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