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1979 The Next 100 Songs #1. The Wait - The Pretenders (2 Viewers)

ZZ Top bass player Dusty Hill explained: "We wrote that song when we used to tour in cars. And every gas station in the world had a cardboard display of the cheapest and ugliest sunglasses you could imagine. I have bought a thousand pair of them."

This song stands out musically and it is due to a serendipitous accident.  Guitarist Billy Gibbons amp had a blown tube when they recorded Cheap Sunglasses giving it 'tonal character' as he said it adopted a 'bulbous rotund sound'.

This is the time that both Hill and Gibbons began sporting their classic long beards that gave the bands its signature look.

Released 1979

 
Bracie Smathers said:
Its a made up name for a song that was improvised during extended stage performances of 'Can't Stand Losing You'.  

The first three Police albums, Outlandos d'Amour, Reggatta de Blanc, and Zenyatta Mondatta, were named by their manager, Miles Copeland (Police drummer Stewart Copeland's brother), using words he made up. "Reggatta de Blanc" is the only one that is also the name of a song. In Copeland's language, it translates to "White Reggae," indicating the reggae rhythms the band was using.

Dummer Stewart Copeland formed the band, his drumming is 'mad' as one of my drummer friends would say.  Copeland became insanely jealous of Sting over time as the band he created got taken over by his lead singer as he faded to the background.

On this song his drumming is 'mad', the title track to the album.

89.  Reggatta De Blanc - The Police

Released 5 October 1979

Side story.

While working at a ski resort in Colorado I had to go up to the storage area and was waiting for the elevator which was filled by the stocking crew who spontaneously began singing this song at the top of their lungs.  I still smile when I hear this.

Rio rio rioyo
Rio rio rioyo
Rio riay riayo
Rio riay riayo
Rio riay riayo
Rio riay riayo
Rio riay riayo, riayo, riayo, riyao
Riya ya ya ya ya ya ya ya
Yao
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They used to play the #### out of this live way back when it was part of their set list. A clip from 80 in Bombay - Can't Stand Losing You + Regatta De Blanc. The best part of that clip might be the random crowd shots. Don't know what's going on with the varying sound quality. Wish they had better tracks of these performances.

 
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They used to play the #### out of this live way back when it was part of their set list. A clip from 80 in Bombay - Can't Stand Losing You + Regatta De Blanc. The best part of that clip might be the random crowd shots. Don't know what's going on with the varying sound quality. Wish they had better tracks of these performances.
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They were interviewed on Australian TV during that tour and said that the people in India had no idea who they were but were told a Western musical group would be playing.  Many Indians speak English but you'd have to think Hindi or Farsi/Urdu would be their first language yet many were joining in when they sang Regatta De Blanc and it looked like they were having a blast.

Sting said it was the greatest show he'd ever done and the most enjoyable.  

Side story about Sting.  I used to work at an outdoor amphitheater while going to college during one summer in Colorado.  One of my buddies was working a Sting concert and was running around while the band was warming up when he hears someone shouting. 

'How does that sound?'   

My buddy kept walking and the voice keeps shouting.

'Hey YOU!' 

My buddy turned his head.  It was Sting.  My buddy looks around and sees no one and points at himself and says 'Me'?

Sting says 'Yeah YOU'.

'How does that sound?'

My buddy was too stunned to say anything so he gave two thumbs up and Sting nodded approvingly.

I always think of that story when I hear Sting.

 
Bracie Smathers said:
Side story about Sting.  I used to work at an outdoor amphitheater while going to college during one summer in Colorado.  One of my buddies was working a Sting concert and was running around while the band was warming up when he hears someone shouting. 

'How does that sound?'   

My buddy kept walking and the voice keeps shouting.

'Hey YOU!' 

My buddy turned his head.  It was Sting.  My buddy looks around and sees no one and points at himself and says 'Me'?

Sting says 'Yeah YOU'.

'How does that sound?'

My buddy was too stunned to say anything so he gave two thumbs up and Sting nodded approvingly.

