Top 5 Songs of 1980

<v Speaker 1>This is Chuck and Matt with a cinematic flashback podcast
<v Speaker 1>where we cover all seventies movies all the time.
<v Speaker 2>And the weather on the tens.
<v Speaker 1>Hey, Matt, do you know what another brick in the wall,
<v Speaker 1>crazy little thing called love and rock with you all
<v Speaker 1>have in common?
<v Speaker 2>Oh? Yeah, I remember those?
<v Speaker 1>They were written by that band you know.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know you were so close.
<v Speaker 1>But actually these are all songs that were released in
<v Speaker 1>the seventies but charted in the eighties.
<v Speaker 2>Surely you can't be serious?
<v Speaker 1>I am. And you know who else is Jason and
<v Speaker 1>d and they're about to give you their top five
<v Speaker 1>songs of nineteen eighty. You're listening to the Surely you
<v Speaker 1>Can't Be Serious podcast?
<v Speaker 3>Okay, ready, ready, ready, Freddy Oh Freddy.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Okay. Open letter to the Shirley fans out there.
<v Speaker 2>Babe Nice, You're my shining star. You might be sailing
<v Speaker 2>right now, but probably most of you are in your
<v Speaker 2>cars cruising Nice, but you're listening to us on the radio.
<v Speaker 2>So escape maybe with the Pina Colada. Yes, with us,
<v Speaker 2>as we steal away, we ride like the wind, back
<v Speaker 2>to the pop music of nineteen eighty. Nineteen eighty. What
<v Speaker 2>can I say about nineteen eighty I wish I didn't
<v Speaker 2>know now what I didn't know then? Nice? Nice, Welcome
<v Speaker 2>back to thank you, Welcome back to the Shirley Podcast. Everybody,
<v Speaker 2>good job you. Yeah, well thanks. I was waiting while
<v Speaker 2>you updated your list. Jason comes in Sweaty from the Road,
<v Speaker 2>and it's like, I heard a song the day that
<v Speaker 2>has to be on the list. So I so researching.
<v Speaker 2>He's doing researching, and I'm writing you all a love letter.
<v Speaker 2>So we are here today to do the top five
<v Speaker 2>songs of nineteen eighty. Now, there were some great songs
<v Speaker 2>in nineteen eighty and most of them were on Back
<v Speaker 2>in Black, That's right, which we've covered already, and so
<v Speaker 2>none of those Back in Black songs will be on
<v Speaker 2>our list now without Back in Black. Now it's a
<v Speaker 2>little more sparse than some of the years that we've
<v Speaker 2>covered one. Yeah, like nineteen eighty was a transitional year
<v Speaker 2>in music, and I don't think everybody really knew what
<v Speaker 2>they wanted to be listening to.
<v Speaker 4>It was a year between classic rock and MTV YEP,
<v Speaker 4>when like pop country was trying to dominate.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, maybe little yacht rock punk rock was a rage
<v Speaker 2>around some folks. But it certainly wasn't pop music talk about.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, so there was some important pop culture moments from
<v Speaker 4>nineteen eighty. I wanted to kind of set the stage
<v Speaker 4>real quick.
<v Speaker 2>I feel like we're going back to our original format,
<v Speaker 2>like we used to do this every year. We used
<v Speaker 2>to do this. Yeah, tell me what was going on
<v Speaker 2>in nineteen.
<v Speaker 4>So, like you said, I don't think the music was
<v Speaker 4>particularly strong. In fact, I would say it's pretty weak
<v Speaker 4>in nineteen eighty, but I think we did find some
<v Speaker 4>good songs from nineteen eighty.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, pop culture moments. Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>Darth Vader looked at Luke Skywalker and told him, look,
<v Speaker 4>we would never told you what happened.
<v Speaker 2>To your father. It is the truth. No spoilers, right,
<v Speaker 2>no spoilers for the forty five year old.
<v Speaker 4>I mean it's forty five years old. Yeah. Jack Nicholson
<v Speaker 4>whacked a door with an axe and said, here's Johnny.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, right, that's a good one. I do have.
<v Speaker 4>Back in Black came out, maybe maybe the best selling
<v Speaker 4>album of all time, one of those in the conversation,
<v Speaker 4>you know, John Lennon was and killed tragic.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, December of that year, right, Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>Pac Man, Rubik's Cube and post it notes came out
<v Speaker 4>in nineteen eighty. Wow, the Miracle on Ice happened in
<v Speaker 4>nineteen eighty great.
<v Speaker 2>I love the movie too.
<v Speaker 4>Yes, very good. And then Mount Saint Helens blew its
<v Speaker 4>top in nineteen eighty.
<v Speaker 2>That was. That was a big eruption. It was.
<v Speaker 4>It was some important moments in nineteen eighty.
<v Speaker 2>Now. I don't think we did a good.
<v Speaker 4>Job of explaining this in our Best of seventy five,
<v Speaker 4>which we dropped a few weeks ago.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, you mean like how our format and what we
<v Speaker 2>do and how we're doing this. Okay.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, So if we've covered a song I e. Back
<v Speaker 4>in Black, we've already gone track by track through that album. Yep,
<v Speaker 4>all of those songs are ineligible.
<v Speaker 2>Yes.
<v Speaker 4>Also, if we've covered a song on.
<v Speaker 2>Patreon Patreon, I'm gonna have to go get a Patreon
<v Speaker 2>membership to hear those songs.
<v Speaker 4>That's right. So I just did a song with Brad.
<v Speaker 2>Moore nineteen eighty that.
<v Speaker 4>I don't really want to tell you what it was.
<v Speaker 2>Nope, but it won't make.
<v Speaker 4>Our list because it's ineligible.
<v Speaker 2>Sure, all the songs that we're going to cover this
<v Speaker 2>later on this season are off the table as well.
<v Speaker 2>Which includes Christopher Cross. Christopher Cross, I've was huge in
<v Speaker 2>nineteen eighty.
<v Speaker 4>He is on the floor. Officially I dropped him.
<v Speaker 2>So no Christopher Cross, and he may have made a
<v Speaker 2>loud sound when he.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, so we've covered the song. We've covered the album ineligible.
<v Speaker 2>Right now, and then the rest of this. If this
<v Speaker 2>is your first time joining us for a Top five episode,
<v Speaker 2>we don't tell you what the song is until we've
<v Speaker 2>teased it up. Basically, I will describe things about each
<v Speaker 2>of my songs and Jason has to try to figure
<v Speaker 2>out which song it is, and you see if you
<v Speaker 2>can try to figure it out before he figures it out,
<v Speaker 2>and then the same thing in reverse, right, and then
<v Speaker 2>what we'll do is we'll give you our top four songs.
<v Speaker 2>We'll give you two honorable and mentions. I have a
<v Speaker 2>new discovery that I'm gonna mention just briefly. I don't
<v Speaker 2>know if Jason has a new discovery or not. But
<v Speaker 2>after that, we'll give you our number one choice, and
<v Speaker 2>you guys can decide did Jason get it right? Did
<v Speaker 2>I get it right? And all of these episodes, we've
<v Speaker 2>only arrived on the same number one song one time,
<v Speaker 2>and that was a year full of good music. That's right, Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>that's right. All right, you ready, I'm ready. Let's okay,
<v Speaker 2>here we go, Jason's number five.
<v Speaker 4>Five all right, so for my number five. This song
<v Speaker 4>was released in May of nineteen eighty. It hit number
<v Speaker 4>one in August of nineteen eighty. Now, my wife and
<v Speaker 4>I have kind of a semi informal list of movies
<v Speaker 4>with songs where the songs are better than the movie. Okay,
<v Speaker 4>I would say this happens in this instance. So this
<v Speaker 4>song is better than the movie that it had been
<v Speaker 4>released for. Okay, okay, now, then this was number one
<v Speaker 4>for four weeks. It actually knocked out Christopher Cross's Sailing
<v Speaker 4>out of the number one spot. Billboard ranked this as
<v Speaker 4>the number three most popular song of nineteen eighty. Shortly
<v Speaker 4>before his death in nineteen eighty, John Lennon told Newsweek
<v Speaker 4>that he enjoyed this song.
