# Does anyone remember the Hooters? (Band. Not restaurant. Or body part.) **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 13, 2008, 11:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-the-hooters-band-not-restaurant-or-body-part/472620 "2008-11-13T23:27:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Eonwe](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eonwe/32/240_2.png) [@Eonwe](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eonwe)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 5:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-the-hooters-band-not-restaurant-or-body-part/472620/21 "2008-11-14T05:29:47Z")
Their album **One Way Home** is one of my favorite albums. Some really stellar tracks on that one. ---
**Author:** ![kelly5078](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/6f9a4e/32.png) [@kelly5078](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kelly5078)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 5:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-the-hooters-band-not-restaurant-or-body-part/472620/22 "2008-11-14T05:30:28Z")
I had “Nervous Night.” Live in Houston. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Goob](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/c77e96/32.png) [@Mr.Goob](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Goob)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 6:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-the-hooters-band-not-restaurant-or-body-part/472620/23 "2008-11-14T06:06:43Z")
Alive and well in my memory and on my ipod. ---
**Author:** ![Yorikke](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yorikke/32/4335_2.png) [@Yorikke](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yorikke)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 6:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-the-hooters-band-not-restaurant-or-body-part/472620/24 "2008-11-14T06:52:12Z")
I grew up in Trenton, NJ, right across the river from Philly, so they were pretty big. I liked them a lot, and was surprised that they never got really huge. Joe ---
**Author:** ![3trew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/3/13edae/32.png) [@3trew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/3trew)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 7:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-the-hooters-band-not-restaurant-or-body-part/472620/25 "2008-11-14T07:11:13Z")
“All You Zombies” was pretty big where I was when it came out. Now I have to find a copy. Anybody remember “The Honeydrippers”? No google, that’s cheating. ---
**Author:** ![Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/face_intentionally_left_blank/32/288_2.png) [@Face\_Intentionally\_Left\_Blank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Face_Intentionally_Left_Blank)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 8:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-the-hooters-band-not-restaurant-or-body-part/472620/26 "2008-11-14T08:10:01Z")
> [@3trew](#): > > “All You Zombies” was pretty big where I was when it came out. > > Now I have to find a copy. > > Anybody remember “The Honeydrippers”? > > No google, that’s cheating. Robert Plant. “Sea of Love” Them, and Power Station, were a tremendous disappointment to me(so-called ‘super groups’ that came out about the same time, who amounted to little). Melodica (Melodicam?) suck. I hated the Hooters with the fire of 1,000 suns. I hated ‘the Hooters’ when they had their hits. Still do. ---
**Author:** ![TheLoadedDog](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/35a633/32.png) [@TheLoadedDog](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TheLoadedDog)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 8:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-the-hooters-band-not-restaurant-or-body-part/472620/27 "2008-11-14T08:40:15Z")
I was a teenager in the 80s, and I had never heard of them before - or since - one day in about 1988 when they must have come to Sydney, and they were doing a “big public appearance” in a suburban shopping centre, in a small space between the orange juice stand and a bookshop. I happened to be walking past. They’d rustled up a sufficient number of screaming 12 year-old girls from somewhere, and were busy “whisking the Hooters out a back entrance” (past the toilets and cleaner’s storeroom). “Who?”, I thought. ---
**Author:** ![Ice\_Wolf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/dfb087/32.png) [@Ice\_Wolf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ice_Wolf)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 9:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-the-hooters-band-not-restaurant-or-body-part/472620/28 "2008-11-14T09:00:11Z")
Perhaps I’m starting to forget the '80s – I can’t remember The Hooters. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Frink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Mr.Frink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Frink)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 9:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-the-hooters-band-not-restaurant-or-body-part/472620/29 "2008-11-14T09:04:44Z")
They were pretty big in Chicago. Steve Dahl-legendary local DJ–would play them all the time on his WLS/WLUP drive-time show. He was a big fan. I think they would sell out everytime they came through town… ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Frink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/977dab/32.png) [@Mr.Frink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Frink)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 9:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-the-hooters-band-not-restaurant-or-body-part/472620/30 "2008-11-14T09:12:12Z")
