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Speaker 1: This is Jay Reid from Denver, Colorado, letting you know

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that you're about to listen to another great episode of

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the Shirley You Can't Be Serious Podcast.

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Speaker 2: Hello everybody, and welcome to the Shirley You Can't Be

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Serious Podcast. We are feeling the need the need for

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speed right now because we're about to jump into the

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Top Gun soundtrack. If this is your first time joining us,

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listen in as we are about to go behind the

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scenes on every single track of the nineteen eighty six

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Top Gun soundtrack, as well as a few bonus tracks,

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including a couple off of the new soundtrack for Top Gun.

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Speaker 1: Maverick, that's right. We've got two footballs, we've got our volleyball,

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we've got loads of coconut oil, and we're both wearing aviators.

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We are ready to go today.

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Speaker 2: Okay, Jason, we have a new executive producer for this episode.

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It is my buddy, Sean Kanavy from College. Sean the

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lactose intolerance and way way from Wisconsin. Yes that's right,

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dairy capital of the world. Lactose intolerant. His parents would

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send us cheese curds and he wouldn't be able to

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eat them like the roommates all eat the cheese curds

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that they sent.

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Speaker 1: Sewan, Thank you man, thank you for becoming a Patreon

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for our show. We appreciate it.

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Speaker 2: Yes, executive producer Sean Kanavey, famous for doing the ride,

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which story I'll tell you on another day. But yeah,

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this is a good one. Fantastic, Thank you Sean, love

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you man.

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Speaker 1: Thanks Sean.

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Speaker 2: And then also we have somebody who is stepped up

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and answered the call to put a line in a review.

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Speaker 1: Really really, I haven't caught this. I'm anxious to hear

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what this is.

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Speaker 2: Okay, when we were doing our Dirty Dancing Versus Saturday

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Night Fever episodes, I said, if you put a line

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from one of those movies interview, you will be entered

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into a contest to win a engraved custom ozarka tumbler

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with your name and surely you can't be serious logo

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on it. And someone stepped up to the challenge. All right,

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this is Mama Cat seventy seven.

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Speaker 1: Hey, Mama Cat seventy seven.

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Speaker 2: I don't know who that is, So you're gonna you're

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gonna have to reach us on Twitter and reach us

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on Facebook in case we need to send you a

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cup yeah, but Mama Cat says, let your soul low.

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Nobody puts baby in a corner. You guys are awesome.

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I really appreciate the podcast. Keep up the good work

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and keep on keeping on. Thank you, Mama Cat. Seventy seven.

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already given out a few of those cups to our

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special winners and people listening today. If you want to

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the Need for Speed or some other famous top take

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me on your Mighty Wings or buzz in the Time

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Highway to the Danger Zone. Any of those will work.

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Talk to me goobs all right. This album was released

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May thirteenth, nineteen eighty six. Jason, what were you doing

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summer of nineteen eighty six?

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Speaker 1: Summer of nineteen eighty six, I was getting ready to

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turn thirteen years old. I was listening to a lot

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of Van Halen fifty one fifty This is right before

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of course bon Jovie hits Yeah and Top Gun was

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a huge, huge movie for me, and this soundtrack carried

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me through that summer of eighty six. Awesome what About You.

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Speaker 2: In May of eighty six, I was ten. I was

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still in my jeans jacket and obsessing about Marty McFly

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from Future Phase YEA. But going into the summer, there

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were some new songs that were coming out that were

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pretty exciting as well.

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Speaker 1: My MTV watching was ramping up during this time.

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Speaker 2: Absolutely, the videos were starting to get good. We already

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did talk about some of these songs that was part

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of a episode dedicated to Top Gun the movie. We

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just touched on it. But those two episodes have been

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so popular that we decided we should have a full

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music episode. So that's why we're bringing this to you today.

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If you haven't heard those episodes, be sure and check

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out our Top Gun episode and our Top Gun Maverick episode,

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which is spoiler free for about the first half and

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then slight spoilers after that. But definitely check those episodes out.

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Speaker 1: This album hit number one July twenty six of eighty six,

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was number one for three weeks, and then it came

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back in September and then again back again in October.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it hit number one and then it got knocked

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out by True Blue Iconic Album. Yes hit number one again,

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got knocked out by Dancing on the Ceiling, another iconic

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album and hit number one again and finally got knocked

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out for the last time by Huey Lewis in the

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Speaker 1: This is the number five best selling album of nineteen

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eighty six.

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Speaker 2: Dude, I'm excited. Can can we start talking songs?

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Speaker 1: One more thing? Okay, so this is the best selling

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soundtrack of nineteen eighty six. Sure, but I've got the

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list of the top selling soundtracks of all time. Okay,

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I want to breeze through these real quick, because some

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I'm just going to start twenty. We'll go quickly right there.

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Number twenty is Vita number nineteen, The Jazz Singer, number eighteen,

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City of Angels number seventeen, The Big Chill. We talked

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about that, how that was kind of one of the

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very first big soundtracks. Sixteen Space Jam, fifteen Flash Dance.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, that's the definitely a seed for this album.

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Speaker 1: That has Georgio Moroder all over it. Okay, Number fourteen,

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Pure Country, number thirteen, The Little Mermaid, number twelve, Waiting

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to Exhale, Number eleven, grease hoped God that next year

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number ten, Oh brother, where art thou? Number nine is

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top Gun, number eight is footloose. Go back to our

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Footloose track by track, episode number seven, The Lion King,

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number six, Titanic, number five, the Dirty Dancing soundtrack. It's

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been huge for us. Yes, number four, the Forrest Gump soundtrack.

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Speaker 2: I understandable, but that's all old music, not original stuff like.

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Speaker 1: This number three, Purple Rain of course, number two Saturday

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selling soundtrack of all time, The Bodyguard Whitney Houston. All right,

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let's dive in, song by song, track by track.

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Speaker 2: Right out of the gate, we've got maybe the most

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memorable song of the whole album, danger Zone by mister

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Kenny Loggins. Dance Okay, awesome intro right out of the gate,

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crunchy guitars, just kicking butt, and then you've got this

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pulsing heartbeat like drum as Kenny Loggins comes in with

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the vocals. It is too cool for school. But Kenny

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Loggins was not the guy who was supposed to do

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this song.

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Speaker 1: No, he was not. Tell me the story man, okay,

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So Georgio Moroder is the guy who wrote the song.

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Initially they wanted maybe Corey Hearts. They talked about Ario Speedwagon,

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Brian Adams. Brian Adams, Toto was the one. I mean,

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Toto was it.

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Speaker 2: Toto was the one tell us the Toto story.

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Speaker 1: So, after three hundred open call submissions from artists people

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all over, said we want to write the intro theme

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song for Top Gun, they submitted it. The producers sat around,

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they listened to every single one and they sort of

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had this like anybody could blackball it like ten seconds in.

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One guy says nah. Then they kicked it out, put

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in another cassette and moved right on.

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Speaker 2: Three hundred songs.

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Speaker 2: Kenny Loggins was a part of the group that they

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showed the movie to and he saw all these other

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artists in there, and he says to his writing partner,

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let's not try for the intro song and they can

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give that to somebody else. Let's do the volleyball scene.

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Speaker 1: Right.

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Speaker 2: So that song was going to come up later and

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we'll talk about that, but Danger Zone was not his contribution.

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Speaker 1: So the producers contacted this guy named Giorgio Moroder. Now

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he had worked with them on the Flashdance soundtrack. Yeah,

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had a good working relationship with since Ruckheimer. Yes, after

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they got with him, he wrote danger Zone and they

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had planned to have Toto sing this. Okay, we talked

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about this in our previous episode. I think we talked

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Speaker 2: Huh.

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Speaker 1: So they brought in the guys from Toto. They listened

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to their version of danger Zone. They said, we really

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like it, but I think what we're gonna do instead

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of having you guys play on it, We're going to

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keep your singer. We're gonna have session musicians play the instruments.

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Speaker 2: That's insane, right, I mean, Toto is the band behind

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Thriller the album. Why would you have those guys and

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say we're gonna have somebody else perform the music?

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Speaker 3: Right?

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Speaker 1: And they took it as an insult and rightfully. So Yeah,

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they're like, well, no, that's not gonna work. So screw

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you guys. We're out of here. We're going home, right,

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Screw you guys, We're going home. So Columbia really wanted

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to use an artist under their label. So They offered

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it to Brian Adams and he was like, no, I

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don't like pro war movies. They offered it to Starship.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, I heard that too, And and like you said,

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Ario Speedwagon, Kenny Logins said that he was talking to

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the guy from Ario Speedwagon. He was like, yeah, the

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notes were too high for me to hit. I'm like,

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wait a minute, Ario Speedwagon. You know what what? Right? Okay, right? Yeah, sure.

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Speaker 1: But Kenny was down the street recording his vocals on

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a huge success with Footloose we knew from two years

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Speaker 2: That, Yeah, as well as I'm all Right from Caddyshack.

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Speaker 1: And so they called him up and they said, hey, Kenny,

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we're already dropping music into the movie and we've got

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a song that's super important to the movie, but we

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don't have anybody who can sing it. And Kenny Logan said,

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it is. He said, great, I'll do it. Never heard

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it right, never heard it until he got to the studio.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, he sat down with Tom Whitlock and tweaked a

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few things, put the bridge in there that kind of

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gave you that relaxing point in between the high intensity

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of the first par art and the high intensity ending.

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Speaker 1: Is that his that's his.

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Speaker 2: Coret He doesn't have any writing credit on it, but

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where Whitlock and Moroder wanted to keep that string alive

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and not add Login's name into it. And so he

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actually has been fighting for royalties for about thirty years.

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Speaker 2: I think he gave up. I think he finally just said,

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you know, it's okay, that's okay, that's cool with me.

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I'm gonna let that slide. I think he's finally let.

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Speaker 1: That god it Okay.

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Speaker 2: Can I tell you the story on Georgio Moroder and

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Tom Winlock, please tell me? Okay. So we mentioned in

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our last episode that Tom Whitlock was like Georgio Moroder's

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Ferrari mechanic. Okay, there's so much more to the story

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than that, and it is it's not as van Halen

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as it seems. Okay, you know van Halen, Sammy Hagar

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and Eddie van Halen both had the same Ferrari mechanic,

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same Lambeau mechanic, I think actually, and he's the one

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that introduced him. Yes, So Giorgio Moroder, the guy's been

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making music for seventy years. I mean he's an incredible force.

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He was called the father of disco. He pioneered EDM music.

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I mean he's huge name. He started music Land Studios,

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which had artists recording there like the Rolling Stones, Elo

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led Zeppelin, Deep Purple Queen, Elton John. And then he

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is called the Moroder version of Metropolis. But that Flash

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Dance soundtrack, he did What a Feeling the Flash Dance

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song by Irene Kara. But he had he had gotten

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all kinds of success. I mean, he was a huge name,

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so he makes his way over to the US. He

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does American jigglow Call Me by Blondie is on there.

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Speaker 1: That's him.

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Speaker 2: And he's over at a studio where there are a

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couple of guys working. One of those guys is Tom Whitlock.

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Speaker 1: Did you say Drury University?

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Speaker 2: Drury University, Yes, up in Missouri, in Springfield, Yes, in Springfield, Missouri.

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Speaker 1: One of my best friends went to Drury.

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Speaker 2: Okay, well there you go. Okay, and that small, small school.

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was Tom Whitlock. Well, he had come out to La

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to make a name as a musician, right, and he's

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helping his buddy out at the studio. And this guy's

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I mean, he's a music in Virginior for Breakfast Club

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among others. I mean, this is he's not Slie Potatoes either. Okay,

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But Georgio Moroder is there and he's like complaining about

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how his breaks won't work in his ferrari. Okay, So

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Tom Whitlock, good old boy from Missouri, just goes. Tommy

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was going on and Maroder explains, He's like, just give

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me a second. He runs down to the convenience store

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by his break fluid. This is what he did. He

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was not a mechanic. He bought two pints of break fluid,

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came back, put it in Moroder's car. He's like, there

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you go, man, it should work.

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Speaker 1: Wow.

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Speaker 2: Moroder was so impressed that he was like, how about

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you come and work with me at my studio. So

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that is the full story. It wasn't you know you're

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my Ferrari mechanic.

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Speaker 1: It was like this guy covered with grease.

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Speaker 2: It was a guy who was a musician who just

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knew how to change break fluid and got lucky one day.

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Speaker 1: That's incredible. Yeah, that's a great story.

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Speaker 2: So he got hired to work at Maroder studio and

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he starts studying recording with Brian Reeves who did Scarface

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and Flash Dance and Beverly Hills cop. Then Moroder gets

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contacted to do the Top Gun soundtrack and his normal

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writing partners are busy, and he knows that Tom is

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a musician, so he says, hey, do you want to

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help me write some songs on this one. They write

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five songs together for the soundtrack, and history.

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Speaker 1: Is including Danger's Take My Breath Away plus Leave Me

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On by Tina Marine We're going to.

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Speaker 2: Talk about and Tom Whitlock would go on to do

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a song for Sammy Hagar Winner take All from the

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y Yeah I Top soundtrack and another song for Kenny

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Loggins meet Me Halfway. Also Tom Whitlock.

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Speaker 1: Meet Me Halfway. That was another song that kind of

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furthered Kenny Loggins's soundtrack Career. Yeah, exactly, mister soundtrack, you

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got it. Interestingly, this song only made it to number two.

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We talked about this during our Top Gun episode. Yeah,

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which is a crime to me because it's one of

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the best songs of the eighties. It really is like

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the eighties and one.

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Speaker 2: Three and a half minute song, right, and I remember

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the song that kept it out, but remind it remind

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our audience.

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Speaker 1: That song was called Sledgehammer by Peter Gabriel.

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Speaker 2: Which was all over the place that year.

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Speaker 1: It was and it's a good song.

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Speaker 2: It's yeah, it's a good song. It was really the

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video that made that song.

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Speaker 1: I agree with you. The video was really cutting edge

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and really cool. In the battle of one versus two.

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I'm taking danger Zone every day of the week.

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Speaker 2: Though, right right, and I'll just throw this out there. Yeah, listeners,

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if you haven't heard our Duran Durant episode, go back

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and check that out. We went track by track through

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Rio with our friend Melissa Bingle and she mentioned that

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she had the new album called Future Past right. Yes, Well,

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mister Tom Whitlock wrote two of the songs with Duran

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for that album.

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Speaker 1: How about that?

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Speaker 2: Yeah, Tonight United and Beautiful Lies.

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Speaker 1: That is really cool? How about that? Kenny Loggins said

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that he had been listening to a lot of Tina Turner. Yeah,

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and so when he was singing that's why you get

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the Dangers name Zone. I think that's cool.

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Speaker 2: Tina Turner making her stamp. Yeah, here's what's interesting. Kenny

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Loggins was doing an interview and he pointed out that

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Moroder would use a Yamaha DX seven, but unlike everybody

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else in the industry, he would just take it out

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of the box and just start playing the stock sounds

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that came with it. And Kennedy Long is like, I'm

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out there as Long with all these other artists trying

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to create our own unique sound, and to quote, we're

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all trying to create custom sounds. And he just plugged

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it in and made a load of hit records.

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Speaker 1: Jorjio Moroder does play the synths and drum machine for

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danger Zone. Before we get to the music video, I've

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got to throw my boy Dan Huff another bone. Yeah,

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he plays guitar on Danger Zone because we said we're

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never gonna play this song in any of our episodes,

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and here we are, we're playing this second time. Dan

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Huff is the lead singer for Giants and they had

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one awesome song the spring of nineteen ninety called I'll

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See You in My Dreams.

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Speaker 2: We all made anything.

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Speaker 1: I love this song, man, it's one of my fairs.

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I can't believe we stuck it in another aspect twice.

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You're a bigger fan than I am. That's okay.

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Speaker 2: So we talked about Kenny Loggins agreeing at the last

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minute to do this. He said, as they're recording it,

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He's like, how long do we have to do this?

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Some Roders like I have to dub this into the

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movie in the next twenty four hours. So it was

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I mean the song that you get they did in

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less than a day's work.

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Speaker 1: That's incredible. Yeah, and listen, I don't want to over

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dramatize things. But we talked at length in both the

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Top Gun episode and the Maverick episode where you have

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the Top Gun theme that explodes into danger zone as

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they take off from the flight deck of the aircraft carrier. Yeah,

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and it's a blow your socks off moment in the movie, right, Yeah,

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in both movies, both movies. It's so important and hugely

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impactful for the tone of the movie.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, Kenney said he went to Tom and said, hey,

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how about I dress up in a uniform and just

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to a walk through for the movie. And Tom was like, yeah, yeah, okay, No, no,

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it didn't happen. Could you imagine I would have lost

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my mind?

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Speaker 1: Yeah?

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Speaker 2: Had I seen Kenny Loggins dressed up as a four

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star general walking through the.

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Speaker 1: Then cool man. You'd have to get a hide and

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tight and shave the beard off. Probably.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Okay, let's talk video. Yeah, so you have basically a

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paid advertisement for the movie Top Gun.

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Speaker 2: It's like a summary of the movie all in a

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four minute video.

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Speaker 1: It really is. You know who directed that video? I do,

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mister Tony Scott, the director of the movie, directed the

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music video, and basically Kenny Loggins is in a bedroom,

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a little bit sweaty with his aviator, sunglasses on, sitting up,

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laying down on a bed. Yeah, nothing major.

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Speaker 2: You have sunglasses and a fan. That's it, and that's it.

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And then at one, for one brief second, Kenny Loggins

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is laying down on a pillow singing to you, and

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then all of a sudden, he's taking pictures of you

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with a handheld camera. I don't know what purpose of

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that was, but interesting idea.

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Speaker 1: But the reason why we loved that video is because

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it was eighty percent clips from the movie. You even

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get Maverick got a good lock firing.

