I can feel my driving skills getting better by the second. The gears, the stick shift, the dynamic between my car, obstacles, pursuers... Thanks Egyptian Reggae.
I've had this tune in my head for more than forty years and I never knew it was a Top 10 hit. And now after all this time I finally have a name for it!
I've known it since 1978, we were preparing to move to Neustadt, it was played a lot on the radio, it was simply superb, nothing to do with today's music
You should listen to other Jonathan Richman songs, buddy. Everyday Clothes I Was Dancing in the Lesbian Bar Parties in the USA That Summer Feeling A whole wealth of music to discover! :)
@@understandingnothing2445 This discussion made me look it up: "None Shall Escape The Judgement" by Earl Zero, also performed by Johnny Clarke. I still like Richman's record too!
To be exact, this is a 1977 song. I remember it quite well because I was in hospital after a very devastating car accident and it was being continually being played on my radio.
When I first heard this tune in the late 70z on radio I thought it was really exotic and something out of the ordinary. It still is nearly 50 years later!
I was so sad to find out that Egyptian Reggae was just the name of a song xD I was expecting it to be some super weird niche genre. Literally reggae but done by Egyptians with an Egyptian sound. I'm always in search of the weirdest types of music. Someone needs to get on inventing that.
Wow , takes me right back to my school days or skoo as we called it doing the dance to it and thinking we’re the bees knees . Oh the laughs we had back then and all the memories, how time flies . I’ll always look back on those days and think “ yes we were the bees knees “ all locked in my heart forever ❤
This is the first time I've heard this in 45 years. I've had some derivative of this stuck in my head for decades and never knew it came from an actual song. I thought I just made it up.
I heard this tune in a TV ad about 30 years ago. Never knew it was a band that did it nor its name. Saw on a TV repeat tonight.. now I know!! But I've always remembered the tune in my head as I thought it would be great music for a western!
At last! I've been trying to find this tune on and off for ages. Imagine my chagrin at finding that it's a modern Lovers tune. I last heard it at RAF Coningsby in 1978 as an Air Cadet.
Since my wife introduced me to flamenco via the series Las Adventuras de Gato con Botas (The Adventures of Puss in Boots. We've been enjoying the series together during supper recently), I immediately noticed the similarity when I started listening to this song this evening but couldn't quite put it into words.
For me, this is one of the all time great tunes. I never tire of it. That bass line is insane. Reminds me of Johnny Clarke's "None Shall Escape The Judgement", which predates this by a few years (1974).
I first heard this tune about 35 years ago. My dad had a copy. I haven’t heard it in over 25 years and couldn’t remember what it was called. By Googling all sorts of variants on 1970s/Egyptian/ instrumental etc I finally found it, only to realise that this was the guy that did the songs in Theres Something About Mary which, through all these years, I never knew.
I never saw baby driver but I had this recommended to me a while ago around the time it released because I seem to like movie soundtracks. I am so glad that I found this
Ahh it is coming back to me now. A very vague memory in the depths of time. A compilation album of various artists. This song was on that album. That was how I first discovered this amazing tune.
okt 31, exhibition at barcelona museo of dessiny, saw the wallpaper art "jonathan richman and the modern lovers". I was the only one in the room who knew the band, and that song is in my head - again - since then...
Qu'es que je l'aime...c'est inouï, ça fait depuis 1998 j'avais découvert ce style de reggae, et j'aime toujours autant bravo et merci je me suis bien régale. ..
It was unique bur we got one offs like this many times that was the seventies and eighties great musictunes and know one knows how to create great tunes cheers .
40 years on, & my sister & I are going to get together,& recreate the Wilson, Kepple& Betty dance, with an ambulance on standby. At nearly 70, I think we'll be ok..xx
I was just preparing dinner when this tune popped up in the back of my head. Must have been 40 years since I last heard it on the radio! Yes, I'm weird. 😳
great tune- i heard it in a movie around 35 years ago (what movie?), havent been able to trace or name it (or shake the tune from my head). Heard it last night on Rogue Heroes- looked up the sound track and find its name!
First time I heard this was a school play I went to at the old Quarry Bank School for Girls in Rose Lane (now Tesco). I was just six at the time and Eunice (whose school it was) was twelve. Legs & Co did a sand dance routine to it on TOTP. The song sort of harks back to when Britain had a presence in Egypt I think.
Great video. So simple. So chilled. Great tune. I remember reading Christine by Stephen King so many years ago now. Every chapter references a rock band and song too. Specifically lyrics from a song. This group is in that modern classic of literature okay. Also of course the song was in Baby Driver and that is how I re discovered this song as well. A real nice blast from the past for sure !
