Poll: 1979 was a big year for music. What are the songs and albums that take you right back to that year or if you weren't born yet, what are your favorites?
'Armed forces' by Elvis Costello...Showed me that the post punk movement had a lot to offer regarding song writing and execution, it is packed with great lyrics and amazing melodies, it should be the bench mark for all 'pop music'
Stay With Me Til Dawn Julie Tzuke All Night Long Rainbow Don’t Bring Me Down ELO Albums Welcome to the Cruise Julie Tzuke Breakfast in America Dynasty Damn forgot In Through the Out Door
I couldn't help but tear up a bit at the inclusion of Charlie Daniels Band's "The Devil Went Down To Georgia". I was Charlie's drummer from 1999 to 2016 and he became one of my closest friends and the best boss I ever had. I miss him every day and I'm honored to say I played that song live sitting right behind him thousands of times. It was a special part of my life and I'll never forget my time and my friendship with him. If you ever want to know the story behind how it came to be, drop me a note.....I'll gladly share with you what he told me about it. He was a great man and I'm honored to have been his friend and drummer.
My first concert w it’s my uncle I was 13 him28, we saw Charlie daniels band and juice newton !!! He offered me a toke and the prude side of me!! But haven’t stopped since 21 lol
That is so cool! I saw you play when Charlie Daniels Band were at the Allegany County Fairgrounds in Cresaptown, Maryland 2016. I was so glad I got to see Charlie Daniels Band.
Turned 11 in '79. I was already a music fanatic. So many great memories. Skating rink, bowling alley, riding bikes with friends. The movies, camping at the lake. Is that Time Machine ready, yet? Let's go! Love your show, PoR!
I can testify, "My Sharona" was an instant hit in '79. It was passive/rebellious right where we needed it. It was on every AM / FM station, and still plays today.
I Graduated From High School In '79. Thank You Sir For Streaimg This! What Memories-Will Never Forget...😊 70s & 80s Were ABSOLUTELY Fantastic with all the different styles of music.
"Sail On" helped me through my divorce. "I know it's a shame But I'm giving you back your name" She wasn't worthy to keep my last name. "I gave you my heart And I tried to make you happy And you gave me nothing in return You know, it ain't so hard to say Would you please just go away" We haven't spoke in 10 years and I raised our son on my own. I just wanted her to go away and leave us alone. She granted my wish and we've been fine.
I specifically remember this week from 1979. I had started my sophomore year of high school and home life had become so turbulent that had I remained where I was, I'd have likely dropped out of school and been well on my way to drug addiction and an early grave. I eventually had to run away from home to avoid a domestic violence situation and while on the road, I remember listening to AT 40 the first week My Sharona hit #1. During the following couple weeks, I was rescued from that situation and moved to another location, another school; a much more stable environment. I remember in my new home reading a section of the newspaper which published the top 10 hits and tracking My Sharona for it's entire six week run at #1. Many nights in my new home with the radio on and listening to songs that to this day take me back to when peace and stability started this very week in 1979.
I was 4 through 14 in the '70's and it was my favorite time in life, ESP music wise. Thank you for doing this video. I am all '70's, and I truly miss those days and ALL the music! AM and Kasey Kasem is still where I live. I would hide in the closet all night listening to AM waiting for my favorite songs. Now all I have to do is turn on Professor or Rock!!💔💔❤❤.
Sept 22nd 1979, I was hung over. My 18th birthday was the day before. I had my first studio apt. Man I blasted my Sony stereo and head phones with all those hits in 79. Loved Disco, Rock, Pop hits, R & B and even some country western. Like Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton, soft rock, etc. Was a senior in HS only had my art class to go too every morning. Then worked full time at Burger King about half a mile from my apt. Right in the middle of a college downtown Milwaukee, WI.
I got as far as Dion Warwick and I was almost in tears. My mom who I took care of for about 15 years, having had me when she was 41, in 1971, used to run home from working at a dry cleaners to watch the soap opera "All My Children"! I was just a kid but I more often than not was dragged into watching with her if I happened to be home 😂 She'd fill me in , and I ended up enjoying it more than I would have admitted back then. I was trying to be cool and that's not the coolest thing a kid in the 4th grade can do necessarily 😂 So there were two main characters named Tad and Jenny (also Susan Lucci played the villainess Erika Kane and although often nominated for an Emmy it became a running joke that she never won the prestigious award for daytime TV) So Tad and Jennys song was "I Know I'll never love this way again" and it remained a favorite song of my mom's (and mine) right up until 4 years ago when she passed away at 87. She was my best friend and my favorite person to spend time with! I took her to see Sinatra but also Paul McCartney...she loved music and laughter and was just this bright light, the center of my universe and now... now the song takes on a whole new meaning for me. I'll never love anyone as much as I loved my mom (who could here a song by Ozzy Osbourne or Black Sabbath and not only know who was singing, but if I started to explain the lyrics or talk she would say "Shush! Tell me after, I'm trying to here the song!" Unique for a woman in her 80s, but she WAS unique! She had no meanness in her, made everyone feel at ease and as a single mother did everything necessary to raise me and although we moved from Philadelphia to all over Florida, even Montreal Canada where she was born, we were always singing! I'm passionate about music and have eclectic tastes and as my mom would say "I come by it honestly". I was raised with music as something that was important! Something worth getting excited about and it made me who I am. So I'll watch the next 7 songs but I haven't thought of that one in years and it really hit me hard, just that little bit. I'm probably going to have to listen to it in full immediately following this but man! I doubt there could be something that has as profound an effect on me as that one. Just such a beautiful memory of a time when we she and I were young and together! They say our sense of smell is the closest link to our memories but hearing a song can absolutely take us back just as well it seems. Ok, back to it then... coming in at number 6 is....🎸🎶🎵🎤🎼✌️❤️🙏
@@dianecaldwell1831 I am very lucky indeed, she was like the Sun and I revolved around her light like the moon. I'm truly sorry to hear that, my friend Joe has a similar story. He loved to talk to my mom (she was so easy to talk to, just like hanging out with a friend so my friends gravitated to her and forgot all about me 😂) My friend Joe's mom was terrible, really scarred him emotionally. Even to this day and he's in his 60s! He wouldn't mind me telling his story so once. Once he found his mom had gotten drunk and fallen in the bathroom. She'd hit her head on the toilet and was bleeding profusely. He ran to a neighbor and called 911 , he was very young and scared. The ambulance came, treated her head and left. As soon as they were gone, she best him for "letting other people know what goes on in our house!" If you can imagine. She put him down and belittled him so much that when he went on to join the army and completed boot camp, with the drill sergeant screaming at him the way they do to break you down so they can build you back up into a soldier right? He said "That's it? That was nothing! My mom was much worse than that! " He really thought there'd be more! The constant berating he took from his mother was so much worse than he got from the drill sergeant. His Dad was indifferent. Just stayed out of it. Maybe you relate to that, not feeling like someone cares. In his case, his dad didn't know HOW to show affection...it wasn't lack of love but it felt that way to him . He said until his son was born he only understood love as a concept. He'd never really understood what it was to love and be loved. I don't know if you're talking about now, or in the past. If you're very young and living with your mom now. Maybe you're out of the house. I know from personal experience with my brother, he's 10 yrs older and we haven't spoken in years. I'm easy to get along with but he's lost everyone. He isn't happy with himself and won't stand for you being happy. He'll make sure you're as miserable as he is, he lives for drama and arguments. I was angry for many years, I had a huge resentment. I had to learn to forgive him for my own good. I've heard it said that having a resentment is like drinking poison and expecting the other guy to get sick. 😂 I'd lay awake nights thinking about how he hurt me and what I might do to get even. Meanwhile he was asleep right? So I forgave him. For me. It doesn't mean that I approve of his behavior toward me, it means I refuse to allow him to occupy space in my head anymore. I don't want to feel angry. I want to be at peace. You can't have both right? So if you can't talk to her about it. If you have tried to let her know how you feel and it didn't work out. For YOU! Try and forgive her, don't let her steal your joy! You deserve to be happy. Nobody can stop you from being happy unless you let them. You've got to get to a place where you say "I've tried, and maybe the future is going to be different. Some people change. Some don't, or can't. Either way you have to tell yourself it's not you it's them, and even if they behave in a way that hurts me, I'm going to accept it. That's how it is and maybe they just don't know how to be any different . Once you've attempted to have a loving relationship and it looks like you can't do anything more. You can't change them, but you can get past it. Forgive them even if you don't mean it at first, but don't let anyone prevent you from being happy! You deserve a chance at joy and peace and if you can't find love with your mom, you'll find it with others who will appreciate you, and everything that's beautiful you and it'll be her loss. Don't be too fast to give up trying to talk to her, and diplomatically resolve things first before resorting to the extreme thing I had to do with my brother. I forgave him and cut ties with him but I tried a thousand times first! God bless you, I hope you got something out of this comment. You're going to be fine. My friend Joe is an extreme example of an abusive household... physically and mentally. Mine was mentally when it came to my brother but I always had my mom, some friends. My brother is a sociopath and I don't know how. Same mother but just different from me, from her! Nothing special happened he just turned out that way! I wish you ALL GOOD THINGS, that's what you deserve...joy , peace, happiness. We all deserve it and we can all have it! You're no exception! I was lucky to have had my mom though. I had other stuff to overcome, life is difficult. No way around that for anyone. Never give up on being completely happy! It's within your reach as much as any of us!!🎸🎶☮️❤️🙏 P.S. maybe you're happy now! 😂 I just thought of that..I hope so! Bless you just the same ❤️✌️🙏
In 1979 I was a sophomore at Maui High School and all these songs bring back fantastic memories!I Am by Earth Wind & Fire was one of my favorite albums from that year!Aloha from Hawaii🤙🏽
@@ProfessorofRock sure did, thanks for playing "Rise" forgot about that one. My dad too had Herb Albert albums and played them in the 60s always brings back memories.
Speaking of 1979. I was sitting at McDonald's at CAIRNS Esplanade Tropical Far North Queensland AUSTRALIA a few months ago, and on came this song I hadn't heard since 1979! (My second year of university). I INSTANTLY started quietly singing along to it such is it's INFECTIOUSNESS ... The song being none other than "You CAN'T Change THAT" by the band RADYO! Featuring of course Ray Parker Junior ... I was recently in Thailand and I immediately fell in love with this girl and created a video of her featuring "You CAN'T Change THAT!" ... I'll upload it to RUclips soon as a DEDICATION to this Thai beauty ... "GREAT Songs NEVER Die!" ... Thanks for your channel. It is Awesome as indeed so are you.
Very touching for this Aussie to hear your LRB experience as a child! Together with some others, LRB are to me the sound of Australian childhood summers in the 80s.
My dad and I use to rock out to little river band greatest hits album back in the day. I wasn't even born in 1979 I was born 2 years later in 1981 but my mom and dad use to play all kinds of 70s music and I think it's one of the best decades of music along with the 60s 80s and 90s. Everytime I hear LRB I think about my dad. He's been gone for 31 years now but he's never far from my thought and memories. Thank you far all that you do and I really like this series
How one earth could you forget about Supertramp? They ruled that year with the hit album "Breakfast In America". Besides the title track the album contained "The Logical Song", "Goodbye Stranger", and "Take the Long Way Home".
Did they chart in the US? I'm from Canada & I agree with you but they seem to have been one of those forgotten bands that the States never really got. We still get the "'tramp" here on independent stations but now that big Corp has taken over radio in rural northern areas, we don't hear them so much anymore... Anyways, most of the countdown is based on American Top 40
I got my high school diploma that year also. I was in the Navy and took the GED test while on a Med Cruise. I actually took the test in Naples Italy. So I always claim I'm an alum of Naples Hight. LOL. That year was very influential in my life and music played a big part.
