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Music In My Shoes
E65 Vision Quest and Vineyard Vibes
Join us on a nostalgic journey to the 1985 classic film "Vision Quest," where Matthew Modine takes us to the heart of doing something meaningful with his life in Spokane, Washington. From personal movie-going experiences to the rockin' soundtrack featuring Red Rider, John Waite, Madonna and Journey, this trip down memory lane captures the essence of an era marked by cinematic magic.
Moving from the silver screen to a captivating vineyard, picture yourself at Buckley's Vineyard for a live music experience with Kevn Kinney and Peter Buck that you won't forget. They celebrate Kevn's debut solo album, "MacDougal Blues," produced by the talented Peter. The stage comes alive with both solo performances and timeless hits from Drivin N Cryin, creating an atmosphere of pure musical enchantment. The harmonious blend of music and countryside charm makes this vineyard concert experience one for the books.
Finally, we journey back the iconic theme from "The Rockford Files" and Mike Post's illustrious career in TV music. We also reflect on the resilience of AC/DC after Bon Scott's tragic passing, and their determination to stay together as a band. We revisit the 55th Anniversary of The Doors 'Morrison Hotel' and the historic photos for the album cover taken by Henry Diltz, as well as the 45th Anniversary of the Blondie single "Call Me."
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He's got the feeling in his toe-toe.
Speaker 2:He's got the feeling and it's out there growing. Hey everybody, this is Jim Boge, and you're listening to Music In my Shoes. That was Vic Thrill kicking off episode 65. As always, I'm thrilled to be here with you. Let's learn something new or remember something old. Vision Quest, a coming-of-age film, was released on February 15th 1985. Do you remember that movie, jimmy?
Speaker 2:I don't think I saw it Really, yeah, wow, hey, this here will be a thing that you'll learn about then. Something new, yes, something new. So it takes place in Spokane Washington. Stars Matthew Modine as Loudon, a high school senior who's a wrestler. He's on the wrestling team and he's struggling with not really doing anything in his life, even though he turns 18 like a week before right, which is, you know, we've kind of all been there, yep, you know. So linda fiorentino plays a woman who's left new jersey and is making her way to San Francisco, and it's her first film. But when I think of going from New Jersey to San Francisco, how do you get stuck in a car in Spokane Washington? Doesn't that seem a little bit out of the way?
Speaker 1:Yeah, she needed a map. She did Right. They didn't have like Google Maps back then either she needed the thing in the glove box. They didn't have W like Google Maps back then either. She needed the thing in the glove box.
Speaker 2:They didn't have Waze or anything.
Speaker 1:They didn't have any of that.
Speaker 2:They used I think they used the triptychs. You know you would go to the what was it? The auto club? And they would make these little things out for you back in the day.
Speaker 1:Oh, I never knew about that.
Speaker 2:Yeah, and it would be these like these paper with, like like this little binder, and you would just pick up the page and it would just take you like so far, and they would highlight the route. Fancy, it is fancy.
Speaker 1:I wasn't in the club, see, so I don't know about this stuff.
Speaker 2:My grandfather was, and he would always get something made if I told him I was going somewhere.
Speaker 1:Triptychs okay.
Speaker 2:Triptychs, that's what it was called. Yes, so Michael Scheffling plays a character named Cooch who's Loudon's wrestling teammate. He was also Jake Ryan in the movie 16.
Speaker 1:Candles. Oh yeah, I know that guy.
Speaker 2:And that was released about nine months prior to Vision Quest, in May of 1984. So nine months earlier, 16 Candles comes out and then boom, here we are with Vision Quest.
Speaker 1:You want to hear something weird? I've probably seen 16 Candles. It's probably in the top three or four movies that I've seen the most times in my life. So I've seen that one just dozens of times, and I never saw Vision Quest. That's crazy that I remember.
Speaker 2:That is crazy that I remember that is crazy.
