Huey Lewis and the News "Sports" (1983): Track by Track!

<v Speaker 1>Hello everybody, and welcome back to the Shirley You Can't
<v Speaker 1>Be Serious podcast. If you did not hear are Huey
<v Speaker 1>Lewis Part one, push pause right here and go back
<v Speaker 1>to listen to that previous episode. This one, we're going
<v Speaker 1>to go track my track through Sports. What I think
<v Speaker 1>is their best album.
<v Speaker 2>I cannot begin to describe to you how excited I
<v Speaker 2>am about this. I said it last episode. This is
<v Speaker 2>like you've gone to your class reunion and you see
<v Speaker 2>the girl you used to date and she's still hot,
<v Speaker 2>and you're like, wow, how did I mess that thing up?
<v Speaker 2>But that's the power of bluff. Nice.
<v Speaker 3>Thanks, that's good Sid.
<v Speaker 1>But Huey Lewis and The News released Sports on September
<v Speaker 1>fifteenth of nineteen eighty three. We talked last week how
<v Speaker 1>it was one of five albums that reached the number
<v Speaker 1>one spot in nineteen eighty four. Super Steep competition that.
<v Speaker 2>Year, Yeah, super Steep competition. And these guys held their
<v Speaker 2>own as a band. I mean, all of these guys
<v Speaker 2>had played the club circuit, had been going for years
<v Speaker 2>and years and never made it until this album. And
<v Speaker 2>then when they make it and they are successful, they
<v Speaker 2>get criticized for their success. They're like, oh it's popular,
<v Speaker 2>you know, it's uninspiring. And so this is the phrase
<v Speaker 2>that I love that he said. Huels said, Nowhere is
<v Speaker 2>it written that rock and roll has to be political
<v Speaker 2>or change the world. One thing rock and roll has
<v Speaker 2>to be is true and if it rings true, it's right,
<v Speaker 2>and that is this freaking album. Yes, front to back
<v Speaker 2>love it. Okay, before we dive in track by track, Okay,
<v Speaker 2>I have to address the elephant in the room American psycho.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, let's do it.
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<v Speaker 5>Whack it perfect time.
<v Speaker 2>So you sent me a video which is fantastic, and
<v Speaker 2>I really kind of want to play a clip from
<v Speaker 2>it right now, But before I do, I'm going to say,
<v Speaker 2>if you have not seen American Psycho, there is a
<v Speaker 2>very well known part that whenever we talk about hue
<v Speaker 2>Lewis on our Facebook page, somebody invariably quote, we're going
<v Speaker 2>to hear a scene, right, So here's the scene from
<v Speaker 2>American Psycho. You like Huey Lewis on the news. Their
<v Speaker 2>early work was a little too a wave for my taste.
<v Speaker 2>When Sports came out in eighty three, I think that
<v Speaker 2>really came into their own commercially and artistically. The whole
<v Speaker 2>album has a clear, crisp sound and a new sine
<v Speaker 2>of consummate professionalism that really gives the songs a big booze.
<v Speaker 2>He's been compared to Elvis Costello, but I think Huey
<v Speaker 2>has a far more bitter, cynical sense of humor. And
<v Speaker 2>then this is so beautiful. Here's the scene that Huey
<v Speaker 2>Lewis did with our hero of all heroes, mister weirdol Yankovic.
<v Speaker 2>That is a parody of that scene, Do.
<v Speaker 1>You Like American Psycho.
<v Speaker 6>Although originally polarizing to audiences and critics alike, it developed
<v Speaker 6>a much deserved cult following when released on digital video
<v Speaker 6>disc or DVD. There it found a second life and
<v Speaker 6>really came into its own commercially and artistically. The movie
<v Speaker 6>works both as a grim examination of male vanity while
<v Speaker 6>also maintaining real genre thrills, justifying these total shifts by
<v Speaker 6>placing the audience inside the head of the duplicious leagu
<v Speaker 6>Christian Bale's dynamite performance, it gives it a big boost.
<v Speaker 2>But the role almost went to Leo.
<v Speaker 6>But nobody could have brought that certain athos and charisma
<v Speaker 6>to it quite like Bail, a role he later recalled
<v Speaker 6>a shade of in Christopher Nolan's Batman Pictures.
<v Speaker 1>Brilliant, I love it, brilliant, I love it.
<v Speaker 2>So you kind of get the impression from the way
<v Speaker 2>the movie goes is that they're kind of mocking Huey
<v Speaker 2>Lewis in the news. He gave him permission to use
<v Speaker 2>the song, right.
<v Speaker 4>And he listens to what he says and he's like, he's.
<v Speaker 5>Right, He's absolutely right.
<v Speaker 2>We were kind of in our new wave phase. Now. Interestingly,
<v Speaker 2>the song doesn't appear on the American Psycho soundtrack. They
<v Speaker 2>asked him to do it, and he was like, okay, sure,
<v Speaker 2>what other songs are going to be in there? And
<v Speaker 2>of course they put the Phil Collins song, which he
<v Speaker 2>basically goes through the same bit with the Phil Collins song, right,
<v Speaker 2>and he's like and and he goes, well, just in
<v Speaker 2>the soundtrack, he's like, so two rock songs and then
<v Speaker 2>orchestral music, right, and like yeah, and he goes, I
<v Speaker 2>don't really feel like that's thing. Can you just kind
<v Speaker 2>of politely say no, thank I don't really think that
<v Speaker 2>our fans are going to go about and buy an
<v Speaker 2>album for one song. Doesn't really that song was hit
<v Speaker 2>to be square right, right? Yes? And so when the
<v Speaker 2>album comes out, of course all the news media says
<v Speaker 2>Huey Lewis pulls track off the album because movie is
<v Speaker 2>too violent? Right right, I've digressed. Let's get back to
<v Speaker 2>the album. Before we start talking songs, Let's talk about
<v Speaker 2>cover art. We talked about how awesome Bruce Springsteen's cover,
<v Speaker 2>how iconic that is. Huey Lewis's cover. The album Sports
<v Speaker 2>has got a pretty iconic cover too.
<v Speaker 1>I mean when I see it, I recognize the right away.
<v Speaker 2>Sports. Yeah, he said on the day that they shot this,
<v Speaker 2>the guy who shot the pictures, his name is Bennett Hall,
<v Speaker 2>and he's done several other albums.
<v Speaker 4>But he said, I was really hung over.
<v Speaker 1>That very well known Hue was dying that day.
<v Speaker 2>From a hangover. Yeah. Could you imagine that your most
<v Speaker 2>well known picture of all pictures that have ever been
<v Speaker 2>taken of you is when you were really.
<v Speaker 1>He looks pretty cheaper in the picture, though, is Yeah, I.
<v Speaker 4>Didn't know until he said something.
<v Speaker 2>So the place that they're at is a club in
<v Speaker 2>Mill Valley, California that they used to play at called
<v Speaker 2>the two Am Club, okay, which the locals affectionately refer
<v Speaker 2>to as the Duce, the Deuce, the Deuce.
<v Speaker 1>Nice.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Okay, So I've got a small story with the cover. Okay.
<v Speaker 1>Up in the upper corner of the TV, there's a
<v Speaker 1>football player making a catch. Yeah, okay, that's Dwight Clark
<v Speaker 1>of the San Francisco forty nine Ers, who, as you know,
<v Speaker 1>I'm a Dallas Cowboy fan, and so I'm very aware
<v Speaker 1>of Dwight Clark's catch against the Dallas Cowboys knocking them
<v Speaker 1>out of the Super Bowl.
<v Speaker 4>And you mean the one where Joe Montana was just
<v Speaker 4>throwing the ball away.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, yeah, yeah, that was that.
<v Speaker 2>Is that your stance given the fact that you're a Cowboys.
