Driver's Seat - Sniff 'n' the tears (1978)
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- Опубліковано 8 тра 2019
- "Driver's Seat" is a 1978 song by the British band Sniff 'n' the Tears that appears on their debut album, Fickle Heart. The band is considered a one-hit wonder as "Driver's Seat" was their only hit.
The genesis of the song dates back to 1973 and a demo tape recorded for a French record label by singer/guitarist Paul Roberts for the band Ashes of Moon. However, that band broke up and, at the suggestion of drummer Luigi Salvoni, Roberts re-formed it as Sniff 'n' the Tears with guitarists Laurence "Loz" Netto and Mick Dyche and bassist Nick South. They shopped the demo tape and signed with the small Chiswick label in 1977. Keith Miller played the Moog solo and also toured America with the band - Фільми й анімація
2024 whos here? I miss the 80s
Summer solstice 2024
1978 graduated from High School, this song is gold & never gets old 😊😊
Same here.
....Wow... 1978...in March...I just got out of the Navy Seabees 133 at Golfport Mississippi and driving with Linda in her 1971 in her orange Plymouth Duster heading for Washington state....a stop off in Coos Bay Oregon to pick up my 1972 Dotson pickup....as we headed north...it was the start of our future life together....great memories with this song....thank you and God Bless....Linda and I got Married in June of 1978 and I got hired at Puget Sound Naval Shipyard in Feb of 1979....She passed away on my birthday in 1995, she was only 38 years....a true heartbreak for me and our 3 kiddos....I retired in 2010 as a Navy Civilian...I live in Tucson now and play golf.....My life has been sinced blessed as I have found my peace in life....Thank you Lord for blessing me....🥰
Wow, I went to A school in February 79. Heavy Equipment Operator got stationed in transportation at the A school and then went into 74 . Got out in 83. Lucky I did 9 months in the Philippines and almost a year total in PR.
Man, that was rough! May the Lord bless you and yours!!
Very nice begenning story...the girl look amazing...is it the girl in that vidéo...and die much to young !
Ouf sad...but yes after all these years God make you serene.
Kind of réalise the car driver is to modern to be her driving ...and all the cars on the highway
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This has got to be the single greatest one hit wonder ever recorded. The cream of one hit wonder crop.
I joined the Army when this was released.
Thank you for your service.🍻🇺🇲
18 when this came out! Had a 68 charger for my first car and just out of high school ! Driving around with my girlfriend at the time and having a great time!! What memories , lots of great songs back then and your whole life in front of you! The girl and the car are gone but the songs are with me till the day I die !!!
You should have kept the car.
@@Stacie45😂😂😂😂
heard this for the first time in 78. I was 12. To this day I still will say "Come what may."
I was 15 when this song 🎵 came out ..cant believe I'll be 60 yrs old in a few weeks. Great music 🎶 back then .great video thank you. 😊
Yeah..me too..I can’t believe we’re gonna be 60!
Moi ça y est j'ai 60 ans et aime toujours cette musique
@@marieclaudelecalve2426 idem !!
60 here as well and will always love this tune ❤
This particular song transcends time and cultures.what a huge hit for them
1978 was the best year for anything. I was a sophomore in high school. Miss those times.
Junior on Long Island with a License and a Car!
Me too, from Texas
Me too, in Georgia, cruised like we was gettin paid for it.
Just saw an interview with Paul Roberts, the band leader, who claimed that the song wasn't written as a driving song. It's a song about getting back "on your feet" after a breakup. Being the driver requires inner strength with the ability to look ahead. Now I know what he meant by the line "What can I do when I remember my time with you?"
Most top 40ish songs used metaphors for that.
It's about taking control of your life in aby situation.
I thought I was the only person who drove with one leg up? One knee? Several times! Absolutely beautiful!❤
I was in tthe army overseas in.korea when i herd this song. Miss my friends
This song should be extended at least another 5 minutes . Rock on 🎶
I HAVE ALWAYS LOVED THIS TUNE!!!!!!!!!!
