Sutherland Brothers & Quiver - Arms Of Mary • TopPop

'Arms of Mary' or 'Lying in the Arms of Mary', from their album 'Reach for the Sky' became a huge hit in the summer of 1976. In the Netherlands it reached # 1 in the Top 40 (3 weeks) and the Nationale Hitparade (4 weeks). It was first broadcast on TopPop on 4 June 1976.
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Broadcast date: 1976-06-04
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[@garydaniels1420]

76...my God weres the time gone ..listening July 2024...still fresh 😮

[@oleggorky906]

Oh boy! That was a long, glorious hot summer in the UK. It really was the gold standard to judge all summers by. The sun shone, virtually all day, almost every day. Every field you walked past was a shade of parched yellow because it rarely rained. And to top it all, we had great tunes like this as a soundtrack to it. And I was a young kid, with six weeks off school, playing out from the first thing in the morning until it got dark, day after day. And then, next thing I remember, 48 years slipped by … where did they go? 😢 😢😢

[@lorrainegrattan8528]

Me and my siblings played this song at my parents funeral in 2014, they passed 12 hrs apart. And yes, my mother was called Mary, and she loved that song back in the day. I remember my dad used to sing it to her when we were kids. We miss you mum and dad. ♥️♥️♥️

[@user-dx3hr9vh1h]

My condoleance

[@user-dx3hr9vh1h]

Thuis song always stay rememring

[@garydaniels1420]

What you did was Beutiful

[@colinritchie8570]

Gavin and Ian Sutherland were so underrated as songwriters, wrote" Sailing", and give Rod Stewart one of his biggest hits.

[@stephenpegg8741]

This song was penned by Ian on a farm they stayed at in a little village called Stockton Brook, Staffordshire in the early 70s about 3 miles from where I grew up, I had a schoolfriend who lived down the lane from them and spoke to them a few times, seemed like lovely blokes, I was about 12 back then...

[@N1611n]

Really miss these days, when life was normal!

[@myoldmate]

I get you. Those halcyon days fondly remembered.

[@N1611n]

@@myoldmate Halcyon days indeed. 👍🍻

[@johnmccann1960]

amen to that.

[@rajivradha]

You can’t recreate the past, it’s gone. I know how you feel. Keep moving forward…

[@martinbrian6583]

Spot on there mate

[@lotus7419]

My mother's name was Mary. She passed away few years ago. How I wish to be in her arms again.

[@jackienuttall7549]

Days of peace and respect in England

[@VictorApini-po8tb]

She took the pains of boyhood and turned them into feel good. Amazing song.

[@grahamparkyn1590]

I was 22 in 1976, worked all the hours possible at the local tin mine so as to get our first house…hottest summer I can remember with the best music ever, would I go back…..to right I would I miss those days growing up in the 70’s…..but we are blessed after some 47 years together ….. good and bad times ❤️

[@carolesharp1024]

'76 best year ever

[@wulfrunhaus6233]

16 years old when this came out. Shut my eyes takes me right back to the best summer ever !!! What a time to be alive.

[@paulhoey2956]

I was only 8 but can remember the great summer of 76

[@noeleen-58]

I was 17 love this song

[@Richard.Allsop]

Seems like a lost Eden now!

[@mal334455]

Always remember summer if 76

[@martinkenny7572]

What a great summer- I remember they prayed for rain here in Ireland

[@kokloketan1177]

The 70s produced the best songs and one of them was this hit..

[@blueheaven6258]

This song and 1976 always reminds me of someone special ❤

[@Janggut40]

awesome

[@rocky7173]

My name is Mary......this song is about me I gave all......I lived in Essex...but each weekend we would go up the City empire Leicester square London......we were apprentices hairdressers.....not much money ....but did we have fun and made memories......the dicso seen in London in the 70s THE BEST NO PHONES,NO INTERNET.....I CAN STILL SMILE TODAY.....ANYONE ELSE THERE TOO.... " Saturday night fever " Madonna, rod Stewart, queen, do I need to go on ...love FROM IRELAND xxxx

[@thomasmarthinussen8978]

The Sutherland Brothers and Quiver was a hard working band and didn't always get the respect and recognition they truly deserved. A nice string of Folksy Soft Rock albums appeared in the 1970s and Arms Of Mary remains their greatest hit!

