Let's Give Huey Lewis The Credit He Deserves | POP FIX | Professor of Rock
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- Опубликовано: 31 июл 2024
- Hey Music Junkies, the Professor of Rock here with your latest Pop Fix. Let's face it, the 80's will always be one of our favorite decades. What was so special about that era though? Maybe because you can't talk about the 80's without mentioning the Styles, Huey Lewis or Back To The Future. These are major pop culture influences whose affects are still felt today! I believe Huey Lewis deserves more recognition for his musicianship, which undoubtedly played a major role in the appeal of the 80's lifestyle.
In this episode we discuss his albums; Do You Believe In Love, Sports, Heart and Soul, The Heart Of Rock & Roll and more. Also enjoy a clip of our sit down interview with Huey Lewis himself. For more Huey Lewis watch our In-Depth Mini-Doc on The Heart Of Rock & Roll at professorofrock.com/the-heart... .
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HLN is my fav band of all time!
I got all their albums know the words to all their songs
Picking 1 fav is hard but id say my top 10 are:
Stuck with You
Heart and Soul
Walking on a Thin Line
Hip to be Square
Let Her Go and Start Over
If This Is It
Forest for the Trees
The Power of Love
The Heart of Rock N Roll
I Want a New Drug
But still that's hard theres some other greats that didn't make hs list that i love..... i never get sick of their music love ever song
J's movies N music for mine “do you believe in love” is number one
Walking on a Thin Line is a great tune. You've got a lot of great ones in that list. I even like "Bad is Bad". Lotta soul in that one.
Heart and Soul is my favorite track. It stays in my head everytime I hear it.
Nice top ten, but there should have been 2 spots for "Do You Believe in Love" and "Bad Is Bad".
Anytime someone says “huh Huey Lewis ? He’s ok but not that great” I give them a link (used to be a CD) of their greatest hits album from about 20 years ago with cruisin on it. Then they become obsessed and spread the news.
Get it.
"Walking on a thin line" was an underrated tune on Sports. Loved it.
Came from the same place of origin as the“Born in the USA” title track.
I love when he says "This one's for the vet's" during the intro.
It sounds like it could be a Men At Work song too.
I grew up in the Eighties and my highschool cover band played Walking on a Thin Line. Always dug that track!
The Who;e side 2 was great. That one and crack me up up I loved
In the summer of '70 or '71, I was hitchhiking on the San Rafael on-ramp to northbound Highway 101 when a guy pulled over and offered me a ride. He was driving a Berkeley Farms Step-Van delivery truck with both sliding side doors open and a dog laying on the floor. I hopped in and told him I was headed to Novato, to which he replied, "Cool," and away we went. As we merged onto 101, he started playing a harmonica, and was really, really good. I mentioned this to him and asked if he was in a band, and he said that he was, and that the band was named Clover. I flipped out, because Clover had played at the last dance of the year at my junior high school, Sinaloa, in Novato, just a month or so prior to this, and they had been phenomenal. I told him that their cover of Junior Walker's "Shotgun" was the best version I'd ever heard and that everybody in attendance that night had been amazed at how great the band was. Got to Novato, hopped out, thanked him and said, "Keep on rockin'!" A few years later, Huey Lewis and The News broke big nationwide, and I remembered him from that day when he gave me lift and about had a heart attack. I was just fourteen years old that summer, so getting a lift from a bona fide Rock Star was a very, very big deal to me. Seems like he's always been a really terrific person, and I've always been happy for him and the success he found in music. Thanks again for the ride, homie! 😎
When I saw Back to the Future in the theatre my dad recognized Huey Lewis’ cameo. I was blown away by the film and asked my dad about Huey Lewis when we got home. He had Sports and we listened to it from beginning to end and loved that as well. He made me a cassette tape copy for me to listen to and he hooked up a microphone and left me a funny message at the end of “If This Is It”. I listened to it so much that to this day I can remember the point at the end of the song where my dads message started.
Huey Lewis taught me that “cool is a rule, but sometimes ‘bad’ is bad”.
And, that it’s hip to be square.
@@Shred_The_Weapon there is no denying that...!
Huey Lewis and the News had one of the best rhythm sections in music. Mario Cipollina and Bill Gibson were rock solid.
