Bro, you're 76 and enjoyed all the good music of the past, so did I (I'm 62). And loving it all the way. Shakatak was one my favs, but frankly I forgot about them and this is first time I am actually seeing their live concert. What a treat!!
Just stumbled across this and had a MAJOR flashback: this melody would play when you pushed the 'Demo' button on my Casio keyboard (I got it when I was 6 years old)
Been 40 years since I listened to Nightbirds, great band Shakattack, simple music and lyrics but so well integrated, a real group with very talented musicians. As good live as their records were.
One of my favourite songs in my lifetime. Learnt to play this song on the electone when I was 12 yo. Amazing to see the band play and improvise on the origianl. Also great to see Bill actually playing the beast of a CP70 and RD-1000 on stage! ❤❤❤
I first met with Shakatak music on 1983 when the musician band we contracted for our wedding party in Mexico used to play exclusively songs from Shakatak, a very good remembering ❤️ I later bought the fantastic "Ultimate Collection" triple CD 👍
Практически 30 лет назад первый раз услышал о Шакатак, послушал, понравилось и с первых прослушанных песен стал поклонником творчества этого замечательного коллектива раз и навсегда ..................................
Jazz is my favorite 😍 that makes my Working hours sooo Fast !! Bellissimo ...magnificus...thanks to the Jazz players. Happy Easter 🐣 2024 March 31st Vegas🎉❤USA.
Shakatak managed to break into the music charts, including two Top Ten hits on the British Singles charts, with "Night Birds" (1982) and "Down on the Street" (1984). The group remains popular in Japan and the Far East, and typically produces a new album each year. Since their first release in August 1980, with the Bill Sharpe composition "Steppin" on the Polydor record label and their first album Drivin' Hard, the band's singles and albums have entered the charts quite regularly. It was the release of "Easier Said Than Done" that was to give her the radio airplay necessary for her first Top 20 hit. This recording introduced her instrumental unison vocal sound to a much wider audience and the track remained on the British charts for seventeen weeks. The follow-up, "Night Birds", was his first single to reach the Top Ten, and the album of the same name gave Shakatak his first gold record, entering at number four and staying on the charts for twenty-eight weeks. Internationally, the success of the release gave them number one in Japan and attracted interest from Europe and South America. While all the recording activity was happening, the band went on an extensive tour in 1982, performing a total of 132 concerts in one year. The band played live throughout the UK, Europe and Japan. Two more albums - Invitations and Out of This World - were recorded in 1982 and 1983, resulting in several more chart hits, and paving the way for the next big breakthrough in the band's career. With a subtle change in musical direction, however, still maintaining the band's identity, Jill Saward (formerly of Fusion Orchestra, Brandy and Citizen Gang) became their vocalist to make Shakatak's fifth studio album, Down on the Street. The resulting singles released "Down on the Street" and "Watching You" met with some success and attracted attention in new parts of the world. The following year saw the release of the group's first live album, which was recorded in Tokyo and London. The seventh album, Day by Day, saw the development of songwriting by all members of the band. In 1986 Saward announced that she was expecting a baby later that year. This news gave the band an excuse to pause their hectic touring schedule for a while and focus exclusively on recording. The band was in the Top Five in Japan, and after winning the coveted Silver award at the Tokyo International Song Festival, Shakatak were asked to produce an extra album each year exclusively for the Japanese market. At that time they had two bonus albums titled "Into the Blue" and "Golden Wings." Both sold reasonably well, with the latter winning "Best Instrumental Album of 1987" at the Japan Phonographic Recording Association Awards. However, after this success the band felt it was time to redirect their efforts to return to the Singles and release an album for the rest of the world. The result was Something Special, closely followed by the nightclub hit "Mr Manic & Sister Cool" from their next album, Manic and Cool. In the 1990s, the band had great success in the United States when they had two albums that were at No. 1 on the contemporary jazz charts and also won the Japanese Grammy for Best International Instrumental Album for six consecutive years. Since 2000, the band continues to record and tour the world. In January 2010 the group's keyboardist Bill Sharpe was interviewed by Mike Howard on the funk jazz internet radio station Vinyl Morpher Radio. Singer Jill Saward currently owns a property in Sardinia and travels between her home and the UK on a regular basis. In 2009 musician George Anderson released his solo album 'Positivity'. In 2011 they would release the LP "Across The World", with new songs, and released worldwide. The band is currently celebrating its 35th anniversary with concerts around the world.