<v Speaker 2>Okay.
<v Speaker 4>Now, then, this was written and produced by a guy
<v Speaker 4>we've talked about. His name is John Ferrar. It makes
<v Speaker 4>me think of Steve Martin's character the Man with two Brains. Yeah, okay,
<v Speaker 4>so do you remember when we talked about him?
<v Speaker 2>No, all right, So.
<v Speaker 4>This dude named John Ferrar wrote, hopelessly devoted to you,
<v Speaker 4>and you're the one that I want from from Greece.
<v Speaker 4>That's right.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>So John Ferrar wrote those two major hit songs that
<v Speaker 4>we covered in detail on our Grease soundtrack crack by track. Okay,
<v Speaker 4>what do you think I'm giving it to you on
<v Speaker 4>a platter right here?
<v Speaker 2>Okay. So those songs were both sung by Olivia Newton
<v Speaker 2>Shawn Yes. And so this song must be magic, Yes,
<v Speaker 2>all right, you have away.
<v Speaker 4>So this song Magic comes from the movie Xanadude. Right,
<v Speaker 4>it is a it's a cult classic. I realized probably
<v Speaker 4>the Melissa Mingles of the world are out there, like
<v Speaker 4>that movie is awesome. Jason, what are you talking about?
<v Speaker 4>That movie sucks.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I'm gonna have to agree with Jason.
<v Speaker 4>Sorry, it's it's ridiculous. It's a roller skating Olivia Newton
<v Speaker 4>John movie. But this song was great. It did hit
<v Speaker 4>number one. I will say it's the only number one
<v Speaker 4>song to have the word magic in the title.
<v Speaker 2>Oh okay, interesting, which is.
<v Speaker 4>Crazy because we talked about magic about the cars. I
<v Speaker 4>think that hit number four. And a song called Magic
<v Speaker 4>stick by fifty cent hit number two. Okay, and Puff
<v Speaker 4>the Magic Dragon hit number two. Wow, do you want
<v Speaker 4>to hear the top five for August second, nineteen eighty
<v Speaker 4>real quick?
<v Speaker 2>No, because I think if you do that, you're going
<v Speaker 2>to give away some of my songs. Okay, normally the
<v Speaker 2>answer is yes, right, but I literally I even put
<v Speaker 2>together a list, and I'm like, I can't do this.
<v Speaker 2>Some of these songs maybe Jason songs. So I couldn't.
<v Speaker 2>I can't say it. Good point, all right, all right?
<v Speaker 4>To your number five?
<v Speaker 2>Yep? Okay, now this my number five is also from
<v Speaker 2>a movie. The actor who played the lead in this
<v Speaker 2>movie before this movie had been in one episode of
<v Speaker 2>The Rockford Files, which was you go back to our
<v Speaker 2>top TV theme songs? That was Jason one of Jason's
<v Speaker 2>top picks.
<v Speaker 4>Right, I love the Rockford Files. James Garner yep, Norman Native.
<v Speaker 2>He was not the lead, but he was an actor
<v Speaker 2>in The Electric Horseman, which was Robert Redford movie. Jane Fonda.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Then in this movie he had a starring role
<v Speaker 2>as Buck Bonham. Okay, okay, Now, when I was looking
<v Speaker 2>at this, it turns out that there is a possibility
<v Speaker 2>that he's going to reprise this role because there is
<v Speaker 2>a movie in pre production and called My Cricket and
<v Speaker 2>Me And it's basically forty five years later after his
<v Speaker 2>role in this nineteen eighty movie. It's it's set to
<v Speaker 2>star Paul Williams, who we've talked about multiple times smoking band. Yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>because he's thirsty dummy. Yes, Little Enis, who also wrote
<v Speaker 2>Rainbow Connection, is going to be in it, and he
<v Speaker 2>was in the original as well. With this guy is
<v Speaker 2>so ugly so in this nineteen eighty movie that I
<v Speaker 2>would be surprised if you've heard of or any of
<v Speaker 2>our listeners have heard of.
<v Speaker 3>Wow.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, we had Diane Cannon and Amy Irving and Slim Pickens,
<v Speaker 2>the first two of which were in their hottest moments.
<v Speaker 2>Slim always looks good, you.
<v Speaker 4>Know, stud always.
<v Speaker 2>So. The director of this movie is a guy named
<v Speaker 2>Jerry Schetzburg. Schatsburg, that's right, I said, Schatzburg.
<v Speaker 4>That's an unfortunate name.
<v Speaker 2>Now, he had been a grand prize Winter at the
<v Speaker 2>con Film Festival early seventies. Ok he's now directing this movie,
<v Speaker 2>which didn't do badly. I mean, it's okay, I just
<v Speaker 2>I had never heard of it before, right as a
<v Speaker 2>song from this movie. Okay, So he calls the star
<v Speaker 2>and says, why don't you write a song for this movie. Now,
<v Speaker 2>the star of the movie did have a career in
<v Speaker 2>music before he was in this movie, little tiny career
<v Speaker 2>in music for this and he's on an airplane and
<v Speaker 2>he writes this entire song on the back of a barfbag.
<v Speaker 2>Now in the movie, he's portraying a musician who's traveling
<v Speaker 2>around and he has adventures, and this song ends up
<v Speaker 2>being quite a bit more famous than the movie. It
<v Speaker 2>peaks at number twenty on November eighth, nineteen eighty, which
<v Speaker 2>was a shock to me since it came out, And
<v Speaker 2>I mean it was everywhere in nineteen eighty, but country
<v Speaker 2>hadn't quite hit the top one hundred as much yet.
<v Speaker 2>But it's been in South Park, It's been used in Shrek,
<v Speaker 2>It's been used in Shameless, and Family Guy and Forrest Gump.
<v Speaker 2>The star of this movie was not much of an actor,
<v Speaker 2>even though since it all included, he's had one hundred
<v Speaker 2>and forty three film and TV appearances. But you will
<v Speaker 2>probably best know him from his habitual beard and braided pigtails.
<v Speaker 2>Mister Willie Nelson, and this song is called on the
<v Speaker 2>Road Again. Got it Yes on the road again. Just
<v Speaker 2>gave to get on the road again.
<v Speaker 5>My my love is making music with my friend.
<v Speaker 2>Gave way to a road again.
<v Speaker 4>I had no idea this is from a movie.
<v Speaker 2>What's the movie? The movie is called Honeysuckle Rose Rose.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, I've never seen that movie.
<v Speaker 2>Yep.
<v Speaker 4>But as a kid, I studied the HBO guide Okay,
<v Speaker 4>and so even movies I didn't watch or didn't care about,
<v Speaker 4>I would just like read the HBO Guide, so I
<v Speaker 4>recognize the title on they Suckle Rose.
<v Speaker 2>There you go on the road again. It's fantastic. I
<v Speaker 2>had no idea it was from a movie either. But
<v Speaker 2>and I would like to shout out to Arlen Bullard.
<v Speaker 2>He was the one who mentioned that that song was
<v Speaker 2>nineteen eighty. It had flown under the radar for me.
<v Speaker 2>But when I heard that, I was like, oh crap,
<v Speaker 2>that's I mean, that's got to be on the list.
<v Speaker 2>Did that hit? Where was that on the charts? Number
<v Speaker 2>twenty November eighth, nineteen eighty.
<v Speaker 4>Wow, only hit number twenty at a time when country
<v Speaker 4>music could have hit number one. Really, yeah, fantastic, that's
<v Speaker 4>a good one that flew under my radar as well.
<v Speaker 2>All right, we're under your number four, all.
<v Speaker 4>Right, my number four.
<v Speaker 3>Four.
<v Speaker 4>Let's pull up to the sailboat with our doctor shoes on.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, okay.
<v Speaker 4>This was released March nineteenth, nineteen eighty. This hit number
<v Speaker 4>three on the Hot one hundred. It was nominated for
<v Speaker 4>a Grammy for Best Pop.
<v Speaker 2>Vocal by a Group of duo. Okay.
<v Speaker 4>The creation of this song cracks me up because I
<v Speaker 4>know you've done stuff like this. I've done stuff like this.
<v Speaker 2>Okay.
