Mari Wilson - Just What I Always Wanted (Top Of The Pops 1982) Full track, redubbed. Please help support the channel, it is greatly appreciated: buymeacoffee.c... #TOTP #TopOfThePops #80smusic
I've just realised why it sounds so good: it was produced by genius Tony Mansfield, previously the lead singer of New Musik. He was almost as good a producer as Trevor Horn in my opinion.
...Ah, the 80s. For me the pinnacle of musical creativity and diversity. Genuine feel good pop music! Little wonder the country is in the state it is when you look at today's musical creativity!
Brilliant song, this song and singer did not get the recognition it deserved, I still like this song all these years on and I still play it at any disco's I do, brilliant Mari 👍👍👍
I don't think those of a younger disposition quite realise how big TOTP was back in the day ..... I mean, the world stopped at 7.30pm on Thursday nights when I was a lad because everyone flocked to the TV to watch the show and to hell with whatever else was going on. It was an institution and yeah, I miss it.
Thats true I remeber dropping whatever i was doing and running back home to catch it, it was THE most important t.v show. I used to get really annoyed if someone was talking in the living room when it was on too. Tomorrow's world was always on before TOTP.
The younger generation today would be in horror at the realisation we only had three tv channels..(before c4)...and no dedicated music channel. totp's WAS our music channel. Aahhh...Pans people..legs & co.. ;)...We also had our radio's tuned to pirate stations such as Rhonda...Jackie...Caroline...memories eh?
Saw her last night in Llandudno, she was supporting Level 42 and she, and her band were fabulous. Level 42 is like a great Christmas dinner, and their support acts are Fortnum and Mason crackers. I'd go and see her gigging in her own right. Great music.
One of those great songs from the 80s that people might not remember. Do some women marry for money or love. Money can get you the house and fancy car. The couple still have to be able to get on with each other. I watched Totps on a Thursday night with just 1 telly 📺 the size of a small box in the 80s Limerick Ireland.❤😅😊
Last night at work a colleague gave me a tray of stuff I really didn't want at 9 on a Friday evening. So, kind of sarcastically, I said to him "Thanks. Just what I always wanted." And within 2 seconds the pair of us were in synch singing the chorus from a certain 1982 'beehive' song. No prizes for guessing the song in question. But doesn't that show how foot-tapping, catchy, singalong music stays with you from decades ago......?
@@charles5596 Glad you appreciated it. That was about 6 weeks ago now, and the pair of us still sing "I've got...... just what I always wanted" whenever we walk past each other on the work floor!
@@areafiftyoneok Yeah but when ive seen her do her songs live theres no electronic instruments,just electric guitars,the traditional set up.Electro music had its place in the 80s in its full vain but its got so faded and derivative now
Mari has always been close to my heart. Loved her style and voice. Her show in Toronto in the early 80s was fabulously campy. We cheered like crazy. What a night and what a singer.
It was released as a single with no support in Australia. Showpeople album never made it here. This clip was only seen here in the mid 90s on TOTPops retro shows. It made the discerning few sit up.
I was 17 when this song came out. Trendy kid that I was, it was always the British music that I thought was the coolest. I sought out every import and combed news stands for issues of NME and Melody Maker. A friend of mine bought the import of Mari Wilson’s album and we loved the 60’s nostalgia, echoes of our childhood. Me and my friends went to see her at the once legendary, now defunct nightclub, The I-Beam on Haight Street in San Francisco. It was a night I still remember. We were young, dressed in thrift store vintage clothes, running with the in-crowd, our fingers on the pulse of the moment. What times those were...
Wow ....first few seconds and a wave of nostalgia comes flooding in.... born in mid 70s and had the pleasure of growing up in the 80s ... great song 🎵 ❤
I just posted in FB (I followed the link here) I worked in the Queens Hotel in Brighton and she needed hairspray. The Manager was able to ring the in house hairdresser and get some - no late night supermarkets in those days.
There were two really catchy songs in the charts in September 1982 which have been pretty much forgotten about: this was one of them, the other was Saddle Up by David Christie.
You may be interested to know that the actress Michelle Collins was one her Wilsations backing singers...but not here..you can look it up though..still performing,the hair not so high though...
love that last assault on the drums, like one of the backing singers got carried away with their gesticulations to the routine and backed into the drum kit, knocking it over lol. Love this, such a happy feelgood tune. Remember Mari recording a jingle for Mike Read based on it - Mike Read...just what I always wanted! Er, no ta.
I've included this on a new playlist I've just set up on RU-vid featuring what I'm calling less well-known 80s hits, the sort of songs you never hear on the 80s radio stations these days: ru-vid.com/group/PL6oCQqv2KW6XlQvjxSs0wvsjQrn9WXc9w
October 1982, Mari Wilson (at that time 28), had a brilliant UK No. 8 Hit, with a great performance, a great trumpet-solo in the middle and excellent drums. The song was written by Teddy Johns (Tot Taylor).
What a great song/singer. What happened to those sleek mics from 70s/80s? Never saw em again. Someone, please take me back to the 80s. I miss the 80s a lot.
Thought I knew all the 80s hits. This one feels like a different world existed at the time and it seems that it was Britain. Pop Hits in England sometimes strayed far from America's preferences. I really like this. Totally different from anything I've ever heard from the decade!
@@ColtraneTaylor It was probably influenced by Motown or Holly for sure...as were the Beatles...but it was a British songwriter. Also, the British went through a retro phase in the 80s . Stray Cats was an example of a group that was doing stuff at that time...but much of that was stuff I've never heard of before. The British retro genre was a very different genre. Tracey Ullman was the same exact thing. Never heard those songs in the US ever, but they were huge hits in the UK.
@@masterhendy I just like both US and UK tunes. I see a lot of close mindedness in both countries, even when the music sounds identical. That's incredible.
@@ColtraneTaylor Agreed. I like both. I blame it on the radio stations for not thinking outside the box. We only hear what the US radio stations think we want to hear (usually).
Back when pop music could rule the world. The backing singer in the middle looks like he's there to do a job rather than put on a show. And he looks a bit like the twitty bloke from Dirty Dancing, the boss man's son
she has the looks,the figure & the class,oh yea wot a great voice,love her music,she shouldve ruled the pop world instead of warbeling whitney houston,I nevet tire of this song 🙌
