People who criticise this video need to realise a few things about the way things were in the 60s. Firstly, this is a 16 year old kid performing in front of thousands of people probably with a pick-up band with little time for rehearsal, equipment that wasn't designed for such a cavernous venue and no click-tracks or foldback. Concerts in those days were all like that - pack in as many bands as you can, play for 20 minutes and get off to the next town 200 miles away.
my neighbors used to play this song day and night and we all used to sing along and dance, wonderful memories this brings for us and were all in our fifites now , great happy times,,xx
I posted a clip of Twinkle appearing on Never Mind The Buzzcocks in 2001. Can't post the actual link so just search for this Twinkle. 60's Star in the year 2001
The guy behind her playing guitar, on the right, looks very much like Dec Clusky, her current b/f at the time, who went on to find fame with 'The Batchelors'.
She's a babe, Thanks for giving us a great song Twinkle, Have happy memories of playing this song on my mothers Dansette Record Player in her bedroom, Knew all the words and would only be 6 or 7 years old, Big kiss wherever you are, XX.
There was a great cd of all her songs that came out a few years ago, don't know if it's still available.............. But well worth searching for, classic...........
I remember six penny pictures on Saturday morning in the 60s and they played this every week for some time. I found it very sad aged just 9 or 10, kinda haunting. I think I might even have wanted to be the Terry she was singing about :-) yeah sad I know
Don't forget the girl was only 15 when she wrote and sung this song. It got to number 4 in the UK charts in 1964. Her real name is Lynn Ripley and is the aunt of actress Fay Ripley. I wonder what she is doing these days, she will be about 62 I guess?
@r1273m She was only recognised through being an MP's daughter. And this song was a hit because the stupid BBC attempted to ban it in their usual imbecilic and dictatorial way. That gave it more publicity.
love this song.only prob was i was in love with a terry a lot older then me and his song for me was young girl i really thought a lot of him sham he did not feel the same about me.but as the years went past i see him a lot. even though he has past over now and i think i done a lot better in live then what he did rip terry ,
@Freyja1133 It was already a big hit in the UK. I don't know if it was even released here in the States, but even so I doubt if it would have made it here. I don't know which came first, but it's similar to "Leader Of the Pack" by the Shangrilas.
can anyone remember the video to this were rode on his motorbike and she is on that horse chasing him well i wondering if any1 out as the orignal video
Bikers / rockers used to visit a cafe and put a song on the jukebox.Individuals would then have an,illegal , roadrace and try to get back to the cafe before the song ended.
TWINKLE (REAL NAME LYNNE RIPLEY) IS THE AUNTY OF COLD FEET STAR "FAY RIPLEY) FOUND THIS OUT A FEW YEARS BACK. TWINKLE HAD ANOTHER TOP TWENTY HIT (EARLY 1965) "GOLDEN LIGHTS" (REMEMBER SEEING HER PERFORM THIS ON THE PROGRAMME "THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS" SHE ALSO COMPOSED BOTH SONGS- A RARITY ON THE MUSIC BUSINESS BACK IN THE 60'S. SURE I READ SOMEWHERE THAT SHE STILL RECEIVES ROYALTIES FOR "TERRY" SOME FORTY OR SO YEARS ON.
Nervous perhaps to start with but she picks up...after all she was only 15. I love the innocence of her youth and the rare and raw historical live recording.
This was the 'coffee bar cowboy's anthem' back in the sixties, I can almost here the Bonnies and Gold Star's riding off into the distance as it blared out on the juke box, thanks for adding it here tomtokenator.
THANKS FOR THIS==PITY ABOUT THE C**P FILM/POOR SOUND==THIS GREAT CLASSIC ONE HIT WONDER WENT TO NO 4 IN ENGLISH CHARTS IN NOV 64 AT THE HEIGHT OF BEATLEMANIA=SHE CAUGHT THE MOOD AND THEN DISAPPEARED=WHERE IS SHE NOW?? I DOUBT IF THIS GOT A RELEASE STATESIDE BECAUSE IT CAME OUT AT THE SAME TIME AS LEADER OF THE PACK WITH A SIMILAR THEME
@MegaIhateu It was released here in the US but never went anywhere. too similar to Leader of the Pack. I remember seeing it on a record survey at the time .....Terry by Twinkle on Tollie.
Some people think this was a rip-off of "Leader Of The Pack", but in fact it came out in the UK two months before that (although "Leader Of The Pack" was a hit Stateside two months before this, so who knows, and to be honest, who cares? It's a slice of pure 60s nostalgia, and I enjoy it!
