The Ballad Of Bonnie & Clyde - Georgie Fame & Blue Flames

[sauquoit13456]

On this date in 1968 {Feb. 17th} "The Ballad of Bonnie and Clyde" entered Billboard's Hot Top 100; eventually it would peak at #7 and spent 14 weeks in the Top 100...

Ranked 29th on Billboard's Year-End Hot 100 Singles of 1968 chart

Reached #1 on the U.K. singles chart

[LVCrocky]

@reded1905 thats right cuz no future in being a rat plain and simple all rats are liars we all know that gorilla in the joint on a bum rap the other case fedsvs uncle joe and his crew noten but trumped up nonsense waste of tax payers money wall street the bankers scumbag politicians they are the real criminals!

[Darkangelrock92]

R.I.P Bad boy and bad girl Bonnie and Clyde <3

[reded1905]

LVCrocky -sure dude, whatever you say.

[sassygreeneyes01]

Just recently found out thru Ancestry.com that Clyde Barrows is a distant relative of mine. What a surprise!

[RANDCOUNTERMAND]

"THE WALL STREET CENTRAL BANKERS CHORUS" BACKING IT UP---YEP!

[redfordforpresident]

This is about Jews and Clyde Tolson, Number Two FBI man. Jay Edgar Hoover, as I have long suspected through my Pink Dream Catcher, is Aunt Bee of The Andy Griffith Show. Barn-ey Fife and Mister Ed Hooves--instant coffin giveaway. Hoover's dresses came out of Aunt Bee's closet; she was chaste like Hoover. My Bonnie lies over the O-shun. Jews kosher-slaughter dew-laps, cows have those on their chinny chin chins. Chin up, sings Wilbur in Charlotte's Web. Gradjew-ate. The movie too. The Gradjewate.

[RANDCOUNTERMAND]

@redfordforpresident BUTTON THE FLY ON THE BIGOT- BRAND( KKK ARYAN AND SONS-) JEANS-AND BACK IN THE CLOSET, FECKLESS HATE QUEEN----BEGONE!

[RANDCOUNTERMAND]

@redfordforpresident CLYDE TOLSON, ARE YOU SLAMMIN' THE HEROIN-A-GAIN?!

[RANDCOUNTERMAND]

@redfordforpresident sick puppy needs vetrerinarian care-inquire above for details!

[bdicat]

I  68 they tried to ban this song. They did bad, There commin to take me away ha ha.

[LVCrocky]

GEATOR/JERRY BLAVATT GREAT DJ NO MOBSTER DROP ALL CHARGES AGAINST JOE L (UNCLE JOE) AND HIS CREW BUM RAP! ALSO RELEASE STEVE M (GORILLA) BUM RAP AGAIN! ALL RATS ARE LIARS! FUCKEM ALL!

[electrojones]

Bonny and Clyde were a brother and sister who just couldn't get a break She was a beautiful woman and had invented spats, which is how they got there fortune. They had seven children, but only one child survived, who had no babbies of her own. They also had a dog and seven cats, one for each of there babbies. Theey buried the seven cats with the babbies exapt for the one who wasnt dead, who had her cat given to the queen of England in trade for not going to British Jail for Robberies/murder

[hershey1960]

What really disturbs me about these photos are the bullet patterns in the car. Everyone of those bastards went for Clyde's center of mass / heart area where as with Bonnie they all shot at her face!

[TheBookWorm1718]

@hershey1960 And all that overkill over really 10 murders, everybody says 14 but 1 didn't even match any of the Barrow gang members, the first one was a predatory inmate when Clyde was in prison who raped Clyde, and 2 others were prisoners turned honorary guards who also brutalized the inmates, so you can't really say all 14 of these were poor helpless law abiding folk or whatever. AND, Bonnie never killed ANYBODY, but everybody calls her a killer! Why?

[TeekiesPlace]

Holy cow...I haven't heard this song since it was released in 1968. Man...I love You Tube!

[ThePSYCHOChannel]

This song apparently was released during the time of the film with Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway...does it have anything to do with the film...does anyone know?

good song btw :-)

[57highland]

@ThePSYCHOChannel The song came out a few months after the movie, so the song was probably trying to piggyback on the movie.

[ThePSYCHOChannel]

@57highland

Thanks.

[Th3ShadyW0lf]

@ThePSYCHOChannel it was not in the film.

[ThePSYCHOChannel]

@Th3ShadyW0lf

thanks.

[Darkangelrock92]

I love this song and the famous couple ;)

[071jsm]

@isaiaselcaco Coming in way late, but "Dueling Banjos" is probably the song you're referring to.

[071jsm]

@isaiaselcaco

Coming in way late, but "Dueling Banjos" is probably the song you're referring to.

[peterzang]

thanks for this. Georgie is the coolest.

