This is such a great song to have been covered & sang brilliantly by Crispian. I'm sure people can think if they had done a great cover of a song like this in their life time that they would be so immensely proud to be remembered by many people from different future generations listening to such a really good song like this after passing away. Music always lives on after life.The video is great too and feel is the best version of this song. RIP Crispian and many thanks for a song like this.
I like this version a lot. It sounds like it borrows quite a bit from the We Five version (which is the version I knew from the radio). My only complaint is that you don't credit the songwriter, Sylvia Tyson, who's own version with her then-husband (they recorded as Ian and Sylvia) is also quite good.
COULDN'T PUT IT BETTER MYSELF: AS PER Lowdenjim:''Great, great song - a "one-off" with such a terrific chord progression and slow build up to the key-change and fantastic crescendo. Only two hits of note, but this one alone that he left us puts him up right up there as far as I'm concerned.''
My Mum loved this song, what great taste she had way back in the sixties when I was just a nipper and I never realised it - she was my Mum and Mum's weren't supposed to be into pop music! Glad I found this, thanks.
It's amazing how music brings back unhappy and happy memories. When this song was played on the airwaves back in 1966 I was a kid of 13 and attending high school in Johannesburg South Africa. The school was John Orr Technical High School. I hated the school and this song takes me back to my days of school. Hence the bringing back of unhappy memories, but I loved the song.
His version is good. It's funny how the sound of We Five's Beverly Bivens seems to make a very sad song, much more upbeat than it should be. Of course the original song was much more depression. Ian and Sylvia version has the person going to the corner and getting drunk then coming home. It's much more sad.
Very original ending! Loved it! I hadn't heard him do this one before, so thanks for the upload. Always loved the "Pied Piper", too, but especially enjoyed this one thanks!
a friend of mine used to be with Chris at the hight of his fame,he told me he was a really nice man,r.i.p. Chris, pity he did not record a load more sons instead of about two......
The best version, in my opinion, is the original, by Ian and Sylvia from 1964, it has a more folksy sound to it, and a lot more words then most of the other versions have.
sorry ShadowinaCave, written by Ian & Sylvia Tyson from Canada, Ian's now a rancher in Alberta and Sylvia I think is still in Toronto, but not sure...
Interesting info, thanks. By "British" I guess I wass meaning a particular sound and style in the performance, rather than where it was written, but I'll try to track down the original. I obviously haven't heard it. Thanks again.
I just love this Song , I envy the ones who got to see him live . I Love the drumming in the background .To me it sets it off really good . Thank-you for the restoration , and the chance to see this great man perform
Those saxophones bite like axes! This song has given me goose-bumps for forty years. The sixties had some dark parts, but when the sun did shine, it was oh so bright!
Just remembered, it was Sylvia Fricker who wrote this song, and I`ve been struggling for two days trying to do it justice on my 16 track, it´s just that iot doesn`t actually have chords as such, they are suggested by the bassline and guitar fills, much more complicated than at first thought! I`m going to pack it in and just listen to the original!
I worked the chords out for this song last week, and am in the process of recording it ready for upload to Youtube; I'll let you know when I post it. If you want the chords, let me know.
@thedude0729 The We Five version preceded this one by a year (1965), and the original, by Ian and Sylvia (Sylvia wrote the song), came out in 1964. They were all good in their own ways.
A brilliant song, it was a woman who wrote this, Sylvia something or other, I think....
This version surely the best, moody and just right, heard it first when on holiday at Hayling island, I was 15 at the time and it blew my little teeny mind. I think I´m going to do a cover version as tribute, RIP Crispian, You hit the notes perfect!
It so nice to watch a video that doesn't have any negative comments! What a great legacy to leave, when i woke up this morning, this song was in my head, I always thought it was one of neil diamond's. but now i see its this wonderfully talented man! His voice is mesmerizing.
Great, great song - a "one-off" with such a terrific chord progression and slow build up to the key-change and fantastic crescendo. Only two hits of note, but this one alone that he left us puts him up right up there as far as I'm concerned.
