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Casey Kasem Counts Down the Top Hits of 1985 · Children of the 80s

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  Speaker 1: Children of the Eighties is brought to you by Q
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  Speaker 1: or download the app Welcome Back to Children of the Eighties.
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  Speaker 1: I am Lindsey and with me today is my co
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  Speaker 1: host Jim, who always tells me to keep my feet
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  Speaker 1: on the ground and keep reaching for the stars. I
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  Speaker 1: heard that somewhere, Jim Butler in the house.
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  Speaker 2: I have heard that somewhere. I think what the great
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  Speaker 2: Casey Caseum used to say that on his top forty.
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  Speaker 2: I like to pretend that I'm Casey Caseum in your shadow, Stevens.
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  Speaker 2: So you got anything to talk about.
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  Speaker 1: I have had such a day.
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  Speaker 3: You know.
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  Speaker 1: I don't believe in astronomy or astrology.
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  Speaker 2: You know I've seen you try to help Amy with
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  Speaker 2: her homework. I believe that you don't believe in astronomy.
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  Speaker 1: But I'm telling you I think the stars have aligned
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  Speaker 1: and like, yeah, I think the world is out to
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  Speaker 1: get me today.
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  Speaker 2: I think it might be it's been a day.
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  Speaker 1: Oh the stupid cat, Gary the podcast cat got up
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  Speaker 1: in the attic in our garage. So sometimes we'll let
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  Speaker 1: him go into the garage if he's annoying because he
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  Speaker 1: talks all the time. So if he's talking and he's
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  Speaker 1: feisty or whatever, we put him in the garage. It's
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  Speaker 1: a safe place for him. What we didn't know was
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  Speaker 1: he can get somehow from the ground in the garage
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  Speaker 1: up into the attic.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was a lot of fun when you called
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  Speaker 2: me and told me that on my way home.
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  Speaker 1: So first off, I get home from work and our
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  Speaker 1: power is out, which happens all the time. In fact,
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  Speaker 1: we've mentioned it before, huh we have Yeah, the power
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  Speaker 1: goes out all the time. So I get home from work,
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  Speaker 1: no power, it's cold, it's starting to get dark. Gary's
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  Speaker 1: getting on my nerves. So I opened the garage, let
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  Speaker 1: him go in the garage, and then I hear what
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  Speaker 1: I think is somebody walking upstairs, and I'm like, wait,
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  Speaker 1: I'm home alone. What is that? Well, Gary was in
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  Speaker 1: the attic.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that was fun trying to get him down because
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  Speaker 2: he did not want to get down. He was scared.
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  Speaker 2: We had to coax him out with tuna and then
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  Speaker 2: basically you had to grab onto him and hold on
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  Speaker 2: to him for dear life as he scratched the tar
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  Speaker 2: out of all of your own.
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  Speaker 4: I did take you.
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  Speaker 1: What was I saying is I'm I'm committed.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, you're committed.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, that's what I kept saying. I'm committed.
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  Speaker 2: I'm committed committed to getting your arms tore up.
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  Speaker 1: So I have a friend who's daughter got cat scratch fever.
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  Speaker 2: That's a ten nugent song.
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  Speaker 1: Yes, but it really happened. You don't think I'm gonna
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  Speaker 1: get cat scratch fever?
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  Speaker 3: Do you?
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  Speaker 2: I hope not, But I mean, it wouldn't surprise me
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  Speaker 2: if you did. Typhoid Mary over there.
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  Speaker 1: It was so crazy. Yeah, and let me just say,
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  Speaker 1: we don't have stairs up into that part of the attic.
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  Speaker 1: It's we're unclear how he got there, but he got there.
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  Speaker 1: But he got there. So it wasn't like, oh, we
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  Speaker 1: can just climb the stairs and get No, it took
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  Speaker 1: a ladder and a lot of reaching. My arms are
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  Speaker 1: kind of hurting now.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, they're sore because you were reaching up for about
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  Speaker 2: an hour and a half trying to get the stupid
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  Speaker 2: cat down. So, speaking of stupid things, we are recording
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  Speaker 2: this on a Monday night as the Falcons play the
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  Speaker 2: Rams and I am missing oh no, a Falcon's.
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  Speaker 1: Game and all of that delayed us.
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  Speaker 2: I don't even care though, Oh yeah, because the Falcons stink.
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  Speaker 2: They don't even have a first round draft pick because
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  Speaker 2: they traded it to the Rams. I hate the Rams.
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  Speaker 2: Anytime I watch the Falcons they lose, so I would
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  Speaker 2: just be mad. But one of my buddies, Thomas, who
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  Speaker 2: is a big Falcons fan, texted me and said, yeah,
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  Speaker 2: you know, we could the Rams might be extra motivated
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  Speaker 2: because they beat the Falcons. They get a better draft
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  Speaker 2: pick because the Falcon's just drop in the draft. And
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  Speaker 2: I quoted Churchill to him, and Churchill said, if Hitler
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  Speaker 2: invaded Hell, I'd side with the devil. And those are
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  Speaker 2: my sentiments about the Rams.
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  Speaker 1: So I don't understand why you had waste your time
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  Speaker 1: watching the Falcons. I mean, as an Atlanta native, we
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  Speaker 1: gave up on the Falcons, oh ninety five or so.
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  Speaker 2: Hope springs eternal.
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  Speaker 1: You're seriously like Charlie Brown And is it Lucy that
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  Speaker 1: pulls the football out on under?
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, the Falcons are and I'm Charlie Brown. Do this
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  Speaker 2: to yourself, I don't know. Probably something to do with my.
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  Speaker 1: Childhood, probably probably.
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  Speaker 2: So here's the thing. Raheem Morris as their coach. He
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  Speaker 2: seems like a wonderful human being.
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  Speaker 1: He probably is.
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  Speaker 2: He is somebody that I want to root for, but
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  Speaker 2: he is just not. They are just not playing at
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  Speaker 2: their talent level and it's very frustrating. And usually that
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  Speaker 2: falls on the coach. And I'm thinking, you know, there's
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  Speaker 2: a chance that he might get fired and it would
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  Speaker 2: be probably deserved, but the human part of me, for
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  Speaker 2: the human part of him, would feel terrible if he
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  Speaker 2: did so. But as a Falcons fan, I'm like, can
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  Speaker 2: we finally get a good coach in here?
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  Speaker 1: I heard it said a good coach leads to a
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  Speaker 1: winning team. M hm does that sound right?
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  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't know.
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  Speaker 1: I'm just a good coach because they're not winning.
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  Speaker 2: The point I haven't seen a good coach in a
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  Speaker 2: long long time, I hear you.
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  Speaker 1: I'm sorry, Yeah, good coach isn't going to be coming
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  Speaker 1: to Atlanta. Why would a good coach come to Atlanta
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  Speaker 1: to coach the Founder.
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  Speaker 2: Because there's only thirty two jobs. Good coaches go to
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  Speaker 2: crappy teams like the Jets because there's only thirty two jobs.
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  Speaker 2: The problem is is that Arthur Blank and his crew
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  Speaker 2: cannot hire a good coach. They just they're they're bad.
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  Speaker 2: They're very bad at it. That's why I said, hire me,
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  Speaker 2: let me play board games with them. I'll let you
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  Speaker 2: know within thirty minutes whether or not they're they've got
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  Speaker 2: the chops.
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  Speaker 1: And you would do it for probably the amount of
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  Speaker 1: money that's like nothing to Old Arthur.
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  Speaker 2: Oh yeah, yeah, no, I would do it for one
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  Speaker 2: one thousandth of his.
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  Speaker 1: Network, right, or you wouldn't even miss it.
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  Speaker 2: Nah, No, that's his chump change. Yeah, this is uh,
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  Speaker 2: Hey Arthur, I need I'm a little hard on my Look. Hey,
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  Speaker 2: there's some change in the ash tray of my car.
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  Speaker 1: Well, Old Arthur he needs all the money he can
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  Speaker 1: get for his next afford that alimony's expensive.
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  Speaker 2: Oh goodness, all right, Well, enough of the chit chat.
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  Speaker 2: Are you ready to get to today's show?
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  Speaker 1: That was some feisty banters? What that was?
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  Speaker 2: I know it was some feisty banter. Are you ready
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  Speaker 2: to forego the feisty banter and get to today's show?
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  Speaker 1: I've never been more ready for anything in my life.
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  Speaker 1: This is a podcast that looks back on the decade
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  Speaker 1: of the nineteen eighties. We talk about things that were
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  Speaker 1: important to us as children and what we look back
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  Speaker 1: on with fond memories as adults. Ultimately, this is a
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  Speaker 1: nostalgia podcast, yes.
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  Speaker 2: And today we are getting nostalgic about the one and
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  Speaker 2: only Casey casem So tell me what Casey case meant
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  Speaker 2: to you as a child growing up.
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  Speaker 1: Well, you know, being a DJ on the radio was
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  Speaker 1: all I ever wanted to do, and I wanted to
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  Speaker 1: do that from the time that I was itty bitty,
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  Speaker 1: I want to say, I was probably two or three
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  Speaker 1: when I first started noticing their voices from the radio,
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  Speaker 1: and that's immediately I was just drawn to it. And
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  Speaker 1: I probably couldn't even have formulated the words to tell
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  Speaker 1: you that's what I wanted to do, but that's what
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  Speaker 1: I wanted to do. And no one ever before or
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  Speaker 1: after has had the voice and the talent of Casey Kasum.
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  Speaker 2: I agree, he was fantastic. He was like a member
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  Speaker 2: of the family.
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  Speaker 1: And I nothing I loved more than to listen to
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  Speaker 1: the year end countdown. Really on New Year's Day? Was
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  Speaker 1: it day?
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  Speaker 5: Now?
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  Speaker 2: It was always like the last show in December probably,
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  Speaker 2: so it's not like it was maybe it was New
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  Speaker 2: Year's Day.
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  Speaker 1: I always started the year by cleaning my room and
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  Speaker 1: like throwing stuff away because I love to get rid
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  Speaker 1: of stuff. And I always listened to him on my
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  Speaker 1: stereo while I did that.
