I recall a radio conversation a few years ago with Don Black who wrote the lyrics to this great song. Four or five musicians were tasked with writing the music for the song, and as Lulu was to sing it in the movie, she was asked to pick her favourite version. "Thank God she chose the right one" said Don ! But I have often wondered if these other versions of To Sir With Love still exist. Wouldn't it be wonderful if someone could unearth them and ask Lulu to sing them again. What a documentary that would be !
Funny thing about music. The song "to sir with love" was not one of my favorites until I saw the movie, and then I understood what the song was really about. Fantastic!
As a kid of 12 in '69, i loved both Lulu and Mary Hopkin. Now, i dug seeing Jimi here. His sorta Hey Joe performance was epic.....poor Lulu. She was thinking of a duet. Jimi, "We're gonna stop playing this rubbish and do something by the Cream,,," Sunshine.... saw here this film was nearly thrown away.
Fabulous information! Great job on her storied life. I remember watching her on American Idol as a mentor. She's a remarkable lady.😊 I have every medium of the movie 'To Sir, With Love'. I it on VHS, DVD, CD and BlueRay. Still only one of a very few songs that when its playing everything else stops.
Lulu , Sandie Shaw, Cilla Black Shirley Bassey & Petula Clark were the first Girl singers that I was aware of as a young kid when growing up in England during the late 1960s. It was great to see Lulu being exposed to a younger audience by Take That along with , Sandie Shore with The Smiths & Shirley Bassey with Yello in the 1980s. Thanks for your brilliant musical history lessons 👍❤️
I have been in love with TO SIR WITH LOVE ever since I first heard it on the radio! I am 63 now and I am not ashamed to say that I have loved some of her later singles too. Love her music.
Lulu has been my favourite singer since I was a 1960's high school student. In 1980 I finally was able to meet her when I went to Birmingham in the UK and saw Lulu in concert for 3 consecutive nights at a club. Knowing I had come from California to see her I was invited to hang out with her in her dressing room each night after her show. The next week I had afternoon tea with Lulu at the Ritz Hotel in London. It was my favourite 2 weeks of my life!
I bought the single 'Oh Me Oh My as a 10 year old in 1970....Still love that song!....With my $2 per week allowance, I bought 1 or 2 singles a month (every $1 had to be spent wisely!)...so this made my 1970 Top 20!
It might be interesting to note that many Glaswegians see her in a different light purely as her American twang disappears once she sets foot on Scottish soil and a stilted Scottish twang appears!! Still a legend albeit a slightly misaligned one but that’s how we Glaswegians roll……
To Sir With Love (the song) wasn't exactly a hit in the UK. It was simply the B-side to (I think) Let's Pretend which was a hit. Lulu had had a ton of hits in the UK and Europe and is still going strong today. She's fantastic - what a survivor! I'll be singing Boom Bang A Bang all day now.
Nothing happened to LuLu, still going strong, & even selling her face cream, on British QVC t.v channel, she's a British national treasure, our wee Scottish lass, grew up watching her on Saturday night t.v on the BBC.
Now I feel so ignorant!! I LOVED TO SIR WITH LOVE (both the movie and song) since the beginning, but I didn't know she's been active since then. I'm very happy to learn all that I have about her from this video. My thanks to the filmmakers for letting me know!!
The beautiful Luu Luu lve been a fan for as l can remember and I am 72 what a generation to experience now l look back they were really far out hope she lives to 100 and something because l intend to aswell 😎😎😎
High cholesterol?? Must be all those deep fried Mars Bars they have up in Glasgow lol Her collab with David Bowie was a shock at the time, but somehow it worked!
*Sooo...a lot of obscure covers are mentioned but not a word over "The Man With The Golden Gun"...???* *Seriously* ( *To be chosen to perform a 'Bond' theme is a 'Very Big Deal' for any vocalist* )
Only thing I know about Lulu is that she quickly married and divorced a Bee Gee (Maurice) and she starred and sang the title of the hit movie, To Sir With Love.