Yes..all the class of 79. Now just don't look at the outfits! Yes, we are old but consider the alternative! Cheers! .I was a sailor too shipmate but I joined in 86 after years of floating around! USNAVY.86-91!
Yes! I also graduated high school in '79 and I remember that fall being away from home for the very first time at college. What a thrill to be "on my own" for the first time. One of my friends had a bolt box for a car and four of us would drive around listening to many of these songs blasting from an 8-track and crappy speakers... hahaha. That winter I remember an epic snowball fight in the dorm parking lot with about 20 kids involved. Someone had their speakers pointed out a dorm window playing ELO (and Boston) as we all pelted each other with snowballs. What a blast that was! It was so great coming of age in the 70's and 80's.
Hearing "Don't Bring Me Down" takes me instantly back to a room in my grandma's basement where she had an old record player. I had just bought ELO's new album and had to wait through a two hour drive to my grandma's before I could listen to it. I think we listened to "Don't Bring Me Down" close to 24 hours straight, before ever listening to another tune on the album, that didn't happen till the next day...we were stuck on this amazing song and couldn't stop singing it. One of the best memories of my life, remember it like it was yesterday. Like a whole new world had just opened it's door...and to be honest, I have tears in my eyes as I'm writing this.....I would give all I have to go back to that room, to that time and to that music. It changed my life. I also met the Beatles in my grandma's basement, but that's a story for another day:) A quick edit cuz' I'm bored...The record player at my grandma's house had a speaker system that went into every room, so I would fill the whole house with each new album I brought over. Van Halen's "And The Cradle Will Rock" was the last song they let me play throughout the entire house...after that, it was limited to the room in the basement:)
So here's my contribution to the stories about old songs. Back in the day, i lived right down the street from the local DJ for our "big" station. He was a member of the corvette club and i have been a gear head since i was 8 and my dad let me rebuild a 383 with him (may he rest in peace). One summer day i was giving his vet the once over and he came out and started talking to me. I had heard him on the radio but had no idea that i was talking to him in his driveway. After about 20 minutes of BSing about cars he asked if i liked music. I told him i did and he wanted to know what kind. I said "anything but opera" (it still gives me a headache when i hear those sopranos) but everything else was fair game. He opened his front door and i almost lost my mind. He had boxes in three rows across his living room with albums in them. He came back with a double album that had a spaceship on the cover with a really cool insert that was the inside of the ship with two planet looking things power it. The records were blue. I was in love with ELO from then on. The music was awesome. The art was out of this world (ok, i'm leaving that but it was unintentional) and their is something about have a record that isn't black that i just love (i later found out the had a yellow one too). That man was my best friend that summer, till he moved to another state that fall.
Listening to these songs brings back some bittersweet memories. My dad passed away in October of ‘79, when these songs were popular. I was only eight. “Sail On” is poignant because my older sister purchased that record not long after his death and the song always makes me think about my dad. That being said, I enjoyed the music on this list. Thanks!
You make the lunch time of a teacher so much better! Greetings from Brazil! I'm a 90's kid but the charts on the 70's and 80's are definitely something else, I'm lucky enough because I was raised by a father who introduced me to the likes of Earth Wind and Fire, Commodores and so on.
@@ProfessorofRock Thanks for replying! I teach ESL (English as a Second Language), most of my early memories with English have something to do with music, I would listen to songs and try to understand the lyrics, so many good memories doing that.
I was 13 in 1979 and I remember telling people My Sharona was the greatest song of all time. As I look back, I no longer believe that but I still think it’s a fantastic song with a guitar solo I’ve always thought was underrated. I also loved ELO and Little River Band. Never a big Charlie Daniels fan. Sad Eyes is one of my wife’s favorite songs from that year. Thanks, Adam. You are terrific!
I was 12 years old with just a radio and an open mind/ear and wou,d be glued to the radio in the evenings. We were truly blessed to have lived through such great influential eras.
Professor, thank you so much for spotlighting the year 1979. If I had to choose my favorite music years, 1979 would easily be in my top 5. That year, I was 14 years old and in Junior High School. I religiously listened to the radio and followed the music charts. I remember every song in this week's top 10 and loved every one of them. 1979 was a very special year in music and a great way to close out my favorite decade in music, the 1970s.
1979 should be in everybody's top five. That was the year that Neil Young and Crazy Horse released the album Rust Never Sleeps. Also, the movie called Rust Never Sleeps and an album called Live Rust were released that year. Hey hey, My my...
I've paused this ..then told Alexa to play every song on this list.... And I was 11 again back in Long Island and playing Wiffle Ball with my friends as this music played out of the radio that summer... Thanks Man 😊👍♥️✝️🇺🇸
This was my freshman year in college, so lots of music hits me. “Baker Street” by Gerry Rafferty ‘My Sharona” by The Knack “All My Love” by Led Zeppelin Albums that had a big impact: ‘Breakfast in America’ - Supertramp “Pheonix” - Dan Fogelberg (issued that November) And the very top album for me was “Stormwatch” by Jethro Tull, which completed the trilogy that began with ‘77’s “Songs From the Wood.” It was issued on 9/14/79, the week prior to the focus of this video.
Yup. I just recounted how it was this very week that year I was plucked out of a hellish situation and found peace and stability. Baker Street, All of My Love, My Sharona, all of Breakfast in America and many more tunes form a soundtrack that takes me back. I didn't get into Jethro Tull till I was much older... I'll have take a listen and see if that sparks memories.
I was a junior in high school, so many of these songs take me back there, especially “My Sharona” by The Knack and anything from the Led Zeppelin In Through The Out Door album that came out August 1979. I’m a big ELO fan! Supertramp was a good one too. I have wonderful memories of the music from that year!
@@lhobs9782 This year was the best ever in the 70's for me, the top 100 billboard songs didn't have one in them that sucked ! I also bought albums like Led Zep's "In Through The Out Door", Manfred Mann's "Angel Station", Frank Zappa's "Joe's Garage Act I", Van Halen II, The Tubes "Remote Control", The Knack's "Get The Knack", Supertramp's "Breakfast In America" and the like. Best year ever for rock and pop in the 70's !!
Hello Prof. I bought that ELO album in 1979, I was 20 yrs.old then, what memories. I brought it home and played it through, different from other ELO lps, it was more awesome to me. All the music in 79 was great that Commodores I bought on 8-track to play in my car ( 1973 Pontiac Grand am, pimped out, American Racing Wheels, 60 series BF Goodrich tires awesome ride) I went to see the Allman Brothers Band, Peter Frampton In-Concert. Thanks to all my Rock brothers and sisters.
I remember listening to Doctor Dimento in the old days when Weird Al became who he is. I believe My Bologna was the first song I heard and Dimento made it sound like it was coming from this new talented kid. A welcome change from "fish heads". Soon enough it basically became the Weird Al radio show. So cool someone so talented could find a way to prominence and entertain us all.
@@valgilson6504 Crazy, right?!! That something THAT unique could exist back then. You could see it today with millions of content providers. But his show really did exist when there were only a few!
Dude- I remember when Dr. Demento broadcasted his show from the basement of Pasadena Preysbetaran Church thus the call letters KPPC. They went legit in the 70s. They changed the call letters sometime later. Anyway Dr. Demento was around probably you were even born. BTW He was a music professor at USC.
This is an awesome series Professor ! Great music, great stories and a wonderful trip down memory lane. In 1979 I was going into the 6th grade. I remember all the great releases that year including-Styx-Pat Benatar-Supertramp-Kiss-ELO-Blondie-The Cars--etc. So many great and iconic albums-light years away from today’s mostly boring, repetitive and disposable music.
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@Allison Ringhold I totally agree with you! I love this series! I’m happy he’s making this a regular segment. The Professor does an amazing job with this and I can hardly wait to see his interviews and stories!
@@ProfessorofRock I thought I was the p.o.rock , when I was younger, having read every album cover front to back.You are an inspiration to us all ! The memory's that u share are so touching and relatable. Anyway my favorite song of that year is CRUEL TO BE KIND by Nick Lowe! would love to see you feature it one day , best to you &yours ... jukebox donnie.
My memory of My Sharona was I really liked the song and my Mom worked at a radio station and they were taking it out of rotation so she brought it home to me, however it had no dust jacket. I asked where the cover was and she told me that it didnt have one. Years later she said she threw the dust jacket away before bringing the 45 home because she thought it was inappropriate for her 16 year old son.
"My Sharona" was a really good tune. It got a rebirth in the early 90's when it was featured in the movie "Reality Bites". "Don't Bring Me Down" is classic ELO. Jeff Lynne is iconic. And yes, I remember roller skating to it. Lionel Ritchie and The Commodores had so many great tunes. "Three Times A Lady" is my fave. Thanks, Proff. '79 was a memorable year, a ton of huge songs. Love the list!!
Jeff Lynne was also in a group called The Move, a proto ELO. They recorded Do Ya (a very goo version IMO) and several other songs that were repopularized by ELO
One vivid memory I have from 1979 (The year me and my family migrated to Australia) is that ELO's alboum. Last Train to London and Need Her Love are stuck in my brain to the point that the whole 1979 truck of memories come back to me (even smells and flavours) everytime music from that alboum is played.
The Knack rocked the summer of 1979 with the classic riff of My Sharona. They tried to replicate it in 1980 with Baby Talks Dirty but the thrill was gone.
Man, ALL TEN SONGS are absolute bangers!!! When was the last time we were able to say that? It's been a while. Proud Gen X guy here, keeping the music alive!!!
I was 10 years old and remember all these songs growing up!!! This brought back so many nice memories! I went just about every week roller skating at the local skating rink. I was obsessed with Blondie back then!!! I feel so blessed to grow up in that time!
I was just watching Coyote Ugly yesterday and was commenting on their use of Devil Went Down to Georgia as a line dance on the bar... It’s almost like it was written for that scene... It’s always awesome when old songs are used effectively, not to mention exposing another generation to great music... Also, giving them their own pop culture reference to tie the music to... Thanks for the video Professor, love the series Redux... hope to see some 83-84 summers covered in Redux sometime... Rock on Professor!
Great movie, I'd forgotten that song was in it. I was an assistant manager for a very large Blockbuster video store in Miami when it came out so I got to see it a bit earlier than anyone who hadn't gone to the theater. I watched it even though I was trying to quit drinking at the time and although I haven't had a drink in years, I have seen it at least once since and I love that they have only beer and whiskey 😂 A bar after my own heart!! 😂 At the time I'm sure it all looked very appealing and wasn't easy to watch but now I may take another look. I only remember going into not knowing what the title meant..."When you'd rather chew your own arm off then wake up the person you slept with..." Great title right? I've always loved that song, it's like being told this story about Johnny and the Devil. I don't know if you've noticed but there's the "told you once you son of a bitch version.. and the son of a gun politically correct version" I don't like CENSORSHIP when it comes to something as subjective as the arts. Like talking Michelangelo's Venice de Milo and putting clothes on that amazing sculpture.