One of my favorite one hit wonders from the almost early 80's!!!
One of the best songs… still listening 2013 ❤
I loved this song during its short life on the charts in 1980. This was back in the day when I would have to sit around the radio all day waiting for it to be played. I spent the next 17 years looking for a recording, to no avail. And then, miracle of miracles, it appeared in Boogie Nights. I stopped on the way home from the theater to pick it up at a record store. Now thanks to the web, I have a dozen remixes and other creative variations of this song delivered to my hard drive with but a the click of the mouse.
Love this gem, I was a kid when when it came out but I still remember my older pals playing it on 45's. Thank you for the memories!!! A hit for all ages!!
Makes me want to get in my car and just drive, drive, drive! This song does not age!!
I hear that 😁😁😁😁😁
I drive, drive, drive and hear this song. Superb Greetings from Germany
@@christlk.1077 Guten Tag, wie gehts? !!
@@edlisinski9666 Danke, mir geht es sehr gut. Hoffe dir auch !
@@christlk.1077 Ich auch danke schon
I remember like it's was yesterday me and my friend's driving and blasting this song and going out to the disco club's and dance with all the beautiful ladies
📌Who else is here in 2024? Scoot over and get in the DRIVER'S SEAT!🚀
Heck Yeah! Love this song
@@mashedorbaked7694 Yesirrrr!🍻🇺🇲
@@originalkingalpha5116 Right on Cheers!
Me !!! Greetings from Germany 🎉
@@christlk.1077 That's awesome to know that you're enjoying this beautiful little gem in your gorgeous country as well! Cheers from TN!🥂
One of my favourite songs ever...great tune for the road
Today I have listened to this song about 14 or 20 times, and I always listen to it in its entirety, I simply cannot stop it before the end. I would like it to continue for much longer! It has been reminding me of someone who is no longer on this existential plane. It doesn't make me sad, rather it strengthens me.
Agree. I bought the album brings it back to 1978
The Woman ♀️ in the video Is ABSOLUTELY Beautiful!! 1978, when this tune dropped, I was 17 years old and I think about what I have been through since 2010 until now, brain surgery, resetting my nose, heart failure and recently lymphoma cancer and now approaching 63 in November, when most people who meet me now, can't even believe that I am older than 44!! I don't know how old that young lady is in the video, but she is Stunning! Love her eyes and smile!! Simply Captivating and Alluring!! 😅😅
That’s me. I was 24 then, and got paid $400 for the 2 day filming. Glory Days 🎺🎸🎺
What is this woman’s full name ?
@@wildman318 You can call me Sydopath 😇. I live in Scotland now, and happily retired. None of my new circle of friends know about my 15 minutes of fame. I love it that way.
@@Sydopath was this video actually filmed in 1978?
@@wildman318 it was pulled together like a jigsaw puzzle at different points in time. Now, I’m older than you so it’s impolite to ask further 🙏🏻
Groovy tune. Heard this a million times and I could use a million more. The mom is a flower child, but the young gal is sure a peach.
I was eighteen when this came out and memories flow in my mind when ever I hear It! Music today ain't nothin' compared to the 70's music and anyone would love to go back to that period not only for the music but life was better than todays' bullshit
Pareil je suis né en 1960 quelle chanson 👍🌞
16 and just got my license. Absolutely my driving song then, still is now!
Such an underrated tune, as once it's in your head, it ain't going anywhere. Knew a beautiful girl, much like this one, but she just wanted to be in the "Drivers Seat". Awesome tune and awesome girl...
Agree awesome tune and girl♡
Yeah! "Just Take Your Place in the Driver's Seat! Classic.
Great song! Beautiful girl. "A beautiful girl makes you dizzy..."🌞
brilliant record love it from the best decade ever
I got my license that year, still my favorite driving song ever!!
