this is a solid live rendition. the guitar part is a bit catchier than i remember the recording, but maybe the lead vocals could've used a bit more volume.
This came on my ipod on shuffle earlier today during a really stressful train journey. I have no idea how it got there as it isn't in my itunes and I don't recall ever deleting it from my computer, but I think it's really super beautiful.
and it's working so well i'm living in hell and nobody's like me. There's something about listening to dreck that makes feel very sick and nobody knows like me
Ever eat at L'Anima, the Italian restaurant in London. Try their pasta be it spaghetti, ravioli etc. Then defend Chef Boyardee canned junk by saying, "It's great stuff. Look how many cans it sells."
This is pure crap. 14 yr old kids bought this bibble gum crap. the Beatles the Stones, The Doors, Pink Floyd, and a host of others were at the top. Stidio groups were a fart in thre wind.
@MultiHotNERD If this was such crap then how did it top the charts for several weeks ALL around the world including 5 weeks on top of the uk charts. There must have been a hell of a lot of 14 year olds.
@sunshinepoprevival the "masses" flock to McDonald's, WalMart.. Domino's pizza. Those 3 are still crap. I never said the record didn't sell but it's still repetitive bubble gum crap. People who make this stuff up are writing this in Monday and " N E S T L E S, Nestle's make's the very best...CHOCOLATE" on Tuesday. . This is studio music of no substance. Compare it's words to Eleanor Rigby or Emotional Rescue or Sounds of Silence. Today it's "If you want it, you'd better put a ring on it"
@MultiHotNERD There are 1000's of we baby boomers who just love our Bubble Gum music. YUM YUM we love Bubble Gum! How's that for catchy? LOL and you know, most of us weren't listening to music to get preached to or listen to someone's politics, or worldview. I was 14 years old at the time this song was a smash hit, and I just fell in love with it, and I love it now at the ripe old age of 55.
@gabbydeb please i'm not attacking you as a human being so I urge you to notr attack me like so many others habe. The facts are, it is classic and defining that you were 14 not 19 when bubblegum came out. IT WAS GEARED TO PRE-TEENS AND YOUNG TEENS WHO COULD AFFORD TO BUY SINGLES NOT ALBUMS., It was prefabricated production line hand clapping by design. You like it? Fine. I just finished fighting with all of Great Britain at another youtube site of this song. . I'm beaten.
@mishigreene the song is great. Mozart could not have done better. but it remains that McDonald's hamburger are tasteless crap but the sell billions and chef boyardee ravioli is tasteless but the masses buy millions of cans. God bless all the bubblegummers.
Respond to this video... Yesterday i met Serena Williams. very nice person. I am a good tennis player. In fact was on my college team I begged her to allow me 5 min to warm up with her, then i'd leave. Said sure. I never saw the ball. i never made contact. The ball was past me before i moved. I hit to her she rushed the baseline and i never returned her return. She's john lennon, smokey ribinson, bob dylan, levi stubbs and i'm edison lighthouse
@mishigreene Well whatever it was, we loved it! It was happy and upbeat and we got to look at good looking guys singing the song! LOL I mean what more could a 14 year old girl want? Everyone likes to have that time in their life, when carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders, wasn't a reality, like it becomes when you move through adulthood, and have responsibilities, sadness, and accountability for others.
@gabbydeb Well said, Gabbydeb. What is so bloody marvellous about adult life, anyway? Not a great deal, as far as I can tell. Adult life = responsibilities, stress and unhappiness (and, unless you happen to be very fortunate, you get to experience a great deal of those 3 things).
Who would want to be a 14, 15 or 16-year-old teenager again? Well, literally millions of 30 and 40-somethings would (unless i am very much mistaken)!
@MultiHotNERD Dear nerd , it may surprise you that there is a whole musical genre called pop music which will never die which is why you are commenting on a 40 year old `crap` song lol ! You say it`s repetetive - you mean like She Loves You yeah yeah yeah ... If someone wants to hear some music to put them in a good mood they arent going to listen to the 3 po-faced songs you listed are they ! Pass the razor blade...
@MultiHotNERD Yeah, because the Beatles and the Rolling Stones aren't mainstream.
Please, your examples to go against "bubble-gum" crap are just more of the same, why else would those shit-heads have thrived for so long, they were the selling industry, THE MAINSTREAM. Just because from the 80's on, pop popularized and rock became more alternative and underground it doesn't mean it was always the same, or have you forgotten of the loads of teenage girls screaming over the Beatles?
@kztar621 lmao didn't you read my chef boyardee analogy? It is clear that u "lump" your music history. The screamers chased the Beatles into the recording studio. 1964 vs 1969 is like a time warp jump. This stuff is taught at major universities now. My suggestion to you is retake the SATs go to a 4 yr university, take anti depressants to help redirect your anger and in 5 yrs e mail me. Ur not a joke. ur just not for me.
Love this tune with its easy melodies and hooks... it leaves me with a tinge of nostalgia for the late 60s & early 70s.TOTP made it to Malaysia only in the mid 70s, so a HUGE thank you to philipcarol and yt. humming rosemary as i brave the crazy Malaysian traffic!
This song was at the top of the charts when I was a senior in high school. We had a juke box in the cafeteria at school and this song would be playing almost every day when I was eating lunch. It was certainly a great song--both then and now.
Tony Burrows and his various bands made some great pop songs for the day, but they were little more than session musos singing songs on a factory production line. They were never going to change the way music was going, always following a trend.
In just a couple of years from this video and people are losing keeping time to the beat in dancing. *I don't like glam, metal, punk, goth, hair, speed, grunge rock, though I recognize they have their place.*
tony burrows for rocknroll hall of fame! how many guys can say they wrote and sang top ten hits for 6 different bands & nobody even knew what he really looked like! you gotta have a bubble gum guy in ther, or it would be like this stuff never existed! , also best bubble/pop band ever/ sweet/ before they wrote & after they wrote their own stuff, regards
Dante sang on only the "Tracy" Lp and 45,but,he was,and is,the "Voice" behind The Archies and The Detergents..The latter group had a hit in the Middle '60's with a Parody of The Shangri-Las' hit "Leader Of the Pack",calling it "Leader Of the Laundromat"!
