Boy...Tony sure shakes his head a lot while singing. It's as if the entire lyric is "No, no, no, no, no, no".... A bit distracting for me. But the 2:42 girl was an absolute TIGER in bed, I'm sure. ;)
For those of you who are busting on Tony, he has been credited with singing lead on hit singles for more groups than any other recording artist, both on the UK Singles Chart and the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart! Yes, he sang Bubble Gum music, but that was his intention all along. It's not rocket science, it's merely mindless feel-good music for relaxing and having fun. There's no need to try to over analyze it.
"Did you enjoy yourself"? Then turn away with the microphone while she is answering - way to go Tony. You sure made her feel small. I'll put it down to incompetent presenting skills, as I wouldn't want to label you as insincere buddy. Actually you were the best presenter of TOTP.
love peter marinello's frank spncer impersonation at the start of this clip....which is a bit odd as no one would know who frank spencer was for another 3 years!!!
Peter Marinello is the reason I stopped supporting Arsenal...100 grand for that wanker and he could hardly kick a ball. I was a lifelong Gooner until they got the arsehole from Hibs. Arsenal were a proper team back then, the old lineup with McLintock, Rice, Graham, Gould etc were the best squad in Div.1....sad to see them now, they are like all the rest, just a bunch of money from every corner of the globe.
was there a note missing from that opening guitar riff at the beginning of the song ?, Peter Marinello scored on his debut against man utd, after that nothing.
I love this song-3 But I can't stop laughing at the girl with the fake eyelashes, and the girl who looks like she's about to break her back dancing... LOL
What's going on at 2.38 - 47??!! OMG please tell me a time machine has been invented....I'd be right back there!! Totally hot....girls when I grew up weren't a patch....
That wasn't the closing credits for 1970. The titles were taken from the 1968 version of the show. By 1969 there were different credits, These titles have been super-imposed into the final edit.
@careersadviser Women looked beautiful back then, unfortunately their grandaughters must have inherited the ugly gene which passed a few generations. When i go to london today and see all the fat , ugly , gross , slobs dressed in boring , ugly clothes with no style at all , i feel sick.
Is this Tony's performance on TOTP, where he became the first person to front THREE bands on the same show? It was Feb 1970 when he fronted Edison L/H, White Plains and then The Pipkins. Think he got banned from TOTP for a while after that because it was an embarrassment to the producers of the show,,,,...but you can't keep a good man down.
I have always loved this song, grew up with it, and will always adore it. But I have to say, the poor lead singer here looks ridiculous in that hair, it looks like a bad wig from an old folks home, or like he stole it from his maiden aunt's closet. Yikes!!
white plains, brotherhood of man,edison lighthouse, first class..etc...if theres a wing for bubble gum pop in the rock hallof fame...tony burrows belongs there.. oh forgot to mention Steam..
Here's to Edison Lighthouse the dumbest piece of crap studio band on Earth that the people of England still adore. Because love grows where my Rosemary goes and the river flows, I can blow my nose. suck a rubber hose, my panties have a rose, I wash my clothes, find a penis to blows and nobody knows like me! roflmao. I crack myself up. yeahhhhh
@MultiHotNERD Like I said, God help America. You silly little over-menstruated Oik. They say if you're already in a hole, stop digging. I guess you're obviously the expert on Pop music so lets just tell the 30 million plus people who bought this that they're also wrong.
Keep it coming numbnuts. You crack yourself up? I can't stop laughing!!!!! Oh and you're definitely on something, and it's certainly not this Planet!
@Stuartedison "you silly little limp dicked undersexed piece of castrated shit." I can string sarcastic words together too. Fact you never stick to topic but rather go off in tangents with name calling. 2. have little education so you berate me because I have. 3. When pressed, you lie [30 million]. I can enter into a legitimate discussion regarding best movies, songs paintings and other but to shoot diatribes with an undereducated old man jerk like you is futile. ur just old and stupid
@MultiHotNERD Brilliant, absolutely brilliant. Last time I had this much fun it involved a Sea Trout on the Esk. That was a little more difficult to reel in though. Wondered when the fruitloop would revert to profanities. So go strap your own dick back on & screw someone else.
Sarcastic words? You are to wit what Edward Scissorhands is to masturbation & there's a subject upon which you are no doubt an expert. Remember America, the Bitch that bore this could yet be on heat again!!!
Why is the invention of the transistor, "prepubescent whimsy?" Are you merely insane? Why are you so "into" a studio group that has had no influence on music at all. This discussion is inane for it as if we were talking about angels sitting on a pin and you kept insisting the number 43. These people weren't even a group. They were studio musicians. Why not worship The Archies for "Sugar?" The beat, the sound is classic bubble gum. Those liking Justin Beiber today liked EL in the 70's.
2.1. I keep logging into this insanity because your comments are forwarded to my email so I am thrust into your world 2. I do not use mind altering chemicals like you so freely imply. Never have. Alcohol is fattening so I don't drink 3. It's sad that you ridicule the analogy; the invention of the transistor to the computer chip as they are closely related. That just shows [as I predicted] you know nothing about. either. William Shockley. helped invent the transistor. 4. ur very stupid
T,S Elliot once said "The only art worth talking about is the art one happens to like" it may be a difficult concept for hotnerd to grasp but if you don't like it, don't listen to it, problem solved!
@Stuartedison YOUR Name says it all!. You are the Rupurt Murdoch of. EL. Quoting TS Elliot thrust you into the erudite scholars as much as quoting Hulk Hogan makes you a wrestler. "Concept?" You speak of "concept" as if you took the concept of Shockley's transister [which of course you know nothing about] and built it into a Pentium chip with your two synapse brain. An empty headed jerk like you should have accepted my disdain as the b"concept" there atre two sides to every story
@MultiHotNERD Wow!! If it wasn't so mind numbingly funny, it would be a worry. Yes, America, this is your future, God help you. Shockley's Transistor? Shockley's Transistor!!!??? Did you really meant to write that? What other bit of pre- pubescent whimsy are you going to treat us to? Perhaps an explanation as to why, when you dislike this track so much you're constantly logging in to it?? Rupert Murdoch of EL? If that's the best you can do then you really should stop smoking that stuff!
