😂Indeed it is! I miss it too from time to time. The TV was a kind of warming fireplace for the whole family to gather around in those days. We had a fireplace too back then and used coal or even wood for fuel. Double cosy during those long winter nights. Just memories now.
First time actually seeing the Settlers perform this song , first time hearing it in five decades , wonderful , thank you TH-cam for connecting us with our youth .
I was born in 62, I know exactly what you say. Just like the the song says mate” never give in to easily” I’m 62 now and I’m never going to give in to this insane world until the day I draw my last breath. Who knows, stay strong! Fantastic memories mate.👍
My god. I have not heard this song for about 50 years. I had absolutely forgotten that it even existed. I don’t think I have ever heard it outside the TV show. What a memory.
I'm 59 this year and clearly remember the TV show and our music teacher Mrs Bainbridge having us all sing this song on Monday afternoon singing. Happy times.
@@Michael-mm3fm hey ... We weren't far off lol. She divided 30 of us into sections to cover all the vocal parts. She was very strict and passionate music teacher.
@@paulbyrne2445 man, amazing. I’m thinking about our class learning Joseph and the Dreamcoat. I can’t help thinking the 20th century was a lot more wholesome than what there is now.
One of the most memorable times watching Follyfoot with my mum Sunday afternoon with our tea, sadly they they don't make anything like that any more 😢 RIP mum🙏🙏
I know what you mean, I have always loved horses and Follyfoot was a favourite of mine; my Mum recorded the theme song from the TV amongst other songs on an old reel to reel recorder doing a voice over (she had a very gentle geordie accent), I miss my Mum as well (48 years now) RIP Mum❣🌹
@@1234mikechrisThank you, I don't know where all the years have gone - many of my favourite programmes were watched together with my Mum and/or Dad which I see a lot in the comment sections with people sharing memories attached to programmes that are special to them.
I’ve got the boxed set of all three series. The last time I watched it was on a black and white TV. They haven’t spoiled it by cleaning up the little lines and spots that appear and disappear on screen. Some may not like that, but to me it just adds to the great nostalgic value. When I watch it, all that’s missing is my mum and dad sigh. Happy TV watching memories when we had no real worries as a kid.
It was the sheer range and variety of music that set the 70s apart, rock, pop, glam, metal, progressive, motown, disco, reggae, punk, mod revival, classical, country and western, instrumental and i bet i still missed a few. A wonderful time to be young.
@@jennifergirling6850More to the point a genre missed was this particular one , folk music. Two comments listing genres and no mention of the one actually being performed, interesting.
This band is from the sixties. They started out in 1964, and this particular song is from 1971, so very early seventies. In any case, we all have our opinions, but the sixties had a lot of variety already. Even as a teenager I didn’t think the seventies were an improvement musically.
Back in the 1970's I was a stage electrician and was so lucky to light 3 shows by this amazing group and I have to say Lightning Tree sounds even better live. Mike the leader of the group even attended the same school as me (but not at the same time) an absolute gentleman, sadly now departed us. I always enjoyed working with Mike, John, Cindy and Geoffrey I learned so much from their shows that helped me in my stage lighting career. I cannot thank them enough.
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I have this tune saved to my playlist along with the theme from Black Beauty, White Horses, Sleepy Shores, all memories from my childhood and so sentimental. Takes me right back and I seem to remember having a bit of a crush on the guy from Follyfoot Farm lol.
Haha 😂 Me also!!! ..... I'd watch anything & everything that was related to horses & ponies. I'm 57 this year, a member of my local horse association in Andratx, Mallorca (where I live now)...... "Assocació de Carreters i Cavallistes d'Andratx" ... (& understandably still riding) Still look up any films horsey related as well!!!
It was tough back in the seventies too, its just that people forget, my parents worked extremely hard to give us a good life, nostalgia can warp your memory a bit 😮
True but it was a much easy and interesting life for kids, spent whole summers out, either in the street playing kerbs or tennis over hedge or off to the woods with a bottle of orange squash and matbe some beef paste sandwiches and a swim in the river, we didn't always have 50p for the electric meter, but hey is was summer and light till late
My god I used to love Follyfoot Farm. watched it religiously every week. I always wondered who sang the theme song and then I stumbled upon this video. Great memories.
