For a one-hit wonder, these guys hit the pinnacle with this song. How can you not start to move when you hear that opening riff. Gold-plated classic rock never tarnishes...
Back in the 80s our local AOR rock station played this track every Friday at 5 pm. When you heard this, you knew the weekend was here nd it was party time! This is still a great track. Better to be a "one-hit wonder" with such a good track, than to be a no-hit wonder and never do anything this good.
Our local station played this on Friday at Five, plus 4 other songs. Everybody's working for the weekend Come Monday I've got Friday on my mind. I can't remember the other 2 songs but it started with the quitting time whistle and Fred Flintstone yelling YA DABA DO.
For our Friday 5pm set, we got this one, Working for the Weekend, "Sex and Drugs and Rock & Roll" by Ian Drury, "I Love Parties" by Trimmer & Jenkins (wow, did I have to go digging for that one!) and there were a couple more I can't remember. I think they also often played "B-I-G-T-I-M-E" by Keith Sykes, a local Memphis musician who had quite a few good songs. Another good one of his was "Smack Dab in the Middle." Good times.
I remember hearing this song on 97.9 The Loop in Chicago back in the ‘90s. Great song and good job on the lyrics. Now I just need someone to sing this song karaoke with me.
@@mackloyd687 honestly I thought that they would be around for another 40 years but I found out that Steve and Gary had a falling out before they sold a station. I listen to 97.1 FM The Drive and a few years ago I can’t remember which one was on the radio station talking to Sherman and tingle in the morning and he was talking all about it.
There is a documentary video out there about this song. I didn't realize until I watched it recently that they used lunatics anonymous (LA) as a code for Los Angeles. Such a great song.
After weeks and weeks of trying to find this song by typing in "And on, and on, and on" (the only lyrics I remembered), with no success, I finally woke up this morning and remembered the "switchin' to glide" lyric, AND FOUND IT! YES!! Other people on-line were also trying to find it. Yes!
Weeks? Lol ive been trying to find an old.blues song i heard in fookin 1990 that all i know the lyrics are While i was.out on the floor rockin. Somebody rolled me for all me dough
It sounds like he is saying "Anna Anna Anna" instead of "And on and on and on". And it sounds like he is saying "I'm laughing as my Anna lies" instead of ""I'm laughing as I'm analyzed". So, I thought it was a song about a girl named Anna, and it was hard to find this song!
I so love this song. Still jamming to it today some 30+ years later, this is a definite sign of a classic song that will still be played 100+ years from now.
I lived this super great Diddy of a song. Heard it once and I had to Own it. I think it was 1979--1980 if memory serves me right? I still own the Kings Vinyl Album to I this day in 2023. I am now 64 years old. For some reason this song was playing in my mind upon waking up today. Very strange things indeed. This song ALWAYS gave me the what the Woofa Goofa once called..."The Chill Factor"--goosebumps up your spine, influx of energy, and an uncontrolled urge to MOVE on the dance floor!! I lived it in 1979-1980 somewhere in the Time Tunnel of this LIFE!!
the ultimate one hit Wonder, but what a hit it was!!!!! Reminds of the best house party I've ever been to, back in about '84. Man, we rocked that house!!!!
I guess I'm not the only one late to the party looking at all these comments from 5 to 7yrs ago! This tune is not a lyrical masterpiece but still the lyrics are great for the tune and the time it was released. This was one of my favorites back then.
I love this song. It used to play on the radio every weekend when I was a kid and my parents and I would go to the local flea market and then visit my grandparents; this and Crosby, Stills, and Nash's "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes". Thanks for posting this! Happy memories!
This song always played on this one radio station, and it was always at 5pm every Friday. Me and my sister would always be driving home from work and, "Switching to Glide!!"
I remember being In about grade 8 when this came out. been playing ever since in regular rotation on our main rock station to the point where I thought I was sick of it long ago. on vacation now, sitting on the beach and it's been playing in my head ALL DAY! Had to come to RUclips to get my fix!
