Air Supply "Greatest Hits" (1983): Track by Track!

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<v Speaker 4>All right, d I want you to tell me the
<v Speaker 4>musical group that had seven consecutive top five hits on
<v Speaker 4>the Hot one hundred and had zero help from MTV,
<v Speaker 4>The Beatles. Well, that's a good guess. That is what
<v Speaker 4>we're talking about today.
<v Speaker 3>This is not the fab four, This is the Fabulous two.
<v Speaker 4>That is this is the fabulous two. Today we are
<v Speaker 4>talking about air Supply.
<v Speaker 3>The strings start right now right, just all that soft
<v Speaker 3>rock gold. Guys, We're back here at the shore that
<v Speaker 3>you Can't Be Serious podcast with part two of our
<v Speaker 3>soft Rock Champions of the early eighties, Christopher Cross versus
<v Speaker 3>Air Supply, both of them the Greatest Hits album amazing
<v Speaker 3>soft rock. Some would call some of this yat rock
<v Speaker 3>if you like, but I don't care if you don't
<v Speaker 3>like it, sir. I love this album. I had this
<v Speaker 3>album as a little kid and I wore it out,
<v Speaker 3>and then when I started getting Columbia House Records for
<v Speaker 3>a penny a CD, I got this one right away
<v Speaker 3>because it is magic. I will tell you this.
<v Speaker 4>You know we've talked before, like how you know Thriller
<v Speaker 4>and nineteen eighty four by Van Halen and the Footloose
<v Speaker 4>soundtrack was just like passed out when you went back
<v Speaker 4>to school for fifth grade. Like everybody had that. Everybody,
<v Speaker 4>every parent seemed to have had Air Supplies Greatest Hits.
<v Speaker 3>Yes, And I can remember that this album cover because
<v Speaker 3>I literally I was like, is this Lord of the Rings?
<v Speaker 3>Is that Legalis Senfrodo right there? The cover of this thing?
<v Speaker 1>Oh?
<v Speaker 3>My gosh, it does. It looks like it's just this
<v Speaker 3>hand drawn, very wispy kind of the last Unicorn style artwork,
<v Speaker 3>and it looks like even Hobbit and an Elf. I'm
<v Speaker 3>just say it the colored pencil cover me. But these guys,
<v Speaker 3>whatever they might look like, were an unstoppable juggernaut in
<v Speaker 3>nineteen eighty one eighty two, Like just unbelievable.
<v Speaker 4>They came out of nowhere to become an immediate juggernaut.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, and then and then drop as fast as they appeared. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>it came from down under and went back. Yeah, but
<v Speaker 3>they didn't. But anyway, all right, let's there are thirteen
<v Speaker 3>tracks on this one, so we got to jump in.
<v Speaker 3>Let's start. This is their debut single off of their
<v Speaker 3>debut album. This one is called Love and Other Bruises.
<v Speaker 2>Here we go.
<v Speaker 5>As the Times lives through Your Thing.
<v Speaker 3>Two song most.
<v Speaker 6>Time to Go and the Morning Breaks between Us?
<v Speaker 3>Where is a half decent shot that your parents got
<v Speaker 3>jiggy with the song playing.
<v Speaker 4>I'm just saying you might be here today because of
<v Speaker 4>this song.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, it could be the case. Okay, So air supply
<v Speaker 3>we got to say. They've had various members throughout their tenure.
<v Speaker 3>But really it is just the two mainstay guys. We've
<v Speaker 3>got the two Russell's. We have Russell Hitchcock the singer
<v Speaker 3>and Graham Russell the songwriter, an occasional singer. Yeah, that's right.
<v Speaker 4>You know that they met as members of the cast
<v Speaker 4>for Jesus Christ Superstar. Yeah in Australia.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah. Yeah. So Graham Russell was born in England and
<v Speaker 3>his story about how he became a songwriter is a
<v Speaker 3>pretty sad one. Actually, he grew up I'm not wealthy,
<v Speaker 3>but he said he had a very happy childhood for
<v Speaker 3>the first ten years of his life. Like they didn't
<v Speaker 3>have TV, didn't have a car, but he was happy.
<v Speaker 3>And his mother got breast cancer and he knew that
<v Speaker 3>she was sick, but they kind of kept from him
<v Speaker 3>how sick she was. And so one morning he and
<v Speaker 3>his sisters wake up and their dad says, oh, your
<v Speaker 3>mom's gone, and he's like, well, where is she? When
<v Speaker 3>she coming back and he's like, no, she's passed away,
<v Speaker 3>and he didn't know what that meant, and so she's
<v Speaker 3>like okay, but when she coming back, and when he
<v Speaker 3>finally understood that she had died, he stopped speaking for
<v Speaker 3>three months. Yeah, I heard him talk about that. I mean,
<v Speaker 3>it's just a tragedy. But in that process that he
<v Speaker 3>had to go through his own healing, devastational moment. When
<v Speaker 3>he did start communicating with people, he wore a little
<v Speaker 3>tablet like arn, a string around his neck and he
<v Speaker 3>would just write down whatever it is that he wanted
<v Speaker 3>to say to people. And it was in that process
<v Speaker 3>that he decided to start rhyming the things that he
<v Speaker 3>was saying on the paper, and that turned into a
<v Speaker 3>love for poetry and ultimately a love for songwriting and
<v Speaker 3>a guy with a incredible ability to write some amazing songs.
<v Speaker 3>Love him.
<v Speaker 1>Makes a song.
<v Speaker 3>Along with that.
<v Speaker 4>I just wanted to mention we are covering today the
<v Speaker 4>E M I version of this album. Yeah, there's different versions,
<v Speaker 4>because there's an Australian version, there's the American version. Clive
<v Speaker 4>Davis gets involved. They changed the lyrics on some stuff.
<v Speaker 4>This has thirteen songs, so when you're going, well, wait
<v Speaker 4>a minute, my cassette only had nine tracks.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, well that's okay. We're going to go through the
<v Speaker 3>no longer honus for your time and effort here. God good. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>So this one hit number six in Australia and what's interesting.
<v Speaker 3>I mean I said this came off their debut album,
<v Speaker 3>which was called Air Supply in nineteen seventy six. They
<v Speaker 3>re released it when they did their third album, which
<v Speaker 3>was their first US release, which was also called Love
<v Speaker 3>and Other Bruises. Nice touch there, Yeah, but when they
<v Speaker 3>were still in Australia and just you know, they were
<v Speaker 3>in the charts and making no money and not bringing people,
<v Speaker 3>like they'd have a show and no one would show up,
<v Speaker 3>and it was just I mean, it's a struggle. I
<v Speaker 3>think you told me a story that, you know, when
<v Speaker 3>they were moving from hotel to hotel, that they'd look
<v Speaker 3>in the cash cushions to find money for bread.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, yeah, that's right. You know, I heard Graham Russell
<v Speaker 4>tell a story. He said, you know, we were in
<v Speaker 4>Jesus Christ Superstar. We knew that that was coming to
<v Speaker 4>an end in eighteen months. Yeah, and so we had
<v Speaker 4>eight eighteen months to get together something. Well, you know, initially,
<v Speaker 4>I don't even think we talked about how they met,
<v Speaker 4>but you know, they were were sitting they were in
<v Speaker 4>the cast, they were hanging out. A lot of the
<v Speaker 4>other people had been in other plays together, so they
<v Speaker 4>kind of knew each other. He's like, but we didn't
<v Speaker 4>know each other, we didn't know anybody else, so we're
<v Speaker 4>kind of lonely, we're kind of quiet. Introduced ourselves and
<v Speaker 4>then as the you know, as the play went on,
<v Speaker 4>I heard him sing and he's like, dude, you've got
<v Speaker 4>an incredible voice, you know. Graham Russell went to Russell Hitchcock,
<v Speaker 4>and of course they both saw The Beatles at age fourteen.
