Hey Dad this is for you wherever you are, probably having fun and being with Mum. Remembering our precious wonderful childhood. Best memories ever ❤️ 💓 xx

We used to sing this in Primary School! memories!!

@karalyne1460

Ай бұрын

Yeah, us too. I remember it well 😁

Cheerful song, if you can't sing along with this and anyother song , you must be a sad and lonely person. Bring back the 60 's t70's music .

@ruthsayers1163

18 күн бұрын

There was a lot of great music around then.

Always a gamble at karaoke, this one. If people don’t join in, you sound like a lemon. If they do - legend!

@mareewragg177

2 ай бұрын

I cannot believe that people would not join in, but I guess you wou;ld hve to pick your audience, No one under 50

@ruthsayers1163

18 күн бұрын

​!!!!!!!

The choreography in this video is severely underrated

@laurenelyse9686

3 жыл бұрын

This comment is severely underrated as well 😂😂😂👍

@cycleSCUBA

3 жыл бұрын

Choreography? Where?

@jondon83

2 жыл бұрын

Thier look is spot on aswell 👌

@lillieiliff3639

2 жыл бұрын

@@cycleSCUBA 😂😂😂😂 I mean as a professional dancer I’m struggling to see any as well LOL

@lillieiliff3639

2 жыл бұрын

@@jondon83 It’s very c Corny and amateurish and very basic and the guy in the middle is singing flat but apart from that brilliant

This may not be one of the best songs ever, but we were made to sing it at my primary school, and it brings back some lovely memories.

@WezzleG

9 ай бұрын

I thought it was only us!

@natashaflores1743

9 ай бұрын

So did we!

@shirleyrook7111

9 ай бұрын

but it is catchy

@martintodd9944

8 ай бұрын

I went to school in 80-90s and it was on our assembly song list. I think this was only one that we didn't rewrite to be rude to torment the trachers

@MsGbergh

8 ай бұрын

I wish we got to sing it, we were only given hymns. :-(

This song taught me two things - close part harmony, and the meaning of the word efficacious. For this education, Scaffold, much thanks.

@lillieiliff3639

2 жыл бұрын

And how about the word FLat😂 sing in tune helps

@mareewragg177

2 ай бұрын

Taught me how to prounounce efficacious

I heard this song back in England in the late 60's. My father was stationed in England in the U.S. Air Force. I listen to it on KZread from time to time for the memories.

That comb over itself deserves our full respect, it's not easy to wear hair that's on the left side of your head, on the right ...

Omg this brought the memories flooding back. My parents and my uncle, who loved to play records, yes records, in the 70's, used to play this and we'd all march around the living room. Love it. Thanks for the memories.

The true artist in the McCartney family

@Breeze1

2 жыл бұрын

One of the true artists

I have vivid memories of being 3 years old & making Mum wait until this had finished playing on our Decca Radiogram (presumably on "Junior Choice") before she could take me to visit my grandparents, one Saturday morning! I was obsessed with it! 😃

This is the greatest song ever written and performed by musical Gods and Master performers

It's beyond me how can it be, but after 25 years of being most obsessive Beatles-fan it wasn't until checking this band's background just couple of days ago I even realized that Paul had a brother... :o And this song was #1 hit in Britain, no less!

@coryroberts7519

Жыл бұрын

Yeah no joke.... I just found out a few days ago.... It is kind of neat being late to the party tho, now I feel I have a bunch of exciting new music to explore!

@patticrichton1135

Жыл бұрын

@@coryroberts7519 Yes you do, better late than never, and by the way, check out Mike's "McGEAR" album, you will LOVE it, and of course the other SCAFFOLD albums, FUN songs. By the way, Mike is also a fantastic photographer, starting with his pics of Paul and the fledgling Beatles, and his more recent black and white photographs. He is also a lovely man, with that great Liverpudlian sense of humor. I was so lucky to meet him several times over the years. Dear dear man.

@coryroberts7519

Жыл бұрын

@@patticrichton1135 heck yeah! The night i found him i listened to everything he had done and browsed all his photography while doing it! McGear was the 1st one i listened to! I know i wasn't alive then, but looking at it from my perspective as a 90's kid, I'm surprised 'Givin' grease a ride' didnt become a wildly popular song! Heck the album has many songs i'm surprised weren't huge hits!

@MazaikaDuo

Жыл бұрын

I just heard this song for the first time after the guy at the pub were I performed asked me to play this song. Did you get the borrowed bit from Hey Jude right at the end? 😅

@stevehaddon151

Жыл бұрын

Backing Vocals provided by, Graham nash, Elton John and time rice.

