He didn't just play this song, he WROTE this song. This man is freaking amazing on the sax. Blows my mind everytime I watch him play. R.I.P. Boots Randolph.
Co-wrote with James Q Rich. His inspiration for Yakety Sax was the saxophone playing by King Curtis on the Coaster's 1958 song, Yakety Yak. Yakety Sax quotes two bars each of Entrance of the Gladiators and The Girl I Left Behind Me
I need this played at my funeral when they are wheeling my casket out of the church. Extra points if one of the pallbearer's pants falls down mid walk.
Your corpse slides out of the coffin, tumbling over the guests. An old woman screams as your head falls between her breasts, slaps you into a stand. The pall-bearers then try to bring you back into the coffin, but the pall-bearer whose pants are still down trips and you flip over the procession into someone ELSE'S open grave. The grave digger, pissed, throws you out and the pall-bearers catch you but are bowled over again. They try to hoist you, but grab you wrongly and you're upside down and dangling from your pants, to everyone's shock. Some helpful fellows rush over with the coffin and try to fit you back inside, and things look like they're going back to normal ... only for the bottom to give way and your corpse falls through the coffin as the pall-bearers march away, proud and ignorant.
People don't realize how hard this music is to play. Boots Randolph said that every time he had to play it, it almost killed him, due to the effort it took
+Rodrigo Goncalves Especially that glissando... He plays it on the sax like he plays the trombone for goodness sake. I am a tenor sax player myself, so I can say how difficult it is from the first hand.
I've been playing tenor sax for about nine years (senior in high school) and I can play the main lick pretty comfortably, probably with some grace notes omitted here and there, but I think it captures the essence pretty well. Playing the whole thing (the middle verses are the hard part) with the accuracy and dynamics that he does is what's freaking impossible.
I think he's forcing the tempo a little bit here, almost like he's trying to get it over and done with as fast as he can. The version on the Benny Hill show is a little slower and nicer imo.
As a young teenager, I learned to play "Yakety Sax" the way Boots did. It is deceptively difficult and it took me years to perfect There are small idiosyncrasies there that most players miss. I was fortunate to get to meet him, Chet Atkins and Floyd Cramer when they were in concert in the VA area where I lived. I got invited to his nightclub on Printers Alley in Nashville to play with him and it was a dream come true for me. Later in life, I learned that Boots had been a very well respected saxophonist in the jazz style. He was a fantastic jazz player and if you want to hear some of that, go listen to "Take Me Out To The Ballgame", which he performed on his final album. A really fine gentleman and great musician---Boots Randolph was my hero!!!
"it took me years to perfect" But you DID it. And that in my opinion is what makes a true artist someone who burns for the craft. Those who are willing to put however many years it takes to master their craft into it and doesn´t give up half way because its just too difficult and they don´t have the time or patientce to just sit down and keep practicing and practicing and PRACTICING, until they get to where they want to be.
If you're an amateur bass player of a certain age (like myself), your Holy Grail is Stanley Clarkes 'School Days', but Yakety Sax should be a Holy Grail of anyone who loves playing any instrument (as a hobby) - make the effort (I'm trying it on the keyboard now - it hurts!). FUN!
I am his daughter, Linda, and yes, he had huge lungs. He had to take 2 xrays to see his lungs effectively. Upper lungs and lower lungs. Doctors were always amazed when he had xrays.
@@lindaoneal9139 You can see that by the size of his chest, I reckon he would be able to swim underwater for a week! Fantastic bit of music though, could listen all day, but it tires me out!
I fondly remember my beloved mother crying tears of joy as he played this Live at a county fair in Phoenix Arizona in 1972 or 73. This one goes out to you, Mom. I love you, and I miss you.
Next day at school: LH has an ... incident in school because Roz wouldn't permit him to hang out with H the previous night. Nailed one of his classmates in the head with a book. Down at the office. A huge ruckus. Chairs being thrown around. Chris Chris. Chris. Settle down. Bugged out eyes. It looks like they're going to have to send Chris away for ... a while. Cali's mind: tea time at 25 gossip with Barbie doll, snow white, little mermaid, and her GI H doll she stole
"The song that makes everything funny no matter what the topic." Extremely challenging sheet music piece for a tenor saxophone. Amazing breath control.
