The Roses of Success

[Zanator1]

They were there for years and they try something as stupid as THAT?

[Johnnyradionic]

"There's magic in the wake of a fiasco."

God, what a line.

[LadyJuliette1000]

only took Edison 99 times to figure out how Not to make a light bulb.

[brickhousemonkey]

After reading you guys comments and then watching this video, I never though that this song was had some inspiration to it.

[joeyjoey98]

Funny when Lu realise Lionel Jeffries was actually 6 months younger than Dick van Dyk.

[CavalierAdam1]

Theres alot people can take to heart in this song =)

[95johnnyreb]

"Success!"

*car breaks down*

classic

[Kats987124]

I remember when I was little the endless days of singing classic old songs from musicals,

my dad always used to play them on the piano with me on his lap. Ahhh.

[DC11961]

@TheCoolchris99 Not that I have a problem with it, but why are you quoting "Break My Fall" by Breaking Benjamin on this page? O.o

[93DOL]

Everytime I think i CAN'T do something at school, college (as I am currently) I think of this song

[FunkyWorm3288]

R.I.P Lionel Jefferies



[senfood]

Whenever I'm feeling down I listen to this song and feel instantly better.

[TheCoolchris99]

Only the strongest will survive, Lead me in heaven when we die, I have a shodow on the wall, I'll be the one to save us all.

[Spudfish93]

Go Grease Lightning you're burni... ah.

I'm early by a few decades...

[TheCoolchris99]

1 like, ill sing it

10 likes, ill dance to it

20 or more likes, ill sing, dance and ill post it on youtube

[forgottenXrealm]

Edison + see the light = light bulb... Common sense

[animejunkie10]

someone sent me this song to cheer me up. It worked ^_^

[TheCoolchris99]

ive gotten adicted to this song

[supersniper5011]

Favorite movie

[karaokegirl1313]

@mrmcjoeshmoes0123 Um...Franklin is credited with electricity.

[wensel911]

@karaokegirl1313 Yep. Kite and key :D

[mrmcjoeshmoes0123]

@karaokegirl1313 right my bad

[personwhoiscool7]

i wonder if when everytime someone was left there they sang a song about not giving up????

[myanimeaddict]

@personwhoiscool7 thats a good question.

[JMaverick67]

2:34

okay, whose idea was it to throw dynamite under the car?!

[danmancmufc]

They don't make em like they used to. Legendary film.

[DrEvilScientist]

I meant 'never' listened!

[DrEvilScientist]

You know, I've listened to the words before! Those are amazing! It has a lot of meaning!

[MultiHydralisk]

MY FAVORITE MVIE!

:D

[MrJacobStewart]

Oh man, nostalgia here! I need to watch it again! Never gets old!

[gaviningham]

Reminds me of Tom Pelleau in The Apprentice!

[Zizumia1]

It's funny how the grandpa is actually younger than Dick Van Dyke (Potts)

[herlastvoyage]

LOL! Was having a crappy day until I heard this!

[chris25wigan]

Lol at the end where the car falls apart

[JimLovesLemons]

Magic in the wake of a fiasco :)

[lab32]

This is my head right now.

[kkeevviinn7107]

These old men always scared the absolute shit out of me, but they have captivating singing voices

[EYDstudios]

When my car breaks down I go to these guys!!!

[adz3141592654]

tune this!

[AliminiumHydroxide]

Good god, I hate this film, but I love this song.

[LNER4771]

He may want to fix up that car.

[AYEcorolla]

Give these guys a DeLorean, they would make you a time machine.

That floats.

That flies.

That is a HUGE pussy magnet.

[AnnaRoberts9]

This film is VERY similar to Mary Poppins! xD ---------------------

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang - Supercalifragilisticexpialidoc­ious

Roses of Success - That bank scene

Me Old Bamboo - Step In Time

Truly Scrumptious - Jolly Holiday With Mary

Hushabye Mountain - Stay Awake

Toot Sweet - Spoonful of Sugar -----------------------

hehehe xD

[ColdWarShot]

@AnnaRoberts9 It's Interesting that you compare the two All the songs written for Mary PoppinsChitty were by Robert and Richard Sherman. Several years later, they did wrote all the songs to Chitty Bang Bang. You are seeing the same style in the Sherman Brothers' work

[AnnaRoberts9]

@ColdWarShot Ah that's cool! :P Didn't know that xD

[Scruffy193]

@ColdWarShot,

The Sherman Bros also did Bedknobs and Broomsticks in 1971, which is a Disney film very similar to Mary Poppins in terms of music, design and direction. =)

[Simo2009BORO]

@AnnaRoberts9 what about lets go fly a kite? the finale

[AnnaRoberts9]

@Simo2009BORO How the frick did I forget about that?! :L Erm...that's special ;D

[Simo2009BORO]

@AnnaRoberts9 Lol yeah and chim chimenny then theere is that scene where the chimney sweep pursuades their farther to stop being nasty all the time

[AnnaRoberts9]

@Simo2009BORO I need to watch it again...forgetting a few!! :P

[GusF]

I wish ZZ Top would pimp my ride.