This superb song was used for the 'Follyfoot' TV series. Made No.36 in the charts in 1971. The single recording was arranged and conducted by the great Johnny Pearson. Great harmonising.
For me, this song along with Light Flight (from 'Take Three Girls'), Galloping Home (from 'Black Beauty') plus the themes from 'Sam', 'The Persuaders', 'The White Horses' and 'Rupert the Bear(!)' used to give me an overdose of HOPE!! It's running out fast ;)
Cindy Kent is absolutely beautiful here, l used to watch Follyfoot I'd be about 7ish l used to think Dora was nice and felt sad when she cried, was a great 70s tv series.
I first heard this tune around 1978-79 when watching a clip from "Follyfoot" series on a french canadian tv channel. Decades later, i stumbled by chance on this group and found the theme again. I can´t believe that the tune ended low on the charts, sounding better than the currents singles higher up. A century from now, this masterpiece will be rediscovered by a future generation while today´s noise that passes off as music, will all be forgotten.
Brilliant song and performance..just great memories from when I was a child x All the band come across as really lovely people and I love how they perform...all adds up to one quality, entertaining act 😊
Can recall this very well. Haunting sort of tune, sticks In the mind. I think too the a well known actor - first time I'd seen him - was in it Christian Rodska
Loved follyfoot, loved this great song, loved Dora, loved cynthia, great times, I'm 68 now and have watched the full series of follyfoot about 100 times over the years, probably more. I would loved to have met Dora ( Gillian blake) I called my daughter after her . I still wish I could just meet her would be awsome 🤞 I wonder where she is now
Such a great theme tune. I can't make too many comparisons between children's TV from the late 1960's, the 1970's and early 1980's with what has come since then but there were some truly great memorable children's TV drama programmes made in those decades and Follyfoot was one of the very best.
😂😂... I've also been transported 50 years back when we also had three channels. I was the remote control, TV finished at 11:00 p.m. and we used our imagination to make up games when we played outside. God I sound like such an old fart.... Hold on....I am !!
I've just been transported back to a small room with 3 channels and it's lovely there
A prison cell?
@@RebeccaTurner-ny1xx Simplicity is the real freedom. Choice is the route to enslavement.
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Living rooms were smaller then 😄
😂Indeed it is! I miss it too from time to time. The TV was a kind of warming fireplace for the whole family to gather around in those days. We had a fireplace too back then and used coal or even wood for fuel. Double cosy during those long winter nights.
Just memories now.
First time actually seeing the Settlers perform this song , first time hearing it in five decades , wonderful , thank you TH-cam for connecting us with our youth .
Miming sadly but still good.
Took me right back to watching the TV show.
Omg! Memories of the good days my fav TV programme back in the day.❤
Same here…
exactly...agreed
Born in 68 so I've actually got a tear in my eye....we've lost so much.
I was born in 62, I know exactly what you say.
Just like the the song says mate” never give in to easily”
I’m 62 now and I’m never going to give in to this insane world
until the day I draw my last breath.
Who knows, stay strong!
Fantastic memories mate.👍
I was born in the same year.You barely remembered the seventies.🤨
Born in the same year.You barely remembered the seventies.🤨
@@TS-bn7zt Same year. This 21st Century. What??
More like 70s !! The clothes and hair ! I would say about 74/75?
My god. I have not heard this song for about 50 years. I had absolutely forgotten that it even existed. I don’t think I have ever heard it outside the TV show. What a memory.
Omg I loved follyfoot
Same and instantly transported back to fighting with my sister about who had to get up and change the channel 😂
Still haunts my childhood 🙂
Same. It just popped up in my feed. What a memory throw back.
This, and 'On White Horses.' I was going through a serious pony phase 😁
I'm 59 this year and clearly remember the TV show and our music teacher Mrs Bainbridge having us all sing this song on Monday afternoon singing. Happy times.
