Love this band, lots of great memories associated with this album.
IMHO, one of the sexiest lyrics in Rock-n-roll;
“The room was spinning as she whispered my name”
I remember that song! I have a cassette mix tape with that on it somewhere.
I don’t have a cassette player any more, but I still have the tape.
And another lyric embodies, for me, what rock’n’roll is about, as an attitude, as a lifestyle, as a just plain expression of the joy of being young and wild:
“She could dance all night and shake the paint off the wall.”
Or maybe it’s just me with this romanticized picture in my head…
I didn’t think people outside the Philadelphia area knew who they were.
“And We Danced” is awesome. “Day By Day” is great too. Beyond that, songs I thought were cool 30 years ago (“All You Zombies”, “Where Do The Children Go”, “Hanging on a Heartbeat”, etc.) don’t really hold up for me anymore.
Still, two great songs that will hold up after decades is a lot more than plenty of bands ever achieve. And, really, “And We Danced” is awesome.
They were pretty successful in the mid late 80’s with lots of radio and MTV airplay. I grew up in rural Alabama and I had their first album (cassette) and listened to it a lot when I was in high school. That album sold over 2 million copies and had 3 Top 40 hits.
It’s all 1985 up in here now!
Bob Geldorf didn’t want them at Live Aid.
While I agree, the sexier lyric, to me, was:
“She’s walking my way…hear the music play as she says
‘Are we getting too close? Do we dare to get closer’?”
Weren’t they the musical foundation for Cyndi Lauper’s breakthrough, She’s So Unusual?
Ah yeah, The Hooters. Sorry but of the three mentioned so far, “All You Zombies” is still my favorite.
fires up iTunes and sips his coffee
…all you zombies sitting’ in high places…
“And We Danced” is on my iPod.
Eric Bazilian and Rob Hyman, the guitarist and keyboard players and main singers in The Hooters, played and sang on most tracks and had a prominent creative influence on the album.
Definitely for “Time After Time”.
Those are all from “Nervous Night,” easily their most successful album; but I really like their later album “Zig Zag.” (It was one of my favorite record store discount bin finds, back when record stores had discount bins that were worth browsing.)
I remember hearing a Hooters concert on the radio in the 80’s (I think it was on the King Biscuit Flour Hour) and they played “Time After Time”. I didn’t know it was one of their songs before that.
And by far their best.
Can’t forget the substantial roles of Bazilian, Hyman, and Chertoff in Joan Osborne’s Relish album, which has long been one of my favorites.
Thanks for the reminder! I totally forgot about that song and that band. Will have to add it to my “One Hit Wonders of the Eighties” playlist.
“One-hit wonders” isn’t quite accurate: “Day By Day” hit #18 on Billboard’s Hot 100, “And We Danced” hit #21, and “All You Zombies” hit #58 (all were from the 1985 album “Nervous Night,” which was definitely their biggest).
“Johnny B” (which I heard on the radio quite a lot, but it might have been the local college station) and “Satellite,” which were both from the 1987 album “One Way Home,” each hit #61. That same college station definitely played a lot from “Nervous Night” as well (I know, because I played a lot of Hooters music during my shows).
So Casey Kasem would’ve played “Day By Day” and “And We Danced” on American Top 40, at least.