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This Driving 70s Rock Hit Has CAUSED More Speeding Tickets Than Any Song Ever! | Professor Of Rock
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- Опубликовано: 7 июл 2022
- "Coming up…A truck driver races through the night to get back to his lover- communicating their desperation for each other through ESP. On the homestretch..He attempts to pass one more car that stands in the way of completing his journey…. It’s Radar Love the 70s classic from the Dutch rock outfit Golden Earring. This Rock song about a Psychic truck driver has been covered over 500 times and influenced scores of bands and artist in the rock era. The story is next on professor of rock .
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It’s time for another episode of our series Number one in our hearts where we discuss a song that was so grand, it should’ve been a number one hit on the billboard hot 100 It’s so frustrating when a great song come out and it’s soaring into the upper reaches of the charts and then I stalls just when you think it will take the number one spot. Well this one was really tough because it didn’t sound like anything in the top 10. It was a unique song with an amazing story and deserved to be enshrined at the top spot so today we going to change history and give it the #1 spot in our hearts. HEre we go…
He was driving all night... his hands wet on the wheel…Suddenly….he receives a message from above….It’s his baby calling- telling him that she needs him. Tapping into a gifted psychic power of communication they called “Radar Love,” his lover transmits an impassioned plea to get to her as fast as he can!!
“Radar Love”….A frantic song of passion, with a tragic ending by Golden Earring- arguably, the biggest rock band to come out of Holland. Like many rock classics, “Radar Love” evolved from an organic riff. It was a bluesy riff created by Golden Earring co-founder and lead guitarist George Kooymans (kooh-ee- muns- rhymes with gooey)- who was just pickin and grinnin while the band was rehearsing in a rehearsal studio.
George came up with an infectious chord sequence on a rhythm guitar that accidentally became the basis of “Radar Love”... and the rest of the band joined in to slowly build a symphonic instrumental arrangement. “Radar Love” was conceived as a suite- with several distinctive auxiliary parts. For instance, there are two intros- the first is the centered around a dramatic 8 bar guitar/ drum segment created by drummer Cesar Zuiderwijk (zjah-der-vay)
The 2nd intro initiates the song's entrancing rhythm line with an escort of marching snare drums. The track has two bridges- one highlighted by Kooymans guitar licks over the song’s primary melody: And another bridge delivered with a pounding drum & horn combination, that was inspired by the music of Santana- with lively Latin percussion and heavy brass: There are also extended solos, along with a drawn out chorus before a vigorous, climactic finale.
As frontman Barry Hay explained, the inventive structure of “Radar Love" was all very spontaneous, with lots of artistic improv along the way. At no point in the development of the track did the band ever pushback on an idea.
Poll: What is your pick for the greatest "DRIVING" song ever? A song that make you put the pedal to the metal?
55 Sammy hagar
...ahhhh, you DO know Sammy, and "I Can't Drive 55", eh, Prof.!?? ...VR-OOOM! ..ha-HAA!
Heart - Barracuda
"Ace of Spades" by Motorhead
"Highway Star" by Deep Purple
"Spirit in the Sky" by Norman Greenbaum
"La Grange" by ZZ Top
"Action Packed" by John Dollar (or the equally awesome cover by Ronnie Dawson)
"How Long You Wanna Live, Anyway?" by The Stray Cats
"Bullet" by The Reverend Horton Heat
Slow Ride from Foghat Live
Their song “Back home” has always had a special place in my heart.
I was 17 and listening to this song on AM radio on my way to school my senior year. One of the most epic songs of the 70s. 🎸
What an outstanding song!
Another classic song. Was great the first time I heard it, and is still great over forty years later.
An excellent classic rock that's built for speed.
Best song ever. Thanks for the stories
Perfect vocals on this song.
My favorite band since 1973. I finally saw them live in 1984 in Dallas. I actually met George after the concert. I still have his autograph. The best live band I’ve seen.Thank you for this fantastic video about Golden Earring.
AWESOME SONG AND BAND
best road trip song ever
Omg! This is our song! Yes, you are right, Radar Love is a great song and should be only listened to at home!
Great song. Truly hypnotic.
You're stories of the songs are absolutely phenomenal. Thank you so very much for always revealling stories that otherwise might never have been told by anyone else. 🥰
Love that song!!
Great song
Very cool of you to wear our band’s shirt on this episode. Really appreciate it.
My personal all time favourite song
Great song equally great album
Love that song.
