It is funny how I been looking for this song for 10 years. My dad and I used to sing along to it in the car, even though we fully never knew the words. I am glad I found it.
I first danced with a beautiful 19 year old Malay girl and kissed her during this song in a bar in Singapore. We spent 4 months together and it was a wonderful time. This song brings it all back.
Video manero gostei, eu gosto muito destas musicas, antigas cada uma traz, lembranças, e impossivel não ouvir, mas fazer o que né rsrsrs abraço pra todos vocês...
When people ask if Google will save or destroy the world? Its times like this I say save the world. I spent twelve hrs asking people what the song that goes oh ey oh ey oh and the first time I type it into Google I find alot of people has asked this question and I find the song lol
just goes to show you that whatever you're listening to now, however you're dancing, and whatever you might be wearing on your body will probably be a cultural laughing stock very shortly.
It's the moving tale of the orphaned child of Lord and Lady Greystoke, who was lost in a plane crash in Africa. Raised by a tribe of gorillas who were inexplicably *really* into New Wave synth-pop, he eventually journeys to the mysterious continent of Europe in search of love and some really fly clothes and makeup.
The old Listerine commercials brought me here LOL I still can see the bottle of blue (I think) Listerine swinging across the screen. Amiga how we miss you XD
My elder brother use to listen this song on full volume now i understood why he use to do that No matter how much business punks of 2014 generate old will remain gold 4ever
Un Tip cómico, que en México ya es conocida la broma en varias partes sobre esta canción: Cuando en algún lugar pongas ó esten tocando esta rola, en seguida le preguntas a quien tú consideres quien sabe el nombre de la misma: Oye, ¿cómo se llama esta canción?, te contestará: "TARZAN BOY", A lo que tú le contestas: "NO CHITA! TÚ TE QUEDAS!"... jajaja es efectiva!
esta muy buena esta cancion hace 3 años lo buscaba y nunca lo encontraba hasta que mi hermnita esta viendo pelicula de tarzan y salio esto entonces le di click y me aparecio la musica y fue algo increible esta musica es super linda y muy pioola SAudos desde Peru.!
uhhh como me recuerda a miamor cuando escuchava esta cancion estando conmigo en el cell lastima q aveces se siente q no seras feliz y tengas q renunciar a ese amor apesar q sientas q es el amor de tu vida
Hermoso tema lo importante es que tú espíritu se sienta joven las arrugas no importa es como te sientas y recordar eso tema que lo bailaste y lo sigues bailando
chale aunque naci a finales de los ochenta (88) creci escuchando pura musica ochentera que chingona epoca no cabe duda que los ochenta nacieron para quedarse........
Show de musica.salve os anos 80.Infelizmente a humanidade talvez jamais viva momentos tao lindos na musica, como esta e tantas outras.hoje em dia é justien, lady, e aqui no brasil uns fanks hororosos.mas quem sabe a atual geração, e outras futuras não acordem , e resolva reviver estes estilos? sonhar não custa né? abração a todos!!!!!!!!!!
What a weird video, I just like the Beverly Hills Ninja part, epic shit right there.... OOOOHHHHHHHH AAAAAAAAAA OHHHHHHHHHHHH AAAAAAAAA OHHHHHHHHH AAAAAAAAAAAAAA OHHHHHH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
@39jilly Lets just not talk about who has a bad taste because there is no measurement for that. And I searched this song because I was given a list of (in my opinion crappy) songs to find for some event. And I dont think this one is that bad but not that good either...
@Lalo3001 I would rather watch all these low budget videos than the ones now where millions are spent and is nothing but crap. No I don't want sexy back, nor violence and drugs, that's boring, I want fun back.
This song rocks. I remember when they used this song on a Listerine mouth wash commercial about 15 years ago with a listerine bottle swinging on a tarzan vine in the jungle. Anyone else remember that?
nao sei se as proximas geraçoes sentem o mesmo mas da uma saudade do tempo em que meus tios escutavam essas musicas eu era pirralho mas adorava........ show
OMG...tmnt 3 all the way!!! i still have the vhs tape too. and i remember playing this song at the end of the credits over and over as a kid. i cant watch or listen to the end credits without the song skipping, fading in and out, and/or seeing the lines on the tv. almost every party i went to as a kid this song came on...yeah it was that cool hahaha!!! i cant stop thinking about the samauri soldiers dancing to this song at the bar and everyone is staring at them like they are crazy lol
@ljgriner they will simply move on to another group. They have to have someone "beneath" them....or face the fact that they are the bottom of societies barrel. They could actually improve themselves and gain real respect, but this is beyond most of them (it would entail WORK of some sort-physical or mental). So, they give themselves a sense of false respect by "bashing" someone else. I am not racist, sexist, have no prob w/ gay/lesbians, but fully admit I am biased toward ignorance.
