SAILOR: 'A Glass of Champagne'

[jchopra]

I know a milliron people have said it...but yeah Roxy music la la la....

[pjwsnooty]

DIG IT!!!!!!

Thanks bwbarb.

[moggs69]

Good song sounds like Roxy music

[jabos113]

what can i say..............my all time fav my wife's going bonkers cuz i play it over and over and over lol....:)

[prescient8]

brilliant song, brilliant Georg

[illhaveadouble]

Im ashamed to admit I didnt know this was by Sailor - I always thought it wias Roxy Music! God, I feel like the crusty old judge who didnt know who the Beatles were!

[TheDudeloveman]

Scooter the SHAME..

[JoeStunner]

This and Girls, Girls, Girls are great songs. People called them "Roxy Music-lite" but they weren't a bad band in their own right.

[mensamoo]

Gary tibbs was in Kajagoogo. and probably countless other bands. great song

[jabos113]

what can i say..true tune back from the day when i was 2yr's old :)...cheers mate...

[allirka]

Super hudba,moc se mi to líbí,pamatuju je jako moje oblíbené z mládííí

[goldheartbadge]

My dear old Mum loved this band - but then again, she liked Roxy Music too. She even followed Adam & The Ants during their heyday, when ex-Roxy bassist Gary Tibbs was in the line-up!

[kath61]

This was my childhood - does that make me an old Mum?, oh dear...time just passes, it will be your turn in the blink of an eye

[goldheartbadge]

@kath61 - my mum was in her mid-40s when Sailor were at their peak in the UK. I think she liked them because they put showbiz back into rock - the same reason she liked Roxy and Adam.

[kath61]

I'm over sensitive..and i didn't really know what I was listening to then. Q put this song on a recent compilation & I was able to understand their peculiar charm- your Mum was right, Bless her.

[mannthing]

@kath61 very well said Kath :)

[Armydicked]

@goldheartbadge

Yer Mum Rocks---she definately has a Post-Punk Sensability about her.  This song so strongly reeks of ABBA (ABBA-ESQUE) that I fully expected what's her name (Meryl Strepp) to sing in in Momma Mia.

[MultiSlowdown]

i Am not from west so i had never heard of this song or this band.

i heard it in background of a movie "five minutes of heaven". and really liked it.

thanks for uploading

and hats off 2 sailors for giving such beautiful music 2 world

[ralucagymnast]

George Kajanus said that "virginia plain" definitely inspired him, hence the similarities in the songs. This is such a fantastic, "feel good" song. Its impossible not to move to it. Band member Phil Pickering went on to write Karma Chameleon for Culture Club too:)

[manitogata]

I remember when this song came out.

I was a teenager at the time. Sure brings back the memories.

Great song

[biscuitz66]

love this song

[huthynson]

great !! listen to Jumping All Over The World.

Jumping All Over The World it's copy

[Kickbreaker]

I´ve heard the Techno-Version first, but this is so awesome .

This is still real music, which puts you in a happy nostalgic feeling :)

eeeh, please, I just love it, watch the video at 0:20 , and watch the piano guy, he is so freakin happy :P

[countwickzling]

was 6 when this came out, then one day...in my 30's I thought about it while driving...just came into my head...and have played it daily while driving through the blackwall tunnel most mornings, on way to work, on my ipod! who can't not sing to this? The best.....

[rabsmiff]

Kajanas delivered the glossy pop goods----and millions ROCKED.

[luxyaltz219]

I was 17 when this came out , man did I bop to it ..........brilliant memorys

[HIBBO32]

This reached No. 2 on the British charts in 1976 and still sounds as good today as it did then.

[Deuteronomy100]

``You`ve got the power to drive me insane``..Clssic Track.I was about 4 when that song was around,,40 now,but still love it!

[nutster9000]

I heard this like so many others in the UK when it was included in the M&S ad and couldn't for the life of me work out who it was. Yep I assumed it was Roxy Music - nope - XTC - nope very similar in style to New Muzik and even considered Cockney Rebel but then found a forum on google and here I am YESSSSS what a superb track and I can see why they are still loved today. Yes I can remember Girls Girls Girls but I thought it was rubbish. I was only 5 but what did I know about music then!!!!!