I always think of that story when I hear Sting.
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:D

 
Bracie Smathers said:
In all of the research I've done on every group and solo artist I've never heard of anyone putting out 100 albums but this guy did.  Ian Mathews scored his only charting hit with this song written by Terence Boylan whose version never charted.  Boylan went to school and played in a band with two high school class mates, Walter Becker and Donal Fagan (Steely Dan).

I remember hearing this but it had been awhile.  I like it.

Released December 1978
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Song title didn't ring a bell for me, but when I clicked on the link it was really familiar. Then I remembered, this song was used in the opening of the teen comedy "Little Darlings" that starred Tatum O'Neal and Kristy Mc Nichol. That's why I remember it anyway.

 
My favorite part of threads like this is reading for the first time in years something I knew decades ago, but had most recently forgotten.  All those moments would have been lost in time,  like tears in rain. 

 
Bracie Smathers said:
In all of the research I've done on every group and solo artist I've never heard of anyone putting out 100 albums but this guy did.  Ian Mathews scored his only charting hit with this song written by Terence Boylan whose version never charted.  Boylan went to school and played in a band with two high school class mates, Walter Becker and Donal Fagan (Steely Dan).

I remember hearing this but it had been awhile.  I like it.

Released December 1978
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Matthews was with Fairport Convention for their first few albums.

The tune was featured in the 1980 cult classic coming of age flick Little Darlings.

 
Bracie Smathers said:
ZZ Top bass player Dusty Hill explained: "We wrote that song when we used to tour in cars. And every gas station in the world had a cardboard display of the cheapest and ugliest sunglasses you could imagine. I have bought a thousand pair of them."

This song stands out musically and it is due to a serendipitous accident.  Guitarist Billy Gibbons amp had a blown tube when they recorded Cheap Sunglasses giving it 'tonal character' as he said it adopted a 'bulbous rotund sound'.

This is the time that both Hill and Gibbons began sporting their classic long beards that gave the bands its signature look.

Released 1979
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Love it - my favorite ZZ tune. Billy shines here as much as anything they did IMO.

 
Bracie Smathers said:
In all of the research I've done on every group and solo artist I've never heard of anyone putting out 100 albums but this guy did.  Ian Mathews scored his only charting hit with this song written by Terence Boylan whose version never charted.  Boylan went to school and played in a band with two high school class mates, Walter Becker and Donal Fagan (Steely Dan).

I remember hearing this but it had been awhile.  I like it.

Released December 1978
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a One Hit Wonder that I always liked.

 
Originally slated for Sister Sledge Nile Rodgers saw this as the  perfect follow-up for CHIC's hit 'Le Freak'.  Niles dreamt every note.

"I used to sleep with score paper next to the bed, and I wrote out the whole score the next day. We went in and played what I dreamt."

"The only thing that appears on the record that I didn't dream was when the horns come in, I put the strings up an octave... We tried it in the studio and it sounded great."

AllMusic's Jason Birchmeier called the song a "timeless floor-filler"

85.  I Want Your Love - CHIC

Released January 29, 1979

 
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Originally slated for Sister Sledge Nile Rodgers saw this as the  perfect follow-up for CHIC's hit 'Le Freak'.  Niles dreamt every note.

"I used to sleep with score paper next to the bed, and I wrote out the whole score the next day. We went in and played what I dreamt."

"The only thing that appears on the record that I didn't dream was when the horns come in, I put the strings up an octave... We tried it in the studio and it sounded great."

AllMusic's Jason Birchmeier called the song a "timeless floor-filler"

85.  I Want Your Love - CHIC

Released January 29, 1979
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Daft Punk's "Get Lucky" came from this one

 
 Some printings of the single were also issued in a translucent blue vinyl, which are now highly sought after collectors items. 

How'd they come up with this tune?  They charted a boat and got super stoned, so stoned they couldn't move for an hour and heard the motor which got into the head of Tommy Shaw who came up with the guitar riff.

