The Congregation - Softly Whispering....TOTP (FULL Sound Test 2)
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 1 ม.ค. 2013
- Re-dub of a live performance from TOTP 30-12-1971.
This is a work in progress, hence the logo.
The original BBC video has no sound at all. The song was sung live, so it was unique and no longer exists. - บันเทิง
Wonderful! I was 15, this video takes me right back and reminds me of the fashions and hairstyles of my youth. The girls are just as I remember, no tattoos, no face piercings, no coloured hair, plastic noses or balloon lips, or Groucho eyebrows - just ordinary and natural. I give thanks I grew up in the '70's.
well said m8
Absolutely agree there, just lovely natural young girls as I so well remember from the great 70’s I too was 15 at the time like you say it just takes you back, not a song that is played much but I have it on a sd card in my car and when it plays I instantly see those 4 lovely girls at the start, captured forever in my mind just beautiful…. those days are long gone but the memories live on.
@@David-dz8jb couldn’t agree more spot on mate
Well said, Steve. I'm also very glad I grew up in the 1970s, listening to quality music from many different genres, including unique hits like this one...
Yep, I'm 64 years old and music is an emotional trip back in time, brings a happy tear to my eye when I hear music from that time of innocence, love it.
My Darling wife Gerda that I lost too covid loved this song and I cry my eyes out every time I listen too this song
May be with her more sooner than later ❤
I hope joy fills you in a way only God can.
72 years young now and this still sends a shiver up my spine. What a voice he had.
A nice song but did you know he was miming on this video
@@gordon39 I would have been surprised had you claimed otherwise
Guitar so fundamental too.
This song also send shivers down my spine. Must be my all time favourite. Fabulous voice
Fabulous song ❤
I'm wondering is anyone is watching this and thinking 'there's grandma'?
When I was 17, I loved this beautiful song, now in august 2021 I am 68 and still love and sing it. It makes something moves withing my heart and brain, fellings and memories.
Hugs from México City.
Exactly, same here.
Yes I’m the same age as you born 54, love this song as much as you. ❤️❤️❤️
I loved this song when it was released in 1971 and still love it in 2021, where have all those years gone? This is truely a 'timeless classic'.
Exactly my story as well. I was into Led Zeppelin, Uriah Heep and Deep Purple and then came this song and I couldn’t stop listening to it. I dont listen to heavy metal all that much anymore, but still listen to my vinyl copy of The Congregation.
@@edteach3r Now you're telling "my" story.
@@diyallegrobusrepairmods5585 Amen, Brother. 😊
I always liked this song. Unbelievable how young I was in 1971. It's great to actually see the people who sang it. Beats an AM radio or a 45.
I haven't heard this since I was a kid. It makes me so happy when these songs pop up and remind me.
Efter over 50 år lytter jeg stadig til denne sang, bliver aldrig træt af den!
Loved this song in the 70s. Listening to it in 2023 it still sounds great.
I'm now 70 love love love this song from the first moment I heard it 💃💃💃💃💃💃💃😍🙆💛❤️💃
Thats two of us
Wow, I am 65, but this song brings me right back to age 14 in 1972. Brilliant!
Wow, still gives me goosebumps even now. That man's voice!
exactly the same feelings I had back then and I have theese days.
I love this song for many many reasons but the main reason is that my darling angel Gerda loved it with me
and those angelic young ladies
He’s still a session singer.
Nobody forgets the sensation they felt when they first heard his voice come in; how primeval and uplifting it was, and is. Adding the purity of he opening to the cauldron was musical alchemy.
Sincerity from his heart 🎉
Good example of how a great song was made by people with no other purpose than the love for the music.
A beautiful song and beautiful ladies happy days
I cried when I first heard this song in 1972 aged 25, 45 years later it still touches me.
Very touching song I remember this in 1970s my mum loved it made number one in the charts gail
Me too and and i was only 11 then. Loved it then and still love it now even though im coming up 60 this year. That guys got incredible passion in his voice. Makes me want to cry with joy and not sadness.
