Downtown • The B-52's

This is the fourth number from the B-52's 1978 Downtown Cafe show. It turns out I'm not the first to post this video on YouTube. It was copied by someone from the Georgia State University archives and has been sold on eBay for the past five years. I guess we should be flattered that someone thought it good enough to steal. Watch out for the wheel of karma, though.

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[stretchpost]

Thank God for Youtube!! I just never thought I'd see anything like this. Brilliant. So much more real than most of the over-produced crap which passes for music nowadays!

[joemama4twenty]

Wow - this is amazing! You just never know what gems you'll find when you start wandering around in here. Thanks for posting this! ♥

[swimologist8]

I saw them about 7 months after this at the Roxy on Sunset in West Hollywood.

All the people in attendance were a bunch of record industry snobs who just sat there

and watched. Me, my brother and his friend were in the aisle dancing by the second song.

[rainbowznana]

Petula Clarke I know you are dancing

[Grand Danois]

MY NEW FAVORITE SONG

[julimekanika]

:-o WOW!!!! BONÍSSIM!!

[koookeee]

Marvellous. I wish I had been there... Thank you so much for posting this gem!

[OldNeoMatrix]

Excellent remake of ancient melody, see Petula Clark Downtown (1965) watch?v=f-oQ5KwRSMU

[ftbuddy]

You're too young to be nostalgic! :) Things weren't perfect then, either. In many ways, we are better off now.

[SouliaBoy]

Did she sing the word "Titty"?

[Daniel Smith]

punk from the south