@trailboyus66 Thanks for the comments. It's always good to hear and exchange views on artistes that for some reason are well known in one country but obscure elsewhere. If you say you like Jigsaw, give a listen to another of their tracks called 'Lovefire' if you haven't already done do.
They should have kept this as their single, it's a bit more powerful than Candlewick Green's version. Well constructed with some clever chord changes - especially going to Eb on the chorus. Outstanding!
Just to add to my add to my comment below - have just listened to the version of 'Who do you think you are' by Bo Donaldson & The Heywoods (whom I had never ever heard of before - sorry folk from Cincinatti Ohio but they didn't make much of an impression in Norwich, England during the 1970's. That said its another fantastic version - check it out.
@lostintrivia Wow. I love Jigsaw and even have the single Sky High. It has come back on my favorite oldies station's but when it comes to this song The Heywoods is the only one played in The USA until youtube. Helen Shapiro is another youtube experience that we didn't have the pleasure of hearing "outside of a movie or two"...
Difficult this - it seems to be a song that it is difficult not to do a good version of. For me the track will always be Candlewick Green and much later St Etienne rather than Jigsaw. That said, they actually wrote the song and there is nothing you can say against it - though 'Sky High' will always be their anthem.
The puzzle (pun definitely intended) is, why we United Statesians weren't exposed to the original Jigsaw version when it first came out!? Don't get me wrong, I like the Heywoods, but we didn't get a chance to hear this version and judge it on its merits back then. Why do the powers that be in the music industry shut us off from what's good so often? That's the puzzle that needs to be solved (pun again intended)!
All three versions are great, hard to decide which one is favorite...all are very well done...Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods version has best drum line of three
@atkman74 I agree that I prefer the Bo Donaldson version, but I heard it first and that seems to be the determining factor. I prefer the Wednesday version of Last Kiss, but I heard it first...
I've always loved this track, although I remember Camberwick Green singing it more clearly. This is a very "Jigsaw" song, though, quite reminiscent of their "Sky High". Great to hear it again!
I spent many a happy hour acting as compare and supporting DJ to Jigsaw at many air bases and colleges in East Anglia in the 1970s - a great band and such a loss when Clive Scott passed to a better place
I stumbled on to this version by accident and I'm glad I did. I really like the piano and horns. At 2:20 the vocals flipflop, lead sings backup and backup becomes the lead. Well done.
Being in the US I only knew of Bo Donaldson's version. I knew of Jigsaw's Sky High, but only found out recently that Des Dyer was their lead singer. So now it all makes sense. And hearing Jigsaw do this I can hear the stylistic similarities between it and Sky High. Someone posted a comment on my channel that her relative was in the Heywoods and co-wrote the song--but clearly that could not have been possible.
The original is often the truest (if not the slickest). Bo's version is a very solid #2. This version is the best for these reasons: the higher key of the original gives the tune more of a sense of tension & desperation, and the earlier arrangement does more with less instrumentation. The quodlibet at the end has a higher profile in the original. Bo's version, is fine, though; certainly more lush & romantic! Candlewick Green a distant 3rd, St. Etienne a pale 4th (too early 90's pop ephemeral)
Bo's version is the best of the 3 in my view, it's a little more energetic and forceful. This one is next, with Candlestick Green's version my least favorite.
I can understand why you like CG's version the leastThe problem with Candlewick Green's rendition, is that it's too close a copy of Jigsaw's, though I still like it myself
I'm also partial to Bo's, (But Jigsaw's is also well worth it) since it was the one that I grew up with.
It was only this past year that I learned that two versions preceded it.
Bo's OTHER big hit "Billy Don't Be a Hero" was originally by Paper Lace
"Who Do You Think You Are" by Saint Etienne is certainly one of my all-time top 10 songs and it's really touching to finally discover the original version. Simply awesome!
it seems to be that the group used much of the backing track(s) from Jigsaw's original. I mean the piano intro, and bassline is alomst exact. They seemed to have just added their vocals in place of Jigsaw's vocals. Could this be the case?
