Max Merritt & The Meteors - Slipping Away (1976)

[jorologo]

I remember this when I was a young school boy in the mid 1970's.

Today I am 45 and the song still jingles away in My Head.

A true musical classic.

Wish I could hold The Pen that wrote this song.

[jasonpapai73]

C'mon Bro, play something we all know.

[pieperx]

Awesome! Remarkable song!

[ZaheedaNaheedya]

Wow, that's excellent, did not know this song was Australian. It's been swimming in my head lately.

[nzoz1976]

@ZaheedaNaheedya To be fair, it's a Kiwi song

[ZaheedaNaheedya]

@nzoz1976 You are correct, thank you for pointing that out... What is it with Kiwis?... Limited in population and yet the amount of success that comes from them so outstanding. This song is a gem... The melody, the lyrics... It's probably the first song I've heard whereby first verse is repeated as second verse... Very well done, beautiful song.

[lostraxx]

@ZaheedaNaheedya test

[dodopromocoes]

Tocava na Excelsior de SP lápor 76, e esta faixa pertencia ao LP Sua Paz Mundial da Radio Mundial do Rio, o tempo que os cariocas (sem generalizar) ouviam "música".

[naganokumas]

I've just discovered that Bruno Lawrence was once a drummer in this band.

Wow.

When?

[jeffreynerohardy2010]

what becomes of the broken hearted, jake the muss singing

[fukorf]

my brother and sisters sung this at the parklands tavern Chch on kareoke...he passed away 6 months later...luv it

[choppaster]

i got pissed with Max many years ago in the Hawaiian Eye nightclub in Castlereigh St Sydney along with Ray Browne,ooh shit the memories*S*

[jackvidgenlover1]

i have a friend that singings this song the same way with the same voice

[americocsbrosmaster]

É VIAJAR NO TEMPO NAS ASAS DO SUCESSO COM OS PÉS NO CHÃO!

[giedip116]

this song makes me feel so sad yet i can't stop listening to it.

[kiwizeppelin]

Max Merritt....good Christchurch boy

[fukorf]

@kiwizeppelin ..didnt know he was Chch...makes it that mor4e special ..cheers

[lawlers69]

My dad looked just Stewie Speer complete with beard and long hair, he died a few years and jesus I miss him.

[MrAyrman]

Absolutly Fantastic!!

[andrew34430]

1:57 go for it stewie

[andrew34430]

a true aussie classic from 1975

[Cloudgenx]

Once Were Warriors

[kenny1522]

great song love it

[driedrukkies]

@MsAlfa1969 it is a beautiful song. I heard it today for the first time. I can totally understand why your dad would have loved it. I love it too. So touching may he rest in peace.

[ronheskey]

next level gronks

[camska]

They must have cut off the the last two minutes when it comes back with a key change

[the69removalist]

@MsAlfa1969 96 man that is awesum.. wish all our loved ones lived that long

[MrOribear]

Bring back a lot of good memories!!

[heimuli360]

Is that Napoleon Dynamite?

[ScottMacLeod2]

Does anyone have 'COMING BACK'?? Desperate to see it.

Luv ya Max.

[ChromeHorses]

fukn awesome

[chcs2010]

Quem viveu intensamente os anos 70, curtindo a radio mundial 860, sabe o que representou esta musica. Obrigado a voce que postou este video, voce me fez retornar a uma epoca inesquecivel de minha vida.

[tribunadeporciuncula]

Linda demais! Senai-Light -1976- Triagem -RJ. Nelson, Renato, Marcos Valério, Vinicius Valois, Roberto... e Simplorius da Vida. Que saudade...

[DC4916]

I saw Max Merrrit perform this song at Billy Thorpe's Memorial Service. Max seemed to just about have tears in his eyes as he sang it. I have the full length version (5mins+) on vinyl. Everytime I play it, I think of that Live performance.

[shubbaz]

Well, late 60's in a little Underground Club in Melbourne(cannot remember where - who can?) remember seeing this guy playing with his band! Top end of Melbourne!??? Great Music!x

[MrBelsmar]

I love this song! thanks.

