(What's So Funny 'Bout) Peace, Love, And Understanding As I walk through this wicked world Searchin' for light in…
Country Girl I want to go where my country girl goes Back where…
Don You never wear a stitch of lace And powder's never on…
Don't Lose Your Grip On Love Don't lose your grip on love Don't lose your grip on…
Don’t Lose Your Grip on Love Don't lose your grip on love Don't lose your grip on…
Down In Mexico Down in Mexicali There's a crazy little place that I…
Ever Since You're Gone Baby you really ought to see stayed out in Absent Calm I′m…
Happy Doing What We're Doing Happy doing what we're doing Happy doing it right Keep on …
Happy Doing What We’re Doing Happy doing what we're doing Happy doing it right Keep on do…
Home In My Hand Self Yeah, I say alright, come on! Yeah yeah, the bar …
I Like It Like That Kenner-Toussaint Come on (come on let me show you where i…
Ju Ju Man I was just 16 years old, And Maggie's hair was…
Nightingale Last night I heard a nightingale That sang not three yards…
Peace Love & Understanding As I walk through This wicked world Searchin' for light in t…
Please Don't Ever Change You never wear a stitch of lace And powder's never on…
Silver Pistol Once I made a fortune But I wouldn't play their stupid…
Speedoo Bom, bom, bom, Bom, bom, bom, Bom, bom, bom, bom. Now they …
The Ugly Things Lowe I'm gonna make it up to you somehow For all…

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Comments from YouTube:

Bob Green

10y↑44

This is officially the most happy-making song of all time. Thanks boys!

pit2ryan3

3y↑2

@Larry Parker - Play That Fast Thing One More Time...

Larry Parker

3y↑2

How about Play That Fast One More Time?...😊

John Robertson

3y↑4

love it

Simon Curtis

6y↑45

Nick Lowe is a musical genius. And yes, it was mentioned in passing when the NME reviewed Speak Like a Child about the similarities. And just how modish does Nick Lowe look here, in 1973!

Thomas Andersen

2y↑1

@Robcatist Weller was also "influenced" (daylight robbery) by Taxman by Beatles and 10538 overture by ELO

Robcatist

2y↑3

He does indeed obviously caught the eye of Mr Weller and “influenced” Speak like a child.

Michael T New York Night's

4y↑5

@A Face in the Crowd totally! The first thing I said when he got his first close up!

A Face in the Crowd

5y↑4

Well, he's got the Bowie cut here, doesn't he.

phil2003ashleigh

6y↑1

Simon Curtis aren't all great songs a facsimile of something you've heard elsewhere? Ask Ringo LOL x

Marc Miller

6y↑11

Bob Andrews did a fantastic job for Brinsley and Graham Parker and the Rumor. Great moment is when Nick smiles and sings "I Say we are doing all right - Well we are doing OK!"

Matt Eg

2y↑3

I'm just a singer in another band and I can't say if you are right or wrong about that.

bramleydragon

7y↑11

Great song this. Love the happy sounding Hammond organ. Puts a smile on my face.

kevbrew

11y↑5

"I said we're doing all right, well we're doing okay-hay!!" Absolutely magnificent, cheers for posting.

STEVEN FIELDEN

4y↑21

When the BBC put this programme on again and with the same quality performances I will buy a TV licence.

Joe Moore

2y↑1

Even as a young lad. Nick a genius.

Bru Tkd

3y↑3

Saw it on repeat last night - sadly on Channel 5. The BBC need to pull their act together.

Larry Parker

3y↑11

Such an underrated band...At least here in the States 😪

Oppothumbs M

2y↑6

Bob Andrews is so happy and his playing is great . Nick learned early to chew gum and sing at the same time. He's not just another singer in another song. yeah we doing ok.
Oh she was dumb she was dirty yeah, but she was a princess

Custom made and could fit right into his arms
She could thrill him she could chill him, woh down to the bone
But he was in his teens yeah, he had to spill the beans
Still looking for ways and means
Surrendered to the rhythm calling him home

TheStereoClub

I saw the Brinsleys a few times in '72, on their own and backing Frankie Miller when he opened for Alvin Lee at the Rainbow, It's been a while, but I recall Frankie introduced them as "London's house band". Very true! I had no idea who they were, but they were a seriously tight band. A healthy bit of rock history starts with the Brinsleys. Frankie Miller had a hit in the US a few years later with Darling.