Respond to this video... Damn. I don't believe that in Great Britain, land of scholars, real avante guarde musicians and scientists, nobody in your country stands up to tell this moron off.
"I don't give a photon!" I LOVE IT!! I know she's only 20 and over the top. We all were like that in our youth. With that said, being 62, American and present when all this was happening [nyc], she isn kinda right. EL was not respected in USA NOR any studio group. Their sound was too bippity boopity boo. [BUBBLE GUM] Freddie/ the Dreamers, Gary Lewis/the Playboys, etc.The Stones, Beatles, Doors, Pink Floyd, lifted expectations studio songwriters couldn't match.
@uzpeep I can't speak to "MultiHotNerd's" youthfull over-exuberance. But she's favorited several of my band's videos so she apparently has good taste in music.
Bye have a great life. I'm 20. I'll probably tell my grandkids some rediculous crap when i'm yoiur age [ Lady ga ga was better than Cher or something dumb like that. ] You're a relative of EL, you had sex with EL or you are EL. Pertsonal I don't give a photon. You and I are no longer "entangled" at least not in a quantum physics way. And to think the British gave us the pound sterling and Isaac Newton. Check my FB I'm not Hotnerd for nothing. Kiss to you grandpa. love Michelle Greene
Let's put it this way. "We saved you from the Nazis," FDR told Churchill, "no bubble gum garbage. We have enough of that in our country. Want more JW Black.? And Winston replied, a little drunk with a slur, "Gimmee the entire beatle." That's it said FDR, the Beatles, the entire beatles.
MY BABY LOVES LOVE MY BABY.....YUMMY YUMMY YUMMY I'VE GOT LOVE IN MY TUMMY. DO THE FREDDY.... Sugar...boppie bont bont bahp sugar dum dee dum dum.... I'M NAUSEOUS
@Stuartedison academic nerd dummy as in applied physics grad student. Yes I see what happens when cousins marry. They get named after songs and listen to bubble gun junk. I believe the affliction is called "Edisonitis" and it is defect of of intercellular ion transport. . I was dead spot accurate. You're just upset that the trruth knocks your little boy fantasies off. "stuartedison" commenting on "edison lighthouse. ROFLMAO
@Stuartedison Please say more. I believe you can create a meaningful sentence; go for it! Need a topic? Try the banality of worshipping studio bands or did Mozart marry a fat bird? Does the fact that Americans eat a large Turkey on their Thanksgiving mean it's ok to eat a fat bird. If you eat a fat bird will she reach orgasm? Did Thomas Edison create a lighthouse? 1910 Fruitgum Company vs EL or EL vs the Archies . Yes you need to say more Ah the Cowsills let's not forget them,
@MultiHotNERD And it's cost somebody a lot of money to educate this retard. I don't know but I'd hazard a guess it's American. You really should stop smoking that stuff. Bit over the top, wouldn't you say, you've really got it bad. Bet it's got a Mullet to match!!
It was bubble gum crap then, it's bubble gum crap today. And to think I was sent here by a guy who said everyone sings Dylan better than Dylan. Pink Floyd, the Doors, the Stones, etc were at their apex when this song came out. 13 yr olds bought this. To the guys who like this all I can say is "airhead" is not a feminine noun. lmao
Look at that bird's eyelashes! Of course, she is no longer a bird - in fact, by now, she must be a fairly elderly woman of - approximately - 60 years of age. What a depressing thought that is! It is funny how quickly the years go by. Well,no; 'funny' is not the right word - 'depressing' would be more appropriate and accurate. Grrrrrrrrrr!!
It's a shame that the lead singer never seemed to get another chance to use those pipes. He sings as well as Gary Pucket of the Union Gap or David Clayton-Thomas of Blood, Sweat & Tears. Hey, can you did the closing song -- Groovy stuff that.
Eagle-eyed viewers of this vintage 'TOTP' footage [from 1970] will have noticed Tony Blackburn (God luv him) taking the p*** out of the young Irish footballer, Mr Peter Marinello - not in a nasty or cutting way, I hasten to add. After Mr Marinello had presented two birds with awards, Mr Blackburn could be heard to say: "Thank u very much there, Peter" in a distinctly Irish accent!
Nowadays, that sort of thing would not go down too well with the 'Politically Correct' brigade! hehehe.
@TheEctomorph Maybe Tony Blackburn's not the best when it comes to accents or it could be that he was doing a really bad impression of a Scotsman because Peter Marinello was a Scottish footballer!!
@Stuartedison Yes, you are quite right, Stuart. I am preparing to eat a very substantial slice of humble pie!
I must confess that, as a child, I had difficulty in differentiating between a Scottish accent and an Irish one ...... it would seem that I still do! On the other hand, I don't think that Tony Blackburn (God luv him) did a particularly convincing impression of a Scottish accent that day in 1970!
Excellent! "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" was described in 'The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits [published in 1982] as "the perfect light pop song". And I, for one, would certainly not argue with that assessment. It was - and still is - a great track.
Back in those heady days of the late 1960's/early 1970's - when men were men
and birds were birds - Tony Burrows was an excellent vocalist. I believe that he also sang lead on numerous other hit records in that era.
Great stuff ...... "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" was the first number 1 hit of the 1970's, on this side of the Atlantic. What is more, it was - and indeed still is - a classic.