Maurice Gibb, and Lulu were only married for four years. Maurice was only 19, and Lulu was only 20. They said they were only kids, when they got married.
They married when they were young. They weren't mature, perhaps, and working on their separate careers, a lot. They went their separate ways. Maurice was only 19, when he married Lulu, at her age of 20. They were married for four years. Lulu was married to John Frieda, for 16 years (?), and had a son, Jordan.
Her last UK hit was a version of David Bowie's The Man Who Sold The World around 1974)75. She also more recently had a hit with a mercifully forgotten boy band!
Don Black, wrote the lyrics, in London, England. He wrote the music to "Born Free". Mark London, wrote the music. He's Canadian, from Montreal; and had moved to England. .
One hit wonder as a pop star. Fame for a metaphorical five minutes with "To Sir With Love" released concurrently with the film featured as its title track/recurring thematic. She lingered on the coat tails of that for about a year then pretty much disappeared from the AM radio airwaves and TV outside the UK, the two avenues of exposure of the time. While I don't think any teen of the era wouldn't know who she was so massive a hit was the film and the song accompanying it throughout late 1967 and 1968, as pop music is by the end of that year the song was spent relegated to occasional play and other than in the UK as host of contrived TV show, so was she. Even an attempt to resurrect the success of her piggybacking 1967's "To Sir With Love" in 1974 by singing the title track of a Bond film "The Man With The Golden Gun" crashed and burned spectacularly failing to chart in the UK or USA, unique for a Bond film title track.
She's been working on Stage, for years; and has recorded many albums/music CD's. Years ago, also, performed on her own Variety series on TV; and other TV series. She's a working performer. Not every song needs to be on the Radio.
I love the song , "TO SIR WITH LOVE". I do not care for her. , because of her so called marriage with ~MO~ Gibb. I feel she caused him to drink & get additive . (only my opinion)
Maurice Gibb kept buying things, when they were married, and Lulu didn't want him to keep buying things. I read Lulu's autobiography. They were married, when they were young. He was 19. She was 20. They were married for only four years.
Manny Messi is in the bucks do you lose biography and there's many other pictures to of my aunt you have the wrong picture of her I know it says it and also in some thing but it's incorrect also
You've got the wrong picture of the manager I should know she was my aunt and that is not Marion messy look up Marion MASSEY and you will see the correct person who should have her picture there I don't know who that lady was. I think she might've been a secretary, so get your information right thank you.
This video to mention nothing about the Academy Award winning movie To Sir With Love is so ignorant. Another rocksplaining video badly done again. Stick to let you know, which is clearly nothing about 60s, 70s and 80s rock. Using Wikipedia as a cheat sheet is a poor substitute.
Very much a One Hit Wonder and not a very good one at that. You overstate, somewhat, her claim to fame. Much of her output was banal and, at times, even off-putting. Of all the girl singers from her epoch, she certainly occupies the lower end of the scale in terms of creativity and artistry and was never assumed to be quality material, as they say, by any stretch of the imagination.
She has performed many well-known songs, had her own TV variety show years ago, and has performed in musicals on stage. She's a working performer. She isn't a one-hit winder. She's still working!
Still to this day 52 years later I still love both the song and movie
Me too! Love the song and movie! Had a HUGE crush on Sidney Poitier and have loved him ever since!
I recall a radio conversation a few years ago with Don Black who wrote the lyrics to this great song. Four or five musicians were tasked with writing the music for the song, and as Lulu was to sing it in the movie, she was asked to pick her favourite version. "Thank God she chose the right one" said Don ! But I have often wondered if these other versions of To Sir With Love still exist. Wouldn't it be wonderful if someone could unearth them and ask Lulu to sing them again. What a documentary that would be !
Lulu sang at a local venue in Massachusetts in 2017 and I had the privilege of meeting her after the show. It was a great moment for me!
I absolutely loved to hear her sing....a truly beautiful voice....and "To Sir With Love" just captured my heart!!
