Ross McManus with The Joe Loss Orchestra - If I Had A Hammer [Colour Promo 1963]

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Ross McManus with The Joe Loss Orchestra - If I Had A Hammer [Colour Promo 1963]

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Classic Music of Yesteryear

Күн бұрын

Declan McManus' (Elvis Costello) father does a rocking calypso rendition of the folk classic.

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@thomascrown6422 Жыл бұрын

For the life of me I can't figure out why I keep watching this and enjoying it.

@YULgal Жыл бұрын

Cause this tune slaps, Tom. 😁

@JohnValencia70 Жыл бұрын

Costello daddy O

@veronicagilmartin2015 Жыл бұрын

Just a silly happy song..We need more of them.

@allanjcarpenter 10 ай бұрын

Probably simply because Ross was a wildly entertaining performer.

@nickberry8833 8 ай бұрын

It's fire cuz

@shiobhanmorganray6857 7 ай бұрын

Can't get over Elvis Costello being the spitting image of his dad! I love the way he dances and moves about to the song!😅

@johnvillanova9984 Жыл бұрын

The 3 guys on the rotisserie are mesmerizing! 😎

@harrodsfan 7 ай бұрын

Lol

@yodabert1 7 күн бұрын

Elvis Costellos Dad unbelievable likeness even the way he moves

@jimstewart3164 Жыл бұрын

EC mentions this in his autobiography. The band actually played this at the famous concert for the Queen where John Lennon suggested the audience rattle their jewelry. He brought home their autographs and a young Declan pasted them in his autograph book. 25 years later he wrote songs with Macca.

@tiadaid 11 ай бұрын

This is a sight you'll never see today - a nerdy looking guy with a naff dance move belting out a hit song.

@MrSilkySweat 28 күн бұрын

This version SLAPS!!!🤩

@esseker6320 5 күн бұрын

Brilliant 👍🏽.

@pbainbridge Жыл бұрын

The best version hands down. Elvis Costello's dad.

@asdfzxcv3617 4 ай бұрын

What is??

@user-fs3mz6cu4s 3 ай бұрын

An old protest song this... turned into a calypso. Joyous and brilliant.

@broomybank 2 ай бұрын

I’m an EC fan. First saw him in 1977 at my university when he was part of the Stiffs tour. I remember playing his ‘My aim is true’ album at home that year. My father had met Ross and said that Ross had the better voice. Hard to disagree, but EC’s voice is well suited to his songs. I’m currently listening to the audiobook of EC’s memoir, read by the man himself, which I’d recommend.

@GoldenLight22 4 ай бұрын

This is soooo good

@skabdug 7 ай бұрын

Everything that's wrong about this makes it truly great

@BavonWW 22 күн бұрын

Just imagine if they had been brothers or his dad had come of age in the 60s.

@charlieb6001 Жыл бұрын

What a great sound, all achieved with harmonising vocals and percussion instruments.

@piercest.claire194 Жыл бұрын

And a little swinging guitar!

@gailfountainatl 2 жыл бұрын

Elvis Costello's dad

@veronicagilmartin2015 Жыл бұрын

Wow..Didn't know that ..Look at him though of course he's his Dad.

@groovygirl23 5 ай бұрын

Pure musical confection perfection

@sandycrawford5322 Ай бұрын

Love this clip so much

@Sandlingtonfoot Жыл бұрын

I saw Elvis Costello in concert and he includes this clip in his show.

@Alexa2z Ай бұрын

Steve schirippa brought me here!!

@moniquemurphy4851 2 жыл бұрын

Fantastic!

@fredhogg4361 2 жыл бұрын

Awesome - thanks so much for sharing this

@salchst Жыл бұрын

The part where he's sliding backwards with both feet, is that an early Michael Jackson Moon Walk?

@davyspoon Жыл бұрын

Amazing Track..

@calebwright8882 10 ай бұрын

This is amazing!

@lynnmiller3937 Жыл бұрын

Excellent!

@nwlondontimemachine9484 Жыл бұрын

Joyous

@stepintoourclassroom 2 ай бұрын

Very cool, this version seems to have influenced Malagasy, French group, Les Surfs' Si J'avais Un Marteau.

@zurdac4511 Жыл бұрын

The love between by brothers and my sisters is so important.

@beckenhamrainbow5284 4 ай бұрын

A favourite of my mother's from my childhood. I have a sneaking suspicion little Ross's musician pals are laughing at his hyperactive moves rather than with him.

@panrico Жыл бұрын

Great!!!

@ronalddesiderio7625 4 ай бұрын

Awsome ❤

@leonardyuhas9927 4 ай бұрын

awesome

@thegreatbloviator6817 Жыл бұрын

groovy!

@RandomNonsense1985 8 ай бұрын

Elvis’s dad

@grahambell8268 2 ай бұрын

His son looks so like him

@iansutherlandcraig Жыл бұрын

Vic Reeves has definitely seen this.

@funkymonk2893 5 ай бұрын

😂

@TartyVesthandle 4 ай бұрын

I hope he managed to get his lemonade problem under control

@patricksmith4424 4 ай бұрын

The father is an altogether groovier product than the son. But hey both are brilliant in their own way.

@MilesTFBaxxter Жыл бұрын

Is this available to buy anywhere? Was it ever released on CD or LP? Best version of this song I've heard.

@shaftsbury94 3 ай бұрын

He was also a secret lemonade drinker.

@monsieurlespaique2333 Жыл бұрын

This is the Claude Francois version, he's just knocking it off. Cloclo called it "Si j'avais un marteau" and changed the lyrics so that they'd work in French, Mr McManus used Cloclo's arrangement but sang the English lyrics. Sounds pretty good in both languages.

@gordonmathers6489 Жыл бұрын

Not really fair to accuse him of ripping it off. He's only the singer in the orchestra.

@anyoutubeaccount Жыл бұрын

It's a cover of an arrangement. It's hardly knocking anything off.

@TchikiSteph Жыл бұрын

Yeah yeah yeah well maybe, but Rita Pavone's version blows everything.

@beckenhamrainbow5284 4 ай бұрын

Otherwise known as a cover. I recall Elvis talking of the demands of his father's work; having to very quickly learn each week, with little to go on, song versions in preparation for performance or recording.