[flynnyboy100]

does anyone have Good Feeling they can chuck on? Love that song, but cant find it! Cheers Guys.

[helnkaiki66]

yay I'm going to sing this on karaoke with friends soon. I don't remember the clip much just the song and reminds me of my big bro

[SirleiDF]

show de bola!!! linda d+++! parabéns para quem postou esta linda e inesquecível música!!!

[Mratomically]

IVE ALWAYS LOVED THIS SONG 

[72cleber]

MMMMMMUUUUITOOOOOOOOOOOOOO obrigado a quem postou este vídeo!!!

[Javina1]

Great song!! but guys should not have a Camel toe... =/

[OzTwanger]

@Javina1 Great call. I love the afro as well.

[imartini007]

@gee40areretarded.....

did you grow up next door to me, what a flashback your comment was...brilliant. Thanks!

[clazza01]

what a beautiful nsong

lovely and sad

[clazza01]

@clazza01 he is gone.....

[immortalpop]

Damn such a sad song. When it came out I was too young to even know what it was like to have your girlfriend's love "slip away" but I felt like it was happening to me whenever I heard this!

[72cleber]

Parabéns à pessoa que postou este vídeo. Simplesmente maravilhoso!!!

[innybunny]

I LOVE the drummer.

[nzoz1976]

@innybunny he'd love you too, if he was still alive...

Look up 'GTK: Stewie Speer 1973' in your YouTube search and see how well loved he actually was. :-)

[Unmay]

@innybunny Ahhh Steweie, very funny story about Stew. Friend of mind was in a band touring with the Meteors and Stewie launched into a massive drum solo at the end of one show. Anyway the band packed up all their gear and left the stage ... Stewie kept playing. Thing was they never came back - skived off to the pub instead. About 30 minutes later Stewie clicked as to what had happened -- man was he mad as hell when he caught up with the others .... ha, ha, ha.

[endoklowd]

@innybunny he is so gangster, he could roll with cypress hill

[johnlennon1970]

@innybunny nice comment.:)...the drummer is my dad!..Pete Sowden :)

[jorologo]

@innybunny

I love the drummer as well.

He looks like Stinky Pete from Toy Story III.

[mattildag]

So many people can relate to this song.

[TheCelticmaori]

Anyone remember the scene from 'what becomes of a broken hearted'

[scarefaceR18]

@TheCelticmaori YES! haha thank you! i was thinking what movie i saw this from! haha

[TiarnisMummy08]

so good

[Baskerville22]

Can't imagine a better version of this song..

[melbgal]

Classic... I LOVE this song!

[cartoonelvis]

A fantastic song from a fantastic band. Thaks for posting it up.

So who were the six morons who voted this video down? What fricking clowns.

[CurtisMateer]

You are doing good deeds. Keep posting them up please!

[SussurroDeAmor]

♥♥parabéns muito lindo♥♥

[flordaneve]

Grazie amico celzinho per condividere con me questo bellissimo video & stupenda canzone.

Mary

[santanocci]

nzoz thanks for sharing your great librery of nz/oz music. this guy was always a great favourite, sang some truly songs....any chance of digging up 'comin back'?

[naomia80]

hello sepala vadivadica maximum naboro fiji hope u like it .....falar....jahbles...

[jossy2278]

Reminds me of when I was travelling in Australia back in 2002/03. Used to hear it a lot on WSFM when we were in Sydney. Great song with great lyrics, plus the fact that I was head over heels for a girl at the time but the feeling unfortunately was not mutual. Happy, yet sad memories all at once.

[nzoz1976]

go check out 'GTK: Stewie Speer 1973' and tell me that joining a rock band in your 40's is not worth it!

[qwertyasdyaln]

@nzoz1976 how cool

[innybunny]

@nzoz1976 That video was awesome, bahahahahahahaha xD

[creativeengineer]

A classic. I remember going down to Torquay beach in a Holden panel van in the summer with my brother and his mates and and his friend's spunky sister sitting next to me in the front seat when this song came on. Whenever I hear this song, it reminds me of discovering girls for the first time in my teens. Bloody fantastic.

