Diversity of Music Genres in the 80s part2

Today, we're diving into Part 2 of our exploration of the incredible diversity of genres that defined the music scene of the 1980s. This week, we’re grooving to dance-pop beats, reminiscing about backyard parties, and much more. Join us as we celebrate the vibrant dance-pop era that brought us unforgettable hits and dance moves that still get us on our feet today. 

We'll also take a nostalgic trip back to the days of backyard parties, where music was the life of the party, and friends gathered under the stars for unforgettable nights. Tune in for deep dives into the iconic tracks and artists that made the 80s an eclectic musical paradise. We'll cover everything from synth-driven anthems to the beats that made us move. Get ready to relive the magic and celebrate the diversity of 80s music in this lively, upbeat episode. 

Whether you're an 80s music aficionado or a new fan discovering these timeless tunes, you won't want to miss this! So, put on your dancing shoes, gather your friends, and let's take a trip back to the decade of diverse sounds and unforgettable memories. It's all happening right here on Back to the 80s!

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Episode Transcript

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Ladies and gentlemen, if I wereto tell you what I am visualizing,
No yet, I may better say, if you were to only know what
my eyes have seen today, youwould pay top dollar to get front row

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seats. I'm traumatized. Wait aminute, here, shirtless, here is
a man who is shredded in everyarea and vessel of his body. Congrats,
my friend. I'm very happy tosee that that you continue in this
in this way. That's that's verygood. I'm happy for you. Well,
you know what I made. Imade a goals at coming into my

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fifties and sixties. I will notbe like a lot of my homies.
I will not gain weight, thereforelose sight of my penis, my belt,
or my shoes. Therefore, Ikept the gut off. But I
still have no butt. No gut, no butt to something like you.
You have no humor anyway, Ihave no humor. I only have insults,
because you know when you're insults.I can tell you this, they

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are more fun. Yes they are. Now, are we reporting for the
show or is this just for ourown No? No, no, no
no no. This is going outlive to people. This is so people
can understand that this is how youand I interact. Ladies and Gentlemen.
As you're hearing here, this isback to the eighties with me is a
man who was seen back in theeighties moonwalking barefoot over glass and as he

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was walking, he was reciting thelyrics of we Didn't Start the Fire backwards.
We call him the Ninth Wonder ofthe World. The chang I am
roasting in Central California. I amas hot as the crack pipe Rick James

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used during the eighties. That's allhot. I am. Welcome to Back
to the Eighties. Today, we'regoing to be continuing our journey with part
two of the diversity of music genresin the eighties. I want to remind
you guys to please, please pleaseleave us a review and rate the show
wherever you listen to Back to theeighties radio. It's so important for us,

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it's important for the for the algorithm. So from the explosive energy of
punk rock to the smooth grooves ofR and B, the eighties, Ladies
and Gentlemen was a decade that celebratedmusical diversity like no other. So I
want you to crank up the volume, sit back, and let's journey through
the sounds that defined our generation.This is back to the eighties. We're
gonna be right back where we blame. Are you are? I just can't

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get I just sat all they should. I just can't get I just can't
get enough. Your mommy, Ijust say you walk together, walking down

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trees. I just can't get enough. I'll just gn know. We just
gang just enough. I just gaenough. I just can't get enough.

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I just can't get enough. Ijust can't get enough. I just can't
get enough. I just can't getenough. I just can't get enough.
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I just can't get enough. Ijust can't get I just gave and I
just can't get enough. I justcan't get enough. I just can't get

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enough. JO shout enough for me, and I just can't get enough.
And I just can't get enough.Just like Rainbow. You know you said
free, and I just can't getenough. And I just can't get enough.
You're like a you give me yourarm, and I just can't get

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fine all right, let you knowgirl looking your outside, Ah right,
just move, you'll say, andyou brie like the sun cone salmon and
you your say in the spy amongthe clowns in your head and got ship

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argy in a Let me do that. You can do the fine? Oh
right, I canna let you knocklook at do you can't say? Oh

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right? Just d J to playyour favorite tune and you know it's okay,
but you find is hap a namenow osol b it'school the shots stand

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stop us this school singing the shotssmall to leg go and see me give

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you said out there after wild getyou will not picking post old down down
by gold down Dome. People won'tget cold die Do people get cold?
Died? Old die All shots asa riding sign shops all right, We're

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going to groul tonight. The sharis parting line, famous nice guys show
just fallen good just shows. Theshirt is party by the famous rising guyschooling

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shows. It's going to good tonight. You just you just shows, sister.

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All right, all you traffic rackers, you're listening to back to the
eighties radio Top of the Morning,Pop and Top. Here's the jag sitting
in as your captain and our cocaptain are getting through another day. That
was something from nineteen eighty one.I just can't get enough with depeche Mode,
followed up with Mother Earth and EarthWind and fire. Let's groove tonight

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we are talking about the pop andslop music of the nineteen eighties. Where'd
you get your groove on or getyour groove off? Were you at a
backyard party? Were you pop lockingon the corner of a cruise avenue or
you at your favorite arcade, poppingsome quarters in the machines and the juke

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box, getting your groove to maneuverthat evening chang a Toscano right here,
Toscano, what do you got now? I guarantee these two were at your
mixtape. Correct, Hey who said? Hey? You know me? You
know me better than almost anybody.So yes, they were in my mixtape.

