Black Lace- Agadoo- TOTP 1984

[@rkent06]

Never heard anyone make a guitar sound like the demo track on a keyboard, truly unique ability

[@daffodil1267]

Loved the songs from the 80s, best era ever. I was only 17 when this song was released. Classic

[@gremlinuk1968]

1984,, i lift high school 25th may 1984 , started working as a milkman,in August 4th, as 16 year old,! Born 23rd May, 1968,, !God Bless from northern Ireland UK, 🤝🇬🇧❤

[@actualbennett2245]

After six pints of Stella, I'd strut out onto the dance floor when this came on, in my Miami Vice fashion, and do this. It made perfect sense then. The hangover the next day and the sniggers of 'friends' who'd seen me were simply not fair. Excellent days.

[@kevinallcock1946]

One of the best bands I EVER saw live . Bloody brilliant .

[@SpeccyHorace]

I dread to think of the ones you saw and didn't think were good :-/

[@MrSheerlane]

Prob cos they are not singing or actually playing the guitar 😂

[@RichXbox360]

This still gets played at every Disco I've ever attended, even now 27 years on, and what's worse is that everyone knows the daft dance to it.

[@videofan3517]

Well who wouldn't? It was a big hit, you know.

[@Drobium77]

A song that was EVERY 80s disco from 1984 until at least 1991 :-)

[@adreena456]

It was still being played at my primary school discos in 1996!

[@AllRequired]

The song you hate with every fiber of your being but can't help but be strangely drawn to.

[@TheGodParticle]

Interesting hypothesis, i concur, but only after five pints of carling and a couple of shots and the local bike wanting a dance. Cheers people

[@r4h4al]

Then you get older & just love it.

[@drrocketman7794]

Zamina Waka Waka

[@NorryJones-kg1se]

There's always a change of keys ahhhhh !! X

[@Hertfordshire247]

"Who's in that suit?" Well I would've thought going on revelations of 2012, Jimmy Saville.

[@miciastarky4290]

I was going to put that, but read some comments first

[@josephglover4256]

Sir jimmy!

[@iangarner8857]

You can't hate these when you actually realise Alan Barton was a really talented singer and guitarist in Smokie after he left Black Lace. It just shows Black Lace loved being a novelty party act. They never pretended to be something they were not.

[@alzyerpal-TV]

Poor Alan, almost 30 years gone now.

[@josephglover4256]

Should be the national anthem! 🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@kjellhl1975]

This song is the very definition of a guilty pleasure lol

[@lisaburna2107]

The information contained Liam

[@KayleighNatasha]

As much as I love this, I can't help but get the giggles when I dance to the song

[@CHRISDABAHIA]

Kayleigh Natasha That’s the point: it’s pure, silly, happy, innocent fun! 🤗 🥳

[@GLBizzie]

I just got reminded of this coz of Emmerdale out of all shows yesterday when David’s phone was ringing with this 🤣

[@gh1851]

Steve Wright hosted this edition of TOTP. 13th December 1984 I believe. Music was brilliant in the 80s, better than today's songs, definitely. Shocking that Steve has gone. Can't believe it. RIP Steve Wright 💔

[@DaveAndBeth1978]

The irony of claiming that "music in the 80s was better than today" on a vid of Agadoo! 😂

[@KylieTorpy]

I absolutely love this song ❤❤❤❤

[@beccipace5532]

So do I.😁

[@alexbrown1554]

I love this song back in 1984

[@sanjivbista7296]

This is the favourite song of google assistant😂😂

[@scottandrewsykes]

I work just up from Bradford Road, when im having a bad day i look down fom the 4th Story see Frontier and sing this to myself- job done

[@garyroberts3012]

Brilliant group and songs

[@philippaine]

Quality music, much deeper than Queen, Floyd and Led Zep.

[@jackdawson5731]

Agado vs bohemian rapsody agado any day 😂

[@debralynn9678]

Careless Whisper was number one then.

[@TheRoute19]

I unironically prefer this to most of their output from the groups you mentioned. The one exception is the first Floyd album, well, half of it maybe.

[@philiphubbard6234]

Actually, Black Lace coved Bohemian Rhapsody in there early days.

[@TheRetroManRandySavage]

Queen couldn't carry black laces jock.😂

[@gilesdavis4547]

Me mate Wally Brown loved dancing to this at the school disco, and yes he knew all the movements LOL!

[@wallybrown2545]

You're right Giles, those were the days. Inbred into you these great songs.

[@wallybrown2545]

Ingrained into you I meant LOL!

[@wintermelonaltacc6644]

1984:gosh this song is trash 2021:this is masterpiece

[@ScottyBugler2005]

Nah...... always a masterpiece 😂

[@paulmajor8865]

The song was held from the number one spot by careless whisper

[@adreena456]

A crime

[@digitaldobbie]

I bought the 45 single of this when it was released and I remember that the sleeve and vinyl smelled of pineapple 🍍

[@_Piers_]

I don't think any group ever had such a negative influence on the quality of music played at discos...

