Sweet - Little Willy - Top Of The Pops/Disco 1972 (OFFICIAL)
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- Sweet performing "Little Willy" on BBC's Top Of The Pops in 1972.
The song was written by Mike Chapman & Nicky Chinn and produced by Phil Wainman
The single was originally released by RCA Records in June 1972.
Single Chart Positions:
UK: 4
Germany: 3
Canada: 1
Denmark: 1
Finland: 2
Switzerland: 2
USA: 3
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9/9/2023. My parents educated me about glam rock. They've always said that Sweet was one of the greatest bands of the 70's that nobody talks about. I love glam rock!
One of their best hits of the 1970s❤
I saw them a couple of when they played the colleges. They ditched the commercial Chapman/Chinn stuff and played some of the best rock I've ever heard. Great band.
Brian Conolly - The ONLY rocker who could pull off yellow slacks and shirt with a vest sweater and still look cool. The 70's were the best. So glad I was a teen back then.
Me too we had the best years in the 60s and 70s
We used to call them (vest sweaters) Tank Tops. Really common in the 70s and then they just seemed to disappear.
Who's still listening in April 2024? 👨🎤👩🎤🧑🎤🤘❤️
What...do you want all our names, stupid?
Me. I’m still listening to this great band
I'm listening to the Official playlist, so count me in.
Me
May 2024
Sweet was a great band who deserves much, much more accolades then they get. You couldn't find a better drummer than Mick Tucker , plus all four had lead voice qualities. Just a great band . One of my favorites as a youth , and they still are.
Idk man, Francesco Paoli seems to put a lot more in to drums than Mr Tucker.
@@sMansGuitars Chapman and Chinn wrote ' Sugar Sugar' (later done by ' The Archies' cartoon band) for them I think and Sweet thought it a step WAAY too far for who the band really was (after little willy 🙄🙄🙄🙄) - I bought their singles for the B sides mainly ( still have them) Burn on the Flame was just the best czcams.com/video/Ql-qofNdtbE/video.html
This was one of the songs I butchered growing up .😅
0@@sMansGuitars
The good old days 😂 when Jimmy Saville was on the prowl, Gary Glitter and then you have this pure cancer 😂😂
Who's still listening???, Seriously!!! Fox On The Run rules. Glamrock at its best.
1973: These guys are awesome
2020: These guys are awesome
They're going to stay awesome forever
This song came out in 72
I agree with you 100%. Their music brings back wonderful memories of growing up in the 70's.
#AwesomeFoursome
RIP Brian, Mick and Steve
this level of talent is timeless.....sad that people take generations to realize what's lasting
yes
You can't beat glam rock. These were fabulous. 60s and 70s unbeatable
You can beat it but depends on your taste
These early appearances are pure gold.
You can tell by their smiles they enjoyed this song!
cuz they know what it means
52 years ago. Who's still listening in 2019? (now 2020!) (now 2021) (now 2022) (now 2023) (now 2024) Loyal Sweet fans will listen to this song for Decades.
I was born in 1994 and I love The Sweet!
Still listening in 2019.
Alan Finlayson me,,every time I come back from work👌👌👌
I just loved the B sides👍
@@Pete90125 im still listening
We play Sweet at all family events. Everyone gets up to dance to Little Willy and Ballroom Blitz, my 87 mom leads us all on the dance floor. Our brother Roger just passed a few weeks ago and we all danced to Sweet in the parking lot at the funeral luncheon. He always kept us rockin....Love and miss you Rog!!!
Sorry to hear about Roger but it's wonderful you honored him as he would have wanted. My niece wants us to play Brick House!
RIP Roger!!
Roger was dancing right there with you in the parking lot.
One thing for sure is that Roger had excellent music taste.
Awesome!
Brings tears to my eyes to think that 3 out of four of this legendary band are no longer with us. I went through several records due to being overplayed. What a fun and great band. Great time to be alive.
I have the same feelings, when I listen to the great music or read stories of Sweet. They were the greatest and underestimated.