Always thought of this as the ultimate driving song especially on a rainy night. Always love this song powerful performance
17 / great song , great times
48 years ago
I'll never forget in the mid nineties driving up to Boston from Connecticut towards my college love. Hearing this song on the radio in my old Toyota pick up as I went as fast as I could. Watching the skyscrapers come over the horizon I knew I was almost there to see her. It's been over 25 years and I could still feel it every time I hear this song
The first time I heard Radar Love was June 1987. I hadjust graduated from HS and had moved 6 hours away from where I used to live. My girlfriend and I had decided to split up because of the distance. She wanted to spend one last weekend with me though. So as the sun rose on a Saturday morning I was foot down blasting down the highway, already on the road for 3 hours or so flipping through the radio stations...Radar love came on. This song blew me away, I was practically living it at that very moment. This song has been my go to at Karaoke and always my favorite song of all time. I realize that this video is a year old and noone is going to see this, just need to put this out there.
still such an awesome song
. I'm so glad you finally did piece on it. This is probably my favorite driving song.
My favorite!!!✌❤
It's 1979 and I got a speeding ticket for doing 91 in a 55 on the old Dallas Ft. Worth Turnpike. This song was playing as loud as it could be played the whole way. Never forget it. Best driving song ever IMHO.
Saw Golden Earring live in an amphitheater in The Netherlands during a very rainy concert. Nobody noticed the rain anymore when they started playing. Great band.
Love that song and thanks for the history lesson!
Saturday night was not complete until this song came on the radio.
love that song
Radar love is a kick ass song!
The are great! I went to see them twice. Man what a party that was.
Great song Great review 👍
Thanks for reviewing this classic tune. You are correct about speeding tickets while this tune blared on my car stereo. Excellent story about you and your dad there as well, I hope to give my daughter the same memories, all the best.
that whole album was a blast!
Adam thank you. I love this song, it has always been iconic in South Africa and I think at number 1 for a while. A great band with a song that always brings back the great memories of my youth.
Took me a while to warm up to Golden Earring, but love them, now!
In the 90's I worked as a foreman at an aluminum factory. One night I was alone in the control room and Radar Love was played on the radio. I turned up the volume and really "get into it". When the song is over, I realize that behind me is a cleaning lady who is laughing her socks off. 😃 The best driving song ever, thanks for a brilliant episode!👍❤
Good job youngster, I am enjoying your channel. Thanks for spending the time.
My cousin who was a small child at the time thought it was "Red-Eye Love", years later, while having a beer it came on the radio and she started singing "Red-Eye Love", I had to tell her....My personal favorite was "Fighting Windmills" back in the day.
Loved Golden Earing and I was always puzzled by the "fact" that they only had two hits. It wasn't until years later I heard their whole catalog. Wow! What a great undervalued band!
Anyway the Wind Blows was another hit but not as big as the other two.
Woo Hoo!! I LOVE this song, Radar Love!!! I remember flying down the highway, towards a Penn State campus, to see my lover, in 1992, to this song. I was halfway through it, when I looked down at my speedometer, it read around 92 mph!! I was shocked, since I was only driving my little Mazda 323, manual transmission, hatchback. I dropped my foot off that gas pedal quick, because PENNSYLVANIA troopers 😉
Radar Love's driving beat and bass line, just lure you faster, down the road!
Always loved Radar Love..!!!!!
Never had any idea these guys were from the Netherlands....
Born to be wild - Steppenwolf and I’m no Angel - Allman Brothers are two songs that come to mind right now …
Nice tee, love it every time you show Huey some love.
I remember exactly where I was when I heard this song.
Hahaha, I had that 45 when I was 12. Danced all around my room to it!!!
During an overseas assignment, there was a Dutch contingent, and one night, in their club we heard this song and all the Americans started singing along; our Dutch friends were so excited we knew of the band and the song! It was a great time.
I knew just reading the caption it would be Radar Love. I was teen in 1970s and loved playing it while on freeway. I have it on my current play list too and it does make you want to drive fast!😁
Runnin’ Down a Dream
Golden Earring felt and sounded so unique for their time. They never lost their touch!
They deserved to be MUCH bigger than they were.
I wish they had more hits than they actually did. They’re such an awesome band.
Founded 1961-2 if I remember well..
@@ProfessorofRock They didnt tour the US enough...
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 well..
besides the obvious there's also
Long Blonde Animal
Another 45 miles (naked truth vers)
When the lady smiles (Clip!!)
less known but great
Johnny make believe (naked truth2)
all pedal pushers as well
and one of their best..
just a little bit of peace in my heart
Radar Love was the first single I bought when I was young.