...Ray Parker Jr. liked that tight groove so much that he stole it for Ghostbusters. I really miss the classic Huey line-up. Mario, Johnny, Huey, Chris, and Bill.
Robert Fusco Don’t forget about Sean
@@ronzellbj And Sean Hopper. Thanks for reminding me.
FACT!
Kevin - Mario Cipollina and Bill Gibson were more than rock solid; they are human metronomes.
How Huey Lewis became one of my favorite pop-rock artists:
I was watching the Grammy Awards and Huey Lewis was there in the audience. A gospel choir came out for a number and as the camera panned around all the big names at the show, I noticed that most of them sat there with their arms folded looking pretty disinterested. Not Huey Lewis. He was snapping his fingers, tapping his feet, bobbing his head. He was totally grooving with it. Watching it, I realized that Huey loved music in a way that most of those other guys didn't even understand and from that day he became one of my favorite pop-rock artists for the rest of my life.
"Stuck With You' is the most undeniable earworm of the 80s.
My favorite deep cut was the extremely doo wop 'Whole Lotta Lovin' on Fore!
And yeah, Jacob's Ladder and Do You Believe in Love? are simply timeless incredible songs.
My fav is Do You Believe in Love. The keyboards, the harmonies are sublime. Huey always seemed like a good hang, a regular dude who happened to be a musical genius. And The News, the tightest band maybe ever.
I think I agree with you although Workin' for a Livin' is close. Do You Believe in Love was the first HL song I ever heard and I bought the album. Absolutely loved it and my college roommates and I played Buzz, Buzz, Buzz and Workin for a Livin at our parties and everyone else loved them also.
And you know "Do You Believe in Love" is a cover right? Mutt Lange recorded it with his own band previously.
I Agree. Huey Lewis And The News are highly underrated.
“Heart and soul” was my go-to song. It’s the friend-with-benefits song.
Back In Time....the most underrated great tunes of that time!
They deserve to be in the Hall of Fame!
"The Power Of Love", for me, is hands down is not only one of Huey's greatest songs, but one of the best songs of the 80s. But also, so many great memories are attached to it, from watching the movie in the theaters that weekend to the last year of the simple times of my life before I met my first wife and had a son. The song was that gap filler between my late teens and being an adult. And I was only 17 that year. "The Power Of Love" recalls some of the greatest memories of my entire life.
Every time Power of Love comes on I get that fuzz up my spine that makes my head all warm and I think right into Back to the Future. I first saw it on vacation in Cape Cod...tons of memories there with Sports in the background of most of it. Lost my cds of Huey for years of moving , finally bought a bunch off itunes and still love it just as much. I love Huey Lewis and the News and I am one of the biggest metal heads.
Huge Huey Lewis and the news fan! That band was off the chain! Great, terrific live! What killer musicians!
Thanks for giving Huey Lewis and the News recognition. He’s an artist I listen to all the time, and I know so many of his songs by heart. So many of them are my favorites, but I got a list! In no particular order!
1. Walking on a Thin Line
2. He Was the Only One
3. Do You Believe in Love
4. Power of Love
5. Happy to be Stuck With You
6. Jacob’s Ladder
7. (Ain’t no Living In a) Perfect World
8. Back in Time
9. Hip to be Square
10. Couple Days Off
11. It’s Alright
12. I Want a New Drug
13. Buzz Buzz Buzz
I met someone once who didnt like Huey. Never talked to them again.....
"Never talking to you, again, Grandma!!!!". 🖕
And you re likely a better person for it.
But.... Don t write off Grandma just yet.
That person probably likes Disney Star Wars.
thats very close minded of you
@@aaronsibley Whoosh!
Sports is a masterpiece. One of the greatest albums ever created.
As someone from the UK, I wish they'd released it as "Sport" over here, the extra S is still irritating me 30+ years later!
RichardM8422 😆
@@RichardM-kv4uu You mean for 30 years you've been aggravated by operating under the mistaken assumption of what precisely "Sports" refers to? It doesn't so much refer to various sports as it refers to the individual band members being good and easygoing sports (read "guys"). It's a play on words. I mean, jeez, that's a usage of the word that specifically came out of the U.K. if I'm not mistaken. Rest easy now.