@@stanphillips7277 I know right? I absolutely hate censorship in all areas... when will people realize that if they don’t like something then don’t watch, listen or look at it? As far as Coyote Ugly’s reference to chewing arm off, I used to drink a bit for awhile and I woke up to a few hangovers and Coyote sightings in my time... glad I didn’t chew anything off though... I’d be like the armless, legless knight from Monty Python! Wouldn’t change the good times from then, but I’d sure as hell weed out the bad ones...lol
@@randymcmullen538 It's not rocket science right? No one is forcing anyone to look at or listen to anything! Yeah I wouldn't change the good times, I was just thinking about a time when my uncle who hadn't seen me since I was around 12 or something came to visit from Montreal Canada where my mom was born. He still lived there but we'd moved from Philadelphia to Florida and back when I was growing up on average maybe every 3 months. We were here in Miami and I was 18 and graduating from a computer programming school, and my mom loved red wine, my uncle was a beer guy, and she was throwing me a party. Sometime during his stay we just hung out at the kitchen table drinking beer and then we tapped in to my aunt's vodka. He was runny. A storyteller like a white Bill Cosby. Never in a hurry. I also was a Rock and Roll party animal and had some amazing times that I wouldn't change for anything, but yeah I'd be missing a few limbs myself! That's funny, the Knight from Monty Python!! 😂 Great image to conjure!! Now I'm laughing a bit just visualizing that... what was that? The Search for the Holy Grail I think. That's one of the coolest things about RUclips is you can search for clips like that super easy and someone's usually uploaded just that clip! Ya know, I might run long but alright. Ya know Archie Bunker and how All in the Family was this groundbreaking show with such anti racist/sexist/discrimination of any kind they seemed to cover. Always making the point of being anti Archie's ignorant and racial stereotyping way of being right? I've seen them edit out almost everything he says!! Kyke , Wap, Spic, Polok and so on. It's infuriating to think that some genius in Standards and practices decided to take a show that was making all of theses great sociological points against discrimination, and since everyone was watching was probably as much of an instrument for change in those areas as anything, and just butcher it!! It's ironic right? A show that's saying don't say that, don't think that way you're wrong and taking the message out in the name of not offending everyone!! That's the point! He offends everyone, and Mike Gloria and Edith tell him how narrow minded and wrong he is! You strip a show of the language that it's saying you shouldn't use!! That's just F__king poetic!! Ok , so that's just one example but that one bothered me as much as anything!! I once called a radio station to tell them they were playing Van Morrison's "Brown eyed girl" and taking out the lyric "... making love in the green grass" and the DJ had no idea, they received a remastered CD and popped it in but weren't paying attention 😂 , meanwhile The Who was still saying "Who the F__k are you" at the end. They started playing the uncensored version after that 😂 This was in maybe the mid 90s and it's just getting worse, everyone is either too sensitive, or more often looking for something to complain about! There's plenty of real things to be concerned about that are far worse than singing "making love...." right? Ok, I had to get that outta my system for some reason 😂 Stay cool!! ✌️
I absolutely LOVE watching Reaction Videos. It really blows my mind sometimes that people are discovering music I grew up with. Then I remember I grew up with an extremely eclectic playlist.
Such an excellent list! I look forward to your piece on Little River Band. Their were bands and groups in the Golden Era that really had harmony. I love the Bee Gees' harmony on "Too Much Heaven," but I love LRB's "Lonesome Loser". Wow, what a list! Thank you, brother Adam!
I agree as a longtime Bee Gees, Little River Band, and Steely Dan fan. I thought LRB was an American band. That 70's West Coast sound was what I heard as I listened to them. Big fan of harmonies especially some the more sophisticated ones like Steely Dan and Stevie Wonder use. I guess as a saxophone player and musicologist I have a wide palate.
I was in a band in 1979 when I was 18. We played “My Sharona” 3 times at a house party. That’s what the drunk party teens wanted. They paid us with two cases of beer. Oh man, those were the best of times. Thanks for this countdown.
My cousin, who now lives in Beverly Hills, is named Sharona, and the song always reminds me of her. And who can forget Maxine Nightingales' Get Right Back to Where We Started From. Excellent year. Gives any year in the 1980s a run for the money.
What a great week and year in popular music! Wonderful count down. If anyone ever attempts to resurrect American Top 40, they should pay what ever it takes to get you to be Casey Kasem's successor. You would be perfect. It would be great to have it in a podcast type format or RUclips.
Dear prof. I am so glad I subscribed to your channel having graduated in 1980 these songs bring back awesome memories. I didn't expect to have tears in my eye after listening to your devil went down to Georgia story! Your channel works because its evident to anyone with half a brain that you are authenticly excited about your subject matter. Keep on rocking and keep up the good work
Great video. Great music! How about doing a vlog on Johnny Rivers? Such an underrated artist. Saw him in concert in the early 80's. One of the best concerts I have ever been too.
This whole list of songs have taken me on a ride, a wild ride. I started this ride on a roller coaster on a wild track, towards the end, the roller coaster car jumped the rail and was free flying through the air... A drug free trip. Sad eyes was a beautiful song. Rise: One of those songs you automatically close your eyes when you hear it. Oh my! My Sharona... the memories. I already was living in South America and I was 14. I bought this LP. There was a day time prom in my high school and us kids got together (with teachers permission), in a storage room annexed to the stadium where the prom was taking place. We took some food and beverages and we danced the whole prom through. My Sharona was the first song they played and it was repeated every hour on the hour since it was so amazing (at that time), it was considered new wave.
Once again the algorithm delivers :) In 1979 I was 6/7, and thus hadn't developed my musical identify as yet, that happened in the 80s, but it was sad year for me as we moved from our farm to Sydney here in Australia, and I left all of my school friends behind. It took me about 35 years to return to the country :)
1979 was the year I got my first job, and with my first paycheck I bought ELO - Discovery, The Knack - Get The Knack, Supertramp - Breakfast In America and Cheap Trick - Live At Budokan. Technically Live At Budokan came out in 1978, but most of the hits from the album came out in 1979. Good memories.
I love that you added tidbit about Cheryl Ladd recording "I'll Never Love this Way Again." In 1978, Cheryl Ladd was my first celebrity crush. I was such a fan that I bought her debut solo album and will always prefer it over the Dionne Warwick version. In 1979, I was a pre-teen and would go on many campouts with my Boy Scout troop. A couple of us would bring our tape player/recorders to listen to music(This was before "ghetto blasters) One of the guys in the troop had Robert John's "Sad Eyes" on a mixtape and he seemed to play that over and over during a weekend campout. The high falsetto chorus still rings in my ears and reminds me of those campout weekends. Charlie Daniels "Devil Went Down to Georgia" was a song I had on a couple of mixtapes that I would take on these campouts too. I remember making my own mixtape with my cousin's single copy of "My Sharona" My older sister bought an 8-track copy of "Get the Knack" that was eventually handed down to me. That album became one of my all-time favorite power-pop albums.
I was 20 yrs old and saw Charlie playing on 12/31/1980 at the Rosemont Horizon he played "The Devil Went Down To Georgia" right after we rang in the new year. The place was so full of crowd noise during the concert. I was about 3 rows back center stage. When he started playing the song. The place got deathly quite and not a peep was made during the entire performance. Seemed obvious to me what we all came to hear that night. Also there was this girl in the second row, that was drunk on peppermint Schnapps, whose boyfriend got in a fight with security. she fell into my lap and planted a huge kiss on me and tried to get my brother as well. funny as hell to see the look on his wife's face as she tried to plaster him. def a night to remember. I know this is not from 1979, but it just flooded my brain with the memories and I wanted to share them anyway.
Agreed. And that groovy lower register piano line always reminded me of the Velvet Underground’s “European Son.” I wonder if that was an inspiration?!?
So, my son Tom S. choked me up with that dedication for "Don't Bring Me Down" from ELO. Thomas, thanks my son! Yes, it took me 40 years to see Jeff Lynne heading ELO, and then got to see them twice in 2 years! (Chicago and Atlanta). Even though ELO Part 2 was scolded by many, they kept Jeff's music alive and we were fortunate enough to meet Kelly Groucutt (RIP you awesome bass player and best back up singer to Jeff!), Bev Bevan, Mik Kaminski, Eric Troyer, Phil Bates, and the great Louis Clark (RIP also you great string arranger you!) Tom now has the Illinois license plate ELO PT 2 that was signed by all of the members. The whole group was awesomely friendly and talkative. Thanks Professor of Rock for this great mention and video! Made my whole year!
Some facts about Jeff Lynne (ELO)...First, he is a very humble man, simply because this Music Genius is not interested in fame, the limelight, and money, he just loves to create great music. Jeff Lynne is one of the most versatile musicians ever, this is why he is considered by his peers to be among the greatest. He didn't stick to one style of music because, after decades, it gets boring. Jeff has done progressive Rock, Symphonic Rock - Pop, New wave, and Disco. Everything he does turns to gold. He even flirted with Country music. From 1972 to 1986 (During 14 years) Jeff Lynne's Electric Light Orchestra has had more top 40 hits than any other group in the world... 51 years later they still play in sold-out Arenas, festivals and Stadiums. During Jeff Lynne's ELO 2019 Tour, many reviews agreed in saying they are the best live Classic Rock Band in the world still touring and Jeff Lynne is a Music Genius( From Forbes Magazine and the Washington Post). ELO is in the Rock Hall of Fame. Lynne is on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame and Birmingham Walk OF Fame. Jeff Lynne’s ELO won the Best Classic Rock Band plus Lynne won the best Songwriter award ( ASCAP ) in 2019 for his fantastic contribution over the years. In October of 2020, Jeff Lynne has been made an officer of The Order Of The British Empire for his extraordinary contribution to music. He previously has received three Ivor Novello Awards, which celebrate songwriters and composers, including the award for outstanding services to British music. He created the best Super Group of all time with his best friend George Harrison, The Traveling Wilburys. The Legends in the Music Industry call Jeff Lynne the best overall Musician ever and a Producer Extraordinaire. Jeff Lynne has written and produced many hit songs for music legends like George Harrison, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, Joe Walsh, Brian Wilson, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Bryan Adams, Aerosmith, Del Shannon, the Everly Brothers, The Beatles, and so many others...
I was 24 in 1979 and saw Little River Band in concert, in Vancouver. When they played "Reminiscing", then entire arena just went nuts, epic night, very good memory !!
Sept 1979, the beginning of my senior year, this video is so nostalgic. Still love 79’s music and some songs never get old but I’m still sick of My Sharona, it was so overplayed! Great video though and I miss how varied pop and rock music was, and the level of talent and musicianship that was required.
It’s amazing how music evokes emotions from and about the past. In September 79 I was beginning senior year of high school with all those happy memories. As soon as I heard the Lonesome Loser cuts, I thought of the great times my brothers and I had listening to baseball together on the radio. We were huge Pittsburgh Pirates fans, and they won it all that fall. We listened to every game and we loved it when the team played Lonesome Loser when the visiting team had to change pitchers. As the pitcher being pulled walked to the dugout, they would blast, “Have you heard about the lonesome loser?” ELO was my favorite band (still is) and I was initially disappointed with Don’t Bring Me Down, because it omitted their trademark strings arrangement. But after a while came to realize that it was a good song, and strings wouldn’t have worked in it. Finally, with My Sharona, you can hear a transition from the 70’s to the early 80’s sound that was taking place with the Knack and other bands like Blondie, Devo, the Cars, etc. Aside from being a cool song, i recall reacting to My Sharona as a great new sound. Maybe that novelty explains why it was at the top for so long.
It's always been my opinion, Adam, that My Sharona hitting #1 in August 1979 is the official demarcation point for the death of disco. It unseated a six week run of Donna Summer (Bad Girls) and Chic (Good Times) at the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100, and 1979 was really the last big year of disco songs achieving the #1 spot. Diana Ross' four week run at #1 in 1980 with Upside Down was not much more than...an echo in the canyon. What a great week in music! My first year of high school. Every song in the list is etched in my brain...with the diamond needle from my turntable.
