Kenny - The Bump (HQ) |TOTP 2-1-1975|

[honestjoe1000]

Oh my !! i have completely fallen for that poor girl at 2mins10 secs! so adorable!!

[MrShanbert]

Oh wow i'm BUMPING x x x

[57alihoward]

I rememeber doing The Bump when I was a Teenager at school and it was a fun dance to do I wish I could do it now but there aren't any places to go dancing where I live which is Billericay in Essex I would love to do this dance again if I could find somewhere to go and do this dance I remember all the songs that Kenny had in the charts how sad is that I am now into Heavy Metal music my favourite band is Kiss and their drummer Eric Singer I would like to go dancing again but who to go with alih

[Alookard1]

лурк

[fatpizzaman]

The guy standing at Jimmy Savile's right side looks like Australian cricketer Merv Hughes.

[avrere]

who doesnt

[MrCam1961]

R.I.P. Jimmy 2011

[Promoagent]

The bump does anyone still do this dance?

[mrmagicroundcircle]

@Promoagent don't think anybody did it then

[DelanceyVids]

@mrmagicroundcircle I did it, I was a kid, it would get played at the school disco, and we'd all try to smack each other across the hall with our hips.

[orbital47]

yeah 

[sentinel998]

And then a few years later it emerged they weren't the ones playing on the actual records. They were just pretty boys who mimed to it on TV.

[raynarks]

It's funny that if the BBC knew this was a gay song, they would never have played it.

[kevkonk]

Remember this well....

[Mollylurcher]

Thank God for punk, but am I the only one who thinks Paul Cook may have nicked the drums off this for Pretty Vacant?

[unclemort1960]

@Mollylurcher well its well known that he a steve jones nicked loads of instruments .

[JTSmusic]

Definitely a BBC hit-like grandad! 

[shuchr]

lets all spare a thought for jimmy saville rest in peace jimmy last of the great eccentrics

[oscargizzy]

to chilli09 get a life this was great music for the time, better than the crap thay call music these days.

[Chilli0912]

Thank god the 70's is over and it's no long fashionable to look like a posh paedophile.

[puterzhome]

Shit song - great dance. Pulled many times using it!

[Maffytez90]

what a bunch of prats say no more ha ha

[71shoelover]

R.I.P Sir Jimmy

[tazlmc]

OMG i remember this from when i was at school must have be 9 LOL

[chezzeeX]

Which one is Kenny? is it all of them? lol i remember this song ,i was a child at the time and i had older friends who would do the bump dance and get me to join in. :)

[bubs101able]

Called Doggy now , gret tune .

[SuperPanda1971]

Great song. I haven't heard this since I was a little kid, it's still fun to sing along to

[daveytee99]

Did this dance when I was 15 in the Babalou....fab bab....scouser memories...

[fatpizzaman]

The guy standing on Jimmy Savile's right hand looks like Aussie cricketer Merv Hughes. ;-)

Great song too! 

[TheKenfig]

Lead singer is Tim Roth

[moonhair]

Hahahahahahahhhaaaaahahahahaha­aaaa

[theylive23]

Jimmy Savile's outfit...what?

[triumphadelic]

if their manager had been on the ball , he would have pumped them full of speed , stuck them in tight jeans and Gabba Gabba Hey! The Ramones have said in past interviews that they were aware of UK Glam Rock in particular Bay City Rollers and 70's Status Quo rocked pretty hard unlike the soft post LiveAid version.. I bet if you play The Bump from an old LP at 45 rpm it sounds like Ramones... now , where's that charity shop .. Kenny Ramone the lost brother...

[2topstommy]

just so very very good

[bondbug73]

That's it kid....get outta the effing way. 2:09

[akasa231]

as i remember ....a good chance to rub asses with girls at the local disco or youth club...good old days!!

[cqsteve1]

@akasa231 Damn straight! As a 14 year old fella, it was about the biggest thrill I got.

[PaulMichaels2010]

Now we know what the Wombles looked like out of their fur cozzies.

[shakypam]

and thus Punk was born

[sandi43able]

HATE PUNK LOVE GLAM ROCK AND KENNY

[bossendenwoodconvict]

@sandi43able LOVE GLAM ROCK, like punk, LOVE THE NEW ROMANTICS, HATE today's "youth culture."

[peterpiper41]

brilliant pop, just enjoy the bloody thing!

[NorthSea0il]

LOL!

[bloggulator]

The singer on the original recording that charted was brilliant session vocalist Barry Palmer.... he is not in this video! Mr. Palmer resurfaced as lead vocalist for Mike Oldfield in 1983 for the multiplatinum "Discovery" album.

[Loobs666]

It's the revenge of The League of Gentlemen's Creme Brulee.

[RockabillyAutopsy]

Drums: Ron Weasley.

[RockabillyAutopsy]

Awesome. I was just thinking about this song. It's funny that "doin' the bump" got associated with disco and this song got forgotten in all the racket.

Don't do the Bump while sitting in a rolling swivel chair on linoleum. I ended up ten feet away XD

[sandi43able]

the one with dark curly hair thank you very much

[sandi43able]

does anyone know the one in the middle I wish to know his name thanks

[9thprotocol]

@sandi43able his names 'Chris Redburn'.

[d1nonlysnshn]

Yes-that was in my time and it was the bomb-and I ain't making any excuses for it!

[cuddlybear47]

So no miming here then

[deejayy2k]

@cuddlybear47 lol it was top of the pops after all

[WeTheStrange]

I wish I was 14 again.

[showaddywaddyfan]

70'S WERE AND STILL ARE THE BEST!!!!!!

