That would depend on where in the country you lived there's a real difference in where you come from. The Specials ghost town is about Thatcher unemployment and the Midlands Coventry I think. Growing up in the 60s there were Teddy boys with sharpened steel combs as knives beating up the Beatnicks then biker gangs ( that became Hells Angels) beating up the Ted's with bike chains then the Mods came along with their expensive clothes soul music and Lambretta and Vespa scooters my Bro was a Mod. I think flick knives were there favourite tool. Yeah knife crimes not new. In the 50s it was the Black people coming over from the Caribbean that brought the calypso songs like Harry Belefonte banana song Mods and Rockers meeting up for fights at the seaside resorts. Got really bad as places got wrecked and ruined that questions were asked in Parliament. The majority of that trouble wasn't about Black or Brown people it was about Music. Still is id say. I ask any " Mod" or Ska performer even today to play at a Heavy metal music night or vice versa. Its a fact that when American black performers came Here little Richard, Sam Cooke Martha and the Vanessa's, Supremes they were amazed they could stop at hotels with white people. The Beatles were friends to Little Richard and Billy Preston in Germany 1961. Jim Hendrix was amazed that not only could he have a white girlfriend but he could openly walk out in the street with her. It was the Beatles and Eric Clapton constant references to him that helped him get big. Hot chocolate a far bigger band and longer lasting than any Ska group were singing in the early 70s Billy Ocean who moved to America big hits here. Then there's Wigan Pier with its 24 hr Northern soul dos when the pubs closed at 12. Unless you're saying only black people went to those places. Ska was big, it has its fans but to say it brought Harmony to the country is completely untrue . It fitted in with the gloomy late 70s early 80s when unemployment and disenchantment with the government was high. They sang lyrics important at That time. In ww2 with bombs dropping on their heads my mum and dad's generations danced to Glenn Miller got pissed and shagged like they would be dead in a bomb strike in the middle of the night. Nothing like a song and a dance to cheer you up. The same with Ska, then the next new music moved into the true romantics Duran Duran and Aha. I could say that Queen, Status Quo, Genesis brought a lot of Harmony and be just as true.
As The Specials said last year (edit: sorry 2019), B.L.M (Black Lives Matter). Us working class kids all got along, brown, black, white whatever colour, we'd be livid if one of our mates was getting racist abuse. It's the middle and upper classes who hated it, your Eton boys jeering at unemployed demonstrators. They turned the working classes against each other so that we don't notice how they give their mates all our taxes.
Rest In Peace Terry Hall lead singer of The Specials and beloved son of Coventry who sadly passed away aged 63. Much love to his family, the rest of the band and to all his fans everywhere. 2-Tone forever.
The 2-Tone sound came about when the Jamaican immigrants to the UK brought Ska and reggae music with them. Young working-class black and white kids hanging out, growing up together and their taste in music blending (ska and punk). Madness and The Selector are two other bands from the scene.
Your wrong!!!... two tone ska was created in Coventry Uk 🇬🇧 by The Specials where they were born... also Selector are from Coventry where ska was born!!!.... there you go you have been educated a little bit more
The specials started in 1979 it was music to stop racism it brought black and white lads together.and look at the world today it saddens me all the good work we did 50 years ago and the media are trying to do the opposite I'm glad your enjoying the music you should try all the bands in the two tone era
Spot on on dude its like its been spreading like a cancer from the US, these days all the hardships young black and white kids went through together in the seventies/ eighties all the progress made in getting on together all gone up in flames bye all the idealistic crap coming from accross the pond
yes we have definitely gone backwards . They were great times for music the punk, new wave and ska even though economic times were at an all time low. We got on with it did our own thing . If you were alright you were alright and if you weren't then you weren't simple as that. The west midlands was a great melting pot. Great bands all over- two tone, bad manners, body snatchers, the ruts, clash, misty in roots, aswad , steel pulse , the 2nd coming of mod....great times .
@@markymark3798 its not so much the tv that is dying on its feet , but social media, twitter, Facebook, u tube, social media in a nut shell the control the people who own these platforms have is dangerous they can bring down a government or president with ease it scares me to death the the under 40 generations and future kids are walking blind folded into a future they will no longer have any say in
Its really sad comparing now to even the nineties in London where you had the whole Festival/Dub scene with bands like Dub syndicate, Zion Train, African Head charge, Jah wobble, I'm not sayin things were perfect but their was so much mixing and harmony practically zero talk of racism or politics. Fast forward to now and its like none of that ever happened and young people think its always been terrible and they are fighting something for the first time ever.
Rude boy, rudeboy, rudie, rudi, and rudy are slang terms that originated in 1960s Jamaican street culture that are still used today. In the late 1970s, there was a revival in England of the terms rude boy and rude girl, among other variations, being used to describe fans of two-tone ska. The use of these terms moved into the more contemporary ska punk movement as well. In the UK, the terms rude boy and rude girl are used in a way similar to gangsta, yardie or badman.
I'm the same age as them and was born and bred in the same place as them, being one of the most racially diverse areas in England. This may come as a shock to people but we GENUINELY did not see "colour" back then. Everybody was somebody and it never even occurred to us what colour of skin our friends had. It never occurred to our parents, either. I'm white. My first girlfriend was half white and half Jamaican. I dated white girls, black girls, Chinese girls. None of my family, including my mum, ever so much as remarked upon their race. Racism is a MODERN construct playing to a history which didn't exist.