<v Speaker 4>They both have the name Russell, you know, they they
<v Speaker 4>don't have a brother. You know, there's some similarities that
<v Speaker 4>they kind of bonded over. And when they started to
<v Speaker 4>hang out, Graham russ would just kind of break out
<v Speaker 4>the guitar when they weren't doing anything. Russell Hitchcock would
<v Speaker 4>just sing and people would walk by and say, wow,
<v Speaker 4>you guys are really good together. You know, they had
<v Speaker 4>a hit song before Jesus Christ Superstar was over. They
<v Speaker 4>had never played live together. Yeah, and had a hit song.
<v Speaker 3>It's crazy. Have you seen the music video for this
<v Speaker 3>Love and other Bruises Love an others?
<v Speaker 1>Not?
<v Speaker 5>No?
<v Speaker 4>All right, so I'm going to give them some crap
<v Speaker 4>because their music video game was awful.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, Now they do improve eventually, Okay, but this one.
<v Speaker 3>I showed you. I showed you. Is this the overall?
<v Speaker 4>Russell Hitchcock is in a pair of my grandpa's overalls.
<v Speaker 3>Overalls like Gene. He looks like it looks like he
<v Speaker 3>borrowed the overalls from Dexy and the Midnight Runners.
<v Speaker 4>He has the giant Don Henley fro like the white
<v Speaker 4>Guy fro. Yes he does, and he's wearing the Gene overalls.
<v Speaker 4>This is before they had kind of established themselves as
<v Speaker 4>like the soft rock the kind of the whimpy love band.
<v Speaker 3>Well yeah, I mean it was well before they had
<v Speaker 3>established anything. It's just their first one. Now, of course
<v Speaker 3>it came, like I said, it came back out on
<v Speaker 3>the US release, but this is not one of the
<v Speaker 3>ones that blew the US away. We gotta move on
<v Speaker 3>for those you ready to go to song number two.
<v Speaker 3>Let's go to song number two. All right, I'm so
<v Speaker 3>so excited for you all on this, So hang on,
<v Speaker 3>hang on. Before we say anymore.
<v Speaker 4>You called me yesterday I was mowing the lawn and
<v Speaker 4>you were like, dude, stop right now and watch this
<v Speaker 4>music video.
<v Speaker 3>So I just got to tell everybody. If you try
<v Speaker 3>to search this up on Spotify, which has I thought,
<v Speaker 3>all of the songs, you won't find it, okay, and
<v Speaker 3>this is on their greatest hits. This is this song
<v Speaker 3>is on their greatest hits, And so I had to
<v Speaker 3>hunt it down and I'm like, where I look for
<v Speaker 3>the album. I couldn't find the album on Spotify and
<v Speaker 3>I'm like, jeez whiz, I'll get it. So I go
<v Speaker 3>to YouTube. Thank the Lord for giving me that blessing
<v Speaker 3>because this video ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, it
<v Speaker 3>was the highlight of my week. The highlight of my week.
<v Speaker 3>So the song that we were talking about is song
<v Speaker 3>number two on this album, and it is appropriately called
<v Speaker 3>bring Out the Magic. Oh my gosh. It is seventies
<v Speaker 3>gold and I love this because it's not like their
<v Speaker 3>other stuff. This is not I mean, it's it's softer,
<v Speaker 3>but this is a kind of a rock and little song.
<v Speaker 3>It's got a little electric guitar in there. It's I
<v Speaker 3>kind of it's in this song. Russell Hitchcock has kind
<v Speaker 3>of given me the Geddy Lee or Dennis Day young vibes. Man.
<v Speaker 3>He's just got that kind of prog rock I think
<v Speaker 3>to it. I love it.
<v Speaker 4>Before people start, you know, trying to kill us for
<v Speaker 4>saying that, you know, compared it to Rush or whatever.
<v Speaker 4>But I do think there's some sticks elements in this.
<v Speaker 3>I think there is some.
<v Speaker 4>Mario Speedwagon here, Oh yeah, for sure, you know, just
<v Speaker 4>kind of that seventies rock, kind of folk rock.
<v Speaker 3>Whatever.
<v Speaker 4>I don't think there's much difference at this point.
<v Speaker 3>No, come, come, Come, bring out the magic. I love it.
<v Speaker 3>I love the song I had sketchy. It's a new
<v Speaker 3>discovery for me. I guess it just kind of would
<v Speaker 3>skip by this whenever I had the CD. But man,
<v Speaker 3>this is a little gem. This a little piece of
<v Speaker 3>gold on this album.
<v Speaker 4>I like how you know Russell Hitchcock is singing, and
<v Speaker 4>then all of a sudden, the two guys jump in
<v Speaker 4>the frame as they're doing the chorus.
<v Speaker 3>There, Graham Russell and some guy who looks like he
<v Speaker 3>would work on your car in the Lower London area, and.
<v Speaker 4>They got veils tied around their guitar heads.
<v Speaker 3>It's fun. Yeah, it's great, great. I don't have much
<v Speaker 3>to say about the song because it's so difficult to find.
<v Speaker 3>You're not going to find a lot of information on it.
<v Speaker 3>But the video is well worth the watch.
<v Speaker 4>I mean, if you're keeping count at home, We like
<v Speaker 4>these two songs, and we haven't even got to their
<v Speaker 4>big hits.
<v Speaker 3>We haven't scratched the surface on what is to come,
<v Speaker 3>that is for sure. But let's keep on rolling down
<v Speaker 3>the line. Song number three, their biggest hit. This is
<v Speaker 3>the One that You Love long.
<v Speaker 2>Two words to say, so.
<v Speaker 3>This is definitive air supply magic. Give me a simple
<v Speaker 3>little piano pie sting ding ding, and then give me
<v Speaker 3>a gut wrenching melody composed by Graham Russell and sung
<v Speaker 3>by Russell Hitchcock.
<v Speaker 4>Anyway, guy's got an angel voice. It's a it's a
<v Speaker 4>hooky chorus, it's a sing along swear.
<v Speaker 3>And just when you're starting to sway, the strings come
<v Speaker 3>in and just take it to heaven. This was their
<v Speaker 3>only number one hits. It's crazy. For as much as
<v Speaker 3>they were banging around in the top five, this is
<v Speaker 3>a shock here that this is their only one to
<v Speaker 3>hit the number one. This one came off the album
<v Speaker 3>of nineteen eighty one called The One that You Love
<v Speaker 3>Exactly enough. Yes makes sense to me.
<v Speaker 1>Now.
<v Speaker 3>What's interesting about this song, in addition to it hitting
<v Speaker 3>number one and obviously being the template for all air
<v Speaker 3>air supply hits, is it's the lyrics are here, I
<v Speaker 3>Am the one that you love. Now we're just about
<v Speaker 3>to jump into another song. And these songs were out
<v Speaker 3>at the same time, and they had to make some
<v Speaker 3>adjustments to keep people from getting confused about which song
<v Speaker 3>it was that they were listening to. I was confused, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>you know, yeah, because if you if you were like, hey,
<v Speaker 3>do you want to listen to the air supply song
<v Speaker 3>here I Am, you'd be like the one that you
<v Speaker 3>love and they're like, no, not that song. That's not
<v Speaker 3>the right one. That's not the right one. So that
<v Speaker 3>song is next on our list before we get to
<v Speaker 3>that song.
<v Speaker 4>Yes, I've got to go over this chart with you
<v Speaker 4>because it's it's full of early eighty pre MTV goal here.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, so this is when they hit number one in
<v Speaker 3>nineteen eighty one. So they hit number one.
<v Speaker 4>This is July twenty fifth, nineteen eighty one. This is
<v Speaker 4>summer of eighty one.
<v Speaker 3>Okay. So starting at number eight.
<v Speaker 4>You Make My Dreams Come True by Hell and Oates,
<v Speaker 4>number seven, Slow Hand by the Pointer Sisters, number six,
<v Speaker 4>I Don't Need You Kenny Rogers.
