@@jlv3x WRONG... You're an IDOL worshipper. M.J. was a Master of the arts, he studied everything and absorbed it. Charlie Wilson of the Gap Band did the Moonwalk in a "music video" before Michael Jackson, the music video is called "Dropped A Bomb On Me". M.J. didn't start everything, silly. This song and video was out before Michael Jackson released Thriller, Oceans' video theme is like Thriller's and not like the tuxedo clad Off-The-Wall, bye.
I love when it comes on while I'm on the Casino roof terrace. That outdoor sound just gives it a different feel, especially with all the surrounding opulence... And explosions lol
@@ronthatus let me see you rent a tiger & the trainers to feed & sedate it for a day long video shoot... see how much that costs you lol. not only that they have to train the music staff on how to act around the tiger so they don't become cat food.
This & many other deserving songs in 1981 certainly would have gotten a huge boost with help from a certain video channel that launched the same year. But as we all know, they didn’t live up to the “M” in their name & ignored black artists until Michael & Prince gave them no choice.
Billy Ocean Released Night On January 1st, 1981 & 43 yrs later on Sunday, September 8th 2024, still rocking & smoking🔥💨 Respects to Billy Ocean for petting that tiger 🐅 big cajones 👊😂
@@10LUCKY17 I'm also both 80s and 90 kid now lm 45 almost 46 in January 23 music back then is not the music of today old school music way better that's never going to change 80s forever
@@green_guardian5 It didn’t. At least not consciously …and I’m not going to get into your who copied who theory, respectfully. But with that all said I still stand by my initial comment. This song should’ve been bigger and if MJ sung it it would’ve been imo. Btw, this is not a critic on Ocean as a vocalist. This is more related to MJ’s popularity at the time.
@@clove8763 Music videos weren’t a deciding factor for airplay in 1981. Btw, MTV was born in 1981. But they weren’t playing black and they most definitely weren’t playing RnB. That is until “Billie Jean” came along 2 years later
Been listening to and JAMMING to this literally since I was a child and TODAY (February 11 2024 @ 3:03 am ) I'm JUST finding out one of My favorite jams of ALL TIMES has a darn Video !??? Now I have to watch it a few thousand times to feel caught up !!! 😂🤣🤣🤣❗️❗️
My dad bought a mercury mekur in 87. He came to pick me up. He put this in the deck and blasted it all around southwest Detroit. I never forgot this song. Thank you so much brother.
Billy, I just want to take this chance, since there aren't many comments yet so maybe this won't get buried, to just say I've been a huge fan of yours since I was a little kid. Thanks for all the great songs. Usually I get tired of listening to a song if I play it often enough, that's never happened with any of your songs I listen to.
I was way too young to appreciate Billy when he was in his tiger stroking prime but he's grown on me over the years and now I'm a massive fan. His music is phenomenal!
I am almost 40 and I never heard this till just now. What a fuckin' bop! Like word these are the vibes - I'm just an older fly dude with money and a tiger for some reason, let's go!
So brave to support funk against the mainstream in this 1980 year. Amazing soulful voice. A maestro. Happy that the mainstream finally recognizes his talent
🌊Billy Ocean be like: "Time to groove and get down." 🐅Tiger be like: "Thanks, but I'm tired and exhausted. Thanks for letting me be in the video though." 😂😂😂😂
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If you didn't have the tiger with you in the 80's, you weren't doing anything.
😂No lies told
i noticed how he got his jacket hanging on a shoulder like michael too.
@@drewali7
This is before Michael Jackson and Thriller. Jackson was more likely watching the rare video scene during this time.
@@TheOnIyGod this was two years after Michael Jackson's multi-platinum Off The Wall album, so things were probably the other way around.
@@jlv3x
WRONG...
You're an IDOL worshipper. M.J. was a Master of the arts, he studied everything and absorbed it. Charlie Wilson of the Gap Band did the Moonwalk in a "music video" before Michael Jackson, the music video is called "Dropped A Bomb On Me". M.J. didn't start everything, silly. This song and video was out before Michael Jackson released Thriller, Oceans' video theme is like Thriller's and not like the tuxedo clad Off-The-Wall, bye.
Tiger’s like “ I don’t feel like getting down right now, you go on without me Bill”
Just like a cat😂
😂😂
😂😂
😂😂😂 🐯
🤣
I'm 56 years old and a huge Billy Ocean fan and I never knew a video existed for this song! Great to see it.
I'M JUST LEARNING AFTER SONG PLAYED ON RADIO JUST NOW .NEVER KNEW BILLY OCEAN SANG THIS AND I'M 55.
Same here my friend...
I'm 59 and to this Day This 80's Groove sounds Great!
