Top 80s Hits: Songs with Numbers in the Title

Numbers aren't for math-they made some of the best 80s hits too! Join us as we count UP unforgettable tracks that feature numbers in their titles. 

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:18):
Welcome back to Children of the Eighties. I am Lindsay,
and with me today is my co host and husband
Jim Butler, who always insists that I count us down
three two one prior to every podcast recording.

Speaker 2 (00:35):
Doesn't every podcaster do that?

Speaker 3 (00:37):
Three three two one?

Speaker 2 (00:44):
I don't get it, really, really.

Speaker 3 (00:49):
Knowing what our episode is about, you don't get it.

Speaker 2 (00:54):
Yes, I get what you're saying. We are actually going
to become up though, and I'll explain that as we.

Speaker 1 (01:02):
Get Okay with me today as my co host and
husband Jim Butler, who always insist that I count us
up prior to every episode one, two three, You've already lost?

Speaker 2 (01:22):
Yeah, no, is this has started out already a disaster here.

Speaker 3 (01:27):
I think it's fine.

Speaker 2 (01:28):
So what's going on over there?

Speaker 1 (01:29):
So I need to talk about something that I forgot
to mention in last week's episode about Heraldo.

Speaker 2 (01:37):
Oh yeah, what's that?

Speaker 1 (01:39):
During the two hour special that he did leading up
to opening al Capone's Sealed Vault.

Speaker 3 (01:47):
He fired a machine gun on live TV.

Speaker 2 (01:50):
Oh he did?

Speaker 1 (01:51):
Yes, I guess, just like the mobsters did. I don't
know what the correlation was, but that's an assumption I'm making.

Speaker 2 (01:58):
That's funny because I was thinking about and I think
this happened in the nineties and not the eighties. But
remember Heraldo went to prison and tried to interview Charles Manson,
and Heralda was acting. He was acting all tough with
old Charlie only because there were armed guards there. Yeah, right,
I think you know, if Charlie met Haraldo in a

(02:19):
dark alley, bye bye haroldo.

Speaker 3 (02:26):
Oh.

Speaker 2 (02:27):
And actually, Haraldo's actually lucky that Charlie didn't like brainwash
people to go after him. And I was going to say,
murder him like they did the Sharon.

Speaker 3 (02:36):
Tate put a hit out on it.

Speaker 2 (02:37):
Yeah, so I wouldn't be acting so tough there, Jerry Rivera.

Speaker 3 (02:41):
Yeah, you got to pick your battles.

Speaker 2 (02:43):
Jerry.

Speaker 3 (02:44):
Hopefully by now he's learned that, but who knows.

Speaker 2 (02:48):
I mean maybe he figured, hey, a white supremacist broke
my nose by throwing a chair, I can handle old
tiny Charlie in prison.

Speaker 1 (02:55):
And he was also probably thinking about the time he
was humiliated on National TV and they opened the vault
and it was empty.

Speaker 2 (03:01):
Yeah, so he had to try and get some of
his manhood back maybe.

Speaker 3 (03:05):
Yeah, so he had something to prove, so how you doing.

Speaker 2 (03:10):
Well, I'm making it, you know. Another day another dollar
that the government takes most of and then the and
then the mortgage company takes the rest of it.

Speaker 1 (03:19):
Another day, another surgery in the Butler house.

Speaker 2 (03:23):
Yeah, well, you know, we don't want to bore people
with that, but yeah, I'm going back under the knife
again thanks to you.

Speaker 1 (03:30):
Well you told him all about the Superman pose, so
now you've got to follow up and let him know
you're going to have to have surgery.

Speaker 2 (03:36):
Yeah, the Superman pose. All that did was lead to
MRI pictures of my finger that shows that I've got
some kind of uh, I don't know. They don't know
what is in there in my finger, but they're worried
that it's going to do bone damage to the knuckle.
And so I am going under the knife next week.
I know it from today.

Speaker 3 (03:56):
I know what it is. It's where you were probed
by the aliens.

Speaker 2 (03:59):
Yeah, no, that's what it is. They left some of
their machinery in there, and and now my finger's all swollen.

Speaker 1 (04:05):
So in the two years that I didn't work and
I was semi retired, I did a lot of volunteering
with elderly people because I.

Speaker 3 (04:14):
Love elderly people, love the old folks. They're my people.

Speaker 1 (04:17):
And it's so funny the amount of times that they
brought up UFOs and aliens. Really, and now so many
elderly people believe.

Speaker 2 (04:27):
In that UFOs and aliens and they just they just
brought it up random.

Speaker 3 (04:32):
They just go with it, yes, and they yeah, they
they're firm believers.

Speaker 2 (04:37):
Okay, did they know Fox Molder?

Speaker 4 (04:41):
Probably all right. Well, I don't really know what to
say about that. I know I've taken this off the rail. Yeah, yeah,
you're you're bouncing all over the over the joint. Here
you got Jerry Rivera and my finger and now old
people and aliens. I don't know what's going on here.
I don't even know what kind of show this is anymore.

Speaker 1 (04:58):
No, I well, I think the history would show that
I'm not known from the beginning what kind of show.

Speaker 2 (05:04):
Well, I mean, in fairness, that's probably a fair statement
in fairness.

Speaker 4 (05:10):
In fairness, it is wow. I am a I am
a wordsmith over here too.

Speaker 3 (05:14):
That's how you won me over man.

Speaker 2 (05:17):
Work is kicking behinde. So I'm running on empty, as
Jackson Brown saying, I'm sorry, this PEPs me up. This
is the one part of the week that I actually
enjoy this.

Speaker 3 (05:28):
This what's the opposite of pet me up? It runs
me down?

Speaker 2 (05:32):
Yeah, it wears you down.

Speaker 1 (05:33):
Yeah, because I'm an introvert and you're an extrovert.

Speaker 2 (05:37):
Yes, and so I like to just get on here
and talk and I get pepped up, and then I
get so fired up I can't get to sleep for hours.
I feel like Elvis. I need to take some downers
to get to sleep.

Speaker 3 (05:47):
You need to go sit on the toilet.

Speaker 2 (05:49):
No, no, no, no, you don't want me to go
do that.

Speaker 3 (05:54):
Oh my gosh, you didn't.

Speaker 2 (05:56):
Make it out of there alive. The bathroom's a dangerous place,
Yes it is. That's why leave the door open.

Speaker 1 (06:06):
Oh my goodness, I have an old man rant. Wait wait, okay,
I have an old woman rant.

Speaker 2 (06:12):
Get off my lawn. Did you hear me?

Speaker 5 (06:15):
I said, get off my lawn, Now, get off my lawn.
I'm not happy.

Speaker 3 (06:19):
I don't like this chair, and I don't like this dish, and.

Speaker 5 (06:22):
I don't like being here.

Speaker 6 (06:25):
I'm a grumpy old man. I don't like everything the
way it is now compared to the way it.

Speaker 3 (06:31):
Used to being. Yeah, that's me today.

Speaker 1 (06:34):
Okay, So when I was in my early twenties when
I was in college, like going and hanging out at Starbucks.
That was all the rage. Yes, so I feel like
I know my coffee houses. I know my coffee. I
know my coffee houses. That's my jam.

Speaker 2 (06:50):
Well, you drink more coffee than Homer Simpson does beer.

Speaker 3 (06:53):
So that's the truth.

Speaker 1 (06:55):
If there's anywhere that I'm comfortable, it's at a Starbucks
or the like. So the first of it's kind in
the state of Georgia opened like a couple of miles
from our house.

Speaker 2 (07:09):
It's called the first of its kind in the State
of Georgia. That the name of the coffee house.

Speaker 1 (07:13):
That's the name of the coffee shop. And it's all
the rage with these youngins. And so Emmy had just
kept dropping hints and dropping hints about wanting to go.
But I was hearing from the moms that the line,
so there's no inside first of all, so you either
go through the drive through in your car or you
stand in line out in the elements. And I had

(07:36):
heard that either way it was at least a thirty
minute wait.

Speaker 2 (07:40):
Well, nobody wants to wait thirty minutes for coffee. I
could probably go to Columbia and grab some beans and
grind them up and make the coffee.

