Music video by Benny Hill performing Ernie (The Fastest Milkman In The West). (P) 2010 The copyright in this audiovisual recording is owned by EMI Records Ltd
Brilliant humour. Its got everything: Benny's milkmans past, endearing flawed characters, tongue twisting poetry, and an enigmatic Benny's afterlife twist at the end. Gold.
I'm 24 years old, I know this song word for word thanks to my dad, I'm told that I'm sad knowing this but I grew up know this music, it may be before my time but this doesn't mean it's not a wicked song!!
I know it all by heart too. I even sang it at karaoke. After I did, the DJ said, "Nobody sang Benny Hill before". Next time, I'll sing "Garden of Love".
Play him some "CADBURY FLAKE GIRLS" on You Tube and watch the wide wide smile i guess he will be a "poppy " me i'm more "woman in canoe " it's a age thing now gone in a pc world
'Ernie' is a bona fide classic, superbly arranged and performed, that Hill seizes with chortling relish. A tale of love and infidelity, played out in a Wild West where cowboys all ride milk carts and stale pork pies are the weapons of choice.
Brings back some of memories of the good old days. Especially if you were up for a laugh. Wish he never aged beyond 51. So he'd still be with us now with brand of naughty, but nice sense of humor.
Remember watching this (with subtitles) on TV in a kebab shop in Spain when I was about 11 with my mother. The Spaniards were roaring with laughter, I think they thought us Brits were all really like Benny.
Utterly wonderful. One of earliest records my parents bought for me.....Robinson Crusoe. Dadada dada...White Horses....The Flashing Blade..Abba ...and Gareth Edwards...oh for the 70s once more!!
"And he looked up in pained surprise and the concrete hardened crust Of a stale pork pie caught him in the eye, and Ernie bit the dust." Eat you heart out Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, those are great lyrics!
It is "And he looked up in pained surprise AS the concrete hardened crust Of a stale pork pie caught him in the eye, and Ernie bit the dust." A bit pedantic but the best lyrics ever!
I just heard this on the radio 📻 today and googled it and laughed so much!!🤣🤣🤣 Absolutely 💯 loved Benny Hill ...what a classic show still in 2021!!!. ❤Long live Benny Hill in our hearts❤.
Came up on the chase today but they were to young, Brad knew and of course me at my age lol so had to have a reminder of Ernie, one of my fav songs from back in the day 😂
Brilliant lyrics and comic craftsmanship, I wasn't a massive Benny Hill fan but this song will always be a favourite.... I think I've got my 7" single somewhere.....
When i was a kid in the 1970's i had this..it was brilliant..the words full of innuendo. I laughed when it said "Ernie didnt want to die he was only 52"..as in tge 1970's an old person was 60 odd years old and 52 was near it. I'm 56 now..haaa..but act about 35 ( lucky i dont look it either)..great times..pity Benny Hill didn't have a longer retirement.
I too am 56 and recall this song being the Christmas No.1 over 1971. All of us at school knew all of the words (and still do I suspect) but even more oddly, the song conjures up the smell of open fires and smoke hanging in the air on a cold winter's morning. Weird how music can whip up such strong memories.
The lyrics to this song are amazing and it doesn't matter how many times I hear it it always makes me laugh. To come up with the concept of the story, write the incredible lyrics and then put it all to music is beyond me, absolutely awesome, I wonder how long it took him.
"Ernie id be 'happy if it comes up to me chest...." Hilarious~~!!! Happiest childhood memories -watching Benny Hill, Dave Allen, Two Ronnies and Dick Emery. Ernie was the greatest....
Timothy Heasman I read up on him. He rented for 26 years in London, and never owned. Never owned a car, bought cheap products from the shops & walked for miles, rather than pay for a taxi. This was even with a 7 digit balance in his bank.
No other song and video takes me back to my childhood (grim early 1970's northern England industrial town, power cuts, strikes etc) like this one that always lifted me from the surrounding gloom. It seems I'm not alone because apparently this is former PM David Cameron's favourite song too. Not that I'm going to let that spoil my enjoyment of it!
My Dad was a milk rounds-man and as for the perks I never knew but all his customers liked him and at Christmas I would help him get finished early and most years we were rather drunk and completely full of mince pies and chocolates. Plus the tips he got were much more than he ever earned in that week. The good old days long gone. No horse and cart though all electric.
brilliant still fresh today, I bought this when it came out, no the words off by heart, the B side has "stick your finger in your ear and go ting a ling aloo" what a talent!
