Oh my god, This Equals song is so dynamite, plus, the ladies in this 1968 Top of the Pops were super gorgeous and natural, no tattoos, no piercings and no plastic surgery!!
I love this footage from Top of the Pops. Dancing in the audience is a guy called Russel who used to dance with me in San Antonio, Ibiza way back in around 1968 I think. He said his Dad was a camera-man on Top of the Pops. Every Thursday after that me and my Mum would go "Russel spotting" to see if he was dancing in the show. No video recording equipment in those days! It was great to see him strut his stuff once again. If you are reading this Russel you may just remember me from that holiday in 1968-ish. Cheers from me Carol, the Scottish girl u used to dance with and no romance involved! ❤❤😂
It was years before I realised Eddy Grant was in the Equals! I was quite young when this came out but I remember it well. Great tune. Eddy certainly looked different when he grew dreads
It's so ashamed that in the US mainstream oldies leave so many gems like this off their playlists because they were not #1 or a top 5 or top 10 hits. It's a disservice to the public in not playing them. In the 70s before stations went corporate they did play this and I got my 45 around 1975 which I still have. Gems like this make my eyes watery now days. After Eddy Grant had "Electric Avenue" in 1983, interest in this song was revived and it got some airplay again.
I'm 70 and when I heard this song it's like I heard it for the first time even though I've heard a million times I still think the 50s 60s 70s and 80s where the best musical breakthrough times in my lifetime it was the best time
OMG LOVE this song...listen to it EVERYDAY when I was heading to the hospital to see my husband who was recovering from a stroke/brain aneurysm & this brought a smile to my scared face...Thank You for this song & God bless!
@@rasichap It has the rhythm guitar "skank" playing the "ands" in "1 and 2 and 3 and 4 and" which is the trademark of ska. I don't know any ska with think drum beat, or that's quite so heavy-bass. Music categories only exist to help describe music, and we could describe this as basically a soul tune but with a ska skank on the guitar. If you made the skank more prominent, you'd start to have to call it soul-influenced ska, but since it's a bit low in the mix, I'd go with ska-influenced soul.
Back in the sixties at a wedding party or similar, if no-one was dancing, the DJ put this on. Guaranteed to get people on to the dance floor. Happy memories for me.
WOOOOOW!Brilliant,great voice by Eddy!My favourite lovely song,famous excellent sounds by Equals!Makes me feel young again,touched my💖!Thanks!💖💙😍💗🎙🎸🎸🎸🥁🎶💛💚🌞💞💕💙👌👍✌
I was 14 at the time, me and my mate was watching them through slightly open curtains (stood on their van) at our local social club, a band member came out, called us down and took us in to watch them, free entry. Great days
Wow ... Child of the '80s so late to the game here. I had no idea that Eddie Grant's career reached this far back until youtube started suggesting videos by The Equals to me. What an incredibly groovy band I am just now discovering 50 years on from their heyday!!
Really great bouncy tune and beat. All these years later I think it's a great song for dancing modern jive and salsa to. PS this record Equals a great dance experience!😂
Anno 68,in un bar del pallonetto,questa musica gettonata da una romantica compagna,si riversava nel vicolo stretto e affollato,erano gli anni della migliore gioventù e questo brano ingratamente era diventato inno ad un amore perduto!
You gotta love Eddie Grant. This song in '68. Fast forward to 1984 and Electric Avenue. A sixteen year gap. Perseverance paid off for him. Both are really good songs.
Some people have commented that Eddy Grant had already left "The Equals," but he was present on first guitar left of lead singer, and not leaving group until 1971 following a vehicle crash.