Thanks for sharing all that information philipcarol. I'd wondered why the songs mentioned all had a similar sound! Tony Burrows and Tony Macaulay both deserve to be better known. Tony Burrows - what an artist!
Clever lyrics: To kids, it seems "Love grows where- *ever* my Rosemary goes", but those aren't the words. And why does "nobody know like me"? If love grew "where-*ever* " she went, -everyone- would know. In fact, it seems that Rosemary keeps *going* to the SAME place...a place where "love grows" all the time, whether it's Rosemary who goes there or not :-)
@namsak I don't know the name of the guy you are referring to ...... but I would agree that, back in 1970, he was a damn good-looking lad with classic 'pretty boy' looks (and in saying that, I wish to make it clear that I am a red-blooded, 100% heterosexual male).
1970 was a long, long time ago ...... and (sadly) the incredibly handsome charmer in Edison Lighthouse to whom you refer must now be an elderly man - of approximately SIXTY (!) years of age. Life is very short - far TOO short.
omg I can't make up my mind about whats the coolest thing about this video... is it the song, the hair or the excellent fringed vest the bass player is wearing... or perhaps its the whole lot x
@Rollingstone01 Yeah thanx, I found out already. Next is finding the building of the clip in GoogleMaps. It supposed to be in Bristol. Town Hall, but I end up at other buildings. Anyone have an address is the place?
Thanks for the info, I was 16 back then, but didn't know the story behind the lead singer; no wonder I loved all these songs by all these groups, very fond memories...
One of my favs of all times, and definitely one of the Top 10 "feel good" pop songs ever. And very odd to see groups perform LIVE on a TV show. Tony Burrows was so awesome.
The closest thing to this phenomenon stateside was the great Ron Dante, who sang lead on "Tracy" by the Cuff Links and "Sugar Sugar" by the Archies, both of which were in the U.S. top 10 at the same time. Interestingly, Dante would later achieve even greater success as a record producer, producing Barry Manilow's early albums. So, all you prog rock and psychedelic purists, don't be so quick to knock "bubblegum music" - you never know what can develop!
@philipcarol As far as I know, Phil, Dante sang on most of the Archies' songs, including "Bang Shang-a-Lang," "Feelin' So Good," and the theme song to the "Archie's Funhouse" TV show. I don't know much about the Cuff Links except for that big hit "Tracy." Another bubble-gum singer I'm curious about is Joey Levine, who supposedly sang lead for both the Ohio Express and the 1910 Fruit Gum Company, both part of the Kazinetz-Katz machine.
@philipcarol I don't know much about the Cuff Links, but as far as I know, Dante sang lead on most of the Archies' songs. As for who produced the records or who else played on them, that's still a mystery to me, probably one kept by the record industry to instill the "mystique" of those old recordings. It might be worth researching to find out more about them.
@philipcarol - Indeed he did. Ron Dante was the lead voice for all of the Archies hits and most of the their album tracks. Even more impressively, he was all of the voices on the Cuff Links records, recording all the backing and lead vocals himself. The Cuff Links album "Tracy" has been reissued on CD and is well-worth tracking down. Finally, before either the Cuff Links or Archies, Ron Dante sang lead on the novelty hit "Leader of the Laundromat" by the Detergents!
@ejslurb2007 You're so right about that ("Tracy" & "Sugar Sugar"). "Tracy" was a big favorite of mine, and I never noticed that the lead voice was the same as on "Sugar Sugar" even though (as you say) they were on the radio concurrently that year.
@lazur1 So do a lot of people, Lazur, but Manilow has always been a "guilty pleasure" of mine. Before my loving wife came into my life, I was spending long hours alone, tryin' to get the feeling again. I know that sounds disgusting, but I'm talking about love, not just sexual fantasies. Anyway, I have long been a Fanilow and I respect Ron Dante for doing something else successful after his singing days were over.
Thanks for the insight on Burrows & Macaulay. Always interesting finding out the background of some of the songs we simply grew up with and probably never gave a thought as to the creation of it all. Just like some of awesome musicians and writers behind the bubblegum hits of that era and aimed at us kids of the 60's and early 70's.
If you google Tony Burrows You'll find he was a sessions singer and fronted many studio bands, the Kestrels, Ivy League, Brotherhood of Man, White Plains, Edison Lighthouse, the Pipkins
there's something about her hand holdin mine, well it makes me feel fine, and i just gotta say, hey! she's really got a magical spell and she uses it well and i can't get away.....i just typed that toasted.....but i adore that lyric
My 5 yr old daughter is in love with the other lead singer/guitarist in the "other" version of this song on youtube. Does anyone know his name? He is much more handsome than Tony Burrows, longer hair and my daughter says he looks like "daddy with longer hair". She plays the song ENDLESSLY on my iPhone..it is driving us all crazy. Thanks for any info.
@gottabighit1 I believe that is Andy Locke, who is lip synching to Tony Burrows's version. Burrows, who co-wrote the song with two others, never intended Edison Lighthouse to be an actual group, but Love Grows was such a big hit on the radio that Tony Macauley, who owned the name Edison Lighthouse, hired the group "Merlin Q" to become the band, and Locke was one of them. (This isn't the only video where you see someone lipsynching to Tony Burrows - check out Beach Baby by First Class.
@jimraw1 You couldn't be more wrong! This is Tony Burrows along with the original band, the band that actually toured both here and Scandinavia. Merlin Q didn't appear until much later after Love grows had disappeared from the charts.
@Flickajak This is why people should read the entire comment. I was answering a question by gottabighit1, who asked who was the long haired singer in the other "Love Grows" video.
