The Specials - A Message To You Rudy (Official Music Video)
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Lyrics:
Stop your messing around
Better think of your future
Time you straighten right out
Creating problems in town
Rudy
A message to you, Rudy
A message to you
Stop your fooling around
Time you straighten right out
Better think of your future
Else you'll wind up in jail
Rudy
A message to you, Rudy
A message to you
Stop your messing around
Better think of your future
Time you straighten right out
Creating problems in town
Rudy
A message to you, Rudy
A message to you, Rudy
Oh, it's a message to you, Rudy
Yeah, it's a message to you, Rudy 
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R I P ,Terry Hall ,you are a legend ,one of my all time heroes. Love to you and your family...
Yeah, very sad. RIP
Gutted... part of my life, and millions of others, growing up. El Tel and Brad both so young. RIP thoughts with his family and close friends.
🙏
💔
😔
RIP. 😢
When the music industry won't give you a break, create your own label, sign yourself and get the recognition you deserve... Now, that is Special(s)
And start a whole movement.
Ain't no problem doin it DIY.
You should just do that, fuck the industry, never helped anyone
👍
The Amazing Jerry Dammers 🖤🤍
In 1979 I was 11 years old when I heard this song for the first time.
Fell in love with the song and with Ska music. Now at 54, still in love with Ska music !
RIP Terry Hall, true legend and hero of a whole generation !
What would you say are the Musts and classics bands to start to listen ska? (Sorry for mu English)
You must be 44 not 54 😢
@@carloakley5367 and you must be pretty stupid...😉
@@carloakley5367He was eleven in 1979 thus he was born 1968. At some point in 2024 he will be 56.
@@carloakley5367
Sierra is right. I was born in early 1979, and I’m 45 as of May 2024.
Incidentally, I first heard this song/band in my late teens in the 90’s, and loved it/them. I just introduced it to my grandkid.
The greatest ska record ever lost my dad in 2008 but he lives on when I hear this tune message to u Rudy 😢😢😢😢
Lost my dad in 2008 too xx
My condolences, SKA will never die nor will the memories of your Dad.
Literally same. 2008 was a rough year. All of my best music tastes, stem from him. Ska, Punk, and everything in between was thanks to him.
Every song is catchy!
🖤🤍🏁🎵🎶🎺🎵🎶🎵🎷🏁🖤🤍
0:53 Oh shit I better start dancing
Perfect comment
😂
Babaahhahhhhhhh
Haha, I thought that comment to yourself bro. Haha
Jajajajajaja 😂
I feel like sharing my knowledge with you today: for those who do not know the story already, the "rudy" of this song is not a person. In fact, it refers to the slang term "rude boy" (rude boy-rudie-rudy) that originated in Jamaica in the early '60 to define an individual who belongs to a specific sub-culture where ska and rocksteady are the main musical genres. As you can imagine, the term "rude" refers to the not exactly in-line-with-the-law lifestyle they had: "better think of your future" "else you'll wind up in jail" in the lyrics clearly refers to that. This particular subculture heavily influenced the mods and the skinheads, particularly in the look. And in in regards of music too , obviously, since the genre oi! is heavily influenced by ska. Hope you'll find this interesting.
wut?! as a guy named rudolph, might i just say, "that's sum bs right ther". i thought it was a msg to me, a msg that turned my life around. know i now, there is no god. life has no meaning. ggpo
@@aladdinsarsippius5643 sorry mate
Right
The name Rudy can also mean the famous wolf :)
Spot on 👍🏾
R.I.P. Terry, thanx for your incredible sound and songs.....Rude Boy never die!!!
From Russia with love.
In the post-Soviet space, especially in the 2000s, popular performers playing quasi-ska and reggae, most similar to 2-Tone, were pleased.
Of the officially published British bands in the USSR, I remember only UB-40. The Specials, due to controversial lyrics, did not pass the Soviet censorship, but their records, obtained illegally, were definitely in use among young people interested in Western culture.
At least Yegor Letov, the legendary leader of the Grazhdanskaya Oborona band and the Siberian punk movement, included the Specials in his list of favorite bands.
This song is magic for stopping babies crying! When my youngest was bawling for whatever reason, turned this on and he'd stop mid scream no matter what. Total magic😂
Baby has class. 💕🎼🎇
Bub has taste ❤️
I believe baby was thinking of his future. I predict a future astrophysicist with excellent musical taste.
Is your baby called Rudy by chance?
Mine too.. What do you do??? Lol xxxxxxxx
Heartbroken to learn of Terry Hall’s passing. Thank you TH for being part of a cultural revolution that helped change my life. Your legacy will live forever. RIP
Aw.
