August 13, 2025 • 57 mins
Get ready to dance across borders! In this episode, we crank up the volume on 1980s hits that broke language barriers and blended English with other tongues. From chart toppers that sprinkled in Spanish to German one hit wonders we have a little bit for everyone.
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Speaker 1 (00:17):
Welcome back to Children of the Eighties. I am Lindsay
and with me today is my husbands slash co host Jim,
who when I ask him how he's doing, his answer
is always maso menos.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yeah, always so menos. That's what I always say. I
am bilingual up in this house.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
How you doing well? You know, I'm a no no no.
How you doing being? Being e two? Well?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
If you had asked me in Spanish, I may have
answered in Spanish.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
You know, can you tell me where the library is?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Don't they love biblioteca and what's going on over there?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
You know your aunt and uncle who lives here in
Atlanta with us, they're always good for some sage parenting
advice because they, between them they've raised five kids. Yes,
they used to laugh and say, oh, you think parenting
a small child is hard? Just wait?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yes, they would laugh, uh.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Huh, almost like a like an evil like almost almost
like they were gargamel. Yes, And I'm like at the time,
I'm like, there's nothing harder than trying to parent a
five year old who doesn't want to go to bed right,
who doesn't want to brush their teeth? What do you know?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Speaking of foreign languages, I say to you, o contraire.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Whoo boy, this parenting a preteen.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
She's got attitude.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Lord, we could use some prayers from y'all.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
She's never had antilitude before. She now all of a sudden,
just flipped a switch and she has attitude.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
But it's also you know, yes, we get a lot
of attitude, but it's also it's just it's hard. There
are some hard things going on.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah, oh yeah, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Her little heart breaks and I'm like, we write it down.
I'm that big bird meme. We ride it down.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
So she has uh lived her life like the first
half of a round of a Rocky boxing match, right,
where she's just throwing punches left and right, yeah, and
not getting hit at all, yeah, and just boom boom
boom boom boom. Right. So when Rocky fought mister t
(02:44):
clubber Lang in the first Rocky he comes out, I
mean in the third Rocky, but the first fight he
comes out and he's just like this the first Rocky
I ever saw, Right, And I'm watching Rocky just club
this trash talking guy, and I'm like, yeah, Rocky's got him,
and Rocky's just on them, right, And then all of
a sudden about a minute ten into the round, it
(03:06):
just changes and mister T starts throwing punches back. And
that's what's happened in a little emmy right now. She's
realizing that life throws kidney punches, boy.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
And it has thrown her some and breaks my heart.
And listen, I'm ready to go bev Goldberg. Anybody at
any moment, let me get my shoes.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Nope, nope, And I'm gonna murry you and stop you
from from doing that.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Boy, it is hard. My attitude is you make my
baby cry, I'm gonna make you cry.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Well yeah, I mean we all want to go smack somebody,
but that's not the way to handle in the certainly not.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
The way to teach, because it seems like the perfect
way to handle it. No, no, no, no, anyways, So
just wanted to share that because I have a feeling
there's a few people out there that can relate.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Oh yeah, no, I mean you know what.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Though at our age, our contemporaries they're probably through this phase.
Oh yeah, they're the parents in the middle school. Yeah,
we we waited until we did.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I'm going to a while to get the hang of
how to do that.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I'm going to show up to her high school graduation
looking like Reese Witherspoon's.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Boyfriend mister Burns from The Simpsons. Yes, lit, I had
something I wanted to talk to you about.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
I found this a couple of weeks ago. So it
may be old news now, but here with me, it's
old news. I'm old news.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Is it another death?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Not?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
A death? Might be the death of a career, So
I haven't thought show we keep going down this room?
Probably is. Have you heard that the Steve Miller Band
decided to cancel the rest of their twenty twenty five
tour recently?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I have not heard that.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
You've not heard anything about that.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
I've never heard anything.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
So felt a little out of the blue to me.
But let me give you the reason why. This is
the announcement via their website. You make music with your instinct,
You live by your instincts. Always trust your instincts. The
Steve Miller Bands canceled all of our upcoming tour dates.
(05:10):
The combination of extreme heat, unpredictable flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes, and
massive forest fires make these risks for you, our audience,
the band, and the crew unacceptable. So you can blame
it on the weather the tour is canceled.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
They sound like it sounds to me more like it's
not the fans they're worried about. It's the fact that
they're one hundred and thirty and they don't want to
travel through this weather.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
So they ended up canceling a total of thirty one shows.
Here's what I think. I don't know that number thirty
one significant. We'll get back to it in a second.
Before My guess is tickets weren't selling like they had
hoped for.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
No, And here's why, because thirty one. As you mentioned,
it was thirty one years ago go that I went
and saw Steve Miller band on their twenty fifth anniversary.
So now you're talking, this would be their fifty sixth anniversary,
which is older than you or I, And yeah, they're old.
(06:15):
And the last time we saw them, which was what
ten years ago something like that, Uh, maybe even longer,
maybe eleven or twelve years ago, he was forgetting his lyrics? Then?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Was he the one that kept referring to himself in
the third person?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yes, he refers to himself as the space Cowboy. He's
the Ricky Henderson of classic rock musicians.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Didn't he come out on.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Stage and said hello, I'm the Space Cowboy.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
And didn't he hang a little sign on his microphone
stand that said something about Space Cowboy and it hung
there through his set.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I don't remember that. Your eyes are probably better than mine.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I was so taken aback by the third person reference there.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yeah, he didn't do that in nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Do you think he walks? Do you think he putters
around his house doing that? The Space Cowboy is gonna
eat egg salad for lunch.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
The Space Cowboy says that time keeps on slipping, slipping,
slipping into the future.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
I mean, listen, there's no doubt we've had some bad
weather in this country. But I don't know that it
makes sense to cancel a tour.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
No, it doesn't. It doesn't necessitate canceling a tour. I
would say that you know age, and you know possibly,
like you said, low ticket sales, because let's be honest,
like half of his fans from back in they are
probably dead anyway. And you know they're old.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
So he's old, they're old. We're all old.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Yeah, well but they're older.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
At twenty fifth anniversary, I was twenty years old. Twenty
fifth anniversary. I was twenty years old. Let's just go
back that, right, twenty fifth anniversary. That was a long
time ago.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
That was a really long time ago.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
So but it was a heck of a show in
nineteen ninety one. I wasn't even born yet, you were
like fifteen. Stop it.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Oh, So I'm still like reflecting on I've gone back
and listened a couple of times to our show last
week with Marshall and just still really like mulling over
that interview on what a cool guy he was and
what a great book he wrote.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Okay, let's talk about last week. But first, why didn't
you go ahead and get started and introduce us.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
This is a podcast that looks back on the decade
of the nineteen eighties. We talk about things that were
important to us as children and what we look back
on with fond memories as adults. Ultimately, this is a
nostalgia podcast.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yes, and like you mentioned last week, we got nostalgic
about the nineteen eighty five World Series and we talked
to author Marshall Garvey about his book Interstate eighty five
Because it was nineteen eighty five between the Royals and
the Cardinals. Yeah, I had a great time talking to Marshall.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
What are you? A cool guy?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah, And he really knows his baseball history, especially for
somebody that wasn't even born then. And I can respect
that because I consider myself somewhat of a baseball historian,
and so I have read a lot of books and
a lot of articles and a lot of stuff on
old time players from the nineteen hundreds through the nineteen seventies,
and then obviously I've watched baseball since about nineteen eighty on,
(09:31):
and so I one hundred percent respect that, and I
get that, like he's like one of my people when
it comes to that.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
And I think I think he's a little bit of
a history boff history in general.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Again, he's my people, That's.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
What I'm saying. You guys gonna have that you could
talk about next time.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Yeah, So we'll definitely have him back on to talk
to eighties baseball, hoping he puts out another book here
in the next year or so. Although he worked so
long in that last book, I don't know that he
can pump him out. Yeah, he's not James Patterson, you know, Well,
it's got a formula.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
James got some help there, Rinse, wash.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Repeat, But yeah, it was. It was a good time.
And in fact, I got some feedback from some of
our podcast friends. You know Matt Cook who does the
Spinning the Wheel podcast. He is a Royals fan and
he will never ever let me forget the fact that
they won the World Series in nineteen eighty five over
my Cardinals. But he listened to it for I think
(10:30):
Friday and Saturday and then started like dming me and
he's like, I'm so going out and getting this book.
And I'm like, yeah, you should. Like it's a number one,
it's a great book. I loved it. My team lost,
so you're gonna love it because your team won. So
I'm glad that we could at least get one more
sale for Marshalls.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
So that was good stuff. And yeah I caught some
barbs like wait a minute. You know Day from totally
eighties and nineties was like, wait a minute, you guys
had Ozzie Smith and Jack Clark and Willie McGee and
Andy Van slike, and the Royals had George Brett and
a bunch of other guys and you lost. I like, yeah,
(11:10):
we did, not a whole lot. I can do about it.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Nothing you can't really say there.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I mean, if Umpire makes the right call, they probably win.
But again, they didn't lose because of the Empire. They
still had a shot to win it and they didn't
come through. So there was a lot of heartbreak in
the eighties, but it was still exciting for us Cardinal fans.
Good times, good times indeed. So are you ready to
get to today's I Think So show? So if you
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haven't figured it out by the episode title, if you
looked at that or the fact that Lindsay was trying
to get me to show off some of my non
Spanish skills. We are doing top forty songs from the
nineteen eighties that were either multi lingual or in a
different language with their lyrics.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
It's been a while since we've done the music, said.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
It has been, and I think this one's gonna be fun.
Are there any songs from other decades that you can
think of that might have other lyrics? Oh?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Live in Levita Loca?
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Oh there you go.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
I loved me some Ricky Martin Ricky Martin nineties graduate. Yes, yeah,
that's a good one. That's not even one that I
thought of. You got anything else that you thought of.
Let's see what else could there be? La bamba?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yeah, I mean that's all in Spanish, but yeah, that
would have worked. And that was an eighty song, but
we didn't include it here. We've talked about that a
little bit before, but that's not I can't stop.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Dum.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Sorry.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Did you like the Richie Vallins version better or the
Los Lobos version?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Oh that's not even fair.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Well, we're children of the eighties, so we're probably gonna
go with Los Lobos. But yeah, we're gonna get to
our top ten. But before we do that, I have
an honorable mention for you, though I don't think I
put on your little sheet over that.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
So let's see if you recognize this one.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
This boy live.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
And he does jumps on his skateboard.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Asked me out, he's my favorite spot, just handing me.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Say you.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
You recognize that?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Well, okay, I have multiple questions here.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Maybe you'll recognize this.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Candidate.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Everybody come away, every last caraway.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Let's go to that Sparkles.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
I think you got it. That is Robin Sparkles. But
let's go to the ma all.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
I don't hear anything but English there.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
No, no, No, here's what you hear. A she's speaking
Canadians because she says a boot and that's not an
English word. And two there was a robot in there,
so we're speaking robot speaking Canadian and robot in that
multi lingual song.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Oh my gosh, that's a stretch, but I'll allow it.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
I wanted to throw that one out for you and
for one of our listeners. That's Robin Sparkles from How
I Met Your Mother, the teenage sensation on that show
that was really kind of a riff off of Tiffany
and Debbie Gibson a little bit. So what do you
think about that? I had to throw in a little
bit of fun for you before we got to our
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top ten.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Remember when we just binged that show? Yeah, that feels
like a lifetime again.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
It was a lifetime again.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
I was back when we couldn't get a little five
year old in me to go to beditt No, that
was long before that, the good old days.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Yeah, the good old days before we got attitude. All right,
So are you ready to reveal? I don't know our count.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Down, I think so I'm gonna hold on, close my
eyes and just go for it.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Okay, let's get into our top ten. Here we go.
