Sweet - The Ballroom Blitz - Silvester-Tanzparty 1974/75 31.12.1974 (OFFICIAL)
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- Sweet performing "The Ballroom Blitz" on the the German TV show
Sylvester-Tanzparty from the 31st December, 1974.
This version features the original line-up.
Brian Connolly - lead vocals
Andy Scott - guitar, synthesizer, vocals
Steve Priest - bass, vocals
Mick Tucker - drums, percussion, vocals
The recording was produced by Phil Wainman.
The song was written by Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn
Single Chart Positions:
Germany: 1
Australia: 1
Canada: 1
Denmark: 1
Ireland: 1
Great Britain: 2
Norway: 2
Switzerland: 3
Sweden: 3
South Africa: 3
Netherlands: 4
Austria: 5
USA: 5
Finland: 10 #Sweet
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68 now. This brings back so many good memories. The 70's were awesome.
The sweet, Mud, Slade, .. great times.
@@Ludo_A So much great music and Cherry Gillespie on TOTPs to boot!
Back here in 2024....as a 64yr old.
It's my go-to when l need a bit of Ska nostalgia!
Hell yeah 🤘
1960gal I'm 66 love this
i would spend hours trying to get my hair to look like this ,, and im a gal lol
@@jaquelineoreilly294IKR? I'm a chick, but was never blessed with beautiful hair like these heartthrobs of my youth! I just saw a recent pic of Andy Scott, his hair is still long and gorgeous, and pure white now! SWEEEEET!!
@@LazyIRanch we owe a lot to HARMONY hairspray LOL 🤣🤣🤣
My husband loved this song, every time I hear it..I think of him.. us, I miss the good ole days so much. 😕
Good times
👐 🙌 👏 🙏 🤝 👍 these days will come b a c k one day . . . as Goethe once said . . .
You are not alone. I miss the days when we could laugh and if not agree then
cordially agree to disagree. And laugh and poke fun at each other. It DID use to be this way before woke hatred and insanity along with division of society for wicked motives.
I saw Ted Nugent's band do this once
Right there with ya, dear 👊
Unbelievable ! I'm back here, unwittingly ! I'm 62 and so dancing to it (fortunately, no one is seeing me). It takes you out of any possible funk.
Same here, I'm going to be 63 on May 5th. I've been doing a lot of musical reminiscing 😊
Dancing too, can't forget that. My kitchen is my ballroom
@@JaniceWithTheTarlovCyst Happy belated birthday! How cool to have a Cinco de Mayo birthday, perfect excuse to drink margaritas and feast on carne asada (or delicious guacamole if one is vegan). As if any excuse is needed to enjoy good food and drink!😉
I'm right behind you, I turn 63 in July.
Keep on dancing! My kitchen is my favorite ballroom too.💃🕺🎶
I'm 69 & won my transitor radio in a coloring contest at a local drug store. I loved my little transitor radio. Thought it was so cool I could pick up WLS from Chicago late at night! Listened to it every night. This song & all the great bands. Bring back the 70's! ☮👩🦳🎶
Well, if you gave a teenager a transistor too day ,they would laugh in your face, FANTASTIC AND BRILLIANT 👏 AND BEAUTIFUL 😍, TAKE CARE 😢😮
Remember "Animal stories" with Larry Lujack and "Little snot nosed Tommy on WLS"? And "Beaker Street" on KAAY from Little Rock Arkansas? Wow! Great times!
At first I thought you said that you won a transistor radio in a coloring contest when you were 69 hahahaha
It's a transistor radio.
WLS!!!:)) EPIC!!
I feel so lucky to have lived my young years with these entertainers, they'll live forever in our 💕
Yep
Golden 70th.in east block...yes its my teens y3ar😊
The most underrated band in Rock. Especially Mick. As a drummer since 1976. Thank you Mick Tucker for being one of main influences. You taught me so much. Rest in Peace Great one.
I was six years old when this song was out, and I've never forgotten it. Still love listening to it.
Released in the UK 50 years ago today 14/09/2023 Still a great record........... Thanks guys for all the years of listening pleasure.................
I'm turning 58 soon, not regretting much except missing their music, they contributed so much in such a short time. If you listen to other bands from late 70s to 80s you will hear their influence.