It's obvious that Bo's famous rendition, however was done fresh and anew, even though it's a similar arrangement.
Wow I never knew Jigsaw did a version. I grew up in South Africa and Jigsaw weren't terribly popular there, but the Candlewick Green version of this was a hit when I was a kid. This version is still great, but it's my least favourite of the three.
I didn't know this was a Jigsaw song either. They should have done better in the US, I liked Sky High and Love Fire. As for Bo and the Heywoods, they were the house band for the Dick Clark produced ABC show Action and covered many of the hit songs of the day.
At a party three years ago and three of the members of Candlewick Green got up and sang "who do you think you are" it was sheer brilliance they still have that great 70s sound and still great down two eath comics.There version was the best.
@Hardesty55 this is the original and they wrote this...i like candlewick green s version too and their flop follow up was also written by scott/dyer from jigsaw...leave a little love..respect to the guys...but jigsaw are the best
Wow! Never heard this version before! I originally only knew it by Bo Donaldson & The Heywoods, then I discovered an earlier version by Candlewick Green, thinking that IT was the original. Now I know that Jigsaw originated it!
I love all 3 versions too, there is very little difference among the 3 recordings; all have arrangements that are nearly identical.Even the instrumentation is almost the same, especially the opening piano riff The version by St. Etienne is very different in style and arrangement
Yes, I LOVE all 3 versions. This version by Jigsaw sounds the most genuine & the most masculine. Argumentative, sassy, but sexy, with a juicy bit of rawwrrr! BoD&tH had an excellent recording; but it became immediately obvious that the song was used as an internal band confrontation between studly Bo & the real lead vocalist of that band. Without heart, their song became domestic abuse by song. St. Etienne's was delicious with the dance mix to it. This song needs a hiphop edit. LOVE THIS SONG!
So this is where it all started! It's delicious! I just hope I can find this song by Jigsaw on iTunes. Lemme check right now. nope. not there. L8r I will check amazon to see if I can buy this lp or cd. Love this song! OMG!
Once again 45rpm, thanks. I honestly never knew it was a Jigsaw song. And I reckon you're right: this version really has something. Though I quite liked the more recent Saint Etienne version of this.
love the record covers...AMAZING BAND
john111257 1 month ago in playlist YouTube Mix for Jigsaw
had this song on replay for the past hour.... still not tired of it. :)
beatleaholic 1 month ago
Love Fire is very good by them too.
BBQFanNo1 1 month ago
2 dislikes, are justin bieber fans
ben7830 2 months ago
THANK YOU, for this version. I like it ....
LevemirNorth 2 months ago
@trailboyus66 Thanks for the comments. It's always good to hear and exchange views on artistes that for some reason are well known in one country but obscure elsewhere. If you say you like Jigsaw, give a listen to another of their tracks called 'Lovefire' if you haven't already done do.
lostintrivia 3 months ago
They should have kept this as their single, it's a bit more powerful than Candlewick Green's version. Well constructed with some clever chord changes - especially going to Eb on the chorus. Outstanding!
BarnsleyTimelord 3 months ago in playlist BarnsleyTimelord's favourites
”スカイ・ハイ”だけじゃなく数多のキャッチャーポップ楽曲の宝庫だったネ!～ｼﾞｸﾞｿｰ～♪WHO DO YOU THINK YOU ARE"（=＾0＾=）
blackandtanful 5 months ago
i never heard this version, at least not here in Canada! but it's just as good as the Heywoods. I love youtube.
imajeepster 6 months ago
Just to add to my add to my comment below - have just listened to the version of 'Who do you think you are' by Bo Donaldson & The Heywoods (whom I had never ever heard of before - sorry folk from Cincinatti Ohio but they didn't make much of an impression in Norwich, England during the 1970's. That said its another fantastic version - check it out.
lostintrivia 6 months ago
@lostintrivia Wow. I love Jigsaw and even have the single Sky High. It has come back on my favorite oldies station's but when it comes to this song The Heywoods is the only one played in The USA until youtube. Helen Shapiro is another youtube experience that we didn't have the pleasure of hearing "outside of a movie or two"...
