I was six or seven. We lived on Waterhill Street in Lynn Massachusetts. It was the second floor and there was a crawl space that led to an attic. I climbed up there and found a record player and some records. I remember Frankenstein, an instrumental, the ojays, waterloo by Abba, Another Saturday night by Cat Stevens. There was, Going to the Chapel, and then there was this song. I came from a broken family. This song stood out to me. I longed for a father figure that was sincere. Unfortunately, I never experienced that. However, the experience alone in that hot attic with those single records, and that record player, was like entering a spiritual realm with God himself for me. I love this song.

@cinemalover4027

Ай бұрын

That’s a beautiful story

@randyb.hughes4609

11 сағат бұрын

Score!!

Ever since I can remember, my grandfather would play this in his garage while he stood there drinking a beer and smoking a cigarette, tapping and bouncing to the beat. He had a way of comforting all of those around him. He had a free yet grounded spirit. My love for him will persist throughout my life, and I'm happy for all of the great memories he gave me. Can't wait to see him again.

@jasonmatthews7829

3 ай бұрын

Your grandpa sounds cool!

@user-yl3sl4xg5g

2 ай бұрын

This reminds me of my step daddy and the love he had for my Mom. He loved her to pieces and would do anything for her. He died of lung cancer and she passed many years later when she was 80 in 2021 after the isolation pandemic by herself in assisted living from the horrific illness of dementia. She was my very best friend. I am happy knowing my loved ones are whole again and my belief is that I will be reunited again! Heaven is real and better than your human mind can understand. My step father was the man in this song❤.

@maybel5012

23 күн бұрын

I never met the guy but I love him

What a great song with the rhythm and words.

I am a 1975 model and grew up listening to this FABULOUS music. ❤😂🎉

LAWD, Where are these kinds of folks these days?? We sure do need em now!!

@tonygreene8476

Жыл бұрын

We definitely do need these kinds of folks these days. So much hate is going around and a lot of people don't know how to relax and be happy

Sunday will be a year since my dad passed, no one wanted me and my brother not even our mom.thank you. DAD,you always where there miss you,rip pops ❤️

@Anastajia2005

4 ай бұрын

I am so sorry, I just cannot imagine a Mother not wanting her child. My heart goes out to you. I lost a child when he was three, it just about killed me. Sending you a huge hug from California.

@patrickdowdy1652

4 ай бұрын

@@Anastajia2005 thank you

@michaelsowden5892

4 ай бұрын

Bless You. For some of us, music is our family. Peace and Love to you then and now.

@patrickdowdy1652

4 ай бұрын

@@michaelsowden5892 thank you much needed.

@jeremyloeffler2783

12 күн бұрын

From a single father I bet your dad was a awesome man were hard to find godbless your father hope you and your sister are doing alright

Today's Music don't have the same Soul Billy's voice is Yesterday Today and Forever

A great song

@pamelawoodley3483

27 күн бұрын

I loved this song ❤❤❤❤

@fredhominal5029

19 күн бұрын

J'adore également ce chef d'œuvre ! .

One of our favorite songs to roller skate to when I was a teenager in the 70s! Thank you. I had forgotten this. What a rush🤭🛼

I live in a Small Town...I mean Small! I swear when I go into the little Grocery Store they purposely play Songs for me...tonight I was only in there for a few minutes...one of the few people there on a Sunday night...and this Song came on...They really do Care! ❤

Back when he played this song on the American Top 40, Casey Kasem told the listeners that Billy Swan had a couple of pet dogs that ran loose in the studio, and halfway through, the dogs were excitedly jumping up on some of the musicians, and some onlooker friends were clapping because the band managed to make it through the recording of the song ~

@rricci

3 жыл бұрын

I take it this was an outtake then? I still wish it didn't fade out. EDIT: Upon closer listening, I think i hear a dog bak at 3:04?

@nathanaelmini2595

Жыл бұрын

His true name is William. He is American. I can help is an American song.

@GroverKent

Жыл бұрын

He probably just made it up, because those claps were actually dubbed in by the recording engineers to give the song a feeling of an in-studio party. The continuation of the instrumental was also included intentionally to pad the recording out since it was such a short song.

@Black.Sabbath

Жыл бұрын

​@@GroverKentThe song was 3 minutes long.

@anngreen2222

10 ай бұрын

His dogs went to him and started grabbing at the him of his pants. That’s why he kept on keeping on.

This song has kind of a 50's feel to it which makes it all the more appealing.

@eddyvideostar

Ай бұрын

Michael 4043. No. This has a 70s country feel.

The kind of music you'd hear at the Skating Rink....:)

@blackbird5634

4 ай бұрын

Skateland!!😍

@walendxweg

2 ай бұрын

Ça glisse bien effectivement 👍🔴✋

Something about this song is just so sweet. Loved the song in 1974 and hadn't thought of it in a long while.

