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  • hermosa cancion

    

  • one of the best songs ever!!!!!

  • Describing love?...ironically, I think not.....beautiful, non the less.

  • I am in Love Eric...you are my fantasy along with Steven Tyler....Wow...we are getting a little bit older now aren't we?? LOL Don't tell my husband uuuuuuhhhhhhh you'll wait along time..

  • 10cc...one of only a handfull of truly great 70s bands still touring today and still to full houses. pure magic

  • I was 7 years old when I heard this song. I always thought they said be poised and quite.... Not big boys don't cry.... Strange song but kinda cool...

  • this is one of the most beautiful songs I've ever heard.....Eric was and I'm sure still is adorable....I AM IN LOVE!!! I was in mid teens when this came out and still feel it...another beauty song by Page and Plant called "The Rain Song" not trying to take away from 10CC

  • Heard this for the first time in years this morning on Rage.

  • i love godley and creme but i,ll never forgive them for breaking up the band, it was pure selfish stupidity

  • When I 1st heard this on the radio I thought it was a Beatles track or Paulie doing

    My Love.

  • Will To Power did a great remake of it too!!

  • ha noel edmonds! love 'im!

  • Music...Music...Music.

  • All there.

    

  • what is Kevin Godley WEARING, though?! a little girl's jumper!

  • what a great song, they had to mime it though and to think thatthe wall of sound behind had been laboriously created by recording their voices, it must have been funny miming the choral wall.

  • LOVE THIS SONG! always bring back memories of the summer of 75.

  • @omygato23 Me too, and I can't describe just what a summer that was.

  • ONE OF MY ALL-TIME FAVS!

  • the year i was born  1975 shame its not the long verision :)

  • has the record for the most loved song by radio one listeners ..

  • I wasnt born in this time.. but i love it.. and i love Eric

  • この曲大好き!!

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  • I can never make my mind up whether it's this, or Elton's 'Your Song' that's my all time favourite. I think I'll have to say I have two all time favourites.

  • I was 10 when this came out. 7 years later I saw them perform it live in St Ives in a farmers field, as the sun was going down it was a truly magical moment.

  • I was 13 when this song came out. Summer on the farm, sunsets. I wish I could go back. The 70's were the best and the best of my life!!

  • @70slovethe Yes,better times back in the seventies I agree.

  • @70slovethe I absolutely hear what you are saying! Summer on the farm, what priceless memories, never to return!!

  • I busted out laughing when I saw that sweatshirt, too!

  • brilliant tune one of the best 70's records an he is gorgeous with that twinkle in his eye brilliant live as well

  • Good song.

  • 2:04 How the fuck does a Les Paul make bass noises!? Damn fakers

  • @VorpalBob Of course its fake. TOTP always was and 10cc never could take it seriously. Hence the giggling during the second verse.

  • well "phdubald" you fail to mention Don Kirschners Rock Concert and Midnight Special

  • @drtydawg51 Not something that we saw in the UK in the 70s. Wish I had.

  • just watch a 2011 concert in london with 80s band... and 10cc played this song.... and let me tell... this is one of the best song of all times.....

  • Agree one of my all time favs..

  • I use to play this song to my ex GF who insists that our relationship is just something set up for our convenience. We ended up falling in love.

  • This group was one of the best and they didn't last long enough. I love that album

  • A 'Classic' in every conceivable sense!

  • @crackwhorepimp1 You must have been devastated.Was it a male or female? You have to seek help,before its too late.

  • 1975, the year my mother bought this single and me as a five year old falling off the coal bunker on the first day of the school summer holidays, breaking my collar bone and creating the bloodiest shin injury I've ever seen !  Big boys don't cry !!!

  • This is such a beautiful song...I saw 10cc in 1976 (I think,been to so many Concerts) in Melbourne..They were brilliant 'live'..I am so glad I got to see this band..wonderful musicians..beautiful vocals and vocal harmonies..sigh...I was in love at the time...lol..

  • another superb british pop band,vastly underrated!this country has gave so much to popular music,over the years!

  • Sheer CLASS

    Such a superb song

    Thanks for posting

  • ... the soloist ... a mysogenist ... .

  • i was born in 1975 and i rember my dad having this song on a tape what i found in the 80's and thats when i became a big fan of 10cc seen them live 4 times

  • My fav song and what a summer 75 was ... pelude to scochieo 76

  • My fav song

  • one of the best of the 70's

  • The summer of 76 at 15 yrs old camping and in love with the hottest little brunette......this song was always playing on the radio that summer.. to bad she didn't even notice me.. brings me right back to that summer... Where the F---- did the time go...and the hot little brunette Holly?