@MrMarywells Sure, I know why. People who leave these types of posts are the bottom of society, but to make themselves feel superior to someone, they pick out a section of society to "bash". Years ago, they would have been racist, or sexist, but that is not allowed now (openly anyway, and this is a public forum). So, it's now onto gay/lesbian. Being biased against these groups is still somewhat tolerated (society's fault). When they finally wise up that noone cares for their comments.....
@Xiphos0292 Thanks. Yes, I did run a few searches but I always enjoy getting comments and directions from people from overseas. They often overlap, but I occasionally get some interesting insights not available from casual search. "Coming Out" carries a high risk and it tends to cause agony and pains, at least in my circles. Japan in olden days had relaxed attitudes towards homosexuality. I would say that they were almost akin to those amongst the ancient Greeks.
@ofalltheranters would you realize that the 00's also are a decade? We are now in the 2010s, and there are some ups and downs in music, but you can't really say that all music from 2010 is crap, like all music from the 90s were good. Europop and eurodance? CRAP. R&B, hip-hop and kidpop nowadays is also crap. The 70s is my favorite decade, but there is also some downs there too.. Stop generalizing is my point
the only probly with this song TARZAN BOY is...when its playing. no party is truely a party without tarzan boy and you've never been fucked up if you arent dancing this song and bulgy eyed. i karaoke this song it so fuckin funny to see people of all ages the yunger kids like wtf is this shit the older people remembering it so random haha . ..(walks intoA CROWDED PARTY ,GHETTO BLASTER ON SHOULDER BLARING THIS SHIT!!!!!!!!! NO PRISONERS NO SURVIVORS - PURE PARTY
all of todays popular music sucks because record labels wont stray away from that crappy sound because the public (majority = morons) eats that shit up, and they know they can make money off it. its not music, its business. thats why you need to stray away from the radio to find good stuff. the 80s was very experimental, even though there was a lot of cheezy electronic stuff, but come on...this song GROOVES. TMNT III!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Summer 1985...this song was a standard club dance number in every major club in every major city in Europe. First heard this in the dance club "Bios" in Amsterdam's Leidseplein. Artificial snow floated down over the reveling crowd and the entire place just rocked. Yeah, this might be of the cheesiest of '80s kitsch now...but it was the only time that I was genuinely cool! LMFAO!!! "Bi-level" haircut...one earring in left ear!
@xxrobfalconxx "Whilst in the 80's, i think it was just about "lets just get up, party party and have a good time"" I think it was most likely "lets just get up, party party and have a good time before the world ends" because you have to remember this was back during the cold war which people wanted a good time before their fear of a nuclear war happens especially in the 80s due to the obsession with it...
This takes me back to my childhood, Brilliant memories. See in the 80s and early part of the 90s you had brilliant musicians, who had their own individual sound and who where very talented. Plus music fans had a better appreciation of music. Not like today where everyone seems to be a herd of sheep, listening to the same type of music and every damn tune sounds the same!!!! These days If u aint buying Simon cowell's x factor artists or Lady Gaga then you gotta be some sort of weirdo!!!
It's not surprising. "Self Control" was originally sung by an Italian performer named Raf and it was during a time when dance, called Italo Disco there, was big in Italy. The guy, an Irish dancer named Ruby, in Baltimora actually lip-synched for the guy who did the actual songs in Baltimora, who is an Italian dance producer, so it's not shocking that "Tarzan Boy" sounds very similar to "Self Control" as they are both Italo Disco songs.
It's AMAZING how unbelievably cheesy and corny this is, while simultaneously being so cool in its own way. Hats off to the guy in the video for creating this contradictory state of awesome. The song is really catchy, too. You could only get stuff like this in the 80's. Liked and favorited. This was easily the best part of TMNT 3. :P
@MrTrinkles Gate Number 1 Bar was the venue. I think it was opposite the Keppel terminal. Not sure if there's still a bar there, but anything seemed to go! Sexy corner was full of surprising sights. Failing that it was Bugis Street to have a few beers and watch someone do the 'Dance of the flaming arseholes' on top of the toilets. Food had to be from Fatty's. Great days!
