That Song From The Movie "If...." - 1968 45rpm

[TheEmpress666]

Thanks for putting this up, I love the film (I first watched it before I went to boarding school for the first time to get ideas) and have been looking for this song for a while now :)

[AlcuinHimself]

The tune is a Congolese "song of farewell", the words are the Sanctus from the Latin Mass. The album contains the entire mass, all done using African songs as the tune.

[MoveOnSoulClub]

Why is it African? They are singing in Latin.

[skipfromyahoo]

This was a landmark film for me. Very surreal, brutal and vengeful yet with undertones of passion and love.

The theme tune I will never forget, it was on the jukebox in the 'Mirrorbar Cafe', Dudley.

It was the first record I used to put on as when I walked through the door, quite often met with jeering protests....lol.

Funnily I never knew the words to it and it always reminded me of someone singing 'Cow Moo, Cow Moo' Something that is a a standing joke now with my wife.

Ace film and record.

[Setebos]

Still sends a chill up my spine whenever I hear this.

[CocaCola5678]

I have to say that 'If....' is one of my favourite films. And this I feel is one of the most beautiful pieces of music I have ever heard. It is so raw and moving: the harmonies are perfect but then transform into this primal explosion of voice and percussion. I can't listen to this, however, without thinking of the scene in the cafe when Travis and The Girl fight in that outrageously sexy and bestial way (is this where the film changes from reality to Mick's fantasy?).

[MightyQuinn2021]

Oh bliss, bliss and heaven... Oh, it was gorgeousness and gorgeousity made flesh... And then, a bird of rarest-spun heaven metal, or like silvery wine flowing in a spaceship, gravity all nonsense now... I knew such lovely pictures

[OpheliaAtropos]

I saw the movie this morning. Love it, and love this song.

[holmsatlarge]

Always loved this beautiful song!  Glad to have found it again!

[babycapone92]

For 1 minute and 38 seconds I get to close my eyes, tilt my head back and feel like Mick Travis... Bliss

[SatchmoSings]

I was in love with Christine Noonan.

[gp1585]

watched the film years ago. has really tatooed my brain

[dega723]

SANCTUS SAN-CTUUUUS. I remember this subversiv movie from my sweet teenage years (I had shaved and tainted blond hair with hydrogen peroxide at that time) : wanted to burn my school after that. It's the kind of movie "If..." that makes you angry and in a state of rebellion, like "One flew over a cuckoo's nest" or "A clockwork orange"

[dogchasetail]

thank you...i have been obsessing on who this was from the film

[gensways]

thanks for posting! :)

[tessy240993]

i love this song... lol aww film studies love it

[sirtinycreep]

This great. I remember Jimmy Saville playing it once on Radio 1!

[TheDrakeequation521]

I had the album with the song on it long ago. The song 'banana" was even neater. They sang beautifully.

[witpix]

Just watched the brilliant film 'If..', featuring this song. Hadda find it. Thanks for posting.

[ejpark13]

thank you @NeverAloneForever

[tonypendrey]

I found a copy yesterday of the original Philips album issued in 1958. "Missa Luba" by Les Troubadours Du Roi Baudouin. Philips BL 7952.

[22dedeurwaerder]

@tonypendrey Right...u rock!.

[TEGDHaze]

The Sanctus comes from the Roman Catholic Mass. Traditional settings of the mass include the Kyrie, Gloria, Credo, Sanctus, Benedictus and Agnus Dei. This is the setting of the Sanctus movement from the Missa Luba, set by Father Guido Haazen, a Franciscan Friar from Belgium, based on traditional Congolese songs and recorded here by a choir of Congolese children. Sanctus means "holy" in Latin. Here the music is based on a traditional song of farewell.

[20redroyals]

Once again, many thanks for this.

[chancesareshewears]

Gene Loves Jezebel used this pre performance in the 80's.

[lamardarren]

Beautiful Black people making Music....you Whites have to be in awe...

[commonsenseforUSA]

@lamardarren,

not quite in awe, but rather appreciative that they know how to make something better than crappy rap for once.

