"Top Gun Soundtrack" (1986): Track by Track with Bonus Tracks!

<v Speaker 1>This is Jay Reid from Denver, Colorado, letting you know
<v Speaker 1>that you're about to listen to another great episode of
<v Speaker 1>the Shirley You Can't Be Serious Podcast.
<v Speaker 2>Hello everybody, and welcome to the Shirley You Can't Be
<v Speaker 2>Serious Podcast. We are feeling the need the need for
<v Speaker 2>speed right now because we're about to jump into the
<v Speaker 2>Top Gun soundtrack. If this is your first time joining us,
<v Speaker 2>listen in as we are about to go behind the
<v Speaker 2>scenes on every single track of the nineteen eighty six
<v Speaker 2>Top Gun soundtrack, as well as a few bonus tracks,
<v Speaker 2>including a couple off of the new soundtrack for Top Gun.
<v Speaker 1>Maverick, that's right. We've got two footballs, we've got our volleyball,
<v Speaker 1>we've got loads of coconut oil, and we're both wearing aviators.
<v Speaker 1>We are ready to go today.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, Jason, we have a new executive producer for this episode.
<v Speaker 2>It is my buddy, Sean Kanavy from College. Sean the
<v Speaker 2>lactose intolerance and way way from Wisconsin. Yes that's right,
<v Speaker 2>dairy capital of the world. Lactose intolerant. His parents would
<v Speaker 2>send us cheese curds and he wouldn't be able to
<v Speaker 2>eat them like the roommates all eat the cheese curds
<v Speaker 2>that they sent.
<v Speaker 1>Sewan, Thank you man, thank you for becoming a Patreon
<v Speaker 1>for our show. We appreciate it.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, executive producer Sean Kanavey, famous for doing the ride,
<v Speaker 2>which story I'll tell you on another day. But yeah,
<v Speaker 2>this is a good one. Fantastic, Thank you Sean, love
<v Speaker 2>you man.
<v Speaker 1>Thanks Sean.
<v Speaker 2>And then also we have somebody who is stepped up
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<v Speaker 1>Really really, I haven't caught this. I'm anxious to hear
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<v Speaker 2>Okay, when we were doing our Dirty Dancing Versus Saturday
<v Speaker 2>Night Fever episodes, I said, if you put a line
<v Speaker 2>from one of those movies interview, you will be entered
<v Speaker 2>into a contest to win a engraved custom ozarka tumbler
<v Speaker 2>with your name and surely you can't be serious logo
<v Speaker 2>on it. And someone stepped up to the challenge. All right,
<v Speaker 2>this is Mama Cat seventy seven.
<v Speaker 1>Hey, Mama Cat seventy seven.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know who that is, So you're gonna you're
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<v Speaker 2>Nobody puts baby in a corner. You guys are awesome.
<v Speaker 2>I really appreciate the podcast. Keep up the good work
<v Speaker 2>and keep on keeping on. Thank you, Mama Cat. Seventy seven.
<v Speaker 2>You are going to be entered into the contest. We've
<v Speaker 2>already given out a few of those cups to our
<v Speaker 2>special winners and people listening today. If you want to
<v Speaker 2>be entered into a contest to win one of these
<v Speaker 2>custom engraved cups, just put in I feel the Need,
<v Speaker 2>the Need for Speed or some other famous top take
<v Speaker 2>me on your Mighty Wings or buzz in the Time
<v Speaker 2>Highway to the Danger Zone. Any of those will work.
<v Speaker 2>Talk to me goobs all right. This album was released
<v Speaker 2>May thirteenth, nineteen eighty six. Jason, what were you doing
<v Speaker 2>summer of nineteen eighty six?
<v Speaker 1>Summer of nineteen eighty six, I was getting ready to
<v Speaker 1>turn thirteen years old. I was listening to a lot
<v Speaker 1>of Van Halen fifty one fifty This is right before
<v Speaker 1>of course bon Jovie hits Yeah and Top Gun was
<v Speaker 1>a huge, huge movie for me, and this soundtrack carried
<v Speaker 1>me through that summer of eighty six. Awesome what About You.
<v Speaker 2>In May of eighty six, I was ten. I was
<v Speaker 2>still in my jeans jacket and obsessing about Marty McFly
<v Speaker 2>from Future Phase YEA. But going into the summer, there
<v Speaker 2>were some new songs that were coming out that were
<v Speaker 2>pretty exciting as well.
<v Speaker 1>My MTV watching was ramping up during this time.
<v Speaker 2>Absolutely, the videos were starting to get good. We already
<v Speaker 2>did talk about some of these songs that was part
<v Speaker 2>of a episode dedicated to Top Gun the movie. We
<v Speaker 2>just touched on it. But those two episodes have been
<v Speaker 2>so popular that we decided we should have a full
<v Speaker 2>music episode. So that's why we're bringing this to you today.
<v Speaker 2>If you haven't heard those episodes, be sure and check
<v Speaker 2>out our Top Gun episode and our Top Gun Maverick episode,
<v Speaker 2>which is spoiler free for about the first half and
<v Speaker 2>then slight spoilers after that. But definitely check those episodes out.
<v Speaker 1>This album hit number one July twenty six of eighty six,
<v Speaker 1>was number one for three weeks, and then it came
<v Speaker 1>back in September and then again back again in October.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it hit number one and then it got knocked
<v Speaker 2>out by True Blue Iconic Album. Yes hit number one again,
<v Speaker 2>got knocked out by Dancing on the Ceiling, another iconic
<v Speaker 2>album and hit number one again and finally got knocked
<v Speaker 2>out for the last time by Huey Lewis in the
<v Speaker 2>News four.
<v Speaker 1>This is the number five best selling album of nineteen
<v Speaker 1>eighty six.
<v Speaker 2>Dude, I'm excited. Can can we start talking songs?
<v Speaker 1>One more thing? Okay, so this is the best selling
<v Speaker 1>soundtrack of nineteen eighty six. Sure, but I've got the
<v Speaker 1>list of the top selling soundtracks of all time. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>I want to breeze through these real quick, because some
<v Speaker 1>we've touched on. Okay, some we want to touch on. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I'm just going to start twenty. We'll go quickly right there.
<v Speaker 1>Number twenty is Vita number nineteen, The Jazz Singer, number eighteen,
<v Speaker 1>City of Angels number seventeen, The Big Chill. We talked
<v Speaker 1>about that, how that was kind of one of the
<v Speaker 1>very first big soundtracks. Sixteen Space Jam, fifteen Flash Dance.
<v Speaker 1>That's a Simpson Bruckheimer.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's the definitely a seed for this album.
<v Speaker 1>That has Georgio Moroder all over it. Okay, Number fourteen,
<v Speaker 1>Pure Country, number thirteen, The Little Mermaid, number twelve, Waiting
<v Speaker 1>to Exhale, Number eleven, grease hoped God that next year
<v Speaker 1>number ten, Oh brother, where art thou? Number nine is
<v Speaker 1>top Gun, number eight is footloose. Go back to our
<v Speaker 1>Footloose track by track, episode number seven, The Lion King,
<v Speaker 1>number six, Titanic, number five, the Dirty Dancing soundtrack. It's
<v Speaker 1>been huge for us. Yes, number four, the Forrest Gump soundtrack.
<v Speaker 2>I understandable, but that's all old music, not original stuff like.
<v Speaker 1>This number three, Purple Rain of course, number two Saturday
<v Speaker 1>Night Fever, Yes, we knew that, and the number one
<v Speaker 1>selling soundtrack of all time, The Bodyguard Whitney Houston. All right,
<v Speaker 1>let's dive in, song by song, track by track.
<v Speaker 2>Right out of the gate, we've got maybe the most
<v Speaker 2>memorable song of the whole album, danger Zone by mister
<v Speaker 2>Kenny Loggins. Dance Okay, awesome intro right out of the gate,
<v Speaker 2>crunchy guitars, just kicking butt, and then you've got this
<v Speaker 2>pulsing heartbeat like drum as Kenny Loggins comes in with
<v Speaker 2>the vocals. It is too cool for school. But Kenny
<v Speaker 2>Loggins was not the guy who was supposed to do
<v Speaker 2>this song.
<v Speaker 1>No, he was not. Tell me the story man, okay,
<v Speaker 1>So Georgio Moroder is the guy who wrote the song.
<v Speaker 1>Initially they wanted maybe Corey Hearts. They talked about Ario Speedwagon,
<v Speaker 1>Brian Adams. Brian Adams, Toto was the one. I mean,
<v Speaker 1>Toto was it.
<v Speaker 2>Toto was the one tell us the Toto story.
<v Speaker 1>So, after three hundred open call submissions from artists people
<v Speaker 1>all over, said we want to write the intro theme
<v Speaker 1>song for Top Gun, they submitted it. The producers sat around,
<v Speaker 1>they listened to every single one and they sort of
<v Speaker 1>had this like anybody could blackball it like ten seconds in.
<v Speaker 1>One guy says nah. Then they kicked it out, put
<v Speaker 1>in another cassette and moved right on.
<v Speaker 2>Three hundred songs.
<v Speaker 1>Three hundred songs, and after going through three hundred, they're like,
<v Speaker 1>we don't really like any of these now.
<v Speaker 2>Kenny Loggins was a part of the group that they
<v Speaker 2>showed the movie to and he saw all these other
<v Speaker 2>artists in there, and he says to his writing partner,
<v Speaker 2>let's not try for the intro song and they can
<v Speaker 2>give that to somebody else. Let's do the volleyball scene.
<v Speaker 1>Right.
<v Speaker 2>So that song was going to come up later and
<v Speaker 2>we'll talk about that, but Danger Zone was not his contribution.
<v Speaker 1>So the producers contacted this guy named Giorgio Moroder. Now
<v Speaker 1>he had worked with them on the Flashdance soundtrack. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>had a good working relationship with since Ruckheimer. Yes, after
<v Speaker 1>they got with him, he wrote danger Zone and they
<v Speaker 1>had planned to have Toto sing this. Okay, we talked
<v Speaker 1>about this in our previous episode. I think we talked
<v Speaker 1>about it during our Toto episode.
<v Speaker 2>Huh.
<v Speaker 1>So they brought in the guys from Toto. They listened
<v Speaker 1>to their version of danger Zone. They said, we really
<v Speaker 1>like it, but I think what we're gonna do instead
<v Speaker 1>of having you guys play on it, We're going to
<v Speaker 1>keep your singer. We're gonna have session musicians play the instruments.
<v Speaker 2>That's insane, right, I mean, Toto is the band behind
<v Speaker 2>Thriller the album. Why would you have those guys and
<v Speaker 2>say we're gonna have somebody else perform the music?
<v Speaker 3>Right?
<v Speaker 1>And they took it as an insult and rightfully. So Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>they're like, well, no, that's not gonna work. So screw
<v Speaker 1>you guys. We're out of here. We're going home, right,
<v Speaker 1>Screw you guys, We're going home. So Columbia really wanted
<v Speaker 1>to use an artist under their label. So They offered
<v Speaker 1>it to Brian Adams and he was like, no, I
<v Speaker 1>don't like pro war movies. They offered it to Starship.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I heard that too, And and like you said,
<v Speaker 2>Ario Speedwagon, Kenny Logins said that he was talking to
<v Speaker 2>the guy from Ario Speedwagon. He was like, yeah, the
<v Speaker 2>notes were too high for me to hit. I'm like,
<v Speaker 2>wait a minute, Ario Speedwagon. You know what what? Right? Okay, right? Yeah, sure.
<v Speaker 1>But Kenny was down the street recording his vocals on
<v Speaker 1>Playing with the Boys. Yeah, And of course he had
<v Speaker 1>a huge success with Footloose we knew from two years
<v Speaker 1>prior to.
<v Speaker 2>That, Yeah, as well as I'm all Right from Caddyshack.
<v Speaker 1>And so they called him up and they said, hey, Kenny,
<v Speaker 1>we're already dropping music into the movie and we've got
<v Speaker 1>a song that's super important to the movie, but we
<v Speaker 1>don't have anybody who can sing it. And Kenny Logan said,
<v Speaker 1>I just have one question. Is it up tempo? They said, yes,
<v Speaker 1>it is. He said, great, I'll do it. Never heard
<v Speaker 1>it right, never heard it until he got to the studio.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, he sat down with Tom Whitlock and tweaked a
<v Speaker 2>few things, put the bridge in there that kind of
<v Speaker 2>gave you that relaxing point in between the high intensity
<v Speaker 2>of the first par art and the high intensity ending.
<v Speaker 1>Is that his that's his.
<v Speaker 2>Coret He doesn't have any writing credit on it, but
<v Speaker 2>he definitely, I mean he is. He's a major songwriter
<v Speaker 2>for decades.
<v Speaker 1>So yeah, he gave up his songwriting credit on this
<v Speaker 1>on purpose because there's some sort of Oscar nominated thing
<v Speaker 1>where Whitlock and Moroder wanted to keep that string alive
<v Speaker 1>and not add Login's name into it. And so he
<v Speaker 1>actually has been fighting for royalties for about thirty years.
<v Speaker 2>I think he gave up. I think he finally just said,
<v Speaker 2>you know, it's okay, that's okay, that's cool with me.
<v Speaker 2>I'm gonna let that slide. I think he's finally let.
<v Speaker 1>That god it Okay.
<v Speaker 2>Can I tell you the story on Georgio Moroder and
<v Speaker 2>Tom Winlock, please tell me? Okay. So we mentioned in
<v Speaker 2>our last episode that Tom Whitlock was like Georgio Moroder's
<v Speaker 2>Ferrari mechanic. Okay, there's so much more to the story
<v Speaker 2>than that, and it is it's not as van Halen
<v Speaker 2>as it seems. Okay, you know van Halen, Sammy Hagar
<v Speaker 2>and Eddie van Halen both had the same Ferrari mechanic,
<v Speaker 2>same Lambeau mechanic, I think actually, and he's the one
<v Speaker 2>that introduced him. Yes, So Giorgio Moroder, the guy's been
<v Speaker 2>making music for seventy years. I mean he's an incredible force.