My word, there were some FABULOUS looking birds in the 'TOTP' audience that nite (5th February, 1970), so there were. At the time, however, i would not have fancied any of them - the reason being that i was only 4 years of age in early 1970!!
What a fantastic 'DJ' Tony Blackburn was in those days.
That is the wrong logo used at the end, that was the late '60's logo. By 1970 the logo had changed to the twin striped lettering and also there would have been more closing credits at the end. I don't believe the clip is completely authentic.
@PaulMichaels2010 Well, you know the old adage, Paul: "Time waits for no man".
As I have mentioned before - in response to other vintage footage [on 'You Tube'] featuring the good Tony Blackburn - he was a VERY good-looking, handsome man, back in those heady days of the late 60's and early 70's. (However, one or two female viewers of 'You Tube' have disagreed with my assessment of Tony's 'looks' - much to my surprise. Perhaps the women in question have defective eyesight or something!!)
@PaulMichaels2010 No doubt that is true, Paul ...... but then again, when you come to think about it, time isn't good to any of us (in the long run, that is)!
@kaldemvor It would appear so, yes! "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) was the first number 1 hit of the 1970's, on this side of The Atlantic - it was also one of the best.
Ha, ha. Those were the days. Look at the girls: They're all pretty damn fit. Not like nowadays where most have either got massive arses and no shape at all or are anorexic stick-insects. Even the average looking girls here have got nice figures ...nowadays every other girl is a whale.
@digglyda My word, you are not likely to ever win any awards for 'Political Correctness', are you? But, hey, that is not a criticism - quite the opposite in fact!
You are quite right when you say that there are a lot of fat birds around nowadays; the percentage of seriously overweight young women is probably considerably higher now than it was in 1970.
You are also spot when you say that the birds who were in the 'TOTP' audience on 5th February of that year were pretty damn fit.
Edison Lighthouse was really just Tony Burrows, the lead singer, with a thrown-together group of session musicians so they could perform in person. Burrows was also behind other "One Hit Wonders" like "Beach Baby" and "My Melanie." One one occassion (perhaps this very show), Burrows actually performed twice on the same TOTP show as a member of two different groups! He is a very talented singer-songwriter who wrote and performed several other popular songs as a member of a variety of "groups."
This is the night where Tony Burrows had to come out on stage three times with three different groups, and he had to change at the back of the stage. You can Sunny Leslie on this song too, This is also where Tony was banned from Top of the Pops for overexposure, Lol xxx
I'm seeing this for the first time. I can tell from the date that I was 5 when this appeared and nodoubt past my bedtime.
The thing that's making me reel in surprise is that the footballer (of whom I've never heard) never made it big as presenter of records on tv to teenage girls. HOpe his ball skills were better than his presentation skills. But then footballers probably chased balls back then rather than stick insect wives and headlines...
@trossachs2003 Well, there were certainly SOME footballers in those days who were renowned for being ladies' men. The late, great Georgie Best - God rest his soul - is perhaps the most obvious example. Apparently, Mr Best once s******d 8 'birds' in the space of 36 hours! (I don't know whether any of them were 'stick insects', though - back in the early 70's, society didn't have the same obsession with "size zero" women as it does today.)
It's so good to see and hear the Actual Voice Tony Borrows Behind this Legendary Song. It's hard to believe it's been 40 years this Fun Song was on the charts.
@MannaMachine69 Omg ...... how very 'politically incorrect' of you to make a comment like that. Good on you!!
Back in 1970,of course, 'ladette' culture had not yet reared its (rather unattractive) head. In those halcyon days, when Edison Lighthouse were number one in the charts with "Love Grows", men were men and birds were birds! If any members of the 'Politically Correct' brigade (for want of a better phrase) happen to read these comments, they might just disapprove. LOL !
If, as I assume, you were born in 1969, then you are slightly too young to have been pulling birds in 1970 !
It would be nice to obtain a time-machine from somewhere, and go back in time to 5th Feb. '70 ...... and then proceed to the 'TOTP' studios at the BBC !!
@JAYROX1969 try FB mishi greene or mishi.greene@gmail.com Just like the 70s hot is relative and today and yesterday the vvast majority are overweight ..you don't think they's put ugly guys or girls on TV
I wish I had been alive in 1970, to appear in the audience on the programme and own a Colour TV and Video Recorder, back then. Linda and her dancing were both hot. Check out the mini-skirt at 2:45.
don't be obtuse, I meant what the hell ever happened to him being such an expensive player, since he doesn't seem to have set the history of football alight
Boy...Tony sure shakes his head a lot while singing. It's as if the entire lyric is "No, no, no, no, no, no".... A bit distracting for me. But the 2:42 girl was an absolute TIGER in bed, I'm sure. ;)
Ebbywebby 4 days ago
£100.000 LOL What would that but today?
garydean777 1 week ago
@motorcop505, you're exactly right, ain't nuthin like this good old feel good music!
chemonurs 1 week ago
For those of you who are busting on Tony, he has been credited with singing lead on hit singles for more groups than any other recording artist, both on the UK Singles Chart and the U.S. Billboard Hot 100 chart! Yes, he sang Bubble Gum music, but that was his intention all along. It's not rocket science, it's merely mindless feel-good music for relaxing and having fun. There's no need to try to over analyze it.
motorcop505 1 week ago
This has been flagged as spam show
"Did you enjoy yourself"? Then turn away with the microphone while she is answering - way to go Tony. You sure made her feel small. I'll put it down to incompetent presenting skills, as I wouldn't want to label you as insincere buddy. Actually you were the best presenter of TOTP.
