One of the best songs ever of 1970"s era

I miss the 70's....i'm going back to them...who's joining me ?

@rezap33

3 ай бұрын

let me know how and when i defo will join..

@lynnallen1549

2 ай бұрын

Wait for me 😮

@davemcteer

Ай бұрын

I never left them although I did have a break in the 90s when trance came out. back to the 70s now that good trance has gone

Takes me right back to happier times, my parents, hot summers and cold winters.... miss them all❗️❗️

@stevebbuk

2 жыл бұрын

Yes Anthony it makes me want to weep really..

@rezap33

3 ай бұрын

well said and same here...

Always reminds me of long summer holidays and the seaside special.still sounds great today

There are certain songs that evoke memories of various periods in ones life, and this is one of those which does it for me in the 70's. Summer holidays in the mid 70's to be more precise.

Mike Batt - one of the greatest talents of the 20th Century (and maybe 21st)! This just makes me feel SOOOO good!!

@elaineprescott3972

2 жыл бұрын

Me, too!

I was 14 and living in Great Yarmouth when the BBC came to film on our boardwalk - it was amazing! I'm 55 years old now and still remember this song!!! Great memories

@mrtoptenatten

3 жыл бұрын

I'm 53 & remember it like yesterday

@mrtoptenatten

2 жыл бұрын

.....Great memories......

@mrtoptenatten

2 ай бұрын

I bet there was no black illegals there ...was there

ITS ONE OF THOSE GREAT 70'S SONGS THAT ON HEARING IT YOU WANNA GET UP AND DANCE TO. EVEN TODAY IT STILL HAS THAT MAGIC ABOUT IT.

@lindaraccoon

2 жыл бұрын

Absolutely

The show was Seaside Special and indeed it was in a bigtop. Gerry Cottle's Big Top actually. I always thought this song had a real feelgood factor and of course captured summer perfectly.Think about it.Sun,Sea and funfairs. Great stuff.

@lindaraccoon

Жыл бұрын

On the beach, it was wonderful X

Mike Batt is so talented!

Always remember this. Seaside Special OBs signature music,. OBs directed by Michael Hurll. Some of my first BBC OBs as a very keen 6th form student looking to work in TV. Over 40 yrs later & I'm still working as a Broadcast TV Engineer. Still remember hearing this song as the opening vts were run. So many great memories of friendly crews giving me so much careers advice.

From the long hot summer of 1975. Which was followed by a dry winter and then an even longer and hotter summer the following year. The result was a drought in 1976, with stand pipes coming into force for the public. I remember in some pubs near us, there was no lager or Guinness. We had to make do with other drinks. Never mind, the memories of those times are still very happy ones for me.

@margaretsollors1461

4 жыл бұрын

Theme tune to the British TV series Seaside Special. Great days! ♥️🙃

@jimbaird4651

3 жыл бұрын

Its like that now mate in Scotland.What a mess does Anyone agree,lol.?

@mrtoptenatten

3 жыл бұрын

Great times.....Great memories... its sad that we lose our loved ones

@martinrobinson714

2 жыл бұрын

@@mrtoptenatten they are always here mate , no fears they are , never forget that,,, our memories, and love of songs and thoughts from our past, keep our lived ones in touch & near💞👍

@nexus9deluxe

Жыл бұрын

I remember being massively disappointed when 1977 was a cold wet miserable summer. Hated it!

Brilliant, happy song in less complicated times.

I love Mike Batt's voice, it's sensational. He is a great songwriter and arranger also.

@Sootaroot

9 жыл бұрын

An inadequate performer who should have stuck to the Wombles, which defined the limits of his songwriting abilities.

@mikewellwood1412

7 жыл бұрын

I have no doubts about his talents, and love his songs. It's his politics I have a bit more difficulty with.

@Thetrackrecords

7 жыл бұрын

In what way? I don't know anything about his politics but would be interested to know.

@mikewellwood1412

7 жыл бұрын

He has funded the Conservative party, and written a campaign song for them. Takes all sorts, I suppose. :-)

@Thetrackrecords

7 жыл бұрын

Interesting....I will try and pretend I didn't know that and just admire his songwriting and arranging skills, plus his very pleasant singing voice.