<v Speaker 2>He was called the father of disco. He pioneered EDM music.
<v Speaker 2>I mean he's huge name. He started music Land Studios,
<v Speaker 2>which had artists recording there like the Rolling Stones, Elo
<v Speaker 2>led Zeppelin, Deep Purple Queen, Elton John. And then he
<v Speaker 2>started to do the soundtrack scores. He did Midnight Express
<v Speaker 2>and then he did American Jigglow. Yes. He also did
<v Speaker 2>Superman three Yes, well yeah, Scarface and The Never Ending Story,
<v Speaker 2>And he did the nineteen eighty four restoration of Metropolis.
<v Speaker 2>And so it's like that WOS that you can watch
<v Speaker 2>is called the Moroder version of Metropolis. But that Flash
<v Speaker 2>Dance soundtrack, he did What a Feeling the Flash Dance
<v Speaker 2>song by Irene Kara. But he had he had gotten
<v Speaker 2>all kinds of success. I mean, he was a huge name,
<v Speaker 2>which is why the Berlin folks were so interested in
<v Speaker 2>having him to talk about here in a second. Yes,
<v Speaker 2>so he makes his way over to the US. He
<v Speaker 2>does American jigglow Call Me by Blondie is on there.
<v Speaker 1>That's him.
<v Speaker 2>And he's over at a studio where there are a
<v Speaker 2>couple of guys working. One of those guys is Tom Whitlock.
<v Speaker 2>Now Tom is a musician. He was a rock drummer.
<v Speaker 2>He studied music at Drury University.
<v Speaker 1>Did you say Drury University?
<v Speaker 2>Drury University, Yes, up in Missouri, in Springfield, Yes, in Springfield, Missouri.
<v Speaker 1>One of my best friends went to Drury.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, well there you go. Okay, and that small, small school.
<v Speaker 2>One of the one of the guys that went there
<v Speaker 2>was Tom Whitlock. Well, he had come out to La
<v Speaker 2>to make a name as a musician, right, and he's
<v Speaker 2>helping his buddy out at the studio. And this guy's
<v Speaker 2>I mean, he's a music in Virginior for Breakfast Club
<v Speaker 2>among others. I mean, this is he's not Slie Potatoes either. Okay,
<v Speaker 2>But Georgio Moroder is there and he's like complaining about
<v Speaker 2>how his breaks won't work in his ferrari. Okay, So
<v Speaker 2>Tom Whitlock, good old boy from Missouri, just goes. Tommy
<v Speaker 2>was going on and Maroder explains, He's like, just give
<v Speaker 2>me a second. He runs down to the convenience store
<v Speaker 2>by his break fluid. This is what he did. He
<v Speaker 2>was not a mechanic. He bought two pints of break fluid,
<v Speaker 2>came back, put it in Moroder's car. He's like, there
<v Speaker 2>you go, man, it should work.
<v Speaker 1>Wow.
<v Speaker 2>Moroder was so impressed that he was like, how about
<v Speaker 2>you come and work with me at my studio. So
<v Speaker 2>that is the full story. It wasn't you know you're
<v Speaker 2>my Ferrari mechanic.
<v Speaker 1>It was like this guy covered with grease.
<v Speaker 2>It was a guy who was a musician who just
<v Speaker 2>knew how to change break fluid and got lucky one day.
<v Speaker 1>That's incredible. Yeah, that's a great story.
<v Speaker 2>So he got hired to work at Maroder studio and
<v Speaker 2>he starts studying recording with Brian Reeves who did Scarface
<v Speaker 2>and Flash Dance and Beverly Hills cop. Then Moroder gets
<v Speaker 2>contacted to do the Top Gun soundtrack and his normal
<v Speaker 2>writing partners are busy, and he knows that Tom is
<v Speaker 2>a musician, so he says, hey, do you want to
<v Speaker 2>help me write some songs on this one. They write
<v Speaker 2>five songs together for the soundtrack, and history.
<v Speaker 1>Is including Danger's Take My Breath Away plus Leave Me
<v Speaker 1>On by Tina Marine We're going to.
<v Speaker 2>Talk about and Tom Whitlock would go on to do
<v Speaker 2>a song for Sammy Hagar Winner take All from the
<v Speaker 2>y Yeah I Top soundtrack and another song for Kenny
<v Speaker 2>Loggins meet Me Halfway. Also Tom Whitlock.
<v Speaker 1>Meet Me Halfway. That was another song that kind of
<v Speaker 1>furthered Kenny Loggins's soundtrack Career. Yeah, exactly, mister soundtrack, you
<v Speaker 1>got it. Interestingly, this song only made it to number two.
<v Speaker 1>We talked about this during our Top Gun episode. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>which is a crime to me because it's one of
<v Speaker 1>the best songs of the eighties. It really is like
<v Speaker 1>the eighties and one.
<v Speaker 2>Three and a half minute song, right, and I remember
<v Speaker 2>the song that kept it out, but remind it remind
<v Speaker 2>our audience.
<v Speaker 1>That song was called Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel.
<v Speaker 2>Which was all over the place that year.
<v Speaker 1>It was and it's a good song.
<v Speaker 2>It's yeah, it's a good song. It was really the
<v Speaker 2>video that made that song.
<v Speaker 1>I agree with you. The video was really cutting edge
<v Speaker 1>and really cool. In the battle of one versus two.
<v Speaker 1>I'm taking danger Zone every day of the week.
<v Speaker 2>Though, right right, and I'll just throw this out there. Yeah, listeners,
<v Speaker 2>if you haven't heard our Duran Durant episode, go back
<v Speaker 2>and check that out. We went track by track through
<v Speaker 2>Rio with our friend Melissa Bingle and she mentioned that
<v Speaker 2>she had the new album called Future Past right. Yes, Well,
<v Speaker 2>mister Tom Whitlock wrote two of the songs with Duran
<v Speaker 2>for that album.
<v Speaker 1>How about that?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Tonight United and Beautiful Lies.
<v Speaker 1>That is really cool? How about that? Kenny Loggins said
<v Speaker 1>that he had been listening to a lot of Tina Turner. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>and so when he was singing that's why you get
<v Speaker 1>the Dangers name Zone. I think that's cool.
<v Speaker 2>Tina Turner making her stamp. Yeah, here's what's interesting. Kenny
<v Speaker 2>Loggins was doing an interview and he pointed out that
<v Speaker 2>Moroder would use a Yamaha DX seven, but unlike everybody
<v Speaker 2>else in the industry, he would just take it out
<v Speaker 2>of the box and just start playing the stock sounds
<v Speaker 2>that came with it. And Kennedy Long is like, I'm
<v Speaker 2>out there as Long with all these other artists trying
<v Speaker 2>to create our own unique sound, and to quote, we're
<v Speaker 2>all trying to create custom sounds. And he just plugged
<v Speaker 2>it in and made a load of hit records.
<v Speaker 1>Jorjio Moroder does play the synths and drum machine for
<v Speaker 1>danger Zone. Before we get to the music video, I've
<v Speaker 1>got to throw my boy Dan Huff another bone. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>he plays guitar on Danger Zone because we said we're
<v Speaker 1>never gonna play this song in any of our episodes,
<v Speaker 1>and here we are, we're playing this second time. Dan
<v Speaker 1>Huff is the lead singer for Giants and they had
<v Speaker 1>one awesome song the spring of nineteen ninety called I'll
<v Speaker 1>See You in My Dreams.
<v Speaker 2>We all made anything.
<v Speaker 1>I love this song, man, it's one of my fairs.
<v Speaker 1>I can't believe we stuck it in another aspect twice.
<v Speaker 1>You're a bigger fan than I am. That's okay.
<v Speaker 2>So we talked about Kenny Loggins agreeing at the last
<v Speaker 2>minute to do this. He said, as they're recording it,
<v Speaker 2>He's like, how long do we have to do this?
<v Speaker 2>Some Roders like I have to dub this into the
<v Speaker 2>movie in the next twenty four hours. So it was
<v Speaker 2>I mean the song that you get they did in
<v Speaker 2>less than a day's work.
<v Speaker 1>That's incredible. Yeah, and listen, I don't want to over
<v Speaker 1>dramatize things. But we talked at length in both the
<v Speaker 1>Top Gun episode and the Maverick episode where you have
<v Speaker 1>the Top Gun theme that explodes into danger zone as
<v Speaker 1>they take off from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>and it's a blow your socks off moment in the movie, right, Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>in both movies, both movies. It's so important and hugely
<v Speaker 1>impactful for the tone of the movie.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, absolutely, Kenney said he went to Tom and said, hey,
<v Speaker 2>how about I dress up in a uniform and just
<v Speaker 2>to a walk through for the movie. And Tom was like, yeah, yeah, okay, No, no,
<v Speaker 2>it didn't happen. Could you imagine I would have lost
<v Speaker 2>my mind?
<v Speaker 1>Yeah?
<v Speaker 2>Had I seen Kenny Loggins dressed up as a four
<v Speaker 2>star general walking through the.
<v Speaker 1>Then cool man. You'd have to get a hide and
<v Speaker 1>tight and shave the beard off. Probably.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, let's talk video. Yeah, so you have basically a
<v Speaker 1>paid advertisement for the movie Top Gun.
<v Speaker 2>It's like a summary of the movie all in a
<v Speaker 2>four minute video.
<v Speaker 1>It really is. You know who directed that video? I do,
<v Speaker 1>mister Tony Scott, the director of the movie, directed the
<v Speaker 1>music video, and basically Kenny Loggins is in a bedroom,
<v Speaker 1>a little bit sweaty with his aviator, sunglasses on, sitting up,
<v Speaker 1>laying down on a bed. Yeah, nothing major.
<v Speaker 2>You have sunglasses and a fan. That's it, and that's it.
<v Speaker 2>And then at one, for one brief second, Kenny Loggins
<v Speaker 2>is laying down on a pillow singing to you, and
<v Speaker 2>then all of a sudden, he's taking pictures of you
<v Speaker 2>with a handheld camera. I don't know what purpose of
<v Speaker 2>that was, but interesting idea.
<v Speaker 1>But the reason why we loved that video is because
<v Speaker 1>it was eighty percent clips from the movie. You even
<v Speaker 1>get Maverick got a good lock firing.
<v Speaker 2>Kenny Loggins showed up to the set and he's like, okay,
<v Speaker 2>so what are we gonna do and he goes, not much.
<v Speaker 2>We'll pretty well just gonna intercut.
<v Speaker 1>You with the movie and that's about it.
<v Speaker 2>I got a fan, I got some sunglasses. You're good
<v Speaker 2>to go.
<v Speaker 1>Here's a fan, here's some sunglasses. Here mess around with
<v Speaker 1>this camera. By the way, Kenny Loggins did record an
<v Speaker 1>updated version of Danger Zone. H huh, A little different.
<v Speaker 1>Guess what Tom Cruise is like. Now, we're gonna stick
<v Speaker 1>with the eighty six version. And you know what, it.
<v Speaker 2>Was a good choice.
<v Speaker 1>I think that was the right call. Yeah, it's so good.
<v Speaker 2>Okay. Are we ready to move on to cheap Trick?
<v Speaker 1>Let's move on to cheap Trick?
<v Speaker 2>Okay. Our song number two is Mighty Wings. This is
<v Speaker 2>a song written by Harold Faltermeyer and Mark Spiro and
<v Speaker 2>it is the third single to come off of this album.
<v Speaker 1>Dude, I love this song. This song gets overlooked. It
<v Speaker 1>is a fantastic song on this album.
<v Speaker 2>It definitely gets overlooked. And I don't know. I mean,
<v Speaker 2>you've got this album that's obviously one of the best
<v Speaker 2>selling soundtrack albums of all time. This is a single
<v Speaker 2>off of that album in the year that it's at
<v Speaker 2>the top of the charts, and yet it kind of
<v Speaker 2>false flat.
<v Speaker 1>I don't really get it. Billboard listed this song as
<v Speaker 1>a pop pick and stated feverish, fast pulse rock from
<v Speaker 1>Top Gun. Inclusion in the Smash soundtrack should push the
<v Speaker 1>band towards its strongest chart bid in years. That did
<v Speaker 1>not happen. No, and I don't know why, because this
<v Speaker 1>is an awesome song that's used prominently in the movie.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, they use it twice. Yeah, it's I mean it is.
<v Speaker 2>It's eighties all over it's power all over. I don't
<v Speaker 2>know what happened.
<v Speaker 1>So here's what happened. I think this is the answer.
<v Speaker 1>It was moved from the second single released to the
<v Speaker 1>third single released in favor of take My breath Away, right,
<v Speaker 1>which blew up, and they didn't have a video for it.
<v Speaker 2>That is I think the answer right in nineteen eighty six.
<v Speaker 2>In nineteen eighty six, you have to have a video,
<v Speaker 2>that isn't that's the answer right there, because if you
<v Speaker 2>are riding the wave of danger Zone followed by take
<v Speaker 2>My breath Away, you don't have to do some sort
<v Speaker 2>of miraculous thing. Give us another video with top gun
<v Speaker 2>clips and you're going to soar up the charts. That
<v Speaker 2>is the answer to the question. As I said, this
<v Speaker 2>song was written by Harold Faldemeyer, and we mentioned last
<v Speaker 2>episode he was the guy who did axel F which
<v Speaker 2>was another huge topper. Right. Yes, he referred to that
<v Speaker 2>song as the banana theme, becuz in the movie he's like,
<v Speaker 2>how much just for the two bananas you go on
<v Speaker 2>to you take him bananas?