@Lowdenjim Agreed - this song is a lesson in itelf on how to slowly build instrument progression to a musical peak. His unique voice perfectly complements the excellent arrangement.
My Dad, Daniel Ward took us to see this artist live many times, my sisters and I.
John Lennon told Peter that THE PIED PIPER was one of his favorite songs but my best memory from Peter was speaking to him one evening at a party at our house when he told me…..
“Your Dad is a great man Caroline, don’t ever forget that”…. and I never did…
RIP a great man and a brilliant artist.... you will be always on our minds....
rip you will be greatly missed by all that knew you i remembered when you use to come to my house on a saturday with my dad rest now peter always on our minds xxx
@thedude0729 Ur probably thinking of the female vocalist in 'We Five' who had chart success in America with their jaunty 'The Byrds' style version of this song (also on YT).
Crispian had chart success (No.2) in the UK with this far superior version (IMO anyway).
@keef1212 It is notable that We Five came up with the arrangement that slowly built up over the course of the song. Of course Ian and Sylvia wrote and did the original... I like the We Five version's ending chord better than this one....
@GBS1043 Ian and Sylvia's is better then either the We Five or this version, probably because Sylvia Tyson wrote it. Most covers seem to leave out the verse "I got drunk, and I got sick, and I came home again" censorship? Nah.
I love this song , The beat of the drums really sets it off . I just wishe we could have seen him more on TV . I can remember playing this one whilst I sat in my Mums Rocking Chair . I think even the words have a real meaning
I lost my fiancée in 1966, and I cried the first time I heard this song. For a long time, this song was me. 45 years later, I can listen to it, and a cry is still not far from the surface.
One of my all-time favourite memories of the sixties. I played this 45 until the grooves were grey, Crispian should have gone much further than he did. I also loved The Pied Piper, something so distinctive about his music. Those really were the days, no decade since has bettered the sixties.
So sorry about your loss Bazza.I met my beautiful one late january 1966 and i sang this all the way home the night i did. Great song , brings it all back. Lost mine in '69 too. But i just messed up.
Met my beautiful girlfriend in 1966 and this song was playing on the jukebox. Lost my beautiful girlfriend in 1969 when a drunk driver took her from this world. Strange how music can recall such happy and sad memories at the same time.Thank you Crispian, this song will live on forever, RIP .
@BazzaIOW My heart breaks for you as death is the pain of those left on earth: Having clinically died 2 times within a short period; I can assure you that I did NOT wish to come back . The light was so welcoming. Telepathically...I saw NO Creator (the only time you WILL see, if when it is your time,) and many wisdoms entered my head. 1.It is written in the palm of our hand: The day we are born and the day we die. 2. There is NO hell as we have free will, to create, heaven or hell on earth. .
Hmm, he said he was a better song writer than Lennon & McCartney and would be bigger than Elvis, owch. Sorry man, we needed a bit better. Still a nice song though
@Rafterman123 These comments were taken as literal. They were intended to be tongue in cheek, however, the popular press are always ready to pounce & twist any little remark said by anyone in the public eye. But I'm sure you knew that??
A song I have always loved, could never understand why Crispian didn't rise to greater heights, his voice has a haunting quality. The Pied Piper is the same, an instantly likeable tune. Didn't realise he had died, thank you Crispian for being such a memorable part of my young years.
I love British songs from this part of the last century - they're so evocative of a time when the world seemed so much more innocent and free, and far, far less weary and cynical. You can almost hear the sunshine.
@ShadowinaCave I couldn't agree more with you. And Crispian's beautiful singing is one of the most evocative reminders of this wonderful time and place.
@ShadowinaCave : I agree that the free spirited, idealistic, ethos of that era seems to have disappeared in the past 40 years or so....I dunno...then again maybe I'm just bemoaning the inevitable changes wrought by age and its accompanying cynicism.
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@ShadowinaCave - Are you SURE this was a "British" song? Was it not written by an American? Most of the UK pop groups were copycats ripping of US tunes.
