Sunnyboys were frozen orange flavoured drinks that came in a pyramidal shaped tetra pack that us Aussie kids enjoyed in the 70's and 80's. No doubt thats where they got the name from, and if you got lucky when you finished the drink you opened up the wrapper and found yellow writing inside telling you that you "got a lucky" and you could take the wrapperr back to the shop for a free one. Obviously they were also a ripping 60's moddish styled rock band as you have already seen. Happy Man also a great song.
Cool to see you guys coming around to Sunnyboys. By the way, it was lovely to see you guys speaking live and interacting with us during the stream. I've only had four hours of sleep, but I am fine as long as I don't drive 😆 This is a sentimental song. It always takes me back to the summer of 81/82 with my first boyfriend. We both loved this song. The last song we both shared a loved for was ''Almost With You'' by The Church. ''Happy Man'' and ''Show Me Some Discipline'' are two other goodies.
I saw these guys at the Meredith Music Festival in 2012. I was there to see much younger bands, and was slow to pick up on the magic that these Sunny older gentlemen possessed.. but they grew on me. Jeremy Oxley was as cute as a puppy back in the day, and reminds me of a big teddy bear today. I have all their albums on vinyl. Some of his lyrics are a little telling of his state of mind at the time, but they're all great songs. So This Is real, You Need A Friend, Happy Man, Trouble In My Brain, I Can't Talk To You, Comes As No Surprise and Love In A Box need to be added to your 'gotta listen' playlist
Such a wonderful couple. I can see the reaction from both and it shows just how music touches them. Always love you guys listening to Aussie music, we do have a lot of pride in our artists.
when i first moved to australia from california, i fell into an australian music rabbit hole and one of the bands that impressed me most was sunnyboys. a lot of young girls at their concerts back then. i got to see the group again in 2018 and noticed a lot of older women and their young daughers cheering the band on. but i also saw groups of young people that seemed to be there on their own admission. great band, timeless music...
I still love Sunnyboys to this day, and have never stopped listening to their music. I would love to share stories about seeing and interacting with the boys, but it's uninspiring when all I got to go by is the LP cover on screen as the visual accompaniment. I used to see these boys play just prior to them being swooped up by the illustrious Mushroom records. Jeremy and Pete Oxley (the two guys on the right hand side of this blue album cover) were very funny and great to hang out with. I played pool with the drummer, Bil Bilson (the second from the left) and he was also a humorous fella. You can't tell their characters by that image. It doesn't capture the spirit of the band. I'm happy to see you have both enjoyed this song. Seeing this on Countdown for the first time was quite an amazing moment. I wish you guys had watched it instead of just listening to the song. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-g2uupKeQCgM.html&ab_channel=Austech
I made a post saying that I enjoy watching them listen to the music, which I do to a certain extent, but I enjoy having the option of seeing a video too.
No dig at the couple, but I was thinking the same thing. It's a different matter if the video is too poor for viewing or doens't exist. That clip was handed to them, and it seems like it was overlooked. I don't view reaction videos just to see people listening because it causes me to feel either awkward or bored.
Am I being odd… when this came out I thought if someone’s singing “I’m alone with you tonight…” surely that person knows that. EVERYONE in my class however loved the Sunnyboys (named after an iced-treat - an orange flavoured cordial, in a pack shaped like a pyramid. You would freeze it, the peel the a corner off and slowly eat the orange ice).
Great song and great band. I was in a surfing competition with singer Jeremy Oxley back in the mid 70's. Jeremy kicked my butt. He and his brother Pete formed The Sunnyboys a few years later, and Jeremy proved to not only be a good surfer, but also a good songwriter and a guitarist to boot. It was great to see him have success in music, and it was pretty crap to see him fall apart. I will refrain from reading comments because I am very defensive when it comes to this band. Anybody that was close to this group would be.
@@AshleyBaker-ll2ug We live in a world were the Gallagher brothers of Oasis are revered, and the Oxley brothers of Sunnyboys are not. At this stage of my life, hardly anything surprises me.
Excellent Aussie power pop band reminiscent of the 60s as well as the late 70s/early 80s. Their first three albums with their original line up are great!