<v Speaker 1>Look, man, I evolve a banana the tail vibe.
<v Speaker 2>So the banana theme is by Harold Valtemeyer. And he
<v Speaker 2>was a kid who parents got him into music, and
<v Speaker 2>a music professor's listening to him and he's like, holy caath,
<v Speaker 2>this kid has perfect pitch at like three years old.
<v Speaker 2>He's he's got some amazing abilities. Like Moroder. He starts
<v Speaker 2>working at a recording studio, is doing engineering at a
<v Speaker 2>very young age for major classical sessions. And Georgio Moroder
<v Speaker 2>his ears are perked and he's like, let's bring this
<v Speaker 2>guy to La. So Georgia Moroder is the guy who
<v Speaker 2>brought Harold Faltemeyer to La and he played and arranged
<v Speaker 2>for Midnight Express, which I mean that one, that one.
<v Speaker 2>Maroder his first Oscar.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, I want to point out something I think is
<v Speaker 1>a little bit overlooked. Okay, Simpson and Bruckheimer have been
<v Speaker 1>credited with sort of bringing some of these seventies rock
<v Speaker 1>stars through the eighties by using soundtracks. Absolutely one of
<v Speaker 1>the Kenny Loggins right on the Beverly Hills cop soundtrack.
<v Speaker 1>You have Glenn Frye, who has a huge hit.
<v Speaker 2>True Beverly Hills two soundtrack. You've got Bob.
<v Speaker 1>Bob see her Yeah for Armageddon. You have Aerosmith, who
<v Speaker 1>has a smash.
<v Speaker 2>Song biggest song of their career.
<v Speaker 1>Cheap Trick falls into that category.
<v Speaker 2>There's a seventies band, but they didn't do a video.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, now, wait a minute, here's the thing. I wanted
<v Speaker 1>to bring this up because they thought that this might
<v Speaker 1>be the song to bring Cheap Trick back into the
<v Speaker 1>forefront of the MTV viewing audience.
<v Speaker 2>Right.
<v Speaker 1>That did not happen, No, but it did happen just
<v Speaker 1>a couple of years later with the song called the Flame,
<v Speaker 1>which is one of my all time favorite songs.
<v Speaker 2>This is how I know Cheap Trick.
<v Speaker 1>You and I both right, yep. So that song went
<v Speaker 1>number one July nineteen eighty eight. It knocked out Dirty
<v Speaker 1>Diana Wow, who on guitar had Steve Stevens. Steve Stevens
<v Speaker 1>and it was knocked out by Richard Marx. Hold On
<v Speaker 1>to the Nights Nice, which was number one, over Poured
<v Speaker 1>Some Sugar on Me talked out at number two. So
<v Speaker 1>summer of eighty eight you had some interesting stuff going
<v Speaker 1>on chart wise.
<v Speaker 2>Man, the eighties were a good year decade for music.
<v Speaker 1>I love this song. It is in the conversation for
<v Speaker 1>the best. I'm gonna put you on the spot at
<v Speaker 1>the end of this thing. I'm gonna say, what song
<v Speaker 1>is the best?
<v Speaker 2>It won't be this one.
<v Speaker 1>I'm writing this one down as just kind of a
<v Speaker 1>little side.
<v Speaker 2>Notes, okay, all right, in your notes over there. I'm
<v Speaker 2>putting it in my notes, all right. Moving on to
<v Speaker 2>song number three. It makes me feel happy, it makes
<v Speaker 2>me feel gay playing with the boys. So this is
<v Speaker 2>the song that Can Loggins said to his writing partner, Hey,
<v Speaker 2>let's not try for the main theme. Let's try for
<v Speaker 2>something that nuts so many people are going for. And
<v Speaker 2>they said, let's do the volleyball one, right right. And
<v Speaker 2>his writing partner, by the way, is Peter Wolf, who
<v Speaker 2>has arranged a ton of stuff including Who's Johnny from
<v Speaker 2>Who's Short Circuit? Yeah, the Barge.
<v Speaker 1>The March, Yeah, el de Barge, I think old the
<v Speaker 1>Barge yep. But this one, hit number sixty didn't do
<v Speaker 1>too bad. Yeah. This one is known more for the
<v Speaker 1>movie the volleyball scene in the movie.
<v Speaker 2>So this song has been used in dozens, literally dozens
<v Speaker 2>of movies and TV episodes and every single time it
<v Speaker 2>involves in volleyball.
<v Speaker 1>As it should. It actually is featured in the nineteen
<v Speaker 1>ninety movie Side Out with see Thomas Hall do you
<v Speaker 1>remember that movie. No, it's a whole movie devoted to volleyball,
<v Speaker 1>so of course you gotta have play with the voice.
<v Speaker 2>That's it. It was a hit at all the day
<v Speaker 2>night clubs? Was it? Jonathan Cohen of Spin magazine called
<v Speaker 2>it a sort of gay anthem. Okay, I mean you
<v Speaker 2>can't hear the words and not have Ymca and the
<v Speaker 2>Village people pop into your head a little bit. And
<v Speaker 2>I will say there was one non volleyball movie episode
<v Speaker 2>that this song came up in, and it was an
<v Speaker 2>episode early on in season one of Cobra Kai. Johnny
<v Speaker 2>Lawrence is being drug home drunk and he's singing playing
<v Speaker 2>with the boys.
<v Speaker 1>Nice, Nice, Okay. I've got to ask you, yeah, have
<v Speaker 1>you seen this music video?
<v Speaker 4>No?
<v Speaker 1>Okay. At the end of the Shirle You Can't Be
<v Speaker 1>Serious podcast, we need to amass a list of the
<v Speaker 1>worst music videos ever made, Okay right. We talked at
<v Speaker 1>length during our Toto four episode about the video four
<v Speaker 1>Waiting for You Love, very sweaty, snow bras.
<v Speaker 2>Very eighties, lots of shoulder pads, noo boom pads, child.
<v Speaker 1>Molester glasses, the whole nine yards, and we called it
<v Speaker 1>one of the worst videos of all time.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, and we also saw the original version of the
<v Speaker 2>Poor Some Sugar on Me video, which again is in
<v Speaker 2>that category for songs coming out in the mid to
<v Speaker 2>late eighties. To still have videos this bad is not acceptable, right,
<v Speaker 2>which I had. The band agreed. They made a different
<v Speaker 2>video and it was much better. Was it Russell mckayhew
<v Speaker 2>who had done that horrible I think so. I think
<v Speaker 2>it was. I think it was Russell McKay who had
<v Speaker 2>done the horrible first version of the Poor swis. Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Well, this one's in the conversation, okay, because it literally
<v Speaker 1>looks like my church youth group shot this while we're
<v Speaker 1>playing volleyball after church one night.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, it's a little budget.
<v Speaker 1>It's guys versus girls in the volleyball match. Yeah, and
<v Speaker 1>they're all dressed. They look like they belong on Jane
<v Speaker 1>Fonda's workout video. And Kenny Loggins is on the side
<v Speaker 1>and he's sort of playing the guitar while the boys
<v Speaker 1>an early lead. The girls come back and I think
<v Speaker 1>the girls actually win. The volleyball is terrible. The song's
<v Speaker 1>name playing with the boys and the girls win. The
<v Speaker 1>girls are sort of playing with the boys.
<v Speaker 2>Oh, my word.
<v Speaker 1>Do you get a chance to go watch that music video?
<v Speaker 2>Okay? You got any more? On playing with the Boys? Nope? Okay,
<v Speaker 2>Let's jump into song number four, Take On Me No,
<v Speaker 2>Lead Me On? Wait? Was that me?
<v Speaker 1>Was I singing? Yes?
<v Speaker 2>That was you sing That was wrong? Okay, that's not
<v Speaker 2>That's not this song. No, it's now I got it wrong.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, it is lead Me On, but it is by
<v Speaker 1>Tina Marie, Lady Tea. Okay, I'm going to make the
<v Speaker 1>case that this song is awesome. Okay, all right. The
<v Speaker 1>horns are freaking infectious. It's got a pop rock feel
<v Speaker 1>to it. The singer's voice is great. Tina Marie's got
<v Speaker 1>that great sopranos. Even God, I love it. I don't
<v Speaker 1>care what anybody else says. I am unapologetically a big
<v Speaker 1>fan of this song right here.
<v Speaker 2>This is not a skipper for me. I would listen
<v Speaker 2>to this song for sure. I like Tina Marie's voice.
<v Speaker 2>Teina Marie, there's not an artist that you probably have
<v Speaker 2>heard a lot about. If you're more rock fans like
<v Speaker 2>we are, right, this is definitely on the rock side
<v Speaker 2>of the things that she has done. She actually sang
<v Speaker 2>and acted from the time that she was a little kid,
<v Speaker 2>she was on an episode of the Beverly Hillbillies. Really yeah,
<v Speaker 2>So her family moves out to California. They're not super
<v Speaker 2>well off. She ends up kind of growing up in
<v Speaker 2>an urban neighborhood with a lot more black people than
<v Speaker 2>white people. Right. She meets this lady named Bertha Lynn
<v Speaker 2>Jackson who kind of becomes her godmother, and that has
<v Speaker 2>a profound influence on her musical style. She ends up
<v Speaker 2>getting signed by Barry Gordy and she starts doing stuff
<v Speaker 2>for him, making these songs, but nothing is getting released.
<v Speaker 2>It's just like she keeps recording stuff but they're not
<v Speaker 2>releasing anything. And then she runs into Rick James, the
<v Speaker 2>super Freak himself. Super freak, yes, super freaky. Rick James
<v Speaker 2>is supposed to produce an album for Diana Ross, but
<v Speaker 2>when he meets Tina Marie, he's like, who's Diana Ross.
<v Speaker 2>I don't think I've heard of her. I'd like to
<v Speaker 2>I would like to produce Tina Marie.
<v Speaker 1>Now.
<v Speaker 2>Of course, they get involved in a romantic relationship as
<v Speaker 2>you would expect, but he gives her the name Lady
<v Speaker 2>t and they produced the album Wild and Peaceful, which
<v Speaker 2>contains a duet by them called I'm a Sucker for
<v Speaker 2>Your Love.
<v Speaker 1>That's great, it was.
<v Speaker 2>A chart topper, but on the album there's no picture
<v Speaker 2>of her. So everybody thinks, I mean, we've got Rick
<v Speaker 2>James as the producer. We got buried Gordy is the
<v Speaker 2>I mean obviously right, And so they invite her and
<v Speaker 2>Rick James onto Soul Train, where suddenly everybody's like, where
<v Speaker 2>that white woman come from?
<v Speaker 1>She is pasty white too.
<v Speaker 2>She is the first white female guest on Soul Train.
<v Speaker 2>She appeared another eight times, which is the most of
<v Speaker 2>any white female guest.
<v Speaker 1>She's called the Ivory Queen of Soul. Yeah, and I
<v Speaker 1>know her most from her song called lover Girl, which
<v Speaker 1>was a big hit in nineteen eighty five. Areach number four?
<v Speaker 2>Well, she kept recording for the Motown Records, but they
<v Speaker 2>were refusing to publish any of her stuff. They wouldn't
<v Speaker 2>release the records, and so she had to sue on
<v Speaker 2>which is an interesting thing. Here. You are you are
<v Speaker 2>limited by contract, you can't go record for another label,
<v Speaker 2>but we're not going to release anything that you are recording.
<v Speaker 2>And she's like, this isn't fair. I can't, you can't
<v Speaker 2>do this to me, and ultimately she won the case
<v Speaker 2>and it is literally called the Brockert Initiative because her
<v Speaker 2>name is Tina Brockert, and it says you can't hold
<v Speaker 2>somebody to a label and simultaneously not release their stuff.
<v Speaker 2>It's too much of a limitation.
<v Speaker 1>It's like slavery.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, so she ends up signing with Columbia. Nineteen eighty
<v Speaker 2>four is when Starchild comes out, which had Lover Girl
<v Speaker 2>on it, like you talked about, and that's when we
<v Speaker 2>come along with leading me on.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, we've got to talk about her early death.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Before we do, I will just say she was
<v Speaker 2>a big influence going on for other artists. She's the
<v Speaker 2>godmother of Maya Rudolph from Saturday Night Live because her
<v Speaker 2>dad produced Tina Marie's second album, and she was also
<v Speaker 2>a godmother to Marvin Gay's daughter Nona. And Lenny Kravitt
<v Speaker 2>said when he was first starting out and struggling as
<v Speaker 2>a musician, he went to her and she absolutely helped
<v Speaker 2>him with his career.
<v Speaker 1>Well that's great.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, she had unfortunately a bad end to this rather
<v Speaker 2>beautiful story.
<v Speaker 1>This was a tragic story when I read this. Okay, yeah,
<v Speaker 1>I knew she died early. I think she died it two.
<v Speaker 1>But in two thousand and four, Tina Marie was asleep
<v Speaker 1>in a hotel room in her bed and a huge
<v Speaker 1>picture frame fell off the wall and hit her in
<v Speaker 1>the head, just like complete freak accident, falls off the wall,
<v Speaker 1>cracks her in the skull. It caused a serious concussion
<v Speaker 1>that resulted in huge seizures for the rest of her life.
<v Speaker 1>In fact, she had a grandma seizure one month before
<v Speaker 1>her death. On December twenty sixth twenty ten, she was
<v Speaker 1>found dead.
<v Speaker 2>By her daughter.
<v Speaker 1>When the corner did the autopsy, he said she died
<v Speaker 1>of natural causes, but really it all resulted back to
<v Speaker 1>that freak picture falling off the wall and cracker her
<v Speaker 1>in the skull.
<v Speaker 2>Wow, that's tragic. Tragic yep, loss of a great voice.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, we're done with this one, thinks.
