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Coming up, we focus & rank a group of songs that depict a specific year in popular music so remarkably well, they sound exactly like the moment they came out. It’s our latest edition of DATED. Including singer Aimee Mann, who was kidnapped as a child, and after she was rescued, had to learn to speak again from the trauma. Her voice became a beacon to many on one of the most haunting songs of the year, Voices Carry. Plus, Axl F, a track created by highly sought-after composer Giorgio Moroder, that was dangerously close to getting axed by two of the most powerful producers in Hollywood, because he had failed to come up with a theme song for a future movie phenomenon... but a slip of his elbow on the keyboard jump-started a classic. Plus, the Madonna video shoot that almost went haywire as she was nearly attacked by a male lion because it was ‘her time of the month.’ And the 80s band Animotion that was a one-hit wonder twice. Once in 85 and then 3 years later with a whole new band with the same name! let’s do it.
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Kelly Moan, Curtis Stoddard, Paul Duenas, Robert Hickerty, rondell m
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Hey Music junkies, Professor of Rock always here to celebrate the greatest songs and the greatest artists of all time. If you missed out on MTV because you didn’t have cable and had to settle for Friday Night Videos. You’ll dig this channel of deep musical nostalgia. Make sure to subscribe, like, share, and comment. Alright, it’s time for our latest edition of Dated… Songs that aren’t timeless… They’re of their time. Songs that define the year they were released. It’s a celebration of songs that are distinctly of their release year… If you hear these songs, they take you right back to their peak on the charts. They are nostalgic beyond measure.
We’re gonna do something a bit different to kick off our list of Dated Songs from 1985, and focus on a trilogy of hit singles that were a major part of a blockbuster movie.
At #10…It’s a collection of songs from the Beverly Hills Cop Soundtrack- starting with “The Heat is On” by Glenn Frey: The late Glenn Frey was busy doing his solo thing in ’84, about 4 years after the breakup of Eagles. Glenn was given a demo of “The Heat is On” by its collaborators, Harold Faltermeyer and Keith Forsey. He agreed to provide the lead vocal for the track after he saw a private screening of Beverly Hills Cop and thought the film was going to be a huge hit. Frey’s performance was so impressive, the producers decided to place the song in the opening credits and the initial scene for the film. Like the movie, “The Heat is On” was a smash, shooting to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song really nails 1985, not only as a song for that iconic, but also as a touchstone for mid-80s pop culture: It sounds exactly like 1985…
Another smash hit from the Beverly Hills Cop Soundtrack was the prominent placement of “Neutron Dance” by Pointer Sisters:
Ruth Pointer delivered the lead vocal for “Neutron Dance,” but when she was first presented the song, she did NOT want to sing it. Ruth liked the rhythmic arrangement of the track, but to her the word 'neutron' had a violent connotation, because everyone was so afraid of a potential atomic war between the U.S. & the U.S.S.R. Allie Willis, who wrote “Neutron Dance,” told Ruth that she was “overthinking it,” and she should just “sing the damn song.” Ruth complied, and not only was it included in that exciting car chase scene in the movie, it was one of the biggest singles for The Pointer Sisters, rising to #6 on the Billboard Hot 100:
The backstory of how “Axel F” was created by Harold Faltermeyer is the most interesting part of the Beverly Hills Cop motion picture soundtrack: Renowned German composer, producer, and musician, Harold Faltermeyer, was on the verge of getting cut from the Beverly Hills Cop project because he was struggling to find the right sound, and the film’s producers Don Simpson & Jerry Bruckmeir, were losing patience.