Speaker 1:It was uh 16 candles was playing at the dollar movie theater near me and I was just at that right age. Then What'd you say? It was 1984 or five 1984., yeah. So, like my friends and I couldn't drive yet we were 15. We liked to hang out at the movie theater, and it was 99 cents, and so we would just see 16 candles, like every night over the summer.
Speaker 2:For me that time, because I'm a little bit older than you, was Fast Times at Ridgemont.
Speaker 1:High.
Speaker 2:Oh yeah, that's a good one Porky's, like those range of movies that I did a lot with. So the dad in this movie is played by Ronnie Cox. Does that ring a bell? Yes, it does. Why Does?
Speaker 1:that ring a bell? Yes, it does. Why does it ring a bell, though?
Speaker 2:He was Lieutenant Bogomil in Beverly Hills Cop.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:That was released two months before Vision Quest in December 1984. And as we spoke about in episode 58, he was in the 1972 film Deliverance as the guy who played guitar on Dueling Banjos with Banjo Boy Right. Yeah, I mean it's really cool how there's all these interactions with these movies. Mm-hmm Movie begins with Matthew Modine Loudon jumping rope with just the beginning of Red Rider's lunatic fringe and it's enough where it gets you into it. You know, you remember you're at the movie theater and they have the sound. Even you know a movie theater that wasn't too good. The sound was kind of cool because it was, you know, multiple speakers.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:And you're sitting there and this big screen and lunatic fringe starts and I'm like, I'm really into this.
Speaker 1:That was a big, big song that year too, yeah.
Speaker 2:It was huge. A few minutes later he's running on bridges over water throughout Spokane with Journey's Only the Young playing. I'm not a big Journey fan. I've seen them, but I'm not a big Journey fan. But I've always liked this song and it's probably because of the scene, you know from the film, where he's doing all these different bridges and running around and only the young and you know, only the young can say they're free to fly away, sharing the same desires burning like wildfire. Okay, so I'm 18 at the time. I can relate to that. Yeah, you know, I think that's why I went to the theater several times to see the movie, unlike you who has not seen the movie at all.
Speaker 1:I was too busy seeing 16 Candles again.
Speaker 2:There you go. The soundtrack's really good, you know it includes what I just talked about, but it also has John Waite, change Dio, hungry for Heaven, sammy Hagar I'll Fall in Love Again Farna Hot Blooded. And Madonna, who at this time is kind of on the verge of becoming a megastar, has two songs on the album Gambler and Crazy for you. And Crazy for you peaked at number one on the Billboard Hot 100 May 11th 1985. And she's in the movie as like a nightclub singer singing both of these songs. Okay, a nightclub singer singing both of these songs? Okay. And it's really cool because I think you know that's the same time the 85 tour she toured and she started it.
Speaker 2:I believe it was in the Paramount Theater in Seattle, in Washington, where you know this movie takes place in Washington and the Paramount's a pretty small place. And then you know she starts playing. You know she plays the Omni in Atlanta and she plays Madison Square Garden. She actually plays two nights at Radio City and then plays one or two nights at the Garden, I can't remember, but she's got the Beastie Boys opening up, oh that's cool.
Speaker 2:And. But the Beastie Boys hadn't had a song out. Unless you lived in New York, you did not really know much about them.
Speaker 1:I had a guy that had moved from New York in my art class in high school and he would always talk about the Beastie Boys. I'm like who's this Beastie Boys you speak of? And then their first album came out like two years later or something.
Speaker 2:Right. And so they even say they're not sure why they were on the bill, but supposedly it was because they were cheap and it didn't cost a lot to get them involved with the whole project.
Speaker 1:I mean, I'm not like a massive Madonna fan or something, but she was always cutting edge, you know. So I think she liked them that they were doing something different.
Speaker 2:They actually played in the same clubs around New York, so they played a lot of Danceteria and the DJ get this the DJ for the Beastie Boys at the time they hired this guy was Rick Rubin.
Speaker 1:Oh yeah.
