Tom Robinson Band 2-4-6-8 Motorway
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- TRB's Top Of The Pops debut 27th October 1977, introduced by David "Kid" Jensen (note TRB badge on his pullover!)... Tom Robinson vocal/bass, Danny Kustow guitar, Dolphin Taylor drums, Mark Ambler keys. Sound quality on recording was a bit ropey and has been replaced with the original single produced by Vic Maile, © EMI Records 1977. tomrobinsonband...
Legendary song! Still listening to this in 2024 ❤❤❤
For whatever reason I never heard it till today and I'm in love.
I remember going on a coach trip to margate with my friends in late 1989 and listening to this song. There was a train strike on that weekend and we had to leave early. All was going well until one us got arrested for kicking a football at a policeman. And then when we got into town our coach exploded. Wasn't much fun trying to get a hotel that night in town.
oh you're talking about the night you got bummed by 'the great raymondo'
@channel55andaboxoftissues16 who's raymondo? A special friend of yours?
At least no one threw a stone through your window or a suitcase on your head
And did you kick a football and ot hit a copper
@@user-fe4pv4ks9cYeah he said he did if you read the whole post
God, my life's been wonderful. To have known this when it was first out ... how fantastic that was. Like stepping back in time to hear it now. Good memories! Cheers.
Hi, just wondering, is your profile picture of Mike Teevee, from the first Willy Wonka and the Chocolate factory film?
@@michaelacoulthard
Yes.
@@particleboy3584 Thank you.
Mate, every time I hear this, I'm back in the local Youth Centre in 1977 again.
Agree with that!
I watched them perform this on an after school kids show in 78' & like you was blow away not just by the song but but Tom's attitude & antics as a front man. RIP Danny K.
still remembering this song in 2024. 👍
😂I saw TRB with Danny Kustow on guitar in Chicago in late 70s (maybe even 1980). It was one of the best concerts I've ever been to. Tom's happy enthusiasm spread throughout the concert hall. Great memories! ❤
As a long distance courier this track is one of the best to blast out on those overnight treks to keep you going. Timeless!!
Had the absolute pleasure of meeting Tom at work today. He was so humble while i was fan boying like a child. Thanks Tom you made my day 👍
that's so nice!
Yer
What was you when this,song released
@ChrisSheperd. Nice one. Was he nice? I think I'd fangirl if I was in the same situation, if somebody famous that I like, bought something in the charity shop that I volunteer in, in my local town.
@@michaelacoulthard He was honestly the nicest man. Was very happy to talk about his music with me too. He was in cardiff for a radio 6 music festival and arranged tickets for me to come along and watch his acoustic set. He really is a fantastic guy and his performance was outstanding.
''All right lads it's only another 10 minutes then we'll be at the half way house. That's when the serious stuff begins!''
Jolly Boys’ Outing!
" Ruud Gullit, no where! "
That's why it's called the half way house along the a127 to Southend haha cheers
This song reminds me of Saturday afternoons as a child with my Dad …Saturday was “our day” and we would do some activity we enjoyed together like golf or swimming or just shopping and lunch. As we drove home from our day out he would always get the CD case out and let me pick some tunes. We both had this as one of our favourite songs ☺️ ahhh take me back
Lovely story
Hope Dad is still with us
This is one me an my girl like x
Made me smile this did ☺️ hope your well x
Hitchhiking on Saturday evenings , when I not had a car for still a long time , age 16 . '79 was the greatest year of my life .
Great story!! My dad & me were pals 2, we would do lots of stuff 2gether as well, ahhh the good ol days!! Bring um back!! 😁👍
What a great song. I remember coming home on a lunch break and playing this song on my speakers and cooking a nice scrambled egg & cheese toast sandwich. Just a blissful moment.
I might be only 26 but I love this song lol all the 70's 80's rock music is the best ya can't beat it
It's because it's almost always upbeat... Music that makes you feel happy instead of the crap we get today.
Great song
@@Rikard_Nilsson please dont use good music to bash other music thanks
@@soup7917 How about you mind your own business?
