Pure joy from my childhood! I had a Fireball XL5 toy that I used to explore the galaxy. I’m 67 years old, now, and my heart is still floating around out there and wanting to, ever so badly, make contact with an extraterrestrial intelligence.
I too have the series on DVD. I had never seen it before so it was brand new to me. 25 or 30 years ago somebody wrote in to the TV magazine asking to help them recall an obscure TV show. The reply was Fireball XL5. I was intrigued. Then I acquired a TV's greatest hits record. It had the theme song. I was intrigued. Then many years later I found the series on Amazon. I bought it. Glad I did.
I take it you mean that all Gerry Anderson's theme tunes were great, not that nothing else of his was any good. You can thank Barry Gray for the theme tunes.
60 years old but still great to watch, the first TV programme I can remember seeing even thorough I was only it stuck with me all these years still brilliant!!
Such a beautiful song! For those of you who don't, Don Spencer is an Australian children's performer and usually sings songs about Australia, or an Australian animal. He was also a long running presenter on both the British and Australian versions of the children's show Play School. And in addition to that, he was the Father In Law of Russel Crowe.
I was very very young when this was on TV. I had completely forgotten about this. Thanks for reminding me of its existence. Puppet based entertainment is something I just vaguely remember.
Many moons ago (pun intended). I would wake my parents my at 5am on Saturday morning with the words... "Is it on yet?" "No...but you can go down stairs and turn on the TV." said Mom. "Why are you up?" Dad would ask. But he knew. They both knew. "Fireball XL5, may I?" "Keep the TV down until it comes on." And this is how I started Saturday's, waiting for Fireball XL5.... 60 years ago. Now when I can't sleep, I'll get on Amazon Prime and catch an episode or three. Fireball XL5 is still a fun watch.🙂😉
Children today wouldn’t understand having to plug the telly in each morning , as advice was to unplug each night, then turning it on 10 minutes before you needed it, to let it ‘warm up’
President Kennedy was assassinated on a Friday. That evening, upon seeing all the TV coverage of that very sad event, I became worried that Fireball xl5 wouldn't be on the next morning, which turned out to be correct. That was my loss of innocence.
This was a great remix on an amazing theme,these flicks as kids were the best thing since french fries ! i just Loved these series from the late great Andersson
But though I'm not a spaceman Famous and renowned I'm just a guy that's down to earth With both feet on the ground. 💫 It's all imagination🌟 I'll never reach the stars✨ My heart's still a fireball.... Every time I gaze into your starry eyes.🌙
I first heard this theme song on a TV theme song record. I wanted more. I bought the Fireball XL5 series on DVD. I wrote to Don Spencer, but he didn't write back.
Yes, at the beginning of "Spider" iirc. In fact, that was where I first heard this song, not knowing at the time it was from a real 1960's TV show LOL. Being just a toddler when Thunderbirds came out, I totally missed out on Fireball XL5 and only discovered Thunderbirds in my mid 50's when an episode aired on Comet TV. Hubby (who's 5 years older than me) had seen Thunderbirds are Go as a child and knew about the series. I was intrigued and got the entire series plus both movies on DVD and fell in love with Thunderbirds. Although I didn't grow up on Gerry Anderson shows, hearing the themes and watching them now still takes me back to the happy, simpler days of childhood in the 60's & 70's 😄
@@abbynormal4740 The funny thing is, I saw most of these as originals but unbeknownst to me is that Gerry Anderson went to the school opposite my house I have been in since the 50’s.
The lyrics are actually: I wish I was a Spaceman The fastest guy alive I'd fly you round the universe In Fireball XL5 Way out in space together Conquerors of the sky My heart would be a fireball A fireball Everytime I gazed into your starry eyes We'd take the path to Jupiter And may very soon We'd cruise along the Milky Way And land upon the moon To a Wonderland of Stardust We'll zoom away to Mars My heart would be a fireball A fireball And you would be my Venus of the sky [See: m.th-cam.com/video/6ifS2nP53Zs/w-d-xo.html ]
Pure joy from my childhood! I had a Fireball XL5 toy that I used to explore the galaxy. I’m 67 years old, now, and my heart is still floating around out there and wanting to, ever so badly, make contact with an extraterrestrial intelligence.
I had one, too!!😊
This takes me back 60 years. A much better more innocent time. Fireball XL5 still magical, and what a fab theme tune. Wow the memories. Great times.
I'm always watching nostalgic programmes as such. Oh happy and transcendent times.
@Gary Twitchett Third! I'd be scratching around in the dirt outside and my mother would shout, "its on" and in i'd go.
Just discovered that Don Spencer is still active and performing in his native Australia.
He has a lovely voice-I loved this song then (and now.)
Back when kids were kids, and imagination ruled.
Watched this show as a kid in the 1960's.
Loved the show. So great to see there are so many other adult "children" who shared my enthusiasm for the show!
I just bought the entire series on DVD-- and binged -- it was glorious fun !