I was groovin' to this in a new L-82 corvette in 1982 at 132 mph on I-70 in Kansas when I got flagged over for speeding by the highway patrol. An airplane clocked me. To this day, I don't understand the problem. I was switching to glide.
no shit, same thing happened to me...1980...Houston....'77 Oiler blue Eldo...haulin ass and JAMMIN...lmao, and i'm still here just as crazy...that means i won....right?
I bought my 1st Gibson Les Paul 2 years ago strictly because I wanted to learn to play this song ..... this song is easy to learn and a BLAST to play and I play it every weekend....
I think it's "from A TUESDAY point of view". The first part of the line is "Nothing matters but the weekend..." So I think that makes more sense in that on a Tuesday the weekend seems an eternity away and that makes it even harder to wait for it to get here. What do you think?
I remember the song "This Beat Goes On" when I was a kid; but until finding this video in an attempt to find the song "Switchin' To Glide", I didn't know who performed it. The Kings rock - royally (ha ha!).
This is the first time hearing this, since high School in 1982. The only lines I remember is 'hey Judy, get Trudy' and ' Hey Donna, Still Wanna' . 40 years later.
Hi fans of The Kings-I try to rock my world everyday,by some form of music! And it works-I sing and get a bit happier. To The Kings-I will applaud you forever,for a tune that has been a part of my whole life and makes it matter every weekend!
@@andrewewasiuk4388 Tough luck! The Kings WISED UP and moved from GTA to Vancouver! I visited T.O.for work, from Vancouver in 1982 and the people there are USERS to the Nth degree! Now (2022) ALL cities are a POS! That's why I moved to the Kootenays of BC! (in the STICKS!) Now, the closest I get to ANY city is on Google Maps!
I actually saw this band in 1980 in a club called "Poison Apple" in Lynnview, IL (just across the Indiana border by Chicago) when they played this the club erupted! That's about all I remember I was so splashed at the time...but I have a hazy vision of it! :-)
YOU CAN ALSO CHECK OUT THE FOLLOWING: STREETHEART, PRISM, THE PUMPS, ORCHID, HARLEQUIN, LOVERBOY, IDLE EYES, BOULEVARD, TROOPER, MEN WITHOUT HATS, THE PAYOLAS, THE GUESS WHO, BTO, BRIAN ADAMS, HELIX, THE LIST GOES OR THE BEAT :) I'M FROM KELOWNA, BC CANADA, WHERE IT BECOMES JUST AS HOT AS IN MEXICO AT TIMES..... TAKE CARE ARIZONA.....YOUR FRIENDS NEXT DOOR :)
@@MrSilicon605 I was about to barge in here naming bands, but you already listed all the big ones I can think of off the topic of my head! All great bands. What about, April Wine, Saga, Steppenwolf, Tragically Hip? There are so many great Canadian rock bands. People don't know enough about it! From the Kawarthas, ON, currently living in London, ON, after spending a few years in Jasper, AB.
I just heard this song for the first time a few weeks ago while listening to "Sweet Radio" on Pandora. I had to hit my iPhone to see who was playing, then I scribbled the group's name down and came home and watched on RUclips. I was 17 in 1980 and if I had heard it I would have loved it then! I don't believe it was played in the Philadelphia area back then, to our loss.
The one song guaranteed to get us college freshmen smoking marijuana in Joe/ Bob's dorm room up and dancing like banshees, even in our purple haze state of mind. The year was 1981, the college and participants' names will remain anonymous, but the memories still remain loud and clear.
Is this really the recorded version that was the hit? It sounds different for some reason. I never knew they were Canadian and had said TORONTO in that line! LOL! I have had this song inexplicably in my head for days now and had to hear it.
