Kate Bush wrote this as an 18 year old a few hours after watching the TV adaptation of the book. 18 years old and she bangs out this beautiful haunting melody. The woman is a legend.
@@garybreeze1000 Kate was signed by the record company at 16 and gave her a few years to develop her craft. She was 18 when she wrote this and then had a fight to get it released as her first single..
@@garybreeze1000 The track that scored her contract back then was "Man With The Child In His Eyes". Written at 13 and recorded as part of a 3 track demo financed by David Gilmour at age 16. This song was written in March '77. Just before her 19th birthday. Last track written before the August '77 recording.
It's hard to overestimate the impact of this song when it came out in early 1978. It was groundbreaking on multiple levels. It's also hard to believe that she was only 18 when she wrote it. Many thanks for sharing it.
@markfletton5901 - Not even my big bro, then 20, had heard anything like it before! 😅 It was when he'd just bought the album and played it to the rest of our family that I'd heard Kate for the first time 😀
The whole album is outstanding;it's hard to imagine such a young person made this. I immediately bought the record back then. She started writing when she was 11! Thanks to David Gilmour from Pink Floyd, who helped her with the production. She does use her voice more in this way; some people do have a problem with that. I can recommend most of the first album. Also she made more hitsongs after that. One of my favourites is "This woman's work". All the best from the Netherlans!
@@mightyV444 I was going on 23 and listening to Black Sabbath mainly. I thought "What the hell is THIS!!" Came to absolutely love it though. Kate wasn't hard to look at either. My missus got SO jealous. My son was born a few months later.
Kate Bush is on of the all time most under appreciated artists. She made a huge, ground breaking impact of female artist and producers. She is an absolute genius.
kate bush is a genuine genius....in the late 1970's when disco was giving way to punk, u had kate producing this, completely her own lane...if uve not heard- man with a child in his eyes, babooshka, running up the hill , this womans work....many more ⬇️🎤✌️
I was into punk at the time when this came out , it was incredible and I've been a Kate fan since , saw her twice at her Before the dawn shows in 2014. No-one was sounding like her then in 78 and no-one compares with her today.
Kate is a hugely talented woman she wrote the lyrics and music for all of her albums she also choregraphed all her interruptive dance moves she studied mime and dance later on she produced her own music and also co-produced many of her music videos
Interesting that Kate Bush and Emily Brontë (author of "Wuthering Heights") share the same birthday (July 30). Kate is singing in a higher register to better emulate the "ghost" of Catherine. With this song, Kate would become the first female artist to achieve a number-one single with an entirely self-written song. Nice reaction ... we are all a bit mesmerized by Kate when she performs.
Thanks for your reaction. Katie's inspiration was actually from an old TV movie of the book. She went on to read the book and do a lot of research before writing this song. Kate actually has the same birthday as the author Emily Bronte. If you liked this I highly recommend you listen to a lot more Kate Bush. It will change your life.
"Wow" is another great song of hers. "Babooshka", "The Man with the Child in his Eyes", "Army Dreamers", "The Kick Inside" and so many more.But these and your other reactions on Kate are my favorites
Thank you for a great reaction to what is an iconic song. It was so different to anything else in singles charts, in a number of ways, the overall structure of the song is very unusual. Other unusual aspects are timing changes and ley changes which shouldn't work, but do. Kate was never exposed to any formal music theories, so she wrote a song that sounded good to her. She is an instinctive songwriter. She has been compared to David Bowie in that respect. I was a Kate Bush fan from the very start when I heard the song and watched the music video, that was it. It also helped the came from the same part of London. Her vocals in the early part of her career are quite high pitcbed, so I recommend that you consider looking at her next three UK single releases after the record-breaking "Wuthering Heights," which are: 📍The Man With The Child In His Eyes - also from her debut album "The Kick Inside," (1978) which sold a million copies 📍Wow and "Hammer Horror," both from her 2nd album (also released in 1978), "Lionheart" Due to the surge of interest in Kate as a result of Stranger Things, I was ending up posting similar informational comments about a couple of subjects, once being more details about "Wuthering Heights", which I will now add to this comment. ========== A while before Wuthering Heights was written, a younger Kate managed to catch the tail end of a BBC adaptation of the Emily Bronte novel Wuthering Heights when the ghostly Cathy was outside a window of Heathcliff's house wanting to be let in. Kate shares the same Birthday as Emily Bronte and when she was young she was referred to as cathy. In order to get a feel for Cathy Kate read part of the book, interestingly when she did get round to reading all of it after finishing writing the song, Kate noticed certain phrases from parts that she hadn't initially read had ended up in the Lyrics anyway. Kate said that when she sung this song, she was Cathy, she was channelling the character. Kate's vocal performance is a single take with no edits. Kate had to fight her record company to get Wuthering Heights to be her debut single, EMI had chosen a completely different track from her "The Kick Inside" album, in the end EMI released Wuthering Heights because they thought that it would fail and teach Kate a lesson, instead it became a worldwide smash hit. Hitting number 1 in Australia, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Portugal, and the UK. It was at least a top 10 (or better) in nine other countries. A single chart performance that would only be surpassed in 2022 by "Running Up That Hill".
