After the demise of the Beatles this is one of the greatest pop sounds that defined the rise of the 70s. Other examples that come to mind are the Fortunes- Storm in a Teacup and T Rex Hot Love. I knew it was a good track even as a child but listening to it again now I would say it it on par with some of the best pop songs ever written. WoW!!!!! Awesome.
@konked Well yeah but no, u can stop the vid on utube, turn over the t.v. and retune a radio so no not really that annoying. This has bugged me worse, so much that I just had to reply. Had to I tell you. (re: 'then' .. So why u even in here with it again?) Odd.
I am sure that most football fans of my generation call vividly recall that terrace chant from the 1970s and early '80s. The chant was, of course, sung to the melody of Chicory Tip's number 1 hit from February '72; "Son Of My Father."
"Son of My Father" by Chicory Tip - which topped the UK singles chart in February 1972 - is an interesting track, which was ahead of its time in some respects. I think that I am correct in saying that it was the first chart-topping single (in this country) to feature a synthesizer.
Maybe this great track by Chicory Tip should have been re-released in 1981 (nine years after it reached # 1 in the charts). After all, back in '81, synthesizer music was all the rage, as it were.
No matter how much I listened to the lyrics I could never make out the words or what he one about generally. All I liked was the synthesiser solo -probably a mini moog or sommat.
@steeplepossum39 As a matter of fact, "Son Of My Father" by Chicory Tip topped the UK charts in the February of 1972 (and may even have been released at the end of the previous year). So, if you did indeed buy a copy of this single in 1974, it was already an 'oldie' at the time!
I remember having this song and a lot of the others on the list here on an LP..It was one of those K-Tell lp's they used to release just before xmas...ah...those were the days....lol..that was on the LP to.
it was more the pop like melody and the fact that the chorus@ son of my father!! was rather catchy and easy to sing along with, is what made this chirpy song a hit back then. i dont think anyone i knew back then who bothered to listen to the lyrics.they werent exactly in the same league as the beatles wen it comes to lyrics were they?( i was 15 years old in '72.)
actually..this band were great live before they hit this hit..i used to see them regularly at the pembroke club in chatham which i'm sure they would remember..we had some great bands up there. tangerine dream was one other such name,,great times...
Surprised at the comments on the lyrics not making sense. I was about twelve when this came out, and I understood it at the time. I'm not a genius, either. :D
@MagnusVideos I agree it's a good tune ! However, unless you download the lyrics, I doubt there is anybody listening, who has the slightest idea what this guy is actually singing about.
@AbuAvital no I would say that it depends on being able to clearly articulate your words( as Mr Chicory clearly cannot achieve) to a certain level, whereby they are comprehendable to the listener or any other poor sod who is trying to make sense of what you are labouring to convey! !
@AbuAvital Oh I see ! it is my and anybody elses fault for not being able to understand what the singer is trying to convey and certainly not the singers because "you" have never run into anybody who can't understand what the singer is trying to convey, Right Gotcha ! Bye.
@AnAutumnsDay The Wurzels certainly didn't come from Norfolk (or from anywhere near that East Anglian county, for that matter)! They were a West Country group, who - unless I am very much mistaken - hailed from the Bristol/Somerest region of England.
No offence, but if you can't tell the difference between a Norfolk accent and a Somerset one, then maybe it is time to seek professional advice about your hearing!
Oh, and by the way: Chicory Tip were not a Norfolk group, either.
@TheEctomorph where in the posting does it actually state that the Wurzels or Chicory Tip came from Norfolk??
I think you'll find ( if you read it again) that it states nothing about the bands originating from Norfolk but is instead about the popularity of their music in Norfolk!
No offence, but if you can't read the posting without correctly understanding it , then maybe it is time to seek professional advice in regard to your reading abilities or eyesight!
I read somewhere that the lead singer had the shit kicked out of him after the show by some other performer that was in that night. He does have a very slappable face tbh and that hairstyle alone deserves a kicking tbh.
@DaveWBedford That's not very nice. You may not like that kind of hairstyle (which, admittedly, is somewhat unfashionable by the standards of today) ... but the fact is that, back in 1972 - and indeed for several years after that - it was very fashionable for teenage males and 'twentysomething' guys to have long hair.
I never made sense of the lyrics but really fond of the sound. i haven't heard this since late 60s or early 70s. I had no idea the original version was by a guy name Georgeo. I was in my late teens or early 20s when on AM radio. I tried for yrs seeking this song until a "friend" helped me out!...it's more the memory than anything else...