@@danielfronc4304 Excellent answer, I withdraw my objection your honour! :-D
@@RichardM-kv4uu Then all is right in the HL&TN world. From one fan to another.
My favorite Huey Lewis song has always been "If This Is It". I can't really put my finger on why, but it's one that I've listened to a thousand times and I always get a smile every time I hear it, even though it's not necessarily a "happy" song. At least Huey does it in a happy kind of way! Thanks for keeping the best music era in history alive, Professor! I love your work!
It's my favorite as well. It's definitely a sad song but with an optimistic tone. Love the guitar work, background vocals, and video!
I loved the way both Huey and Billy Joel brought back the doo-wop songs for radio, from around 1983
It's my favorite too. I was in college and saw the music video everywhere. My girlfriend and I had broken up a few months before and the song, heck the whole album, picked me up.
A skill I needed to have to be a survivor
5/7/23. Every single song Huey and his band does is my favorite. I have been a dedicated fan for years. Awesome to listen to their music. Especially when they get the choir behind them, instrumentals, sax, trumpet, trombone, drums. Absolutely phenomenal. I hope and pray someday soon Huey will be able to tour again with his band. Hope for some kind of healing that can help his hearing. God guide his path to finding more help with modern medicine and Drs to help achieve his passion ...that being music and more! Keep on praying for him...where there's a will, there's a way. I will never give up hope for healing for Huey. God bless him 🙏 ❤️
Huey is also a class act. My best friend Dave and I went to see them at the now-defunct Warwick Musical Theatre in RI back in the early 90's. Huey and all the guys came out and signed autographs afterward (except Chris Hayes who yelled from the tour bus that he didn't want to do "chores."). Huey said "Thanks for coming out, Fellas!" We also had a nice convo with Mario Cipollina who was travelling separately from the band at that time. My friend passed 3 years ago at the age of 46, but such a great memory.
Thank for sharing......RIP your bro.
Lol...
Ah yes the “tent”...
Many a concert and high school graduation in that local legend.
Even my Nana who was straight as an arrow never missed a Liberace concert at the tent.🤣
While most of my concerts were at the Rocky point palladium, the Civic center or the Ppac...
I’ll never forget the tent and it’s MANY great memories.
Well said my friend.💪👍😊
@@BillMcGirr I remember seeing the DiVinyls with my friends at Rocky Point. The lead singer Christina Amphlett, and the guitarist rode the mini-rollercoaster with us after the show and walked around the park with us. Christina has since passed on but that was another great memory. I live in Massachusetts but spent quite a bit of time in RI.
Robert Fusco
Great memory.
Christina was so hot she could melt lava...
They were a cool band... she passed far too young.
I miss Rocky point... it was a fun place.👍
@@BillMcGirr I would love to go back to those days. That DiVinyls show was in the last weeks before the park closed if I remember.
I have been to hundreds of concerts and shows since 1990 and have to say, Huey Lewis is one of the best shows I have ever seen.
Glad this video just popped up in my feed. As a child in the mid-80's, I heard alot of Blue-Eyed Soul from Hall and Oates, Michael McDonald, George Michael, Steve Winwood, Huey Lewis and the news are a large part of that. I remember hearing "The Power of Love" on the radio getting ready for school, but I fell in love with "Stuck With You" after hearing the first five seconds of it. Some other tunes of theirs I loved over the years were:
If This is It
Doing it all for my Baby
Do you Believe in Love
Hip to be Square
And an often-forgotten song also featured in Back to the Future (as Power of Love tends to overshadow it): "Back in Time"
Don’t forget Bruce Hornsby and Huey and he are friends!
Saw them in concert in 1991. Best (and shortest) two hours of my life so far! They’re the BEST!
Huey Lewis & the News are one of the best bands ever. Every time I put them on I end up listening to them for weeks and weeks - its like, why listen to anything else when this is so good?
Walking on a thin line was my favorite song from the sports album!!! I rocked this tune at Daytona Beach spring break 1987 with the windows down in my Pontiac firebird! pioneer super tuner(cassette) up loud!!! Now at this time the song was 4 years old but everyone hearing this tune on that beach would look to see where the music was coming from and then shout out with a fist in the air as I slowly cruise by...it was so cool to see the reaction of people when you would jam certain tunes...Sports is a timeless album..it still gets em...those were the best days of my life.....