@gottabighit1 That's Andy Locke in the vid of Edison Lighthouse playing in front of municipal bldg. He lip syncs to Tony Burrows in that performance of Love Grows. In that vid, he does have a lot of appeal. See for ANDY LOCKE COMPOSITION "BRIGHTON" (he's on the right in photo) and Edison Lighthouse " Reconsider my Belinda" (photo of him a 17 y/o mod).
@userboy6 Exactly! And it's so freaking sad. I mean there is nothing today that even remotely compares with this...and there are a million songs from back then (67-71) that are as good (or even better) than this classic.
@userboy6 there are plenty of original and exciting artists out there today, problem is that commercial foists the shit on the kids instead of being more flexible with what they play. At least some of the Glee Cast music has made the charts so it's not all that bad.
This style of music was about 7 years past it's time. Much more reminescent of the bands of the British Invasion from the early to later 60's. I hated the 70's. Started off by shooting down 3 students at Kent State and ended with American's held hostage in Watergate. In the middle was White Disco and the "Me Decade". There was some good music, but I'll take the music of the 60's and 80's to that of the 70's. If I went back to the 70's, I'd tear off my fingernails looking for the wormhole.
@edwardeubanks I guess you could say this if you lived your life doing nothing but reading the newspaper. I gues one might say this if they spent the 70s stoned or in jail as well. I had a ball!
@edwardeubanks I agree with everything you said except the part about the 80s...how can you mention the 80s in the same sentence with the sixties (music wise)?
@ee1961960 It reaches a consistency at some point actually. I think there are actually about only 13 "radio" changes, but they can be used in so many ways. Ever hear of a band called Jellyfish? They were recycling pop hooks from the 70's in the late 80's and early 90's but were afforded much better production. I am partial to these authentic "Bubblegum" era pop classics myself.
Anybody have a TIME MACHINE...I was born 1975 but i wanna go back to 1960 so I can ENJOY the 70s......I dislike the ACTORS,MOVIES,and MUSIC from today...Its just not the SAME...
Edison Lighthouse will be playing their farewell gig on the 27th March in Cornwall. This is to say thank you to all their loyal fans and make a bit of money for charity was well. I shall be there and they will be missed. Rumour has it that Tonny Burrows is also going to be singing with Stuart and Dave. Cant wait and of course will miss them like mad. X
Thanks both for the video of this great song-I heard back when it came out and it's still a tuneful joy- and for the background information. I will check out Tony Macaulay.
By the way, you're right- Last Night I didn't get to Sleep at All is a gem of a pop song. And Marilyn McCoo really sang it beautifully.
I was reminded of this song after watching the movie "Shallow Hal". I loved this song as a kid and it was wonderful being reminded of it. I love it now, and again.
Nothing like the sixties and seventies. Music today (with all due respect) lacks any sense of originality. Vapid. Boring. Without any soul. Thank God for the memories.
I fully agree with you, philipcarroll! Tony Burrows was a great influence on pop music. What a pity he usually stayed in the background, I would have loved to see a lot more of this charming, attractive, golden-voiced singer. He deserved to be far more than a studio singer!
I think that, as you can see on the youtube video in the related section that they had a pretty boy miming to the words but it was probably still Burrows voice.
I love this song, it reminds me of my friend who has no idea of music but this is her fave song ever after actually getting to see edison lighthouse perform where we worked last year x
Edison Lighthouse, the coming together of Tony Burrows and Greenfield Hammer. Tony is a great singer. Some of the Edison Lighthouse songs are him (solo) and some of their recordings are without him. Easy. But please do not confuse the Brotherhood Of Man of Save Your Kisses For Me fame with the earlier group which included Tony Burrows and Sunny and Sue (Leslie) - United We Stand, California Sunday Morning, Where Are You Going To My Love etc. Great song, great singer.
That's what I've been wondering. If what MaxLibertas says is true, how could they have identical voices? I'll go back and have another listen to the other one to be sure, though.
They're just a bunch of guys who took over the name when the original band split, and yes they are miming to Tony Burrows vocal track. Nothing at all to do with the original band.
I believe Tony Burrows also perfomed as Ron Dante-he fronted several studio o ne-hit bands like the Archies, and had a few novelty records in the '60's.
They're two different people. This is English session singer Tony Burrows. Ron Dante is the American session singer of the Archies "Sugar, Sugar" fame. He was born Carmine Granito in Staten Island, New York.
No, Ron Dante and Tony Burrows are TOTALLY different individuals. Dante performed as the singer in the Archies, The Detergents (Leader of the Laundramat), The Cuff Links (Tracy), and multiple studio groups, as Tony Burrows did. That is where the similarity ends, however. Ron Dante has a great website, AND he responds to personal e-mails, if you have any further interest.
Wow! I just read the entire description and didn't know any of that. Thanks for taking the time to show this. It makes the music I grew up with make so much more sense of how it
Tony Burrows is the Greates One-Hit Wonderer
He formed aout 1/2 a dozen bands, each of which had only one #1 hit each.
He had a great voice for Top-40 pop and was successful and well known even today.
DonLicuala 20 hours ago
is that announcer from the Future!??
mjw9363 1 month ago
The guy who introduced the band called them Edison black house..
budman30k 2 months ago
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Porly62 3 months ago
Wonderful songwriting and a terrific singer. Top of their game.
oceantracks 4 months ago
this is a solid live rendition. the guitar part is a bit catchier than i remember the recording, but maybe the lead vocals could've used a bit more volume.
hraith 5 months ago
This came on my ipod on shuffle earlier today during a really stressful train journey. I have no idea how it got there as it isn't in my itunes and I don't recall ever deleting it from my computer, but I think it's really super beautiful.
