Sniff 'n' the Tears - Driver's Seat TOTP - Jun 79 (Hi Qual)

DJ Steve Wright's all-time favourite record, and also a favourite of mine. When I first heard it, I did not realize it was from the late 70's, as it still sounds fresh today. Although a world-wide hit, amazingly it failed to reach the UK Top 40, due to reasons mentioned below.

Sniff 'n' the Tears is a British rock band perhaps best known for their song "Driver's Seat", a hit in many countries (including number eleven on the American Billboard Hot 100 chart). The exception was the UK itself where a problem with EMI's pressing plant meant that the single was not available following the band's appearance on Top of the Pops and it peaked just outside the Top 40.

Fickle Heart, the album containing "Driver's Seat", was followed by three more for the Chiswick record label: The Game's Up (1980), Love/Action (1981), and Ride Blue Divide (1982). Singer and songwriter Paul Roberts went on to make two solo albums for Sonet Records, City Without Walls (1985) and Kettle Drum Blues (1987).

When an advertising campaign saw "Driver's Seat" top the Dutch charts in 1992, Roberts took Sniff 'n' the Tears out on the road in the Netherlands and Germany, followed by a new album No Damage Done. Since then Roberts put out one more record, 2001's Underground, and is currently working on new material.

"Driver's Seat" was featured on the soundtrack to the 1997 film, Boogie Nights.

The band has various musicians, but the original member is lead singer and songwriter Paul Roberts.

Category:

Music

Tags:

• Pop
• Rock
• New
• Wave
• Sniff
• Tears
• Drivers
• Seat
• Fickle
• Heart
• Paul
• Roberts
• 1979
• Boogie
• Nights

[jivetalkin03]

Cruising the streets, sun hitting my face, feeling cool, without a care in the world,

one good tune after another, destination unknown, moving thru life like a fish in the sea.

[notrut]

Four people can't pass their driving test ?

[Jgeneraledger23]

Sounds a touch like Blue Oyster Cult.

[silvior47]

Ah how I miss the 70's, such a simpler time, a lot less hate being spread.

[SheWhomLikesMusic]

@gazitboy My maths teacher played the bass guitar on the original recording. :D

[mettanc]

i like this and never heard, without utube i would have most my collection of music in my ipod.

[xan1967]

Todo un clásico. Gracias por compartir el video en you tube.

Saludos :)

[HitchHikersBlues]

DJ Steve Wright is the most annoying DJ in HISTORY!!

[eggontoastman]

A KILLER TUNE!!!!!!:

BUT A BAD COMB-OVER

[hassannassaralah]

love this song.heard it a few yrs ago while in prison a lad from the lebanon played it day and night in the cell next to me..have great memories from this song..

[thoomolong]

I am glad the commentator noted that it was 'zombies night', as the mostly lifeless audience was one of the first things I noticed upon watching this video.