The Honeybus - I Can't Let Maggie Go

[pirrung123]

Great song...my cat's name is Maggie :o)

[sopranosfan87]

NIMBLE. REAL BREAD BUT LIGHTER!!!

[fingalful1]

Jim Kelly, a Dundee musician, was one of the Honeybus guitarists. As I was around at the time, I can assure you those guys weren't interested in politics, being intelligent. Lorriane Wilson's book "Take it to the Bridge" mentions Jim and all that was going on then. It's a good insight into what was going on then, and all the characters Jim Kelly was involved with. A great read. However sad, I also keep remembering the commercial. It's like equating Michael Fish with the storm he said wouldn't.

[xamtex]

why do muppets keep bringing politics into music..but as its been done...with the sh*t going down with the eu we need a maggie back...she had more balls than any male politition has shown since...this lot of tossers we have now will sell us out without any thought of asking our opinion?...

ok...back to the music.

[k33fyk]

Hows the old saying go, never has so much, been owed by so many, to so few, think someone had foresight here, i guess he was talking about modern banking under B LIAR & THATCHER. Great post m8 tnx for leting us hear this.

[WillemdeKooning1]

Got to know this song because it's one of Andy Partridge's faves.

[beanoboo]

It's a good song. However, I think they have better IMO. I definitely think it's weird that they're thought of as a one hit wonder because of this song.

[colmalbar]

Thats what I love about youtube, you log on to listen to a golden oldie to escape for a little while the grim reality of life in Britain today, to reminisce about simpler perhaps for some of us, happier times and BANG you get dragged back to reality by the comments column.

[TheDavidjoy]

I had forgotten about the rotten bread advert! Thanks. Now all I can see is that balloon. The girl was a cracker though.

[RingelhutsNiece]

I thought this song was more famous than people talking about some bread or a bird or fat girls. I'm really sad most of you remember this song by a commercial!

[bazzbazzley]

The bread was shocking ...tasteless chemicals bound into in a sponge of sewer weaved, lattice worked nonsense...Nimble? I think not!....But what a great song

[consul1957]

I love the 'Englishness' of this song...'68 was a good year for pop...I like all the 60s anyway...

[thatwilldonicely]

a beautifully constructed pop song

[insanityrulestheday]

nice song, but there's one Maggie I'd definately let go, none other than that spawn of Satan, Thatcher the Snatcher, who I wish had flied like a bird and kept on flying up into the hemisphere and then infinity and beyond, so much suffering would have been spared, oh if only tee hee hee

[TheDavidjoy]

@insanityrulestheday Rubbish you mean Blair and Brown were saviours?They bankrupted the country. Laurel and Hardy could have done better. Never in history has there been such bad politicians. Complete wasters. Maggie would have elbowed them out of the way and we would not be suffering today. Bah humbug!!

[insanityrulestheday]

@TheDavidjoy You mean the T/B (Thatcher/Blair) virus which I and many other decent hard working people suffered from for the past 30 years. These CHARLATANs are ONE and the SAME BREED, in other words BLAIR was a TORY dressed up as another DOCTRINE, pretending to be a LABOUR MAN. These SPAWNS OF SATAN between completely destroyed DECENT hard-working peoples LIFES via their incompetent devolved legislation. I hope they ROT in HELL for all ETERNITY

[computerrage]

@TheDavidjoy Except that her own party elbowed HER out of the way

[135robdyl]

Everybody should have been in the 50s then they would appreciate all this good music

[qpwo6]

I heard this on a penny drop machine, but I think it said 'you fly like a bird' instead, stangely

[mekissingyou]

@qpwo6 same haha

[pinball1970]

I love this

I didnt realise it was an actual single till a few years ago

I thought it was done just for nimble!

[CuypersHarry]

She called Maria, saw her only on time. Such a great girl, this song remember me of her.................. 

[Khultan]

Is this the B side?

[KLAZENBY1976]

i lost my wonderful dad a couple of months ago , he used to sing this song to my little girl it brings back the best of memories xx i love ya pa xxx

[sue2208]

@KLAZENBY1976 So sorry I understand your loss. You carry on singing this song to your little girl. All the best xx

[KLAZENBY1976]

@sue2208 Thank you so much , to be honest i dont have a choice because my little girl constantly wants to listen to hers an grampas song haha its lovely to know she thinks of him xxx

[DominiqueToretto70]

Let's search "un angelo blu" by equipe84

[midmodgal]

Maggie was quite fat when they put her into the balloon. She was fed a diet of lame white bread and not allowed to come down until she had lost weight.