SuperRobertoboy 2 weeks ago
Comment removed
SuperRobertoboy 2 weeks ago
leggy english chicks eye candy for when britos get stuck with a dead act!
atfatw 3 weeks ago
Den bästa versionen är denna lite äldre gubbversonen/lisa
lisaakesson753 3 weeks ago
love peter marinello's frank spncer impersonation at the start of this clip....which is a bit odd as no one would know who frank spencer was for another 3 years!!!
davidleigh65 3 weeks ago
oh how in love with tony burrows was i xx
TheRlvis 1 month ago
loved it then and still do
TheRlvis 1 month ago
I GET CHILLS WITH THE "hey hey hey"!! great song :')
KaterinaLeka 1 month ago
Comment removed
TheMillersTale2001 1 month ago
Love this song and the era. I was a child growing up when this was in the charts. All the chart music was brilliant then. Oh to go back.......
foreveroldies246 1 month ago
Peter Marinello is the reason I stopped supporting Arsenal...100 grand for that wanker and he could hardly kick a ball. I was a lifelong Gooner until they got the arsehole from Hibs. Arsenal were a proper team back then, the old lineup with McLintock, Rice, Graham, Gould etc were the best squad in Div.1....sad to see them now, they are like all the rest, just a bunch of money from every corner of the globe.
larjanus 1 month ago
was there a note missing from that opening guitar riff at the beginning of the song ?, Peter Marinello scored on his debut against man utd, after that nothing.
MrLawman10 1 month ago
liz, which one are you ?
RobBanx100 1 month ago
those eyelashes were real
daveynonose 1 month ago
I love this song-3 But I can't stop laughing at the girl with the fake eyelashes, and the girl who looks like she's about to break her back dancing... LOL
JaydeIsHappy 1 month ago
@JaydeIsHappy love her eyelashes , much better than the wigs/fake extensions today, girls had their own hair then.
TheSaoirse777 2 weeks ago
While it isn't the record being played, it is the original singer.
Quiverbow1 1 month ago
I think the guy presenting the 2nd award had a bit too much to...(hic)...to...(hic)...to drink before the show :)
Kiwipay 1 month ago
Those eyelashes are about to FLY away
totallytommy 1 month ago
What's going on at 2.38 - 47??!! OMG please tell me a time machine has been invented....I'd be right back there!! Totally hot....girls when I grew up weren't a patch....
northernbloke1967 1 month ago
Peter Marinello!!!!!!!!!!! What a waste of money he was lol
rockpig63 1 month ago
@rockpig63 Massive fee of 100,000.LOL
jemorrismmorris 1 month ago
excuse... like this... tears run ... searching for a girl sad as me
walterbernstein 1 month ago
like this... tear runs...
walterbernstein 1 month ago
Yeah this isnot the original were is Tony buroughs, who is it trying to sing in this cover version ?
adriandjgray 2 months ago
@adriandjgray that is tony Burrows.
dan11856 1 month ago
very nice old tune brings back lots of good memories
billyballbreaker 2 months ago
That wasn't the closing credits for 1970. The titles were taken from the 1968 version of the show. By 1969 there were different credits, These titles have been super-imposed into the final edit.
Feisty1967 2 months ago
Mini-Skirts were fab!!
puterzhome 2 months ago
That host was off his head, why did i have to miss the 70's
MexicanKola 2 months ago
Yes, very few lard arses in those days.
careersadviser 2 months ago
@careersadviser Women looked beautiful back then, unfortunately their grandaughters must have inherited the ugly gene which passed a few generations. When i go to london today and see all the fat , ugly , gross , slobs dressed in boring , ugly clothes with no style at all , i feel sick.
TheSaoirse777 2 months ago 2
nice girls, never dies
elvira2262 3 months ago
Those mini-skirted dolly birds are all grannies now.
CrankCase08 3 months ago
Talk about product placement for the NME.
CrankCase08 3 months ago
Is this Tony's performance on TOTP, where he became the first person to front THREE bands on the same show? It was Feb 1970 when he fronted Edison L/H, White Plains and then The Pipkins. Think he got banned from TOTP for a while after that because it was an embarrassment to the producers of the show,,,,...but you can't keep a good man down.
SuperNevile 3 months ago
Linda is beautiful! And at the end of the video you can see, why she won the price :)
MrGardevias 4 months ago
And featuring Go-Go girl dancers--definitely a blast form the past!
MrWilkat1 4 months ago in playlist More videos from nyrainbow4
better than the january performance he did on the TOTP that year... Excellent!!!
redgrapeskins 4 months ago
The girl who wins the best dancer prize is actress Linda Cunningham who appeared in lots of 70s TV. I wonder why she was winning a prize on TOTP?!
diggeratclaranet 4 months ago
The lead singer reminds me of a younger version of the Third Doctor!
kindredbandyou 4 months ago
Peter Marinello
TheJimbobs123 4 months ago
Lets just say it. Its an awesome song which will never lose its meaning whatever that meaning is.
Blaqkard 5 months ago in playlist Blaqkard's Favorited Videos
And God bless mini skirts!
EdWatts 5 months ago
Yes, indeed! The young ladies were quite "fit"!
EdWatts 5 months ago
IS THIS SONG ABOUT WEED?? think about it.... !
goldslum 5 months ago
I have always loved this song, grew up with it, and will always adore it. But I have to say, the poor lead singer here looks ridiculous in that hair, it looks like a bad wig from an old folks home, or like he stole it from his maiden aunt's closet. Yikes!!
amorebello5 5 months ago
white plains, brotherhood of man,edison lighthouse, first class..etc...if theres a wing for bubble gum pop in the rock hallof fame...tony burrows belongs there.. oh forgot to mention Steam..
tommieparch 5 months ago
jeeze by how the top comments r it sounds like all they care about r looks. who cares if girls r fat or anorexic it matters wats on the inside!
missAmericus 5 months ago 3
@missAmericus your fat, right?
