I'm sorry for the world that it has gone without hearing Eagle Rock. It's one of the joys in life.

Lead Singer Ross Wilson went onto to create another Iconic Aussie Band Mondo Rock who were huge in the 80s

Number 1 on the Australian Charts for 10 weeks in 1971. R.I.P Guitarist Ross Hannaford and Bassist Wayne Duncan.

Yes, they also did a song called "Daddy Cool"! 😁👍 The great riffs, dancing, uniqueness, easy lyrics, magic! Yeah Ross Wilson! 😍👍

This came out at a time when Australian pop music was getting steadily more serious, deep and significant. It was a real breath of fresh air.

This fantastic song was HUGE in Australia 👏🏻👏🏻

Sky hooks album "living in the 70s" is another classic, l remember the look of horror on mums face when she actually listened to the lyrics.

I was in Alice Springs when I heard a local band playing this song. I fell in love with it and bought the Daddy Cool album. That was the beginning of my love affair with Aussie classic rock music. Great great music rarely heard outside Australia...what a shame.

Good reaction guys. One of Australia’s greatest rock classics ever. When any wedding reception, dance hall, pub or nightclub dj puts this on the turntable, people just invade the dance floor en masse. It’s a great party song and creates good vibes whenever you hear it. Thanks for the trip down memory lane. And yes, I still have my 45 of Crocodile Rock by Elton John too. Cheers 🍺 👍🏼

Your take on Aussie Rock; particularly that which derives from the 70's and 80's, is interesting. Yes there are similarities between our music of the time and what came out of the UK and US, because that was what was playing on our radios and we drew influence from there. What was different in Australia though, was the "Pub Rock" scene from that time, where Australian Bands cut their teeth in small, loud, smoke filled, alcohol fueled pubs and had to be musically tight and innovative to cut through. Also, our cultural differences (slight though they are) from what you experienced in the UK and US, were concentrated by our relative isolation at the time and our willingness to take on so many influences from Europe and other locales, following WW2. Daddy Cool, as you noted, drew much inspiration from southern US blues and be bop, but were also uniquely Australian with a self deprecating humour similar to the English. Glad that you are appreciating some of the music of my youth which I believe, is still relevant today.

Wonderful. For me, it captured a moment and feeling in time.

I met Ross Wilson back in 78 when I went to a Mondo Rock New Yrs party in Sydney. Great guy- whole band were great guys. What a party…quite the education for a naive 20 yr old

It's the absolute best R&R song of all time, and I saw them play it live. The number of things going on with guitars puts everyone to shame; Hannaford's little cliches over that glorious chord vamp are wonderful. I've been a professional musician for over 50 years and this song never gets old. They had a side project called The Sons of The Vegetable Mothers, a more experimental band that I never saw. PS: Sorry for doubting you guys, I'm late to the party. RIP: Mr Hannaford you were one of my inspirations a 15 yo kid.

This song was the catalyst for Elton John and Crocodile Rock.

The difference is the Singer, Ross Wilson is the most superb song-writer, and a fabulous performer! And this song burst onto the Australian radio decades ago and was an instant hit and Aussie iconic song. It has tge Ozzie (Aussie) joy of life, fun, and sense of humour. For a great contrast try another Ross Wilson written song “ Touch of Paradise” sung by Australia’s genius of voice and performance - John Farnham with the Melbourne SymphonyOrchestra.

For some context here gents, Daddy Cool lead singer Ross Wilson also produced the seminal Skyhooks album Living in the 70s

This song has such a 'clean sound', too cool... love it, am loving it. Most "refreshing" to hear this again. Thanks Thamesmen! Regards from Sydney. P.S. Aussie Wedge-tail eagles are massive critters.

That footage has to be from the Sunbury Rock Festival early seventies. They were an incredibly talented band! Here in Australia, my sister was lucky enough to have them play at their Year 12 Camberwell High School (end of year) in 1972/3. You need to hear Come Back Again to really get the voice of Ross Wilson. And Ross Hannaford had this incredibly deep bass voice.

Great video, was fun to watch. As an Aussie Im still so shocked that many of our bands aren't more well known world wide. I cant imagine not growing up with their music.

