THE MOTORS - Dancing The Night Away (1978 Old Grey Whistle Test UK TV Appearance) ~ HIGH QUALITY HQ ~
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I miss the days when pop sounded like this. Rickenbackers, and songwriters straight from the heart. Cheers to the Motors, the knack, and of Course the Jam!
Belter of a song isn't it. I am lucky to be old enough to have seen this on TOGWT back in the day. So much energy
@@chrisorso5376 I saw the band perform this live in Glasgow Apollo supporting Wishbone Ash... great night out... one of my favourite songs.
And the kindness of most people.
I wonder how many 18 year-olds know what a Rickenbacker is.
@@brucerouffian2630 I'm 17 and know it's an electric guitar or bass of some sort.
Btw I play in a rock band and our first album is coming out this year. Maybe not all hope is lost yet🤘
This band came through Madison WI in 1978, and the band that I was in opened for them. Great times back then for sure!
O Lucky Man!
The BBC should bring back Whistle Test and give a national platform to bands that learn their craft by playing the clubs, instead we get talentless teenagers that think they can sing in their bedroom so want to appear on X-factor.
Genial Harry Grout - Absolutely agree. Pile in a transit van and head up and down the country building a following. Don’t appear on car crash tv in front of talentless halfwits who think that they are tastemakers. C’mon kids take back the initiative and create the music you want !
@@ianwilkinson3043 Which is the music what WE want. Down with X-Fucktor!
I totally agree with you. There is no talent anymore these days. The Whistle Test was great and I remember it so well back in the good old days. And If it wasn't for David Attenborough, we would have never had it in the first place as he was the head controller of BBC2 when it all started back in the 70s.
Isn't that what Later gives us?
@@ianwilkinson3043 I’d give anything to pile in the back of a transit and go off to a gig now! Covid has really f****d up the live music scene. And yes, bring back the whistle test!
What a great performance,The Whistle test always seem to get the best out of bands
The BBC should show every episode again, classic bands classic songs not like today's manufactured crap
BBC yeah
First heard this on the alan freeman bbc saturday afternoon show in 1977 . Alan freeman introduced me to so much good music . What a legend he was
The class just shines through , this must be one of the most underplayed records ever.
Hard to believe it didn't make the top 40.
Not in my house its not
not in music house mate!
@@thundercity311 Charts are all bollocks aren't they. It's all contrived
cobblers to drive youth to buy $hite... Money over art. Just look at the
stream of dross that's made No. 1. Better to be niche?
@Tony J. You may already know this. BBC Radio 2's "Sounds Of The Seventies" hosted by Johnnie Walker has just added the edited single version of this classic to "Johnnie's Jukebox". The listener that recommended it said that she and her friends went to a fairground where they used the full version on the "Waltzer" ride (?). So she knew that the ride was about six and a half minutes. A shame that even the edited single couldn't get into the Top Forty of the day - "42 with a boat anchor rather than a bullet" as my old pal Dave The DJ used to say! Stay safe and well.
One of the best intro's EVER!! Never get tired of hearing this track. Always makes me grin. Classic!
My thoughts exactly! Fantastic.
…… and then the song starts. All downhill after that
Great band...sold their soul unfrotunatly....could hsve been the new age beet
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That intro gets me every time, sheer class!!
@@catherinemellin8032 Brahma!
I remember watching this on Whistle Test first time round, and was massively impressed then, and loved it ever since. How it never got higher in the charts I really don't understand. A beast of a song.
Yeah a beast of a song how about all about the beast to come. How they knew you would get it wrong I smell fish except their all gone to late in 68
@@CharlesMarkell-ne6do Sorry? Je ne comprends pas.
OK. I have just watched The Motors on BBC GUITAR HERO'S and was amazed by this absolutely brilliant track. I have honestly never heard it or of them before. Wow. What have I been missing. Proper rock music. I love it.
Just watching the same rerun, top tune
Fabulous song. You only hear it once in a while on the radio. Its a real classic.
Astounding track.
The build up at 4.22 is joy to my lugholes!
To me the motors. Were the most underrated bands of the late 70"s and to me.dancing the night away,is an awesome song,
We all know the motors for Airport, but this is by far the best track they ever recorded. A classic.......
Ah, yes. The Motors. Driving around in my Olds Cutlass Supreme with this blasting out of the 8-track...such a fine memory.
Brilliant, awsome, stupendous and first class quality playing that is not often repeated. Only 14119 views for and Justin Bieber has
millions. There is no musical justice in this world!
Wow !! What a great performance of an underrated rock song !!