Noooo! Don't say that. 50 years ago was just the other day. I'm sure of it.
The best of all Times to growth up, with all that great music... no mobil Phone... no Internet... ;-)
That was a golden era and of course the sweet were our Heroes...so fuckin great Band...!!!!
best piece of art someone can create is music…. this video & everything about it is nothin but iconic & perfection
So true.
I listen and look it ever and ever - a golden age of music, youth, mankind...
Golden age of lipsyncing??
@@stevehumphrey667 Look the vids of Musikladen -
I'm here because this is the music I grew up with and it still KICKS ASS!!!
Me too! But we're being overrun with kiddos who just heard it for the first time on some movie and now think they discovered it. LOL
lisalu910 is that really a bad thing though? These kids are enjoying music they would never usually know about because of those movies, you should appreciate that at least
No, its not a bad thing at all. Its good that they are hearing some of the music from the past that has stood the test of time. Its amusing, though, that they have just "discovered" these songs that have been there all along. Maybe they'll realize there's a lot more where this came from!
Lori....they suck.
We want Sweet, always been my favourite glitter band..
Gone but never forgotten Rest in peace Mr.Brian Connolly Mr.Mick Tucker and Mr.Steve Priest
Thank you all for your contributions to the entertainment industry. Your Music will live on forever
Wish I had talent like that
I am mad the Queen has not knighted them postumasly, and Andy Scott, in a live version!
@@lisamcbride8921 Never had the world wide fame as the Beatles!
fantastic
And mr. Andy Scott
70's Rock Forever! 🎸🎸 Absolutely Brilliant! ❤❤❤
¡Siempre fue la mejor época en música!
I guess I got stuck in the pop years of 1973-1977. Still listen to the music of those days and thanks to You Tube see the videos now for the first time. I was too young to understand the lyrics those days but still enjoyed the music.
If you missed the 70s you missed everything
Indeed. What a period of all things insanely good.
absolutely correct...
yes but the man at the back said .....
That is a blatant lie!
I agree.
Take me back!
@@happyolddude Jealous?
Обожаю эту песню почти 50 лет.Свит вы супер!!!
🫀🐑🌹🪦💔😇
70s music never gets old. ❤
ICONIC SONG !!!! MUSIC WAS THEE BEST IN THE 60'S, 70'S, & 80'S !!!! THANK YOU TO ALL THE MUSICIANS WHO CONTRIBUTED !!!!
Only the Brits could get the mix of pop and rock so perfect. Brilliant!
Scott Martin
They were a British group.
they're more inteligent than the Americans (which is not always good :P )
Very British!
Adorable British😉👍❤🌹
Who first heard this a small transistor radio in the early seventies?😎
First heard in a gremlin on eight track.
I was 9 and loved listening to my little red transistor on ckrc AM RADIO here in Winnipeg, Canada.
Saw them on top of the pops!
I had the 45.
@@anyhoot47 I didn't get my first record player until three years later.
Never Underrated by music lovers The Sweet still stand today. Their appeal easy to define - great musicians - loads of charisma and they loved what they did.
Bought the 45 of this as a teenager. Love Sweet!
Steve Priest, Brian Connolly, Mick Tucker...R.I.P., each, loved more than we can express. Thank you for the fun, the joy and the music. Andy, stay well!❤️
This band were THE BEST EVER very very sadly missed 😢😢😢
Stop and look At the 70s babe at the 3 min 4 seconds ,Thats what i remember the Girls in the 70s With Bell bottoms lip gloss and the mini skirts , And they were smart fun and friendly , Man i miss the 70s And the music
I am honored to also be named Andy. This guitarist is super talented and seeing him play in this video is pog
Sweet-Music never dies 🎶💕
Each Time have its Best !!! God bless Peoples from those Days !!
I was 8 at the time, I'm 57 now, I've heard tens of thousands of records by now, and this is still *easily* in the top 10 of best sounding tracks I've ever heard. Yes, it's silly - so what?
check amazing Tia Carrere's cover of this track, very cool
hurrah!! this song has been in my top ten as well for decades
58 myself and I agree with you completely...