Terrific, a classic pop number. Mike Batt was a great craftsman.

One of the best sounds of '76' fabulously hot summer, sat in the park arranging our wedding for the following year great memories, cant beat 60's and 70's sounds

@patrickreidy8377

5 жыл бұрын

aandy51x apart from it was 1975

What a classic track......brings back great memories, cheers for posting

Oh' that long hot sultry summer of seventy six!!!

I was fifteen years old whan this song came out - and absolutely gorgeous! Getting approached all the time whenever I went out! Ah, sweet memories!, 😘. Glad of a bit of peace now though! 🤗

brill.... brings back memories. love Mike Batt.

Awesome song, I like a lot of his songs, a great song writer.

Love this great song from my childhood back in 1975 great top of the pops performance

Saw mike batt in 2018 he was conducting the docklands orchestra when they were doing shows with hawkwind, when hawkwind did a song that didn't need the orchestra mike batt played tambourine with hawkwind, brilliant show

I'm friends with Mike Batt, and apart from his hair, he still looks pretty damned similar now to how he did back then. But oh my, he's certainly done VERY well in his life! I admire the guy immensely for his achievements.

@Thetrackrecords

7 жыл бұрын

I absoloutely love his voice and songs, plus his ability to write really good arrangements. The guy is mega talented. Please let him know!!

@dariowestern

6 жыл бұрын

We follow each other on Twitter. He's got a terrific sense of humour, and very switched on with what's going on in the world. :)

@Achill101

6 жыл бұрын

"he's certainly done VERY well in his life" - In September 2017, the papers reported his bankruptcy, after he has avoided it two or three times earlier in his life. May he rise again.

@richardleigh9161

6 жыл бұрын

Yes I agree I hope he rises again good singer good prformer

@nikimoore

6 жыл бұрын

Wow, you are privileged, he comes across as a wonderful person, eclectically talented and diverse. Some of his songs are my all-time favourites... he provided the soundtrack to my 20s.....

This is the very first song I can remember as a child I'd would of been 4 years of age when this was in the charts

Mike Batt Mr Womble, Great song the days when most people still had their holidays here in England, great days, my holidays were mostly in Brean sands just outside Westen -Super -Mare. Pans people wow, i was in love with Cherry, as a teenager, She is still beautiful today in her late 60's.

This is the man behind the Wombles & umpteen film scores. This song was the theme tune to the much missed Seaside Special variety shows on BBC1 on Saturday nights. Great ! Thanks for this !

Great Music, Fun Times, First Class Acts, Gorgeous Girls Lets all enjoy it and remember it for all the good of it.

Reminds me of a boarding school i went to in teighnmouth devon about the time ot was out,absolutely love it,the beach,the great times we had ..thank you for the recollection and reminding me im getting bloody old 🤣

Brings back some good memories 😌

ah i remember this show so well,it takes me back to my youth

Remember seeing the tv entertainment show of the same name with this as its theme tune very well. Bring back the 70's....

@cliffcook3993

2 жыл бұрын

The show was actualy called Seaside Special. After a few series this was replaced as the theme with the new edition and Get A Little Sand Between Your Toes.

one of the best songwiter producers to come out of the uk rock on mike j vincent edwards

Jesus, this takes me back!! 😁😁

A great song which sums up the period pretty well.

Great times, great songs and a great era, so glad i was born when i was

That Cherry Gillespie is so gorgeous She the small one with an orange outfit and long dark hair.😍.

Mike Batt is my hero!

@graememcfee23

Ай бұрын

bet he isnt

Don't know what made ne think of this, but one of my all time faves and yes the 70s, warm long summers, and a great time

A GREAT SOUND THIS SONG HAS..

Love this catchy song

Mike batt was brilliant 👏

I had the single of this and played it to death on my record player ❤️❤️❤️❤️

Was the front singer of the Wombles ,Brilliant.