Speaker 1 (07:48):
In that amount of time, I kept putting it off,
putting it off, putting it off, and so felt bad
that the last few days before school started, she was
kind of bored. She was having to hang out with
me at work a lot and wasn't really doing anything fun.
So I agreed after work to take her there, and
we had a whole plan of how we were going
to entertain ourselves for the thirty minutes that we waited.

(08:08):
We pulled up and there was not another soul there.
There was no one there, There was no thirty minute wait,
no thirty minute way. Now it was also drizzling. So
a couple of observations. One, have you noticed it's now
not popular to have the little the little call box.

Speaker 2 (08:31):
Yes, they meet you in person, face to face.

Speaker 3 (08:34):
And I don't like that confrontation.

Speaker 1 (08:38):
It makes it's very confrontational and it makes me nervous,
and I don't like it.

Speaker 2 (08:43):
Okay, so so stop doing that. Restaurant.

Speaker 1 (08:46):
We pulled up to the menu, the outside menu, and
we're reading it.

Speaker 3 (08:51):
They don't have just coffee.

Speaker 2 (08:54):
What do you mean they don't?

Speaker 3 (08:55):
I just wanted coffee. That's all.

Speaker 1 (08:56):
I wanted to just give me a coffee. It was rainy,
it was yucky. I just wanted coffee. They did not
have coffee on the menu. So I'm sitting it was
a coffee place, and I'm sitting there, and I'm sitting there,
and I'm sitting there and there's no call box. But
there's also no person coming up. But I look around
and it's raining. There aren't employees standing around kind of

(09:21):
staring at us, but not offering to come take our order.

Speaker 3 (09:25):
And they're wearing umbrella boxes.

Speaker 2 (09:28):
What do you mean by umbrella boxes?

Speaker 1 (09:30):
So it's like an umbrella, but it's a box that
goes over them, and they have a little like plastic
clear thing that they can see out of. So I
guess the thought is it keeps them dry from the rain,
but it allows them to still stand out and take
the orders. I also feel like you could easily hot

(09:53):
box yourself by doing it.

Speaker 2 (09:55):
I feel like I feel like you're describing Michael J.
Fox when he goes to see his dad as Darth
Vader from the planet Vulcan right to try and convince
him to go after Lorraine. So did they look like
that they.

Speaker 3 (10:11):
Never came.

Speaker 1 (10:13):
Kind of but the it was like a clear like
see through material, so you could see all of them
inside the box. So they were standing there in the rain,
presumably dry because they've got the box on. But nobody
came over to offer to take our order. In the meantime,
Emmy is mortified of me embarrassing her, and my rant

(10:35):
of where's the coffee on the menu was getting her
work done because she thought I was gonna say or
do something that was embarrassing.

Speaker 3 (10:41):
So we then drove on up to the window.

Speaker 1 (10:46):
She slid the door open, very confused because she didn't
have my order, so therefore she didn't know what to
do with me, and I said, I'm sorry, I didn't
know how to order.

Speaker 2 (10:58):
Nobody came to me, and I have no speaker box
out there.

Speaker 3 (11:01):
Okay, here's the weird part.

Speaker 1 (11:04):
The inside of this coffee shop, which would have been
only like a kitchen and only the employees could be in,
there was like a nightclub.

Speaker 3 (11:13):
The music was like.

Speaker 1 (11:18):
And it had lights flashing with the bass, to the
point that if I was epileptic, I probably would have
had a seizure, and to the point she couldn't hear me,
and I couldn't hear her, and I was asking, do
you just have a coffee? And she was not understanding that,
and I finally settled on something else. I said, just

(11:39):
give me something, but it can't have sugar, and so
she just gave me something I don't know, and Emmy
got her dirty soda, which is what the young'ins drink
these days, and we went on.

Speaker 3 (11:51):
Our merry way.

Speaker 2 (11:52):
I don't really want anything called dirty.

Speaker 3 (11:55):
Dirty, so whatever.

Speaker 1 (11:57):
This coffee place doesn't have coffee, but they dirty soda.

Speaker 2 (12:00):
I don't know what that means. Also, I've got news
for you. You just breathing embarrasses Emmy. Oh, I know
it's right. You can't really do anything that's not going
to embarrass.

Speaker 1 (12:13):
Well, that whole back and forth with me and the
coffee lady, I really wouldn't have been surprised had she
have opened the car door and.

Speaker 3 (12:19):
Got out and just ran.

Speaker 2 (12:22):
It was that bad. Uh.

Speaker 3 (12:24):
Yeah, but what happened to just selling coffee?

Speaker 2 (12:28):
I don't know.

Speaker 1 (12:29):
You told me just give me a cup of coffee. Yeah,
you tell me, like a coffee house, want a dirty soda?
I don't want anything fancy. You don't want a bubble teeth,
do not put sugar in They always want it. They
look at me like I'm crazy when I'm like, just
don't put any sugar in it. Whatever you give me,
it can't have sugar.

Speaker 7 (12:48):
And it's.

Speaker 3 (12:51):
Just when did this happen? When did I become old?

Speaker 4 (12:56):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (12:56):
It's been a process and out of touch over the
last thirty years or so. I know you have, day
by day gotten older and older and older. Listen, I noticed,
like I got a little something like here on my wattle.

Speaker 3 (13:09):
You got a wattle.

Speaker 2 (13:10):
It's not a wattle, but it's like kind.

Speaker 3 (13:12):
Of a wattle. I thought you were taking calligen. I.

Speaker 2 (13:16):
It's like it's like I'm getting old. I mean I
am old, but I'm looking old now and I don't
like that.

Speaker 3 (13:22):
Yeah.

Speaker 1 (13:22):
I went to the dermatologist last week to she was
gonna just zap off one little spot on my face,
but then she told me multiple zaps for the price
of one. And I mean, next thing, I've stripped down
to my skivvies and she is zapping spots all over
my body and I'm giddy.

Speaker 2 (13:42):
Because that's what old people do. Yeah, I know, I
know you used to be giddy about going to Starbucks.
Now you're giddy about getting stuff zapped off your body
by a laser.

Speaker 1 (13:54):
But I bet, I bet you could see my lady
and she might could do something firm that that goose.

Speaker 2 (14:00):
I mean, it's not that unfirm, but it's it's almost like,
you know how when you see like John Goodman, like
he was kind of I mean he wasn't kind of
he was very overweight, but then he lost a lot
of weight and then he's got just like that kind
of loose skin hanging off of his hit.

Speaker 3 (14:13):
What's excuse?

Speaker 2 (14:14):
I don't know because I'm not losing any weight, so
I don't know what's going on. Maybe I'm just, you
know what, I've started losing weight, and maybe the first
place I lose it is my nest.

Speaker 3 (14:22):
Well they say it starts from the head and it
goes down.

Speaker 2 (14:25):
Well, I can my face and any less fat than
it was yesterday or five weeks ago. I need it
to start at the bottom and go up. I love
you your wattle, Oh my goodness, don't say that I
have a wattle. I don't like that. Are you ready
to get like to Today's shit lost?

Speaker 3 (14:43):
Everybody? Let's do it all right.

Speaker 1 (14:51):
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 but we look back
on with fond memories as adults. Ultimately, this is a
nostalgia podcast.

Speaker 2 (15:08):
You know what. One of my fond memories is having
a skinny neck. That's one of my fond memories.

Speaker 3 (15:16):
Tight neck.

Speaker 2 (15:17):
Also getting out and just running without you know, hurting myself.

Speaker 3 (15:21):
Oh gosh, I die if I did that now.

Speaker 2 (15:24):
But yeah, this is a nostalgia podcast. Today we're getting
nostalgic about music. We're having another music episode, which is
my favorite and probably your least favorite.

Speaker 3 (15:33):
It is it is, sorry, but we hit.

Speaker 2 (15:36):
We have a theme for today and you kind of
hinted at it in our opening and our theme is
songs that have numbers in the title. What do you
think about that?

Speaker 3 (15:46):
Awesome? So like nine to five Dolly?

Speaker 2 (15:49):
Well, we've already covered nine to five by Dolly Parton,
so that won't be featured on this episode. What else
do you got?

Speaker 1 (15:57):
Well, nothing, if you're not gonna let me talk about
nine to five, because you know, in this house all
we talk about now is Dolly.

