Barnaby Bye - Can't Live This Way

[smartypantsnancy]

Long Time since I heard this :O) thanks Jim x

[bigun204]

NORTHERN SOUL !

[nightowlpete]

Firts sound i heard when walking through the doors at wirrina peterborough.Then Wigan beconed and the rest are great memories.

[GasMaskHeadhunter]

Dont know if this is good or bad but I kicked this girl on the knee going bonkers to this at Peterborough. Ended up ok tho, went out with her for a few times hahaha Bloody weird the things we remember eh!

[MrMickeybitzko]

Love that wild analog synth/string interplay!

[thumper5927]

not quite sure how and why it has been big on the northern soul scene but it has and it takes me back to my first allnighter in carlisle 78

[DONGOE]

Great song, great group - they should have made it much bigger !!!

[TARGETZEROO]

LOVE THIS, its years since ive heard this, thanks for posting

KTF :)

[ronandlane]

Can't live this way is BRILLIANT. I just discovered it and am Shocked and Awed at it's excellence. I don't know its history on the pop charts but must say that if it was not a number 1 then someone was not listening. This song rocks.

I must have listened to it over 100 times over this past weekend after doing a Barnay Bye search here on YouTube.

Time for a re-release fellas.

[cwwakey]

classic mate

[SuperBluemoon1]

Great post jim, when was he last time you heard this played? i think the last time i heard it was at the carousel ballroom, in plymouth grove manchester, back around 82. it never gets play.

[peterg213]

Any of the old Dundee boys that used to go to smokies/Music hall in Aberdeen gimme a shout Pete Gardiner used to be a regular at the "runs & niters"

[jimhebsoul]

@peterg213 Hey Up ... Pete ... I was a reg at all the nighters / Wigan Casino ... also part of the Stars & Stripes Scooter Club ... Jim Heb ( Dundee )

[elvingtonred]

What memories! used to have this on demo....Oh well Doh!

[Howieshet]

I would love to hear Blonde.

[soulbrother61]

Available for £1 early 80s on Atlantic.....a bit chewing gummy but it got played !!!!!

[dundee520]

jim thats some tune  wicked posting ktf

[carmenrnunn]

Unusual!

[drwhatson]

Ah! More fond memories of Blackpool Mecca in 1975 - Incidently, 'Barnaby Bye' included twin brothers Billy & Bobby Alessi, who went on to hit the charts big time with "Oh Lori" on A&M a couple of years later - as the Alessi Brothers!

[retrodude01]

I've got this on an old pressing, love to dig it out from time to time.

Luv it!

[written12]

Hey, do any of my fellow New Yorkers remember the DJ Rosco-God rest his soul- playing Barnaby Bye on his WQIV show back in the mid-70s.

Anyway, I know the name Barnaby Bye(great rhythmic combination of words)more than the music. Man, this song is great.

Thanks for posting it.

[Lionboy2930]

Absolute classic... not heard this for ages.. thx for posting KTF

[isobella50]

Amazingggggggggggg Havent heard this in years wow!

[adymanifold]

Fabulous! ktf Ady

[merrill4lyf]

what is the cd called please and what web site is.

[7DDuncan]

First heard this at the blackpool mecca then later at the casino.........

[RitmoNo1]

Saw some FANTASTIC!!!!!! dancing to this tune. I can see the girls now - many of them with a little white flower in their hair. My God I've transported back to 1978 and I'm stood to the left of the stage at Wigan watching a certain lady I greatly admired dancing to this.....goose bumps!

[elvingtonred]

Great memories from cleethorpes and samathas sheffield....quick get me a tissue

[zantepete]

takes me back a long way,never did find out who the artist was untill now.

ta so much pete from hemel  keep the faith

[arvolgas]

what can i say Superb,Fantastic. :)

[popGoesAnthony]

:) :):) beaTleBum1965 aka Handsome anth

[popGoesAnthony]

yeah

[popGoesAnthony]

about fu time :)

being from Long Island NY area , i seen these pop guys at MY FATHERS PLACE out in suffolk county LOng Island in 1974 and 1977 and they rocked LONG ISLAND! later called, Allessi , and my pal here in gay nyc Chelsea, user Mamcote aka Tommy fallon at erics mess brd luvs these pop gyuz to he said:)

anth/beaTlebum1965

[cornishdeb]

classic from cleethorpes, thankyou so much

[soulfan2]

fantastic Jim an old favourite

[keepingthefaith72]

great tune .. reminds me of the Ritz alldayers in Manchester ... KTF...

[djdeitch]

Nice late Wigan track,i too played it on the way home from the great place,good tune,ktf.

djdeitch(Dave)

[livisoul]

top choon

[northernsmile]

Fantastic!

[TooDarnSoulful]

we would always play this in the car on the way back from wigan friday oldies nights - brilliant tks - ktf

[jimhebsoul]

Cheers....Mate  K.T.F.