Oh my gosh! I loved this as a child I remember my Mom had it played on the radio for me on my 8th Birthday. Ahhhh happy memories thank you for posting :) :) :)

With corona virus going around the world we all need this now

@clarebolitho1813

4 жыл бұрын

Totally agree

@soundlysbananacam6182

4 жыл бұрын

a113

@pruthipongc5274

4 жыл бұрын

Agree too

@pennykorte6928

4 жыл бұрын

True

@banksyc473

4 жыл бұрын

Sheryl Willett Agreed 😂🇬🇧

I hate it when boy bands like these try to get by on their looks....

@12121149

8 жыл бұрын

+Divine X That's funny!!!!!

@dav01kar

8 жыл бұрын

+Divine X yeah right pretty boys ain't they

@123barriejohn

8 жыл бұрын

+Divine X So true - hahaha!!!

@paddylarrigan9977

7 жыл бұрын

the fastest milkman in the west

@davezx12r

7 жыл бұрын

Divine X i

Wow. I woke up singing this song and not heard it in years. And I just realised how very un-pc it is in retrospect! Love it! Could never get away with it these days.

@ryank5761

2 жыл бұрын

You literally cannot be serious. Have you heard literally any songs in the past 40 years? The song cake by the ocean is literally about eating a girl's asshole on the beach.

I loved this song as a kid , i heard it on the radio a couple of weeks ago and it brought a big smile to my face and so many memories came flooding back , brilliant !

I heard this song on my dads cd's and got it stuck in my head.I'm 14 and I think it's great :)

@thomaswhite2554

2 жыл бұрын

You'll be 24 now 😱

@matthewcarroll4237

2 жыл бұрын

@Thomas White I thought the same thing!!! Thanks again, KZread algorithm!!

@JayGixxer

2 жыл бұрын

24 now.. See im 13 and heard this on my grandads CD.

@laurainejones673

Жыл бұрын

25 now, wonder if you still think the same. Lol. I'm 59 and It still makes me laugh .

@philruane5910

9 ай бұрын

26 now, same age as our youngest ❤️❤️

I was 5 or 6 when I was taught this song. It LITERALLY JUST popped into my head and it turns out, I still know the words. 😂😂😂😂 My God, thank you for this!!!❤

@josepharmenijr8390

2 жыл бұрын

Pluging my ears! Rock?

@josepharmenijr8390

2 жыл бұрын

If this is rock,the Partridge Family is Heavy Metal!

@alexandrathrift6308

Жыл бұрын

Haha♡ Love the partridge family too xxx

we had a teacher in primary school, who brought this record in, and we had to learn all the words! Still love it to this day!

@eightiesboy

Жыл бұрын

Hope you are still alive and enjoying it!

@mitic82

Жыл бұрын

Same are music teacher used to have us singing this I'm 40 now . I think it's just cause its catchy and easy to learn good memories

@lloydgordon5958

Жыл бұрын

Me to miss karklins Millfields junior school Hackney in about 1983

@normturner4849

Жыл бұрын

Why on earth were you forced kicking and screaming against your will to learn the words? What relevance to school did it have?😁

@artvanwag3257

Жыл бұрын

We did the same at school..

I loved this as a kid back home in Sydney. Haven't heard it in probably close to half a century!!!! Thanks for the smiles and memories!!! Off to look for the Aunty Jack song now!

As a teenager in the 60s I was so proud when I found a SCAFFOLD album in the ‘cheap record’ bin. Paul McCartney’s brother’s group!! Mike moved on. But I loved them. I still love to sing “2 Day’s Monday”, just around by myself. “Is everybody ‘appy?” “You bet your life we are.”

@alexandrathrift6308

Жыл бұрын

My sister brought home a Scaffold record in the days when anything connected to the Beatles was sacred. The song I can still remember started " I live in a basement flat, there's no room to swing a cat, but there's room, it's true , for what we want to do ..." Luckily I was too young to understand the words :-) ...

Memories of my grandad, used to be a woman in his street that wore all pink he used to sing this song.

Thank Goodness You're Here!

@w0lf-m4n

9 ай бұрын

Thank Goodness You're Here!

Impeccable... Absolutely love this... Used to listen to it years ago on Radio Caroline and Radio North Sea International....

