Daddy Cool - Eagle Rock - Clip (1971) Reaction

[@kane29842]

Haha speaking of time passing, I had to actually go look up if this was on my request list or not. You're spot on tho, just a good timeless fun track, with a video that is a window back to another time. Song was actually created to start a dance trend, and what it ended up doing was creating a trend where participants would all drop their pants at the start of the song and dance with them around their ankles. Called it the 'Eagle Drop'. Anyway, cheers

[@TeezMcGee]

Cheers buddy! that explanation took me out 😂😂😂😂

[@TheDrewtho]

....Daddy Cool played at my school in 1971 at lunch time. I didn't have any money so I couldn't get in the gym to watch the concert, but could hear them pretty good outside. Eagle Rock was a blast.

[@PrincessGold1]

In their 70's now and Ross Wilson still performs!

[@PrincessGold1]

Ross Wilson, the singer , wrote this song, and went on to become one of Australia's greatest song-writers.

[@adrianross8383]

Great Australian track. This is Aussie gold from the year I was born.

[@jamesgudgeon4868]

A great song😊😊 2:48 2:50

[@rodneymcgiveron]

Eagle Rock is based on the Wedge Tail Eagle ...It's our biggest raptor and they have a distinctive almost dance when they're on the ground feeding on carrion (dead animals) .. They get so heavy feeding that they have to dance around to get airborne again ...GREAT SONG...

[@yakidin63]

The other weird part about this song is that in Australia it re-entered the charts 10 years after it was released and I think went to No1 again in the early 1980s in Melbourne Australia.. Amazing really.

[@yorumsfield556]

There is not an Aussie that doesn't know this pure Gem!

[@bernbee1679]

Spot on it was the song everyone got up to dance to! Still does 50 years later 😊

[@mikedemike5393]

In Australia this song is anthemic....everybody has this song in their blood...simple song at that

[@etherreal5347]

Welcome to the Australia I grew up in. I was only 7 when this came out, but by the time I started sneaking out, nearly every band I saw played this song, a well known classic.

[@stevenmccart5455]

I actually saw this band in 1971 and to this day one of the funnest shows I've ever been to. These guys were enormous in Australia.

[@jgsheehan8810]

I was 9 when this was out, and loved it. We thought it hilarious the fox tail hanging out of his pants. Foxtails were quite the accessory on the old FJ Holdens (like the one in the clip) hanging off the antenna.

[@maryhanrahan]

Wow this always played at parties when I was young and everyone got up and danced

[@jenniferjacobs228]

Great Aussie band. very talented all. I was a teenager when this came out. great music never dates. but the cars do hahaha

[@jughtful]

3:00- FJ Holden from the 50's

[@peterlinsley4287]

Ross Wilson what a legend. After Daddy Cool broke up. He started another band Mondo Rock, and then after that, he went into producing. I had to laugh when my kids were small and watching the Wiggles and whe Wiggles had character King Mondo who was Ross Wilson.

[@Legolas2]

Such an underrated song

[@etherreal5347]

Just about anything Australian had always been that way to the rest of the world, underrated and under estimated, but more so by Australians, until the 80's.

[@Schiltzenberger]

Absolute classic, this song is part of every Aussie's upbringing.

[@Laraine3]

Ross Wilson is another Aussie legend as was Daddy Cool! Daddy Cool were classically trained musos with a good sense of humour and and a good sense of rock that’s probably more apparent in their other work. We had to learn to jive to this at school even then it was and oldie but a goodie.

[@peteaplin8324]

I listened in 2007 to this after i saw a vid of two maybe preteens dancing to it, havin a ball...never heard of Daddy Cool before that! Lyrics in a Leadbelly song reference "Eagle Rock"...

[@michaelwebster8389]

A real timeless Aussie classic.