Pioneer tape decks and speakers were the tits bro!
"Stuck With You" is a perfect pop song!!!
As A native Clevelander,I must say That Huey Lewis and the News has always been one of my favorites!!!! I grew up watching them on MTV. Do you believe in love is my favorite song by them but they have so many awesome songs that it is almost impossible to pick just one. Much Respect!!!!!
"Heart And Soul" is my Favorite Huey Lewis & The News song. It wasn't until fairly recent that I found out that song was a cover of an Exile song! Yeah, the band that did "Kiss You All Over" & later turned country. Huey Lewis upgraded it, while staying true to the original. They were one of the great bands of the 80's, no doubt!
BTW, I grew up near Cleveland, and they truly are the heart of Rock n' Roll. No other city in the world deserves that title more than Cleveland, the greatest location in the nation! :)
Heart And Soul is one of my 10 favorite songs of all time, by Any musician ....
I cant remember who said it but, you know a great album by never being able to pick a favourite song because it always changes. Thats how I feel with Huey's entire catalogue. Its all great. Not one bad song in there.
My thoughts exactly...................
agreed guys; even the debut album is full of short, catchy tunes
Naturally is my favorite Huey Lewis song I love their acappella stuff
I can’t Imagine you getting through an interview with Huey without the band tower of power coming up. Speaking of unsung heroes...my favorite band and I know a big influence on Huey. They never hit it big but remain one of the most influential bands of the 70s 80s and 90s and still going strong today in 2019.
The lead lines and riffs from both guitarists are phenomenal. Really, really good guitar playing...and catchy too.
“Jacob’s Ladder” has one of the single greatest lyrics ever committed to tape,
“All I want from tomorrow is to get it better than today.”
Huey Lewis is timeless music, love it!
I love Huey Lewis & The News! Huey's soulful voice and the music by the News made the 80's and my childhood fun and exciting. Do You Believe in Love, If This Is It, The Power of Love, Stuck With You, Jacob's Ladder, Hip To Be Square, The Heart of Rock 'N Roll, Heart and Soul, I Want a New Drug, Back in Time, Walking on a Thin Line are all part of the soundtrack of my life.
"Bad is Bad" is the coolest tune ever!!!
Walking on a thin line........... my favorite Huey Lewis tune on so many levels. Not only the best tribute to Viet Nam vets ever but musically excellent as well. Not to diminish in any way his many other great hits. Excellent review BTW.
Right up there with Billy Joel's "Goodnight Saigon"
Good vid. Much deserved recognition and respect for a beloved band. Great rhythm section, horns, great guitar and songwriting from Chris Hayes and Huey, and also the perfect frontman in Huey. The tracks were sonic bliss, production values were perfection and the mix was superb with great separation such that the music jumped up and grabbed you. Snap, crackle, and pure pop for now people. The connection between this music, the 80’s, Back to the Future, and a young & healthy Michael J Fox always tugs at my heart and brings me right back to a better time. Thank you HLN!
I saw Huey twice in Worcester Ma in April of 87, on the first night we walked to the backstage area right thru an open garage door, bumped into bass player Mario Cipollini, he gave us backstage passes, took us up on stage pre show, then off to the catering where we had snacks and drinks with Huey himself. The whole band signed the backstage pass, still got it. Went back the next night to see the show from the front of the house, then later that week I saw them at the Orpheum in Boston. After that show we went to a club on the North Shore in Lynn, and I asked the cover band that was playing to play any Huey Lewis song.... They decided to play Jacob's Ladder, and the lead singer asked me if I wanted to sing..... Never having sung before in front of people, I immediately said yes and jumped on stage, apparently I killed it, even the band thought I did a good job. And that was the end of my Huey Lewis and The News experience, and the end of my singing career as well, I figured why not going out on top.
awesome Rich!
Until you said it, I didn’t realize how much of Huey’s music marked different periods of my life. I’m sitting here, mentally going through his catalog of songs and I’m thinking of - that one was when...and that was one when.... thanks so much for starting up this channel. I’ve shared it far and wide.
Favourite track ever Heart and Soul from Sports discovered them on American Top 40 back in the early 80's.