They threatened to can him several times, and he was desperately behind the 8 ball, as they say… Alone, late at night, in Giorgio Moroder’s studio in L.A.,
Coming up, we focus & rank a group of songs that depict a specific year in popular music so remarkably well, they sound exactly like the moment they came out. It’s our latest edition of DATED. Including singer Aimee Mann, who was kidnapped as a child, and after she was rescued, had to learn to speak again from the trauma. Her voice became a beacon to many on one of the most haunting songs of the year, Voices Carry. Plus, Axl F, a track created by highly sought-after composer Giorgio Moroder, that was dangerously close to getting axed by two of the most powerful producers in Hollywood, because he had failed to come up with a theme song for a future movie phenomenon... but a slip of his elbow on the keyboard jump-started a classic. Plus, the Madonna video shoot that almost went haywire as she was nearly attacked by a male lion because it was ‘her time of the month.’ And the 80s band Animotion that was a one-hit wonder twice. Once in 85 and then 3 years later with a whole new band with the same name! let’s do it.
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Executive Producer
Brandon Fugal
Honorary Producers
Kelly Moan, Curtis Stoddard, Paul Duenas, Robert Hickerty, rondell m
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Subscribe to the Professor of Rock Podcast
Apple: apple.co/445fVov
Spotify: spoti.fi/42JpfvU
Amazon: amzn.to/44b5D6m
iHeartRadio: bit.ly/444h8MO
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Patreon: bit.ly/ProfessorofRockVIPFan
Merch Store: professor-of-rock-lsn-shop.fourthwall.com
Instagram: bit.ly/Instagram_Professor_of_Rock
#classicrock #80srock #vinylstory #onehitwonder
Hey Music junkies, Professor of Rock always here to celebrate the greatest songs and the greatest artists of all time. If you missed out on MTV because you didn’t have cable and had to settle for Friday Night Videos. You’ll dig this channel of deep musical nostalgia. Make sure to subscribe, like, share, and comment. Alright, it’s time for our latest edition of Dated… Songs that aren’t timeless… They’re of their time. Songs that define the year they were released. It’s a celebration of songs that are distinctly of their release year… If you hear these songs, they take you right back to their peak on the charts. They are nostalgic beyond measure.
We’re gonna do something a bit different to kick off our list of Dated Songs from 1985, and focus on a trilogy of hit singles that were a major part of a blockbuster movie.
At #10…It’s a collection of songs from the Beverly Hills Cop Soundtrack- starting with “The Heat is On” by Glenn Frey: The late Glenn Frey was busy doing his solo thing in ’84, about 4 years after the breakup of Eagles. Glenn was given a demo of “The Heat is On” by its collaborators, Harold Faltermeyer and Keith Forsey. He agreed to provide the lead vocal for the track after he saw a private screening of Beverly Hills Cop and thought the film was going to be a huge hit. Frey’s performance was so impressive, the producers decided to place the song in the opening credits and the initial scene for the film. Like the movie, “The Heat is On” was a smash, shooting to #2 on the Billboard Hot 100. The song really nails 1985, not only as a song for that iconic, but also as a touchstone for mid-80s pop culture: It sounds exactly like 1985…
Another smash hit from the Beverly Hills Cop Soundtrack was the prominent placement of “Neutron Dance” by Pointer Sisters:
Ruth Pointer delivered the lead vocal for “Neutron Dance,” but when she was first presented the song, she did NOT want to sing it. Ruth liked the rhythmic arrangement of the track, but to her the word 'neutron' had a violent connotation, because everyone was so afraid of a potential atomic war between the U.S. & the U.S.S.R. Allie Willis, who wrote “Neutron Dance,” told Ruth that she was “overthinking it,” and she should just “sing the damn song.” Ruth complied, and not only was it included in that exciting car chase scene in the movie, it was one of the biggest singles for The Pointer Sisters, rising to #6 on the Billboard Hot 100:
The backstory of how “Axel F” was created by Harold Faltermeyer is the most interesting part of the Beverly Hills Cop motion picture soundtrack: Renowned German composer, producer, and musician, Harold Faltermeyer, was on the verge of getting cut from the Beverly Hills Cop project because he was struggling to find the right sound, and the film’s producers Don Simpson & Jerry Bruckmeir, were losing patience.
They threatened to can him several times, and he was desperately behind the 8 ball, as they say… Alone, late at night, in Giorgio Moroder’s studio in L.A.,