@marlenesullivan3113

3 жыл бұрын

Golden Oldie

@tonygreene8476

Жыл бұрын

I remember hearing it when I was a young kid and now I'm almost 51

@Cooldad24

Жыл бұрын

Same goes for me. I am 55 now. I was 7

@LoydKline-uw4no

6 ай бұрын

❤️ this early 1970s song

Love the guitar licks!l AWESOME

Perhaps the happiest song ever written.

Love this song, was 15 years old in boarding school at the time. Youth, carefree, hanging with my buddies. Miss those days. ✌ ❤ 👋 🇦🇺

I remember Billy working as a bus boy at Denny's WAY BACK in the day... 😎 Awesome dude!

@charlie69inyourmouth

Жыл бұрын

Are you from cape girardeau

@charliewilson6873

11 ай бұрын

Where??

@Sykyk777

11 ай бұрын

San Jose California

@LoydKline-uw4no

6 ай бұрын

Really, wow amazing very hard to believe story, ❤️ this super great 1970s song

I can help defined one summer for me...part of our very being...smiles ! Thanks for the memories Billy S.

@marlenesullivan3113

3 жыл бұрын

Golden Oldie

Happy 80th birthday 🎂🥳🍾🎉🎊 Billy Swan

...❤...Billy, Your Beautiful Song....

What a very optimistic song,everybody should sing it,whatever the situation,thanks for it!

F.A.N.T.A.S.T.I.C.O Billy Swan - I Can Help 🌹

Pour moi une des meilleures musiques de tout les temps !! . 💙🎶

Such a great song that not even Elvis himself could better it.

@eddyvideostar

Ай бұрын

To Craig. 817: I agree. Elvis wouldn't come close. It's the Swan's song -- only for him.

Every morning when I wake up to go to elementary school, this song, Mary Hopkins " Those Were the Days Again, New Kid in Town by the Eagles would come on around the same time. Those were some good times.

I have been trying to remember the name Billy Swann and the title I can help for two years. Finally heard it on this radio station I listen to today. Such a great song.

Nice song Billy 🎤🎼🎵🎶🎧😘😘😘❤️❤️❤️

Definitely an oldie but a goodie. Keep helping others folks because we ALL have a little good in us.👍🌎☮️

Actually I love the sound this is a true classic

Great underrated song!

Gorgeous love song about a good man trying to make a woman's life better any way he can.

@johnmahan4757

9 ай бұрын

😂They would consider it toxic nowadays

...👆A Big Gift From God.... ...And You, Billy....❤....

This song just makes you feel good. Spreads good vibrations. Makes you wanna go out an kiss somebody just to make then smile an have a good day. Fun fact. Just found out two days ago. Billy Swan also wrote "Lover please" made famous by Clyde McPhatter.

I was a freshman in high school when this song came out. It’s funny but I had a radio alarm in my bedroom and a lot of times this song woke me up. Such great memories!

@dbprice100

Жыл бұрын

I was a freshman in college and this sing played a lot in the Student U. I see the inside of that building in my mind everytime I here this song.

@laurametheny1008

6 ай бұрын

Me too! Freshman AND the alarm haha. Roller skates to it alot as well. It was perfect for that because it was so fun and hard to sit still to. This brought back some fine memories!😉🛼 Have a great safe holiday🎄

@Hy-Brasil

6 ай бұрын

your alarm was trying to help ya lol

Hacía años que no lo oía ❤

It was a HUGE old fave.. we played that old vinyl 45 MANY TIMES!

I remember when this one came out, takes be back, great tune and a much better world then too....

This song brings back an amazing memory for me.😢

Such an awesome guitar solo

I'm having this song played at my funeral

@littlepewpew001

Ай бұрын

LoL

@justuschickens10

Ай бұрын

Great idea !

Timeless. 💗

懐かしいですね。スマホで聴かせてもらって感謝してます。１９７４年の全米ナンバーワンヒットです。

@fredhominal5029

5 ай бұрын

.. ?

That's the kind of man I need! 👍🏼👌🏼👏🏼

@darrellpryor1653

Жыл бұрын

I agree,this is what a real man should be like....If he calls himself a "MAN"!!!!!

@darrellpryor1653

Жыл бұрын

You have to look hard to find one!!!!

@brendaleverick3655

Жыл бұрын

@@darrellpryor1653 That's for sure! 🙄

Watching this with my friend carsausage, nickman, Bearsfan! Missed the old days!

There's a live version out there on YT, but this one with the original intro and Farfisa organ still rules!

Billboard Hot Country Singles number-one single December 14, 1974 - December 21, 1974 (two weeks)

@eddyvideostar

Ай бұрын

Also, this song reached number one in the BBC and Luxembourg charts during this similar time.

Friday nights in the 70s watching Big Chuck and Little John Show on WJW channel 8 in Cleveland, Ohio. This song was played on every show.

This song makes me so happy yet so happy

I was 12 when this song came out.. we played the 45 non stop on the turn table 👍🏼

This takes me back to Christmas of 1974.