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And not only mixtape. I stillhave some mixtapes. Of course I
still make mixtapes, but I stillhave some of the original original cassettes from
these both cool and sad. Youknow what, here's the thing. I
have decided that as little as possiblethat I can hear streaming music. Now,

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obviously, yes I hear streaming music, and yes we do the whole.
I'm not one of those that's againstthe internet. I love the Internet.
It gives us the opportunity to dothe show. You know, It's
very convenient in many ways. Butthere's other ways that I refuse to continue
giving up my experience of music,and one of those is, if possible

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and when possible, I will listento music either on vinyl or on cassette
or CD in the car. MostlyI'll listen to CDs, and at home,
I'll listen to cassettes and vinyl.But yeah, I decided because I
said, you know what, whywhy am I just getting upset at the

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whole streaming thing? It is whatit is. It's not going away.
It's actually going to get a lotworse. I can just see I can
continue to grouchy old man exactly.I told Funny that. I told my
sons today, you know what,I am becoming Don Palmer. Don Don
We love you, but if you'relistening, I am becoming I am becoming

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Don Palmer. Here's what I toldmy kids today. I said, it
may not be nice, but itmakes me happy. So you know what,
And a lot of that hate comesfrom the hater. By the way,
Now wait a minute here, nowwait a minute. You cannot I've
learned from you. I've learned frommy yard. Well, actually I don't
have a yard anymore. Since Ileft southern California. I stand one in

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the Sierra Forest with Missus Chang andour Dogo Argentino, Jack's teller, awaiting
any sign of the attack of theSasquatch people. Anyway, tonight, boys
and girls, we are going tobe taking it all the way back.
Oh yeah, grab your can,oh a walk on that shot chop Boom

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boom, disco boys, roll upthe sleeves and let get down to some
dance and tonight. That's right,we are going to talk about pop dance,
backyard dance, a little bit ofhip hop, some lost music that
got translated into so many different formsR and B. We already had a

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sample from eighty one with earth windand fire, so let's keep the fire
going right now. I mentioned RickJames also from nineteen eighty one was super
freak. Now, Rick James wasthe master of funk, almost like George
Clinton funk adalic, but Rick Jameshad the look of a metal head that

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style of music. Man, dowe miss it? Nowadays? We don't
have any artists that can replicate anythinglike Rick James, Shaka Kahn hell Man.
We don't have anything close to thePointer Sisters or Salt and Pepa.
It's insane. As soon as acertain song played, whether it's on the

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radio or a backyard party with aDJ, or your craking it at your
pad, it was incredible that acertain song came on and boom, even
if you couldn't dance, you startedgetting the rhythm. It's incredible. But
artists, just like I mentioned,they brought the funk and the punk to
the party. How many times wereyou somewhere and somebody blasted some Rick James?

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You know, I can remember somany house parties that I went to
as a teenager, older teenager,and they would they would do the most.
The two most famous songs that inmy opinion, are from Rick James,
which are both from nineteen eighty one. One was of course super Freak
and the other one was given tome Baby from also from nineteen eighty one.

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And when you remember, man,when these two songs were played at
backyard parties, I mean, therewouldn't be a person sitting down, even
though even the guys that had nodates nobody danced to would have to dance
because as the music was just thatcatchy. And you just said something that
reminded me right now when you saidyou just haven't heard anything come out like

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this, which is true. Youknow, they asked Gene Simmons this same
question, you know about music.Check out what Jen Simmons said regarding music
today. I'll play a short gamewith you from nineteen fifty eight for twenty
five or thirty years after that,let's give it thirty years, nineteen fifty

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eight for thirty years, makes itnineteen eighty eight? Okay, from then
until nineteen eighty eight, Oh,name one hundred bands, even hundreds of
bands that have become iconic. Well, let's see Elvis, Presley, the
Beatles, Rolling Stones, you canon and on. This is long,
Motown, the Supremes, and inblues and country, in Western and it's

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just amazing. That includes by theway, you two and Madonna and Michael
Jackson and all that pop stuff fromnineteen eighty eight eight until today. Give
me ten or one iconic superstar that'sgoing to stand the test of time.
Nirvana because they recorded two records.Okay, so maybe I'll give you a
Nirvana. So that's one. Ican't think of another. How about that?

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And I was unprepared for this test, but nobody is because they'll go,
oh, one of the pop girls, they're terrific. I love Britney
Spears and Rihanna, They're all terrific, stand the test of time. I
say, no, iconic, nota chance on Power, Beatles, Elvis,
Motown, all that stuff. No, And that's because there used to
be a process, and structure iseverything. If there's a structure, it's

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logic, and then it's competition,just like mother nature. And who decides
who reaches the top the people ofthe people, for the people buy the
So when they were buying records,buying albums, the people voted with their
dollar. That's right, Is Iunderstand it? You're basically saying that not
just rock and row, but themusic business, and in many ways the

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entertainment business has been murdered. Isthat too strong a word. Oh,
it's been murdered, all right.Not by outside forces, foreign powers.
We killed rock and around. Youknow. The sad thing about that is
it's kind of antal redundant because we'renever going to have bands such as the
ones mentioned because they were the icons. They were the ones that laid the

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foundation. So we cannot repeat historyand go back in time. All we
can get, is all we canget now, is artists that are influenced
by the greatness that came before them, influenced by a vibe, maybe even
influenced by a certain notification that theyget from the way people are with certain

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music. Now, the sad thingis we do hear a lot of older
music tracks coming back into newer musicas backtracks to a lot of garbage pop
culture, bubblegum popcorn. I wantto say bull hit, but it doesn't
even matter what it is, butit's lost its value. People have lost

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their originality. You know, theday that you can get a hit from
somebody and use their background music asyour backtracks so you can mumble some gyrating
words. That's fake to me.You're not original, you don't have the
vibe. You're not a creator,You're not a motivator, you know what
I mean. You're not even anegotiator. You know what. On that

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note, let's take it right backout, seeing that we're talking about Rick
James from nineteen eighty one. She'sa super freak Rick James feelis right here
at Back to the eighties radio.She's a girl like you don't come to

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my ba. She will never letyour spirits Chet wants you get off the
streets. She let the boys inthe bend. She's said that I'm all
time, fig wrote when I makemynel to her room, it's the right
time. She's never hid. Pleaseout now that girl is pretty warm.

