April 8, 2025 • 7 mins
After nearly 40 years, the band behind "On the Dark Side" and all the great songs from the Eddie and the Cruisers movies is out with a new album. I hope they didn't rush it.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Scott Vorde one of the great piano intros of any
song ever, John Cafferty, John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown
Band with this song from the movie Eddie and the Cruisers,
(00:21):
top ten hit in America, and now almost four decades later,
he's out with new music and now we welcome here
on news radio eleven ten KFAB with Lucy Chapman and
(00:44):
me Scott Voorhees. On news Radio eleven ten kfa B,
Nebraska's news, weather and traffic station and lovers of great music,
It's John Cafferty of John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band. John,
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Hey, how you doing.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
It's wonderful to talk to you. Now. About four decades later,
a new album called Sound of Waves. What's the rush on?
Just throwing this album out there? Where's the fire?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Well? Thanks for saying. You know. We we celebrated our
fiftieth anniversary a couple of years ago. It's taking us
a couple of years to blow out the candles, but
you know, and doing so, we put out the greatest
hits record on Iconoclassic Records of a package with all
our movie soundtracks and all the hits we had our
(01:36):
own album, and then started thinking like, well, maybe maybe
we can try to come up with something new. So
that's what we did. We went to work and you know,
had so much fun doing it. Took us a while
to finish it up, but we finally did. And here
it is sound Waves with a new single, day in
(01:58):
the Sun, which is kind of a one.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yeah. Day in the Sun is a very good song,
part of thirteen new tracks on the new album's Sound
of Waves, and that's coming out here this week. And
you're doing a big event in New York City. The
guys are East Coasters. What would you have preferred John
to come up the way you guys did the toil,
all those nights playing for small crowds of drunks that
(02:24):
got bigger and bigger as you had more success, probably
not getting paid by a lot of the club promoters
and bar owners, wondering why you do this and then
finally achieving a measure of success. Or the way it's
done now, you hit on one really good song, you
mix it on some cheap equipment at home, have a
good four week run on iTunes, sell it to a
Dish soap commercial and watch the money come in without
(02:46):
playing a single gig. What would you prefer?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Choice?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah, go back of the time machine, do it anyway
you want.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
You know what, I look over the more shoulder and
I see a lifetime spent doing exactly what I chose
to do. Got to do it every day, got to
you know, go on stage with the music that we
created and lift people's hearts up and in turn and
lift our own up. And you know, very proud of
the career that we've had. So, you know, given the choice,
(03:23):
you know, that was a pretty good one for us.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
When you guys would be on stage and your piano
player would start doing the intro to on the Dark
Side and the crowd would absolutely erupt. What was it
like to stand on stage and feel that energy?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Well, you know, I mean I played two days ago
and we you know, we got the exact same, exact
same feeling as we got, you know, back in the
day when I first wrote it. And you know, that song,
for whatever reason, it took the magic copy ride. And
you know, whatever that piano intro plays, something happens in
the room. You know, people get so excited when they
(04:04):
hear it, and I think it takes him back to
a place in time when they first heard it, and
you know, their lives were maybe a little simpler then,
and it's a lot of fun to have a hit
song like that, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah, John Cafferty with us here for another couple of minutes.
Here on the Dark Side was of course the biggest hit,
but also Tender Years from Eddie and the Cruiser see
I t y. It was a great tune. Of course,
Heart's on Fire from Rocky four was Rocky four the
best soundtrack of all time.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
It might have been, you know, it just might have been.