Don't worry. We are all mesmerised by Kate Bush. You should do more of her work. Her album Hounds of Love, in particular showcases her as a producer and it's astounding (particularly the second half of it, which is a mini concept album in itself and is a life-changing experience)
What a phenomenal British female who wrote , sang and produced most of her own music ,she influences so many female artists who came after her. Her first album she wrote between the age's of 13 and 16
Wuthering Heights has been one of British people's favourite novels for a very long time. Kate Bush captured its essence in this song in a way that few artists could emulate. You can't appreciate how groundbreaking she was, Britain in the 1970s was a different world. Separately, the novel has unfortunately become caught up in the culture wars through its most recent adaptations.
I ❤ Kate, and have since 1980. She’s phenomenal. My brother introduced me to her and I haven’t looked back since. She’s one of two bands from my childhood I still hold relevant. Rush being the other😊
Yes, she's a ghost. She's dead and she wants to get the love of her life's attention. She's not only haunting, she's haunted. She's like Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense, she doesn't understand why all her efforts to gain attention are falling on deaf ears.
Thank you for taking this request. It's the second step in your journey down the Kate Bush rabbit hole. 🙂Just imagine what a revolution it was when this song came out in 1978. No one had ever heard a song that sounded like this! The vocals are so unusual. Bush wrote it in a single evening at the age of 18. Wuthering Heights spent 14 weeks in the UK singles chart and spent 4 weeks at No. 1 in March 1978. This made Bush the first female artist to achieve a number-one single with an entirely self-written song. She was inspired after seeing the 1967 BBC adaptation of the 1847 novel Wuthering Heights. She actually shares her birthday with its author, Emily Brontë. I think you figured it out from the video (so it's not a spoiler), but "Wuthering Heights" is sung from the perspective of Catherine Earnshaw, a ghost pleading at Heathcliff's window to be allowed in. There is a different video that's worth checking out: th-cam.com/video/Fk-4lXLM34g/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared Kate Bush's early music does have a lot of vocals like this, so there are lots of other songs to discover. "The Man with The Child in His Eyes" is another example. The interpretative dance is integral to Kate's music, she learned from the same person that taught David Bowie. Kate got inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last year. She has inspired countless musicians especially female ones like Sarah McLachlan and Tori Amos.
Wonderful reaction! Thank you. Kate's first hit, I believe. Two quick notes: 1. There is another official version of this song - with Kate outdoors in a red dress. That's the one used by large groups of people who sometimes get together to dance to this song. There are many videos online showing these gatherings - which look quite fun! 2. There are *many* film adaptations of Wuthering Heights. I don't know if the 1939 version was the first but Lawrence Olivier & Merle Oberon starred in it. There was probably a silent version done earlier.
As well as playing piano, Kate was later a pioneer of the Fairlight CMI. Her 1980 track "Babooshka" was one of the first (if not the first) to use one in a recording.
Singer, songwriter, pianist, dancer, choreographer, director, producer - Kate did it all! Her debut album, containing tracks all written when she was 19 or less, was amazing in the maturity of the topics covered and the writing e.g. suicide, incest, menstruation, lust. Above all, Kate is a story-teller.
There are several film adaptations of Wuthering Heights, but most leave out much the last part of the book. There’s a good TV miniseries from maybe 1977 that is closest to the book. But there’s nothing like reading the book. It’s a very dark and atmospheric slow motion train wreck that covers two generations.
Yea, the other video, the one with the red dress out on the moors, is the inspiration to "The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever". It's a gathering that takes place all around the world since 2016, usually toward the end of July (altho it originates from 2013). Women, children (and sometimes men in wigs) dress up in red dresses and dance to the song, while moving like Kate in the video.
Perfect reaction ! .. Mesmerised, fascinated, and enchanted, just as I was when I first saw her do this .. Loved how your body swayed along with Kate, and you giggled a few times in pure enjoyment .. Beautiful to watch.❤
As a teenager in the UK when she released this, I whished that she would come into my window. ❤ Great song / writer and singer and gorgeous too. Babooushka next please.
When listening to that song for the first time a few decades ago, I surely had the same smile on my face as you do, haha. What a lovely reaction. Thank you!
Kate used the advance from her first record contract to pay for contemporary dance and mime lessons from legendary choreographer Lindsay Kemp who also taught David Bowie and Peter Gabriel
We got a different video in Australia. I was set outside in the English Country side, but with a lot of the same dance moves. Kate was wearing a red dress, and possibly bare foot...
Still one of my favourite songs after all these years. She's kind of playing a ghost as the character in this song, from the book Wuthering Heights. So, the kind of misty white unclear imagery fits with that. The other clip has her disappearing further and further away from the camera as the music ends, and definitely has that feeling of a ghost longing to get back. The book is incredible, but extremely grim.
@@michaelwebster8389 There are at least 3 video performances. The other for a Dutch tv show I think at a amusement park horror themed part of it. These were all part of TV shows since there was not yet a dedicated video show. I think she also did a more live performance on an Irish tv show.
