39 years of Bucks Fizz /The Fizz and i'm still here , love love love this group , such a shame they were slated soooo much as they have made some truly fantastic pop songs and albums
It is a shame. Nothing in the charts at the moment that can touch songs such as this but that`s not much consolation to them I guess as they don`t get talked about, played on the radio or given anywhere near the amount of recognition they deserve. Bad times
@@EstherJohn-y1y Mike Nolan didn't leave the group, at least not before the almost-life-threatening injury he would suffer from a tour bus crash, which, IIRC, occured only a few months after this song was released as a single!
I still do - no DAY without THE FIZZ. I really love "London Town", "... the Heat" and "I'd like to say I love you" soooo much. In my little 80s radio show I played "London Town": www.mixcloud.com/WolfgangHH/pink-channel-popcafé-23052020/ Have ya all a great weekend!!!
A personal favourite of mine from their entire duscography, along with Rules Of The Game and When We Were Young. Such a criminally underrated and overlooked hidden gem.
This is my favourite Bucks Fizz song. It just sounded different from any thing else that they had sung before. It was such a shame they couldn't promote it properly, because of the awful coach crash. It should have been a top ten hit. I'm 57 now and love all the music they've sung ove the years. This song will be played at my funeral when my time is up. Thanks Bucks Fizz.
Covered by Venezuelan singer Melissa in 1986 in Spanish (the vid is on TH-cam). I was VERY surprised playing this to Venezuelan friends and they knew it!
Because of their coach crash and Jay leaving because of her affair with Andy Hill, plus a few other issues with the group and their record label. It is a great song though!
I loved Bucks Fizz they were my absolute favourite I was their number one fan. So had so many brilliant songs, yet when I was at school people used to take the piss. Didn't care I absolutely adored them 💕 ❤️
Me too! My classmates were either Duran, Wham or Spandeau Ballet, I was definitely taken the piss out of for liking these guys! I met them a couple of times after Mike recovered from the accident- thank God, I remember he was on life support, I was heartbroken!!
PYT 777 There was that whole must like Duran and hate Bucks Fizz thing in the Smash Hits rsvp penpals column, which the group themselves complained about in an interview at the time Talking In Your Sleep was out. Yeah, they’ve been through some serious poo as a band ☹️. Are you seeing them on the upcoming Close & Personal tour? New album Smoke & Mirrors out in March too.
ZanduckTV2 Hi, I haven’t seen them live since the 80s, but I would like to go on that tour, I’d bring my daughter too. Yeah I got slated for liking them- seems they weren’t ‘cool’. So they complained? Good for them, they had some fantastic songs, some never released, album tracks. The one that never fails to bring a tear to my eye is NTDAG, accompanied with the video set in the war😢 And I like One of Those Nights, YAYHSB, I hear Talk. OMG I remember the RSVP section of Smash Hits but not that controversy. I used to buy Look-In every week too because there was a BF comic strip. I even remember one night in the winter when it gets dark early, I was in my bedroom doing homework and my curtains were open, i heard a bunch of teens outside laughing & pointing to the huge poster I had, so it was hard being a fan, we were given a really rough time! Thank you for the info 😊🙏
This is my all time favorite bucks fizz song big new york Saint and gay club classic this could have broke them in the USA fantastic dance song love the lyrics ❤️
Love the fantastic drumming and Calypso style brass in this. A really well constructed and sung pop song. Think there might even be a touch of Hammond organ in there somewhere. Bring back the 80s, when life was so much more fun and colourful.
There is a version of this song in Spanish called "A volar" (literally "to fly" but in this case could be translated as -I'll fly-) sang by Melissa, a female Venezuelan-peruvian singer. The song was actually a hit in 1986.
Neither can I. It's such a standout song .its like rules of the game ,I think I read it only got to number 50 and that was another great song for the band .
