Manfred Mann My Name Is Jack

[robertfoy100]

02:28 I was trying to think who the drummer reminded me of in that shot then realised it was Marty Feldman.

[danw1374]

I would happily pay to listen to a day of 60s music on radio 1 instead of the total garbage excuse for music served up today

[iw32]

15 wayward boys and girls disliked this song.

[TheKraaken1]

I was a freshman in high school when this came out, and I have loved it every day since!

[BrokenneckYgor]

brings back fond memories of my mental hospital stay. i was in there for imagining everybody was my mom and wanted to molest me

[rubbersole79]

to everyone who complains about "poorly done" videos

"yer gettin' what ya paid for"

[peacetrain60]

@rubbersole79 how right, ,oh yeah.

[weing]

Too bad someone synced ( or tried to...) the record up to this TOTP performance that had different vocals.

[winifredatwell]

Mike D'Abo is out the front in this classic. Beautiful pop tune, isn't it?

[HeathenLoveGod]

Pity about the synchronisation.

[goldheartbadge]

The verse is based partly on an excerpt from Beethoven's 9th ('Ode To Joy').

[jzerony]

Is it just me, or does that guy look just like Mark McKinney from The Kids In The Hall?

[ste123456754]

we had so much to live for in those days as teenagers great fashions and excellent music. know way i would like to be in my teens in this garbage society listening to this manufactured so called music what a shite era this is

[starmanoatlands]

i sing this song to my little girl , she loves it brings back memories of my childhood

[sam28761]

Manfred Mann,I love there transformation into the 70s with Blinded by the light

[stxyn]

I thought this was done by the Kinks; but this is the version I remember, whistles and all!  Great Great Song!

[MattHatter]

Has ANYONE actually seen the movie that this song originally comes from?! It's called "You Are What You Eat" and is an absolute MIND F**K! That's all I can say about it. This song originally accompanies film of this little kid running around The Gretta Garbo Home For Wayward Boys And Girls amongst all these hippies. It's a hard film to find and isn't available on DVD. The original song by John Simon is very upbeat and silly, Manfred Mann put some psychedelic groove to it.

[Sowa50]

Nie ważny tekst ważny byl ubiór ,rytm ,styl życia Fajne czasy Pozdrawiam ludzi 1949 roku!!!!:))))

[Livingni]

I play this for my 16 month old grandaugter, and she just loves to dance to the song. I loved hearing it, and then when I realized that my grandaughter responded so much to it, made me love it all the more. She's always pointing to my PC to hear the song.

[25ghr]

Happy innocent days , o to have a time machine !!

[jrgboy]

I have an early version of the mono single without the amended lyric though I notice that the stereo version still has the original word.

[automatic84a842]

I love their Fontana years !

Mike D'Abo has everything like Steve Marriott & Reg King!

[wouldntyoulike2know]

@automatic84a842 With your comment, you have listed all of my favorite lead singers! Be my best friend! haha. :) Great taste!

[ThePhatboy3]

This was my first favourite song as a kid. Still hasn't lost its appeal to date.

[shrivel1]

Oh wow....!

[josephmontante]

Fantastic. I still have the scratched up 45 rpm of this song (in unplayable condition). This song never became a hit in the USA but it's to to find it on YouTube.

[sydferret]

Jack, I should have known!

[ysplse]

Thats where i reside the Greta Garbo home for wayward boys and girls, otherwise known as the University of Hertfordshire.

[PAULLONDEN]

Influenced Blur ?

[lassewardlaw]

mum and i used to play the one cassette tape over and over for 14 hours on our road trip to visit family for christmas. this was one of them. i never got sick of it. i lost the tape... cry

[treeclimberfrommendo]

i Think this video is hillarious. The lip syncs all off, they look really high, and are acting kinda retarded, much less, such a whimsical and catchy tune.

[andreaahaannaah]

dum

[rizwan1964shah]

Swell, keeps those chilhood memories flowing........

[harvey1954]

Listen to the original John Simon tune for a weird version. The Manfreds really spiffed this tune from the film You Are What You Eat to make it a single. Well done job. Simon wrote the tune, but is best known as the Band's producer.

[johnpeelfeel]

My Name is "johnpeelfeel" and I live in the back!

[Twinkle3067]

@johnpeelfeel And my name "Twinkle" and I live in the back! ;-)

[Bruno47602]

Исключительный боевик!В АААААААААААААА!Лучшее.Это супер группа!+++++ BEST!!!

[48asuB]

before woodstock :)))

[birdonet]

Oh la lá, your name is Jack !!

[Donsaves]

great clip, but it's a pity the video is just slightly out of sync with the sound...

[cnomad]

The other version of this track (search My Name Is Jack) has original audio, with live vocals - not replaced out of synch audio from a CD. It is much better.