 Shaw: "When we booked this fishing boat, we said, 'We are going to be partying because we just finished this tour.' Well, we smoked this pot, and by the time we got on the boat, we were paralyzed. We were, like, stone quiet for the first hour and a half. We finally started coming around a little bit and told [the boat owner] what happened. He's like, 'I wondered what happened to you guys, because you said there was going to be this big party, and you guys haven't said a word.' We're all sitting there in this daze from this pot, and the boat was making this sound: 'mmm mmm mmm.' You are moving slowly when you are trolling through the water. The engines are at really low RPMs. The sound just sort of tattooed itself onto my psyche. And when I got back to the room, I got the acoustic guitar and wrote the music to 'Blue Collar Man.'"

Released September 1978

 
The song was was about the then-dormant Soufrière Hills volcano on the island of Montserrat in the British West Indies where Buffett recorded the album.  The volcano would later erupt after the island got hit by hurricane Hugo.  After the twin disasters Buffett would perform a benefit concert to help victims where he sang this song.

82.  Volcano - Jimmy Buffett 

Released November 1979

Smathers Side Story - August 18, 1992 while working in a fishing camp and sleeping in my tent up in Alaska a buddy comes in saying 'Wake up!  Its SNOWING!'  I tell him to go blank himself since I was tired and it was in the 50s, too warm for it to snow.  He repeats that 'Its snowing' and for me to 'wake up'.  I wasn't having it and finally he says that a volcano has erupted ( Mt. Spurr which was hundreds of miles to the west so this was a complete surprise to us) and ash is falling and for me to wake up and see it.  I was too tired and went back to sleep.

The next morning I wake to an eerie atmosphere.  Everything was grey and no motorized vehicles were moving.  No airplanes, no helicopters, no cars, nothing.  Complete silence in one of most bustling small cities, Valdez Alaska which is the terminus for the Alaska pipeline so its really f'ng busy.  After Mt. St. Helens blew it destroyed motors so nothing was moving.  The mountain peeks which normally were white with snow were all grey.  Everyone was in a daze, it was surreal.  I remember my buddy using his snow scraper to wipe ash off of his car.  Not his but it Looked like this but Valdez had a bit more ash than seen in that photo.

I used to play this song as a DJ but that was before my volcano experience.  Now when I hear it I think of Mt. Spur eruption and the fallout hundreds of miles away in a fish camp in Valdez. 

 
Al Stewart is a very interesting artist.  His list of songs is so diverse and I've got to say intellectual.  His titles go from movie titles from the 30s to Eisenhower, Nostradamus, Merlin, and one even about Warren G. Harding!  Warren G. Harding?  Are ya kidding me?  A buddy from college was going to be a history major and said he had to do a paper on a president and I suggested Warren-G.  He asked why and I simply said he used to bring hookers into the White House and his wife would be banging on the door yelling at him.   He wrote the paper and got an A.

I used to play Al Stewart and one song was haunting 'Roads To Moscow'.  I was looking at his list of songs and it hit me that he wrote a lot of stuff before the Internet so he had to know the topics and some are pretty obscure.  I'm very impressed and always have been. 

This song he wrote to spite his record company.

January 1979 (the video says 1976 which is completely wrong, it was released as a single in January of 79)

"I was kind of making fun of Arista Records" who had "asked for a mid-tempo ballad with a saxophone...They wanted a song that could be played on the radio, [so] very tongue-in-cheek I wrote...'Song on the Radio'. I thought they'd [get that] I was actually joking, but of course they didn't & ...put it out as a single [which] made the Top 30, [so] the joke was on me because I screwed up a preposition" - referring to the opening lines "I was making my way through the wasteland/ The road into town passes through" which ends with a preposition - "Worse, I used the same word [through] twice in the same sentence."

 
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Bracie Smathers said:
Originally slated for Sister Sledge Nile Rodgers saw this as the  perfect follow-up for CHIC's hit 'Le Freak'.  Niles dreamt every note.

"I used to sleep with score paper next to the bed, and I wrote out the whole score the next day. We went in and played what I dreamt."

"The only thing that appears on the record that I didn't dream was when the horns come in, I put the strings up an octave... We tried it in the studio and it sounded great."

