This was the first record I ever purchased. I bought this as a 4 year old in 1968 to play on the 2nd hand radiogram I had been given for my birthday. 37 years later, it was the song my bride and I left the altar to when we got married to the surprise and shock of family and friends. Not even the bridesmaids or best babe ( ididnt have a best man) knew what we had planned. :) We skipped out hand in hand, and then fell about laughing outside, leaving a bewildered venue full of people behind us.
I don't know why but this song comes to my mind when I'm nearing the end of my shift as an office cleaner here in central London at the Dept of health. .Timeless classic!
This is very odd, literally discover this song this morning by mistake, notice they're shooting the video in a building site. Notice Lloyd one of my longest subscribed to CZcamsrs in the comments saying precisely that. They are called the scaffolds though so it makes some sense? Also is that Roger McGough in the hat!?
@@unrealdev5178 I was just going to comment on the choice of site, then I noticed the comment, then I noticed the commenter, then I was going to reply that I thought it was obvious that Lindy would be here, then I noticed your reply, then I noticed that this sentence is way too long, and contains way too many instances of the word 'notice'. Anyway, love Lindy's videos, I always thought this was an Irish Rovers' song.
I remember singing this with my classmates at primary school in the 80's!! If I remember rightly, it was during a recreation period! Haha the words....it's great!
Guy in the middle is Mike McCartney who had a famous brother called Paul something... Bass guitar on this was played by the legendary Jack Bruce of Cream fame
I bought this 45 in 1969. Still in my collection. Number one on the charts in Perth Australia. My late younger sister used to get up and dance every time it was played in our home😊
Man there’s something so sad and poignant about this video even though it’s upbeat and joyful (except for the last verse!) - perhaps it’s the massive amount of time gone by since this song was released and the vast amount of childhood memories associated with it i dunno. We sure did live in a different world back then. Kinda brings to light how rotten everything is now. I remember seeing this video when it came out but haven’t seen it since. Now I can’t stop watching it and I’m laughing and crying at the same time😳
Mike McGear, the guy in the middle with the green-blue jacket, is the younger brother of another big band from Liverpool..... his brother answers to the name Sir Paul McCartney and the band is The Beatles
Wow. that fact blew my mind. I see on Wikipedia that after retiring he has dropped the pseudonym McGear and is now going by his proper name Mike McCartney.
@@G6JPG Actually yeah thats a good point it is a "left" track and a "right" track put together, but its great. It uses the 2 channels to their maximum.
Colin yeah, you are right mate, it might not pass the pc test but you know what? The pc test is wrong and if anyone disagrees with me I am happy to explain why they are wrong haha!. (basically its lack of evidence, case dismissed) Not so sure about that woman going up to great heights in that bucket though - that looks dangerous to me!
@@carollynnchap Oh that's very good to hear Carol, feeling much less worried about it now haha! Must have been great to have been involved with something so iconic 🙂
I used to hate this song because of the second verse, my brothers and sisters would sing it at me, I was bony and didn't eat my meals! 50 years on it's just funny.
The woman who acted Lilly the pink, once commented here in the comments? Where is she? She said she was indeed sitting in that bucket but it was very scary.
We'll drink a drink a drink To lily the pink the pink the pink The saviour of our human race For she invented, medicinal compound Most efficasious in every case Mr freers, had sticky out ears And it made him awful shy And so they gave him medicinal compound And now he's learning how to fly Robert tony, was known to be bony He would never eat his meals And so they gave him medicinal compound Now they move him round on wheels We'll drink a drink a drink To lily the pink the pink the pink The saviour of the human race For she invented medicinal compound Most efficasious in every case Old ebineezer thought he was julius caeser And so they put him in a home Where they gave him medicnal compound And now he's emperor of Rome Jonny hammer, had a terrible st st st st stammer He could hardly sssay a word And so they gave him medicinal compound Now's he's seen, but never heard Aunty milly, ran willy nilly When her legs they did recede So they rubbed on medicnal compound Now they call her millipede Jennifer eccles, had terrible freckles And the boys all called her names But they gave her medicinal compound Now he joins in the games Lily the pink she turned to drink She filled up with parafin inside And despite her medicinal compound Sadly picklilly died Up to heaven her soul ascended All the church bells they did ring She took with her medicinal compound Hark the herald angels sing
Oi lads, I've just had a great idea for a music video... What's the budget? £10 but we get to make it on a building site and also we get to forcefully restrain a woman and make her drink medicinal compound😂😂.