I remember when them stylophone shite come out....I really wanted one thought they were cool...but parents said no...we need food...it was the days before you could borrow 15 times your income for a mortgage!! :-)
@TheOmnibot Well, the synth stuff is done by producer Chris Thomas on the Chicory Tip version and he does a decent job, but I still prefer Giorgio's version and synth stuff and production. It's not like he's some hack. 6 years later he did produce Donna Summer's classic "I Feel Love" and UK groups like Queen and ELO did go to Giorgio's Musicland studio to record. Chris Thomas went on to a great production career but what happened to Chicory Tip? Bay City Rollers were a top act in the UK; )
@TheOmnibot You must be from the UK because Chicory Tips version was NOT popular in the USA. Giorgio's English version was. The charts and radio play were still very territorial back then. Giorgio has a much better recording and the synth stuff was light years ahead of the Chicory Tip version.
I've never accepted those lyrics. The second line sound like "where you can learn the rules they write". The the third line line sounds more like "Be just like your dabbling father when it seems tradition". As for the chorus, it sounds nothing like "pre-form packed", more like "free from drive".
Official Chorus lyrics: "Son of my father, broolin', I was droolin', I was free-spun dry!" hehehe But whatever the lyrics are, the vocalist seems like he has trouble actually pronouncing English words like a normal person. I wonder if his speech sounded so mangled!
Son of my father Mooling I was fooling I was free from drive Son of my father Commanded I was branded in a plastic bag Surrounded and confounded be statistic flies Son of my father Teaching me and reaching into someone new Son of my father Collected and selected independent views Knowing and a showing how to change his tune Wonder what they were on? They are still playing together (2011)
now i know why i was a skinhead back in the early 70s, lol great days though even if the clothes and music where out there, great posting, love it,just sends me back,
Moulded, I was folded, I was preform packed.........commanded, I was branded in a plastic vac.....surrounded and confounded by statistic facts....POETRY!
All together now...."Sooooon of my father....moolin' I was croolin' I was free from draughts".......what....you mean those aren't the correct lyrics?????
When this popped up on LastFM, though I'd never heard it before, my first though was 1972, definitely not '71, probably not '73. It sounds a little like that "Motorcycle Mama" Sailcat thing with exception of that naked Moog sound you didn't hear much after '72. I love the way he does that running in place dance; you'd expect his hair to have taken on a life of its own and flown away.
oh lovin it lovin it lovin it! my son just been laffin at me dancin in my chair to this, hes 11 same age as i was when this came out, still at junior school! check them flares an hairdos lol lol lol! wouldnt it be top if someone did a house music mix of this? especially the twirlywirly bit in the middle,thats my favourite bit!oh lololololol!!!
first commercial hit for a moog was 'Wendy Carlos' in 1968 with 'Switched-On Bach' but that was an album.first rock recording ( I believe) was 'the doors' with 'strange days'
'popcorn' was a hit jun 1972 and chicory tip was jan 1972.so this song was the first but popcorn claims to be first as it was the first pop tune written on a moog back in 1969.the Hot Butter tune we all know is a cover from that original.
@scotsmaninusa I thought 'Gershon Kingsley's original version of 'Pop Corn' was the first 'Moog' tune to hit pop radio (late 60's). I'm not sure though.
I remember 'Switched on Bach' well! I was in grade school in the early 70's, my music teacher played that album in class and told us that this is the music of the future. She was right :)
Cheers to 'My fathers son'!! I still listen to that tune today! Awesome early Moog pop!!
@64mung that's what I said.popcorn was the first pop tune to be written on a moog.but it wasn't a hit as it was only an album track on 'Music To Moog By' by Gershon Kingsley' and if memory serves me right was only a 90 second track.nearly 4 year later a group of friends named 'Hot butter' re recorded the track and that's the hit we know.but it was still 5 month after 'Chicory Tip'
@scotsmaninusa It's official then..M. F. S. was the first 'Moog pop hit' :)
I had the Hot Butter's popcorn on 45 record when I was a kid. I wish I still had it :)
Have you ever seen the first MFS video shot in Australia? It shows the keyboard player playing a mini Moog and a poly Moog. The video was shot on a beach.