  • I really didn't like this song back when it came out I was 15, until a GUY explained to me that he really was in love but was trying to convince himself he wasn't.....lol

  • all class, bring back the 70's !!!!

  • Brilliant tune!!!

    Why couldn't they maintain this musical standard??

    Mind-blowing song. still is.

  • Great song! I love it!

  • Great song

    

  • luv this 1 2!

  • brillant, cheers Dave

  • aHAHA HI HON ;-)

  • I consider Top of the pops as the greatest musical live show in the history of the music. and no one in the all the others music live on tv will replace this great quality of program.

  • what was the program from these TOTP christmas 1975? it were certainly fabulous.

  • 10CC hit #2 in Billboard, 7-26-75. God bless ya, for postin' it. Thanx!

  • Godley and Creme went on to be two of the greatest music video producers of the early 1980s

  • Esta canción es lo máximo!!!!

  • Didn't Kevin Godley(finger poking keyboard) and Lol Creme (grand piano) leave the other guys because they were doing all the songwriting.....?

  • @BermMary thanks for the info. i was wondering why they keep cracking each other up, even on different videos. i guess my comment wasnt terribly PC, but my gaydar was going off when i watched these guys messing with each other. my bad. check out the singer making stink eyes at the piano player at 2:47.

  • @BermMary thanks for the info. i was wondering why they keep cracking each other up, even on different videos.

  • Yes the long hot summers of way back then if there was only a time machine to go back now and then......Mmmmmmm !!!!

  • I looked all over you tube for this very video. Thank you for posting. One of the best ever!!!

  • I'm not in love so don't forget it.

  • i think the keyboard players are lovers

  • 1:17-1:35 ( Laughing while lip syncing ) ..... BUT WHO REALLY GIVES A SHIT / WE KNOW IT'S THEM ON THE REAL RECORD ...

  • So many memories!!!!

  • was 12 yrs old when this came out...music in the 70's was so magical, but then I suppose for every generation its the same, lots of great music today too...but this came out just as I was hitting my "wonder years" and starting to develop serious crushes...felt like they were singing about me...like, "dont let them see it...hide your feelings", for fear of rejection, I suppose...If U love someone, dont hold it in, dont deny it, let if fly, life is too short, nothing comes from denial but pain

  • When this first came out I used to think it said "big voice down quiet", but I was only 6 yrs. old. But I can still remember 1975: Going to the A & W for hamburgers, swimming on Coeur d'Alene lake in Idaho, getting my first bicycle. Thanx for this "ancient" memory. I wish we had TOTP over here back then (WA State).

  • Yea, 1975, what a year, great music like this and just another year to go before I finished my military service. Where, ho where is that time machine indead.

  • @JohnMC894 Yes, I was in a similar situation, spent this Christmas in a war. Had time to listen to this in June 76.

  • When this was in the charts, I had a summer job at Butlins Filey. It reminds me of the sea, Scarborough, the sun, my best friend, and being 19....

  • Great song-I agree with the announcer-I never got tired of hearing this on the radio. Kinda takes away the moment when the lip synching singer starts cracking up.

    i heard a well known musician talkin about how this song was recorded. he said the singers recorded their voices singing various notes, then hooking up the keyboard so that when you hit a certain key, their recorded voices played instead of the keyboard. that kind of explains the ethereal nature of the background voices. nice song

  • be quite : big boys dont cry

  • Big boys dont cry

  • the best song that 10cc ever did , in my opinion !

  • 2:46 i almost lost it haha

  • that is a great song and video bring back old memories

  • What I cant understand ? Is why music has not developed in to a melodic futuristic sound like this song. And Gary Wrights Dream Weaver. Were in 2011 and the new music is not progressing in to something even remotely as advanced as this.

  • My First Boyfriend Vincent in Essex, England used to slow dance to this in way off disco land...... nice memories!

  • Me thinks that he doth protest too much !!

    Great song  - one of the best number 1's ever.

  • This one of my fav' all time songs,

  • This superlative single - by a highly talented and somewhat underrated Mancunian group - contains some dark lyrics which, by today's standards, are probably 'politically incorrect' ...... but WTH? What is so marvellous about the politically correct era in which we now live, anyway? Is the quality of life - for the average person in the UK - any better now than it was in 1975; in the pre-PC era?

    Possibly ...... but I very much doubt it.

  • Unquestionably one of the classic pop records of the 1970's; indeed, it would not be overstating the case to describe it as one of the greatest UK number one hits of the last fifty years.

    It is my view that this brilliant track was underrated. Admittedly, it got to # 1 (on this side of the Atlantic) and stayed at the very top for a fortnight - but it sold less than 500,000 copies in the UK. It deserved to sell AT LEAST four times as many copies as that, in my considered opinion.