trailboyus66 3 months ago in playlist FAVORITES B
Difficult this - it seems to be a song that it is difficult not to do a good version of. For me the track will always be Candlewick Green and much later St Etienne rather than Jigsaw. That said, they actually wrote the song and there is nothing you can say against it - though 'Sky High' will always be their anthem.
lostintrivia 6 months ago
i like the bo donaldson version a little better. these guys rock with sky high though!
nissansentraglx 7 months ago
sooooooooooo fab
choralstuart 7 months ago
They say you can never go home again. I didn't know what that ment when I was a kid, but now I do. :-(
Sarasdad91 8 months ago
Very Micky Most
eggontoastman 8 months ago
Brilliant bass playing on all of Jigsaws hits.
gmaccruyff55 8 months ago
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No-one can get this song wrong
thegoldenspike 9 months ago
The puzzle (pun definitely intended) is, why we United Statesians weren't exposed to the original Jigsaw version when it first came out!? Don't get me wrong, I like the Heywoods, but we didn't get a chance to hear this version and judge it on its merits back then. Why do the powers that be in the music industry shut us off from what's good so often? That's the puzzle that needs to be solved (pun again intended)!
ejslurb2007 9 months ago
my top band of all time...love everything they did..check out des dyer here on you tube
john111257 9 months ago
All three versions are great, hard to decide which one is favorite...all are very well done...Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods version has best drum line of three
atkman74 11 months ago
@atkman74 I agree that I prefer the Bo Donaldson version, but I heard it first and that seems to be the determining factor. I prefer the Wednesday version of Last Kiss, but I heard it first...
thealbumcollector 8 months ago
Thanks for sharing these two, 45. Jigsaw version unknown here but little different from the UK hit cover and super quality
treiterschijf 1 year ago
@treiterschijf Thanks & Happy New Year !
45rpmSINGLES 1 year ago
Me encanto el sonido y voces de este desconocido grupo ingles, pudieron llegar mas arriba
TheHernanPatricio 1 year ago
I really wish someone could do a piano tutorial for the intro!
TheCWPFilms 1 year ago
You're right, the intro is practically identical to the Candlewick version - when I first heard it I thought you'd uploaded their version by mistake
simes2024 1 year ago
someone should cover this, deserves a new audiance, maybe Take That should give it a go..too good to be forgotten. great song.
deejaydoubleyou1966 1 year ago
@deejaydoubleyou1966 Saint Etienne had a hit with it in the '90s.
timothyahall 1 year ago
Check out She's In Love With You by Jason Donovan. That song is a total lift!
stellarartwars07 1 year ago
They put the groove in "Groovelicious"
ElectricMovements 1 year ago
my fave band of all time...great songs
john111257 1 year ago
I've always loved this track, although I remember Camberwick Green singing it more clearly. This is a very "Jigsaw" song, though, quite reminiscent of their "Sky High". Great to hear it again!
MaidofKent1965 1 year ago
No-one can orchestrate a pop tune like the Brits!
theworldwillknowme 1 year ago
Dark hair ,glasses guy.I love you since the early 70"s. You are THE man !!!
lakeladymel 1 year ago 5
I spent many a happy hour acting as compare and supporting DJ to Jigsaw at many air bases and colleges in East Anglia in the 1970s - a great band and such a loss when Clive Scott passed to a better place
GrahamSimons 1 year ago
Man, this song is awesome, and it gets really stuck in your head, too.