I was quite a bit younger than 25...... actually about 7.
But I was always moved by the lyrics of this song.
It took me another 20 years before I was able to get my own copy of this.
Such a moving song.
@@gailwilson342 number 4!
So did I, was 15... and still can cry when I haar this. The high voices of the mainly girls choir, contrasting the strong voice of Keith, does it...
Loved it in 1971 and love it in 2023 what a voice what a tune and what memories of great times
Best and happiest times
The four girls at the front are absolutely gorgeous and make my heart ache with nostalgia…
I listen to this when I really miss my late Helen which is almost daily softly whispering I love you
I still love this song in 2023.❤
I was just 14 when this song came out and I bought the 45rpm single, that I still have. Now I'm 62 and it is still my favourite song of all time. It never ceases to make me feel good. Unbelievably, this is the first time I have ever seen the video. Happiness is.....
IT IS A TRULY BEAUTIFUL LOVE SONG, the best. Amazing sound.
I heard this song in 1972. It was revived in about 2011 but I never knew it’s title until one day I asked my younger sister. Of course she immediately responded, ‘It’s softly whispering by The Congregation!’ I had been searching the song for years!!!
Memories 💞🥰💟 Music takes us on a journey.
When life was worth living, beauty was real, music mattered, art was unpretentious and to be young and in love was bliss.
I was only 10 when I heard this song. I fell in love with the words and the melody. It's now 2022 and this song brings back sweet memories of love and tears in my eyes.
A brilliant wonderfull song fantastic
This was the first single that I ever bought (I was 13) - 49p from Woolworths. Still love it - the contrast of the pure girls' voices in the choir against the rough, rocky voice of Brian Keith is really unique. The fashions in this clip really take me back.
You nailed it in describing the vocals :)
the conductor is a joy to watch, puts his heart & soul into this performance, Wonderfull song.
Yes love to watch a conductor at work
Yes but there is not one person out of the choir paying attention to him 🤣
@@paulmartin3682 I see ONE person watching him, at least somewhat. It’s the man on the far right close to the conductor, who looks like he could be related to both the conductor, and also related to the young man standing to the left of him.
WHY don't people SING like this today.
No outlandish costumes, VULGAR lyrics, Screaming, synthesized voices, IT'S ALL GARBAGE!!!!
THIS is music. THIS is TALENT. I could listen to this all day.
The world has changed a lot in the last 40 years.....and NOT for the better!!!
Thank you Congregation for this Music. It speaks to my soul even today. I was about 8 or 9 when I first heard this. It's just as Beautiful today.
Beam Me Up
Beam me up too - totally agree 👍
Because they can't!!
Yes they can , its just they are being suppressed by people in the music industry @@billwellington4222
And no ugly tattoos either.
You are right....modern music is ALL Garbage.
But even worse much of it is utterly BORING.
By the way, In the 70's stars did wear outlandish costumes.
I LOVE the comments here about this wonderful song - it's very nice to know there are so many like me, filled with nostalgia for those simpler days which are now so long ago.
When I was 16 I could cry with emotion listening to this song.. I was such a messed teenager.. Still love it..
You mean the days when we had to put up with Jimmy Savle?
@@jahno7154 LOL, there was also slaughter in Ireland and napalm in Vietnam, but for young children like me, who had NO RESPONSIBILITY for such outside events, these simpler sweeter times were so so much happier. Got it now ??
@@ysgol3 Oh your absolutely they were much happier times I loved watching television in the 70s when i was a child apart from Bernard Manning and the Black and White Minstrel show. I liked Rolf Harris he was very entertaining and i liked Jimmy Savile's clunk click advert, there was Top of the Pops whats happened to that ? everyone used to look forward to Thursday to tune in to TOTP it just shows you what todays music has become. Today we have to put up with reality shows which is so vulgar with disgusting looking tattoos fake tans and swear words, i can go on and on but my Grammer is so poor,but these days i just watch watch a lot of sport and TH-cam thank God for TH-cam !