<v Speaker 3>That one comes up later on actually.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, Now, the interesting thing about the chart this week
<v Speaker 4>is that Kenny Rogers had the number one hit as
<v Speaker 4>the adult contemporary chart.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah blocking this one. Yeah, and this was the number
<v Speaker 3>one on the time that it ranks higher in the
<v Speaker 3>Hot one hundred than it does on the Adult contemporary.
<v Speaker 3>It's very strange. Yep.
<v Speaker 4>Number five Elvira, Number four the theme for the Greatest
<v Speaker 4>American Hero.
<v Speaker 3>Go back and check out our best TV themes of
<v Speaker 3>the I can't remember. I think they did that week.
<v Speaker 3>I think that was eighty eighty four. Eighty eighty four. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>that's an episode, everybody, It's awesome. Go look at it.
<v Speaker 3>Number three Jesse's Girl of course. Yes. Number two Betty
<v Speaker 3>Davis Eyes, Oh yeah, great. Oh that's a smash hit
<v Speaker 3>of songs in the early eighties. Love it now.
<v Speaker 4>I just want to bring up the music video on
<v Speaker 4>this one. Okay, I am so sorry I have to
<v Speaker 4>do this though. There is a scene filmed at a
<v Speaker 4>park where the girlfriend is on the slide and it
<v Speaker 4>looks like the Love montage and the Naked Gun, right.
<v Speaker 3>She like slides down.
<v Speaker 4>He just watches her go like it just like she's
<v Speaker 4>going to fall into a pit of sharks or something
<v Speaker 4>like that.
<v Speaker 3>Oh you sent me a picture from this video. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>and you want this shirt right now? And I absolutely dotely.
<v Speaker 3>I probably wouldn't do the overalls, but this shirt I
<v Speaker 3>would wear every day if I owned it. I said
<v Speaker 3>this picture, I'm like, the you need this badass tiger shirt. Man.
<v Speaker 4>Oh dude, his white shirt is massive tiger face on
<v Speaker 4>the shirt.
<v Speaker 3>Yep.
<v Speaker 4>So this is pre tats. By the way, this is
<v Speaker 4>a you know, he had to put the decoration on
<v Speaker 4>the shirt right right.
<v Speaker 3>Okay.
<v Speaker 4>I hate to move on too quickly, but but we
<v Speaker 4>got thirteen songs to go. Here I Am, I mean
<v Speaker 4>here I Am, Here I Am the one that you love. No,
<v Speaker 4>that's not this, all right. Number four on this album
<v Speaker 4>is a song called here I Am. Just when I
<v Speaker 4>thought I was over you, there I go.
<v Speaker 3>Playing will those Memories again? So to me, this sounds
<v Speaker 3>like prototype typical air supply, But this actually was. This
<v Speaker 3>is the first song that we have that is not
<v Speaker 3>written by Bram Russell.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, this is Norman Salite Okay, and I was like, oh, wow,
<v Speaker 4>different guy.
<v Speaker 3>I went and checked. He's known for writing here, here
<v Speaker 3>I Am. That's it. That's his that's his claim to
<v Speaker 3>fame right there. He wrote this song That's Right, which
<v Speaker 3>I'm sure made him quite a bit of money. Now.
<v Speaker 3>I don't know how Clive Davis became familiar with the
<v Speaker 3>Norman Seleite version of this song, but somehow he knew
<v Speaker 3>that that was the magic that Air supply needed on
<v Speaker 3>this album, the One that You Love, and so that
<v Speaker 3>is why it was at it. And it was originally
<v Speaker 3>just titled Here I Am, but to avoid the confusion
<v Speaker 3>with the One that You Love, they changed the title
<v Speaker 3>when they released a single to include the rest of
<v Speaker 3>the lyrics.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, I just want to cover this real quick. This
<v Speaker 4>was a top five hit, their second in a long
<v Speaker 4>list here Okay. Now, this spent three weeks at the
<v Speaker 4>number one spot on the adult chart.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, I just want to go over these real quick.
<v Speaker 4>Number five, Here I Am. Number four Start me Up
<v Speaker 4>by the Rolling Stones, Okay. Number three waiting for a
<v Speaker 4>Girl like You Foreigner.
<v Speaker 3>That's a great one, man. Can we talk about that
<v Speaker 3>in our Stranger Things? I believe that we did. Yes,
<v Speaker 3>it is. I believe in the scene that Steve and
<v Speaker 3>whatever her name is, you're about to get it all. Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>Number two Private Eyes another Holly Oats magic there all right?
<v Speaker 4>Number two let's get Olivia Newton John.
<v Speaker 3>But I want to bring this up. Number nine this
<v Speaker 3>week on the chart.
<v Speaker 4>The Arthur's Theme by Christopher Cross. Oh there you go, right, yep,
<v Speaker 4>all right, this chorus capture me. I mean this course
<v Speaker 4>captures me.
<v Speaker 3>I don't. It's absolutely It's another one of their solid
<v Speaker 3>gold deniable It's magic, just like they mean it to be.
<v Speaker 3>And I would listen to it over and over again.
<v Speaker 3>Can't beat it, okay. Next song on the album is
<v Speaker 3>a song called Sweet Dreams. Sweet Dreams. It is a
<v Speaker 3>different sweet Dreams, a lot of ship you.
<v Speaker 6>I want to ride disguise last see.
<v Speaker 1>You.
<v Speaker 3>I want to sing it's a live lass. So this
<v Speaker 3>one is a darker tone. I really dig it. I wasn't.
<v Speaker 3>I didn't remember it as I pulled. Really okay, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>and so I'm gonna listening to this. I'm like, oh,
<v Speaker 3>this is kind of dark. And then when they start singing,
<v Speaker 3>the melody changes a little bit, and I'm like, man,
<v Speaker 3>I don't know why some hair metal band did not
<v Speaker 3>cover this song in the late eighties, because it's got
<v Speaker 3>all of the right feels for that kind of song.
<v Speaker 3>And I could hear Tommy Shaw singing this song. Right,
<v Speaker 3>Oh yeah, and maybe Ted Nugent could play the guitar
<v Speaker 3>on it. I don't know. Ye, let's go. The ball
<v Speaker 3>is in your court. So the course and this is great.
<v Speaker 3>You have the electric guitar solo. Yeah? Is this rock?
<v Speaker 3>This is this is a rocker to me, this is
<v Speaker 3>more rock than soft Well.
<v Speaker 4>It's definitely on the rockier end of their average stuff.
<v Speaker 3>It's power ballot right right, It's a power ballad. It's
<v Speaker 3>not just a ballot. Is a power ballot. This is
<v Speaker 3>also off there the one that you Love album. I
<v Speaker 3>think it charted as well. Oh yeah, the man this
<v Speaker 3>made it's number five on the Hot one hundred five.
<v Speaker 3>So here's the deal.
<v Speaker 4>Clive Davis was involved and had a big hand in
<v Speaker 4>air supply success.
<v Speaker 3>Absolutely Clive Davis.
<v Speaker 4>Just to give you a list of names that Clive
<v Speaker 4>Davis has found, discovered, produced made stars.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, hold on to your sock out his hand and said,
<v Speaker 3>I'm gonna make you a star. Yea said that quote
<v Speaker 3>to quote an Aerosmith lyric. Absolutely right.
<v Speaker 4>So slant in the family, Stone, Jennis Joplin, Santana, Bruce Springsteen, Chicago,
<v Speaker 4>Billy Joel, Login's a Messina it's a bass. Your favorite aerosmith,
<v Speaker 4>Pink Floyd. Uh, Millie Vanilly, expose Aretha Franklin, Grateful.
<v Speaker 3>Day, Pink Floyd, then say Millie Vanilly. Yes. The names
<v Speaker 3>in the next to each other. The question what does
<v Speaker 3>Pink Floyd have in common with Milli Vanilly?
<v Speaker 4>The Clive Davis sir, and he discovered Barry Manilow and
<v Speaker 4>Whitney Houston.
<v Speaker 3>Wow, I mean that this dude is bringing it this
<v Speaker 3>and for a long time. I mean we're talking about
<v Speaker 3>way back in the seventies and he's been bringing it.