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Now the supper break like go rereada bow. Say that girl is pretty
kidd you a supper rank. Ireally love to chase her. She is
all right, she is all right. Yeah, she's a super frink,

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super Frank, she's supper Frika.Now everybody say, so the freaking so
thank she's a very special girl.But tomails me, you're so weak to
me? Backstage with her girl friendsand a love scene. The children is

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not a crowd about. She servesyou seven fourteen, I'll be waiting.
We're like goodness, she's got insancewater candles. It's such a freaky scene.
That girl is pretty giggy. Thesummer break to kind of girl you
breed about? Man, Say thatgirl is pretty wild. Now a supper

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break. I really like the chasteup time with me. She is all
right, she is all right.The rack with me, she was the

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sober think so the freaks, she'sso the freaking now to take some satan.
So she's a fairy kiggyir can't youwant to go to mother? And

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she will never let her spirits tellwatch it get off the street now,
Danny. Hey, this is LaurieMiller from the first and original Expose,

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and you're listening to back to theeighties radio chalk an chuck a con,
chuck a con, schock a con. Let me let me ch chacka con.
Let me get this all I wantto do chocka con. Let you
ratch chocka con. Let me feelfor you, chuck a con. What
you tell me what you wanna do? You feel for me? Let be
a feel for you chock a con, definite, Tell you what I wanna

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do. I want to love you. Want you want to you to Let
me take it in my arm.Cha chaka, because you know what I'm
not want they give you warm onchoka. I'm they give more interns of
physical gene. I want to rightshot bases that make you want to s
rock you shock con. Let meshuck con. Let me lock itself the

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wont Let you go you will butyour stunts and chock. Let me get

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you to chuck a car. Letme repeat the song. I want to
be chock a car. Let mechock a car. Let me feel for
you chock a con. Will youtell me what you want to do?
Appel for me the way, appealfor you chack. Let me tell you
what I'm gonna do. I wantto love you want to have, you
want is for you too? Canlet me take it in my arm for
you got the tar chucker because youknow the one that keep you want and
make it more than just a physicaldream. I wander about shock because you

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maybe you want to care. Feelfor you Back to the eighties radio super

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Freak from Rick James Chaka Khan.I feel for you is what is going
down here. I'm back to theeighties radio. You know chang Rick James
said when he was talking about funk, he said, funk is fun and
it's also a state of mind.But it's all the ramifications of that state
of mind. Once you've done thebest you can funk it. Rick James,

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in spite of all his musical success, we know what happened with his
battles later on in life and thenhis lifestyle the made headlines. But what
a great artist. And now,of course you just heard Shaka Khan,
the Queen of funk. By theway, did you know that her real
name was Yvette Marie Stevens. ShakaKhan is at ten times Grammy Award winning

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singer and she was known for,of course, her powerful voice, wide
vocal range, her hair and someof her key albums. Of course Rufusized
from nineteen seventy four, Asked Rufusnineteen seventy seven, and then of course
it went on into the eighties whereshe became absolutely huge with I Feel for

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You from the album's title track,as well for nineteen eighty four. By
the way, that song, here'sa little trivia for those of you who
didn't know that song I Feel forYou from Shaka Khan was written by Prince
and the cool thing is that itwas one of her biggest hits and it
included a rap by Grandmaster Melmel.What was so cool is when you heard

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these songs over the radio. Someof these songs were I mean, they
made you dance wherever you were,you know, like going back to the
Rick James one, either one ofthe songs, any one of the songs
from Rick James would always pump youup. They would get you excited.
But when you heard super Free comeout, you'd be in the car.
You'd be dancing. You'd be dancingin the car. I don't know about
you. Well, you know what, I really didn't like pop this kind

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of music on in my truck toomuch. I had a Chevy Love back
in the eighties. Oh yeah,Why am I not surprised? Well,
I had a Chevy Nova Supersport andI wrecked that on the sixty Freeway going
over one hundred miles an hour.Wow, I didn't know it could reach
over sixty Who me is a vehicleboth? Okay? Yeah, Now obviously

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you're mistaking my age now and theway I drive. To the story,
I just engaged you up when Iwould drive recklessly under the influence of ego
and stupido. You obviously know speed, fast cars, fast times. Okay,

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well that's good. Oh yeah,fast cars, fast life, fast
times at Ridgemont High. Now,when it came to house parties, chain,
did you now that I know thatyou really didn't. Oh, I
didn't listen to certain music of goals. But no way, But since you
played it, which I'm very happy, diad. But since you played it,

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let me give you. I'm goingto give you three artists on one's
a single artist, the other twoares. They are all made up of
females. Female artist They had TVappearances, They had a dance background.
I mean they were heard all overbackyard parties, including the big dance halls

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and dance places like Florentine Gardens,Florentine Gardens, what was it, doctor
mister Jay's in Hollywood, mister misterJay's, and all over New York,
et cetera, et cetera. Hereare well, we're going to No,
we're going to west coast, westcoast. But these artists were heard everywhere.

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So the first artist, who isa single artist that I mentioned,
is actually an Orange County, Californianative, and she was best known for
her dance pop hits in the eighties, particularly her song two of Hearts and
I'm talking about Stacey Q in heralbum her nineteen eighty six album Better Than

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Heaven. She also had an albuman eighty eight called hard Machine. Two
of Heart's, by the way,was a major hit in eighty six.
It reached number three on the BillboardTop one hundred, and it became number
three on the Billboard Hot one hundred. Yeah. And of course who was
a big factor in her getting reallyreally famous. Whoever's radio? Okay?

