Fireball XL5

[teloyquude]

 Thumbs up if you came here from George Noory's bumper music.

[sophie1065]

a most beautiful song such fun seeing an old friend again same with stringray aqua mariner

[JamesIsStone]

What a delightful song.

[KiteSwift]

hehe, my mum always sings this song - just realised where it comes from. bless.

[z250B]

Don Spencer is the singer, he is also the father-in-law of Russele Crowe

[Phantomlyne]

this song sounds so pretty

[ranka35]

i wish i knew who sings this!

[CYRAPHYM]

@ranka35 - Don Spencer - google 'who sang fireball and link to Wiki

[badger5221701]

why dont they colourise it and re sell it,i would buy it for certain!! fireball xl5 for ever!!!

(52 btw :) )

[Factnotfictionpeople]

@badger5221701 Have you seen it on a modern t.v.? The strings are enormous! lol

[captainneerajmishra]

still remember seeing this serial and enjoying this song as a toddler - late 70's - Doordarshan - when we had only one tv channel!

[Turrican60]

Loved this as a little kid in the 60's...and still do. A great theme song, too. I pity today's kids when all they've got is reality TV shows crap, I really do....

[loosewheels1000]

Jerry Anderson created many great shows for TV, he treated children as adults, in his shows, people got shot, run over and bombed. he didn't try to put cotton woll over our eyes.....Great man.

[nickywolves46]

this is from the days when we in the midlands had a great tv station rip itv bring back central independant

[SpareMomentStudios]

Noddy and Postman Pat these days. Kids don't know what they were missing!

[windjammer777]

what fun memories from 43 years ago! I even had a Fireball XL5 Lunchbox back then!! Jerry Anderson was a superanimation genius. Thanks for sharing funguyos

[pbanta62]

Cool closing credits, but the earth looked like the fakiest planet of them all! LOL

[ewaf88]

If anyone saw the 2009 Star Trek film - the closing credits are very similar with Zoom ins to Planets.

[postalmeter]

"Fireball XL-5-- FUCK YEAH!"

[29benben]

Bring back fireball XL5!!!!!

[TheSeppie4]

didnt mind watching this when we were kids classic just look at some of the programmes kids are waching now

[rajnish1975]

Hi Rajnish Uthaman from India, age 35, I remember seeing Fire Ball serial when I was just 12 year old i still remember the beautiful created animation and still now i m big fan of captain scarlet thanks Mr Phildas for naming him. i wanted to again watch the entire serial but i do not know from where to get it .

[landcommander1981]

@rajnish1975 I remember seeing it when I was 5 or 6- I remember the theme song because my uncle would sing it to me. I spent a lot of summers in India. Captain Scarlett was cool too.

[rajnish1975]

Hi Rajnish Uthaman from India, age 35, I remember seeing Fire Ball serial when I was just 12 year old i still remember the beautiful created animation and still now i m big fan of captain scarlet thanks Mr Phildas for naming him. i wanted to again watch the entire serial but i do not know from where to get it .

[MrPhildas]

yes bring them all back fireball thunderbirds joe 90 captain scarlet terahawks

[2003DSM]

I am old enough to remember all of Gerry Andersons creations dating right back beyond Fireball XL5, and I have an original 45 RPM recording of this theme recorded by Don Spencer. My wife has often commented how "sad" I am to be able to sing the full lyrics to this theme tune, but I just say, bring back all of Gerry Andersons shows.

Gerry was a master in his field, and has yet to be beaten (even after 40 - 50 years) in my opinion.

[robharding1957]

a cxlassic 60s tv series which is timeless,,

[bunger999]

life was much more simple back then and so was the telly but it was great

[glyn367344]

happy days 4 sure

[scdarknight]

Can't get enough of that tune.

[angelsonu86]

Fireball serial



[GroomLeader]

I LOVED that show. Thanks for the posting, that was a real trip back to my childhood!

[ziggassedup]

Wow...My dad played trumpet on that theme song.....

[tom6lillie5]

its a wet sunday afternnon and i am eating my tin peaches with evaporated milk and watching in black my white fireball X L 5 while my dad is shagging my mum oh memories.

[Ginandor]

@tom6lillie5 Not sure about mum and Dad, but the peaches and carnation milk, that I can relate to.

[HappyCatters]

@tom6lillie5 In the same room?

