I literally found out 15 minutes ago, after 30 years of thinking this was a Beat original, that Andy Williams did it first. It makes sense though. Either version is beautiful.
The two white guitarists who look like brothers went on to later form FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS and did the same dance style in that band. I remember watching this exact episode of top of the pops and absolutely loving this song when I was 13 how time flies, now I'm 43 year old ska man.15/3/2014.Irish time 11:14am.Saturday.
I seen them in 83 when they were support band for bowies serious moon light tour, i would have gone home happy if i'd only saw them....brilliant band i was 20 at the time.....56 now
....saw FYC in NYC....Beacon Theater, soon after RAW AND THE COOKED was released...with rap group De La Soul and England's MINT JULEPS//all girl vocal group opening. One of the most energetic shows...with Roland Gift in full command of the microphone. English Beat...with Dave, still touring.
Another remake of the Andy Williams number. I remember hearing this as a teenager without knowing who they were. The rhythm, the upbeat and the whistling at the end still stand with me. Nice moments RIP Ranking Roger the white guy here sounds very soulish it's David Wakeling I believe.
I'm from Birmingham, I knew Roger, his good friend lived round the corner from me in Nechells, nice guy, rip mate, sad loss 😢 proud of our musical heritage ❤
Yeah Rachel,the ska rhythm takes me back to being ten years old and finding my musical identity,speakers out the windows on a hot day up here in port Glasgow,keep on moving those feet rude girl.
I've had a crush on Dave Wakeling for years, saw them in Bristol in 2014, he gave me a hug, I almost freaked out. Seeing them again in July, I will be down the front hoping for another hug.
The Beat, when they covered songs, did a great job of updating the original so that it didn't sound like an inferior remake. They did it beautifully with Tears Of A Clown and again here. Dave Wakeling is having fun hamming it up with the miming and wearing a pullover cardigan sweater in reference to Andy Williams (I always wondered if Andy ever heard this version and what he thought of it).
Agree they made great covers but also some brilliant songs of their own - Mirror in the Bathroom and Stand Down Margaret are two of my faves from the era, and Drowning is one of the strangest top 40 records ever.
Uncle roger at ur burial of ur thuneral I cried my eyes out then I had to remember what pato bantan said there is some better place than earth and we will meet u again no matter how long it takes Rip uncle roger
While I knew Andy Williams first sang this, I LOVE The English Beats version!! And the bass guitar player here was also in Fine Young Cannibals. Another band I love!
This music was the forking TOPS in the early eighties when Michael Jackson and Madonna were ruling (and at that age it felt like Ruining) the radio waves...we at least could find some cool ska-pop to soothe our souls...The Specials...Madness...UB40...even Modern English....they all gave us hope that we could listen to something other than trip back in time and listen to our older brother's record collection of early Stones and Bowie...then it was on to Bob and jimmy Cliff to Really take us to trench town....THOSE were some positive vibrations/musical memories!
With Reagan and the GOP mapping their plan to destroy America, AIDS going into high death rate. Huge up ticks in military spending. The 1980s was the first step that lead us to the disastrous Trump from which we are still recovering.
One of the greatest bands of the late 70s early 80s most folks don't have on any best of list. I was in college when the Beat broke big in the USA, still most kids were into U2, Duran, Billy Idol. The same was for The Smiths, people would look at you weird if you talked about them. Fucking Americans.
A Cracking Cover from these Brummie Ska/Pop/Soul/Reggae/Punk Outfit!, i wonder if any other Band has had to modify their name as much as these have as Known as The English Beat in the US & The British Beat in Australia!, Hope they record a Song titled "Stand Down Theresa"!.
Great band, they're music sound fresh today as it ever did, favourite album whappen, lots of memories growing up in Birmingham, listening to their music.
Takes me back - I was 18 then. A world away. Wonderful times - Thatcher notwithstanding. May our Lord judge her. Beautiful music coming out of Brum, Cov and London, wonderful times.