Knowing next to nothing about playing music, this sounds anything but simple to me! The sax all by itself is doing so much that it sounds like multiple pieces playing together, and then the back-up brasses come in to make it even wilder. I'm picturing Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins when he's performing music in the street with all those different instruments attached to him and rigged up to play as he moves his body parts. Or watching Beck play the guitar and harmonica simultaneously, between singing or cracking jokes. It's impressive multi-tasking. People only think this is a simple or silly bit of music because it's linked so tightly with Benny Hill shenanigans. As viewers they are also mostly unaware of how demanding physical comedy is too.
michael T Boots Randolph was a very famous session sax player hired by Chet Atkins for RCA , He can be heard on a lot of Elvis songs and of course Brenda Lee Rocking around the Christmas Tree .
I know the tune very well but was not aware who played it; Boots is an amazing player. I am looking for some footage of Red Prysock playing tenor, I have some of his albums. He is more R&B, not as fast/manic as this, but had a great powerful tone. See Charleston Twist on here.
This has been used so much in comedy that I feel it is under appreciated. This is an absolutely slamming performance. Uses lots of tricks and techniques unique to the saxophone. It must be a massive challenge to play. Truly this deserves more respect than it gets.
When I did my senior jazz tenor recital, I played my songs that I had passed my recital juries with (couple Trane, Shorter, Mingus, and Brubeck pieces), bowed, started my final piece, a surprise Yakety Sax. My sax professor was on the floor laughing.
Boots recorded for Monument Records which my Uncle Fred Foster owned. I worked for my uncle a while in 1965 at his studio and had a chance to talk with Boots many times. He was a very humble talented guy. One of the finest people I ever had the pleasure of knowing. I am sure Boots is featured in the Heavenly Choir now.
That’s fascinating! I grew up with Boots’s Christmas album, “Boots and Stockings”. It was the only instrumental album we owned that I liked and would play on my own little turntable. Years later, I wanted to find the magic of that music again, but I never really learned the name of the artist or the album when I was playing the record as a child. But I remembered the *label*. I sat down and drew a picture of it, and then hunted the internet until I found them -the pink and yellow slim triangles of the label-Monument Records! From there I was able to figure out it was Boots and Stockings. I shared the findings with my mother, and we bought the album off of eBay. So good to have this music back in our lives again! Viva la Monument Records ❤
I played tenor saxophone. Omg this piece is insanely difficult to play. 😂 Three bars in I gave up, I'm pretty sure this man had the mammalian diving reflex. I would not be surprised if he could hold his breath under water for ten minutes. He has to have dolphin or otter DNA or something. 😂
Stop dairy and cereals products, even peas, if the first two are not enough after a month. Onion soup are great to help for the glu to get out. Take care.
I saw him in concert once in the early 90's and man could he still rip it up on this song, played it just like he did on this video. One of the best sax players there ever was.
Yeah. I'm British and my mother bloody HATES Benny Hill. I thought this would really get a reaction. We settled on "Lucy and Linus" (the classic Peanuts theme)... and we threw Jolly Ranchers at everyone in the cathedral before they threw rice at us. Brilliant fun.
Suddenly, I’m 8 years old again and laying in front of the TV, washed and dressed and Yackety Sax meant 3 things, The Benny Hill show was about to end, it was 8:30pm and it was my bedtime! The 1970’s Happy days!
God bless benny hill, boots Randolph and Alex Lester, bbc radio.....Alex made my night, I was working night shift driving trucks and Alex had a sax solo segment on his 2 am show, was driving near Milton Keynes, 15 years ago .....and it made my night. Slap my top. Sad end to such a good man ,benny hill.
Brilliant; and it takes me back to my youth; his 1963 performance, which hit "the charts" was during my university years. But I have also listened again to his 1963 performance in immediate succession to this. Although I can see the temptation in a long performing career to "up" the tempo, I am not convinced that it actually adds to the music, and it possibly does the reverse. But in my own field, as a classically trained church organist, I find that I am sometimes tempted by the same impulse!
Beautiful. All I can think about when listening this is all the skill and effort that must have went into creating this wonderful piece. Well, that and tig 'ol bitties.