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  Speaker 2: Oh maybe it was January first. I just remember it
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  Speaker 2: was always near the end of the year. He'd always
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  Speaker 2: do his year end countdown. Yeah, that was always special
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  Speaker 2: to me. I listened to his regular countdowns, but the
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  Speaker 2: year end one was always fun because you know, as
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  Speaker 2: a child, you're just into whatever is popular now, and
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  Speaker 2: you may not remember what had been popular back in
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  Speaker 2: January or March or May or whatever, and so the
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  Speaker 2: year end just kind of brought that down. And then,
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  Speaker 2: of course, you know, me being a stat nerd you know,
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  Speaker 2: I always wanted to compare and know which ones were what.
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  Speaker 2: So that was pretty cool.
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  Speaker 1: I thought you were saying you were a statler and
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  Speaker 1: that would make me the waldor.
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  Speaker 2: Well, we can be those people too. But since this
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  Speaker 2: is twenty twenty five, what we're going to do is
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  Speaker 2: we're going to go through his American Top forty from
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  Speaker 2: the year end of nineteen eighty five. It was kind
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  Speaker 2: of the forty year anniverse. What do you think about that?
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  Speaker 1: I love it. Nineteen eighty five.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so eighty five might be the best year for
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  Speaker 2: like songs that sound like the nineteen eighties.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, you think so I do? I mean you've got wait,
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  Speaker 1: I thought it was I thought you said it was
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  Speaker 1: eighty four.
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  Speaker 2: No, I said eighty four may be the best year
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  Speaker 2: for music, but for songs that sound nineteen eighties ish, okay,
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  Speaker 2: and you'll hear some in the countdown, right, eighty five
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  Speaker 2: seems to have the most of those, because, like, right
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  Speaker 2: in the middle of the decade, you know, the sound
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  Speaker 2: is finally leaving kind of the early punk and you know,
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  Speaker 2: I don't want to say it's leaving new wave because
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  Speaker 2: new wave is kind of here, but it's getting you know,
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  Speaker 2: the pop sound is starting to take takeover. And so
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  Speaker 2: to me, the eighties' best sounding songs are probably from
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  Speaker 2: right around eighty five or so.
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  Speaker 1: So what do you think, I'm excited nineteen eighty five?
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  Speaker 1: I was six, Okay, so I was a little tight. Yeah,
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  Speaker 1: may not have been listening to Casey Casum quite yet.
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  Speaker 1: If I wasn't in eighty five, I would have been
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  Speaker 1: maybe eighty seven for sure.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah I was. I was eleven, So this was like
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  Speaker 2: prime or maybe the beginning of my Casey Caseum fascination,
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  Speaker 2: maybe eighty four, eighty five, something like that. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: from then on, it was Casey whenever I could listen
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  Speaker 2: to him.
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  Speaker 4: Yep.
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  Speaker 2: So what we're gonna do is we're gonna go through
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  Speaker 2: his whole Top forty, but we're just gonna feature around
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  Speaker 2: thirteen fourteen songs something like that, okay, and play those
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  Speaker 2: Anything that we've featured in the past, we are not
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  Speaker 2: going to feature for this, okay, but we'll talk about
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  Speaker 2: them a little bit, mention them at least briefly. And
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  Speaker 2: then anything that I have coming up in the first
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  Speaker 2: quarter or so of twenty twenty six, we're also not
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  Speaker 2: going to feature, but we will mention it.
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  Speaker 1: So you're gonna be showing your hand to something expens.
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  Speaker 2: At least one song, at least one song. So okay, well,
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  Speaker 2: all right, well are you ready to get to the
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  Speaker 2: top forty?
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  Speaker 1: Let's do it?
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  Speaker 2: All right? All right? Well, this is how the countdown
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  Speaker 2: would start on our radios.
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  Speaker 4: Hello again, and welcome to American Top forty.
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  Speaker 3: I'm Casey Casem and I'm all set to count down
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  Speaker 3: the biggest hits in the USA.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think?
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  Speaker 1: Love it? Oh man?
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  Speaker 2: That boys, the forty biggest hits of nineteen eighty five,
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  Speaker 2: I believe is where he was going there. So the
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  Speaker 2: number forty song is by a band that we knew
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  Speaker 2: long before, that's the Commodores, and this song is night
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  Speaker 2: Shift by the Commodores.
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  Speaker 1: It doesn't seem right to be referencing the Commodores in
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  Speaker 1: a countdown for nineteen eighty five.
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  Speaker 2: Right, doesn't it seem like more like we would mention
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  Speaker 2: them in nineteen seventy eighty. Yeah, confusing maybe nineteen eighty one,
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  Speaker 2: but this song peaked at number three in April of
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  Speaker 2: nineteen eighty five, and this was their biggest hit after
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  Speaker 2: your buddy who Lionel left the Groupel You say his
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  Speaker 2: name like Michael Jackson. All right, So the number thirty
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  Speaker 2: nine song, we're also not going to feature here, but
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  Speaker 2: why don't you tell the folks what it is?
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  Speaker 1: Number thirty nine We Belong by Pat Benatar, talked out
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  Speaker 1: at number five on the Hot one Hot.
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  Speaker 2: What do you think about that song We Belong? I
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  Speaker 2: actually love this song. Yeah, I like it too. It's
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  Speaker 2: one of Emmy's favorites. She loves this song, but always
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  Speaker 2: makes me think of when they were playing this song
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  Speaker 2: on the office and Kelly Kapoor was singing it to
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  Speaker 2: Ryan saying we belong.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I forgot about that all right.
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  Speaker 2: So let's feature our number thirty eight song here. What
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  Speaker 2: do you think then? I mean, if that don't catch
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  Speaker 2: you up dancing, I love this, I don't know what
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  Speaker 2: will that is. Neutron Dance by the Pointer Sisters.
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  Speaker 1: Peaked at number six on the Hot one hundred.
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  Speaker 2: And of course made famous played at the beginning of
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  Speaker 2: Beverly Hills Cup Yeap, which was always fun. The Neutron
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  Speaker 2: dance might be my favorite dance of the eighties.
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  Speaker 1: Wow.
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  Speaker 2: Really, I don't even know what dances there are the eighties,
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  Speaker 2: but the Neutron dance just sounds fun.
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  Speaker 1: Okay, And you know I love the Pointer Sister. I
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  Speaker 1: know you love you some Pointer Sisters. This is just
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  Speaker 1: a fun song that it just you gotta move ye
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  Speaker 1: year to move.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: So this song was actually released in nineteen eighty three,
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  Speaker 2: but then it hit big again when Beverly Hills Cop
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  Speaker 2: came out, and that's when it became pretty big enough
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  Speaker 2: to finish at number thirty eight for the year end
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  Speaker 2: in nineteen eighty five. That's impressive, is it a deservedly so?
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  Speaker 1: Yeah? Absolutely.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Well, we're not going to feature the number
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  Speaker 2: thirty seven song because I believe we've talked about it before.
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  Speaker 1: I don't understand why we still can't just play a nidgeon.
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  Speaker 2: Of it, but I'll let you take it. Since this
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  Speaker 2: is your favorite band of all time.
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  Speaker 1: Number thirty seven, you're the inspiration Chicago.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, so this song peaked at number three on that
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  Speaker 2: one hundred. Can you believe this didn't hit number one?
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  Speaker 1: Meaning in my life, you're the in spoll And See,
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  Speaker 1: you should have just played it.
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  Speaker 2: I'm not gonna I'm not gonna compete with Peter Seta.
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  Speaker 1: The voice so so peaked a number three on the
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  Speaker 1: Hot one hundred.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, are you shocked that it wasn't number one?
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  Speaker 1: I'm shocked it wasn't number one, and I feel it
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  Speaker 1: should be higher than thirty seven.
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  Speaker 4: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I was surprised that it wasn't number one either, and
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  Speaker 2: I feel like it should be higher than number thirty seven.
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  Speaker 2: But I think you're gonna see some stuff that, uh
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  Speaker 2: that you're gonna say. I think that inspiration should have
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  Speaker 2: been hired in some of these songs.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't get it, And to me, is there
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  Speaker 1: a better love song, No No, No, is there a
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  Speaker 1: better let me try to win you over song the inspiration?
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  Speaker 1: Probably not, I know right, probably not listening to Chicago
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  Speaker 1: and especially You're the inspiration. It brings back so many
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  Speaker 1: memories of what could be. You know, when you're a kid,
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  Speaker 1: it could be anything in anything in there.
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  Speaker 5: Yeah.
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  Speaker 2: I remember this song being huge when I was in
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  Speaker 2: like fifth grade. You're the inspiration? Yeah, so all right,
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  Speaker 2: So moving on from Chicago thirty six number or at
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  Speaker 2: thirty seven, number thirty six. I don't think you're gonna
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  Speaker 2: agree that this song is better than You're the Inspiration,
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  Speaker 2: But here we go. That is The Wild Boys by
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  Speaker 2: Duran Duran, what do you think about?
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  Speaker 1: What is that?
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  Speaker 3: Boy?
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  Speaker 2: Wild Boys?
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  Speaker 1: What boys?
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  Speaker 2: They're talking about? The Wild Boys?
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  Speaker 1: I mean boy.
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  Speaker 2: So this song peaked at number two. This song peaked
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  Speaker 2: at number two on the Hot one hundred and in
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  Speaker 2: eight other countries. I'm getting by the fact that you
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  Speaker 2: say you're making fun of the way they say wild Boys,
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  Speaker 2: that you do not think this is better than Chicago.
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  Speaker 1: Absolutely not. But I will say you can tell that
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  Speaker 1: they're super talented. It's obviously a really well done song.
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  Speaker 2: Just not my thing, just not your thing.
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  Speaker 1: Yeah, and also I don't get the wild boy Listen.
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  Speaker 2: Duran Duran was so huge in the early to mid
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  Speaker 2: eighties that they could have like farted on records and
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  Speaker 2: sold millions of them. Okay, okay, so I see why
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  Speaker 2: they were here thirty six And speaking of Duran Duran,
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  Speaker 2: they followed up A thirty six with a thirty five
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  Speaker 2: why of View to a Kill, which was the theme
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  Speaker 2: song to the James Bond movie Of View to a Kill.
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  Speaker 2: So go ahead.