Looking for a girl I use to know back in 1979 her name was Debbie and she lived in Blaby Leicestershire her last name I never new.....her Dad was Colin he was a lorry driver worked for Coates of Leicester and she also had a Brother.... My name his ( Crap 💩) Pete from Kettering I use to ride my motorbike over to see her on Sunday afternoon but I let her down badly and I want to say sorry and ask her if she could possibly forgive me.... believe me I am truly sorry ..... so if anyone knows her please let her know Thanks....👍🇬🇧🤓
I love record played it when my girlfriend left me back in the day if only could turn back things I would do things differently maybe married but fate played nasty hand
Guess there’s no use in hangin’ round Guess I’ll get dressed and do the town I’ll find a crowded avenue Though it will be empty without you I can’t get used to losing you No matter what I try to do Gonna spend my whole life through Loving you Called up some girl I used to know After I heard her say, “Hello” Couldn’t think of anything to say Since you’re gone, it happens every day I can’t get used to losing you No matter what I try to do Gonna spend my whole life through Loving you Can’t get used to losing you No matter what I try to do Gonna spend my whole life through Loving you I’ll find somebody, wait & see Who am I kidding? Only me ‘Cause no one else could take your place Guess that I am just a hopeless case I can’t get used to losing you No matter what I try to do Gonna spend my whole life through Loving you Can’t get used to losing you No matter what I try to do Gonna spend my whole life through Loving you
❤❤😢🥺😌😩🫣😔😌🩵💙✨WOW !!! How a song 🎶 can remind you of sooooo much !!!! TO MY DAD THANKS FOR SHOWING ME A WORLDWIDE VERITY OF MUSIC !!! BEAUTIFUL LYRICS THAT EXPRESS SO MUCH 😊❤ .. 10 YEARS WITHOUT YOU HAS BEEN SO LONG BUT I KNOW YOUR SPIRIT IS WITH US EVERY DAY . I love you dad 🪶
I literally found out 15 minutes ago, after 30 years of thinking this was a Beat original, that Andy Williams did it first. It makes sense though. Either version is beautiful.
I have only heard the Andy Williams one. I had no idea it was remade, but this is a really good version, too.
That Saxophone, the guitars, sublime, simply the best cover of this classic song ever.
cover or copy - there is a difference
Hugely underrated band. I remember dancing to this at a school disco in Stoke. Great days.
Ritzy’s, maxims, Shelley’s, Hudson’s,
@@christophermajor2841 Not Forgetting the PLACE...
Me too. I loved this song then and still do. I played it over and over again. Brilliant memories
@@christophermajor2841 i Was in Belize when this came out..#
Going to see them tomorrow night
62 years old and reminiscing. 1980 was the year I met the love of my life. We both rocked to “THE BEAT”!
Amen to you both ❤❤
Only Dave Wakeling can pull of an Andy Williams classic pure genius
RIP RANKIN ROGER SAD DAYS XX2019 !!,
wow...hadn't heard. REST IN PEACE.
Exactly.. just listening to Rte radio.. stopped before Rankin Roger did it.. shame so I shall play myself.. best wishes from Ireland 🇮🇪
Seeing them in March 2024 can’t wait!!!!
Brilliant song
How was the concert?
Brings back so many memories from my youth happier times x
Met him xx
At 52, I know where ya comin from. 👍🤣
Can't argue with that
Great times other than trying to escape a bashing from the Skins/Rude Boys , we always got lucky!
I love this version of Andy William's song and of course Saxa's exquisite saxophone
Was it Andy Williams? Thanks Loved that song when I was a tot, but no idea who sang it. Great number!
This song makes me time travel 🙏
I have just travelled back to 1983 when I was 15, it was so fun. 😀
Rip : Saxa (born Lionel Augustus Martin) (5 January 1930 - 3 May 2017) . Founding member and the Sax player for the beat ..
