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

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<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. Maverick,
<v Speaker 2>that's right.
<v Speaker 3>We've got two footballs, we've got our volleyball, we've got
<v Speaker 3>loads of coconut oil, and we're both wearing Aviator sunglasses.
<v Speaker 3>We are ready to go today.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, Jason, I have a new executive producer for this episode.
<v Speaker 2>It is my buddy, Sean Kanavy from college. Sean the
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<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. I'll eat the cheese curds
<v Speaker 2>that they sent Sewan.
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<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,
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<v Speaker 2>the need for speed, or some other famous top take
<v Speaker 2>me on your Mighty wings or buzzing the tower, hi
<v Speaker 2>Way to the danger Zone. Any of those will work.
<v Speaker 2>Talk to me goose 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 3>Summer of nineteen eighty six, I was getting ready to
<v Speaker 3>turn thirteen years old. I was listening to a lot
<v Speaker 3>of Van Halen fifty one fifty this is right before
<v Speaker 3>of course bon Jovie Hits Yeah and Top Gun was
<v Speaker 3>a huge, huge movie for me, and this soundtrack carried
<v Speaker 3>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. But going into the summer, there were
<v Speaker 2>some new songs that were coming out that were pretty
<v Speaker 2>exciting as well.
<v Speaker 3>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 3>This album hit number one July twenty six of eighty six,
<v Speaker 3>was number one for three weeks, and then it came
<v Speaker 3>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 album,
<v Speaker 2>and hit number one again, and finally gott knocked out
<v Speaker 2>for the last time. By Huey Lewis in the News four.
<v Speaker 3>This is the number five best selling album of nineteen
<v Speaker 3>eighty six.
<v Speaker 2>Dude, I'm excited. Can we can we start talking songs?
<v Speaker 3>One more thing? Okay, so this is the best selling
<v Speaker 3>soundtrack of nineteen eighty six. Sure, but I've got the
<v Speaker 3>list of the top selling soundtracks of all time.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, I want to.
<v Speaker 3>Breeze through these real quick, because some we've touched on. Okay,
<v Speaker 3>some we want to touch on. Yeah, I'm just going
<v Speaker 3>to start twenty. We'll go quickly right there. Number twenty
<v Speaker 3>is a Vita, number nineteen, the Jazz Singer number eighteen,
<v Speaker 3>City of Angels, number seven, The Big Chill. We talked
<v Speaker 3>about that, how that was kind of one of the
<v Speaker 3>very first big soundtracks. Sixteen Space Jam, fifteen Flash Dance.
<v Speaker 3>That's a Simpson Bruckheimer.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, that's the definitely a seed for this album.
<v Speaker 3>That has Georgio Moroder all over it. Okay, number fourteen,
<v Speaker 3>Pure Country, number thirteen, The Little Mermaid, number twelve, Waiting
<v Speaker 3>to Exhale, Number eleven. Grease hoped cod that next year.
<v Speaker 3>Number ten, Oh Brother, where art Thou Number nine is
<v Speaker 3>top Gun. Number eight is Footloose go back to our
<v Speaker 3>footloose track by track, episode number seven, The Lion King,
<v Speaker 3>number six, Titanic, number five, the Dirty Dancing Soundtrack, it's
<v Speaker 3>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 3>This number three, Purple Rain of course, number two Saturday
<v Speaker 3>Night Fever, Yes, we knew that, and the number one
<v Speaker 3>selling soundtrack of all time, The Bodyguard Whitney Houston of course.
<v Speaker 3>All right, 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. 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 3>No, he was not.
<v Speaker 2>Tell me the story man.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, So Georgio Moroder is the guy who wrote the song.
<v Speaker 3>Initially they wanted maybe Corey Hart. They talked about Ario
<v Speaker 3>Speedwagon Brian Adams Brian Adams. Total was the one. I
<v Speaker 3>mean Toto was it?
<v Speaker 2>Toto was the one tell us the Toto story.
<v Speaker 3>So, after three hundred open call submissions from artists people
<v Speaker 3>all over said we want to write the intro theme
<v Speaker 3>song for Top Gun, they submitted it. The producers sat around,
<v Speaker 3>they listened to every single one and they sort of
<v Speaker 3>had this like anybody could blackball it like ten seconds in.
<v Speaker 3>One guy says nah. Then they kicked it out, put
<v Speaker 3>in another cassette and moved right on.
<v Speaker 2>Three hundred songs.
<v Speaker 3>Three hundred songs, and after going through three hundred, they're like,
<v Speaker 3>we don't really like any of these.
<v Speaker 4>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. Right.
<v Speaker 2>So that song was gonna come up later and we'll
<v Speaker 2>talk about that, but Danger Zone was not his contribution.
<v Speaker 3>So the producers contacted this guy named Giorgio Moroder. Now
<v Speaker 3>he had worked with them on the Flashdance soundtrack, had
<v Speaker 3>a good working relationship with Cincmon and Bruckheimer. Yes, after
<v Speaker 3>they got with him, he wrote danger Zone and had
<v Speaker 3>planned to have Toto sing this. Okay, we talked about
<v Speaker 3>this in our previous episode. I think we talked about
<v Speaker 3>it during our Toto episode.
<v Speaker 2>Huh.
<v Speaker 3>So they brought in the guys from Toto. They listened
<v Speaker 3>to their version of danger Zone. They said, we really
<v Speaker 3>like it, but I think what we're gonna do instead
<v Speaker 3>of having you guys play on it, We're gonna keep
<v Speaker 3>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 1>Right?
<v Speaker 3>And they took it as an insult and rightfully. So yeah,
<v Speaker 3>they're like, well, no, that's not gonna work. So screw
<v Speaker 3>you guys. We're out of here. We're going home, right,
<v Speaker 3>screw you guys, We're going home. So Columbia really wanted
<v Speaker 3>to use an artist under their label, so they offered
<v Speaker 3>it to Brian Adams and he was like, no, I
<v Speaker 3>don't like pro war movies.
<v Speaker 5>Right.
<v Speaker 3>They offered it to Starship.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, I heard that too, And like you said, Ario Speedwagon,
<v Speaker 2>Kenny login said that he was talking to the guy
<v Speaker 2>from Ario Speedwagon. He was like, yeah, the notes were
<v Speaker 2>too high for me to hit. I'm like, wait a minute,
<v Speaker 2>are you Speedwagon? What?
<v Speaker 5>What?
<v Speaker 4>Right?
<v Speaker 2>Okay, right? Yeah, sure.
<v Speaker 3>But Kenny was down the street recording his vocals on
<v Speaker 3>Playing with the Boys. Yeah, And of course he had
<v Speaker 3>a huge success with Footloose. We knew from two years
<v Speaker 3>prior to.
<v Speaker 2>That, Yeah, as well as I'm all Right from Caddyshack.
<v Speaker 3>And so they called him up and they said, hey, Kenny,
<v Speaker 3>we're already dropping music into the movie and we've got
<v Speaker 3>a song that's super important to the movie, but we
<v Speaker 3>don't have anybody who can sing it. And Kenny Logan said,
<v Speaker 3>I just have one question. Is it up tempo? They said, yes,
<v Speaker 3>it is. He said, great, I'll do it. Never heard
<v Speaker 3>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 part and the high intensity ending. Is
<v Speaker 2>that his that's his coret he doesn't have any writ
<v Speaker 2>credit on it, but he definitely, I mean he is.
<v Speaker 2>He's a major songwriter for decades.
<v Speaker 3>So yeah, he gave up his songwriting credit on this
<v Speaker 3>on purpose because there's some sort of Oscar nominated thing
<v Speaker 3>where Whitlock and Maroder wanted to keep that string alive
<v Speaker 3>and not add Logan's name into it. And so he
<v Speaker 3>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 2>that go.
<v Speaker 3>Did it?
<v Speaker 2>Okay? Can I tell you the story on Georgio Moroder
<v Speaker 2>and Tom Winlock, Please tell me? Okay. So we mentioned
<v Speaker 2>in our last episode that Tom Whitlock was like Georgio
<v Speaker 2>Moroder's Ferrari mechanic. Okay, there's so much more to the
<v Speaker 2>story than that, and it is it's not as van
<v Speaker 2>Halen as it seems.
<v Speaker 3>Okay.
<v Speaker 2>You know van Halen, Sammy Hagar and Eddie van Halen
<v Speaker 2>both had the same Ferrari mechanic, same Lambeau mechanic. I
<v Speaker 2>think actually, and he's the one that introduced him. Yes,
<v Speaker 2>so Georgio Moroder has been making music for seventy years.
<v Speaker 2>I mean he's an incredible force. He was called the
<v Speaker 2>father of disco. He pioneered EDM music. I mean he's
<v Speaker 2>huge name. He started Music Land Studios, which had artists
<v Speaker 2>recording there like The Rolling Stones, Elo led Zeppelin, Deep
<v Speaker 2>Purple Queen, Elton John. And then he started to do
<v Speaker 2>the soundtrack scores. He did Midnight Express and then he
<v Speaker 2>did American Jigglow.
<v Speaker 3>Yes.
<v Speaker 2>He also did Superman.
<v Speaker 3>Three Yes, well yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Scarface and The Never Ending Story, and he did the
<v Speaker 2>nineteen eighty four restoration of Metropolis. And so it's like
<v Speaker 2>that WOS that you can watch is called the Moroder
<v Speaker 2>version of Metropolis. But that Flash Dance soundtrack, he did
<v Speaker 2>What a Feeling the Flash Dance song by Irene Kara.
<v Speaker 2>But he had he had gotten all kinds of success.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, he was a huge name, which is why
<v Speaker 2>the Berlin folks were so interested in having him to
<v Speaker 2>talk about here in a secondes, so he makes his
<v Speaker 2>way over to the US. He does American Jigglow. Call
<v Speaker 2>Me by Blondie is on there. That's him, and he's
<v Speaker 2>over at a studio where there are a couple of
<v Speaker 2>guys working. One of those guys is Tom Whitlock. Now
<v Speaker 2>Tom is a musician. He was a rock drummer. He
<v Speaker 2>studied music at Drury University.
<v Speaker 3>Did you say Drury University?