Not if you were American and dropped out of school,you would be drafted and sent off to die in the jungles of Vietnam thats why I stayed in college and became a musician so the 60s dream would forever dwell in my heart and imagination .Peace and love.
Such a great song fantastic memory.
I almost forgot this wonderful track from 1972. I was 15 when this hit the charts in the UK. How I miss my beloved parents.
The male vocal had a nostalgic voice! I heard this song in the 70s on the radio. It stuck subconsciously until now. I found it via listening to Paul Youngs version. Would never have known Paul Young wasn't the original singer had it not been through TH-cam
My poor old mum loved this record. The 70’ what a decade. 👍
love this song still listening in dec 2023
Love the backing singers introducing still love it now at 70yrs old
What energy people had back then, the world was such an amazing place filled with wonder and possibility. You felt your heart bursting with joy as you jumped out of bed each morning wondering what revelations await and at dusk you raced towards the setting sun with outstretched arms. We lost that folks. Life now is an endless grind chasing dust in the wind. My soul cringes at what the world has become. Young people will disagree but they do not know any better. If you do not feel now as I did then I pity you. Life let you be whatever you chose to be - this Covid nonsense would NEVER have worked in the 60's or 70's. Find the cost of freedom .... buried in the ground....mother earth will swallow you. Well I for one cannot wait for that to happen. Thank you CSN&Y. And thank you that I was young when I was. I wouldn't trade it for the world...
I grew up in the 90s/ early 00s and even then it was better than now. We still had a sense of humanity and fun. Lord knows how magical the 70s would have been… today everything seems to be so boring. Kids are stuck at home sitting on their asses playing silly minecraft and rubbish like that cos there’s nothing else to do. Parents are stressed out.. annoyed .. bored.. my parents were very happy in the years gone by. I’m a parent now and feel Nothing but stress..and music is disgusting..
Those four young women singing in the front are superb eye-candy! What a treat! And fabulous singing voices.
The band is "The English Congregation", Brian Keith's gravelly voice and the distorted guitar makes it a classic love song, my girlfriend in highschool loved this song and I remember singing it to her when they played it for a dance... sweet memories...
They are 'The Congregation'. It is only in the US that they feel the need to name them 'The English Congregation' to avoid confusion with their own 'The Congregation'
Never tire of listening to this, love everything about it
Just wish the song was longer.
My deceased wife loved this song every time I listen to I cry my heart out love you for all of eternity Gerda
I'm in the same place mate. Tough going.
I’m speechless. Have just stumbled on this gem. The wonders of utube . Bought the single Xmas 1971 only saw it performed once on totp. This is incredible and after 46 years this is unearthed- makes u think what a great song it was!
Just wanted to say I am married to Stephen Huckle but my name was Elaine Minion but Elaine Kemp before that.I was the one in in the orange dress at the end of the row..
+Stephen Huckle Such a wonderful, moving song. To Elaine K, M & H - - really liked this one after first hearing it back in the early 70s. Had not heard it since, until 4-5 days ago. Talk about deja vu ... wow!
Hi Jim Haven't heard this in forever lol Lead singer looks like Rasputin lol Great song, very powerful. Talk about a blast from the past we don't usually get to hear. I'll have to check out some of their other songs. Thanks :o)
Toni, One of the best things about TH-cam - - the related videos they show to the right side of each music video. I can't even remember what video I was watching when this one was shown over in the related videos section. I might not have found it otherwise. Kind of like stumbling over a rock on a trail and finding a rare gold coin, lol. I think this one was a one-and-done studio recording without them even making an album. The other neat thing about TH-cam - - viewer comments that lead to finding little known, seldom played songs. The lead singer (Rasputin's double), Brian Keith, was part of a late 60's U.K. band called Plastic Penny that lasted LESS than one year (1967-1968). I listened to their best known U.K.song only part-way the other day because, to me, it was kind of a dud!! Totally unlike this one, which I keep replaying since finding it. Look in the YT search box for Plastic Penny to find the song. I forgot the song title since it didn't interest me at all.
