JoBoxers - Johnny Friendly (RCA)

Film-buffs will know Johnny Friendly as the corrupt union boss in On The Waterfront, a dockland movie close to the Boxers' hearts. Unfortunately their tribute to Mr. Friendly doesn't quite come off. It tells a story alright and Dig has a great time delivering some of Marlon Brando's lines but it isn't half the song that "Just Got Lucky" was. I'll say no more - nasty things happen to people who badmouth Johnny .. . (Sunie, No 1, August 6, 1983)

A tug-boat roars in and that can only mean one thing ... the Tetley Teafolk are down on the waterfront. Dig tells the sad tale of Johnny - "he ain't a man to love" - over a funked-up alley cat backing. Not as infectious as "Lucky" but just as catchy in a harder sense. Looks like three in a row. (Peter Martin, Smash Hits, August 4, 1983)

After two barnstorming singles the Bowery Boys/Tetley Tea folk change the boxerbeat to a swing. But the swing is so leaden that they'll lose this round on a technical knock out. (Mike Gardner, Record Mirror, August 6, 1983)