HannahSolMusic 6 months ago
and it's working so well i'm living in hell and nobody's like me. There's something about listening to dreck that makes feel very sick and nobody knows like me
MultiHotNERD 6 months ago
Ever eat at L'Anima, the Italian restaurant in London. Try their pasta be it spaghetti, ravioli etc. Then defend Chef Boyardee canned junk by saying, "It's great stuff. Look how many cans it sells."
mishigreene 6 months ago
That bass player is kicking some serious ass
1RichardGary 6 months ago
Wow, I didn't know Stephen Harper was in band, lol!
JanBee1122 6 months ago
This is pure crap. 14 yr old kids bought this bibble gum crap. the Beatles the Stones, The Doors, Pink Floyd, and a host of others were at the top. Stidio groups were a fart in thre wind.
MultiHotNERD 6 months ago
@MultiHotNERD If this was such crap then how did it top the charts for several weeks ALL around the world including 5 weeks on top of the uk charts. There must have been a hell of a lot of 14 year olds.
sunshinepoprevival 6 months ago
@sunshinepoprevival the "masses" flock to McDonald's, WalMart.. Domino's pizza. Those 3 are still crap. I never said the record didn't sell but it's still repetitive bubble gum crap. People who make this stuff up are writing this in Monday and " N E S T L E S, Nestle's make's the very best...CHOCOLATE" on Tuesday. . This is studio music of no substance. Compare it's words to Eleanor Rigby or Emotional Rescue or Sounds of Silence. Today it's "If you want it, you'd better put a ring on it"
MultiHotNERD 6 months ago
@MultiHotNERD There are 1000's of we baby boomers who just love our Bubble Gum music. YUM YUM we love Bubble Gum! How's that for catchy? LOL and you know, most of us weren't listening to music to get preached to or listen to someone's politics, or worldview. I was 14 years old at the time this song was a smash hit, and I just fell in love with it, and I love it now at the ripe old age of 55.
gabbydeb 6 months ago
@gabbydeb please i'm not attacking you as a human being so I urge you to notr attack me like so many others habe. The facts are, it is classic and defining that you were 14 not 19 when bubblegum came out. IT WAS GEARED TO PRE-TEENS AND YOUNG TEENS WHO COULD AFFORD TO BUY SINGLES NOT ALBUMS., It was prefabricated production line hand clapping by design. You like it? Fine. I just finished fighting with all of Great Britain at another youtube site of this song. . I'm beaten.
mishigreene 6 months ago
@mishigreene the song is great. Mozart could not have done better. but it remains that McDonald's hamburger are tasteless crap but the sell billions and chef boyardee ravioli is tasteless but the masses buy millions of cans. God bless all the bubblegummers.
mishigreene 6 months ago
Respond to this video... Yesterday i met Serena Williams. very nice person. I am a good tennis player. In fact was on my college team I begged her to allow me 5 min to warm up with her, then i'd leave. Said sure. I never saw the ball. i never made contact. The ball was past me before i moved. I hit to her she rushed the baseline and i never returned her return. She's john lennon, smokey ribinson, bob dylan, levi stubbs and i'm edison lighthouse
mishigreene 6 months ago
@mishigreene Well whatever it was, we loved it! It was happy and upbeat and we got to look at good looking guys singing the song! LOL I mean what more could a 14 year old girl want? Everyone likes to have that time in their life, when carrying the weight of the world on your shoulders, wasn't a reality, like it becomes when you move through adulthood, and have responsibilities, sadness, and accountability for others.
gabbydeb 6 months ago
@gabbydeb Well said, Gabbydeb. What is so bloody marvellous about adult life, anyway? Not a great deal, as far as I can tell. Adult life = responsibilities, stress and unhappiness (and, unless you happen to be very fortunate, you get to experience a great deal of those 3 things).
Who would want to be a 14, 15 or 16-year-old teenager again? Well, literally millions of 30 and 40-somethings would (unless i am very much mistaken)!
TheEctomorph 4 months ago 3
@MultiHotNERD Dear nerd , it may surprise you that there is a whole musical genre called pop music which will never die which is why you are commenting on a 40 year old `crap` song lol ! You say it`s repetetive - you mean like She Loves You yeah yeah yeah ... If someone wants to hear some music to put them in a good mood they arent going to listen to the 3 po-faced songs you listed are they ! Pass the razor blade...
1900JME1959 6 months ago
@MultiHotNERD Yeah, because the Beatles and the Rolling Stones aren't mainstream.
Please, your examples to go against "bubble-gum" crap are just more of the same, why else would those shit-heads have thrived for so long, they were the selling industry, THE MAINSTREAM. Just because from the 80's on, pop popularized and rock became more alternative and underground it doesn't mean it was always the same, or have you forgotten of the loads of teenage girls screaming over the Beatles?
You're a joke.
kztar621 6 months ago
@kztar621 lmao didn't you read my chef boyardee analogy? It is clear that u "lump" your music history. The screamers chased the Beatles into the recording studio. 1964 vs 1969 is like a time warp jump. This stuff is taught at major universities now. My suggestion to you is retake the SATs go to a 4 yr university, take anti depressants to help redirect your anger and in 5 yrs e mail me. Ur not a joke. ur just not for me.
MultiHotNERD 6 months ago
Love this tune with its easy melodies and hooks... it leaves me with a tinge of nostalgia for the late 60s & early 70s.TOTP made it to Malaysia only in the mid 70s, so a HUGE thank you to philipcarol and yt. humming rosemary as i brave the crazy Malaysian traffic!
luv2luvya77 7 months ago
lol our hippie forefathers and foremothers all dancing in a big cage!
jenafuller 7 months ago
This song was at the top of the charts when I was a senior in high school. We had a juke box in the cafeteria at school and this song would be playing almost every day when I was eating lunch. It was certainly a great song--both then and now.