Odd Bod

4y↑6

When I put this song on it just lifts my spirit.From the word go they just seem to be enjoying playing their music.I love the keyboards and Nicks Barnet 🤓

mattsmate

10y↑1

Awesome...can you believe this is nearly 40 years old!

flashtheoriginal

7y↑28

I think BS were having a piss take on this recording - Ian Gomm is playing bass, Nick Lowe is on lead: a complete instrument reversal between the two of them. Great stuff. The vocals were live to their earlier pre recorded track. Brinsley himself is sat at the back on secondary keyboard, I missed that earlier on. Good band, nice songs. God bless em all. Quality

PJ A

2y↑2

I mean, Nicks chewing gum…

JimBongJovi

4y↑2

Not taking the piss at all with that, they just switched around for some songs. There's a Beat-Club clip from 1970 where they perform "Ebury Down" with Nick Lowe on acoustic guitar and Bob Andrews on bass. Also, on the back of the Silver Pistol LP Ian Gomm is credited as performing guitar, bass, and vocals. Nick Lowe credited as bass, guitar, and vocals.

Tank Jacket

4y↑2

James McIntyre they did it also for this

Tank Jacket

4y↑2

pit2ryan3 its not live. pre recorded as the bbc always did. the brinsleys were furious because of that

pit2ryan3

4y↑1

@Frank Morgan - Brinsley and Andrews also played sax live in 1974.. Also on Dr. Feelgood "Bonie Moronie" from the Down By The Jetty LP...

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Paul Maney

While I was in the army back in 1972, all around me was heard the standard so-called
"classic rock" of the day which I hated then and still do. MY salvation was the Flamin' Groovies "Teenage Head," and the Brinsley's "Nervous on the Road." THANK YOU for posting this amazing video of a tune I wish more people had heard and actually took its timeless advice!

Simon Helliar

8y↑5

that's gotta put a smile on your face for the rest of the day

Matthew Cannon

02:10 Nick is actually singing "The other song" of the lyric as he moves away from the mic. Extraordinary stuff.

Gusdogbrownlab

5y↑4

Never heard anything as good as this in the pubs I drink at.

Bob Green

14y↑1

Ahhhhh, the Torrington at Finchley.... great memories, one of my favourite songs by a great band.

Monica Walery

12y↑2

I love this harmony

Paul Caporino

15y↑2

Wonderful tune

Dutch Van Helsing

10y↑3

Can't find the chords or lyrics online....This is a gem of a song...

Stephen Nicholas

Wonderful to find this. Billy Rankin on drums. Days of Linden Park in Tunbridge Wells some 50 years ago or more now clouded by getting old, heart attacks and even the next generation passing away. I'll listen to this many times over the weekend

imbwinkle

13y↑7

Nick's chewing gum while singin..frickin classic

Sam Thompson

13y↑1

I've been humming this tune for about thirty-five years.

Otto Greenleaf

4y↑6

Glad I read Will Birch's book about Nick Lowe "Cruel To Be Kind". I wouldn't have known about great songs like this otherwise. Cheers!

pit2ryan3

4y↑1

Otto Greenleaf - That's great, but why didn't you check Nick Lowe's discography on discogs?

N C

9y↑9

Love the harmony with "surrender" towards the end

Matthew Cannon

7y↑1

Nicholas Cooper It's a great device. Completes the story perfectly. Nick Lowe has spoken of his interest in writing the perfect rock or pop song of 3 minutes, complete with hooks, devices etc. They're having a good go here!

Jean Kavanagh

Yep. A fine hook !