So This Is real, You Need A Friend, Happy Man, Trouble In My Brain, I Can't Talk To You, Comes As No Surprise and Love In A Box are all my favourites, so yeah.. Fill your ears with those jams!
@@sean---the-other-one - 'I Was In Jeopardy' *still* is the only Greg Kihn Band song I know today, 40 years later! 😅 Are you able to name me the titles of some more of their bangers? 😀
@@mightyV444 The Breakup Song was the big one here in Australia for the GKB, but if you like Jeopardy there’s a ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic parody I Lost On Jeopardy which isn’t as funny in Australia because we didn’t have that game show, although we see enough American tv to be aware of the rough format. Anyhow, The Breakuo Song was a great tune that tapped into that feeling of not have no got over a love when you’re out for the evening.
@@sean---the-other-one - LOL! I was actually thinking of that game show while typing the song title! "I was on 'Jeopardy'!" 😄 No surprises that Weird Al got his hands on that one, too! 😅 And thank you for the 'Breakup Song' suggestion, Sean! Will check it out in a mo'! 😉👍 Cheers from NZ! 😊 *Edit:* I've heard that song before! Just never knew this was by the Greg Kihn Band! 😄
Have seen the Sunnyboys twice this year on their final tour. Sadly lead singer Jeremy Oxley is no longer up to it. First gig was at the factory in Marrackville with youngest daughter and the second with older daughter and a whole mob of school mates at Dee Why RSL. Always loved these guys and so sad we won't be seeing them live anymore. :(
As much as I enjoy it, this one is maybe a bit more fondly remembered as nostalgia than as a great song. Back in the 70s and into the 80s us school kids would go to the tuck shop (canteen) and buy flavoured ice blocks in tetra-shapes. There were a number of flavours like cola or orange or whatever, and each flavour had a name. Sunnyboy was the name for the orange flavour, if I remember, but someone here will correct me. This band reminds me of that era, like Flash & The Pan or Tommy Tutone, but it’s hard to say why this song still ensures today. It’s pretty simple garage band rock, not much more. Still, glad it came up. Another great memory from the Aussie band scene of the pubs and radio in that era. It
G'day Sean, Sorry to be the one to correct you, but from my memory, Sunnyboy was the title of that type of pyramid shaped icebloke. Gillian (my sister who also comments on here as LiveItUp) and I used to get Sunnyboy iceblokes on those hot summer days - especially around December/January. Like you, we also got them from the tuck shop. We all thought it was cute that the new band in Sydney were calling themselves Sunnyboys. There's more to their songs and lyrics than simple garage rock.
@@I_was_a_Countdown_Kid-75-83 Yes, I said it was tetra shaped, meaning a tetrahedron, or a triangular pyramid. The packs were called tetrapaks, and these are the most efficient way of storing something with the minimum surface area of the package (according to my older brother). They were essentially a tube where the top hole was sealed at 90 degrees opposite to the bottom hole. As to The Sunnyboys musicality, this song shows glimpses, such as the solo chord structure as pointed out in the video, and the solo itself. The arpeggios and three chords of the verse/chorus and the melody that follows the chords are very simple. That being said, it’s a fond memory for me, feels like summer in Melbourne with Chiko Rolls and dim sims and Space Invaders and pinballs and swimming pools and dragsters and all the rest.
@@I_was_a_Countdown_Kid-75-83 I see what you’re saying, that Sunnyboys we’re the name of that treat. I don’t actually think that’s totally accurate. Just like Hoover or Xerox or Bic, Sunnyboys became the name we used to refer to these things as, but it was only one flavour. Glug was another, I think that was the cola version.
@@sean---the-other-one Well, you seem to know more than I do about that particular icebloke. I grew up in Elwood, and was a regular Countdown studio attendee back in the 70's and 80's. Sounds like you were also a teenage Melburnian around the same time I was...
@@I_was_a_Countdown_Kid-75-83 I was born late 60s and grew up in the outer Eastern suburbs. I knew some girls who went to Countdown but it never seemed like something my parents would’ve let me do so I didn’t even ask. 😂
They sound like some Australian Crawl music. Errol, a song about Errol Flynn was very popular. Unpublished Critics a bit more sophisticated and Reckless is an absolute Aussie Classic
I missed these guys in their heyday coz babies can't go to gigs, but I caught up with them in 2012, 2018, 2020-something.. 💗this song. Check out ''You need friend'' and ''Show me Some Discipline''. They're also cool oz rock gems! Ciao!