DONRHOLLOWAY 7 months ago
Tony Burrows and his various bands made some great pop songs for the day, but they were little more than session musos singing songs on a factory production line. They were never going to change the way music was going, always following a trend.
veda1954 7 months ago
Why did The BBC cut their noses off to spite their face by taking Top Of The Pops off the air? Foolish! Nice tune, by the way.
kja427 7 months ago
My Love Only Grows, Where My L***** H**** goes
brittanybug10 8 months ago
I. Looooove. This. SONG :D
brittanybug10 8 months ago
Edison Lighthouse, White Plains, Flowerpot Men, Ivy League, Fortunes, Vanity Fare, First Class, Stamford Bridge, Tony Rivers & Castaways, Harmony Grass, Rockin' Berries, Barron Knights etc All Amazing Vocal Harmony Bands !!!
gazzymodo 8 months ago
In just a couple of years from this video and people are losing keeping time to the beat in dancing. *I don't like glam, metal, punk, goth, hair, speed, grunge rock, though I recognize they have their place.*
Khultan 8 months ago
nice song:)_
abhishekbiradar 8 months ago
Amazing !!!
guckymk 8 months ago
His last hit was in 1970 as part of The Pipkins called "Gimme Dat Ding".
mrmjb1960 9 months ago
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lovetheoldies 9 months ago
British bands and singers are the BEST in the WORLD
MyMerlin1 10 months ago
to the best of my knowledge he still hold the record for most 1 hit wonders.......5
speechmeister 11 months ago
Where did the time go?
1560438 11 months ago
hu i am wearing red undies lol don't ask meh why i am telling you this
LoveeiBrindaeo48 11 months ago 18
@LoveeiBrindaeo48 well i'm naked
MultiHotNERD 6 months ago
top of the pops xDD didnt change in all the years :)
c00kie147 11 months ago
tony burrows for rocknroll hall of fame! how many guys can say they wrote and sang top ten hits for 6 different bands & nobody even knew what he really looked like! you gotta have a bubble gum guy in ther, or it would be like this stuff never existed! , also best bubble/pop band ever/ sweet/ before they wrote & after they wrote their own stuff, regards
tommieparch 11 months ago
@tommieparch He may have sang with several different bands but he never wrote any of the songs.
Flickajak 11 months ago
its all cool..after all, S. Tyler, E.John,Rod Stew. are all the same guy !!!
TheDavey222 1 year ago
watch close youll get a pantie shot
mighty9178 1 year ago
Dante sang on only the "Tracy" Lp and 45,but,he was,and is,the "Voice" behind The Archies and The Detergents..The latter group had a hit in the Middle '60's with a Parody of The Shangri-Las' hit "Leader Of the Pack",calling it "Leader Of the Laundromat"!
mrmjb1960 1 year ago
philipcarol: thanks for the great video and the fascinating history. you just made this trivia buff's day. hey, my week!
toobfunnybunny 1 year ago
Thanks for sharing all that information philipcarol. I'd wondered why the songs mentioned all had a similar sound! Tony Burrows and Tony Macaulay both deserve to be better known. Tony Burrows - what an artist!
vcaus 1 year ago
Tony Burrows, where did he go? (The pipkins) (Edisons Lighthouse)(Original Brotherhood of man with Sue and Sunny, not the kisses for me crap!)
ferraridinoman 1 year ago
Clever lyrics: To kids, it seems "Love grows where- *ever* my Rosemary goes", but those aren't the words. And why does "nobody know like me"? If love grew "where-*ever* " she went, -everyone- would know. In fact, it seems that Rosemary keeps *going* to the SAME place...a place where "love grows" all the time, whether it's Rosemary who goes there or not :-)
lazur1 1 year ago 2
@lazur1
lol!
toobfunnybunny 1 year ago
@lazur1Congratulations! You have interpreted the lyrics of Edison Lighthouse's classic [1970] hit very well, if I may say so.
TheEctomorph 7 months ago
They sound like a white version of the Phillipe Wynne-era Spinners.Too bad they weren't a real group.
lazur1 1 year ago
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@lazur1 Oh but they were!!!
Flickajak 1 year ago
@lazur1 Oh but they certainly were a real group!!
Flickajak 1 year ago
@Flickajak I meant too bad fans back then couldn't go to a Edison Lighthouse show in their hometown & hear Tony Burrows sing live.
lazur1 1 year ago
Great song!!!!!!!!!
TJCATLOVER 1 year ago
Great song and performance
TheGuillermo519 1 year ago
Now this song takes me back,,,,,,Rosemary,,was the hottest chick id seen at the Lake where i spent my summers.......
Chachiman25 1 year ago
cool info, thanks for sharing!
sewerbyarnold 1 year ago
He has doe eyes
hidoll22 1 year ago
Couldn't care less about Tony Burrows, who is the pretty boy in the video ?
namsak 1 year ago
@namsak I don't know the name of the guy you are referring to ...... but I would agree that, back in 1970, he was a damn good-looking lad with classic 'pretty boy' looks (and in saying that, I wish to make it clear that I am a red-blooded, 100% heterosexual male).
1970 was a long, long time ago ...... and (sadly) the incredibly handsome charmer in Edison Lighthouse to whom you refer must now be an elderly man - of approximately SIXTY (!) years of age. Life is very short - far TOO short.
TheEctomorph 7 months ago
@TheEctomorph
Speaking as a 100% Red Blooded Male I don't care what age he is. I'd still do him
;-)
namsak 7 months ago
@namsak Made me laugh!
Ninevah77 7 months ago
True Classic!
IHANGCOONS 1 year ago
omg I can't make up my mind about whats the coolest thing about this video... is it the song, the hair or the excellent fringed vest the bass player is wearing... or perhaps its the whole lot x
marreighc 1 year ago
Fundamentally an original brotherhood of man record? you can hear Sue and Sunny on backing vocals...great stuff
leatherbruce 1 year ago
huh i don't get it.
Is this the same guy singing in the colored clip??
Patsik 1 year ago
@Patsik No, this is Tony Burrows, the original singer. It's his voice on the colour clip but not his image, it's just someone miming to him.