The chances of a song as simple but clever as this taking off now? A memory from a time when life seemed less complicated and hectic - i (and all of my mates) knew this song word for word!
Great Comedy classic.The guy was a genius in a time when you could have a good laugh at everything ,no boundries.I see there are 856 leftie knobheads who don't get humour.
If your of a certain age this was fantastic humour, unfortunately fun has left humour now so it’s belittle who you think won’t mind and laugh as loud as you can on your own. Happy days
I had a copy of this and it got #1 in the UK ! The B-side was called Ting-a-ling a loo.A Benny Hill video without Yaketty Sax and without the little bald-headed man. Also no women in bikini's - nurses and police uniforms being chased !
Here's a true story. I was at a bus stop in Twickenham High Street in 1992. I was awaiting a bus to take me to a family gathering. The only other people waiting, were two old ladies. It was a sunny afternoon. A man in a pale pink safari suit walked up to the bus stop (short sleeved). It was Benny Hill. he looked at the timetable affixed to the post but no sooner had he begun perusing the times of the buses, when the old ladies yelped. That's Benny Hill.' The got up and began saying 'Benny, Benny!' He looked nervous and began to walk away. They pursued him and i spontaneously sang the famous Benny Hill Theme as the trio scuttled away along Twickers High Street,. This bus stop served Teddington. He must have imagined that he could catch a bus home, unmolested but the scene played out just like a typical ending to one of his shows. His show was axed but 3 years before this . He died a few weeks after i 'met' him. I don't know if these silver sables chased him to his doom; I'm not certain. But he had been warned about his heart condition by doctors and he had refused a bypass operation. Anyway, true story. No phone cameras, in those days. Wonderful moment
I remember this record we actually had the record when we were growing up my little brother love this bit at the end he used to sneek up the back of the chair remember Ernie the fastest milkman in the West
owww ernie , youre up there in the sky with the like's of my gramp etc , not going lie near the end when you soul rises i do shed a tear than i laugh as you pop up the window lol , jsut like the day of my gramps funeral funny stuff going on in the house r.i.p benny hill legends like you will never been seen again
now this was [played on junior choice Christmas day 2021 radio 2 and the day after that Johnnie walker on sounds of the seventies twice in two days. this song is now 50 years old me starting Secondary school in 1971 I have the single a 45 for younger listeners,but a great memory
I went to a funeral recently and this was played during the reflection. Really summed up a life well lived. RIP Dave and Benny.
70s and 80s brittish comedy was the best.. grew up on it here in Ireland. Sad we now live in an age where harmless fun is a crime.
people look for something to offend them now phillip instead of not watching, then they complain instead of scrolling past
Remember this from my schooldays 😂
Ohh Deeer
Ow Sadd
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Nevver Minđ
Times when the world was sane, Loved Benny Hill, and now we have what we have, i watch him whenever i feel like it.Long live Benny :)
It's 2023 and we havent forgotten ernie
I remember it fondly and listen to it now and then.
2024 now
@@gregm6917 and we never will forget
Brilliant humour. Its got everything: Benny's milkmans past, endearing flawed characters, tongue twisting poetry, and an enigmatic Benny's afterlife twist at the end. Gold.
I'm 24 years old, I know this song word for word thanks to my dad, I'm told that I'm sad knowing this but I grew up know this music, it may be before my time but this doesn't mean it's not a wicked song!!
Well said mate. 👍
Nope, in 25 same for me with my mother, I don't care who says what, old music is awesome
it’s insane that now you are 32 or 33
I'm now a 24 year old in *current year* this Linda slaps ngl
This was no 1 in the charts on Christmas Day 1971 and stayed there for 4 weeks.
Let’s not forget Henry McGee playing Ted, probably one of the best straight men to a comedian. His accent was so clipped and precise.
I Probably haven't heard this for at least 3 decades and yet I still know it word for word . . .
Hugh Fathers me also, especially the last bit from the fight onwards.
Me too
Ditto 🥳🥳🥳
I've loved this since the moment I saw it on TV in the 70's.. Great comedian..
I know it all by heart too. I even sang it at karaoke. After I did, the DJ said, "Nobody sang Benny Hill before". Next time, I'll sing "Garden of Love".
Probably my favourite novelty song of all time …Xmas number 1 in 1971 …absolute classic
A very talented comic who is irreplaceable. Very sad how he was treated in later years by the Television company who behaved very badly towards him.