[@allangow5561]

Southerland brothers and Quiver, McGuiness Flint, Gallagher and Lyle. These bands were priceless. They never had the recognition they deserved.

[@GRichfamgfam]

From a time when music had meaning 💯👌

[@thomasmarthinussen8978]

Totally agree with you!

[@dinushkamahawedage3186]

That the truth💯

[@louispierre154]

Agreed they where an awesome band

[@Teacher-lj6in]

Say that again!

[@martinjones1089]

This song took me back to my youth!💗

[@norbertkale853]

Not only you... 👍😥 Greetings from Saxony!

[@me_and_two_cats]

me too ))

[@mikeelangelo3699]

Me too ❤

[@donaldduck2139]

me too back in New Zealand . . .

[@ianbell7342]

fantastic year 1976 bring them back ❤

[@sunshineofrays6977]

This man's voice is pure and clearly amazing !!!

[@BrendaDrumm]

Beautiful song loved it from day one still don't know who quiver was x

[@claremann8621]

Quiver was the brilliant guitarist Tim Renwick, who has played with many top artists, Bruce Thomas & drummer Willie Wilson. Quiver were in need of a vocalist & the Sutherland Brothers were in need of instrumentalists....the rest is history.

[@BrendaDrumm]

@@claremann8621 thanks clare

[@davyfindlay2136]

Most underrated band to come out of Scotland very very talented

[@andymatthews7617]

Well said Davy

[@annirvin6555]

Wow!!! I always thought that they were an American band.

[@Jake9134]

1976 was the year I met my first real love, Marita from Finland. We lost contact, sadly she died in 2014.

[@mohankrishnasamy1456]

Sad for 🧒 you

[@boogieboy1974]

😢

[@tinaburgess3643]

I remember that summer well..oh it was so hot 🔥

[@tinaburgess3643]

Very sad 😥

[@andymatthews7617]

Just read your text my condolences mate , stay safe

[@ruthlee7302]

1976 I was 16 I'm 60 now how i miss those days

[@Silverblade61]

Ruth me too !

[@andymatthews7617]

Great days, if only time could be controlled so we could go back

[@Serviervorschlag-]

I was born then but I begin to miss these times and the 80's and 90's the same as you the 70's.

[@peterturley1331]

1976- a hot and steamy Summer in the UK, great friends, family, times. Miss it and those beautiful people so very very much. 💜😪💔

[@mal334455]

Great comment...1976.... superb memories

[@Bianca-ha369]

Thanks so much for sharing this from the United Kingdom...Know that I am here...it was my first Summer in this life dear One ...thanks for your Love 💚

[@jennyperrio4887]

It's like being wrapped in happiness Me my mum my dad my sister and brother Only me on the island we were all born on My brother and daughter in England the others gone my mum 9 weeks ago Golly take me back and let me live there forever 😊😊

[@jayenpadayachee4055]

Exactly how I feel bro, it was here too, in Durban South Africa. Thank you for your comment.

[@MrFoxboy7]

1976 what a year for brilliant music ,take me back now

[@dean7045]

I GIVE THIS SONG THE RARE DISTINCTION OF BEING A MASTERPIECE

[@andrewmatthews6861]

GREAT SONGS DON'T COME ALONG TO OFTEN ❤️

[@bellerophonchallen8861]

Me to, I was fifteen and still at school. Clothes look a bit odd today though. White flares for gods sake

[@rockintanz1]

@@bellerophonchallen8861 I love the clothes & I was born in 1981 👍🏻

[@terrydavis2378]

Correct😊

[@errolpinnock4662]

I discovered this song through my brother, who died a few months later. Always reminds me of him. RIP little bro.