[Nienhof]

Hey Bwbarb, I love you! This is a journey into my past.. greetings from Berlin! Reiner

[JoeStunner]

Fantastic song! One of THE great memories of my childhood.

[pel1can]

adam77740, that comment did cause me to laugh. scooter. haha.

[pjama72]

IF YOU LISTEN TO THE INTRO TO THIS SOUNDS LIKE ROXY MUSIC'S VIRGINAA FIRST SINGLE PLAIN THERE MUST SOME INFLUENCE LONG RTTHWE WAY  i QUITE LIKE THIS SONG

[Jonathandreamer]

This is OK, but I prefer the grittiness of his work with DATA. This is too flowery.

[maxihorn]

lang lang ists her lol^^  :D

[eusebius65]

Classic 70s pop! This and 'Girls, Girls. Girls' were definitely on high rotation down under in 76!

[adamm77740]

fuck this song cmon scooter

[bwbarb]

Hey Adamm77740, Scooter reworked this song for Jumping All Over The World. This would suggest that Scooter liked A Glass of Champagne in the first place. Have you written any hit songs in your little life lately?

[junkydrummer]

lol

[rachy2kay7]

love it

check out scooter-jumping all over the world

[54spiritedwill54]

one of the very first keyboard/synthesizer structured pop tunes.

[Kaputtnic00]

^My Father is happy from the video!!

[nigellaexpress]

Oh yeah and GK in a tux - I'll have a glass of champagne with you any time.

[nigellaexpress]

Opening piano does sound like the opening og "Virginia Plain" (the oompah Moog kind of breaks the spell though!) and I think they're vastly underrted - witty and clever,

[mal8000]

me to lol :)

[carrollkrc]

I used to think this was Roxy music

[priddie766]

OK so I'm 47, but I saw Sailor in 1976 and they have left an impression on me - why else am I searching!! Cool Breeze - my favourite!! George et al I salute you!!!!

[SabuPtolemy]

Brilliant song and, man, these guys are well preserved. Unlike some other 70's pop icons.

[nimpogs]

liked the comparison to xtc. this song though is pure roxy music. it is fab!

[samspadexxx]

I agree about sounding like Roxy Music, great song all the same though.

[vivanut1]

Pure Magic

[rshw]

One of the best hits of the 70's !!!

[pgscooby]

Yes, you're absolutely right. I looked for Pink Floyd and ELO using it as well but not 'til '77 & '78 - I'm a fan of both as well - so Sailor were the pioneers as far as vocal use go.

[deloufu]

I agree with that but if you ask me I think this act was slightly ahead of the game & ahead of it's time. What do you think?

[pgscooby]

They were a fun band - I saw them in concert in 1976 and it was a good night out.

Jauly - I'm afraid you're a bit out on your dates - the first electronic pop song was Popcorn, a hit for Hot Butter in 1972 but written by Gershon Kingsley for the Moog Synthesiser in 1969. The Vocoder, although invented in the 1930's, was put to work by Robert Moog in the early '70's as well.

[Jauly]

lol I said one of the very first ones. sure popcorn was earlier. but this one used a one note melody as hook and had vocals.

[Jauly]

one of the very first keyboard/synthesizer structured pop tunes. listen to the bassline, the main hook and the vocoder ;)

[solartron]

sorry - can't (and never could) hear any vocoder in this track...

[Jauly]

hear the words glass of champaign were vocoded in the background under the instrumental flute like hook!

[sixfeetjenna]

That´s not a vocoder. They´re just singing really low notes monotonously. Maybe they wanted the feel of a vocoder, but didn´t have one in the studio. Brilliant tune all the same. :)

[ferry64]

For some strange reason some XTC songs remind me of this.

[nothugsinourhouse]

I was thinking the same thing myself! The music has the old-world quirkiness of XTC and the lead singer sounds very much like Andy Partridge.

[Elektrapunk]

This takes me back to my youth - Bought the 7" when it came out and if I recall it had a glossy carboard sleeve. This was Brian Ferry's influence I'm sure of it. George Kajanus - Genius!