Presumably not the Settlers version! That would be something.
I am 66, Australian AND I LOVED IT!!!!!
@@Michael-mm3fm hey ... We weren't far off lol. She divided 30 of us into sections to cover all the vocal parts. She was very strict and passionate music teacher.
@@paulbyrne2445 man, amazing. I’m thinking about our class learning Joseph and the Dreamcoat. I can’t help thinking the 20th century was a lot more wholesome than what there is now.
@@Michael-mm3fm nice one.... Joseph was fantastic... We did Jonah Man Jazz in secondary school. Great times to be a kid 🥰70s
One of the most memorable times watching Follyfoot with my mum Sunday afternoon with our tea, sadly they they don't make anything like that any more 😢 RIP mum🙏🙏
Can't make anything like this now it's not PC just look at the new doctor who black and gay bring back the old days😊
@@charlesbull6188🙄
I know what you mean, I have always loved horses and Follyfoot was a favourite of mine; my Mum recorded the theme song from the TV amongst other songs on an old reel to reel recorder doing a voice over (she had a very gentle geordie accent), I miss my Mum as well (48 years now) RIP Mum❣🌹
@@gilliankingston8259
I truly understand we both miss our love ones especially our mum's 🙏🙏
@@1234mikechrisThank you, I don't know where all the years have gone - many of my favourite programmes were watched together with my Mum and/or Dad which I see a lot in the comment sections with people sharing memories attached to programmes that are special to them.
Lord I watched this as a child .. it made me so happy.
All I remember was Dora was quite hot but bloody miserable and Steve wanted her bad but was too weak to make a move
I remember Folly Foot ,,, but Ive never actually seen this ,, what an epic video , and fifty years vanished for three mins
Me too.
2024. Didn't care for the show but watched it because of this song.
I had the hots for the lead actress but I can't even remember what she looked like now. I was only 13 or 14 at the time.
Ok, you got me. I too had a mad crush on her
Cindy Kent!!!!!!
This has to be most iconic theme tune ever. It is pure 1970s nostalgia. TV is rubbish today.
Totally agree!
It was the most atmospheric theme song and quite frankly, series.
still watching in 2021... in the United States. .... and this show aired years before I was born
I’ve got the boxed set of all three series. The last time I watched it was on a black and white TV. They haven’t spoiled it by cleaning up the little lines and spots that appear and disappear on screen. Some may not like that, but to me it just adds to the great nostalgic value. When I watch it, all that’s missing is my mum and dad sigh. Happy TV watching memories when we had no real worries as a kid.
Why don't they run repeats of some of these programs on the childrens' tv channels today?
Wonderful song takes you back to the magical 1970s.
Strikes,3 day week ,high inflation ,bombs in litter bins and power cuts ,the 1970s
I loved this programme too and often have this song on my brain after 50 odd years...miss the good ol innocent days❤
One of the best theme tunes from the 70s
It was the sheer range and variety of music that set the 70s apart, rock, pop, glam, metal, progressive, motown, disco, reggae, punk, mod revival, classical, country and western, instrumental and i bet i still missed a few. A wonderful time to be young.
You're absolutely right my friend, The 70's was the best decade for music.
Yes as a teenager it was great & you forgot jazz & modern Opera plus different cultures instrumental with song ,greek, Mexican, Island.
@@jennifergirling6850More to the point a genre missed was this particular one , folk music.
Two comments listing genres and no mention of the one actually being performed, interesting.
Music started to slowly die off after the 70's because there is a limit to how you can rearrange musical notes.
This band is from the sixties. They started out in 1964, and this particular song is from 1971, so very early seventies. In any case, we all have our opinions, but the sixties had a lot of variety already. Even as a teenager I didn’t think the seventies were an improvement musically.
I’d forgotten follyfoot but all the words of the song just came right back .
Footage taken from 6th May 1971 edition of BBC's Morecambe and Wise Show.