A good mate of mine went to school with Ross Wilson and Ross Hannaford (the lead guitarist) and remembers their first band the Pink Finks playing at their school dances in Melbourne.

Loved Daddy Cool. (Ross wrote a huge song for John Farnham. )This is still played and anybody from Manly NRL would know this song. Go the Sea Eagles

The Go-Between’s an Aussie must! They even named a road bridge after them in Brisbane…. ‘Karen’ would be a good one to react to! But they’ve so many great songs. Forster & McLennan…. The Australian Lennon and McCartney!!

glory to those HAPPY TIMES.

Elton John loved this song so much during a trip to Australia that he and Bernie were inspired to write Crocodile Rock. Bernie can be seen in old photos wearing a Daddy Cool tshirt and hat!

Great reaction! There is a tradition in Queensland (and maybe other parts of Australia) that when this comes on at a bar/party/wedding all the guys drop their trousers and dance in their underwear. It’s quite shocking if you don’t know about the tradition 😂

I loved this as a kid. Yeah this is a classic. Clever Aussie music

That was a great start to Aussie Week Guys and I can't wait to see where Chris takes you on this journey. As a very Proud Aussie I have to say that the options are a-plenty!

That was terrific. Looking forward to the rest of Aussie week!

My nephew born in 2002 as like a 2 or 3 year old this was his favourite song. Some music in Oz is just part of our psyche as soon as you hear it, it’s like your heart beat calms.

Thanks guys for paying a bit of homage to this classic Aussie rock song. I grew up with this iconic song, and I don't think there's many Aussie's over the age of 20 that don't know this song.

Hey lads ! Classic Aussie band with their own Aussie sound, and they came just at the right time ! Another ripper song from them is often left aside, its titled Hi Honey Ho ! It has a unusual time signature ! This band just had the classic Aussie lay back chill rock sound of the time. Keep up the good work \m/\m/

"Come Back Again" off the same album is the other huge hit of theirs. Ross Hanaford is a BEAST on lead guitar! The best of Australia right there!

It's a real feel good song - kind of humourous. They were a strongly 50's influenced band. A whole lot of their stuff harkened back to American 50's rock and roll. Hopefully there'll be at least one Divinyls in the week...

I had no idea this wasn’t a worldwide hit

Timeless Aussie rock. A classic IMO.

You need to react to Daryl Braithwaite ‘Horses’. It’s such a classic Aussie song!

First heard this in a Wiggles animation my kids were watching. Frigging love it.

Eagle Rock was No.1 on the Charts for 12 weeks with the Double A-side called BOM BOM. I love their songs " Hi Honey Ho " " Come Back Again " " The Teenage Blues " Daddy Cool had a huge impact on Australian music in a short space of time. You'll hear this song played at my beloved Sea Eagle's Rugby League games.

The Sound was classic Fender Guitars and Fender Amps plus some footage from Sunbury Victoria (Australia's Woodstock) 72 to 75 and Ross Wilson was the producer of Skyhooks ( Living In The Seventies ) and he formed Mondo Rock and he is still alive as well

Daddy Cool have the distinction of being the first ever band booked directly into American shows from Australia.

The eagle is the famous Wedge Tail Eagle ...The wedgie is one of the world's biggest raptors and has a particular way it walks on the ground and prompted the song . Majestic bird in flight too ...The dance became nearly as famous as the song itself ..

This is one of those songs that was played to death on the radio at the time. Since then I have come to like it more as not heard very often, now. ❤️🤘🎸🇦🇺 Mondo Rock is a great group as well.

Anywhere, anytime, if you play this and there are Aussies in the house watch the reaction.

Really don't know how true this is, but according to local legend, Elton John heard the song Eagle Rock in 1971, and inspired him to write Crocodile Rock.

Eagle Rock was an anthem at every BACKYARD BARBIE. In Australia 🇦🇺 you need lots of room to dance the Eagle Rock

Even the bald eagles run like that, too. We had great music back then miss it

Elton John was in Australia when Eagle Rock was released. It spent 12 weeks at number 1, and Elton was so inspired by the song that when he returned to the UK he wrote Crocodile Rock where he was trying to recreate the hit song qualities of Eagle Rock. Did you do any Easybeats clips from the 60's during Australian week? Easybeats grew out of Swedish and British migrants and was the first hit making band centered around the Young family in Sydney. Ten years later the younger Young brothers became the core of AC/DC. The rhythm guitar played by Malcolm Young in AC/DC is the same guitar his older brother, George played in The Easybeats. Easybeats are legendary here, and there are Easybeats cover bands that are popular on the club circuit.