Great Road music. One of the tops in that type of tune. Love the channel and the musical memories, keep em coming! till next time See ya!
Honestly I’ve driven a great distance listening to this and you cannot drive slow with this in your ears!
When the Lady Smiles from their N.E.W.S. is another great song from a great album.
“Vanilla Queen” absolutely kicks ass....saw them open for Blue Oyster Cult....
I knew the song less than 30 seconds into your video, but only because you left enough clues for this now much older teenager to follow. It also turned out that in my early 20's, I was in the Army in Germany when their 2nd hit came out about 1982 or 3-ish. The Twilight Zone did well there and remember that era of my life very fondly! I love your videos, keep up the great work Adam!
Moontan is an amazing album....all of it !!!
My go to drive fast song was “Highway Star”. You couldn’t help yourself when that came on the radio.
In 1982 I went with my brother to Holland. I bought a VHS cassette with some of their music videos without realizing I couldn't play the tape when I got home to Canada. Different format. My brother bought a Kate Bush live concert on Laserdisc. He could play.
Thank you for highlighting my country’s greatest rock band!
"Radar Love" put Golden Earring on the radar.....it took almost 10 years later to get their next major hit, "Twilight Zone".....which still contains one of my favorite bridge guitar solos of all time!....these guys can rock!
Two awesome songs from an amazing band.
Twilight Zone was a big radio hit in 1983 when I graduated high school, a year later in the summer of 84 I saw them perform a free concert in their home country of Holland the night of the last day of the 100 mile Nijmegen march, wow, what a party that was, and what a blast I had.
I remember how all my school age bubbies loved Twilight Zone. It was a big hit
What's more, "Twilight Zone" became the soundtrack to the pinball machine of the same name.... that bass line creates just the perfect tension when experiencing the frenetic synapse response of a classic pin table. Excellence all around.
@@AndrewWright1973 only for someone named Tommy who kind of resembled Roger Daltrey.
I have seen Barry Hay alot of times at the Bijenkorf in Amstelveen (part of Metropolitan Amsterdam) very tall guy he grabs attention due to his swagger. Always wearing sunglasses.
Nice episode. I first 'experienced' Radar Love when in a dingy small town BC bar... summer, midday and in the back darkness while drinking cold beers and shooting pool the jukebox cranked this out of the silence. The epic intro just pounded into my head and into that moment. I'm there every time I hear it. 🤘
Interesting!
I never knew the story behind Radar Love. Thanks!
I know both these songs quite well (Radar Love and Twighlight Zone). I regret knowing the band only through these two songs, but i have enjoyed them both all these years. They are unique songs within the genre, having a distinct sound that I have yet to hear repeated.
One of the best driving songs ever. Up there with Born to be wild and Gimme all your lovin. Remember all these great songs, my family just moved to Florida, sweet home Alabama .
golden earring are such an extraordinary band to last over 5 decades with the same line up and produce amazing music is no small feat and if you love classic rock dig deep in their enormous catalog you'll definitely find some great treasures for sure
They are extremely underrated. Your comment is right on the money.
Check out "Ce Soir". That song rocks. One of my favorites.
@@tilmerjr oh yes I know that one in fact switch is one of my favorite albums I love the opening suite of plus,minus,absurdio and love is a rodeo also grab it for a second, cut, the hole, no promises, no debts and n.e.w.s are some of my other favorite golden earring albums as well
Radar Love.
All time favorite band, god bless George Kooymans who has ALS
Loved *Golden Earring* they could come up with some good songs.
Definitely a fast driving song. I do feel stupid for not understanding that the guy dies at the end. One of my all time favorites.
greetings from the netherlands where golden earring is from!
Their 2015 show in Amsterdam has an AWESOME version of Radar Love and Twilight Zone...
Knew it from your title! My fave ever!
Got to love vanilla queen, great track
One of my top 5 songs of all time! The MP3 Player I use for long road trips by vehicle or motorcycle is set to play this song first - out of 4658 songs currently - been collecting CDs since the mid 80s while in college, (in addition to all the MP3s I have bought over the last few years). My daughter likes to initiate shuffle play on trips just for the insanity of "you never know what will be next"
I didn't discover it until the 90s when I decided one day to turn on the radio rather than listen to one of my LPs for the umpteenth time. A Classic Rock/Hard Rock station was playing it as part of a set. I listened to that station for awhile because it was so different than the usual stations playing the more current material. The song grabbed me like “Twilight Zone” did in the early 80s when I saw the video on MV3. Little things like this switch on memories. I think the station was called Arrow FM whose frequency was 93.1 and has become Jack FM.