[voon100]

@tom6lillie5 You lucky boy!

[MrTaxijoe]

@tom6lillie5 sounds very familiar.....are we related.........

[YourLastViewer]

I remember this crap back when I was 6 yrs old. It was great back then. Now know what "Team America" movie reminded me of.

[rorigiles]

I'm so glad I found this clip. Haven't heard it for decades!

[inregionecaecorum]

bl**dy 'ell "we'll cruise along the milky way and land upon the moon"

Such astronomical absurdities passed me by when I was a nipper.

Lets hear it for Zoonie the Lazoon, about my intellectual level at the time :(

[Sesquipedaliantique]

This is from my dad's childhood, he got me a tape of it when I was a kid. Still love the theme tune :D

[ahujarajiv]

@Sesquipedaliantique: Its from my childhood also... How old are you? :o)

[Sesquipedaliantique]

@ahujarajiv I'm 21, my dad's 53, I think it's great that no matter what age you are everyone knows about Gerry Anderson and his awesome creations.

[paulnery]

Good memories!!

[greasymac]

the trudy done a great cover of this song!!!

[michaeljfreak]

Apparently Anthony Stewart Head's (Giles on Buffy, Uther Pendragon on Merlin) favourite show, growing up.

[pcsbeat]

one of the best of those old '60s cartoon themes...and boy, there were plenty of great ones!

[maxtor1a1]

A trip back to my youth, thank you. Back when cartoons were cartoons and not half hour commercials for toy companies. Many Saturday mornings spent in front of the tv watching this one and many other great cartoons of the day!

[landcommander1981]

my uncle used to sing this to me ALL the time when I was really young. We used to rent the videos in India, and the big heads were cool. Guess what, they're still awesome!

[rorigiles]

I've found it! After all these years! Yay! Yay! Yay!

[STARSOLDIERNO]

zvxcxc, Starsoldier here. I'm with you 100%. I was at that age that this was aimed at. There was not one person in my class who did not enjoy it. The theme tune brings tears to eyes even now. I even wanted to make friends with Robert but he was always on his way ome !! What about Fireball XL1? why was this not used more often? I think that was to do with people being XL1ist. And, when it took off and the under carriage came away were they reusable or 1000s on the other side of the hill?

[Natureboyfrazier]

Amazing I thought I was the only nerd who loved Fireball XL5, definitely the show at that time, and the best theme song ever, wish they would air it again.

[newsy8]

well... I LOVE it!

best kids show EVER!

I was amazed AND bedazzled!

[fatcontroller70]

can't stop singing this

[scdarknight]

Man I love that tune. Thank you for the memories of my youth.

[hazzaza1]

Pure Genius.

[Rockape593]

Bloody fantastic, remember having this on a single many years ago

[CI5AgentSweeps]

This song makes me feel really warm inside :D It's great

[sargem06]

Every Sunday at 5.30pm just before the Religious Hour on ITV and BBC1, there was no BBC2, C4 or any other channel. The innocence of it all remembered with great nostagic memories!

[shubhra2100]

one of my favourite songs... makes me nostalgic.....

[madamerotten]

Is the last line "'Cause you would be my Venus of the stars?"

[eddiefuzz]

@madamerotten

It's "If you would be my Venus..."

[madamerotten]

@eddiefuzz Thanks. It seems obvious, now that you told me.

[pwnage0013]

I used to hear this theme on black and white tv when I was 5 years old! seems as if it was a hundred years ago!

[insaynejayne2]

I KNEW there was a TV theme song from the 60's with the words "Fireball XL5"!! So glad I found it!

[Mr76Yearsago]

My brother & I discussed this some twenty years ago, and we both agreed that this was the best closing titles, graphics, and theme song combined in Television History..

[pghatak]

This song, makes me nostalgic, and I love this song. As a DJ/ music mixer, I want to remix and re-master this. Can anyone tell me where to get a good quality track of this song please?.

Cheers,

[csutton92373]

One of the first songs I learned to play on my Sears Silvertone Guitar when I was 7 yrs.

[fireblade95]

i will!

[newrochellephoenix]

I loved this groovy song ! Right up there with the Speed Racer theme.

[joehughes9]

You can see the credit Sculptor:John Blundall at 0.38. If you are in Glasgow you should drop into the Mitchell Library where Mr. Blundall now has his extensive puppet collection or google "world through wooden eyes". It's worth seeing and open to the public.He also made Parker from Thunderbirds.I don't think he got on with Gerry Anderson though.

