Thanks for playing this infectious slice of Power Pop. I've still got the LP I bought when it was originally released. I remember teenage me playing along on my bass guitar.
There use to be a place called West Runcton Pavilion in Cromer Norfolk, England and it use to have bands perform there. This was mainly during the 1970s ? I use to go there between 1975 / 79. I saw these play there when they had the single out called Airport. Sometimes when bands were on Top of the Pops which use to be on a Thursday some of the bands use to play there on the Friday or Saturday. Happy days 😊
That is the secret ingredient - like Dr Feelgood seeing them perform, even on video, is 50% of the thrill. Sadly I discovered them in period on a late night music programme in New Zealand and never saw them live.
I suggest ''Airport''. It'd be the second time in my life that I have made a request for that song. The first being in 1978 when my Countdown gang were pushing radio to play the song in Melbourne. Only hit they had in Australia. Cheers, Hayley
This was quite a big track in the U.K. upon its release, great to hear it again, I haven't heard it in many years. They had a few hits, "Airport" being their best known one, "Forget About You" being another well worth checking out.
Great that you discovered The Motors with their pub rock/power pop/power rock style. All their hits like "Airport", "Forget About You" and "Love And Loneliness" are worth the listening and i can really recommand these, too.
At 5 mins 'this is really good' lol... Toooo right it is! I remember when this was released and was amazed that it didn't reach No 1 in the UK charts. Brilliant song, band and musicians. Unfortunately it didn't last long as a career for this wonderful band 😥
Awesome musicians , one of whom was the theatrically named Bram Tchaikovsky.. 😅 78 was their year for hits , they came in with the Punk tidal wave but they weren’t Punk as such , they were from the Pub rock circuit , regardless , they had done fantastic tunes like Airport and my fav Forget About You which sounded suspiciously like the theme tune to the Saturday afternoon BBC sports show Grandstand .. but I liked Grandstand too , so win win 🏆 😆 👍🏴
@@SPKdesign1 I vividly remember buying Airport , Dancing the night away and my fav Forget about you ( C n C 👀) But none in a shiny colour .. money WAS an issue in 77/78 .. apprentice Brickie on £23 a week ..🤯 👍🏴
@@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering I didn't aquire it til into the mid 80s when I was earning a wee bit Cash. I got it, like a lot of mi early Vinyl, in a Second Hand place called Vinyl Villains.
Ha ! Yep , Great Band . Proper enjoyed this track then and now , not sure if I have that kind of energy now ?? Think they had some thing to do with " Ducks Deluxe " not to be mistaken for " Be Bop Deluxe " which you have given a go on this Channel ( Yay ) must be time for another BBD track . may be from their Live Album " Live in the Air Age " track " Mill Street Junction " Cheers !
Great cheesy song from the late 70s, Forget About You is one of their biggest songs. Also from the same era worth checking out Lay Your Love On Me by Racey 😊
hey Jay .. I responded to you in the comment on the ''Girls On The Avenue'' vid.. Your comment ''hat on EARTH is wrong with some of you folk in here today ?'' ... Not sure if you got it or if youtube's being odd. The comment was about how Richard Clapton got told off on Countdown by the host for having an opinion about the show and that kid army.. Molly taught the youth of Australia how to be fiesty, hence the recent row ...