Speaker 2 (16:03):
Oh I know, Oh trust me, I know. We got
Dolly Wood I know, And then all I hear is Doyle,
you weren't You weren't here today when she got home
from school. I'm downstairs working in my office, and I
hear her up here playing her little keyboard, singing Joe
Leane at the top of.

Speaker 1 (16:18):
Her Oh yeah, No, you've not lived until you've heard
an eleven year old singing Joe Lene, Joe Leane, jo Leane.
And it's just like too much, it's too much. What
about uh, Summer sixty nine.

Speaker 2 (16:33):
We've discussed that at length on this show, so that
will also not be appearing on our count up.

Speaker 3 (16:39):
Okay, well, I don't know. That's all I know.

Speaker 2 (16:42):
Do you know any songs not from the eighties that
may have had numbers not the eighties?

Speaker 3 (16:51):
One is the loneliest number that you'll ever do see.

Speaker 2 (16:57):
Be something like that, Yeah, the Turtles that was me.

Speaker 3 (17:01):
At the Stupid Coffee Shop.

Speaker 2 (17:03):
Also one by You two, which is from the nineties. Yeah.
So there's a couple of songs with a number in
the title that we won't be covering today because they're
from different decades. But today, as I mentioned, we have
twelve songs in total. We'll be starting with the lowest
number in the title and going up instead of doing
a top ten countdown or anything like that. Yeah, so

(17:27):
these songs aren't in any kind of rated order. We're
not going from our least favorite to our favorite. Although
the last song may be the best song, but that's
just coincidental based on what we have. So are you
ready to get to our count up?

Speaker 3 (17:43):
Oh? I'm ready? Bring it all?

Speaker 2 (17:45):
Right? Twelve songs, all with numbers in the title. Here
we go. Here is our first one, the lowest number
on the countdown. Tell me what you think of this?

Speaker 8 (18:06):
Co co co?

Speaker 2 (18:22):
Come on, I see you dancing over there.

Speaker 3 (18:29):
I love Stacey Q.

Speaker 2 (18:30):
You do?

Speaker 3 (18:31):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (18:32):
So what is that song?

Speaker 3 (18:33):
Okay, that's two of Heart's by Stacey Q.

Speaker 2 (18:36):
Yes, not two Hearts by Phil Collins, which we did
also not include in this countdown because we've done Phil before.
So this song debuted in the top forty on August sixteenth,
nineteen eighty six, and it was on the chart for
thirteen weeks. It peaked at number three on the Billboard
Hot one hundred. You thought it would have got the

(18:57):
number two, wouldn't you. Oh, but it was number one
on the sales chart, So you averaged those together. And
that's how she got the name of the song too
of arts.

Speaker 1 (19:07):
I was I need a button over here where I
can be like boom.

Speaker 2 (19:15):
Does that work for you?

Speaker 3 (19:15):
Yeah?

Speaker 2 (19:17):
It finished nineteen eighty six as the fifty first biggest
song in the land, and this was her first single
to hit the top forty. She also had a song
called We Connect and it was our only other single
and it hit number thirty five. So I'm going to
say that it didn't really connect with the billboard. So
what are your thoughts on this song?

Speaker 1 (19:38):
So first, can I talk a little bit about Stacy
Q just in general?

Speaker 2 (19:42):
Well, I was going to ask you what your thoughts
were on Stacy Q after this, so you go right ahead.

Speaker 3 (19:46):
So.

Speaker 1 (19:47):
I was fascinated by her as a child because she
had so much hair.

Speaker 2 (19:52):
She had a lot of hair.

Speaker 3 (19:53):
She had a lot of hair, and it was big.

Speaker 2 (19:55):
Yeah, you couldn't really see her face, and I believe
if when you did see her face she kind of
looked like a muppet.

Speaker 1 (20:01):
I don't remember that. I just remember she was tiny
and her hair was big. Yes, And for whatever reason
that I liked that.

Speaker 2 (20:10):
Lots of people have big hair in the eighties, So
but her seemed extra big.

Speaker 3 (20:14):
Well, I not extra big, but she just had so much.

Speaker 2 (20:17):
Maybe she was a fraggle she That might explain.

Speaker 1 (20:21):
Do you remember that this song was featured on an
episode of Facts of Life?

Speaker 2 (20:28):
No, it was yep.

Speaker 1 (20:30):
She appeared on the show, not as herself. She appeared
as Cinnamon, a teenage singer largely modeled on herself, but
the episode ends with her performing the song in a
radio station sound booth. No.

Speaker 2 (20:46):
See, I thought you were gonna go full house on me,
because remember DJ skipped school to go get Stacy Q tickets.
That's concerts, so that's where I thought you were going.
But you said facts a lot at This is the.

Speaker 3 (21:00):
Facts of Life is the one I'm talking about.

Speaker 2 (21:02):
Wow. No, I did not know that this song is
also played in a Little Nikky the Adam Sandler movie,
which is not a good movie but still kind of
makes me giggle a little bit. But that's about all
I had. I mean, I remember when this song was popular,
but it was like, Okay, it's kind of got a groove,
but it's also kind of weird, So I don't know
how I feel about it.

Speaker 1 (21:22):
Yeah, well, I feel like that might have summed her
up really well.

Speaker 2 (21:25):
Okay, I think that's fair, all right, You ready to
move on to our next one?

Speaker 3 (21:30):
Moving on up, let's do it.

Speaker 6 (21:40):
Stuff in the sky.

Speaker 7 (21:49):
Word as you go.

Speaker 6 (21:58):
There is most light and.

Speaker 5 (22:05):
In the trees.

Speaker 6 (22:07):
Down a sadnos road.

Speaker 2 (22:21):
It was a little bit longer of a clip than
I wanted to play, but I felt like I had
to get all of that in. I know, you absolutely
love that song.

Speaker 3 (22:27):
Sounds like a religious experience for me.

Speaker 2 (22:32):
So that is Seven Bridges Road by Eagles.

Speaker 3 (22:37):
Don't say the either, They're not.

Speaker 2 (22:39):
The Eagles, They're just eagles, right, So they did. This
song debuted in the top forty on January tenth, nineteen
eighty one. Can you believe that the Eagles got into
the eighties not just the first year, but they got
in at the beginning of the second year. So this
was only on the chart for seven weeks, but it
peaked at number twenty one on the Billboard Hot one hundred.

(23:00):
And you know, I bet you've got so many things
to say about this song. I know I've got a
lot of things to say about this song.

Speaker 3 (23:06):
I absolutely love it.

Speaker 1 (23:08):
The way they harmonize on the at the beginning of
this song, the part that we just listen to just
every time I hear it.

Speaker 3 (23:17):
I've probably heard this song.

Speaker 1 (23:18):
I bet a hundred times. Every time I hear it,
it's like the first time. It feels like the first time,
feels like the first time. I know, you get goose
bumps when you hear a good song.

Speaker 3 (23:28):
I don't get goose bumps, but if I did, it
would be over this song.

Speaker 2 (23:31):
Yeah, there you go. My the hairs standing up on
my arms. But it might be because it's seventeen degrees
in the studio. So this is the first Eagles song
that we've had on our show, and we've been going
for a little bit more than two years now. That
because you don't really like to cover the early eighties.

Speaker 3 (23:48):
No, no, don't blame this on me, because you know
I love Eagles.

Speaker 2 (23:54):
I love Eagles too. Eagles is probably my favorite band ever.

Speaker 1 (23:58):
We've talked a lot about Don Henley. We give him
a lot of crap.

Speaker 2 (24:01):
We do so, but he is a genius when it
comes to music and when it comes to drums and
his ear and his voice. And did you know that
this was their last top forty hit before Hell Froze over.

Speaker 3 (24:18):
M Yeah? I actually did know that.

Speaker 2 (24:21):
Yeah, this was it. And then they disappeared for about
thirteen fourteen years, and they said we'll get back together
when hell Freeze is over. Or maybe it was when
Glenn Froy needed some money.

Speaker 1 (24:31):
Yeah, I think that might have been the driving force there.
So but who wrote this song, because it actually was
not Glenn Froy.

Speaker 2 (24:40):
I've got some news for you. It was written by
NFL Hall of Famer and b YU alum Steve Young. No,
not that Steve Young, but it was written by Steve Young.
So go ahead, tell me more about this song or
your personal connection to it, or Eagles or whatever. You know.