Kox

pub rock is the healthiest part of rock and roll and rhythm and blues music from the 70s to today!

rocklens

7y↑2

Bloody brilliant!!!!

John O Sullivan

7y↑4

A darling of a song this one - and Nick Lowe, great character & and a great singer :)

epicmeade

14y↑3

Chewing gum while singing. a classic attempt to pretend like this wasn't the most important moment in his life (up till then at least). thanks for posting this . it's nice to see it in high Def.

journeythruthepast

14y↑1

Nick Lowe went off on a more rockabilly direction when he went solo but you can just hear the band that mutated into the Rumor right here. It's a Graham Parker tune through and through if you can only imagine Parker's snarling vocal instead of Nick's. Bob Andrews=Pub rock's answer to Garth Hudson. With Schwarz on the piano, this is definitely modeling after the Band.

Roy T Bone

10y↑10

proper musicians

Phil Taylor

8y↑5

down to the pub after this gets me in drinking mode every time

Alan Pepper

11y↑1

excellent stuff cheers !

JJ Martin

13y

I hear echo's of Van Morrison & John Sebastian. Great tune! Have it on my I-Pod.

BlueBoy9055

3y↑1

Brilliant 👍👍

Michael Miller

3y↑3

Oh she was dumb she was dirty yeah, but she was a princess
Custom made and could fit right into his arms
She could thrill him she could chill him, woh down to the bone
But he was in his teens yeah, he had to spill the beans
Still looking for ways and means
Surrendered to the rhythm calling him home

Michael Miller

3y↑1

Well who’s to say if it’s right or wrong
Not another singer in another song
I say we’re doing alright
Yeah we’re doing ok

Derek Walsh

8y↑3

brill tune and organ

John C

10y↑6

Used to go and see these and the three other bands that "Whispering" Bob Harris mention in his intro - Ducks Deluxe, Bees Make Honey & Kilburn and the High Roads - at the Tally Ho pub in Kentish Town. Halcyon days.

StanPomeray

15y↑1

Superb!

Bill Clarke

5y↑1

Fucking marvellous.

steve hewitt

10y↑1

Brilliant.

Sydney Mendel

5y↑1

thanks for a great song lads

A Face in the Crowd

5y↑4

That pub rock scene was really fun -- nothing like it. Wiped away in short order by punk.

vdklippe

3y↑1

Classic.

Jennifer V

I had no idea until today that Nick Lowe had a Bowie tribute haircut and I don't think I can handle it.

ian mccallum

10y↑1

just on old gray whistle test not heard this for years

Harry 157

3y↑2

N/L and D/E they have given so much to Music,thank god for Punk breaking up the music 'closed shop' of the 70,s thus allowing live Indie bands to come through. Can we have Punk2 ?

Todd Leiter-Weintraub

13y↑8

I still say that Bob Andrews is one of the greatest keyboard players in rock history.

pit2ryan3

@Nick Webb - It wasn't Graham Parker, it was his manager who did that...

Nick Webb

6y↑1

Yup, and Graham Parker had the good sense to recruit him for his band.

phil2003ashleigh

6y↑1

Todd Leiter-Weintraub and professor Paul x

Simon Curtis

6y↑1

Todd Leiter-Weintraub Bob Andrews, Leeds man and still playing. Living in New Orleans, has his own website.

bramleydragon

7y↑1

Todd Leiter-Weintraub he's great isn't he? And he's from Leeds where I live.

frunkie2

12y

@HaggisPowah Yup, saw the Brinsleys live a few times - they swapped instruments a few times in each set. Saxophones were even involved!

Ian Dog Staves

I'm seriously diggin' Nick's haircut here!

John Robertson

3y↑1

top band

Borderline Alcoholic

3y↑2

What a fucking great tune.

Robert Machin

15y↑1

Judging from Nick's 'do', this must have been his famous Bowi period.

steve hewitt

5y↑1

FAB !

Knickertwist Copperby

2y↑1

Whispering Bob kills me!

