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