<v Speaker 2>Drury University, Yes, up in Missouri, in Springfield, Yes, in Springfield, Missouri.
<v Speaker 3>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 wid potatoes either.
<v Speaker 6>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 tell
<v Speaker 2>me what's going on, and Maroder explains, He's like, just
<v Speaker 2>give me a second. He runs down to the convenience
<v Speaker 2>store by his break fluid. This is what he did.
<v Speaker 2>He was not a mechanic. He bought two pints of
<v Speaker 2>break fluid, came back, put it in Moroder's car. He's like,
<v Speaker 2>there you go, man, that should work.
<v Speaker 3>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 3>It wasn't 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 3>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 is.
<v Speaker 3>Made, including danger Zone, take My Breath Away plus Leave
<v Speaker 3>Me On by Tina Marine, We're going.
<v Speaker 2>To talk About and Tom Whitlock would go on to
<v Speaker 2>do a song for Sammy Hagar winner take All from
<v Speaker 2>the y Yeah, I Top soundtrack, and another song for
<v Speaker 2>Kenny Loggins to Meet Me Halfway. Also Tom Whitlock.
<v Speaker 3>Meet Me Halfway. That was another song that kind of
<v Speaker 3>furthered Kenny Loggins's soundtrack career.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, exactly, mister soundtrack, you got it.
<v Speaker 3>Interestingly, this song only made it to number two. We
<v Speaker 3>talked about this during our Top Gun episode. Yeah, which
<v Speaker 3>is a crime to me because it's one of the
<v Speaker 3>best songs of the eighties. It really is like the
<v Speaker 3>eighties and one three and a half minute song.
<v Speaker 2>Right, and I remember the song that kept it out,
<v Speaker 2>but remind it remind our audience.
<v Speaker 3>That song was called Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel.
<v Speaker 2>Which was all over the place that year.
<v Speaker 3>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 3>I agree with you. The video was really cutting edge
<v Speaker 3>and really cool in the Battle of one versus two.
<v Speaker 3>I'm taking danger Zone.
<v Speaker 2>Every day of the week though, right right, And I'll
<v Speaker 2>just throw this out there. Yeah, listeners, if you haven't
<v Speaker 2>heard our Duran Durant episode, go back and check that out.
<v Speaker 2>We went track by track through Rio with our friend
<v Speaker 2>Melissa Bingle and she mentioned that she had the new
<v Speaker 2>album called Future Past right. Yes, Well, mister Tom Whitlock
<v Speaker 2>wrote two of the songs with Duran for that album.
<v Speaker 3>How about that?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Tonight United and Beautiful Lies.
<v Speaker 3>That is really cool?
<v Speaker 2>How about that?
<v Speaker 3>Kenny Loggins said that he had been listening to a
<v Speaker 3>lot of Tina Turner. Yeah, and so when he was
<v Speaker 3>singing that's why you get the Dangers out.
<v Speaker 2>Name Zone, I think that's cool. Tina Turner making her stamp. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>here's what's interesting. Kenny Loggins was doing an interview and
<v Speaker 2>he pointed out that Moroder would use a Yamaha DX seven,
<v Speaker 2>but unlike everybody else in the industry, he would just
<v Speaker 2>take it out of the box and just start playing
<v Speaker 2>the stock sounds that came with it. And Kenny Logins
<v Speaker 2>is like, I'm out there as long as with all
<v Speaker 2>these other artists trying to create our own unique sound,
<v Speaker 2>and to quote, we're all trying to create custom sounds.
<v Speaker 2>And he just plugged it in and made a load
<v Speaker 2>of hit records.
<v Speaker 3>Jorgio Moroder does play the synths and drum machine for
<v Speaker 3>Danger Zone before we get to the music video. I've
<v Speaker 3>got to throw my boy Dan Huff another boney he
<v Speaker 3>plays guitar on Danger Zone, because we said we're never
<v Speaker 3>gonna play this song in any of our episodes, and
<v Speaker 3>here we are, we're playing this second time. Dan Huff
<v Speaker 3>is the lead singer for Giants and they had one
<v Speaker 3>awesome song the spring of nineteen ninety called I'll See
<v Speaker 3>You in My Dreams. We all massed, I love this song, man,
<v Speaker 3>it's one of my fairs.
<v Speaker 2>It that it is.
<v Speaker 3>I can't believe we stuck it in another episode twice.
<v Speaker 2>You're a bigger fan than I am. That's okay. So
<v Speaker 2>we talked about Kenny Loggins agreeing at the last minute
<v Speaker 2>to do this. He said, as they're recording it, He's like,
<v Speaker 2>how long do we have to do this? Some roders
<v Speaker 2>like I have to dub this into the movie in
<v Speaker 2>the next twenty four hours. So it was I mean,
<v Speaker 2>the song that you get they did in less than
<v Speaker 2>a day's work.
<v Speaker 3>That's incredible. Yeah, and listen, I don't want to over
<v Speaker 3>dramatize things, but we talked at length in both the
<v Speaker 3>Top Gun episode and the Maverick episode where you have
<v Speaker 3>the Top Gun theme that explodes into danger zone as
<v Speaker 3>they take off from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>And it's a blow your socks off moment in the movie, right, Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>in both movies, both movies. It's so important and hugely
<v Speaker 3>impactful for the tone of the movie.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. Absolutely. Kenny 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 6>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Had I seen Kenny Loggins dressed up as a four
<v Speaker 2>star general walking through.
<v Speaker 3>The then cool man, you'd have to get a hide
<v Speaker 3>and tight and shave the beard off probably.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, let's talk video. Yeah, so you have basically a
<v Speaker 3>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 3>It really is. You know who directed that video? I do,
<v Speaker 3>mister Tony Scott, the director of the movie, directed the
<v Speaker 3>music video. And basically Kenny Loggins is in a bedroom,
<v Speaker 3>a little bit sweaty with his aviator sunglasses on, sitting up,
<v Speaker 3>laying down on a bed.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>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 3>But the reason why we loved that video is because
<v Speaker 3>it was eighty percent clips from the movie. You even
<v Speaker 3>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 you with the movie
<v Speaker 2>and that's about it. I got a fan, I got
<v Speaker 2>some sunglasses. You're good to go.
<v Speaker 3>Here's a fan, here's some sunglasses. Here, mess around with
<v Speaker 3>this camera. By the way, Kenny Loggins did record an
<v Speaker 3>updated version of Danger Zone. Huh, a little different. Guess
<v Speaker 3>what Tom Cruise is like, Now, we're gonna stick with
<v Speaker 3>the eighty six version. And you know what, it was
<v Speaker 3>a good choice. I think that was the right call.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, it's so good. Okay, are we ready to move
<v Speaker 2>on to cheap trick?
<v Speaker 3>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 3>Dude, I love this song. This song gets overlooked. It
<v Speaker 3>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 get it kind of
<v Speaker 2>false black art.
<v Speaker 3>I don't really get it. Billboard listed this song as
<v Speaker 3>a pop pick and stated feverish, fast pulse rock from
<v Speaker 3>Top Gun. Inclusion in the Smash soundtrack should push the
<v Speaker 3>band towards its strongest chart bid in years. That did
<v Speaker 3>not happen. No, And I don't know why, because this
<v Speaker 3>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 3>So here's what happened. I think this is the answer.
<v Speaker 3>It was moved from the second single released to the
<v Speaker 3>third single released in favor of take My breath Away, right,
<v Speaker 3>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 two bananas? You go on to
<v Speaker 2>you take him bananas?
<v Speaker 3>Look, man, I evolve banana the tail vibe.
<v Speaker 2>So the banana theme is by Harold Faltemeyer. 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
<v Speaker 2>cath 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 3>Okay, I want to point out something I think is
<v Speaker 3>a little bit overlooked. Okay, Simpson and Bruckheimer have been
<v Speaker 3>credited with sort of bringing some of these seventies rock
<v Speaker 3>stars through the eighties by using soundtracks. Absolutely one of
<v Speaker 3>the Kenny Loggins right on the Beverly Hills cop soundtrack.
<v Speaker 3>You have Glenn Frye, who has a huge hit.
<v Speaker 2>True Beverly Hills two soundtrack. You've got Bob.
<v Speaker 3>Bob see her Yeah for Armageddon. You have Aerosmith, who
<v Speaker 3>has a smash.
<v Speaker 2>Song, biggest song of their career.
<v Speaker 3>Cheap Trick falls into that category. There's a seventies band.
<v Speaker 2>But they didn't do a video Okay, now, wait a minute.
<v Speaker 3>Here's the thing. I wanted to bring this up because
<v Speaker 3>they thought that this might be the song to bring
<v Speaker 3>Cheap Trick back into the forefront of the MTV viewing audience.
<v Speaker 2>Right.
<v Speaker 3>That did not happen, No, but it did happen just
<v Speaker 3>a couple of years later with the song called the Flame,
<v Speaker 3>which is one of my all time favorite songs.
<v Speaker 2>This is how I know Cheap Trick.
<v Speaker 3>You and I both right, yep. So that song went
<v Speaker 3>number one July nineteen eighty eight. It knocked out Dirty
<v Speaker 3>Diana Wow, who on guitar had Steve Stevens. Steve Stevens,
<v Speaker 3>and it was knocked out by Richard Marx. Hold On
<v Speaker 3>to the Nights Nice, which was number one, over pour
<v Speaker 3>Some Sugar on Me talked out at number two. So
<v Speaker 3>summer of eighty eight you had some interesting stuff going
<v Speaker 3>on chart wise.
<v Speaker 2>Many eighties were a good year decade for music.
<v Speaker 3>I love this song. It is in the conversation for
<v Speaker 3>the best. I'm gonna put you on the spot at
<v Speaker 3>the end of this thing, I'm gonna say what song
<v Speaker 3>is the best?
<v Speaker 2>It won't be this one.
<v Speaker 3>I'm writing this one down as just kind of a
<v Speaker 3>little side notes. Okay, all right, in your notes over there,
<v Speaker 3>I'm putting it in my notes, all right.
<v Speaker 2>Moving on to song number three. It makes me feel happy,
<v Speaker 2>it makes me feel gay playing with the boys. So
<v Speaker 2>this is the song that Kenny Loggins said to his
<v Speaker 2>writing partner, Hey, let's not try for the main theme.
