New Seekers - Never Ending Song Of Love (HQ) |Christmas TOTP '71|

[OttoPutz]

I am still searching for one of the best songs by New Seekers: "Cinncinnati"

[pianoman74]

Do you notice something? NO STUPID HAND-CLAPPING in the audience. Maybe it's because this was taped in '71.

Some time later, everyone got infected by that infamous hand-clapping virus...

[loughrey101]

Elvis should have recorded this song. I can't understand why he didn't at a later year.

[loughrey101]

This must be the first TOTP performance that wasn't mimed from the studio master lol.

[TheThundercrack]

@dizzyvic: The girl in the yelow is actually Lynn Paul NOT Debbie Ash. Debbie was a dancer in the Top Of The Pops group Hot Gossip.

[saramaewhat]

Never ending song of love will always live on!

[zenileon]

By the looks of it, the ladies did not seem to get on at all well

[dizzyvic1]

Flickyhecky,that girl in the yellow is Debbie Ash,sister of Lesley Ash ( Men Behaving Badly).

[regentv980]

Shame it did not reach number one,superb song takes me back to my youth

[winifredatwell]

Musical sunshine. 

[KnickerbockerTV]

my sisters used to tell me I danced to TOTP around this age, nearly 3

[thehenryal]

A real goodie from autumn 71, where have all the good times gone.

[dachshund19]

i love this and i love beans

clunge

[dachshund19]

i love this and i love beans

[Flickyhecky]

That girl in yellow at 2:00 is hot!

[uhforja]

@Flickyhecky

She's probably not so hot now :)

[wlangley88]

@Flickyhecky Define hot

[Flickyhecky]

@wlangley88 She was hot at the time!

[littlebay75]

yeah 70s music was good 80s even better :]

[xgunslingerukx]

love this tune and others i remember them when i was kid back then lol. its a shame we dont see these old time music on our sky tv as we we get a load of crap what we dont watch and yet germany see all our top of the pops and all the memorabilia bands and we have to put with total crap music here and we dont have a say in it they assume you should watch what they order and set up channels that a full of advertiseing more than programes.

[littlebay75]

but its easy to look through rose tinted glasses at the past there was vietnam, the olympic hostage attrocity, terrorim and football hooliganism was worse in the 70,s no era is ever perfect :{

[phantomtree1]

@littlebay75 FFS just enjoy the music we all know about plight but music lightens the load

[Rosinenkind]

Geil, das waren noch Zeiten...Jukeboxhero..:-)))))

[shonkhuulai]

I got a never ending love for you, from now on, thats all I wanna do..........

Read it twice. It is wonderful, old, and actual..... .

I got a never ending love........!

[zoomrunner]

great memories!

[chevyvictor]

what is the blonde females name again?

[DOKK212]

@chevyvictor..... Lyn Paul

[originalpauper]

Those were the days. Look at them. happy and carefree. Songs were clean , more importantly singers were clean and decent

[cabbyeagles]

@originalpauper I so agree .

Funny how today's younger generation are different .... GEE ! .... could it be the anti - social and violent content of the present garbage , they call music ?

[connoisseurnic]

Eins Festival (Deutschland) show whole episodes of Top of the Pops, far better than Top of the Pops 2.

The BBC are NOT allowed to do this due to copyright restrictions.

[toddgoodfellow]

who fucking cares abou politics just shut the fuck up and enjoy the music

[warumlachstdu]

Damals mein absoluter Hit. Und höre ihn immer noch gerne. Da geht die seele auf und die Beine kreisen wie ein junger Hüpfer!

[helloadrianachristi]

love this wedding song.

[peterpops27]

very underrated and very evocative of the wonderful 70's

[BOBBY1976100]

Didn't Marty Kristian own any underwear? No wonder he was the heartthrob, you can see all he's got here. Again!

[AABeauty2]

My sweet mom used to sing this to me when I was little... I called her before she passed away last fall and played it for her.... She cried and laughed saying, "You remember that song!?" I'll never forget the lyrics or the memories.

[PinewoodStudio1]

@AABeauty2 Thats a nice thing to remember.......im sure she heard you..