These songs really created lots of memories for me. I was in the Army Military Police Stationed in Germany in 1979. This was one of many duty stations. This one was mainly guarding nuclear weapons. Actual police work came after this duty assignment. I remember one night, probably two in the morning, I was on a tower, and it was a very dark night, no moon. My tower was one of 4 towers. I'm standing up there, and off in the distance I could faintly hear someone singing, but it was getting louder. I was thinking, was there someone out there approaching that shouldn't be out there? But the more I listened, it stayed in one place, and seemed to be coming from an area where no intruder should be. The more I listened, the more I realized it was the tower guard from the tower to my right, singing "My Sharona" as loud as he could. Of course it probably wasn't smart to be doing that considering what job we were doing. But at 2am it probably wasn't heard by anyone else but me, and maybe the guard in the tower on the other side of him. These towers were about 80 to 100 yards apart. Honestly I laughed so hard, and more so if you knew the guard. In the barracks he played nothing but soul music, and Rythem, and Blues. His room was across the hall from mine. We had swapped roommates purposely because his roommate was white and mine was black. Our roommates asked if it was Okay to switch because of our music preferences. So we agreed. This is why this tower moment was so funny. He was singing a song from the Knack, which was not the music he played in his room. In fact it was no where near the type of music he played in his room.. It only goes to show that some music can transcend race. When it's good, it's good. I still laugh to this day. He called me on our field phones we had in the towers and asked me to keep it to myself. Which I did. Back at that time you got seriously ribbed for something like that. It's a shame, but it was the times. Anyway I thought that was funny.
Rock with you MJ . Funky Town Lips Ink Videos killed the Radio star. Pop Music M , Rappers delight The Sugar hill gang, April Wines I like to Rock Triumph Lay it on the line Were al, RELEASED in 1979 ALL HUGE Songs
Random thoughts: Don't Bring Me Down is my favorite ELO song, hands down. Love LRB. Hated Sad Eyes. Was so glad to see Herb Alpert make a comeback, since my Dad was always bringing home TJB albums when I was a kid.
Herb Alpert had a couple of other popular tracks like Garden Party and Route 101. You'll probably like those. He was resumed recording, some are Latin influenced, but not like his Tijuana Brass material.
I turned 13 in '79. Saw my first concert then. It was Styx with Rick Derringer opening. Styx was my favorite band in '79. Their song Babe was #1. There were also other favs. Aerosmith , Kiss , AC/DC , Queen , Black Sabbath , Kansas , Alice Cooper , Lynyrd Skynyrd , Rush and VH. The only song on your list I didn't back then know is Lead Me On.
This one hit me hard. “I’ll Never Love this Way Again” reminds me of a classmate who passed away over 20 years ago. This song was out when I was in 1st grade, when she and me were best friends. RIP Christine.
Great Playlist! I was 9 years old in 1979, and I remember these songs well. I love Maxine Nightingale, especially the song "Get Right Back Where We Started From" from 1976. So many facts in this video. I will watch again tonight to write down this list. 😊👍 Another song I like from 1979 is the Spinners cover of "Working My Way Back To You" . The original song was by thr Four Seasons. The Spinners added the endin, "I'm really sorry for acting that way..."
The KNACK… You can’t go wrong with this song. It still rocks to this day! I love great, melodic vocal harmonies and Little River Band nails it! The Devil Went Down to Georgia still holds up to this day. Charlie plays the fiddle like a guitar with some of his runs rivaling those of metal guitarist of the 80s. Excellent stuff!
Little River Band...a favourite then and now. I've worn out several Greatest Hits albums - in many forms - over the years. Each song has withstood the test of time...and STILL triumphs. My "comfort songs" - bringing the best of memories from then - and cementing the now.
It drives me nuts that people think of The Knack as a "one hit wonder band." That entire album, Get The Knack, is fantastic. And one thing that is often criminally overlooked about My Sharona is Berton Averre's tremendous guitar solo.
Paul Ester, I agree wholeheartedly, as someone that enjoys a great variety of guitar genres, it's always frustrated me that many guitar officio an adas, turn their nose up to it.
That solo is criminally overlooked, and has always been in my top ten (much like the solo in Another Nail From My Heart). The fact that they seamlessly shift away from that killer riff, into a ‘perfect for soloing’ four chord bed, also adds to the suspense that something epic is on its way. The rhythm section doesn’t get enough love either.
Having grown up in Jamaica, the birthplace of reggae music, I had a love for all kinds of music, in 1979 I had just started high school, was in 7th grade, I remember all these hits from back then, they all bring back specific memories, this was like a multifaceted walk down memory lane. Well done...
I certainly learnt something from this video; all this time I thought The Little River Band were American. And just for the heck of it, these are my three favourite songs from 1979: Dire Straits - Single-Handed Sailor Gary Numan - Cars The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star
Devil went down to Georgia was the very first 45 I ever bought. I was 9. I remember riding home from school on the bus and just hoping it would come on the radio. One of my favorite songs of all time.
I was 10 years old then just about the time I actually cared about music. This brings back so many wonderful memories of a much easier time. Thank you.
Damn the tunes you spotlighted in this week in 1979 sure brings back great memories of when I was 14 years old & listening to the top 40 countdowns of that time! Got all of them in my extensive music collection! 😊😊😊 Love the spot light top 10 of the given week! 👍🎵👍🎵👍🎵👍🎵👍🎵👍🎵👍
Lost my dad in 1979. The music was my escape. I was 11. Mom loved little river band the commodores and the eagles. All of these are still some of my favorites even through the tears
Cool concept to recalibrate these tunes based on longevity. Some tunes have staying power and others are very much "in the moment". LRB's harmonies are off the charts and Glen Shorrock's lead vocals are superb. Great band! This segment is a reminder of how much music has changed in the last 40 years.
Wow Professor...what memories...i was born in 1975 and i can just barely remember sitting in the Den of the first house i ever lived in and looking in awe at my parents' record player and hearing some of these songs that were my first memories of what good music sounded like that filled up my senses...especially "Sad Eyes," a song i always loved, and even moreso Herb Albert's "Rise." Maybe i was a sophisticated child, but even back then i loved the grown-up sounds of adult contemporary music- "Rise" was a song i heard a lot and i guess just learned to love bc it was so smooth and comforting to me...i love episodes like this as much as i love your episodes about the grunge era and the grunge bands i love that i listened to in college! Thats what makes your channel so special; everyday you suprise me with a dose of nostalgia that feels so good and brings back timeless memories and feelings that only music can do! I love you! 😘❤✌️-keep up the good work! Rock on! Xoxox ps- my Mom also watched General Hospital religiously so that was another way that "Rise" was introduced into my life! I, like you, grew up on my parents' music and what was in their beloved record collection- some of my first favorite memories of mine are of going through those records with curiousity and admiring the artwork that used to be on them...those were the days!
Hey Professor, I watched this video with a huge grin in my face. Thinking about that summer of 1979. I was in summer school taking my junior English so I could graduate early. The two songs that you would hear everyone jamming out to on their car stereos were, “Lonesome Loser” and “The Devil Went Down to Georgia”. They were HUGE!! And I remember all the other ones too. “Sad Eyes” sitting by the pool listening to the radio. So many great songs that summer. And watching your video brought it all back. Thanks for that! Still haven’t got the silly grin off my face! See ya next time. ❤️💜💚
My favorites are "Good Times", "Le Freak" and "I Want Your Love" by Chic, "Get Off" by Foxy, "(Not Just) Knee Deep" by Funkadelic (the guitar solo in the long version is murderous), "Soft & Wet", "I Wanna Be Your Lover," and "Sexy Dancer" by Prince, "Dance The Night Away" and "Beautiful Girls" by Van Halen, "Holy Ghost" by the BarKays, "Bustin' Loose" by Chuck Brown, "Bustin' Out" by Rick James, "Heart of Glass" by Blondie, "Hold the Line" by Toto, "Double Vision" and "Hot Blooded" by Foreigner...and many more. What can I say, I stayed on the dance floor...
A happy and sad year in my life. First I recall skating to many of those songs, including the extended version of Rise! I fell head over heels in love with a girl that year, that sadly ended. Great list with lots of memories most happy, a few sad. But all precious.
Dear Professor ,thank You for the memories You bring even though and way older than You ,your personal thoughts and memories I can say I have felt too.. thank You
Poll: 1979 was a big year for music. What are the songs and albums that take you right back to that year or if you weren't born yet, what are your favorites?
Candy-O by The Cars was a perfect start to the summer of 79 !
'Armed forces' by Elvis Costello...Showed me that the post punk movement had a lot to offer regarding song writing and execution, it is packed with great lyrics and amazing melodies, it should be the bench mark for all 'pop music'
Stay With Me Til Dawn Julie Tzuke
All Night Long Rainbow
Don’t Bring Me Down ELO
Albums Welcome to the Cruise Julie Tzuke
Breakfast in America
Dynasty
Damn forgot In Through the Out Door
Mine was definitely the album love drive by the scorpions !! 🐺
The Wall and Donna Summer Bad Girls
I couldn't help but tear up a bit at the inclusion of Charlie Daniels Band's "The Devil Went Down To Georgia". I was Charlie's drummer from 1999 to 2016 and he became one of my closest friends and the best boss I ever had. I miss him every day and I'm honored to say I played that song live sitting right behind him thousands of times. It was a special part of my life and I'll never forget my time and my friendship with him. If you ever want to know the story behind how it came to be, drop me a note.....I'll gladly share with you what he told me about it. He was a great man and I'm honored to have been his friend and drummer.
Thats Fantastic
So sorry for your loss. I've seen you & CDB, plenty of times & followed Charlie on Twitter.
My first concert w it’s my uncle I was 13 him28, we saw Charlie daniels band and juice newton !!! He offered me a toke and the prude side of me!! But haven’t stopped since 21 lol
One of my favorite songs of all time. I wish I could have seen you guys in concert.
That is so cool! I saw you play when Charlie Daniels Band were at the Allegany County Fairgrounds in Cresaptown, Maryland 2016. I was so glad I got to see Charlie Daniels Band.
Turned 11 in '79. I was already a music fanatic. So many great memories. Skating rink, bowling alley, riding bikes with friends. The movies, camping at the lake. Is that Time Machine ready, yet? Let's go! Love your show, PoR!
I can testify, "My Sharona" was an instant hit in '79.
It was passive/rebellious right where we needed it.
It was on every AM / FM station, and still plays today.
I Graduated From High School In '79.
Thank You Sir For Streaimg This! What Memories-Will Never Forget...😊
70s & 80s Were ABSOLUTELY Fantastic with all the different styles of music.
I graduated from HS in 1979 and my favorite song then was Fleetwood Mac’s “Sara”…. LOVED Tusk!
Oh, is Sara 79? That would be my number one for the year. That song sounds like it came down from heaven.
The Tusk double album was this band's admission that they didn't want to make another Rumours. The true identity of Fleetwood Mac.
Magic.
"Sail On" helped me through my divorce.
"I know it's a shame
But I'm giving you back your name"
She wasn't worthy to keep my last name.
"I gave you my heart
And I tried to make you happy
And you gave me nothing in return
You know, it ain't so hard to say
Would you please just go away"
We haven't spoke in 10 years and I raised our son on my own.
I just wanted her to go away and leave us alone.
She granted my wish and we've been fine.
I specifically remember this week from 1979. I had started my sophomore year of high school and home life had become so turbulent that had I remained where I was, I'd have likely dropped out of school and been well on my way to drug addiction and an early grave. I eventually had to run away from home to avoid a domestic violence situation and while on the road, I remember listening to AT 40 the first week My Sharona hit #1. During the following couple weeks, I was rescued from that situation and moved to another location, another school; a much more stable environment. I remember in my new home reading a section of the newspaper which published the top 10 hits and tracking My Sharona for it's entire six week run at #1. Many nights in my new home with the radio on and listening to songs that to this day take me back to when peace and stability started this very week in 1979.
I was 4 through 14 in the '70's and it was my favorite time in life, ESP music wise. Thank you for doing this video. I am all '70's, and I truly miss those days and ALL the music! AM and Kasey Kasem is still where I live. I would hide in the closet all night listening to AM waiting for my favorite songs. Now all I have to do is turn on Professor or Rock!!💔💔❤❤.
1979 was the year my Dad unexpectedly died and for the next few years the songs on the radio became my comfort and my best friends.