<v Speaker 2>Let's try for something that nuts so many people are
<v Speaker 2>going for. And they said, let's do the volleyball one,
<v Speaker 2>right right. And his writing partner, by the way, is
<v Speaker 2>Peter Wolf, who has arranged a ton of stuff including
<v Speaker 2>Who's Johnny from Who's Short Circuit?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, the barge, the barge, Yeah, eld Barge, I think
<v Speaker 3>old the Barge. Yep.
<v Speaker 2>But this one, hit number sixty didn't do too bad.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, This one is known more for the movie the
<v Speaker 3>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 3>As it should. It actually is featured in the nineteen
<v Speaker 3>ninety movie Side Out with see Thomas Hall.
<v Speaker 2>Do you remember that movie?
<v Speaker 3>You know, it's a whole movie devoted to volleyball.
<v Speaker 7>So of course you gotta have play with the voice
<v Speaker 7>that's it.
<v Speaker 3>It was a hit at all the day nightclubs, was it?
<v Speaker 2>Jonathan Cohen of Spin magazine called it a sort of
<v Speaker 2>gay anthem. Okay, I mean you can't hear the words
<v Speaker 2>and not have Ymca and the Village people pop into
<v Speaker 2>your head a little bit. And I will say there
<v Speaker 2>was one non volleyball movie episode that this song came
<v Speaker 2>up in, and it was an episode early on in
<v Speaker 2>season one of Cobra Kai. Johnny Lawrence is being drug
<v Speaker 2>home drunk and he's singing playing with the boys.
<v Speaker 3>Nice, Nice, Okay. I've got to ask you, yeah, have
<v Speaker 3>you seen this music video?
<v Speaker 8>No?
<v Speaker 3>Okay? At the end of the Shirle You Can't Be
<v Speaker 3>Serious podcast, we need to amass a list of the
<v Speaker 3>worst music videos ever made, Okay right. We talked at
<v Speaker 3>length during our Toto four episode about the video four
<v Speaker 3>Waiting for Your Love, very sweaty, snowbras.
<v Speaker 2>Very eighties, lots of shoulder pads, no boom pass.
<v Speaker 3>Child molester glasses, the whole nine yards, and we called
<v Speaker 3>it 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 Swiss.
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, well, this one's in the conversation, okay, because it
<v Speaker 3>literally looks like my church youth group shot this while
<v Speaker 3>we're playing volleyball after church one night.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, it's a little budget.
<v Speaker 3>It's guys versus girls in the volleyball match. Yeah, and
<v Speaker 3>they're all dressed. They look like they belong on Jane
<v Speaker 3>Fonda's workout video. And Kenny Loggins is on the side
<v Speaker 3>and he's sort of playing the guitar while the boys
<v Speaker 3>take an early lead. The girls come back and I
<v Speaker 3>think the girls actually win the volleyball.
<v Speaker 2>The song's name playing with the boys, and the girls win.
<v Speaker 3>The girls are sort of playing with the boys.
<v Speaker 2>Oh my word, did.
<v Speaker 3>You get a chance to go watch that music video?
<v Speaker 2>Okay, you got any more on playing with the boys?
<v Speaker 4>Nope?
<v Speaker 2>Okay, let's jump into song number four, Take on Me.
<v Speaker 3>No, Lead Me On?
<v Speaker 2>Wait?
<v Speaker 5>Was that me?
<v Speaker 3>Was I singing? Yes?
<v Speaker 2>That was you saying that was wrong? Okay, that's not
<v Speaker 2>that's not this song. No, it's not how I got
<v Speaker 2>it wrong. Okay, it is lead Me On, but it
<v Speaker 2>is by Tina Marie. Lady t.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, I'm going to make the case that this song
<v Speaker 3>is awesome.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, all right.
<v Speaker 3>The horns are freaking infectious. It's got a pop rock
<v Speaker 3>feel to it. The singer's voice is great. Tina Marie
<v Speaker 3>has got that great soprano voice.
<v Speaker 6>What's the god?
<v Speaker 3>I love it. I don't care what anybody else says.
<v Speaker 3>I am unapologetically a big 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>Teena 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 wow. She starts doing
<v Speaker 2>stuff 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.
<v Speaker 3>The super freak himself. Super freak, yes, super freaky. Rick
<v Speaker 3>James is supposed to produce an album for Diana Ross,
<v Speaker 3>but 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 3>That's great.
<v Speaker 2>It was a chart topper, but on the album there's
<v Speaker 2>no picture of her, so everybody thinks, I mean, we've
<v Speaker 2>got Rick James as the producer, we got buried Gordy
<v Speaker 2>is the I mean, obviously she's black, right right, And
<v Speaker 2>so they invite her and Rick James onto Soul Train,
<v Speaker 2>where suddenly everybody's like, where that white woman come from?
<v Speaker 3>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 3>She's called the Ivory Queen of Soul. Yeah, and I
<v Speaker 3>know her most from her song called lover Girl, which
<v Speaker 3>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.
<v Speaker 4>Here.
<v Speaker 2>You are you are limited by contract, you can't go
<v Speaker 2>record for another label, but we're not going to release
<v Speaker 2>anything that you are recording. And she's like, this isn't fair.
<v Speaker 2>I can't. You can't do this to me, And ultimately
<v Speaker 2>she won the case, and it is literally called the
<v Speaker 2>Brockert Initiative because her name is Tina Brockert. Interesting, yep,
<v Speaker 2>and it says you can't hold somebody to a label
<v Speaker 2>and simultaneously not released their stuff. It's too much of
<v Speaker 2>a limitation.
<v Speaker 3>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 3>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 Kravitz
<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 3>Well that's great.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, she had unfortunately a bad end to this rather
<v Speaker 2>beautiful story.
<v Speaker 3>This was a tragic story when I read this. Okay, yeah,
<v Speaker 3>I knew she died early. I think she died at
<v Speaker 3>fifty two, But in two thousand and four, teena Marie
<v Speaker 3>was asleep in a hotel room in her bed and
<v Speaker 3>a huge picture frame fell off the wall and hit
<v Speaker 3>her in the head, just like complete freak accident. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>falls off the wall, cracks her in the skull. It
<v Speaker 3>caused a serious concussion that resulted in huge seizures for
<v Speaker 3>the rest of her life. In fact, she had a
<v Speaker 3>grandma seizure one month before her death. On December twenty
<v Speaker 3>sixth twenty ten. She was found dead by her daughter.
<v Speaker 3>When the corner did the autopsy, he said she died
<v Speaker 3>of natural causes, but really it all resulted back to
<v Speaker 3>that freak picture falling off the wall and cracking her
<v Speaker 3>in the skull.
<v Speaker 2>Wow, that's tragic. Tragic yep, loss of a great voice. Okay,
<v Speaker 2>we're done with this one, thinks, So time for maybe
<v Speaker 2>the biggest song on the entire album.
<v Speaker 3>It's a biggie.
<v Speaker 8>This song is called take My Breath Away.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, so this song is by the group Berlin, but
<v Speaker 2>really it's Terry, Yes it is so. Terry was born
<v Speaker 2>in June of sixty one and her dad was an actor,
<v Speaker 2>but he was an alcoholic. He ended up committing suicide
<v Speaker 2>when she was fifteen. I don't know. So she went
<v Speaker 2>out kind of on her own, and in seventy six
<v Speaker 2>she posed for Penthouse. She also auditioned for Princess Leah
<v Speaker 2>in Star Wars.
<v Speaker 1>I knew that well all the database and R two
<v Speaker 1>were still sekiller.
<v Speaker 2>I was like, what yeah, so, but just real quick,
<v Speaker 2>I'm going to say those dates again. She was born
<v Speaker 2>in sixty one and she posed for Penthouse in seventy six.
<v Speaker 2>Let me do the math. Fifteen fifteen, Oh yeah, she
<v Speaker 2>convinced him that she was over eighteen and denied that
<v Speaker 2>it was her. Used another name, denied that it was
<v Speaker 2>her for years, but no, she it was absolutely her.
<v Speaker 2>She tricked on posing at fifteen years old for Penthouse, Wow,
<v Speaker 2>and losing out the part of Princess Leah to Carri Fisher.
<v Speaker 3>You can see her audition, which is pretty cool on YouTube,
<v Speaker 3>I believe.
<v Speaker 2>Oh nice. Yeah, Well, good news is she found other avenues.
<v Speaker 2>She starts looking in a music contact service in Hollywood
<v Speaker 2>and hey, there's this band called Berlin that's looking for
<v Speaker 2>a singer. They just lost their main singer. They had
<v Speaker 2>a replacement singer for just a little while, did the
<v Speaker 2>live shows with them.
<v Speaker 3>You know who?
<v Speaker 2>This was no Tony childs. You might remember the hit
<v Speaker 2>Don't Walk Away from nineteen eighty eight. Yeah, so Tony
<v Speaker 2>Child sang that song. She was the singer for Berlin
<v Speaker 2>for 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>like okay, well let's see if we can get her back.
<v Speaker 2>They get her back, but by this time, John Crawford's
<v Speaker 2>got his own other, separate band that's really his main project.
<v Speaker 2>In this Berlin one thing is just his kind of
<v Speaker 2>for fun thing. So they record this song called the Metro. Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>and it ends up being a success.
<v Speaker 3>I love that song.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, well, let's listen to it here.
<v Speaker 4>Ball I'm solving same next to me by on the.
<v Speaker 3>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. And
<v Speaker 2>they're like, how much do we have?
<v Speaker 3>Not enough?
<v Speaker 2>Not much? Do we have enough for a song? How
<v Speaker 2>much for just one reem? Yes, you have enough for
<v Speaker 2>just one song. So once again this is the stars aligning. Yep.
<v Speaker 2>So Georgio Moroder comes in to help them with the
<v Speaker 2>song No More Words.
