GP's 80s Rewind

08/11/2024

The Cars performing on stage for benefit of Live Aid.



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08/09/2024

It's 1985 and Eddie Murphy has a singing career and an extended single called "Party All The Time" . He visits David Letterman's show to promote the single.

Eddie Murphy made it safe for '80s acting stars to record songs on the side. In 1986, Don Johnson of Miami Vice fame hit #5 with "Heartbeat," and he charted again in 1988 on a duet with Barbra Streisand called "Till I Loved You." The Moonlighting star Bruce Willis got into the act in 1987 with a #5 charting cover of "Respect Yourself."

This was nearly a #1 hit, stuck at #2 for three weeks behind "Say You, Say Me" by Lionel Richie. "Party All The Time" charted higher than any of Rick James' solo tracks. Despite his legend, he never got higher on the Hot 100 than #13 ("You And I," 1978). Even the group he put together from his backup singers - The Mary Jane Girls - outcharted him, reaching #7 with "In My House."

Here is the official music video with Eddie in Rick James" home studio.

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08/02/2024

Ever wonder where your favorite 80s artists are up to in this 24th year of the new century? Actually we think it's 23rd year ....but let that go. ...Here is an update on Human League.

The Human League, made up of Phil Oakey, Joanne Catherall and Susan Ann Sulley, looked worlds away from their younger selves as Phillip, 68, now rocks a shaved head.

An iconic eighties pop band looked completely unrecognisable as they performed at Bristol Pride festival 43 years after releasing their global smash hit.

08/01/2024

On this first day of August 1981, MTV goes on the air, bringing music videos to the masses - at least the ones with cable.

With the words "Ladies and gentlemen: Rock and roll," spoken by network co-creator John Lack, Viacom-owned MTV ("Music Television") makes its broadcast debut.

Following a montage of NASA footage, culminating in the iconic photo of an Apollo astronaut standing near the American flag he planted on the Moon (but with the Stars And Stripes replaced by the network's logo), MTV segues into its first music video, "Video Killed The Radio Star" by British duo The Buggles, which had peaked at #40 in the US back in 1979, but was a #1 hit in five European countries. It's followed by Pat Benatar's "You Better Run," Rod Stewart's "She Won't Dance with Me," The Who's "You Better You Bet," and "Little Suzi's On the Up" by the rather less-remembered British duo Ph.D.

The first group of MTV video jockeys, also known as VJs: Mark Goodman, Martha Quinn, Alan Hunter, J.J. Jackson and Nina Blackwood.

Pre-MTV, music videos existed primarily to promote singles by already popular bands; one early example is the clip for "Strawberry Fields Forever," which along with a promo for "Penny Lane" was played on American Bandstand and The Ed Sullivan Show in lieu of The Beatles performing.

Various attempts to launch music video TV channels were made throughout the 1970s, without major success. Involved in some of these efforts were Lack and Robert Pittman, who would become MTV's president/CEO and help turn it into a worldwide sensation, eventually making it cable's first profitable network (ESPN went on the air in 1979, but all that Australian rules football didn't turn a profit).
MTV changes the game, making music videos a key piece of marketing strategy for singers and bands. This favors camera-friendly acts like Duran Duran, Van Halen and Madonna, but is unkind to the likes of REO Speedwagon. It also legitimizes music video as an art form, drawing young directors who go on to make major feature films. Among them, David Fincher (Se7en), Spike Jonze (Her) and F. Gary Gray (Straight Outta Compton). In the '90s, MTV moves away from videos and toward reality and scripted original programming like The Real World and Teen Wolf.

You can hear the 80s on our legacy stream Radio XL5 and on our special program "GP's 80s Rewind" that runs on Radio XL5 at 11 PM ET every Saturday. Our legacy stream plays today's hit music and indie pop back to the 80s.

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07/26/2024

On this 26th day of July 1986 Peter Gabriel hits #1 in the US ( #4 in the UK) with "Sledgehammer," bumping his old band, Genesis (with "Invisible Touch") out of the top spot. This was Gabriel's first #1 single in the US.

