It's fun to watch Debbie inserting some very Annette Funicello energy into a punk song. It's not all leather and spikes, yet it's still very punk. And there's a freshness to it that probably couldn't be repeated today.
Classic rock was getting so boring and then along came the Clash, Pistols, Ramones and Blondie and suddenly music was fun again! Thanks for this rare upload that I never seen before!
It's the only good part. She looks delicious in those pink pants. It's *so* obviously not live. They hardly seem to have tried to make it look like a live performance.
In The Sun Blondie Surf's up In the sun, I'm waiting for the day Having fun, in warm far away Moonlight nights, water seems so clear Ooh city lights while I'm still waiting here In the sun, it's for everyone In the sun, were gonna have some fun In the sun, were gonna shoot the tube I'll do it for you, my paka lola luau love New York isle is covered by grey Concrete piles, blues play my way Tropic haze, pineapple sky Perfect wave, hurricane eye In the sun, it's for everyone In the sun, were gonna have some fun In the sun, were gonna shoot the tube I'll do it for you, my paka lola luau love In the sun, it's for everyone In the sun, were gonna have some fun In the sun, were gonna shoot the tube I'll do it for you, my paka lola luau love Where is my wave? Where is my wave?
Even with the lip-sync (or maybe because of it?), this is just so kooky and brilliant. What a genius band. What an incredibly beautiful and talented singer.
Wow! What a find! What a great summer song! Samda - thank you so much for posting this rare gem. You deserve high praise for sharing this with the UA-cam world.. This was always one of my favorite songs! Surf's Up! As Debbie Harry shouts to open the song....
Hokily smokily, neigbor! I remember, my sister playing this song over and over we wore out our copy of "Blondie" (also Get the Knack, Rocket to RUssia, 1999, Candy-o, RUN-DMC, Off the Wall, etc etc.). I wish those days would come back once more, but I know those days had to go.
@80'sOldSchool,I saw this in '76,if you listen at the start there is canned applause,the mark of Don Kirshner,who in the 70's was King of TV Rock.He took heat mainly for the way he dressed and talked but nobody else was giving NY Dolls 20+mins. of tv time only Don.The BLONDIE piece is another example,this was performance art basically and Kirsh made it happen.
I was ready for retro music like this all throughout the 1990s and was still young enough to want to have really good times but this music was nowhere to be found until UA-cam came along. The 1990s saw the comeback of retro 70s music and 1990s Brit music has some good alternative at the time and that was the ripe time for music like this to be heard again. This is 1970s east coast version of surf punk if there was even enough of it to put it in a category by itself. Blondie should have returned to punk by the early 1980s not reggae.
Hi Damper do a little surfing on that big old internet and seek out ( it's not easy) mobile disco's of the late 60s( yes they existed then) and early 70s them DJs were absolutely gloriously avant-garde in finding tremendously obscure songs/ groups of music that never stood a chance of getting airplay but they dug deep and deeper and became pioneers or god's if you like and those bands and magnificent black vinyl 33/45rpm were definitely revolutionary Even by today's standards and those god's paved the way for clubs and venues worldwide including to introduce Blondie, Ramone's,Iggy Pop the list is endless but OMG you'll think you've died and gone to heaven good luck and keep in touch ( ps the non commercial sounds rock like no other music you've ever heard)....a little taster chk out Kraftwerks live debut in 68/69 and gauge the mortified audiences reaction!!!!
I know,so rare to get a true idea of her figure..She always left us trying to see more,like the turquoise blue capri romper shorts outfit that many call a bag,she is amazing and her figure is amazing.As soon as I seen her in tight Jeans,I had to click, but I love they're music too.lol..She sure was my type ...Hate aging...
@@danielfoster8949 i used to listen to Blondie in my paneled basement. It would get flooded during winter and then mold BUT, it was my happy place. I used dream of leaving the gray concrete city for a place in the sun and she only fueled that. Not like a perhaps kinda dream but a, I'm out of here. Life's too short. The hopeless struggle against the man is pretty much the same anywhere so, it might as well have beaches and surf. I have celebrated 25 years in Hawaii nei. The catalyst was this record. Smoke paka lolo in your parents basement or, find paka lolo luau love somewhere in the sun~ ○ ~
@@scratch5191 awwww Eric, what a sweet Blondie story. Wish I could go back in time to your moldy basement for some bud and Blondie w ya. Thanks pal. You made my day Edit: I love Stranger's With Candy too. Rock on Eric
@@danielfoster8949 I'm obsessed with Amy and the character of course. That show wouldn't even be made today. I'm glad I put some sunshine into someone's life. My pimp Comfort, isn't pleased with the economic situation. He's turning the screws today about pawning my kidneys into cash south of the border. You need at least one right?