[@janefriel6895]

78,still one of my best years even now at 60 looking back. Oh the lessons life teaches. Learn by them.

[@frederickstanley7605]

Man I'm aching to go back to these beautiful times so let's get together folks and build this time machine PLEASE.

[@bellerophonchallen8861]

You're watching it in your own, personal Time Machine friend, we all are. I find so much stuff in here I thought I'd never see again back in the late 70's.

[@frederickstanley7605]

You've got to be apart of that era to understand what it's all about. 😀😀😀😀😁😀😀😀.

[@Teacher-lj6in]

Hey guys motors running --all aboard lets blast back into the mid 70s right away!!

[@razzmatazz7542]

Great days great memories !

[@andrewmolloy7742]

Count me in

[@grahamwestover3699]

Reminds me of the best times of my life in the 70s great music Great Times please take me back

[@willywilz]

Graham Westover Hello mate xxx ready when you are .. time machine anyone ???

[@john-lz9bc]

Only fault with this song is its just not long enough

[@gavinspiby8304]

Those days were really the golden years for us all Amazing songs talent and a slower pace of life ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@andreastrigner1808]

how true, thanks we had these golden years.

[@janefriel6895]

I remember my mother saying " the world has gone mad" Dear god if she could see it now.

[@MaletinaClarke-rq9ds]

Timeless music. Today's stuff just doesn't compare.

[@bazhowell1123]

This was a fantastic song, which sounds as good today as it ever did.

[@andrewmatthews6861]

Baz Howell class never fades Baz

[@anagrabinskis3258]

Love this song, hope it doesn't sound creepy but that was my grandmother's name. Loved her hugs. X

[@monikaludwig767]

That song reminds me on the best years of my life! So sad, that they are gone😢

[@Shoshi770NYC]

monika -we got YT now, so no worries...

[@supersolex]

Every one just commenting how young they were or how good the summer was when this song came out, and i'm just here dreaming away of how good those times would've been! I was born in 1996. Have a good day everyone thats still listening

[@peaceraybob]

A time when folk songs became rock hits.

[@joannasmith3226]

Love this song - such happy times.

[@bjarnet5261]

Its the best song I ever since have head. From B Trelle ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤😢😢😢😢😢😢😢😢

[@laurie.pollard7076]

BEAUTIFUL SONG, EXCELLENT BAND.👌👌👌👌👌👌

[@luvmydogs_]

Warum hat dieser Traumhaft schöne Song nicht 6 Milliarden Aufrufe?💘💕🤩💓💖😍💗😇💕💓💖💝💗💗💗💞💞💞!!!

[@djpetrov3668]

In 1983 - 1992, when I was driving to worke as a nurse at cardiological care unit, I always heard this song on radio! It brings me back in good and careless time!😊

[@N1611n]

Still here May 2024, a beautiful song my god I'm old Lolz!

[@jason75]

I was 7 in 76, 76 was a great year for music and movies. 70s was a great decade, ever forgotten

[@i.marr.6688]

@jason75. Summer 76 I was ten, I'll never forget the whopping summer that year, there wasn't a cloud in the sky from May to September 🤝👍

[@jason75]

@@i.marr.6688 Your a couple years on me, all in all same generation. No diff only a few years apart. Dont make waves, down by the way side.

[@garethmurtagh]

2 minutes and 35 seconds of musical perfection!

[@seamuskiernan2207]

Reminds me of a lovely girlfriend of years ago named Mary. She sadly died in February. Great memories

[@uccas7503]

Ich war 19 und begegnete meiner ersten großen Liebe. Hielt nur 3 Jahre, aber der Song ist unvergessen.

[@rudiohneu3700]

Mir ging es fast genau so ;-)

[@patriciathewisher2315]

A song which should be played every week at least on BBC radio

[@andymci5981]

Sixteen i was. Brings tears of happiness this song from a magic time when people cared about each other.