Back in '87/'88 I was doing my stint (12 months) with being conscripted to the national army, luckily as a medic, so it was kind of lush... I had bought Kate Bush's VHS of all her early videos sometime before that, but never really had the time to sit down and watch it all. Military life altered that... I both loved it, and could understand (and laugh wholeheartedly!) at how Madness parodied her videos with their own music videos! But if Kate Bush is new to any of you, try to go back and watch all of her music videos for her early songs! I think she cared more for her music than for her video performances, but I could (should) probably be wrong! Those were sort of short movies, not like anything 'pop' artists release these days...
Kate was one of the UK's most ground breaking artists...a child prodigy...I think this was done when she was 17...written when she was 14...based on the Wuthering Heights novel.....strong recommendation : This womans work, running up that hill, cloud busting, the man with the child in eyes, lionheart. She is up there with Bowie and Mercury for genius...and all at the same time...on the same tiny isle !!
Peter Gabriel sung with Kate Bush on a song he wrote called 'Don't Give Up' which is a gorgeous piece, and definitely a unique video! I don't think there's anything else quite like this song though....Subbed, great reaction
It is okay to be mesmerized by her. Her dance so perfectly complements the song. There are two official music video versions. The second one has her in a red dress performing the song outside in a field with some trees in the back ground. There is also a version from a show called TopPop where she performs the song on a kind of fairytale looking stage. Some parts of this video have her singing in closeup, while you can also see her dancing in the background. Then there is the Gothic version. This was filmed at Eftling, an amusement park in the Netherlands, in the haunted house attraction there. It starts with her climbing out of a coffin.
I have been binging reaction vids of this song and I'm amazed at how somewhere between the second and third melody change you see people become entranced.
I’m very happy you enjoyed this…most first time reactors get scared off by Wuthering Heights. If you decide to do more reactions to Kate always do the official video. She’s an angel sent down from Heaven.
Listen to the "ninth wave" which is a series of tracks off side 2 of the hounds of love album. I think that you might like them. She is a talented innovative musician.
I am honoured that as a teenager I saw her perform this live twice on her one and only tour. A stage show I will never forget. That kind of artistry is not all lost though. Aurora, while not providing the same kind of show, leaves an an equally indelible mark live.
When a skilful female singer appears today, often Kate Bush is to compared with! Many excellent songs to chose from. Female stars were still quite rare. Other great female singers from this era is the "queen of disco", Donna Summer. Her greatest hit was also sort of first electronic disco song, "I feel love". As mature, her cover of "MacArthur Park" (Belgium 2005) is great! Another great voice is the German "Good mother of punk" Nina Hagen (who actually has made many different genres her very personal way) - but check "Naturträne" (or African reggae). Finally a female jazz singer, quite underrated, is Annette Peacock. A video with famous drummer Bill Bruford "Back to the beginning" (1979) - or the audio "Love's out to lunch".
Dear FAR, stay with British Rock. You will love it. Kate Bush is worshipped in the UK. Wuthering Heights. Go read it. Liked, subbed and rang that bell.
Kate is around 18/19 in this video, she was discovered at the age of 14, her first album was recorded when she was 16/17. One of the songs on the album "the man with the child in his eyes" was written by Kate when she was 12 years old
@glyngason8450 Only "Saxophone Song" and "Man With The Child In His Eyes" were recorded at 16. Executive producer Dave Gilmour. The rest of the album was completed August '77 after her 19th birthday.
My idol from my young days, still is ! she is a total musican experience - making her music, performing, dancing - and a godlike voice - she did only one touring . and never went back. Probably something who had to do with how women was treated in those days ( and probably still ). She is making more music and now also a litle film inspired of the bombing of childern in the world. SHE IS AMAZING !!! Thank you !
Never forgot when I saw Kate Bush performing this song live in German TV show 1978 - she was unknown, in her first TV appearance. The audience in the studio was stunned, and this mysterious song touched me also. This was something compelety different! The host took shy Kate in his arms, gave her a rose and told her not to forget this show because she would be a big star soon. Well, he was very right about that!
From this era, “The Man With the Child In His Eyes” is amazing. “Hounds of Love” the album (source of “Cloudbusting”) is overall great. The second half (“The Ninth Wave”) is a connected suite, so listen to the suite together if you decide to check it out. For 90s Kate, “The Sensual World” is a good one. As far as creativity in a pop/rock context, she’s hard to beat IMHO.
Kate called her house "Wuthering heights " after the success of this. I live just down the road from it in Mottingham, South East London, and I saw her many times. She is a beautiful and very talented lady, who writes all her own songs, does the choreography for her videos, plays many of the instruments on her albums, and works on production of videos and albums. So many classics to listen to, if i had to reccomend one it would be "Man with a child in his eyes" or "This woman's work"
@isobeljames1328 I live 2 minutes away from her house, that she lived in until a few years ago. It was called Wuthering Heights and still is. I have photos standing at the front gates. With "Wuthering Heights '78" on the gate
@@poppad331 she didn't named the house Wuthering heights, the petso' who bought it from did... Btw, as she is rich, she has many houses... She sold the Berkshire one with the water mill, 11, 5 millions.... Thanks for the infos about Bush but I already knew that she's a songwriter PRODUCER.