Back in the 1970's I was a stage electrician and was so lucky to light 3 shows by this amazing group and I have to say Lightning Tree sounds even better live. Mike the leader of the group even attended the same school as me (but not at the same time) an absolute gentleman, sadly now departed us. I always enjoyed working with Mike, John, Cindy and Geoffrey I learned so much from their shows that helped me in my stage lighting career. I cannot thank them enough.
This is not live
@@lisathesquirrellady8994 He didn't say this was live, he said it sounds better when it is live, which he witnessed 3 shows.
My god this is absolute perfection... four voices in total unison and harmony. A small miracle captured on film.
Not film, 2 inch Ampex Quadmaster Videotape.
miming dear boy
Pedants' corner. Hope i put my apostrophe in the right place!😂
It was beautiful. Can this record be found on Spotify i wonder? Perhaps they were lip sync ing to it?
Bass player was not singing or miming in this video, so only three voices
Beautiful nostalgia
I remember watching ‘Follyfoot Farm’ as a young teenager and this track was the theme tune to it.
This is my childhood, encapsulated in one song.
🙏🕊️❣️🕊️🙏
Mine as well!
Me to, called my daughter after Gillian, her nickname is Dora,lol, yeah its true
I hear you, mine too. ❤️
Me too!
Classic. This sent shivers down my spine listening to this the first time since Follyfoot in the 1970s.
There's something ethereal about it.
Snow white and the seven dwarfs!
Cryptologists take note:
The whole point of marching around the walls of Jericho was to show Israel's faithfulness to God through an act of worship. Scripture records that “seven priests carrying the seven trumpets before the Lord went forward, blowing their trumpets, and the ark of the Lord's covenant followed them” (Joshua 6:8).31 Jan 2022
NATIONAL GRID TAKE NOTE!!!
*THAT MONSTROSITY IS COMING DOWN!!!*
I have this tune saved to my playlist along with the theme from Black Beauty, White Horses, Sleepy Shores, all memories from my childhood and so sentimental. Takes me right back and I seem to remember having a bit of a crush on the guy from Follyfoot Farm lol.
I have this , Robinson Crusoe and various shows like protectors , joe 90 , dangerman wish I could go back to those days of sanity , age 61
@@mikemcmikeface Damn right! The world has gone completely nuts!
@@mikemcmikeface a clock to turn back time would be amazing wouldn't it.
The girls loved Steve, the boys loved Laura 😂
Haha 😂 Me also!!! ..... I'd watch anything & everything that was related to horses & ponies.
I'm 57 this year, a member of my local horse association in Andratx, Mallorca (where I live now)...... "Assocació de Carreters i Cavallistes d'Andratx" ... (& understandably still riding)
Still look up any films horsey related as well!!!
There was a time ...a simpler time ..when a person could be sure of where they stood in life ! Need i say anymore ? Brilliant .
‘Nuff said. It’s al by design, to make you disoriented and easily manipulated…😡
Follyfoot ! My fav program as a kid, brings it all back. . Thanks 😊
Who wrote the song?
I’m an American, so I don’t remember this song or the TV show it came from in the 70’s..just heard the song for the first time today..it’s great!!
Same here, never heard it before. 🤷🏻
It was a British childrens show so we would not of heard the song or seen the show. Too bad sounds like we would have liked it. 😊
I too. Anybody else, hearing it for the first time, get reminded of The Wellerman?
@@hieronymus9They’re all English folk based,although this is a kinda groovy 70’s update😅
Transported back to Happy times when technology was simple and adequate . The days when your minds imagination entertained you
👍
It was tough back in the seventies too, its just that people forget, my parents worked extremely hard to give us a good life, nostalgia can warp your memory a bit 😮
True but it was a much easy and interesting life for kids, spent whole summers out, either in the street playing kerbs or tennis over hedge or off to the woods with a bottle of orange squash and matbe some beef paste sandwiches and a swim in the river, we didn't always have 50p for the electric meter, but hey is was summer and light till late
This sixty four year old loved follyfoot and this song ,memories of a much better world
The theme from Robinson Crusoe
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My god I used to love Follyfoot Farm. watched it religiously every week. I always wondered who sang the theme song and then I stumbled upon this video. Great memories.