<v Speaker 2>So time for maybe the biggest song on the entire album.
<v Speaker 1>It's a biggie. This song is called take My Breath Away.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, soh This song is by the group Berlin, but
<v Speaker 2>really it's Terry Nutt Yes it is so. Terry was
<v Speaker 2>born in June of sixty one and her dad was
<v Speaker 2>an actor, but he was an alcoholic. He ended up
<v Speaker 2>committing suicide when she was fifteen.
<v Speaker 1>I don't know.
<v Speaker 2>So she went out kind of on her own, and
<v Speaker 2>in seventy six she posed for Penthouse. She also auditioned
<v Speaker 2>for Princess Leah in Star Wars. I knew that, well
<v Speaker 2>all the database and OAR two were still sekiller. I
<v Speaker 2>was like, what yeah, so, but just real quick, I'm
<v Speaker 2>going to say those dates again. She was born in
<v Speaker 2>sixty one and she posed for Penthouse in seventy six.
<v Speaker 1>I do the math.
<v Speaker 2>Fifteen fifteen, Oh yeah, she convinced him that she was
<v Speaker 2>over eighteen and denied that it was her, used another name,
<v Speaker 2>denied that it was her for years, but no, she
<v Speaker 2>it was absolutely her. She tricked on posing at fifteen
<v Speaker 2>years old for Penthouse, Wow and using out the part
<v Speaker 2>of Princess Leah to Carroy Fisher.
<v Speaker 1>You can see her audition, which is pretty cool on YouTube.
<v Speaker 2>I believe. Oh nice. Yeah, Well, good news is she
<v Speaker 2>found other avenues. She starts looking in a music contact
<v Speaker 2>service in Hollywood and hey, there's this band called Berlin
<v Speaker 2>that's looking for a singer. They just lost their main singer.
<v Speaker 2>They had a replacement singer for just a little while,
<v Speaker 2>did the live shows with them you know who. This
<v Speaker 2>was no Tony childs. You might remember the hit Don't
<v Speaker 2>walk Away from nineteen eighty eight. Yeah, so Tony Child
<v Speaker 2>sang that song. She was the singer for Berlin for
<v Speaker 2>just a brief period before Terry Nunn joined the band. Wow,
<v Speaker 2>So Berlin had gotten started by a guy named John Crawford.
<v Speaker 2>Yes they did, Okay, Terry Nunn ends up leaving to
<v Speaker 2>become an actress in seventy nine. They get somebody else
<v Speaker 2>to come in to sing, but the record labels who
<v Speaker 2>were interested were like, well, we're really more interested with
<v Speaker 2>that other singer than with your new singer, right, And
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, okay, well let's see if we can get
<v Speaker 2>her back. They get her back, but by this time,
<v Speaker 2>John Crawford he's got his own other, separate band that's
<v Speaker 2>really his main project. In this Berlin thing is just
<v Speaker 2>his kind of for fun thing. So they record this
<v Speaker 2>song called the Metro and it ends up being a success.
<v Speaker 1>I love that song.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, well let's listen to it here, bag Ball.
<v Speaker 5>I was calving, you said, I next to me right
<v Speaker 5>on the.
<v Speaker 1>It's fantastic.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, So now Berlin is starting to be successful, and
<v Speaker 2>John Crawford's like, oh, well, I guess I gotta go
<v Speaker 2>back over here. He's other band, Fahrenheit, has to get
<v Speaker 2>left behind and he goes off with Berlin to start
<v Speaker 2>doing music. And by nineteen eighty four they are saying
<v Speaker 2>to themselves, Okay, we have to get Giorgio Moroder to
<v Speaker 2>come and help us do an album. Yes all we
<v Speaker 2>need if we can just get him to come.
<v Speaker 1>And the like how much do we have? Not enough?
<v Speaker 1>Not much?
<v Speaker 2>Do we have enough for a song? How much for
<v Speaker 2>just one real? Yes, you have enough for just one song.
<v Speaker 2>So once again this is the stars aligning. So Georgio
<v Speaker 2>Moroder comes in to help them with the song No
<v Speaker 2>More Words.
<v Speaker 1>Which is a wonderful song. I absolutely love it.
<v Speaker 2>You're a big Vision Quest faman, right, I love Vision Question. Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>So it's featured in Vision Quest. It is a top
<v Speaker 2>forty hit. But the big news is that while they
<v Speaker 2>are in the process of producing that song, Georgio Moroder
<v Speaker 2>comes running into the room saying, oh my gosh, I
<v Speaker 2>have this big song for this big new movie with
<v Speaker 2>Tom Cruise, and it's coming out in the summer and
<v Speaker 2>it's gonna be the biggest movie of all time and
<v Speaker 2>you should sing the song. And Terry Nunn is like yes,
<v Speaker 2>and John Crawford's like, wait a minute, roll on, why
<v Speaker 2>would we do somebody else's song.
<v Speaker 1>Terry Dunn says, that is not the final nail, but
<v Speaker 1>one of the nails in the coffin that split Berlin
<v Speaker 1>and did them in essentially.
<v Speaker 2>Because they never really had a successful song that even
<v Speaker 2>came close to what Take My Breath Away did.
<v Speaker 1>It won the Academy Award, yep, and it won the
<v Speaker 1>Golden Globe. Yeah, it was a huge Mangas song, maybe
<v Speaker 1>one of the biggest songs in nineteen eighty six.
<v Speaker 2>It allows Berlin to travel the world doing concerts, but
<v Speaker 2>they're frustrated. The band members are frustrated because the song
<v Speaker 2>that everybody wants to hear them play is not even
<v Speaker 2>their song, right, And so yeah, it was it was
<v Speaker 2>the spark that lit the dynamite that would destroy the band.
<v Speaker 1>Here's the thing. When you listen to the song the metro,
<v Speaker 1>it's very pop, very new wave, very different than Take
<v Speaker 1>My breath Away.
<v Speaker 2>By the way, the name Berlin these this is a
<v Speaker 2>group from LA. When I heard him talking the first,
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, these guys have American accents, right, Yeah, so
<v Speaker 2>they just picked the name because they thought it sounded
<v Speaker 2>European and exotic. It had nothing to they have no
<v Speaker 2>connection with Germany whatsoever. Well, they were onto something there,
<v Speaker 2>I guess. Steve Lucather talks about how Toto had written
<v Speaker 2>a song to be the love theme for Top Gun.
<v Speaker 2>That's right.
<v Speaker 1>That song is called only You. I actually think it's
<v Speaker 1>a good song. It's not Taking My breath Away.
<v Speaker 2>No, but it could have been.
<v Speaker 1>Maybe it could.
<v Speaker 2>I mean if you played that song during the love
<v Speaker 2>scene between Charlie and Pete.
<v Speaker 1>Maybe have you heard the Motel's version of taking My
<v Speaker 1>Breath Away?
<v Speaker 2>I have heard that, Yeah, and it's not bad. It's
<v Speaker 2>but it's definitely it's still it's not the production that
<v Speaker 2>this was.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, here's the thing. Yeah, she's got a great voice.
<v Speaker 1>It's not as desperate sounding, as passionate sounding as Terry
<v Speaker 1>Nunn is.
<v Speaker 2>So she talked about that at this point in her life,
<v Speaker 2>she was down, she was sad. This was not a
<v Speaker 2>romantic feeling that she had when she sang the song.
<v Speaker 2>This is a depressed, sad sound, which is you can
<v Speaker 2>hear it yes you can. She talked about being sad
<v Speaker 2>and sad because she wasn't involved in a romantic relationship, right,
<v Speaker 2>and she hadn't had one in a while. You know
<v Speaker 2>who she dated in nineteen eighty five, John Crawford, Michael Hutches,
<v Speaker 2>What of Nxcess?
<v Speaker 1>Really?
<v Speaker 2>Yep?
<v Speaker 1>Interesting? Interesting, And then he.
<v Speaker 2>Went back to Australia and they were Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>There's one change between the Motels and the Berlin song
<v Speaker 1>that I think you probably have to credit to Terry. Now, okay,
<v Speaker 1>there's a line in the Berlin version of the song
<v Speaker 1>where she says, if only for today, I am unafraid,
<v Speaker 1>and it's that emotional, desperation loving romantic line from the movie,
<v Speaker 1>and that line is missing from the Motel's version.
<v Speaker 2>Terry takes her mom to a party at Georgio Moroder's house,
<v Speaker 2>and Georgia Ruder also already has the Academy Award for
<v Speaker 2>flash Dance. Right, He's got a screening room, big big
<v Speaker 2>screen for the screening room, of course, and he's got
<v Speaker 2>his Academy awards sitting on the shelf on the left
<v Speaker 2>hand side, and Terry Nunn's mother is alone with Georgio
<v Speaker 2>Moroder in the screening room and they're sitting there and
<v Speaker 2>she says, you see that space on the right hand
<v Speaker 2>side of the screen that will be for the Oscar
<v Speaker 2>for Terry's song, And Georgia is like, yes, well I
<v Speaker 2>hope so. Yes, she was correct.
<v Speaker 1>She was right.
<v Speaker 2>And so when it gets nominated, they called up Terry
<v Speaker 2>Nunn and I think she was over.
<v Speaker 1>She was in Taiwan.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I was gonna say, Asia, yeah, Taiwan. Yes, and
<v Speaker 2>they're like, hey, we'd like for you to come perform
<v Speaker 2>live at the Oscar ceremony.
<v Speaker 1>Uh huh, yeah sure.
<v Speaker 2>And then she's like and then in my twenty three
<v Speaker 2>year old, over confident self said okay, do I get
<v Speaker 2>to perform the whole song? And they said, well, no,
<v Speaker 2>it's going to be part of a medley of the
<v Speaker 2>other nominees. And she's like, well, I'd really prefer if
<v Speaker 2>I could just perform the whole thing, and they're like, well,
<v Speaker 2>that's not what we're doing. She's like, then I don't
<v Speaker 2>want to do it. To this day, she regrets that decision,
<v Speaker 2>specifically for her mom. YEP. Definitely the video for this song,
<v Speaker 2>she's just kind of wandering around, singing sadly amongst a
<v Speaker 2>bunch of aircraft, right, Yeah, not much else to it
<v Speaker 2>than that.
<v Speaker 1>No, and everybody else looks bored except for her, which
<v Speaker 1>is so sad to me because it's such a great song,
<v Speaker 1>and I know that everybody in the band resented it.
<v Speaker 2>I just don't understand. I mean, I look at things
<v Speaker 2>we talked about Vangellis and how he didn't do things
<v Speaker 2>according to Hollywood standards except for a little bit so
<v Speaker 2>that it could make him basically make him enough money
<v Speaker 2>and give him the opportunity to do the things that
<v Speaker 2>he wanted. If you're in a band and you have
<v Speaker 2>a song that allows you to tour the world, yeah, and
<v Speaker 2>pure at the charts, and you've got name recognition, why
<v Speaker 2>be so begrudging about having to perform it when it
<v Speaker 2>would allow you.
<v Speaker 1>To do so much more.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know.
<v Speaker 1>I have no idea. The song so good that when
<v Speaker 1>they showed top Gun on TV in the United Kingdom
<v Speaker 1>in nineteen ninety, take My Breath Away reach number three.
<v Speaker 2>On the charts. Wow, it's awesome.
<v Speaker 1>By the way, Jessica Simpson has a version of this here.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah I remember that. Yeah, Yeah, it's pretty good. All right,
<v Speaker 1>hit stop on your tape player. Kick it Out, flip
<v Speaker 1>it over side to Talkgun soundtrack leading off the song
<v Speaker 1>Hot Summer Nights.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, this song is by Miami Sound Machine. Yes, it
<v Speaker 2>was written by a guy named Michael Joy. But this
<v Speaker 2>is Miami Sound Machines music. It is. It's definitively them right.
<v Speaker 1>It's pop, It's got that Latin feel to it.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. So Miami Sound Machine was originally called Miami Latin
<v Speaker 2>Boys when the band first formed.
<v Speaker 1>Yep.
<v Speaker 2>So, Gloria and her cousin were at a wedding. There
<v Speaker 2>were guests at a wedding. They knew some of the
<v Speaker 2>guys in the band and there were some, you know,
<v Speaker 2>standard Cuban songs that they knew, and so they convinced
<v Speaker 2>the girls to come up and sing. They did such
<v Speaker 2>a good job that they said you should join the band,
<v Speaker 2>and that is how the name changed from Miami Latin
<v Speaker 2>Boys to the Miami Sound Machine. She said, I will
<v Speaker 2>do it, but I have to be able to keep
<v Speaker 2>going to school. So they did with her, primarily weekend stuff.
<v Speaker 2>She was getting her degree, including a minor in French,
<v Speaker 2>and so she worked at the Miami International Airport as
<v Speaker 2>a translator for English, Spanish, and French and it was
<v Speaker 2>so good that she was approached by the CIA to
<v Speaker 2>become a employee.
<v Speaker 1>That is unbelievable.
<v Speaker 2>There you go.
<v Speaker 1>I told you. Gloria's father was a police escort in
<v Speaker 1>Cuba for President Batista.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>So as soon as Castro took over, they had to split,
<v Speaker 1>she said. They packed up everything they had flew to
<v Speaker 1>Miami as soon as possible. Her father was like, well,
<v Speaker 1>this is just until we can get back in power
<v Speaker 1>and go back to Cuba.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>So he's like, well, I'm gonna go and get involved
<v Speaker 1>in this thing that became known as the Bay of Pigs.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. I mean, it was the attempt to get back
<v Speaker 2>into power. Right.
<v Speaker 1>They captured him. He was in Cuba's prison for eighteen months.
<v Speaker 1>They let him out to go back to Miami, and
<v Speaker 1>then he served in the US military in Vietnam.
