Merrill has such a soothing voice, I could listen to him forever, and I bet he is the kind of guy you could have a real good conversation with. Love the Osmonds. They’re the best.
I love the Osmonds and I really love this song. I heard a story from one person who said that when Crazy Horses came out, the radio station decided to play the song, but didn’t say who was singing it. They asked people to call in and guess the group singing. People said Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, most every one said it was a heavy metal band. When the DJ then came on and said that it was the Osmonds, the people were shocked. WOW!
I was something like 8 years old first time I heard this song in the early seventies. I think it was instrumental in my becoming a life long metalhead and metal guitarist. This song and Deep Purple. Awesome combination. Osmonds,- you rocked !!
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@@ffjsb Its better than how we danced in the eighties. I never heard of the song til this channel, I always thought it was sad how media tries to make jokes out of some musicians when music is music. My only beef is there's a little too much repetition of the title, but although I don't listen to their music I always had respect for the Osmonds. Or maybe I just thought Marie was hot.
Todd Massengale, you are correct sir it is a very good song and I was growing up at the time The Osmonds were at the height of their popularity and I would never have believed that they recorded a song that actually Rocks this way!!!!!
I remember hearing this when I was a kid on the radio but I didn’t hear the name of the band lol. So I thought it was one of those rock bands my parents listened to lol Years later as a grown man I discover it was the Osmond’s and I was completely shocked lol. So I started looking at all of there other music and became hooked. I now own everything they ever released on vinyl and digital on my iPod and iPhone lol. Try putting this song on repeat and workout to it! You will sweat like never before lol
My sister had a crush on the Osmonds when she was about 12. I'm a year younger and like most boys that age I really didn't care for them. But looking back its not a bad song. I think in the hands of a more experienced rock group it could ve could've actually been a classic.
Just played the live version from Wembley to my 38 yr old daughter (Which is amazing by the way!) Who is this singing?” She had no clue until she counted the members of the band! 🤣🤣 I saw the Osmonds twice ... once in San Diego & the other at Caesar’s Palace in Vegas!! My bedroom walls were covered in teeth. 😂 They were amazing!!
Merrill was and is over the top talented, cool, brilliant. I had the pleasure of meeting him in Las Vegas at a convention where talent is booked for fairs, shows, etc about 12 years ago. To be honest, I listened just a little to the Osmonds in the 70's, so I really didn't know much about Merrill and the other brothers, except for Donnie. He signed an autograph for me, was gracious, and I said something stupid like this is for my wife, she's a big fan. Wish I would have known back then how awesome he was as a performer.
I was six when this song came out. The first time I heard this was on a program called 1 van de 8 (dutch for 1 of the 8). I loved it so much I learned the lyrics by hart. Did not understand word of English, but could sing this by hart.
this is a traumatic experience for me. i'm 62 and was a huge fan as a little girl. how my parents manage to hide that song from me i have no idea. i will never be the same again . lol
When I was a kid, nobody that liked heavy rock, took the Osmond Brothers seriously. When I heard Crazy Horses, that changed my opinion. Loved Donny's Soldier of Love.
J'étais a leur premier concert a l'Olympia et il n'y avait que des jeunes comme moi entre 13 et 18 ans mais pas de vieux babas aux cheveux long du tout il doit confondre avec un autre pays !
Crazy Horses banned for supposed drug references? Wow. I guess the music banners of the day never listened to One Bad Apple, Yo Yo, Down By the Lazy River etc.... Amazing Go All the Way by the Raspberries was allowed. Crazy Horses still rocks and remains my favorite Osmonds song!! Thanks guys!!
Why do you think Donny Osmond came out so strong against the PMRC in the 1980s. There were so many artists in the 1970s whom you don't expect experienced bans. John Denver's Rocky Mountain High was banned too. And just don't think politicians banning music is just a yesterday thing. The incoming President of the European Commission, former German Family Affairs Minister mrs Ursula von der Leyen banned Rammstein's album in 2009.
That story about the France concert was funny! It's ashame that the song was banned in a few countries bc they thought it was about drugs. Crazy Horses is an awesome song! Check out the slightly slower version on youtube posted by zatopecara..it's pretty cool. Another great rocker on the Crazy Horses album is Hold Her Tight. On The Plan album I really like The Last Days, Traffic On My Mind and One Way Ticket To Anywhere. I love watching The Plan Medley promotional video.