@@scratch5191 LMAO. Yes Eric, you need to keep one kidney. Keep both if you consume cocktails. Jerry Blank would know how to make some coinage. Enjoy your pineapple skies!
I have bragging rights here! I only wished everyone had a camera like they do now. But in the summer of 1979. Blondie came to The Leroy Concert Theatre in Pawtucket, RI. (now a Walgreens) Me and my pal were in the 7th. or 8th. row. Rockpile opened. and I thought. :This won't cut it." so when Rockpile left I headed for the orchestra pit. and BANG! Front Row Center. When I turned around the pit was filled. Well. When In the Sun started. Debbie bent down and grabbed my hand and held it for a few lines.... WOW! Imagine a 17 y/o boy! and my pals, all the neighborhood older girls and even some Angles I knew that lived in the neighborhood that were in the opera boxes saw ME!!! But that aside! Debbie! Holding my hand by her choice! For several lines!
I remember watching this video when it was first aired late at night on NBC channel 4 in Los Angeles. Blondie was part of the American Punk movement contemporaries with the Ramnones. Both groups were influential in starting the mid 1970's Punk movement in England. The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Jam, The Boomtown Rats, The Damned, The Pretenders, The Police, and many other bands were part of that movement which was :"pasteurized" as the New Wave Movement by the Record companies who signed them.
Cool Chant ...... That's where I'll be....having Fun in the Sun!! SUN. BEACH, HAPPINESS, DANCING ON WAVES!! Time does not stop for anyone, so make the most of each precious moment like a glittering diamond... I'll be in the Sun with Wine, Music, Friends!
They weren't show on "Rock Concert" until 11/11/78, when the band was established. Valentine had gone then, of course. The clapping is indeed from the "Rock Concert" showing.
Yes. It would be good to see it on the official Blondie channel, but they only have the other 2 which we've all seen before. I'd have another go at cleaning it up for UA-cam, but I've now no way of getting VHS into my PC.
It wasn't shot in front of an audience. This was filmed in a small studio on 57th Street in NYC. The three promo videos were shot the same day and were done so that they could be shown on a TV show called Don Kirschner's Rock Concert.
Haha, this video is real fun. First Destri who is leaning on his keyboard, waving and laughing. And at the end Debbie who is singing without a microphone. And Chris Stein's bad moves (0:56!) of course.
Even today, I'm a little surprised how much Debbie wanted to be in a 1960s girl band. Here she and the boys are trying to look like they just stepped out of a 1967 beach movie. It's too bad that Debbie never teamed up with Mary Weiss from the Shangri-Las.
Who the hell in pop music in the mid 70s was making retro 1950s-inspired danceable surf pop? No wonder America was not ready for them till they did disco. That's a big shame!
They went disco after the popularity hit. I guess you would have to have been around then to know that. "The tide is high", gained them the disco crowd,but lost them their previous audience.
@slobomotion The first Blondie 45 (on Private Stock) is a mis-mash of 3 tracks - "X Offender", "In The Flesh" and "In The Sun". Which combination of 2 you got depends on the territory! "X Offender" and "In The Sun" are in different versions from the album on these releases.
i LOVE the way Debbie dances
Early Blondie is still the best.
@chak lee why?
I agree.
@@jquest43 Why not?
true
This Blondie throwback with Debbie Harry jumping around just improved my whole 2020 😍🤯
why do we have to get old? look at how much fun this is- even just to watch it. so much energy.
It still seems fresh today. It's timeless.
A whole lot fresher than what's going down in today's music scene..
Always the same trite comments, its surreal! Its fu*cking old, & dated ok, I mean VHS ffs! The tune is fun, just another moment in time.
Debbie was 33 yrs old when she did this. What a babe!
She was was still 31 when this song was actually recorded but, yeah..
It's fun to watch Debbie inserting some very Annette Funicello energy into a punk song. It's not all leather and spikes, yet it's still very punk. And there's a freshness to it that probably couldn't be repeated today.
Watching Debbie sing and jump around is so sweet. Love that girl!
Classic rock was getting so boring and then along came the Clash, Pistols, Ramones and Blondie and suddenly music was fun again! Thanks for this rare upload that I never seen before!
Well Blondie anyway.