[ajp55a]

@midmodgal 

hahahahahahahahahahehehehehehe­heheh

[smokeyd114]

Ah teenage memories of my last year at school in Swindon

[smokeyd114]

Ah teenage memories of my last year at school in sSwindon

[christina3041]

awww i use to listen to this song when i was 14 loved it then and i still do xx

[willewinky]

Great tune.

[agcwoodham]

Ah, this takes me way way back ... great to hear it again. Thanks for posting xx

[BelleVue1969]

Worked with a fabulous looking dame called Maggie Bates back in 1968--we were both 17 but my love was unrequited!!! Lol

Thanks for the memories and the posting.

[Arsenaldownunder]

Sorry I stand corrected. You are spot-on. It was indeed Nimble bread. i used to hate Hovis. Lol

[pinkandjefflynne]

Merry Christmas from LV-426 Hadleighs Hope (Aliens film) please send a rescue party

[pcostel1]

That's a fresh snare. I may have to sample that.

[Arsenaldownunder]

I remember this track when i was 17 and still a great song. Song used to promote Hovis brown bread

[mdee64]

@Arsenaldownunder hiya gooner it was nimble bread check out ad on you tube.

[ppaulmorris]

Bought it years ago and I still love it.

[SouthCoastMackem]

Almost pastoral in its beauty and simplicity. Not heard on oldies radio as often as it should be (and I listen to a lot of it. Lovely song. Thanks for posting it.

[yopy58]

Nice,brings me back memoiries of my family in the sixties when everyting was simple, thanks!

[IchxBins]

It remids me on a pretty close friend ... her name was Maggie too

[MrMsBongoboy]

RIP John Swift

[SuperNevile]

Honeybus ~ Top Of The Pops ~ April 1968. Blast the BBC for scrubbing the tapes!. The only footage of Honeybus on the net is of them messing around on a boat to this music.

[tommytempra]

Brill

[Eztoez]

nice song. Royle Family. Season 2 Ep 3

[skacel1874]

@Eztoez ......nimble...real bread only lighter!

[spacecowboy7580]

@skacel1874

Make it part of your calorie controlled diet.

[firestorm8150]

i remember listening to this record while i was waiting in a cafe while my Velocette Thruxton was being made ready for me to ride away,still sounds good lots of memories

[hufschmidguitars1]

some cool history: My mother Jennifer Paull is the musician who is actually playing the oboe and the cor anglais during the entire song :)

[SuperNevile]

@hufschmidguitars1 which for me pushes a fantastic song into the top league, (which is what Fisher's organ did on WSOP). cheers

[Slazfreska]

@hufschmidguitars1 I doff my hat your musical knowledge sir *_* x

[slickmicky54]

@hufschmidguitars1 Thats strange, i was listening to this record on the way from work last night and i thought how nice the oboe sounds. Say hello to your mum and tell her Mick from Derby thinks she is very talented. Great record!

[TheZeevik]

my favorite ballad in the 60s

[noproblem53]

I wa s alittle too young to have been a hippie but the world would be a better place if they had lasted, it must have been awesome to have been a part of that era, even now the singles of 68 have a very special place in my life and have probably made me the person that I am. Thank you.

[aleksjan1]

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeet 1960ssssssssssssssssssssssssss­s!

[supertam1231]

marty1fatbstard ate all the bread,

[supertam1231]

marty1fatbstard ate all theffffffing bread

[bayster912]

I loved this song when it first came out, and I never get sick of hearing it. Beautiful.

[InojLycer]

hayzzzz

[daveawebber]

Thanks

[sliderman7]

So optimistic and pastoral, great use of the oboe and bassoon, classic.

[qpwo6]

i first heard this playing on a penny drop game, i think its lovely how it brings the memory of that holiday back

[connoisseurnic]

There is no known footage of the Honeybus performing this song in British & German archives however it may reside in Scandinavian archives.

The BBC of course destroyed over 95% of TOTP footage from the '60s including all the Honeybus appearances.