Stuartedison 1 year ago
@Stuartedison ....so nobody knows who that is?
I never knew what Tony looked like. Even didn't know his name haha....
The first clip I ever saw of 'Love grows" was the coloured clip. So to me that was the original....:(
Patsik 1 year ago
@Patsik No, this isn't the same guy..Tony is in the black and white clip
Rollingstone01 1 year ago
@Rollingstone01 Yeah thanx, I found out already. Next is finding the building of the clip in GoogleMaps. It supposed to be in Bristol. Town Hall, but I end up at other buildings. Anyone have an address is the place?
Patsik 1 year ago
Thanks for the info, I was 16 back then, but didn't know the story behind the lead singer; no wonder I loved all these songs by all these groups, very fond memories...
phxdivine 1 year ago
What a fantastic song! I had just turned 7 when this wonderful melody graced the music world. This is when music was worth listening to.
upyermAs 1 year ago
Live Music, 70's love it.......
woolyhairs 1 year ago
lets make this over 1,793,045 views its the original it deserves it
megwitch1 1 year ago
@megwitch1 I'm with you on that One, this is the real Edison lighthouse!!!
strofca 1 year ago
The REAL Edison lighthouse!!!!
strofca 1 year ago
so cool, thanks so much
mbdcia 1 year ago
One of my favs of all times, and definitely one of the Top 10 "feel good" pop songs ever. And very odd to see groups perform LIVE on a TV show. Tony Burrows was so awesome.
ondabayou11 1 year ago 3
this was no1 the day my mum was born and i really like it
LittleMissDreamero 1 year ago 2
The first number 1 in 1970
tonyins67 1 year ago 2
The closest thing to this phenomenon stateside was the great Ron Dante, who sang lead on "Tracy" by the Cuff Links and "Sugar Sugar" by the Archies, both of which were in the U.S. top 10 at the same time. Interestingly, Dante would later achieve even greater success as a record producer, producing Barry Manilow's early albums. So, all you prog rock and psychedelic purists, don't be so quick to knock "bubblegum music" - you never know what can develop!
ejslurb2007 1 year ago 9
@ejslurb2007, thanks for the good pertinent info.
Did Mr. Dante sing on any of the other Cuff Links or Archie's songs?
philipcarol 1 year ago 3
@philipcarol As far as I know, Phil, Dante sang on most of the Archies' songs, including "Bang Shang-a-Lang," "Feelin' So Good," and the theme song to the "Archie's Funhouse" TV show. I don't know much about the Cuff Links except for that big hit "Tracy." Another bubble-gum singer I'm curious about is Joey Levine, who supposedly sang lead for both the Ohio Express and the 1910 Fruit Gum Company, both part of the Kazinetz-Katz machine.
ejslurb2007 1 year ago
@philipcarol I don't know much about the Cuff Links, but as far as I know, Dante sang lead on most of the Archies' songs. As for who produced the records or who else played on them, that's still a mystery to me, probably one kept by the record industry to instill the "mystique" of those old recordings. It might be worth researching to find out more about them.
ejslurb2007 1 year ago
@philipcarol - Indeed he did. Ron Dante was the lead voice for all of the Archies hits and most of the their album tracks. Even more impressively, he was all of the voices on the Cuff Links records, recording all the backing and lead vocals himself. The Cuff Links album "Tracy" has been reissued on CD and is well-worth tracking down. Finally, before either the Cuff Links or Archies, Ron Dante sang lead on the novelty hit "Leader of the Laundromat" by the Detergents!
zipkilowatt 11 months ago
@philipcarol Yes,he did..he was also on The Detergents' Parody Leader Of The Laundromat,a Hit in 1964.
mrmjb1960 9 months ago
@ejslurb2007 You're so right about that ("Tracy" & "Sugar Sugar"). "Tracy" was a big favorite of mine, and I never noticed that the lead voice was the same as on "Sugar Sugar" even though (as you say) they were on the radio concurrently that year.
57highland 1 year ago
@e I prefer bubblegum over Manilow.
lazur1 7 months ago
@lazur1 So do a lot of people, Lazur, but Manilow has always been a "guilty pleasure" of mine. Before my loving wife came into my life, I was spending long hours alone, tryin' to get the feeling again. I know that sounds disgusting, but I'm talking about love, not just sexual fantasies. Anyway, I have long been a Fanilow and I respect Ron Dante for doing something else successful after his singing days were over.
ejslurb2007 7 months ago
Thanks for the insight on Burrows & Macaulay. Always interesting finding out the background of some of the songs we simply grew up with and probably never gave a thought as to the creation of it all. Just like some of awesome musicians and writers behind the bubblegum hits of that era and aimed at us kids of the 60's and early 70's.
humatak07 1 year ago 3
I named my daughter after this song. Love Grows will be 40 this year .
45rpmSINGLES 1 year ago
I love this song i was'nt born when this was first released in 1970. Where is all the decent music these days.
MsFanmail 1 year ago 2
If you google Tony Burrows You'll find he was a sessions singer and fronted many studio bands, the Kestrels, Ivy League, Brotherhood of Man, White Plains, Edison Lighthouse, the Pipkins
babygore0599 1 year ago
@babygore0599 And don't forget First Class- Beach Baby
renecrod3 1 year ago
there's something about her hand holdin mine, well it makes me feel fine, and i just gotta say, hey! she's really got a magical spell and she uses it well and i can't get away.....i just typed that toasted.....but i adore that lyric
2georgeorwell 1 year ago
My 5 yr old daughter is in love with the other lead singer/guitarist in the "other" version of this song on youtube. Does anyone know his name? He is much more handsome than Tony Burrows, longer hair and my daughter says he looks like "daddy with longer hair". She plays the song ENDLESSLY on my iPhone..it is driving us all crazy. Thanks for any info.
gottabighit1 1 year ago
@gottabighit1 I believe that is Andy Locke, who is lip synching to Tony Burrows's version. Burrows, who co-wrote the song with two others, never intended Edison Lighthouse to be an actual group, but Love Grows was such a big hit on the radio that Tony Macauley, who owned the name Edison Lighthouse, hired the group "Merlin Q" to become the band, and Locke was one of them. (This isn't the only video where you see someone lipsynching to Tony Burrows - check out Beach Baby by First Class.
jimraw1 1 year ago
@jimraw1 You couldn't be more wrong! This is Tony Burrows along with the original band, the band that actually toured both here and Scandinavia. Merlin Q didn't appear until much later after Love grows had disappeared from the charts.