Im 10 on Saturday morning sitting afront our telly eating rice crispies..thanks for posting..i know someone who will love this too.
This is a brilliant song..just superb harmony
I agree! Wouldn't see songs of this quality in the charts nowadays.
Follyfoot ,I loved this program ❤
Brings back happy memories of a better time I'm old now but still enjoyed the song 😮
I used to love Follyfoot. And The Kids from 47a.
And the ‘Tomorrow People’ 😃
the guy in the back is my grandpa lol
Tobias Herbers For real? He is my piano tuner!
He must have some fantastic memories of this :)
Brilliant.
Very Wicker Man.
Your Grandfather can play really well did he live in BREDA
Cindy Kent, the woman singing married my wife and I on our wedding day! It's our anniversary this coming week.
Yes, this takes me to my childhood and Follyfoot, but this is a beautifully constructed song.
The theme from Robinson Crusoe
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Beautiful song from my childhood
from my childhood as well 🙋🇩🇪
I had a honking crush on Cindy back in the day, she was gorgeous🥰
She was on my telly just now. The Bidding Room :D
Fantastic theme tune, I loved Follyfoot
I wanted to be Dora, lol
I used to love Follyfoot I loved anything horsey when I was little and loved the title music. 🐴
Me too 😊
I was 15 when Follyfoot first came on tv. I thought Gillian Blake was gorgeous . Better days. 👍👍
Once heard, never forgotten. Love the conviction of this performance. Takes me back :)
60s, 70, 80s - simple better times. Kids TV was exceptional. Summer holiday mornings 🌄 were heaven.
This superb song was used for the 'Follyfoot' TV series. Made No.36 in the charts in 1971. The single recording was arranged and conducted by the great Johnny Pearson.
Great harmonising.
I love the Settlers. This has to be the best rendition of the lightning tree ever!
I was only a kid back then, but life seemed so much more civilised.
I was about 8 when I listen to this for the first time.. and I can remember all the words
I haven’t heard this for over 40 yrs, was my favourite tv show as i desperately wanted a horse. The good old innocent days!
For me, this song along with Light Flight (from 'Take Three Girls'), Galloping Home (from 'Black Beauty') plus the themes from 'Sam', 'The Persuaders', 'The White Horses' and 'Rupert the Bear(!)' used to give me an overdose of HOPE!! It's running out fast ;)
The theme from Robinson Crusoe
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This group brings express relief 😊
Here in 2020. Was just talking to my Mum about watching Follyfoot as a kid.
Just watched Cindy on the bidding room. How lovely to see this lovely lady again. ❤🎉 loved this song as well.
"Branches bent where the lightning went..."
One of the best lyrics ever written.
Branches bent when the lightning rent
The lightning rent from the firmament
Superb performance and recording quality. Thank you for posting this.
The lead singer was on Songs of Praise today. Charming lady and a vicar!
Rev. Cindy Kent. Often heard on Premier Christian Radio in the UK.
@@briwinter2901 well Rev or not she was hot back in the day
Got the single as a five year old and loved it. Never knew it was from a TV show until recently when I examined the label.
Just seen this lady on the bidding room, that's what's brought me here. Used to watch Follyfoot when I was a kid, fantastic song.
Ditto. I headed to the comments 😂
I did as well - Great song this.
Same here , great lady , great memories !!!!!!!!!!!
Me too! 😁
I hated the show it was crap… but I did like the
Singing ringing tree
I’ve just seen The Bidding Room on BBC1. The lady in the middle was on there and mentioned this song. I remember it from my childhood
Me too, just watched same, takes me back to childhood
Me too. She still wears her hair in the same style.
Cindy Kent is absolutely beautiful here, l used to watch Follyfoot I'd be about 7ish l used to think Dora was nice and felt sad when she cried, was a great 70s tv series.
True.
Yep
Absolutely!
She married my wife and I on our wedding day
Cry she never stopped as I remember!😅
Love this song And the TV Series was lovely to watch as a child
warm memories of my past watched this as a kid 63 years old now brilliant.
