Toy Dolls - Nellie the Elephant (We're Mad, Sunderland, UK, 1984)
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The Toy Dolls' chart-busting version of the popular childrens' song. All together now: oooooooooooooooooooooOOOOOOOOOOOO!
This video is a celebration of the north of England's most famous punk rock outfit. We're Mad captures the band at their best. Not so much a set of songs as a series of short stories. Packed full of witty lyrics and mad machine-gun guitar licks
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This was actually banned from my local pubs jukebox after it all got out of hand every time it was played.
True Story!
Insert coin, get troubles lmao
Same thing happened in our pub kept kicking fuck out of jukebox when Rene Renata cum on .
Mate you just made my day!
Lol.
62 years old. Have no idea why I found this, but have showed it to my grown Goth daughter and to my grandson. Nice to be in the "in" crowd :D
Lucky! My kid's a furry.
@Karl Wilson Hahaha, mine would probably like it though.
@@0therun1t21 Eh, goths are pretty close to furries in mine eyes
@@markgnarz5399 I think I can see what you mean, is it because of the transformative nature of both?
@@0therun1t21 its the dullard, scenster sameness.
i was sitting here, feeling very depressed and cried and then i remembered this song.. now i'm sitting here, still depressed but with a dumb smile on my face
Timeless.....British eccentricity....punk pathetique.....fantastic musicians.....flawless live.....yes olga is a genius
Paul Williams* :-) * Nice comment *Sending the best of wishes from Scotland*
@nseight I live Belgrade but remember totp.....school was crazy in Liverpool the following day 😂 wishes m8 from Serbia 🇷🇸 😊
Yes, thank's god, yeah!, indeed, hm....., olga? check!
Not Punk you dimwit... they are fascist skin head lovers
@@paulwilliams2663dededdrdddddddddðdddddddddddddddddddddrddddddddddddddddddrrrrrrrrerrrerrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrdrrrrr
2020 anyone? Respect to you all. I know you are all coming back in 2021.
2023 and still here!!!
2024!!
one more right here! what a blast
Hahaha pack your trunk 2020
2021
This track will still be around after 2030 🐘🐘
Yep
This is the nicest punk song I’ve ever hesrd
@ROET 🤔
Τhen you have not heard punk song.listen for a start DEMOB-no room for you and RIOT CLONES-death to humanity .better yet all PUNK AND DISORDERLY ALBUMS
GREETINGS FROM GREECE.
Green Day is the definition of "nice punk".
@@zackzallie8735 no.
Ashbrooke launderette
36 years later and still f***ing awesome!
This takes me back to a time when the entire pub would be singing this, and we`d all be banging our glasses on the tables and stamping our feet to the chorus. Great atmosphere.
Too many "trumps" in this song and too many WHITE people having fun and this obviously makes it a real "RACIST" dog whistle, only when people start using inventions that are from their own race will we end thought crimes aka " hate speech, when Africans find out that they have invented cars, mobile phones, computers, flight and antibiotics to name a few will whitey truly know their place in world history and black Americans as the most abused people in the history of the world not having to fear traffic stops because whitey won't have a car or gun because we all know these were inventions stolen from them by whitey and can't wait for my birthing person/she/her to give birth to our first Black male presenting child,I witnessed Tyrone plant they/them resistance pole in the birthing person as I cried with joy in the corner knowing I did my bit to fight against the racists that still judge people by their content and not by their race or gender, I really hate the bigotry that stops people from seeing colour or who the sleep with, treating people the same is just so racist and we need to use the covid camps for these insane racists that are coloured blind
My mum used to sing me this every night before bed. She was a 70 London punk rocker, but she sang the lulaby version
alright son, a lullaby, **tunes guitar**
F $/%k Yeah , mate!!!
Just imagined her punching you out, unconsciousness with the dance moves...
my mum did that too. I always thought this song was an actual nursery rhyme
I sang my kids "Bloodhound Gang - Fire Water Burn". They loved it...
This was played as the last song of the night in my local pub. The logic was, who would fight after singing Nellie the Elephant? Never had any trouble walking home from that pub.
a good example of music creating peace.
Can imagine what you say is true, even though the "dance" they are performing is almost like a fist fight! 😁
Cause you were carried
a smart good idea !
