So if you haven't checked it out yet now is the perfect time to do so, and if you like it as much as I do, grab yourself a copy - the new song should then just appear automagically next Friday!
37 years ago today (April 19) in 1987, the first Simpsons short "Good Night" aired on The Tracey Ullman show. I wasn't watching (I was 7), but I was watching when the Simpsons aired as its own series a couple years later.
The A-Team from the 1980s is my favorite TV show, and they had these big hardcover 'Annual' books they'd put out for it. I just discovered the one from 1984 is at the Internet Archive, and if you log in, you can 'borrow' it for an hour (and every hour it resets) and flip through all the scanned pages. It's totally wild.
Crash landing ungracefully into your #podcast feed is another episode of Hot For Teacher: A Greatest American Hero Watch Party, featuring @hotdogitsclaire and @todb as they talk about old TV and other things only #GenX#80sKids like. Give it a listen!
Know any trivia about the next episode of #TGAH, "Saturday on Sunset Boulevard?" You have plenty of time to share it and mayhaps we'll cite you in the next ep!
From the very 1st episode of Emu's All Live Pink Windmill Show, broadcast on Friday, 13th July, 1984, this is a rendition of Can't Stop the Music, originally by the Village People. Not bad at all, especially considering this was the first time most if not all of them had ever danced on live national television (the bits in the studio, obviously). Being the series opener, the kids introduce themselves at the beginning. https://youtu.be/1svA2sGhDEE?si=MzmyYPvCqsYoM15Q
I've loved the Monster in My Pocket toys since I was a kid in the 80s, and in today's weird (but cool) news, Will and Jada Pinkett Smith are going to be making it into a live action TV series?!? 🤯
Flashback to Thursday night when our “West End Girls” debuted on the radio. Almost feels like the 80s, waiting for this same song to come on so I could tape it on my combo radio/cassette recorder boombox. 🖤
Pardon me while I brag on @hilljam for a moment but HAVE YOU HEARD the synth programming on this recording of The Boys of Summer??
Besides the incredibly fastidious reproduction of the gorgeous synths, Jamie — somewhat magically — also managed to re-create the guitar parts that are all over the original recording WITH SYNTHESIZERS.
I realize I might have said this before, but I really do think that this next #80sKids song might be my fave so far. Maybe it's just that each new song @hilljam & I do is so dang fun that it captures my heart in the moment — but my love for this one is strong. 💪🏻♥️
If I had a convertible, I'd put this one on loud with the top pulled down, driving along the beach at sunset on summer break. Let the countdown to Friday start ... now.
One thing I love in doing these #80sKids songs is that I have an opportunity to actually learn the correct lyrics to some of my favorite songs.
Because yes: I’ve spent decades singing things like “doo doo doo dooooooooo” on that high note in “Take On Me.” But now! Look out world! I know the WORDS. 😂
Did you ever sing any unintentionally alternative lyrics in this one? Which ones?
Please enjoy this joyous moment when our “Take On Me” debuted on the radio last week and we danced in the kitchen ‘cause come on … you can’t help but dance, you know?
Ok: here's a clue about our new #80sKids song coming this Friday ... ready?
If you happened to be sitting next to me on the bus to science camp in sixth grade, right after my birthday, on which I'd been given my first walkman (the yellow Sony, remember?) and the cassette on which this song was released …