[SuperPhil1960]

Where did they dig the drummer up from? looks like Brian Blesseds grandfather

[abbb350]

@SuperPhil1960 his name is stewie speer he was prob 30 years older than the rest of the band he died in 1982 in think

[nzoz1976]

@abbb350

i think he died in 1986 at the age of 58... I believe he was nearly 40 when he joined Max Merritt & The Meteors in 1967. The band had been going for about 12 years prior and were probaby going through their 7th incarnation....

There's an interview with Speer on GTK (check YouTube) that dates back to 1969/70. You should see the young girls hanging on him. They would be at least half his age, if not more... still, you can't help but admire the guy... RIP

[SuperPhil1960]

@abbb350 Respect

[sassappeal]

This song hs so much meaning to each one of us. Thanks Max Merritt, so ur e legend iv always yearn for

Sadly, w our National/Independence Day approaching,this song is about what seems like my government letting e country slip away from its People who toiled to build this country, Singapore, giving way to e onslaught of ill-educated, ill-willed, 3rd world economic refugees

[sassappeal]

my government letting e country slip away from its People who toiled to build this country, Singapore, giving way to e onslaught of ill-educated, ill-willed, 3rd world economic refugees to plunder our country, dirtying it&commting crimes.

Singaporeans r tearing inside..for me,my tears is like blood flowing inwards..

[Er81Curitibano]

Essa música dá poder na alma.quando estou numa Dificuldade escuto e me reergo,Música de guerreiro que não desiste da Vida

[flynnyboy100]

So wrapped with all your clips! Dont want to push my luck, but any chance you have Max and the boys doing Good Feeling? Such an awesome tune! Cheers, Flynny.

[nzoz1976]

@flynnyboy100 I think I might have that one and will be uploading it on my earlier channels (early 70's or so)...will let you know!

[flynnyboy100]

@nzoz1976 Thanks so much! Stereo doesnt get used much these days, too busy watching all your posts! Cheers!

[nzoz1976]

@flynnyboy100

lol, my channels is that good!

[flynnyboy100]

@nzoz1976 Yeah Mate, thats good,LOL.

[edsroraphael]

@nzoz1976  EXELENTE!!!!

[edsroraphael]

@edsroraphael TEMPO Q ERA GAROTO,NÃO TINHA RESPOSABILIDADE COM NADA, SO VIVENDO A VIDA, QUANTAS SAUDADES.

[phrsil]

@flynnyboy100 - Estava procurando esta musica já faz muito tempo. vcs estao de parabéns .

[cci110]

will always be a classic

[Aotearoa86]

Beautiful song... touches a nerve

But i got distracted by the drummer.... did they need a fill in for the night? haha

[Derro1954]

I disagree with CANARVONKID, maybe he should have been around when max was doing the first Sunbury Festival, Sherbet had nothing on this band, At best daryl did good covers of artists of the time, but apart from that Pffftttt!!!

[justaboyagain]

reminds me of better times with my friends before girls corrupted us i loved the 70's it was our time to live and have fun with no strings attached

[rastesdcat]

beautiful ...

[rastesdcat]

beautiful

[Johnhudsonmayfair]

great songs stand the test of time

[adric137]

very cool

[theoldgalah]

Dig the hair.Gee I wish I still had mine

[danupon61]

Yeh, it's been said - truly a tune that sums up the pain of brweaking up

[Isabel1965100]

Linda demais!!!!!

[mikebrady86]

I like the Jake The Muss version!

[defendaobrasil]

Nada a dizer, saudades.

[ANDREBRITTO1963]

no brasil esta musica integrou a trilha sonora do disco sua paz mundial volume 5. mais uma banda de rock nos anos 70. uma raridade musical.

[BLUDGEEER]

Drummer has fashion on lock.

[vinnyd91]

Featuring Santa Claus on the drums...

[ToryKoch38]

i love this song, it's a pity it's not on ITUNEs .... such a great song to sing along :)

[benkeno187]

haha.. check out the drummer , looks real old... great song.