<v Speaker 3>And is he still around?
<v Speaker 4>He is still He's ninety three years old, bro, and
<v Speaker 4>still turning over rocks looking for stars.
<v Speaker 3>I guess I don't know, man, That's awesome. Hey.
<v Speaker 4>The interesting thing on this song, Graham Russell of course
<v Speaker 4>wrote this song. He says, most of the time he's
<v Speaker 4>got a pretty good feel for what it's going to
<v Speaker 4>be a hit?
<v Speaker 3>What's not?
<v Speaker 4>He said, sometimes when he writes a song, he gets
<v Speaker 4>the little hairs that stand up on the back of
<v Speaker 4>his neck.
<v Speaker 3>He's like this one, He's like, really, this one. He's like,
<v Speaker 3>I don't know.
<v Speaker 4>But Clive Davis was like, no, this song is going
<v Speaker 4>to be a hit, going to make it a hit,
<v Speaker 4>and so he's like, you know, just go with what
<v Speaker 4>Clive says. All right, awesome quickly, Yes, the hot one
<v Speaker 4>hundred for March twentieth, nineteen eighty two. Okay, number six,
<v Speaker 4>we got the beat, Remember we got the beat. Number five,
<v Speaker 4>Sweet Dreams. Number four, that girl, I think that's Stevie Wonder.
<v Speaker 3>Okay.
<v Speaker 4>Number three Centerfold by Jay Giles Band.
<v Speaker 3>Going to cover that next season, I think yes. Number
<v Speaker 3>two Open Arms by Journey.
<v Speaker 4>Journey and I Love Rock and Roll is the number
<v Speaker 4>one hit by Joe Jett and the Black Hearts, excellent
<v Speaker 4>number ten on the charts this week. Pac Man Fever,
<v Speaker 4>a song I covered with Dirk Smith on our Patreon episode.
<v Speaker 3>Just go check out our Patreon episode. I'll probably bring
<v Speaker 3>it up again a little bit later. But you can
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<v Speaker 3>like it. Okay, yeah, all right, moving on to a
<v Speaker 3>big hitter. Hold on, Hold on to your butt, Hold
<v Speaker 3>on to your butts. This is the breakout song for them.
<v Speaker 3>I mean literally the breakout song Here we Go number six,
<v Speaker 3>This is Lost in Love, I'm Not letting Go. I
<v Speaker 3>believe there's so much to this one. You get the
<v Speaker 3>magic of the duo singing together. It's truly a great song.
<v Speaker 4>Oh it's it is so good. And he wrote it
<v Speaker 4>in fifteen minutes. Fifteen minutes, fifteen minutes. You know, I
<v Speaker 4>heard him talk about this song. He said it's an
<v Speaker 4>interesting song because he knew he had something.
<v Speaker 3>There's no chorus in this song. It's just verse bridge,
<v Speaker 3>verse bridge, no chorus. Interesting.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I think it's interesting that Clive Davis held this
<v Speaker 4>song until the all dropped on nineteen eighty.
<v Speaker 3>Did you hear that story?
<v Speaker 6>No?
<v Speaker 4>So it's often their nineteen seventy nine album. He did
<v Speaker 4>not want to release this song until the calendar flipped
<v Speaker 4>to nineteen eighty because he wanted this to be a
<v Speaker 4>nineteen eighty song, which I think is kind of having
<v Speaker 4>great foresight, because really he didn't want this to be
<v Speaker 4>categorized as a seventies song. He wanted it to be
<v Speaker 4>an eighties song.
<v Speaker 3>He saw what was coming because he was going to
<v Speaker 3>make it happen. Yeah, yeah, Oh man, that's great. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>So this one was all over the charts, right all
<v Speaker 3>over the charts, and at this point they still didn't
<v Speaker 3>have anybody representing them, like they didn't have a manager,
<v Speaker 3>that had nothing. And when this song goes ballistic, they're
<v Speaker 3>getting calls from all kinds of guys in the US like, Hey,
<v Speaker 3>this is my law farm, we would like to represent you,
<v Speaker 3>this is my agency, we would like to represent you.
<v Speaker 3>There's call after call after call, and the reason that
<v Speaker 3>they picked the guy that they went with, it's a
<v Speaker 3>guy named Barry Siegel, and Barry Siegel had just started
<v Speaker 3>his own agency and he showed up on their door
<v Speaker 3>in Australia. Good for him. He didn't just call. He
<v Speaker 3>went found him and knocked on the door and they
<v Speaker 3>opened it up and they're like what he's like, I
<v Speaker 3>would just like to represent you, guys. And it's been
<v Speaker 3>a fantastic relationship. But they said that night they took
<v Speaker 3>him out and they got him very very drunk, and
<v Speaker 3>then they left him in the middle of kind of
<v Speaker 3>a bad area to find his way back to his
<v Speaker 3>hotel that he couldn't find. But after he did it,
<v Speaker 3>they were like, this is our guy, Like he's Andy
<v Speaker 3>they consider themselves the Three Musketeers, those two guys and
<v Speaker 3>their manager who I mean, he's his agency is a
<v Speaker 3>all star list of people, but this group is one
<v Speaker 3>of the few that he actually represents them himself, and
<v Speaker 3>so he's been their agent, manager and accountant, which has
<v Speaker 3>helped them not be frivolous with money. And that goes
<v Speaker 3>along with the fact that they didn't really ever do
<v Speaker 3>drugs or go crazy with their lifestyle. Helps. Yeah, there's
<v Speaker 3>not a lot of salacious stories on this one. I've
<v Speaker 3>got a teeny one slightly silactious, but then when you
<v Speaker 3>hear the rest of it, you're like, well, okay, this
<v Speaker 3>is like the anti Motley. It comes. It comes at
<v Speaker 3>the last song, so you're gonna have to hold You're
<v Speaker 3>gonna have to hold on for that salacious story. But
<v Speaker 3>but this song was everywhere so NFL man, I love
<v Speaker 3>this song. Yeah, I'll tell you this though.
<v Speaker 4>So when they finished up Jesus Christ Superstar, they had
<v Speaker 4>a song that was already a hit in Australia.
<v Speaker 3>Yep, I believe it was Love and other Bruises.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, well they didn't have they had never performed live
<v Speaker 4>together ever, right, and as soon as they got out
<v Speaker 4>of Jesus Christ Superstar. They're like, Okay, we're doing this.
<v Speaker 4>So when they released that single, the record company called
<v Speaker 4>them and said, hey, we think we've got to hit
<v Speaker 4>song with this one. What's the name of your group?
<v Speaker 4>And they're like, oh yeah, man, we haven't really thought
<v Speaker 4>about that.
<v Speaker 3>What is our name?
<v Speaker 4>And so like, well, you don't know, and he's like, well,
<v Speaker 4>I've got to have it by tomorrow morning. And so
<v Speaker 4>Graham Russell went to bed that night had a dream
<v Speaker 4>and he saw up in lights air supply, big black
<v Speaker 4>letters on the marquee. So he came the next morning
<v Speaker 4>and talked to Russell Hitchcock and he's like, I don't
<v Speaker 4>really have a name, but I did have a dream
<v Speaker 4>last night and I saw air supply up in lights.
<v Speaker 4>He goes, well, what does that mean? He's like, I
<v Speaker 4>have no idea. Maybe I'm going to have a heart attack.
<v Speaker 4>And he's like, well, you had a vision and that's it.
<v Speaker 3>He goes.
<v Speaker 4>We're not really religious people, but we always felt like
<v Speaker 4>we were kind of predestined and like the universe was
<v Speaker 4>kind of guiding our success.
<v Speaker 3>So there you go.
<v Speaker 4>The Hot one hundred for May third, nineteen eighty This
<v Speaker 4>is one day before I turned seven years old. Okay,
<v Speaker 4>so at number five you have another brick in the wall,
<v Speaker 4>of course. Number four is with You I'm Born Again.