Sept 22nd 1979, I was hung over. My 18th birthday was the day before. I had my first studio apt. Man I blasted my Sony stereo and head phones with all those hits in 79. Loved Disco, Rock, Pop hits, R & B and even some country western. Like Kenny Rogers, Dolly Parton, soft rock, etc. Was a senior in HS only had my art class to go too every morning. Then worked full time at Burger King about half a mile from my apt. Right in the middle of a college downtown Milwaukee, WI.
I got as far as Dion Warwick and I was almost in tears. My mom who I took care of for about 15 years, having had me when she was 41, in 1971, used to run home from working at a dry cleaners to watch the soap opera "All My Children"! I was just a kid but I more often than not was dragged into watching with her if I happened to be home 😂
She'd fill me in , and I ended up enjoying it more than I would have admitted back then. I was trying to be cool and that's not the coolest thing a kid in the 4th grade can do necessarily 😂
So there were two main characters named Tad and Jenny (also Susan Lucci played the villainess Erika Kane and although often nominated for an Emmy it became a running joke that she never won the prestigious award for daytime TV)
So Tad and Jennys song was "I Know I'll never love this way again" and it remained a favorite song of my mom's (and mine) right up until 4 years ago when she passed away at 87.
She was my best friend and my favorite person to spend time with! I took her to see Sinatra but also Paul McCartney...she loved music and laughter and was just this bright light, the center of my universe and now... now the song takes on a whole new meaning for me. I'll never love anyone as much as I loved my mom (who could here a song by Ozzy Osbourne or Black Sabbath and not only know who was singing, but if I started to explain the lyrics or talk she would say "Shush! Tell me after, I'm trying to here the song!"
Unique for a woman in her 80s, but she WAS unique! She had no meanness in her, made everyone feel at ease and as a single mother did everything necessary to raise me and although we moved from Philadelphia to all over Florida, even Montreal Canada where she was born, we were always singing! I'm passionate about music and have eclectic tastes and as my mom would say "I come by it honestly". I was raised with music as something that was important! Something worth getting excited about and it made me who I am.
So I'll watch the next 7 songs but I haven't thought of that one in years and it really hit me hard, just that little bit. I'm probably going to have to listen to it in full immediately following this but man! I doubt there could be something that has as profound an effect on me as that one. Just such a beautiful memory of a time when we she and I were young and together!
They say our sense of smell is the closest link to our memories but hearing a song can absolutely take us back just as well it seems.
Ok, back to it then... coming in at number 6 is....🎸🎶🎵🎤🎼✌️❤️🙏
Happy 50th, Young Pup!
You are SO lucky you had a great mom. It sounds like she was a really fun person. My mom watched TV all the time. It was like not having a mom for me.
@@dianecaldwell1831 I am very lucky indeed, she was like the Sun and I revolved around her light like the moon. I'm truly sorry to hear that, my friend Joe has a similar story. He loved to talk to my mom (she was so easy to talk to, just like hanging out with a friend so my friends gravitated to her and forgot all about me 😂)
My friend Joe's mom was terrible, really scarred him emotionally. Even to this day and he's in his 60s! He wouldn't mind me telling his story so once. Once he found his mom had gotten drunk and fallen in the bathroom. She'd hit her head on the toilet and was bleeding profusely. He ran to a neighbor and called 911 , he was very young and scared. The ambulance came, treated her head and left. As soon as they were gone, she best him for "letting other people know what goes on in our house!" If you can imagine. She put him down and belittled him so much that when he went on to join the army and completed boot camp, with the drill sergeant screaming at him the way they do to break you down so they can build you back up into a soldier right? He said "That's it? That was nothing! My mom was much worse than that! "
He really thought there'd be more! The constant berating he took from his mother was so much worse than he got from the drill sergeant. His Dad was indifferent. Just stayed out of it. Maybe you relate to that, not feeling like someone cares.
In his case, his dad didn't know HOW to show affection...it wasn't lack of love but it felt that way to him . He said until his son was born he only understood love as a concept. He'd never really understood what it was to love and be loved.
I don't know if you're talking about now, or in the past. If you're very young and living with your mom now. Maybe you're out of the house. I know from personal experience with my brother, he's 10 yrs older and we haven't spoken in years. I'm easy to get along with but he's lost everyone. He isn't happy with himself and won't stand for you being happy. He'll make sure you're as miserable as he is, he lives for drama and arguments.
I was angry for many years, I had a huge resentment.
I had to learn to forgive him for my own good. I've heard it said that having a resentment is like drinking poison and expecting the other guy to get sick. 😂
I'd lay awake nights thinking about how he hurt me and what I might do to get even. Meanwhile he was asleep right? So I forgave him. For me. It doesn't mean that I approve of his behavior toward me, it means I refuse to allow him to occupy space in my head anymore. I don't want to feel angry. I want to be at peace. You can't have both right? So if you can't talk to her about it. If you have tried to let her know how you feel and it didn't work out. For YOU! Try and forgive her, don't let her steal your joy! You deserve to be happy. Nobody can stop you from being happy unless you let them. You've got to get to a place where you say "I've tried, and maybe the future is going to be different. Some people change. Some don't, or can't. Either way you have to tell yourself it's not you it's them, and even if they behave in a way that hurts me, I'm going to accept it. That's how it is and maybe they just don't know how to be any different .
Once you've attempted to have a loving relationship and it looks like you can't do anything more. You can't change them, but you can get past it. Forgive them even if you don't mean it at first, but don't let anyone prevent you from being happy! You deserve a chance at joy and peace and if you can't find love with your mom, you'll find it with others who will appreciate you, and everything that's beautiful you and it'll be her loss.
Don't be too fast to give up trying to talk to her, and diplomatically resolve things first before resorting to the extreme thing I had to do with my brother. I forgave him and cut ties with him but I tried a thousand times first!
God bless you, I hope you got something out of this comment. You're going to be fine. My friend Joe is an extreme example of an abusive household... physically and mentally. Mine was mentally when it came to my brother but I always had my mom, some friends. My brother is a sociopath and I don't know how. Same mother but just different from me, from her! Nothing special happened he just turned out that way!
I wish you ALL GOOD THINGS, that's what you deserve...joy , peace, happiness. We all deserve it and we can all have it! You're no exception!
I was lucky to have had my mom though. I had other stuff to overcome, life is difficult. No way around that for anyone. Never give up on being completely happy! It's within your reach as much as any of us!!🎸🎶☮️❤️🙏
P.S. maybe you're happy now! 😂 I just thought of that..I hope so! Bless you just the same ❤️✌️🙏
Aug 1979 Sugar hill gang ... Rappers delight was huge single The 1st big rap song
What a beautiful memory of life's gifts that will live on forever in your memories
In 1979 I was a sophomore at Maui High School and all these songs bring back fantastic memories!I Am by Earth Wind & Fire was one of my favorite albums from that year!Aloha from Hawaii🤙🏽
September 1979, senior year in high school couldn't wait till June.
Very cool. Hopefully this brought up some memories.
@@ProfessorofRock sure did, thanks for playing "Rise" forgot about that one. My dad too had Herb Albert albums and played them in the 60s always brings back memories.
You're old
@@nicktaylor2657 no shit.
My freshman year in high school...
Speaking of 1979. I was sitting at McDonald's at CAIRNS Esplanade Tropical Far North Queensland AUSTRALIA a few months ago, and on came this song I hadn't heard since 1979! (My second year of university). I INSTANTLY started quietly singing along to it such is it's INFECTIOUSNESS ... The song being none other than "You CAN'T Change THAT" by the band RADYO! Featuring of course Ray Parker Junior ... I was recently in Thailand and I immediately fell in love with this girl and created a video of her featuring "You CAN'T Change THAT!" ... I'll upload it to RUclips soon as a DEDICATION to this Thai beauty ... "GREAT Songs NEVER Die!" ... Thanks for your channel. It is Awesome as indeed so are you.
Raydio?
Very touching for this Aussie to hear your LRB experience as a child! Together with some others, LRB are to me the sound of Australian childhood summers in the 80s.
I’m with you .
Love LRB
Also with Farnham
Those harmonies are amazing
Dimantina Cocktail was 1977... :-)
My dad and I use to rock out to little river band greatest hits album back in the day. I wasn't even born in 1979 I was born 2 years later in 1981 but my mom and dad use to play all kinds of 70s music and I think it's one of the best decades of music along with the 60s 80s and 90s. Everytime I hear LRB I think about my dad. He's been gone for 31 years now but he's never far from my thought and memories. Thank you far all that you do and I really like this series
How one earth could you forget about Supertramp? They ruled that year with the hit album "Breakfast In America". Besides the title track the album contained "The Logical Song", "Goodbye Stranger", and "Take the Long Way Home".
V ideos killed the radio star By The Buggles Funky town , Rappers delight Sugar hill gang . Rock with you MJ , Were very big hits in 1979 As well
And April wine I LKE TO ROCK And Triumph Lay it on the lin Were Big hits in 1979
POR was counting down the top 10 hits of a particular week in 1979, not the top 10 hits of 1979.
How "on" earth.
Did they chart in the US? I'm from Canada & I agree with you but they seem to have been one of those forgotten bands that the States never really got. We still get the "'tramp" here on independent stations but now that big Corp has taken over radio in rural northern areas, we don't hear them so much anymore...
Anyways, most of the countdown is based on American Top 40
I was born in September of 1979 and I can tell you wholeheartedly I listened to a lot on this playlist and will continue to do so from time to time.
1979- the year I graduated high school and entered college! A LOT of memories from that year!
Yes we're old 🤣
I got my high school diploma that year also. I was in the Navy and took the GED test while on a Med Cruise. I actually took the test in Naples Italy. So I always claim I'm an alum of Naples Hight. LOL. That year was very influential in my life and music played a big part.
I graduated from high school that year also. What an innocent time, and so very long ago!
Yes..all the class of 79. Now just don't look at the outfits! Yes, we are old but consider the alternative! Cheers! .I was a sailor too shipmate but I joined in 86 after years of floating around! USNAVY.86-91!
Yes! I also graduated high school in '79 and I remember that fall being away from home for the very first time at college. What a thrill to be "on my own" for the first time. One of my friends had a bolt box for a car and four of us would drive around listening to many of these songs blasting from an 8-track and crappy speakers... hahaha. That winter I remember an epic snowball fight in the dorm parking lot with about 20 kids involved. Someone had their speakers pointed out a dorm window playing ELO (and Boston) as we all pelted each other with snowballs. What a blast that was! It was so great coming of age in the 70's and 80's.
Hearing "Don't Bring Me Down" takes me instantly back to a room in my grandma's basement where she had an old record player. I had just bought ELO's new album and had to wait through a two hour drive to my grandma's before I could listen to it. I think we listened to "Don't Bring Me Down" close to 24 hours straight, before ever listening to another tune on the album, that didn't happen till the next day...we were stuck on this amazing song and couldn't stop singing it. One of the best memories of my life, remember it like it was yesterday. Like a whole new world had just opened it's door...and to be honest, I have tears in my eyes as I'm writing this.....I would give all I have to go back to that room, to that time and to that music. It changed my life.
I also met the Beatles in my grandma's basement, but that's a story for another day:)
A quick edit cuz' I'm bored...The record player at my grandma's house had a speaker system that went into every room, so I would fill the whole house with each new album I brought over. Van Halen's "And The Cradle Will Rock" was the last song they let me play throughout the entire house...after that, it was limited to the room in the basement:)
I love The Little River Band! I have a lot of their music on my iTunes playlist…
So here's my contribution to the stories about old songs. Back in the day, i lived right down the street from the local DJ for our "big" station. He was a member of the corvette club and i have been a gear head since i was 8 and my dad let me rebuild a 383 with him (may he rest in peace). One summer day i was giving his vet the once over and he came out and started talking to me. I had heard him on the radio but had no idea that i was talking to him in his driveway. After about 20 minutes of BSing about cars he asked if i liked music. I told him i did and he wanted to know what kind. I said "anything but opera" (it still gives me a headache when i hear those sopranos) but everything else was fair game. He opened his front door and i almost lost my mind. He had boxes in three rows across his living room with albums in them. He came back with a double album that had a spaceship on the cover with a really cool insert that was the inside of the ship with two planet looking things power it. The records were blue. I was in love with ELO from then on. The music was awesome. The art was out of this world (ok, i'm leaving that but it was unintentional) and their is something about have a record that isn't black that i just love (i later found out the had a yellow one too). That man was my best friend that summer, till he moved to another state that fall.