• 18:23
  Speaker 1: It hit number one on the Hot one hundred and
• 18:26
  Speaker 1: in six other countries. Yes, so here's what I'm taking
• 18:31
  Speaker 1: from this. The world loves some Duran Duran.
• 18:36
  Speaker 2: Yes. In nineteen eighty five, the world absolutely love Duran Duran.
• 18:40
  Speaker 2: So I'd say eighty two they did, eighty three, eighty four,
• 18:43
  Speaker 2: eighty five.
• 18:44
  Speaker 1: There you go.
• 18:45
  Speaker 2: So you can't beat back to back like back to
• 18:48
  Speaker 2: back thirty six and thirty five to Duran Duran songs.
• 18:51
  Speaker 2: All right, so we're gonna stay over in the UK
• 18:54
  Speaker 2: for number thirty four and number thirty four was the
• 18:57
  Speaker 2: Sea of Love by the Honey Drippers.
• 19:00
  Speaker 1: Like the old fashioned Sea of Love.
• 19:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's the old fashioned Sea of Love,
• 19:04
  Speaker 2: but this is Robert Plant and Jimmy Page of led
• 19:08
  Speaker 2: Zeppelin along with Jeff Beck. And this song peaked at
• 19:11
  Speaker 2: number three, but hit number one on the Adult contemporary chart. Okay,
• 19:15
  Speaker 2: led Zeppelin kind of making a comeback here in the eighties,
• 19:17
  Speaker 2: but it wasn't under led Zeppelin. The honey Drippers. Honey Drippers,
• 19:23
  Speaker 2: all right, So that was thirty four. You go ahead
• 19:26
  Speaker 2: and take number thirty.
• 19:27
  Speaker 1: Three, Number thirty three, One More Night by my friend
• 19:31
  Speaker 1: Phil Collins.
• 19:32
  Speaker 2: Yes, and we talked about this one on our Phil
• 19:35
  Speaker 2: Collins versus Genesis boxing match episode back in August of
• 19:38
  Speaker 2: twenty twenty fourth. So if you want to hear more
• 19:40
  Speaker 2: about that, go back and listen to that. But where
• 19:42
  Speaker 2: did this song hit?
• 19:44
  Speaker 1: I love this song. It peaked at number one for
• 19:47
  Speaker 1: two weeks.
• 19:48
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is a good song. This is a good
• 19:50
  Speaker 2: love song, wouldn't you say?
• 19:52
  Speaker 1: It has such a to me, a unique sound.
• 19:55
  Speaker 2: Yes. And it was played in one of my favorite movies,
• 19:58
  Speaker 2: which is the Color of Money. Oh yeah, the Tom
• 20:01
  Speaker 2: Cruise when we did our Baby Let's Cruise. That's right,
• 20:04
  Speaker 2: double episode. Man, making all.
• 20:07
  Speaker 1: The references, you had some caffeine over.
• 20:12
  Speaker 2: There, I may have. I may have had some caffeine.
• 20:14
  Speaker 2: So speaking of nights, we've got one more night and
• 20:17
  Speaker 2: then at number thirty two, we also.
• 20:19
  Speaker 1: Have Rhythm of the Night du Barge.
• 20:23
  Speaker 2: We've talked about this one several times, right, but we
• 20:26
  Speaker 2: both loved this song.
• 20:28
  Speaker 1: I love the barge.
• 20:30
  Speaker 2: The BArch is that you're trying to do du bears,
• 20:33
  Speaker 2: but double barge trying I was doing it. So yeah,
• 20:38
  Speaker 2: we talked about this one, you know, several times. This
• 20:40
  Speaker 2: one peaked at number three. I think we've got we've
• 20:43
  Speaker 2: kind of beat this dead horse into the ground here,
• 20:46
  Speaker 2: So you're ready to feature another song here at number
• 20:48
  Speaker 2: thirty one, let's do it. I'll actually let our man introduce.
• 20:54
  Speaker 4: This top three notches. Here are the six young men
• 20:56
  Speaker 4: from Flint, Michigan who.
• 20:57
  Speaker 3: Call themselves Ready for the World. There and.
• 21:08
  Speaker 1: It was seeing.
• 21:14
  Speaker 6: Mon she Love You.
• 21:27
  Speaker 2: So that is Oshila by Ready for the World. What
• 21:32
  Speaker 2: do you think about that song?
• 21:33
  Speaker 1: I love this song.
• 21:34
  Speaker 2: That song is definitely eighty sounding too.
• 21:36
  Speaker 1: Right, I've never heard of Ready for the World. I
• 21:39
  Speaker 1: don't know who they are or who it is.
• 21:42
  Speaker 2: There's six young men from Flint, Michigan, as case.
• 21:44
  Speaker 1: He said, but I thought it was some well known group.
• 21:47
  Speaker 2: They kind of sound like a boy band.
• 21:49
  Speaker 1: Don't like new edition before new edition, right, right, something
• 21:53
  Speaker 1: like that. So this one was that a young Bobby Brown.
• 21:56
  Speaker 2: That was not a young Bobby Brown. But this one
• 21:59
  Speaker 2: debut in the top forty in August of eighty five,
• 22:03
  Speaker 2: and it would go on to hit number one on
• 22:04
  Speaker 2: the Billboard Hot one hundred for a week and then
• 22:07
  Speaker 2: also number one on the R and B chart for
• 22:09
  Speaker 2: two weeks. So you are a fan of that song?
• 22:13
  Speaker 2: Is that what you're saying?
• 22:14
  Speaker 1: I love that song.
• 22:15
  Speaker 2: So I've got a little story about this song, and
• 22:19
  Speaker 2: I think I told this in our second episode ever,
• 22:22
  Speaker 2: but a lot of people may not have heard that,
• 22:25
  Speaker 2: or a lot of people may have forgotten, and you
• 22:27
  Speaker 2: may have forgotten this story. I was in the sixth
• 22:30
  Speaker 2: grade when this song was popular, and I was in
• 22:33
  Speaker 2: English class, and some girl decides that she's going to
• 22:39
  Speaker 2: convince the English teacher that she's going to do you say,
• 22:44
  Speaker 2: play on the kazoo or hum on the kazoo. She's
• 22:47
  Speaker 2: gonna hum or play Oh Sheila on the kazoo, And
• 22:51
  Speaker 2: the English teacher agrees to let her do that.
• 22:54
  Speaker 1: Why I don't that makes no sense to me?
• 22:56
  Speaker 2: And she does that for the whole class, and it
• 22:59
  Speaker 2: was like so uncomfortable. It was like meet the parents uncomfortable.
• 23:05
  Speaker 1: Did she do every verse in the chorus each time?
• 23:09
  Speaker 2: I feel like she did. I mean, I feel like
• 23:11
  Speaker 2: it went on. It was like the extended club play mix.
• 23:14
  Speaker 1: I feel like, what would have been the point of that?
• 23:17
  Speaker 2: I don't eats, I don't know, I have no idea.
• 23:21
  Speaker 2: I don't know. I mean, obviously she liked the song.
• 23:24
  Speaker 2: I liked the song, but I never went to a
• 23:26
  Speaker 2: teacher and said, let me play this song on a
• 23:28
  Speaker 2: kazoo for you, kazoo of all old things. Well, I
• 23:31
  Speaker 2: mean that's the answer, man. Anybody can play, right, I
• 23:33
  Speaker 2: mean we've had a one year old niece playing it
• 23:36
  Speaker 2: over Christmas.
• 23:37
  Speaker 1: Time, so all day, every day.
• 23:39
  Speaker 2: So, uh, goad, I don't get it.
• 23:43
  Speaker 1: Have you ever thought about that? It seems like back
• 23:46
  Speaker 1: in the day that they sang a lot about women,
• 23:51
  Speaker 1: you know, like a specific woman.
• 23:54
  Speaker 2: Yes, and I've actually had that episode.
• 23:57
  Speaker 1: Sheila, who else?
• 24:01
  Speaker 2: Uh, Tiffany, I don't.
• 24:03
  Speaker 1: Know, I know, but right, doesn't it feel like they
• 24:05
  Speaker 1: name a lot of names. Yeah, there's a lot of
• 24:07
  Speaker 1: female names. And I think that we should do an
• 24:10
  Speaker 1: episode that might be fun. You know based on female
• 24:14
  Speaker 1: names in the title, what do you think that might
• 24:17
  Speaker 1: be fun? All right, well you can count on that
• 24:19
  Speaker 1: in twenty twenty six, then if if I can make
• 24:21
  Speaker 1: it happen, I don't know. Well, why did she pick
• 24:24
  Speaker 1: oh Sheila?
• 24:25
  Speaker 2: I mean maybe they liked who is she? By the way?
• 24:29
  Speaker 1: Why did they pick Ohshila? Why did oh?
• 24:32
  Speaker 2: Why did the girl pick oh?
• 24:33
  Speaker 1: Why was the girl in your school? I don't pick
• 24:36
  Speaker 1: oh Sheila?
• 24:37
  Speaker 2: Why would she pick anything?
• 24:39
  Speaker 1: Why couldn't I would have picked like Camptown Races?
• 24:41
  Speaker 7: What are.
• 24:44
  Speaker 2: You? Would have played the cazoo in front of a
• 24:45
  Speaker 2: sixth grade class even if it was Camptown Razors?
• 24:48
  Speaker 1: No, I wouldn't.
• 24:49
  Speaker 2: So they would go on to have another hit a
• 24:52
  Speaker 2: few months later called Love You Down. You probably remember
• 24:55
  Speaker 2: that one. Oh okay, so that was ready for the world.
• 24:59
  Speaker 2: Well there you go with our number thirty one song.
• 25:02
  Speaker 2: So now we have done ten and we're heading on
• 25:06
  Speaker 2: to ten more. But let's come back from commercial after this.
• 25:11
  Speaker 3: This is eighteen forties weekly survey of the biggest hit
• 25:14
  Speaker 3: from Fairbanks to Phoenix, from Hanover to Honolulu.
• 25:17
  Speaker 4: I'm Kasey Case and now back to the countdown.
