Paper Lace - Billy Don't Be A Hero (Promo Video, January 1974)

[@peterchecksfield1031]

New book out now: 'TOP OF THE POPS: The Lost Years Rediscovered 1964-1975'! www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B09H995H6R Featuring exclusive contributions from: Frank Allen (The Searchers) Peter Asher (Peter and Gordon) Russ Ballard (The Roulettes/Argent) Peter Bartholomew (The Overlanders) Eric Bell (Thin Lizzy) Bev Bevan (The Move/The Electric Light Orchestra) Mick Box (Uriah Heep) John Cameron (C.C.S.) William Campbell Jnr. (Marmalade + solo) Jeff Christie (Christie) Frank Collins (Arrival) Peter Daltrey (Fairfield Parlour) David Van Day (Guys ‘n’ Dolls) Kiki Dee Ray Dorset (Mungo Jerry) Ralph Ellis (The Swinging Blue Jeans) Steve Ellis (Love Affair) Ray Ennis (The Swinging Blue Jeans) Nigel Fletcher (Lieutenant Pigeon) Graham Gouldman (10cc) Julie Hammersley (The Angelettes) Anita Harris Murray Head Catherine Howe Spencer James (The First Class) Steve Jameson (Nosmo King) Georg Kajanus (Sailor) Jonathan King Sonja Kristina (Curved Air) Mick Liber (Python Lee Jackson/Ashton, Gardner and Dyke) Jim McClusky (Wigan’s Ovation) Ian McCredie (Middle Of The Road) Jacqui McShee (Pentangle) Peter Oakman (Harley Quinne) Bill Oddie (The Goodies) Dave Pegg (Fairport Convention) Mike Pender (The Searchers) Brian Poole (The Tremeloes) P.J. Proby Suzi Quatro Milton Reame-James (Cockney Rebel) Steve Rowland (Family Dogg) Chris Sandford (Yin and Yan) Roger Ruskin Spear (The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band) John Sebastian (The Lovin’ Spoonful) Rodney Slater (The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band) “Legs” Larry Smith (The Bonzo Dog Doo-Dah Band) John Springate (The Glitter Band) Livingston Taylor (singer-songwriter brother of James Taylor) Barbara Thompson (sax-playing wife of late drummer Jon Hiseman from Colosseum) Sylvia Vrethammar (Swedish singer of ‘Y Viva España’ fame) Alan Whitehead (Marmalade) Dee Dee Wilde (Pan’s People legend) Robert Woodward (Lieutenant Pigeon) Philip Wright (Paper Lace)

[@Steve-yo4ld]

Like it was yesterday, we were young and innocent with our whole life ahead of us, where has the time gone!?😢

[@kevinfarrar-h1e]

I know that feeling

[@Blueknight1960]

From 1st grade to 12th, it seems it took forever. Once I graduated HS, time has just flown by. I'll be 64 next month.

[@elviragutierrez4884]

Happy Birthday 🎉❤❤❤​@@Blueknight1960

[@pamelajordan2890]

Paper Lace were actually Historians. Told a lot of truths ❤❤

[@laurabarlow3812]

Reminds me of my big sister when she used to babysit us. Years later, I went into the Air Force, and sadly, a few years after that, she passed away from cancer. I was 9 when both versions were popular. RIP Karen

[@johnb30021]

Sorry ! 🙏🏼♥️🤗She’s in Heaven ! Bless You !! 💕🌹

[@CharlesWChaneyJr]

😢

[@dalekriescher7462]

A nother song that i miss from the 70 s wow 😢😢😢

[@jeanlow129]

Brings back childhood memories 😊

[@ijustdidahugeshit]

Me too because I am a qualified lesbian 😊

[@carrieferguson1493]

62 yr old Canadian female here & I have Paper Lace on my old 33 K-Tel albums bc that what we bought back then!

[@duradim1]

It's been decades since I've heard this.

[@davidmarshall5596]

Bloody great nostalgia what a terrific song 🎵 😊🎉

[@stefankaziuk7285]

Super !!!

[@carriebautch9382]

Dear god, someone went into my 70's life to play this one. Love love love it❤!

