I bought this album when it came out. They played a local bowling alley bar in San Diego circa 1982. Me and the girlfriend went. Their drummer was hittin’ on my GF. 😂 Great show.
In 1975, Shooting Star played for our high senior class party at a friend's house just outside Kansas City in Stanley, Kansas. It was a night I'll never forget.
Tracey McCarty thank you for your service , my brother was in the Navy in the early 80s also and turned me on to these guys , he was on the USS Klackring
Found a cassette in my older brothers room which was off limits , played the shit out of that tape on my new Sony Walkman, Wow who is this group thats rocking it crazy .Shooting Star it was and I am still listening after all these years .Great times , Great memories ,Can never go back in Time But I wish we COULD .The BEST TIMES OF OUR YOUTH FOREVER.
bought this album in 1981....excellent album,underated band...man I was so lucky and blessed to have grown up in the 7O's & 8O's,those of us who did ALL were........................................................Era's best times and the most epic music EVER! (Thank God For RUclips).........................................................................Better Times My Friends💯💗👍💞🎤💫🎸🪅🥁✌☮🕊🌈🌏🙌💜🎇✨....loved this song! 🤍💃✨
Warm summer nights with the windows down, cruising 82nd ave in Portland Oregon in my 65 fairlane and blowing out the speakers listening to shooting star, y and t and all the great bands of that time, God I miss the 80's
For 40 years, this song tormented me because I heard it in 1984 and when I was 10 years old. Never knew who performed it. Until tonight at work. I was blaring Spotify on my BT speaker and researching the band Honeymoon Suite because I thought they might've have done the song. But my speaker was blaring this Steve Perry like voice singing these sad souring lyrics to a familiar piano melody that sudden dropped into that riff ... And I stared at my disbelief. Opened up Spotify and it showed this album cover. And my 40 years or torment are over! Killer. Freaking. Track. I'm 50 now, and this song is timeless and Shooting Star -- like Missouri and Point Blank -- is sorely underrated. All three bands should be on the rotation of every classic rock station out there! 😍
Bought this tape in the 80's! Listened to it so much!1 " HOLLYWOOD"!! Would Bring out the Singer, Dancer, Wild, Girl out!! Whipping my Long Blonde Hair All Around!!Drive Faster!! Play it louder!! Loved it !! Brilliant song ! for a young girl in her early 20's to late 20's!1 now in my 60's!! still moving!! JoJo Thank you!!
This song is bittersweet for me. It brings back good memories of being young but it also reminds me of a long lost friend who first introduced me to this song and band. Very sad. :(
The most incredible band that I ever heard incorporate a violin in their own way!! They deserve to be in the Rock Hall of Fame with the many others!! 😎✌️ 🎶🎶🎶
I saw them last year and this may they blew us away they're incredible live we saw them at ameristar casino, try one of my favorite sonds of all time! Love the violin!!!!
What a great great song. It's bittersweet for me. Reminds me of my high school sweetheart - my first love. Losing her after 6 years broke my heart, but it was my fault.
i heard this song on wls when i got a clear signal in northeast michigan, lucky me, because never heard them anywhere else. would never have know about one of my favorite bands. wish i could go back in time and be at one of their concerts, because they are so much fun
Saddest opening of any rock song (0:00-1:30). A classic. I dare you to listen to that over and over and not feel a pain in your heart. If a rock song can be lyrical, that was it.
I worked a multiband music fest in 1981 as a sound tech. They were the headliner. Fan ever since. They were amazing. Hung with them after the show and ended up being one of their biggest advocates.
unfortunate that bands out of the mid west during this era had little to no chance at "making it". They did have a big following in LA and perhaps opened doors for future great plains bands. Good enough history in rock and roll for me. Thank You Shooting Star. Belton Missouri.
When I had a grand piano, I used to love playing this one! In a sad way, it reminds me of my second love. I had to think about her today for personal reasons. Thanks for keeping this song alive.
And 30 years before this song was Louis Mayer @ MGM and Harry Cohn @ Columbia. Most of the good looking women in a 3 Stooges short had to go through Harry Cohn first. It was so well known, industry insiders would go see a new Stooges short at the theater so they would know who Cohn was "interviewing".