[Michelis28]

@commonsenseforUSA LOL @ ignorance wrapped up in condescension. Try harder next time

[commonsenseforUSA]

@Michelis28,

Ignorance? Condescension? I was giving a compliment! This track is beautiful! It's the type of music black people should make is what I was trying to say. How is that ignorant or condescending?

[matthewdarklord]

@commonsenseforUSA i am sure black people would love to hear your perspective on things maybe you should tell them what's best for them some more???

[commonsenseforUSA]

@matthewdarklord,

I'd love to, since they don't seem to know it for themselves. But, I'd just get shot or stabbed or stomped to death for my trouble.

[matthewdarklord]

@commonsenseforUSA  lol

[NeverAloneForever]

@commonsenseforUSA Stop trollin'. They're are blacks that still do this kind of music. Just not in America.

[commonsenseforUSA]

@NeverAloneForever,

Don't call me a troll. I'm far more coherent and intelligent than a troll, thank you! A troll would use words like nigger and porch monkey and basically babble a lot of racist nonsense! I don't know what you've read from my comments, but that is not what I wrote nor what I meant! As I live in America, and the main music genre for blacks is disgusting, derogatory rap, excuse me if I remain "unenlightened" to the fact that they can make beautiful music such as this!

[NeverAloneForever]

@commonsenseforUSA Uhhh, they did make the blues and rock 'n roll. Regardless of that obvious fact I was egging you on to get, Your look on all rap music is obviously stereotypical as it is. Also, isn't all (well most) music today bullshit. Why not look at the bigger picture instead of concentrating on one fucking thing that doesn't bother everyone.

P.S. You are a troll. You don't have to use derogatory terms to be a troll. You can always make jokes about blacks shooting you. Like you did.

[commonsenseforUSA]

@NeverAloneForever,

I wasn't joking.

[NeverAloneForever]

@commonsenseforUSA Didn't think so. It just appears to be one. So long. Have a fun off kilter stereotype filled life.

[commonsenseforUSA]

@NeverAloneForever,

Thank you, I shall. And you have a fun life ASSuming you know so much about people and how they think and how they will end up. Not to mention reading WAY too much into some simple comments. It's kinda fun when I end up pushing someone's buttons when it wasn't my intention at all.

[NeverAloneForever]

@commonsenseforUSA Reading WAY too much into something? You mean like if I were to analyze the exact reason why you capitalized WHY like that? Yeah, that would be reading way too much into things. On the other hand, I didn't do that. I read what you said and then I shared my opinion of it. Hardly an ASSumption (oh lol) when all of it is based on what you wrote.

It's kinda fun to unintentionally push someone's buttons? I guess so. Sounds sociopathic but I don't want to read that much into it.

[commonsenseforUSA]

@NeverAloneForever,

Okay, fine. Let's just agree to disagree and not talk about this anymore. Sound like a plan?

[NeverAloneForever]

@commonsenseforUSA As long as you understand what a cop out that is.

[commonsenseforUSA]

@NeverAloneForever,

Well, let's be fair. We are hogging up the comments section. Other people don't want their comments to be drowned in a sea of ours. Also, no offense, but I don't think your arguments make much sense. So, i don't know how to argue with you if I can't understand your arguments. I think it best if we just stop arguing about this. If you find fault with this post in some way, then you're pretty intolerant. That's all.

[NeverAloneForever]

@commonsenseforUSA Sure. To whoever is trying to spin this on me. Fuck off then. Intolerant. Wow, ironic. My arguments. My fucking God. Yeah, fuck you too. Don't reply.

[commonsenseforUSA]

@NeverAloneForever,

And you called me a troll? HA! And the same to you!

[NeverAloneForever]

@commonsenseforUSA That was serious. No trolling. But you keep on coming back. and didn't you post quite a few comments before I cam along. In that you showed you were intolerant and arguments with not much sense. HA! And the same to you. Get over it, you hack. Just leave. You said it was for the best.

[commonsenseforUSA]

@NeverAloneForever,

Boy, you sure are mean to those who don't agree with you. I'd fix that if I were you.Or don't. See if I care. I'm done.