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Speaker 2: Kenny Loggins showed up to the set and he's like, okay,

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so what are we gonna do and he goes, not much.

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We'll pretty well just gonna intercut.

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Speaker 1: You with the movie and that's about it.

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Speaker 2: I got a fan, I got some sunglasses. You're good

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to go.

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Speaker 1: Here's a fan, here's some sunglasses. Here mess around with

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this camera. By the way, Kenny Loggins did record an

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updated version of Danger Zone. H huh, A little different.

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Guess what Tom Cruise is like. Now, we're gonna stick

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with the eighty six version. And you know what, it.

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Speaker 2: Was a good choice.

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Speaker 1: I think that was the right call. Yeah, it's so good.

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Speaker 2: Okay. Are we ready to move on to cheap Trick?

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Speaker 1: Let's move on to cheap Trick?

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Speaker 2: Okay. Our song number two is Mighty Wings. This is

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a song written by Harold Faltermeyer and Mark Spiro and

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it is the third single to come off of this album.

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Speaker 1: Dude, I love this song. This song gets overlooked. It

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is a fantastic song on this album.

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Speaker 2: It definitely gets overlooked. And I don't know. I mean,

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you've got this album that's obviously one of the best

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selling soundtrack albums of all time. This is a single

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off of that album in the year that it's at

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the top of the charts, and yet it kind of

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false flat.

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Speaker 1: I don't really get it. Billboard listed this song as

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a pop pick and stated feverish, fast pulse rock from

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Top Gun. Inclusion in the Smash soundtrack should push the

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band towards its strongest chart bid in years. That did

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not happen. No, and I don't know why, because this

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is an awesome song that's used prominently in the movie.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, they use it twice. Yeah, it's I mean it is.

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It's eighties all over it's power all over. I don't

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know what happened.

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Speaker 1: So here's what happened. I think this is the answer.

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It was moved from the second single released to the

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third single released in favor of take My breath Away, right,

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which blew up, and they didn't have a video for it.

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Speaker 2: That is I think the answer right in nineteen eighty six.

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In nineteen eighty six, you have to have a video,

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that isn't that's the answer right there, because if you

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are riding the wave of danger Zone followed by take

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My breath Away, you don't have to do some sort

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of miraculous thing. Give us another video with top gun

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clips and you're going to soar up the charts. That

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is the answer to the question. As I said, this

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song was written by Harold Faldemeyer, and we mentioned last

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episode he was the guy who did axel F which

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was another huge topper. Right. Yes, he referred to that

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song as the banana theme, becuz in the movie he's like,

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how much just for the two bananas you go on

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to you take him bananas?

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Speaker 1: Look, man, I evolve a banana the tail vibe.

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Speaker 2: So the banana theme is by Harold Valtemeyer. And he

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was a kid who parents got him into music, and

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a music professor's listening to him and he's like, holy caath,

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this kid has perfect pitch at like three years old.

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He's he's got some amazing abilities. Like Moroder. He starts

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working at a recording studio, is doing engineering at a

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very young age for major classical sessions. And Georgio Moroder

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his ears are perked and he's like, let's bring this

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guy to La. So Georgia Moroder is the guy who

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brought Harold Faltemeyer to La and he played and arranged

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for Midnight Express, which I mean that one, that one.

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Maroder his first Oscar.

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Speaker 1: Okay, I want to point out something I think is

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a little bit overlooked. Okay, Simpson and Bruckheimer have been

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credited with sort of bringing some of these seventies rock

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stars through the eighties by using soundtracks. Absolutely one of

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the Kenny Loggins right on the Beverly Hills cop soundtrack.

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You have Glenn Frye, who has a huge hit.

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Speaker 2: True Beverly Hills two soundtrack. You've got Bob.

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Speaker 1: Bob see her Yeah for Armageddon. You have Aerosmith, who

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has a smash.

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Speaker 2: Song biggest song of their career.

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Speaker 1: Cheap Trick falls into that category.

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Speaker 2: There's a seventies band, but they didn't do a video.

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Speaker 1: Okay, now, wait a minute, here's the thing. I wanted

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to bring this up because they thought that this might

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be the song to bring Cheap Trick back into the

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forefront of the MTV viewing audience.

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Speaker 2: Right.

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Speaker 1: That did not happen, No, but it did happen just

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a couple of years later with the song called the Flame,

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which is one of my all time favorite songs.

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Speaker 2: This is how I know Cheap Trick.

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Speaker 1: You and I both right, yep. So that song went

468
00:23:56,119 --> 00:23:59,279
number one July nineteen eighty eight. It knocked out Dirty

469
00:23:59,319 --> 00:24:03,880
Diana Wow, who on guitar had Steve Stevens. Steve Stevens

470
00:24:04,119 --> 00:24:07,000
and it was knocked out by Richard Marx. Hold On

471
00:24:07,039 --> 00:24:10,880
to the Nights Nice, which was number one, over Poured

472
00:24:10,960 --> 00:24:13,839
Some Sugar on Me talked out at number two. So

473
00:24:14,240 --> 00:24:16,359
summer of eighty eight you had some interesting stuff going

474
00:24:16,359 --> 00:24:17,039
on chart wise.

475
00:24:17,160 --> 00:24:19,480
Speaker 2: Man, the eighties were a good year decade for music.

476
00:24:19,640 --> 00:24:22,480
Speaker 1: I love this song. It is in the conversation for

477
00:24:22,519 --> 00:24:23,799
the best. I'm gonna put you on the spot at

478
00:24:23,799 --> 00:24:25,559
the end of this thing. I'm gonna say, what song

479
00:24:25,640 --> 00:24:26,079
is the best?

480
00:24:26,920 --> 00:24:27,599
Speaker 2: It won't be this one.

481
00:24:27,680 --> 00:24:29,119
Speaker 1: I'm writing this one down as just kind of a

482
00:24:29,119 --> 00:24:29,839
little side.

483
00:24:29,599 --> 00:24:31,519
Speaker 2: Notes, okay, all right, in your notes over there. I'm

484
00:24:31,519 --> 00:24:34,079
putting it in my notes, all right. Moving on to

485
00:24:34,559 --> 00:24:37,960
song number three. It makes me feel happy, it makes

486
00:24:38,000 --> 00:24:59,279
me feel gay playing with the boys. So this is

487
00:24:59,279 --> 00:25:02,319
the song that Can Loggins said to his writing partner, Hey,

488
00:25:02,440 --> 00:25:04,920
let's not try for the main theme. Let's try for

489
00:25:05,039 --> 00:25:07,200
something that nuts so many people are going for. And

490
00:25:07,240 --> 00:25:09,880
they said, let's do the volleyball one, right right. And

491
00:25:10,000 --> 00:25:13,200
his writing partner, by the way, is Peter Wolf, who

492
00:25:13,319 --> 00:25:17,759
has arranged a ton of stuff including Who's Johnny from

493
00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:20,880
Who's Short Circuit? Yeah, the Barge.

494
00:25:20,640 --> 00:25:22,640
Speaker 1: The March, Yeah, el de Barge, I think old the

495
00:25:22,720 --> 00:25:26,279
Barge yep. But this one, hit number sixty didn't do

496
00:25:26,359 --> 00:25:28,799
too bad. Yeah. This one is known more for the

497
00:25:28,839 --> 00:25:31,039
movie the volleyball scene in the movie.

498
00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:36,920
Speaker 2: So this song has been used in dozens, literally dozens

499
00:25:37,079 --> 00:25:41,680
of movies and TV episodes and every single time it

500
00:25:41,880 --> 00:25:43,400
involves in volleyball.

501
00:25:45,079 --> 00:25:47,839
Speaker 1: As it should. It actually is featured in the nineteen

502
00:25:47,920 --> 00:25:49,839
ninety movie Side Out with see Thomas Hall do you

503
00:25:49,880 --> 00:25:53,119
remember that movie. No, it's a whole movie devoted to volleyball,

504
00:25:53,160 --> 00:25:55,279
so of course you gotta have play with the voice.

505
00:25:55,319 --> 00:26:05,519
Speaker 2: That's it. It was a hit at all the day

506
00:26:05,640 --> 00:26:10,200
night clubs? Was it? Jonathan Cohen of Spin magazine called

507
00:26:10,200 --> 00:26:12,920
it a sort of gay anthem. Okay, I mean you

508
00:26:12,960 --> 00:26:16,559
can't hear the words and not have Ymca and the

509
00:26:16,640 --> 00:26:19,079
Village people pop into your head a little bit. And

510
00:26:19,279 --> 00:26:23,799
I will say there was one non volleyball movie episode

511
00:26:23,839 --> 00:26:25,640
that this song came up in, and it was an

512
00:26:25,680 --> 00:26:30,279
episode early on in season one of Cobra Kai. Johnny

513
00:26:30,319 --> 00:26:34,359
Lawrence is being drug home drunk and he's singing playing

514
00:26:34,359 --> 00:26:35,000
with the boys.

515
00:26:35,079 --> 00:26:38,920
Speaker 1: Nice, Nice, Okay. I've got to ask you, yeah, have

516
00:26:39,079 --> 00:26:41,200
you seen this music video?

517
00:26:42,599 --> 00:26:42,680
Speaker 4: No?

518
00:26:44,519 --> 00:26:46,480
Speaker 1: Okay. At the end of the Shirle You Can't Be

519
00:26:46,519 --> 00:26:49,759
Serious podcast, we need to amass a list of the

520
00:26:49,799 --> 00:26:54,960
worst music videos ever made, Okay right. We talked at

521
00:26:55,079 --> 00:26:59,440
length during our Toto four episode about the video four

522
00:26:59,480 --> 00:27:02,680
Waiting for You Love, very sweaty, snow bras.

523
00:27:02,680 --> 00:27:07,160
Speaker 2: Very eighties, lots of shoulder pads, noo boom pads, child.

524
00:27:07,039 --> 00:27:10,319
Speaker 1: Molester glasses, the whole nine yards, and we called it

525
00:27:10,359 --> 00:27:11,720
one of the worst videos of all time.

526
00:27:11,799 --> 00:27:15,000
Speaker 2: Yeah, and we also saw the original version of the

527
00:27:15,000 --> 00:27:18,200
Poor Some Sugar on Me video, which again is in

528
00:27:18,240 --> 00:27:20,640
that category for songs coming out in the mid to

529
00:27:20,720 --> 00:27:24,960
late eighties. To still have videos this bad is not acceptable, right,

530
00:27:25,079 --> 00:27:27,400
which I had. The band agreed. They made a different

531
00:27:27,480 --> 00:27:29,559
video and it was much better. Was it Russell mckayhew

532
00:27:29,559 --> 00:27:32,519
who had done that horrible I think so. I think

533
00:27:32,559 --> 00:27:34,480
it was. I think it was Russell McKay who had

534
00:27:34,480 --> 00:27:37,920
done the horrible first version of the Poor swis. Yeah.

535
00:27:37,960 --> 00:27:41,480
Speaker 1: Well, this one's in the conversation, okay, because it literally

536
00:27:41,519 --> 00:27:43,640
looks like my church youth group shot this while we're

537
00:27:43,680 --> 00:27:45,759
playing volleyball after church one night.

538
00:27:45,799 --> 00:27:46,880
Speaker 2: Okay, it's a little budget.

539
00:27:46,960 --> 00:27:51,000
Speaker 1: It's guys versus girls in the volleyball match. Yeah, and

540
00:27:51,039 --> 00:27:53,319
they're all dressed. They look like they belong on Jane

541
00:27:53,359 --> 00:27:57,480
Fonda's workout video. And Kenny Loggins is on the side

542
00:27:57,480 --> 00:27:59,839
and he's sort of playing the guitar while the boys

543
00:28:00,119 --> 00:28:02,160
an early lead. The girls come back and I think

544
00:28:02,160 --> 00:28:05,480
the girls actually win. The volleyball is terrible. The song's

545
00:28:05,559 --> 00:28:07,400
name playing with the boys and the girls win. The

546
00:28:07,440 --> 00:28:09,079
girls are sort of playing with the boys.

547
00:28:09,240 --> 00:28:10,480
Speaker 2: Oh, my word.

548
00:28:10,759 --> 00:28:12,680
Speaker 1: Do you get a chance to go watch that music video?

549
00:28:13,559 --> 00:28:16,519
Speaker 2: Okay? You got any more? On playing with the Boys? Nope? Okay,

550
00:28:16,599 --> 00:28:24,400
Let's jump into song number four, Take On Me No,

551
00:28:24,480 --> 00:28:27,240
Lead Me On? Wait? Was that me?

552
00:28:27,400 --> 00:28:28,480
Speaker 1: Was I singing? Yes?

553
00:28:28,519 --> 00:28:30,039
Speaker 2: That was you sing That was wrong? Okay, that's not

554
00:28:30,200 --> 00:28:31,880
That's not this song. No, it's now I got it wrong.

555
00:28:31,920 --> 00:28:34,079
Speaker 1: Okay, it is lead Me On, but it is by

556
00:28:34,640 --> 00:28:47,920
Tina Marie, Lady Tea. Okay, I'm going to make the

557
00:28:47,960 --> 00:28:51,599
case that this song is awesome. Okay, all right. The

558
00:28:51,759 --> 00:28:56,240
horns are freaking infectious. It's got a pop rock feel

559
00:28:56,279 --> 00:28:59,039
to it. The singer's voice is great. Tina Marie's got

560
00:28:59,039 --> 00:29:09,680
that great sopranos. Even God, I love it. I don't

561
00:29:09,720 --> 00:29:12,680
care what anybody else says. I am unapologetically a big

562
00:29:12,720 --> 00:29:13,880
fan of this song right here.

563
00:29:13,960 --> 00:29:15,720
Speaker 2: This is not a skipper for me. I would listen

564
00:29:15,759 --> 00:29:18,279
to this song for sure. I like Tina Marie's voice.

565
00:29:18,440 --> 00:29:21,240
Teina Marie, there's not an artist that you probably have

566
00:29:21,400 --> 00:29:23,680
heard a lot about. If you're more rock fans like

567
00:29:23,720 --> 00:29:26,599
we are, right, this is definitely on the rock side

568
00:29:26,640 --> 00:29:30,480
of the things that she has done. She actually sang

569
00:29:30,720 --> 00:29:32,960
and acted from the time that she was a little kid,

570
00:29:33,039 --> 00:29:36,240
she was on an episode of the Beverly Hillbillies. Really yeah,

571
00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:39,680
So her family moves out to California. They're not super

572
00:29:39,680 --> 00:29:42,079
well off. She ends up kind of growing up in

573
00:29:42,400 --> 00:29:46,039
an urban neighborhood with a lot more black people than

574
00:29:46,079 --> 00:29:49,559
white people. Right. She meets this lady named Bertha Lynn

575
00:29:49,599 --> 00:29:53,160
Jackson who kind of becomes her godmother, and that has

576
00:29:53,200 --> 00:29:57,319
a profound influence on her musical style. She ends up

577
00:29:57,400 --> 00:30:01,559
getting signed by Barry Gordy and she starts doing stuff

578
00:30:01,559 --> 00:30:04,480
for him, making these songs, but nothing is getting released.

579
00:30:04,519 --> 00:30:07,039
It's just like she keeps recording stuff but they're not

580
00:30:07,119 --> 00:30:11,400
releasing anything. And then she runs into Rick James, the

581
00:30:11,440 --> 00:30:15,240
super Freak himself. Super freak, yes, super freaky. Rick James

582
00:30:15,279 --> 00:30:17,920
is supposed to produce an album for Diana Ross, but

583
00:30:18,000 --> 00:30:21,400
when he meets Tina Marie, he's like, who's Diana Ross.

584
00:30:21,400 --> 00:30:22,799
I don't think I've heard of her. I'd like to

585
00:30:23,039 --> 00:30:25,000
I would like to produce Tina Marie.

586
00:30:25,039 --> 00:30:25,119
Speaker 1: Now.

587
00:30:25,160 --> 00:30:27,839
Speaker 2: Of course, they get involved in a romantic relationship as

588
00:30:27,839 --> 00:30:30,359
you would expect, but he gives her the name Lady

589
00:30:30,440 --> 00:30:35,319
t and they produced the album Wild and Peaceful, which

590
00:30:35,640 --> 00:30:39,039
contains a duet by them called I'm a Sucker for

591
00:30:39,119 --> 00:30:39,599
Your Love.

592
00:30:40,680 --> 00:30:41,920
Speaker 1: That's great, it was.

593
00:30:41,880 --> 00:30:45,279
Speaker 2: A chart topper, but on the album there's no picture

594
00:30:45,359 --> 00:30:48,400
of her. So everybody thinks, I mean, we've got Rick

595
00:30:48,480 --> 00:30:50,799
James as the producer. We got buried Gordy is the

596
00:30:51,039 --> 00:30:54,920
I mean obviously right, And so they invite her and

597
00:30:55,000 --> 00:30:58,839
Rick James onto Soul Train, where suddenly everybody's like, where

598
00:30:58,920 --> 00:31:00,599
that white woman come from?

599
00:31:01,039 --> 00:31:02,319
Speaker 1: She is pasty white too.

600
00:31:02,440 --> 00:31:05,759
Speaker 2: She is the first white female guest on Soul Train.

601
00:31:06,119 --> 00:31:09,119
She appeared another eight times, which is the most of

602
00:31:09,240 --> 00:31:10,640
any white female guest.

603
00:31:10,759 --> 00:31:14,039
Speaker 1: She's called the Ivory Queen of Soul. Yeah, and I

604
00:31:14,119 --> 00:31:29,400
know her most from her song called lover Girl, which

605
00:31:29,440 --> 00:31:31,759
was a big hit in nineteen eighty five. Areach number four?