If there was only one song............Always fresh... .Yeah..!!

Please watch Daddy Cool singing “Come Back Again”. It is BRILLIANT!!!!

Grew up in NZ listening to this. They played it a lot during PE in primary school.😂 Love it to this day, but never could understand what the hell they're singing.😂😂

This reminded me of the Rolling Stones earlier tunes. But as you say with a new twist to it. An alternate take on American blues in the neighborhood of the Stones. You guys are great and you have a bunch of "different" reaction videos to the standard stuff, which is mostly music I love. Will be fun to explore all of it. Does a TTB week sound like a good idea? ;)

Last song played at every disco for decades, oh the memories. A forerunner to Aussie blues/soul.

Hullo my two favourite toadsuckers! I'm so glad you stumbled across Ross Wilson. He has long been one of the best songwriters in Australia; with his bands Daddy Cool, Mondo Rock & his many solo hits. He is brilliant. Have a listen to 'Come Said the Boy', 'Cool World', 'State of the Heart'. 'Chemistry', 'Summer of 81'. Those songs are masterfully written & you won't be let down. I Promise. You two love all the music I love. so gar'n I dare ya. xx Linda / LindyLu from Oz

I think you guys should set up a KZfaq channel dedicated to Aussie Rock. I think over time it would develop a huge following

You gotta play DADDY COOL BY Daddy Cool. His VOICE

I had the good fortune to see Ross Wilson perform that about 10 years ago. My English colleague know of him but not that he was Daddy Cool.

Keep going mates the Aussie well is deep & rich.

It's a great song, grew up with it 💜

The way us Aussies dance to eagle rock now a days is as soon as it come on no matter where you are you take your pants of (leave your underwear on) and just dance around 🤣🤣🤣

Good call on the guitar work, Ross Hannaford was brilliant. Died too young.

The lead guitarist with Daddy Cool, Ross Hannaford, went on to become a much sort after session man and joined groups like Goanna of Solid Rock fame (it’s his guitar work on that track). A fabulous rock guitarist who is, sadly, no longer with us. Ross Wilson’s first group,as a teenager, he called The Pink Finks which had local success with the song Louie Louie. He went on to international success with his group Mondo Rock. He is still, to this day, writing and performing.(in his 70s)

Daddy Cool were wildly popular and to a certain extent Skyhooks inherited that mantle …..quirky Melbourne pop bands !

Gazza such a great drummer

Eagle Rock is an Aussie classic. It's one of our unofficial anthems. I'm sitting here on the lounge grooving because I can't Help it. Any time any Australian of a certain age hears this song we can't help but dance. This is definitely my generation of music and I remember my sisters and I dancing around the loungeroom to this. In 1971 I was 10. 🙂 🦅🇦🇺

Great song and a true Aussie classic - brings back fond memories for me of growing up in the 70s. As for the eagles, those are wedge tailed eagles, one of the largest around with a wingspan just under 3 meters - so that hopping gait to the rhythm of the song is pretty much how they get around on the ground.

Ross Wilson is a legend in the Australian Music Scene. One of the early genres of Australian music is "Garage Rock" - Ross Wilson and Ross Hanaford where in a band called The Pink Finks in the 60's before moving on/evolving into Daddy Cool. Pink Finks had a hit with a cover of Louie Louie. Would love to give you guys a run down on the Garage Rock music and how important it was to Australian music development!.

It has an Australian beat, you can tell Australian music anywhere.

Good fun mates! I was cruisin the 'Tube, and just had to stop and watch. Cheers!!!

I knew the bass player Wayne Duncan very well as we were friends for over 30 years. Real nice people this band.

Ross Wilson formed Mondo Rock after this and they were huge in the 80s here.

