Posted June 10, 200619 yr On TMF they played a tune by the England World Cup Squad from 1988 called All The Way, This featured the England Footy Team plus Stock Aiken and Waterman. Looking at my book it says it got to 64. So if Stock Aiken Waterman were mega-producers then with even their own TV show to play their tunes why wasnt the song a bigger hit in the late 1980s? Was football not as big until 1990 or something?
June 10, 200619 yr If you had heard it, you would know why it did so badly - it is abysmal. Who can forget these lyrics from the chorus that Bob Dylan would envy (not): "We're going all the way, all the way, all-all-all the way, all-all-all the way" How could it fail with the vocals being supplied by the World Cup Squad.
June 10, 200619 yr I don't remember it getting much airplay anyway, so that was a factor in it's lack of success.
June 10, 200619 yr Author If you had heard it, you would know why it did so badly - it is abysmal. I have it was on this morning on TMF's run up to the world cup. It sounds like all those 80s pop records.
June 10, 200619 yr Author I don't remember it getting much airplay anyway, so that was a factor in it's lack of success. wasnt footy all hyped up like in the 21st C?
June 10, 200619 yr wasnt footy all hyped up like in the 21st C? I don't remember football records being that successful in the 80s.
June 10, 200619 yr In 1982 England World Cup squad reached #2 with the Double 'A' sided single This Time (We'll Get It Right)/England, We'll Fly The Flag. While Scotland World Cup Squad reached #5 with We Have A Dream. The popularity of Football fell into decline soon afterwards due to the racist/homophobic cancer of Football Hooliganism taking hold in English football (which is probably why I'm not a fan of Fat Les' Vindaloo) until firstly the Heysel tragedy in 1985 which resulted in English Football teams being banned from European Competitions for 5 years & then the Hillsborough tragedy where 96 Liverpool supporters were killed (the highest number of deaths in a post war disaster within the UK). Which led to the government & Football itself to clean up it's act & take measures to make the beautiful game a more family orientated event that it is today. While the 1990 World Cup heroics of the English team along with Sky starting to pay large amounts of money to show live matches also significantly helped it's recovery.
June 10, 200619 yr On TMF they played a tune by the England World Cup Squad from 1988 called All The Way, This featured the England Footy Team plus Stock Aiken and Waterman. Looking at my book it says it got to 64. So if Stock Aiken Waterman were mega-producers then with even their own TV show to play their tunes why wasnt the song a bigger hit in the late 1980s? Was football not as big until 1990 or something? the song was released for the European Championships in 1988 (Euro 88), and not the World Cup, which took place in 1986. The 1986 World Cup song was pretty dire too, We've Got The Whole World At our Feet.
June 10, 200619 yr I don't remember football records being that successful in the 80s. records by domestic football clubs did better in the 80s though. After the World Cup song in 1982 for a few years in the 80s, records by Liverpool, Man Utd and Everton squads all made the top 20. It was just the national team records that flopped, they were seen as outdated and rather cheesy. It was for this reason the FA went to New Order and asked them to write something contemporary. Edited June 10, 200619 yr by Robbie
June 10, 200619 yr Author It was just the national team records that flopped, they were seen as outdated and rather cheesy. It was for this reason the FA went to New Order and asked them to write something contemporary. well that Pete Waterman song was contemporary. they had Jason 'Spook Beardy Man' Donovan on tonight talking about his old hit. sounded exactly the same
June 10, 200619 yr actually, I've never heard the 1988 song! I just assumed it was a cheesy sing-a-long song! Perhaps if England had done better in 1988 it might have taken off. As it was, we were dreadful, we lost all our games in Euro 88 and the team came home to a hostile press...
June 10, 200619 yr Author actually, I've never heard the 1988 song! I just assumed it was a cheesy sing-a-long song! yes a cheesy sing-a-long. was on the show with the talksport ones, the farm, new order, mc hammer, 2 unlimited and i like to move it move it
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