Love it! And her dancing is adorable! :-)
yes!
Yep
It's the only good part. She looks delicious in those pink pants. It's *so* obviously not live. They hardly seem to have tried to make it look like a live performance.
She looks damn fine in those pink pants.
In The Sun
Blondie
Surf's up
In the sun, I'm waiting for the day
Having fun, in warm far away
Moonlight nights, water seems so clear
Ooh city lights while I'm still waiting here
In the sun, it's for everyone
In the sun, were gonna have some fun
In the sun, were gonna shoot the tube
I'll do it for you, my paka lola luau love
New York isle is covered by grey
Concrete piles, blues play my way
Tropic haze, pineapple sky
Perfect wave, hurricane eye
In the sun, it's for everyone
In the sun, were gonna have some fun
In the sun, were gonna shoot the tube
I'll do it for you, my paka lola luau love
In the sun, it's for everyone
In the sun, were gonna have some fun
In the sun, were gonna shoot the tube
I'll do it for you, my paka lola luau love
Where is my wave?
Where is my wave?
"Blues "pave" my way"
Even with the lip-sync (or maybe because of it?), this is just so kooky and brilliant. What a genius band. What an incredibly beautiful and talented singer.
That first album is SO GOOD
They seriously fused bubble-gum pop with punk and with serious New York personalities.
Its new wave
And Debbie was from NJ.
@@jquest43 More power pop than new wave, but yeah..
Puts on the shades...
there went my heart.
Lol.
Also when she sings:
'where is my wave?'
You can't help but love the girl...Peace
Love Her!!!!!!!! Never get tired of listening especially this song!!!!!
Debbie was so insanely gorgeous and her dancing was just adorable!
Wow! What a find! What a great summer song! Samda - thank you so much for posting this rare gem. You deserve high praise for sharing this with the UA-cam world.. This was always one of my favorite songs! Surf's Up! As Debbie Harry shouts to open the song....
gotta revisit this every year... 🔥🔥🔥💯
Debbie Harry oozed cool since day 1. She may have invented swag
Perfect tune for that blazing hot summer of 1976!!!!!!!!!!!! How appropriate for England 1976!!!!!!!!!
i hung out with her that summer.
@@holarc Lucky sod.
@@CIMAmotor yeah. it was a great time. she would call me. we even sat on each others beds. we made an art film together that spring.
Amazing clip this is!! Thanks so much for uploading it. I love discovering super rare clips of this amazing band that keep popping up on this site!
yes !what an adorable dance.
I HAVE ALWAYS LOVED DEBBIE HARRY AND BLONDIE HELL SHE HUNG OUT WITH WILLIAM S BURROUGHS ANDY WARHOL AND THE WHOLE 1970s NYC ARTISTS
i hung out with her, we even sat on one another's beds.
Never seen this - thanks for posting. Obviously done on the same set as X-Offender & In The Flesh.
Hokily smokily, neigbor!
I remember, my sister playing this song over and over we wore out our copy of "Blondie" (also Get the Knack, Rocket to RUssia, 1999, Candy-o, RUN-DMC, Off the Wall, etc etc.). I wish those days would come back once more, but I know those days had to go.
This is the song that made me think "These guys have something-they understand fun." Fun was pretty absent from music in those days.
True and It's also pretty absent these days..
@80'sOldSchool,I saw this in '76,if you listen at the start there is canned applause,the mark of Don Kirshner,who in the 70's was King of TV Rock.He took heat mainly for the way he dressed and talked but nobody else was giving NY Dolls 20+mins. of tv time only Don.The BLONDIE piece is another example,this was performance art basically and Kirsh made it happen.
Love her dancing
I was ready for retro music like this all throughout the 1990s and was still young enough to want to have really good times but this music was nowhere to be found until UA-cam came along.
The 1990s saw the comeback of retro 70s music and 1990s Brit music has some good alternative at the time and that was the ripe time for music like this to be heard again.
This is 1970s east coast version of surf punk if there was even enough of it to put it in a category by itself. Blondie should have returned to punk by the early 1980s not reggae.
I'm glad You tube wasn't around until well after I finished High School - otherwise I would have completed even less homework....