:-) *
This was my grandads funeral song and honestly I cannot think of anything more fitting for him, ofc no one knew before it played🥲
Paroles :
To Bombay a traveling circus came, they brought an
Intelligent elephant and Nellie was her name
One dark night she slipped her iron chain
And off she ran to Hindustan
And was never seen again
Oh
Nellie the elephant pack her trunk
And said goodbye to the circus
Off she went with a trumpety trump
Trump trump trump
Now Nellie the elephant packed her trunk
And trundled off to the jungle
Off she went with a trumpety trump
Trump trump trump
The head of the herd was calling far far away
They met one night in the silver light
On the road to Mandalay
Night by night she danced to the circus band
When Nellie was leading the big parade
She looked so proud and grand
No more tricks for Nellie to perform
They taught her how to take a bow
And she took the crowd by storm
Oh
it´s impossible not to like them
they are just too great
Easy to not like
@@faustinreeder1075 Nope you're wrong.
some like some don't but I LIKE because I'M here obviously
Sadly, I didn't appreciate this at the time, but having never owned a telly in my life, finding this video on t"internet changed my view completely! Better a few decades late than never, I guess.😺
@@faustinreeder1075 easy not to like YOU, these guys are great this is a 3 piece band, you have any idea how hard that is to pull off? Sorry, I am a bass player, and i can see this is a lot harder then it looks.
true punk mad as a box of frogs. No messing just be silly and act serious doing it. love it
"mad as a box of frogs" this is a new expression to me. I can envision how appropriate it is, when all those slimy things are crawling on top of each other. Well done. Permission to use the expression again and again and again and again for the rest of my life. Cheers. Also reminds me of the DUKES OF STRATOSPHERE
"Have you seen Jackie?
He's a strange strange strange little girl
Make up on his face and his hair in curls
Have you seen Jackie?
She's a strange strange strange little boy
Her long black beard is her pride and joy
And all the children follow him around
And all the grownups try to drag her down
So we sing
Hey, leave Jackie alone
Hey, his pigeons have flown
Hey, she's never at home at all these days
Leave Jackie alone . . .
Crass is punk in my opinion
@@shadeauGU as an american, this seems exceptionally British. Our punk wasn't anywhere close to this. I still love it though, and it follows the same lines; just a lot different
@@shadeauGU crass were hippies not punks
@@daviderizzello9360 you're fucking crazy
Sometimes music is just fun. I'd forgotten about this gem, but it made me smile as much as the first time I heard it.
How can you not love Toy Dolls? !! Mad as hatters with musical talent. Brilliant!!
Their version of Toccata & Fugue is both an hilarious poke at rock musicians and their classical pretensions
And shows that Olga and co. are seriously talented musicians. It takes a lot of chops to parody at that level!
Too many "trumps" in this song and too many WHITE people having fun and this obviously makes it a real "RACIST" dog whistle, only when people start using inventions that are from their own race will we end thought crimes aka " hate speech, when Africans find out that they have invented cars, mobile phones, computers, flight and antibiotics to name a few will whitey truly know their place in world history and black Americans as the most abused people in the history of the world not having to fear traffic stops because whitey won't have a car or gun because we all know these were inventions stolen from them by whitey and can't wait for my birthing person/she/her to give birth to our first Black male presenting child,I witnessed Tyrone plant they/them resistance pole in the birthing person as I cried with joy in the corner knowing I did my bit to fight against the racists that still judge people by their content and not by their race or gender, I really hate the bigotry that stops people from seeing colour or who the sleep with, treating people the same is just so racist and we need to use the covid camps for these insane racists that are coloured blind
Too many "trumps" in this song and too many WHITE people having fun and this obviously makes it a real "RACIST" dog whistle, only when people start using inventions that are from their own race will we end thought crimes aka " hate speech, when Africans find out that they have invented cars, mobile phones, computers, flight and antibiotics to name a few will whitey truly know their place in world history and black Americans as the most abused people in the history of the world not having to fear traffic stops because whitey won't have a car or gun because we all know these were inventions stolen from them by whitey and can't wait for my birthing person/she/her to give birth to our first Black male presenting child,I witnessed Tyrone plant they/them resistance pole in the birthing person as I cried with joy in the corner knowing I did my bit to fight against the racists that still judge people by their content and not by their race or gender, I really hate the bigotry that stops people from seeing colour or who the sleep with, treating people the same is just so racist and we need to use the covid camps for these insane racists that are coloured blind
We used to go mental at middle school disco to this, teachers chasing us round trying to stop us jumping off tables and throwing crisps about 😂😂😂never realised it was a punk song, it all makes sense now.