(25:00):
We watched the history of the Eagles back what maybe
ten twelve years ago, and then went and saw their
concert History of the Eagles.

Speaker 1 (25:10):
So I bought tickets to see the Eagles in early
two thousands. So but I can't tell you a year anymore.
And I bought the tickets in hopes of rekindling a
little bit of a flame with a friend who was
a boy.

Speaker 3 (25:28):
But I chickened out on asking him if he would
go with me.

Speaker 1 (25:31):
So there I was two tickets to see Eagles up
in the nosebleed seats and didn't want him to go
to waste. So I took my mama and it's ended
up one of the best nights of my life.

Speaker 2 (25:44):
Well that's because he had two tickets to Paradise. Now
you and I went and saw them in twenty fourteen,
right after Emmy was born. It was still phenomenal. You
can say whatever you want, it was still phenomena. Well
still it was still Eagles. Glenn Fry and Don Henley
couldn't help it that they were sick, although it affected
Glen Fry a lot more than it affected Don Henley.

(26:06):
His voice is so fine.

Speaker 1 (26:08):
They talked a lot, and they didn't need to, no, no, no,
because it was listen.

Speaker 2 (26:13):
I think you're missing the point. They did need to
because it was about the history of the band. So
they're gonna tell the stories about the history of the
band in their concert tour History of the Eagles.

Speaker 1 (26:26):
But he was kind of constantly just talking about how
great he was and how everybody else sucked.

Speaker 4 (26:31):
No anyways, So it was Joe Walsh that is correct.

Speaker 1 (26:37):
I agree with that one hundred percent. But you asked
me about memories. So what I immediately go to is
getting to spend that evening with my mom a good
I know, three hours they sang hit after hit after hit.
We were in seats that were so high up we
were scared to stand because we were afraid we might

(26:58):
lose our balance.

Speaker 3 (26:59):
And it didn't need the matter.

Speaker 2 (27:01):
So I had a chance to go see the Hell
Freezes Over tour, and I refuse to pay seventy five
dollars per ticket to go.

Speaker 3 (27:08):
See that because that was outrageous.

Speaker 2 (27:09):
It was outrageils. I was getting Aerosmith tickets for like
twenty bucks or twenty five bucks, so I wasn't going
to pay seventy five bucks to see the Eagles, and
now I regret it. Our buddy Jason Colvin from the
Shirley You Can't Be Serious podcast, he's actually told me
that he did go see them on that tour, and
he saw them, I believe, in Dallas in July, if
I'm not mistaken, And certainly Hell hadn't Frozen over in

(27:34):
Dallas in July in nineteen ninety four, so yeah, he
apparently it wasn't very cool there, all right? Have we
had enough of just gushing over that song.

Speaker 1 (27:49):
There's really nothing I could say that would convey how
awesome this song is, So there's no reason to just
dwill on it.

Speaker 2 (27:57):
So they used to Actually, that was the song that
they would sing in the bathroom to warm up their
voices before going on stage.

Speaker 3 (28:04):
Were you there? How do you know?

Speaker 2 (28:05):
Because I saw it on the History of the Eagles
documentary that we watched. All right, we're gonna stick with
that number seven. And here we go another song with
seven in the title.

Speaker 3 (28:43):
Oh wow, as long as the other clip was, this
one's just as short.

Speaker 2 (28:47):
Yeah, we got we gotta we gotta save some time.

Speaker 3 (28:49):
We got to keep it moving.

Speaker 2 (28:50):
We gotta keep it moving.

Speaker 3 (28:51):
So that is seven Wonders Fleetwood.

Speaker 2 (28:54):
Mass that's like the Eagles with girls, women, women, Okay.

Speaker 1 (29:01):
Debuting in the top forty on July fourth, nineteen eighty seven,
It was on the chart for eight weeks. It peaked
at number nineteen.

Speaker 3 (29:09):
On Billboard Hot one hundred.

Speaker 2 (29:10):
Here was a Little Low.

Speaker 1 (29:11):
It hit number two on Mainstream Rock chart, and it
was number eighteen on the Mainstream Rock chart year end.
The song is from their fourteenth studio album, Tango in
the Night.

Speaker 2 (29:26):
Yes.

Speaker 1 (29:26):
So this was the second of four US Top twenty hits.
Tell me what you got on this?

Speaker 8 (29:33):
Uh?

Speaker 2 (29:34):
I just remember this song being popular as I was
headed into eighth grade and Fleetwood Mac always being on
the radio. I always thought of Fleetwood Mac as a
seventies band, because that's when they really hit it big.
And I don't think as a kid that I realized
that a lot of their hits were in the early eighties.

(29:54):
I just assumed that they were in the seventies, right,
because I didn't catch them in the early eighties. This
was something that was played on I always got confused
between is this a Fleetwood Mac song or is this
a Stevie Wonder, Uh, Stevie Wonder. Wonder certainly isn't a
Stevie Wonder song. And I'm probably the only person in
the world that's ever gotten Fleetwood Mac and Stevie Wonder confused.

(30:14):
What I meant to say was a Stevie Nick's song. Yeah,
you know, because she had a solo career and she
had that unique voice. And uh, speaking of she sang
a duet with Don Henley and he sang the hype
part and she sang the low part.

Speaker 1 (30:29):
That's right, that's right. Her talent, it just blows me away.
But really all of them were so talented. Yes, So
I used to always wonder two were together, and two
were together and then at some point they switched.

Speaker 2 (30:42):
Yeah, Lindsay and Lindsay and Stevie were together, and you'd
think that Lindsay was the girl and Stevie was the boy, right,
And then Christine and John mcviee were married, and then
they divorced, and they divorced and they stayed in the
same band, which should be a little awkward. And then eventually,
you know, Stevie and Lindsay, they've always had their problems together.

(31:03):
It's like fire and gasoline. And so then they decided, Hey,
Lindsay's going to date Christine and John's gonna date Stevie.

Speaker 3 (31:11):
And isn't there a fifth Yeah.

Speaker 2 (31:13):
Mick Fleetwood, who's the band's named after. He's the drummer.

Speaker 3 (31:16):
What how did he feel during all of that?

Speaker 2 (31:19):
I'm sure it was very awkward for him.

Speaker 3 (31:20):
That's what I always thought about. How did he feel?

Speaker 2 (31:24):
You know, he just probably took it down on those
drums like animal.

Speaker 1 (31:29):
This song played on the season finale of the American
horror story Coven back in twenty fourteen, so it opened
with Stevie Nicks performing.

Speaker 3 (31:38):
The song Oh I Did Not So that helped this song.

Speaker 1 (31:41):
To reach number eighteen on the Billboard Rock Digital Song Charts.

Speaker 3 (31:46):
Wow, back in twenty fourteen.

Speaker 2 (31:49):
I didn't know that. Yeah, oh, that's kind of cool
bringing it back along. You know, the Fleetwood Mac's kind
of making a comeback because they play that other song
by Fleetwood Mac on the commercials all the time now,
the one that Christine McVie sings. Yes, not coming to
my brain right now, but you know what I'm talking.

Speaker 3 (32:04):
About, because you've not had enough coffee today and that
wattle is restricting your airflow.

Speaker 2 (32:12):
I've probably had too much coffee today as.

Speaker 1 (32:14):
We've been teasing some kind of like reunion.

Speaker 3 (32:19):
Of some sort.

Speaker 2 (32:20):
Yes, but Christine mcviee sadly is no longer with us.
I wanna be with you everywhere. That's the song.

Speaker 3 (32:26):
There you go, all right, moving on except the bathroom.

Speaker 2 (32:32):
Like I said, moving on to our next going up.
We're gonna jump up ten numbers here and we're gonna
play a little hair metal. What do you think let's
do it. Don't look at me like that. I didn't

(33:10):
write the lyrics. Okay, I can blame Kip Winger for
that one.

Speaker 3 (33:14):
I got a beef to pick with. What is his name, Kip? Yeah, okay,
right there, we got a problem. Listen, Kip.

Speaker 2 (33:22):
The song rocks, but I feel like maybe he should
change it to She's only seventy nowadays.

