The Bucket of Water song - TISWAS

The Bucket of Water song from TISWAS. A popular UK Saturday morning television program of the late 1970s and early 1980s. TISWAS is an acronym of Today Is Saturday Watch And Smile.

[@GaryTeasdale]

Tiswas was the best. Much more fun than boring old swap shop. All off our gang back then watched tiswas every saturday. I'm 53 now. COMPOST CORNER!

[@rubygail349]

Why cant my generation have quality things like TISWAS and the bucket of water song? Its not fair!

[@DMiddleton-bj5wc]

I know, we were very lucky.

[@ZombieDave2]

2024 and I’ve just woken from a dream in which I was teaching people the bucket of water song. Must be 40 years since I’ve heard it.

[@sarahbrummitt4320]

I was 12 years old when this song came out, I'm now 45 and I was singing along to every word! Tiswas will always be in my heart and soul forever. Thanks for posting!

[@johnwaga3702]

Still the best entertainment ever, especially the gorgeous Sally James!

[@GaryTeasdale]

I agree 100% sally james is a fox

[@angelacooper2661]

​@@GaryTeasdaleWhy, is she like Basil Brush?

[@rubygail349]

When your 15 years old and are a fan of TISWAS. THANKS DAD!!!!!! 😁😁😁😁

[@thegranddilligaf]

I had a TISWAS annual. In the letters page there was one saying "I love TISWAS but my dad says he'd like to see more of Sally James' chest" The note underneath said "Your dad is in for a treat if he turns to page 78" The book only had 76 pages.

[@meepymcmeep250]

Excellent 😂😂😂

[@Cheeseburgerandfries2006]

🤣

[@neilveganhead1890]

Aaaaah, remember the good ol' days of TSIWAS before Sally James when it was just on the ATV region. 👍

[@ATVmidlands5581]

TISWAS- the greatest kids tv show for adults ever!! i was at the old ATV studios recently and its sad to see it crumbling away but i stood where the gang got soaked. i also went to some of these venues in the heart of birmingham many of which are still there. awesome ATV show. cheers

[@rubygail349]

I wish I was alive to enjoy TISWAS. My dad has the best if TISWAS D.V.D, but thats it for me.

[@johnfenton6606]

I used to watch tiswas in the 70s and it made my weekend

[@electricden]

Filmed in Birmingham Broad Street at the start of the 80s, in front of Baskerville House, using a fountain which has now been replaced by Centenary Square. And the roof of ATV Studios which used to stand opposite, where Tiswas was recorded.

[@tinahardman9805]

Ah, happy days. I so wish I could go back.

[@MOLMENTUSS]

Sally James was in the next room to us in Gran Canaria and she hasn't changed! So glad I was brough up then, so many great memories of fantastic programs. Will our kids be the same about theirs? No chance!

[@heatherstrangeways3396]

There are at this point seventeen very sad and sorry types who have given this anarchically joyous little anthem the thumbs down...!! Cheer up, me ducks!!!!

[@christopherpsly]

Just the best! Such memories!!

[@Slapmachine]

30 years later and this is the song that pops into my head??? I may be insane.

[@roomark2]

40 now and a pandemic 🤣

[@Ord_Wingate]

If you are we are all going together....bucket...

[@markcf83]

This is Saturday, Watch and Smile. Madcap TV with Chris Tarrant, Sally James and Sir Lenny Henry.

[@thomasmyers4010]

What an absolutely fantastic moment of my childhood 😅

[@johnsigsworth6979]

Tiswas is one of my favourite TV shows when my dad is younger

[@thegranddilligaf]

This takes me back more years than I care to think.

[@dollsthedally]

You just have to pity those who watched the Other Side. I always did. I grew up on this and Thanks for You Tube so I can show it to my kids!!!!!!!

[@CIMAmotor]

Swap Shop

[@owenevans83]

Ahhhh good old Birmingham.

[@johnrobinson4404]

The anarchy was joyous. Driving mum batty signing the tiswas theme full tilt

[@AngeloGravity]

I loved the enthusiasm with which they hurled water at people.

[@johnmacleod4481]

This song stuck in my mind more than most during the duration of TISWAS

[@jeremyallen8796]

Sally James made my Saturday morning and my thingy twitched!

[@MrKaywyn]

At least you didn't send her a pair of stockings or sexy knickers in the mail.

[@fodleg]

I used to have the lp- I wish i could get it on cd- I saw a tiswas stage show around 1980

[@daniesel]

Shame I wasn't born in the 60's. Ah well. I saw Tiswas Reunited. This is one of the funniest songs I've ever seen.

[@colinjennings3661]

As a 10 year old in 1980... Sally James and Debbie Harry..😁

[@YANHAP1]

Sally James, taking it in the face...

[@wrmty56413]

Yes please

[@The_Macaroon]

Like a pro.

[@shaungreen4756]

She can take it ! 😂

[@HeadbangerTomcat]

I burst out laughing at that!

[@paulelsey8216]

PMSL!

[@MrKaywyn]

A very fun song and the album by The Four Bucketeers is excellent.

[@MrKaywyn]

A very song and the album by The Four Bucketeers is excellent.

