( CNN ) -- Video of a fresh-faced Susan Boyle confidently singing a Barbra Streisand track to a room full of football fans in 1984 has been unearthed . Susan Boyle as she looked during a performance filmed at a Scottish football club in 1984 . The `` Britain 's Got Talent '' singing sensation , looking trim and a bit like Abba 's Anni-Frid Lyngstad , is invited on to the stage at Motherwell FC 's Fir Park Social Club to take part in a singing competition between rival fans by a man wearing a checked coat and bow tie . Boyle , who had to wait 25 more years to be catapulted into the spotlight via her television appearance in front of Simon Cowell last month , quickly chats with the band before they launch into a low-key , lounge-style version of Streisand 's `` The Way We Were . '' Boyle , her hair style a classic 1980s perm , confidently looks down the barrel of the camera , giving meaningful expressions as she moves slowly round the stage . Watch latest Boyle video . At one point she even takes the hand of a pearl-necklace wearing middle-aged woman in the front row and sings directly to her . Watch how things have changed in Boyle 's hometown » . When she finishes , the crowd breaks into rapturous applause and Boyle gets a peck on the cheek from the MC before slipping quietly back to her table in the smoke-tinged room . The video became public Friday after it was handed to Scotland 's Daily Record newspaper . Gerry McGuinness , 61 , who watched Susan sing live that night and kept the video , told the Record that he remembered the evening clearly . Watch Boyle sing on Larry King » . `` I can remember that she was a shy young girl , but also very attractive back then -- she turned a few heads when she came into the club . `` Even back then , I do n't think anyone expected too much from her because she was so shy , but when she began singing people took notice . '' The 47-year-old Boyle 's appearance on `` Britain 's Got Talent , '' where she sang `` I Dreamed a Dream '' from the musical `` Les Miserables , '' has now been viewed more than a 100 million times on YouTube . Watch Larry King interview Susan Boyle » . She famously told the show 's hosts that she had never been kissed and lived alone with her cat in Blackburn , West Lothian , Scotland . The world 's media beat a path to her home , from where she even appeared on CNN 's `` Larry King Live . '' Boyle has been installed by bookmakers as the favorite to win the show which , as part of the first prize , includes the right to perform in front of the queen .
New video of Susan Boyle singing to room full of football fans unearthed . 25-year-old footage taken at Motherwell FC 's social club . Boyle , sporting a perm and looking trim , belts out Barbra Streisand track . Singing sensation was catapulted into spotlight after TV appearance last month .