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I can feel my driving skills getting better by the second. The gears, the stick shift, the dynamic between my car, obstacles, pursuers... Thanks Egyptian Reggae.
Baby..naaaa
As your co-pilot and spiritual advisor, I concur.
hahahahahaha love your comment x'D
Good reference XD
Mate, this is so off-the-wall funny!
2020 and I’m still here thx baby driver
Baby, baby bring me here..thx ba y driver@!!
same
@TFKSoLA me too! BRAZILLLLLL
Same hahahaha
Here in 24
I love how everybody is just there rethinking their life choices, meanwhile this one guy is having the time of his life
DuckOverlord ehehe 🌟
This one guy? That’s Jonathan Richman!
@@funkmasterandre Congratulations
@@funkmasterandre take a cookie ;)
Ahahaha!
I came here because I've loved this piece of music since it was released when I was at school in the 1970s!
I've had this tune in my head for more than forty years and I never knew it was a Top 10 hit. And now after all this time I finally have a name for it!
Same here - not sure where I heard it, I knew it was a song, but as for the name, I didnt have a clue !!
Me too,my first teacher used to play it in class,1975,one of if not my earliest memories
Me too....I heard this song in the 70's. When I was a Kid back in West- Germany
I remember where i've heard it. It was a club called El Lay. No clue for the title. Then the algorithm of youtube made it's job.
Still have the single....this really was one of my first records. 😅
I came here because I’m so old to remember it when it came out.
You can help me cross the street.
Thank you, son.
No problem sir, I being the young whippersnapper that I am, will now get off your lawn
You're not the only old person watching this . I bought it in woolworths as 45 single .
Music brings people together always,,
L
Ok then we can cross now... I SAID OK THEN WE CAN CROSS NOW...HAVE YOU A NEW BATTERY ?
I've known it since 1978, we were preparing to move to Neustadt, it was played a lot on the radio, it was simply superb, nothing to do with today's music
This was a big hit in the UK charts in 1977, reaching #5.
Came here from Baby Driver thanks for introducing me to this catchy song :)
You should listen to other Jonathan Richman songs, buddy.
Everyday Clothes
I Was Dancing in the Lesbian Bar
Parties in the USA
That Summer Feeling
A whole wealth of music to discover! :)
roller325 Thanks I shall! :)
Sylvie Charlie I'd like to add Pablo Picasso.
Dito. - Baby Driver
Check out Roadrunner - Same band ;)
It's been 40 years and this song is still one of my jams in 2017.
this cover is very bad reggae playing from people who don't know it well enough, original is much better
@@axelnatural so which original?
@@understandingnothing2445 This discussion made me look it up: "None Shall Escape The Judgement" by Earl Zero, also performed by Johnny Clarke. I still like Richman's record too!
@@larsvanmoer453 tank you for the comment, Have to look for it.
To be exact, this is a 1977 song. I remember it quite well because I was in hospital after a very devastating car accident and it was being continually being played on my radio.
I am here because of Jonathan Richman and his band! No Baby Driver had to take me here!
Me too. In fact I went the other way - I found the movie Baby Driver when I came here to listen to the song.
When I first heard this tune in the late 70z on radio I thought it was really exotic and something out of the ordinary. It still is nearly 50 years later!
my teacher used this as "Clean up music" in Elementary school, I didn't hear this for such a long time ❤️
I can even remember this as a youth, many, many years ago.......ooooh!
I looked for this song for SO long. Thank you so much, random person on a forum who had the right song!
"I just wanna now what's going on between those ears, besides of course... Egyptian Reggae.. *Drops the Ipod* "
I was so sad to find out that Egyptian Reggae was just the name of a song xD I was expecting it to be some super weird niche genre. Literally reggae but done by Egyptians with an Egyptian sound. I'm always in search of the weirdest types of music. Someone needs to get on inventing that.
@@我是誰-i4b Same
For God's sake Griff, leave the kid alone
@@我是誰-i4bSame 😂
@@MrEddie you cant just, b in crime ight?
2019 still watching "Baby Driver" over and over -&- listening over and over to "Egyptian Reagge"!
same xD just now its 2020
Original is much better than this cover
Same in 2024🚗🚓
OK folks, if you don't see me again its 'cause I'm dead!
U good bruh? Hope u still alive
@@lily.t.r5484 Don't worry, it's a quote.
and we never saw him again.
Right, if you don't see me again you must be blind.
I'm stretching my life fabric, too, so I may be right behind you, my Floridian brother. God bless!