[jeaniebthe1]

Looking forward to doing a support set at this Legendary fella's gig on the 8th May in North London! Got my dancing shoes ready :)

[woodyt56]

I remember my then one-and-a-half-year-old niece standing in her baby bed and dancing whenever this song came on the radio back in '68.

[etbella3]

Jay Edgar Hoover's lifelong companion was Clyde. The world's Number One Natural Law Enforcer hated banks as much as any red-blooded American.

[etbella3]

@etbella3 First we kill all the lawyers, said Shakespeare. But in Shakespeare's day, all the bankers were lawyers.

[VampilaAtelier]

Love that song ! Thanks, Willy !!!

[CaptainBluebear08]

You just gotta love 'em, esp Clyde with his Eastham jail raid. Of course that in particular meant his (their) death sentence. R I P

[etbella3]

@MichaelJack09 I'm a crazy bitch but I fuck so good you'll get over it.

[etbella3]

@etbella3 Are you me? Oh, I am me. I wrote this ages ago.

[etbella3]

@etbella3 I love me. Doesn't everybody? The good, the bad and the ugly betty's?

[etbella3]

@etbella3 When you hate everybody, everybody loves you. Try it.

[Slipstream2009]

9 people have no taste and blow bieber

[baldbollocks]

ohhh reminds me of the 60/70 radio.............

absolute torture !

[BonnieClyde2010]

@MichaelJack09 (A) i knowww 4th January bitseach (6)

[BonnieClyde2010]

Wow some fucking funky tunes here LOLL MichaelJack09 <-- That bitseach is my Clyde ;h

[telekenisis9]

I don't like the fact he is saying they are the devils children aNd that they laughed about killing an officer

[thesurpriseshow]

Sounds to me like Soupy Sales & Randy Newman.

[AnthonysDen]

Even though this came out after the movie back in the late 60s,it'd be nice if it was featured in a remake of the film if Holloywood ever decides to.

[greaserleo]

bonnie and clyde are heroes of the new world.

[MehefinHeulog]

neat vid!!

a classic

[PICTOM]

great stuff...

[ENACODNOM]

And even #1 in Italy!

[Abitibidoug]

I also remember hearing this song back in 1968 but have rarely heard it since. I wonder if it was wrote in response to the Bonnie and Clyde movie of 1967. Thanks for posting this classic.

[slimfchance1]

I remember when this song was on the radio... I was amazed. I haven't heard it since it dropped off the charts. Thanks for posting!

[szewei85]

damm...how i wish i was born in the depression era...these legendary outlaws have just proven us generation Y that the bureau of investigation is like a bunch of crap manage by part time rookie cops...its no wonder the bureau got pwnd so badly that they should b splash with american piss thrown by the citizens...haha

[motorsportsgarage]

They give Bank Robbers a bad name John Dillinger 1933

[olarcial]

By far the best song about the legend of Bonnie and Clyde. It fits the story like no other. Bonnie and Clyde became killers on the run because they had not much of other choices. They knew they would be killed some day so they killed to live another day. Bonnie graciously chose to die with Clyde. They had to be caught and killed.

The couple, the dusty roads, a Ford V8, the guns and the death, so a story was made and turned into a legend by the sound of a song:

The ballad of Bonnie and Clyde.

[agarfan]

Mad-dog killers who got what they deservrd. Great song 'though!

[sweeneytoddluvver12]

actually they didn't kill a mass of people, really.. they only killed a few. i do agree with the whole "mad-dog killers" though.

[scottygirlify]

Is 14 people "a few"?! That's 14 too many!

[sweeneytoddluvver12]

true, true, I must agree. But there are numerous people that have killed ultimately much more than 14 and are little-known... bonnie and clyde got their fame because of the time period, the situation, and that they were a couple. :) Just standing up for the other crazed physcopaths that don't get their say. haha.

[Cheetahsmonk]

Well we didnt live in those times so nobody knows what they were up against. Who knows mayb ehe got depserate or just got in with the wrong kind when he was a kid. Didn't he have an older brother who was just as bad?

[57highland]

Clyde was actually worse than the older brother (Buck).

[peterm3964]

Clydes' preferred weapons .

1: Ten guage shotgun

2: Browning BAR . These are both very lethal weapons . The BAR in particular . This became the " Squad automatic weapon" of WW2....

I think a modern version of this movie is well overdue.

[mfp508]

Dillinger never commented on anything publicly as he was a criminal..let alone your most likely illegal Mexican Ass.

[Bopalena]

Even John Dillinger called Bonnie and Clyde trash.

[NOTORIOUSNIGGLET]

Theres juct not enough songs about that end with a " Wah Wa Wah Waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahh"

[melissapenrod]

Bonnie never even fired a gun. The surviving members of the gang always said that. Clyde got trapped and couldn't get out of that life.