[kezzkezzkezz3]

i been lookin for a song that i can relate to,, my best friend has depression an the most i can do is be there for her and this song describes what its like for me when i think about her :(

[joeninetyjoe]

Love the drummer. Top song.

[porkybill7]

che once were warriors

[mrMikeHawk100]

this reminds me of the time i couldnt find any lighters!

[MyCatWatchesMe]

OMG, just fantastic, so mooded, so true in the feel.

[Gee40areretarded]

Reminds of when I was a kid aged 9mucking around at a family and friends bbq at home.

Hot Sydney summer late arvo and night in and out of the pool, the smell of chlorine in the hair and mega games of back yard cricket. (6 and out over the fence, watch out for the dog next door retrieving the ball!)

Aeroguard, the smell of bbq snags, steaks and Mums special coleslaw. Yum.

Dads torch to play "spotlight" with the other kids in the backyard when it finally went dark.

And this song.....

[qwertyasdyaln]

@Gee40areretarded agree

[ridgeruna]

@Gee40areretarded I relate to you

[Gee40areretarded]

@ridgeruna thanks...you know how smells remind us all of places, people, etc...well I believe that certain songs are the same...just like Jonie Mitchel sings in her song - Blue..."songs are like tattoos"...glad to read that you relate to my childhood memory....good times...good times now as well watching my sons....

[mrkereama]

@Gee40areretarded I could'nt put it any better....those were the days!!

[admanhawks]

@Gee40areretarded Those were the days....Ahhhh how I miss them sometimes!

[hardlykev]

@Gee40areretarded Yes!

[pooperscooper71]

@Gee40areretarded I think you nailed that vision totally. I was 6. Makes me think of crickets in the gum trees and sunny christmas holidays in WA.

[MrsImWuvable]

Omg lol this song remind me of my Crush ( and i know he likes me too ) My crush Is Jealous of me Cause ive been hanging out with This boy and This song remind me of it!

[TheAnandaXX]

Half the song only : (

[tassaj]

That's a pretty young Donny at the end of the clip, breaking in before it was finished !!!

Brilliant brilliant brilliant.

I just watched Max on RocKwiz and let me tell you he can still hold that note, great stuff and thanks for posting !

[kjkarenjane]

stuck in my mind

[kumisucontentus]

lovely, lovely

[SargenSmee]

Such a beautiful moving song. I loved it then & I still love it now. Thanks for posting it!

[mothymothy]

I wonder how he got those sweet string chords with that minimoog monosynth?

[UkuleleSlowJamz]

I gotta agree, I like The Muss's Acoustic version betta haha

[2Roo7ted]

someone Left out the W

[buggylrp]

that was not the hole song dude what happened.

[moochu4]

When i first heard this song as a kid i got so emotional i nearly cried, even today the lyrics still tug @ my heart.

[FishingGeneral]

uncle bob ur a ledgend mate, long time no see or talk, tell jamie hiker to live life mate, we do up this way, give sydney op a good go teaching mate... have a beer for us mate.

[bradleynail]

if this song doesnt break your heart,nothing will.