<v Speaker 4>I can't remember who's saying that. I don't know that
<v Speaker 4>I recognized it. Number three is Lost in Love, Number
<v Speaker 4>two is Ride Like the Wind, Christopher Cross comes back Again,
<v Speaker 4>and number one is do you Remember call Me by Blonde?
<v Speaker 3>That's right? That's right. Released as a single, kept Christopher
<v Speaker 3>Cross out of the number one spot.
<v Speaker 4>All right, everybody, hit stop on your tape player, kick
<v Speaker 4>out your mom's tape, flip it over first side too
<v Speaker 4>of Air Supply's greatest hits.
<v Speaker 3>Hey, I'm flipping the LP.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, all right, next song on the album. This song
<v Speaker 4>is called Chances.
<v Speaker 3>There's a chance you will be I'd like to know
<v Speaker 3>the truth.
<v Speaker 6>I'll find it out.
<v Speaker 3>Some Chances on too Strong gorgeous song. I'm super familiar
<v Speaker 3>with it. I didn't really remember it from listening back
<v Speaker 3>in the day. But I don't think it's a single.
<v Speaker 3>It's beautiful.
<v Speaker 4>I think it was just one of the songs that
<v Speaker 4>Graham Russell liked. Okay, it wasn't in that string of
<v Speaker 4>top five hits, but it was surrounded by so many
<v Speaker 4>because it was on Lost in Love.
<v Speaker 3>It was Unlost in Love. You're exactly right.
<v Speaker 4>I did hear him tell the story behind this song?
<v Speaker 4>Ok yeah, okay, not a lot to it, but he said,
<v Speaker 4>it's about like an imaginary date. So when people go
<v Speaker 4>on dates, you know you're taking a chance, you're putting
<v Speaker 4>yourself out there. You show up at the cafe or
<v Speaker 4>the coffee house or wherever you are, and you're wondering,
<v Speaker 4>is this person going to show up here?
<v Speaker 3>I am here, I am.
<v Speaker 4>I'm putting it on the line, and I'm wondering if
<v Speaker 4>this person is gonna like me. I wonder if they're
<v Speaker 4>gonna think I'm cool, if they think I suck or whatever.
<v Speaker 4>And he said, in this song, the person never shows up,
<v Speaker 4>so it's kind of like the sliding doors of they
<v Speaker 4>never show up, so you never got a chance to see.
<v Speaker 3>If that relationship was going to work out or not.
<v Speaker 3>Interesting kind of sliding doors things. Yeah, definitely worth the listen. Yep. Okay.
<v Speaker 3>Song number eight on the album another absolute banger. This
<v Speaker 3>is every Woman in the World. Scenes We're slow dancing
<v Speaker 3>to this one in the school gymnasium in nineteen eighty two.
<v Speaker 3>The girl that you really like and she doesn't kiss you.
<v Speaker 3>She may just not be that into yet. Look her
<v Speaker 3>in the eye and tell her she's every woman in
<v Speaker 3>the world. Oh my gosh, this is a panty dropper
<v Speaker 3>of the ancient order. Once again. You may have been
<v Speaker 3>conceived to this song. Yeah, the world two. So there
<v Speaker 3>here here is another one that was not written by
<v Speaker 3>Graham Russell. Oh really, I don't know that. Okay. This
<v Speaker 3>is the songwriting duo of Dominic Bugatti and Frank Musker,
<v Speaker 3>who have had several other songs that they've done together,
<v Speaker 3>but this is definitely the biggest one that I found
<v Speaker 3>in the bunch, okay. And it's a wonderful beginning because
<v Speaker 3>you have this call and answer between Russell, Hitchcock and
<v Speaker 3>Graham Russell as they're singing, and then they headfake you
<v Speaker 3>just like they did. They're like, oh, we're going to
<v Speaker 3>the chorus. Oh no, we're not. We've got another verse
<v Speaker 3>coming in here. Verse. But the verse just builds and builds,
<v Speaker 3>and you get that whoacuz you're and everybody's swaying together. Man,
<v Speaker 3>that's great. This is another top five hit. I mean,
<v Speaker 3>I don't know how many that is I've lost track.
<v Speaker 4>Well, they had seven total that we're going to talk about. Okay,
<v Speaker 4>you want to hear the Tough Time?
<v Speaker 3>Oh sure, okay.
<v Speaker 4>Number five every Woman in the World to Me, by
<v Speaker 4>the way. Number eight that week was ninety five by
<v Speaker 4>Dolly Parton Sweet go back and see our best of
<v Speaker 4>nineteen eighty Number four was I Love.
<v Speaker 3>A Rainy Night by Eddie Rabbit. Eddie Rabbit.
<v Speaker 4>Number three is celebration cool in the Game, Cool in
<v Speaker 4>the Gang, yep. Number two just like starting over John Lennon.
<v Speaker 3>You ever heard that? Yeah, I've heard of him. Yep.
<v Speaker 4>And number one the Tightest High Bylondie. This reached number
<v Speaker 4>five the week January thirty first, nineteen eighty one.
<v Speaker 3>Just a gorgeous song and perfect for air supply to sing.
<v Speaker 4>By the way, I watched the video. Yeah, they still
<v Speaker 4>got to work on their video game. They're in the studio,
<v Speaker 4>so it is kind of a cool It's it reminds
<v Speaker 4>me of what it takes video by Aerosmith. Okay, you
<v Speaker 4>see them in the studio sort of working on the song,
<v Speaker 4>building or whatever.
<v Speaker 3>Everybody's wearing jeorde ash jeens though, I mean it's who
<v Speaker 3>was this time? I mean it was nineteen eighty one
<v Speaker 3>can we do Yeah? Then with this one yep, and
<v Speaker 3>another banger right down the line, Here we go, number nine,
<v Speaker 3>I'm all out of love. It's so lost without you. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>here we go.
<v Speaker 6>I'm hand alone. Hit my head on the phone, can
<v Speaker 6>a few till it hurts. I know you had to
<v Speaker 6>put work to.
<v Speaker 1>Hurt.
<v Speaker 3>It makes my heart hurt. This is a great one.
<v Speaker 3>So this one is another one that Clive Davis had
<v Speaker 3>a hand in, and to this degree he got a
<v Speaker 3>writing credit on this. I know that's crazy now I heard.
<v Speaker 3>You know, Graham Russell talked about this. He never really
<v Speaker 3>had an enjoyable time working with Clive Davis. But he
<v Speaker 3>was asked about, you know, whether Clive Davis was demanding
<v Speaker 3>or not, you know, and he said, well, when when
<v Speaker 3>I had originally written the song all out of Love,
<v Speaker 3>he came to me and he was like that we
<v Speaker 3>need to change the lyrics for the American release of
<v Speaker 3>this song. And I was like, I don't really want
<v Speaker 3>to do that. The original lyrics to this song, boys
<v Speaker 3>and girls and ladies and gentlemen were I'm all out
<v Speaker 3>of love. I want to arrest you. Clive said, that's
<v Speaker 3>not going to work, and when Clive makes a suggestion,
<v Speaker 3>that means that's what you're gonna do. That's it. And
<v Speaker 3>so he said, how about I'm so lost without you
<v Speaker 3>need to say, and it's all right, I guess well, yes,
<v Speaker 3>well done, Clive. That is a much better line. It's perfect.
<v Speaker 4>Actually, as an American on behalf of most Americans, I
<v Speaker 4>would say that would be.
<v Speaker 3>A little confused. I want to arrest you. What do
<v Speaker 3>you want to what? I want to arrest you?
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I heard him trying to defend it that you know,
<v Speaker 4>well in Australia that means to get your attention.
<v Speaker 3>Like an arresting beauty. Yes, I got you over here.
<v Speaker 4>You know you call the cops, you got the handcuffs out,
<v Speaker 4>you know you want to arrest somebody.
<v Speaker 3>So this one all the way to number two. Number
<v Speaker 3>two got blocked by two different songs. Got blocked by
<v Speaker 3>Upside Down by Dana Ross, so dum and bom bom bomb.