This is new wave
Hi Damper do a little surfing on that big old internet and seek out ( it's not easy) mobile disco's of the late 60s( yes they existed then) and early 70s them DJs were absolutely gloriously avant-garde in finding tremendously obscure songs/ groups of music that never stood a chance of getting airplay but they dug deep and deeper and became pioneers or god's if you like and those bands and magnificent black vinyl 33/45rpm were definitely revolutionary Even by today's standards and those god's paved the way for clubs and venues worldwide including to introduce Blondie, Ramone's,Iggy Pop the list is endless but OMG you'll think you've died and gone to heaven good luck and keep in touch ( ps the non commercial sounds rock like no other music you've ever heard)....a little taster chk out Kraftwerks live debut in 68/69 and gauge the mortified audiences reaction!!!!
Wow, Debbie looks great in jeans
I know,so rare to get a true idea of her figure..She always left us trying to see more,like the turquoise blue capri romper shorts outfit that many call a bag,she is amazing and her figure is amazing.As soon as I seen her in tight Jeans,I had to click, but I love they're music too.lol..She sure was my type ...Hate aging...
Brilliant.
I just saw one of the best Blondie shows ever last night. They still rock it after all these years.
They just did Coachella last weekend. ❤🎉
I could easily watch this all day...
Bravo! Nicely done Blondie.
"My pakalolo luau love" is so great !
Right? I looked it up, did my research. Love Blondie
@@danielfoster8949 i used to listen to Blondie in my paneled basement. It would get flooded during winter and then mold BUT, it was my happy place. I used dream of leaving the gray concrete city for a place in the sun and she only fueled that. Not like a perhaps kinda dream but a, I'm out of here. Life's too short. The hopeless struggle against the man is pretty much the same anywhere so, it might as well have beaches and surf. I have celebrated 25 years in Hawaii nei. The catalyst was this record. Smoke paka lolo in your parents basement or, find paka lolo luau love somewhere in the sun~ ○ ~
@@scratch5191 awwww Eric, what a sweet Blondie story. Wish I could go back in time to your moldy basement for some bud and Blondie w ya. Thanks pal. You made my day
Edit: I love Stranger's With Candy too. Rock on Eric
@@danielfoster8949 I'm obsessed with Amy and the character of course. That show wouldn't even be made today. I'm glad I put some sunshine into someone's life. My pimp Comfort, isn't pleased with the economic situation. He's turning the screws today about pawning my kidneys into cash south of the border. You need at least one right?
@@scratch5191 LMAO. Yes Eric, you need to keep one kidney. Keep both if you consume cocktails. Jerry Blank would know how to make some coinage. Enjoy your pineapple skies!
This song is just too much fun!!!
Thanks so much for posting this! What a wonderful suprise...Just brilliant..
Debbie dances and sings like she is in love
Front and Center. Blondie music will always be with me.
Damn, what a find. Thanks!
"Hey! Let's do a video this afternoon!" Love it.
woaw never seen this before THANK YOU
oh my i forgot about this song.................ty for sharing its wonderful :)
Brilliant film !!!!
I have bragging rights here! I only wished everyone had a camera like they do now. But in the summer of 1979. Blondie came to The Leroy Concert Theatre in Pawtucket, RI. (now a Walgreens) Me and my pal were in the 7th. or 8th. row. Rockpile opened. and I thought. :This won't cut it." so when Rockpile left I headed for the orchestra pit. and BANG! Front Row Center. When I turned around the pit was filled. Well. When In the Sun started. Debbie bent down and grabbed my hand and held it for a few lines.... WOW! Imagine a 17 y/o boy! and my pals, all the neighborhood older girls and even some Angles I knew that lived in the neighborhood that were in the opera boxes saw ME!!! But that aside! Debbie! Holding my hand by her choice! For several lines!
You lucky MoFo! Awesome story. Good for you buddy!
Superb!
I remember once in concert she sang at the end of this song " where is my wave... New Wave!" loved them!
i CANT stop drooling over Debbie. Her and Jimmy was totally funny yes!
Sublime Debbie .
Clem Burke should be in the hall of fame for his drumming.
The best of days past 💓
These guys were good...
Genius👌
They were trend setters ! Todays pop musicians are boring !
Love this, love seeing Jimmy Destri and Gary Valentine, too. Surf's up!
You just knew this was going to be something big starting here so much energy and style debbie has many wannabees you can not touch the real thing.
Great video and song! I love Blondie!!!
This is so amazing.
musicisbrilliant IT'S JERSEY
I remember watching this video when it was first aired late at night on NBC channel 4 in Los Angeles. Blondie was part of the American Punk movement contemporaries with the Ramnones. Both groups were influential in starting the mid 1970's Punk movement in England. The Sex Pistols, The Clash, The Jam, The Boomtown Rats, The Damned, The Pretenders, The Police, and many other bands were part of that movement which was :"pasteurized" as the New Wave Movement by the Record companies who signed them.
