72 year old & I woke up with this in my head this morning. thought I'd better listen to it
@joefoley1480 Жыл бұрын
hello Joe
@brennan60100 Жыл бұрын
The follow-up was pretty good, too.
@crackawood Жыл бұрын
this led to gentle giant which always made lsd experiences more interesting
@patrickparker3755 Жыл бұрын
Beautiful song.
@christopherbentley521610 ай бұрын
Reminds us all of happier carefree days
@jotutty95063 жыл бұрын
Another 60s magical piece of music, so oriental and haunting. I loved it then and at the age of 67 love it now. Wonderful music and singing. An era when music was great, singers could sing - a time we must never forget.
@rodolforagonesi78382 ай бұрын
The golden age of modern music will never be forgotten. The 100's of masterpieces that were composed then will be played 100's of years from now. I am convinced of it.
@hcv5006 жыл бұрын
Loved this song for years, I couldnt think of anything to buy for the wife for our 30th Anniversary. I bought a plain white kite and in letters of gold I wrote I love you...
@barbarawarburton62054 жыл бұрын
Wish my husband had been so romantic.
@martynh54104 жыл бұрын
Brilliant!
@mooneymooney15653 жыл бұрын
You romantic bastard 😂😂😂😂😂
@Butter-go7ih3 жыл бұрын
What does that mean when you give her a kite?
@mooneymooney15653 жыл бұрын
@@Butter-go7ih you fly a kyte with a message of love wrote on it
@ingostankau49982 ай бұрын
One of the underrated songs of the 60s. Beautiful.
@g8ymw Жыл бұрын
I loved it when it came out, still loving it in 2023 I see someone wrote the words out, further down Hauntingly beautiful
@princessbeauty7747 Жыл бұрын
I am 11 and I LOVE THIS SONG
@Davey-cn4gz3 ай бұрын
Well I’m 52 & I also love this song 👍
@timradford956811 ай бұрын
I still have my original 45 rpm vinyl copy of this great song...and still love it!!
@DonGill-cu5mo8 ай бұрын
Would you sell it?
@allanday-vz7im3 ай бұрын
@@DonGill-cu5mo i have been collecting vinyl singles..eps..lps since i was 13.. am now 72 and still go round record fairs looking for my.. take my record books with me that have also been a collecting item
@larsvanmoer453 Жыл бұрын
R.I.P. Ray Shulman (8 December 1949 - 30 March 2023) . Together with his brothers he was in Simon Dupree and the Big Sound and later in the progressive rock band Gentle Giant.
@jamescoats916911 жыл бұрын
One of my all-time favourite songs, a true one-off psychedelic wonder.
@Matt-uj6jm6 ай бұрын
66 on my next birthday still listening to this track every now and then. How much better was the world when this song hit the airwaves 🤘🏴
@The.Last.Guitar.Hero.2 жыл бұрын
So I'm driving back just now at night during torrential rain in Southern England and trying to find something to listen to on the radio. On the oldies station Gold, I hear this weird spooky psychedelic song on the radio that I'd never heard before. I pull over the car and download it straight away so I wouldn't forget what it was. The perfect soundtrack to the atrocious weather conditions. Right down my street as I love psychedelic music from around the time I was born.
@edwardconway Жыл бұрын
Great memories of the time I was with first love Anne
@activator1000012 жыл бұрын
I have waited over 40 years to find this again! Found it by accident here.Absolutely fabulous in all respects
@captainsoul195311 жыл бұрын
love that eerie sound of the Mellotron
@redstrat123412 жыл бұрын
Just love that Mellotron
@daz47565 жыл бұрын
One of the greatest 'one hit wonder songs' of all time.
@Plasmariel Жыл бұрын
Until you realised what band the Shulman brothers will be in a few years later :)
@HawklordLI Жыл бұрын
@@Plasmariel For Whom the Bell Toll is a great song as well.
@clintdavies491 Жыл бұрын
@@Plasmariel I still have this on vinyl absolute belter
@gopakumar_ps Жыл бұрын
I am from India, Kerala. this is one of my favourite song.
