We did not get cable in my area until a year or two after it launched so I never saw the beginning of the channel. Of course, I was crazy about it when we first got cable. It was like nothing else. They showed full concerts which I thought was great and of course the videos. But It also had it’s bad side because some of the artist or bands had hit songs only because of MTV that would have never made it on the radio. The very first video MTV showed was the Buggles Video Killed The Radio Star. It pretty much destroyed Billy Squier’s career because of a less than macho video he made. MTV nowadays is a big joke nothing but reality TV shows permeates the channel. For a day like today why don’t they let the original VJ’s take over the channel and we could have…

Released on the B-side of the single “My Kinda Lover” in 1981 It never charted but I will never forget the video shot at MTV studios.

Christmas Is The Time To Say I Love You

Brenda Lee was only 13 years old when she recorded this song. Recorded in October of 1958 at Owen Bradley’s studio in Nashville. The song was written by Johnny Marks. It would be one of the first stereo recordings to come out of Nashville. The song did not sell well until Brenda Lee had gotten more popular. In 1960 it reached #14 on Billboard’s Hot 100 pop singles chart. It peaked at #3 on Billboard’s Christmas singles chart in 1965. SoundScan has estimated total sales of 1,000,000 digital downloads in 2016.

From Wikipedia.

The song’s declaration of a rock and roll sound notwithstanding, its instrumentation also fits the country music genre, which Lee more fully embraced as her career evolved. The recording features Hank Garland and Harold Bradley on guitar, Floyd Cramer on piano, Boots Randolph on sax, Bob Moore on bass, and veteran session player Buddy Harman on drums…

From their 1998 album, All The Pain Money Can Buy. The song reached number 20 on Billboards Hot 100 chart in 1999.

From songfacts.

Tony Scalzo wrote “Out Of My Head,” which reflects his mindset. “I was a struggling musician,” he said in a Songfacts interview. “I had a record deal, so I knew there was a chance that things were going to turn around for us and for me, but I was struggling, and I was really ambitious at that time. Maybe I was just thinking about recurrent situations and how hopefully things would come out right.”

Things did come out right: The first single from Fastball’s second album was “The Way,” which became a huge radio hit. “Out of My Head” was a more modest hit, but still did very well, helping that second album, All the Pain Money Can Buy, sell over one…

The song reached #30 on Billboards Hot 100 chart in 1979. Moon Martin also wrote the song “Bad Case of Loving You” that Robert Palmer had a big hit with that went to #14 on the Hot 100 charts also in 1979.

Rolene

Come on operator gimme Rolene on my line
She knows what I need to ease a cravin’ in my spine
A cheerleaders smile
Tijuana style
Your daddy might be judge
Sure know how to nudge

All right Rolene
Rolene
Rolene

Well, I’ve been livin’ so white and clean
Jack, it’s made me mean
I need Rolene’s smooth, round thigh
It’s like a rush to get me high
I give it my best shot
Honey, all I got
My name may not be Hud
But I’ll show you I’m no dud

All right Rolene
Rolene
Rolene

You know my baby’s love
Just like a sweet velvet glove
Honey…

The song reached #50 on Billboards R&B chart on August 24, 1968.

From Wikipedia

What a Man” is a song written by Dave Crawford, and originally recorded for Stax Records‘ Volt imprint by Linda Lyndell, The song was sampled and reinterpreted as “Whatta Man” in 1993 by Salt-n-Pepa with En Vogue; the version became a commercial success. In 2011, the German singer Lena Meyer-Landrut (credited as Lena) covered the song while retaining the original title and lyrics.

Linda Lyndell, a white singer who had been a support act with James Brown and Ike & Tina Turner and then recommended to Stax Records by Otis Redding, recorded “What a Man”. The song was essentially improvised by Lyndell, record producer Dave Crawford, and the Stax studio musicians in Memphis, Tennessee. It was released as a single in 1968 with the B-side track “I…

From his 1979 album, Secrets. The song reached #14 on Billboards Hot 100 Chart on September 29, 1979, and reached #61 on the UK singles chart. Originally written and recorded by Moon Martin in 1978.

From Songfacts.

This song was written by Moon Martin (John David Martin – he got the name Moon because he often used it in his lyrics), who released the original version on his 1978 album Shots From a Cold Nightmare. Martin is a singer/guitarist/songwriter from Oklahoma who made his way to California in the late ’60s with his band Southwind. When the group broke up in 1971, Martin took on studio work. He took up with Linda Ronstadt, and played on her self-titled album (they lived together at her farm house in Topanga Canyon for a while). He nearly joined some of Ronstadt’s other backing musicians in a little band called the Eagles, but ended…

This movie was released in 1983. It was the wrong side of the tracks kind of movie. It was about a Valley Girl Julie played by actress Deborah Foreman that had a boyfriend that took her for granted. She met Randy who was played by actor Nicolas Cage who was raised in Hollywood. No Valley Girl would be seen dead with someone from Hollywood. Julie’s parents were old hippies that had turned into yuppies. Julie’s father played by Frederick Forest reminded me of Sonny Bono because of his mustache and the 60’s clothes he wore. Julie and Randy fell in love but peer pressure started to get to Julie and she broke it off but it was not the end for them things go crazy at the high school prom.

I loved this movie mostly because it was about an outcast like Randy but in real life, most outcasts don’t…