Duane Eddy - Play Me Like You Play Your Guitar (HQ) |TOTP 13-3-1975|

[goldheartbadge]

The song was composed by Tony Macaulay - one of the greatest British songwriters ever - and former Seeker Keith Potger. Tony's penned 6 British chart-toppers and won 9 Ivor Novello awards, so why isn't he an OBE yet? I know he resides mainly in the US nowadays; but so does Albert Hammond, who was (rightly) made an OBE.

[NickRatnieks]

Is this an actual live performance on TOTPs and is that Darlene Love on the right?

[EddyPop100]

See that bloke playing the piano!? You fancy him, you do...

[goldheartbadge]

@EddyPop100 - it's Billy Livsey, who has also backed many other stars such as Tina Turner, Kenny Rogers and Gallagher & Lyle.

[Springamatul]

noel is bLOODY CHILDESS.

[MyLynnSmith]

a song about unrequited love but a happy and positive song , not my usual thing but I love it - it makes me smile and dance :)

[candelise]

Who were the singers? Was it Sue and Sunny?

[Unterscharfuhrer]

Is that Sheila Ferguson in the centre?

[Dumaguetenonputi]

Takes me back to 10 years old... I distinctly remember this song. On a saturday morning, reading the weekly comics, hile we lived in Wales for a year and a half, near Chester. I liked it back then... but never knew what they looked like.

Have to laugh. The girls are cute, but Duane Eddy is quite a poseur. The look in his eye says 'He knows he is good'...

Good tune nevertheless, and takes be back to my childhood.

I agree with potaluca's statement. The 60's, a difficult era to beat.

[MrTaxi10]

cwoooor, the girl on the left looks like pam grier!

[Anna23cac]

brings me back lovely memories when i was young and when i met my husband ,WHAT A SONG AND THE SOUND OF THE GUITAR!!!!

[DAVETIGHTFIT]

This fantastic song is one of only two records to be creditted to a male artist, but to contain only female vocals. The other is Mike Oldfield's 'Moonlight Shadow'

[giftednumber10]

@DAVETIGHTFIT What about Quincy Jones and "Razzamatazz" ?

[DAVETIGHTFIT]

@giftednumber10 Good try and thanks for making me sit up and worry!! I almost had to stand corrected, but on having listened to the song again, I could hear male vocals in the background during some parts. The vocals were indeed predominantly female, but on the other two songs they were exclusively female. Yes, I need to get out more.

[flairbird1965]

@DAVETIGHTFIT Er ummm fascinating I think.

[DAVETIGHTFIT]

@flairbird1965 Have a look at giftednumber10s comments, almost caught me out.

[CraigG1960]

@DAVETIGHTFIT Thanks for mentioning this. After I read it I looked up Moonlight Shdow on YouTube and played it. I hadn't heard it in years and had quite forgotten it so thanks for jogging my memory.

[scottishmountaineer]

Excellent stuff! Just that I'd check out some Duane Eddy and came across this. Looking at the date, it is EXACTLY 35 years ago!! (Today is 13th March 2010)

Wonderful guitar sound and the backing singers are superb. I know they are called the Rebelettes but I read somewhere that they were actually The Blossoms - anyone confirm this? TIA!

[ColumRogers]

Been searching for this video for 2 years and i forgot how good it sounded. His backing singers are tasty peaches too.

[pete2784]

What a mellow melody! Love every second of it!

[louluvscats]

Different unique track from duane eddy.I like the retro-ness of it,with the girl backing singers and slow and catchy melody.Its great! I like noel edmunds is suit too its class. The comment below with long impressive wording, giving a brief news reel of 1975, is needing to make an impression to fulfil whose needs, or is fishing for compliments for who I wonder!!! Young man wake up! Benja :-)

[RobinCarmody]

Much like the first song on this TOTP, this is an exhausted parody of something that once *seemed* genuinely revolutionary, the originally insurrectionary turned into a desperate, worn-out soundtrack for the slow sleepwalk into neoliberalism, a bland backdrop to union-bashing which set the tone for all that rock is today.

But then this is 1975. Should we be surprised?

[potaluca]

heady but interesting thoughts...

1975 was a very transitional year in music and culture, very sucky in many ways at the time...but now I'd go back to 1975 in a second witout a second thought!

[Nuttybott]

@potaluca I didn't think 1975 was sucky I loved it at the time, and like you I would go back in a second!

[madge61954]

@potaluca absolutely, I would go back there with you , it only it could be possible. think we lived throught he best era ever.

[flairbird1965]

Wot??

[JAYROX1969]

Cooll!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!