Just think of the millions they DIDN'T spend filming this!!! Thank U very much! For sharing this!

My Nan taught me this song more than fifty years ago. RIP Peggy Spruce ❤

Forget Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca ... I want medicinal compound

@user-fc6ws6ge6z

Жыл бұрын

Great minds work alive! COVID is so 2021...now monkey pox is all the rage!

@deletebilderberg

Жыл бұрын

@@user-fc6ws6ge6z 2023, where ‘DIED SUDDENLY’ is ALL the rage!!

@teviottilehurst

Жыл бұрын

7 year old in 68 living in Reading England. Oh the memories.

@pearsonchick

Жыл бұрын

@leighwest5564 The song is based on Lydia Pinkham’s recipe from the 1800s but you can still get it today! 😅

@alessiocece2098

11 ай бұрын

​@@pearsonchickwhat can you get?

Great to hear this after about 55 years, amazing !

A wonderful song which is seriously needed today.

My mum introduced this song to me in my teens I’m now 36 in 2024

This was the first record I ever purchased. I bought this as a 4 year old in 1968 to play on the 2nd hand radiogram I had been given for my birthday. 37 years later, it was the song my bride and I left the altar to when we got married to the surprise and shock of family and friends. Not even the bridesmaids or best babe ( ididnt have a best man) knew what we had planned. :) We skipped out hand in hand, and then fell about laughing outside, leaving a bewildered venue full of people behind us.

@tonelemoan

2 жыл бұрын

Excellent!

@mikewright7407

2 жыл бұрын

I absolutely LOVE this! Hope you and your wife are well and happy still! x

@PSP92262

2 жыл бұрын

Here's was hoping you've grown up by now lol

@Pizzpott

2 жыл бұрын

lol. I hope that you are both still as happy as you were on that day.

@gremlinuk1968

2 жыл бұрын

You bought as a 4 year old,,? So you went out as a 4 year old and bought this song, ? LMAO, !

The Christmas No1 from 1968, I was 5 years old at the time and loved it. Always reminds me of Christmas as a child😊

@cuhurun

5 ай бұрын

andy... '63, a vintage year. same here, fella. Glorious memories.

@Barry101er

2 ай бұрын

Pass the bong, will ya?

@kevinbleasdale9717

2 ай бұрын

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I don't know why but this song comes to my mind when I'm nearing the end of my shift as an office cleaner here in central London at the Dept of health. .Timeless classic!

@theculturedthug6609

Жыл бұрын

Medicinal compound

@ridethelapras

8 ай бұрын

"Office cleaner ... Central London ... (UK) Dept. of Health" Yep, makes sense to me. You probably just need a drink, ahaha...

@DavidHodgkinson-bc8en

6 ай бұрын

😂😂😂

This never fails to make me smile! 🤭😁

I bought this 45 in 1969. Still in my collection. Number one on the charts in Perth Australia. My late younger sister used to get up and dance every time it was played in our home😊

What background shall we have for the film? Of course! A massive demolition site!

@unrealdev5178

3 жыл бұрын

Didn't expect to find you here matey! Well, in hindsight it's not surprising at all!

@gmgroucho77

3 жыл бұрын

With scaffolding and a woman dressed in pink.

@NigelGentry

3 жыл бұрын

I guess they had some scaffolding in the background to go with the name of the group. Music videos weren't really big in 1968!

@toooldfortwowheels2048

3 жыл бұрын

This is very odd, literally discover this song this morning by mistake, notice they're shooting the video in a building site. Notice Lloyd one of my longest subscribed to KZreadrs in the comments saying precisely that. They are called the scaffolds though so it makes some sense? Also is that Roger McGough in the hat!?

@burtgrabmore2972

3 жыл бұрын

@@unrealdev5178 I was just going to comment on the choice of site, then I noticed the comment, then I noticed the commenter, then I was going to reply that I thought it was obvious that Lindy would be here, then I noticed your reply, then I noticed that this sentence is way too long, and contains way too many instances of the word 'notice'. Anyway, love Lindy's videos, I always thought this was an Irish Rovers' song.