• 25:21
  Speaker 2: I Love It Number thirty is by one of my
• 25:25
  Speaker 2: favorite artists, and I believe one of yours, Glenn Fry,
• 25:28
  Speaker 2: you Belong to the City. I love the opening saxophone
• 25:34
  Speaker 2: of this song, and I believe we've talked about this
• 25:36
  Speaker 2: song before, so I'm not going to feature it, but
• 25:39
  Speaker 2: you have anything else to say on that song other
• 25:41
  Speaker 2: than just great saxophone to open it up.
• 25:43
  Speaker 1: I'm currently listening to a Chris Jericho on his podcast
• 25:48
  Speaker 1: is interviewing Don Felder really, and it's so far, so good.
• 25:53
  Speaker 1: I'm just getting started, and I feel like the cat Fiasco.
• 25:55
  Speaker 1: I'm gonna have to start back over at the beginning
• 25:57
  Speaker 1: and listen again. But he's interesting guy. He's got some
• 26:01
  Speaker 1: stuff to say.
• 26:01
  Speaker 2: I may have to listen to that because I actually
• 26:03
  Speaker 2: read his book called Heaven and Hell, Yeah, where he
• 26:07
  Speaker 2: has non flattering things to say about mister Fry and
• 26:09
  Speaker 2: mister Henley. Yes, but of course it was just his
• 26:12
  Speaker 2: side of the story, so we don't know, yeah, what
• 26:15
  Speaker 2: is true or not.
• 26:15
  Speaker 1: But everybody is the bad guy in somebody's story.
• 26:19
  Speaker 2: Yeah, absolutely, absolutely, all right. So let's move on to
• 26:26
  Speaker 2: number twenty nine, which we're going to feature. And I
• 26:28
  Speaker 2: had to feature it because I did not remember this
• 26:31
  Speaker 2: song by the name, but as soon as I heard it,
• 26:33
  Speaker 2: it was like, bam, I was back there.
• 27:06
  Speaker 3: You call me.
• 27:09
  Speaker 1: Number twenty nine lover girl. Tina Marie.
• 27:14
  Speaker 2: You didn't recognize that song when you saw the name
• 27:17
  Speaker 2: of it, but as soon as I started playing it,
• 27:19
  Speaker 2: you were over there dancing because you knew what it was.
• 27:21
  Speaker 1: It entered the top forty in February of nineteen eighty five.
• 27:25
  Speaker 1: It peaked at number four.
• 27:27
  Speaker 2: So what are your thoughts on the song?
• 27:29
  Speaker 1: You know, it's a very eighty song. It's not going
• 27:33
  Speaker 1: to be anywhere near the top of my list.
• 27:36
  Speaker 2: But it's a fun song.
• 27:37
  Speaker 1: It's kind of yeah, it's okay, Yeah, it's.
• 27:40
  Speaker 2: A fun little, you know, dance song.
• 27:42
  Speaker 1: Yeah, but exactly if I'm at the club dancing with
• 27:46
  Speaker 1: my friends, it's a fun song.
• 27:48
  Speaker 2: Right, Yeah. And Tina Marie, I actually had a recruiter
• 27:52
  Speaker 2: named Tina Marie that reached out to me, but I
• 27:54
  Speaker 2: don't think it was this artist.
• 27:55
  Speaker 1: Well, Tina Marie, may she rest in peace is no
• 27:58
  Speaker 1: longer with us.
• 27:59
  Speaker 2: Oh no, I didn't know that.
• 28:00
  Speaker 4: Huh.
• 28:01
  Speaker 2: Now you need to tell the story.
• 28:03
  Speaker 1: She died December twenty sixth of twenty ten.
• 28:07
  Speaker 2: Oh no, fifteen years now.
• 28:08
  Speaker 1: At the young age of fifty four.
• 28:10
  Speaker 2: Oh, that's that's sad way to bring me down. You
• 28:14
  Speaker 2: like to bring the folks down death. All right, Well,
• 28:19
  Speaker 2: if Tina Marie wants to be your lover girl, then
• 28:22
  Speaker 2: we really should have the opposite side of that. How
• 28:57
  Speaker 2: fortuitous that lover Boy is followed by lover Girls random
• 29:01
  Speaker 2: on the countdown of nineteen eighty five. So that is
• 29:05
  Speaker 2: lover Boy by Billy Ocean one of my favorites. This
• 29:09
  Speaker 2: song entered the top forty actually in December of eighty
• 29:13
  Speaker 2: four and would go on through the beginning of the year.
• 29:16
  Speaker 2: It stayed on the chart for fifteen weeks and it
• 29:18
  Speaker 2: peaked at number two. And this was his follow up
• 29:22
  Speaker 2: single to Caribune Queen. I'm sorry what that's how he
• 29:27
  Speaker 2: says it Caribune and Queen Caribbean Queen.
• 29:30
  Speaker 1: Actually love Billy Ocean. I love this song. I love
• 29:35
  Speaker 1: his voice.
• 29:36
  Speaker 2: Yes, he had a big voice, babe, love it. Yeah,
• 29:38
  Speaker 2: and uh, lover Boy is probably my favorite song by him. Yeah, yeah,
• 29:43
  Speaker 2: probably Cariboo Queen.
• 29:46
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I Cariboo Cariboo. That what you see if you're.
• 29:50
  Speaker 2: In the mountains out up and now w Canada or
• 29:53
  Speaker 2: out West or something. Yeah, yeah, but yeah, A big
• 29:55
  Speaker 2: fan of that song. You yes, also a big fan
• 29:58
  Speaker 2: of that song.
• 29:59
  Speaker 1: All right?
• 30:00
  Speaker 2: Oh, we featured twenty nine eight twenty seven. We're not
• 30:02
  Speaker 2: going to feature because we've talked about this one multiple
• 30:06
  Speaker 2: times on our TV Theme Songs Tournament last winter and spring.
• 30:10
  Speaker 2: But the Miami Vice theme by yd Hammer came in
• 30:13
  Speaker 2: at number twenty seven. And what's your big news on
• 30:16
  Speaker 2: that one?
• 30:18
  Speaker 1: It is one of two number one instrumental hits of
• 30:23
  Speaker 1: the nineteen eighties.
• 30:24
  Speaker 2: Correct in the we have and the other one was
• 30:28
  Speaker 2: Chariots of Fire. That's right, very good. I mean you
• 30:33
  Speaker 2: give me you remember your stuff?
• 30:35
  Speaker 1: I occasionally pay attention.
• 30:40
  Speaker 2: Okay, So let's move on to number twenty six. And
• 30:42
  Speaker 2: it's funny because you mentioned this group earlier as.
• 30:48
  Speaker 1: If I want there's sounding Babies. Oh my goodness, number
• 31:14
  Speaker 1: twenty six cool it now new addition?
• 31:18
  Speaker 2: Yeah, what do you think about that one?
• 31:19
  Speaker 1: I love it, I love love love this song I
• 31:22
  Speaker 1: love new edition entered the top forty in October of
• 31:25
  Speaker 1: nineteen eighty four. It was in the top forty for
• 31:29
  Speaker 1: fourteen weeks and peaked at number four.
• 31:33
  Speaker 2: Yeah. This was the first top forty hit for New Edition,
• 31:37
  Speaker 2: and that introduced us to Ralph Tresvant, Bobby Brown, and
• 31:41
  Speaker 2: all three members of Bell BIV Devou. So I think
• 31:45
  Speaker 2: that was Ralphie singing there, and I mean he sounded
• 31:49
  Speaker 2: like he was like seven years old.
• 31:50
  Speaker 1: He sounded like a baby.
• 31:52
  Speaker 2: If you watch the video, they look like teenagers. But yeah,
• 31:57
  Speaker 2: but Ralph sounds like he's seven years old.
• 31:58
  Speaker 1: No, his little voice hadn't changed.
• 32:00
  Speaker 2: I had not, but I don't remember my voice sounding
• 32:03
  Speaker 2: that little at eleven, right, I know, so crazy, But anyway,
• 32:08
  Speaker 2: I love that song. Our buddy, def Dave's big fan
• 32:11
  Speaker 2: of New Edition, so I'm sure he's gonna like that.
• 32:13
  Speaker 1: I don't think I knew that.
• 32:14
  Speaker 2: Yeah, he's a huge fan of New Editions.
• 32:16
  Speaker 1: Well, Dave and I've got that in common.
• 32:17
  Speaker 2: I think he's voted for them like forty seven times
• 32:20
  Speaker 2: to enter the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame this year.
• 32:22
  Speaker 2: I don't think it's going to happen, though.
• 32:24
  Speaker 1: I don't think that New Edition deserves to be there
• 32:27
  Speaker 1: anymore than New Kids on the Block. But I love
• 32:31
  Speaker 1: New Edition.
• 32:34
  Speaker 2: So funny. All right, So that was twenty six. Let's
• 32:37
  Speaker 2: move on to twenty five. Now, that voice and that
• 33:05
  Speaker 2: sound is unmistakable.
• 33:06
  Speaker 1: Right, Yeah, that voice is familiar. Ironically, we lost him
• 33:11
  Speaker 1: too close to this date. Yeah, didn't he die Christmas Day?
• 33:15
  Speaker 2: I think so? Yeah? That is Everything She Wants by Wham.
• 33:20
  Speaker 2: This song entered the top forty in April of this year,
• 33:23
  Speaker 2: and it peaked at number one for two weeks. It
• 33:26
  Speaker 2: was also number one for two weeks on the Sales
• 33:28
  Speaker 2: and Airplay chart. And this was Wam's third single and
• 33:33
  Speaker 2: third number one. You talk about making a debut, right, let.
• 33:39
  Speaker 1: Me just clarify. He passed away in twenty sixteen.
• 33:41
  Speaker 2: Twenty sixteen. Okay, Yeah, so three singles, three number ones.
• 33:47
  Speaker 2: It doesn't get much better than that, does it.
• 33:49
  Speaker 1: No, it really doesn't.
• 33:51
  Speaker 2: And so this was their third single, and I'm just
• 33:53
  Speaker 2: telling you we might be visiting the other two singles
• 33:55
  Speaker 2: later on down on the countdown.
• 33:56
  Speaker 1: What are you saying?
• 33:58
  Speaker 2: I might be giving a spoiler alert. What are your
• 34:00
  Speaker 2: thoughts on Everything She Wants?