Listening to these songs brings back some bittersweet memories. My dad passed away in October of ‘79, when these songs were popular. I was only eight.
“Sail On” is poignant because my older sister purchased that record not long after his death and the song always makes me think about my dad.
That being said, I enjoyed the music on this list. Thanks!
You make the lunch time of a teacher so much better! Greetings from Brazil! I'm a 90's kid but the charts on the 70's and 80's are definitely something else, I'm lucky enough because I was raised by a father who introduced me to the likes of Earth Wind and Fire, Commodores and so on.
Awesome! Thank you for watching.! What do you teach?
@@ProfessorofRock Thanks for replying! I teach ESL (English as a Second Language), most of my early memories with English have something to do with music, I would listen to songs and try to understand the lyrics, so many good memories doing that.
@@EduardoSantos-dj1rf That's very cool. Glad to hear it!
I was 13 in 1979 and I remember telling people My Sharona was the greatest song of all time. As I look back, I no longer believe that but I still think it’s a fantastic song with a guitar solo I’ve always thought was underrated. I also loved ELO and Little River Band. Never a big Charlie Daniels fan. Sad Eyes is one of my wife’s favorite songs from that year. Thanks, Adam. You are terrific!
I was 17 in '79, it just seemed all the songs were about me. Not true, it just seemed that way. And that is good music.
Me too. I agree with everything you said. I too was 13-14 in 79.
Ha ha
Ditto
My Sharona on my phone today
Great song to work out to!
I was 12 years old with just a radio and an open mind/ear and wou,d be glued to the radio in the evenings. We were truly blessed to have lived through such great influential eras.
Da da da da dum dum My Scarotum!
'78 and '79 were both amazing years for music.
Maybe the best YEARS back to back EVER
@@theodoreritola764183/84 is in the running also.
Professor, thank you so much for spotlighting the year 1979. If I had to choose my favorite music years, 1979 would easily be in my top 5. That year, I was 14 years old and in Junior High School. I religiously listened to the radio and followed the music charts. I remember every song in this week's top 10 and loved every one of them. 1979 was a very special year in music and a great way to close out my favorite decade in music, the 1970s.
1979 should be in everybody's top five. That was the year that Neil Young and Crazy Horse released the album Rust Never Sleeps. Also, the movie called Rust Never Sleeps and an album called Live Rust were released that year.
Hey hey, My my...
I've paused this ..then told Alexa to play every song on this list.... And I was 11 again back in Long Island and playing Wiffle Ball with my friends as this music played out of the radio that summer... Thanks Man 😊👍♥️✝️🇺🇸
This was my freshman year in college, so lots of music hits me.
“Baker Street” by Gerry Rafferty
‘My Sharona” by The Knack
“All My Love” by Led Zeppelin
Albums that had a big impact:
‘Breakfast in America’ - Supertramp
“Pheonix” - Dan Fogelberg (issued that November)
And the very top album for me was “Stormwatch” by Jethro Tull, which completed the trilogy that began with ‘77’s “Songs From the Wood.”
It was issued on 9/14/79, the week prior to the focus of this video.
I love Tull! 💜 So unique.
Yup. I just recounted how it was this very week that year I was plucked out of a hellish situation and found peace and stability. Baker Street, All of My Love, My Sharona, all of Breakfast in America and many more tunes form a soundtrack that takes me back. I didn't get into Jethro Tull till I was much older... I'll have take a listen and see if that sparks memories.
I was a junior in high school, so many of these songs take me back there, especially “My Sharona” by The Knack and anything from the Led Zeppelin In Through The Out Door album that came out August 1979. I’m a big ELO fan! Supertramp was a good one too. I have wonderful memories of the music from that year!
@@lhobs9782 This year was the best ever in the 70's for me, the top 100 billboard songs didn't have one in them that sucked ! I also bought albums like Led Zep's "In Through The Out Door", Manfred Mann's "Angel Station", Frank Zappa's "Joe's Garage Act I", Van Halen II, The Tubes "Remote Control", The Knack's "Get The Knack", Supertramp's "Breakfast In America" and the like. Best year ever for rock and pop in the 70's !!
Pink Floyd The Wall
I was 22 and loving it, 1979 was one of the highlights of my 65 years so far.
Hello Prof. I bought that ELO album in 1979, I was 20 yrs.old then, what memories. I brought it home and played it through, different from other ELO lps, it was more awesome to me. All the music in 79 was great that Commodores I bought on 8-track to play in my car ( 1973 Pontiac Grand am, pimped out, American Racing Wheels, 60 series BF Goodrich tires awesome ride) I went to see the Allman Brothers Band, Peter Frampton In-Concert. Thanks to all my Rock brothers and sisters.
I remember listening to Doctor Dimento in the old days when Weird Al became who he is. I believe My Bologna was the first song I heard and Dimento made it sound like it was coming from this new talented kid. A welcome change from "fish heads". Soon enough it basically became the Weird Al radio show. So cool someone so talented could find a way to prominence and entertain us all.
I used to sneak the radio into my room and listen to DR Demento on Sunday nights. Loved every minute of it.
@@valgilson6504 Crazy, right?!! That something THAT unique could exist back then. You could see it today with millions of content providers. But his show really did exist when there were only a few!
Oh wow, I had totally forgotten about Dr. Demento. My fav song was "Ti Kwan Leep" aka Boot To The Head by The Frantics!
Dude- I remember when Dr. Demento broadcasted his show from the basement of Pasadena Preysbetaran Church thus the call letters KPPC. They went legit in the 70s. They changed the call letters sometime later.
Anyway Dr. Demento was around probably you were even born.
BTW He was a music professor at USC.
Sitting in the back of a station wagon, riding along with a group of friends to see him in Encinitas. Love these memories! 😊
1979…sooo many awesome songs came out that year! The summer of ‘79 was one of the best times of my life. Thanks for covering this year
Mine to
This is an awesome series Professor ! Great music, great stories and a wonderful trip down memory lane. In 1979 I was going into the 6th grade. I remember all the great releases that year including-Styx-Pat Benatar-Supertramp-Kiss-ELO-Blondie-The Cars--etc. So many great and iconic albums-light years away from today’s mostly boring, repetitive and disposable music.
There’s so much amazing music nowadays.
@@maplesyrup4881 For example?
Yay! I love that you're continuing this series! You do such a fabulous job of bringing the songs, artists, and fans together! Thank you, Professor 🙏
You're welcome! We really want this to be a regular feature and hope it will grow. Please share. Thanks you for your continued support! You're awesome!
@Allison Ringhold I totally agree with you! I love this series! I’m happy he’s making this a regular segment.
The Professor does an amazing job with this and I can hardly wait to see his interviews and stories!
@@ProfessorofRock Fantastic concept ...looking for your showcasing of a 1986 top ten... my favourite year for music...shout out from Barbados!!!
@@ProfessorofRock I thought I was the p.o.rock , when I was younger, having read every album cover front to back.You are an inspiration to us all ! The memory's that u share are so touching and relatable. Anyway my favorite song of that year is CRUEL TO BE KIND by Nick Lowe! would love to see you feature it one day , best to you &yours ... jukebox donnie.
My memory of My Sharona was I really liked the song and my Mom worked at a radio station and they were taking it out of rotation so she brought it home to me, however it had no dust jacket. I asked where the cover was and she told me that it didnt have one. Years later she said she threw the dust jacket away before bringing the 45 home because she thought it was inappropriate for her 16 year old son.
"My Sharona" was a really good tune. It got a rebirth in the early 90's when it was featured in the movie "Reality Bites". "Don't Bring Me Down" is classic ELO.
Jeff Lynne is iconic. And yes, I remember roller skating to it. Lionel Ritchie and The Commodores had so many great tunes. "Three Times A Lady" is my fave. Thanks, Proff. '79 was a memorable year, a ton of huge songs. Love the list!!
Very cool! I love to hear this. We really want this to be a regular feature.
@@ProfessorofRock Great idea!! Count me in!👍
ELO 👍🏻
Jeff Lynne was also in a group called The Move, a proto ELO. They recorded Do Ya (a very goo version IMO) and several other songs that were repopularized by ELO
I was surprised to learn recently that the lead singer passed away a few years back )-:
I love Earth Wind & Fire! Maurice White was a huge blessing from above! Angel voice! 🥰🥰🥰
"after the love is gone" intro is quite possibly the best ever. Beautiful.. Thanks, Adam. 1979 has a special place in my high school memories.
One vivid memory I have from 1979 (The year me and my family migrated to Australia) is that ELO's alboum. Last Train to London and Need Her Love are stuck in my brain to the point that the whole 1979 truck of memories come back to me (even smells and flavours) everytime music from that alboum is played.
The Knack rocked the summer of 1979 with the classic riff of My Sharona. They tried to replicate it in 1980 with Baby Talks Dirty but the thrill was gone.
Very true. Didn't have the same magic.
I actually loved all of The Knack’s first 3 albums! The third album, “Round Trip”, was easily their best.
They did have a hit with Good Girls Don't (But I Do).
@@georgeharris6851 That was also on Get The Knack. But The Little Girls Understand yielded no hits - Baby Talks Dirty stalling in the 30's .
It was ok but overrated out the wazuu! It disappeared farely quickly. Certainly were no Beatles.
I loved every one of these songs! I'm really looking forward to your piece on The Little River Band
They were my first concert in 1982. I still remember it.
Man, ALL TEN SONGS are absolute bangers!!! When was the last time we were able to say that? It's been a while. Proud Gen X guy here, keeping the music alive!!!
Chuck Mangione's song was used in Dr. Strange in a music trivia quiz in the OR. "The man had a top ten hit with a fligelhorn."
Flugelhorn
I was 10 years old and remember all these songs growing up!!! This brought back so many nice memories! I went just about every week roller skating at the local skating rink. I was obsessed with Blondie back then!!!
I feel so blessed to grow up in that time!
I was just watching Coyote Ugly yesterday and was commenting on their use of Devil Went Down to Georgia as a line dance on the bar... It’s almost like it was written for that scene... It’s always awesome when old songs are used effectively, not to mention exposing another generation to great music... Also, giving them their own pop culture reference to tie the music to... Thanks for the video Professor, love the series Redux... hope to see some 83-84 summers covered in Redux sometime... Rock on Professor!
Great movie, I'd forgotten that song was in it. I was an assistant manager for a very large Blockbuster video store in Miami when it came out so I got to see it a bit earlier than anyone who hadn't gone to the theater.
I watched it even though I was trying to quit drinking at the time and although I haven't had a drink in years, I have seen it at least once since and I love that they have only beer and whiskey 😂
A bar after my own heart!! 😂 At the time I'm sure it all looked very appealing and wasn't easy to watch but now I may take another look. I only remember going into not knowing what the title meant..."When you'd rather chew your own arm off then wake up the person you slept with..." Great title right?
I've always loved that song, it's like being told this story about Johnny and the Devil.
I don't know if you've noticed but there's the "told you once you son of a bitch version.. and the son of a gun politically correct version" I don't like CENSORSHIP when it comes to something as subjective as the arts. Like talking Michelangelo's Venice de Milo and putting clothes on that amazing sculpture.