Me neither lol
I didn't know BILLY SING THIS JOINT WOW SALUTE 😳 😍 👏
Been really rocking out to this one while driving around in GTA lately 🤣 cheers
Nothing like causing chaos in the city while jamming out to an 80's banger 😂 #ditto
I love when it comes on while I'm on the Casino roof terrace. That outdoor sound just gives it a different feel, especially with all the surrounding opulence... And explosions lol
🤣
Same here.
Literally me at this moment. That's why I came here!!🤣🤣🔥🔥
WHO IS STILL LISTENING IN 2024 🔥 🔥
Right here. Here I am.✊🏾👍🏾
Me too!
Yep!
I am & this my absolute favourite Billy Ocean tune!!
I'm rocking my head and pointing at everything 🤣😂
Back when the videos were low budget but the songs were jamming
😂 I feel like a tiger is pretty expensive ! 😂
@@gohanyoung2100 🤣
@@ronthatus let me see you rent a tiger & the trainers to feed & sedate it for a day long video shoot... see how much that costs you lol. not only that they have to train the music staff on how to act around the tiger so they don't become cat food.
Yeah but not many people nowadays or back then would actually have a real tiger and pet it during their video, nothing low budget about that.
@@asdfdc1946💯% Agreed 👍🏽
Tiger just chilling 😎🐯
Likely heavily sedated! lol
He don't look like he ready to get down😊
He tame the tiger with this awesome music
Wow I never knew Billy had a video for this song. 🤯
I've been hoping someone post this video for years!!😊
Me either
I didn't either. But these videos were promotional. Not aired alot except on saTurdaYs on tv or discos. This was before mtv.
This should have been a big hit, its a great R&B track, more credible than his later more commercial stuff even though thats very good pop music.
This & many other deserving songs in 1981 certainly would have gotten a huge boost with help from a certain video channel that launched the same year.
But as we all know, they didn’t live up to the “M” in their name & ignored black artists until Michael & Prince gave them no choice.
Crazy! He's sitting, rubbing this tiger on the head. Billy Ocean is the man!
that tiger is just one big chill cat
@@FizzyArtCola it's probably drugged up to the eyeballs to be fair
Looking at this video where he was rubbing that tiger yo he loved him some brown meat !
@@Meongge12 Hell yeah, the dang tiger's on quite a few edible gummies!
He got big balls.😂😂😂
It's 2024 ...I'm still rockin this banger❤️🖤💚
AGREE......HAPPY NEW YEAR
I agree, this one never gets old!
Yesssssss!
I'm rocking my head and pointing at everything 🤣🤣💯
Billy Ocean Released Night On January 1st, 1981 & 43 yrs later on Sunday, September 8th 2024, still rocking & smoking🔥💨 Respects to Billy Ocean for petting that tiger 🐅 big cajones 👊😂
GREAT songs are TIMELESS!!
You know it’s a serious music video …. because a Tiger was just chillin’.
I just looked Billy Ocean up and looks like he's been married to the same person since 1978? RESPECT!
I wonder if he married his Carribean queen
@@theramplocal could also be his European or African Queen
He clearly got down and RIGHT with WIFEY that night 😂
FYI Billy Ocean is also a devout Rastafarian
This song deserves millions of views!!🎉
It did,they must have re VEVOed it,I was bumping this a long time ago and it had millions of views
Song still slaps. Billy is slept on
And it's also bussing no cap 🧢
One of the best.
One of the best.
That was my Partying jam in 1981, I still love this , I’m 60yrs old miss music like this🔥🔥🥰
🙌☝🙌
There is no more music like this!
I’m a 90s baby and still admit the fact that music isn’t the same now days great shame the talent has changed
I still dance to this and work out at the gym to this NOWWW! I,M 68 good groves never get old! 🕺🏾💃🏽
@@10LUCKY17 I'm also both 80s and 90 kid now lm 45 almost 46 in January 23 music back then is not the music of today old school music way better that's never going to change 80s forever
I can’t help thinking that if MJ recorded this song it would’ve been one of the biggest songs of the 80s
I think what may have given you that ideal was that MJ copied his style with the jacket over the shoulder and the tiger....similar to Thriller!
@@green_guardian5 It didn’t. At least not consciously …and I’m not going to get into your who copied who theory, respectfully. But with that all said I still stand by my initial comment. This song should’ve been bigger and if MJ sung it it would’ve been imo.
Btw, this is not a critic on Ocean as a vocalist. This is more related to MJ’s popularity at the time.
The video made ABSOLUTELY no sense, that's what messed up its chances of greatly hitting the airwaves #LUVMeSomeBillyOceanMusic
@@clove8763 Music videos weren’t a deciding factor for airplay in 1981.
