Climax Blues Band - Couldn't Get It Right (Top of the Pops)
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14 жыл бұрынClimax Blues Band's "Couldn't Get It Right" has been No 2 in "Top of the Pops" (BBC) on Nov 4, 1976
@saullyons 6 ай бұрын
2024 WHOS STILL JAMMING?!
@johncortez2009 5 ай бұрын
I am I just turned 50 in October Just a little kid listening to all this type of music what's the best time
@chavon3467 5 ай бұрын
Love this tune still (2024)
@cchild9110 4 ай бұрын
Me! ❤🎶
@MrRainer-tu8nf 4 ай бұрын
👍
@user-us5jz4nt9w 4 ай бұрын
Meet me at the roller rink. Skate on
@kevinforth7618 3 жыл бұрын
Listen! An actual performance, kids - no lip syncing, no computers, no auto-tune. Just talent and hair.
@Alltime2050 2 күн бұрын
A lot of music on TV and in movies was lip-synced back in the day. That is nothing new.
@LWH768 Жыл бұрын
I'm a 55 year old black man raised in the projects of NE DC, and this is one of my favorite songs from the 70's era. DCOG
@chriscoughlan5221 6 ай бұрын
projects, what type projects would they be? i´m always looking for new projects, something new!!
@joannefalkinder393 4 ай бұрын
You have taste 😉
@stopthephilosophicalzombie9017 4 ай бұрын
It's bizarre these dudes are from the UK. Sound like true bluesmen.
@dmitryowens 4 ай бұрын
I'm a 54 year-old metal musician and I love it.
@chriscoughlan5221 4 ай бұрын
Projects, what are they !?
@maddma Ай бұрын
I was 16 when this song came out. I'm now 64 and I still love it.
@beaubartlett6824 Ай бұрын
RIGHT ON!!!
@TheLimbReaper 4 күн бұрын
I'm 60 now and was 12 when this came out.
@drewfinisher11 2 ай бұрын
any other 53 yr old folks like me still love this in 24? never thought back then I was listening to some of the best songs ever to be written 🎶
@dick9101112 28 күн бұрын
I'm 71 and couldn't agree more.
@TheJohnnyMonoDisease 5 күн бұрын
I’m 53 and completely agree. We had it so good.
@andreabradley5837 Күн бұрын
55. I've started becoming very nostalgic about music. Was a metalhead and then just into all kinds of stuff. Lately though, I am listening to a lot more comfort music. Stuff from my childhood that makes me feel good. I still listen to other stuff but this is like finding your teddy bear that you lost when you was three years old.
@drewfinisher11 22 сағат бұрын
@@andreabradley5837 same here , these songs are like a time machine, what a different world we grew up in
@udave4449 5 жыл бұрын
Can i have a show of hands if you're still listening to this in 2020
@tammiprice6351 5 жыл бұрын
3-13-19
@1nnu3ndo 5 жыл бұрын
Still listening? I've actually randomly discovered this gem today.
@scotnick59 5 жыл бұрын
Oh, hell yeah!!
@dawnl1769 5 жыл бұрын
Meee ! 70s !
@brianvincentdoucet4273 5 жыл бұрын
Until recently, I haven’t heard this song since I was a kid. And until I found this video, I could not identify the group or the song.
@paulhill7818 Жыл бұрын
2023. Who's Jamming to this Song still?? 😎
@bravoaddictAnn 6 ай бұрын
Jamming to it in 2024!! 😎
@jim32664 6 ай бұрын
Me too!
@elektrolyte 6 ай бұрын
still vibing in Feb 2024 Johannesburg, SA. the 70's were THE BEST by FAR This song was in the charts when I finished school in 1976, in Cape Town and the local band, McCulley's Workshop covered it on Sunday nights at the Canterbury Inn, in Rondebosch. Don't know how i ever drove home after the place closed at midnight
@devils_advocate5311 6 ай бұрын
2024 and this tune is still a fave of mine. I feel robbed that there’s no cowbell in the live version! Haha.
@paulfalconer4988 5 ай бұрын
2024 and I'm still jamming - love it !!! great music from the 70s and this is one kick ass song. thank you Climax Blues Band, you guys rock !!!
@ottoerich5445 3 жыл бұрын
The fact that they sound so good just raw with no auto tune like nowadays is just amazing
@RedArrow73 2 жыл бұрын
Just the occasional Conn Strobo-Tuner.
@brian_hibbs 6 ай бұрын
@@RedArrow73such a beautiful tuner.
@markgreene6349 3 ай бұрын
Not amazing.. it's talent... gotta love analog.. everyone had to play live back then....
@lisacassar9486 5 ай бұрын
Its 2024 and this song is still great! Love Love it❤🎶
@andywells397 2 жыл бұрын
Book me a seat in a time machine back to the 70s..am 60 now and that decade was the best ever for music..
@kevinhullinger8743 4 күн бұрын
Yea, the music was genuine!
@jontymo 2 жыл бұрын
That high pitched vocal backing is awesome!!!!!