Great comment. Same here. I'm in the same age group. I think we saw people much more as individuals rather than as "groups" back then and still do if you haven't been gaslighted by media/academia. There has been such an effort in the past couple decades to put people into groups and identities instead of seeing "content of character" in an individual. Complete garbage what the so called elites want people to believe.
The last time I saw The SPECIALS at the Logan Campbell center Auckland Aotearoa New Zealand when the intro for GHOST TOWN STARTED EVERYONE LOOKED AT EACH OTHER AND A FEW THOUSAND SMILES ERUPTED AT THE SAME TIME FUCKING AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME
Carribean folks in the UK and the white working class punks generally became part of the same circles and appreciated what each other were doing, hence you got bands like The Specials, The Beat etc
They are from my home town of Coventry. It is a city with many different races and cultures. They brought everyone together and it is still seen as the sound of the city and the Football team had a shirt with their emblem on the back last year. Great band
My cousins grew up in Foleshill. I met some of who became the Specials before they were anything. I do remember Horace though because he could really play bass. That street was as mixed race as it gets and it was beautiful.
@@ninagray4441 I'm close minded with MUSIC AND THAT IS ABOUT ALL I'm 51 year's old and know what i like and don't like i like PUNK SKA AND REGGAE MUSIC CHEESECAKE AND TAKING THE PISS
Also as someone else said, rudy is slang for rude boy which is slang for a criminal or basically someone who doesn't follow the rules. Furthermore, two tone ska refers to the combination of reggae and ska but also their blend of race within the band, a vision they wanted for all of the world. That message is very clear in the song "doesn't make it allright"
2 Tone was actually referring to the biracial makeup of the bands. Reggae was derived from Ska. 2tone bands mixed ska and a punk vibe. Rude Boys were Jamaican street gangsters in the early 60’s.
Classic British ska band, ska was huge with the white kids in England back in the 70s 80s and even today theres ska movement with youngsters here in New Zealand bringing it back.
That was the whole vibe in the midlands England in the late 70's and 80's your friends were your friends race just didn't come into it. These guys grew up in Coventry but it was pretty much the same all over the midlands area.
This was my scene, the music the people. No hatred between us at all, I have no idea how it’s all changed. This was the best time of my life with amazing friends for life. Glad to see you kids enjoying it really makes me happy❤️
This came from the two tone era of ska, which was heavily embraced by OG Skinheads. Real Skinheads are not racist. I am a 45 year old Traditional Skinhead. This is what I like. No race here.
The original was a reggae/rocksteady song by Dandy Livingstone called “Rudy, A Message To You” made in 1967. Dandy was writing about local Jamaican Rude boys who were causing trouble in Jamaica. It was only a minor success but The Specials recorded and released their version during the ska period in the UK in 1979. The Specials are actually still playing today!
They were lunatics but a great party band ! I do remember the hotel he opened in Margate called ‘fatty towers’ for the larger clientele serving massive portions!
There's actually a great Documentary on YT called '2 Tone Britain' that goes into the history, and a Vice/Noisey short documentary about it and its legacy around the world.
To expand on this, it's a term of endearment toward their peer group. And, you hit the nail on the head with the unity bit. This genre is called 2-Tone Ska. All about rising up together, as 1 people, race be damned
To further explain: rude boy in British English noun. 1. ( in Britain) a member of a group of often delinquent teenagers in the late 1970s and early 1980s, noted for listening to ska music and wearing suits with trilby or similar soft felt hats
@@horrorbizness2043 The term "Rude Boy" originated in Jamaican street culture in the 1960s and means a violent discontented youth. Prince Buster refers to them in the song "Too Hot": "Now they're calling in for the guns/About to spoil the rude boy funs/Rude boys never give up the guns/It's too hot"
Agreed. As MUCH as I LOVE "The Specials" , "The Selecter's" 'Too Much Pressure' album is by far pound for pound the ABSOLUTE BEST in capturing that "2Tone" sound! Their use of the Hammond B-3 organ is the stuff of legend & has given me multiple "Eargasms" over the last 4 decades. No lie.
The specials are amazing, check out: "you're wondering now", "ghost town", "rat race", and "doesn't make it allright" love you guys and appreciate all the content you give us :)
@@susannewitt6112 Hey if I had it my way, all reaction channels would extend to entire discographies lol. But in all seriousness those are both excellent suggestions.
"Rudy" is short for "rude-boy," which is a Jamaican slang term for thug. Thugs in Jamaica in 1960s would go start fights in dance halls, which was "rude." That was a subject of a lot of ska songs back then, so when the ska revival started in England in the late 1970s some of those bands sang about the same topic.
There have always been those of us, that appreciate and love our brothers and sisters, of every colour and backgrounds...and create beautiful things together🤙
We were all coming together in the 80s disco, two tone ska, the UK is far more interracial anyway, but music brought everyone together. What happened..
The Specials were part of a reggae ska revival in Britain in the late 70s and early 80s other groups part of this revival include Madness, The Beat, Selector, Bad Manners and the Body Snatchers.
It’s a cover of an old ‘rocksteady’ song by Dandy Livingstone. ‘Rudy’ is not a specific single person, more a message to the black youth of the time, many of whom were fans of this type of music and were known as ‘Rude Boys’. Rudy was a term they used to refer to each other as.
This is a cover of a 1967 release by Dandy Livingstone. The other big hit from this artist was "Suzanne, Beware the Devil". The trombonist, Rico Rodriguez, featured in the video, also played on the original.