@@DogInSpace sorry DIS , just woke there , I’ve no idea why yourself n Livitup67 comments wouldnt have flagged up for me , you both in the category of folk I DO like chatting with and wouldve def replied at the time 🤷♂️ … let me get some of Colombia’s OTHER famous export into me and I’ll check out that link 😆 👍🏴
@@DogInSpace 😃 I’m looking forward to seeing that very shortly DIS 👌.. I know it’s WAY down on temps in Aus but it’s been 28-31 degrees C here for last few days inc today and 17 degrees C last night 🥵.. very very uncomfortable for sleeping for a country with very little need for home AC’s.. hence waking up late today feeling knackered and groggy , fkn HATE the heat n humidity !! Global warming IS a thing btw , we’re used to rain all year round , cloudy n windy all year round , snow n frost in winter and a brief period of 22-26 ish degrees C “heatwave “😆 in July n August … thats all in the past now DIS , its becoming quite common in last 10 years for mild winters and 30+ C summers and I for one HATE it and am considering moving to Iceland 🇮🇸.. 🤔 ( not really , their whole ethos revolves round fishing and volcanoes 👀 ) 😝 👍🏴
@@DogInSpace 😃I’m the same DIS .. I’m like a Pig in sh*t in autumn , winter and spring here . My mantra has always been “ if it’s cold and wet put a jumper or coat on “.. but when it’s freaking roasting hot there’s only so many clothes you can take off before the others in the queue at the Post office start complaining and phoning the Police 👮🏻♂️.. 🥵 😝 👍🏴
Great pub rock song. Methinks they were influenced by The Byrds - So You Wanna Be a Rock n Roll Star? In reference to one of the people who requested the Motors, what about The Stranglers- Burning Up Time... "Finchley Boys are gonna make a lot of noise". Classic Mk1.
@@Sandy-dd4le As the song goes! Well, I'm sure the food in Melbourne might be cheaper than the food in some places in London - and perhaps the weather over here is a little less ''rain prolific''. But it is a grey city that has been getting quite a bit of rain lately and food prices has been on the rise. 🤷♀
The Old Grey Whistle Test clip is great! You should check it out, Jay. The ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) music program ''Rage'' has been digging through the archives of Countdown, and had been unearthing long lost music clips that hadn't been played on Australian TV in 45 years. A lot of old Countdown interviews, assumed lost forever, have come to the surface as well. One of the discoveries was the original video for ''Dancing The Night Away'': ua-cam.com/video/Zh6H8vO6hsg/v-deo.html
@@OnceWasRStrathfield Awesome 🤩 Yeah that’s the 7” single version that I remember . Where was that promo shot ? In Aus ? The classic version of this was the aforementioned OHWT live performance which appears from time to time even now on BBC4 on a series called “Guitar heroes on the BBC “.. love all the late 70’s stuff and that includes this . I also play guitar but not to the standard to get away with playing this all the way through at the correct tempo , so kudos to you there sir ✊ ( but I could do the bass part as that’s super easy 👀 ) 👍🏴
@@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering I worked out what to play by watching them do it on Old Grey Whistle Test and by ear. I just kept playing along to the OGWT clip until it sounded close enough. The promo retrieved by ABC (RAGE) wasn't made in Australia. It was a promo made by their record co. in England (I assume) and sent off to Australia back in '77. I haven't seen it anywhere else but Rage. Another video RAGE are yet to find, but had gotten play on Countdown was the original ''Girl Of My Dreams'' video. Another video that was found was footage of an unsigned and very new Midnight Oil playing in a Sydney pub in 1977, filmed by the ABC. The film-clip had been assumed lost forever, until somebody found it deep in the ABC archive n 2007... ua-cam.com/video/4rHk4EeZhCc/v-deo.html There's also lost film clps of Shane McGowan, Chrissie Hynde and a lot of punk people that was shot by the ABC in London in 1977 that's still needing to be found.
@@OnceWasRStrathfield Archives rule ! 😃 ITV3 and the BBC both have programmes dedicated to retrieving classic tracks from their respective musical archives , though as the BBC one has TOTP as well as TOGWT theirs is voluminous compared to ITV one . Most of the stuff they show bores the tits off me if I’m honest … but just now n again OnceWas .. a banger like that Motors track comes up and it makes wading through all the pop n prog nonsense SO worth it , RAGE sounds like it would be right up my street btw 👏 👍🏴
Brilliant song to play guitar to.. You really have to be on your toes, especially during the chorus.. But it's very rewarding when you manage to get through it without a hitch.
@@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering Rage has not yet found the original video for ''Girl Of My Dreams'', which is somewhere deep in the Countdown archive. I only had a Gibson to play along to.. Not a Rickenbacker, unfortunately.
