it's such a perfect use of the words, like i would not believe it if you played the instrumentals of both that they're related. such a beautiful falsetto voice singing it too, like god i could talk about this song forever and how every bit of it is so perfect. i won't, but i could.
Ground floor: perfumery Stationery and leather goods Wigs and haberdashery Kitchenware and food Going up First floor: telephones Gents' ready-made suits Shirts, socks, ties, hats Underwear and shoes Going up Second floor: carpets Travel goods and beddings Materials and soft furnishing Restaurant and teas Going down Straight fire
When you hear those opening cash till noises, there's always the challenge of how quickly can you work out if you're listening to "Are you being served" or Pink Floyd's "Money"
Was walking in the supermarket isle and heard this on someone’s phone. Couldn’t wait to get back to my truck to scroll TH-cam. I’m an American remembering this from my early childhood 🇺🇸
Ground floor: perfumery Stationery and leather goods Wigs and haberdashery Kitchenware and food Going up First floor: telephones Gents' ready-made suits Shirts, socks, ties, hats Underwear and shoes Going up Second floor: carpets Travel goods and beddings Materials and soft furnishing Restaurant and teas Going down. You're welcome.
I grabbed the tannoy microphone once in Morrisons in Bridgwater in Somerset and sang the theme. Nobody stopped me but you could see customers laughing!
that so takes me back to when I was little. It was one of the best sitcoms the BBC put out. Here's a juicy nugget for you, it was based on Simpson's (now Waterstones) when Jeremy Lloyd (one of the writers) worked there. As for Grace Brothers, well, that was modelled on a few London stores, but one which had faded in grandeur and I should know because I watched the documentary on the sitcom. The opening lines were spoken by Stephanie Gathercole, who played Rumbold's secretary.
RIP John Inman 1935-2007 RIP Mollie Sugden 1922-2009 RIP Trevor Bannister 1934-2011 RIP Wendy Richard 1943-2009 RIP Arthur Brough 1905-1978 RIP Frank Thornton 1921-2013 RIP Harold Bennett 1898-1981 Are You Being Served was a BBC TV sitcom which ran from 1972 until 1985 with 70 Episodes and a film from 1977 a "One off" special was also made in 2016. It was one of the better TV sitcoms from the BBC..... It was certainly up there with the best.
This show has such an enduring charm. In the very early-'80s our local PBS station ran episodes of Are You Being Served? but at the time I paid scant attention to it. Thankfully I came to my senses a few years later.
@@ajsea07 I barely recognize anything PBS is running these days. To be fair I haven't really watched in about fifteen years so time passed me right on by.
That’s one of the sweetest instrumental themes I ever heard! Sounds very on the ball and about business. 📯✨👌🏻❤️💙💜💚💛🧡 The show’s eight years older than me, but it kicks ass! I’m indeed a crazy lummox for classic old school British shows! 🤪
This has got to be the sexiest theme tune ever and very jazzy with an east listening feel. The spoken vocals from the lift girl (as voiced by the actress Stephanie Gathercole) adds to the sexiness along with the instrumentation. This is proper music and despite its short duration, it epitomized the positivity of the 1970's when there were no smartphones or tattoos and no attitude of one-upmanship. Nice one, Ronnie Hazlehurst.
Too young to have watched it or hear of it as a child, but thank God for my theater teacher for showing this show. It's a good one and I personally recommend it.
They used to show the reruns recently on the BBC at the (weekends) every time I heard that theme music I had flashbacks of "the littlest hobo","Grizzly Adams"..nostalgia issa bitch when your still stuck in the present period!!!!...
And he appeared in the Anything You Can Do episode as the chef who gave Mr. Rumbold the two fingers up in his office after saying "rissoles" in an unidentifiable accent.
Such a great series,and love the song with the spoken vocals, the film is really good as well.i was only 5 years old when this was om, but I do remember watching it, thinking it was so funny.
My marriage has been difficult for the past while; so I confronted my wife about a number of issues including dropping our relationship, quietly quitting and seeing other people. We mended things for a bit to get through the summer, but today she had lost her phone, so I said I'd call it so she can find it and this was her ring tone for me. The phone was found alright 😂
I did read Wendy was a last minute addition, Miss Brahms was supposed to be a timed little Jewish assistant, the writers wanted Shelia Steafel but she was unavailable so the part was reworked for Wendy..