Wasn't this top of John Peel's Festive Fifty for several years (along with Teenage Kicks/Undertones)? Remember listening late at night under the covers with a dodgy plastic earpiece jammed into one ear and plugged into a tiny radio ;-) Epic
One of the best Whistle Test performances. Thanks for sharing x
I dont often comment on UA-cam but i have to say this is brilliant musicianship. A group of skilled guys in their prime feeling their oats.
They deserve more credit.
just simple raw talent, today's music is missing
In 1977, I was 10 when I got goosebumps listening to the original version of this track. Now, at 55, I get goosebumps seeing this brilliant live version. What a magic, energetic song.
Fantastic single that still sounds as fresh today as it ever was
One of the greatest songs of all time , blows all this shit chart stuff nowadays away
Great music from a brilliant bunch of musicians!
Bought their 1st album when it was 1st released and now this the first time I ever seen the band members. I know I lead a secluded life!!!
It just gets better and better with every listen - and it was awesome the first time!
Old Grey Whistle Test was well ahead of its time, so many brilliant band went on to be awesome
That intro is gold. Love the build-up.
Great song . That's a fucking great intro !!!!
My first 12" single. What a tune !!
the bollox late 70s was a great time to be around gigs in uni s and pubs everywhere and i saw led zeppelin going to see deaf school in liverpool next week god bless babyboomers we were the best
Fantastic pub rock classic. Most of the bands and the venues are gone but the music still lives on
Haven't heard this since I bought the single in my teens, late '70s - great to be reminded - what a blinder!
My son and his mates band, they are 15-18, do this song in their set. It's awesome to see kids so young playing music like this!
Post it on here. This is an outstanding performance & one of the finest pieces of rock on You Tube. Not the easiest piece to perform & your son obviously likes a challenge.
711honved Dead right mate. What song/performance.
katastrophenschutzwa yeah, great to see teenagers still appreciate good music, one of the best songs of 1977, even if it wasnt a big hit
+711honved can mail it if you wanna see it. Just message me an addy.
Top man
What a beautiful intro. Guitar class at its best.
Brilliant Band, VERY UNDERRATED! dx
Love this song & the whole album, was cranking it up in my car on the way home from work!
I love this track, makes me feel 21 again
I live in the states and was 2 years old when this was made. I just found the band recently and been hooked. Awesome!!!
Fantastic.......Backtrack my friend to to the fantastic " Ducks Deluxe"....self titled album n taxi to the terminal zone.....I can guarantee you will not be disappointed......
Don’t know how I missed this first time around. Now in 2024 @ 71 young I can’t stop foot tapping to this.
This one grabbed me by the throat when it came out and it still kicks
Brilliant. Loved it!
Absolute gold.
I absolutely love this song and the way its played here. The playing, the attitude , the totally fantastic guitar interplay. One of my faves for sure!
Surely one of the best rock songs of all time, and an Ace band kicking ass.
This version just goes to show that some time performing improves how you roll, how you rock. And this ROCKS!
I copuld listen to intro forever
I can't believe I'm that bored due to the corona virus lockdown that I just watched a video of the Foo Fighters. Fortunately, I am quickly recovering with this old Motors footage!
One of the greatest power pop songs ever.
1978 the year my education started in earnest. Pubs were fantastic back then and there was some excellent music like this around.
My foot just tapped constantly for six and a half minutes.... and I've been smiling for ten... now THAT's what you call a good tune.
Outstanding!
Probably the best track ever produced, just formidable ........
that middle section , with the guitars , wow, always gets me.
Right! At 4:00? Love it!
What a pity that the cameraman didn't swing across and focus on Nick Garvey's guitar after Bram Tchaikovsky's solo. Really wanted to see Nick playing that "rolling" arpeggio type riff on the Rickenbacker. You can just tell that these guys have honed their craft playing in pubs. A great piece of proper music to come back to. Thank you The Motors.
Great riff and rocking song be you a punk a mod a skin or a rocker this has it all for the youth of the time.
Love this!
fabulous ,a masterpiece of punk,pub,prog it's got the lot!
Power performance, just brilliant!!
Wish they would reform , fantastic band with some of the best songs ever, play it every day on the way to and way back from work
I just found out last year after all these years the version Cheap Trick did was a cover of this tune now. I like them both!
one of the best records ever
Goddamn, this is such a killer rock n roll song!
Wouldn't make the Top 40..because it's not crappy enough!!..Frinkin' awsome song!!!
+glass house True!
glass house
Every radio station should be made to play this awesome song at least once a day, or else!
It's more likely because there was so much competition in those days.
yep its too musical..too well written....
Still absolutely BRILLIANT!