@indianwhite "I've been searching the title of this song for the past 20 YEARS!!!!!" ...20 years? Really? It seems like if you asked a few people familiar with 80s music, one of them would have known. I don't think you were really searching that whole time. Shame on you for lying on the youtube.
this tune was used by a listerine commercial and teen age mutant ninja turtles video, wondered where the song came from, yeah I hear nadiix12 people back then cared more about making fun music with catchy tunes, nirvana generation was about being depressed and pissed off at the world and then hip hop took over, any type of music lasts about ten years no matter how successful
For those of you who knock the 80s I have a darn good question for you. Why is it that none of today's benefit concerts can even come close to being as successful as Live Aid? Live Aid was successful because of the talent of that time. Nobody's interested in today's crap that's why no benefit concert is as near as successful.
Jimmy McShane, from Derry in Northern Ireland, was the frontman of the group. Lead vocals were performed by Maurizio Bassi, including lead vocals on their biggest hit Tarzan Boy despite the fact that McShane lip synched while appearing in the Tarzan Boy music video and not Bassi. Bassi was also the group's keyboardist.
i managed to get thru the 80s without killing someone. YES this is the 80s style...you could never tell if the guy across the coffee counter was gay or if he got more action than a steelworker...i stubbornly held on to my late 70s punk/pseudo hippy self until the 90s when it was almost safe to be a dude again...if you lived in the 80s you wouldnt love them LOL
@shanceil Good. Now all we need to do is get a time machine and go back in time to the 80's. There we have 2 outcomes: 1. We get captured by the government if they get the technology 2. We warn everyone about how shitty the 21st century is, possibly causing a mass panic.
God i give to You justin beieber and Jonas brother For nirvana,john lennon,MJ,Guns and roses,billy mays,Baltimora,jimmy hendrix, And that raggae singer i dont renember its name who sing Great and was black... i think is Ah whatever,and too red hot chilly peper and maybe alphaville
This is it!! Finally found the song! Yippee!!! I have heard this one on radio so many times but never knew which song it was till I saw Beverly Hills Ninja and heard this track! After listening to every track in the soundtrack list... finally!!! i get it... I'm so happy! :)
@xxrobfalconxx i second that because look at this season of dancing with the stars. Kate Goslin (*pukes at the mention of her name*) stayed till almost the end even though she cant dance for shit and she is a complete MONSTER! all becase she is kinda pretty.
I`d have no objection if todays musicians had similar gay appearance ond/or if they`d in fact be gay. Just as long as they`d created good music. And this song is just that - good, quality pop music. And that kind of mucis has almost extincted in last decade or so.
Can't beat 80s music. If you like new garbage (don't get me wrong, some new stuff is decent, thats why I said "new garbage") then you seriously are being manipulated by the music industry which is screwing you out of your money for junk. This 80s stuff was pure talent.
For as goofy as this video (and song) are, it remains one of the happiest songs to come out of the Eighties. I've always loved this song. It's so happy, it's so catchy, and it's a lot of fun. Music today is so serious! Where are the songs like the songs that came out of the Eighties? What happened?
@afa78djd LOL you are correct My friend Too bad the epidemic took many of them away from us. Treating HIV with AZT was a crime against Humanity. The 80's New Wave was awesome and I say this as a Die Hard Misfits Fan although they were still together until 1983. Gotta love Baltimora, Culture Club and Frank Goes To Hollywood. So Gay so so Gay... Wicked Awesome. I actually heard Rebel Yell by Billy Idol just Yesterday. Billy Idol was both Pop and Punk but not as Badass as The Misfits or Ramones
Loved this song since childhood. (When I was a kid I thought it was a Native American type song, but then I hadn't paid attention to the lyrics-I reunited with the song when I was a teen and realized the "Oh-oh-oh" chorus represents Tarzan's yell; this song is also very creative in stylizing Tarzan's yell). First time watching the video. Very cool vid! The graphics are great for its time! =]
ninja turless visite jahpen back time soundtrack III... The movie begins in feudal Japan, 1603, with a masked man fighting four samurai ... The Turtles become friends with Kenshin and decide to travel back in time to ... very fond of this child and eventually considers him a younger brother 4 BROTHERS ( And when the living creatures went, the wheels went with them: and when the living ... The power of the lifting up of the four creatures was in the wheel. ...