@@Rikard_Nilsson could say the same for you
Wow this is great !!!!! Make it a hit in 2024 please!!!
An absolute belter of a song from 1977 and the first record I ever purchased which I then went on to collect over 5000 singles over the next 25 years. F****ing SUPERB! When your a young lad of 17 full of energy and testosterone this tune just gets your attention with that guitar riff.
got to love the 80s lol where real music came
Can't get this fucking shit song out of my head.
Simple riffs for simple people. Repetitive, annoying and child like melody.
Never too late
MrPowerclown I'm annoyed by music with too many notes in it. Y'know, the kind of wanky, progressive music listened to by wanky progressive types?
That’s awesome, Chris
Nostalgia night with headphones, just had to hear this again. I was 14 when itit was released, LOVE IT
Always listened and remembered this one, but now I've stopped in 2024. Never too late to quit
I was 11years old when this song came out in 1977 and remember it well.
Found a random kitten alive on the motorway and this song came on the radio afterwards such a coincidence that we named the kitten lady stardust .
Heard this song back in the early 80's in Lloret in bars, but didn't know the singer and I couldn't find the song for 30-odd years. This never was a hit in Holland. It stayed in the back of my mind though for all those years. Talked about it last christmas with friends (in England), but they thought I meant the Proclaimers... Then lo and behold: yesterday they played it on the radio! Found it again, still a powerfull song!
Plork X It was known as a power pop song or new wave music, it followed punk rock, some good bands about in the late 70's and memorable songs.
with two brilliant guitar solos!
I had same problem but i always knew he did that tune "glad to be gay" so i looked that up......
October 77 coincided with me starting to learn to drive. Six months later I had my licence and was borrowing my dad's car and driving all my mates around. This song and your first album were played to death on the cassette player so it brings back some great memories.
Incidentally I was at a wedding the other week with one of those mates and we were reminiscing about your songs. So, thanks from us both for the songs you gave us.
I am a 31 year old Black woman and I love this I actually remember riding around in my foster mom’s car when she was running her errands in Dudley West Midlands I would’ve probably been about 4/5 she would leave me in the car to pick up her groceries and I remember this playing on the radio on a summers day I think I remember thinking this isn’t the right way to count...but hey it was catchy.
Im a 23 year old half Chinese Jamaican eskimo and my mum would open the windows of our igloo and play this at full volume when we were kids. My mum sadly passed away 2 years ago after a long battle with the neighbours who were native American red Indians, they ambushed her she was hanging out the washing and after being struck down by 50 arrows they scalped her. I know she still watches over me, this songs for you mum.
@@bigc7326 HAHAHAHAHAHAH 😂
@@bigc7326🤘 🤘Every little child knows that the Japanese don't guzzle cats and dogs, but dolphins.🔥🐬🍴🔥
Why do you feel the need to mention your race ? I'm a bald, white roman Catholic from Glasgow but I don't go on about it . 😂
@@scott0239 not a lot of people of colour generally listen to this sort of music and I wrote this a long time ago.
This tune always reminds me of being driven by my Dad down(or up) the M1 from Chesterfield to the Bedford junction. Crazy days.
Exactly how it reminds me too! Although it was more east lancs road to Liverpool 🤣
Danny had the chops and the sneer. Driving them forward like a steam engine. RIP.
His was a pin-up as a youth to me from the back of my elders album cover 🍎❤️💀🇬🇧
I can cry for music, the times, and Tom's expression
Me hopes you is crying for joy xxx
This reminds me of been a child in London1977..it's how London felt then ..happy, simple..
Londoners allowed the capital to be infested by the cultural enrichers. Disgusting place now.
70s & 80s ETERNAL 😢🙏⭐💫
@@AICabal What are cultural enrichers?
@@domoreilly5147 Foreigners most probably.
@@BlueSkiesAbove39 I just want to hear it from AlCabal
1978 and 1979 were two of the most original and exciting years in rock music.
You just may be right. I’d maybe extend those dates to add 1977 and 1980-81, and there was some great stuff coming out around 1966-71, but no way any more recent period comes close. Or am I just getting old and closed-minded?
