Skyhooks Million $ Riff Willesee 75
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- čas přidán 28. 11. 2014
- Late 1975 and Skyhooks appear on Mike Willesee's show, and perform Million Dollar Riff. Willesee wants to take the high road of morality and falls flat on his face to the bands humour.
Pity we never competed in Eurovision in those days, I would have loved to see SKYHOOKS let loose on unsuspecting europeans !
they scared the Americans ion that 1976 USA tour! Except Jacksonville it loved Skyhooks.
Was nine years old when I saw this on Mike Willesee's show. This is still my most favourite song from Skyhooks.
What time was Mike Willesse’s show on? I was 10 at the time & this is the first time I’ve seen this! Shirl is doing live vocals! Fcking excellent ✌️🇦🇺👍
Smut for me just because they sang about something that was not to be talked about plus coming from NZ those theatres were just not know about in the 70s.
I knew Shirl, as his parents have been friends of my Mums" for years. Always loved his music, Lynne XX
Lynne Obrien I knew shirley and I can not remember him talking about u
brilliant vocalist. real funny guy too. miss him alot ;(
FPMSL@@imkindofabigdeal2506
Sadly missed Shirley RIP never forgotten!
Raw talent early in their career. Outstanding, miss u guys. 😪
Shirl was the lone pilot on a HELICOPTER, when a massive down draft smashed him to the ground.
29th August 2001.
One of the saddest and greatest losses of all time and I mean in 4.6 Billion years of existence.
I can't believe the ODD ways Aussie lead singers die. Drown in your own vomit, brain cancer, not many suicides, etc, etc.
And their always the bands you love..😢
wow that drummer can really pull some great beats out of that umbrella
It’s actually an antenna for the blu-tooth guitars, so they don’t need any amps or speakers. A lot say Australia was late to get colour TV (1975) but we had blu-tooth umbrella arrays before anyone.
One of the funniest comments I've seen in a long time!
@@mebeasensei Pre-colour TV, it would have been called blacktooth..
Hahahaha first thing came to my mind- singing to a track so of course the drummer is hamming it up out front 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
On shows like Willesee it is pre recorded music but the vocals were live . Countdown on the other hand was all live for Aussie artists
I appreciate them more now than as a kid.
Liked them when I was 12😩3 years later i luved led zeppelin 💪🏻
Awesome Aussie band with the real Aussie culture now sadly defunct in it's own land..... go Freddie...... play that umbrella... great voice Shirl, great outfit Bongo..... what a great band and social satire.... Yeah !!!! .... priceless intro by Mike Willesee playing the straight guy....
Got some of their albums in my collection. I'm a lucky, lucky man!
Living In The 70's turns 50 this year! Amazing!
The Greatest of all OZ Rock bands!
Shirl knew how to dance and entertain god love him RIP
Was one of the best misio
I ACTUALLY REMEMBER WATCHING THIS ON TV THAT NIGHT
R.I.P SHIRLEY
It was not live-to-air, it was not seen until several weeks later. There was a load of post-production was work done on the program master due to a loss of mains power taking out the video recording van.
What a great song. What a great vibe 🤩💖
I was 13. This band was way out there. Melbourne boys.
+Wayne Ogston
Yeah, I lived in north warrandyte. Greg McCainsh lived down the road. Those were the days. Nostalgia.
I still pound this out on my car stereo and when the doof doofs are next to me more so. 😂
I never saw any of their videos until the last year (I didn't think to search for them), but as a kid in the 70's I thought their music was awesome. Great to grow up to Skyhooks.
Imagine what these blokes could do with the music technology today
Keep playing solid rock Gold 👍
Go Freddie go! Play that umbrella!👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍👍
Fred you are a freakin' Legend.
Oh how I adored them back in the day. Thanks for posting this sensational clip -----All the best to dearest Redmond and Gregory if they, perchance, are reading this........xx
Shirl. What a pro. No lip syncing for Graeme Shirley Strachan.
He's obviously lip-syncing.
@@banishedfromthedwarfplanet530 you are wrong there BFTDP!
@@banishedfromthedwarfplanet530 I was on the crew, there was no lip-sycing done there.
Definitely NOT lip-synching. The music is clearly not live, but shirl? Totally live.
You can tell by the body language and mikes attitude he doesn’t like the hooks 😂😂
great umbrella work !!!
First heard Living in the Seventies on a bus witch turned out to be my first date, have been a fan ever since.👍
LOL Bongo in a Space Helmet
Love love skyhooks
I love the sound of the wah Wah pedal @ the start.
Shirley Strachan was an amazing person, front man and TV presenter.
Listen to that guitar riff at 2.53 by Bongo and it sounds a bit like part of the song “Gloria” written by Van Morrison and recorded by The Doors. It has some of the characteristics of Chuck Berry too and parts of other riffs of other Skyhooks Greg Macainish songs too. That’s what made the Skyhooks such a great creative band.
They were a great for guitar band that played good songs. The drummer is playing his umbrella here and singing backing and harmony vocals.
It's almost like they deliberately included riffs from other songs!!! 🤪
Only a genius like you would have spotted it! 😄
Bob is a huge Chuck Berry fan....
