THE DOOLEYS - A ROSE HAS TO DIE

[brickmakersarms]

Great song, still a classic no matter what any idiot says to the contrary, if music was still like this there wouldnt be problems in the music industry as there is nowadays thanks for posting keep it up

[Chopper894]

Where are they now?



[SuperMonkeyboy999]

class

[RedShadow61]

And your a fucking dick that knows fuck all!.....Freddy Mercury may have been gay but most definately no perve! and all four members of queen have university degrees! Roger tylor is a chemist and i dont mean a pharmasist! and Brian May has a Doctorate!!

[LAWOFGOD1]

BEAUTIFUL SONG by The Dooleys a real smooth melodic pop song.

It makes me sick when RETARDS/IDIOTS/DRUGGIES make worthless comments against

catchy melodic pop songs while praising the REVOLTING LOUD OBSCENE Rock/metal/punk/rap/hip hop SEWAGE that is usually played by crim students to annoy all.

THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAN ARE/WERE ONE OF THE GREATEST GROUPS EVER

and anybody trying to criticize the Brotherhood Of Man needs to see a psychiatrist or Jailed.

[TheSoundDoctor61]

I like this song! though the singer does look like a nob singing to the camera like that with facail expressions! lol

[TheSoundDoctor61]

Though i do draw the line at the brotherhood of man and the nolans! lol

[LAWOFGOD1]

@TheSoundDoctor61 Let me guess you are a SICK student nerdy type who creates

NOISE POLLUTION with your druggie parties and repulsive rock/metal/hip hop GARBAGE

People making fun of Sir Cliff, B OF MAN and the Nolans are usually tone deaf druggies.

[TheSoundDoctor61]

I think weve all been a bit unfair to the poor ol Dooleys!...Some of these songs have nice words and they didnt have bad voices either! maybe im getting on abit therefor more appreciative of them i was and still am into bands like queen and elo but compair the dooleys with some of the shit of today and at least they made it of their own steam and without the x bloody factor! i think that cshit makes us appreciate more what we had and we had better haircuts and we also didnt have the attitude

[LAWOFGOD1]

@TheSoundDoctor61 Queen were utter GARBAGE with that pervy Freddie Mercury Tranny and those creepy falsetto rock voices URGGGG, The Who and Slade were POOO

[sirtinycreep]

Time flies fast. The lead singer is now 70 years old.

[lenamartyn53]

The Best of The Dooleys (including 'A Rose Has To Die' is available from Play.com on Epic 82876730922, I know I have it and brought it from Play, Kathy Dooley will reign supreme forever.

[ukslalom]

never heard of them... awful

[pingtran]

Wow! Was Tony just about to introduce Siouxy and the Banshees with Hong Kong Garden after the Dooleys??? I would like to have seen those two groups together back stage!!

[billy2rivers1]

Flares and massive platforms ,Style never gets old its just the ankles get weak .

[TheEctomorph]

Great track from the late summer/early autumn of 1978. I remember it well. The Dooleys made a series of quality 'MOR' singles between '77 and '80 (approx), and deserved to be more successful commercially than they actually were.

I couldn't help noticing that the good Tony Blackburn - who, as we all know, was renowned for being a ladies' man during his halcyon days on Radio 1 back in the 1970's - was beginning to lose his 'pretty boy' looks by 1978. Time waits for no man, eh, Tony!

[AS6VIDEO]

Feck me what a classic I forgot about the Dooleys

[TheTWIX0]

I love the dooleys they were great, and kathy phworr x 

[TheEctomorph]

@TheTWIX0

Well said, sir!

[TheNicolajayne89]

Love it, love the dooleys!!!! Thanks Anna for sharing these with us x

[TheNicolajayne89]

Love it, love the dooleys!!!!

[meroxyersox]

John dooley now teaches guitar at my school xD

[juanitaxoxo]

OMG YEARS AGO

[kendra2039]

aww not heard that for decades! cant beat a bit of classic cheese :)

[safewaywonderwoman]

omg !!!! i know every word to this lol :)

[RamWhamBam]

So refreshing to see the quality of the music making them successful instead of today's crotch flashing brigade.

[ukrory]

I use to love top of the flops!

[geowyn]

He is a great kisser

[brian7193]

brill song and the b side was just as good loved the dooleys

[24175301]

a rose has to die

[juanitaxoxo]

great

[djangiebaby]

fantastic :)

[darkpanther436]

Christ i remember All those years ago when i was a lad,dragged of to the local social club for family get togethers & all the Auld Yins doing the SLOSH..lol.saying that they were the Good Times..

[juanitaxoxo]

brings back the memories loved this song

[shirts1000]

Played a gig in Denmark with them in the late seventies. They were totally awesome...

[Charliedack]

wonder what they are up to now !