I'll be 59 on Saturday I agree wholeheartedly
not at all i am same age as you and still remember being blown away at age 8 (except blockbuster was my fave)
Whatever you thought of them (and I loved them) our music would not have been tghe same without them. Thank you guys.
I’ve listened from day one to now. And I’m still not bored.
RIP Steve. This is a brilliant song.
arita2006 I’m literally crying now. Heavens really jamming out now.
Sad news...all of the greats from this generation are leaving us...
@@Jesus_Wept I agree. Unfortunately there's going to be a lot of deaths of 1970s superstars over the next few years as they all enter their 70s.
@@arita2006 Yeah, I hear ya...it's a pity for sure...
@@arita2006 yes, so hard to believe. We were so young.
Mick Tucker, is the best drummer I ever listemed to, he is very profeesional and his stick control is the best in the world.
May you rest in piece....
LOL That was the most unauthentic fake drumming I've seen in a long time. The best part was when he "hit the crash cymbal" like he had a stick, yet there was nothing in his hand, and the cymbal didn't move.
Your kidding right??Were you stranded on a desert island with just a sweet album and this 45?
I enjoyed the fact he'd had enough of the BBC's format of mime and demonstrated against it. I mean it is a bit shit getting any kind of rock band to mime a song with their instruments, then put it on tv for millions of people to see.
@@fukkingusernames totally loved it when he launched the sticks into the audience, drummed with his hands and then threw the lot overboard, even Steve was applauding, and the audience going wild! Sweet just didn't give a Sweet Fanny Adams ;)
@@broeheem2804Either you don't know much about Mick or you don't know much about TV in the 70s. Of course they were playing to a backing track because they were made to. That has nothing to do with his drumming skills when playing live. One look at the series of Musikladen videos in Nov of 74 will tell you what a fantastic drummer he was! I say good on him for basically saying screw you to the powers that be who wouldn't let them perform truly live on TV! You go Mick. 😍❤️🔥
I remember when this song came out, it knocked my socks off in 1973-74! It still makes me dance crazy, a little less now however...old age is not my friend.😆
I can't believe how old i am gosh still today I love and sing this to myself, and it will always stay with us, a classic song
Gene Simmons said without the Sweet there wouldn't have been a KISS. RIP Steve Thank you, lovely Sweet
What a Song!! Loved it, I’m 62yrs now, Still F**king Love it!!
59 here, and loving it as well. Great memories of junior high.
66 here. Fuck all. :)
THE BEST BAND EVER HOPE I GET A TICKET IN HEAVEN TO SEE THEM
I'm 61 and fucking love the sweet
I am 64 and this song is brilliant xx
I remember hearing this song while waiting to catch the bus to high school....Bundaberg Australia.
I remember this song/Band. God it brings back memory's
I don't care how old you are, this is a damn fun song
Wow!!!!...Meine geliebten The Sweet waren sooo toll, tought und
cool...ich vermisse sowas in der Art so sehr!!!❤
I have a 79 Firebird that I am currently making into a time machine. I can't wait to get back to the seventies!
brian
Вау!!!! Можно я тоже с тобоййййй?🤣
Are you going to put an 8-track player in it???
Still has the factory cassette player, but I'll make room for it in the console. CB radio already took residence in the storage cubby under the radio!😊😊
RIP Steve Priest.Sad day for all of us and him especially and his family.Jim.Liverpool.
Класс
I’m watching in 2020 reminiscing what it was like hearing this at every party in 1975 at full volume and having hair like that.
Never mind 'hair like that' I'd settle for hair! LOL
And what great hair it was on fellas in the 70’s. Thanks from the gals x
@@georgebuller1914 lol
YESS FULL volume!!!
Every skating rink , this was the sheeeeet
Ready,Steve ,Andy , Mick!!
Прочитала комментарии,все они в основном не наши,не российские. Неужели в СССР мало было их почитателей,не смотря на запреты и возможностей? Послушайте хоть эту композицию! Это же просто гениально,лучшее рок-исполнение того времени! Вечная память Брайану Коннолли...
Да, были ребята, не спорю. Но не Status Quo.