AllMusic's Jason Birchmeier called the song a "timeless floor-filler"

85.  I Want Your Love - CHIC

Released January 29, 1979
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I think this is my favorite Chic tune, which is saying something because I love this band. There are so many treats in here, but of course the top of my list is Tony Thompson's hi-hat pattern, putting those little accents in places only he'd think of to make a seemingly simple 16 note disco beat into something remarkable.

 
Bracie Smathers said:
Al Stewart is a very interesting artist.  His list of songs is so diverse and I've got to say intellectual.  His titles go from movie titles from the 30s to Eisenhower, Nostradamus, Merlin, and one even about Warren G. Harding!  Warren G. Harding?  Are ya kidding me?  A buddy from college was going to be a history major and said he had to do a paper on a president and I suggested Warren-G.  He asked why and I simply said he used to bring hookers into the White House and his wife would be banging on the door yelling at him.   He wrote the paper and got an A.

I used to play Al Stewart and one song was haunting 'Roads To Moscow'.  I was looking at his list of songs and it hit me that he wrote a lot of stuff before the Internet so he had to know the topics and some are pretty obscure.  I'm very impressed and always have been. 

This song he wrote to spite his record company.

January 1979 (the video says 1976 which is completely wrong, it was released as a single in January of 79)

"I was kind of making fun of Arista Records" who had "asked for a mid-tempo ballad with a saxophone...They wanted a song that could be played on the radio, [so] very tongue-in-cheek I wrote...'Song on the Radio'. I thought they'd [get that] I was actually joking, but of course they didn't & ...put it out as a single [which] made the Top 30, [so] the joke was on me because I screwed up a preposition" - referring to the opening lines "I was making my way through the wasteland/ The road into town passes through" which ends with a preposition - "Worse, I used the same word [through] twice in the same sentence."
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Guy wrote and recorded with so many -- Jimmy Page, Alan Parsons, Richard Thompson, Tori Amos -- and has 16 studio recorded albums and a few live ones.

All I've ever known him for is Year of the Cat. His other songs really fell flat to me, will need to give them more of a listen. 

 
Used to be the theme song for the TV show Bosom Buddies starring Tom Hanks.  Tom Hanks poked fun at himself in a 2011 episode of the show 30 Rock when he explains that anyone working in TV must come off the A-list, then proceeds to sing some of this song.

Allegedly, the verse "closed the shop, sold the house, bought a ticket to the west coast; now he gives them a stand up routine in LA" refers to comedian Richard Lewis. Lewis is indeed native to Joel's stomping ground, born in New York City and raised in New Jersey.

Great uptempo song.

80.  My Life - Billy Joel

Released October 28, 1978

 
Bracie Smathers said:
The song was was about the then-dormant Soufrière Hills volcano on the island of Montserrat in the British West Indies where Buffett recorded the album.  The volcano would later erupt after the island got hit by hurricane Hugo.  After the twin disasters Buffett would perform a benefit concert to help victims where he sang this song.

82.  Volcano - Jimmy Buffett 

Released November 1979

Smathers Side Story - August 18, 1992 while working in a fishing camp and sleeping in my tent up in Alaska a buddy comes in saying 'Wake up!  Its SNOWING!'  I tell him to go blank himself since I was tired and it was in the 50s, too warm for it to snow.  He repeats that 'Its snowing' and for me to 'wake up'.  I wasn't having it and finally he says that a volcano has erupted ( Mt. Spurr which was hundreds of miles to the west so this was a complete surprise to us) and ash is falling and for me to wake up and see it.  I was too tired and went back to sleep.

The next morning I wake to an eerie atmosphere.  Everything was grey and no motorized vehicles were moving.  No airplanes, no helicopters, no cars, nothing.  Complete silence in one of most bustling small cities, Valdez Alaska which is the terminus for the Alaska pipeline so its really f'ng busy.  After Mt. St. Helens blew it destroyed motors so nothing was moving.  The mountain peeks which normally were white with snow were all grey.  Everyone was in a daze, it was surreal.  I remember my buddy using his snow scraper to wipe ash off of his car.  Not his but it Looked like this but Valdez had a bit more ash than seen in that photo.