606
00:31:32,039 --> 00:31:35,960
Speaker 2: Well, she kept recording for the Motown Records, but they

607
00:31:35,960 --> 00:31:39,000
were refusing to publish any of her stuff. They wouldn't

608
00:31:39,079 --> 00:31:41,960
release the records, and so she had to sue on

609
00:31:42,200 --> 00:31:44,400
which is an interesting thing. Here. You are you are

610
00:31:44,480 --> 00:31:48,359
limited by contract, you can't go record for another label,

611
00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:50,599
but we're not going to release anything that you are recording.

612
00:31:50,640 --> 00:31:52,480
And she's like, this isn't fair. I can't, you can't

613
00:31:52,559 --> 00:31:54,559
do this to me, and ultimately she won the case

614
00:31:54,599 --> 00:31:58,079
and it is literally called the Brockert Initiative because her

615
00:31:58,160 --> 00:32:03,359
name is Tina Brockert, and it says you can't hold

616
00:32:03,359 --> 00:32:06,799
somebody to a label and simultaneously not release their stuff.

617
00:32:06,799 --> 00:32:08,200
It's too much of a limitation.

618
00:32:08,359 --> 00:32:09,319
Speaker 1: It's like slavery.

619
00:32:09,400 --> 00:32:12,599
Speaker 2: Yeah, so she ends up signing with Columbia. Nineteen eighty

620
00:32:12,599 --> 00:32:15,279
four is when Starchild comes out, which had Lover Girl

621
00:32:15,319 --> 00:32:17,519
on it, like you talked about, and that's when we

622
00:32:17,599 --> 00:32:19,720
come along with leading me on.

623
00:32:19,960 --> 00:32:22,119
Speaker 1: Okay, we've got to talk about her early death.

624
00:32:22,319 --> 00:32:24,559
Speaker 2: Yeah. Before we do, I will just say she was

625
00:32:24,599 --> 00:32:28,440
a big influence going on for other artists. She's the

626
00:32:28,640 --> 00:32:33,079
godmother of Maya Rudolph from Saturday Night Live because her

627
00:32:33,200 --> 00:32:36,960
dad produced Tina Marie's second album, and she was also

628
00:32:37,039 --> 00:32:41,680
a godmother to Marvin Gay's daughter Nona. And Lenny Kravitt

629
00:32:41,720 --> 00:32:44,240
said when he was first starting out and struggling as

630
00:32:44,240 --> 00:32:47,960
a musician, he went to her and she absolutely helped

631
00:32:48,000 --> 00:32:48,640
him with his career.

632
00:32:48,680 --> 00:32:49,319
Speaker 1: Well that's great.

633
00:32:49,440 --> 00:32:52,759
Speaker 2: Yeah, she had unfortunately a bad end to this rather

634
00:32:53,000 --> 00:32:53,920
beautiful story.

635
00:32:54,079 --> 00:32:58,039
Speaker 1: This was a tragic story when I read this. Okay, yeah,

636
00:32:58,079 --> 00:33:00,720
I knew she died early. I think she died it two.

637
00:33:00,839 --> 00:33:03,640
But in two thousand and four, Tina Marie was asleep

638
00:33:03,799 --> 00:33:07,039
in a hotel room in her bed and a huge

639
00:33:07,079 --> 00:33:09,440
picture frame fell off the wall and hit her in

640
00:33:09,480 --> 00:33:13,880
the head, just like complete freak accident, falls off the wall,

641
00:33:14,039 --> 00:33:17,799
cracks her in the skull. It caused a serious concussion

642
00:33:17,920 --> 00:33:20,960
that resulted in huge seizures for the rest of her life.

643
00:33:21,119 --> 00:33:24,599
In fact, she had a grandma seizure one month before

644
00:33:24,640 --> 00:33:28,680
her death. On December twenty sixth twenty ten, she was

645
00:33:28,680 --> 00:33:29,359
found dead.

646
00:33:29,200 --> 00:33:30,200
Speaker 2: By her daughter.

647
00:33:30,359 --> 00:33:32,720
Speaker 1: When the corner did the autopsy, he said she died

648
00:33:32,759 --> 00:33:35,839
of natural causes, but really it all resulted back to

649
00:33:35,920 --> 00:33:38,400
that freak picture falling off the wall and cracker her

650
00:33:38,480 --> 00:33:38,799
in the skull.

651
00:33:38,920 --> 00:33:42,519
Speaker 2: Wow, that's tragic. Tragic yep, loss of a great voice.

652
00:33:42,519 --> 00:33:43,880
Speaker 1: Okay, we're done with this one, thinks.

653
00:33:43,880 --> 00:33:48,359
Speaker 2: So time for maybe the biggest song on the entire album.

654
00:33:48,400 --> 00:33:51,640
Speaker 1: It's a biggie. This song is called take My Breath Away.

655
00:33:59,400 --> 00:34:03,200
Speaker 2: Okay, soh This song is by the group Berlin, but

656
00:34:03,400 --> 00:34:06,759
really it's Terry Nutt Yes it is so. Terry was

657
00:34:06,759 --> 00:34:10,599
born in June of sixty one and her dad was

658
00:34:10,639 --> 00:34:13,239
an actor, but he was an alcoholic. He ended up

659
00:34:13,239 --> 00:34:15,400
committing suicide when she was fifteen.

660
00:34:15,760 --> 00:34:16,239
Speaker 1: I don't know.

661
00:34:16,480 --> 00:34:19,400
Speaker 2: So she went out kind of on her own, and

662
00:34:19,519 --> 00:34:24,199
in seventy six she posed for Penthouse. She also auditioned

663
00:34:24,239 --> 00:34:27,400
for Princess Leah in Star Wars. I knew that, well

664
00:34:27,440 --> 00:34:30,519
all the database and OAR two were still sekiller. I

665
00:34:30,599 --> 00:34:33,440
was like, what yeah, so, but just real quick, I'm

666
00:34:33,440 --> 00:34:35,800
going to say those dates again. She was born in

667
00:34:36,039 --> 00:34:40,480
sixty one and she posed for Penthouse in seventy six.

668
00:34:41,079 --> 00:34:41,679
Speaker 1: I do the math.

669
00:34:42,480 --> 00:34:46,480
Speaker 2: Fifteen fifteen, Oh yeah, she convinced him that she was

670
00:34:46,800 --> 00:34:50,360
over eighteen and denied that it was her, used another name,

671
00:34:50,440 --> 00:34:53,119
denied that it was her for years, but no, she

672
00:34:53,280 --> 00:34:56,719
it was absolutely her. She tricked on posing at fifteen

673
00:34:56,800 --> 00:35:00,760
years old for Penthouse, Wow and using out the part

674
00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:03,039
of Princess Leah to Carroy Fisher.

675
00:35:03,400 --> 00:35:06,079
Speaker 1: You can see her audition, which is pretty cool on YouTube.

676
00:35:06,079 --> 00:35:09,159
Speaker 2: I believe. Oh nice. Yeah, Well, good news is she

677
00:35:09,320 --> 00:35:14,320
found other avenues. She starts looking in a music contact

678
00:35:14,360 --> 00:35:17,880
service in Hollywood and hey, there's this band called Berlin

679
00:35:18,039 --> 00:35:21,719
that's looking for a singer. They just lost their main singer.

680
00:35:21,760 --> 00:35:24,159
They had a replacement singer for just a little while,

681
00:35:24,199 --> 00:35:25,719
did the live shows with them you know who. This

682
00:35:25,880 --> 00:35:28,840
was no Tony childs. You might remember the hit Don't

683
00:35:28,880 --> 00:35:32,519
walk Away from nineteen eighty eight. Yeah, so Tony Child

684
00:35:32,679 --> 00:35:35,280
sang that song. She was the singer for Berlin for

685
00:35:35,400 --> 00:35:38,920
just a brief period before Terry Nunn joined the band. Wow,

686
00:35:39,400 --> 00:35:42,480
So Berlin had gotten started by a guy named John Crawford.

687
00:35:42,599 --> 00:35:45,559
Yes they did, Okay, Terry Nunn ends up leaving to

688
00:35:45,760 --> 00:35:48,719
become an actress in seventy nine. They get somebody else

689
00:35:48,760 --> 00:35:50,800
to come in to sing, but the record labels who

690
00:35:50,840 --> 00:35:53,079
were interested were like, well, we're really more interested with

691
00:35:53,159 --> 00:35:55,679
that other singer than with your new singer, right, And

692
00:35:55,760 --> 00:35:57,280
I'm like, okay, well let's see if we can get

693
00:35:57,280 --> 00:35:59,320
her back. They get her back, but by this time,

694
00:35:59,400 --> 00:36:02,360
John Crawford he's got his own other, separate band that's

695
00:36:02,400 --> 00:36:05,239
really his main project. In this Berlin thing is just

696
00:36:05,280 --> 00:36:07,320
his kind of for fun thing. So they record this

697
00:36:07,440 --> 00:36:10,480
song called the Metro and it ends up being a success.

698
00:36:10,639 --> 00:36:11,559
Speaker 1: I love that song.

699
00:36:11,880 --> 00:36:16,840
Speaker 2: Okay, well let's listen to it here, bag Ball.

700
00:36:20,480 --> 00:36:31,800
Speaker 5: I was calving, you said, I next to me right

701
00:36:32,239 --> 00:36:33,000
on the.

702
00:36:36,119 --> 00:36:36,960
Speaker 1: It's fantastic.

703
00:36:37,039 --> 00:36:40,119
Speaker 2: Yeah, So now Berlin is starting to be successful, and

704
00:36:40,199 --> 00:36:42,440
John Crawford's like, oh, well, I guess I gotta go

705
00:36:42,559 --> 00:36:45,039
back over here. He's other band, Fahrenheit, has to get

706
00:36:45,119 --> 00:36:48,000
left behind and he goes off with Berlin to start

707
00:36:48,000 --> 00:36:51,719
doing music. And by nineteen eighty four they are saying

708
00:36:51,760 --> 00:36:55,880
to themselves, Okay, we have to get Giorgio Moroder to

709
00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:58,239
come and help us do an album. Yes all we

710
00:36:58,280 --> 00:36:59,800
need if we can just get him to come.

711
00:36:59,840 --> 00:37:02,559
Speaker 1: And the like how much do we have? Not enough?

712
00:37:02,599 --> 00:37:03,000
Not much?

713
00:37:03,039 --> 00:37:06,119
Speaker 2: Do we have enough for a song? How much for

714
00:37:06,280 --> 00:37:10,960
just one real? Yes, you have enough for just one song.

715
00:37:11,039 --> 00:37:14,239
So once again this is the stars aligning. So Georgio

716
00:37:14,320 --> 00:37:17,280
Moroder comes in to help them with the song No

717
00:37:17,360 --> 00:37:32,679
More Words.

718
00:37:27,480 --> 00:37:30,480
Speaker 1: Which is a wonderful song. I absolutely love it.

719
00:37:30,519 --> 00:37:33,559
Speaker 2: You're a big Vision Quest faman, right, I love Vision Question. Yeah.

720
00:37:33,599 --> 00:37:35,920
So it's featured in Vision Quest. It is a top

721
00:37:35,960 --> 00:37:40,760
forty hit. But the big news is that while they

722
00:37:40,760 --> 00:37:44,360
are in the process of producing that song, Georgio Moroder

723
00:37:44,400 --> 00:37:47,920
comes running into the room saying, oh my gosh, I

724
00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:50,480
have this big song for this big new movie with

725
00:37:50,559 --> 00:37:52,360
Tom Cruise, and it's coming out in the summer and

726
00:37:52,400 --> 00:37:54,519
it's gonna be the biggest movie of all time and

727
00:37:54,760 --> 00:37:58,440
you should sing the song. And Terry Nunn is like yes,

728
00:37:58,800 --> 00:38:01,840
and John Crawford's like, wait a minute, roll on, why

729
00:38:01,920 --> 00:38:03,280
would we do somebody else's song.

730
00:38:03,400 --> 00:38:05,719
Speaker 1: Terry Dunn says, that is not the final nail, but

731
00:38:05,840 --> 00:38:08,400
one of the nails in the coffin that split Berlin

732
00:38:08,559 --> 00:38:10,400
and did them in essentially.

733
00:38:10,079 --> 00:38:14,079
Speaker 2: Because they never really had a successful song that even

734
00:38:14,119 --> 00:38:16,840
came close to what Take My Breath Away did.

735
00:38:16,960 --> 00:38:19,360
Speaker 1: It won the Academy Award, yep, and it won the

736
00:38:19,360 --> 00:38:22,559
Golden Globe. Yeah, it was a huge Mangas song, maybe

737
00:38:22,559 --> 00:38:24,079
one of the biggest songs in nineteen eighty six.

738
00:38:24,159 --> 00:38:27,800
Speaker 2: It allows Berlin to travel the world doing concerts, but

739
00:38:28,239 --> 00:38:32,360
they're frustrated. The band members are frustrated because the song

740
00:38:32,400 --> 00:38:34,280
that everybody wants to hear them play is not even

741
00:38:34,320 --> 00:38:37,119
their song, right, And so yeah, it was it was

742
00:38:37,199 --> 00:38:41,760
the spark that lit the dynamite that would destroy the band.

743
00:38:41,880 --> 00:38:44,480
Speaker 1: Here's the thing. When you listen to the song the metro,

744
00:38:45,400 --> 00:38:49,440
it's very pop, very new wave, very different than Take

745
00:38:49,480 --> 00:38:50,159
My breath Away.

746
00:38:50,320 --> 00:38:52,400
Speaker 2: By the way, the name Berlin these this is a

747
00:38:52,440 --> 00:38:54,639
group from LA. When I heard him talking the first,

748
00:38:54,679 --> 00:38:58,000
I'm like, these guys have American accents, right, Yeah, so

749
00:38:58,159 --> 00:39:00,280
they just picked the name because they thought it sounded

750
00:39:00,320 --> 00:39:02,920
European and exotic. It had nothing to they have no

751
00:39:02,960 --> 00:39:06,360
connection with Germany whatsoever. Well, they were onto something there,

752
00:39:06,360 --> 00:39:09,719
I guess. Steve Lucather talks about how Toto had written

753
00:39:09,719 --> 00:39:12,079
a song to be the love theme for Top Gun.

754
00:39:12,239 --> 00:39:12,679
That's right.

755
00:39:12,880 --> 00:39:29,360
Speaker 1: That song is called only You. I actually think it's

756
00:39:29,360 --> 00:39:31,480
a good song. It's not Taking My breath Away.

757
00:39:31,320 --> 00:39:32,719
Speaker 2: No, but it could have been.

758
00:39:33,039 --> 00:39:33,559
Speaker 1: Maybe it could.

759
00:39:33,559 --> 00:39:35,400
Speaker 2: I mean if you played that song during the love

760
00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:37,320
scene between Charlie and Pete.

761
00:39:37,440 --> 00:39:40,880
Speaker 1: Maybe have you heard the Motel's version of taking My

762
00:39:40,920 --> 00:39:41,320
Breath Away?

763
00:40:00,000 --> 00:40:08,880
Speaker 2: I have heard that, Yeah, and it's not bad. It's

764
00:40:09,199 --> 00:40:12,079
but it's definitely it's still it's not the production that

765
00:40:12,320 --> 00:40:13,000
this was.

766
00:40:13,400 --> 00:40:16,360
Speaker 1: Okay, here's the thing. Yeah, she's got a great voice.

767
00:40:16,800 --> 00:40:21,159
It's not as desperate sounding, as passionate sounding as Terry

768
00:40:21,280 --> 00:40:21,719
Nunn is.

769
00:40:21,960 --> 00:40:24,960
Speaker 2: So she talked about that at this point in her life,

770
00:40:25,000 --> 00:40:28,280
she was down, she was sad. This was not a

771
00:40:28,679 --> 00:40:31,159
romantic feeling that she had when she sang the song.

772
00:40:31,280 --> 00:40:35,000
This is a depressed, sad sound, which is you can

773
00:40:35,039 --> 00:40:37,800
hear it yes you can. She talked about being sad

774
00:40:38,039 --> 00:40:41,800
and sad because she wasn't involved in a romantic relationship, right,

775
00:40:41,880 --> 00:40:43,639
and she hadn't had one in a while. You know

776
00:40:43,679 --> 00:40:47,159
who she dated in nineteen eighty five, John Crawford, Michael Hutches,

777
00:40:47,679 --> 00:40:49,000
What of Nxcess?

778
00:40:49,719 --> 00:40:50,119
Speaker 1: Really?

779
00:40:50,360 --> 00:40:50,559
Speaker 2: Yep?

780
00:40:51,639 --> 00:40:53,480
Speaker 1: Interesting? Interesting, And then he.

781
00:40:53,440 --> 00:40:57,480
Speaker 2: Went back to Australia and they were Yeah.

782
00:40:57,519 --> 00:41:01,639
Speaker 1: There's one change between the Motels and the Berlin song

783
00:41:02,119 --> 00:41:05,239
that I think you probably have to credit to Terry. Now, okay,

784
00:41:05,480 --> 00:41:07,760
there's a line in the Berlin version of the song

785
00:41:07,920 --> 00:41:44,199
where she says, if only for today, I am unafraid,

786
00:41:45,119 --> 00:41:50,719
and it's that emotional, desperation loving romantic line from the movie,

787
00:41:50,840 --> 00:41:53,800
and that line is missing from the Motel's version.

788
00:41:54,239 --> 00:41:58,559
Speaker 2: Terry takes her mom to a party at Georgio Moroder's house,

789
00:41:59,639 --> 00:42:04,239
and Georgia Ruder also already has the Academy Award for

790
00:42:04,519 --> 00:42:08,119
flash Dance. Right, He's got a screening room, big big

791
00:42:08,159 --> 00:42:10,920
screen for the screening room, of course, and he's got

792
00:42:10,960 --> 00:42:13,599
his Academy awards sitting on the shelf on the left

793
00:42:13,599 --> 00:42:18,800
hand side, and Terry Nunn's mother is alone with Georgio

794
00:42:18,920 --> 00:42:23,400
Moroder in the screening room and they're sitting there and

795
00:42:23,440 --> 00:42:25,119
she says, you see that space on the right hand

796
00:42:25,159 --> 00:42:27,559
side of the screen that will be for the Oscar

797
00:42:28,039 --> 00:42:30,599
for Terry's song, And Georgia is like, yes, well I

798
00:42:30,599 --> 00:42:33,880
hope so. Yes, she was correct.