@@OnceWasRStrathfield the Rick isn’t for every song as you know - but it suits this band and this track admirably . Your Gibson is perfectly adept for subtle tonal and sonic differences which keep stuff like that track fresh 👍🏴
I think the motors were the weakest of the group i " identify" as them being part of ie, the feelgoods, dave Edmonds,rockpile, nick lowe , the block heads, kilburn and the highroads, not for me 🏴✌️
One of my favorite bands ever. 💯
Great song 😎
Thanks for reacting. 😎👍
Best intro to a song ❤
Thanks for playing this infectious slice of Power Pop. I've still got the LP I bought when it was originally released. I remember teenage me playing along on my bass guitar.
There's a great Old Grey Whistle Test version of this. For a few minutes The Motors were the best band in the world.
That’s the one I’m familiar with too del , great live performance ✊
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6 minutes.. Stupendous
There use to be a place called West Runcton Pavilion in Cromer Norfolk, England and it use to have bands perform there. This was mainly during the 1970s ?
I use to go there between 1975 / 79.
I saw these play there when they had the single out called Airport.
Sometimes when bands were on Top of the Pops which use to be on a Thursday some of the bands use to play there on the Friday or Saturday.
Happy days 😊
Great live performance great music all around great singing
That is the secret ingredient - like Dr Feelgood seeing them perform, even on video, is 50% of the thrill. Sadly I discovered them in period on a late night music programme in New Zealand and never saw them live.
Well done you two for playing this - best band in the world for a very short period !👋👋👋
I suggest ''Airport''. It'd be the second time in my life that I have made a request for that song. The first being in 1978 when my Countdown gang were pushing radio to play the song in Melbourne. Only hit they had in Australia.
Cheers,
Hayley
This was quite a big track in the U.K. upon its release, great to hear it again, I haven't heard it in many years. They had a few hits, "Airport" being their best known one, "Forget About You" being another well worth checking out.
Great that you discovered The Motors with their pub rock/power pop/power rock style. All their hits like "Airport", "Forget About You" and "Love And Loneliness" are worth the listening and i can really recommand these, too.
You get double points for listening to The Motors. Even the Brits have forgotten this band.
I haven't.Leeds Yorkshire.
Time to do Airport folks
This was a Great band.
At 5 mins 'this is really good' lol... Toooo right it is! I remember when this was released and was amazed that it didn't reach No 1 in the UK charts. Brilliant song, band and musicians. Unfortunately it didn't last long as a career for this wonderful band 😥
Great song!
Awesome musicians , one of whom was the theatrically named Bram Tchaikovsky.. 😅
78 was their year for hits , they came in with the Punk tidal wave but they weren’t Punk as such , they were from the Pub rock circuit , regardless , they had done fantastic tunes like Airport and my fav Forget About You which sounded suspiciously like the theme tune to the Saturday afternoon BBC sports show Grandstand .. but I liked Grandstand too , so win win 🏆
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Don't mention Frank Bough 🤫
@@markferrett700 aye yer right again Mark …🤯…
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I used to have the Blue 12" of Airport.
@@SPKdesign1 I vividly remember buying Airport , Dancing the night away and my fav Forget about you ( C n C 👀)
But none in a shiny colour .. money WAS an issue in 77/78 .. apprentice Brickie on £23 a week ..🤯
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@@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering I didn't aquire it til into the mid 80s when I was earning a wee bit Cash. I got it, like a lot of mi early Vinyl, in a Second Hand place called Vinyl Villains.
‘You Beat The Hell Outta Me’. I preferred that one to dance to.
That intro … love it …
Great song 🎵 ! Produced by Robert John " Mutt " Lange & covered by Cheap Trick in the 80's. Pub Rock classic 👌
As others have said, in Australia, they really only had 1 hit, Airport. That would be a great song to do!
The other top picks by The Motors are ‘Airport’, ‘Forget about you’, and ‘Today’.
