness, whilst I know you are only ribbing me there were actually women so incredibly idiotic that they actually bought it! Where were they when I was selling vacuum cleaners door to door?

[@estherb822]

​@@Tampo-tiger commenting twice at least here when you clearly don't like it, makes zero sense. Most people don't stop to comment on things they don't like because they don't watch it. Seems you needed the attention, you needed someone to talk to you. I hope it made you feel better

[@TheReevessss]

Most beautiful version.

[@romystumpy1197]

Children at 12 looked so innocent then

[@thomasmarthinussen8978]

Those early 70s sideburns!

[@fionacairney7830]

O and I am from Glasgow too

[@miguelurdaci7884]

a young boy with an old man's air and an old man with a young boy's air

[@shamrockshore6308]

Did you mean 'hair'?

[@miguelurdaci7884]

@@shamrockshore6308 hahahahaha. No!

[@geoffjoffy]

He was a year older than me but I remember Neil so well.

[@nintendy]

Neil - don't believe I found this; just been playing your old vinyl LPs (literally) and wondered what you were doing these days - you are SO handsome! Also, I was not aware you'd carried on singing - would LOVE a CD of you singing now - you still have a fabulous voice! Thanks for this Clip!

[@DrAnne-mc8er]

*Why are you writing to, and thanking Neil Reid? He has nothing to do with this channel, and nothing to do with uploading this clip. It makes you seem either weird or just confused!*

[@nintendy]

@@DrAnne-mc8er In case he should see it D Head

[@DrAnne-mc8er]

@@nintendy *That makes you sound even sadder nintendy. The fact that you sit at home listening to Neil Reid's **_"...old vinyl LPs"_** (literally or otherwise) says it all really. Can anyone play LP's which AREN'T old or made from vinyl by the way? See what I mean nintendy? Bless!*

[@nintendy]

@@DrAnne-mc8er May I suggest you GET A JOB - and stop harassing people and driving them to suicide - which is what people like you do! LEAVE ME ALONE!

[@DrAnne-mc8er]

@@nintendy *You are at liberty to suggest anything you like nintendy - as indeed am I... within reason of course. This is not harassment nintendy. I am simply suggesting that you might consider seeking professional help. I am merely expressing a personal opinion. You still haven't explained why you were initially thanking Mr Reid personally for this clip, given that he had no involvement (whatsoever) in uploading it to KZbin? With respect, you still don't appear to be following the logic.*

[@avondaleroad10]

I was on the same show

[@Tampo-tiger]

Were you Reid's psychiatrist?

[@pastorbri]

I thought Neil always said his voice broke and he can't sing anymore, he sounds ok here as an adult.

[@davyboy232]

It was also the B Side of Long Haired Lover From Liverpool by Jimmy Osmond

[@Tampo-tiger]

AAaaaarrrgghh make it stop, MAKE IT STOPPPPPP!!!!

[@sanyasuk.8003]

Best version

[@วศินสระแก้ว]

เพราะทุกครั้งที่ฟัง

[@baueringa8648]

imádom

[@fionacairney7830]

I always luvd mother of mine because ever since I was born I hated mine

[@evan32cooper]

Pretty cool!

[@neil5752]

He has aged well

[@jeeraphasawatphueng8387]

❤

[@halfordslain7477]

Still got sideburns...

[@ronmccullock1407]

And still awful

[@StephenHP62]

Great to see Hughie Green. But no sign of the clapometer.

[@miguelurdaci7884]

You never really know who you are going to touch with your music, or how. This mournful song still emanates from a sad cave of discovery of my childhood, around 8, at a time when I really realised my mum and dad were gonna die. And now, at 62 (me), they both have; mum just 3 months ago. My closest friend, back then in 1971, would jokingly shake a fist at the part "I'll give everything that you gave to me". She committed suicide 8 years later. I cannot hear that song without thinking of that and, ofc, my own mum. So this somewhat cheesy, somewhat sad, somewhat beautiful song is almost an unbearable but compulsive religious experience, hahaha.

[@j01974w0z1987]

had it moms funrell few wks go

[@sandratogneri9982]

Oh mh Gar ...I remember that XXX

[@sandratogneri9982]

Wow ! He still has z lovely voice XXX

[@sandratogneri9982]

Yes & don't mess with them XXX

[@miguelurdaci7884]

1:57 producer! You really gotta work on your timing of the presenter's voice. This is one of the worst examples I've seen/heard!

[@cycleSCUBA]

Truly grim days.

[@ianstrange5674]

No, very colourful in fact. It was the era of glam rock.🙂

[@Tampo-tiger]

@@ianstrange5674 Reid should have been humanely destroyed. This whole enterprise was a low point for mankind.

[@vernonchadwick8679]

Yea right ::::;;:

[@grahamstewart615]

We were told his voice broke.

[@Tampo-tiger]

What happens in a person's life that they actually buy a record like that?

[@DrAnne-mc8er]

What an idiotic question! What happens in a person's life to buy a record like that, is that they have a mother who they genuinely appreciate, and who they think (or thought) the world of. Do you have any more questions in order to safely brand you as a moron, or was it just the one?

[@Tampo-tiger]

@@DrAnne-mc8er You must be his grandmother. I don't blame you for keeping that under your lightly-filled hat.

[@DrAnne-mc8er]

@@Tampo-tiger No I'm not, and I never bought the record either, but I'm curious... What happens in a person's childhood that makes them grow up into an unemotional twat like you? lol.

[@thomasmarthinussen8978]

I rarely make critical comments on KZbin sections but that was such an ignorant and foolish question.

[@romystumpy1197]

It was the 70's different time more innocent ,unlike the twats who follow influencers on you tube

[@nintendy]

My opinion has nothing too do with you - now bog off!