Richard Lance

3y↑3

Kilburn & the High Roads = Ian Dury & the Blockheads 😍

BangYai

Too bad the drummer never got a look in. Saw them play at an all nighter at Brunel Univercity. Great band. I think the Global Village Trucking Company were also on the same bill.

padraiggillon

5y↑4

The Jesus of Cool chewing gum during his TV debut.

pit2ryan3

padraigillon - I think Brinsley Schwarz had already made some TV appearances in 1971 or 1972 with Country Girl and Ebury Down (the latter on German TV 1970, see Beat Club)...

eslmc

15y↑2

Damn! Cut it off? Too bad, they were rockin'!

Jean Kavanagh

9y↑5

Love Nick's grown out Suedehead look . big ride.....

David Malone

13y↑3

@sthompson1000 It never played here in the states. No one here knew Brinsley Schwartz and we'd never heard of Nick Lowe until Cruel to be Kind came out in '79. Even then, we didn't know Rockpile. This tune is great! I swear, we Americans miss out on a lot of great music that gets played in Britain... and it's probably our own fault for not excepting something different. BTW, we discovered Ska about 15 years after they did in Britain.

Deryk Barker

Rockpile seem to have been known in New York, I have a couple of live shows from 1978 (Keith Richards guests on one song of one of them) and there was a King Biscuit Flour Hour show.

bramleydragon

7y↑1

David Malone There's a brilliant American band who were at one time based here in Britain called Eggs Over Easy who practically started the pub rock scene before Brinsley Schwarz. Give them a listen.

Daniel Shaw

14y↑3

nige321 is right - Will Birch's book No Sleep til Canvey Island is a must-read if you are interested in pub rock and the road to punk/new wave...

Odd Bod

Bostin tune!

elsloolimburg

13y

On 16.11.1974 Brinsley Schwartz played at Utopia - Elsloo, Netherlands

71brett

7y↑3

More than just a shade of Do You Believe In Magic by The Lovin' Spoonful.

MC2

7y↑1

a drop of lemonade in mine Bob .. cheers

electricleg

9y↑3

Great barnet ,Nick.

Steve Tivey

Bob's teeth these days are like Easter Island statues

Ned Gentz

Bob Andrews on organ - killer. Later a vital member of Graham Parker and the Rumour

Richard Brown

8y↑10

Great song! I bet Paul Weller heard this....he seems to like nicking tunes from others: 10538 overture by ELO springs to mind....

Ashley Long

8y↑2

Paul Weller must have listened to this before he penned 'Speak like a child'!!

Leslie Coote

Or "Beat surrender ",,,???

Tony smith

There aint no pubs left for pub rock. Brinsley Schwarz were far more than that anyway they had a record contract and recorded 6 albums of their own material for goodness sake. I think the moniker of being pub rock as being a good thing has deteriorated over time.

pretorious700

15y↑3

I always felt bad for guys who went bald in their twenties- seems so unfair.

SoulStylistJukeBox

9y↑17

Has anyone ever asked Mick Talbot about the keyboard melody on this track?

Gareth 1971

5y↑2

Just heard this song for the first time and said exactly the same thing to my son. Had to come on here because I couldn't remember the name of Style Council song. Cheers pal you've just saved me from a.long hard Google search.

Mark Strumma

8y↑7

Speak like a child? Just heard this for the first time and came on here to see if anyone else thought there was a 'cough' similarly

45RPMbyMikeEvans

I wish they’d bring back the Old Grey Whistle test and dump the godawful Jools Holland honkytonk show

Nobby Nolevel

10y↑21

Weller owes this man.

Along with a few others...........

Robcatist

@unclemort1960 see what ya did there 😉

Kyle Gallagher

4y↑1

And Lenny Kravitz, amongst others, owes him. It all goes round in circles. Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.

Timothy Gower

5y↑1

Nobby Nolevel so true!

duffymoony

8y↑2

+Nobby Nolevel You know, he could always pick a tune, muse and mull it for a while, turn it inside out, and come back with a modern version that morphed into a new choon ...took it past where he found it and moved it on. Not easy to do, with such a resonating lyric too, perfectly cut for the time.