@audreynorstrom3455 2 жыл бұрын
Honestly that’s what makes this entire song so iconic! At least that’s what makes me remember it from my childhood
@naomiderulo8246 11 ай бұрын
Yes!! Agree 1000%
@floraline7153 3 жыл бұрын
All their little heads are bopping up and down in time to the beat. What a great scene. Bring this back and cure the world!
@dgodrummer8110 Жыл бұрын
we'd have to be smokin' a shit ton of weed to bring back dem times. I'm trying my best to do it on my own.
@yabbaguy Жыл бұрын
I'm not trying to be high and mighty, I'd probably have been the same back then: but a lot of them have eyes for the camera and are probably just trying to look good on TV back when not just anybody could be on screen. Yet I think in its own way, people are being there and present in a cool moment.
@josippe7888 Жыл бұрын
I love your comment. ❤️
@ddemonjjv 2 жыл бұрын
Back when the music was pure, vocals, instruments, no high tech alterations. Thanks for the video.
@littlefluffybushbaby7256 10 ай бұрын
To be fair nearly all of TOTP was mimed. If I remember correctly the early shows didn't even have the original music but used the BBC orchestra. I think for Musician's Union reasons. I was horrified to learn a few years ago that some of The Old Grey Whistle Test was fakery too, although the percentage of proper live music was much higher. When I was younger I had much more respect for OGWT because it had cool music and was (apparently, and mostly) live. The acts that mimed (e.g. The Rolling Stones) was more due to the bands not trusting that the Beeb would do justice to their sound. Although I might be being too generous. I knew someone who went on TOTP as part of the audience. They had tiny audiences they moved between the stages. If they'd zoomed out the studio would be pretty empty. So, as far as TV music was concerned, maybe not high tech alterations but certainly a few low tech ones. Most of the rock bands that appeared were miming to music they played on tour so, quite often, although not plugged in (or in the case of drums, miked up) they would still play what they'd normally play. Problem was the directors would always without fail misread what was going on and cut to the wrong camera. It was almost perverse how they managed to get it wrong every time. So if you were trying to cop what the guitarist was actually doing (silently) you would be out of luck. latter bands (especially US ones who didn't get the point of miming or ones who'd already made it) would parody the show they were on doing guitar sols with saxophones etc. My favourite one was when The Eels went on to do Novocaine For The Soul with the drummer behind a tiny kids drum kit. next to the drums is a marshall stack. Eight inches high. And the bass player and guitarist have alternate genuine or toy sized instruments. So the Beeb were conplicit in the joke. So funny. Bands like Madness and ShawaddyWaddy (however that's spelled) would also ham it up quite a bit.
@littlefluffybushbaby7256 10 ай бұрын
Oops. I re-watched The Eels and it's toys all the way. The Beeb still had to be complicit though. By 1997 even they didn't take themselve too serioulsy.
@beenaplumber8379 5 ай бұрын
@@littlefluffybushbaby7256 These guys were definitely not miming. If they were, they had to re-record the song, because this is not the arrangement they recorded and released. Way too much work.
@littlefluffybushbaby7256 4 ай бұрын
@@beenaplumber8379 I agree. I play drums, bass and guitar and everything matched up (e.g. HiHat, fills, cymbals). Drummers rarely do the exact same thing so that''s usually a give away. The harmonic on the guitar was not there when visually not there and the solo looked like the right thing. They also had a Marshall Amp just off stage and they were also all plugged in. I was more talking about TOTP rather than the Climax Blues Band, who I saw live many moons ago and were excellent. But TOTP started out not allowing the bands to actually play their own songs and used the TOTP orchestra with a newly recorded vocal track. I think because of Musicians Union limitations (i.e. recordings putting musicians out of work). They moved on to having most (not all) bands playing to their own songs often not even bothering to plug the guitars in. You'd hear horns that weren't there and second guitar parts with only one guitarist, and maybe the drummer would only have half his kit. It wasn't the bands decision. The bands had been playing their hit songs at hundreds of gigs so were fully capable of doing it (guitar bands at least) and they quite often played what they would have played even though not plugged in. It would be harder not to. One of the reasons I think was it's hard to get the sound right for a live band and TOTP was put out weekly with little foreknowledge of who they'd get. It was chart-based and the band had to be available. I found a youtube of the 1970's band "Free" on TOTP and, even though the main riff was recorded with at least two guitars (that's why it doesn't sound quite right when cover bands do it), I could still see Kossoff was playing one part of the riff and using upstrokes which filled in a piece of the puzzle for that riff. But he wasn't plugged in. He was just playing what he normally played when gigging. I was horrified to learn that even on the Old Grey Whistle Test some bands where not playing live, although most were, which is why it was better than TOTP. So, in short, I was definitely not taking a pop at The Climax Blues Band, but at the show itself, which was more often akin to a band karaoke than a true live performance. It was not unusual to see some bands taking the piss and miming to the guitar solo on saxophone or a toy guitar. When Eels did it, their drummer used a childs drum kit. Hillarious.