<v Speaker 4>So you know how you get ready to go on
<v Speaker 4>a trip or you've got something planned, and you're waiting
<v Speaker 4>on your family right right, and you're in the garage
<v Speaker 4>and you're packed. You're like, where the crap is, everybody,
<v Speaker 4>Let's get this show on the road, right right. So
<v Speaker 4>he's waiting on his family to get in the car
<v Speaker 4>to go to a Fourth of July event. Okay, all right,
<v Speaker 4>So they're taking too long, and then so he's sitting there,
<v Speaker 4>He's like, oh, yeah, I've got some equipment down in
<v Speaker 4>my studio. I need to go turn that off and
<v Speaker 4>make sure that's all sealed up. And I didn't forget anything.
<v Speaker 4>And so he goes down there and he's like, I'll
<v Speaker 4>sit at the piano for a few minutes, just see
<v Speaker 4>what happens. And it's like one note leads to another note,
<v Speaker 4>which leads to another note, and he comes up with
<v Speaker 4>the bones in about ten minutes. Okay, okay, keep in mind,
<v Speaker 4>this is a number three hit, all right, all right, this.
<v Speaker 2>Could be I'm not saying it is, but it could
<v Speaker 2>be the only.
<v Speaker 4>Song to rhyme the words horizon, horizon and realizing in
<v Speaker 4>the same song. Now, the singer of this thought that
<v Speaker 4>might be too hoke, he might be too Hallmark kardish,
<v Speaker 4>all right, And so he calls his buddy Michael McDonald,
<v Speaker 4>uh huh, and he says, what do you think. Michael
<v Speaker 4>McDonald listened and said, nope, that song is great.
<v Speaker 2>You need to go with that.
<v Speaker 4>And so he did, and and yours no, okay, keep going,
<v Speaker 4>all right. The name of the group, if you paid
<v Speaker 4>me one thousand dollars, I could not tell you one
<v Speaker 4>other song by this group. Now I don't mean they
<v Speaker 4>didn't have other hits that just.
<v Speaker 2>Before my time. Okay. The name of the group is Ambrosia. Okay.
<v Speaker 2>I recognize the name of the group, okay. And I
<v Speaker 2>remember seeing them in passing as I was going through
<v Speaker 2>the songs of nineteen eighty, but I do not recall
<v Speaker 2>the name of the song.
<v Speaker 4>You have already mentioned the name of the song in
<v Speaker 4>our intro. Okay, part of the hooky chorus is a
<v Speaker 4>real high falsetto where a guy says, make a wish, babe,
<v Speaker 4>there there you go.
<v Speaker 5>Faver, well, that'll make a color make well the thanks,
<v Speaker 5>I'll let the ring down on you so we could
<v Speaker 5>dot you.
<v Speaker 2>So that's based on here's big spart of me. There
<v Speaker 2>you go. I just had to hear that. I had
<v Speaker 2>to hear those beautiful melodic chords keys, I mean you
<v Speaker 2>love it. I love it. This is a making out
<v Speaker 2>of nineteen eighty playlist.
<v Speaker 4>Right the sea wind in your Hair, Yes, the biggest
<v Speaker 4>part of Me by Ambrosia Nice. I love it, classic
<v Speaker 4>yacht rock song.
<v Speaker 2>Right there, very good, very good? Okay, Ready for my
<v Speaker 2>number four?
<v Speaker 4>Number four?
<v Speaker 2>Okay, let me just say this before I keep on
<v Speaker 2>going here. One of our dear friends and listeners the
<v Speaker 2>last episode that we did, which I won't say the
<v Speaker 2>name of the song, he was like, I can't believe
<v Speaker 2>I live in a world where you put the song
<v Speaker 2>above that song when you get to top five level,
<v Speaker 2>like any one of these songs can be number one
<v Speaker 2>for me any day of the week. So it just
<v Speaker 2>depends on how burnt out I am on the other
<v Speaker 2>songs or what mood I'm in. You just never know.
<v Speaker 2>So number five for me could easily be number one
<v Speaker 2>on a different week. Just keep that in mind, all right,
<v Speaker 2>So to mine number four? Ready, yes, okay, So this
<v Speaker 2>song is from this artist's debut album, which was released
<v Speaker 2>in nineteen seventy nine. Now, she had been initially a
<v Speaker 2>She was going to be what's called a coloratura is
<v Speaker 2>kind of something to do with opretick singing at Juilliard,
<v Speaker 2>got accepted to that and decided instead to go study
<v Speaker 2>health education at Stony Brook University. Okay, Sure. She marries
<v Speaker 2>her high school sweetheart and her maiden name was Andrew's
<v Speaker 2>Juice Ski. I'm doing my best to pronounce that right, whiskey,
<v Speaker 2>It's easy for me to say. But her she ends
<v Speaker 2>up taking the name her married name of her first husband,
<v Speaker 2>and that's what you're going to know her by. But
<v Speaker 2>I won't give that to you yet. All Right after
<v Speaker 2>they get married, he's in the military, so they end
<v Speaker 2>up in Richmond, Virginia. Ay, Chuck, how you doing, Buddy Chuck?
<v Speaker 2>And she's a bank teller. This future pop goddess is
<v Speaker 2>a bank teller or maybe rock goddess, depending on you
<v Speaker 2>know what.
<v Speaker 4>Stories like this. So somebody got their check stamped by
<v Speaker 4>this girl and didn't realize that she's.
<v Speaker 2>A future correct. Yes, she told somebody they were over dreamed.
<v Speaker 4>So do you have sixteen dollars in your account?
<v Speaker 2>So she goes to Eliza Minelli concert and is inspired
<v Speaker 2>to start singing again. Ends up moving back to New York,
<v Speaker 2>works in a holiday inn, singing at the club and
<v Speaker 2>the holiday Inn, and also as a singing waitress at
<v Speaker 2>a nightclub. Later on Halloween nineteen seventy seven, she's dressed
<v Speaker 2>up in kind of some sort of spandex Halloween costume.
<v Speaker 2>Ends up performing in that costume and that gets her
<v Speaker 2>noticed in a big way and her career starts to
<v Speaker 2>take off. After that, she gets signed, and as I said,
<v Speaker 2>this is the song that I'm talking about is from
<v Speaker 2>her debut album nineteen seventy nine. The first single off
<v Speaker 2>that album does not do very well. I don't think
<v Speaker 2>it even charts. Okay. This song is the second single
<v Speaker 2>off this album, and it's a cover of another song
<v Speaker 2>released earlier by a lady named Jenny Darren. She's from
<v Speaker 2>the UK. Let me ask you this. Yeah, this is
<v Speaker 2>a little pint size powerhouse. Yes, indeed, okay, keep going, okay,
<v Speaker 2>so just for our for our listeners. The first song
<v Speaker 2>that failed a chart was called if You Think You
<v Speaker 2>Know How to Love Me, which I couldn't have told
<v Speaker 2>you I had ever heard of before that. Nope, right,
<v Speaker 2>this is what we call a This song I'm talking
<v Speaker 2>about is what we call a sleeper hit. It peaked
<v Speaker 2>in March of nineteen eighty at number twenty three. Now
<v Speaker 2>later that year, there might This is one of two
<v Speaker 2>songs that you might call her signature songs. The other
<v Speaker 2>one from her second album Hits Big. It's number nine
<v Speaker 2>on December twentieth of nineteen eighty. Does it hits Big? Yes?
<v Speaker 4>All right, good keep going.
<v Speaker 2>When she did the cover of this song from this
<v Speaker 2>UK artist, they had to change some of the lyrics,
<v Speaker 2>which included a to z which wouldn't make any sense
<v Speaker 2>and moonraker, which wouldn't make any sense to the American audiences. Yes,
<v Speaker 2>and if you hear the word moonraker, you probably can
<v Speaker 2>figure out what we rhymed it. Up with to get
<v Speaker 2>this song.
<v Speaker 4>I guys, okay, Moonreaker, heartbreaker.
<v Speaker 6>This is Pad Bennattar very good.
<v Speaker 4>That's a great one man. In fact, it got bummed
<v Speaker 4>for the song I came in and did at the
<v Speaker 4>last minute.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's a good one.