<v Speaker 3>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 3>Terry Nunn says that is not the final nail, but
<v Speaker 3>one of the nails in the coffin that split Berlin
<v Speaker 3>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 3>It won the Academy Award, yep, and it won the
<v Speaker 3>Golden Globe. Yeah, it was a huge Mangas song, maybe
<v Speaker 3>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 3>Here's the thing. When you listen to the song the metro,
<v Speaker 3>it's very pop, very new wave, very different than Take
<v Speaker 3>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 3>That song is called only You. I actually think it's
<v Speaker 3>a good song. It's not Taking My breath Away.
<v Speaker 2>No, but it could have been.
<v Speaker 3>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 3>Maybe have you heard the Motel's version of taking My
<v Speaker 3>breath Away, Take.
<v Speaker 6>My 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 3>Okay, here's the thing. Yeah, she's got a great voice.
<v Speaker 3>It's not as desperate sounding, as passionate sounding as Terry
<v Speaker 3>Nunn is.
<v Speaker 2>So she talked about that at this point in her
<v Speaker 2>life she was down, she was sad. This was not
<v Speaker 2>a 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 3>Really?
<v Speaker 2>Yep?
<v Speaker 3>Interesting?
<v Speaker 2>Interesting, And then he went back to Australia and.
<v Speaker 6>They were Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>There's one change between the Motels song and the Berlin
<v Speaker 3>song that I think you probably have to credit to
<v Speaker 3>Terry Nue. Okay, there's a line in the Berlin version
<v Speaker 3>of the song where she says, if only for today,
<v Speaker 3>I am unafraid, and it's that emotional, desperation loving romantic
<v Speaker 3>line from the movie, and that line is missing from
<v Speaker 3>the Motel's version.
<v Speaker 2>Terry takes her mom to a party at Georgio Moroder's house,
<v Speaker 2>and Georgia Moroder also already has the Academy Award for
<v Speaker 2>flash Dance.
<v Speaker 5>Right.
<v Speaker 2>She's got a screening room, big big screen for the
<v Speaker 2>screening room, of course, and he's got his Academy awards
<v Speaker 2>sitting on the shelf on the left hand side. And
<v Speaker 2>Terry Nunn's mother is alone with Georgio Moroder in the
<v Speaker 2>screening room and they're sitting there and she says, you
<v Speaker 2>see that space on the right hand side of the
<v Speaker 2>screen that will be for the Oscar for Terry's song,
<v Speaker 2>And Georgia is like, yes, well I hope so, yes,
<v Speaker 2>she was correct.
<v Speaker 3>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 3>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 3>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.
<v Speaker 3>YEP.
<v Speaker 2>Definitely the video for this song, she's just kind of
<v Speaker 2>wandering around, singing sadly amongst a bunch of aircraft, right, Yeah,
<v Speaker 2>not much else to it than.
<v Speaker 3>That no, and everybody else looks bored except for her,
<v Speaker 3>which is so sad to me because it's such a
<v Speaker 3>great song, and I know that everybody in the band
<v Speaker 3>resented it.
<v Speaker 2>I just don't understand. I mean, I look at things
<v Speaker 2>we talked about Vangelis 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 to do so much more?
<v Speaker 6>I don't know.
<v Speaker 3>I have no idea. Yeah, this song so good that
<v Speaker 3>when they showed top Gun on TV in the United
<v Speaker 3>Kingdom in nineteen ninety take My breath Away reaching a
<v Speaker 3>three in the charts.
<v Speaker 2>Wow, it's awesome.
<v Speaker 3>By the way, Jessica Simpson has a version of this here.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah I remember that. Yeah, Yeah, it's pretty good.
<v Speaker 3>All right, Hit stop on your tape player, kick it out,
<v Speaker 3>flip it over side to Talk Gun soundtrack leading off
<v Speaker 3>the song 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 3>It's pop, It's got that Latin feel to it.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah. So Miami Sound Machine was originally called Miami Latin Boys.
<v Speaker 2>When the band first formed. Yep, So, Gloria and her
<v Speaker 2>cousin were at a wedding. There were guests at a wedding.
<v Speaker 2>They knew some of the guys in the band and
<v Speaker 2>there were some, you know, standard Cuban songs that they knew,
<v Speaker 2>and so they convinced the girls to come up and sing.
<v Speaker 2>They did such a good job that they said you
<v Speaker 2>should join the band, and that is how the name
<v Speaker 2>changed from Miami Latin Boys to the Miami Sound Machine.
<v Speaker 2>She said, I will do it, but I have to
<v Speaker 2>be able to keep going to school. So they did
<v Speaker 2>with her, primarily weekend stuff. She was getting her degree,
<v Speaker 2>including a minor in French, and so she worked at
<v Speaker 2>the Miami International Airport as a translator for English, Spanish
<v Speaker 2>and French. And it was so good that she was
<v Speaker 2>approached by the Cia to become a employee.
<v Speaker 3>That is unbelievable.
<v Speaker 2>There you go.
<v Speaker 3>I told you Gloria's father was a police escort in
<v Speaker 3>Cuba for President Batista.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>So as soon as Castro took over, they had to split,
<v Speaker 3>she said. They packed up everything they had flew to
<v Speaker 3>Miami as soon as possible. Her father was like, well,
<v Speaker 3>this is just until we can get back in power
<v Speaker 3>and go back to Cuba.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>So he's like, well, I'm going to go and get
<v Speaker 3>involved in this thing that became known as the Bay
<v Speaker 3>of Pigs.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, it was the attempt to get back into power.
<v Speaker 4>Right.
<v Speaker 3>They captured him. He was in Cuba's prison for eighteen months.
<v Speaker 3>They let him out to go back to Miami, and
<v Speaker 3>then he served in the US military in Vietnam.
<v Speaker 2>Wow.
<v Speaker 3>So they broke through in nineteen eighty five, right before
<v Speaker 3>this song mm hm with the Latin song Congam.
<v Speaker 6>Shake your baby baby, do that?
<v Speaker 3>Gong god, No, you can't control yourself any longa come
<v Speaker 3>shake your baby baby do that gon god?
<v Speaker 6>No, you can't control yourself any Nanga.
<v Speaker 3>You cannot not dance when you hear this song? How
<v Speaker 3>can you not shake your maracas to this song? The
<v Speaker 3>funny thing is is that nobody thought this song would
<v Speaker 3>work because the American pop audiences would think this is
<v Speaker 3>too Latin, and the Latin audiences would think this is
<v Speaker 3>too American. I'll tell you what. I went to her
<v Speaker 3>restaurant in Orlando. Yeah, and they played conga about every
<v Speaker 3>five minutes, and guess what, I danced every single time.
<v Speaker 3>You shog your moroccas every time. This is a great song.
<v Speaker 3>I love it. They play this in the bar when
<v Speaker 3>Mav and Charlie are we just first getting to know
<v Speaker 3>each other. But really this is right before Gloria Estepon
<v Speaker 3>took off. They changed the name of the band too,
<v Speaker 3>Gloria Estefan and the Miamis Aum Machine and then finally
<v Speaker 3>just Gloria Estepon. So the next summer she would have
<v Speaker 3>the song Rhythm Is Gonna Get You, which was in
<v Speaker 3>the movie Steakout, which was one of my favorites from
<v Speaker 3>the summer of eighty seven. Just a great song and
<v Speaker 3>a great movie. So anything else on this.
<v Speaker 2>One, Nope?
<v Speaker 3>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 6>I can tell by the look in your eyes you've.
<v Speaker 3>Been heard it. Whoa, whoa. I love this song too, man,
<v Speaker 3>it is irresistible to me.
<v Speaker 2>The lead singer for lover Boy is Mike Greena.
<v Speaker 5>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 Ann 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. But I don't care.
<v Speaker 2>I love them both. They're great.
<v Speaker 3>I love them both. I told you the other night,
<v Speaker 3>I said, this song is pure cheese, but it's irresistible
<v Speaker 3>to me, and I think it finishes really strong. I
<v Speaker 3>love the end of this song.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>This peaked at number twelve in nineteen eighty six. See again,
<v Speaker 3>you got a video right, right. Even the song with
<v Speaker 3>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 3>MTV in nineteen eight was a force.
<v Speaker 2>In pop culture, but interestingly, keyboardist Doug Johnson not in
<v Speaker 2>the video because he felt like the movie glorified war
<v Speaker 2>and he didn't want to be part of that.
<v Speaker 3>So this song came out on the tail end of
<v Speaker 3>the Love and Every Minute.
<v Speaker 2>Of It album.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, produced by mister Robert John but Lang Oh, okay,
<v Speaker 3>very good. Yeah, but that album had some big hits,
<v Speaker 3>and I thought Loved Boy getting ready to make their
<v Speaker 3>comeback didn't quite happen. No, Their next album, called Notorious,
<v Speaker 3>had songs written by John bon Jovi, Richie Sambora. Surely
<v Speaker 3>those are gonna be hits.
<v Speaker 2>Right, No, No, it didn't work, not so much.
<v Speaker 3>No, Sadly, that was kind of the last we've heard
<v Speaker 3>of Love Boy, right. This song plays in the airport
<v Speaker 3>when Goose meets Carol. That's the song kind of playing
<v Speaker 3>over the speakers in the airport.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, okay, so interesting, there you go.
<v Speaker 3>Anything else, Nope, all right, moving on. The next song
<v Speaker 3>on the album is called Through the Fire by Larry Green.
<v Speaker 3>I'm trying to stop the gushing.
<v Speaker 2>You love this.
<v Speaker 3>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 hit.
<v Speaker 3>Totally.
<v Speaker 2>At this point, I couldn't tell you anything about Larry Green.
<v Speaker 3>So I looked hard for stuff on Larry Green. Tell me,
<v Speaker 3>here's what I found out. Yeah, he was the lead
<v Speaker 3>singer for a group called Fortune Okay, that had a
<v Speaker 3>hit song off of the Last American Virgin soundtrack in
<v Speaker 3>nineteen eighty two.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, that's all I got. Here's what I got. Okay.
<v Speaker 2>His last name is Green, Yes, and his first name
<v Speaker 2>is Larry.
<v Speaker 3>Not a made a really good song on a really
<v Speaker 3>great album that did not get the credit it was deserved.
<v Speaker 3>This is like the Diet Cola version of danger Zone
<v Speaker 3>to me, right, yeah, it's it's pumping' rock. It doesn't
<v Speaker 3>quite have the Kinney Loggins greatness, but it's in the
<v Speaker 3>same vein, right. It's maybe it was one of the
<v Speaker 3>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.