@beenaplumber8379 4 ай бұрын
@@littlefluffybushbaby7256 I get it. I re-read your first comment, and I misunderstood. I thought you were having a go at the extraordinary Climax Blues Band. (I say that because over here in the US they were a one-hit-wonder with Couldn't Get It Right until 1980 when they charted with I love You. I thought they were just some pop band. I've only now discovered what I've been missing!) Uh, sorry this got so long! OGWT & TOTP sound like The Midnight Special and American Bandstand here. Midnight Special was mostly live, and I think Bandstand was entirely pre-recorded lip synch. I learned one additional reason some networks and programmers insisted on miming the performance - they wanted to be absolutely sure the vocalists wouldn't violate their S&P (standards & practices) rules about language or content, like Jim Morrison did when The Doors played live on Ed Sullivan. I think another downside of playing live on TV is that you're at the mercy of TV sound people who might know nothing about how to make live music sound good. I've seen performances that were clearly live but one of the guitars was faded so low you couldn't hear their solo, and they might try to use TV mics on your guitar cabs, etc. I play bass, and my band did a half-hour music set for a tiny weekly local TV program in Minneapolis. (That's no boast - any local band could get in line for a date on that show for no pay; our date was in January 1996, and we broke up 3 months later.) We put on a great show, but the sound was atrocious! We had a bandleader whose name was part of the band's name, so everything was focused on him, as it should be, but his (rhythm) guitar was cranked!!! And it sounded incredibly screechy. (Awful preamps on the TV sound board? They used their own mics on the guitars, and I have no idea what they were.) Our lead guitarist sounded good, but he was kinda drowning under the rhythm guitar. My bass was predictably almost inaudible, though my tone was good in the mix. (I went direct from my rack into the board.) There was no reverb or compression on anything. I suspect there were similar limitations on OGWT. On most clips I've seen from that show the vocalists are singing into 2 mics taped together. During one performance by Lynyrd Skynyrd, I had the impression Ronny (lead vox) was favoring the mic he heard in his monitor, which was not the mic used for the TV mix. The level was low and inconsistent, though Ronny was a very experienced vocalist. I had the impression the band's sound guy wasn't involved. The Midnight Special always had a pretty decent mix though. I don't know if they had talented house staff that only did music or if the band's regular sound people were involved, but it was always quite good. Ok, some of the vocal mics occasionally clipped, but that's ok. That just meant it really was live! Sorry this got kinda long... Talking music with a musician is something I miss. I've only played one gig since COVID, and my tired old back still hurts from that! Rocque on!
@terryhilburn6016 Жыл бұрын
I'm still lost in the 70's and here it is 2022. I wish there was such a thing as a time machine. I'd be gone you guys would never see me again .
@clairejohnson6522 Жыл бұрын
I'm coming with you!
@carolleslie517 6 ай бұрын
DITTO THAT!!
@davidimrie6916 26 күн бұрын
HEY!! What about me??
@karenstoddard8278 19 күн бұрын
🤗I’m going too!
@edearnshaw1475 3 ай бұрын
Back then..good times no cell phones just living the moment
@crash9632 2 жыл бұрын
Can we please go back to this time
@groovedohg 4 жыл бұрын
Colin Coopers (main singer) voice always reminded me of the singer in the band Exile. Remember the song Kiss you all over?
@TentinQuarantino_ 4 жыл бұрын
There is an absolutely hilarious video of that song on KZfaq, lemme find it for ya.
@TentinQuarantino_ 4 жыл бұрын
Ok. Here it is. It was kinda before people knew how to make videos, so the singers look alive and the band looks like they’re on double quaaludes. Enjoy kzfaq.info/get/bejne/hdaRdrulxs68qJ8.html
@groovedohg 4 жыл бұрын
@@TentinQuarantino_ I know why you say its hilarious , basically because its a bit OTT. The bass player is a bit non existant emotion wise. I also looked at their Midnight Special version where they did it live, and it is the best version. It was a great song at the time. I would have been around 16 to 18, and I was heavy into Status Quo, but I didnt mind this song. Some disco songs like I feel love, Disco Inferno and Staying Alive would be many blokes guilty pleasures.
@k.j.g.9601 4 жыл бұрын
tiffd98133 bwahahaha Holy shit, those bangs have to be immortalized as the Apex of cringe! In their defense that was peak of cheesy music and frankly the backlash was warranted...
@TentinQuarantino_ 4 жыл бұрын
K.J. G. I know, right? But in all fairness, that goofball had a really good reputation for helping others and ran a soup kitchen for the homeless. I just had to look him up. He died young but I never got a reliable report on how.
@lindasmallwood1570 Ай бұрын
My show of hands. Loving it still June 2024.
@mikeking7381 21 күн бұрын
July 2024👍😎
@karenstoddard8278 19 күн бұрын
@@mikeking7381Also July 2024. Great song ✌🏼
@rickciardella Күн бұрын
@@mikeking7381July 31 2024 from Thailand
@coolguy4179 2 жыл бұрын
Just more proof that the 70's were the best decade for rock music.
@edp3202 2 жыл бұрын
I was a kid in my mom's car listening to this great music. Still remember those happy times.