As I mentioned, we have a top ten list. I'm
counting them down from ten to one. I'm curious to
know what you know about these songs, what you think
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about these songs. And I bet this number ten song
you've probably never heard before.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
You would be right.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Here we go, get out.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Hey, yo, she don't come in. She's something man.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Yeah, you're hot to try it out to get what
I got.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Get what I got some guests.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Aside, phone through Leguavan and all slide today.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
You tell me so, I'll hold it. I can't believe
that is Minthia Rossa by melloman Ace. So this song
actually hit the Billboard on March ninth, nineteen eighty ten. However,
it was recorded in nineteen eighty nine. It debuted in
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the top forty on June ninth, nineteen eighty ten. It
was on the shart for thirteen weeks, and it only
peaked at number fourteen on the Billboard Hot one hundred,
but that was good enough to get it to be
the number ninety nine Song of the Year in nineteen
ninety uh This song samples two songs by Santana Evil
Ways and no one to depend on, And I bet
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you recognized that evil Ways sample there, sure, and this
was a true one hit wonder melloman Ace sings this
song half in English and half in Spanish, and I
can tell you that in nineteen eighty ten, I was
a sophomore and I learned more Spanish from this song
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than I did in my Spanish two class that year.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Okay, So I had never heard this song before. So
when you gave me the notes for this episode, of
course I went to YouTube, listen to the song, watched
the video. This song gives me the X. This song
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is icky.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
It's icky.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Is it was it the video?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
The video? I don't like the video.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
I don't remember the video at all.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
They do a Sharon Stone basic instinct, like reenactment something
in front of you know, her area, and so it
has not aged. Well, we need to put it in
a vault and bury it and never talk about it again.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Well, this is probably the only time this song is
going to ever appear on our list, But I did
had to throw out a little a Latino hip hop
here with Mellowmyannase and Mintidrosa.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
So I even question whether or not he really had
any Hispanic or Spanish or Mexican background. He does, he
is Cuban, yes, but I do have a little info
for you on it.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Oh you do. Oh cool, let's get to it.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
So his use of the two songs that you mentioned
just a minute ago got Himo a little bit of
some legal trouble.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Oh did he get in trouble with mister Santana.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
He had not obtained permission, uh oh to sample Santana's songs,
nor were any royalty fees paid to Santana before recording
and releasing the track.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
So what happened? Did he get too?
Speaker 1 (18:46):
I mean, what do you think?
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I think he probably did that.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
That might be why he's a one hit wonder. He
couldn't afford to go on and do anything else.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
It could be, it could be. Yeah. I remember hearing
this song a lot in nineteen eighty ten. And it's
funny because my buddy Roberto was Cuban and I was like,
and I was like, he's saying, I'm like Berto, he's saying,
today you tell me something and tomorrow something else, right,
And he was like, yeah, that's exactly what he's saying.
I'm like that year and a half a Spanish has
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paid off. That's about all I know. All right, are
you done?
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I done it again?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
All right, I'm gonna play it for you on our
next trip, over and over and over again. Here we
go with our number nine song. I bet you recognize
this one, Oh.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Mad, That is mister Roboto.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Bye sticks.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Yes, Robert Roboto.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
See that not Roberto Roboto. That is why this goes
with Robin sparkles. She had a Robot, got a Robot.
I almost flipped the two songs so we could have
back to back Robots. But I knew you'd kill me
if I had mellow mayonnaise any higher than ten.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Yeah. So debuted in the top forty on February twelfth,
nineteen eighty three. It sat on the charts for sixteen weeks,
where it peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot
one hundred. It ended up the number twenty eight song
of the year the same year, nineteen eighty three.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
That's pretty big.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
So did you notice not everything was an in? Not
everything was in robot. There was some Japanese words in
that song.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Domo arigato, mister Roboto, thank you very much. Mister Robot
is what he's saying this.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Was their twelfth top forty hit and sixth top ten hit.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
They had a lot more hits than what I give
them credit for. I'm not a huge Sticks fan.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
I'm not either, and I really am not a big
fan of this song.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
So I like half of what Styx does really well,
and then I don't like what half of Styx does.
And then I figured out one day the Dennisty Young
stuff I don't like, and this is dennist Dey Young.
Although this song I actually do like. This is one
of his few that I like. But the non Dynnisty
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Young stick stuff I love. So you know, I guess
it is what it is. But this this was a
fun song back in nineteen eighty three.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
So this whole project, Mister Roboto project is often cited
as a major factor in the band's temporary breakup because
there was so much discord within the band on this
what is it synth sound like? Just it was so different,
this synth pop sound that they had going on here,
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and not everybody thought that was a good idea. So
the video is very weird. The face of the robot
I could see possibly could be offensive if you were
of the Asian culture. I don't know, so.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Mister Miagi wouldn't have been happy with this.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
I don't know. I'm just it was weird. It felt
like I had maybe taken a hit of acid.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
So are you saying that the rest of the band
members of Sticks weren't saying domo arigatto, mister de Young, Yeah, no, yeah, yeah.
It was definitely different than what they had put forth before.
I still kind of like it.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
I'm not a huge Sticks fan, but I definitely like
their other stuff more than this.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
I've seen Sticks in concert, Sticks Foreigner, and I think
they opened for def Leppard.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Am I not surprised by that?
Speaker 2 (23:01):
I know you're not. I mean, I wasn't there to
see Sticks. I was there to see Foreigner and def Leppard.
But it is what it is. I think we've probably
given Stix a lot of talk on this episode. So
let's move on to our number eight, which I'm pretty
sure we've had before. Here we go.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
Want to so you want to be?
Speaker 2 (23:34):
I don't want to be stuck in the middle, mister
Michael Jackson. That does want to be? Starting something by
Michael Jackson. It debuted in the top forty on June fourth,
nineteen eighty three. It was on the chart for eleven
weeks and it peaked at number five on the Billboard
Hot one hundred and that year, in nineteen eighty three,
it was the number sixty eight song of the year.
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And this is one of his hits from the album Thrill.
And here are the torn lyrics. So he's saying I
can't do it because he does it so fast. I'm
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say my massa ma macusa. So that is a variant
of a lyric in Cameroonian saxophonist man Who Debongo's nineteen
seventy two disco song soul Macasa Wow. And macasa is
a Cameroonian music genre and dance. Okay, so you know
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where Cameroon is Western Africa. And so Debongo actually sued
Michael Jackson in nineteen eighty six and settled out a
court for one million French froncs.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Wow, because he didn't get permission.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Because he didn't get permission.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Why do people do that?
Speaker 2 (24:58):
But then he after that he waived future rights to
this recording so he couldn't sue anymore, but not future
use of the material. And somebody else and I don't
remember who used the material and he sued them in one.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
So he just he's a sewer.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
He's a sewer, makes his money. He's a sewer. Listen,
he came up with something and he got it. So
what do you think Michael Jackson's saying there at the
end though, and they're not saying, Mama, say mamma, Simon,
I have no idea, but I actually really like this song.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Yes, it's so much fun.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Is it is? Just a fun upbeat makes you want
to move songs that have no clue.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
What he's saying is that because you're a vegetable, Yes,
you're a vegetable. Yes. So Emmy asked about that as
he's saying you're a vegetable, and I was like, no,
but it sounds like it does.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Where did she get that from?
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Because he's saying he says it, he says it's it's
actually lyrics in the song.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Really.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Yeah. So this was Michael's thirteenth top forty hit and
his fourth top forty hit from Thriller. And you said
you actually really like the song.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
I do. I think it's a fun song. Did you
know that it was originally written for his sister LaToya?
I did not know that, and it was about her
troubled relationship with her sisters in law. Oh, she turned
it down, so Michael ended up recording the song, but
sometimes LaToya will perform it in some of her concerts.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Is this your favorite song from Thriller?
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
So you liked this better than beat It or Billy Jean. Huh,
all right, well it's up there for sure. I like it.
You know, we've talked about Michael Jackson a lot on
this video, as we are on this video on this podcast,
as we should because he was the biggest star of
the nineteen eighties. But yeah, this was this was the
album that made Michael Jackson Michael Jackson.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
You know. I saw when I was doing some research
that Christopher Conley, a writer for Rolling Stone, actually noted that, uh,
this is a hyperactive song. And I'm like, yeah, that
really describes it. Hyper It does sound it feels very
like manic, almost in a bad way. Yeah, but yeah,
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this feels like, oh my gosh, when was the last
time he slept?
Speaker 2 (27:18):
I still like the Jimmy filing justin Timberlake. I'm gonna
say it one more time. I'm not going to stop. Yes,
say it one more time. I'm not going to stop.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
That is kind of what it sounds like if you
if you backed me into a corner, that's probably what
I would say, right.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
And being kids who always Mishaar lyrics anyway, that's what
they thought it was. So yeah, I think that's pretty good.
All right, Are you ready to move on to number seven?
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Yep?
Speaker 2 (27:43):
All right, here we go.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
We're gonna have a bonnet. Oh no, no, oh nine,
I'm sorry, I can you can't talk. I'm too busy dancing. Okay,
that is all night long by my friend Lionel Rich.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
There you go. I knew you were gonna call him
Lionell like Michael Jackson did. Didn't it sound like the
people in the background were just having a good old time?
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Yes, and so was I over here. Okay. So it
debuted in the top forty on October first, nineteen eighty three.
It's another eighty three song. It was on the chart
for seventeen weeks. It peaked at number one on the
Billboard Hot one hundred, where it stayed there for four weeks.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Yeah, big song, pretty good.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
So it was also number one in eight other countries.
The number twelve song of the Year for nineteen eighty
four and listen to this, the number ninety six song
on the Billboard All Time Chart. And you know, I
don't believe in those.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
But if there is a song in the top one hundred,
it's this right on the All Time chart all night long.
So this song actually uses fake African language.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Is that not offensive?
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Yeah? I think so. I think Lionel did it as
kind of a joke. But you know, I'm sure there
were people that took offense to it.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
So when it sounds like he's speaking another language, that's
not really anything.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Yeah, Jambo Jambo is just gibberish.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Jambo Jombo. Isn't that a drink I get at Disney
Jamba juice? Oh okay, I'm so confused.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Do you get jambo Jombo at the Animal Kingdom?
Speaker 1 (29:49):
I think I might.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
That's funny.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
So the song lyrics were written primarily in English, but
Lionel Ritchie has admitted in at least one press interview
that African quote unquote African lyrics and the songs such
just Tambo Lee Day, Say de Moya and Jambo Jumbo
were in fact gibberish.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
But he also uses fiesta, which is Spanish.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Yeah, you know, so I love this.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Uh we've got tri lingual.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
I was gonna say, what is this? I love this song? Okay,
so this came from Lionels. Sorry, now you've got me
so self conscious of saying it. So this came from
Lionel's or This was Lionel's fifth solo top forty hit
and third number one.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Yes, I loved Lionel Richie back in the eighties. I
still love Lionelchie. His voice is just so smooth.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
I will never not love it is just so smooth,
my friend Lionel.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
And this might be this might be my If it's
not my favorite song by him, it's probably my favorite
one to put me in a good mood. Yes, you know,
you know, he's got some other ones that are really good,
some slower ones, ones that are really good, but this
one just always puts me in a good mood, gets
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me going.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
All right, Okay, speaking of good moods, this one's going
to put me in a bad mood.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
So we've we've had a Spanish, and we've had Japanese,
and we've had Cameroonian, and then we've had Gibberish and
now we're going to go back to some Spanish Look
(31:48):
at you shaking your head over there. That's Who's That Girl?
By Madonna? What's your problem with this song?
Speaker 1 (31:54):
I can tell you what. I did not clog to
this song.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Well, no, this would not be a good clogging song.