Back in the day in the UK it wasn't unusual for bands or there fans to a mixture of black and white . The cultures and upbringings in the UK and US we're different because of the history's . In the two tone genre bands like the specials , the beat , the selector we're mixed bands . Wicked tunes and mixed harmonies. Happy you love what i was listening to at your age , please listen to more two tone bands
Everyone in UK grows up together, we aren’t American split into racial groups… or we weren’t… the US culture is unfortunately here now to an extent. They grew up on a council estate (project) in Coventry . There were tons of SKA bands in late 70’s / early 80’s and it was a huge thing here with wearing the cloths and going miles to see the bands… The Beat, Selector,Specials, Madness…
Yeah, it come from "Rude Boys" who where the kids from Jamaica who listened to ska and attend to sound systems, they usually wear black suits and hats, just like The Specials.
What a time for me, light blue Sta Press, white sox's, Crombie coat, Bass wee Jun's and black Fred Perry with white Braces..The Special were sound of my Youth...
I've always had friends from different cultures, we have lot's the same, and differences, it so good embracing it all. My best friends, one Mauritian, and the other Honduran, and my best mate at school Indian. Loved the reaction.
Wanna go down the ska rabbit hole?! 😎 Next up for you guys is still the "Two Tone" style, like this one. Its "Mirror in the Bathroom" by The Beat. Trust me. 😁
I recently (Well, in the past 2 years) had the privilege of seeing the English Beat, as they're known here in the states, perform this live. From a gravel parking lot in Pittsburgh, Pa.
@@Philosopher419 I'm American... I CAN'T call them "The English Beat" after all these years still. 😎 But I saw them a few years back, when Roger was alive, and they were still amazing!!!
This music video by The Specials was among the earliest ones to air on MTV in 1981. Most of the music videos on the network at that time came from British and German music artists, and a handful of rising American music artists, such as Pat Benetar and Heart.
Loved this group back in the day, check out gangsters from 1979 and on my radio by the selecter. Great to see you enjoying this sort of music for the first time, keep it up !
I’m from 80s uk and of white origin… I love Ska music and the 2 Tone Record label bought everything together musically as it sent a message to our Government to get its act together with realising we weren’t of on a par with the money side of things. Beautiful music.
10 Music Requests 1.Eternal:Stay 2.Musical Youth: Pass the Dutchie 3.Maxi Priest: Close To You 4.UB40:Rat In My Kitchen 5.Dizzee Rascal: Fix Up look Sharp 6.Blow Monkeys: It doesn't have to be this way 7.Wet Wet Wet: Wishing I was lucky 8.Soul ll Soul: Keep On Moving 9.SSoul ll Soul: Back to life 10.Omar:Theres nothing like this Trust me when I say you will love all these songs. Is there like a request box where you make requests?
They shared a love of ska music, introduced by first generation immigrants to the UK in the 1960's. It was given a very popular rebirth in the late 1970's by groups such as The Specials, The Selecter, Madness, Bad manners and The Beat who had many chart hits between them. The label The Specials were on was called '2 Tone Records ' reflecting the diversity, and was formed by their keyboard player as an independent label so they could keep control of their music.
Rude Boys were Jamaican gangsters (check out the film The Harder They Come) when there was a lot of violence there. In the UK Two-tone was influenced by Jamaican SKA and was a unifying force for blacks and whites at a time of unemployment and racial tension. Hence the black and white styling. Hence the message. As you say, the message was "Sort yourself out, everyone"
So good to see ska getting some love these days. There have been three phases of ska so far: The original ska, which was the daddy to reggae, The 2-Tone phase, where ska got mashed up with punk and politics, and Skacore, which is ska mixed with heavy rock/punk
I realised watching this I know more about music and bands that were on the go before I was born and am thankful for it. A message to you RUBY it shall forth be known 😂
This was when I was I got into ska music I got a button of there’s and then i madness and bad manners then looked into they call it two tune area and lots music
In the 70's there was something called a 2 - Tone revival where bands like Madness, The Specials, The Selector, The English Beat, Bad Manners were all the rage. A Message To You Rudy was originally recorded by Dandy Livingstone way back in 1967 then The Specials released their version 12 years later. The Specials formed way back in 1977 and split in 1981
Ska was a genre that had influences from the Jamaican community and punk. "Rudy" is a reference to the Rude Boys - section of the fans given to making trouble, which caused negative reactions towards ska clubs, and youth culture in general.
Rico Rodriguez on trombone........fantastic, Three geezers front and centre: Linval Golding, Terry Hall, Neville Staple, Jerry Dammers hitting the skins: Ohhhh the sound of my youth.............and EVER SINCE !!!!!
Rudy is Rude Boy - People who liked Jamaican ska. The record label for the Specials and other English-Jamaican fusion UK bands was called Two Tone. Try The Beat, Mirror in the Bathroom. Fantastic.
The Specials, formed their own record label for Coventry Ska bands called Two-Tone records. And the ska revival of 79 became known as Two-Tone. Two-Tone refers to the racial mix of the bands.
The Specials are from Coventry in the English Midlands. Similar to Detroit in the US, Coventry was the centre of car making. People came from the West Indies, Africa, India, Pakistan and Ireland to work in our factories alongside the English. That's why we have such an interesting mix of music and cultures here in Coventry. Racism, was a problem, but black and white people who loved 'Two Tone' music fought against it. Again, like Detroit, our car making industry folded and people lost their jobs. racism returned and the Specials sung about that in their song 'Ghost Town'. Back in the day, Coventry was a great town to grow up in. I miss those days.