<v Speaker 4>So I love it. I love it in fact, I believe,
<v Speaker 4>in fact, I would bet my paycheck. Pat Benintar had
<v Speaker 4>the second video played on MTV right after the Buggles yep,
<v Speaker 4>and it was you Better Run, And it was a
<v Speaker 4>statement from MTV to all its competitors.
<v Speaker 2>Nice, I like it. Okay, okay, We're ready for your
<v Speaker 2>number three, sir, three.
<v Speaker 4>My number three. All right. So this song was released
<v Speaker 4>February eighth of nineteen eighty. It reached number eight, which
<v Speaker 4>is a crime because to me, even though I don't
<v Speaker 4>have this ranked as my number one song, it has
<v Speaker 4>the most nostalgic feel of nineteen eighty for me personally,
<v Speaker 4>of all the songs, of all the song all right now.
<v Speaker 4>It was written as an R and B song for
<v Speaker 4>a group who has wide range of music. They've done
<v Speaker 4>R and B, they've done rock, they've done.
<v Speaker 2>Country, not expecting that one.
<v Speaker 4>So when the singer brought this song to a couple
<v Speaker 4>of other prominent members of the band. He said, hey,
<v Speaker 4>I've been working on this. What do you think And
<v Speaker 4>the two members listened to it, and one in particular,
<v Speaker 4>who you know well, said, I think that's your first hit.
<v Speaker 4>The person who wrote and sings this song. Okay, the
<v Speaker 4>other prominent member of the band told him, listen, when
<v Speaker 4>you sing this, I want you to sing it like
<v Speaker 4>Smokey Robinson. So I'm trying to I'm trying to dance
<v Speaker 4>around it because you know, all the members that I'm
<v Speaker 4>talking about. The first guy, the one who said, hey,
<v Speaker 4>I think this is your first hit. First time you
<v Speaker 4>heard it, he said, Now that's baby making music. Okay,
<v Speaker 4>all right, and when you listen to it, you're gonna
<v Speaker 4>be like, heck, yeah, yeah, man, that's that's baby making
<v Speaker 4>music right there.
<v Speaker 2>Okay.
<v Speaker 4>Rolling Stone listed this as this group's number eleven song.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, big catalog, Okay, all right.
<v Speaker 4>In fact, this guy was hired to replace a person
<v Speaker 4>in this group Okay, that we've talked extensively about. Okay,
<v Speaker 4>So every person that I've brought up so far, we
<v Speaker 4>have talked extensively about.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, did we talk about them this year? We did okay, okay, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>all right.
<v Speaker 4>Now, then this person was added to the group in
<v Speaker 4>nineteen seventy seven because the former person in his position
<v Speaker 4>would refuse to play a song during an encore. I
<v Speaker 4>got in a fistfight with one of the main band
<v Speaker 4>leaders of this band.
<v Speaker 2>Oh okay, I've switched bands. And now we know which
<v Speaker 2>band you're talking about. Okay, that's interesting, Okay, all right,
<v Speaker 2>all right, so who's the band? So this has got
<v Speaker 2>to be the Eagles. It is the Eagles, okay. And
<v Speaker 2>if we're talking about the person's first hit was nineteen
<v Speaker 2>eighty so this was Timothy B. Schmidt.
<v Speaker 4>It's Timothy B.
<v Speaker 2>Schmidt.
<v Speaker 4>I'll tell you this. Yes, So this is off a
<v Speaker 4>nineteen seventy nine album by this group. Yeah, their last
<v Speaker 4>album as a group for decades.
<v Speaker 2>Fourteen years, fourteen years.
<v Speaker 4>Yes, I think it Flies under the Raider. I think
<v Speaker 4>this album is excellent. Okay, but it's shadowed by the.
<v Speaker 2>Previous song that they've had. Yeah, okay, I can't remember
<v Speaker 2>what Timothy B. Schmidt's song is.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, let me play it for you, yes, please, all right,
<v Speaker 4>see if you get it here?
<v Speaker 2>Okay, got it? That was, like, I can't tell you, Why.
<v Speaker 5>Tell you? Tell you?
<v Speaker 1>What tell you?
<v Speaker 2>Man? I geez that song title? Even though you every
<v Speaker 2>time it comes on, I can sing every word to it.
<v Speaker 4>That you were singing, all the lyrics.
<v Speaker 2>It just was, it just was out of my brain. Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>I think it's a beautiful song. It is baby making music.
<v Speaker 4>When I looked at the top eight songs, and I
<v Speaker 4>don't want to steal anything from you, but some of
<v Speaker 4>the ones in front of it are undeniable, massive icon songs. Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>and then the rest of them, I'm like, what song
<v Speaker 4>is that? Okay, Like half and half I see it,
<v Speaker 4>and half of them I'm like, I don't remember that
<v Speaker 4>one at all. Right, all right, you're number three, sir,
<v Speaker 4>all right, my number three.
<v Speaker 2>Now. This is a well known band, a very well
<v Speaker 2>known band. Okay, Power Trio, Okay. This is their seventh
<v Speaker 2>studio album. They are a Canadian band. Their first album
<v Speaker 2>did moderately well. Their second album did so badly the
<v Speaker 2>record label almost dropped them. Their third album is what
<v Speaker 2>I would describe as an iconic game changer, not just
<v Speaker 2>for them but for music in general. All Right, and
<v Speaker 2>you're going to be very familiar with at least the
<v Speaker 2>title of that album. Okay, this this song hit number three. Sorry,
<v Speaker 2>not this song. This album hit number three. Seventh album
<v Speaker 2>hit number three in Canada and the UK and number
<v Speaker 2>four in the US. This song, however, didn't even crack
<v Speaker 2>the top fifty. It was number fifty one at its highest,
<v Speaker 2>which is, given the iconic nature of this band, a surprise.
<v Speaker 2>It was their biggest hit to date, and they had
<v Speaker 2>one more coming on the album after this, and it
<v Speaker 2>only hit number forty four. So this iconic band, as
<v Speaker 2>far as I know, never had a top forty hit.
<v Speaker 2>I haven't researched that to death, but I don't think
<v Speaker 2>they have, and I don't think they care because they're
<v Speaker 2>not really They weren't too con learned about having hits. Okay,
<v Speaker 2>all right now, this song is from a musical standpoint,
<v Speaker 2>as many of their songs, incredible and complex and without
<v Speaker 2>getting too detailed. You've got a guitar riff playing in
<v Speaker 2>an E major scale. The bass is playing in an
<v Speaker 2>E mix Olidion scale, and then switches to a D
<v Speaker 2>Mixolidian scale before it finally switches to the E major scale. Yes,
<v Speaker 2>I'm sorry, a little too complex, but it's freaking awesome.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, the intro to The song is forty seconds
<v Speaker 2>long and I'm hooked from second two. Okay, okay, okay.
<v Speaker 2>And they did this play in it live because they
<v Speaker 2>are not master recording. I mean, they probably are master recording,
<v Speaker 2>but that's not what this was. This was the fact
<v Speaker 2>that they are master musicians. Okay. Many of our Shirley
<v Speaker 2>fans are fans of this band. This song. The title
<v Speaker 2>was inspired by Brampton, Ontario's CFN y FM's slogan okay, okay.
<v Speaker 4>That's the curveball for me, right Okay, though I was
<v Speaker 4>tracking and now I'm off.
<v Speaker 2>Their first top thirty in Canada, only reached number fifty
<v Speaker 2>one in the US got thirteen in the UK singles charts.
<v Speaker 2>The opening gives you a what they're trying to do
<v Speaker 2>is give you a sense of static and to make
<v Speaker 2>the band members, they said, we did this to make
<v Speaker 2>us smile and have fun. In this song, they explore reggae,
<v Speaker 2>specifically at the end of the song, where then they
<v Speaker 2>reference the sound of Silence by Simon and Garfunkel, a
<v Speaker 2>line from that song Okay. The reggae sound would come
<v Speaker 2>up much in more detail in their next three albums,
<v Speaker 2>and the lyrics of this song are a lament about
<v Speaker 2>the change of FM radio from the free form to
<v Speaker 2>the commercial format in the late nineteen seventies. You have
<v Speaker 2>any idea at all.