Great ground breaking jazz funk music (what hits!) back then in 80’s England...and still vibrant and more melody/rhythm than contemporary stuff! Well done Shakatak and the team. Pleasure!
What a BAND.....! I fell in love with this band back when they first appeared on the scene in the ‘80’s... Great musicians and the young girl on percussion.... she knows how to make those congas rock...! She’s absolutely incredible and that voice.. Very talented people xxx
I was a professional Disc Jockey from 1974 to New Years Eve 1989, finishing at 0300 on Jan 1st 1990. I still think that the 1980s, in particular, were the very best times for Soul and Disco.
I've heard this song for decades and it takes 2021. For me to finally out. This fantastic music who they are ... I guess I was listening to low rider ... Just a tad too much.... Shakatak. You still got me
heard this song recently outside a taco place and shazamed it, and I absolutely adore it have checked out some of their other music and found them really good, but listening to Night Birds on my morning drive just sets me up for joy
There is only one word for this. Proper! Proper musicians with proper talent, playing proper music with proper instruments. No drum machine, no sequencer, no loops, simply proper!
An amazing tune from a forgotten era when music was pure gold
de acuerdo!!!
40年経つのにめちゃオシャレでカッコイイですね〜〜 名曲
変に今風にする訳でもなく安定したシャカタク、安定したナイトバーズ、何年経っても最高な名曲です♪
100%.
何十年経っても、
今聴いても、鳥肌が立つくらい
カッコイイサウンドです♪
In English? English unifies.
Sfrfht hittyty seji5esgjtr mvcgiteyrdf.
Stfu bozo, why should they be obligated to speak your language. Being bi lingual unifies too
A massively underrated band which encapsulates and epitomises the jazz funk genre.
Fantastic memories of the 1980s, we were privileged to listen to great songs.
Shakataku の曲は令和の時代に聴いても心にひびく
グループ名のShakatakとは、デビュー前の彼らのレコードを通信販売で売ってくれたレコード店「RECORD SHACK」に対する感謝の気持ちを込めて、「SHACK」＋「ATTACK」から名づけられたそうですねー❤️
I was born in 1968 so 80s was my teenage life 😁
藤沢にある自動車会社なんですが入社した時ラインで流れていて、凄く印象に残っています そんな私も今は嘱託社員。
ほんとに 今も 素晴らしい
永遠の フュージョンバンド
私は当時ジャズを愛好していましたが、この曲には参りました。よくぞ生み出してくれたと感謝すべき不滅の名曲ですね。特にこの日本公演は好きです。巨乳のお姉さん、コンガがめっちゃ上手くて歌も歌えるというのもいいですし、ビル・シャープの歯切れのいいアドリブフレーズも実にスリリング。後期高齢者になった私ですが、いまだに血が騒ぎます。
オススメに出てきて 40年ぶりに この曲を聴きました！やっぱ 最高です☺️
懐かしい青春時代の楽曲です。都会的なメロディーが洒落ていたと思います。
メンバーの皆さんも元気なのでしょうか。
I'm nearly 76 and when I hear Shakatak they always make me get up and do a silly dance. Fantastic talented band
🤗🤗🤗❤❤
Bro, you're 76 and enjoyed all the good music of the past, so did I (I'm 62). And loving it all the way. Shakatak was one my favs, but frankly I forgot about them and this is first time I am actually seeing their live concert. What a treat!!