One of my favorite bands to skate at the old skating rink. Such great times.
skate to
This was the first record I ever bought. I was 10 maybe. It was a "45" with Man from Mecca on the "B" side. Still have it. It's got a crack in it so it pops every time the needle hits it. Still sounds better than some of today's crap.
Very possible that Brian May and Freddie Mercury got a lot of their musical inspiration from Sweet.
It's amazing that we can remember every word to every song we've listened to since we were 5, but we can't remember why we went in the kitchen. AmIRight? 😊
Anyway. sometimes I'll wake up with words to songs from when I was very little in my head, and this was the one I woke up with this morning. 😊 Thank you Sweet and CZcams!
Totally agree Liz, I was 13 and know every word. But last week went in my garage to get a box. Buggered if I could remember when I got there. Lol. Old age I guess.. well 60 now, but feeling 13 still.. lol. X
Elizabeth Clothier
Music does that to all of us,lol
I was LITERALLY 5 when I first heard this song. It had special meaning to me since my name is William. I just now found out that the band Sweet did this song plus other songs from my childhood. Memory is a strange thing
I would have been 6 years of age when 'Little Willy' was a hit in the UK. I always get great joy from listening to my childhood favourites !
Such a true comment...
I’m (38) playing this song rn because my 6yr old son wants to listen to it. He’s been singing it for days. 🤣 He has excellent taste in music.
how funny, i also sang it with my son when he was 6. that was 19 years ago.
Man what time to be young and having fun at that time. No phones, all vibes ✌🏻
I have been a fan since I was about 12, and I am 60 now.
I'm 66, I loved this song in Junior High School, and still do!
61 here
Probably showing my age, but God dang I wish pop music could sound like this again. Sweet is as fresh sounding now as they were back in my youth!
I totally agree. At least you can understand what they are singing......
Theres a few modern bands that are capturing the 60s/70s pop style in their music. The Lemon Twigs are one of my favourite bands of all time and they're just kids, their new album is coming out in August
Yep
I have been enjoying this song since it first came out,and yes,I also wish the "music" today sounded like this.It is sad,that out of all of the different types of music we had,true rock and roll,was the one we lost.
@Mango Roxx I grew up listening to everything from Hank Williams,to Alice Cooper.Loved Johnny Cash,and Iron Butterfly equally.Still enjoy some of the music today,but sure do miss the music from back then.
Can't stop listening at. 65 years young lol
know what it means?
Me neither❤
That was right in your era
@@johnjeffreys6440 some dude named willy can't take a hint to make like a tree and leave or some sexual reference 😂
@@sbinsdca Referred to by Goldmember in Austin Powers.
Another song I loved. I married and had my first child. I'm a 71 year old great grandma now. Their music is still infectious.
65 here
Rock on, Grandma!
64 here.
Bin 66 und liebe diese Musik und diese Jungs noch immer. Wenn ich Sweet höre, bin ich sofort 50 Jahre jünger. Sweet for ever❤❤❤❤
Absolutely love this song as much as I did when I was a teen. I'm 62 and still love it. Great band!
I am 63 yrs old and feel the same way . LOVE THIS TUNE !❤
My sister played this daily I believe in the Summer ☀️ 😅
😂 gleiches Alter, gleicher Geschmack!!!
Rock Trivia - Little Willy was a cat.
64 here! Loved this group! So many great memories of the good old days!!!!
I've been obsessed with The Sweet since I was 13, I'm pushing 56 and more obsessed than ever. Ridiculously underrated and underappreciated they live on in my heart and mind forever. You guys have etched a deep groove in my mind forever. Good night Brian & boys with all my love.
golden earring was also in that group too.
Give us a wink !!
AMY JO FISCHER my fave band when I was in junior high!
The mid 70s was a great era for music and Sweet were the best of the UK glam rock bands around at that time.
Some things are good immortalized. ^^ I am two generations younger, and have rocked to this music since I was in my preteens. :P Also- the video-game community has featured this song, so...time for a musical renaissance!
