88 The Winners was a various artists "hits" collection album released in Australia in 1988 on the WEA record Label. The album spent 4 weeks at the top of the Australian album charts in 1988. It was released on LP with 16 tracks, and on CD and cassette with 18 tracks.
The Winners, currently known as The Winners Rebooted is a long running Australian television series that shows highlights of Australian rules football matches.
The original version was broadcast during the late 1970s to late 1980s on the ABC on Sunday mornings. It was normally hosted by Drew Morphett with a panel consisting of former players and pundits. Two matches from the previous day's Victorian Football League (VFL) fixtures would be screened and the panel would speculate about the games along with the league ladder and the goal, mark and play of the day. The format of the show was comprehensive, yet devoted mainly to matters on the field. Today it appears simplistic when compared with modern football's more saturated and market driven media coverage.
A new version of The Winners returned on the Fox Footy Channel in 2002, hosted by Clinton Grybas, showing highlights of all eight AFL games from the weekend in a one-hour show. From 2007 to 2011, it was shown on Fox Sports on the Monday night following the round. In 2012, the show moved to Fox Footy channel.
My Way (also known as The Winners) is a 1973 South African drama film directed by Emil Nofal and Roy Sargent and starring Joe Stewardson, Richard Loring, Marie Du Toit and Tony Jay. It was followed by a sequel My Way II in 1977.
"The Safety Dance" is a song by Canadian new wave band Men Without Hats, released in Canada in January 1983 as the second single from Rhythm of Youth. The song was written by lead singer Ivan Doroschuk after he had been kicked out of a club for pogoing.
The song entered the Canadian top 50 in February 1983, peaking at no. 11 on 14 May. In the meantime, "The Safety Dance" was released in the US on March 16, but did not enter the US charts for a few months. When it finally did, the record became a bigger hit than it had been in Canada, peaking at no. 3 in September 1983. It also reached no. 1 on Cash Box, as well as no. 1 on the Billboard Dance Chart. "The Safety Dance" similarly found success in other parts of the world, entering the UK charts in August and peaking at no. 6 in early November, and entering the New Zealand charts in November, eventually peaking at no. 2 in early 1984.
The writer/lead singer, Ivan Doroschuk, has explained that "The Safety Dance" is a protest against bouncers stopping dancers pogoing to 1980s new wave music in clubs when disco was dying and new wave was up and coming. New wave dancing, especially pogoing, was different from disco dancing, because it was done individually instead of with partners and involved holding the torso rigid and thrashing about. To uninformed bystanders this could look dangerous, especially if pogoers accidentally bounced into one another (the more deliberately violent evolution of pogoing is slamdancing). The bouncers did not like pogoing so they would tell pogoers to stop or be kicked out of the club. Thus, the song is a protest and a call for freedom of expression.
We believe that winnings come with attitude and heart
Determination let it bring us through.
The team that has the power to compete
Even in the moment of defeat.
Go for gold in South Korea
go for gold in '88
There's a pinacle for climbing down in Seoul the treasure waits.
And there's metal on the mountain for the team that never stops
It's the dream for every sportsman who is reching for the top.
Hey
go for gold and we're going for the metal
Till we're standing in the middle
We're singing hey ja
go for gold
put the pedal to the metal
Till we're standing in the middle
We're singing hey ja
hey ja
go for gold!
The path is long and winding and it's easy to forget
There's a winner and loser every game.
We're playing for each other and we're playing for the fans
They're always there to give the team a hand.
Go for gold in South Korea
go for gold in '88
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