@GarethJones-yt1hrАй бұрын
Im 73 and still remember buying the single when it came out. Its in my top 100
@robertlangley16642 жыл бұрын
This was a great time in the late 60s in the UK to be a teenager ,boys with long hair and girls with there short skirts wow happy days
@mandystinson4925 Жыл бұрын
64 year old and love this song
@andrewcollins3424 ай бұрын
Yeah great track
@Marty-pants5 ай бұрын
They just played this on the radio here in the UK. What a great track, had almost forgotten about it as it just doesn’t get played enough.
@janeburgess48392 жыл бұрын
Awww that’s so romantic 💕
@tonyanderton3521 Жыл бұрын
Very atmospheric. A lovely song.
@MYMUSICCHANNEL-db4ky5 ай бұрын
Still loving this beautiful music at seventy years old also Nights in white satin 1967 will never be forgotten
@ste1234567547 жыл бұрын
60s what a great era for music
@mickfilcock6384 жыл бұрын
Yep a great time for music back then...unlike the talent lessbunch we have today imitating musicians who have to parade halfnakedto sell the crap they call music to the mass morons of today's youth..
@Jonepk Жыл бұрын
The video of this on the tv series twice a fortnight was a masterpiece of 60's pop films.
@grahamjones7328 Жыл бұрын
Played in the pub New Years Eve many moons ago. Always reminds me of that night and the good times. Sadly the pub is no longer there as is the case with many from my youth. With New Years Eve beckoning thought I’d play this tonight.
@blumdaddy48452 жыл бұрын
I was about 12 and The Crimdon Dean Beauty Contest in County Durham. Simon Dupree was the fist live band I saw. Ive being playing music in bands ever since. Thanks . Still a magic song.
@user-jn1wm3tb8v2 жыл бұрын
To this day this song haunts me. Not in a malevolent way it just sings to me when I'm in the darkest corners of the night. I found this song's title four minutes ago and I'm already enamoured to have found it again.
6 ай бұрын
It was one of my favourite songs in the 60s, happy to discover it again
@Limara645 жыл бұрын
Oh the memories of my old mum singing this when she had us kids at weekends. Only now do I understand why she sang it. Awwww thanks X
@mrjohnop96575 жыл бұрын
This was filmed at Compton Acres Poole Dorset, and this film clip featured in the golden oldie picture show hosted by Dave Lee Travis.
@joseandrade632 Жыл бұрын
How wonderful it is to discover this sort of proto-Gentle Giant! This music is awsome anytime, anywhere. Gentle Giant forever!
@nicktamer4969 Жыл бұрын
Ironicaly, Gentle Giant members are the only people on this planet who hate this wonderfull song.
@klecoxs26 ай бұрын
@@nicktamer4969 Yeah their original concept was a blue eyed soul/R&B band
@RayTay19512 жыл бұрын
The unique oriental sound of Simon Dupree & The Big Sound. A monster one-hit wonder. I heard in TOTP when it came out that the song was written by his sister Susan, I believe.
@realmikegarner Жыл бұрын
But they morphed into Gentle Giant afterwards
@michaelsnider5293 Жыл бұрын
Written by two Brill Building songwriters
@MrHairyNeck10 жыл бұрын
This was one of my fav songs when I was younger. It did and still does remind me when my family when were altogether and my mother and father were still alive. Thanks for posting.
@unamckillen71259 жыл бұрын
Hairy Neck Sorry for your losses. It does the same for me. It is an amazing song, sung and produced amazingly. There is nothing to touch it now.
@MrHairyNeck9 жыл бұрын
I agree.
@deewaters89947 жыл бұрын
Hairy Neck You took the words out of my mouth.
@andrewcurtis596 жыл бұрын
Hairy Neck Ditto with a capital D. Memories never to be forgotten.
@kenclark71426 жыл бұрын
Hairy Neck Same here.
@sandymackay4017 Жыл бұрын
Getting older. Still a Classic.
@christinehutchinson55057 жыл бұрын
The sixties...utterly timeless... clean... pure... as I suppose most of us felt at that age! x
@tracy-paulobrien93685 жыл бұрын
Yes utterlly timeless...clean....pure....as I suppose I must be today.
@Atom-564 жыл бұрын
christine hutchinson Still is, and I now 52 years older now.