2013 is the 35th Anniversary of TRB's debut album Power In The Darkness. EMI are releasing The Anthology 1977-79: everything released by TRB plus a large amount of previously unreleased bonus material. It consists of 3CDs+1DVD and is released on Monday July 1st 2013.
This, and “Do Anything You Wanna Do” were the best 2 power pop records of 1977.
Gotta give TRB props for promoting gay rights waaaaaay before it was acceptable. As a straight white kid in rural America the TRB was a glimpse into another world. I was down with his radicalism, but bringing gender, race, and sexuality into the mix really challenged me, they deserve a lot more credit than they ever received in the States. Maybe it is different in the UK but he was the first gay rights advocate that ever to touch this straight guy. He made me an ally before it even existed.
Thankyou for your kind words Christopher. Means a lot all these years later...
Sounds like you want to sniff your mates sweaty jock strap..
@@danarmando537 You sound like you got a brain the size of a pea. A Trump fan boy?
@@ceneg you got me. I give up.
@@ceneg actually some of us like President Trump and agree with the original comment thinking it's fantastic. The assumption is somehow everyone supports president Trump and hmis pro-Usa is an idiot it's something perpetrated by the left. Do your research versus chastising people for their political choices. The dude deserves the comment you would rest him with. Let's not bring politics into it or make assumptions about the intelligence level of people who support president Trump. Well over half the country
RIP Danny Kustow - what a guitarist!
and some...
I was a 10 year old music fan when this came out. I loved it then and I still love it now, brilliant English pop music.
1967. Me too. Cheers.
Only fools and horses :-) Classic Episode.
Danny Seager just watched that episode ahha
Jolly boys outing
Jolly boys outing
Jolly boys outing
Yeah, and Everybody's talking at you. Jolly Boys Outing
Love this song!! I was living in London when this song was shooting up the charts. I would listen to Roger Scott on Capital Radio every day to hear this song. I bought the single and the LP “Power in the Darkness”. I saw the TRB twice in person - great shows. Great memories of my time in London. I still enjoy listening to Tom on his radio show.
One of the best tunes of all time.
Even better than that, perhaps. It's inestimable.
@@thesleepstate Had to google it, but I totally agree. Completely inestimaitable.
@@moochcassidy202 o46ko5llil32uelik
Absolutely.
"Whizzkid sitting pretty on your two-wheeled stallion"! I just love this line. I have been on a two-wheeled stallion for 40 years and I still hum this to myself out on the road.
Can remember my dad blasting this great song out.💪
Now you blast it to him!
Lyrics by Tom Robinson...
Drive my truck midway to the motorway station
Fairlane cruiser coming up on the left hand side
Headlight shining, driving rain on the window frame
Little young Lady Stardust hitching a ride... and it's
2-4-6-8 ain't never too late
Me and my radio truckin' on thru the night
3-5-7-9 on a double white line
Motorway sun coming up with the morning light
Whizzkid sitting pretty on your two-wheel stallion
This ol' ten-ton lorry got a bead on you
Ain't no use setting up with a bad companion
Ain't nobody get the better of you-know-who
2-4-6-8 ain't never too late
Me and my radio truckin' on thru the night
3-5-7-9 on a double white line
Motorway sun coming up with the morning light
Well there ain't no route you could choose to lose the two of us
Ain't nobody know when you're acting right or wrong
No-one knows if a roadway's leading nowhere
Gonna keep on driving home on the road I'm on...
2-4-6-8 ain't never too late
Me and my radio truckin' on thru the night
3-5-7-9 on a double white line
Motorway sun coming up with the morning light
Jujjp
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Great tune, Loved it from day one as an original 1977 pUnK rOcKeR ! They made some decent tunes ,massive respect for Tom Robinson for his work on BBC 6 Music. RIP Danny Kustow ! A GREAT Guitarist dx
The very first ever record I bought in 1977 along with “No More Heroes” by the Stranglers I went on to collect over 10,000 7” singles over 30 years after that and these two still remain very precious in my collection.
id like to thank smashie an nicey 4 getting me back into this top tune!