[royalcourtier]

Bonnie never fired a gun because she was too busy re-loading guns for the others. Clyde wasn't trapped - he was gang leader. He could have given up, but preferred to kill and rob. There was nothing romantic, noble or honourable about either of them.

[konghaakon0]

But this song is cool :)

[psychkoala]

It does have excellent music, and is very well performed.

I didn't realize Georgie Fame did this. Mitch Mitchell, the great drummer of the Jimi Hendrix Experience, was in his band at one time.

[57highland]

They borrowed the opening piano riff from Fats Domino's "Blue Monday." Listen to it sometime and you'll see.

[psychkoala]

Absolutely true; but I will say that Clyde had a real talent for handling guns. Very quick. Read up on it. Amazing.

Too bad he chose the dark path.

[musicaltheatergeek79]

@royalcourtier but in her memoirs, Blanche mentions Bonnie firing guns at the battles. Even DW Jones said she fired a gun before he changed his tale.

[timboss56]

Is this the same guy that sings Welcome back Kotter?

[willy3411]

That would be John Sebastion, formerly of the Lovin' Spoonful.

[Waldocounty]

willy3411: The name is Sebastian. His father was a music star in the1930's-40's.

[zigzag909]

Ha ha ha ha

[Waldocounty]

"left him lying in a pool of blood and laffed about it all the way home" is the most accurate line in this catchy tune. Bonnie & Clyde were anti-social criminals. Got their "reward" in the end. They asked for it, they received it.

[Matty4]

Yup they certainly did

[doglips1958]

@Waldocounty Ask and ye shall receive.LOL

[triptoheaveandho]

this song al;wayswas great havent heard it iny ears but it is still cool!

[FreeEnergyEngineer]

I think it's illegal for law enforcement to open fire on someone with out a warning. I think that those officers should be relabeled as cowardly murderers on the same level as Bonnie and Clyde.

[Waldocounty]

FreeEnergyEngineer: Well, clueless one, that may be your opinion, but this was 70 years ago. It was about eradicating the scabs and leeches on a Depression-era society. Take the necessary measures. "Political correctness" played no part then . Don't try imposing it now.

[57highland]

Are you talking about the same Depression in which many people who never robbed anyone and always worked hard lost their homes and farms anyway? Someone should have "corrected" that.

[ibwilliamsi]

He was also a Van Morrison's producer from '89 to '97.

[AnthonysDen]

What a great song this is!It's too bad it wasn't used in the movie 'Bonnie & Clyde' with Warren Beatty & Faye Dunaway back in '68(or was it '67?).

[Waldocounty]

AnthonysDen: As the poster notes, this is from '68, the highly fictional movie was '67. Even the song is fictional. There was no "federal deputation," B & C weren't "walking in the sunshine" when the shooting happened. Anyway, the song is entertaining.

[charliedontsurf70]

thats because it came out affterwards-the movie inspired the song.

[usmcfutball]

Georgie Fame was an Englishman who thought enough of Warren Beatty's movie to write this 'Americana' song. Plus, Bernie Taupin (Elton John's lyricist) was fascinated by American gangsters so much he wrote "Ballad of Danny Bailey" which mentions John Dillinger. Go figure.

Perhaps explains why a Yank like me is infatuated with the history of the British Royal Navy. Some things can be shared.

[Celticstrat]

Good information mate. Cool tune!

[Waldocounty]

This song was a 1-hit wonder capitalizing on the "Bonnie & Clyde" movie with Faye Dunaway and Warren Beatty. To Slagdar, yes, Bonnie & Clyde "actualy [sic] existed." They were two-bit thieves, killers, and insecure anti-social predators who took pleasure in killing (1) law enforcement agents and (2) innocent store clerks and business proprietors. It was all about them. They felt themselves entitled, at gunpoint.

They richly earned their fate. They asked for it, knew it, and got it.

[lrd9999]

Not exactly a "one hit wonder"; Georgie Fame had one other US hit (Yea Yea) and a bunch of hits in the UK.

[mfp508]

It was Clyde Barrow. "Bonnie and Clyde"came many years afterward. Clyde Barrow. Bonnie was just along for the ride.

[blackmumba111]

excuse me?  Bonnie, as one witness stated, was deffinately as active as Clyde. According to the witness statement, Bonnie nonchalantly shot a cop in the head in the middle of the street.

[FluffyCerberus]

Actually, in the book "Public Enemies," Bonnie wasn't much for firing guns. However, she was very adept at loading them very fast for the gang.

[57highland]

Thank you, Mr Waldo, for making your point so clearly! (I'll bet you watch Nancy Grace every night!)

[SEVFEST]

To The Poster..... This is Georgie fame (Without) the Blue Flames..... Great Song, and Nice job on making the video.

[Slagdar]

I diddnt wanna believe it at first but this duo of bankrobbers actualy existed.