This song is about s*x, and the lyrics are loaded with ph***ic symbols. In addition to the word "sledgehammer," other references to the male member include the train, bumper cars, and the big dipper. The innuendo was typical of the blues music Gabriel drew from. This was influenced by the '60s soul music Gabriel listened to as a teenager, in particular Otis Redding, who Peter saw perform at the Ram Jam club in London in 1967. The horn section was typical of this sound. Gabriel used a horn section (the legendary Memphis Horns, who played on several hits from Stax Records) on this song.

The wildly innovative video (and reported to be the most played video on MTV of all time) was directed by Stephen R. Johnson and featured stop-motion claymation techniques. It swept the MTV video music awards in 1987, and is considered a major breakthrough. Typical of animated videos at the time, the concepts were bigger than the budgets and the timeframe - the chickens were supposed to do a more complex dance, but they ended up doing a some simple steps instead, as the real chickens (the kind you buy in the grocery store) they used for modeling turned foul quickly. There were also some problems with electrical current running through Gabriel when he put on a lighted suit for the ending scene. This was solved by covering a suited Gabriel and the rest of the set in Scotchlite tape. The video starts with an egg being fertilized, then ends with Gabriel wandering into the cosmos, providing an interesting storyline centered on the continuum of life to go along with the eye-catching effects. Johnson also worked on Gabriel's videos for "Big Time" and "Steam."

Recording this song was not easy. The title of 'Sledgehammer" had Gabriel and fellow musicians and producer and engineer showing up in the studio wearing yellow hard hats. The use of digital samplers in those days was not easy and fast. You had to wait for audio samples to load and there was lots of time to wait before you could start recording. Many parts of the horns are smaples of the Memphis Horns assigned a key on the synsthesizer keyboard. Gabriel's keyboard player, David Sancious, actually hit a key to get many of the horns to play contiguously when they were recording as well as during live performances. The technology we have now just didnt exist back in the mid-80s.

Remember, every Saturday night 11 PM ET on Radio XL5 we carry 'GP's 80s Rewind": an hour of nothing but 80s. Of course Radio XL5 plays the 80s along with todays hit music and indie pop.

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On November 14 of 1986, just a few months after hitting #1, it was used in the Miami Vice episode "Better Living Through Chemistry,".

The official Sledgehammer video in HD. Directed by Stephen R. Johnson, produced by Adam Whittaker. Claymation, pixilation, and stop motion animation provided...

07/22/2024

On this day, July 22 1989 Milli Vanilli get busted for what is very common today but the biggest acts today: LIP SYNCING!

Performing on the Club MTV tour at a stop in Bristol, Connecticut, Milli Vanilli's tracks go screwy when they try to lip-synch to the song "Girl You Know It's True." As the line "girl you know it's..." repeats over and over, the duo panic and scurry off stage. It is later revealed that they didn't sing on their album.

The Bristol incident is not a big deal at the time, since it's generally assumed that acts on the tour - which also include Paula Abdul, Tone-Loc, Information Society, Was (Not Was) and Lisa Lisa - are using backing tracks, a common practice among pop acts and pretty much a requirement for club shows. Earlier in the month, their single "Baby Don't Forget My Number" went to #1 on the Hot 100, and in September, "Girl I'm Gonna Miss You" hits the top spot, followed by "Blame It On The Rain" in November. They keep the charade going into 1990, charting another hit, "All Or Nothing," which makes #4 in February.

When the group wins the Grammy Award for Best New Artist, there is increased scrutiny on the group, and cracks appear in their facade. With the media closing in on the story, Farian reveals in November 1990 that Rob and Fab are just for show - studio vocalists did all the singing on their album.

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07/02/2024

Thinking back to the and all the we used it's no wonder we have !!!!

