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  • HEYYYY.... MACARENA!

  • china flats and sweats!!! it aint what you wear but the way that you wear it!!!!

  • The girls background vocals turn me on, its like there ready to get fucked, but never been fucked.

  • Wow.  Fuck this version.

  • Youth In Revolt brought me here.

  • 私は日本人です。

    「テリー・ホール」は偉大です。

    デビュー直後の「Bananarama」も大変、良いです。

    I am a Japanese.

    "Terry Hall" is great.

    "Bananarama just after the debut is very good, too".

  • The title is incorrect, it should read Fun Boy Three, with backing vocals by bananarama.

  • @Drweavil Where's FBT today?

    That's what happens when the backing act becomes more popular than the headliner. :P

  • this song is the bomb. who agrees?

  • @berrycurious

    you're the bomb

  • Happy Birthday Siobhan Fahey!!!

  • it was fb3 that gave nanas their lucky break,,lets face it they cant sing can they,,but i still liked them

  • FunBoy3 new romantics!

    lmao.

    so you don't remember the Specials!

  • classic! :)

  • How in the hell did a great band like The Specials end up being Fun Boy Three?! What was Terry Hall thinking?!

  • Bit of an embarrassing hair era.

  • I agree totally . It is how u do it be chilled.

  • these were my style icons for a long time. heehee!

  • Nice to hear this song in full instead of on an annoying B&Q advert!! :P

  • Since when has Fun Boy 3 been New Romantic? And this is their cover featuring Banarama, not the other way around.

  • Shh. Don't listen to them.

    To anyone who knows/knew the Specials and Fun Boy Three, don't listen to the BanannaDrama fans. ;-)

  • I'd rather go deaf than listen to Bananarama or their fans :p.

  • so yeah, just saw Youth in Revolt and this song was in my head.

  • youth in revolt, boii

  • @BillyMaysLives catchy little tone isnt it. there is always "that song" in those movies

  • @BillyMaysLives and get him to the greek, b. t. dubs.

  • I Wonder how many times the people that wrote the Macarena listened to this song.

  • Kinda has a Ghost Town feel to it. Very fun video.

  • what a tune in my head just had to look it up on u tube

  • I've got two copies of this single, one of them called 'IT ain't what you do (It's the way that you do it)', and the other one called ' T'AINT what you do (It's the way that you do it)'

  • neville staples looks really hard in this video

  • in the interest of accuracy, it's FB3 featuring B'rama. And neither of them swam in the New Romantics pool

  • @chichy70 I'm not sure about what you're saying... that song is on the first album of the Nana's, maybe it's on FB3's as well....But i think it's more a Nana's song.

  • From 1982? wow!

  • @gochir

    That happens to be the year I graduated high school - and I remember this song very well!!

  • man...this is gonna get stuck in my head so bad.

  • this is the tavistock institutes theme tune - one of them said in a right up in the guardian.

  • I hate when people feel th eneed to put their 'tag' att eh front...or throughout a video...as if they need the aknowledgement...

  • I hateeeee it when them men sing in it! there so miserable!

  • are you kidding, THAT'S the best part!!

  • this is an awesome song.

    i was obsessed with bananarama when i was little.

    Now i'm a teenager and obsessed with them again.

    love their new album!!

    would be like awesome too meet them.x

  • When you hear this song for the first time in your life..... it stays in your head for a long time.i am 33 lol

  • I love this song I was just a little kid when it came out but I remember my Mum would be doing the laundry singing it and saying "you put it in the washer then you put it in the dryer and that's what gets results!"

  • hahahhaha thats hilarious

  • AAahh!!! memories! So happy i found this! good stuff.

  • I absolutely LOVE this song and video! After having been a fan of both FB3 & Bananarama, this is the first time I've ever seen this video. Cool seeing the girls in the early stages of their group, before becoming polished and aligning themselves with Stock/Aitken/Waterman in the mid-80's. Love their outfits and Siobhan's hair!