Speaker 1 (33:30):
I mean, they couldn't say she's only nineteen, like it
had to be seventeen.

Speaker 9 (33:36):
You know.

Speaker 2 (33:37):
I mean he may be from Missouri, where seventeen is
the legal age for all I know. Okay, So this
is seventeen by Winger. It debuted in the top forty
on April eighth, nineteen and eighty nine. It was only
on the chart for six weeks. It peaked at number
twenty six on the Billboard Hot one hundred, and it
was the first of three songs by Winger to hit

(33:58):
the Billboard Top four. So I'm gonna say I am
not comfortable with this song anymore. In nineteen eighty nine,
I was fifteen, so I was comfortable with a girl
that was seventeen. Now I am flip those two numbers
around and I'm not fifteen. I am fifty one, and

(34:20):
I am not comfortable singing Harry kept Winger singing about
a girl that's seventeen.

Speaker 3 (34:27):
Yeah, that's nothing to say there, But.

Speaker 2 (34:29):
The song does rock. And Beavis always wore or not Beavis.
But the little kid on the uh On Beavis and
Butt had always wore the Winger T shirt. All right,
let's stick with this number. Oh no, and there we go.
We're gonna stick with seventeen.

Speaker 3 (34:48):
I don't.

Speaker 7 (34:54):
But she's the only.

Speaker 3 (34:59):
Well, she's sexy seventeen.

Speaker 9 (35:08):
God, see that sad chap the book book.

Speaker 2 (35:16):
You know who likes the song?

Speaker 8 (35:17):
Who?

Speaker 2 (35:17):
Johnny and Eddie and Me and Gina and Jeff.

Speaker 1 (35:22):
She's sexy and seventeen by the stray Cats. Again, I
am not comfortable even saying those words.

Speaker 2 (35:29):
Now Here is where I will give the stray Cats
a little bit of grace. Here he's singing as a
high school student. The song starts out with I'm not
going to school no more. It starts too early for me.
So he's a high school student singing about his seventeen
year old girlfriend, his little Marie. So I'll give him

(35:51):
a break, Kip Winger, You're a creep.

Speaker 1 (35:54):
So it debuted in the top forty on August twentieth,
nineteen eighty three, where it's sat on the chart twelve weeks.
It peaked at number five on the Billboard Hot one hundred.
This was their third and Billboard top ten hit after
Rock This Town. She went to number nine and Stray
Cat Struck.

Speaker 2 (36:14):
Okay, so I need to know, out of those three songs,
which ones are your favorite?

Speaker 1 (36:18):
Oh, stray Cat Struck, Yeah, for sure, hands down. They're
all different, but they're all really cool. And so I
don't know this one the sexy and seventeen's a little
bit more fun, I guess, a little bit more peppy.

Speaker 3 (36:32):
Uh huh.

Speaker 2 (36:33):
Stray Cat Strut is a little more like chill, like
I feel like I need to be, like in a
jazz club.

Speaker 3 (36:38):
And then Rock this Town, rock it inside out.

Speaker 2 (36:43):
I mean, you know, that song makes me want to
scream and shout.

Speaker 3 (36:47):
So I love their sound.

Speaker 2 (36:49):
Yes, do you know what that sound that is? No,
So they are considered a rockabilly band.

Speaker 3 (36:55):
Rockabilly.

Speaker 2 (36:56):
So, rockabilly is one of the earliest styles of rock
and roll music. It dates back to the early nineteen
fifties in the United States and especially in the South.
It kind of blends the sound of Western music styles
like country with rhythm and blues, leading to what is
considered classic rock and roll. So think like Carl Perkins

(37:17):
and Elvis and kind of Johnny Cash and that kind
of thing, right, and so Jerry Lee Lewis. Some have
also described it as a blend of bluegrass with rock
and roll, but it's kind of like rock and hillbilly together, right.
Country music in the forties and fifties was often called
hillbilly music, so that contributes to this style. Other important

(37:42):
influences on rockabilly include Western swing, boogie woogie, jump blues,
and electric blues. Defining features of rockabilly sound includes strong rhythms,
boogie woogie, piano riffs, vocal twangs, do wop, a cappella singing,
and the common use of the tape echo. So that's

(38:07):
what rockabilly is. And during the late seventies and early eighties,
because it was mostly in the late fifties, but during
the late seventies and early eighties, rockabilly enjoyed a little
bit of a revival and kind of headlined by the Straightcats.

Speaker 3 (38:21):
And like in the nineties too, right, didn't it make it?
In the late ninetiesh.

Speaker 2 (38:27):
Swing music kind of kind of came came back a
little bit in the late nineties.

Speaker 3 (38:31):
With the Gap commercial. Do you remember that?

Speaker 2 (38:34):
Yeah? And Iron and Brian Setzer had his orchestra. He's
the lead singer Straight Cats and then he had his
orchestra there, and I.

Speaker 1 (38:40):
Think he made an appearance on the TV show The Nanny.
Do you remember that in the nineties.

Speaker 2 (38:45):
I remember the TV show The Nanny. I don't remember
him making an appearance on it because I did not
watch The Nanny because.

Speaker 3 (38:53):
It was stupid. Be guess it wasn't. You weren't their audience.

Speaker 2 (38:56):
I was not their audience. Okay, all right, well let's
stick with this seventeen theme. What do you think.

Speaker 3 (39:03):
Just singesus songs?

Speaker 6 (39:07):
She singing Ooo, justing sings song?

Speaker 3 (39:15):
Says she singing.

Speaker 2 (39:21):
In the days of bad next time in the wind,
in the wind, I see you over there rocking out.

Speaker 3 (39:28):
Oh I love this song.

Speaker 1 (39:32):
But I did not know until I was well into
an adulthood that she said, just like the white winged Dove.
I don't know what I thought she said, but I
didn't know.

Speaker 2 (39:43):
What I thought. She said like the world we know,
as if she was collective soul. So this is Edge
of seventeen by Stevie Nicks. It debuted in the top
forty on March sixth, nineteen eighty two. It was on
the chart for ten weeks, and it peaked at number eleven.
On the Billboard Hot one hundred. This actually barely made

(40:03):
it in the top one hundred for nineteen eighty two
as the number one hundred song on the year end charts.
This was the third single released from her debut album
Bella Donna, and the other two singles that were released
were duets. Do you know who she did duets with
on that first.

Speaker 3 (40:22):
Album was Don Henley?

Speaker 2 (40:23):
One of those Leather and Lace with Don Henley was
one of them.

Speaker 4 (40:28):
Who would the other one if Ben? I don't know,
stop dragging my heart around with Tom Petty?

Speaker 3 (40:34):
Really?

Speaker 2 (40:34):
Yes? Okay, so this is our second appearance of Stevie Nicks,
and really it's not because the first one was Fleetwood Mac.
But she was the lead vocalist on that song. And
this is why I would get Stevie Nicks and Fleetwood
Mac mixed up in the eighties about whose song was.
Who's kind of like Genesis and Phil Collins? Yes, yes,

(40:57):
but I feel like Stevie Nick, at least for this song,
had a little bit more of a rock edge than than.

Speaker 6 (41:07):
No.

Speaker 3 (41:07):
I agree she was rocking it.

Speaker 1 (41:09):
Yeah, So what do you think we need to like
treasure and preserve Stevie Nick and Guard her with all.

Speaker 5 (41:15):
That we have.

Speaker 2 (41:18):
I'm curious why you say.

Speaker 1 (41:19):
That, because I just don't feel like we have female
artists like that anymore. And I know at some point,
you know, I mean, we won't have her, and that
just worries me for our future.

Speaker 2 (41:29):
She may be pickled, blake up.

Speaker 3 (41:32):
Sort of like I feel that same way with Anne Wilson.

Speaker 2 (41:35):
Yeah, yeah, I think Steve's a little bit older than
the end.

Speaker 1 (41:38):
But yeah, but I'm just like, what, we don't have
anyone coming along behind them?

Speaker 2 (41:43):
Yeah, they just like rock out.

Speaker 3 (41:45):
Do you know where she.

Speaker 1 (41:46):
Got the inspiration for the title to this song, No
tell Me? Okay, So the inspiration comes from a conversation
that she had with Tom Petty's first wife about the
couple's first meeting. Jane was Tom Petty's first wife's name.
Said that they met at the age of seventeen, but

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Jane had a strong Southern accent, and so.

