I Don't Want No Other Love

The Excellent 80's has already posted Cheap Trick's #1 hit ballad "The Flame" and today this was their follow up to that song - an Elvis Presley remake of the song "Don't Be Cruel"... this version will never be mistaken for the original by any means, but the song was a top 10 hit for the rock band formed back in the early 70's... here's Cheap Trick...




Lyrics | Cheap Trick lyrics - Don't Be Cruel lyrics

"Don't Be Cruel"

by Cheap Trick
from the album: Lap of Luxury
released: 1988

80's Movie Weekend

This weekend's 80's movie flashback is appropriate because it ties in with our "Rod Stewart September" that we are in the midst of here on this blog... at one time or another, every recording artist does a song for a movie and this was Rod's biggest movie song hit... it's the 1986 comedy starring Robert Redford, Darryl Hannah, and Debra Winger - "Legal Eagles"...

the trailer...



Darryl Hannah being all artsy and playing with fire...



Here is that hit Rod Stewart song for you... it's "Love Touch"...

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"Love Touch"
Single by Rod Stewart
from the album Legal Eagles Soundtrack
and Every Beat of My Heart
B-side "Heart Is on the Line"
Released 1986, 1993
Length 4:03
Label Warner Bros. Records
Writer(s) G. Black, Michael Chapman, Holly Knight

Chart (1986) Peak position

UK Singles Chart #27
U.S. Billboard Hot 100 #6
U.S. Billboard Mainstream Rock #26

Legal Eagles

Directed by Ivan Reitman
Music by Elmer Bernstein
Distributed by Universal Pictures
Release date(s) June 18, 1986
Running time 116 min
Language English

Think I'm Going Down to the Well Tonight

I'm going to drink til I get my fill... one of my top three favorite Springsteen songs for you to kick off the weekend with... his pitching motion is lacking, but any former athlete (myself included) can totally relate to this song, because your glory days of playing will pass you in the wink of a young girl's eye... I love the Graig Nettles reference at the end of the video in Bruce's "loss" to San Diego... have a great weekend and check out the Boss and reflect back on the 80's and your own "Glory Days"...

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"Glory Days"

Single by Bruce Springsteen
from the album Born in the U.S.A.
Released May 13, 1985
Format 7" single
Recorded April or May 1982
Genre Rock
Length 4:15
Label Columbia Records
Writer(s) Bruce Springsteen
Producer Jon Landau, Chuck Plotkin, Bruce Springsteen, Steven Van Zandt

U.S. Billboard Hot 100 peak: #5

Are You Ready For Some Football?

Well, another NFL season kicks off tonight with the Tennessee Titans and the defending Super Bowl champion Pittsburgh Steelers, and I for one will be tuning in. Here's a pretty cool clip from CBS' 1989 NFL Today show, which was in its' 15th season at the time... Go Steelers!

May The Good Lord Be With You Down Every Road You Roam

Today's Rod Stewart feature is one of those timeless classics that you still hear all the time on adult contemporary radio stations and still makes the old long for youth... a rewrite of a Bob Dylan song, here is "Forever Young"...

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"Forever Young"
Single by Rod Stewart
from the album Out of Order
Released 1988
Genre Rock
Writer(s) Jim Cregan, Kevin Savigar, Bob Dylan, Rod Stewart
Producer Rod Stewart, Andy Taylor

80's Television - There's No Place Like Home

And there wasn't no place better than 227 back in the 80's as The Jeffersons former housekeeper, Marla Gibbs, had herself a hit sitcom around the apartment building 227... and remember what a big star Jackee' was back then? It took me this intro to remember, but I do remember catching some of these episodes and semi-enjoying them between 1985-1990... don't forget about Grandma Pearl and basketball playing Calvin either!

the intro to 227...



here's a "minisode" which condenses one episode down to about 5 minutes...



Cast of 227 TV Show
Mary Jenkins - Marla Gibbs
Lester Jenkins - Hal Williams
Rose Lee Holloway - Alaina Reed-Hall
Sandra Clark - Jackee (Harry)
Brenda Jenkins - Regina King
Tiffany Holloway - Kia Goodwin
Pearl Shay - Helen Martin
Calvin Dobbs - Curtis Baldwin
Alexandria DeWitt - Countess Vaughn
Eva Rawley - Toukie A. Smith
Julian C. Barlow - Paul Winfield
Dylan McMillan - Barry Sobel
Travis Filmore - Stoney Jackson
Warren Merriwether - Kevin Peter Hall

# of episodes: 227

Top 20 Ratings Info for 227 Series
1985-86 - 1st Season - Ranked #20
1986-87 - 2nd Season - Ranked #14

Location(s) Washington, D.C.
Running time 30 Minutes
Production company(s) Embassy Television (1985-1988)
Columbia Pictures Television (1988-1990)
Broadcast
Original channel NBC
Original run September 14, 1985 – May 6, 1990

I Should Have Known Better

I have a power ballad for you today, and one that is considered one of the top 10 power ballads of the 80's... and the video is not half bad either as David Coverdale employs his once upon a time wife Tawny Kitaen for more sexy dancing in "Is This Love?"...