And James Brown was on that record with Living in
America Survivor Got Rest and so my good buddy Jimmy
Jamison sang a song called Berning Hart that Jim Peterick
wrote and that was a number one record. Robert Tepper
had a top ten recond in there.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
It was no easy way out, Robert Tepper, that's right. Yeah,
we had Jim Peterrick on the show and made him
talk about Burning Heart with us here. We we love
that soundtrack here and your inclusion on of course Eddie
and the Cruisers great soundtrack. What do you think of
the movie?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Well, you know, for me, when I watched the movie,
I've only seen it a couple of times because for me,
when I watched the movie, every time Michael moves his mouth,
my voice comes out. So it's like it's I don't
get the same I don't get the same feeling that
(05:32):
other people do. But you know, when I watch it,
I see that the work that we both did creates
this composite character that you know, communicated with a lot
of people, So you know, it's in that way, it
was quite quite a lot of fun to do.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Yeah, and now maybe Eddie and the Cruisers three can
come out and include great songs like Day in the
Sun and everything else on the new John Cafferty and
Beaver Brown band album, Sound of Waves, out this Friday. John,
we ask all of our favorite guests to say a
line for us that we feel is the best thing
to hear first thing in the morning. Now, the line
(06:13):
is good morning, honey, I made you pancakes for breakfast.
But because you're John Cafferty, I'm hoping you could say,
good morning, honey, I made you pancakes for breakfast. They're
a little burnt. I guess you could say they're on
the dark side.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Do you want me to say that?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yes? I do all right.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Good morning, honey. I made you pancakes for breakfast, but
they're a little burnt. I guess you could say they're
on the dark side.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Oh yeah, fantastic, John. I love that we got new
music from the Beaver Brown Band. It's so great to
talk to you. Thank you for the lifetime of great
music and entertainment and wish you the best and continue success.
Come to Omaha. We'll talk to you again.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
All right. I'm gonna thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Ben and he hit the post on the music too.
This is new music from John cafferty Beaver Brown Band.
Day in the Sun on scott Fories mornings nine to eleven,
our News Radio eleven ten KFAB
Scott Vorde one of the great piano intros of any
song ever, John Cafferty, John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown
Band with this song from the movie Eddie and the Cruisers,
(00:21):
top ten hit in America, and now almost four decades later,
he's out with new music and now we welcome here
on news radio eleven ten KFAB with Lucy Chapman and
(00:44):
me Scott Voorhees. On news Radio eleven ten kfa B,
Nebraska's news, weather and traffic station and lovers of great music,
It's John Cafferty of John Cafferty and the Beaver Brown Band. John,
Good morning.
Speaker 2 (00:59):
Hey, how you doing.
Speaker 1 (01:00):
It's wonderful to talk to you. Now. About four decades later,
a new album called Sound of Waves. What's the rush on?
Just throwing this album out there? Where's the fire?
Speaker 2 (01:14):
Well? Thanks for saying. You know. We we celebrated our
fiftieth anniversary a couple of years ago. It's taking us
a couple of years to blow out the candles, but
you know, and doing so, we put out the greatest
hits record on Iconoclassic Records of a package with all
our movie soundtracks and all the hits we had our
(01:36):
own album, and then started thinking like, well, maybe maybe
we can try to come up with something new. So
that's what we did. We went to work and you know,
had so much fun doing it. Took us a while
to finish it up, but we finally did. And here
it is sound Waves with a new single, day in
(01:58):
the Sun, which is kind of a one.
Speaker 1 (02:00):
Yeah. Day in the Sun is a very good song,
part of thirteen new tracks on the new album's Sound
of Waves, and that's coming out here this week. And
you're doing a big event in New York City. The
guys are East Coasters. What would you have preferred John
to come up the way you guys did the toil,
all those nights playing for small crowds of drunks that
(02:24):
got bigger and bigger as you had more success, probably
not getting paid by a lot of the club promoters
and bar owners, wondering why you do this and then
finally achieving a measure of success. Or the way it's
done now, you hit on one really good song, you
mix it on some cheap equipment at home, have a
good four week run on iTunes, sell it to a
Dish soap commercial and watch the money come in without
(02:46):
playing a single gig. What would you prefer?
Speaker 2 (02:52):
Choice?