Speaker 2:And that was before all the producing, all of everything. He was just a regular guy on the street doing a little cutting on the records. That's awesome. So the same day Vision Quest was released, the film the Breakfast Club was released as well. I like Vision so much more than I like Breakfast, and a lot of it has to do with the soundtrack Breakfast has Don't you Forget About Me, which is a great song, but that's really it. Vision Quest is full of music from beginning to end, and I'm still enjoying it 40 years later, jimmy. On the other hand, I don't.
Speaker 1:I can't offer much about Vision Quest, but um, I liked Breakfast Club. It's not like it's in my top movies, but those John Hughes movies they were just perfect for my generation, your generation, you know what I mean.
Speaker 2:Like they were they were.
Speaker 1:We were the right age for all those movies, so it. But I think like I remember seeing that movie with the same group of people that we would see 16 candles over and over. So we were kind of expecting the next 16 candles and it was a lot more serious. Correct, because there was sort of like no right point of view in the movie. Every one of those kids had their flaws and their attributes. Correct, and the administrator as well, the janitor and the teacher and everything. Everybody kind of had their own issues. But when we walked out, one of the guys that I was with was like a football player. He played every sport. He's like the greatest athlete at my school and his take on the movie was like that was all about this one normal guy, emilio Estevez, and all these weirdos.
Speaker 2:That's funny, but that's his point of view. Yeah, you know, and I bet there's plenty of people that walked out of the theater thinking you know, yeah, that somebody else was the normal one.
Speaker 2:Right, and I agree with you. I think that's one of the reasons that I didn't go see it many times. It was super serious. It was not what I was expecting. You know, it's no 16 candles, it's no pretty in pink, what you're kind of expecting. And when I go to see the John Hughes film it is because it's going to be fun, it's going to have music, it's enjoyable and it's going to be cool. And I think that for me some of that was lacking in that. Yeah, I agree. But Vision Quest I need you to check that out, jimmy.
Speaker 1:All right, I don't know if you can go back in time like that, I mean, but maybe it'll work.
Speaker 2:Yeah, they have a new thing. It's called streaming services.
Speaker 1:I know, but I just don't know if it'll hold up, if I don't have the memories of it from back then.
Speaker 2:I'll be honest with you, even if you watch it for me I can remember the theater and I can see it in my head and the sound quality and that just made it like really cool, just this rock and roll movie. So, speaking of rock and roll, the end of january I went to see a show kevin kinney and peter buck, kevin being the singer, guitarist from driving and crying and peter the guitarist from rem show was at buckley vineyards in Ellijay, georgia, and what a show it was. Majority of the songs were from Kevin's debut solo album, 1990s, mcdougal Blues, that Peter Buck produced, played some instruments on it. The title track, mcdougal Blues, opened the show and it sounded fantastic. Even though it's 35 years old as he's singing it, it just sounds as good as when it came out. Great, it really, really was cool and Peter was on the dulcimer and it just was so much fun. You knew you were in for a good show just from the beginning, with them opening with that. And then some of the other songs from the album were last song of maddie hope, the house above tina's grocery, chico and maria hey landlord oh, I like that song it's a you know, actually I thought that song was called meatloaf and fish sticks it is in parentheses
Speaker 2:okay, all right, yeah, right, so it's hey, landlord, I can't make the rent.
Speaker 1:Superman won't steal from me and I don't know Clark Kent.
Speaker 2:Exactly, that's it. So they play some driving and crying classics let's Go Dancing Honeysuckle Blue and Straight to Hell, which got the whole crowd singing along to, and again, it was really, really cool. It was like a natural fit having Kevin and Peter play together. You know I've seen some artists where they get together with someone else and it just doesn't seem to gel. The chemistry's not there. But you know they've known each other for a long time and they've played together and, like I said, peter has produced different things for Kevin. So it was just this really good feel and a real good vibe. And Peter switched between the dulcimer guitar, mandolin. He played bass on a couple of songs, yeah. So it was a lot of fun, real treat to see them.