<v Speaker 4>Well, I think this is Rush correct, and I know
<v Speaker 4>Tom Sawyer.
<v Speaker 2>That's from the next album. Is this one called free form?
<v Speaker 6>No?
<v Speaker 2>Play it for you, Okay, play it for me. Tell
<v Speaker 2>me that's not a banger.
<v Speaker 4>That starts off just like full throttle out of the gate.
<v Speaker 4>That song is called the Spirit of Radio. Yes, now
<v Speaker 4>I recognize it. I think. I tell you this. We
<v Speaker 4>used to listen to classic rock, well the football players
<v Speaker 4>we lifted weights because our coaches liked classic rock. Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>that was where I was exposed to that song.
<v Speaker 2>Oh dude, it's a great weightlifting song for sure. Yes, right, yes.
<v Speaker 2>And the line from Sound of Silence that they've modified
<v Speaker 2>a little bit. They said, the words of the prophet
<v Speaker 2>are written on the studio walls.
<v Speaker 4>Excellent. No, that's a banger.
<v Speaker 2>I love it.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, that one flew under my radar, for sure.
<v Speaker 2>That's a great one. By the way, never had a
<v Speaker 2>video for this song until twenty twenty, and then they
<v Speaker 2>made an animated video presenting the band as they were
<v Speaker 2>back in nineteen eighty so you can go check that.
<v Speaker 4>One fun And why wouldn't you do it in twenty twenty?
<v Speaker 4>You know we're not doing anything anyway, right, right, very good?
<v Speaker 2>Okay to my number two number two two? All right.
<v Speaker 4>I want to remind everybody that one of the albums
<v Speaker 4>that had some songs that chart that we didn't mention
<v Speaker 4>was ineligible was Super Tramp.
<v Speaker 2>Right. We covered them last season, right.
<v Speaker 4>That surprising to me is kind of a just kind
<v Speaker 4>of hovers at the top of our download list.
<v Speaker 2>It's a great Yeah, go back and check out our
<v Speaker 2>Breakfast in America episode. We compared them to Yes, nine.
<v Speaker 4>Oh two one, nine O one too Fun nine O
<v Speaker 4>two one Fun.
<v Speaker 2>That's the number worst album title of all time.
<v Speaker 4>But it is it's a great album, that's right. We
<v Speaker 4>talk about that number when we talk about that. Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>not eligible for this list, yep, all right, but I'll
<v Speaker 4>tell you what is eligible. Songs that made me dance
<v Speaker 4>and boogie When I was seven years old run around,
<v Speaker 4>listened to my parents' radio, Okay, okay, yeah, sounds good,
<v Speaker 4>particularly my mom listened to kind of pop radio. All right,
<v Speaker 4>and so hi, Mom, this one's for you.
<v Speaker 2>Right.
<v Speaker 4>This song was released October of nineteen eighty reached number
<v Speaker 4>one February seventh of nineteen eighty one.
<v Speaker 2>Okay.
<v Speaker 4>It was there for two weeks and was actually knocked
<v Speaker 4>out by one of my honorable mentions, which I'll talk
<v Speaker 4>about here in a second.
<v Speaker 2>All right, Okay.
<v Speaker 4>This was from their twelfth album, and it's their first
<v Speaker 4>number one and only. We talked about them a little
<v Speaker 4>bit on our Saturday Night Fever episode. Okay, now here's
<v Speaker 4>the cool thing about this, Okay. The initial idea for
<v Speaker 4>this song came from one of the co founders of
<v Speaker 4>this band. He's also the sax player in this band,
<v Speaker 4>and he got the idea from the Koran. Okay, all right, now,
<v Speaker 4>he was reading a passage in the Koran that was
<v Speaker 4>talking about the creation when God created Adam, and when
<v Speaker 4>God created Adam, the angels were singing praises to God
<v Speaker 4>in honor of his creation.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, all right.
<v Speaker 4>This reached number one on the R and B the
<v Speaker 4>Dance and the Hot one hundred. You will still hear
<v Speaker 4>this song played at weddings parties. It was the theme
<v Speaker 4>song for the nineteen eighty two Saint Louis Cardinals.
<v Speaker 2>Hello Jim Butler.
<v Speaker 4>It was played when the US Hostages were released from Iran.
<v Speaker 4>We hear all the time at football, baseball, soccer games.
<v Speaker 4>And at the end of this band's nineteen seventy nine hit,
<v Speaker 4>they give a forward throwing nod to this song.
<v Speaker 2>Do you want Okay? Yeah, I've got nothing. I've got
<v Speaker 2>to zero at this point. Okay.
<v Speaker 4>So the nineteen seventy nine hit by this same band
<v Speaker 4>was called Ladies' Night.
<v Speaker 2>Okay.
<v Speaker 4>So at the end of Ladies' Night they say, come on,
<v Speaker 4>let's celebrate, okay.
<v Speaker 2>Is the song celebration, Yes, okay, So it's cool in
<v Speaker 2>the gang.
<v Speaker 4>This is cool in the gang. Celebration.
<v Speaker 2>Wooo, celebrate good times, man, I love it.
<v Speaker 4>Celebrate good times, man, love it?
<v Speaker 2>All right?
<v Speaker 4>That was my number two.
<v Speaker 2>Yep, all right, number two, my number two. All right.
<v Speaker 2>This song was released May twelfth, nineteen eighty. It hit
<v Speaker 2>number one on July nineteenth, nineteen eighty and was there
<v Speaker 2>for two weeks. It is regarded as the seventh biggest
<v Speaker 2>hit of the year, only two weeks to number one,
<v Speaker 2>but it was on the charts a lot. Okay. It
<v Speaker 2>was written as a response to critics calling this artist's
<v Speaker 2>music quote adult contemporary, middle of the road pop. Okay,
<v Speaker 2>in this song references a road is in Manhasset and
<v Speaker 2>Great Neck Long Island that is full of different stores.
<v Speaker 2>He references products that you would buy at a place
<v Speaker 2>called Best Tire or Berliner Stereo, both of which were
<v Speaker 2>in the neighborhood that he grew up in. And there's
<v Speaker 2>a lyric in this song that I couldn't even say
<v Speaker 2>I misheard it. I just didn't know what they were
<v Speaker 2>saying until maybe a year ago. And then, of course,
<v Speaker 2>once I figured out what it was a year ago,
<v Speaker 2>I went down that rabbit hole. But the line I
<v Speaker 2>misheard refers to a fashion icon born in seventeen seventy
<v Speaker 2>eight who ultimately died of syphilis. The fashion icon's name
<v Speaker 2>is Bo brummel Ka. Not ringing a bell for you.
<v Speaker 2>No Weird Al parodied this song in nineteen eighty as well,
<v Speaker 2>but this was back when he was still just on
<v Speaker 2>the Doctor Demento Show. Okay, the products that you might
<v Speaker 2>get at Best Tire would be whitewall tires. What you
<v Speaker 2>might do with those white wall tires is cruise the
<v Speaker 2>Miracle Mile, which is that road in Great Neck Long Island,
<v Speaker 2>and you might get a brand new set of speakers
<v Speaker 2>from Berlin or stereo. It's cars. No, the name of
<v Speaker 2>the weird ol song is it's still Billy Joel to me.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, this song is it's still rock and roll to me.
<v Speaker 2>There you go.
<v Speaker 7>What's the matter with the can't you tell that your
<v Speaker 7>ties too wide? Maybe I should buy some fool tab college.
<v Speaker 7>Welcome back to the edge of Jibe where if you
<v Speaker 7>been hiding out and you cant Frances Ashy till you
<v Speaker 7>spending the light upon it. Everybody's talking about the new
<v Speaker 7>South Funy Bondy is still rocking.
<v Speaker 2>Olden me.
<v Speaker 4>Come football.
<v Speaker 2>This one was it was neck and neck with you.
<v Speaker 2>Maybe right. I may be crazy love that one off
<v Speaker 2>of glass Houses as well, But this one I don't know.