Great buy! I own 5 Shooting Star albums. Hang on for Your Life is my fave. Like so many have said, this is a very underrated band. Enjoy, best $5 you will spend.
Agree agree agree with all of the comments! They didn't get nearly the fame they deserved. But they are and will always be one of my absolute favorites!
She speeds around and drives uptown shooting star is the shit nice to pop this cassette in when I was going to sleep I just lay there and listen to the whol tape instead of falling asleep nothing like the 80s the 80s was my Hollywood
One Block West... 1977 "... she used to love me... ...I used to love her... ...gentle ways..." John Swetnam... You had me and my sister booted from the pub for bringin' in Wild Turkey... remember?
She grew up reading every magazine Of rags to riches worlds She lost her heart to do the American dream Of Hollywood She used to dream about love Her youth was lived out like on a stage She left the boring world she knew at home And made her star struck way But something there was lost along the road To Hollywood She used to dream about love Her youth was lived out like on a stage But these days she hits the strip tonight All the names in lights, and the games to play She speeds around and drives uptown And pulls out all the stops, she'll hit the top someday Loves New York and California nights And the glamor life of the celluloid stage She takes advantage of her long blond hair Lord I know it's so damn true We used to sit and talk she'd hold my hand She'd hold my hand She used to love me I used to love her gentle ways But these days she hits the strip at night All the names in lights, and the games to play She speeds around and drives uptown And pulls out all the stops She'll hit the top someday, someday She's got the face and the lips and the legs That fit mid-America's apple pie ways Sells herself to the producer's couch Feeling down and out on the streets of L.A. And while she's down she's fun to walk on Until she's dead, they all wonder why The applause is not for her but for the silver screen And manufactured dreams to make you cry So come on give us one more, come on, one more time Before the hitting the bars on the boulevard And never fear everyone's a star in Hollywood She used to dream about love Her youth was lived out like on a stage
It wasn't lack of talent because god knows they had it, but something just didn't go right. I think a lot of it had to do with the record company and the promoters. They just couldn't shake that Midwest band image... Terrific band
we do not hear music like this it is gone!!!! tje music that. pulled our. emption out of our. loving. feeling hearts and souls thet is only. very few pf is lett. the others. brain washed. shadows of men.
A year later. This one always gets me. The music, the voice, the lyrics. Perfect trifecta. Yes, I understand the true definition of "trifecta". It just seemed to work for me for some reason in this comment. Triangle, triad, trident, and triple smack just weren't doing it for me.
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One of the most criminally underrated songs and American bands EVER! What a song!
Totally agree!!
I bought this album when it came out. They played a local bowling alley bar in San Diego circa 1982. Me and the girlfriend went. Their drummer was hittin’ on my GF. 😂 Great show.
Fckn A bro!!!🤟
Seen em in 86 St.Louis, KSHE95 KITE FLY
Amen to that brother.
Sounds just as great in 2022 as it did in 1981!
Its so mind boggling to think that it that long ago
In 1975, Shooting Star played for our high senior class party at a friend's house just outside Kansas City in Stanley, Kansas. It was a night I'll never forget.
Midwestern American and Canadian, 70's/80's rock was the best!
How lucky you all were to see that!
This is a masterpiece, Shooting Star should have been much bigger.
agree. when i was in the navy, in the early 80's this was one of our favorite bands
Tracey McCarty thank you for your service , my brother was in the Navy in the early 80s also and turned me on to these guys , he was on the USS Klackring
You’re DAMN right
@@traceymccarty859 thanks for your service...one Vet to another
I loved their sound in the 80s I was 22
One of the most underrated bands in rock and roll history!
Cincinnati??
@@jenniwhittle5688 canada
Totally agree with you
They were awesome indeed...
Found a cassette in my older brothers room which was off limits , played the shit out of that tape on my new Sony Walkman, Wow who is this group thats rocking it crazy .Shooting Star it was and I am still listening after all these years .Great times , Great memories ,Can never go back in Time But I wish we COULD .The BEST TIMES OF OUR YOUTH FOREVER.