<v Speaker 1>Fan, Well, you know, I don't want to get into
<v Speaker 1>that right now. But Dwight Clark, you know, Joe Montana
<v Speaker 1>to Dwight Clark back at the end zone, he makes
<v Speaker 1>this big catch and it starts the run of the
<v Speaker 1>forty nine ers dominating the eighties. Okay, so the forty
<v Speaker 1>nine ers and here you lose, and news are are.
<v Speaker 1>They're fans of each other, and so they befriend Dwight
<v Speaker 1>Clark and Joe Montana and these guys actually in hip
<v Speaker 1>to be square. The guys are going here, there, and everywhere.
<v Speaker 1>That's Dwight Clark and Joe Montana.
<v Speaker 2>Get the heck out of it.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. I was gonna say that for a four episode,
<v Speaker 1>which I hope to do later on, but we'll cover
<v Speaker 1>that then, toot. Dwight Clark in the later eighties would
<v Speaker 1>give permission for Huey Lewis to be on the sidelines
<v Speaker 1>for the forty nine er game, and Huey Lewis is
<v Speaker 1>down on the sidelines.
<v Speaker 7>Okay, but Dione.
<v Speaker 1>Sanders and Jerry Glanville had all mc hammer on the
<v Speaker 1>sidelines and like they'd gotten in trouble and it looked
<v Speaker 1>weird and mc hammer's out on the on the field
<v Speaker 1>high fiving people, and so the NFL said, all right,
<v Speaker 1>no more of that is.
<v Speaker 4>Why we can't have nice things.
<v Speaker 1>You guys, Hammer screwed up for everybody, right, and so
<v Speaker 1>and so Dwight Clark's well, here's the deal. I'll give
<v Speaker 1>you a photographer's pass on the sidelines, so you're like
<v Speaker 1>our photographer team photographer. So Huey Lewis is like okay,
<v Speaker 1>and he's like, just just be cool, don't do anything weird.
<v Speaker 1>So he's like, all right, fine, I'll be cool. I'll
<v Speaker 1>just stay on the sidelines. And so Hugh's down there
<v Speaker 1>with Billy Gibson, who's the drummer for the news. The
<v Speaker 1>forty nine ers were blowing out the Giants and the
<v Speaker 1>cameras were starting to wander, and Hugh's like, get out
<v Speaker 1>of here before we get anybody in trouble, right, And
<v Speaker 1>as he turns to walk out, they pull Steve Young,
<v Speaker 1>who's the quarterback for the forty nine ers, off the field.
<v Speaker 1>He's like, okay, you're done for the day. And Steve
<v Speaker 1>Young as he's coming off field, cameras are all on him.
<v Speaker 1>He's like hey, Hueye. He's like hey, He's like, what.
<v Speaker 4>Am I going to do?
<v Speaker 1>The quarterback is yelling at me right, and he's like, hey, Steve,
<v Speaker 1>how's it going? And he's like, oh, give him a
<v Speaker 1>big hug, like hey.
<v Speaker 7>Huey Lewis and Steve Young.
<v Speaker 1>So then the commentators they're like, hey, John Madden wants
<v Speaker 1>to say hi to Huey Lewis, and so he was
<v Speaker 1>like okay. So they hand him a microphone and she's
<v Speaker 1>talking to John Madden and everybody gets in trouble. So
<v Speaker 1>they find the forty nine ers for this. But Carbon Policy,
<v Speaker 1>who is the president of the forty nine ers, writes
<v Speaker 1>this very scathing letter to the NFL because Huey Lewis
<v Speaker 1>is their spiritual advisor, and how dare they would they
<v Speaker 1>write the same letter if Billy Graham was on the sidelines.
<v Speaker 1>So Huey Lewis got the forty nine ers find anyway Dwight.
<v Speaker 2>Bark spiritual leader of the compared into Billy Graham. That's hilarious.
<v Speaker 1>All right, we ready to dive track and I track
<v Speaker 1>into this.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, let's do it. I can't wait any longer. My
<v Speaker 2>Heart is beauty.
<v Speaker 8>Boom boom boom boom boom boom.
<v Speaker 1>The Heart of Rock and Roll, released April tenth, nineteen
<v Speaker 1>eighty four, was the third single on the album. It
<v Speaker 1>reached number six on the chart. Okay, this is really interesting.
<v Speaker 1>Take note of that number six. Okay, all right, now,
<v Speaker 1>out of my curiosity, I'm like, are you kidding? An
<v Speaker 1>iconic song like part of rock and roll doesn't reach
<v Speaker 1>top five. So here's what was the top five the
<v Speaker 1>week that this peaked at number six?
<v Speaker 2>Okay.
<v Speaker 1>Number one Time after Time by Ciddy Lapper. Yes, pretty
<v Speaker 1>iconic eighty song.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Number two let's hear it for the boy Denise Williams,
<v Speaker 1>huge song off the Footloose soundtrack.
<v Speaker 2>Right, which had been number one just before. Number three,
<v Speaker 2>Oh Sherry by Steve Perry, the journey sounding song that
<v Speaker 2>he did solo that we talked about back in our
<v Speaker 2>Frontiers episode. Go check that out if you haven't yet.
<v Speaker 1>Number four The Reflex by Duran durant.
<v Speaker 2>Ooh gos huge all right, yeah?
<v Speaker 1>And number five Sister Christian by Night ranger.
<v Speaker 2>Oh, great song, I mean eight I'm sorry. Boogie Knights
<v Speaker 2>is what I think about.
<v Speaker 4>Every go back and watch Boogie Knights enjoy.
<v Speaker 2>Heather Graham, we haven't done anything on that one, but
<v Speaker 2>we will.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, all right, let's do it.
<v Speaker 2>Okay. So this song was written by Huey Lewis and
<v Speaker 2>Johnny Cole and Johnny is a spectacular guitarist and also saxophonist.
<v Speaker 2>He's the sex guy. How many guys are doing saxophone
<v Speaker 2>songs in the eighties, just a couple?
<v Speaker 4>How many are Huey Lewis and Bruce Springsteen?
<v Speaker 1>Right, that's it.
<v Speaker 2>This has got a really similar style to Dancing in
<v Speaker 2>the streets. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, Well because they have that city roll call at
<v Speaker 1>the end of the song.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>The creation of this song, So hue Lewis gets this story. Yes,
<v Speaker 1>we talked about this a little bit. Yeah, Huey Lewis
<v Speaker 1>gets this story that the heart of rock and roll
<v Speaker 1>is in Cleveland. So he's like, I don't know about that, guys.
<v Speaker 1>And so they go and they play this show in
<v Speaker 1>Cleveland and the fans just blow his doors off, and
<v Speaker 1>on the tour bus going home afterwards, he's like, you know, what, guys,
<v Speaker 1>I think the heart of rock and roll is in
<v Speaker 1>Cleveland And they're like yeah, and he's like, I think
<v Speaker 1>that's a great title for a song. And they're like,
<v Speaker 1>but now every time I listen to that song, uh huh.
<v Speaker 4>You can hear the hard.
<v Speaker 1>Rock and roll is in Cleveland.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. So they had had a great show in Cleveland, right,
<v Speaker 2>you should spawn this song. Yes, La is mentioned in
<v Speaker 2>this But if you ask Huey Lewis, what's the worst
<v Speaker 2>reception you've ever had?
<v Speaker 4>Where's the worst place to play? He says La. He
<v Speaker 4>said that they played a show. He said he can.
<v Speaker 2>Usually tell what the review is going to be of
<v Speaker 2>the show when they play, because if he feels like
<v Speaker 2>it's a bad show, the reviews are going to be bad,
<v Speaker 2>and right, it always turns out right. So they do
<v Speaker 2>their first show in la he thinks they do a
<v Speaker 2>great job. The next morning, the manager is like, all right,
<v Speaker 2>everybody got a good.
<v Speaker 4>Review in the La Times. You know, come on down
<v Speaker 4>for breakfast.