06/27/2024

On this 27th day of June 1987 Whitney Houston charts her fourth #1 on the Hot 100 with "I Wanna Dance With Somebody (Who Loves Me)," the debut single from her second album. Released a month ahead of the album, it becomes the first of four Hot 100 chart-toppers from the set.
The song was written by George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam, a married couple who record as "Boy Meets Girl" ( who had their own hits such as 'Waiting for a Star to Fall" in 1988). Originally, George Merrill and Shannon Rubicam wanted to record it as they pitched it to Clive Davis, the head of Whitney Houston's record label. However, Davis said "no". He said Houston would record it.
In the studio, producer Narada Michael Walden kept the track bouncy and light, but the song has some emotional heft: It's about a woman who is terribly lonely. When the workday ends, she yearns for somebody to take her blues away.
At Epic Oldies, a Radio XL5 stream, we love the 80s! We also love the 50s thru the 80s, Motown and Doo W*p. Our legacy stream, Radio XL5 also plays the 80s and has aweekly show called "GP's 80s Rewind" on Saturday night at 11 PM ET right after "GP Live!" on Radio XL5 at 8 PM ET...Radio XL5 is the modern hit & indie pop stream and Epic Oldies is, well, oldies!
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06/12/2024

Happy Birthday

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06/07/2024

Let's go back to the good old 80s on this 7th day of June 1984!!... The film Ghostbusters is released. Its theme song bears similarities to Huey Lewis' "I Want a New Drug." Ghostbusters theme writer Ray Parker, Jr. and Huey settle out of court. The song went to #1 in the US and #2 in the UK.
The movie stared Bill Murray, Dan Aykroyd, Harold Ramis, Ernie Hudson and Sigourney Weaver. The film's director Ivan Reitman insisted that the title of the film be in the song, which made Ray Parker Jr. leery of the assignment. Once he started working on it, Parker wrote it in just a few days.
Parker was not only a great performer but an accomplished session musician. He played almost all the instruments on the record. He recalled that fitting the word 'Ghostbusters" was very difficult. He actually had his girlfriend and her friends shour out "Ghostbusters".
Huey Lewis sued Parker for plagiarizing the melody to his song "I Want A New Drug" on this track which was on Lewis' 'Sports"album. They settled out of court and agreed not to talk about the case in public, but in 2001, Lewis revealed that Parker paid to settle the suit on an episode of VH1's Behind The Music. Parker then sued Lewis for violating the terms of their agreement. Oh the legal web people weave!
At Epic Oldies we love the 80s! We make sure we get your 80s memories played along with the 50s, 60s, 70s, Motown and Doo W*p. in fact our legacy stream, Radio XL5 features 80s in their playlist. On Saturdays Radio XL5 has 'GPs 80s Rewind" at 11 PM ET.
Dont the 80s feel good? Yeah!
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"Bustin Makes You Feel Gooood!"
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05/28/2024

On this 28th day of May in 1982 "Rocky III" hits theaters. This one features a new theme song written around a key line of dialogue in the film: "Eye of the Tiger." Sylvester Stallone asked the upstart Chicago band Survivor to write and record the song when he couldn't get permission to use the Queen song "Another One Bites The Dust." Stallone always changed up the music and theme songs to his Rocky films and they all became hits.

"Eye of The Tiger " went to #1 in botht he US and the UK. "Rocky III was the biggest movie of 1982. Tony Scotti was the president of Survivor's record label, and he played Sylvester Stallone some tracks from the previous Survivor album, Premonition. Stallone thought the sound, writing style and street appeal could fit in his new movie, so he called called Jim Peterik and Frankie Sullivan, who were Survivor's primary songwriters, and left messages on their answering machines. When we spoke with Peterik, he said, "Answering machines were still something of a novelty back then and to see that blinking light was a thrill. When I pressed the playback button I heard, "Hey, yo, Jim, that's a nice message you got there. This is Sylvester Stallone.' It was too thick to be really him, but it was him. That's really the way he talks."