I recall driving my 70 Plymouth Duster 340 ci in 1979 with my GF from high school by my side. This song was playing on my car radio as we drove over a tall bridge. The window was down
and the summer
breeze was blowing through her hair as the sun glinted upon her pretty face. She was wearing a summer dress and looked so pretty. We didn’t work out, however we are still friends to this day. 🥰
That 340 was one powerful engine❤. I had one put in my, then, 1966 Plymouth Satilite !! Later had a 1970 Challenger which had a 340 in it. My brother had a 1970 Duster that had one in it. One powerful engine !! Thanks for sharing 👍!!
Outstanding video,and the girl is gorgeous!
Mahlhammer says…. Man…. Good year 15 years old bought my first car a 1968 Chevy 2 Nova ….. 2 door of course ! But the music we had coming out WOW ! This song on 8 track played and played ! Good stuff my son !
Admit the first I heard this is Boogie Nights
Knew I'd found a gem
Rockin Reid Rothchild
Love this gem, great golden oldies
One of the best vids out there for this song....the keyboard part when she flips her hair back and forth is cool ....
Goin' alright on a saturday night,🎵🎵🎶from France
She absolutely makes the video! You are still as beautiful now as you were then!
Ja wen ich diesem Song höre kommt Erinnerung hoch Freitag nach dienst Schluss von Lüneburg nach hause mit meinen opel manta GSI und gleich diesem Song gehört war schone zeit unvergessen
What a combo & what a tune....Perfectly matched. I love it. X
Love this song! Played their music on cassette tape, in my car, BEFORE C D s !! 💙🎶🎸🦅💙
I remember when I was a youngster driving for the first time listening to this song in my 1976 Montego MX AM radio 📻 great and Golden memories from the '70s best years that I have ever lived. 🎼🎶📻👍😃💜🎸🎸😉✌️🕺
She has such unbelievable natural beauty. Enjoyed this video for years.
GREAT SONG AND VIDEO
My oldest brother was 19 i was 8 he had a sweet root beer brown 68 Chevelle this tune would come on he would look at me smile and floor it 😅 i never said a word or i would not have gotten to ride to the store momo with my big brother ❤
Agreed. great song and should be the official video.
Thank you for this music ! hello from FRANCE !
Trippy vibe, with a slightly eerie thread.
In my opinion this is the best 1 hit wonder song in existence.
This song is from my days in High School....I still love it!!
Think I was 13 when this came out....love it
Always wondered WHY this song sounded so "old." The Demo was created in 1973. Voilà!
Beautiful girl for a beautiful classic tune. Well done. My fav go to for this song.
I remember when this song came out. Felt like yesterday and I have it on my playlist still today. Great throwback to great times and way better music! Thanks for the throwback!
"Driver's Seat" reached number 15 on the American Billboard Pop Singles chart in the fall of 1979
Should have reached #1.
Song really hits the spot
The drums really kick this off 🏹🏹🏹
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What a wonderful song thanks for it the lady in it is very lovely 😊❤
Of the hundreds of videos made for this song , this is the one that should be the official video. Song mixes perfectly with the video!!
Agreed, she's perfect!
Who is she
Sorry. No. This one: ua-cam.com/video/QCa2K-9ccYk/v-deo.html
This video and the time frame match very well. I grew up in the 70s. Very well done!
Never saw the one that paired the song with scenes from "Drive" (2011)? It was scrubbed off the site years ago.
One of the best videos on YT. Perfect match of music with video.
Going to school in London, this was on the radio as I look out of the window to the pissing down rain😂.
I was born 1971, and I never heard this song, I heard it today on spotify, and I immediately liked it, had to come check out if they had a video for it, great great song 🎵 thanx for posting!!! Like the video as well!!!
Art Bell used to play this as bumper music back in the 90s.
