I grew up in Michigan and remember the Hooters. The last I heard them was in 1990 when they performed Pink Floyd’s song “Mother” with Sinead O’Connor during the The Wall Concert in Berlin (which also feature Tim Curry and Bryan Adams). It was really weird, but I thought their harmonies were a cool contrast in the chorus to O’Connor’s lead vocals.
Weird…I know all of the songs mentioned, but I had mentally attributed them to The Fixx. Clearly, the relational database attributes in my brain have been reassigned via too much beer over the years.
I loved the Hooters in (very rural) Wyoming, where we were still getting used to indoor plumbing, so they couldn’t have been that obscure.
IIRC, there greatest claim to fame was writing Lauper’s “Time After Time”.
I saw Cyndi Lauper and the Hooters at the Mann Music Center in Fairmount Park with my girlfriend in 1983 or so. Her first album ‘She’s So Unusual’ was out by then. The Hooters were the best part of the show.
New York State here, and I loved the Hooters. I’m surprised an 80s music lover wouldn’t remember them.
Weird- I was there that night with my girlfriend too. I think I saw you there! Were you that person, in that shirt, standing with all those people?
And yes, the Hooters were the best part of the show. (After the show was pretty good too, but that’s a different thread.)
South Jersey boy here. First concert I ever went to was the Hooters, free in Atlantic City at one of the casinos. I was about 13, so that would have been about 89. Also, my junior prom theme was “When We Danced”. Yes, it was cheesy. I still have “All you Zombies” on my Itunes though.
Yeah, I remember the Hooters (grad. H.S. 1985). They received some airplay in the St. Louis Metro; I have no idea of how “big” they were locally.
Until I read this thread, I hadn’t thought about them for 20+ years.
But the only song I knoew them by was “All You Zombies.”
I rather like “And We Danced,” but never knew the artists.
Yes, I recall their MTV videos were good.
Just a note: WMMR (and Pierre Robert specifically) is hosting a Hooter’s concert the night before Thanksgiving, Goblaroo 2008. But that’s a Philly thing, so this information does not tell you how well known they are outside of the area.
Nervous Night got quite a bit of airplay here in the Bay Area. I really liked that album, but lost track of them after that. The gig later this month should be a lot of fun for both them and the fans. Good on 'em.
I figure I should add; back in the very early 90s, my dad and I went to the indie record store in town to try to find a Crowded House album for my mom, who had heard a song of theirs on the radio. They didn’t have any CDs in stock, but the guy working there suggested we get a Hooters album, which we did (as well as ordered a Crowded House CD). I think I’ve listened to that CD much more than mom has. 
I went to see them in New York and New Haven. Smallish venues, but nobody I told I was going said “You’re going to see WHO?”
The Outfield opened the New Haven show.
So, anybody go to the concert?
I’d never heard any of their stuff after Nervous Night, but last weekend I was at a used record/CD place and found Long Way Home on cassette. About 4 songs are going to make the cut for the Pod, and of those “Satellite” is the only one that’s up to the standard of Nervous Night. The energy level is way down overall for their second album.
Now I’m going to have to find All You Zombies.
I’m willing to bet that that wasn’t Satellite.
They were moderately-popular in Toronto.