Counting The Beat - The Swingers. 1981

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100% Kiwi Music. This clip is part of the ''The Golden Age Of New Zealand New Wave Music 1979-83'' video series. Every Kiwi & Aussie knows this classic. "Counting the Beat" is a single by New Zealand rock band The Swingers released in 1981 from their album Practical Jokers (released in the USA as Counting the Beat).
On its eventual release in February, the song was an immediate hit, reaching #1 in Australia on 2 March 1981 and in New Zealand that May (where it spent 9 weeks in the top two). The song was the number one charting song of 1981 in Australia according to the Kent Music Report end of year chart. As of July 1997 it had sold over 100,000 copies in Australia.