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Of course there it is there,it is the next day. Okay,
I want to bring in the yeahone exit the next two. There were
groups, one of them we haveinterviewed the original one of the original members

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of Expose nineteen eighty seven's album Exposurewith one of their best songs, point
of No Return, come go withMe and let Me Be the One.
Those were extremely, extremely famous.And then lastly, of course, uh
these were from back east New YorkCity, New York City, New York

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City, Get a rope, that'sright, New York City. And I'm
talking about the Cover Girls with theirfamous song from nineteen eighty six from their
album featuring hits like show Me Becauseof You and Inside Outside nineteen eighty six.

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Yep, So we've got Stacey QExpose the Cover Girls. Did you
ever hear those songs at a danceparty? Well, I'll tell you I
am familiar with Exposed a other thanthat. No, and uh hmm,
I did have to endure several backyardparties with such music as we discuss here,

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and you know, dance music becausea lot of my buddies, you
know, they went dance craze.So you need to tell me you don't
remember this song from the Cover Girls. Now I've heard the name cue U
that song, and I'll tell you, ladies and gentlemen, this is back
to the eighties radio. Here's thecover Girls, followed by some expose here
the one and only back to theeighties radio. We're sorry for what Chang

(37:15):
said. Thank you're thinking about it? Just say show me, show me,

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love me, show me, showme is the me EXAs, show
me show me? Didn't there upthat jo? Show me? Show me

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pyet Yellow say that say no,I am the only say that his stream
was well. We would have toldsuch from mons, but my mom the

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morning that I should deep from aboss this time said so loud, love
me show that and asking to youwon't take it the road away coupe and
tell me not of me to takey'all thinking of me sad? Show me,

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show me you rely, love me, show me, show me meet
about, show me show me thegame. Love me that is true,

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show me, show me me meget together, show me, show me
you, show me, show meto mezy, show me, show me

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to me, love me a cloud, show me show me man class the
moment I'm Captain Loggin signor Ronald Cruzyou're listening to back to the Apes sees

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not me. It's the mister readme. The well was yeah all day.
We can see why I find I'mnot rider. I will be a

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bory I want to take you inmind, take it so song, love

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me, and when you stop,you'll see I been y borya thank you?

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How be will you think? Ben? I will be? How me
will think? I'm no Back tothe eighties radio. We just took a

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trip down to memory lane with thecover girls show Me and Expose's Point of
No Return, two of the mosticonic tracks that dominated the dance floors,
ladies and gentlemen. These were onthe airwaves and the eighties, and they're
on the airwaves here. Back tothe eighties radio. Now we want to
hear from you, So I'm gonnaask you guys a question. What is
your most unforgettable eighties music memory.Was it a concert, school dance or

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was it just blasting your favorite mixtapein your room? What was it?
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have to yell. You don't understand, man. I inherited millions, so
I was out at the club everynight. I got used to talking like
this over the love music and tryingto talk to people in bars. So
you'll have to excuse my CITs.Hold on, hey, Harby, can

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I get another school Cadillac over herefor me and the ladies Cadwalts of Corona?
All right? Is there a songyou want to hear before we let
you go? Chad? I wantto hear something from Pushing It Real good.
That's my sham. You listen toback of the Heady Radio with top
semma, I got a shotglass?Who's ready to drink? Spush it?

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You know? Shut so hip himhere? Wait, wait my body people,

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in my day. Then at nightworking on a dozen n then we go
so number one and I by theshow number hussy good shot squashing. You

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say, real girl, mussy,good shop bush puss it reial girl made

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the baby by the by besh babybaby they made the bayish Yo yo,
yo, your baby pope, youcome here, give me your can.
Shouldn't make it bad so broke,I'm going to get thin. Don't you
hear the music pumping hard like Iwish you would now? Pussy mussy,

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push puss it real n show No. One spash shot suh sho shot one

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spash shot sh shot. You're listeningto back to me abriated being administered.

(50:00):
Herbert West is a medical student witha perfectly good head on his shoulders and
another one in a dish on hisdesk. What are you thinking? How
do you feel joy saying he's dead? Let any more? Agreed animation way

(50:22):
beyond the possibilla of any rate.Animal starts Friday at a theater near you.
Check newspapers for showtimes from Empire Pictures. Nice snack, We've gone a

(50:59):
maid happen and I will put allof the things sad he did this time
and show me something. You're goingfor a pleasures inn. I want to
love you, feel you, putmyself and you. I want to squeeze

(51:23):
you, please you. I justthink in enough pennant you real. So
I'm so sad and I just can'thide. I'm about to lose control and
I think I suck it. I'msuicide. It just came hide and I

(51:50):
don't I don't know, I don'tknow. I want to. He shouldn't
even think bad model, see youmobies will last long, long time.
You have the down, bad don'tto work and movie still playing round.

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But that's just sad. Let's setit side. That's pay hard, no
no no, I'm about to boostthe table and I think I like this.
I'm so sad and just take hard. I know I want to.

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I want to be myself. We'regoing to I want to squeeze you please.