OK.. I admit it... this was the first time I whittingly heard a "Moog Synthesizer"... and dare I say it... this inspired me to aspire to electronic music...???? Now i have some serious gear worth in excess of £........ LOL
@xraycortina Ha, ha, i guess we would have had Son of my Father riding a Silver Machine on grass,weed stoned footpath, i loved Hawkwind, i think they came from Exeter , my home City. " Merry Christmas"
ONE OF MY FAVOURITE SONGS FROM THE 70'S SAW THEM PERFORM THIS ON TOP OF THE POPS (BACK IN THE DAYS WHEN I KNEW EVERY RECORD IN THE TOP 3O ) NOT LIKE THE TOP 30 OF TODAY - WHERE THERE ARE VERY SONGS I RECOGNISE - UNLESS ITS A CHARITY SONG (FOR CHILDREN IN NEED ETC)
de la pop bien datée mais que l'on écoute encore avec plaisir
derisionman 1 day ago
After the demise of the Beatles this is one of the greatest pop sounds that defined the rise of the 70s. Other examples that come to mind are the Fortunes- Storm in a Teacup and T Rex Hot Love. I knew it was a good track even as a child but listening to it again now I would say it it on par with some of the best pop songs ever written. WoW!!!!! Awesome.
paghob 1 week ago
Love to hear Alan Partridge introducing this!
TheNamron55 1 week ago
I remember this. I was 7. proof that stylophones were put to good use
funkmasterjee 1 week ago
Number 1 on the day i was born. Check out those groovy clothes. LOL
MrJayWynn 3 weeks ago
Giorgio Moroder and Pete Bellotte wrote this song!
sergejisd 3 weeks ago
...was i ever so young?...
noiseandmusic 3 weeks ago in playlist Favorite videos
The good old days i was 14 way back then oooh to the days that were sadly them days are gone .
castlebar67 3 weeks ago
That hair style has to be the worst the world has ever known !!
turboslag 4 weeks ago 2
Annoying then and annoys now.
konked 1 month ago
@konked Well yeah but no, u can stop the vid on utube, turn over the t.v. and retune a radio so no not really that annoying. This has bugged me worse, so much that I just had to reply. Had to I tell you. (re: 'then' .. So why u even in here with it again?) Odd.
GoonerAli 1 week ago
@GoonerAli Indeed :p I just wasn't sure and unfortunately it turned out to be that.
konked 6 days ago
Hooray the Kent boys !! and still going strong !!
lovelyflares 1 month ago
"Oh, lucky lucky ... lucky lucky lucky lucky Liverpool."
I am sure that most football fans of my generation call vividly recall that terrace chant from the 1970s and early '80s. The chant was, of course, sung to the melody of Chicory Tip's number 1 hit from February '72; "Son Of My Father."
TheEctomorph 1 month ago
"Son of My Father" by Chicory Tip - which topped the UK singles chart in February 1972 - is an interesting track, which was ahead of its time in some respects. I think that I am correct in saying that it was the first chart-topping single (in this country) to feature a synthesizer.
Maybe this great track by Chicory Tip should have been re-released in 1981 (nine years after it reached # 1 in the charts). After all, back in '81, synthesizer music was all the rage, as it were.
TheEctomorph 1 month ago
danny recorded this in finland maantieltä taloon,... but i like orginal version
josapappa1000 1 month ago
Scum of my father, Moolin' I was goolin' I was free form dragged. Scum of my father. Commanded I was blinded in a plastic vat
TomthatiscalledTom 1 month ago
omg I was 15 when this song took over my life - cant say too much - would get in trouble but where have the years gone
texnono 1 month ago
or what he was on about.
roblightwater 1 month ago
No matter how much I listened to the lyrics I could never make out the words or what he one about generally. All I liked was the synthesiser solo -probably a mini moog or sommat.
roblightwater 1 month ago
The first example of a 2-in-1 haircut........the 11 mullets who disliked this are the father of my granddad.
Susann03091982 1 month ago
@Susann03091982 Damn yessss, Susan! Hats off to you!! Cheers..!!
mutterschied 1 month ago
I seen these guys live in the 70's - yahoooooo ! amazing track ! :)
Thanks for the post , brings back great memories !
breffnipark 1 month ago
I can remember having this on vynal and I think the year was 1974.
steeplepossum39 1 month ago
@steeplepossum39 As a matter of fact, "Son Of My Father" by Chicory Tip topped the UK charts in the February of 1972 (and may even have been released at the end of the previous year). So, if you did indeed buy a copy of this single in 1974, it was already an 'oldie' at the time!