One of the best middle 8/bridges in any pop song! Eye's wide open was a thing during the punk era. Lots of artists did it. Meant to make you look a bit crazy and edgy.
Kate was discovered (as a teenager) and promoted by Dave Gilmour, Pink Floyd's guitarist. "Mesmerizing" is truly the best description of this performance. When I first heard it, I replayed it many times...and have been fascinated by it ever since.
My 2nd grade teacher Ms. Holly at Westchester Elementary School, Coral Springs, Fla looked just like her. That was in 1976. I think she was from a European country because she called me Tim-o-ty. She was my favorite teacher.
The inspiration is a book by Emily Brontë. It's a tragic love story that really does tug at the heart strings. However Kate Bush's song is about after Cathy died and her ghost haunts Heathcliff at the end before he dies and they join each other on the moors. Yes there are books, films and TV series it really is a very famous story.
You may find that if you do more Kate Bush you will lean towards either her early work or later work. For the most part the earl albums are more conventional and are my personal favourite. Later on the production is different, like in much of the 80's.
You were on target with the ghostly dress. The vocal she is doing is intentionally ghostly. She is "in character" essentially. Many Wuthering Heights movies old there old and new. Kate wrote this song first after watching a older movie playing on the BBC. It wasn't until later that she went and read the book by Emily Bronte. Both Bronte and Kate share the same same burthday and Kate was called Kathy when she was a young girl.
There are several movies. I've only seen the one starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche, but that was pretty good! Albeit also very dark, due to the story 🙂 And yes, there _is_ a second video clip: The 'Red Dress' one! 💃 😀
Every year on a day nominated as "The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever" groups of people congregate dressed as Kate Bush in the red dress version of the video to recreate her dancing using her trademark moves to the song. Many videos of this event around the world on YT.
Withering Heights is a classic English novel from 1847 by Emily Brontë , it was on our syllabus at school. It’s a proper chunk of English literature but if you’re up for seeing it through, it’s well worth reading and you’ll appreciate the song even more..
If you ever visit Top Withens,the Bronte family home, you'll see where the sisters get their aesthetic from. A lonely gouse (now ruined) with one solitary tree, alone on the moors. You could easily imagine the ghost of Kathy stalking a dark brooding Heathcliff across the cottongrass.
Kate Bush wrote this as an 18 year old a few hours after watching the TV adaptation of the book.
18 years old and she bangs out this beautiful haunting melody. The woman is a legend.
I was under the impression she was 16 when she wrote this but the record company held her back thinking she was too young.
@ you may be right !
@@garybreeze1000 Kate was signed by the record company at 16 and gave her a few years to develop her craft. She was 18 when she wrote this and then had a fight to get it released as her first single..
@@garybreeze1000 The track that scored her contract back then was "Man With The Child In His Eyes". Written at 13 and recorded as part of a 3 track demo financed by David Gilmour at age 16. This song was written in March '77. Just before her 19th birthday. Last track written before the August '77 recording.
It's hard to overestimate the impact of this song when it came out in early 1978. It was groundbreaking on multiple levels. It's also hard to believe that she was only 18 when she wrote it. Many thanks for sharing it.
I was only 8 then but still knew that this was quite different to what else was getting played on the radio 😀
@@mightyV444 Agree. I was still young, too, but I'd never heard anything like it.
@markfletton5901 - Not even my big bro, then 20, had heard anything like it before! 😅 It was when he'd just bought the album and played it to the rest of our family that I'd heard Kate for the first time 😀
The whole album is outstanding;it's hard to imagine such a young person made this. I immediately bought the record back then.
She started writing when she was 11! Thanks to David Gilmour from Pink Floyd, who helped her with the production.
She does use her voice more in this way; some people do have a problem with that.
I can recommend most of the first album. Also she made more hitsongs after that. One of my favourites is "This woman's work".
All the best from the Netherlans!
@@mightyV444 I was going on 23 and listening to Black Sabbath mainly. I thought "What the hell is THIS!!" Came to absolutely love it though. Kate wasn't hard to look at either. My missus got SO jealous. My son was born a few months later.
Kate bush is an English national treasure
Kate Bush is on of the all time most under appreciated artists. She made a huge, ground breaking impact of female artist and producers. She is an absolute genius.
Just as well she did have that recent massive success with 'Running Up That Hill', 38 years after it was first released!
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@@mightyV444 .....and most importantly, owning complete copyright from the very beginning. Still making money as she potters around the garden.
She’s very venerable and 😅esteemed. But I still agree
Artistic genius, totally unique back in the 70's and remains so 50 years later rare musical talent with a creative vision that still is going strong
Got freaked out on a horrible tour to Japan in 1979, and it made her a recluse for a few years.
kate bush is a genuine genius....in the late 1970's when disco was giving way to punk, u had kate producing this, completely her own lane...if uve not heard- man with a child in his eyes, babooshka, running up the hill , this womans work....many more ⬇️🎤✌️
I was into punk at the time when this came out , it was incredible and I've been a Kate fan since , saw her twice at her Before the dawn shows in 2014. No-one was sounding like her then in 78 and no-one compares with her today.
@@samguberman2288 Jessie has done a reaction to Cloudbusting!