The two white guitarists who look like brothers went on to later form FINE YOUNG CANNIBALS and did the same dance style in that band. I remember watching this exact episode of top of the pops and absolutely loving this song when I was 13 how time flies, now I'm 43 year old ska man.15/3/2014.Irish time 11:14am.Saturday.
Booleigh ska fest ftw bhoy...
loving it too totally a ska man too respect
They were also in Two Men A Drum Machine And A Trumpet and did exactly the same dance style!
I seen them in 83 when they were support band for bowies serious moon light tour, i would have gone home happy if i'd only saw them....brilliant band i was 20 at the time.....56 now
....saw FYC in NYC....Beacon Theater, soon after RAW AND THE COOKED was released...with rap group De La Soul and England's MINT JULEPS//all girl vocal group opening. One of the most energetic shows...with Roland Gift in full command of the microphone. English Beat...with Dave, still touring.
The singer is definitely on something but I can’t tell which drug coke mdma maybe?
Another remake of the Andy Williams number. I remember hearing this as a teenager without knowing who they were. The rhythm, the upbeat and the whistling at the end still stand with me.
Nice moments
RIP Ranking Roger the white guy here sounds very soulish it's David Wakeling I believe.
Rank In Peace Roger 😪
Rank? Not to appropriate.
Love this version originally recorded by Andy Williams.
brilliant cover of the Andy Williams song!
Yes well done. Just not as moody as Andy's classic.
Though the oldies in my family complained they thought this version too speeded up!
Tottaly fantastic love it ❤❤
I'm from Birmingham, I knew Roger, his good friend lived round the corner from me in Nechells, nice guy, rip mate, sad loss 😢 proud of our musical heritage ❤
Yes your so right.roger was amazing 😢
saw these and met them at warwick uni coventry made my day all top blokes good old saxa :O) best years of my life
I like how Ranking Roger adds a rap verse to the song in the performance.
One of my favourite beat songs
Really like this song loved the great Andy Williams version too.
The Andy Williams ORIGINAL
Superb 80s Song x The best years ever ❤
The audience in the background,..”woe oh, woe oh”. So 80s Britain. 😂
I really miss the good old days.
Let's go back to the old days right now
Yeah Rachel,the ska rhythm takes me back to being ten years old and finding my musical identity,speakers out the windows on a hot day up here in port Glasgow,keep on moving those feet rude girl.
Was it different in Britain those days?
I've had a crush on Dave Wakeling for years, saw them in Bristol in 2014, he gave me a hug, I almost freaked out. Seeing them again in July, I will be down the front hoping for another hug.
Same here till he went gay. :(
so did you get another hug?
60s 70s and 80s music really good years so many great bands and artists.
I would say the late 70s -early 80s was as good as…if not better than the 60s
Always loved this version, the jangly guitars give it a certain freshness
Always think they are missing link between Roxy Music and Prince Buster
What a great cover version.amazingly evocative of the time.
The love of my life and I are still rocking in 2022. 42 years later.
these guys were the ultimate in joyful music i saw them sing this fine classic at sheffield early 80s , ive adored them ever since lol xx
The Beat, when they covered songs, did a great job of updating the original so that it didn't sound like an inferior remake. They did it beautifully with Tears Of A Clown and again here. Dave Wakeling is having fun hamming it up with the miming and wearing a pullover cardigan sweater in reference to Andy Williams (I always wondered if Andy ever heard this version and what he thought of it).
He did, and he loved it.
Agree they made great covers but also some brilliant songs of their own - Mirror in the Bathroom and Stand Down Margaret are two of my faves from the era, and Drowning is one of the strangest top 40 records ever.
😥 so shocked RIP Roger...
Love this version
Such a brilliant take of a classic,nobody could have done it like them
Saw them in April 2024 loved it!!!!
One of the most underrated bands ever! Great band and find memories
Was it underrated? 🤔
Loved this one rip roger.xx
Uncle roger at ur burial of ur thuneral I cried my eyes out then I had to remember what pato bantan said there is some better place than earth and we will meet u again no matter how long it takes
Rip uncle roger
Daisha White his name is actually Pato Banton*---- thuneral ???