UB40 are another band that were huge in the UK 80’s 90’s and also have the reggae beat in their songs.... they have the same line up as the specials try Kingston Town, Red Red Wine, The way you do the things you do...great review.......
REMEMBER ~ Joey & Rory "When I'm Gone". Very powerful, and ended up a true story for these two. Careful watching for the first time as a couple. (tissue alert) Thanks!
Welcome to the world of two tone ska. Two tone bands were generally interracial. They also played ska, a fast paced precursor to reggae. Other bands from the two tone scene were Bad Manners, Madness, The English Beat, and The Selektor. All of which are worth checking out. I know it's been said, before, but, I'll say it again, in case you missed it. "Rudy" is a generic name for a rude boy, it's akin to urban individuals calling each other the "N" word.
"Samson and Delilah" by Bad Manners is another good British song from the early 80's with that heavy Jamaican influence. I started listening to this music, Ska and Reggae, when I was a youngster, and I still enjoy it even though I don't smoke Cannabis. You can hear a subtle Reggae influence, along with African-American Soul, Funk and Fusion, in some of my original songs.
Lol was there at that time in my black n white clothes and Rude Boy badge.great times and still play their records to death .fantastic 2 Tone movement with a message. Check out their last big hit Ghost Town which hits 40 this july .
This is ska music, the music the reggae comes from. There was a alot of people that moved to England and brought ska and reggae with them. Rudy is short for rude boy or rude girl (people who were apart of the ska scene) the checkerboard suit he's wearing represents racial equality. Ska has alot of of that. The world needs more of it.
Ska and Reggae brings Black an Whites together. Look at the big Rock Concerts from the German „Rockpalast“. 1980 with Bob Marley, opens with „Natural Mystic“ . The German and European Crowd going Crazy. With Marley, Marley, Marley started the Concert. Goosebumps. A Legendary Concert. Months Later he Died. Get up Stand up, for your rights.✊
In the UK in late 70s and early 80s The Specials did more for racial harmony than any political pressure group
Same for the whole 2-tone Ska movement in general!!
Well said.
That would depend on where in the country you lived there's a real difference in where you come from. The Specials ghost town is about Thatcher unemployment and the Midlands Coventry I think.
Growing up in the 60s there were Teddy boys with sharpened steel combs as knives beating up the Beatnicks then biker gangs ( that became Hells Angels) beating up the Ted's with bike chains then the Mods came along with their expensive clothes soul music and Lambretta and Vespa scooters my Bro was a Mod.
I think flick knives were there favourite tool.
Yeah knife crimes not new.
In the 50s it was the Black people coming over from the Caribbean that brought the calypso songs like Harry Belefonte banana song
Mods and Rockers meeting up for fights at the seaside resorts.
Got really bad as places got wrecked and ruined that questions were asked in Parliament. The majority of that trouble wasn't about Black or Brown people it was about Music.
Still is id say. I ask any " Mod" or Ska performer even today to play at a Heavy metal music night or vice versa.
Its a fact that when American black performers came Here little Richard, Sam Cooke Martha and the Vanessa's, Supremes they were amazed they could stop at hotels with white people.
The Beatles were friends to Little Richard and Billy Preston in Germany 1961.
Jim Hendrix was amazed that not only could he have a white girlfriend but he could openly walk out in the street with her. It was the Beatles and Eric Clapton constant references to him that helped him get big.
Hot chocolate a far bigger band and longer lasting than any Ska group were singing in the early 70s Billy Ocean who moved to America big hits here.
Then there's Wigan Pier with its 24 hr Northern soul dos when the pubs closed at 12. Unless you're saying only black people went to those places.
Ska was big, it has its fans but to say it brought Harmony to the country is completely untrue .
It fitted in with the gloomy late 70s early 80s when unemployment and disenchantment with the government was high. They sang lyrics important at That time.
In ww2 with bombs dropping on their heads my mum and dad's generations danced to Glenn Miller got pissed and shagged like they would be dead in a bomb strike in the middle of the night.
Nothing like a song and a dance to cheer you up. The same with Ska, then the next new music moved into the true romantics Duran Duran and Aha.
I could say that Queen, Status Quo, Genesis brought a lot of Harmony and be just as true.
@@andrewmstancombe1401 Check out Skindread for ska/metal. Great live.
As The Specials said last year (edit: sorry 2019), B.L.M (Black Lives Matter). Us working class kids all got along, brown, black, white whatever colour, we'd be livid if one of our mates was getting racist abuse. It's the middle and upper classes who hated it, your Eton boys jeering at unemployed demonstrators. They turned the working classes against each other so that we don't notice how they give their mates all our taxes.
Rest In Peace Terry Hall lead singer of The Specials and beloved son of Coventry who sadly passed away aged 63. Much love to his family, the rest of the band and to all his fans everywhere. 2-Tone forever.
The 2-Tone sound came about when the Jamaican immigrants to the UK brought Ska and reggae music with them. Young working-class black and white kids hanging out, growing up together and their taste in music blending (ska and punk). Madness and The Selector are two other bands from the scene.
The Selecter Celebrate the Bullet is an awesome song.
I love that these youth are learning about Tradition Rude Boy, Mod and Skinhead history! Oi!
And UB40
@@FightCollective yes! UB40!