Takes me back to the Seaside Special on a saturday night, great times great music , one of the biggest its of 75

talented guy

You're so lucky, I wish I'd been alive in the 70s. I wasn't born till '82 : ( Still, I love all of the music from the 70s and the 60s and the 80s pretty much : )

@mikewellwood1412

7 жыл бұрын

You have good taste sir.

I was 15 back then, now I'm 58...shocking!!

I remember it well.

fantastic searched for years for this great thanks

great song. nice to see dee dee and sue.

Girls were girls....Genuine lovlies.....I was 15 wow

Great stuff!

I well remember the summer of '76 in the UK, it was heat from hell. An absolute horror of a heatwave. I well remember this song too, absolute classic.

@frederickharrison5355

6 жыл бұрын

The drought inspired a final Wombles single "Rainmaker" by Wellington Womble - a solo single to announce his leaving the band. Wasn't a hit.

@ianstrange5674

5 жыл бұрын

This was actually 1975.😀

Ah the sound of Saturday night TV! Could do with a variety show like this nowadays.

Takes me back to being 13 x

GREAT MEMORIES WHEN I LIVED IN UK AS A KID.!

used to go to blackpool for the hols brilliant memories

Super record from the magical hot year of 1975! Great beat now for dancing modern jive/ceroc to if only the DJs would realise what great sounds the early and mid 70s produced and play them. PS Pans People in the video make this song even more memorable!

Not a single womble in sight!!

@kiwizeppelin

5 жыл бұрын

That was Madame Cholet in the yellow skirt......

@gogogagetfingers

3 жыл бұрын

Bet there are plenty of young kids around uncle jimmy though

Even now I wanna get up and dance.x

My first (remembered)) introduction to Mike Batt (excepting AM radio broadcasts) was ~1992 ..... THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK .... Only in past 2-3 yrs did I rediscover the gift of his talent sent to me via Prodigy bulletin board (pre-internet/www days) .... Amazing to me to find that his artistry influenced so many "big-name" stars

I ABSOLUTELY love this Summer classic which is/was the theme to bbc1's Seaside Special what a GREAT song to get you into the Summer mood. May I also ask you to take a look at a song written by Mike and is sung SUPERBLY by a wonderful female artist by the name of Katie Mellower(Nine Million Bicycles...)called "I will be there". It is PHENOMENONAL. Worth a look at anytime on You Tube. It gets 10/10 from me. SUPERB.

Ah yes the bubble perm. Fortunately I was in the Army at the time this particular hairdo was all the rage so escaped the trauma of having one. I did however have a mullet in the 1980's!

@mikewellwood1412

7 жыл бұрын

There is forgiveness for most sins, but the hardest to forgive is a mullet! :-)

@davidmcque627

7 жыл бұрын

Yeah, yeah ok, I loved it at the time, it was a proper "Chris Waddle" job too. Sadly now I am a Grey Haired baldy Bloke.

@mikewellwood1412

7 жыл бұрын

:-) In fairness, Ian McShane's didn't do his career any harm.

great song

When I heard it for the first time I thought he sounds like the Wombles so I googled it and HE WAS!

brilliant!!!

Simply ignore JS at the beginning, this programme was broadcast I believe live on a Sat eve, it was prime time Sat eve viewing, at a time when we had three or four wonderfully hot summers 74/75/76/77

I was 18 then great times

@telstar1957

8 жыл бұрын

+clontarfer .... same here, just 18 .... What back to back summers of 1975 and 1976 .... and the music from both years was really and truly brilliant ....

Remember he's a Womble!!

I was 16 in in 1976...Happy Days.

@mikewellwood1412

7 жыл бұрын

My wife and I reckon that "the sixties" actually lasted well into the 70s. :-) A much underrated / unfairly criticised decade in any case.

@georginacox3909

5 жыл бұрын

I was 19

@trevoratkinson1984

3 жыл бұрын

You would also have been 15 in 1975, when this was a hit👍

I've still got this on vinyl great tune I also remember sea side special

I love this

Grief! I flaming remember this song ... and the prog!

Wallis's holiday camp Cayton Bay, Scarborough 1975 :D

what days!! The sun was hot. You could smoke in pubs and trains, didn't have to wear seatbelts, no speed cameras and we did not need the human rights and other crazy legislation because WE HAD IT ALL and the trade unions ruled supreme!!!