<v Speaker 3>Another one bites the dust yep queen, So only made
<v Speaker 3>it to number two. Now you've got a tidbit for
<v Speaker 3>me that I'm gonna I'm gonna be excited to hear.
<v Speaker 3>And I'm sorry that I already knew what it was.
<v Speaker 3>I was hoping you didn't because I was gonna blow
<v Speaker 3>your mind with it. But we both know it. So
<v Speaker 3>go ahead. So on our Patreon episode A few episodes,
<v Speaker 3>several episodes a year ago, I was gonna say, I
<v Speaker 3>think it was the first time that we did one
<v Speaker 3>where like it was, I'm not going to tell you
<v Speaker 3>what the song is, you have to guess what it
<v Speaker 3>is first. I think this was the first one sprung
<v Speaker 3>that on you.
<v Speaker 4>You did, Yes, and that was a hit from like
<v Speaker 4>nineteen eighty two that actually went to number one in
<v Speaker 4>nineteen eighty nine.
<v Speaker 3>I think.
<v Speaker 1>So.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, anyway, go back and listen to it. Go check
<v Speaker 4>out our Patreon episo. So Russell Hitchcock holds the final
<v Speaker 4>note of this song for sixteen point two seconds yep,
<v Speaker 4>which is impressive. Man, that's a long freaking time when
<v Speaker 4>you hear him do that. Yes, And it was broken
<v Speaker 4>by the lead singer for Sheriff with the song when
<v Speaker 4>I'm with You, where he holds it for almost nineteen seconds, I.
<v Speaker 3>Believe, Yeah, it was nineteen point four seventeen point four seconds.
<v Speaker 3>There you go, and it goes on and on and on. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>it's long. Yep. Yeah, I was really excited to drop
<v Speaker 3>that nugget on you. But you knew it. Yeah. Well,
<v Speaker 3>when I heard the song, I like, I this one
<v Speaker 3>is the one that I watched the video for. I mean,
<v Speaker 3>I think I watched two of them, but I watched
<v Speaker 3>this one and he hits that last note and I
<v Speaker 3>just because you know, you miss things when you're listening sometimes,
<v Speaker 3>but you just see him with his mouth open for
<v Speaker 3>that long right, And I was like, oh, I wonder
<v Speaker 3>how close this came to beating Sheriff's record. Oh, it
<v Speaker 3>held the record before Sheriff hit it. That's right there
<v Speaker 3>you go.
<v Speaker 4>By the way, the week did this song hit number two?
<v Speaker 4>The number four song Sailing by Christopher cross Nice.
<v Speaker 3>In this music video, by the way, it's really just
<v Speaker 3>them standing next to each other singing and Graham Russell
<v Speaker 3>has his guitar. You will notice Graham Russell is playing
<v Speaker 3>the guitar left handed, which would be this way right.
<v Speaker 3>You'll also notice that the guitar he has is a
<v Speaker 3>right handed guitar. It's an electric guitar, and I mean
<v Speaker 3>the way they make it for the right handers is
<v Speaker 3>if you want to get real eye on the neck
<v Speaker 3>they've cut this part lower and this part's up higher.
<v Speaker 3>So you see electric guitar parts higher and this part's lower. Well,
<v Speaker 3>he's got it upside down, playing it like this, because
<v Speaker 3>that's how he learned to play. He taught himself how
<v Speaker 3>to play the guitar. He's been trained at all, has
<v Speaker 3>not been trained in music, but just like plays the
<v Speaker 3>guitar upside down. Literally has the has the high notes
<v Speaker 3>on the top and the low notes on the bottom,
<v Speaker 3>which is opposite of what it would be for most
<v Speaker 3>other guitarists. So there you go.
<v Speaker 4>I was at your birthday party the other night and
<v Speaker 4>I listened to you and your brother and try to
<v Speaker 4>explain why the guitar worked the way it did.
<v Speaker 3>And I was more confused afterwards than I was before. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>that's me and my brother together with a few drinks
<v Speaker 3>in us. That's it. That's it, all right. Next song
<v Speaker 3>on the album, Oh my gosh, are they gonna? Are
<v Speaker 3>the hits just gonna keep on coming? I think they
<v Speaker 3>got to keep on coming. Here we go. I mean,
<v Speaker 3>I guess this is why they call it the greatest
<v Speaker 3>Hits album. This is number ten. Even the nights are better.
<v Speaker 3>I was the Lonely, one.
<v Speaker 4>Wonder and one where wrong?
<v Speaker 3>What had gone?
<v Speaker 1>And so.
<v Speaker 3>This one, Frodo is bringing the Meltisoft voice hardcore, and
<v Speaker 3>then Legalis comes in with some beautiful harmonies on this man.
<v Speaker 3>It is oh so good. Like their voices together on
<v Speaker 3>this song, I think are the best harmonies of this album.
<v Speaker 3>You know what just occurred to me while we're going
<v Speaker 3>through this.
<v Speaker 4>You know you've created a great hooky, catchy song when
<v Speaker 4>you say the title and I'm singing it like, You're like,
<v Speaker 4>even the nights are better. I'm like it Just that's
<v Speaker 4>how you know you've created a great catchy hookie song.
<v Speaker 3>Well, here's the thing. They didn't create this song either.
<v Speaker 3>This is another one that was written by somebody else. Okay,
<v Speaker 3>there's a group called Bama and we've got Terry Skinner, J. L.
<v Speaker 3>Wallace and K Bell are members of this group. They
<v Speaker 3>wrote the song but never recorded and it just went
<v Speaker 3>straight to air supply for them to sing. But it
<v Speaker 3>was it was the guys from Bama that wrote this song,
<v Speaker 3>and I mean magically it ended up with the two
<v Speaker 3>guys who needed to have it. Yep.
<v Speaker 4>This was the seventh consecutive top five hit on the
<v Speaker 4>hot one hundred.
<v Speaker 3>Now what's interesting is this song has the record or
<v Speaker 3>had the record for the fastest drop out of the
<v Speaker 3>top forty It hit number five, dropped to number six,
<v Speaker 3>dropped to forty two, like a rock, like a stone.
<v Speaker 3>And I think this kind of exemplifies what happened with
<v Speaker 3>these guys overall, right, Like something happened to music right
<v Speaker 3>about this time that suddenly this was not the music
<v Speaker 3>that people wanted to listen to anymore.
<v Speaker 4>I mean, this is right around the time of MTV
<v Speaker 4>kind of taken off people getting.
<v Speaker 3>You know, I mean, tell me your theory.
<v Speaker 4>I think that their kryptonite was Michael Jackson could be
<v Speaker 4>I told you this, like when Thriller came out, the
<v Speaker 4>whole world said, that is awesome. That's what we want.
<v Speaker 4>We're done with all the seventies folk crap.
<v Speaker 3>Yep. I mean, I don't know that I would call
<v Speaker 3>the seventies folk crap, but this was definitely soft stuff.
<v Speaker 3>This was parents' music. And in eighty one, when MTV
<v Speaker 3>came out, suddenly kids had an entirely different perspective on
<v Speaker 3>what kind of music they wanted to listen to. And tragically,
<v Speaker 3>except for me, because I was still listening to this stuff. Right,
<v Speaker 3>it wasn't air supply. By the way, they held that
<v Speaker 3>record for thirty years. I did not find the song
<v Speaker 3>that dropped out of the top. I no, I was curious,
<v Speaker 3>but it would have had to have gone. It had
<v Speaker 3>to have dropped out in one week, six to forty two. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>went from six to forty two.
<v Speaker 4>The American people said, we are done with this song.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, okay, I just want to drop this on you.
<v Speaker 3>The top this week in nineteen eighty two. Yep, even
<v Speaker 3>the nights are better.
<v Speaker 4>At number five, hold Me by Fleewood Mac number three,
<v Speaker 4>hard to say, I'm sorry.