No, not sure at all! ;-) As vernreynoldsbraun pointed out, it was actually written by a Canadian. But until posting here I had only heard Crispian's version, so I thought it was his, and British.
I strongly disagree that "most" UK pop groups ripped off US tunes. There was a lot of original British music being written, and re-recording songs for local markets happened in both directions. (Just as the US nowadays remakes foreign language films, rather than screen the original.)
@squirell1952 I think you may have that wrong Dick head ! Talk about the pot calling the kettle black !! Thats all the Yanks can do to OUR History . Mind you you can talk bollocks which is good .-just like the Yanky Presidents .
I heard on the Radio 2 from sarah that Crispian St peters has died , this song I grew up with ,and always loved the drumming in the background . I wish the BBc would do a tribute to this great Singer R IP Crispian !! I promise I will always play this Classic Song
I used to serve him in the pub that he drank in the man did like a drink, but what a voice when he sang people sat and listened.still makes the hairs stand up when i listen to him sing.
I was 14 in the summer of '66 and had my first puppy love thing with a much older woman(17) named Donna Monday from Evanston, Illinois. It seems like every time we were together, this song was playing. Great memories! Hope he had a primarily happy life.
This song always reminds me of the book "Reach for the Sky" (Douglas Bader's biography) as I read it in one day while this was being played constantly on the radio. Funny how music's such a powerful anchor!
Born Robin Peter Smith, 5 April 1939 in Swanley, Kent, England. This was his 1st of 3 UK hits. You Were On My Mind-#2-6th-Jan-66, (first recorded in 1964 by the Canadian folk duo, Ian & Sylvia, and a hit in the United States for We Five in 1965). The Pied Piper, # 5-31st-Mar-66. Changes, #47-15th-Sep-66. So, 1966 was a good year for Crispian.
@dsl70 he used to play at the pub i worked at in kent in 1972, he was a good bloke but the booze and drugs had realy got to him, he was off his face all the time. i ended up with his bird in the end.
A great tune R.I.P.
MrSleuth89 2 weeks ago
I thought this song came out in 1965...am I wrong ?
jarvsie 1 month ago
een heerlijk nummer wat hadden ze toen geweldige muziek.
di5302 1 month ago
This is such a great song to have been covered & sang brilliantly by Crispian. I'm sure people can think if they had done a great cover of a song like this in their life time that they would be so immensely proud to be remembered by many people from different future generations listening to such a really good song like this after passing away. Music always lives on after life.The video is great too and feel is the best version of this song. RIP Crispian and many thanks for a song like this.
jamsee1 1 month ago
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jamsee1 1 month ago
A great classic song from 1966, thanks.
ricbarwil 1 month ago
Great song.
078gurdin 1 month ago
Great Song !!
rubberdildos 2 months ago
I knew Pete Smith.
Mzungu64 2 months ago
brill, one of the all time greats
fitzbaby2003 2 months ago
I like this version a lot. It sounds like it borrows quite a bit from the We Five version (which is the version I knew from the radio). My only complaint is that you don't credit the songwriter, Sylvia Tyson, who's own version with her then-husband (they recorded as Ian and Sylvia) is also quite good.
redosoable 2 months ago
love this song, reminds me of my dad <3
07-06-1959 08-06-2011
Mrlot89 2 months ago
COULDN'T PUT IT BETTER MYSELF: AS PER Lowdenjim:''Great, great song - a "one-off" with such a terrific chord progression and slow build up to the key-change and fantastic crescendo. Only two hits of note, but this one alone that he left us puts him up right up there as far as I'm concerned.''
geoffbro2001 3 months ago in playlist Liked videos
I played in a band supporting this guy back in '66. What a singer, he never achieved the success he deserved.
goldtone20 3 months ago
@goldtone20 Read the Telegraph obituary (Google it) very informative
computerrage 2 months ago
RIP pete love this song, i grew up with it and over 40 years later still love it..
thedaisydog47 3 months ago 2
wot a talent anothjer f..... up by a shit manager
beckilanena 3 months ago
Ah! memories. Back to the days when I stole all my sister's 45's to listen to.
mullskull13 3 months ago in playlist Dean Martin
agreed what a song and pied piper classics
bombsta1973 4 months ago
@Thegolfa19 great comment LMAO hear hear
llekym65 4 months ago
What a great, great song! Worth a revival!
