Skids - Working for the Yankee dollar - Top of The Pops December 20th 1979

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  • Опубліковано 26 вер 2024
  • Original BBC 1 broadcast, audio enhanced.

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  • @kevinohanlon2187
    @kevinohanlon2187 Рік тому +12

    Remember this from TOTP 43 years ago. Great song Great band. RIP Stuart Adamson.

  • @JfK--OBJECTivE
    @JfK--OBJECTivE 3 роки тому +33

    RIP Stuart Adamson, a great guitarist.

  • @Mrfatcontrollerman
    @Mrfatcontrollerman 5 років тому +39

    I was 14 when this came out. Bought the vinyl in gatefold. Never imagined I’d still be listening to this whilst on nights in 2019. Classic.

    • @seansands424
      @seansands424 4 роки тому +1

      I was 18

    • @aent667
      @aent667 4 роки тому

      I have drink sone Beersheba,Then I rememerd

  • @stephenalanmoore7278
    @stephenalanmoore7278 3 роки тому +7

    The young Richard Jobson looks like legendary 'The Who' frontman Roger Daltrey in his prime, except for the fact that he's a lot taller. R.I.P the sorely missed Stuart Adamson.

  • @jonburrows2883
    @jonburrows2883 6 років тому +45

    The genius of Stuart Adamson

  • @deeder2000
    @deeder2000 4 роки тому +14

    I'm a big fan of this guy's dancing style; he was very original; too original to ever have been copied. The best vocalist dancer of that era-easily!

    • @ВладимирКруглов-к9о
      @ВладимирКруглов-к9о 4 роки тому +3

      I'm with you here, his dancing is unbelievable! In a good way, of course, so effortless and so distinctive, I'd happily spend an hour watching him dance. Always a big bonus point of their TV appearances. In fact I'm stunned some people see it as something other than awesome.

    • @rachelar
      @rachelar Рік тому

      Jobbo!

    • @Buster_Piles
      @Buster_Piles Рік тому +1

      It's called "spaz-dancing"

    • @angelariley.9963
      @angelariley.9963 Рік тому

      @@Buster_Piles😂 Is it actually a thing?

    • @Buster_Piles
      @Buster_Piles Рік тому

      @@angelariley.9963 err ... no, I was being a shade sarcastic about his dancing style. 🤗

  • @VincentRE79
    @VincentRE79 3 роки тому +9

    This was a great performance by the band, the Skids at their peak.

  • @TheUtuber999
    @TheUtuber999 4 роки тому +7

    I moved from California to England in October of 1979. Boy did I catch the lyrics to this song from classmates in Secondary school when it came out! I laughed it off, though. 😄

  • @r7coo
    @r7coo 3 роки тому +7

    First ever single I bought aged 8 or 9. I love it.

  • @Ashfaq1999
    @Ashfaq1999 3 роки тому +6

    Brilliant song from the 70s era.

  • @paulboulter7823
    @paulboulter7823 Рік тому +2

    Ive been working for the yankee $$ since 1997 in Washington DC as a UK 🇬🇧 ex pat 🤣🤣

  • @allister1964
    @allister1964 11 років тому +11

    My favourite song of all time - Absolutely Marvellous!

  • @Rushscored4
    @Rushscored4 4 роки тому +5

    The wonderful Stuart Adamson

  • @JasonC1782
    @JasonC1782 10 років тому +10

    "That's what I want to look like when I grow up", said a young Mark Hughes watching Richard Jobson in this performance.

  • @teamblitz1990
    @teamblitz1990 2 роки тому +2

    Richard jobson great singer and front man plus the Skids damn good band.

  • @ApriliaGuy1969
    @ApriliaGuy1969 4 роки тому +5

    I can just about remember buying this single, still got it :)

  • @john111257
    @john111257 5 років тому +5

    40 bloody years..omg

  • @timoconnor606
    @timoconnor606 5 місяців тому

    Saw them last night

  • @markserour9115
    @markserour9115 11 років тому +8

    STUART!!