@EndlessLaymon But look at it this way, in terms of pop culture, the 00's atleast had the "Lord of the RIngs" films, in music we got bands like "Keane" and "Ladyhawk", where-as the 90's were so heavily into hip-hop and "faux-indy" music, as well as bad teen trend that began then. Plus the rampant ultra-extreme political correctness that dominated the 90's (how often was Gloria Alred on tv complaining about something?).
Where's a fucking time machine when you need it. Godamn world's going into shit, modern music is pure ass (Mainstream really), and I just want to go back and see First Blood in theaters on a cloudy 80's day in my old town in NJ. I was born too fucking late.
@jimbrown257 I've been looking for a song for about 15 years lol I'm deaf n do not know the title but it has thunder sound effects at the start and end and it is NOT november rain...these things do happen lol i still have not found the title of this song :P
The performer in this didn't actually sing Baltimora's vocals. He was a well-known dancer from Ireland named Jimmy "Ruby" McShane who was used as a frontman for their songs. The actual singer is the producer who did Baltimora's music, Maurizio Bassi.
When I was in college my cousin got out of the army and came to stay with me a couple of days. We went to a club, had a few drinks and put a smile on a couple of young ladies faces. (Well, at least that's the way I want to remember it.)
"Jimmy McShane died in 1995 from complications from AIDS. While he was the frontman, he was no lead vocalist and lip synched for the video. Maurizio Bassi, who was the lead singer, put the group together, and is still alive." (Read further comments. MAD props to this RUclipsr whom I got the source from.)
@mandalay32 Yep I remember, it was for Listerine (good stuff to). This song was awesome. Wasn't that commercial from the 1990s? Man I just turned 30 and shit like this is making me feel like I am already becoming an old fart.
I can still remember my dad bringing home the single on vinyl. I must have been 3 when it came out, but I'm thinking he got it when I was 4 or 5. It always seemed kind of random. I guess he thought I woudl like it. And I did.
Three things come to mind with this song. 1. That awesome Listerine ad from the 1980s. 2. The "gay" meme from YTMND. 3. The dancing Japanese soldiers from TMNT III (one of the few good parts of the film). "Tarzan Boy" FTW.
@Nadiix12 Good for you! I think its cool your generation is appreciating my generation's music. The 80's were a good time. Believe it or not MTV actually played music back then. All day long too. Good times.
I've always found this video a little lame. Jimmy McShane didn't even perform the lead vocal on Tarzan Boy, Maurizio Bassi did. And yet there's Jimmy in the video, lip-syching all the way! Either way, the song is legendary. :)
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the 80's love it
Im a 90 kid and i love it too as well.
Esta es una chingoneria de rola, que vivan los 80s 4ever!!!!
I love 80s!!!, pete burns , boy george los amos y a baltimora tambien yeahhh!!!
It is funny how I been looking for this song for 10 years. My dad and I used to sing along to it in the car, even though we fully never knew the words. I am glad I found it.
Good for you. My cousin and I loved the song growing up.
je veut une maison ok
In 1985 this song was a #1 hit in The Netherlands. Timeless music. Nowadays such good music are not produced anymore.
I first danced with a beautiful 19 year old Malay girl and kissed her during this song in a bar in Singapore. We spent 4 months together and it was a wonderful time. This song brings it all back.
Video manero gostei, eu gosto muito destas musicas, antigas cada uma traz, lembranças, e impossivel não ouvir, mas fazer o que né rsrsrs abraço pra todos vocês...
one of my favorites.
I love this song R.I.P. Baltimora
80s' = FTW
I remember first hearing this song as a kid on the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3 soundtrack. I loved it then and still do now.
I remember this song was in Ninja Turtles 3... that is the only thing I wish I remembered from that movie.
Hey yeah... I remember that XD
@mattpoir It was also featured in The Beverly Hills Ninja...
also it was featured in the ninja turtlse i think #3
Yep, the scene where he uses the tree as a catapult.
jungle life super
@MrPsychomike1 i got head clippers .lets get this done!!