<v Speaker 2>Not so fast to you. Apparently he got railed this
<v Speaker 2>first show. He was like totally surprised, and he says,
<v Speaker 2>so I'm just kind of like, wow, I really thought
<v Speaker 2>we did a good show. But then a few months
<v Speaker 2>later he's doing some recording. George Lucas has got a
<v Speaker 2>recording studio at the Skywalker Ranch, right, so he's.
<v Speaker 4>With George Lucas.
<v Speaker 2>He's George Lucas is dating Linda Ronstad at the time,
<v Speaker 2>who is there recording.
<v Speaker 4>And he's like, oh, nice to meet you.
<v Speaker 2>You know that they're doing their introductions.
<v Speaker 4>She's like, it's so good to meet you.
<v Speaker 2>You know. We've got Brian Wilson from the Beach Boys
<v Speaker 2>come in a little bit to sing on this song
<v Speaker 2>with me. Would you like to meet him? He's like, oh,
<v Speaker 2>I love that because they were a huge yeah he
<v Speaker 2>Lewis was a huge Beach Boys fan, right yeah.
<v Speaker 4>And so Brian Wilson comes and he's a little awkward,
<v Speaker 4>he's got some issues, yeah, right, but he starts talking
<v Speaker 4>to you, Lewis. He's like, oh, yes, I know you,
<v Speaker 4>I know you work.
<v Speaker 2>Oh I love it. He goes, I actually saw you
<v Speaker 2>in concert. He's like oh really. When he's like in
<v Speaker 2>the la he's like, which show did you see? And
<v Speaker 2>Brian was just like, I saw your very first show
<v Speaker 2>at the very first one, and he goes, okay, so
<v Speaker 2>tell me truth. What did you think of it? He
<v Speaker 2>goes top five, maybe top three live performances I've ever
<v Speaker 2>seen in my whole life.
<v Speaker 4>Wow, and Lysis is like screw the La Times.
<v Speaker 2>Brian Wilson just told me that was one of the
<v Speaker 2>best shows you've ever seen. I don't care about the
<v Speaker 2>bad review.
<v Speaker 1>That is great. Brian Wilson, beachways, that's awesome. Before you
<v Speaker 1>move on, I got one quick story. Nineteen ninety we
<v Speaker 1>had just played a baseball game after we had a
<v Speaker 1>big win. We're traveling back home on the bus. My
<v Speaker 1>coach was in an especially good mood because we won,
<v Speaker 1>so he let us turn on the radio station. This
<v Speaker 1>is in nineteen ninety, so think I mean, this is
<v Speaker 1>Appetite for Destruction. This is Doctor Phil Good, this is Winger,
<v Speaker 1>this is Para Metal, bon Jovi, New Jersey, this is
<v Speaker 1>all this stuff. So what comes on the radio but
<v Speaker 1>Heart of Rock and Roll, So when you're in high school,
<v Speaker 1>when you're seventeen seven years ago, is Eternity. But harder
<v Speaker 1>rock and Roll comes on and one guy starts to
<v Speaker 1>sing uh huh, and it becomes like the scene on
<v Speaker 1>Almost Famous. The entire buses of baseball players are belting
<v Speaker 1>out harder rock and roll because everybody knows the words
<v Speaker 1>and our coach is amazed.
<v Speaker 2>That's fantastic.
<v Speaker 1>What agreed, shout out Jenks High School Jings Club. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>let's talk about the roll call at the end of
<v Speaker 1>the song.
<v Speaker 9>Okay, santat olvers down, Bado tell Us, Austin, Okahoma City,
<v Speaker 9>San Francisco.
<v Speaker 1>So at the end they list, you know, Tulsa, Austin,
<v Speaker 1>Oklahoma City, Seattle, San Francisco too, right, everywhere. Yeah, So
<v Speaker 1>there's this roll call of cities, right, and so the
<v Speaker 1>record company is like, hey, this is great. We want
<v Speaker 1>you to make like specialized versions of this to play
<v Speaker 1>for different radio stations around the country. And he list
<v Speaker 1>is like, you know, okay, whatever, you know, whatever helps
<v Speaker 1>the song. And he's like, how many you want me
<v Speaker 1>to make and they're like, well, let's see, there's like
<v Speaker 1>one hundred and fifty radio stations, So like one hundred
<v Speaker 1>and fifty. He's like, wait a minute, guys, I don't
<v Speaker 1>you know you know, but I can tell you for
<v Speaker 1>sure I grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Okay. So the
<v Speaker 1>part where it says Tulsa, Austin, Oklahoma City. Yes, see
<v Speaker 1>how San Francisco too. That part on my home radio
<v Speaker 1>station said Tulsa, Tulsa to Tulsa, Seattle, San Francisco too.
<v Speaker 1>Really yeah, for sure, one hundred percent. So they have
<v Speaker 1>all these different versions of the song and.
<v Speaker 2>They're thinking, like, did I ever hear a little rock
<v Speaker 2>or for Smith?
<v Speaker 5>I'm just yeah.
<v Speaker 1>I mean if you grew up in New Mexico, chance
<v Speaker 1>you hear Santa Fe or something in there, right, Okay, yeah, okay.
<v Speaker 1>So they came to him and they said, okay, super job.
<v Speaker 1>We like the ultimate versions. Now we want you to
<v Speaker 1>do Canada. He's like, so, so they came to him
<v Speaker 1>and they're like, you know, Toronto, Montreal. He's like, okay, okay,
<v Speaker 1>you know, and they're like Halifax. He's like, guys, I'm sorry,
<v Speaker 1>the harder rock and Roll does not belong in Halifax.
<v Speaker 1>And he said, so he like put his foot down
<v Speaker 1>on Halifax. I'm not singing Hall of Fax. Then he
<v Speaker 1>said he went and played Halifax.
<v Speaker 4>He's like, the place is really cool rock and roll.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Halax, harder rock and roll. By the way, we
<v Speaker 2>didn't talk about the video on Harder rock and Roll.
<v Speaker 2>All I can remember is they pack it with a
<v Speaker 2>lot of flash really kicks him in the.
<v Speaker 1>We might want to talk about that, Okay, We done
<v Speaker 1>with harder rock and roll? Yes, all right, Moving on
<v Speaker 1>to the number two song on the album. This song
<v Speaker 1>is called Heart and Soul.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, this is not an original. He was listening the
<v Speaker 2>new song I know, and.
<v Speaker 1>That blows me away. I didn't know that before.
<v Speaker 2>There's yeah, I did not know it either. And obviously
<v Speaker 2>this is one of their biggest ones. I mean, this
<v Speaker 2>is the first video I remember seeing.
<v Speaker 1>This is the first single off the album.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, so yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Hardest Soul was written by Mike Chapman and Nikki Chin. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>these are famous songwriters. They wrote I Want to Kiss
<v Speaker 1>You all Over flashback to our Happy Gilmour episode.
<v Speaker 2>Oh wow, okay, okay, good throwback.
<v Speaker 1>They wrote Better Be Good to Me by Tina Turner okay,
<v Speaker 1>and they wrote Mickey by Tony Basil.
<v Speaker 8>Oh wow.
<v Speaker 2>Wow, Yeah, that's fantastic. So.
<v Speaker 1>The song was first recorded by Exile in nineteen eighty one,
<v Speaker 1>and it was the title track on their album Heart
<v Speaker 1>and Soul. This blows me away that in nineteen eighty
<v Speaker 1>three were already re recording songs from nineteen eighty one.
<v Speaker 2>Well, it obviously wasn't a huge It didn't do as.
<v Speaker 1>Well as they thought it should do, failed to crack
<v Speaker 1>the top one hundred. So I heard Hugh Lewis once again.
<v Speaker 1>They're looking for a hit, right, and they're trying to
<v Speaker 1>cover their butt because their third album needs to be
<v Speaker 1>a smash or the record company is going to walk away.