<v Speaker 3>You go, Larry Green. I don't care. It's a good song.
<v Speaker 3>It's not a skipper. I like it now. This is
<v Speaker 3>the one song that I cannot find in the movie. Like,
<v Speaker 3>I don't think they play it anywhere in the movie.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, I wonder if Larry Green is still making money
<v Speaker 2>off of this thing, just I hope, So that'd be great.
<v Speaker 2>Landed a random song on a gigantic hit album and
<v Speaker 2>has been able to you know, retire to Malibu or whatever.
<v Speaker 2>Nothing in Maverick, unfortunately from Larry Green. All right, you're
<v Speaker 2>ready to move on to Destination Unknown? Yes, all right,
<v Speaker 2>here we go number four on side to Destination Unknown
<v Speaker 2>by Marietta.
<v Speaker 6>Us See and it's passing. Write mine the best is
<v Speaker 6>the fastest, don't you've been in time to be?
<v Speaker 2>Okay, So Mariatta not a singer that I'm familiar with.
<v Speaker 2>Apparently she had a song on the movie.
<v Speaker 3>Perfect Yes by Design.
<v Speaker 2>By Design, speaking of you know, aerobics and jazzer size clothes.
<v Speaker 2>I don't know that they're playing volleyball, but you know,
<v Speaker 2>Jamie Lee Curtis Hey. And then she also had the
<v Speaker 2>title song for a movie called Fire and Ice Yes
<v Speaker 2>from Europe, Yes, and apparently charted pretty well over it.
<v Speaker 2>But it's not one that I'm familiar with it all.
<v Speaker 3>She has another song from the sequel to Fire and.
<v Speaker 2>Eyes, Fire and Icier.
<v Speaker 3>It's a fire, ice and dynamite.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, does dynamite beat ice dynamite? How does that work?
<v Speaker 3>Paper scissor rocks dynamite?
<v Speaker 2>Gotcha?
<v Speaker 3>I don't know. I like this song. It's a good
<v Speaker 3>pop song. She's got a great voice. I love this album.
<v Speaker 3>I'm blowing through it.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>This is played during the graduation when they hand out
<v Speaker 3>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. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>She is now a scene coach in California.
<v Speaker 2>Oh cool?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah?
<v Speaker 2>All right? Are we ready to move to the final
<v Speaker 2>song on side to last song on the album?
<v Speaker 3>Play the bell please, sir. This is the Top Gun
<v Speaker 3>theme by Harold Voldemarn.
<v Speaker 2>Dude. Is the hair standing up?
<v Speaker 3>They are heard every time I hear this song.
<v Speaker 2>The 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 3>Absolutely, when this song played in Maverick, my eyes got misty,
<v Speaker 3>chills standing up my arms. I'm like, this is what
<v Speaker 3>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 it.
<v Speaker 3>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, Noah, we're going to your house, right,
<v Speaker 2>We're going to your studio.
<v Speaker 3>He's like mid chew, 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.
<v Speaker 3>He said it wasn't a lie, but it wasn't completely
<v Speaker 3>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 think he
<v Speaker 2>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 3>This is great, this is amazing. Tony Scott would play
<v Speaker 3>it for Tom Cruise on the set of the movie,
<v Speaker 3>just kind of get him in the tone.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>We mentioned that Harold Faltemeyer is a sound engineer, you know,
<v Speaker 2>in addition to being a writer, right, and so he
<v Speaker 2>was engineering for Billy Idol at the time, and we
<v Speaker 2>mentioned that Billy Idol was one of the guys that
<v Speaker 2>the real Top Gun pilots that's listened to for motivation. Well,
<v Speaker 2>as it happens, he is engineering Billy Idol's album Whiplash
<v Speaker 2>Smile at the same time that he's doing this stuff
<v Speaker 2>for Top Gun, and so he's there and he's got
<v Speaker 2>this song that he's got to put down the anthem,
<v Speaker 2>and Billy Idol's guitarist is there, Steve Stevens. He's like, hey, man,
<v Speaker 2>could you come over and record a guitar part for
<v Speaker 2>me in the song that I've got for this movie?
<v Speaker 2>And Steve Stevens like, sure, I'm not doing anything.
<v Speaker 3>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. He's like, hey, we're up for the Grand Yes,
<v Speaker 2>what Yeah that song that we recorded? Oh cool?
<v Speaker 3>Yeah, so listen to this. I got a great Grammy
<v Speaker 3>story for so. Steve Stevens is like, so, I go
<v Speaker 3>to the Grammys and when we win for Best Instrumental,
<v Speaker 3>they hand you a Grammy Award. Congratulations. You go up
<v Speaker 3>to the front. He's like, well, here's the deal. You
<v Speaker 3>don't get to keep that one. It's just a dummy award, right.
<v Speaker 3>They just kind of hand it to you, You say
<v Speaker 3>thank you, you walk off stage, they take it back
<v Speaker 3>from you, then they mail you yours in the mail.
<v Speaker 3>He says, when he opened it, it was like you
<v Speaker 3>gotta put it together. With a screwdriver. What Yeah, And
<v Speaker 3>so he went on MTV for something. He brought his
<v Speaker 3>Grammy and he proceeded to put it together. While they're
<v Speaker 3>on air together, he said, the Grammy people were not
<v Speaker 3>happy with that.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>In fact, he's like, I'm going to get in trouble
<v Speaker 3>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 know who we're talking about,
<v Speaker 2>think about the Dirty Diana video. The guitarist with the
<v Speaker 2>jet black ultra spikey hair, right, just looks bad to
<v Speaker 2>the bone, right, any of the Billie Idol videos, same
<v Speaker 2>jet black hair, screaming guitar, just down and angry the
<v Speaker 2>whole time. And I listened to his interview and I'm like,
<v Speaker 2>he sounds like Woody Allen. This is like the anthithesis
<v Speaker 2>of the voice that I expected to come out of
<v Speaker 2>Steve Stevens's face.
<v Speaker 3>He sounds like a little Jewish guy. I don't it's
<v Speaker 3>I think you're right. I totally agree with you. He
<v Speaker 3>looks like Nicky six and he talks like, what are
<v Speaker 3>you Allen?
<v Speaker 2>Anyway, 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 3>Yeah. So this is the last song on the Top
<v Speaker 3>Gun Soundtrack of nineteen eighty six. Yeah, we're gonna cover
<v Speaker 3>two more bonus songs that were in the Top Gun
<v Speaker 3>movie in eighty six, yep, plus two from Maverick.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, so we're not done yet, not done yet.
<v Speaker 3>It's Top 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 3>Yeah, I hate it what she does, She's lost it.
<v Speaker 5>There's no tenderness like rep 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. Yeah, came out on a
<v Speaker 2>re release later on, But here is You've Lost that
<v Speaker 2>Love and feeling by the Righteous Brothers. Okay, so how
<v Speaker 2>many times did you sing this to some girl in
<v Speaker 2>nineteen eighty six or nineteen eighty seven.
<v Speaker 3>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
<v Speaker 2>softer Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>It was a thing, right, Yeah, I know. I picked
<v Speaker 3>up a girl for a date and had two of
<v Speaker 3>my buddies come with me. Yeah, and we serenaded her
<v Speaker 3>before we went on our date. Thank you to my buddies.
<v Speaker 3>Who you know, Chris Alexander, one of our patreons, actually
<v Speaker 3>was there for that.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>We did a church camp, we did it at school,
<v Speaker 3>we did it everywhere.
<v Speaker 2>Awesome. Yeah. Okay, So if you want to know the
<v Speaker 2>Bill Medley history, go back and check out our dirty
<v Speaker 2>Dancing track by track. I go into a great amount
<v Speaker 2>of detail there. But part of that was how the
<v Speaker 2>Righteous Brothers were almost done. They were doing basically like
<v Speaker 2>one of their last shows before they were going to
<v Speaker 2>move on to bigger and other things. Yep, And a
<v Speaker 2>man who was putting on the show saw them and said, hey,
<v Speaker 2>I'd like to sign you guys to my label, and
<v Speaker 2>that man's name was Phil Spector.
<v Speaker 3>Speaking of Dirty Dancing soundtrack, Phil Spector, we talked at
<v Speaker 3>length about him. He's crazy, he's psychotic.
<v Speaker 2>It's an episode worth listening to.
<v Speaker 3>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 3>Did you know that? This song was inspired by baby
<v Speaker 3>I Need Your Love and by the Four Tops? It
<v Speaker 3>was inspired by two songs.
<v Speaker 2>Right.
<v Speaker 3>The song was written by Phil Spector, Barry Man, and
<v Speaker 3>Cynthia Wheel. Okay, barry Man wrote the medley first and
<v Speaker 3>then came up with the opening line, you'd never close
<v Speaker 3>your eyes anymore when I kiss your lips. That came
<v Speaker 3>from a line from the song I Love How You
<v Speaker 3>Love Me, which was co written by Man and produced
<v Speaker 3>by Specter, which says I love how you close your
<v Speaker 3>eyes whenever you kiss me.
<v Speaker 2>How about that nice?
<v Speaker 3>So when they first heard this song, they said, guys,
<v Speaker 3>this sounds like a great song for the Everly Brothers.
<v Speaker 3>This is not in our range. And they're like, no, No,
<v Speaker 3>here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna slow it down,
<v Speaker 3>We're gonna lower it and it'll be perfect for you.
<v Speaker 3>As you mentioned, Phil Spector is the one who discovered
<v Speaker 3>the Righteous Brothers. They were signed as his first white act.
<v Speaker 3>Bobby Hatfield, who's the other guy in the Righteous Brothers. Yeah, So,
<v Speaker 3>he reportedly was not happy with Phil Spector when he
<v Speaker 3>learned that Bill Medley would start the first verse and
<v Speaker 3>that he would have to wait until the chorus before
<v Speaker 3>he could join in. Before this, they would sing equally
<v Speaker 3>in the song, right, or they would sing together. And
<v Speaker 3>so when he asked Phil Spector what am I supposed
<v Speaker 3>to do during Medley's solo, Phil Spector said, you can
<v Speaker 3>go directly to the bank. So he's like, okay, I'll
<v Speaker 3>just stand over.