Speaker 2:They had an opening band. It was two guys on guitars playing man Bites Dog and they played covers. I think they did about five covers or so and they were really good and I talked to them after they played and I said a lot of times when you see people play covers, they do kind of like what their rendition is of the song and we don't want to hear what their rendition is, we want to hear, you know, like Tom Petty they play Tom Petty's Breakdown, and not that they played it note for note, but they played it pretty good, pretty close to it. It was a lot of fun. It was like man, this is going to be good. They did the Wait by the Band. They did that Hurricane song. I can't think of who sings it. You know what song I'm talking about.
Speaker 1:Rock you Like a Hurricane.
Speaker 2:They did not do. The Scorpions' Rock you Like a Hurricane.
Speaker 1:Okay, well you said the Hurricane song. I forget who does it. You mean the drinking song Like Bring Me Something Tall and Strong? No, the drinking song Like bring me something tall and strong no, it's definitely not that song either.
Speaker 2:Even though we were at Buckley Vineyards where you could bring someone something tall and strong, but no, that's not the case. I'll have to think about it. Can't remember off the top of my head, but they did a good version of it and then they finished up with Prince Purple Rain and it was really enjoyable. The crowd was into it and I think by the time they did Purple Rain, like everybody was kind of inside where the actual show was taking place and really getting into it. And you know they did a good job, real good job. I mentioned you know it's at Buckley's Vineyard. It was a cool place. You know I've not been to a ton of vineyards, I've been to some, but you kind of drive through country roads getting there. So as you're getting there you almost feel like you're in another time, another place, just different from where I'm driving around in my part of town and, I'm sure, different from where you're driving.
Speaker 2:Different from where you're driving, yeah, and as I walk from my car, you know, to the venue, you can see the view of the vineyards, you know rolling hills, you know these mountains and it's really captivating. And this is in January, okay, this isn't when you know the sun's out and it's the spring or summer and know I can only imagine how beautiful it is during those warm months. And you walk into the building and it's like this elegant building, like you're not expecting it, it's just really, really cool. So you come into the tasting room and it's just like everybody was enjoying themselves. It was like everybody seemed to be talking. A lot of people knew each other. If they didn't, they were talking and meeting and introducing. And I mean I met a ton of people. I didn't know a single person there Yet I met all these people and talked to them.
Speaker 1:You had your music in my shoes, shirt on, didn't you?
Speaker 2:I did have my music in my shoes shirt on.
Speaker 1:Yeah, they knew you were somebody special.
Speaker 2:Yes, and I met this one guy who was friends with the band man Bites Dog that I just talked about and was talking with him and you know I said, oh, by the way, my name is Jim. He says, oh, my name is Floyd, floyd Skinner. And I said no, it's not, he goes, it is. And I was like this name is just way too cool. Oh yeah, you know, like he's like yeah, no-transcript, and Leonard Skinner, and you put it together and you get Floyd Skinner. I just think it's so cool, you know.
Speaker 2:So you know they've got wines. The wine bottles they're named after different family members and I thought it was really cool because there's like a display on a wall and it tells the story of why each wine is named after this different person, whether it's a mother or father or some sort of relative or whatever. And I just found myself, reading the whole thing, understanding how important honoring family members is to the owners, gay and Kevin Buckley, and I just think that's cool. Like it's not just this thing. All right, hey, we put this up, we're going to make some money, let's do it.
Speaker 2:You know, as chintzy as we can, they put some money into this and it's really cool. And you just come out of nowhere and it's boom and it's fun. And then they got craft beers available, you know, if wine's not your thing. They got live music and food trucks on the weekends and I got to say I look forward to going back there again. And you know it's a pretty amazing place, beautiful and, may I say, the best collection of wine you've ever tasted. You might want to think about taking your wife there, all right.