Not many people know, but it got a eurobeat cover in 1988 by artist John Sauli (aka "Rofo")
KyonPalm 1 year ago
I doesn't Really Matter who did this song First. Because a Good Song is Always a Good Song. nothing will ever change that.
perpetual61 1 year ago
Been singing this song for years, my wife thinks i make these songs up but thanks to brill YOU TUBE i just type title in and there it is!!
deejaydoubleyou1966 1 year ago 9
@deejaydoubleyou1966 Oh my wife is the same way.. She will say " Is that song made up? It sounds made up".. HA HA! Yes, thanks for youtube:)
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numanoid17 1 year ago
The guy in the white suit and glasses was my first crush. Groovy as all heck ! Still love him !!!!
lakeladymel 1 year ago 17
love it....great memories..thanks..
lorret90 1 year ago
best song ever.la mejor versión por lejos las voces llegan mas. increible!!!
fabiana74ful 1 year ago
I like this version better than Bo's.
osgood54 1 year ago
superb band...have loads of great music...shouldve been huge...they were in japan
john111257 1 year ago
This is a good version of that song---I had no idea they sung this:)
meowfit 1 year ago
I stumbled on to this version by accident and I'm glad I did. I really like the piano and horns. At 2:20 the vocals flipflop, lead sings backup and backup becomes the lead. Well done.
moose354 1 year ago
This is such an amazing song!
choralstuart 1 year ago 2
I concur - great song that Jigsaw can truly be proud of - but the ultimate prize for interpretation belongs squarely to St Etienne.
Pogglefish 1 year ago 2
perfect pop..... but Sarah Cracknell will always get my vote.
OoblaRaRaBlue 2 years ago 2
I like the guy with the glasses,so cool,so,hip,so seventies. He is the man ! Ultimate seventies guy !!!
lakeladymel 2 years ago 3
the original and best version
sproggett1 2 years ago 4
The best version is by St Etienne.
Swanlander 2 years ago
bass guitar and kick drum blowing me away,and i love it!!
phantomxr 2 years ago 3
Candlewick Green's version is better than both this one & BD&H.
rin3guy 2 years ago
Listened to all the other versions, this is the BEST, most passion,the beat,backup vocals.Can't deney it ,this is the most upbeat version.
lakeladymel 2 years ago
First time hearing this version of the song. I like it, but prefer Bo Donaldson and the Heywoods version more.
Treaty4 2 years ago
This band is just great. One of my all time favs !!!
lakeladymel 2 years ago
Being in the US I only knew of Bo Donaldson's version. I knew of Jigsaw's Sky High, but only found out recently that Des Dyer was their lead singer. So now it all makes sense. And hearing Jigsaw do this I can hear the stylistic similarities between it and Sky High. Someone posted a comment on my channel that her relative was in the Heywoods and co-wrote the song--but clearly that could not have been possible.
MrTrashcan1 2 years ago
Loved Jigsaw particularly Only When you're Lonely, but still think Candlewick Green do the definitive reading of this classic pop song
paulgwelch 2 years ago
I like this version a lot
deeeedefan 2 years ago 3
The original is often the truest (if not the slickest). Bo's version is a very solid #2. This version is the best for these reasons: the higher key of the original gives the tune more of a sense of tension & desperation, and the earlier arrangement does more with less instrumentation. The quodlibet at the end has a higher profile in the original. Bo's version, is fine, though; certainly more lush & romantic! Candlewick Green a distant 3rd, St. Etienne a pale 4th (too early 90's pop ephemeral)
theworldwillknowme 2 years ago
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A bloke shouldn't be singing this. How fucking bizarre. He sounds like a right needy sod.
AdmiralBirdseye 2 years ago
Bo's version is the best of the 3 in my view, it's a little more energetic and forceful. This one is next, with Candlestick Green's version my least favorite.
enialbsitruc 2 years ago
I can understand why you like CG's version the leastThe problem with Candlewick Green's rendition, is that it's too close a copy of Jigsaw's, though I still like it myself
I'm also partial to Bo's, (But Jigsaw's is also well worth it) since it was the one that I grew up with.
It was only this past year that I learned that two versions preceded it.