Got to comment on this just found it,,,,,,just found it all on you tube,,,had every one of their songs every album photo poster started when i was approx 13yrs now 50yrs went to most concerts,,,,,sorry to show the age
I don’t recall their songs from the 70’d-80’s but now I am a fan! Sorry to read that the one fellow died! Really Good Group! Wonder why they didn’t do better in ‘Murica? They deserved better!
There were several factors at the time: the bus crash sidelined Mike Nolan for much of 1985, and this is one of the last Jay Aston tracks before her departure and Shelley Preston's arrival. RCA was being bought out by Bertelsmann as well and Bucks Fizz were not in their plans; a short tour of the US was apparently planned for 1985 but scuttled after the bus crash. The song was re-done in 1986, with Preston filling Aston's vocals, for the Polydor LP, now-ironically titled "Writing on the Wall" The LP featured three old RCA songs, a cover of Stephen Stills' "Love the One You're With" and some actual gems no one got to hear much. What a mess; this group deserved better over here, and it appears much of the UK had had enough by then as well, though single "New Beginning" did manage a top-10 in the UK. Polydor seemed more concerned with relaunching the Moody Blues here in the US at the time, and they did with "Your Wildest Dreams".
...and RCA grossly mismanaged releases here in the US. "Making Your Mind Up" was released as a single. Vocal groups were old news in the USA by then, and there was no promotion to speak of. They could have launched with "Piece of the Action" which got into rotation on MTV, but instead lead with "Land of Make Believe." That's a track that worked with an established group, but leading an unknown band in the USA with an odd song about children's nightmares...? Then, the US album, mostly "Are You Ready" with two tracks replaced with "Piece..." and another track from the first album. The front cover makes them look like a country act. RCA in the USA had no idea how to market the group. There wasn't another US release until Polydor. The album was a compilation. The "New Beginning" single got some club play, but the single failed to chart.
@@wintersbattleofbands1144 Never seen a 45 of "Making Your Mind Up". Eurovision winners have a bad reputation in the US, and likely RCA here backed off, though it was released in Canada and Latin America. I have both their American LP's and a demo of "Land of Make Believe", which weren't released here until the latter part of 1982. My RCA rep didn't mention BF; they were pushing Hall & Oates and Rick Springfield. Even Leslie Pearl got more time. The RCA LP has the other two original UK singles, "Piece of the Action" and "One of Those Nights", subbing for "Are You Ready" and "Another Night". Polydor did worse, only releasing two of their own tracks and eight RCA tracks; the group's two 1985 singles and others dating back to 1981, re-releasing both "Land of Make Believe" and "Now Those Days are Gone", the two sides of that 1982 45.
It is another brilliant Andy Hill/ Pete Sinfield song, like Land of Make Believe and Heart of Stone, but probably not bigger because they could not promote it the way that they had promoted their previous hit Talking In Your Sleep. Huge in the US gay clubs in 1986.
I know they did the jazz reworking for the Fame and Fortune album and on recent tours, but wonder if they ever attempted a version with the brass bits in the chorus sung vocally - I hear talk, ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba, I hear the writings on the wall...
@ euronick61. Yep, it's surprising it didn't fair better here in the UK chart. It charted mid January 1985 just 4 weeks after the horrific coach crash that injured all band members and which Mike Nolan was in a coma where he almost died. It's UK Top 40 chart run was: -34-34-34-37-
I know i am 4months behind here, but it always amazes me how badly they feared in the charts. They were hardly ever out of the media eye, and only achieved 3 UK number ones! To me they are kinda like Sonia, she was not very successful at the time but we never forget her!
Bucks Fizz was nerver popular as a drink with straights. Also they were not from the states. Brass sounds good but where is the remix base? Instrumental, pauses wander off the floor. Here is Wikis def on the drink :" The Buck's Fizz is an alcoholic drink made of two parts orange juice to one part Champagne. Some older recipes list grenadine as an additional ingredient, but the International Bartenders Association recipe does not include it" . Orange Champagne - come on... Good song for radio though.
