Well done Ferret ! I heard this once only, at age 11, and never forgot it. At 41 I saw my 11-18 home site for the 1st time in 23 years- And this song come True !!! Maybe that's why it haunted us through the years...
Also recorded in french by Francoise Hardy entitled LA MAISON OU J'AI GRANDI (the house where i grew up) and in swedish by Anna-Lena Lofgren with the title LYCKLIGA GATAN (the happy street)
Why don't they use the same sites the old stores and buildings are located when building new stores (i.e. Walmart)? I understand sometimes this is not feasible or "cost-effective" but in the long run wouldn't we preserve some of our meadows and other unspoiled natural land?
This song was also recorded in Swedish and became a hit for the very popular singer Anna-Lena Löfgren. The title was "Lyckliga gatan" ("The happy street") with a text that tells the sentimental story of the old happy neighbourhood that eventually became completely damaged and modernised. The song is uploaded to Youtube - search for "Lyckliga gatan"
@IngemarLindqvist I moved to Sweden a few years ago and heard Lyckiga Gatan on Lugnafavoriter (radio station) and thought, "I know that tune"!!. It was haunting me until I was speaking to my bro today and he told me this tunes name.
JimmyTheFerret: As ngatimozart said, "You have put together a real neat video. Well done." Also, as TheMisstintin said, "Even though it makes me want to cry, i can't stop listening to it."
It's so nice to see a posting and a thread that has only praise, no slams.
Well done mate. this song I remember from when I was a kid many jam seasons back. Like others it is a song that has haunted me over the years and finally a couple o years ago i found a copy of it. You have put together a real neat video. Well done. Paul (NZ)
got this record for my 15th. birthday from my sister in law and thought it a chick song lol now iam 59 i love it youth has always been wasted on the young
heard this song back in the 60's...and loved it...It's a shame Verdelle never persude this career and instead just dropped out of site never to be seen or heard from again....I hope shje is /has done well in her life...
One of those wonderful songs that I heard once or twice on the radio, more than 40 years ago, and the wish to hear it again has haunted me ever since. Now I think of the multilane highway they built on the fields and hills near where I lived, and how much else has changed around me. Thanks for posting ..
The video is beautiful, the meadow scenes are just as I imagined they would be back in 1966. Still stands as an indictment of urban sprawl. (also on my FB Wall)
An absolutely bone chilling masterpiece that hits home with the same impact that it did in mid-1966. Probably one of the best string arrangements ever committed to record, as well. By the way, for Baskerville22, Sandy Posey's Single Girl came along about six months after this record charted.
I remember this song so well from 1966, and was so glad to find such a great posting of the song on youtube. Thank you so much from a Tennesseean transplanted to Detroit at the age of fourteen!
When she sings "the meadows will wait" the picture looked like I imagine the inside offices of the World Trade center looked--just before the planes hit.
Actually, at the time of "Tar And Cement," Sandy Posey did, indeed, have a hit record. But that hit record was "Born A Woman." Sandy's recording of "Single Girl" wasn't popular until four or five months later.
i heard it sung by Celentano and Ramazzotti a moment ago and i was trying to remember which French singer covered it. Hearing it sung by a woman makes it easier to remember Francoise Hardy :) though i vaguely remember a French male singer covering it, someone like, say, Joe Dassin. i'll continue looking around :)
I first heard this song a few years ago when I emigrated to Australia (I've since moved back to the UK). It was a massive hit Down Under in the 1960's. Apparently, many of the hundreds of thousands of Brits who emigrated to Oz in the 50's and 60's helped to make this a hit in Oz as it reminded them of the Green and Pleasant Land they had left behind. Instead what they found was a dry, dusty and harsh continent!
Verdelle Smith got a raw deal from the music industry. Her one album was excellent. She supposedly was not very comfortable singing in large concert halls due to her inexperience, and wasn't given a chance to record other songs. In my opinion she was one of the best female pop singers and should have had the opportunity to record more.