@fredhominal5029

5 ай бұрын

C'est l'année de ma naissance ! .. cela nous rajeunit pas tout ça !! . Qu'est-ce que je l'ai entendu cette musique ! . Moi personnellement j'adore cette musique ! . 🎶💙

This was the first 45 rpm record I bought 1974

Just heard this in Walgreens! Got it in my playlist now.

Still. 2024.

SO BEAUTIFULLY SANG,THANKS I FEEL BETTER🕺💯 ❤

@lduranceau8046

Жыл бұрын

'sung' not 'sang' remember your English literature now, said my teacher.

@marlenesullivan3113

Жыл бұрын

@@lduranceau8046 GET A LIFE, I GUESS IT'S FULL OF MISTAKES.. HA/HA.. 8-))

That is a badass song actually,, it's fun to sing along with,, I grew up with it,, what is so funny how it broke up twice at the end.. 😆

In my youth one of my favorites, I sometimes hear even today. Timeless music.

Maravillosa y Fantastica cancion del Billy Swan.

I remember hearing this song from a very young age and now I'm 50

Dire qu a mon époque j ai adoré cette chanson et maintenant que j ai septante ans je l écoute avec tellement de plaisir merci beaucoup

EARTH ANGEL😇. BILLY, WHERE HAVE YOU GONE???😍💕🤔😘💗

I have so much nostalgia of this song listening to it every morning on the radio around 5:30. Every single bit of it is something from the 70s, and I love it for that!

@alivelittlemanenroutebigma6090

2 жыл бұрын

How old are you now?

@silverswordstudios7334

2 жыл бұрын

@@alivelittlemanenroutebigma6090 young enough to have never experienced the 70s save through music and other forms of popular culture. Nostalgia, in this case, is not applicable in the sense of time, but rather personal connection to the song as it played so often and was thus a prevalence in my life via a small town radio station.

CAN listen to Billy all day what a voice love hearing singing all the copiea

@tonymoore2447

2 жыл бұрын

Hello Annie

Allway's make me Happy♥:-) Thank you★/ Lotta.

Great show

such a great simple tune...

oh I'm so HAPPY ;D))) this was my first favourite song as a little kid , I waited patiently every single day through out the day for it to play on my tiny radio . I loved it so much haha ;D STILL do

Coś pięknego😊 najgorszy dzień potrfi zmienic w najlepszy

Where have all the years gone, this reminds me of being in Weblos 1974

... Billy, You Are Really SWAN... ... WHITE SWAN....❤....

FIRST CLASS !

I remember listening to this back in north Carolina when I was station at ft.bragg loved it

It’s the 70s I’m bare feets hitching in the USA, best times ever

The song that never seem's to end...

@MMI5KS

4 жыл бұрын

Groundhog day

When I was a kid, I always thought this was Ringo!

I WAS VERY YOUNG WHEN THIS CAME OUT & IT STILL RINGS TRUE AS THE ALTIMATE SOS 2 THE CHICKS

I haven't heard this song in a long time brings back good memories!!!!

Cuando sonaba esta canción en la disco enseguida levantaba el culo del asiento para bailarla me gustaba un montón y me sigue gustando ,gracias por subirla 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖💖

Que de bons souvenirs sur cette chanson v etait l epoque ou l on s amusait beaucoup merci de tout coeur

@fredhominal5029

5 ай бұрын

MAGNIFIQUE musique ! . 🎶 J'aurais bien aimé connaître " Vivre " .. cette ÉPOQUE ! . ( .. c'est mon année de naissance ! ) .

I just love this song makes me 💃 love it ❤🕺🎤👏👌💃🕺💓😍

Yeah,this is the version that was on the jukebox at one place i used to hang, the radio version cut out ealier- the story was that his German shepard had him buy the leg during the last part of the song,thats why everyone was clappin and hootin at the end.Hell of a guitar lick!

Remember this song from the 70's

@connybrodin4124

3 жыл бұрын

Big in Sweden 75

@chillywilly7299

3 жыл бұрын

I love this tune I think I was 12 years old.

@ellonysman

3 жыл бұрын

Wow, you can remember the seventies? lol

Beautiful song for roller dancing !

The song of my last night... Thank you God.

When I listened to this as a kid in the 70s, I thought it was from the 50,s. Now I am almost 60 and this classic is ageless.

Preciosa !!!

This song is my favorite ignoring joking like it’s my favorite song the best❤️

❤❤❤🎼👏👏👏

Awesome hi hat work

I heard it in Conroe TX first time 1975 😢

This is reminiscent of something that Steve Winwood or the Spencer Davis Group would write.

Nice song my step son put it on for me. Nice dance song.

Les belles années..

@fredhominal5029

5 ай бұрын

Comme j'aurais voulu connaître ces années ! .. LÀ .

I was 6 when this came out and wore the needle off moms stereo with that song

I just love the girls on background vocals.

THIS WAS A REALLY GOOD SONG!!! THANKS FOR "SHARING" THIS!!!

I'm not a great singer. I like Karaoke. Haven't had the chance to use this, but I would definitely sing this to someone special !

This tune plus Rub it in....Im good

My first time hearing this I like it

Cudo