[juanitaxoxo]

ask them lol

[Charliedack]

@juanitaxoxo

did ask them and they are all on benifits !! ............lol

[philwasgood]

This is the height of cheese but it was great at the time when we were all romeos !

[pingtran]

Wow! What a following act It sounds like cheesy Tony was just about to introduce Siouxsie and the banchees ( I know its spelt wrong).

[paulineD111]

omg i loved dis one found it by pure chance tanxs 4 posting

[bessie36]

i loved both of them ladies especially kathy!!!!i wanted 2 be in the dooleys!!!

[brian7193]

a great group great songs too the b sides were almost as good as the a sides this is my fave then think im gonna fall in love with you,also loved sad ole spanish guitar

[robcol800]

Last time i heard he was selling mobility scooters?

[anna1969]

Yes that's right he does

[backbliss]

Jim also spends his time photographing old flighter planes and helps raise £ks for the lost and surviving heros of the RAF and Bomber Command through the sales of his pictures.

[sirtinycreep]

@robcol800 Least he's not claiming benefits.

[europlantrichter]

This RULES! I live in Burnthouse lane and this song makes me very very happy.

[43ken]

he was hot

[nintendy]

Too right! i loved him! ; - )

[kaz8762]

another feel good melodic number please fetch them all back im so boooooooooooooored

[closedcircle1]

The days when music was actually enjoyable with a melody. I was 15.

[eireann64]

I was also 15 and had at that time no worries... it was soooo lovely

[moodyblue41]

would be nice if they re-released there old songs on a greatest hits

[anna1969]

Hi sony released there songs again on cd about 2 years ago, but this song wasn't on it :(

[Izzymoggington]

did it have stand up like a man on the cd i cannot find that anywhere and would love to hear it again memories

[anna1969]

No stand up like a man is only on the very best of The Dooleys. The cover is the one were they are on roller skates.

[fatpizzaman]

@anna1969 I've got that album and it's one of the best tracks on it which could easily be modernised by some femmo rockers.

[groovydolphin136]

omg I still know all the words!!

[TheSoundDoctor61]

@groovydolphin136 me too lmao

[Foziajungle]

VERY GOOD more go back in time

[butterflysarsy]

I didnt realise they did so many songs, i know them all,.....Oh buga !!

[telboy40]

excellent first record i ever bought and they were irish to boot

[LerafoLuap]

Nope and nope. It's an awful song and they were English.

[amibovverred]

Good sound, I bet they give the Nolans a run for their money in the 70s. 5***** John.

[vordman]

Hail The Dooleys...respect. They could play all their hits LIVE too, just remember that, all you modern pop wannabes.

[snookerphilp147]

love it

[starstorm55522]

...And to think this charted at the top of the punk era.

It just shows the sheer scope of music avaliable, and the far wider horizons of taste back then.

[happychappy12]

@starstorm55522 Spot on Starstorm!!,,,,,,,,the young are missing out on choice, they are being force fed shite music by shit artists...........(there are some great ones out there by the way).................I just find it a shame that our premier radio stations, (bbc radio 1 especially)......refuse to give younger listeners a feckin choice!!............(Head in hands time now I sound like me dad, sorry)

[aburst]

did you ever listen to it jonnie from dungarvan you loved it

[kidderandy]

has anyone got ,,dont let me be the last to know by the dooleys . gs

[aburst]

i loved yhis song was madley in love

[BALLADS1]

A ROSE HAS TO DIE a Classic HIT from the 1970s

[paulkirkwood]

Are those tambourines actually touching the girls' hips? They're not exactly working up a sweat with this routine are they? Lovely hairdo [the fella].

[anna1969]

Suppose it's just a prop like in most video you see these days! Like miming there not actually singing. As they my not appear to be really usung those tambourines.

[TheMikey1961]

There are most likely pads on Alan's drums too to suppress the sound. It's just what they had to do for tv. The girls look lovely anyway, always fancied Kathy in those early days... Then discovered Helen who joined the group later in 1978 :-)

[anna1969]

Ha see at 30 Mike I reacon he's singing to all of us girls :)

[blackmore4]

The hairdon't? This 'fella' must be the only person who actually 'wore' the style depicted by models in those weird black & white photos that used to appear in 70's barber shop windows. I suppose it's an improvement of sorts over the terrifying tight perm he 'wears' in the "Chosen Few" TOTP performance. If only he'd spent as much time on his music.

[Ian2861]

Superb record. Still remember it well although it never gets played on the radio.

Remembr the original version by a group called Riders played on Radio Luxembourg.

[jonnio365]

Fabulous! We danced to this in the school Christmas concert in '78 or '79, lots of practice and lots of fun, very nervous on the night but loved it. We didn't have tambourines or feather boas!! Great memories and great to see on You Tube!!

[glasgowbard]

love it, can remember buying this single, it had an amazing b-side called Hungry for love,

Cheers for posting this.

glasgowbard