@wills4689 Жыл бұрын
I wouldnt go that far. Two different styles of music. "Bang your head..Metal Health will drive you mad".
@AlexSosaBolivia 2 жыл бұрын
Just warming up for the summer of '77. Fantastic stuff. What an era, what a time to grow up.
@bapete5159 Жыл бұрын
So true mate.....👍🇬🇧🤓
@tonyr.3435 Жыл бұрын
Turned 16 that year. It really was a great time to grow up, sooo much great music. My first concert was in '77 at the Kingdome in Seattle, a little group named Led Zeppelin.
@dskywalker3397 Ай бұрын
Summer of 77 was a magical time.
@tonygp2927 2 жыл бұрын
Omg! Great memory of a great song! April 1977! I'm cruising in my father's 1973 Olds 98 Luxury sedan! My friend Vinny Santinello in the front seat, Pat in middle, Karen, Erin, and my friend Mike Calvito and his sister Susan in the back seat! Al the girls singing this song! Queens Village forever! Great friends! Great time! Kool girls! Rip Vinny!
@geomcc109 2 ай бұрын
You grew up in a Cameron Crowe movie!
@1069Woodsy 24 күн бұрын
Kept away from Son of Sam
@dibber43 2 жыл бұрын
One of the VERY rare occasions, in the 70's, when a live performance isn't using a taped version of the studio track!!! COOL!!!😎
@61Slughi 2 жыл бұрын
And they're not speeding it up like a lot of band do when they perform live.
@dibber43 2 жыл бұрын
@@61Slughi True dat!😉👍
@jeffduncan9140 2 жыл бұрын
As good or better than the studio version. Nice
@EdMcCornhole 2 жыл бұрын
Back when nobody knew how to dance! This audience anyway!😂
@sascharosinski1309 Жыл бұрын
....and it sounds great! 😎👍🏻
@davidpicard5376 5 ай бұрын
There is also a valid reason why we cling to this era regarding the music. It was so important to us with the few distractions of entertainment available to us at that time and as far as our working lives were concerned, there was no free ride. It was a far more disciplined time with no technology to aid us and as Rose tinted our glasses might be, if we were returned to that time there's a fair few from this current generation that might well curl up into a foetal position. Music was such an important escape back then it had more relevance in my humble opinion.
@marcusbuckner5582 3 ай бұрын
1945-1995 was the most revolutionary era of music; all genres….. now everything is dead……
@hunterlee8132 4 жыл бұрын
What a great song, I'm 57 and I never get tired of listening to it!
@GUR-ARYEA 4 жыл бұрын
Join to my rocknrol page and channel please.
@gary3696 4 жыл бұрын
It'll still sound just as great..maybe better when you hit 65yo, best wishes keep rockin them years away.
@univibe23 9 жыл бұрын
From 68 to 76 was a magical time in music history. Some of the best pop/rock music ever made.
@scotnick59 9 жыл бұрын
Completely agree with the above comment
@theoriginalbillholt 8 жыл бұрын
+Dave Wray Link Wray?
@rubicon-oh9km 7 жыл бұрын
Absolutely agreed. The zenith in music history.
@chee5935 7 жыл бұрын
Absolutely!!
@MadMaxx63 7 жыл бұрын
It was such an amazing time...do you remember ordering albums via mail like "Summer of 76" only to find out it wasn't the original artists? So many copy cats it was unbelievable but shows just how GREAT the music was!
@brucemcfarland3278 7 жыл бұрын
Not too many people probably ever noticed, but these dudes aren't just singing 3 part "harmonies" they're singing in 3 freakin "octaves" at the same time!!! Listen carefully! Lead vocalist on the low part, bass player in the middle and guitarist way up on top!! One of the very first bands to pull that shit off! (Very cool effect!) The Steve Miller Band was the only other band (I think) to even attempt that back then. Or ever for that matter! SMOKIN!!!
@wickedfood 6 жыл бұрын
Love the vocal arrangement as well as that of the music- the way the guitars and sax blend to form one new sound. Awesome live performance from musicians' musicians.
@fishwhiskey160 6 жыл бұрын
Spot on Bruce! Thanks for pointing it out!
@johnshawcross217 6 жыл бұрын
Well spotted Bruce and thanks for pointing that out. Yeah it works.
@migcheldirksen9866 6 жыл бұрын
Bruce McFarland thats what this song one of the best
@earlyjenkins6275 6 жыл бұрын
Yeah Bruce this one of first 3 albums I bought.i know that to.only true music lovers know and pick up on that.yeah Steve Miller damn good singer and picker to brother.peace to you.the 70s was the real deal.
@dianaengel2180 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you for the post....72 years old, I am, and still rocking!!
@badspellah 2 жыл бұрын
Fuckin criminally underated band and song
@kimmergonzales9792 4 күн бұрын
@@badspellah Great song, for sure!
@petersawyer8044 6 жыл бұрын
RIP Colin Cooper (Sax) and Pete Haycock (Guitar) Greatly missed.