WOW !!! What a flashback this has to be for you !!! How cool is that??? Few can make the same claim. I hope it was a great experience.:o)
I was just going to ask you the title bc I see there's quite a few songs after their name. It's not a wonder they didn't last long if all their songs were so so. I'll give it a look see. Yes, I know what you mean, I found some gems too through YT. I also belong to a music trivia room and I'm constantly writing songs down that don't ring a bell. YT usually has the ALL.:o)
I was 17 when this lovely song came out and I had just met a new boyfriend whom I've now been married to for 49 years, so nice memories. The lead singer used to be in a group called ' Plastic Penny' and they had a hit song called Everthing I am. His voice is very powerful and distinguishable. Happy memories. ❤️
Classics don't die just get better with age
What an amazing song, absolutely beautiful and uplifting
I was twenty four in 1972 when I first heard this song,I cried through the whole song because I was so much in love with a men that I had to let go for all the right reasons-my heart never fully healed,it was left with a void and a longing.
Roger Greenaway and Roger Cook song. Brilliant
65 yes old, still brings back memories from long ago
Wow the 70s was musically so diverse that every song had a chance of being a hit
I first heard this song at our secondary school disco back in 1971. I was 17 at the time. At first, I thought it was a very unusual song and not very appealing. How wrong I was. Their song grew on me very quickly. I highly rate it and listen to it frequently. It brings me back to my teens. I really miss that time and all the people I loved then who have now passed on.
When ladys looked so natural and beautiful with out Blue hair tattoos and so on.😢
Sixties is still the best time of my life, met the lady that I blind dated in 1968 and married in 1973, the mini skirt in the 60s, and then hot pants in 1970 + it was, and still is for me the best decade for music too.
MAN that guy conducting...he's goin' nuts. Such passion!
Especially considering nobody's watching him. Must be directing telepathically...awesome song, though, and a classic TOTP 'choir'.
Wow brought back memories of my generation, nothing will ever come close to our music.
warning ** this tune can get stuck in your head, even if you don't really want it there, like when you're trying to go to sleep. It happened to me, it can happen to you.
What a great song. It takes me back to my young times
This song is now featured in the current movie “Licorice Pizza”. Saw it last night. The movie features Oliver Hoffman (son of Phillip Seymour Hoffman), Bradley Cooper, Sean Penn, Maya Rudolph. Was surprised to hear this wonderful tune in the background.
Me too, I immediately looked on youtube after coming home from the cinema, as I remembered it as a child. Great song, Great Film
@@ladybooksmith3347 I liked the song, but not the movie so much. Not the worst movie I’ve seen, but didn’t care for the leading lady. I think it got mixed reviews from the audience.
@@dianesingerman9650 that’s interesting. I really liked her.
Gary & Alana I Love You!
What scene did it play in?
Just love the way they are singing from a song sheets,aids a genuine nostalgic authencitity to it.
What a fantastic song from the incredible 70s.
Angels in Heaven !!! just heard this song on the radio it's must be at least 50 years since I last heard it. Goosebumps an Tears flooding through me, I just played this video over an over, it's feels like someone you loved who'd passed away an miraculous reincarnated decades later
What a beautiful song bringing back memories of my 70’s youth and my perfect 70’s sweetheart now my wife of 40 years who is still every bit as sweet and attractive as those we see here. Love it.,
Aww! Bless you both. Nice to see a decent comment on TH-cam for a change!
Softly whispering I love you
Echoes of your voice are calling
Still through my dreams
Softening the chill of the breeze
Through my window
I can see the moon glow
Painting silver shadows
On a rose coloured land
A world that we walked hand in hand
In a day of gold
Coloured by the glow of new love
Oh, I can feel your warm face
Ever close to my lips
And the scent of you invades
The cool evening air
I can close my eyes
And you're there in my arms still
And I know your soft kiss
Turning into music every beat of my heart
When I hold you close to my heart
And I hear your voice
Whiispering I love you.
