Idle Race - Sitting In My Tree video free download

anonUK

The extrovert version of Strawberry Fields.

Howard Atkins

Greg Masters was the bass player.

Howard Atkins

SHARD END.

Deybal Dominguez Rojas

Perhaps then we should say "Obladi Oblada" sounds like "Sitting in my tree" Because Obladi was launched in 68 and Sitting in my Tree at 67

whee11ed

@anonUK shard end, a rather down beat brum suberb. not a pretty place.

anonUK

The accent is a bit odd- it's not the "yam yam" of Slade, I think it's a bit more country than that. The vowels in particular veer from West country to Geordie, although rightly for Brum, "e" is "ae" and "ee" is close to "ay", while "oo" is a bit like the Scouse/West Lancs "u",as in "book" becoming "buke". Does anyone know what part of Birmingham he was from?

TheSemtexCow

I love the idle race, thanks for putting this up Jeff Lynnes brummy accent makes me laugh the most, he hid iit so well afterwards, even in the move. Shame they never took off, but maybe as they didnt we got finer tunes for it.

teckel besançon

I like Jeff Lynne for his talent !( But i prefer Roy Wood,by the way?.....) I have just the album "Light at the end of the road" Greats talents.

基 建吉

Σ|3＜Young Jeff lynne is cool voices! Cute and catchy!

Benjamin May

Yepp, the beginning does sound alot like "Ob la di ob la da", and how much credit do you think Jeff Lynne got for this?? (and remember, this was released a full year before!). Once you do a little research, you will find that there are many similar examples to be found. Just listen to "Sun King" (Abbey Road - September 1969), and then compare it to "Albatross" by Fleetwood Mac (January 1969). It might change the way you look at things a bit.

Alan Elam

Ok....now THIS tune doesn't rate is one of my faves; Sounds like more like a third-rate ripoff of Herman's Hermits-meets-"Ogden's Nut Gone Flake"-era Small Faces. If you ask me, I'm puzzled as to why Jeff expended the studio to record this at all, much less RELEASE it even as a B-side. Again, Not even interesting from a curious standpoint.

Pedro Machado

best song by idle race

Modpimp

I work with someone who knows the idle race and through him got to meet the bass player who's name i cannot remember now but it was cool to meet him. The bloke i work with was friends with ozzy osbourne in the sixties and was also in a group with him as well as Jeff Lynne. He is still friends with members of the Idle Race and in the sixties he was doing the gig circuits around Birmingham and the rest of the country. Two of the groups were The Brand & Ochre Daydream to name just two.

Paul Cornock

I lovethis tune !!!

nobby431

i find it really cool that this song was recorded a year before obladi...

FinnMove

I heard that you have this song in a vinyl. Was that from the original Birthday Party album or from the re- issue ? OR do you really have that single in which this song is the B- side ?

FinnMove

The lyrics here are even better. We are outsiders and have a look and put their numbers in the book. And we compare the previous numbers to the ones today. They are different and how much. That´s funny !

locojets

Every so often I look for this song to jive up my day.

FinnMove

The portrait of the band in the beginning is from the LP Light at the End of the Road I bought in 1985. It was really thrilling compilation for a long time. It contained almost every best Idle Race songs except Knocking Nails into My House, Sea of dreams and a David Pritchard tune Reminds Me You

locojets

This song is exellent.

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