@sfedroid 3 жыл бұрын
I saw these guys around 1981 and they put on a great show, excellent playing, and had a chat backstage about their guitars and they were really cool, down to earth and modest. It was basically my first time meeting people I'd idolised through the Johnny Walker and Friday Rock Show, and it was a real pleasure to discover they were just real nice guys.
@Kaleiddmode 3 жыл бұрын
Pete Haycock seems to have been a lovely guy
@debchabotte6634 Жыл бұрын
@@Kaleiddmode he was... a personal friend of ours we went on tour with him and Pete Haycock's True Blues, in Germany in 2008.. Had the most fantastic time... I posted vids on my channel google the band title.
@kellylarsen5771 11 ай бұрын
Great song from the mid 70's that I'm still listening to in 2023
@lynndee2644 2 жыл бұрын
AWESOME SONG AND GROUP!!!!! 2021 STILL LISTENING... What was so freaking awesome back in the day, without noticing then, was the fact that, " We All Got Along '!!! No racist crap! Now, it's just sad. Everyone is for ONLY themselves! A certain age group has destroyed everything. It's heartbreaking! 💔😡 music is all that is left except for the memories in our heads. God Bless you and good luck... you're gonna need it!
@RichardRitenour0522 2 жыл бұрын
Couldn't have said it any better, sad but true.
@georgeharleydavidsonrider156 4 жыл бұрын
Anyone listening in 2020 .
@annebooth9632 4 жыл бұрын
Me!
@BlueToneBatey 4 жыл бұрын
Yes - music of my teen years. REAL MUSIC and real musicians. That era is gone I'm afraid. Still a few "getting it right" but not many.
@jeffshinn2434 4 жыл бұрын
Yes, I am!
@quintas66 4 жыл бұрын
Just listened to this today on Spotify!
@brianvincentdoucet4273 4 жыл бұрын
Definitely!
@KurtSlotkowski-hj8jd 4 жыл бұрын
Back then, black music and white music both had more soul and the message which reflected that soul. The mood of the music always matched the message. And the message always reflected a soul that was more gentle and slow to base emotions because in those days people generally, with some exceptions, had a stronger sense of redeeming values. Not so anymore. The parents of relatively more recent generations had parents who compromised those values due to bad lifestyle choices and just bad choices in the means they chose to support themselves and their families. It is as much for reasons of not taking personal responsibility as it is for economic reasons that all of this has happened the way it has. And now we have a generation that is lost and no way to seek recourse. And with Covid-19 always looming over our heads, it only diminishes opportunity and the possibility to take responsibility while also taking away the liberty so necessary to learn not to take things for granted anymore. The Covid-19 and all of the lockdowns and extensions are as much a politicized hoax as the virus itself is real.
@scars5629 2 жыл бұрын
Killer band. I was lucky to have older brothers that jammed to this all the time in the 70s, as well as montrose, Dwight twilley band, foghat, Nazareth, kiss, heart, fleetwood mac, zz top, lynyrd skynyrd, molly hatchet, marshall tucker band, rolling stones and on and on and on. I was a lucky little dude.
@IntergalacticSpaceKitten 3 жыл бұрын
The song is just the grooviest and coolest. That chill as hell sounding voice and the lyrics "Time was drifting, this Rocker's got to roll, so I hit the road and made my getawayyy". How much cooler can you get? It's so brilliant and I'm addicted to it.
@blackmore4 3 жыл бұрын
"How much cooler can you get?" Er, quite a lot. Especially at the time. My older brother had just bought 'Anarchy in the UK' ;)
@furfamilysue 3 жыл бұрын
I like your comment. His voice is cool!
@MrChubbington 2 жыл бұрын
@@blackmore4 anarchy in the UK came out a year later…. This dates before punk rock. It’s cool and for those who were around back then ( myself). Couldn’t get it right , looks like you couldn’t get it right either.
@blackmore4 2 жыл бұрын
@@MrChubbington No, you're the one who "couldn't get it right". Climax Blues Band released the single of 'Couldn't Get It Right' in October 1976 and performed it on this Top of the Pops in November 1976. The very same month in which the Sex Pistols released 'Anarchy in the UK'.
@andrewdouglass1427 2 жыл бұрын
@@blackmore4 Poseur by proxy! (Note: Sid never stood trial for Nancy's death)
@URanInTheUglyForest 9 жыл бұрын
Look kids! No auto tune. No drum machine. No computer based instruments. It's what's referred to as talent.
@TheSanityInspector 5 жыл бұрын
Before we had Pro Tools, we had pros!
@Trytocookthis 5 жыл бұрын
UR, you gotta keep an open mind with today's artists, not all machines sound bad. But I will have to say that this is one hell of a great video and the era back then, for me, was nothing but great music to get me through my life.
@kevinforth7618 5 жыл бұрын
Yep - and no lip sync. Just musicians playing and singing. Great video.
@LordKenebutch 5 жыл бұрын
And no cow bell, damn!
@barbaracozart9099 5 жыл бұрын
Agree!!!!
@deenine 2 жыл бұрын
This was the day I was born.
@LA_Commander Жыл бұрын
Love to see all the young people dancing and enjoying the music together, black and white, all equals. Too bad we didn't have more of that here in America, with our quasi-segregated TV shows like American Bandstand and Soul Train.