Speaker 2:I think it's a cool day trip. You know from someone if they're visiting. You know from out of state or out of country coming into Atlanta. It's a cool place to go, but for people like us that you know live I live within about an hour and a half of it it's definitely somewhere I want to go and take some people. Hey, jimmy, some cool things we've talked about already, but according to my watch, it's Minute with Jimmy. It's time for Minute with Jimmy. Minute with Jimmy. Minute with Jimmy. It's time for Minute with Jimmy. Minute with Jimmy.
Speaker 1:Minute with Jimmy. All right, so I'm going back to 1975. That was 50 years ago and this was my favorite song in 1975. I was five years old, turning six years old that summer, and this song it's by Mike Post and Pete Carpenter and they wrote this song with a mini-moog synthesizer as the lead in it. So I think just that sound really had me hooked. But this song had dobro and harmonica and electric guitar and big drums in it and it actually it charted. It went to number 10 on the Billboard charts and you'd hear it on the radio. You would also see it on the TV show that it belonged to because it was the theme from the Rockford Files A, a really, really great theme song.
Speaker 2:I got to be honest. I was sitting here trying to figure out what it could possibly be.
Speaker 1:So yeah, if you asked me, as a five-year-old, what's your favorite song, I would say the theme from the Rockford Files.
Speaker 2:So Mike Post I think he wrote a lot of the TV theme songs.
Speaker 1:So many.
Speaker 2:And then also played them.
Speaker 1:Law and Order.
Speaker 2:Oh really.
Speaker 1:I think he did Hill Street Blues.
Speaker 2:So he did so many. And you know, I know a lot of people like I've never heard of Mike Post before, but back in the day when they'd have the credits, it would always have Mike Post on it. Yeah, the who wrote a song. I think it was called Mike Post on it. The who wrote a song, I think it was called Mike Post Theme, and it came out I'm going to say 2006, 2007 on the Endless Wire album. And it's just funny because the who over in England know who Mike Post is. Also. Just I guess you know through either watching TV here, or maybe he did some stuff for British TV, I don't know.
Speaker 1:Yeah, I wonder.
Speaker 2:But it's just really cool that you know you brought something up like that. That's super cool.
Speaker 1:The only other guy that I know that did so many theme songs was Alan Thicke. You remember him. Yes, he wrote a lot of big theme songs.
Speaker 2:He did. What was the big one he did?
Speaker 1:So Alan Thicke did Different Strokes, the Facts of Life. He wrote the theme to Wheel of Fortune.
Speaker 2:That is what I was thinking about when you said Alan Thicke. Yes, yeah, that's the big one that I remember. I knew there was one big one.
Speaker 1:Now, you know, I don't know if you remember the Chuck Woolery Wheel of Fortune that was before the who's the guy that's been on there forever, Pat.
Speaker 2:Sajak Pat Sajak.
Speaker 1:Before the Pat Sajak version, chuck Woolery hosted and they had a different theme song then.
Speaker 2:I remember him doing it. I don't remember a different theme song.
Speaker 1:It went dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun-dun $1,400,.
Speaker 2:I want the jet ski. Oh, I like that. I like that. That was pretty good. I liked your Minute with.
Speaker 1:Jimmy.
Speaker 2:Thank you Minute with Jimmy, Another rock star. Mysterious death happened on February 19th 1980, when ACDC lead singer Bon Scott died.
Speaker 1:That's awful.
Speaker 2:It is After a night of drinking with a friend, bon, supposedly passed out in a car. The friend couldn't wake him up and then drove the car over to his own place, leaving Bon in the car and while he slept in his own bed at some point Bond ends up dying. He, I believe you know, threw up and I guess gets asphyxiated from, you know, from the vomit. The friend Alistair Kinnear went to check on him like hours and hours later, but he knew something was wrong immediately, bonds pronounced dead on arrival at King's College Hospital and the coroner this is not a joke, okay, this is really. I looked up the death certificate last night and listed as the cause of death as acute alcoholic poisoning and then under that typed death by misadventure. And I'm not trying to laugh, but this is actually on his death certificate. Yeah, you know so I've mentioned before on the show that when I heard Bon had died I thought that was the end of ACDC. I thought, you know, back then nobody ever got another singer.
