You have to watch the movie to completely understand how incredible this song is. The movie is epic.

This song is from the movie of the same name, starring the late, great Sidney Poitier, the first black man to win an Oscar. It’s a poignant story of a new teacher who is tasked with taming a classroom full of very tough, angry British teens in the 1960’s. They learn to respect him and love him. Lulu was in the movie and sings this at the end to thank him for sticking with them and helping them in countless ways. It’s a fantastic movie and you should try to see it. Nice choice and great reaction. 🌺✌️

@NativeNYerChicHK

2 жыл бұрын

I second this! 👏👏👏 He definitely should see it, it’s a classic ♥️

@argielita

2 жыл бұрын

It's a must see movie for anyone who hasn't seen it. If you're quick to cry like me you will be in tears by the end.

Watching the movie starring the late, great Sidney Poitier is a MUST. It really puts the song in perspective.

To Sir, With LOVE! Really should watch the film Chod. Sidney Poitier at his wondrous best with the creme de la creme of London's finest 60s scenes.

This song means so much more if you’ve seen the movie. IMO.

From a very good movie of the same name with Sidney Poitier as Lulu's teacher.

FYI, Lulu was married to Maurice Gibb from none other than the Bee Gees. She was his first wife.

@cindyfalstrom7231

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks, interesting fact.

Lulu is a great singer from Scotland. OH ME OH MY is great also, she tajes it up another level. She was a mentor on American Idol and still is performing in her mid 70s. I was very fortunate to have grown up in thd 60s definitely my favorite decade for music!!

The movie To Sir With Love was a big influence on my life. I became a teacher because of that movie.

Lulu and Petula Clark And Dusty Springfield were all like the blonde British Adeles of their day … 60s into the early 70s

@Alewifes_Husband

2 жыл бұрын

Great comparison!

@jamesdignanmusic2765

2 жыл бұрын

Good comparison... and don't forget Sandie Shaw!

@jamesdignanmusic2765

2 жыл бұрын

@tecdessus I was meaning about her musical talent, not the hair :)

@alexshepherd1558

Жыл бұрын

You took the words out of my mouth petula my fave

@bazcrowther8205

Жыл бұрын

You forgot Helen shaprio, cilla black

perfect song for the movie. Lulu was the redheaded student in Sir’s class. Epic, tearjerker movie

RIP Mr. Sidney Poitier. :( Beautiful, thank you.

Lulu is a great underrated singer who can sing it all. She can sing any genre of music!

Great movie! She use to be married to Maurice Gibb of The Bee Gees.

Lulu did a great cover of The Man Who Sold The World by David Bowie (with backing vocals by Bowie himself).

First of all, 'To Sir With Love' is a classic film and one of my all-time favourites. Secondly, I had the pleasure of meeting Lulu backstage at Glastonbury Festival a few years back. (I worked as a stage manager on another stage but went to help out on one of the larger stages she was performing on.) I 'melted' when she was walking up on stage, turned around, looked at me and winked.

You're right about her powerful voice. She first hit the charts with the song SHOUT. She really belts that song out 🙂

She had several top 10 hits in the UK, just this one in the US. Beautiful voice!

@Eric4471066

2 жыл бұрын

Actually, Lulu had three Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 chart in the United States. Besides this song, her second Top 40 hit was a song called Oh Me, Oh My in 1970. Her third and last Top 40 hit that she had was a song called I Can Love You(More Than I Ever Do) in 1981.

@surlechapeau

2 жыл бұрын

@@Eric4471066 yes Oh Me..#22, "I Could Never Miss You (More Than I Do)"#18. Not top 10.

Lulu is a truly underrated singer. She has an amazing voice. If you're on the lookout for female vocalists you may want to check out California Nights by Lesley Gore. It's another uplifting song.

I have always loved her. We didn't really hear that much from her after the 60's in the states. When I was living in England in the 2000's she was everywhere on tv. That was great to see. She is still out there singing and just gets better each year. Check out her live stuff. It's the best.

Great Reaction!

Judith Dunham was part of The Seekers and has an incredible voice. Try out "Georgy Girl"--it's a classic.