Mine too ❤listening to Yellowman changed my life
Sorry to be so ignorant but can u tell me which 1 tel hall is pls
@@danielray6689 The vocalist in the middle
@@teresagalvin312 uoc
So sad. Music. Integrity. This man did a lot for race relations. Youth culture. Education. So much more than a singer. Love love love.
Such a lovely guy. So sad to think he's no longer with us. He really seemed like the type of guy you'd like to meet in person.
No argument there. I was in my early teens in the first stages of senior school and beinging to explore my musical tastes. This was very big R.I.P. Terry Hall .
All you need is love! 👍
As a trombonist, I at first thought this song to be easy, but this trombonist's tone and ability to stay perfectly in tune is immaculate. I wish he got more credit.
His name is Rico Rodriguez, he has much appreciation unless of course you are a complete twat that didnt bother to look. Man from Waricka would be a good start for you to listen to
It's Rico Rodriguez. He's pretty legendary and I feel that his work with The Specials got quite well credited. At the time the band was having a string of hits, I'm pretty certain that anyone following their music in the UK, at least, would have known his name.
He went to Buckingham Palace and got a gong for his contribution to British music, which is pretty good going for someone who’s actually from Jamaica and who played trombone on the original recording of this song in the 1960s.. Not many Brits getting awards from the Jamaicans.. He got plenty of credit..
I'm Italian and I'm living the quarantine against Codv-19. This song make me happy and it gives me hope.
hope you've straightened out your crazy problems in town...
@@strongbongus it is too early to answer but we are fighting (standing home) to be healthy.
blessings from USA California where we are hunkered down and trying to figure things ou
@@allengoyne I just say: don't forget the hope and take care of you! From Italia: stay strong!
we are all with you sister; hearts and prayers
RIP Terry. Your music will live forever.
He’s dead lad he ain’t gonna c this
@@anthonywebster5477 😐
@@TheBrick517 what it’s true
@@anthonywebster5477 Obviously Terry Hall is not gonna see the comment, the point that alangibbs4183 was tryna make was that his legacy will live on.
As a blue collar working class school boy in Manchester in 1979, Too Much Too Young was the first single I ever baught.
Many thanks Mr. Hall & all of your comrades 💗
Menagerie
What an immense contribution to the soundtrack of our lives. RIP Terry!
Rest in peace Terry Hall. True legend 💙
I didn’t know Terry had died until this evening. Very sad .
He’s dead he ain’t gonna see this
Is that all you have to say? Idiot.
Much Respect, Much love to Terry and all his family. It's a devastating loss. But Happiness is there because he existed to give us all that he did. What an impact you had on my life for over 30 years and always will. A legend indeed. "Love Love Love" Rest in Ska Rudie!
Beautifully said .
@@1artfull Yes, nice words for the great man. Damn, another one gone.
What a lovely tribute. ❤
Spot on
Thanks Terry and The Specials for these memorable timeless classics. They go into the vaults of memories.
I'm a 61 year old male, don't know why I'm still crying, I guess some people in our lives actually meant something, and it hits hard when they pass.
In 1980 I was 9 years old and heard this song for the first time. I immediately fell in love with ska. My mom had to buy me a "peppita" skirt, "Monkey boots" and braces and she also had to made me a "feather cut". I'm still celebrating the second wave of ska!
Same age Sandra ! For me it was Gangsters !
'Don't call me scarface' !
Same here this Ska Revival turned me on to Ska in a big way
Im still devestated
Good one and your man sounds mint
This is one of those rare songs that you can throw on at any party for any people and no one will mind and at least one person will ask "dude, what is this?"
I was actually the guy asking
Or, "dude, who's rudy?!"
Just came here to add it to my Halloween Playlist for a party I'm having, no one will know who or what it is so they better be ready for a full history of Ska lol
@@cathlandavis1230 Nice! Yer doin' it right. When the party is really rolling, may I suggest "Papa's Got a Brand New Pigbag" by Pigbag? Cheers!
🤣🤣😜👍🏿
RIP Terry. Crazy to think how much further ahead they were in the '70s and '80s than we are now.
I know, right? We had music then, all genres, but music. What happened?
I used to go up to Camden and go to all kinds of gigs. Everyone had a great time but slowly a way was found to split us all back into our little tribes. Life died in the 80s
Rest in peace Terry and Brad. 2 legends, both gone too soon. :(
Black n white in harmony beautiful!!!