[Bookfreak07]

Any time I feel down about something that happened I listen to this song and find it very inspriational! Thanks for the upload :)

[bordshat]

Well they got the road tires off. That's one step in the right direction.

[Sillygoose14111]

I love this movie, but I haven't seen in a long time...Like...forever. This is a great song :) :) :)

[dadsarmyfrules]

There is no reason at all that that would happen to the car!

[Eve91fitz]

I love where the car explodes lol they sing about success and everything for nothing in the end kind of ironic lol :P

[Welshman2008]

Maybe this i where Adam Savage off Mythbusters got his philosophy that Failure is Always An Option lol.

[Roughpup100]

6 people need to get cultured

[muetter]

6 people suck at failure 

[93DOL]

According to a radio show I listened to every single man in this video is dead Lionel Jeffries was the last person to die, he died last year 19th February 2010 aged 83. RIP to all of them. Wish films and their plots were like this nowadays I find some modern day films to hard to understand and they sure aren't as exciting

[Im18nowletmewatch]

6 people didn't grow the roses of success.

[BasilFawlty4444]

1:37

a british person who actually says edison invented the lightbulb!!

[lewismurray1]

@BasilFawlty4444 because while edison's design was more effective, the first lightbulb was made by humphry davy. Just like when the first bike was made, people dont often remember the one that had no pedals.

in short, he made a good improvement, but he didnt invent it.

[BasilFawlty4444]

@lewismurray1 notice i didnt use the word "admit," but "says."

just a witty comment...

i know edison didnt ACTUALLY invent it

[Lab356]

@BasilFawlty4444 he invented the carbon filament :P

[TheEDeano]

@BasilFawlty4444 -Ahahahahaah , was probably paid to , this was american funded ;)

[mrmcjoeshmoes0123]

@BasilFawlty4444 i think they mean him discovering electricity not inventing the lightbulb

[wordsyfiction]

@BasilFawlty4444 he's actually vulgarian! ;)

[verstengenericks]

@BasilFawlty4444 I know right -- Sir Humphry Davy, 79 years before Edison. But Edison DID develop a commercially sound design, so the song's not lying, neither does it actually say Edison invented it. It's Hollywood History, you know? But you raise an important point.

[Johnnyradionic]

To BasilFawlty4444

After Edison debuted his light, he was sued by a man who'd built a light bulb when Edison was merely eight-years-old. Though there was no doubt the accuser had done as he'd claimed, the court found on Edison's behalf – stemming from Edison's mass-producing and marketing of the device, compounded by the fact, the accuser never filled for a patent. (The true inventor would use his bulbs to draw carnival attendees to his Look-at-the-Stars telescope.)

[LionInTodayFilms]

@BasilFawlty4444 Well Jospeh Swann did create the first lightbulb- and he was British.

[gags24601]

RIP Lionel Jefferies :(

[Carnage1235]

Fucking Lionel Jeffries. Makes everything awesome with his presence and presence alone.

[BigDamnHeroesRock]

Lol this song is like my theme!

[HouseBug26]

look at that guy's fro!

[PsycoBhoy]

Pimp my Ride ain't got nothing on these guys.

[longshot238]

@PsycoBhoy i am so plageriasing that.

[TypeANegative]

I think of this song sometimes when I'm feeling down. Well written, uplifting, happy, positive message. I loved this movie when I was a littlie...

[stuey2ey]

6 people dislike because 2:41 happened to their car: they overcrowded it and it fucked itself.

[Cool2BCeltic]

Anyone else notice Davenport from Rentaghost in this scene?

[ghughesarch]

@Cool2BCeltic And Old Mr Grace /  Grandad from Bread, and Max Wall (wasted really)

[jackiexpackie]

I watched this everyday when I was little x]]

still love it<3

[ZachFejes]

Me too. Whenever I need to get myself back at it, I have a listen.

[beachedwhale23]

I must admit...every time that I've been victim of total failure, this song DOES make me feel a hell of a lot better.

