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