The Drive, 8/6/07: 1980

[RGMike]

Put a dollar in the kittty, and prepare to be switchin' to glide.

[RGMike]

It's Betty Lou. It's really true.

[Gazoo]

HM for those six seconds of the Hill Street Blues theme.  (BTW, where, geographically, is/was Hill Street?)

[RGMike]

REO SpeedDealer keeps on lovin' you, even tho' you're a snake in the grass. WTF?

[Gazoo]

HM to the gooey cheese of "Keep on Loving You."  This 8-track (!) was in regular rotation at the McCombs household from late '80 through the end of '81.

[RGMike]

HM for those six seconds of the Hill Street Blues theme.  (BTW, where, geographically, is/was Hill Street?)

I believe the street and the (never-specified, iirc) city were completely fictional.

[RGMike]

BOS the Kings, we actually haven't heard this in a while.  one of the great New Wave OHWs.

"Hey little Donna -- still wanna?"

[Gazoo]

Paging Mshray: When that girl dances, Jackson Browne can really love.

[RGMike]

WOS Eagles, "7 Bridges Road" -- but you knew I was gonna say that.

[RGMike]

Mick's so hotforher but she's so cold.  A song about necrophilia? you be the judge.

[mshray]

Paging Mshray: When that girl dances, Jackson Browne can really love.

got here just in time.  Had actually thought of the girl who made this a sledgehammer for me jsut this weekend.  Was wondering if she has aged gracefully at all, which unless the apple fell far, far from the tree would be ulikely.  

She was anything but cold, cold, cold when I knew her tho.

[Gazoo]

At long last, I can give a BOS vote: "Late in the Evening," especially for that bassline, and for the fact that this was omnipresent on Pittsburgh radio when it came out.

[mshray]

HM for those six seconds of the Hill Street Blues theme.  (BTW, where, geographically, is/was Hill Street?)

I believe the street and the (never-specified, iirc) city were completely fictional.

Wiki sez:

Though filmed in Los Angeles (both on location and at CBS Studio Center in Studio City), the series is set in a generic location with a feel of a Northern urban center.

The distinctive theme tune was written by Mike Post and was popular enough to reach the top 10 on Billboard's Hot 100.

[mshray]

At long last, I can give a BOS vote: "Late in the Evening," especially for that bassline, and for the fact that this was omnipresent on Pittsburgh radio when it came out.

for me it's the horns and those occasional popcorn-sounding effects.

BOS in any case.

[mshray]

BOS #2 "Even I Up".  Given that I'd matriculated in 1980 to a college in their hometown, I heard a lot of Heart during my tenure.