I’m a seventies kid and loved watching this with my parents… working class entertainment…. Loved it then and love it today .. Innocent times for me xxx
My dad was a promoter in the North of England and also concert secretary for a club in Yorkshire, booking the talent. I met a lot of these people with him including Charlie Williams and PJ Proby as a child. Later, when I could drive and take him further afield, he brought the Nolan Sisters from Blackpool to a wider audience. Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights has been criticised for taking the rise out of Northern club life but those people are wrong. Peter grew up with it just the same and its his affectionate love letter to his childhood and the characters he met on the way up.
@@Spartanm333 Charlie Williams was good. I think he was from Yorkshire, wasn't he? It's a pity that entertainers can't take that route anymore, everything via online/social media etc.
Random power cuts, three TV channels, chopper bikes (had a silver one), strikes every week, rubbish piled up in the streets, new year parties that went on for a week, mobile grocer vans, coal fires etc etc etc, let me tell you despite all that the 70,s were a fantastic decade to grow up in and give me the fondest of memories.
Just lost my dad, my best friend, my mentor, my voice of reason, I miss him everyday, his laugh, his widom…wish they,d build a time machine…would be great to just have one more conversation, rest easy dad…
Takes me back to Saturday nights when there was actually something special on our 3 TV channels.....I was so young but loved this intriguing world of grown-ups when I was allowed to stay up late..... can we turn back time....please...?
Good point. Most of this and other era British entertainment is neatly stacked and ignored as if it never existed, nor it’s people who enjoyed such. If and when at times it’s ever reminisced in publications it’s with absolute derision and ridicule. I often feel as I’ve awoken on another planet 2022.
I found myself singing to. Tie a yellow ribbon around the old oak tree. I truly miss the old days, TV was worth watching back then, now you have hundreds of channels and crap on every one.. except for UK Gold, they still show some oldies
Ive just come across this ! I was 15 when this was on the tv ohhhh i tell you it makes me feel very happy & sad at the same time i loved the 1970s so atmospheric id love to go back jusy one more time & experience it just once more.
We were blessed to ave been around in those brilliant 70s....your right I feel happy watching this and quite sad that those times are no longer. .....😢
@@benmac6147 It’s shit now, freedom being eroded, jabbing us up to the hilt, the world facing an economic collapse and perhaps being nuked out of existence. Not to mention a world cull.
Back in the 70s every town in the North of England had its own working men's club, and this sort of thing was a place where 'turns' were hardened up and occasionally became stars. Like others here I loved the WaSSC. In addition to the turns they demonstrated games long-played like table skittles. I feel blessed to have lived through the 70s, despite all the strikes and the violence by the Northern Ireland paramilitaries. Long live the UK 🇬🇧
All the turns had to play the working men's clubs, that's how they learned their craft. Now, they appear on Britain's got talent, tell a sad story and cry, then are made famous.
I was born in beginning of 80 so missed the 70s but I love seeing this stuff, there's no life outside the house anymore where I live in a small mining town.
Bernard was a professional singer before he was a comedian. He would drop a few jokes in between his songs. Once he realised he could make more money as a comedian and club owner he converted.
I love bernard manning his grandson was in buckley hall detension center in rochdale in 1975 when i was in there i remember the day his grandson was released as bernard came to pick him up in his rolls royce rip bernard you always said it as it was buddy rip.👍❤❤❤
My older sister and I loved Saturday nights alone. Vesta tea, a bottle of cider and the TV to ourselves - The Professionals and Tales of the Unexpected. She was 15 and I was 11.
@@Spartanm333- Sorry; but Woke is nearly always used as an insult itself. But there's good and bad in all forms and eras of entertainment; I love Barry Cryer, for example, and Les Dawson - and (of course) Morecambe and Wise. This I find more interesting than anything else; it also brings back memories of dull New Year's Eves when you're just waiting for a time when you could decently go to bed. We still refer to a bad messenger connection as Colin Compton.
The Brotherhood of Man had the biggest ever selling hit of 76 Save Your Kisses For Me, pushing Elton into second with Dont go Breaking my Heart with Kiki dee.