[@ScottyBugler2005]

I’d take this over the majority of shit that they try to pass off as music these days. And 100% I’d take this over Baby Shark or Crazy Frog any day of the week. Agadoo gives me happy memories of the late night pool parties we had in 1984 in Lloret de Mar Spain.

[@ambrsanford3703]

I get the feeling that songs like this blow up because they incorporate a dance for people who can't dance...Heeey macarena.

[@leeroberts1192]

It used to be played nightly at Butlins in Bognor

[@leucharschooks]

Tried to use it in a video mix for my mothers birthday and was given copyright violation THEY CAN KEEP IT !!

[@meagain3876]

RIP Colin Gibb - it's so sad that he didn't get to enjoy the retirement he'd planned with his wife in Spain.

[@NoMoFOMOtech]

As a kid this was a staple of australian primary school songs for kids Fast forward a few decades and im now living in Hawaii...Waikiki ia NOT on Kauai and why are the drums and dancers Caribbean ?! ... Dammit I should never have googled it .. The memory was SO much better than the actual song

[@robhay57]

1984's version of the Baby Shark song. LOL

[@zoilaalvarez7674]

El gran Alan Barton era el cantante de Black Lace quie el 23 03 2024 fue su aniversario 29 de su fallecimiento recuerdo eterno desde México ❤

[@bladesmark1]

Alan Barton ( the one without the guitar ) went on & fronted the band Smokie until his untimely death in 95

[@jasperedwards3341]

its lamahl

[@skoraya-elena]

К сажалению Алан Бартон погиб в автокатастрофе, возвращаясь из гастролей по Германии в аэропорт, автобус попал под шквалистый ливень и перевернулся. Остальные музыканты отделались порезами и ушибами, а Алан Бартон после 5 дней реанимации скончался.

[@suefreewoman6581]

NOT December 1984. I was listening to it with my first born and niece in AUGUST 1984.

[@eclectica1]

This performance is most likely from the Christmas 1984 edition of TOTP. If so, you're wrong.

[@stephenduncan3605]

I remember it being from the summer of 1984 (yet I was only 3 at the time) being played in the old Woolworths on Blackpool Promenade and that store closed afterwards and became Pricebusters from 1985 onwards!

[@mightyquinnproductions8672]

Say what you want it as got to be the most cahchiest tunes ever.

[@mistyo2158]

Every time I watch TOTP2 and see how enthusiastic the adults are dancing I love it. Makes me wonder how many drugs they were on.

[@busterabcat]

One of the greatest black metal songs ever written. Kudos to these two guys.

[@skoraya-elena]

Парень в желтых штанах - это Алан Бартон. Он стал лидер-солистом группы Смоки после ухода из нее Криса Нормана.

[@roboticfalcon21]

You just know they weren't playing the guitar or singing because they had no microphones and the guitars weren't connected lol

[@whatonearth9809]

Roboticfalcon21 I would never have guessed 😂

[@deanbrady2841]

Fuck sake no shit Sherlock

[@ok2760]

Still better than any record than Muse have ever made

[@BillyFlower-d7r]

This better than any song released recently

[@EddieGaster]

This is the song Spitting Image were parodying when they did The Chicken Song.

[@terrytickler]

The best band ever

[@pollymcnamara5437]

It's smashing good

[@1mrstutt]

Happy music!😊☝️

[@TorbjornMain]

I LOVE AGADOO

[@ChivertonCoUk]

What a truly atrocious track this was! Danced to it in Benidorm in 84 though :-O

[@christopherdrennan7832]

I know Black Lace from Benidorm.

[@theculturedthug6609]

Black Lance pure Metal.

[@ghadeeralkhamees8752]

🥰💛

[@CHRISDABAHIA]

“Terrible, but infectious....” = better! End on a positive note! 🤗 🥳 😉

[@twistedturtle69]

wow.

[@ryanboyle4935]

WFH in 2020 made me click this

[@flapkatt6094]

COVID-19 boredom. But it is peppy, if you need a quick non-alcoholic lift. However I strongly recommend some lessening of sobriety whilst it plays.

[@gremlinuk1968]

Was a 16 year old back then,! Working as a milkman,! How many 16 year old back then was working,? 🤔

[@David-h4z2s]

This Like A Very Bad Acid Trip🤯🤯🤯😩😩😩😩😩

[@Billy_MacBilly]

Literally 1984

[@terrytickler]

Who's still listing in 2021

[@Woody-gr5jh]

U knw ur at a British wedding when u hear this tune getting dropped!..lol

[@sarahbrummitt4383]

Agadoo doo doo, push pineapple shake the tree, Agadoo doo doo, push pineapple grind coffee. to the left to the right, jump up and down and to the knees...let's all sing along until we grow old and die.

