 The opening and closing line "tank fly boss walk jam nitty gritty you're listening to the boy from the big bad city, this is jam hot, this is jam hot" was from Johnny Dynell's 1983 hit "Jam Hot" and became an instant classic and was repeated often, being used as the most common reference to the song.The song was a hit, spending four weeks at number one on the UK Singles Chart in March 1990.It was the seventh best-selling single of 1990 in the UK.