My thinking as to why Crazy Horses was banned is actually pretty simple: Horse is a nickname for Heroin. People use it when they want to hide the drug aspect from others. ("Hey....I'm getting a Horse. Back soon").
Concern over environmental damage flared up quickly around 1970, at the time of the first Earth Day event, and that's what inspired this song not too long afterwards. Suddenly, most of us were worried that we were permanently poisoning ourselves to death everywhere in the world. The USA at that time had by far the most motor vehicles internationally, and their effect on widespread air pollution specifically was scary - thus "Crazy Horses", whose name, by the way, is taken from a famous Native American chief of the 19th century.
With or without the Faith I have adopted, (that they themselves were BORN into and I wasn't)- 'Crazy Horses'... is epic, acid rock. I love how Merril explains how they studied such groups as: Zeppelin, Floyd and even the Beatles- THAT'S their inspiration!? They matched wits with them and, as far as I'm concerned, they TIE or are even better than those groups! It's like trying to pick an ice cream flavor, there's VERY difficult choices! lol.
I don't think it sounds metal at all - I can't think of too many metal songs with a "chunka-chunk chunka-chunk chunka-chunk" rhythm guitar not to mention a horn section. Add in their outfits and choreography of that era, if it had just a little fatter bottom end it could be heavy funk like some of the songs by Funkadelic - not the lyrics of course. This is how Donny performed the song in Vegas th-cam.com/video/x7jyhlNhvvY/w-d-xo.html - to me his updated arrangement leans more towards R&B like Prince or Michael Jackson than metal.
Another good rocker on album is 'Hold Her Tight'. And The Plan album has some other rockers on it. I really like 'The Last Days', 'Traffic On My Mind' and 'One Way Ticket To Anywhere'. There is also The Plan Medley promotional video on youtube.
When being much younger I confused this song with Zeppelin's Immigrant Song - hearing them back to back, there is an undeniable connection in the rhythm!
It might have been nice if they did experience life abit! There parents watched them closely and im thinking the 60s with all its sycadelic stuff and other things how the osmonds stayed away from it! Kudos 2 the parents but if they would have experienced life abit mbee there music would have been ALITTLE edgyier but they were stil very talented!!
The Donny and Marie shows took the onus away from the original brothers that were turning out some great stuff, 'My drum' on the phase 111 album is worth a listen. Also on other albums 'Hey mr Taxi' 'Gotta get love' 'Sun Sun Sun' . A great favourite of mine is from the 'Around the world' album recorded at Earls Court in 1975, Jay singing lead on 'Some kinda wonderful' as he's playing the drums. When I was speaking to him about Earls Court, he told me that he remembered that and that 'It was Crazy'!
I loved this song when I was a kid. It was an absolute anachronism compared to their other stuff, which was just bubblegum dross, let's be honest. Still, I loved Donny and even looking at him in this reminds me of being eight years old and the big poster on my bedroom wall. But 'Crazy Horses' is an exceptional song from these "kids".
Mom and Pop Osmond went away for the weekend. Boys snuck themselves a bottle of Coke and this is how they described what happened as soon as that shit hit the bloodstream.
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Always loved this track. The Osmonds could rock.
Merrill has a beautiful voice, both singing and speaking.
What I've always liked most about this song is the joy. They're having a lot of fun making and performing this, and it shines through.
Was lucky to see Osmond live..wow, this song was Beyond!!!!
Merrill has such a soothing voice, I could listen to him forever, and I bet he is the kind of guy you could have a real good conversation with. Love the Osmonds. They’re the best.
Merrill killed it on this song!
Merrill was good but Jay was the lead singer for the song! And was great!
What a voice Merrill has.
I love the Osmonds and I really love this song. I heard a story from one person who said that when Crazy Horses came out, the radio station decided to play the song, but didn’t say who was singing it. They asked people to call in and guess the group singing. People said Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, most every one said it was a heavy metal band. When the DJ then came on and said that it was the Osmonds, the people were shocked. WOW!
They did that when Donny released Soldier of Love.
I first heard this song about 10 years ago when I was tested by a buddy. He stumped me. I’ve loved it ever since.
Hi Patricia
I grew up in the 70s and the Osmonds were once a household name. Used to watch them when they had a tv show with there sister. All great singers.
Im obsessed with this song, I cant believe it exists
Hi Andy
It has since 1972!