I saw Huey and the boys at of all places, The Minot State Fair. HIT IT OUT OF THE PARK! Great memory. Even incorporated Minot into the lyrics of Heart of Rock and Roll. Love him.
forest for the trees!!! i told one of my friends to listen to it when she was depressed and it actually helped her out pulled her through and surprisingly got her hooked on Huey Lewis all in one foul swoop
*fell swoop
That's a very positive song. It could have been a hit.
Whished that worked on me lol not. But what help's Someone. I am beyond hope. But still love. Huey and the guy's ROCK & ROLL NEVER FORGETS. S.K. TAKE. CARE AND PEACE.
Favorite band of the 80s, the greatest decade for talented musicians.
Love love love this channel! You perfectly expressed the sentiments regarding the band's music. I still remember hearing those hits as a kid on the beaches of South New Jersey. Magical time that you never forget...
The iconic voice of huey lewis is awesome. I like Stuck with You. It really sounded like the 80s.
Saw HLN live years ago for the first time. Never misses another show when he was in the area. Voice, music, just an amazing band..all of these guys !
The 80's radio beat every good song to death.Huey was a wonderful artist.Wish there were more like him.
My favorite HL&TN song of all time: Small World. That album was their most conceptually ambitious and best. And that's saying something.
And jazz giant Stan Getz playing a solo on it. How cool Is that?
Back in Time has some mind blowing guitar work that doesn't get the kudos it deserves
Chris Hayes is a great guitarist. Nice clean lines in his solos. You can hear every note. Wish he was still with the band.
@@robf6105 For sure; none of his solos ever over-stayed their welcome in the songs
I grew up in Marin.... saw HL at the village mall... said hi he waved and said hello.. near his roots of East Corte madera ... uncle Charlie’s!! Thanks Huey!
First concert I ever attended was HLN at the Tacoma Dome in 1985. At the time it was the largest indoor crowd they had played to. I saw them on every tour up to Hard at Play. I had every one of those single sleeves in the video. Thanks for giving Huey props.
its weird because my daughter and I bonded over "Do you believe in love". and to this day we still turn each other on to different music.
I've always felt bad about calling HLN an "80's act." He was active and kept touring for probably 25 years from 1980 to 2005 or so without any measurable drop in quality. What happened after that medically with Huey's voice and especially his hearing is a real tragedy: I hope he gets his pitch back, but I have to accept that he may well be retired now. Even so, confining him to that 1984-86 window just isn't fair. He and the News have done a lot of great music since (2001's Plan B is a great album), and calling this an 80s act because that was the time of his huge-stadium popularity devalues a band that would easily have sounded every bit as good in a dive bar as they did in an arena.
My personal most favorite song ever is "THE POWER OF LOVE" by Huey Lewis, I heard that song for the first time watching the the opening skateboard scene from Back to The Future, and it's like Doc said "Your future hasn't been written yet no one's has, your future will be whatever you make it, so make it a good one" and you know when you think "how is the world still going every day" and then you realize...... y'know it's just all about Love❤️
I'll tell you why I love Huey (hits aside). Huey, not unlike, say, Bob Seger, is Huey. Huey is real and has stayed true to that. Huey made it by being himself. Respect and salute.
Before he cancelled his upcoming tours due to meniere's disease, I had the greatest pleasure of seeing Huey Lewis and The News in Concert in June 2017. Every song that he played brought back memories to me. Even though I liked the albums " Picture This", "Sports", and "Fore", their 1994 album "Four Chords and Several Years Ago" really caught my eye, being I am a huge fan of the music of the 50's and 60's. Huey Lewis has and always be my favorite performers. I will miss seeing him on tour, hopefully he will return after he regains his hearing loss.
Yes! Four Chords album and if you haven't heard Soulsville, it's also a really great album! Check out songs, Little Sally Walker and Respect Yourself. Really, the whole album deserves a listen. Not 1 bad song on the whole thing.
Huey Lewis and the news was my first concert in 1984 they had just released the sports album
Saw this band at eleven years old at a club in dallas tx, my dad took me and talked the door guy into letting me i, because they served booze. It was prior to Sports being released. No joke, these guys were incredible. They may be the best band I've ever seen, and at this point I've seen hundreds...maybe a thousand. They had three and four part harmony-and incredible musicianship. Im honored to have seen them in a club and not a stadium, because in this smaller venue and up close it was even more impressive. They don't get what they deserve imo and are often looked over. Hands down a simply fantastic american band.
