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  • it should have been no 1 this

  • @SuperBoogley I'll never quite understand why so many popular songs don't become bigger hits.Tough time for this sweet gem,because that summer of '79 also saw the chart-creating public buying records in massive numbers everywhere - producing an extraordinary variety of megahits

  • iiiif iii haaad yooouuu :(

  • This song brings back a few memories. A sure classic and still sounds as good today as all those years ago. That guitar rift  is fab!!. Happy days

  • Thanks for downloading, and there ar good comments here but, pity the sound quality is poor. there are several much fuller/clearer versions from Cd here too.

  • Still such a great record. :)

  • Oh for the days of teenage angst

  • @nffc1971 i care, thanx!

  • @nffc1971 I absolutely do care.I am a huge fan of Music,History and Trivia - so you can imagine how much I love musical history trivia. I'm not sure I did know that,but it's always wonderful to know what beauty inspired others beautiful work.The Classical works not only live on hidden in others,but get new life breathed into themselves.Cheers for that info

  • Stackridge were playing Lyme Regis last night in their latest line-up (minus Mutter Slater). A very very good gig. Some interesting new material just released.

  • Didn't realise this song had such an impact at the time it was released I bought a copy on order from baby world children shop Prescot UK and still have Its great just to look at

  • im a genie

  • I was living in Cyprus when this song was released. It's amazing how the power of music has such a long-lasting effect. Great memories, great memories. ucfbtm thanks for posting.

  • Thanks very much for mentioning that.It seems hard to believe,that The Korgis were almost a hobby side project to Stackridge,which was a totally different prog-rock folk sound from the earlier 70s. The Late Late Show,here on the Orlando CBS,doesn't air till gone 1am.When I heard the run-down,I could NOT believe my ears on Monday.I had to wait till 2am to see that it was absolutely true - Craig even intro'd them by saying he was 10 when he first heard them :) It was surreally nostalgic

  • Andy Davis ( who wrote the song & played the guitar solo) and James Warren were The Korgis but there main band was, and still is STACKRIDGE. They still tour the UK and appeared on The Craig Ferguson Late Late Show on CBS TV in America on Monday 14th March 2011. You can find it on You Tube. Have a look at Stackridge.Dot.Net

  • @boptobe42 ok, i will thanx for the info. and you may wanna try freur doot, doot.

  • god I remember this song didnt know it was done by the Korgis

  • my mum has this on vinyl, that same one on the turntable

  • heard this on rafio 1 roadshow with dlt instructing the nation to throw their windows open so everyone could hear. just after bits and pieces if i remember correctly.

  • @miakirshner09 What a brilliant memory! It sounds so specific,that I'm sure you remembered it spot on.And I'm sure the Radio One jocks would indeed have implored such an act - especially DLT

  • @miakirshner09 NICE STORY....... NOSTALGIA IS A WONDERFUL THING ,MUSIC IS THE KEY TO THE SOUL, AND YOUTUBE IS A FANTASTIC INNOVATION, I'D BE LOST WITHOUT IT

  • 79 Classic!!

  • Lovely song.

  • as I used to say on the radio, "If I had you - I'd give up tomatoes"

  • reminds me of a love and son i lost so many years ago,still miss them now love you Denise and Neil

  • Totally beautiful!!! And thank you for posting!

  • Makes me think of my very sweet, talented, Loving friend Gary Twitchett. If you like this, as I do, check out Gary's videos. Do a search on "Juletta"........... then follow him from there!

  • Ex Depeche Mode Alan Wilder has worked on this song.He was just 20!

  • @gahan101 One of the earlier comments says he's now in Recoil.Does that sound right? I love all the details about various connections in music history.Even Stephen Duffy was in Depeche Mode in those early Vince Clark years,right? This Korgis song was a session gig for Alan Wilder,I understand.

  • You know the phrase "I haven't heard this in ages", is often used. In this case, it's true.........has anyone actually heard this being played on the radio since 1979 ..........no, me neither !

  • Thanks for posting. This is a glorious reminder of 1978 was it May?

  • I note that many of the comments here, state that for some reason this song has the ability to bring back sad memories or feelings. I agree, me too. Nothing in particular in my case, it's just a sad/poignant type of song, I guess

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  • Those memories are timeless - and will ultimately be bigger than any regreat you might feel.You can console yourself,thinking that the recipient enjoyed those recods - and so the love got passed forward.(It's GREAT to share music).

  • hear hear....