I appreciate the video, mostly tasteful pictures with good lap dissolves. Seeing that building in London that looks like a V2 rocket really cracks me up. Would be more effective if it were aerial shots of, say, downtown Houston, interspersed with crowd scenes. The Thomas Wolfe novel "You Can't Go Home Again" comes to mind.
WHEW, this is a VERY rare one to hear. Until WDJO in Florence KY played it about a year ago, I last heard it on WYGO in Corbin KY in 1971-is that Trivial Pursuit or what????????
I used to own this record, when it went missing I could not find it. Now, with your help I can once again enjoy it's message and beat. Wish I had my old 45's back, my youth, also.
I was just at a brand new Wal-Mart in Saline Mi, tonight. I was thinking much the same thing (Peter Pan is my fave fantasy charater too). I remember when the new Wal-mart site was trees and grass- just over a year ago. I love this song now as I did when it was new.
If we stopped spending monies at Walmart, it would be a good thing. This remains the best Environmental song ever, is, indeed, the Leonardi DaVinci of Environmental songs. You Construction people are the enemy. You people should re-locate to the Planet Pluto.
funny how a song can transport you back to another time and place....in the back yard of the house i grew up in....two paddocks to play in...ride our bikes... this song, now im an adult, always makes me incredibly sad that our children and their children will never experience the lifestyle we had. Progress...mmmm??? beautiful song all the same.
It is seen by some as the GOAT; hard to believe this is Italian in origin. To this day, despise the putrefaction that is a construction site. In the U.S., we gave up our mfg base in order to build malls and Wal Marts which we, at this long and tired point,no longer need.
I used to love this song as a child and can remember singing along with it.
Now many, many, years later, I appreciate the sentiments so much more.
The video is very thoughtfully and skilfully put together and tells the story so well. I thoroughly enjoyed watching and hearing this lovely old song again...Well done, thank you for sharing.
Great job synchronizing the scenes with the song !
hpcwsd 1 month ago
Great song. Too much development going on these days.
lancemckellar 1 month ago
Simply great to hear these lovely old songs, thanks for sharing...Joanie
farmladyful 2 months ago
oh this song surely brings back memories. i have been looking for this song thank you.
Hope you had a great xmas and have a wonderful new year.
NourNZ 2 months ago
What A Beautiful Share & Post ! Thankyou dear...Anita..
anitashelby 2 months ago
Well done Ferret ! I heard this once only, at age 11, and never forgot it. At 41 I saw my 11-18 home site for the 1st time in 23 years- And this song come True !!! Maybe that's why it haunted us through the years...
Scalarweasel 3 months ago
Also recorded in french by Francoise Hardy entitled LA MAISON OU J'AI GRANDI (the house where i grew up) and in swedish by Anna-Lena Lofgren with the title LYCKLIGA GATAN (the happy street)
kristof6770 4 months ago
thanks for the song jimmy this song is very special to me love the clip also thanks again
MrLions49 4 months ago
BEAUTIFUL
ebbrown1 5 months ago
Why don't they use the same sites the old stores and buildings are located when building new stores (i.e. Walmart)? I understand sometimes this is not feasible or "cost-effective" but in the long run wouldn't we preserve some of our meadows and other unspoiled natural land?
daughterofRMS 5 months ago
This song was also recorded in Swedish and became a hit for the very popular singer Anna-Lena Löfgren. The title was "Lyckliga gatan" ("The happy street") with a text that tells the sentimental story of the old happy neighbourhood that eventually became completely damaged and modernised. The song is uploaded to Youtube - search for "Lyckliga gatan"
IngemarLindqvist 7 months ago
@IngemarLindqvist I moved to Sweden a few years ago and heard Lyckiga Gatan on Lugnafavoriter (radio station) and thought, "I know that tune"!!. It was haunting me until I was speaking to my bro today and he told me this tunes name.
JimmyTheFerret: As ngatimozart said, "You have put together a real neat video. Well done." Also, as TheMisstintin said, "Even though it makes me want to cry, i can't stop listening to it."