@CWb2006gl

9 ай бұрын

I know lol 😆 oops 7 77

I remember singing this at primary school.... loved it

The quintessential British band. Nowhere else could such a thing have existed - and I mean that as a compliment!

oh my god I had to sing this in assembly at primary school

@sin5284

5 жыл бұрын

Lol

@BornAnOldFart

5 жыл бұрын

me too, back in '82. Thankfully we did ABBA and Carpenters too....

@danielswedberg2722

4 жыл бұрын

Same, my school loves to sing about moonshine

@louisegalt8921

4 жыл бұрын

Me too! Along with I've got a lovely bunch of coconuts!! 😂

@Oracojisan

4 жыл бұрын

I had to sing this at school in the 70s

I never actually realised what this song were about till recently ( my first single ..(( 1964)) ThanX auntie XX

fantastic used to sing this with my mum when I was a lot shorter what a great memory

Brilliant. For Simon Cowell and his servile brigade, This is what a Christmas number 1 used to sound like!

Loved this as a kid! Ran round the couch chasing my brother every time it played!

@goonerali3547

2 жыл бұрын

Oh, we used to dream of havin' a couch! Would ha' been a palace to us. We used to live in an old water tank on a rubbish tip. We got woke up every morning by having a load of rotting fish dumped all over us! Couch? Huh

@anonymouspalmtree

Жыл бұрын

@@goonerali3547 Water tank! We used to dream of havin' a water tank...

Remebering my Aunty Lilly who emigrated to Aus in the 60's at the grand old age of 80... Thank's for the memorie's Aunty Lilly x x Miss you RIP x x x

Thank goodness you're here!

I remember singing Lily The Pink at school, in Music, and now I have it in my Spotify account.

70s music was wonderful❤

@user-ky4nt6mi8w

3 ай бұрын

No it really wasn’t 🥴

@jurgensauer6021

2 ай бұрын

Kann ich zustimmen, die 60ziger und 70ziger Oldies höre ich heute noch 👍👍‼️

@brucethomas5123

2 ай бұрын

1960s

i love this music

aww wow i used to sing this years ago in the school choir. we had different words though for some reason. what a legendary track!

This song used to be my dad favourite song but he’s died now, I love his songs they are really good and funny! ❤😭❤😭❤😭

AMAZING NEVER HEARD THIS BEFORE. BLESSINGS, TRIXIE 86 SOUTH AUSTRALIA

Awesome song, I remember my grandma had the 45 and we used to play it over and over.

Take That looked different back then, so young

My mom used to sing this to me when I was a kid to make me laugh. I love this song.

I was at camp for the past week and I heard my counselor singing this song on our hike, and it got stuck in my head, so I found it here.

Back in the day when comedy songs regularly used to get to #1.

one of the 1st songs I can remember I was born in1963..a great song .still love it today 2019.

@RabKing

3 жыл бұрын

Same here, 63 child and one of the first songs I can remember!

@martinmcdonald4207

Жыл бұрын

I was born in`62, one of the first songs i can remember too !

The Goodies have changed!

My primary school Headteacher used to play the piano to this in assembly and we had to sing along 😂😂. Ahh the 80’s

@cerena7138

3 ай бұрын

Hokey Pokey 🎉

Requested this at a disco earlier. Amazed at the response 😂😂

This song means a lot to me now as funny as it is because it reminds me of my great auntie who passed in 2017 god bless her soul, she requested this song was played in the crematorium to cheer us up which made us laugh for a little and brings a happy memory of celebrating her life - it was her favourite song so thank you 🙏🏻

Apparently this was our no.1 hit single in 1969 in Australia? Had to look it up 😊

I was 5 in 1968 and we sang this at our school Christmas party along with oh the rolypoly. Those were the days ❤

The Scaffold, featuring Guy Martin, Arthur Scargill and Woody Allen.

@DavartBiz

8 жыл бұрын

Bahaha!

@garyanderson8364

5 жыл бұрын

😂

@bollocknaked1975

5 жыл бұрын

I'm dying honestly, 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

@Simpleburger1968

5 жыл бұрын

Martin, Scargill and Allen ...for the first and only ? time ??

@Darleymead

5 жыл бұрын

@@Simpleburger1968 total incontinence and excruciating pain

A time when the charts were a less serious place ! To me this is brilliance !!

Now THAT made me feel old!.... and I remembered the words no less!.... fun to see and hear it again ... Thanks for uploading it

i love this classic, it always comforts me.

The song was about Lydia Pinkham who was a very strong abolitionist and anti-segregationist in the US of A during the 19th century. She has a very interesting story.

@Dee-oz7ih

4 жыл бұрын

I never knew that

This song was great. I remember it very well.