Great to hear this after about 55 years, amazing !
A wonderful song which is seriously needed today.
Forget Pfizer, Moderna, AstraZeneca ... I want medicinal compound
Great minds work alive! COVID is so 2021...now monkey pox is all the rage!
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2023, where ‘DIED SUDDENLY’ is ALL the rage!!
7 year old in 68 living in Reading England. Oh the memories.
@leighwest5564 The song is based on Lydia Pinkham’s recipe from the 1800s but you can still get it today! 😅
@@pearsonchickwhat can you get?
This was the first record I ever purchased. I bought this as a 4 year old in 1968 to play on the 2nd hand radiogram I had been given for my birthday. 37 years later, it was the song my bride and I left the altar to when we got married to the surprise and shock of family and friends. Not even the bridesmaids or best babe ( ididnt have a best man) knew what we had planned. :) We skipped out hand in hand, and then fell about laughing outside, leaving a bewildered venue full of people behind us.
Excellent!
I absolutely LOVE this! Hope you and your wife are well and happy still! x
Here's was hoping you've grown up by now lol
lol. I hope that you are both still as happy as you were on that day.
You bought as a 4 year old,,? So you went out as a 4 year old and bought this song, ? LMAO, !
My Nan taught me this song more than fifty years ago. RIP Peggy Spruce ❤
I don't know why but this song comes to my mind when I'm nearing the end of my shift as an office cleaner here in central London at the Dept of health. .Timeless classic!
Medicinal compound
"Office cleaner ... Central London ... (UK) Dept. of Health"
Yep, makes sense to me.
You probably just need a drink, ahaha...
😂😂😂
What background shall we have for the film? Of course! A massive demolition site!
Didn't expect to find you here matey! Well, in hindsight it's not surprising at all!
With scaffolding and a woman dressed in pink.
I guess they had some scaffolding in the background to go with the name of the group. Music videos weren't really big in 1968!
This is very odd, literally discover this song this morning by mistake, notice they're shooting the video in a building site.
Notice Lloyd one of my longest subscribed to CZcamsrs in the comments saying precisely that.
They are called the scaffolds though so it makes some sense?
Also is that Roger McGough in the hat!?
@@unrealdev5178 I was just going to comment on the choice of site, then I noticed the comment, then I noticed the commenter, then I was going to reply that I thought it was obvious that Lindy would be here, then I noticed your reply, then I noticed that this sentence is way too long, and contains way too many instances of the word 'notice'.
Anyway, love Lindy's videos, I always thought this was an Irish Rovers' song.
The Christmas No1 from 1968, I was 5 years old at the time and loved it. Always reminds me of Christmas as a child😊
andy... '63, a vintage year.
same here, fella.
Glorious memories.
Pass the bong, will ya?
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I remember singing this with my classmates at primary school in the 80's!! If I remember rightly, it was during a recreation period! Haha the words....it's great!
Guy in the middle is Mike McCartney who had a famous brother called Paul something... Bass guitar on this was played by the legendary Jack Bruce of Cream fame
Paul maccartney?! The singer and bass guitar for the WINGS?! That Paul maccartney? Incredible
@@peterlewington4651 Obviously the talent didn’t follow in the family then because it’s absolutely awful and one guy is completely flat
Paul McGear, yes. Left handed guitarist and vocalist with Johnny and his Moondogs.
Yes we all know that thx.
He looks like he’s brother only little bit tho…… that smile.
I bought this 45 in 1969. Still in my collection. Number one on the charts in Perth Australia. My late younger sister used to get up and dance every time it was played in our home😊
Man there’s something so sad and poignant about this video even though it’s upbeat and joyful (except for the last verse!) - perhaps it’s the massive amount of time gone by since this song was released and the vast amount of childhood memories associated with it i dunno. We sure did live in a different world back then. Kinda brings to light how rotten everything is now. I remember seeing this video when it came out but haven’t seen it since. Now I can’t stop watching it and I’m laughing and crying at the same time😳
Such fun, so delightful and full of humour!
Great song -I always liked it
Vernon Kay played this on Radio 2 today. I tried to sing along. It's a really funny and fun song.