[@andrewcole4511]

Ive always wanted to recreate that in Birmingham city centre, where it were originally filmed. Cause chaos on a busy summer Saturday afternoon. Bet nobody volunteers to play along for the laugh. 🤣

[@artykatykat6742]

My dad used to sing this while walking into our room with a cup of water to wake us up in the morning for school, Still terrifying

[@freddyflintoc]

My mum actually met Sally James and spoke to her

[@WANNABENICKO]

I work with someone who went to see the recording of the Tiswas Reunited show last year - I am officially jealous of that guy. Mind you, he only went along because his missus was on the show many years ago. Sally James is 100% fit here as indeed she still is today! All together now... 'This is the song we lovers of water sing' I CAN'T HEAR YOU!!! Haha!

[@kkkathykk]

I wasn't familiar with this as a kid. (I grew up in another country.) I think it's great. Thanks for posting it.

[@Dannytheheadhunter]

Ok, every bloke who used to watch Tiswas & fancied Sally James something rotton, give me a green thumb.

[@Ord_Wingate]

Marvellous

[@restcure]

Wow. I was the perfect age to watch this, but live(d) in the USA - dammit!. I guess the US kiddie show guys shot their collective wad with the Banana Splits. We imported lots of other ITV shows back then, why not this one. Ah, well...

[@arthurvasey]

@ceffyl13 Where I lived, even if we watched ITV at 10:30 on a Saturday morning, it would be an old war movie - no Tiswas for us people in Tyne Tees-land (or Tyne-Wear, as we called it) - started the movie at 10:15 and just left it!

[@burningstarfire]

I really, really, REALLY want Bob Carolgees' trousers. I am 22 and grew up on my dad's TISWAS VHS. It's a shame not more of it survived, kids TV now could do with learning something from TISWAS. Who decided it all needs to be educational and safe?

[@Agnethatheredhairkid]

This song is not exactly 'Imagine', 'Bridge Over Troubled Water' or 'The Living Years'. But it is fun and there's nothing wrong with a bit of fun!

[@CIMAmotor]

I don't know 'The Living Years.'

[@Agnethatheredhairkid]

@@CIMAmotor 'The Living Years' was a 1989 British #2 and American #1 for Mike and the Mechanics.

[@jamesshielssoberlife.3701]

They should have played this when grown adults where doing the "ice bucket challenge" everywhere in 2014!

[@KiraBlackwater]

Chris Tarrant was just pure random-bucket-of-water-throwing anarchy :)

[@florencegarrett716]

How can 2 people not like this? are they dead?

[@martinda7446]

There are now seven people dead. Poor buggers.

[@davelane6176]

God haven't heard this in years

[@storinge]

"This is what they want!" Ah, happy days!

[@Doubledig]

Ha ha views of Birmingham Centenary Square before it was block paved!

[@markcf83]

I was wondering where in the Second City it was....

[@KiatHuang]

What locations were used for the outdoor filming? Great song. Never heard it before, it came after my time as a kid. The jam night I play on now wants to sing it tomorrow for one the guy's birthday.

[@electricden]

Birmingham Broad Street at the start of the 80s, in front of Baskerville House, using a fountain which has now been replaced by Centenary Square. And the roof of ATV Studios which used to stand opposite, where Tiswas was recorded.

[@ellaskins]

Pure class, try getting a thing tlike that today!!! prof jmb funk

[@GaryTeasdale]

Who remembers john gormans raspberry rock?

[@1988GameOn]

Health and safety didn't exist back then!

[@mal3689]

bob carolgees trousers 😂😂

[@catbytescommunity1044]

I blame this programme for why I turned out so weird!

[@TheGiantKillers]

So glad I watched Swap Shop

[@rubygail349]

How dare you insult TISWAS. Swap shop was terrible compared to TISWAS.

[@iainclark5964]

middle class mummy and daddy would not want their precious watching the hoi polloi.

[@stephenwebb4531]

as the icebucketchallenge is goingon this is appropriate

[@acewinger3654]

For Jim

[@mrduncan54]

sally james, if only you knew...

[@mayhem1560]

oh she knew ! lol

[@Thrushlad]

@Dannytheheadhunter My English teacher in the first year of secondary school looked like Sally James. I'm trying to resist the temptation of cracking a cheap double entendre with regard to her comment at 1:20.

[@toeslayer]

Compost Corner !

[@creativegoth]

Wasn't John Gorman in The Scaffold?..

[@michaelirwin6185]

Yes - you'd recognise that hair anywhere! And I recognised Chris - and Sally James - all from other shows! I was a Scaffold fan, for example. OTOH, I never saw the show at the time! Looks like it was fun, though!!

[@sexobscura]

*it's just a sad old bucket challenge*

[@ellieash]

What about the dieing fly?

[@wardy4lyf]

vv good ma dad as dis vid!!!!

[@brmotors]

Sally James is a total foxx, then and now...

[@stotty01]

Sally James in her boots Mmmmmmmmm

[@pechondelgado]

This ridiculous shit could only come from the minds of the shriners.

[@wrmty56413]

0:34 Chris Tarrant is doing a politically incorrect face

[@SrawberrySunday2]

I hated TISWAS. I was more a Saturday Superstore watcher

[@theabomonation]

wHY DOES THIS KEEP HAPPENING, tHIS IS SO GROSS, D''':{

[@StanPomeray]

There's only one minor problem. Its not funny.

[@christopherpsly]

Just the best! Such memories!!