Takes me back to my childhood, sitting in dad's truck listening to this on the radio.
49 years old and remember this from when i was a kid hearing this on a cassette recorded from the radio as a kid. But not from my own ,but from what my sister's boyfriend taped a year or so before and it sounded great.
Wearing the Triangle on the Beeb back then took serious guts. Respect due to Tom for this.
What does that triangle mean? Asking in all earnestness
Yeah
@@sillysod33
In Nazi concentration camps prisoners were made to display downward-pointing equilateral triangular cloth badges on their lapels, the colour of which denoted the reason for their imprisonment. In the 1980s, the pink triangle was subverted and having been inverted - pointing upwards, was increasingly used as a symbol of gay identity. This was indeed a bold move on national TV and the BBC in 1977 - although the producers of TOTP were likely oblivious to its meaning. This was after all the show that erected a backdrop of Jocky Wilson the darts player for Dexy's Midnight Runners 'Jackie Wilson Said' - (although I am now thinking this may have been a joke on behalf of the band).
The BBC went on to ban 'Sing If Your Glad To Be Gay' from its airwaves.
@@yassassin6425 I remember this one band that was banned from the Roxy.
@@wolvemaster1013
You'll find they "never much liked playing there anyway".
I've had this tune buzzing around in my head for 2 years now. I remember it back in 77. Back when songs were fun and life was optimistic even if the world was dark.
true that. it was the best of times it was the worst of times
It's impossible not to sing along to this song! I bought the single in the late 70's and still have it along with the picture sleeve as released in the USA.
I first heard this for my first and only time on an FM radio Rock station, on a specific program they were doing on '70s British Rock and this came up and I never heard it again. Then on another video I was watching recently this song came up. I've finally gotten to hear this for the second time in 38 years, and it's even better than what I had remembered. ❤️
Released back in late '77
A cracking tune 👌 👏
This song was featured in the only fools and horses episode " jolly boys outing
Brilliant song 🎵 👌
One of the greatest songs in the history of music.
Those of us, who was in, that time, what a, timeless, track to bring with us, gives you a fire in your belly to get up, and start again, as that special 1975-1978 period just before punk went to far, did, thanks Tom Robinson band, and everyone's comments.
What a great song. Part of my childhood soundtrack.
This song brings so many memories. Me and my first English bf used to binch watch British sitcoms and this song is featured in Only Fools and Horses episode The Jolly Outing
Still sounds so fresh. Vintage rock.
Ya
Definitely aged very well.
Tom’s a great guy. I saw this on TOTP last night. Wearing his pink triangle with pride.
Heard this in a bar in San Francisco last night - I've heard it a few times in my life obviously but never knew who it was so tracked it down. Banger
Saw Tom last night in Sheffield at the Greystones ,absolutely fantastic evening..what a great guy
Only recently discovered this song, How amazing is it, so raw!!!!
Bless you, Danny. Superb lead break. Rest well.
I go back to November 1977 & this ditty was on the charts & reached no.5 . Tom Robinson was on fine form , I always remember returning from W H Smith in Poole, Dorset & getting home to find my Aunty Sue had visited my mum all the way from the land down under!. I was 18 at the time and this record was all the rage!!!!!.....
TRB ,,,timeless , great band
I could never keep still when this came on the radio, great record 👍
Thanks tom for the music some lovely memories of my late brother we both loved TRB happy days playing old Albums
Back in the day I could never quite catch all the lyrics after ♪2468♪ so I used to just make it up when I sang it Lol, great song though, thanks for the upload :)
+John Cashin aint never too late - me and my radio truckin on through the night :-)
getting a reply from tom robinson = win! :)
We all made it up Man
My wife and I were watching "The Other One" on TV and this great song came on at the end. It must be 40 years since I last heard it. Rock n Roll was a lot more fun in the 70s. Thank you Tom Robinson.
Great Song, 2468 motor way, Tom Robinson band
Always loved this song! Everything about it is fantastic!
Remember it on the radio at the time. Where have the years gone?
Happy Birthday Tom! 70 tomorrow
I can't believe Tom is 70. But then I can't believe I'm 70. Belated Happy Birthday.