Gotta keep searching! Thanks Skyhooks, love you all oxo
Million dollar riff Million dollar riff Million dollar riff
Million dollar riff Million dollar riff Million dollar riff
Well there's a thousand guitars all over the land
And a thousand drummers and a thousand bands
And a thousand agents with their ears to the ground - Gimmee Gimmee
They're all lookin' for the riff with the million dollar sound
Million dollar riff Million dollar riff Million dollar riff
Goin' round and round
Million dollar riff Million dollar riff Million dollar riff
With a solid gold sound
It might take three notes it might take four - Oh yeah
Or somethin' that sounds like a squeaky door - Oh yeah
And you could be ridin' in a limousine - Oh yeah
And have your face in every magazine
Million dollar riff Million dollar riff Million dollar riff
Going round and round
Million dollar riff Million dollar riff Million dollar riff
We gotta get that sound
Meanwhile I was still searchin'
Million dollar riff Million dollar riff
Well I worked it out before I went to bed
But in the mornin' it went clean outa my head
It's like winnin' Tatts but losin' the ticket
You know the tune but you just can't pick it
Million dollar riff Million dollar riff Million dollar riff
It's going round and round
Million dollar riff Million dollar riff Million dollar riff
With a solid gold sound
Million dollar riff Million dollar riff Million dollar riff
I gotta keep on searchin' till I find that sound
Million dollar riff Million dollar riff Million dollar riff
I won't stop until the sound is found
I gotta keep searchin' searchin' searchin'........
Cos I want
mmmmmmmmmmoney, that's what I want
Gimme Gimme dirty ol' money, that's what I want
Cos I want a million - More!
I want a billion - More!
I want a trillion - More!
I want it all! Yeah...............
SongZ Even Greater with these Classic 1yriX ~*~ 😍🎶😍
thats fricken awesome, live vocal is killer!!
great post, cool
Brilliant Aussies.
How good was Shirl as the front man?!L
Lol Freddie on the umbrella
Television 101: how to make an 8x6 space interesting.
Bongo legend! 😂😂😂😂
Awesome outfit Freddy! RIP Shirl 🕊💝
Freddie Strauks!
🎉🎉oh yeah!
Thousand Drums but only one Umbrella 🤪🤪
They were cool and talented
RIP Shirl😢
Gotta get one of those umbrellas! Bongo on his way to moto GP?
Still the best bunch of drongos alive-except for the dead ones.
Skyhooks Forever 🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺🇦🇺
gold
I've got to keep searching! (Searching! Searching!)
I've got to keep searching! (Searching! Searching!)
Cos I want money! (m-m-m-m-m-money!)
Money! (That's what I want!)
Gimme gimme dirty old money
Give the money (That's what I want!)
Umbrella drumma
Drumbrella
Why the checker board floor?
Please...don't say Fr333ma5son
I think Bob had spare tiles left... used at the Palais too and eventually our house at Osborne street Sth Yarra..well Bongos house. Recycling at its best.
Awww...look how young Shirley is...God rest his soul. I was 12 when this was released...yikes.
Great miming!!!
How good does the Drummer look????!!!!!!!!!!!!!
They are miming, that pool cue is not even plugged in
Bo Selecta Yes & No. As was usual for Skyhooks, a music track with live vocal by Shirley Strahan (the singer)
yes that umbrella isn't even miked for sound! LOL
My husband has the box set of all their albums...He's a tragic !
Lead Umbrella ?lol
Just wondering, Peter... the original clip of Million Dollar Riff (along with quite a few others) has been absent from CZcams for a few years now.. I SO enjoyed reliving the experience while they were here;
Do I need to go to my VHS "Right There On My TV" cassette in order to enjoy them again?
Yes not sure why some have gone awol. For our CZcams page we tend to keep away from the obvious and clips . When we put together the Right There on My DVD release I pretty sure it was on that. It sold a platinum dvd award, so at least 15,000 dvds of it out there. ... or you could play your old video, LOL.
Thanks Peter, I’ll shop around for the DVD version!
The mighty hooks live on and Willesee is long forgotten
Coolhooks
The bubble had basically burst now. This was starting the decline. Willesee first with the news. 😅
I wonder if this song had an influence on AC/DC's Let There be Rock which came out around a year later? I hear a lot of similarities
Why wasn't the drummer drumming?
Lip sync was great back then lolz, wow what a flashback, miss Shirl & the Hooks.
No lip-sync on that show, it was recorded live on 24 track.
Live vocal from Shirl...
Take no prisoners
What's Freddie on? Not too much drumming goin' on. 😂
Same things every other band has ever sung about!
But they have more style. Not too mention, they were the first to point out that watching the evening news on TV was akin to watching a horror movie....this back in the seventies.
1:00
Pretty tame by today's ''standards''.
(Hits gong)
"You're the kind of band that gives 'failure' a bad name". (Holds up scorecard): 4.
House of Shuffles yes, Red! :D
Uh, is that really Bongo, or a stand in doing the rip off Gloria solo?
Poor Drummer!
Great song, great theatre, but aaaaaargh, that 70s dancing by Shirley makes me puke.
This must have been thrash in 1975.