[mottledbrain]

Did they inspire ABBA?

[mottledbrain]

This was before ABBA hit the charts!

[warumlachstdu]

WOW!!! Habe ich das geliebt und darauf getanzt. Dolle, einfach dolle!

[leadingshield]

Yes you are right, you can't beat Delaney and Bonnie's original song, but this has a good vibe to it all the same.

[MaceMn]

Delaney & Bonnie's version of this song is far superior.

[MaceMn]

Too bad it's not on Youtube

[dt44ttfn]

tons of fun and a great 'cheer u up' band

[wiltner]

BTW does anyone know who that is playing out the credits at the end of this clip. Its really good. I hadn't heard it before. It must have been just before CCS's version of Led Zepplin's Whole Lotta Love took over for most of the 70's.

[loungebear]

The music at the end (and the beginning) of this '71 special was specially used for this programme.

[SuperBrownfish]

A very clever point I think LDP should grow old with dignity like Madonna who is a very classy lady and a perfect role model for the more mature performers to aspire to

[SuperBrownfish]

I was never a fan of New Seekers, Lynsey De Paul or any of the 70s tat - thank God we have X-Factor now

[jinxer70]

you have GOT to be joking. X-factor has destroyed decent music.

[SuperBrownfish]

Suppose it depend s what you call decent music really - would rather listen to Leona Lewis than this sh1te

[jinxer70]

As you rightly say, it's all a matter of opinion. I'm just making the point that everyone on X-factor are manafactured puppets. Yes, there was a lot of crap in this era, but at least they wrote their own songs and played their instruments.

[wiltner]

Not all of them! There were a few 'ghost writers' back then too. Nikki Chin and Mike Chapman were behind the Sweet among others. Phil Coulter and Bill Martin were behind the Bay City Rollers, Cliff and Sandie Shaw. Most of the Hits were recorded by 'session musicians' and not the bands themselves. Or at least big orchestras and additional musicians were added in to sell the record. The 'puppet' thing always went on.

[jinxer70]

Oh I see. I didn't know that now, so fair point. I really feel, however, that X-Factor has ruined the Christmas No1. It used to be special once, now they just give it to the X-Factor winner (this is before I've heard this year's Xmas No1, so I hope I'm left with egg on my face)

[dancingduade]

At 1.48, Girl with big concorde collar - Some of the worst dancing ever seen in the history of the planet

[Glenn1967ful]

The main interest is the blonde singer was called Lyn Pau who was often confused with another popular singer of the day, Lynsey de Paul, although their styles were different.

[yorkshireterrier13]

There style's certainly were different glen1967ful as Lynsey De Paul spent most of her years been a slag. she had no class what so ever and slept with 100's of men....

[Glenn1967ful]

There was some confusion as both had similar names and were blonde, but their styles were different. You could say Lynsey had her pick of men, but I wouldn't say she was a slag. Madonna is a slag and a common one at that.

[ColumRogers]

I love the way the crowd dance towards the end to the funky title music.

[smeldogs]

Thanx  for posting !

[rslitman]

I know this song as done by Delaney and Bonnie and Friends.

[Glamking1]

Are you just going to leave Rod Stewart due to copyright and which is the last song on there because WMG would block it anyway.

[nyrainbow4]

yeah, the Rod Stewart video was muted by WMG and I had to delete it.

[IanMorrell70]

Absolutely brilliant uploads. Brought back many memories. I noticed the "Festival" logo in the top corner. Is this a new sky channel? Are they doing other old Top of the Pops? Regarding the Rod Stewart issue, elsewhere on YouTube there is a silent verswion of The Drifters "Kissing in the Back Row of the Movies". How daft is that? Finally, under a rather inferior version of "Give Peace a Chance" somebody commented "Is censorship more important than John Lennon's message

[nyrainbow4]

EinsFestival is a German channel. I have no idea if it's available on Sky.

And yes, what WMG did to YT is a real "musical genocide" - tons of videos have been removed, lots of accounts have been suspended. I'll never buy anything from WMG again.

[JERRYBOLAK]

very very cool