    :D

  • I always loved this song.

    Fun boy three are a lot cooler and a little edgier with their ska influence.

    The girls complement the boys very well.

  • Sarah was my idol'''''

  • bananarama is or never was a "band"

  • What do you mean?

  • Bananarama was a vocal trio like The Supremes

  • Terry Hall really reminds me of Robert Smith, especially the Japanese Whispers era! I wonder if The Cure were in some way influenced after abandoning the dark Goth stuff around this time...

  • I agree totally!

    They looked so alike aroubd this period. Both bands are just heavenly*

  • that's exactly what i was thinking!!

  • actually robert smith said this was one of his favorite 80s songs - that how i found this video XD

  • anyone please gimme the lyrics to this?

  • The sound at the beginning is very catchy.

  • totally awesome song!

  • Great track it might seem a bit limp Fun Boy Three And Bannanarama a great track from the 80's and also a first appearance from Bannanarama ............... I think

  • sheer brilliance reminds me of primary school i was 11 years old just awesome fab memories of rockwell primary in dundee xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx­xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx­xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

  • From '82 when Britain was not faring too well economically; bedits & tube stations reminds me of when I last lived in London from '94. An acurate point stereoloov. The added bonus of outdoor, nightime bongos playing! Always fancied Keren!

  • This is awesome and i love the pink pants!

  • Now I was just thinking how awful they looked, but each to his own I guess!

  • B&Q it! Sorry....

  • It's not Bananarama feat. FB3,it's the opposite.Bananarama were invited by Terry Hall to sing when they hadn't even recorded their first album.'It ain't what you do,it's the way that you do it' and 'Really saying something' appeared on the first albums by both groups,with the difference that FB3's album was released earlier.

  • If my memory serves me correctly (i've still got the original 45 somewhere) it was fun boy three and bananarama, on this.But on the next single really saying something it was bananarama and the funboy three.

  • I love Fun Boy Three and The Specials .

  • Catchy song and a funny video.

    Were Fun Boy Three formed after The Specials broke up? This song definitely has a "Specials" feel to it.

  • Terry Hall & Fun Boy Three (includes Lynval Golding) were founded after The Specials broke up.

  • why cant i see the video

    this video was good JA

  • Nice pink pants on Terry Hall there...

  • Spanish form "Los de Río" copied this song in their "Macarena" and earn lots of money.

  • Finally!Someone else has noticed!

  • It's kind of old, you know? Not all videos were put together with $1,000,000 budgets. Simple but cute. The two bands mesh very well and just the presence and vocals of Terry Hall make it all the better. It's a fun song, dude! Guess ya had to be there when it was new.

  • Too bad fun boy three only lasted a few years.

  • you want a serious answer I adore this from not a prat

  • what year is this from?

  • The 80's , timewarp years. This one didn't get much airplay in America.

  • I think it was from 1983

  • Sara=h's nightie disturbs me....

  • It's on a British sofa selling commercial now.

  • love this song, great beat and rhythm, and especially bananarama's vocals which have a haunting sound to them. the early years of bananarama were my favorite. terry hall's hair reminds me of robert smith's :)

  • just went to heaven

  • God Karen's hair was short as all hell...She was my favorite.

  • PS: Those are the specials u moron they formed fun boy three after the specials, like duh, how cud u not know that????

  • great song but v crap cheep vid LOL

  • those guys look like the singers from the specials .log in the specials the song gangsters on youtubemand you will see what i mean .

  • There's a good reason for that.

  • HAHAha tek i bak..nice bro :)~

  • Ah yes Siobhan Fahey, that well known daughter of Irish IMMIGRANTS and a favourite of non-immigration loving igetwet!

  • I wouldn't say the Irish were immigrants. Even Southern Ireland who are a separate country have always been "considered" part of the UK, both in the music and film industries. All the record books state bands such as Boyzone, Westlife (urgh/yuk) as UK groups. And Siobhan was born in England so that makes her a third English. No problem with the Irish anyway. There's a very close link whether it's been good or bad over the years.