I can feel your warm face
Ever close to my lips
And the scent of you invades
The cool evening air
I can close my eyes
And you're there in my arms still
And I know your soft kiss
Turning into music every beat
of my heart
When I hold you close to my heart
And I hear your voice
Whispering I love you
Can’t believe I was only 11 when this came out so angelic then and now hope you all read this voices of angels
Simply gorgeous. Job done. That's how you write a song. Sweet as !!!
I loved this song but couldn't admit that as a 12 year old.Takes me back to a better time when life was still ahead of me.Miss the friends and family of those innocent days forever
When I was in Grade 12, at Saint John High School in NB Canada (Canada's oldest high school!) I was lucky enough to go on an educational cruise around the Mediterranean with a load of classmates. the SS Nevasa! November 1972. Each morning the English crew would wake the dorms full of kids with music of the country we were visiting, REALLY LOUD, over the loudspeaker system. The final day of the cruise, we had docked at Southampton during the night and they woke us with this song. Never, ever will forget it
Who’s still listening to this in Feb 2021. Love it 🥰
All the girls at the beginning look like my teachers at junior school in 1969 aged 9. All the boys had crushes on our teachers. Especially Miss Jeffries. To think she'll be in her 70s now. I hope she found true love and happiness and is still going strong today😊
stupendous, stunning, sensational, ELECTRIC!! Why hasn't this video got 100 million views?
It takes me back to my youth. And there was a very special young lady in my life. So many happy memories.
What an absolute classic
I look this up every Christmas. Makes me happy and sad all at once. I was 14 then. 😊
Here we are in 2022 and they are all now grannies or dead, the way of life.
Oh my days what a great voice he literally gave me goosebumps
Those were innocent years
I was 16 at that time loved the song and now just stumbled over it. Closed my eyes and went back in time.
God bless
I was about 14 when this came out and my girlfriend at the time regarded this as 'our song'. When I hear it now, I'm reminded of innocent snogs at parties, the smell of hairspray and Brut, and running for the last bus home or waiting for a parent to collect us (ideally out of sight of everyone else).
Though the irony of a song called "SOFTLY WHISPERING I love you" bellowed out by a hairy beardy man with a Hendrix lookalike guitarist was probably lost on us at the time.
LOL - when I look at our bellowing friend I see Jimmy Hill.
I agree with you, if that's the male vocalist's idea of "softly whispering" what is his shouting going to be like?
I thought the guitarist looked like Derek Griffiths!
@Crispin Coulson. Brilliant comment and exactly what my life was like. The smells. Badedas bubble bath, Hai Karate or Brut aftershave. Just joyous times!
@@acechadwick my brother was a skinhead!
@@joanne4850 My boyfriend at the time was a skinhead. Crombie coat, bovver boots, tough as hell after 6months in Borstal, smelling of Hai Karate...irresistible 😂
The only problem with this song. It's not long enough!!! It's so beautiful!!!!
It takes something like this wonderful work once merely taken for granted, to make you realise what we have lost.
What a voice! It’s a shame that this song was The Congregation and Brian Keith’s only hit! I remember listening to this song on my parent’s record player as a young child. Even at five or six years old, I marveled at the power in Mr. Keith’s voice! Forty-seven years later, I still think this lilting melody and dynamic chorus inform my ideas on what is a love song!
But TH-cam may have his other songs that did not hit. I, like many others, just love the average Jane in the chorus. I knew “those” girls in Junior High and High School. There are no ugly girls only ugly men. That being said, the girls in my school, Class Of 78, could all be fashion models.
Those girls melt your heart.
All probably in their late sixties now!