  • Remember this and "Everybody's Got to Learn Sometime" coming out when I was little. This song was the first dance at my wedding to my childhood sweetheart in August 1993 when we were 19; sadly she had an affair and left me in May 2007 and I've not seen her since. Patricia, wherever you are and whatever you did, hearing this song here has made me realise that I still love you and always wil do, if you're still out there

  • it's sad for you and i wish you the best

  • hahahahaha yeah right in your profile says that you have now 29 years and in your nickname is 1980 so i would think that it's your birth year and if you were born 1980 in august 1993 you would have 13 years so wtf?????

  • My name is DaveDaRave1980 because I love everything 80s , NOT because I was born in 1980. Idiot...

  • And incidentally, my age is not on my profile, it never has been - so WTF are you on?!

  • you are an idiot...you have 29 years now?? how much did you have in 1993???

  • I'm 34, not 29. I was born in 1975, I was 18 when I got married in 1993. Happy now?

  • nothing lasts forever sun dont beat yourself up about it

  • reminds me when i left home a just b4 this came out tend not to listen as its to upsetting

  • Ah the memories....summer of 79, living in Germany, Honda 400/4, and Weisenburg Beer.....Oh Lippstat was an unusual place to pine for 30 years later!!!

  • hee-hee.I love it.Just as some smells and tastes can bring back memories,some musical memories can take us back to those tastes and smells.Right? :)

  • @jingles968 yeah dude,been there,rode one in ireland round about this time F1-nice,nothing like the howl of a 4/4 on full bore,the smell of hot tarmac on a summers day....bliss

  • so sad...was out at the time of a friend who was tragically killed on way home from school on his bike....always brings a tear to my eye,

  • What a blast from the past, my boyfriend loves this song!!!

  • Wat a grt song from the past and hi to my darling if I had you then life wd be perfect but you are not free mores the pity!!!!

  • This brings back so many memories - Thanks so much for uploading:)

  • Love this song. One of my favourites

  • THIS rules!

  • Anyone got "Young and Russian?"

  • blast from the past.

  • this reminds of a girl called loz when we used to go to scorpios in barrow

  • I love the way a song can immediately transport us back to one precise time and place - and every single memory that went with it.

  • was good in barrow then scorpios great nightclub

    1980

  • i can only agree with you all, it is a wonderfull song. great to hear it after all those years. thank you fore sharing.

  • My pleasure

  • Beautiful song /beautiful memories

  • Thank you.

  • This song is truly beautiful! After a really 'blip' time in my life, I am now back with an ex-boyfriend of 20 years ago, and this is our song!

  • This song is for a girl I loved back in the 1970s and Just incase Becca ( from Portsmouth ) is still out there, I have never fallen out of love with you and never will.

    Happy memories

  • Hope you find her -  what a sweet message!

    Bonne Année! - Anne

  • i still think this is one of the gretest love songs ever. it really gets to me every time i

    hear it

    cheers for uploading it mate

  • this song reminds me of a mate eric last time iseen him he had just bought this record we went for a drink in bradford unfortuntiy he had a accident that weekend and died the song reminds me of him ioviey song god time

  • still love this song nearly 30 years on

  • Loved this song when I first heard it - and still do after all these years.

  • well done mate!! cheers!

  • my pleasure good sir.Thank you.

  • such a cracking tune not played enough on todays radio and media thank goodness for you tube and posts like this to bring thease gems back to life

  • who needs polititions when we got musicians

    great musicians like this.....ps had 4 cans of strongbow sorry about the spelling

  • Well said John.Cheers.

  • pretty reminder of innocent times.

  • this takes me back to when i was 10 and summer holidays on the Isle of Man. Summers seemed hotter,everything seemed innocent and we looked foreward to changing the world.great times fantastic song

  • That is sweet.Thankyou.I have always loved how music can serve as an immediate Time Machine - close you eyes and everything is recreated.

  • Great use of a Mellotron in this. The Korgis were a new-wave spin off from the folk rock band 'Stackridge' who are still gigging today.

    I was 16 when this was on the radio everywhere...I'm still looking for the one to play this song to.

  • Indeed,there is a great new rendition by Stackridge (on James Warren's channel) of "Everybody's got to learn sometime" - a beautifully faithful performance. I know love songs can and should be interchangeable.but I'm thinking "If I had you" was meant from a boy to a girl - so allow me to play this for you :)

  • guys wow them coments are so moving i remember this at my primary school disco im just 40 and some how this track has made me appreciate my age cheers all

  • Cheers back.Yes,I definitely appreciate being around - and a teen - when this was out.

  • i love this track, it takes me back to when nothing mattered,i was 15 when this came out, it was always a good track to pull the girls for a slow dance. how soon time flies, thanks 4 the memories.

  • You're right mate,it was as if nothing mattered.