<v Speaker 2>Here and shut up. Then, yeah, no kidding. So and
<v Speaker 2>he was right, biggest song of their career. Absolutely at
<v Speaker 2>the time, Phil Spector was a powerhouse. How do you
<v Speaker 2>how do you make any kind of complaint about it.
<v Speaker 2>I'm going to give you a record label, I'm going
<v Speaker 2>to give you a hit song. And oh, you don't
<v Speaker 2>get to start singing for a few minutes. H suck
<v Speaker 2>an egg, bro, I know I'll.
<v Speaker 3>Murder you, steal your shoes and then murder you.
<v Speaker 2>Put you in a glass coffin.
<v Speaker 3>The vocals on this song took eight hours and two
<v Speaker 3>days to record.
<v Speaker 4>Wow.
<v Speaker 3>Phil Spector perfectionist. Take after take after take after take.
<v Speaker 3>He organized the wall of sound. You had the Wrecking
<v Speaker 3>Crew in the background. We talked at length about how
<v Speaker 3>Cher got her start as a background singer. In this song.
<v Speaker 3>She was standing there next to her boyfriend Sonny Bono.
<v Speaker 3>Phil Spector said, Hey, I understand your girlfriend can sing me.
<v Speaker 3>He's like, wow, you know, you know sort of He's like,
<v Speaker 3>I don't care. She just has to stand in the
<v Speaker 3>background and make noise for the wall of sound. So
<v Speaker 3>Cher was involved in the background. They knew they had
<v Speaker 3>something going on, but they still had their doubts whether
<v Speaker 3>it would be a hit or not because it was long.
<v Speaker 3>It was four minutes long, which at the time was
<v Speaker 3>extremely long, and it was slow. It was a slow
<v Speaker 3>paced song.
<v Speaker 2>Okay.
<v Speaker 3>Also, this is in the middle of the Bridge Invasion
<v Speaker 3>and the Beatles are all the rage. This song hit
<v Speaker 3>number one on the Hot one hundred February sixteenth, nineteen
<v Speaker 3>sixty five.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, and number two on the arm Beach Art. It's
<v Speaker 2>a great song.
<v Speaker 3>It's a song of the ages Man for sure. By
<v Speaker 3>the way Brian Wilson of the Beach Boys, who he talked.
<v Speaker 2>At length being massively influenced by the Ronnetts.
<v Speaker 3>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 3>Yes, Yeah, okay. Brian Wilson's response to this song when
<v Speaker 3>he ran into Man and Wheel, the writers of this song,
<v Speaker 3>he said, your song is the greatest record ever. I
<v Speaker 3>was ready to quit the music business, but this has
<v Speaker 3>inspired me to write again. And the song that he
<v Speaker 3>wrote in response to this song is good Vibrations.
<v Speaker 1>She's Getting.
<v Speaker 2>Is my favorite Beach Boys song. I see you a
<v Speaker 2>picture a little bit earlier this week. I sent it
<v Speaker 2>to you and James Buckley and David Wright. It was
<v Speaker 2>a picture of my radio readout, which had a hundred
<v Speaker 2>degree temperature. Yes, and we were listening to Good Vibrations
<v Speaker 2>by the Beach Boys, and I said, the AC is
<v Speaker 2>not working, so we're pretending we're on the beach.
<v Speaker 3>Yes love, good Vibations.
<v Speaker 4>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Phil Spector himself rated this song as the pinnacle of
<v Speaker 3>his career.
<v Speaker 2>I could see that.
<v Speaker 3>And that's before he blew that girl's head off and.
<v Speaker 2>Went to jail. That would maybe not be a Pinnacle
<v Speaker 2>most infamous. Yes, not Pinnacle. Yes.
<v Speaker 3>By the way, you know you talked about how Maverick
<v Speaker 3>serenades Charlie in the bar, and it's the big moment
<v Speaker 3>in the movie. Do you remember on Cheers, Rebecca Howe,
<v Speaker 3>her favorite song is You've Lost That Love and Feeling,
<v Speaker 3>and her boyfriend Robert Colcord hires Bill Medley to go
<v Speaker 3>to cheers and sing directly to her. Do you remember
<v Speaker 3>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 4>So.
<v Speaker 3>Her rich boyfriend hires Bill Medley to go to cheers
<v Speaker 3>seeing You've Lost that Love and feeling directly to her,
<v Speaker 3>and the whole time he's singing to her, she's freaking out.
<v Speaker 2>Can I help you?
<v Speaker 9>Uh?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, Rebecca Howe, Rebecca, this is from Robin cole Cord.
<v Speaker 2>You never closure us.
<v Speaker 10>Oh my gosh, I know Robin, but I never know
<v Speaker 10>that he would excuse me, excuse me, you knock it off.
<v Speaker 2>Somebody in the bar might want to hear this.
<v Speaker 3>Basically tells her to shut up. It's great, great song. Now.
<v Speaker 2>Then another song that was in the movie, not on
<v Speaker 2>the soundtrack song by mister jer Lee Lewis, The Killer
<v Speaker 2>eight Balls of Fire, You Jack.
<v Speaker 5>My Love and My Brain too much, loved of the
<v Speaker 5>man and singing you Broke My Wheel, Grace, great ball Fi.
<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 3>That's interesting. I had never heard the song of my life.
<v Speaker 3>Of course, gooseblaze it at the piano when he's at
<v Speaker 3>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 going to do without having done anything
<v Speaker 2>to license the song from Jerry Lee Lewis or the company.
<v Speaker 3>And you said Anthony Edwards did not know he was
<v Speaker 3>going to sing, and he can't play the piano. Correct,
<v Speaker 3>All right, Tony, I'm game acting. This song hit number
<v Speaker 3>two on the Hot one hundred, number one on the
<v Speaker 3>Country chart, and number three on the R and B chart.
<v Speaker 2>That's that's quite a mix.
<v Speaker 3>Name another song that hit that high on those three
<v Speaker 3>charts at the same time. No, Rolling Stone calls us
<v Speaker 3>the ninety sixth greatest song. I'm gonna tell you a
<v Speaker 3>little bit about mister j.
<v Speaker 2>Lee Lewis. Okay, Yeah, we could do a whole episode
<v Speaker 2>on this. They made a movie about it, Yes, they did,
<v Speaker 2>had one owner writer and mister Denis Quaid in it.
<v Speaker 3>That movie is incomplete because there's way more craziness that
<v Speaker 3>comes out after this.
<v Speaker 2>Tell me man, tell me so.
<v Speaker 3>I just want to tell you.
<v Speaker 2>He was married seven times. Okay, that's a lot. Two times.
<v Speaker 3>Bigamous Lee bigamus.
<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 3>The same time twice, Yes, during his life twice, the
<v Speaker 3>twice twice and twice he also married his thirteen year
<v Speaker 3>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 did,
<v Speaker 2>since she was only thirteen. Oh my gosh.
<v Speaker 3>They were married for thirteen years.
<v Speaker 2>Wow. This she made it all the way to twenty six.
<v Speaker 3>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 3>Great Balls of Fire was released within a month of
<v Speaker 3>when he married her, and his career went from the
<v Speaker 3>peak pinnacle to the top like a rocket to the
<v Speaker 3>depths of despair.
<v Speaker 2>Just because he married his cousin.
<v Speaker 3>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 3>His other cousin was Jimmy swagger who you've probably seen
<v Speaker 3>or heard of. He's an evangelist, TV evangelist, very popular
<v Speaker 3>in the eighties. Got in trouble behind closed Doors with
<v Speaker 3>the Lady of the Night.
<v Speaker 4>Yep.
<v Speaker 3>Now then Jerry Lee Lewis is the top. Yes, that's right.
<v Speaker 3>He apologized he was upset. Jimmy Swaggert and Jerry Lee
<v Speaker 3>Lewis used to enter musical contest together and they would
<v Speaker 3>sing and play the piano together. He said, they want
<v Speaker 3>every talent contest they ever entered.
<v Speaker 2>Wow.
<v Speaker 3>Jer Lewis is the type of guy that bad things
<v Speaker 3>just seem to happen around him, and sooner or later
<v Speaker 3>you have to ask yourself, what's the common denominator here?
<v Speaker 2>Okay?
<v Speaker 3>All right?
<v Speaker 2>Yeah?
<v Speaker 3>So he lost a three year old son to a
<v Speaker 3>swimming pool accident. He lost a nineteen year old son
<v Speaker 3>to a car crash. His fourth wife was found accidentally
<v Speaker 3>drowned in a pool. Okay, his fifth wife, Sean Stevens,
<v Speaker 3>she was found dead. He accidentally shot his bass player
<v Speaker 3>one time.
<v Speaker 2>With a gun. Well, you know, as you do. He
<v Speaker 2>got in the way.
<v Speaker 3>Things just happened around him. Okay, but musical genius right
<v Speaker 3>made it a great song? Yeah, incredible, great balls of
<v Speaker 3>fire yep.
<v Speaker 2>Okay.
<v Speaker 3>I think it's interesting that this song got a lot
<v Speaker 3>of controversy when it was released because of the line
<v Speaker 3>let me love you like a lover should that was
<v Speaker 3>seen as extreme sexual innuendo.
<v Speaker 8>Wow.
<v Speaker 3>Eric Clapton and John Lennon both credit Jerry Lee Lewis
<v Speaker 3>as being one of their biggest implances.
<v Speaker 2>I can see it. He sounded out the rock hits. Yep,
<v Speaker 2>you did.
<v Speaker 3>Dolly Parton did a version of Great Bells of Fire,
<v Speaker 3>which was the title track of her nineteen seventy nine album,
<v Speaker 3>and that cover was used in a Miami Vice episode
<v Speaker 3>in nineteen eighty five.
<v Speaker 2>Okay, how about that. Wow, it's a deep cut, my friend.
<v Speaker 3>How about that? Okay, let's do a couple of songs
<v Speaker 3>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?
<v Speaker 5>Yeah?