This song really brings you back to the 80's in it's fullest. One of my favorites that can always seem to put me in a good mood.
Like if Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3 brought you here.
When people ask if Google will save or destroy the world? Its times like this I say save the world. I spent twelve hrs asking people what the song that goes oh ey oh ey oh and the first time I type it into Google I find alot of people has asked this question and I find the song lol
😂😂
Love the song but seriously, this music video... Well... not that good...
just goes to show you that whatever you're listening to now, however you're dancing, and whatever you might be wearing on your body will probably be a cultural laughing stock very shortly.
no 80s party is complete without this classic
VIVA LA MUSICA DE LOS 80. QUE RECUERDOS
Música de los 80 como esta no hay!!!!!!!!!!!!
man, this only makes me think of one thing, TMNT
I was just watching the third movie. I heard this song and looked it up on here!
islamic death chant
rofl this kill me
This video is nearly ten years old
*just let that sink in*
it's nearly 30 years old...
I was referring to the upload!
love this song
Like if you're watching TMNT 3 in 2014.
Lo mejor musica de los 80 90 octubre 2019
Qué recuerdos lindos y melancólicos.cómo quisiera devolver el tiempo atrás.viva los 80.Retro por siempre.
It's the moving tale of the orphaned child of Lord and Lady Greystoke, who was lost in a plane crash in Africa. Raised by a tribe of gorillas who were inexplicably *really* into New Wave synth-pop, he eventually journeys to the mysterious continent of Europe in search of love and some really fly clothes and makeup.
The old Listerine commercials brought me here LOL I still can see the bottle of blue (I think) Listerine swinging across the screen. Amiga how we miss you XD
My elder brother use to listen this song on full volume
now i understood why he use to do that
No matter how much business punks of 2014 generate old will remain gold 4ever
Música bonita q no pasan de moda para recordar Flor
This song reminds me of, "Beverly Hills Ninja" haha fucking love that movie XD
Тарзан бой - очередное стильное áниме
para recordar velhos tempos
I JUST GOT DONE WATCHING TEENAGE MUTANT NINJA TURTLES TURTLES IN TIME
This song will always remind me of the end of TMNT 3 :)
2019?
80s FOREVERRR! 80S POR SIEMPRE!!!!
Un Tip cómico, que en México ya es conocida la broma en varias partes sobre esta canción: Cuando en algún lugar pongas ó esten tocando esta rola, en seguida le preguntas a quien tú consideres quien sabe el nombre de la misma: Oye, ¿cómo se llama esta canción?, te contestará: "TARZAN BOY", A lo que tú le contestas: "NO CHITA! TÚ TE QUEDAS!"... jajaja es efectiva!
In another dimension the 80's is never ending and the great music just keeps on coming!
esta muy buena esta cancion hace 3 años lo buscaba y nunca lo encontraba hasta que mi hermnita esta viendo pelicula de tarzan y salio esto entonces le di click y me aparecio la musica y fue algo increible esta musica es super linda y muy pioola
SAudos desde Peru.!
uhhh como me recuerda a miamor cuando escuchava esta cancion estando conmigo en el cell lastima q aveces se siente q no seras feliz y tengas q renunciar a ese amor apesar q sientas q es el amor de tu vida
Hermoso tema lo importante es que tú espíritu se sienta joven las arrugas no importa es como te sientas y recordar eso tema que lo bailaste y lo sigues bailando
chale aunque naci a finales de los ochenta (88) creci escuchando pura musica ochentera que chingona epoca no cabe duda que los ochenta nacieron para quedarse........
I can't believe they stole islamic death chant for this song (only Seth MacFarlane fans will get this joke).
Recuerdo mi infancia con esta canción que linda :)
Show de musica.salve os anos 80.Infelizmente a humanidade talvez jamais viva momentos tao lindos na musica, como esta e tantas outras.hoje em dia é justien, lady, e aqui no brasil uns fanks hororosos.mas quem sabe a atual geração, e outras futuras não acordem , e resolva reviver estes estilos? sonhar não custa né? abração a todos!!!!!!!!!!
What a weird video, I just like the Beverly Hills Ninja part, epic shit right there....
OOOOHHHHHHHH AAAAAAAAAA OHHHHHHHHHHHH AAAAAAAAA OHHHHHHHHH AAAAAAAAAAAAAA OHHHHHH AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
@YusefAlTahir That about sums up the whole 80's music scene, ambiguously gay singers with nonsense lyrics and excessive keyboards!