This band should of been so BIG!One of the greatest and I still listen all the time.
+wayne hall AGREED :)
totally agree
Amen brother.
Boggles my mind how a band this GREAT could have been overlooked and forgotten. What a world.
@westbender 820 WEBN fireworks.
@westbender 820 I'm from Cincinnati, I remember.
bought this album in 1981....excellent album,underated band...man I was so lucky and blessed to have grown up in the 7O's & 8O's,those of us who did ALL were........................................................Era's best times and the most epic music EVER! (Thank God For RUclips).........................................................................Better Times My Friends💯💗👍💞🎤💫🎸🪅🥁✌☮🕊🌈🌏🙌💜🎇✨....loved this song! 🤍💃✨
Warm summer nights with the windows down, cruising 82nd ave in Portland Oregon in my 65 fairlane and blowing out the speakers listening to shooting star, y and t and all the great bands of that time, God I miss the 80's
What a KICK ASS band. Man I jammed these guys back in the day. They still jam now after all these years.
For 40 years, this song tormented me because I heard it in 1984 and when I was 10 years old. Never knew who performed it. Until tonight at work. I was blaring Spotify on my BT speaker and researching the band Honeymoon Suite because I thought they might've have done the song. But my speaker was blaring this Steve Perry like voice singing these sad souring lyrics to a familiar piano melody that sudden dropped into that riff ... And I stared at my disbelief. Opened up Spotify and it showed this album cover. And my 40 years or torment are over! Killer. Freaking. Track. I'm 50 now, and this song is timeless and Shooting Star -- like Missouri and Point Blank -- is sorely underrated. All three bands should be on the rotation of every classic rock station out there! 😍
Bought this tape in the 80's! Listened to it so much!1 " HOLLYWOOD"!! Would Bring out the Singer, Dancer, Wild, Girl out!! Whipping my Long Blonde Hair All Around!!Drive Faster!! Play it louder!! Loved it !! Brilliant song ! for a young girl in her early 20's to late 20's!1 now in my 60's!! still moving!! JoJo Thank you!!
This song is bittersweet for me. It brings back good memories of being young but it also reminds me of a long lost friend who first introduced me to this song and band. Very sad. :(
Holy mother of god I forgot how good these guys were....
could'nt agree more. Loved this song round 84, then didnt hear it for 25 years, not gonna let that happen again
What a great song. Memories flood back when I hear it.
The most incredible band that I ever heard incorporate a violin in their own way!! They deserve to be in the Rock Hall of Fame with the many others!! 😎✌️ 🎶🎶🎶
I saw Shooting Star in Rochester NY at the Penny Arcade around 1981. They were awesome!!! In 2022 it sounds just as good
Always Like This Song Brings Me back to Better Days
phil duff younger better days
I saw them last year and this may they blew us away they're incredible live we saw them at ameristar casino, try one of my favorite sonds of all time! Love the violin!!!!
What a great great song. It's bittersweet for me. Reminds me of my high school sweetheart - my first love. Losing her after 6 years broke my heart, but it was my fault.
@Mark let the man reminice
This song came out when I was in high school. Our local station 97X, played the hell out of it. Underated band and song.
Do you mean 97X in the quad cities? I grew up there too - graduated in 1987 from Orion High.....
97X.... Bam...The future of rock n roll
This song was played constantly on WLUP-FM in Chicago.
i heard this song on wls when i got a clear signal in northeast michigan, lucky me, because never heard them anywhere else. would never have know about one of my favorite bands. wish i could go back in time and be at one of their concerts, because they are so much fun
WMET too
WLLZ in Detroit as well
Heavy rotation on WEBN 102.7 in Cincinnati . Shooting Star's second home.
WRIF, 101.1 best of all still rocks
Agree that this band was one of the best bands that never got very big. Saw them in concert in 88 at Bogarts in Cincinnati. Great concert.
I was at that same show! Excellent! Great times.
David Martin I saw them at Blue Note on the River about6 years ago
Wow 1981 a forgotten hit from a underrated band love this jam
Listen to this vocal and level of musicianship! Wow!
