The school uniform is from Brentwood High. I was a fellow student and our art teacher was Steve Cummings' girlfriend - I think she may be in this clip. We were lucky enough to have the Sports play at a school assembly prob 1977! My respect for our art teacher went up about a million decibels!
As patriotic as I am I don't care that they're Australian, music is meant to be enjoyed by everyone anywhere in the world regardless of where they're from and listening to The Sports, you'd have to be tone deaf not to enjoy their music. Great band.
@@misterdavid5400 Lucky person ! I would have loved to have seen them , but never did . The Playroom...is that where you saw them ? Is it called that ?
@@misterdavid5400 I saw Gangajang there in the mid - late 80's....seeing The Sports there would have been awseome !! Noooooo....tearing down too many of my memories...lol. Nostalgia before progress , I say !! xxx
@@freeagent8225 The more I look at The Sports and Steven Cummings style I get a really strong feeling Australian Crawl were basically a Sports clone band. I didn't notice this as a kid, but as an adult it really sticks out.
You know, I kind of miss these energetic no-frills band performance videos before MTV. In America there were lots of syndicated video clip shows that aired these.
Peaked as high as No. 45 on the US Billboard Hot 100 in 1979. A great song with a great guitar, drum, and piano best to it all, along with great vocal work.
That voice of Stephen Cummings just makes me shudder, what a talent, him and James Reyne are just the top of male voices. I have the albums, they are AMAZING, pure talent, we in Australia are so lucky to have.
Not bad at all. How about yourself? I've been developing my 'nzoz' channels on my free time and just managed to finish the bulk of the 1960's nzoz channels. To see my work, just type nzoz music in the search. Sadly, I missed that recent Sports reunion gig.. you guys didn't seem to make it to Sydney!
Class band... Went to secondary school In the city from '80-84 ...quite often you'd see a member of Sports in a music book n record shop in one of the alleyways back then ...it was a buzz ...I was in a garage band messy about and we'd try n cover sports n dragon songs and the hits of the day....Jenny 8675309...the sports were the best tho : )
Great song and I heard for the first time today on August 15, 2022. Reminds me of combination of Joe Jackson and a touch of Andrew Gold’s Lonely Boy. 2 of my favorite bands from Australia are: Midnight Oil and Jet.
FAB Im 12 Criminally underrated Aussie band from the classic era. the bassist looks like Lenny Kaye from Patti Smith Group. The singer looks like Rob Lowe.
Hi Paul,loved your drumming with" the Sports",the band was a class act..thank you for inspiring me when I was a young drummer and I played along to all those catchy tunes...Gaz
I saw these guys open for Rachel Sweet roughly 40 years ago. I was in love with Rachel Sweet and had plans to marry her. The Sports were obviously seasoned musicians and were pushing 30. Having them open for a 16 year old singer was a tad unfair. She was great, but her hard work on stage looked like second nature to the Aussie band that supported her.
They fell into a funny period. They were pub rockers, ageing hippies and Beefheart fans that had to give up their early 70's rock leanings for a more 'New Wave' approach. My uncle witnessed a young punk spit at Ed Bates (their previous bearded guitarist), only to have him jump off the stage and throttle the offending punk. He was replaced by a more hip Martin Armiger (blonde guitarist in clip). Even with him and their toying with Elvis Costello, The Cars, Graham Parker, etc; they only got to go so far. Shame... they could have done better if it wasn't for that cultural cringe and Australian inferiority complex that plagued Aussie bands like this at the time. INXS took a fair bit from these guys in their early days, and Nick Cave's old band The Boys Next Door used to open for them.
Tracy Pew and Phil Calvert of The Boys Next Door/The Birthday Party (Nick Cave's first band) are the two boys with the school girl at the beginning of this clip. Rumour has it that the schoolgirl is future Kath and Kim star Gina Riley, who was dating Tracy Pew at the time.
awesome song, thanks Just so-ooo good! Always loved The Sports.... He's even copying the knock-kneed pose of Elvis Costello on the front of This Year's Model
They are the top male voices this country has by far, check out their recordings, one can listen to Stephen and James ALL day and NEVER tire of their AMAZING voices
school girl = Gina Riley, later of Kath And Kim bleach blonde schoolboy = Phill Calvert of The Birthday Party 2:59 in the middle of Phill and Gina is the late Tracey Pew of The Birthday Party
was gonna say the same thing, this might be a demo version.... nice version and great clip too... is this a demo Paul ? if you see this post...... i seem to remember the 'can't keep time BS' when you parted ways... could be mistaken but i saw u live a few times and your playing on the records is first class..... are u still playing ??
Weird. This isn't the version of this song used in WKRP in Cincinnati, and not the version played on Alternative radio here (in the U.S.). Can anyone explain for me?
This is actually the original 45rpm single version which, sadly enough, is no longer played on any radio station around the world (including Australia), and all I've ever heard is just the re-recorded version (which in itself is not that bad and I quite like it), but I would've thought they might give some consideration to playing this original version, but so far in my recollections they haven't. Oh I love that WKRP In Cincinnati, one of my favourite shows, and one of the best-ever comedy series ever put on canvas!