MrLarsgonar 5 months ago
@MrLarsgonar no asshole. im not fat. im skinny and got a nice figure.
missAmericus 5 months ago
@missAmericus
I'm afraid it's time to grow up and accept people are shallow. Sorry BUT IT'S TRUE!
retrosuze 4 months ago 2
@missAmericus r
CyberSpaceCoyote 3 months ago
@CyberSpaceCoyote lol r
MexicanKola 2 months ago
@missAmericus to right people should all think the same
johnnyboy9461 2 months ago
@missAmericus Yes, physical beauty fades, but there is no excuse for the obese ,ugly, greedy slobs of today .
TheSaoirse777 2 months ago
I was one of those girls ~ where oh where has the time flown away to ?
Lizenna 6 months ago 34
@Lizenna Straight up? Which one were you?
MrGipwagga 4 months ago
@Lizenna Which one were you? Wow that's crazy... Time has really flown by. :/
Chinq25 4 months ago
@Lizenna i was 25 then, and you ?
nalvojo 4 months ago
@Lizenna Which one are you?
sapphiretaurus 3 months ago
@Lizenna Your parents must have been so proud... hopefully you were not the girl with the tarantulas around her eyes.
birtchfeld1 2 months ago
@Lizenna Hi! So, you were one of the girls! That should've been one heck of a show! It's worth the memory! Hope we can be great friends!
XtrangerNation 1 month ago
@Lizenna ...Damn, you looked good in a mini skirt
FecesHurlingMonkey1 1 week ago
@Lizenna Me too, and I don't know where time went, but I could never be tired of this. EVER
discoqueen1970 3 hours ago
sexy girls!!!!
treborif 7 months ago
Dig that Danelectro Longhorn baritonr guitar!
1RichardGary 7 months ago
Wow best band i ever heard
mrblurblur2003 7 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
30 million copies? liar
MultiHotNERD 7 months ago
Here's to Edison Lighthouse the dumbest piece of crap studio band on Earth that the people of England still adore. Because love grows where my Rosemary goes and the river flows, I can blow my nose. suck a rubber hose, my panties have a rose, I wash my clothes, find a penis to blows and nobody knows like me! roflmao. I crack myself up. yeahhhhh
MultiHotNERD 7 months ago
@MultiHotNERD Like I said, God help America. You silly little over-menstruated Oik. They say if you're already in a hole, stop digging. I guess you're obviously the expert on Pop music so lets just tell the 30 million plus people who bought this that they're also wrong.
Keep it coming numbnuts. You crack yourself up? I can't stop laughing!!!!! Oh and you're definitely on something, and it's certainly not this Planet!
Stuartedison 7 months ago
@Stuartedison "you silly little limp dicked undersexed piece of castrated shit." I can string sarcastic words together too. Fact you never stick to topic but rather go off in tangents with name calling. 2. have little education so you berate me because I have. 3. When pressed, you lie [30 million]. I can enter into a legitimate discussion regarding best movies, songs paintings and other but to shoot diatribes with an undereducated old man jerk like you is futile. ur just old and stupid
MultiHotNERD 7 months ago
@MultiHotNERD Brilliant, absolutely brilliant. Last time I had this much fun it involved a Sea Trout on the Esk. That was a little more difficult to reel in though. Wondered when the fruitloop would revert to profanities. So go strap your own dick back on & screw someone else.
Sarcastic words? You are to wit what Edward Scissorhands is to masturbation & there's a subject upon which you are no doubt an expert. Remember America, the Bitch that bore this could yet be on heat again!!!
Stuartedison 7 months ago
@Stuartedison A sea trout on the Esk? Was it your mating season?
MultiHotNERD 7 months ago
Why is the invention of the transistor, "prepubescent whimsy?" Are you merely insane? Why are you so "into" a studio group that has had no influence on music at all. This discussion is inane for it as if we were talking about angels sitting on a pin and you kept insisting the number 43. These people weren't even a group. They were studio musicians. Why not worship The Archies for "Sugar?" The beat, the sound is classic bubble gum. Those liking Justin Beiber today liked EL in the 70's.
MultiHotNERD 7 months ago
2.1. I keep logging into this insanity because your comments are forwarded to my email so I am thrust into your world 2. I do not use mind altering chemicals like you so freely imply. Never have. Alcohol is fattening so I don't drink 3. It's sad that you ridicule the analogy; the invention of the transistor to the computer chip as they are closely related. That just shows [as I predicted] you know nothing about. either. William Shockley. helped invent the transistor. 4. ur very stupid
MultiHotNERD 7 months ago
T,S Elliot once said "The only art worth talking about is the art one happens to like" it may be a difficult concept for hotnerd to grasp but if you don't like it, don't listen to it, problem solved!
Stuartedison 7 months ago
@Stuartedison YOUR Name says it all!. You are the Rupurt Murdoch of. EL. Quoting TS Elliot thrust you into the erudite scholars as much as quoting Hulk Hogan makes you a wrestler. "Concept?" You speak of "concept" as if you took the concept of Shockley's transister [which of course you know nothing about] and built it into a Pentium chip with your two synapse brain. An empty headed jerk like you should have accepted my disdain as the b"concept" there atre two sides to every story
MultiHotNERD 7 months ago
@MultiHotNERD Wow!! If it wasn't so mind numbingly funny, it would be a worry. Yes, America, this is your future, God help you. Shockley's Transistor? Shockley's Transistor!!!??? Did you really meant to write that? What other bit of pre- pubescent whimsy are you going to treat us to? Perhaps an explanation as to why, when you dislike this track so much you're constantly logging in to it?? Rupert Murdoch of EL? If that's the best you can do then you really should stop smoking that stuff!
Stuartedison 7 months ago
Respond to this video... Damn. I don't believe that in Great Britain, land of scholars, real avante guarde musicians and scientists, nobody in your country stands up to tell this moron off.