  • @80sgaragetrash
    @80sgaragetrash 3 місяці тому

    Remember that lead singer on Tv programme 0 1 for London

  • @aarondavies5363
    @aarondavies5363 6 місяців тому

    Pure love 1979 I did buy a rs2000 that was new when music was great

  • @Nessie2410
    @Nessie2410 4 роки тому +3

    Kinda addictive to this lol! All fooling around ..

  • @stephenroche5107
    @stephenroche5107 2 роки тому +2

    R.I.P Stuart.

  • @sergioluciw673
    @sergioluciw673 8 місяців тому

    Inolvidable el gran Stuart Adamson.

  • @GriefTourist
    @GriefTourist 11 років тому +2

    wonderful song

  • @fionam3735
    @fionam3735 6 місяців тому

    Big country vibes 😊

  • @David-h4z2s
    @David-h4z2s Рік тому +3

    Jobson was such a poseur

  • @janetmitchell3559
    @janetmitchell3559 Рік тому

    I like this x

  • @MGBetts1
    @MGBetts1 4 роки тому +9

    Starting to sound very "Big Country" here.

  • @joannemcbride1494
    @joannemcbride1494 2 роки тому

    Brilliant!

  • @Bricameron
    @Bricameron 8 місяців тому

    Great days. I think Bowie’s fashion was up next. You had to be there to understand.

  • @alanstevens8896
    @alanstevens8896 4 роки тому +3

    Don't think Richard Jobson will ever get invited on to "Strictly".........but they did have Anne Widdecombe on there!!!

  • @keith-leecastle6700
    @keith-leecastle6700 4 роки тому +7

    It’s a travesty that The Skids weren’t huge.....
    and the dreadful Boomtown Rats were.

    • @trtr-bc3zl
      @trtr-bc3zl 3 роки тому

      ???????

    • @Mudge07
      @Mudge07 Рік тому

      You can’t blame any other single band for the level of success of Skids. It’s the record buying, gig-going public who make their choice. Remember Joe Dolce? Contrast with bands like The Members or The Police both had TOTP hits and in a business sense they’re all in competition.
      The Skids still energise an audience with their current line-up and obviously the absence of Stuart is sincerely heartfelt from both the band and fans alike.

  • @sergioalvarado8779
    @sergioalvarado8779 7 років тому +2

    I used to dance that way.

    • @veggiemctaco1537
      @veggiemctaco1537 6 років тому +1

      Sergio Alvarado ...I still do. Everyday

    • @jamesguy1030
      @jamesguy1030 5 років тому +1

      Sergio ~ I bet that you can dance in time to the music tho . . . Lol

  • @djkkdub
    @djkkdub 10 років тому +4

    Brilliant post - many thanks :)

  • @dickygriffiths3297
    @dickygriffiths3297 8 років тому +9

    And we still is. Working for the yankee dollar, ye ken?

    • @ezpz5353
      @ezpz5353 4 роки тому +1

      Aye, if your luck enough the hay a joab wi a fuckin agency in a fuckin warehoose fur 6 weeks at chrimbo, next te Poles in Romanians who'll no even fuckin look at ye. Shite eh?

  • @larryguilfoyle5731
    @larryguilfoyle5731 Рік тому +3

    Jobsons dancing style out of sync is the coolest moves from any frontman

  • @johnny5805
    @johnny5805 Рік тому

    Worth it just to see Stuart NOT playing his YSG !

  • @jeremybird7709
    @jeremybird7709 5 років тому

    fab trousers

  • @delstrain8590
    @delstrain8590 6 років тому

    Superb!

  • @allandrummond8028
    @allandrummond8028 11 років тому +1

    I bet he loves watching videos of his " hair days " nice tracksuit also jobson !

  • @dickygriffiths3297
    @dickygriffiths3297 8 років тому +7

    I'm still working for that yankee £

  • @FFM0594
    @FFM0594 5 років тому +1

    Rather short but great quality.