Working overnights with WDHA on they played all the new music where I first heard this U2 I Will Follow, Graham Parker too many to name the like of which will never be heard again.
same. except, since i'm from here i don't say toron-to, i say toron-o but yeah i always wanna sing (similar to you) tor-ana P.S. Responding three years after your post... just a little late for the party, i suppose
I'll do you one better (worse?) and reply seven years after the party, haha. You can always tell where someone's from by the way they say Toronto. If you say it the way it looks, you're from out of the province, or maybe the States. If you say Ch'rono, you're outside of Toronto but still within Ontario. If you say Ch'rawna, you're from Ch'rawna. Obviously there would be countless exceptions to this 'rule', but it's a fun topic I like to bring up whenever the city of Toronto comes up into conversation, haha.
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The best part of the song is between 0:00 and 5:41
Man I love growing up in the 80’s best years of my life , energetic , carefree , working for the weekend !!!
Right on, man!
Very work hard, hit the gym after work, happy hr, then play hard!
For a one-hit wonder, these guys hit the pinnacle with this song. How can you not start to move when you hear that opening riff. Gold-plated classic rock never tarnishes...
Back in the 80s our local AOR rock station played this track every Friday at 5 pm. When you heard this, you knew the weekend was here nd it was party time! This is still a great track. Better to be a "one-hit wonder" with such a good track, than to be a no-hit wonder and never do anything this good.
Oh my gosh! Our radio station did too? Same one maybe? 😉
Mine too, into the 90's!
Our local station played this on Friday at Five, plus 4 other songs.
Everybody's working for the weekend
Come Monday I've got Friday on my mind.
I can't remember the other 2 songs but it started with the quitting time whistle and Fred Flintstone yelling YA DABA DO.
For our Friday 5pm set, we got this one, Working for the Weekend, "Sex and Drugs and Rock & Roll" by Ian Drury, "I Love Parties" by Trimmer & Jenkins (wow, did I have to go digging for that one!) and there were a couple more I can't remember. I think they also often played "B-I-G-T-I-M-E" by Keith Sykes, a local Memphis musician who had quite a few good songs. Another good one of his was "Smack Dab in the Middle." Good times.
@@a2ndopynyn WHFS usually played Party Weekend by Joe "King" Carrasco and the Crowns.
One of the all-time greats.
Greatest One Hit Wonder Of All Time!
I remember hearing this song on 97.9 The Loop in Chicago back in the ‘90s. Great song and good job on the lyrics.
Now I just need someone to sing this song karaoke with me.
I loved The Loop. I can't believe after all those years they sold the station.
@@mackloyd687 honestly I thought that they would be around for another 40 years but I found out that Steve and Gary had a falling out before they sold a station. I listen to 97.1 FM The Drive and a few years ago I can’t remember which one was on the radio station talking to Sherman and tingle in the morning and he was talking all about it.
North side chi-town
My ole stomping ground
@@troykunz8275 anywhere near Wrigleyville?
"Lunatics anonymous, that's where I belong." - I felt that.
There is a documentary video out there about this song. I didn't realize until I watched it recently that they used lunatics anonymous (LA) as a code for Los Angeles. Such a great song.
I worked in an aviation office back in the 90s. They piped this into the intercom at
3:00 O'clock every Friday afternoon without fail!👍
After weeks and weeks of trying to find this song by typing in "And on, and on, and on" (the only lyrics I remembered), with no success, I finally woke up this morning and remembered the "switchin' to glide" lyric, AND FOUND IT! YES!! Other people on-line were also trying to find it. Yes!
Weeks? Lol ive been trying to find an old.blues song i heard in fookin 1990 that all i know the lyrics are
While i was.out on the floor rockin. Somebody rolled me for all me dough
@@ralphtom3431 Even longer...DAYS!!!! THIS was a HOT song AFAIAC!!! 🤩
I thought it was Switch Into Glide.
I love it when that happens!!
It sounds like he is saying "Anna Anna Anna" instead of "And on and on and on".