WAW i know this was put on you tube 8 years ago, So you might not read this, But i never knew Bernard manning could sing Flipping heck, And it was nice to see Russ Conway healthy and at his best, Cause he always suffered with his heart DIDN'T HE. i play the keyboards and i very often do a Russ impression, Great video my friend, really Brilliant footage mate. Yes Im'e an old Bugger, I must be If i remember Our RUSS. Im'e 52 on the 16th of August this year. Goodness me doesn't time Fly.
Who else was around in 1974, and could get into seaside pier theatres as a kid with just pocket money? You could see all the TV stars live on stage. Russ Conway (DSM) was very ill before this appearance on Wheeltappers. He won the Distinguished Service Medal for clearing mines in WW2.
A wonderful group of examples of British singers trying to sound as though they’re from the USA. We were so enamoured by anything that sounded American in those days.
Reminds me of Saturday nights at the working man’s club. Beer as it was called(slops) was 11pence a pint! Pils bottled lager was 30p. Whitbread Tankard or Trophy and Harp lager. Millers pork pie and mustard or cheese and onion roll from the glass cabinet on the bar. Great respect for our elders who after a weeks work,got dolled up for their Saturday night out at the club. Most of us all lived together on the same estates,and yes everyone knew each other.
Anyone else remember PJ Proby as the original Masked Singer on Opportunity Knocks? He was only going to reveal his identity if he won, but he got rumbled pretty quickly so it didn't matter that he the audience thought he was shit.
Big shout out to Martin, Lee, Nicky and Sandra - still singing together all these years later. BoM was initially meant to be a vehicle for rotating singers. After the current line up came together, the concept was abandoned and they enjoyed many hits with singles and albums. Famously, they won Eurovision in 1976 with “Save all your kisses for me.”
I guess they were what I remember them being called as were "Turns" , these venues always had a turn on , or act , is that what a "Turn" was , just a band for these places that were regulars but replaced a singer if one couldn't do it , so people knew the name of the band but members changed depending on circumstances. Yet from this to winning euro vision , must have been a huge life changer.
@@lndnflms484 They really were. I remember going to the NME hits of the year concert at Wembley. (I think it was NME) They had all the number one hits for the year and these people came on I think it was for 2 different songs or it could have been 3 that they had had as different groups. lol
Not only the mannerisms but she also acted out the way those mannerisms were captured on film, frame rate wise. Look at his early stuff that was slightly sped up, she captured it perfectly it's ruddy unreal when you realise. I think it helps with the singer thats 'normal' speed, so to speak. Once you see it..... Look at her facial expressions at 25:58 especially and also when she drinks the pint.
Seeing these type of 70's shows reminds me of Noel Gallaghers Black star dancing video which was brilliantly put together with similar footage to this.
Our local club in Gateshead had Emile Ford and the Checkmates on when they were No.1 in the charts with 'What do you want to make those eyes at me for'? in the early '60's. Also Shakin' Stevens and Russ Abbot before they hit the big-time. The Northern Clubs were brilliant venues for new Singers, Groups and Comedians.
Always wondered if that rosette Colin Cromptons wearing is Wolverhampton Wanderers because they beat Man.City in the league cup that year and it would surely nark Bernard being a City fan.
I remember this being on, on Saturday nights, it was popular. Like someone else said though, it depended who was on, they had some big names on and some you've never heard of. Who was the really bad impressionist on this one, I've no idea?
@@TheDOJ-n9teen6t8 beastiality,. It was an Irish wolfhound. The judge said, how low can you get. I said, I've had a chihuahua. Should have kept my mouth shut.
I’m 51 and just watched this with my 79 year old Mum. Like a step back in time to a different and better place.
I’m a seventies kid and loved watching this with my parents… working class entertainment…. Loved it then and love it today .. Innocent times for me xxx
My dad was a promoter in the North of England and also concert secretary for a club in Yorkshire, booking the talent. I met a lot of these people with him including Charlie Williams and PJ Proby as a child. Later, when I could drive and take him further afield, he brought the Nolan Sisters from Blackpool to a wider audience. Peter Kay's Phoenix Nights has been criticised for taking the rise out of Northern club life but those people are wrong. Peter grew up with it just the same and its his affectionate love letter to his childhood and the characters he met on the way up.