<v Speaker 2>Wow.
<v Speaker 1>So they broke through in nineteen eighty five, right before
<v Speaker 1>this song mm hm with the Latin song Congam, shake
<v Speaker 1>your batty baby, do that gong god, No, you can't
<v Speaker 1>control yourself any longa cocheck your bay baby do that
<v Speaker 1>gon God No, you can't control yourself any langa. You
<v Speaker 1>cannot not dance when you hear this song. How can
<v Speaker 1>you not shake your maracas to this song? The funny
<v Speaker 1>thing is is that nobody thought this song would work
<v Speaker 1>because the American pop audiences would think this is too Latin,
<v Speaker 1>and the Latin audiences would think this was too American.
<v Speaker 1>I'll tell you what. I went to her restaurant in Orlando. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>and they played conga about every five minutes, and guess what,
<v Speaker 1>I danced every single time. You shook your moroccas every time.
<v Speaker 1>This is a great song. I love it. They play
<v Speaker 1>this in the bar when Mav and Charlie are we
<v Speaker 1>just first getting to know each other. But really this
<v Speaker 1>is right before Gloria.
<v Speaker 2>Estefan took off. They changed the name of the band
<v Speaker 2>to Gloria Estefan and the Miami's Aum Machine, and then
<v Speaker 2>finally just Gloria Estepon.
<v Speaker 1>So the next summer she would have the song Rhythm
<v Speaker 1>is Gonna Get You, which was in the movie Steakout,
<v Speaker 1>which was one of my favorites from the Summer of
<v Speaker 1>eighty seven. Just a great song and a great movie.
<v Speaker 1>So anything else on.
<v Speaker 2>This one, Nope?
<v Speaker 1>All right, next song.
<v Speaker 2>This is the second song on the side to Heaven
<v Speaker 2>in Your Eyes by lover Boy.
<v Speaker 5>I can tell by the look in your eyes and
<v Speaker 5>you've been heard it.
<v Speaker 1>Whoa, whoa. I love this song too, man, it's it
<v Speaker 1>is irresistible to me.
<v Speaker 2>The lead singer for love Boy is Mike Rena. Right.
<v Speaker 2>We talked about him in our Footloose soundtrack episode. That's
<v Speaker 2>right because he did the duet with and Wilson and
<v Speaker 2>Wilson heart Yes in the song called Almost Paradise. Yes.
<v Speaker 2>Every time I hear Heaven in your eyes, like I
<v Speaker 2>start to sing the lyrics to almost Paradise because it's
<v Speaker 2>the same chord progression. The key is one step different,
<v Speaker 2>but it is the same chord progression.
<v Speaker 1>But I don't care. I love them both.
<v Speaker 2>They're great.
<v Speaker 1>I love them both. I told you the other night,
<v Speaker 1>I said, this song is pure cheese, but it's irresistible
<v Speaker 1>to me, and I think it finishes really strong. I
<v Speaker 1>love the end of this song.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>This peaked at number twelve in nineteen eighty six. See again,
<v Speaker 1>you got a video right, right. Even the song with
<v Speaker 1>an awful video right charted, it did chart.
<v Speaker 2>I think we've found the secret to why Cheap Trick
<v Speaker 2>had not hit the charts.
<v Speaker 1>MTV in nineteen eighty six was a force in pop culture.
<v Speaker 2>But interestingly, keyboardist Doug Johnson not in the video because
<v Speaker 2>he felt like the movie glorified war and he didn't
<v Speaker 2>want to be part of that.
<v Speaker 1>So this song came out on the tail end of
<v Speaker 1>the Love and Every Minute of It album Okay, produced
<v Speaker 1>by mister Robert John Butt Lang.
<v Speaker 2>Oh, okay, very good.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, but that album had some big hits, and I
<v Speaker 1>thought Loved Boy getting ready to make their comeback didn't
<v Speaker 1>quite happen. No, Their next album, called Notorious, had songs
<v Speaker 1>written by John bon Jovi, Richie Sambora. Surely those are
<v Speaker 1>going to be hits.
<v Speaker 2>Right, No, No, it didn't work, not so much.
<v Speaker 1>No, Sadly, that was kind of the last we've heard
<v Speaker 1>of Love Boy, right. This song plays in the airport
<v Speaker 1>when Goose meets Carol. That's the song kind of playing
<v Speaker 1>over the speakers in the airport.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, okay, so interesting.
<v Speaker 1>There you go, anything else? Nope, all right, moving on.
<v Speaker 1>The next song on the album is called Through the
<v Speaker 1>Fire by Larry Green. I'm trying to stop the gushing.
<v Speaker 2>You love this.
<v Speaker 1>I love this song too.
<v Speaker 2>This is actually a really good song. I don't remember
<v Speaker 2>it from the eighties at all, but listen to the soundtrack.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know why this song could not have been
<v Speaker 2>a single with a video. It could have been a
<v Speaker 2>hit totally. At this point, I couldn't tell you anything
<v Speaker 2>about Larry Green, so I looked hard for stuff on
<v Speaker 2>Larry Green. Tell me here's what I found out. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>he was the lead singer for a group called Fortune Okay.
<v Speaker 4>That.
<v Speaker 1>Had a hit song off of the Last American Virgin
<v Speaker 1>soundtrack in nineteen eighty two. Okay, that's all I got.
<v Speaker 2>Here's what I got. Okay, his last name is Green, Yes,
<v Speaker 2>and his first name is Larry. Not a made a
<v Speaker 2>really good song on a really great album that did
<v Speaker 2>not get the credit it was deserved.
<v Speaker 1>This is like the Diet Cola version of danger Zone
<v Speaker 1>to me, right, Yeah, it's it's pumping' rock. It doesn't
<v Speaker 1>quite have the Kinney Loggins greatness, but it's in the
<v Speaker 1>same vein, right. It's maybe it was one of the
<v Speaker 1>second or third placers.
<v Speaker 2>I'm just thinking they had the music and they're like, Okay,
<v Speaker 2>we need a singer, and they're like, we've used every
<v Speaker 2>singer we know. What about Larry Who's Larry Larry Green?
<v Speaker 2>My neighbor, exactly, sure, bring him over there you.
<v Speaker 1>Go, Larry Green. I don't care. It's a good song.
<v Speaker 1>It's not a skipper.
<v Speaker 2>I like it.
<v Speaker 1>Now. This is the one song that I cannot find
<v Speaker 1>in the movie. Like, I don't think they play it anywhere.
<v Speaker 2>In the movie. Okay. I wonder if Larry Green is
<v Speaker 2>still making money off of this thing, just I hope,
<v Speaker 2>So that'd be great. Landed a random song on a
<v Speaker 2>gigantic hit album and has been able to you know,
<v Speaker 2>retire to Malibu or whatever. Nothing in Maverick, unfortunately from
<v Speaker 2>Larry Green. All right, you're ready to move on to
<v Speaker 2>Destination Unknown? Yes, all right, here we go number four
<v Speaker 2>on side to Destination Unknown by Marietta.
<v Speaker 5>Bussie and it's passing writing phone line and the best
<v Speaker 5>is the fastest. Don't know we've been in time to be.
<v Speaker 1>Okay.
<v Speaker 2>So Mariatta not a singer that I'm familiar with, right,
<v Speaker 2>Apparently she had a song on the movie Perfect Yes,
<v Speaker 2>by Design, by Design, speaking of you know, aerobics and
<v Speaker 2>jazzer size clothes. I don't know if they're playing volleyball, but.
<v Speaker 1>You know, Jamie Lee Curtis hey.
<v Speaker 2>And then she also had the title song for a
<v Speaker 2>movie called Fire and Ice. Yes from Europe, Yes, and
<v Speaker 2>apparently charted pretty well over there, but it's not one
<v Speaker 2>that I'm familiar with it all.
<v Speaker 1>She has another song from the sequel to Fire and Ice,
<v Speaker 1>Fire and Icier. It's a fire, ice and dynamite.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, does dynamite beat ice dynamite? How does that work?
<v Speaker 1>Paper scissor rocks dynamite?
<v Speaker 2>Gotcha?
<v Speaker 1>I don't know.
<v Speaker 2>I like this song.
<v Speaker 1>It's a good pop song. She's got a great voice.
<v Speaker 2>I love this album.
<v Speaker 1>I'm blowing through it.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>This is played during the graduation when they hand out
<v Speaker 1>the infamous, non existent Top Gun trophy.
<v Speaker 2>Ah okay, now I remember, Yes, Okay, very good, Okay,
<v Speaker 2>not a skipper. It's not bad. It's very eighties. It
<v Speaker 2>kind of marries the style of Top Gun with the
<v Speaker 2>style of Beverly Hill's cop but decent song.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, is now a scene coach in California? Oh cool? Yeah?
<v Speaker 2>All right? Are we ready to move to the final
<v Speaker 2>song on side to last song.
<v Speaker 1>On the album? Play the bell please, sir? This is
<v Speaker 1>the top Gun theme by Harold Voldemarn.
<v Speaker 2>Dude is the hair standing up?
<v Speaker 1>They are heard every time I hear this song, the.
<v Speaker 2>Underlying music is such a great intro to the movie,
<v Speaker 2>which they again they used in Top Gun Maverick as well.
<v Speaker 2>It did that. It brought the hair standing up on
<v Speaker 2>my arms because I'm like, oh, yeah, they're they're doing
<v Speaker 2>this right. They are doing it right for the retro
<v Speaker 2>fans for sure.
<v Speaker 1>Absolutely, when this song played in Maverick, my eyes got misty, chills,
<v Speaker 1>hair standing up my arms. I'm like, this is what
<v Speaker 1>I've been waiting thirty six years to see.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. So you told the story about how Harold Faltemyer
<v Speaker 2>was having dinner with Jerry Bruk Khimer and Don Simpson
<v Speaker 2>and how they were like, well, we still need this
<v Speaker 2>kind of antheonymy song, and Harold Faltemyer's like, yeah, I
<v Speaker 2>think I kind of have an idea for that. I've
<v Speaker 2>got the song. I think it's going to be perfect
<v Speaker 2>for you guys. And Don Simpson's like, great, let's go
<v Speaker 2>listen to.
<v Speaker 1>It, like put down your fork.
<v Speaker 2>He's like, I mean I can record it for you.
<v Speaker 2>And he's like, nah, we're going to your house.
<v Speaker 1>Right, We're going to your studio. He's like midchew, going, oh, well, let's.
<v Speaker 2>You know what I don't want dessert. I'll see you
<v Speaker 2>guys there. He said.
<v Speaker 1>It wasn't a lie, but it wasn't completely true either.
<v Speaker 2>Well, again, as I mentioned, he has perfect pitch. So
<v Speaker 2>the idea that he could put a song together in
<v Speaker 2>his head and have the ability to play it and
<v Speaker 2>write it as soon as he arrives at the studio
<v Speaker 2>is not unbelievable. Yeah, and he had I can think
<v Speaker 2>he just had a buddy there that could play the guitar,
<v Speaker 2>and so he's like, Okay, here's what I need you
<v Speaker 2>to play, and I'll play my part. And Simpson and
<v Speaker 2>Bruckheimer arrive and they're like, this is it.
<v Speaker 1>This is great, this is amazing. Tony Scott would play
<v Speaker 1>it for Tom Cruise on the set of the movie,
<v Speaker 1>just kind of get him in the tone.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, we mentioned that Harold Faldemyer is a sound engineer,
<v Speaker 2>you know, in addition to being a writer, right, and
<v Speaker 2>so he was engineering for Billy Idol at the time
<v Speaker 2>when we mentioned that Billy Idol was one of the
<v Speaker 2>guys that the real top Gun pilots that's listened to
<v Speaker 2>for motivation. Well, as it happens, he is engineering Billy
<v Speaker 2>Idol's album Whiplash smile at the same time that he's
<v Speaker 2>doing this stuff for Top Gun. And so he's there
<v Speaker 2>and he's got this song that he's got to put down,
<v Speaker 2>the anthem, and Billy Idol's guitarist is there, Steve Stevens.
<v Speaker 2>He's like, hey, man, could you come over and record
<v Speaker 2>a guitar part for me in the song that I've
<v Speaker 2>got for this movie? And Steve Stevens like, sure, I'm
<v Speaker 2>not doing anything.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, really goes over there.
<v Speaker 2>It took him two hours. Yeah, two hours, he says.
<v Speaker 2>Steve Stevens says. A few months later, Harold gives me
<v Speaker 2>a call, Hey, we're up for the Grammy.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, what Yeah that song that we recorded? Oh cool, Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>so listen to this. I got a great Grammy story
<v Speaker 1>for you. So Steve Stevens is like, so I go
<v Speaker 1>to the Grammys and when we win for Best Instrumental,
<v Speaker 1>they hand you a Grammy Award. Congratulations. You go up
<v Speaker 1>to the front. He's like, well, here's the deal. You
<v Speaker 1>don't get to keep that one. It's just a dummy award, right,
<v Speaker 1>They just kind of hand.
<v Speaker 3>It to you.
<v Speaker 1>You say thank you, you walk off stage, they take
<v Speaker 1>it back from you. Then they mail you yours in
<v Speaker 1>the mail, he says, when he opened it, it was like,
<v Speaker 1>you gotta put it together with a screwdriver.
<v Speaker 3>What.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, And so he went on MTV for something. He
<v Speaker 1>brought his Grammy and he proceeded to put it together
<v Speaker 1>while they're on air together, he said, the Grammy people
<v Speaker 1>were not happy with that.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>In fact, he's like, I'm going to get in trouble
<v Speaker 1>again for telling this story.
<v Speaker 2>I saw that interview. I saw him telling a story.
<v Speaker 2>And that's the first time I've ever heard him speak.