Brian was handsome and pretty at the same time....that hair sums up the 70's.
2024 and I still know all the words!! I was 10 years old in 1972…
A hell I was 12
I was 6 and I remember that song like it was yesterday
Wonderful times,fashion and music. Take me back now and leave this complete madness 2022 .😜👍 when we knew what a real woman was.
Let’s all go back to the 70’s❗️❗️
War einfach eine Geile Zeit!!!!
Ich war damals 9 Jahre alt und hatte alle Singles von Sweet, Slade, T. Rex und Middle of the Road. ❤ Es war so eine fröhliche und unbeschwerte Zeit! 🌈✌️
Hast du ein kleinen Willy
LITTLE WILLY - THE SWEET (1972) . 51 YEARS AGO !
I'm 66 and introducing Sweet to my 15 yr old granddaughter 🥰
Now, THAT's music!:)
You rock!
I first heard this in 1977 when I was 14 years old. It still puts a smile on my face!
This song came out when I was about 10, just love it. I found it here on CZcams about 2 months ago and decided to play it for my 2 grandkids who are 3 and 1. They loved it! We dance around the house and they’ll say, “Play it again, Grammy”! Such great memories!😃
Just the best
Uu888
That's great...I remember this infectious song also. I didn't realize it was Sweet though....when Sweet had their second coming with Ballroom Blitz.
we're the same age! LOL ... and I only found out that they were also responsible for Ballroom Blitz!
Rock Trivia - Little Willy was a cat.
When I was a kid I absolutely loathed this type of pop music. It wasn't serious enough for 13 year old me. I'm 61 now, and I love this stuff.
Also easier to appreciate as the whole world had turned into an absolute shithole since then. Especially over the last two years.
@@smartfart9003 The world today is a much better place than it was when I was growing up, by nearly every measure.
JD Goodwin
You were more mature as a 13 year-old then, but now you're degrading!
@@redblade8160 Mom?
Rest in Peace, Steve Priest...
Your GLAM STAR will shine forever.
So SWEET ...
I'd no idea until a few minutes ago that he'd died. He and his pals here gave us some great music to remember.
2022!! I've been a dog groomer for 41 years, and every pup named Willy I'd sing this song to!! I love Sweet!💖😃
wasn't Willy a cat?
@@keithslade9379 I always thought Willy was a guy, who loved to shuck and jive!😄🎼🎶
Me! I’m still listening! And btw, it’s 2023! I’m 68, a mommaw, and my 21 yr old and 3 yr old granddaughters LOVE this, too!!!!!❤❤❤❤❤❤
Sweet is cool! 1972 I was five.
R.I.P. Steve Priest June 2020 only Andy left
😭
Love to all, Mick, Brian and Steve. Andy, keep the flame burning ..
Rest in power Steve Priest. I was able to get his book "Are You Ready Steve" personally autographed with my name in it. I hoped that I'd get to see him in concert with his band when they were touring; it wasn't meant to be. When the band's Facebook page mentioned that Steve was moved from the hospital to a facility "better suited for his needs," it sounded like his health was failing--it already had been. Love to Brian, Mick and Steve.
🌹👑🌹
Now Andy has a wig that would make any horse proud
Who else had this haircut??😊 Loved it!
I'm always surprised by how many people know Sweet songs but they don't know Sweet.
Is anyone listening in 2020? Because I am. Sadly I was born in 2005 so I wasn't brought up with this amazing band. But im so glad i can listen now.
Me 13 01 2020
Love it
Yes IAM
Yep me too😀
Love this song. Has since I been growing up.
Even though they had some success , this band was definitely underrated and somewhat ahead of their time . All the hair bands of the eighties and Def Leppard and Motley Crue owe these guys something if not a mention. I mean Sweet laid the groundwork for them.