TheEctomorph 1 month ago
unique song this. as think this was first song 2 hav a symph . geogio meroda was in this band playing keyboards
Littlealan1959 1 month ago
LOVE IT!
steve161057 1 month ago
I remember having this song and a lot of the others on the list here on an LP..It was one of those K-Tell lp's they used to release just before xmas...ah...those were the days....lol..that was on the LP to.
Border0Riever 1 month ago
Son of my father and a haircut that was the grandaddy of the mullet.
DOTR2010 2 months ago
Wurzels where not from Norfolk! they where all from North Somerset and three of them are still here and playing as the "Tinker Boys"
bodge6886 2 months ago
Alan Partridge should have introduced this song.
TheNamron55 2 months ago
it was more the pop like melody and the fact that the chorus@ son of my father!! was rather catchy and easy to sing along with, is what made this chirpy song a hit back then. i dont think anyone i knew back then who bothered to listen to the lyrics.they werent exactly in the same league as the beatles wen it comes to lyrics were they?( i was 15 years old in '72.)
piecare 2 months ago 2
actually..this band were great live before they hit this hit..i used to see them regularly at the pembroke club in chatham which i'm sure they would remember..we had some great bands up there. tangerine dream was one other such name,,great times...
MrKeithmadsen 2 months ago
after the gig they sacrificed a new born baby to worship the devil.
aranterranting 2 months ago
@aranterranting Yeah, right.
TheEctomorph 1 month ago
Surprised at the comments on the lyrics not making sense. I was about twelve when this came out, and I understood it at the time. I'm not a genius, either. :D
therealsweep 2 months ago
onde encontro a tradução desta musica ???
brasileironato1 2 months ago
musiquinha de merda XP
TheYoichi100 3 months ago
wow...its so bonita song
laletrapurpura 3 months ago
01:23 =HOT!!! Nice perving Mr. Cameraman! I salute you!
MagnusVideos 3 months ago
Apart from the words Son of my Father the rest of the lyrics are just a noise !
AnAutumnsDay 3 months ago 5
@AnAutumnsDay A bit like most songs then. Well, it's better than having brilliant lyrics, and a rubbish tune.
MagnusVideos 3 months ago
@MagnusVideos I agree it's a good tune ! However, unless you download the lyrics, I doubt there is anybody listening, who has the slightest idea what this guy is actually singing about.
AnAutumnsDay 3 months ago 12
@AnAutumnsDay it all depends on your comprehension level of English
AbuAvital 2 months ago
@AbuAvital no I would say that it depends on being able to clearly articulate your words( as Mr Chicory clearly cannot achieve) to a certain level, whereby they are comprehendable to the listener or any other poor sod who is trying to make sense of what you are labouring to convey! !
AnAutumnsDay 2 months ago 2
@AnAutumnsDay That would still depend on ones level of comprehension because I haven't run into anyone who didn't, except you.
AbuAvital 2 months ago
@AbuAvital Oh I see ! it is my and anybody elses fault for not being able to understand what the singer is trying to convey and certainly not the singers because "you" have never run into anybody who can't understand what the singer is trying to convey, Right Gotcha ! Bye.
AnAutumnsDay 2 months ago 3
I was mooglin I was googlin I was free from drugs...
JonnyInfinite 3 months ago
i lake is video for together
vicrocktoke 3 months ago
....oh stevie stevie...stevie stevie stevie stevie perryman. thanks chicory tip you helped create a footy anthm for a spurs legend! C.O.Y.S
OJC1994 4 months ago
Latest thing in Norfolk !!! now that the Wurzels have disbanded!
AnAutumnsDay 4 months ago 16
@AnAutumnsDay You've never been to Norfolk then? The Wurzels were from Somerset.
dryadmusic 3 months ago
@dryadmusic oooh arrrr
MoveOnSoulClub 2 months ago
@dryadmusic LOL
Factnotfictionpeople 2 months ago
@AnAutumnsDay Whattttttt The Wurzels have disbanded! What am I going to do now? Like the wee wee dance.
NCW250 3 months ago
@AnAutumnsDay The Wurzels certainly didn't come from Norfolk (or from anywhere near that East Anglian county, for that matter)! They were a West Country group, who - unless I am very much mistaken - hailed from the Bristol/Somerest region of England.