Heard on Radio 2 today as a tribute to Paul O'Grady.... Such a jolly tune
Was a lovely man Paul o' Grady ❤
My mum introduced this song to me in my teens I’m now 36 in 2024
I think I 1st heard this song back 70s when i was a kid , born May 23rd 1968 from northern Ireland UK, 🤝♥️🇬🇧
Im here after this song popped in my head for no apparent reason !! lol
Me too 12 months after you haha
Nice to see the lads from Auf wiedersehen in the background 🙂
Always a fan of Scaffolds Work
Father was a product of 1954,I came along in 1982,worked with him for 2 years at the turn of the 21st century and he used to hum and sing this....🤣👍
There´s no song that might reflect any better why I really love England so much
This song tormented me as a young child!
brings back memories of junior choice on radio one
Brilliant 💕
🥰🥰
A classic.
Buttons of your mind was my favourite serious song their best IMO
For some reason we were forced to sing this at school (in the late 80s). Now I know where it is from!
We still sang it in school in the early 2000s! 🤣
Was ein geiles Lied!! Und so passend zum Pharmazismus
thanks for sharing this... never seen it before... 2022
Never heard of the word "efficacious" before listening to this song.
So clever to think you can listen to this all and right at the end you find...that it's a Christmas track in fact.
What an old favourite of mine 🙂
I hope they all had their cscs card & 1 hour induction to get on to the site
In December 1968, 1st place on the British charts! (Record Mirror).
Thanks for your beautiful committe
I ❤️ the Scaffold
same hun xxx
This song is pure genius 😂😂😂
A good song and very dark
The first guy is the most 60s guy I've ever seen
The second is the most 70s guy I've ever seen
The third... would probably fit in better today
1st guy...Mike McGear (Paul McCartney's brother!)
2nd guy...Roger Gorman (from Tiswas!)
3rd guy...Roger McGough (brilliant poet who's still performing!)
...and the girl?
@@akitakutya Lily the pink
Third guy dresses like a pimp
@@akitakutya That would be me .. Carol Bura then, now Chapman ( Waitress from the Revolution Club and one time extra in films)
I reckon Lilly took three in the pink.
I remember this from childhood
WOW 💯♥️😜
My song when I was a kid
Not one American understands anything about this song, it is a mystery to them.
And it's about Lydia Pinkham, an American during prohibition who invented a highly alcoholic tonic for women and gov never sussed it !
It's an American folk song to be fair mate.
Arthur Scargill anyone? 😂😂
today Dec9 th played on Pick of the tops radio2
The song some folks will sing while queing for their next booster... ;)
Mike McGear, the guy in the middle with the green-blue jacket, is the younger brother of another big band from Liverpool..... his brother answers to the name Sir Paul McCartney and the band is The Beatles
Yes but not the present McCartney
Wow. that fact blew my mind. I see on Wikipedia that after retiring he has dropped the pseudonym McGear and is now going by his proper name Mike McCartney.
Smello!!
This was when stereo was used properly. They don't know what stereo is today!
That isn't stereo, it's two separate tracks! (And all the better for it, IMO! Like you, I like the technique.)
@@G6JPG Actually yeah thats a good point it is a "left" track and a "right" track put together, but its great. It uses the 2 channels to their maximum.
This song is what you call an earworm 😁
Building and demolition sites seemed to be a thing, for videos. Look at Concrete and Clay, or War Baby by Tom Robinson. That one looked bloody lethal.
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Can't see a music video like this being approved this day in age!!
Colin yeah, you are right mate, it might not pass the pc test but you know what? The pc test is wrong and if anyone disagrees with me I am happy to explain why they are wrong haha!. (basically its lack of evidence, case dismissed) Not so sure about that woman going up to great heights in that bucket though - that looks dangerous to me!
Yep, that's how far we have fallen.
@@davidsmith6355 It was!, but ll made them chain up the tipping mechanism so that it couldn't flip.
@@carollynnchap Oh that's very good to hear Carol, feeling much less worried about it now haha! Must have been great to have been involved with something so iconic 🙂
@@davidsmith6355 how is this politically incorrect I’m confused 😂
I used to hate this song because of the second verse, my brothers and sisters would sing it at me, I was bony and didn't eat my meals! 50 years on it's just funny.
NOBODY... Does comedy of any variety like us BRITISH. GREATEST COUNTRY IN THE WORLD, BY A LONG WAY..