Speaker 1:If anybody is irreplaceable, it's got to be Bon Scott. Right, like nobody could sing like that.
Speaker 2:Correct, correct. A month and a half later, they named Brian Johnson, their new singer. Now, bon Scott really liked Brian Johnson. Oh, that's good, I didn't know that. Yes, he really liked Brian.
Speaker 1:Johnson oh, that's good, I didn't know that.
Speaker 2:Yes, he really did like him. Almost three months later they released Back in Black, which became one of the biggest selling albums of all time. And I just never can wrap my head around this Bon Scott dies in February, april they get Brian Johnson, july they release the album and then everybody in the world knows something from Back in Black Of course, it's the first album I ever bought. I thought you did say that.
Speaker 1:Yeah.
Speaker 2:I thought you did say that we talked about it once before. I think we talked about it when we did the episode. You Don't Know, jackaloni, we had Vinny on and I talked about.
Speaker 2:He was the first person I told oh, I don't think that ACDC will go on, but we also talked about them when we talked about the top albums of all time and it's just crazy how this could happen. And there's all kinds of theories that Bond had wrote the words and had them all down and Brian Johnson just had to come in. And you know, listen to the tapes and you know I'm not saying that this is true, but there's all kinds of theories. But what I can tell you is that Alistair Kinnear, the person who drove Bon Scott and went to sleep, disappeared a few days later and has never been seen. What Never been seen since that time. Is that not crazy?
Speaker 1:I've never heard that.
Speaker 2:You heard it here first on Music in my Shoes Whoa yeah. But you know it is what it is. I mean Bon Scott. You know Let there Be Rock. There was a movie that came out. I went to the movie theater by myself to see the, you know, acdc when they did Let there Be Rock and they released it in the movie theaters and you couldn't think of anything other than Bon Scott with that such a distinctive voice. You know he played the bagpipes on uh, what song did he play? The? Um, long way to the top. If you want to rock and roll, he did, yes, and it's just, you know, unthinkable.
Speaker 2:But yet, 45 years ago, he was replaced and they're going on tour, you know, I believe this spring or this summer, playing stadiums across the US.
Speaker 1:Oh man, I think they're not coming to Atlanta. Last time I checked.
Speaker 2:No, you know what. Let's revisit some more music from the past. Let's start off with music from the past. Let's start off with the Doors Morrison Hotel released February of 1970. Really good rock record and it was much closer to the Doors sound after the 1969 release of the Soft Parade, which had horns and string arrangements, and just kind of got away a little bit from their sound. Now there's good songs on there, don't get me wrong, but it just wasn't what you expected with the Doors.
Speaker 2:It peaked at number four on the Billboard 200 album chart March 21st 1970, and the only singles that they released they released you Make Me Real with the B-side being Roadhouse Blues, which peaked at number 50 in May of 1970. Roadhouse Blues had John Sebastian playing the harmonica oh, but he couldn't use his name because again back in the day you had record contracts and you couldn't go outside your contract and different labels and all kinds of things. But he's actually the harmonica player and they have a live version on American Prayer. American Prayer was an album they put out in 78 after Jim Morrison had died. That's mostly like spoken poetry with some music added here and there. But they have this one live version of Roadhouse Blues. It's really cool and you just kind of feel the song and you can just feel it and it was something kind of good to hear. And if you get a chance, check that version out. It's got Waiting for the Sun. Even though the album Waiting for the Sun came out in 1968, the song Waiting for the Sun came out in 1970 on Morrison Hotel. Peace Frog is one of my favorite Doors songs Ship of Fools, land Ho, the Spy, maggie McGill, they're all good songs, really good record.