RIP to all of them. They've all done very well!!!
They're free!
RIP Jhonn and Sleazy
(In unison)Thank you Mr Grace
They’re free and maybe together remembering the good times😢😊
Heaven is a funner place. :)
coil turned this into one of the best songs i’ve ever heard in my life
Are you ready to go now?
based
Couldn't agree more!
Why hasn't been sampled on a hip hop track? Would sound so cool.
it's such a perfect use of the words, like i would not believe it if you played the instrumentals of both that they're related. such a beautiful falsetto voice singing it too, like god i could talk about this song forever and how every bit of it is so perfect. i won't, but i could.
American. 33 years old. Grew up on this show. LOVED IT!!!!
I used to watch this on PBS (Public television) when I was young and I loved this show
Same here.
I remember back in the day when they used to say Public Broadcast Station in Living Color
Same! I used to watch this along with As Time Goes By. I’m rewatching both right now and it’s amazing how well they hold up comedy wise!
Yes! Used to watch it on PBS with my grandmother.
Me too. Me and my mom watched this before bed every night.
There aren't too many almost 50 year old tv shows that are today still absolutely as funny as they were when they came out.
Ground floor: perfumery
Stationery and leather goods
Wigs and haberdashery
Kitchenware and food
Going up
First floor: telephones
Gents' ready-made suits
Shirts, socks, ties, hats
Underwear and shoes
Going up
Second floor: carpets
Travel goods and beddings
Materials and soft furnishing
Restaurant and teas
Going down
Straight fire
mohamad mojahed Nicely done! But ... “Straight fire?”
Anonymous it mean she killed that shit, straight up bars
I'm so glad you posted the lyrics. I've had this damn song stuck in my head all day.
Thank you, really legends
Telephones? Of course, phone booths. No Androids back then.
I remember Me and My Mother watched Are You Being Served? Every Saturday Night on PBS. I even remember having a couple DVDs of the Show
My dad and I watched it together. It’s a fond memory of mine. 😊
My Grandma Loved This Show! I Grew Up Watching This
When you hear those opening cash till noises, there's always the challenge of how quickly can you work out if you're listening to "Are you being served" or Pink Floyd's "Money"
Are you being served came first.
@@zymaymyn Floyd nicked it !
Try coil - going up
Spot on! listening to Pink Floyd's money is what brought me here today
I’m convinced that you’ll be able to sing these lyrics to Connection by Elastica, but haven’t yet been able to test my hypothesis
Was walking in the supermarket isle and heard this on someone’s phone. Couldn’t wait to get back to my truck to scroll TH-cam.
I’m an American remembering this from my early childhood 🇺🇸
Five years later and I've got this song stuck in my head. Poor 10 year-old me didn't even know the words (and I still don't)
😂😂 #facts
Ground floor: perfumery
Stationery and leather goods
Wigs and haberdashery
Kitchenware and food
Going up
First floor: telephones
Gents' ready-made suits
Shirts, socks, ties, hats
Underwear and shoes
Going up
Second floor: carpets
Travel goods and beddings
Materials and soft furnishing
Restaurant and teas
Going down.
You're welcome.
I just whisper the tune Lol
I, too, am here because of Coil. And my dead grandmother.
Pure nostalgia. My mom and I used to watch this show every night before bed when I was really little 💖
This is one of the sickest compositions I've heard. Love it!!!
What on earth do you mean by "sickest"?
That theme song is surprisingly catchy. My mom was making me watch the show yesterday and I have the theme stuck in my head
Sometimes, the theme song was the best part of the episode...
Once heard never forgotten.
Iconic such a great theme tune.
It's sad because not only is this part of our past but so is the department store. There are only 79 left in the UK and none like this any more.
I remember Me and My Mom Watched this Show Saturdays on PBS. I also remember having a couple DVDs of the Show
Todays people will not understand that old cash register sound. They don't sound like that anymore but I remember when they did.
John Kern Me too and I'm not 40 yet! I remember them in massive department stores like Allders and Debenhams.
John Kern Pink Floyd 👏🏻
The sound was constantly being used in spongebob, so many young people know about it :)
Plus, they are much thicker in the head nowadays. :)
Yea, I've the same problem with 'The Romans' and 'Dinosaurs'. Not a clue, as it was before my time.