@roberttreborable Жыл бұрын
Still Brilliant, good music stands the test of time. This song transports you to a magical Japan.
@shirleyrowarth36692 жыл бұрын
Chills. 2022 chills
@caractacusbrittania74425 жыл бұрын
A better time Long summers....no terrorists Low crime...decent police... High employment.... And all your loved ones alive.
@jamesy19554 жыл бұрын
Peter Crean - Peadar Ó Croidheáin nothing wrong with idealism. 🤔 But that doesn't mean that we don't address the big issues.
@martynh54104 жыл бұрын
I’ll drink to that!
@kennyluciano49133 жыл бұрын
Knights Templar for ever.
@treasurehunteruk204710 жыл бұрын
The sixties were so special. Never to be repeated.
@pharcyde49433 жыл бұрын
They will come again. The PEOPLE WILL MAKE SURE OF THAT!
@toreedstrom11722 жыл бұрын
Sometime in the early seventies, someone in our dance band found this beautiful song to play for our audience, who liked it a lot and still I like it just är much... Greeetings from Sweden..
@MrERICTHEDOG11 жыл бұрын
Spine-tingling music ! ..It has the same effect on me now as it did when I first heard it all those years ago,....The hairs on the back of my neck are standing up...One of my all time classic favorites.
@dogsbreath22226 жыл бұрын
The musicians on this recording went on to form Gentle Giant
@unamckillen712510 жыл бұрын
This is a great song - a classic really. I was a tiny teenager when it came out and was blown away as you are at that time of your life. Now I come back to it and these guys are amazing - massive, amazing voices but I am guessing they wanted no part of it. You don't get to be a one-hit wonder for no reason. Simon Dupree had had enough.
@aas589 жыл бұрын
They changed their name to gentle giant and played a different style of music.
@unamckillen71259 жыл бұрын
Thanos Yes, that so often happens. Fame is what we all want now, supposedly, but it isn't, is it? Some hate it and want to do what they want to do, I will look up Gentle Giant.
@xiropigado2 жыл бұрын
I wish to give my gratitude and thanks to all the amazing musicians and songwriters of the 60's and the 70's for making the music that they did which makes me feel the way i do when i listen to their magical, incredible, emotional songs.
@55bluenose8 жыл бұрын
What a great song this was...................... still is
@joyceeslillad8 жыл бұрын
+55bluenose Decades ahead of it's time
@grahamforshaw70453 жыл бұрын
Well Simon Dupree reminds reminds me when I was at School in the Sixties. And even today even though time as passed my kite is still flying from the Sixties. Long live the Sixties music.
@lawrencemanning Жыл бұрын
First time I've heard this, and I think I'm in love with it.
@davewjb5411 жыл бұрын
You can't beat the music from the 60's & 70's beats today's music into a cocked hat.
@thabitzahalka2 жыл бұрын
I will fly a yellow paper sun in your sky When the wind is high, when the wind is high I will float a silken silver moon near your window If your night is dark, if your night is dark In letters of gold on a snow white kite I will write "I love you" And send it soaring high above you For all to read I will scatter rice paper stars in your heaven If there are no stars, if there are no stars All of these and seven wonders more will I find When the wind is high, when the wind is high In letters of gold on a snow white kite I will write "I love you" And send it soaring high above you For all to read In letters of gold on a snow white kite I will write "I love you" And send it soaring high above you For all to read
@indauroleal7953 Жыл бұрын
This song from 1967 anticipates the sound of 80's new wave. Amazing!
@kevinwilliams1421 Жыл бұрын
Never thought of it like that ..but I get what your saying
@tonyogrady6604 Жыл бұрын
yes, Fade To Grey springs to mind.
@clintdavies491 Жыл бұрын
@@tonyogrady6604 mmm fade to grey was in no way new wave
@Essexia7612 жыл бұрын
God, How I loved this tune.I bought a kite and flew it over Hackney Downs-wonderful
@johnmckinlay6712 жыл бұрын
Always loved this song, from way back when I was a child. One of the trippiest tunes ever recorded. Thanks for sharing.
@shirleyrowarth3669 Жыл бұрын
Goosebumps!