LpoolUkeOrchestra 4 months ago
heel leuk nummer
VoL351RZ 4 months ago
My Mum loved this song, what great taste she had way back in the sixties when I was just a nipper and I never realised it - she was my Mum and Mum's weren't supposed to be into pop music! Glad I found this, thanks.
aemellor1 4 months ago
so i went to where ?
calmthoughts 5 months ago
@calmthoughts
The corner
FBDBmusic 4 months ago
There are great covers that are better than the originals, this is a classic 60's song, LOVE IT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Tazbo34 5 months ago
@thedude0729 Suzanna Hoffs of The Bangles did it as a b-side
schwinglow 6 months ago
BY FAAAAR the best version of this song ! I've listened to ALL the others : this pop song is musically one of the finest ever .
It's amazing how Crispian's voice looks like Ricky Nelson's !
I did modestly a cover of the song and I posted it - Thanks to everyone for comments !
JeanChemla2 6 months ago
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passau63 7 months ago 14
I loved the world then, so much happier and contented.
CATHERINEDAVIES123 7 months ago
It's amazing how music brings back unhappy and happy memories. When this song was played on the airwaves back in 1966 I was a kid of 13 and attending high school in Johannesburg South Africa. The school was John Orr Technical High School. I hated the school and this song takes me back to my days of school. Hence the bringing back of unhappy memories, but I loved the song.
buttonspiderful 7 months ago
His version is good. It's funny how the sound of We Five's Beverly Bivens seems to make a very sad song, much more upbeat than it should be. Of course the original song was much more depression. Ian and Sylvia version has the person going to the corner and getting drunk then coming home. It's much more sad.
markxxx21 8 months ago
great drumming
marcange5 8 months ago
@thedude0729 We Five Four Guys and a Girl Lead Singer named Beverly Bivens.
Such a great remake, a little faster beat. and Lovely Beverly..... Sir David
sixtiesforever1966 8 months ago
I think Wreckless Eric slowed this riff down for his classic 'The Whole Wide World', who cares though as both are magnificent songs!
TheLizardmonkey 8 months ago
I think he died and there is a "campaign" to raise funds to buy an appropriate Headstone for his grave. Is this true? Great songs by the way
frogtadpole1 8 months ago
I like this version as much as the version by We Five,
shmuli9 8 months ago
this song makes me go all dreamy!
kizzycappucinno 9 months ago
Rest in peace good sir.
irvingklaw57 9 months ago
is alive and living in spain real name dave willaims
44parrot 10 months ago
@44parrot Pete Smith died June 8th 2010. See Daily Telegraph obituary (Google)
computerrage 2 months ago
Very original ending! Loved it! I hadn't heard him do this one before, so thanks for the upload. Always loved the "Pied Piper", too, but especially enjoyed this one thanks!
PDQ2 10 months ago
Awesome!...love this song!
Pedy1968 10 months ago
very nice version
EMRAHsays 10 months ago
a friend of mine used to be with Chris at the hight of his fame,he told me he was a really nice man,r.i.p. Chris, pity he did not record a load more sons instead of about two......
allenparsons31 10 months ago
The best version, in my opinion, is the original, by Ian and Sylvia from 1964, it has a more folksy sound to it, and a lot more words then most of the other versions have.
OlegKostoglatov 11 months ago
Reminds me of wen I ws really little. Aww. Far and away the best. :-)
mammyrobbo 11 months ago
Give me We Five's version any day of the week.
loveclevelandohio1 11 months ago
I'm sorry, but the We Five version never held a candle to CSP......His will always be the best....
MACJO63 11 months ago
proper foottapper ,
shadow3pne 11 months ago
Great original...seems all original artists have an R&B and easy and smooth song about it. I love it.