Ah, wonderful sound, this song. One of my most favorite TV shows, both growing up and now.
This was my introduction to British humor and department stores.
This is a classic intro... loved it
Holy shit, I can't unhear the Going Up connection now.
going up from Coil brought here
Ataide Junior “Coil”? I love those guys but I’ve never heard that one. I’ll need to go and check it out right now!
This. Absolutely surreal song
@@thenewbackwards ditto
yup. :)
I grabbed the tannoy microphone once in Morrisons in Bridgwater in Somerset and sang the theme. Nobody stopped me but you could see customers laughing!
that is class haha
no you didnt
Apparently so did 51 other people so far lol
You know it's late when this is playing on PBS at your grandparents house
I feel called out by this lol
Haaaa same but it was why Stayed up to watch this
The voice is Stephanie Gathercole who played Mr Rumbold's secretary for the first two series..
Never heard of this show. Came here cos of Coil's Going Up song. Now want to watch this show
My first job when I left school in 1985 was in a department store. Great fun, loved it.
that so takes me back to when I was little. It was one of the best sitcoms the BBC put out. Here's a juicy nugget for you, it was based on Simpson's (now Waterstones) when Jeremy Lloyd (one of the writers) worked there. As for Grace Brothers, well, that was modelled on a few London stores, but one which had faded in grandeur and I should know because I watched the documentary on the sitcom. The opening lines were spoken by Stephanie Gathercole, who played Rumbold's secretary.
This theme is pure beast mode. Thanks to Ronnie Hazelhurst.
RIP John Inman 1935-2007
RIP Mollie Sugden 1922-2009
RIP Trevor Bannister 1934-2011
RIP Wendy Richard 1943-2009
RIP Arthur Brough 1905-1978
RIP Frank Thornton 1921-2013
RIP Harold Bennett 1898-1981
Are You Being Served was a BBC TV sitcom which ran from 1972 until 1985 with 70 Episodes and a film from 1977
a "One off" special was also made in 2016.
It was one of the better TV sitcoms from the BBC..... It was certainly up there with the best.
God I love her voice
That awesome Coil cover, anyone?
definitely
I Love this show, wish they had made more seasons. Mr Humphrey was a genius.
Watching this when I was little growing up in Indiana is how I learned the word haberdashery.
I remember my mom used to watch this show! I always remembered the theme song but never the show. Now I found it!
You have been watching...a graveyard full of talent. That is what Are You Being Seved is in this day and age now that everyone in the show is dead.
We need more “real” music like this beautiful track!
My favourite ever TV theme. Just love it ♥️
This show has such an enduring charm. In the very early-'80s our local PBS station ran episodes of Are You Being Served? but at the time I paid scant attention to it. Thankfully I came to my senses a few years later.
And PBS was still running it in the late 90s when I was a kid
@@ajsea07 I barely recognize anything PBS is running these days. To be fair I haven't really watched in about fifteen years so time passed me right on by.
it's kinda weird that Coil out of all groups brought me here.
That’s one of the sweetest instrumental themes I ever heard! Sounds very on the ball and about business. 📯✨👌🏻❤️💙💜💚💛🧡 The show’s eight years older than me, but it kicks ass! I’m indeed a crazy lummox for classic old school British shows! 🤪
This has got to be the sexiest theme tune ever and very jazzy with an east listening feel. The spoken vocals from the lift girl (as voiced by the actress Stephanie Gathercole) adds to the sexiness along with the instrumentation. This is proper music and despite its short duration, it epitomized the positivity of the 1970's when there were no smartphones or tattoos and no attitude of one-upmanship. Nice one, Ronnie Hazlehurst.
Tattoos as a fashion dates way, way past the 70s, the fuck
I wouldn't push her out of bed. ;p
The cash register stuff was done with a primitive sampler too!
Bass played by Dave Richmond. original bass player with Manfred Mann 1963
@@guymowbray3713 Very interesting fact, Guy. The bass playing is really dope!
I remember watching this with my Nana on PBS about 10 or 11 at night. Right after "Are you being served" would be "Keeping up appearances"
Me and my grandma used to watch this on wned in the 90s.....memories!!!!