Stuck with you is my fave!!!! Absolutely love the way that song makes me feel. Great harmonies and groove.
One of the best concerts I've seen at Red Rocks. Huey is an amazing harmonica player, among other things. Bad is Bad = the best
Huey Lewis and the News is the best band of the 80's. Stuck with You and Heart and Soul are my 2 top faves. They are also my favorite videos that they made. He probably has 25 to 30 very good to great songs.
I think more than anything, Huey represents a bygone era for sure.....an era where song-craft was where EVERYTHING began. This isn't to say there aren't good songs being written today. But records like "Sports" just don't get made anymore. Where every single song is so hooky, so well written where you can hear and feel the attention to detail. In addition to the song-craft skill is the ability to create music that stretches across time and becomes timeless in the process. I don't have a favorite cut from Huey but I do love "Do you believe in love", "Working for a Living" and "Finally Found a Home" as well as "bad is Bad."
"Perfect World" from the Small World album has always been a favorite. Mario Cipollina is a bass hero of mine as well.
Awesome Stuff. Huey Lewis goes down as one of the Greats of Music. Universally Loved and Played on Radio Stations around the world to this day.
I wore out two Sports cassettes. Heart and Soul and Power of Love are my two faves from Huey and the News. Talk about spanning genres. Garth Brooks did a cover of Workin For A Livin WITH Huey that was awesome
I love Huey Lewis and the news.I am a nightclub DJ and I used to play in this huge club in my town and every saturday night we would open up the club playing a video laser of huey lewis concert. I still love the band I have a lot of 12" singles and don't sell then for nothing.
You have hit the nail on the head for me here. The first tape I ever bought with my own money (I am 45 now) was the back to the future soundtrack and power of love was it for me. Absolutely love this band.
and, he's one of the nicest guys in rock, reportedly.
In 1994 at the filming of a HL&TN special, my wife Caterina got to meet 'The News'. Johnny, Mario, Chris, Sean and Bill all were polite and nice to her and signed her CD. Then Caterina and I met Huey Lewis. He was gracious, funny, cool and kind. My wife had a total crush on him. Then Huey gave Caterina a hug and a kiss on the cheek, and she turned beet red from blushing!
You nailed it. Epitomizing the 80s while staying timeless is a feat shared by few artists outside of the six you mentioned, and their music does have that genre defying appeal. Couple that with a lack of fame stereotypes (no big controversies, humble and friendly to fans) and they never had a tarnished image. My two favorites are (glad you hear your description) the Bruce Hornsby penned Jacob’s Ladder and the heartfelt Walkin’ On A Thin Line, which, to this day, is dedicated to our veterans at every show. Nailed it, Professor!
Heart and Soul, still gives me goosebumps! Its in my top 10 of all time songs!
Love the passion you have for Huey's music he deserves the praise for sure :-)
Pretty much the epitome of 80s American Rock.
My favorite band for sure. Nothing from them gets old
The Power Of Love is my favorite
Power of Love is one of my top 5 all time favorite songs.
My wife is a huge Huey Lewis fan.
Love do you believe in love.
Thanks for keeping 80s music alive.
My 1st ever concert was Huey Lewis and the News. It was 1986, and I was 14. My parents even let me go without adult supervision. You could do that with a nice band like that, and not worry.
I think, Huey and the News have been overlooked for their music. With the 80's albums that produced so many hits, that would be enough to solidify them in the running for one of the most important bands of the 80's. But where I think they've gained my respect even more has been their 2 albums " Four Chords Several Years Ago" and "Soulsville". They do an Amazing job interpreting some really great classics! And Huey's voice and the band are really in their element on these two. For those who love 60's soul, I cannot recommend these enough!
Props to the professor for recognizing Jacob’s Ladder as a great, underrated song. If you don’t know it, it’s definitely worth a listen. On of their best in my opinion.
Interesting factoid: “Jacob’s Ladder” was actually written by fellow 80’s hitmaker Bruce Hornsby.
