Paul Williams as Rooster
Yakety Sax!
James Taylor was playing on this very night at Municipal Auditorium with Karla Bonoff opening the show. SM95 was the FM band of WSM and it played soft rock marketed to 20 and 30 something's.
James Taylor and Linda Ronstadt live June 1982
Olivia Newton-John was coming to Murfreesboro with a September 12, 1982 date at Murphy Center. She was riding high with "Physical" having topped the charts for 10 weeks in 1981.
Olivia live in 1982 "Xanadu"
A Back To School Blowout was coming to Municipal Auditorium with the Gap Band along with Goodie, Soul Sonic Force (I'm assuming this is Afrika Bambaattaa and Soulsonic Force), and the very awesome Zapp / Roger. That would have been a fun night.
Planet Rock
Zapp (this came out in 1983, but I love this video and share it often)
the Solid Gold dancers dropped a bomb on me
The Police with The English Beat opening was coming to Municipal on August 17th that week. I would have loved to have been there for that one. I had been a Police fan since seeing their video for "Walking On The Moon" on Nickelodeon's PopClips show. They had truly arrived as rock superstars, but would soon blow up even bigger before imploding.
The English Beat live at the US Festival 1982
Bringing on the night at Gateshead 1982
Cantrell's was going strong in 1982.
E.T. - The Extra-Terrestrial joined the $100 million earning club that summer. Porky's did it too!
Greer Stadium.....I spent many hours having fun there over the years, but I missed out on Annie night. The Sounds finished first in the western division of the Southern League that year and won the playoffs too for a championship season. I'd like to think that little Aileen Quinn's visit inspired them to reach such heights.
The late great Kenny Rogers was the star of Six Pack in his first major motion picture which was doing pretty good at local theaters.
Kenny was a national treasure
The Top Ten is full of great tunes with John Cougar holding down 2 spots with "Hurts So Good" at number 2 and "Jack And Diane" at the 8 spot with a bullet. The American Fool album would do so well it would give John Mellencamp the clout to reclaim his family name with his next album release. There was a time when he was probably my favorite solo performer. It's a very rock pop chart with only the super funky Dazz Band's "Let It Whip" providing any sort of dance beat. There's lot of chewy goodness in this list so I'm posting many videos this time. I'll be back next week with another one of these reviews. Hope you can make it.
Whip it baby!
a little ditty
just listen to that Porcaro drum shuffle
Yacht Rock 4 tells how "Rosanna" came about NSFW comedy y'all
my favorite tune from this top ten
Kenny Aronoff's drums!!!
Steve Miller heats up and can't cool down
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