It's so nice to see a posting and a thread that has only praise, no slams.
Mcrevis007 5 months ago
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IngemarLindqvist 7 months ago
love this.......... can so relate to it
firefish21 10 months ago
LOVE THIS SONG, ALWAYS HAVE, ALWAYS WILL. THANK YOU.
peteriuliano 1 year ago
I love love love this song....even though it makes me want to cry, i can't stop listening to it...
TheMisstintin 1 year ago
great tune.special.i just watched the long version.this was too much to put on 45.i like the long version,either way just a spectacular song.
nomiclas 1 year ago
Well done mate. this song I remember from when I was a kid many jam seasons back. Like others it is a song that has haunted me over the years and finally a couple o years ago i found a copy of it. You have put together a real neat video. Well done. Paul (NZ)
ngatimozart 1 year ago 2
GREAT JOB MATE, WELL DONE, VERY GOOD SONG.
REGARDS. LEON
greenfee100 1 year ago
got this record for my 15th. birthday from my sister in law and thought it a chick song lol now iam 59 i love it youth has always been wasted on the young
dendian2001 1 year ago
it's too a song of Adriano Celentano... Italians Singer... "Il ragazzo della via Gluck"...
I didn't known this version...
Beautiful...
Sm1666 1 year ago
I love this song, and had no idea she was an African American.
Just goes to show you that there is more to Crap and Bip Bop rubbish.
59whiterabbit 1 year ago
heard this song back in the 60's...and loved it...It's a shame Verdelle never persude this career and instead just dropped out of site never to be seen or heard from again....I hope shje is /has done well in her life...
Tiebor12 1 year ago
One of those wonderful songs that I heard once or twice on the radio, more than 40 years ago, and the wish to hear it again has haunted me ever since. Now I think of the multilane highway they built on the fields and hills near where I lived, and how much else has changed around me. Thanks for posting ..
jonathanbirchley 1 year ago 11
I'm 36 and this was one of my favorites when I was a kid. I used to play the 45 on my record player. =)
Thanks for the great post, it's excellent quality!
Nicronon 2 years ago
@Nicronon
Your parents' 45----? The song is 8 year older than you.
lumpagogo 1 year ago
One of the most beautiful songs of 60s. Wonderful!!!!
varistbi 2 years ago
The video is beautiful, the meadow scenes are just as I imagined they would be back in 1966. Still stands as an indictment of urban sprawl. (also on my FB Wall)
paeanhera 2 years ago
One of my ALL TIME favorites..!! I remember when it first came on the radio.. then I bought the 45.. and finally the CD. I still play it often.
Btw, earth's population has DOUBLED since this song came out..!
Century25 2 years ago
An absolutely bone chilling masterpiece that hits home with the same impact that it did in mid-1966. Probably one of the best string arrangements ever committed to record, as well. By the way, for Baskerville22, Sandy Posey's Single Girl came along about six months after this record charted.
MikeBlitzMag 2 years ago
I remember this song so well from 1966, and was so glad to find such a great posting of the song on youtube. Thank you so much from a Tennesseean transplanted to Detroit at the age of fourteen!
justmusicandme 2 years ago
When she sings "the meadows will wait" the picture looked like I imagine the inside offices of the World Trade center looked--just before the planes hit.
roanoke703 2 years ago
Excellent presentation, well done.
RKoerntjes 2 years ago 2
i could not but agree with you .one of my favourite songs Nad i am 65 years young Tony armour Wallaroo south Australia Australia
A lot of time put in to the production of this site
19tony1944 2 years ago 2
I always think of Sandie Posey's A Single Girl when I hear this - i think they were in the charts at the same time.
Baskerville22 2 years ago
Actually, at the time of "Tar And Cement," Sandy Posey did, indeed, have a hit record. But that hit record was "Born A Woman." Sandy's recording of "Single Girl" wasn't popular until four or five months later.
vandywilliam 2 years ago
play this alongside FourPlusTwo's Concrete and the Clay and you have a nice building material-related medley!