<v Speaker 3>Bye uho Chicago. Yeah, it's like, I know, we've just
<v Speaker 3>talked about this song. I had to go through all
<v Speaker 3>the bands in my head. Chicago. Yes, number two I
<v Speaker 3>the Tiger by Survivor who we just compared those two guys.
<v Speaker 3>Check out Chicago versus Survivor episode. And then number one
<v Speaker 3>Abracadabra by Steve Miller. Steve Miller. Yeah, nice, interesting time
<v Speaker 3>right there. All right? Next song, yep, this one is
<v Speaker 3>number eleven two Less Lonely People in the World. I
<v Speaker 3>was down my dreams.
<v Speaker 4>Weir all right, this one doesn't do a whole lot
<v Speaker 4>for me.
<v Speaker 3>No, I still like this song. Yeah, I would put
<v Speaker 3>this one above chances anyway. Okay, No, I still enjoy
<v Speaker 3>this one. It's still the magic. It's not as powerful
<v Speaker 3>as some of their other hips hits, but I'm not
<v Speaker 3>skipping it. Okay, I've got something for you on the
<v Speaker 3>two writers of this song. Oh good, tell me so.
<v Speaker 4>This was written by a guy named kN Hirsh and
<v Speaker 4>Howard Greenfield.
<v Speaker 3>Correct, yes, okay, all right, So Ken Hirsch wrote a
<v Speaker 3>song called If I could Simon and garfone okondra prosta
<v Speaker 3>no everyone, Okay, then all right.
<v Speaker 4>He did some stuff with Nancy Wilson, who we talked
<v Speaker 4>about earlier this year. Yeah, yeah, Barbara Streisan and Sleein
<v Speaker 4>Dion kind of in that soft rock realm.
<v Speaker 3>There, steady babes to go out with today, I think you.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, yeah, Now then Howard Greenfield, I'm gonna blow your
<v Speaker 4>socks off.
<v Speaker 3>Okay. He wrote the Bewitched theme. Okay, that's a good one.
<v Speaker 3>He wrote Breaking Up This herd Dude due wow. Okay.
<v Speaker 4>He also wrote Leve Will Keep Us Together by the
<v Speaker 4>Captain Anton Neils yep, and Stairway to Heaven.
<v Speaker 3>No, not that one. No, yeah, that's what I thought.
<v Speaker 3>That's great, all right. Next song on the album is
<v Speaker 3>a song called Now and Forever when love is Now
<v Speaker 3>and Forever. If I did have to pick one skipper
<v Speaker 3>on this album, it's this one. This one. Yeah, I
<v Speaker 3>mean it's it's okay, but I mean it's like belongs
<v Speaker 3>in a Don Bluth film, you know, like some mouse
<v Speaker 3>or rat should be singing this singing this song, you know,
<v Speaker 3>I don't. I don't really. Yeah, it's not my jam.
<v Speaker 4>It sounds theatrical. Yes, it does sound like Bible is lost.
<v Speaker 3>It does, you know.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah, I don't think it's made for radio in nineteen
<v Speaker 4>eighty two. It does have a certain beauty to it. Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>if you have an animated crow or cat right right. Hey,
<v Speaker 4>I did watch the music video for this one. Yeah,
<v Speaker 4>and I do want to give them some credit. Oh okay,
<v Speaker 4>by this time, this is nineteen eighty two, they did
<v Speaker 4>finally figure out their videos.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, good, Hey, Yeah, so there were clips from old videos.
<v Speaker 3>You know.
<v Speaker 4>It's Now and Forever and it's like showing the overalls
<v Speaker 4>and showed the tiger shirt and showed all this stuff.
<v Speaker 3>Perfect perfect, just I mean, just figured out.
<v Speaker 4>Their music videos just in time for them to drop
<v Speaker 4>like a rock outsite, right, which is kind of tragic.
<v Speaker 3>All right, Time to move on to the final song
<v Speaker 3>on the album, and this is where I have your
<v Speaker 3>little salacious detail everybody, so pay attention for that, all right,
<v Speaker 3>So big one, this is huge now. This album came
<v Speaker 3>out in nineteen eighty three. This is there after their
<v Speaker 3>last album, with their seventh studio album, this one came
<v Speaker 3>out and this was a new song for this album, right,
<v Speaker 3>not been on any other and it was released as
<v Speaker 3>a single, and it did very well single and it
<v Speaker 3>was not again not written by them, written by another writer,
<v Speaker 3>but this song number thirteen, making love out of nothing
<v Speaker 3>at all. I know you're just out of baggins and
<v Speaker 3>I know just out of skime.
<v Speaker 1>I know just when to face the truth and then
<v Speaker 1>I know just when to dream, and I.
<v Speaker 5>Know just where to touch you, and I know just
<v Speaker 5>what the build on this song. You keep waiting for it,
<v Speaker 5>and you're like, give me that course, give me that course.
<v Speaker 3>No, keep going, just keep building, keep building, man, keep building.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>This song is by Jim Steinman. We talked about him
<v Speaker 4>like way back in like episode.
<v Speaker 3>Five, Yeah, when we talked about def Leppard. Yeah, he
<v Speaker 3>came in to do Hysteria as the original producer. Let's
<v Speaker 3>bring Mutt back. Yeah that's right.
<v Speaker 4>So Jim Steinman originally produced Hysteria, the follow up to Pyromania.
<v Speaker 4>They fired him, brought in Muttlane, Chrisberg. They gave us
<v Speaker 4>what we got. Jim Steamon composed basically all of the
<v Speaker 4>meatloaf stuff.
<v Speaker 3>Hell yeah. So if you're like, wow, this song sounds
<v Speaker 3>a lot.
<v Speaker 4>Like holding out for a hero or total eclipse of
<v Speaker 4>the heart or paradise a dashboard light.
<v Speaker 3>There's a reason for that. Yeah that's right. Jim's diamond. Okay.
<v Speaker 3>This was their final top ten hit. They released their
<v Speaker 3>greatest hits and then they bid farewell to the American audience.
<v Speaker 3>Now they went on and did other great things. They
<v Speaker 3>just realized, hey, we still love playing together. I mean,
<v Speaker 3>they took a little bit of a break, but it
<v Speaker 3>wasn't a disbandment. It was just like, we're just gonna
<v Speaker 3>go to some other stuff and then we'll come back.
<v Speaker 3>But they had a huge following a lot of Asian countries,
<v Speaker 3>and they would go out there and there are lots
<v Speaker 3>of fun tales that we'll save for another day. For
<v Speaker 3>those Asian visits that they had. I can't remember where
<v Speaker 3>I saw it. Feels like maybe it was in the
<v Speaker 3>back of a rob report, or maybe it was in
<v Speaker 3>some sort of Maximum article. I think it was a
<v Speaker 3>Maxim article back in the late nineties that was like,
<v Speaker 3>you can hire air supply to play your venue for
<v Speaker 3>ten thousand dollars, And I was like, I didn't have
<v Speaker 3>ten thousand dollars, but I just thought that's a lot
<v Speaker 3>cheaper than I would think it would be. And I
<v Speaker 3>think they're probably doing better than that now because of
<v Speaker 3>the resurgence of nostalgia music that we have. Yeah. Right,
<v Speaker 3>But here's the salacious detail that I had for you.
<v Speaker 1>Right.
<v Speaker 3>I asked you if you had seen this video. You said, yes,
<v Speaker 3>this involves a girl who gets involved with a soldier.
<v Speaker 3>Looks like it's taking place around like the end of
<v Speaker 3>World War two era, late forties, early fifties. And I said,
<v Speaker 3>did you recognize her? And you were like nope, So
<v Speaker 3>that her name for birth name is Jody Varbal. Okay,
<v Speaker 3>right now, they this came out in eighty three, made
<v Speaker 3>this video in eighty three. She met Graham Russell in
<v Speaker 3>eighty one. Okay, okay, they got married in eighty six,
<v Speaker 3>really when she was twenty one years old. Take your
<v Speaker 3>second math five years at sixteen sixteen is the answer
<v Speaker 3>on that way? Yes, okay, so they met when she
<v Speaker 3>was sixteen years old. Now she was modeling and he
<v Speaker 3>was doing shows, and according to the Wikipedia, who I
<v Speaker 3>have no reason to dispute, they communicated by correspondents only
<v Speaker 3>for like two or three years, and then obviously eighty
<v Speaker 3>three comes along and they need a pretty girl for
<v Speaker 3>the video and she gets that job.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Interesting, And then three years later in eighty six, when
<v Speaker 3>he's thirty six and she's twenty one, they get married
<v Speaker 3>and they are still married today. If you look up
<v Speaker 3>on IMDb, she's got quite a few acting credits. She
<v Speaker 3>now goes by Jody Russell.