It's a trip to think that people aren't amplifying racism back then like everybody is really trying to get along. Nowadays everybody is pushing agendas.
looks like a nice oreo sandwich
💯💚🏴☮️
Can anyone tell me if Bob marley has a song like this??
@Bert Clarke what do you mean
Terry was like a friend who counseled us at our worst times and cheered us on at our best. He had an incredible ability to brighten or alleviate sadness through beautiful songs, which not everyone has.
Good bye, Rude Boy. RIP. 🕶️😎
Well said. So sad, he lived fiercely to overcome such a sad childhood. But look at the joy his work will continue to give
Lovely words
do nothing.
The best band from the 2Tone era. The legendary trombonist Rico Rodriguéz in fine fashion.🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇯🇲🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧
RIP Terry Hall. A sad loss to the music industry. I’ve just discovered the band, introduced me to the music genius that was Terry Hall. Gone, but never forgotten. He will live on in his music.
13 years old in 1980 and my friend played the Specials.........loved it and always will........Dave my friend recently passed away so it means even more now. God bless him
So sorry to hear that chum. I'm sure your friend Dave is in heaven with all the Ska Team.
Am 72..!! Better get out on the floor..and LOOSEN MY ARTHRITIC..JOINTS..!! MAGIC..!!
Keep jamming bud, like they say you're as old as your hart feels. Respect and love from the Netherlands.
I hear yah. All those late nite heavy stomperz bak in the day... the heavy soled steelies and drink take a toil on us! But lookout cat ... grandpas skankin again durin the commercial
Nice one. I'm 63 and got it all over. Thanks for music
right on Claude!!! pushing 50 myself and this still makes me young!! cheers!! my friend
You go Cluade
I was 15 when this specials cover came out in 1979. So lucky to be growing up in the 70s and early 80s. I was sad to hear of Terry's passing, he wasn't much older than me but his music had such a strong influence over all of us.
Music videos don't get much better than this.Thanks Coventry and all!
RIP Terry, a legend of a man.
My son's middle name is Rudy. He is 6 months old today! A message to you Rudy: I will always love you!
Dad x
Best of luck in life Rudy and Dad! ☺️🌷
Wishing the best for little Rudy
Happy Fathers Day Pops!
Cool
Best of luck dad and Rudy hope for the best in life for Both of ya 😎
another fallen legend. BIG UP REST IN PARADISE sir Terry Hall.. MASSIVE RESPECT!
RIP Terry Hall. This is so good
A lot of people tryina split us up these days 🤫 🤜🏾🤛🏻
✊🏽✊🏿✊🏻✊🏿✊🏼
But we fight proudly
Yes... Silly people, who should stop messing around...
unity
👊🏻👊🏼👊🏽👊🏾👊🏿 Everyone should unite.
I love how the Jamaicans brought their music to England and the mixture gave birth to bands like The Specials and Madness.
Ruby Jack Don't take imaginary lines so seriously m8
Ruby Jack What does “English” mean to you though?
Ruby Jack Racist POS
Marko7T4 I'll bet he means "white."
So very apt this comment with what's going on in the news today.
RIP Terry Hall I miss your talent and star quality there will never be anyone like you ❤️
You made Our youth thank you
Claaaaassic!
que aleatorio hahahah
olha so, galera do rap box curte um ska haha agora eu botei fé
claaaasico
Rap Box down the dust pipe
Rap Box
RIP Terry Hall. Saw them live in 2011 and they were brilliant. This is my favourite song of theirs.
It’s a cover version..
RIP Terry. The Specials were one of our favourite bands with Terry's distinctive vocals. Terry will be sadly missed.
R.I.P. still a top tune 👌👌👌👌
Amazing band...miss the times, the 80's and 90's.
The band will be remembered as London multicultural troubadours.
Far better than current shackled journalists to a newspaper title.
The Specials breath life, insight, nostalgia and overwhelming love.
Thank you for your existence!
Coventry
Thanks for that comment. You got it just right.
This actually true Skinheads.Just like lip it up fatty.
This song was from 1979.
COV!
fuck me, this takes me back....was life much simpler then? great memories
me me it was...
Yeah much simpler, Thatcher and Reagan in power, social deprivation, strikes, unemployment record high, threat of nuclear war, living in a shithole like Coventry... ;)
But apart from that, everything was peachy :)
Matt you make it all sound so sparkly back then.
...and everyone owned a unicorn.
Mr. Hall. You and The Specials are part of my musical life. I have danced to your music for over 4 decades, and the sounds are timeless/ so relevant. RIEP. Sleep well.