Indeed and he was loved in the US and around the world. Not many UK comics can say that !
They were probably green eyed because Benny had more brains than that shower put together.
yeah because the P C Brigade were starting up and THAMES Television gave into them ! Of what was a harmless T V comedy programme
Always the way he made them a fortune over the years .and that’s what he got for it ..absolute one of benny ..
Yes, his style of comedy fell out of favour, so he was just discarded like yesterdays newspaper. such a shame.
UK Singles Chart #1 - 4 wks (11 Dec 1971) | the Best Music Video!
Just played this to my 52 year old dad. He was in tears!
Play him some "CADBURY FLAKE GIRLS" on You Tube and watch the
wide wide smile i guess he will be a "poppy " me i'm more "woman in
canoe " it's a age thing now gone in a pc world
Havent seen this before and I'm in stitches lol bring back comedy
*Haven't
another loss,no bad language, just pure entertainment, thank you Benny R.I.P.
Just a class act.
LOL. Low class maybe, yes.
No bad language? What about that cocoa?
and hot meat pies. Not bad language, just innuendo.
'Ernie' is a bona fide classic, superbly arranged and performed, that Hill seizes with chortling relish.
A tale of love and infidelity, played out in a Wild West where cowboys all ride milk carts and stale pork pies are the weapons of choice.
Come back Benny Hill, I miss your good old days * sense of humour in the old 1970's .
I had an Aunty Sue and Uncle Ernie 😂😂😂 this reminds me of them...things were better back in the day
Brings back some of memories of the good old days. Especially if you were up for a laugh. Wish he never aged beyond 51. So he'd still be with us now with brand of naughty, but nice sense of humor.
Remember watching this (with subtitles) on TV in a kebab shop in Spain when I was about 11 with my mother.
The Spaniards were roaring with laughter, I think they thought us Brits were all really like Benny.
eThanks youtube for having a site where I can enjoy the old gems
Utterly wonderful. One of earliest records my parents bought for me.....Robinson Crusoe. Dadada dada...White Horses....The Flashing Blade..Abba ...and Gareth Edwards...oh for the 70s once more!!
..... And the Singing Ringing Tree......
"And he looked up in pained surprise and the concrete hardened crust
Of a stale pork pie caught him in the eye, and Ernie bit the dust."
Eat you heart out Bob Dylan and Leonard Cohen, those are great lyrics!
gwangi64 y
those lyrics will go down in 'istory as subliminal prose!
absolutely brilliant lyrics
It is "And he looked up in pained surprise AS the concrete hardened crust
Of a stale pork pie caught him in the eye, and Ernie bit the dust." A bit pedantic but the best lyrics ever!
Just listened to it again and it sounds to me like it actually is "AND the concrete-hardened crust". I have a feeling this one will run and run.
So sad we lost this gifted comedian with a heart of gold!
Still miss you Benny.
Therel never be another like you.
So brilliant. So beautiful . The guy was a genius 👌👌
This era provided a huge quantity of genuinely humourous songs.
While i was never a big fan of Benny Hill i always enjoyed this song! X😊
It’s just not Christmas without Ernie
Ahh!
Memories of youth come flashing back when I hear this song!
Good old Benny Hill!
I just heard this on the radio 📻 today and googled it and laughed so much!!🤣🤣🤣
Absolutely 💯 loved Benny Hill ...what a classic show still in 2021!!!.
❤Long live Benny Hill in our hearts❤.
Oh what a legendary song! still tickles me :D
Came up on the chase today but they were to young, Brad knew and of course me at my age lol so had to have a reminder of Ernie, one of my fav songs from back in the day 😂
Unforgettable and totally unique - I too love this song as much now as I did as a child - never fails to make me smile :-)!
+Angela Cole Same with me, since the 90s. I don't care if some people consider this sexist.
Brilliant lyrics and comic craftsmanship, I wasn't a massive Benny Hill fan but this song will always be a favourite.... I think I've got my 7" single somewhere.....
There's a close in Eastleigh called Benny Hill close!!! Benny Hill was a milk man in Eastleigh before he was famous!!
When i was a kid in the 1970's i had this..it was brilliant..the words full of innuendo. I laughed when it said "Ernie didnt want to die he was only 52"..as in tge 1970's an old person was 60 odd years old and 52 was near it. I'm 56 now..haaa..but act about 35 ( lucky i dont look it either)..great times..pity Benny Hill didn't have a longer retirement.