@ColumRogers10 жыл бұрын
This is.... magical
@davidalton86345 жыл бұрын
A dream of a song
@roverade19 жыл бұрын
my brother turned me onto this song in '67 he saw them performing around pompey around this time then this came out...and i've loved it ever since
@1046Fay12 жыл бұрын
I loved this...I'm so glad I was a 50's child...musically my era had the best of everything..rock on
@victorformosa2286 жыл бұрын
Another timeless classic from the 60's
@stephensmith51183 жыл бұрын
What a great song from the trippy summer of love ,atmospheric, magical ,along with Dad avid Mckwillia mb s ,The days of pearly Spencer and a white shade of pale ..67 best year ever for music
@zacmumblethunder74662 жыл бұрын
And Nights in White Satin.
@MK190219612 жыл бұрын
@@zacmumblethunder7466 Yes!
@pauldundas483611 жыл бұрын
One of the best singles of the 60s.
@stevewoodcock97492 жыл бұрын
The manager of Simon Dupree and The Big Sound told the group to record this song and they only recorded it as their manager said if they didn't, he would stop being their manager,. When they split up, they reformed as the successful Gentle Giant, that lasted from 1970 to 1980, check them out. Also they made a record in the 60s as The Moles. It was called We Are The Moles.
@StewartNicolasBILLYCONNOLLY9 жыл бұрын
The pentatonic scale in this mesmerised me!
@ladderstothemoon7415 Жыл бұрын
Thank you heartbeat
@steverenold16992 жыл бұрын
just listened to Derek Shulman who was a singer with Simon Dupree and the Big Sound on the Rockonteurs podcast worth a listen
@caspercasper8967 күн бұрын
this was in the charts on saturday 30 december 1967
@silverphoenix1418 Жыл бұрын
I ❤Japan and intend to go to Tokyo at some stage of my life. I have a very deep kinship with Japan and when I heard this beautiful song on the radio in my childhood l fell in love with it's haunting melody and beautiful tune. . Now many years later, I watched the video. The Geisha girl is very beautiful and pretty. Thanks for posting it in. I have liked and subscribed to your channel. 🙂 Rajeev. ❤️
@roberttreborable Жыл бұрын
I hope you get there, I've been lucky enough to work there a few times and love the country and the people. It's only not speaking the language fluently that stops me wanting to stay permanently.
@silverphoenix1418 Жыл бұрын
Hi Robert, Thanks very much for your good wishes. You're so lucky to be able to have worked there. Speaking the language will come itself in time, so don't let that deter you from staying more. The main thing is that you managed to actually find work. So happy for you and thanks again for your good wishes. i have a collection of translation books and guides to find my way around. Tokyo is my main choice.
@philstothart88422 жыл бұрын
Brings back so many memories of my youth.
@colinreed74429 жыл бұрын
I saw simon Dupree and band at Crimdon Dene in the 80s when I worked for a local band called LOVETRAIN as sound engineer its a song you don't forget it is the SOUND, regards to all present and past with beat wishes colin
@paulledden8863 Жыл бұрын
The Star Inn, Oswestry...1978....part of Ron's Jukebox...fabulous... :)
@mariosaliba80366 жыл бұрын
Another great song from the 60s.
@kevinobrien12596 жыл бұрын
Lovely record, I saw this band when they were previously called Simon Dupree and the big sound, the venue was the Roundhouse at Camden town one Sunday pos' in 1967, their were lots of bands on the bill and most of the others were a bit more flower powery (in a good way) for some reason I didn't think the 'Big Sound' would quite shape up with the other acts but boy was I wrong, that band could hold their own with anybody! they were a very powerful and together band and actually were less predictable than anyone else that day, I was impressed and I saw them all back then, Hendrix, Cream, the Who etc etc, happy days people!
@robertwilliams44227 жыл бұрын
I rember this from the late sixties. Producton values, are way above the time!
@lesleystorey39177 жыл бұрын
Robert Williams there time we were children then
@colinstafford78463 жыл бұрын
Brings back so many memories of childhood.
@robmorris38384 жыл бұрын
Really loved this record in the day when at College ... and I don't tire of it even now in 2020!