Very happy Jonathan in this vid it’s lovely to see
"what is he listening to? Egyptian Reggae"
baby driver. ahhaha
That's why I ended up here 🤣
2020
Came from baby driver 😂
@@Noname-uh5kj same
Wow , takes me right back to my school days or skoo as we called it doing the dance to it and thinking we’re the bees knees . Oh the laughs we had back then and all the memories, how time flies . I’ll always look back on those days and think “ yes we were the bees knees “ all locked in my heart forever ❤
Man I wish I could be as happy as that lead guitarist is, as he plays this music, all the time.
I got a kick out of hearing this on Rogue Heroes about the SAS in North Africa during WWII, it slotted in perfectly. A timeless tune.
Childhood memories 😊 Songs you liked from the radio, but you were too young for asking for title and musician 😃 but your heart starts to dance 🎉
This is the first time I've heard this in 45 years.
I've had some derivative of this stuck in my head for decades and never knew it came from an actual song. I thought I just made it up.
Oh my god, me too its been driving me crazy
probably because it sampled streets of cairo, there are hundreds of other songs to the same tune
I heard this tune in a TV ad about 30 years ago. Never knew it was a band that did it nor its name. Saw on a TV repeat tonight.. now I know!! But I've always remembered the tune in my head as I thought it would be great music for a western!
At last! I've been trying to find this tune on and off for ages. Imagine my chagrin at finding that it's a modern Lovers tune. I last heard it at RAF Coningsby in 1978 as an Air Cadet.
Oh u were a member of the red army fraction? Tell me about it and how u joined them?
Rasputin I think you're talking at cross-purposes
@@klinge3 It's a secret but everyone was doing it then. ;O)
2024. Listening. 😜
I was 14 jears old. But i rember this song. it looks like, it was yesterday. Thank you for up laoding.
It’s not a song.
Sticks with you this instrumental. Simply fabulous!
Great stuff! 👍😁
I love how more and more sounds come into from flamenco to native American..creative with an international feel
Since my wife introduced me to flamenco via the series Las Adventuras de Gato con Botas (The Adventures of Puss in Boots. We've been enjoying the series together during supper recently), I immediately noticed the similarity when I started listening to this song this evening but couldn't quite put it into words.
I don't know why but I find this very pleasing
I'm here again as I remember this record from 1977 when I was a 18 y.o. squaddy in Munsterlager 25fld Regt LAD. (West Germany)
Baby driver brought me here🤣❤
Landed in London with mum and dad in 1977 and this was all over the radio. We thought London was very cool.
For me, this is one of the all time great tunes. I never tire of it. That bass line is insane. Reminds me of Johnny Clarke's "None Shall Escape The Judgement", which predates this by a few years (1974).
this is because this one is a steal of "Soul Syndicate - None shall escape", johnny Clarke made it after
@@axelnatural AHA!! YES!!👍
Yes, that's what it was! I knew it reminded me of a Jacob Miller song (not sure who did NSEtJ first), but couldn't remember which one. Thanks!
This is my forever feel good song ❤❣️
thank you Poppa Chris for raising me on this
Wonderful piece of music....has always given me huge pleasure over the years every time i hear it. Funnily enough i'm the same age as mr richmond.
I loved this song back in the day it was one of my favourites 😅
im 51 about 30years searching i found it wauw thanks
Loved this a 15 year old in 1977.
None shall escape the judgment by Earl Zero. Good version. 👍
I first heard this tune about 35 years ago. My dad had a copy. I haven’t heard it in over 25 years and couldn’t remember what it was called. By Googling all sorts of variants on 1970s/Egyptian/ instrumental etc I finally found it, only to realise that this was the guy that did the songs in Theres Something About Mary which, through all these years, I never knew.
You should listen to "Hospital" by the Modern Lovers, his band.
How could you not be happy making the most popular song of your life and all you have to do is hit a bongo with sticks
This automatically puts me in a good mood ✨
Finally… finally I know what song from my youth this is!!! ❤
I never saw baby driver but I had this recommended to me a while ago around the time it released because I seem to like movie soundtracks. I am so glad that I found this
I imagine more people will be liking/commenting due to it being in Baby Driver
Say what you want but it's good that such a movie brings people to such good songs
Never heard of Baby Driver…..I’m old school, I remember when this was first released. Takes me back 😀
Played this at my gig in Vung Tau Vietnam last night. Had forgotten it and it popped into my head from 40 years ago...
Just instruments, no voice or effects and good quality. It's incredible how a simple song can be so good.
it's easy when you steal a jamaican hit..
know this is an old comment, but you can tell that the audio has been pasted over, look at the dude's hands at 0:50
so there IS AN EFFECT HAHAHAHA
Ahh it is coming back to me now. A very vague memory in the depths of time. A compilation album of various artists. This song was on that album. That was how I first discovered this amazing tune.