MultiHotNERD 7 months ago
That's Freddie Mercury on bass.
jeffingstock 7 months ago
"I don't give a photon!" I LOVE IT!! I know she's only 20 and over the top. We all were like that in our youth. With that said, being 62, American and present when all this was happening [nyc], she isn kinda right. EL was not respected in USA NOR any studio group. Their sound was too bippity boopity boo. [BUBBLE GUM] Freddie/ the Dreamers, Gary Lewis/the Playboys, etc.The Stones, Beatles, Doors, Pink Floyd, lifted expectations studio songwriters couldn't match.
uzpeep 7 months ago
@uzpeep I can't speak to "MultiHotNerd's" youthfull over-exuberance. But she's favorited several of my band's videos so she apparently has good taste in music.
number1covers 7 months ago
Bye have a great life. I'm 20. I'll probably tell my grandkids some rediculous crap when i'm yoiur age [ Lady ga ga was better than Cher or something dumb like that. ] You're a relative of EL, you had sex with EL or you are EL. Pertsonal I don't give a photon. You and I are no longer "entangled" at least not in a quantum physics way. And to think the British gave us the pound sterling and Isaac Newton. Check my FB I'm not Hotnerd for nothing. Kiss to you grandpa. love Michelle Greene
MultiHotNERD 7 months ago
Let's put it this way. "We saved you from the Nazis," FDR told Churchill, "no bubble gum garbage. We have enough of that in our country. Want more JW Black.? And Winston replied, a little drunk with a slur, "Gimmee the entire beatle." That's it said FDR, the Beatles, the entire beatles.
MultiHotNERD 7 months ago
I watched this video for the song--but the bonus was lovely Linda!
Lava1964 7 months ago
MY BABY LOVES LOVE MY BABY.....YUMMY YUMMY YUMMY I'VE GOT LOVE IN MY TUMMY. DO THE FREDDY.... Sugar...boppie bont bont bahp sugar dum dee dum dum.... I'M NAUSEOUS
MultiHotNERD 7 months ago
@MultiHotNERD Not Nauseous, just a Nerd as your user name implies. See what you get when Cousins marry!
Stuartedison 7 months ago
@Stuartedison academic nerd dummy as in applied physics grad student. Yes I see what happens when cousins marry. They get named after songs and listen to bubble gun junk. I believe the affliction is called "Edisonitis" and it is defect of of intercellular ion transport. . I was dead spot accurate. You're just upset that the trruth knocks your little boy fantasies off. "stuartedison" commenting on "edison lighthouse. ROFLMAO
MultiHotNERD 7 months ago
@MultiHotNERD Need I say more?
Stuartedison 7 months ago
@Stuartedison Please say more. I believe you can create a meaningful sentence; go for it! Need a topic? Try the banality of worshipping studio bands or did Mozart marry a fat bird? Does the fact that Americans eat a large Turkey on their Thanksgiving mean it's ok to eat a fat bird. If you eat a fat bird will she reach orgasm? Did Thomas Edison create a lighthouse? 1910 Fruitgum Company vs EL or EL vs the Archies . Yes you need to say more Ah the Cowsills let's not forget them,
MultiHotNERD 7 months ago
@MultiHotNERD And it's cost somebody a lot of money to educate this retard. I don't know but I'd hazard a guess it's American. You really should stop smoking that stuff. Bit over the top, wouldn't you say, you've really got it bad. Bet it's got a Mullet to match!!
Stuartedison 7 months ago
It was bubble gum crap then, it's bubble gum crap today. And to think I was sent here by a guy who said everyone sings Dylan better than Dylan. Pink Floyd, the Doors, the Stones, etc were at their apex when this song came out. 13 yr olds bought this. To the guys who like this all I can say is "airhead" is not a feminine noun. lmao
MultiHotNERD 7 months ago
Always loved that song. And "Linda" was a hot little number. Absolutely adorable! Rather sobering to think that she probably turned 59 this year.
novemunusunus 8 months ago
Look at that bird's eyelashes! Of course, she is no longer a bird - in fact, by now, she must be a fairly elderly woman of - approximately - 60 years of age. What a depressing thought that is! It is funny how quickly the years go by. Well,no; 'funny' is not the right word - 'depressing' would be more appropriate and accurate. Grrrrrrrrrr!!
TheEctomorph 8 months ago
It's a shame that the lead singer never seemed to get another chance to use those pipes. He sings as well as Gary Pucket of the Union Gap or David Clayton-Thomas of Blood, Sweat & Tears. Hey, can you did the closing song -- Groovy stuff that.
alphakid42 8 months ago
Eagle-eyed viewers of this vintage 'TOTP' footage [from 1970] will have noticed Tony Blackburn (God luv him) taking the p*** out of the young Irish footballer, Mr Peter Marinello - not in a nasty or cutting way, I hasten to add. After Mr Marinello had presented two birds with awards, Mr Blackburn could be heard to say: "Thank u very much there, Peter" in a distinctly Irish accent!
Nowadays, that sort of thing would not go down too well with the 'Politically Correct' brigade! hehehe.
TheEctomorph 8 months ago
@TheEctomorph Maybe Tony Blackburn's not the best when it comes to accents or it could be that he was doing a really bad impression of a Scotsman because Peter Marinello was a Scottish footballer!!
Stuartedison 8 months ago
@Stuartedison Yes, you are quite right, Stuart. I am preparing to eat a very substantial slice of humble pie!
I must confess that, as a child, I had difficulty in differentiating between a Scottish accent and an Irish one ...... it would seem that I still do! On the other hand, I don't think that Tony Blackburn (God luv him) did a particularly convincing impression of a Scottish accent that day in 1970!