They were pretty big in Chicago. Steve Dahl-legendary local DJ–would play them all the time on his WLS/WLUP drive-time show. He was a big fan. I think they would sell out everytime they came through town… ---
**Author:** ![Toxylon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f05b48/32.png) [@Toxylon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxylon)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 9:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-the-hooters-band-not-restaurant-or-body-part/472620/31 "2008-11-14T09:22:28Z")
Huh? I thought everyone knows Hooters, or at least their big hits, one of which is played by Christian groups everywhere to this day. I remember reading several articles on the band from the biggest pop magazine in Finland some 20 years ago. ---
**Author:** ![Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/half_man_half_wit/32/21766_2.png) [@Half\_Man\_Half\_Wit](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Half_Man_Half_Wit)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-the-hooters-band-not-restaurant-or-body-part/472620/32 "2008-11-14T09:48:43Z")
I know 'em, though the only song I consciously know as theirs is _All You Zombies_. I’m from Germany. ---
**Author:** ![si\_blakely](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d9b06d/32.png) [@si\_blakely](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/si_blakely)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 9:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-the-hooters-band-not-restaurant-or-body-part/472620/33 "2008-11-14T09:55:40Z")
I got into the Hooters, way out in NZ in 85/86. _South Ferry Road_ was one of my favourites. I’m gonna have to go looking for that album, now. Si ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 11:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-the-hooters-band-not-restaurant-or-body-part/472620/34 "2008-11-14T11:45:03Z")
I like Hooters. Don’t like the group. ---
**Author:** ![corkboard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e9bcb4/32.png) [@corkboard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/corkboard)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-the-hooters-band-not-restaurant-or-body-part/472620/35 "2008-11-14T13:53:23Z")
Grew up in the Philly suburbs, high school from '81-'85. The Hooters were a local hit just around that time. They played in my high school gym a few times, and other local venues. They released an independant album in the Philly area which was much better than the nationally-released “first” album a couple years later. The national album was way over produced. My high school girlfriend and I saw them a couple times when they opened for Cindy Lauper, but we’d leave when she came on. I hadn’t heard from them in years but the other day in the car I heard “All You Zombies” (the over produced version) on the radio. A girl in my highschool used to wear a jean jacket every day and she put a Hooters bumper sticker on the back. We’d always say “nice hooters, Kris!” as she walked by. She didn’t get it. ---
**Author:** ![D\_Odds](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/d_odds/32/2882_2.png) [@D\_Odds](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/D_Odds)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 2:14pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-the-hooters-band-not-restaurant-or-body-part/472620/36 "2008-11-14T14:14:32Z")
I saw them at some small club in NYC after their first album. Show was pretty good. I remember the lead guitarist broke about 4 or 5 strings that night, and was getting frustrated with himself (or the guitars) because their road crew (maybe 2 or 3 people at most) couldn’t restring them fast enough. ---
**Author:** ![Loach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/loach/32/350_2.png) [@Loach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Loach)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 2:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-the-hooters-band-not-restaurant-or-body-part/472620/37 "2008-11-14T14:21:28Z")
Last time I was home one of the Philly stations were playing their new song. This was about 6 months ago. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-the-hooters-band-not-restaurant-or-body-part/472620/38 "2008-11-14T14:38:42Z")
I, too, remember the Hooters. My favorite of their albums is “Zig Zag.” ---
**Author:** ![UncleBill](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/u/d26b3c/32.png) [@UncleBill](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/UncleBill)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 3:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-the-hooters-band-not-restaurant-or-body-part/472620/39 "2008-11-14T15:32:19Z")
I was going to college in North Carolina from 1984 to 1988, heard them, saw them in concert at least once. ---
**Author:** ![Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/a587f6/32.png) [@Freddy\_the\_Pig](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Freddy_the_Pig)\ **Post date:** [November 14, 2008, 4:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-the-hooters-band-not-restaurant-or-body-part/472620/40 "2008-11-14T16:19:43Z")
I remember the Hooters, but I always thought of them as sort of a one-hit wonder for _And We Danced_. I’ll have to check out some of these other songs. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-the-hooters-band-not-restaurant-or-body-part/472620.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/does-anyone-remember-the-hooters-band-not-restaurant-or-body-part/472620.md?page=3)