[reymantic1977]

Wow, I didn't know Manfred Mann had such gay looking body language I guess I was blinded by the light!

[22regis]

@reymantic1977 I had the same thought about the body langauge. But it's not Manfred Mann. The singer is Mike d'Abo; Manfred is playing the keyboard. Nonetheless, awesome song.

[afj59]

How can anyone not feel good after 2 mins and 48 secs of Manfred Mann...

[rogershearman]

Manfredd man as i remember them brill !!!!!!!!!!!

[jasper4040]

This is not the same Manford Mann that does Blinded by the Light is it?

[pilot588]

@jasper4040 Yes it is, but he's older when he made Blinded By The Light

[Emily199610]

o.o this is....interesting.

[Airforce790]

I was at a restaurant once and my dad saw a guy with a thin beard like the keyboarder has in this vid, and he asks me if it's some new style. Keep in mind he's 58, and that he listened to music like this long ago lol

[rogershearman]

Take me back 42 years things were so easy music was great love it !!!!!!

[hersheysfriend]

Some things are priceless...

[nugsmama]

Still sounds great wheneva I hear these lyrics! And Cruithneuladh? Well I wasn't born until 1973 but I definately agree with you. It was such a great era in many things.

[19551927]

Thanks 4 the memories!

[cruithneuladh]

I want to go back to the 60's, there was so much innovation, creativity and optimism!

I'm bored to death with this souless, plastic, celebrity-driven gloop of a society, I don't care if you call it nostalgia, put me in a time machine now!

[gaz051961]

@cruithneuladh Yes, you'll never get this sort of creativety while Simon Cowel has the masses believing i'ts all about singing! Let natural talent come through, don't fabricate it.

[TubeNumber1USA]

@gaz051961: Amen! I feel sorry for kids today. The music is all manufactured and controlled by fat cats in ivory towers. Rock music in the '60s came out of the garage. Every day the radio was blasting out some new group playing incredible sounds like you'd never heard before. Soooo much great pop music all crammed into 1964-69.

[EJWolff]

@cruithneuladh.  Absolutely agree. If ever I win Lotto Powerball I'll use the $20M+ to invest in coming up with a working time machine and do exactly what you say above. 60's and home here I come. :-)

[bsteph95]

@cruithneuladh 60s will live on forever! and this is coming from a 90s kid!

[gigfiz]

@cruithneuladh  I'll pay for the gas, man. Just take me with you. Steen of Denmark.

[seventiesclassic]

I have a request....could you get this video any more out of synch?

[TheNoisePolluter]

My name is Jack and like to wack in the back while I'm on crack.

[dfk09]

Thank you for posting this! I haven't seen this video in years!

[therodski1]

Their new singer Mike D'Arbo, a dist relative, got the job coz he sang in a choir and looked like Paul Jones. He also wrote "Handbags and Gladrags" Top band ;-)

[MrAnisaAnja]

uhmhmm total neu hier wer mag oder will mit mir chattn der meldet sich ja ^^

[bifferrhyl]

saw the manfreds recently and forgot how many GREAT songs they did.P.S didn't know Mike Hugg wrote Hanbags and gladrags(one of my fave songs)

[northendnorman]

the music from this era was so upbeat !!!

[theoverbeat1964]

great sixties band!

[jesuscomplex]

my sister used to sing this when my mum was telling her off used to fuck my mum off so much legend

[sanfordoranges]

@jesuscomplex now you just made me laugh ! big time 

[tsf56]

i always thought his name was fred :\

[Chsernie2457]

@tsf56 "The Gumbo Wumbo Lollipop, away from boys and girls"

[dominodash21]

Was he gay? I mean, im not trying to be insulting, but the way he was moving around kindof made him look gay.

[BeagleAgent]

Lol..no, he wasn't, moving like this was normal action at that time. They really did too much though...and it looked strange and you are right gay.

Astrid

[concordvinyl]

I think the melody for the chorus inspired a Genesis song ('I Know What I Like'). Does anyone else notice the resemblance?

[Sowa50]

Moje imię Zbyszek z Polski!!! OK HIPPIE!!!

[chrisseffenberger]

my name is not jack, but i say this song is great greetz from berlin

[cqsteve1]

It's things like this is the reason why I love Youtube!!! You "rediscover" old bands, find out interestings facts. It doesn't get better than this. I'd forgotten many of M.M.'s songs - it's a pleasure to hook in and see what you can find. Thaks for posting.

[pwcf5]

@cqsteve1

Well said sir.!

[shayneac]

i could listen to this forever

[askmaru]

nice song!! Thanks^^

[keddw]

Where is the Greta Garbo home for wayward boys and girls?