Your wrong!!!... two tone ska was created in Coventry Uk 🇬🇧 by The Specials where they were born... also Selector are from Coventry where ska was born!!!.... there you go you have been educated a little bit more
The specials started in 1979 it was music to stop racism it brought black and white lads together.and look at the world today it saddens me all the good work we did 50 years ago and the media are trying to do the opposite I'm glad your enjoying the music you should try all the bands in the two tone era
Spot on on dude its like its been spreading like a cancer from the US, these days all the hardships young black and white kids went through together in the seventies/ eighties all the progress made in getting on together all gone up in flames bye all the idealistic crap coming from accross the pond
yes we have definitely gone backwards . They were great times for music the punk, new wave and ska even though economic times were at an all time low. We got on with it did our own thing . If you were alright you were alright and if you weren't then you weren't simple as that. The west midlands was a great melting pot. Great bands all over- two tone, bad manners, body snatchers, the ruts, clash, misty in roots, aswad , steel pulse , the 2nd coming of mod....great times .
I'm with you guys. I'm in the UK too and those were the days of my youth. I'm so sad and worried about what's going on just now. 😪
@@markymark3798 its not so much the tv that is dying on its feet , but social media, twitter, Facebook, u tube, social media in a nut shell the control the people who own these platforms have is dangerous they can bring down a government or president with ease it scares me to death the the under 40 generations and future kids are walking blind folded into a future they will no longer have any say in
Its really sad comparing now to even the nineties in London where you had the whole Festival/Dub scene with bands like Dub syndicate, Zion Train, African Head charge, Jah wobble, I'm not sayin things were perfect but their was so much mixing and harmony practically zero talk of racism or politics. Fast forward to now and its like none of that ever happened and young people think its always been terrible and they are fighting something for the first time ever.
Rude boy, rudeboy, rudie, rudi, and rudy are slang terms that originated in 1960s Jamaican street culture that are still used today. In the late 1970s, there was a revival in England of the terms rude boy and rude girl, among other variations, being used to describe fans of two-tone ska. The use of these terms moved into the more contemporary ska punk movement as well. In the UK, the terms rude boy and rude girl are used in a way similar to gangsta, yardie or badman.
I'm the same age as them and was born and bred in the same place as them, being one of the most racially diverse areas in England.
This may come as a shock to people but we GENUINELY did not see "colour" back then.
Everybody was somebody and it never even occurred to us what colour of skin our friends had.
It never occurred to our parents, either.
I'm white. My first girlfriend was half white and half Jamaican. I dated white girls, black girls, Chinese girls. None of my family, including my mum, ever so much as remarked upon their race.
Racism is a MODERN construct playing to a history which didn't exist.
Great comment. Same here. I'm in the same age group. I think we saw people much more as individuals rather than as "groups" back then and still do if you haven't been gaslighted by media/academia. There has been such an effort in the past couple decades to put people into groups and identities instead of seeing "content of character" in an individual. Complete garbage what the so called elites want people to believe.
The Specials Ghost Town is another great song
The last time I saw The SPECIALS at the Logan Campbell center Auckland Aotearoa New Zealand when the intro for GHOST TOWN STARTED EVERYONE LOOKED AT EACH OTHER AND A FEW THOUSAND SMILES ERUPTED AT THE SAME TIME FUCKING AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME AWESOME
Oh I loved that song as a kid!
Carribean folks in the UK and the white working class punks generally became part of the same circles and appreciated what each other were doing, hence you got bands like The Specials, The Beat etc
You should listen to "Too Much Too Young" by The Specials - they were a radical, reforming voice. Terry Hall is still very politically active.
Live version is vastly superior to the studio one.
They are from my home town of Coventry. It is a city with many different races and cultures. They brought everyone together and it is still seen as the sound of the city and the Football team had a shirt with their emblem on the back last year. Great band
My cousins grew up in Foleshill. I met some of who became the Specials before they were anything. I do remember Horace though because he could really play bass. That street was as mixed race as it gets and it was beautiful.
There is a 2 tone/ska museum in Coventry, run by volunteers. Small but very interesting and worth popping into 🇬🇧
I just remember the narrator from Dance Craze... " Coventry is a boring industrial town....'
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Whoever recommended to y’all to listen to some ska,deserves a medal . One of the most satisfying music genres around.
There's only PUNK.. SKA AND REGGAE the rest is ASSVOMIT
@@heathcornbeef Please, there is good music and bad music, and you find both across all genres, you being closed minded.
@@ninagray4441 I'm close minded with MUSIC AND THAT IS ABOUT ALL I'm 51 year's old and know what i like and don't like i like PUNK SKA AND REGGAE MUSIC CHEESECAKE AND TAKING THE PISS
The whole two-tone movement is worth checking out, led by The Specials, Madness, and The (English) Beat
You missed The Selecter
@@ToTaLePiCpEaNuT and The Bodysnatchers who’s singer Rhoda would join The Specials later when Terry, Neville, and Lynval left to form Fun Boy Three
@Tommy Barlow I don’t know if they ever considered themselves 2-tone but were definitely around at that time.
The Selected were great. Black woman singing up front, rasta, and white. 2 tone ska was dance music with a message that all races could dance to.