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You know what just king did itdo? Real? Slow it so
I did it. I just can'thide and I'm about to loose to and
I think I like so it's sadand it just can't hide. You don't

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know, no, snoop, Idon't, I don't stop. I don't.
I don't want your wont here heresid. If it's popular, we

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do it totally awesome. Man.Now back to the eighties with Tuscano and
Chang. Welcome back, boys andgirls. Back to the eighties Radio Chang.
Here from Tuscano and Chang, andwe were pushing it real good from
nineteen eighty six. Salt and Pepper. Baby followed up with something from eighty
two with the Only Sisters of Coolness. The Port assisted with I'm so excited,

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Oh Baby. We were talking aboutthe popa rock and music that set
your so a fire, put yourfeet in a frenzy, and made you
get up and groove with baby allnight long, wherever you were at backyard
parties, whether you were partying ata club, wherever you were at getting
your groove firing on. There's aCat from nineteen eighty seven, Rick Astley.

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When I first heard this cat,I thought Homeboy was black, and
then I I've seen him, Iwas like, this cat looked like carrot
Top before steroids and long haired.Yep, he was so different. I
mean the guy. By the way, the guy's real name is Richard Paul
Astley and he is from Lancashire,England. The nineteen eighty seven hit is

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his most famous hit, never GonnaGive You Up. You know what's funny
is it became a global phenomenon backthen, but then from after the eighties
then it was more like a forgottenthing. Right for the newer generations,
it was more of a forgotten song. And then a few years ago people

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started hearing it online on videos wherethey would play a joke on somebody.
They would tell him it was somethingserious or something that they needed to watch,
and all of a sudden they hadRick Astley with never Gonna Give You
Up come out instead of whatever informationthey were going to hear, and it
was called You've been rick Rolled.So that rick roll song came out and

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now even the young gen zers knowthe song and Rick Astley once again became
a global phenomena thanks to somebody whodecided to call it a rick roll.
Wow, So people are getting askedout on some ass lee incredible the way
that he made that turn. Anothergroup that I thought these cats were brothers

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is Frankie Goes to Hollywood with Relax. Those cats could lay down some soul
and some musical tracks. I mean, it was incredible during the eighties,
how so much music was so diversethat it sounded a certain way, and
you were kind of shocked to seethat the artists didn't fit the voice of

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the vibe that you were getting,you know what I mean, It's insane
that we didn't keep that kind oftempo in that kind of mindset nowadays.
You know when nineteen eighty four rolledin and we heard that song on the
radio for the very first time.I mean, the song was released in
eighty three in the UK Singles chart. It was top of the charts for

(58:04):
five weeks. But then later onwhen they came here to the US in
eighty four, it was an instantsuccess. Even though there were two other
songs like Two Tribes in the Powerof Love from Frankie Goes to Hollywood,
but Relax. You can hear Relaxedtoday and it was huge. As a
matter of fact, they put Relaxon one of the most famous video games,

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which is called call of duty.Kids today they're embracing eighties music.
You know what, Yes, Ithink today we do see a lot of
the eighties music being brought back out, and I think that's because eighties generation
were parents, you know, ourkids kind of listened to what we listened
to and vice versa. You know, like my kids are pretty hip on

(58:52):
eighties music. Puts in again.My kids were all born in the later
eighties, so their nineties kids.But you know, like my grandchildren,
their hip to some of the eightiesmusic tacing. A lot of it is
laying, but their hip to it. I have friends that are rock and
rollers there. Their kids are,you know, sons and daughters are playing

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in rock and roll bands, listeningto rock and roll, going to rock
and roll gigs with him, carryingon the attire of rock and roll.
I got friends that are you know, mean dance craze cats from the eighties.
Their kids same kind of vibe,you know, they you know,
as a matter of fact, Igot friends that went to go check out
Madonna, you know, with theirkids. So I think we, the

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parents that came from that era,have turned our kids onto that. But
not only that. Look at someof the shows on TV that play eighties
music commercials. Some of the TVshows, young kids are singing older music,
putting their own version to it,putting their own spies to it.
So it's like that, it kindof falls back to the statement I made

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earlier. Of course, we're nevergoing to see his Stones and other Beetles,
another Hendrix, you know, anotherMetaka, another Priest, never because
they started it. Yeah, youknow, they're the ones that made that.
They created it, so we can'trepeat itself. But yet, if
we sprinkle and feed the seeds ofrock and roll of the past, or

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any music of the past, intothe little plants and growth which are the
future generation, anything can happen.Red hot Chili Peppers, I mean,
dude, those cats are straight outeighties cats like you and me. Shoot,
I saw Michael o'ketis at a gigin East LA back in the early

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eighties. Look at their music transpireto generate. Well, let's talk about
even somebody who's so who's in thelimelight today, who's a younger cat,
and he's been influenced by them all, and the guy's music sounds like funk
of the seventies and eighties. We'retalking Bruno Mars. There's a guy whose
music is Yeah, the music isincredible. He's got the he has got

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the heart of music, and he'sgot music from the past written all over
his music, which is why it'sso so good. And you know,
we need more of those people.You know. Somebody asked me what last
week, saying why can't we haveeighties style music today? Like new music

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but done with that same vibe.And I started thinking about it, and
I go, yeah, you're right. And you got bands. You got
bands that are producing sort of likehow they did. Bands like they just
came out with a new album,mister Big. You know, they still
have that eighty sound and they're producing, you know, new music. What

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in twenty nineteen, White Snake cameout with their last album as they retired.
So it can be done. Soon that note, Chang, let's
take everybody out with some really reallycool music with Frankie Ghost to Hollywood.