Kate is a hugely talented woman she wrote the lyrics and music for all of her albums she also choregraphed all her interruptive dance moves she studied mime and dance later on she produced her own music and also co-produced many of her music videos
Mesmerizing, bewitching and full of surprises. That is young Kate on piano too by the way.
Interesting that Kate Bush and Emily Brontë (author of "Wuthering Heights") share the same birthday (July 30). Kate is singing in a higher register to better emulate the "ghost" of Catherine. With this song, Kate would become the first female artist to achieve a number-one single with an entirely self-written song. Nice reaction ... we are all a bit mesmerized by Kate when she performs.
Always brings tears to my eyes, and I don't know why!
@return2earthvideochannel For me, it's because I'm so proud of her and I'm not even English.
Thanks for your reaction. Katie's inspiration was actually from an old TV movie of the book. She went on to read the book and do a lot of research before writing this song.
Kate actually has the same birthday as the author Emily Bronte.
If you liked this I highly recommend you listen to a lot more Kate Bush. It will change your life.
I love this song so much. Thanks for the reaction hun
The mesmerised face is adorable.
She was the first female artist to have a UK Number 1 with a song she wrote herself.
"Wow" is another great song of hers. "Babooshka", "The Man with the Child in his Eyes", "Army Dreamers", "The Kick Inside" and so many more.But these and your other reactions on Kate are my favorites
Thank you for a great reaction to what is an iconic song. It was so different to anything else in singles charts, in a number of ways, the overall structure of the song is very unusual. Other unusual aspects are timing changes and ley changes which shouldn't work, but do. Kate was never exposed to any formal music theories, so she wrote a song that sounded good to her. She is an instinctive songwriter. She has been compared to David Bowie in that respect.
I was a Kate Bush fan from the very start when I heard the song and watched the music video, that was it. It also helped the came from the same part of London.
Her vocals in the early part of her career are quite high pitcbed, so I recommend that you consider looking at her next three UK single releases after the record-breaking "Wuthering Heights," which are:
📍The Man With The Child In His Eyes - also from her debut album "The Kick Inside," (1978) which sold a million copies
📍Wow and "Hammer Horror," both from her 2nd album (also released in 1978), "Lionheart"
Due to the surge of interest in Kate as a result of Stranger Things, I was ending up posting similar informational comments about a couple of subjects, once being more details about "Wuthering Heights", which I will now add to this comment.
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A while before Wuthering Heights was written, a younger Kate managed to catch the tail end of a BBC adaptation of the Emily Bronte novel Wuthering Heights when the ghostly Cathy was outside a window of Heathcliff's house wanting to be let in. Kate shares the same Birthday as Emily Bronte and when she was young she was referred to as cathy. In order to get a feel for Cathy Kate read part of the book, interestingly when she did get round to reading all of it after finishing writing the song, Kate noticed certain phrases from parts that she hadn't initially read had ended up in the Lyrics anyway.
Kate said that when she sung this song, she was Cathy, she was channelling the character. Kate's vocal performance is a single take with no edits.
Kate had to fight her record company to get Wuthering Heights to be her debut single, EMI had chosen a completely different track from her "The Kick Inside" album, in the end EMI released Wuthering Heights because they thought that it would fail and teach Kate a lesson, instead it became a worldwide smash hit. Hitting number 1 in Australia, Ireland, Italy, New Zealand, Portugal, and the UK. It was at least a top 10 (or better) in nine other countries. A single chart performance that would only be surpassed in 2022 by "Running Up That Hill".
Try these three songs from Kate: Moving, Breathing, and This woman's work. Three incredible pieces of art.
Book written by Emily Bronte at age 27. The only book she wrote because, despite its success, she died young of tuberculosis.
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The 1939 version of Withering Heights with Olivier and Oberon is the only one worth watching.
Don't worry. We are all mesmerised by Kate Bush. You should do more of her work. Her album Hounds of Love, in particular showcases her as a producer and it's astounding (particularly the second half of it, which is a mini concept album in itself and is a life-changing experience)
What a phenomenal British female who wrote , sang and produced most of her own music ,she influences so many female artists who came after her. Her first album she wrote between the age's of 13 and 16
My favourite song is 'The Man with the Child in his Eyes'. Both songs are very much part of my childhood.
Kate was about 16 when she wrote that one.
Kate Bush helped to develope the radio mic so she could sing and dance at the same time. . .
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Kate Bush is wonderful. Her and Bowie are the best things to come out of the UK.
Wuthering Heights has been one of British people's favourite novels for a very long time. Kate Bush captured its essence in this song in a way that few artists could emulate. You can't appreciate how groundbreaking she was, Britain in the 1970s was a different world. Separately, the novel has unfortunately become caught up in the culture wars through its most recent adaptations.
Its a good idea to have her unique lyrics to hand when listening to Kate , she's so special.
I ❤ Kate, and have since 1980. She’s phenomenal. My brother introduced me to her and I haven’t looked back since. She’s one of two bands from my childhood I still hold relevant. Rush being the other😊
You seem at the point where you want to 'broaden your horizons' musically . There is so much out there of great worth !
I listened to the audio story here on yt during the pandemic. After 40years I finally understood what she had been talking about all those years.