America wanted the Rock version...so the We-Five and others.
urgdaddy 1 year ago
was very popular in australia during the 60s and 70s-very sorry that he isnt with us anymore-great performer-this one and pied piper
simonmoves 1 year ago
didnt no he covered this 1.no one sounds like him.thanx a million
diagreen 1 year ago
A very nice cover, through the we five, can never be topped. Another great star, from the 1960s, now departed.
jmen4ever 1 year ago
sorry ShadowinaCave, written by Ian & Sylvia Tyson from Canada, Ian's now a rancher in Alberta and Sylvia I think is still in Toronto, but not sure...
vernreynoldsbraun 1 year ago
@vernreynoldsbraun
Interesting info, thanks. By "British" I guess I wass meaning a particular sound and style in the performance, rather than where it was written, but I'll try to track down the original. I obviously haven't heard it. Thanks again.
ShadowinaCave 10 months ago
Yeah, that's what I call the Real Song! Amazing...
TheKy39 1 year ago
I love this song. This is also my favorite version of it - rather than singy-songy it has feeling and blues
salerio61 1 year ago
I just love this Song , I envy the ones who got to see him live . I Love the drumming in the background .To me it sets it off really good . Thank-you for the restoration , and the chance to see this great man perform
Lancaster730 1 year ago
Those saxophones bite like axes! This song has given me goose-bumps for forty years. The sixties had some dark parts, but when the sun did shine, it was oh so bright!
JW
jwyche 1 year ago 3
That would be great, I look forward to also hearing your cover, Thanks! Graham.
MyDadsMusic1 1 year ago
With a Capo on the 3rd fret in keys Bb and C, the chords are:
G; C; D; D7; Bm; Em; Am; Am7; A; E & Gbm
My cover version is uploaded now and you can see the chord changes in the video. Good luck with it!
Lowdenjim 1 year ago
Just remembered, it was Sylvia Fricker who wrote this song, and I`ve been struggling for two days trying to do it justice on my 16 track, it´s just that iot doesn`t actually have chords as such, they are suggested by the bassline and guitar fills, much more complicated than at first thought! I`m going to pack it in and just listen to the original!
MyDadsMusic1 1 year ago
I worked the chords out for this song last week, and am in the process of recording it ready for upload to Youtube; I'll let you know when I post it. If you want the chords, let me know.
Regards - Jim
Lowdenjim 1 year ago
@thedude0729 The We Five version preceded this one by a year (1965), and the original, by Ian and Sylvia (Sylvia wrote the song), came out in 1964. They were all good in their own ways.
BrockenSpecter 1 year ago
A brilliant song, it was a woman who wrote this, Sylvia something or other, I think....
This version surely the best, moody and just right, heard it first when on holiday at Hayling island, I was 15 at the time and it blew my little teeny mind. I think I´m going to do a cover version as tribute, RIP Crispian, You hit the notes perfect!
MyDadsMusic1 1 year ago
It so nice to watch a video that doesn't have any negative comments! What a great legacy to leave, when i woke up this morning, this song was in my head, I always thought it was one of neil diamond's. but now i see its this wonderfully talented man! His voice is mesmerizing.
92marli0506 1 year ago
@thedude0729 Try We Five.
tony13a 1 year ago
Great, great song - a "one-off" with such a terrific chord progression and slow build up to the key-change and fantastic crescendo. Only two hits of note, but this one alone that he left us puts him up right up there as far as I'm concerned.
Lowdenjim 1 year ago 12
@Lowdenjim Agreed - this song is a lesson in itelf on how to slowly build instrument progression to a musical peak. His unique voice perfectly complements the excellent arrangement.
keef1212 1 year ago 6
It's brilliant, but I can't believe no-one has done a cover version here on Youtube; gotta put that right soon....
Lowdenjim 1 year ago
@Lowdenjim That Discription you gave about this track was Spot-On !!!!!!!!!
Lancaster730 5 months ago
My Dad, Daniel Ward took us to see this artist live many times, my sisters and I.
John Lennon told Peter that THE PIED PIPER was one of his favorite songs but my best memory from Peter was speaking to him one evening at a party at our house when he told me…..