@@pgvalhalla seen them a couple of times over the years and they are amazing live
Also as someone else said, rudy is slang for rude boy which is slang for a criminal or basically someone who doesn't follow the rules. Furthermore, two tone ska refers to the combination of reggae and ska but also their blend of race within the band, a vision they wanted for all of the world. That message is very clear in the song "doesn't make it allright"
2 Tone was actually referring to the biracial makeup of the bands. Reggae was derived from Ska. 2tone bands mixed ska and a punk vibe. Rude Boys were Jamaican street gangsters in the early 60’s.
Classic British ska band, ska was huge with the white kids in England back in the 70s 80s and even today theres ska movement with youngsters here in New Zealand bringing it back.
Good for NZ!
That was the whole vibe in the midlands England in the late 70's and 80's your friends were your friends race just didn't come into it. These guys grew up in Coventry but it was pretty much the same all over the midlands area.
This was my scene, the music the people. No hatred between us at all, I have no idea how it’s all changed. This was the best time of my life with amazing friends for life. Glad to see you kids enjoying it really makes me happy❤️
Great grew up with this Tune in 1979 🇬🇧❤️🇺🇲Love the reaction 🤟🤣It's Rudy a message to you Rudy 🎸🎚️🥁
This came from the two tone era of ska, which was heavily embraced by OG Skinheads. Real Skinheads are not racist. I am a 45 year old Traditional Skinhead. This is what I like. No race here.
The original was a reggae/rocksteady song by Dandy Livingstone called “Rudy, A Message To You” made in 1967. Dandy was writing about local Jamaican Rude boys who were causing trouble in Jamaica. It was only a minor success but The Specials recorded and released their version during the ska period in the UK in 1979. The Specials are actually still playing today!
Minus Jerry Dammers one of the founders, but he's gone on to form a few different bands In-between being a political activist of course lol.
'lip up fatty' and 'special brew' 2 fun songs from a group called 'bad manners' in this vein
Yeah man, busta bloodvessel very cool. 🇬🇧
They were lunatics but a great party band ! I do remember the hotel he opened in Margate called ‘fatty towers’ for the larger clientele serving massive portions!
@@MarkJohnson-mf7wv LOL
There's actually a great Documentary on YT called '2 Tone Britain' that goes into the history, and a Vice/Noisey short documentary about it and its legacy around the world.
Rudy is slang for Rude Boys. Rude-ee . Enjoy!
To expand on this, it's a term of endearment toward their peer group.
And, you hit the nail on the head with the unity bit. This genre is called 2-Tone Ska. All about rising up together, as 1 people, race be damned
plz explain to the youth brother
To further explain: rude boy in British English noun. 1. ( in Britain) a member of a group of often delinquent teenagers in the late 1970s and early 1980s, noted for listening to ska music and wearing suits with trilby or similar soft felt hats
Big up my rude bois
@@horrorbizness2043 The term "Rude Boy" originated in Jamaican street culture in the 1960s and means a violent discontented youth. Prince Buster refers to them in the song "Too Hot": "Now they're calling in for the guns/About to spoil the rude boy funs/Rude boys never give up the guns/It's too hot"
Rest easy Terry Hall. So sad. Was a legend. Beautiful music. Great band
Was totally gutted mate....RIP Terry
Loved growing up with this stuff.Brilliant choise.RIP Terry Hall
Check out The selecter if you liked this. In my opinion The specials and selecter were the best ska bands in that scene in England
Agreed. As MUCH as I LOVE "The Specials" , "The Selecter's" 'Too Much Pressure' album is by far pound for pound the ABSOLUTE BEST in capturing that "2Tone" sound!
Their use of the Hammond B-3 organ is the stuff of legend & has given me multiple "Eargasms" over the last 4 decades.
No lie.
@@LibraKing3121 Too much pressure had everything, I’ll always love that record. 2 tone needs a revival haha
The specials are amazing, check out: "you're wondering now", "ghost town", "rat race", and "doesn't make it allright" love you guys and appreciate all the content you give us :)
What about Too much too young and Gangsters?
@@susannewitt6112 Hey if I had it my way, all reaction channels would extend to entire discographies lol. But in all seriousness those are both excellent suggestions.
"Rudy" is short for "rude-boy," which is a Jamaican slang term for thug. Thugs in Jamaica in 1960s would go start fights in dance halls, which was "rude." That was a subject of a lot of ska songs back then, so when the ska revival started in England in the late 1970s some of those bands sang about the same topic.
One of my favourite music videos ever! The Specials mixed ska and post punk... Glorious stuff ❤️
There have always been those of us, that appreciate and love our brothers and sisters, of every colour and backgrounds...and create beautiful things together🤙
We were all coming together in the 80s disco, two tone ska, the UK is far more interracial anyway, but music brought everyone together. What happened..
The Specials were part of a reggae ska revival in Britain in the late 70s and early 80s other groups part of this revival include Madness, The Beat, Selector, Bad Manners and the Body Snatchers.
The Specials were part of the “Two-Tone Movement” in UK late 70s early 80s
That just how Ska is. A great dance oriented music style
It’s a cover of an old ‘rocksteady’ song by Dandy Livingstone. ‘Rudy’ is not a specific single person, more a message to the black youth of the time, many of whom were fans of this type of music and were known as ‘Rude Boys’. Rudy was a term they used to refer to each other as.
Toot and the Maytals is where you should go next. ;)
Three members of the specials!. Went on to become fun boy three!!. Ghost Town would be a good one to follow! Keep up the good work!❤️👍
Correct me if I am wrong, but two members of The Specials teamed up with singer Roland Gift, and formed Fine Young Cannibals.