Sister Kate does both playful and haunting sooooooo well ! Yes, even in the same song . :)
The piano you hear throughout this video is played by Kate. There is a great audio book of Wuthering Heights on TH-cam.
Yes, she's a ghost. She's dead and she wants to get the love of her life's attention. She's not only haunting, she's haunted. She's like Bruce Willis in The Sixth Sense, she doesn't understand why all her efforts to gain attention are falling on deaf ears.
Thank you for taking this request. It's the second step in your journey down the Kate Bush rabbit hole. 🙂Just imagine what a revolution it was when this song came out in 1978. No one had ever heard a song that sounded like this! The vocals are so unusual. Bush wrote it in a single evening at the age of 18. Wuthering Heights spent 14 weeks in the UK singles chart and spent 4 weeks at No. 1 in March 1978. This made Bush the first female artist to achieve a number-one single with an entirely self-written song. She was inspired after seeing the 1967 BBC adaptation of the 1847 novel Wuthering Heights. She actually shares her birthday with its author, Emily Brontë.
I think you figured it out from the video (so it's not a spoiler), but "Wuthering Heights" is sung from the perspective of Catherine Earnshaw, a ghost pleading at Heathcliff's window to be allowed in. There is a different video that's worth checking out: th-cam.com/video/Fk-4lXLM34g/w-d-xo.htmlfeature=shared
Kate Bush's early music does have a lot of vocals like this, so there are lots of other songs to discover. "The Man with The Child in His Eyes" is another example. The interpretative dance is integral to Kate's music, she learned from the same person that taught David Bowie. Kate got inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame last year. She has inspired countless musicians especially female ones like Sarah McLachlan and Tori Amos.
Lovely Kate, cheers for reacting. fav of mine are Moving, Man with a child in his eyes.
Wonderful reaction! Thank you. Kate's first hit, I believe.
Two quick notes:
1. There is another official version of this song - with Kate outdoors in a red dress. That's the one used by large groups of people who sometimes get together to dance to this song. There are many videos online showing these gatherings - which look quite fun!
2. There are *many* film adaptations of Wuthering Heights. I don't know if the 1939 version was the first but Lawrence Olivier & Merle Oberon starred in it. There was probably a silent version done earlier.
One of the greatest artists of the last century! That is her iconic vocal style. I am a huge Kate Bush fan.
She really reflects the passion and complexity of the novel.
As well as playing piano, Kate was later a pioneer of the Fairlight CMI. Her 1980 track "Babooshka" was one of the first (if not the first) to use one in a recording.
Singer, songwriter, pianist, dancer, choreographer, director, producer - Kate did it all! Her debut album, containing tracks all written when she was 19 or less, was amazing in the maturity of the topics covered and the writing e.g. suicide, incest, menstruation, lust. Above all, Kate is a story-teller.
Not to mention inventor. She and her engineer made the first head mic so she could dance and sing on stage...
There are several film adaptations of Wuthering Heights, but most leave out much the last part of the book. There’s a good TV miniseries from maybe 1977 that is closest to the book. But there’s nothing like reading the book. It’s a very dark and atmospheric slow motion train wreck that covers two generations.
UK No.1 the week I was born. Pretty happy with that.
In 1979 we never seen anything like this before she's a ghost that's come back for her lover
Yeah there’s a famous movie of this with Merle Oberon and Laurence Olivier.
@Inglese001 That's my favourite. Always liked Laurence's acting.
Yea, the other video, the one with the red dress out on the moors, is the inspiration to "The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever".
It's a gathering that takes place all around the world since 2016, usually toward the end of July (altho it originates from 2013).
Women, children (and sometimes men in wigs) dress up in red dresses and dance to the song, while moving like Kate in the video.
At places there are just a few (2-3) persons dancing, while in others there can be up to a 1000 (est. at Folkestone 2023)
Perfect reaction ! .. Mesmerised, fascinated, and enchanted, just as I was when I first saw her do this .. Loved how your body swayed along with Kate, and you giggled a few times in pure enjoyment .. Beautiful to watch.❤
As a teenager in the UK when she released this, I whished that she would come into my window. ❤
Great song / writer and singer and gorgeous too.
Babooushka next please.
When listening to that song for the first time a few decades ago, I surely had the same smile on my face as you do, haha. What a lovely reaction. Thank you!
70/80 Golden Age of Music, my dear..... i lived that age as a teenager and i thanks GOD for having experienced it!! 😘
As a child. Kate was known as Cathy (Catherine) and shares a birthday with Emily Bronte, the author of Wuthering Heights, 30th July
Kate used the advance from her first record contract to pay for contemporary dance and mime lessons from legendary choreographer Lindsay Kemp who also taught David Bowie and Peter Gabriel
A musical genius in a time of musical geniuses.
What a lovely, genuine person. Very witty too...
We got a different video in Australia. I was set outside in the English Country side, but with a lot of the same dance moves. Kate was wearing a red dress, and possibly bare foot...
Still one of my favourite songs after all these years. She's kind of playing a ghost as the character in this song, from the book Wuthering Heights. So, the kind of misty white unclear imagery fits with that. The other clip has her disappearing further and further away from the camera as the music ends, and definitely has that feeling of a ghost longing to get back.