“Your Dad is a great man Caroline, don’t ever forget that”…. and I never did…
RIP a great man and a brilliant artist.... you will be always on our minds....
Dr Caroline Ward Ph.D
EU Parliamentary Advisor
Disabilities Commission
drcward 1 year ago
@drcward Shouldn't you be reading Hansard?
computerrage 2 months ago
R.I.P Mr Robin Peter smith
travelmanxx 1 year ago
you could tell that back then he smoked. What a shame - looks like it got him in the end. RIP Crispian
lalanz8 1 year ago
I love this song so much what an exellent singer, one of the best in his time shame hes gone hes still a legend to me.
amandapck 1 year ago
fantastic singer and song...
john111257 1 year ago
great vid great man great everything was a pleasure to know him all my life rip pete gone but never forgotten xxx
MyLoopy09 1 year ago
rip you will be greatly missed by all that knew you i remembered when you use to come to my house on a saturday with my dad rest now peter always on our minds xxx
MyLoopy09 1 year ago
he looks like florian lukas (german actor)
lytjAdynamiTe 1 year ago
@thedude0729 Ur probably thinking of the female vocalist in 'We Five' who had chart success in America with their jaunty 'The Byrds' style version of this song (also on YT).
Crispian had chart success (No.2) in the UK with this far superior version (IMO anyway).
keef1212 1 year ago 7
@keef1212 It is notable that We Five came up with the arrangement that slowly built up over the course of the song. Of course Ian and Sylvia wrote and did the original... I like the We Five version's ending chord better than this one....
catoohey 7 months ago
@keef1212 You are probably thinking of Beverly Bivens who released with We 5 in 1965.
I actually much prefer the We 5 version.
ob1kenobi23 5 months ago
I did not know he had recorded this song too. Not as good as We Five, but still listenable.
Treaty4 1 year ago
@Treaty4 well we're never going to agree, but this interpretation is far better :)
salerio61 1 year ago
Everly Brothers-esque. Where was he from? He looks Eastern European. Very Ivan Lendl. (And that's not a good thing.)
comeon224 1 year ago
@comeon224 The man was not bad looking. He has beautiful bone structure.
Treaty4 1 year ago
@comeon224
He was born in Kent in 1939.
mikethefoto 1 year ago
@mikethefoto So was David Frost!
computerrage 2 months ago
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Anyone who says this version is better than We Fives is TONE DEAF and has no taste.
PERIOD
GBS1043 1 year ago
@GBS1043 Ian and Sylvia's is better then either the We Five or this version, probably because Sylvia Tyson wrote it. Most covers seem to leave out the verse "I got drunk, and I got sick, and I came home again" censorship? Nah.
OlegKostoglatov 1 year ago
@GBS1043 I totally agree
marsalf13 1 year ago
@GBS1043
Thanks for that incisive & measured comment.
Now try phoning someone who cares.
mikethefoto 1 year ago
Never knew that this great version of one of my absolute favorites from the summer of 1965 even existed until this moment in time. Thank you.
qb62ndmaintbn1967 1 year ago
Nice version of the Ian and Sylvia classic.
DG19075 1 year ago
I love this song , The beat of the drums really sets it off . I just wishe we could have seen him more on TV . I can remember playing this one whilst I sat in my Mums Rocking Chair . I think even the words have a real meaning
Lancaster730 1 year ago
I lost my fiancée in 1966, and I cried the first time I heard this song. For a long time, this song was me. 45 years later, I can listen to it, and a cry is still not far from the surface.
warumski 1 year ago
geweldig muziekje van vroeger toe we nog jong waren!!!!!!!!!
pearke100 1 year ago
One of my all-time favourite memories of the sixties. I played this 45 until the grooves were grey, Crispian should have gone much further than he did. I also loved The Pied Piper, something so distinctive about his music. Those really were the days, no decade since has bettered the sixties.
YREYRIE 1 year ago
@YREYRIE what about lady gaga???
hawkwind999 1 year ago
@hawkwind999
WHO???!!!