I too am 56 and recall this song being the Christmas No.1 over 1971. All of us at school knew all of the words (and still do I suspect) but even more oddly, the song conjures up the smell of open fires and smoke hanging in the air on a cold winter's morning. Weird how music can whip up such strong memories.
@@MisterHampshire yes. I agree, somehow you are transported back in time with just a song...magical.
JUNE 30TH - 2013 - HAVING SEEN BENNY HILL ON TV MANY TIME I CONSIDER HE WAS A DEDICATED STAR AND A CREDIT TO HIS PROFESSION.
pure British Quality @ it's best....
"That ticked old Ernie" . my mum had this 7' single and i love it now as i did all those years ago .........." And Ernie bit the dust "...........
theres not many records like this these days fun tongue in cheek music all seems to be one catagory today
Hadn't heard this since the 70s. Can't believe I remembered the words lol
The lyrics to this song are amazing and it doesn't matter how many times I hear it it always makes me laugh. To come up with the concept of the story, write the incredible lyrics and then put it all to music is beyond me, absolutely awesome, I wonder how long it took him.
Agreed. “Two ton Ted from Teddington” and “A woman’s needs are many fold and Sue she married Ted” are great lyrics.
he said “you want it pasteurized, cos pasteurized is best ? “
she said “ Ernie , I’ll be happy if it comes up to my chest “
Brilliant !!
"Ernie id be 'happy if it comes up to me chest...." Hilarious~~!!! Happiest childhood memories -watching Benny Hill, Dave Allen, Two Ronnies and Dick Emery. Ernie was the greatest....
I’m an Ernie and often when I introduced myself I would get, “Ah, the fastest milkman in the west.” I loved Benny Hill.
Our milkman we had at the time it was in the charts was called Ernie 😂
it's cool name
what a classic,
Brilliant 😂😂😂
Absolutely brilliant song & performance!*!! 🥰🎶🎤❤️💖 Happy innocent times & memories of Children’s Favourites on the radio …. 🥰🎶💞🌈💕
I would see Benny Hill when I worked in Southampton , with his groceries from Tesco's for his mum. Very regular guy.
About 1985
Timothy Heasman I read up on him. He rented for 26 years in London, and never owned. Never owned a car, bought cheap products from the shops & walked for miles, rather than pay for a taxi. This was even with a 7 digit balance in his bank.
No other song and video takes me back to my childhood (grim early 1970's northern England industrial town, power cuts, strikes etc) like this one that always lifted me from the surrounding gloom. It seems I'm not alone because apparently this is former PM David Cameron's favourite song too. Not that I'm going to let that spoil my enjoyment of it!
Love it. Proper music with proper musicians - not like all that dross we have to put with these days!!!!
Totally agree. And they knew how to write novelty records in those days.
My Dad was a milk rounds-man and as for the perks I never knew but all his customers liked him and at Christmas I would help him get finished early and most years we were rather drunk and completely full of mince pies and chocolates. Plus the tips he got were much more than he ever earned in that week. The good old days long gone. No horse and cart though all electric.
This played at my grandads funeral it’s in the Keighley News all the bikers went round and payed their respect x age 55 too young 😭💔❤️
I always love the guy at the end standing on the corner and laughing.
Benny Hill has been immortalised by a street named after him in Eastleigh, Hampshire. R. I. P.
Vous nous manquez énormément Mr Benny Hill que de bon souvenir
Know all the words to this from hearing it on Junior Choice in the 70s. Great song!
This is what I listen to every Christmas on Junior Choice
brilliant still fresh today, I bought this when it came out, no the words off by heart, the B side has "stick your finger in your ear and go ting a ling aloo" what a talent!
A cake to the ribs and a pie to the eye. Classic bunfight one-two, can’t believe Ernie didn’t see that one coming even with his mrs putting him off.
Two comedians were the best all over the world. Benny Hill and Thanasis Veggos. Great talents.
Benny Hill comedy genius
Rest in peace Mum, this is for you
"Leave em laughing", I'll never forget your golden laugh xx
The chances of a song as simple but clever as this taking off now? A memory from a time when life seemed less complicated and hectic - i (and all of my mates) knew this song word for word!
One of the best comedians if not the best to come out of the UK.
"And he didn't half kick his horse!" Classic!
I think you mean his... orse :)
This song reached NO.1 in the UK on November 13th 1971, and stayed there for 4 weeks............great song from Benny!
Benny hill one of the best . Never for gotten. R I P .
This will be my funeral song as I'm carted off into the furnace.