No offence, but if you can't tell the difference between a Norfolk accent and a Somerset one, then maybe it is time to seek professional advice about your hearing!
Oh, and by the way: Chicory Tip were not a Norfolk group, either.
TheEctomorph 1 month ago
@TheEctomorph where in the posting does it actually state that the Wurzels or Chicory Tip came from Norfolk??
I think you'll find ( if you read it again) that it states nothing about the bands originating from Norfolk but is instead about the popularity of their music in Norfolk!
No offence, but if you can't read the posting without correctly understanding it , then maybe it is time to seek professional advice in regard to your reading abilities or eyesight!
AnAutumnsDay 1 month ago
@AnAutumnsDay Fair comment, sir. I apologize for the fact that I misinterpreted your previous comment (regarding The Wurzels and Chicory Tip).
TheEctomorph 1 month ago
It was a great song in the&0's
stuartrumsby2003 4 months ago
Worst record I ever heard,
twoslices 4 months ago
Ah this song and Into the Valley by the Skids,had me puzzled for years..!!!..lol..
SpeedTriple59 4 months ago
love the analog synth!
Thomsonicus 4 months ago
Lehenengo abestia sintetizagailuarekin ... ala beintzat garai hartan esaten zuten.
IrudienLantegia 4 months ago
how did we ever produce children after having jeans cutting everything in half
purga60 4 months ago
According to Google this was co-written by Giorgio Moroder..who'd a thunk it?
QueenReigns1 4 months ago
Moulting I was balding and I need a hat.
QueenReigns1 4 months ago
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QueenReigns1 4 months ago
OMG - tank tops! Great old song though, suddenly, listening to this I was 18 again...
3moonriver 4 months ago
I read somewhere that the lead singer had the shit kicked out of him after the show by some other performer that was in that night. He does have a very slappable face tbh and that hairstyle alone deserves a kicking tbh.
DaveWBedford 4 months ago
@DaveWBedford That's not very nice. You may not like that kind of hairstyle (which, admittedly, is somewhat unfashionable by the standards of today) ... but the fact is that, back in 1972 - and indeed for several years after that - it was very fashionable for teenage males and 'twentysomething' guys to have long hair.
TheEctomorph 1 month ago
Moog machine were the start of electronical music whitch continues today and beyond.It sounded funny when it was new.
Manfred Mann's Earth Band used electronical instruments sucsessfully(Blinded By The Light)
57AlleyCat 4 months ago
Classic moog riff.
1957WalkerAdrian 4 months ago
are they bri-nylon trousers ?
paulthepill 5 months ago
Where's the Minimoog??
bondbug73 5 months ago
I never made sense of the lyrics but really fond of the sound. i haven't heard this since late 60s or early 70s. I had no idea the original version was by a guy name Georgeo. I was in my late teens or early 20s when on AM radio. I tried for yrs seeking this song until a "friend" helped me out!...it's more the memory than anything else...
artistonhpvs 5 months ago
I remember when them stylophone shite come out....I really wanted one thought they were cool...but parents said no...we need food...it was the days before you could borrow 15 times your income for a mortgage!! :-)
m2mark1 5 months ago
Stylophone opening!...remember them?..Good old Rolph Harris
BritAU2TH 5 months ago
@BritAU2TH Stylophone! It was a Moog! lol
Factnotfictionpeople 4 months ago
Moolin I was Foolin I was free from draft.
It's a song about vietnam.
nugguhwhat 5 months ago
Tank Tops
Chopper894 5 months ago
Crap song, great times.. :-) Many thanks.
WPSPUR 5 months ago
Crao song, great times.. :-) Many thanks.
WPSPUR 5 months ago
This song charted on BB's 100 list 3/11/72 only lasted on the chart 3 weeks, peaked at 91, shown only as Chicory.
RDK860 5 months ago
...lembro-me dos tempos que música tinha letra e música propriamente dito.
