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Night Ranger's 'Sister Christian': "It'll Outlive All Of Us" [Highlight From Episode 300] · Booked On Rock with Eric Senich

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  Speaker 1: Here's a highlight from a recent episode of Booked on
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  Speaker 1: Rock sing Me Away the Night Ranger album review. It's
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  Speaker 1: the latest book from our guest Tim Durling. That debut
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  Speaker 1: album sent them up nicely for the follow up. They
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  Speaker 1: had the attention of radio, they had the attention of MTV.
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  Speaker 1: The result the band's best selling album, Midnight Madness October
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  Speaker 1: eighty three, came out over one million copies, sold three singles,
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  Speaker 1: You Can Still Rock in America, Sister Christian and when
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  Speaker 1: You Close your Eyes.
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  Speaker 2: I think some of the songs they were working on
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  Speaker 2: before Dawn Patrol. I've been told that Sister Christian was
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  Speaker 2: actually written for sessions that produced the Dawn Patrol album,
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  Speaker 2: but it was saved for the second album and obviously
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  Speaker 2: was That's a career song for them, right, That's the
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  Speaker 2: song that gave them a name, but actually went all
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  Speaker 2: the way to number one up here in Canada. Night
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  Speaker 2: Ranger were never a band that toured Canada all that much,
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  Speaker 2: but for that particular time, the Midnight Madness album went
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  Speaker 2: gold and they did have a number one song. But yeah,
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  Speaker 2: that was their calling card song to this day. More
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  Speaker 2: it's a unique situation where you have a band, and
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  Speaker 2: where the success of one song sort of outsizes the
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  Speaker 2: success of the entire band. In other words, there's a
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  Speaker 2: lot more people that know Sister Christian than would no, say,
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  Speaker 2: the individual players and night Ranger and maybe even who
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  Speaker 2: does the song. Sure, it's a little bit like you know,
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  Speaker 2: you could say, mister Big is like that, Extreme is
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  Speaker 2: like that. It's not like Journey, where you have a
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  Speaker 2: dozen or so radio staples that you could never beat
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  Speaker 2: label them one hit wonder, it's like, well, which one
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  Speaker 2: are you talking about? Even though night Ranger had six
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  Speaker 2: top forty singles. Sister Christian it's unique, it's got a
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  Speaker 2: unique title, it's got a unique cook everything about it is.
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  Speaker 2: It's not a cookie cutter power ballad by any stretch
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  Speaker 2: of the imagination. And it's remained in the public eye
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  Speaker 2: and it's a song that will outlive all of us. Now.
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  Speaker 2: I happen to think that Night Ranger had in their
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  Speaker 2: arsenal of songs as many radio staples as Journey or Foreigner.
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  Speaker 2: I think that they should have been They did all right,
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  Speaker 2: I think they should have done better. I just think
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  Speaker 2: that they had the capability and not the capability they
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  Speaker 2: did deliver songs that should have been radio staples and
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  Speaker 2: that we should all be sick of hearing. But for
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  Speaker 2: whatever reason, it just didn't. It didn't exactly happen that way.
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  Speaker 2: They sold a lot of albums, but it's always easy
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  Speaker 2: to blame record labels because they're an easy target. But
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  Speaker 2: MCA weren't exactly a hard rock label. Now, maybe they
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  Speaker 2: had a little bit more savvy than say an M.
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  Speaker 2: I always pick on them when I talk about Y
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  Speaker 2: and T not becoming superstars, but I know for a time,
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  Speaker 2: Night Ranger were MTV darlings. So there was probably a
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  Speaker 2: period between like eighty three and eighty six where they
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  Speaker 2: played Night Ranger a ton that helped. You know, they
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  Speaker 2: did well on the road. They became a headline act
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  Speaker 2: during that time, but they never stayed there long enough
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  Speaker 2: to the point where they can go out now and
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  Speaker 2: headline big places. They can go out now and headline
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  Speaker 2: large sized theaters, you know, places like that. They can
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  Speaker 2: do very very well as special guests on a bigger
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  Speaker 2: tour and you and often cases blow the headliners off
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  Speaker 2: the stage. But yeah, they're just one of those bands
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  Speaker 2: that I've always been a huge fan of, and to
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  Speaker 2: my knowledge, there's never been a book on them,