YREYRIE 1 year ago
Rest in Peace youre beautiful girlfriend :-)
steveJ1957 1 year ago
better than lennon and macartney some people talk a load of shit
noodles1573 1 year ago
So sorry about your loss Bazza.I met my beautiful one late january 1966 and i sang this all the way home the night i did. Great song , brings it all back. Lost mine in '69 too. But i just messed up.
Harmonicajello 1 year ago
This takes me back waayyyyy back!
Palaverer 1 year ago
RIP. Robin Peter Smith. This song touches me every time, thank you for that.
cja69 1 year ago
anybody got : my little brown eyes ? , perhaps you can post it, thx in advance
derneunundvierziger 1 year ago
Rest in peace.
cristalle1 1 year ago
Met my beautiful girlfriend in 1966 and this song was playing on the jukebox. Lost my beautiful girlfriend in 1969 when a drunk driver took her from this world. Strange how music can recall such happy and sad memories at the same time.Thank you Crispian, this song will live on forever, RIP .
BazzaIOW 1 year ago 33
@BazzaIOW OMG,. what a tragic story! I would love to see a picture of her. I was in JR. High at that time. What a great era! What a loss for you .
DAVWAVE 1 year ago
@BazzaIOW My heart breaks for you as death is the pain of those left on earth: Having clinically died 2 times within a short period; I can assure you that I did NOT wish to come back . The light was so welcoming. Telepathically...I saw NO Creator (the only time you WILL see, if when it is your time,) and many wisdoms entered my head. 1.It is written in the palm of our hand: The day we are born and the day we die. 2. There is NO hell as we have free will, to create, heaven or hell on earth. .
pocomamma 1 year ago
@pocomamma Nurse!, Nurse!, They're wearing off again
computerrage 2 months ago
@BazzaIOW
RIP.... a beautiful song to have with her memory!
seenjean 1 year ago
@BazzaIOW
memories and songs is everything
carlspeter 5 months ago
1:03 - 1:13 he's having a grand ol time.
captainwow12 1 year ago
Hmm, he said he was a better song writer than Lennon & McCartney and would be bigger than Elvis, owch. Sorry man, we needed a bit better. Still a nice song though
Rafterman123 1 year ago
@Rafterman123
he didn't write this song either sylvia tyson did
maximumbigtime 1 year ago
@Rafterman123 These comments were taken as literal. They were intended to be tongue in cheek, however, the popular press are always ready to pounce & twist any little remark said by anyone in the public eye. But I'm sure you knew that??
cja69 1 year ago
A song I have always loved, could never understand why Crispian didn't rise to greater heights, his voice has a haunting quality. The Pied Piper is the same, an instantly likeable tune. Didn't realise he had died, thank you Crispian for being such a memorable part of my young years.
YREYRIE 1 year ago
give me more
suewholo 1 year ago
always loved this song
suewholo 1 year ago
love that song <3
gwenny777 1 year ago
Great song - thanks for posting it.
I love British songs from this part of the last century - they're so evocative of a time when the world seemed so much more innocent and free, and far, far less weary and cynical. You can almost hear the sunshine.
RIP, Robin Peter Smith.
ShadowinaCave 1 year ago 17
@ShadowinaCave I couldn't agree more with you. And Crispian's beautiful singing is one of the most evocative reminders of this wonderful time and place.
TheProfessorpat 10 months ago
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Don't you miss that world, Professor? I see almost no trace of it left in the world we have now.
ShadowinaCave 10 months ago
@ShadowinaCave : I agree that the free spirited, idealistic, ethos of that era seems to have disappeared in the past 40 years or so....I dunno...then again maybe I'm just bemoaning the inevitable changes wrought by age and its accompanying cynicism.
TheProfessorpat 1 month ago
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@ShadowinaCave - Are you SURE this was a "British" song? Was it not written by an American? Most of the UK pop groups were copycats ripping of US tunes.
squirell1952 6 months ago
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No, not sure at all! ;-) As vernreynoldsbraun pointed out, it was actually written by a Canadian. But until posting here I had only heard Crispian's version, so I thought it was his, and British.