Thanks for listening
SHE'S FULL OF SOUL.. OH YES😍🥰🤍💙
I met Lulu at the premier of the movie To Sir With Love in Toronto. I remember being so excited and just loved her to pieces lol.
Thanks for sharing!
Funny thing about music. The song "to sir with love" was not one of my favorites until I saw the movie, and then I understood what the song was really about. Fantastic!
As a kid of 12 in '69, i loved both Lulu and Mary Hopkin.
Now, i dug seeing Jimi here.
His sorta Hey Joe performance was epic.....poor Lulu. She was thinking of a duet.
Jimi, "We're gonna stop playing this rubbish and do something by the Cream,,," Sunshine....
saw here this film was nearly thrown away.
She was always a sweet songstress, from crayons to perfume. “To Sir With Love” is forever etched in musical mind.
Brings back sweet memories
I agree.
Taken you from crayons to perfume
My gosh I’ll never forget lulu’s voice.
This song!!!!❤️
A truly Beautiful song
Beautiful voice - lulu
I heard her & Maurice singing together ( great performance) mo playing piano/ singing 🎤
She is still performing and has been for years. Maybe not in the USA but certainly in Europe and Australia.
Fabulous information! Great job on her storied life. I remember watching her on American Idol as a mentor. She's a remarkable lady.😊 I have every medium of the movie 'To Sir, With Love'. I it on VHS, DVD, CD and BlueRay. Still only one of a very few songs that when its playing everything else stops.
Glad you enjoyed it!
Great singer! Liked her singing in 'Man With The Golden Gun'!
Lulu , Sandie Shaw, Cilla Black Shirley Bassey & Petula Clark were the first Girl singers that I was aware of as a young kid when growing up in England during the late 1960s. It was great to see Lulu being exposed to a younger audience by Take That along with , Sandie Shore with The Smiths & Shirley Bassey with Yello in the 1980s. Thanks for your brilliant musical history lessons 👍❤️
Don't forget Shirley Bassey with the Pet shop boy's & Dusty Springfield with them also !
Dusty Springfield was (she said it herself) one of her greatest influences (and a good friend)
I have been in love with TO SIR WITH LOVE ever since I first heard it on the radio!
I am 63 now and I am not ashamed to say that I have loved some of her later singles too.
Love her music.
Thanks for listening
Lulu has been my favourite singer since I was a 1960's high school student. In 1980 I finally was able to meet her when I went to Birmingham in the UK and saw Lulu in concert for 3 consecutive nights at a club. Knowing I had come from California to see her I was invited to hang out with her in her dressing room each night after her show. The next week I had afternoon tea with Lulu at the Ritz Hotel in London. It was my favourite 2 weeks of my life!
I bought the single 'Oh Me Oh My as a 10 year old in 1970....Still love that song!....With my $2 per week allowance, I bought 1 or 2 singles a month (every $1 had to be spent wisely!)...so this made my 1970 Top 20!
Yep, that's an all-time great song (that's not too well known).
I love that song!
I loved them all to Lulu. Sandy Shore, Cilla Black Petula Cark I still walk around today singing there songs I'm 71yrs, luv them ❤❤❤
It might be interesting to note that many Glaswegians see her in a different light purely as her American twang disappears once she sets foot on Scottish soil and a stilted Scottish twang appears!! Still a legend albeit a slightly misaligned one but that’s how we Glaswegians roll……
..so happy to hear she is ok❤🙏❤..Such a BEAUTIFUL Woman❤🌷❤...Love You Lulu..🌹..God Bless You Darling🙏😚🙏
I"m a little surprised you did not mention that she sang the theme song to the James Bond movie, "The Man With The Golden Gun"...
Great Bio. Would luv to know what happened to Mary Hopkin.
She has an amazing voice. "To Sir With Love" is a great movie with a great cast.
To Sir With Love (the song) wasn't exactly a hit in the UK. It was simply the B-side to (I think) Let's Pretend which was a hit. Lulu had had a ton of hits in the UK and Europe and is still going strong today. She's fantastic - what a survivor! I'll be singing Boom Bang A Bang all day now.