799
00:42:34,320 --> 00:42:34,960
Speaker 1: She was right.

800
00:42:35,519 --> 00:42:39,480
Speaker 2: And so when it gets nominated, they called up Terry

801
00:42:39,559 --> 00:42:40,760
Nunn and I think she was over.

802
00:42:41,199 --> 00:42:41,960
Speaker 1: She was in Taiwan.

803
00:42:42,079 --> 00:42:45,199
Speaker 2: Yeah, I was gonna say, Asia, yeah, Taiwan. Yes, and

804
00:42:45,239 --> 00:42:47,159
they're like, hey, we'd like for you to come perform

805
00:42:47,199 --> 00:42:48,880
live at the Oscar ceremony.

806
00:42:49,000 --> 00:42:50,360
Speaker 1: Uh huh, yeah sure.

807
00:42:50,440 --> 00:42:52,639
Speaker 2: And then she's like and then in my twenty three

808
00:42:52,760 --> 00:42:55,760
year old, over confident self said okay, do I get

809
00:42:55,800 --> 00:42:57,519
to perform the whole song? And they said, well, no,

810
00:42:57,559 --> 00:42:59,719
it's going to be part of a medley of the

811
00:42:59,760 --> 00:43:02,400
other nominees. And she's like, well, I'd really prefer if

812
00:43:02,400 --> 00:43:04,559
I could just perform the whole thing, and they're like, well,

813
00:43:04,639 --> 00:43:06,280
that's not what we're doing. She's like, then I don't

814
00:43:06,320 --> 00:43:08,800
want to do it. To this day, she regrets that decision,

815
00:43:08,880 --> 00:43:12,480
specifically for her mom. YEP. Definitely the video for this song,

816
00:43:12,559 --> 00:43:15,159
she's just kind of wandering around, singing sadly amongst a

817
00:43:15,159 --> 00:43:17,800
bunch of aircraft, right, Yeah, not much else to it

818
00:43:17,840 --> 00:43:18,039
than that.

819
00:43:18,199 --> 00:43:21,599
Speaker 1: No, and everybody else looks bored except for her, which

820
00:43:21,639 --> 00:43:24,440
is so sad to me because it's such a great song,

821
00:43:24,599 --> 00:43:26,840
and I know that everybody in the band resented it.

822
00:43:26,920 --> 00:43:29,320
Speaker 2: I just don't understand. I mean, I look at things

823
00:43:29,400 --> 00:43:33,039
we talked about Vangellis and how he didn't do things

824
00:43:33,039 --> 00:43:36,119
according to Hollywood standards except for a little bit so

825
00:43:36,159 --> 00:43:38,480
that it could make him basically make him enough money

826
00:43:38,519 --> 00:43:40,400
and give him the opportunity to do the things that

827
00:43:40,440 --> 00:43:42,159
he wanted. If you're in a band and you have

828
00:43:42,199 --> 00:43:45,480
a song that allows you to tour the world, yeah, and

829
00:43:46,039 --> 00:43:49,039
pure at the charts, and you've got name recognition, why

830
00:43:49,239 --> 00:43:52,400
be so begrudging about having to perform it when it

831
00:43:52,440 --> 00:43:53,239
would allow you.

832
00:43:53,199 --> 00:43:54,480
Speaker 1: To do so much more.

833
00:43:54,599 --> 00:43:54,960
Speaker 2: I don't know.

834
00:43:55,159 --> 00:43:58,679
Speaker 1: I have no idea. The song so good that when

835
00:43:59,000 --> 00:44:02,400
they showed top Gun on TV in the United Kingdom

836
00:44:02,400 --> 00:44:05,079
in nineteen ninety, take My Breath Away reach number three.

837
00:44:04,880 --> 00:44:07,840
Speaker 2: On the charts. Wow, it's awesome.

838
00:44:07,960 --> 00:44:10,039
Speaker 1: By the way, Jessica Simpson has a version of this here.

839
00:44:10,159 --> 00:44:12,239
Yeah I remember that. Yeah, Yeah, it's pretty good. All right,

840
00:44:12,280 --> 00:44:14,400
hit stop on your tape player. Kick it Out, flip

841
00:44:14,440 --> 00:44:19,000
it over side to Talkgun soundtrack leading off the song

842
00:44:19,119 --> 00:44:20,000
Hot Summer Nights.

843
00:44:30,239 --> 00:44:32,880
Speaker 2: Okay, this song is by Miami Sound Machine. Yes, it

844
00:44:32,920 --> 00:44:35,280
was written by a guy named Michael Joy. But this

845
00:44:35,360 --> 00:44:39,639
is Miami Sound Machines music. It is. It's definitively them right.

846
00:44:39,920 --> 00:44:42,559
Speaker 1: It's pop, It's got that Latin feel to it.

847
00:44:42,880 --> 00:44:46,760
Speaker 2: Yeah. So Miami Sound Machine was originally called Miami Latin

848
00:44:46,800 --> 00:44:48,480
Boys when the band first formed.

849
00:44:48,599 --> 00:44:48,880
Speaker 1: Yep.

850
00:44:49,159 --> 00:44:52,519
Speaker 2: So, Gloria and her cousin were at a wedding. There

851
00:44:52,559 --> 00:44:54,400
were guests at a wedding. They knew some of the

852
00:44:54,400 --> 00:44:56,960
guys in the band and there were some, you know,

853
00:44:57,119 --> 00:45:00,400
standard Cuban songs that they knew, and so they convinced

854
00:45:00,400 --> 00:45:02,920
the girls to come up and sing. They did such

855
00:45:02,920 --> 00:45:05,679
a good job that they said you should join the band,

856
00:45:05,719 --> 00:45:08,599
and that is how the name changed from Miami Latin

857
00:45:08,639 --> 00:45:12,280
Boys to the Miami Sound Machine. She said, I will

858
00:45:12,320 --> 00:45:14,199
do it, but I have to be able to keep

859
00:45:14,199 --> 00:45:19,519
going to school. So they did with her, primarily weekend stuff.

860
00:45:23,039 --> 00:45:26,679
She was getting her degree, including a minor in French,

861
00:45:26,880 --> 00:45:30,920
and so she worked at the Miami International Airport as

862
00:45:30,960 --> 00:45:34,159
a translator for English, Spanish, and French and it was

863
00:45:34,239 --> 00:45:37,519
so good that she was approached by the CIA to

864
00:45:37,719 --> 00:45:39,679
become a employee.

865
00:45:40,039 --> 00:45:41,360
Speaker 1: That is unbelievable.

866
00:45:41,400 --> 00:45:41,760
Speaker 2: There you go.

867
00:45:42,199 --> 00:45:45,320
Speaker 1: I told you. Gloria's father was a police escort in

868
00:45:45,400 --> 00:45:47,400
Cuba for President Batista.

869
00:45:47,639 --> 00:45:47,920
Speaker 2: Yeah.

870
00:45:47,960 --> 00:45:50,280
Speaker 1: So as soon as Castro took over, they had to split,

871
00:45:50,880 --> 00:45:53,000
she said. They packed up everything they had flew to

872
00:45:53,039 --> 00:45:55,679
Miami as soon as possible. Her father was like, well,

873
00:45:55,719 --> 00:45:58,119
this is just until we can get back in power

874
00:45:58,119 --> 00:45:58,960
and go back to Cuba.

875
00:45:59,039 --> 00:45:59,239
Speaker 2: Yeah.

876
00:45:59,320 --> 00:46:01,519
Speaker 1: So he's like, well, I'm gonna go and get involved

877
00:46:01,559 --> 00:46:04,280
in this thing that became known as the Bay of Pigs.

878
00:46:04,360 --> 00:46:06,079
Speaker 2: Yeah. I mean, it was the attempt to get back

879
00:46:06,079 --> 00:46:06,960
into power. Right.

880
00:46:07,039 --> 00:46:10,239
Speaker 1: They captured him. He was in Cuba's prison for eighteen months.

881
00:46:10,400 --> 00:46:13,000
They let him out to go back to Miami, and

882
00:46:13,039 --> 00:46:15,920
then he served in the US military in Vietnam.

883
00:46:16,199 --> 00:46:16,639
Speaker 2: Wow.

884
00:46:16,800 --> 00:46:19,519
Speaker 1: So they broke through in nineteen eighty five, right before

885
00:46:19,559 --> 00:46:24,519
this song mm hm with the Latin song Congam, shake

886
00:46:24,559 --> 00:46:26,480
your batty baby, do that gong god, No, you can't

887
00:46:26,480 --> 00:46:29,360
control yourself any longa cocheck your bay baby do that

888
00:46:29,440 --> 00:46:32,360
gon God No, you can't control yourself any langa. You

889
00:46:32,440 --> 00:46:34,679
cannot not dance when you hear this song. How can

890
00:46:34,719 --> 00:46:40,599
you not shake your maracas to this song? The funny

891
00:46:40,599 --> 00:46:42,480
thing is is that nobody thought this song would work

892
00:46:42,519 --> 00:46:45,679
because the American pop audiences would think this is too Latin,

893
00:46:45,760 --> 00:46:47,800
and the Latin audiences would think this was too American.

894
00:46:47,920 --> 00:46:51,000
I'll tell you what. I went to her restaurant in Orlando. Yeah,

895
00:46:51,039 --> 00:46:56,239
and they played conga about every five minutes, and guess what,

896
00:46:56,320 --> 00:46:59,559
I danced every single time. You shook your moroccas every time.

897
00:47:01,320 --> 00:47:03,480
This is a great song. I love it. They play

898
00:47:03,559 --> 00:47:05,679
this in the bar when Mav and Charlie are we

899
00:47:05,840 --> 00:47:08,840
just first getting to know each other. But really this

900
00:47:08,920 --> 00:47:10,280
is right before Gloria.

901
00:47:10,039 --> 00:47:12,360
Speaker 2: Estefan took off. They changed the name of the band

902
00:47:12,360 --> 00:47:15,960
to Gloria Estefan and the Miami's Aum Machine, and then

903
00:47:16,000 --> 00:47:17,519
finally just Gloria Estepon.

904
00:47:17,760 --> 00:47:20,920
Speaker 1: So the next summer she would have the song Rhythm

905
00:47:20,960 --> 00:47:23,559
is Gonna Get You, which was in the movie Steakout,

906
00:47:23,559 --> 00:47:25,320
which was one of my favorites from the Summer of

907
00:47:25,360 --> 00:47:27,880
eighty seven. Just a great song and a great movie.

908
00:47:28,119 --> 00:47:29,039
So anything else on.

909
00:47:29,000 --> 00:47:29,719
Speaker 2: This one, Nope?

910
00:47:30,320 --> 00:47:31,519
Speaker 1: All right, next song.

911
00:47:31,639 --> 00:47:34,559
Speaker 2: This is the second song on the side to Heaven

912
00:47:34,800 --> 00:47:42,639
in Your Eyes by lover Boy.

913
00:47:47,760 --> 00:47:50,440
Speaker 5: I can tell by the look in your eyes and

914
00:47:50,639 --> 00:47:51,679
you've been heard it.

915
00:47:52,519 --> 00:47:56,920
Speaker 1: Whoa, whoa. I love this song too, man, it's it

916
00:47:57,039 --> 00:47:58,960
is irresistible to me.

917
00:47:59,159 --> 00:48:01,400
Speaker 2: The lead singer for love Boy is Mike Rena. Right.

918
00:48:01,440 --> 00:48:04,719
We talked about him in our Footloose soundtrack episode. That's

919
00:48:04,800 --> 00:48:08,320
right because he did the duet with and Wilson and

920
00:48:08,320 --> 00:48:11,760
Wilson heart Yes in the song called Almost Paradise. Yes.

921
00:48:12,159 --> 00:48:14,719
Every time I hear Heaven in your eyes, like I

922
00:48:14,760 --> 00:48:18,039
start to sing the lyrics to almost Paradise because it's

923
00:48:18,079 --> 00:48:35,679
the same chord progression. The key is one step different,

924
00:48:35,719 --> 00:48:37,360
but it is the same chord progression.

925
00:48:37,400 --> 00:48:38,679
Speaker 1: But I don't care. I love them both.

926
00:48:38,760 --> 00:48:39,239
Speaker 2: They're great.

927
00:48:39,599 --> 00:48:41,320
Speaker 1: I love them both. I told you the other night,

928
00:48:41,599 --> 00:48:45,760
I said, this song is pure cheese, but it's irresistible

929
00:48:45,760 --> 00:48:47,679
to me, and I think it finishes really strong. I

930
00:48:47,760 --> 00:48:48,719
love the end of this song.

931
00:48:48,880 --> 00:48:49,280
Speaker 2: Yeah.

932
00:48:49,360 --> 00:48:52,280
Speaker 1: This peaked at number twelve in nineteen eighty six. See again,

933
00:48:52,559 --> 00:48:56,000
you got a video right, right. Even the song with

934
00:48:56,280 --> 00:48:59,599
an awful video right charted, it did chart.

935
00:48:59,679 --> 00:49:02,159
Speaker 2: I think we've found the secret to why Cheap Trick

936
00:49:02,239 --> 00:49:03,440
had not hit the charts.

937
00:49:03,559 --> 00:49:07,239
Speaker 1: MTV in nineteen eighty six was a force in pop culture.

938
00:49:07,400 --> 00:49:11,920
Speaker 2: But interestingly, keyboardist Doug Johnson not in the video because

939
00:49:12,000 --> 00:49:14,159
he felt like the movie glorified war and he didn't

940
00:49:14,199 --> 00:49:14,840
want to be part of that.

941
00:49:14,960 --> 00:49:17,519
Speaker 1: So this song came out on the tail end of

942
00:49:17,840 --> 00:49:20,599
the Love and Every Minute of It album Okay, produced

943
00:49:20,599 --> 00:49:22,840
by mister Robert John Butt Lang.

944
00:49:23,039 --> 00:49:24,039
Speaker 2: Oh, okay, very good.

945
00:49:24,119 --> 00:49:26,480
Speaker 1: Yeah, but that album had some big hits, and I

946
00:49:26,519 --> 00:49:29,320
thought Loved Boy getting ready to make their comeback didn't

947
00:49:29,360 --> 00:49:32,639
quite happen. No, Their next album, called Notorious, had songs

948
00:49:32,679 --> 00:49:35,679
written by John bon Jovi, Richie Sambora. Surely those are

949
00:49:35,719 --> 00:49:36,360
going to be hits.

950
00:49:36,320 --> 00:49:38,400
Speaker 2: Right, No, No, it didn't work, not so much.

951
00:49:38,480 --> 00:49:40,559
Speaker 1: No, Sadly, that was kind of the last we've heard

952
00:49:40,559 --> 00:49:43,920
of Love Boy, right. This song plays in the airport

953
00:49:44,119 --> 00:49:47,039
when Goose meets Carol. That's the song kind of playing

954
00:49:47,079 --> 00:49:48,440
over the speakers in the airport.

955
00:49:48,480 --> 00:49:50,599
Speaker 2: Okay, okay, so interesting.

956
00:49:50,280 --> 00:49:52,840
Speaker 1: There you go, anything else? Nope, all right, moving on.

957
00:49:52,960 --> 00:49:54,519
The next song on the album is called Through the

958
00:49:54,559 --> 00:50:10,400
Fire by Larry Green. I'm trying to stop the gushing.

959
00:50:10,519 --> 00:50:10,920
Speaker 2: You love this.

960
00:50:11,119 --> 00:50:11,920
Speaker 1: I love this song too.

961
00:50:12,119 --> 00:50:15,320
Speaker 2: This is actually a really good song. I don't remember

962
00:50:15,360 --> 00:50:17,960
it from the eighties at all, but listen to the soundtrack.

963
00:50:18,000 --> 00:50:19,800
I don't know why this song could not have been

964
00:50:19,840 --> 00:50:21,440
a single with a video. It could have been a

965
00:50:21,519 --> 00:50:24,199
hit totally. At this point, I couldn't tell you anything

966
00:50:24,199 --> 00:50:27,280
about Larry Green, so I looked hard for stuff on

967
00:50:27,360 --> 00:50:29,639
Larry Green. Tell me here's what I found out. Yeah,

968
00:50:29,679 --> 00:51:05,480
he was the lead singer for a group called Fortune Okay.

969
00:50:41,280 --> 00:50:41,360
Speaker 4: That.

970
00:50:50,000 --> 00:50:53,239
Speaker 1: Had a hit song off of the Last American Virgin

971
00:50:53,360 --> 00:50:56,280
soundtrack in nineteen eighty two. Okay, that's all I got.

972
00:50:56,360 --> 00:51:00,400
Speaker 2: Here's what I got. Okay, his last name is Green, Yes,

973
00:51:00,559 --> 00:51:08,039
and his first name is Larry. Not a made a

974
00:51:08,119 --> 00:51:10,880
really good song on a really great album that did

975
00:51:10,920 --> 00:51:12,559
not get the credit it was deserved.

976
00:51:12,840 --> 00:51:15,880
Speaker 1: This is like the Diet Cola version of danger Zone

977
00:51:15,880 --> 00:51:19,679
to me, right, Yeah, it's it's pumping' rock. It doesn't

978
00:51:19,800 --> 00:51:23,239
quite have the Kinney Loggins greatness, but it's in the

979
00:51:23,280 --> 00:51:26,440
same vein, right. It's maybe it was one of the

980
00:51:26,480 --> 00:51:27,679
second or third placers.

981
00:51:28,159 --> 00:51:30,719
Speaker 2: I'm just thinking they had the music and they're like, Okay,

982
00:51:30,719 --> 00:51:32,760
we need a singer, and they're like, we've used every

983
00:51:32,840 --> 00:51:37,320
singer we know. What about Larry Who's Larry Larry Green?