Jim Peterik has said, regarding the origin of this song: "When we got the initial rough cut of the movie, the scene that 'Eye Of The Tiger' appears in was cut to 'Another One Bites The Dust' by Queen. Frankie and I are watching this, the punches are being thrown, and we're going, 'Holy crap, this is working like a charm.' We called Stallone and said, 'Why aren't you using that?' He goes, 'Well, we can't get the publishing rights to it.' Frankie and I looked at each other and went, 'Man, this is going to be tough to beat.' We had the spirit of, 'We've got to try to top this.' I started doing that now-famous dead string guitar riff and started slashing those chords to the punches we saw on the screen, and the whole song took shape in the next three days."

Sylvester Stallone loved this song. When he heard the demo, he told the group it was exactly what he was looking for, but requested a mix with louder drums and asked if they could write a new third verse instead of repeating the first as they had done. The group did what Stallone suggested - they went about modifying the first verse and remixed the song.

Suggestions from an actor are usually not what bands are looking for when creating a song, but Stallone knew what he was doing. Jim Peterik said, "Stallone has a good ear for a hook. Just listen to his dialogues - he wrote those scripts. He came up with 'Eye Of The Tiger' for that script and those hook phrases like 'I'm going to knock you into tomorrow.' All that stuff is Stallone, he's a genius with dialogue. Songs are nothing more than dialogue set to music as far as I'm concerned."

This was also used in Rocky IV, where Rocky takes on the Russian boxer Ivan Drago. Once again, Stallone asked Survivor to write the theme song. They came up with "Burning Heart."

This song has become very popular among people in physical therapy, marathon runners, weightlifters, and just about anyone facing a challenge. Says Peterik: "People training for boxing matches, that's a natural, but in every sport, that song has crept into the motivational aspect of it. I never would have predicted it. It seems obvious now, but we just wrote a song for a movie.

A musical factoid:
As a teenager, Peterik formed The Ides Of March, who had a hit in 1970 with "Vehicle." In addition to other Survivor hits like "High On You" and "The Search Is Over," he wrote many songs for .38 Special. He continues to write songs and still plays with The Ides Of March.

A second musical factoid:
Survivor recorded the first version of this song in Chicago at sessions that went very well - it took them just two days to record and mix. When it came time to record the album, they recorded the song again (this time at Rumbo Studios in Los Angeles), but had a hard time capturing the feel of the original. After about a month, they finally got the sound they were looking for, which was very close to the first version. The original is what you hear in the Rocky III movie - they had to deliver the song for the film before they could complete it for the album.

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Here is the video of 'Eye of The Tiger":
https://youtu.be/btPJPFnesV4

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05/27/2024

Good Morning!
Today is the day we remember the sacrifices others have made for our freedoms. We may have our day at "the beach", our BBQs, and peacefull times with family and friends but it did not come without the price of the lives of the brave. Keep them in your thoughts.

05/18/2024

Another 'GP's 80s Rewind" with an hour of all heard only on Radio XL5.
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05/13/2024

Here is a great video from the 80s featuring Eddie Money.
The video was directed by Mark Robinson, whose credits include Tommy Tutone's "Jenny (867-5309)" and Pat Benatar's "Shadows Of The Night." The "Shakin'" video stars Apollonia Kotero, who became a Prince protégé and starred in his movie Purple Rain in 1984. According to Money, she posed two big challenges:

1) She was a terrible dancer. You'll see she resorts to some kind of sprinkler-head move when she's shakin' it.

2) Her boyfriend was on the set and was the jealous type.

Money also points out that the video was the first to show cars souped-up with hydraulics and bouncing up and down - something seen in many rap videos of the early '90s.

Also, today is the anniversary of the appearance of an 80s music icon on a hit CBS comedy show on this 13th day of May 2002... His appearance on the show was a result of this 1982 hit.

One of our most loved artists we play on Epic Oldies and our legacy stream, Radio XL5 is Eddie Money. Here is Eddie on an episode of of the CBS comedy show "King of Queens".