Слушаем и помним до сих пор ! Как можно их забыть! Это все равно,что забыть свою молодость ! Как хорошо ,что здесь есть и русские комментарии
Слушаем ,а теперь и ещё смотрим . И как будто возвращаешься в далёкую юность .До чего же мы были тогда счастливы !
I saw an interview with Brian just weeks before his death, and he was an absolute gentleman. He wasn't big headed or ego ridden, just a humble man with a great history we all heard, especially on Top Of The Pops in the 70's.
RIP Brian, a good bloke and a great singer.
@betty davis The true professionals are, yep.
Brian was such a good singer and did appear very down to earth in all of the interviews i have seen.
All the good people are taken to early.
With an absolutely sexy voice.
I think Brian was already very ill during that interview. He was literally shaking because of his alco abuse, but my father still loves him
As a teenager I loved this song and band so much!!
👐 🙌 👏 🙏 🤝 👍Me too mate ! The real g r e a t drummer of THE SWEET inspired me (no joke !) to l e a r n drumming ! Following was a nice local "career" and much, m u c h fun . . . so I really owe this band a lot . . .
@@AL_THOMAS_777 Love the 70' music.
I was a middle age man and I loved everything SWEET
As an adult I still love it!
At that time I had been 17 and me and my friends used to go to dance with this ageless music; now I`m 66 and still love this band and teir songs, expecially this one even also very much!🙃😛🙃...
Mick Tucker twirlin those drumsticks! WOOT!
Az ilyen szuper slágerek felidézik fiatalságom ! Ezek még igazi slágerek voltak !
Love Sweet. Miss those years of great music.
Great party song lots of fun to dance to.
fantastic energy and an unforgettable vocal by the late brian connolly.
Are you ready Steve? Uh huh
RIP Steve Priest. Died 4 June 2020 aged 72.
It was a ballroom blitz.
Written after the locals in Kilmarnock,Scotland shower them with a hail of bottles...we were a hard gig,ha ha(i was born in Mauchline,next door).
Yeah stevie was so so sexy he was a ballroomblitz Rest in peace 😍😍
💖
Love him 😍
😫💕
There will never be another SWEEET.
Mick Tucker was SO F'N GOOD on drums.
Now that's a New Year's Eve party I could get behind!
Ballroom Blitz and Love is like oxygen two of greatest diverse and outstanding hits😊
A
Don't forget Little Willy
A quick reminder to those who consider this band underrated: they sold over 50 million records worldwide. Misunderstood perhaps, but hardly underrated.
Yep - when Fox on the Run came out you couldn't turn the radio on for more than about 5 minutes without hearing it again in Australia.
If I could have a tenner for every time I have seen that word 'underrated' in a sentence describing singers/bands that were anything but I would already have retired!
@@maxxuman9915 In Uk, it was ever Sweet Slade or Trex on the radio every 5 minutes
Sorry too disagree but in the USA they were underrated. No, rather I should say underappreciated
I bought one
This music is from my fathers time so it's obviously older than me, Yet I just can't get enough of it. It really is something special
Same
This was the precursor to punk...
Good music was made back then...lots more to find :O)
@@highamandassociates8366 Nah, MC5 was the precursor to punk.
@@Excalion88 Yeah I was gonna say that MC5 really gives off early stages of punk vibes
Bought it on Ronco records in 1973. It was awesome.
That drum riff is classic and unforgettable !!! The people in the studio enjoyed themselves....
I personally like Brian's hair
Somehow i don't think the drummer is really playing live though. Could be wrong of course.
@@Buster_Piles Well, he's playing real well near the end of the song after he threw his drum sticks away.
and I love the end when Mick throws his sticks and plays with his hands - basically just mocking the show for making them lipsync and play-sync!!
@@Buster_Piles Umm - none of them were playing live!!
THIS SONG IS STILL A PURE ROCK CLASSIC AFTER 47 YEARS.
They really should do a movie about them.
I dunno! How would the actors protray them? I always thought of that, maybe someday they will.
Song is GREAT I was 11yrs old LOVE IT!!!
My daughter is 11yrs old and this is her new favorite song, crazy isn't it?