984
00:51:37,400 --> 00:51:41,159
My neighbor, exactly, sure, bring him over there you.

985
00:51:41,199 --> 00:51:45,480
Speaker 1: Go, Larry Green. I don't care. It's a good song.

986
00:51:45,880 --> 00:51:46,960
It's not a skipper.

987
00:51:47,039 --> 00:51:47,519
Speaker 2: I like it.

988
00:51:47,960 --> 00:51:50,599
Speaker 1: Now. This is the one song that I cannot find

989
00:51:51,039 --> 00:51:53,920
in the movie. Like, I don't think they play it anywhere.

990
00:51:53,559 --> 00:51:55,960
Speaker 2: In the movie. Okay. I wonder if Larry Green is

991
00:51:55,960 --> 00:51:58,079
still making money off of this thing, just I hope,

992
00:51:58,119 --> 00:52:03,039
So that'd be great. Landed a random song on a

993
00:52:03,199 --> 00:52:06,119
gigantic hit album and has been able to you know,

994
00:52:06,239 --> 00:52:11,400
retire to Malibu or whatever. Nothing in Maverick, unfortunately from

995
00:52:11,480 --> 00:52:14,039
Larry Green. All right, you're ready to move on to

996
00:52:14,400 --> 00:52:18,440
Destination Unknown? Yes, all right, here we go number four

997
00:52:18,639 --> 00:52:23,239
on side to Destination Unknown by Marietta.

998
00:52:25,400 --> 00:52:32,440
Speaker 5: Bussie and it's passing writing phone line and the best

999
00:52:32,880 --> 00:52:36,239
is the fastest. Don't know we've been in time to be.

1000
00:52:39,280 --> 00:52:39,599
Speaker 1: Okay.

1001
00:52:40,079 --> 00:52:43,960
Speaker 2: So Mariatta not a singer that I'm familiar with, right,

1002
00:52:44,119 --> 00:52:47,639
Apparently she had a song on the movie Perfect Yes,

1003
00:52:48,039 --> 00:52:51,400
by Design, by Design, speaking of you know, aerobics and

1004
00:52:51,599 --> 00:52:54,800
jazzer size clothes. I don't know if they're playing volleyball, but.

1005
00:52:54,960 --> 00:52:56,440
Speaker 1: You know, Jamie Lee Curtis hey.

1006
00:52:56,920 --> 00:52:59,639
Speaker 2: And then she also had the title song for a

1007
00:52:59,679 --> 00:53:02,960
movie called Fire and Ice. Yes from Europe, Yes, and

1008
00:53:03,039 --> 00:53:05,360
apparently charted pretty well over there, but it's not one

1009
00:53:05,440 --> 00:53:06,440
that I'm familiar with it all.

1010
00:53:20,280 --> 00:53:22,920
Speaker 1: She has another song from the sequel to Fire and Ice,

1011
00:53:23,760 --> 00:53:27,039
Fire and Icier. It's a fire, ice and dynamite.

1012
00:53:28,639 --> 00:53:33,280
Speaker 2: Okay, does dynamite beat ice dynamite? How does that work?

1013
00:53:33,360 --> 00:53:34,920
Speaker 1: Paper scissor rocks dynamite?

1014
00:53:35,039 --> 00:53:35,320
Speaker 2: Gotcha?

1015
00:53:35,719 --> 00:53:36,039
Speaker 1: I don't know.

1016
00:53:36,119 --> 00:53:36,840
Speaker 2: I like this song.

1017
00:53:37,039 --> 00:53:39,559
Speaker 1: It's a good pop song. She's got a great voice.

1018
00:53:39,800 --> 00:53:40,559
Speaker 2: I love this album.

1019
00:53:40,639 --> 00:53:41,559
Speaker 1: I'm blowing through it.

1020
00:53:41,800 --> 00:53:42,000
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1021
00:53:42,119 --> 00:53:44,360
Speaker 1: This is played during the graduation when they hand out

1022
00:53:44,400 --> 00:53:46,760
the infamous, non existent Top Gun trophy.

1023
00:53:46,920 --> 00:53:50,280
Speaker 2: Ah okay, now I remember, Yes, Okay, very good, Okay,

1024
00:53:50,519 --> 00:53:53,519
not a skipper. It's not bad. It's very eighties. It

1025
00:53:54,039 --> 00:53:57,000
kind of marries the style of Top Gun with the

1026
00:53:57,039 --> 00:53:59,280
style of Beverly Hill's cop but decent song.

1027
00:53:59,400 --> 00:54:03,039
Speaker 1: Yeah, is now a scene coach in California? Oh cool? Yeah?

1028
00:54:03,239 --> 00:54:05,960
Speaker 2: All right? Are we ready to move to the final

1029
00:54:06,639 --> 00:54:09,679
song on side to last song.

1030
00:54:09,800 --> 00:54:16,320
Speaker 1: On the album? Play the bell please, sir? This is

1031
00:54:16,360 --> 00:54:20,039
the top Gun theme by Harold Voldemarn.

1032
00:54:35,400 --> 00:54:38,559
Speaker 2: Dude is the hair standing up?

1033
00:54:38,679 --> 00:54:42,440
Speaker 1: They are heard every time I hear this song, the.

1034
00:54:42,840 --> 00:54:46,079
Speaker 2: Underlying music is such a great intro to the movie,

1035
00:54:46,199 --> 00:54:49,360
which they again they used in Top Gun Maverick as well.

1036
00:54:49,719 --> 00:54:52,079
It did that. It brought the hair standing up on

1037
00:54:52,159 --> 00:54:55,000
my arms because I'm like, oh, yeah, they're they're doing

1038
00:54:55,079 --> 00:54:57,599
this right. They are doing it right for the retro

1039
00:54:57,760 --> 00:54:58,800
fans for sure.

1040
00:54:59,000 --> 00:55:03,719
Speaker 1: Absolutely, when this song played in Maverick, my eyes got misty, chills,

1041
00:55:04,320 --> 00:55:06,440
hair standing up my arms. I'm like, this is what

1042
00:55:06,519 --> 00:55:08,159
I've been waiting thirty six years to see.

1043
00:55:09,039 --> 00:55:12,800
Speaker 2: Yeah. So you told the story about how Harold Faltemyer

1044
00:55:13,000 --> 00:55:15,159
was having dinner with Jerry Bruk Khimer and Don Simpson

1045
00:55:15,360 --> 00:55:17,559
and how they were like, well, we still need this

1046
00:55:17,679 --> 00:55:20,400
kind of antheonymy song, and Harold Faltemyer's like, yeah, I

1047
00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:22,119
think I kind of have an idea for that. I've

1048
00:55:22,119 --> 00:55:24,039
got the song. I think it's going to be perfect

1049
00:55:24,079 --> 00:55:26,079
for you guys. And Don Simpson's like, great, let's go

1050
00:55:26,199 --> 00:55:26,559
listen to.

1051
00:55:26,599 --> 00:55:28,159
Speaker 1: It, like put down your fork.

1052
00:55:28,480 --> 00:55:31,000
Speaker 2: He's like, I mean I can record it for you.

1053
00:55:31,079 --> 00:55:33,119
And he's like, nah, we're going to your house.

1054
00:55:33,039 --> 00:55:38,400
Speaker 1: Right, We're going to your studio. He's like midchew, going, oh, well, let's.

1055
00:55:38,320 --> 00:55:40,199
Speaker 2: You know what I don't want dessert. I'll see you

1056
00:55:40,280 --> 00:55:42,880
guys there. He said.

1057
00:55:42,960 --> 00:55:45,679
Speaker 1: It wasn't a lie, but it wasn't completely true either.

1058
00:55:46,119 --> 00:55:49,039
Speaker 2: Well, again, as I mentioned, he has perfect pitch. So

1059
00:55:49,480 --> 00:55:52,000
the idea that he could put a song together in

1060
00:55:52,199 --> 00:55:54,719
his head and have the ability to play it and

1061
00:55:54,800 --> 00:55:56,519
write it as soon as he arrives at the studio

1062
00:55:56,880 --> 00:55:59,639
is not unbelievable. Yeah, and he had I can think

1063
00:55:59,679 --> 00:56:01,840
he just had a buddy there that could play the guitar,

1064
00:56:01,960 --> 00:56:04,119
and so he's like, Okay, here's what I need you

1065
00:56:04,239 --> 00:56:07,000
to play, and I'll play my part. And Simpson and

1066
00:56:07,039 --> 00:56:09,000
Bruckheimer arrive and they're like, this is it.

1067
00:56:09,199 --> 00:56:11,800
Speaker 1: This is great, this is amazing. Tony Scott would play

1068
00:56:11,800 --> 00:56:13,559
it for Tom Cruise on the set of the movie,

1069
00:56:13,679 --> 00:56:14,800
just kind of get him in the tone.

1070
00:56:15,000 --> 00:56:19,079
Speaker 2: Yeah, we mentioned that Harold Faldemyer is a sound engineer,

1071
00:56:19,239 --> 00:56:21,559
you know, in addition to being a writer, right, and

1072
00:56:21,880 --> 00:56:24,840
so he was engineering for Billy Idol at the time

1073
00:56:24,880 --> 00:56:26,679
when we mentioned that Billy Idol was one of the

1074
00:56:26,719 --> 00:56:29,440
guys that the real top Gun pilots that's listened to

1075
00:56:29,880 --> 00:56:33,400
for motivation. Well, as it happens, he is engineering Billy

1076
00:56:33,519 --> 00:56:36,960
Idol's album Whiplash smile at the same time that he's

1077
00:56:37,000 --> 00:56:40,039
doing this stuff for Top Gun. And so he's there

1078
00:56:40,440 --> 00:56:43,199
and he's got this song that he's got to put down,

1079
00:56:43,320 --> 00:56:47,400
the anthem, and Billy Idol's guitarist is there, Steve Stevens.

1080
00:56:47,800 --> 00:56:50,400
He's like, hey, man, could you come over and record

1081
00:56:50,639 --> 00:56:52,400
a guitar part for me in the song that I've

1082
00:56:52,440 --> 00:56:54,519
got for this movie? And Steve Stevens like, sure, I'm

1083
00:56:54,559 --> 00:56:55,079
not doing anything.

1084
00:56:55,159 --> 00:56:56,360
Speaker 1: Yeah, really goes over there.

1085
00:56:56,360 --> 00:56:59,559
Speaker 2: It took him two hours. Yeah, two hours, he says.

1086
00:57:00,000 --> 00:57:02,360
Steve Stevens says. A few months later, Harold gives me

1087
00:57:02,440 --> 00:57:04,679
a call, Hey, we're up for the Grammy.

1088
00:57:04,880 --> 00:57:10,119
Speaker 1: Yes, what Yeah that song that we recorded? Oh cool, Yeah,

1089
00:57:10,639 --> 00:57:12,519
so listen to this. I got a great Grammy story

1090
00:57:12,559 --> 00:57:15,360
for you. So Steve Stevens is like, so I go

1091
00:57:15,440 --> 00:57:19,039
to the Grammys and when we win for Best Instrumental,

1092
00:57:19,480 --> 00:57:22,639
they hand you a Grammy Award. Congratulations. You go up

1093
00:57:22,679 --> 00:57:24,159
to the front. He's like, well, here's the deal. You

1094
00:57:24,199 --> 00:57:26,760
don't get to keep that one. It's just a dummy award, right,

1095
00:57:26,840 --> 00:57:27,639
They just kind of hand.

1096
00:57:27,519 --> 00:57:27,760
Speaker 3: It to you.

1097
00:57:27,880 --> 00:57:29,679
Speaker 1: You say thank you, you walk off stage, they take

1098
00:57:29,719 --> 00:57:32,320
it back from you. Then they mail you yours in

1099
00:57:32,440 --> 00:57:34,800
the mail, he says, when he opened it, it was like,

1100
00:57:34,880 --> 00:57:36,599
you gotta put it together with a screwdriver.

1101
00:57:37,760 --> 00:57:37,800
Speaker 3: What.

1102
00:57:38,719 --> 00:57:41,559
Speaker 1: Yeah, And so he went on MTV for something. He

1103
00:57:41,679 --> 00:57:44,440
brought his Grammy and he proceeded to put it together

1104
00:57:44,599 --> 00:57:47,639
while they're on air together, he said, the Grammy people

1105
00:57:47,679 --> 00:57:50,039
were not happy with that.

1106
00:57:50,360 --> 00:57:50,559
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1107
00:57:50,960 --> 00:57:52,639
Speaker 1: In fact, he's like, I'm going to get in trouble

1108
00:57:52,760 --> 00:57:53,920
again for telling this story.

1109
00:57:54,039 --> 00:57:56,039
Speaker 2: I saw that interview. I saw him telling a story.

1110
00:57:56,079 --> 00:57:58,599
And that's the first time I've ever heard him speak.

1111
00:57:58,760 --> 00:58:01,039
If anybody out there doesn't who we're talking about, think

1112
00:58:01,079 --> 00:58:04,440
about the Dirty Diana video, the guitarist with the jet

1113
00:58:04,559 --> 00:58:08,199
black ultra spikey hair, right, just looks bad to the bone, right,

1114
00:58:08,559 --> 00:58:11,599
any of the Billie Idol videos, same jet black hair,

1115
00:58:11,800 --> 00:58:15,840
screaming guitar, just down and angry the whole time. And

1116
00:58:15,960 --> 00:58:18,119
I listened to his interview and I'm like, he sounds

1117
00:58:18,159 --> 00:58:21,440
like Woody Allen. This is like the anthithesis of the

1118
00:58:21,519 --> 00:58:24,880
voice that I expected to come out of Steve Stevens's face.

1119
00:58:25,360 --> 00:58:28,119
He sounds like a little Jewish guy. I don't it's

1120
00:58:28,440 --> 00:58:29,239
I think you're right.

1121
00:58:29,360 --> 00:58:31,840
Speaker 1: I totally agree with you. He looks like Nicky six

1122
00:58:32,639 --> 00:58:35,280
and he talks like, what are you allen? Anyway?

1123
00:58:35,679 --> 00:58:38,519
Speaker 2: This song a maze balls. You need motivation for anything.

1124
00:58:38,559 --> 00:58:40,679
You're about to go out on the field. You're about

1125
00:58:40,719 --> 00:58:42,159
to go spike a volleyball.

1126
00:58:42,559 --> 00:58:45,039
Speaker 1: Yeah. So this is the last song on the Top

1127
00:58:45,079 --> 00:58:48,599
Gun soundtrack of nineteen eighty six. Yeah, we're gonna cover

1128
00:58:48,719 --> 00:58:51,119
two more bonus songs that were in the Top Gun

1129
00:58:51,239 --> 00:58:54,440
movie in eighty six yep plus two from Maverick. Okay,

1130
00:58:54,519 --> 00:58:56,679
so we're not done yet, not done yet this Top

1131
00:58:56,719 --> 00:58:57,719
Gun Soundtrack plus.

1132
00:58:58,159 --> 00:59:00,679
Speaker 2: So what you may have been surprised to find out

1133
00:59:00,719 --> 00:59:03,119
when you bought the album back in nineteen eighty six

1134
00:59:03,559 --> 00:59:05,360
or when you're listening to us right now because you

1135
00:59:05,480 --> 00:59:09,119
never had the album, is that some songs which feature

1136
00:59:09,320 --> 00:59:12,119
prominently in the movie were not on the soundtrack. Right.

1137
00:59:12,320 --> 00:59:15,360
One of those songs is I Think She's lost that

1138
00:59:15,400 --> 00:59:15,960
love and feeling.

1139
00:59:16,800 --> 00:59:19,079
Speaker 1: Yeah, I hate it what she does, Yes, she's lost it.

1140
00:59:25,719 --> 00:59:30,119
Speaker 5: There's no tenderness like rept enough.

1141
00:59:32,719 --> 00:59:36,000
Speaker 2: It is maybe the most iconic song as far as

1142
00:59:36,199 --> 00:59:38,920
interior music goes in the whole movie, and they didn't

1143
00:59:38,920 --> 00:59:39,679
have it on the album.

1144
00:59:39,880 --> 00:59:40,079
Speaker 1: Yeah.

1145
00:59:40,400 --> 00:59:43,440
Speaker 2: Came out on a re release later on, but here

1146
00:59:43,599 --> 01:00:03,760
is you've lost that love and feeling by the Righteous Brothers. Okay,

1147
01:00:03,840 --> 01:00:07,679
so how many times did you sing this to some

1148
01:00:08,000 --> 01:00:10,519
girl in nineteen eighty six or nineteen eighty seven.

1149
01:00:10,639 --> 01:00:12,199
Speaker 1: Dozens? Yeah, dozens.

1150
01:00:12,440 --> 01:00:15,239
Speaker 2: It was a routine thing in our music class, Like

1151
01:00:15,400 --> 01:00:17,039
we thought we can get away with this because it's

1152
01:00:17,119 --> 01:00:19,280
music class, and every day we pick a different girl

1153
01:00:19,599 --> 01:00:21,400
and every guy in the class would go sing a song.

1154
01:00:21,800 --> 01:00:24,360
Speaker 1: Yeah. It was a thing, right, Yeah, I know. I

1155
01:00:24,480 --> 01:00:26,440
picked up a girl for a date and had two

1156
01:00:26,480 --> 01:00:28,760
of my buddies come with me. Yeah, and we serenaded

1157
01:00:28,800 --> 01:00:30,320
her before we went on our date. Thank you to

1158
01:00:30,440 --> 01:00:32,880
my buddies who you know, Chris Alexander, one of our patreons,

1159
01:00:32,920 --> 01:00:33,719
actually was there for that.