TheEctomorph 8 months ago
Excellent! "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" was described in 'The Guinness Book of 500 Number One Hits [published in 1982] as "the perfect light pop song". And I, for one, would certainly not argue with that assessment. It was - and still is - a great track.
Back in those heady days of the late 1960's/early 1970's - when men were men
and birds were birds - Tony Burrows was an excellent vocalist. I believe that he also sang lead on numerous other hit records in that era.
TheEctomorph 8 months ago
Great stuff ...... "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes)" was the first number 1 hit of the 1970's, on this side of the Atlantic. What is more, it was - and indeed still is - a classic.
My word, there were some FABULOUS looking birds in the 'TOTP' audience that nite (5th February, 1970), so there were. At the time, however, i would not have fancied any of them - the reason being that i was only 4 years of age in early 1970!!
What a fantastic 'DJ' Tony Blackburn was in those days.
TheEctomorph 8 months ago
@lucas070798 I think his name is Peter Marinello, a footballer of the time.
Stuartedison 9 months ago
That is the wrong logo used at the end, that was the late '60's logo. By 1970 the logo had changed to the twin striped lettering and also there would have been more closing credits at the end. I don't believe the clip is completely authentic.
Feisty1967 9 months ago
Is it just me, or does the lead singer look like he could have been Jon Pertwee's son? (Google him if that makes no sense to you)
almostfm 9 months ago
Absolutely love this song. And Tony Blackburn was so cute back then, although time hasn't been good to him.
PaulMichaels2010 10 months ago
@PaulMichaels2010 Well, you know the old adage, Paul: "Time waits for no man".
As I have mentioned before - in response to other vintage footage [on 'You Tube'] featuring the good Tony Blackburn - he was a VERY good-looking, handsome man, back in those heady days of the late 60's and early 70's. (However, one or two female viewers of 'You Tube' have disagreed with my assessment of Tony's 'looks' - much to my surprise. Perhaps the women in question have defective eyesight or something!!)
TheEctomorph 8 months ago
@PaulMichaels2010 No doubt that is true, Paul ...... but then again, when you come to think about it, time isn't good to any of us (in the long run, that is)!
TheEctomorph 8 months ago
Apparently 1 out of 117 people is tone deaf.
kaldemvor 10 months ago
@kaldemvor It would appear so, yes! "Love Grows (Where My Rosemary Goes) was the first number 1 hit of the 1970's, on this side of The Atlantic - it was also one of the best.
TheEctomorph 8 months ago
great video love this song!
Nickie0016 11 months ago
Love this song!!!
11bumbu 11 months ago
My favorite song --- EVER!!!!! (And my name is Tanya! lol!)
alsgal4eternity 1 year ago
Those girls are wearing really short skirts! Check the dancing girls at 2:40!
OnwiththeAction 1 year ago
@OnwiththeAction
My Mum used to measure my sisters skirt before they left the house.
Too short your stuck with Mum and my Auntie for the evening lol.
That and Mum made them wear long coats just below the knees.
Felt if they were in the pub it was alright but in the street wanted them to look presentable.
Miss you Mum and Auntie and that little cottage in Knightsbridge and TOTP on the telly.
happymike44 1 year ago
@happymike44 That's funny cause i used to feel up your mum with my right hand and your auntie with my left ,and their skirts were just right!
MrSluggo666 1 year ago
The swedish group The Ark has a similar melody in "Not the worrying kind"..... Tony Blackburn: he was at 208 too?
mammamaya61 1 year ago
The swedish group The Ark has a similar melody in "Not the worrying kind".....
mammamaya61 1 year ago
I've struck gold here!
Feisty1967 1 year ago
This has been flagged as spam show
Proper pop songs
callig11 1 year ago
Proper pop somgs
callig11 1 year ago
Magical song. Tony Burrows was the master of one-hit wonder bands.
CaledonianMan1968 1 year ago
wow... classic performance....
sukiyaro 1 year ago
Ha, ha. Those were the days. Look at the girls: They're all pretty damn fit. Not like nowadays where most have either got massive arses and no shape at all or are anorexic stick-insects. Even the average looking girls here have got nice figures ...nowadays every other girl is a whale.
digglyda 1 year ago 14
@digglyda My word, you are not likely to ever win any awards for 'Political Correctness', are you? But, hey, that is not a criticism - quite the opposite in fact!
You are quite right when you say that there are a lot of fat birds around nowadays; the percentage of seriously overweight young women is probably considerably higher now than it was in 1970.
You are also spot when you say that the birds who were in the 'TOTP' audience on 5th February of that year were pretty damn fit.
TheEctomorph 8 months ago
@digglyda Yeah and the men were hell of a lot better then than now. So there.
missphyllislevine 4 months ago
@missphyllislevine Yes we were...and still are. lol
grahamw56 4 months ago
Edison Lighthouse was really just Tony Burrows, the lead singer, with a thrown-together group of session musicians so they could perform in person. Burrows was also behind other "One Hit Wonders" like "Beach Baby" and "My Melanie." One one occassion (perhaps this very show), Burrows actually performed twice on the same TOTP show as a member of two different groups! He is a very talented singer-songwriter who wrote and performed several other popular songs as a member of a variety of "groups."
motorcop505 1 year ago
@motorcop505 These guys were not, I repeat , not session musicians. Also, Tony Burrows was not a song writer.
strofca 1 year ago 2
nyrainbow4 - we are not worthy, thank you for providing this fantasic video record of my youth!
Your place in heaven is assured, and if you don't believe in an afterlife, I'll do my damndest to get you inducted into the Rock 'n Roll hall of fame!