[KiteSwift]

LOL my mum kept going on about how much she loved this song - Never knew this show ever existed.... good song though. ^-^

[Dogsledfan]

The singer, Don Spencer, is still going strong in Australia to this day! - it was none other than Roger Whittaker who got him started in music. Originally Spencer had wanted to be a professional hockey player.....

[motherscum]

i heard this song in 1992 and never forgott it ! so ive been searching for it for 18 years and just found it ! FIREBALL !

[SonOfFurzehatt]

Children's television is one thing that really does get better the further back you go. Most of my favourite programmes are from before I was born.

[TheBotimbo]

rock on robert the robot

[TheBotimbo]

i still think this is one of the best themes ever , so nostalgic,thats when spacemen were realy spacemen

[manishdasani]

takes you back to those time when there was no blueray and HD mumbo jumbo, plain simple music and the best show ever

[M35kriegsmarine]

This is the best! I haven't heard this since I was a little kid! This show sparked my imagination. I even had the the toy Fireball XL5 ship. I must have played this song a million times in the last week since rediscovering it. The 1950's/early 1960's had the best music, and this was one of the best from one of the best shows. Thanks for taking me back in time! Long Live FIREBALL XL5. Cheers, Marc

[onoderar]

I haven't heard this song since a was a kid in the 60's! Talk about a mind trip! Thanks man!!!

[ngeo2]

Hey Soulblackman,

I only heard this song since I saw it on

the tube...it has since become one of my

favourite tv themes. It can't beat the Stingray intro. though, that is awesome.

Coming from an older lady of Cook Island ancestry I have to say its the drums that

get me every time. Also, maybe "Anything

can happen in the next half hour." And

it usually did, ya think.

Yep, my bros and sisters really loved this

show when we were young. WAY KEWL!!!

[MorrisManDanceMan]

this so brilliant song of the 60s thanks

[kirangicool]

this song is about love and space travel... most romantic space song.... i can still feel the same emotions everytime i hear it

[baraxor]

The first futuristic science-fiction tv series I ever watched, even before "Lost in Space" or "Star Trek".

[ngeo2]

Even though I don't remember this show, Fireball XL5 when I was young. I do remember Stingray, Captain Scarlet and the Thunderbirds, also Joe 90. But I loved

Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons and

also the female flight crew. Awesome.

I think Gerry Anderson was seriously underrated.

[Soulblackman]

I remember watching it, remembering nothing about any episodes, but always loved that closing some.

[NickTechFilms]

amazing show. amazing song.

[guiterguy]

Wasn't really big on fireball as i was thunderbirds, but the ending was the thing i looked forward to everyday after school, because let face it, it's a catchy theme song.

[Hefferidge]

Brings back memories

[shaneinkster]

Teletoon shoad have kept this Classic

[MChelada]

Here's to Craig Ferguson for reintroducing this theme music to the USA!

[blader45bc]

Cool. Not a Ferguson fan but I'd like to see that.

[0000Margaret]

my Mother had always watched Fireball Xl5 because she liked the theme song. In1964 my Dad was in the hospital in Anchorage Alaska. Mother had been at the hospital all day. she said I'm going home and get cleaned up. He said ok. Just as she started out, the door Fireball came on. I want to hear my song. Well about a minute later the whole hospital was falling down around them. That's when they had the big earthquake. The elevator she would have been in fell 3 stories. Fireball saved her

[ossarider]

@0000Margaret great story! I'll remember that one.

[marsgal42]

Fireball XL5 was a little before my time (I was still in diapers in 1962), but the closing theme was in my favourite episode of From The Earth to the Moon ("Spider"), so that's OK.

[canduny]

Did you notice how the new Star Trek movie's closing credits copies (probably intentionally) this closing sequence? Perhaps they were paying tribute to this bit of 1960's sci-fi.

[upmarketgirl]

wow i remember buying the single Fireball XL5 - as i loved the show so much. It def was in another lifetime lol

[CurlieCornflake]

Fireball XL5 has finished! Time for bed!

That was all a long time ago in . . . well if not a galaxy far far away, certainly another world . . .