@@stanphillips7277 I know right? I absolutely hate censorship in all areas... when will people realize that if they don’t like something then don’t watch, listen or look at it? As far as Coyote Ugly’s reference to chewing arm off, I used to drink a bit for awhile and I woke up to a few hangovers and Coyote sightings in my time... glad I didn’t chew anything off though... I’d be like the armless, legless knight from Monty Python! Wouldn’t change the good times from then, but I’d sure as hell weed out the bad ones...lol
Piper Perabo! 💕💜
@@randymcmullen538 It's not rocket science right? No one is forcing anyone to look at or listen to anything! Yeah I wouldn't change the good times, I was just thinking about a time when my uncle who hadn't seen me since I was around 12 or something came to visit from Montreal Canada where my mom was born. He still lived there but we'd moved from Philadelphia to Florida and back when I was growing up on average maybe every 3 months. We were here in Miami and I was 18 and graduating from a computer programming school, and my mom loved red wine, my uncle was a beer guy, and she was throwing me a party. Sometime during his stay we just hung out at the kitchen table drinking beer and then we tapped in to my aunt's vodka. He was runny. A storyteller like a white Bill Cosby. Never in a hurry.
I also was a Rock and Roll party animal and had some amazing times that I wouldn't change for anything, but yeah I'd be missing a few limbs myself! That's funny, the Knight from Monty Python!! 😂 Great image to conjure!! Now I'm laughing a bit just visualizing that... what was that? The Search for the Holy Grail I think. That's one of the coolest things about RUclips is you can search for clips like that super easy and someone's usually uploaded just that clip!
Ya know, I might run long but alright. Ya know Archie Bunker and how All in the Family was this groundbreaking show with such anti racist/sexist/discrimination of any kind they seemed to cover. Always making the point of being anti Archie's ignorant and racial stereotyping way of being right?
I've seen them edit out almost everything he says!! Kyke , Wap, Spic, Polok and so on. It's infuriating to think that some genius in
Standards and practices decided to take a show that was making all of theses great sociological points against discrimination, and since everyone was watching was probably as much of an instrument for change in those areas as anything, and just butcher it!! It's ironic right? A show that's saying don't say that, don't think that way you're wrong and taking the message out in the name of not offending everyone!! That's the point! He offends everyone, and Mike Gloria and Edith tell him how narrow minded and wrong he is! You strip a show of the language that it's saying you shouldn't use!! That's just F__king poetic!!
Ok , so that's just one example but that one bothered me as much as anything!! I once called a radio station to tell them they were playing Van Morrison's "Brown eyed girl" and taking out the lyric "... making love in the green grass" and the DJ had no idea, they received a remastered CD and popped it in but weren't paying attention 😂 , meanwhile The Who was still saying "Who the F__k are you" at the end.
They started playing the uncensored version after that 😂
This was in maybe the mid 90s and it's just getting worse, everyone is either too sensitive, or more often looking for something to complain about!
There's plenty of real things to be concerned about that are far worse than singing "making love...." right?
Ok, I had to get that outta my system for some reason 😂
Stay cool!! ✌️
I absolutely LOVE watching Reaction Videos. It really blows my mind sometimes that people are discovering music I grew up with. Then I remember I grew up with an extremely eclectic playlist.
My personal favorite is "Ain't No Stoppin' Us Now", but "After the Love Has Gone" still gets covered a LOT.
Such an excellent list!
I look forward to your piece on Little River Band. Their were bands and groups in the Golden Era that really had harmony.
I love the Bee Gees' harmony on "Too Much Heaven," but I love LRB's "Lonesome Loser".
Wow, what a list!
Thank you, brother Adam!
I've been hoping he'd do a story or something on them for awhile. Cool Change Is my fave.
I agree as a longtime Bee Gees, Little River Band, and Steely Dan fan. I thought LRB was an American band. That 70's West Coast sound was what I heard as I listened to them. Big fan of harmonies especially some the more sophisticated ones like Steely Dan and Stevie Wonder use. I guess as a saxophone player and musicologist I have a wide palate.
@@seanswinton6242 Great song! I'd also live to hear the story of " We Too"😀
I was in a band in 1979 when I was 18. We played “My Sharona” 3 times at a house party. That’s what the drunk party teens wanted. They paid us with two cases of beer. Oh man, those were the best of times. Thanks for this countdown.
My cousin, who now lives in Beverly Hills, is named Sharona, and the song always reminds me of her. And who can forget Maxine Nightingales' Get Right Back to Where We Started From. Excellent year. Gives any year in the 1980s a run for the money.
What a great week and year in popular music! Wonderful count down. If anyone ever attempts to resurrect American Top 40, they should pay what ever it takes to get you to be Casey Kasem's successor. You would be perfect. It would be great to have it in a podcast type format or RUclips.
Great idea he would be the perfect replacement/host
American Top 40 never left, only now it's hosted by Ryan Seacrest. Plus the music has changed so much, not sure people like us like it anymore.
Sirus XM's 70s on 7 plays classic eps of American Top 40 on Saturdays. I agree that the Professor would be a worthy successor.
Rick Dee's was Kasey Kasems first successor.
Dear prof. I am so glad I subscribed to your channel having graduated in 1980 these songs bring back awesome memories. I didn't expect to have tears in my eye after listening to your devil went down to Georgia story! Your channel works because its evident to anyone with half a brain that you are authenticly excited about your subject matter. Keep on rocking and keep up the good work
Great video. Great music! How about doing a vlog on Johnny Rivers? Such an underrated artist. Saw him in concert in the early 80's. One of the best concerts I have ever been too.
This whole list of songs have taken me on a ride, a wild ride. I started this ride on a roller coaster on a wild track, towards the end, the roller coaster car jumped the rail and was free flying through the air... A drug free trip.
Sad eyes was a beautiful song. Rise: One of those songs you automatically close your eyes when you hear it.
Oh my! My Sharona... the memories. I already was living in South America and I was 14. I bought this LP. There was a day time prom in my high school and us kids got together (with teachers permission), in a storage room annexed to the stadium where the prom was taking place. We took some food and beverages and we danced the whole prom through. My Sharona was the first song they played and it was repeated every hour on the hour since it was so amazing (at that time), it was considered new wave.
Man, the cool crisp morning and listening 🎧 to this takes me straight back to my room sitting on my bed 🛏️ in 1979. Great memories.
Once again the algorithm delivers :) In 1979 I was 6/7, and thus hadn't developed my musical identify as yet, that happened in the 80s, but it was sad year for me as we moved from our farm to Sydney here in Australia, and I left all of my school friends behind. It took me about 35 years to return to the country :)
1979 was the year I got my first job, and with my first paycheck I bought ELO - Discovery, The Knack - Get The Knack, Supertramp - Breakfast In America and Cheap Trick - Live At Budokan. Technically Live At Budokan came out in 1978, but most of the hits from the album came out in 1979. Good memories.
1979, I was 16 and could listen to the radio for hours without getting bored. Never a better year for pop music (in my opinion).
I love that you added tidbit about Cheryl Ladd recording "I'll Never Love this Way Again." In 1978, Cheryl Ladd was my first celebrity crush. I was such a fan that I bought her debut solo album and will always prefer it over the Dionne Warwick version. In 1979, I was a pre-teen and would go on many campouts with my Boy Scout troop. A couple of us would bring our tape player/recorders to listen to music(This was before "ghetto blasters) One of the guys in the troop had Robert John's "Sad Eyes" on a mixtape and he seemed to play that over and over during a weekend campout. The high falsetto chorus still rings in my ears and reminds me of those campout weekends. Charlie Daniels "Devil Went Down to Georgia" was a song I had on a couple of mixtapes that I would take on these campouts too. I remember making my own mixtape with my cousin's single copy of "My Sharona" My older sister bought an 8-track copy of "Get the Knack" that was eventually handed down to me. That album became one of my all-time favorite power-pop albums.
I remember having the hots for Cheryl too. I think I had hit puberty. Unfortunately I didn't even know about her singing career.
They were really sexing her up with that album cover.
I was 20 yrs old and saw Charlie playing on 12/31/1980 at the Rosemont Horizon he played "The Devil Went Down To Georgia" right after we rang in the new year. The place was so full of crowd noise during the concert. I was about 3 rows back center stage. When he started playing the song. The place got deathly quite and not a peep was made during the entire performance. Seemed obvious to me what we all came to hear that night. Also there was this girl in the second row, that was drunk on peppermint Schnapps, whose boyfriend got in a fight with security. she fell into my lap and planted a huge kiss on me and tried to get my brother as well. funny as hell to see the look on his wife's face as she tried to plaster him. def a night to remember. I know this is not from 1979, but it just flooded my brain with the memories and I wanted to share them anyway.
I always thought the "Devil" played way better in The Devil Went Down To Georgia! I've always loved that groove the "Devil" had lol!
hehe, the bit that goes with the country punk story.
I also liked the devil’s fiddle better. More Jamming.
Agreed. And that groovy lower register piano line always reminded me of the Velvet Underground’s “European Son.” I wonder if that was an inspiration?!?
So, my son Tom S. choked me up with that dedication for "Don't Bring Me Down" from ELO. Thomas, thanks my son! Yes, it took me 40 years to see Jeff Lynne heading ELO, and then got to see them twice in 2 years! (Chicago and Atlanta). Even though ELO Part 2 was scolded by many, they kept Jeff's music alive and we were fortunate enough to meet Kelly Groucutt (RIP you awesome bass player and best back up singer to Jeff!), Bev Bevan, Mik Kaminski, Eric Troyer, Phil Bates, and the great Louis Clark (RIP also you great string arranger you!) Tom now has the Illinois license plate ELO PT 2 that was signed by all of the members. The whole group was awesomely friendly and talkative. Thanks Professor of Rock for this great mention and video! Made my whole year!
I really enjoy this format!! Listening to songs from the past brings back so many memories! Keep them coming!
Some facts about Jeff Lynne (ELO)...First, he is a very humble man, simply because this Music Genius is not interested in fame, the limelight, and money, he just loves to create great music. Jeff Lynne is one of the most versatile musicians ever, this is why he is considered by his peers to be among the greatest. He didn't stick to one style of music because, after decades, it gets boring. Jeff has done progressive Rock, Symphonic Rock - Pop, New wave, and Disco.
Everything he does turns to gold. He even flirted with Country music. From 1972 to 1986 (During 14 years) Jeff Lynne's Electric Light Orchestra has had more top 40 hits than any other group in the world... 51 years later they still play in sold-out Arenas, festivals and Stadiums. During Jeff Lynne's ELO 2019 Tour, many reviews agreed in saying they are the best live Classic Rock Band in the world still touring and Jeff Lynne is a Music Genius( From Forbes Magazine and the Washington Post).
ELO is in the Rock Hall of Fame. Lynne is on the Hollywood Walk Of Fame and Birmingham Walk OF Fame. Jeff Lynne’s ELO won the Best Classic Rock Band plus Lynne won the best Songwriter award ( ASCAP ) in 2019 for his fantastic contribution over the years. In October of 2020, Jeff Lynne has been made an officer of The Order Of The British Empire for his extraordinary contribution to music. He previously has received three Ivor Novello Awards, which celebrate songwriters and composers, including the award for outstanding services to British music.
He created the best Super Group of all time with his best friend George Harrison, The Traveling Wilburys. The Legends in the Music Industry call Jeff Lynne the best overall Musician ever and a Producer Extraordinaire. Jeff Lynne has written and produced many hit songs for music legends like George Harrison, Roy Orbison, Tom Petty, Joe Walsh, Brian Wilson, Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Bryan Adams, Aerosmith, Del Shannon, the Everly Brothers, The Beatles, and so many others...
ELO’s Don’t Bring Me Down is one of my all time favorite song of all time!
I was 24 in 1979 and saw Little River Band in concert, in Vancouver. When they played "Reminiscing", then entire arena just went nuts, epic night, very good memory !!
I grew up with Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass as well!! '68 model here.