  • nice one dude im back on for another listen

  • exelente video

    me gusta mucho

    canta muy padre

    exelente cancion

  • fine song heard on magic fm the other day

  • wow..i was 10 years old when this came out. we would sing along to it in my dad's Zodiac on the way to wales on holiday. what great memories it brings back - before life got complicated. what a great posting. thank you so much for this.

  • That's sweet kiddie,thankyou.Isn't it lovely how music alwaus takes us straight back to a specific time and place? I was dealing with the hilarity of being a 14 year-old boy in late 70s Britain.(And wondering why James was dressed like a wasp on TOTP and singing "you looked as pretty as a bee".Maybe he wasn't? :) )

  • This song means such a lot to me. I bought this for my first girl friend in 1979 when i was only 13. I didn't think she would go out with me because she was so pretty. I gave her the song.She died in 1983 at the age of 16. I am 42 now and still miss her. This song always makes me cry but thanks for putting it on here. God bless you all. x

  • Bless you too Cap.That was a beautiful memory to share,thanks very much.We certainly had our childhood and adolescence during a Golden Age for music,didn't we? (I am recently 43,so I remember those exact feelings you were experiencing).I'm glad you got to enjoy that love.She did too - some moments of true beauty in a far too short life.Hugs x

  • Yes it was a golden age of music.Thanks for the reply ucfbtm

  • what a moving message you posted. God bless you.

  • ,,try Supertramp songs, or ELO, they might make you laugh or cry more, the better to remind you with, so you can "burn out" your old memories ?

  • @cap280 thats a very sad story, i know this song is so beautiful

    it gets to me it reminds me of a girl too

  • @cap280

    Beautiful song, beautiful story. I love this song and will always think of that story too whenever I hear it.

  • @cap280 That's such a sad wee story cap 280 and you will always miss her. They say that time is a great healer but the pain only lessens it never heals! My brother and myself used to sit and listen to this song, he is dead now so when I listen to it I always have a wee cry. there are certain songs that just seem to have that certain something and I always think the person who writes them must have a really warm, good heart. God bless you all x RIP neil x

  • So glad to find this song, was seven when it came out and fell in love with it and sang it with my mum.

    She died last year, just 59, hearing this has taken me back to a better place in happier times, thanks x

  • Oh that's lovely.Thankyou very much.I'm so glad it takes you back to a happy place - music is wonderful for immediately doing that,isn't it?

  • One of the truest things ever said my friend. Hear the song and you are back there!

  • @ucfbtm and I miss her today as much as her missed her then. God love you mum xx

  • @ucfbtm and I miss her today as much as her missed her then. God love you mum xx

  • the same as you down below, wot a tune !!!!!

  • me 2 ,i love everybodys gotta learn sometime too..

  • I just heard this playing radio 2 and brought memories flooding back from my childhood. My mum used to play this song over and over. It has a special place in my heart from that moment in time when i was stood as a young girl in the dining room watching the record going around and around, fascinated by this beautiful song...

  • Me too on the ken bruce show , A very classic track.

  • Sends chills down my spine! Such a beautiful song! Reminds me of carefree, long lazy days with my mates! Sound quality is not 100% - great shame!

  • love this song brings me back to my teens where nothing mattered .rod stewart done an excellent recording of this too on the album human thanks

  • It was a golden era of music,to be a teen eh? (Made up for having Maggie around).Yes,I did get to hear Ken Bruce once play Rod's version.I was amazed that anybody would tackle it,but he really did a beautiful job - a lovely tribute.Ta for the album info.

  • I always thought this was the best Korgis song... I haven't heard thid for about 20 years... you have made me so happy posting it.

    Thank you so much - it's really beautiful to feel the love again.

    Joe

  • These beautiful songs, really get you in the heart. such a talented band. one of all time favorites. vastly underrated.

  • I listened to this on my CD after I lost my dog and I always think of him when I hear it

  • is alan wilder of depeche mode included here?

  • I understand that Alan Wilder was involved in the production side of this single.

  • ucfbtm, ta for posting this, reminds me of my teen days growing up in Liverpool, hey just ahd a laugh reading Rhonddachick & ur replies! lol! she's a bit of Welsh Rarebit I'd like! lol!

  • Can anyone tell me where I can obtain a copy of the Korgis' track "True Life Confessions" from about 1985 ??????

  • As long as you don't mind vinyl there are a some going on ebay at the moment.

  • i hope to play this one as my wedding background, love it madly

  • amazing song!!

  • fantastic

  • He sings it and you believe him.real music.

  • thank u babes...love u....xxxxxxxx

  • My pleasure,sweetheart.Love u too :) xxx

  • lol...that was 4 my partner, but u made me giggle....xxxxxxxx

  • I'm so confused! You mean I'm NOT you're only one?! And you break it to me so publicly?! :( (Don't try to tempt me those xxxx - I won't fall for that again.Tee-hee).Now behave,this is supposed to be a sad song *sniff* )

  • A real classic! Perfect for those Valentine discos and last songs at school discos!