[Phlmal02]

@beachedwhale23 same i should listen to this song more often

[jjkaraokepro]

Can someone tell me where I can get the mp3 of this song for free?

[Clivepom]

Just love.

[bylokonnor]

Blow the noses of succes!

[rainbowcrayon37]

This song should have waaaaaay more than 99 thousand views.

[baileydogify]

this song is the shit

[SugarRuneStarNut]

I love how hanging a few floating ring things on the car will turn it into a boat

=)

[FAWLTYWORZELMELDREW]

One of the Inventors is played Kenneth Waller.

He was a marvellous character actor best known for playing Grandad Boswell in '80s sitcom, Bread.

[maddog190462]

Love this song

[melkicia]

i have a video of me singing this in front of the mirror when i'm like 5

[nonagon17]

He was actually younger than Dick Van Dyke and he was playing his dad!

[JoeTheActor19]

@nonagon17 by 1 year lol

[DaNumber1Matt]

this is funny. just some old men dancing lol

[CMaddict07]

Whenever I need a little pick-me-up I listen to this song :)

[StarwarsHalofreak]

This song certainly has alot of motivation behind it. Thomas Edison did not call his attempts at creating the light bulb "failures", just ways not how to do it, he took notes on not what to do until he got it right

[Cuccogirl]

I had a plastic glass with roses on it and I used to spin it around and sing this song

[93DOL]

Was listening to tribute on the radio few weeks (Lionel Jeffries tribute) ago every single man in this music video is dead now RIP, Lionel Jeffries was the last to die this year 19/2/2010 RIP to him and all the gr8 actors in this song

[vampirez103]

@93DOL AWWWWWW :''''((( he DIED!?? wahhwah!!

[CCNuck]

Oh I'm so adding this to my favourites.

I last saw the movie like 8 years ago, and this song STILL gets stuck in my head.

[Jourell1]

What an amazing actor Lionel Jefferies, was. Looking at this film its hard to believe that he was actually six months younger than his "son" Dick van Dyke.

[Nantchev]

2:42 "Success!" *CRASH*

[Nantchev]

He reminds me of Uncle Albert from Only Fools.

[captainpanic08]

Long-lost footage of the First International.

[FangnclawXD]

This makes me wanna shoot my head to make the sound go away, but I think I will just go to another vid now... O.O

[richardoyu]

I remember when I was like 7 this was my favourite movie of all time. I remember spending an entire watching this movie 5 times, and I could not get enough of it! The grandpa in the movie reminds me of my grandpa :)

[LADYESCHER]

This is so insperational! Love it!

[Shadowcontheoriginal]

Love this song, and have always remembered it.

[rupertandbill]

This song has got me going in becoming success and feeling like your marching in army and feeling detirmened in having courrage to face a dasterious consequence orfacing a difficult point of your life.

[ObiTrev]

0:08 Egon Spangler in his old age... c r e e p y

[TheNeilGarland]

I am a motivational coach in Amsterdam neilgarland com

[TheNeilGarland]

Wonderful motivational video

[ConcreteSurfer420]

Ian Fleming wrote Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, he also wrote all the James Bond books

[derkcloud]

@ConcreteSurfer420

hence desmond Llewelyn's role in this movie eh?

[ConcreteSurfer420]

@derkcloud Yes very good! He plays Mr Coggins = The Guy that sells Caracatus Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

[meleemailman117]

I used to be terified of this movie as a kid (I think it was the kidnapping scene) but this has always been my favorite song.

[Phlmal02]

@meleemailman117 the Child Catcher creeped me too as a Kid

[friendofthejawas]

OMG

I never knew he had died!!!! What was the cause of death cos it aint up on imdb

[ConcreteSurfer420]

hard to believe this came from the same mind that came up with James Bond 007

[mcmjr405]

@ConcreteSurfer420 Seriously?!?! I had no idea!

[emmalovesu21]

Thank you Lionel, you brought us such joy. God bless

[joyisaware]

i love it, very true too, thanks 4 sharing!

[RedDollShoes]

This song inspired a tattoo I got of a pile of writings I gave up on with a quill and a theatre mask (I used to act) all burnt up with three roses growing out of the ashes. It's my favorite tattoo.

[sheffieldminx]

R.I.P to the best grandad who wasnt even older than his son. Sublime actor :) x

[samoyedfan]

RIP dearest Lionel, this is a magnificent movie gem, the joy this brought to me is immense :)

[helen1908]

can't believe grandpa potts is gone. r.i.p

[hugh0221]

@helen1908

RIP Lionel Jeffries. ;_;

Why do such actors like him and Jeremy Brett, Eric Porter, Peter Ustinov, Peter Sellers, David Niven, Tony Jay, John Gielgud, Rex Harrison die nowadays? I missed all of them & only hope they'll be in heaven now. :(

[nataliedancetodisco]

RIP Lionel..... you're a legend... forever!

