MELBOURNE SKA ORCHESTRA -Get Smart REACTION - Absolutely fantastic! First time hearing

[@supasoulproductions]

...Would you believe...total CHAOS !? Hold it...there's a call coming in on my shoe.

[@unclephil7650]

This was my favourite TV show when I was around 13. It was written by the great Mel Brooks and designed as a parody on James Bond.

[@diane-]

I used to watch the show all the time.

[@jamesdamico9284]

Memories of the great Don Adams and crew. Classic show and theme song

[@hlawrencepowell]

Get Smart was one of the best shows ever to grace television. You can google the episodes or just the opening song.

[@patrickbaker9870]

Ska music of all eras, is often, (but not always, it is versitile) about the joyfull times. So glad you like it.

[@samuraikaoss1455]

Their cover of The Best Things In Life Are Free is awesome!

[@taniaPBear]

I have seen these guys live, so cool. 'Get Smart' was a parody show of the whole 'Bond' era 'Spy' themed movies and TV shows at the time. The theme tune for the show was supposed to sound very similar to the 'Bond' music. This is literally the 'Get Smart' theme tune, done in Ska. It was brilliant.

[@hlawrencepowell]

"Missed it by that much" at the very end was a common remark from Maxwell Smart, Played by Don Adams, in the Get Smart TV series.

[@NoCanDu]

I still say that! I’m so old! 😂

[@hlawrencepowell]

@@NoCanDu would you believe two boy scouts in a row boat?

[@marybaillie8907]

Suddenly I'm on the couch after school waiting for a great laugh in 1965. Such a great show, Don Adams and Barbara Feldon so great together. Love this orchestral version of the show's theme song. So beefed up. I'm with you Harri, if there's horns count me in, and the drums splendid sounds so powerful. Great reaction Harri. Thanks Harri and Sharla. Such a great memory. Cheers from Canada 🇨🇦

[@phantomcollector1976]

IT WASN'T DON KNOTTS WHO PLAYED MAXWELL SMART IT WAS DON ADAMS

[@marybaillie8907]

@@phantomcollector1976 Thank you. 😊

[@hazelmaylebrun6243]

Don Knotts? Don Adams. Don Knotts is in Mayberry waiting to use the one bullet for his gun. Don Adams was a brilliant man. Barbara Feldon said he would come in, take a look at the script and have it memorized nearly instantly. Crazy...

[@marybaillie8907]

@@hazelmaylebrun6243 Thanks Hazel. 😊

[@hlawrencepowell]

I was right there on the couch with you.

[@phantomcollector1976]

GET SMART WAS A FANTASTIC SHOW

[@ericanderson8886]

The Skatalites from Jamaica used to do a lot of movie and TV themes back in the sixties.

[@wayne_twentyfive]

I reside in Melbourne, but hadn't heard of these guys .. This was very good ! .. They did well to take such a short theme and make a full record out of it, while keeping it interesting the whole time .. And yes, they are definitely copying the Madness style of music videos .. And that's not a bad thing at all ! .. Great reaction, Harri. 👍

[@davejensen7922]

I’ve seen MSO live a few times and know a couple of the band members They’re red hot!

[@seehearpodcast3470]

I saw them a couple of months ago, and I still can't get the smile off my face.....one of the most fun bands around.

[@lesliedavis2185]

Melbourne Ska Orchestra are sim much fun, and seriously good musicians. All the locations are from my city Melbourne.

[@edalder2000]

I found this one when I was deep down the hole on YT. The band is tight and having so much fun. This is great.

[@Marcus-Oh-really-yes]

Very fun! Never heard this funky ska version of the old 1960s "Get Smart" TV series theme song before. Love the improvised instrumental solos in the middle, too!

[@evaczarnojanczyk1432]

Brilliant, love them! 😂😂😂

[@hazelmaylebrun6243]

Get Smart was my favee show as a kid... that and Batman and the Monkees. It was a fantastic parody of spy/secret agent movies, and this is a very very fabulous version of the theme song, though if you've never heard the original, it's easy to find on KZbin. Just Google Get Smart theme. Mel Brooks and Buck Henry created such a great show, and when my kids were growing up in the 80s and 90s, they reran the series on YTV and they fell in love with it too. It would be worth your while to watch a few episodes just for the sake of seeing where a lot of pop cultures references come from. "Sorry about that, Chief." "Missed it by that much." "The old bomb in the snack truck trick." "...and loving it."

[@jamesdamico9284]

and. Loving it

[@darrellhickey1990]

I Luv Ska! Fav go crazy dance music! So much fun!!!

[@dragonozwald9184]

This band is top notch.

[@mce_AU]

Thanks for reacting to this gem from my home town of Melbourne, Harri. At 5:33 he eats a page of a Melways. I hope it was of Lygon St. Delicious. Reply below if you get what I mean. Thanks again Harri.

[@raytalbot5890]

SKA RULES UK 👍👍🕶🇬🇧🇬🇧

[@MelbourneSkaOrchestra]

Thanks Harri! 👌🏻😀

[@JasonJrake]

Some Ska to check out: Older band: The Specials Newish band: Real Big Fish Ska covers of "spy themes" are such a great crossover. Thanks for this reaction, I hadn't heard this one!

[@gorydetails709]

We need someone who reacts to more SKA!!! Let’s hear Reel Big Fish, the Planet Smashers, the Skatalites, the Slackers, the Toasters, the Pietasters, and so many more amazing bands starting with “the”. Lol! Ska is such a vast genre, and is a key style to many hit songs, despite how unknown it is in the mainstream. I feel like everyone loves ska…most just don’t know it yet. Haha!

[@thomastimlin1724]

The original 60's TV theme was played swing style. This is the TV theme but certainly different lol

[@recoil53]

There is a reason the song songs like it could be from a James Bond movie - the original is the theme song for the show "Get Smart" which was a parody of spy movies.

[@heretogo9474]

THAT WAS AWESOME!

[@phonebone81]

If you like SKA you`ve also check out Mark Foggo's Skaster's - "St. Valantine's Day Massacres". Just good music! Thanks for sharing and best wishes @all from hamburg (germany)

[@joe2tonepringle352]

MSO quality ... ( sorry forgot to add this >>) .... SKA'd 4 Life

[@markcornish2519]

They actually do a cool version of the James bond theme. Also the pink panther movie theme and the TV show Hogan's heroes

[@andfre16]

You should react to "Lilith" by Out of Control Army. A really good mexican ska band. 👌🏁

[@alhollywood6486]

Ska is jazz

[@helmutkurtneumnn2026]

🎉😂❤

[@edwardallen4051]

You may be interested in The Tokyo Ska Paradise Orchestra as well Harri, kzbin.info/www/bejne/a2TIk36sZtGMjdk , they have been going now for over 30 years . My favourite Ska Band, they have ferocious energy levels particularly the drummer Kin-ichi Motegi, I last saw them in the live stream of the Fuji Rock Festival in 2022 and not only did they do their own set but also played support for other solo artists. They suffered multiple tragedies losing their vocalist Clean Head Gimoya to brain cancer, their original drummer killed in a motorcycle accident in Australia and another member having to leave due to a severe foot injury he suffered in another motorcycle accident in Thailand.

[@alhollywood6486]

No one, and I mean no one, covers ska orchestras! Thanks so much for this!