@ianlambert16286 жыл бұрын
Takes me back to my youth club days 1967, Loved it.
@alimarafie39525 жыл бұрын
I love it the beauty of the song it takes you to different stages
@okokokok3683 Жыл бұрын
அக்கரைச் சீமை அழகினிலே மனம் ஆட கண்டேனே (2) புதுமையிலே மயங்குகிறேன் புதுமையிலே மயங்குகிறேன் அக்கரைச் சீமை அழகினிலே மனம் ஆட கண்டேனே 😂
@rajeshrsutube Жыл бұрын
Karma karmam
@patrickparker375511 ай бұрын
I have loved this song since i was a child. Her voice is so beautiful.
@gimlisonofgloin29342 жыл бұрын
Am I the only one that thinks this song would fit with the end of the world?
@birchward Жыл бұрын
Richard Ward There is a lot of magic in this song / video , a dream of love and a peaceful world for all ! there is a little bit of history in this song , for me too , of a awesome time ! I was working in the studio at the Marquee club ,wardour street london ! and that night there was a band on stage called Simon Dupree and the Big Sound , they had a hit record with a song called kites ,so I got to know them ! in later life Tony Ransley their , drummer ,moved down and we recorded a few times ! Their singer Derek Shulman went to the U.S.A. and discovered a band called Bon Jovi , etc . also for a short period was a jobbing organist / pianist( on £30 per week ) was a guy called Reg Dwight , later to become Elton John helping out due to ill health of a regular member of the big sound ! While the Beatles where recording Sgt peppers at night at abbey road the big sound was recording their album in the same studio during the day using the beatles amps / drums etc ! cheers ritchie . Reply
@TheSAMANTHALAURA112 жыл бұрын
Remember this well in 1967 I think, A haunting song. So nostalgic
@denniswebb39926 жыл бұрын
Never heard song until last week when going through my unplayed vinyl. Now I have it digitized, and it sounds as contemporary as anything on a current playlist.
@clemstevenson13 жыл бұрын
I seem to remember this particular video from the 1980s. There was a UK TV series, created from 1980s pop video makeovers of old tracks. It was narrated by Dave Lee Travis. These tracks had been hits in the days before the pop video.
@stephencurtis2642 Жыл бұрын
Great song, the band became Gentle Giant a top prog band of the early 70s .
@brynleyoakley69906 жыл бұрын
Timeless
@mikeltom6413 Жыл бұрын
12years old when released . Great to hear again . Thank you youtube . Mike
@paulfaruga10 жыл бұрын
What cant be copied cant be repeated. Original from then till now.What a track!!!
@alexanderelofsson Жыл бұрын
At 53 I´ve obviously missed so much! Great and ancient!
@stephenhowe41072 жыл бұрын
Funny enough the band hated this. They wanted to be soul musicians. Yet they will be remembered for this. A one-hit wonder. I liked it but did not know the back story. Very atmospheric. it is the only 60's track I know of with a wind machine and vibraphone and spoken Chinese words in Mandarin
@jayneholdsworth56082 жыл бұрын
Pure magic
@markporter99129 жыл бұрын
pentatonic scales rooooool !!! a great song with an exotic feel. The woman is actually Chinese (from Hong Kong?) - Jacqui Chan.
@simonmoore23803 жыл бұрын
No, she was actually born in Trinidad, but in the UK since she was a teenager
@Richard-pe4cx15 күн бұрын
i can remember listening to this on radio 1 how things have changed
@ianlambert16287 жыл бұрын
Reminds me of the Youth club 67, and all the girls we knew.God, I loved those days!
@dongill96502 жыл бұрын
So beautiful.
@Ashtonian5411 жыл бұрын
A blast from the past! A Rave from the grave!
@sirmione77712 жыл бұрын
I was 8 when this charted - loved it then, love it now.
@eamonncadiz12 жыл бұрын
Brilliant.Captivates a moment in time.Never to be repeated.
@johnroberts37232 жыл бұрын
Magic song.
@Straker192312 жыл бұрын
Saw them at RAF Swinderby in '69....brilliant!
@martinberty200212 жыл бұрын
Just a small part of the fantastic 60's music. Easily the best decade for music, even though I was only 10 when it ended.