Obrigado por postar estas relíquias.
sebasti7151 6 months ago
@TheOmnibot Well, the synth stuff is done by producer Chris Thomas on the Chicory Tip version and he does a decent job, but I still prefer Giorgio's version and synth stuff and production. It's not like he's some hack. 6 years later he did produce Donna Summer's classic "I Feel Love" and UK groups like Queen and ELO did go to Giorgio's Musicland studio to record. Chris Thomas went on to a great production career but what happened to Chicory Tip? Bay City Rollers were a top act in the UK; )
dangerfellini 6 months ago
@TheOmnibot You must be from the UK because Chicory Tips version was NOT popular in the USA. Giorgio's English version was. The charts and radio play were still very territorial back then. Giorgio has a much better recording and the synth stuff was light years ahead of the Chicory Tip version.
dangerfellini 6 months ago
I've never accepted those lyrics. The second line sound like "where you can learn the rules they write". The the third line line sounds more like "Be just like your dabbling father when it seems tradition". As for the chorus, it sounds nothing like "pre-form packed", more like "free from drive".
cbak12sg 6 months ago
@cbak12sg I think it's "Where you can learn the rules they're right" and "Be just like your dad playing father when it seems tradition".
lewisner 6 months ago
@lewisner Be just like your dabbling father when it seems tradition
Never go astray and stay an honest, loving son
SarahSmith666 6 months ago
@SarahSmith666 I googled the lyrics. 2 sites said what you said and 2 said
"Off you got to school
Where you can learn the rules there right
Be just like your dad lad
Follow in the same tradition
Never go astray and stay an honest lovin' son"
"Dabbling" doesn't make any sense. Dabbling in what?
lewisner 5 months ago
@cbak12sg Son of my father
Moulded, I was folded, I was free from draft
Son of my father
SarahSmith666 6 months ago
well ace??
18101952ianthewelder 6 months ago
Oh Oh Wembly Wembly-Wembly-Wembly-Wembly-Wembly here we come. We still sing in now and always will.
replicas11 6 months ago
is that a top notch mullet or what??
glenn1340 6 months ago
@glenn1340 What about the guitarist's T-shirt? fucking brilliant, top muller defo.
replicas11 6 months ago
@glenn1340 Absolutely!
beamerZ 4 months ago
Um retorno de Quarenta anos no tempo....Uma das inesquecíveis....
mramiltonoitodois 6 months ago
terrible cover version GIORGIO's original is the BEST version and was a hit in EU and USA. Poor UK had to settle for Chicory Tips lame-ass version.
dangerfellini 6 months ago
1:12 - 1:20 this fragment of music was on start in Polish sport program "Studio Sport" from 1976 to 1989 on TP1 channel
pde385e 7 months ago
Stung by my father. Mooling and I was googling, I was free plum wrecked. Commanded and I was blanded in a plastic vat
TomthatiscalledTom 7 months ago
Official Chorus lyrics: "Son of my father, broolin', I was droolin', I was free-spun dry!" hehehe But whatever the lyrics are, the vocalist seems like he has trouble actually pronouncing English words like a normal person. I wonder if his speech sounded so mangled!
MrDarkbloom 7 months ago
Mama said to me we gotta have your life run right
Off you go to school where you can learn the rules there right
Be just like your dabbling father when it seems tradition
Never go astray and stay an honest, loving son
Son of my father
Moulded, I was folded, I was preform-packed
Son of my father
Commanded, I was branded in a plastic vac'
Surrounded and confounded by statistic facts
majuryni 7 months ago
Mama said to me we gotta have your life run right
Off you go to school where you can learn the rules there right
Be just like your dabbling father when it seems tradition
Never go astray and stay an honest, loving son
majuryni 7 months ago
I haven't heard this since it came out.....as a matter of fact I just remembered it yesterday! Thanks for posting this!!
flamesounds 7 months ago
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Studio Sport lata 70-te??? :D
202czarna 7 months ago
Studio Sport lata 70-te??? :D
202czarna 7 months ago
graemejwsmith 8 months ago
Born in 1987, spent my youth listening to stuff like this every day. Thanks mum!
tomcrowmike 8 months ago
Son Of My Father Moonlin' I was croolin' I was pre funjoyed
gibsosgerbil 8 months ago
recuerdos de mi niñez
MrSvd13 8 months ago
Mullet-tastic!
thegranddilligaf 8 months ago
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Great, I saw this croup perform this song when it was number 1 in the UK charts IN TUNBRIDGE WELLS IN KENT, England
kevinjohn725 8 months ago
Great, I saw this croup perform this song when it was number 1 in the UK cHARY IN TUNBRIDGE WELLS IN KENT, England
kevinjohn725 8 months ago
I love Youtube. How else could I possibly have found this great music?