I too have the series on DVD. I had never seen it before so it was brand new to me. 25 or 30 years ago somebody wrote in to the TV magazine asking to help them recall an obscure TV show. The reply was Fireball XL5.
I was intrigued.
Then I acquired a TV's greatest hits record. It had the theme song.
I was intrigued.
Then many years later I found the series on Amazon. I bought it. Glad I did.
This takes me to my happy place when I was a kid. This show ALWAYS brings a smile to my face.
Just played this in my car through the Bluetooth, blasted it several times, really great sound quality! I was screaming all the words, love it 👍🍻
have a lovely day
From simpler and happier times; great nostalgia.....
A very very happy time of my life, thanks for the memory.
Gerry Anderson had nothing but great theme tunes.
Some shows were not very good.
I take it you mean that all Gerry Anderson's theme tunes were great, not that nothing else of his was any good. You can thank Barry Gray for the theme tunes.
Brings back great memories. I always wondered whose job it was to go out and fetch the undercarriage/bogie that was left behind when XL5 took off.
Lol
Same here 👍
60 years old but still great to watch, the first TV programme I can remember seeing even thorough I was only it stuck with me all these years still brilliant!!
This seems like a million years ago. What a different place this was! I always loved this song.
Such a beautiful song! For those of you who don't, Don Spencer is an Australian children's performer and usually sings songs about Australia, or an Australian animal. He was also a long running presenter on both the British and Australian versions of the children's show Play School. And in addition to that, he was the Father In Law of Russel Crowe.
What a nice soothing voice.
No auto tuning required
And Robert the Robot on drums!.....awesome😀
I was very very young when this was on TV. I had completely forgotten about this. Thanks for reminding me of its existence. Puppet based entertainment is something I just vaguely remember.
Many moons ago (pun intended).
I would wake my parents my at 5am
on Saturday morning with the words... "Is it on yet?"
"No...but you can go down stairs and turn on the TV." said Mom.
"Why are you up?" Dad would ask. But he knew. They both knew.
"Fireball XL5, may I?"
"Keep the TV down until it comes on."
And this is how I started Saturday's, waiting for Fireball XL5....
60 years ago.
Now when I can't sleep, I'll get on Amazon Prime and catch an episode or three. Fireball XL5 is still a fun watch.🙂😉
Children today wouldn’t understand having to plug the telly in each morning , as advice was to unplug each night, then turning it on 10 minutes before you needed it, to let it ‘warm up’
Thank you brings back great memories of the sixties when I was a kid 😊😊
Made my day finding this, luv the song and characters.
Absolutely magnificent. Loved the show and love the remix - well done!
loved this as a child such innocence and long before CGI ...best was robbie the robot
President Kennedy was assassinated on a Friday. That evening, upon seeing all the TV coverage of that very sad event, I became worried that Fireball xl5 wouldn't be on the next morning, which turned out to be correct. That was my loss of innocence.
President Kennedy was assassinated Friday 22 November 1963 the next day Saturday November 23 first shown of Dr Who.
Takes me back to when i was a kid.
This is brilliant love all the characters watching the show
Pretty good drummer. Keeps great time.
Thank you for making me travel back in time to the best time of my life!!!
This was a great remix on an amazing theme,these flicks as kids were the best thing since french fries ! i just Loved these series from the late great Andersson
I had the record has a kid and yesterday bought the dvd box set.
Wish I could go back to those days.
Great show, so much wonderment and imagination. Non nonsense Steve Zodiak & beautiful Venus.
Me hace acordar cuando tenia 8 o 9 años ¡que infancia tan feliz! ... mi corazon siempre sera una bola de fuego tambien ...
Definitely not a tootie.
Great seeing the characters from previous series in the balcony.
F. A. B.
Ok, how many of you sang along?
Always.
I love how the rocket ascending is perpendicular to the clouds around it! Haha!
Hearing this again has made me so happy!!
Back on the tele next month Yeaaaaaaaaa ! My ❤️ is a Fireball
Came out the same year I was born, 1962, it was a good year!
I watched this when l was very little. Why l love Star Trek.
As Buzz Lightyear would say:"To infinity... and beyond!!!" I love this.
To infinity ..and beyond !!!
nostalgia at its best
This actually brought tears to my eyes.
Loved this show when I was a kid - had a cat called Zooney and always hoped Steve and Venus would get married
Really great stereo. 😊😊😊
A LONG time ago a little lad was a great fan of Fireball XL5. The grown up still loves it. 😂
Use to watch it on TV sometimes way back in late 70s as kids......😀
well done, nicely put together. My Heart would be Fireball. ✔✔💙💙
But though I'm not a spaceman
Famous and renowned
I'm just a guy that's down to earth
With both feet on the ground. 💫
It's all imagination🌟
I'll never reach the stars✨
My heart's still a fireball....