I played this song for my Dad. He was a real fan of this song, and he played that Boots Randolph 8 track tape in his 2 year old 1967 Lincoln headed south to Lake Seminole which was often. Both my mother and father are passed on and I miss them both. This ones for you Dad !!
Its funny cause this song is supposed to be like a serious exhibition of expert playing by a saxaphone master but Benny Hill took it and used it for his show and now everyone thinks of it as just some zainy theme song to an old comedy TV show.
Why can't it be BOTH as everything is perceived differently by everyone? Let's just enjoy it for whatever it is and yet I can appreciate it from BOTH SIDES.. hence the reason I said both.
I hadn't heard this masterpiece before the Benny Hill show made it known worldwide. I found this music so wonderful that I've searched for the original version since years and voila, I have just found it. Excellent performance Mr. Boots Randolph!
Amazing. Legit amazing. I've always adored this song but never saw a live performance of it by the master himself. Watching this is like watching the Dueling Banjos scene in Deliverance for the first time.
OH MY GOOOD THIS MELODY JUST MAKE ME SMILE REMEBERING THE GREAT BENNY HILL!!!! NOTHWITHSTANDING THAT I´M MEXICAN, HIS HUMOR TRAVEED ACROSS ALL THE BORDERS! THAN YOU BENNY HILL FOR ALL THE SMILES THAT YOU GAVE US!!!! A LOT OF ANGELS MUST BE SMILING UP THERE!!!! HAHAHAH
So late Saturday night I'm at the Elks Lodge and I put this song on the jukebox. Maybe 20 people are in there, everyone looks up and someones yells out "Benny Hill Theme." The BEST part was when one of the elderly barmaids gets up and dances with the elderly hall manager right in front of everybody, just having a good ole' time! I will never forget that!
I told my dad today who is 83 name a musician you really like he told me boots Randolph I'd never heard of him before he is on my list as one of my favorite musicians of all time
King of Sax. My husband plays Yakety Sax on his sax. We heard BOOTS in concert once in Grand Rapids, Mi. (De Vos Hall). A memorable & once in a lifetime experience. K Bergman
When I first heard this on Benny Hill so many years ago I laughed and thought country music on English tv. And of course when hearing Boots wail out this number i had to think of Benny. Salute to two masters in their respective fields. Miss you both.
Eu adoraria ter conhecido ele antes, que músico fantástico, o som dele é agradável e incomparável, que bom ter esta referência, Dear Zernebock, thank you for your video, it's the best!! Best regards, Wilson-Brazil
I saw Boots Randolph along with Chet Akins and Floyd Cramer also with the Nashville Brass at the Atlanta Civic Center in 1970 or 71. I was 10 years old at the time and I liked Boots. Even today I still play his CD and he was just amazing. I still remember that concert even tho I'm in my 60's now. Oh what memories with Mom and Dad at that time. Wish I could do again. May they all Rest in Peace.
What a great rendition of a fantastic self composed delivery of the original music. Benny Hill robbed it for his show , but Boots Randolph was the unmistakable original, Thanks for posting .
Several years ago when I lived down south a neighbor's golden retrievers got loose and attacked another neighbors chickens. Suddenly I hear all hell breaking loose and see the chickens running down the street for dear life followed by the golden retrievers. And a group of people were chasing after the dogs trying to protect the poor birds. Now every time I hear this I think of that bizarre chase.
I think of my cousin repeatedly failing to throw a spacer block to my uncle. His younger brother started whistling the circus theme around throw 3 or 4, but Yakety Sax would have been even funnier. Good laughs
This never gets old. Boots didn't care to talk about this song because it took so much out of him to play but yet he kept increasing the tempo over the years (I think he was trying to challenge himself)and the song made him some bank thanks to Benny Hill so he probably liked it a little more than he let on :-) Some performers are "elite" level talents and he was surely one.
LUNGS OF STEEL
he breathes through his ass apperantly
Steel is not flexible so lungs of steel are bad lungs
Well it's really fast, and mostly eighteenth/sixteenth notes, so it wouldn't be all that difficult, but still really friggin' impressive!
*whispering... just roll with the script.
Penis of gold
He didn't just play this song, he WROTE this song. This man is freaking amazing on the sax. Blows my mind everytime I watch him play. R.I.P. Boots Randolph.