I remember singing this with my classmates at primary school in the 80's!! If I remember rightly, it was during a recreation period! Haha the words....it's great!

Guy in the middle is Mike McCartney who had a famous brother called Paul something... Bass guitar on this was played by the legendary Jack Bruce of Cream fame

@peterlewington4651

3 жыл бұрын

Paul maccartney?! The singer and bass guitar for the WINGS?! That Paul maccartney? Incredible

@lillieiliff3639

2 жыл бұрын

@@peterlewington4651 Obviously the talent didn’t follow in the family then because it’s absolutely awful and one guy is completely flat

@Boudicca-the-musical

2 жыл бұрын

Paul McGear, yes. Left handed guitarist and vocalist with Johnny and his Moondogs.

@thebeetles4256

2 жыл бұрын

Yes we all know that thx.

@thebeetles4256

2 жыл бұрын

He looks like he’s brother only little bit tho…… that smile.

Nice to see the lads from Auf wiedersehen in the background 🙂

Man there’s something so sad and poignant about this video even though it’s upbeat and joyful (except for the last verse!) - perhaps it’s the massive amount of time gone by since this song was released and the vast amount of childhood memories associated with it i dunno. We sure did live in a different world back then. Kinda brings to light how rotten everything is now. I remember seeing this video when it came out but haven’t seen it since. Now I can’t stop watching it and I’m laughing and crying at the same time😳

Vernon Kay played this on Radio 2 today. I tried to sing along. It's a really funny and fun song.

Heard on Radio 2 today as a tribute to Paul O'Grady.... Such a jolly tune

@deanwatson9458

6 ай бұрын

Was a lovely man Paul o' Grady ❤

Such fun, so delightful and full of humour!

There´s no song that might reflect any better why I really love England so much

Im here after this song popped in my head for no apparent reason !! lol

@hilarymcgourty4458

Жыл бұрын

Me too 12 months after you haha

Father was a product of 1954,I came along in 1982,worked with him for 2 years at the turn of the 21st century and he used to hum and sing this....🤣👍

I think I 1st heard this song back 70s when i was a kid , born May 23rd 1968 from northern Ireland UK, 🤝♥️🇬🇧

a blast from the past brings back memories from my childhood they dont make them like this anymore theres no humour any more in music

So clever to think you can listen to this all and right at the end you find...that it's a Christmas track in fact.

This song tormented me as a young child!

Great song -I always liked it

In December 1968, 1st place on the British charts! (Record Mirror).

@michaelrayroach4351

3 жыл бұрын

Thanks for your beautiful committe

Buttons of your mind was my favourite serious song their best IMO

For some reason we were forced to sing this at school (in the late 80s). Now I know where it is from!

@kimberleystockdale1767

2 жыл бұрын

We still sang it in school in the early 2000s! 🤣

Never heard of the word "efficacious" before listening to this song.

I hope they all had their cscs card & 1 hour induction to get on to the site

A classic.

This song is pure genius 😂😂😂

Not one American understands anything about this song, it is a mystery to them.

@stevepope4248

3 жыл бұрын

And it's about Lydia Pinkham, an American during prohibition who invented a highly alcoholic tonic for women and gov never sussed it !

@aidy6000

10 ай бұрын

It's an American folk song to be fair mate.

brings back memories of junior choice on radio one

Always a fan of Scaffolds Work

Arthur Scargill anyone? 😂😂

Mike McGear, the guy in the middle with the green-blue jacket, is the younger brother of another big band from Liverpool..... his brother answers to the name Sir Paul McCartney and the band is The Beatles

@pierremchughes9917

9 ай бұрын

Yes but not the present McCartney

@deanocallaghan1850

9 ай бұрын

Wow. that fact blew my mind. I see on Wikipedia that after retiring he has dropped the pseudonym McGear and is now going by his proper name Mike McCartney.