Nothing happened to LuLu, still going strong, & even selling her face cream, on British QVC t.v channel, she's a British national treasure, our wee Scottish lass, grew up watching her on Saturday night t.v on the BBC.
Now I feel so ignorant!! I LOVED TO SIR WITH LOVE (both the movie and song) since the beginning, but I didn't know she's been active since then. I'm very happy to learn all that I have about her from this video. My thanks to the filmmakers for letting me know!!
Well said!
The beautiful Luu Luu lve been a fan for as l can remember and I am 72 what a generation to experience now l look back they were really far out hope she lives to 100 and something because l intend to aswell 😎😎😎
I loved her growing up. Still do and I'm 70.
ME too 🤣.. time flies..
Happy 74th Birthday to Lulu! 😀
Absolutely FABULOUS, not famous. 🤦🏽 And she was fabulous!
What an amazing career!! And still going strong!!
The boat that I row fav Lulu song
can you do the hollies?
We got a kitten in 1964 and named her Lulu.
High cholesterol?? Must be all those deep fried Mars Bars they have up in Glasgow lol
Her collab with David Bowie was a shock at the time, but somehow it worked!
She reinvented herself many times to stay relevant with the new fans. Very few artists had done the same and were successful.
I went to school with her and ran around with her brother Billy when I was younger.
What a Lulu!
I love Lulu forever - she’s a working star - invincible 💋
Thank you so much for this update! I wish her continued success and all the best! 😁♥️🙂❤️
You are so welcome
Very nice. Not a negative thought or comment. Refreshing
So nice of you
She's not British,she's scottish.
Correction British AND Scottish!
The man who sold the world and where the poor boys dance personal all time favs ❤
She sang at the "The Barrowland" Glasgow, great then , great now, 'A GREAT WEE BARROW'
*Sooo...a lot of obscure covers are mentioned but not a word over "The Man With The Golden Gun"...???*
*Seriously*
( *To be chosen to perform a 'Bond' theme is a 'Very Big Deal' for any vocalist* )
Yes and he got abfab wrong, he said absolutely famous.
You forgot Lulu's 1970 hit "Hum A Song". Otherwise, good video.
Only thing I know about Lulu is that she quickly married and divorced a Bee Gee (Maurice) and she starred and sang the title of the hit movie, To Sir With Love.
Maurice Gibb, and Lulu were only married for four years.
Maurice was only 19, and Lulu was only 20.
They said they were only kids, when they got married.
Loved her music it's a shame it didn't work out with Maurice from bee gees 🌹
I know, right?
Oh, it’s okay. He nibbled on it for awhile.
They married when they were young. They weren't mature, perhaps, and working on their separate careers, a lot. They went their separate ways.
Maurice was only 19, when he married Lulu, at her age of 20. They were married for four years.
Lulu was married to John Frieda, for 16 years (?), and had a son, Jordan.
To Sir With Love
Nothings happened to Lulu,she’s still going strong.
OBVIOUSLY, Buster did more with Oh Me Oh My than she did! Whatever happened to the Soul Survivors? ( looking at that chart)
She sells stuff on QVC.,,,,,,,,” champagne for Lulu “.
"Diagnosed with high cholesterol." You make it sound like a death sentence. 'Diagnosed' is a bit strong, don't you think?!
Probably 1/2 of all American adults have that I think?
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Yeah, and the other half with another diagnose 😂
I'm curious about Leslie Gore.
Sadly Lesley Gore died of cancer aged 69 in 2016 . RIP
@@paulmason4616 thanks
I think Leslie gore died,read some where.
Didn’t they miss out her singing the James Bond movie theme?
I always thought she was a great singer, and quite the hotty too. 🤩🤪🤗
She had a high cholesterol! ...that's what happened to Lulu.
What a revelation...I have to sit down.
She's still living.
I think LuLu is a great singer. O me o my is my favorite song.
Looks a LOT like Amanda Bynes, that's insane!
Dude needs diction training.