Taking some cues from Coasters' Yakety Yak
He did use a part from entry of the gladiators
Co-wrote with James Q Rich. His inspiration for Yakety Sax was the saxophone playing by King Curtis on the Coaster's 1958 song, Yakety Yak.
Yakety Sax quotes two bars each of Entrance of the Gladiators and The Girl I Left Behind Me
Phenomenal. He’s on my special, cherry picked list 👍
Exactly!r
I need this played at my funeral when they are wheeling my casket out of the church. Extra points if one of the pallbearer's pants falls down mid walk.
🤣 awesome idea!!!! Might steal it away!!!
Your corpse slides out of the coffin, tumbling over the guests. An old woman screams as your head falls between her breasts, slaps you into a stand. The pall-bearers then try to bring you back into the coffin, but the pall-bearer whose pants are still down trips and you flip over the procession into someone ELSE'S open grave. The grave digger, pissed, throws you out and the pall-bearers catch you but are bowled over again. They try to hoist you, but grab you wrongly and you're upside down and dangling from your pants, to everyone's shock. Some helpful fellows rush over with the coffin and try to fit you back inside, and things look like they're going back to normal ... only for the bottom to give way and your corpse falls through the coffin as the pall-bearers march away, proud and ignorant.
😂😂😂😂
Need to add scantily clad ladies into the mix.
I love that idea.
Boots Randolph gave life to this song and Benny Hill made sure it would never die.
Well said!
I only knew this from Benny hill show as a kid. I've now been enlightened!
He also played on the Elvis song Reconsider Baby
People don't realize how hard this music is to play. Boots Randolph said that every time he had to play it, it almost killed him, due to the effort it took
+Rodrigo Goncalves
He kept upping the tempo so he was always on the limit of what he could do. Early versions are slower, depending how old they are!
+Rodrigo Goncalves This is not difficult to play with a sax. Is practically imposible to do. But I can really really do the bass lines! Oh Yeah man!
+Rodrigo Goncalves Especially that glissando... He plays it on the sax like he plays the trombone for goodness sake. I am a tenor sax player myself, so I can say how difficult it is from the first hand.
I've been playing tenor sax for about nine years (senior in high school) and I can play the main lick pretty comfortably, probably with some grace notes omitted here and there, but I think it captures the essence pretty well. Playing the whole thing (the middle verses are the hard part) with the accuracy and dynamics that he does is what's freaking impossible.
I think he's forcing the tempo a little bit here, almost like he's trying to get it over and done with as fast as he can. The version on the Benny Hill show is a little slower and nicer imo.
As a young teenager, I learned to play "Yakety Sax" the way Boots did. It is deceptively difficult and it took me years to perfect There are small idiosyncrasies there that most players miss. I was fortunate to get to meet him, Chet Atkins and Floyd Cramer when they were in concert in the VA area where I lived. I got invited to his nightclub on Printers Alley in Nashville to play with him and it was a dream come true for me. Later in life, I learned that Boots had been a very well respected saxophonist in the jazz style. He was a fantastic jazz player and if you want to hear some of that, go listen to "Take Me Out To The Ballgame", which he performed on his final album. A really fine gentleman and great musician---Boots Randolph was my hero!!!
Thanks for your story and that track recommendation, I enjoyed it.
"it took me years to perfect" But you DID it.
And that in my opinion is what makes a true artist someone who burns for the craft.
Those who are willing to put however many years it takes to master their craft into it and doesn´t give up half way because its just too difficult and they don´t have the time or patientce to just sit down and keep practicing and practicing and PRACTICING, until they get to where they want to be.
If you're an amateur bass player of a certain age (like myself), your Holy Grail is Stanley Clarkes 'School Days', but Yakety Sax should be a Holy Grail of anyone who loves playing any instrument (as a hobby) - make the effort (I'm trying it on the keyboard now - it hurts!). FUN!
I really want to start playing sax, did you ever perfect the breathing technique?
Like the one were you can technically just play forever?
Am a jazz fan but old cats like Boots had a huge and special sound which younger cats don't have or less. Jmho
That is just pure talent, I can't imagine the size of that guy's lungs.