Daisha White The word is funeral* not thuneral.
No one wore a trilby hate the way you did mate,RIP, Respect mate, Chaz,Julie xx
Like the Beat, hate TOTP. Sorry.
RIP SAXA🎷🎷🎷
While I knew Andy Williams first sang this, I LOVE The English Beats version!! And the bass guitar player here was also in Fine Young Cannibals. Another band I love!
This music was the forking TOPS in the early eighties when Michael Jackson and Madonna were ruling (and at that age it felt like Ruining) the radio waves...we at least could find some cool ska-pop to soothe our souls...The Specials...Madness...UB40...even Modern English....they all gave us hope that we could listen to something other than trip back in time and listen to our older brother's record collection of early Stones and Bowie...then it was on to Bob and jimmy Cliff to Really take us to trench town....THOSE were some positive vibrations/musical memories!
yeah, Brit New Wave and ska saved us from the awful disco/funk era! downunder we had the golden era of aussie pub rock, too, great times.
Attended college from 83 - 88 "College radio" really saved me from that obnoxious pop music. Thanks to ska bands for leading the way.
This really takes me back to back in the day.The Beat.
still like there music today
totally my band school 1980's - free thoughts, free vibes
Great cover version from the beat music these days is totally crap 💩
That's it in a nutshell. Crap in comparison with guys like these. X🙏🎵🎤🎤🎤🙏🙏🙏🙏🙏
Great memories, great musicians. Great voice a Dave. All style.
just discovered this i only knew the andy williams 1963 version,
Long live Papa Saxa...gone but never forgotten.
The chappy at the start introduces them like he was doing that shake at the end of a piss
Great day, hoxton shoreditch 70s 80s 🏴 skins, mods rockers, reggae,
He's drunk, yeah? Don't care, effing love The Beat.
lip syncing
This song incapsulates the 1980's. A care free decade full of colour 🟥🟨🟩, Great Movies 🎬 📽, Music 🎶 🎵🎤🎧🎙🎸, Fashion 📸🛍, TV 📺 📼
"PLEASE TAKE ME BACK"
Care free? I don't think so.
With Reagan and the GOP mapping their plan to destroy America, AIDS going into high death rate. Huge up ticks in military spending.
The 1980s was the first step that lead us to the disastrous Trump from which we are still recovering.
Best decade for under 18s. Total disaster for adults
❤ God bless you all and God bless Roger I’ve had a great life and you made it all the better. Love x
Loved Andy Williams version. But the Beat did a fantastic job with the reggae /ska version.
Long live SKA.
Roger rankings parts makes me skank heavy 😂
wow only heard this song by Andy Williams. and I loved that version but this is really good also, not sure why I never heard this version here in NZ
I always thought that was Andy Williams singing this. Of course, that's a compliment to the great singing of the English Beat.
One of the greatest bands of the late 70s early 80s most folks don't have on any best of list. I was in college when the Beat broke big in the USA, still most kids were into U2, Duran, Billy Idol. The same was for The Smiths, people would look at you weird if you talked about them. Fucking Americans.
Mark and in Wolverhampton
A Cracking Cover from these Brummie Ska/Pop/Soul/Reggae/Punk Outfit!, i wonder if any other Band has had to modify their name as much as these have as Known as The English Beat in the US & The British Beat in Australia!, Hope they record a Song titled "Stand Down Theresa"!.
Wankin woger RIP
Now we have to deal with Rap [Crap] and Hip hop - utter non-musical crap
Loving that sax man
RIP SAXA ❤️
Love this just sent to my boyfriend
Great band, they're music sound fresh today as it ever did, favourite album whappen, lots of memories growing up in Birmingham, listening to their music.
RIP Roger...