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You want to do? You wantto you want to belise, not to

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like when you wants to belay whenyou are gone direct So Regnan your ten

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Stead the man Lesbiell me what relax, don't do? What relax? When

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do you wanna come, come,relax, don't do res wants to,

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don't do? Why don't do?When you want to? Sup to do't
look? Where do you want tocome? Where do you want to come?
When you want come come? Don'tlet bring water to les? Don't

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you last? Don't time sound?If I can change, and you can

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change, everybody can change. Themale, the mass smaller maid. You
mother was a bus, I wouldbe into me and the head I was

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sad as you made me me.You yu, your man, you make
shiny a bird touched the very firsttime, like a bird with your father

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next to Mine'm gonna give your ownlove by my dearest mad blast. I
can't say it. I'll follow youup to night. Your spine and your

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mind. You make me stop.Now you make me fall. Yes,
you what scarce and the day that'sall severy birs time. Yet the bird

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your heart next to your mind.You're yo fine and mine I'll be yours

(01:08:04):
till the end of time. Youmade me read yet your feel I'm not.
It's gonna jim, Hey, that'sprobaby, good time like a bird

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got next to mine. Leave agood jim oh, be so and you
holl meet and happy and you,Oh, welcome back to back to the

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eighties radio popin top to you getyour groove shoes going on? Oh,
that was a little bit of FrankieGoes to Hollywood. Also Madonna, oh
like a virgin touch for the veryfirst time. How many times in the
eighties did we see a lot ofwater Madonna's everywhere? From older gals,

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college to high schoolers, even upto little girls. They were dressing like
Madonna. Who had no idea whatMadonna was really all about, but her
performances were groundbreaking. If he setthe standard, and she is still the
queen of pop until today. It'sincredible, you know that so many artists,

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especially Madonna, who is an icon. I mean, you know her
style, she set the pace,she could act, she was gorgeous.
She has a history that she wouldhave to give into the cheapness that so
many older entertainers take a path withclassic surgery, dating young people trying to

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reinvent themselves with the younger pace.It's sad that she has to do that,
you know, I mean, hellman, she's dating a dude as
old as her kid. What's upwith that? If I did that,
my kids would beat me and buryme. Well, yeah, no,
it's different for a guy, trustme, you can't do that and be
seen as cool. But Madonna,the fact that she's trying to still fit

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in. She could still fit inbeing Madonna, but she's trying to be
Madonna, the young Madonna for todaywhen she's not the young Madonna. She
is just Madonna, and she shouldhave just stayed there. You know.
She always provoked, she always inspired, and she always entertained. She should

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just feel content with that. Butyou know what, it's the nature of
the beast. It's the nature ofthat business. And unfortunately for many,
many women, not all of them, but the look, the mortality issue
comes in and she doesn't want toget old, etc. But come on,
come on, when you start lookinglike you were just stung by super

(01:11:40):
wasps in your face by the entirecolony, something's going on. Exactly how
many actors and actresses or artists havegone under the knife. They look like
they got in a fight with awasp nest. Everybody is getting older.
Nobody wants to get older, youknow, the hands of time. I'm
nobody's gonna get away with like notlooking like they used to. Hell,

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we live through that every day.So you know, the thing is like
you gotta say you reinvent yourself.Yeah, this is what we're talking about.
A woman. I mean, oneof her famous quotes was quote,
I'm not a woman. She said, I'm a force of nature. Madonna
has sold over three hundred million records, not just one song. My friends,

(01:12:27):
the entire record people actually went andbought her record three over three hundred
millions. So she is a fixturein the global music industry. And I
don't I don't get why Madonna wouldgo the past. She's chosen, but
you know what, it's Madonna.What are you gonna do? Wanna be

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Madonna? Anyway? On that note, this show, there's so many artists
bro that we could take here,there and everywhere. A lot of the
tunes were playing, you know.But yet the essence of a backyard party
in the eighties was the DJ scratching, mixing, corporating one tune into another

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tune. Do I enjoy live instrumentsover that? Oh? Hell yeah?
But yet I recognize appreciate that kindof crap too. What do you do?
Yeah? And you know what,And it wasn't just mixing and scratching.
It was also music. For example, let me give you a catchy
melody. It's an iconic music videoand the song has been played to death

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today by groups like AHA, whichis take on Me, Soft Cell,
Tainted Love, and the list goeson and on. But these are songs
that even if you hear today ata party, it's gonna it's gonna put
people to dance. Also, wehave the Thompson Twins. Thompson tunes were
great fifty two B fifty two.I deserve my comments. But madness,

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yes, love madness. With ourhouse, we had Prince time, remember
the time you just mentioned one withPrince But the other one recognizes the King
of pop himself, Michael Jackson.No eighties party is complete without the King
of Pop and his music. Everysingle song that you will hear at a

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backyard party that when they play anysong, any song from Michael Jackson will
make you move. Yeah, Iagree with you, but he's been doing
that since the Jackson five. Wellyeah, but I'm saying that even today,
even the new generations know who MichaelJackson is in his music. What
would you say if I threw intothe sequence the Gap Band. I love

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the Gap Band, and yes theyare a backyard dance party group. How
can you forget the Village People also, even though more towards the seventies,
but look the Village People with theirYMCA. Anytime you threw that into an
eighties party anywhere you were, Imean anywhere, even if you were in

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the stadium today, you can hearthe Village People's YMCA. It's gonna make
you dance. Now, what aboutnow? I think you mentioned this at
first at the start of the show. What about Wham? You know what,
man? I think George Michael wasa rising star that was a stepping
stone, kind of like in Syncwas to some of those cats. So

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when I think of Wham, Ionly think of George Michael, incredible talent.
Yeah, but you can't forget AndrewRidgeley. You know, you say
Wham, I say George Michael.So you don't think I don't even know
the other guy's name. Well,regardless of that guy, Andrew Ridgeley.
Okay, And what did you saythat they were a back party band as

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well? I mean the music.They were a kind of small party video
type fun uh band like Duran Duran, Oh my gosh, here we go.
There it is. There is Duran, Duran and Whim. We're not
small party. No, sorry,how they were big time. You see,