<v Speaker 2>Just I had to talk about bo Brummel. Oh Brummel,
<v Speaker 2>I don't, but should I get you could really be
<v Speaker 2>a bull brummer baby if you just give it half
<v Speaker 2>the chance. Wow, I says bul Brummel.
<v Speaker 4>That's crazy. I'd never heard that before this. Gay our
<v Speaker 4>buddy Doug Gray Patreon member Doug Gray, Yes, would love
<v Speaker 4>for us to cover glasshouses at some point. Sure, And
<v Speaker 4>I know he's disappointed that it took me a long
<v Speaker 4>time to figure that one out. I'm sorry, Doug.
<v Speaker 2>So, okay, okay, are we on honorable mentions? We are
<v Speaker 2>ready for your two honorable mentions? Sure?
<v Speaker 4>Yes, So this is the song that I came in.
<v Speaker 4>I'm like, ah, this song has to be on the list, right.
<v Speaker 4>I came in today. I was mowing, and I was
<v Speaker 4>sitting on the moor, and I was listening to songs
<v Speaker 4>from nineteen eighty and I came across this one. I'm like,
<v Speaker 4>absolutely got to go on there somewhere for me. This
<v Speaker 4>song might get the nod just simply because my sister
<v Speaker 4>loved it so much. They played the heck out of it.
<v Speaker 4>They watched this movie on repeat and the song. I
<v Speaker 4>think I've mentioned to you my sisters loved this song
<v Speaker 4>and movie.
<v Speaker 2>Okay.
<v Speaker 4>This was released November of nineteen eighty. It reached number
<v Speaker 4>one in February of nineteen eighty one. I found this interesting.
<v Speaker 4>There's only been one, two, three, four five times in
<v Speaker 4>pop and country history where a song was at the
<v Speaker 4>top of the pop chart and the top of the
<v Speaker 4>country chart at.
<v Speaker 2>The same time. Okay.
<v Speaker 4>One of them was Genie c Riley in nineteen sixty
<v Speaker 4>eight with Harper Valley Pta great one the other one
<v Speaker 4>was Dolly Parton and Kenny Rodgers Islands in the Stream
<v Speaker 4>in nineteen eighty three. And then this other girl, Taylor Swift.
<v Speaker 4>Don't even know what ye not sure what happened to her,
<v Speaker 4>but she did it twice once with we Are Never
<v Speaker 4>Ever and All Too Well. And then of course this
<v Speaker 4>song was number one on the pop chart and the
<v Speaker 4>country chart at the same time.
<v Speaker 2>It's just a female sing This is a female singer, okay.
<v Speaker 4>In an anthem to working women everywhere?
<v Speaker 2>Is this Dolly Parton? Yes? It is. Is this dun
<v Speaker 2>dun dun, dun dun dun working nine to five? Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>that's it.
<v Speaker 4>You know, we haven't really broke down Dolly Parton yet
<v Speaker 4>for any song.
<v Speaker 2>Or we've we've talked about her before. She came up
<v Speaker 2>in our.
<v Speaker 4>Collective Soul episode because she covered Shine.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, she we've we've talked about her in other respects too,
<v Speaker 2>although I don't remember what the episode is, because I
<v Speaker 2>remember she wrote the song I Will Always Love You
<v Speaker 2>for for her like former partner manager TV guy, and
<v Speaker 2>he sued her anyway, but she like, what was that fun?
<v Speaker 2>I remember talking. She was like, I'm leaving and doing
<v Speaker 2>my own thing. Wrote that writes this, I will always
<v Speaker 2>love you for him, and he's like, I'm suing you.
<v Speaker 2>We got to cover that movie. We have to We've
<v Speaker 2>been talking about covering nine to five versus Mister Mom
<v Speaker 2>as the role reversal films of the early eighties season one. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>we've really got to do that. We need to do that. Okay.
<v Speaker 4>By the way, the rhythm at the beginning of nine
<v Speaker 4>to five typewriter, typewriter, and she was fiddling with her
<v Speaker 4>fingernails one day and then they answered the typewriter sound effects, brilliant.
<v Speaker 2>Brilliant, funny movie too, oh wonderful, Dabney Coleman at his finest.
<v Speaker 2>All right, should do my other? Yeah, do your other.
<v Speaker 4>Honorable mention, My second honorable mention is a cover song
<v Speaker 4>of a song originally released in nineteen sixty seven.
<v Speaker 2>Okay okay.
<v Speaker 4>Now then the genre of that song was called rock
<v Speaker 4>steady okay, which is a term I've heard, but I
<v Speaker 4>didn't know it was a genre of music.
<v Speaker 2>No, mean neither.
<v Speaker 4>It was written by a guy named John Holt and
<v Speaker 4>produced by a guy named Duke Read. I'm like there's
<v Speaker 4>not enough guys around the world today named Duke.
<v Speaker 2>Du Creed.
<v Speaker 4>Come on, I shouldn't named my kid duke.
<v Speaker 2>You know you need a guy to help you change
<v Speaker 2>a tire, Nobody better to call it that's you.
<v Speaker 4>Dude, You're man right all right. This song was released
<v Speaker 4>again by this group on Halloween of nineteen eighty It's
<v Speaker 4>number one in January of nineteen eighty one. Okay, This
<v Speaker 4>singer and guitarist of a famous group that we need
<v Speaker 4>to cover at some point were fans of ska and
<v Speaker 4>reggae okay, even though they're not known for that in
<v Speaker 4>their music. They heard the song on a compilation tape
<v Speaker 4>and so they bought it while they were in London.
<v Speaker 4>But according to the guitarist, when asked about his favorite
<v Speaker 4>song while in this group, this very prominent early eighties group,
<v Speaker 4>late seventies, early eighties, he said, it's virtually impossible to choose.
<v Speaker 4>All I can say is the only song I knew
<v Speaker 4>for sure that was going to be a hit before
<v Speaker 4>we recorded it was this song. Now, then, this song
<v Speaker 4>knocked John Lennon out of the number one spot, and
<v Speaker 4>Sean Lennon, who is John Lennon's son, mentioned that they
<v Speaker 4>had a game room and they used to have a
<v Speaker 4>jukebox that would play old music. He said they had
<v Speaker 4>tons of forty five's on there. They would play Elvis
<v Speaker 4>and the Everly Brothers, and this was the only song
<v Speaker 4>that he remembered. This was the only modern song that
<v Speaker 4>he played, and he played it all the time.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, John Lennon played the song and knocked him out
<v Speaker 2>of the number one spot all the time.
<v Speaker 4>That's correct.
<v Speaker 2>This is a great story, But I don't know what
<v Speaker 2>it is, Okay.
<v Speaker 4>My other clue for you is the name of the
<v Speaker 4>group I believe was named after the lead singer who
<v Speaker 4>was bringing the heat in the nineteen seventies and eighties.
<v Speaker 4>She's nearly eighty years old now. But okay, so this
<v Speaker 4>must be Blondie. It's Blondie, and the song has.
<v Speaker 2>To be The Tide is High, very good, Okay, hell
<v Speaker 2>love it. So I didn't get a whole lot of
<v Speaker 2>songs that were released late in eighty and kind of
<v Speaker 2>peaked in eighty one. Most of my stuff was either
<v Speaker 2>released in eighty or released in seventy nine and peaked
<v Speaker 2>in eighty. So, yeah, this one kind of went by me.
<v Speaker 2>I didn't even Yeah, but it's great.
<v Speaker 4>One's great one, all right to your honorable mentions.
<v Speaker 2>Sir, all right, my first honorable mention, I'm a Little
<v Speaker 2>worried might be your number one. This was off this
<v Speaker 2>artist's eleventh studio album. It was the second single. It
<v Speaker 2>was released in April of nineteen eighty. The song has
<v Speaker 2>been covered by Garth Brooks and Brooks and Dune, which
<v Speaker 2>ironically were my number one and number two concerts as
<v Speaker 2>a kid. First concert was Garth Brooks, second concert was
<v Speaker 2>Brooks and Done. Okay, the artist said about this album. Now,
<v Speaker 2>this is eleventh studio album, he said he found he
<v Speaker 2>was most fulfilled as a songwriter. He had finally hit
<v Speaker 2>this point where he felt fulfilled as a songwriter. This
<v Speaker 2>song is the third part of a trilogy of songs
<v Speaker 2>on this album. It hit number five on the Billboard
<v Speaker 2>Hot one hundred on June fourteenth, nineteen eighty So middle
<v Speaker 2>of the summer song, which might be appropriate for guys
<v Speaker 2>who are running cross country in the heat of the summer,
<v Speaker 2>which this guy did when he was in high school.