  • What on earth goes on in your mind! Prick!

  • Im begining to think I may be the victim of a wind-up! Surely EVERYONE knows the Irish Republics long and arduous battle for independence from Britain, Im sure any Irish person would be rightly insulted to have this wiped away for convenience sake. For the record Ms Fahey was born in Dublin and even had she been born in England it wouldnt make her English. It would have made her nationality British and ethnic origin Irish. You are truly lacking in knowledge, politically and educationally.

  • come on lets live in today . let the past live there its the time for ok

  • Its nothing to do with 'living in the past'. The past shapes the future, its the foundation, thats why history is taught in school - and if no-one (and you included)was interested in it, none of us would be watching 20 year old videos. Of course people are interested in it you moron.

  • have a nice day

  • In that case please give your definition of 'British'.

  • You have no idea what it was like in Britian under Thatcher!

  • Ya gotta love a xenophobe!Especially one who lives abroad!

  • Im not getting into it with you. I lived through Thatchers Britain as an adult and remember the mines being closed, the government sanctioned brutality, SUS laws and SPG, the Faulklands war, the poverty and it was crap. And I would challenge your figure of 50% immigrants - where did that figure come from?

  • What utter rubbish! By 'broadsheet' do you mean the BNPs newsletter?Define 'British'.Is this people who hold a British passport?Or people who were born in the UK? Could it be the children of British passport holding Ugandan Asian , who came to in the 70's, hold a British passport, but are of Asian origin? How about the children of British passport holding Jamaicans who came to Britain in the 50s/60s? Or do you mean white? In any case, the clearly documented immigrant population is less than 4%..

  • in that case please give your definition of British.

  • PS You presume to suggest Ms Richards was insincere with her apology having been 'forced' to make it. Shame on you. I think, as the intellegent and thoughtful woman she is, she realised her comments were crass and ill advised so apologised with good grace and candour.

  • I think thats proberly the crux of it. As you so obviously hold right wing political views YOU dont think she had any reason to apologise and therefore assume her apololgy was insincere.

  • That's the thing, I am from a very working class background & was brought up in council accommodation but looking back, we were all fooled into thinking Thatcher robbed from the poor & gave to the rich which is rubbish now I'm old enough to understand. She gave normal people the right to buy their council house and encouraged us to better ourselves. Without her at the time, I'm sure me & my family would still be renting council houses & not owning our own businesses & homes.

  • How lovely for you and your family to own your own homes and businesses as a result of Thatchers Britain. What a shame for those of us left struggling with little or none of the affordable social housing you and yours were fortunate to enjoy, all because Barnoness Thatcher saw fit to flog the family silver to the highest bidder leaving the economy in such a mess we are still reeling from it now.

  • YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY i love this

    :)

  • Bananarama were cock-strangling hott. I'm glad I was born in 64. Anyone born in the 90s got nuttin'.

  • Has Nike commercial written all over it!!

  • Entirely Groovy.

  • OH!!! this was out when i was finishing school,just after doing exams, where does

    time go hey!!!.

  • Cult video of the 80's

  • the gurls look great in this video.

  • Terry reminds me of Robert Smith here (or vice versa)....don't know if that's just me...whatever the case, he's dead sexy here.

  • I was thinking the same :)

  • I LOVE the beat of this song!!!

  • "It Ain't What You Do"

  • What's the name of the song???

  • wow. i haven't seen this since it 1st came out on mtv,thank you.

  • LOL I gasve up on genre seperation a long time ago- I have two- songs I like and songs I don't - I like this :)

  • great song!!

  • Fun boy 3 were ok but the colourfeild was a pitfull for Mr. Hall

  • I disagree. The Colourfield had some good songs. Terry Hall is just a moody bastard.