The best UK New wave pubrock/powerpop band; and mr. Bram Tchaikovsky, a genius.
I liked the Motors, but really liked Bram Tchaikovsky more.
I saw these guys in Bakersfield California in December of 1977 opening up for Blue Oyster Cult. I became a fan instantly. That self titled album remains a favorite in my collection as does Bram's first solo effort which was unbelievably great!
Great double bill, never saw them live, B O C twice 1975 and 1988.
SAw them on Aug 25 1978 in The Marquee Club, Wardour Street.
U lucky cow. Superb band and tunes. Only 58 but getting used to their music. 👍
guitar interplay on this classic motors track is nothing short of amazing ,its a real shame they went down the commercial route by album 2 and lost a lot of the energy in their songs. This proves what a great band the Motors were.
All CD's with the Peel Sessions out now: The Motors - The Virgin Years - boxed set.
this was NME's single of the year 1977 as voted by their readers, believe it or not
The single was heavily edited so lost some of its 'bite'. This long version is just sublime (as it appears on the album).
Class!!!
Fantastic intro!.... reminds me of Sweet a tad.
Back in the time when you didnt have to look pretty...just play great fucking music...
I'm drawn back to this Motor's clip time and again. Saw Ducks Deluxe live at the Kent Uni during the mid 70's. Would loved to have seen the Motor's live. Perfect pub band.
superb!!!
Just discovered this, what a track. Great guitars, great harmonies, great song, just great!!
the whole motors 1st album is like this BUY it !! they went a bit popy after the 1st album but still good
Cheap Trick covered this on their Next Position Please album and did a good job of it.
One of the great mysteries is how this never got into the Top Ten, but crappy Boomtown Rats did.
CrankCase08, the Charts were rigged back then. Today, they serve no useful purpose whatsoever.
Actually, I liked the Rats in 77/78. The intro here (& on the 12" ) was really good and although a good song, didn't have the commercial pull of the Rats ' output. Airport, however, did. A hit and rightly so.
Boomtown Rats was crap ???...whatever...was much more garbage in glamour rock,etc...
@@mikikelpijanovic6408 No one but you made any such comparison, even though most people would laugh at your suggestion that the output of Slade and David Bowie was of "much more garbage".
Motors was great band and this song is fantastic but got really shit songs to
Ace performance!
Superb! A great honest band playing a heads down rocker...Fine songwriting by these lads...Bless em all.
Thank you for uploading. Merry Christmas everyone!
The Greatest Rock Band Ever 😎
Saw this outfit at the Music Machine, Camden. They were fucking splendid. 😊😊
My god .... musical craft at its best!
Memories!!!
Best ever underated rock song.
Reminds me so much of when I was skinny.
Bram Tchaikovsky! I saw the Motors open for Billy Idol waaaay back in the day.
One of my favourite Status Quo songs .............and that's meant as a compliment to both groups.
@tutenvanman2715. You may already know this. On Bram Tchaikovsky’s first solo album “Strange Man, Changed Man” (I think it’s called that), he covers Neil Diamond’s “I’m A Believer”. See if you can find the track. Bram and the band’s version is pure Status Quo! Stay safe and well.
a great band, saddled with "the next Beatles" tag by the musical press...never really got the success they deserved.
Hardly the next Beatles but a great early alternative band. This track rocks!
Well we all know many have been lumped into the pile of " next Beatles" and without doubt they all failed miserably.
I heard it too, what a shame their success was so limited 🌝
Saddled they're no where near
A band I always dismissed- actually a pretty great song.
They all look like they should be in different bands. Rocker, Mod and Punk. Good song though.
Pocker
Thats because they were a pub rock band
yes, that time not what people were told to like.
Great energy with this performance. Good old fashioned rock and roll !
Stick Beiber, and 1 direction in a cell and play this full volume for 24 hours solid.
Great band. Good times in 1977 when AC/DC UFO an The Motors blew my mind in Knoxville TN.
Favorite song ever
this band brings back so many memories!..brill!
Picked up a Motors "best of cd" just on the strength of this track ...best £5 i've spent for a while too !!
Take a trip back in a time machine, and bring it with you to the pub. Tell your mates about it and how much it cost. Play it on a honky-tonk piano. The tune can be "The Day I Spent a Fiver"!
Very impressed by the conviction from all four members putting something together too tough for pop but too slick for punk
Very underrated track. One of the best intros EVER.
I wholeheartedly agree mate, such a well crafted song.
I wholly agree.
True
Amen to that mate. Absolute stonker!
Great intro
What a performance.one of my fav’s on the whistle test.
Cool!