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you should have been alloy before yougo around my herds so you could
penalize me and throw me on thehate screen. I mean, we're all
by this point, we're all usedto it. But go ahead. Next,
you're going to say that David Bowiewould let's dance tune? Do you
see? Yeah? Continue, ofcourse you won't see it. I don't

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want to. Oh, okay,all right, maybe with your best shot,
there go a great, great artist. Now what I mean by that
is so many dance bands categorized somany different types of fashion. Each band
brought attention to. When we havea musical artist that has a certain look,

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style, listener based vibe that theycreate, then it's different than someone
else. So you cannot ever saywho is better or which genre was better.
Well, no, you can't saythat. But you know now you
mentioned fashion and all that, andyou mentioned you had taught. We talked
about Madonna, and just like Madonna, there was another young lady who,

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yes you did hear her music inbackyard parties, sometimes mostly on the radio,
but a lot of girls copied herlook, as well. And I'm
talking about girls just want to havefun with Cyndi Lauper because it was an
anthem. It was an anthem toall girls. We're going to take you
out with a couple of pop dopsright here, something from nineteen eighty three

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from the Queen of Lean and ColoredHair. Girls just want to have fun
just like you rut here, justback to the eighties, ready with God.
Okay, don't you go anywhere sendingoperas in the money when you leave

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your time on that they win thebat and oh god, waa, my

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molly, what you gonna do withyou now? Oh? Don thing?
You know you're still but don't stayother money that they wanna look funny time

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speaking sometimes day I'm beautiful stup bandaround summer than the super' They wanna fulish
mother. Let's yes Sunhowanna fuck towanna funny tag. It's fun that the

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that let you it's too that Tonnamy Spring when Spring said springs Sam t

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V, I want my t V. I want my m t V.
I want my m t V.Gable Company, I said, I want
my MTV dot into my heart.You see, I'm a fill sky high

(01:22:04):
and love instarts in my bank,go to bang bang ban'ma be too the
same something back something in. Myfirst friend told to last time that miss
Simon the mother I was trying aboutshot and he him, stand, wake

(01:22:25):
me up, fine go go leaveme pay you live to jog you wig
me here the fine go go dowhat missic hit that? Wig me here
the fine go coo sound not planning? Go so no, wig me here,
the fine google take you dance tonight. I'm going to hit that.

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Yeah, yeah, the great sizeout of my way here you make
it sound sound prouder than Donasty turnedthe bright spark into a flag. Yeah,
beats burning and everything not sing.So I'm not I'm your foot.
It makes me crazy on us,sir, come, I'm way. That's

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not time. Will you dance everythingright? Wig me up? Th I
go goo believe me pay l jwig me here before go go. Don't
want to miss you hit that?Ha wig me up? I thought,
I go go because I'm not fanand I'm going so wig me yere bef

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I go go take them to nightabout well enough the move in time.

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We'll go dance tomorrow night. It'scaught up there, but it's one there
they can dance. We'll say homeand start. Wake me up if I

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go come, leave it chin onthat yojo Wake me yaf I do come.
I don't want miss when to hitthat had Wake up if I go
come because I'm not playing and I'mgoing so no, wake me up by
go go bray, take me danceto night. Wake me up before I

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go. Come back to the eightiesradio. You just heard Wham Wake me

(01:25:28):
up before you go go. CindyLapper with their timeless anthem girls just want
to have fun. These tracks arethe perfect soundtrack to our journey. Our
journey back to those eighties times,the arcade times, the backyard party times,
the going to the movies times,the carefree spirit of the eighties times,
the times when we felt free.We didn't feel the type of stress

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that we do today. Our eyesweren't glued to a screen, our ears
were glued to the airwaves. Sowe're going to dive even deeper into more
iconic kits in today's show, andwe might even take this into a part
three with just skipping the following weekas we continue to share the unforgettable memories

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from the golden era of pop music. A quick reminder to everybody a very
special show next week because we're goingto have a special guest. It's a
guest that is producing a future,very near future show on Netflix regarding the
nineteen eighties, a documentary style film. So you guys got to keep your

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eyes and ears peeled for that.But the following week is going to be
a great show as we talk aboutthe unforgettable memories of the nineteen eighties in
film and what they did to usas a generation. We're talking about the
dance craze and how could we getaway with out mentioning the female artists that

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gyrated and made us feel a littlebit loose, Artists like Tina Turner,
whoa ike and Tina She survived.Ike Turner heroin, smacking woman, smacking
egotistical mean as Totna Gun gangster,and she became greatness. The eighties was

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the climb out of the pit.Tina Turner came her own. How could
we forget Whitney Houston, Lord haveMercy, an angel out of church,
singing carrying a note higher sad demise, Bobby Brown Rotten, son of a
Bitch, a voice that is stillunmatched today Whitney Houston. How could we

(01:27:45):
forget the ever so gorgeous Miss Americaformerly married to the laker great Rick Fox.
You know interesting information here. Intwo thousand and three, I was
working at the Four Seasons Hotel inLas Vegas, and I got to spend

(01:28:05):
some time there with mister Laker himself, and he said, if you see
my wife, can you send herup to my room? Right I was
working in the security office, andso yes, Miss Williams got to where
I was and we talked for awhile, and mister Fox himself I got

(01:28:28):
to speak to really cool, reallycool time talking. Vanessa Williams had her
hit song Dream in nineteen eighty eight. It was one of her early hits
and it helped establish her as arecording artist. So a lot of people
don't know that Vanessa Williams not onlywas a great singer, but she was
a great actress. In ninety six, she starred in the action thriller with

