City boy - the hap-ki-do kid

City Boy - The Hap-ki-do Kid LIVE from "Top Of The Pops" 1976. City Boy's first 4 albums were recently (August 2008) re-released on cd. Don't miss! Max Thomas (keyboards) own story about the recording: "CB's first single release was Hap-Ki-Do in 1976, and we nearly had a hit with it. In those days "Top of the Pops" in the UK only concentrated on the top 30, as opposed to the top 40. The BBC would only include one song per week on the programme that wasn't in the top 30, and that had to be the fastest rising single of that week. We came straight in at 32* that week, and so we were offered to go on. Unfortunately, that was the first week for several years that the BBC (or the newly-appointed producer of the show) decided to allow only live music, and we were the first act on, and I remember NO opportunity for any soundcheck, and I also remember asking repeatedly for another plug socket so I could plug in the last of my four keyboards, and I finally got it about 30 seconds before we played. It was a nightmare. We'd even got Mutt Lange to be there in the mixing room to mix the sound, and he barely had time to make sure that everything was connected before we began. As a consequence, the song came across really badly...we played quite well as I recall, but the sound balance was appalling. We dropped out of the top 40 two weeks later." * Seems like Hap-ki-do never made it to 32.