I used to play this song as a DJ but that was before my volcano experience.  Now when I hear it I think of Mt. Spur eruption and the fallout hundreds of miles away in a fish camp in Valdez. 
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I was in more than one drunken sing-along to this in college. 

 
Bracie Smathers said:
Used to be the theme song for the TV show Bosom Buddies starring Tom Hanks.  Tom Hanks poked fun at himself in a 2011 episode of the show 30 Rock when he explains that anyone working in TV must come off the A-list, then proceeds to sing some of this song.

Allegedly, the verse "closed the shop, sold the house, bought a ticket to the west coast; now he gives them a stand up routine in LA" refers to comedian Richard Lewis. Lewis is indeed native to Joel's stomping ground, born in New York City and raised in New Jersey.

Great uptempo song.

80.  My Life - Billy Joel

Released October 28, 1978
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One of my favorite Joel songs.   Nice selection 

 
Bracie Smathers said:
Used to be the theme song for the TV show Bosom Buddies starring Tom Hanks.  Tom Hanks poked fun at himself in a 2011 episode of the show 30 Rock when he explains that anyone working in TV must come off the A-list, then proceeds to sing some of this song.

Allegedly, the verse "closed the shop, sold the house, bought a ticket to the west coast; now he gives them a stand up routine in LA" refers to comedian Richard Lewis. Lewis is indeed native to Joel's stomping ground, born in New York City and raised in New Jersey.

Great uptempo song.

80.  My Life - Billy Joel

Released October 28, 1978
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My first cassette tape was 52nd St'.; I received it for Christmas 1978 or birthday 1979. My parents got it for me because I really loved this song. 

 
Motel's singer Martha Davis mentions in a few interviews that she wrote this as an angry punk song after guitarist Dean Chamberlain broke her heart. Then Jeff Jourard changed it from an aggro song to what it became with this chord progression.

I confess I wasn't aware of this song until I started putting this list together and I figured it wouldn't make the list but it not only made the list it beat out 20 other songs as it grew on me.  I love this tune and Martha my dear looks fabulous in the video or I should say 'smokin' because she's puffing away as she sings and does something positively 'saucy' to the sax with the microphone.  You'll just have to watch.

If you haven't heard this one give it a listen.  Two thumbs up from me on this tune that hasn't gotten the play it deserves.

Released September 17, 1979

 
Southside put out an album entitled Havin' A Party and this was the only song that was not a re-release, it was a studio album.  He later put this song out on a live album.  I stumbled upon this version years ago and it is incredibly fun.  Performed from the Agora in Cleveland which is the site of many famous live albums and tons of famous rockers over the years.  

One of my friends from Jersey was in a small bar when an un-announced act made an appearance.  It was the Boss and my buddy was two feet from him as he put on a four-hour show.  I would imagine it looked something like this...

Soutside Johnny and the Asbury Jukes with Bruce Springsteen, Little Stevie (Van Zandt), but I don't see the Big Man (Clarence Clemmons). 

Havin' such a good time live from the Agora circa 1978.

Studio album released in 1979 

 
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TSOP = McFadden and Whitehead.  They were a big part of The Sound Of Philadelphia.  

 Gene McFadden and John Whitehead were songwriters and producers at Philadelphia International Records, where they worked on many of the tracks that helped define the Philadelphia Soul sound. In 1972, they wrote the O'Jays hit "Back Stabbers" with Leon Huff, who co-owned the label with Kenny Gamble. Subsequent hits the pair penned include "I'll Always Love My Mama" by The Intruders (1973) and "Bad Luck" by Harold Melvin.

By the late '70s, McFadden and Whitehead were hankering to record their own material and convinced Gamble and Huff to let them try. Exhilarated by the opportunity, they thought, "ain't no stopping us now!" and wrote this motivational song. It was inspired by their personal experience, but resonated with anyone looking forward to a challenge. The song went to #1 on the R&B charts and also found a home on Top 40 radio. It has aged well, and is still played on a variety of formats.