<v Speaker 2>If anybody out there doesn't who we're talking about, think
<v Speaker 2>about the Dirty Diana video, the guitarist with the jet
<v Speaker 2>black ultra spikey hair, right, just looks bad to the bone, right,
<v Speaker 2>any of the Billie Idol videos, same jet black hair,
<v Speaker 2>screaming guitar, just down and angry the whole time. And
<v Speaker 2>I listened to his interview and I'm like, he sounds
<v Speaker 2>like Woody Allen. This is like the anthithesis of the
<v Speaker 2>voice that I expected to come out of Steve Stevens's face.
<v Speaker 2>He sounds like a little Jewish guy. I don't it's
<v Speaker 2>I think you're right.
<v Speaker 1>I totally agree with you. He looks like Nicky six
<v Speaker 1>and he talks like, what are you allen? Anyway?
<v Speaker 2>This song a maze balls. You need motivation for anything.
<v Speaker 2>You're about to go out on the field. You're about
<v Speaker 2>to go spike a volleyball.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. So this is the last song on the Top
<v Speaker 1>Gun soundtrack of nineteen eighty six. Yeah, we're gonna cover
<v Speaker 1>two more bonus songs that were in the Top Gun
<v Speaker 1>movie in eighty six yep plus two from Maverick. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>so we're not done yet, not done yet this Top
<v Speaker 1>Gun Soundtrack plus.
<v Speaker 2>So what you may have been surprised to find out
<v Speaker 2>when you bought the album back in nineteen eighty six
<v Speaker 2>or when you're listening to us right now because you
<v Speaker 2>never had the album, is that some songs which feature
<v Speaker 2>prominently in the movie were not on the soundtrack. Right.
<v Speaker 2>One of those songs is I Think She's lost that
<v Speaker 2>love and feeling.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, I hate it what she does, Yes, she's lost it.
<v Speaker 5>There's no tenderness like rept enough.
<v Speaker 2>It is maybe the most iconic song as far as
<v Speaker 2>interior music goes in the whole movie, and they didn't
<v Speaker 2>have it on the album.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Came out on a re release later on, but here
<v Speaker 2>is you've lost that love and feeling by the Righteous Brothers. Okay,
<v Speaker 2>so how many times did you sing this to some
<v Speaker 2>girl in nineteen eighty six or nineteen eighty seven.
<v Speaker 1>Dozens? Yeah, dozens.
<v Speaker 2>It was a routine thing in our music class, Like
<v Speaker 2>we thought we can get away with this because it's
<v Speaker 2>music class, and every day we pick a different girl
<v Speaker 2>and every guy in the class would go sing a song.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah. It was a thing, right, Yeah, I know. I
<v Speaker 1>picked up a girl for a date and had two
<v Speaker 1>of my buddies come with me. Yeah, and we serenaded
<v Speaker 1>her before we went on our date. Thank you to
<v Speaker 1>my buddies who you know, Chris Alexander, one of our patreons,
<v Speaker 1>actually was there for that.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. We did a church camp, we did it at school,
<v Speaker 2>we did it everywhere. Awesome. Yeah. Okay, So if you
<v Speaker 2>want to know the Bill Medley history, go back and
<v Speaker 2>check out our dirty Dancing track by track. I go
<v Speaker 2>into a great amount of detail there. But part of
<v Speaker 2>that was how the Righteous Brothers were almost done. They
<v Speaker 2>were doing basically like one of their last shows before
<v Speaker 2>they were going to move on to bigger and other things. Yep,
<v Speaker 2>and a man who was putting on the show, saw
<v Speaker 2>them and said, hey, I'd like to sign you guys
<v Speaker 2>to my label. And that man's name was Phil Spector.
<v Speaker 1>Speaking of Dirty Dancing soundtrack, Phil Spector, we talked at
<v Speaker 1>length about him. He's crazy, he's psychotic.
<v Speaker 2>It's an episode worth listening to.
<v Speaker 1>It really is.
<v Speaker 2>Sure, it's one of our best. I would say so
<v Speaker 2>when he does put together the album with him. One
<v Speaker 2>of the songs is You've Lost That Love and feeling Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Did you know that this song was inspired by Baby
<v Speaker 1>I Need Your Love and by the Four Tops? It
<v Speaker 1>was inspired by two songs. Right. The song was written
<v Speaker 1>by Phil Spector, Berry Man and Cynthia Wheel. Okay, Barry
<v Speaker 1>Man wrote the medley first and then came up with
<v Speaker 1>the opening line, You'd never close your eyes anymore when
<v Speaker 1>I kiss your lips. That came from a line from
<v Speaker 1>the song I Love How You Love Me, which was
<v Speaker 1>co written by Man and produced by Specter, which says
<v Speaker 1>I love how you close your eyes whenever you kiss me. H.
<v Speaker 2>How about that? Nice?
<v Speaker 1>So when they first heard this song, they said, guys,
<v Speaker 1>this sounds like a great song for the Everly Brothers.
<v Speaker 1>This is not in our range and they're like, no, no,
<v Speaker 1>here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna slow it down,
<v Speaker 1>we're gonna lower it and it'll be perfect for you.
<v Speaker 1>As you mentioned, Phil Spector is the one who discovered
<v Speaker 1>the Righteous Brothers. They were signed as his first white act.
<v Speaker 1>Bobby Hatfield, who's the other guy in the Righteous Brothers. Yeah, So,
<v Speaker 1>he reportedly was not happy with Phil Spector when he
<v Speaker 1>learned that Bill Medley would start the first verse and
<v Speaker 1>that he would have to wait until the chorus before
<v Speaker 1>he could join in. Before this, they would sing equally
<v Speaker 1>in the song, right, or they would sing together. And
<v Speaker 1>so when he asked Phil Spector what am I supposed
<v Speaker 1>to do during Medley's solo, phil Spector said, you can
<v Speaker 1>go directly to the bank. So he's like, okay, I'll
<v Speaker 1>just stand over here and shut up.
<v Speaker 2>Then, yeah, no kidding.
<v Speaker 1>So and he was right, biggest song of their career.
<v Speaker 2>Absolutely. At the time, Phil Spector was a powerhouse. How
<v Speaker 2>do you how do you make any kind of complaint
<v Speaker 2>about I'm gonna give you a record label, I'm gonna
<v Speaker 2>give you a hit song, and oh you don't get
<v Speaker 2>to start singing for a few minutes. Yeah, suck ADN
<v Speaker 2>egg bro I know I'll.
<v Speaker 1>Murder you, steal your shoes and then murder you. Put
<v Speaker 1>you in a glass coffin. The vocals on this song
<v Speaker 1>took eight hours and two days to record. Wow, Phil
<v Speaker 1>Spector perfectionist. Take after take after take after take. He
<v Speaker 1>organized the wall of sound. You had the wrecking Crew
<v Speaker 1>in the background. We talked at length about how Cher
<v Speaker 1>got her start as a background singer. In this song.
<v Speaker 1>She was standing there next to her boyfriend Sonny Bono.
<v Speaker 1>Phil Spector said, Hey, I understand your girlfriend can sing.
<v Speaker 1>He's like, wow, you know, you know sort of He's like,
<v Speaker 1>I don't care. She just has to stand in the
<v Speaker 1>background and make noise for the wall of sound. So
<v Speaker 1>Cher was involved in the background. They knew they had
<v Speaker 1>something going on, but they still had their doubts whether
<v Speaker 1>it would be a hit or not because it was long.
<v Speaker 1>It was four minutes long, which at the time was
<v Speaker 1>extremely long, and it was slow. It's a slow paced song, okay. Also,
<v Speaker 1>this is in the middle of the Bridge Invasion and
<v Speaker 1>the Beatles are all the rage. This song hit number
<v Speaker 1>one on the Hot one hundred February sixteenth, nineteen sixty five,
<v Speaker 1>and number two on the arm Beach Art.
<v Speaker 2>It's a great song.
<v Speaker 1>It's a song of the ages man for sure. By
<v Speaker 1>the way, Brian Wilson of the Beach.
<v Speaker 2>Boys, who he talked at length being massively influenced by
<v Speaker 2>the Ronnetts.
<v Speaker 1>Be My Baby, Be My Baby, another Phil Spector song.
<v Speaker 2>Right, and him putting together pet sounds with the Wrecking Crew.
<v Speaker 1>Yes, Yeah, okay. Brian Wilson's response to this song when
<v Speaker 1>he ran into Man and Wheel, the writers of this song,
<v Speaker 1>he said, your song is the greatest record ever. I
<v Speaker 1>was ready to quit the music business, but this has
<v Speaker 1>inspired me to write again. And the song that he
<v Speaker 1>wrote in response to this song is good Vibrations.
<v Speaker 2>Good enough. She's getting is my favorite Beach Boys song.
<v Speaker 2>I see you a picture a little bit earlier this week.
<v Speaker 2>I sent it to you and James Buckley and David Wright.
<v Speaker 2>It was a picture of my radio readout which had
<v Speaker 2>a hundred degree temperature. Yes, and we were listening to
<v Speaker 2>Good Vibrations by the Beach Boys, and I said the
<v Speaker 2>AC is not working, so we're pretending we're on the beach.
<v Speaker 1>Yes love good Vibations.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>Phil Spector himself rated this song as the pinnacle of
<v Speaker 1>his career. I could see that, and that's before he
<v Speaker 1>blew that girl's head off and went to jail.
<v Speaker 2>That would maybe not be a Pinnacle most infamous. Yes,
<v Speaker 2>not Pinnacle. Yes.
<v Speaker 1>By the way, you know you talked about how Maverick
<v Speaker 1>serenades Charlie in the bar, and it's the big moment
<v Speaker 1>in the movie. Do you remember on Cheers, Rebecca Howe,
<v Speaker 1>her favorite song is You've Lost that love and feeling,
<v Speaker 1>and her boyfriend Robert Colcord hires Bill Medley to go
<v Speaker 1>to cheers and sing directly to her. Do you remember
<v Speaker 1>this episode?
<v Speaker 2>I kind of do. Yes. I don't think I've seen
<v Speaker 2>it since the eighties, but yeah, I think I kind
<v Speaker 2>of do.
<v Speaker 1>So her rich boyfriend and hires Bill Medley to go
<v Speaker 1>to cheers seeing You've Lost that loving feeling directly to her,
<v Speaker 1>and the whole time he's singing to her, she's freaking out.
<v Speaker 2>Can I help you?
<v Speaker 3>Uh?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Rebecca Howe, Rebecca, this is from Robin cole Cord.
<v Speaker 2>You never closure us.
<v Speaker 5>Oh my gosh, I know Robin wi but I never
<v Speaker 5>know that he would.
<v Speaker 1>Excuse me, excuse me to knock it off.
<v Speaker 2>Somebody in the bar might want to hear.
<v Speaker 1>This basically tells her to shut up. It's great. Great song.
<v Speaker 2>Now. Then another song that was in the movie, not
<v Speaker 2>on the soundtrack, song by mister Jerry Lee Lewis, the
<v Speaker 2>Killer eight Balls.
<v Speaker 5>Of Fire, You jack My Love too Much, loved Man,
<v Speaker 5>you brolled my wheel.
<v Speaker 3>Race Ball the Fire.
<v Speaker 2>I was very familiar with this song. Really, we had
<v Speaker 2>all kinds of LPs when I was a kid. My
<v Speaker 2>parents had lots of albums, and this one was on.
<v Speaker 2>This one was on like a compilation with Little Richard
<v Speaker 2>and a bunch of other big piano rock singers.
<v Speaker 1>That's interesting. I had never heard the song of my life.
<v Speaker 1>Of course, gooseblaze it at the piano when he's at
<v Speaker 1>the Case barbecue in San Diego.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, we mentioned in our Top Gen episode that Tony
<v Speaker 2>Scott had kind of been humming it in his head
<v Speaker 2>as he drove to work that day. And he's like, Okay,
<v Speaker 2>here's what we're gonna do without having done anything to
<v Speaker 2>license the song from Jerry Lee Lewis or the company.
<v Speaker 1>And you said Anthony Edwards did not know he was
<v Speaker 1>going to sing, and he can't play the piano.
<v Speaker 2>Correct.
<v Speaker 1>All right, Tony, I'm game acting this song hit number
<v Speaker 1>two on the Hot one hundred, number one on the
<v Speaker 1>country chart, and number three on the R and B chart.
<v Speaker 2>That's that's quite a mix.
<v Speaker 1>Name another song that hit that high on those three
<v Speaker 1>charts the same time. No Rolling Stone calls us the
<v Speaker 1>ninety sixth greatest song ever. I'm gonna tell you a
<v Speaker 1>little bit about mister j. Lee Lewis.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, Yeah, we could do a whole episode on this.
<v Speaker 2>They made a movie about it, Yes, they did, had
<v Speaker 2>one owner, writer and mister Dennis Quaid in it.
<v Speaker 1>That movie is incomplete because there's way more craziness that
<v Speaker 1>comes out after this. Tell me man, tell me so.
<v Speaker 1>I just want to tell you. He was married seven times. Okay,
<v Speaker 1>that's a lot. Two times. Bigamous Lee big amus.
<v Speaker 2>I was a big big of me, big of you.
<v Speaker 2>It's big of both of us, big of us. So
<v Speaker 2>he was married to a lady and married to another
<v Speaker 2>lady at.
<v Speaker 1>The same time twice, Yes, during his life twice the
<v Speaker 1>twice twice and twice he also married his thirteen year
<v Speaker 1>old underage cousin.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that was one own a writer in the movie. Yes,
<v Speaker 2>he was angry on the honeymoon night because he said
<v Speaker 2>she didn't move like a virgin. I sure hope she
<v Speaker 2>did since she was only thirteen. Oh my gosh, they
<v Speaker 2>were married for thirteen years. Wow. This she made it
<v Speaker 2>all the way to twenty six.