Was ein geiles Lied!! Und so passend zum Pharmazismus

I reckon Lilly took three in the pink.

What an old favourite of mine 🙂

The first guy is the most 60s guy I've ever seen The second is the most 70s guy I've ever seen The third... would probably fit in better today

@tombstoneharrystudios584

4 жыл бұрын

1st guy...Mike McGear (Paul McCartney's brother!) 2nd guy...Roger Gorman (from Tiswas!) 3rd guy...Roger McGough (brilliant poet who's still performing!)

@akitakutya

3 жыл бұрын

...and the girl?

@madjackfuller

3 жыл бұрын

@@akitakutya Lily the pink

@VirreFriberg

3 жыл бұрын

Third guy dresses like a pimp

@carollynnchap

3 жыл бұрын

@@akitakutya That would be me .. Carol Bura then, now Chapman ( Waitress from the Revolution Club and one time extra in films)

A good song and very dark

NOBODY... Does comedy of any variety like us BRITISH. GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, BY A LONG WAY..

Brilliant 💕

@isaacmoore6676

Жыл бұрын

🥰🥰

thanks for sharing this... never seen it before... 2022

This was when stereo was used properly. They don't know what stereo is today!

@G6JPG

3 жыл бұрын

That isn't stereo, it's two separate tracks! (And all the better for it, IMO! Like you, I like the technique.)

@garryreason1796

3 жыл бұрын

@@G6JPG Actually yeah thats a good point it is a "left" track and a "right" track put together, but its great. It uses the 2 channels to their maximum.

when did Arthur Scargill become a singer

The song some folks will sing while queing for their next booster... ;)

I used to hate this song because of the second verse, my brothers and sisters would sing it at me, I was bony and didn't eat my meals! 50 years on it's just funny.

I ❤️ the Scaffold

@isaacmoore6676

Жыл бұрын

same hun xxx

My song when I was a kid

Can't see a music video like this being approved this day in age!!

@davidsmith6355

2 жыл бұрын

Colin yeah, you are right mate, it might not pass the pc test but you know what? The pc test is wrong and if anyone disagrees with me I am happy to explain why they are wrong haha!. (basically its lack of evidence, case dismissed) Not so sure about that woman going up to great heights in that bucket though - that looks dangerous to me!

@Pizzpott

2 жыл бұрын

Yep, that's how far we have fallen.

@carollynnchap

Жыл бұрын

@@davidsmith6355 It was!, but ll made them chain up the tipping mechanism so that it couldn't flip.

@davidsmith6355

Жыл бұрын

@@carollynnchap Oh that's very good to hear Carol, feeling much less worried about it now haha! Must have been great to have been involved with something so iconic 🙂

@mal_3157

Жыл бұрын

@@davidsmith6355 how is this politically incorrect I’m confused 😂

This song is about 150 years old. It’s based on Lydia Pinkhams pills from US.

This song is what you call an earworm 😁

The woman who acted Lilly the pink, once commented here in the comments? Where is she? She said she was indeed sitting in that bucket but it was very scary.

Building and demolition sites seemed to be a thing, for videos. Look at Concrete and Clay, or War Baby by Tom Robinson. That one looked bloody lethal.

Je connais cette chanson elle avait été chanter par Richard Anthony le sirop typhon

WOW 💯♥️😜

I remember this from childhood

today Dec9 th played on Pick of the tops radio2

@1:42 My choreographer wife couldn't help but notice that they all turn together and then John sets off on the wrong foot.

Who else is here for Paul McCartney’s brother?

@fayeeholland9927

3 жыл бұрын

@@lovelyweeburd You think? 😂😂

@annefrancoiseschreuder7176

3 жыл бұрын

@@lovelyweeburd l agree 🤣

I remember John Gorman in Tiswas

Forgot the 70s were quite grim... But I'd go back 👍

@JohnHoworth

4 жыл бұрын

1968 apparently.