<v Speaker 1>So they had all these songs and they're like, we
<v Speaker 1>need one more hit. Okay, this is the pour some
<v Speaker 1>Sugar on Me, same story, Okay, we need one more hit.
<v Speaker 1>So he was talking to Mike Chapman because Mike Chapman
<v Speaker 1>had flirted with producing Hugh Lewis in the news, and
<v Speaker 1>he's like, hey, man, I need a hit. I need
<v Speaker 1>one more song that I can be a hit. And
<v Speaker 1>Mike Chapman is this song Heart and Soul we think
<v Speaker 1>is pretty good, and so here you listened to it
<v Speaker 1>and he's like, no, this sounds great, this is a hit.
<v Speaker 1>You know I want to do this. Well, it turns
<v Speaker 1>out that Mike Chapman had given permission for Huey Lewis
<v Speaker 1>to record it and this other group called the bus
<v Speaker 1>Boys to record it.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, the bus Boys.
<v Speaker 2>The bus Boys are the Boys are back in Town.
<v Speaker 2>That's in Ghostbusters, and in forty eight hours they were
<v Speaker 2>like the band in Eddie Murphy's All His Stuff.
<v Speaker 4>The bus Boys are huge.
<v Speaker 1>Wow. Okay, wow, that's good.
<v Speaker 5>I didn't know that. Yes, I didn't know that.
<v Speaker 2>Again, let throw forward to Ghostbusters coming up the bus Boys.
<v Speaker 2>But anyway, sorry, go ahead. So, yes, that's a license
<v Speaker 2>the song of the bus Boys.
<v Speaker 1>So the bust Boys recorded that for their nineteen eighty
<v Speaker 1>two album American Worker. But Huey Lewis he wanted to
<v Speaker 1>hear the recordings of it, and when he heard it,
<v Speaker 1>he thought, nah, our version is better.
<v Speaker 7>So he was worried about it until he heard it
<v Speaker 7>and he's like.
<v Speaker 4>Nah, well I can say this.
<v Speaker 2>When you look up Heart and Soul on Wikipedia, it
<v Speaker 2>is a picture of hue Lewis's album Okay.
<v Speaker 1>Like we said, this was the first single. It was
<v Speaker 1>released August thirtieth, nineteen eighty three. This reached number eight.
<v Speaker 1>Uh huh, okay, number eight. Let's talk about the music
<v Speaker 1>video for a second.
<v Speaker 2>Okay. This is one of the first videos I ever
<v Speaker 2>remember watching Okay, and I really I.
<v Speaker 4>Think there was something.
<v Speaker 2>Huey Lewis is a guy who I think has looked
<v Speaker 2>forty five his entire life, Like, I saw pictures of
<v Speaker 2>him when he was like in the high school basketball team,
<v Speaker 2>and he looks exactly the same. It's now only that
<v Speaker 2>he's in his seventies that he starts to look like
<v Speaker 2>he's fifty five, right. He just has always had that
<v Speaker 2>same look. And so I see this video of a
<v Speaker 2>guy who doesn't look like the other people that I've
<v Speaker 2>seen on MTV in a suit and tie. Yeah, and
<v Speaker 2>then he walks into a place where everybody that's dancing
<v Speaker 2>looks like all the other people that I've seen on MTV. Sure.
<v Speaker 2>And so it's got this actress in it called Sidney Coleman.
<v Speaker 2>Sidney Coleman, Yeah, and she had been I think she
<v Speaker 2>was in a soap opera and she played it like
<v Speaker 2>a blind character in the South Viper.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, but she's she is very engaging in this hate.
<v Speaker 1>She's in heart and soul. She's also the girl he's
<v Speaker 1>chasing around in I Want a New Drug. And the
<v Speaker 1>reason why they hired her her mom and Hugh Lewis's
<v Speaker 1>mom were friends.
<v Speaker 2>That's awesome.
<v Speaker 1>There you go.
<v Speaker 2>So this video are we ready talking for the video?
<v Speaker 4>The video is really weird, Yes, You've.
<v Speaker 2>Got all these weird folks who are lip syncing the
<v Speaker 2>song as he's kind of in there checking out this
<v Speaker 2>hot girl who's dancing, and then you see is it
<v Speaker 2>Mario Cippolini, the that looks like the Vampire?
<v Speaker 5>Yes, that's right.
<v Speaker 4>Oh my gosh. I'm like, what is going on with
<v Speaker 4>this creepy dude.
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, oh wow, he's actually a member of the band.
<v Speaker 2>He's not just some weird character like the other ones
<v Speaker 2>they have. And then you at some point they're running
<v Speaker 2>along and opening doors and you open he opens the
<v Speaker 2>door and there he is with fangs out biting the
<v Speaker 2>neck of a girl, and they're like, what the heck
<v Speaker 2>and close that door.
<v Speaker 9>Move on.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, very strange, interesting videos, all right. Moving on. Third
<v Speaker 1>song on the album, That is Bad.
<v Speaker 2>This moment when this song came on when I listened
<v Speaker 2>to this album again for the first time in thirty years,
<v Speaker 2>and this song came on and I was like, I
<v Speaker 2>know this song. I know this song. I knew every
<v Speaker 2>single word, word for word, and I haven't heard it
<v Speaker 2>in thirty years now. We talked about that this song
<v Speaker 2>was something that Huey Lewis had written before and had
<v Speaker 2>been recorded.
<v Speaker 4>By Dave Evans, thank you. And wasn't good, right, I
<v Speaker 4>mean it was okay, it was okay, it wasn't bad.
<v Speaker 2>It was very bluesy.
<v Speaker 4>This one's kind of a du they're even saying.
<v Speaker 2>Do wop on it? Right? Absolutely, it's not got as
<v Speaker 2>much harmonic on it. It's got more harmonies on it, which,
<v Speaker 2>as I understand it, Johnny Cola is the one who
<v Speaker 2>puts together their harmonies, which we got to talk about
<v Speaker 2>for just a second. Okay, the blend of these guys's voice.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, they're not any one of them fantastic singers.
<v Speaker 2>They're not any one of them fantastic like expert musicians.
<v Speaker 2>They're just all good and they're good together. That's the key.
<v Speaker 2>And when they first started, when Bob Brown was pushing
<v Speaker 2>it and Chris Liss was like, hey, okay, we'll sign them.
<v Speaker 2>But Chris list said, but they need to get rid
<v Speaker 2>of the drummer. The drummer Bill Gibson yep. And after
<v Speaker 2>Huey Lewis's experience with the bass player that threw up
<v Speaker 2>because he was on LSD when he got fired, he
<v Speaker 2>was like, no, I'm not going to fire it. Sign
<v Speaker 2>don't sign us yep. The sign him anyway.
<v Speaker 1>That's super love the loyalty there. So Bad is Bad.
<v Speaker 1>It was actually written, like you said, in the late
<v Speaker 1>seventies while he was working with Phil Lennett of Finn Lizzie.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, he did a lot of harmonica work with Finn
<v Speaker 2>Lizzie And we didn't mention this, but Clover after they
<v Speaker 2>broke up, you know, they went on and recorded on
<v Speaker 2>Elvis Costello's first really big album, and they offered he
<v Speaker 2>Lewis to come and record with him, and he was like, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I think I'd rather have a two week vacation.
<v Speaker 1>The interesting thing to me and I don't quite know
<v Speaker 1>how all this works out. Yeah, but Bad is Bad
<v Speaker 1>was not released as a single.
<v Speaker 4>Should have been, should have been?
<v Speaker 2>This is my favorite song on this album. Okay, it's
<v Speaker 2>my and I just it's so good.
<v Speaker 1>So this song didn't chart because it wasn't released, right,
<v Speaker 1>But they made a video for it.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's not a fantastic video. They're just kind of
<v Speaker 2>walking around in the streets.
<v Speaker 1>Of San Francisco. Yeah, filmed in March of nineteen eighty five.