  • @1964Darren
    @1964Darren 11 років тому

    Brilliant

  • @massmouth
    @massmouth 8 років тому

    Skids go New Romantic. Ran to the record store to buy it but never really did it

  • @cosmic687
    @cosmic687 9 років тому

    great

  • @robertofraser101
    @robertofraser101 9 років тому +7

    brilliant scottish band then split too big country band

  • @riggstwenty2
    @riggstwenty2 5 місяців тому

    The singer is obviously dancing to a completely different song !

  • @Mudge07
    @Mudge07 4 роки тому +3

    That’s Mike Baillie taking the drumseat over after Rusty’s farewell TV performance on OGWT. The BBC studio metallic chequered drum set been given a workout and the silencer pads not up to the job. Typically the size of a beer tray spill-mat, they’d try and curb the sound level but not the drummer’s nerves or enthusiasm to hit them, hard! Of course it was dubbed, so only the studio audience and his band mates would get the full blast of such performances.

  • @oldskoolfool141
    @oldskoolfool141 2 роки тому

    BA Robertson and Roger Daltreys lovechilfd

  • @dianesilva1078
    @dianesilva1078 4 роки тому +2

    According to Linda Nolan one of the group spat as they came on to perform after them on TOTP.
    What a jerk, I liked your track but the Nolans were super talented and are still a great act.

    • @briandonnelly8749
      @briandonnelly8749 3 роки тому

      She was sniffing no1 from the Skids spat on her..maybe the sex pistols .stuart and Richard n Co were not that type of band

    • @rachelar
      @rachelar Рік тому

      Maybe he spunked not spat, and was showing his appreciation of the Nolans' beauty (?)

  • @rootpotato
    @rootpotato 3 роки тому +2

    About as 'punk' as the Pet Shop Boys, poncing about on TOTP . . . The only thing this band had going for it was Stuart Adamson's guitar.

  • @alancombo06
    @alancombo06 3 роки тому

    Audience might as well not be there song lyrics are ahead of their time

  • @knoxyish
    @knoxyish 4 місяці тому

    is it me or does jobson look like jeremy Clarkson!!

  • @Muirton66
    @Muirton66 5 місяців тому

    Jobson hated that song...'a crock of shit' was his summing up of this number, personally I thought it wasnt a bad song.

  • @numbnutone
    @numbnutone 6 років тому

    01 for London

  • @cartwrightanthony5431
    @cartwrightanthony5431 9 років тому +26

    great song, but his dance moves are questionable.

    • @houndoftindalos9580
      @houndoftindalos9580 7 років тому +4

      adds to it!

    • @delstrain8590
      @delstrain8590 6 років тому +4

      Into the valley dance belter. They were before their time first casual i saw Aberdeen 81 we still skins. They had a new look like Clash each time you saw them and for me under rated band man. Met Jobson on tube in London talked Celtic and Punk he is good guy that was 20 years ago. I spoke to him last week on Twitter. Wonderful band.

    • @ROOKTABULA
      @ROOKTABULA 5 років тому

      He's said as much in interviews too.

    • @granto6738
      @granto6738 5 років тому

      He was a f twat

    • @jpcpm1340
      @jpcpm1340 5 років тому +2

      Who gives a fuck how Richard Jobson danced? Great song

  • @weirdfish79
    @weirdfish79 2 роки тому +3

    They are good......but they ain't Leo Sayer! Those that know.......know.

    • @SWINCRAB
      @SWINCRAB 2 роки тому

      Shut up

    • @andrewcrump8100
      @andrewcrump8100 Рік тому

      I know. I went to see them again last night…Brilliant as usual

  • @Pookerly
    @Pookerly 10 років тому +5

    I work for the yankee dollar and it sucks more than Jobson

  • @dickygriffiths3297
    @dickygriffiths3297 8 років тому

    Working for the yankee $. That's me.