Every time I gaze into your starry eyes.🌙
Never knew there was a third verse. It's a lovely song. I remember watching Don Spencer on play school in the 70s. Never knew he sang it.🤩
I used to watch this when I was a kid in the 60's.
I never realized before that much Star Trek was based on this show- and Fireball xl5 has the better theme song!
Brilliant
Nice to hear this one in Stereo John! Nice job! EDB
This song made it into the UK charts ! Love the robot on drums LOL 😀
I became a drummer because of that!
It could have been a big hit globally.
Magical memories from the past
John:
Nice to hear this song in Stereo. Really nice job! I look forward to more. EDB
I can remember when fireball xL5 WAS ON TV YOU WOULD NOT SEE AND KIDS IN THE STREET.
well done I've been trying to find a live version of this song has anyone seen Don Spencer on here singing a live version
Well done my friend. Absolutely fantastic!
as a kid, i loved all of gerry andersons 60s creations ! great stuff !
Great stereo version of this song
I first heard this theme song on a TV theme song record. I wanted more. I bought the Fireball XL5 series on DVD. I wrote to Don Spencer, but he didn't write back.
A time when kids still had innocence and imagination - now lost forever, sadly
Wow my heart still for u
Me again - would love this played at my funeral sod all my own military medals and records I loved being Steve Zodiac
Happy days
wonderful. and the puppets great
I don't remember Steve Zodiac singing the theme...that was Awesome!!!😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂👍👍👍👍👍
God this takes me back to when I was a kid in the sixties and Robbie the Robot 🤖 caught fire every other week🌛🪐
60 years ago where did the time go?????
Wow
I wish I was back in 1963
I loved it
When the robot got excited
Smoke would come from his head
this is in true streo!
Takesme back when I was. a little boy !😊😊😊
My childhood😢
Haven't seen Mr. Zodiac perform this for sixty-one years. Just like old times.
Our love ❣️ song
Magic
Fireball XL5 was always my favourite program from Gerry Anderson.
in the crowd i think i notice joe 90 sitting in the crowd as well as the driver of supercar IS this true
Captain Scarlet and the Thunderbirds in Space 1999 left Moonbase Alpha on a Journey to the Far Side of the Sun.
This song hit in the UK and I wonder why it never played in the USA.❤
summits a looking back Can put you on the right rerack. .
"it's called imagination..." do kids still have imagination today??
This is great
Love honour and obey, brought me here.
Great...and nice frock Venus!
never realised this song was used in the HBO series from the earth to the moon
Yes, at the beginning of "Spider" iirc. In fact, that was where I first heard this song, not knowing at the time it was from a real 1960's TV show LOL. Being just a toddler when Thunderbirds came out, I totally missed out on Fireball XL5 and only discovered Thunderbirds in my mid 50's when an episode aired on Comet TV. Hubby (who's 5 years older than me) had seen Thunderbirds are Go as a child and knew about the series. I was intrigued and got the entire series plus both movies on DVD and fell in love with Thunderbirds.
Although I didn't grow up on Gerry Anderson shows, hearing the themes and watching them now still takes me back to the happy, simpler days of childhood in the 60's & 70's 😄
@@abbynormal4740 The funny thing is, I saw most of these as originals but unbeknownst to me is that Gerry Anderson went to the school opposite my house I have been in since the 50’s.
@@porkscratchings5428 Cool, fun fact there 😄
Happy holidays to you (if you celebrate) 🥂
I loved fireball xl5 shows my age 63 ouch
Fabulous 1962
I cried.
thanx
Mike Mercury and Jimmy in the balcony.
I've only just seen this but you're spot on.
Sorry mate..!! Neither appear..!! It's Johnathan ZERO...& Jock the mechanic!!! 😉👌
& ma doughty..!! From the granatoid tanks!!! 👍😉
& commander Zero's wife Elenore...!!! 👍😉
The lyrics are actually:
I wish I was a Spaceman
The fastest guy alive
I'd fly you round the universe
In Fireball XL5
Way out in space together
Conquerors of the sky
My heart would be a fireball
A fireball
Everytime I gazed into your starry eyes
We'd take the path to Jupiter
And may very soon
We'd cruise along the Milky Way
And land upon the moon
To a Wonderland of Stardust
We'll zoom away to Mars
My heart would be a fireball
A fireball
And you would be my Venus of the sky
[See: m.th-cam.com/video/6ifS2nP53Zs/w-d-xo.html ]
NICE!!!!!
Still watch this & other gerry Anderson shows on TH-cam.
Awesome show I'm now 68
Come on ELON, develop those Oxygen Tablets. Then, perhaps the Astronauts would no longer require Helmets and bulky Air Packs. 😉😂😂😂
Timeless entertainment for us kids in the sixties.
👍 great
excellent! lol
Ladies and Gentlemen I have two of these spaceships
Barry Gray's themes are still as great now as they were in the 60s. I'm still trying to find the full 4 verse version of this tune...
Fantastic