Blondie was new wave,which came along with punk rock..and yes i was there.
Never seen this before - it's great. Gary Valentine rocks and Debbie well was the Queen of New York.
Love this song. The video is great!
Please a ticket to the seventies! One way.
Ahhhh she's so cute!
Awesome!!!!
thank for this rare clip
Debbie Harry always looked like she was having fun.
I listened song three times with pleasure
OMFG!!!! where did u get this video!!! i always thought that they never made a video for In the Sun, THANK YOU!!!!!
Cool Chant ...... That's where I'll be....having Fun in the Sun!!
SUN. BEACH, HAPPINESS, DANCING ON WAVES!!
Time does not stop for anyone, so make the most of each precious moment like a glittering diamond... I'll be in the Sun with Wine, Music, Friends!
Yeah these guys were great. Video is good, really raw.
Blondie-always NO.1!
They weren't show on "Rock Concert" until 11/11/78, when the band was established. Valentine had gone then, of course. The clapping is indeed from the "Rock Concert" showing.
To all those HIPSTERS with no talent,stop trying to reinvent the wheel by calling this bubble gum pop or "power pop"! Its not! ITS NEW WAVE!
Kinda friggin Amazing !!
I think she waited on me at Max'd Kansas City! What a doll...
This sound is so fun.I love it
She was just so cute and groovy.
Fantastic .... thanks for posting xx
Still here in 2021! 💯
I wish there was a remastered version of this video, maybe one day
Yes. It would be good to see it on the official Blondie channel, but they only have the other 2 which we've all seen before. I'd have another go at cleaning it up for UA-cam, but I've now no way of getting VHS into my PC.
They rocked that shit! 🙏🙏🙏💯
maybe one of her best songs,shame there is no longer version of this song
0:10 SAATANA!!!
Cute dancing from Debbie
PUNK NOT DEAD
1977 ! very nice
haha sweet Debbie at the 0:23 loking around and "may i go?"
"SURF'S UP"
Quelle belle petite Nana c'était, un plaisir pour les yeux et les oreilles .
It wasn't shot in front of an audience. This was filmed in a small studio on 57th Street in NYC. The three promo videos were shot the same day and were done so that they could be shown on a TV show called Don Kirschner's Rock Concert.
With founding member, Gary Valentine on Bass. He left before their big success.
I wonder what happened at 0:21 , looks like she kicked something and was like "oh shit", and then started singing LOL
I think she kicked the mic cord and she wanted to make sure she didn't trip over it when she started jumping around.
The mid have only a small cord working as antenna, I don´t know the model
gmansi
Well, her cord isn't an antenna. you can see it hanging all the way to the floor.
+Olaf Prot Oh yes !! Sorry, now I watched on the notebook!!
Don't know what happened, but the moment is way too cool!
Beautiful. She could wear the hell out of some pink jeans.
Haha, this video is real fun. First Destri who is leaning on his keyboard, waving and laughing.
And at the end Debbie who is singing without a microphone.
And Chris Stein's bad moves (0:56!) of course.
Reint Boven mmmmmmmm side sliding moonwalk!!!!!
Even today, I'm a little surprised how much Debbie wanted to be in a 1960s girl band. Here she and the boys are trying to look like they just stepped out of a 1967 beach movie. It's too bad that Debbie never teamed up with Mary Weiss from the Shangri-Las.
I know. They weren't exactly hardcore punk. More pop melodic punk.
I can get jiggy with this!
Who the hell in pop music in the mid 70s was making retro 1950s-inspired danceable surf pop? No wonder America was not ready for them till they did disco. That's a big shame!
Blondie is rock band!
When I said pop music, I meant popular music which includes rock, pop, everything you hear on the radio.
*****
Oky stu.
They went disco after the popularity hit. I guess you would have to have been around then to know that.
"The tide is high", gained them the disco crowd,but lost them their previous audience.
Bruce Cunningham
some disco was not too bad but "tide is high" was reggae and bottom crawler material. this song is surf punk and awesome.
“Shot the tube” 25 years ago!
Best thing I ever did!!
@slobomotion The first Blondie 45 (on Private Stock) is a mis-mash of 3 tracks - "X Offender", "In The Flesh" and "In The Sun". Which combination of 2 you got depends on the territory! "X Offender" and "In The Sun" are in different versions from the album on these releases.