  • Pure pop genius. If you don't think so then go and learn about how they recorded this one. 10cc were amazing... perfectionists in many ways.

  • is there a version that doesn't have the "big boys don't cry" part?

  • I was 8 years old and in love with Valerie

  • i was born when this song was in the top song of 75!! and i like very much!!!

  • ,,I think it was 76, maybe recorded in 75 and released at the end of that year.

  • I was in medical school in Guadalajara Mexico back 1974, I lost my first girlfriend, my father die of cancer, I was with no money in a six month period , I was 21 years old, one night I hear this tune and i start to cry, now I'm a 58 years old mexican physician, wife, 2 sons, and this tune bring me back this moments, thanks for post this explendid video, thank you very, very much.by the way I graduate in 1976, the same year of the release of this program.

  • Eric Stewart - quality!!! I would pay silly money to see the original line-up of 10cc in concert!

  • Thanks great quality download!!!!! enjoyed watching your vid.

  • 5 folks don't like this 1, but, I do! God bless ya, for postin' it!

  • eric with his bedroom-eyes.......*sigh*

  • What the hell is Godley playing that kick drum sound on a keyboard!

  • 1975, that was a *long hot summer* in the UK-it was perfect !!! & this song epitomises that year...I remember loads of people playing frisbee, good looking girls with long hair, pints of apple wine, Uni of Lancaster...getting pissed and stoned...Listening to this brings that magical time back..a great underrated song with *perfect production*..the tempo is fantastic to get inebriated by and smoke MJ to. ...wheres the f**g time machine...

  • @ianmcgeachy What a coincidence, it were a long hot summer here in the South Eastern US, as well! I remember frisbees, ten speed bikes, girls with long hair, quarts of beer, strawberry Jobs (rolling papers), and Glad bags full of weed bursting with psychoactive goodness!

  • @ianmcgeachy Oh, my gosh apple wine. I had my "one" experience with apple wine. Lesson learned. I have to say many years before I could even "smell" an apple without getting sick!

    This song does bring back "magical" times. It was good times.

  • @ianmcgeachy i'm in the process of making one, these things take time.

  • @ianmcgeachy Wasnt the long hot summer 1976? 1975 was a bit showery i seem to recall

  • @Ominous71 76 was hottest. 75 was a v good summer too. At least in Lancaster!

  • @ianmcgeachy you can rent it from me, £20.000 per day. payable in advance, dont worry if it looks like a carrot.lol

  • @ianmcgeachy : And, did you get your Lancastrian degree ?

  • @MusicPredominates Oh aye, when I realised towards end of second year (of a 3 year degree) that I had learned bugger all...I actually started studying. Less apple wine, more books (but more smokes to compensate)..yet, a great time/era overall imo...in many ways things have gone downhill really, I reckon, since then. But this song does really evoke that time to me, and a few others by all accounts!

  • @ianmcgeachy . Amen to that brother. a top tune and time in many ways

  • @ianmcgeachy You sure 75 was the long hot summer??? that was 76....wasn't it???

    GREAT tune, like a time machine it takes me back to the 70's!!!!

  • @theman2017inc Ha..the second bloke to say that..no really it was...some good hot days...at least in Lancaster!!--but 76 *was* *hotter* and most noted. I remember em both well, and all that was happening then.

  • @ianmcgeachy I also have got nostalgy of my youth (16-17 years), and for me '93 '94 summers were special years that I'll never forget, one reason for this kind of feelings is because we use to live in the past and the future, but never in the present that passes away without leaving any trace. This is because we live always (more or less) with pain that we always want to avoid, so we think that the past was better and we hope for a better future, but it's not like we think.

  • @MarkFerry1976 Good words and advice. I agree that the present is the reality we have. But there are aspects of the past I prefer to the present, whilst I know it is gone of course. There are aspects of the past I also dislike, but not alot. Maybe wisdom is learning from the past so a better future can be formed, or at least in terms of choosing music that we listen to now..as individuals. This music of that year was of the 'nice kind' to me, so I listen to it and enjoy, 'now' also.

  • @ianmcgeachy Are you all freakin morons?

  • @abbottr7 Quite probably, theres 'no bugger right, bar me' though, ....enjoy 1975, erm 2011 though, all the best old lad..

  • What a wonderful performance, even though they were miming. Suspect they had had a doobie before this - eric and lol seem pretty smiley!

  • Song like this should not be indispute on YouTube. I wathced it and then PAID to download it and then reminded myself of other 10CC tacks and PAID to download more thna a dozen and even bought 5 CD's (nice to have a backup and works out cheaper than per song....)

    So for all you music companies, YouTube is promotion not just free tracks so learn to live in the 21st century.