@McMillanScottish 5 жыл бұрын
For ONCE, a 70’s TV performance which was not lip synced. Thank you.
@mikepreston-engel8869 6 жыл бұрын
Underrated classic which is one of the great tunes that epitomizes my life in the 70's.
@user-hv8vu8dg9x 3 жыл бұрын
Great song and incredible live version!
@hamishanderson6738 2 жыл бұрын
& the gold-plated guitar!
@snafu7691 2 жыл бұрын
It's not underrated else i doubt it would be a classic
@whitedust696 10 жыл бұрын
ladies and gentlemen music doesnt get much better than this
@healthyone100 9 жыл бұрын
RIGHT ON!
@dominickcastiglione5908 6 жыл бұрын
whitedust696 100% AAA
@lewicindabaker465 6 жыл бұрын
I TRULY LOVE THIS
@thctommy8055 4 жыл бұрын
Cool
@RichardTetta 4 жыл бұрын
This totally captures the 70s for me...dudes with dorky clothes & hair, but damn could they sing and play the hell out their instruments. Fantastic tune.
@lindahandley5267 4 жыл бұрын
Yeah, the clothes...I even got accused of being a hippie. LOL!
@bapete5159 4 жыл бұрын
Richard Tetta Miss those Days....👍🇬🇧🤓
@bapete5159 4 жыл бұрын
Max Herron Sr Yes them ladies were.....and also they were Silicon Free.....👍🇬🇧🤓
@nancy9478 4 жыл бұрын
Looks like any hs dance I ever went to. Class of 77 in the house!
@runninrebel1520 4 жыл бұрын
And they’re way cooler than these little soy boy betas today
@beanmchne 4 ай бұрын
This is phenomenal 👍 great live performance.
@jerryblake4088 2 жыл бұрын
I miss the 70s, AWESOME.
@sootysdisco2688 5 жыл бұрын
1976...teenagers still listening in 2019...you?
@tkohl 5 жыл бұрын
Have the album on vinyl...1976=15
@Professor1997HL 5 жыл бұрын
I was born in 1997 and I love this song! My generation of music is just awful.
@rhondawilliams5859 5 жыл бұрын
Sootys Disco, Hello my friend 😊, I'm still listening in 2019🎵🎤🎶😀.I was 13 in 1976.😎😎 Now I'm 55 and I miss the good ole days.🎼😍🎵🎤🎶
@nissansilviakouki 4 жыл бұрын
22 and loving this
@MrAdamJoel 4 жыл бұрын
I was born in ‘76. Song showed up on my feed. Good stuff.
@u.hinson6300 9 жыл бұрын
Anyone who invents a time machine, please let me know asap so I can go back to a cooler world!
@tonyrome3119 9 жыл бұрын
U. Hinson take me with you ))
@u.hinson6300 9 жыл бұрын
+Tony Rome I wish my friend!!
@RICHBLACKCOCK 6 жыл бұрын
u hinson u dont approve of the world u now inhabit.
@butchstoneyrock4379 6 жыл бұрын
Damn straight!
@dominickcastiglione5908 6 жыл бұрын
U. Hinson You took the words right out of my mouth. Get me out of these horrible times and drop me off in the mid-1970s
@DevilDogDen1775 2 жыл бұрын
They were such an underappreciated band ...
@henrypang4734 5 ай бұрын
Heard it on the radio, shazam it. What a song!!! Feels more like song than today's music.
@rgrndu 4 жыл бұрын
One of the best songs to come out of the 70’s. When I hear this I think of “So Into You” by Atlanta Rhythm Section & “Moonlight Feels Right” by Starbuck. Still love all three.
@jradawson 2 жыл бұрын
Greatest comment ever.
@kbusby4824 2 жыл бұрын
Indeed.
@standwellback7252 2 жыл бұрын
Presumably you also do an air marimba solo half way through Moonlight Feels Right like I do???
@jamesbacchi5353 Жыл бұрын
Funny, I get that exact feeling too…. It’s gotta be that Fender Rhodes
@michaelbaker3598 4 жыл бұрын
Everything about this is just COOL
@jeffsparey9585 2 жыл бұрын
From a time when if you couldn't cut it live you got found out,not like now where a computer makes you sound good if you can't sing,take me back to the 70,s
@user-jm2eq9nk1e Жыл бұрын
アメリカ在住の1977年、毎日ラジオから流れていた。中毒性が高い。
@flywithseaguls 4 күн бұрын
I saw them live on March 10, 1984 in the hall of a restaurant in Xanten-Birten, Germany, in front of a maximum of 150 people. More people weren't there because there was a printing error on the tickets: Climex. The innkeeper was able to motivate them to still play a full concert with a few trays full of beer. It was wonderfull and will always be in my heart! I still have the tickets!
@paulcook3275 2 жыл бұрын
Every day on KEZY in Anaheim, CA, they would play this during what was my driver's education class. Even in AM, the song resonated. Cannot hear it without thinking about how it was way back when.