The book is incredible, but extremely grim.
@@michaelwebster8389 that is also on YT.
@michaelwebster8389 I'm Aussie too. She was wearing black shoes with red stockings. Red shoes might have been a little less distracting.
@@michaelwebster8389 There are at least 3 video performances. The other for a Dutch tv show I think at a amusement park horror themed part of it. These were all part of TV shows since there was not yet a dedicated video show. I think she also did a more live performance on an Irish tv show.
First heard this when it came out it blew us all awAy…still top 5 greatest debuts
Look at her hands, so amazing!
@iznone .....and the eyes. So expressive.
What an amazing look of joy as you listen to this track.. Subscribed :)
Back in '87/'88 I was doing my stint (12 months) with being conscripted to the national army, luckily as a medic, so it was kind of lush...
I had bought Kate Bush's VHS of all her early videos sometime before that, but never really had the time to sit down and watch it all. Military life altered that... I both loved it, and could understand (and laugh wholeheartedly!) at how Madness parodied her videos with their own music videos!
But if Kate Bush is new to any of you, try to go back and watch all of her music videos for her early songs! I think she cared more for her music than for her video performances, but I could (should) probably be wrong! Those were sort of short movies, not like anything 'pop' artists release these days...
Kate was one of the UK's most ground breaking artists...a child prodigy...I think this was done when she was 17...written when she was 14...based on the Wuthering Heights novel.....strong recommendation : This womans work, running up that hill, cloud busting, the man with the child in eyes, lionheart. She is up there with Bowie and Mercury for genius...and all at the same time...on the same tiny isle !!
Peter Gabriel sung with Kate Bush on a song he wrote called 'Don't Give Up' which is a gorgeous piece, and definitely a unique video! I don't think there's anything else quite like this song though....Subbed, great reaction
It is okay to be mesmerized by her. Her dance so perfectly complements the song.
There are two official music video versions. The second one has her in a red dress performing the song outside in a field with some trees in the back ground.
There is also a version from a show called TopPop where she performs the song on a kind of fairytale looking stage. Some parts of this video have her singing in closeup, while you can also see her dancing in the background.
Then there is the Gothic version. This was filmed at Eftling, an amusement park in the Netherlands, in the haunted house attraction there. It starts with her climbing out of a coffin.
I have been binging reaction vids of this song and I'm amazed at how somewhere between the second and third melody change you see people become entranced.
I’m very happy you enjoyed this…most first time reactors get scared off by Wuthering Heights. If you decide to do more reactions to Kate always do the official video. She’s an angel sent down from Heaven.
Listen to the "ninth wave" which is a series of tracks off side 2 of the hounds of love album. I think that you might like them. She is a talented innovative musician.
I am honoured that as a teenager I saw her perform this live twice on her one and only tour. A stage show I will never forget. That kind of artistry is not all lost though. Aurora, while not providing the same kind of show, leaves an an equally indelible mark live.
When a skilful female singer appears today, often Kate Bush is to compared with! Many excellent songs to chose from. Female stars were still quite rare. Other great female singers from this era is the "queen of disco", Donna Summer. Her greatest hit was also sort of first electronic disco song, "I feel love". As mature, her cover of "MacArthur Park" (Belgium 2005) is great! Another great voice is the German "Good mother of punk" Nina Hagen (who actually has made many different genres her very personal way) - but check "Naturträne" (or African reggae). Finally a female jazz singer, quite underrated, is Annette Peacock. A video with famous drummer Bill Bruford "Back to the beginning" (1979) - or the audio "Love's out to lunch".
Dear FAR, stay with British Rock. You will love it. Kate Bush is worshipped in the UK.
Wuthering Heights. Go read it.
Liked, subbed and rang that bell.
One of our greatest singer song writers legends
Kate is around 18/19 in this video, she was discovered at the age of 14, her first album was recorded when she was 16/17. One of the songs on the album "the man with the child in his eyes" was written by Kate when she was 12 years old
@glyngason8450 Only "Saxophone Song" and "Man With The Child In His Eyes" were recorded at 16. Executive producer Dave Gilmour. The rest of the album was completed August '77 after her 19th birthday.
Kate was always motived by literature. Next, try: "Army Dreamers", "Breathing", "And Dream of Sheep"...
My idol from my young days, still is ! she is a total musican experience - making her music, performing, dancing - and a godlike voice - she did only one touring . and never went back. Probably something who had to do with how women was treated in those days ( and probably still ).
She is making more music and now also a litle film inspired of the bombing of childern in the world. SHE IS AMAZING !!! Thank you !
Great reaction to a wonderfully iconic song 🇦🇺
"Not a book I was familiar with" One of the most brilliant books ever written in the English Language and you've never heard of it...
until now! :D
Wuthering heights is maybe the greatest novel of the 19th century. A must read.
Never forgot when I saw Kate Bush performing this song live in German TV show 1978 - she was unknown, in her first TV appearance. The audience in the studio was stunned, and this mysterious song touched me also. This was something compelety different!
