Shakatak DOWN ON THE STREET on TOTP (1984)

[@debbiebrett6689]

THIS IS REAL MUSIC!!

[@Peter1999Videos]

When music was music

[@stefanosntoumas4321]

Exactly, and this sound the same even 40 years!

[@sunilayya8948]

Still as classy as ever! Shakatak fans are a special group of people.

[@jacktheladfrost]

Do you both get together on a regular basis? 😂😂😂

[@shivenvivia]

​@@jacktheladfrostp⁰0000

[@zoranbracun2081]

Thanks mate 😄

[@Rightturnclyde78]

Yeah we are ,loved shakatak Down on the street

[@lightoftheworld7493]

A 12-year old boy in '84 playing with his Meccanos in the living room when this song came on the radio. Loved it instantly.

[@zafiraa9799]

Her voice is crisp and clear, just love it!

[@VinylPro]

good old times !

[@DominicVanGecas-x2t]

Shakatak the innovators of Jazz Funk.

[@Joelle-b4u]

Très belle chanson des années 70 80 qu est on a bien danser dessus en discothèque

[@brucejacquesStick]

Bah ouais , c'est vrai!

[@propheticwitness8624]

That woman is superb,this song is brilliant....

[@philiphibbert4951]

R.I.P Steve Wright dj introducing this song, always had his humours way with introducing songs.will be missed.

[@nigelwilliams9307]

He was rude, not funny.

[@hartleyhare99]

​@@nigelwilliams9307Smart arse wise cracks😂🤡

[@forgoogletotrack7181]

The hair! The shoulder pads! The pancake makeup! I loved the excess and extraness of the 80s. This is nostalgic.

[@OldhamSteve52]

I’m 65 feels like only yesterday!!!

[@HartleyHare-p4d]

Poison Perfume & Bacardi And Coke❤

[@4crevis]

I was 18. What was it about the 80's that was so special? Everyone was just out to have a good time. No fighting, no stabbing... everyone just enjoying the vibe. Classic.

[@Harry75]

Except at the football...

[@chrisclarke7828]

The thing that changed it was the people. Look around you in the UK there is filth everywhere. In the 3 years since you posted it has got worse.................a whole lot worse

[@mellofox]

​@@chrisclarke7828but why did the people change?

[@OldhamSteve52]

All nighters. Highlights, tukka boots, happy days.

[@Senna-xi1gr]

Great times then. Tory rule now just about locking us in our own homes. So sad now.

[@liquidninja6654]

This holds up incredibly well here in 2023

[@kdp8133]

Great memories. I was 24, had a job I loved, great friends and out literally every night. Such happy, carefree days!

[@neilwilliams8741]

same here .year I got married.. after wigan casino nights ..happy mad days

[@johnnoonan5802]

same age as me KDP yes they were great times to be young and free great music and a few bob in the pocket for some light fun , the guy on the piano is just super i could listen to his tunes and playing all night long

[@catlady6304]

I was 20. happy happy days

[@traceyallender9728]

Just the best days, oh what fun we had!

[@MariaLopez-hc2nm]

What absolutely magical days they were...❤❤❤❤❤❤😂😂😂😂🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@peterclarke3990]

Back in the day, Shakatak were all you ever used to hear on the radio back in the early eighties. They were that good! Their music is typical of the period. Jazz funk, slappy bass with some lead guitar and keyboards from Bill Sharpe. They had few changes in their line up, but it didn’t dampen their amazing ability to churn out the hits. Loved em and as so many still keep saying, there ain’t nuffink like it out there today more’s the pity!

[@simonbute6706]

Yet only got to number 9 in the UK charts

[@paulabutler3506]

Going next Saturday to see them 🎉❤

[@paulhamilton6028]

The hair, the clothes such special times

[@DominicVanGecas-x2t]

I would've been 14 in September 1984. I was a too young for pubbing and clubbing. Shakatak were brilliant back in the day.

[@campingfreundcamper9131]

Great Song. Makes me Happy.

[@salahelackad2005]

Brings back the endless summer night parties with barbecues, flowing beer and long careless days on Agamy beach Alexandria, beach racket and bikinis...my early 20's. A care free part of my life and a whole society that's gone now. God bless!