1160
01:00:33,880 --> 01:00:36,039
Speaker 2: Yeah. We did a church camp, we did it at school,

1161
01:00:36,360 --> 01:00:39,760
we did it everywhere. Awesome. Yeah. Okay, So if you

1162
01:00:39,880 --> 01:00:42,800
want to know the Bill Medley history, go back and

1163
01:00:43,000 --> 01:00:46,079
check out our dirty Dancing track by track. I go

1164
01:00:46,199 --> 01:00:49,360
into a great amount of detail there. But part of

1165
01:00:49,440 --> 01:00:52,519
that was how the Righteous Brothers were almost done. They

1166
01:00:52,559 --> 01:00:55,559
were doing basically like one of their last shows before

1167
01:00:55,639 --> 01:00:58,880
they were going to move on to bigger and other things. Yep,

1168
01:00:59,039 --> 01:01:01,920
and a man who was putting on the show, saw

1169
01:01:02,000 --> 01:01:04,280
them and said, hey, I'd like to sign you guys

1170
01:01:04,320 --> 01:01:07,840
to my label. And that man's name was Phil Spector.

1171
01:01:08,000 --> 01:01:11,360
Speaker 1: Speaking of Dirty Dancing soundtrack, Phil Spector, we talked at

1172
01:01:11,440 --> 01:01:14,400
length about him. He's crazy, he's psychotic.

1173
01:01:14,639 --> 01:01:16,320
Speaker 2: It's an episode worth listening to.

1174
01:01:16,480 --> 01:01:17,280
Speaker 1: It really is.

1175
01:01:17,599 --> 01:01:19,559
Speaker 2: Sure, it's one of our best. I would say so

1176
01:01:20,119 --> 01:01:22,880
when he does put together the album with him. One

1177
01:01:22,960 --> 01:01:25,840
of the songs is You've Lost That Love and feeling Yeah.

1178
01:01:25,960 --> 01:01:29,800
Speaker 1: Did you know that this song was inspired by Baby

1179
01:01:29,880 --> 01:01:31,800
I Need Your Love and by the Four Tops? It

1180
01:01:31,920 --> 01:01:34,639
was inspired by two songs. Right. The song was written

1181
01:01:34,679 --> 01:01:38,000
by Phil Spector, Berry Man and Cynthia Wheel. Okay, Barry

1182
01:01:38,079 --> 01:01:40,199
Man wrote the medley first and then came up with

1183
01:01:40,280 --> 01:01:42,880
the opening line, You'd never close your eyes anymore when

1184
01:01:42,920 --> 01:01:45,880
I kiss your lips. That came from a line from

1185
01:01:45,920 --> 01:01:48,719
the song I Love How You Love Me, which was

1186
01:01:48,800 --> 01:01:52,400
co written by Man and produced by Specter, which says

1187
01:01:52,760 --> 01:01:56,199
I love how you close your eyes whenever you kiss me. H.

1188
01:01:57,079 --> 01:01:58,039
Speaker 2: How about that? Nice?

1189
01:01:58,199 --> 01:02:00,480
Speaker 1: So when they first heard this song, they said, guys,

1190
01:02:00,519 --> 01:02:02,519
this sounds like a great song for the Everly Brothers.

1191
01:02:02,599 --> 01:02:05,519
This is not in our range and they're like, no, no,

1192
01:02:05,719 --> 01:02:07,679
here's what we're gonna do. We're gonna slow it down,

1193
01:02:08,039 --> 01:02:10,400
we're gonna lower it and it'll be perfect for you.

1194
01:02:10,639 --> 01:02:13,400
As you mentioned, Phil Spector is the one who discovered

1195
01:02:13,400 --> 01:02:17,360
the Righteous Brothers. They were signed as his first white act.

1196
01:02:17,679 --> 01:02:20,920
Bobby Hatfield, who's the other guy in the Righteous Brothers. Yeah, So,

1197
01:02:21,039 --> 01:02:24,000
he reportedly was not happy with Phil Spector when he

1198
01:02:24,119 --> 01:02:26,519
learned that Bill Medley would start the first verse and

1199
01:02:26,639 --> 01:02:28,719
that he would have to wait until the chorus before

1200
01:02:28,719 --> 01:02:31,119
he could join in. Before this, they would sing equally

1201
01:02:31,199 --> 01:02:33,280
in the song, right, or they would sing together. And

1202
01:02:33,400 --> 01:02:35,559
so when he asked Phil Spector what am I supposed

1203
01:02:35,599 --> 01:02:38,239
to do during Medley's solo, phil Spector said, you can

1204
01:02:38,280 --> 01:02:42,440
go directly to the bank. So he's like, okay, I'll

1205
01:02:42,440 --> 01:02:43,440
just stand over here and shut up.

1206
01:02:43,480 --> 01:02:44,599
Speaker 2: Then, yeah, no kidding.

1207
01:02:44,840 --> 01:02:46,679
Speaker 1: So and he was right, biggest song of their career.

1208
01:02:46,880 --> 01:02:51,960
Speaker 2: Absolutely. At the time, Phil Spector was a powerhouse. How

1209
01:02:52,000 --> 01:02:54,559
do you how do you make any kind of complaint

1210
01:02:54,599 --> 01:02:57,079
about I'm gonna give you a record label, I'm gonna

1211
01:02:57,119 --> 01:03:00,239
give you a hit song, and oh you don't get

1212
01:03:00,239 --> 01:03:02,960
to start singing for a few minutes. Yeah, suck ADN

1213
01:03:02,960 --> 01:03:04,920
egg bro I know I'll.

1214
01:03:04,800 --> 01:03:09,679
Speaker 1: Murder you, steal your shoes and then murder you. Put

1215
01:03:09,719 --> 01:03:14,000
you in a glass coffin. The vocals on this song

1216
01:03:14,159 --> 01:03:17,639
took eight hours and two days to record. Wow, Phil

1217
01:03:17,679 --> 01:03:21,519
Spector perfectionist. Take after take after take after take. He

1218
01:03:21,719 --> 01:03:23,760
organized the wall of sound. You had the wrecking Crew

1219
01:03:23,800 --> 01:03:26,480
in the background. We talked at length about how Cher

1220
01:03:26,840 --> 01:03:29,599
got her start as a background singer. In this song.

1221
01:03:29,920 --> 01:03:32,079
She was standing there next to her boyfriend Sonny Bono.

1222
01:03:32,519 --> 01:03:35,000
Phil Spector said, Hey, I understand your girlfriend can sing.

1223
01:03:35,119 --> 01:03:36,880
He's like, wow, you know, you know sort of He's like,

1224
01:03:37,119 --> 01:03:38,679
I don't care. She just has to stand in the

1225
01:03:38,719 --> 01:03:40,800
background and make noise for the wall of sound. So

1226
01:03:41,000 --> 01:03:43,199
Cher was involved in the background. They knew they had

1227
01:03:43,360 --> 01:03:45,800
something going on, but they still had their doubts whether

1228
01:03:45,800 --> 01:03:47,760
it would be a hit or not because it was long.

1229
01:03:47,840 --> 01:03:49,719
It was four minutes long, which at the time was

1230
01:03:49,800 --> 01:03:54,159
extremely long, and it was slow. It's a slow paced song, okay. Also,

1231
01:03:54,360 --> 01:03:56,400
this is in the middle of the Bridge Invasion and

1232
01:03:56,480 --> 01:04:00,360
the Beatles are all the rage. This song hit number

1233
01:04:00,360 --> 01:04:03,239
one on the Hot one hundred February sixteenth, nineteen sixty five,

1234
01:04:03,679 --> 01:04:05,159
and number two on the arm Beach Art.

1235
01:04:05,280 --> 01:04:05,960
Speaker 2: It's a great song.

1236
01:04:06,079 --> 01:04:08,320
Speaker 1: It's a song of the ages man for sure. By

1237
01:04:08,360 --> 01:04:10,519
the way, Brian Wilson of the Beach.

1238
01:04:10,360 --> 01:04:14,159
Speaker 2: Boys, who he talked at length being massively influenced by

1239
01:04:14,400 --> 01:04:15,559
the Ronnetts.

1240
01:04:15,320 --> 01:04:18,079
Speaker 1: Be My Baby, Be My Baby, another Phil Spector song.

1241
01:04:18,159 --> 01:04:22,079
Speaker 2: Right, and him putting together pet sounds with the Wrecking Crew.

1242
01:04:22,440 --> 01:04:25,800
Speaker 1: Yes, Yeah, okay. Brian Wilson's response to this song when

1243
01:04:25,880 --> 01:04:28,760
he ran into Man and Wheel, the writers of this song,

1244
01:04:29,159 --> 01:04:32,039
he said, your song is the greatest record ever. I

1245
01:04:32,199 --> 01:04:34,079
was ready to quit the music business, but this has

1246
01:04:34,199 --> 01:04:37,119
inspired me to write again. And the song that he

1247
01:04:37,239 --> 01:04:42,440
wrote in response to this song is good Vibrations.

1248
01:04:45,599 --> 01:04:59,000
Speaker 2: Good enough. She's getting is my favorite Beach Boys song.

1249
01:04:59,400 --> 01:05:01,880
I see you a picture a little bit earlier this week.

1250
01:05:02,079 --> 01:05:05,360
I sent it to you and James Buckley and David Wright.

1251
01:05:05,519 --> 01:05:08,679
It was a picture of my radio readout which had

1252
01:05:08,840 --> 01:05:12,119
a hundred degree temperature. Yes, and we were listening to

1253
01:05:12,400 --> 01:05:15,440
Good Vibrations by the Beach Boys, and I said the

1254
01:05:15,599 --> 01:05:18,480
AC is not working, so we're pretending we're on the beach.

1255
01:05:19,280 --> 01:05:21,280
Speaker 1: Yes love good Vibations.

1256
01:05:21,400 --> 01:05:21,559
Speaker 2: Yeah.

1257
01:05:21,639 --> 01:05:25,320
Speaker 1: Phil Spector himself rated this song as the pinnacle of

1258
01:05:25,400 --> 01:05:27,400
his career. I could see that, and that's before he

1259
01:05:27,440 --> 01:05:28,840
blew that girl's head off and went to jail.

1260
01:05:28,920 --> 01:05:33,559
Speaker 2: That would maybe not be a Pinnacle most infamous. Yes,

1261
01:05:33,840 --> 01:05:34,920
not Pinnacle. Yes.

1262
01:05:35,639 --> 01:05:38,199
Speaker 1: By the way, you know you talked about how Maverick

1263
01:05:38,239 --> 01:05:40,960
serenades Charlie in the bar, and it's the big moment

1264
01:05:41,000 --> 01:05:44,760
in the movie. Do you remember on Cheers, Rebecca Howe,

1265
01:05:45,079 --> 01:05:48,159
her favorite song is You've Lost that love and feeling,

1266
01:05:48,760 --> 01:05:51,880
and her boyfriend Robert Colcord hires Bill Medley to go

1267
01:05:51,960 --> 01:05:53,960
to cheers and sing directly to her. Do you remember

1268
01:05:54,000 --> 01:05:54,440
this episode?

1269
01:05:54,480 --> 01:05:56,599
Speaker 2: I kind of do. Yes. I don't think I've seen

1270
01:05:56,639 --> 01:05:58,559
it since the eighties, but yeah, I think I kind

1271
01:05:58,599 --> 01:05:58,760
of do.

1272
01:05:59,039 --> 01:06:01,199
Speaker 1: So her rich boyfriend and hires Bill Medley to go

1273
01:06:01,280 --> 01:06:04,119
to cheers seeing You've Lost that loving feeling directly to her,

1274
01:06:04,239 --> 01:06:06,360
and the whole time he's singing to her, she's freaking out.

1275
01:06:06,519 --> 01:06:07,079
Speaker 2: Can I help you?

1276
01:06:07,800 --> 01:06:07,920
Speaker 3: Uh?

1277
01:06:08,000 --> 01:06:12,719
Speaker 2: Yeah, Rebecca Howe, Rebecca, this is from Robin cole Cord.

1278
01:06:13,960 --> 01:06:16,239
You never closure us.

1279
01:06:18,360 --> 01:06:28,960
Speaker 5: Oh my gosh, I know Robin wi but I never

1280
01:06:29,079 --> 01:06:29,880
know that he would.

1281
01:06:34,320 --> 01:06:37,719
Speaker 1: Excuse me, excuse me to knock it off.

1282
01:06:37,840 --> 01:06:39,480
Speaker 2: Somebody in the bar might want to hear.

1283
01:06:39,440 --> 01:06:45,960
Speaker 1: This basically tells her to shut up. It's great. Great song.

1284
01:06:46,079 --> 01:06:48,880
Speaker 2: Now. Then another song that was in the movie, not

1285
01:06:49,480 --> 01:06:52,599
on the soundtrack, song by mister Jerry Lee Lewis, the

1286
01:06:52,719 --> 01:06:54,239
Killer eight Balls.

1287
01:06:54,000 --> 01:06:59,800
Speaker 5: Of Fire, You jack My Love too Much, loved Man,

1288
01:07:01,320 --> 01:07:02,480
you brolled my wheel.

1289
01:07:05,119 --> 01:07:06,920
Speaker 3: Race Ball the Fire.

1290
01:07:07,960 --> 01:07:10,800
Speaker 2: I was very familiar with this song. Really, we had

1291
01:07:10,920 --> 01:07:13,360
all kinds of LPs when I was a kid. My

1292
01:07:13,519 --> 01:07:16,280
parents had lots of albums, and this one was on.

1293
01:07:16,920 --> 01:07:20,280
This one was on like a compilation with Little Richard

1294
01:07:20,400 --> 01:07:22,920
and a bunch of other big piano rock singers.

1295
01:07:23,079 --> 01:07:25,440
Speaker 1: That's interesting. I had never heard the song of my life.

1296
01:07:25,519 --> 01:07:27,719
Of course, gooseblaze it at the piano when he's at

1297
01:07:27,800 --> 01:07:29,760
the Case barbecue in San Diego.

1298
01:07:29,920 --> 01:07:31,960
Speaker 2: Yeah, we mentioned in our Top Gen episode that Tony

1299
01:07:32,000 --> 01:07:33,760
Scott had kind of been humming it in his head

1300
01:07:33,800 --> 01:07:35,880
as he drove to work that day. And he's like, Okay,

1301
01:07:35,920 --> 01:07:38,280
here's what we're gonna do without having done anything to

1302
01:07:38,360 --> 01:07:40,480
license the song from Jerry Lee Lewis or the company.

1303
01:07:40,639 --> 01:07:42,480
Speaker 1: And you said Anthony Edwards did not know he was

1304
01:07:42,480 --> 01:07:44,079
going to sing, and he can't play the piano.

1305
01:07:44,239 --> 01:07:44,599
Speaker 2: Correct.

1306
01:07:46,079 --> 01:07:49,719
Speaker 1: All right, Tony, I'm game acting this song hit number

1307
01:07:49,800 --> 01:07:52,000
two on the Hot one hundred, number one on the

1308
01:07:52,079 --> 01:07:54,800
country chart, and number three on the R and B chart.

1309
01:07:54,880 --> 01:07:56,079
Speaker 2: That's that's quite a mix.

1310
01:07:56,360 --> 01:07:59,039
Speaker 1: Name another song that hit that high on those three

1311
01:07:59,159 --> 01:08:02,159
charts the same time. No Rolling Stone calls us the

1312
01:08:02,280 --> 01:08:05,519
ninety sixth greatest song ever. I'm gonna tell you a

1313
01:08:05,519 --> 01:08:07,199
little bit about mister j. Lee Lewis.

1314
01:08:07,360 --> 01:08:09,920
Speaker 2: Okay, Yeah, we could do a whole episode on this.

1315
01:08:10,400 --> 01:08:12,039
They made a movie about it, Yes, they did, had

1316
01:08:12,119 --> 01:08:13,960
one owner, writer and mister Dennis Quaid in it.

1317
01:08:14,320 --> 01:08:17,239
Speaker 1: That movie is incomplete because there's way more craziness that

1318
01:08:17,319 --> 01:08:19,399
comes out after this. Tell me man, tell me so.

1319
01:08:19,640 --> 01:08:22,319
I just want to tell you. He was married seven times. Okay,

1320
01:08:22,720 --> 01:08:25,720
that's a lot. Two times. Bigamous Lee big amus.

1321
01:08:26,239 --> 01:08:28,479
Speaker 2: I was a big big of me, big of you.

1322
01:08:28,920 --> 01:08:31,640
It's big of both of us, big of us. So

1323
01:08:31,840 --> 01:08:35,039
he was married to a lady and married to another

1324
01:08:35,119 --> 01:08:35,800
lady at.

1325
01:08:35,760 --> 01:08:38,680
Speaker 1: The same time twice, Yes, during his life twice the

1326
01:08:38,760 --> 01:08:41,960
twice twice and twice he also married his thirteen year

1327
01:08:41,960 --> 01:08:43,279
old underage cousin.

1328
01:08:43,720 --> 01:08:45,680
Speaker 2: Yeah, that was one own a writer in the movie. Yes,

1329
01:08:45,960 --> 01:08:48,479
he was angry on the honeymoon night because he said

1330
01:08:48,520 --> 01:08:51,000
she didn't move like a virgin. I sure hope she

1331
01:08:51,119 --> 01:08:53,680
did since she was only thirteen. Oh my gosh, they

1332
01:08:53,720 --> 01:08:56,359
were married for thirteen years. Wow. This she made it

1333
01:08:57,039 --> 01:08:58,119
all the way to twenty six.

1334
01:08:58,520 --> 01:09:01,359
Speaker 1: That's exactly right. That was his third marriage.

1335
01:09:01,439 --> 01:09:04,000
Speaker 2: By the way, the brain is fully developed at twenty five.

1336
01:09:04,199 --> 01:09:04,760
Oh my gosh.

1337
01:09:05,000 --> 01:09:07,840
Speaker 1: Great Balls of Fire was released within a month of

1338
01:09:07,920 --> 01:09:11,520
when he married her, and his career went from the

1339
01:09:11,880 --> 01:09:15,560
peak pinnacle to the top like a rocket, to the

1340
01:09:15,720 --> 01:09:17,520
depths of despair.