[@klemmetv6875]

So true ❤

[@anthonylange839]

The song I'll never forget. What a time.

[@roywatson8133]

underrated band i still have all there albums

[@brundebrauc5198]

Born in 72, was 4 at the time. Can't remember much but I know I was happy..

[@brundebrauc5198]

This answer deserves millions of thumbs up

[@premsign]

Wasn't a massive hit in New Zealand but i loved it straight away. 1976 what a year for music.

[@klemmetvaagenes7935]

Hallo new Zealand. From norway

[@helmuthahn1352]

@@klemmetvaagenes7935 hello New Zealand, hello Norway from Germany

[@robertryan2542]

Still watching here in Ireland, 2022. A classic.

[@cf2808]

As a very young child, I used to hear my late dad play this song. I am 47 now and still love this song 💕

[@steve998]

...it’s 1976. I’m at the church hall disco, it’s the last song of the night before lights up. I’m slow dancing with the boy with the soft brown eyes that shyly looked at me from the other side of the English class last Friday. I can smell spearmint chewing gum on his breath...we are dancing closer and closer and I know he's going to kiss me. I'm so happy I can hardly breathe. I’m just in seventh heaven. Oh for those days back again. We who were having the time of our young lives in the seventies and eighties were surely the luckiest of all

[@johnhiggins1028]

i love this,sweet words and memories........

[@garethbramley1]

This song is simply fantastic!!!!!!!! Released March '76 it reached No.5 in the UK charts. Written by Iain Sutherland. Gavin Sutherland wrote 'Sailing' in 1972 - later used as a TV Theme and then recorded by Rod Stewart in 1975. Very talented band.

[@englishman1960]

Iain wrote the better song. I didn't like Sailing

[@gregorysmitherman3739]

I've loved the song for years. Heard it as a child from my parents. However, I have always ever known it to be by the Canadian band Chilliwack. Until right now, I've never heard another version.

[@noeleen-58]

When we all knew what’s in the charts it’s all that mattered

[@raymondbonington9355]

This is the original from 1976 .

[@rjjcms1]

My mum had their album with this on. I haven't heard the band but I visited Chilliwack in British Columbia once,as a passenger in a light aircraft flying over the beautiful Rockies from Vancouver.

[@thomasmarthinussen8978]

The Sutherland Brothers really deserved more chart success than they got.

[@andrewmatthews6861]

That was down to record companies most would not know a great band if it stared them in the face 😢😢

[@thomasmarthinussen8978]

@@andrewmatthews6861 I totally agree! Just look at Decca Records. Turning down The Beatles was probably not their wisest decision! Having said that, they signed Brian Poole and The Tremeloes who DID score a nice string of hit singles but a Beatles they most certainly weren't....

[@raymondbonington9355]

Thomas Marthinussen think they chose the tremeloes as they were a London band ,, back to the Sutherland brothers and quiver great band and only 3 top 50 records is a scandal ,

[@nazaholicable]

@@andrewmatthews6861 To be fair, SB&Q did get a lot of TV and radio exposure. 'When the train comes' was on TOTP, despite not being in the charts. Ditto, 'Secrets' (a minor hit), and 'Easy come, easy go.' And, they performed 'Ice in the fire' on TV, famously popping up on kids show 'Crackerjack.' And 'Somebody's fool' was on the radio, and even appeared in a record shop 'near you' as a 12 inch single. Ultimately, SB&Q were an 'albums band.' I don't blame CBS, their record company, for the band's lack of sizeable hits. The '45 single' buying public didn't go for it. End of. Sad but true.

[@vincentwhite1790]

Reckon we must have all been sixteen in 76...that just means we're old..

[@stfu_thy3952]

I was 12 yrs old in 76 How time flies😮🤷‍♂️🙆‍♂️

[@babetteseide5951]

Genius Song of my childhood❤

[@Shehripets]

Arms Of Mary 💙💙💙

[@richardgregg2458]

Great music and great memories.