(01:28:49):
Schwarzenegger in a film called Eraser,Remember Eraser, And it was a big
success and she did really, reallygood. So Vanessa Willilliams, catch her
online. You won't regret it.We just cannot forget the likes of Bet
Midler. Okay, we not talkeighties without talking about Bet Midler. You

(01:29:14):
know that dynamic? True, yeah, rock and roll, so come on
actress as well. No, no, I agree, I agree, But
in Broadway jazz and you know allthat the Wind Beneath My Wings in eighty
eight she came out in Beaches andall that stuff. But holy smokes,

(01:29:34):
there's something about Bet Midler that Icould never stand. I don't know what
it is, but I can't reallypinpoint. I don't know. I don't
know. It's something about her thatI couldn't stand. Yeah, I dig
Miler, Bet Midler. Oh well, what are you gonna say? Okay,
Penny Milkers, I didn't. Howabout nineteen eighty four one hit Wonder

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Denise Williams. I love the song, Yeah, let's hear it for the
boy. Oh I already was goingto say, I bet that's a song
you love. Let's hear it forthe boys, probably just like you like
It's Rainio. That's what No.I did not like that. I didn't
like that song, but I didlike. Going back to Bet Hitler,
I did like the eighty eight songwind Beneath My Wings sort of. I

(01:30:20):
just thought it was a little tooboring. But Denise william let's hear for
the boy. Yeaheah, I liketo say that. Do you know what
I find intriguing that you would evenlike that? Well, it's just one
song. It's not like I startedlistening to everything. I said, Yeah,
okay, well one song can saymany things. Let's move on.

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So we're talking about popping rock.Yeah, how about just Bust the Move
by Young MC? Oh, youcan forget about Young MC. That's when
names were putting in front of namesin nineteen eighty nine, mister just bust
to Move, Young MC? Whathappened to Old MC? It's one of

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my favorite hip hop songs. Itwas number seven on the Billboard Hot one
hundred in the US and number twoin the Billboard Hot Rap Songs chart,
So it was a great, greatsong. The beat was incredible. If
you had a car back then,with a powered amplifier and great speakers,

(01:31:27):
you were busting a move and shakingand rattling people's windows. No tuscano,
this night is growing weary. I'mtired, my feet are tired. I
don't even dance, and I've beendancing to all the stuff we've been playing
you are, you've walked quite abit. I think we should be and
dance our audience a good night,all right, last call for alcohol,

(01:31:50):
last dance of the evening. Wisheverybody out there prosperous tomorrow, get up
and giving your best, share theshow with a smile on that face.
Don't let nothing get you down,I say, out of your study.
But ecgia la vista say nada.Why those nutches order that to all the

(01:32:10):
homies. And remember when it comesdown to that time, all you players,
just bust a move, all right, ladies, gentlemen, keep that
retro spirit alive. Stay tuned frommore back of the eighties next week with
special guest. Don't forget to tunein every single week, from the infectious
beats of Wham to the soulfiul melodiesof Whitney, Houston and more. We'll

(01:32:30):
be here waiting for you. Thissee has a chample. All the fellers
try to do what those ladies tellus, get shot down because they're over.
Zellmer's play hards again. Females tojealous, Okay, smarty go to
a party, tells a stantily cloudas on body which it walks by.
You wish the con section up,but just in another wall like you was

(01:32:51):
pointing back stuff. Next day's function, high class lunch, and the food
is served in your store hold muncheonuse it comes on. People start to
dish, but then you ate somuch new split your pants. A girl
starts walking, God starts walking,sits down next to you and starts talking
and says she want to dance becausehe likes the grooves to come on fast,
soul, and just bust the move, Just bust the move. You're

(01:33:25):
on a mission and you're wishing someonecould cure your lonely condition, looking for
loving all the wrong places. Nofine girls, just ugly faces from frustration.
First information is to become a monkand leave the situation. But every
dartunnau has a light of hope,so don't hang yourself with a celebrate rope.
You a movie showing, so you'regoing could care. Let's set about
the five dog blowing against doctors tostart the show. Then it's about a

(01:33:47):
fine woman sitting in your row,and she's dressed in the yellow. She
says, hello, come sit nextto me, your fine fellow. You
run over there without a second tolose and what comes next. Hey,
bust the move, Just brust themove. In the city, ladies look

(01:34:15):
pretty. Guys tell jokes so theycan seem witty. Telephonny joke just it
gets a plane. Then they tryto make a move and she says,
no way. Girls are baking goodnesssacan. They're going to a man who
wins home the bacon. Got nomoney and they've got no cards, and
you've got no woman. And thereyou are. Some girls are statistic.
Mattery. You're listening looking for aman makes them I about to mistic the
line of the beast proper trinking hertins to that up by the way,

(01:34:38):
the money can beat that man.So on the beach, you're stolen,
real house rolling. Everything you're haveis yours and I stolen. A girl
runs up with something to prove.So don't just stand there. Bust the
move, Just bust the move.Bring it down for me. Fellas,

(01:35:35):
your best friend Harry has her brotherLarry in five minutes from now, he's
gonna marry. He's open. Youcan make it there if you can,
because then the sum I'm owner,You'll be's the best man. You say
you don't check your lobido and wroteto the church and your new tuxedough.
The bride walks down to to startthe wedding, and there's one more cal
You walk together and see you startthinking. Then you start thinking, my
bride made looks and thinks that you'rewinking, thinks you're kind of cute,

(01:35:58):
so she wings back. And nowyou're feeling the firm because the girl is
stacked the conceptions, jumping bases,pumping, look at the girl in your
hospital. Stumping says you want todance to a different group. Now you
don't want to do bust the moveyou you want? What's the move you

(01:36:21):
do? You want bo