<v Speaker 2>Weird. Okay, So I got to say, at age forty five,
<v Speaker 2>listening to it now, I didn't really understand what this
<v Speaker 2>song was about because whenever I listened to it as
<v Speaker 2>a kid and he said play the guitar like chainsaw
<v Speaker 2>buzz and it was like I was like.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah, that's awesome, that's cool.
<v Speaker 2>No, that's not what he means. Okay, sometimes bad, he's bad. Yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>he meant that. The change I mean because I played
<v Speaker 2>guitar now, right, I was not a guitar player when
<v Speaker 2>I listened to this song the first time. If the
<v Speaker 2>if it sounds buzzy, if the guitar sounds buddy buzzy,
<v Speaker 2>that means it's bad. It's got a thing you don't want,
<v Speaker 2>and so that that's bad. And then I should have
<v Speaker 2>picked up on the the stew is the yeah, and
<v Speaker 2>all one dollar's worth is all I could stand up.
<v Speaker 2>I just didn't get it. And then the final lyric
<v Speaker 2>in the song is a great Jimmy Hendrix redhouse style,
<v Speaker 2>which Jimmy Hendrix will come up here in a second, yep,
<v Speaker 2>but it's this great. You know, I tried to unlock
<v Speaker 2>the door style. What he comes in the letter says,
<v Speaker 2>I love you, hueye, but there's another.
<v Speaker 1>Strange pair of shoes under my bed.
<v Speaker 2>So here we are three four three and in my opinion,
<v Speaker 2>building better and better and better.
<v Speaker 1>What are we great songs?
<v Speaker 4>What are we going to see on number four?
<v Speaker 1>Okay, number four? Last song on side one of it,
<v Speaker 1>I want a new drug. That double guitar at the
<v Speaker 1>beginning of this is fantastic.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, they do a great pan from left speaker to
<v Speaker 2>right speaker. Top down, radio up. This is the song
<v Speaker 2>you want to be hearing.
<v Speaker 1>This was the second single, released January third, nineteen eighty four.
<v Speaker 1>This reached number six. Still haven't cracked the tall five.
<v Speaker 5>Gosh, guess it's.
<v Speaker 2>Such a good song.
<v Speaker 4>I can't believe that it didn't crack.
<v Speaker 2>It's amazing, right, Okay, So this song goes through every
<v Speaker 2>side effect that you can think of. For Druggy, I
<v Speaker 2>know that you have no experience at all. I am
<v Speaker 2>embarrassed to say that I do. I can understand every
<v Speaker 2>bad side effect. There are no drugs without bad side effects, kids.
<v Speaker 4>None, Right, he wrote, including love.
<v Speaker 1>Love does have effect. That It's true, it does.
<v Speaker 3>That's true.
<v Speaker 4>But that's what the song is truly about, Hugh, he.
<v Speaker 5>Talks about it.
<v Speaker 1>It is about love. He said. This song is not
<v Speaker 1>pro drug. It's not even anti drug. No, it's just
<v Speaker 1>about love. Here's the interesting thing. Huey Lewis wrote the
<v Speaker 1>song in a few minutes. Said he was on his
<v Speaker 1>way to his attorney's house and he was in the car, okay,
<v Speaker 1>and he's driving and all of a sudden, boom it hits.
<v Speaker 1>He's got it in his head and he basically runs
<v Speaker 1>in and says, Bob, give me a piece of paper,
<v Speaker 1>give me a piece of paper, and he writes it down. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>that to me, that blows me away. Like these guys
<v Speaker 1>are so creative that songs just jump into their head.
<v Speaker 1>This song was covered by our main man, weird Al Yankovic.
<v Speaker 2>Oh right.
<v Speaker 4>The song was called we Can't Let It Go by.
<v Speaker 5>I want a new duck.
<v Speaker 8>I want.
<v Speaker 1>One wol trying to bite well, that won't chew all
<v Speaker 1>my socks, one that won't quack all night.
<v Speaker 2>Which is why the end of that video where it's
<v Speaker 2>Weird Al Yakavic and Huey Lewis together parodying America Psycho
<v Speaker 2>is so brilliant.
<v Speaker 1>Last line, yep, brilliant, brilliant. Hey, I will tell you
<v Speaker 1>just from personal experience. Okay, So I had this tape,
<v Speaker 1>had a cassette tape. Uh you know, I told you
<v Speaker 1>my parents they analyzed my music pretty good. My dad
<v Speaker 1>picked up the tape Harder, rock and Roll, hard and Soul,
<v Speaker 1>Bad is bad, Walking on Thin Line? All good?
<v Speaker 8>Yeah?
<v Speaker 1>Wait, what's this song called I Want a New Drug?
<v Speaker 1>He had to pause and ask my uncle if it
<v Speaker 1>was okay. Uncle gave the thumbs up, So now I
<v Speaker 1>wore out.
<v Speaker 5>Sports way to go Uncle, I know, right, Okay.
<v Speaker 1>There is something at the end of the song that
<v Speaker 1>I did not know until we were driving in the
<v Speaker 1>car today to record this.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. I remember it from when I was a kid,
<v Speaker 2>and I don't know how I it back then, but
<v Speaker 2>I knew it. And yeah, as we're driving, I'm like, oh,
<v Speaker 2>there's Jimmy Hendrix and you're like, there's who what what?
<v Speaker 1>I know?
<v Speaker 4>But here it is, and that's Purple Hayes by Jimmy Hendricks.
<v Speaker 2>Guys. I don't know if nobody else noticed it but me,
<v Speaker 2>but there you go.
<v Speaker 1>It's incredible.
<v Speaker 2>Any guitar, any guitar stuff there is going to hear
<v Speaker 2>that and go, oh, I know what he's doing there. Again,
<v Speaker 2>these guys are not masterful musicians. They just are out
<v Speaker 2>there having some freaking.
<v Speaker 1>Good time and they're tight throwing in fun stuff.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's real. Love it, love it.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, this is where we talk about the lawsuit between
<v Speaker 1>Huey Lewis and Ray Parker. R.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. So the guys who are making Ghostbusters go to
<v Speaker 2>Huey Lewis say hey, we'd like you to record a
<v Speaker 2>song for the soundtrack, and he says no thanks, but
<v Speaker 2>no thanks.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, writing a song called Ghostbusters.
<v Speaker 2>And then later the song that was written for Ghostbusters
<v Speaker 2>that is called who You're Gonna Call? Ghostbusters? Yes, sounds
<v Speaker 2>real familiar.
<v Speaker 3>Play it right here, Okay, something strange?
<v Speaker 1>Who you Call?
<v Speaker 2>All right, it's unquestionable. It's a little faster, but it's
<v Speaker 2>absolutely unquestionably a copy. And I've heard Ray Parker talk
<v Speaker 2>about this.
<v Speaker 1>He did.
<v Speaker 2>It's not like he wrote that part of the song.
<v Speaker 2>He had a guy who wrote it, but he didn'tant
<v Speaker 2>to throw him under the bus, right, It was just
<v Speaker 2>like just came to me and it was the cool
<v Speaker 2>sounding guitar riff. So I said, great, I can write
<v Speaker 2>some lyrics to this, and that's how the song came about.
<v Speaker 2>That's right, but that's his name was still the one
<v Speaker 2>on the lawsuit.
<v Speaker 1>So here's the interesting thing. I heard an interview with
<v Speaker 1>Ray Parker. They settled out of court. Huey Lewis sued
<v Speaker 1>Ray Parker Jr. And they settled out of court.
<v Speaker 2>Yep.
<v Speaker 1>Okay for an undisclosed sum of money.
<v Speaker 2>Okay.
<v Speaker 1>Now flash forward about like six seven, eight, ten years.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it was quite a bit. It was like VH
<v Speaker 2>one behind the music, it was, Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>And Huey Lewis is talking about how Ray Parker stole
<v Speaker 1>their song I Want a New Drug and turned it
<v Speaker 1>into Ghostbusters.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, this song is not for sale. And then he says,
<v Speaker 2>but I guess it turns out as it was because
<v Speaker 2>they paid us for it. Yep.