Great Song ❤
Nice one, def. need to do "Airport" as well!
Glad you did the long version , that build up is great . I’ll suggest Love and loneliness, also Tenement Steps from them.
Ha ! Yep , Great Band . Proper enjoyed this track then and now , not sure if I have that kind of energy now ??
Think they had some thing to do with " Ducks Deluxe " not to be mistaken for
" Be Bop Deluxe " which you have given a go on this Channel ( Yay ) must be time for another BBD track .
may be from their Live Album " Live in the Air Age " track " Mill Street Junction " Cheers !
Yeah, Andy McMaster (Bass, vocals & keys) and Nick Garvey (Guitar, vocals & Keys) were in Ducks Deluxe - (Coast to Coast) is a great song of theirs!
Great cheesy song from the late 70s, Forget About You is one of their biggest songs. Also from the same era worth checking out Lay Your Love On Me by Racey 😊
Ohhhh Yesssss… Quality !! Let’s hear this 😅
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hey Jay .. I responded to you in the comment on the ''Girls On The Avenue'' vid.. Your comment ''hat on EARTH is wrong with some of you folk in here today ?'' ... Not sure if you got it or if youtube's being odd. The comment was about how Richard Clapton got told off on Countdown by the host for having an opinion about the show and that kid army.. Molly taught the youth of Australia how to be fiesty, hence the recent row ...
@@DogInSpace sorry DIS , just woke there , I’ve no idea why yourself n Livitup67 comments wouldnt have flagged up for me , you both in the category of folk I DO like chatting with and wouldve def replied at the time 🤷♂️
… let me get some of Colombia’s OTHER famous export into me and I’ll check out that link 😆
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@@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering I posted a clip of Molly having a go at old Richard Clapton.. Same way Countdown kids were having a go at James.. lol
@@DogInSpace 😃 I’m looking forward to seeing that very shortly DIS 👌.. I know it’s WAY down on temps in Aus but it’s been 28-31 degrees C here for last few days inc today and 17 degrees C last night 🥵.. very very uncomfortable for sleeping for a country with very little need for home AC’s.. hence waking up late today feeling knackered and groggy , fkn HATE the heat n humidity !!
Global warming IS a thing btw , we’re used to rain all year round , cloudy n windy all year round , snow n frost in winter and a brief period of 22-26 ish degrees C “heatwave “😆 in July n August … thats all in the past now DIS , its becoming quite common in last 10 years for mild winters and 30+ C summers and I for one HATE it and am considering moving to Iceland 🇮🇸.. 🤔
( not really , their whole ethos revolves round fishing and volcanoes 👀 ) 😝
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@@DogInSpace 😃I’m the same DIS .. I’m like a Pig in sh*t in autumn , winter and spring here . My mantra has always been “ if it’s cold and wet put a jumper or coat on “.. but when it’s freaking roasting hot there’s only so many clothes you can take off before the others in the queue at the Post office start complaining and phoning the Police 👮🏻♂️.. 🥵
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The vocals remind me of Status Quo.
Great pub rock song. Methinks they were influenced by The Byrds - So You Wanna Be a Rock n Roll Star?
In reference to one of the people who requested the Motors, what about The Stranglers- Burning Up Time...
"Finchley Boys are gonna make a lot of noise". Classic Mk1.
You have GREAT taste btw sir !!
I echo your recommendation
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A Motors reaction that isn't to Airport?
What sorcery is this?
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The Haniers can put my name down for ''Airport''.
@@I_was_a_Countdown_Kid-75-83 you do live where the weather is much better and the food is so much cheaper, so it makes sense!
@@Sandy-dd4le As the song goes!
Well, I'm sure the food in Melbourne might be cheaper than the food in some places in London - and perhaps the weather over here is a little less ''rain prolific''. But it is a grey city that has been getting quite a bit of rain lately and food prices has been on the rise. 🤷♀
Ohhh the Darkest type of !
Airport was a great song by them.
