Susan Maughan - Little Things Mean a Lot

Here's a clip from an ITV variety show, circa 1965.

[@brianearle1328]

60s music 🎶 🎶 what more is there to say so many memories

[@buskersandy7487]

Susan has a lovely tuneful voice. The crowd drinking & smoking made me laugh.

[@cricketbat09]

Singing like an angel, in a room filled with cigarette smoke. Amazing.

[@clareons]

How gorgeous is she! I always thought she was American when I was kid. I was amazed when I found out she's actually British lol.

[@peterbutler6392]

Fabulous, sung beautifully, very much of its time and still sounds great today! Tremendous big finish too!

[@williammitchell9974]

Excellent Ms Susan Maughan 🎉 Tops🎉

[@gplunk]

Brilliant performance. She had it all....

[@hhill4413]

The voice ,the looks,shehas it all

[@sonofretrotvluver]

This video made my Friday Night! That vocalist! That song! That gorgeous blond in the bouffant hairdo at 1:11!

[@georgeportas4057]

2020 still sounds great

[@robinterkzer8128]

Wonderful singer ! xxxxxxx

[@annejohnsons8932]

those were the good old days

[@alfching2499]

You could smoke anywhere and say and think what you like,it's all been destroyed by millenia

[@ryandariushwood225]

Such a beautiful soprano voice. I feel terrible for her having to sing in that smoke-infested place!

[@yvetteprescod3114]

This song brings back memories

[@xelettv6041]

I love it!

[@jamesharrison7354]

great vocals & sound for a live version .... loved the pint of ale on the newel post.. lol

[@simonleaf2765]

Love the guy with the tab!

[@drstevie]

Brill !!!!!!!!

[@Celticcross688]

my Mums favourite

[@lorrainelloyd7750]

Interesting. My mother loved Mary Small and Vera Lynn and then it happened.......Lana Cantrell, simply the best (well, there is Whitney Houston), and while my mother is dead now, she nor I have ever heard of this woman but I must admit, she's really good. I wonder what my mom would have thought BEFORE Lana. I have been enjoying her videos. And (sorry Lana) but she reminds me a bit of you!!! I love class in music and culture and as one said below, "the good old days". Absolutely.

[@keithsmith8704]

This is from a TV show called "Stars and Garters" for which the studio set was a fictional London pub.

[@mikehudson8884]

+Keith Smith Thanks for clarifying that I thought it was something like that. Miss Maughan is wonderful can't say the same for the set though. I am sure you will agree.

[@TheAayize]

Dam it was fictional but they were still smoking cigarettes 🤦🏻‍♂️

[@smfvmd]

The compère is Mr Ray Martine.

[@mikehudson8884]

Miss Maughan is the best as always but the set is rubbish!!!!! She does her best. Love Susan Maughan.

[@newjerseybt]

It is amazing she doesn't gag with all that smoke.

[@markbyron1346]

I'm just coughing with the smoke..

[@jackjones3680]

from a little town CONSETT she's great

[@yellow4951]

This song so beautiful the original was kitty kallen

[@clareons]

Looks like everyone there fancies her lol.

[@drstevie]

Prob most singers got lung cancer , if played in small places a lot in that era. Cigs were compulsory , by the look of it. ( My parents of that era, & they same ).

[@CrankCase08]

You'll often find that many singers smoke because it can help make a singing voice even better, which could be why even Enrico Caruso did it.

[@Celticcross688]

smoke central

[@aprilapril2]

Smokey joes in there … times have changed

[@MegaDeansy]

Good song, but Jeez - the settings ???

[@davexnet]

Agreed - but it was the mid 60's, it was an ITV show and they liked to appeal to the working class. Set in a pub setting, I read that the TV channel even provided free cigarettes. The early 70's gave us the Wheeltappers and Shunters Social Club (also ITV) with it's similar working mans club backdrop. By the end of the 70's, The UK was changing, and this kind of programming became unfashionable.

[@bigpapanoodle]

davexnet 1:41 Not only free cigarettes but free buffet too! This guy has run out of hands!

[@combatautumn]

Dead ringer for Donna Loran.

[@CrankCase08]

This was her mistake. She failed to change with the times.

[@billmulvihill8452]

Yeah, she should have hired the Beatles as her back up band!🤣

[@CrankCase08]

@@billmulvihill8452 The Beatles were a bigger act than her by this time. 'Make Him Mine' could have been a promising start in a new direction, but she didn't sustain it.

[@billmulvihill8452]

CrankCase08 I agree, but the tsunami wiped out almost all of the girl groups and individual singers. “Make Him Mine” was her greatest moment. Funny thing she appeared on the same show as the Beatles and was friends with them.

[@YorkyOne]

@@CrankCase08 The Beatles were a bigger act than anyone by this time!

[@CrankCase08]

@@YorkyOne Indeed so, but female singers who adapted to the times had continued success, such as Dusty Springfield and Shirley Bassey. I remember as a kid in the 1960s hearing Susan Maughan singing dated garbage on 'Workers' Playtime'.

[@irenemccann7032]

I was ready to denigrate Susan, but have to say it’s as good Kitty Kallins version.

[@irenemccann7032]

Very good , but I prefer Kitty Kalins version.

[@Meatcity-sf8fm]

Can I bum a cigarette buddy.

[@YorkyOne]

It's England so it might be - "Any chance of cadging a spare fag, mate?"

[@drspaseebo410]

The singing is great ~ but the band is awful.

[@poppyjons56874]

how dare you say that the band is doing its bloody best theres only 5 of them what do you want a bloody orchestra in there lol

[@MrMartybearass]

are there any vids of her now in 2018? love to see/hear her now!