<v Speaker 1>That's exactly right. That was his third marriage.
<v Speaker 2>By the way, the brain is fully developed at twenty five.
<v Speaker 2>Oh my gosh.
<v Speaker 1>Great Balls of Fire was released within a month of
<v Speaker 1>when he married her, and his career went from the
<v Speaker 1>peak pinnacle to the top like a rocket, to the
<v Speaker 1>depths of despair.
<v Speaker 2>Just because he married his cousin.
<v Speaker 1>Just because he married his cousin.
<v Speaker 2>I told you. I can still remember seeing an MTV
<v Speaker 2>interview where Kurt Loader is interviewing him and that subject
<v Speaker 2>comes up and he's like, man, ain't you ever been
<v Speaker 2>at the family or you want to Kisse your cousin,
<v Speaker 2>And Kurt Lotdter's like, no, I have never ever wanted
<v Speaker 2>to kis my cousin.
<v Speaker 1>His other cousin was Jimmy Swaggert, who you've probably seen
<v Speaker 1>or heard of. He's an evangelist, TV evangelist, very popular
<v Speaker 1>in the eighties, got in trouble behind closed Doors with
<v Speaker 1>the Lady of the Night YEP. Now then Jerry Lee
<v Speaker 1>Lewis is the top yes, that's right, he apologized he
<v Speaker 1>was upset. Jimmy Swaggert and Jerry Lee Lewis used to
<v Speaker 1>enter musical contest together and they would sing and play
<v Speaker 1>the piano together. He said, they on every talent contest
<v Speaker 1>they ever entered.
<v Speaker 2>Wow.
<v Speaker 1>Jerliu Lewis is the type of guy that bad things
<v Speaker 1>just seem to happen around him, and sooner or later
<v Speaker 1>you have to ask yourself, what's the common denominator here? Okay?
<v Speaker 1>All right? Yeah, So he lost a three year old
<v Speaker 1>son to a swimming pool accident. He lost a nineteen
<v Speaker 1>year old son to a car crash. His fourth wife
<v Speaker 1>was found accidentally drowned in a pool. Okay, his fifth wife,
<v Speaker 1>Sean Stevens, she was found dead. He accidentally shot his
<v Speaker 1>bass player one time with a gun. Well, you know,
<v Speaker 1>as you do.
<v Speaker 2>He got in the way.
<v Speaker 1>Things just happened around him. Okay, But musical genius right
<v Speaker 1>made it a great song? Yeah, incredible great balls of
<v Speaker 1>fire yep.
<v Speaker 2>Okay.
<v Speaker 1>I think it's interesting that this song got a lot
<v Speaker 1>of controversy when it was released because of the line
<v Speaker 1>let me love you like a lover should that was
<v Speaker 1>seen as extreme sexual innuendo.
<v Speaker 2>Wow.
<v Speaker 1>Eric Clapton and John Lennon bol credit Jerry Lee Lewis
<v Speaker 1>as being one of their biggest implances.
<v Speaker 2>I can see it. He pounded out the rock hits. Yep,
<v Speaker 2>he did.
<v Speaker 1>Dolly Parton did a version of Great Bells of Fire,
<v Speaker 1>which was the title track of her nineteen seventy nine album,
<v Speaker 1>and that cover was used in a Miami Vice episode
<v Speaker 1>in nineteen eighty five. Okay, how about that.
<v Speaker 2>Wow, it's a deep cut, my friend.
<v Speaker 1>How about that? Okay, let's do a couple of songs
<v Speaker 1>from Maverick, Maverick.
<v Speaker 2>We are moving from nineteen eighty six all the way
<v Speaker 2>up to twenty twenty two. All right. First single off
<v Speaker 2>of the album was a song by Lady Gaga. Yes, okay,
<v Speaker 2>before we get started talking about this song, yeah, people
<v Speaker 2>kind of notice that I make connections, right, yes see?
<v Speaker 2>You ready for this? Yeah? Okay. So Lady Gaga is
<v Speaker 2>in a movie. Seen in a few movies, but one
<v Speaker 2>of the big movies is A Star Is.
<v Speaker 1>Born, right, right, Radley Cooper.
<v Speaker 2>Right. So, Kenny Loggins got his start in doing soundtracks
<v Speaker 2>with the movie Caddyshack, which we talked about in our
<v Speaker 2>Caddyshack Versus Happy Gilmour episode. Yes we did. And the
<v Speaker 2>way that that happened was he met a guy named
<v Speaker 2>John Peters who produced Caddy Shack. But at the time
<v Speaker 2>they met, John Peters was dating Barbara Streisand right, and
<v Speaker 2>barbar Streisand and John Peters had Kenny Loggins over to
<v Speaker 2>help write some music for the movie A Star Is Born. Yes,
<v Speaker 2>so barbar Streisand really was the catalyst to Kenny Loggins
<v Speaker 2>being involved in soundtracks at the beginning while writing songs
<v Speaker 2>for A Star is Born. Bring that full circle to
<v Speaker 2>Lady Gaga. The remake of The Star Is Born now
<v Speaker 2>has a song on the top gun Maverick soundtrack.
<v Speaker 1>How about that?
<v Speaker 2>There you go.
<v Speaker 1>Kenny Logins probably has the biggest song on the eighty
<v Speaker 1>six soundtrack. Yeah, Lady Gaga clearly has the biggest song
<v Speaker 1>on the Maverick soundtrack.
<v Speaker 2>Lady Gaga is not somebody. I have a lot of
<v Speaker 2>songs of hers on my phone, but I've got a few.
<v Speaker 2>She's I mean, she's a powerhouse and has been for
<v Speaker 2>Killer Voice. Yeah, love the New York for more Yeah Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>amazing and amazing songwriting abilities and the movie The Star
<v Speaker 2>Is Born that she's in love it great music, great story.
<v Speaker 2>If you haven't seen it, go check out that movie.
<v Speaker 2>It definitely worth it. Wow.
<v Speaker 1>So the song we're gonna talk about with her this
<v Speaker 1>is a song called hold My Hand, So Bad.
<v Speaker 5>So every last.
<v Speaker 1>Dude. This song is awesome. I love it, and it
<v Speaker 1>became the score of the movie. Like it's the take
<v Speaker 1>My Breath Away of Tapa Gun Maverick. It's the love
<v Speaker 1>theme between Maverick and Penny.
<v Speaker 2>Right, Admiral's daughter.
<v Speaker 1>And one admirals. This song has been credited as being
<v Speaker 1>arena rock and based on nineteen eighties power rock music.
<v Speaker 2>It is definitely a power ballad, no question about it.
<v Speaker 1>I love that she's been working on a song for years, Okay,
<v Speaker 1>and in fact, she said that through COVID this has
<v Speaker 1>become sort of a love song to everyone.
<v Speaker 2>I gotta say, though COVID precautions say that you should
<v Speaker 2>not hold hands.
<v Speaker 1>You should not hold my hand, Lady Gaga said during
<v Speaker 1>the COVID nineteen pandemic era. She described the song as
<v Speaker 1>a love letter to the world during and after a
<v Speaker 1>very hard time. All Right, get this. Tom Cruise has said,
<v Speaker 1>listen to this quote. Lady Gaga came in with this song.
<v Speaker 1>It became our score. It became the heartbeat of this film.
<v Speaker 1>What she did emotionally. I was so concerned until I
<v Speaker 1>heard that piece and I knew that that piece, what
<v Speaker 1>it does, how it married our story emotionally. So that
<v Speaker 1>was a moment. It was just a real moment for
<v Speaker 1>all of us. It was the missing piece to Talking Maverick.
<v Speaker 1>It's a great song. It's been compared to Journey's Open.
<v Speaker 2>Arms and Hearts Alone, sure iconic power power ballad. Okay,
<v Speaker 2>So that was the first single released off the Top
<v Speaker 2>Gun Maverick soundtrack. The second single released is by the
<v Speaker 2>band One Republic and it is called I Ain't Worried.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know what.
<v Speaker 5>You've been to Thomas on it out. No need to
<v Speaker 5>take a song. I'll step into you two. I'll show
<v Speaker 5>the scared any man, but I keep them.
<v Speaker 2>Rus swimming. Jean, Okay, I love this song. This is
<v Speaker 2>this is one of my favorite Like, I can't stop
<v Speaker 2>listening to this song right now.
<v Speaker 1>When you told me we're covering this one, I was like,
<v Speaker 1>I don't really think I know this song, but as
<v Speaker 1>soon as I played it, I'm like, oh, it's the
<v Speaker 1>football beat song.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's the fighter Pilot football song and they and
<v Speaker 2>then in the video it's got a lot of footage
<v Speaker 2>from that particular scene, lots of baby oil. Yes. So
<v Speaker 2>I was like, and you know, we've got to talk
<v Speaker 2>about him because One Republic Oklahoma. And You're like what,
<v Speaker 2>I'm like, I'm pretty sure One Republic is from Oklahoma.
<v Speaker 1>This is a great story.
<v Speaker 2>And so I was like, I think I'm right, And
<v Speaker 2>so I looked it up. I'm like, no, wait a minute,
<v Speaker 2>they're from Colorado Springs and I'm like, oh, lead singer. Yes,
<v Speaker 2>he's from Tulsa. And so I sent you his picture
<v Speaker 2>and I was like, look, dude, he's from your hometown, Tulsa, Oklahoma.
<v Speaker 2>Tell me what happened.
<v Speaker 1>Okay, So I grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As soon
<v Speaker 1>as we figured out that the lead singer One Republic
<v Speaker 1>is from Tulsa, I looked at his page and figured
<v Speaker 1>out he went to Gene High School, which is where
<v Speaker 1>me and my entire family went to high school.
<v Speaker 4>Right.
<v Speaker 1>Right, So I text my sisters. So I'm class of
<v Speaker 1>ninety one. I have a younger sister who's class of
<v Speaker 1>ninety five, and a younger sister class of ninety nine.
<v Speaker 2>Right, now he's class of ninety he's seven.
<v Speaker 1>Class of ninety seven. So I text both of my sisters.
<v Speaker 1>I send them a picture of this guy and I said,
<v Speaker 1>do you know this guy? And my older sister she's like,
<v Speaker 1>I have kids, who is this? I don't know who
<v Speaker 1>this is? Right? Am I supposed to know who this is?
<v Speaker 1>My younger sister goes, is this a truck question? And
<v Speaker 1>I said, what do you mean? She said, why would
<v Speaker 1>I know the lead singer of One Republic?
<v Speaker 2>She knows who he was.
<v Speaker 1>And I'm like, well, maybe it's because you walked the
<v Speaker 1>hallways at high school together. And she was like what yeah,
<v Speaker 1>So she had no idea.
<v Speaker 2>So the guy we're talking about is Ryan Tedder, right,
<v Speaker 2>he is the lead singer for One Republic, And I'm
<v Speaker 2>going to get I got to give it a little
<v Speaker 2>bit of ustry because I thought it was it was
<v Speaker 2>pretty good, Okay. So he went to Jinks High School
<v Speaker 2>except for a senior year where he went off to
<v Speaker 2>Colorado Springs and that's where he met one of his bandmates.
<v Speaker 2>It was a ride back to Oklahoma. I believe that
<v Speaker 2>they started talking about the music that they love and
<v Speaker 2>they're like, we should put a band together, and that's
<v Speaker 2>how one Republic is born. He comes back to Tulsa.
<v Speaker 2>He goes to o AREU Oral Roberts University right in
<v Speaker 2>tuls Oklahoma, and he graduates. He goes over to Nashville.
<v Speaker 2>He's in Nashville for like two months, and he gets
<v Speaker 2>picked by Lance Bass of n Sync to be in
<v Speaker 2>this MTV contest and the prize for the kind of
<v Speaker 2>this is kind of like a American Idol style of thing, right,
<v Speaker 2>all these amateurs competing, and so the prize is you
<v Speaker 2>get to get signed to Lance Bass's new record label.
<v Speaker 1>Right Yeah, And so he goes on.
<v Speaker 2>He competes, he's been for now, he's been in Nashville
<v Speaker 2>for two months. He competes, and judges and fans alike
<v Speaker 2>vote him number one. He wins the contest. He signs
<v Speaker 2>paperwork to be a part of Lance Bass's new label.
<v Speaker 2>And he said, and two weeks later, I was waiting
<v Speaker 2>tables and picking chips up off the ground. He said,
<v Speaker 2>it was all just a bunch of hype. There was
<v Speaker 2>no real label. It was all just a bunch of
<v Speaker 2>nonsense to try to promote a show and a label
<v Speaker 2>that ultimately did not work out. So it's like my
<v Speaker 2>dreams are realized. Oh here, let me yank the carpet
<v Speaker 2>right out from underneath you. Wow. So a little while
<v Speaker 2>later he leaves and goes out to La. The one
<v Speaker 2>great thing that comes from this contest that he was
<v Speaker 2>in that, I mean he was performing in front of
<v Speaker 2>a million people is one of the guys that sees
<v Speaker 2>him is Timbaland. He's a record producer. He's done a
<v Speaker 2>lot of stuff, sure, and so Timberland since spends the
<v Speaker 2>next year trying to find him.
<v Speaker 1>Well, he's in La.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, he's as poor as poor can be. He
<v Speaker 2>sold his car to buy music equipment. He's selling songs
<v Speaker 2>to people for like three hundred bucks or something, just
<v Speaker 2>trying to some stuff out there. And so his daytime
<v Speaker 2>he spends writing songs for other people. His nights he
<v Speaker 2>spends with One Republic trying to develop them and what
<v Speaker 2>they have this is so great. To early two thousands,
<v Speaker 2>they have a MySpace account. Well, they end up being
<v Speaker 2>the biggest unsigned MySpace band and because of that, Tembland
<v Speaker 2>is able to find them. They ultimately get a record
<v Speaker 2>deal because of their song Apologized. In two thousand and six,
<v Speaker 2>they do their first album, Timbaland remixes Apologize and suddenly
<v Speaker 2>they are big, bright, shining stars.