Briliiant stuff... short and to the point... Punk classic.. one of my Faves
This song should be renamed 'Vintage British Rock'...at its finest of course.
Never get sick of this
Dear Tom. Bless you
Hey Tom. Remember being in Monmouth Wales, late 70's. My friend Kev and I were driving up the High Street when I saw you walking. We turned round and asked you if you wanted to come to the pub with us. You spent the rest of the evening with my friends and I. Man you could drink! Good times. Hope all is well, Rich A.
I remember this from Golden fools and horses I love that them.
Danny's vibrato is perfection.
A real candidate for the proverbial "criminally underrated" guitarist. He was phenomenal (in a similar way as James Honeyman-Scott of The Pretenders). Danny NEVER got/gets the plaudits he deserves...and, you're bang on about his tone!
RIP Danny Kustow
yeh his chord voicing choices are something else too!
Came out back when I was 18, my first job building my record collection including there album, and drinking at pubs on weekends hearing pub rock. Those were the days.
I'm curious- where are you now? What are you doing/ (See my comment, above)
Boss sound and an anthem of those times. It makes me feel as if I can just stretch out an arm and touch the late 70s once more.
Out of school.
Out of meaningful work.
Out to the football every weekend.
Out of me head most weekends, too.
Up and down that motorway.
Using the 'little white line' as guidance.
Class from north west UK 🇬🇧
One of the best singers that sing well live tom robinson
sharpshooter catapults its top of the pops so thay lip sinck
Hard to think that this was considered New Wave at the time. Just brilliant pop Brilliant.
Heard this on the work radio the other day and thought 'why have I never heard this its surely a hit?' I love it!
Tom Robinson is a legend!!
Just back from seeing Tom in Torrington. What a wonderful night. I got quite emotional at times. Love living in the now. :) x
I can remember exactly where I was when this song came out in 78. I still like it great one Tom
Just fabulous..turn it up close your eyes and you're back there ❤ argh those were the days ..the best 🔥❤👌
Best soundtrack for a trip down memory lane.
This tune was released 18 days after I was nearly killed in a road accident. It instantly reminds me of Ward 14, St Georges Ward, Bristol Royal Infirmary, Bristol. Still remember my nurses names. And their faces. This tune was played a lot on the radio.
Whist I'm not usually familiar with them by name or the artists who made them, I'll always love songs like this one from the late 70s/early 80s, they take me right back to being a little boy sat there at the kitchen table, drawing pictures and making cardboard toys with my mum doing the housework around me, whilst we both listened to the radio :-)
I like how bands like this sound authentic and not studio produced.
+Shane Leuthold Because they were authentic.
Jolly boys outing :) Deadly song Tom
Joe Roche just watched that episode on Gold. Hence why I'm here! Lol
Joe Roche 2 4 6 8 is a gay helpline. Maybe Del Boy liked boys.
One of the great, happy "SHOUTALONG" songs !
"Lock up all your daughters" "Alright Alan" like if you know the show 😎
Hands down, the best sitcom ever made. Period.
brian henry only fools and horses way hay
LOOK OUT MARGATE AND LOCK UP YOUR DAUGHTERS.....!.....Alright Alan?! Lol!
here del the halfway house
Make those lagers long and cool!
love this song!!
reminds me of my childhood, great memories. A real rock anthem !
Awsom tune awsom year it's the year a was born. Great upload.
It's 2019. I love Tom, he's still the coolest dude. Good looking and smart.
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i love this tune it reminds me of my mum driving me to school in her VW polo
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Funk+ Rock+ musicianship+Singalong fantastic!!! An absolute fucking classic!! And Tom...Such a witty entertaining perceptive artist! Thanks all concerned👍😁❤
I love a good ole guitar band. Great song. I remember it was on Only fools and horses when they went on the Jolly boys outing and the bus blew up. 😂
First introduced to this one by dad in the 80s.
Last time heard it was in 1977 as a child in Bonn West Germany.
Wow where has time gone.
What a time for Music✅ This is a Classic