John Whithead claimed he not only made up the lyrics for the song on the spot but that he also did his vocals in one take.

77.  Aint No Stopping Us Now - Mcfadden and Whitehead

Released April 1979

 
Bracie Smathers said:
Motel's singer Martha Davis mentions in a few interviews that she wrote this as an angry punk song after guitarist Dean Chamberlain broke her heart. Then Jeff Jourard changed it from an aggro song to what it became with this chord progression.

I confess I wasn't aware of this song until I started putting this list together and I figured it wouldn't make the list but it not only made the list it beat out 20 other songs as it grew on me.  I love this tune and Martha my dear looks fabulous in the video or I should say 'smokin' because she's puffing away as she sings and does something positively 'saucy' to the sax with the microphone.  You'll just have to watch.

If you haven't heard this one give it a listen.  Two thumbs up from me on this tune that hasn't gotten the play it deserves.

Released September 17, 1979
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Didn’t know this one existed - nice. Definitely gotta love Martha with the lung dart and oral sax gestures.

 
Bracie Smathers said:
TSOP = McFadden and Whitehead.  They were a big part of The Sound Of Philadelphia.  

 Gene McFadden and John Whitehead were songwriters and producers at Philadelphia International Records, where they worked on many of the tracks that helped define the Philadelphia Soul sound. In 1972, they wrote the O'Jays hit "Back Stabbers" with Leon Huff, who co-owned the label with Kenny Gamble. Subsequent hits the pair penned include "I'll Always Love My Mama" by The Intruders (1973) and "Bad Luck" by Harold Melvin.

By the late '70s, McFadden and Whitehead were hankering to record their own material and convinced Gamble and Huff to let them try. Exhilarated by the opportunity, they thought, "ain't no stopping us now!" and wrote this motivational song. It was inspired by their personal experience, but resonated with anyone looking forward to a challenge. The song went to #1 on the R&B charts and also found a home on Top 40 radio. It has aged well, and is still played on a variety of formats.

John Whithead claimed he not only made up the lyrics for the song on the spot but that he also did his vocals in one take.

77.  Aint No Stopping Us Now - Mcfadden and Whitehead

Released April 1979
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my walk-on music for 40+ yrs

 
The Brothers Knopfler, Mark and Dave began with this tune when they borrowed just enough money to make a demo of this song which got the attention of a record company.  The name of the band came about when Dave got divorced and was struggling financially and wound up sleeping on Mark's couch who was sharing a flat with guitarist John Illsey.  John noted their financial struggles and came up with the band name 'Dire Straits'.  

The title of this song came from a sexual tryst and Mark's memories of taking his gal to the Tyne river as a teen.

  The 'quick finger picking' of Knofler became a staple of their unique guitar sound.

Released 7 October 1978

'No money in our jackets and our jeans are torn

Your hands are cold but your lips are warm'

 
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The Brothers Knopfler, Mark and Dave began with this tune when they borrowed just enough money to make a demo of this song which got the attention of a record company.  The name of the band came about when Dave got divorced and was struggling financially and wound up sleeping on Mark's couch who was sharing a flat with guitarist John Illsey.  John noted their financial struggles and came up with the band name 'Dire Straits'.  

The title of this song came from a sexual tryst and Mark's memories of taking his gal to the Tyne river as a teen.

  The 'quick finger picking' of Knofler became a staple of their unique guitar sound.

Released 7 October 1978

'No money in our jackets and our jeans are torn

Your hands are cold but your lips are warm'
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Awesome, underrated song. :thumbup:  

 
Bracie Smathers said:
TSOP = McFadden and Whitehead.  They were a big part of The Sound Of Philadelphia.  

 Gene McFadden and John Whitehead were songwriters and producers at Philadelphia International Records, where they worked on many of the tracks that helped define the Philadelphia Soul sound. In 1972, they wrote the O'Jays hit "Back Stabbers" with Leon Huff, who co-owned the label with Kenny Gamble. Subsequent hits the pair penned include "I'll Always Love My Mama" by The Intruders (1973) and "Bad Luck" by Harold Melvin.