[@coffycup75]

One of the greatest dance records ever, love Shakatak.

[@johnfloyd4166]

Beautiful ❤❤

[@marcostyle1971]

I was 13... and I remember when this beautiful plays everywhere... ❤️

[@jeremyhaines4481]

I have met some of the members of shakatak they were lovely very nice people they kindly signed a 💿 CD for me

[@yggdrasil9039]

Awesome band. Eternally great

[@winni223]

Unbelievable music of this quality was once a mainstream

[@IanWelland]

Ah the brilliant Shakatak... Bill Sharpe, Jill Seward & Co belting out the summer anthem of 1984 as far as the clubs and beaches were concerned. This track was heard thumping out of our "Ghetto Blasters" and car radios. Shakatak were even better live - absolute privilege to see them live in concert. I bet Bill and Jill chuckled at Steve Wright's opening remarks here...

[@michaelrawson6261]

Loved Shakatak, and the lead singer is delicious!!!

[@peterhawker3958]

Totp on a Thursday night, payday Friday, straight down to a great record stall in Rochdale indoor market, great times. The kids of today do not know what they have missed out on. The charts meant something. What a great era!!

[@jamiefoyers2800]

One thing about TOTP back in the 80's was that you can see people are happy and dancing without a care in the world...look at the times we live in now...crazy how things can change in a lifetime...it's a good track this one...

[@dilipdande134]

Superb music ❤❤❤🎉🎉

[@geli-anton]

In1984 I still loved jazz tinted disco music, a genre that was officially dead & buried in july 1979.

[@peterhawker3958]

Shakatak still going 40 plus years, they're coming to sunny Hunny in March. Brilliant sounds from a magical era.

[@Nellybelly3423]

I missed that I live down the road in kings lynn

[@AnthonyPreece-x4n]

I seen Shakatak at The Jam House Birmingham last week. We all had a great night.

[@thomashodge7740]

Very underrated 80s soul funk jazz gem from 1984 by the brilliant underrated Shakatak Down on the Street a forgotten UK band .

[@mikedignum1868]

Not by me..Love them..Always playing on a night shift.

[@SolarRadioFM]

But NOT forgotten by our radiostation WWW.SOLARRADIO.FM so tunein and enjoy Shakatak once again !

[@projectunreflected4539]

Not so forgotten.

[@swimdeep189]

80,s was best ever ,miss those days so bad,where are London Pubs playing this Music but without the necessary gangster/bulldogs on the door.

[@wiwikijk1606]

It was a big hit in France actually

[@casiopeelinda3747]

J adore la voix l orchestration le tempo la beauté de la chanteuse la chanson le groupe c est magnifique de bon souvenir C est la chanson qui me rend de bonne humeur

[@Paul_John_Paul]

Such a great song. Still sounds fresh.

[@hartleyhare99]

Still sounds great! Loved the 80s🤩👑🌹

[@justinneill5003]

Saw them live in Manchester in the 80s. They were a very slick and talented bunch, the bass player played a killer jazz-funk solo that wowed the crowd. It was all about the club scene and they really captured the feel of the time.

[@pauloates4982]

I love this band ❤ they do lovely version of Shakatak music🎶 🎎🇬🇧🇬🇧👏🏿😑

[@MrChristian]

One of the all-time-best dance tracks of the 80s! I love how the intro builds up.. Real music, Ladies and Gentlemen!!

[@johnfloyd4166]

Spot on mate ❤❤

[@levensi5907]

Great song. The times when we had quality music.

[@jacktheladfrost]

Where did you hang out? In a lift?

[@liquidninja6654]

@@jacktheladfrostI’m sure you’re a huge fan of mumble rap.

[@johnfloyd4166]

I remember this Skegness butlins. 84....😊 so cool still..

[@jaybee1597]

Never gets old! 🎶

[@robbie007]

The best era of TOTP. Early-mid 80s so much great music. And TOTP at its most pomp. 1984 is the peak musical year for me. This song takes me to my Summer holiday. Great underrated band. Used to love all their early 80s smooth jazz. Also if you listen carefully there is a background chorus that goes Down on the street (shoutin' ..talkin'.. laughin' ...down on the street) Down Down on the street (snappin' fingers dancin' ...down on the street) Down. Down on the street (shoutin'.. talkin'.. laughin' ...down on the street) Down Down on the street Down. i havent heard it live though...