Okay so Bucks Fizz aren't going to get much airplay on BBC Radio 1 or other uber trendy kids pop music stations like Capial or something, but they should get more play on Radio 2 or Magic or Smooth or the other stations targeted at sad old gits like me. (Okay the sad bit probably only applies to me.)
The only thing which really bothers me about this video is Jay's huge pink raincoat. I like it that they all had a slighly different look for the "I Hear Talk," video. It's just that the raincoat seems out of place since Cheryl Bobby and Mike seem more dressed for summer. It's a very minor complaint though.
Are they in a studio for the external scenes, you can't see their breath in the cold air! I hope that's not a real fur coat Cheryl! Jay looks a bit foxy as a serving wench. Great middle eight. Apparently this and You & Your Heart So Blue were to be featured in a film.
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Very talented band
39 years of Bucks Fizz /The Fizz and i'm still here , love love love this group , such a shame they were slated soooo much as they have made some truly fantastic pop songs and albums
Their harmonies and vocals were outstanding. I can never go to long without listening to If You Can't Stand The Heat.
It is a shame. Nothing in the charts at the moment that can touch songs such as this but that`s not much consolation to them I guess as they don`t get talked about, played on the radio or given anywhere near the amount of recognition they deserve. Bad times
That wonderful
Yeah I hear Mike Nolan left the group! Do you know what happened?👍
@@EstherJohn-y1y Mike Nolan didn't leave the group, at least not before the almost-life-threatening injury he would suffer from a tour bus crash, which, IIRC, occured only a few months after this song was released as a single!
This was my favourite Bucks Fizz song & very underrated IMO
Snoods, mullets, poodle perms and pink pleather...hell yeah! 1980s were brilliant!
Good music from the 1980s
Fantastic music from bucks fizz 😂
Who is listening and watching this in 2020?
I still do - no DAY without THE FIZZ. I really love "London Town", "... the Heat" and "I'd like to say I love you" soooo much. In my little 80s radio show I played "London Town": www.mixcloud.com/WolfgangHH/pink-channel-popcafé-23052020/ Have ya all a great weekend!!!
Me
A LOT of people!!!!!!!
2021 for me
me!
A personal favourite of mine from their entire duscography, along with Rules Of The Game and When We Were Young.
Such a criminally underrated and overlooked hidden gem.
This is my favourite Bucks Fizz song. It just sounded different from any thing else that they had sung before. It was such a shame they couldn't promote it properly, because of the awful coach crash. It should have been a top ten hit. I'm 57 now and love all the music they've sung ove the years. This song will be played at my funeral when my time is up. Thanks Bucks Fizz.
Might Too. Robert In Perth WA
Totally agree
yea l don't remember this one as much as the rest of the songs there did
Should of been at least a top 30 hit in the UK, least it was in Ireland!
Haven't listened to Bucks Fizz for YEARS before today. I'd forgotten how much I love this song. I used to make my friend play it over and over again.
Bucks fizz don't get play enough on the radio this is a good example why they should be heard on the airwaves.
Covered by Venezuelan singer Melissa in 1986 in Spanish (the vid is on TH-cam). I was VERY surprised playing this to Venezuelan friends and they knew it!
❤❤❤❤❤Bobby and his backing singers..
a Song of 1985 ive never vorgett
This song is excellent and so under rated...why did it only get to number 34 in the UK charts?..it should have been top 10 at least
It was stuck at number 34 for three weeks in a row in January 1985.
Because of their coach crash and Jay leaving because of her affair with Andy Hill, plus a few other issues with the group and their record label.
It is a great song though!
I hear talk and heart of stone are my favourite bucks fizz tracks. I'm listen in 2021.💗it
Can't believe this wasn't a bigger hit
+Jake Roberts Ha! by the look of that they've never played a musical instrument in there life
+Andrew Berry Agree! should have been massive.