Saw them live. They worked the crowd. Better than a recording.
The Specials taught my friends how-to be tolerant of people who looked different. Thank you
Mr Clean i love your comment , i agree with what you have said . These lovely guys were so unique in every sense xx i will always adore them lol Jane x🎺🎷🎶🎸🎹📀💽🎥🎞🎧🎤🪕🎵💎🎬🎶🎷🎺
Cringe
@@connorwalker2297 Amen.
Yeah, tolerance is usually about people who look different but think the same.
You didn’t need any teaching because your smugly superiority to your friends..!
RIP Terry Hall. We'll never forget about you and you will be missed.
Crying my heart out listening back to all the legendary sounds and memories Terry created. Too many to leave this message on, but I love them all equally. Too good.
Another superb song 🎵
The great sound of Rico Rodriguez on the trombone.
RIP.
+rmkw4291 Yeah, he did sound wonderful!
rmkw4291 yess I love it
He was class !!
rmkw4291 thank you i was wondering who he was and why he kills it so hard
remember him play with Jools Hollands band R.I.P
As a young Mexican-American girl in early 1990s California I identified SO MUCH with The Specials and with this music.
We had a huge ska/rude boy scene back then.
This one really hurts 💔. RIP Terry Hall. Thank you for the amazing music/memories!
Saludos
Too much, too young. 🖤🤍
No Doubt had huge Ska influences didn’t they. I live near where Terry Hall was from and also near where Madness were from. Amazing they travelled all that way and had an impact.
@@Hillvalley86 No Doubt was a product of the huge popularity of ska music in Southern California. I don’t know why the music became so popular here but it did- I went to Madness, The Specials, Bad Manners and Skatalites concerts any chance I had. Then we had a huge local ska movement with bands like No Doubt, Hepcat and much more. Such fun times! 🖤 🤍
Skinheads adopted thus music in the u.k./ ireland, cool times
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I was 16 years old. I grow up with your music! RIP Terry! From The Netherlands
RIP Terry. A lifetime of love for these 'special' tunes. 💖
RIP John Bradbury , you gave us great music ,
👍
+Cathy Cutting I heard to day that he paased a way RIP John Bradbury !
Such a shame with Lemmy as well not a good end to 2015,RIP
+Cathy Cutting how come when David Bowie and other people died everyone made a big fuss but i didn't know about this til reading this comment i fucking hate the media
+MrChile3456 Well now in fairness Bowie was a rock icon that transgressed generations and genres. The specials were an awesome ska band but never reached Bowie's fame.
This has broken me. What a terrible loss to the world. Terry Hall...all the love 🖤
I’m not an 80s kid like everyone else here but one thing we all have in common is the love for the specials rest in peace terry hall
Ska has never gone it just needs us rude boys to bring it back again 👑🍻
Did you stop your fooling around?
Did you straighten right out, rudy? ;)
ska will always be with me even when I am gone 😎🇬🇧🎶
And definitely take the skinhead thing back from the neo-Nazi morons!
same
It's always here. No need to being it back. Just saw the Selecter twice in 2 years and other bands.
heard the specials for the first time in 1979 as a teenager im now 50 and still love them as if it was yesterday
I’m 12 and I’m listening to this in 2019
If you're 51 now, you were 11 in 1979!!😆
I'm almost 50 & I was 10 in 79'
Loved The Specials❤️
Same here bud. Cov was just 7 miles up the road too
Good times my friends, music scene is shite these days
Specials: Best 9 piece band to ever walk the World!
Agree 100%
R.I.P. Terry Hall, growing up in Coventry with your music was Special times. Respect and Love,Love,Love 🙏
Terry, you're a legend. Such an inspiration for many subcultures, skinheads, rudeboys, punks and all people who enjoy ur music are grateful with you. You will never be forgotten, RIP.
RIP Terry Hall. Just heard the news 😞 this was the soundtrack to my early teens.
So proud to have been a part of it all and buying the 45rpm single on vinyl.thank you Terry Hall..RIP
RIP, thanks for all the good moments!
This song is needed now more than ever
Yeah why?
@@MalloryKnox. the current riots of America
The SHARPs did not destroy their neighborhoods. The fascists did.
ANTIFA LEAVE THEM KIDS ALONE!
My daughters husband is from Coventry and at their wedding the DJ played a cracking selection of Specials tracks which went down so well with us oldies. Gone too soon RIP Terry
Rest in Peace rude boy Terry Hall. The maker of memories for many a fifty-something across the UK and beyond. Legend.