@39jilly Lets just not talk about who has a bad taste because there is no measurement for that. And I searched this song because I was given a list of (in my opinion crappy) songs to find for some event. And I dont think this one is that bad but not that good either...
me gusta esta musica es la mejor ah y no me import que no me entiendan esta super cool jajajajaj
@Lalo3001 I would rather watch all these low budget videos than the ones now where millions are spent and is nothing but crap. No I don't want sexy back, nor violence and drugs, that's boring, I want fun back.
Un dia antes de la fiesta de San Juan en Pucallpa Perú. 23 de junio del 2020.
This song rocks. I remember when they used this song on a Listerine mouth wash commercial about 15 years ago with a listerine bottle swinging on a tarzan vine in the jungle. Anyone else remember that?
nao sei se as proximas geraçoes sentem o mesmo mas da uma saudade do tempo em que meus tios escutavam essas musicas eu era pirralho mas adorava........ show
OMG...tmnt 3 all the way!!! i still have the vhs tape too. and i remember playing this song at the end of the credits over and over as a kid. i cant watch or listen to the end credits without the song skipping, fading in and out, and/or seeing the lines on the tv. almost every party i went to as a kid this song came on...yeah it was that cool
hahaha!!! i cant stop thinking about the samauri soldiers dancing to this song at the bar and everyone is staring at them like they are crazy lol
@ljgriner they will simply move on to another group. They have to have someone "beneath" them....or face the fact that they are the bottom of societies barrel. They could actually improve themselves and gain real respect, but this is beyond most of them (it would entail WORK of some sort-physical or mental). So, they give themselves a sense of false respect by "bashing" someone else. I am not racist, sexist, have no prob w/ gay/lesbians, but fully admit I am biased toward ignorance.
@MrMarywells Sure, I know why. People who leave these types of posts are the bottom of society, but to make themselves feel superior to someone, they pick out a section of society to "bash". Years ago, they would have been racist, or sexist, but that is not allowed now (openly anyway, and this is a public forum). So, it's now onto gay/lesbian. Being biased against these groups is still somewhat tolerated (society's fault). When they finally wise up that noone cares for their comments.....
@Xiphos0292
Thanks. Yes, I did run a few searches but I always enjoy getting comments and directions from people from overseas. They often overlap, but I occasionally get some interesting insights not available from casual search.
"Coming Out" carries a high risk and it tends to cause agony and pains, at least in my circles. Japan in olden days had relaxed attitudes towards homosexuality. I would say that they were almost akin to those amongst the ancient Greeks.
@ofalltheranters
would you realize that the 00's also are a decade? We are now in the 2010s, and there are some ups and downs in music, but you can't really say that all music from 2010 is crap, like all music from the 90s were good. Europop and eurodance? CRAP. R&B, hip-hop and kidpop nowadays is also crap. The 70s is my favorite decade, but there is also some downs there too.. Stop generalizing is my point
the only probly with this song TARZAN BOY is...when its playing. no party is truely a party without tarzan boy and you've never been fucked up if you arent dancing this song and bulgy eyed. i karaoke this song it so fuckin funny to see people of all ages the yunger kids like wtf is this shit the older people remembering it so random haha . ..(walks intoA CROWDED PARTY ,GHETTO BLASTER ON SHOULDER BLARING THIS SHIT!!!!!!!!! NO PRISONERS NO SURVIVORS - PURE PARTY
all of todays popular music sucks because record labels wont stray away from that crappy sound because the public (majority = morons) eats that shit up, and they know they can make money off it. its not music, its business. thats why you need to stray away from the radio to find good stuff. the 80s was very experimental, even though there was a lot of cheezy electronic stuff, but come on...this song GROOVES. TMNT III!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Summer 1985...this song was a standard club dance number in every major club in every major city in Europe.
First heard this in the dance club "Bios" in Amsterdam's Leidseplein. Artificial snow floated down over the reveling crowd and the entire place just rocked.
Yeah, this might be of the cheesiest of '80s kitsch now...but it was the only time that I was genuinely cool! LMFAO!!! "Bi-level" haircut...one earring in left ear!