That was absolutely astounding.
I am his daughter, Linda, and yes, he had huge lungs. He had to take 2 xrays to see his lungs effectively. Upper lungs and lower lungs. Doctors were always amazed when he had xrays.
@@lindaoneal9139 You can see that by the size of his chest, I reckon
he would be able to swim underwater for a week!
Fantastic bit of music though, could listen all day, but it tires me out!
I fondly remember my beloved mother crying tears of joy as he played this Live at a county fair in Phoenix Arizona in 1972 or 73.
This one goes out to you, Mom. I love you, and I miss you.
God bless you and ur family ❤
I'm sorry for your loss. :(
Next day at school: LH has an ... incident in school because Roz wouldn't permit him to hang out with H the previous night. Nailed one of his classmates in the head with a book.
Down at the office. A huge ruckus. Chairs being thrown around. Chris Chris. Chris. Settle down. Bugged out eyes. It looks like they're going to have to send Chris away for ... a while.
Cali's mind: tea time at 25 gossip with Barbie doll, snow white, little mermaid, and her GI H doll she stole
What a dear memory of your beloved mom! What a joy seeing him play this must have been for her! ❤️
"The song that makes everything funny no matter what the topic."
Extremely challenging sheet music piece for a tenor saxophone.
Amazing breath control.
My father edited a video of 2 of his pitbulls killing a street dog and put this song in the background lmao, psychopatic xD
Knowing next to nothing about playing music, this sounds anything but simple to me! The sax all by itself is doing so much that it sounds like multiple pieces playing together, and then the back-up brasses come in to make it even wilder. I'm picturing Dick Van Dyke in Mary Poppins when he's performing music in the street with all those different instruments attached to him and rigged up to play as he moves his body parts. Or watching Beck play the guitar and harmonica simultaneously, between singing or cracking jokes. It's impressive multi-tasking. People only think this is a simple or silly bit of music because it's linked so tightly with Benny Hill shenanigans. As viewers they are also mostly unaware of how demanding physical comedy is too.
They're placing this track over Ukraine war videos where Russians are being blown up by grenades.
This is a hilarious song, but he is AMAZING on that sax!
michael T Boots Randolph was a very famous session sax player hired by Chet Atkins for RCA , He can be heard on a lot of Elvis songs and of course Brenda Lee Rocking around the Christmas Tree .
dude has some maaad saxophone skills
IIIRobIII lol true
He was a true "Studio Giant". Check out some of the many hits he was a studio musician on.
IIIRobIII the dude's a legend in the sax community ;)
SO TRUE ROB LOL
He's a saxomaniac ! LOL
I can't help but start laughing when I hear this song. I loved the Benny Hill Show when I was a kid.
Yeah. The chases were hilarious 😂😂
Me too!!! An the ending line of people chasing him 😂
As a fellow Tenor Sax player I am blown away………..what an amazing performance !!!
I know the tune very well but was not aware who played it; Boots is an amazing player. I am looking for some footage of Red Prysock playing tenor, I have some of his albums. He is more R&B, not as fast/manic as this, but had a great powerful tone. See Charleston Twist on here.
This has been used so much in comedy that I feel it is under appreciated. This is an absolutely slamming performance. Uses lots of tricks and techniques unique to the saxophone. It must be a massive challenge to play. Truly this deserves more respect than it gets.
The soundtrack of my youth!
R.I.P. Boots Randolph & Benny Hill
There's just something about seeing this song actually be performed that makes it all the more satisfying
When I did my senior jazz tenor recital, I played my songs that I had passed my recital juries with (couple Trane, Shorter, Mingus, and Brubeck pieces), bowed, started my final piece, a surprise Yakety Sax. My sax professor was on the floor laughing.
Great! Did you pass out from lack of oxygen when you were done?
+aaronaaronjarvis - And I'd wager that it was the most difficult piece to learn out of all of your recital songs, too!
I have to play this for my 7th grade sprig band concert wish me luck
@Bill Brennan we did good but we had to slow it down a lot so it didn't sound the same but it still sounded nice
@Bill Brennan thanks. it isn't as hard as it looks. but then again I have a good teacher
Boots recorded for Monument Records which my Uncle Fred Foster owned. I worked for my uncle a while in 1965 at his studio and had a chance to talk with Boots many times. He was a very humble talented guy. One of the finest people I ever had the pleasure of knowing. I am sure Boots is featured in the Heavenly Choir now.