<v Speaker 5>Of course.
<v Speaker 3>Interesting, there you go.
<v Speaker 4>That is a little borderline sillatious there.
<v Speaker 3>Littles as much as you're gonna get with these guys.
<v Speaker 4>Right right, Yeah, So I've got a little some nuggets
<v Speaker 4>for you on this, okay. So of course Jim Steinman
<v Speaker 4>was like, we got to rock this up a little bit, right.
<v Speaker 4>This is originally intended for Meatloaf. Meatlove's record company didn't
<v Speaker 4>want to fork out the money to pay for Jim
<v Speaker 4>Steinman song.
<v Speaker 3>So air Supply is like, we'll take it, right yep,
<v Speaker 3>So listen to this.
<v Speaker 4>So Max Weinberg plays drums on.
<v Speaker 3>This excellent from the Late night band right to show band.
<v Speaker 4>He played on Conan O'Brien, I think, but he's from
<v Speaker 4>the East Tree Band, like he's Bruce Springsteen.
<v Speaker 3>That's right, that's right. Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>I called and talked to James Buckley today and he's like, oh,
<v Speaker 4>Max wiber a great drummer. He said his son plays
<v Speaker 4>for Slip Knot that's right. Yeah, and Suicidal Tendency.
<v Speaker 3>I've seen them perform together. Actually, it's kind of cool.
<v Speaker 4>So Max Weinberg plus Roy Bitten plays piano. Both of
<v Speaker 4>those guys are from Bat Out of Hell. So there's
<v Speaker 4>the connection there.
<v Speaker 3>Sure, Okay.
<v Speaker 4>Now Rick Darringer plays a guitar on this.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, you know who he is.
<v Speaker 4>Okay, hang On Sloopy is a Rick Darringer song, Rock
<v Speaker 4>and Roll, hoo Chiku is a Rick Dringer song.
<v Speaker 3>Okay.
<v Speaker 4>He gave three songs for the movie Bachelor Party starring
<v Speaker 4>Tom Hanks.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, but this is the Kicker. Yeah.
<v Speaker 4>Rick Darringer Yeah, produced the songs Eat it and Fat
<v Speaker 4>by weird Al.
<v Speaker 3>Nice. Excellent, excellent, guys, go back and check out our
<v Speaker 3>last two episodes where we compared UHF by weird Al
<v Speaker 3>to Peewee's Big Adventure, and also check out the video
<v Speaker 3>that's a few weeks before that, where we went to
<v Speaker 3>all the UHF locations and happened upon a marquee with
<v Speaker 3>weird Al's name on it. It was great.
<v Speaker 4>I got one last top ten for you, okay, okay.
<v Speaker 4>This is the top ten for October eighth, nineteen eighty three. Okay,
<v Speaker 4>so just scattered with songs that we've talked about already.
<v Speaker 3>Number ten, Far from Over by Frank Stallone. Number ten,
<v Speaker 3>I freakod love that song from Staying Alive. That's right, okay.
<v Speaker 4>Number nine one thing leads to another. Number eight, the
<v Speaker 4>Safety Dance.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, yeah.
<v Speaker 4>Number seven tell her about it, yep, mister William Joel.
<v Speaker 3>Yes.
<v Speaker 4>Number six islands in the Stream. Number five, she's sexty
<v Speaker 4>and seventeen. I mean, yes, right, you know you see
<v Speaker 4>the correlation there. Number four True by Spandau Ballet, okay.
<v Speaker 4>Number three, King of Pain, off of Synchronicity.
<v Speaker 3>Yes.
<v Speaker 4>Number two making love out of nothing at all blocked
<v Speaker 4>by Total Eclipse of the Heart, which is also a
<v Speaker 4>Jim Steinman's song.
<v Speaker 3>Excellent. Oh he had both spots. That's pretty cool. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>So listening to that top ten you hear the change
<v Speaker 3>that is going on in music. You've got those hangers
<v Speaker 3>on from the eighty eighty one eighty two style, but
<v Speaker 3>you have all of this I think of I mean,
<v Speaker 3>as you said, those songs, I could think of the
<v Speaker 3>video on almost every single one of them, except for
<v Speaker 3>the ones that were the hangers on. I don't remember
<v Speaker 3>the Air Supply video other than I just watched it, right, So, okay,
<v Speaker 3>here we are. We've just finished with Air Supply Greatest Hits.
<v Speaker 3>We're comparing it to Christopher Cross Greatest Hits, and is
<v Speaker 3>now time for final judgment. Would you like to go first?
<v Speaker 3>Or would you like I'll go first? I go first.
<v Speaker 3>I think I have an idea where you are on
<v Speaker 3>this one.
<v Speaker 4>So here's what I appreciate the most about the Air
<v Speaker 4>Supply Greatest Hits album. Yes, they cut almost all the fat,
<v Speaker 4>They go right to your heart. They give you straight
<v Speaker 4>what you want. Just give me the top five hits
<v Speaker 4>and give me the ones I want. And I you know,
<v Speaker 4>so we just hit after banger after hit after banger,
<v Speaker 4>and so that's exactly what I want from my greatest hits.
<v Speaker 3>I don't want any fat right yep.
<v Speaker 4>So that album is great front back, yeah, but yes,
<v Speaker 4>if I'm walking out the door, I am grabbing right
<v Speaker 4>like the wind and I'm putting the throttle down and
<v Speaker 4>going to Mexico as fast as possible, and that's where
<v Speaker 4>I am.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah. I mean, Ride like a win. You can't deny
<v Speaker 3>the power of that song, and several of the others
<v Speaker 3>are just I mean, they're in the same soft rock
<v Speaker 3>just move you take you back to nineteen eighty one era,
<v Speaker 3>and I love lots of the Christopher Cross songs. We
<v Speaker 3>did have a few on that album that we were like, uh,
<v Speaker 3>they picked the wrong song. We replaced a few songs,
<v Speaker 3>and I would have to say that even with those replacements,
<v Speaker 3>I can't give up on my air supply man air supply.
<v Speaker 3>As you have said, like we've got thirteen songs, I
<v Speaker 3>have only one that I would call a skipper, two
<v Speaker 3>that are just passerbys. But that leaves us with ten unbelievable,
<v Speaker 3>smash amazing songs, including a song that I had completely
<v Speaker 3>forgotten about bring out the magic. Go check that on YouTube. Please,
<v Speaker 3>It's so good and so yes, air supply has to
<v Speaker 3>win for me today. I love it, man, I love it. Okay, guys,
<v Speaker 3>tell us what you think. Come back. You know we
<v Speaker 3>are we am I wrong? It's Jason wrong? Or we're
<v Speaker 3>both wrong? Is these albums both things that you just
<v Speaker 3>would throw away because you're a hater. Let me tell
<v Speaker 3>you what we got coming up.
<v Speaker 4>Yes, we're into the Halloween, the spooky season, yep, but
<v Speaker 4>we're not going to all that spooky.
<v Speaker 3>We're gonna have fun. Yeah. So this time we're going
<v Speaker 3>to match the nineteen eighty five Michael J.
<v Speaker 4>Fox classic Teen Wolf, Yes, against the nineteen eighty seven
<v Speaker 4>movie The Monster Squad.
<v Speaker 3>Oh dude, these are two movies that need to be compared.
<v Speaker 3>I am excited to do it, all right, guys, be
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