[1spj]

excelent vid 5****+

[willy3411]

The song "Foggy Mountain Breakdown", by "Flatt and Scruggs:

[071jsm]

@willy3411 I'm way late, but he's probably thinking about "Dueling Banjos".

[smithwicks2]

Back in 1972 , I brought this 45 record to school and played it on the class record player for the everyone to hear- my 4th grade teacher was so mad she almost had me sent home- she said it was "full of violence!!" -man o man how times have changed!!!

[usmcfutball]

This is as cool today as it was the day my older brother brought it home back in the day. Exquisite.

[weenyone]

He IS singing in English.

[elspithreid]

GREATTTT S O N G!!!! XXX

[jameycruz]

White Boy with soul.Georgie Fame is too hip.Love his song Sweet Thing it tops The Spinners version.Georgie's great.

[eleventhdr]

yeah well i had this 45 record when i was a teenager back in 1967 68 and i wore it out playing it so then years later i found it again and i still have those records.

but just one thing what makes you think that they ever really killed bonnie and clyde they probaly planned the whole thing and got away somewhere back in 1934..

[eleventhdr]

yeah well i had this 45 record when i was a teenager back in 1967 68 and i wore it out playing it so then years later i found it again and i still have those records.

but just one thing what makes you think that they ever really killed bonnie and clyde they probaly planned the whole thing and got away somewhere back in 1934..

[eleventhdr]

yeah well i had this 45 record when i was a teenager back in 1967 68 and i wore it out playing it so then years later i found it again and i still have those records.

but just one thing what makes you think that they ever really killed bonnie and clyde they probaly planned the whole thing and got away somewhere back in 1934..

[54spiritedwill54]

Excellent job!

[Runrome]

metel ghuru

[1spj]

LOL :D

[1spj]

the hell you say. your pulling my leg right, next thing you are going to tell me they have some kind of 33 record too

:D

[snufkin789]

i got it on a longplayer, and that is usually played at 33 and a third. the single lp however would be 45 rpm

[57highland]

yes, and if you are really up to it, you can go at 78 rpm too. but you must find a really old machine for 78.

[1spj]

what kind of record is a 45 got to do with Bonnie and Clyde did you do something 45 times with Bonnie and Clyde to make a record, I googled it can not find anything, I give up what's the record?

[acceitunas]

know ALL the words to georgies songs.

[paul51]

That one got me laughing . . .

[ImperfectUtopia]

loove this song

[wilfr1989]

my mom used to sing this song to me when i was a little kid in new york.

[sorchaOtwo]

Hey Willy! I have never enjoyed a site so much. Found you yesterday and have been back many times and am sharing. I'm the sister of one of the members of Tim Tam and the Turn Ons. I can't thank you enough for the music and memories! Sorcha

[willy3411]

Thank you so much. I am 58 and from the Detroit area and am only trying to relive my youth.

[sgbhroxs]

:o i did a dance to this

brings back memories

[dbd1353]

Wow, having a flashback..Haven't heard this song for at least 25 years..Just a great song..Goes to show how diversified the music was back in the day..Thanks alot for posting this..

[nordicmale]

after all these years, i can not believe they were in their early twenties, they look haggard. love the song

[57highland]

They were living life on the run. That's why they look haggard. In the last few months of their lives, they more or less lived in their car. They were too well-known and too much wanted to check into motels anymore. (BTW, I'm not sympathizing with them or condemning them, just passing along what I've learned.)

[debedwell]

The car they where in is on display in Primm Nevada outside of Las Vegas along with a few other items Worth seeing while in Vegas

[redriverfollow]

That was going to be my question, thank you!

I knew they had it stored or on display somewhere.

It is amazing that back then, somebody didn'tjust crush it like they do so many these days.

Is the john Kennedy death car still around too?

[5oWESTSIDE5o]

rest in peace bonnie and clyde

[bitchyb73]

are you kidding?!!

[5oWESTSIDE5o]

No im not!

[57highland]

I think I first heard this song about a year or two after it came out, and I never forgot it, since I'd seen the movie Bonne & Clyde when it was in the theaters.

[57highland]

The piano riff at the beginning sounds like it's borrowed from Fats Domino's "Blue Monday"

[MacGrurry]

this is one of the first songs i remember liking when i was a kid along with Summer in the City

[bonzohart]

Excellent job! I have this on 45 somewhere but no way of playing it.

[mondosam]

So buy a turntable! They still make 'em, you know...

[bonzohart]

Yeah, but then I'd have to buy speakers. And a receiver. And a place to put all of the above.

Some day, though...

[Grisostomo06]

I haven't heard this since I was a kid! Thanks for posting it!!

[Rodrigoteacher]

Love this song...thanks for posting it too!

[judyblueeyes]

judyblueeyes--OMG--forgot all about this song--thanks for posting.