That’s fascinating! I grew up with Boots’s Christmas album, “Boots and Stockings”. It was the only instrumental album we owned that I liked and would play on my own little turntable. Years later, I wanted to find the magic of that music again, but I never really learned the name of the artist or the album when I was playing the record as a child. But I remembered the *label*. I sat down and drew a picture of it, and then hunted the internet until I found them -the pink and yellow slim triangles of the label-Monument Records! From there I was able to figure out it was Boots and Stockings. I shared the findings with my mother, and we bought the album off of eBay. So good to have this music back in our lives again! Viva la Monument Records ❤
Damn, this sounds like a fun piece to play on the sax only 2 problems:
1. I don't own a sax
2. I don't own 15 pairs of lungs
I'll try it on my Bass Trombone!
@@bobboscarato1313 How'd it go? Do your chops still exist?
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I played tenor saxophone. Omg this piece is insanely difficult to play. 😂
Three bars in I gave up, I'm pretty sure this man had the mammalian diving reflex. I would not be surprised if he could hold his breath under water for ten minutes. He has to have dolphin or otter DNA or something. 😂
I love Boots Randolph AND Benny Hill!
I have asthma-just watching this stellar performance has me gasping for air!
Stop dairy and cereals products, even peas, if the first two are not enough after a month.
Onion soup are great to help for the glu to get out.
Take care.
I don't have asthma and this performance has me gasping!!! 🥵
Wow! He makes that sax SING! This song makes us smile!
his face at the end of the performance says everything. big respect!
I think it's a law of nature that if a guy's named Boots Randolph, he's gonna kick ass with the sax.
My Uncle took me to see Boots Randolph in Decatur Illinois back in the 60,s. I was a teenager and I realy enjoyed his performance !
This man is a legend and forever will be
Исполняет автор. Что тут еще сказать. Брависсимо, маэстро!
After so many years, through thousand of Darude-Sandstorm comments. I'm here.
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Those glissandos are huge and clean. This is a seriously hard piece to perform well and Boots Randolph totally killed it.
I saw him in concert once in the early 90's and man could he still rip it up on this song, played it just like he did on this video. One of the best sax players there ever was.
Never heard this version. It's very up-tempo and lively. It goes faster than my brain can listen.
I would play this record over and over on the record player in our living room when I was a kid. It drove my parents crazy. Good times.
This is the guy and song that inspired me to play saxopgones in Jr., High School and Army band.
I wanted to use this piece at the end of my wedding when we were walking down the aisle to exit the church, but I was vetoed.
Genius!!
Yeah. I'm British and my mother bloody HATES Benny Hill. I thought this would really get a reaction. We settled on "Lucy and Linus" (the classic Peanuts theme)... and we threw Jolly Ranchers at everyone in the cathedral before they threw rice at us. Brilliant fun.
We used it at the end of our ceremony 10 yrs. ago. 😁
At my wedding I was able to use the Liberty Bell March, which Monty Python made famous.
#myhero
The song that accompanies every embarrassing sports play.
Yeah... the bloopers & blunders
Also, the Brexit vote.
Benny Hill
also America.
And every high speed tv sitcom chase.
Лучшее исполнение, браво!!!!! Восхищён звучанием саксофона и манерой исполнения !!!
to play this song at this speed with such flawless technique is a minor miracle! Boots is a beast!
Uno de los mejores saxofonistas del mundo. Esta canción es única y nunca se ha superado.
Wow! Amazing performance. As written, this is a very difficult piece to play. He took it up several levels.
This dude really tears this sax apart......Best YAKATY YAK i have ever heard... thanks
This man created a legendary song so much hard work put into it
Suddenly, I’m 8 years old again and laying in front of the TV, washed and dressed and Yackety Sax meant 3 things, The Benny Hill show was about to end, it was 8:30pm and it was my bedtime! The 1970’s Happy days!
It’s like heavy metal, just unplugged, and on saxophone 🤟👍
I can't even whistle this, holy hell!