Some people think this was a rip-off of "Leader Of The Pack", but in fact it came out in the UK two months before that (althought "Leader Of The Pack" was a hit Stateside two months before this, so who knows, and to be honest, who cares? It's a slice of pure 60s nostalgia, and I enjoy it!
@MrAnfield183 one of my favourite song of the sixties i was brought up with this song my older sisters always played it one of my favourites to sing on karaoke
fab...a great classic.. one hit wonder..so evocative of that time-at the start of the swingin 60s...thanks for post...last time i saw her was back then!
I worked for Twinkle a couple of years ago, and she's still cool. A really nice person and has some great stories to tell over the tea breaks. All the best Twinkle, Jamie, Wight Heritage Preservation.
I met Twinkle waiting behind the curtains to go on stage at our local town hall in 1964/5 and stole a kiss. We ended up snogging! I will never forget her, she was awesome.Hope she is well?
This was hot with the rockers on the M6 that year Bonnevilles and Dominators and woodbines, not bad for a mod chic I guess hehe thanks for the memory!
In concept "Terry" bore some similarities to the Shangri-Las' "Leader of the Pack" (1964), both teenage tragedy songs about a girl lamenting the death of her daredevil boyfriend in a motorcycle crash. The record caused a furore, accusations of bad taste leading to its ban from the BBC.[2] Only 16 at the time, Twinkle owed her rapid entry into the recording studio to her then boyfriend, Dec Cluskey, of the popular vocal group The Bachelors, who passed on her demo to his manager.[2]
I grew up listeningt the original with the revving motor bike sounds (was a little more eerie & deep) mum played it often. Her 1st hubby was named Terry & road a motor bike he did die in an accident - but in his car not on his motor bike as mum always feared... she still cries every time she hears it..... :(
Oh yes! Our mothers were real pop-divas! Have been thinking of this song now, when I`am older. It is a very sad and brutal song to sing for a child! But I loved it! LOL
I met Twinkle when I won a talent competition. If anyone knows where she is now tell her Jakson Lee is on here. She wrote a song called Summer Romance that I was meant to record.
Pure pop for now people.I don't think it's crap given the technology of the time.Brilliant.I can watch it over and over again.I think she was the first British girl pop star who wrote her own songs.And I wasn't there I wish I was
Those were such happy times with songs like "Terry," "Tell Laura I Love Her," "Endless Sleep," "Leader Of The Pack," "Ebony Eyes," "Moody River." et al. It's a wonder that we didn't all commit suicide!
@leoseries This is the first time I've heard this song, and love this "dark side of pop romance." Two of the songs you mention, "Endless Sleep" and "Ebony Eyes," are particular favorites. My mom used to sing "Ebony Eyes" to me when I was a toddler.
@odovicor How could I forget "Teen Angel," (crushed by a train) "Moody River ." (suicide by drowning) and El Paso (In which the singer is paradoxically dead). If we include Country songs, there is enough for a compilation album. "Songs from the Sixties for Suicidal Depressives."
@leoseries Sounds like a cd I would buy! It would have to include "Last Kiss" as well. I've never heard "Moody River" but Youtube will take care of that. Thanks in advance.
@leoseries have you forgotten Endless sleep (attempted suicide/drowning), last kiss( error in judgement),Give us your blesings ( Car Accident),leader of the pack,( motorcycle accident)&PAtches ( suicide /drowning/broken heart)?
Twinkle sounded a lot better on her record Terry than on this live recording and I guess quality is lost in the recording too. I found this song very moving and it had the motor bike sounds on it too on the record. My own bro died after a motor bike accident in1966. So sad how many young men die to this day from bike crashes.
Ha ha! Yes, I suppose she was a better singer! It´s a nice song, but when listen to this video, I´m suprised that her voice sounds so mysterious!!! Pretty voice maybe, but not beautiful!!!
Could never understand why this song was banned by the Beeb, yet Leader of the Pack by the Shangri Las was played constantly. Similar sort of song about the same thing; "Death"
This one it wonder TERRY by Twinkle was a good un!
I married a Terry and still with him after 43 yrs.
@AnElephantsChild Do you remember when the Beeb banned Jasper Carrots' Magic Roundabout because it had the word virgin in it. On Top of The Pops they played the B side Funky Moped. It was so good of them to look after our moral welfare.
@AnElephantsChild I don't think he did crash his bike on purpose. I think he rode off in a frenzy, wasn't thinking what he was doing, and crashed. When she said "Don't do it", she could have meant "Don't ride your bike that way", because of some hazard in the road. At one time, the BBC would not play any death-related records ("death discs") at all.