That bass line in the start of the theme...
the bass in the my family theme sounds a bit similar to it.
Pink Floyds Money ⚒
MC W I sort this out exactly because of that bass line lol. Time to pick up my guitar and work it out
@@thebrightsideofthemoon5829 bugger me I've never made the connection! 😯
That bass line through the entire song.
"Going up!!"
Too young to have watched it or hear of it as a child, but thank God for my theater teacher for showing this show. It's a good one and I personally recommend it.
They used to show the reruns recently on the BBC at the (weekends) every time I heard that theme music I had flashbacks of "the littlest hobo","Grizzly Adams"..nostalgia issa bitch when your still stuck in the present period!!!!...
Oh Coil, how I love you
As a piece of music, this is way ahead of it's time in 1972, ^oo^
John Inman was an accepted gay icon 26 years before Will and Grace received the accolades for it. Hero.
He wasn’t forcing his humor. It came NATURAL!
Another brilliant theme by Ronnie Hazlehurst ❤
I've been looking for these lines for a while! Thanks for uploading them!
love the tune own the whole box set.
The musical genius behind this was Ronnie Hazlehurst
And he appeared in the Anything You Can Do episode as the chef who gave Mr. Rumbold the two fingers up in his office after saying "rissoles" in an unidentifiable accent.
Thank you for sharing that! I love this music!
*@Deborah* Same.
This sounds like a ska band covered Coil's 'Going Up' - which I'm finding just hilarious
Dat bass line is a ripper :)
Smh me and my grandma loved watching this together. Its hard watching this, now tht she is no longer here
Are you being stereotyped brought me here lol love this series
One of the catchiest theme tunes ever written for a television series.
This is so f****g gangster. A hip hop artist needs to sample this. It's funky as sh"t.
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Coil sampled it for their transcendental tune "Going Up"
Young Mr. Grace was my favorite!
I love this show & its theme song.
really good, clever theme
Such a great series,and love the song with the spoken vocals, the film is really good as well.i was only 5 years old when this was om, but I do remember watching it, thinking it was so funny.
Brilliant theme.
My mom used to watch this show when I a kid. I only remembered the theme to this show. We had the old wood vinyl TV 😂😂 man how time changes
Awesome...brings back some childhood memories.
It just is..
As they say on the fast show... Nice.
"You've all done very well!!!"
Thank you Mr. Grace.
Love the show & Are you being Served’ Again. Grace Brothers Rule!!!!!
I been watching the show since I was in my teens. in my 3ps now and instill record the everyday. love the show
Bass drops at 0:03
...It Just Is.
There's nothing as recognizable in a theme song than the opening and closing of the cash register.
Fuck this was my childhood yo I need to sample this aahhh!!!
happenly coming across this show on PBS Kids after all the kids programming went off, god it was simpler times
Sabrina Moore did you sample it? Can I use it?
Goldie lookin chain sampled it in their track "waitrose rap"
I love this show
Pink Floyd - such a great band!
I was liked the theme tune better than the show
it just is.
My marriage has been difficult for the past while; so I confronted my wife about a number of issues including dropping our relationship, quietly quitting and seeing other people. We mended things for a bit to get through the summer, but today she had lost her phone, so I said I'd call it so she can find it and this was her ring tone for me. The phone was found alright 😂
Wendy Richard, what a babe she was.
I did read Wendy was a last minute addition, Miss Brahms was supposed to be a timed little Jewish assistant, the writers wanted Shelia Steafel but she was unavailable so the part was reworked for Wendy..
Rip Grace Bros😭😭😭
When I hear the song I go in a trance
It just is
It just is
It just is
Oh this is stuck in my head. Thanks to Tata Hits for telecasting these cool shows again!
Was a great show and I'm unanimous in that
Those tills open with some clatter.
Great theme and composition!
My grandma loved this show!
The bass is kickin'
Sick beats.
Sick? Learn some grammar.
Use to watch this with my grandpa on PBS cuz he had no cable lol the memories
Cool theme song from British TV! 😁
Rest in peace everybody. That's why UK's sky cryin' so much. Here too😭
They're *all* gone?
Unfortunately yes. We're not getting younger...
I love this show! I am unanimous in that!
I adored the themesong when I was a child.
For you Christina... to bring back those 70s memories - Keith