But this was a good song. But Donad's putting out
the popheits in the eighties. So this debut in the
top forty on July eighteenth, nineteen eighty seven. It was
on the chart only for eleven weeks. Was kind of surprising,
but it did peak at number one on the Billboard
Hot one hundred. It was also number one on the
sales and airplay charts, as well as number one in
eight other countries. It was the number forty two song
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of the year in nineteen eighty seven. Get this my
Madonna hating friend in the country of Italy. You know
that long country that looks like a big boot. It
was the number one song of the year in nineteen
eighty seven, so they didn't have much going on then.
It was written for the soundtrack Who's That Girl, which
was nominated for a Grammy and for Best Original Song
(32:44):
at the Oscars.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Okay wait, okay, wait wait wait. The song was nominated
for a Grammy. Yes, so this song that we just
listened to.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Was nominated for a Grammy, and it was also one
of five nominees for Best Original Song at the Oscar.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
The Oscars, the Academy.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Award, the Academy Awards. It did not win. As I mentioned,
this is Spanish and English k and s Estonina. Who's
that girl? Madonna's fourteenth top forty hit and sixth number one?
And mind you she started in nineteen eighty and three,
late eighty three, early eighty four, and she already had
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fourteen top ten hits or fourteen top forty hits in
just those three and a half years. Pretty impressive. Did
you do any research on this song? Are you just
such a Madonna hater that you were just like moving on?
Speaker 1 (33:40):
So?
Speaker 2 (33:40):
You know what, I don't think you're gonna like the
number five song too much better anyway, But here we go.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
The tools.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
I just got one thing to say, what Falco new?
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Falco New? That's right.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
If you don't get that reference, go back what four
episodes maybe five episodes ago, and take a listen. We
did an episode on Tony Alamo, a cult leader from
the eighties. Yes, and we.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Talked a little bit about that, talk about Falco wearing
one of his jackets.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Yes, okay, so that's rock me Amedaeis by of course Falco.
Yes debuted in the Top forty on February twenty second,
nineteen eighty six. It was on the chart for thirteen weeks.
It peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot one hundred,
where it stayed for three weeks. It was also number
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one on sales and air play charts for three weeks,
and it hit number one in eight different countries. It
was the twenty eighth song of the Year for nineteen
eighty six.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
So I thought it would have been higher. Honestly, what
I thought it would have been higher. I thought it
would have been top ten because this song is huge.
Back then, they played on the radio every seventeen minutes.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
My assumption is the song was popular because it was
unlike anything else.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Yes, absolutely, it was unlike anything else. It's talking about
one of the greatest musicians of all time, in Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart, which, by the way, back then, I didn't
know that Amadeis. I didn't know that it was Mozart.
I didn't know he was talking about Mozart. I didn't
know Mozart's name, right, I guess knew he was. I
just knew he was Mozart, yes, So what are the
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languages on this?
Speaker 1 (35:50):
A German yes, right? And Falco's He's not I think
it's Austrian yet yeah, So what did they speak in Austria? German?
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Do they?
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (36:01):
They do?
Speaker 1 (36:02):
So what else is on other? I mean English? Clearly?
Is there anything else? No?
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Just German and English. So this song was inspired by
the movie Amedeus, and the US release did not include
an English translation, instead remixing the song with an English
background voiceover performed by Rick McCullough. And here's what I
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found interesting. You know you mentioned Marshall being a history
buff before. Ye, well, this song is all about the
history of Mozart, right, It's about, you know, his popularity
as well as like he fell into debt. So it
mentions in seventeen fifty six. In Salzburg January twenty seventh,
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Wolfgang amadas Is born seventeen sixty one. At the age
of five, Amadeis begins composing can you believe that at
the age of five, that's insane? Seventeen seventy three, he
writes his first piano concerto. In seventeen eighty two, Wolfgang
Amadeas Mozart Mary's Constanze Weber. In seventeen eighty four, Wolfgang
Amadas Mozart becomes a freemason. I didn't know that, Oh lord.
(37:13):
Seventeen ninety one, Mozart composes the magic flute. On December
fifth of that same year, Mozart dies. And then in
nineteen eighty five, Austrian rock singer Falco records Rock me Amedeas.
I love that beginning. It's so cheesy, that last part,
(37:35):
did you know?
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Okay? So with Rock me Amedeis, Falgo became the first
German speaking artist to be credited with a number one
single on both mainstream US pop charts Singles chart, the
Billboard Hot one hundred and cash Box Top one hundred Singles.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
I did not know that. Yeah, the first German yep,
German speaking German speaking, Yeah, he was in Germany, all Strian,
but the first German speaking, So speaking of German, how
about our number four.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
Song nons no fun in effects it Tonzo ve.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Think about that song.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
I love this song. It's just a fun song.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
So that is ninety nine loof Balloons by Nina or
is it Nana?
Speaker 1 (38:40):
I think I mean my southernness would say Nina, but
I think it might be Nana. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
It debuted in the top forty on January twenty first,
nineteen eighty four. It was on the shart for thirteen
weeks and it peaked at number two on the Billboard
Hot one hundred, but it hit number one in nine
different countries. It was the number twenty eight song of
the Year in nineteen and eighty four. So did you know,
(39:06):
lindsay that this song was originally in German, which is
what we just heard there. But it did so well
that they released an English version of the song. Yeah,
And the English version charted in Canada, Ireland, the UK,
and South Africa, and it was number one in the
first three and number three in South Africa.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
But the English version did not chart in the United States.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
It did not.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
I like the German version better than the English version, curent.
I remember the first time somebody said ninety nine red
balloons and I'm like, what are you talking about? It's
ninety nine love balloons.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Oh, so what's the song about?
Speaker 2 (39:39):
So the English version retains the spirit of the original narrative,
but many of the lyrics are translated poetically rather than
being directly translated. The red helium balloons are casually released
by the civilian singer or the narrator with her unnamed
friend into the sky and are mistakenly registered by a
faulty early warning system is enemy contacts, resulting in panic
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and eventually nuclear war, with the end of the song
near identical to the end of the original German.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Oh Wow version Oh Wow, okay so.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
But Nina from the Outset Uh and other members of
the band expressed disapproval of the English version of the
song ninety nine Red Balloons. In March nineteen eighty four,
the band's keyboardist and song co writer You've a Faring
Krog Peterson said, we made a mistake there. I think
the song loses something in translation and even sounds silly,
(40:37):
and I agree with you You've. In another interview that month,
the band, including Nana herself, were quoted as being not
completely satisfied with the English version since it was too
blatant for a group not wishing to be seen as
a protest band. Huh and this is a true one
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hit wonder that's too bad. It was a fun song.
I mean, I guess maybe it could have. They could
have had two hits if ninety nine Red Balloons jarded.
But everybody already heard the cool version. We didn't want
to hear the the secondary English version.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
So has there been a decade since the eighties where
German songs were popular? I don't know German language songs
were popular. I don't feel like that. That's a language
we get much off these days.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Nine all right? Any other thoughts on on the song?
Speaker 1 (41:35):
Nope, you covered it?
Speaker 2 (41:35):
All right? You ready to move to your number three?
No Spanish, that is your material? Girl again Madonna?
Speaker 1 (42:08):
Listen and I don't speak this language? So is it la?
I love Bonita?
Speaker 2 (42:12):
La isla bonita, but isla is probably the right way
to say it.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
Ammy has a friend named Alah. So anyways, it's we
got Madonna again, So I'm sorry. Debuted in the top
forty on March twenty eighth, nineteen eighty seven. Do you know?
Do you know? You know what I'm thinking? What I'm
gonna need. I'm gonna need to potentially get on the
yacht rock bandwagon because I want to get away from Madonna.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
You're doing an eighties podcast. You can't get away from.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
I want to get away from her, and I don't
think she'll get on the yacht rock bandwagon.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
You can't get on You can't get away from Madonna.
You can't get away from Michael Jackson. I don't want
to get away from him. I'm not his type, and
you can. You can't get away from Whitney Houston and
I love Whitney. Those are three people that you just
can't get away from in the eighties.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
Okay, let me adjust my attitude, just okay, hold on,
give me a second. Okay. It debuted in the top
forty on March twenty eighth, nineteen eighty seven. It was
on the chart for twelve weeks, where it peaked and
number four on Billboard Hot one hundred, number three on
airplay and sales, and number one on Adult Contemporary. It
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hit number one in six different countries. It ended up
being the fifty eighth song of the year of nineteen
eighty seven.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
Do you know what lat is? Isla bonita translates.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
To something about being beautiful, something's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (43:37):
The beautiful island. Okay, So this was this one hit
right before Who's that Girl. So this was their thirteenth
top forty, But I actually liked the song better than
Who's That Girl. I don't think we need to get
into the thoughts on the song or Madonna or your
personal connection, because your personal connection is you don't like
Madonna and you don't like any of their songs that
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you can't two.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
Well, I've got a nugget on this. Oh you dot nugget?
Speaker 2 (44:08):
I want nuggets. Is it a nugget or a nugget?
Speaker 1 (44:12):
It's a nugget, okay. Patrick Leonard, who had previously served
as musical director on her The Virgin Tour. He had
contributed to the Jackson's nineteen eighty four Victory Tour and
remained in contact with Michael Jackson and producer Quincy Jones.
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At their request, he composed a series of instrumental demos
for them to listen to and potentially expand on, including
one intended to resemble the style of Sadae Huh. The
piece was presented to Jackson and Jones, but ultimately they
turned it down, So mister Leonard later took the demo
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to Madonna. Uh, and guess what, she made it a hit.
They developed it and there you go.
Speaker 2 (45:03):
Can you imagine if Michael Jackson and Madonna had recorded
the duet together in the eighties, the world wouldn't have
been ready for it, Like everybody's head would have exploded,
and it would have just ended the world right then
and there, I had to talk about our friend Saday,
because you don't call her saved anymore. All right, here's
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the number two. This I would say, this might be
my favorite song on the countdown. It's not, but it's
got a reason for me saying that. And then the
number one is probably my favorite. But this one's pretty good.
So here we go.
Speaker 3 (45:43):
The revenue, the beat that.
Speaker 2 (46:08):
I like it when they go. So that is Dirk
commissar by after the Fire.
Speaker 1 (46:18):
Dirt Some days, some days we'll be sitting in at night,
we'll be sent watching TV and I'll look over at
you and you'll be just.
Speaker 2 (46:26):
Like getting back to our countdown. That's number two, Dark
Commissar after the Fire. This debuted in the top forty
on March fifth, nineteen eighty three. It was on the
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chart for fourteen weeks, and it peaked at number five
on the Billboard Hot one hundred. It would end up
being the number thirty song of the Year in nineteen
eighty three. I love nineteen eighty three. Did you know
that the word kammas are is German for public official?
Speaker 1 (47:02):
Now I didn't know that, but yeah, I see that
now as plain as day.
Speaker 2 (47:06):
So this song was actually written in nineteen eighty one
by Robert Ponger and Falco.
Speaker 4 (47:12):
I thought I was.
Speaker 1 (47:13):
Gonna get to like spring that on. Oh I've known that.
You knew that.
Speaker 2 (47:17):
Already, Oh bummer the nineteen eighty one Did you know this?
The nineteen eighty one version actually hit number one in Austria, Italy,
Spain and West Germany. In nineteen eighty two. Oh wow,
it hit the top forty in the US on the
Mainstream Rock chart and Dance club chart, but not the
Billboard Hot one hundred. That's the nineteen eighty one version,
not this version. By after the Fire, and we got
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another one hit wonder for after the Fire. This was
their only hit their commissar. So what else do you
have on this song?
Speaker 1 (47:47):
That's all I have?
Speaker 2 (47:47):
Oh, that's all you have?
Speaker 1 (47:48):
Sorry about this time in my research, Emmy had started
wailing in the background and I couldn't focus on both.