Def Leppard and Motley both acknowledge that the Sweet was a huge influence on them.
raydeen1 Thank You ! Glad to know that. I wish I knew more . Life only holds so many hours. Read the story of Sweet. If it hasn't been done it would make a good film . Brian Connolly the lead singer really had a tough life but then again , he made his mark and for a brief period he got to sing and front a great band .
BigKing Bud
Check out Louis Jordan and discover where Johnny B . Goode came from---- sort of . The great like Chuck Berry take their influences and repackage them with their inner psyches at work . It is only in retrospect,' which comes from being on the planet a long time, do we see it AND I am glad Zep won that Taurus lawsuit .
some success lol efff sake man your sleepin they made queen what they were lol its not glam rock they used glamrock as a stool to get them selves noticed cant you see even Jamaican music co co,pappa joe to get there music noticed.
some success they sold millions lol
I've been listening to the Sweet since the 70s and I still listen to their music 🎸🎸🎸
I’m cracking up, Andy in yellow pigtails and Steve in lame’ shorts. Little Willy, the song that turned me on to Sweet in middle School.
When music was something to enjoy. Nowadays, it’s become more a chore to listen to what is on the radio.
WHY is this group still not in the rock and roll hall of fame???????
Great song, I love it
Das war noch Musik und die Sendung habe ich nie verpasst ,ich war und bin immer noch ein Riesen grosser Sweet Fan bin 63 Jahre und damit aufgewachsen
Wenn ich heute Songs von den sweet höre kommt es mir vor als wäre ich erst 14 Jahre alt, als wäre es erst gestern gewessen. Bin jetzt 62 und höre sie immer noch. Das war meine Jugend, mit der Musik bin ich gross geworden. Ich liebe sie heute noch und du kannst diese Musik auch heute noch hören.
Süss, noch ganz am Anfang. Ich war damals 14, bis heute Fan und höre die Songs noch immer.❤😊
Because of CZcams I’m reliving my childhood! The 70s were the best time to grow up. With our current world turning upside down, it’s nice to escape and remember a simple, happier time.
Sad but True
ABSOLUTELY I JUST TYPED EXACT SAME THING
I love to blast this song while I ride my Harley-Davidson down the road.
I have a son named William and every now and then I will play this song for him. He’s 36 now and he still likes the song lol.
I was not cool when I loved this band in the early 70s. Eat your heart out they are still amazing!!
Still not cool
And i was one of those who would not listen to "that kinda" music back then. Thought it was so NOISY compared to anything i heard up to then! My (younger) sister had all the tapes and the posters out of "Jackie" comic.. We stuck the posters to the ceiling (because all the walls were hung with large religious pictures in heavy frames. Not to be moved. In case the wall fell down with them.) Everything was grand until the selotape wore out on an A3 size poster of.. a popstar, possibly David Essex? And one dark night he fell down from the ceiling, on top of one of us while we were asleep. Oh the screams! 😱
@@wolverine67044 why every mostly liked that 🎵 🎶 music
❤❤"Eat your heart out"!😂😂😂😂❤❤
Haven't heard that for decades❣😎😘
Love this song, little willy listening in 2024 at 66 years old, had the 45.
'83 baby and I wish this would be immortalized forever and always instead of the crud today
If u don't tap ur feet or fingers to any Sweet tune ur not feeling it😊🇬🇧
My dad used to always play this song, then after not hearing it for about 15 years, it popped into my head so I pulled it up on CZcams. Absolute tune!
How bout it and the yellow suit so great
It's one of the tunes of all time!
This song never gets old!
@Richard. I never get tired of their song: Love Is Like Oxygen either. 😊
Bona fide classic🎶🎶🎶🎸
I remember playing this on my older brothers' record player in the mid-70s. ❤ One of my fav songs ever!
I remember when this came out, I was into Zeppelin,Stones, Hendrix, but how in the hell could you not like this one.Sweet was 👏👏👏💀
Who's still listening in 2024
Me, I was 9 when I first heard this, still loving it at 60
My band covers this!
What an idiotic remark...find validation in real ways.