• 34:02
  Speaker 1: I'm not really a fan of Wallam or George Michael,
• 34:06
  Speaker 1: but I think his voice was so almost magical, very
• 34:16
  Speaker 1: iconic voice of the eighties, and so he definitely deserves
• 34:19
  Speaker 1: to be there. Wam deserves to be there, but just
• 34:22
  Speaker 1: not my type. Of music.
• 34:23
  Speaker 2: He was a heck of a songwriter, and I actually
• 34:26
  Speaker 2: liked the song radio. Yeah, I really do like this song.
• 34:29
  Speaker 2: So all right, number twenty four, I'll let you introduce
• 34:32
  Speaker 2: it since this is your boy and your song.
• 34:34
  Speaker 1: Number twenty four, Heaven Brian Adams.
• 34:38
  Speaker 2: So we're going to talk about this one more when
• 34:40
  Speaker 2: we do our Brian Adams versus John Cougar Mellencamp Boxing
• 34:43
  Speaker 2: Max coming early next year. But this was Brian adams
• 34:47
  Speaker 2: first number one song. I love me some Brian Adams.
• 34:50
  Speaker 2: So what do you think of Heaven? It isn't as
• 34:53
  Speaker 2: good as Warrence Heaven.
• 34:54
  Speaker 1: No, it is definitely nowhere near as good as Warrence Heaven.
• 34:58
  Speaker 1: But I think it's a good song.
• 34:59
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think it's a good song. I wish we
• 35:01
  Speaker 2: were playing it, kind of wish we were playing it.
• 35:03
  Speaker 2: I kind of wish we could. We are going to well,
• 35:05
  Speaker 2: I kind of like.
• 35:06
  Speaker 1: To hear it right now.
• 35:07
  Speaker 2: Well you can go YouTube it. Well, okay, all right,
• 35:11
  Speaker 2: So moving on from twenty four to twenty three. You
• 35:14
  Speaker 2: want to take this one too, or you want me
• 35:16
  Speaker 2: to do it?
• 35:16
  Speaker 3: No?
• 35:16
  Speaker 1: No, I got it. Twenty three saving Oh My Love
• 35:19
  Speaker 1: for you, Whitney Houston. Yes, We've talked about this song
• 35:25
  Speaker 1: numerous times. We've talked about Whitney Houston kind of a
• 35:28
  Speaker 1: lot as well. Again, if it were up to me,
• 35:31
  Speaker 1: we would be playing it. It's not up to me.
• 35:35
  Speaker 2: No, this was her first number one, And we've talked
• 35:38
  Speaker 2: about this because I know I've mentioned her being on
• 35:42
  Speaker 2: silver Spoons and singing this song to Dexter.
• 35:44
  Speaker 1: What a great song.
• 35:46
  Speaker 2: Yes, and Dexter was all hot and bothered by her.
• 35:49
  Speaker 2: Well I was too. I don't blame it, but she
• 35:51
  Speaker 2: wasn't ready to settle down.
• 35:52
  Speaker 1: No, she was not.
• 35:53
  Speaker 2: She was, you know, on the road, so Dexter couldn't
• 35:56
  Speaker 2: have her, and she wasn't only saving all her love
• 36:00
  Speaker 2: or Dexter. Let's just put it that way, all right.
• 36:05
  Speaker 2: Number twenty two. I think maybe we should let somebody
• 36:08
  Speaker 2: else introduce you think, Yes.
• 36:10
  Speaker 5: These.
• 36:14
  Speaker 4: American Americans. These are America's hottest hits. And here's the
• 36:20
  Speaker 4: week's highest debuting song.
• 36:22
  Speaker 3: It's by the superstar who was born in Saginaw.
• 36:24
  Speaker 4: Is Shegain and grew up in the Troy?
• 36:26
  Speaker 3: You know, I'm talking about Stevie Wonder with part time
• 36:29
  Speaker 3: bomber sang.
• 36:31
  Speaker 2: Up to let me know you made it from don't
• 36:35
  Speaker 2: number to be wrong with bod dime lovel.
• 36:40
  Speaker 1: If he's with me, nothing the light to let you know,
• 36:45
  Speaker 1: not the light from me, you my body. Dime Lover
• 37:01
  Speaker 1: number twenty two, part time lover. That's Stevie Wonder and
• 37:04
  Speaker 1: he's not little anymore.
• 37:06
  Speaker 2: He's not little Stevie Wonder anymore.
• 37:07
  Speaker 4: No.
• 37:08
  Speaker 1: It entered the top forty in September of eighty five,
• 37:11
  Speaker 1: and it was on the chart for fourteen weeks, where
• 37:13
  Speaker 1: it peaked at number one. It was also number one
• 37:18
  Speaker 1: on the Adult Contemporary chart for three weeks and the
• 37:21
  Speaker 1: R and B chart for six weeks. This was Stevie's
• 37:27
  Speaker 1: forty second top forty hits.
• 37:30
  Speaker 2: It's kind of amazing, endit forty one? Wow? So what
• 37:34
  Speaker 2: do you think about this one?
• 37:35
  Speaker 1: So you know how they have like Michael Jackson is
• 37:39
  Speaker 1: the King King of Pop and somebody is.
• 37:43
  Speaker 2: The Aretha's the Queen of Sault.
• 37:45
  Speaker 1: Yes, I think Stevie deserves one of those titles as well.
• 37:49
  Speaker 1: Yes he doesn't deserve to take a title away from anyone.
• 37:53
  Speaker 1: But what title could we give Stevie?
• 37:56
  Speaker 2: We could make him the king of R and B.
• 38:00
  Speaker 2: We make him the Duke of blindness.
• 38:04
  Speaker 4: Stop it.
• 38:07
  Speaker 1: But you know what that Speaking of that, you know what,
• 38:11
  Speaker 1: I'm reminded of when we watched the documentary of the
• 38:16
  Speaker 1: making of We Are the World and how Stevie Wonder
• 38:20
  Speaker 1: showed up that night not knowing he was there to
• 38:23
  Speaker 1: record the song. He thought he was there to write
• 38:26
  Speaker 1: the song, but he just rolled with it.
• 38:28
  Speaker 2: He did. You know? They Michael and Lionel, who were
• 38:31
  Speaker 2: fantastic in their own right right, really wanted Stevie because
• 38:34
  Speaker 2: he's an excellent songwriter, an excellent musician, and that song
• 38:38
  Speaker 2: to be part Time Lover is so much fun. I
• 38:40
  Speaker 2: know you love I just called to say I love you.
• 38:43
  Speaker 2: I'm not a big fan of that song. Part Time
• 38:46
  Speaker 2: Lover is a fun kind of gets you up in
• 38:51
  Speaker 2: graven song. Yeah, and so I was not going to
• 38:56
  Speaker 2: feature this song actually, and then I listened to it
• 38:58
  Speaker 2: and I was like, holy, I didn't remember how good
• 39:02
  Speaker 2: this song really was. So guess what got featured?
• 39:07
  Speaker 1: You know what he is?
• 39:08
  Speaker 2: What is he?
• 39:09
  Speaker 1: The King of smooth?
• 39:10
  Speaker 2: The King of smooth? Wouldn't that be Michael McDonald?
• 39:15
  Speaker 1: No, No, nobody likes Michael McDonald's.
• 39:19
  Speaker 2: Everybody likes Michael McDonald.
• 39:21
  Speaker 1: I don't.
• 39:23
  Speaker 2: Oh my goodness, Okay, well, uh, you know what after
• 39:27
  Speaker 2: twenty two? What comes after twenty two? Twenty one?
• 39:30
  Speaker 1: That's what they say.
• 39:31
  Speaker 2: Let's let WWY one play.
• 39:33
  Speaker 3: There are sixteen songs by groups and I survey this week,
• 39:36
  Speaker 3: and here's one of them, a recent number one at
• 39:39
  Speaker 3: number twenty two.
• 39:40
  Speaker 4: Here's Tears for Fears.
• 40:09
  Speaker 2: So Casey said that was twenty two is actually twenty one.
• 40:12
  Speaker 2: But that is Oh what shout by Tears for Fears?
• 40:15
  Speaker 1: You feeling okay?
• 40:17
  Speaker 2: I think, well, I think he's feeling dead, but he
• 40:21
  Speaker 2: was feeling okay back then.
• 40:23
  Speaker 1: Oh okay.
• 40:24
  Speaker 2: If you want to blame somebody for the air blame me.
• 40:27
  Speaker 2: But that shout for by Tears for Fears. And this
• 40:31
  Speaker 2: song entered the top forty in June of eighty five,
• 40:33
  Speaker 2: and it was number one for three weeks, which is
• 40:36
  Speaker 2: crazy to me that it was one more week than
• 40:38
  Speaker 2: Everybody Wants to Rule the World, which was their first
• 40:41
  Speaker 2: single and also hit number one. This song also hit
• 40:46
  Speaker 2: number one on the sales and airplay charts. So what
• 40:48
  Speaker 2: are your thoughts on shouts?
• 40:50
  Speaker 1: Okay? So I may be wrong on the song. I
• 40:53
  Speaker 1: don't think I am, but Emmy and I were in
• 40:55
  Speaker 1: the car sometime in the last couple of days and
• 40:58
  Speaker 1: this song came on and she was like all his
• 41:02
  Speaker 1: songs fired and turned it up.
• 41:06
  Speaker 2: Shout by Tears for Fears as fire. I'm the mind
• 41:08
  Speaker 2: of a twelve year old in twenty twenty five.
• 41:10
  Speaker 1: It may have been Everybody Wants to Rule the World,
• 41:12
  Speaker 1: but it was like it was a song that just
• 41:15
  Speaker 1: made me go, I don't what is your definition of fire?
• 41:20
  Speaker 2: I mean, I don't think you would have been willing
• 41:22
  Speaker 2: to change Everybody wants to rule the world.
• 41:25
  Speaker 1: Yeah, I don't know, I don't know, but yeah, I'm like, Okay,
• 41:30
  Speaker 1: the kid's got her own taste. I love it.
• 41:32
  Speaker 2: That's my girl, that's my girls shout Tears for Fears.