@xxrobfalconxx "Whilst in the 80's, i think it was just about "lets just get up, party party and have a good time""
I think it was most likely "lets just get up, party party and have a good time before the world ends" because you have to remember this was back during the cold war which people wanted a good time before their fear of a nuclear war happens especially in the 80s due to the obsession with it...
This takes me back to my childhood, Brilliant memories. See in the 80s and early part of the 90s you had brilliant musicians, who had their own individual sound and who where very talented. Plus music fans had a better appreciation of music. Not like today where everyone seems to be a herd of sheep, listening to the same type of music and every damn tune sounds the same!!!! These days If u aint buying Simon cowell's x factor artists or Lady Gaga then you gotta be some sort of weirdo!!!
It's not surprising. "Self Control" was originally sung by an Italian performer named Raf and it was during a time when dance, called Italo Disco there, was big in Italy. The guy, an Irish dancer named Ruby, in Baltimora actually lip-synched for the guy who did the actual songs in Baltimora, who is an Italian dance producer, so it's not shocking that "Tarzan Boy" sounds very similar to "Self Control" as they are both Italo Disco songs.
It's AMAZING how unbelievably cheesy and corny this is, while simultaneously being so cool in its own way. Hats off to the guy in the video for creating this contradictory state of awesome. The song is really catchy, too. You could only get stuff like this in the 80's.
Liked and favorited. This was easily the best part of TMNT 3. :P
@MrTrinkles Gate Number 1 Bar was the venue. I think it was opposite the Keppel terminal. Not sure if there's still a bar there, but anything seemed to go! Sexy corner was full of surprising sights. Failing that it was Bugis Street to have a few beers and watch someone do the 'Dance of the flaming arseholes' on top of the toilets. Food had to be from Fatty's. Great days!
@indianwhite
"I've been searching the title of this song for the past 20 YEARS!!!!!"
...20 years? Really?
It seems like if you asked a few people familiar with 80s music, one of them would have known.
I don't think you were really searching that whole time.
Shame on you for lying on the youtube.
this tune was used by a listerine commercial and teen age mutant ninja turtles video, wondered where the song came from, yeah I hear nadiix12 people back then cared more about making fun music with catchy tunes, nirvana generation was about being depressed and pissed off at the world and then hip hop took over, any type of music lasts about ten years no matter how successful
For those of you who knock the 80s I have a darn good question for you. Why is it that none of today's benefit concerts can even come close to being as successful as Live Aid? Live Aid was successful because of the talent of that time. Nobody's interested in today's crap that's why no benefit concert is as near as successful.
Jimmy McShane, from Derry in Northern Ireland, was the frontman of the group. Lead vocals were performed by Maurizio Bassi, including lead vocals on their biggest hit Tarzan Boy despite the fact that McShane lip synched while appearing in the Tarzan Boy music video and not Bassi. Bassi was also the group's keyboardist.
i managed to get thru the 80s without killing someone. YES this is the 80s style...you could never tell if the guy across the coffee counter was gay or if he got more action than a steelworker...i stubbornly held on to my late 70s punk/pseudo hippy self until the 90s when it was almost safe to be a dude again...if you lived in the 80s you wouldnt love them LOL
@shanceil Good. Now all we need to do is get a time machine and go back in time to the 80's. There we have 2 outcomes:
1. We get captured by the government if they get the technology
2. We warn everyone about how shitty the 21st century is, possibly causing a mass panic.
God i give to You justin beieber and Jonas brother For nirvana,john lennon,MJ,Guns and roses,billy mays,Baltimora,jimmy hendrix, And that raggae singer i dont renember its name who sing Great and was black... i think is Ah whatever,and too red hot chilly peper and maybe alphaville
This is it!!
Finally found the song! Yippee!!!
I have heard this one on radio so many times but never knew which song it was till I saw Beverly Hills Ninja and heard this track!
After listening to every track in the soundtrack list... finally!!! i get it...
I'm so happy! :)
@xxrobfalconxx
i second that because look at this season of dancing with the stars. Kate Goslin (*pukes at the mention of her name*) stayed till almost the end even though she cant dance for shit and she is a complete MONSTER! all becase she is kinda pretty.
I`d have no objection if todays musicians had similar gay appearance ond/or if they`d in fact be gay. Just as long as they`d created good music. And this song is just that - good, quality pop music. And that kind of mucis has almost extincted in last decade or so.
Can't beat 80s music.