She has good taste in music! 😊
Превосходно, Красиво, Отлично, Мощно, Замечательно, Очень хорошо, Супер и Браво!!!! ❤️❤️❤️🔥🔥🔥🤩👏👏👏👍
Какая шикарная атмосфера на концерте ! И замечательная " натуральная " молодежь семидесятых !
И девки все РАЗНЫЕ...
@@sergeychernykh2571 и в туфлях на каблуках а сейчас в кроссовках! Паршиво всё сейчас
Только это фонограмма, а не концерт. Вообще SWEET любители фанеры)) мне 60 и они Моя любимая группа детства...
Danke Sweet für die schöne Zeit ❤❤❤❤❤
Spot on Solaris.
Great time to be alive. I feel privileged to have grown up in that era. Never get anything like it again. Utterly awesome.
For all us old rockers awesome band awesome song
I remember them from my time in secondary school, they started out as a "normal" pop group then seemed to transform into the hard rock group that made them famous.
They were my favourite band and imagine my delight when I found myself selling the Hayes news door to door and Steve priest answered, " Can I have your autograph I asked, " he replied." No now **** off" have always admired him for that!
I'm from Hayes. Went to Wood end park and mellow lane Great memories!
soy de Valparaiso i la primera vesque los escuche fue en la posalarga de
limache en 1972y toda via los
Disfruto.
I was nine. I put several quarters in a couple jukeboxes in restaurants my parents took me to. As a kid it was that high melodic break that got me. Of course the chunka chunka ALWAYS got my attention.
Years ago, I enjoyed listening to this song when I was a teenager. Now I am glad they still play it on TH-cam. It sounds a lot better then listening to it on the record player.
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I have never seen anything like this. Whenever something is portrayed as "the 70s", it is just shown as little things. This video is crazy because it shows what it actually was like at that time as opposed to just people wearing bell-bottoms and colorful clothing. This video feels like a time machine.
Everyone seems so happy and energetic.
Totally agree - it was a fabulous time - everyone naturally moving and not trying to show off dancing like a stripper - genuinely enjoying it.
great days.. the beginning of the end...
There are lot's of seventies videos on TH-cam.
Soul Train and American Bandstand videos.
And concert videos like Midnight Special and Don Kirchner's Rock Concert.
Also late night TV shows like Tomorrow with Tom Snyder and others.
Then you also have British shows like Top of the Pops and German shows like this one.
Tons of great stuff if you just look for it.
That looks like so much fun. This is one of the pinnacles of rock n' Roll. It's uplifting that individuals in the seventies, when economic turmoil was so low, grey indistinct hardship form every turn and government followed the trend. How this short of music and culture has outlasted our fear, forever. Why do we make our life's so complicated?
@@nigeljohnson4880 Huh? These are young people having fun. I guess you are British. Nobody was thinking about any of that stuff in America. At least young people weren't. Positively was in the air... Best decade for culture and music.
Wow this is back when we had to talk to each other! Crazy!
One of the best bands ever r.i.p brian Connolly mick tucker steve priest
What a stunning drummer Mick Tucker was, great!!
The spinning drum sticks..he was brilliantly at this..
He definitely enjoyed a little twiddle, every now and then.
@Jim McCracken guess he didn't think he needed extra drum sticks when the band is lip syncing
Twas very cool.
Yeah, the late Mick Tucker was ace with those sticks.
He was actually a fucking top notch drummer
Yes perfekt time and music,I was 10 years old...😊
Loved The Sweet … just came up on my feed … great stuff and a blast from the past ! ❤️
Fantabulous band,they always look like they`re genuinely having just as much fun as their fans..Can`t help but feel immensely happy every single time I hear them.
As far as I'm concerned The Sweet were the Kings of Glam, their appearances on Top of the Pops were legendary, and Steve Priest was hilarious with his naughty boy antics! Ahh, happy, happy days never forgotten.
Yes, indeed!
I don't know, it would be a tight race between them and Slade.
Nah T-rex were the King's of Glam Rock
Yes, sweet and Slade, i think noddy holder was a better singer and a writing machine with jim
One of the best drummers ever.
60 yr old and remember this Great album....Amazing how they sound exactly like the album...lol..Loved them in the 70's...
the most under rated band of all , long live sweet.