<v Speaker 2>And that's where the song's title comes from. Okay. The
<v Speaker 2>lyrics are about the space between love and indifference and
<v Speaker 2>feelings we had when we were young and to throw
<v Speaker 2>back to your quote from season one exploring the mysteries
<v Speaker 2>of the broad Class, specifically Jane Dinsdale's broad Class. Janey's
<v Speaker 2>name is mentioned specifically in the song. This producer for
<v Speaker 2>this album was Bill's has no Sizimics has no there
<v Speaker 2>are no real vowel simsic. Bill Simsack, who we talked
<v Speaker 2>about when we talked about Eagles, and one of those
<v Speaker 2>guys in that band was the backing singer on this song.
<v Speaker 2>Because both of these guys grew up in Detroit.
<v Speaker 4>All right, So clearly you're talking about Bob Seeger. Yes,
<v Speaker 4>And I don't think this is against the Wind.
<v Speaker 2>It is Ago.
<v Speaker 6>Jane.
<v Speaker 5>It was as long as you was a queer my name.
<v Speaker 2>Then the dogs within the radio and the secrets that.
<v Speaker 4>It's against the wind.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, yes, So apparently Night Moves is part one, Brave
<v Speaker 2>Struggles is part two, and Against the Wind is part three. Really,
<v Speaker 2>as I mentioned that iconic line of I wish I
<v Speaker 2>didn't know now what I didn't know then, he didn't
<v Speaker 2>like as a songwriter, but I think it's one of
<v Speaker 2>the best lines in all of music.
<v Speaker 4>So I'm not a big Bob Seeker fan. He's got
<v Speaker 4>some iconic songs. In fact, I think old time rock
<v Speaker 4>and roll made your seventy eight list. I think nine
<v Speaker 4>seventy nine.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>I was just kind of listening through a playlist of
<v Speaker 4>nineteen eighty songs and I came across a Bob Seeger
<v Speaker 4>song that I wasn't familiar with called fire Lake.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, that's a good one, and I was like, man,
<v Speaker 2>that's a good song. It is a good song. Sounds
<v Speaker 2>very good. All right, all right. My next honorable mention
<v Speaker 2>is another incredible group that we all know very well.
<v Speaker 2>We've talked about them many times before in the past
<v Speaker 2>for various movies and top five picks and other stuff.
<v Speaker 2>I can't believe we haven't covered him yet. I'm kind
<v Speaker 2>of surprised by this actually, all right now. This song
<v Speaker 2>was of theirs, was released December seventh, nineteen seventy nine,
<v Speaker 2>and it was their first number one single. The singer
<v Speaker 2>composed this song on a guitar, didn't really play guitar.
<v Speaker 2>He only knew a few chords, but he said this
<v Speaker 2>actually helped me, Like it limited me, and so by
<v Speaker 2>limiting myself on what I could play on the guitar,
<v Speaker 2>that's how I came up with this song. He composed
<v Speaker 2>it in five to ten minutes. They recorded it in
<v Speaker 2>less than thirty minutes. The lead guitarist said he wanted
<v Speaker 2>to emulate Rick Nelson and James Burton and his guitar playing.
<v Speaker 2>The lead singer said that this was a tribute to
<v Speaker 2>Elvis and Cliff Richard. Yes, and it is the first
<v Speaker 2>time when they performed this in concert, this is the
<v Speaker 2>first time that the lead singer actually played a guitar
<v Speaker 2>on stage played the acoustic guitar on stage. People have
<v Speaker 2>referred to this song as rockabilly, which is interesting because
<v Speaker 2>Dwight Yoakum did cover this song many years later, and
<v Speaker 2>the guys who wrote this song also composed all of
<v Speaker 2>the music to the yellow album To Your Left.
<v Speaker 4>So let me ask you this. I believe this song
<v Speaker 4>was written in a bathtub in Munich.
<v Speaker 2>That is the rumor.
<v Speaker 4>Yes, this is crazy little thing called love Like Queen.
<v Speaker 2>You got it.
<v Speaker 4>Yes, I love this song. I mean it almost it
<v Speaker 4>was almost there.
<v Speaker 2>Oh yeah, great song. Great, great song. Okay, and I
<v Speaker 2>just have one new discovery. I'm not going to do
<v Speaker 2>trivia on it. I just have to shout out James Buckley.
<v Speaker 2>I've gone nearly fifty years without listening to Motorhead, and
<v Speaker 2>for some reason, I don't know what the topic of
<v Speaker 2>conversation was, but James Buckley said, you got to listen
<v Speaker 2>to Ace of Spades. I checked it out. It's now
<v Speaker 2>my workout playlist and it was released in October of
<v Speaker 2>nineteen eighty. So shout out to you, James. Awesome new
<v Speaker 2>discovery Spade a spades, great really quick heavy metal song.
<v Speaker 2>Yes one.
<v Speaker 4>All right, so we're to our number one.
<v Speaker 2>Number one. Okay, I'm curious if if we hit an overlap,
<v Speaker 2>here's gonna be crazy. It's gonna be crazy. I don't know.
<v Speaker 2>We'll see, all right.
<v Speaker 4>So I told you that I didn't really have a
<v Speaker 4>number one. I had a group of songs that I liked,
<v Speaker 4>and I had a bunch of good songs, but I
<v Speaker 4>didn't really have that number one with a with a bullet.
<v Speaker 4>And then I told you that the heavens parted.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, And I was like, that's it for me.
<v Speaker 4>That is the number one song of nineteen eighty, Like
<v Speaker 4>there is no question in my mind. All right, Okay, Now,
<v Speaker 4>when I'm seven years old, I told you I was
<v Speaker 4>listening to the Beaar Necessities and you know the Star
<v Speaker 4>Wars album by John Williams.
<v Speaker 2>You know, right, you know the asteroid song isturing Young
<v Speaker 2>Young John Bunge of E.
<v Speaker 4>R two D two Christmas album Without a Doubt.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, But there is one exception, okay.
<v Speaker 4>Now, then, this song was released in November of nineteen eighty.
<v Speaker 4>It hit number ten in the UK, number three in Germany,
<v Speaker 4>but only number forty two in the States.
<v Speaker 2>Now.
<v Speaker 4>Then, it was written by the guitarist of this.
<v Speaker 2>Band okay okay for a movie. Okay.
<v Speaker 4>And when he brought it to the director, like this
<v Speaker 4>song along with the you know, the other songs for
<v Speaker 4>the album, brought it to the director and the producer.
<v Speaker 4>The producer was like, and it was trying to kind
<v Speaker 4>of hide his disappointment, but he just didn't quite get it.
<v Speaker 2>This is a big name producer. Okay.
<v Speaker 4>Now, the director of this movie talked to the producer
<v Speaker 4>and said, you just have to trust me. This is
<v Speaker 4>going to work.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, all right, you got anything yet? Nothing yet? All right.
<v Speaker 4>So there's two different verse versions of this particular song okay,
<v Speaker 4>both of which I would say you're familiar with.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, okay.
<v Speaker 4>Included in these two different versions are some sound clips.
<v Speaker 2>Are they from the movie. From the movie, Okay, do
<v Speaker 2>you know.
<v Speaker 4>Who Melody Anderson is? No, she's one of the people speaking.
<v Speaker 2>In in the song.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, okay, you know who Brian Blessed is? Yes, Timothy
<v Speaker 4>Dalton is Yes? How about Max mounts Sidow?
<v Speaker 2>Yes. So we're back to Queen and is this slash?
<v Speaker 6>Uh?
<v Speaker 4>Absolutely, this is Flash.
<v Speaker 2>And there it is.
<v Speaker 4>Would you pointed to him.
<v Speaker 2>Like, crap, that's funny, that's great.