@MissGization Aren't mothers wonderful? My own mother sang such songs to me when I was a child. Maybe for a little while, while singing, our moms were pop divas.
Absolutely brilliant - brought back memories of my first love TERRY WESSELL. She's great but she wouldn't have got past Simon Cowell on X-Factor today!
Finally, I have found this - brilliant - I was 14 when I heard this and the subsequent Golden Lights which was/is just as good. Fantastic - never forgot the songs but never heard them on the airways over the years.
Oh dear this brings back a few memories. I think it was banned from the radio at one time because of the lyrics, then a few years later Wet Dream( on youtube) for the same reason.
Absolutely fantastic song and video and correct me if im wrong but I discovered that Twinkle is related to the actress Fay Ripley,aunt or something like that.
my late sister loved this song as a kid :). It drove my dad mad because I recall driving through Belgium from Germany (My dad was in the British army) and my sister constantly roved through the radio channels on her black transistor radio looking for this song. LOL....Thanks for the memories
My favourite "one hit wonder". This song was banned by the BBC in the 60s but I remember hearing on Radio Luxemberg and it still got to number one in the charts.
my very best friend who was an hells angel back in the 60s and 70s just died last week ...i really feel like my hearts been ripped out...this song so reminds me of him....r.i.p..paddy..xxxxx
I was 7, she lived next door. As kids, we invaded her house regularly. It was cool - huge cushions insted of sofas, lava lamps oreiental rugs, hippies We thought she was the coolest person alive - Her mother had a shop in Kingston UK, selling hippy stuff, and they took me to buy my first mini skirt - a very bright yellow. Her real name was Lynne Ripley. She was great!
Sung with such passion. Lovely song peformed by a lovely girl.
hoopenhanger 1 week ago
I absolutely love this. It brings back so many memories of my youth.
spotter260 2 weeks ago
People who criticise this video need to realise a few things about the way things were in the 60s. Firstly, this is a 16 year old kid performing in front of thousands of people probably with a pick-up band with little time for rehearsal, equipment that wasn't designed for such a cavernous venue and no click-tracks or foldback. Concerts in those days were all like that - pack in as many bands as you can, play for 20 minutes and get off to the next town 200 miles away.
Mr3sheds 3 weeks ago
Hate to criticise a young girl trying her best, but the voice isn't too good, is it? Very evocative of the era, though. Thank you for posting.
Mrfairchap 1 month ago
This isn't very good.
rascal211 1 month ago 2
I heard this on radio gold...Nice to see the video, takes me back to my teens.
DW60T 1 month ago
What a fantastic video
Singing live as well, nothing nowadays compares with this.
Mind you todays artistes cannot sing...let alone live !!
She is so typical of the many 60s girl Singers, so natural, so pretty.
Using make up in an enhancing way.
The body language, facial expressions, clearly so enjoying what she is doing.
Where is this ?looks a bit like one of the NME Poll Winners Concerts at Wembley, but the back of the stage doesnt look right for that venue
can anyone help ?
dw69ful 1 month ago
I remember singing this out loud with my school friends - happy memories.
DorrisDiaz 1 month ago
Reminds me of my schooldays, we raved over this
9sparrowlegs 2 months ago
i fell in love with Twinkle when i was 8 years old. one of the best tracks ever
roughdiamond51 3 months ago
is anyone else s name terry here? that's how i found the song lol
kaajax 3 months ago
i loved this record ,i played it at home ,a lot
1951susanrad 5 months ago
Could't carry a note in a bucket...
rincad1 5 months ago
my neighbors used to play this song day and night and we all used to sing along and dance, wonderful memories this brings for us and were all in our fifites now , great happy times,,xx
Donnahendo88 5 months ago
i was 2 when this tune came out g8t im neARLT 50 ;) CLASSIC
suzanne0091 6 months ago
I posted a clip of Twinkle appearing on Never Mind The Buzzcocks in 2001. Can't post the actual link so just search for this Twinkle. 60's Star in the year 2001
myclipstore1 6 months ago
@myclipstore1 Have been trying hard to find the clip but no joy .....any help ????? thanks
ArkanTheClean 5 months ago
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myclipstore1 6 months ago
The guy behind her playing guitar, on the right, looks very much like Dec Clusky, her current b/f at the time, who went on to find fame with 'The Batchelors'.
myclipstore1 6 months ago
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myclipstore1 6 months ago
Congratulations for your Birthday this Friday.