It gets even better. Graham Nash and Elton John were singing back-up vocals on the 1968 single. Thanks, Brits, for your wonderful, huMorous character💖

Remember listening to this on the BBC back at boarding school in Beirut long time ago.

My mum and dad used to sing this to me because my names Lily 😂💖 Good times x."Lily the pink the pink the pink"

With the inception of 'Junior Choice' on BBC Radio 1 in 1967, more novelty songs climbed the singles chart. "Lily The Pink", reminds me of being in the Cub Scouts in the early 70's,, sitting cross-legged and hollering the daffy verses.

I am 87.Heard this many years ago when music was still around. Better than the noise of today. Santa 🎅

This certainly sounds like an irish novelity song. I think of the Irish Rovers when I hear this song. I don't believe I ever heard of this song until the other day. Thx4 posting.

Beautifully under rehearsed!

It was rough in those days - get put in a home for having freckles.

@waltdefucq6106

7 жыл бұрын

As said above, the lyric here is not the one on the record. Originally 'medicinal compound' secured a sex-change for Jennifer - perhaps that was equally tough on her.

@dmichael4153

6 жыл бұрын

scoppio07... It could be worse. They put Rolf Harris in Jail for nothing.

@demifontaine5063

5 жыл бұрын

Walt DeFucq obvhhuilhvfgji

@peterpiper831

4 жыл бұрын

scoppio07 Was that the same Jennifer Eccles that the Hollies sang about ?

@bp6329

4 жыл бұрын

no, your mother

70s, as a kid , 1st hear ,, 1 off , fun songs back then !!!

Oh, how cute:) saved my day:)

still better than 1D

@ColumRogers

9 жыл бұрын

Damn right!

@virgiltracey9130

9 жыл бұрын

Hell yes

Never knew Arthur Scargill was in a pop group

@waltdefucq6106

7 жыл бұрын

John Gorman (later of Tiswas).

@anonov1

7 жыл бұрын

Before 'e were a miner me ol' lad..

@ThePoliticalLambaster1

5 жыл бұрын

Comb overs were all the rage in the late 60's n early 70's

@baronbullshyster2996

2 жыл бұрын

Yes they treated him with medical compound now he’s the leader of the Tory party

I came here via the postmodern drinking song too. I was aware of lp’s vegetable compound but had never heard of this song. Now i get jbp’s video even more

Thanks!

The pinnacle of the British music Industry

Lily The Pink lyrics (Chorus) We'll drink a drink a drink To lily the pink the pink the pink The saviour of our human race For she invented, medicinal compound Most efficacious in every case Mr freers had sticky out ears And it made him awful shy And so they gave him medicinal compound And now he's learning how to fly Brother Tony was notably bony He would never eat his meals And so they gave him medicinal compound Now they move him round on wheels We'll drink a drink a drink To lily the pink the pink the pink The saviour of the human race For she invented medicinal compound Most efficacious in every case Old Ebenezer thought he was Julius Caesar And so they put him in a home Where they gave him medicnal compound And now he's emporor of Rome Jonny Hammer, had a terrible st st st st stammer He could hardly sssay a word And so they gave him medicinal compound Now's he's seen, but never heard Chorus Aunty Milly ran willy nilly When her legs they did recede So they looked on medicinal compound Now they call her milipede Jennifer Eccles, had terrible freckles And the boys all called her names But she changed with medicinal compound Now he joins in all the games Chorus Lily the pink she turned to drink She filled up with parafin inside And despite her medicinal compound Sadly piccalilli died Up to heaven her soul ascended All the church bells they did ring She took with her medicinal compound Hark the herald angels sing Chorus

@bazd884

5 жыл бұрын

Don’t no what lyrics your listening to but not the same as there singing.

@johnhodgetts6617

3 жыл бұрын

@@bazd884 That's the point. Those are the recorded version lyrics. They've deliberately mixed all the lyrics up in this live version, presumably for a joke.

@UntaintedSKS

2 жыл бұрын

@@bazd884 the lyrics there are the original version because when they sang this they sang all the lyrics in the different order

@patticrichton1135

Жыл бұрын

@@johnhodgetts6617 plus they left some of the lyrics out for the TV show they were on.

@ellenthorne8222

Жыл бұрын

@@johnhodgetts6617 you should listen to Lonnie Donnigan's My Old Man's A Dustman, the jokes on the record as not always the same as the ones he did live or on his tv show, there is a clip on KZread.

i remember singing this in class at school, back when Britain was great.