<v Speaker 4>There is my name. I wrote my name on the album.
<v Speaker 2>I've never seen that. That is a little Jason Colvin
<v Speaker 2>handwriting right there.
<v Speaker 4>And I took it to my second grade class.
<v Speaker 2>I don't want anybody stealing your album. Man, you gotta
<v Speaker 2>put your name in pin on the.
<v Speaker 4>Front Flash album.
<v Speaker 2>Oh that's great.
<v Speaker 4>I remember when my dad asked me, keep in mind
<v Speaker 4>I'm seven in any conservative family. My dad said, we
<v Speaker 4>were filling out this like get to know Jason thing
<v Speaker 4>like what's your favorite food, what's your favorite color, what's
<v Speaker 4>your favorite what's your favorite musical group? And I was like, wow,
<v Speaker 4>I guess it's Queen. And he's like, let's come up
<v Speaker 4>with somebody else.
<v Speaker 2>Oh wow.
<v Speaker 4>So not comfortable with seven year old Jason liking Queen
<v Speaker 4>too much.
<v Speaker 2>That's great. Well, by the way, we we discussed that
<v Speaker 2>movie and that song, but not in as much detail
<v Speaker 2>when I remember the producer though, do you know dealer?
<v Speaker 2>But we covered the flash Gordon versus Highlander back in
<v Speaker 2>I think maybe season two. I think season two. So
<v Speaker 2>go back and check out that one. That's a good
<v Speaker 2>that's a good episode. I love those. Okay you ready,
<v Speaker 2>I'm ready, there we go. I cannot believe this song
<v Speaker 2>was not somewhere on your radar. But I've got I've
<v Speaker 2>got some teasing up to do. Okay, so this will
<v Speaker 2>be this will be fun, all right, Okay. Now, interestingly
<v Speaker 2>about this song, this is my number one song. The
<v Speaker 2>backup singers in this song, the band which is I
<v Speaker 2>mean the band had been making music for a while.
<v Speaker 2>They're not a new band. They didn't know that the
<v Speaker 2>producers were going to record backup singers for this song.
<v Speaker 2>They were kind of surprised by it, actually, And even
<v Speaker 2>though the backup singers and the producer and the engineer
<v Speaker 2>worked with them that well, they gave them the song,
<v Speaker 2>gave them a week to practice it, but they only
<v Speaker 2>had forty minutes to record their entire part, and then
<v Speaker 2>they were done, and all they got is payment was
<v Speaker 2>concert tickets to this band, this album and this single,
<v Speaker 2>and that's it. That's it, that's it. That's all they
<v Speaker 2>got until two thousand and four. In two thousand and four,
<v Speaker 2>they finally they got tracked down by somebody and finally
<v Speaker 2>started getting royalties for this song. Okay thirty four, twenty
<v Speaker 2>four years after it had been released. Okay, right, this
<v Speaker 2>is the first single of this band since nineteen sixty eight.
<v Speaker 2>It's been twelve years between singles for this band. Okay,
<v Speaker 2>wait a.
<v Speaker 4>Minute, Okay, singles, but they had other music available.
<v Speaker 2>They had lots of music. Okay, all right, keep going right.
<v Speaker 2>So this song was written by the bassist. It hit
<v Speaker 2>number one March twenty second of nineteen eighty. The producer
<v Speaker 2>was Bob Ezren and Bob Ezren, as they're recording this song,
<v Speaker 2>he tells the guitarist, I want you to go to
<v Speaker 2>the disco and I want you to incorporate that sound
<v Speaker 2>into this song. And the guitarist is like, buddy, hell
<v Speaker 2>what So I'm going to read your quote here, Billy Hill,
<v Speaker 2>he said. The producer, Ezren said to him, go to
<v Speaker 2>a couple of clubs and listen to what's happening with
<v Speaker 2>disco music. So I forced myselfself out and listened to
<v Speaker 2>four to the bar, bass drums and stuff, and I thought,
<v Speaker 2>God awful. And then we went back and we tried
<v Speaker 2>to turn one of the parts, because this is a
<v Speaker 2>part of a bigger song, into one of those so
<v Speaker 2>it would be catchy. Okay. Now, I have never in
<v Speaker 2>my life once thought of disco music when I was
<v Speaker 2>listening to this song. Sure, but after learning this particular fact,
<v Speaker 2>I listened to it on the way on the drive
<v Speaker 2>over here today and I'm like, Holy, this is I
<v Speaker 2>can hear it. I mean, if you put a little
<v Speaker 2>bit of if you put a little wah on the guitar,
<v Speaker 2>it is a freaking disco drum beat, and the guitar
<v Speaker 2>has a rhythm like a disco song. But I would
<v Speaker 2>say I am in the mass majority millions of people
<v Speaker 2>who never in a million years would have thought that
<v Speaker 2>there's any disco influence on this song. But if you
<v Speaker 2>go and you listen to it right now, you're gonna go, Wow,
<v Speaker 2>there it is. I can hear it.
<v Speaker 4>I can see that.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, I can see that. Now those backup singers that
<v Speaker 2>I was talking about earlier. The choir were a choir
<v Speaker 2>and they were from the Islington Green School and they
<v Speaker 2>only had forty minutes to record because they recorded it
<v Speaker 2>at the school. There were twenty three students that had
<v Speaker 2>that week to practice. The head of music was called
<v Speaker 2>a lum Renshaw, and he was very excited because he
<v Speaker 2>was thought the boys would be excited about music. Instead
<v Speaker 2>of having to listen to Tchaikovsky, they get to sing
<v Speaker 2>songs about not needing an education. The headmaster was not
<v Speaker 2>happy when she found out out that that's what the
<v Speaker 2>lyrics to the song were, we don't need no So
<v Speaker 2>I think you got it.
<v Speaker 4>Yes, this is another brick in the Wall by Pink Floyd,
<v Speaker 4>undeniable iconic song. Yeah, I thought that my number one.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. I want you to listen to this and think
<v Speaker 2>about if it was just a little more discos discoie sounding.
<v Speaker 7>Twitch.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I can say that.
<v Speaker 4>The symbols, the guitar, the beat, I cannot believe it.
<v Speaker 2>So when I was in nineteen eighty, when I was
<v Speaker 2>when I was a little four or five year old
<v Speaker 2>Dee Graves, this song and dream On were guaranteed plays
<v Speaker 2>on the jukebox whenever I went to whenever the family
<v Speaker 2>went out to go get pizza. I like it, guaranteed,
<v Speaker 2>I like it.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, that completes nineteen eighty for us. We've done seventy five,
<v Speaker 4>seventy eight, seventy nine, eighty, We've done eighty three, eighty four,
<v Speaker 4>eighty five, eighty nine, ninety four.
<v Speaker 2>We haven't got very many years in the eighties left
<v Speaker 2>to hit. We haven't. It's crazy. Good job us. Thanks, Well, guys,
<v Speaker 2>what do you think did we miss one? Were you
<v Speaker 2>mad that I didn't say he stopped loving her today?
<v Speaker 2>If you were into country music. I'm trying to convince
<v Speaker 2>Jason that we need to do a little country episode
<v Speaker 2>for the future, maybe about ten years later on the timeline.
<v Speaker 4>Hey, Dolly Parton made my list.
<v Speaker 2>That's true. I got some cred man, that's true.
<v Speaker 4>All right, guys, So next week the YEP, we are
<v Speaker 4>starting our comparison that our patreons have given to us.
<v Speaker 2>YEP.
<v Speaker 4>We put it out there. We say, Hey, which matchup
<v Speaker 4>do you guys want to see? They said this one.
<v Speaker 4>So we're doing Chicago seventeen by Chicago YEP versus vital Signs.
<v Speaker 2>By survivor by survivor. Very excited about that episode. I'm anxious.
<v Speaker 2>I'm not super familiar with either one of the albums,
<v Speaker 2>but I know these bands, and I know some of
<v Speaker 2>the songs on the albums, and I'm super excited to
<v Speaker 2>hear what the whole album sounds.
<v Speaker 4>There's some Mount rush More makeout songs on these albums.
<v Speaker 2>So absolutely, guys, come hang with us for that episode.
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