This is so gooood so I nearly get tears in my eyes...
🙏💠🕊️❣️🕊️💠🙏
On white horses is a classic
Folly Foot Farm great memories!
I first heard this tune around 1978-79 when watching a clip from "Follyfoot" series on a french canadian tv channel. Decades later, i stumbled by chance on this group and found the theme again. I can´t believe that the tune ended low on the charts, sounding better than the currents singles higher up. A century from now, this masterpiece will be rediscovered by a future generation while today´s noise that passes off as music, will all be forgotten.
Oh wow, was that channel 21 or was it 13? years ago? I moved to Canada in '79 and seem to remember that, but I had seen the show back home
Yes. Music like this will perpetuate into the future because it's timeless.
I have had this song in my head for the last couple of days! Brings back memories of childhood
Years after Follyfoot I dated Gillian Blake a few times in Norfolk. Beautiful lady. Happy memories.
Blimey! this takes me back!
I was in the audience at Tyne Ted's Studios, Newcastle 73/72 when they recorded their show for tv.
Brilliant song and performance..just great memories from when I was a child x All the band come across as really lovely people and I love how they perform...all adds up to one quality, entertaining act 😊
Only had two TV channels. I watched this show because the was nothing else on. Loved the theme song, though. 😄
Fantastic. Melodic brilliant song
Takes me back to my childhood sitting cross legged in front of the TV watch follyfoot farm
I didn't think much of the show but I loved this catchy theme song and bought the 45 back in the day.
What an Amazing Theme tune of course to "FOLLYFOOT" great Tv Days in the 70s they don't write them like this anymore!
I remember the TV show, that bloody girl cried every week!
Pure nostalgia, used to love that series
I remember that the song title was The Lightning 😊 it was released as a single in 1971. I liked it a lot but it only reached no. 36 in the Top 40.
I remember FOLLYFOOT 😄
Can recall this very well. Haunting sort of tune, sticks
In the mind. I think too the a well known actor - first time I'd seen him - was in it Christian Rodska
This song keeps me in a 'stable' relationship
She hasn't bolted yet...?
😂
Nostalgia.. lovely 🥰
wow, those hair styles
Loved follyfoot, loved this great song, loved Dora, loved cynthia, great times, I'm 68 now and have watched the full series of follyfoot about 100 times over the years, probably more. I would loved to have met Dora ( Gillian blake) I called my daughter after her . I still wish I could just meet her would be awsome 🤞 I wonder where she is now
I seem to remember she was always blubbing...!
@@johno4521 it was called " acting" she was , is still wonderful
Brings back lovely memories❤️
So much going on with those voices, great stuff.
Loved Follyfoot and the theme song, it's only today that i have seen the group that actually sang it. What a shame. Im 58 now...
Love this & the theme from the Double Deckers.
Such a great theme tune.
I can't make too many comparisons between children's TV from the late 1960's, the 1970's and early 1980's with what has come since then but there were some truly great memorable children's TV drama programmes made in those decades and Follyfoot was one of the very best.
😂😂... I've also been transported 50 years back when we also had three channels. I was the remote control, TV finished at 11:00 p.m. and we used our imagination to make up games when we played outside.
God I sound like such an old fart.... Hold on....I am !!
Thanks for posting, really a great memory.
should have gone higher in the charts(what was the record company thinking when they promoted the song) - sang with pure clarity
beautifully sung
Look-In had a beautifully illustrated Follyfoot strip drawn by Mike Noble, who later on drew The Tomorrow People and Space 1999.
Thx 4 mentioning Look-In. That's given me 2 nostalgia fixes for the price of one!
@@andrewfuller9156 I wanted to draw strips for Look In. Never got the chance! The only strips I ever got offered were Ninja Turtles. Blergh!!
So iconic the best written theme song ever!
Beautiful 🐎❤️
The TV series was called Follyfoot, the theme song (this) is called The Lightning Tree.
Gosh, what a beautiful song.
she is now a vicar in Sheppey, Kent
She married my wife and I, very lucky to have been married by her.
@@Alucard120392 that is amazing