@@ukchris64 Oh God Ill be 60 next year
Ur mom
Loved some Sweet in the 70s and now
I am lol , I'm 53 and. My gram used to put it on the loudest setting for me every time it was on . I was 4;yes old then , definitely loyal 🥰
Ah, came out of a rabbit hole and heard this, for maybe the first time since the 70's. This song was everywhere, at least in my 10 year-old brain back then.
This video couldn't possibly be more 70s
That bass dude is pre-Kiss glam-slammin' it.
R.I.P. Steve Priest Andy: Last man standing.
I used to love roller skating to this in the 70s.We used to knock out skates on the floor when we heard the knocking sounds come on in the song.
Year my youngest child was born, I really like this song.
I've been listening to Sweet since I was about 8yrs old. It never gets old.
same! they're handily in my top 10, possibly still in my top 5.
Me too ❤
These guys are in my Heart ❤
When I was 5 years old this song came on the radio and it Rocked! My favorite song for years. My name was William and I wasn't taken shit from Nobody!!! Long live the Sweet!
That's awesome 😊
Our mama cat was having her babies, this song was playing when he was born so we named him willy
Why was music just so perfect back then? Probably bec it was made by the artists .
How sad when we lost Brian to alcoholism. As Glam British rockers they were the best of them!
OH MERCY!!! The memories of when that song came out. 1972, I was in Vietnam.
OMG! Welcome to the 70's! So much fun!! Put on headphones and dance!
I was in the childrens hospital as a kid. The nurses switched the lights off around 7.30pm
As soon as they left the ward we began to sing little Willie. The staff went beserk as they couldnt shut us up.
Loved the band loved the times.
You've got to love the drummer too. He's got that floor tom sounding so close to the base. 😁
I was just a kid in the 70's but I have always loved listening to the radio. I can remember this music and I'm sorry to say I didn't know that name of the band until now. "Sweet" but now I do. That's what I'll be listening to while I run errands in my truck today. Thank you for the music and memories of my childhood. David. ✌🏼❤💋 🌵🛻 🌵
There's alot to choose from. Alot of hits
RIP steve priest, there must be some party going on up there with the amount of singers we have lost, so sad Steve was so funny and a brilliant singer xx
Hope we can join the party over there ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
Can you imagine him being greeted by his fellow musicians in heaven with his famous line - " Until you arrived, we just haven't a clue what to do?"
There is no heaven lol its fake as Santa claus
@@gappkidd5162 that's what u think pal your in for a shock 😵😵😵😵
The 50s , 60s and 70s were the three greatest decades of music ever and always will be!! Modern music can’t even come close to comparing!!
Those decades had a lot of great songs, I agree, but at the risk of being called a heretic, Little Willy isn't one of them. It's pretty corny even by early 70s standards. Sweet had much better singles.
The 80s weren't too bad either.
I am. Wasn't born until the 80s but this band rocks.
4th grade Gilmore elementary school in Pittsburgh. We had the coolest teacher - Mrs Mervis . So, this was 1974 - she had Long brown hair and looked like a model. She loved rock music and would let us bring in albums of our fav music to play while we did our school work. This song was on a K-Tel compilation album one of my class mates brought in. Mrs. Mervis was so cool. She had a contest to see if anyone could guess her favorite band.. I won … it was The Rolling Stones, her favorite song Angie… She brought the album in and played it for us. What a great time to be a kid in school.
We also were aloud to bring a radio and listen to it while we did our school work,,,,, Thanks to all those great teachers at Gilmore school and to Mrs. Donna Mervis.
I was around 13 yrs. old when I heard this...all the sudden I'm 57...this song still kicks ASS!,,,:).
OH MERCY!!! The memories of when that song came out. 1972, I was in Vietnam.
Hi! Where are you from? I´m from Finland. Tell me about your favorite bands and tell me about Vietnam....