Oscar301 2 years ago
i heard it sung by Celentano and Ramazzotti a moment ago and i was trying to remember which French singer covered it. Hearing it sung by a woman makes it easier to remember Francoise Hardy :) though i vaguely remember a French male singer covering it, someone like, say, Joe Dassin. i'll continue looking around :)
mcasual 2 years ago
I first heard this song a few years ago when I emigrated to Australia (I've since moved back to the UK). It was a massive hit Down Under in the 1960's. Apparently, many of the hundreds of thousands of Brits who emigrated to Oz in the 50's and 60's helped to make this a hit in Oz as it reminded them of the Green and Pleasant Land they had left behind. Instead what they found was a dry, dusty and harsh continent!
bigbangtheoryiswrong 2 years ago
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lickdeznuts 2 years ago
Verdelle Smith got a raw deal from the music industry. Her one album was excellent. She supposedly was not very comfortable singing in large concert halls due to her inexperience, and wasn't given a chance to record other songs. In my opinion she was one of the best female pop singers and should have had the opportunity to record more.
VealParmigiana 2 years ago 2
I appreciate the video, mostly tasteful pictures with good lap dissolves. Seeing that building in London that looks like a V2 rocket really cracks me up. Would be more effective if it were aerial shots of, say, downtown Houston, interspersed with crowd scenes. The Thomas Wolfe novel "You Can't Go Home Again" comes to mind.
paeanhera 3 years ago
memories......
JoMil09 3 years ago
WHEW, this is a VERY rare one to hear. Until WDJO in Florence KY played it about a year ago, I last heard it on WYGO in Corbin KY in 1971-is that Trivial Pursuit or what????????
bellbrookbob 3 years ago
I used to own this record, when it went missing I could not find it. Now, with your help I can once again enjoy it's message and beat. Wish I had my old 45's back, my youth, also.
jbvps359 3 years ago 2
There was only one Peter Pan, just as there is only one Mother Nature which we continue to Wal-Mart to death at a record (sorry) pace.
lumpagogo 2 years ago
I was just at a brand new Wal-Mart in Saline Mi, tonight. I was thinking much the same thing (Peter Pan is my fave fantasy charater too). I remember when the new Wal-mart site was trees and grass- just over a year ago. I love this song now as I did when it was new.
roanoke703 2 years ago
If we stopped spending monies at Walmart, it would be a good thing. This remains the best Environmental song ever, is, indeed, the Leonardi DaVinci of Environmental songs. You Construction people are the enemy. You people should re-locate to the Planet Pluto.
lumpagogo 2 years ago
Very good song, thanks for sharing
plattform5163 3 years ago
Ah...Memories of the fabulous sixties
steverow50 3 years ago
funny how a song can transport you back to another time and place....in the back yard of the house i grew up in....two paddocks to play in...ride our bikes... this song, now im an adult, always makes me incredibly sad that our children and their children will never experience the lifestyle we had. Progress...mmmm??? beautiful song all the same.
betsycoo 3 years ago
This is an excellent song with a slide show to match, thanks for the posting and the professional production!
68enxy 3 years ago
i prefer la maison où j'ai grandi!
lujimamo 3 years ago
It is seen by some as the GOAT; hard to believe this is Italian in origin. To this day, despise the putrefaction that is a construction site. In the U.S., we gave up our mfg base in order to build malls and Wal Marts which we, at this long and tired point,no longer need.
lumpagogo 3 years ago
Good song, but my fav by her is "In My Room."
It's sad and powerful, real existential gold.
Find it.
fiekearsley 3 years ago
I used to love this song as a child and can remember singing along with it.
Now many, many, years later, I appreciate the sentiments so much more.
The video is very thoughtfully and skilfully put together and tells the story so well. I thoroughly enjoyed watching and hearing this lovely old song again...Well done, thank you for sharing.
SrGoldenHair 3 years ago
good song...
blacflag 3 years ago