この曲が流行った当時の事がまるで昨日の事の様に思い出されます｡ ギターもピアノもコンゴもヴォーカルも全部聴かせるテクニックも凄まじい!本当に大好きな1曲｡
本当に今聴いても、いいなぁ－－－😄💖💖💖💖💖
スッゴイ懐かしい、でも今聞いても新鮮、全然色あせない、カッコイイ、昔よく新宿のライブハウス聞きに行ってた時を思い出す。
太鼓のパワフルな女性、凄い！！
ピアノとドラムと女性コーラスがスッゴク気持ち良い！
本当に洒落てるよね
40年経つとゆーのに
未だににおっしゃれ〰️
1984年当時はBGMフュージョンを演奏する１グループ程度の印象でしたが、はやりすたりの激しい音楽シーンでオリジナリティーを失わずに未だに、ほとんどオリジナルメンバーで活動を続けているって凄い。
泣けてくる。
あの頃何回も何十回も聞いた。
今聞いても心に刺さります。
シャカタク最高ですよね。高校生で始めてインストメンタルがすきになったバンド
でした。今聴いてもカッコイイです！
中学の頃、良くラジオで流れてたのを聴いてました・・・懐かしい。
シャカタクは手数で見せるのではなくじっくり聴かせる部分を持ってた。メンバーの誰かが飛び出たり目立つわけではなく、女性プレイヤーも器用。
アンサンブルの大切さを改めて感じさせられた。やっぱり聴きやすいしいい音出してるね。
まさしく自分も同じ意見です。この曲でパーカッションの偉大さを子供のころに学びました。
Just stumbled across this and had a MAJOR flashback: this melody would play when you pushed the 'Demo' button on my Casio keyboard (I got it when I was 6 years old)
そう。車の音、雑踏の音が聞こえてその後このナイトバーズが流れる。子供ながらにとても印象に残ってますカシオのキーボード
涙が溢れて来ます🔊🎼素晴らしい 懐かしい青春時代に流行った良い曲ですね🐰🐇💞✌️
自分が惨めな時に聴くと立ち直れる曲、そんなイメージです。
2019年 今見ても胸が熱くなる。
名曲は色あせない。
ほんと!
スバラシ!
ライブ行きたいのう。
2020年も褪せないどころか色鮮やか。
キーボードのイントロ聴くだけで、背筋がゾクゾクするくらいかっこいい…。流行ったのは随分前てすけど、名曲は色褪せないのですね。
Hduehdh❤
Fdjshdjdbebrhrbdbdbfjdjdndbbbhvhsjxdhxhvddhd the best price of luck. ☺☺
You can never tire of these. They are just very good
Just couldn't get better than that , beautiful song
今の時代に聞いても、すごく、オシャレで素敵なメロディですね♪
懐かしい…涙チョチョ切れますね。
この音楽祭を生で観ました。この曲の生を日本で聴ける機会は少ないかと思います。
私には.初めて聴いたときにイントロ部分素晴らしいく
爽やかな夏のイメージの印象が強く夏の木陰で聞きます♪〜いいね👍
fusion黎明期の先駆けとなったグループの記念すべき一曲。受けた衝撃は、spiro jyraのmorning dance以来だった。クールなピアノに惚れ込んだ。
レコードも買って聴いてましたし、今でも車でCD聴いててこの曲が一番好きです！ レコードの帯に「美ジーエム」BGMってほんと美しいミュージックですよね。
Super beau merci 🙏
A treasure back then and still a treasure.. Wow..
Still great musicians enjoying what they do. Brings back memories of sunnier times 🙏🏽
Great to see Jill rocking on those bongos. Roger on drums, Bill is a maestro on the keyboards and George on the guitar -100% pure musical talent
Been 40 years since I listened to Nightbirds, great band Shakattack, simple music and lyrics but so well integrated, a real group with very talented musicians. As good live as their records were.
Ialways used this song for the first song of my bands. Thanks for Shakatak somuch
初めてビルボードライブで見た時の感動！忘れられないです。全員でひとつの楽曲を組み立ててるんです。上質なサーカスでも観ているかのような連携プレーです。また是非行きたいです。
ビルボードに来たんですか！！今後チェックします！
シャカタクは昔よく聞いていましたね😂心地良いサウンドを聞くと幸福感が溢れてきますね❤😂
SHAKATAKのNightbirds,いつ聴いてもやっぱりええなあ〜。very fine.
熱演ですね。20代のころよく聞きました。
One of my favourite songs in my lifetime. Learnt to play this song on the electone when I was 12 yo. Amazing to see the band play and improvise on the origianl. Also great to see Bill actually playing the beast of a CP70 and RD-1000 on stage! ❤❤❤
I first met with Shakatak music on 1983 when the musician band we contracted for our wedding party in Mexico used to play exclusively songs from Shakatak, a very good remembering ❤️ I later bought the fantastic "Ultimate Collection" triple CD 👍
Shakatak still rocks! I love the sound of the Yamaha CP70 keyboard. This makes this song unique.