So all I got for you on this.
Speaker 2 (47:59):
Is that foul was co writer Falco Knew. So my
personal connection to the song other than like liking it
in nineteen eighty three, was you know that for a
long time I worked for a German company. Yes, and
at a point we had a German director who was female.
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But boy, it almost felt like she may have been
a public official during the World War two days. She
could just tear you apart, rep you apart, and almost
everybody was afraid of her. I wasn't she actually liked me,
but yeah, but I can say that she would walk
up and down the aisles checking on people to make
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sure they were in the office when they said they
were going to be in the office. And whenever she
would or whenever she'd come up to somebody's cube to
ask them a question, this song would pop in my head.
Don't turn around, Oh their commissars in town. Uh oh,
that's what this song makes me think of that And
that's why another reason why I just love it so much,
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because I like to give people songs yeah that fit
their personality, and that was definitely hers. It wasn't ninety
nine loof balloons. It was Dirk Kommissar.
Speaker 1 (49:18):
All right.
Speaker 2 (49:19):
We have counted down our top ten and we are
down to number one. What do you think our number
one song is gonna be? I have no idea, but
I'm ready to hear it our number one song. I
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think you're gonna like this one.
Speaker 4 (49:50):
Hot.
Speaker 1 (50:00):
I want to do sweet, this is hot, hot, hot
buster Poindexter. Yes, this song reminds me of the Conga line,
which reminds me of a cruise, which reminds me of
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the Netflix documentary Poop Cruise, which reminds me that I'll
never ever go on another cruise. So I need you
to do this one even though it's my turn, because
I have I have a lot of questions.
Speaker 2 (50:36):
Okay, okay. So this song peaked at number forty five
on the Billboard Hot one hundred and nineteen eighty seven.
It is a cover of an early eighties version by
Caribbean musician Arrow. It certainly has a Caribbean sound to it.
I love all things about the Caribbean other than the
sex trafficking trade that apparently goes around and gets that
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the girl from the other Netflix documentary.
Speaker 1 (51:03):
I mean, as people can tell, we watch a lot
of TV.
Speaker 2 (51:05):
Yes, but I just this song so much fun and
it's funny that this song reminds you of that, because
that this song reminds me of the office when Michael
came back from Jamaica with j just playing on his
little drum and he just kept saying hot, hot, hot,
all over over and oka.
Speaker 1 (51:26):
So my question, yes, Buster Poindexter is not a person.
Speaker 2 (51:32):
That is correct. It's a persona.
Speaker 1 (51:35):
Like Garth Brooks and Chris Gaines.
Speaker 2 (51:38):
I was gonna say more like pee wee Herman, like
Paul Rubens and pee wee Herman. Pee wee Herman's a persona,
not a person stuff like that confuses me. Well, yeah,
especially when you're young.
Speaker 1 (51:50):
Okay, I have one other question.
Speaker 2 (51:52):
Yeah, no, no, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (51:53):
So the real person, not Buster, but the real guy.
Speaker 2 (51:58):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (51:58):
Did he ever have any hits?
Speaker 2 (52:00):
Yes? David Johansson his lounge singer persona was Buster Poindexter,
so he's kind of goofy here. And this was his
first single from his album, Buster Poindexter. It got extensive
airplay on MTV, other television appearances, even on the radio
a little bit, and there was a music video that
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was produced for his version of song, in which he
appears as both Buster Poindexter and as himself. Wow so
he was actually part of the nineteen seventies proto punk
band the New York Dolls. Okay, And the video actually
starts with him mentioning his role as the front man
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for the New York Dolls and shows him tossing the
band's albums, tossing them aside while talking about the really
outrageous clothes he wore and how he came to be
interested in a refined and dignified kind of a situation,
which then leads into this song Hot Hot So Bust.
Speaker 1 (53:00):
Not David Right played Ghost of Christmas Past in Scrooge
in nineteen eighty. Yes, that is correct, Not David Right,
not David Buster, Okay, just chucking. Not David Buster, not
Dave and Busters. Maybe that's where they got the name from.
So the only other thing that I had for you
(53:22):
that I'm hoping this is something you didn't know, because
I love to spring things on you that you didn't know.
Bill Murray appears in this music video.
Speaker 2 (53:31):
Because of the connection with Scrooged, or just because Bill
Murray just appears in the video, And then that's how
Buster Poindexter got to be on Scrooge.
Speaker 1 (53:42):
That's just what Bill Murray does.
Speaker 2 (53:44):
Yeah, he'll he'll appear on video. I mean maybe he figured, hey,
Chevy Chase was on, you can call me out. I
need to be on Buster Poindexter's Hot Hot. Huh.
Speaker 1 (53:53):
Buster looks like a poor man's Mick Jagger.
Speaker 2 (53:57):
Uh yeah, I can see that. I get n see that.
So what do you think about the song?
Speaker 3 (54:02):
Though?
Speaker 2 (54:02):
It's fun?
Speaker 1 (54:03):
Right, it's a fun song. Listen, if I'm three sheets
to the wind and this song comes on, we're starting
the conga line.
Speaker 2 (54:11):
Well, so between this song and between Lionel Richie's All
Night Long, I just kind of want to go hang
out on Jamaica with Tom Cruise, Yeah, and start a
cocktail bar.
Speaker 1 (54:22):
Let's do it. Yeah, seems seems a lot better than
the than the eighties we're living in right now.
Speaker 2 (54:29):
In the Daily Grin. All right, so that was our
top ten. I want to know what everybody thought. But
before we do, you know, I've got.
Speaker 1 (54:40):
To do this right, of course, I'm ready not a lunch.
Speaker 2 (54:45):
Here are our final stats. Of our ten songs, nine
of them hit the top forty. The only one that
didn't was actually our number one song, which hit number
forty five. We had three number ones and eight top
five hits, four songs from nineteen eighty three, three songs
from nineteen eighty and one song each in eighty four,
eighty six, and eighty ten. There were four male solos,
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two female solos, three band songs, and one song by
a dude who uses a persona. There were four one
hit wonders. But as I look through this right, we've
got we've got Spanish, We've got Japanese, we've got Cameroon.
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We've got Gibberish, which is supposed to be African, but
we've also got him using Fiesta, which is Spanish.
Speaker 1 (55:37):
We've got Robot.
Speaker 2 (55:38):
We've got Robot, We've got Madonna, two Spanish songs. We've
got three German songs, rock Me Amadeas ninety nine, move
Balloons and Dirk kamisar Uh. I think we covered the Gamut.
Speaker 1 (55:53):
We it seems like we did.
Speaker 2 (55:55):
You know, we've got Asia with the with Japanese, and
we've got Africa, and we've got uh German with Europe,
and we've got you know, South America with Spanish and
the Caribbean and Mexico, and we even we even threw
a shout out for our Canadian buddies with Robin Sparks.
Speaker 1 (56:13):
Of course we had a Canadian song.
Speaker 2 (56:16):
Yes, so uh, this was a fun episode for me.
I enjoyed it. I know that you weren't really looking
forward to it, but it looks to me like you
kind of enjoyed it too. I did.
Speaker 1 (56:28):
I had fun.
Speaker 2 (56:29):
It was a good mix of songs.
Speaker 1 (56:31):
So go ahead, like Jim's already said, we would love
to hear from you and what songs you liked, what
songs you didn't like? What did we leave off? What
did we forget? Jim always forgets something, always forget something,
and you don't have to tell me I forgot LaBamba.
I know I did that on purpose. We've covered Lobamba before.
You can reach out to us. We're on social media
via x, Instagram or Facebook, or of course you can
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always email us, right, so.
Speaker 2 (56:56):
We are at Children of Underscore eighties on all those
social media pages. But if you want to email us,
we are children of the nineteen eighties at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1 (57:06):
If you haven't, go ahead hit that subscribe button. So
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but most importantly, tell somebody phone a friend, read the word.
Speaker 2 (57:25):
If we can get Marshall a book sale or two,
you can get us a listener to I love it
all right. Well, until next time.
Speaker 1 (57:33):
I'm Jim and I'm Lindsey and we are children of
the eighties.
Speaker 2 (57:41):
See you next Wednesday.
Welcome back to Children of the Eighties. I am Lindsay
and with me today is my husbands slash co host Jim,
who when I ask him how he's doing, his answer
is always maso menos.
Speaker 2 (00:33):
Yeah, always so menos. That's what I always say. I
am bilingual up in this house.
Speaker 1 (00:45):
How you doing well? You know, I'm a no no no.
How you doing being? Being e two? Well?
Speaker 2 (00:54):
If you had asked me in Spanish, I may have
answered in Spanish.
Speaker 1 (00:57):
You know, can you tell me where the library is?
Speaker 2 (01:00):
Don't they love biblioteca and what's going on over there?
Speaker 1 (01:07):
You know your aunt and uncle who lives here in
Atlanta with us, they're always good for some sage parenting
advice because they, between them they've raised five kids. Yes,
they used to laugh and say, oh, you think parenting
a small child is hard? Just wait?
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Yes, they would laugh, uh.
Speaker 1 (01:25):
Huh, almost like a like an evil like almost almost
like they were gargamel. Yes, And I'm like at the time,
I'm like, there's nothing harder than trying to parent a
five year old who doesn't want to go to bed right,
who doesn't want to brush their teeth? What do you know?
Speaker 2 (01:42):
Speaking of foreign languages, I say to you, o contraire.
Speaker 1 (01:49):
Whoo boy, this parenting a preteen.
Speaker 2 (01:55):
She's got attitude.
Speaker 1 (01:56):
Lord, we could use some prayers from y'all.
Speaker 2 (01:58):
She's never had antilitude before. She now all of a sudden,
just flipped a switch and she has attitude.
Speaker 1 (02:04):
But it's also you know, yes, we get a lot
of attitude, but it's also it's just it's hard. There
are some hard things going on.
Speaker 2 (02:14):
Yeah, oh yeah, no, no, no.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Her little heart breaks and I'm like, we write it down.
I'm that big bird meme. We ride it down.
Speaker 2 (02:23):
So she has uh lived her life like the first
half of a round of a Rocky boxing match, right,
where she's just throwing punches left and right, yeah, and
not getting hit at all, yeah, and just boom boom
boom boom boom. Right. So when Rocky fought mister t
(02:44):
clubber Lang in the first Rocky he comes out, I
mean in the third Rocky, but the first fight he
comes out and he's just like this the first Rocky
I ever saw, Right, And I'm watching Rocky just club
this trash talking guy, and I'm like, yeah, Rocky's got him,
and Rocky's just on them, right, And then all of
a sudden about a minute ten into the round, it
(03:06):
just changes and mister T starts throwing punches back. And
that's what's happened in a little emmy right now. She's
realizing that life throws kidney punches, boy.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
And it has thrown her some and breaks my heart.
And listen, I'm ready to go bev Goldberg. Anybody at
any moment, let me get my shoes.
Speaker 2 (03:23):
Nope, nope, And I'm gonna murry you and stop you
from from doing that.
Speaker 1 (03:28):
Boy, it is hard. My attitude is you make my
baby cry, I'm gonna make you cry.
Speaker 2 (03:33):
Well yeah, I mean we all want to go smack somebody,
but that's not the way to handle in the certainly not.
Speaker 1 (03:38):
The way to teach, because it seems like the perfect
way to handle it. No, no, no, no, anyways, So
just wanted to share that because I have a feeling
there's a few people out there that can relate.
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Oh yeah, no, I mean you know what.
Speaker 1 (03:51):
Though at our age, our contemporaries they're probably through this phase.
Oh yeah, they're the parents in the middle school. Yeah,
we we waited until we did.
Speaker 2 (04:02):
You know.
Speaker 1 (04:02):
I'm going to a while to get the hang of
how to do that.
