"What do you mean MTV had no reality shows or no commercials?!" - the young crowd at my job

Exactly

They were the headliners on MTV's New Year's Eve Ball I think it was 1981? !!!!

The Shoes too!

The Producers and The Shoes. 1981-82. Great time

I picked up a box of cassettes from a guy who worked at a radio station (i think) in the 80’s & this song was recorded onto it among other artist’s. Amazing luck to run into them otherwise I’d not know of them.

Agreed!

Then why you keep talking about Danny Dillard walking around like a dismounted knight brandishing the pool skimmer like a lance?

But then Danny Dillard had extracted a small frog from the drain Portal in the pool .....one of those lime green ones,with the cream colored abdomen......."my pool Holmes" he e says...."my pool here slick"

@@andrewbrown2888 lol

What did INXS have that the Producers didn't? A successful label. Despite their talent, the Producers were horribly mismanaged throughout their career. Their last album, recorded in 2012, wasn't even released.

Not to mention, they had Michael Hutchence. Everybody that knows that there was just something about them that sucked people in. the personality the look the attitude. The producers for good. They had a really good sound of really well previous songs, but you can tell from this video they came out, hitting heavy, like they were mega stars but just didn’t have that hidden magic. It takes to go from good to super.

Inxs had an incredible vocalist .. the producers had great songs and good vocals but lacked that great frontman voice

​@@e.m.b2834the Beatles themselves missed that too, and succeeded regardless... Lennon went to say that if he could have convinced Smokey to sing with that golden voice over his poor nasal drone in the Beatles, he and Macca would have been beyond happy to sing chorus to him and their records improved to where they couldn't perfect it. In fact Paul had to take lead often because the songs required higher notes than John couldn't. Not that McCartney's or Harrison's were a superior class either. Forget about Ringo's. They missed a true gifted singer for the top quality of lyrics they concocted. And they knew it. Which is why many have done better on sales for the unmatched songwriting quality of songs Bob Dylan has ever crafted. And still with his poor quality old man voice when he was still young, his star flew high. But Beatles original manager and followers, as Bob Dylan's knew they had gold and made superior efforts to place their acts out there and beyonds. Many with less talents have been sold like French fries however having no burger meat on the happy meals. Production before the Age of DiY online Media and Taylor Swift own management

​@@pendragonUI read this a few times and still not sure what you meant.

oh I KNOW, right?!! and I LOVE how he makes that "crazy facial tick!!! every time he hits the snare!!! LOL

This is a Fabulous Song!!

This is actually very "altered" from the original album version..

as it should.

They certainly did 😂😁😊🤗👋! Everything about them is so wonderful 👍😊! 3:21

The keyboardist stage name is WAYNE FAMOUS. He was the most visual element of this band.

I met the guitar player - - think his first name is Kyle. He was using the bathroom before they played at the arcade in Youngstown Ohio. I was going to the bathroom and turn to my right and he was using the space next to me. And I just said hey to him I don't remember if I said anything else. It was at the height of their popularity they also had she Sheila out. They were really cool guys

@@carlmorell567 Guitarist is Van, bassist is Kyle.

@@duffbaker9554 got it it was a long time ago I was kind of shocked that he was in there anyway

Wayne Famous

@@brianezell5790 Thx. Brings back good memories

Now at 50, I'm wondering the same thing.

Too funny!

The main reason was that they were badly mismanaged by all their labels. After their first two albums, their original label dropped them for some reason. In 1989, they recorded another album for MCA Records, one of the top labels in the 80s, but for some reason, MCA never released it; it was finally released 12 years later by another label but didn't do well. Their last LP, recorded in 2012, was never released at all. These stupid music execs didn't know a good thing when they had it.

Quality does not guarantee success in the music biz

Sadly, Wayne lost part of his leg and was not doing well but a gofund me account helped him get treatment and a prosthetic leg. Last I heard he is doing much better now..

I was there! It was at the Hungry Bear just off of I-40. Great show! Amazing energy!

Great story. Thanks for sharing

Wayne comes from a great musical family. His cousinplayed sax for Tommy Dorsey. I am one of his cousins. I just mailed him a copy of my book Facing The Hbomb a true story about me disarming a live Hbomb in a B52 Bomber crash during the cold war.

.....You Better Run by Pat Benatar actually.....

And neither were they multi-platinum..or even platinum..though they should've been.

@@phishbill Oh no they hit platinum with the 1st album and were the 1st mtv mega stars, but as fate would have all the 1st 10 bands aired on mtv, they all were 1 shot wonders either by song, video, or album although The Producers managed to do well with their 2nd album also but by the 3rd were yesterday's hotshots.

@@kgtmustang Sorry, dOOd, but you're trafficking in alternate facts there. Their self-titled first album only got as far as #163 on the Billboard 200 album chart, not exactly making it platinum..and their subsequent albums wouldn't even chart that high. And amongst the first ten bands on MTV were The Who, The Pretenders, REO Speedwagon-not exactly one-hit wonders. The Producers were terribly overlooked in their time, though. They deserved better.

@@phishbill facts, right here^

Hardly one hit wonders.

@@vincetate8362 my bad you’re right this song didn’t even chart

@@maiden-eq4uv Yea, this wasn’t the most popular band but their songs are AMAZING and easily way better than many other hits of “famous bands” :)