And it sounds like he is saying "I'm laughing as my Anna lies" instead of ""I'm laughing as I'm analyzed". So, I thought it was a song about a girl named Anna, and it was hard to find this song!
I so love this song. Still jamming to it today some 30+ years later, this is a definite sign of a classic song that will still be played 100+ years from now.
I lived this super great Diddy of a song. Heard it once and I had to Own it. I think it was 1979--1980 if memory serves me right? I still own the Kings Vinyl Album to I this day in 2023. I am now 64 years old. For some reason this song was playing in my mind upon waking up today. Very strange things indeed. This song ALWAYS gave me the what the Woofa Goofa once called..."The Chill Factor"--goosebumps up your spine, influx of energy, and an uncontrolled urge to MOVE on the dance floor!! I lived it in 1979-1980 somewhere in the Time Tunnel of this LIFE!!
the ultimate one hit Wonder, but what a hit it was!!!!! Reminds of the best house party I've ever been to, back in about '84. Man, we rocked that house!!!!
One of the greatest songs of all time!!!
I guess I'm not the only one late to the party looking at all these comments from 5 to 7yrs ago! This tune is not a lyrical masterpiece but still the lyrics are great for the tune and the time it was released. This was one of my favorites back then.
Maaaan how this song brings back some happier days. I love listening to this song.
One of my favorites!
4 people just can't even. this song fucking rocks.
This song was a staple on KShe 95 in St. Louis in the 80’s. Still love it just as much today!!
And it's illegitimate sister station KY 102 Kansas City
@@richavic4520 I know that station quite well too!
I love this song. It used to play on the radio every weekend when I was a kid and my parents and I would go to the local flea market and then visit my grandparents; this and Crosby, Stills, and Nash's "Suite: Judy Blue Eyes".
Thanks for posting this! Happy memories!
"Suite: Judy Blue Eyes"is about Judy Collins of course!
One of the all time classics! Love the way he sings it, and of course, the music is great!
This song may be 35 years old (1980), but this still rocks!
+FastCarsNoRules220 I always loved the chorus chords and beat.
i was fifteen at the time, now i wish i was still 35!
This beat goes on.
Yes it sure does!
The best rock was from the '60's through the 80's. Sadly now, we've been cursed with this rap crap for 20 years or so.
This song always played on this one radio station, and it was always at 5pm every Friday. Me and my sister would always be driving home from work and, "Switching to Glide!!"
Was it Rockford, Il? My step-dad told me the same thing!
Reminds me of the rusty nail in limestone ny back in the 80's.
I remember being In about grade 8 when this came out. been playing ever since in regular rotation on our main rock station to the point where I thought I was sick of it long ago. on vacation now, sitting on the beach and it's been playing in my head ALL DAY! Had to come to RUclips to get my fix!
I was groovin' to this in a new L-82 corvette in 1982 at 132 mph on I-70 in Kansas when I got flagged over for speeding by the highway patrol. An airplane clocked me. To this day, I don't understand the problem. I was switching to glide.
no shit, same thing happened to me...1980...Houston....'77 Oiler blue Eldo...haulin ass and JAMMIN...lmao, and i'm still here just as crazy...that means i won....right?
How much was the ticket?
uboat6313....Vettes can't go that fast...
Yes they can, it's just GM rated it at 125 mph for insurance reason, just as they did in the 60's and early 70's on horsepower ratings.
Great story
I bought my 1st Gibson Les Paul 2 years ago strictly because I wanted to learn to play this song ..... this song is easy to learn and a BLAST to play and I play it every weekend....
I was parking cars at a club and these guys were playing. Great show!
Yeah I remember in the 10th grade this playing on the radio. Those were some good days. Damn I'm old now.
one o' me faves of all time ....
💃🕺"from a TWO-STEP point of view"!✌🏼
I think it's "from A TUESDAY point of view". The first part of the line is "Nothing matters but the weekend..." So I think that makes more sense in that on a Tuesday the weekend seems an eternity away and that makes it even harder to wait for it to get here.