[privateclem]

Sounds like the Best of Barney album!!! Sheisse!

[progmeck1]

Mike Vickers was not in the band at that time. He left 1966 and was briefly replaced by Jack Bruce and after him came german bassist Klaus Voorman.

[kenfig]

Thats right and Klaus of course was one of the VERY best friends of The Beatles outside the band ; an old an trusted friend who was very kind and generous to them before they were famous ; used to feed them and put them up for nothing when they had no money ; also designed and drew REVOLVER cover and the fantastically life like ANTHOLOGY albums tapestry

[porridgeeveryday]

mike d'abo wrote "a finger of fudge" for the fudge advert in the 70s.

[Flyingdoctor1000]

At This time, Manfred Mann was :

Manfred Mann (keyb), Mike d`Abo (voc), Mike Hugg (drums), Tom McGuinness (guitar), Mike Vickers (guitar), Klaus Voorman (bass).

[zzyzzx8]

Great song - terrible miming. You'd think he'd forgotten the words and the musicians completely out of sync.

Still - nice nostalgic track

[harfarhs]

@zzyzzx8 - no, the original tape is fine (I saw the broadcast this was taken from and the synchronisation is precise) it's just a problem that afflicts some uploads to YT.

[zar4ox]

Great song. The bass player here is Klaus Voorman.

[bblsaul]

I'm not sure how many people know that this song appears in the film YOU ARE WHAT YOU IS (1968) ... worth searching for!

[billymacfly]

It's Mike D'Abo

[billymacfly]

looks like a real nacy boy D'abo in this one

[twixbits]

its paul jones

[harfarhs]

@ twixbits - of course it's D'Abo singing! Paul Jones is visible as a picture, on the line "as fast as my friend Paul".

[billymacfly]

can't work out if tis song is genius or a comlete load of wank

[privateclem]

wank!!!

[swisscleandrive]

Great. I saw the earth band last night (november 2009) and you still recognize the guys!

[martinjp1958]

So evocative of summer 68. Poignant too, as was much pop of the period. A unique decade that was [I mean 65 - 75]. Innocent pop. Didn't take to much before - or after.

[MrBobodrum]

So it looks like Tom McGuinness is on guitar here, Mike D'Abo on vocal, Mike Vickers is gone: so who is the bass player here?

[Wolverhampton1]

Wonder what Greta Garbo Home had as child protection policies in those days? I doubt much!

[Logitah]

I just love this song! It's like a song for kids. I love to imagine those kids running around the Greta Garbo-home, making pranks and being good friends.

[han09hague]

what can i say.....just boss, reminds me of my dad =] ...thanks xx

[e04023]

It was actually written by John Simon, the guy that also produced Simon and Garfunkel's Bookends Album

[beatboy001]

Nice song  this band .

[IchwillimmerTanzen]

richtig

[280449werder]

auf 1.42 ist doch klaus voormann, oder ?

[morrisgal31]

my name is jack an i live in the back of the greta garbo home for wayword boys girls love it

[drnrg31]

Everyone says they only had Blinded by the light as a hit, butthey had some great songs. This one and Mighty Quinn are my favs.

[catstevensthethird]

Heh, my name really is Jack, and I do know who Greta Garbo is...wow, browsing songs on here can take you odd places.

[tattiOSALA]

woooah I love this song! *_*

[Lahada1]

this is such an odd song - but i LOVE it! :)

[rockinrex]

who wrote their songs? They sure are catchy!

[mugwamp4]

their covers were usually Dylan songs

and a few originals like this were written by Mike D'abo ,the lead singer here. he also wroye "handbags and gladrags " for (chris farlowe,,rod stewart)

[keddw]

Great song seems so innocent in contrast to the over produced stuff from recent decades.

[Gmister2]

I love this song so much

[TomHendricksMusea]

@keddw You'd probably like Post-Bands music the new back to basics music out of Dallas that opposes what rock/rap/country/pop have become. When rock becomes everything it started opposing, time to oppose it.

[keddw]

@TomHendricksMusea Thanks for that TomHendricks, I'll give it a whirl,though thus far i only know one act from Dallas- or should I say Duo- which was Bonny and Clyde, of course and they sold out by appearing in a Ford advert! ; )

[TomHendricksMusea]

@keddw Cool, let me know what you think. Dallas is 99.9% ultra conservative but that other.1!!!

[A1T1C1B]

Terrible miming.

[dbes02]

They're not miming to this audio. The album track (complete with double tracking) has simply been laid over the video of a performance (presumably because the audio from this performance is poor quality).