I miss art bell and the kingdom of Nye
I first watched this version about 10 years ago. I watched it probably 20 times over the next several years but then it disappeared. Finally I found it today. This is the best version.
Great video and love the girl. Thanks for posting this.
Thanks. I took it down at her request, but now she no longer minds that it's been reposted. Take a look at her "then and now" video that I more recently put together which is referenced at the end of the original.
This song is about moving on after a breakup, Jenny was sweet, always smiled for the people she'd meet.
MORCEAU SIMPLEMENT FANTASTIQUE !!!!!!! UNE PEPITE DU ROCK !!!!!!! EFFECTIVEMENT., LA FILLE EST CANON !!!
I was 11 when this song came out. The “big kids” down the street working on their cars were always jamming to this.
I know them roads. Baltimore! Miss ya ya . Johny U Brooks R, crabs
That woman is smoking hot. Oh yeah great tune.
Yeah she is
Wow, great video to this classic tune. I was 11 when it came out and it's been a long time since I've heard it. Thanks for this!
Great 1 hit wonder!!
Yessss, so cool... Kind salute from FRANCE:))
This video aged very well it’s 2024❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️
So have you! Your beautiful!🌹✌🏽
1 year before i left high school. Great times.
Great truck driving tune!!!
GREAT tune!
Love 💕 Love this song 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖
Get in your Honda Civic on a Saturday night and play this song. Instant Bugatti.
Well said! 😉
"Boogie Nights" made this song a hit again.
Let me in did too.
Love the resurgence of awesome tunes! DRIVERS SEAT BABY🎸☮️ ROCK ON SISTA ☯️
For the longest time I could not find this video anymore. So glad it’s back because I love the song. First heard a little piece of it in the movie “Boogie Nights” when the Colonel walks into the room. Did a little search and found it.
Love this song❤❤
Tenia 18 years y tenia un nova two doors y vivia in old Bridge new jersey what ol good days
I am stunned that Ihad only recently learned of this song. I thought I knew all the great songs from the '70s and' 80s, with the latter era being by far the superior era for music. No era can ever come close to the '80s.
SHE IS BEAUTIFUL
I was ten, but I still enjoy like ever. FROM MADRID SPAIN BEST REGARDS
Doing all right
A little jiving on a Saturday night
'N come what may
Gonna dance the day away
Jenny was sweet
She always smiled for the people she'd meet
On trouble and strife
She had another way of looking at life
The news is blue (The news is blue)
Has it's own way to get to you (Ooh-ooh)
What can I do (What can I do?)
When I remember my time with you?
Pick up your feet
Got to move to the trick of the beat
There is no elite
Just take your place in the driver's seat
Doing all right (Ooh-ooh)
A little jiving on a Saturday night (Yeah)
'N come what may (Ooh-ooh)
Gonna dance the day away (Yeah)
Jenny was sweet (Ooh-ooh)
There is no elite (Yeah)
Pick up your feet (Ooh-ooh, ooh-ooh)
Pick up, pick up (Yeah)
Pick up your feet (Ooh-ooh)
Gonna dance the day away (Yeah)
What an absolute beltter of a song when music was real fk in music.
Time, stand still.
Nice
Still go back to this. Classic
Drivers seat...let's roll!
I was 11 when this came out seems like yesterday. This song still sounds fresh. And by the way the girl in the video is beautiful ❤
Great to hear this classic tune while watching a girl i would love to be mine!
This is the best sound version of this song. Others seem to not have the right base, acoustics... The best in my opinion!
Drivers anthem everywhere !!!
Still listening to this in 2022.. still love it.. ❤️
Ich höre das Lied auch immer wieder gerne...wunderbar
This lady needs to market her own line of youth creams. She got better looking with age.
Great video. I had this song on many mix cassettes I made. I played one favorite tape so many times that I can never hear the outro of “Driver’s Seat” without hearing the intro of the next song on the tape, LA Woman. Thanks for the great memory. Love it.
Gorgeous!