@@Spartanm333 Charlie Williams was good. I think he was from Yorkshire, wasn't he? It's a pity that entertainers can't take that route anymore, everything via online/social media etc.
I used to play in the club's with a band..late 70s early 80s. Happy memories.🎸♥️👍🎤
Random power cuts, three TV channels, chopper bikes (had a silver one), strikes every week, rubbish piled up in the streets, new year parties that went on for a week, mobile grocer vans, coal fires etc etc etc, let me tell you despite all that the 70,s were a fantastic decade to grow up in and give me the fondest of memories.
*70s
Couldn't agree more 👏
Loved the 70s...best decade growing up ....
My dad used to love this...wish I could speak to him about it right now..you miss Ur father when they gone..it's the most bastard thing on the planet.
Just lost my dad, my best friend, my mentor, my voice of reason, I miss him everyday, his laugh, his widom…wish they,d build a time machine…would be great to just have one more conversation, rest easy dad…
@@timetraveller9321 I speak to my old man in my dreams..it's not him in spirit like peep wish to think but it's nice nontheless.
@@timetraveller9321 god bless fella,
Meat Pies 10p
Peas on a Saucer 5p
Chicken Basket 25p
Curry Sauce 5p
Good old days indeed!
Takes me back to Saturday nights when there was actually something special on our 3 TV channels.....I was so young but loved this intriguing world of grown-ups when I was allowed to stay up late..... can we turn back time....please...?
There is a lot to learn about how our culture has changed from this. A lot of simplicity, innocent pleasure, good will and camaraderie.
Good point. Most of this and other era British entertainment is neatly stacked and ignored as if it never existed, nor it’s people who enjoyed such.
If and when at times it’s ever reminisced in publications it’s with absolute derision and ridicule.
I often feel as I’ve awoken on another planet 2022.
it's scary... just before Thatcher and NI was a warzone... times changed vastly. I blame technology.
@@Tor010 ...certainly the worship of technology, I agree.
Quite so
These were the best times ever how lucky some of us were to be around in the 70s. Glorious. 🎉
Manning had a superb singing voice
I found myself singing to. Tie a yellow ribbon around the old oak tree.
I truly miss the old days, TV was worth watching back then,
now you have hundreds of channels and crap on every one..
except for UK Gold, they still show some oldies
Bernard Manning was a really good singer.
Ten times as good as the first 'singer' out,
The American slaughtering a 'balad'
Jeez that was tough to sit through.
🤦♂️
better comedien though!!
Ive just come across this ! I was 15 when this was on the tv ohhhh i tell you it makes me feel very happy & sad at the same time i loved the 1970s so atmospheric id love to go back jusy one more time & experience it just once more.
We were blessed to ave been around in those brilliant 70s....your right I feel happy watching this and quite sad that those times are no longer. .....😢
bring these days back with these guys WISH XXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXX
My god why can't we go back in time
You wouldn't be ale to comment here if we did.
Cos it was shit
@@benmac6147 It’s shit now, freedom being eroded, jabbing us up to the hilt, the world facing an economic collapse and perhaps being nuked out of existence. Not to mention a world cull.
@@joesmoke9624 yep, I miss the 70s. Tiswas, the Sweeney, spangles, power cuts, 3 day week, strikes, race riots. Aye it were grand!,
@@steveluckhurst2350 My best times were the 50/60’s. The latter being the renaissance of music 🎶
Back in the 70s every town in the North of England had its own working men's club, and this sort of thing was a place where 'turns' were hardened up and occasionally became stars. Like others here I loved the WaSSC. In addition to the turns they demonstrated games long-played like table skittles. I feel blessed to have lived through the 70s, despite all the strikes and the violence by the Northern Ireland paramilitaries. Long live the UK 🇬🇧
14 at this time great times just a better world
Reminds me of the local British Legion social club in the 70s, going in with my dad. Wonderful times.
thaks for the sharing GREAT !