Yaas
How true it became
when did Arthur Scargill become a singer
Thanks Grandad ❤ 😢
Sorry to ask, what year was this song, ? 😐
Je connais cette chanson elle avait été chanter par Richard Anthony le sirop typhon
Can you fix the aspect ratio? (It isn't widescreen.)
What does it do for a comb-over though?
I remember John Gorman in Tiswas
Apparently the first song I began to sing at 2 years old
It's like they saw the future.
The woman who acted Lilly the pink, once commented here in the comments? Where is she?
She said she was indeed sitting in that bucket but it was very scary.
This song is about 150 years old. It’s based on Lydia Pinkhams pills from US.
medicinal compound!
Lol good one
Danke Schwarzwaldradio! Den findet man nicht aus Versehen xD
"Up to Heaven her Soul Ascended". Figure it out and take a shot.....or not.
Did... did they just murder Lily the Pink?!
Just funnelled some scrumpy down her gullet, she'll live! Might have a wee hangover though 😂 🍺
Jack Bruce on Bass. Elton John on backing vocals. :)
Andy Scott on guitar?.
@1:42 My choreographer wife couldn't help but notice that they all turn together and then John sets off on the wrong foot.
😂❤🎉🥂🍾🍻🙏
There should be an updated version dedicated to Stella Immanuel.
lol...no comments!
Forgot the 70s were quite grim... But I'd go back 👍
1968 apparently.
Xmas 1968
It's filmed on a building site, they're always grim. And it was the 60s.
❤❤❤ 😂
I bloody hated this back in 1968 but with the passing of time and the mellowing of age, I still fucking hate it.
It's great. Miserable sod. haha. :)
That's just like the rational way people spoke back then!
Arthur Scargill
Is that Liverpool they're demolishing in the background?
If you want to know who they're singing about goggle "Lydia Pinkman"
Pinkham, but thanks anyway.
We'll drink a drink a drink
To lily the pink the pink the pink
The saviour of our human race
For she invented, medicinal compound
Most efficasious in every case
Mr freers, had sticky out ears
And it made him awful shy
And so they gave him medicinal compound
And now he's learning how to fly
Robert tony, was known to be bony
He would never eat his meals
And so they gave him medicinal compound
Now they move him round on wheels
We'll drink a drink a drink
To lily the pink the pink the pink
The saviour of the human race
For she invented medicinal compound
Most efficasious in every case
Old ebineezer thought he was julius caeser
And so they put him in a home
Where they gave him medicnal compound
And now he's emperor of Rome
Jonny hammer, had a terrible st st st st stammer
He could hardly sssay a word
And so they gave him medicinal compound
Now's he's seen, but never heard
Aunty milly, ran willy nilly
When her legs they did recede
So they rubbed on medicnal compound
Now they call her millipede
Jennifer eccles, had terrible freckles
And the boys all called her names
But they gave her medicinal compound
Now he joins in the games
Lily the pink she turned to drink
She filled up with parafin inside
And despite her medicinal compound
Sadly picklilly died
Up to heaven her soul ascended
All the church bells they did ring
She took with her medicinal compound
Hark the herald angels sing
Jennifer Eccles turns into a boy if you listen to the lyrics. "he joins in the games"
"Now they call her Millipede"
Aunty milly, ran willy nilly
When her legs they did recede
So they RUBBED on medicinal compound
(not "looked" on!)
Now they call her millipede
Not sure that everyone in the song was any better off for having medicinal compound
It was a different time
KLINK A KNIKA TO THE MASTER RACE
The best version is by The Irish Rovers.
Arthur Scargill on the left
The group of Mike McCartney, brother of Paul. Stage name Mike McGear.
WTF. NO WONDER MY FRIENDS AND I ARE FUCKED UP. THIS WAS OUR MUSIC TEACHERS SONG OF CHOICE TO LEARN IN 1982.
Medicinal Compound looks an awful lot like scrumpy
I love medicinal compounds
Oi lads, I've just had a great idea for a music video... What's the budget?
£10 but we get to make it on a building site and also we get to forcefully restrain a woman and make her drink medicinal compound😂😂.
Can't believe one of the guys in here is Paul McCartney's brother.
Pink a girl's favourite colour.
It’s a music video from the late 60s!
Galahad connected ✌️😁 move please,yes yes of course drink any here? yes,no?