@richardleigh9161

7 ай бұрын

Just said it all for me

@kevinhogan1819

4 ай бұрын

The only good things you mentioned there were the sun being hot and the unions.

@mrtoptenatten

2 ай бұрын

And no illegal shite here to shi# up our country

Still have this on a UK Epic 45.Its been hammered.

I wish UK Gold would show these early TOTP again. There's zero chance of the BBC ever showing them when they are cluttered up with the likes of Saville. They edited things out when they showed them a few years back (Jonathan King, for instance).

Was he the voice behind The Wombles records ?

@michael5089

5 жыл бұрын

Yes!!!

@shlibbermacshlibber4106

4 жыл бұрын

Is the Pope jewish

when I was school me and my frend we had words to this song and cords we played this song on last day of leving school

Can you cut Savile from the beginning please! Mike was a genius performer, writer, producer etc....

@CamperVanPersie

4 жыл бұрын

.......Now then,now then.....as it 'appens....Friend of Royals,Police,M.P.'s etc.....

A GREAT tune for this month's El Paso scorching sun

we never get any shows like this was the theme for now its all make overs and soaps think the people who make the programs now day think that the 16 to 30 years old are the only ones who watch tv at the weekends

@dojj1968 oh wow this made me laugh soooo much. i think your memory is awsome remembering this. well done and thanx for the trip down memory lane!!!!

great fun memories of seaside special from the 70s.saw the show in Brighton in ' I think 1980' when me and my girlfriend moved to the south coast. wish they had shows as good as that now.afraid the likes of ant 'n' dec just cant do it. shame

This was also used for a summer show on BBC1

@YodasLeftEar

9 жыл бұрын

Seaside Special!

@DieyoungDiefast

8 жыл бұрын

+YodasLeftEar Still remember it :)

@CustoopMoon

8 жыл бұрын

Yeah, Summertime Special.

The one wearing the peach colour, that would be Cherry Gillespie, who later appeared in the James Bond film Octpussy, as I'm sure you'll remember :-)

@DieyoungDiefast

3 жыл бұрын

I used to fancy Sue (the one in white)

At last. This is a song Mike has yet to allow on CD. Essentially the same personnel as a Wombles session, except no reference to the furry fellows in the lyric - otherwise it could easily have been a Wombles record. This is the more respectable of the two TV appearances Mike did to plug the single - his first top 5 hit under his own name btw - the other had him decked out in a larger afro with outrageous platform shoes ("don't ask me why I did it... it seemed like a good idea at the time").

The one and only Jimmy Sa vile introducing Pan's people. Pan the Geeek fertility god and companion of nymphs. Also associated with sex. What a delight for you Sa vile.

Well done Mike Batt,but why cannot utube take Jimmy Saville off our screens, please,ty.

Cracking song...but always, always ...Remember you`re a Womble!

God don`t you just love Cherry.

1975 if I remember right.

Ooooh... Cherry Gillespie.... still would...

Dragging memories of Mike Batt out of my jellied neurons .... He was (still is ?) respected by many musicians .... Just finished listening to his Great creation THE HUNTING OF THE SNARK [check-out the guest stars] .... He also discovered/enhanced/produced the careers of many .... eg: Vanessa Mae ... Justin Hayward

according to my top twenty book..this got to number 9 in august 1975 ..not mikes finest hour but you got tostart somewhere

@goonerbeau

Жыл бұрын

I'd throw it away if I was you Mike. 'Summertime City' got to #4 in the September!

Why hide the dancers behind props? Loved this song. 1975 - the last year of normality in the UK.

Brilliant song - his only number one hit, but he refuses to allow it to appear on any compilation albums. Even his greatest hits album doesn't have it. Work that one out.

@Bungaroosh

2 жыл бұрын

Didn't the Wombling Song get to number one?

@dmcallister1506

2 жыл бұрын

@@Bungaroosh Not in the UK

Always pronounces shine as 'chine' in his songs.

Mike Batt - the Mick Hucknall of the 70s.