A Fine, Fine Day (for a Reunion)

So a while back I was raving about YouTube, a site at which I wasted far, far too much time for a few days. Or perhaps, given how much The Bean and The Boy both loved to hang with Dear Ol' Dad and watch us some good ol’ bad videos together, it wasn't really time wasted after all.

I lamented, however, that a video I’d only seen a few times back in the 80s was nowhere to be found. Despite only managing to catch it once or twice, I found the song and the video haunting.

Well, once more, God bless America and YouTube.

Here, in all its 1980s glory, is the Tony Carey video, "A Fine, Fine Day (for a Reunion)."

It’s obviously a pretty early video but I found it surprisingly well done for all that. In fact, I found bits really, really well done indeed. It’s not a huge surprise it wasn’t played more often—the singer himself is miles away from the pretty boys MTV was preferring at the time—but a few more spins wouldn’t have been out of line.

Only one problem: I remembered the video and the song all right, but the main shot I recalled, the black and white longshot of the guy running around the top of the soccer stadium, wasn’t actually in it. Back to the starting line…

Comments

[Michael McCabe]

I had the song and video going around in my head for the last 25 years, and amen, You Tube is amazing - Yesterday, I decided to try and search for it and there it was! Thanks for posting it. Anyone, though, have any idea who the actor (Sonny) is in it? Was the video actually made for a film?