Peace and TOTP highlites be upon you!
cruithneuladh 1 year ago
A lot of the tracks on totp were rerecorded and then mimed or with live vocals so that's why the vocals sound different sometimes.
hippie1959 1 year ago
WOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW
Really Take ME Back to " GOLDEN AGE of MUSIC " from 60' to 70'！！！！！！！
HOT Short SKIRTS GIRLS TOO
xisanadu 1 year ago
A lot of bands on TOTP back then would record the backing track a day before or earlier on transmission and have live vocals on the night.
scrumhalf 1 year ago
And just where was #2, Mini me, and Austin Powers during this?
panhead1219 1 year ago
love it!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
aljabi2008 1 year ago
HEY HEY HEY !!! HEY HEY HEY !!
best part wish that was louder on the studio version !!
chunkdizzle420 1 year ago
Amazing how time in Europe was good! we have such freedom in the Soviet Union was not ...
aaalekseew 1 year ago
argh...was this mimed?...i could tell..coz you could cleary see that the drummer werent hitting the drums...the chicks were hot thou..
BELSON666 1 year ago
@BELSON666 sounds like the vocals are live but music certainly isn't
scotsmaninusa 1 year ago
@BELSON666
TOTP was ALWAYS mimed. So was Bandstand.
Waldenpunk 1 year ago
@Waldenpunk WRONG! Quite a few singers and groups sang live on TOTPs in the 60s and 70s!
jayrox40 1 year ago
This is the night where Tony Burrows had to come out on stage three times with three different groups, and he had to change at the back of the stage. You can Sunny Leslie on this song too, This is also where Tony was banned from Top of the Pops for overexposure, Lol xxx
pinkcookie1969 1 year ago
@pinkcookie1969 Actually, the night Tony appeared three times was January 29th 1970. This is dated May 2nd,
SeparatriX59 1 year ago
@SeparatriX59 I think you'll find it's 5th Feb.
strofca 1 year ago
Go Tony Burrows.
Greatest sessions singer of late 60's early 70's!
What a talent!
mrjoshjones1 1 year ago
Miniskirts!
myway43 1 year ago
I never knew him, but he's such a cutie !
OMG!! Sweet Sweet Sweet!!!
I LOVE his SWEET voice!!
Tony Burrows!!
snow0355 1 year ago
@snow0355 And!! This is the REAL Edison lighthouse!!!
Flickajak 1 year ago
Great song and live performance. What is the lead singer's name? He has a great voice.
jixter951 1 year ago
I'm seeing this for the first time. I can tell from the date that I was 5 when this appeared and nodoubt past my bedtime.
The thing that's making me reel in surprise is that the footballer (of whom I've never heard) never made it big as presenter of records on tv to teenage girls. HOpe his ball skills were better than his presentation skills. But then footballers probably chased balls back then rather than stick insect wives and headlines...
trossachs2003 1 year ago
@trossachs2003 Well, there were certainly SOME footballers in those days who were renowned for being ladies' men. The late, great Georgie Best - God rest his soul - is perhaps the most obvious example. Apparently, Mr Best once s******d 8 'birds' in the space of 36 hours! (I don't know whether any of them were 'stick insects', though - back in the early 70's, society didn't have the same obsession with "size zero" women as it does today.)
By the way, I was 5 years of age in '70, too.
TheEctomorph 8 months ago
It's so good to see and hear the Actual Voice Tony Borrows Behind this Legendary Song. It's hard to believe it's been 40 years this Fun Song was on the charts.
perpetual61 1 year ago
Oh my God, Tony Burrows sounds so fantastic and talk about cute! Wow!
marshamc 1 year ago
Speaking from the colonies, I cannot express how splendid it is to see this for the first time some 40 years after the original broadcast.
To nyrainbow4, genuine applause.
Bluntfacts 1 year ago
Back in 1970 were them neckties with the ring.Make me wonder "WHY" I really wanted one!!
brian6078 2 years ago
Girls were so hot and slim in those days!!!
JAYROX1969 2 years ago 26
That's because they didn't down pints and eat kebabs back then...
MannaMachine69 1 year ago
@MannaMachine69 Omg ...... how very 'politically incorrect' of you to make a comment like that. Good on you!!
Back in 1970,of course, 'ladette' culture had not yet reared its (rather unattractive) head. In those halcyon days, when Edison Lighthouse were number one in the charts with "Love Grows", men were men and birds were birds! If any members of the 'Politically Correct' brigade (for want of a better phrase) happen to read these comments, they might just disapprove. LOL !
TheEctomorph 8 months ago
@JAYROX1969 No fast food at every corner caused the epidemic of healthy good looking slim girls in those days.
pbmax 11 months ago
@JAYROX1969 That's one of the reasons I wish I'd been born in 1950.
kaldemvor 8 months ago
@JAYROX1969 Well said, sir; well said indeed.
If, as I assume, you were born in 1969, then you are slightly too young to have been pulling birds in 1970 !
It would be nice to obtain a time-machine from somewhere, and go back in time to 5th Feb. '70 ...... and then proceed to the 'TOTP' studios at the BBC !!
TheEctomorph 6 months ago
This has been flagged as spam show
@JAYROX1969 try FB mishi greene or mishi.greene@gmail.com Just like the 70s hot is relative and today and yesterday the vvast majority are overweight ..you don't think they's put ugly guys or girls on TV
mishigreene 6 months ago
I wish I had been alive in 1970, to appear in the audience on the programme and own a Colour TV and Video Recorder, back then. Linda and her dancing were both hot. Check out the mini-skirt at 2:45.
thisismikehunt2009 2 years ago 2
don't be obtuse, I meant what the hell ever happened to him being such an expensive player, since he doesn't seem to have set the history of football alight
billymacfly 2 years ago
Who the hell was Peter Maranillo?
billymacfly 2 years ago
A Footballer, can't you tell?
strofca 2 years ago
A mistake.
midianholic 2 years ago