Yes, on this 13th day of May in 2002, Eddie Money appears on the CBS sitcom The King of Queens in the aptly titled episode "Eddie Money." Eddie comes into te living room with minimal accompanyment with saxo and a guitar and performs his 1982 hit 'Shakin", a song about a wild night with a wild girl. The song only went to #64 on the charts but it is a fan favorite. It is the fourth hit he had and the single is from his album "No Control".

Money wrote this song with his bass player, Ralph Carter, and with Elizabeth Myers, a composer who usually worked on commercials. The album was produced by Tom Dowd, whose illustrious career included production work for Aretha Franklin, The Allman Brothers and Rod Stewart.

The girl in this song is named Rosanna ("Rosanna's daddy had a car she loved to drive"). That was a popular name in 1982, the year Toto released their "Rosanna."

Here is the clip of Eddie. Eddie was always a good sport and this guest appearance made the show so funny.
https://youtu.be/TN7-gLCxGdM

Here is the video to 'Shakin"!
https://youtu.be/2tcD_dVcXE4

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05/10/2024

We go back to the 80s with the Pet Shop Boys and a great video. The music video was shot in London and directed by Andy Morahan and Eric Watson. It got a lot of airplay on MTV, which was the only place most Americans could see the group in action. Pet Shop Boys didn't tour until 1989, so their performances were limited to European TV appearances and other showcases. They earned a MTV Video Music Award nomination for Best New Artist, but lost to A-ha's "Take On Me" video.
On this 10th day of May in 1986 "West End Girls" by Pet Shop Boys, a synthy song about clubbing in London, hits #1 on the Hot 100 five months after going to #1 in their native UK. It's the first of many hits for the duo.
The song was initially conceived as a rap song. Neil Tennant, one of the Pet Shop Boys, was intrigued by the burgeoning rap scene coming out of America, and thought it would make quite an impact if they released a rap song with an English accent. It wasn't until they went in the studio that he decided to sing the hook in stead of rap it. The verses he does in more of a spoken-word style.
"West End Girls" is a journey through the club scene in London, where Pet Shop Boys Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe spent many evenings. The glamorous West End is where the action was, contrasting with the rougher East End. Neil Tennet said this about the song: "It's about the city at night. It's about boys and girls meeting to have fun and presumably to bond. It's about s*x. It's paranoid."
There are a number of themes running through the lyric, which Tennant wrote, but a key idea is nightlife escape. One of the group's favorite hangouts gets a mention in the lines:
There's a madman around
Running down underground
to a dive bar in a West End town
The Kings Head and Dive Bar was the Chinatown section of London; upstairs was The Kings Head, and in the basement was the Dive Bar, which Neil Tennant and Chris Lowe haunted.
The opening lines were inspired by a Jimmy Cagney movie Neil Tennant watched one night:
"Sometimes you're better off dead
There's a gun in your hand and it's pointing at your head"
He doesn't recall which film he was watching, but it was certainly one of Cagney's gangster movies.
This was the breakout hit for Pet Shop Boys, a global smash that went to #1 in both America and their native UK. The hit version, thought, wasn't released until a year after the original.
The group wrote the song in 1983 before they had a record deal. Neil Tennant was a writer for the UK music magazine Smash Hits, and used his position to get an audience with the American producer Bobby O (Bobby Orlando), who was on the cutting edge of synthesizer-based dance music - the kind Tennant wanted to make. Bobby O agreed to produce the group; they recorded "West End Girls" and got a deal with Epic Records to release it as a single. Issued in 1984, it did well in France and Belgium, but had little impact elsewhere. They parted ways with Bobby O on acrimonious terms and had to honor their contract by sitting out a year. In 1985, they signed with EMI and released "Opportunities (Let's Make Lots Of Money)" as their first single on the label. It stiffed, but they still had hopes for "West End Girls" and re-recorded the song with producer Stephen Hague, who made it less clubby and gave it a slow build that added some depth and made the song more foreboding. This version was a huge hit, topping the UK chart in January 1986, and reaching #1 in America in May. The group went on to become one of the most successful and enduring British pop groups of their time.
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05/05/2024