• 41:35
  Speaker 2: So this was the one that I could have swore
• 41:37
  Speaker 2: was before Everybody Wants to Rule the World, but it wasn't.
• 41:40
  Speaker 2: This was their second single and their second number one,
• 41:43
  Speaker 2: kind of like wham right, two singles in a row.
• 41:46
  Speaker 2: Two number one is in a row, so pretty impressive.
• 41:49
  Speaker 2: We may be hearing again from Tears for Fears on
• 41:52
  Speaker 2: this countdown. Okay, well all right, so why don't you
• 41:55
  Speaker 2: take on number twenty? Here?
• 42:00
  Speaker 1: Number twenty, This is ironic. We are the World, which
• 42:04
  Speaker 1: is by USA for Africa. Right, So obviously we talked
• 42:09
  Speaker 1: about this on a previous episode where we covered the documentary,
• 42:13
  Speaker 1: and if you haven't listened to that episode, go back
• 42:16
  Speaker 1: and listen. And if you haven't watched the documentary, check
• 42:20
  Speaker 1: it out. I believe it was on Netflix.
• 42:22
  Speaker 2: That was fascinating.
• 42:23
  Speaker 1: It was really cool.
• 42:25
  Speaker 2: And you will also understand now why dan Aykroyd was
• 42:28
  Speaker 2: in the choir. Yes, if you watch that, if you
• 42:31
  Speaker 2: watch that documentary. So all right, Number nineteen, making his
• 42:36
  Speaker 2: second appearance on this year end countdown is our buddy
• 42:39
  Speaker 2: Glenn Fry with the heat is.
• 42:41
  Speaker 1: On two ends two wise, Glenn Fry.
• 42:44
  Speaker 2: There you go. We've talked about this one numerous times
• 42:48
  Speaker 2: as well. Another song from Beverly Hills cop yep, and
• 42:53
  Speaker 2: this is mister Glen Fry. I loved him. So that's
• 42:57
  Speaker 2: really all I got to say. Since we've talked about
• 42:58
  Speaker 2: him so much, and we've talked about song somewhich, there
• 43:00
  Speaker 2: isn't a whole lot more to say, but uh, props
• 43:03
  Speaker 2: to him for having two songs in nineteen eighty five.
• 43:06
  Speaker 2: Go ahead and take number eighteen. I know this is
• 43:08
  Speaker 2: your favorite.
• 43:08
  Speaker 1: I was gonna say, really, you give me this.
• 43:11
  Speaker 2: Song, I'll take eighteen and you take seventeen. Then, since
• 43:13
  Speaker 2: you seem to like that one, eighteen is same almost
• 43:16
  Speaker 2: fire Parenthetical's man in Motion by John Parr. We talked
• 43:21
  Speaker 2: about this one on our feel Good Song and this
• 43:23
  Speaker 2: song also hit number one a couple of weeks.
• 43:26
  Speaker 1: I don't understand why anybody would call this a.
• 43:29
  Speaker 2: Feel good song because it's makes you feel good. They
• 43:33
  Speaker 2: don't make me feel good. This song is fire. Literally,
• 43:36
  Speaker 2: it's Saint Elmo's fire. If you say so, I could
• 43:41
  Speaker 2: be a man in motion. So need a pair of wheels?
• 43:44
  Speaker 1: Number seventeen. You like how I'm just keep it, keep
• 43:48
  Speaker 1: it like I'm out of here.
• 43:50
  Speaker 7: Uh cherish by Cool in the game right, We talked
• 43:53
  Speaker 7: about this one not too longly though, right when we
• 43:55
  Speaker 7: played the game a number one hits or not, it
• 43:57
  Speaker 7: was not.
• 43:58
  Speaker 1: It was not. Yes, it was number two for three weeks.
• 44:02
  Speaker 2: It was held off by some pretty strong songs there,
• 44:05
  Speaker 2: so that is why it never hit number one.
• 44:08
  Speaker 1: Let me do the next one too, because I love
• 44:09
  Speaker 1: this next one? Uh huh, number sixteen, don't you parentheticals.
• 44:15
  Speaker 1: I learned a new word today Forget about Me by
• 44:19
  Speaker 1: Simple Minds.
• 44:19
  Speaker 2: Yes, this was on your feel good.
• 44:22
  Speaker 1: Yes, now this I can agree with.
• 44:25
  Speaker 2: So is this song on the soundtrack of the Eighties? Absolutely,
• 44:28
  Speaker 2: I would agree with that as well. Another song that's
• 44:32
  Speaker 2: going to be on the soundtrack of the Eighties is
• 44:35
  Speaker 2: number fifteen.
• 44:38
  Speaker 4: I have the Power of Look Huey Lewish and the
• 44:40
  Speaker 4: News the Curious Thing, one.
• 44:49
  Speaker 5: Thing, do it away.
• 45:05
  Speaker 2: So mister Caseum introduced us to the power of Love
• 45:08
  Speaker 2: by Huey Lewis and the News, and this song was
• 45:12
  Speaker 2: their first number one hit, and it was number one
• 45:15
  Speaker 2: for two weeks, and it also hit number one on
• 45:17
  Speaker 2: the sales, airplay and Modern rock charts. I don't think
• 45:21
  Speaker 2: we featured this one before, have we No?
• 45:23
  Speaker 1: But we should have. Shame on us.
• 45:26
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think we're probably saving it for a soundtrack
• 45:28
  Speaker 2: episode because this one would also be on the soundtrack
• 45:30
  Speaker 2: of the Eighties.
• 45:31
  Speaker 1: Love Me Some Huey Lewis and the News and love
• 45:35
  Speaker 1: Me Some Back to the Future. So put the two together.
• 45:37
  Speaker 1: You've got the power of love and it don't get
• 45:39
  Speaker 1: no better than this.
• 45:40
  Speaker 2: The power of time travel. Yeah, that's right, awesome, all right?
• 45:44
  Speaker 1: Number fourteen.
• 45:48
  Speaker 2: We built this city by starship. So we talked about
• 45:52
  Speaker 2: this one on our second episode.
• 45:54
  Speaker 1: Ever, why did somebody play this song on the concin No?
• 45:58
  Speaker 2: But this was like on our most eighties sounding songs.
• 46:06
  Speaker 2: This song was number one for two weeks, and it
• 46:08
  Speaker 2: entered the charts in September of eighty five. I feel
• 46:11
  Speaker 2: like if it entered earlier, it may have done a
• 46:14
  Speaker 2: little bit better, but number fourteen is still pretty good. And yeah,
• 46:17
  Speaker 2: you've just kind of got everything in this song. You've
• 46:19
  Speaker 2: got the guitar, you've got the keyboards or the synthesizers,
• 46:23
  Speaker 2: you've got the radio DJ talking about the traffic in
• 46:27
  Speaker 2: San Francisco. It's just yes, oos is eighty Are you
• 46:30
  Speaker 2: a fan of this song? I love this song. So
• 46:33
  Speaker 2: this was actually the first hit that they had as
• 46:35
  Speaker 2: just Starship. Prior to that they were Jefferson Starship they
• 46:38
  Speaker 2: had some hits, and prior to that they were Jefferson Airplane,
• 46:41
  Speaker 2: where they had some hits. So Jefferson Airplane was kind
• 46:45
  Speaker 2: of the psychedelic music of the latest sixties and early seventies,
• 46:48
  Speaker 2: and then they go to this, which sounds nothing psychedelical.
• 46:52
  Speaker 1: I mean, it's like not even the same group, right,
• 46:56
  Speaker 1: It's crazy.
• 46:57
  Speaker 2: It really is, all right, So why don't you give
• 46:59
  Speaker 2: us number thirteen?
• 47:00
  Speaker 1: Can't find this feeling? Areo Speedwagon?
• 47:04
  Speaker 2: You talk about this on our Valentine's Day Up is it?
• 47:07
  Speaker 4: Maybe?
• 47:07
  Speaker 1: I know we've talked about it. Yeah, it's number one song. Yeah,
• 47:12
  Speaker 1: what else is there to say? Entered the charts in
• 47:14
  Speaker 1: January of eighty five.
• 47:16
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so this is one of those ones. By the
• 47:17
  Speaker 2: time Casey did this countdown, probably didn't forget about the song,
• 47:21
  Speaker 2: but maybe you forgot that it was in eighty five. Yeah, right,
• 47:24
  Speaker 2: and he's playing it here and it's number thirteen, the
• 47:26
  Speaker 2: thirteenth biggest song in the land, all right, number twelve.
• 47:32
  Speaker 2: We've talked about this one also on our Phil Collins
• 47:34
  Speaker 2: versus Jennis episode. This is Easy Lover by Philip Bailey
• 47:40
  Speaker 2: and Phil Collins. We've talked a lot about lovers. We
• 47:43
  Speaker 2: have lover boy, lover girl, easy lover man. I just
• 47:48
  Speaker 2: want the lovers to go away. That's a good segue
• 47:53
  Speaker 2: into our number eleven.
• 47:54
  Speaker 1: Song, number eleven, Every Time You Go Away, Paul Young,
• 47:59
  Speaker 1: oh man, this is a good one.
• 48:01
  Speaker 2: This is a good one. I'm pretty sure we've talked
• 48:03
  Speaker 2: about this one too, though we sure have. Give them
• 48:05
  Speaker 2: some of the stats.
• 48:06
  Speaker 3: Then.
• 48:06
  Speaker 1: So it entered the top forty in June of eighty five.
• 48:12
  Speaker 1: It was number one on the Hot one hundred sales,
• 48:14
  Speaker 1: airplay and AC charts, And okay, I got a little
• 48:19
  Speaker 1: like did you know?
• 48:21
  Speaker 2: Oh? I like, did you know's?
• 48:23
  Speaker 1: Did you know that? This song was first recorded by
• 48:26
  Speaker 1: Hall and Oates in nineteen eighty.
• 48:28
  Speaker 2: I actually did know that, because unlike you, I am
• 48:31
  Speaker 2: a fan of Haul of Oaks.
• 48:34
  Speaker 1: Ye, well, I did not know that.
• 48:36
  Speaker 2: I don't think I probably would have remembered that if
• 48:39
  Speaker 2: you hadn't brought it up here.