<v Speaker 2>Okay? So Lady Gaga is in a movie seen in
<v Speaker 2>a few movies, but one of the big movies is
<v Speaker 2>A Star Is Born, right, right, Radley Coober Right. So
<v Speaker 2>Kenny Loggins got his start in doing soundtracks with the
<v Speaker 2>movie Caddyshack, which we talked about in our Caddyshack Versus
<v Speaker 2>Happy Gilmour episode.
<v Speaker 3>Yes we did.
<v Speaker 2>And the way that that happened was he met a
<v Speaker 2>guy named John Peters, who produced Caddyshack, but at the
<v Speaker 2>time they met, John Peters was dating Barbara Streisand right,
<v Speaker 2>and barbar Streisand and John Peters had Kenny Loggins over
<v Speaker 2>to help write some music for the movie A Star
<v Speaker 2>Is Born. Yes, so barbar Streisand really was the catalyst
<v Speaker 2>to Kenny Loggins being involved in soundtracks at the beginning
<v Speaker 2>while writing songs for A Star is Born. Bring that
<v Speaker 2>full circle to Lady Gaga. The remake of his Star
<v Speaker 2>Is Born now has a song on the top gun
<v Speaker 2>Maverick soundtrack.
<v Speaker 3>How about that?
<v Speaker 2>There you go.
<v Speaker 3>Kenny Logins probably has the biggest song on the eighty
<v Speaker 3>six soundtrack. Yeah, Lady Gaga clearly has the biggest song
<v Speaker 3>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. E loves of years or more.
<v Speaker 1>Yeah.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, amazing, an amazing songwriting abilities and the movie The
<v Speaker 2>Star Is Born that she's in love it. Great music,
<v Speaker 2>great story. If you haven't seen it, go check out
<v Speaker 2>that movie. It definitely work it. Wow.
<v Speaker 3>So the song We're Gonna talk about with her Yes,
<v Speaker 3>is a song called hold My Hand.
<v Speaker 1>So Bad.
<v Speaker 6>So every last as Dude.
<v Speaker 3>This song is awesome. I love it, and it became
<v Speaker 3>the score of the movie. Like it's the take My
<v Speaker 3>Breath Away of Tapagun Maverick. It's the love theme between
<v Speaker 3>Maverick and Penny Right.
<v Speaker 2>Admiral's daughter.
<v Speaker 3>And one admiral's daughter. This song has been credited as
<v Speaker 3>being 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 3>I love that she's been working on a song for years, okay,
<v Speaker 3>and in fact, she said that through COVID this has
<v Speaker 3>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 3>You should not hold my hand, Lady Gaga said during
<v Speaker 3>the COVID nineteen pandemic era. She described the song as
<v Speaker 3>a love letter to the world during and after a
<v Speaker 3>very hard time. All right, get this. Tom Cruise has said,
<v Speaker 3>listen to this quote. Lady Gaga came in with this song.
<v Speaker 3>It became our score. It became the heartbeat of this film.
<v Speaker 3>What she did emotionally I was so concerned until I
<v Speaker 3>heard that piece and I knew that that piece what
<v Speaker 3>it does, how it married our story emotionally. So that
<v Speaker 3>was a moment. It was just a real moment for
<v Speaker 3>all of us. It was the missing piece to Talking Maverick.
<v Speaker 3>It's a great song. It's been compared to Journey's Open
<v Speaker 3>Arms and Hearts Alone, sure iconic power power ballad.
<v Speaker 2>Okay. So that was the first single released off the
<v Speaker 2>Top Gun Maverick soundtrack. The second single released is by
<v Speaker 2>the band One Republic and it is called I Ain't Worried.
<v Speaker 5>I don't know what you've been to.
<v Speaker 6>Thomas on it out. No need to take a song.
<v Speaker 6>I'll step into you too. I'll sue the skinny as.
<v Speaker 4>I keep them.
<v Speaker 6>Rus swimming than an.
<v Speaker 2>I were, Okay, I love this song. This is this
<v Speaker 2>is one of my favorite Like, I can't stop listening
<v Speaker 2>to this song right now.
<v Speaker 3>When you told me we're recovering this one, I was like,
<v Speaker 3>I don't really think I know this song, but as
<v Speaker 3>soon as I played it, I'm like, oh, it's the
<v Speaker 3>football beach 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.
<v Speaker 5>Yes.
<v Speaker 2>So I was like, and you know, we've got to
<v Speaker 2>talk 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 3>This is a great story. And so I was like,
<v Speaker 3>I think I'm right, and so I looked it up.
<v Speaker 3>I'm like, no, wait a minute, they're from Colorado Springs.
<v Speaker 3>And I'm like, oh, lead singer, Yes, he's from Tulsa.
<v Speaker 2>And so I sent you his picture and I was like, look, dude,
<v Speaker 2>he's from your hometown, Tulsa, Oklahoma. Tell me what happened.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, So I grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As soon
<v Speaker 3>as we figured out that the lead singer One Republic
<v Speaker 3>is from Tulsa, I looked at his page and figured
<v Speaker 3>out he went to Jinks High School, which is where
<v Speaker 3>me and my entire family went to high school. Right.
<v Speaker 3>So I text my sisters. So I'm class of ninety one.
<v Speaker 3>I have a younger sister who class of ninety five,
<v Speaker 3>and a younger sister class of ninety nine.
<v Speaker 2>Right now, he's class of ninety he's seven.
<v Speaker 3>Class of ninety seven. So I text both of my sisters.
<v Speaker 3>I send them a picture of this guy and I said,
<v Speaker 3>do you know this guy? And my older sister she's like,
<v Speaker 3>I have kids, who is this? I don't know who
<v Speaker 3>this is? Right? Am I supposed to know who this is?
<v Speaker 3>My younger sister goes, is this a truck question? And
<v Speaker 3>I said, what do you mean? She said, why would
<v Speaker 3>I know the lead singer of One Republic? So she
<v Speaker 3>knows who he was. And I'm like, well, maybe it's
<v Speaker 3>because you walked the hallways at high school together and
<v Speaker 3>she was like what yeah, so she had no idea.
<v Speaker 2>Right. 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 gotta give it a little bit
<v Speaker 2>imlste because I thought it was it was pretty good, Okay.
<v Speaker 2>So he went to Jinks High School except for a
<v Speaker 2>senior year where he went off to Colorado Springs and
<v Speaker 2>that's where he met one of his bandmates. It was
<v Speaker 2>a ride back to Oklahoma. I believe that they started
<v Speaker 2>talking about the music that they love and they're like,
<v Speaker 2>we should put a band together, and that's how One
<v Speaker 2>Republic is born. He comes back to Tulsa. He goes
<v Speaker 2>to o AREU Oral Roberts University right in tuls Oklahoma,
<v Speaker 2>and he graduates. He goes over to Nashville. He's in
<v Speaker 2>Nashville for like two months, and he gets picked by
<v Speaker 2>Lance Bass of n Sync to be in this MTV
<v Speaker 2>contest and the prize for the kind of this is
<v Speaker 2>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 2>Right yeah, And so he goes on. He competes, he's
<v Speaker 2>been for now, he's been in Nashville for two months.
<v Speaker 2>He competes, and judges and fans alike vote him number one.
<v Speaker 2>He wins the contest. He signs paperwork to be a
<v Speaker 2>part of Lance Bass's new label. And he said, and
<v Speaker 2>two weeks later, I was waiting tables and picking chips
<v Speaker 2>up off the ground. He said, it was all just
<v Speaker 2>a bunch of hype. There was no real label. It
<v Speaker 2>was all just a bunch of nonsense to try to
<v Speaker 2>promote a show and a label that ultimately did not
<v Speaker 2>work out. So it's like my dreams are realized. Oh here,
<v Speaker 2>let me Yank the carpet right out from underneath you.
<v Speaker 5>Wow.
<v Speaker 2>So a little while later he leaves and goes out
<v Speaker 2>to La. The one great thing that comes from this
<v Speaker 2>contest that he was in that go I mean he
<v Speaker 2>was performing in front of a million people. Is one
<v Speaker 2>of the guys that sees him is Timbaland. He's a
<v Speaker 2>record producer. He's done a lot of stuff, sure, and
<v Speaker 2>so Timberland since spends the next year trying to find him. Well,
<v Speaker 2>he's in La. I mean, he's as poor as poor
<v Speaker 2>can be. He sold his car to buy music equipment.
<v Speaker 2>He's selling songs to people for like three hundred bucks
<v Speaker 2>or something, just trying to get some stuff out there.
<v Speaker 2>And so his daytime he spends writing songs for other
<v Speaker 2>people people. His nights he spends with One Republic trying
<v Speaker 2>to develop them and what they have this is so great.
<v Speaker 2>To early two thousands, they have a MySpace account. Well,
<v Speaker 2>they end up being the biggest unsigned MySpace band, and
<v Speaker 2>because of that, Templand is able to find them. They
<v Speaker 2>ultimately get a record deal because of their song Apologized.
<v Speaker 2>In two thousand and six, they do their first album,
<v Speaker 2>Timbaland remixes Apologize, and suddenly they are big, bright, shining stars.
<v Speaker 3>That's great. Here's the deal. My music knowledge drops way off,
<v Speaker 3>starting out about the year two thousand. Uh huh okay,
<v Speaker 3>I make it pretty much through the nineties, and then
<v Speaker 3>after that I bow out. I've got kids, you know,
<v Speaker 3>so a song has to be monumentally huge for me
<v Speaker 3>to be familiar with it. Yes, polgrivased by Lady Gaga,
<v Speaker 3>you couldn't live in this world and not hear that song.
<v Speaker 3>The song Counting Stars by One Republic is one of those.
<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'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 joy Wave,
<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. So Ryan Tetter,
<v Speaker 2>Mighty Jing's Trojan.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, sorry, Mighty Jing's Trojan. Ryan Tedder keep.
<v Speaker 2>Going, yes, yes, yes, of course that's his big claive.
<v Speaker 2>He's won three Grammys. Three Grammys. But that's the thing
<v Speaker 2>that's mess and famous is to Jinks High School with
<v Speaker 2>Jason caulf.
<v Speaker 3>That's got it, get it right.