[@gabrielerentsch4259]

Mein absoluter Liebling ich liebe diesen Titel, es war meine Zeit.

[@douglipscomb3002]

Beautiful song from back in the good old days when we could actually understand all the words!

[@robertjones7999]

1976 brilliant summer and cracking music like this 70s forever 👍👍

[@NareemaKamaar]

Remember I am the chosen one I can see and feel everything

[@depikebustergonewild5701]

I remember when it was released. Best summer i can ever remember. Temperatures to match the music. ❤❤❤

[@6699Jackie]

Happy memories from the 70s, i loved that era

[@andrewmatthews6861]

Great times great music great bands if only we could go back 😢

[@wibble1999]

best years of my life!!

[@williammurphy9416]

Rest in peace Iain, an amazing guy who will be sadly missed

[@mickyeverton]

Great Memories, No Mobiles But We Managed. Peace From London. 🙏🙏

[@mossythompson]

Brings back so many memories

[@gillyarchtop]

I used to love that song. I came back for another fix.

[@markcolman7400]

What a wonderful song and wonderful time past. Now know I am getting old --- that I feel the urge to make a comment and reminisce so much!

[@willywilz]

Hi Mark Sounds like you’re ready for Don Henley and his track The Cost of Living .. that’s where we’re at I think x👍☀️

[@mitchly]

I'm with you Mark.... you don't know who I am, I don't know who you are but.. I'm with you!

[@patriciaalexander4333]

@@mitchly just a brillant song i have the vinyl album my vinyl are very pressures

[@mitchly]

@@patriciaalexander4333 Also, forgot to mention; I recorded a single at their studio in the early 80's. Not only great musicians and songwriters but really nice guys. If they read this,' Hellooo from Billy and I hope your all well'.

[@pohl54]

Know where your at. I am 65 and just retired and the only chance of listening to music like this is on KZbin or you have hung on to the original.

[@ManUtdMrs]

One of the great songs. Reminds me of the long hots summers of childhood. I'd like to go back to wallow in it's gloriousness again.

[@sophiavanderreed3385]

beautiful music

[@andrewmatthews6861]

Very true ❤️❤️❤️❤️

[@bevdurling8898]

this is one of my favorites from that era. Masterpiece!!!

[@stevestevenson5906]

Spent four months of the long hot summer of 1976 motorbiking and camping and reaching for the sky, and oh yes, I remember "Mary" and have to find this song!

[@andrewmatthews6861]

this was when music meant something 😊 sadly missed 😧

[@kevinbeck6785]

you are correct it did mean so much to us all we cant go back but i think we all would love too for one more day !!!!!

[@goldfish2379]

Magical memories of the wonderful summer of 1976 - what a summer to be sweet sixteen!

[@andrewmatthews6861]

Great days sadly missed Dilly

[@wendygould4476]

Me too...

[@TheHenwoman]

Same age, sweet sixteen, the innocence...💕

[@sandrawilliams6564]

Me too! I was 16 in '76......the hottest UK summer we ever had and we were on a family holiday down on the South coast....in a touring caravan which was like an oven!! 😄🌞 Happy days and happy memories with a great musical soundtrack. Miss those carefree teenage years!

[@netwitchtatjana4661]

Being 21 in '76 was not as easy ...

[@chrishorn855]

Mid seventies and the early eighties were the best years ever!!!

[@Cultofthedarned]

It was about 6 years ago

[@ianmcrae1974]

One of the great SCOTTISH bands in my opinion. 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[@philpeart7995]

took me back to my boyhood, what a great and in my opinion much better time

[@davidpike8033]

reminds me of the hot summer in 1976, long hot hazy days, beautiful memories and fabulous song

[@andymatthews7617]

Truly GREAT DAYS.