I grew up on Daddy Cool, Dad went and saw them at Sunbury when he was a teen :D

Another great reaction, I've caught up on the whole Aussie week now so waiting for the last one..I'm thinking it will be Midnight Oil! Time will tell! Edit: ok that was great hearing the Prisoner theme at the end..nice touch!

The education of australian muso's of that era came from growing up with John Peel in one ear and Wolfman Jack in the other. We got all the current brit and u.s tunes at the same time. Bloody fantastic for us. This enabled Oz music to develop a nursery , mostly in pubs, of both sets of influences mixed with our own. The pub band circuit in Oz in those days ,was probably the best performance school on the planet. Forget your Berkley's and whatever, this was get in the fucking trenches and perform your way out ! Even myself , doing 3 gigs a day , nothing unusual in the 70's.

What a pleasant surprise. Cant wait for the other songs and hoping that "Chris" has nominated "The real thing" by Russell Morris.

That’s a huge dive into my past good old ‘Eagle Rock ‘ lots of radio play in its day It’s a song a lot of Aussies would have heard some time in there lives great Australian Classic

Daddy Cool’s “Baby Let Me Bang Your Box”. Best song Ross Wilson ever wrote. And it’s about playing a piano

That song was massive here in 71. Another song of theirs is my favourite though....Hi Honey Ho.

I bought the single of Eagle Rock back in 1971 and played it endlessly. It was very exciting to listen to each time. The song really does build which is a very clever thing to achieve. Daddy Cool put out an EP soon after which was pretty good too. They were such a cool band, so unaffected.

kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qq9joMaDlZPbmoU.html Another Single from that time of theirs. Much of the footage on both videos is filmed at the infamous Sunbury Rock Festival outside of Melbourne, It was Australia's version of Woodstock and featured many Australian Legends of that time over the course of a few days, Summer 1972. And yes, in answer to your question, Australia had a huge Hippy population, and still does, they haven't moved on.

When i first heard this in the 70s i knew then that i wanted to play guitar & have done ever since.. Brilliant song..

My high school favorite!!!!!

Try their follow up hit Come Back Again. Really special song

Great band to see at the Sunbury Rock Festival

one of the truly GREAT Australian bands 1965-72 (first incarnation) is The Master's Apprentices. Jim Keays, the lead singer, had one of the best rock voices and I put him along side James Dewar (Robin Trower) and that's saying something. These magnificent voices could sing anything. The Master's Apprentices - It's Because I Love You is a great place to start.

Another you guys may not have heard a band called the triffids wide open road great song worth a listen

Great track by a classic Aussie band....pre-dating Eagle Rock was another fantastic song...have a listen to Honey Hi

Daddy Cool. A 70s band playing 50s music in a 70s way. A bit of an American 50s send up.. They were loved by teens, old people and children because of their stage antics.

I was listening to Daddy Cool just the other day 😂😂 When I went to the UK as a teenager I came back a huge Adam & the Ants fan & Sex Pistals fan because they sounded different to Aussie music

It's true .timeless Classic for us Aussies as even to this day ,if a band starts playing this at a gig the crowd still go's wild !

Ross Wilson the singer is a legend of Aussie rock. His next group Mondo Rock was even better with many hits. Come said the boy is a killer. Hope you catch that song one day. He still has that classic dance..lol

Ross Hannaford was an amazing guitarist

1 of my fave songs

I remember seeing The Kinks booed off stage when performing after Daddy Cool in Sydney. Not once, but twice. Ross Wilson had to plead with the audience to let them play. The Kinks were not happy campers that day :)

Eagle Rock will never age

Funny when you started the track right off the bat I felt that I had heard this band before because of the vocal just at the end it clicked the vocal sounded like Van Morrison in his early years with them. Again 1971 growth of great music.

Worlds first music video I'm told

Unique Australian sound..

great memories of our end of school party in year 4....

Daddy Cool was a very popular live act in the U.S. Especially on the west coast. They do the best version (live) of Duke Of Earl. They started out as The Party Machine in Melbourne. Their drummer was conscripted into the army. They got a new drummer and changed their name to Daddy Cool.

Got to play that with Ross Wilson just before the dreaded Covid kicked in and he plugged his Les Paul Junior into his Gibson amp and it definitely sounded fresh. He still performs it like he wrote it yesterday which is great.