Absolutely brilliant

Roger McGough, a man who knew the Rutles

@darrenjray

8 жыл бұрын

Thank you. I'm laughing.

@shellydrew100

7 жыл бұрын

I was born in Rutland and they still owe me 15 quid that I sent for my new birth certificate...great song , wasn't , oh Neil Innes , what was that tv show....ahhh the innes book of records , I think

@johnb9037

6 жыл бұрын

Love the Rutles!!!

Ricky: Paul goes, “Well, if you wanna… (sings) ‘The long and winding road…’” Steve: “Boring! (sings) 'We’ll drink a drink a drink to Lily the pink…'”

@AutomaticDuck300

2 жыл бұрын

“Do you want to come on tour with us, Linda?”

I see this was no. 1 in the charts around this time 43 years ago. Looking at the rest of the Top 40 then, I remember them all. God, am I that old?

such song pops out once every 44 years 21 cenury, that is...

Absolutely love this 👍

"lads, we've been over this... *I* was gonna start bobbing down, and then you two alternate..."

@GaryAllGob

4 жыл бұрын

Ha ha - this one's even better (or worse) .....kzread.info/dash/bejne/k2F-yaiPiqjbhNo.html

@patricialittle6573

3 жыл бұрын

My nans favourite x

Anyone from the switch game trailer????

I first listened to this on a radio station going up Dempster Terrace in St.Andrews Fife Scotland. Brings back the memories.

Great song reminding me of my boyhood days glued to the telly.

That's John Gorman in the middle - from Tiswas. He also did the Bucket of Water song!

@baronbullshyster2996

2 жыл бұрын

Only after taking Medicinal Compound

The 60's and 70's are the years I should've lived in!

@janehobson2355

2 жыл бұрын

No.

@robbo5life

2 жыл бұрын

@@janehobson2355 yes

@janehobson2355

2 жыл бұрын

@@robbo5life I did and they were not good.

@robbo5life

2 жыл бұрын

@@janehobson2355 why?

top quality!! have always loved this song.

I love this!!

mike mc gear had a brother who played bass guitar in a certain beat combo , at that time i can not remember his name

@Kalle72

8 жыл бұрын

+Rob McKay No. You can't even stream their music at any provider.

@danneman6602

8 жыл бұрын

Shears. Billy Shears.

@nickmazonowicz511

6 жыл бұрын

wings? (The band the Beatles could have been)

@xfactorcritic

5 жыл бұрын

Kalle72 Thankfully you can now!

@fernleystephens2436

5 жыл бұрын

It was either Paul Lennon or George Starr.

I remember this from my childhood. I got nicknamed Jennifer Eccles due to my freckles

It's great one!

love it :)

As you will know if you listen to the record, the lyric here is very different. I guess they were restricted to a three-minute time slot and therefore - maybe to obtain maximum impact - decided to jumble up the lines (including repeating the one about going into a "home") and to parody American gospel in the final verse. Scaffold = punks before their time

@garrisonaw

5 жыл бұрын

If they hadn't sung it so bloody slow, they could have sung all the lyrics in that same three minutes. Frankly, I think they must have had a bit of Medicinal Compound before the show, and just couldn't remember the words.

@idontwantachannel3091

4 жыл бұрын

True! The lyrics didn't all make sense, ie the jokes did not work - so I tried another result that came up in google: kzread.info/dash/bejne/p2ukqqaoetXYqqQ.html, over 4 minutes long and all the jokes 'work'. This one has a great video though.

@Edwing77

2 жыл бұрын

@@garrisonaw True, cutting out some is one thing, however jumbling them up didn't save time at all 🤔 The gospelly "cue and chorus" thing at the end is nice though, the one thing better than in the studio version 🛐

Like si has vist el Polònia del 25 d'abril de 2019 i has cantat la cançó del trifachito 🤦🏼‍♀️🚗 o la de la Trinca 🤷🏼‍♀️

Great record love it

Love this song ❤ .. I've never heard it before

Anytime I listen to this song I wonder: Whatever has happened to music nowadays? Lily The Pink is as phantastic as Nelly the Elephant (by the Toy Dolls). Absolutely underrated, funny, perfectly imperfect, simply uncomparable, great! Grinning greetings from Hanover, Germany, to all followers of intelligent music

@tim2015

Ай бұрын

Look up the MonaLisa Twins. They sing (and play) lots of 60s songs, also a lot of very good original music.

@jcs7642

Ай бұрын

@@tim2015 Thanks a lot for your hint, I gave it a look and it fits - great!