@kingstumble 5 жыл бұрын
RIP Colin Cooper. The most laid back frontman you have ever seen. Just relied on his talent. And a thoroughly nice bloke to boot.
@videogeekin 2 жыл бұрын
“ When music still had talent and class. By the 1990’s was the beginning of the end.”
@pauldd7033 3 жыл бұрын
Show me anything on commercial radio today that can even touch this! It doesn’t exist.
@martinleavitt6094 3 жыл бұрын
👍
@rebeccadee4107 3 жыл бұрын
I heard it on the radio station in my truck.
@michastarzewski2445 3 жыл бұрын
Foget it!
@richardtaylor8595 3 жыл бұрын
commercial radio sucks .When Clear Cannel and I Fart Radio took over, radio has sucked since. If I ever hit the lottery I will start my own station and make music great again. That is my dream.
@rebeccadee4107 3 жыл бұрын
@@richardtaylor8595 lol! I think about winning the lottery and having my own radio station too!
@wazhoola14 6 жыл бұрын
This is the shit! How can you not like this? sound is superb, great song, excellent musicians, they literally piss this with ease, so cool.
@gomogo2000 3 жыл бұрын
No excrement here. Just pure talent and joy!
@Johnfreedom64 3 жыл бұрын
Ahhhh yes the 70s where the fabulous bands were plentiful and the the superb songs were everywhere....my favorite decade 👌👍✌✌✌✌
@ninamartinez5171 2 жыл бұрын
The era of the 70's Wolfman Jack, Solid gold dancers, Y 100 raido station, Americans, were living it up. God i wish i could travel back to the 70's
@guilhermegarcia8750 4 ай бұрын
This is so smooth, damn. Fun lovin criminals brought me here. 🇧🇷
@garyfrost9580 4 жыл бұрын
You cannot help but get pumped up when you hear this tune. Smooth , upbeat and you can dance to it !
@wisheybonez Жыл бұрын
Me too. 😀
@Ronno4691 3 жыл бұрын
One of THE songs of the 1970s for me. So atmospheric.
@thechief5670 2 жыл бұрын
I hear so much Ween in this song and I love it, the beat the instrumental and the VOCALS oh my god dude a Ween song before their time a fabulous gem great band.
@stevenharris716 2 жыл бұрын
Jamming out... Drinking some brews tonight & reminiscing... This is a great one!
@nereydacortes1297 2 жыл бұрын
hey, wish I could join you !
@stevenharris716 2 жыл бұрын
@@nereydacortes1297 I guess ya just did! Have a good one....
@Smudgie 9 жыл бұрын
Back in the day when bands believed in their musicianship enough to play live on TOTP. Radical!
@revengerabbit8408 8 жыл бұрын
+Phil Porter The bands that played on the show didn't have any say in the matter when TOTP decided that bands would lip sync.
@robertglenn5398 8 жыл бұрын
+Phil Porter Indeed, Phil...back in the day when AutoTune and ProTools were someone's nightmare concept. It's so freakin' fun to watch musicans play real musicians. I really took it all for granted back in the day. As a drummer, I had to really know my meters and such in order to keep a job. Today, it's "No Experience Necessary." And by the way, I see Kanye West, the greatest fraud of them all, one more time, I am going to have to assassinate something!
@kenholland911 8 жыл бұрын
+robert glenn h hopefully it will be kanye
@robertglenn5398 8 жыл бұрын
+Ken Holland Would love to put Kanye in an open-air limo and do a repeat of Dallas...
@kenholland911 8 жыл бұрын
And award medals to the shooters on the grassy knoll.
@Charlotte66666 5 жыл бұрын
Watching this in 2019 and wishing I was in the 70's...
@user-kq5qp6dh8l 4 жыл бұрын
I was there... Used to have all albums
@smc8440 4 жыл бұрын
Exactly! Best freaking decade.
@coops9871 4 жыл бұрын
Take me with you
@bubbalover71 3 жыл бұрын
Just wait til 2020...
@mckessa17 3 жыл бұрын
60's 70's and 80's were very cool. Wish I could relive it
@TintarellaDiLuna64 2 ай бұрын
60yrs still listening; Climax blues band, Cristoffer Cross, Toto, Hall&Oates etc. Completely right, no autotunecrap and naked bodies..
@atlasadonis3752 Жыл бұрын
Right on. This song needs played more. Thanks for upload ❤✌🤘
@martinashton6629 Жыл бұрын
I saw these guys in the mid 70s in Stafford, their home town, at a charity gig to save a local Hotel from demolition. Couldn't Get It Right was in the charts and the atmosphere at the night club, Th Top Of The World, was electric! The place was absolutely heaving, with no restrictions on numbers in those days and no air con either! I've been to many a concert over the years and it was probably the best I'd been to for enjoyment and I'm sure the band must have felt the same. Needless to say the building was saved and is there to this day. Thank you fellas.
@littlehootch 4 жыл бұрын
It's 100% live. Talented group. Love it.
@devilfan2k 2 жыл бұрын
Not one dislike. Faith in humanity restored.