Oh damn, I used to listen to this song!
And here I thought the world had forgotten about Crazy Horses !
I was something like 8 years old first time I heard this song in the early seventies.
I think it was instrumental in my becoming a life long metalhead and metal guitarist.
This song and Deep Purple.
Awesome combination.
Osmonds,- you rocked !!
Love the story Merrill told about the audience when the Osmonds played Crazy Horses in France. Lol.
The Osmonds - Wholesome and edgy at the same time - I love them so much :)
French fans love hard rock, weed, and Osmonds! Vive la France 🇫🇷
🤣😂🤣😂 That’s awesome!! Saw them live in the 70’s!!
Toujours fan aujourd’hui?
@@fannybondy Oui
C’est super car nous sommes un petit groupe de fans Français -es qui les suivons sur Facebook. Ça fait toujours plaisir de savoir qu’il y en a encore. Avez vous pu les voir à leurs concerts?
@@fannybondy Malheureusement, je n'ai pas. Je ne suis qu'un fan qui a grandi au bon moment pour en profiter.
Brilliant song. One of the best of the 70’s
The Osmonds was my first ever live concert 1974 in Berlin.
Merril had the best voice ever
My uncle (mom's older brother) said that this song got him interested in horse racing because the chorus was catchy.
Ya have to admit.....its a damn good song🎶
Just so long as I never have to watch them dance like that....
@@ffjsb Its better than how we danced in the eighties. I never heard of the song til this channel, I always thought it was sad how media tries to make jokes out of some musicians when music is music. My only beef is there's a little too much repetition of the title, but although I don't listen to their music I always had respect for the Osmonds. Or maybe I just thought Marie was hot.
@@mikearchibald744 Marie was hot, and kinda still is...
I beg to differ, it is crap.
Todd Massengale, you are correct sir it is a very good song and I was growing up at the time The Osmonds were at the height of their popularity and I would never have believed that they recorded a song that actually Rocks this way!!!!!
I remember hearing this when I was a kid on the radio but I didn’t hear the name of the band lol. So I thought it was one of those rock bands my parents listened to lol
Years later as a grown man I discover it was the Osmond’s and I was completely shocked lol. So I started looking at all of there other music and became hooked. I now own everything they ever released on vinyl and digital on my iPod and iPhone lol. Try putting this song on repeat and workout to it! You will sweat like never before lol
This album was the first one I wore out as a teen! I wish I still had my copy today. My favorite song from my fav album of theirs! Just incredible!
A truly fantastic song. I bet its 10 times better live. Brilliant performers.
Crazy Horses is on my iPhone. GREAT song!
jasona9 that's cool..I have to get it on mine..
C'mon, this is a rockin' kick ass song
The Crazy Horses Album is probably one of the most Underrated Rock albums of the 70's
My sister had a crush on the Osmonds when she was about 12. I'm a year younger and like most boys that age I really didn't care for them. But looking back its not a bad song. I think in the hands of a more experienced rock group it could ve could've actually been a classic.
@@danielschwartz1228 It is!
more like crazy horse shit (WAAAH- WAAAAH)
A fantastic song.
He seems genuinely happy. Nice family and beautiful surroundings, good for him.
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Just played the live version from Wembley to my 38 yr old daughter (Which is amazing by the way!) Who is this singing?” She had no clue until she counted the members of the band! 🤣🤣 I saw the Osmonds twice ... once in San Diego & the other at Caesar’s Palace in Vegas!! My bedroom walls were covered in teeth. 😂 They were amazing!!
haha that's pretty funny.
Merrill was and is over the top talented, cool, brilliant. I had the pleasure of meeting him in Las Vegas at a convention where talent is booked for fairs, shows, etc about 12 years ago. To be honest, I listened just a little to the Osmonds in the 70's, so I really didn't know much about Merrill and the other brothers, except for Donnie. He signed an autograph for me, was gracious, and I said something stupid like this is for my wife, she's a big fan. Wish I would have known back then how awesome he was as a performer.
I was six when this song came out. The first time I heard this was on a program called 1 van de 8 (dutch for 1 of the 8). I loved it so much I learned the lyrics by hart. Did not understand word of English, but could sing this by hart.
Love The Osmonds since age 15 in 1971
this is a traumatic experience for me. i'm 62 and was a huge fan as a little girl. how my parents manage to hide that song from me i have no idea. i will never be the same again . lol
Getting your album banned is so hard core rock!