Bloody Nora, I never knew Bernard Manning could sing!
Yes. He was quite good. 😊
I started my career as a musician doing these clubs as part of the house bands they all had back in those days
I was 11 in 1970, and the rest of that decade was fantastic 😁
All the turns had to play the working men's clubs, that's how they learned their craft.
Now, they appear on Britain's got talent, tell a sad story and cry, then are made famous.
Those backing bands were funky as that bass player and drummer are great!
I was born in beginning of 80 so missed the 70s but I love seeing this stuff, there's no life outside the house anymore where I live in a small mining town.
Whole thing
Utterly brilliant
Thank you
David
❤️
Brilliant stuff…Brotherhood of Man and Russ Conway are 2 of my favourites. Who knew Bernard could sing so well.
Bernard was a professional singer before he was a comedian. He would drop a few jokes in between his songs. Once he realised he could make more money as a comedian and club owner he converted.
Indeed he was, a very good singer
I love bernard manning his grandson was in buckley hall detension center in rochdale in 1975 when i was in there i remember the day his grandson was released as bernard came to pick him up in his rolls royce rip bernard you always said it as it was buddy rip.👍❤❤❤
Whoever the bassplayer was in the band during Brotherhood of man's set, is a virtuoso. Amazing playing :-D
@wgdanson Maybe so, but the bass playing really jumped out for me :)
If that’s a live backing band the bass player deserved a big pat on the back for that performance of Brotherhood of man! World class playing.
Smoking in the audience, probably one landline for the entire building and all their kids at home babysitting their younger siblings. Oh for the 70s!
Loved your comment and so very true. Best wishes.
My older sister and I loved Saturday nights alone. Vesta tea, a bottle of cider and the TV to ourselves - The Professionals and Tales of the Unexpected. She was 15 and I was 11.
Miss these good old days so much 😪
Not only a top comment…but absolutely accurate…that was the 70’s….yet we’re all still here.
@@samclinton874 - well not all of us, Bernard isnt, but I know what you mean.
Amazing house band.
The house band is insane!
There’s More talent and fun in this one video then there is in 5 years of shit on mainstream TV today ! Thank the woke dopes for that !
What do you mean by woke?
Stephen parkin.Ultra sensitive!
To what?
@@Pstephen Instead of trying to upset people and create a confrontation Stephen, why don't you do something positive, somewhere else?
@@Spartanm333- Sorry; but Woke is nearly always used as an insult itself. But there's good and bad in all forms and eras of entertainment; I love Barry Cryer, for example, and Les Dawson - and (of course) Morecambe and Wise. This I find more interesting than anything else; it also brings back memories of dull New Year's Eves when you're just waiting for a time when you could decently go to bed. We still refer to a bad messenger connection as Colin Compton.
All this is missing from our world today with much sadness, and now probably will be met with the I'm offended crew!
The British way of life.. well and truly gone!!!
Magic. Pure fun entertainment. Working class people in the 70’s had more class than today’s trash.
A place we’re all age groups could mix.
Go polish your rose-tinted specs, Granddad
Above comment so disrespectful.....
The Brotherhood of Man had the biggest ever selling hit of 76 Save Your Kisses For Me, pushing Elton into second with Dont go Breaking my Heart with Kiki dee.
WAW i know this was put on you tube 8 years ago, So you might not read this, But i never knew
Bernard manning could sing Flipping heck, And it was nice to see Russ Conway healthy and at his
best, Cause he always suffered with his heart DIDN'T HE. i play the keyboards and i very often do a
Russ impression, Great video my friend, really Brilliant footage mate. Yes Im'e an old Bugger, I must
be If i remember Our RUSS. Im'e 52 on the 16th of August this year. Goodness me doesn't time Fly.
Everyone having fun.
Who else was around in 1974, and could get into seaside pier theatres as a kid with just pocket money? You could see all the TV stars live on stage. Russ Conway (DSM) was very ill before this appearance on Wheeltappers. He won the Distinguished Service Medal for clearing mines in WW2.