ron60mac 6 months ago
She was only 15 when she wrote this
jrgboy 7 months ago 2
Totally wooden but adorable always.
ronninj 7 months ago
She's a babe, Thanks for giving us a great song Twinkle, Have happy memories of playing this song on my mothers Dansette Record Player in her bedroom, Knew all the words and would only be 6 or 7 years old, Big kiss wherever you are, XX.
joeydunlop100 8 months ago 5
this is so sad it reminds me of my dad he died on his moterbike R.I.P dad aka albert lowe sr
pixie14471 8 months ago 4
There was a great cd of all her songs that came out a few years ago, don't know if it's still available.............. But well worth searching for, classic...........
milbury55 8 months ago
I remember six penny pictures on Saturday morning in the 60s and they played this every week for some time. I found it very sad aged just 9 or 10, kinda haunting. I think I might even have wanted to be the Terry she was singing about :-) yeah sad I know
jonsynergy 8 months ago
Is she asleep?
apsscinc 8 months ago
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joeydunlop100 8 months ago
Don't forget the girl was only 15 when she wrote and sung this song. It got to number 4 in the UK charts in 1964. Her real name is Lynn Ripley and is the aunt of actress Fay Ripley. I wonder what she is doing these days, she will be about 62 I guess?
r1273m 8 months ago
@r1273m Bet she's still gorgeous even though she;s 62
joeydunlop100 8 months ago
@joeydunlop100 I'm afraid she isn't anymore.
Londonman84 8 months ago
@Londonman84 Oh right have you seen her? Whats she look like.
joeydunlop100 8 months ago
@joeydunlop100 Had plastic surgery in later life which didn't go too well.
Londonman84 8 months ago
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joeydunlop100 8 months ago
@r1273m She was only recognised through being an MP's daughter. And this song was a hit because the stupid BBC attempted to ban it in their usual imbecilic and dictatorial way. That gave it more publicity.
Londonman84 8 months ago
love this song.only prob was i was in love with a terry a lot older then me and his song for me was young girl i really thought a lot of him sham he did not feel the same about me.but as the years went past i see him a lot. even though he has past over now and i think i done a lot better in live then what he did rip terry ,
sharonann3344 8 months ago
I don't remember her voice being this awful!
daffonfire 9 months ago
Twinkle where are you, do you fancy a snog, simon XX.
joeydunlop100 9 months ago
@joeydunlop100 I was hoping you would call and a rip-roaring SNOG is just what I want, just find me!
kennnmoran 9 months ago
@kennnmoran Sorry a snog with Twinkle was what i was after not a snog from Kennmoran,sorry don;t do blokes.
joeydunlop100 9 months ago
guess we know twinkle couldn't sing, but she looked nice, didn't she? and she wrote some good songs.
cledjampett 9 months ago
Would this song have been a bigger hit ,if it had been released in the states?
Freyja1133 9 months ago
@Freyja1133 It was already a big hit in the UK. I don't know if it was even released here in the States, but even so I doubt if it would have made it here. I don't know which came first, but it's similar to "Leader Of the Pack" by the Shangrilas.
cledjampett 9 months ago
@Freyja1133 It WAS released in the States, and actually was a pretty big hit...
shmuli9 9 months ago
@shmuli9 yeah, but not as big of a hit as Leader of the pack was
Freyja1133 9 months ago
Apt
Kwales66 10 months ago
can anyone remember the video to this were rode on his motorbike and she is on that horse chasing him well i wondering if any1 out as the orignal video
kirky618 10 months ago
Bikers / rockers used to visit a cafe and put a song on the jukebox.Individuals would then have an,illegal , roadrace and try to get back to the cafe before the song ended.
exexaminer 10 months ago 2
Hey cool, one of my fav songs! Thanks for that! xx
jacquitaylor 10 months ago
TWINKLE (REAL NAME LYNNE RIPLEY) IS THE AUNTY OF COLD FEET STAR "FAY RIPLEY) FOUND THIS OUT A FEW YEARS BACK. TWINKLE HAD ANOTHER TOP TWENTY HIT (EARLY 1965) "GOLDEN LIGHTS" (REMEMBER SEEING HER PERFORM THIS ON THE PROGRAMME "THANK YOUR LUCKY STARS" SHE ALSO COMPOSED BOTH SONGS- A RARITY ON THE MUSIC BUSINESS BACK IN THE 60'S. SURE I READ SOMEWHERE THAT SHE STILL RECEIVES ROYALTIES FOR "TERRY" SOME FORTY OR SO YEARS ON.
gilllew 10 months ago
Nervous perhaps to start with but she picks up...after all she was only 15. I love the innocence of her youth and the rare and raw historical live recording.