1341
01:09:17,359 --> 01:09:18,520
Speaker 2: Just because he married his cousin.

1342
01:09:18,920 --> 01:09:20,199
Speaker 1: Just because he married his cousin.

1343
01:09:20,760 --> 01:09:23,359
Speaker 2: I told you. I can still remember seeing an MTV

1344
01:09:23,800 --> 01:09:27,600
interview where Kurt Loader is interviewing him and that subject

1345
01:09:27,720 --> 01:09:29,680
comes up and he's like, man, ain't you ever been

1346
01:09:29,680 --> 01:09:31,359
at the family or you want to Kisse your cousin,

1347
01:09:32,600 --> 01:09:36,600
And Kurt Lotdter's like, no, I have never ever wanted

1348
01:09:36,600 --> 01:09:37,479
to kis my cousin.

1349
01:09:37,600 --> 01:09:40,399
Speaker 1: His other cousin was Jimmy Swaggert, who you've probably seen

1350
01:09:40,520 --> 01:09:43,479
or heard of. He's an evangelist, TV evangelist, very popular

1351
01:09:43,520 --> 01:09:46,319
in the eighties, got in trouble behind closed Doors with

1352
01:09:46,399 --> 01:09:48,840
the Lady of the Night YEP. Now then Jerry Lee

1353
01:09:48,880 --> 01:09:52,760
Lewis is the top yes, that's right, he apologized he

1354
01:09:52,840 --> 01:09:55,239
was upset. Jimmy Swaggert and Jerry Lee Lewis used to

1355
01:09:55,479 --> 01:09:58,039
enter musical contest together and they would sing and play

1356
01:09:58,079 --> 01:10:01,159
the piano together. He said, they on every talent contest

1357
01:10:01,199 --> 01:10:01,840
they ever entered.

1358
01:10:01,960 --> 01:10:02,239
Speaker 2: Wow.

1359
01:10:02,960 --> 01:10:05,960
Speaker 1: Jerliu Lewis is the type of guy that bad things

1360
01:10:06,079 --> 01:10:10,000
just seem to happen around him, and sooner or later

1361
01:10:10,159 --> 01:10:14,199
you have to ask yourself, what's the common denominator here? Okay?

1362
01:10:14,359 --> 01:10:17,840
All right? Yeah, So he lost a three year old

1363
01:10:17,920 --> 01:10:21,399
son to a swimming pool accident. He lost a nineteen

1364
01:10:21,439 --> 01:10:24,439
year old son to a car crash. His fourth wife

1365
01:10:24,800 --> 01:10:28,600
was found accidentally drowned in a pool. Okay, his fifth wife,

1366
01:10:28,920 --> 01:10:32,760
Sean Stevens, she was found dead. He accidentally shot his

1367
01:10:32,880 --> 01:10:35,359
bass player one time with a gun. Well, you know,

1368
01:10:35,560 --> 01:10:35,920
as you do.

1369
01:10:36,079 --> 01:10:36,760
Speaker 2: He got in the way.

1370
01:10:37,680 --> 01:10:42,760
Speaker 1: Things just happened around him. Okay, But musical genius right

1371
01:10:42,960 --> 01:10:45,600
made it a great song? Yeah, incredible great balls of

1372
01:10:45,640 --> 01:10:46,039
fire yep.

1373
01:10:46,039 --> 01:10:46,279
Speaker 2: Okay.

1374
01:10:46,399 --> 01:10:48,039
Speaker 1: I think it's interesting that this song got a lot

1375
01:10:48,079 --> 01:10:50,920
of controversy when it was released because of the line

1376
01:10:51,239 --> 01:10:53,760
let me love you like a lover should that was

1377
01:10:53,840 --> 01:10:56,560
seen as extreme sexual innuendo.

1378
01:10:56,760 --> 01:10:57,039
Speaker 2: Wow.

1379
01:10:57,560 --> 01:11:01,439
Speaker 1: Eric Clapton and John Lennon bol credit Jerry Lee Lewis

1380
01:11:01,479 --> 01:11:03,199
as being one of their biggest implances.

1381
01:11:03,319 --> 01:11:06,560
Speaker 2: I can see it. He pounded out the rock hits. Yep,

1382
01:11:06,800 --> 01:11:07,039
he did.

1383
01:11:07,239 --> 01:11:09,640
Speaker 1: Dolly Parton did a version of Great Bells of Fire,

1384
01:11:09,760 --> 01:11:12,199
which was the title track of her nineteen seventy nine album,

1385
01:11:12,399 --> 01:11:16,199
and that cover was used in a Miami Vice episode

1386
01:11:16,239 --> 01:11:18,560
in nineteen eighty five. Okay, how about that.

1387
01:11:18,920 --> 01:11:20,399
Speaker 2: Wow, it's a deep cut, my friend.

1388
01:11:20,439 --> 01:11:22,439
Speaker 1: How about that? Okay, let's do a couple of songs

1389
01:11:22,439 --> 01:11:23,560
from Maverick, Maverick.

1390
01:11:23,840 --> 01:11:27,920
Speaker 2: We are moving from nineteen eighty six all the way

1391
01:11:28,119 --> 01:11:31,880
up to twenty twenty two. All right. First single off

1392
01:11:31,960 --> 01:11:35,920
of the album was a song by Lady Gaga. Yes, okay,

1393
01:11:36,000 --> 01:11:39,680
before we get started talking about this song, yeah, people

1394
01:11:39,840 --> 01:11:42,279
kind of notice that I make connections, right, yes see?

1395
01:11:42,279 --> 01:11:46,520
You ready for this? Yeah? Okay. So Lady Gaga is

1396
01:11:47,159 --> 01:11:49,560
in a movie. Seen in a few movies, but one

1397
01:11:49,600 --> 01:11:51,399
of the big movies is A Star Is.

1398
01:11:51,399 --> 01:11:52,960
Speaker 1: Born, right, right, Radley Cooper.

1399
01:11:53,119 --> 01:11:57,600
Speaker 2: Right. So, Kenny Loggins got his start in doing soundtracks

1400
01:11:57,800 --> 01:11:59,960
with the movie Caddyshack, which we talked about in our

1401
01:12:00,079 --> 01:12:03,279
Caddyshack Versus Happy Gilmour episode. Yes we did. And the

1402
01:12:03,399 --> 01:12:06,319
way that that happened was he met a guy named

1403
01:12:06,439 --> 01:12:09,439
John Peters who produced Caddy Shack. But at the time

1404
01:12:09,560 --> 01:12:13,079
they met, John Peters was dating Barbara Streisand right, and

1405
01:12:13,239 --> 01:12:16,479
barbar Streisand and John Peters had Kenny Loggins over to

1406
01:12:16,600 --> 01:12:21,279
help write some music for the movie A Star Is Born. Yes,

1407
01:12:22,039 --> 01:12:26,880
so barbar Streisand really was the catalyst to Kenny Loggins

1408
01:12:27,000 --> 01:12:30,680
being involved in soundtracks at the beginning while writing songs

1409
01:12:30,760 --> 01:12:33,039
for A Star is Born. Bring that full circle to

1410
01:12:34,119 --> 01:12:37,960
Lady Gaga. The remake of The Star Is Born now

1411
01:12:38,199 --> 01:12:42,039
has a song on the top gun Maverick soundtrack.

1412
01:12:42,279 --> 01:12:42,920
Speaker 1: How about that?

1413
01:12:43,199 --> 01:12:43,479
Speaker 2: There you go.

1414
01:12:43,680 --> 01:12:45,760
Speaker 1: Kenny Logins probably has the biggest song on the eighty

1415
01:12:45,800 --> 01:12:49,039
six soundtrack. Yeah, Lady Gaga clearly has the biggest song

1416
01:12:49,199 --> 01:12:50,439
on the Maverick soundtrack.

1417
01:12:50,720 --> 01:12:53,039
Speaker 2: Lady Gaga is not somebody. I have a lot of

1418
01:12:53,119 --> 01:12:56,239
songs of hers on my phone, but I've got a few.

1419
01:12:56,399 --> 01:12:59,760
She's I mean, she's a powerhouse and has been for

1420
01:13:00,199 --> 01:13:02,840
Killer Voice. Yeah, love the New York for more Yeah Yeah,

1421
01:13:03,000 --> 01:13:06,279
amazing and amazing songwriting abilities and the movie The Star

1422
01:13:06,439 --> 01:13:10,439
Is Born that she's in love it great music, great story.

1423
01:13:10,680 --> 01:13:12,319
If you haven't seen it, go check out that movie.

1424
01:13:12,319 --> 01:13:13,520
It definitely worth it. Wow.

1425
01:13:14,079 --> 01:13:16,880
Speaker 1: So the song we're gonna talk about with her this

1426
01:13:17,359 --> 01:13:21,039
is a song called hold My Hand, So Bad.

1427
01:13:22,600 --> 01:13:33,039
Speaker 5: So every last.

1428
01:13:45,800 --> 01:13:49,239
Speaker 1: Dude. This song is awesome. I love it, and it

1429
01:13:49,319 --> 01:13:51,840
became the score of the movie. Like it's the take

1430
01:13:51,920 --> 01:13:54,600
My Breath Away of Tapa Gun Maverick. It's the love

1431
01:13:54,640 --> 01:13:56,239
theme between Maverick and Penny.

1432
01:13:56,199 --> 01:13:57,319
Speaker 2: Right, Admiral's daughter.

1433
01:13:58,720 --> 01:14:02,359
Speaker 1: And one admirals. This song has been credited as being

1434
01:14:02,520 --> 01:14:06,239
arena rock and based on nineteen eighties power rock music.

1435
01:14:06,520 --> 01:14:08,800
Speaker 2: It is definitely a power ballad, no question about it.

1436
01:14:08,880 --> 01:14:11,640
Speaker 1: I love that she's been working on a song for years, Okay,

1437
01:14:11,800 --> 01:14:14,720
and in fact, she said that through COVID this has

1438
01:14:14,840 --> 01:14:17,239
become sort of a love song to everyone.

1439
01:14:17,359 --> 01:14:19,920
Speaker 2: I gotta say, though COVID precautions say that you should

1440
01:14:20,000 --> 01:14:20,800
not hold hands.

1441
01:14:23,600 --> 01:14:26,399
Speaker 1: You should not hold my hand, Lady Gaga said during

1442
01:14:26,479 --> 01:14:29,640
the COVID nineteen pandemic era. She described the song as

1443
01:14:29,680 --> 01:14:32,319
a love letter to the world during and after a

1444
01:14:32,479 --> 01:14:36,800
very hard time. All Right, get this. Tom Cruise has said,

1445
01:14:36,880 --> 01:14:38,960
listen to this quote. Lady Gaga came in with this song.

1446
01:14:39,199 --> 01:14:41,800
It became our score. It became the heartbeat of this film.

1447
01:14:41,920 --> 01:14:44,880
What she did emotionally. I was so concerned until I

1448
01:14:44,960 --> 01:14:47,319
heard that piece and I knew that that piece, what

1449
01:14:47,479 --> 01:14:50,159
it does, how it married our story emotionally. So that

1450
01:14:50,319 --> 01:14:51,920
was a moment. It was just a real moment for

1451
01:14:51,960 --> 01:14:54,760
all of us. It was the missing piece to Talking Maverick.

1452
01:14:54,840 --> 01:15:17,520
It's a great song. It's been compared to Journey's Open.

1453
01:15:17,479 --> 01:15:23,880
Speaker 2: Arms and Hearts Alone, sure iconic power power ballad. Okay,

1454
01:15:24,159 --> 01:15:26,239
So that was the first single released off the Top

1455
01:15:26,319 --> 01:15:30,439
Gun Maverick soundtrack. The second single released is by the

1456
01:15:30,520 --> 01:15:34,279
band One Republic and it is called I Ain't Worried.

1457
01:15:34,840 --> 01:15:35,560
I don't know what.

1458
01:15:35,680 --> 01:15:40,239
Speaker 5: You've been to Thomas on it out. No need to

1459
01:15:40,399 --> 01:15:44,880
take a song. I'll step into you two. I'll show

1460
01:15:44,960 --> 01:15:50,720
the scared any man, but I keep them.

1461
01:15:53,600 --> 01:16:07,560
Speaker 2: Rus swimming. Jean, Okay, I love this song. This is

1462
01:16:08,760 --> 01:16:10,760
this is one of my favorite Like, I can't stop

1463
01:16:10,840 --> 01:16:11,800
listening to this song right now.

1464
01:16:11,880 --> 01:16:14,000
Speaker 1: When you told me we're covering this one, I was like,

1465
01:16:14,399 --> 01:16:16,319
I don't really think I know this song, but as

1466
01:16:16,319 --> 01:16:17,640
soon as I played it, I'm like, oh, it's the

1467
01:16:17,760 --> 01:16:18,800
football beat song.

1468
01:16:18,920 --> 01:16:22,039
Speaker 2: Yeah, it's the fighter Pilot football song and they and

1469
01:16:22,119 --> 01:16:23,920
then in the video it's got a lot of footage

1470
01:16:23,960 --> 01:16:26,840
from that particular scene, lots of baby oil. Yes. So

1471
01:16:27,039 --> 01:16:29,239
I was like, and you know, we've got to talk

1472
01:16:29,239 --> 01:16:32,239
about him because One Republic Oklahoma. And You're like what,

1473
01:16:32,600 --> 01:16:35,520
I'm like, I'm pretty sure One Republic is from Oklahoma.

1474
01:16:35,680 --> 01:16:36,520
Speaker 1: This is a great story.

1475
01:16:36,640 --> 01:16:38,640
Speaker 2: And so I was like, I think I'm right, And

1476
01:16:38,720 --> 01:16:40,319
so I looked it up. I'm like, no, wait a minute,

1477
01:16:40,319 --> 01:16:43,199
they're from Colorado Springs and I'm like, oh, lead singer. Yes,

1478
01:16:43,319 --> 01:16:45,560
he's from Tulsa. And so I sent you his picture

1479
01:16:45,800 --> 01:16:48,840
and I was like, look, dude, he's from your hometown, Tulsa, Oklahoma.

1480
01:16:48,960 --> 01:16:49,640
Tell me what happened.

1481
01:16:49,680 --> 01:16:52,119
Speaker 1: Okay, So I grew up in Tulsa, Oklahoma. As soon

1482
01:16:52,119 --> 01:16:54,600
as we figured out that the lead singer One Republic

1483
01:16:54,720 --> 01:16:57,960
is from Tulsa, I looked at his page and figured

1484
01:16:58,039 --> 01:17:01,840
out he went to Gene High School, which is where

1485
01:17:02,199 --> 01:17:04,520
me and my entire family went to high school.

1486
01:17:04,640 --> 01:17:04,760
Speaker 4: Right.

1487
01:17:05,199 --> 01:17:08,079
Speaker 1: Right, So I text my sisters. So I'm class of

1488
01:17:08,199 --> 01:17:10,479
ninety one. I have a younger sister who's class of

1489
01:17:10,600 --> 01:17:13,640
ninety five, and a younger sister class of ninety nine.

1490
01:17:13,640 --> 01:17:15,880
Speaker 2: Right, now he's class of ninety he's seven.

1491
01:17:15,680 --> 01:17:18,479
Speaker 1: Class of ninety seven. So I text both of my sisters.

1492
01:17:18,880 --> 01:17:21,279
I send them a picture of this guy and I said,

1493
01:17:21,319 --> 01:17:24,960
do you know this guy? And my older sister she's like,

1494
01:17:25,439 --> 01:17:28,279
I have kids, who is this? I don't know who

1495
01:17:28,359 --> 01:17:30,600
this is? Right? Am I supposed to know who this is?

1496
01:17:31,199 --> 01:17:35,239
My younger sister goes, is this a truck question? And

1497
01:17:35,399 --> 01:17:38,680
I said, what do you mean? She said, why would

1498
01:17:38,680 --> 01:17:40,279
I know the lead singer of One Republic?

1499
01:17:41,199 --> 01:17:42,600
Speaker 2: She knows who he was.

1500
01:17:43,520 --> 01:17:45,880
Speaker 1: And I'm like, well, maybe it's because you walked the

1501
01:17:46,000 --> 01:17:50,079
hallways at high school together. And she was like what yeah,

1502
01:17:50,680 --> 01:17:52,800
So she had no idea.

1503
01:17:53,479 --> 01:17:55,760
Speaker 2: So the guy we're talking about is Ryan Tedder, right,

1504
01:17:55,880 --> 01:17:59,520
he is the lead singer for One Republic, And I'm

1505
01:17:59,520 --> 01:18:00,680
going to get I got to give it a little

1506
01:18:00,680 --> 01:18:02,239
bit of ustry because I thought it was it was

1507
01:18:02,319 --> 01:18:05,560
pretty good, Okay. So he went to Jinks High School

1508
01:18:05,600 --> 01:18:07,439
except for a senior year where he went off to

1509
01:18:07,840 --> 01:18:11,119
Colorado Springs and that's where he met one of his bandmates.

1510
01:18:11,159 --> 01:18:13,600
It was a ride back to Oklahoma. I believe that

1511
01:18:13,680 --> 01:18:15,439
they started talking about the music that they love and

1512
01:18:15,479 --> 01:18:17,359
they're like, we should put a band together, and that's

1513
01:18:17,399 --> 01:18:20,279
how one Republic is born. He comes back to Tulsa.

1514
01:18:20,359 --> 01:18:23,880
He goes to o AREU Oral Roberts University right in

1515
01:18:23,960 --> 01:18:28,439
tuls Oklahoma, and he graduates. He goes over to Nashville.