Jean Kavanagh

9y↑1

unclemort1960 haha!! Or got squished !!

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59simonh

6 years ago ? Last view?...piss off, it still rocks!

Charles Achurch

3y↑1

We all love a swelling organ yeah!

Anorakus

14y↑1

Play that hammond organ!! :o)

percystreet

Just reading “No Sleep Till Canvey Island: The Pub Rock Revolution” - fascinating

Sir André LeFae de L'inoge

2y↑2

Speak Like a Child • The Style Council.

sweetknuckle

11y↑7

'Speak Like a Child'.....Paul Weller, you naughty man ! This is a great song.

theroadahead60

1y↑1

Yeah a complete rip off by Mr Weller!

icom1020

14y↑1

I want to buy him a pack of gum

paddy mccourts beard

13y

is that rik mayall and dennis waterman on keyboard and bass excellent tune

debi shelton

Still~in 2023! 🕶

Andrew Preston

Enjoyed this. Who is the bass player ?

Andrew Preston

1961Blanchflower Presumably this would be around '72 ish. I never saw this band. Most of the bands I saw live at that time were on the college circuit. I like this song, stands up very well. At first I could have sworn that Schwarz must have had a lookalike Knopfler brother.

1961Blanchflower

Apologies Andrew, you are dead right: Ian Gomm is playing bass on this one for some reason, and Brinsley is on piano (he usually played lead). I didn't look at Wiki though: I saw this band many times and my comment was based on my memory rather than looking at the video closely enough. :)

Andrew Preston

1961Blanchflower Cough.., yes, that what Wikipaedia says. Unless, he had a face transplant, Lowe is definitely on guitar and vocals here. With Ian Gomm on bass, as above.

1961Blanchflower

ProcolHarum1967 Ahem. Ian Gomm was the second guitarist. Nick Lowe was the bassist.

Andrew Preston

Thank you.

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Thomas Grooms

Unedited 1976 radio ID recording session with Brinsley in Bethesda, Maryland: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kqcraBfpzB4

blueconcretezebra

Did country music ever sound more British?

Kris Scanlon

5y↑1

In my next life I'm coming back as Nick Lowes cardigan. BTW just just realized this was Nicked (!) from Dylans Went to the See the Gypsy. Basher don't care so why should I ???

jimlaregina

Drummer Billy Rankin is all but off camera.

written12

14y↑1

@journeythruthepast Astute observation on the hidden Rumour band inside Brinsley Schwarz. And, boy, are they modeled on the Band, as you say. But to say that is not to deride them. They took that influence and inflected with their own personality.

Deryk Barker

Actually they had thought of recruiting a second keyboard player, like The Band, but found that BS did so many guitar overdubs on Despite it All that they took on Ian Gomm instead before Silver Pistol, probably my favourite.

Really, really fine band.

kris s

14y

Brinsley's !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11

earinsound

13y

@phildirt3 No, but Brinsley Schwarz played in The Rumor, Parker's backing group, after the group Brinsley Schwarz broke up.

Deryk Barker

And so was Bob Andrews, the Brinsleys' keyboard player.

Anthony Donnelly

3y↑1

Some key members of Graham Parker and the Rumour I think

Skunkhead

10y

Pure Orange he rminds me of our comunity service (unpaid work from the courts) stand in looked exactly like him off the whistle test proper stoner

JLipnicki

10y

the bbc control everything. This ok but so sanitised and removed from reality.

Louis Susan Barrett

3y↑1

Remind me of style council

Richard Lance

3y↑1

Yes, I think that Messrs Weller & Talbot might have 'borrowed' that keyboard riff for 'Speak Like a Child' 😉

Steve Tivey

Can't beat a bit of Hammond.

DrRussPhd

4y↑2

Nick with his Ziggy Stardust haircut . . . .

John Blaney

15y

And odd that they should both be called Bob!"

Alan O'Neill

The Kensington was my place

Steve Tivey

That was Bob Harris not Bob Andrews

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