Speaker 2 (04:05):
I'm going to show up to her high school graduation
looking like Reese Witherspoon's.
Speaker 1 (04:09):
Boyfriend mister Burns from The Simpsons. Yes, lit, I had
something I wanted to talk to you about.
Speaker 2 (04:17):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (04:19):
I found this a couple of weeks ago. So it
may be old news now, but here with me, it's
old news. I'm old news.
Speaker 2 (04:26):
Is it another death?
Speaker 3 (04:28):
Not?
Speaker 1 (04:28):
A death? Might be the death of a career, So
I haven't thought show we keep going down this room?
Probably is. Have you heard that the Steve Miller Band
decided to cancel the rest of their twenty twenty five
tour recently?
Speaker 2 (04:45):
I have not heard that.
Speaker 1 (04:46):
You've not heard anything about that.
Speaker 2 (04:47):
I've never heard anything.
Speaker 1 (04:48):
So felt a little out of the blue to me.
But let me give you the reason why. This is
the announcement via their website. You make music with your instinct,
You live by your instincts. Always trust your instincts. The
Steve Miller Bands canceled all of our upcoming tour dates.
(05:10):
The combination of extreme heat, unpredictable flooding, tornadoes, hurricanes, and
massive forest fires make these risks for you, our audience,
the band, and the crew unacceptable. So you can blame
it on the weather the tour is canceled.
Speaker 2 (05:31):
They sound like it sounds to me more like it's
not the fans they're worried about. It's the fact that
they're one hundred and thirty and they don't want to
travel through this weather.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
So they ended up canceling a total of thirty one shows.
Here's what I think. I don't know that number thirty
one significant. We'll get back to it in a second.
Before My guess is tickets weren't selling like they had
hoped for.
Speaker 2 (05:54):
No, And here's why, because thirty one. As you mentioned,
it was thirty one years ago go that I went
and saw Steve Miller band on their twenty fifth anniversary.
So now you're talking, this would be their fifty sixth anniversary,
which is older than you or I, And yeah, they're old.
(06:15):
And the last time we saw them, which was what
ten years ago something like that, Uh, maybe even longer,
maybe eleven or twelve years ago, he was forgetting his lyrics? Then?
Speaker 1 (06:28):
Was he the one that kept referring to himself in
the third person?
Speaker 2 (06:30):
Yes, he refers to himself as the space Cowboy. He's
the Ricky Henderson of classic rock musicians.
Speaker 1 (06:36):
Didn't he come out on.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Stage and said hello, I'm the Space Cowboy.
Speaker 1 (06:40):
And didn't he hang a little sign on his microphone
stand that said something about Space Cowboy and it hung
there through his set.
Speaker 2 (06:48):
I don't remember that. Your eyes are probably better than mine.
Speaker 1 (06:51):
I was so taken aback by the third person reference there.
Speaker 2 (06:56):
Yeah, he didn't do that in nineteen ninety four.
Speaker 1 (06:58):
Do you think he walks? Do you think he putters
around his house doing that? The Space Cowboy is gonna
eat egg salad for lunch.
Speaker 2 (07:05):
The Space Cowboy says that time keeps on slipping, slipping,
slipping into the future.
Speaker 1 (07:11):
I mean, listen, there's no doubt we've had some bad
weather in this country. But I don't know that it
makes sense to cancel a tour.
Speaker 2 (07:20):
No, it doesn't. It doesn't necessitate canceling a tour. I
would say that you know age, and you know possibly,
like you said, low ticket sales, because let's be honest,
like half of his fans from back in they are
probably dead anyway. And you know they're old.
Speaker 1 (07:41):
So he's old, they're old. We're all old.
Speaker 2 (07:44):
Yeah, well but they're older.
Speaker 1 (07:46):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (07:47):
At twenty fifth anniversary, I was twenty years old. Twenty
fifth anniversary. I was twenty years old. Let's just go
back that, right, twenty fifth anniversary. That was a long
time ago.
Speaker 1 (07:56):
That was a really long time ago.
Speaker 2 (07:58):
So but it was a heck of a show in
nineteen ninety one. I wasn't even born yet, you were
like fifteen. Stop it.
Speaker 1 (08:06):
Oh, So I'm still like reflecting on I've gone back
and listened a couple of times to our show last
week with Marshall and just still really like mulling over
that interview on what a cool guy he was and
what a great book he wrote.
Speaker 2 (08:24):
Okay, let's talk about last week. But first, why didn't
you go ahead and get started and introduce us.
Speaker 1 (08:36):
This is a podcast that looks back on the decade
of the nineteen eighties. We talk about things that were
important to us as children and what we look back
on with fond memories as adults. Ultimately, this is a
nostalgia podcast.
Speaker 2 (08:51):
Yes, and like you mentioned last week, we got nostalgic
about the nineteen eighty five World Series and we talked
to author Marshall Garvey about his book Interstate eighty five
Because it was nineteen eighty five between the Royals and
the Cardinals. Yeah, I had a great time talking to Marshall.
Speaker 1 (09:06):
What are you? A cool guy?
Speaker 2 (09:07):
Yeah, And he really knows his baseball history, especially for
somebody that wasn't even born then. And I can respect
that because I consider myself somewhat of a baseball historian,
and so I have read a lot of books and
a lot of articles and a lot of stuff on
old time players from the nineteen hundreds through the nineteen seventies,
and then obviously I've watched baseball since about nineteen eighty on,
(09:31):
and so I one hundred percent respect that, and I
get that, like he's like one of my people when
it comes to that.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
And I think I think he's a little bit of
a history boff history in general.
Speaker 2 (09:44):
Again, he's my people, That's.
Speaker 1 (09:46):
What I'm saying. You guys gonna have that you could
talk about next time.
Speaker 2 (09:49):
Yeah, So we'll definitely have him back on to talk
to eighties baseball, hoping he puts out another book here
in the next year or so. Although he worked so
long in that last book, I don't know that he
can pump him out. Yeah, he's not James Patterson, you know, Well,
it's got a formula.
Speaker 1 (10:06):
James got some help there, Rinse, wash.
Speaker 2 (10:08):
Repeat, But yeah, it was. It was a good time.
And in fact, I got some feedback from some of
our podcast friends. You know Matt Cook who does the
Spinning the Wheel podcast. He is a Royals fan and
he will never ever let me forget the fact that
they won the World Series in nineteen eighty five over
my Cardinals. But he listened to it for I think
(10:30):
Friday and Saturday and then started like dming me and
he's like, I'm so going out and getting this book.
And I'm like, yeah, you should. Like it's a number one,
it's a great book. I loved it. My team lost,
so you're gonna love it because your team won. So
I'm glad that we could at least get one more
sale for Marshalls.
Speaker 1 (10:47):
I know, I know.
Speaker 2 (10:48):
So that was good stuff. And yeah I caught some
barbs like wait a minute. You know Day from totally
eighties and nineties was like, wait a minute, you guys
had Ozzie Smith and Jack Clark and Willie McGee and
Andy Van slike, and the Royals had George Brett and
a bunch of other guys and you lost. I like, yeah,
(11:10):
we did, not a whole lot. I can do about it.
Speaker 1 (11:13):
Nothing you can't really say there.
Speaker 2 (11:15):
I mean, if Umpire makes the right call, they probably win.
But again, they didn't lose because of the Empire. They
still had a shot to win it and they didn't
come through. So there was a lot of heartbreak in
the eighties, but it was still exciting for us Cardinal fans.
Good times, good times indeed. So are you ready to
get to today's I Think So show? So if you
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haven't figured it out by the episode title, if you
looked at that or the fact that Lindsay was trying
to get me to show off some of my non
Spanish skills. We are doing top forty songs from the
nineteen eighties that were either multi lingual or in a
different language with their lyrics.
Speaker 1 (12:00):
It's been a while since we've done the music, said.
Speaker 2 (12:02):
It has been, and I think this one's gonna be fun.
Are there any songs from other decades that you can
think of that might have other lyrics? Oh?
Speaker 1 (12:13):
Live in Levita Loca?
Speaker 2 (12:15):
Oh there you go.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
I loved me some Ricky Martin Ricky Martin nineties graduate. Yes, yeah,
that's a good one. That's not even one that I
thought of. You got anything else that you thought of.
Let's see what else could there be? La bamba?
Speaker 2 (12:32):
Yeah, I mean that's all in Spanish, but yeah, that
would have worked. And that was an eighty song, but
we didn't include it here. We've talked about that a
little bit before, but that's not I can't stop.
Speaker 4 (12:44):
Dum.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
Sorry.
Speaker 2 (12:46):
Did you like the Richie Vallins version better or the
Los Lobos version?
Speaker 1 (12:50):
Oh that's not even fair.
Speaker 2 (12:54):
Well, we're children of the eighties, so we're probably gonna
go with Los Lobos. But yeah, we're gonna get to
our top ten. But before we do that, I have
an honorable mention for you, though I don't think I
put on your little sheet over that.
Speaker 1 (13:10):
I don't think so.
Speaker 2 (13:11):
So let's see if you recognize this one.
Speaker 4 (13:16):
This boy live.
Speaker 2 (13:20):
And he does jumps on his skateboard.
Speaker 5 (13:24):
Asked me out, he's my favorite spot, just handing me.
Speaker 1 (13:32):
Say you.
Speaker 2 (13:36):
You recognize that?
Speaker 1 (13:37):
Well, okay, I have multiple questions here.
Speaker 2 (13:40):
Maybe you'll recognize this.
Speaker 1 (13:44):
Candidate.
Speaker 4 (13:47):
Everybody come away, every last caraway.
Speaker 1 (13:55):
Let's go to that Sparkles.
Speaker 2 (14:00):
I think you got it. That is Robin Sparkles. But
let's go to the ma all.
Speaker 1 (14:06):
I don't hear anything but English there.
Speaker 2 (14:09):
No, no, No, here's what you hear. A she's speaking
Canadians because she says a boot and that's not an
English word. And two there was a robot in there,
so we're speaking robot speaking Canadian and robot in that
multi lingual song.
Speaker 1 (14:28):
Oh my gosh, that's a stretch, but I'll allow it.
Speaker 2 (14:31):
I wanted to throw that one out for you and
for one of our listeners. That's Robin Sparkles from How
I Met Your Mother, the teenage sensation on that show
that was really kind of a riff off of Tiffany
and Debbie Gibson a little bit. So what do you
think about that? I had to throw in a little
bit of fun for you before we got to our
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top ten.
Speaker 1 (14:52):
Remember when we just binged that show? Yeah, that feels
like a lifetime again.
Speaker 2 (14:57):
It was a lifetime again.
Speaker 1 (14:58):
I was back when we couldn't get a little five
year old in me to go to beditt No, that
was long before that, the good old days.
Speaker 2 (15:04):
Yeah, the good old days before we got attitude. All right,
So are you ready to reveal? I don't know our count.
Speaker 1 (15:11):
Down, I think so I'm gonna hold on, close my
eyes and just go for it.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Okay, let's get into our top ten. Here we go.
As I mentioned, we have a top ten list. I'm
counting them down from ten to one. I'm curious to
know what you know about these songs, what you think
(15:38):
about these songs. And I bet this number ten song
you've probably never heard before.
Speaker 1 (15:43):
You would be right.
Speaker 2 (15:44):
Here we go, get out.
Speaker 3 (15:47):
Hey, yo, she don't come in. She's something man.
Speaker 1 (15:51):
Yeah, you're hot to try it out to get what
I got.
Speaker 2 (15:55):
Get what I got some guests.
Speaker 1 (16:01):
Aside, phone through Leguavan and all slide today.