There was a great TOTP vid of this , was it not available C n C ?
Sad face 😢
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The Old Grey Whistle Test clip is great! You should check it out, Jay.
The ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) music program ''Rage'' has been digging through the archives of Countdown, and had been unearthing long lost music clips that hadn't been played on Australian TV in 45 years. A lot of old Countdown interviews, assumed lost forever, have come to the surface as well.
One of the discoveries was the original video for ''Dancing The Night Away'':
ua-cam.com/video/Zh6H8vO6hsg/v-deo.html
@@OnceWasRStrathfield Awesome 🤩
Yeah that’s the 7” single version that I remember . Where was that promo shot ? In Aus ?
The classic version of this was the aforementioned OHWT live performance which appears from time to time even now on BBC4 on a series called “Guitar heroes on the BBC “..
love all the late 70’s stuff and that includes this . I also play guitar but not to the standard to get away with playing this all the way through at the correct tempo , so kudos to you there sir ✊
( but I could do the bass part as that’s super easy 👀 )
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@@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering I worked out what to play by watching them do it on Old Grey Whistle Test and by ear. I just kept playing along to the OGWT clip until it sounded close enough. The promo retrieved by ABC (RAGE) wasn't made in Australia. It was a promo made by their record co. in England (I assume) and sent off to Australia back in '77. I haven't seen it anywhere else but Rage. Another video RAGE are yet to find, but had gotten play on Countdown was the original ''Girl Of My Dreams'' video. Another video that was found was footage of an unsigned and very new Midnight Oil playing in a Sydney pub in 1977, filmed by the ABC. The film-clip had been assumed lost forever, until somebody found it deep in the ABC archive n 2007... ua-cam.com/video/4rHk4EeZhCc/v-deo.html
There's also lost film clps of Shane McGowan, Chrissie Hynde and a lot of punk people that was shot by the ABC in London in 1977 that's still needing to be found.
@@OnceWasRStrathfield Archives rule ! 😃
ITV3 and the BBC both have programmes dedicated to retrieving classic tracks from their respective musical archives , though as the BBC one has TOTP as well as TOGWT theirs is voluminous compared to ITV one . Most of the stuff they show bores the tits off me if I’m honest … but just now n again OnceWas .. a banger like that Motors track comes up and it makes wading through all the pop n prog nonsense SO worth it , RAGE sounds like it would be right up my street btw 👏
👍🏴
@@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_BletheringAre you able to see my posted comment ?
Brilliant song to play guitar to.. You really have to be on your toes, especially during the chorus.. But it's very rewarding when you manage to get through it without a hitch.
The Old Grey Whistle Test performance is killer. That's the version I often play along to..
That’s the one I was thinking of tbh OnceWas .. superb live performance 👏
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That was the one auld Bram was playing the big Rickenbacker 6 string I think 🤔
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@@jaymacgee_A_Bawbag_Blethering Rage has not yet found the original video for ''Girl Of My Dreams'', which is somewhere deep in the Countdown archive. I only had a Gibson to play along to.. Not a Rickenbacker, unfortunately.
@@OnceWasRStrathfield the Rick isn’t for every song as you know - but it suits this band and this track admirably . Your Gibson is perfectly adept for subtle tonal and sonic differences which keep stuff like that track fresh
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Bram Tchaikovsky!
English pub band
Fantastic tune, one of my all time faves. Like three songs in one. Shame they turned into a lame pop group. The Knack? Away with ye!
I think the motors were the weakest of the group i " identify" as them being part of ie, the feelgoods, dave Edmonds,rockpile, nick lowe , the block heads, kilburn and the highroads, not for me 🏴✌️
@@JamesDickson-vs5of Bay city rollers is it then?
@@Michael-zg8qw bcr a pub band ? I'm beginning to think your ,stupid as well as Australian Micheal, 🙈🙉🙊🏴✌️
@@Michael-zg8qw " is it then" ,❌ were it then✅tut tut must show more effort 🙈🙉🙊🏴✌️