The host took shy Kate in his arms, gave her a rose and told her not to forget this show because she would be a big star soon. Well, he was very right about that!
From this era, “The Man With the Child In His Eyes” is amazing. “Hounds of Love” the album (source of “Cloudbusting”) is overall great. The second half (“The Ninth Wave”) is a connected suite, so listen to the suite together if you decide to check it out. For 90s Kate, “The Sensual World” is a good one. As far as creativity in a pop/rock context, she’s hard to beat IMHO.
There are many film / tv adaptations of teh novel Wuthering Hheights ...... try some of kate's later works , this song was off her debut album
Kate called her house "Wuthering heights " after the success of this. I live just down the road from it in Mottingham, South East London, and I saw her many times. She is a beautiful and very talented lady, who writes all her own songs, does the choreography for her videos, plays many of the instruments on her albums, and works on production of videos and albums.
So many classics to listen to, if i had to reccomend one it would be "Man with a child in his eyes" or "This woman's work"
She didn't call her house Wuthering heights....don't believe tabloids bs.
And she is a producer since 1980.
@isobeljames1328 I live 2 minutes away from her house, that she lived in until a few years ago. It was called Wuthering Heights and still is. I have photos standing at the front gates. With "Wuthering Heights '78" on the gate
@@poppad331 she didn't named the house Wuthering heights, the petso' who bought it from did... Btw, as she is rich, she has many houses...
She sold the Berkshire one with the water mill, 11, 5 millions....
Thanks for the infos about Bush but I already knew that she's a songwriter PRODUCER.
Mostly her first album the kick in side...she used high pitch voice the man with the child in his eyes she doesn't its very beautiful
There are many movies and tv series based o the novel but I’d wager Kaye’s short song escapulates the book brilliantly
One of the best middle 8/bridges in any pop song!
Eye's wide open was a thing during the punk era. Lots of artists did it. Meant to make you look a bit crazy and edgy.
There are movie versions of the book, including the one that captivated Kate, which is an old b&w one.
She's a legend!! And was first by David Gilmore from pink Floyd.
Kate was discovered (as a teenager) and promoted by Dave Gilmour, Pink Floyd's guitarist. "Mesmerizing" is truly the best description of this performance. When I first heard it, I replayed it many times...and have been fascinated by it ever since.
'Is there a movie version?', LOL! Only about four or more.
My 2nd grade teacher Ms. Holly at Westchester Elementary School, Coral Springs, Fla looked just like her. That was in 1976. I think she was from a European country because she called me Tim-o-ty. She was my favorite teacher.
You connected with the song/video. Love that
Kate is a genius. She wrote some of her songs when she was 12 and 13 years old. There are two versions of this video.
@gazoontight There's also the De Efteling clip where she climbs out of the coffin.
Kate Bush is one of those performers who is dynamic on stage.
It's late but I would say, prepare for this song and try to hear the genius in the melody.
Listen to thealbim it was on, called "The Kick Inside". Everything on there was great imho
The inspiration is a book by Emily Brontë. It's a tragic love story that really does tug at the heart strings.
However Kate Bush's song is about after Cathy died and her ghost haunts Heathcliff at the end before he dies and they join each other on the moors.
Yes there are books, films and TV series it really is a very famous story.
As a teen boy in the 80s I fell in love❤❤❤😊😊😊
You may find that if you do more Kate Bush you will lean towards either her early work or later work. For the most part the earl albums are more conventional and are my personal favourite. Later on the production is different, like in much of the 80's.
This is the song that defined Kate Bush in the U.K. 'Running up that Hill is the song that defines her in the U.S.
You were on target with the ghostly dress. The vocal she is doing is intentionally ghostly. She is "in character" essentially. Many Wuthering Heights movies old there old and new. Kate wrote this song first after watching a older movie playing on the BBC. It wasn't until later that she went and read the book by Emily Bronte. Both Bronte and Kate share the same same burthday and Kate was called Kathy when she was a young girl.
Loved Kate Bush, when I were younger, fun fact, Dan Vasc also did it.
There are several movies. I've only seen the one starring Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche, but that was pretty good! Albeit also very dark, due to the story 🙂
And yes, there _is_ a second video clip: The 'Red Dress' one!
💃 😀
Every year on a day nominated as "The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever" groups of people congregate dressed as Kate Bush in the red dress version of the video to recreate her dancing using her trademark moves to the song. Many videos of this event around the world on YT.
"The Most Wuthering Heights Day Ever" date is just chosen so that it's close to Kate's birthday :)
She was discovered by Pink Floyds Dave Gilmore and her brother plays guitar . Kate Bush is deffo a performing artist similar to David Bowie
Withering Heights is a classic English novel from 1847 by Emily Brontë , it was on our syllabus at school. It’s a proper chunk of English literature but if you’re up for seeing it through, it’s well worth reading and you’ll appreciate the song even more..
If you ever visit Top Withens,the Bronte family home, you'll see where the sisters get their aesthetic from. A lonely gouse (now ruined) with one solitary tree, alone on the moors. You could easily imagine the ghost of Kathy stalking a dark brooding Heathcliff across the cottongrass.
This was her first song and it went straight to number one in England. Go ahead and dive down the rabbit hole.