I can feel my driving skills getting better by the second. The gears, the stick shift, the dynamic between my car, obstacles, pursuers... Thanks Egyptian Reggae.

@QI-jg9dx

2y↑8

Baby..naaaa

@billforgie-slippery-jimdigriz

2y↑8

As your co-pilot and spiritual advisor, I concur.

@tonibatic8167

1y↑2

hahahahahaha love your comment x'D

@TribicalFonzo

52w↑4

Good reference XD

@richardhuddleston3347

37w↑2

Mate, this is so off-the-wall funny!

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@gamerduck4597

6y↑735

I love how everybody is just there rethinking their life choices, meanwhile this one guy is having the time of his life

@supremajullibeama6249

5y↑3

DuckOverlord ehehe 🌟

@funkmasterandre

5y↑36

This one guy? That’s Jonathan Richman!

@leonardfeuerstein

5y↑7

@@funkmasterandre Congratulations

@krisztiankovacs1014

5y↑4

@@funkmasterandre take a cookie ;)

@user-yc5um2pl5v

4y↑2

Ahahaha!

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@evelyn.s3722

7y↑1.7K

"what is he listening to? Egyptian Reggae"

@unesco2433

5y↑86

baby driver. ahhaha

@knusern

5y↑85

That's why I ended up here 🤣

@alexandreesebua7374

4y↑12

2020

@Noname-uh5kj

4y↑32

Came from baby driver 😂

@dazcaldwell4898

4y↑6

@@Noname-uh5kj same

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@jeanjacques3947

33w↑3

I've known it since 1978, we were preparing to move to Neustadt, it was played a lot on the radio, it was simply superb, nothing to do with today's music

@Elk-qx7yp

4y↑294

2020 and I’m still here thx baby driver

@xcriss75

3y↑2

Baby, baby bring me here..thx ba y driver@!!

@ctianas

3y↑1

same

@larasouza7978

3y↑1

@@MatheusLIMA67378 me too! BRAZILLLLLL

@nicollygouveia8631

Same hahahaha

@CJ-dz5qp

Here in 24

@Thomas828

3y↑124

I've had this tune in my head for more than forty years and I never knew it was a Top 10 hit. And now after all this time I finally have a name for it!

@CB-zs8rr

2y↑6

Same here - not sure where I heard it, I knew it was a song, but as for the name, I didnt have a clue !!

@frankirfourfingers

2y↑6

Me too,my first teacher used to play it in class,1975,one of if not my earliest memories

@MyLisboa

1y↑1

Me too....I heard this song in the 70's. When I was a Kid back in West- Germany

@fotis1964

I remember where i've heard it. It was a club called El Lay. No clue for the title. Then the algorithm of youtube made it's job.

@PainInTheS

43w↑1

Still have the single....this really was one of my first records. 😅

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@hermask815

5y↑100

I came here because I’m so old to remember it when it came out.
You can help me cross the street.
Thank you, son.

@edbo10

4y↑2

No problem sir, I being the young whippersnapper that I am, will now get off your lawn

@andynixon2820

4y↑1

You're not the only old person watching this . I bought it in woolworths as 45 single .

@los7867

2y↑1

Music brings people together always,,

@los7867

@fluidefluide1128

Ok then we can cross now... I SAID OK THEN WE CAN CROSS NOW...HAVE YOU A NEW BATTERY ?

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@goblingas420

3y↑77

"I just wanna now what's going on between those ears, besides of course... Egyptian Reggae.. Drops the Ipod "

@user-sr2ff5ni8s

3y↑2

I was so sad to find out that Egyptian Reggae was just the name of a song xD I was expecting it to be some super weird niche genre. Literally reggae but done by Egyptians with an Egyptian sound. I'm always in search of the weirdest types of music. Someone needs to get on inventing that.

@goblingas420

2y↑1

@@user-sr2ff5ni8s Same

@MrEddie

11w↑1

For God's sake Griff, leave the kid alone

@carolinb.7355

21w↑2

Childhood memories 😊 Songs you liked from the radio, but you were too young for asking for title and musician 😃 but your heart starts to dance 🎉

@sylviecharlie4947

7y↑579

Came here from Baby Driver thanks for introducing me to this catchy song :)

@roller325

7y↑9

You should listen to other Jonathan Richman songs, buddy.

Everyday Clothes

I Was Dancing in the Lesbian Bar

Parties in the USA

That Summer Feeling

A whole wealth of music to discover! :)

@sylviecharlie4947

7y↑1

roller325 Thanks I shall! :)

@bingsinatra5283

7y↑3

Sylvie Charlie I'd like to add Pablo Picasso.