[decker37]

I'm now 47 and this takes me right back to the school disco era of the glorious 70's. Note how this band are having lots of fun and not taking themselves too seriously.

[latka101]

@decker37 "having lots of fun & not taking themselves too seriously"... Yeah, those crazy flamboyant queers always appear to be having a swell time. Unfortunately for them, god is not amused, thus it has punished them with a death sentence of the AIDs.

[FlamingFairy]

@latka101 Wow - you really are a piece of work, aren't you? What must life be like for you, so full of hatred and bitterness? I dread to think.

[TomthatiscalledTom]

@latka101 Do you have someone who looks after you?

[mozzieanneisme]

By the way I loved Kenny. xx

[mozzieanneisme]

I cannot understand looking up or watching a video by a band or group you are not interested in at all. What a waste of time. Most people would not dream of doing that at all. What is the point , it is not like you are going to change the minds of their fans and convert them to turning against liking a band. Different if it could happen, but it doesn,t so why waste time doing it. xx Enjoy your life doing things that are not a waste of your life.

[maz3705]

NOTHIN GAY HERE

[TheNightBadger]

This was originally the B-side to the Bay City Rollers single 'All of Me Loves All of You'. Clearly the people that wrote it (I believe Martin / Coulter) thought they could do something better with it. They were right - it's tacky, but it's also exactly what school disco's were made of. It got to # 3, whereas the Rollers A-side had peaked at # 4 (though their album at the time made it to # 1).

[ucammark]

The 70s was a great decade for music apart from this lot, the Rollers and Gary Glitter

[TWENTIETHCENTURYBABY]

Lyrically it's crap, but it's a great song to dance to and I love it.

[crazydavedisco]

I used to play this shit when I was doing mobile disco's back in the 70's and I hated it then, and it hasn't improved over time. It's still shit !

[Kevino1956]

@crazydavedisco But you still came looking for it did'nt you so Admit it you really do like it Don't you.lmao

[coolyjojo]

When I first heard the beginning of this record on the radio back in '75, I thought it was the Glitter Band's new song, but then they started singing in high notes and I got very dissapointed.

[HughieDixon]

i know their drummer lol

[NeilThompson30]

Enfield's finest

[ajondyh]

I had so many slaps dancing to this :)

[146000000000000000]

素晴らしい！！

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[stafylides]

Yep, I remember this one! we used to sing and dance to it at school, I was 13 back then!  ah memories!...

[Chriskaraokeman]

A 70's classic, if you wasn't there at the time , its your tough shit. A top tune for a 12 year old, and still a classic at 48 !

[rockerbox1973]

@Chriskaraokeman i was there and i agree with you mate!

[clarkko1000]

@Chriskaraokeman yir rite lad LETS DO THE BUMP.

[stakka79]

Jesus....Thank God for punk

[uclrichard]

@stakka79 true - but don't forget that in early 75 bowie was recording 'young americans' and lou reed had cut 'berlin' while these muppets where dumping their crap on TOTP....even kraftwerk were assaying the first version of autobahm...and the new york dolls had started headlining with debbie harry...

chart music was awful when i was a teenager in the 80s (duran duran, spands etc)...but, behind the scenes, the smiths, REM and prince were about change everything...twas ever thus.

[troops1980]

@stakka79 thank fuck the pistols came along RIP Sid!

[sandi43able]

@troops1980 HATE PUNK LOVE GLAM ROCK

[unclemort1960]

@stakka79 i so agree with you

[CanadianCockney]

@stakka79 

[BigAndTall666]

@stakka79 sellout the lot, thank fuck that shit is over!

[bossendenwoodconvict]

@BigAndTall666 Punk may have been interesting, certainly far more interesting than anything today. But what came before Punk (Glam) and after it (New Romantics) were far more creative. Glam is great; record sales peaked in the early 70's and those stars sold millons of records. Music today is a side show. People are hardly aware of who is number one. If there was a time to be a star it was during Glam Rock.

[Velmapod]

@bossendenwoodconvict great post!



[unclemort1960]

@stakka79 to true mate

[rabblue]

knick knack fucken crap

[sukes58]

this was no 1 for ages

[gizkins]

@sukes58 Mistaken there. This didn't get to no.1 at all.

[sukes58]

i got this reco9rd with his pic on the record and it is worth a lot now

[musicmania19081984]

i was born at the wrong time wish it was the 50s 60s

[twigagawizard]

what... the... fuck...

[Ianseymour]

Fucking fags

[MISTRQ1]

mohlo by toho být víc, to byly časy

[menchitty11]

This song is catchy as hell!! I can't get enough of it! The 70's sure had some fun music.

[coolchicwoman1]

This is for me and my partner in crime Janet

[bw1961bw]

Is that the late Paul "Psycho" Sykes of Wakefield standing next to Jimmy Savile? Lock up your daughters...

[kinkkenny]

Tell me Keith Chegwin is not on this?

[shefju]

Glam Rock? Should have been called Fun Rock !

Love the bumpin' !!

[crazydavedisco]

I was 14 when this song was released in 1974 and I hated it, now it makes me smile - strange!

[akipok]

wow, its a great song !!! Thanks so much for uploading !!! I´m looking for Kenny Videos ! This is the best copy of all i ever seen !!!!!

[khisanth75]

wonderfully awful song! love the drummer!

[ginevras]

Thanks you so much for uploading this. I love it so much!

[Perranporth]

A birlliant little gem from the tail end of the Glam Rock era.

[KOSMICKEN09]

my name is kenny i wasn't aware of this song till now.

[metalbearuk]

Thanks for uploading this glam pop classic in such great quality!