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"Is This Love"
Single by Whitesnake
from the album Whitesnake
Released 1987
Format Vinyl LP
Cassette
CD
Recorded 1986
Genre Hard rock
Length 4:42
Label Geffen
Writer(s) David Coverdale
John Sykes
Producer Mike Stone
Keith Olsen

U.S. Billboard Hot 100 peak: #2
UK peak: #9

80's Movie Weekend

This weekend's 80's movie flashback takes us back to 1987... Billy Crystal, Danny DeVito, Anne Ramsey, and Kate Mulgrew make for an outstanding cast and one very funny movie... Owen and Larry set out to "Throw Momma From the Train"... check out some funny scenes below...

I hope you don't get an enormous headache in your eye...



Kate Mulgrew going overboard...



This is cousin Patty. You don't have a cousin Patty! You lied to me!



Owen brought me the unsalted nuts!



Throw Momma from the Train

Directed by Danny DeVito
Produced by Larry Brezner
Written by Stu Silver
Starring Danny DeVito
Billy Crystal
Kim Greist
Anne Ramsey
Kate Mulgrew
Music by David Newman
Release date(s) December 11, 1987
Running time 88 min
Language English

You Don't Need No Baggage, You Just Get On Board

Rod Stewart in his early beginnings was part of the Jeff Beck Group, but after years as a successful solo artist he reunited with his old buddy Jeff Beck, who was one of the three noted guitarists of the Yardbirds (the others being Eric Clapton and Jimmy Page) for this excellent remake of a Curtis Mayfield song - "People Get Ready"...

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"People Get Ready"

by Rod Stewart & Jeff Beck
from the Jeff Beck album: Flash
released: 1985

We Started Dancing and Love Put Us Into a Groove

And being in a groove is a good thing... today's artist had some hits throughout her career but is largely regarded as a "one-hit wonder"... here is Shannon with "Let the Music Play"... is that Robert Townsend she's dancing with towards the end of the video?

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"Let the Music Play"
Single by Shannon
from the album Let the Music Play
Released 1983
Format 7", 12"
Genre Dance
Latin freestyle
R&B
Label Mirage/Atco/Atlantic Records
Writer(s) Chris Barbosa
Ed Chisolm
Producer Mark Liggett
Chris Barbosa

Chart (1983) Peak position
U.S. Charts #8
UK Charts #14
R&B Charts #2
Dance Charts #1

Midnight, Gettin' Uptight, Where Are You?

If you indeed are creeping around my blog at the midnight hour then I hope you enjoy this rocker, because I sure do... she could sing the alphabet and as long as she was doing it with a rock edge in tight leather and with those smokey eyes, I'd still watch... she's now 51, but I bet Joan Jett still rocks a crowd... here is "I Hate Myself for Loving You"...

Joan Jett - I Hate Myself For Loving You



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"I Hate Myself for Loving You"

Single by Joan Jett and the Blackhearts
from the album Up Your Alley
Released 1988
Genre Hard rock
Length 4:07
Label Blackheart Records
Writer(s) Desmond Child, Joan Jett

Certification #8 Billboard Hot 100[1]

Young Hearts Be Free Tonight

Time is on your side... don't let 'em push you around... don't let 'em change your point of view... Mr. Rod Stewart burst onto America's radar in the early 70's and throughout the decade with songs like "Do Ya Think I'm Sexy?" "Hot Legs," "You Wear It Well," and "Maggie May"... He got his start in the Jeff Beck Band and the group Faces, but by the time MTV rolled around, Stewart was in top solo form, and for most of the 80's, received a lot of air play with numerous hits... The Excellent 80's is dubbing this a "Rod Stewart September" and we're kicking it off with one of my favorite Rod Stewart songs "Young Turks"...

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"Young Turks"
Single by Rod Stewart
from the album Tonight I'm Yours
Released 1981
Format 7", 12"
Recorded 1980
Genre Soft rock, New Wave
Length 5:01
Label Warner Bros.
Writer(s) Rod Stewart, Carmine Appice, Duane Hitchings, Kevin Savigar
Producer Jim Cregan, Rod Stewart

U.S. Billboard Hot 100 peak: #5
UK peak: #11