[@michealkelliher8428]

Absolutely 💯 This was the halcyon days of TOTP. The fun, the colour, no drugs, no drunkards. From late 1992 it became a pile of shit!

[@Rightturnclyde78]

@@michealkelliher8428 definitely right, great times for me from 78 - 89 great era never see the likes again

[@michealkelliher8428]

@@Rightturnclyde78 Sadly. No wonder mainstream music is a pile of shite nowadays.

[@Live-Motion-123]

who's watching for this in 2019 ? Qui regarde ça en 2019 ? Les nostalgiques de la belle époque sans doute...

[@ethanoreilly2002]

Yep!

[@mrtrunxx]

Every day

[@casiopeelinda3747]

oui ça c était de la musique Shakatak et un grand groupe va te débouché les oreilles c est quand même mieux que ce qu il ya maintenant

[@antoinegomez7887]

Moi j'ai 12 ans et j'écoute ça a longueur de journée J'ADORE CA !!!

[@enricviv]

me, on a daily basis

[@francescobertini9938]

Uno dei migliori pezzi anni 80....

[@PieroGiuseppeGoletto]

Tra le canzoni più allegre mai scritte

[@thierrydevant7690]

Love the group and she looks incredible.

[@SKiNT3ASTWOOD]

Jill Saward, gave me morning wood back in the 80`s.

[@dilipdande134]

Greatest artists those days ...wonderful composition by..shakatak ❤❤❤band

[@AllanRamsammy]

Classic - Shakatak one of the 80' greatest...2020 and still loving it

[@gustavoserrano4063]

Ahi épocas qur por lo bellas por su musica costumbres nunca debieron ser tocadas por el tiempo yo ame esa época amigos

[@annroderickdumaine6358]

Love shak a tak ! Great music for your car stereo!

[@SandraKurz]

Schöne Erinnerungen an das Deutsch Amerikanische Volksfest in Berlin-Zehlendorf .Partys ohne Ende.

[@Maup20022]

I have to go there now.... down on the street... walking the dog. Take the music with me though. What a sound.... wow still doesn’t ware off after all those years. Who’s counting, I’m not. 😳

[@jacktheladfrost]

Counting? I'd be more worried about spelling

[@milanmernjik4834]

just briliant,shakatak,together with level 42 ,best brit jazz funk band ever

[@darwinmohammed5739]

god blessed people in 80's with such music

[@TinyMaths]

UN-believable. I spent so many years trying to figure out this song. I probably heard it in Early 85 while still in the second year of secondary school (would have been 13 going on 14 at the time). Absolutely loved it back then and it has been popping up in my head over the decades. Then I was trying to search 'Scout In The Street' a few times over the last decade or so, and just couldn't find it. And now, I'm laughing because it is Shakatak. Must have been my brother playing this on the record player back then because he had some Shakatak. I've waited years for this moment. I was honestly starting to think I might not ever hear it again. Managed to knock two tunes off that list in one evening. The other one was 'Julia And Company' with the song 'Breakin Down'. I love the internet.

[@podlou9939]

Sugar Samba

[@TinyMaths]

@@podlou9939 Thanks, I didn't know the actual song name. I only remembered the words 'Breakin it down' from the song (and remembered the other words incorrectly). Those are the words that mainly popped up in my head over the years. I happened to search that when the song popped into my head yet again after I found this Shakatak song. So glad I found it.

[@valeriefoiratier8854]

Super groupe des années 80 et chanson aussi la meilleure musique et époque.

[@jeanguesdon6012]

belle chanson rythmée, bonne époque

[@paulhaslam9395]

Bring back the 80s

[@deirdremalgas7988]

This music will live always

[@volkmarherbel9601]

Ich möchte zurück in die Zeit.Ich liebe diesen Song.❤

[@posh7216]

Tenerife '84....fun fun fun and free ✌🎶🍸😎🌞 nice memories and still smiling 😍

[@peterhawker4395]

Listen up people, pop music was fun fun fun in the good old days

[@sammurphy7232]

Takes me back to beautiful sounds of the 80s and what a band seen them 3 times now still going strong got a picture with Jill at the stables Milton Keynes x

[@rjjcms1]

A guy I was sharing a ward in Milton Keynes Hospital with a while back told me I've got to go for a night out at the Stables,but I haven't done it yet. There are two other music venues in the locality he's recommended,got them written down somewhere.