Speaker 2 (16:04):
You tell me so, I'll hold it. I can't believe
that is Minthia Rossa by melloman Ace. So this song
actually hit the Billboard on March ninth, nineteen eighty ten. However,
it was recorded in nineteen eighty nine. It debuted in
(16:27):
the top forty on June ninth, nineteen eighty ten. It
was on the shart for thirteen weeks, and it only
peaked at number fourteen on the Billboard Hot one hundred,
but that was good enough to get it to be
the number ninety nine Song of the Year in nineteen
ninety uh This song samples two songs by Santana Evil
Ways and no one to depend on, And I bet
(16:48):
you recognized that evil Ways sample there, sure, and this
was a true one hit wonder melloman Ace sings this
song half in English and half in Spanish, and I
can tell you that in nineteen eighty ten, I was
a sophomore and I learned more Spanish from this song
(17:09):
than I did in my Spanish two class that year.
Speaker 1 (17:13):
Okay, So I had never heard this song before. So
when you gave me the notes for this episode, of
course I went to YouTube, listen to the song, watched
the video. This song gives me the X. This song
(17:33):
is icky.
Speaker 2 (17:34):
It's icky.
Speaker 1 (17:35):
I don't like it.
Speaker 2 (17:36):
Is it was it the video?
Speaker 1 (17:37):
The video? I don't like the video.
Speaker 2 (17:39):
I don't remember the video at all.
Speaker 1 (17:41):
They do a Sharon Stone basic instinct, like reenactment something
in front of you know, her area, and so it
has not aged. Well, we need to put it in
a vault and bury it and never talk about it again.
Speaker 2 (17:58):
Well, this is probably the only time this song is
going to ever appear on our list, But I did
had to throw out a little a Latino hip hop
here with Mellowmyannase and Mintidrosa.
Speaker 1 (18:09):
So I even question whether or not he really had
any Hispanic or Spanish or Mexican background. He does, he
is Cuban, yes, but I do have a little info
for you on it.
Speaker 2 (18:23):
Oh you do. Oh cool, let's get to it.
Speaker 1 (18:25):
So his use of the two songs that you mentioned
just a minute ago got Himo a little bit of
some legal trouble.
Speaker 2 (18:32):
Oh did he get in trouble with mister Santana.
Speaker 1 (18:34):
He had not obtained permission, uh oh to sample Santana's songs,
nor were any royalty fees paid to Santana before recording
and releasing the track.
Speaker 2 (18:44):
So what happened? Did he get too?
Speaker 1 (18:46):
I mean, what do you think?
Speaker 2 (18:48):
I think he probably did that.
Speaker 1 (18:50):
That might be why he's a one hit wonder. He
couldn't afford to go on and do anything else.
Speaker 2 (18:54):
It could be, it could be. Yeah. I remember hearing
this song a lot in nineteen eighty ten. And it's
funny because my buddy Roberto was Cuban and I was like,
and I was like, he's saying, I'm like Berto, he's saying,
today you tell me something and tomorrow something else, right,
And he was like, yeah, that's exactly what he's saying.
I'm like that year and a half a Spanish has
(19:16):
paid off. That's about all I know. All right, are
you done?
Speaker 1 (19:23):
I done it again?
Speaker 2 (19:25):
All right, I'm gonna play it for you on our
next trip, over and over and over again. Here we
go with our number nine song. I bet you recognize
this one, Oh.
Speaker 1 (20:04):
Mad, That is mister Roboto.
Speaker 2 (20:11):
Bye sticks.
Speaker 1 (20:12):
Yes, Robert Roboto.
Speaker 2 (20:15):
See that not Roberto Roboto. That is why this goes
with Robin sparkles. She had a Robot, got a Robot.
I almost flipped the two songs so we could have
back to back Robots. But I knew you'd kill me
if I had mellow mayonnaise any higher than ten.
Speaker 1 (20:34):
Yeah. So debuted in the top forty on February twelfth,
nineteen eighty three. It sat on the charts for sixteen weeks,
where it peaked at number three on the Billboard Hot
one hundred. It ended up the number twenty eight song
of the year the same year, nineteen eighty three.
Speaker 2 (20:53):
That's pretty big.
Speaker 1 (20:54):
So did you notice not everything was an in? Not
everything was in robot. There was some Japanese words in
that song.
Speaker 2 (21:04):
Domo arigato, mister Roboto, thank you very much. Mister Robot
is what he's saying this.
Speaker 1 (21:11):
Was their twelfth top forty hit and sixth top ten hit.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
They had a lot more hits than what I give
them credit for. I'm not a huge Sticks fan.
Speaker 1 (21:22):
I'm not either, and I really am not a big
fan of this song.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
So I like half of what Styx does really well,
and then I don't like what half of Styx does.
And then I figured out one day the Dennisty Young
stuff I don't like, and this is dennist Dey Young.
Although this song I actually do like. This is one
of his few that I like. But the non Dynnisty
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Young stick stuff I love. So you know, I guess
it is what it is. But this this was a
fun song back in nineteen eighty three.
Speaker 1 (21:55):
So this whole project, Mister Roboto project is often cited
as a major factor in the band's temporary breakup because
there was so much discord within the band on this
what is it synth sound like? Just it was so different,
this synth pop sound that they had going on here,
(22:15):
and not everybody thought that was a good idea. So
the video is very weird. The face of the robot
I could see possibly could be offensive if you were
of the Asian culture. I don't know, so.
Speaker 2 (22:29):
Mister Miagi wouldn't have been happy with this.
Speaker 1 (22:32):
I don't know. I'm just it was weird. It felt
like I had maybe taken a hit of acid.
Speaker 2 (22:37):
So are you saying that the rest of the band
members of Sticks weren't saying domo arigatto, mister de Young, Yeah, no, yeah, yeah.
It was definitely different than what they had put forth before.
I still kind of like it.
Speaker 1 (22:51):
I'm not a huge Sticks fan, but I definitely like
their other stuff more than this.
Speaker 2 (22:55):
I've seen Sticks in concert, Sticks Foreigner, and I think
they opened for def Leppard.
Speaker 1 (23:00):
Am I not surprised by that?
Speaker 2 (23:01):
I know you're not. I mean, I wasn't there to
see Sticks. I was there to see Foreigner and def Leppard.
But it is what it is. I think we've probably
given Stix a lot of talk on this episode. So
let's move on to our number eight, which I'm pretty
sure we've had before. Here we go.
Speaker 5 (23:16):
Want to so you want to be?
Speaker 2 (23:34):
I don't want to be stuck in the middle, mister
Michael Jackson. That does want to be? Starting something by
Michael Jackson. It debuted in the top forty on June fourth,
nineteen eighty three. It was on the chart for eleven
weeks and it peaked at number five on the Billboard
Hot one hundred and that year, in nineteen eighty three,
it was the number sixty eight song of the year.
(23:56):
And this is one of his hits from the album Thrill.
And here are the torn lyrics. So he's saying I
can't do it because he does it so fast. I'm
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say my massa ma macusa. So that is a variant
of a lyric in Cameroonian saxophonist man Who Debongo's nineteen
seventy two disco song soul Macasa Wow. And macasa is
a Cameroonian music genre and dance. Okay, so you know
(24:42):
where Cameroon is Western Africa. And so Debongo actually sued
Michael Jackson in nineteen eighty six and settled out a
court for one million French froncs.
Speaker 1 (24:53):
Wow, because he didn't get permission.
Speaker 2 (24:55):
Because he didn't get permission.
Speaker 1 (24:57):
Why do people do that?
Speaker 2 (24:58):
But then he after that he waived future rights to
this recording so he couldn't sue anymore, but not future
use of the material. And somebody else and I don't
remember who used the material and he sued them in one.
Speaker 1 (25:13):
Oh my goodness.
Speaker 2 (25:14):
So he just he's a sewer.
Speaker 1 (25:17):
He's a sewer, makes his money. He's a sewer. Listen,
he came up with something and he got it. So
what do you think Michael Jackson's saying there at the
end though, and they're not saying, Mama, say mamma, Simon,
I have no idea, but I actually really like this song.
Speaker 2 (25:32):
Yes, it's so much fun.
Speaker 1 (25:33):
Is it is? Just a fun upbeat makes you want
to move songs that have no clue.
Speaker 2 (25:37):
What he's saying is that because you're a vegetable, Yes,
you're a vegetable. Yes. So Emmy asked about that as
he's saying you're a vegetable, and I was like, no,
but it sounds like it does.
Speaker 1 (25:47):
Where did she get that from?
Speaker 2 (25:48):
Because he's saying he says it, he says it's it's
actually lyrics in the song.
Speaker 1 (25:53):
Really.
Speaker 2 (25:53):
Yeah. So this was Michael's thirteenth top forty hit and
his fourth top forty hit from Thriller. And you said
you actually really like the song.
Speaker 1 (26:04):
I do. I think it's a fun song. Did you
know that it was originally written for his sister LaToya?
I did not know that, and it was about her
troubled relationship with her sisters in law. Oh, she turned
it down, so Michael ended up recording the song, but
sometimes LaToya will perform it in some of her concerts.
Speaker 2 (26:24):
Is this your favorite song from Thriller?
Speaker 3 (26:26):
Yes?
Speaker 2 (26:28):
So you liked this better than beat It or Billy Jean. Huh,
all right, well it's up there for sure. I like it.
You know, we've talked about Michael Jackson a lot on
this video, as we are on this video on this podcast,
as we should because he was the biggest star of
the nineteen eighties. But yeah, this was this was the
album that made Michael Jackson Michael Jackson.
Speaker 1 (26:52):
You know. I saw when I was doing some research
that Christopher Conley, a writer for Rolling Stone, actually noted that, uh,
this is a hyperactive song. And I'm like, yeah, that
really describes it. Hyper It does sound it feels very
like manic, almost in a bad way. Yeah, but yeah,
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this feels like, oh my gosh, when was the last
time he slept?
Speaker 2 (27:18):
I still like the Jimmy filing justin Timberlake. I'm gonna
say it one more time. I'm not going to stop. Yes,
say it one more time. I'm not going to stop.
Speaker 1 (27:25):
That is kind of what it sounds like if you
if you backed me into a corner, that's probably what
I would say, right.
Speaker 2 (27:31):
And being kids who always Mishaar lyrics anyway, that's what
they thought it was. So yeah, I think that's pretty good.
All right, Are you ready to move on to number seven?
Speaker 1 (27:42):
Yep?
Speaker 2 (27:43):
All right, here we go.
Speaker 1 (28:04):
We're gonna have a bonnet. Oh no, no, oh nine,
I'm sorry, I can you can't talk. I'm too busy dancing. Okay,
that is all night long by my friend Lionel Rich.
Speaker 2 (28:25):
There you go. I knew you were gonna call him
Lionell like Michael Jackson did. Didn't it sound like the
people in the background were just having a good old time?
Speaker 1 (28:34):
Yes, and so was I over here. Okay. So it
debuted in the top forty on October first, nineteen eighty three.
It's another eighty three song. It was on the chart
for seventeen weeks. It peaked at number one on the
Billboard Hot one hundred, where it stayed there for four weeks.
Speaker 2 (28:52):
Yeah, big song, pretty good.
Speaker 1 (28:54):
So it was also number one in eight other countries.
The number twelve song of the Year for nineteen eighty
four and listen to this, the number ninety six song
on the Billboard All Time Chart. And you know, I
don't believe in those.
Speaker 2 (29:09):
But if there is a song in the top one hundred,
it's this right on the All Time chart all night long.
So this song actually uses fake African language.
Speaker 1 (29:20):
Is that not offensive?
Speaker 2 (29:22):
Yeah? I think so. I think Lionel did it as
kind of a joke. But you know, I'm sure there
were people that took offense to it.
Speaker 1 (29:30):
So when it sounds like he's speaking another language, that's
not really anything.
Speaker 2 (29:35):
Yeah, Jambo Jambo is just gibberish.