Bo's OTHER big hit "Billy Don't Be a Hero" was originally by Paper Lace
cmulwee001 2 years ago
"Who Do You Think You Are" by Saint Etienne is certainly one of my all-time top 10 songs and it's really touching to finally discover the original version. Simply awesome!
ricardovmonteiro 2 years ago
I checked out all the versions of this song and this is my favorite. Upbeat and energetic. I love it !!!
lakeladymel 2 years ago 3
Bo Donaldson and The Heywoods apparently covered this, as well as St Etienne and Candlewick Green!
joesophie90 2 years ago
Regarding the Candlewick Green version,
it seems to be that the group used much of the backing track(s) from Jigsaw's original. I mean the piano intro, and bassline is alomst exact. They seemed to have just added their vocals in place of Jigsaw's vocals. Could this be the case?
It's obvious that Bo's famous rendition, however was done fresh and anew, even though it's a similar arrangement.
cmulwee001 2 years ago
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MrTrashcan1 2 years ago
Wow I never knew Jigsaw did a version. I grew up in South Africa and Jigsaw weren't terribly popular there, but the Candlewick Green version of this was a hit when I was a kid. This version is still great, but it's my least favourite of the three.
hnorky 2 years ago
Great song. I always loved everything this group did. Just wonderful !
lakeladymel 2 years ago
love this song
hendriuo 2 years ago 8
My favorite song!
buttdok90 2 years ago 4
Very good memories!
medusalis 2 years ago 5
I didn't know this was a Jigsaw song either. They should have done better in the US, I liked Sky High and Love Fire. As for Bo and the Heywoods, they were the house band for the Dick Clark produced ABC show Action and covered many of the hit songs of the day.
timdub70 2 years ago 4
Another classic by Des Dyer
hardlines4 2 years ago 3
What? You mean Bo copied this one too?
Wow! So Who Do you think was a "sky high" song after all.. Wow.....
This sounds very good but..... I am so used to hearing The Heywoods it sounds odd.
It would be great if oldies stations and d.j.'s would let this cat out of the bag!
trailboyus66 2 years ago
At a party three years ago and three of the members of Candlewick Green got up and sang "who do you think you are" it was sheer brilliance they still have that great 70s sound and still great down two eath comics.There version was the best.
Hardesty55 2 years ago
Which I have also uploaded !
45rpmSINGLES 2 years ago
@Hardesty55 this is the original and they wrote this...i like candlewick green s version too and their flop follow up was also written by scott/dyer from jigsaw...leave a little love..respect to the guys...but jigsaw are the best
john111257 1 year ago
Wow! Never heard this version before! I originally only knew it by Bo Donaldson & The Heywoods, then I discovered an earlier version by Candlewick Green, thinking that IT was the original. Now I know that Jigsaw originated it!
cmulwee001 2 years ago 2
I love all 3 versions, but I personally still like Bo Donaldsons the most. :-)
Sarasdad91 2 years ago
I love all 3 versions too, there is very little difference among the 3 recordings; all have arrangements that are nearly identical.Even the instrumentation is almost the same, especially the opening piano riff The version by St. Etienne is very different in style and arrangement
cmulwee001 2 years ago
Yes, I LOVE all 3 versions. This version by Jigsaw sounds the most genuine & the most masculine. Argumentative, sassy, but sexy, with a juicy bit of rawwrrr! BoD&tH had an excellent recording; but it became immediately obvious that the song was used as an internal band confrontation between studly Bo & the real lead vocalist of that band. Without heart, their song became domestic abuse by song. St. Etienne's was delicious with the dance mix to it. This song needs a hiphop edit. LOVE THIS SONG!
BiteHunter 2 years ago
So this is where it all started! It's delicious! I just hope I can find this song by Jigsaw on iTunes. Lemme check right now. nope. not there. L8r I will check amazon to see if I can buy this lp or cd. Love this song! OMG!
BiteHunter 2 years ago
The best version I think.
5****
RadioBazterd 2 years ago
Once again 45rpm, thanks. I honestly never knew it was a Jigsaw song. And I reckon you're right: this version really has something. Though I quite liked the more recent Saint Etienne version of this.
ArthurGoodlad 2 years ago
i've only ever heard this by bo donaldson and the heywoods, but this is good.
eydie57 2 years ago 3