[@DANNSCOTT-c1k]

I'm 60 years old also and I certainly remember this song, Easy lyrics

[@michaelrosenow4393]

"LEGENDARY" The Legacy of the "60's-70" , "KEEP IT ALIVE" ...

[@kerryeastlake8812]

Loved this song growing up

[@genevievegelatto8447]

I never realized that Paper Lace did this song first! I only knew of the Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods version. Great song.

[@MrBabyBoa]

Same here!

[@ivanugliarse]

Well, now you know.

[@mstover2809]

Bo Donaldson's version was released before the Paper Lace version. I actually prefer this version.

[@YouTubeChannel-qk9rk]

Always searching for purely original live videos, such as this most favorite one of my boyhood. Good & clear video with all of its originality from Paperlace.

[@robinshankland3499]

All the 'story songs' from the 70s. I was so little but could sing all of them...we all could. Most were harmless...

[@ijustdidahugeshit]

This is an anti war song

[@rod795]

yes, they were harmless, but relevant.

[@stevensheldon4655]

A simple song but unbelievably sang + produced!🤩♥️♥️👍

[@KathyWilber-hy1sq]

"HOLY CRAP"!!! I definitely remember this song very well, but I had no idea that it was Paper Lace that did it??? So I guess if I am remembering right, they did this song and "The Night Chicago Died"!!! Wow, I learn something else new every day about killer music!!! Ernie Wilber 🤘👹🤘✌️

[@anthonyrichards7730]

they had 3 big hits this one the black eyes boys on the bus stop record label from the 70s🎶👍

[@djangiebaby]

classic tune i loved it 💖

[@justme6767]

Still.know all the words love this song

[@mariaestherromero1265]

Muchas pero muchas gracias ala persona que puso está joya de canción al fin la escuché después de tantos años se lo agradezco muchos abrazos

[@vonniedemers5683]

I used to be able to whitsle all the way through.. One if my favorites.

[@Bjowolf2]

Now I am going to be whistling that marching part for several days - thank you 🙄😂

[@johnpatterson4272]

I remember this tune upon its initial release from Paper Lace on AM radio. I got a K-Tel compilation record with the same song on it, thinking it was the Paper Lace version, it wasn't although to my 10 year old self it sounded very similar. I prefer the Paper Lace version.

[@billyjoyner7796]

New song means a lot to me

[@Pauleyh2]

Best version

[@catherinescarcelli963]

The rock band who depict of history in music.

[@alfredoduran1635]

Awesome song!❤

[@SisterDogmata]

1st record I ever bought! The flip side was called Celia I think.

[@krislulofs]

Nice song of the seventies.Nice song from paper lace😎

[@robertjannush4403]

I remember when this came out on the Radio in 1974. I listened to this on the ( Chicago )WLS AM radio station back then and I’ve always Liked this song even still Today After ALL these years and it still Sounds Good 👍 Thanks !!!😊

[@effiemcfarland6735]

One of my favorite songs

[@Ramiro-t7k]

Reminds 1975 I was Twelve we be picking cucumbers My brother Manuel Jr strap a transiter radio on his belt we heard all the hits on WTTO T oledo Ohio We were Mi grants

[@chrislaney7141]

The first record I ever brought, absolutely brilliant

[@sharonlunday]

One of the best

[@federicoaaguirresalazar8163]

Lastima q ya no ayga grupos como estos

[@RodneyBrook-xz6tc]

Such a classic legendary Powerful song love it so much it reminds me of growing up in the 70s such a very beautiful time in my life 💓🇬🇧🎸🎸🎸😎

[@LuisRomero-uq1zw]

Classic remembered song

[@fabianernestopacheco]

Wow, it's a beautiful song!

[@szaszjanosne8821]

Imádom nagyon klassz!

[@nbenefiel]

So many of the kids I went to school with never came home from Vietnam.

[@brucemattson4399]

That’s so sad

[@ElvarMasson]

You're too dramatic. This song has nothing to do with anything here in the real world

[@nbenefiel]

@@ElvarMasson This song came out during the height of the Vietnam war, the height of the draft. We all lost people we loved.

[@nbenefiel]

@@ElvarMasson May I take it that you are too young to remember Vietnam or the draft?