@ladykaycey

2 жыл бұрын

Thats a great song 🎵

@jamespasifull3424

2 жыл бұрын

Check out her solo on Danny Boy, it's a real tearjerker! 😭

Must see the movie make it 10x more meaningful. and for a follow up might I suggest "Lay Down" (candles in the rain). Melanie (with the Edwin Hawkins Singers). Inspired by the rain at Woodstock !

You know a gal can sing when she's chosen to voice a Bond movie theme song, and that's exactly what Lulu did on, *"The Man With The Golden Gun"* circa 1974. Lulu's voice definitely "breaks out" in the song, which I rank 2nd among all Bond theme songs, behind only Shirley Bassey's iconic, "Goldfinger". If you react to Lulu's Bond song, I suggest this link of the End Credits, as it begins with an absolutely gorgeous instrumental before Lulu comes in: *"The Man With The Golden Gun"* End Credits song: kzread.info/dash/bejne/rJ6Hsaascri-h5s.html

Great song & great movie.

There are plenty of more female singers with great voices that you have yet to discover.

I LOVED this movie. And because of that the song is forever burned into my brain. Thanks so much, Chod.

Great Lulu song as is 'The Man Who Sold The Earth'. There was Lulu, Dusty Springfield and Cilla Black all 60s icons. Cilla worked at Liverpool' 's Cavern Club where the Beatles started out. They invited her on stage to sing and her career soared. She became great friends with The Beatles and became a household name as a singer and TV presenter. Check out 'I've Been Wrong Before', an incredible song which Dusty also recorded.

@allmusicservices

2 жыл бұрын

YES! "I've Been Wrong Before"--a great but little-known early song by Randy Newman. And they both do a fantastic job on it.

@sukie584

2 жыл бұрын

Man Who Sold The World..- it’s a David Bowie song.

She was married to Maurice Gibb. They did a duet.. come first of may.but a less obvious but beautiful song is..in the morning of my life..I hope you give it a go.

Her voice is stunning.

Try Mary Hopkins from AppleRecords. "Those were the Days," Gold and Silver, "and "Goodbye." She was the first female signed by Apple. There is a video out there with her singing and Paul hanging out. She also did some Beatle covers "In My Life" was one. She's Welsh.

Lulu began her career in the UK before becoming internationally known. She had a big hit with the song "To Sir With Love" from the 1967 film, which she also starred in with Sidney Poitier. She also did the title song to the 1974 James Bond film "The Man With The Golden Gun". She also did the songs "Boom Bang-a-Bang", "Shout", "Leave A Little Love", "Try To Understand", "The Boat That I Row", "Oh Me Oh My (I'm A Fool For You Baby)", "I Could Never Miss You (More Than I Do)" etc. Lulu was married at one time to Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees.

This is theme song from a film of the same name which starred the late great Sidney Poitier who passed away recently.

TO SIR WITH YOU Movie was wonderful.

Lulu - wonderful singer, one of Scotland's finest. She could sing softly and sweetly and also really crank it up (yes, she could blow the roof off - her version of "Shout" is astonishing). She's still out there performing, too, in her mid-70s!

Definitely takes an added dimension when you see the film. ❤️

Such a good movie human and funny !

My favorite Lulu song is one that's not very well known, it's called Where The Poor Boys Dance 🎵🎶 It's so good, check it out when you have time. Also her duet of First of May with ex Maurice Gibb will bring a tear to your eye💚

I love your reactions because you wait til the end of a song. Thank you...

There is a song clip from movie. You will tear up when Sidney smiles. Oddly the movie clip isn't on KZread anymore.

From my favorite movie and thus one of my favorite songs.

Great song from an award winning movie!

Thank for featuring so many great women vocalists. They are all wonderful. Where were you when these singers were around - not even born my dear boy!

I fell in love with this song and Sidney Poitier when I first saw To Sir, With Love as a young girl. Truly a poignant movie. Also, based on a true story.