I didn’t realize that. I did know that Bruce was a guy that Huey had discovered, which led Bruce to feature his harmonica playing on “Every Little Kiss”.
Huey and Bruce have collaborated on each other's stuff pretty often. Example, you can hear Huey on B/G vocals on Bruce s song "Down The Road Tonight" on "The Way It Is"
I was a Hornsby fan back then, too. Yet I liked Huey's version of "Jacob's Ladder" better than Hornsby's.
Steve Bragg Hornsby performs the song and often mangled it in concert.
Huey and the boys had to work their butts off to achieve major success. They toured for years and years. They got turned down so many times from labels. Still a great band from the 80s. Kudos!!
In the eighties we had Tower of Power play in our club, the next day at noon I went in and they were sitting in there in a circle rehearsing Huey Lewis songs for their gig in Waikiki they were flying to that afternoon for an evening outdoor concert.
Walking on a Thin Line...definitely. Always been my favourite. Listen louder the better.
Got to say .. im Grateful for your channel. Everytime a new vid pops up i have to take a look and see what endearing memory you are going to flesh out for me. Thanks again PoR.
It’s a crime they are not in the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame! The fact the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame is in Cleveland makes it even more criminal.
THATS RIGHT MY HOMETOWN ROCKS!!!!! HEART OF ROCK N ROCK ROLL IS IN CLEVELAND...... HEUY LEWIS is the bomb!!!!!!!
It is hard to pick out a single #1 favorite. It all depends on what is going on in my life at the moment, whether it be something at the moment or a major event. Their tunes have seen me through the happiest of times and all the crisis. This has been true since I first became a teen and true now, these *gulp* decades later. The best I can give you as far as my favorite is at the moment I am thinking of my boys, so Walking with the Kid is the song I have on at this moment. Thank you Huey, Chris, Sean, Mario, Bill G, Johnny, Stef, John, Bill H, James.
I can't even pick one single Huey Lewis song that I love because there are all phenomenal. And I've never met a person who doesn't at least like the band to some degree.
My favorite Huey song is "Do You Believe in Love". The melody, the harmonies, the saxophone solo... it is really well put together, and it was also written by Mutt Lange
Kylie, have a listen to Mutt Lange's original version; it's on youtube
@@thedys70 It's OK. The vocals are a little too high for me.
@@kyliepollert8341 Oh agreed; the HLN version is superior. The original's always good as a comparative tool though
"Bad is Bad" will ALWAYS be my favorite HL & TN song! The harmonies are phenomenal and the groove is just sooooo laid back!!! My other favorite songs are "Is it me" and "I hope you love me like you say you do" from the album Picture This.
I was born in '77 and lived in a pretty conservative home that didn't allow rock music. It was either gospel or country and western for my parents, but I always set my alarm clock to the local pop radio station, and I did this starting right about the time FORE! came out. The music, not being offensive to my parents, was henceforth allowed, and by the end of the year, I had accumulated Sports and Picture This.
All sorts of things in my life has changed but the constant has been that I've been a ravenous fan of Huey Lewis and The News. Favorite songs: Heart and Soul, Perfect World, I want a New Drug, Jacobs Ladder, Simple as That(particularly since I can now relate to it) and Hope You Love Me Like You Say You Do
Agreed. So many great songs and hooks. And you felt like you knew every member of the band through the magic of MTV videos.
Four chords and Several Years Ago was an instant classic!
What a cool musician...brandy-voice, cool songs, cool records....Sports is my favourite
Honkytonk Blues is such a ball-busting dance number and I've often described the singing performance on it as being like a bewildered stand-up comedian trying to make sense of his situation.
Glad this legend is still being talked about!
Working for a livin was the song that hooked me. It was the first time I head them and I was blown away! “I want a new drug” was the next. I was heavy into The J Geils Band still and I think as different as the two bands were I love a big rock band sounds!!!! In 1982 I was 12 years old and I was so captivated by “working for a living”! They were the soundtrack to our lives! Great time to be a teenager having this music growing up.
Simply put.. Huey Lewis is a legend. There is no denying that fact.
Trouble in Paradise with Tower of Power horns, including former Yellowjackets sax man Marc Russo on that screaming altissimo note on the end of his solo. Goosebumps every time.
My first favorite band as a kid and I still love them today.