They had a serious bus crash in late 84 and were unable to promote the track.
it's in my head today for no reason !😀
It was in my ears.. i mind i first saw this on a saturday morning keith chegwin show
I loved Bucks Fizz they were my absolute favourite I was their number one fan. So had so many brilliant songs, yet when I was at school people used to take the piss. Didn't care I absolutely adored them 💕 ❤️
Me too! My classmates were either Duran, Wham or Spandeau Ballet, I was definitely taken the piss out of for liking these guys! I met them a couple of times after Mike recovered from the accident- thank God, I remember he was on life support, I was heartbroken!!
PYT 777 There was that whole must like Duran and hate Bucks Fizz thing in the Smash Hits rsvp penpals column, which the group themselves complained about in an interview at the time Talking In Your Sleep was out. Yeah, they’ve been through some serious poo as a band ☹️. Are you seeing them on the upcoming Close & Personal tour? New album Smoke & Mirrors out in March too.
ZanduckTV2 Hi, I haven’t seen them live since the 80s, but I would like to go on that tour, I’d bring my daughter too.
Yeah I got slated for liking them- seems they weren’t ‘cool’. So they complained? Good for them, they had some fantastic songs, some never released, album tracks. The one that never fails to bring a tear to my eye is NTDAG, accompanied with the video set in the war😢 And I like One of Those Nights, YAYHSB, I hear Talk.
OMG I remember the RSVP section of Smash Hits but not that controversy.
I used to buy Look-In every week too because there was a BF comic strip.
I even remember one night in the winter when it gets dark early, I was in my bedroom doing homework and my curtains were open, i heard a bunch of teens outside laughing & pointing to the huge poster I had, so it was hard being a fan, we were given a really rough time!
Thank you for the info 😊🙏
Unfortunately not going to see them.
@@sarahyorkshirelassfuller7962 mum is that you
This is my all time favorite bucks fizz song big new york Saint and gay club classic this could have broke them in the USA fantastic dance song love the lyrics ❤️
Bucks Fizz were my first fave pop group lol happy days :-) xx
Many of us just come here to say that Venezuelan singer Melissa did have a hit record with it and it's still a hit record. 🇻🇪1986
Bucks fizz a great drink and a great 80s band those were the days
Love the fantastic drumming and Calypso style brass in this. A really well constructed and sung pop song. Think there might even be a touch of Hammond organ in there somewhere. Bring back the 80s, when life was so much more fun and colourful.
My favourite Bucks fizz song ❤️
Should have been a big top 10 hit.
Such a great song should have been top ten . I still love it
There is a version of this song in Spanish called "A volar" (literally "to fly" but in this case could be translated as -I'll fly-) sang by Melissa, a female Venezuelan-peruvian singer. The song was actually a hit in 1986.
On my work playlist every day
Here in 2022. Always loved. Bucks Fizz……. The Fizz.
Love Bucks Fizz
I heard today on the radio Bucks Fizz are still going strong and in concert this year.
love this song, one of their best
This is one of the best '80s pop music songs! I really love its positive and joyful vibe. It should have been a hit worldwide.
I love this song. So many memories from this ❤️
Love love this album one of the most understed albums and groups wish I was there...respect guys...understated you can say that again ...I just did.
1985 when i first heard it... in Vancouver, It was huge.
Neither can I. It's such a standout song .its like rules of the game ,I think I read it only got to number 50 and that was another great song for the band .
My favourite song is rules of the game 😂
Fantastic song, of which I jealously keep my copy in extended 12 ". I love it
I love this song! I haven’t heard it in over 30yrs yet I still remember all the words! 😂
I completely forgot about this song. Now I love it.
Happy 60th Birthday Jay last May 4th!
Christ that makes me feel old. Remember her as a 19 year old winning eurovision
I was 7 when the won the Eurovison, they were great.