  • Alan Wilder of Recoil, and former longtime member of Depeche Mode, played on the single version of this song as a session keyboardist back before his big break.

  • still 1 of the best sounds......even now..

  • still waiting to hear from the original korgis

  • shit.2 you

  • Great song,where are you guys if your watching this take note. Of the terrible music scene today please

  • korgis......where are you?////

  • wonderful record

  • its only a personal opinion. chillout !

  • ok dude , chilling right now with a good bottle of wine and some good weed !!!!

  • I can see that you are someone know's taste is firmly buried up their arse !!! , dick head !!!

  • Wish I was 19 last year !!! , actually I didn't complete a profile I just gave a user name and away I went , all I will say is that I am over 21

  • who cared 1979 oil crisis , thatcher government , strikes , 3 day week , music pulled us through ,glad i was 19 when this came out if only we could go back in time ,no neds , hoodies or tossers on the streets !!

  • Your profile suggest you were 19 last year.I hear what u say about each generation's outcasts.I DO remember how the wrinklies of my teen years bemoaned the resurgence of mods and rockers - even tho they probably WERE those back in the 50s.Keep the faith - there are still occasionally love songs out there e.g "Hey There Delilah" (possibly a Grammy winner,but retro simple)

  • aint that the truth

  • 1979 - I was 13 and this was the first song that made me realise what emotion in a song was all about. 40(+) now and it's still awesome...if not better.

  • Cheers Nick.Me too - I had just turned 14.The clever thing,is that these were not teens but they were singing about those years.Definitely struck a chord,simple and poignant - oh how the Korgis were terribly under-rated

  • Same here, was 11 when this came out during a holiday camp week, fell in love with this girl from Nottingham and this song was EVERYWHERE.....always reminds me of that 79 holiday and her, seems like yesterday the memories are so vivid, her name was Claire Rogers

  • haven't heard this for many many years , too painful for me , every day reminds me of my old collie Sam , died in 79 , still think about him every day , but nevertheless a great song from the 70,s , the good ole days

  • I Love The Korgis ...

    Fantastic song ...

  • just had to hear this before going to bed.life is good when you have love.but its been a long road to get where i am.Avebabe my life is heaven on earth now i have found u.luvya,luvya,luvya xxxxx

  • Fantastic.

  • I hated this with passion when it came out but i must admit it sounds a wee bit better with age.

  • Such an underrated song....and band too .Brilliant !!!Thanks for posting : )

    Billy.....xx

  • mmmmmmmmmm a toon for all time

  • wot can i say fantastic........love the korgis brings bac so many memorys

  • this song is now one of my all time favourites.I keep finding myself back here for another fix.A classic.

  • great song

  • song!

  • just had to return for another listen luvit

  • Enjoy - that's why we share.Add it to your faves.I still love it after all these decades - never gets old.Cheers.

  • had to give this another spin luvit

  • just had to hear this song ive loved it since its first hearing the bottleneck guitar gets me every time

  • Cheers Roy - I'm with you there.They certainly were masters at the heart-tugging guitar solo bridge.Normally I'd cringe at the Country/Western twang of a steel guitar (sound),but here it actually adds to the fraught emotion without changing the theme.

  • just a brill song

  • ive been waiting for years to hear this

  • me too buddy!

  • makes the hair on my arms stand up, loved this as a kid,played it all the time, i was only 10. still does it for me know.

  • me too - that's the sign of good music.That is lovely to hear it made such an impact when you were 10 (which was 4 years ealier for me).Music is a wonderful memory in itself and a reminder of other memories.Cheers

  • Yep me too. havent we all felt like the words of this song at some point in our lives?

  • Beautiful!! Takes me back to my wonderful youth. I love looking at the spinning 45.

  • no what you mean my kids havent a glue how a record worked on a player

  • where are they now bring back the oldies

  • Here,here to that.(Check jamesewarren - he of the vocals - he is back his band Stackridge,which he had years before forming the Korgis

  • This is just wonderful.

  • Fantastic simple and marvellous.

  • Simply wonderful!!! Nothing more to say about the Korgis...massively underated but with a wonderful catalogue of tunes. James Warren and Andy Davies were genius. I'm back in August 1979 all over again...happy days!!

  • ........beleive this was recorded at the top of the stairs and in a bathroom to get the sound effect. Fabulous!

  • hee hee.The running Shower was pure genius! :D

  • excellent song lots of happt memorts

  • it moves me

  • thanks, great to hear this song!!!! have n,t heard it for years. korgis rule.