[Yizlanu]

Yes this show was one of my favorites --

good Saturday am memories

[zvxcxc]

bring back fireball XL5!!! ....Who'll join my campaign ?

[MrNodrog1954]

@zvxcxc yes , lest get up and running , why hasit not been redone

[Bream888]

@MrNodrog1954 it been made in colour

[eisemanrenyardjake]

@zvxcxc I will! In fact it was disappointment that Fireball wasn't brought back just after the Millennnium (like the other Gerry Anderson sci fi shows were) that made me long for it more! Absence makes the heart grow fonder.

[109876543210ignition]

@zvxcxc

I loved this when I was a kid!!!

[thiswan1]

He sings conkers of the sky!

When it should be Conquerors.

Great all the same though.

[jrh491959]

Wow! Thanks for posting!!

Seems like 1964 all over again!

[lizzie1453]

I love this , always have, I used to get to play Venus with my brother & his pals .

[tom6lillie5]

my heart will be afire ball ......great kidz tv

[alan1kenny]

Very cheesey ,but funny ,

[voon100]

Always loved this ending theme when i was a kid.

[Tazzman]

I could watch this show. Supercar and Thunderbirds and never get tired of it!

[larryonlineone]

and the words have still stuck in my head all these years

[ranka35]

i've always looking forward to listening to this song whenever it came on tv. i just wait till the show it over and listening to this great song.

[sorceroruk]

For some reason I thought the vocal was by Cliff Richard. Didn't he once appear (in marionette form) singing the song in the show ?

[crowdedenz87]

Sung by great Australian entertainer Don Spencer

[MagnetOnlyMotors]

I remember this show from about 1964, it made a big impression on my future inspirations as I was 11 at the time. Great to see so many people enjoyed this type of entertainment.

[prabhurashmi]

Brought a smile to my face. I remembered my childhood. Being born and brought up in India this series used to be aired during the 70s on Sunday mornings and it was sort of a ritual of us kids to see it. I remember falling in love with Capt Zodiac (he was my first crush)

[beerborn]

My mom and I would watch this show when I was kid. She liked the song so much that we tried to figure out the lyrics. Took a few closing themes to figure it out. The show was once a week.

[orapinglobal]

i used to watch this with my mom when i was in playschool. we used to sing together. I remember her tellin me that if i dont eat, i wont be like zuni, some character from the show. i'm 30 now and my mom is no more. It brought tears to my eyes. Thanks

[Mattwbar]

Ahhh real TV, gotta miss it.

[newall7]

i feel a bit emotional listening to this

beautiful song i remember watching xl5

and feeling so v v happy in the 60,s

[pcsbeat]

loved the show--loved the closing theme too!

[sorceroruk]

I always thought the theme was sung by Cliff Richard - I'm sure he did a version as a guest puppet on the show !

[BloodWired]

I used to watch this early morning on Teletoon when I was younger.

[gramay321]

almost brought a tear for innocent childhood lost.

[Sesquipedaliantique]

It's just not the same once you've seen rule 34 of Venus and her pet ;_;

[corinne1956]

Thank you so much for this ... it has great memories for me ... sends shivers up my spine ... happy days

[Dabby2]

i wish i could get this full song on limewire, but alas, i am denied

[JeannotQc]

So good old (very in fact) memories!

[elainesteve]

Don Spencer,the singer of this theme,is the father in law of actor Russel Crowe

[Nefarioso]

Thanks for posting. After all these years, I still get chills hearing this song.

[tom6lillie5]

god brilliant

[theminch111]

Does anyone know who sang this timeless classic

[Nefarioso]

If you look really fast at the credits, it says Don Spencer, vocals.

[ashita100]

this on a cd i have bnut it is instrumental

[bluemoon2181]

in bombay, india, we kids also used to watch fireball...one of favs, and theme song rocks. it was broadcasted in early 80s in india

[Soulblackman]

talkin about REpeats, it came on in the us in the mid-late '60s.

[moguetricky]

well I don't think many people even had TV in India during the sixties

[bluemoon2181]

those good old childhood days !!

thanks,

prashant from bombay

[RattleheadIV]

My Freshmen Science teacher played this song non-stop

[ADEN1961]

been looking for this for ages .Brilliant

thanks

[gorgon53]

Sometime in November, 1963, when I was freshly 8, "Fireball XL5" was my favourite show on the air, and on the strength of this amazing theme song. As a rural Canadian child, the Kennedy assassination meant little to me, and that afternoon I rushed home, as usual, to see my favourite show. Imagine my outrage to find it replaced by the incoming news footage from Dalles. I complained bitterly, and my weeping mother gave me holy hell for my insensitivity.