If you want another female artist, Kate Bush is a phenomenal talent. There has never been an artist like her. She was discovered by David Gilmour of Pink Floyd when she was still at high school and he organised for her to be able to master some demos that got her a deal with EMI, but the record company supported her to develop a few more years before she started recording in earnest with them. Her first album came out in early 1978 when she was 19, with some songs she’d written as a 15 or 16 year old. But it was incredible and almost like the work of a 30+ year old seasoned artist. She went from strength to strength, often taking years to painstakingly put albums together. She’s like a female version of David Bowie, as the best comparison I could give, but that doesn’t do her justice. Some of her songs are more eccentric than others. Wuthering Heights was her first single and it’s sort of a signature tune for her. If you hit that first it’s worth noting that it comes from a book about a girl who haunts an old lover, a spirit lost on the moors of an old manor house in England, and Kate is extremely theatrical in her performances so she tries to capture the essence of a ghostly voice. Not all her songs are like that, but she does approach vocals with creativity, like in Violin, Rubber Band Girl, and How To Be Invisible, just to name a few. She also brought forward the technology of headset microphones. They had been invented, but not really used in a serious way. Her first concert tour (technically her only tour, after that she only performed isolated shows or one run of shows at the same venue decades later) she turned into a theatrical extravaganza, with costume changes and choreography and dance, where she needed to be able to sing and dance at the same time, so she worked to bring the radio headset mic into serious reality so she could free both hands and move all over the stage doing a full movement performance. She’s nothing short of phenomenal.

One of the greatest songs ever

So glad you reacted to this song. Love this song!!!!💖💖💖💖💖

To Sir With Love staring Sydney Poitier and LuLu A classic Movie.

Oh my LuLu, this song is great and the movie was awesome with Sidney Poitier

Nice to see an actual musician react to…music. Thanks for the informed perspective.

If you want to hear her blow the roof off, listen to "Shout!" which is the song we usually associate her with in the UK.

The movie's a must-see. Played this in response to a request from the older couple who cleaned for my ex at the ex's birthday BBQ in '05, My late friend Big Pete sang in his booming baritone, and always repeated how stunned everyone was afterward.

Fabulous recording. Great movie. Lulu was married to Maurice Gibb of the Bee Gees.

A great song from a great movie which starred legendary actor Sidney Portier. Lulu has a beautiful voice. She actually sung this in the movie. If you want to see a great movie see To Sir With Love. Thx to my favorite reactor

Nephew. "To Sir With Love" is the title of a movie starring Sidney Poitier, where he played a teacher of juvenile delinquent/British students. You must watch the movie. Lu Lu/ is an actual singing legend in her own right, however, she played a student in the movie, and wrote/sang "To sir with love" to Poitier in the movie. Brings back memories young man. Thank you. 🤎🤎🤎🖤🖤🖤

She starred in the movie with Sydney Portier "(To Sir With Love)" She was married to one of the Bee Gees.

Hey Chod, great song. Another catchy song from this era is Those were the days by Mary Hopkins. Its a cover of an old Russian folk song.

Great, great movie, Chod. You have to check it out. LuLu is one of the students in the movie.

Great movie too!!!!

This was No. 1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for five weeks in the late, great musical year of 1967. Lulu's "Oh Me Oh My (I'm A Fool For You Baby)" from '69 is a bit more gritty and was a #22 hit.

She is singing this song to her male teacher. To show him how much she respects now. When Sidney Poitier took over a classroom of hoodlums he had a ruff time. But he finally straighten them out. Great movie. Sidney won an Oscar for a movie not sure which one. Maybe Lillies Of The Feilds. All his movies were great. Watch To Sir With Love with your wife. Bless You. 2-25-2022

Epic song and epic movie!!!

1967, "To Sir With Love", "In the Heat of the Night", and "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner". 3 Sidney Poitier movies that helped change a nation.

Terrific Scottish singer, you really should see the movie “To Sir With Love”. She was also in the movie along with the great Sidney Poitier.

Pretty sure arranged and bass playing by John Paul Jones (Zeppelin) back when he was a sessions musician. He also did a lot of Donovan stuff too I believe.

This morning I had a flash that this song was going to be reacted to, today. And then I just looked at the reactions, and sure enough! I also flashed on the Eagles. One out of two isn't bad.

Great film and you should check out Lulu’s other hit SHOUT

This is a beautiful song 1968

Yes! As others have said watch the movie.

If you want to hear Lulu really go for it, listen to 'Shout'.