<v Speaker 1>That's great. Here's the deal. My music knowledge drops way off,
<v Speaker 1>starting out about the year two thousand. Uh huh okay,
<v Speaker 1>I make it pretty much through the nineties, and then
<v Speaker 1>after that I bow out. I've got kids, you know,
<v Speaker 1>So a song has to be monumentally huge for me
<v Speaker 1>to be familiar with it. Yes, Pilgrivas by Lady Gaga
<v Speaker 1>couldn't live in this world and not hear that song.
<v Speaker 1>The song Counting Stars by One Republic is one of
<v Speaker 1>those songs.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it was their next monumental hit. They had several
<v Speaker 2>songs that did very well, but Counting Stars was their
<v Speaker 2>next monumental hit. I've had Apologize in Counting Stars on
<v Speaker 2>my playlist for since they came out. I love One Republic,
<v Speaker 2>and so when I heard the song, I didn't recognize
<v Speaker 2>them because the sound on I Ain't Worried is very
<v Speaker 2>different than the sound that they have on Counting Stars
<v Speaker 2>or Apologize. There's a way different sound, but I love it.
<v Speaker 2>It's very indie rock, which is about the only stuff
<v Speaker 2>that I like to listen to as far as modern
<v Speaker 2>music is concerned. I heard it, I was thinking Joywave,
<v Speaker 2>I'm thinking Guster, I'm thinking all of these bands. I'm like,
<v Speaker 2>it sounds so familiar. And then I see this by
<v Speaker 2>One Republic. I'm like, oh, dude, there you go. I
<v Speaker 2>recognized the voice and they're doing a style of music
<v Speaker 2>that I love, and I love this song.
<v Speaker 1>So Ryan Tetter, Mighty Jing's Trojan s Mighty Jing's Trojan
<v Speaker 1>Ryan Tetter, keep going.
<v Speaker 2>Yes, yes, yes, of course that's his big claim. He's
<v Speaker 2>won three Grammys. Three Grammys. But that's the thing that's
<v Speaker 2>that's the famous is Jinks High School with Jason caulf
<v Speaker 2>That's it. Get it right. So three grammys. As he
<v Speaker 2>was a producer on Adele's twenty one and Dell's twenty
<v Speaker 2>five and Taylor Swift's nineteen eighty nine, it's pretty good.
<v Speaker 2>I think that One Republic needs to make an album
<v Speaker 2>that has a number as a title because that seems
<v Speaker 2>to be successful. But he is. He's made songs that
<v Speaker 2>have become huge hits for other artists. He is a
<v Speaker 2>incredibly prolific guy. But I'm really glad that he's got
<v Speaker 2>a single on this new amazing movie.
<v Speaker 1>It's a great song.
<v Speaker 2>I love it's my favorite song.
<v Speaker 1>Let me throw this out there real quick. Yeah, Ryan,
<v Speaker 1>if you're listening, the baseball field needs a.
<v Speaker 2>Little bit of work.
<v Speaker 1>This is a little tidbit on this, just a little
<v Speaker 1>tipit right.
<v Speaker 2>So he he started playing music when he was three.
<v Speaker 2>He's raised in like a Christian missionary household, right right,
<v Speaker 2>and his parents would reward him with candy corn when
<v Speaker 2>he practiced the piano. I think candy corn is the
<v Speaker 2>worst candy imaginable. I was identifying with this guys on
<v Speaker 2>so many levels, and then I was like, candy corn.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, I'm not practicing today, Mom and dad.
<v Speaker 2>My favorite line from this song time is running out,
<v Speaker 2>So spend it like it's gold. I'm living like I'm
<v Speaker 2>nine zeros, no regrets, even when I'm broke.
<v Speaker 4>I love it, love it, and the whistle look, I
<v Speaker 4>love it, and the whistle is great. Yeah yeah, Okay,
<v Speaker 4>So I said, we've got we've got the question. Now,
<v Speaker 4>we've got the volleyball song, and we've got the fighter
<v Speaker 4>Pilot football song.
<v Speaker 2>Yep, what do you think is the better song?
<v Speaker 1>Come on, I'm old school. I'm always gonna go with
<v Speaker 1>old school. I'm playing with the boys every day of
<v Speaker 1>the week. I guarantee you're taking Woman Republic obviously.
<v Speaker 2>I am spiking the football. I am spiking both of them.
<v Speaker 1>I'm spiking the volleyball. That was a good one, all right.
<v Speaker 1>Before we weigh in final judgment on what we think
<v Speaker 1>is the best song out of this grouping, let's hear
<v Speaker 1>from our buddy Jeff Johnson of the Film By podcast.
<v Speaker 1>He weighed in on what he think about the Top
<v Speaker 1>Gun soundtrack, and here's what he had to say.
<v Speaker 3>Hello, Shirley fans, this is Jeff Johnson from a Film
<v Speaker 3>By podcast. Spittake and Pebbles have called me back to
<v Speaker 3>Miramar and I'm gonna offer a few words about the
<v Speaker 3>Top Gun soundtrack. Let's begin with Harold Faldemeyer's Top Gun anthem.
<v Speaker 3>It's motivating, stimulating, and evokes a feeling of courageousness. I
<v Speaker 3>like to think that if you could assign a sound
<v Speaker 3>to Victory, it would be it. And while it is
<v Speaker 3>the official theme for the movie, many would regard Kenny
<v Speaker 3>Loggins's Danger Zone as the unofficial theme and the go
<v Speaker 3>to song on the album. Through the years, its popularity
<v Speaker 3>has never waned, and given its inclusion in Top Gun Maverick.
<v Speaker 3>I have a feeling its rotation is safe on radio
<v Speaker 3>stations throughout America. Now, Maverick and Iceman may be the
<v Speaker 3>best of the best, but they still need backup from
<v Speaker 3>guys like Wolfman, Sundown and Merlin. And you find that
<v Speaker 3>same kind of support on this soundtrack. Artists like Larry
<v Speaker 3>Green and lover Boy keep you engaged. Tina Marie and
<v Speaker 3>Miami Sound Machine lead you straight to the dance floor,
<v Speaker 3>while Jerry Lee Lewis and the Righteous Brothers lead you
<v Speaker 3>back in time. And what about Mighty Wings, the adrenaline
<v Speaker 3>pumping rock song from Cheap Trick. I say give it
<v Speaker 3>the coveted Top Gun trophy because it is the best
<v Speaker 3>song on this album. Guys, this soundtrack has it all,
<v Speaker 3>thumping instrumentals, rock, pop, oldies, and let us not forget
<v Speaker 3>a best song, Oscar for Berlin's take My breadth Away,
<v Speaker 3>as beautiful as it is timeless. As for Top Gun, Maverick,
<v Speaker 3>I think having Hans Zimmer support Harold Faltemeyer is on
<v Speaker 3>par with Viper, offering to be Maverick's rio. The end
<v Speaker 3>result is spectacular. Lady Gaga's power ballad hold My Hand,
<v Speaker 3>with its message of reconciliation, loyalty, and love is everything
<v Speaker 3>we could have asked for in a song to help
<v Speaker 3>tell Matt story. As for I Ain't Worried by One Republic,
<v Speaker 3>I think it's definitely captured that fun summer vibe and
<v Speaker 3>would be a great addition to any playlist, whether you're
<v Speaker 3>lounging by the pool, having fun at the family barbecue,
<v Speaker 3>or maybe playing some dog fight football.
<v Speaker 2>On the beach.
<v Speaker 3>Speaking of barbecue, I see my orders not ready just yet,
<v Speaker 3>but the piano is now free, so I'm gonna go
<v Speaker 3>embarrass myself and give this place a rendition of Great
<v Speaker 3>Balls of Fire. And as for the Top Gun soundtrack, well,
<v Speaker 3>in nineteen eighty six, it was the cassette inside my
<v Speaker 3>Sony Walkman when I soared through the neighborhood on my Mongoose.
<v Speaker 3>In nineteen ninety six, it was the CD playing for
<v Speaker 3>my Pontiac Firebird, and nowadays I'm streaming it. I never
<v Speaker 3>get tired of it, and that is why it's the
<v Speaker 3>best soundtrack.
<v Speaker 2>Of nineteen eighty six.
<v Speaker 3>Guys, I'll see you next time.
<v Speaker 2>Thanks. I love Jeff Johnson, just great man. He is
<v Speaker 2>freaking brilliant. I love the comparisons. I I don't agree
<v Speaker 2>with his choice of song, but I absolutely love it.
<v Speaker 2>And guys, if you have not checked out a film
<v Speaker 2>by podcast, you need to go check it out. They
<v Speaker 2>just came out with Maximum Overdrive, which I thought was
<v Speaker 2>absolutely hysterical. Listen to him talk about that movie. Definitely
<v Speaker 2>go check him out. Jeff, thank you for contributing.
<v Speaker 1>Man, Jeff coming Strong with the Mighty Wings. I love
<v Speaker 1>that song, and you know what, I'm with you, bro,
<v Speaker 1>the'se not on board, but that's okay. Thanks for chiving in, Jeff.
<v Speaker 1>We appreciate you. Okay.
<v Speaker 2>So that brings us to our question, what is your
<v Speaker 2>number one favorite song? Are we just saying original soundtrack?
<v Speaker 1>Let's do original soundtrack, original soundtrack, all original soundtrack, and
<v Speaker 1>then of the.
<v Speaker 2>Songs we'll pick amongst that. Yeah, okay, okay, all right,
<v Speaker 2>so you go, first, original soundtrack? What's your number one song?
<v Speaker 1>The best song on the original soundtrack is the one
<v Speaker 1>that gives me chills and makes the hair stand up
<v Speaker 1>on my arm every time I freaking hear it. And
<v Speaker 1>it's the top gun anthem Steve Stevens blasting my balls
<v Speaker 1>off with that get every time I hear it. It
<v Speaker 1>makes me want to go join the navy. I mean,
<v Speaker 1>it's so good.
<v Speaker 2>I love it.
<v Speaker 1>I can't I don't know what to say every time
<v Speaker 1>I hear it. That bell whoo man.
<v Speaker 2>It is powerful, No question is powerful. I can't fault
<v Speaker 2>you for that for me. I mean, I hate to
<v Speaker 2>be boring, but it's gotta be danger zone.
<v Speaker 1>I mean, I can't fault you either.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, that song blows the doors off, just like
<v Speaker 2>the anthem, but you got Kenny Loggins's rocking voice to
<v Speaker 2>go along with it. Yeah. Now, that song the best
<v Speaker 2>song on the album, hands down in my opinion, Okay,
<v Speaker 2>worse So honestly, I don't have a worst song on
<v Speaker 2>this album. None of these are skippers. This album is solid,
<v Speaker 2>even the ones by Larry Green and Marietta who I
<v Speaker 2>don't I mean, I don't know.
<v Speaker 1>They're still good. That is the correct answer, sir. Yeah,
<v Speaker 1>you nail it. There is no bad song on this album.
<v Speaker 1>They're all great. They're all non skippers.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, no, wonder this is one of the best album
<v Speaker 2>selling albums of all time.
<v Speaker 1>I'm spiking the football. This is the best soundtrack of
<v Speaker 1>nineteen eighty six, hand down.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, now, yep for the extra songs. We threw out
<v Speaker 2>four extra songs. We've got the Righteous Brothers, We've got
<v Speaker 2>Jerry Lee Lewis, we've got One Republic, and we've got
<v Speaker 2>Lady Gaga.
<v Speaker 1>It's hard, man, we're talking about all time classics.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it is my turn. Well I was gonna say,
<v Speaker 2>we're talking about all time classics, and we're also talking
<v Speaker 2>about brand new top of the chart songs too.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, yeah, potentially new classics.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 1>The best song of these four, man, As much as
<v Speaker 1>I want to say hold My Hand by Lady Gaga,
<v Speaker 1>which I just think is a fantastic song, I have
<v Speaker 1>to say, you've lost that love and feeling. It's a
<v Speaker 1>full on cranker. Every time I hear it, it makes
<v Speaker 1>me want to go serenade my wife.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah you know, uh yeah, I mean of all time,
<v Speaker 2>probably that's gonna be the right answer. But right now,
<v Speaker 2>I ain't worried. Has got me captivated. I'm picking it
<v Speaker 2>as the number one of the extra songs, and I
<v Speaker 2>realized it's probably the least popular of all of them,
<v Speaker 2>but I don't care. I love it. I love the style,
<v Speaker 2>I love the lyrics, I love the whistles, I love fun.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah, absolutely man, I feel like every song we've listened
<v Speaker 1>to today has just been great. YEP, it's a lot
<v Speaker 1>of fun. So that's going to do it for the
<v Speaker 1>top Gun soundtrack. Plus, let us know where you weigh in.
<v Speaker 1>What song is your favorite? What song of the new
<v Speaker 1>songs do you like the best? Come at us, let's
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<v Speaker 2>wonders of the eighties and beyond, and that begins this month.
<v Speaker 2>For as low as five bucks a month, you buy
<v Speaker 2>Jason and I a cup of coffee every month and
<v Speaker 2>we give you a full on, in depth dive to
<v Speaker 2>one of the iconic one hit wonders of the last century.
<v Speaker 1>We will see you next week when we dive into
<v Speaker 1>White Snake, the history of the band White Snake and
<v Speaker 1>how they got to the Still of the night.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know where I'm going, but I still know
<v Speaker 2>where I've been hanging on the promise the songs of yesterday.
<v Speaker 2>That's what we do here. I see you guys next week.