<v Speaker 1>Then Ray Parker Junior sues Huey Lewis because he was
<v Speaker 1>he had some sort of no talk about.
<v Speaker 2>Its Most settlements are confidential, and by Huey Lewis saying
<v Speaker 2>they paid us for it, he just said, what was
<v Speaker 2>the confidential part? Which was a violation? As I understand
<v Speaker 2>that there's been no resolution to that.
<v Speaker 1>That's interesting. This is because these are two songs that
<v Speaker 1>I loved and could have gone my entire life without
<v Speaker 1>even really dawning on me that they were the same roots.
<v Speaker 1>You know, I love that song Ghostbusters. I mean, I
<v Speaker 1>love I Want a New Drug sonny. So funny how
<v Speaker 1>that works out, right now, Ray Parker Junior did say
<v Speaker 1>that Huey Lewis did have to pay him for mentioning
<v Speaker 1>that on VH one. Behind the music here you may
<v Speaker 1>have countersuit based on that statu.
<v Speaker 2>But it goes round and round. All right, enough of
<v Speaker 2>this lawyer stuff.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, A couple more things I want to mention about this, Okay, Okay,
<v Speaker 1>So this, as we mentioned, I Want a New Drug
<v Speaker 1>was actually put in as the tempt track for Back
<v Speaker 1>to the Future.
<v Speaker 2>Okay.
<v Speaker 1>Oh, for the for the opening scene in the video,
<v Speaker 1>there is one iconic scene that you mentioned to me,
<v Speaker 1>and I remember it's the head in the ice water
<v Speaker 1>and that's from a movie yeah that I didn't know.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, So the face in the ice water scene, yes,
<v Speaker 2>probably the most memorable part of the video, right right.
<v Speaker 2>I think it's from the Verdict with Paul Newman story
<v Speaker 2>where he's a drunk attorney and I think he wakes
<v Speaker 2>up with a hangover and that's just cure for the
<v Speaker 2>hangover is singing his head in a book of ice water.
<v Speaker 2>I don't think it's the same like way he did it,
<v Speaker 2>but I think that's where he got that. They didn't
<v Speaker 2>put a camera in the scene to you know that.
<v Speaker 2>But that's really the best part of that is the
<v Speaker 2>best part. The bubble is coming and then he's singing
<v Speaker 2>the song under the water.
<v Speaker 1>That is the coolest part.
<v Speaker 5>And as a kid, I'm like, that is awesome.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, that's it for.
<v Speaker 2>I wanted to drug push stop on your tape player.
<v Speaker 1>Kick it out, flip it over side too. And we
<v Speaker 1>started off with walking on Thin Line.
<v Speaker 9>Sometimes I'm a.
<v Speaker 1>Fad of night.
<v Speaker 9>I just look for the light and sometimes likes their.
<v Speaker 2>So this is interesting how the song starts off. It
<v Speaker 2>is different than the other ones. And I just want
<v Speaker 2>to point something out that we haven't kind of pointed
<v Speaker 2>out as we've gone along here. Okay, but every single
<v Speaker 2>one of these.
<v Speaker 4>Songs is a different style of song.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, you know they come They came into the album
<v Speaker 2>thinking we want any one of these to be a
<v Speaker 2>potential hit single, right, trying to hit the top forty.
<v Speaker 1>Right.
<v Speaker 2>So the first one hard rock and roll, that's rock,
<v Speaker 2>heart and soul is pop rock. Bad is bad, that's
<v Speaker 2>like do up blues. Yeah, and then you got I
<v Speaker 2>want a new drug, which is very new wave. And
<v Speaker 2>then we hit this one with this awesome intro. You
<v Speaker 2>got different instruments introing each of these songs. This one
<v Speaker 2>starts off heavy keyboards, like five the keyboards given the rhythm,
<v Speaker 2>and then coming in with the melody, and then it's
<v Speaker 2>really nice how the guitar takes over that rhythm spot
<v Speaker 2>from the keyboard. But this one, I don't know whether
<v Speaker 2>they call this rock or new wave or new wave rock.
<v Speaker 2>It's just kind of its own thing. But it's just
<v Speaker 2>to me that these guys are doing all these different
<v Speaker 2>styles of songs.
<v Speaker 1>We haven't even got to country yet, which we will
<v Speaker 1>yeah on this side of the album. Yeah, Okay.
<v Speaker 2>So this is the fifth single YEP, released.
<v Speaker 1>October ninth of nineteen eighty four. This only reached number eighteen.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, this was their least successful single. But this to
<v Speaker 2>throw back to our Bruce Springsteen episode, this is They're
<v Speaker 2>Born in the USA, not because it's a big hit,
<v Speaker 2>but because this one is about what it's like to
<v Speaker 2>be the Vietnam vet that nobody cares about. Right.
<v Speaker 1>In fact, I called you the other day and I said,
<v Speaker 1>which one of the songs on Sports belongs on Born
<v Speaker 1>in the USA, and we both agreed this.
<v Speaker 2>One, this is it for sure? Yes?
<v Speaker 1>Not if this is it?
<v Speaker 5>Not this one?
<v Speaker 1>Yes, Andre Pessis wrote this song. He also wrote this
<v Speaker 1>song just Take My Heart by mister Big.
<v Speaker 2>Oh, okay from Yeah I remember that one.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, mister Big was kind of hot for a moment.
<v Speaker 5>They're in They're nice to Big for a second, they
<v Speaker 5>were mister.
<v Speaker 2>Bag for a second. Yes, I've got a great story
<v Speaker 2>about this song, okay, okay.
<v Speaker 1>So during live performances, Huey Lewis has been surprised before
<v Speaker 1>by Chris Berman.
<v Speaker 5>He's a famous ESPN personality.
<v Speaker 1>Right, so they asked him, what do you get up
<v Speaker 1>on stage and sing walking on a fin line? Right
<v Speaker 1>with Huey Lewis, he said, because if I sing power
<v Speaker 1>of Love there'll be a riot.
<v Speaker 2>And you know what, he's probably right Okay, So interestingly, yes,
<v Speaker 2>and you say that this song was the last single
<v Speaker 2>released off of this album, right, The next single power
<v Speaker 2>of Love? Right?
<v Speaker 1>Yes, moving on, okay, the next song is called Finally
<v Speaker 1>Found a Home. Okay, So this has got some strong
<v Speaker 1>guitar work here at the beginning, right here.
<v Speaker 2>Oh, absolutely, I love it and it's an acoustic guitar
<v Speaker 2>that they've got going. This could I mean, this could
<v Speaker 2>be a Tesla song when it starts out right, nice this,
<v Speaker 2>I mean this is and Tesla isn't coming along for
<v Speaker 2>a little bit now right Again, we have a completely
<v Speaker 2>different style of song that they're doing here. And what
<v Speaker 2>I love about this song is how it kind of
<v Speaker 2>sums up what's happened to Huey Lewis at this point.
<v Speaker 2>You know, everybody expects all of these great things from
<v Speaker 2>him because he's the guy who got the eight hundred
<v Speaker 2>on the math portion of the act, right, He's the
<v Speaker 2>guy who had the promising pitch your arm, who was
<v Speaker 2>going to go to you know, Winter Cornell was going
<v Speaker 2>to be a success, and then he spent eleven years
<v Speaker 2>failing around him, right, failing, only to have that band
<v Speaker 2>break up and become a house band somewhere and just
<v Speaker 2>by like I said, the best hustle move ever manages
<v Speaker 2>to do it. But he always stuck with doing what
<v Speaker 2>he loved. He didn't compromise what he wanted to do,
<v Speaker 2>and ultimately he found his home in that song nice Nice,
<v Speaker 2>I love it.