Snap same as me.
Perfer them not in Eurovision 😶
Great lyrics and great intro,like most of their songs.Love the ending too.
what a tune 💘💘
Fantastic music
great tune
Andrew Bell jm
Great song!
Great times, great music ! ;-)
lovely song
Got to comment on this just found it,,,,,,just found it all on you tube,,,had every one of their songs every album photo poster started when i was approx 13yrs now 50yrs went to most concerts,,,,,sorry to show the age
So much great memories! Thank you for sharing!!!
Jay looking much more enthusiastic here than on the TV shows doing promos for this. Presumably a video director was telling her to smile!
Have,nt heard this in years, and reminded me why I fancied the pants off Cheryl !!❤
More innovative than most modern bands
More like ALL
I bought this single back in the day
You are wise..I agree literally..agree agree.
Cheryl & Jay have the most 80s looking hair ever, cracking song though
Look I’m a lad of the 80s and I’m happy to cop that, but Cheryl in the pink sweater is indescribably gorgeous in this.
Gr8 80s
1st time hear this song & first time see this clip tonight
I don’t recall their songs from the 70’d-80’s but now I am a fan! Sorry to read that the one fellow died! Really Good Group! Wonder why they didn’t do better in ‘Murica? They deserved better!
David LoganSr Nobody died!
Ok, I went back and reread the article and he had been given last rights, but survived. Plane crash I think.
@@davidlogansr8007 it was a coach crash
Tracy Williams you broke my heart 1084..
She's so beautiful dude
The hair spray remember they looked amazing
Primera vez que escucho esta versión, pero me encanta
There were several factors at the time: the bus crash sidelined Mike Nolan for much of 1985, and this is one of the last Jay Aston tracks before her departure and Shelley Preston's arrival. RCA was being bought out by Bertelsmann as well and Bucks Fizz were not in their plans; a short tour of the US was apparently planned for 1985 but scuttled after the bus crash. The song was re-done in 1986, with Preston filling Aston's vocals, for the Polydor LP, now-ironically titled "Writing on the Wall" The LP featured three old RCA songs, a cover of Stephen Stills' "Love the One You're With" and some actual gems no one got to hear much. What a mess; this group deserved better over here, and it appears much of the UK had had enough by then as well, though single "New Beginning" did manage a top-10 in the UK. Polydor seemed more concerned with relaunching the Moody Blues here in the US at the time, and they did with "Your Wildest Dreams".
...and RCA grossly mismanaged releases here in the US. "Making Your Mind Up" was released as a single. Vocal groups were old news in the USA by then, and there was no promotion to speak of. They could have launched with "Piece of the Action" which got into rotation on MTV, but instead lead with "Land of Make Believe." That's a track that worked with an established group, but leading an unknown band in the USA with an odd song about children's nightmares...? Then, the US album, mostly "Are You Ready" with two tracks replaced with "Piece..." and another track from the first album. The front cover makes them look like a country act. RCA in the USA had no idea how to market the group. There wasn't another US release until Polydor. The album was a compilation. The "New Beginning" single got some club play, but the single failed to chart.
@@wintersbattleofbands1144 Never seen a 45 of "Making Your Mind Up". Eurovision winners have a bad reputation in the US, and likely RCA here backed off, though it was released in Canada and Latin America. I have both their American LP's and a demo of "Land of Make Believe", which weren't released here until the latter part of 1982. My RCA rep didn't mention BF; they were pushing Hall & Oates and Rick Springfield. Even Leslie Pearl got more time. The RCA LP has the other two original UK singles, "Piece of the Action" and "One of Those Nights", subbing for "Are You Ready" and "Another Night". Polydor did worse, only releasing two of their own tracks and eight RCA tracks; the group's two 1985 singles and others dating back to 1981, re-releasing both "Land of Make Believe" and "Now Those Days are Gone", the two sides of that 1982 45.