By the late '70s, McFadden and Whitehead were hankering to record their own material and convinced Gamble and Huff to let them try. Exhilarated by the opportunity, they thought, "ain't no stopping us now!" and wrote this motivational song. It was inspired by their personal experience, but resonated with anyone looking forward to a challenge. The song went to #1 on the R&B charts and also found a home on Top 40 radio. It has aged well, and is still played on a variety of formats.

John Whithead claimed he not only made up the lyrics for the song on the spot but that he also did his vocals in one take.

77.  Aint No Stopping Us Now - Mcfadden and Whitehead

Released April 1979
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Also the theme song of the 1980 World Champion Philadelphia Phillies. 👍🏻

 
This song got great reviews and ranks in top-ten lists of best songs by Boston even though it only reached #46 on the charts. 

Tom Scholz was a perfectionist, like a mad professor tinkering away in his studio trying to recreate the huge success of their first album. 

Feelin' Satified was the last single release until Amanda 8 years later.  

75.  Feelin' Satisfied - Boston

Released 1979 

 
Technically two songs but the Blues Brothers always meshed them together in one grand staged opening.

I Can't Turn You Loose was written by Stax guitarist and producer Steve Cropper (who also played with the Blues Brothers super-band) with Otis Redding who did the original  but Cropper said he used the same riff in other songs.  You can hear the same riff here with Booker-T and the MG's song Time Is Tight.   Another Stax tune written by Issaic Hayes, Soul Man was famously done by Sam and Dave but I'm betting that you did not know this about one verse of the song that even the Blues Brothers got wrong in their version of the song.

The Soul Man was "educated at Woodstock" (sometimes misheard as "educated from good stock"). This was two years before the famous festival; David Porter chose the name "Woodstock" to envision a school out in the sticks. "The word denoted a school that was out in the forest somewhere and they couldn't come up with the name for the school," he said. "Trees were cut down the school was made, and they called it Woodstock."

Ike said that any business with the word 'soul' as part of its name would be racially attacked so he made this as a protest song.

I bring you brothers who were brought up on a side street and learned how to love before they could eat...  

Released November 28, 1978

The studio version of Soul Man is tight and the studio version of I Can't Turn You Loose showcases the horns much better but doesn't have the MC monologue that opened their shows which would go something like this...

Good evening ladies and gentlemen and welcome to the Universal Amphitheatre
Well here it is, the late nineteen seventies, going on 1985
You know so much of the music we here today is preprogrammed electronic disco
You never get a chance to hear master bluesmen practicing their craft anymore
By the year 2006 the music known today as the blues will exist only in the classical records department in your local public library
So tonight, ladies and gentlemen
While we still can let us welcome from Rock Island Illinois
The blues music from Elliot Jake and Elwood Blue, the Blues Brothers

 
Couple of trivia tidbits that you didn't know about the Blues Brothers. 

The most shocking things?

Dan Aykroyd has WEBBED TOES!  Not a joke, he really has webbed toes and here is the proof.

Mr. Mike's Mondo Video of Aykroyd displaying his webbed toes on camera.

Dan was born with a condition called syndactyly, or webbed toes.

John Belushi who is from Albanian ancestry is honored on an Albanian stamp.

 
His first big hit.  He went from nobody to mobbed overnight.

Mellencamp got his first taste of fan adulation when he went to Australia to promote his album. "When I landed, there were kids - a bunch of screaming girls, and some guys with a haircut just like mine - waiting for me," he said in his Plain Spoken DVD. "I couldn't even get picked up in Bloomington, where I lived, if I was hitchhiking, but in Australia I had the #1 album and the #1 single in the country. I couldn't even take it seriously - it was a joke. I thought it was an isolated incident."

Released July 27, 1979

 
Bracie Smathers said:
His first big hit.  He went from nobody to mobbed overnight.