@sKowaz

Dito. - Baby Driver

@Scientificmethods

5y↑1

Check out Roadrunner - Same band ;)

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@tafimutekwe2855

1y↑24

When I first heard this tune in the late 70z on radio I thought it was really exotic and something out of the ordinary. It still is nearly 50 years later!

@yeetboi803

6y↑146

It's been 40 years and this song is still one of my jams in 2017.

@axelnatural

this cover is very bad reggae playing from people who don't know it well enough, original is much better

@understandingnothing2445

4y↑1

@@axelnatural so which original?

@larsvanmoer453

@@understandingnothing2445 This discussion made me look it up: "None Shall Escape The Judgement" by Earl Zero, also performed by Johnny Clarke. I still like Richman's record too!

@understandingnothing2445

@@larsvanmoer453 tank you for the comment, Have to look for it.

@15viaacquecasse

2y↑2

To be exact, this is a 1977 song. I remember it quite well because I was in hospital after a very devastating car accident and it was being continually being played on my radio.

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@DJDanceClassic

4y↑34

I am here because of Jonathan Richman and his band! No Baby Driver had to take me here!

@daleviker5884

6w↑1

Me too. In fact I went the other way - I found the movie Baby Driver when I came hear to listen the song.

@keithmoseley7815

2y↑5

None shall escape the judgment by Earl Zero. Good version. 👍

@floridaman2011

5y↑223

OK folks, if you don't see me again its 'cause I'm dead!

@lily.t.r5484

5y↑3

U good bruh? Hope u still alive

@aidingolrokh9102

5y↑7

@@lily.t.r5484 Don't worry, it's a quote.

@BrandonPrive1432

4y↑6

and we never saw him again.

@vimponex

4y↑1

Right, if you don't see me again you must be blind.

@KKumokun

I'm stretching my life fabric, too, so I may be right behind you, my Floridian brother. God bless!

@asc.445

1y↑4

I can even remember this as a youth, many, many years ago.......ooooh!

@lannydragonlover

2y↑3

I looked for this song for SO long. Thank you so much, random person on a forum who had the right song!

@Kaputtgezockt

51w↑2

my teacher used this as "Clean up music" in Elementary school, I didn't hear this for such a long time ❤️

@gaynorreid9236

1y↑8

Wow , takes me right back to my school days or skoo as we called it doing the dance to it and thinking we’re the bees knees . Oh the laughs we had back then and all the memories, how time flies . I’ll always look back on those days and think “ yes we were the bees knees “ all locked in my heart forever ❤

@AllMyFri3ndsAr3D3ad

3y↑6

Very happy Jonathan in this vid it’s lovely to see

@djalpay

5y↑31

2019 still watching "Baby Driver" over and over -&- listening over and over to "Egyptian Reagge"!

@notaton9603

same xD just now its 2020

@axelnatural

Original is much better than this cover

@ampericusbez3667

Same in 2024🚗🚓

@penelopepennington3838

43w↑5

This is my forever feel good song ❤❣️

@niallkeane3794

4y↑34

How could you not be happy making the most popular song of your life and all you have to do is hit a bongo with sticks

@IanDoesMagic

3y↑3

Man I wish I could be as happy as that lead guitarist is, as he plays this music, all the time.

@AAG414

3y↑2

I don't know why but I find this very pleasing

@user-br4sj9fv7z

39w↑3

I got a kick out of hearing this on Rogue Heroes about the SAS in North Africa during WWII, it slotted in perfectly. A timeless tune.

@janeweston826

1y↑2

Finally… finally I know what song from my youth this is!!! ❤

@kathharris2826

4y↑5

40 years on, & my sister & I are going to get together,& recreate the Wilson, Kepple& Betty dance, with an ambulance on standby. At nearly 70, I think we'll be ok..xx

@martinbrettell4509

44w↑5

I loved this song back in the day it was one of my favourites 😅

@dirkb669

2y↑2

Erinnerungen !!

@sw-gd7gy

23w

okt 31, exhibition at barcelona museo of dessiny, saw the wallpaper art "jonathan richman and the modern lovers".
I was the only one in the room who knew the band, and that song is in my head - again - since then...

@nickhall5959

45w↑1

This was the song of the skate board craze in the UK.

@zirbel

49w↑1

This guy plays the best flowerpot I have ever heard.

@Danger_Hurd

1y↑4

“I want to know what’s going between his two ears besides from uh…Egyptian reggae”

@AndrewRobinson-ee7um

A thing of beauty ❤

@Paul-os1fr

2y↑15

This is the first time I've heard this in 45 years.

I've had some derivative of this stuck in my head for decades and never knew it came from an actual song. I thought I just made it up.