If you like new garbage (don't get me wrong, some new stuff is decent, thats why I said "new garbage") then you seriously are being manipulated by the music industry which is screwing you out of your money for junk.
This 80s stuff was pure talent.
For as goofy as this video (and song) are, it remains one of the happiest songs to come out of the Eighties. I've always loved this song. It's so happy, it's so catchy, and it's a lot of fun. Music today is so serious! Where are the songs like the songs that came out of the Eighties? What happened?
Dijeron que murio con una enfermedad relacionado con el SIDA...
@afa78djd LOL you are correct My friend Too bad the epidemic took many of them away from us. Treating HIV with AZT was a crime against Humanity. The 80's New Wave was awesome and I say this as a Die Hard Misfits Fan although they were still together until 1983. Gotta love Baltimora, Culture Club and Frank Goes To Hollywood. So Gay so so Gay... Wicked Awesome. I actually heard Rebel Yell by Billy Idol just Yesterday. Billy Idol was both Pop and Punk but not as Badass as The Misfits or Ramones
Loved this song since childhood. (When I was a kid I thought it was a Native American type song, but then I hadn't paid attention to the lyrics-I reunited with the song when I was a teen and realized the "Oh-oh-oh" chorus represents Tarzan's yell; this song is also very creative in stylizing Tarzan's yell).
First time watching the video. Very cool vid! The graphics are great for its time! =]
ninja turless visite jahpen back time soundtrack III... The movie begins in feudal Japan, 1603, with a masked man fighting four samurai ... The Turtles become friends with Kenshin and decide to travel back in time to ... very fond of this child and eventually considers him a younger brother 4 BROTHERS ( And when the living creatures went, the wheels went with them: and when the living ... The power of the lifting up of the four creatures was in the wheel. ...
@EndlessLaymon
But look at it this way, in terms of pop culture, the 00's atleast had the "Lord of the RIngs" films, in music we got bands like "Keane" and "Ladyhawk", where-as the 90's were so heavily into hip-hop and "faux-indy" music, as well as bad teen trend that began then.
Plus the rampant ultra-extreme political correctness that dominated the 90's (how often was Gloria Alred on tv complaining about something?).
Where's a fucking time machine when you need it.
Godamn world's going into shit, modern music is pure ass (Mainstream really), and I just want to go back and see First Blood in theaters on a cloudy 80's day in my old town in NJ.
I was born too fucking late.
@jimbrown257 I've been looking for a song for about 15 years lol I'm deaf n do not know the title but it has thunder sound effects at the start and end and it is NOT november rain...these things do happen lol i still have not found the title of this song :P
The performer in this didn't actually sing Baltimora's vocals. He was a well-known dancer from Ireland named Jimmy "Ruby" McShane who was used as a frontman for their songs. The actual singer is the producer who did Baltimora's music, Maurizio Bassi.
When I was in college my cousin got out of the army and came to stay with me a couple of days. We went to a club, had a few drinks and put a smile on a couple of young ladies faces. (Well, at least that's the way I want to remember it.)
"Jimmy McShane died in 1995 from complications from AIDS. While he was the frontman, he was no lead vocalist and lip synched for the video. Maurizio Bassi, who was the lead singer, put the group together, and is still alive." (Read further comments. MAD props to this RUclipsr whom I got the source from.)
@mandalay32 Yep I remember, it was for Listerine (good stuff to). This song was awesome. Wasn't that commercial from the 1990s? Man I just turned 30 and shit like this is making me feel like I am already becoming an old fart.
I can still remember my dad bringing home the single on vinyl. I must have been 3 when it came out, but I'm thinking he got it when I was 4 or 5. It always seemed kind of random. I guess he thought I woudl like it. And I did.
Three things come to mind with this song.
1. That awesome Listerine ad from the 1980s.
2. The "gay" meme from YTMND.
3. The dancing Japanese soldiers from TMNT III (one of the few good parts of the film).
"Tarzan Boy" FTW.
@Nadiix12
Good for you! I think its cool your generation is appreciating my generation's music. The 80's were a good time. Believe it or not MTV actually played music back then. All day long too. Good times.
I've always found this video a little lame. Jimmy McShane didn't even perform the lead vocal on Tarzan Boy, Maurizio Bassi did. And yet there's Jimmy in the video, lip-syching all the way!
Either way, the song is legendary. :)