[@thomasgray9170]

sam murphy Yes, they're a great band, good fun fir socialising, Bill Sharpe has been especially kind to me, sometines putting me on their guest lists. The Stables is close to my heart, it was indeed literally just a stable when I went to music camp there in the 70s, I'm from Stony Stratford and would regularly be shipped off to see the Dankworths sometimes at at their homes. Shakatak are terribly underrated.

[@antoniofuentesyatienza4447]

Jill Saward qué guapa y qué voz tan preciosa.

[@neilwillis9183]

the 80s were one big party im so pleased and feel so blessed i was there to enjoy it thankyou god thank buddah thank everybody thankyou happy times and thankyou shakatak

[@simonbute6706]

12 Yr old when this was out... love it still now

[@anjaevers848]

Hey, I was 16 years .And love this song today, too. And this Band live on tour now-🎉yeah!Great 😊.

[@haraldlenz4860]

Shakatak since 1983... only the Best ..

[@АлинаФомина-м8з]

Кайф!!!!Одна из моих любимых групп!Как все профессионально!!!Обожаю!!!Солистка -высший класс!Голос Богини!Жаль,что у нас мало кто знает эту группу

[@etothej]

First time I heard this I was on a high school exchange trip to Geneva Switzerland. Immediately bought the cassette so I could listen on the way home.

[@krisstoffy143]

que de bon souvenir qui nous ont fais danser souvent a l'epoque .

[@datafer]

An amazing song. I think it was an underated band. By the way, the dancers in white and yellow are very beautiful.

[@norbertsicho3755]

One of the best dance songs and outstanding singer. I LOVE IT

[@mubarak3457]

Big fan since I was 12 years old back in 1982

[@peterhawker4395]

When music was fun guys!!!!

[@MTBeginner-]

Bringing back great memories. I was 15 and longing for the day when I could leave school and start earning money so that I could go out with my friends.

[@bettybooppiet3821]

Yesssss back in 1984 good memory,s and this group is in my 1984 list

[@thebestseductorofwomens4200]

wonderful song SHAKATAK +++++ THE BEST FUNKY 80 ++++++++

[@benji.B-side]

One of the best disco songs ever made!!!

[@thierrydevant7690]

She is beautiful in this.

[@THESTIG-cc7fq]

Great track from back then love all jazz funk tracks. This was during my RAF days takes me right back to great discos on the base. Always lots of locals come there too there were no discos around, so the base was the place to be.

[@isabellepaul624]

un symbole de l'insouciance des années 80, j'adore !

[@libertelibre]

Ah oui alors !

[@carlgrant7741]

Tune classic dancing to that👍🏼

[@АлександрАлександр-и5в9в]

thank you very much good songs and music😍

[@laurent359]

Wonderful 80'

[@hm450]

Such a good time i won't forget

[@johnross8685]

Imagine if today's music was like this

[@jacktheladfrost]

The world has enough problems

[@johnross8685]

@@jacktheladfrost that's true

[@amandaprill1508]

Really love Jill singing voice akot

[@thierrydevant7690]

Big hair style was the thing and showed a powerful display

[@KRISHMETZ]

J'adore!

[@rafaelenriquemerinomarquez9055]

First time I saw Jill Saward I said: "Jeez, what a woman..." I only was twelve

[@eldar1380]

the music of my youth. perfectly!

[@petetong9725]

Great band introduced by the worlds best ever DJ.. Steve Wright

[@camloff]

superb sound and mood ...

[@handeyecoordinationskills]

What a bursting tune, luv it

[@casiopeelinda3747]

Quel superbe chanson j adore toujours l écouté et la chanteuse était tres sexy et belle ❤ de bon et tres bon souvenir

[@Ronno4691]

Looking for the TOTP clip where the then BBC DJ Simon Bates introduces Shakatak and their new song then helpfully points out how hot he finds the singer!

[@카일리제너-b6z]

샤카탁♡