<v Speaker 5>His hard work paid off.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, he finally kind of this one could have been
<v Speaker 2>a single.
<v Speaker 5>This is a great song of it.
<v Speaker 1>If this, if you put this on you know, top
<v Speaker 1>forty radio, and you put a cool video with this, this.
<v Speaker 2>Is a hit.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I'm convinced. I'd love to hear Tesla sings.
<v Speaker 2>That'd be good. We got to call Frank Hannon up.
<v Speaker 2>All right, would you guys do a cover of this
<v Speaker 2>song for us please?
<v Speaker 5>Okay, so we're done with Finally Found a Home. Now
<v Speaker 5>we're moving in to my favorite song on the album.
<v Speaker 1>If This is it?
<v Speaker 2>All right?
<v Speaker 1>That guitar right there, it just sings right, It's just
<v Speaker 1>a it's just a melodic guitar, and it's almost sad.
<v Speaker 1>It's a great breakup song.
<v Speaker 2>You know, it is a great breakup song. That's right.
<v Speaker 2>That's it is the perfect music to go with the
<v Speaker 2>lyrics of this song because it is such a great song.
<v Speaker 2>This is solid guitar, but it's so hooky. Yeah, yeah,
<v Speaker 2>I mean that the.
<v Speaker 5>Line at the beginning, I feel the pain.
<v Speaker 1>I heard you say, tell am, I'm not heartbreak?
<v Speaker 5>How does heartbreak is heartbreak?
<v Speaker 1>I feel the pain?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah?
<v Speaker 5>And I've been there, and you've been there, We've open
<v Speaker 5>I've never been there.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, So this was their fourth single, released April tenth,
<v Speaker 1>nineteen eighty four. To me, this song is the summer
<v Speaker 1>of nineteen eighty four.
<v Speaker 2>This song was on a lot all the time, a
<v Speaker 2>lot for sure.
<v Speaker 1>So we are going through this incredible run through summer
<v Speaker 1>of eighty four and this song was all huge.
<v Speaker 3>Oh my gosh, Yes, yes, this is it.
<v Speaker 1>No, as we've gone track by track for this, yes,
<v Speaker 1>I've said, pay attention to the chart toppers, yes, okay,
<v Speaker 1>and where they finish Okay, Hard and Soul went to
<v Speaker 1>number eight, Hard rock and roll number six, Yes, I
<v Speaker 1>want a new drug number six. If this is it
<v Speaker 1>third consecutive number six.
<v Speaker 2>That's got to be frustrating, I'm telling you.
<v Speaker 4>Is it frustrating or is it like, yeah, we did
<v Speaker 4>it again.
<v Speaker 2>I mean yeah, I mean I bet at number three,
<v Speaker 2>they're like, can we just crack the top five?
<v Speaker 5>I know, it's crazy.
<v Speaker 1>Well, so none of them reached the top five. That's
<v Speaker 1>the power you all right, Thankfully we got power of
<v Speaker 1>Love coming.
<v Speaker 2>So the video if you guys, anybody, if you can't,
<v Speaker 2>if you're not calling the video right off the top
<v Speaker 2>of your head, all I have to say is heads
<v Speaker 2>buried in the sand, right like the guys are buried
<v Speaker 2>up to their necks rocking back and forth. That is
<v Speaker 2>this video right here.
<v Speaker 1>They have a lot of those silly kind of play videos.
<v Speaker 1>It's really cool.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. So the guy who directed this video is a
<v Speaker 2>guy named Ed Griles. Ed Griles, Yes, okay, Ed Griles
<v Speaker 2>started He started making videos back in seventy nine with
<v Speaker 2>Deep Purple and Rainbow, and then he also made videos
<v Speaker 2>for a group called Blue Angel.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, do you know what singer came from Blue Angel now?
<v Speaker 2>She just wanted to have fun.
<v Speaker 5>Cindy Lauper was also huge in.
<v Speaker 2>Nineteen eighty four Age, which is, by the way, the
<v Speaker 2>year that the MTV Video Music Awards started. And guess
<v Speaker 2>who directed Ed Ed Grives?
<v Speaker 5>Nice?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, nice?
<v Speaker 1>I do have my notes that Ed Growls directed Heart
<v Speaker 1>of rock and Roll Stuck with You, which is Huielu's
<v Speaker 1>song off A four Right off A four Yeah, which
<v Speaker 1>is another great huge Lowis album. And they also directed
<v Speaker 1>girls Just Want to Have Fun and Time After Times,
<v Speaker 1>not the Ozzy Osbourne version, right, Okay, all right, I've
<v Speaker 1>got something that's gonna blow you away.
<v Speaker 5>This video, yes, was shot at a beach.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, Okay, how am I gonna phrase it that is
<v Speaker 2>not surprising that that was a colossal fail.
<v Speaker 1>All Right, here we go.
<v Speaker 5>I'm gonna try to teat this up a little bit better.
<v Speaker 2>All right.
<v Speaker 1>This video was shot at a beach.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, hang on hand on him. I'm waiting with hated bread.
<v Speaker 5>This video was shot and set at an amusement park
<v Speaker 5>on the beach.
<v Speaker 2>Okay about a movie that we've already covered.
<v Speaker 5>Oh shoot, does this ring a bell with you at all?
<v Speaker 2>Okay, So beach movie that we've covered.
<v Speaker 1>No, what movie have we covered? Where the action takes
<v Speaker 1>place at an amusement park on the beach.
<v Speaker 2>Lost Boys, The Lost Boys?
<v Speaker 5>Oh, same beach?
<v Speaker 2>Wow?
<v Speaker 1>The Santa Cruz Cruise Boardwalk murder Capital of the World.
<v Speaker 1>Hue and the Boys are lucky to get out of
<v Speaker 1>there os after four attempts on that one.
<v Speaker 5>Hey, blew my mind.
<v Speaker 1>There we go. Didn't want to blow that. Okay.
<v Speaker 5>Let's talk about the women in this video.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, okay, Yeah, you got two ladies, one that's ready
<v Speaker 2>to get rid of him and one that's ready to
<v Speaker 2>take her spot. Okay, the pretty one. The one that's
<v Speaker 2>ready to get rid of him is Janet Cross.
<v Speaker 1>Janet Cross was Babe City in nineteen eighty four, the
<v Speaker 1>white swimsuit, the burnette. You know, she's walking around with
<v Speaker 1>different boyfriends all the time breaking here.
<v Speaker 2>This's heart right.
<v Speaker 1>She is now a renowned New York architect.
<v Speaker 9>What wow?
<v Speaker 2>Yes, okay, yes, that's awesome. That is good.
<v Speaker 1>She was hoping that this video would kind of be
<v Speaker 1>your big break. Didn't pan out for her, So now
<v Speaker 1>she's an architect of New York City.
<v Speaker 2>Wow, you got something on Sandra Wilder. She Jeene Wilder's niece.
<v Speaker 2>I can tell you that she was also in a
<v Speaker 2>Scorpions video and also in The Woman in Red, which starred.
<v Speaker 1>Kelly LeBrock and Gene.
<v Speaker 5>Hey. Maybe right, maybe, yeah, okay.
<v Speaker 2>No, Jean Wilder's not as really it's Frankenstein. Oh my gosh.
<v Speaker 2>That was so good. That was so good. All right?
<v Speaker 2>We done with this is Yes? This is it for?
<v Speaker 2>This is it?
<v Speaker 1>All right? Next one is called you Crack Me Up?
<v Speaker 2>Okay, fantastic new wave beginning. This sounds like a car song, right,
<v Speaker 2>they've hooked into that that car sound very cool sense intro.
<v Speaker 2>You know where you got the idea for all of
<v Speaker 2>the horrible things that this person he's talking.
<v Speaker 5>To tell me?