Speaker 3 (42:13):
Stevie Nicks thought. She said that they met at the
edge of seventeen. Oh wow, and she liked the way
that sounded.

Speaker 2 (42:24):
So do you think that was Tom Petty's last dance
with Mary Jane?

Speaker 3 (42:28):
I did, probably. Oh, I just thought that was funny.

Speaker 2 (42:32):
So the southern accent, fooled Stevie Nicks.

Speaker 3 (42:35):
Yeah in neighbor inspiration.

Speaker 2 (42:37):
Now we've got a great song called the Age of seventeen.
All right, let's uh, let's move on to our next one.
We're gonna go up one. All right, we're sticking with
the teen theme here the streets.

Speaker 5 (43:01):
It's okay.

Speaker 3 (43:17):
That is eighteen in Life by skid Row.

Speaker 1 (43:21):
Okay, So during this song, you're looking at me with
these lovey dovey like come hither eyes, and I haven't
seen those in a while.

Speaker 3 (43:30):
And for a split second, I thought I had a chance,
and then I realized that's how you feel about this song.
You're lost in this song. Well, you're not looking at.

Speaker 2 (43:39):
Me in fairness, I really I just blanked out. I
wasn't looking at anybody with any kind of vies. I
blinked up. I went into a coma for a second.

Speaker 3 (43:50):
You were you were happy there. I'll give you that.

Speaker 2 (43:54):
Oh my god, So this is your band, so why
don't you take it away?

Speaker 5 (43:57):
Okay?

Speaker 1 (43:58):
So it debuted in the top forty and July twenty ninth,
nineteen eighty nine, where it sat on the chart for
thirteen weeks. It peaked at number four on the Billboard
Hot one hundred, also number four on the sales in
number six on the airplay charts. So it was the
number sixty one song of the year nineteen eighty nine.

(44:20):
So it was their first Billboard Top forty hit.

Speaker 2 (44:23):
What's their other Billboard top one?

Speaker 3 (44:26):
My favorite skid Row song I remember, yes.

Speaker 2 (44:30):
Yes, both songs are awesome, but yeah, this was their
first one. This was our introduction to skid Row. This
song absolutely rocks. You know, I got to have a
couple of hairbands, yes, in my countdown here. So the
title of the song alludes to its subject, eighteen year
old Ricky receiving a sentence of life in prismprisonment for
the murder of another teen Oh gosh. It was a

(44:51):
belief for a long time that guitarist Dave Sabo got
the idea from a newspaper article about an eighteen year
old named Ricky who was sentenced to life for killing
his friend with a gun due to alcohol he most
likely guessed was not loaded. However, in an interview with
the Professor of Rock, Sabo states that the original inspiration

(45:12):
was his brother Rick's life after coming home from Vietnam.
Oh wow. The writing process eventually led the song to
being about an accidental murder.

Speaker 3 (45:23):
That's interesting, but yeah.

Speaker 2 (45:25):
So he was the inspiration was his brother came home
from Vietnam. He's just eighteen or nineteen or whatever, and
now he's got his whole life ahead of him, and
he's seen some he's seen, as Marlon Brando said, the horror,
the horror.

Speaker 3 (45:38):
Yeah, he's not coming back from that.

Speaker 2 (45:40):
Yeah, and neither is Ricky the guy who accidentally killed
his friend with a loaded gun and got sentenced to
life at eighteen years old. So go ahead, tell everybody
your personal connection to skidro.

Speaker 3 (45:56):
Oh, I thought I had shared this before.

Speaker 6 (45:58):
You have, but.

Speaker 2 (46:00):
Ra Rachel tens of new listeners each night.

Speaker 3 (46:03):
Kay.

Speaker 1 (46:03):
So, Rachel Bolin is an original member of skid Row,
and as far as I know, he is still in
skid Row. So, back in my mid twenties, he was
dating a lady and she did my hair and so
all the time I would go get because this is
when I would go on a regular basis to get

(46:24):
my hair done. She would talk about her boyfriend, Rachel,
and Rachel this and Rachel that, and Rachel this and
Rachel that. And one day she dropped some you know,
passing comment about she had just gotten back from visiting
Jersey with Rachel and they had been up there with
John and John's wife and John's mother, Missus bon Jovie

(46:48):
was such a sweet lady and the pasta she had fixed.

Speaker 3 (46:52):
And I was like, wait, what.

Speaker 2 (46:57):
So you didn't know that you were that close to great?

Speaker 3 (47:00):
No, I had no idea.

Speaker 2 (47:02):
Did Rachel ever bad mouth Sebastian Bach?

Speaker 3 (47:06):
Yes, as a matter of fact, you did, all right.

Speaker 2 (47:12):
Uh so we're going to keep climbing this ladder here
from seventeen to eighteen. I wonder if you've ever heard
this song before. Well, unlike Vietnam, World War two, saw
Erica unite and behind, the two wars were just as
different on the front lines they were nineteeneteen.

Speaker 3 (47:45):
I've never heard that song before in my life.

Speaker 2 (47:47):
I didn't think you had.

Speaker 3 (47:48):
I'm not going to have much to add to it,
but so.

Speaker 2 (47:50):
This is song is nineteen by Paul Hardcastle. The song
debuted in the top forty on June twenty second, nineteen
eighty five. It was on the chart for eight weeks,
and he d at number fifteen on the Billboard Hot
one hundred. It did not chart on the year end
here in the US. However, it was huge internationally. It
hit number one in Austria, Belgium, Ireland, Italy, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden, Switzerland,

(48:16):
the UK and wes Germany.

Speaker 3 (48:18):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (48:19):
It was also the number one song in the continent
of Europe.

Speaker 3 (48:23):
Oh So.

Speaker 2 (48:24):
Paul Hardcastle was inspired to create the song after watching
Vietnam Requiem and comparing his own life at nineteen to
those of the soldiers featured, and he said, what struck
me was how young the soldiers were. The document said
that their average age was nineteen. I was out having
fun in pubs and clubs when I was nineteen, not
being shoved into jungles and shot at. So this is

(48:47):
literally his only top forty hit in the US. He's
a true one hit wonder and I'm wondering, Ay, what
you thought of that as you heard that be? What
you think of that concept? And see this is the
second song in a row that we've mentioned Vietnam.

Speaker 1 (49:01):
So I love the concept and and I get well,
I get what he's going for. But that little piece
of the song that I just heard was horrible, Like
that hurt me.

Speaker 2 (49:13):
I think it was more more made for dance clubs
than anything else, you know. But yeah, there's a lot
of a lot of talking in there about the Vietnam
soldiers and the average agebing nineteen, and and how in
World War Two, you know, America came together and welcomed
their soldiers home and they didn't do that in Vietnam.

Speaker 3 (49:31):
That's he makes a valid point.

Speaker 2 (49:33):
He sure does. So don't have much more on the song.
I mean, I do remember that song from being a kid,
but it was different, and I was like, Okay, this
is different. I guess that's kind of cool, but you
know me, I'm ready to move on to some more rock.

Speaker 7 (49:49):
Let's do it.

Speaker 1 (50:22):
This is I Can't Drive fifty five Sammy Hagar.

Speaker 2 (50:28):
I second your sentiments there.

Speaker 1 (50:30):
Sammy debuted in the Top forty on October twenty seventh,
nineteen eighty four. It was on the chart for six weeks,
peaked at number twenty six on the Billboard Hot one hundred.

Speaker 2 (50:45):
That's an injustice.

Speaker 3 (50:46):
I was gonna say, how do you feel about number twenty?

Speaker 2 (50:48):
That's an injustice. But this song was always on MTV.

Speaker 1 (50:51):
It was Sammy's third top forty single, after Your Love
Is Driving Me Crazy and two sides of love.

Speaker 2 (50:57):
So this is first hit that didn't have love in it.

Speaker 7 (51:00):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (51:01):
Yeah, just like I said, this song was on in
TV all the time, which is probably what led to
it in the billboard.

Speaker 3 (51:11):
Do you know the story behind the inspiration for writing.

Speaker 2 (51:15):
You know, I think I've heard it before, but I
don't remember.