[@thomasmarthinussen8978]

Always a down to earth, rootsy Folk Rock/Soft Rock flavoured band. Never got the recognition they deserved. Thankfully this gem gave them a massive international hit. All their 70s albums were good.

[@daranturner]

I was all of 11 years old when this came out and I loved it right away. Sigh...the very good old days when times were a LOT LOT more simpler. We never had much as a family but God knows we enjoyed life back then...even with not much to eat!

[@JeeGee114]

Only number 1 in The Netherlands, Flanders and Ireland. Strange I always thought it was a big hit everywhere.

[@daveb6214]

God this brings back memories of better times and better days , wish they were here again .

[@peterturley1331]

Absolutely.

[@harrycooke6349]

With you on that

[@80musiclover]

You and I both

[@calicocatz7890]

Yes Dave. When I was a kid I thought things could only get better. Sometimes you don't realise you are living in the best times until they are gone.

[@judithjackson4667]

me too

[@user-dt3rz2lz7q]

Now you are laying in the arms of Mary Iain, Mother Mary. Thank you for this beautiful song. Evokes so many great memories of the 70's when life was so much simpler. R.I.P 💐

[@lievemassart1817]

Nog altijd even mooi wordt spijtig niet meer gespeeld op de radio

[@thomasmarthinussen8978]

Not considered single material at first but it turned out to be their greatest hit! Underrated, they released a string of fine Folk Soft/Rock albums in the 1970s.

[@yanckoenig7295]

the 70"s were best years for music and for living, cool relax peacefull..

[@AVportau]

1976 was quite a year for music in general... this beautiful track came out along with the likes of Poco - Rose Of Cimarron, Elvin Bishop - Fooled Around And Fell In Love, Rod Stewart - Tonight's The Night, The Eagles - New Kid In Town, and the epic anthem by Boston - More Than A Feeling.... and so many more worthy artists... it was a great era.

[@darrellchinnery]

Thanks guys.. love this song. Bring bach a lot o f mem

[@sootysdisco2688]

God we have been through worse than this … but everyone has story ..ours had a few chapters …young love to teenage parents to leaving our home land with 2 kids in our 20s.. making a new life with old life baggage is never easy glad to say the ones we did it for are the best humans we could have wished for ❤❤

[@eddiealexander5276]

Tim Renwick the most underrated guitarist ever

[@felipesegura2033]

RIP Ian, your beautiful and wonderful music will always be played. Thank you so much,

[@charliegalea8841]

18 years old when this song was released. So many memories. Love this song.

[@mitchly]

R.I.P. Iain. Superb songwriter/musician and a great bloke. Happy memories of 'working' with you.

[@raymondbonington9355]

No can't be zz top Billy gibbons? But right about a great talent .

[@mitchly]

@@raymondbonington9355 Hello Raymond. Sadly not I'm afraid. But I do have one thing in common with the ZZTop man; He has shed loads of money and I have loads of sheds.

[@tomthompson7400]

@@mitchly That has to be the quote of the day ...

[@mitchly]

@@tomthompson7400 Many thanks Tom and...it's true! I've got 18! Haha.

[@esinsonat675]

very very nice.. they were very beautiful days, they are all in the past, unfortunately, they remain in the memories.. ..

[@Beelaw231063]

It was very early days in my musical awakening .this is one tune I really switched onto quickly .

[@vivienmelia1964]

Best year of my entire life, 16, in love for the first time, the heatwave, what fabulous memories.

[@markroose8686]

Straight back to 1976 and great memories.

[@tonysouldays]

Takes me back to the glories summer of 76 and my first love of my life I wouldn't change a thing even though we parted

[@kevinbeck6785]

great memories and magic times when music was at its best......

[@joankennedy8820]

Met my first love that year - we married in 1984 & will be 37 years together this summer PG....great memories!!

[@paulstevenson8257]

You know when you come across a song you'd forgotten about you here it all still know the words. Love ❤️ it