Classic ❤
Love The Specials! My friends and I all wanted to wear their cool shades.
hopefully
best song/tune ever. next time you have a bbq stick it on and watch everyone relax.
For some it's never gone anywhere! ;-)
Ska will never go away! The beat and melodies are timeless!
In dezember I´m going to another great SKA band "The Busters" in Bremen. Ska lives !
This song brings tears to my eyes every time . It was played at Keith flints funeral at the end. It has a lot more meaning now more than ever😭. R.I.P mate🐜
Wow, I never knew that. I love the prodigy, I never knew that. RIP Keith
Flinty.. what a legend xx
The Specials and Terry Hall defined an era. All passes, we grow old.
Growing up in the late 70's and early 80's the two tone/ska sound was the soundtrack to my childhood. Sad to hear of Terry Hall's passing.
The voice of a generation. This Band was the best, singing about true life in the U.K. at that time. I listen to them whenever I'm in the garage working on my vehicles, It takes me back to the good old times.
I grew up in small-town Quebec. I discovered the Specials when I walked into a Canadian Tire store one day and they had a bin of eight-track cassettes on sale. I was a punk wanna-be in a small francophone town in the early eighties. I had heard of the Specials but had never heard ska music before that day. I took a chance and bought the cassette and have never looked back. Forty years later and I am still listening to ska and even my French-Canadian husband loves it. It was him who saw the news that Tery had passed away. We are mourning the passing of a truly talented individual today. Allez en paix/Rest in peace.
I like Ska music too.
RIP Terry Hall.
Rest in power.....
Rest In peace you legend. A sad Christmas for me. Love to your family.
Remember Legends never die as long as we keep telling their stories
The Colourfield, Vegas with the ‘fashionable’ Dave Stuart and the ridiculous things he said about Nick Cave (that was unimaginatively just paraphrasing a bad NME journalist) should NEVER be forgotten..
Metal head....loved the diversity of the 80's....Best decade for music ever !!!! Mod/Ska was nice .....
Me too!!
No fear, pure optimism
I was into Metal
but always envied the MODS and Rude Boys in my school for the way they dressed
eventually switched but still liked Metal
RIP Terry. Thanks for all the good you brought, The songs and so much more 💙
🎉🎉🎉❤
Is 40 years too late to think of my future? Thank you & RIP Terryy
Omg was a teenager when this came out still listening in 2020
Thanks tina
Ok Tina
I was still a teenager for three months
Ahh Tina this brings back my best childhood memories...About age 13-14......Love it
Snap
I absolutely love this song as it brings back some beautiful memories for me, this will never grow old.
Yes!!!!!! We will never grow old by this beautiful, supergreat song!!!!!! Love this song sooooooo much....!! Beautiful!!!
Karen well said I totally agree with everything you have said in your comments it also brings back nice and wonderful memories for me too and as you rightly say it's music like this will never grow old and I'm absolutely certain it will be still around long after I've gone sounding as brilliant as ever🎶😊🏴
Timeless.
So privileged to have seen Terry and his band in September '21, Manchester.❤
Still listening to this in 2019 👋
May I come around and... you know!
Yep 🙋
❤️❤️❤️
Ya man
Oi
Still sounds majestic
I have a special love for the U.K. Ska. Was a cool moment in time for music to me. Loved the blending.
This song has the best groove. I just love the feel of it!! Grateful I caught the Specials at PRB in 2019. RIP Terry Hall.
Terry Hall. A true artist. RIP.
Rest in forever peace Terry..gone but never ever forgotten 💔 🎼
RIP Terry Hall. Thank you for blessing us with your incredible talent and kind heart. Gone way too soon!
Who else is listening in 2029?
2024 rn what u talk about. But i will be heeereeee Oi
I am 2024 California originally from Birmingham UK
日本は未だに2024年
😂😂😂
Huh...did we miss..2029.?..explain..
Very sad news!! 😢 Terry Hall was part of my youth. Watching this studio / video on BBC TV was really brilliant!! I loved the music, style, excitement, authenticity, working class street vibe and the energy. A great band front man who used his musical talent to give the youth of the 1980’s generation hope, inspiration and unity. A very successful musician who was always humble and compassionate. A beautiful human being taken from us far too early. We love you, Terry. Thank you for the wonderful memories. RIP 💔😢💐
Rest in Power!
R.I.P. Terry Hall. What a legacy.
Hoy se nos fue un grande, no sólo un tremendo cantante y músico sino que también una gran persona, profundamente agradecido por tu música y tus enseñanzas Terry, no se te olvidará maestro.
Love music, Hate racism.