Chod, just like everyone else, I will join the crowd and suggest you watch the movie. It is really incredible. And the final scene, in which this song appears will get you teared up. You always wear your heart on your sleeve. I know you will "feel" this movie. As your fan, and many others here, would like to hear your opinion of the movie. And, bud, it will make us watch every single reaction video you publish. Us just waiting for word that you watched the movie. Ken

Helen shaprio - walking back to happiness is a good song and she was about 17/18 years old

Hit Recording superimposed over an a actual live performance. watching the movie starring Sidney Poitier [Lulu has a part in it too!] is a MUST!

The movie puts this song into perspective...

Fyi this was the graduation song in the movie to sir with love staring the late great Sidney Poritier.

You need to watch this movie. It's great, a real happy , upbeat movie 💜

My 12 yr old self loved the song AND the movie so much. All these years later, still brings tears to my eyes. Btw, hearing Lulu makes me want to hear some more Dusty Springfield. How about "You Don't Have To Say You Love Me"?? 💙☮💙

Lulu is still performing and looks/performs like a teenager rather than the 70yrs woman she actually is.

Now you should do a movie reaction with your wife, where you watch 'To Sir With Love'.

Wait till you hear the Alabama shakes. Awesome female lead singer. Some songs are " don't wanna fight, dunes, hold on, your ain't alone" . I swear they don't have a bad song

Great movie need to c.

I loved!!! I remember this movie 😭😭😭 Please, there's a singer who have a amazing and beautiful vibrato Des'ree "I'm Kissing You" I never saw a reaction from this song, the original have almost 5:00 minutes, and is priceless, beautiful song, who saw Romeo + Juliet knows this song ✌🏻🥰

Great British singer (a bit like Dusty Springfield). Lulu was in the movie (To Sir With Love - 1967) and sang the title song. What a melody. "Sir" is referring to British term for teacher. So, this is a song to give him credit. The teacher in this British movie was Sidney Poitier, the great actor. For suggestion, you have not hit Cilla Black yet....check this out.....kzread.info/dash/bejne/maCkq8mnna7YisY.html The song is a Burt Bacharach song "Alfie" and Cilla does a great job! Another great female British singer.

you really need to see the movie staring Sydney pointier

Check out "The Cowsills" the family band that the partridge family was based on...my favorite "The Rain, The Park and Other Things (Live)

You have to watch To Sir With Love

Yes! Now u have to watch the movie. “To Sir with Love” with Sidney Poitier. Classic!! ❤️ watch with the wife. I think she’ll really enjoy the movie.

Judith Durham, Oh Danny Boy. That is all you need to know!! 😲

To Sir With You? The song title is 'To Sir With Love'.

Iconic song!! Beautiful Movie...please watch the movie if you haven't!

Her voice, this song and the movie!! She was married to Beatle George Harrison. The British Invasion gave us Baby Boomers so uch great music and artists in the 60's.

@wnsafford1854

2 жыл бұрын

Lulu & George weren't married. Lulu was married to Maurice Gibb, 1969-1973. George was married to Pattie Boyd, 1966-1977 & Olivia Arias, 1978-till his death.

@carollittle1059

2 жыл бұрын

@@wnsafford1854 oops, wrong icon, thanks

I love this song. Major crush on Sidney Poitier. So much class.

Oh, you like female artists? The list is long... Some of my favorite songs: Paula Cole-You've changed, Sinead O'Connor-Babylon, Nina Hagen...Oh, please do Nina! Cosma Shiva! P,p,p,p,p,p,p ;)

Oops! You messed up the title, Chod. The only way to make up for that misstep is ...to react to more Yes! 😜😎❤

Great song but this seems to be the only one that people know. She did an excellent duet with Bobby Womack called "I'm Back For More" and a fabulous cover of David Bowie's "The Man Who Sold The World".

Suggestions: "Downtown" by Petula Clark and "Shower the People" by James Taylor.

Dude, you MUST watch the movie (of the same name) "TO SIR, WITH LOVE". If you want to understand what this song is about, you have to watch the movie! Watch the movie! It's only an hour and a half. Watch the movie. It's beautiful. It's dated. It's a little unreal compared to today, but it's about the 1960's and it's a great insight to what this song means.

From a great movie of the same name

You must watch the movie with Sidney Poitier to understand the true meaning of this song. Lulu was also in the movie.

You should do the real version from the movie video clip. It's the theme song from the movie. With the mind benders band.✌️❤️