キーボードの サビ イントロ 聴くだけで これだけ 沁みじみ 聴ける音楽って なかなかない と思います。
街中でも 当たり前のように 聴いてた ナイトバーズも コンガ や ベースラインを盛りこんでの ライブ映像として 残っていることが 非常にありがたいですね。
Quiero qqqq
？？ワカユ@@jorgehorcasitas942
Paul hardcastle with Helen Rodgers does, check em out
久しぶりに聞きましたが、青春時代が思い出されます。幸せ
My first time hearing this band here in the US. This song is awesome!!!!!
名曲は色褪せない‼️カッコいい✨
YES.
もう最高！！！！！
I Love Shakatak and Sony Experia
TH-camで観れるとは思わなかった、感激です。
癒やされるなつかしい曲
35年位前コンサート公演行きましたね！
なんて斬新な音楽曲メロディ、レコード～カセットにダビングして車で聴いてましたね🎵
Amazing!!!!....Shakatak for ever 40 years ago was my wedding and "night birds" simply amazing
懐かしい❗ 本当に良い曲ですね。 クロスオーバージャパン
やってほしい、絶対行きます。
oh my goodness THIS IS MUSIC stunning
シャカタクは、当時、こういう感じで演奏されてることを知りませんでした。映像で見てよかったです。たくさんのパーカッションが加わってこその演奏ですね。
イントロ、ジョージ・アンダーソンさんのスラップベースでこの曲に釘付けになりました。
メロディーラインがとても馴染みやすく、そしてこのグルーブ、もう最高！ Byタイキ
i really crazy about this mystically sound ,,really loves
Great, Great Band. 👍👌❤
This is my favorite song night birds and my favorite artists ❤❤❤❤
お久しぶりのこの音
感涙💦
色褪せない名曲ですね。
CP80のペラッペラに薄い音が泣かせる！ The flimsy, thin sound of the CP80 makes me cry!
素晴らしい！
どんな人が 演奏してたか
全く知らなかった！
ベテランの域ですね～😊
ライブ見れて最高🌈58歳女👩
Практически 30 лет назад первый раз услышал о Шакатак, послушал, понравилось и с первых прослушанных песен стал поклонником творчества этого замечательного коллектива раз и навсегда ..................................
Jazz is my favorite 😍 that makes my Working hours sooo Fast !!
Bellissimo ...magnificus...thanks to the Jazz players.
Happy Easter 🐣 2024 March 31st Vegas🎉❤USA.
Totally ab fab even after so many years!
はじめて聴いたが、それぞれの演奏、すごいの一言。
I could listen to them all day long, nothing but good memories!
Seen these guys in London 80s brilliant
It is amazing how professional musicians can pull a show like this as realistic as listening to the original recording back in 1980’s
Absolutely... - I always think and thought the same, when I was at a ToTo concert...; I think Shakatak still play and tour.. - would love to see them;
Jazz is 👍👍 my life!!!
Shakatak managed to break into the music charts, including two Top Ten hits on the British Singles charts, with "Night Birds" (1982) and "Down on the Street" (1984). The group remains popular in Japan and the Far East, and typically produces a new album each year.
Since their first release in August 1980, with the Bill Sharpe composition "Steppin" on the Polydor record label and their first album Drivin' Hard, the band's singles and albums have entered the charts quite regularly.
It was the release of "Easier Said Than Done" that was to give her the radio airplay necessary for her first Top 20 hit. This recording introduced her instrumental unison vocal sound to a much wider audience and the track remained on the British charts for seventeen weeks. The follow-up, "Night Birds", was his first single to reach the Top Ten, and the album of the same name gave Shakatak his first gold record, entering at number four and staying on the charts for twenty-eight weeks. Internationally, the success of the release gave them number one in Japan and attracted interest from Europe and South America.
While all the recording activity was happening, the band went on an extensive tour in 1982, performing a total of 132 concerts in one year. The band played live throughout the UK, Europe and Japan.
Two more albums - Invitations and Out of This World - were recorded in 1982 and 1983, resulting in several more chart hits, and paving the way for the next big breakthrough in the band's career. With a subtle change in musical direction, however, still maintaining the band's identity, Jill Saward (formerly of Fusion Orchestra, Brandy and Citizen Gang) became their vocalist to make Shakatak's fifth studio album, Down on the Street. The resulting singles released "Down on the Street" and "Watching You" met with some success and attracted attention in new parts of the world. The following year saw the release of the group's first live album, which was recorded in Tokyo and London.