Speaker 1 (51:19):
So Hagar wrote the song in response to getting pulled
over one night and getting a speeding ticket in New
York State right outside of Albany, for driving sixty two
in a fifty.

Speaker 3 (51:31):
Five mile per hour zone.

Speaker 1 (51:33):
Sixty two, and he went home and immediately wrote this song.

Speaker 2 (51:38):
You can't give him a ticket for doing sixty two.

Speaker 3 (51:40):
Come on, there, you go.

Speaker 2 (51:41):
Well, I'm with you, Sammy. I am so glad that
they changed the speed limit on the interstates from fifty
five to either sixty five or seventy. I can count
on my hand some of the best days of my life.
It's the day that I married you, the day that
Emmy was born, the day that I was baptized, and
the day that the speed limit changed from fifty five

(52:03):
to seventy some of the four best days of my life.

Speaker 3 (52:06):
You're the only person I've ever met that's able to
talk his way out of speeding tickets.

Speaker 2 (52:11):
Uh yeah, I you know what that's that's a talent
that I was given, probably because I watched this video
a lot as a kid. All Right, So we jumped
from the teens lots lots of teens up to fifty five,
which is more our age. And now we're getting to
even higher numbers. And I'm curious. I bet you're not
gonna like this song.

Speaker 3 (52:31):
Oh I know, I'm not.

Speaker 9 (52:32):
Maybe she hasn't in mine, but she is wasting her time.
Ask her Tuesday fine, one housic ways.

Speaker 3 (52:57):
I take that back.

Speaker 2 (52:58):
You can't deny the power in the smoothness of James Ingram.
Me he had some eighties dinner making songs.

Speaker 3 (53:07):
Yes, let's go make some dinner.

Speaker 2 (53:09):
And that is one that is one hundred ways by
Quincy Jones featuring James Ingram. Merely, you know, Quincy arranged it.
But that's all James Ingram and his smoothness. Week mean,
he's got some vocal oh he does. I could listen
to James Ingram singing the phone book, God Rest his Soul.

(53:32):
This song debuted in the top forty on February thirteenth,
nineteen eighty two. It was on the chart for eleven weeks.
It peaked at number fourteen on the Billboard Hot one hundred,
but it was the number sixty one song of the
year in nineteen eighty two, which tells me that nineteen
eighty two was dominated by a lot of by just
a few hits at the top of the charts, because
there's no way something that peaked at number fourteen should

(53:54):
even be in the top one hundred. But you know what,
James Ingram deserves it. So this was their second song
to hit the top forty. Who is they Quincy and
James Ingram?

Speaker 3 (54:05):
Okay?

Speaker 2 (54:06):
I say they?

Speaker 3 (54:06):
So this confuses me.

Speaker 2 (54:08):
It was Quincy's album. He arranged all the music, He
arranged everything, you know how he did you know how
he kind of took control, but he would have people
sing for him. It was almost kind of like Santana,
Carlos Santana, right, he had his own albums right where
he played the guitar, but they need to have different
people sing for him, okay, And so that's what Quincy

(54:28):
did with James Ingram. The first song was just once,
can we figure out what we keep doing wrong? Why
we never last so long? What are we doing wrong?
Both great songs. I love James Ingram, I can't. I
can't say it enough.

Speaker 1 (54:46):
Yeah, I don't want to get too hung up on
the whole. I don't understand why this is a Quincy
Jones album when it's James Ingram doing all the work.
But I just want to make sure that I make
it clear that I do actually really like this song.

Speaker 2 (54:59):
This is from his album The Dude. We've talked about
The Dude before.

Speaker 3 (55:04):
Yeah, and it confused me, didn't it?

Speaker 2 (55:06):
It did? And you're still confused. Yes, that's okay, all right,
So now we're really gonna jump up numbers here, and
I have a feeling, you know what, you're gonna like
this one too.

Speaker 8 (55:17):
Distress you know, didn't even care.

Speaker 1 (55:23):
So that is nineteen ninety nine by Press.

Speaker 2 (55:49):
Life is just a party, and parties weren't meant the last.

Speaker 1 (55:55):
It debuted in the top forty on June eighteenth, nineteen
eighty three.

Speaker 3 (56:00):
It was on the chart for ten weeks. That's that's good.

Speaker 1 (56:04):
It's not enough, but it only peaked at number twelve
on the Billboard Hot one Hunt.

Speaker 2 (56:08):
Which is kind of blows me away because again, this
is one of those songs that was on MTV all
the time.

Speaker 1 (56:13):
So it was originally released in September of eighty two.
It only got up to number forty four though on
the Billboard Hot one hundred. It was then re released
in eighty three, where that's when it made it to
a number twelve, So it was the number forty one
song of the year in nineteen eighty three.

Speaker 2 (56:33):
Yeah, great song, great year. But yeah, go ahead, yeah,
but wait, there's four.

Speaker 3 (56:43):
It had another re release in January of nineteen ninety nine,
where it hit number forty on the.

Speaker 2 (56:51):
Charts because they're going to party like it's nineteen ninety yeah,
so of course they had to re release it in
nineteen ninety nine.

Speaker 3 (56:56):
You know how much I hate this.

Speaker 1 (56:58):
Rolling Stone rang it as number three hundred thirty nine
on their list of five hundred Greatest Songs Ever.

Speaker 2 (57:06):
You hate this because you don't believe it deserves to
be on a.

Speaker 1 (57:10):
Time, believe that there should be a top five hundred list.
That's just absurd to me.

Speaker 2 (57:16):
Why is that absurdy?

Speaker 1 (57:17):
Because it's so subjective and like I've noticed on these
Rolling Stone lists, it'll be like Prince will be, you know,
at number three thirty nine and number five will be
a song I've never even ever heard of by an
artist no one ever knows, like I feel like, who
was the little guy back in the sixties or seventies?

(57:38):
He had long, weird hair and he played the ukulele?
Was it Tiny Tim or something like? I feel like
Tiny Tim had the number five song.

Speaker 2 (57:47):
You're talking about Tiny Tim? Is it Little Willy Won't
Go Home?

Speaker 3 (57:51):
Little Willy? Are we talking about Bill Clinton?

Speaker 2 (57:56):
No, we're not talking about that.

Speaker 3 (57:57):
Okay, hold on, Tiny Tim? Yeah, tiny Town.

Speaker 2 (58:01):
He was a He had long hair and played a ukulele. Yes,
did he play the ukulele because he was tiny and
he couldn't hold a full sized guitar.

Speaker 3 (58:08):
He did the tiptoe through the tulips? Okay, Tiptoe through
the Tulips would be according to Rolling Stone, the number
five song ever done, and Seven Bridges Road would be
number four hundred and ninety nine.

Speaker 2 (58:22):
I don't think seven Bridges Road would make the top
five hundred to Travesty, what do you think about Prince
making the top five hundred?

Speaker 3 (58:28):
Though Prince should have multiple songs on this.

Speaker 2 (58:30):
I'm sure Prince does have multiple songs on the top
five hundred. What do you think about this song? So
let me ask you this when you were a kid.
Of course, you were only about four years old when
this song hit it big again after its re release.

Speaker 1 (58:43):
But.

Speaker 2 (58:45):
Didn't nineteen ninety nine seem like it would never ever
get there?

Speaker 6 (58:48):
Oh?

Speaker 2 (58:48):
Yes, like yeah, like that was just so far out
in the future. You may as well be singing like
you're going, you know, on the on the ship with
Flash Gordon.

Speaker 3 (58:58):
Oh I never I never thought we would act actually
ever see it.

Speaker 2 (59:01):
We are now further away from nineteen ninety nine than
we were when Prince released this song.

Speaker 3 (59:06):
Why do you have to say it?

Speaker 2 (59:08):
In fact, we're almost We're roughly ten years further away
from nineteen ninety nine than we were when Prince released
this song.

Speaker 3 (59:18):
It's wrong with you? Why are you doing this to me?

Speaker 2 (59:20):
Because it's a fact.

Speaker 3 (59:22):
Your wattle's moving over there.

Speaker 2 (59:25):
I love how you're going to go to the personal
insults when I upset you about how old you are.
So you love Prince.

Speaker 3 (59:34):
I absolutely love This song.