When I was a kid, nobody that liked heavy rock, took the Osmond Brothers seriously. When I heard Crazy Horses, that changed my opinion. Loved Donny's Soldier of Love.
French fan love you for ever❤️❤️❤️🇫🇷
J'étais a leur premier concert a l'Olympia et il n'y avait que des jeunes comme moi entre 13 et 18 ans mais pas de vieux babas aux cheveux long du tout il doit confondre avec un autre pays !
Oui je ne sais pas où il y avait ce genre de personnes car au Palais des Congrès je n’ai jamais vu ce genre de personnes
Merril is my favorite osmond.
He and Jay made a dynamic lead vocal team on Crazy Horses.
That chickenwing dance at the beginning cracked me up!
Crazy Horses banned for supposed drug references? Wow. I guess the music banners of the day never listened to One Bad Apple, Yo Yo, Down By the Lazy River etc.... Amazing Go All the Way by the Raspberries was allowed. Crazy Horses still rocks and remains my favorite Osmonds song!! Thanks guys!!
Why do you think Donny Osmond came out so strong against the PMRC in the 1980s.
There were so many artists in the 1970s whom you don't expect experienced bans.
John Denver's Rocky Mountain High was banned too.
And just don't think politicians banning music is just a yesterday thing.
The incoming President of the European Commission, former German Family Affairs Minister mrs Ursula von der Leyen banned Rammstein's album in 2009.
The song "Crazy Horses" was about anti-pollution. Nothing about drugs!
Go All The Way was banned in England
merrill would have been the greatest rock singer if that was what he wanted..
Osmonds Brothers now I like your life story about crazy horse you are true rock band brother
3:26 so cute!
I accidently came across this song one day in 2019 and instantly fell in love! Similar to GB's Brother to brother.
GREAT song
Fantastic song. It rocks.
Best pop rock song ever!
Merrill’s parts are what made this song.
It wouldn't go anywhere without Jay's parts! And the rest makes it all great!
They are all so natural. Great and funny story about the France story.
The Osmonds for ever
Grazy Horses was actually the first record i ever owned and i was only 9 years old. Still have it. Thats my girl is on the b side.
SUPER VOICE MERRILL HAS!
really the song is badass
Gosh they were talented
Say what you want about the Osmonds, but this song fucking rocks!!!
Jay could really dance and damn but they were all gorgeous especially my Jay lol
Great song!!!
It’s an above-the-board classic amongst their other songs, because of the heavy guitar riffs.
Great song.
That story about the France concert was funny! It's ashame that the song was banned in a few countries bc they thought it was about drugs. Crazy Horses is an awesome song! Check out the slightly slower version on youtube posted by zatopecara..it's pretty cool. Another great rocker on the Crazy Horses album is Hold Her Tight. On The Plan album I really like The Last Days, Traffic On My Mind and One Way Ticket To Anywhere. I love watching The Plan Medley promotional video.
My thinking as to why Crazy Horses was banned is actually pretty simple: Horse is a nickname for Heroin. People use it when they want to hide the drug aspect from others. ("Hey....I'm getting a Horse. Back soon").
The Osmonds and drugs. Those are two words I never thought I'd ever see in the same sentence.
@@katemaloney4296 because they don't belong together! The song is about air pollution!
@@georgeprice7922 they assumed it was about drugs and were wrong! It's all about air pollution.
The Osmonds were once a bitchin' hard rock band!
Love that song
Killer tune 💪💥🎸
Concern over environmental damage flared up quickly around 1970, at the time of the first Earth Day event, and that's what inspired this song not too long afterwards. Suddenly, most of us were worried that we were permanently poisoning ourselves to death everywhere in the world. The USA at that time had by far the most motor vehicles internationally, and their effect on widespread air pollution specifically was scary - thus "Crazy Horses", whose name, by the way, is taken from a famous Native American chief of the 19th century.
Classic osmond tune
Hi Sarah
Dit is fijn om te weten-!
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Love it
Never an Osmand fan not a few great songs they did this is one of em!
With or without the Faith I have adopted, (that they themselves were BORN into and I wasn't)- 'Crazy Horses'... is epic, acid rock. I love how Merril explains how they studied such groups as: Zeppelin, Floyd and even the Beatles- THAT'S their inspiration!? They matched wits with them and, as far as I'm concerned, they TIE or are even better than those groups! It's like trying to pick an ice cream flavor, there's VERY difficult choices! lol.