1516
01:18:28,560 --> 01:18:32,439
He's in Nashville for like two months, and he gets

1517
01:18:32,560 --> 01:18:36,039
picked by Lance Bass of n Sync to be in

1518
01:18:36,119 --> 01:18:38,960
this MTV contest and the prize for the kind of

1519
01:18:39,000 --> 01:18:42,399
this is kind of like a American Idol style of thing, right,

1520
01:18:42,600 --> 01:18:46,159
all these amateurs competing, and so the prize is you

1521
01:18:46,319 --> 01:18:49,680
get to get signed to Lance Bass's new record label.

1522
01:18:49,760 --> 01:18:52,079
Speaker 1: Right Yeah, And so he goes on.

1523
01:18:52,319 --> 01:18:54,840
Speaker 2: He competes, he's been for now, he's been in Nashville

1524
01:18:54,880 --> 01:18:59,279
for two months. He competes, and judges and fans alike

1525
01:18:59,479 --> 01:19:03,760
vote him number one. He wins the contest. He signs

1526
01:19:03,800 --> 01:19:06,439
paperwork to be a part of Lance Bass's new label.

1527
01:19:06,600 --> 01:19:09,079
And he said, and two weeks later, I was waiting

1528
01:19:09,119 --> 01:19:12,159
tables and picking chips up off the ground. He said,

1529
01:19:12,199 --> 01:19:14,399
it was all just a bunch of hype. There was

1530
01:19:14,600 --> 01:19:17,439
no real label. It was all just a bunch of

1531
01:19:17,640 --> 01:19:21,199
nonsense to try to promote a show and a label

1532
01:19:21,279 --> 01:19:24,399
that ultimately did not work out. So it's like my

1533
01:19:24,600 --> 01:19:27,279
dreams are realized. Oh here, let me yank the carpet

1534
01:19:27,359 --> 01:19:30,119
right out from underneath you. Wow. So a little while

1535
01:19:30,199 --> 01:19:33,279
later he leaves and goes out to La. The one

1536
01:19:33,359 --> 01:19:35,520
great thing that comes from this contest that he was

1537
01:19:35,600 --> 01:19:37,439
in that, I mean he was performing in front of

1538
01:19:37,479 --> 01:19:40,159
a million people is one of the guys that sees

1539
01:19:40,239 --> 01:19:43,439
him is Timbaland. He's a record producer. He's done a

1540
01:19:43,560 --> 01:19:47,199
lot of stuff, sure, and so Timberland since spends the

1541
01:19:47,319 --> 01:19:48,840
next year trying to find him.

1542
01:19:48,840 --> 01:19:49,680
Speaker 1: Well, he's in La.

1543
01:19:50,079 --> 01:19:52,399
Speaker 2: I mean, he's as poor as poor can be. He

1544
01:19:52,560 --> 01:19:56,880
sold his car to buy music equipment. He's selling songs

1545
01:19:56,880 --> 01:19:59,479
to people for like three hundred bucks or something, just

1546
01:19:59,560 --> 01:20:02,279
trying to some stuff out there. And so his daytime

1547
01:20:02,399 --> 01:20:05,960
he spends writing songs for other people. His nights he

1548
01:20:06,079 --> 01:20:09,680
spends with One Republic trying to develop them and what

1549
01:20:09,880 --> 01:20:13,520
they have this is so great. To early two thousands,

1550
01:20:14,079 --> 01:20:17,199
they have a MySpace account. Well, they end up being

1551
01:20:17,880 --> 01:20:24,119
the biggest unsigned MySpace band and because of that, Tembland

1552
01:20:24,199 --> 01:20:27,520
is able to find them. They ultimately get a record

1553
01:20:27,640 --> 01:20:31,640
deal because of their song Apologized. In two thousand and six,

1554
01:20:32,000 --> 01:20:37,239
they do their first album, Timbaland remixes Apologize and suddenly

1555
01:20:37,600 --> 01:20:40,199
they are big, bright, shining stars.

1556
01:20:41,560 --> 01:20:45,159
Speaker 1: That's great. Here's the deal. My music knowledge drops way off,

1557
01:20:45,560 --> 01:20:47,960
starting out about the year two thousand. Uh huh okay,

1558
01:20:48,359 --> 01:20:50,279
I make it pretty much through the nineties, and then

1559
01:20:50,319 --> 01:20:53,159
after that I bow out. I've got kids, you know,

1560
01:20:53,800 --> 01:20:56,680
So a song has to be monumentally huge for me

1561
01:20:56,800 --> 01:20:59,640
to be familiar with it. Yes, Pilgrivas by Lady Gaga

1562
01:21:00,000 --> 01:21:01,960
couldn't live in this world and not hear that song.

1563
01:21:02,039 --> 01:21:04,279
The song Counting Stars by One Republic is one of

1564
01:21:04,319 --> 01:21:04,760
those songs.

1565
01:21:04,840 --> 01:21:07,439
Speaker 2: Yeah, it was their next monumental hit. They had several

1566
01:21:07,520 --> 01:21:09,880
songs that did very well, but Counting Stars was their

1567
01:21:09,920 --> 01:21:12,680
next monumental hit. I've had Apologize in Counting Stars on

1568
01:21:12,840 --> 01:21:16,680
my playlist for since they came out. I love One Republic,

1569
01:21:16,800 --> 01:21:19,520
and so when I heard the song, I didn't recognize

1570
01:21:19,560 --> 01:21:23,880
them because the sound on I Ain't Worried is very

1571
01:21:23,960 --> 01:21:26,640
different than the sound that they have on Counting Stars

1572
01:21:26,840 --> 01:21:29,039
or Apologize. There's a way different sound, but I love it.

1573
01:21:29,159 --> 01:21:32,119
It's very indie rock, which is about the only stuff

1574
01:21:32,119 --> 01:21:34,000
that I like to listen to as far as modern

1575
01:21:34,039 --> 01:21:36,800
music is concerned. I heard it, I was thinking Joywave,

1576
01:21:37,399 --> 01:21:40,239
I'm thinking Guster, I'm thinking all of these bands. I'm like,

1577
01:21:40,319 --> 01:21:42,840
it sounds so familiar. And then I see this by

1578
01:21:42,920 --> 01:21:45,119
One Republic. I'm like, oh, dude, there you go. I

1579
01:21:45,319 --> 01:21:48,000
recognized the voice and they're doing a style of music

1580
01:21:48,159 --> 01:21:50,880
that I love, and I love this song.

1581
01:21:51,239 --> 01:21:56,800
Speaker 1: So Ryan Tetter, Mighty Jing's Trojan s Mighty Jing's Trojan

1582
01:21:56,880 --> 01:21:58,039
Ryan Tetter, keep going.

1583
01:21:57,960 --> 01:22:01,560
Speaker 2: Yes, yes, yes, of course that's his big claim. He's

1584
01:22:01,600 --> 01:22:05,800
won three Grammys. Three Grammys. But that's the thing that's

1585
01:22:05,960 --> 01:22:08,279
that's the famous is Jinks High School with Jason caulf

1586
01:22:08,359 --> 01:22:11,600
That's it. Get it right. So three grammys. As he

1587
01:22:11,720 --> 01:22:14,399
was a producer on Adele's twenty one and Dell's twenty

1588
01:22:14,479 --> 01:22:17,479
five and Taylor Swift's nineteen eighty nine, it's pretty good.

1589
01:22:17,560 --> 01:22:19,800
I think that One Republic needs to make an album

1590
01:22:19,880 --> 01:22:22,079
that has a number as a title because that seems

1591
01:22:22,079 --> 01:22:25,680
to be successful. But he is. He's made songs that

1592
01:22:26,000 --> 01:22:28,520
have become huge hits for other artists. He is a

1593
01:22:29,239 --> 01:22:32,640
incredibly prolific guy. But I'm really glad that he's got

1594
01:22:32,680 --> 01:22:34,880
a single on this new amazing movie.

1595
01:22:34,920 --> 01:22:35,520
Speaker 1: It's a great song.

1596
01:22:35,640 --> 01:22:36,960
Speaker 2: I love it's my favorite song.

1597
01:22:37,279 --> 01:22:39,199
Speaker 1: Let me throw this out there real quick. Yeah, Ryan,

1598
01:22:39,239 --> 01:22:41,000
if you're listening, the baseball field needs a.

1599
01:22:40,960 --> 01:22:41,520
Speaker 2: Little bit of work.

1600
01:22:44,439 --> 01:22:46,760
Speaker 1: This is a little tidbit on this, just a little

1601
01:22:46,800 --> 01:22:47,399
tipit right.

1602
01:22:48,560 --> 01:22:50,920
Speaker 2: So he he started playing music when he was three.

1603
01:22:51,159 --> 01:22:54,439
He's raised in like a Christian missionary household, right right,

1604
01:22:54,640 --> 01:22:58,479
and his parents would reward him with candy corn when

1605
01:22:58,520 --> 01:23:01,760
he practiced the piano. I think candy corn is the

1606
01:23:01,840 --> 01:23:04,520
worst candy imaginable. I was identifying with this guys on

1607
01:23:04,600 --> 01:23:06,239
so many levels, and then I was like, candy corn.

1608
01:23:06,359 --> 01:23:08,840
Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, I'm not practicing today, Mom and dad.

1609
01:23:09,000 --> 01:23:11,920
Speaker 2: My favorite line from this song time is running out,

1610
01:23:12,239 --> 01:23:14,840
So spend it like it's gold. I'm living like I'm

1611
01:23:14,920 --> 01:23:18,159
nine zeros, no regrets, even when I'm broke.

1612
01:23:18,279 --> 01:23:20,239
Speaker 4: I love it, love it, and the whistle look, I

1613
01:23:20,399 --> 01:23:22,560
love it, and the whistle is great. Yeah yeah, Okay,

1614
01:23:22,680 --> 01:23:26,640
So I said, we've got we've got the question. Now,

1615
01:23:26,800 --> 01:23:28,680
we've got the volleyball song, and we've got the fighter

1616
01:23:28,760 --> 01:23:29,760
Pilot football song.

1617
01:23:29,840 --> 01:23:31,199
Speaker 2: Yep, what do you think is the better song?

1618
01:23:31,800 --> 01:23:33,880
Speaker 1: Come on, I'm old school. I'm always gonna go with

1619
01:23:34,000 --> 01:23:36,600
old school. I'm playing with the boys every day of

1620
01:23:36,640 --> 01:23:40,000
the week. I guarantee you're taking Woman Republic obviously.

1621
01:23:40,199 --> 01:23:42,760
Speaker 2: I am spiking the football. I am spiking both of them.

1622
01:23:42,880 --> 01:23:49,760
Speaker 1: I'm spiking the volleyball. That was a good one, all right.

1623
01:23:49,880 --> 01:23:52,560
Before we weigh in final judgment on what we think

1624
01:23:52,680 --> 01:23:55,680
is the best song out of this grouping, let's hear

1625
01:23:55,720 --> 01:23:58,479
from our buddy Jeff Johnson of the Film By podcast.

1626
01:23:58,680 --> 01:24:00,840
He weighed in on what he think about the Top

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Gun soundtrack, and here's what he had to say.

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Speaker 3: Hello, Shirley fans, this is Jeff Johnson from a Film

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By podcast. Spittake and Pebbles have called me back to

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Miramar and I'm gonna offer a few words about the

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Top Gun soundtrack. Let's begin with Harold Faldemeyer's Top Gun anthem.

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It's motivating, stimulating, and evokes a feeling of courageousness. I

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like to think that if you could assign a sound

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to Victory, it would be it. And while it is

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the official theme for the movie, many would regard Kenny

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Loggins's Danger Zone as the unofficial theme and the go

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to song on the album. Through the years, its popularity

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has never waned, and given its inclusion in Top Gun Maverick.

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I have a feeling its rotation is safe on radio

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stations throughout America. Now, Maverick and Iceman may be the

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best of the best, but they still need backup from

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guys like Wolfman, Sundown and Merlin. And you find that

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same kind of support on this soundtrack. Artists like Larry

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Green and lover Boy keep you engaged. Tina Marie and

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Miami Sound Machine lead you straight to the dance floor,

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while Jerry Lee Lewis and the Righteous Brothers lead you

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back in time. And what about Mighty Wings, the adrenaline

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pumping rock song from Cheap Trick. I say give it

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the coveted Top Gun trophy because it is the best

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song on this album. Guys, this soundtrack has it all,

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thumping instrumentals, rock, pop, oldies, and let us not forget

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a best song, Oscar for Berlin's take My breadth Away,

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as beautiful as it is timeless. As for Top Gun, Maverick,

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I think having Hans Zimmer support Harold Faltemeyer is on

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par with Viper, offering to be Maverick's rio. The end

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result is spectacular. Lady Gaga's power ballad hold My Hand,

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with its message of reconciliation, loyalty, and love is everything

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we could have asked for in a song to help

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tell Matt story. As for I Ain't Worried by One Republic,

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I think it's definitely captured that fun summer vibe and

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would be a great addition to any playlist, whether you're

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lounging by the pool, having fun at the family barbecue,

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or maybe playing some dog fight football.

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Speaker 2: On the beach.

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Speaker 3: Speaking of barbecue, I see my orders not ready just yet,

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but the piano is now free, so I'm gonna go

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embarrass myself and give this place a rendition of Great

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Balls of Fire. And as for the Top Gun soundtrack, well,

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in nineteen eighty six, it was the cassette inside my

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Sony Walkman when I soared through the neighborhood on my Mongoose.

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In nineteen ninety six, it was the CD playing for

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my Pontiac Firebird, and nowadays I'm streaming it. I never

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get tired of it, and that is why it's the

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best soundtrack.

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Speaker 2: Of nineteen eighty six.

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Speaker 3: Guys, I'll see you next time.

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Speaker 2: Thanks. I love Jeff Johnson, just great man. He is

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freaking brilliant. I love the comparisons. I I don't agree

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with his choice of song, but I absolutely love it.

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And guys, if you have not checked out a film

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by podcast, you need to go check it out. They

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just came out with Maximum Overdrive, which I thought was

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absolutely hysterical. Listen to him talk about that movie. Definitely

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go check him out. Jeff, thank you for contributing.

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Speaker 1: Man, Jeff coming Strong with the Mighty Wings. I love

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that song, and you know what, I'm with you, bro,

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the'se not on board, but that's okay. Thanks for chiving in, Jeff.

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We appreciate you. Okay.

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Speaker 2: So that brings us to our question, what is your

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number one favorite song? Are we just saying original soundtrack?

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Speaker 1: Let's do original soundtrack, original soundtrack, all original soundtrack, and

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then of the.

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Speaker 2: Songs we'll pick amongst that. Yeah, okay, okay, all right,

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so you go, first, original soundtrack? What's your number one song?

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Speaker 1: The best song on the original soundtrack is the one

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that gives me chills and makes the hair stand up

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on my arm every time I freaking hear it. And

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it's the top gun anthem Steve Stevens blasting my balls

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off with that get every time I hear it. It

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makes me want to go join the navy. I mean,

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it's so good.

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Speaker 2: I love it.

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Speaker 1: I can't I don't know what to say every time

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I hear it. That bell whoo man.

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Speaker 2: It is powerful, No question is powerful. I can't fault

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you for that for me. I mean, I hate to

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be boring, but it's gotta be danger zone.

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Speaker 1: I mean, I can't fault you either.

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Speaker 2: I mean, that song blows the doors off, just like

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the anthem, but you got Kenny Loggins's rocking voice to

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go along with it. Yeah. Now, that song the best

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song on the album, hands down in my opinion, Okay,

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worse So honestly, I don't have a worst song on

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this album. None of these are skippers. This album is solid,

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even the ones by Larry Green and Marietta who I

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don't I mean, I don't know.

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Speaker 1: They're still good. That is the correct answer, sir. Yeah,

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you nail it. There is no bad song on this album.

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They're all great. They're all non skippers.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, no, wonder this is one of the best album

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selling albums of all time.

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Speaker 1: I'm spiking the football. This is the best soundtrack of

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nineteen eighty six, hand down.

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Speaker 2: Okay, now, yep for the extra songs. We threw out

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four extra songs. We've got the Righteous Brothers, We've got

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Jerry Lee Lewis, we've got One Republic, and we've got

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Lady Gaga.

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Speaker 1: It's hard, man, we're talking about all time classics.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, it is my turn. Well I was gonna say,

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we're talking about all time classics, and we're also talking

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about brand new top of the chart songs too.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, yeah, potentially new classics.

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Speaker 2: Yeah.

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Speaker 1: The best song of these four, man, As much as

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I want to say hold My Hand by Lady Gaga,

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which I just think is a fantastic song, I have

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to say, you've lost that love and feeling. It's a

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full on cranker. Every time I hear it, it makes

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me want to go serenade my wife.

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Speaker 2: Yeah you know, uh yeah, I mean of all time,

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probably that's gonna be the right answer. But right now,

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I ain't worried. Has got me captivated. I'm picking it

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01:29:52,079 --> 01:29:54,000
as the number one of the extra songs, and I

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realized it's probably the least popular of all of them,

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but I don't care. I love it. I love the style,

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I love the lyrics, I love the whistles, I love fun.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, absolutely man, I feel like every song we've listened

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to today has just been great. YEP, it's a lot

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of fun. So that's going to do it for the

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01:30:10,279 --> 01:30:13,079
top Gun soundtrack. Plus, let us know where you weigh in.

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What song is your favorite? What song of the new

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01:30:15,560 --> 01:30:17,560
songs do you like the best? Come at us, let's

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01:30:17,600 --> 01:30:20,039
hear from you. Yeah, and guys, don't forget. If you

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become a Patreon member, you will get access to some

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Speaker 2: We're going to have. We are covering some one hit

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one of the iconic one hit wonders of the last century.

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Speaker 1: We will see you next week when we dive into

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White Snake, the history of the band White Snake and

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01:30:53,399 --> 01:30:55,720
how they got to the Still of the night.

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Speaker 2: I don't know where I'm going, but I still know

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where I've been hanging on the promise the songs of yesterday.

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That's what we do here. I see you guys next week.