I lived thru the 70s and did not know that man could sing....Bernard M .....but those outfits of the brotherhood of man oh dear
Many thanks for this.
Thank you for this. 😀😀😀😀😀
In my teens in the 1970s, I was right to think that this kind of stuff only worked when you were in the live audience.
After watching this, I' am very, very glad that I was born in the seventies and grew up in the 80s. Jesus wept.
Traitor
I`m luckier than you. I was born in the 50s and was out drinking and shagging when this shite was onTV 👍🤣🤣🤣
@Fetid Fag-Butt all decades were shit, what's your point ?
I was born in 71 80s was best especially in comedy no one got a offended just non PC funny laughs.
A wonderful group of examples of British singers trying to sound as though they’re from the USA. We were so enamoured by anything that sounded American in those days.
Anyone else think that the guy making announcements on behalf of the committee and ringing the bell looks like Frank skinner
Excellent!
Reminds me of Saturday nights at the working man’s club. Beer as it was called(slops) was 11pence a pint! Pils bottled lager was 30p. Whitbread Tankard or Trophy and Harp lager. Millers pork pie and mustard or cheese and onion roll from the glass cabinet on the bar.
Great respect for our elders who after a weeks work,got dolled up for their Saturday night out at the club. Most of us all lived together on the same estates,and yes everyone knew each other.
Totally agree Roger. I grew up in a mining town and echo what you say.
Did you all wear brown suits?
@@jahno7154 lm pretty sure there were one or two old fellas still wearing their de-mob suits! Cheers!
@Fetid Fag-Butt it was indeed,a sort of dark brown ‘liquid’.
@@rogerburrows2429 🤣🤣🤣🤣
Great Days of LIVE Entertainment👍👍
Anyone else remember PJ Proby as the original Masked Singer on Opportunity Knocks? He was only going to reveal his identity if he won, but he got rumbled pretty quickly so it didn't matter that he the audience thought he was shit.
Nice to see frank skinner running wheel tappers back in his youth 😃
Big shout out to Martin, Lee, Nicky and Sandra - still singing together all these years later.
BoM was initially meant to be a vehicle for rotating singers. After the current line up came together, the concept was abandoned and they enjoyed many hits with singles and albums.
Famously, they won Eurovision in 1976 with “Save all your kisses for me.”
I guess they were what I remember them being called as were "Turns" , these venues always had a turn on , or act , is that what a "Turn" was , just a band for these places that were regulars but replaced a singer if one couldn't do it , so people knew the name of the band but members changed depending on circumstances.
Yet from this to winning euro vision , must have been a huge life changer.
they were session singers line up varied according to who was available
Surprised at how good they are here, they can really sing and with soul too.
@@lndnflms484 They really were. I remember going to the NME hits of the year concert at Wembley. (I think it was NME) They had all the number one hits for the year and these people came on I think it was for 2 different songs or it could have been 3 that they had had as different groups. lol
ladies and gentlemen.... we have a HIPSTER
I would give that lady credit who impersonated Charlie Chaplin, she copied his mannerism's quite well.
Agree!!! She was brilliant.
Among the best I’ve seen. She’s channeling early Chaplin (1914-16)-NOT easy!
Not only the mannerisms but she also acted out the way those mannerisms were captured on film, frame rate wise. Look at his early stuff that was slightly sped up, she captured it perfectly it's ruddy unreal when you realise. I think it helps with the singer thats 'normal' speed, so to speak. Once you see it.....
Look at her facial expressions at 25:58 especially and also when she drinks the pint.
Excellent staging, it wasn’t a club, but a stage.
Who knew, Kate garraway was in brotherhood of man?!? 🤔😁
😂
To busy milking her hubby's death for all its worth completely shameless woman.
Bernard had a good singing voice
Seeing these type of 70's shows reminds me of Noel Gallaghers Black star dancing video which was brilliantly put together with similar footage to this.
Russ Conway. That was when a turn was a turn.