  • @ALotofWind
    @ALotofWind 11 років тому

    Magnificent, even if Jobson does one of the worst lip sync performances of all time

  • @pa5287
    @pa5287 7 років тому

    ;) :) :)

  • @jamesguy1030
    @jamesguy1030 5 років тому +1

    Great Song but the lead singer needs to learn how to dance in time to the music. .
    Either that or he was dancing to a different tune. . . Lol

    • @jpcpm1340
      @jpcpm1340 5 років тому +2

      I think that's just the way Richard Jobson was, and thanks for that. He was great.

    • @jamesguy1030
      @jamesguy1030 5 років тому

      JPCP M ~ Yeah,
      i Love that Song, it’s got early an Techno feel about it . . Great Drum beat & Spacey sounds.
      I’m surprised that someone hasn’t bothered to Remix it .
      Maybe they have ? ?

    • @cloudfactory2000
      @cloudfactory2000 5 років тому

      Thats how he dances to all skids stuff. Saw them 3 weeks ago and he's still a dodgy dancer.

  • @rayward1865
    @rayward1865 6 років тому

    i think there is a "new romantic" look about them which is a year or so before the new romantic movement came out...

    • @ВладимирКруглов-к9о
      @ВладимирКруглов-к9о 4 роки тому

      Actually no, "new romantics" were already a thing in 1979, only in underground (and not called "new romantics', in fact they all hated that tag). And guys from The Skids, especially Jobson and Adamson, were pally with them and accepted in The Blitz. Rusty Egan even drummed for them! So nothing surprising, really.

    • @RustyEgan
      @RustyEgan 4 роки тому +3

      That's me on the drums and Mike Baily took over as I was now in Visage. We released TAR in 1979 and This was the samet ime. Fade to Gre was our 2nd single . Richard was coming to The litz and I was dj there during the recording of this album@@ВладимирКруглов-к9о

    • @ВладимирКруглов-к9о
      @ВладимирКруглов-к9о 4 роки тому +1

      @@RustyEgan Thank you very much, Rusty! Let me say, you did a great job with The Skids, your drumming really provided them with rock-solid backbone and the way you incorporated synth percussion in the set-up was nothing short of innovating! Hopefully your contribution will be more widely appreciated in near future!

  • @MisterGee1968
    @MisterGee1968 8 років тому +1

    Who's on keyboards ?

    • @permaveg
      @permaveg 8 років тому +1

      +Graham Goodall Don't know but it sure isn't Bill Nelson that originally did the keyboard work for the single and album 'Days in Europa'.

    • @richardhills2543
      @richardhills2543 7 років тому +1

      Ali Moore. He toured with them before being booted out in early 1980.

    • @veggiemctaco1537
      @veggiemctaco1537 6 років тому +1

      The keyboard player

    • @95thFoot
      @95thFoot 5 років тому

      @@richardhills2543 IIRC Jobson and Adamson booted Moore out without consulting Bill Simpson, so, Bill quit, too. Young men do silly things....

    • @RustyEgan
      @RustyEgan 4 роки тому +3

      @@95thFoot I was the one pushing for synths in the studio and if you listen to the album my drums have electrobic triggers .Sorry I was into Kraftwerk .When the tour ended Ali was only there for the tour and he did a good job

  • @StephenLyons-tl8ie
    @StephenLyons-tl8ie 4 роки тому

    Meh.....

  • @terrypussypower
    @terrypussypower 8 років тому +7

    Weird seeing Stuart without his Yamaha SG.

    • @Renhjarta
      @Renhjarta 4 роки тому +2

      I think that's the Hoyer Les Paul that he got from Bill Nelson (Be Bop Deluxe).

  • @TheFartGallery
    @TheFartGallery 3 роки тому

    Terrible camerawork. Great group.

  • @David-h4z2s
    @David-h4z2s Рік тому

    Bet Jobson worked for the Yankee dollar 💸 when he toured America

  • @themScreamS
    @themScreamS 3 роки тому

    If you're reading this l love you

  • @martymayo
    @martymayo 12 років тому

    great quality