She sang a song with Neil Diamond’
Lulu is still living.
"Oh Me Oh My" 1970 was her last hit
Her last UK hit was a version of David Bowie's The Man Who Sold The World around 1974)75. She also more recently had a hit with a mercifully forgotten boy band!
I wasn't talking about the UK let alone cover songs, i was talking about US and original songs
Who wrote the song 'To Sir With Love'?
Don Black, wrote the lyrics, in London, England. He wrote the music to "Born Free".
Mark London, wrote the music. He's Canadian, from Montreal; and had moved to England. .
can do an episode on Bobbie Gentry?
That would be a great one!
Shes still alive too, and looks great!
@@sharksport01 Yes but heart that give up making music in the 80's
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I think 70's. But im guessing she continued to write. Maybe under a different name.
Still a knockout!
the opera lulu by alban berg
I got a brand new pair of roller skates. I liked that one.
Melanie (Safka) wrote and sang that song.
XXX !!!.
One hit wonder as a pop star. Fame for a metaphorical five minutes with "To Sir With Love" released concurrently with the film featured as its title track/recurring thematic. She lingered on the coat tails of that for about a year then pretty much disappeared from the AM radio airwaves and TV outside the UK, the two avenues of exposure of the time. While I don't think any teen of the era wouldn't know who she was so massive a hit was the film and the song accompanying it throughout late 1967 and 1968, as pop music is by the end of that year the song was spent relegated to occasional play and other than in the UK as host of contrived TV show, so was she. Even an attempt to resurrect the success of her piggybacking 1967's "To Sir With Love" in 1974 by singing the title track of a Bond film "The Man With The Golden Gun" crashed and burned spectacularly failing to chart in the UK or USA, unique for a Bond film title track.
She is not a one-hit wonder...
She's been working on Stage, for years; and has recorded many albums/music CD's. Years ago, also, performed on her own Variety series on TV; and other TV series.
She's a working performer. Not every song needs to be on the Radio.
AI voice - yech!!
RIP Lulu ❤️
She's very much alive, for goodness' sake!
I love the song , "TO SIR WITH LOVE". I do not care for her. , because of her so called marriage with ~MO~ Gibb. I feel she caused him to drink & get additive . (only my opinion)
Maurice Gibb kept buying things, when they were married, and Lulu didn't want him to keep buying things. I read Lulu's autobiography.
They were married, when they were young. He was 19. She was 20. They were married for only four years.
Who who?
She died two years ago, on a trip to India, all very sad.
All very much a lie.
No, Lulu is still living.
Manny Messi is in the bucks do you lose biography and there's many other pictures to of my aunt you have the wrong picture of her I know it says it and also in some thing but it's incorrect also
You've got the wrong picture of the manager I should know she was my aunt and that is not Marion messy look up Marion MASSEY and you will see the correct person who should have her picture there I don't know who that lady was. I think she might've been a secretary, so get your information right thank you.
Marian Massey is spelled Massey.
If she's your aunt, wouldn't you known how to spell Massey?
It's MASSEY, not Messy.
This video to mention nothing about the Academy Award winning movie To Sir With Love is so ignorant. Another rocksplaining video badly done again. Stick to let you know, which is clearly nothing about 60s, 70s and 80s rock. Using Wikipedia as a cheat sheet is a poor substitute.
Very much a One Hit Wonder and not a very good one at that. You overstate, somewhat, her claim to fame. Much of her output was banal and, at times, even off-putting. Of all the girl singers from her epoch, she certainly occupies the lower end of the scale in terms of creativity and artistry and was never assumed to be quality material, as they say, by any stretch of the imagination.
She has performed many well-known songs, had her own TV variety show years ago, and has performed in musicals on stage.
She's a working performer.
She isn't a one-hit winder. She's still working!
She is white and old
Proudly.
Thank you Jim.
Who needs a video when we have you
She isn't old. She's kept herself fit, and quit smoking years ago. She obviously exercises, which is why she's fit and trim.
Still to this day 52 years later I still love both the song and movie