I'm from the southern United States. The State of Mississippi. I like the Eagles, The Stones, Dobbie Brothers, Chicago,Steve Miller Band just to name a few. There's not many rock and roll bands that I don't like. To me the late 50's & 60's 70's and 80's were the greatest years of rock and roll. I was in the Marine Corps in the Vietnam war in 1972 when that song came out is the reason I mentioned Vietnam. It wasn't like I was on vacation there. Ha
Jimmy Baker - No, all of my ancestors came to the America from England and Ireland i the 1700's
Thank you for your service. And yes this song is tops as they say.
+jimmy baker thank you so much for your service, cant stress this enough. God bless you and your family sir.
I saw Sweet in concert back on June 4, 1978 in Providence, Rhode Island when I was 16 years old! Sweet was one band in a line up of 6 rock bands to perform on that day! Ticket price for the general admision show was $20.00 for a 12 hour show that also included the rock bands Foghat, Foreigner, Nazareth, The Atlanta Rhythm Section, and Rainbow (Ritchie Blackmore's Rainbow)! Simply spectacular show, and the 1970s was an simply great time to be a teenaged rock and roll music fan! And as for Sweet, they were totally Sweet!
We will never beat the music to what we had in the 70s
47 years ago. Who's still listening in 2019?
Gone much too soon but never forgotten
Rest in peace Mr.Brian Connolly and Mr.Mick Tucker
Gone much too soon but never forgotten
Rest in peace Mr.Brian Connolly and Mr.Mick Tucker
Still rocking this in 2020 during quarantine
soam i
Can't wait to be able to play this out with my friends after we can all get together again. People always loves us when we play it. In the meantime, I can jump around and play it in my house! Sounds goofy, but it makes me happy as hell.
No your not..willy
Oh my god. Cum on. I'm sooooooooo dancing
Awesome thanks 😊
61 and still full of memories
Immer wenn ich meine Lieblingsband Sweet höre sind alle meine Probleme weg bin ihr 52 Jahre musikalisch treu geblieben wird sich auch nichts mehr dran ändern Sweet für immer
This video couldn't possibly be more 70s
Back when men looked like men.
OMG! Welcome to the 70's! So much fun!! Put on headphones and dance!
men looked like men??? did you miss the guy in the left wearing hot pants over his nylons??
Hold on, i wouldn't use this as an example of men looking like men 🤣 maybe the average guy on the street was more manly than today but this video is a bad example of that
And here I was thinking how girly they all look
I have become totally obsessed with The Sweet. 11/12/2020
I only discovered them 4 years ago, one of my favorite bands now.
Me too. April 2021.
Lol, I agree with the person below, in probably showing my age, but was just 10 when this song was high up on the charts. But totally remember this kick butt awesome song on being on the family Volkswagen van on our family summer trips, but thanks to the invention of You Tube, I get to see them and the different styles from back then, in action!!! Great song!!!
IAM 62 YRS OLD ,AND THIS SONG IS STILL A CLASSIC 😎
Many years later still listen to this song tells you how good it actuality is
Not a tattoo or tracksuit in sight on the girls dancing. Now Little Willy wants to go home back to the 70's.
I have a feeling that Little Willy will never wanna go home LOL.
Buncha haircuts needed though.
Fun song
It's been said on here before. If time travel was discovered, the 70's would be over populated.
I KNOW for a fact that 'Little Willy' did go home - on numerous occasions - to this song.....;-)
Ya I thought it was hilarious but it was just a song that just stuck with me and I still remember it after all these years lol 😂
I always liked this band but I now just appreciate them alot more. They sound excellent live and they had alot of hits. Great band!
11 yrs old in "72' & I still have this song etched in my mind word for word.
Same here brother, I was only 7 but I feel like I'm listening on that old tiny radio my dad had back then.
Me Too
I was also 11 in 1972. I remember I loved this song.
What a great band they are, the vocals, the band, music the songs.
the writers chinn chapp
great party song
I love tris song and listen now in summer 2022. Greetings from Sweden 🇸🇪
Loved this song as a kid. Still have the 45!
Memories when LIFE was simple in the goodie old 1970s... 🤔