@Nyquest 2 жыл бұрын
I met Colin Cooper In Wigan early 90's. A lovely fella, what great band
@rickyb5062 4 жыл бұрын
there’s so much I can say about these musicians playing real music back then! I would literally run out of space and run out of breath talking about how real and how amazing it was to have humans actually playing instruments and actually singing. This is one of my favorite songs by the way!
@jeffkramer28 5 жыл бұрын
Wow. Nice that it’s actually a LIVE performance and not just a lip sync to playback. Great tune.
@terrycuster4213 2 жыл бұрын
In the days when I worked as a dj from time to time I always played the same three songs in a row Steely Dan - Do it again Stretch - Why did you do it Climax Blues Band - Couldn' t get it right The dance floor always was crowded because of the great groove and flow by these songs. Great time for music.
@michaelmarkes9366 6 ай бұрын
I can’t think of 3 better songs from that era. Great taste
@deborahcrossley525 5 жыл бұрын
Best ever live performance on Top of the pops. Genius.
@atworkstation 10 жыл бұрын
Peaked at #3 on the Hot 100 in the spring of 1977.
@healthyone100 9 жыл бұрын
SHOULD HAVE HIT NO.1
@38ddkelly 5 жыл бұрын
And #2 was the lame "When I Need You" by Leo Sayer. #1 was Stevie Wonder's excellent "Sir Duke"
@rgrndu 4 жыл бұрын
Kelly02895 Love When I Need You, which went to no.1
@edgriemsmann4697 3 жыл бұрын
Takes me back to a much better place
@reeshmead1788 3 жыл бұрын
Nice to see everyone dancing. That is a real special band. Iconic.
@alamedacustomholsters 2 жыл бұрын
You didn’t know it then but those were the best times in your life.
@donwoodward7944 6 жыл бұрын
Love his baritone voice. Excellent live band. I'm impressed.
@marko511d 9 жыл бұрын
I forgot this song existed until I heard it lately..love it!!! can't listen to it enough.
@joelmartel9842 2 жыл бұрын
All the good movies should end with this awesome song.
@scottdunn2178 4 жыл бұрын
November 1976, I was 10 years old, listening to Boston, Kansas, etc. Great memories.
@slingerlandiamusicpublishi8495 4 жыл бұрын
I was 1 years old when this song came out, but I swear it must have been imprinted on me by AM radio while I was sitting in the car seat. I just get a happy warm feeling whenever I hear this tune. Had to look it up on KZfaq to see what Climax Blues Band looked like, and now I love the song that much more. :)
@wininspn 8 жыл бұрын
Nice to see a live '70s performance with original sound!
@Mermaid2261 4 жыл бұрын
Playing real instruments!!! Who'd of thought!?! Glad I grew up when I did! I'll be 58 this year and still listen to this music.
@nigel900 5 күн бұрын
All the Greatest music has Already been done…
@ertlk24 3 жыл бұрын
This was literally the 1st band I saw in concert, they opened for Bad Co. Cleveland Coliseum; 1977-ish
@tbone2451 3 жыл бұрын
Cleveland rocks!!
@billthomas9328 3 жыл бұрын
Me too. They opened for Alice Cooper im 76. I was in third grade lol
@jimswordsnchords1759 3 жыл бұрын
You guys are lucky, lucky. Musta' been good times.
@thomasfoss9963 3 жыл бұрын
We saw them twice live in the 70s in Chicago- Once with Foghat in the Auditorium-- the other I don't recall.
@thomasfoss9963 3 жыл бұрын
I do recall them playing "I am Constant"-- and 7th Son!!!!!!
@philjamesakaowlman6230 3 жыл бұрын
For the cynics and doubters in the comments below, this is definitely a live performance, as a musician you can just tell, great track as well not so bluesy as funky rock
@billbobaggins801 3 жыл бұрын
This was done live..... well done!!! Hell yeah they don't do it like that anymore. Great song.......2021
@bernardwallace4165 5 ай бұрын
The 70s really did have some good sounds.
@mikebradley4392 5 жыл бұрын
Saw this band with my lifelong best friend in Ocean City MD around 77. Amazed how people you didn’t even know passed around joints. We had a great time, lol! He’s gone now, and I miss him.
@susanchinn9373 4 жыл бұрын
I'm sorry about your friend.
@anthonytice3028 2 жыл бұрын
With Roy Buchanan? I was there
@readsmith4223 2 жыл бұрын
Love this song since it 1st appeared, I was a wee lad but rocked this classic right off the bat...
@cunn9305 3 ай бұрын
one of the all time fave's from my pre-teen years .. enjoy it to this day
@Bjs201 2 ай бұрын
This is what the kids listened to back in the day. This was pop. Now, the masses are too dumb to appreciate talent
@martinleavitt6094 Жыл бұрын
Kudos to CBB..these guys nailed it!!!..perfect pop/rocker from the 1970s....dang i miss those days!!!👌
@MoMoMyPup10 10 жыл бұрын
Excellent live performance of a great song. The 70's was ripe with 2nd and 3rd tier bands who made the whole sound of that decade insanely amazing and memorable.
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