Sept 1979, the beginning of my senior year, this video is so nostalgic. Still love 79’s music and some songs never get old but I’m still sick of My Sharona, it was so overplayed!
Great video though and I miss how varied pop and rock music was, and the level of talent and musicianship that was required.
It’s amazing how music evokes emotions from and about the past. In September 79 I was beginning senior year of high school with all those happy memories. As soon as I heard the Lonesome Loser cuts, I thought of the great times my brothers and I had listening to baseball together on the radio. We were huge Pittsburgh Pirates fans, and they won it all that fall. We listened to every game and we loved it when the team played Lonesome Loser when the visiting team had to change pitchers. As the pitcher being pulled walked to the dugout, they would blast, “Have you heard about the lonesome loser?” ELO was my favorite band (still is) and I was initially disappointed with Don’t Bring Me Down, because it omitted their trademark strings arrangement. But after a while came to realize that it was a good song, and strings wouldn’t have worked in it. Finally, with My Sharona, you can hear a transition from the 70’s to the early 80’s sound that was taking place with the Knack and other bands like Blondie, Devo, the Cars, etc. Aside from being a cool song, i recall reacting to My Sharona as a great new sound. Maybe that novelty explains why it was at the top for so long.
It's always been my opinion, Adam, that My Sharona hitting #1 in August 1979 is the official demarcation point for the death of disco. It unseated a six week run of Donna Summer (Bad Girls) and Chic (Good Times) at the #1 spot on the Billboard Hot 100, and 1979 was really the last big year of disco songs achieving the #1 spot. Diana Ross' four week run at #1 in 1980 with Upside Down was not much more than...an echo in the canyon. What a great week in music! My first year of high school. Every song in the list is etched in my brain...with the diamond needle from my turntable.
These songs really created lots of memories for me. I was in the Army Military Police Stationed in Germany in 1979. This was one of many duty stations. This one was mainly guarding nuclear weapons. Actual police work came after this duty assignment. I remember one night, probably two in the morning, I was on a tower, and it was a very dark night, no moon. My tower was one of 4 towers. I'm standing up there, and off in the distance I could faintly hear someone singing, but it was getting louder. I was thinking, was there someone out there approaching that shouldn't be out there? But the more I listened, it stayed in one place, and seemed to be coming from an area where no intruder should be. The more I listened, the more I realized it was the tower guard from the tower to my right, singing "My Sharona" as loud as he could. Of course it probably wasn't smart to be doing that considering what job we were doing. But at 2am it probably wasn't heard by anyone else but me, and maybe the guard in the tower on the other side of him. These towers were about 80 to 100 yards apart. Honestly I laughed so hard, and more so if you knew the guard. In the barracks he played nothing but soul music, and Rythem, and Blues. His room was across the hall from mine. We had swapped roommates purposely because his roommate was white and mine was black. Our roommates asked if it was Okay to switch because of our music preferences. So we agreed. This is why this tower moment was so funny. He was singing a song from the Knack, which was not the music he played in his room. In fact it was no where near the type of music he played in his room.. It only goes to show that some music can transcend race. When it's good, it's good. I still laugh to this day. He called me on our field phones we had in the towers and asked me to keep it to myself. Which I did. Back at that time you got seriously ribbed for something like that. It's a shame, but it was the times. Anyway I thought that was funny.
Take me back to 1979. Probably one of the best years of my life.
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I'm glad I got stuck
on this channel!
At the end of 1979,
I turned 21
I wouldn't trade places
with anyone!
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Random thoughts: Don't Bring Me Down is my favorite ELO song, hands down. Love LRB. Hated Sad Eyes. Was so glad to see Herb Alpert make a comeback, since my Dad was always bringing home TJB albums when I was a kid.
I'm with you on Herb Alpert. I have the "Rise" album and it's excellent. Years later, I found out that my In Laws had the TJB albums. Good stuff.
I loved Sad Eyes.
Lost a beautiful woman and her wonderful daughter that year.
Herb Alpert had a couple of other popular tracks like Garden Party and Route 101. You'll probably like those. He was resumed recording, some are Latin influenced, but not like his Tijuana Brass material.
@@seanswinton6242 I like Route 101. It went to #37 on the US Charts, #4 on the US AC (Adult Contemporary) in 82.
Sad Eyes got played to deat of top 40 and adult contemp. stations. After a break of 40 years I didn't mind hearing it again.
I turned 13 in '79. Saw my first concert then. It was Styx with Rick Derringer opening. Styx was my favorite band in '79. Their song Babe was #1. There were also other favs. Aerosmith , Kiss , AC/DC , Queen , Black Sabbath , Kansas , Alice Cooper , Lynyrd Skynyrd , Rush and VH. The only song on your list I didn't back then know is Lead Me On.
I can see why he chose this week in 1979. There's a lot of variety here. Great stories, too, especially for The Devil Went Down to Georgia.
Never noticed how the bridge on Welcome to the Jungle was taken, most likely as homage, to the first break you edited in here.
This one hit me hard. “I’ll Never Love this Way Again” reminds me of a classmate who passed away over 20 years ago. This song was out when I was in 1st grade, when she and me were best friends. RIP Christine.
Great Playlist! I was 9 years old in 1979, and I remember these songs well. I love Maxine Nightingale, especially the song "Get Right Back Where We Started From" from 1976. So many facts in this video. I will watch again tonight to write down this list. 😊👍
Another song I like from 1979 is the Spinners cover of "Working My Way Back To You" . The original song was by thr Four Seasons. The Spinners added the endin, "I'm really sorry for acting that way..."
Glad you enjoyed it! WE want you to all bask in the memories.
@@ProfessorofRock Sorry, next time I will focus on the memories. Ther was definitely the roller skating .
I hear Don't Bring Me Down and I'm right back at the bowling alley on a Sarurday night. Good times.
The KNACK… You can’t go wrong with this song. It still rocks to this day!
I love great, melodic vocal harmonies and Little River Band nails it!
The Devil Went Down to Georgia still holds up to this day. Charlie plays the fiddle like a guitar with some of his runs rivaling those of metal guitarist of the 80s. Excellent stuff!
Devil is such a great song. It's definitely stood the test of time.
Little River Band...a favourite then and now. I've worn out several Greatest Hits albums - in many forms - over the years. Each song has withstood the test of time...and STILL triumphs. My "comfort songs" - bringing the best of memories from then - and cementing the now.
It drives me nuts that people think of The Knack as a "one hit wonder band." That entire album, Get The Knack, is fantastic. And one thing that is often criminally overlooked about My Sharona is Berton Averre's tremendous guitar solo.
One of the best solos ever and the single version cut most of it out ruined it. The whole album is one of my favorites. From Let me out to Frustrated
@@pauleaster5832 Came to this post to mention Frustrated and Good Girls Don't. This album is a blockbuster.
Paul Ester, I agree wholeheartedly, as someone that enjoys a great variety of guitar genres, it's always frustrated me that many guitar officio an adas, turn their nose up to it.
I was once told that Andy Summers actually played the solo on the record. Not sure if that's true.
That solo is criminally overlooked,
and has always been
in my top ten
(much like the solo in
Another Nail From My Heart).
The fact that they
seamlessly shift
away from that killer riff,
into a
‘perfect for soloing’
four chord bed,
also adds to the suspense
that something epic
is on its way.
The rhythm section
doesn’t get enough love either.
Having grown up in Jamaica, the birthplace of reggae music, I had a love for all kinds of music, in 1979 I had just started high school, was in 7th grade, I remember all these hits from back then, they all bring back specific memories, this was like a multifaceted walk down memory lane. Well done...
I certainly learnt something from this video; all this time I thought The Little River Band were American.
And just for the heck of it, these are my three favourite songs from 1979:
Dire Straits - Single-Handed Sailor
Gary Numan - Cars
The Buggles - Video Killed The Radio Star
Devil went down to Georgia was the very first 45 I ever bought. I was 9. I remember riding home from school on the bus and just hoping it would come on the radio. One of my favorite songs of all time.
Thank you for bringing back great memories and times with this great new show .
I was 10 years old then just about the time I actually cared about music. This brings back so many wonderful memories of a much easier time. Thank you.
Damn the tunes you spotlighted in this week in 1979 sure brings back great memories of when I was 14 years old & listening to the top 40 countdowns of that time! Got all of them in my extensive music collection! 😊😊😊 Love the spot light top 10 of the given week! 👍🎵👍🎵👍🎵👍🎵👍🎵👍🎵👍
Lost my dad in 1979. The music was my escape. I was 11. Mom loved little river band the commodores and the eagles. All of these are still some of my favorites even through the tears
Cool concept to recalibrate these tunes based on longevity. Some tunes have staying power and others are very much "in the moment". LRB's harmonies are off the charts and Glen Shorrock's lead vocals are superb. Great band! This segment is a reminder of how much music has changed in the last 40 years.
Well said! I can't imagine a lot of these songs being in a top ten today!
Wow Professor...what memories...i was born in 1975 and i can just barely remember sitting in the Den of the first house i ever lived in and looking in awe at my parents' record player and hearing some of these songs that were my first memories of what good music sounded like that filled up my senses...especially "Sad Eyes," a song i always loved, and even moreso Herb Albert's "Rise." Maybe i was a sophisticated child, but even back then i loved the grown-up sounds of adult contemporary music- "Rise" was a song i heard a lot and i guess just learned to love bc it was so smooth and comforting to me...i love episodes like this as much as i love your episodes about the grunge era and the grunge bands i love that i listened to in college! Thats what makes your channel so special; everyday you suprise me with a dose of nostalgia that feels so good and brings back timeless memories and feelings that only music can do! I love you! 😘❤✌️-keep up the good work! Rock on! Xoxox ps- my Mom also watched General Hospital religiously so that was another way that "Rise" was introduced into my life! I, like you, grew up on my parents' music and what was in their beloved record collection- some of my first favorite memories of mine are of going through those records with curiousity and admiring the artwork that used to be on them...those were the days!
Sail on one of the best songs of the seventies....just brilliant
This video made me so happy! In 1979 I was a senior in high school and these songs are definitely on the playlist of my youth. Thanks for sharing.
Summer of 79, I was 14; first loves, playing with friends and hearing ( and loving) My Sharona constantly on the radio. It was a pretty good time 🙂
Rock on! I'm so glad it's taking you back. That's the hope!
Hey Professor, I watched this video with a huge grin in my face. Thinking about that summer of 1979. I was in summer school taking my junior English so I could graduate early. The two songs that you would hear everyone jamming out to on their car stereos were, “Lonesome Loser” and “The Devil Went Down to Georgia”. They were HUGE!! And I remember all the other ones too. “Sad Eyes” sitting by the pool listening to the radio. So many great songs that summer. And watching your video brought it all back. Thanks for that! Still haven’t got the silly grin off my face! See ya next time.
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My favorites are "Good Times", "Le Freak" and "I Want Your Love" by Chic, "Get Off" by Foxy, "(Not Just) Knee Deep" by Funkadelic (the guitar solo in the long version is murderous), "Soft & Wet", "I Wanna Be Your Lover," and "Sexy Dancer" by Prince, "Dance The Night Away" and "Beautiful Girls" by Van Halen, "Holy Ghost" by the BarKays, "Bustin' Loose" by Chuck Brown, "Bustin' Out" by Rick James, "Heart of Glass" by Blondie, "Hold the Line" by Toto, "Double Vision" and "Hot Blooded" by Foreigner...and many more. What can I say, I stayed on the dance floor...
Awesome list!!!
A happy and sad year in my life. First I recall skating to many of those songs, including the extended version of Rise! I fell head over heels in love with a girl that year, that sadly ended. Great list with lots of memories most happy, a few sad. But all precious.
The 1970s had the absolute best music, and this list is a great example of that.
Dear Professor ,thank You for the memories You bring even though and way older than You ,your personal thoughts and memories I can say I have felt too.. thank You