@vanmartinmartin

4 жыл бұрын

Xmas 1968

@MistletoeMatters

Жыл бұрын

It's filmed on a building site, they're always grim. And it was the 60s.

What does it do for a comb-over though?

I bloody hated this back in 1968 but with the passing of time and the mellowing of age, I still fucking hate it.

@stephaniem5091

3 жыл бұрын

It's great. Miserable sod. haha. :)

@user-ri2oj6yz6c

10 ай бұрын

That's just like the rational way people spoke back then!

Did... did they just murder Lily the Pink?!

@lovelyweeburd

3 жыл бұрын

Just funnelled some scrumpy down her gullet, she'll live! Might have a wee hangover though 😂 🍺

Smello!!

It's like they saw the future.

Jack Bruce on Bass. Elton John on backing vocals. :)

@duncandistortion

4 жыл бұрын

Andy Scott on guitar?.

If you want to know who they're singing about goggle "Lydia Pinkman"

@Chentzilla

8 ай бұрын

Pinkham, but thanks anyway.

WTF. NO WONDER MY FRIENDS AND I ARE FUCKED UP. THIS WAS OUR MUSIC TEACHERS SONG OF CHOICE TO LEARN IN 1982.

Thanks Grandad ❤ 😢

Numerous health and safety violations in this video.

Yaas

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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 efficasious 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 Robert tony, was known to be 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 efficasious in every case Old ebineezer thought he was julius caeser And so they put him in a home Where they gave him medicnal compound And now he's emperor 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 Aunty milly, ran willy nilly When her legs they did recede So they rubbed on medicnal compound Now they call her millipede Jennifer eccles, had terrible freckles And the boys all called her names But they gave her medicinal compound Now he joins in the games Lily the pink she turned to drink She filled up with parafin inside And despite her medicinal compound Sadly picklilly 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

@nicksmith3737

4 жыл бұрын

Jennifer Eccles turns into a boy if you listen to the lyrics. "he joins in the games"

@brendagascoigne7727

4 жыл бұрын

"Now they call her Millipede"

@e.k.2168

3 жыл бұрын

Aunty milly, ran willy nilly When her legs they did recede So they RUBBED on medicinal compound (not "looked" on!) Now they call her millipede

@trevormatthews6005

3 жыл бұрын

Not sure that everyone in the song was any better off for having medicinal compound

Oi lads, I've just had a great idea for a music video... What's the budget? £10 but we get to make it on a building site and also we get to forcefully restrain a woman and make her drink medicinal compound😂😂.

Randomly sang this at school, which is strange because it sounds like a drunkard's anthem!

"Up to Heaven her Soul Ascended". Figure it out and take a shot.....or not.

Can you fix the aspect ratio? (It isn't widescreen.)

Medicinal Compound looks an awful lot like scrumpy

How true it became

You couldn't get away with forcing a woman to drink that against her will nowadays

@deanocallaghan1850

9 ай бұрын

yeah, some things just don't age well. Check out some Al Jolson songs sometime . 😁

Arthur Scargill on the left

The group of Mike McCartney, brother of Paul. Stage name Mike McGear.

Pink a girl's favourite colour.

Can't believe one of the guys in here is Paul McCartney's brother.

Sorry to ask, what year was this song, ? 😐

Apparently the first song I began to sing at 2 years old

There should be an updated version dedicated to Stella Immanuel.

medicinal compound!

Danke Schwarzwaldradio! Den findet man nicht aus Versehen xD

Lol good one

Oh great I know this song only from Germany in german and it will played always at carneval.

Is that Liverpool they're demolishing in the background?

Brother Billy (Campbell-Shears) came back from the de-ead with medicinal compound and replaced Paul instead!

lol...no comments!