[@ClareCollier-l6t]

May there souls rest in peace x

[@korky5214]

1st June 2024 listening to this in Cape Town.

[@acornsucks2111]

Giving us a history lesson we ignored.

[@spacerazer]

Being a Canadian this is the version they played on the radio instead of Bo.

[@MichelleDunstan-gv3rk]

Great song

[@dja69]

The lsst time I seen this promo here in Australia was around 1976 and in color if memory serves me well.

[@wandson5410]

Oh great song

[@garybrockwell2031]

Every day i hear this??? And the Ted's take over😳🤑🤔🧐🤫😱☠️💰💪

[@AgnesMcGlashan]

❤love it 2:56

[@hughiedavies6069]

I remember this from being a kid. Now over 60 , I listen to the lyrics I can't believe people bought this kind of ridiculous thing, but they did 😂

[@kennethpack1963]

Wish I was 34 again , fun times...

[@pieterduivenvoorden2901]

❤😊very nice music and performance. Great memories 😊

[@shotsatwhitetails3289]

Didn't Jenny tell Forest the same thing before shipping out to Vietnam!

[@terrygarcia897]

This is the only reason why I have a computer phone. Texas

[@istvanvarga3185]

A vékony hang az nöi, nem?

[@christiecooper1479]

5/2023🙂

[@marianlucas2947]

Believe this song is a cover. First performed my Bo Donaldson and The Heywood's

[@DraigBlackCat]

No, this is the original. Written by 2 British song writers and Paper Lace took it to No 1 here on 16th March 1974.

[@iainborland5402]

It was Paper Lace that had the original. Bo did a version and fooled the US it was his hit

[@ivanugliarse]

Wrong.

[@mstover2809]

I believe the Bo Donaldson version was released before the Paper Lace version but was actually recorded AFTER.

[@jrnumex9286]

paper mace, what the heck did the usa versions have over ours? why billies GF not on screen singing?

[@ivanugliarse]

nothing

[@timbrown8038]

Don't be a fool with your life. Timeless advice.

[@КонстантинФилатов-у4ч]

В Союзе их любили❤

[@robertpolnicky7702]

I thought it was bo Donaldson and the heywoods that made that a hit.

[@ivanugliarse]

No. They covered it a month after,

[@Bjowolf2]

ALF ( the space alien ) to his host dad Willie Tanner: "Willie, don't be a hero - don't be a fool with your life!" WT is about to let a couple of FBI agents into the house, who are looking for a missing colleague - ALF has knocked the FBI agent out and captured him thinking he was a burglar, when he was snooping around in the garden 😂

[@octavio9657]

La otra canción, que tuvo menos exito, era mejor. "The night Chicago died"

[@mikefitz6957]

Yes, was going to say that.

[@janicehumphrey4450]

Though this was Bonaldson and the heroes did this Song how did you claim it I actually know them and was there when I came out so WTF

[@ivanugliarse]

No. paper lace did it first.

[@EvageliaAugoustiniatos-z3q]

Bo Donaldson and the Haywood's do a much better job with this song🎉😢❤❤

[@frankb7271]

The bassist just recently died.

[@danielshade710]

Horrible music

[@talon1706]

Lol.

[@johnb30021]

Is your middle name ADD HOLE 🕳️ 🥹🤷🏼‍♂️

[@Steve-yo4ld]

​@John K Always has to be that one on YT, never fails! You know those like him have had a miserable life!✌️

[@drwisdom1]

@@Steve-yo4ld I grew up back then and this is the kind of pop song that would make me change the radio station rather than enduring it. But 50 years later it is fun to suffer it.

[@alfredbenedek3398]

A very nice, patriotic mentality & faithfulness of helping one another, what was killed out of today's generations. Oh no, patriotism isn't just waving the f;lag, the Archie Bunker style, yet being a smart Alac, = Ask not what your cointry can do for you, ask, what can you do, for your country. = Hey, wait a minute? Isn't that a Democrat slogan, of a famous, good Democrat president? Yeahh? Practice the patriotism, regardless of party member ship?!! 💯 + ✌/ ☮ = 🗽

[@rustybooker]

Terrible….just awful

[@alfredbenedek3398]

Can you erite, perform, publish & take the responsibility for a better song? I don't think you could!