Mad respect to this guy!
God bless benny hill, boots Randolph and Alex Lester, bbc radio.....Alex made my night, I was working night shift driving trucks and Alex had a sax solo segment on his 2 am show, was driving near Milton Keynes, 15 years ago .....and it made my night.
Slap my top.
Sad end to such a good man ,benny hill.
Brilliant; and it takes me back to my youth; his 1963 performance, which hit "the charts" was during my university years.
But I have also listened again to his 1963 performance in immediate succession to this. Although I can see the temptation in a long performing career to "up" the tempo, I am not convinced that it actually adds to the music, and it possibly does the reverse. But in my own field, as a classically trained church organist, I find that I am sometimes tempted by the same impulse!
I have this song in my anti-suicidal playlist, works every time!😂
True, I think it’s actually psychologically impossible to take yourself seriously enough to end it all while this is playing
@@LAK_770 its basically impossible to take anything seriously with this in the background
Hope you're still alive and well. Yakety-yak.
Mind you sharing it?
Add Spanish Flea to that list 🎉
Beautiful. All I can think about when listening this is all the skill and effort that must have went into creating this wonderful piece. Well, that and tig 'ol bitties.
I played this song for my Dad. He was a real fan of this song, and he played that Boots Randolph 8 track tape in his 2 year old 1967 Lincoln headed south to Lake Seminole which was often. Both my mother and father are passed on and I miss them both. This ones for you Dad !!
Its funny cause this song is supposed to be like a serious exhibition of expert playing by a saxaphone master but Benny Hill took it and used it for his show and now everyone thinks of it as just some zainy theme song to an old comedy TV show.
Some of us can see past it being used by Benny Hill, who would have had to pay Boots for it's usage.
Yeah, how would you do that growl!?
Was also used as the "Lorenzo Stomp" in a 1960's kids TV show.
Why can't it be BOTH as everything is perceived differently by everyone?
Let's just enjoy it for whatever it is and yet I can appreciate it from BOTH SIDES.. hence the reason I said both.
So that's why TH-cam allows Music Companies to claim whatever they like
as a tenor sax player in middle school, this really wants me to pick it up again. Fuck, that dude shreds on the ol woodwind!
This would take years to perfect. Absolutely incredible talent.
I hadn't heard this masterpiece before the Benny Hill show made it known worldwide. I found this music so wonderful that I've searched for the original version since years and voila, I have just found it. Excellent performance Mr. Boots Randolph!
Holy smoke! Absolutely FLAWLESS performance to a most wonderful and talented man in American entertainment history. Bravo! RIP Boots!
Fantastic! NOBODY could keep still while watching this! What terrific fun!
Amazing. Legit amazing. I've always adored this song but never saw a live performance of it by the master himself. Watching this is like watching the Dueling Banjos scene in Deliverance for the first time.
OH MY GOOOD THIS MELODY JUST MAKE ME SMILE REMEBERING THE GREAT BENNY HILL!!!! NOTHWITHSTANDING THAT I´M MEXICAN, HIS HUMOR TRAVEED ACROSS ALL THE BORDERS! THAN YOU BENNY HILL FOR ALL THE SMILES THAT YOU GAVE US!!!! A LOT OF ANGELS MUST BE SMILING UP THERE!!!! HAHAHAH
Inredible performance...i just started to play Saxo at 63...beyond imagination that this is possible
So late Saturday night I'm at the Elks Lodge and I put this song on the jukebox. Maybe 20 people are in there, everyone looks up and someones yells out "Benny Hill Theme." The BEST part was when one of the elderly barmaids gets up and dances with the elderly hall manager right in front of everybody, just having a good ole' time! I will never forget that!
I told my dad today who is 83 name a musician you really like he told me boots Randolph I'd never heard of him before he is on my list as one of my favorite musicians of all time
This guy not only composed but also played one of the most difficult sax tunes. The song itself is a masterpiece of music
Nobody, nobody, can play this like the king of sax! Kick ass Boots!
A lifetime of dedication and work towards his art displayed right there
King of Sax. My husband plays Yakety Sax on his sax. We heard BOOTS in concert once in Grand Rapids, Mi. (De Vos Hall). A memorable & once in a lifetime experience. K Bergman
When I first heard this on Benny Hill so many years ago I laughed and thought country music on English tv. And of course when hearing Boots wail out this number i had to think of Benny. Salute to two masters in their respective fields. Miss you both.