@sarahhoefflin3519

1y↑2

Oh my god, me too its been driving me crazy

@borantandogan5524

31w

probably because it sampled streets of cairo, there are hundreds of other songs to the same tune

@DavidMcConnon

21w↑1

I heard this tune in a TV ad about 30 years ago. Never knew it was a band that did it nor its name. Saw on a TV repeat tonight.. now I know!! But I've always remembered the tune in my head as I thought it would be great music for a western!

@Justicek02nd

43w↑2

Passed my driving test bc of this song.

@Sir.Larselot

39w↑1

I love this track, but who not. He smiles really sweet behind his guitar during the performance.

@fashionkid

1y↑1

I was looking for it for years and years...google voice search saved my life in a few seconds 😂😂😂

@AndeanPuma5

3y↑14

This automatically puts me in a good mood ✨

@ol55afterthethrillisgone

3y↑26

I love how more and more sounds come into from flamenco to native American..creative with an international feel

@benjimw

2y↑1

Since my wife introduced me to flamenco via the series Las Adventuras de Gato con Botas (The Adventures of Puss in Boots. We've been enjoying the series together during supper recently), I immediately noticed the similarity when I started listening to this song this evening but couldn't quite put it into words.

@redskill2.023

18w

im 51 about 30years searching i found it wauw thanks

@gamerjay6624

4y↑6

The dude on the guitar is just happy to be there ! Simple

@jonpower9728

7y↑160

I imagine more people will be liking/commenting due to it being in Baby Driver

@MaciekPawelec

7y↑37

Say what you want but it's good that such a movie brings people to such good songs

@dianeharris4319

3y↑1

Never heard of Baby Driver…..I’m old school, I remember when this was first released. Takes me back 😀

@GregStallion

1y↑1

I love how every guy between the ages of 17-34 in the ‘70s looked exactly like John does here in ‘77.

@dooiepunt1

3y↑1

I don't care ... my dad loved this song... love it!!!

@johnmitchelljr

2y↑1

The best. Thank you.

@giselacarstens4193

37w↑2

Einfach nur toll😅😅😅

@riccardopetrina4212

5y↑7

Just instruments, no voice or effects and good quality. It's incredible how a simple song can be so good.

@axelnatural

it's easy when you steal a jamaican hit..

@shtupidmate

know this is an old comment, but you can tell that the audio has been pasted over, look at the dude's hands at 0:50

so there IS AN EFFECT HAHAHAHA

@birdienumnums1

3y↑4

SO MUCH GREAT MUSIC NEVER PLAYED ON RADIO NOW

@emovegan6279

3y↑6

My whole family loves this song 😂❤️

@TheKeefed

3y↑6

Needed this to put a smile on my face. Been a shitty day. Feels much better now. Brilliant!

@annaelizabethwade1660

3y↑1

Works every time doesn't it...

@austenpinkerton5377

1y↑1

Wonderful piece of music....has always given me huge pleasure over the years every time i hear it. Funnily enough i'm the same age as mr richmond.

@davidbloxham9920

3y↑3

Brilliant tune

@squeeth2895

6y↑30

At last! I've been trying to find this tune on and off for ages. Imagine my chagrin at finding that it's a modern Lovers tune. I last heard it at RAF Coningsby in 1978 as an Air Cadet.

@klinge3

Oh u were a member of the red army fraction? Tell me about it and how u joined them?

@Spectrescup

Rasputin I think you're talking at cross-purposes

@squeeth2895

@@klinge3 It's a secret but everyone was doing it then. ;O)

@deniserobbins4641

51w↑3

I love this tune... ❤

@56postoffice

6y↑32

For me, this is one of the all time great tunes. I never tire of it. That bass line is insane. Reminds me of Johnny Clarke's "None Shall Escape The Judgement", which predates this by a few years (1974).

@axelnatural

4y↑4

this is because this one is a steal of "Soul Syndicate - None shall escape", johnny Clarke made it after

@56postoffice

@@axelnatural AHA!! YES!!👍

@stevem.o.1185

3y↑1

Yes, that's what it was! I knew it reminded me of a Jacob Miller song (not sure who did NSEtJ first), but couldn't remember which one. Thanks!

@GrilloTheFlightless

4y↑10

I first heard this tune about 35 years ago. My dad had a copy. I haven’t heard it in over 25 years and couldn’t remember what it was called. By Googling all sorts of variants on 1970s/Egyptian/ instrumental etc I finally found it, only to realise that this was the guy that did the songs in Theres Something About Mary which, through all these years, I never knew.

@daleviker5884

You should listen to "Hospital" by the Modern Lovers, his band.

@sneakyfuscus472

4y↑4

man I look for this song for 30 years!!!!!!!!!! I never knew who is singing or what's the name o the song, Thank you!