This song will be with me all my life, emigrated to Sydney, Australia in 1971 at the age of 23, had affair with a married woman called Coleen who was 39 at the time, it was played a lot in 1972 over the radio station beach speakers at Cronulla, in those hot summer days where we often met along time ago.
I was 12 years old when this was released, it takes me straight back with tears rolling down my cheeks as I once again get lost in the beauty of it.
Everytime I hear this song all I do is get goosebumps one amazing tune
nice song of thursday 30 december 1971
Incredibly beautiful song...cannot get tired of it.
Just brilliant. Thank you TH-cam
Simply the best👍💘
I totally forgot about this song ! What a pleasure to hear it again after so many years … They just don't do stuff like this any more
Благодаря фильму «Лакричная пицца» узнал об этой волшебной песне и коллективе Конгрегация.
I remember this song back in the 70s
this was the sound of the 60 s luv it
70's Paul...
30/12/1971
I first heard this when I was 11, I'm 50 now and still love it. Xxx❤️
FORGOT ALL ABOUT THIS , Paul Young did it justice , but this
Is just BEAUTIFUL, we used to be Glued to the ( Black and White then !)
TV every Thursday for TOTP , and check the top 40 on Sunday Radio , Happy Days , we had
So little but where much happier for all that ,
Stay safe and keep your loved ones safer,
Thanks so much ,
200 Kid .
Written and originally sung David and Jonathan, aka Roger Cook and Roger Greenaway - and good though this is, theirs is still the best version for me.
Extreme passion, this is a most beautiful, loving song I have ever saw, plus, this was from Tops of the Pops!!
Tectonic plates rubbing against each other... Rarely have two opposite sounds blended so perfectly in inspirational majesty. This is like your favorite fantasy of all time waiting for you to return again and again.
Lyrics
Softly whispering I love you
Echoes of your voice are calling
Still through my dreams
Softening the chill of the breeze
Through my window
I can see the moonglow
Painting silver shadows
On a rose-colored land
A world that we
Walk hand in hand
In a day of gold colored
By the glow of new love
Oh, woman
I can feel your warm face
Ever close to my lips
And the scent of you
Invades the cool evening air
I can close my eyes and
You're there in my arms still
And I know your soft kiss
Turning into music
Every beat of my heart
When I hold you close to my heart
And I hear your voice
Whispering I love you
I can feel your warm face
Ever close to my lips
And the scent of you
Invades the cool evening air
I can close my eyes
And you're there
There in my arms still
And I know your soft kiss
Kiss, turning into music
Every little beat of my heart
When I hold you close to my heart
I hear your voice, I love you
I can feel your warm face
Ever close to my lips
And the scent of you
Invades my every cell
I close my eyes
And you're there
Waiting in my arms, baby
And I know your soft kiss
Kiss, turning into music
Every beat of my heart, oh, yeah
When I hold you close to my heart
I hear your voice
Whispering I love you
Brilliant :) The girls back then were so lovely. I was 15 at the time and now I could cry when I see certain music vids from the early 70's. I miss that silly lad that I was back in those days. Life was so good back then. Lots of great mates and lovely girlfriends. The music from that period really brings the memories back the most though.
I was 16
Fully agree.
Great time.
Not like rubbish to
me too. out on the piss every weekend with my mates, blowing a weeks wages on a pair of shoes, and getting all silly over some young lovely. I thought I'd be jumping jack flash forever. where did half a century go
This was my first 7" single. Wonderful! I wish I had found a love like this. Beautiful music.xx
Man I miss the 70s. Such beautiful and natural girls. I was just a little kid so didnt get to enjoy it as much as I wish I could have.
NEVER NEVER GET TIRED OF THIS SONG
I have no idea how I came across this video but I love this song! Have played it over and over. I especially love the director, who is directing quite furiously, and not one singer is watching him.
😀🎈grande congregação, parabéns, tema de guerrilheiros pilantras foi magnífico😁🎈
Pitch perfect, powerful, genuine instruments - this is exactly how it should be
This lovely song brings memories of my teenager ages to me.