Murray Head – One Night In Bangkok “From CHESS”

From the album CHESS THE ORIGINAL RECORDING by Benny Andersson, Tim Rice and Björn Ulvaeus. Featuring Tommy Korberg, Murray Head and Elaine Page.
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Music video by Murray Head performing One Night In Bangkok. (C) 1984 3 Knights Ltd., Under exclusive license to Polar Music International AB

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    Инна Ранавирасингхе says:

    I think from those 80th everything same, I mean all those massage etc. fanny old guys with thai girls – nothing had changed much

    Almost all of them are too flexable. Its Pinnochio's motto.

    "The old freddy's the one I talk about." No, I don't care for Police.

    I never knew that Dr. Venture was a musician before he became a super scientist

    no one involved with this went to bangkok for research

    I went to see Chess when it was on in the West End, London back in the 80s. Wasn't particularly memorable. But this song is unique – nothing else quite like it.

    ——- tarumlüg rutangisnetauq Programmierer der
    Master K. I. ———

    The chorus part is very abba. Ive always liked this song since i was in grade school.

    Are those dancers flossing near the end, 40 years before it was cool?!

    I actually never heard this song until now. I looked it up after watching an episode of MST3K where the movie was about Native American werewolves and at the end of it, there's this tribal drumming and Mike and the bots are singing lyrics from a whole bunch of songs in rhythm with it. This was the only one I didn't recognize. I spent the 1980s listening to acid rock and obscure industrial noise…so I had never heard of it. I can see why everyone loves it though!

    Γεώργιος Βουγιουκας says:

    HAVE A VERY HAPPY NEW YEAR 🎇💐 ROSES 🌹🌹 DIAMOND 💎💖 2023 !
    THIS LOVELY 🌹💖🌹 SONG 💝🥇 PLAYING 🎴 GAMING CHESs IN BANKOG THAILAND & PHILIPPINES REMINDS DECADE Of 80's WHEN I WAS 18 Years old – So Amazing – Excited Age & Pleasure & plenty Happiness! What else?
    George VOUGIOUKAS GREECE 💖💎 ATHENS.

    Lincoln Continental Mark V + This Song ❤

    Outstanding song video. Lyrics Fabolous.
    2023 comeback please.

    🍑🕊️🏹🆒🏹🕊️🌐🕊️🇬🇧…

    Relly Good Song One Nghit In Bangkok🇹🇭

    All these years and I had no idea this song was about chess. Great 80's song though.

    I spoke to someone today and said "you know what song has been stuck in my head for a while? That song about ladyboys." They looked at me like I was crazy. They had no clue what I was talking about 🤣🤣

    The statue is the sacred Lord of Indian classical dances, I say this as a world renowned gold medalist soloist in 7 Indian and Western classical dances and vocals and and English litterateur

    ❤❤❤———— ★ ❤ ★ ★ ❤ ★ ★ ❤ ★ ————-❤❤❤

    티비에서 탁재훈 이상민.. 이 노래 말해서
    들어보러 옴

    Bangkok, Oriental setting
    And the city don't know that the city is getting
    The creme de la creme of the chess world
    In a show with everything but Yul Brynner

    Time flies doesn't seem a minute
    Since the Tirolean spa had the chess boys in it
    All change don't you know that when you
    Play at this level there's no ordinary venue

    It's Iceland or the Philippines or Hastings or
    Or this place!

    One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster
    The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free
    You'll find a god in every golden cloister
    And if you're lucky then the god's a she
    I can feel an angel sliding up to me

    One town's very like another
    When your head's down over your pieces, brother

    It's a drag, it's a bore, it's really such a pity
    To be looking at the board, not looking at the city

    Whaddya mean?
    Ya seen one crowded, polluted, stinking town

    Tea, girls, warm, sweet
    Some are set up in the Somerset Maugham suite

    Get thai'd, you're talking to a tourist
    Whose every move's among the purest
    I get my kicks above the waistline, sunshine

    One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble
    Not much between despair and ecstasy
    One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
    Can't be too careful with your company
    I can feel the devil walking next to me

    Siam's gonna be the witness
    To the ultimate test of cerebral fitness
    This grips me more than would a
    Muddy old river or reclining Buddha

    And thank God I'm only watching the game controlling it

    I don't see you guys rating
    The kind of mate I'm contemplating
    I'd let you watch, I would invite you
    But the queens we use would not excite you

    So you better go back to your bars, your temples
    Your massage parlours

    One night in Bangkok and the world's your oyster
    The bars are temples but the pearls ain't free
    You'll find a god in every golden cloister
    A little flesh, a little history
    I can feel an angel sliding up to me

    One night in Bangkok makes a hard man humble
    Not much between despair and ecstasy
    One night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble
    Can't be too careful with your company
    I can feel the devil walking next to me

    What an epic, generational song. I was 13 when this came out and did home karaoke to it many, many times. The video has yellowface, so that wouldn't fly now. But the song itself is pure gold.

    Iceland, or the Philippines, or Hastings….

    Best line

    Чёрт это как наркотик , не могу не слушать.

    Fantastique fantastiques fantastique fantastique merci beaucoup comme toujours

    머레이 헤드~ 추억의 팝송~ 원나잇인뱅콕~ 울 가게 오프닝송~~ ㅎㅎ

    I was on my hs chess team when this came out so of course this was our anthem! Long live the 80s!!

    should have had this in that netflix chess show that went crazy

    You know how we sometimes spontaneously merge songs? I always go "Bangkok, oriental city, where the grass is green and the girls are pretty"… Just fits in.

    This song stuck in my head every time I entered the Manhattan Chess Club when it was located at Carnegie Hall.

    My money don't jiggle stole this guy's vibe

    Almost 40 years later and this song still rocks! one night in Bangkok and the tough guys tumble, can't be too careful with your company, i can feel the devil walking next to me…

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