IndisputableAttitude 8 months ago 5
now i know why i was a skinhead back in the early 70s, lol great days though even if the clothes and music where out there, great posting, love it,just sends me back,
56indy 8 months ago 2
Moulded, I was folded, I was preform packed.........commanded, I was branded in a plastic vac.....surrounded and confounded by statistic facts....POETRY!
dirkbrad 8 months ago
moulded,I was folded, I was pre-form packed.....possibly......or are they singing in Turkish?
dirkbrad 8 months ago
oh sami sami, sami sami sami sami hyypia!
SquishedButterfly 8 months ago
Thumbs up if never mind the buzzcocks brought u here!
I2ICCI 8 months ago 7
umm - Whitstable, pub on sea front! still going!
tessey119 9 months ago
Sweet childhood, it will never happen again.
dunbunter 9 months ago
"where you can learn the rules there right " LOL - "off you go to school where you can learn the rules they write."
UISTMAN59 9 months ago
perfecta
ggdvd 9 months ago
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MrNoelcoward 9 months ago
Stoned by my father...moogling I was googling, I was free from drugs. Stoned by my father, commanded I was blinded in a plastic cup
IEatManure 9 months ago 2
Does it say
Moogling I was drooling I was free from drugs?
geoffcarrier 9 months ago
All together now...."Sooooon of my father....moolin' I was croolin' I was free from draughts".......what....you mean those aren't the correct lyrics?????
StanPomeray 10 months ago 29
@StanPomeray I thought it was "free from drugs". Thanks for the real lyrics.
bossendenwoodconvict 6 months ago
@StanPomeray ....haha, best lyrics i ever heard.....lets write a song!!
seeligsilence 4 months ago
@StanPomeray Honestly, your lyrics make more sense, but who cares?
MagnusVideos 3 months ago
The song that inspired a thousand football chants
james7696739 10 months ago
A bit of pre 80's sound there ... Brilliant song reminds me of my father :)
tracys1510 10 months ago
@tracys1510 My second single. Bought at number 30. Went straight to #1. Yeeha!!!!!!!!!!!!
1unsung 10 months ago
preferred Good Grief Christina
gypsyroadhog 11 months ago
When this popped up on LastFM, though I'd never heard it before, my first though was 1972, definitely not '71, probably not '73. It sounds a little like that "Motorcycle Mama" Sailcat thing with exception of that naked Moog sound you didn't hear much after '72. I love the way he does that running in place dance; you'd expect his hair to have taken on a life of its own and flown away.
lrd9999 11 months ago
oh lovin it lovin it lovin it! my son just been laffin at me dancin in my chair to this, hes 11 same age as i was when this came out, still at junior school! check them flares an hairdos lol lol lol! wouldnt it be top if someone did a house music mix of this? especially the twirlywirly bit in the middle,thats my favourite bit!oh lololololol!!!
nanaroyale 11 months ago
Giorgio Moroder 1972 Forever!
c4xfire 11 months ago
entrainant....ca donne envie de danser...
josie59musique 11 months ago
number 1 this day 39 years ago... my birthday...
loquayrocks 11 months ago
That haircut looks like the contents of my vacuum cleaner
tessey119 11 months ago 4
@tessey119 lol! XD
rubinoos1 11 months ago
@tessey119 that haircut looks like something my cat coughed up.
tsartodd 10 months ago 2
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MrNoelcoward 9 months ago
first commercial hit for a moog was 'Wendy Carlos' in 1968 with 'Switched-On Bach' but that was an album.first rock recording ( I believe) was 'the doors' with 'strange days'
'popcorn' was a hit jun 1972 and chicory tip was jan 1972.so this song was the first but popcorn claims to be first as it was the first pop tune written on a moog back in 1969.the Hot Butter tune we all know is a cover from that original.
hope this makes sense.
scotsmaninusa 11 months ago
@scotsmaninusa I thought 'Gershon Kingsley's original version of 'Pop Corn' was the first 'Moog' tune to hit pop radio (late 60's). I'm not sure though.
I remember 'Switched on Bach' well! I was in grade school in the early 70's, my music teacher played that album in class and told us that this is the music of the future. She was right :)
Cheers to 'My fathers son'!! I still listen to that tune today! Awesome early Moog pop!!