Cool story
shit song
Great song osmonds rock great lyrics too
What a song hard rocking tune
Osmonds......Led Zeppelin fans, love it so am I. This is a great heavy metal song.
I don't think it sounds metal at all - I can't think of too many metal songs with a "chunka-chunk chunka-chunk chunka-chunk" rhythm guitar not to mention a horn section. Add in their outfits and choreography of that era, if it had just a little fatter bottom end it could be heavy funk like some of the songs by Funkadelic - not the lyrics of course. This is how Donny performed the song in Vegas th-cam.com/video/x7jyhlNhvvY/w-d-xo.html - to me his updated arrangement leans more towards R&B like Prince or Michael Jackson than metal.
Cool
"The drug smoke", hahaha...
i don't know why, but, i always thought the name of this song was... 47 horses...i can still hear it in the chorus...
Did they ever do any more songs like this?
Another good rocker on album is 'Hold Her Tight'. And The Plan album has some other rockers on it. I really like 'The Last Days', 'Traffic On My Mind' and 'One Way Ticket To Anywhere'.
There is also The Plan Medley promotional video on youtube.
one of my favourite songs.... but who was playing drums in the vid :-)
Love how he says how he loves nature then say's I wanna go hunting ??!! Great great song though
Who said The Osmonds couldn't hang with the Big Boys? The Beatles, Stones, the Who? And they did it without the drugs.
When being much younger I confused this song with Zeppelin's Immigrant Song - hearing them back to back, there is an undeniable connection in the rhythm!
The Osmond's Hold Her Tight is much closer to Immigrant Song, though.
@@bpabustan Just listened to that, never heard it before - you're right! Haha, they must've been really inspired by that rhythm 😀.
Das ist Musik. Was die heute machen sind Geräusche!
those dance steps lol.
They banned a song made by people who didn't even drink coffee because they thought there were drug references?
"The long hair. The drug smoke". Drug smoke. Hilarious!
Why does this not have any subtitles? Couldn't understand what he was saying :(
"The sex thing" That's amazing.
amazing song , listen to the version by Alex Harvey BAND
Interesting ....
Goes to prove that Mormons can rock just as hard as the rest of them.
That's a stretch if there ever was one.
Ok so Wayne came with the riff. They were being influenced by Led Zeppelin. and WAYNE LOOKED LIKE JIMMY PAGE!
Theres a version of this song on totp where the singer is drumming
Nog steeds een knaller, zeg nou zelf
Do you have to hunt Merrill?x
Crazy horses and da funky chicken !
Why wasn't this a massive U.S. hit?!!
With that silly dance, it's like The Osmonds' own Gangnam Style!
It might have been nice if they did experience life abit! There parents watched them closely and im thinking the 60s with all its sycadelic stuff and other things how the osmonds stayed away from it! Kudos 2 the parents but if they would have experienced life abit mbee there music would have been ALITTLE edgyier but they were stil very talented!!
Their father controlled everything they did. It was he who added Donny into the mix.
The Donny and Marie shows took the onus away from the original brothers that were turning out some great stuff, 'My drum' on the phase 111 album is worth a listen. Also on other albums 'Hey mr Taxi' 'Gotta get love' 'Sun Sun Sun' . A great favourite of mine is from the 'Around the world' album recorded at Earls Court in 1975, Jay singing lead on 'Some kinda wonderful' as he's playing the drums. When I was speaking to him about Earls Court, he told me that he remembered that and that 'It was Crazy'!
Lol. "Wooww." 😄
That's what I said when I saw your photo 😀
@@justmadeit2 WAAAH WAAAH
I loved this song when I was a kid. It was an absolute anachronism compared to their other stuff, which was just bubblegum dross, let's be honest. Still, I loved Donny and even looking at him in this reminds me of being eight years old and the big poster on my bedroom wall. But 'Crazy Horses' is an exceptional song from these "kids".
All of the songs were great and still are!
I'm guessing this is the moment the brothers said 'With respect, Mum and Dad - fuck you! We're gonna ROCK!". Terrific song.
MARANATHA KYMRY FiAH BUN....
23/07/21
Mom and Pop Osmond went away for the weekend. Boys snuck themselves a bottle of Coke and this is how they described what happened as soon as that shit hit the bloodstream.