Cool song! 😀👍 Reminds me of bands like Fischer Z and XTC but remotely also of 'Don't Fear The Reaper' by Blue Oyster Cult 😊 By the way, C&C: The Smiffs' bassist Andy Rourke sadly had passed away only very recently, which may be apt responding to with one of their songs, maybe 'There Is a Light That Never Goes Out ', 'Bigmouth Strikes Again', or 'Hand In Glove' (all 2011 Remaster versions) 🙂
Hey guys! Just discovered your channel. I enjoy this type of content a lot. Could you guys react to Feather Fur and Fin by Danny Michel? He’s got to be the most underrated musician in the world, super talented and makes such great music but he never really blew up. But he’s a super great person and really cool. I think you’ll love Feather Fur and Fin
I've also created a video that combines both The Mixtures and Mungo Jerry's ''The Pushbike Song''. I got the idea when reading through comments and a couple of people were talking about The Mixtures and Mungo Jerry. I found a good video for ''The Pushbike Song'' by The Mixtures in my archive, and I used some Paul Hogan clip with Mungo Jerry's version. The thing is, I can't even get this damn video to show up in the youtube search results. If I suggest it to you, you won't be able to find it, because it doesn't show. If you want to compare Mungo Jerry's ''In The Summertime'' (the video on Mungo Jerry's official channel is just fine) with The Mixtures' version of ''In The Summertime'', please use the title below for The Mixtures version. The video is cute and more entertaining than any of the other videos on YT. Mixtures - In the summertime (Album edit) Glen McBride (Mungo Jerry cover)
Gotta love “the Boys”. Great Aussie rock band. If you like this song get the blue self titled album it’s on. Plenty of songs better than this. Try I’m Shakin.
Try ''Happy Man'', ''I Can't Talk To You'', ''You Need A Friend'', ''This Is Real'', ''Trouble In My Brain''. I used to follow the Sunnies during this period, and they were a lot of fun to see live. It stopped being fun when singer/guitarist, Jeremy Oxley, began showing signs of schizophrenia - on stage and in person. After thirty years of relative obscurity, he came back from the wilderness with the original Sunnyboys and some good shows. There are some trailers of the documentary about Jeremy called ''The Sunnyboy'' on RU-vid. They're one of my favourite bands of that time period, and their first two records mean a lot to me. Cheers, Hayley
@@I_was_a_Countdown_Kid-75-83 - Thank you also for *that* recommendation! 😊 I listened to 'Happy Man' and had to think of 'The Hardest Button To Button' by the White Stripes; Maybe Jack White had heard that song, too!? 😄
I made a suggestion for three Sunnyboys videos yesterday. Scrap it please. I can't get these videos to even show in the RU-vid search results. I tried various video titles and tags, and the videos still do not show up in the youtube search results. It's frustrating because at this point, I had no problem having ''audio + video merge 2023'' attached to the title of any of the videos I made for the RemasteredVersions channel. Now I am not able to even have my latest videos show up first in the youtube search results. You have to press update to see them. So please just delete these suggestions. Please don't react to the songs alone. I put these together with the videos. It took a bit of work. They're fine songs, but I think the videos enhance something. I just need to find a way to make these videos to show up in the search results first. Please just delete these titles from your request list. Sunnyboys - Trouble In My Brain / Alone With You (2 in 1. Good Quality for reaction channels) Sunnyboys - It's A Sunny Day (Good for reaction channels) Sunnyboys - No Love Around (Good quality for reaction channels)
I'm almost a 100% certain I haven't heard 'Man Overboard' since the year it was released, so it would certainly be cool if C&C *did* check it out and I'd rediscover it that way, too! 😀👍
@@Green_N_Blue_monster I enjoy reaction videos when they're looking at the same motion picture that I am looking at. I agree. I hope they watch the Man Overboard video because that video captures my world in the mid 80's in Sydney.