• 48:41
  Speaker 1: But yeah, so I was listening to the radio over
• 48:45
  Speaker 1: the weekend and hear did DJ say that. When he
• 48:48
  Speaker 1: was a little kid, he would hear the DJ say
• 48:51
  Speaker 1: on the radio that was Hall and Oates. He thought
• 48:54
  Speaker 1: it was haulland Oats.
• 48:56
  Speaker 2: Right, yes, like you like somebody was somebody was hauling
• 48:59
  Speaker 2: like oat meal, Yes, but the oats.
• 49:01
  Speaker 1: That's funny to me.
• 49:02
  Speaker 2: My buddy Bob always says that Haul and Oats so
• 49:06
  Speaker 2: kind of corny. But hey, we're dad jokes now.
• 49:09
  Speaker 1: Yes, that's where we're out in life.
• 49:11
  Speaker 2: All right. Now we have reached our top ten. You
• 49:17
  Speaker 2: take ten, I'll take nine.
• 49:19
  Speaker 1: Okay, number ten, take on me by Aha. We talked
• 49:24
  Speaker 1: about this song a ton it deserves to be talked
• 49:27
  Speaker 1: about a ton if you're going to do a podcast
• 49:30
  Speaker 1: on the nineteen eighties.
• 49:32
  Speaker 2: So yeah, I think it's on the soundtrack of the
• 49:34
  Speaker 2: eighties for sure. That's why I said nineteen eighty five
• 49:37
  Speaker 2: has like the most eighties sounding songs, right, Take On
• 49:40
  Speaker 2: Me and We Built This City and all these other ones, Oh, Sheila,
• 49:45
  Speaker 2: they're just they just sound like the nineteen eighties, all right,
• 49:50
  Speaker 2: So let's feature number nine because we've never featured this
• 49:52
  Speaker 2: one before it we have not. We have featured Take
• 49:56
  Speaker 2: on Me by Aha, but we haven't featured number nine.
• 50:25
  Speaker 5: I'm crazy, You.
• 50:31
  Speaker 2: Crazy, So if you're from outer space or another planet,
• 50:37
  Speaker 2: that's crazy for you by Madonna. And that song entered
• 50:40
  Speaker 2: the top forty in March of eighty five. It hit
• 50:44
  Speaker 2: number one, of course it did. So this song is
• 50:49
  Speaker 2: actually featured on the soundtrack of the movie Vision Quest,
• 50:53
  Speaker 2: which I had to watch for a tournament of eighties movies,
• 51:00
  Speaker 2: eighties sports movies on the Dave and Rob Show, totally
• 51:03
  Speaker 2: eighties and nineties recall. And you thought that movie was horrible,
• 51:06
  Speaker 2: it was, And then I agree with you.
• 51:10
  Speaker 1: So I'm not a huge Madonna fan, but this is
• 51:12
  Speaker 1: to me one of her softer songs, and I really
• 51:15
  Speaker 1: like it.
• 51:15
  Speaker 2: Yeah, this is probably my favorite Madonna song. This Are
• 51:18
  Speaker 2: Like a Prayer. I would say Like a Prayer is
• 51:20
  Speaker 2: probably her best song. But this may be my favorite
• 51:23
  Speaker 2: song by her. Yep, big fan of that. All right,
• 51:26
  Speaker 2: go ahead and introduce us to number eight.
• 51:29
  Speaker 1: Number eight Money for Nothing, Dire Straits. We've talked about
• 51:34
  Speaker 1: this one pretty sure. It's a number one hit. Great song.
• 51:38
  Speaker 2: Yeah, it is a great song, great guitar intro. Just
• 51:40
  Speaker 2: one of the songs of the eighties for sure. Number
• 51:43
  Speaker 2: seven also one of the songs of the eighties, maybe
• 51:48
  Speaker 2: the song of the eighties. Certainly on the soundtrack of
• 51:51
  Speaker 2: the Eighties. Our second entry by Tears for Fears, this
• 51:54
  Speaker 2: is Everybody Wants to Rule the World at number seven.
• 51:57
  Speaker 2: We talked about this woe when we did our Guardians
• 51:59
  Speaker 2: of the Jupebox episode, probably along with a lot of
• 52:03
  Speaker 2: other things. This song was only number one for only
• 52:05
  Speaker 2: two weeks, which was one less week than Shout, but
• 52:08
  Speaker 2: it stayed on the charts longer and so therefore it
• 52:11
  Speaker 2: finishes higher. Would you put this in the conversation for
• 52:16
  Speaker 2: song of the eighties? Yes, because to me this probably
• 52:18
  Speaker 2: is the song of the eighties is either this or Africa.
• 52:22
  Speaker 2: Maybe don't You Want Me? By the Human League? Maybe
• 52:27
  Speaker 2: we built this city. But I just tend to always
• 52:30
  Speaker 2: fall back on this.
• 52:31
  Speaker 1: It's right up there.
• 52:32
  Speaker 2: Yeah, so it's certainly in the conversation, all right, number
• 52:36
  Speaker 2: six something a.
• 53:09
  Speaker 1: Number six out of touch by all the notes.
• 53:13
  Speaker 2: That's what they say about you when you say they
• 53:15
  Speaker 2: don't like their music, they say you're out of duch uh.
• 53:17
  Speaker 1: Yeah, well, I know right. It was number one for
• 53:20
  Speaker 1: two weeks. This was their twenty first top forty hit.
• 53:25
  Speaker 1: It was as if they were popular or something.
• 53:27
  Speaker 2: Yeah, and you consider it in nineteen eighty five, they'd
• 53:29
  Speaker 2: only been around for about eight nine, ten years, and
• 53:31
  Speaker 2: they were already at twenty one top forty hits. It's
• 53:33
  Speaker 2: pretty good.
• 53:35
  Speaker 1: So it actually hit the top forty in October of
• 53:37
  Speaker 1: eighty four. Had it have hit later, it might would
• 53:41
  Speaker 1: have been a top three.
• 53:43
  Speaker 2: I would think it would have been probably top three songs,
• 53:45
  Speaker 2: don't you because October sucked up some of their stats.
• 53:49
  Speaker 2: But yeah, fun song, you know, not one of my
• 53:54
  Speaker 2: I don't want to say it's not one of my favorites,
• 53:56
  Speaker 2: but I probably put it around eight nine or ten
• 53:58
  Speaker 2: for favorite hauling songs for me, but you know, Private
• 54:02
  Speaker 2: Eyes and man Eater and that stuff, to me is
• 54:05
  Speaker 2: a little bit more fun. But this one's okay. All right,
• 54:08
  Speaker 2: you're ready for number five, Let's do it.
• 54:13
  Speaker 6: Chuck chuck chuck chuck chuck of con chuck a con
• 54:16
  Speaker 6: chuck a con chuck a con chock conock con.
• 54:37
  Speaker 2: The number five song of the Year for nineteen eighty
• 54:40
  Speaker 2: five was I Feel for You by Chock Cohn Chuck
• 54:43
  Speaker 2: con chuck con chuck chuck. I can't do it. So
• 54:48
  Speaker 2: this song hit number one. Obviously it's a number five
• 54:51
  Speaker 2: song of the year. What are your thoughts on this song?
• 54:55
  Speaker 1: I actually like it. I feel like that's gonna surprise you.
• 54:59
  Speaker 2: It does little bit.
• 55:02
  Speaker 4: I don't know.
• 55:02
  Speaker 1: It's a fun song. I think. Didn't Shaka Khan do
• 55:06
  Speaker 1: a duet with somebody in the eighties.
• 55:13
  Speaker 5: Didn't she?
• 55:14
  Speaker 2: I think you should probably look that up, because I
• 55:16
  Speaker 2: feel like she did.
• 55:18
  Speaker 1: She did a duet with Steve Winwood. She dine on
• 55:22
  Speaker 1: Higher Love.
• 55:23
  Speaker 2: Really she sang the background on Higher Love or it
• 55:28
  Speaker 2: was a duet, because I don't remember High Her Love
• 55:31
  Speaker 2: being a duet co lead vocals, Oh wow, they gave
• 55:34
  Speaker 2: her co lead vocals credit hunt. Well, I did not
• 55:39
  Speaker 2: know that. Do you know that she is known? You're
• 55:41
  Speaker 2: talking about names. She is known as the Queen of Funk?
• 55:46
  Speaker 1: So could Stevie be the King of Funk? Now I've
• 55:50
  Speaker 1: given that, I give him the King of Funk?
• 55:53
  Speaker 2: Yes, so she was in the funk band Rufus, which
• 55:56
  Speaker 2: wait what Rufus? Tell me something good?
• 56:00
  Speaker 1: Oh so?
• 56:03
  Speaker 2: Yeah, Shaka Khan a lot of fun. I like this song.
• 56:08
  Speaker 2: I don't think it's worthy of number five of the year.
• 56:11
  Speaker 2: I think maybe it's a top twenty, maybe maybe top
• 56:14
  Speaker 2: twenty five. I don't think it's number five, but hey,
• 56:17
  Speaker 2: you know, the fans spoke, and the radio spoke in
• 56:20
  Speaker 2: the airplace spoken. It ended up at number five.
• 56:24
  Speaker 1: Yeah. I don't get it, but it's not for me
• 56:29
  Speaker 1: to get I guess.
• 56:30
  Speaker 2: I guess it's not. All right, Let's move on to
• 56:33
  Speaker 2: our number.
• 56:33
  Speaker 1: Four, Number four. I want to know what love is
• 56:39
  Speaker 1: by Foreigner, And I've said this a million times. The
• 56:41
  Speaker 1: little lens won't know what love is, right? She just
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  Speaker 1: sings that with so much conviction.
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  Speaker 2: Would she sing it with the power of lou Graham?
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  Speaker 4: Yes?
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  Speaker 1: Uh so, I'm pretty sure we've talked about this numerous times.
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  Speaker 1: It's a number one song, and it's what I like
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  Speaker 1: to refer to as a grocery store song.
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  Speaker 2: I know you do.
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  Speaker 7: That's gonna be frustrated for Foreigners. It's one of the
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  Speaker 7: better grocery stores.
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  Speaker 2: And that's like saying, oh, that kid's the skinniest fat
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  Speaker 2: kid in the candy store.