[hawkmoon03111951]

I sympathise with you. Here in England I was an 11 year old looking forward to seeing the film 'The Horse Soldiers'. All I got, all evening, was news of the Kennedy assasination.

[musicfan60s]

Great tune ! I can still remember Fireball XL5 on the old B/W TV

[Soulblackman]

me, i had color back then. plasma, in fact.

[benjamintheblue]

This is one of my earliest memories. The tune. This and the persuaders In the alley ways and avenues. Great carefree days!

[Puzzoozoo]

Ohh the memories come flooding back.  Happy times.

[spookyphill]

the guy who sang this was a presenter on BBC  tv playschool

[minimouse7616]

this makes me laugh, they used to play it all the time in a youth club in Newtredegar.

[eikonmegalen]

I think the fact that this song can be considered by some as a cheesy lounge-lizard song is the very thing that makes it appropriate for a sci-fi show. It's the kind of pop song many people were singing in the early '60s, and it represents our ordinary everyday humanness going on this awesome adventure into space. For me it evokes being fantastically alive and yet innocent.

[ortrok]

I agree this was one of my earliest memories of tv and such an escape from school,cold,fog and the gloom around. Yet the song and programme evokes many happy times.

Sitting by a fresh lit fire waiting for the tv box to warm up in time for fireball.

Mum cooking dinner ready 'on the plate ' for dad comming back from the factory.

Simple days with no worries or cares.

[Libby1956]

Fond memories - this is so neat. My boss thinks I've lost my mind singing this.

[pumamber05]

This song rocks!!!

[fiddlerpin]

This was the best 60's kids show period. Way before star trek or starwars. This theme song and Dennis the Menace theme song always will be in my head. Gerry Anderson rules!

[wmstrop]

Oh the memories! I used to watch this show faithfully back in the early 60's and hadn't heard the music since then. What a hoot to come across it now! Thanks a million for posting it!

Bill

[alcyon85]

another secret smile from the sixties...thanks for the post

[milanwarik]

Gr8 song thanks for posting

[diomanUK]

forget Cliff, forget the Beatles, forget the Stones. THIS was the best song of the sixties full stop.

[nikond70fan]

I'm going have to make a ringtone for my cell phone out of this old themesong. I remember it from my youth.

[jmen4ever]

Every so ofton, George Norey on coast to coast uses this song for bumper music

[jvlaw]

I completely forgot about this cheesy lounge-lizard closing theme! Of course, I was only 9 or ten when I watched the show.

[jvlaw]

I totally forgot about this cheesy lounge-lizard closing theme! Of course, I was only about 10 when I watched the show.

[jpiweb]

it's so bad, it's awesome.

[alibarthez]

gENIUS...LOVED IT GREAT MEMORIES.....oh to be a kid again.

[tom6lillie5]

great song thanks for posting it.

[sophie23456789]

For all you brits watching this

The guy sining the theme tune DON SPENCER

Used to be a presenter on PLAYSCHOOL in the 70s

[crowdedenz87]

Don Spencer is actually australian

[spiritladysoul]

remember rushing home from school to watch this.lol

[jimwalsh2001]

Cool graphics - they hold up well.

[chlarkfan333]

Thanks for posting this! I love the song. :)

[sporran564]

I can't remember where I put my car keys, but 48 years later I still remember the lyrics to this song!

[ec64]

LOL!!! Know what you mean!Haaaa.

[bluemoon2181]

ROTFL !!!

[Factnotfictionpeople]

Ah, the beauty of being an 'old fart' eh! I know exactly what you mean! LOL

[abnsupplysgt]

Back in the day, at Christmas 65 I received the ships as a present. I watched the show at my grandmothers house in Brooklyn while my parents were at work

[fraserk59]

Ditto!!

[genuinebombayite]

Awesome trip down memory lane! My sister and I used to sing this song all the time as kids! Thanks!

[a1pie]

i used 2 watch this on channel 4 real early in the morning :D

[diomanUK]

fantastic song. Sung by Don Spencer who used to introduce Play School in the 1970's