Speaker 1 (02:53):
Yeah, go back of the time machine, do it anyway
you want.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
You know what, I look over the more shoulder and
I see a lifetime spent doing exactly what I chose
to do. Got to do it every day, got to
you know, go on stage with the music that we
created and lift people's hearts up and in turn and
lift our own up. And you know, very proud of
the career that we've had. So, you know, given the choice,
(03:23):
you know, that was a pretty good one for us.
Speaker 1 (03:27):
When you guys would be on stage and your piano
player would start doing the intro to on the Dark
Side and the crowd would absolutely erupt. What was it
like to stand on stage and feel that energy?
Speaker 2 (03:41):
Well, you know, I mean I played two days ago
and we you know, we got the exact same, exact
same feeling as we got, you know, back in the
day when I first wrote it. And you know, that song,
for whatever reason, it took the magic copy ride. And
you know, whatever that piano intro plays, something happens in
the room. You know, people get so excited when they
(04:04):
hear it, and I think it takes him back to
a place in time when they first heard it, and
you know, their lives were maybe a little simpler then,
and it's a lot of fun to have a hit
song like that, that's for sure.
Speaker 1 (04:18):
Yeah, John Cafferty with us here for another couple of minutes.
Here on the Dark Side was of course the biggest hit,
but also Tender Years from Eddie and the Cruiser see
I t y. It was a great tune. Of course,
Heart's on Fire from Rocky four was Rocky four the
best soundtrack of all time.
Speaker 2 (04:35):
It might have been, you know, it just might have been.
And James Brown was on that record with Living in
America Survivor Got Rest and so my good buddy Jimmy
Jamison sang a song called Berning Hart that Jim Peterick
wrote and that was a number one record. Robert Tepper
had a top ten recond in there.
Speaker 1 (04:53):
It was no easy way out, Robert Tepper, that's right. Yeah,
we had Jim Peterrick on the show and made him
talk about Burning Heart with us here. We we love
that soundtrack here and your inclusion on of course Eddie
and the Cruisers great soundtrack. What do you think of
the movie?
Speaker 2 (05:12):
Well, you know, for me, when I watched the movie,
I've only seen it a couple of times because for me,
when I watched the movie, every time Michael moves his mouth,
my voice comes out. So it's like it's I don't
get the same I don't get the same feeling that
(05:32):
other people do. But you know, when I watch it,
I see that the work that we both did creates
this composite character that you know, communicated with a lot
of people, So you know, it's in that way, it
was quite quite a lot of fun to do.
Speaker 1 (05:52):
Yeah, and now maybe Eddie and the Cruisers three can
come out and include great songs like Day in the
Sun and everything else on the new John Cafferty and
Beaver Brown band album, Sound of Waves, out this Friday. John,
we ask all of our favorite guests to say a
line for us that we feel is the best thing
to hear first thing in the morning. Now, the line
(06:13):
is good morning, honey, I made you pancakes for breakfast.
But because you're John Cafferty, I'm hoping you could say,
good morning, honey, I made you pancakes for breakfast. They're
a little burnt. I guess you could say they're on
the dark side.
Speaker 2 (06:31):
Do you want me to say that?
Speaker 1 (06:32):
Yes? I do all right.
Speaker 2 (06:38):
Good morning, honey. I made you pancakes for breakfast, but
they're a little burnt. I guess you could say they're
on the dark side.
Speaker 1 (06:48):
Oh yeah, fantastic, John. I love that we got new
music from the Beaver Brown Band. It's so great to
talk to you. Thank you for the lifetime of great
music and entertainment and wish you the best and continue success.
Come to Omaha. We'll talk to you again.
Speaker 2 (07:04):
All right. I'm gonna thanks so much.
Speaker 1 (07:06):
Ben and he hit the post on the music too.
This is new music from John cafferty Beaver Brown Band.
Day in the Sun on scott Fories mornings nine to eleven,
our News Radio eleven ten KFAB
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