[GordyLake]

LOL old people.

[vpirates62]

When I was first brought here..I was a midget.

[philippaabuhamad]

who was the old actor who was pots dad

[Oneandoneself]

Lionell jeffries and actually caractacus in real life was older than his dad

[Starbug360]

That's what IMDB is for

[feenux82]

This movie will always hold a special place in my heart. I have both the VHS and the DVD lol. And I still watch it. <3

[Velyarminon]

People:'SUCCESS!!!'

Car:'FAIL!!!'

[honkycabbit]

2:40 Mission Accomplished!

[singerboy89]

lol the car falling apart at the end made me laugh so hard

[SorenTimble]

yeah, me too... after all that build up about having faith and singing all problems away, it was such an effective punch-line!

[EleniTV]

I never noticed how educational this movie was. =P used to be one of my favorites.

[stumby12]

I love the car Panhard et Levassor x19 torpedo

[DavyJones12345678910]

SUCCESS!!!

[DavyJones12345678910]

actually, he and Dick van Dyke are the same age! WIERD!!

[friendofthejawas]

same age but dick van dyke is six months olde than lionel jeffries

[Purplefizzgirl]

I like this song...

[theemporour]

love this song

teaches confidence

[RichLN]

"Disaster didn't stymie Louis Pasteur...." lol. Lionel Jeffries was only 43 when he filmed this! He's 83 now, probably looks the same. Wish he still appeared occasionally.....

[Astroman1990]

Absolutley love this movie. I remember watching this movie in my VCR on my built-in console 27 inch tv with an actual Vaccum tube. Those were the days!

[friendsfan4eva456]

Love this song =] Love the film :)

When i was little i used to think it said role the roses aha!

[BACKSTABER33]

Omg lol me to!! even though this movie came out b4fore I was born I remember almost every part :P

[friendsfan4eva456]

I no yeahh && me ii <3 iiT .. ii love all musicals .. i'm so sad "Lmao"

[Fly2Dreams]

I absolutely love Grandpa! He's my favorite character in this movie!

[HarlequinJesterz]

UGH, I love this. My theater group did a production of this and unfortunately our director (who I have to say, made a lot of mistakes with this play) had us walking around holding our backs, limping, and talking in raspy voices. Basically she had us doing cliche old people stuff.. it just made the song really boring. LOVE THIS, though.

[sirinferno]

old people stuff makes absolutely no sense here. their being scholars/professors is more important than their being old. and the major general/watever is meant to be active albeit with a bit of buffoonery

[richbono1492]

I don't know that it actually made a difference in my completing my Senior Project, but in the course of working on it I was moved to memorize these words! I wonder if there's something archetypal about the agency conferred by seven men--whether these guys or the Seven Dwarves, who obtain the secrets of science or the mine the riches of the earth--treasures in either case. Okay, maybe not :-|

[onegreeneye]

luv this song more than ever...as I embark on a new journey of creation of a product- thanx 4 posting

[terminizer0]

"theres magic in the wake of a fiasco"

story of my life

[Kingpin1880]

I haven't heard this song in years and I still remember it so well. I remember it was actually my least favourite song when I was little; scary beards 8S XD, but I love it now and I can remember almost every word perfectly. The timing is simply perfect, especially that final climax XD. Brilliant.

[BoxOHeroes]

Lol! Those men haven't taken baths in years!

Love this movie :)

[ticket88]

A great song from a great movie...

[SuperEuripides]

This song's actually quite therapeutic. =D

[wildhobby]

Steam-punk ar its best; from coreographics to pyros. I can never get over that pass of the oar at 1.58 - it is sublime!

[SophieAve09]

Woah hear the trombone on that :o

[richbono1492]

Thanks for pointing this out...I didn't even notice the trombone until I read your comment and listened again! It IS great!

[NinesWife]

I LOOOOOOOOOOVE IT!

[tbara1234]

I LOVE THIS SONG!

[bubblesbaby37]

haha lol

[papajoemambo]

The Sherman Brothers still kick ass.

[Yugi40]

SUCCESS!!!!

[tbara1234]

I love this song.

[ShyteKreek46]

Success!!! (CLUNK!!!)

[MrToadFace]

bum

[mikeward1701]

Brilliant!

Excellent piece from a great film!

I love how the call falls to bits at the end :)