Speaker 1 (29:38):
Jambo Jombo. Isn't that a drink I get at Disney
Jamba juice? Oh okay, I'm so confused.
Speaker 2 (29:46):
Do you get jambo Jombo at the Animal Kingdom?
Speaker 1 (29:49):
I think I might.
Speaker 2 (29:50):
That's funny.
Speaker 4 (29:53):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
So the song lyrics were written primarily in English, but
Lionel Ritchie has admitted in at least one press interview
that African quote unquote African lyrics and the songs such
just Tambo Lee Day, Say de Moya and Jambo Jumbo
were in fact gibberish.
Speaker 1 (30:09):
Okay.
Speaker 2 (30:11):
But he also uses fiesta, which is Spanish.
Speaker 1 (30:14):
Yeah, you know, so I love this.
Speaker 2 (30:16):
Uh we've got tri lingual.
Speaker 1 (30:18):
I was gonna say, what is this? I love this song? Okay,
so this came from Lionels. Sorry, now you've got me
so self conscious of saying it. So this came from
Lionel's or This was Lionel's fifth solo top forty hit
and third number one.
Speaker 2 (30:33):
Yes, I loved Lionel Richie back in the eighties. I
still love Lionelchie. His voice is just so smooth.
Speaker 1 (30:39):
I will never not love it is just so smooth,
my friend Lionel.
Speaker 2 (30:42):
And this might be this might be my If it's
not my favorite song by him, it's probably my favorite
one to put me in a good mood. Yes, you know,
you know, he's got some other ones that are really good,
some slower ones, ones that are really good, but this
one just always puts me in a good mood, gets
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me going.
Speaker 1 (31:05):
All right, Okay, speaking of good moods, this one's going
to put me in a bad mood.
Speaker 2 (31:09):
So we've we've had a Spanish, and we've had Japanese,
and we've had Cameroonian, and then we've had Gibberish and
now we're going to go back to some Spanish Look
(31:48):
at you shaking your head over there. That's Who's That Girl?
By Madonna? What's your problem with this song?
Speaker 1 (31:54):
I can tell you what. I did not clog to
this song.
Speaker 2 (31:57):
Well, no, this would not be a good clogging song.
But this was a good song. But Donad's putting out
the popheits in the eighties. So this debut in the
top forty on July eighteenth, nineteen eighty seven. It was
on the chart only for eleven weeks. Was kind of surprising,
but it did peak at number one on the Billboard
Hot one hundred. It was also number one on the
sales and airplay charts, as well as number one in
eight other countries. It was the number forty two song
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of the year in nineteen eighty seven. Get this my
Madonna hating friend in the country of Italy. You know
that long country that looks like a big boot. It
was the number one song of the year in nineteen
eighty seven, so they didn't have much going on then.
It was written for the soundtrack Who's That Girl, which
was nominated for a Grammy and for Best Original Song
(32:44):
at the Oscars.
Speaker 1 (32:45):
Okay wait, okay, wait wait wait. The song was nominated
for a Grammy. Yes, so this song that we just
listened to.
Speaker 2 (32:54):
Was nominated for a Grammy, and it was also one
of five nominees for Best Original Song at the Oscar.
Speaker 1 (33:00):
The Oscars, the Academy.
Speaker 2 (33:02):
Award, the Academy Awards. It did not win. As I mentioned,
this is Spanish and English k and s Estonina. Who's
that girl? Madonna's fourteenth top forty hit and sixth number one?
And mind you she started in nineteen eighty and three,
late eighty three, early eighty four, and she already had
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fourteen top ten hits or fourteen top forty hits in
just those three and a half years. Pretty impressive. Did
you do any research on this song? Are you just
such a Madonna hater that you were just like moving on?
Speaker 1 (33:40):
So?
Speaker 2 (33:40):
You know what, I don't think you're gonna like the
number five song too much better anyway, But here we go.
Speaker 3 (33:48):
The tools.
Speaker 1 (34:11):
I just got one thing to say, what Falco new?
Speaker 2 (34:14):
Falco New? That's right.
Speaker 1 (34:18):
If you don't get that reference, go back what four
episodes maybe five episodes ago, and take a listen. We
did an episode on Tony Alamo, a cult leader from
the eighties. Yes, and we.
Speaker 2 (34:31):
Talked a little bit about that, talk about Falco wearing
one of his jackets.
Speaker 1 (34:35):
Yes, okay, so that's rock me Amedaeis by of course Falco.
Yes debuted in the Top forty on February twenty second,
nineteen eighty six. It was on the chart for thirteen weeks.
It peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot one hundred,
where it stayed for three weeks. It was also number
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one on sales and air play charts for three weeks,
and it hit number one in eight different countries. It
was the twenty eighth song of the Year for nineteen
eighty six.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
So I thought it would have been higher. Honestly, what
I thought it would have been higher. I thought it
would have been top ten because this song is huge.
Back then, they played on the radio every seventeen minutes.
Speaker 1 (35:20):
My assumption is the song was popular because it was
unlike anything else.
Speaker 2 (35:25):
Yes, absolutely, it was unlike anything else. It's talking about
one of the greatest musicians of all time, in Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart, which, by the way, back then, I didn't
know that Amadeis. I didn't know that it was Mozart.
I didn't know he was talking about Mozart. I didn't
know Mozart's name, right, I guess knew he was. I
just knew he was Mozart, yes, So what are the
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languages on this?
Speaker 1 (35:50):
A German yes, right? And Falco's He's not I think
it's Austrian yet yeah, So what did they speak in Austria? German?
Speaker 2 (36:00):
Do they?
Speaker 1 (36:01):
Okay?
Speaker 2 (36:01):
They do?
Speaker 1 (36:02):
So what else is on other? I mean English? Clearly?
Is there anything else? No?
Speaker 2 (36:06):
Just German and English. So this song was inspired by
the movie Amedeus, and the US release did not include
an English translation, instead remixing the song with an English
background voiceover performed by Rick McCullough. And here's what I
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found interesting. You know you mentioned Marshall being a history
buff before. Ye, well, this song is all about the
history of Mozart, right, It's about, you know, his popularity
as well as like he fell into debt. So it
mentions in seventeen fifty six. In Salzburg January twenty seventh,
(36:49):
Wolfgang amadas Is born seventeen sixty one. At the age
of five, Amadeis begins composing can you believe that at
the age of five, that's insane? Seventeen seventy three, he
writes his first piano concerto. In seventeen eighty two, Wolfgang
Amadeas Mozart Mary's Constanze Weber. In seventeen eighty four, Wolfgang
Amadas Mozart becomes a freemason. I didn't know that, Oh lord.
(37:13):
Seventeen ninety one, Mozart composes the magic flute. On December
fifth of that same year, Mozart dies. And then in
nineteen eighty five, Austrian rock singer Falco records Rock me Amedeas.
I love that beginning. It's so cheesy, that last part,
(37:35):
did you know?
Speaker 1 (37:35):
Okay? So with Rock me Amedeis, Falgo became the first
German speaking artist to be credited with a number one
single on both mainstream US pop charts Singles chart, the
Billboard Hot one hundred and cash Box Top one hundred Singles.
Speaker 2 (37:53):
I did not know that. Yeah, the first German yep,
German speaking German speaking, Yeah, he was in Germany, all Strian,
but the first German speaking, So speaking of German, how
about our number four.
Speaker 4 (38:06):
Song nons no fun in effects it Tonzo ve.
Speaker 2 (38:32):
Think about that song.
Speaker 1 (38:33):
I love this song. It's just a fun song.
Speaker 2 (38:35):
So that is ninety nine loof Balloons by Nina or
is it Nana?
Speaker 1 (38:40):
I think I mean my southernness would say Nina, but
I think it might be Nana. I don't know.
Speaker 2 (38:46):
It debuted in the top forty on January twenty first,
nineteen eighty four. It was on the shart for thirteen
weeks and it peaked at number two on the Billboard
Hot one hundred, but it hit number one in nine
different countries. It was the number twenty eight song of
the Year in nineteen and eighty four. So did you know,
(39:06):
lindsay that this song was originally in German, which is
what we just heard there. But it did so well
that they released an English version of the song. Yeah,
And the English version charted in Canada, Ireland, the UK,
and South Africa, and it was number one in the
first three and number three in South Africa.
Speaker 1 (39:21):
But the English version did not chart in the United States.
Speaker 2 (39:26):
It did not.
Speaker 1 (39:26):
That's crazy.
Speaker 2 (39:27):
I like the German version better than the English version, curent.
I remember the first time somebody said ninety nine red
balloons and I'm like, what are you talking about? It's
ninety nine love balloons.
Speaker 1 (39:37):
Oh, so what's the song about?
Speaker 2 (39:39):
So the English version retains the spirit of the original narrative,
but many of the lyrics are translated poetically rather than
being directly translated. The red helium balloons are casually released
by the civilian singer or the narrator with her unnamed
friend into the sky and are mistakenly registered by a
faulty early warning system is enemy contacts, resulting in panic
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and eventually nuclear war, with the end of the song
near identical to the end of the original German.
Speaker 1 (40:11):
Oh Wow version Oh Wow, okay so.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
But Nina from the Outset Uh and other members of
the band expressed disapproval of the English version of the
song ninety nine Red Balloons. In March nineteen eighty four,
the band's keyboardist and song co writer You've a Faring
Krog Peterson said, we made a mistake there. I think
the song loses something in translation and even sounds silly,
(40:37):
and I agree with you You've. In another interview that month,
the band, including Nana herself, were quoted as being not
completely satisfied with the English version since it was too
blatant for a group not wishing to be seen as
a protest band. Huh and this is a true one
(40:58):
hit wonder that's too bad. It was a fun song.
I mean, I guess maybe it could have. They could
have had two hits if ninety nine Red Balloons jarded.
But everybody already heard the cool version. We didn't want
to hear the the secondary English version.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
So has there been a decade since the eighties where
German songs were popular? I don't know German language songs
were popular. I don't feel like that. That's a language
we get much off these days.
Speaker 2 (41:29):
Nine all right? Any other thoughts on on the song?
Speaker 1 (41:35):
Nope, you covered it?
Speaker 2 (41:35):
All right? You ready to move to your number three?
No Spanish, that is your material? Girl again Madonna?
Speaker 1 (42:08):
Listen and I don't speak this language? So is it la?
I love Bonita?
Speaker 2 (42:12):
La isla bonita, but isla is probably the right way
to say it.
Speaker 1 (42:16):
Ammy has a friend named Alah. So anyways, it's we
got Madonna again, So I'm sorry. Debuted in the top
forty on March twenty eighth, nineteen eighty seven. Do you know?
Do you know? You know what I'm thinking? What I'm
gonna need. I'm gonna need to potentially get on the
yacht rock bandwagon because I want to get away from Madonna.
Speaker 2 (42:41):
You're doing an eighties podcast. You can't get away from.
Speaker 1 (42:44):
I want to get away from her, and I don't
think she'll get on the yacht rock bandwagon.
Speaker 2 (42:48):
You can't get on You can't get away from Madonna.
You can't get away from Michael Jackson. I don't want
to get away from him. I'm not his type, and
you can. You can't get away from Whitney Houston and
I love Whitney. Those are three people that you just
can't get away from in the eighties.
Speaker 1 (43:01):
Okay, let me adjust my attitude, just okay, hold on,
give me a second. Okay. It debuted in the top
forty on March twenty eighth, nineteen eighty seven. It was
on the chart for twelve weeks, where it peaked and
number four on Billboard Hot one hundred, number three on
airplay and sales, and number one on Adult Contemporary. It
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hit number one in six different countries. It ended up
being the fifty eighth song of the year of nineteen
eighty seven.
Speaker 2 (43:31):
Do you know what lat is? Isla bonita translates.