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05/02/2024

It is back to the 80s! On this second day of May in 1987 Cutting Crew's "(I Just) Died in Your Arms" hits #1 on the Hot 100. It also goes to #4 in the UK. This was the real first success for Virigin Records who had been in business since 1972.
This was written by Cutting Crew lead singer Nick Van Eede, who has said the song was inspired by a real relationship. Says Nick: "Yes, I cannot tell a lie. It's a song written about my girlfriend (who is actually the mother of my daughter). We got back together for one night after a year apart and I guess there were some fireworks but all the time tinged with a feeling of 'should I really be doing this?' Hence the lyric, 'I should have walked away.'
I know it sounds corny but I awoke that morning and wrote the basic lyrics within an hour and wrote and recorded the demo completely within three days."
Richard Branson started Virgin Records in England in 1972, but it wasn't until 1987 and the release of Cutting Crew's Broadcast album that Virgin broke through in America. Nick Van Eede told us about his experience with the record company: "We were signed to Siren records which was part of Virgin so we were always a little bit on the outside but it was the '80s and they certainly put their money where their mouth was. We were flown to New York for the initial recordings of the album and this is where we got a great recording of 'I've Been In Love Before.' Then we were flown to Australia to shoot videos... all a bit crazy really. We gave them their first US #1 with '(I Just) Died In Your Arms' but the company soon outgrew us as music stars were changing in the early '90s. We wrote one slightly veiled song having a pop at US A&R antics in our 'Between A Rock And A Hard Place' from The Scattering (1989) album. I sang, 'I got a brick but I can't find a window,' as they continually blocked our album's release for months making us lose so much momentum."
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04/13/2024

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04/08/2024

Today is 8 April 2024! Eclipse Day!

Here is a song we thought would be great for today's eclipse!

It went to #1 in both the US and UK. back in 1983. We are talking about 'Total Eclipse of the Heart" performed by Bonnie Tyler (written by Jim Steinman). Bonnie Tyler, is from Swansea, Wales, and was best known at the time for her 1977 hit "It's A Heartache." Jim Steinman thought her distinctive raspy voice was the perfect vessel for "Total Eclipse Of The Heart."
Jim Steinman wrote most of Meatloaf's songs. Steinman is usually secretative about how he is inspired to write songs but he opened up that this one. He is quaoted as saying that this was a tribute to the 1922 vampire film Nosferatu, an adaptation of the Dracula story. This helps explain the "love in the dark" that permeates the song. The singer is on edge, at times lonely, nervous, and terrified. She calls out for her lover, ready to join him in a forever that may be more than metaphorical (vampires are immortal). When he comes for her, it's a total eclipse of the heart. Forever starts tonight.
The distinctive "Turn around, bright eyes" backup vocals were sung by the male vocalist Rory Dodd, who has appeared on many of Jim Steinman's productions and sang backup on albums by Carly Simon, Barry Manilow, Barbra Streisand, Lou Reed and many others.
What about the video for the song? The gothic video, with Bonnie Tyler clad all in white, was story-boarded by Jim Steinman and was inspired by the film Future World, the follow-up to the Yul Brunner futuristic thriller Westworld. It was filmed at Holloway Asylum, which was built by a doctor out of the proceeds of a drug he'd invented to help his patients. The video was directed by Russell Mulcahy, who worked on many of the early videos for Elton John, Billy Joel and Fleetwood Mac.
The song was a huge worldwide hit, topping the charts in America, the UK, South Africa, and several other territories. This was thoroughly unexpected, for two reasons:
1) Bonnie Tyler hadn't had a significant hit since "It's A Heartache."
2) It's very long, with the album version running 6:51 and the radio edit going 5:31.
These handicaps became assets. Tyler was a fresh voice, and the song has lots of dynamics, making it very memorable.
Remarkably, a decade later, Steinman landed another global smash with a similarly long and unusual song: Meat Loaf's "I'd Do Anything For Love (But I Won't Do That)."

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