Mellencamp got his first taste of fan adulation when he went to Australia to promote his album. "When I landed, there were kids - a bunch of screaming girls, and some guys with a haircut just like mine - waiting for me," he said in his Plain Spoken DVD. "I couldn't even get picked up in Bloomington, where I lived, if I was hitchhiking, but in Australia I had the #1 album and the #1 single in the country. I couldn't even take it seriously - it was a joke. I thought it was an isolated incident."

Released July 27, 1979
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Great song.  John has a few of these.  I always enjoy his sound.  

 
Bracie Smathers said:
His first big hit.  He went from nobody to mobbed overnight.

Mellencamp got his first taste of fan adulation when he went to Australia to promote his album. "When I landed, there were kids - a bunch of screaming girls, and some guys with a haircut just like mine - waiting for me," he said in his Plain Spoken DVD. "I couldn't even get picked up in Bloomington, where I lived, if I was hitchhiking, but in Australia I had the #1 album and the #1 single in the country. I couldn't even take it seriously - it was a joke. I thought it was an isolated incident."

Released July 27, 1979
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The great intro definitely makes this song IMO. Pat Benatar does a decent cover as well (minus the intro).

 
I love this song.

Cockburn:   “This was wrote during the cold war when a relative of mine (who works for the Government) said to me one day, “we could wake up tomorrow to a nuclear war.” I woke up the next morning, there was no nuclear war. It was a real nice day and there was all this good stuff going on, and I had a dream that night which is the dream that is referred to in the first verse of the song, where there are lions at the door, but they weren’t threatening – it was a kind of peaceful thing. It reflected a previous dream that was a real nightmare where the lions were threatening.”

A Top 40 hit in Cockburn's native Canada, it was not his biggest hit in that country, where seven of his subsequent singles reached higher chart positions. It was, however, named the 29th greatest Canadian song of all time in the 2005 CBC Radio series 50 Tracks: The Canadian Version.

Released 1979

 
One hit wonder Wednesday.  Gomm had this one and co-wrote Nick Lowe's tune 'Cruel To Be Kind'.

If Gomm's last name wasn't bad enough he changed the name of his album to 'Gomm With The Wind' ugh. 

The song is actually pretty good starting out with an acoustic guitar and then a great bass line. 

It is deserving of a bigger audience. 

Released 1979

 
This song was written by Little River Band lead singer Glenn Shorrock at a time when tensions ran high in the band. Shorrock, said that he and guitarist Graeham Goble were like "chalk and cheese," needed a cool change from the internecine squabbles. In this song, he goes into reverie, dreaming of spending some tranquil time to himself in nature.

In May 2001 "Cool Change" was selected by Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) as one of the Top 30 Australian songs of all time.

Released August 1979

 
I went to school at The University of Colorado at Boulder and this group is from Boulder.  They got played a lot in the early 80s when I living as a ski bum up in the mountains of Steamboat Springs working at a ski area.  

Great tune.

Released September 1978

They got their name from Yosemite National Park that used to do and 'apparently' are/were going to bring back. 

 'Firefall' To Return To Yosemite National Park

It's almost time for Mother Nature to play her annual magic trick at Yosemite National Park. In the impressive yearly display, a light trick makes it appear as if lava is flowing off a cliff. "Firefall" is the name for the phenomenon that creates the illusion at the park in California. It comes to life when the setting sun causes light to hit the waterfall at just the right angle. You can see "Firefall" for only a short time in February, and it draws hundreds of visitors each night. This year, the light show will occur between February 13 and 27.

 
Bracie Smathers said:
This song was written by Little River Band lead singer Glenn Shorrock at a time when tensions ran high in the band. Shorrock, said that he and guitarist Graeham Goble were like "chalk and cheese," needed a cool change from the internecine squabbles. In this song, he goes into reverie, dreaming of spending some tranquil time to himself in nature.

In May 2001 "Cool Change" was selected by Australasian Performing Right Association (APRA) as one of the Top 30 Australian songs of all time.

Released August 1979
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Love this song. Top 10 song of 1979 for me.

 
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