Btw, MTV was born in 1981. But they weren’t playing black and they most definitely weren’t playing RnB. That is until “Billie Jean” came along 2 years later
@@waynedexter : For Black contemporary music, videos were indeed a factor, we already had BET (Established in 1980).
My deceased husband was a DJ and he would scratch & play this song 🎵 and have the party. jumpin!!!! Never knew that it had a video ❤!!!
Underrated song! This is a banger. Love Billys voice!!!
Yeah, it's soooo hot
I agree! This was his start!!! ❤🎉
I still act the same way when I hear It.
My personal favorite Billy Ocean song ❤
Me too
Billy was that smooth Kool grove 😍
Been listening to and JAMMING to this literally since I was a child and TODAY (February 11 2024 @ 3:03 am ) I'm JUST finding out one of My favorite jams of ALL TIMES has a darn Video !??? Now I have to watch it a few thousand times to feel caught up !!! 😂🤣🤣🤣❗️❗️
AGREE......HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!!!
@@vashtikelly6837 Happy New Years to you too Miss!!!
His music sounds like success and happiness. Like having a pocket full of money and hitting the road for a great weekend.
ROAD TRIP!!! Let's go 💯
I'am 16 years old and i love it❤
Awesome! Keep on gettin’ down young one! 🕺🏽🕺🏽🕺🏽
this is BETTER than anything on the radio today. this is a well-produced record. by Nigel Martinez.
Word!
This exact comment is said on literally every song that isn't played on the radio. Lol. Also some stations still play this.
I'm rocking my head and pointing at everything 🤣 🤣
@@antoinewarren8869 LOL good for you brother.
This joint is 🔥
Old school is the best school for music.😎😜
My dad bought a mercury mekur in 87. He came to pick me up. He put this in the deck and blasted it all around southwest Detroit. I never forgot this song. Thank you so much brother.
Awesome car..I had the merkur xr4ti myself 🎉
Lol..I had that same car in 1990...my first car 😊
What up doe!
@@DadSwagg my boy...
Wow take me back my guy, haven't heard that Mercury model name in forever 👍
So many lost their lives in the 80's to party chemicals, and Billy was in the studio with a big, chill tiger.
С большим ГОЛОДНЫМ тигром!)))))
What's it name? Hope they've not tranquilized it too much for video shooting.
Idk about chill. That critta looked kinda annoyed when Billy started rubbing it. Talented and brave Brotha. 💯😊
Not just party chemicals, but AIDS took a lot of those people away too. The 80s were rough especially for the LGBT community in that time frame.
Isn't that the truth THE COCAINE COWBOYS YEARS ALL OVER AMERICA.
Back when we had fun and black music was good
This is one of my favorite dance songs of all time.
Mf’s had tigers like pit bulls in the 80’s..
😂🤣😂 Oh damn, I didn't think about that 😆🤣
😂😂😂😂😂
Scarface influence
4 real 😂😂😂
Nose candy makes people do strange things.
Billy, I just want to take this chance, since there aren't many comments yet so maybe this won't get buried, to just say I've been a huge fan of yours since I was a little kid. Thanks for all the great songs. Usually I get tired of listening to a song if I play it often enough, that's never happened with any of your songs I listen to.
I won't lie, GTA 5 introduced me to this gem. 13 year old me used to jam to this, while trying to getaway from cops 🤣🤣🤣
Even the tigers loving a bit of biily ocean 🐅😆
Hecks yeah, 1981❣️ I still have my copy on 45. This joint still 🔥. 💯
I don't remember this song as a child, but I really like this song and a big fan of Billy Ocean.
Damn this song grooves soo tough!!!🔥🎶✌🏽😎
I was way too young to appreciate Billy when he was in his tiger stroking prime but he's grown on me over the years and now I'm a massive fan. His music is phenomenal!
😂 “Tiger stroking prime…” 🤦🏽♀️
The 80's was looking so beautiful back then
2022 and I still rock out on this❤️
Me too!
1st time, 6/6/2023.From 45 Another day won't matter🇮🇹
HE HAD A TIGER NO FUCKING WAY
9/14/23 still listening will be 56 9/17/23💃🏾💃🏾💃🏾
Michael Jackson and Mike Tyson was the same damn way!!! guys from the 80s were built different😂😂😂
Timeless childhood classic. My mom used to blast this one at home when she was cookin or we were cleaning up lol
Mine too
@@ugochi1 That song is the best song to listen to while you’re doing the chores or just walking around town when the moon shines :)
Same here! Maybe the parents today need to do the same so these lazy kids could start cleaning up behind themselves😄
Chicago Lake Shore Drive....oh how I miss you.
Pesado de mais!!!!!! Festa boa tem briga!!! Inajar Brasil 2024
Every time I hear Billy Ocean, I think of Tonya, from everybody hates Chris 😂😂😂
I think you're from Brasil 🤔🇧🇷 Esse cantor inventou o Moonwalk!