KavKavanagh 10 months ago
This was also a big hit in Australia. The single was so much better than this performance.
bobsy49 10 months ago
for 1964 she has a cool haircut and outfit, seemed to be ahead of her time : )
DeathShamans 10 months ago
This song is about a biker not a scooter boy and although this video is a bit wooden it is a great son
swimlifeuk1 10 months ago
This was the 'coffee bar cowboy's anthem' back in the sixties, I can almost here the Bonnies and Gold Star's riding off into the distance as it blared out on the juke box, thanks for adding it here tomtokenator.
speedtwin007 11 months ago
@speedtwin007 Just left school in B'ham UK, a haunting song for a young man to listen to! rode bikes ever since.
FRANKY7362 10 months ago
What a damned racket! :-(
drwhatson 11 months ago
She can't sing
BobbyDelRiv 11 months ago
What a wooden performance but I like it nonetheless.
higginbottomd 11 months ago 3
my mates name is Terry Berry, we used to sing this to him, ** terry berry**
5times55 11 months ago
Should have got a Lambretta, ...too expensive to crash
celticboy1950 11 months ago
So good to see a classic like this is available - thank you for sharing.
msfyn 1 year ago
THANKS FOR THIS==PITY ABOUT THE C**P FILM/POOR SOUND==THIS GREAT CLASSIC ONE HIT WONDER WENT TO NO 4 IN ENGLISH CHARTS IN NOV 64 AT THE HEIGHT OF BEATLEMANIA=SHE CAUGHT THE MOOD AND THEN DISAPPEARED=WHERE IS SHE NOW?? I DOUBT IF THIS GOT A RELEASE STATESIDE BECAUSE IT CAME OUT AT THE SAME TIME AS LEADER OF THE PACK WITH A SIMILAR THEME
tim60s321 1 year ago
How come we this didn't hit in The US? Did they relese it here?
MegaIhateu 1 year ago
@MegaIhateu It was released here in the US but never went anywhere. too similar to Leader of the Pack. I remember seeing it on a record survey at the time .....Terry by Twinkle on Tollie.
bobcows 11 months ago
Loved this song forever.
Granny780 1 year ago
I cant understand the Lyrics. Shes a terrible singer but nice to look at.
renzo99991 1 year ago
Could or would sum1 upload the original studio version of this song please.
Rockage1960 1 year ago
amazing lovely song have been searching for this for 20 years and a friend just sent me the link fantastic
mrphiltuz 1 year ago
Some people think this was a rip-off of "Leader Of The Pack", but in fact it came out in the UK two months before that (although "Leader Of The Pack" was a hit Stateside two months before this, so who knows, and to be honest, who cares? It's a slice of pure 60s nostalgia, and I enjoy it!
SouthCoastMackem 1 year ago
Some people think this was a rip-off of "Leader Of The Pack", but in fact it came out in the UK two months before that (althought "Leader Of The Pack" was a hit Stateside two months before this, so who knows, and to be honest, who cares? It's a slice of pure 60s nostalgia, and I enjoy it!
SouthCoastMackem 1 year ago
A fanmazing song. I implore you to listen to the words!
Stemax1960 1 year ago
i only got to know about this song from a mate,two years ago' love the song first time i heard it .thank's for posting.
MrAnfield183 1 year ago
@MrAnfield183 one of my favourite song of the sixties i was brought up with this song my older sisters always played it one of my favourites to sing on karaoke
1956502 1 year ago
fab...a great classic.. one hit wonder..so evocative of that time-at the start of the swingin 60s...thanks for post...last time i saw her was back then!
tim60s321 1 year ago
Memories,oh I so loved this when it came out.
It's still such a classic.
Thanx for posting.
clogwog1 1 year ago
i'd forgotten how great this was :-))
kirid23 1 year ago
I worked for Twinkle a couple of years ago, and she's still cool. A really nice person and has some great stories to tell over the tea breaks. All the best Twinkle, Jamie, Wight Heritage Preservation.
jamieviney 1 year ago
that was good
cian291 1 year ago
I was sixteen when this came out
Chrishew131 1 year ago
@Chrishew131 me 2 and I loved the song !
northeastlady1 1 year ago
I met Twinkle waiting behind the curtains to go on stage at our local town hall in 1964/5 and stole a kiss. We ended up snogging! I will never forget her, she was awesome.Hope she is well?