[@JohnWalker-vs5rz]

You have just tapped into one of the greatest unknown/unappreciated Rock Genres..Classic Aussie Rock. Look up the live version of The Angels playing Am I Ever Gonna See Your Face Again, Melbourne 1988. Wait to be surprised by the reaction of the Aussie crowd.

[@ven0006]

Love the Angels!

[@markhill9275]

You are evil! 😂😂😂😂

[@SunShine-qk4rb]

The lead singer also had another band called Mondo Rock. Come said the boy is one of their songs

[@rickandersen2284]

Your comments are so true...about the passing of time. ...and looking back...

[@TeezMcGee]

man it's surreal

[@KarenJKJones]

You are also easy to listen to and to like. Agree this song is timeless.

[@ladylynnmaree]

Grew up listening to this song. Still on high rotation in our house

[@PrincessGold1]

It was an instant hit, meaningless, really, full of the Ozzie sense of humour. Every generation can sing this, and it's one of those songs they roll out at weddings etc and everyone gets up and has fun dancing and singing along!

[@StevenAnderson-kn7ji]

Timeless song🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@stevenhobbs709]

Always the last song at the pub

[@StevenAnderson-kn7ji]

Going on your Play list 🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@ansc6472]

Daddy cool great Aussie band

[@markhill9275]

Still the greatest Aussie classic song!

[@kavarasings9813]

This is the song of the manly sea eagles 💖🤍💖🤍

[@56music64]

Yes those hot pants on those girls, had a few pair. Saw Ross and his band perform this in 1971 also, at a Stones Corner, Brisbane cinema. There was a real buzz getting around about the group, so we decided to go and check them out, lots of journos in the audience also. They were huge. Ross wrote it after reading about an African American dance "Eagle Rock" from the late 19th century

[@StevenAnderson-kn7ji]

Australian band 🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@psychedelicprawncrumpets9479]

Elton John wrote crocodile rock after hearing this. He said it himself

[@elysehfm8797]

That was fun. Probably don't know it because Australian radio waves didn't make it all the way to NY. ;)

[@blueycarlton]

I saw their debut album Daddy Who? Daddy Cool, at a record store in Boston USA in 1974. You should check out Daddy Rocks Off.

[@rickandersen2284]

Ross Wilson singer wrote one of John Farnhams smootchiest hits.

[@Trac489]

💙💙💙💙

[@RUSHChick]

Never heard this song because I was born in 1971 😜. Fun song though!

[@cayleyturner3556]

😎

[@rickandersen2284]

Yay! Love this track! Love it!

[@trufflehund]

Elton John wrote Crocodile Rock after hearing this

[@RUSHChick]

Dude, you wish your mom happy 50th! I went to Costa Rica to celebrate my 50th! You reacted to “Southern Cross” by Crosby, Stills, and Nash while I was there!

[@TeezMcGee]

omg I love it! ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@markofrontz1343]

How this wasn't in the top 10 I just don't know. The Big Dance Craze of 1971.

[@garyspeed8961]

my football team's song... should be the Philly Eagles team song!

[@trenchy1990]

Aussie Aussie 🇦🇺

[@rickandersen2284]

Still a great track at a party...turned up full bore!

[@briangill4000]

Awesome song. For decades after release it would be the best song to get people on the floor. Rick did you get my cryptic message?

[@rickandersen2284]

@@briangill4000 no Brian?

[@briangill4000]

Put my e mail several times. Might have to set a time for cuppa

[@briangill4000]

Robert's? Halliwell?

[@rickandersen2284]

@@briangill4000 lets do that. Where and when? You know the place better than me...or...Dannebrog do coffees. Is that doable?

[@308V8HZ]

MANLY SEA EAGLES FOREVER !!!

[@JustOneSue]

😆😆😆

[@rickandersen2284]

Isn't this the club track for Manly NRL?

[@elysehfm8797]

NOT FIRST!

[@RUSHChick]

I wasn’t either, and I thought I was on it! Then I didn’t see you Elyse! Someone else (not us) totally beat us.