[kashmira1]

~~~ I have no intentions of slippin that far way~~~ :)

[grangegoarman]

Jake "The Muss's" version is better.

[IsabelTopTenClub21]

I remember Max Merritt at Arista Records, London, he did a great single which I think was called "Let It Slide" He really was a very nice person, so down to earth. It really is a shame he should have made it big in the U.K. Another waste of letting great talent slip away.

[frankphoto1]

Another classic Kiwi composition.

[nash123456]

no its not..and not funny.

[lovemorembigi]

Drove thousands of miles through the African night with this number coming over the radio. Great memories!  Many thanks for posting this top classic!!!

[tylerw846]

we sing this ma teach no max merit hoot

[Abreuami]

Como é bom recordar...me lembra coisas boas...simplesmente incrível...

[naganokumas]

...not finished, yet.

(Sorry about the wrong button push).

Lot's of songs and tunes that people don't generally know are worth appreciating.

I'll say it again.

This is one of my favourite songs.

Thanks heaps for posting it.

[pildid]

I'm with You.

[naganokumas]

This is one of my favourite songs.

Thank you for posting.

I mean it when I say it's a favourite song.

It's in my top 100ish of all time.

And I'm

[just36]

love it and have loved it since it came out

[nash123456]

great memories of a great song and a great guy...awsum !!! AND U HAVE TO LONG THE HUGE MO THEY ALL HAVE..HAHAHAH.go aussie

[killahoe62]

is that napolean dynamite jamming? lol

[Baskerville22]

Maz is a dead-ringer for Peter Siddle

[rpkziruvar]

Temuera sings this better lol

[MudRat02]

This bloke is the best, but Lol at Temuera - his rendition was surprisingly good

[australiafinest]

haha jake the muss was singin it good until those 2 dudes looked at him the wrong way

[lennyneroau]

lol

[vinylman4533]

Great song.

[nash123456]

hey this is Vinylchik !!!..whats ya faverite Max Merrit song ever ???

[vinylman4533]

Western Union Man was pretty good.

[cci110]

109,each to their own..a dork would be what a prick that cann't spell or someone that has dorrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrk writen on their palm.

[GlamourRebel09]

DORRRRKS

[dirkrossey]

1987 - Me on Collaroy hill..... TodayFM in the walkman... and a steady drizzle... My girlfriend... just slipped away from me... and then this song..... tears.... even now... as always.... tears...

[3589546]

Too much Bro. Cher.

[GilbyRFlow]

jake the muss!!!!

[Taatiz573tpt]

i feel this song ryt here...im so sorry mai love...

[bushballader]

Goononya Max. Brings back a lot of memories mate.

[custom400]

great band who were very underrated.go max

[cci110]

a great song

[skirtlifter]

The drummer was a lovely human being by the name of Stewie Spears. Great player, great beard and great feel! Now drumming with Hendrix!

[goblinking169]

to much bros to much cousins eh bro

[MAD4MEGADETH]

awesome song, guys beard on the drum is a classic

[vines1936]

I drink beer with Max. He helped me with my house rebuild. John west hills ca

[Yeezyy1]

lmao, yer i heard about this song on what becomes of the broken hearted

good song ;)

[CANARVONKID]

I think Sherbet could have done a good version of this song too.

Also they could have done "Ill be Gone", that was done by Spectrum and "Woman, your Breaking Me" sung by The Groop.

[nzoz1976]

Sherbet did do a version of 'I'll Be Gone'. It sounds a little like 'Slippin' Away' coincidently.

[parker00pen]

CLASSIC

[AGMuthafukinE]

reminds me of What becomes of the broken Hearted

Go Jakey lol

[kartiford]

come on bub....this is the song that jake the mas sings on once were worriors movie

[rpkziruvar]

yes sir! i reckon tem sings it better lol

[nineteensixyseven]

This song is so depressing, reminds me of when my parents split up, it was really popular...An oldie but a goodie...

[CJLind]

Great song - they nailed the feeliing perfectly :-) Pity the clip leaves out the last little bit at the very end - where they stop for a couple of seconds and then do the chorus one last time ... :-(

[jimbutterfill]

greatest song ever written

[RepublicasdoArruda]

well,

saturday night,

this song came out of the blue

to my mind, and now i can listen to it

in you tube.

now im gonna listen badfinger´s

day after day.

=D

[youie66]

Probably the best 'breaking up' song or 'thinking you might have to break up' song known to man (or woman for that matter). A beautiful song about insecurity and paranoia and pain.

On another note, it never ceases to amaze me at the irrelevance of the comments posted.

What sort of a cretin are you, julzbra1, to ask that question. What is the connection? Is this the limit of your artistic crtique? Honestly, if you let it, posters on You Tube can sap the life away from you.

[FairladyS130]

Yeh, too true. The typical dumb American comment goes something like 'He looks like ____ on ______'

Retards.

[julzbra1]

is he gay

[MrsHaggard5]

Does any one know if that is Tony Mitchell from Sherbet in this clip... and if yes is he playing bass?