Saddest opening of any rock song (0:00-1:30). A classic. I dare you to listen to that over and over and not feel a pain in your heart. If a rock song can be lyrical, that was it.
An amazing song, wonderful band, and great singer!! I bought this single as a kid and wore it out.
Last Chance was epic! Love them!
I worked a multiband music fest in 1981 as a sound tech. They were the headliner. Fan ever since. They were amazing. Hung with them after the show and ended up being one of their biggest advocates.
I never got to see them play but I've been listening to them for years. KSHE-95 in ST.Louis used to play them alot.
A great band that never got the airplay and credit they deserved, thanks for posting this gem!!
I agree. I'm from the St.Louis area and KSHE-95 used to play this alot, that and Last Chance...some of the best music ever!
Love love love me some Shooting Star...brings back so many memories!
I just don't understand why this band didn't make it. I've seen them a few times and they just killed it.
This song hit #70 on the Billboard U.S. Hot 100 in 1982.
unfortunate that bands out of the mid west during this era had little to no chance at "making it". They did have a big following in LA and perhaps opened doors for future great plains bands. Good enough history in rock and roll for me. Thank You Shooting Star. Belton Missouri.
never got the radio air time they should had...thank god for you tube..
they sold out the forum in la
such a moving song for the song itself and my heart. just. gets zapped thinkin about. all the memories
Shooting Star was million times better than most of the crappy "bands" of the 1980's.
Saw them in Chicago a lifetime ago! Very popular despite hardly hearing of them. Great show!
Im really happy that I was introduced to these guys...awesome!
Hollywood was number 1 in Chicago
great song and underrated. love shooting star!
Shooting Star has very few songs on Spotify... And this isn't one of them. I LOVE this song... Thank you.
It is now
pandora has some that Spotify doesn't
This was my favorite song for a long time! Thank God for Google, or I may not have ever heard it again.
One of my favorite tunes from this band, saw them in KCKS Memorial Hall, great show!
When I had a grand piano, I used to love playing this one! In a sad way, it reminds me of my second love. I had to think about her today for personal reasons. Thanks for keeping this song alive.
K-SHE 95 Classic !! St. Louis Mo.
Danmright then off to the drive in.lol
OH YEAH
Damn right! 270 drive in
Going to see them for the 4th-time in St. Louis! Even though the drummer is the only original member - they still bring down-the-house!!!❤️👍👍
FM radio in the great plains. Shooting Star, Kansas , Missouri. WOW that would have been the concert.
Saw them quite a few years ago, was a Christmas concert, Memorial Hall KCKS, EXCELLENT SHOW
2023...what a great band and song!
Hard to find song. Thank you for sharing a nearly lost classic.
how the song wasnt a number 1 hit i will never understand because it should have been its perfect!
seen these guys at the boogie in Indiana one summer. most everyone was passed out when they came on . glad it got to hear them, killer band.
great voice great band thanku. shooting star
Awesome Song from my senior year at Ben Davis HIGH SCHOOL in Indianapolis back in 82 great memories👍👍👍💪💪💪
What a great Band and a track for track KILLER ALBUM!!!
38 years before the Harvey Weinstein scandal,
SHOOTING STAR was singing about the "Producer's couch,"
and doing a damn good job of it.
And 30 years before this song was Louis Mayer @ MGM and Harry Cohn @ Columbia. Most of the good looking women in a 3 Stooges short had to go through Harry Cohn first. It was so well known, industry insiders would go see a new Stooges short at the theater so they would know who Cohn was "interviewing".
Great song!
IN LOVING MEMORY OF
JD BUTCHER
XXX
ROCK N ROLL!!!
10-30-1952
2-9-2021
A big fan of Shooting Star back in the day!
R.I.P. Van McLain!
This is a hard song to learn to sing...worth it!
I hope any band members see this. You guys were/ are great
this is a great tune, love the 70,s and 80,s.
Makes Me Proud of My City ..
KCMO !!