[musifil]

great song, try the cover by "the sideburns" ! Great !!

[50sResearchCenter]

Great record, sadly recorded on "dirty tape". If you listen with headphones to a cd track of this song you hear all kinds of sounds "leaking" from other tracks. No one ever bothered to "clean it up". What a shame for such a pretty song.

[ariacurva]

L'Equipe 84 fecero una buona cover (Un angelo blu), ma l'originale è un'altra cosa!

[greencard572]

I was 9 years old and didn`t have a care in the world....Dreamy days...where did they ever go ?

[snowwhitesf]

I love this song,, my gran used to sing it to me when she pushed me on the swings when i was little. Miss you gran and its not even been a month yet :( xx

[angelofbebop]

What a neat song! Thanks to hrpman for sharing it! There were so many songs that we didn't get to enjoy back in the States and this is one of them! Thank you for posting this!

[Nicomagic6]

A little gem

[phil1958uk]

I remember The Honeybus, singing this song, on an episode of Crackerjack, in the Sixties, does the footage still exist?

[chrisharro]

I don't remember seeing them on Crackerjack (although I grew up in England) , but I loved this song at the time - such a sweet melody, and that woodwind solo (clarinet or cor anglais?) - totally memorable song...

[Jovolution]

only great

[Serendipity353]

I was only 17 when this fantastic record was released and that summer was one I'll never forget as it was so good!

[xaimsxo]

lol

[Porketz]

Un angelo blus is a cover of this song by the italian band Equipe 84,listen to that.

[giocresta21]

sorry is the other way around. i think equipe 84 made a cover of this song.. but i am not sure because usually everybody try to copy italians. the best in design, fashion and architecture.. even a messican singer called yuri copied all the italian artist... click yuri and you will see all the fighting between some timewasters.

[skunkhead2006]

Nimble

[Marty1fatbstard]

The bread was bloody awfull... shaped like a railway arch, tasted like shit but then it was for slimmers. The bird in the ballon was fit though.

[G0IFI]

@Marty1fatbstard Sheer marketing genius though. Sell half the bread for twice the price. Nobody dieting would ever think of just eating half the amount of bread they usually ate of course.

[john111257]

@Marty1fatbstard lol yeah she was

[alanvking]

@Marty1fatbstard Yes, but great for using as toilet paper if you were running short, or for putting over a comb and buzzing out the latest tune of the day. And yes, the bird was fit !!

[IanRM]

@Marty1fatbstard Agree with you Marty. Actually the "fit bird" in the ballon, crashed in that ballon leaving her paraylsed sadly. Although not on that take

[spacecowboy7580]

@IanRM

I don't if someone told you that, or you just made it up...but it's a load of bollocks.

[BerGub]

Oh, that reminds me of a holiday in El Arenal (Mallorca) in 1969. I played that song again and again on a jukebox in a small bar. By the way I wonder how Mary from Scotland is doin' today...

[1234benn1234]

thats my uncles band :) way hay

[TrulyBritish]

If you mean your uncle was in Honeybus then please give him my regards and thank him for the music :0)

[larrycoldsweat]

as a rastaman i love this music when i first heard it play on the jukebox in a cafe where i use to live great then great now

classic

[hrpman]

Tastes like ordinary bread - but lighter

[mickb55]

Always loved this -bought it in Tesco when they used to flog ex juke box singles for two bob

[nibs2lou]

Wonderful single, badly hit by the band's main man Dello quitting while it was still on the UK chart - and later sadly tainted by that bloody bread advert.

[nedthebed07]

That stereo really plays with your ears, absolute beaut of a song.

[FaerieCrone]

mmm Nimble bread. LOL

[DieHardBeatlesFan]

WoW Slumbers2 Forgot all about this GEM Luv It

Thanks So Much for Share

You just made my day

[laura060366]

Me too DieHardBeatlesFan! "J" really knows how to pick them, doesn't she? Great post!

[ther51]

Love it thanks for posting.

[tomexeter]

makes me think about my Mum (Maggie) who died a couple of years ago...

[wishiwasawhale]

@tomexeter , i'm the same, this song was out when my mum was indistructible, sadly no longer with us

[1aard]

@tomexeter

remember her.

greetings from the netherlands

[ProjectCosmos]

@tomexeter

Sorry to hear :(