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  Speaker 1: Oh goodness.
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  Speaker 2: But yeah, I mean that song was huge. Love this song, Foreigner.
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  Speaker 2: It was their big ballad that hit number one. Yep,
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  Speaker 2: not much more to say about that since we've talked
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  Speaker 2: about it so much. Number three we've also talked about.
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  Speaker 2: But making its second appearance in this top forty countdown
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  Speaker 2: for the year in nineteen eighty five is the group
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  Speaker 2: Wham Wham Wake Me Up before You Go Go. I
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  Speaker 2: know we've talked about this one before. This song could
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  Speaker 2: also be up for Song of the eighties if you
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  Speaker 2: asked me. And this was their first single and first
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  Speaker 2: number one hit and actually was released in nineteen eighty four,
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  Speaker 2: but then went on into the new year and was
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  Speaker 2: so big ended the number three song in nineteen eighty five.
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  Speaker 1: Now, why couldn't this be the song of the eighties.
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  Speaker 2: It could be. That's why I said this could be
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  Speaker 2: up for the song of the eighties this everybody wants
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  Speaker 2: to rule the world. Uh Africa, What wake me up
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  Speaker 2: before you go?
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  Speaker 5: Go?
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  Speaker 2: Mm hmm.
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  Speaker 1: Go go?
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  Speaker 2: Did he just stumble? No, it just goes better than
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  Speaker 2: wake me up before.
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  Speaker 1: You go, before you go.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, that doesn't go wake me up before you go go. Also,
• 58:26
  Speaker 2: it allowed Chandler to use that as a funny line
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  Speaker 2: when Ross put in an ear ring and Chandler said,
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  Speaker 2: just make sure you wake me up before you go go.
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  Speaker 2: All right, Uh, let's move on. We've only got two
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  Speaker 2: songs left for nineteen eighty five. What's the number two
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  Speaker 2: song of the year for nineteen eighty five?
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  Speaker 1: Like a Virgin Madonna? Right, we've talked about this ond
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  Speaker 1: It was probably very what's the word in the eighties,
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  Speaker 1: It was very polarizing.
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  Speaker 2: Polarizing. Yes, that's a good word for it.
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  Speaker 1: You know, it is what it is.
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  Speaker 2: I know you're not a huge Madonna face.
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  Speaker 1: I don't have anything nice to say, you know what.
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  Speaker 1: Just picture little Lens, five six year old little Lens
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  Speaker 1: clogging to like a Virgin.
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  Speaker 2: I forgot to clog to Madonna. Oh my goodness. All right,
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  Speaker 2: that gets us up to our number one song. And
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  Speaker 2: it's only justice if the man himself talks about this
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  Speaker 2: song before we play it.
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  Speaker 3: Well, now we're up to the new number one song
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  Speaker 3: in the USA. It's by a star. With some proven
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  Speaker 3: advice for aspiring songwriters, never throw a song away. He
• 59:40
  Speaker 3: saved a song he wrote with a friend in high school,
• 59:43
  Speaker 3: and four years later that song hit number one. He
• 59:46
  Speaker 3: told us we wrote it when we were both about seventeen.
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  Speaker 3: We were just writing anything we thought was good, with
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  Speaker 3: no particular direction, no idea there was going to be
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  Speaker 3: a record contract at the end of it. I just
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  Speaker 3: changed one line when I recorded it. Other than that,
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  Speaker 3: I left it as it was because it still stands up,
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  Speaker 3: even if it does sound a little immature in some ways.
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  Speaker 4: End of quote from George Michael.
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  Speaker 3: That song that he co wrote with his former partner
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  Speaker 3: Andrew Ridgeley when they were seventeen not only went on
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  Speaker 3: to hit number one, it became the number one song
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  Speaker 3: of nineteen eighty five.
• 1:00:18
  Speaker 1: It's good dance again, Guilty God, No one says in
• 1:00:29
  Speaker 1: pretend so wasted chance again? So what have you gonna
• 1:00:41
  Speaker 1: dance again?
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  Speaker 3: Testament?
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  Speaker 2: So as Casey said, this was the number one song
• 1:00:50
  Speaker 2: of nineteen eighty five, That is Careless Whisper by Wham
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  Speaker 2: featuring George Michael, and the reason why it's featuring is
• 1:00:58
  Speaker 2: because he was transitioning into a solo career. This song
• 1:01:02
  Speaker 2: was number one for three weeks on the Hot one
• 1:01:04
  Speaker 2: hundred airplay and sales chart, but it was number one
• 1:01:07
  Speaker 2: on the Adult Contemporary chart for five weeks. It entered
• 1:01:11
  Speaker 2: the charts in December of eighty four and remained on
• 1:01:13
  Speaker 2: the charts for seventeen weeks. It's our third single by
• 1:01:19
  Speaker 2: Wham in this top forty for the year in nineteen
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  Speaker 2: eighty five. I'm gonna say that Wham pretty much owned
• 1:01:26
  Speaker 2: nineteen eighty five. What are your thoughts on Careless Whisper?
• 1:01:30
  Speaker 2: You know, I kind of like it great saxophone.
• 1:01:35
  Speaker 1: It's a has that, I guess because it's got the saxophone.
• 1:01:38
  Speaker 1: It has a little bit of this bluesy sound going on.
• 1:01:41
  Speaker 2: Jazzy. Yeah.
• 1:01:42
  Speaker 1: But you know, I do wonder if George Michael hadn't
• 1:01:47
  Speaker 1: have gone out on his own, what else could we
• 1:01:49
  Speaker 1: have gotten from Wham.
• 1:01:50
  Speaker 2: I think Andrew Riggsley was done.
• 1:01:52
  Speaker 1: I think you think he was done.
• 1:01:53
  Speaker 2: I just wanted to be a rock star and get girls,
• 1:01:55
  Speaker 2: and he accomplished that and he was good with it.
• 1:01:58
  Speaker 2: I don't think it was a ten just break up
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 2: at all.
• 1:02:01
  Speaker 1: He was just ready.
• 1:02:02
  Speaker 2: Yeah, I think he was just ready, and George Michael
• 1:02:04
  Speaker 2: was ready to become, you know, a super duper megastar.
• 1:02:07
  Speaker 2: So I like this song too, But honestly, out of
• 1:02:11
  Speaker 2: the three Wham songs on this countdown, it's my third favorite.
• 1:02:14
  Speaker 1: Oh wow.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I would go with uh, wake Me Up before
• 1:02:17
  Speaker 2: you Go Go and Everything she Wants Before I went
• 1:02:19
  Speaker 2: with Careless Whisper. Okay, but that's not to besmirch Careless Whisper.
• 1:02:25
  Speaker 1: Whoa king.
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  Speaker 2: Yeah, I'm not besmirching Careless Whisper at all. I like it.
• 1:02:30
  Speaker 2: It's just I would choose the other two over it,
• 1:02:33
  Speaker 2: all right. So that concludes our countdown for the Top
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  Speaker 2: forty songs of nineteen eighty five year in chart, as
• 1:02:44
  Speaker 2: given to us by the Great Casey Caseum on American
• 1:02:47
  Speaker 2: Top forty, one of our favorite shows as a kid.
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  Speaker 2: So I want to know what did you think about
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  Speaker 2: the list?
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  Speaker 1: I think there were some definite misses on there. Oh,
• 1:02:57
  Speaker 1: there were some hits that should have I've made it
• 1:03:01
  Speaker 1: closer to the top, and there were some definite misses.
• 1:03:05
  Speaker 2: I think it's an eclectic group of songs here.
• 1:03:07
  Speaker 1: You know, it feels a little like maybe nineteen eighty
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  Speaker 1: five had stopped taking its prozac.
• 1:03:14
  Speaker 2: Oh so depressed, erratic, erratic? Okay, okay. So I want
• 1:03:23
  Speaker 2: to know from the audience, did America get it right
• 1:03:25
  Speaker 2: in nineteen eighty five? Was Careless Whisper the best song?
• 1:03:28
  Speaker 2: I say it wasn't even the best Wham song?
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 1: No it was.
• 1:03:31
  Speaker 2: But I want to know what the folks say. What
• 1:03:34
  Speaker 2: do you say you look at this list? What's I mean?
• 1:03:36
  Speaker 2: You're going to go with your the inspiration, aren't you?
• 1:03:39
  Speaker 1: I mean, I don't think that you're the inspiration? Was
• 1:03:41
  Speaker 1: the best song on the list? I want to know
• 1:03:43
  Speaker 1: what love is? I think he did pretty good at
• 1:03:46
  Speaker 1: number four, but that's obviously always going to be right
• 1:03:49
  Speaker 1: there for me. Everybody wants to rule the world. Oh
• 1:03:52
  Speaker 1: money for nothing. Let's go a little bit higher up?
• 1:03:56
  Speaker 2: Can you go away? Take on Me?
• 1:03:58
  Speaker 1: Saving All My Love for you? Twenty three? I mean
• 1:04:01
  Speaker 1: to me, that could have been in the top ten.
• 1:04:04
  Speaker 1: Why wasn't that in the top ten?
• 1:04:06
  Speaker 2: I mean, you've got you forget about me? That could
• 1:04:08
  Speaker 2: have been. Maybe that's the song of the eighties. You
• 1:04:10
  Speaker 2: talk about song of the Years that was sixteen. I
• 1:04:13
  Speaker 2: don't think Saving All My Love for You is better
• 1:04:15
  Speaker 2: than that one.
• 1:04:17
  Speaker 1: You know, One More Night thirty three. Gosh, that's a
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 1: good song.
• 1:04:23
  Speaker 2: I'm just saying that nineteen eighty five was kind of loaded. Yeah, yep,
• 1:04:27
  Speaker 2: kind of loaded. I don't know if I've got night
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  Speaker 2: Shift in my top forty though for nineteen eighty five.
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  Speaker 1: Stop and think about this thirty nine as we Belong
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  Speaker 1: pad Benaitar. I know that's what a great song.
• 1:04:38
  Speaker 2: I know, and it's thirty nine. So yeah, this is
• 1:04:41
  Speaker 2: this is a great list. We're gonna put together a
• 1:04:44
  Speaker 2: playlist for you all and it'll be in the show notes.
• 1:04:47
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