<v Speaker 2>So three grammys because he was a producer on Adel's
<v Speaker 2>twenty one and Dell's twenty five and Taylor Swift's nineteen
<v Speaker 2>eighty nine, it's pretty good. I think that One Republic
<v Speaker 2>needs to make an album that has a number as
<v Speaker 2>a title because that seems to be successful.
<v Speaker 4>But he is.
<v Speaker 2>He's made songs that have become huge hits for other artists.
<v Speaker 2>He is a incredibly prolific guy. But I'm really glad
<v Speaker 2>that he's got a single on this Nude Amazing movie.
<v Speaker 3>It's a great song.
<v Speaker 5>I love it.
<v Speaker 2>It's my favorite song.
<v Speaker 3>Let me throw this out there, real quick. Yeah, Ryan,
<v Speaker 3>if you're listening, the baseball field needs a little.
<v Speaker 8>Bit of work.
<v Speaker 2>This is a little tidment on this, just a little tipit.
<v Speaker 5>Right.
<v Speaker 2>So he started playing music when he was three. He's
<v Speaker 2>raised in like a Christian missionary household, right right, and
<v Speaker 2>his parents would reward him with candy corn when he
<v Speaker 2>practiced the piano. I think candy corn is the worst
<v Speaker 2>candy imaginable. I was identifying with this guy as so
<v Speaker 2>many levels, and then I was like, candy Corneah.
<v Speaker 3>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 3>I love it, love it, and the whistle and the
<v Speaker 3>whistle is great.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, yeah, okay. So I said, we've got we've got
<v Speaker 2>the question. Now, we've got the volleyball song, and we've
<v Speaker 2>got the fighter Pilot football song. Yep, what do you
<v Speaker 2>think is the better song?
<v Speaker 3>Come on, I'm old school. I'm always gonna go with
<v Speaker 3>old school. I'm playing with the boys every day of
<v Speaker 3>the week. I guarantee you're taking Warman Republic.
<v Speaker 2>Obviously. I am spiking the football. I am spiking both football.
<v Speaker 2>I'm spiking the volleyball. That was a good one, all right.
<v Speaker 3>Before we weigh in final judgment on what we think
<v Speaker 3>is the best song out of this grouping, let's hear
<v Speaker 3>from our buddy Jeff Johnson of the Film By podcast.
<v Speaker 3>He weighed in on what he thought about the Top
<v Speaker 3>Gun soundtrack, and here's what he had to say.
<v Speaker 9>Hello, Shirley fans, this is Jeff Johnson from a Film
<v Speaker 9>By podcast. Spittake and Pebbles have called me back to
<v Speaker 9>Miramar and I'm gonna offer a few words about the
<v Speaker 9>Top Gun soundtrack. Let's begin with Harold Faldemeyer's Top Gun anthem.
<v Speaker 9>It's motivating, stimulating, and evokes a feeling of courageousness. I
<v Speaker 9>like to think that if you could assign a sound
<v Speaker 9>to Victory, it would be it. And while it is
<v Speaker 9>the official theme for the movie, many would regard Kenny
<v Speaker 9>Loggins's Danger Zone as the unofficial theme and.
<v Speaker 3>The go to song on the album.
<v Speaker 9>Through the years, its popularity has never waned, and given
<v Speaker 9>its inclusion in Top Gun, Maverick, I have a feeling
<v Speaker 9>its rotation is safe on radio stations throughout America Now.
<v Speaker 9>Maverick and Iceman may be the best of the best,
<v Speaker 9>but they still need backup from guys like Wolfman, Sundown
<v Speaker 9>and Merlin. And you find that same kind of support
<v Speaker 9>on this soundtrack. Artists like Larry Green and lover Boy
<v Speaker 9>keep you engaged. Tina Marie and Miami Sound Machine lead
<v Speaker 9>you straight to the dance floor, while Jerry Lee Lewis
<v Speaker 9>and the Righteous Brothers lead you back in time. And
<v Speaker 9>what about Mighty Wings, the adrenaline pumping rock song from
<v Speaker 9>Cheap Trick. I say give it the coveted Top Gun
<v Speaker 9>trophy because it is the best song on this album. Guys,
<v Speaker 9>this soundtrack has it all, thumping instrumentals, rock pop, oldies,
<v Speaker 9>and let us not forget a best song Oscar for
<v Speaker 9>Berlin's take My Breath Away as beautiful as it is timeless.
<v Speaker 9>As for Top Gun, Maverick, I think having Hans Zimmer
<v Speaker 9>support Harold Faltemeyer is on par with Viper offering to
<v Speaker 9>be Maverick's rio. The end result is spectacular. Lady Gaga's
<v Speaker 9>power ballad Hold My Hand, with its message of reconciliation,
<v Speaker 9>loyalty and love, is everything we could have asked for
<v Speaker 9>in a song to help tell Maverick's story. As for
<v Speaker 9>I Ain't Worried by One Republic, I think it's definitely
<v Speaker 9>captured that fun summer vibe and would be a great
<v Speaker 9>addition to any playlist, whether you're lounging by the pool,
<v Speaker 9>having fun at the family barbecue, or maybe playing some
<v Speaker 9>dog fight football on the beach. Speaking of barbecue, I
<v Speaker 9>see my orders not ready just yet, but the piano
<v Speaker 9>is now free, so I'm gonna go embarrass myself and
<v Speaker 9>give this place a rendition of Great Balls of Fire.
<v Speaker 9>And as for the Top Gun soundtrack, well, in nineteen
<v Speaker 9>eighty six, it was the cassette inside my Sony Walkman
<v Speaker 9>when I soared through the neighborhood.
<v Speaker 2>On my Mongoose.
<v Speaker 9>In nineteen ninety six, it was the CD playing for
<v Speaker 9>my Pontiac Firebird, and nowadays I'm streaming it. I never
<v Speaker 9>get tired of it, and that is why it's the
<v Speaker 9>best soundtrack of nineteen eighty six. Guys, I'll see you
<v Speaker 9>next time.
<v Speaker 3>Thanks.
<v Speaker 2>I love Jeff Johnson, just great man. He is freaking brilliant.
<v Speaker 2>I love the comparisons. I don't agree with his choice
<v Speaker 2>of song, but I absolutely love it. And guys, if
<v Speaker 2>you have not checked out a film by podcast, you
<v Speaker 2>need to go check it out. They just came out
<v Speaker 2>with Maximum Overdrive, which I thought was absolutely hysterical. Listen
<v Speaker 2>to him talk about that movie. Definitely go check them out. Jeff,
<v Speaker 2>thank you for contributing, man.
<v Speaker 3>Jeff coming Strong with the Mighty Wings. I love that song.
<v Speaker 3>And you know what, I'm with you, bro, the'se not
<v Speaker 3>on board, but that's okay. Thanks for chiving in, Jeff.
<v Speaker 3>We appreciate you.
<v Speaker 2>Okay. So that brings us to our question. What is
<v Speaker 2>your number one favorite song? Are we just saying original soundtrack?
<v Speaker 2>Let's do original soundtrack, original soundtrack, all original soundtrack, and
<v Speaker 2>then of the and there.
<v Speaker 3>Songs we'll pick amongst that. Yeah, okay, okay, all right,
<v Speaker 3>so you go, first, original soundtrack?
<v Speaker 2>What's your number one song?
<v Speaker 3>The best song on the original soundtrack is the one
<v Speaker 3>that gives me chills and makes the hair stand up
<v Speaker 3>on my arm every time I freaking hear it. And
<v Speaker 3>it's the top gun anthem, Steve Stevens blasting my balls
<v Speaker 3>off with that guitar. Every time I hear it, it
<v Speaker 3>makes me want to go join the name. I mean,
<v Speaker 3>it's so good. I love it.
<v Speaker 2>I can't.
<v Speaker 3>I don't know what to say every time I hear it.
<v Speaker 2>That bell whoo man, it is powerful, No question is powerful.
<v Speaker 2>I can't fault you for that.
<v Speaker 5>For me.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, I hate to be boring, but it's gotta
<v Speaker 2>be danger zone.
<v Speaker 3>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 rock and voice
<v Speaker 2>to go along with it. Yeah. Now, that song the
<v Speaker 2>best song on the album, hands down in my opinion.
<v Speaker 3>Okay, worse song.
<v Speaker 2>Honestly, I don't have a worst song on this album.
<v Speaker 2>None of these are skippers. This album is solid, even
<v Speaker 2>the ones by Larry Green and Marietta who I don't.
<v Speaker 2>I mean, I don't know. They're still good.
<v Speaker 3>That is the correct answer, sir.
<v Speaker 2>Yeah, you nailed it.
<v Speaker 3>There is no bad song on this album. They're all great.
<v Speaker 3>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 3>I'm spiking the football. This is the best soundtrack of
<v Speaker 3>nineteen eighty six, hands 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 3>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 3>Yeah, yeah, potentially new classics.
<v Speaker 5>Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>The best song of these four, man, As much as
<v Speaker 3>I want to say Hold My Hand by Lady Gaga,
<v Speaker 3>which I just think is a fantastic song, I have
<v Speaker 3>to say, you've lost that love and feeling. It's a
<v Speaker 3>full on cranker. Every time I hear it, it makes
<v Speaker 3>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. Yeah.
<v Speaker 3>Absolutely, man, I feel like every song we've listened to
<v Speaker 3>today has just been great.
<v Speaker 2>YEP, it's a lot of fun.
<v Speaker 3>So that's going to do it for the top Gun soundtrack. Plus,
<v Speaker 3>let us know where you weigh in. What song is
<v Speaker 3>your favorite? What song of the new songs do you
<v Speaker 3>like the best? Come at us, let us hear from you. Yeah,
<v Speaker 3>and guys, don't forget. If you become a Patreon member,
<v Speaker 3>you will get access to some secret episodes that we're
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<v Speaker 3>of the eighties and beyond, and that begins this month.
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<v Speaker 3>one of the iconic one hit wonders of the last century.
<v Speaker 3>We will see you next week when we dive into
<v Speaker 3>White Snake, the history of the band White Snake and
<v Speaker 3>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 promises and the songs
<v Speaker 2>of yesterday. That's what we do here. See you guys
<v Speaker 2>next week.
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