The seventh album, Day by Day, saw the development of songwriting by all members of the band. In 1986 Saward announced that she was expecting a baby later that year. This news gave the band an excuse to pause their hectic touring schedule for a while and focus exclusively on recording. The band was in the Top Five in Japan, and after winning the coveted Silver award at the Tokyo International Song Festival, Shakatak were asked to produce an extra album each year exclusively for the Japanese market. At that time they had two bonus albums titled "Into the Blue" and "Golden Wings." Both sold reasonably well, with the latter winning "Best Instrumental Album of 1987" at the Japan Phonographic Recording Association Awards.
However, after this success the band felt it was time to redirect their efforts to return to the Singles and release an album for the rest of the world. The result was Something Special, closely followed by the nightclub hit "Mr Manic & Sister Cool" from their next album, Manic and Cool. In the 1990s, the band had great success in the United States when they had two albums that were at No. 1 on the contemporary jazz charts and also won the Japanese Grammy for Best International Instrumental Album for six consecutive years. Since 2000, the band continues to record and tour the world.
In January 2010 the group's keyboardist Bill Sharpe was interviewed by Mike Howard on the funk jazz internet radio station Vinyl Morpher Radio. Singer Jill Saward currently owns a property in Sardinia and travels between her home and the UK on a regular basis. In 2009 musician George Anderson released his solo album 'Positivity'. In 2011 they would release the LP "Across The World", with new songs, and released worldwide. The band is currently celebrating its 35th anniversary with concerts around the world.
Well constructed Review
Nostalgia waktu shakatak show di Indonesia, saya nonton di hall hotel Kartika prince Malang East Java ❤❤❤
Great ground breaking jazz funk music (what hits!) back then in 80’s England...and still vibrant and more melody/rhythm than contemporary stuff! Well done Shakatak and the team. Pleasure!
many thanks x
Saw this group last night in Southampton. They've still got it, still sound great and still funkin' it up 👌
South Hampton. What Long Island. I’m sick. I missed this. I am sick.
@@gobabe2396 no mate, Southampton in England (UK)
泣けるなぁ😂😂😂
たまんない❤
this a song .good tobe fell .thank .
Nice..greatfull..instruments kinds of Jazz...🇩🇪🇨🇭🇨🇦🇰🇷🇬🇧🇺🇸🇯🇵. 🇲🇨 .. thanks so much better.
いやぁ〜あの頃が蘇る😭
そして、あの時、こんな田舎までライブに来てくれたことに感謝🙏
それとそれとライブを企画してくれたあの時の大人たちに感謝🙏
いやあ、懐かしいです。
ナイトバード🐦は、私たちの短大時代の流行りのミュージックで、とても気に入っていますよ、🎉😂❤
40年以上前にラジオで聴いて虜になりました。令和の今聴いても色褪せないサウンド。
HOW CAN ANYONE NOT LIKE THIS !!! PROPER CLASS ACT
What a BAND.....!
I fell in love with this band back when they first appeared on the scene in the ‘80’s...
Great musicians and the young girl on percussion.... she knows how to make those congas rock...!
She’s absolutely incredible and that voice..
Very talented people xxx
She also plays sax.
I was a professional Disc Jockey from 1974 to New Years Eve 1989, finishing at 0300 on Jan 1st 1990. I still think that the 1980s, in particular, were the very best times for Soul and Disco.
I’d love an hour with Jill…
青春の思い出が蘇る!
最高です!
THANK YOU SHAKATAK FOR YOUR❤️🌹👍🏻❗️🇦🇿🇦🇿🇦🇿
何度見ても素晴らしい
This Jazz Band is so wonderful They are great musicians and the voices are so delightful
Absolutely Brilliant
From Venezuela, Waoooo, I Love
I've heard this song for decades and it takes 2021. For me to finally out. This fantastic music who they are ... I guess I was listening to low rider ...
Just a tad too much.... Shakatak. You still got me
heard this song recently outside a taco place and shazamed it, and I absolutely adore it
have checked out some of their other music and found them really good, but listening to Night Birds on my morning drive just sets me up for joy
懐かしい〜
There is only one word for this. Proper!
Proper musicians with proper talent, playing proper music with proper instruments.
No drum machine, no sequencer, no loops, simply proper!
i love this song