1georgiew 1 year ago
I was a child of the 60's and she was great and hope she is still doing good now we are all old LOL
cardingtonroad 1 year ago
This was hot with the rockers on the M6 that year Bonnevilles and Dominators and woodbines, not bad for a mod chic I guess hehe thanks for the memory!
Paxtoranious 1 year ago
What chords on this song?
Ro1lle 1 year ago
@Ro1lle A E7 A E7 A A7 D Dm A E7 A
and on the "he rode into the night" it's D D C D E7
WilliamLongfellow 1 year ago
NOT THE BEST VOICE BUT ALWAYS LIKED HER ..LIKE GOLDEN LIGHTS BETTER A GREAT TIME FOR MUSIC
whieldona 1 year ago
my stepdads called terry and rides a scooter
i do worry about him
TheyBastardisedJesus 1 year ago 12
get him to change his name and get a car...!
rezap33 1 year ago
@TheyBastardisedJesus get yourself one, i own two 60s lambrettas but can still only ride one at a time thanks harry
lamdelz 11 months ago
I ride one too and im'e old fat and bald but please ... don't worry about me !
GrandadSue 4 months ago
Sorry to disagree with everyone else. But I saw her live at Gravesend Co-op Hall, and she was awful. As I recall, she even got booed. Sorry.
this0033 1 year ago
@this0033 who cares great song and what a cracking looker ! i was only 6 and fancied her then
yidsyd 1 year ago
So cool. Forgot how good it was, remembering such looks as well.
ScriptWorker 1 year ago
greatr song
helenm194 1 year ago
so many memories love it
mafiawife1 1 year ago
In concept "Terry" bore some similarities to the Shangri-Las' "Leader of the Pack" (1964), both teenage tragedy songs about a girl lamenting the death of her daredevil boyfriend in a motorcycle crash. The record caused a furore, accusations of bad taste leading to its ban from the BBC.[2] Only 16 at the time, Twinkle owed her rapid entry into the recording studio to her then boyfriend, Dec Cluskey, of the popular vocal group The Bachelors, who passed on her demo to his manager.[2]
leratexxxxxx 1 year ago
@leratexxxxxx And of course, once branded a 'death disc' by the media this shot up the charts!
Kevo00 1 year ago
Great finding this, love it
nevtrav 1 year ago
I love twinkles voice
Wasn;t this song ( along with Leader of the pack) banned in the uk?
What was the reason for the banning?
Freyja1133 1 year ago
I cant believe I found this song, I have been listening to this song since 1978 i love it
ballybeg100 1 year ago
who's the backing band...omg whats she doin now
john111257 1 year ago
LSD its really dangerous!!!!
MARCUO 1 year ago
classic song, dont make them like this nowadays
MrAirbus346 1 year ago
Her backing band are The Gonks.
Natnekker 1 year ago
oy you nice girls dont flaunt it x we still out there just shy . god bless tx
tdkuk1 1 year ago
theres still nice girls like uss out there who believe in true love and what not ..keep it real..and god bless you all tx
tdkuk1 1 year ago
loving my terry right now and always god bless you terry tx
tdkuk1 1 year ago
I grew up listeningt the original with the revving motor bike sounds (was a little more eerie & deep) mum played it often. Her 1st hubby was named Terry & road a motor bike he did die in an accident - but in his car not on his motor bike as mum always feared... she still cries every time she hears it..... :(
orsumchic 1 year ago
Jimmy Page played Guitar on this
Ayeyuya 1 year ago
@Ayeyuya On the original studio cut from the UK yes he did!
BUT he is not in this performance with Twinkle..............
sfaster 1 year ago
Oh yes! Our mothers were real pop-divas! Have been thinking of this song now, when I`am older. It is a very sad and brutal song to sing for a child! But I loved it! LOL
MissGization 1 year ago
I met Twinkle when I won a talent competition. If anyone knows where she is now tell her Jakson Lee is on here. She wrote a song called Summer Romance that I was meant to record.
Jaksonlee123 1 year ago
Pure pop for now people.I don't think it's crap given the technology of the time.Brilliant.I can watch it over and over again.I think she was the first British girl pop star who wrote her own songs.And I wasn't there I wish I was
Mega19491949 1 year ago
You had to be there, otherwise it just looks like crap. I was 13 at the time and it was brilliant!