  • But what a great moody bastard!

  • I absolutely agree.Terry Hall and the other menbers of FB3 came from The Specials,and at that time they were much more famous than Bananarama.

  • Downhill after the Specials????

    Never heard of the Colourfield??

  • Fun Boy Three weren't New Romantic, they were ska.

  • damn right

  • damn wrong!!!!!! they where ska when terry was at the specials! funboy three s'got nothing to do with ska! this is much closer to the new romantic thing than to ska!

  • Hey they experimented so what good stuff still came out of them! It's better than the trenmdy stuff that was being played back then!!!!

  • No, it's really not at all New Romantic. Not even slightly.

  • Stick it to him miceinfreefall. How can ska be anything to do with New Romantic??? I often think we have too many musical classification - trance, euphoric, ambient, eurodance, etc, and whilst many would struggle to define these, ska & new romantic are so totally different there really is no excuse for confusing them.

  • iawtp

  • I'd say new-wave, just to add to the debate : )

  • FYI - this is actually a cover of an old JAZZ standard!

    Yup, I've got a copy of Ella Fitgerald singing it with Duke Ellington's band in the '50s.

  • OOPS that "nope" was meant as a reply to a comment much further down, I THOUGHT I had hit "reply" in the right place....

  • remember La macarena? it's the same!

  • god i love this video brings me back oh my god.

  • Damn, Terry went downhill after The Specials...

  • course ya all know that fun boy three is made up of former members of the specials, and bananarama sang back up some times for the specials

  • How I loved these girls in those days... Good song...

  • taint what you do its the way that you did it.....sound

  • he's a rude boy.

  • despierta neville!!!!1

  • A cover of an OLD song -just wonderful-haven't seen it in 20 years THANKS

  • wierrrrrrdddd....

  • Oh WOW! I remember seeing this video the first time and just loving that sound. A bare-bones sound with hypnotic percussion. The girls' looks changed dramatically in later years. From cute to glamorous! Thanks for posting this.

  • Oh, I wouldn't call it hilarious, but it is catchy.

  • OMG! i love that album and that track too i miss so much thanks for posting huge hugs from Brazil with love

  • OOh great song i Forgot about this one..

  • WOW, this just took me back about 25 years give or take. Terry Halls brother was my Metal Work teacher at school. Thanks for the reminder

  • Classic '80s! Terry Hall ever the genius.

  • Scarey, I was a teen when this was in the charts. 25 years have passed! Still love Terry Hall's voice.

  • WOW am I that old now WTF is going on with time

  • today's music isnt even a match. what the hell happened???this is such a rad song....

  • You know, I think I shall start folding over and rolling up my pants like that again. Rad!

  • I love that song! Did you know that Terry Hall worked with the Go Go's too. They toured as an opening band for the Specials and Terry wrote "Our Lips Are Sealed" with Jane Wiedlin.

    I think that it would be more correct to say that the Emo look was in existence, but it was called New Wave!

    Sioban is the one with the really short, spiky hair.

  • Sweet memories from 1982. Great job Hotmuffin, five stars ofcourse.

  • Wow man !I haven't seen this vid in decades.Jesus, I am getting old.

  • I have this live from the adult version of Tiswas, OTT from early 1982, but only on VHS sadly. No way of uploading here at the moment. BTW it is FB3 feat Bananas, the next single, 'really saying something' was Bananas feat FB3 though.

  • Haven't seen this in years.  Awesome.

  • um actually it is bananaramafeat. fun boy three!

  • LOL! This a crAzy video. But this a good song. I LOVETHE 'NANAS!

  • Thank you!

  • brilliant!!!!!!!!

  • Brings back some spectacular memories! What a cool song and presentation. Love that Terry Hall guy.. he has such a emo look far before it was in existence. Hey, which of the B girls is siobhan?

  • shes the 1 on the left on the begining of the video

  • aint what you DO its the way that YOU DO IT!!!!!