Needed this to put a smile on my face. Been a shitty day. Feels much better now. Brilliant!
Works every time doesn't it...
Listening great memories of this tune
holala que de bons souvenirs sur FIP RADIO à 17 ans
SO MUCH GREAT MUSIC NEVER PLAYED ON RADIO NOW
This was the song of the skate board craze in the UK.
The best. Thank you.
Erinnerungen !!
I was looking for it for years and years...google voice search saved my life in a few seconds 😂😂😂
okt 31, exhibition at barcelona museo of dessiny, saw the wallpaper art "jonathan richman and the modern lovers".
I was the only one in the room who knew the band, and that song is in my head - again - since then...
Heard this in Son of Rambow and it brought back so many memories of watching top of the pops in the 70s
Yes,son of rambow😃
Qu'es que je l'aime...c'est inouï, ça fait depuis 1998 j'avais découvert ce style de reggae, et j'aime toujours autant bravo et merci je me suis bien régale. ..
I don't care ... my dad loved this song... love it!!!
I love this track, but who not. He smiles really sweet behind his guitar during the performance.
Love this remember as a child egyption tune great job guys
It was unique bur we got one offs like this many times that was the seventies and eighties great musictunes and know one knows how to create great tunes cheers .
This such a good funky tune and I’m living for it
I heard this at a youth club late 70s or early 80s I'm still enjoying it in 2024 😅
man I look for this song for 30 years!!!!!!!!!! I never knew who is singing or what's the name o the song, Thank you!
@Δt0mix sing doesn't mean just VOICE singing, did you know that ? You didn't like school much , isn't it ?
Was a massive hit back then, we tried to imitate this tune so many times, searching for the right percussion sound! thnx for sharing TopPop!
was a massive steal of Soul Syndicate..
One of the best 70's Hits!!
This is my all-time favourite instrumental piece from 1977, when I was 10 years old at the time. What a great piece for me!
Same here...I was 10
Ah yeah
ye ah 5 is a
Saw this man so many times, pure therapy, if life ws fair u should see him every year. Ps, this era he looks like the young Ross in Friends😅❤
Bright sunny tune with lot's of inspiration.
Brilliant tune
40 years on, & my sister & I are going to get together,& recreate the Wilson, Kepple& Betty dance, with an ambulance on standby. At nearly 70, I think we'll be ok..xx
Schöne Erinnerungen an eine schöne Zeit. 👍
I bought the vinyl single when it came out in ‘77; the B side was Rollercoaster by the Sea.
you should buy the original, this cover is not really well played
The dude on the guitar is just happy to be there ! Simple
My whole family loves this song 😂❤️
2024 and still going...
They look like they're having a great time!!
I was just preparing dinner when this tune popped up in the back of my head. Must have been 40 years since I last heard it on the radio! Yes, I'm weird. 😳
j'adore je passais le disque en continu dans le juke box
moi aussi
2021 and sitll here....what a wonderful song full of memories
great tune- i heard it in a movie around 35 years ago (what movie?), havent been able to trace or name it (or shake the tune from my head). Heard it last night on Rogue Heroes- looked up the sound track and find its name!
There used to be an excellent video to go with this tune on TOTP back in the day.
Yup, it was Pan's People !!
Its been a while since i heard this lot, still awesome sounds after all these years!
Greetings from South Africa
Yesss, very nice😎
I'm here from 43 years ago. Always reminds me of Christmas 1977, and the "Radio 1 Naughty Bongos".
I love how every guy between the ages of 17-34 in the ‘70s looked exactly like John does here in ‘77.
This guy plays the best flowerpot I have ever heard.
They don't make them like this any more ...wonder why ...Disgraceful ..Love it thank you for sharing
I am happy to hear this song again after a long time, it reminds me of such a long time ago
I love this tune... ❤
Can't believe this is the same group who did the proto punk classic *"Roadrunner."* Talk about two totally different genres.
First time I heard this was a school play I went to at the old Quarry Bank School for Girls in Rose Lane (now Tesco). I was just six at the time and Eunice (whose school it was) was twelve. Legs & Co did a sand dance routine to it on TOTP. The song sort of harks back to when Britain had a presence in Egypt I think.
Great video. So simple. So chilled. Great tune. I remember reading Christine by Stephen King so many years ago now. Every chapter references a rock band and song too. Specifically lyrics from a song. This group is in that modern classic of literature okay. Also of course the song was in Baby Driver and that is how I re discovered this song as well. A real nice blast from the past for sure !
Brilliant song loved it as a kid
Jamaican music to the world..Awesome!