I strongly disagree that "most" UK pop groups ripped off US tunes. There was a lot of original British music being written, and re-recording songs for local markets happened in both directions. (Just as the US nowadays remakes foreign language films, rather than screen the original.)
ShadowinaCave 6 months ago 3
@squirell1952 tosser!!
Thegolfa19 6 months ago
@squirell1952 I think you may have that wrong Dick head ! Talk about the pot calling the kettle black !! Thats all the Yanks can do to OUR History . Mind you you can talk bollocks which is good .-just like the Yanky Presidents .
Lancaster730 4 months ago 2
great song from great era r.i.p you will always be on our minds these songs will live forever
ste123456754 1 year ago
love tihs song for ever
suewholo 1 year ago
rip from Alan in bexley. i saw him at his last ever concert in dartford about 12 years ago.
SuperTattooman 1 year ago
I heard on the Radio 2 from sarah that Crispian St peters has died , this song I grew up with ,and always loved the drumming in the background . I wish the BBc would do a tribute to this great Singer R IP Crispian !! I promise I will always play this Classic Song
Lancaster730 1 year ago
God bless pete u take a chapter of my life with u
joy x
SarahRichardson26 1 year ago
I used to serve him in the pub that he drank in the man did like a drink, but what a voice when he sang people sat and listened.still makes the hairs stand up when i listen to him sing.
steve2461para 1 year ago
God bless you Crispian may you rest in peace....wonderful music xxx
Lynnie750 1 year ago
Goodnight Robin Peter Smith (Crispian St. Peters was his stage name)
God bless you Your voice will live on forever
MultiStarproductions 1 year ago
RIP Crispian St Peters........happy memories xx
2daddylonglegs 1 year ago
He rest in peace! The song live for a long time!
rzsike 1 year ago
I was 14 in the summer of '66 and had my first puppy love thing with a much older woman(17) named Donna Monday from Evanston, Illinois. It seems like every time we were together, this song was playing. Great memories! Hope he had a primarily happy life.
boblpage 1 year ago
RIPpete,cant belive your gone,you played such a great part in my teenage years,listening to you jamming in your frontroom
hollandskaren 1 year ago
RIP Crispian
fannycraddock99 1 year ago
RIP to Swanley's most famous resident.
bebirdo 1 year ago
lovely song
noodles1573 1 year ago
I heard Crispians' version before We Fives. I love 'em both, but Crispians' version will always be special to me.
Gerry50ify 1 year ago
Oldie since I was young--SO long ago!
zaaritha 1 year ago
Sorry, but the, 'We Five' version rules.
Uburosco 1 year ago
@Uburosco No Way!!!!
heezabirddog 1 year ago
think of my wife , when i hear this xxxx
blackmajor1 1 year ago
So romantic... lovely.
sidensvans67 1 year ago
This song always reminds me of the book "Reach for the Sky" (Douglas Bader's biography) as I read it in one day while this was being played constantly on the radio. Funny how music's such a powerful anchor!
terrybassett1 1 year ago
Born Robin Peter Smith, 5 April 1939 in Swanley, Kent, England. This was his 1st of 3 UK hits. You Were On My Mind-#2-6th-Jan-66, (first recorded in 1964 by the Canadian folk duo, Ian & Sylvia, and a hit in the United States for We Five in 1965). The Pied Piper, # 5-31st-Mar-66. Changes, #47-15th-Sep-66. So, 1966 was a good year for Crispian.
DavidJHarrisonEssex 1 year ago
Nice, enjoyed listening to it. His big song was The Pied Piper.
ravansee 1 year ago
@ravansee I remember his first song was "You Were O My Mind"
schubidei 1 year ago
beautiful,beautiful, song
1956dannyboy 1 year ago
Crispian classic. One excellent singer.Party on!!
dsl70 2 years ago
@dsl70 he used to play at the pub i worked at in kent in 1972, he was a good bloke but the booze and drugs had realy got to him, he was off his face all the time. i ended up with his bird in the end.
express777100 1 month ago