Speaker 2:So the album cover is a pretty cool story. Morrison Hotel was in fact a real hotel located in Los Angeles and the band could not get permission to take photos. They asked and they were told no, that the guy would have to check with his boss and all kinds of stuff. So they kind of made a plan of where they would stand if they were in there and then as soon as the desk clerk got called to some back room they ran in, knowing where their spots were supposed to be. Yeah, and photographer Henry Diltz ends up taking a bunch of pictures, including the famous one with the window that says Morrison Hotel. That becomes the album cover and it's a really cool story. If you look it up you can see the different pictures leading up to that. They took pictures outside to see if they can make that work. It's funny because if you look at them it wouldn't have the same effect. Even though you can still see the window different angles, it's not the same as being behind the glass, you know. So Jim wants a beer after the photo shoot, so they walk to a place not too far and it's called the Hard Rock Cafe and the back cover of the album is a picture of the front of the Hard Rock. This was 1969, before the famous Hard Rock Cafe in London opened and, yes, this is where they got the inspiration for the Hard Rock chain. All from this little dive bar in Los Angeles, a couple of streets over from Morrison Hotel. Instead of using side A and side B, they had the first side named Hard Rock Cafe and the second side Morrison Hotel. So when you know I had the record and you could see it printed right on there After being vacant for numerous years, the Morrison Hotel building was destroyed by fire on December 26, 2024.
Speaker 2:By fire on December 26, 2024. And you know, again, I like when landmarks are still there and you can kind of go there and maybe just feel the history. Unfortunately not going to be able to do that with that building. But some really cool things, some real cool stories. February 1, 1980, blondie Call Me comes out, enters the Billboard Hot 100. February 16th, peaks at number one for six weeks. April 19th 1980. And it's from the movie American Gigolo, another one of those songs that seem to be on the radio all the time, and it ends up 1980 as the number one song of the year. And I believe it because it truly was on all the time. Yeah.
Speaker 1:It was on K-Tel Rock 80, as I've told you, there you go.
Speaker 2:K-tel Rock 80. So, blondie, they're recording. So, first of all, a lot of people think Blondie is Deborah Harry. Blondie is the band all right, it's everybody in the band, deborah Harry is the singer, okay, and I think people sometimes confuse that a little bit. Yeah, so while Blondie's recording this song, producer Giorgio Morota decided just to have the band do the vocals and had other musicians play the music, because they were kind of struggling to keep up to the beat and keep things going, and he thought he could save time and some money by just, you know, farming it out. So the keyboard player was Harold Faltemeyer, whose song Axl F was the main song in.
Speaker 1:Beverly Hills Cop.
Speaker 2:Keith Forsey played drums on the song. He co-wrote Don't you Forget About Me two movies that we just talked about in the beginning. He also produced the song, but Keith also played drums on Donna Summer's Bad Girls. He produced the first couple of Billy Idol albums, co-wrote Flashdance what a Feeling. And from 1958 to 2018, Call Me ranks at number 57 on the Billboard Hot 100. That's a pretty high number. That is when you look at that many years. Howard Jones, things can only get better. Wlir, Screamer of the Week, second week of February 1985, peaked at number five on Billboard Hot 100, June 15th. We're not scared to lose it. All Security thrown through the wall, Future dreams we have to realize A thousand skeptic hands won't keep us from the things we plan unless we're clinging to the things we prize. And do you feel scared? I do.
Speaker 1:Things can only get better.
Speaker 2:There you go, you know the song, hey, listen. That's it for this episode of Music in my Shoes. You can contact us at musicinmyshoes at gmailcom. Please like and follow the Music in my Shoes Facebook and Instagram pages. I would like to thank Jimmy Guthrie, show producer and owner of Arcade 160 Studios located here in Atlanta, georgia, and Vic Thrill for our podcast music. This is Jim Boge, and I hope you learned something new or remembered something old. We'll meet again on our next episode. Until then, live life and keep the music playing you.