My Dad bought this and used to play it all the time, my Nan wasn't amused as she hated this song. Now, whenever I play it, I can hear my Nan go, "Oh no, not this flaming record..."
Hahah, fond memories. Miss her so much x
Bless all grandparents , mine described Richard Ashcroft as a tramp in a cardigan . RIP Nan x
Loooool
Sorry for your loss❤️
17 years old (1984) this video on MTV made me discover the Toy Dolls, great band! And now 38 years later I still listen to them every now and then when I'm in the mood for some speedy punk.
i’m 17 in a week and listening to this for the first time
Best you can do 😁!
リリーフランキーさんのスナックラジオから来ました。女性には「オォーーオー」のようなスキャン時間が必要なこと、勉強になったと共にこの曲があの比喩とハマり過ぎて笑いましたwテンション上がる良い曲。
日本のある40代です。20年以上前に聞いたときもいい意味でふざけてるけど、今見ても良い意味でふざけてますよねー。大好き💞
Can't understand this but I agree with the sentiment.
this was the first single I ever bought. It cost me £1.25.
Ironically my eldest son looks like the lead singer. Don't tell him.
Yeah, really dont
I hope he sees your comment then watch him pack his trunk ha ha ha ha
What did dad say about me?
Richard Pitwood was his mom a groupie?
Don´t feel bad mate! My first daughter is an elephant, even though we tell her that she´s a beautiful and slim rhino!!
George Orwell: 1984 will be a horrible dystopian future where we are ruled by a totalitarian regime and even thoughts can be a crime
1984 IRL:
36 years later...now we got the real 1984 xD
Nellie had to escape her totalitarian circus.
Yes and that's why we must free Julian Assange.
@@pietrom2 rally the militia haha
Imagine showing this to George Orwell. lol
This reminds me so much of my Dad. R.I.P Dad. I'll never forget the classics you shown me over the years
This is like the BEST bar song
Je vous remercie de votre réponse je vous remercie de votre réponse je vous remercie de votre réponse je vous remercie par avance de votre réponse je vous remercie de votre réponse je vous remercie de votre réponse je vous remercie de votre réponse je vous remercie tout d'abord je vous remercie de votre réponse je vous remercie de tout le monde est petit et grand merci pour votre réponse je vous remercie de votre réponse
Nous avons bien reçu votre réponse je vous remercie de votre réponse je vous remercie de votre réponse je vous remercie
🤗😀😁😂😃😄😅😆😉😚😙😗😘😍😎😋😊☺🙂🤗🤔😐😑😶🙄
Is the best not "like"'you moron
My band Bomb opened for them in Germany in very early 90s.
Crazy show, and one of the more fun bands we ever played with.
TOY DOLLS! TOY DOLLS! TOY DOLLS! TOY DOLLS! TOY DOLLS! TOY DOLLS!
This was played at me dads funeral hard to listen to again 💔
RIP
R.I.P.
He is legend ❤️, what a wish
Your old man had a sense of humour and would have been happy to have Nellie carting him off.
@@alecsouter I mean we’re all gonna die on day might as well make a joke of it
Randomly came across this video and had never heard the song before... BLOWN AWAY. That was awesome. The budget made video is perfect. Can't help but smile watching these guys rock. God bless cool punk bands like the Toy Dolls.
Fun song! Just introduced it to my 12 yr. old son. He loves it!
oui c'est une gentillette chanson pour les petits keupons bien resistants qui emmerde la terre entiere
Anyone else crack up with laughter everytime the chorus kicks in? A big smile forming as they go 'ooooh' in the lead up, the burst out laughing when the dance moves kick in, ending with the rib-tickling kick by the singer?
Yes! Reminds me of my younger days
Vicki Sixx there must been some high people in the 80s
Vicki Sixx yessss... i’m at the airport and people must think i’m a loone hahaha
Yessssss
I dance like that ha
This song no matter how crap you feel or how bad a day you have had is guaranteed to cheer you up and make you smile heard it tjis afternoon on the radio had it on full blast in my wagon... Happy for the rest of the day👍😂😆😆
23 years old and still enjoying the heck out of this song.
We real music lovers will never die.