CATH RHODES 💔
Am genuinely gutted to hear the sad news of Rankin Roger's death this evening 😔
❤❤❤
Get this into your head... When The Beat ENDED, Ranking Roger was 20. Just wanted to make it clear
bad miming, but who cares !!
Often done on purpose, just for a laugh. Man, you gotta love the eighties!
I could just listen to that bass riff on loop for days...
Stunning brilliant song an all timd classic. What a great time go be aluve bañk holiday Monday south coast running battles but no stabbings
Awesome Awesome Memorys
Rest in eternal peace Ranking Roger x
the beat were a class act.
Dave wakeling had a quality voice.
Seems like yesterday
Takes me back - I was 18 then. A world away. Wonderful times - Thatcher notwithstanding. May our Lord judge her. Beautiful music coming out of Brum, Cov and London, wonderful times.
Totally agree with you, especially the Thatcher bit. Great times and great music
So awesome - the singer, is he as good as Frank Sinatra or what? Great band, how were they not bigger?
Looking for a girl I use to know back in 1979 her name was Debbie and she lived in Blaby Leicestershire her last name I never new.....her Dad was Colin he was a lorry driver worked for Coates of Leicester and she also had a Brother.... My name his ( Crap 💩) Pete from Kettering I use to ride my motorbike over to see her on Sunday afternoon but I let her down badly and I want to say sorry and ask her if she could possibly forgive me.... believe me I am truly sorry ..... so if anyone knows her please let her know Thanks....👍🇬🇧🤓
Called up some girl I used to know
After I heard her say "Hello"
Couldn't think of anything to say
Since you're gone it happens every day
This is the 83 remix version. Prefer the original from "Just Can't Stop It" from 1980.
Loved this old Andy Williams cover version. The Beat were brilliant. Brings back so many memories. Snake Bite. Ha ha.
RIP Joe saxa
I love record played it when my girlfriend left me back in the day if only could turn back things I would do things differently maybe married but fate played nasty hand
Why does Ranking Roger have a guitar?
A better question; where is it plugged in?
Amazing cover done to perfection
This is just one of three great Beat covers from "I Just Can't Stop It". Also ❤ Tears of a Clown and Rough Rider.
Rip Roger
Guess there’s no use in hangin’ round
Guess I’ll get dressed and do the town
I’ll find a crowded avenue
Though it will be empty without you
I can’t get used to losing you
No matter what I try to do
Gonna spend my whole life through
Loving you
Called up some girl I used to know
After I heard her say, “Hello”
Couldn’t think of anything to say
Since you’re gone, it happens every day
I can’t get used to losing you
No matter what I try to do
Gonna spend my whole life through
Loving you
Can’t get used to losing you
No matter what I try to do
Gonna spend my whole life through
Loving you
I’ll find somebody, wait & see
Who am I kidding? Only me
‘Cause no one else could take your place
Guess that I am just a hopeless case
I can’t get used to losing you
No matter what I try to do
Gonna spend my whole life through
Loving you
Can’t get used to losing you
No matter what I try to do
Gonna spend my whole life through
Loving you
Rip everet morton drummer
Saxa❤️👍🏼🥃
❤❤😢🥺😌😩🫣😔😌🩵💙✨WOW !!! How a song 🎶 can remind you of sooooo much !!!! TO MY DAD THANKS FOR SHOWING ME A WORLDWIDE VERITY OF MUSIC !!! BEAUTIFUL LYRICS THAT EXPRESS SO MUCH 😊❤ .. 10 YEARS WITHOUT YOU HAS BEEN SO LONG BUT I KNOW YOUR SPIRIT IS WITH US EVERY DAY . I love you dad 🪶
And saxa met him up soho Road and what a lovely funny man. And riep ranking roger. Xxx
just copying Andy WIlliams so the point of doing it was what? (rhet.)
Definitely better times
BRING BACK SKA & SKINHEAD 😀👌👏👍
Tune! Loving this so much 🎉
The singer is definitely channeling Andy maybe for the sake of his mum or gran 😁👍