@sneakyfuscus472

@Δt0mix sing doesn't mean just VOICE singing, did you know that ? You didn't like school much , isn't it ?

@stevelyons3347

2y↑1

They look like they're having a great time!!

@juliebromley5998

4y↑3

Love this remember as a child egyption tune great job guys

@mariacoyle8513

40w↑1

I never expected the people who played this song to look like this

@babaallen61

3y↑1

Saw this man so many times, pure therapy, if life ws fair u should see him every year. Ps, this era he looks like the young Ross in Friends😅❤

@osmannour9666

3y↑2

2021 and sitll here....what a wonderful song full of memories

@lebrantlebrant6655

1y↑2

j'adore je passais le disque en continu dans le juke box

@lebrantlebrant6655

44w

moi aussi

@alberthollander216

4y↑2

Bright sunny tune with lot's of inspiration.

@walter2065

3y↑2

It rocks!

@Randolf1958

3y↑2

Wonderful.

@naimatruffert2221

3y↑1

holala que de bons souvenirs sur FIP RADIO à 17 ans

@zweispurmopped

2y↑3

I was just preparing dinner when this tune popped up in the back of my head. Must have been 40 years since I last heard it on the radio! Yes, I'm weird. 😳

@alanburge2725

1y↑1

Ahh it is coming back to me now. A very vague memory in the depths of time. A compilation album of various artists. This song was on that album. That was how I first discovered this amazing tune.

@nigelbrooks9615

18w

Brilliant song loved it as a kid

@MadameMistress

2y↑5

This such a good funky tune and I’m living for it

@GoodbyePanama

5y↑2

Played this at my gig in Vung Tau Vietnam last night. Had forgotten it and it popped into my head from 40 years ago...

@sunnysparkles1831

2y↑2

Brilliant tune 👌 🎶 🎵

@secretsquirrel7374

4y↑1

Heard this in Son of Rambow and it brought back so many memories of watching top of the pops in the 70s

@michaeljewell3559

Yes,son of rambow😃

@pr0methian

4y↑1

I'm here again as I remember this record from 1977 when I was a 18 y.o. squaddy in Munsterlager 25fld Regt LAD. (West Germany)

@biggerworld3146

Baby driver brought me here🤣❤

@56postoffice

4y↑4

Can't believe this is the same group who did the proto punk classic "Roadrunner." Talk about two totally different genres.

@LANCSKID

1y↑2

Why did I wake up this morning with this going on in my mind? It was meant to be. 👨‍🦰

@Research0digo

4y↑25

I'm having fun imagining the famous Monty Python clopping coconuts sound. :D

@fatherchristmas2998

5y↑5

Great stunning song

@MartenNorthEastSouthWest63

5y↑14

Was a massive hit back then, we tried to imitate this tune so many times, searching for the right percussion sound! thnx for sharing TopPop! <3

@axelnatural

4y↑2

was a massive steal of Soul Syndicate..

@hungryherbie

6y↑4

They don't make them like this any more ...wonder why ...Disgraceful ..Love it thank you for sharing

@cl01170

4y↑1

Jamaican music to the world..Awesome!

@phillipsmith4501

19w

It was unique bur we got one offs like this many times that was the seventies and eighties great musictunes and know one knows how to create great tunes cheers .

@mauricettecavalli9493

Qu'es que je l'aime...c'est inouï, ça fait depuis 1998 j'avais découvert ce style de reggae, et j'aime toujours autant bravo et merci je me suis bien régale. ..

@Zephaniah3verse17

3y↑6

I'm here from 43 years ago. Always reminds me of Christmas 1977, and the "Radio 1 Naughty Bongos".

@Teacher-lj6in

4y↑3

Its been a while since i heard this lot, still awesome sounds after all these years!
Greetings from South Africa

@Nath-ve7dc

3y↑1

J'adore tout simplement ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

@ranabirgahir462

3y↑2

Nice One Timeless

@bpage4132

2y↑6

This is my all-time favourite instrumental piece from 1977, when I was 10 years old at the time. What a great piece for me!

@MyLisboa

1y↑1

Same here...I was 10

@anifefaria1355

13w

Ah yeah
ye ah 5 is a

@davidhancock6018

28w

Superb , remember it so well , brings back so many memories , drummer dressed like I did 😂

@AfonsinhoDogg

14w

2024 and still going...

@caped_crusader_fr

Man idk why?
But im in love with this song

@ivettepattyn3188

1y↑3

prachtig

@jalex7689

46w↑1

great tune- i heard it in a movie around 35 years ago (what movie?), havent been able to trace or name it (or shake the tune from my head). Heard it last night on Rogue Heroes- looked up the sound track and find its name!