Our local club in Gateshead had Emile Ford and the Checkmates on when they were No.1 in the charts with 'What do you want to make those eyes at me for'? in the early '60's. Also Shakin' Stevens and Russ Abbot before they hit the big-time. The Northern Clubs were brilliant venues for new Singers, Groups and Comedians.
is that brotherhood of man 2 years before they won Eurovision !
You wouldn't get this now. It'd be the Siblinghood of People on stage instead instead ;)
I'm of an age now where the 'grown up's have 'moved over'. What a gap they've left.
Wow how utterly amazing are the brotherhood of man
Mega wake up call
And Bernard singing introduction
Thank you the committee Shunters Club and itv
Reminds me of a song from Godspell or Hair or something,great voices.
OMG We were easily pleased in those days
Still better than x factor though
If there's so many better options now , why are you watching this in April '22 ?
Oh! those heady days when your only expectations were to find a job to pay for your Union Jack bunting.😅
Who was the Chaplin impersonator, she was brilliant!!
Always wondered if that rosette Colin Cromptons wearing is Wolverhampton Wanderers because they beat Man.City in the league cup that year and it would surely nark Bernard being a City fan.
Couldn't believe it ...Brotherhood of Man
And those flares.....
You could have made a tent from those flares!
Was that the embassy club.what memory's . nicking Pop bottles from round the back and selling up road for a penny them were the days
Great stuff from Russ. He appears in another later episode, do you have this one as well?
I used to be on Saturday night
And the south of england mate, maybe we didnt have thr strengh in depth, but great nights
Could have seen that impressionist for a lot longer.
That impressionist was pretty good.
🤣 he was atrocious.
@@michaelmarron8441 the other comments suggest your opinion is a minority one..
@@michaelmarron8441 Agreed. He was terrible.
how life has changed
Bloody hell ...brotherhood of man..they didn't spare the big guns..
Bernard had a great voice!
Shame , most of these people are dead and no longer exist. It's troubling.
On behalf of the committay!
BEAUTIFUL TIMES MUCH NICER PEOPLE THE WORLDS FULL OF SHIT NOW.
Couldn't have put it better myself....times are coming to an end.....god is watching...
Guess you had to be there ....I was and it was sometimes great and sometimes dire but you always went home happy and pissed 😉
well, pissed anyway.😄
that's entertainment 🤣
Is this the inspiration for Phoenix Nights
This sort of working men's club yes
Very similar. 🤣
The country was full of clubs like that.
Kenny fetch me Zantac ! 🤢
and
P J Proby giving a masterclass on overacting
He knows you know 😂
"Mr Probably"
Brilliant! 😂😂
Not many smokers 🤔
Was he doing an impression of Bernard Manning? Sounded more like Jack Smethurst.
The pies are off, tonight, I’ve just heard from the committee!!
I remember this being on, on Saturday nights, it was popular. Like someone else said though, it depended who was on, they had some big names on and some you've never heard of. Who was the really bad impressionist on this one, I've no idea?
The 'impressionist' is Franklyn James who did the club circuit back then.
@@elliottg.1954 ... ok, thankyou.
Wow! I was born two weeks earlier!
why is my next question
@@royferguson3909 my parents reproduced x
It was so bad it was brilliant! 👍😂
Brotherhood of man them clothes oh my god , nowonder I ended up with safety pins dm boots ripped shirt and a glue bag.
The impressionist was absolutely 4king 💩😂
23:05 Mfer on the left doing a rasgueado strum.
New Year’s Eve ?
To think we actually enjoyed this stuff
Bizarre
You'd have to be pissed to get through this ,the mainstream 70's was crap
Nothings changed on that front
I was in jail in 1974. I'm 76 now. Missed this scene.
What for ? Rape ? Murder ? Assault ? Nonce ? Driving offences ? Or did you miss this scene for another criminal activity ?
@@TheDOJ-n9teen6t8 beastiality,. It was an Irish wolfhound. The judge said, how low can you get. I said, I've had a chihuahua. Should have kept my mouth shut.
@@bessiebraveheart How old were you ? Under 18 ?
@@bessiebraveheart lol
@@bessiebraveheart so should the chihuahua
Chuffing good bass player and house band.
The legendary Bernard Manning.