What do you think?
I remember the song "This Beat Goes On" when I was a kid; but until finding this video in an attempt to find the song "Switchin' To Glide", I didn't know who performed it. The Kings rock - royally (ha ha!).
This is the first time hearing this, since high School in 1982. The only lines I remember is 'hey Judy, get Trudy' and ' Hey Donna, Still Wanna' . 40 years later.
Hi fans of The Kings-I try to rock my world everyday,by some form of music! And it works-I sing and get a bit happier. To The Kings-I will applaud you forever,for a tune that has been a part of my whole life and makes it matter every weekend!
P.S.-I am from Toronto!
@@andrewewasiuk4388 Tough luck! The Kings WISED UP and moved from GTA to Vancouver! I visited T.O.for work, from Vancouver in 1982 and the people there are USERS to the Nth degree! Now (2022) ALL cities are a POS! That's why I moved to the Kootenays of BC! (in the STICKS!) Now, the closest I get to ANY city is on Google Maps!
3:16 HI WE'RE THE KINGS AND YOURE SWITCHIN TO GLIDE ON ( enter your cities 80s radio station call letters)
what a great tune from the past!
Yes sir!😀😃😃😃😄😄😄😁
I actually saw this band in 1980 in a club called "Poison Apple" in Lynnview, IL (just across the Indiana border by Chicago) when they played this the club erupted! That's about all I remember I was so splashed at the time...but I have a hazy vision of it! :-)
Canada and Canadian music ROCKS!!!
DOA DAYGLO ABORTIONS AND NOMEANSNO thank you CANADA respect from Arizona USA
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Thank you my friend(And you are lucky to live in Arizona).
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I'M FROM KELOWNA, BC CANADA, WHERE IT BECOMES JUST AS HOT AS IN MEXICO AT TIMES.....
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@@MrSilicon605 I was about to barge in here naming bands, but you already listed all the big ones I can think of off the topic of my head! All great bands.
What about, April Wine, Saga, Steppenwolf, Tragically Hip? There are so many great Canadian rock bands. People don't know enough about it!
From the Kawarthas, ON, currently living in London, ON, after spending a few years in Jasper, AB.
blast from the past and dam good one
We play this at the start of our Lunatics Anomomous meetings.
Never goes out of style!! 👍✌️ And reminds me of a couple really great friends every time I hear it!!!
The best one hit wonder out there.
It probably totalled up to that eh?
they didn't choose the glide life, the glide life chose them.
I just heard this song for the first time a few weeks ago while listening to "Sweet Radio" on Pandora. I had to hit my iPhone to see who was playing, then I scribbled the group's name down and came home and watched on RUclips. I was 17 in 1980 and if I had heard it I would have loved it then! I don't believe it was played in the Philadelphia area back then, to our loss.
Not played in Philly? wow. It was played a LOT on WBAB Long Island,especially on late Friday afternoons! I was 15 in '80
Heck of a tune-still great after all these years!
I LOVE this song. I especially like the beat of the drum at about 3:24. :)
My Favourite Song Ever. I'm taking the Glide Path Instead! This Beat GOES ON!!! YEAH!!!
this song popped my head for no reason. funny thing I never knew what the lyrics were until now...lol thanks
This song sounds like two songs in one!
It's called the radio segue, and that's how The Kings wanted it played on radio. ✌
The one song guaranteed to get us college freshmen smoking marijuana in Joe/ Bob's dorm room up and dancing like banshees, even in our purple haze state of mind. The year was 1981, the college and participants' names will remain anonymous, but the memories still remain loud and clear.
I can see that in my mind's eye. It was a frat rock tune, and I was a junior/ senior in high school at that time so your experiences blend with mine.
Can't enough good stuff about this tune.THANK YOU for putting this up. I owe you a cold beer brother!
very very under-rated song!!!
Wow! I really didn't think I would find this song on here! You Rock!!