Plenty of stations have bitten the dust: the Mighty MET, Pirate Radio, Arrow, KIQQ, The Sound.
A cruising song no doubt!
One of my favorite songs ever. Like Dave Dudley's Six days on the road or Sammy Hagar's I can't drive 55. I got a lot of tickets in those days.
In the late 80s, my buddy and I were paratroopers in the 82nd Airborne Division at Fort Bragg. We both had girlfriends attending UCONN. We would finish a day's work before a long weekend and we take off on that 11 to 12 hour drive. And at 430 am the radio would play that song just as we were closing in on on destination. It was powerful. And yes it made us speed even more.
Whenever I heard this song, I always though that he was singing 'Red Eye Love'
My co-worker was singing to it as it played on the radio. Not a bad voice but he was singing red-hot love. I tried to correct him but he refused to believe it was radar love. Had to get a few more in our department to tell him he was wrong before he would finally admit it.
Love golden earring!
Soooo good!
Me too! They’re awesome!
I had the pleasure of seeing Golden Earring at the Hartford Civic Center in the 1970s as a warmup for Boston I think. Live they really rocked this song. Always been one of my favorite driving songs. Their comeback with Twilight Zone was a largely MTV heavy rotation-driven comeback in the early days of music television (back when they played music videos). Radar Love on the other hand, won New England rock radio over the hard way by listener requests and good radio program managers.
I have been singing nude sunrise for 4 decades.
Man, I love Golden Earring..!! I think Twilight Zone is one of the top 10 all time songs from the 80’s. The video was without a doubt!! Might be #1.. I’m glad there was one of these done on them.. And it’s cool to hear the memories u have of ur father. I have somewhat similar (loosely speaking) ones of my dad. I moved to MI to live with him in ‘89, the year the Lions drafted Barry Sanders. Watching the greatest RB of all time run circles around guys on Sundays are some cherished memories I have of him.. RIP!!
I thought it was i cant drive 55 lol Radar love was great song too.
74 was the year I got my driver's license and it always seemed Radar Love would come on the radio in my mom's Coronet 500 as I'd be driving home from a sporting even or concert in Philly on the 42 Freeway in Jersey and the "last car to pass here I go" line would be blasting and my speedometer would be over 100. Thank God never got a ticket and made it home alive. There's an NJ State Police barracks there now. Never caught me, lol.
Great song! White Lion's cover was very well done as well.
Funny thing about this song.
My then girl now wife would come to dallas sometimes. No cell phone.
We had this song.
If one of us heard it first, we knew the other was in transit.
Never failed lol.
I had my suspicions when I saw the title, my suspisions became stronger when I read the description, but seeing the Brenda Lee record in the background confirmed it for me ;-). Nice touch!
Golden Earring are as far as I am concerned without a doubt the best Dutch rock band ever. I was very sad earlier this year to hear that they wold no longer be performing or recording due to George Kooymans's illness (he has ALS).
Actually, the classic lineup was solidified in 1970 when Cesar Zuiderwijk joined. This classic lineup up the same four friends would endure for five decades.
Radar Love has passed my radar
Ty for this Golden Earring was an awesome band. Devil made me do it and Twilight zone were also great songs.
I first heard Radar Love on the jukebox at a poolhall in 1975. My fav part is the drum solo where it seems to me the drummer gets so lost in the song there is a pause kind of like he just came back to earth and miss stepped. I love that.
My father used to blast this song in his 77 Trans-Am on his 8 - Track car stereo when a was very young. When he played "Radar Love" I always imagined I was in a driving movie cruising across Canada or the USA going on a great adventure with my dad. He's 76 and still blasting his tunes.
You're dad sound pretty dang cool.
I’d love to hang out with you and your father!
I love this song. May have something to do with the fact that, even though I'm Canadian raised up here, I was born in Hilversum the Netherlands.
I believe Golden Earring recorded there. Hilversum was the Radio and Music hub of the Netherlands. My father was a pro musician most of his life. My father's and mother's side of the family lived in Hilversum for generations.
Adam you were very lucky to have a father that not only listened to great music but also knew so much about it. A very cool father for sure. Thanks for sharing some of those times.
I wish my dad was Adam’s dad.
@@xxlilly_playsxxkiz9980 Me too.