LOL... Exactly... she was obsessed!!!
AFTER ALL THESE YEARS DID NOT KNOW HE HAD AN OFFICIAL VIDEO TO THIS CLASSIC LOVE IT LOVE LOVE IT💯💯💯💯💯💃🕺⚘🥂🔥🌃🌃🌃🌛🍭🍸
I was today years old when I found out this song had a video🥴
Спасибо большое тигру, что не скушал нашего Билли на съёмках видео!!!!🐅🐯🤩
One of the underrated and underplayed great songs of 1981. Always a fave!
Before MTV Billy Had Us on WBLS and Disco 92 in NYC with This JAM !
You know it!
Frankie Crocker and Paco gave New York City energy. Nice days!
You know it!
Frankie Crocker and Paco gave New York City energy. Nice days!
Damn I didn't know there was a music video to this song, pretty awesome.
I am almost 40 and I never heard this till just now. What a fuckin' bop! Like word these are the vibes - I'm just an older fly dude with money and a tiger for some reason, let's go!
One of the great songs from the 80's. Love it.
My favorite Billy Ocean song!!!!
He should have won best RnB album,Best New Artist for 1981 because his album was 🔥🔥🔥 from beginning to end!!
This was one of those Friday night going out songs. ❤
Just like living it up friday night
Just like that song, living it up Friday night by Bell and James
Take me back to the time of fun and get down 🙌🏾❤❤
A CLASSIC BANGER🇹🇹🇹🇹
the Tiger looked chilled out because of Billy singing
Allllllllllll this time hearing this song didn’t know there was a video. Thanks RUclips.
Didn't know a video existed 4 dis jam! Big up Billy! our country man! Trinidadian to the bone !🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹🇹
2024 Our generation is still the best. Timeless music. No audiotune.
You need to stop saying that.
Love Mr Ocean, this song is in my Playlist in 2022...Timeless...80s 4life!!!!
Ive recently (re)discovered this song and I just cant stop listening to it
The flow, the voice.. Everything is perfect ☀️
YEAH YEAH 🔥🔥🔥🔥💯💯💯💯🔊🔊🔊
Excellent time and place.
Real music 🎶 gets into the soul ❤
Billy and his tiger....... priceless 🐯🐅
🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
I be speeding through Los Santos bumping this in my new car I just got from Warstock. 😂😂😂
Temazo. Un videoclip con mucha clase y estilo.
One of my favorite singers of all time. Billy Ocean. You are my childhood. The 80's.
Me too! 👍🏾
facts ❤
That 🐅 is sure calmed and tamed. Great 👍 music 🎶.
Love this song I heard in my car and I started to singing love you billy ocean ❤❤❤😂😂
This is one of my all-time favorite songs. I LOVE dancing to this record. I've seen him in concert five times and he still performs this song.
How playa was and is this song. Play on playa👑
So brave to support funk against the mainstream in this 1980 year. Amazing soulful voice. A maestro. Happy that the mainstream finally recognizes his talent
Wow! Billy's got some moves!
Love this song- always makes me want to dance.
Billy is iconic
Very impressive 👍
I would've been to scared to sing let alone DANCE near that tiger 😅🐅
the best song in GTA v
I love this man. He knows how to make music. Love u Billy....❤
Billy Ocean was like things you got to do man to get a contract nowadays. 😂
He ate!🥶
TIMELESS 🇹🇹🇬🇩🇬🇧🏴💯❤️🔥
Yes🇯🇲🔥💯
I remember this Billy ocean is tha bomb🎉
Fire 🔥 🎉
Timeless classic ✊🏾👑🖤
That beat and drumming is so damn raw billy singing just riding the beat so lovely.....its like hes damn near rapping so melodic
Still the groove which has not grown old.🎉
🌊Billy Ocean be like: "Time to groove and get down."
🐅Tiger be like: "Thanks, but I'm tired and exhausted. Thanks for letting me be in the video though."
😂😂😂😂
This whole groove was on the ONE and it was fire! 🔥🔥
CLASSIC!!! 🔥🔥🔥
Bringing those DJing vibes!! Love the breakdown!
Awesome song and another awesome transfer to HD! Thank you whoever Billy is getting to do these. So many other 80s artists need to do this!
Great song! I was in high school when this song was out. I hadn’t heard it in a long time. Brings back lots of memories.
It's 2023 & I'm here. 💃💞
2024
I had forgotten this song until I heard it in a Fakebook video...Always Loved it...❤
Let me get my skates... it's going to be one of them nights at the rink.😏
To those who were there... pure freedom
❤️🔥
If this was shot in 1981, I can see MJ may have been influenced for the Thriller album cover with the tiger