Used to hear this song all the time on 96 QMF in Louisville in the early 80s. Oh the years go so fast people
Just scored tix for them in St.Louis on 11/23/24 !!! They're playing with Foghat, Head East, and Missouri!!! 🤘
Got some air play on WRIF FM in Detroit, back in the day. :0)
Bought the vinyl unscratched for five bucks yesterday 😎
Great buy! I own 5 Shooting Star albums. Hang on for Your Life is my fave. Like so many have said, this is a very underrated band. Enjoy, best $5 you will spend.
Agree agree agree with all of the comments! They didn't get nearly the fame they deserved. But they are and will always be one of my absolute favorites!
Love this song.
Loved this album.
Incredible sincerity in his voice
You said it …
That tone of vocal
It comes from inside from personal experience…
She used to dream about love…
Thank You, Van,
Godspeed!
Miss that station big time!
Great Song. Thanks to my older brother. Pete R I P.
2023 !!👍👊🏼🤟
She speeds around and drives uptown shooting star is the shit nice to pop this cassette in when I was going to sleep I just lay there and listen to the whol tape instead of falling asleep nothing like the 80s the 80s was my Hollywood
One Block West... 1977 "... she used to love me...
...I used to love her...
...gentle ways..."
John Swetnam... You had me and my sister booted from the pub for bringin' in Wild Turkey... remember?
She grew up reading every magazine
Of rags to riches worlds
She lost her heart to do the American dream
Of Hollywood
She used to dream about love
Her youth was lived out like on a stage
She left the boring world she knew at home
And made her star struck way
But something there was lost along the road
To Hollywood
She used to dream about love
Her youth was lived out like on a stage
But these days she hits the strip tonight
All the names in lights, and the games to play
She speeds around and drives uptown
And pulls out all the stops, she'll hit the top someday
Loves New York and California nights
And the glamor life of the celluloid stage
She takes advantage of her long blond hair
Lord I know it's so damn true
We used to sit and talk she'd hold my hand
She'd hold my hand
She used to love me
I used to love her gentle ways
But these days she hits the strip at night
All the names in lights, and the games to play
She speeds around and drives uptown
And pulls out all the stops
She'll hit the top someday, someday
She's got the face and the lips and the legs
That fit mid-America's apple pie ways
Sells herself to the producer's couch
Feeling down and out on the streets of L.A.
And while she's down she's fun to walk on
Until she's dead, they all wonder why
The applause is not for her but for the silver screen
And manufactured dreams to make you cry
So come on give us one more, come on, one more time
Before the hitting the bars on the boulevard
And never fear everyone's a star in Hollywood
She used to dream about love
Her youth was lived out like on a stage
man, in the navy ine early 80's we rocked to this group
Excellent Work Gents.
Rest in peace, Van McLain!
Fantastic 😊 !
I always get a chest crunch when I hear this one.
RIP Van McLain.
It wasn't lack of talent because god knows they had it, but something just didn't go right. I think a lot of it had to do with the record company and the promoters. They just couldn't shake that Midwest band image... Terrific band
Gary wests voice is incredible!
Yes , he was amazing
Awesome album cover!
Great tune !
Totally underrated and unappreciated
Good stuff!!!
we do not hear music like this it is gone!!!! tje music that. pulled our. emption out of our. loving. feeling hearts and souls thet is only. very few pf is lett. the others. brain washed. shadows of men.
Great vocalist!
Yes Darren, that 97X, lol. I graduated from Rocky in 83.
They remind me of the band Kansas...I love both bands.
I've got that hard to find CD. Also havr my old cassette. But it wore out long ago.
What a voice. Saw them I'm 80. Great Iive.I've. I would have exed out the background vocals.
great tune
What a great band unjustly neglected by fm radio. But that's ok I'm gonna keep this good thing to myself then!
KYYS Kansas City KY-102 !
Why this band wasn't huge is a mystery to me
A year later. This one always gets me. The music, the voice, the lyrics. Perfect trifecta.
Yes, I understand the true definition of "trifecta". It just seemed to work for me for some reason in this comment. Triangle, triad, trident, and triple smack just weren't doing it for me.
FishHeadSalad lol love it
She takes advantage of her long blonde hair
Lord I know it's so damn true
We used to sit and talk, she'd hold my hand
Hold my hand
That line always gets me. what a great song!
Wow so true today