Love you guys! Keep it going!🇧🇪🇧🇪🇧🇪
My dad is friends with a guy who used to be in this band
42 here and still punk :)
@@wolfpack4574 same but 45 :)
Durham lad (auld git) not deid yet, in exile in Wiltshire, wishing he was hyem
It was out in 85
This is british, this is humor! Love it!
;)
And from Sunderland
How to make a pub/ club full of people go absolutely bananas
XD
2021 from the states and never heard this before. Making up for it now and the wife is pissed.
Is she drunk or just annoyed? ;)
One of my favorite bands ever! WHAT A PARTY SONG THIS IS 😍
Fond memories of "dancing" to this at the school xmas disco circa 1984/1985... upon the opening chords all the girls left the floor as they knew what was coming !! a giant free for all at the chorus bit !! ..great fun !!
At a metal club i went to when i was young loved this song, and would create a huge mosh pit....this song got banned frequently
Elmo182 Games and shit yes i remember that too everyone went mad lol
Got banned?! It's a work of genius!!!
Probably stage door/cosmic ballroom.
Ok. Im just gonna go ahead and say it. At 40 years old, here in America, this is one of my favorite songs period.
You ROck
I live in Benidorm, a karaoke hotspot, sometime back after a few beers I got up and did this, I'm no singer, but love the fun of it and give it my all, now when I walk into a bar I hear 'give us Nellie', god they must all be hearing deficient.
2024, working from home, possibly the worst quality video on YT but it's made my fackin' day, this was on a compilation tape in my car with my kids growing up and has become an iconic tune in our world. Bring back 1984.
Even us sad southern softies love this song mate.
They took the crowd by storm
Happy 2022 to who's still alive
Toy Dolls was the very first live concert I've been to in my life, in 1988 ! Hell yeah !!! 2021 still listen this band!!
I'm 59 now , but loved this when it came out. Had it on vinyl. We used to sing it up the bar on a Friday night. Good Times.
My 3 year old son loved this (UK Number 1 Christmas 1984). He did the moves and everything. Took me hard to watch this because 3 years ago he died of a heart attack but those times were good.
Dude my heart's with U big time!
I'm so sorry for your loss. ❤
Poor kid xx
Hope you have found some peace in your heart
Haven't heard this in 20 years and still sang along with it!
Scheiß die Wand hoch....👍 Jetzt weiß was ich all die Jahre vermisst habe, obwohl ich es gar nicht wusste!!! ❤️❤️❤️
40 years later…..
Where you can find something so badly mad, rich, great, free, explosive….
Today’s music … no power no fantasy no creativity
And the whole world culture…40 years more, 80 years beyond
Te contesto uno d 51.te entiendo😂
Imagine doing CPR to this banger.
Did you chocke with a scrunket?
Classic. I’ve shared this with my grandkids and we’ve danced the heck out of this song together. Fantastic
This is one more reason for me to love the British. Besides classic writers and comedy shows. My best regards from Russia.
2022..still loving this!!!!
This was my favourite song when i was a little kid! Thanks Dad.
Same :DD
your dad's taught you well!
my dad made me love three little pigs by green yelly when i was young hahahaha
How have I never heard this before? This is genius.
remember this and came to look for it,came out when there was still fun in the world
Still Epic in 2022!
Who came here because of the CPR thing
Me
me too
Guilty ✋
Me 😂
You.
One of the bands that I always listen to on my punk rock introduction days, this never gets old.
I went to Ibiza in 1993 and visited a pub called the red lion wonderful pub and the dear lady that owns it is a superstar x they played this song and everyone in the place was dancing on the tables and going ballistic IT WAS AMAZING!! I’m so proud to be British......WE KNOW HOW TO HAVE A GREAT TIME!!!
This sounds like a mortal song to sing when you’re really drunk.
un saludo desde medellin colombia
I can actually remember being a toddler and loving this, I can remember singing it with my grandma with me in the back of the car, I loved the 'bridge' part best obviously
So many pubs have been destroyed as a result of this song coming on.
My Art/Photography teacher showed my class this (we do like a music playlist and this was what he chose). This is such a simple yet legendary song!!
Ruthless_Illusion wished we had had that teacher,brilliant!
Just love this song! Living in Berlin back in the 80ies this was a must-play in the little indi 'Linientreu' club... the dance floor was full with punks, rockabillies, goths and newwaves, dancing all together in 'harmony' ✌
Saw them yesterday on Arte Tv at Hellfest. Still amazing, happy and „not too old for this.“ Thank you for so much fun.