[@AllRequired]

Sarah Brummitt And revel in the sheer lunacy of it all. These guys were on to something.

[@c.j.forever7990]

Ok I worked as a Club Dj from 1984 until 1989... I never heard of this song ...thank god

[@Hertfordshire247]

I might get mullered for this but when this all over, Britain does know how to do cheese and on VC day (I know, original right, "VICTORY CORONA", this must be on there albeit without the lead who unfortunately is no longer with us. RULE BRITTANIA

[@aliciapoley63]

😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊😊🏠🏠🏠🏠

[@martinjohnston7071]

Brits: Ah, memories. Rest of the world: WTF?

[@karthiayanikalpathodi5686]

i asked google to tell the best song it showed this

[@verkaforever]

Waikiki is a real beach in Hawaii.

[@WooHooLadttv]

forgive me father for i have sinned a horrible crime one that can not be redeemed by the morals of man it is one that I will take judgement for yes, but not by the law, but by my own hands the tide that I have drunken goodbye and we shall all be one thing *gunshot* audio jungle killed her

[@David-h4z2s]

Bradford's Finest Son's

[@johntate5050]

Correct apart from the fact that Alan Barton was born in Barnsley and Colin Gibb was born in Leeds.

[@pifkingmail5584]

diabolical

[@97channel]

Well, 50 Cent was in the banana.

[@Robert-yf5zh]

😂😂😂

[@callummorgan5058]

Sad about Alan Barton in 1995

[@johntate5050]

I always thought this was a Black Sabbath song.

[@jurassicpark4ever]

It was not a mistake. But it is punny :)

[@Hankyman583]

I see what you did there, unless that was a genuine spelling error?

[@thecinematicmind]

The tackiest song ever and it’s hilariously glorious.

[@staalhard666]

hold a chicken in the air

[@djdefriend]

must... avert... eyes... but... can't.........

[@lyledal]

Why, oh why, didn't Fat Boy Slim ever cover this???

[@chrisacworth]

Who is in the fruits

[@chrisacworth]

who is under the fruits

[@adreena456]

No one, they’re real dancing fruits!

[@videofan3517]

seriously December? wasn't it a hit in the summer?

[@TheRoute19]

Christmas Day episode, yo

[@doodlenoodle4370]

Alex Horne brought me here XD

[@dhtelevision]

How the fuck, did Agadoo manage to get to number 2?

[@jane1975]

@D H Television: Because we had weird charts too, I mean Joe Dolce's "Shuddup a ya Face" kept Ultravox's "Vienna" off the number 1 spot for weeks. At least we had a sense of humour in the 1980's, as cringeworthy as this song is and annoying too - its better than the crap that passes for music today.

[@kadenvela4688]

Mom

[@smithchris1955]

best era was 1960/70 s

[@rengalafuze8700]

Awful. And I always thought the UK surpassed the US in musical taste! No, really? Was this a child's "sing along" or something?

[@francessayer1864]

No sadly it was adults who liked it (after 10 pints). That is what was the most worrying thing about it. But not all English are the same. Some of us are classy. So please ask trump not to block us from the USA.

[@NoMoFOMOtech]

Huge hit in Australia...this was a staple of australian primary school songs all thru the 80s

[@poubelle_blanche]

Cocaine is a hell of a drug.

[@feedtheyak2008]

Mumy mim

[@npo_music4973]

The best worst song of all time 🙉

[@RichXbox360]

To the left to he right... Why does the guy do totally the chuffin' opposite?

[@videofan3517]

I think he's moving to his left and right

[@muskratrepairservices7701]

Guinea Pig brought me here

[@dorothythelabskeleton80]

I am pregnant. I am expecting a bone.

[@jurassicpark4ever]

So much hate in you. I thought British people war nicer.

[@feedtheyak2008]

James im mummy

[@LuciusDriftwood]

Who's here in 2023 because of George Floyd?

[@stacked7476]

The dude who broke into a pregnant woman’s house and pistol whipped her?

[@LuciusDriftwood]

@@stacked7476 That’ll be the one 👍🏻

[@AM1465]

Hold a chicken in the air...

[@da7715]

We love a bit of crap in Britain.

[@vanessacarter3528]

it was all fun and pushing pineapples till they did the gang bang song, lol!!

[@improca4881]

Ogadeboogade That doesn’t make sense

[@thejoyofcroy]

An embarassing moment in the history of the British working class.

[@AquaFonic]

THE TWO MOST ANNOYING SONGS THIS AND SPITTING IMAGE HOLD A CHICKEN IN THE AIR 🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤦‍♂️

[@arrancockroft2834]

L ace ha ha