“Like No Other Night” was by the southern rock band 38 Special was off their seventh studio album Strength in Numbers which was released in 1986. From what I can tell, it made it to about #14 on the Pop Charts that year. Were you a fan back in the day?
Here’s one you don’t see every day: the original video for the 1972 hit, “Me and Mrs. Jones” by Billy Paul. Okay, so you may here the song (or the many cover versions) but have you ever seen this one with Paul a the piano, singing with a cigarette in his mouth? Does it get any cooler, or any more “I really don’t want to do this video”, than that?…
In my book, this ranks right up their on our “Songs We Love to Hate” List. Most people remember Rupert Holmes from his first Top Ten Hit, “”Escape (the Pina Colada Song”) from 1979. But what they often forget is that he followed it up with another big hit in 1980 called “Him.” It’s a smarmy ode to guys who have cheating girlfriends and think they can correct the situation…
How moved were you by music back in the day? Enough to make your own video of top song, like Kansas’ “Dust in the Wind”? If you were, you were likely the teen who made this 8MM movie, somewhere in rural America. And not just any movie, one that shows a literal translation of the lyrics “all we are is dust in the wind” by having actors simply vanish into…
Wait, what? How did this song make it into the Top 40? Okay, The Carpenters had a string of hits in the 70s, and Karen Carpenter could sing the phone book and it would be outstanding, but why this wild song about contacting aliens for contact? Was it the popularity of Star Wars? Maybe just UFO madness? Quite frankly, Karen looks pretty stoned throughout the music video, so that could explain…
And you thought listening to the song on the radio was bad back in 1975! Just wait until you catch the much, much worse music video. Here’s more on the song from Wikipedia: “Run Joey Run” is a teenage tragedy song performed by soft rock singer David Geddes. It was a US Top 40 hit which peaked at #4 on Billboard’s Hot 100 Chart in the fall of 1975, and…
Here’s the official music video for Meat Loaf’s ‘Paradise By The Dashboard Light’ off his Bat Out of Hell debut album in 1977. The original of this is still the best! Here’s more about the song from Wikipedia: “Paradise by the Dashboard Light” is a song written by Jim Steinman. It was first released in 1977 on the album Bat Out of Hell, with vocals by the American musician Meat…
One of the best known AC/DC songs, “You Shook Me All Night Long” was released in 1980 off their Back in Black album. Here’s more about the song from Wikipedia: “You Shook Me All Night Long” is a song by Australian hard rock band AC/DC, from the album Back in Black. The song also reappeared on their later album Who Made Who. AC/DC’s first single with Brian Johnson as the…
So, lots of people have tried to cover AC/DC’s iconic “Highway to Hell,” but a rock band from the Ukraine with an attractive female lead singer doing the vocals? We found this video while searching for something else and decided it was actually quite good, and with more than a MILLION views, a lot of other people must think so as well. The band is called Sershen & Zaritskaya and…
So, I come across a lot of strange stuff while surfing the Internet. Some good strange and some bad strange. Not sure exactly where this one falls. Obviously the music by The Guess Who is awesome: No Sugar Tonight from 1970, a classic rock song by a great band. The fact that someone took the time to create this music video to the song is great, but the the theme…