<v Speaker 2>So this came from people who would try to meet them,
<v Speaker 2>like after the show, like they'd come and meet them,
<v Speaker 2>you know, try to corner them in the parking lot
<v Speaker 2>or whatever. Before they were super big and famous, like
<v Speaker 2>when they were playing at Uncle Charlie's, they would have
<v Speaker 2>these people that constantly could just kind of came up
<v Speaker 2>and just did all of these annoying things, or were
<v Speaker 2>obviously high or thought they were a star already, And
<v Speaker 2>that's where they got all the lyrics for this obnoxious
<v Speaker 2>person that he's retreated nice. Nice.
<v Speaker 1>This song was written after he met with that young
<v Speaker 1>reporter from the Arkansas High.
<v Speaker 5>School, Denny.
<v Speaker 1>Denny So too bad.
<v Speaker 5>This song is not about Denny, but it could have been,
<v Speaker 5>right right.
<v Speaker 1>This song was written by Hugh Lewis and Mario Sipalina.
<v Speaker 1>It's only one of four songs on this whole album
<v Speaker 1>that wasn't released as a single.
<v Speaker 2>It's a great song. It's a good.
<v Speaker 1>It's not a skipper.
<v Speaker 2>No giffers on this out maybe one. Are you referring
<v Speaker 2>to the last song.
<v Speaker 5>I am referring to the last song.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, we need to just jump right into it, mister,
<v Speaker 2>all right, Mink Williams is gonna come down and back
<v Speaker 2>you for this?
<v Speaker 1>Okay? All right?
<v Speaker 5>Moving on to the last song.
<v Speaker 2>That song is called Honky Tonk Blues. I can't believe
<v Speaker 2>that you hate the song.
<v Speaker 5>I don't hate it.
<v Speaker 2>You're skipping this. I'm Oh my gosh, this is like
<v Speaker 2>this is like a sleep at the Wheel. Roy Benson,
<v Speaker 2>cold close personal friend of Huey Lewis. This is bluegrass
<v Speaker 2>steal guitar at its finest. How can you be against
<v Speaker 2>the song?
<v Speaker 1>I'm just in a rush to get back to hard
<v Speaker 1>rock and froll.
<v Speaker 2>Oh my gosh. Okay. So this song was originally recorded
<v Speaker 2>by Hank Williams.
<v Speaker 1>I got the huncle Uncle.
<v Speaker 2>They got His son has re recorded Hank Williams Junior.
<v Speaker 2>It was on Nitty Gritty Dirt Band nineteen seventy two
<v Speaker 2>album Will the Circle Be Unbroken? It was a big
<v Speaker 2>hit for Charlie Pride. It was on Waylon Jennings' nineteen
<v Speaker 2>eighty two album Black on Black, and then Huey Lewis,
<v Speaker 2>and then after Huey Lewis, the Pirates of the Mississippi
<v Speaker 2>came out with it and got to number twenty six
<v Speaker 2>on the Hot Country Singles charts with this song.
<v Speaker 4>This is an amazing song. I'm waiting to be impressed.
<v Speaker 2>Are you what you can make me blow a vein?
<v Speaker 5>I'm sorry, this is not my style.
<v Speaker 2>Oh all right, you're not a country I'm not a
<v Speaker 2>country guy either, but this is good. This is good
<v Speaker 2>country music.
<v Speaker 1>Okay.
<v Speaker 2>Plus it shows the versatility of this band. Who's given
<v Speaker 2>us pop and new wave and blues and do wop
<v Speaker 2>and now they come and they give us what the
<v Speaker 2>monkey dog.
<v Speaker 5>Listen, this is versus country. They are showing off their versatility.
<v Speaker 5>I cannot argue with that. It sounds like a great
<v Speaker 5>country song. I'm just not a big country guy.
<v Speaker 1>I would rather have another new wave, pop, radio friendly
<v Speaker 1>hit this.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 5>Can we exchange this one for power of Love and
<v Speaker 5>just trade them right out?
<v Speaker 2>Okay, that's fine, we can turned off. We turned off.
<v Speaker 2>It's kind of soured I full experience. I am sorry,
<v Speaker 2>I am sorry. I can't believe you said there's a skipper.
<v Speaker 2>But that's all right, You're just wrong.
<v Speaker 5>I'm just ready to get back to harder rock and roll,
<v Speaker 5>you know, all right?
<v Speaker 2>All right, fair enough, Okay, So this is the end
<v Speaker 2>of the album.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, HiT's stop on your tape player, kick an afflip,
<v Speaker 1>But I'll return it back to hard rock and roll
<v Speaker 1>and restart.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, okay, or grab your Back to the Future soundtrack
<v Speaker 2>throw it in, because man, what a freaking good soundtrack
<v Speaker 2>that was. We are into final judgment, Okay, am I
<v Speaker 2>going first?
<v Speaker 5>I went first last time, your first?
<v Speaker 2>This time? Okay. So here's what I gotta say, all right.
<v Speaker 2>The songs on Huey Lewis and The New Sports are
<v Speaker 2>all ear candy. They're wonderful, And it took me a
<v Speaker 2>little while to fall in love with Bruce Springsteen Born
<v Speaker 2>in the Usa. But I realized what the difference was,
<v Speaker 2>and it took an experience of life to make happen.
<v Speaker 2>When I'm in my car and the sun is out
<v Speaker 2>and it's summertime and I want to have fun, I'm
<v Speaker 2>listening to Hugh Lewis in The New Sports. When I've
<v Speaker 2>just had an argument with my wife and it's late
<v Speaker 2>at night and I'm driving fast and angry. I need
<v Speaker 2>those deep, picture painting lyrics of Born in the USA.
<v Speaker 2>So which album I'm gonna pick when I'm walking out
<v Speaker 2>the door depends on which situation I'm in, all right,
<v Speaker 2>But I gotta say as good as Born in the
<v Speaker 2>USA is and it is fantastic. It is fantastic lyrics,
<v Speaker 2>no question, better deeper lyrics. But for pure listening pleasure,
<v Speaker 2>I got to pick Hue listen to the news, sports,
<v Speaker 2>so good, so much a part of my youth growing up.
<v Speaker 2>That's where it is form.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, where you're at.
<v Speaker 1>Basically, that's the exact same way that I feel. Born
<v Speaker 1>in the USA has deep, meaningful, poignant, serious even songs. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>now there are a few exceptions. I think Glory Days
<v Speaker 1>is great fun and it is ear candy. Yep, Glory
<v Speaker 1>Days is a top down, turn it up song.
<v Speaker 2>My favorite favorite song of his. Overall, I think I.
<v Speaker 5>Think so too right.
<v Speaker 1>You know, Born in the USA we talked about how
<v Speaker 1>that is a not quite what you think it's about song,
<v Speaker 1>And then they have some some more subdued songs like
<v Speaker 1>I'm on Fire and Hometown and so Great, iconic, huge
<v Speaker 1>seller of nineteen eighty four, deeply ingrained in the mid eighties.
<v Speaker 1>But for me, I'm a feel good guy, and Huey
<v Speaker 1>Lewis is all about feel good music. So if I'm
<v Speaker 1>walking out the door, it would have to be a rainy,
<v Speaker 1>stormy day.
<v Speaker 5>For me to grant Born in the Usa over sports.
<v Speaker 1>Right for me, it's almost always going to be sports.
<v Speaker 2>All right, we're on the same page again. How about
<v Speaker 2>that's let's see we've had a couple this year so far.
<v Speaker 2>Oh right, you're finally coming around.
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<v Speaker 5>Okay, you thought this one was big? Yeah, nineteen eighty four,
<v Speaker 5>Wait till we talk about next week.
<v Speaker 1>Next week is Ghostbusters versus Gremlins.
<v Speaker 2>Fantastic. We've got more funny than scary month stir tight movies. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>sort of super nature gigantic in nineteen eighty four, I
<v Speaker 2>mean they were everywhere that you could not go somewhere
<v Speaker 2>without seeing a Mogwai or a slimmer. Tune in for that,
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