Great Comedy classic.The guy was a genius in a time when you could have a good laugh at everything ,no boundries.I see there are 856 leftie knobheads who don't get humour.
I'm a Lefty Knobhead.......
...... and I love it!
Oh your one of the gormless morons and you admit it as well
If your of a certain age this was fantastic humour, unfortunately fun has left humour now so it’s belittle who you think won’t mind and laugh as loud as you can on your own.
Happy days
I love Benny Hill and this song. I used to mimick him singing this song when I was a youngster at family partys. Good ol' Ernie 👍🇬🇧👏👏👏👏👏👏
Love it! RIP Benny :) You made alot of people laugh for a long time!
Great memories from about 1971.
My milkman is called Ernie. We always used to sing him this song and the baker was his enemy! Good times
Bet he never got tied of that 😬
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I had a copy of this and it got #1 in the UK ! The B-side was called Ting-a-ling a loo.A Benny Hill video without Yaketty Sax and without the little bald-headed man. Also no women in bikini's - nurses and police uniforms being chased !
Those milk bottles are still rattling in heaven
If you listen on dark winter nights..occasionally you can hear Ernie's ghostly gold tops rattling in their crate.
Whatever time of the day or night it is I cannot help myself from shoutin "Ernie"
r.i.p benny ..you was a fantastic showman .you made my laugh .
everytime i hear this i think of my grandpa and it never fails to make me cry.
Here's a true story. I was at a bus stop in Twickenham High Street in 1992.
I was awaiting a bus to take me to a family gathering.
The only other people waiting, were two old ladies.
It was a sunny afternoon.
A man in a pale pink safari suit walked up to the bus stop (short sleeved).
It was Benny Hill. he looked at the timetable affixed to the post but no sooner had he begun perusing the times of the buses, when the old ladies yelped. That's Benny Hill.' The got up and began saying 'Benny, Benny!'
He looked nervous and began to walk away. They pursued him and i spontaneously sang the famous Benny Hill Theme as the trio scuttled away along Twickers High Street,.
This bus stop served Teddington. He must have imagined that he could catch a bus home, unmolested but the scene played out just like a typical ending to one of his shows.
His show was axed but 3 years before this .
He died a few weeks after i 'met' him. I don't know if these silver sables chased him to his doom; I'm not certain. But he had been warned about his heart condition by doctors and he had refused a bypass operation.
Anyway, true story. No phone cameras, in those days. Wonderful moment
+theonlyantony nice claim to 'fame' lol
Nice funny story!
But what's a short sleeved bus stop?!!
kevvome
I think he means Benny's suit was short sleeved 😅
great story
Anywhere around that area, Surbiton, Twickenham, etc... we grew up with Monty Python and him in the background! LOVE IT!
I remember this record we actually had the record when we were growing up my little brother love this bit at the end he used to sneek up the back of the chair remember Ernie the fastest milkman in the West
17 weeks at number 1 in 1971 then re-issue in 1992 position 29 in charts for 4 weeks
owww ernie , youre up there in the sky with the like's of my gramp etc , not going lie near the end when you soul rises i do shed a tear than i laugh as you pop up the window lol , jsut like the day of my gramps funeral funny stuff going on in the house r.i.p benny hill legends like you will never been seen again
still make me smile
He was a comedy genius,
reminds me of my old dad rip dad love and miss you x
Love Benny Hill, especially in Chitty Chitty Bang Bang.
Oh shit a brick that was absolutely brilliant. I'd forgotten all about this classic!
Comedy harmless song.the best still laugh now.ime 55 years old ...in this gloomy time just the pick up you need
Benny was a one-off genius
This is who I'm named after? You made the right choice, Dad.
The fact this is essentially a Milkman’s life told in a British Western is priceless.
I loved this song as a kid as an adult I still do now I get ALL the jokes
Benny Hill at his best.😊
Benny Hill was so underrated
Never heard of Benny Hill until I got cable TV. Didn't realize I would love his comedy and he did it all.
Possibly the best music video ever
now this was [played on junior choice Christmas day 2021 radio 2 and the day after that Johnnie walker on sounds of the seventies twice in two days. this song is now 50 years old me starting Secondary school in 1971 I have the single a 45 for younger listeners,but a great memory
He got his cocoa there three times every week ! A wonderful euphemism. No doubt the PC brigade would try and ban it if it was released today!!!
Yeah, because nothing sexual has been heard on the radio since this. Nothing at all.
Pooor Ernie 😭❤️👍