Flickajak 1 year ago
@Flickajak This is why people should read the entire comment. I was answering a question by gottabighit1, who asked who was the long haired singer in the other "Love Grows" video.
jimraw1 1 year ago
@jimraw1 Tony Burrows didnt co-write this song.It`s just Barry Mason &Tony Macaulay
GoldenOldiesOn45RPM 1 year ago
@GoldenOldiesOn45RPM My bad - i meant Tony Macaulay - don't forget Sylvan Wittingham
jimraw1 1 year ago
@GoldenOldiesOn45RPM And Sylvan Mason who didn't get any credit!
Stuartedison 1 year ago
@gottabighit1 That's Andy Locke in the vid of Edison Lighthouse playing in front of municipal bldg. He lip syncs to Tony Burrows in that performance of Love Grows. In that vid, he does have a lot of appeal. See for ANDY LOCKE COMPOSITION "BRIGHTON" (he's on the right in photo) and Edison Lighthouse " Reconsider my Belinda" (photo of him a 17 y/o mod).
baystategal 1 year ago
Very interesting trivia, and a fun video to see. Thanks for posting!
TheSanityInspector 1 year ago
i wish i was rosemary
DingoWrestler 1 year ago
Tony Burrows never gets enough credit for singing one of the Biggest Hits of the Wonderful 70's. Tony for giving us this Great Fun Song.
perpetual61 1 year ago
tell me why is there noone out there making good music like this? all i hear is that rap and hiphop crap!
userboy6 1 year ago
@userboy6 Exactly! And it's so freaking sad. I mean there is nothing today that even remotely compares with this...and there are a million songs from back then (67-71) that are as good (or even better) than this classic.
kap3181 1 year ago
@userboy6 there are plenty of original and exciting artists out there today, problem is that commercial foists the shit on the kids instead of being more flexible with what they play. At least some of the Glee Cast music has made the charts so it's not all that bad.
fatpizzaman 1 year ago
@userboy6 AMEN!!
calchick82 1 year ago
This style of music was about 7 years past it's time. Much more reminescent of the bands of the British Invasion from the early to later 60's. I hated the 70's. Started off by shooting down 3 students at Kent State and ended with American's held hostage in Watergate. In the middle was White Disco and the "Me Decade". There was some good music, but I'll take the music of the 60's and 80's to that of the 70's. If I went back to the 70's, I'd tear off my fingernails looking for the wormhole.
edwardeubanks 1 year ago
@edwardeubanks I guess you could say this if you lived your life doing nothing but reading the newspaper. I gues one might say this if they spent the 70s stoned or in jail as well. I had a ball!
pz3j 1 year ago
@edwardeubanks I agree with everything you said except the part about the 80s...how can you mention the 80s in the same sentence with the sixties (music wise)?
kap3181 1 year ago
Thanks for that "trivia" !!!!
MsFrankie98 1 year ago
this brings back memories of the early seventies and the flares and long hair cool
derekandcaroline1977 1 year ago
Fantastic footage, priceless! Thanks so much.
classicvinylbiz 1 year ago
What a fun song, loved it!
tobesograteful 1 year ago
Such a great and simpler time, god I miss those days.
bcushing 1 year ago
Could pop be any more perfect than this?!
ee1961960 1 year ago
@ee1961960 It reaches a consistency at some point actually. I think there are actually about only 13 "radio" changes, but they can be used in so many ways. Ever hear of a band called Jellyfish? They were recycling pop hooks from the 70's in the late 80's and early 90's but were afforded much better production. I am partial to these authentic "Bubblegum" era pop classics myself.
kipptumor 1 year ago
excellent song of the seventies by edison lighthouse what a beautiful memories!!!!!
beethomozart 1 year ago
Let me in the Time Machine! Or as Mr. Peabody called it The Way-Back Machine! Man, those were the days!
OnCloudNine62 1 year ago
Anybody have a TIME MACHINE...I was born 1975 but i wanna go back to 1960 so I can ENJOY the 70s......I dislike the ACTORS,MOVIES,and MUSIC from today...Its just not the SAME...
mattdaddyful 1 year ago
luv luv this song i wish my name was rosemary
megwitch1 1 year ago
what a great era - Edison Lighthouse, Badfinger, Raspberries - they relied more on melody and harmony than technology back then....love it!
murfxyz 1 year ago 2
thank you philipcarol for the detailed info accompanying this upload!
landofsuchbeauty 1 year ago
Ah...memories of Saturdays spent working in the flower shop, earning some money to go dancing and meet boys!!Homework....what homework?
Poopaloo55 1 year ago 2
Edison Lighthouse will be playing their farewell gig on the 27th March in Cornwall. This is to say thank you to all their loyal fans and make a bit of money for charity was well. I shall be there and they will be missed. Rumour has it that Tonny Burrows is also going to be singing with Stuart and Dave. Cant wait and of course will miss them like mad. X
sandypebble1 1 year ago
i am up at about 10:40, volume high, listening to this right in front of my sleeping mother (i'm 10 years old)
thank you, fidos5
fidos5 1 year ago
this was no:1 when i was born...bless x
traceyannwilkinson 1 year ago
Thanks both for the video of this great song-I heard back when it came out and it's still a tuneful joy- and for the background information. I will check out Tony Macaulay.