  • wow this came out the same time i was celebrating my first xmas.cool.

  • I wonder who he's eyeballing at 2:47?

  • No offense, but with the exception of Eric Stewart the other guys from the band are the fugliest ever. The one with the afro looks like a neanderthal.

  • The introducer looks like Kenneth Brannagh

  • This is lipsynced because live would be impossible to sound right. Just watched how they did this, could not be done live period. At least not with the sound of the recording.

  • Love this song. Eric has the sexiest eyes!

  • warum ales england das is dotleniacz

  • Back in day feeling it today

  • This music will last forever! I miss the 70's...best decade of my life and for music!

  • Excellent, thank you nyrainbow4. I was lucky enough to catch these guys live at Stony Brook University on Long Island in 1978 (?). They didn't perform live often so i was glad for the opportunity, they were excellent. There were many concerts at colleges and Universities back then, they were cheap and had very relaxed security.

  • what an arrangement, excellent

  • Great Song!

  • Classic song hard to believe its 35 years old.

  • @nyrainbow4 Simply stunning - thanks a million.

  • Fantastic!!!!

    

  • Awesome!

  • The best, thanks for the posting of this gem!

  • I LOVE IT. I COULD LISTEN TO IT ALL DAY.

  • Incredible footage. Just amazing to go back in time with such an incredibly powerful song. LOVE IT!! Thanks for posting this!

  • awwwwww he's smitten! :)

  • Kool song! never get tired of listening to it!

  • ahlala j'étais pitite lol la première fois que j'ai entendu cette chanson ... mais quel coup de coeur ♥

  • Wonderful time of my life,no money ,but happy listening to this music.

  • Paris 1975 !

    Thank you very much !!

  • be quiet big boys dont cry...........shhhhhhhhh!!

  • This song brings back so many memories. One of those remember when tunes.

  • Love it ! Love It !! Love It !!! Classic !!!

  • 40 years ago i was in love with a man and i would listen to this song i loved him so much he was not ready to settle down, i would cry listening to this song, we went our seperate ways and lived our lives who would of thought after all theese years we would find our way back to each o ther and on my 5oth birthday he would ask me to marry him

  • @chopitshop This was not out 40 years ago! 35 years ago, well maybe!

  • @ding11bat you are so right it was 35 years ago, i had a senior moment i guess

  • @chopitshop oops 1975 35 years ago, senior moment

  • @chopitshop..........You were only ten at the time ,dam i hope he was'nt ready to marry you ....thats called ( felony )

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  • THATS what art is about...and why they wrote this...thanks 4 the swete story

  • @chopitshop That's the coolest thing I've ever heard! I'm rly pleased that the universe can smile upon us sometimes. All the best!

  • @PhiZappaCrappa thank you so much

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  • @chopitshop Thats great!!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • @ding11bat thank you

  • @chopitshop, its a beautful story.  Thanks for sharing and much happiness.

  • @Cowboys2065 thank you i am very blessed

  • @chopitshop What a Beautiful story ,Things that dreams are Made of !!!!!!!!!!!

  • @chopitshop ...nice story!! All the best to you both. :)

  • @TheKanaraja thank you so much life is good, have a great day

  • @chopitshop HELLO , IM AM SO HAPPY FOR YOU, I TO WAS IN LOVE WITH SOMEONE VERY VERY SPECIAL,HER NAME WAS SANDY, SHE WAS FROM LONG ISLAND NEW YORK, SHE WAS SO BEAUTIFUL,WE WERE 15, AND IN SCHOOL TOGETHER, I USE TO WALK 3 MILES JUST TO WALK HER TO SCHOOL,WELL MY PARENTS DEVORCED AND MY DAD AND I MOVED OFF I ONLY SAW HER ONCE AFTER THAT , I STILL REMEMBER HER MOM AND DADS PHONE # , THAT WAS IN 1975 , TRUE LOVE NEVER DIES . I WISH YOU ALL THE BEST.

  • @hounddogdrifter hello! you are so right , i hope you both find your way back to each other you never know what fate and God has in store for us . thanks again best to you as well

  • think that's great , just goes to show he must've really felt something for you (-:

  • @midsaint776 thank you i guess its true good things come to those who wait, have a great day

  • @chopitshop Wonderful Life Story!

  • @Bernapika15s thank you and it keeps going

  • @chopitshop who gives a continental fuck, you old cow!! yAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWNNN...

  • @chopitshop - Cool!!!

  • @osuzq21 thank you God Bless you

  • cheers, was the most wonderful song in my life!

  • The keyboard player looks like Nuno Bettencourt, the guitarist.

  • With this quality of sound and video, it is precious!!!!