[NeverAloneForever]

@commonsenseforUSA Aren't you the same . . . to a group of people. A little hypocritical, don't you think? I don't care if you think all rap is crap perse. Nothing to do with any disagreement that got me mad. So long. Hmm . . . I wonder how old this song is. Must be age old or somethin'. Whatever.

[NeverAloneForever]

@commonsenseforUSA

"That they know how to make something better than crappy rap for once."

Yeah, that is condescending. Troll. Also, it is ignorant considering you can't think of one (BIG) genre that blacks started almost a century ago.

[goback3spaces]

I heard somewhere that this is the national anthem of Uganda. Is that right, anyone?

[Sids60sSounds]

Just googled it and alas it's not. 'Oh Uganda Land of Beauty' is the one they stand and sing to

[goback3spaces]

@Sids60sSounds Thank you for that. I'm sure they have a lovely anthem. As for this tune, can you tell me what it is, what's its origin, what it means? It's beautiful. I can't think of the movie IF without thinking of this song.

[Sids60sSounds]

All I know I've written in my blurb with the video

[goback3spaces]

@Sids60sSounds Yes, indeed. I read your blurb right AFTER I made my post. Thanks. It's more than I knew!

[rocksoliddude1]

@Sids60sSounds this song was sung by an afian choir from the congo

[plownds26]

This was the film that got Me into motorbikes.Oddly enough I first saw it at a school film club as a 14 year old punk with a healthy disrespect for authority it reinforced My beliefs which have never left Me

[mbishop76]

"Go on...LOOK AT ME...look into my eyes....."

The older I get, the more I favor and laugh at the sequal to If...., "Oh, Lucky Man!"

But THIS takes me back to 1986 when, at 14 or 15 years, Mr. Anderson 'broke my brain' via a late-night screening of If.... on TNT Network.

LOVE the 45 RPM effect on sound----it punches.

[rocksoliddude1]

this music really fitted the film

[tonyurbanowski]

Try gloucestershireonscreen co uk for a behind the scenes look at this film and where it was made!

[beawareofeverything]

Thank you... this song gives me a good feeling

[KAT1998]

Thanx for the upload! I´ve always wanted to know the name of that exquisite song!

[alartandy]

About 15 years ago I bought the Missa Luba CD with the Sanctus as the fourth track, basically the same melody as the one used in the movie If.... It was sung by the Muungano National Choir of Kenya for Phillips Classics Productions, copyright 1990.

[romford193]

thanks for posting this - strange film but great music

[spuds4t]

F****n superb. Sooo erotic. Fantastic movie. Timeless!!

[darraghtank]

@spuds4t AHH thats what i thought , i always wank to this

[thefuckheadsgalore]

I love this movie <3

[JoeJC]

Mick Travis is my hero.

[20redroyals]

Have not heard this since I first saw the film. Thank you.

[chancesareshewears]

@20redroyals We are... Beautiful...

[dollydot123]

I didn't even know this was a properly released song! Thankyou very much for posting this!

[11libertine11]

this song makes my mum crawl the walls thanks dad i love you so much ,, monk xx keep crawlin mam xx

[TraumaCommun]

i'm looking for the rest of the soundtrack of that movie and can't find it anywhere...

[xwsftassell]

Brill. The b-side's every bit as magnificent too.

[BobMonkfish]

I'm told this was written by a Belgian missionary who wanted to produce a mass (or whatever it was) in an idiom which would work better for African Christians.

[Nancyblue]

It's called Sanctus from the Missa Luba album.

[DelicateWolverine]

Thank you!!!!!! Assuming that's the truth, otherwise..... !!!!!

[Doeff8]

It is the truth, I assure you.

The singers/choir were called Les troubadours du roi.

[Youpeoplearejoking]

You can read it for yourself on the record label in the video, FFS...

[DelicateWolverine]

Calm down, sir. Of course you can read it for yourself on the record label in the video. If you noticed it. I hadn't noticed it until my second viewing of the film. It didn't even occur to me to check there the first time around. How was I to know that I could find out more about it by rewinding it to that particular scene?

[SALFORDSCUM]

Chilling, dark, and magnificent.

[spince2]

Sensational!