[Lenepiigen]

my name is Jack and i live in the back! :D <3 ikk Amanda? <333

[robjune14]

Sorry InnocentWar1, but My Name Is Jack WAS released firstly in the UK on 6th June 1968. Source Wikipedia

[robjune14]

The year is 1968

[napolihuhn]

in the 70 years ^^

[decmbrundrgrnd64]

what year was this?

[Strawberry7Lynn]

I don't know what went wrong with the lip synch, but it's a great song and I'm always delighted to see vintage footage such as this.

Is the "Paul" that Mike D'abo mentioned in the song the then departed Paul Jones, or was there another "Paul" in the ranks of the Manfreds at that time?

[NickTann]

12string player not stoned, not stoned at allllll.....

[yington]

u are a TWAT

[erba92]

fuk frikkettoni

[girlblue73]

Mike d'Abo got all the attention, but Klaus Voorman was so much cuter!

[orangenlimo18]

this song is soo good!!!

[samuelruncorn78]

I love Klaus Voormann's bass playing. This track is subtly rather funky, I think. The chorus, at least!

[Menradgangster]

Der Schwachkopf ist voll der bringer!

[coccinelle5594]

haha, welcher is der schwachkopf??

[birdonet]

Muy salados, pero el rubio era un pedazo de maricón como una casa. Ahora, eso sí, me encantaba esa canción ..... y me sigue gustando mucho.

[salstream]

nothing like the originals mate

[Pepanfromczech]

Best song..............and version from Czech Republic is Helena Blehárová - Můj táta Jack

[be0294]

This song is SSOOOO good!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! And this is the only one live performance with them!

[tommysonar]

sorry about the mess i left in your toilet

[oOGamblerOo]

you're welcome

[uriel4377]

wmg copyright infringement,i wonder if really copyright infringement?they probably did not keep the copyright on the song.

[uriel4377]

i meant on the song they said wmg did not want them to play,that was skipped the playlist i was using.

[riddles201]

jack sounds like a gay

[cfowels]

LOL

[wasagoodkid]

he is, but he only likes young cock...

[mizkellcat]

He's off his face and who is this Jack?

[1AussieAvenger1]

UNREAL.. what a great song. i just turned 4 when this was out and it was kinda of trippy for me coz at 4yrs old i didnt really know what pop music was in 1968. my parents were country music folk so i only got to hear it on the radio if we went somewhere or i was in someone elses car. ha ha good old fashioned mums n dads.

wow there was some great songs then. still is great songs but the attitude has changed a lot.

[goahead100]

the first time i herd this song was on school bus going to school this was on radio one when the driver put the radio one the bus soon got quit the old bus had sliding dours on the side. this gives the age of the bus I think it was a old c reg

[ChasBeauregarde]

I was 9 years old when this song came out - it reminds me of the wonders of childhood. Just beautiful! And I didn't know Klaus Voorman was in this band. He played bass w/John Lennon and George Harrison's solo recordings as well.

[ryantunks]

Klaus is so cool!

[uniamociraga]

Wow

[Stoclet]

It's been almost 40 years ago today!!!

Thanks for posting this lovely rememberance!!

[xxcarolhxx]

my da loves this so i grew up listening to it! i like it too . im 22 so dont tell any1 hehe

[Wikicrel74]

Pop doesn't get any better than this!

[dantean]

You sure?

[budsmith65]

This is POPTASTIC. Wonderful.

[hislopenator]

my name is jack,,,,my balls are black

[Wolverhampton1]

God if they'd known what really went on in children's homes in those days they wouldn't have sung this.

People were obviously ignorant or else didn;t really care.

After all, they tolerated school beatings, beatings at homes, and in the care homes, and by any adult.

Kids were simply there in those days for abuse and to be abused!

[millwallpaul76]

its a song chill out?

[boonersalmon]

jeepgirl, thats a strange combo of videos you have there!!?? lol, good to see

[sunking26]

I was 8 yo. when I heard this teh first time, I've never seen the video before. Good!! The memories came back!

[Hellisokornot]

I like it.

[daylon124]

BOO!! they mimed!! i saw his mouth is moving the other way and he even stopped and it continued!!!!

[prinz16zuko11fan]

question: who is this good-looking man when "there's the prettiest girl in the whole wide world and her name..." is sung?

[fretboy67]

Dunno his name, but he's their bass player.

[oliveronions68]

It's Klaus Voorman, the same guy who designed the Revolver cover for the Beatles.

[peoplecan1965]

klaus voorman is the bass players name, he also designed the revolver album for the beatles.

[MastaJak1]

My name is jak!

[MeisterYoda500]

my name is mario!

[PatrioticandProud73]

Good Song.

[Pytynia]

Luv it.

Is there a better guy name than Jack?  Maybe i'm prejudiced but I think not. ;-)

[fossie32]

One of my fave MM songs..

Miming is a bit off!