Speaker 1 (43:34):
To something about being beautiful, something's beautiful.
Speaker 2 (43:37):
The beautiful island. Okay, So this was this one hit
right before Who's that Girl. So this was their thirteenth
top forty, But I actually liked the song better than
Who's That Girl. I don't think we need to get
into the thoughts on the song or Madonna or your
personal connection, because your personal connection is you don't like
Madonna and you don't like any of their songs that
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you can't two.
Speaker 1 (44:03):
Well, I've got a nugget on this. Oh you dot nugget?
Speaker 2 (44:08):
I want nuggets. Is it a nugget or a nugget?
Speaker 1 (44:12):
It's a nugget, okay. Patrick Leonard, who had previously served
as musical director on her The Virgin Tour. He had
contributed to the Jackson's nineteen eighty four Victory Tour and
remained in contact with Michael Jackson and producer Quincy Jones.
(44:32):
At their request, he composed a series of instrumental demos
for them to listen to and potentially expand on, including
one intended to resemble the style of Sadae Huh. The
piece was presented to Jackson and Jones, but ultimately they
turned it down, So mister Leonard later took the demo
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to Madonna. Uh, and guess what, she made it a hit.
They developed it and there you go.
Speaker 2 (45:03):
Can you imagine if Michael Jackson and Madonna had recorded
the duet together in the eighties, the world wouldn't have
been ready for it, Like everybody's head would have exploded,
and it would have just ended the world right then
and there, I had to talk about our friend Saday,
because you don't call her saved anymore. All right, here's
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the number two. This I would say, this might be
my favorite song on the countdown. It's not, but it's
got a reason for me saying that. And then the
number one is probably my favorite. But this one's pretty good.
So here we go.
Speaker 3 (45:43):
The revenue, the beat that.
Speaker 2 (46:08):
I like it when they go. So that is Dirk
commissar by after the Fire.
Speaker 1 (46:18):
Dirt Some days, some days we'll be sitting in at night,
we'll be sent watching TV and I'll look over at
you and you'll be just.
Speaker 2 (46:26):
Like getting back to our countdown. That's number two, Dark
Commissar after the Fire. This debuted in the top forty
on March fifth, nineteen eighty three. It was on the
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chart for fourteen weeks, and it peaked at number five
on the Billboard Hot one hundred. It would end up
being the number thirty song of the Year in nineteen
eighty three. I love nineteen eighty three. Did you know
that the word kammas are is German for public official?
Speaker 1 (47:02):
Now I didn't know that, but yeah, I see that
now as plain as day.
Speaker 2 (47:06):
So this song was actually written in nineteen eighty one
by Robert Ponger and Falco.
Speaker 4 (47:12):
I thought I was.
Speaker 1 (47:13):
Gonna get to like spring that on. Oh I've known that.
You knew that.
Speaker 2 (47:17):
Already, Oh bummer the nineteen eighty one Did you know this?
The nineteen eighty one version actually hit number one in Austria, Italy,
Spain and West Germany. In nineteen eighty two. Oh wow,
it hit the top forty in the US on the
Mainstream Rock chart and Dance club chart, but not the
Billboard Hot one hundred. That's the nineteen eighty one version,
not this version. By after the Fire, and we got
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another one hit wonder for after the Fire. This was
their only hit their commissar. So what else do you
have on this song?
Speaker 1 (47:47):
That's all I have?
Speaker 2 (47:47):
Oh, that's all you have?
Speaker 1 (47:48):
Sorry about this time in my research, Emmy had started
wailing in the background and I couldn't focus on both.
So all I got for you on this.
Speaker 2 (47:59):
Is that foul was co writer Falco Knew. So my
personal connection to the song other than like liking it
in nineteen eighty three, was you know that for a
long time I worked for a German company. Yes, and
at a point we had a German director who was female.
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But boy, it almost felt like she may have been
a public official during the World War two days. She
could just tear you apart, rep you apart, and almost
everybody was afraid of her. I wasn't she actually liked me,
but yeah, but I can say that she would walk
up and down the aisles checking on people to make
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sure they were in the office when they said they
were going to be in the office. And whenever she
would or whenever she'd come up to somebody's cube to
ask them a question, this song would pop in my head.
Don't turn around, Oh their commissars in town. Uh oh,
that's what this song makes me think of that And
that's why another reason why I just love it so much,
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because I like to give people songs yeah that fit
their personality, and that was definitely hers. It wasn't ninety
nine loof balloons. It was Dirk Kommissar.
Speaker 1 (49:18):
All right.
Speaker 2 (49:19):
We have counted down our top ten and we are
down to number one. What do you think our number
one song is gonna be? I have no idea, but
I'm ready to hear it our number one song. I
(49:39):
think you're gonna like this one.
Speaker 4 (49:50):
Hot.
Speaker 1 (50:00):
I want to do sweet, this is hot, hot, hot
buster Poindexter. Yes, this song reminds me of the Conga line,
which reminds me of a cruise, which reminds me of
(50:21):
the Netflix documentary Poop Cruise, which reminds me that I'll
never ever go on another cruise. So I need you
to do this one even though it's my turn, because
I have I have a lot of questions.
Speaker 2 (50:36):
Okay, okay. So this song peaked at number forty five
on the Billboard Hot one hundred and nineteen eighty seven.
It is a cover of an early eighties version by
Caribbean musician Arrow. It certainly has a Caribbean sound to it.
I love all things about the Caribbean other than the
sex trafficking trade that apparently goes around and gets that
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the girl from the other Netflix documentary.
Speaker 1 (51:03):
I mean, as people can tell, we watch a lot
of TV.
Speaker 2 (51:05):
Yes, but I just this song so much fun and
it's funny that this song reminds you of that, because
that this song reminds me of the office when Michael
came back from Jamaica with j just playing on his
little drum and he just kept saying hot, hot, hot,
all over over and oka.
Speaker 1 (51:26):
So my question, yes, Buster Poindexter is not a person.
Speaker 2 (51:32):
That is correct. It's a persona.
Speaker 1 (51:35):
Like Garth Brooks and Chris Gaines.
Speaker 2 (51:38):
I was gonna say more like pee wee Herman, like
Paul Rubens and pee wee Herman. Pee wee Herman's a persona,
not a person stuff like that confuses me. Well, yeah,
especially when you're young.
Speaker 1 (51:50):
Okay, I have one other question.
Speaker 2 (51:52):
Yeah, no, no, go ahead.
Speaker 1 (51:53):
So the real person, not Buster, but the real guy.
Speaker 2 (51:58):
Yes.
Speaker 1 (51:58):
Did he ever have any hits?
Speaker 2 (52:00):
Yes? David Johansson his lounge singer persona was Buster Poindexter,
so he's kind of goofy here. And this was his
first single from his album, Buster Poindexter. It got extensive
airplay on MTV, other television appearances, even on the radio
a little bit, and there was a music video that
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was produced for his version of song, in which he
appears as both Buster Poindexter and as himself. Wow so
he was actually part of the nineteen seventies proto punk
band the New York Dolls. Okay, And the video actually
starts with him mentioning his role as the front man
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for the New York Dolls and shows him tossing the
band's albums, tossing them aside while talking about the really
outrageous clothes he wore and how he came to be
interested in a refined and dignified kind of a situation,
which then leads into this song Hot Hot So Bust.
Speaker 1 (53:00):
Not David Right played Ghost of Christmas Past in Scrooge
in nineteen eighty. Yes, that is correct, Not David Right,
not David Buster, Okay, just chucking. Not David Buster, not
Dave and Busters. Maybe that's where they got the name from.
So the only other thing that I had for you
(53:22):
that I'm hoping this is something you didn't know, because
I love to spring things on you that you didn't know.
Bill Murray appears in this music video.
Speaker 2 (53:31):
Because of the connection with Scrooged, or just because Bill
Murray just appears in the video, And then that's how
Buster Poindexter got to be on Scrooge.
Speaker 1 (53:42):
That's just what Bill Murray does.
Speaker 2 (53:44):
Yeah, he'll he'll appear on video. I mean maybe he figured, hey,
Chevy Chase was on, you can call me out. I
need to be on Buster Poindexter's Hot Hot. Huh.
Speaker 1 (53:53):
Buster looks like a poor man's Mick Jagger.
Speaker 2 (53:57):
Uh yeah, I can see that. I get n see that.
So what do you think about the song?
Speaker 3 (54:02):
Though?
Speaker 2 (54:02):
It's fun?
Speaker 1 (54:03):
Right, it's a fun song. Listen, if I'm three sheets
to the wind and this song comes on, we're starting
the conga line.
Speaker 2 (54:11):
Well, so between this song and between Lionel Richie's All
Night Long, I just kind of want to go hang
out on Jamaica with Tom Cruise, Yeah, and start a
cocktail bar.
Speaker 1 (54:22):
Let's do it. Yeah, seems seems a lot better than
the than the eighties we're living in right now.
Speaker 2 (54:29):
In the Daily Grin. All right, so that was our
top ten. I want to know what everybody thought. But
before we do, you know, I've got.
Speaker 1 (54:40):
To do this right, of course, I'm ready not a lunch.
Speaker 2 (54:45):
Here are our final stats. Of our ten songs, nine
of them hit the top forty. The only one that
didn't was actually our number one song, which hit number
forty five. We had three number ones and eight top
five hits, four songs from nineteen eighty three, three songs
from nineteen eighty and one song each in eighty four,
eighty six, and eighty ten. There were four male solos,
(55:07):
two female solos, three band songs, and one song by
a dude who uses a persona. There were four one
hit wonders. But as I look through this right, we've
got we've got Spanish, We've got Japanese, we've got Cameroon.
(55:32):
We've got Gibberish, which is supposed to be African, but
we've also got him using Fiesta, which is Spanish.
Speaker 1 (55:37):
We've got Robot.
Speaker 2 (55:38):
We've got Robot, We've got Madonna, two Spanish songs. We've
got three German songs, rock Me Amadeas ninety nine, move
Balloons and Dirk kamisar Uh. I think we covered the Gamut.
Speaker 1 (55:53):
We it seems like we did.
Speaker 2 (55:55):
You know, we've got Asia with the with Japanese, and
we've got Africa, and we've got uh German with Europe,
and we've got you know, South America with Spanish and
the Caribbean and Mexico, and we even we even threw
a shout out for our Canadian buddies with Robin Sparks.
Speaker 1 (56:13):
Of course we had a Canadian song.
Speaker 2 (56:16):
Yes, so uh, this was a fun episode for me.
I enjoyed it. I know that you weren't really looking
forward to it, but it looks to me like you
kind of enjoyed it too. I did.
Speaker 1 (56:28):
I had fun.
Speaker 2 (56:29):
It was a good mix of songs.
Speaker 1 (56:31):
So go ahead, like Jim's already said, we would love
to hear from you and what songs you liked, what
songs you didn't like? What did we leave off? What
did we forget? Jim always forgets something, always forget something,
and you don't have to tell me I forgot LaBamba.
I know I did that on purpose. We've covered Lobamba before.
You can reach out to us. We're on social media
via x, Instagram or Facebook, or of course you can
(56:55):
always email us, right, so.
Speaker 2 (56:56):
We are at Children of Underscore eighties on all those
social media pages. But if you want to email us,
we are children of the nineteen eighties at gmail dot com.
Speaker 1 (57:06):
If you haven't, go ahead hit that subscribe button. So
you're guaranteed to never miss an episode, and we would
appreciate if you would give us a five star rating
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but most importantly, tell somebody phone a friend, read the word.
Speaker 2 (57:25):
If we can get Marshall a book sale or two,
you can get us a listener to I love it
all right. Well, until next time.
Speaker 1 (57:33):
I'm Jim and I'm Lindsey and we are children of
the eighties.
Speaker 2 (57:41):
See you next Wednesday.
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