Specials - New Music, Toronto TV March 1980 * Horace Panter / Jerry Dammers * Message To You Rudy

The Specials - New Music, Toronto TV March 1980

[@biffa1234100]

FANTASTIC love that they got Jerry and Horaces names mixed up. But those were the best days of my life. Thanx

[@johnnyb8825]

3:56 The reason the mainstream British media in 1980 wouldn't play the whole of _Too Much Too Young_ was because it had the word "contraception" in it.

[@johnnyb8825]

The Specials had originally tried to combine reggae with punk but found it difficult because of the difference in tempo. So they turned to ska which has a similar rhythm to reggae but at a tempo more compatible with punk.

[@mr.musings5627]

Shame they mixed up the names on here.

[@skabuoy]

Yeah. That was what got my attention in the first place. The thumbnail with "Jerry Dammers" underneath Horace's face. And it's not so much a shame, as it is a stupid, avoidable mistake. It shows how much effort was put in this (and who knows how many more) item by the editorial team : the music's popular, so let's do a few minutes on it, to show the kids we're "groovy, baby". Bandwagoneering at the time, fun to watch forty years later. Mainly for their young faces, because nothing is said that's anywhere near newsworthy.

[@lucianoriva6979]

@@skabuoy well its kinda interesting what they say about playing reggae live

[@barnbayl]

It's embarrassing because I'm from Toronto and I was at the Palais Royale show which was amazing. So weird that Jerry thought of Reggae as a recorded (not live) genre. And that they think Ska is so easy to play. That presenter JD Roberts is now some kind of right wing political news presenter on Fox News or something.

[@jon_athan001]

@@barnbayl yup, jd Roberts is on fox and a right wing political commentator..too bad, i guess that's what happens you get old and crusty lol

[@MrWheeze]

Thanks so much for posting the rare footage of The Specials, Madness and The Beat. Would you have the appearance by Madness on the show from around the same time, by any chance?

[@heldopen]

unfortunately I don't... sorry

[@BillyJango]

They really haven't put much effort into this interview. How can they make a mistake like getting their names muddled up and saying Gangsters was on the album when it wasn't? I thought people did things right back then. I could understand it if it was today. Today people are lazy and get everything wrong.

[@ChillToMusic87]

1:33 No not Jerry Dammers 😂

[@MrWheeze]

...would you also have The Specials appearance on New Music from the Police Picnic in 1981 by any chance? Thanks again for all your great uploads

[@heldopen]

Yes - it's on our OTHER channel, starts around 12:00 mark - enjoy! :) kzbin.info/www/bejne/jH2rgXljoL2jiMU

[@MrWheeze]

@@heldopen Many thanks again!

[@bruetenn666]

Gangsters wasn't on the first specials album or the second

[@chrismurraymusic]

It was included on North American versions of the first album.

[@bruetenn666]

👍

[@johnnyb8825]

True. It was a stand-alone single (in the UK at least).

[@marcushaupt1564]

OK, someone tell them Jerry is the one with no teeth.

[@lpmuzza3274]

Yeh

[@vordman]

The teeth thing was all designed to make him look like he was from the wrong side of the tracks whereas in reality he was painfully middle-class and the son of a bishop.😁