Speaker 2 (59:38):
Was probably my introduction to Prince, not.

Speaker 3 (59:41):
My introduction, but I love the song. Love Prince.

Speaker 1 (59:44):
It's one of my biggest regrets is not having the
chance to see him in concert.

Speaker 3 (59:49):
Just still hard to believe he's gone.

Speaker 2 (59:52):
Yeah, all right, we have made it to our final song.
Believe it or not, there is a song with a
higher number than nineteen ninety nine really from the eighties
that has made our list. I wonder if our friend
Jenny knows this song.

Speaker 3 (01:00:38):
Jenny, Jenny, y'all the bellball me.

Speaker 2 (01:00:43):
So that is certainly the most popular phone number of
all time.

Speaker 3 (01:00:47):
Oh absolutely so.

Speaker 2 (01:00:48):
That is eight six seven five three oh nine slash
Jenny by Tommy two tone. Even his name has a
number in it. It's also one of the most iconic
hooks of not just the eighties, but of any decade
and of any song.

Speaker 1 (01:01:06):
Right.

Speaker 3 (01:01:07):
Absolutely, almost every.

Speaker 2 (01:01:08):
Person who was alive in America during the eighties knows
eight six seven five three on and then you might
not know anything else about the song, yep, but I
guarantee you everybody goes eight six seven five three oh nine.
So this song debuted in the top forty on March thirteenth,
nineteen eighty two. It was on the chart for sixteen weeks,

(01:01:30):
and it peaked at number four on the Billboard Hot
one hundred. Wouldn't you have thought this was a number
one song?

Speaker 3 (01:01:35):
Yeah, I'm Yeah, I'm kind of surprised.

Speaker 2 (01:01:37):
Okay, So this did hit number one on the mainstream
Rock chart, and it stayed there for three weeks, So
it did get its due on the mainstream rock chart.
It was the number sixteen song of the Year in
nineteen eighty two. So here's a little research I did
for you. There are some different views on the creation
of this song. Really, yes, okay. According to lead guitarist

(01:01:58):
Jim Keller, who was interview by People in nineteen eighty two,
he said, Ginny is a regular girl, not a hooker.
Friends of mine wrote her name and number on a
men's room wall at a bar. I called her on
a dare and we dated for a while. I haven't
talked with her since the song became a hit, but
I hear she thinks I'm a real jerk for writing it.

(01:02:21):
But the band's lead singer, Tommy Heath, I guess that's
who they named. Tommy Tutone had a different version of
the song's origin, but also with a real girl in number.
He claims the number belonged to a girl he knew,
and that he wrote it on a bathroom wall in
a motel where they were staying as a joke. We
laughed about it for years, he said. However, oh my gosh.

(01:02:45):
Co writer Alex Call explained his version of the song's
origins in a June two thousand and four interview with
song Facts, and he said, despite all the mythology to
the contrary, I actually just came up with the and
the telephone number and the music and all that, just
sitting in my backyard. There was no ginny. I don't

(01:03:07):
know where the number came from. I was just trying
to write a four chord rock song and it just
kind of came out. I had the guitar lick, I
had the name and number, but I didn't know what
the song was about. This buddy of mine, Jim Keller,
who's the co writer, was the lead guitar player in
Tommy Tutone. He stopped by that afternoon and he said,
I'll it's a girl's number on a bathroom wall, and

(01:03:29):
we had a good laugh. I said, that's exactly right,
that's exactly what it is.

Speaker 1 (01:03:34):
I mean, that's so that's three totally different stories, like
which is it right?

Speaker 2 (01:03:42):
And it's crazy and they're all three in the band
and two of them wrote the song. Somebody's lying.

Speaker 4 (01:03:48):
You write at least two of them are lying yes,
and maybe all three of them are lying.

Speaker 7 (01:03:53):
Wow.

Speaker 2 (01:03:54):
This is gonna go down as one of the greatest
mysteries of all time, much like car Simons. You're so vain.
When everybody wondered who she was singing about. Now we
know it's about Warren Batty. But back then, for a
long time.

Speaker 3 (01:04:06):
Well or I thought it was about James Taylor.

Speaker 2 (01:04:08):
People said, guess James Taylor, they guessed Warren Batty, they guessed, uh,
Richard Nixon.

Speaker 1 (01:04:14):
Richard Nixon. No, I guess I'm like she had a
fling with Richard No.

Speaker 2 (01:04:18):
But you know, people wondered. But I believe that she
did come out and say that it was actually about
Warren Baty.

Speaker 3 (01:04:23):
Oh really, yes, Okay, So all.

Speaker 2 (01:04:26):
Right, so what are your thoughts on that song.

Speaker 3 (01:04:28):
I think it's a great song.

Speaker 1 (01:04:30):
It's a song that I still probably weekly I see
some kind of meme on social media and some somehow
related to this song. So it's still very much out there.

Speaker 3 (01:04:42):
Maybe not playing on the radio any longer, but it's
still very much out there in our lexicon.

Speaker 2 (01:04:49):
Yes, in the zeitgeist, as I like that, Yes, it
is in the zeitgeist. So eight six seven five three
oh nine, so popular, such a great hook. I used
this song to learn my birth mom's phone numbers. As
you all know, I come from a family of divorce,
and so my birth mom moved away when I was young,

(01:05:10):
and then she moved to a different place and then
got a different number. And I learned her number by
singing the song because it was four eight seven six
three ninety four instead of eight six seven five three
oh nine.

Speaker 3 (01:05:22):
Well, I hope she still doesn't have that number.

Speaker 2 (01:05:23):
She doesn't still have that number. Okay, you know how
many people dialed eight six seven five three o nine
and Jenny like people that had that phone number were furious.
They were they were so mad and so angry. Oh,
I'm sure all right, So that is our countdown? What
did you think? Well, I guess our count up.

Speaker 1 (01:05:42):
It was our count up. It was more fun than
I thought it was gonna be.

Speaker 2 (01:05:46):
Well good, So I got some final stats for it.

Speaker 3 (01:05:48):
Oh I knew you.

Speaker 2 (01:05:51):
We have three songs from nineteen eighty two, two songs
each from eighty three and eighty nine, and one from
eighty one, eighty four, eighty five, eighty six, and eighty seven.
The only two years we have missing from the decade
or nineteen eighty In nineteen eighty eight, I feel like
we got a really good representation of the decade here.
What do you think?

Speaker 3 (01:06:10):
I agree?

Speaker 2 (01:06:11):
While all twelve songs hit the Billboard Top forty, there
were no number ones on our list and only four
top ten hits, all of which hit the top five.
Seven of the twelve were in the year end Hot
one hundred. We did have a number one on the
Mainstream Rock chart, which are the last song by Tommy twotone,
and a number one on the Stales chart, which was

(01:06:32):
our first song by Stacy Q. So see how I
bookended that number ones on different charts. One to start,
one to end, we have Stacy Q, Winger skid Row,
and Paul Paul Hardcastle, all with their debut top forty
hits in the Eagles with their final top forty hit

(01:06:54):
at least until hell froze over and they came back
with the top forty in the nineties or a few
top forties in the nineties, which you think, I mean?
Good list? Right?

Speaker 1 (01:07:02):
I think it was an absolutely fantastic list. I love
the fact that we tapped into some great artists, but
artists that we hadn't talked about yet.

Speaker 3 (01:07:10):
Yeah, and that was cool.

Speaker 2 (01:07:12):
Yeah. So not only did we cover all years, we
covered like all different kinds of genres. We had some hairbands,
We've had some dance music. We had little prints, a
little smoothness with James Ingram and Quincy Jones, Sammy you know,
the greatest frontman of Van Halen.

Speaker 3 (01:07:29):
Yep.

Speaker 2 (01:07:29):
Yeah, that's gonna piss a lot of people.

Speaker 7 (01:07:32):
I know.

Speaker 2 (01:07:32):
I only said that for that reason.

Speaker 3 (01:07:35):
So go ahead. You can email Jim with your complaints.
Give them our email, Joe.

Speaker 2 (01:07:41):
Children of the nineteen Eighties at gmail dot com.

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Speaker 3 (01:08:29):
Normally, do we not discuss things that are fun?

Speaker 2 (01:08:32):
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I'm Jim and I'm Lindsey and we are children of
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