October 21, 2016 • 3 mins
Journey's Don't Stop Believin' happened thanks to insomnia!
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Speaker 1 (00:01):
Mervie, Sam and Jody after the show something exclusive just
because you signed up for it subscribed to the podcast,
So thank you very much for doing that. Sam during
the show had already done behind the lyrics as we
do every single Friday.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Yeah, I gave you all a choice for Journey since
they're possibly going to be inducted into the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame. You can pick Don't Stop Believing
or Separate Ways, and Jody chose Separate Ways. So we
did that during the show. You can hear that on
the podcast. Bet we saved Don't Stop Believing. For the
after show.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Sam rist.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Possibly their most it's popular song and probably the most
used in pop culture.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Vegas song is open Arms. But this has been like
their most enduring, really enduring song that's gone on forever,
and it came about because of Steve Perry having insomnia
in a hotel in Detroit. Sounds horrible standing. So he's
up all night looking out the window and he was
looking down. He saw all the street lamps and he
said the lamps didn't shed a lot of light. It
was just like straight down and he said, you didn't
see the people until they walked into the light. And
(00:57):
walked out. And so that's where the line street light
people came in from that line. But he's there is
a geographic inaccuracy in the lyrics, and it's this line
about South Detroit.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yes, the city.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
On and raise.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yourself, there is no I mean, there is a southern
part of the city, but there is no South Detroit.
And if you live in Detroit, there's the east East Detroit,
and there's West Detroit.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
No South Detroit.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Right, And so he said, well, he was writing the
song and he tried East Detroit, he tried West Detroit.
He said it, you know, it didn't ring. South Detroit
sounded cool. So he says, I know it's wrong, but
he said, I like the way it sounds, so therefore
we're going to leave it.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
So therefore he got South Detroit. Interesting.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
The resurgent started in two thousand and three with the
movie Monster with Charlie Stern.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Yeah, horribly they used in that movie.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
And then all of a sudden, they said they started
getting phone calls Journey did from all kinds of producers
and directors wanting to use it for TV shows and movies.
For the Sopranos. Remember the final scene in the sopranos
use a song. Something happened to Tony. We still never
know what the song.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
It just ends hands, it goes to.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Black, and we don't know what happened there. They had
to ask the band if they could use the song,
and Steve Perry said, yeah, sure, y'all can use the song.
And he said, but as long as it's not like
a blood bath scene or anything like that. So they
explained to him what it was. But then they had
to swear him to secrecy. It's like the secret ending. Well,
here's what happens. He goes, okay, go ahead and use it.
And then, of course, remember first episode of Glee, they
(02:25):
use this song.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Part of it the very first episode.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
It was kind of a song that brought the whole
gang together for agree. It's then it pops in throughout
the series. Different times in the series did the Glee
guys sang it.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
It's a song that really holds a place in time.
That's the thing about it. It's timeless.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
It's a carry out, but it is a place and
time kind of song.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
You know.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
It's not that they're only big monster song like that.
It's just the one that really resonates with people. Probably
because of the positive method.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
So that's your after the show podcast Behind the Lyrics,
Nice Sam.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Behind the Lyrics,
Mervie, Sam and Jody after the show something exclusive just
because you signed up for it subscribed to the podcast,
So thank you very much for doing that. Sam during
the show had already done behind the lyrics as we
do every single Friday.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Yeah, I gave you all a choice for Journey since
they're possibly going to be inducted into the Rock and
Roll Hall of Fame. You can pick Don't Stop Believing
or Separate Ways, and Jody chose Separate Ways. So we
did that during the show. You can hear that on
the podcast. Bet we saved Don't Stop Believing. For the
after show.
Speaker 3 (00:27):
Sam rist.
Speaker 4 (00:31):
Possibly their most it's popular song and probably the most
used in pop culture.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
Vegas song is open Arms. But this has been like
their most enduring, really enduring song that's gone on forever,
and it came about because of Steve Perry having insomnia
in a hotel in Detroit. Sounds horrible standing. So he's
up all night looking out the window and he was
looking down. He saw all the street lamps and he
said the lamps didn't shed a lot of light. It
was just like straight down and he said, you didn't
see the people until they walked into the light. And
(00:57):
walked out. And so that's where the line street light
people came in from that line. But he's there is
a geographic inaccuracy in the lyrics, and it's this line
about South Detroit.
Speaker 1 (01:08):
Yes, the city.
Speaker 4 (01:12):
On and raise.
Speaker 2 (01:12):
Yourself, there is no I mean, there is a southern
part of the city, but there is no South Detroit.
And if you live in Detroit, there's the east East Detroit,
and there's West Detroit.
Speaker 3 (01:23):
No South Detroit.
Speaker 2 (01:24):
Right, And so he said, well, he was writing the
song and he tried East Detroit, he tried West Detroit.
He said it, you know, it didn't ring. South Detroit
sounded cool. So he says, I know it's wrong, but
he said, I like the way it sounds, so therefore
we're going to leave it.
Speaker 3 (01:36):
So therefore he got South Detroit. Interesting.
Speaker 2 (01:38):
The resurgent started in two thousand and three with the
movie Monster with Charlie Stern.
Speaker 3 (01:43):
Yeah, horribly they used in that movie.
Speaker 2 (01:45):
And then all of a sudden, they said they started
getting phone calls Journey did from all kinds of producers
and directors wanting to use it for TV shows and movies.
For the Sopranos. Remember the final scene in the sopranos
use a song. Something happened to Tony. We still never
know what the song.
Speaker 3 (02:00):
It just ends hands, it goes to.
Speaker 2 (02:02):
Black, and we don't know what happened there. They had
to ask the band if they could use the song,
and Steve Perry said, yeah, sure, y'all can use the song.
And he said, but as long as it's not like
a blood bath scene or anything like that. So they
explained to him what it was. But then they had
to swear him to secrecy. It's like the secret ending. Well,
here's what happens. He goes, okay, go ahead and use it.
And then, of course, remember first episode of Glee, they
(02:25):
use this song.
Speaker 1 (02:29):
Part of it the very first episode.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
It was kind of a song that brought the whole
gang together for agree. It's then it pops in throughout
the series. Different times in the series did the Glee
guys sang it.
Speaker 4 (02:43):
It's a song that really holds a place in time.
That's the thing about it. It's timeless.
Speaker 3 (02:48):
It's a carry out, but it is a place and
time kind of song.
Speaker 2 (02:53):
You know.
Speaker 4 (02:53):
It's not that they're only big monster song like that.
It's just the one that really resonates with people. Probably
because of the positive method.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
So that's your after the show podcast Behind the Lyrics,
Nice Sam.
Speaker 4 (03:05):
Behind the Lyrics,
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