JennieChristian 1 year ago
Those were such happy times with songs like "Terry," "Tell Laura I Love Her," "Endless Sleep," "Leader Of The Pack," "Ebony Eyes," "Moody River." et al. It's a wonder that we didn't all commit suicide!
leoseries 1 year ago
@leoseries This is the first time I've heard this song, and love this "dark side of pop romance." Two of the songs you mention, "Endless Sleep" and "Ebony Eyes," are particular favorites. My mom used to sing "Ebony Eyes" to me when I was a toddler.
odovicor 1 year ago
@odovicor How could I forget "Teen Angel," (crushed by a train) "Moody River ." (suicide by drowning) and El Paso (In which the singer is paradoxically dead). If we include Country songs, there is enough for a compilation album. "Songs from the Sixties for Suicidal Depressives."
leoseries 1 year ago
@leoseries Sounds like a cd I would buy! It would have to include "Last Kiss" as well. I've never heard "Moody River" but Youtube will take care of that. Thanks in advance.
odovicor 1 year ago
@leoseries have you forgotten Endless sleep (attempted suicide/drowning), last kiss( error in judgement),Give us your blesings ( Car Accident),leader of the pack,( motorcycle accident)&PAtches ( suicide /drowning/broken heart)?
Freyja1133 1 year ago
@Freyja1133
Don't forget ebony eyes(plane crash), dead mans curve (car crash) tell laura I love her (another car crash)
And what was the mickey take record with the line
If they keep dying like this, soon I'll be the only one you can buy?
mikethefoto 1 year ago
@mikethefoto Bob Luman Lets think about living, did'nt take long for someone to reply did it ? lol
TENRECORDS 1 year ago
@mikethefoto Mike, the last spng in that genre wsa Run,Joey ,Run
Freyja1133 1 year ago
@leoseries What a fantastic idea, I'm up for that, can we keep the name please
ruband16 1 year ago
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@leoseries what a fantastic idea, I'm up for that, can we keep the title.
ruband16 1 year ago
An amazing performance by a beautiful singer. This is magic!! xx
cricketbat08 1 year ago
That is a fucking HOOT, end of story!
kennnmoran 1 year ago
I love this song
RUBYxORCHID 1 year ago
Twinkle sounded a lot better on her record Terry than on this live recording and I guess quality is lost in the recording too. I found this song very moving and it had the motor bike sounds on it too on the record. My own bro died after a motor bike accident in1966. So sad how many young men die to this day from bike crashes.
funkychicken49 1 year ago
Pure 1960s grand
burnley5960 1 year ago
sad she never made it to be really famous
abseconPC 1 year ago
Ha ha! Yes, I suppose she was a better singer! It´s a nice song, but when listen to this video, I´m suprised that her voice sounds so mysterious!!! Pretty voice maybe, but not beautiful!!!
MissGization 2 years ago
Could never understand why this song was banned by the Beeb, yet Leader of the Pack by the Shangri Las was played constantly. Similar sort of song about the same thing; "Death"
This one it wonder TERRY by Twinkle was a good un!
I married a Terry and still with him after 43 yrs.
JoJoPerrin 2 years ago 3
@JoJoPerrin - Auntie Beeb banned this one because it implies that he crashed his bike deliberately.
They thought we were all so stupid that we'd copy him.
It's the same reason the theme tune from M*A*S*H, 'Suicied Is Painless', was banned for many years.
AnElephantsChild 1 year ago 8
Crashin' out !!!!
sylviaborin1 1 year ago
@AnElephantsChild Do you remember when the Beeb banned Jasper Carrots' Magic Roundabout because it had the word virgin in it. On Top of The Pops they played the B side Funky Moped. It was so good of them to look after our moral welfare.
Nukethelotofthem1 10 months ago
@AnElephantsChild I don't think he did crash his bike on purpose. I think he rode off in a frenzy, wasn't thinking what he was doing, and crashed. When she said "Don't do it", she could have meant "Don't ride your bike that way", because of some hazard in the road. At one time, the BBC would not play any death-related records ("death discs") at all.
verkaforever 9 months ago
@verkaforever isn't that the british eqivulent of Look out ! Look Out ! Look out ! ?
Freyja1133 9 months ago
wold it be ok if there was a american version of Terry ,called Yngve?
Freyja1133 9 months ago
@Freyja1133 I don't understand what you mean.
verkaforever 9 months ago
@verkaforever Yngve would have the same theme as Terry did.... unfatihfullness of the girlfriend Accidental death Motorcycle
The only difference would be the boys' name
Freyja1133 9 months ago
I remember my mother was singing this song, when I was going to sleep, when I was a small child!!!OMG! With this dramatic lyrics! Haha!