By the way, you're right- Last Night I didn't get to Sleep at All is a gem of a pop song. And Marilyn McCoo really sang it beautifully.
written12 1 year ago
fantastic 70s song
jpoe141 2 years ago
I was reminded of this song after watching the movie "Shallow Hal". I loved this song as a kid and it was wonderful being reminded of it. I love it now, and again.
crunchygranolahh 2 years ago
YES!!!! This song brings a lotta joy and memory to this old woman's heart. Thanks.
scifiwritir 2 years ago 3
I love your band. You guys are some of the most brilliant people on Earth. You work those Bar Chords!!!!!!!
I really want to meet you guys sometime!!!! You make me
feel so darn optimistic just watching you play!!!!
rhotspot 2 years ago
Thanks for posting and all of the extra information you gave us!
confed14 2 years ago 4
fandabidosy !.
deltorso 2 years ago
It sends chills down my back to see this song performed live. One of my favorites from the good old days. Thanks so much for this!
vcoaster 2 years ago
Nothing like the sixties and seventies. Music today (with all due respect) lacks any sense of originality. Vapid. Boring. Without any soul. Thank God for the memories.
arkaeic 2 years ago 2
MY NAME IS ROSEMARY!
PhoebeWyoming22 2 years ago
My Grandma's name is Phobe.
reg1naldsm1th 2 years ago
well love will grow where ever YOU! go lol x
hunkyfunkster 2 years ago
Thanks for posting- memories of junior high school- timeless.
adbartels 2 years ago
This is a great post, and with excellent info. Thank you, and I will learn more about theses two, Burrows and Macauley, thanks to you!
giles422 2 years ago
I fully agree with you, philipcarroll! Tony Burrows was a great influence on pop music. What a pity he usually stayed in the background, I would have loved to see a lot more of this charming, attractive, golden-voiced singer. He deserved to be far more than a studio singer!
dinastein44 2 years ago
This song gets better as the years go by.
What a classic.
Thank you.
George Vreeland Hill
GeorgeVreelandHill 2 years ago 5
This comment has received too many negative votes show
Looks like it was filmed in 1913.
Man,that many years has aged all videos of them by now?
Oh,well thats nature telling baby boomers death is on the door step....
knowallcity 2 years ago
roll another one i want to go back
snagzappa 2 years ago 3
Thankyou so much for sharing.....one of my all time favourites *-*
candyofcourse 2 years ago 18
"She ain't got no money
Clothes look kinda' funny
her hair is kinda' wild and free"
Those were the daze!!!
brewcity59 2 years ago 6
In my memory, the version got popular in the 70 was without Mr Burrows as the lead.
kw9999kw 2 years ago
Better start taking aricept pronto.
hollies65 2 years ago
I think that, as you can see on the youtube video in the related section that they had a pretty boy miming to the words but it was probably still Burrows voice.
timtak1 2 years ago
edison lighthouse... where are they now LOL
anisete46 2 years ago
Ahhh ...Pan's people, high karate aftershave and Jimmy Savile without his stoogie. God i miss the 70s and i was only 4 when it began
thespetch 2 years ago
Why did 1970 have to end? I would go back in a instant if a i could.....
knowallcity 2 years ago 32
Same here.
humbleradio 2 years ago
@knowallcity I was born 1st jan 77 but would have loved 70.
molenewall 1 year ago 2
@knowallcity 76 wasn't too bad either - Or 78 for that matter ;)
kipptumor 1 year ago
@knowallcity Me too !!!
BeachBoysGuy1 1 year ago
@knowallcity you got that right !!
TVCSD 1 year ago
@knowallcity me too
megwitch1 1 year ago
@knowallcity
If you can find that way back, I"m IN!
LadyOfMaine 1 year ago
I love this song, it reminds me of my friend who has no idea of music but this is her fave song ever after actually getting to see edison lighthouse perform where we worked last year x
shinyshimsham 2 years ago
Edison Lighthouse, the coming together of Tony Burrows and Greenfield Hammer. Tony is a great singer. Some of the Edison Lighthouse songs are him (solo) and some of their recordings are without him. Easy. But please do not confuse the Brotherhood Of Man of Save Your Kisses For Me fame with the earlier group which included Tony Burrows and Sunny and Sue (Leslie) - United We Stand, California Sunday Morning, Where Are You Going To My Love etc. Great song, great singer.
TheRoloCasanova 2 years ago
How could such fine people have murdered Europe? It breaks my heart!
pz3j 2 years ago
Well then who is the other dude in the OTHER clip who sings this song....a planted singer that the record company hired??
naturaltoby 2 years ago
That's what I've been wondering. If what MaxLibertas says is true, how could they have identical voices? I'll go back and have another listen to the other one to be sure, though.
Tonicbubbler 2 years ago
They're just a bunch of guys who took over the name when the original band split, and yes they are miming to Tony Burrows vocal track. Nothing at all to do with the original band.
Flickajak 2 years ago
I believe Tony Burrows also perfomed as Ron Dante-he fronted several studio o ne-hit bands like the Archies, and had a few novelty records in the '60's.
momike99 2 years ago
They're two different people. This is English session singer Tony Burrows. Ron Dante is the American session singer of the Archies "Sugar, Sugar" fame. He was born Carmine Granito in Staten Island, New York.
MaxLibertas 2 years ago
No, Ron Dante and Tony Burrows are TOTALLY different individuals. Dante performed as the singer in the Archies, The Detergents (Leader of the Laundramat), The Cuff Links (Tracy), and multiple studio groups, as Tony Burrows did. That is where the similarity ends, however. Ron Dante has a great website, AND he responds to personal e-mails, if you have any further interest.
MrHollies69 2 years ago
Great Pop Classic!
1963Pure 2 years ago
Wow! I just read the entire description and didn't know any of that. Thanks for taking the time to show this. It makes the music I grew up with make so much more sense of how it