64mung 11 months ago
@64mung that's what I said.popcorn was the first pop tune to be written on a moog.but it wasn't a hit as it was only an album track on 'Music To Moog By' by Gershon Kingsley' and if memory serves me right was only a 90 second track.nearly 4 year later a group of friends named 'Hot butter' re recorded the track and that's the hit we know.but it was still 5 month after 'Chicory Tip'
cheers
scotsmaninusa 11 months ago
@scotsmaninusa It's official then..M. F. S. was the first 'Moog pop hit' :)
I had the Hot Butter's popcorn on 45 record when I was a kid. I wish I still had it :)
Have you ever seen the first MFS video shot in Australia? It shows the keyboard player playing a mini Moog and a poly Moog. The video was shot on a beach.
64mung 11 months ago
@64mung MFS ?????
scotsmaninusa 11 months ago
@scotsmaninusa Haha!!:) Excuse my dyslexia..not MFS..I meant SMF..(Son of My Father)
64mung 11 months ago
@64mung ha ha OK then, I have seen the beach video you are talking about.
cheers
scotsmaninusa 11 months ago
@64mung ha ha,I just found the original 1969 track.
watch?v=oYTu__hhMws
scotsmaninusa 11 months ago
This song was written by Giorgio Moroder. This is a cover believe it or not!
kpsvw412 1 year ago
OK.. I admit it... this was the first time I whittingly heard a "Moog Synthesizer"... and dare I say it... this inspired me to aspire to electronic music...???? Now i have some serious gear worth in excess of £........ LOL
zedster911 1 year ago
Thumbs up if you want this song on RB3
07stothersc 1 year ago
SPORTOWA NIEDZIELA!!!!!!!!!
konar72 1 year ago
All those girls in the audience had one thing in common-REALLY HAIRY PUSSIES! YUM. ;P Great tune!
TheMasterNo6 1 year ago
Another Glam classic from Chinny Chap. I think Kevin Kegan's haircut from 1977 was inspired by these lads,
ewaf88 1 year ago
Proper!! x
squidwood10 1 year ago
What a classic synth pop tune!! I was in second grade when this came out..still love it today!!! Love the vintage Moog synthesizer sound here :)
64mung 1 year ago
@64mung Was this the first Moog to be used in pop??
Lisnageeragh 1 year ago
@Lisnageeragh I think 'Pop Corn' was the first pop tune to use a Moog synth.. I'm not sure though.
This song is defiantly 'one' of the first.
64mung 1 year ago
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scotsmaninusa 11 months ago
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scotsmaninusa 11 months ago
What if Chicory Tip and Hawkwind had met up in 1972, got stoned and then recorded a jam session,
xraycortina 1 year ago
@xraycortina Ha, ha, i guess we would have had Son of my Father riding a Silver Machine on grass,weed stoned footpath, i loved Hawkwind, i think they came from Exeter , my home City. " Merry Christmas"
MICKTHEMERC 1 year ago
ONE OF MY FAVOURITE SONGS FROM THE 70'S SAW THEM PERFORM THIS ON TOP OF THE POPS (BACK IN THE DAYS WHEN I KNEW EVERY RECORD IN THE TOP 3O ) NOT LIKE THE TOP 30 OF TODAY - WHERE THERE ARE VERY SONGS I RECOGNISE - UNLESS ITS A CHARITY SONG (FOR CHILDREN IN NEED ETC)
gilllew 1 year ago
Thank you for adding this !!!!!!Great job!
brian70Cuda 1 year ago
makes me think of Geronimo Jackson
godboy50 1 year ago
Love those 70's girls.
jammumu 1 year ago 13
@jammumu heheheee
webguy21 10 months ago
@jammumu I DID, lots
jimdreferee 9 months ago
@jammumu
Errr... I think those are blokes, jammumu ...just with long hair, sleeveless tops and guitars....
Sorry!
PadmeAmadildo 6 months ago
excellent, brings back good memories ....
sj0509 1 year ago
What a hairdo! Bring back the extreme mullet!
daffonfire 1 year ago 2
Thanks to fritz for putting the lyrics up, they have puzzled me for years, since first seeing them on TOTP infact.
Great song, but most were in the early 70s!!
bigmagic96 1 year ago
my hair was like that, could still be, but at 49 needs to be a little more conservative i think, it just wound't suit the face now
teishopete 1 year ago 2
@teishopete GO ON...Do it!!!! Look at my hair...and i'm 54!!!!!! Seriously though, your lucky to have hair. Style it how you want. Billy Gibbons. UK
mitchly 1 year ago 2
Nutting!
999manman 1 year ago
Ohhh Worky Worky,Worky Worky Worky Worky Workington!!!!!
scato89 1 year ago