This reminds me so much of the late 80s and going to a club that played this on a regular basis. Oh, memories.
bring back bucks fizz
Their back!!
but without bob he was not nice !😣
@@Lvg4recovery 'their' lol
it's a shame that bobby is not with them anymore,
neskutocne nadherna skladba.snad najlepsia od BUCK FIZZ.
Love it 2023
Love it I mind jenny Powell and tony baker played it on no limits tv show bbc2 many years ago memories eh fantastic song love it
No, I haven't heard it..i shall look out for it
This song was huge in the gay clubs in 1984/85 and was number 1 in the gay dance charts for weeks
Spanish Version: "A Volar" - Melissa in 1986
Jay has some quite amazing hair extensions in this video!!
It is another brilliant Andy Hill/ Pete Sinfield song, like Land of Make Believe and Heart of Stone, but probably not bigger because they could not promote it the way that they had promoted their previous hit Talking In Your Sleep. Huge in the US gay clubs in 1986.
Flippin coach crash! If it weren't for that, this would have got higher in the chart
2024 ❤❤❤❤
I know they did the jazz reworking for the Fame and Fortune album and on recent tours, but wonder if they ever attempted a version with the brass bits in the chorus sung vocally - I hear talk, ba ba ba ba ba ba ba ba, I hear the writings on the wall...
3:17 Cute heel popping by Jay!
@ euronick61. Yep, it's surprising it didn't fair better here in the UK chart. It charted mid January 1985 just 4 weeks after the horrific coach crash that injured all band members and which Mike Nolan was in a coma where he almost died.
It's UK Top 40 chart run was: -34-34-34-37-
I know i am 4months behind here, but it always amazes me how badly they feared in the charts. They were hardly ever out of the media eye, and only achieved 3 UK number ones! To me they are kinda like Sonia, she was not very successful at the time but we never forget her!
Bucks Fizz was nerver popular as a drink with straights. Also they were not from the states. Brass sounds good but where is the remix base? Instrumental, pauses wander off the floor. Here is Wikis def on the drink :" The Buck's Fizz is an alcoholic drink made of two parts orange juice to one part Champagne. Some older recipes list grenadine as an additional ingredient, but the International Bartenders Association recipe does not include it" . Orange Champagne - come on... Good song for radio though.
+xdj89 Did you ever come back to re-read this the next day, when you'd sobered up? Just curious.
Who is listening And Watching That in 2019?
Hearing Writings on the Wall.
A volar!
The spanish version is more electro pop. A VOLAR.. wonderful
Pasa link
@@sebastianchirinos7714 th-cam.com/video/46vY-1QT9sM/w-d-xo.html
2023!
Jay 🥰
Bobby G looks like Don Johnson
en español , la canto Melissa ( se llama A VOLAR ) BUSCARLA : ES MEJOR VERSIÓN
Who is watching that in 2018?
This was before our society was culturally enriched.
Released around the coach crash.
cool
Okay so Bucks Fizz aren't going to get much airplay on BBC Radio 1 or other uber trendy kids pop music stations like Capial or something, but they should get more play on Radio 2 or Magic or Smooth or the other stations targeted at sad old gits like me. (Okay the sad bit probably only applies to me.)
♥️
Yum Yum ;)
Mike is cute in this video
love the song , should have got more airplay in uk and australia. how delicious does sultry,saucy,suggestive cheryl look ?
The only thing which really bothers me about this video is Jay's huge pink raincoat. I like it that they all had a slighly different look for the "I Hear Talk," video. It's just that the raincoat seems out of place since Cheryl Bobby and Mike seem more dressed for summer. It's a very minor complaint though.
try the 12 " matron. even better !
Are they in a studio for the external scenes, you can't see their breath in the cold air! I hope that's not a real fur coat Cheryl! Jay looks a bit foxy as a serving wench. Great middle eight. Apparently this and You & Your Heart So Blue were to be featured in a film.