MissGization 2 years ago
I bet she was a much better singer than Twinkle :p
Londonman84 2 years ago
@MissGization Aren't mothers wonderful? My own mother sang such songs to me when I was a child. Maybe for a little while, while singing, our moms were pop divas.
odovicor 1 year ago
Apparently Rod Stewart was Twinkle's milk man (or milk boy)...
iangordoncraig 2 years ago 2
Absolutely brilliant - brought back memories of my first love TERRY WESSELL. She's great but she wouldn't have got past Simon Cowell on X-Factor today!
svb9 2 years ago
this song fits in with all of the accidental death songs which were popular back in the late 50s/early/mid 60s
Freyja1133 2 years ago
Yes, it was, peacemonger1967. I hate her a little)))
Luiza691 2 years ago
I heard that the idea of covering her music contributed to breaking up The Smiths!
peacemonger1967 2 years ago
Yes much better times!!
julestheangel 2 years ago
interesting that these guys influenced the smiths
Snoopolli 2 years ago
Anyone remember a parody of this on TW3 'Twinkle by Terry' with Terry at the pearly gates all dry ice and wearing wings and a white leather jacket☺?
MarkB1ngham 2 years ago
does anyone else remember twinkle also sang a song called Tommy?
TheSuecash 2 years ago
remember if well, there was also a German version. You can get the original on ITunes
riva1958 2 years ago
Finally, I have found this - brilliant - I was 14 when I heard this and the subsequent Golden Lights which was/is just as good. Fantastic - never forgot the songs but never heard them on the airways over the years.
minimadalison 2 years ago
I was coming up on 12 years old when this came out, Twinkle had her one and only hit with this song.
Great memories of better times.
HughMartin52 2 years ago
It's because the BBC banned it - that was bound to make it popular :p
Londonman84 2 years ago
What place is high enough to count as a hit? This came 4th. Golden Lights came 21st.
Londonman84 2 years ago
To everyone who has lost someone to a motorcycle crash
motorbikebod 2 years ago
Where is Twinkle now?
Onlooker1959 2 years ago
Fantastic, great memories, think I was 14 when this was a hit, thanks for posting
newrycelt52 2 years ago
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cricketbat08 2 years ago
Oh dear this brings back a few memories. I think it was banned from the radio at one time because of the lyrics, then a few years later Wet Dream( on youtube) for the same reason.
jamico7 2 years ago
could this song have been the prediscessor to Give us your blessings?
Freyja1133 2 years ago
The very first record i ever bought . It still gives me goosebumps.
Could she win the Xfactor ?
657gkc 2 years ago
Memories comes to me when i hear this song ss.
Ginacoon 2 years ago
this is the first day i heard of her and like her music
IWANNABEFAMOUS15 2 years ago
Absolutely fantastic song and video and correct me if im wrong but I discovered that Twinkle is related to the actress Fay Ripley,aunt or something like that.
mears89 2 years ago
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corfusdoodles 2 years ago
Yes Twinkle is Fay's aunt. And my mum knows Twinkle. (:
corfusdoodles 2 years ago
totally adorable.
thanks tom.
Dee
tsaisisbuying 2 years ago
this is my mums fav song fromwhen she was little a love it now lol
iphonefrank 2 years ago
my late sister loved this song as a kid :). It drove my dad mad because I recall driving through Belgium from Germany (My dad was in the British army) and my sister constantly roved through the radio channels on her black transistor radio looking for this song. LOL....Thanks for the memories
JamesArranMcGregor 2 years ago
saw her in a show in New Zealand with the Bachelors and Gene Pitney early sixties awesome love ya twinkle
mataurakiwi 2 years ago
My favourite "one hit wonder". This song was banned by the BBC in the 60s but I remember hearing on Radio Luxemberg and it still got to number one in the charts.
littlebigbrain 2 years ago
my very best friend who was an hells angel back in the 60s and 70s just died last week ...i really feel like my hearts been ripped out...this song so reminds me of him....r.i.p..paddy..xxxxx
lola5257 2 years ago
lola527 my sympathy to you. Please listen to 'everybody hurts sometime' this song helps many people who are grieving...
bettygirlsboy 2 years ago
terry i remember this song its brill
MrCarolinestreet 2 years ago
i use to have this played to me when i was a baby i am now 21 and my name is terry my dad use to love this song bein played when he was holdin me
terryblyth701 2 years ago
I was 7, she lived next door. As kids, we invaded her house regularly. It was cool - huge cushions insted of sofas, lava lamps oreiental rugs, hippies We thought she was the coolest person alive - Her mother had a shop in Kingston UK, selling hippy stuff, and they took me to buy my first mini skirt - a very bright yellow. Her real name was Lynne Ripley. She was great!
CateRen100 2 years ago 12