@@LaptopLarry330 that is correct it was the bass player and the guitarist.
@@LaptopLarry330 Close. It was two of the guys from the Beat (or the English Beat if you're in the states).
Larry I think you’re right! Now that you’ve jolted my memory! Cheers my friend👍
It was a movement of two tone music, black and white music together in the eighties in England, it was brilliant.
This is a cover of a 1967 release by Dandy Livingstone. The other big hit from this artist was "Suzanne, Beware the Devil". The trombonist, Rico Rodriguez, featured in the video, also played on the original.
Back in the day in the UK it wasn't unusual for bands or there fans to a mixture of black and white . The cultures and upbringings in the UK and US we're different because of the history's . In the two tone genre bands like the specials , the beat , the selector we're mixed bands . Wicked tunes and mixed harmonies. Happy you love what i was listening to at your age , please listen to more two tone bands
Everyone in UK grows up together, we aren’t American split into racial groups… or we weren’t… the US culture is unfortunately here now to an extent. They grew up on a council estate (project) in Coventry . There were tons of SKA bands in late 70’s / early 80’s and it was a huge thing here with wearing the cloths and going miles to see the bands… The Beat, Selector,Specials, Madness…
RIP Terry x Your still influencing generations.
Rude boys, mods, and skinheads used to all get down together. Real skins ain't racist. Glad you dig it.
Rudy means Rude boy Bad boy etc..
I think. Fits the lyrics meaning.
I like Too much too young by them. Also On my radio by Selector.
Yeah, it come from "Rude Boys" who where the kids from Jamaica who listened to ska and attend to sound systems, they usually wear black suits and hats, just like The Specials.
have you ever heard "let him go" from the wailers?
What a time for me, light blue Sta Press, white sox's, Crombie coat, Bass wee Jun's and black Fred Perry with white Braces..The Special were sound of my Youth...
I've always had friends from different cultures, we have lot's the same, and differences, it so good embracing it all. My best friends, one Mauritian, and the other Honduran, and my best mate at school Indian. Loved the reaction.
Wanna go down the ska rabbit hole?! 😎
Next up for you guys is still the "Two Tone" style, like this one.
Its "Mirror in the Bathroom" by The Beat.
Trust me. 😁
I recently (Well, in the past 2 years) had the privilege of seeing the English Beat, as they're known here in the states, perform this live. From a gravel parking lot in Pittsburgh, Pa.
@@Philosopher419 I'm American... I CAN'T call them "The English Beat" after all these years still. 😎
But I saw them a few years back, when Roger was alive, and they were still amazing!!!
Try Mirror in the Bathroom by The (English) Beat, same era, same social origins...
RIP Terry Hall..........
Its actually a cover of an old Jamaican ska song.
They really preached racial harmony.
Check out Enjoy yourself live in Montreal. Their gigs were mad
Dandy Livingstone
This music video by The Specials was among the earliest ones to air on MTV in 1981. Most of the music videos on the network at that time came from British and German music artists, and a handful of rising American music artists, such as Pat Benetar and Heart.
Blacks and whites have always got along when they integrate properly and each admit to their cultural issues and address them.
Check out The Beat. 'Mirror In The Bathroom', 'Too Nice To Talk To', or their Smokey Robinson cover 'Tears Of A Clown'.
I'd like you to know that I'm 100% in agreement with you, the beat are superb and these guys need to witness them for themselves
Loved this group back in the day, check out gangsters from 1979 and on my radio by the selecter. Great to see you enjoying this sort of music for the first time, keep it up !
I’m from 80s uk and of white origin… I love Ska music and the 2 Tone Record label bought everything together musically as it sent a message to our Government to get its act together with realising we weren’t of on a par with the money side of things. Beautiful music.
Don't let the establishment and their politicians divide us. We are all in this life together. High time to come together! Great reaction!
FUCK YEAH 🙌🏼🙏🏼
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Ska music, all their voices harmonise brilliantly ✊👍🏻
Lucky to be part of the midland 2 tone scene in the late 70s early 80s,great times
Color me jealous!!
Gangsters or Too much to young are great songs by the Specials. However it wont matter which song of theirs you choose they are all great
Two tone says it All, black and white, love it
They shared a love of ska music, introduced by first generation immigrants to the UK in the 1960's. It was given a very popular rebirth in the late 1970's by groups such as The Specials, The Selecter, Madness, Bad manners and The Beat who had many chart hits between them. The label The Specials were on was called '2 Tone Records ' reflecting the diversity, and was formed by their keyboard player as an independent label so they could keep control of their music.
Rude Boys were Jamaican gangsters (check out the film The Harder They Come) when there was a lot of violence there. In the UK Two-tone was influenced by Jamaican SKA and was a unifying force for blacks and whites at a time of unemployment and racial tension. Hence the black and white styling. Hence the message. As you say, the message was "Sort yourself out, everyone"
Can you imagine how quickly Terry Jones would have to apologise for ‘cultural appropriation’ today?
Great reaction. Thanks ! One of my favorite all time bands. Lucky enough to have seen them. Check out another Coventry band " The Selecter".
Two tone just unified people & it was so beautiful. It's upbeat tunes but with a message.
So good to see ska getting some love these days. There have been three phases of ska so far: The original ska, which was the daddy to reggae, The 2-Tone phase, where ska got mashed up with punk and politics, and Skacore, which is ska mixed with heavy rock/punk
I realised watching this I know more about music and bands that were on the go before I was born and am thankful for it. A message to you RUBY it shall forth be known 😂
This was when I was I got into ska music I got a button of there’s and then i madness and bad manners then looked into they call it two tune area and lots music
Much love for old school ska. The Specials were awesome in particular.