+posturex1 killed by Disco and Punk :-(
+posturex1 yes, indeed, top class band
+posturex1 yeah!
Big time...Totally under-rated
good anything on the radio gets worn out!!!
It's hard to describe to younger people today how big a hit this song was when it came out, and how good the entire rock music scene was in the 1970s! All
I can say is I feel sorry that they couldn't experience it and that what they have today just doesn't even come close (sorry).
Hey- we still listen to Sweet! I'm fifteen and there are plenty of new bands with a similar sound that we love too- Maneskin, Lemon Twigs, Walt Disco, etc.
so true
Ok boomer
Yeah - I LOVE this Song - especially when you drive really really FAST in a CAR! Classic British Rock and Roll!
yeah was great, blockbuster was the first single i bought. I loved all the glam bands early 70's, , and aint afraid to say that includes the infamous mr Glitter. I still play a double cd i bought way back of his greatest hits, along with sweet and slade, and various compilations. I aint got as many as in my punk collection but the nostalgia is great for an aging old bastard like me :) GL
bryan CONNELEY WAS IMMENSE.
Siempre los admiro. Desde mi la primera vez que los escuche exelente felicitaciones y Dios los bendiga por siempre..y aún me ponen la piel de gallina cuando los escucho...la mejor banda que he escuchado... siempre y para siempre..en mi corazón ❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
Speed skate! Loved hearing this at the skating rink back in the day. It still begs to be turned up to full volume anytime I hear it. A true classic.
Damals auf der Eisbahn gaben die Jungs mit ihrer Musik uns die gute Laune und die Energie um die Wette zu laufen....😍😍😍😍
Danke für die schönen Erinnerungen ❣❣❣
GREAT DAYS.
So hard and beautiful and sexy
Yes! Followed immediately by "The year 2525" 😁
I have to agree with many other comments that the Sweet were criminally underrated. Their look was super-cool too.
Drummer was awesome.
Even when he throws his sticks away 3:14 and just starts randomly slapping the skins with his fingers?
Yes, Paul, he was outing the fact they were lip syncing this time around. Then he tossed the cymbals and the drums, as the beat continues, driving that point home. He was having fun with it. He is a great drummer.
@@misskim2058
No disagreement here. They're my favorite power-pop group.
Steve priest was always a show you never knew how he was going to appear
They looked like they raided Liberace's closet.
In Japan, old BBC programs are broadcast every week. SWEET is the band I listen to the most among the bands that were active in the 70's.
I honestly my teenage years was in that era, fantastic
Хорошее время было и хорошие песни. А главное мы были молодыми😂😂😂
These guys were just AMAZING. Rest in peace, there is NOTHING like you nowadays. These songs ROCKED my childhood and make me most of what I am today...
Still, one of my all time favorite songs!
I meet Andy several years ago in a German highspeed train (ICE) from Berlinto Basel.
I sat in a first class compartment. I wanted to sit alone.
He asked me kindly if there is a seat vacant. I thought oh no! But said yes of course.
The time than passes by like a flight.
It was very interesting.
All reminded me at my youth. In the early 70s.
Thank you
Love the way Mick Tucker just isn't taking it seriously at the end - bashing on his drums with his hands and then throwing it around the stage. A great band of musicians who still knew how to have fun.
Hi Brett hope you're okay
THIS SONG IS A MASTERPIECE. YOU PLAY IT AND THE PARTY IS ON. THE VIBES , THE RHYTHM , SIMPLY IRRESISTIBLE. WE LOVE YOU SWEET.
THE __ SWEET___ absolutely f'n "WICKED PISSAH" [ BOSTON SLANG = REALLY AWESOME ]
My husband adored this song and he made me adore it too! ❤
It is perfect 💖
I was nine when I heard them, but it's only now that I realise how so very good Sweet was! An amazing glam rock band!
I agree
The 70's were a crazy time with many different popular genres. I have to admit that I didn't appreciate Sweet when they were current. I listened to AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath etc. I only started to truly recognize their talent as an older fellow listening to "Oldies" on TH-cam. I'm glad that I rediscovered them and have them in my steady rotation now. Sorry to hear about the premature deaths in the band. RIP.