Where has this music been all my life? Absolutely incredible!
I love the Toy Dolls, saw them every time they played the US, which wasn't enough. Now a new album and a potential tour... god life just got better.
Big respect for Nellie !🤧
Круті Хлопці! Козаки! Love and Respect from Ukraine
2021 and still listening... Happy New Year all!
happy new year 2 u 2, sorry it took a while :p
Happy 2021
One of my favourite songs of all time absolutely brilliant an absolute classic song timeless
I am so happy to relive this moment from the 80s. holy shite
Something great happens every time Brits get a guitar
I love this song it always makes me smile
Nellie is eating this man's lunch and dinner
Paul Bright i
Paul Bright
The guy looks like he hasn’t eaten in months.
regulary)
My name is nellie-
This song seriously makes me so happy
omg...how have I missed these guys???? I grew up in the 80's and they must have flown way under the radar...These guys are freakin' awesome and fun!
I'm 60 years old I love it
my kids are freaking over this well done
I can’t express enough how I like this song! 🐘
This brings back great memories
Thank you!
Stop!
Thank you!
Stop!
Thank you.
Stop.
Stop.
He's actually saying: "Ta!" which is a British version of "thanks."
CapriUni And i always hear "wazzup"😂😂
Yes he’s saying Ta which is like saying cheers or thanks thank you or when someone gives you something you would say ta
@@CapriUni I've been wondering what he was saying for literally like 10 years. I feel like a weight has been lifted from me lol
Thought it was fuck
I remember dancing to this with my friend at his sister's new years eve party - I was never invited to another party of his family after that lol
Mmm. Me and my mates were shown the door at a new years eve party too. The girl who'd invited us's father was the local grammar schools headmaster. We then gate-crashed another party up the road.....that my mum and dad were at!
My daughter is 20. She loves it as much as I do. Woooooooo! Xx
Too many "trumps" in this song and too many WHITE people having fun and this obviously makes it a real "RACIST" dog whistle, only when people start using inventions that are from their own race will we end thought crimes aka " hate speech, when Africans find out that they have invented cars, mobile phones, computers, flight and antibiotics to name a few will whitey truly know their place in world history and black Americans as the most abused people in the history of the world not having to fear traffic stops because whitey won't have a car or gun because we all know these were inventions stolen from them by whitey and can't wait for my birthing person/she/her to give birth to our first Black male presenting child,I witnessed Tyrone plant they/them resistance pole in the birthing person as I cried with joy in the corner knowing I did my bit to fight against the racists that still judge people by their content and not by their race or gender, I really hate the bigotry that stops people from seeing colour or who the sleep with, treating people the same is just so racist and we need to use the covid camps for these insane racists that are coloured blind
A belter. Simply wonderful.
I grew up listening to the Toy Dolls with their album "Dig That Groove, Baby" and later with "We're Mad". Both excellent albums, still in the shoppes. They sound better than ever!
Another reason why the 80's were a Mad Decade.
First time hearing this in like 30 years. Glorious!
Oooh, I surprising like this, now I can’t stop listening
This is so british underground that I had to dig lower to get even more underground and be able to listen to it.
Being British is either knowing this song or not knowing it at all but hearing it all the time
If ur ever doing CPR and don't know how, listen to the beat of the song ❤
Still here in 2022
I love it, cheers from poland
One of the funnest bands in existence. Still loving them 20 years later.
tisca
+Spruce Bruce 30 years
Fordas I was born in '85 so I didn't hear them until about 10 years later.
+Spruce Bruce Look up 'Woman' by Anti-Nowhere League.
+Spruce Bruce Born 1980 in Poland. The Toy Dolls... first time I heard them it was the year 1996. immediately i I liked it
It could be 3021 and I STILL WOULD BE BACK..
Good music never dies nor get old
Took this record to the school disco when I was younger. The teacher thought that he would poke fun at me by telling everyone, but got the shock of his life, when everyone got up and started singing and dancing along with this classic.
I loved this song as a little kid and so I used to play this for my 2 eldest kids in 2005 when this was released on this compilation album and they loved it, and still do! ❤
I have nothing but love for this tune!!!! 😂😂😍😍
Used to love playing this and star trekkin with my dad on my grandma's vinyl player. Rip Dad and Grandma ❤
2022?! Still bangs..
Fabulous!!! Haven’t heard this song in forever! and never seen the video! Love it!