Rudy is a rude boy who looks fly and makes his mama cry.
In the 70's there was something called a 2 - Tone revival where bands like Madness, The Specials, The Selector, The English Beat, Bad Manners were all the rage. A Message To You Rudy was originally recorded by Dandy Livingstone way back in 1967 then The Specials released their version 12 years later. The Specials formed way back in 1977 and split in 1981
Ska was a genre that had influences from the Jamaican community and punk. "Rudy" is a reference to the Rude Boys - section of the fans given to making trouble, which caused negative reactions towards ska clubs, and youth culture in general.
Rico Rodriguez on trombone........fantastic,
Three geezers front and centre: Linval Golding, Terry Hall, Neville Staple, Jerry Dammers hitting the skins:
Ohhhh the sound of my youth.............and EVER SINCE !!!!!
Rico also played on the Dandy Livingstone's original 1967 recording of this tune.
When you check up, Rico is ALL OVER the SKA map like a fantastic musical rash!
The man was prolific👍
Rudy is Rude Boy - People who liked Jamaican ska. The record label for the Specials and other English-Jamaican fusion UK bands was called Two Tone. Try The Beat, Mirror in the Bathroom. Fantastic.
I’m so glad you listened to this. It such a quality tune
The Specials, formed their own record label for Coventry Ska bands called Two-Tone records. And the ska revival of 79 became known as Two-Tone.
Two-Tone refers to the racial mix of the bands.
Just love you two!!!! Another great song... you doing this!!!! Whoop whoop!
music surely united us back then, fk great days!!
Specials are starting a tour this year! 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧 2021
Check out UB40 - Food for thought . Fantastic sax riff.
Had big black German Shepard called Rudy we used to sing this to her all the time😂😂 really ♥️Ed it
I was lucky enough to see them few times in late 79 great band Great times great people 1970s ✊🏿✊🏻🎶
The Specials are from Coventry in the English Midlands. Similar to Detroit in the US, Coventry was the centre of car making. People came from the West Indies, Africa, India, Pakistan and Ireland to work in our factories alongside the English. That's why we have such an interesting mix of music and cultures here in Coventry. Racism, was a problem, but black and white people who loved 'Two Tone' music fought against it. Again, like Detroit, our car making industry folded and people lost their jobs. racism returned and the Specials sung about that in their song 'Ghost Town'. Back in the day, Coventry was a great town to grow up in. I miss those days.
Yesssss more British music reactions please! :-)
Rudy - an abreviation of "Rude Boy" which was the name given to the 2 tone ska boys.
UB40 are another band that were huge in the UK 80’s 90’s and also have the reggae beat in their songs.... they have the same line up as the specials try Kingston Town, Red Red Wine, The way you do the things you do...great review.......
Rudy=RUDE BOY, original Jamaican Gangsters.
The Specials and all of 2nd wave Ska really were ahead of their time.
Notice the keyboard player has the black and white keys reversed on his instrument...
nice touch!
I grew up in thlate70searly80s &the specials where a influence to us growing up
REMEMBER ~ Joey & Rory "When I'm Gone". Very powerful, and ended up a true story for these two. Careful watching for the first time as a couple. (tissue alert) Thanks!
Good cover of Dandy Livingstone's song - Rudy, A Message to You an old ska tune from the 1960s.
Welcome to the world of two tone ska. Two tone bands were generally interracial. They also played ska, a fast paced precursor to reggae. Other bands from the two tone scene were Bad Manners, Madness, The English Beat, and The Selektor. All of which are worth checking out. I know it's been said, before, but, I'll say it again, in case you missed it. "Rudy" is a generic name for a rude boy, it's akin to urban individuals calling each other the "N" word.
Brings back memories from the 80's here in Australia.
"Samson and Delilah" by Bad Manners is another good British song from the early 80's with that heavy Jamaican influence. I started listening to this music, Ska and Reggae, when I was a youngster, and I still enjoy it even though I don't smoke Cannabis. You can hear a subtle Reggae influence, along with African-American Soul, Funk and Fusion, in some of my original songs.
a world of UK 70's and 80's two tone ska vibes ahead of you. great summer choons and yes, a lot of people did smoke to this!
Lol was there at that time in my black n white clothes and Rude Boy badge.great times and still play their records to death .fantastic 2 Tone movement with a message. Check out their last big hit Ghost Town which hits 40 this july .
The Selector - Missing Words !!!! Great song
Three cheers for the trombone solo!
Rico!
This is ska music, the music the reggae comes from. There was a alot of people that moved to England and brought ska and reggae with them. Rudy is short for rude boy or rude girl (people who were apart of the ska scene) the checkerboard suit he's wearing represents racial equality. Ska has alot of of that. The world needs more of it.
Ska and Reggae brings Black an Whites together. Look at the big Rock Concerts from the German „Rockpalast“. 1980 with
Bob Marley, opens with „Natural Mystic“ . The German and European Crowd going Crazy. With Marley, Marley, Marley started the Concert. Goosebumps. A Legendary Concert. Months Later he Died.
Get up Stand up, for your rights.✊
Rudy is slang for rudeboy or rudegirl, which is what ska fans were called at the time. This was kind if about them talking to their fans