Very cool! I have always loved this song because of watching the Benny Hill Show. :)
Ole Boots could play that sax like a mad genius............
Boots Randolph the best for ever. ❤❤
This music is so good I forgot to smile, was just listening to it. Lovely music. Well played too. Thank you very much.
Such a great performance by Boots.
And, after this performance, Mr. Randolph was only able to say one word:
"OXYGEN!!!"
If they don't play this at my funeral I don't want to go.
The best song of all time!
God bless youtube. This Guy is a pure legend. God bless him. So huge performance. Maniac in the way. If you play like he plays youre a legend. Def.
I feel like the past week has been like this. Time to enjoy the weekend and C A L M down....and relax.
I might sit back and relax doing some coding. Erm...
Walks in the sunshine today!
This will forever be known as “The Benny Hill Theme”. I’m impressed at the talent involved to play this difficult song.
Bloody brilliant,
Reminds me of my dad laughing at benny hill when I was a kid !
Both now gone,
Love you dad.
I'm out of breath just watching this!
Eu adoraria ter conhecido ele antes, que músico fantástico, o som dele é agradável e incomparável, que bom ter esta referência, Dear Zernebock, thank you for your video, it's the best!! Best regards, Wilson-Brazil
I saw Boots Randolph along with Chet Akins and Floyd Cramer also with the Nashville Brass at the Atlanta Civic Center in 1970 or 71. I was 10 years old at the time and I liked Boots. Even today I still play his CD and he was just amazing. I still remember that concert even tho I'm in my 60's now. Oh what memories with Mom and Dad at that time. Wish I could do again. May they all Rest in Peace.
This song is like the beauty of a whole era screaming out. An icon.
Jesus Christ hes fast
HELL YEAHH
If you think he's fast regular, then go to speed 1.5
@@masonmullen9434 Speed 1.5 is godmode
they cut out the end where he has a heart attack
One of the hardest sax song if not the hardest to play. And he did all by memory.
Brilliant song! Thank you Boots et al! (RIP Benny... who was my pathway to this fantastic song.)
What a great rendition of a fantastic self composed delivery of the original music. Benny Hill robbed it for his show , but Boots Randolph was the unmistakable original, Thanks for posting .
Did he also invent "how to blow up balloons?" Jesus. The lungs this man had. RIP LEGEND!
Boots Randolph and Ace Cannon brought the music of the old saw dust floored, beer joint dives of the 60s, to the concert stage with respect.
Esto me dio mas años de vida.
Se agradece.
Forever to be known as "The Benny Hill Show" theme song.
Several years ago when I lived down south a neighbor's golden retrievers got loose and attacked another neighbors chickens. Suddenly I hear all hell breaking loose and see the chickens running down the street for dear life followed by the golden retrievers. And a group of people were chasing after the dogs trying to protect the poor birds. Now every time I hear this I think of that bizarre chase.
I think of my cousin repeatedly failing to throw a spacer block to my uncle. His younger brother started whistling the circus theme around throw 3 or 4, but Yakety Sax would have been even funnier. Good laughs
WOW! Just wow....what a talented player.
THAT LEGENDARY "SAX MAN" GOT PLAYED "A LOT" IN MY ROOM WHILE LEARNING THE SAX. STILL HAVE HIS ALBUMS. "REST IN PIECE"
Anyone else get the urge run back and fourth really fast?
You're awesome man! We need more good music like this! Respect!
As a sax player, I can say confidently that this is very hard
The greatest piece of sax music ever.
This is incredible
This never gets old. Boots didn't care to talk about this song because it took so much out of him to play but yet he kept increasing the tempo over the years (I think he was trying to challenge himself)and the song made him some bank thanks to Benny Hill so he probably liked it a little more than he let on :-) Some performers are "elite" level talents and he was surely one.
I tried to keep a straight face but a huge smile crossed my face at the key change. Just can’t help but smile when I hear this song😄
This is one of my favorite songs as I was growing up as a kid I love love love love love this song I played it constantly I love it❤❤❤