Kool tune!
Is this really the recorded version that was the hit? It sounds different for some reason. I never knew they were Canadian and had said TORONTO in that line! LOL! I have had this song inexplicably in my head for days now and had to hear it.
One of the best ever
LOVE THIS SONG!!!!
42 years later and still jam this song
In a world of new crappy music and over played classics.....good to hear this!
Working overnights with WDHA on they played all the new music where I first heard this U2 I Will Follow, Graham Parker too many to name the like of which will never be heard again.
To rhyme with Donna, one must pronounce it Torona, as David did.
Awesome song thank you for puttin it out been in my gead for a week came here didn't figure I'd find it 👈🤘😎 thank you
Song still rocks after 30 plus yrs!!!
love this song
Great song!!!
That's a good fucking song man I'll be playing that at my pool
Time machine straight to 1981...
Awesome tune!
Fucking love this song 😀
This Beat Goes On, With Lyrics, by The Kings,1970s Rock and Roll, One Hit Wonder
As I thought. The proper pronunciation of "Toronto" rhymes with "Donna" and "wanna".
great
Amazing song! Switch to glide if you can cause we love you
Best song ever still gets my old bones moving 😊
Think my favorite definitely that beat will always go on
44 people forgot to switch to glide. Amazingly cool (and fun!) song!
The best song of 1981! I think the lyrics are wrong at 4:33, tho...should be "It's all I need, ticket to glide, now, instead ".
No. The lyrics in the video are correct.
Whether it is or not, I always heard it your way. Also, the karaoke machine uses the words "it's all I need" as well so....maybe we're all wrong? Lol
My favorite Song!!!!!
Thanks!
Great tune :)
If I were a band I would be The Kings: Nobody doesn't like their song!
No-one switches to glide like Canadian rockers...!!!
Love it! The "real" lyrics don't make much more sense than what I thought I was hearing.
Kool as Kool Aid!!!
Menthols would be dope
1980 is forever engrained in our pcyhcis. And this song is a big reason why...at least if your canadian and listened to the radio
107.5 in Vernon brought me here!
awesome!
Or the beat goes on 😆 was in High School when this came out loved it then and now in 2024 that's over 40yrs ago OH MY WHERE HAS TIME GONE ??
Best party song ever!
I always thought it was Judy, Trudy, Donna... Anna, Anna, Anna... lol
Every time i go to say Toronto I end up saying T'rona.
same. except, since i'm from here i don't say toron-to, i say toron-o but yeah i always wanna sing (similar to you) tor-ana
P.S. Responding three years after your post... just a little late for the party, i suppose
I'll do you one better (worse?) and reply seven years after the party, haha.
You can always tell where someone's from by the way they say Toronto. If you say it the way it looks, you're from out of the province, or maybe the States. If you say Ch'rono, you're outside of Toronto but still within Ontario. If you say Ch'rawna, you're from Ch'rawna.
Obviously there would be countless exceptions to this 'rule', but it's a fun topic I like to bring up whenever the city of Toronto comes up into conversation, haha.
I don't know why, but I think of the DeLorean time machine with it's wheels in hover mod when I hear this song :P
My dad turned me onto this song and I have to say this is a very catchy song, it sounds more like a dance song than a rock song
switchin to guys
I like the green on magenta
I have a bellybutton
Alex Missey I have two !
Okay. That one line that "Harmony's the sweetest sound"? I always thought it was "harmony's the speed of sound."
Its Un Canadian Not To Know Our Music.Canadian Music Is Underated And Better Ya
My friends and neighbors, I am . . . SWITCHIN' TO GLIDE!!!!
Should have been in the movie Caddyshack.
When the school bell rings on the last day of school.
Anyone here listening to this song in 2018???
Craig Foye definitely.
Yes ha ha
Yup, must be I`m listening to it now while replying LOL!
It is Thursday, January 3rd 2019; and I'm listening to this again!
And 2019